19/05/2016 World News Today

This is BBC World News Today with me. The headlines: Search teams find

wreckage of the EgyptAir plane that crashed en route from Paris to

Cairo. This is the plane on a previous flight. It fell more than

7000 metres before disappearing from radar. The debris has been found in

the southern Mediterranean, east of the Greek island create.

TRANSLATION: It made a 90 degrees turn to the left, and then a 360

degrees turn to the right, descending from 37,000 to 50,000

feet -- 15,000 feet. Then the picture we had was lost. Also coming

up, how the overuse of antibiotics is creating drug-resistant superbugs

that could kill someone every three seconds. And a special service is

held in memory of Sir Nicholas Winton, the man who saved hundreds

of children from the Holocaust. EgyptAir says wreckage

from its plane which crashed with 66 people on board,

has been found in the eastern Flight MS804 left Paris

on Wednesday, heading for Cairo. It was tracked by radar all the way

into Egyptian airspace EgyptAir tweeted that the flight

disappeared about 10 minutes The plane was flying at 37,000

feet, or 11,000 metres. The Greek defence minister has said

"the plane carried out "a 90-degree turn to the left

and a 360-degree turn to the right, "falling to 15,000 feet before

the signal was lost". An Egyptian ship captain involved

in the search has posted these pictures on his Facebook page,

which he says show a lifejacket Keith Sommerville reports

from the Egyptian capital, Cairo. Their loved ones left Paris

on a flight before midnight. They woke to the reality

that they were gone, 66 people, including crew,

took flight MS804 to Cairo. The passengers were mostly

French and Egyptian. It has just been confirmed

that he was Richard Osman, a mining company executive who had

worked in Egypt for many years. Here, radar tracks the aircraft,

its red tail speeding across the Mediterranean,

until suddenly, it disappears. Was this a terror attack

or mechanical failure? France's president says nothing

should be ruled out. TRANSLATION: We also have the duty

to know everything about the causes No hypothesis should be

ruled out or preferred. In Cairo, relatives

gathered at the airport. Families have been arriving

here all morning, desperate to find out any information they can

on what happened to flight MS804. The flight was just 20

minutes from landing here at Cairo International Airport

when, according to the authorities, it simply vanished, without anyone

in, without any distress call. This woman explains,

my daughter was a stewardess. Another says, we are worried

and afraid, and we are hearing different things on the internet

which we don't know Egypt's aviation minister was

called on for answers, but Minister, if I could just ask you,

do you have any security concerns about anyone on the plane,

whether they were passengers, whether they were crew, whether they

were on the flight deck? Nothing has been

reported about that. We haven't got any kind

of security concerns about a specific person,

but don't forget that the investigation is still going on,

and I'm pretty sure that there is a profiling process

for people on board, the security departments,

or the concerned security divisions, Shortly afterwards, a ship's captain

posted this picture - a yellow life jacket,

and part of an airline seat, In Egypt this evening,

families continue to wait for news, burdened by the knowledge that

officials here think this was more likely a terror

attack than an accident. Let's get the latest

from Kevin Connolly in Cairo. Kevin, this news that the wreckage

has been found, however going down with the families there? Well, I

think the discovery about wreckage and confirmation that it is from the

plane, does two things, really. First, it extinguishes any lingering

hopes that the families might have had. They now know for sure that

they have been waiting for a flight which will now never arrive. So I

suppose for them, the horror of uncertainty is replaced by the agony

of grief. At a more practical level, it also means that the authorities

are beginning to assemble the physical evidence they need to

establish what happened to the aircraft, why it came down, so

discovering that debris is a beginning. They will, of course,

need to discover the on-board flight recorders as well, but I think it is

fair to say that we are closer now to a point where the authorities

will begin to establish pretty quickly the story of the plane's

final and fatal moments. And we were hearing earlier that some of the

families were frustrated about how slow information was coming out.

What is the situation now? Has that improved?

I don't think it has. I think there were a couple of issues there, one

being the nature of the modern world, of course. Stories are

buzzing around the internet from all over Europe and further afield about

what may or may not have happened to the plane, a lot of explanation and

speculation, lots of bits and pieces of information. The families are

aware of those, and Egypt, of course, as a society, does not have

that tradition of free reporting, and so official information here

comes very slowly. So for the families, they will be the agony of

knowing the kind of stories that are circulating everywhere and not

hearing what their own government things about them. I think there is

not really very much to be done about that. You will see again, as

debris stars to be found, that will intensify speculation on the

internet. The families are following that, but then there is an enormous

lag between that unofficial information and speculation and

concrete word from the Egyptian government about what they are

saying really happened. OK, Kevin Connelly, in Cairo, thank

you very much for the update. Investigators will need to gather

much more information than is available right now before

deciding what caused the crash. Here's our Transport

Correspondent Richard Westcott. As more victims' families head

for Cairo, the question remains - was this an accident,

or something more sinister? Well, the aircraft

was an Airbus A320, and if you've ever flown,

the chances are, you've It's one of the most common planes

on earth, and it does And this is footage of the actual

aircraft that disappeared. Now, this aircraft was delivered

to EgyptAir in November 2003, and we also know that the captain

and the co-pilot were So, let's have a look

at what the radar tells us Well, having taken off from Paris

in the late evening, everything was normal for more

than three hours. Greek controllers say

the pilot is in good spirits Half an hour after that,

repeated radio calls go unanswered. Controllers raise the alarm,

but the plane has simply TRANSLATION: It made

a 90-degree turn to the left, and then a 360-degree turn

towards the right, descending from 37,000

to 15,000 feet. This is why terrorism

can't be ruled out. A Russian airliner full

of tourists was brought down It is widely believed a group linked

to the so-called Islamic State They have vowed to target Egypt,

and westerners who visit. It appears that there's been some

catastrophic event at 37,000 feet, and the most likely thing to have

happened is actually some kind of an explosion inside

the aeroplane itself. This is the room at Cranfield

University where air accident investigators from all

over the world have Experts here say there

will be early clues, Generally, within a few hours,

we started to get a picture of what may have occurred,

but the detail of the investigation will take many months,

sometimes even years, to fully understand

what may have happened, and where the lessons

learned may be. So, it's an anxious

wait for the families, and for all flyers, like these

people, off to Cairo today. We can join him now. James, what is

the latest on the situation there that you are hearing?

We understand that three members of France's bureau of investigation and

analysis will tonight be on their way to Cairo to advise and assist

the Egyptian authorities with the search for that wreckage, in

particular, the French government says those three experts may be able

to advise on underwater searches for those flight recorders, which, as

you know, in the signals which will want to be picked up by rescuers. In

addition, one more person that will be travelling from Paris to Cairo is

a technical advisor from Airbus is self. Airbus is based in France, and

that investigated may be able to help understand what happened on

that plane. So France is playing a part in the investigation, but I

think the key thing to stress is, it will not be the major player in the

investigation. This was an Egyptian plane, most people on board were

Egyptian, and the debris may be returned to Egypt itself, so it

seems likely the investigation itself will be led by Egypt. France

will have to assist, but it will have to put a lot of faith into

organisations in that country which it may not believe have a

particularly great track record in independent investigations.

And what is the situation at the airport there? Has security been

noticeably stepped up? It has, but I should say at the

moment, things look reasonably normal around me. There was a flight

for Air China which decked in about an hour ago, a flight for cats are

Airways, which is checking in at the moment. Restaurants are open, and

occasionally you see heavily armed soldiers and policemen patrolling,

but over the last few months, in particular, since the November

attacks, Paris has been on a state of alert anyway, so security in the

airport has now become normal. What is the latest on the situation

regarding the families and friends of those who were on board we

understand that earlier in the day, some families, particularly those of

the 15 French people on board, were invited on to a special EgyptAir

flight which went to Cairo, and essentially, they may have decided

there was little point being here when the centre of affairs, the

centre of action, is Cairo itself. We don't now how many families may

have boarded that particular flight, we don't know if other families of

other nationalities are in Paris, or have decided not to go to Cairo.

James Reynolds in Cairo, thank you. With me now in the studio is Chris

Phillips, former head of the UK's National Counterterrorism Security

Office. We heard from James there that investigators from France are

on their way to the site. What will be investigating teams be doing now?

The first thing they will want to do is get hold of the black boxes that

are linked to this aeroplane, so they will do everything they can to

get those. Those will give them the definitive answer on what happened

inside that plane. Of course, security services in different parts

of the world will also be looking at who the people were on that plane,

if there was anyone there that may have taken a bomb, for example, onto

the plane, and also the locations where the plane has been, certainly

in the last 24 hours, because these planes travel all over the world,

stopping up a lot of different airports. Each airport is

potentially the place where a device may have been put onto the plane. So

there is lots of work to do, but the first thing is to get hold of those

black boxes. If it turns out to be some sort of

explosive device, how sure are you when you heard what had happened,

when you heard about the description of the plane veering to the left and

to the right, losing altitude rapidly, what were your first

thoughts? My first thoughts were that this was almost certainly some

form of terrorist attack. The reason I would say that is, we need to bear

in mind that these Airbuses are just so reliable, and very rarely do they

have any major incidents. Even if they do, the pilot can almost

invariably contact the ground and let them know what has happened, and

that something is happening. I have got to take over and fly the plane

first, but the second thing they would do is immediately radio and

SOS call. That did not happen, and what we saw was the plane dropped

very quickly down towards the sea, and that tends to indicate something

catastrophic has happened at 37,000 feet, in a pressurised environment,

where potentially, there has been a whole of some form in the fusilade,

and that whole will cause a depressurisation, and losing the air

plane. -- that hole. It would be interesting to get your

thoughts on one particular point. The families have spoken at their

frustration at how long it has taken to get information, how slow the

flow of information has been getting to them. As someone who has worked

in counterterrorism, why is there that delay for people who are

desperate to find out what has happened to develop 1's?

This is a sign of The Times. We are so used to information coming at us

within seconds of an incident, we are used to the idea that we'll find

out immediately. What the Egyptian and French authorities do is give

false, wrong information, so they will only say something when they

know it is a fact. Now, obviously, it takes a long time for that to

happen, and even though they have got all of the intelligence in the

world, they are not going to come out and say something that is not

true. So it is important that they go through the stages to say, we

must have accurate information, not just supposition that we and other

people can make. Really good to have you with us, and

we will catch up with you later. Thank you very much.

Now a look at some of the day's other news.

Heavy rain and loose ground is hindering the search for victims

Dozens of houses have been buried or flattened in one hilly area.

Rescue workers say more than 130 missing people could have died.

Days of torrential rains have flooded large parts of the island.

The first of the missing Nigerian schoolgirls to be rescued

from Boko Haram militants has met President Buhari in Abuja.

Amina Ali Nkeki, who is 19, was found with a baby

by an army-backed vigilante group on Tuesday in the huge

Sambisa Forest, close to the border with Cameroon.

After the meeting, the President said the government would

make continuing Amina's education a priority.

The Scottish golf club Muirfield has lost the chance to host

the prestigious Open Championship after its members voted

The club said women would continue to be welcomed as guests.

But the governing body of the Open said the event could not be staged

by a club that that did not admit women as full members.

It is one of the greatest challenges faced by doctors and surgeons -

the growing resistance to antibiotics,

largely because they are prescribed inappropriately.

Now a new report is warning that if nothing is done,

superbugs will kill someone, somewhere in the world

Our Medical Correspondent Fergus Walsh reports.

In the pre-antibiotic era, patients like Lily would simply have died.

She spent two weeks critically ill in Birmingham Children's Hospital

with a drug-resistant bacterial infection,

They weren't sure which infections she had.

It's amazing how these anitbiotics have cured our daughter.

This is what other sick kids experience, and it really makes

The economist who led the review into superbugs say they could kill

more people than cancer by 2050, unless antibiotics are safeguarded.

What we really need is efforts to reduce demand, and stop treating

these things like sweets, so an awareness campaign,

dramatic reduction of the misuse in agriculture.

These things can permanently solve the problem.

The review says rapid diagnostic tests should be developed,

so patients get antibiotics only if their infection is bacterial.

There should be major restrictions on the use of antibiotics

There would be a levy on drug companies to pay for research,

Gentamicin. Cefaroxin.

Chances are, at some point, your life will depend

on an antibiotic. But their Golden Age is over.

There hasn't been a completely new class of these drugs in decades,

and unless the world takes action, then in a few years,

you could come to hospital with a simple infection,

and the doctors and nurses will not be able to treat it.

Doctors are already seeing worrying signs that the superbugs

During the course of my career, I have noticed already quite a sharp

increase in the number of resistant bacteria

We have had to change the antibiotics we are

If we run out, then I don't know what we will do.

And we all need educating about how to prevent the spread

of germs and infections if antibiotics are to continue

The preventative benefits of taking aspirin have been

But now researchers from Oxford University say it should

be given immediately to people who've suffered strokes.

They say taking the blood-thinning drug reduces the risk of further

Here's our health correspondent Adam Brimelow.

Earlier this month, John Mason suffered a minor stroke.

He first noticed when he had trouble reading his e-mails.

He was taken to A, and on the way, took an aspirin

I was aware of the beneficial effects of taking aspirin,

but I had no idea how significant they were, and it's very,

very reassuring that I can carry on with my life,

knowing that the actions I have taken and the support I have had

mean there is a very low chance of a recurrence.

Researchers at Oxford University say that for every 100,000 people over

50 in the UK, one is likely to have a stroke every day.

But in the days after symptoms of a minor stroke, the risk

Taking aspirin immediately brings this down to about one in 100.

That is an 80% reduction in the risk of another stroke,

and where they do occur, they are likely to be less severe.

Nearly two weeks on from his stroke, John Mason is taking it easy,

He can get out in the garden and enjoy life.

This is a case of the patient doing the right thing at the right time,

meaning the risk of a major stroke was much reduced.

But the researchers say the message for doctors and the public

about the benefits of aspirin in this situation needs

We need to encourage people, if they think they have had some

neurological symptoms that might be a minor stroke,

they should take aspirin immediately, as well as ideally

NHS England says these findings will need to be

New stroke guidelines for doctors are due out in the autumn.

A memorial service has been held in London for Sir Nicholas Winton,

who rescued hundreds of children from the Holocaust in the months

Sir Nicholas organised the "Kindertransport",

in which more than 600 mostly Jewish children came to Britain by train

from Czechoslovakia in 1939. Sophie Long reports.

A mother kisses her child goodbye, knowing she may

Prague Station, early 1939, and young boys and girls head

to Britain to avoid the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia,

and the subsequent persecution of Jewish and other minority

Today, those children, now elderly men and women,

gathered to celebrate the life of the man who gave them a future.

Nicholas Winton was just 28, a young stockbroker in London,

when he organised trains to take Jewish children to safety

His kindertransport operation saved 669 children,

but for many years, he harboured an overriding regret

He kept quiet about what he had done until his wife found a scrapbook

Back here, you will see, is the list of all the children.

Finally, in 1988, Esther Rantzen publicised what he did on her TV

Vera Githing is here tonight. Hello, Vera.

And I should tell you, you are actually sitting next

So hello! APPLAUSE

Is there anyone in our audience tonight who owes their life

Anyone who owes their life to Nicky Winton, would

28 years later, it is estimated between five and 7,000 people do.

One of them is 92-year-old Kurt Hausig.

He still remembers the train journey from Prague.

He went on to become a Spitfire pilot.

Bio everything to him. And so does the rest of the family, and every

other child. Everything. Without him, nothing would have happened. --

I owe. I wouldn't have been in the air force. I wouldn't have become

what I was. Today, Kurds and the others who continue to live the life

he gave them, remembered a modest hero and celebrated a life that was

prove one individual can make an incredible difference. -- curtain

remembered. Back now to Chris Phillips,

former head of the UK's With me is Chris Phillips,

former head of the UK's National Counterterrorism

Security Office. Presumably the investigation will

now be looking to find out what caused that crash. How will they be

doing that? I think they will start, first and foremost, with the people

on the plane, and unable to the plane itself and see where it has

been. We know it has been a Charles de Gaulle Airport. We know only a

couple of months ago that Charles de Gaulle Airport was a bit concerned

about the people had working air side that may have terrorist

tendencies, or certainly coming from an area where there is more

terrorism than other places. The aeroplane is effectively a bus. That

aeroplane has taken off and landed in numerous airports in the last

couple of days, and I think the focus may end up turning to those

airports, because, of course, you can put a device onto a plane, and

you can put a time a situation that will make it go off at some point in

the future. That is possibly what has happened. We're not sure yet,

but it is certainly one line of enquiry.

Thank you very much for that. We will keep across the latest of that

investigation, and you can find details on our live page. That is it

from the programme. The weather is next.

Hello. Plenty of rain in the outlook, but during