russian population. ukraine will head to the olympics. katanga found guilty of murder and pillage. and the court in pretoria hears testimony about another alleged shooting incident. that on the fifth day of his murder trial. hello, everyone. we start on the ukraine crisis. ukraine s athletes just decided they will take part in the sochi paraolympics. there they are, deciding to boycott the games. well, the u.s. and france have said they won t be sending any politicians at all to the paraolympics. and in moscow, members of the upper house of parliament, there they are, have demonstrated their unwaivering support for president putin. they underline their support for crimea to join russia. he said he is now ready for talking to russia. but moscow must pull their troops back in crimea. let s get the latest from nick childs. and unscheduled event ahead of the paraolympics in sochi. it is expressing its unhappiness with events back home. will this and a boycott and maybe
preparing for the referendum in nine days s time. all the news and views in the next hour. the congolese warlord katanga guilty of war crimes. malaria thrives on global warming. aaron is with us as well in the program with a first for corporate china. not necessarily a good first day. the chinese government have allowed a company to default on debt payments without intervening or bailing out this organization. it has investors around the world worried. is this the question or time for risk free credit in china ending? hello. thanks for being with us. midday in london, 7:00 a.m. in washington, 2:00 p.m. in crimea. still a part of ukraine. but for how long longer? the peninsula is at the hands of russian force, crimean parliament voted to join russia. many people have been out celebrating the prospect of a new beginning. the governments of the baltic states, nor kick countries have all delivered a damning verdict of the attack on ukraine s sovereignty and the referendum
we ll take a live look outside. traffic is flowing nicely. golden gate fields into the mcarthur maze. sue, thank you. breaking news this morning. two fires in hayward actually. we want to get to abc 7 news reporter amy holleyfield. a dramatic fire from last night and, amy, another one burning behind you? reporter: huge fire in hayward. behind the fire we were covering. i can tell that water is getting put on this one. it was a really big fire a few seconds ago. we can t tell what s burning. right next to homes where we saw lights getting turned on. people woke up and realized there was a fire outside their window. very dangerous embers shooting into the air. we saw some headed our way so we had to back up. firefighters were running to get to this when they saw it and they saw how big it was. the tree was cashing on fire. now let me give you some perspective of how we discovered this. we re up here on an apartment balcony right down there is where there was a fire last nig
his wish gone viral. millions of people around the world joining his party and he has no idea. now his big live birthday surprise is about to happen here on gma. happy and good morning, america. we have a happy friday. we do. let s look back in the dressing rooms. little colin has no idea as we never said what he s here for today. i met him backstage. he s very excited about being here but his family has been keeping a big secret with us and as you ve seen, more than 2 million people have hit the facebook page liking colin wishing him a great day and you will not believe what is in store for him. the party crowd outside. he thinks he s here for a video game segment. right? he doesn t know. it all started just because his mom wanted him to have a birthday party and said he didn t think he had any friends but he sure does. we ll have that coming up this morning. also the clock will spring forward on saturday night. already. it s 13 days to spring and we re
anybody. what is getting him through this excruciating experience. prince harry takes his girlfriend of two years where they ve never gone before. why royal watchers mean it could mean a wedding in their future. hey, good morning. we are covering a mystery and a massive search this morning. overnight this anguished scene as family members learned that malaysian airlines flight 370 simply vanished with 239 people on board while flying from kuala lumpur in malaysia to beijing. such devastating news and they re swarming a news conference held by airline officials. here s what we know. the flight went off the radar in the south china sea near vietnam and right now there s an air and sea search and rescue mission for that boeing 777 which never sent out a distress signal which indicates whatever happened happened quickly. yes, this is going to be a complicated search and rescue mission. there were three americans on board including an infant and we re going to begin our