30/03/2014 BBC Weekend News


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fly to Kuala Lumpur. They're demanding answers from the

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authorities, chanting, "tell us the truth".

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New plans for a crack down on tele-marketing companies making

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nuisance calls. And calls to stop motorists parking

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on pavements, by the Guide Dogs charity.

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Good afternoon. 30 relatives of Chinese passengers who were on the

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missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have travelled to Kuala Lumpur

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to demand answers from the Malaysian authorities. They unfurled a banner

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saying they wanted evidence about what happened. Meanwhile, an

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Australian ship towing a black-box detector is preparing to join the

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search. Lucy Williamson's report from the Malaysian capital contains

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some flash photography. With no sign of flight MH370 or its

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passengers, these faces have become the most visible symbol of this

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mystery. The families of Chinese passengers, freshly arrived from

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Beijing today to demand some answers in person. Their questions are the

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same ones plaguing the rest of the world, what happened to flight MH370

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and why is it taking so long to find out? In a brief press conference at

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their hotel, the families delivered their message to the Malaysian

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government. We want evidence, they chanted, we want the truth, we want

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our families. But with the plane's disappearance still unexplained,

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they are also looking at who to blame. TRANSLATION: We want the

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Malaysian government to apologise and for mishandling the operation

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and we call on the airline manufacturers to come and meet us.

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It has been 22 days and we have not heard from them. What are they

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worried about? There is tight control about these latest

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arrivals, guards outside their meeting room and security checks in

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the hotel lobby. The families are now being guarded inside this hotel.

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So far, and the Malaysian authorities have proved pretty adept

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at managing their movements but managing their demands and their

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frustration will be a lot of. So far, the search has drawn in ships

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and planes from seven countries, but it has turned up no wreckage from

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the aircraft. Hopes are now pinned on this latest arrival, an

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Australian vessel designed to toe this high-tech device which can

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listen to the ping is omitted by the data recorder. But the pings are due

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to stop in a week or so and the search teams have not yet found any

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sign of where the plane went down. We will deploy the underwater

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vehicle here. It is basically a robot that can be programmed to go

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take a sonar mapping of the debris field. Many family say they will

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continue to hope until they see the wreckage of the missing flight

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pulled from the waves. No one knows how long they will be waiting.

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And we can talk to Lucy in Kuala Lumpur now. What will it take to

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reassure the relatives? I think it has been harder to do that over the

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past couple of weeks. The anger of these families has its own motion.

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That is partly because of the messages coming out of the Chinese

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media and to some extent, the Chinese government as well. There

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has been a lot of stunned the back home for the perspective of these

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families and quite a bit of implicit criticism of the way the authorities

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have handled this crisis. Added to that, there is some jostling going

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on between China and Malaysia to appear the one who is handling this,

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who is more responsible in the face of this crisis. I certainly think

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over the past couple of weeks, it has got harder for the Malaysian

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authorities, and faced as they are with a situation where they do not

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have much concrete information and they are being asked for answers, is

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not an easy situation for them. Thank you.

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The Conservative MP, Mark Menzies, has resigned as a ministerial aide

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after a newspaper alleged he'd paid for sex with a male prostitute. The

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Sunday Mirror also reported claims the MP had asked the man to buy an

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illegal drug. Mr Menzies, who's 42, said "a number of the allegations"

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weren't true. A student who was due to be deported

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back to Mauritius, is no longer on a flight scheduled to leave the

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country this afternoon. A spokesperson for Yashika Bageerathi

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said the 19-year-old was told last night she wouldn't be on the flight,

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but doesn't know why. A demonstration was held yesterday

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against the plans to deport her without her family.

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Telemarketing companies that plague members of the public with unwanted

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calls could face bigger fines under new Government plans. At present

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they can be punished only if unsolicited calls cause "substantial

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damage" to householders but ministers want to lower the

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threshold. Ben Moore has more details.

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It is the unwelcome, unwonted, unsolicited call, but now the

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Culture Secretary wants to pull the plug on cold callers. As things

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stand, firms can only be punished if they cause substantial damage. But

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now it will be easier for OFCOM and other agencies to swap data about

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offenders and there will be big penalties for claims management

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firms who use details gathered on unsolicited calls. But for some,

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that does not go far enough. Stop mucking about with arguments about

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what is and what is not consent. We all understand that clearly. And

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stop giving the power to these half baked regulators. We need to have

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consumers and citizens are properly represented in the process. There is

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something you can do already to stem the tide of marketing calls, go

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online and register with the Telephone preference service,

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register set up by the direct marketing Association. Even if you

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do sign up, there is no guarantee your phone will stop ringing. That

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is because some companies have not signed up, some are based abroad and

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are just fraudsters after your money. Those running the industry

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say it is these companies which need to be stopped. Let's remember the

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industry employs a million people, most of those in areas of high

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unemployment and we want to drive these companies out of this

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particular field of business they do. Last year, and OFCOM survey said

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eight out of ten households regularly receive nuisance phone

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calls. The government say they are now answering the call to tackle the

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problem. The US Secretary of State, John

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Kerry, is in Paris ahead of talks this evening with the Russian

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Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov about the crisis in Ukraine. Today

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Russian troops have been sending Ukrainian military equipment out of

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Crimea. The Pentagon says Russia has massed up to 50,000 troops on

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Ukraine's border. Our correspondent Christian Fraser is in Paris for us

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now. Christian, what can we expect out of the talks today? Well, there

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must be something that was put forward by the Russian side on

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Friday evening that merits John Kerry changing his plans. He was on

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his way to Washington when he diverted at Shannon and is on his

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way to Paris. We understand he will be meeting Sergei Lavrov, his

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Russian counterpart at the embassy this evening. Before that there will

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be a courtesy visit to the French Foreign Minister. Obviously, from

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the American side they are worried about the build-up of Russian troops

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on the border with Ukraine. They want Mr Putin to take his foot off

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the metal, if you will. From the Russian side, Mr Lavrov has been

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playing down fears of an impending invasion but he echoes those fears

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of strong sentiments from the Kremlin that they are going to

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defend Russian speaking pro-Russian areas of Ukraine. They are looking

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for Washington and the West to recognise the independence of Crimea

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and also they want more autonomy for pro-Russian areas in Ukraine, a

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federalised state. The difficulties for the Washington side, the key

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ingredient, and that is the implied threat of force. Mr Obama has taken

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that off the table. Mr Lavrov comes here tonight in a position of

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relative strength. If troops are massed on the border, what the

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Americans have defined is some leveraged. Thank you.

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The number of missing people following a huge mudslide in the

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north-west of the United States has been revised by officials and now

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stands at 30 instead of the much higher number of 90. 18 people are

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confirmed to have died around Oso, north of Seattle. The town was

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engulfed in mud more than a week ago.

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There are calls for a new law to stop motorists from parking on

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pavements by the Guide Dogs charity. They want the practice to be banned

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on all roads in the UK except in special circumstances. They say

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blind and visually impaired people are being put at risk when trying to

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avoid carelessly parked vehicles. Sharon Barbour reports.

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Setting off from her home can at times be terrifying forces and

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Williamson. When she comes across cars on the pavement, she has two

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risk walking onto the road. She cannot tell if a car or bike is

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coming. It is frightening. The dog is there to help me but there is

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also a risk of her and my daughter being hit by a car. It is a big

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risk, not just for me, but other people as well. People in

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wheelchairs and people with pushchairs. Now the charity guide

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dogs is calling for a new law banning parking on pavements. The

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charity says a poll supports the idea. With 69% supporting a new law

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banning pavement parking. In a separate survey, 78% of local

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authority councillors also support a ban. Parking on the footpath is

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already against the law in Greater London. Guide Dogs hopes this latest

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research will help support such a ban across the rest of the country.

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That is all from us. Goodbye. Hello. For most of us, much has been

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relatively warm, dry and sunny, and most of us are ending on a high with

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well broken sunshine coming up from the south, just a bit of high cloud

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allowing temperatures to soar once more, 20 degrees already in the

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London area this afternoon. In stark contrast, as throughout this

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weekend, the

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