From brussels tough talk about greeces debt problem. And in beijing, grave concerns over a stock market crash and what it means for the future of china. And then for something completely different, theres nothing like a dame. Especially dame helen mirren. I spoke to the legendary actress about playing the queen, the queen on stage and screen. Well get to all of the news in a moment. But first heres my take. You might have missed it but a meeting this past tuesday near pakistans capital city of islamabad could possibly mark the beginning of the end of americas longest war. The conflict in afghanistan which will enter its 15th year this fall. A delegation from the Afghan Government met with members of the taliban with pakistani, chinese and u. S. Officials present as observers. Previous efforts like this one have floundered and this one may go nowhere as well but the war in afghanistan is likely going to end in a forum like this one and not on the battlefield. Talking to the taliban is t
Crews found nothing in an area where chinese satellite images showed objects floating in the sea. They say the pictures were released by mistake. They didnt show any debris related to the plane. That from china. Lets dig deeper into the conflicting reports about the Malaysia Airlines flight 370. Richard quest has been working his sources. Richard, what are you hearing specifically about weather . Whether technical data was transmitted from the planes engines even after that transponder was shut down . Im hearing that its not true. A Senior Source said to me that i specifically asked. Lets be clear, i specifically asked, did the plane continue to transmit data after 1 27. And that person said no. So i follow ed up with the question, is the journals story accurate . And they said no. Now, the journal sticks by its story. Theres not a person says its wrong. You paid your money and take your choice on this one, wolf. This is the sort of discrepancy that frequently happens in aircraft inves
Airasia flight 8501. It was en route from the city there on the bottom part of your screen surabaya to singapore when it lost contact with air Traffic Control early undsunday morning. It was a short flight just under two hours long. The pilot at some point well into the flight i believe asked to change routes because of the weather. And soon afterwards contact with that airport airplane was lost. This is a picture of the plane were talking about. Its an airbus a320. We do know how many people were on that flight now. 162 on the flight manifest. Thats 155 passengers and seven cry. Most on board were indonesians with three south koreans, one singaporean, one from malaysia and one french person on board. We have also learned of the passengers 17 were children and that includes one baby. The ceo of airasia tweeted this short statement thank you for all your thoughts and prayers. We must stay strong. We havent heard from them in a while. If we get any updates from the Airline Company itself
The java sea looking, but the defense minister says they will stay at sea overnight with search lights trying to spot any signs of floating wreckage. We ve analysts standing by around the world to bring you the latest of the search, and we have former analyst of the fbi tom fun tease, and Steven Wallace from the office of accident investigation and also peter goulds acting director of the National Transportation safety board and cnn safety correspondent renee marsh. This stunned relatives and they were at airport termle in nal, and we were at airport terminal but first to renee marsh, and what do you have of the latest here from your sources, about what happened to this plane . Well, at this point, we dont have any hard information of what exactly went wrong here. With we know that weather was definitely an issue. We know that because the pilot requested to deviate course. We know that requested to go higher in altitude and most likely to try to avoid this weather, but as far as what d
And its great to have you with us on this monday evening. David is off. Im amy robach. And as we come on the air, it is daylight in southeast asia, and the race is on to find the air asia jet liner that vanished out of the sky. The new details at this hour, indonesian officials asking the u. S. Now to help find the plane they say is likely at the bottom of the sea. The intense multination search from the air resumed today over that expanded area. Another air disaster echoing the images of that missing malaysian airliner nine months ago. For the families, every hour in this search brings new heartbreak. The anguish, so clear on their faces. Our terry moran is in singapore tonight, but first, we go to Abcs David Kerley in washington with the very latest on the hunt for the airliner. David . Good evening. Reporter amy, more ships and aircraft are joining in this second full day of searching. Weve just learned a u. S. Navy destroyer, the uss sampson, will be joining, as well. Thats the goo