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Hello. This is BBC World News. Our top stories: Interpol have named two | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
passengers who boarded a missing Malaysian airliner using stolen | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
passports. Both were Iranian nationals. Neither of these | :00:15. | :00:27. | |
passports were reported stolen on listed in Interpol's databases. | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
Crimea will ask to join Russia if this weekend's referendum decides | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
for independence. European and American officials will | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
meet in London to discuss possible sanctions against Russia. | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
Ukraine's ousted leader, Viktor Yanukovych, says he's still in | :00:42. | :00:50. | |
charge. As soon as the circumstances allow me, I'm sure it will not be | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
long, I will be back in Kiev. People in Iran are hoping the Persian New | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
Year will herald a time of change. Hello. Interpol has named two men | :01:01. | :01:21. | |
who boarded the missing Malaysian airliner using stolen passports. | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
Both the men, whose pictures have also been released, were Iranian | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
nationals - one a 19-year-old, the other aged 29. The younger man was | :01:34. | :01:40. | |
thought to be trying to me a -- migrate to Germany. The search has | :01:41. | :01:49. | |
been widened to include the Straits of Malucca, west of the Malay | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
peninsula, as well as the South China Sea, the last known location | :01:54. | :02:03. | |
of the plane. Interpol's head, General Ronald Noble, says the pair | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
were unlikely to have links to terrorism, but that people | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
travelling on stolen passports is still concerning. There has been | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
great, great speculation ever since it was revealed that two passport | :02:13. | :02:20. | |
holders were carrying passports that were lost or stolen. There has been | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
speculation over whether this was a terrorist attack and suddenly people | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
seem to be concerned for the first time over whether it is good or bad | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
that people are travelling the world using stolen passports. People have | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
understood how dangerous it is. Already in the last 24 hours you see | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
the story changing, as the belief becomes more certain that these two | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
individuals were probably not terrorists. The interest seems to be | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
dying down because they might just be people who were being smuggled or | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
trafficked. From Interpol's perspective is -- the fear is that | :03:05. | :03:18. | |
people are travelling without having passports in our database. With me | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
is security correspondent Frank Gardner. We have the names of these | :03:24. | :03:39. | |
two men - Pouria Nour Mohammad Mehrdad and Delavar Seyed | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
Mohammadreza, and an appeal for information. Yes, the flurry of | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
interest over these two passengers, what were they up to, why did they | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
have stolen passports, we now know the reason. They flew to Kuala | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
Lumpur on their own genuine passports and once they were there | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
they used stolen passports, an Italian and an Austrian passport, | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
with the intention, it is believed, of seeking asylum, essentially, | :04:10. | :04:18. | |
economic asylum in probably Germany and Denmark. That explains what they | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
were doing. He used the press conference to say that this is a | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
wake-up call to the rest of the world about people travelling around | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
the world. Four out of ten passengers, he said, are using | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
stolen or lost documents. He pointed out that in the first World Trade | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
Center bombing, the bomber got into the United States using a stolen | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
passport. The so-called white widow, the widow of one of the 7/7 | :04:48. | :04:55. | |
London bombers who went missing in Kenya two years ago, she managed to | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
escape capture because she was using a stolen South African passport, and | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
there are plenty of other instances. He is saying, we have this huge | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
database, and it takes a short time to scan a passport through | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
departures against that database, and he said please do it. Some are | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
questioning whether there is a cost to doing that. Their resentment. One | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
other question because we have the Malaysian police giving a press | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
conference earlier, and they said they were looking at sabotage, | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
hijacking, personal problems or psychological problems with the | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
passengers. When asked to explain, they said, imagine there is someone | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
on board who has a lot of money to leave to family members, a slightly | :05:52. | :06:03. | |
unusual explanation. I cannot read inside the mind of investigators. | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
Several agencies are investigating this, and one thing Mr Noble pointed | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
out was the good level of cooperation they have heart from the | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
Chinese authorities who have shared all of the intelligence they had. | :06:17. | :06:25. | |
They haven't completely ruled it out, as far as I know, but it is | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
looking very unlikely. The way the investigation is leaning is toward | :06:31. | :06:39. | |
some mechanical problem. The nearest parallel I can think of was the Air | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
France passenger plane disappeared over the Atlantic five years ago. It | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
went down due to a catastrophic thunderstorm at high altitude, it | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
went down in a place without radar coverage, but then several days | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
later debris started to appear. The recorder was recovered from the | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
bottom of the ocean, it was incredible that they found it. On | :07:07. | :07:13. | |
the map we saw earlier, they have shifted or expanded the search box | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
to include a completely different part of south Asia which shows how | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
desperate they are. Are you being told it is possible for a plane to | :07:24. | :07:33. | |
go missing like this? I don't know, but it is a good question to put to | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
Edward Snowden! Thank you. We have now got our correspondent in Kuala | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
Lumpur on the line. Jennifer, I don't know if you can't tell us | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
whether there has been much reaction over there to this press conference | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
that we had from Interpol, where we saw pictures and the names released | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
of the two people travelling on stolen passports, but a clear steer | :08:02. | :08:11. | |
away from terrorism motive? Malaysian officials have already | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
identified one of the passengers that got on with a stolen European | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
passport and they say they believe he doesn't have links to terrorism. | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
They have not identified the other person but a lot of people here are | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
too busy trying to verify information. It has been chaotic | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
because at times Malaysian officials have been giving information but not | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
expanding on it. Today they have expanded the surge from the South | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
China Sea further out west, further than there -- they originally | :08:44. | :08:53. | |
thought. It is understood the plane was trying to turn back. They were | :08:54. | :09:02. | |
not able to explain further why that is. Information is trickling down, | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
it has been frustrating trying to piece things together and figure out | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
what it means. Officials have said they have narrowed it down and they | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
are looking at possibilities of reasons why the aircraft has | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
disappeared, including that it was hijacked, it was sabotaged, and also | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
that as they put it, people on board might have had psychological or | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
personal problems that caused the plane to veer off course. There was | :09:32. | :09:41. | |
a report that radar had detected something in the waters. Any | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
information on that? We do not have confirmation and we are trying, but | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
Malaysian officials have restricted the access in the terms of they are | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
only allowing journalists to get information from officials and any | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
kind of government department through this centre so that they can | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
centralise the information, through the army, the Navy, Malaysia | :10:06. | :10:12. | |
Airlines, so that everyone can get the same information. That means you | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
have an unnamed resources like the Reuters report giving out details, | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
but officials here not willing to say much. As of today we will not be | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
having any more press conferences and the next one will be tomorrow. | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
There have been a lot of reports in general about sightings of the | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
aircraft, pieces of debris, and officials have said it was not true | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
and they have cautioned the rest. Thank you. The Crimean | :10:42. | :11:03. | |
parliament has decided to declare independence if its residents vote | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
in a referendum on Sunday to break away from Ukraine and join Russia. | :11:07. | :11:23. | |
Olexiy Solohubenko is the former head of the BBC Ukrainian service | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
and still a senior editor here and he joins me now in the studio. We | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
have had a number of pieces of information coming in during the | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
last hour, but essentially the Crimean vote goes ahead on Sunday, | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
Crimean joins Russia, what then? Is the west able to do anything about | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
it, or should they? There is a meeting on Monday trying to address | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
exactly that issue. How effective that will be, the list of | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
sanctions, asset arrests, or things like this, some of the Ukrainian | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
officials may be on the list, how effective that would be is too early | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
to say. What is going on in Crimea is interesting because there doesn't | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
seem to be any letup of this frenetic activity about declaring | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
independence, putting the referendum together. The questions that are | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
offered to the voters in Crimean don't really give them any choice. | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
There are two questions and whichever they answer, that will | :12:27. | :12:37. | |
result in Crimea being independent. It is not a yes no vote? Know, | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
either of the questions does not believe people to keep the status | :12:43. | :12:51. | |
quo. Observers have been trying to reach Crimea three times, each time | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
they have been stopped. Now the Crimean authorities are saying they | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
will invite genuine observers, who they are we don't know. There will | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
be a big must and Russian delegation to observe the vote. Has there been | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
any activity in eastern Ukraine? There have been demonstrations but | :13:13. | :13:22. | |
so far the situation seems to be under control of the central Kiev | :13:23. | :13:32. | |
authorities. Today Viktor Yanukovych said he will be back in Ukraine when | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
the conditions are right, he didn't say exactly what that means. With | :13:37. | :13:47. | |
Putin's sanctioning? He didn't say, he just repeated a lot of things | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
that were coming out of Kremlin earlier, I am the legitimate | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
president and everyone should agree with me. Thanks for joining us. The | :13:57. | :14:08. | |
seventh day of the Oscar Pistorius murder trial is underway in | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
Pretoria. The court has heard more evidence from Reeva Steenkamp's | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
postmortem report, after deciding to ban live broadcasting of it | :14:15. | :14:24. | |
yesterday. Oscar Pistorius denies intentionally killing his | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
girlfriend. What has happened today? Despite the constant grilling | :14:29. | :14:36. | |
from defence, the pathologist was adamant that Reeva Steenkamp had | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
something to eat two hours before she died. That contradicts the | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
statement that Oscar Pistorius made when he was applying for bail and | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
that works in the favour of the prosecution because that is quite | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
crucial because it contradicts that statement. After that, we heard from | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
character witness brought in by the prosecution, a friend of Oscar | :15:02. | :15:08. | |
Pistorius. He told the court that he was with Oscar Pistorius when shots | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
were fired at the restaurant, in a restaurant two months before Reeva | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
Steenkamp was shot, and also another incident when Oscar Pistorius | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
allegedly fired a shot through the sunroof of a car because he was | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
angry that a police officer have stopped him and asked him to put his | :15:27. | :15:34. | |
gun away. The kind of evidence Fresco is telling the court portrays | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
Oscar Pistorius is a man who uses guns recklessly and would go as far | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
as making up lies to protect himself. He said after the gun was | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
fired at the restaurant, Oscar Pistorius asked him to take the | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
blame because there was too much media attention on him. Is still a | :15:55. | :16:03. | |
lot of public attention focused on this trial? -- is there still? | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
Definitely so. Simply because yesterday we saw a very emotional | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
Oscar Pistorius, like we have never seen him before, when the state | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
apologist was giving graphic details of the injuries that Reeva Steenkamp | :16:19. | :16:28. | |
injury. Many thanks. -- ensured. Stay with us on BBC World News. | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
Still to come... UNICEF says the last 12 months of this early and war | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
have been the worst for children. -- the Syrian war. There's confusion in | :16:39. | :16:46. | |
Libya over the fate of a North Korean-flagged oil tanker that | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
docked at a port in the east to buy oil from former rebels occupying it. | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
Libya's legislative body, the National Congress, claims the army | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
and other forces loyal to them have seized it but the rebels deny that | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
claim. The BBC's Rana Jawad reports from Tripoli. The military and the | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
Libyan Congress are claiming they have intercepted the oil tanker | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
carrying an illegal ship and of crude oil from Libya. They say the | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
escorting to a state-controlled port. TRANSLATION: The oil tanker | :17:13. | :17:20. | |
has been controlled and it will sail to one of the ports. Those on board | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
will be detained and we are studying all of the options. The eastern oil | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
port, blockaded since July by former rebels, described the latest claims | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
to the BBC as government lies. They say the ship is still docked in the | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
east of the country. Neither of the two claims can be independently | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
verified. The Libyan Congress also announced it was forming a special | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
military force that will lift the eight-month long blockade on both | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
terminals in the eastern region. The stand-off twinkled sides escalated | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
at the weekend when the rebels loaded a North Korean-flagged | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
vehicle with crude oil and claimed they had sold their first shipment. | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
The New Zealand Prime Minister, John Key, wants a referendum to change | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
the country's flag. He said it represents a colonial era that has | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
passed. Supporters of change also say the flag is too similar to | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
Australia. One popular alternative would be a silver fern against a | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
black background - the national emblem used by the All Blacks rugby | :18:25. | :18:33. | |
team. There has been a lot of discussion in New Zealand. Tell me | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
what you think. You can get in touch on Twitter. We are also on Facebook. | :18:39. | :18:52. | |
This is BBC World News. Interpol have named two passengers who | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
boarded a missing vision airlines plane using stolen passports. Both | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
were Iranian nationals. The Crimean parliament has voted to declare | :19:03. | :19:04. | |
independence, saying it were asked to be part of Russia if the | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
referendum approves breaking away from Ukraine. UNICEF says the last | :19:10. | :19:17. | |
12 months of the Syrian war have been the worst for children. 5.5 | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
million are now in need of assistance - that's more than double | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
the figure of last year. The UN agency warns the situation is worst | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
for the one million children trapped in besieged areas. Juliette Touma is | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
regional spokesperson for UNICEF. She joins us from Jordan. Children | :19:33. | :19:42. | |
are the most vulnerable, how much worse hazard got? -- has it got? It | :19:43. | :19:52. | |
has become pretty grim. The number of children killed, the number of | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
Children in Need, has tremendously gone up and we are concerned about 1 | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
million children who are not just in areas under siege but in areas where | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
it is three difficult for UNICEF to reach. Pretty grim, the report | :20:06. | :20:13. | |
highlights the suffering of these children and it calls for an end to | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
the suffering of these children. It is very important to remember that | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
the report says that behind every statistic is an actual child. And | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
they have the right to life and happiness. One of the shocking | :20:27. | :20:34. | |
things is the x-ray vision of an embryo shop there by a sniper in the | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
womb. The levels of barbarity we have seen are absolutely haunting. | :20:40. | :20:47. | |
Indeed. This is a war that is claiming the lives of children even | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
before they are born. We had conversations with doctors who | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
confirmed that snipers have indeed been targeting children, pregnant | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
mothers and children are paying the heaviest price with their lives. We | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
have 10,000 children who have been killed but also children who are | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
falling ill, polio is returning to Syria after disappearing for 40 | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
years. 3 million children out of school. It is a grim picture but | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
amid all of that, it is important to note that the children we | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
interviewed for this report showed a great amount of resilience. Even | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
children who have been injured, for example a girl that we interviewed | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
in the camp in Jordan who was injured because her house was | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
bombed, and she was carried in her father's arms across the border | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
between Syria and Jordan and she is learning to walk on crutches and she | :21:51. | :21:57. | |
is back in school. That is great news to see any progress and of | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
people watching the say they want to help, I'm not interested in | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
politics, UNICEF has raised only 8% of the funding it needs, so what can | :22:09. | :22:16. | |
people do? People can donate on the website. And they can help us to | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
vaccinate children but we want to vaccinate and put children in | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
schools and provide families with clean water. This is the least we | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
can do, to help these children and help us to collectively put pressure | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
on the parties in the conflict, on member states, to put an end to this | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
violence and make 2014 the last year of suffering for the sake of the | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
children in Syria and the region. Many thanks. People in Iran are | :22:47. | :22:53. | |
preparing for the start of the Persian New Year, Nawroz, on the | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
21st of March. Years of crippling sanctions are affecting most | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
people's lives. But Iranians are still hoping the New Year will bring | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
change. The BBC's Chief International Correspondent, Lyse | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
Doucet, is in Tehran. Iranian markers are such a visual treat, | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
just look at the colours that are on sale in this fruit and vegetable | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
market. Part of the traditional bazaar in North Carolina. The | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
fragrances are wonderful. Herbs and spices. -- Tehran. They look good | :23:23. | :23:31. | |
but the prices have tripled in the years that Iran has lived under | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
sections so a lot of people tell us they have to make do with the little | :23:36. | :23:43. | |
they have. How are you? Very good. Your buying this fish, this is a | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
good luck symbol? Every year they have new stuff coming up and stop | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
explain to us all of these things. We can see a song sale, candles? | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
Exactly. We have a tradition to put different things together for the | :24:01. | :24:08. | |
New Year so that we have fish, goldfish, eggs, every single thing | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
is a symbol for us. For the coming New Year. To have happiness, love, | :24:16. | :24:24. | |
goodwill for everybody. Is this a time of happiness in Iran? I hope | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
so, I think so. We are hopeful. What gives you hope? When Iran is talking | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
to the West about a nuclear deal and greater engagement? Of course, this | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
is a new beginning for us. We are all positive towards this change. | :24:41. | :24:47. | |
How do you want your own life to change? Our own lives, we have a lot | :24:48. | :25:00. | |
of new hope and we have a lot of hope for our children. We emphasise | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
a lot for the education of the new generation. For the children, we | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
want them to have good jobs, good opportunities. Are you worried for | :25:10. | :25:17. | |
your children? They are doing OK. We hope everything will be fine. We | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
hope so also. Have a good time. Thank you. Come here and we can show | :25:24. | :25:35. | |
you some of the Nawroz shopping. You are happy? Happy as well? Very good, | :25:36. | :25:44. | |
very good. We can see so many things over here. You can see such a | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
mixture of modern things, objects are making to celebrate Nawroz. | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
Mixing with traditional. They have this ceremony, we can see the | :25:56. | :26:06. | |
garlic, this traditional spice, beautiful display. And this is meant | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
to symbolise the beginning of something new. You hear it from Sony | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
people here, they want to start something new. But when life is | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
difficult, some fear it will not get better any time soon. This is | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
tempered with the realism that this is what life is like. But that does | :26:25. | :26:35. | |
not mean they will not celebrate. A reminder of our top story. Interpol | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
have shown and named two passengers who boarded the missing Malaysian | :26:42. | :26:44. | |
Airlines plane using stolen passports. Both were Iranian | :26:45. | :26:46. | |
nationals, one aged 18, the other 29, and they entered Malaysia on | :26:47. | :26:49. | |
Iranian passports. Malaysian police have said they believe one was | :26:50. | :26:52. | |
trying to migrate to Germany. They say this makes it less likely that | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
the plane's disappearance was a terrorist incident. Goodbye. | :26:57. | :26:59. |