Fighters hold off isil fighters from the oil rich city. We begin with the latest developments on airasia flight debris and bodies have been shotted in the java sea off of indonesia. The indonesian president has offered his condolences to the families. He spoke to the nation from where the flight took off. Several bodies have been recovered. Scott heidler has the latest. Reporter on the third day of waiting, finally news of their loved ones but not the news they wanted. Translator we will find things belongings bodies of the passengers of the plane, and we are sure that everything will be brought back into our base. Reporter they found the debris in bodies in sector seven, one of 13 areas being searched on tuesday. It was just 10 kilometers from where the air Traffic Controllers lost contact with the plane on sunday morning. Its early evening, and any minute the president is expected here at the airport. On his way here he flew over the area where the bodies and debris were discovered.
The white house lashes pyongyang with another round of sanctions after its alleged cyber attack on sony forced to flee emergency alerts as bushfires threaten lives in australia. Good morning to you. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. Thank you for spending your saturday morning with us. Im morgan radford. New developments in the search for qz8501. Four large parts of the jet were found in indonesiania coming as we learn that the airline may not have had permission to fly the route that it took where it fell straight into the java sea. Why would the plane take the route if it was not authorised to go there, ross shimabuku. Thats not clear. All flights from this area are suspended. The airline was permitted to fly the route monday tuesday, thursday and wednesday. It used to have a slot on sundays, but that permission ended in object. Officials say airasia has permission to fly it daily. Airasia is not commenting but is helping with government investigations. Reporter its been nearly a week s
2014 started off as a triumphant year for russian president Vladimir Putin. He extended his rift into ukraine, and thumbed his nose at the west while doing it. But thanks to sanctions and sliding oil prices, 2015 is already looking to be a year of Economic Hardship for russia. It should be a growing disenchantment. Today hundreds of protesters streamed into red square. They came out to protest a Russian Court sentencing of alex sigh navalny. Well have more on that in a moment. But first, speaking of money, putins financial problems are only mounting. Rur sh Russian Companies are cut off from western credit. As a result, companies now face Serious Problems services more than 550 billion of russian corporate debt. They cant access western banks, so when they have to refinance, they have got to figure out new ways of doing so. Meanwhile Falling Oil Prices are cutting into russias state budget and fuelling a currency crisis. Russias central bank estimates 128 billion was moved out of the c
The virus. A cattle ship carrying around 450 migrants has been safely towed know to an italian port. This is the third migrant ship found off the coast of italy in the past two weeks. An areacaptain has told al jazeera they are fearful more will come. Must have been an enormous relief and how exhausted they must have been. Italian officials were sympathetic. We must create humanitarian corridors, free from dwreedy greedy human traffickers. Recognition coast guard officials were forced to board the ship. It was abandoned without power left to the mercy of the sea. The second of in as much days. The other had been rescued close to the italian coast before it too became wrecked. Told al jazeera he believed the crew had deliberately abandoned the ship. They are now digesting the assumption that this is the traffickers new strategy. It is deliberate. They have no respect for human life. But you think thy they might do more like this . We expect there can be other there can be new cases. We
By floods in malaysia. So then a resolution calling for israel to end its occupation of palestinian territory by 2017 has been rejected at the United Nations Security Council. It needed 9 votes to pass but only got eight. Here is how the vote played out the country that his voted in favor of the resolution were china, franz russia, luxembourg chad, chile argentina and jordan. The two states that voted no, the United States and all stall australia. United nations were among nine stations that abstained from the vote. A report from new york now. Reporter just aid votes, not enough for the palestinian to his claim majority support in the Security Council. The resolution would have set a 2017 deadline for an end to israelii occupation. Australia and the United States as expected, voted against. Regrettably instead of giving voice to the aspirations of both palestinians and israelis this text addresses the concerns of only one side. Its deeply imbalanced and contains many elements that are