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fly to Kuala Lumpur. They're demanding answers from the | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
authorities, chanting, "tell us the truth". | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
New plans for a crack down on tele-marketing companies making | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
nuisance calls. And calls to stop motorists parking | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
on pavements, by the Guide Dogs charity. | :00:28. | :00:47. | |
Good afternoon. 30 relatives of Chinese passengers who were on the | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have travelled to Kuala Lumpur | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
to demand answers from the Malaysian authorities. They unfurled a banner | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
saying they wanted evidence about what happened. Meanwhile, an | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
Australian ship towing a black-box detector is preparing to join the | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
search. Lucy Williamson's report from the Malaysian capital contains | :01:10. | :01:19. | |
some flash photography. With no sign of flight MH370 or its | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
passengers, these faces have become the most visible symbol of this | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
mystery. The families of Chinese passengers, freshly arrived from | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
Beijing today to demand some answers in person. Their questions are the | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
same ones plaguing the rest of the world, what happened to flight MH370 | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
and why is it taking so long to find out? In a brief press conference at | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
their hotel, the families delivered their message to the Malaysian | :01:52. | :01:59. | |
government. We want evidence, they chanted, we want the truth, we want | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
our families. But with the plane's disappearance still unexplained, | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
they are also looking at who to blame. TRANSLATION: We want the | :02:09. | :02:16. | |
Malaysian government to apologise and for mishandling the operation | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
and we call on the airline manufacturers to come and meet us. | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
It has been 22 days and we have not heard from them. What are they | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
worried about? There is tight control about these latest | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
arrivals, guards outside their meeting room and security checks in | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
the hotel lobby. The families are now being guarded inside this hotel. | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
So far, and the Malaysian authorities have proved pretty adept | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
at managing their movements but managing their demands and their | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
frustration will be a lot of. So far, the search has drawn in ships | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
and planes from seven countries, but it has turned up no wreckage from | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
the aircraft. Hopes are now pinned on this latest arrival, an | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
Australian vessel designed to toe this high-tech device which can | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
listen to the ping is omitted by the data recorder. But the pings are due | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
to stop in a week or so and the search teams have not yet found any | :03:13. | :03:20. | |
sign of where the plane went down. We will deploy the underwater | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
vehicle here. It is basically a robot that can be programmed to go | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
take a sonar mapping of the debris field. Many family say they will | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
continue to hope until they see the wreckage of the missing flight | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
pulled from the waves. No one knows how long they will be waiting. | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
And we can talk to Lucy in Kuala Lumpur now. What will it take to | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
reassure the relatives? I think it has been harder to do that over the | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
past couple of weeks. The anger of these families has its own motion. | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
That is partly because of the messages coming out of the Chinese | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
media and to some extent, the Chinese government as well. There | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
has been a lot of stunned the back home for the perspective of these | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
families and quite a bit of implicit criticism of the way the authorities | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
have handled this crisis. Added to that, there is some jostling going | :04:15. | :04:23. | |
on between China and Malaysia to appear the one who is handling this, | :04:24. | :04:25. | |
who is more responsible in the face of this crisis. I certainly think | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
over the past couple of weeks, it has got harder for the Malaysian | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
authorities, and faced as they are with a situation where they do not | :04:32. | :04:33. | |
have much concrete information and they are being asked for answers, is | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
not an easy situation for them. Thank you. | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
The Conservative MP, Mark Menzies, has resigned as a ministerial aide | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
after a newspaper alleged he'd paid for sex with a male prostitute. The | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
Sunday Mirror also reported claims the MP had asked the man to buy an | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
illegal drug. Mr Menzies, who's 42, said "a number of the allegations" | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
weren't true. A student who was due to be deported | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
back to Mauritius, is no longer on a flight scheduled to leave the | :05:00. | :05:01. | |
country this afternoon. A spokesperson for Yashika Bageerathi | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
said the 19-year-old was told last night she wouldn't be on the flight, | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
but doesn't know why. A demonstration was held yesterday | :05:10. | :05:11. | |
against the plans to deport her without her family. | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
Telemarketing companies that plague members of the public with unwanted | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
calls could face bigger fines under new Government plans. At present | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
they can be punished only if unsolicited calls cause "substantial | :05:25. | :05:26. | |
damage" to householders but ministers want to lower the | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
threshold. Ben Moore has more details. | :05:31. | :05:41. | |
It is the unwelcome, unwonted, unsolicited call, but now the | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
Culture Secretary wants to pull the plug on cold callers. As things | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
stand, firms can only be punished if they cause substantial damage. But | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
now it will be easier for OFCOM and other agencies to swap data about | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
offenders and there will be big penalties for claims management | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
firms who use details gathered on unsolicited calls. But for some, | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
that does not go far enough. Stop mucking about with arguments about | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
what is and what is not consent. We all understand that clearly. And | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
stop giving the power to these half baked regulators. We need to have | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
consumers and citizens are properly represented in the process. There is | :06:25. | :06:33. | |
something you can do already to stem the tide of marketing calls, go | :06:34. | :06:35. | |
online and register with the Telephone preference service, | :06:36. | :06:37. | |
register set up by the direct marketing Association. Even if you | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
do sign up, there is no guarantee your phone will stop ringing. That | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
is because some companies have not signed up, some are based abroad and | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
are just fraudsters after your money. Those running the industry | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
say it is these companies which need to be stopped. Let's remember the | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
industry employs a million people, most of those in areas of high | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
unemployment and we want to drive these companies out of this | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
particular field of business they do. Last year, and OFCOM survey said | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
eight out of ten households regularly receive nuisance phone | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
calls. The government say they are now answering the call to tackle the | :07:21. | :07:22. | |
problem. The US Secretary of State, John | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
Kerry, is in Paris ahead of talks this evening with the Russian | :07:27. | :07:28. | |
Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov about the crisis in Ukraine. Today | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
Russian troops have been sending Ukrainian military equipment out of | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
Crimea. The Pentagon says Russia has massed up to 50,000 troops on | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
Ukraine's border. Our correspondent Christian Fraser is in Paris for us | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
now. Christian, what can we expect out of the talks today? Well, there | :07:44. | :07:51. | |
must be something that was put forward by the Russian side on | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
Friday evening that merits John Kerry changing his plans. He was on | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
his way to Washington when he diverted at Shannon and is on his | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
way to Paris. We understand he will be meeting Sergei Lavrov, his | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
Russian counterpart at the embassy this evening. Before that there will | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
be a courtesy visit to the French Foreign Minister. Obviously, from | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
the American side they are worried about the build-up of Russian troops | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
on the border with Ukraine. They want Mr Putin to take his foot off | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
the metal, if you will. From the Russian side, Mr Lavrov has been | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
playing down fears of an impending invasion but he echoes those fears | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
of strong sentiments from the Kremlin that they are going to | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
defend Russian speaking pro-Russian areas of Ukraine. They are looking | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
for Washington and the West to recognise the independence of Crimea | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
and also they want more autonomy for pro-Russian areas in Ukraine, a | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
federalised state. The difficulties for the Washington side, the key | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
ingredient, and that is the implied threat of force. Mr Obama has taken | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
that off the table. Mr Lavrov comes here tonight in a position of | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
relative strength. If troops are massed on the border, what the | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
Americans have defined is some leveraged. Thank you. | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
The number of missing people following a huge mudslide in the | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
north-west of the United States has been revised by officials and now | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
stands at 30 instead of the much higher number of 90. 18 people are | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
confirmed to have died around Oso, north of Seattle. The town was | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
engulfed in mud more than a week ago. | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
There are calls for a new law to stop motorists from parking on | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
pavements by the Guide Dogs charity. They want the practice to be banned | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
on all roads in the UK except in special circumstances. They say | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
blind and visually impaired people are being put at risk when trying to | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
avoid carelessly parked vehicles. Sharon Barbour reports. | :09:44. | :09:51. | |
Setting off from her home can at times be terrifying forces and | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
Williamson. When she comes across cars on the pavement, she has two | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
risk walking onto the road. She cannot tell if a car or bike is | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
coming. It is frightening. The dog is there to help me but there is | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
also a risk of her and my daughter being hit by a car. It is a big | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
risk, not just for me, but other people as well. People in | :10:17. | :10:17. | |
wheelchairs and people with pushchairs. Now the charity guide | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
dogs is calling for a new law banning parking on pavements. The | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
charity says a poll supports the idea. With 69% supporting a new law | :10:27. | :10:35. | |
banning pavement parking. In a separate survey, 78% of local | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
authority councillors also support a ban. Parking on the footpath is | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
already against the law in Greater London. Guide Dogs hopes this latest | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
research will help support such a ban across the rest of the country. | :10:51. | :11:00. | |
That is all from us. Goodbye. Hello. For most of us, much has been | :11:01. | :11:12. | |
relatively warm, dry and sunny, and most of us are ending on a high with | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
well broken sunshine coming up from the south, just a bit of high cloud | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
allowing temperatures to soar once more, 20 degrees already in the | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
London area this afternoon. In stark contrast, as throughout this | :11:27. | :11:27. | |
weekend, the | :11:28. | :11:29. |