:00:04. > :00:08.More than 30 people are confirmed to have drowned, after a boat carrying
:00:08. > :00:13.migrants capsized off southern Italy. It's the latest in a series
:00:13. > :00:19.of accidents - Malta warns that the Mediterranean is becoming a
:00:19. > :00:22.graveyard for African migrants. A judge rules that two children must
:00:22. > :00:27.have the MMR vaccine - against their wishes.
:00:27. > :00:32.Newspapers have strongly criticised government proposals for independent
:00:32. > :00:35.self-regulation of the Press. And half a million people flee
:00:35. > :00:59.India's eastern coastline - as a huge cyclone closes in.
:00:59. > :01:05.Good afternoon. The Prime Minister of Malta has warned that the
:01:06. > :01:11.Mediterranean is becoming a cementary fo of migrants from
:01:11. > :01:15.Africa. That after a boat laden with people seeking to cross from North
:01:15. > :01:21.Africa. That after a boat laden with Africa capsized. It was said that
:01:21. > :01:27.southern European countries are feeling oned urging the EU to take
:01:27. > :01:34.action. Last week 300 migrants drowned.
:01:34. > :01:38.These are the grainy images of unimaginable horror. Of panic at
:01:38. > :01:43.sea. As people struggle after an hour in the water to stay alive.
:01:43. > :01:46.Many were rescued. Dozens did not make it.
:01:46. > :01:49.Many were rescued. Dozens did not Boats and helicopters took the
:01:49. > :01:55.injured to hospitals in Italy and to Malta. On board this vessel, mainly
:01:55. > :01:56.Syrians and Palestinians. They had phoned ahead to friends here in
:01:56. > :02:00.Syrians and Palestinians. They had Italy, to say that they were on
:02:00. > :02:05.their way. On the dockside in lamp duda, a few
:02:05. > :02:12.of the survivors arrived in the dead of the night. Among them a young
:02:12. > :02:15.couple clutching their baby. -- lamp duza.
:02:15. > :02:19.Brought here by an Italian boat, after suffering unbearable loss. We
:02:19. > :02:24.learned that they had had to choose which of their children to save.
:02:24. > :02:28.The father and the mother were able to save the daughter, the
:02:28. > :02:36.nine-month-old daughter but were unable to save their son. He was in
:02:36. > :02:40.front of them on the sea. They left him there. They were in the water
:02:40. > :02:45.for one hour before being rescued. Last week, another boat sank. More
:02:45. > :02:47.than 300 died. Among them were many children.
:02:47. > :02:51.The Prime Minister of Malta says something must be done.
:02:52. > :02:58.We are just building a cementary within our Mediterranean sea.
:02:58. > :03:04.We are seeing these people abandoned.
:03:04. > :03:09.We act as rescuers, as hospitals but we feel like we are on our own.
:03:09. > :03:14.Some argue that the solution is to start more legal means of migration
:03:14. > :03:18.to Europe. To open up channels officially to allow people to escape
:03:18. > :03:22.war and poverty safely, but that does not fit in with the political
:03:23. > :03:26.debate in European countries, where the instinct is to tighten the #i78
:03:26. > :03:30.congratulation law, not to loosen them. Whatever the policy response
:03:30. > :03:37.it is clear that the boats will continue to come. Some will never
:03:37. > :03:41.arrive. The newspaper industry is
:03:41. > :03:44.considering its response to proposals by the three main
:03:44. > :03:49.Westminster parties for self-regulation of the press. It
:03:49. > :03:53.follows the Leveson report on press standards. Politicians want the
:03:53. > :03:57.newspapers to adopt their amended cross-party royal charrer, but a
:03:57. > :04:02.number of journalists said it threatens the press freedom.
:04:02. > :04:07.We have this report. -- Royal Charter. The politicians
:04:07. > :04:11.and the press appearing as divided as ever over a system of newspaper
:04:11. > :04:15.regulation. There is now agreement among the three main parties at
:04:15. > :04:19.Westminster over a new Royal Charter, that the politicians say
:04:19. > :04:24.will safeguard the freedom of the press, but there are growing signs
:04:24. > :04:29.that few, if any newspapers, are ready to sign up to the deal. The
:04:29. > :04:35.new version will allow eders to to draw up a code of conduct. Thereby a
:04:35. > :04:40.redress to seek many claims and Parliament needs a two thirds
:04:40. > :04:44.majority to alter the charter, but the industry prefers its own
:04:44. > :04:47.charter, rejected by Parliamentarians and wants no
:04:47. > :04:51.political influence with Parliament unable to enforce changes in the
:04:51. > :04:55.future. They want a bigger role for the newspaper editors in overseeing
:04:55. > :04:58.the regulator. I don't believe that the
:04:58. > :05:01.publisheses' Royal Charter will be I don't believe that the
:05:01. > :05:06.backed by the press as it is from politicians. They should have no say
:05:06. > :05:10.what soever in the running of a free press that is not democracy.
:05:10. > :05:14.But many of those affected by the phone hacking scandal that sparked
:05:14. > :05:18.the episode, believe that the newspapers have foregone their right
:05:18. > :05:22.to have say over their own regulation.
:05:22. > :05:26.They have failed completely with self-regulation. They are now
:05:26. > :05:28.telling the paper that this is statutory regulation, this is
:05:28. > :05:32.control over what is in the paper but it is nothing like that.
:05:32. > :05:37.Today, the editor of the Daily Mail said rows between the polices in the
:05:37. > :05:42.press showed why Parliament should keep out of newspaper regulation.
:05:42. > :05:47.-- polices. Editors say that they are wholly
:05:47. > :05:52.unconvinced. A funeral service has been held for
:05:52. > :05:57.a mother and three children who died in a suspected arson attack in
:05:57. > :06:00.Leicester. Hundreds turned out in Dublin as the mother and her
:06:00. > :06:08.children were laid to rest. The mourning was led by her husband, Dr
:06:08. > :06:13.Taufiq. A High Court judge ruled that two
:06:13. > :06:18.sisters, aged 11 and 15, must have the MMR jab, against their wishes --
:06:18. > :06:22.wishes and those of their mother. The girls' parents decided not to
:06:22. > :06:29.have the girls vaccinated but then the father changed his mind after he
:06:29. > :06:33.and his wife divorced. He began the legal proceedings to ensure that
:06:33. > :06:37.they have the treatment. What is the background to this? The reason this
:06:38. > :06:40.case is interesting is because of the age of the girls. One is 11, but
:06:40. > :06:45.the older is 156789 in English law, the age of the girls. One is 11, but
:06:45. > :06:49.teenagers who are 16 are able to make their own decisions about
:06:49. > :06:54.medical treatments. So this older child is very much on the cusp of
:06:55. > :07:00.the decision-making age. The reason that the issue came to court is as
:07:00. > :07:05.you say, the father changed his mind about the vaccine. That is for two
:07:05. > :07:12.reasons: One because the claims about a link between MMR and autism
:07:12. > :07:17.have been universally and wholesaly discredited. The second, at the end
:07:17. > :07:21.of last year, there was an outbreak of measles in Swansea. He said
:07:21. > :07:26.seeing that, the distress that the children were in, that he decided he
:07:26. > :07:32.would like the girls immunised. The mother and the girls throughout have
:07:32. > :07:37.said that they did not want the vaccine. The judge at the High Court
:07:37. > :07:41.has had to make a complex decision. It is surrounded, the central issue,
:07:42. > :07:45.surrounding what was in the best interests of the children. In the
:07:45. > :07:51.case of the 11-year-old, that was straightforward. The judge said that
:07:51. > :07:54.having the MMR jab benefits far outweighed the risks, but as far as
:07:54. > :07:57.having the MMR jab benefits far the 15-year-old was concerned, the
:07:57. > :08:02.judge had to take seriously her views. So, using evidence, the judge
:08:02. > :08:05.took a look at whether or not the 15-year-old was competent to make a
:08:05. > :08:10.decision about her treatment. In this case, the judge decided that
:08:10. > :08:15.having seen the evidence, she felt that the 15-year-old was not able to
:08:16. > :08:20.weigh up the complexities of the risks and the benefits of the jab
:08:20. > :08:25.and as a result she has ordered that both girls have to have the MMR jab.
:08:25. > :08:29.Thank you. Now, over half a million people have
:08:29. > :08:35.been forced to evacuate their homes in India. A massive cyclone is
:08:35. > :08:39.threatening the country's coastline. Cyclone Phailin, larger than the
:08:39. > :08:44.size of France, is expected to hit the states of Orissa Andhra Pradesh
:08:44. > :08:51.and. Our correspondent, Sanjoy Majumder, is in Orissa.
:08:52. > :08:55.There is a sense of urgency on India's east coast, with Cyclone
:08:55. > :09:01.Phailin hours away. Villagers along the coast have emptied -- emptied
:09:01. > :09:04.out, the fishermen scramble to get their boats to shore. There are
:09:04. > :09:11.signs of what is in store with the strong winds bringing down the trees
:09:11. > :09:15.and heavy rain lashing the coast. Everyone's being told to get out of
:09:15. > :09:20.the way of Cyclone Phailin. It is said to be the fiercest in two
:09:20. > :09:24.decades. The weather officials warned that the Cyclone Phailin will
:09:24. > :09:29.lead to storm surges up to three metres high and floods along the
:09:29. > :09:35.entire coast. So the effort now is to save lives. The Navy and the air
:09:35. > :09:39.foersz are on standby, ready to swing into action. Emergency rations
:09:39. > :09:43.and supplies have been ready for the relief effort for the hundreds and
:09:43. > :09:48.the thousands that could be stranded or made homeless. And over the Bay
:09:48. > :09:54.of Bengal, the Cyclone Phailin is gathering pace.
:09:54. > :10:01.Sanjoy joins me live now. Sanjoy, what is the latest? You can see that
:10:01. > :10:07.the ity the wind behind Mijas gotten stronger in the past hour. It is
:10:07. > :10:14.pelting down with rain. Cyclone Phailin is about 15 miles
:10:14. > :10:19.away from us. It is over the coast about 15 miles from where I am
:10:19. > :10:23.standing now. It is here it is expected to make land fall sometimes
:10:23. > :10:28.in the next hour or maybe two hours. The authorities have done all that
:10:28. > :10:32.they can. The coastline has been evacuated. There are only a few
:10:32. > :10:36.people who have refused to leave. Everyone else has been moved to the
:10:36. > :10:39.storm shelters. The Emergency Services on standby, the armed
:10:39. > :10:43.forces, as you have heard, have been placed on alert. So everyone is just
:10:43. > :10:48.watching and waiting. This is an area of India used to the storms.
:10:48. > :10:54.They have had fierce ones before, but this time around, no-one is sure
:10:54. > :10:57.what to pekt. -- what to expect.
:10:58. > :11:01.Thank you. We are here with a full roundup of
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