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satellite analysis. The moment families of the passengers were told

there were no survivors, they had hoped in vain. For them, the past

few weeks have been heartbreaking. I know this news must be harder still.

There have been new sightings of suspected wreckage. Ships and

surveillance aircraft are converging on the area. We'll be hearing from

the British company that's been analysing the satellite data. Also

tonight... David Cameron joins world leaders as they try to agree on a

joint response to Russia's takeover of Crimea. Climbing on to the axle

of a truck. The hidden cameras that show the risks illegal migrants take

to try to get to Britain. The Oscar Pistorius trial. The court hears

that Reeva Steenkamp sent a text saying he scared her.

And remembering The Great Escape. 70 years on from one of the most daring

endeavours of the Second World War. Tonight on BBC London: A warning to

other theatres as the cause of the ceiling collapse at the Apollo is

revealed. And hundreds stop to pay their respects to the RMT leader,

Bob Crow. Hello and welcome to the BBC's News

At Six. More than two weeks after the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370

disappeared, the families of the 239 people who were on board have been

told the plane did crash and that no-one survived. This afternoon,

Malaysia's Prime Minister said new evidence pointed to the flight

ending in the Southern Indian Ocean and far from any landing sites. He

said that fresh data analysis in the UK had shed more light on the flight

path of the plane. That area has been the subject of an intense

aerial and sea search for some days now. And today more reconnaissance

aircraft, along with an Australian Navy vessel, have been combing the

area. Our first report on the fate of Flight MH370 is from Alastair

Leithead, who is in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur. His report

contains some flash photography. It was a moment the world was

expecting but the families of those on board flight MH370 were hoping

would never come. The Malaysian Prime Minister 's announcement was

based on new information from the British communications company that

has been at the heart of the investigation. Inmarsat, the UK

company that provided satellite data, using a type of analysis never

before used in an investigation of this sort, they have been able to

shed more light on MH370 's flight path. Inmarsat established to

possible corridors of travel. They used a new computer model to

discount the northern corridor, meaning the plane 's last signal

must have come from here, deep in the southern Indian Ocean. This is a

mode location, far from any possible landing sites. It is, therefore,

with deep sadness, and regret, that I must inform you that, according to

this new data, flight MH370 ended in a sudden -- the southern Indian

Ocean. This was the reaction in Beijing when the families heard the

terrible news. Anger replaced this sudden and brutal loss of hope. The

Malaysians are talking nonsense, this man shouts. Until the wreckage

is found, the truth will be hard to accept. Chinese aircraft joined the

search for wreckage today. 1500 miles off the coast of Western

Australia. They photographed some unidentified floating objects, as

did an Australian aircraft crew. Ships are also on the way to the

search area. This really is just the first step in trying to solve one of

the world 's great aviation mysteries. Wreckage linked to the

flight has not been positively identified, so the search must go on

for any remains of the plane, the black box flight recorder and trying

to piece together the last few hours of the passengers aboard the flight,

MH370. Why it went down thousands of miles of course deep in the southern

Indian Ocean may never will be known. -- never be known. Well, the

Malaysian Prime Minister's announcement followed new analysis

by British experts at the UK's Air Accidents Investigation Branch and

Inmarsat, that's the UK company that provided the satellite data. Our

transport correspondent, Richard Westcott, has been talking to the

team behind the break-through. I am so sorry, we are having

technical problems with that report. Our transport correspondent was

hoping to bring a report talking to the team behind the breakthrough.

The search for the wreckage of flight MH370 continues. We can now

go to are Porter in Perth. What is the latest you can bring us? -- our

reporter. Ager Matic Day in Malaysia and a dramatic day here. We have had

dozens of flights setting off from the airport base in Perth. Today is

the first day where we had any really significant sightings of

possible debris from the Malaysian jet. We do not know, at this stage,

whether the object is the first day where we had any really significant

sightings of possible debris from the Malaysian jet. We do not know,

at this stage, whether the objects cited today will turn to be the

wreckage for five days, the southern Indian Ocean has yielded few clues.

Today that change. An Australian search plane fired flares to mark

the spot after four pieces of possible debris from the missing

Malaysian jet was cited. Special data boys would dropped to track any

shift in position caused by strong currents. The first object was

rectangular in shape, slightly below the ocean. The second object was

circular, also slightly below the ocean. There was a cylindrical

object and another item in the area which was also cylindrical. Dozens

of flights this week have spotted virtually nothing. Today, a Chinese

plane also reported seeing suspicious objects amid the waves.

From the Australian Prime Minister, a word of caution. Our planes and

ships continue to search the area for any sign of the missing

aircraft. I caution again, Mr Acting Deputy Speaker, that we do not know

whether any of these objects are from MH370. And Australian Navy ship

is one of the vessel is trying to find that out. It could take days to

transport anything they do find the 1500 miles back to dry land. Unless

the plane 's crucial black box is found, we may know what happened but

we will not know why. Let's go back to that report from our transport

correspondent. He has been talking to the British team behind this

latest breakthrough with the satellite data. This is the very

room where they would have been receiving the data from flight

MH370. This is where they have been able to put together new analysis to

confirm the aircraft definitely flew south and is definitely somewhere

down here. How have you finally concluded this aircraft flew south?

We have taken aircraft data and modelled that and put that against

the Northern and the southern path. What we discovered was that the path

to the south is undoubtedly the one taken. Why has it taken so long to

get to this point? We have been dealing with a totally new area. We

have been trying to help an investigation based on a single

signal once an hour from an aircraft which did not include any GPS data

or time and distance material. Our team came up and modelled this. Are

you happy with the way the Malaysian 's have processed all this data? The

emphasis for the latest must have been on cutting back on the data.

They will have been dealing with neighbours they might not

necessarily get on with. It is hard for us to criticise them. It will

frighten a lot of people that an aircraft can just disappear like

this. Can anything be done to stop it happening? If you look at ships

on the sea, long-range identification and tracking is a

requirement. Aircraft could have their positions reporting now. It

would cost less than a dollar an hour. Let's return to Kuala Lumpur,

where today's announcement was made and speak to our correspondent,

Alastair Leithead. We saw in your report, there was real distress

among the relatives, but also anger. Very much so. Until wreckage is

recovered, the families of many of those passengers will still deny

this has happened. They had a glimmer of hope over the last couple

of weeks and they still believe their loved ones could still be

alive. In terms of the wreckage, obviously, there have been more

thing seen, photographs taken. It appears they have been looking in

the right area. We heard from a source who said the two blips seen

on the satellite image some days ago were most probably a week. That is

what they think, of course. Until they see it, they cannot prove that

is the aircraft. The other big question is, what happened? We still

do not know whether this was something that was caused by a

pilot, a passenger, somebody on board who deliberately made the

plane go where it was an crash it in that way or if there was some kind

of problem with the aircraft or some kind of failing in the aircraft. I

put that to the investigators and they said they could not reveal the

information, there was information that they could not show it at this

stage. Other news now. Ukraine has ordered the withdrawal of its forces

from Crimea after another military base was over-run by Russian troops

- the third in the last two days. The crisis there is expected to

dominate discussions between the world's key leaders when they meet

in the Netherlands tomorrow. President Obama says Europe and

America are united in wanting impose what he called a cost on Russia. Our

Europe correspondent, Gavin Hewitt, reports. In Crimea, every Ukrainian

military base is now under Russian control. Many of the Ukrainian

soldiers, without the uniforms, are being pulled out of the region,

token resistance has ended. In Moscow in parliament, the flags of

Crimea and Sebastopol were added to the flags of Russia 's regions -

images intended to demonstrate that from the Russian perspective, Crimea

's future has been settled. In the Netherlands, President Obama arrived

for a summit on nuclear security but it was completely overshadowed by

the crisis in Ukraine. The American president, who was shown a restored

museum for Dutch masters, was determined to keep the pressure on

Russia and to signal it could not expect a place at the world 's top

table for the time being. Europe and America are united in support of the

Ukrainian government and the Ukrainian people. We are united in

imposing a cost on Russia for its action so far. As the motorcade

swept into The Hague, President Putin 's was not among them. The

leaders of the worlds most powerful economies the G8 web set to discuss

what to do about Russia. Is it time exclude -- to exclude Russia from

the G8? We would be meeting tonight the seven other countries of the G8

to determine the way forward. Russia needs to change course. The White

House indicated that Russia would not formally be kicked out of the

group of eight, more a cold shoulder. For President Obama

arriving here, the priority is to try and demonstrate just how

isolated Russia is within the international community and also to

try to show that the United States and Europe are united when it comes

to dealing with Russia over the crisis in Ukraine. On the sidelines

of this meeting, there was one more positive sign. There are reports the

Russian Foreign Minister is expected to meet his Ukrainian counterpart

for the first time. Let's have a look at some of the other stories

making the news today. The Co-op bank is facing more

problems. It's asking for more money needed to cover unexpected liects

such as the miss-selling of insurance and problems in its

mortgages division. At the Max Clifford trial, a woman

who appeared in the James Bond film Octopussy, said she kicked him

really hard in the groin after he pushed her on to a sofa and tried to

kiss her. She said he gave her money for lingerie and took pictures of

her wearing it. Mr Clifford denies 11 counts of indecent assault. Timmy

Tarbuck has been released without charge. North Yorkshire police

interviewed him after receiving operation from Operation Yewtree,

the investigation into allegation allegation -- allegations against

Sir Jimmy Savile. A 15-year-old boy has appeared in court charged with

the murder of schoolgirl, Shereka Marsh, at the weekend. Shereka, who

was also 15, was shot in the neck at a house in Hackney in East London.

Jo Black reports. Today at school, prayers were said

at an assembly by teachers and school friends. Shereka Marsh was an

engaging, bubbly personality. She was well liked by everyone in the

community. It is the most devastating loss for us. She was

such a model pupil, she was even chosen to show guests around her

school, including the Jamaican High Commissioner. A short life, full of

promise, tragically cut short. Our top story - the relatives of

passengers on flight MH370 were told its journey ended in the southern

Indian Ocean. It's assumed there are no survivors. Still to come -

digging for freedom, the men whose heroics were immortgage allised in

the film, The Great Escape are remembered 70 years on. Later on BBC

London - why the elderly are more at risk from heatwaves in and around

London than anywhere else in the country say researchers.

And Surrey cricket's new coach hopes Kevin Pietersen will help the club

win promotion next season. We have new evidence today of the

desperate attempts being made by migrants to enter the UK. Hidden

cameras have captured people risking their lives by climbing on the axles

of trucks at the entrance to the port of Calais. According to the

authorities in the French city, at least 150 migrants a week are

successfully reaching the UK by concealing themselves on trucks.

According to one charity, since 2002, 200 have been killed trying to

get to the UK. The BBC has discovered five migrants have been

killed in the last six weeks alone. Our correspondent Colin Campbell has

this exclusive BBC investigation. Night and day, George, hundreds of

migrants are trying to break in to UK December tinned trucks here in

Calais, or conceal themselves on board the vehicles. There's one

common aim - to get to the UK as soon as possible. And their efforts

are relentless and often very dangerous.

Night-time in Calais. A truck we fitted with cameras stops at a

junction near the port. In seconds, two men crawl beneath the vehicle.

Precariously they try to balance on the rear axel. These are migrants

trying to get to Britain from France. You are risking your lives

by getting on this truck. Calais is again experiencing a surge

in migrant numbers. Many Syrians are now arriving. They say they fled war

and persecution. This is the real danger point. This is the approach

to the ferry terminal. As you can see, there is a huge queue of trucks

here and waiting in the bushes, we have seen scores of migrants and

they've been quite brazenly trying to break into the trucks. Look just

down there. The French authorities here blame the British Government

for not providing enough assistance. We are strengthening our borders and

returning more people who get here illegally. We have invested in the

UK Border Force, doing a good job. We are also making sure that people

who come here can't immediately claim benefits. Another truck, one

we have arranged to follow, another risking his life. On this occasion,

the truck moves off unaware it's gained a passenger. We called the

driver as soon as we can to alert him. Dave, you need to slow down

very slowly. You've got one in your axel. Slow down very slowly now.

Once stationary the stow-away climbs out. You could kill yourself. I

don't know how to say it to you, but this country is not good to live in,

you know. You have to go to England. The pressure on drivers is huge. I

would never have known they were there. I was looking in the mirror

and looking down the road to pull out. Something somewhere has to

change, because you can kill people. In search of a better life, willing

to risk it all. Some here are succeeding in their quest, but

others are paying with their lives. Although David Cameron is confident

Britain is doing its bit, there is real concern here in France that the

British Government isn't doing enough. The French authorities in

Calais say Calais simply cannot cope at the moment with the number of

migrants sleeping rough in the town. The Home Secretary has been invited

out here to Calais to take a look at things for herself, but until now

hasn't taken up the offer. Viewers in the South East can see

more on that story at 6.30pm on BBC1. The Oscar Pistorius murder

trial has been hearing about text messages exchanged between the

athlete and his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. In one Miss Steenkamp

said she was scared of the athlete's temper. Oscar Pistorius shot his

girlfriend on Valentine's Day last year. He says he mistook her for an

intruder. Andrew Harding was in court.

A bruising day ahead for Oscar Pistorius, the athlete's

relationship with Reeva Steenkamp under scrutiny for the first time.

The prosecution revealing evidence from the couple's mobile phones,

shown here being recovered from the crime scene. In particular, a series

of bitter text messages. I know you aren't happy and I'm certainly very

unhappy and sad. In public, they were South Africa's most glamorous

new couple, but today, we heard evidence of public fights and

private tiers in the weeks -- tears, in the weeks before Reeva

Steenkamp's death. Pistorius appeared to weep, but

there was worse to come. Reeva Steenkamp saying she felt

threatened. I'm scared of you sometimes and how you snap at me and

of how you react. The police expert acknowledged that 90% of the

messages between the couple were loving, but the damage had already

been done. In court today, Oscar Pistorius was revealed as a jealous,

possessive, at times, angrily Dom nearing boyfriend. That doesn't

prove he killed Reeva Steenkamp deliberately, but the athlete has

his work cut off as he prepares to take to the witness stand himself

perhaps later this week. Hundreds of people gathered in

Poland today to commemorate the men who died while taking part in what

came to be known as The Great Escape. 70 years ago scores of

servicemen held in the German prisoner of war camp - Stalag Luft

III - made their bid for freedom. Our correspondent Robert Hall is in

the Polish town of Zagan. One by one, they carried the photographs

along the forest track. 50 serving RAF personnel representing 50 men

from another generation, who used their captivity to fight back. Under

the surrounding pines, moss-covered brick and concrete provide the only

remaining links to a war-time story which spawned a Hollywood

blockbuster. The story of an ambitious plan to tunnel out what

was billed as an escape-proof camp and allow a record number of allied

airmen to head for home. It was quite remarkable. When you think

that that tunnel was dug by people with half tools and with a deep

secrecy. We knew it was being planned because there was work going

on in the room next to me, making uniforms. Three tunnels were dug.

Only one was used. The final tunnel, code named Harry stretched over 100

metres under the outer fence. It is still lying beneath the feet of

those who visit the spot where more than 70 men made a break for

freedom. This morning, military chiefs from Britain, Poland and the

Commonwealth paid their tributes to those who planned to fight back from

behind the wire. When first captured they did not accept that for them

the war was over. Far from it, they were not prisoner of wars, they were

prisoners at war. At the tunnel exit, veterans joined families from

around the world, their wreaths bright under a grey winter sky. On

film and in reality, The Great Escape will endure long after the

last eyewitnesses have departed. Time for a luck at the weather with

Alex. It was a frosty start and it will be a cold working week, but

tonight it won't be as cold, not as frosty and a little milder because

there's more cloud and outbreaks of rain trickling eastwards. Very slow

through the Midlands. Getting into south-east England and parts of

southern Scotland. It doesn't reach the east. It will be cold. Turning

cold as the rain clears in the south-west, but for most towns and

cities we are five or six above freezing, so not as cold in the

morning, but a very different day. The sunshine replaced by lots of

cloud and outbreaks of rain, which trickle east, but never reach the

east and start to push back, allowing many eastern areas to

brighten up through the afternoon. We could see skies brightening

across the east. Maybe see some sunny intervals across Northern

Ireland, but a few showers here and down the spine of the UK there will

be a lot of rain. Some sunshine across East Anglia and for South

Wales and south-west England a much brighter day, with sunshine, but the

rain does return here tomorrow evening. Perhaps lingering into

Wednesday. A touch of blue on the map again, so again a cold and

possibly frosty start to Wednesday. And also picking up the winds

copping in from the north see and bringing a real chill and showery

outbreaks of rain into the east, but for many western areas, there will

be sunshine again on Wednesday, but even with the sun, temperatures

struggling to reach double figures. That wind making it feel raw on the

North Sea coast and it's there on Thursday. A reversal with brighter

skies maybe in the east and still showers in the west. It will be a

chilly old week, George. Rais thank you. That's all from the BBC news at

six, so it's