:00:25. > :00:31.A new theory that the plane may have flown from four hours after its last
:00:32. > :00:39.known contact. That has been rejected by the authorities.
:00:40. > :00:47.We have not done anything which could jeopardise the search effort.
:00:48. > :00:49.The German Chancellor warns of catastrophic consequences if Russia
:00:50. > :00:55.continues its path on Crimea. And harsh punishments or a health
:00:56. > :01:07.problem? Nations are divided on how to deal with drugs.
:01:08. > :01:16.Day six of the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines passenger
:01:17. > :01:19.jet. Still no reliable clues as to why it disappeared last Saturday en
:01:20. > :01:25.route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. In the words of the Transportation
:01:26. > :01:27.Minister, "the plane has vanished". China released these satellite
:01:28. > :01:35.images from last Sunday which could have been debris. Malaysia now says
:01:36. > :01:40.they were put out by mistake and are inaccurate. Overnight, the Wall
:01:41. > :01:43.Street Journal reported that the plane may have flown for four hours
:01:44. > :01:50.after its last contact at 1.30 last Sunday morning. The airline chief
:01:51. > :01:53.executive said the usual engine transmissions stopped at 1.07 last
:01:54. > :02:01.Saturday morning, so they have no engine data on what happened next.
:02:02. > :02:06.Four hours, that is the length of time that it is believed the engines
:02:07. > :02:10.could have been functioning for. Look at the time, seven minutes past
:02:11. > :02:14.one, last Sunday morning. They have no data after that time. Responding
:02:15. > :02:17.to suggestions that maintenance had not been correctly carried out,
:02:18. > :02:26.which might have led to a fuselage disintegration, the airline said the
:02:27. > :02:30.plane had a service on 23 February. That was less than two weeks ago.
:02:31. > :02:33.The airline also said police have not searched the homes of the crew.
:02:34. > :02:39.Let's listen to the opening statement from the Transport
:02:40. > :02:44.Minister. News reports have suggested that the
:02:45. > :02:50.aircraft may have continued flying for some time after last contact. As
:02:51. > :02:54.Malaysia Airlines will confirm shortly, those reports are
:02:55. > :02:57.inaccurate. The last transmission from the aircraft was at seven
:02:58. > :03:03.minutes past one, which indicated everything was normal. Rolls-Royce
:03:04. > :03:07.and Boeing teams are here in Kuala Lumpur, and have been working with
:03:08. > :03:12.the investigations teams since Sunday. These issues have never been
:03:13. > :03:24.raised. Whenever there are new details, they must be corroborated.
:03:25. > :03:35.Rolls-Royce and Boeing indicate that those reports are inaccurate. A
:03:36. > :03:38.Malaysian surveillance plane was dispatched this morning to
:03:39. > :03:45.investigate potential daybreak shown on Chinese satellite images. We
:03:46. > :03:51.found nothing. We have contacted the Chinese embassy, who notified us
:03:52. > :03:58.this afternoon that the images were released by mistake and did not show
:03:59. > :04:04.any debris from Flight MH370. The third issue I would like to clarify
:04:05. > :04:07.is that the aircraft had been fully serviced, and was fit to fly,
:04:08. > :04:10.according to engineering and maintenance records. Yesterday's
:04:11. > :04:14.news briefing was quite chaotic, heated at times - the BBC's Jennifer
:04:15. > :04:26.Pak is in Kuala Lumpur. I asked her what it was like today. Certainly,
:04:27. > :04:30.there was not any new information. He spent most of the time denying
:04:31. > :04:32.reports that had been surfacing, simply because there is a
:04:33. > :04:35.frustration building up here that officials are not giving all of the
:04:36. > :04:42.information they have at hand. You have already mentioned that I have
:04:43. > :04:49.denied that the jet itself had been flying for hours, going undetected
:04:50. > :04:53.somehow. But also, more damaging, is that the actual hope of finding
:04:54. > :04:57.debris today did not turn up anything. Bizarrely, the Chinese
:04:58. > :05:02.embassy has said that they sent out those images by mistake, of the
:05:03. > :05:05.three objects which were supposed to be found floating just a day after
:05:06. > :05:09.the plane disappeared. They now say that the images were sent out by
:05:10. > :05:14.mistake, and did not give any further explanation. They did say
:05:15. > :05:18.however that it was not connected to Flight 370. So at this point in
:05:19. > :05:24.time, we are still no closer to finding any answer as to what
:05:25. > :05:27.happened to the flight and to the 239 people on board. At this moment
:05:28. > :05:32.it seems the authorities have no idea which part of the sea they
:05:33. > :05:36.should be looking at. It is very clear from what the transportation
:05:37. > :05:41.minister said, he said, the plane has vanished. And then he said
:05:42. > :05:45.several times, trust me. In other words, trying to say, we do not have
:05:46. > :05:53.any other information which we are not sharing with you? Yes. They have
:05:54. > :05:58.been under a lot of criticism for holding back information, and part
:05:59. > :06:01.of it may be a translation issue, part of it may be that there are
:06:02. > :06:05.some conflicting and confusing statements coming from different
:06:06. > :06:08.officials. For example, for a while, they were searching in the
:06:09. > :06:13.stretch of sea between Malaysia and Vietnam, in the South China Sea.
:06:14. > :06:17.Then they said military records indicated the plane may have tried
:06:18. > :06:21.to turn back. They have reaffirmed that this is still the case. But
:06:22. > :06:25.reports had suggested that perhaps it had gone so far West that it had
:06:26. > :06:29.gone into the Straits of Malacca, which is why the search was
:06:30. > :06:32.expanded. They say they have not tracked the plane out there yet.
:06:33. > :06:37.However, the air force chief has said they do have an idea of the
:06:38. > :06:41.flight path, they are just not quite willing to reveal that publicly just
:06:42. > :06:45.yet until they can confirm it, which seems to indicate that they do have
:06:46. > :06:48.a lot more information which they are not sharing yet. In normal
:06:49. > :06:52.circumstances in Malaysia, that would be the end of the story,
:06:53. > :06:56.because the government here is used to controlling the message.
:06:57. > :07:00.Traditional media is linked direct leak or indirectly to the governing
:07:01. > :07:03.coalition, and that would be the end of that. But in this case you have
:07:04. > :07:08.the international media, and passengers from 14 different
:07:09. > :07:16.nations, families of those people, pressing for information. And so,
:07:17. > :07:17.officials have been under fire, during this period which must be
:07:18. > :07:22.heart-wrenching for the families. Germany's Chancellor, Angela Merkel,
:07:23. > :07:25.has warned of catastrophic consequences unless Russia changes
:07:26. > :07:28.course over Crimea. Addressing the German Parliament, Mrs Merkel said
:07:29. > :07:31.that if Russia refused to change course, EU leaders were ready to
:07:32. > :07:41.take measures with, in her words, serious economic impact.
:07:42. > :07:49.TRANSLATION: If Russia continues on the course it has pursued over the
:07:50. > :07:54.past weeks, then it would not just be a catastrophe for Ukraine, and as
:07:55. > :07:59.neighbours of Russia, we would also see it as a threat. This would not
:08:00. > :08:02.just change the entire relationship between the European Union and
:08:03. > :08:09.Russia, but I am convinced this will harm Russia massively, economically
:08:10. > :08:12.as well as politically. So that was the language,
:08:13. > :08:17.catastrophic consequences and threats... The BBC's Steve Evans is
:08:18. > :08:23.in Berlin. I put it to him that it's particularly tough language coming
:08:24. > :08:28.from Mrs Merkel. The first thing she said was, there will be no military
:08:29. > :08:33.action. We should say that. She implied that there will be gradual,
:08:34. > :08:37.step-by-step, increases in the pressure on Russia. The first step
:08:38. > :08:41.will be to hold negotiations on trade and the movement of people
:08:42. > :08:44.between the EU and Russia. And then she said there would be measures,
:08:45. > :08:51.which would be economically very painful for Russia, if the course
:08:52. > :08:55.which President Putin is set upon is not reversed. But she did not use
:08:56. > :09:00.the word sanctions, and she did not specify what those measures might
:09:01. > :09:05.be. So, it is tough language. She is basically saying, you can't have
:09:06. > :09:10.business as normal if you go on in this way. She said that he is living
:09:11. > :09:16.in the world of the Cold War, and times have moved on. It is not the
:09:17. > :09:20.way we do things now. As she put it, you can't turn the clock back. So,
:09:21. > :09:22.tough talk, but no specific measures, and also ruling out
:09:23. > :09:29.military action. Is it time to declare an end to the
:09:30. > :09:32.so-called war on drugs? Ministers gathering in Vienna today hope to
:09:33. > :09:35.come up with a co-ordinated response to the world's narcotics problem.
:09:36. > :09:38.But there's a growing split between nations which regard drugs primarily
:09:39. > :09:41.as a health issue, and those which enforce very strict penalties for
:09:42. > :09:43.users, dealers and suppliers. The BBC's Bethany Bell is in Vienna for
:09:44. > :09:56.us now. Is there any clarity as to which way
:09:57. > :10:00.this consensus is likely to develop in the coming hours, on criminality,
:10:01. > :10:07.or whether this is just a health issue? Well, they say there will be
:10:08. > :10:13.a statement that all of the countries will sign up to, which
:10:14. > :10:18.campaigners for reform say means that the statement will be quite
:10:19. > :10:23.weak, in terms of their demands for more of a move away from the
:10:24. > :10:27.approach of a war against drugs. We have heard from the conference
:10:28. > :10:30.today, from the head of the UN's office on drugs and crime, saying,
:10:31. > :10:38.what is needed is a balanced approach. Trying to balance the
:10:39. > :10:43.needs of health care against the questions of criminal justice. But
:10:44. > :10:48.as you say, there are increasing divisions between countries as to
:10:49. > :10:52.the best way to do this. Countries where the death penalty is still in
:10:53. > :10:56.place for drug traffickers, and countries like Uruguay on the other
:10:57. > :11:04.extreme which has voted to legalise cannabis. So, quite big divergences.
:11:05. > :11:11.Is there a clear recommendation from the medics, and also from the
:11:12. > :11:21.anti-crime organisations around the world, is there a consensus on that
:11:22. > :11:25.side as well? Consensus is something I think which is increasingly
:11:26. > :11:28.difficult for people to find. Some doctors will say, what we need is
:11:29. > :11:33.more harm reduction, when it comes to drug problems. Other doctors will
:11:34. > :11:40.say, the reason we do not see so many drug tests as we do from
:11:41. > :11:44.alcohol and tobacco is that the drug conventions have worked, that these
:11:45. > :11:49.extremely dangerous substances have been more or less successfully
:11:50. > :11:54.controlled. So, there are very, very big differences here. This is a
:11:55. > :11:57.debate which will not end here in Vienna, it will continue.
:11:58. > :12:02.In other news... The Delhi High Court has confirmed the death
:12:03. > :12:06.sentence for four men convicted of the fatal gang-rape of a 23-year-old
:12:07. > :12:09.student in December 2012. The court said that the crime falls into a
:12:10. > :12:15.rare category that allows capital punishment. One other accused in the
:12:16. > :12:17.case committed suicide in jail and the sixth one was tried under
:12:18. > :12:24.juvenile laws. Six people are now known to have
:12:25. > :12:27.died in a huge gas explosion which demolished two apartment blocks in
:12:28. > :12:30.New York. At least eight people are still unaccounted for, following the
:12:31. > :12:32.blast in the East Harlem district of Manhattan.
:12:33. > :12:36.Police in Hong Kong have arrested two more suspects, including a
:12:37. > :12:40.37-year-old woman, in connection to a knife attack on a journalist.
:12:41. > :12:45.Kevin Lau was stabbed several times on 26 February. Police say the
:12:46. > :12:47.attack had nothing to do with his journalistic work, but Mr Lau, who
:12:48. > :12:51.is recovering in hospital, disagrees.
:12:52. > :12:55.Israeli military planes have bombarded the Gaza Strip after
:12:56. > :12:59.Palestinian militants fired dozens of rockets into southern Israel. An
:13:00. > :13:05.Israeli spokesman said 29 sites in Gaza were targeted. One strike
:13:06. > :13:09.caused power cuts across Gaza City. There's no word on any casualties.
:13:10. > :13:11.Hours earlier, the militant group Islamic Jihad carried out the
:13:12. > :13:16.heaviest barrage of southern Israel for more than a year. The
:13:17. > :13:19.Palestinian president, Mahmud Abbas, has called on Israel to end what he
:13:20. > :13:30.described as its military escalation. With me now is Mohamed
:13:31. > :13:35.Yehia from the BBC Arabic TV. What has provoked or encouraged, as to
:13:36. > :13:42.fire those rockets into Israel? These rockets were fired by the
:13:43. > :13:47.Islamic Jihad group, which is not how mass, but is thought to be
:13:48. > :13:54.controlled by it. There are two things to consider. Firstly, last
:13:55. > :13:57.week, the Israeli navy intercepted a ship carrying rockets, which the
:13:58. > :14:05.Israelis say were destined for Islamic Jihad. It was alleged that
:14:06. > :14:09.they were from Iran, which Iran denies. The other thing is that
:14:10. > :14:16.since the military takeover in Egypt, Egypt has put Hamas under
:14:17. > :14:22.great pressure, demolishing 1300 tunnels which were used to smuggle
:14:23. > :14:26.goods between Egypt and Gaza, and declaring Hamas as a terrorist
:14:27. > :14:32.organisation. So it could be that this could relieve the pressure,
:14:33. > :14:35.from Hamas's point of view. So the rockets were being fired for
:14:36. > :14:42.political reasons, not necessarily directly to do with Israel, on this
:14:43. > :14:46.occasion? Well, the sequence is a tit for tat, as usual. But this is
:14:47. > :14:51.the background, the tensions with Egypt, and even Syria could be a
:14:52. > :14:56.factor in this. So, is Hamas and Islamic Jihad, are they trying to
:14:57. > :15:03.make a point about their power not having been eroded? Well, they are
:15:04. > :15:06.thought to have longer range missiles, which they have not used
:15:07. > :15:15.in the attacks yesterday. Stay with us on BBC World News -
:15:16. > :15:18.still to come... We'll take a look at the winners and losers at the
:15:19. > :15:25.Oscars equivalent for the video game industry.
:15:26. > :15:28.Three more people have died in new anti-government protests in
:15:29. > :15:31.Venezuela. A policeman and two opposition
:15:32. > :15:36.activists were shot dead in separate incidents in the city of Valencia.
:15:37. > :15:39.So far, at least 25 people have been killed in a month long wave of
:15:40. > :15:43.protests against the government of President Nicholas Maduro. He has
:15:44. > :15:57.accused opposition leaders of attempting to mount a coup against
:15:58. > :16:02.him. Another day of rival marches in
:16:03. > :16:06.Caracas. The city was split into macro. On the one side the students
:16:07. > :16:12.are in favour of the government. On the other side, those who oppose it.
:16:13. > :16:22.They blame the President for high insurance rates -- interest rates.
:16:23. > :16:28.The government has been clamping down on protesters. TRANSLATION: I
:16:29. > :16:31.am obligated by my constitutional responsibility to take special
:16:32. > :16:41.measures. I will take this to get a centre of the attack by fascists.
:16:42. > :16:43.Nobody will bully me. Wednesday's anti-government march ended with
:16:44. > :16:48.clashes between protesters and authorities. But in Valencia,
:16:49. > :16:55.Venezuela's third-largest city, things were worse. Three more people
:16:56. > :16:59.died in new clashes. A university student, and National Guard captain
:17:00. > :17:05.and a third man were reportedly shot dead in separate incidents. Several
:17:06. > :17:08.more were wounded. The opposition blames the government for backing
:17:09. > :17:12.armed civilians who attacked protesters. But the government
:17:13. > :17:19.accuses the opposition of the unrest. Wednesday's death toll is
:17:20. > :17:24.the highest in a single day since protests started in Caracas on the
:17:25. > :17:36.12th of February. At least 25 people have died so far.
:17:37. > :17:39.You are with BBC World News. These are the latest headlines for you:
:17:40. > :17:42.Chinese satellite images that show possible wreckage from the missing
:17:43. > :17:50.airliner have been dismissed by Malaysia as inaccurate and
:17:51. > :17:52.mistakenly released. The German Chancellor Angela Merkel
:17:53. > :17:58.has warned of catastrophic consequences if Russia continues its
:17:59. > :18:02.path on Crimea. It is the ninth day of the trial of
:18:03. > :18:06.Oscar Pistorius for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
:18:07. > :18:14.Forensic scientist Colonel Johannes Vermeulen is back on the witness
:18:15. > :18:17.stand. He yesterday disputed the athlete's evidence that he had been
:18:18. > :18:21.on his prosthetic legs when he broke down a locked toilet door to reach
:18:22. > :18:23.dying Reeva. Pistorius, seen here arriving at the court, denies
:18:24. > :18:28.intentionally killing his girlfriend. Earlier I spoke to our
:18:29. > :18:33.correspondent Milton Nkosi who is outside the court house. I began by
:18:34. > :18:43.asking him about the defence lawyer's line of questioning of
:18:44. > :18:49.forensic evidence. What Johannes Vermeulen has been at pains to
:18:50. > :18:54.explain to Oscar Pistorius' senior counsel, as far as he was
:18:55. > :18:58.concerned, Oscar Pistorius was not wearing his prosthetic legs at the
:18:59. > :19:04.time he was wielding the act and hitting the bathroom door. Mr
:19:05. > :19:09.Pistorius' version was he was already wearing those. Throughout
:19:10. > :19:14.the morning we have been listening to Barry Roux trying to show some
:19:15. > :19:17.marks on the door, alongside the bullet holes that we saw in the
:19:18. > :19:25.pictures, that some of those marks were caused by Mr Pistorius'
:19:26. > :19:35.proceeds is. But Johannes Vermeulen disputes that. He says Barry Roux
:19:36. > :19:38.has punched holes in the processes how police collect their evidence.
:19:39. > :19:43.There is an adjournment now and we will update you later. Both
:19:44. > :19:49.yesterday and today, it is the issue once again of the credibility of
:19:50. > :19:54.South African police processes? Very much so. There are many other issues
:19:55. > :19:59.at play. It brings to the fore the issue of gender violence in South
:20:00. > :20:06.Africa and as you say, the South African police processes. Also, the
:20:07. > :20:20.legal system in South Africa is also under scrutiny through this trial.
:20:21. > :20:23.Will Mali become a forgotten crisis? That's the fear of some of the
:20:24. > :20:27.organisations supporting Malian refugees. In February, aid agencies
:20:28. > :20:30.warned they needed additional funds to cover the needs of the Malian
:20:31. > :20:36.refugees still spread across Mauritania, Niger and Burkina Faso.
:20:37. > :20:39.In Burkina Faso alone, there are over 30,000 according to the UNHCR.
:20:40. > :20:42.Almost two 000 live in the outskirts of Ouagadougou. Our correspondent
:20:43. > :20:46.Laeila Adjovi went to there to meet with the refugees and sent this
:20:47. > :20:54.report. It is a refugee camp 25 kilometres
:20:55. > :21:00.outside the kina face so's capital. The UNHCR and its partners provide
:21:01. > :21:06.them with health care, are food, shelter and education but the
:21:07. > :21:11.refugees find it is not enough. TRANSLATION: We lack food because
:21:12. > :21:22.what is distributed by the body weight show does not cover all our
:21:23. > :21:27.needs. -- BWF O. Luckily, due to the camp's proximity to the city, many
:21:28. > :21:34.Artisan is make ends meet and they go into town to sell their crafts.
:21:35. > :21:38.This refugee camp is closest to the capital so that means more work
:21:39. > :21:43.opportunities for the refugees. Most of these people come from the north
:21:44. > :21:47.of Mali. Although the crisis has abated they feel they cannot go back
:21:48. > :21:52.yet. Some of these refugees fled home because of the Islamist
:21:53. > :21:56.militants while others left because of the angry mobs which put the
:21:57. > :22:02.blame for the crisis on all the Tuaregs. Today, with no
:22:03. > :22:08.reconciliation process, the refugees do not believe northern Mali has
:22:09. > :22:12.achieved to peak -- true peace. There are still armed men so what
:22:13. > :22:17.kind of peace we are talking about? Where is this piece? We need an
:22:18. > :22:23.agreement to allow people from the north to really feel Mali on. If I
:22:24. > :22:27.am Mali and, why is it each time a Tuareg takes up arms to rebel, I am
:22:28. > :22:40.the one who was expelled from a country? What has it got to do with
:22:41. > :22:43.me? UNHCR started discussing the repatriations of refugees with the
:22:44. > :22:52.government. There are still a lot of need to attend to. TRANSLATION:
:22:53. > :22:57.Unfortunately, because of the numerous conflicts in the world,
:22:58. > :23:01.nowadays Mali and refugees tend to be forgotten. But those people are
:23:02. > :23:11.still not back home and need the support of the international
:23:12. > :23:17.community. The refugees also plead for more infrastructure is and basic
:23:18. > :23:21.services in the North to allow their full integration into society. It is
:23:22. > :23:22.also one of the key elements to finally reach peace and make it
:23:23. > :23:37.last. The movie awards season is over for
:23:38. > :23:41.another year, but here in London the dinner jackets and bow ties were out
:23:42. > :23:45.again for the British Academy Games Awards. The zombie adventure The
:23:46. > :23:54.Last Of Us scooped five prizes. Our technology reporter, Daniel Emery
:23:55. > :23:59.was there. Welcome to central London for the
:24:00. > :24:04.video game BAFTA awards. There are some big winners tonight including a
:24:05. > :24:10.company called Naughty Dog. They have scooped five awards for their
:24:11. > :24:18.game The Last Of Us. I caught up with them earlier.
:24:19. > :24:23.You try not to think about how much money is on the line and all of
:24:24. > :24:28.that. You cannot help but think about it sometimes. We get stressed
:24:29. > :24:34.with previous success but all we can do is use our gut and make a game we
:24:35. > :24:40.would want to play. We feel if we do that then other gamers will connect
:24:41. > :24:45.with that. But the talk here tonight is not just about the games, it is
:24:46. > :24:49.about the business. The hot subject is how to attract and retain
:24:50. > :24:55.talent, not just within a company but within the country. I caught up
:24:56. > :25:00.with Ian Livingstone who said tax breaks are a key element of this. We
:25:01. > :25:05.have to have high skills and access to finance. We have managed to sort
:25:06. > :25:09.out the skills and we have convinced Michael Gove to have competing on
:25:10. > :25:13.the national curriculum. That is one click. The second it is we have a
:25:14. > :25:18.level playing field with regard to investment. As well as getting
:25:19. > :25:21.finance in from the traditional sources, we have applied to have
:25:22. > :25:26.some credit which is going through the EU at the moment. If that comes
:25:27. > :25:27.in, I think there will be no reason for anyone to go anywhere except the
:25:28. > :25:40.UK. For the winners, BAFTA means
:25:41. > :25:45.recognition into the hard work and effort that went into making their
:25:46. > :25:49.product. Tomorrow is business as usual. While the industry has mostly
:25:50. > :26:01.survived the financial storm, it still faces many challenges.
:26:02. > :26:06.Now, watch this video. There was a dramatic car chase in Colorado. You
:26:07. > :26:10.can see Ryan Stone taking over another car and pushing that woman
:26:11. > :26:15.out. He threw her on the ground before driving off. He was forced to
:26:16. > :26:19.abandon that vehicle after causing a multicar pile-up at an intersection.
:26:20. > :26:30.He made a run for it and eventually gave himself up to police. A
:26:31. > :26:37.four-year-old boy was unharmed. The main story this hour, the
:26:38. > :26:44.mystery of what has happened to plain MH370. Apparently, satellite
:26:45. > :26:50.images appearing to show debris did not show debris and they were
:26:51. > :26:54.mistakenly released by China. Reports were dismissed that the
:26:55. > :26:57.plane carried off-line after four hours. That is it from me. Thank you
:26:58. > :27:01.for joining me.