22/07/2014 BBC News at Six

A train carrying the bodies of victims of the Malaysian airliner

has arrived in a town controlled by the Ukrainian government.

Most of those who died were Dutch - the bodies will be flown back to

Data from the plane's two black boxes is to be analysed by British

And we'll be looking at the new European sanctions

Also tonight - in Gaza - we'll return to a woman rescued

from the rubble - who's now fighting for her life.

As the government announces new plans to tackle female genital

I don't want any children in this world to go through what me and my

daughter did, the pain is unbelievable.

An inquiry finds there was co-ordinated action in Birmingham

schools to impose hardline Muslim views.

And on the eve of the Commonwealth Games, the Queen's

On BBC London - the Academy chain trying to recover

millions which ended up in a former employee's personal account.

And a mother's joy at being reunited with her sons - after they were

The bodies of most of the 298 victims killed in the

Malaysia Airlines crash have arrived in Kharkiv, a city controlled

The remains were taken overnight by train from Torez,

which is in rebel-held eastern Ukraine, and will be flown to

In other developments - international monitors inspecting

the crash site say pieces of the wreckage have been tampered with.

The plane's black boxes have also been handed over by pro-Russian

The Dutch have asked British air accident investigators based

at Farnborough to retrieve data from them.

Our correspondent Daniel Sandford is in Kharkiv tonight.

There is a noticeable error of relief amongst the international

team working here in the aftermath of the downing of flight MH17. I

have finally started the process of bringing the bodies of passengers

and crew out of the conflict zone and here to the relative safety of

Kharkiv. But it was not all of them. Some of the bodies are still

missing. It was the first leg of the long

journey home, a refrigerated train pulling into the Ukrainian

government controlled city of Kharkiv, carrying the remains of

most of the almost 300 passengers and crew of flight MH17. Now,

finally beyond the wall which took their lives. Here in a tank factory

the bodies will be prepared for the next leg of their journey and each

will be moved to a Coffin for the flight. From here they will be flown

to the Netherlands and from there in the city of Hilversum the body of

each passenger and crewmember will be identified and return to their

family. When will the first bodies return? I'm not sure because they

are still organising a good arrangement of the bodies. So we

hope that they can organise very fast. In the early hours of this

morning the rebels of eastern Ukraine whose forces are suspected

of shooting down the plane by mistake handed over the lack box

flight recorders to the Malaysians. They are now being flown to Britain

where they will be examined by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch

in Farnborough. Out on the fields of rebel held territory, where the

plane plummeted to earth, the first international aviation experts also

from Malaysia got to see where flight MH17's journey was cut

tragically short in an instant. Though there are continuing concerns

that the crash site has been badly disturbed. Looking at the fuse which

now compared to what it was we have noticed differences and we will

report that in our published reports -- fuser large. The other day we saw

workers using diesel power source to get a closer look at the fuselage.

Here at the start of the trail of debris we found something very

interesting. A piece of fuselage, which clearly has holes made by

shrapnel puncturing through it. It has scorch marks on it and a place

where it has been ripped off the aircraft. All of which appears to be

evidence that the plane was hit by something exploding outside the

aircraft. It supports the idea that the plane was downed by a

sophisticated anti-aircraft missile that detonated when it got close.

The Americans claimed that a BUK missile launcher had been brought

across the border from Russia and they even detected it being fired.

On the face of it it is damning evidence, but five days on from the

downing of flight MH17, the formal investigation has barely begun.

As we've been hearing, the black boxes with

the recorded flight data of MH17 are to be handed over to air accident

Our transport correspondent Richard Westcott is with me now.

Why are they coming to the UK? We have one of the only facilities in

Europe that can do this job. I've been in a room where they will

analyse these boxes and it is extremely tightly controlled. Before

they do anything they seal it off so nobly can electronically eavesdrop

on what is going on. There are four loudspeakers. When they listen back

to the cockpit voice recorder which the microphone will tell them what

was happening before and they wanted to be as realistic as possible so

they have a speaker in each corner. What will we learn? It will rule out

mechanical failure. It does not seem to be mechanical failure but it will

rule it out. Secondly, the cockpit voice recorder I was talking about

when listening on those four speakers they will listen for an

explosion because it may have picked up a missile exploding. It will only

take them a day to get the information off but we have no idea

when we will hear about what they have found. Thank you for joining

us. With the finger being pointed

squarely at Moscow for backing the Ukrainian rebels thought to have

caused the crash, this afternoon European foreign ministers have

agreed new sanctions against Russia. Let's go now to our Europe

Editor Gavin Hewitt in Brussels. Perhaps it was inevitable that after

all of the pressure from the United States, Britain and other countries

the foreign ministers here would agree on new measures. They have

decided to extend asset freezes and travel bans against key Russian

officials, although we don't know who they are at the moment and how

many they are, although I'm told that some of them will be regarded

as President Putin's cronies. But perhaps more significantly they have

decided to explore targeting key sectors of the Russian economy. The

European Commission has been tasked with looking into how they can hit

the defence industry, the financial services, even the energy sector,

and to bring up some proposals by Thursday. But in order to do that

that decision would have to be signed off by Europe's leaders. How

do we gauge all of this? Well, some people would say it still lacks

detail, it is still very cautious, but if finally Europe's leaders did

decide to target Russia's economic sector at risk of damaging its own

economies then that would be a big deal. Thank you for joining us.

With international anger against Russia simmering, here the

government has announced a public inquiry into the death of the former

He was poisoned in London eight years ago with

the radioactive substance, polonium - it's been suggested -

Until now the government has resisted holding an inquiry,

and questions are being asked about the timing of today's announcement.

A fierce critic of the Kremlin, Alexander Litvinenko endured a

lingering death in a London hospital bed, poisoned by radioactive

polonium. Today, a public enquiry was announced. His widow Marina told

me of her relief after a long fight to get answers. I can't say it is my

responsibility to save him but I could not save him. Now I think I

need just to finish why and who killed him. It is my rights to do

for him. Another former Russian security officer, now a politician,

is accused of administering the polonium, a charge he denies. But

the question has always been: Who gave the orders? Was it the Russian

state? There is said to be secret intelligence that may point towards

that. It was at this London hotel that Alexander Litvinenko was

poisoned with a radioactive cup of tea. We still don't know eight years

on who was ultimately responsible for that. That's partly because

until now the British government fought to keep its secrets out of

the public eye. An inquest under this judge, Sir Robert Owen, was

denied access to sensitive intelligence. That led to a legal

challenge demanding a public enquiry, so it could be assessed.

The Home Secretary had been resisting that. A year ago writing

to the judge that it was true that international relations had been a

factor in decision-making. So, why the change of heart? At the 2012

London Olympics Vladimir Putin and David Cameron were trying to put the

murder behind them and patch things up. Now, even before the shooting

down of the Malaysian jet the government makes Impey have given up

on the hope of improving relations. -- may simply have. We are one step

closer to finding out what was behind the murder of this British

citizen on British soil. In Gaza, diplomatic efforts to

broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas have been stepped up, but

Israel has continued its bombardment of the territory. Gaza's health

ministry claims more than 600 Palestinians have been killed in the

last two weeks. The UN estimates more than one hundred thousand

people have been forced to take shelter in UN buildings. Meanwhile

Palestinian militants have continued using rockets and mortars against

Israel, which has suffered 29 deaths. We've two reports - in a

moment Quentin Sommerville will have the latest from Erez on the Israel

Gaza border, but first Paul Adams sent this report from Gaza. You may

find some images in his package All over Gaza more heavy

bombardment. Two missiles hit this building last night. Rescue workers

are trying to reach a body trapped under concrete. 11 persons killed

without any... They just came here to be safe. Ten members of Ahmed's

family died here. They fled the neighbourhood of Shejaiya on Sunday

seeking shelter from relentless shelling and after more than two

weeks there is nowhere left to hide. We were in Shejaiya on Sunday

afternoon during a brief shaky truce. Emergency teams racing to

find survivors before the shooting started again. As shells crashed

nearby they found a body, barely visible under piles of concrete. At

first all we could see of asthma was a hand -- Asma. Somehow she survived

but her injuries were terrible, crashed and burned, she almost lost

her leg. Asma was making breakfast for a family of ten when the missile

struck. Asma is obviously not going to come out of this hospital for a

long time and when she does someone will have to tell her that her

family is no more. But of her parents are dead, both of her

brothers, her sisters, her sister-in-law and her three

children, all killed in the house on Sunday morning. Asma's cousin

Mohammed keeps vigil outside her room. He was among the first to try

to rescue her. TRANSLATION: I was trying to get her out, me and my

cousins. There was lots of bombing and shooting. There was a huge

concrete block on top of her. We could not move it. She was under the

rubble for 12 hours. 12 hours? 12 hours, she is lucky, she is a

miracle. For two weeks Shifa Hospital has been full of terrible

scenes, crowding the corridors, as we leave yet another body arrives

from the rubble of Shejaiya. We can join our respondent Chris Morris who

is injuries all. The Israelis have suffered the worst casualties of any

incursion into Gaza. That's right. The vast majority of the dead in

this conflict have been Palestinian civilians but the number of

fatalities among the Israeli military has been survivors in the

high. 28 soldiers so far. -- surprisingly high. Disturbing news

from Israel today, the military said one soldier is missing, presumed

dead, but a couple of days ago Hamas claimed the capture of an Israeli

soldier. I have produced no evidence that he is actually alive that it

will bring back difficult memories for many Israelis from the case of

Gilad Shaar leaf, who was kept captured in Gaza for five years and

only released once hundreds of Palestinian prisoners were released

from Israeli jails. The US is suspending flights to Israel for at

least 24 hours remind it is not just the death toll which is the way to

pay the price, there will be an economic toll as well, the Federal

aviation Administration has prohibited all US airlines from

flying to Tel Aviv airport. The reason is that a rocket landed

relatively close to the airport, a rocket fired by Hamas, this morning.

Obviously in the week of so many stories about flight MH17, the

authorities are taking no chances. Before the decision was made a

couple of airlines already announced they were unilaterally deciding to

stop flights and the Israeli transport minister said they should

change their minds because otherwise they would be rewarding terror.

Our top story this evening. A train carrying the bodies of

victims of the Malaysian airliner has arrived in a town controlled

by the Ukrainian government. I will be live in Glasgow on the eve

of the Commonwealth Games, how will they compare to London 2012.

Could the rental market solve revolutionising

We look ahead to the medal hopefuls at the Commonwealth Games.

Parents who put their daughters through the ordeal of female genital

mutilation should be prosecuted, according to David Cameron.

He was speaking at The Girl Summit in London, which aims to end FGM

and also forced marriage within this generation.

It's thought that up to 137,000 women and girls living in England

and Wales could have undergone FGM. Families from many countries

in Africa, and some in Asia and the Middle East,

force the practice on young girls. While there's evidence it happens

here, it's more commonly carried out in the family's country of origin.

June Kelly reports. They had come from all over the

world for this Girl Summit. The Prime Minister of Bangladesh amongst

the politicians. Also here, Malala Yousafzai, the teenaged education

campaign shot by the tally ban. Everybody drawn together by a

passion to protect young girls -- the Taliban. Those who have gone

through female gentle mutilation do not want the next generation to

ensure the same physical and psychological trauma -- female

genital mutilation. I do not want any children in this world to go

through what me and my daughter went through, the pain, it is

unbelievable. London the location for this first international

gathering on FGM and forced marriage. And from the Prime

Minister there was a pledge. Here it is absolutely clear about what we

are trying to achieve, it is such a simple but noble and good ambition.

That is to outlaw the practices of female genital mutilation, and

childhood and forced my, to outlaw them everywhere for everyone within

this generation. APPLAUSE David Cameron promised a package of

measures including making it compulsory for doctors, teachers and

social workers to report cases of FGM. Anonymity for the victims in

the courts, FGM. Anonymity for the victims in

the courts, there has never been a successful prosecution in this

country. And legislation to prosecute parents if their daughter

undergoes FGM. prosecute parents if their daughter

undergoes FGM. Politicians and campaigners denounce FGM as a severe

form of child abuse, but families who put their children through it do

not you like that. They believe there are giving their daughters a

better future by making them more marriageable -- see it like that.

One campaign has reservations about plans to put parents before the

courts. It is a good idea if it acts as a deterrent, however these

parents who practice FGM do it because they love their children. If

this goes ahead, it means the whole community may face prosecution. And

the campaigners who left the summit this evening know that it is in

those communities that there has to be a change of culture.

Nurses and other health workers are to vote

on whether to strike over pay. The union, UNISON, and the Royal

College of Midwives are proposing to stage the action in October.

It's the first time in its history that the midwives'

union has balloted its members on taking industrial action.

An inquiry led by the former head of counter terrorism into claims of

extremism at schools in Birmingham has found there was 'co-ordinated

action' to impose hardline muslim views in some schools.

Peter Clarke's report found that like-minded people were appointed to

key jobs at the schools, and head teachers who disagreed with

their views were removed. From Birmingham,

Alex Forsyth reports. Back in the spotlight, five schools

at the centre of an alleged takeover plot by hardline Muslims. Today a

government inquiry gave the verdict. It found there was a

co-ordinated attempt to introduce an aggressive Islamic ethos in some

schools. There was evidence of some people in positions of influence who

endorsed or failed to challenge extremist views. The new Education

Secretary called the findings disturbing. There has been no

evidence of direct radicalisation or violent extremism. But there is a

clear account in the report of people in positions of influence in

the schools with a restricted and narrow interpretation of their

faith. Who have not promoted fundamental British values and who

have failed to challenge the extremist views of others. Closed

for the summer, one school allowed us in, it is one of four academies

involved, schools accountable to government. Today's report said this

level of oversight can leave them vulnerable to those without good

intentions, in this case allowing intolerant of use to dominate. This

school, like others, denies digestion is of a hardline agenda,

it says it teaches children about other cultures and religions and

many school leaders and parents see this as an attack on this

predominantly Muslim community. It is a plot to tarnish the Muslim

community but there has been no evidence to show what the teachers

has done. But these teachers said they saw first-hand how some

governors try to influence the, some felt pushed out by the local council

which was criticised in today's report for failing to act on the

warnings. The council is not there to support me, I was isolated and on

my own, just carry on with the job. Birmingham will get an education

commissioner to tackle the problems, but events here are likely to

influence wider policy in the hope this does not happen again.

A year ago seven million people in the UK watched as Prince George

was introduced to the world for the first time, outside

St Mary's hospital in London. Well, today,

he celebrates his first birthday. To mark the occasion two new

pictures have been released of him and his parents, visiting

the Butterfly exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London.

There's just a day to go before the Commonwealth Games

of 2014 gets underway in Glasgow. Thousands of athletes are gathering

from around the world for the biggest sporting event to be

held in Britain since the London Olympics, and as you can imagine,

the excitement is mounting. Our chief sports correspondent

Dan Roan is there. MILITARY MUSIC they are known as the

friendly games, and as they prepare to play host for the biggest

sporting event Scotland has ever seen Glasgow appears to be ready and

willing to welcome the world. This is how much the Commonwealth Games

means too many of those who live here. Thousands desperate to get a

glimpse of the batting relay as it makes its way through the city. --

Queen's Baton Relay. Much of the excitement will focus on how the

hosts do, last-minute training for Team Scotland's rhythmic gymnasts

this afternoon, in one of the venues. What does it mean to be

competing? It is an indescribable feeling, of course you are nervous,

excitement. Because I am 15, it is my first games and the home games,

it adds to the excitement and I cannot wait. The challenge for these

competitors to deliver medals, the challenge for Glasgow 2014 as an

event is to hold its own in an already busy sporting calendar.

Without many of the powerhouse nations that so lit up London 2012.

Sir Chris Hoy was one of those who made the country 's golden summer so

memorable. But Britain's best ever Olympian told me rather than being a

poor relation, the Commonwealth Games can take advantage of the

legacy of London. The spirit and the celebration of London is still

there, people are crying out for another multi sports games, to

support and to enjoy and celebrate. Glasgow will take it and it will be

spectacular. But do the biggest names want to be here, Mo Farah will

compete for England but only after months of speculation. Usain Bolt

has chosen to run just in the relay, prompting some to argue that the

games have lost their lustre. The games are relevant to the audience,

we are for the Commonwealth, we are not trying to be anything more. We

create a fantastic platform for athletes, through their sporting

career. Whatever doubts over the game status this event is in the SL

out, the public appetite for another summer of sporting drama clearly

burns as brightly as ever. -- it is almost a sell-out. There is real

excitement ahead of the opening ceremony and while the Commonwealth

Games cannot really compete with the Olympics of course there is no doubt

that for many this has evoked memories of events two years ago.

For many, it has dismissed the Commonwealth Games as something of

an anachronism, but with over 1 million tickets sold it deserves to

be taken seriously. There's no doubt after a summer to forget, events in

venues like those behind me in a couple of weeks could provide a

much-needed boost to British sport. Thank you for joining us.

Dan Roan is there. Time for a look at the weather.

Here's John Hammond. Beautiful blue skies in Glasgow,

will this continue? We think so, it was the warmest day of the year in

Glasgow and we think it will hold for the opening ceremony. There is a

small chance of showers. I think the chances are it will stay dry with

plenty of warm sunshine. Light wind and temperatures in the low 20s. For

the rest of us, the theme will be warm weather for the next few days,

there will be some showers dotted around. Some showers over Northern

Ireland earlier today. Fading away with time. We will see cloud

drifting in from the North Sea into central and eastern parts. It is

fairly uneventful tonight, temperatures staying pretty high and

it will be muggy again, Lowes, 16-17 degrees. There is a chance of

showers moving into eastern England on the breeze, later in the day we

could see some sharp showers across southern England but they will be

isolated. The vast majority will be fine and dry with sunshine. Just

some bits of rain, plenty of space in between indicating the dry

weather. Every bit as warm as today, high 20s, knocking on the door of 30

degrees on the south coast, broken cloud. Northern Ireland should be

dry in contrast to today. Not as warm as today over Shetland. A

little bit cooler with the misty conditions. Moving into Thursday,

dry, pleasantly warm in most places. The north-east will be cooler and

misty. The chance of showers over southern and western England and

Wales. Mid to high 20s will be typical. The largely fine weather

continues to the end of the week. Thank you for joining us.

Here's John Hammond. A reminder of our main story.

A train carrying the bodies of victims of the Malaysian airliner

has arrived in a town controlled by the Ukrainian government.

That's all from the BBC News at Six - so it's goodbye from me -

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