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Hello, welcome to BBC World News. Malaysian police have identified one

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of two men who used stolen passports to board the aircraft. The Oscar

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Pistorius trial is not broadcasting graphic details of the murder of

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macro free. A deal on the Ukrainian nuclear programme could be reached

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within months. It is all change on the International Space Station as

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colleagues swap roles. Malaysian police have told the BBC that they

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have identified one of two men who boarded the missing Malaysian

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Airlines flight with stolen passports. Police say they cannot

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reveal his identity but said he is not Malaysian. The search is

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continuing for the missing airline. This is a photo of the plane on an

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earlier flight. 239 people were on board the plane as it travelled from

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Kuala Lumpur when it vanished. An earlier possible sighting of a live

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craft proved to be unfounded. The search area has been widened and

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includes an area of the western coast. The Malaysian government is

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sharing intelligence with the Americans and Chinese over the two

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stolen passports that we used to board the flight. The Transport

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Minister told us how they were showing that intelligence. I met up

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with the US intelligence agency yesterday. We are sharing background

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information and visuals. That information is being digestive by

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the relevant agencies, both local and international. Until I get more

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information, I will not say any more. I do not want to affect the

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ongoing investigation. Our correspondent is in Kuala Lumpur.

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Jennifer, what is going on there at the moment, and what do we know

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about the identity of the two men who used the stolen passports? Well,

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we are in the press conference room where the officials are going to

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give another press conference shortly, at the top of the hour.

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There are lots of media agencies here, especially Chinese. Half of

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the passengers on board were Chinese stop there is intense international

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interest in this story, but the information coming out of this room

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has not been satisfying the journalist. -- journalists. They are

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not willing to give out information until they can double-check it all

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and make sure it is concrete. That is why we have reports regarding the

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live craft and the spotting of debris. -- live craft. That is why

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they are telling people to avoid speculation because the scale of

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this search is so massive, and they do not have any further details on

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the whereabouts of flights MH370. Have you had it confirmed that they

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know the identity of one of the people who used this stolen

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passport? Indeed. Malaysian leas have told the BBC that they have

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identified one of the two passengers who got on the aeroplane with a

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stolen passport but they have not given any further details other than

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he is not Malaysian. They are cautious about revealing

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information. This is one of many areas that they are looking into. Do

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these two passengers have anything to do with the disappearance of this

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aircraft? That is unresolved at this point in time. There are a lots of

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questions. -- a lot. And cute, we will return to you through the day.

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Over half of the 239 passengers on board were Chinese. Our Beijing

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correspondent has entered this report from a hotel where relatives

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await, anxiously, news of their loved ones. This is the Hotel, a

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short drive from the airport, where the family members have been

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brought. The mood inside is best described as a mixture of the grief

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and mounting frustration. Malaysian Airlines have offered to fly to

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macro members -- two members of each family to the sites. There is an

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absence of information with the Malaysian government describing the

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whereabouts of flight MH370 as a mystery. We also understand that

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some family members do not have Chinese passport so they will face a

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bureaucratic hurdles before they can get on an aeroplane. To say there is

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intense media interest is an understatement. These are some of

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the reporters gathered outside the room where the family are being

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briefed. Many of them have expressed their anger over a lack of

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information. There is so little information to give them at the

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moment, and it is an intensely difficult time, in the glare of the

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media spotlight, with our more questions than there are answers.

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All the time, they realised they may be beginning a grieving process for

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loved ones who are not coming back. We will keep you up to date on any

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developments within that press conference. A run's Foreign Minister

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says Ed real -- Iran's Foreign Minister says a deal on its nuclear

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programme could be reached 'within months.' Mohammad Javad Zarif made

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the comment after talks with the European Union's foreign policy

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chief, Catherine Ashton. Iran has waited a long time. Six years for

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Europe's top diplomats to visit. It was important to get every detail

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right in an attempt to build a new relationship between Iran and

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Europe. The landmark deal they reached on the nuclear programme

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runs out soon. The time is short and the gaps are white. Are you worried

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they may not succeed? Iran is determined to reach an agreement and

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it is within its own interests to make sure there is no ambiguity

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about Iran's intentions. We have no intention to seek nuclear weapons.

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As the negotiations go on, the talks become more difficult. Catherine

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Ashton made it a priority to meet women fighting for human rights

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here. This woman has been to prison for times for her political views.

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Europe's top diplomat wants to engage on these issues. We have come

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to establish for ourselves the situation here. We also recognise

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that that relationship is, in many ways, dependent on whether we can

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deal with the new killer issue, and whether Iran demonstrates it is

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looking for a different role. Iranians have suffered under

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sanctions for years. A nuclear deal brought some hope. Many wanted a

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relationship with the West but many are convinced it will not happen.

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The sixth day of the Oscar Pistorius trial is underway. The court has

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been hearing evidence. Oscar Pistorius, seen here arriving in

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court today, is on trial for allegedly killing his girlfriend.

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Our reporter is outside the courthouse. What has happened today?

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The only thing that we can say was that there was an order from the

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judge who said that there should be no live broadcasting of the evidence

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that was delivered by the state pathologist. No one is allowed to

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broadcast that or even tweeds that. -- tweet. The professor has started

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giving evidence, graphic details about the injuries that macro

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re-sustained -- that Miss Steenkamp sustained. Oscar Pistorius became

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physically ill in court and there was an adjournment because of that.

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He was asked whether he would continue today's proceedings, but

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the lawyer told the court that if it could change anything then he words

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ask for a discontinuation, but Oscar Pistorius has asked to continue. No

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reasons have been given for why this cannot be broadcast? Well, we heard

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from the professor that the reason he gave was that he feels the

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dignity of the deceased would not the respected -- would not be

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respected. He had ethical problems about broadcasting these details,

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and there were arguments from the defence attorney of Oscar Pistorius

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that it was not in the public interest to give out the public

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details of Miss Steenkamp's injuries. Pressure is growing on

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Ukraine's interim government as Moscow strengthened its grip on

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Crimea. Rallies are taking place in eastern Ukraine and in Moscow in

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support of the Crimean people deciding their own future. The

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ousted president is expected to speak tomorrow. However, not all

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ethnic Russians living in Crimea want the region to leave Ukraine. I

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think this invitation by President Obama to the interim Prime Minister

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is a very clear show of support for the interim government here. It is

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proof that the USA and the international community see the

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government here in Kiev as a legitimate one, at least until the

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elections in May. They are saying that they support Ukraine, and

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repeating the idea that Moscow is committing an act of aggression in

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Crimea, and Russian troops need to withdraw. We have not seen any

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sign, any real sign, that international pressure is having any

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impact on Moscow, certainly not on the ground here in Crimea. President

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Putin, in a phone call with the British Prime Minister, did say that

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an international contact group is a possibility. He said that he would

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discuss that possibility with his Foreign Minister. A suggestion that

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it could be possible to bring Russia and Ukraine into some talks, the

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first step to working their way out of this crisis. Meanwhile, rings are

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moving quickly here. There has been a report today that there will be

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moves to introduce the Russian currency in Crimea. Obviously, these

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are disturbing times for people in Kiev. Now, let's tell you what is

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coming up. I will be speaking to the BBC security correspondent, Frank

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Gardner, about Malaysian's announcement that it is sharing

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intelligence with America and China. The Venezuelan President, Nicolas

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Maduro, has reacted angrily to comments made by US Vice-President

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Joe Biden about ongoing protests in the country. In a newspaper article

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Mr Biden called the situation alarming and accused the Venezuelan

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government of false conspiracy theories against the United States.

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Donna Larsen reports. Tensions flare again in the Venezuelan capital,

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Caracas. For almost a month, protesters have used barricades and

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clashed with police. They are angry about food shortages and they are

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demanding the resignation of the president, Nicolas Maduro.

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TRANSLATION: We need to unite. A lot of people do not want to unite

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because they say this is vandalism. We are fighting with the National

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Guard. They are ambushing us on both sides. It is a theory which the US

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vice president agrees with. Writing in a newspaper, he said the

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Venezuelan government was using armed vigilante is against peaceful

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protesters, and had concocted false conspiracy theories about the US.

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The comments were sternly rejected a President Maduro, at this

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pro-government rally. TRANSLATION: Joe Biden arrived in

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Chile and the first thing he did was to attack Venezuela and Latin

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America. He is an abuser. He comes to south America to attack the

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people of Venezuelan. We do not accept it. Although the president

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Gordon Administration shows no sign of crumbling yet, the daily

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protests, which have spread to other parts of the country, are

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undoubtedly putting the government and the economy under pressure.

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A drug lord in Mexico has been killed - again. Officials say

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Nazario Moreno, also known as The Craziest One, is now officially

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deceased - after he was reportedly killed three years ago. He was seen

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as the spiritual leader of the brutal Knights Templar cartel.

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Fingerprint tests have confirmed his identity. Our main headlines...

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Police in Malaysia say they've identified one of the two men who

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boarded the missing plane with stolen passports. Malaysia says it

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is sharing biometric details of passengers with intelligence

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agencies in America and China. Lets get more on our top story now. With

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me is Frank Gardner, the BBC security correspondent. The fact

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that two people boarded a plane with stolen passports raises question

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marks, but it is not completely unusual. Interpol say that they have

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on their database 40 million stolen passports logged, or at least, 40

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million cases, and that in the last year, 1 billion times, people have

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gone through a port security without that list being checked. So, it is

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not entirely surprising that on an international flight of more than

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200 people, that a couple of people will have that. But of course the

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Malaysians and every body else involved in this art rightly

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interested to find out who those people were, why they had stolen

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passports, and where they were going. One of them it appears has

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been identified. It would be really interesting to know who he or she

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is. The original holders of those passports, an Italian and an

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Austrian, it seems they reported them, but that did not actually get

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as far as the gate. What should have happened is, when somebody boarded

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that flight in Kuala Lumpur, with that stolen passport, it should have

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flashed up a warning immediately. Malaysia is not alone. Lots of

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countries and national border agencies do not actually do this

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check. Interpol are saying, now is the time, this should be a wake-up

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call. Why do they not do it? They maybe it is just one thing to many

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for people. It would probably slow down passport lines. It is a very

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good question. The big priority is to stop people getting on board

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planes with a gun or explosives. Obviously, anything to do with

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airline hijacking, terrorism, piracy, the Americans have got a

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massive interest in. Apart from the fact that it was a US citizen I

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think on the manifest, the FBI are very involved in this. And they have

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got the technology and the database. One thing the Americans have done is

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to scan their detectors to see if there was any sign of a flash over

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the Gulf of Thailand at the time the plane was flying, and there wasn't.

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How unusual is it for the Chinese and the Americans both to be given

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these results? I know quite a lot of sharing goes on between

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countries... I think this is one of those human tragedies which

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transcends national borders. There has already been quite a lot of

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tension between China and Vietnam for example over the south China Sea

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and maritime rights and Islands and so on, and yet that seems to have

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been put to one side. Everybody, for the sake of the relatives, the loved

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ones, wants to find out, needs to find out urgently, what has happened

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to this plane. Very quickly, is it possible that we do not have the

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information from satellites or from wherever, given that there is so

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much radar checking, how can it just disappear? You are saying, has there

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been a cover-up? Not necessarily, it just seems implausible. It is

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surprising that it has taken this long, definitely. With calm seas,

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the black box will appear, the US Navy is confident about that. The

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seventh Fleet is searching for it. I think they will find it. It will

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just take a bit of time. A group of Greek Orthodox nuns have

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been released three months after being kidnapped by Syrian rebels.

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The Syrian state news agency says they have arrived in Damascus. The

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13 nuns and their three domestic helpers said they were tired, but

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had been mostly well-treated by their captors - thought to be the

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al-Qaeda-linked Al Nusra Front. A Lebanese general who helped broker

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the release said the Syrian government would free about 150

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women and child prisoners in exchange.

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The International Court of Justice in The Hague is continuing its

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hearing on competing claims of genocide by both Croatia and Serbia

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in the Balkan wars. Croatia is arguing that Serbia committed

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genocide in the city of Vukovar and elsewhere in 1991. Serbia has filed

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a counter claim over the expulsion of 230,000 Serbs from Croatia in

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1995. Now, a special report on a condition

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that affects two million women across mostly Sub-Saharan Africa and

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south Asia. The BBC has special access to British doctors trying to

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treat the devastating condition obstetric fistula. It occurs as a

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result of complications in childbirth. Our global health

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correspondent Tulip Mazumdar reports from Masaka in central Uganda. There

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are some graphic details in her report, but around the world, there

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are nearly 2,000 new cases every day. The nearest hospital here in

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rural Uganda is two hours away. Most women give birth at home, and some

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lose their babies as a result. This lady was 16 when she went into

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labour here. After three days she was finally taken to hospital. She

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gave birth to a little girl, who died soon after delivery. She tells

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me she was cursed, and that is why her baby died. The obstructed

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delivery also caused a rupture in her bladder, making her leak urine

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constantly, a condition known as obstetric fistula. For some women,

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their bowels are also affected, making them doubly incontinent. Now,

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a rare opportunity to repair the damage, for two weeks, doctors from

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Britain are providing free fistula surgery at this hospital, which

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usually costs $700. TRANSLATION: I was very lively

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before. Now, I cannot mix with people. When I pass someone, they

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tell me I stink. Even when I take a bath, the smell does not leave me,

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so I just stay at home. To raise awareness, the missionaries who run

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the hospital travel to villages and talk about family planning and

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giving birth safely. Most of the women here today will have given

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birth at home with a traditional birthing attendant. These are

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generally older women who have little or no medical experience. The

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Dr is telling the community instead to save enough money to get the

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woman to hospital so that she can give birth safely. She says that

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could be the difference between life and death for the woman, and for her

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unborn child. Let's go through. The morning of Selena's surgery, and she

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is nervous. This is complex surgery. The hope is that Dr Duffy and his

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team will train Ugandan doctors so that they can eventually take over.

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We do four camps year. We have a local surgeon here, who is able to

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do the simple fistulas. So, she is starting to take them on, but

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unfortunately, not as much surgery happens after we have gone as we

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would like. Selina's operation has been a success. After a short

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recovery time, her mother hopes she can go back to school and get her

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life back. But many more women are left waiting, facing a lifetime of

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rejection, shame and she mediation. -- and humiliation.

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If you have seen the film Gravity, this next piece might ring a bell,

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because the International Space Station has a new commander, the

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first Japanese astronaut to take up the post. There was a ceremony which

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was watched by ground control. This report from Alpa Patel. Koichi

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Wakata is used to making history. He was one of three astronauts to take

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the first Olympic torch into space. At now, during a live ceremony which

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was beamed down to colleagues back on Earth, he was made the new

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commander of the International Space Station. He is the first Japanese

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astronaut to take up the role. I am humbled to assume the command of the

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International Space Station. To the entire team, congratulations on the

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amazing competition. We have unforgettable memories together. We

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will continue to keep the station operation safe, efficient and fun,

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as you guys lead us to do so. So, have a safe return, and we will

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catch you back on the planet in a couple of months. The man stepping

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down is Oleg Kotov, who congratulated the new boss. He will

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now travel back to Earth, leaving Koichi Wakata in charge of a $100

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billion research laboratory, which flies 420 kilometres above Earth. By

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taking over command, Koichi Wakata has signed his name into history,

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and no doubt made his nation very proud.

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Just to remind you, our top story - this ongoing crisis Malaysian

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Airlines jet. We are waiting for a news conference to begin. Malaysia

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is sharing intelligence with the Americans and Chinese. It has found

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two stolen passports, and they have identified one of those two

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passengers. This is BBC World News. Thanks for watching.

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