News on the move: Jet crash in Russia kills more than 40

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Adam Shapiro, co-anchor of Yahoo Finance’s On the Moves, brings you the top headlines for Monday, May 6, 2019.

Russian plane crash

People gather around the damaged Sukhoi SSJ100 aircraft of Aeroflot Airlines at Sheremetyevo airport, outside Moscow, Russia, Monday, May 6, 2019. Russia's main investigative body says both flight recorders have been recovered from the plane that caught fire while making an emergency landing at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport, killing at least 40 people on Sunday. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Russian investigators will analyze the black box recorders recovered from an Aeroflot jetliner that crashed Sunday during an emergency landing outside Moscow. At least 41 people were killed when the back of the plane burst into flames. The U.S. State Department says at least one of the dead is a U.S. citizen. Thirty-three passengers and four crew members were able to escape. Aeroflot says the flight crew had 1,400 hours of experience flying the type of jet that crashed. The pilots requested a return to the airport shortly after take off.

Brunei death penalty

A protester is seen holding a placard that says Stone one of us face all of us during the demonstration. Protesters gathered outside of the luxury Dorchester hotel in London, UK which is owned by the Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkia, to protest and condemn the new anti-LGBTIQ laws brought in by the Sultan. Under the new laws introduced in Brunei those found guilty of gay sex or adultery could be stoned to death. Some celebrity's in the world have voiced opposition to the regime and condemn the new laws and called for a boycott of hotels owned by the sultan. Protesters gathered outside Dorchester Hotel in London, UK which is owned by the Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkia, to protest and condemn the new anti-LGBT laws brought in by Sultan. Under the new laws introduced in Brunei those found guilty of gay sex or adultery could be stoned to death. Some celebrity's in the world have voiced opposition to the regime and condemn the new laws and called for a boycott of hotels owned by sultan. (Photo by Andres Pantoja / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)

The Sultan of Brunei says his country will not execute people convicted of adultery or engaging in gay sex. Brunei recently codified punishments under Islamic law which call for the death penalty. Several countries including the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom condemned the brutality of the punishments. Several, which include whipping and amputation, remain on the books in Brunei.

Gaza cease fire

A Palestinian boy cleans a sofa from the rubble of the partial damage on his family house after and Israeli airstrike, Sunday, on a next door multi-story building in Gaza City, Monday, May. 6, 2019. The Israeli military has lifted protective restrictions on residents in southern Israel while Gaza's ruling Hamas militant group reported a cease-fire deal had been reached to end the deadliest fighting between the two sides since a 2014 war. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

A cease fire in Gaza appears to be holding. It went into effect early Monday morning following a weekend of violence between Hamas, Islamic JIihad and Israel. At least 27 people were killed on both sides. Hamas and Islamic Jihad fired more than 700 rockets into Israel which retaliated with air strikes on targets inside Gaza. President Donald Trump tweeted the U.S. supports Israel's right to defend citizens writing, "terrorist acts against Israel will bring you nothing but more misery.”

Cohen starts prison sentence

FILE - In this Saturday, May 4, 2019, file photo, Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, is confronted by members of the media as he heads back to his Park Avenue apartment in New York. Cohen has until Monday afternoon, May 6, 2019, to report to a federal prison where he’ll begin his three-year sentence. Cohen is the only person charged in connection with hush-money payments to women who allegedly had affairs with Trump. (AP Photo/Jonathan Carroll, File)

President Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen begins his three-year prison sentence today at a federal prison in New York. He was convicted of campaign finance violations, tax evasion and arranging hush money payments to women who allegedly had affairs, in years past, with Trump. Cohen spoke several times with Robert Mueller's investigative team as well as federal prosecutors investigating Trump's business dealings before he was elected president.

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