Browse content similar to 23/07/2014. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!
Line | From | To | |
---|---|---|---|
me, Philippa Thomas. The first victims' bodies arrive in the | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
Netherlands, six days after flight MH17 came down in eastern Ukraine. | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
Tens of thousands of people line the roads to pay their respects, as 40 | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
coffins are transported to a military barracks to begin the | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
process of identifying the dead. Authorities in Ukraine say | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
pro-Russian rebels have today shot down two war planes - close to the | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
point where the Malaysian airliner crashed. | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
Also coming up: The UN's human rights chief says Israel's actions | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
in Gaza could amount to war crimes. Navi Pillay also condemned rocket | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
attacks by Hamas. And the Man Booker literary prize | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
goes global - but is that a problem if you're not American? | :00:52. | :01:11. | |
The first two flights carrying coffins from the Malaysia Airlines | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
flight MH17 landed today in Eindhoven in the Netherlands - where | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
they were met by members of the Dutch Royal family and the Dutch | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
Prime Minister, as church bells were rung across the | :01:23. | :01:24. | |
nation. Of the 298 victims of the flight, believed to have been shot | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
down by pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine, the majority were Dutch. | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
Today begins the process of repatriation, and has been | :01:32. | :01:41. | |
an official day of mourning in the Netherlands - where we can | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
As they are further Netherlands, idea of national mourning, the first | :01:45. | :02:11. | |
in more than half a century. From the moment that the 40 coffins were | :02:12. | :02:20. | |
taken from the plane, they were given a ceremony that was dignified | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
and afforded them the sort of dignity that families felt was | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
missing when they lay uncovered in eastern Ukraine. We will hear from | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
our Europe correspondent about the latest developments here in the | :02:36. | :02:47. | |
Netherlands. They died when the flight was shot out of the sky. | :02:48. | :02:59. | |
Today, in simple wooden coffins, the first 40 victims left Ukraine after | :03:00. | :03:08. | |
a brief, poignant ceremony. It is an attempt by the Ukrainians to give | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
some dignity to the passengers on this flight whose lives were | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
brutally cut short on a flight to a war which had nothing to do with | :03:19. | :03:27. | |
them. First, there was a minutes silence. Nobody yet knows whose | :03:28. | :03:46. | |
relatives are in these coffins. They could be from several countries. | :03:47. | :03:57. | |
They could be passengers or crew. We need to remember that for each of | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
those bodies, there are grieving families and grieving friends and | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
for each of those bodies, there is a life that has been needlessly lost. | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
As international investigators cautiously examined the scene of the | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
tragedy this afternoon at the shooting down of two Ukrainian | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
fighter jets just a few miles away was a reminder of the dangers of | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
working here. As the first bodies left for the Netherlands, it is | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
worth remembering that dozens are still missing in the charter fields | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
of eastern Ukraine. People here are waiting to see the heresies. | :04:38. | :04:55. | |
There is a long way to go. 40 bodies would turn today that many more are | :04:56. | :05:11. | |
to be brought back and, indeed, still to be recovered from the crash | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
site. This was a national day of mourning, led by the Dutch king and | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
queen and Prime Minister who were here for the ceremony earlier. Out | :05:21. | :05:34. | |
of a sweltering sky, they fleet back in. | :05:35. | :05:48. | |
This was not the return that anybody imagined. A country fell silent. | :05:49. | :06:25. | |
They brought them out one by one, yet to be identified. Here perhaps a | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
holiday-maker, once excited about their trip to distant shores. Here, | :06:33. | :06:40. | |
maybe somebody on a business trip. A student on a gap year. 40 coffins | :06:41. | :06:51. | |
and 40 body bags and so many more get to fly out of the Ukraine. | :06:52. | :07:06. | |
It is a very black day for people from this part of the country. So | :07:07. | :07:23. | |
many innocent people have been killed by political idiots. It makes | :07:24. | :07:34. | |
us very very angry. Then the convoy set off with full military honours. | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
Some may be identified quickly but with others, it could take months. | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
Outside the airfield, hundreds watched. Soon the grim task of going | :07:47. | :07:57. | |
through the remains will begin. This brings no closure, it only makes | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
each and every death all the more real. The depth of feeling for these | :08:03. | :08:13. | |
victims, whether they are Dutch or any other nationality was so evident | :08:14. | :08:24. | |
today, right from the time that the coffins war brought onto the tarmac | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
to the entrance of the airfield. We can show you the latest pictures of | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
the route from Eindhoven to help us with the bodies have been taken for | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
the remains to be identified. They arrived there just a few minutes ago | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
and on the route along the motorway, we saw people lining the bridges to | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
pay their respects and as the Hassey 's carrying the coffins, we saw | :08:54. | :09:07. | |
people applauding wanting to show respects. | :09:08. | :09:21. | |
Here in Britain, the Prime Minister, David Cameron, | :09:22. | :09:47. | |
has said the government will look carefully at all outstanding arms | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
export licences to Russia, to make sure they comply with | :09:51. | :09:52. | |
There have been mounting questions over why more than 250 licences are | :09:53. | :10:03. | |
still in place, given concerns that Moscow is supplying weapons to | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
From Westminster, James Landale reports. | :10:07. | :10:08. | |
David Cameron has said the government will look carefully | :10:09. | :10:10. | |
at all outstanding arms export licences to Russia, | :10:11. | :10:12. | |
to make sure they comply with an arms embargo announced in March. | :10:13. | :11:01. | |
Today David Cameron was asked why Britain is still selling arms to | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
and the Tories are taking cash from Russian businessmen. | :11:05. | :11:06. | |
Back in March the policy on selling arms was clear. | :11:07. | :11:08. | |
The UK will now suspend all licenses and applications for licences | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
Today a committee of MPs said military kit was still | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
More than 280 licences in things like rifles, even missiles. | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
The government said some was for civilian use, others for Brazilian | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
We have been consistent with the terms of | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
the arms embargo we set up, to aid Russian armed forces and the use of | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
But we will look carefully at all outstanding licences | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
But MPs said it was not good enough and have written to the | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
Prime Minister asking who the weapons of war. | :11:38. | :11:39. | |
They cannot be brushed off just for the Russian merchant navy or played | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
shooting and all these ridiculous things that came out this morning. | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
Anyone looking at that list that we publish today can come to one | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
conclusion only, this includes a significant amount | :11:49. | :11:50. | |
But David Cameron is also pressing questions about donations to | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
his party by wealthy Russians especially some who attended a | :11:55. | :11:56. | |
fundraiser here at his private club in West London earlier this month. | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
Top of the auction list was the chance to play tennis with | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
A prize won by a wealthy Russian who paid more | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
Her husband was once a minister in the government of President Putin | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
Since 2010 Russian-born businessman have given more | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
But Labour said Mr Cameron had questions to answer. | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
He had to explain what he thinks that is the right thing to do and | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
Otherwise people will conclude that when he attacks prison Putin he | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
And now to Taiwan, where a domestic plane has crashed after failing to | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
58 passengers and crew were onboard - emergency services are | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
reporting that at least 40 people have been confirmed dead, around | :12:36. | :12:37. | |
10 have been found alive, leaving others still unaccounted for. | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
The TransAsia Airways flight crashed near Magong airport | :12:41. | :12:42. | |
Aviation officials said flight GE-222 had aborted | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
The plane took off at 5.42pm, local time, from a city in southern | :12:46. | :12:56. | |
It was supposd to be a short 35-minute flight to | :12:57. | :12:58. | |
Magong City on the outlying Penghu archipelago, northwest of Taiwan. | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
The pilot aborted the landing and asked for a go-around about 7.16pm. | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
We know that shortly after that, the plane lost contact with the control | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
tower and shortly after that local residents said they saw the plane | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
As of late Wednesday, local authorities say theyhave confirmed | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
at least 40 people have died and only about 10 people have survived. | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
They are still searching through the wreckage for survivors | :13:18. | :13:19. | |
but it is believed that other the ten people who are injured | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
and taken to hospital, there are no other survivors. | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
Israel may be committing war crimes in Gaza by not doing enough to | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
protect civilians, according to the UN Human Rights Commissioner. | :13:33. | :13:34. | |
Navi Pillay also condemned Hamas for indiscriminate attacks on Israel. | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
A UN investigation into violations in Gaza has now been announced. | :13:38. | :13:53. | |
At least two people were killed and many injured including children | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
TRANSLATION: God protect us, we are dying and no one is checking on us. | :14:00. | :14:13. | |
In Israel, the funeral of another soldier. | :14:14. | :14:23. | |
He was killed in an assault against Hamas. | :14:24. | :14:24. | |
Israel is united in its support for the war. | :14:25. | :14:31. | |
Tens of thousands came to pay their respects. | :14:32. | :14:33. | |
And his sister remembered her brother. | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
I always thought the world of you and never thought I would be | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
standing here with this many people who understood how strong you are. | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
Words cannot express how proud I am of the man you became. | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
And Israel is counting the cost in other ways. | :14:53. | :14:59. | |
In the main airport there was a lot of waiting and plenty of worry. | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
Dozens of flights were cancelled here after a rocket attack by Hamas. | :15:03. | :15:11. | |
It did not hit the airport but the militants scored a huge victory. | :15:12. | :15:25. | |
Israel says the world is submitting to terrorism and it should be the | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
rockets that are grounded rather than passenger aircraft. | :15:29. | :15:30. | |
John Kerry's plane did manage to land in Israel to stop pushing | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
for a cease-fire, he is trying to unite the Arab world | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
In the occupied West Bank he met the Palestinian president. | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
We will continue to push for this cease-fire. | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
We will continue to work with Mahmoud Abbas and others | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
We have in the last 24 hours made some progress | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
But it seems progress to a truce is not moving fast. | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
The offensive in Gaza continues with terrifying force. | :16:00. | :16:07. | |
That was Quentin Somerville reporting from Israel, | :16:08. | :16:08. | |
let's listen now to what to the UN Human Rights Commissioner | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
147 children have been killed in Gaza in the past 16 days. | :16:12. | :16:19. | |
They had a right to life, just like children in any other country. | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
Their killings raised concerns about respect for the principles | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
of distinction, proportionality and precautions in attack. | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
Israeli children and their parents and other civilians also have a | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
right to live without the constant fear that a rocket fired from Gaza | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
may land on their homes or their schools, killing or injuring them. | :16:44. | :16:56. | |
Joining me via webcam from Geneva is Rupert Colville. | :16:57. | :17:05. | |
Thank you for joining us, I want to address your concerns about both | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
sides of the conflict, but first, the use of the phrase war crimes, | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
very strong language that you are choosing. Yes, very serious offence | :17:17. | :17:24. | |
have taken place. At the end of the day, it is only a judge that can say | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
that war crimes have been committed, so this is terminology | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
that should end up in court, but the human rights Council has set up an | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
independent international investigation and they will look | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
very carefully at many incidents as they can to try and find out if war | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
crimes have been committed or even crimes you manatee. -- crimes | :17:48. | :17:58. | |
against humanity. What could have been done to protect civilians? An | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
example out of the seven little boys playing on the beach in Gaza, the | :18:06. | :18:12. | |
office in Gaza has done the best to investigate what happened, it seems | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
was an air strike that killed several of the young boys, and the | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
others were running away and there was a second air strike from a | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
ship. There was absolutely no way that these were military targets, | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
they were children. They were nine, ten, 11 years old. That episode | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
happened in front of the hotel that was filled with international | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
journalists. There is a lot of information, children playing on the | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
roofs of their houses were killed, women, disabled women in wheelchairs | :18:45. | :18:52. | |
killed. What went wrong? White? Words are sufficient precautions | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
taken? It appears not in some cases. -- where there are sufficient | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
precautions taken? From the Israeli side, the BBC has had some anger of | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
a perception of bias, and they point out that Hamas?s rockets are firing | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
primarily at civilians on the Israeli side. The High Commissioner | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
is very clear about Hamas and their rockets and she said there has been | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
war crimes on several occasions including today and firing in | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
accurate rockets in the general direction of areas filled with | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
civilians is most probably a war crime. It depends on the | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
circumstances, but when you have got 2900 rockets in the last few weeks, | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
that is very probably that most of those would also have been war | :19:44. | :19:45. | |
crimes. In northern Nigeria, the second | :19:46. | :19:58. | |
explosion this week in Kaduna city has hit | :19:59. | :20:00. | |
a crowded market. It comes two days after a suicide | :20:01. | :20:02. | |
bomber targeted a convoy of a prominent cleric in the same | :20:03. | :20:04. | |
city, killing at least 25 people. In Sierra Leone, the doctor leading | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
the fight against the Ebola epidemic Sheik Umar Khan was hailed as | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
a national hero for his efforts to control the outbreak that has killed | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
at least 200 people there. The biggest marine salvage operation | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
of all time is coming to an end. The wreck of the Costa Concordia | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
cruise ship is being towed away from the island of Giglio, | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
to be scrapped. She hit the rocks and capsized | :20:29. | :20:30. | |
in 2012, with the loss of 32 lives. It may be | :20:31. | :20:38. | |
the most important literary award in the English speaking world, | :20:39. | :20:40. | |
and this year, the Man Booker Prize has gone global for the first time | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
in its 46 year history. The ?50,000 prize is | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
now open not only to English language novels from the UK | :20:47. | :20:48. | |
and Commonwealth countries, but also Today the "longlist" was announced | :20:49. | :20:50. | |
and of the 13 novelists recognised, six are British, four are American, | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
one Irish-American, one Irish, With me is Rick Gekoski, writer, | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
bookseller Was a lot of anticipation, how many | :21:00. | :21:24. | |
people will be American, will it dominate the list? There was a fear | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
that there would be a tide of Americans, that has not happened. It | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
is a bit disappointing, there are no African writers. There were some | :21:36. | :21:43. | |
from Zimbabwe the last time. I have a fear that there might be some | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
problems for Commonwealth writers if the rules are changed. It might be | :21:47. | :21:54. | |
less diverse. It is famous for having brand-new voices from | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
different directions. Yes, it is famous for that. This is the first | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
year. I am pleased they opened it to Americans because there is no such | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
thing as the Commonwealth novel. Have you ever gone to a dinner party | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
and somebody said, can you recommend a Commonwealth novel? Did you not | :22:14. | :22:21. | |
say that, they say, did you read a good novel recently? It is not like | :22:22. | :22:28. | |
Americans can enter this prize, but other writers in English can enter | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
their prize. Maybe this open-mindedness will turn people | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
around. What is interesting is the divergence of judgement and taste. | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
The Pulitzer prize for fiction was won by a very interesting book which | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
did not even make the long list here. Why not? It was a very long | :22:49. | :22:56. | |
novel, so was the Booker prize winner last year. Is probably needed | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
some editing, but it was a very good writer, a lot of good writers are | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
left out. Do think that some people think a book again have to much | :23:07. | :23:16. | |
recognition. No, Abe good book can never have too much recognition. It | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
just did not make it. A lot of good writers are on the list as always. | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
Some say that this is about tapping into the US commercial market, | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
perhaps the biggest market for selling books. I hope that more | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
British writers and Commonwealth writers will be read in the US | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
because of the bubbly city, but the American writers coming into this | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
are published in the UK, it is not like they're published elsewhere, to | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
be eligible, the books have to be published in the UK. Thank you very | :23:44. | :23:45. | |
much for coming into talk to us. the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
are here. In about an hour and a half's time, | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
the opening ceremony will begin with the Queen reading out | :23:57. | :23:59. | |
a message which has been The BBC's Kevin Keane is | :24:00. | :24:01. | |
at the Glasgow Green Live Zone, where the ceremony will be relayed | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
to fans on giant screens. Give us a taste of what is to come, | :24:06. | :24:19. | |
how excited as Glasgow? It is hot here, which is quite unusual, and it | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
has been quite hot for the last week. People are here in short | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
sleeves, T-shirts, they are soaking up the atmosphere provided for | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
them. 10,000 people here at Glasgow Green, a number of fan zones that | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
have been set up across the city. This is for people that are not | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
lucky enough to be at the 40,000 people at Celtic Park. -- with the | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
40,000 people. There is music on the stage. This is a group of local | :24:49. | :24:55. | |
children from the Glasgow East End supported by Unicef, we had lots of | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
music and the star act tonight in the next half an hour will be the | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
Scottish superstar Lulu, and she will perform on the stage behind me. | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
Lots to get the crowd going, then a 15 minute countdown to the Opening | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
Ceremony itself and then when that begins at 9pm, it will be be laid on | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
to the big screens for people to enjoy. When we get to the athletics, | :25:21. | :25:28. | |
what are some of the big names competing? Quite a few names that | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
people will remember from the 2012 Olympic Games in London, Mo Farah, | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
of course, he was competing for Team GB, he will be competing here for | :25:39. | :25:46. | |
team England this time. Also, various others in different | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
competitions for the Scottish team, Michael Jamieson in the pool, here's | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
a medal hopeful and in the pool tomorrow, that gets underway | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
tomorrow, he could be one of the first medal hopefuls for the | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
Scottish team. And on the international stage, we anticipate | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
you same bolt competing in the four x 100 metre relay. -- we anticipate | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
you same bolt -- Usain Bolt. The bodies of some of the victims | :26:10. | :26:25. | |
of the downed Malaysia Airlines flight have been flown home to | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
the Netherlands. After a ceremony at | :26:30. | :26:31. | |
Eindhoven Airbase, 40 hearses left for Hilversum, where the | :26:32. | :26:33. | |
identification process will begin. Thank you very much for joining us | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
on the programme. Hello, today Scotland, Wales and | :26:40. | :27:01. | |
Northern Ireland all recorded their highest temperatures of the year so | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
far. More | :27:05. | :27:05. |