U.N.'s Harsh New Sanctions Against North Korea; Malaysia Remembering MH-370 Victims; Vatican Says 16 People Including Four Nuns Killed in Yemen; Makeshift Camp on Greek Border Grows by the Day
HOWELL: The Philippine Coast Guard has impounded the ship you see here enforcing harsh new sanctions imposed by the U.N. on North Korea. The cargo ship was flying a flag from Sierra Leone when it docked in Subic Bay on Thursday. The documents show all 21 crew members on board are North Korean nationals. Authorities plan to deport the crew. Among that with the new sanctions, all countries are required now to inspect cargo going into and from North Korea. There's also a complete ban on small arms going into the country. And the sanctions call for the expulsion of North Korean diplomats who engage in, quote, "illicit activities." Sanctions further include a wider ban on luxury items, like watches, jet skis, and recreational vehicles. Aviation fuel would also be banned as well because it can be converted to weapons production. The sanctions also limit the imports of North Korean coal and iron ore if it can be shown that the sales would support "illicit activities." Two years ago, 239 people lost their lives on board Malaysian Airlines flight 370. And ever since, the relatives of those on board have found very few answers sine the Boeing 777 disappeared on its way to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. But now, the deadline for families to sue the airline is March eighth. Our Saima Mohsin reports from Malaysia on how the victims are being remembered.</s>SAIMA MOHSIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Family, friends and well wishes are gathering here today to mark a day of remembrance for the 239 passenger and crew members on board flight MH370. Kuala Lumpur, of course is where the plane took off from bound to Beijing. They didn't arrive in its destination. It's where their loved ones were last seen.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Well, today is the 6th and I'm recalling what Patrick did on the sixth. And in tomorrow I'll remember what he did on the seventh, you know, where he went for a safety cause. And then I will remember on the eighth a call coming in an all that. So, it's all remained -- it's the rewinding and now playing back. That's tough, but I'm -- you know, I'll try to stay strong.</s>MOHSIN: The family members are also taking this opportunity to launch a petition search on. They're asking people to re-evaluate and reinvestigate the disappearance of flight MH370. They're concerned that once the current search of 120,000 kilometers in the deepest Southern Indian Ocean ends, the search may end with it and they may never find the plane or their loved ones.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They're been talking stopping the search in the end of June, early July. And we are not ready for them to stop searching. We want the search to go on. We think that giving up right now would be premature. It's so unprecedented, so bizarre. They have to be willing to take unprecedented steps so they may not normally look for a plane for this long but this is an unprecedented even then they need to take unprecedented steps as well to recover the plane.</s>MOHSIN: Each of these balloons has someone's on board flight MH370 name attached them. These are for the 12 crew members, the rest 227 passengers on board. These families are still hoping they might turn up and that is why events like this is so important for them to raise awareness to keep the greatest aviation mystery alive, perhaps, hoping that it's a mystery no more than they find the plan. Saima Mohsin, CNN, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.</s>HOWELL: The Vatican says 16 people, including four nuns were gunmen stormed an elderly home in the port City of Aden. Officials say the killers bursts into the facility then went room to room handcuffing victims before then shooting all 16 in the head. The pope quickly rebuked the attack as, quote "senseless and diabolical." Let's go live to Yemen. Journalist Hakim Almasmari joins us with the very latest on this situation. Hakim, good to have you with us. If you could just tell us what happened here. What more do we know about this attack?</s>HAKIM ALMASMARI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Unexpected tragic, especially for nuns at a nursing homes who have been living in Yemen for many years and have been helping the Yemenis for many years and were loved by almost all of the people of Aden for helping those people. This attack was so tragic as back even Al Qaeda. AQAP condemned that death or the attack on these nuns and civilians in this nursing home. It's not the first time attacks happened against Christians, this happened many years back in the early '90s in the port City of Aden. But over the last 20 years this is the first time. There are numerous of other nursing homes run by Christian nuns around the Yemen and all of them are safe. Now this according to the governor of Aden holds the hallmarks of ISIS in Aden. This is not a secret that ISIS has strong presence in Aden where these attacks took place. Dozens have check points are currently under ISIS control in Aden. So, this is the result of chaos that has been the result of 11 months of Saudi war, that has caused complete sort of the turmoil all over the country.</s>HOWELL: I want to talk more about that because people are aware of the conflict between Houthi rebels and Saudi. But when it comes to ISIS gaining more control, more grip in that country, we're seeing that in countries as well in Afghanistan. Tell our viewers what's happening there when it comes to</s>ISIS. ALMASMARI: Last year, ISIS was not present in Yemen. It's in their group, it's mainly started when the Houthis were forced to or defeated in southern provinces by Saudi allies and its forces. Sadly and unfortunately, after the Saudi collision control of many Yemeni province of the south, there was lack of seriousness by the Saudi coalition which led ISIS control many of these provinces. By now, ISIS controls more territory in Yemen. When I say ISIS, I mean ISIS and other affiliated groups like Al Qaeda. They control more territory in Yemen than the Yemeni government than even the Houthis in the north. So, this because every -- or the majority of areas that are -- the Houthis came out from and taking by the Saudi coalition is sadly controlled by ISIS. In Aden it's only one example. You have the Hadhramaut and other provinces and their number today in Yemen exceed in the thousands, whereas, as last year, there were not in the tens.</s>HOWELL: The Saudi-led air strikes have been going on now for 11 months. And many people, many civilians are caught up in the middle of it. What more can you tell us about civilians of getting aid to them, these people who are suffering in the middle of all of this.</s>ALMASMARI: It's unbelievable. Right now the 90 percent of those killed have been civilians. Over 20 million civilians that's 80 percent of the population today in Yemen are suffering from severe hunger crisis. They sleep hungry. Millions of children suffer from malnutrition because of this 11 months war that Yemen was already the poorest country in the Middle East even before the war. Adding to that, 90 percent of those killed have been civilians. The Yemen government says that that number exceeds 8,500 civilians killed, while the U.N. numbers are around 2,500. In the end, this war has only caused more tragedy to civilians and this is the reason why Saudi allied coalition is not succeeding in this war or not seeing any breakthrough because most of these casualties have been civilians and not soldiers.</s>HOWELL: Joining us live from Sana'a in Yemen, Hakim Almasmari. We wish you continued safety there and we always appreciate your reporting for us here on CNN. A makeshift camp along the Greek border keeps getting bigger and bigger by the day as hundreds of migrants continue arriving hoping to cross into Macedonia. A drone captured the aerials that you see here showing hundreds of tents that are hauled along a rail line at that border. Macedonia has imposed tight restrictions on migrant crossings. There are more than 10,000 migrants stranded at that camp. The camp designed though, to hold just 1,500 people. CNN Arwa Damon caught up with some of the migrants at that camp to see how they're coping with the many, many challenges there.</s>ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The children will find anything that they can to actually be able to play with. That game is called the bus. This is the situation as it exists along the Greece-Macedonia border, where the kids will do whatever they can the way children always do with their phenomenal resilience to try to entertain themselves, but it is always phenomenally difficult on the parents. There are upwards of 10,000 people that are currently stuck here. Macedonia has reduced the numbers being allowed through to about a few dozen a day and only Iraqis and Syrians. And this is largely because other countries that are meant to be receiving the refugees and the migrants are saying that they simply at this stage cannot take the numbers or cope with the influx. But by simply shutting down the border, it has resulted in this massive expansion that we are seeing here right now. All of these brightly colored tents were donated by various different organizations because the aide group that exists here quite simply can't handle the sheer volume of people that have been built up here at what is now a bottleneck. And you can see other families getting ready for the night. It does get bitterly cold out here at night and then the long line of people waiting to get food. A line that they sometimes spend an hour, if not two in it just to get a sandwich. And everyone who we've been speaking to here says they can deal with just about anything, it's the uncertainty of it all that makes it so difficult. Arwa Damon, CNN, on the Greece-Macedonia border.</s>HOWELL: Tens of thousands of refugees from Syria have crossed the sea from Turkey into Greece in just the first two months of this year. And for some, that journey was a dangerous and nightmarish journey.</s>HOWELL: Omar told us that after the boat started sinking, the Turkish Coast Guard rescued his five younger siblings and took them to Turkey. Well, the Greek Coast Guard rescued him and his mother and then took them to Greece. Now, after nearly two weeks of separation, the family was finally reunited in Greece. A happy ending after certainly a scary ordeal. You're watching CNN NEWSROOM. Still ahead, Marco Rubio's campaign suffered a rough day on Super Saturday. We will explain why he is trying to court voters in Puerto Rico to stop the bleeding. Plus, hear how two families in Flint, Michigan have been getting by without using that city's contaminated city supply. Broadcasting from Atlanta and on our networks around the world this hour, you're watching CNN worldwide.