22/03/2014 BBC Weekend News


22/03/2014

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Good afternoon. A new satellite image has been

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released showing debris in the southern Indian Ocean, which could

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be the remains of the Malaysian passenger plane that's been missing

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for two weeks. The new picture, taken by a Chinese satellite on

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Tuesday, appears to show a large object in the sea, around 75 miles

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from an earlier sighting of possible debris. Our correspondent Alastair

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Leithead is in Kuala Lumpur. The mystery is, of course, far from

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solved. This new satellite photograph reaffirms the search

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efforts that have been going on in the southern Indian Ocean. The news

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was broken here, in Malaysia. This report contains some flash

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photography. The search for MH -- flight MH370

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has taken a new twist. While Malaysia's acting Transport Minister

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took questions, another twist was coming. I don't view, he was handed

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a note. The news I have just received is that the Chinese

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ambassador received a satellite image of debris in the southern

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corridor and they will send ships to fire five. This will be announced in

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a couple of hours. This floating object is 22 metres long and 30

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metres wide. This was the new satellite image released by the

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Chinese government. It was taken to my days after the Australians

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captured this image last Sunday. Is it the same thing? It was found just

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75 miles away, to the south. So, where is it now? For three days,

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long-range state-of-the-art planes have been flying over the area,

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trying to find the object seen from space, so far without success. This

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is the third satellite photograph that has been released, potentially

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showing wreckage relating to the loss of flight MH 370. It will help

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refocus efforts in what is still nominally a search and rescue effort

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in the southern Indian Ocean. For those wanting to resolve the mystery

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it is, at least, a new lead. The discovery of plane wreckage would be

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little comfort to the families of those on board flight MH370. They

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are still hanging onto the faint hope their loved ones are still

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alive. Does this mean there will be a

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refocus of the search area? What it means is that this

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photograph, which is new, was taken last Tuesday, Sir you have got to

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remember there was a photograph taken by the Australians on Sunday,

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then this, relating to Tuesday. It moved about 75 miles of those two

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days. Perhaps they can now at least plot which direction it was going,

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how far it might have gone. These seas are very rough, very stormy.

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There is a cyclone not far away. That is going to hamper the efforts

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to search and rescue. Certainly, it is going to help and it is progress.

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A veteran Republican has appeared in court in Belfast, charged in

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connection with the abduction and murder of a woman in 1972. Jean

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McConville, who had ten children, is one of the so-called Disappeared -

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people who were killed and secretly buried by the IRA. Ivor Bell, who is

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77, denies the charges. -- was denied bail after the court was told

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there was a risk he would not attend future hearings.

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42 years after her murder, some of Jean McConville's ten children

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arrived in court this morning to see the man charged in connection with

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the chilling. Ivor Bell is 77 and alleged to be a former leading

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member of the IRA. Jean McConville was a single mother, who was

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abducted from her flat in West Belfast in 1972. A few weeks

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afterwards, her children made a poignant appeal. Ella might be you

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think you will see your mum again? I don't know. We will keep our fingers

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crossed and pray hard for her coming back. They had seen her for the last

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time. Jean McConville's body was hidden on a beach in County Louth in

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the Irish Republican Army in 2003 a man walking on the beach discovered

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Mrs McConville's bones. Her family were finally able to give her a

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Christian burial. She was one of 16 people who became known as the

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Disappeared. They were murdered by paramilitaries and secretly buried

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during the troubles. The killers often claimed the fate was reserved

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for people passing information to the security forces but a report by

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the Policing Watchdog several years ago find no evidence there was --

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that Jean McConville was an informer. Ivor Bell was part of a

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Republican delegation which took part in talks with the government in

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London in the 1970s. Tell us more about what happened in

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court. Ivor Bell was charged with aiding

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and abetting the murder of Jean McConville and of being a member of

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the IRA. The court heard the prosecution evidence comes in an

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interview given by Ivor Bell to researchers in the US. The condition

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was that the interviews would not be published until after the

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interviewees died, but the police have gone to court in America to get

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the American University to hand over material. Ivor Bell denies the

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charges and was remanded in custody. Gerry Adams, the Sinn Fein

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president, has said that he cannot comment on the case but that the

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killing of Jean McConville was wrong. The McConville family have

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issued a statement. They say the pain of losing their mother has not

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diminished over the years and whatever happens in future, nothing

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will change that. The financial services watchdog says

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hundreds of thousands of people who are already struggling with their

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finances are being charged too much in fees by debt management firms.

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The Financial Conduct Authority says it's unacceptable that people who

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are already in debt are being talked into unsuitable repayment schemes,

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which can cost up to ?620 pounds a year.

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