:00:14. > :00:19.meets Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, on Ukraine at the US
:00:20. > :00:25.ambassadors residence in London. Malaysia Air's Prime Minister joins
:00:26. > :00:28.prayers for the passengers and crew of flight MH370 one week after it
:00:29. > :00:32.disappeared. A court in Pretorius are shown
:00:33. > :00:39.victors of Oscar Pistorius input change shorts as his murder trial
:00:40. > :00:41.continues. -- in bloodstained shorts.
:00:42. > :00:45.And three years on after the start of the conflict in Syria, what is
:00:46. > :01:03.daily life like in the capital? This report from Damascus.
:01:04. > :01:07.The United States and Russia are holding an emergency meeting in
:01:08. > :01:11.London at this moment over the crisis in Ukraine, a last chance
:01:12. > :01:15.face-to-face dialogue for US Secretary of State, John Kerry, and
:01:16. > :01:23.his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov. It is before Sunday's
:01:24. > :01:26.hastily organised referendum in Crimea, which will ask the people of
:01:27. > :01:30.Crimea if they want to join the Russian Federation. It has been
:01:31. > :01:34.widely condemned internationally. Within the past you Mormons, the
:01:35. > :01:42.British Foreign Secretary has said that the talks on Ukraine will be,
:01:43. > :01:46.coat, formerly difficult because of the enormous gulf between Russia and
:01:47. > :01:54.the United States. There is enormous tension in Crimea and the OSCE has
:01:55. > :02:03.been tried to enter Crimea but with great difficulty. Their ambassador
:02:04. > :02:10.joins me now live from Vienna. What is the status of your observers that
:02:11. > :02:15.have been authorised to go in to give independent information on what
:02:16. > :02:19.has been taking place? Our observers are in eastern Ukraine. Yesterday,
:02:20. > :02:26.they were in Donetsk but now they are gaining access to military
:02:27. > :02:35.installations for observation purposes. At the same time, we have
:02:36. > :02:42.been having aerial observation flights over the region and there is
:02:43. > :02:52.an ongoing discussion on a monitoring operation in Ukraine, a
:02:53. > :03:00.longer term endeavour. Discussions are ongoing. Some observers managed
:03:01. > :03:06.to get up to the Russian border, accompanied by a Ukrainian military.
:03:07. > :03:10.-- the Ukrainian military. How are your observers being viewed within
:03:11. > :03:13.Ukraine? They are supported by the authorities and they do not seem to
:03:14. > :03:20.have encountered any difficulties. They are now in the process of
:03:21. > :03:24.observing. There are no particular obstacles. Here we have video of
:03:25. > :03:28.them close to the Russian border. What are they reporting back to you
:03:29. > :03:38.and how easily be able to operate in Ukraine? They are not indicating any
:03:39. > :03:42.operational difficulties at this moment and I am looking forward to
:03:43. > :03:48.hearing their report. What about your efforts to get into Crimea,
:03:49. > :03:52.which is after all part of Ukraine? Of course. This is part of the
:03:53. > :03:57.negotiation we are having within the organisation. We hope we will be
:03:58. > :04:07.able to achieve an agreement soon on the terms of the monitoring mission
:04:08. > :04:13.which should then involve more than 100 people in Crimea and Ukraine. On
:04:14. > :04:17.Monday, we expect to have access to Crimea and we will start reporting
:04:18. > :04:21.on developments there. You always have to operate in a permissible
:04:22. > :04:24.environment. Have you got agreement of those who are more sympathetic to
:04:25. > :04:31.the Russian Federation that you can enter Crimea at some point because
:04:32. > :04:38.of the referendum? The mandate will be agreed by everybody including
:04:39. > :04:43.Ukraine and Russia. We expect that once everybody agrees to this
:04:44. > :04:47.mandate, we should have access. If we do not, we will consider the
:04:48. > :04:50.situation at that point. You say that, but you are pushing very hard
:04:51. > :04:54.to have the kind of observers we have just seen at the Russian border
:04:55. > :04:59.actually entering Crimea at the same time so that they can monitor that
:05:00. > :05:11.part of Ukraine? Of course. We tried and we failed. We expect these
:05:12. > :05:17.negotiations to result in an agreement with everybody. And that
:05:18. > :05:26.should be the basis for operations. At this point we are optimistic that
:05:27. > :05:29.we should be able to gain access. You say you are discussing with the
:05:30. > :05:36.Russian Federation but what are you discussing with them? Aren't there
:05:37. > :05:40.are sticking points at the moment? -- are they are sticking points.
:05:41. > :05:48.There are issues to do with the scope of the operation and the terms
:05:49. > :05:55.of reference and the description of certain technical aspects, I would
:05:56. > :06:02.say. But as always, the devil is in the details. We need to iron out
:06:03. > :06:09.these differences because we need clarity in terms of the mandate for
:06:10. > :06:20.the people on the ground. Secretary general, thank you. We wait to hear
:06:21. > :06:23.what happens with your observers. Nearly a week after the
:06:24. > :06:26.disappearance of a Malaysian airliner with 239 people on board,
:06:27. > :06:29.the search area has been widened again. The plane disappeared in the
:06:30. > :06:32.early hours of Saturday morning, just an hour after taking off from
:06:33. > :06:35.Kuala Lumpur. Rescuers began their search in the South China Sea. But
:06:36. > :06:40.they've expanded that area several times. First to the Straits of
:06:41. > :06:43.Malacca. And now, with reports that so called "pinger" signals may have
:06:44. > :06:46.been detected from equipment on board, the US has said it's shifted
:06:47. > :07:00.focus toward the Indian Ocean, towards the Andaman Islands. The
:07:01. > :07:05.Malaysia and Transport Minister give this update. Ladies and gentlemen,
:07:06. > :07:11.there has been a lot of media speculation today after comments
:07:12. > :07:14.from an unnamed US officials. These suggested that the plane may have
:07:15. > :07:19.travelled for some time after we lost contact. As is standard
:07:20. > :07:22.procedure, the investigation team will not publicly release
:07:23. > :07:27.information until it has promptly been verified and corroborated with
:07:28. > :07:30.the relevant authorities. Nor do we want to be drawn into specific
:07:31. > :07:36.remarks that an unnamed officials have reportedly made in the media.
:07:37. > :07:40.Since Sunday, we have worked closely with our international partners
:07:41. > :07:49.including the US team. Officials have been you on the ground -- here
:07:50. > :07:57.on the ground in Kuala Lumpur. Since Wednesday, the US has been sharing
:07:58. > :08:00.specific information as soon as it becomes available. Our team have
:08:01. > :08:06.nothing to confirm at this moment but we are looking at a lot of
:08:07. > :08:10.information. Widening the investigation, the search area is
:08:11. > :08:14.expanding and the aircraft is still missing. Two days ago, the search
:08:15. > :08:17.area was widened to include the Andaman Sea. Together with our
:08:18. > :08:23.partners, we are pushing east into the South China Sea and further into
:08:24. > :08:27.the Indian Ocean. We want nothing more than to find the plane as
:08:28. > :08:32.quickly as possible but the circumstances have forced us to
:08:33. > :08:36.widen our search. A normal investigation becomes more difficult
:08:37. > :08:41.with time. As new information focuses on the search. But this is
:08:42. > :08:46.not a normal investigation. In this case, the information that we have
:08:47. > :08:51.forces us to look further and further afield. How enormous is the
:08:52. > :08:56.task facing anyone in this massive search operation? Died Whittington
:08:57. > :09:02.is the Chief Executive of the UK flight safety committee and when he
:09:03. > :09:06.was a pilot for the RAF he flew NATO missions for many years, aircraft
:09:07. > :09:11.which has a digital electronic system aboard to try to find out
:09:12. > :09:15.what is happening for miles over the horizon. I asked him what his
:09:16. > :09:22.thoughts were about the search that is underway. If that original search
:09:23. > :09:28.had started around the last known location, with an aeroplane
:09:29. > :09:31.travelling at 500 mph, you are looking at something equivalent to
:09:32. > :09:35.throwing a 5p coin into the Olympic Stadium and then looking for it in
:09:36. > :09:42.the dark with a torch. It is a tough task. On the half of the nuclear
:09:43. > :09:45.force and NATO, you have been up there, involved in massive
:09:46. > :09:50.operations to try to detect stuff which is happening before the people
:09:51. > :09:54.on the ground know that it is happening. But when you look at the
:09:55. > :09:59.reality of what is visible, particularly for aircraft which you
:10:00. > :10:02.are responsible for, flying backwards and forwards across the
:10:03. > :10:07.Malaysian peninsula and Indian option, what is in your mind about
:10:08. > :10:12.flight safety? -- Indian Ocean. It is not a safety issue in that part
:10:13. > :10:16.of the world. Until we work out what has happened to this aircraft, it
:10:17. > :10:20.will be difficult to say what particular action should be taken.
:10:21. > :10:25.In terms of the search and rescue operation, and it is a search and
:10:26. > :10:31.rescue operation at the moment rather than a recovery operation, is
:10:32. > :10:36.trying to find some means of focusing the senses you have
:10:37. > :10:40.available in the right area. Because we could be talking about, in UK
:10:41. > :10:45.terms, looking for a ship that has sunk in the channel when actually we
:10:46. > :10:50.meant the channel between two of the islands in the Faroes. It is a huge
:10:51. > :10:57.area we are covering. There are lots of areas of their -- aeroplanes up
:10:58. > :11:02.there, lots of vessels using sonar and radar to try and find some sort
:11:03. > :11:07.of debris. If this aircraft has actually crashed into the water,
:11:08. > :11:12.something will be floating somewhere. It is just a question of
:11:13. > :11:17.finding it. Finally, help us understand, these are complete
:11:18. > :11:20.electronic issues, however everything is switched off for some
:11:21. > :11:26.reason in the cockpit, and we know that the last signal was at 107 PM
:11:27. > :11:32.from the engines and 1:31pm from the transponder, all that was switched
:11:33. > :11:36.off some reason but somehow signals are being received in a passive
:11:37. > :11:43.way, being broadcast by the fuselage? How does that happen? The
:11:44. > :11:54.locator transmitter is automatic and it is tripped by impact. The flight
:11:55. > :11:58.data recorder, again, is tripped by impact and will have a water
:11:59. > :12:04.activated location device. To reach that, you have to be within range of
:12:05. > :12:13.them. And the range will be affected by how the wreckage is distributed,
:12:14. > :12:18.and water depth and temperatures. It is still a tough task. I think the
:12:19. > :12:22.mark of that was the Air France accident in the South Atlantic were
:12:23. > :12:30.those recorders took two years to find and recover. It was a very
:12:31. > :12:35.expensive, huge task. Other news in this hour, a seven
:12:36. > :12:38.story building has collapsed in the Western Indian city of Mumbai. There
:12:39. > :12:42.are fears that several people are trapped under the rubble. A resident
:12:43. > :12:47.in the area says that the local municipal corporation had teamed the
:12:48. > :12:52.building unsafe for living and had given several eviction notices to
:12:53. > :12:56.the residents. I'd US Airways plane has collapsed
:12:57. > :13:00.on the runway at Philadelphia International airport. 149
:13:01. > :13:06.passengers were evacuated. The landing gear fails, forcing the
:13:07. > :13:12.pilot to avoid take-off. Six people have died in a Chinese
:13:13. > :13:16.city after men armed with knives attacked people on the street.
:13:17. > :13:19.Please have shot dead one suspect. There are reports that the incident
:13:20. > :13:31.was triggered by a dispute at the market. Stay with us on BBC World
:13:32. > :13:35.News, still to come: We have a special report from the Thar desert
:13:36. > :13:38.region of Pakistan where a severe drought has claimed the lives of
:13:39. > :13:41.more than a hundred children. Four people have been killed in a
:13:42. > :13:45.helicopter crash in the east of England. Among those who died was
:13:46. > :13:47.the Conservative Peer Lord Ballyedmond, the chairman of
:13:48. > :13:50.Norbrook, the largest privately owned pharmaceutical company in the
:13:51. > :13:53.world. The helicopter came down in thick fog last night, shortly after
:13:54. > :14:02.take-off. This report from Fiona Irving does contain flashing images.
:14:03. > :14:07.Thick fog still shrouds the site where the helicopter came down at
:14:08. > :14:10.around 7:30pm last night. Four people on board died. This morning,
:14:11. > :14:15.air accident investigators will begin examining the scene.
:14:16. > :14:20.Investigators are waiting for the fog to lift and will be a search
:14:21. > :14:24.process to follow and establishing the size and location of the site.
:14:25. > :14:27.And then there will be a systematic search which will present
:14:28. > :14:31.information and evidence for us to look at.
:14:32. > :14:36.One of those killed has been named as Lord Ballyedmond, thought to be
:14:37. > :14:39.Northern Ireland's richest man. Tributes are being paid to him as an
:14:40. > :14:44.entrepreneur known for leadership, integrity and global vision. The
:14:45. > :14:47.crash happened just north of the village of Gillingham in Norfolk.
:14:48. > :14:54.The Conservative peer owned Gillingham Paul, a cyclical nearby.
:14:55. > :15:00.Witnesses say that there was this thick fog in the area at the time of
:15:01. > :15:03.the accident. But it is too early to say what caused the crash. Police
:15:04. > :15:06.said the wreckage is spread over a wide area and investigators will
:15:07. > :15:10.start the process of gathering evidence to find out what happened.
:15:11. > :15:15.Officials in north-west Pakistan say a suicide bomber has blown himself
:15:16. > :15:19.up near a police armoured vehicle killing at least seven people. The
:15:20. > :15:23.attack took place in the suburbs of the city of Peshawar. An official
:15:24. > :15:26.said most of those killed were civilians but that there were police
:15:27. > :15:28.officers among the nearly 30 injured. Security forces have
:15:29. > :15:31.recently stepped up their patrolling in the area due to threats from
:15:32. > :15:33.militants from the nearby Khyber tribal region. No one has admitted
:15:34. > :15:50.responsibility for the attack. This is BBC World News. Our main
:15:51. > :15:54.headlines... It is the 10th day of the trial of Oscar Pistorius, for
:15:55. > :15:58.the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. The police officer who
:15:59. > :16:05.initially investigated the crime is again being cross-examined. He told
:16:06. > :16:09.the court that Oscar Pistorius had blood on his arm after shooting
:16:10. > :16:12.Reeva Steenkamp. A photograph was shown in court. Mr Pistorius denies
:16:13. > :16:18.intentionally killing his girlfriend. We can now go to Nomsa
:16:19. > :16:21.Maseko, who joins me from outside court in Pretoria. The defence
:16:22. > :16:24.lawyer has been really challenging the police about the way they have
:16:25. > :16:30.handled the evidence? That is correct. The police work is under
:16:31. > :16:35.scrutiny today, because the defence attorney has been wanting out some
:16:36. > :16:42.discrepancies in the way in which evidence was handled. He also made
:16:43. > :16:45.allegations that the police stole two wristwatches, very expensive
:16:46. > :16:50.watches, belonging to Oscar Pistorius, and how the evidence was
:16:51. > :16:54.actually preserved. He went back to how the door, which had bullet
:16:55. > :16:57.holes, which is in the courtroom, where and how it was restored, or
:16:58. > :17:05.put together, in storage. As we heard this morning, the police
:17:06. > :17:08.officer in court today said he locked that door in his office
:17:09. > :17:13.because that was the safest place that he could put it in the police
:17:14. > :17:18.station. He also said it was not tampered with. We also heard from
:17:19. > :17:22.him, saying that things were shifted and moved around at the crime scene,
:17:23. > :17:26.because of the way in which the police has exhibited photographs of
:17:27. > :17:30.the crime scene. We have seen some different ones, with a cellphone in
:17:31. > :17:32.one, and in another there wasn't. The court is on lunch, and will be
:17:33. > :17:42.back later. The Pakistan government has
:17:43. > :17:45.confirmed that more than a million people have been affected by a
:17:46. > :17:48.drought in the country's southern province of Sindh. Children are
:17:49. > :17:52.beginning to die of starvation in the Thar desert. And the authorities
:17:53. > :17:53.are coming in for heavy criticism, as Saba Eitizaz reports from
:17:54. > :18:04.Tharparkar. This lady is pregnant. She should be
:18:05. > :18:08.eating for two, but she is starving. Village customs demand that she
:18:09. > :18:13.should feed her family first, and eat what is left. But there has been
:18:14. > :18:18.no rain, and that means no leftovers. Her mother-in-law eats
:18:19. > :18:22.this one meal of the day. There is also a thimble full of milk for her
:18:23. > :18:31.eight-month-old daughter, the only food she will get for the rest of
:18:32. > :18:42.the day. Imagine her hunger pangs as she sets off in search of water. She
:18:43. > :18:47.tells me, we had 20 goats. Now, the drought has killed them all, except
:18:48. > :18:52.one. What will happen to us if that one also dies? How will I feed my
:18:53. > :18:58.daughter? The women here walk for miles to find water. Now, there is
:18:59. > :19:03.little left. It has not trained in the harsh desert since August.
:19:04. > :19:08.People depend on it for crops as well as water. 200,000 people are
:19:09. > :19:17.fleeing because the crops are dying. And so are the animals. The
:19:18. > :19:22.sudden media attention on the issue brought on the abrupt arrival of the
:19:23. > :19:29.Prime Minister, and the leader of the Pakistan People's Party, whose
:19:30. > :19:34.party has always been in power here. Many here say that the aid being
:19:35. > :19:38.announced now was needed earlier. It is political face saving in a crisis
:19:39. > :19:43.which could have been avoided. Doctors at the hospital say hundreds
:19:44. > :19:48.of patient have been running the hospital for several months now.
:19:49. > :19:53.TRANSLATION: Malnutrition is a big problem. It is a problem all over
:19:54. > :19:59.this region. I see 250 people a day at this hospital. Many of them,
:20:00. > :20:02.sometimes as many as 40%, our children. The hospital has been
:20:03. > :20:07.declared an emergency zone. What the government and the media are
:20:08. > :20:11.focusing on right now is these problems, but they will not go away
:20:12. > :20:15.with short-term solutions, particularly as temperatures rise
:20:16. > :20:20.and the drought gets worse in the scorching desert summer, just two
:20:21. > :20:23.months away. The administration says there is enough food to go around to
:20:24. > :20:29.feed these babies, gasping for breath. So why were hundreds of
:20:30. > :20:30.children allowed to die, still waiting for that one morsel which
:20:31. > :20:38.could have saved them? Syria's conflict is one that neither
:20:39. > :20:42.diplomacy - nor fighting - have managed to end. Three years ago
:20:43. > :20:46.protests in the southern town of Deraa marked the start of what's
:20:47. > :20:51.become a brutal civil war. The country remains divided against
:20:52. > :20:56.itself. Since March 2011, an estimated 140,000people have died
:20:57. > :21:02.within the country. 6.5 million are trapped inside Syria itself. Nine
:21:03. > :21:07.million people are displaced. Two and a half million have fled across
:21:08. > :21:09.borders. More ominously, the conflict's sectarian nature - Sunni
:21:10. > :21:11.rebels fighting government-aligned minorities - shows signs of
:21:12. > :21:18.destabilising the entire region, well beyond Syria's borders. In
:21:19. > :21:24.contrast, the Syrian capital seems to be regaining a semblance of
:21:25. > :21:33.normality. The BBC's Rami Ruhayem sent this report from Damascus.
:21:34. > :21:40.Three years on and still no end in sight to the unrest which has become
:21:41. > :21:43.a full-blown war. As Syria approaches the fourth year of
:21:44. > :21:48.conflict, Damascus appears full of contradictions. Some areas on the
:21:49. > :21:51.edge of the capital, under opposition control, are besieged and
:21:52. > :21:55.under attack. But in the rest of the city, things appear to be going
:21:56. > :21:58.relatively well. In fact, government-held areas in Damascus
:21:59. > :22:05.are swelling with new arrivals, seeking normality. I changed my
:22:06. > :22:16.school, my friends, my house, my whole life. But now, I have a new
:22:17. > :22:27.life. In this country, or this... It is better than before, because it
:22:28. > :22:32.isn't safe. It is a safe place, we can go out even in the middle of the
:22:33. > :22:37.night to have a walk, or have parties, or have new friends, than
:22:38. > :22:43.before. But there are still things to complain about. Two years ago,
:22:44. > :22:46.people used to stay until three o'clock in the morning or four
:22:47. > :22:55.o'clock in the morning. Now, maximum, 12. They come early, they
:22:56. > :23:07.go early. Prices in the bar? Yes, of course, they have doubled, tripled,
:23:08. > :23:16.not doubled. Even food. As prices shot up, the government intervened.
:23:17. > :23:20.TRANSLATION: The government had to reverse the policy of market
:23:21. > :23:25.liberalisation. We began by setting price ceilings for food items. We
:23:26. > :23:32.studied the cost for traders and we set a fair profit margin.
:23:33. > :23:37.Subsidies are also a pillar of government policy. Today, bread
:23:38. > :23:41.produced in government bakeries costs consumers as little as it did
:23:42. > :23:47.before the war, and the state pays the difference. As it increases
:23:48. > :23:48.pressure on rebel held areas, the government is on a charm offensive
:23:49. > :23:55.on its own turf. The discovery of oil and gas in
:23:56. > :24:00.Kenya's north-western Turkana region has been hailed as a game-changer
:24:01. > :24:03.for the country. Experts say the initial findings look promising and
:24:04. > :24:06.the first barrels of oil could be commercially produced within a few
:24:07. > :24:09.years. But tensions are running high among locals as they grow impatient
:24:10. > :24:16.about benefiting from this new-found wealth. The BBC's Emmanuel Igunza
:24:17. > :24:20.sent this report. This is a far-flung tourist attraction, and a
:24:21. > :24:25.rich source of fish for locals. But these waters are beginning to
:24:26. > :24:28.interest different companies. Some believe black gold lies under the
:24:29. > :24:32.surface. Initial surveys have already been conducted. But on the
:24:33. > :24:35.land surrounding the lake, exploration has already begun. One
:24:36. > :24:42.British firm has dug seven Wells in the area. This is the latest site
:24:43. > :24:47.where it is drilling for oil. The company says initial signs here are
:24:48. > :24:58.promising. By the end of this year, it plans to have 30 other sites like
:24:59. > :25:04.this one across the Lake Turkana region. We have had a lot of
:25:05. > :25:10.discoveries, which we the next phase is further exploration. This is an
:25:11. > :25:16.appraisal well. We are excited about the prospects. This is one of the
:25:17. > :25:18.poorest parts of Kenya. The discovery of oil has raised
:25:19. > :25:22.expectations among the locals that their lives could change for the
:25:23. > :25:28.better. Here, poverty levels remain high. There are not many formal
:25:29. > :25:31.jobs. Gates of underdevelopment have left the locals feeling neglected by
:25:32. > :25:37.the central government, and they feel the discovery of oil should
:25:38. > :25:40.benefit them more. Last year, protesters halted operations
:25:41. > :25:47.altogether. And recently, there have been more demonstrations. When you
:25:48. > :25:51.see this place, the benefit that we have been asking for, we are not
:25:52. > :25:57.getting it. It is like they are coming to benefit from our country,
:25:58. > :26:03.and they left us hungry, hanging around, no jobs, no benefit that we
:26:04. > :26:07.are getting from the company. But the country manager for the company
:26:08. > :26:13.disputes this. He says the company is doing all it can to provide more
:26:14. > :26:19.jobs for the community, despite a huge skills in the Lake Turkana
:26:20. > :26:31.region. Out of 2000 places, we have got in excess of 1000 200 people. In
:26:32. > :26:38.Nairobi, out of 100 people, we have localised around 70% of it. So there
:26:39. > :26:42.is indeed a significant component of people from the area of Turkana
:26:43. > :26:45.already in our operations. While production in Turkana is not
:26:46. > :26:51.expected to start until 2018. But when it does, it is hoped that the
:26:52. > :27:00.fortunes of this for nomadic community will be transformed
:27:01. > :27:02.forever. Stay with us for the latest on the Malaysia aircraft,