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good morning it our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m kasie hunt. it is tuesday, january 2, 2024 and we begin with breaking news. japan airlines plane bursting into flames as it touched down at haneda airport according to nhk. cnn s will ripley is live for us in tokyo. will, this just happened. information still coming in. what can you tell us at this hour? reporter: the headline here is that all nearly 400 people on board this plane, as horrific as the pictures look, they walked away. they evacuated safely after what appears to be some sort of a collision between two planes on the runway. this airport sits right next to a japan coast guard base. it is right in the same area right along the bay. and what nhk is reporting and cnn working to confirm independently is that as this japan airliner from a very, very popular tourist destination especially this time of year, especially on a holiday weekend, that is why the plane was packed with 367 passeng ....
scientists hope to stem an expanding population. hello and welcome. we begin in sri lanka. president gotobaya rajapaksa of sri lanka has confirmed he will resign after having fled when crowds stormed his palace. it s not clear whether, as suggested, he will return to the country this week to formally quit. hundreds of protesters furious about corruption and economic mismanagement are still in the presidential house and grounds. they say they won t leave until mr rajapaska has gone. our south asia correspondent, rajini vaidyanathan, reports from colombo. these scenes would have been unthinkable days ago. sri lanka s seat of presidential power now a sightseeing destination. security nowhere to be seen, as thousands push their way into a palace taken over by protesters. this is a really surreal moment for sri lanka. a building that is normally heavily fortified, now a free for all. at president rajapaksa s private pool, we meet carpenter ruan chiminda, who s taking a dip ....
York after a fiery crash that is being investigated as possible terrorism. the crash took place outside the kodak center in rochester where about 1,000 people were attending a concert. as people were crossing the street, one car hit another car, sending both into a group of pedestrians and two other vehicles. first responders found at least a dozen gasoline canisters inside the car that caused the crash. let s bring in national security analyst juliette kayyem on this. dom. what do you make of this? we don t have a lot of deal tail, but there were at least a dozen gas canisters in his car. as someone who analyzes these types of situations all the time, what are you thinking about when you hear that? i think we may have lost ....
Keep on coming. rajini vaidyanathan, bbc news, colombo. we will be live to columbo later on this programme to discuss in more deal tail what the outlook is for this country, extraordinary scenes there, so more on that, a little later. much of europe has been experiencing a sweltering heatwave. in spain, temperatures have hit 43 degrees celsius. that s more than a 100 degrees fahrenheit. the heat in neighbouring portugal has led to dangerous wildfires, while there have also been temperatures nudging a0 degrees in france. here s tim allman. in madrid, the sun shines down without mercy. the whole city bakes. just being outdoors can be a traumatic experience. it s deadly, said this woman. we are all melting and i m carrying bobby because it s too hot, it s unbearable. it s a similar story ....
That s not normally how it works. especially, one more quick point, durham, you know, made a statement in the middle of a criminal investigation. that s also extremely unusual and and against the normal policies of the department. again, what you write about for those watching if you want to get more deal tail, go to your op-ed, harry, there in the new york times. tom washington post, excuse me. tom, as we look at this attorney general and i ll bring up this example that just came out this week. judge rejecting department of justice s effort to delay a house lawsuit against barr. this has really been the playbook of the department of justice. don t give the stuff over to the house if they ask for it. and so the question has to be how effective has this attorney general been in impeding the progress and the power of a different branch of government? the house and its oversight. i think it might be unfair to say that it s been the effective strategy the department of justice. ....