club near his home. he was a lot of fun, says one member he was just another boy like so many others here. and of course investigators are now spending their time scanning lubitz background. one thing that of course is invaluable to them is the documents that they found inside those two places where lubitz was staying. we have learned this morning that all those documents are going to be turned over to the french prosecutor apparently as we speak right now. there are french police officers on their way from marseille to here in germany, to pick those documents up and bring them back for the investigation. chris? fred so many affected by the acts of one man, we ll check back with you. the co-pilot s home town in shock over the nurse that he has the blood of 149 innocents on his hands. many saying he was a normal guy as you heard and certainly not a mass murderer. but authorities say that s not the case any more. cnn s rosie thompkins is there in montabaur, germany, his hometown.
we can t verify those claims but obviously there is mounting aggression on the ground from many alongside the houthis here. most troubling, a regional dimension to this now. significantly obvious. you mention houd this could potentially derail u.s. talks with iran the u.s. are backing the saudi coalition. the saudi coalition is broadening now, predominantly sunni in the arab legal meeting in sharm el-sheikh. they will be continuing to discuss the joint arab strike force so to speak. the united military force, they want to use what they see to be hotspots around the world. fundamentally we re seeing the prospect of saudi troops and maybe even egyptian troops being introduced into this war. that would be a sunni ground fight against a predominantly shia houthi rebel movement backed by shia iran. exactly the kind of conflict that s flown across the middle east now. exactly what people are most concerned about. we re into a very troubling new chapter here chris. as you ve been saying it
have. he says that so far, it s never been an issue for lufthansa before. but of course with ha happened there, with the plane going down they re re-evaluating that as well. also because a lot of other airlines are doing the same thing. we do expect lufthansa to make changes to that policy very soon chris. interesting, fred that s the first time we ve heard from someone involved in a position of leadership that the safety procedure to get through the door using the keypad and then the co-pilot having to lock it. that s what they believe happened here. that the captain did try to get back in using the keypad and didn t happen. we ll keep chasing down that part fred we ll chase you back on that. in other news the president of yemen is taking refuge in saudi arabia ahead of this weekend s arab league summit. back in his country, chaos. a saudi-led arab coalition blasting iran-backed houthi rebels with airstrikes. and now threatening to send in ground troops. their action in yemen of c
fought by iran and the shia rebels. we re helping them on one side and we re fighting against them on the other side what kind of alignment is that? yeah chris, you know alignment i don t think is the right way to put this. that is such a complex task in the middle east. we have to break these down the smaller simpler tasks. we can t just group these all in together. everyone is fighting a common enemy, for the last three weeks up in tikrit and seeing it it was great to see. we saw the forces out there. in yemen right now, i think one thing we have to be able to do is take the sunni and shia piece away for a minute. let s talk about the houthis literally they attacked a, a president and his parliament and a country that was freely elected. they went through an election. hadi he was elected, put into power by the people. they came in. but if you remember two months ago when we spoke, when the
this as a saudi-led arab coalition keeps up its air assault against iran-backed houthis. saudi arabia threatening to send in ground troops to yemen s conflict. right now amanda knox s fate is being decided by italy s supreme court. they re in session and the judges are deliberating whether to uphold her murder conviction. you ll remember knox returned to the u.s. in 2011 after a lower court threw out the original conviction. but the supreme court then reconvicted after that. now, if the court upholds its decision italy could ask for knox back for a prison sentence of up to 28 years. okay. chris, the final round of nuclear talks under way. but road blocks remain. iran said to be unwilling to compromise on key issues. now iran s president is making an eye peel toappeal to the united states. aaron david miller advised six secretary of state on the