19/03/2014 World News Today

This is BBC World News Today. Chaotic scenes in Malaysia as

relatives of the missing airline passengers are dragged screaming

from a news conference. The Malaysian government says it regrets

these scenes and can only imagine the anguish the families are going

through, with teams from 26 countries still finding nothing in

the search. Things turn nasty in Crimea as

Russia troops and pro-Russian militia smash their way into

Ukraine's naval headquarters in Sevastopol.

She was glamourous, she was daring and she was certainly one of a kind.

A rare peek into the private world of Marlene Dietrich. Hello, and

welcome. It's been a day of anger and distress on the ground, as a

massive international search continues for the missing Malaysian

airliner. There were harrowing scenes in Kuala Lumpur when some

relatives of Chinese passengers, still waiting for any information,

were dragged away from journalists crying and screaming. The BBC's

Jonah Fisher was there. His report contains a lot of flash photography

and some disturbing images. After 12 days with no news, the pain

for some is just too much to bear. Today, two Chinese relatives of

those on board came to the main hotel for journalists, determined to

have their voices heard. We do not know how long we have to wait, she

says, it has been 12 days without my son, where is he, why will they not

give me any answers? We have seen angry scenes like this in Beijing,

but until today, the Malaysians have kept the relatives away, and most

interviews have been with minders doesn't. This was not a message the

Malaysians want the world to hear, and a crudely stepped in and drag

the women kicking and screaming out of the room. Why are we being

stopped from speaking to the relatives? Excuse me, sir. BBC News.

Can you tell us why we are not allowed to speak to them? The

Malaysians are not used to having their authority challenge like this,

and when Fennessy prevailed, they issued an apology and said they

would investigate what happened. -- sanity prevailed. We understand the

concerns, and we are trying our very best, and it is hard to imagine,

even for me. Away from the media circus, the flight for MH370

continues. Satellite data has identified two arcs across Central

Asia and in the waters of the southern Indian Ocean. The southern

sector is now the focus of the search effort, with Australian and

American planes lying overhead. -- flying overhead.

We are watching every lead for you and our reporter has some new

information. There are some sources telling the BBC some interesting

things about the satellite transmissions. We heard about the

final satellite transmission made at 811 in the morning. We have not

heard about the other conditions that were detected at hourly

intervals. From that, investigators can infer a rough track, or heading,

for the aft craft -- the aircraft. They have a rough direction in which

direction the truck or they have a rough idea in which direction it was

heading -- they have a rough idea of which direction it was heading.

These transmissions could only have come from a moving aircraft, so it

seems to discount the period that it was parked up on the ground

somewhere and was sending out these transmissions. It was moving for

several hours. What more can you tell us about the direction where it

seems to be headed? The Australians have given us a lot of hard data on

this, and they seem to have very good indications of where it went

down. They seem to be searching a very limited area, still hundreds of

square miles, but at the end of the ark, so they have information that

went down at the end of its fuel endurance. There is a theory going

around on the internet that's when it got West of certain islands, it

headed due south for the South Pole, approximately. I put that Kerry to

one of my sources and the source apply -- I put that theory to one of

my sources and they said it was a reasonable theory. It narrows down

an absolutely massive search. We have been talking about the extent

of the search. Why did some of this information and, before? That is a

mystery. -- this information come out before. We have been hearing

from authorities that the plane that could be in any of these two arcs,

North or South. I think they could only be at the end of the two arcs

because of the geometry and the mathematics, and that certainly

seems to be with the Australians are assuming. They still have a huge

area to search all stop they said yesterday it could take weeks to

search. -- area to search. At least they know it is at the end of the

art and not at any intervening point along the way. That seems to be the

most tangible points so far. Thank you.

Tensions rose dramatically in Crimea today as hundreds of Russian troops

and pro-Russian militias stormed Ukraine's naval headquarters in

Sevastopol. Ukraine has demanded the release of its navy commander, after

he was led away. The Ukraine government now says it's making

plans to pull troops from Crimea. With me is Dmitry Linnik, London

bureau chief for Voice of Russia Radio, and Mary Kaldor, Professor of

Global Governance at the LSE, the London School of Economics. After

yesterday's Rands ceremony in the Kremlin, today, the grubby business

of taking territory bit by bit. At the main gate of Ukraine's Naval

Ace, Crimea in -- chromium volunteers. One flag taken down,

another goes up. The Russification of the Crimean Peninsula goes on.

Ukrainian servicemen could only look on and wonder what comes next. They

did not have to wait long. The intruders forced their way inside

the building. Symbols of Ukrainian rule were quickly removed. For those

to support Crimea joining Russia, a good days work. Everything is fine

says this member of a local self-defense units, not a drop of

blood has been spilt, not a single scratch, not a single bruise. Ships

of the Ukrainian Navy are still at the base, but they are stuck here,

and control has slipped away. As if to emphasise the point, the

commander of the Russian Black Sea fleet arrived at the Ukrainian

headquarters. Cheered by the crowds, the changing of the guard

was confirmed. The Ukrainian commander by contrast has been taken

into custody, and all that was left for many Ukrainian personnel was to

walk away. There was nothing we could do against the crowd, says

this Ukrainian captain. There were many promises from the Russian side,

but as you can see, there has been a takeover. Elster in the country,

Ukrainian troops are on manoeuvres. -- elsewhere in the country. The

government has dispatched its defence minister to Crimea to try to

ensure that the crisis does not enter a more dangerous phase. On

Independence Square in Kiev, they are starting to learn about the

limits of sovereignty. The government now describes to me as

occupied Ukrainian land, but in truth, there is nothing he can do to

affect realities on the ground. -- this private Crimea. The UN security

council is meeting to discuss the crisis, and our correspondent is at

the UN headquarters in York. What can we expect? This is the eighth

time the council is met to discuss Crimea and Ukraine. We are expecting

to get a statement from the assistant Secretary General for

human rights, who has been in Ukraine. The Security Council really

has moved into kind of Cold War mode in recent times, not being used as a

chamber in which to resolve crises, but a chamber in which to trade

accusations, and the rhetoric has been very strong up until now.

Talking to a queue to the mats, they expect it to be -- a few diplomats,

they expected to be ramped up even further. 14 of the 15 members have

been critical of Russia's actions. Thank you very much, and keep us in

touch with any updates. We can speak now to our guests. Thank you both

for coming in. Things are moving fairly quickly. The Ukrainian

government has said it is withdrawing troops from Crimea and

is going to withdraw from the independent state, the Moscow led

body, and it is due to appeal to the United Nations over Crimea as well.

Do you think there is any chance in the near term of Moscow and Kiev

establishing a working relationship? The signs are inflicting. The latest

moves by the Kiev government, Moscow is of course not agonising that, but

one move was to suspend the signing of the economic part of the

Association agreement with the EU, over which the whole thing erupted.

Now it has introduced a visa regime with Russia, which is again ironic,

because between two and 3 million Ukrainians actually work in Russia

and contribute quite substantially to Russia's GDP. On the other hand,

the acting premier has spoken to the east and south of the country,

telling them that there will be no problems with the Russian language,

that they are doing their best to be reasonable about things, about

moving forwards, about greater autonomy for the regions, so these

conflicting signals. And that is key, isn't it, to stop the situation

developing further. It is absolutely crucial, but I think the situation

is very dangerous. You cannot walk into the country, take it over and

hope that things will go smoothly. There is bound to be tensions. We

have seen today that the naval commander has been taken in Crimea.

There is going to be problems or those Ukrainians in Crimea who do

not want to become Russian citizens. Are they going to have rights to

their property, to their businesses? There are a whole series of problems

that need to be resolved before there is any kind of change, and to

do it in this dramatic and illegal way makes it extremely difficult and

tense. So when NATO says this is the most tense security crisis since the

Cold War, do you agree with that? I believe it is. We saw George at five

years ago, that was serious. -- we saw Georgia writers ago. On the

other hand, it is a compilation of several factors that made Russia do

what it did. The link between Russia and Crimea is unique, like nothing

else probably that we have seen. It means much more to Russia than the

Falklands needs to the UK. Meanwhile, the West is saying this

is illegitimate. What can or should the West, the outside world, do and

say to President Putin? If it is true that there is a link between

Crimea and Russia, this is not the way to do it. The Crimean people did

not ask for a referendum. But now that this has happened... Yes, they

did. On the after the intervention. Moving on to what can happen now,

what can Brussels and Washington do? We have heard the rhetoric, but what

can they do? They cannot go to war. That would make everything much

worse. We are clear about that. First of all, they have to be very

clear about Ukraine's territorial integrity. They were signatories to

the treaty that preserved the territory integrity when they gave

up nuclear weapons, so they have to be clear that there is no

intervention in eastern Ukraine. I am in favour of a smart sanctions on

individuals am and what I think is most important is to help sustain

Ukraine. I think we need a Marshall plan for Ukraine, so that it does

not... A Marshall plan for Ukraine, and the EU is saying they will

protect Ukraine. It started with the West saying to Russia, why don't you

help out? You think it might exacerbate the problem? It won't

exacerbate the problem, but Ukraine is a divided country, and there is

no arguing about it. It is not about Ukrainian people versus, I don't

know, Matt sin or what ever, it is not like that. -- Matt Putin stop

--. We saw a tweet from a dignitary that said, I am back in every sense

of the word. Is she a unifying figure for Ukraine? I am not so

sure. I am not so sure either, but what I do think is that these

protests did bring people together from East and West and they were

about human rights, and they were about corruption, and I think it is

terribly dangerous if we... What really worries me about this

intervention in Crimea is that it will exacerbate an frame what is

happening as a division between West and East it could be very dangerous.

We have to leave it there, but I think that is a very good point at

which to leave it. Thank you very much. Now a look at some of the days

other news. President Jacob Zuma of South Africa has been ordered to

repay some of the $23 million of public funds that have been spent on

his residence. The President insisted that the work was for

security reasons. At the Oscar Pistorius trial today the court

heard from a key police ballistics expert. He says the athlete was not

wearing his prosthetic legs when he shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp

- and that one bullet was fired, then there was a pause, and then

three more followed. Mr Pistorius denies murdering his girlfreind,

saying he thought she was an intruder. The Japanese car giant,

Toyota, has agreed to pay $1.2 billion to settle a criminal dispute

with the United States over safety. Toyota admitted misleading the

public over problems in its cars that could have caused sudden,

uncontrolled acceleration. One of Sweden's most prolific serial

killers has been released after authorities found that his eight

murder convictions were based on false confessions. Sture Bergwall

had been held in psychiatric detention for more than 20 years.

But he retracted his confessions six years ago, saying he made them when

he was heavily medicated and seeking attention. A shell dating back to

the First World War has exploded in the Belgian city of Ypres, killing

two people and seriously injuring at least one other. The device was set

off when workmen at a building site tried to excavate it. It's one of

the most important days in the British politicial calendar - the

Budget. Today the Chancellor,George Osborne, has chosen to favour savers

and pensioners, while continuing to limit rises in welfare spending. In

a minute, we'll consider the health of the British economy set against

international competitors. First this report from our political

correspondent Rob Watson. For the last four years, the famous red box

has contained mainly bad news as the government cut spending and raised

taxes and economy seemed stuck in reverse. But no George Osborne is

being cheered at least by his fellow conservatives. Britain is growing

faster than most other developed nations. His message is that

austerities working. The economy is continuing to recover and recovering

faster than forecast. We have set out our plan and together with the

British people, we held our nerve. With an eye on the general election

next year, Mr Osborne is hinting that the job is not done yet. It is

still one of the highest rates in Europe so today we take further

action to bring it down. The leader of the Labour Party said that if the

economy is recovering it does not feel like that to most people. At

the heart of the argument we will have over the next 14 months we will

ask whose recovery is it under the Conservatives? It is the recovery

for the few rather than the many. Certainly, Britain was Mac economy

is recovering with unemployment and inflation down but the question is

if and when it will turn into a feel-good factor for the voters. The

government hopes it will be awarded for any economic upturn despite the

austerities so far and the asperity to come. -- austerity to come. Sarah

Hewin is a senior economist at Standard Chartered and joins me now

from their offices in London. How would you rate the UK economy? It is

doing very well in an international context and we are one of the best

performing economies. That is always a lots of concern about the size of

the deficit but how big is the gap for Britain against other European

countries? We are doing a lot better than most other European Union

countries in terms of growth but we have a much larger deficit than

almost any other European Union country. This is because we went

into such a deep recession and our spending rose sharply to deal with

this through prices and we are only now starting to pull out. We have

the legacy of the financial crisis which is reflected in the very large

government borrowing requirement. Are you considering crisis countries

like Greece or Italy? Absolutely. If we look at countries that received

bailouts such as Greece and Ireland and Portugal and also Spain and

Italy who came close, all of those countries with the exception of

Spain are likely to have lower government borrowing requirements

this year than the United Kingdom. The Chancellor is saying that

Britain has turned the corner. Does this mean that austerities has

worked? The jury is still out on whether there was too much done and

we should have allowed the economy to grow. Economic growth is normally

the best way to solve government financial problems and there is the

view that austerities made to earlier with a recent that growth

has been slow. Only a third of spending cuts have happened so far

so over the next two years that is where the emphasis will be. Thank

you for joining us. She was smart, sultry and sophisticated - one of

the outstanding film stars of the 20th century. Marlene Dietrich's

career in music and the movies lasted decades. Now more than 250 of

her personal belongings are going up for auction, with one letter from

American author Ernest Hemingway expected to sell for more than

$50,000. Alistair Leithead reports. # See what the boys in the backroom

will have she was everything you would want in a movie star and she

was always mysterious. Her grandson is auctioning off a lot of Marlene

Dietrich 's personal items. It has been sitting in storage and things

like that. One of the most interesting pieces up for auction is

a letter written by Ennis Hemingway -- Ernest Hemingway. He says he is

on stage drunk and naked. The reason they claimed they never slept

together was that they were never single at the same time. She

reinvented herself to stay in touch with the world and she did motion

pictures and a cabaret and went to Las Vegas and workflows which she

looked fabulous in and created a new fashion style for women. It must be

strange having your grandmother as this sex symbol. Compared to some of

the people know it is a bit team but jihad a year reputation which was

deserved. She had girlfriends as well as men. She never got divorced

and always loved her husband and was very much an actress in the sense

that when she was in these relationships she was playing a

part. With Hemingway she was a parlour. Pal. -- a little bit of

personal glamorous yesterday. -- history. Ladybirds can reach speeds

of almost 60 mph and can travel at altitudes close to 5000 feet which

is close to the height of the highest mountain in the UK. A

reminder of our main news. The frustration felt by the families of

people aboard a missing airliner has lead to confrontation at a news

conference in Malaysia. No -- now sources say that signals received

could only have come from a moving aircraft. We hear that the

Australians a leading part of the search which is now narrowed down.

It will turn a good deal colder over the next few days and the change in

the weather will come because of this act of