28/03/2014 Newsnight

The searchers shift hundreds of miles north after new data analysis

suggests Malaysian flight MH370 was burning fuel faster. Can we be sure

we are being told all there is to know. I will be asking the brother

of one passenger about what he makes of the operation to find out what

happened? Tech start-ups were trumpeted by the Government as being

great engines of economic growth, has it all stalled. There are a lot

of blood buckers, developers, PR people, marketing people, legal

people, accounting people, if you don't have the right advice at the

right time you can spend a lot of money. They rapid their way into the

art market, pressing a priceless single copy of their new album.

Good evening, three weeks after Malaysian Airlines flight MH370

disappeared. It seems not for the first time the search is being

conducted in entirely the wrong area. Boats and planes are now

scrambling 700 miles north-east of where they have been looking after

new data analysis suggests the plane ran out of fuel much earlier. This

search area is 80% smaller than the last, but it is still vast, and time

is of the essence as the battery and the black box locator only last for

30 days. In a moment I will be talking to the brother of one of the

passengers about the torment of it all.

The Austrailian Maritime Safety Authority has received information

of objects possibly related to the search. The Chinese Ambassador

received satellite images of floating objects in the southern

corridor. They photographed some unidea tide floating objects. For

more than a week now every speck on a satellite photo, every grainy

image has been poured over by investigators and the world's media,

analysed and respecked for any sign it could be part of flight MH370.

But search planes and naval vessels haven't found any physical evidence

of crash or accident. All we know for sure is the jet sent a faint

final signal as it was flying over the southern Indian Ocea some time

after that it almost certainly ran out of fuel. Finding out when and

where that happened is one of the most complex tasks in civil aviation

history. Today investigators went back to the first phase of the

flight. We learned the plane moved faster than previously thought as it

left Malaysian airspace and flew west towards the Malaka strait, by

burning more fuel over that time its range would have been limited. As a

result the Australians have shifted the search areas 700 miles north.

That means every single piece of debris spotted before today in the

old search area is unlikely to be anything to do with the missing

aircraft. It is not possible, we are talking about a very different

oceanographic regimes. There is no connectivity between those two

regions. The currents are very different, they are sort of going in

almost the opposite direction, there is no connection between those two

locations. What this also shows is how difficult it is to rely just on

immammings from search -- images from search planes and satellites.

This first image from the new search area appears to show a blue metal

panel, the same colour as the missing aircraft. But floating

rubbish deep in our oceans often comes together clogging up the

surface of the sea and making it very difficult to spot genuine

wreckage. We expect to see high concentrations of material in

various sizes in this part of the ocean. Trying to distinguish between

what is a pallet, a container, a whole variety of things from parts

of an aircraft is impossible from a satellite and even from a high

altitude aircraft. Until we can actually get this debris in our

hands, from a ship, we cannot identify this positively. Tomorrow

the first Chinese warship will arrive in the new search area to do

just that. Other naval vessels are moving north to join the hunt. There

are just nine days left to find the aircraft's black box flight recorder

before the batteries run out and it stops sending the location signal.

The new search area is vast. Three-times the size of the UK, the

authorities are warning it could be changed again as new data continues

to come in. There is still so many unknown, there are things like we

don't know whether the aircraft changed course, whether it was on a

constant heading, we don't know what altitude it was flying at. If you

think where we were two weeks ago, we were still looking around the

northern corridor thinking that was a possibility or perhaps the

aircraft had crashed just off the coast of Vietnam. But now we are

gradually getting closer and closer to what looks like a more reasonable

cloaks for the crash site. New planes, Navy helicopters are

continuing to reach the search area, today's news means those teams are

getting a small step closer to solving the mystery. With a huge

area left to cover this could still be a long way from a resolution.

Joining me is Daniel Tan whose brother was on the flight. There is

a delay on the line. Good evening Mr Tan? Hi, good evening. What do you

make of the change in the search area? At the moment I really don't

know what to believe, because with all areas they say they found 122

plus 300 pieces of debris. But it turns out nothing is related to

MH370. Right now they are moving to north-east, 680 miles north-east of

the old place. Are they sure this new search place is the search

place? That's my question to the authorities. We have a situation

where more data is coming to light all the time. What faith do you have

in the idea that you are being told all there is to know? You mean for

the old search area? I mean what faith do you have that you are being

told everything that people know, that the authorities know, that

agencies know, do you think you are being given all the information

there is? For now I think some authorities are holding some

information from us. But we are not sure what it is. What do you make of

the way that the Malaysian authorities have dealt with this

situation. What's your reaction to the way the authorities in Malaysia

have dealt with the situation? We are, as the next of kip, we are not

happy about the situation. For the Malaysian authorities handling the

situation, Malaysia is a peaceful company, we never have many natural

disasters and our Government maybe doesn't know how to handle a big

disaster like this. What do you make of the way that you were sent a text

message from the airline? We were very saddened. Very angry about the

airline making assumptions based beyond a reasonable doubt. If and

they are the two words that no-one survived as a result. That is very

irresponsible for airlines to say things like that before they have

any proof to back them up. Tell me, what kind of support are you getting

day-to-day to help you deal with this torment? Malaysian Airlines has

assigned two caretakers, care givers to take care of my family. I think

they are doing a good job about giving certain information. But the

thing is the caretaker that their hands are tied, they really cannot

tell us as much. They can only arrange our tickets to wherever we

want to go and inform us about the press conference and that's all.

Other relatives have talked about not yet giving up hope. What is your

position on this? To me and my family, as long as the authorities

don't find the aircraft or the wreckage, we still have hope. But

even though it is slim, but we still are clinging on to the hope.

??FORCEDWHI Thank you so much for joining us tonight.

The ancient of Avingon in the south of France may have a mayor from the

Front National, a part-time stand-up comic, he has only ever visited the

city for the arts festival and then he was parachuted in by the FN

leader last year. If he wins it is a signal that the French voters are

fed up with two-party politics and withhold Hollande, to the extent

they are even picking up immigrant votes. French students doing what

they always love doing and having a jolly good manifestation against the

matter right. These people's parents were probably doing exactly the same

thing 25 years ago, banging the brom against Le Pen. Now it is no longer

the father it is his daughter. And her National Front has moved on.

Today party leaders appear every day on the French media. She has cleaned

up the brand and across the country built up a network of local

grassroots organisations. The result in last Sunday's Town Hall elections

was in some places dramatic. The City of Avignon is a very good

example. A beautiful place and mixed population, facing unemploymen

poverty and crime. Everyone knew the National Front would do well last

Sunday, nobody thought it would do this well. When the votes were

counted the far right candidate had come first. The candidate here is

Philippe Lotio, a former civil servant, today he was organising

canvasses aheft second round in which he's pitted against a

socialist and mainstream right. He says the party's success may

surprise others but not him. People don't believe any more in socialist

politics, they tried, for two years and they see it is more taxes et

cetera. And they also tried the UNP, the right party, that doesn't work.

So what can they do? You know. We say in France that people don't like

politic, that is not true, people are waiting and hoping for a lot

from politician, but they don't want any more the same things that they

have since 20, 25 years. There is another angle on the National Front

suck serbs ever summer there is a theatre fest VASHLGS it is France's

Edinburgh. And now the director has threatened to take the festival

elsewhere if the far right wins. Today he was welcomed joyously by

the students who clearly see him as the hero of the hour. He told me he

had no choice. If we stay and we work with the National Front, it is

supporting them. So there is really no other way. We will have to quit

or find another city. To use the festival as a political thing is

shocking. As a person he has a right to say he's against the National

Front. But he hasn't a right to play with the festival. That's not his

toy, you know. I'm very shocked about it. For the students, the

battle over the arts is part of an internal struggle against the far

right. But the National Front in France is changing, it snows how to

behave. -- knows how to behave and puts on a civilised face and is no

longer fringe. A new app for your smartphone is

designed every day or perhaps every hour, the Government certainly

believes start-ups and new technology can fuel the economy and

are providing seed funding and loans to young companies and individuals

in an area of East London dubbed "tech city" to try to support an

explosion. Do we have the computer skills, drive and staying power to

create global tech companies? Plenty of activities get described as "the

new rock 'n' roll", but building a world-beating tech company from

scratch does share many of the same characteristics as the music

business. Going from bedroom strum Tory rich rock star geek is stuff

tough, but that doesn't stop plenty of Brits having a Government King

floated with a $7 billion Stock Exchange value. But there was a bit

less candy going around on the opening day, with shares crushed by

about $1 billion. Other Brit success stories include Nick, turning into a

multi-millionaire teenage bitter selling his app to yahoo, who will

be next? In an effort to help the new next big thing along a bit,

Government launched its tech city initiative in East London in 2010,

trying to encourage a cluster of tech energy around the so called

silicone -- silicone round about. This is campus London, celebrating

its second anniversary, it was space provided by going going toll provide

entrepeneurs places to work and network. After two years of

operation, how does the head of Google think the start-up tech scene

here going. The analogy is Hollywood, there is Hollywood and UK

creativity in TV, but Hollywood is the place everyone talk about, and

Silicone Valley is the same. Our innovation is second to none, Clive

sin Clarks we vented the modern world of computing and have claim to

the Internet. But we have lost our way a little bit. One of the areas

the UK lags behind Silicon Valley is in access to the right finance at

the right time, particularly what is known as the series A stage, when a

start up has got going but isn't yet established. That is where we have a

problem in the UK. There are plenty of people willing to fund a business

when it has ref us of ?-- revenues of ?10 million. But he is series A

stage we have a gap, not that many venture funds and individuals who

are willing to put their hands in their pocket and invest ?1-?3

million to get the companies going. As a former wealth manager at

Goldman Sachs Joanna knows how to raise money for her idea, an app

that helps professional women organise their wardrobes, she says

there is a real challenge for start ups or to not lose their none on

people who prey on business new bees. Newbies. There is a lot of

people, accounting people, PR people, tech people, if you don't

have the right advice at the right time to navigate you can spend a lot

of money paying for services that are not going to be beneficial for U

But is the whole Tech City round about thing going to work. With

Britain make its money from going from garage to global tech in a few

years. If we have a future in the technology industry, and we are

doing all sorts of wonderful things, it is in the gaming developers in

Newcastle and the medical technology labs in Cambridge, in the big data

processing companies of the M 4 corridor and out towards Reading. It

is not in East London and not in consumer internet apps, you know,

which is the only thing the Government seems to realise exists.

But the head of Google in Europe thinks the next Google could come

from the UK. It is upsetting that Google and Apple are all American

companies. There is no reason at all why the next wave of those companies

can't come from the UK. That is because companies and start-ups are

realise they have to build for the global opportunity, 2. 5 billion

on-line today, five million on-line by the end of the decade. That is

the opportunity they are recognising, no reason at all we

can't do it in the UK. The UK tech start-up scene could turn into our

economic salvation or a media and politician-generated bubble that

will go the same way as cool Britannia and Swinging London.

We have the executive editor of Tech Magazine, and we have a partner in a

venture capital firm investing in tech start hutches. How would you

characterise the state of tech start-ups at the moment? It is

outstanding, in London, what is happening is the most exciting and

the most ambitious that we have seen in the time that I have been here

which is ten years. What kinds of things are you investing in? Across

the board technology, digital and internet start-ups, we have invested

in 39 companies out of the capital fund and we are really excited. We

have at least five if not ten we are convinced will be billion blur

successes. Would -- Billion dollar successes. Is that your analysis?

The Government's attitude on it is giving us a reputation of

superficiality which we don't deserve. British companies produce

great engineers, it is a bubble created by the political class who

are nervous about not being seen to be with it. It is faddish and t

idea, they understand an app but not how to create game or a programme or

a thing? I think it is more fundamental in that they want apps

and internet companies to solve problems that they can't solve

themselves. So you hear Britain saying that there is no reason why

Britain couldn't be home to the next Google and Facebook, would you

agree? The biggest threat to a start-ups is Google itself who is

likely to crush them quickly. Do you think we have the capacity and the

understanding to be able to create something like Facebook? Absolutely,

I think what is interesting is you mentioned Google and Facebook.

Facebook wasn't anywhere near being around when Google launched, it was

start-ups. Several years after Google went public. There is always

opportunities for new companies to come in and change the old

corporates. To your more recent question we have the capacity in

London, it has been proved and demonstrated in the last month

alone. There have been $500 million acquisitions of Deep Mine, a London

based company on artificial intelligence. We have the capacity

without question. What about the whole idea that the Government is

looking to Tech City, where some of the big successes have been have

been when they were attached to universities, you talk about gaming

and Dundee, that is where a lot of the gamers came out on, they have a

university background? I don't think it is a successful example of a

top-down cluster created by the state anywhere in the world. They

are all attached to universities and d have financed capital next to

them. It is peddling the illusion, you are the lottery winner and you

can cash out. Do people look at Candy Crush and think we are here

short-term and create something hugely successful and get out?

People use this word "exit, I question why we look to VCs as if

they are demigods teaching us something. I don't think of myself

as a demigod, I'm flattered! Your point about Candy Crush, not an

overnight success by any means, it is 12 years old, cash positive since

2005, it is not just an 18-month upstart. It is doing very well and

generating significant revenue, almost $2 billion last year. When

you look at the long-term investment and business angel coming in, do you

look for something, again rock stars we have talked about, ideas for 35

years. Do you look at something that you think will yield over the

long-term or you want to get in and out quickly? We don't have a

short-term view at all. We are looking at value creation and

sustainability. And if you look at every successful company that we

have mapped our companies against or we look for, we are not looking for

an exit in two years, we want value creation that takes up to 10 and

more years. If you look at something like tech City, could you

characterise it as a clust e it just isn't a cluster around a university?

I think it is quite telling that the definition of a tech company from

Tech City itself is changed to include Marks Spencers food

retailers. The Bank of England, any company that does half of its

business on-line. And they then proclaim that as a great success for

Britain. Sorry to interrupt, to your earlier point you were concerned

there was too much focus on internet start-ups or web-based start-ups. To

your point Tech City is about entrepeneurship all across the UK

which is good. Is strikes me you are redesigning success. What is

success? I think from this fetishising two kids in a garage

changing the world is the long-term R that large companies can. Do I

interviewed the man who decoded DNA a few years ago, he's working on a

biofuel that eats C O2, produces synthetic oil. He said he would get

results in 15-20 years. But for politicians that is difficult,

because they want results in the short-term to show they are having

an effect. I don't think they are mutually exclusive, Facebook bought

a UK-based company orbiting drone planes. They are set in Somerset and

not in a garage. That as a success story and path to success is great

examples alongside start-upses as well. They are not mutually

exclusive. What has to change in your view to make this a sustainable

and kind of fundamental part of our economy, what would it be? David

Cameron said something interesting earlier this month, when he was

announcing a partnership on the Internet of things with Germany. He

said the Germans will done the engineering, and the British, he

said, will design the website. Why not do the engines. It is 27% of new

job creation last year, so it is significant.

Many rappers the Wotang Clan have never been adverse to making money.

Their album is billed by the rappers as being a piece of price lease art.

There will -- art, there will only be one copy, it is expected to be

sold for millions to a private collector. It will never be placed

on-line, it will be played at art galleries and festivals.

Enter the Wotang Clan, again. The one-time Newsnight house band has

come a long way. And this eccentric irrerverent collective may have come

up with their most outlandish move yet. Somewhere in the shadow of the

at last mountains, and -- Atlas Mountains, in a Copper Box is said

to be "the" copy of the album. As in one. They hope to sell it for

millions it a super fan. The rest of us will have to go to gallery as we

show here in this detailed mock-up! The band hope the record will tour

the major museums of the world, where people will be able to listen

to it, and admire it. Like this earlier disc. This is a real old

master work, if you look close it is as if the hoodies follow you around

the room. This has limitless qualities of fool the eye and light

and shade and vert owe sow chissel. It definitely steps into the world

of fine art. MIT Making it more unique is about making a work of art

in a private setting, it is more akin to the art world than the music

industry, listening on your headphones or on the tube. Imagine

you were starting a show now, tell the UK exactly who you are, let's

have it. This one? That is all well and good for the art crowd. But

let's try throwing it into the mix at the regular sound clash between

Newsnight and urban station Radio 1 Xtra. I think it will be seismic. A

lot of new artists are coming up with new ways of makes music

exciting. The fans relate to these kinds of ideas and the more

different and exciting the better, and the more exciting it is for the

whole genre and everyone involved. This Wu-Tang Clan is bad news for

you, you won't have the album and you will have to go to the gallery

like everyone else? I'm a fan and if that is what I have to do I will

have to do it. You won't get exclusives for the show? I won't.

This is only the latest and perhaps most grandiOS e. Beyonce got massive

publicity by getting no publicity at all, releasing it without warning.

David Bowie did something rather sim larks just as his fans had begun to

resign themselves to never hearing new music from him again. RANSMIT

What about a hip hop album that no-one has heard. If you want to

treat it like a work of art it has to fulfil this requirement. How will

it look in the space, how will people experience it, will it

actually be special, will it be worthy of that. What is the music

like. As an idea it is very interesting, and actually possibly

could be fascinating. But just you could tell me a brilliant idea for a

work of art, until I saw it I wouldn't be able to judge it. Not

for the first time the Wu-Tang Clan are showing themselves pressent and

droll. Since the music has become a museum piece what better place for

their long player. Today artists including Poet Laureate Carol Anne

Duffy protested about the ban on prisoners receiving books to read in

jail. We looked at what that most famous of jailbird, Norman Stanley

Fletcher would have made it from his position as prison librarian. What

about a decent book, you know what I mean. You mean something a bit

risque. It won't be risky, I won't tell anyone Risque means dirty. That

is what I mean. I could let you have this one. It is about the

sex-starved lady Pygmies of the southern Malaysian desert. What is

it called? Little Women! Warmer and dryer weather in the morning. Rain

far west of the Wales and south-west England