:00:04. > :00:10.New calls for action from Europe's leaders after the deaths of more
:00:10. > :00:14.migrants attempting the sea crossing from North Africa. Dozens are now
:00:14. > :00:18.known to have died in the latest tragedy. Malta warns the
:00:18. > :00:23.Mediterranean is becoming "a graveyard for Europe." More hostile
:00:23. > :00:27.reaction to plans for press regulation proposed by the party
:00:27. > :00:32.leaders. This is beginning of a process of state involvement which I
:00:32. > :00:39.worry about profoundly. A massive cyclone hits India as more than half
:00:39. > :00:43.a million people flee their homes. And Scarlets open their Heineken Cup
:00:43. > :01:01.campaign with a thrilling win over Harlequins.
:01:01. > :01:07.Good evening. The Prime Minister of Malta has warned that the
:01:07. > :01:11.Mediterranean is becoming a "cemetery for migrants" following
:01:11. > :01:14.the deaths of at least 34 people who drowned when their boat capsized
:01:14. > :01:18.yesterday. Joseph Muscat said southern European countries had been
:01:18. > :01:23.abandoned and urged the EU to take action. The latest tragedy took
:01:23. > :01:32.place 70 miles off Lampedusa, the Italian island where 300 migrants
:01:32. > :01:37.drowned last week. Far from land, the survivors struggled for an hour
:01:37. > :01:40.before their rescuers arrived. Some had had time to put on the red life
:01:40. > :01:47.vests. Imagine the panic, all alone had had time to put on the red life
:01:47. > :01:55.at sea, as they tried to stay alive. And tried to keep their children
:01:55. > :02:00.alive. By night those who made it were being taken to safety. Some to
:02:00. > :02:06.the dockside in Lampedusa, among them, a young couple clutching their
:02:06. > :02:11.baby and carrying an unbearable burden. They had had to choose which
:02:11. > :02:17.of their children to save. Their son drowned in front of them. At the
:02:18. > :02:22.over stretched refugee centre here we met another survivor. He came
:02:22. > :02:26.from Damascus and asked not to be identified.
:02:26. > :02:32.TRANSLATION: The waves got really high. The boat lost balance, it
:02:32. > :02:38.filled with water in the bottom. The people got scared. A wave let the
:02:38. > :02:43.boat move to the lef Everybody went to the right, the boat leaned to the
:02:43. > :02:49.right and it capsized. Malta's Prime Minister said the Mediterranean was
:02:49. > :02:53.turning into a "cemetery". Italy called for urgent action.
:02:53. > :02:57.TRANSLATION: The problem in Lampedusa is not an I tall beyond
:02:57. > :03:00.problem. This border is not the border of Italy, but the border of
:03:01. > :03:05.Europe. Questions about these human dramas must be asked in all of
:03:05. > :03:10.Europe. Some here argue that the solution is to start more legal
:03:10. > :03:15.means of migration to Europe. To open up official channels to allow
:03:15. > :03:19.people to escape war and poverty safely. Yet, that doesn't fit in
:03:19. > :03:23.with the political debate in many European countries where the
:03:23. > :03:30.instinct right now is to tighten immigration laws, not loosen them.
:03:30. > :03:34.What of the dead? Where do they fit into Europe's immigration politics?
:03:34. > :03:39.Today, a sorry procession of lorries, each one full of coffins,
:03:39. > :03:44.arrived at the port here. More than 350. They died in last week's
:03:44. > :03:49.syncing. There was no dignity in death for them. No ceremony as they
:03:49. > :03:52.were loaded onto a boat bound for the mainland. Tiny white boxes for
:03:53. > :04:03.were loaded onto a boat bound for the children. The Labour Party has
:04:03. > :04:06.joined the Government in urging newspapers to accept the latest
:04:06. > :04:10.proposals for press regulation put forward by the three main political
:04:10. > :04:14.parties. Labour's Deputy Leader, Harriet Harman, said the industry
:04:14. > :04:18."had nothing to fear" from the proposed Royal Charter. The
:04:18. > :04:25.newspapers' response to the plan has been overwhelmingly negative. The
:04:25. > :04:29.three party leaders have reached a rare agreement on press regulations
:04:29. > :04:34.backed by a Royal Charter. But the newspapers have made it clear they
:04:34. > :04:38.will reject their plan. What next? Should the politicians impose new
:04:38. > :04:42.rules? I don't think that the Government wants to impose direct
:04:42. > :04:45.regulation and neither do any of the political parties or parliament.
:04:45. > :04:49.Actually, we want the press to set up a system. The trouble of what
:04:49. > :04:53.happened in the past is they have always said after a scandal, we will
:04:53. > :04:56.mend our ways, we will set up a tough new independent system. After
:04:57. > :05:01.a while it has slipped back. The politicians have already made some
:05:01. > :05:05.changes. Allowing editors to help draw up a new code of conduct.
:05:05. > :05:09.Charging a fee for arbitration to prevent too many claims and
:05:09. > :05:13.requiring a two-thirds majority in parliament to change the rules. The
:05:13. > :05:17.newspapers have their own charter, already rejected by senior
:05:17. > :05:21.parliamentarians. It says there should be no political influence
:05:21. > :05:26.with parliament prevented from making changes and newspaper editors
:05:26. > :05:29.should have a bigger role in overseeing the new regulator. I
:05:29. > :05:34.don't believe there is any chance what so ever that this politicians'
:05:34. > :05:37.Royal Charter will be backed by the press because it is from
:05:37. > :05:44.politicians. Politicians should have no say what so ever in the running
:05:44. > :05:48.of a free press. That is not democracy. It emerged that some
:05:48. > :05:57.Conservative MPs share their concerns and are warning against
:05:57. > :06:03.political intfrjs -- interference. We removed away from state licensing
:06:03. > :06:06.of the press 300 years ago. The central commitment that lord Leveson
:06:07. > :06:10.made in his report he wanted a system that was voluntary
:06:10. > :06:14.self-regulation. This is the beginning of a process of state
:06:14. > :06:18.involvement. All those involved in trying to establish a new system of
:06:18. > :06:22.regulation say they want to protect the freedom of the press.
:06:22. > :06:27.Disagreements on how to achieve this could lead to legal battles and more
:06:27. > :06:34.rows between the papers and politicians in future. A little sign
:06:34. > :06:37.of support for these proposals? That is right. If the party leaders
:06:38. > :06:43.thought their concessions would be sufficient to get the newspaper on
:06:43. > :06:47.board, they badly misjudged the mood of the press. Even the offer to
:06:47. > :06:52.allow some regional papers to opt-out of some of the arbitration
:06:52. > :06:57.costs has been dismissed by one regional editor as, frankly
:06:57. > :07:00."insulting" he said although many regional papers were concerned about
:07:00. > :07:04.that cost, that was missing the main point. The key thing is that
:07:04. > :07:07.newspapers were the -- whether regional or national don't want
:07:07. > :07:11.politicians here at Westminster meddling in their system of
:07:11. > :07:14.regulation. You add to that the fact that the Prime Minister did not want
:07:14. > :07:18.to be the person who was laying down the law to the papers. That is why
:07:18. > :07:24.he set up the Leveson Report in the first place. He is now facing calls
:07:24. > :07:27.from his own MPs to say, look, don't get involved in this. Warning that
:07:27. > :07:32.the system that the politicians have come up with is not something that
:07:32. > :07:38.they are happy with either. What happens now? Well, that is... A
:07:38. > :07:41.question to which no-one on either side of this argument appears to
:07:41. > :07:43.know the answerment we have a couple of weeks before the party leaders'
:07:43. > :07:47.know the answerment we have a couple plan will go to a group of senior
:07:47. > :07:50.parliamentarians who decide whether it should get a Royal Charter. Many
:07:51. > :07:55.are already questioning whether they will really ask Her Majesty to put
:07:55. > :08:00.her signature to an argument which doesn't have the backing of an
:08:00. > :08:03.industry which it is governing. That is part of the deadlock that we are
:08:03. > :08:11.seeing now. Nobody at this moment seems to have an answer to what the
:08:11. > :08:15.way out of it is. The funeral has taken place of a mother and three
:08:15. > :08:19.children who died in a suspected arson attack in Leicester last
:08:19. > :08:23.month. More than 1,000 mourners attended the service in Dublin. Dr
:08:23. > :08:27.Muhammad Taufiq Al Sattar led prayers for his wife and their three
:08:27. > :08:34.teenage children. Eight people have been charged in connections with the
:08:34. > :08:38.deaths. Dr Muhammad Taufiq Al Sattar received condolences, a man left a
:08:38. > :08:43.widow and without his three teenage children. The funeral for his family
:08:43. > :08:46.was held in Dublin, where he is a neurosurgeon and a prominent member
:08:46. > :08:51.of the Muslim community. The bodies of his wife and children were
:08:51. > :08:57.brought to Ireland by ferry over night. One by one the coffins were
:08:57. > :09:02.carried. More than 1,000 people came to pay their last respects. Shehnila
:09:02. > :09:10.Taufiq wife died along with her daughter, Zainab and two sons, Bilal
:09:10. > :09:16.and Jamal. Fire engulfed their home in a suspected arson attack. It was
:09:16. > :09:20.the families wish to come to Ireland when the children completed their
:09:20. > :09:23.education. Dr Muhammad Taufiq Al Sattar Thaied their deaths had left
:09:23. > :09:26.him feeling like a "bird with wings". He said he was heartened by
:09:26. > :09:35.the support he received over the past month and would now dedicate
:09:35. > :09:39.his life to his work. A massive cyclone has struck India's eastern
:09:39. > :09:44.coastline bringing with it winds of more than 130mph. More than half a
:09:44. > :09:48.million people have been forced to evacuate their homes. A number of
:09:48. > :09:50.deaths have been reported. Cyclone Phailin is sweeping in across the
:09:50. > :09:57.Bay of Bengal hitting the States of Phailin is sweeping in across the
:09:57. > :10:02.Orissa Andhra Pradesh and. Andrew North is in the town close to where
:10:02. > :10:06.the storm struck land. It's the biggest cyclone to hit India in
:10:06. > :10:14.years. Gale force winds and rain lashing the coastline. For fishermen
:10:14. > :10:19.a last-minute effort to save their boats. As the cyclone swept in, the
:10:20. > :10:25.coast emptied out. Tens of thousands have been moved to make-shift
:10:25. > :10:34.shelters inland. Among them, these children, cold and bewildered. Still
:10:34. > :10:38.fearing for those who stayed behind. I have come to take shelter to save
:10:38. > :10:42.myself from the cyclone. My son has to stay back with his wife because
:10:42. > :10:46.of cattle and our belongings. I don't know if they are save.
:10:46. > :10:50.TRANSLATION: I have come here with my family to save us from the
:10:50. > :10:56.cyclone. Our house is destroyed. As we drove towards the coast, we saw
:10:56. > :10:59.it gathering strength, passing through shuttered and desserted
:10:59. > :11:03.towns. The cyclone is pounding this part of India. The winds are so
:11:03. > :11:08.strong it's hard to stand up, even here on our hotel balcony. We have
:11:08. > :11:12.witnessed widespread damage as we drove in before the storm peaked.
:11:12. > :11:16.The full-scale of the devastation won't be clear until first light.
:11:16. > :11:24.For tens of thousands of people it is going to be a long and terrifying
:11:24. > :11:33.night. Andrew joins me now from Orissa with the latest. How bad is
:11:33. > :11:38.this looking? We got in really just before the cyclone peaked. Already
:11:38. > :11:43.it was clear, as we were driving to this town of Brahmapur, that there
:11:43. > :11:50.was going to be a lot of damage as a result. We had to drive around
:11:51. > :11:56.scores of felled trees and power lines to get here. Debris was being
:11:57. > :12:02.blown around the roads. It was a terrifying journey. The real storm
:12:02. > :12:07.came. The winds buffeting the hotel where I am now at the peak of the
:12:07. > :12:13.storm were Inamoto credible. Windows were blowing in -- incredible.
:12:13. > :12:17.Windows were blowing in. It's hard not to imagine that with those kinds
:12:17. > :12:21.of gale force winds hitting this whole region that there hasn't been
:12:21. > :12:26.quite serious damage elsewhere. We will not know of course until light
:12:26. > :12:29.comes up. The real concern though is going to be what has happened about
:12:29. > :12:39.the surge of water that often comes with these kinds of big cyclones.
:12:39. > :12:45.Thank you. OK, with a round-up of the day's sports action it's over to
:12:45. > :12:49.Catherine Downes in the BBC Sports Centre. Amid fears for it is future
:12:49. > :12:53.rugby union's Heineken Cup is underway this weekend. It is a
:12:54. > :12:58.chance for the Celtic clubs to show what Europe's top competitions could
:12:58. > :13:10.be missing if plans for an Anglo-French breakaway goes ahead.
:13:10. > :13:22.There were upsets both in Edinburgh and London. They were packed into
:13:22. > :13:27.this open try scored by Williams, remember that surname. Sometimes the
:13:27. > :13:32.bounce of the ball is what matters. Here it favoured Harlequins. Brown
:13:32. > :13:36.took advantage and got Quinns back into it. Scott Williams checked his
:13:36. > :13:43.options and went for it himself. He stretched his legs and the Scarlets'
:13:43. > :13:48.lead before half time. At times the Welsh club were over eager to make
:13:48. > :13:54.their mind. Lee left an imprint on this player and saw the sin-bin.
:13:54. > :13:58.Where there was a Williams, there was a way. Jordan Williams picked
:13:58. > :14:01.his way through for what would be the game's decisive try. Scottish
:14:01. > :14:05.his way through for what would be rugby could do with a lift. It came
:14:05. > :14:10.from a surprising source. Edinburgh are bottom of the Pro 12 League,
:14:10. > :14:14.this try shocked Munster. If this is the last year Welsh and Scottish
:14:14. > :14:22.teams are involved in European competition, they won't go quietly.
:14:22. > :14:29.Elsewhere, a Dylan Hartley try couldn't stop Northampton losing
:14:29. > :14:37.19-13 at Castres. Leinster beat ospreys 19-9. A Jonny May try
:14:37. > :14:43.cancelled out James Hook's points as Gloucester defeated Perpignan 27-22.
:14:43. > :14:48.The family of formula 1 driver Maria de Villota believe her sudden death
:14:48. > :14:52.yesterday was caused by neurological injuries she suffered in a crash
:14:52. > :14:56.during testing last year. Drivers at the Japan Grand Prix wore stars on
:14:56. > :15:00.her helmets and cars during qualifying today to remember the
:15:00. > :15:10.33-year-old. Mark Webber went fastest and will start on pole ahead
:15:10. > :15:14.of Sebastian Vettel who could get his fourth straight World
:15:14. > :15:17.Championship if he wins tomorrow. Lewis Hamilton will start on third.
:15:17. > :15:24.Marc Marquez will start at the front of the grid for tomorrow's Malaysian
:15:24. > :15:31.MotoGP. The Marquez leads the Championship by 39 points and will
:15:31. > :15:38.set a new lap record to clinch pole. Val Rosberg will start second with
:15:38. > :15:42.Cal Crutchlow third. Raheem Sterling has been called into the England
:15:42. > :15:49.squad for the World Cup qualifying match against Poland. He replaces
:15:49. > :15:53.Tom Cleverley. Victory on Tuesday will guarantee England's place at
:15:53. > :15:59.the finals in Brazil next year. There are more calls for action from
:15:59. > :16:04.Europe's leaders after the latest deaths of dozens of migrants in the
:16:04. > :16:09.sea of off Italy. Good night.