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Good afternoon. 239 passengers and crew are feared dead after a plane | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
travelling between Malaysia and China vanished over the Pacific | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
Ocean. Officials in Vietnam said two large oil slicks have been spotted | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
in the sea off the country's southern coast. No distress signals | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
were received. The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 was travelling between | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
Kuala Lumpur and Beijing when it disappeared from the radar, two | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
hours into its journey. It was flying over the South China Sea at | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
the time. Jonathan Head is in Kuala Lumpur. | :00:53. | :01:04. | |
It has been 24 hours almost exact to lease its flight MH370 departed from | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
here at Kuala Lumpur airport, 22 hours since it vanished from radar | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
screens. Despite news of that oil slick and an extensive search effort | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
by the Malaysian authorities, together with Vietnamese ships and | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
an aircraft from Singapore, we are still no closer to knowing what | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
happened to that missing plane. There is some flash photography in | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
my report. What caused one of the safest airliners in the skies to | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
disappear somewhere over the South China Sea? | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
That is the formidable challenge now confronting the Malaysian | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
authorities. So far, they are struggling to find even a trace of | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
the missing Boeing 777. Fat hour after hour, family members were | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
ushered in and out of the area set aside for them here at Kuala Lumpur | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
airport, but there was nothing anyone could tell them. This has | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
chilling echoes of an Air France flight that vanished at night over | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
the Atlantic in 2009. It took three years, and a gruelling investigation | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
to pinpoint the cause of that accident, a faulty speed indicator. | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
It could be a long time before what happened to MH370 is known. Today's | :02:15. | :02:23. | |
aeroplanes are credibly reliable, and you do not get some sudden | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
structural failure in flight. It's just doesn't happen. It won't | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
happen. The Malaysian prime minister came to talk to the families and let | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
them know what his government is doing. The search will continue | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
overnight and into tomorrow, in the hope of finding the first vital | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
clues. Given the fact that this airline is | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
the pride of this country, it is of enormous importance to Malaysia to | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
find out what happened. It is also important to Boeing. There are | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
something like 1000 aircraft of this kind in service. It has an | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
impressive safety record, so everybody is pinning their hopes on | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
some clues being found soon, and perhaps some of the causes behind | :03:10. | :03:11. | |
the missing plane. International observers have been | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
turned away from Crimea for the third day running. Warning shots | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
were fired as the team approached. The interim government in Kiev has | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
insisted that the observers must be allowed into Crimea, which Russian | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
forces currently control. My colleague, Ben Brown, is in | :03:28. | :03:38. | |
Sevastopol. Tell us more? Yes, this is a team of about 50 international | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
observers from the OSCE, representing 28 countries including | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
Britain. They have been trying for three days running to get into | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
Crimea. Every day, armed groups of pro-Russians have stopped them. But | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
today, there was an additional air of menace because warning shots were | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
fired. Three bursts of automatic gunfire were fired. That is really | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
alarming. It will be seen as a slap in the face for the OSCE and a slap | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
in the face for the international community, and another show of | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
Russian defiance in Crimea. The Chief Secretary to the Treasury, | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
Danny Alexander, has strongly hinted that this month's Budget will | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
include a rise in the personal tax allowance to ?10,500. He has been | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
speaking at the Liberal Democrats' spring conference in New York. -- in | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
York. From there, our Political Correspondent Vicki Young reports. | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
Shame on you! Demonstrating against government cuts, the union said | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
people are worse off as changes to benefits, but the Lib Dems insists | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
they are putting money back in work diplomat gives. From next month, | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
most will be able to earn ?10,000 before paying any income tax, and | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
the party is desperate to claim the credit. This tax break was punished | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
by the Liberal Democrats, but resisted by the Conservatives. | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
Fought for by the Liberal Democrats, and people know it is being | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
delivered by the Liberal Democrats. With the Budget approaching, there | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
could be more treats to hand out . A further rise in the personal | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
allowance is on the cards, so do staff at this chocolate shop think | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
it will make a difference? Not with increasing prices and the cost of | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
living and everything in general, it will not make much of a difference. | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
In terms of everything that is going on, especially energy prices, I | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
don't know if the consumer will feel a right impact as they are hoping. | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
Fantastic. Yeah, a bit extra for me. Even the pounds add up and it | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
would be great. For the future, the Lib Dems have more ambitious plans, | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
announcing today that lifting the income tax threshold to ?12,500 will | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
be a priority if there are coalition talks after the next election. With | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
money so tight, there has been little in the way of giveaways to | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
voters, so it is no surprise that there has been a huge battle within | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
the coalition for ownership of this tax-cutting policy. The Lib Dems and | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
the Tories want voters to thank them for the few extra pounds in their | :06:06. | :06:07. | |
pocket. The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, has | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
told the BBC that if his party wins the next election, Labour would | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
bring in a new law making it illegal to abuse or discriminate against | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
members of the armed forces, putting it on a par with hate crimes. Mr | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
Miliband, who visited Afghanistan, also told British troops that the | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
job there is not yet done. He said there would need to be a continuing | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
commitment when combat operations cease at the end of the year. | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
Britain has won its first medal at the Winter Paralympics in Sochi. | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
Skier Jade Etherington, with her guide, Caroline Powell, took silver | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
in the women's downhill for visually impaired athletes. It is Britain's | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
first Winter Paralympic medal since 2006. From Sochi, Nick Hope reports. | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
Jade Etherington and her guide, Caroline Powell, were only paired | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
together last year, but their rise to the top of the sport has been | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
outstanding. They won major World Cup honours for the first time in | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
January. Success at the Paralympics was their next aim. Etherington, who | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
suffers from glaucoma, only has 5% vision, but produced a superb run. | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
Only four-time gold medallist Henrieta Farkasova, from Slovakia, | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
could finish ahead. Excitement briefly turned to fear as | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
Etherington lost control after crossing the line. Luckily, she | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
wasn't hurt and was soon able to celebrate her momentous achievement, | :07:21. | :07:22. | |
becoming the first British woman to win a Paralympic medal on the snow. | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
I'm an official proud Paralympian now, so it's a great feeling, and | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
good to get the flowers and just get into that movement. I'm really proud | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
of me and Caroline working together today. An incredible achievement for | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
Jade Etherington and her guide, Caroline Powell. They hope to bring | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
that momentum now into their four other events, and potentially, it | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
could be the catalyst for further success for Great Britain here in | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
Sochi. Nick Hope, BBC News, at the Winter Paralympics in Russia. | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
There is more throughout the evening on the BBC News Channel. We are back | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
with the latest news at 10.10. Now on BBC One, time for the news where | :08:02. | :08:03. | |
you are. | :08:04. | :08:04. |