20/03/2014 BBC World News

Military aircraft and naval vessels are heading to the location. This

area has a heavy concentration of garbage, due to winds.

Renewed diplomatic efforts over Russia's annexation of Crimea. The

UN Secretary General is due to meet President Putin in Moscow.

We now have a "credible lead". The words of Malaysia's

Transportation Minister on day 13 since flight MH370 simply vanished.

Two large pieces of possible debris have been spotted by satellites,

just beyond the southern-most tip, in the massive operation to find the

Malaysian airlines plane. Here are the images from the Australian

Maritime Agency. They were taken four days ago. It has taken that

long to process vast amounts of data. One piece of debris is

described as 25 metres long. The other is five metres. Both appear to

be awash with water. They were spotted in the Southern Ocean,

nearly 2,300 kilometres south west of Perth. It's at the southern end

of one of the two search arcs, defined by hourly satellite

"handshakes" with the plane while it was in the air. This is a remote and

deep area of ocean, with routinely high winds and strong currents, four

hours' flying time from Perth. Mike Wooldridge reports.

This is the satellite imagery which has provided the potential

breakthrough at last in the search for the airliner. Indistinct objects

bobbing up and down in the water, won up to 24 metres long, the other

around five metres long. Search aircraft are beginning the

challenging task in this remote location of verifying whether they

are parts of the missing plane. Australia, New Zealand and US

Maritime claims are involved, ships are on their way. The Malaysia and

authorities are balancing the significance of this with their

anxiety to avoid giving. Hope to the waiting relatives. The one piece of

information we want most is the location of the airliner. We have a

credible lead but much work needs to be done. This work will continue. If

the airliner has finally been located, experts foresee one of the

most difficult recovery operations ever undertaken. You are talking

about the great Southern Ocean, very wild seas, and you are talking about

a depth of about 10,000 feet. So, it is going to be one of the most

difficult recoveries of an aeroplane, if that is where it is.

Malaysia says now the huge international search along both

areas are continuing. In terms of what happened on board the flight,

the minister was asked whether some kind of catastrophic event, a

failure of the aircraft, was been ruled out? It cannot be ruled out.

There is an urgency to find the black box, we are pursuing that line

of investigation. We want to confirm this debris and attempts are being

made to go to that location. Many questions are yet to be answered but

the mystery of this new sighting deep in the Southern Indian Ocean

may be resolved. Captain Bimal Sharma's sister

Chandrika is one of the missing passengers from flight MH370. He

spoke to us about the latest development of the search efforts.

This area has got a very heavy concentration of garbage, due to

tides, and winds. Lots of plastic, floating garbage. I have sailed

through this area several times, the area they are indicated. I feel they

are saying they will go down to this area, from a satellite image. I do

not know what they can get out of that. Captain, tell us about your

sister, and what she was doing on the flight, and her plans? My sister

was travelling to go to Mongolia, for a food and agricultural

conference over there. She took a flight to Kuala Lumpur. She

changed, and this is what happened to the flight. That is why I am

here. What is her profession, what are her skills which meant she was

going to Mongolia? She had done her Masters in social work from a

reputed Institute in India. And then she had done her doctorate PhD in

the same subject. She was working for the international fishermen, the

cause of international fishermen. She was very involved for the last

15 years in that, the plight of international fishermen.

Did she flight to a lot of conferences, moving around the

world, given there was so much mobility? Yes. She used to fly

around, she was out of the country about 15 days a month. What is your

reflection of the way the airline and the Malaysia authorities have

been in touch with you, and how much they have kept you up to date, as

one of just over 200 members of families around the world?

They have kept the family up to date in the sense we should not believe

anybody, not the press, news channels, not anybody. They said, we

will update you as and when. Please do not believe any of them, that is

what they have been saying. And, we will call you. Have you been

believing them with their evening briefings?

I have been believing them, but picking up bits and pieces from

everywhere. Because I want to believe that she is still alive, and

she will be home for her birthday which is on the 30th of March.

The BBC's Jennifer Pak is in Kuala Lumpur.

She gave me the latest on how this word, credible, is now being seen,

in Malaysia. Certainly, the journalists here are

very excited. We haven't had much new information since the

authorities announced they believe the flight could have been

hijacked, it was deliberately diverted by somebody on board. There

are defined a whole new search area, saying they had been searching

in the wrong area. This is the first time we have heard of any sighting

of potential debris. We have to exercise caution. The reason it is

credible because it fits into what authorities now have information on,

from Indonesia down to the Indian Ocean, and looking into the Northern

Quarter, stretching from northern Thailand up to Central Asia. They

say that search is still ongoing, but trickier, simply because 11

countries have had to give diplomatic clearances for military

aircraft around the world to search. The search effort is focused on the

southern quarter. Australians are saying there is potential this

debris could be related to the aircraft. But they say they have to

confirm. You can only feel for the family members listening to this

analysis, this speculation about the debris. They have been waiting for

so long to hear any kind of concrete information, and to make sense why

this has happened in the first place.

I was very struck by what the acting Transportation Minister said, when

the events of yesterday, with two members of a Chinese family

protesting, were taken away forcibly from outside the media centre where

briefings were. He said, I regret the way they were treated. Is there

any indication of a different approach to those who are close to

those still missing? At this point in time, all family

members have been kept away from journalists. They flew in family

members, mostly from China, half the passengers on board come from China.

They were set up in different hotels, separated from the media.

Each family had been assigned a so-called caregiver. In colleagues

have been blocked from trying to speak to families who are willing to

speak to the media. That is how you had this scene yesterday, from ones

who felt they were not been briefed properly, or treated properly. In

the Asian context, when they are not getting senior officials, they feel

they are not getting the attention they want. It is day 13, and not

getting any further information, even though officials have insisted

they had nothing to hide. They have not much more concrete information.

This is agonising for family members. Does it mean they will

switch tactics and allow family to talk to the media? It is unclear.

Malaysia officials are used to controlling the message.

Reports from Kiev say that the commander of the Ukrainian Navy has

been released. Admiral Serhiy Haiduk was detained in Crimea on Wednesday

when masked men forced their way into Ukraine's naval headquarters in

Sevastopol. Meanwhile, the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon is due

to hold talks in Moscow with Russia's President Our correspondent

Richard Galpin is in Moscow. First of all, is this a hastily

arranged meeting? What is the message that President Putin will

have for the Secretary General? This is a hastily arranged meeting, no

indication this is something arranged a long time ago.

A specific mission by the Secretary General. He is coming to Russia,

then going to Ukraine tomorrow. It seems to be an attempt to mediate,

with the specific goal of trying to persuade the authorities in Moscow

and in Kiev to begin formal, direct negotiations, so they can reduce the

tension between the sides and reach some kind of diplomatic settlement,

a peaceable solution to this ongoing crisis. The Secretary General, his

spokesman, has said the Secretary General believes there is still room

for peaceful settlement through negotiation. Given the Russian

record on the Security Council over Syria, do you believe President

Putin will give more than polite attention to the Secretary General?

No, personally, I do not think so. Russia is set on a clear course,

directed by Vladimir Putin. They have succeeded in and sing the

Crimea. Effectively that is a given. The question is whether that is

enough for the Kremlin to achieve its overall strategic goal which is,

I believe, to undermine and roll back the Ukrainian revolution, and

make sure the government in Kiev is compliant with what Russia wants.

So, that is the question. Is taking Crimea going to be enough for

Russia, or will there be further military action? At the moment,

there is any sign as far as we can see from here, that Russia is

planning further military intervention. It seems to be the

opposite, at least, publicly, with Putin saying he does not want to

divide Ukraine. His spokesperson saying similar things. They are

still saying, if necessary, if the ethnic Russian population in Ukraine

is not protected by the government in Kiev, then, as the spokesman

said, then Russia would have to react.

In India, four men have been found guilty of the gang rape of a

photojournalist. The attack in an abandoned textile mill made

headlines around the world, coming just after the brutal gang rape and

murder of a student on a bus in Delhi.

This Court has witnessed what has perhaps been one of the quickest

rape trials in India. It took less than seven months. In August 2013, a

photojournalist on an assignment taking pictures in an abandoned

textile mill was gang raped by five men. Four of those men have been

found guilty by this Court. A fifth was juvenile, meaning users under 18

when it has committed. He is being tried separately. Both sides will be

able to present their arguments tomorrow before the court decides on

the punishment. It could attract a maximum sentence of life

imprisonment. The prosecution is saying they will see if there is any

president by which these men could get harsher punishment. This speedy

trial is perhaps the outcome of a new anti-rape law India passed last

year. One thing it promised was quicker trials. Sometimes cases can

go on the decades without an outcome. Even in the case of the

Delhi student, we saw an outcome in nine months. But these were cases

that made it to the headlines, had the media spotlight on them. The big

challenge before the government of India and the judiciary will be too

sure -- to ensure this speedy trial is replicated across the country.

Still to come: American scientists discover a new species of dinosaur

which could explain why they became extinct.

How much water do you use everyday? The amount varies enormously. That

depends wherein the world you live. Whether your country is in drought,

as well. This Saturday is world water Day. People across the globe

will be in courage to turn their taps off in order to increase

awareness of the value of water which they normally have access to.

For many, it would be easy. Our correspondence in Australia,

Pakistan and Kenya will speak to us, but first we go to California.

Drought has come to California. In a world of extremely -- increasingly

extreme weather, the West is getting drier and the water is running out.

Reservoirs across California are at just a fraction of their capacity.

You can see the normal level of this reservoir. It is not just because of

lack of rainfall, it is about politics and geography. California

is now asking whether it is now using what little water it has in

the wisest way. They pray for rain in these parts. This is

traditionally some of Australia's as farming country, but much of the

land is barren. The drought 400 plummet as north of Sydney is the

worst in living memory. -- 400 kilometres. To keep their land

viable, many farmers are being forced to sell their prized cattle.

In this city, the sale yard has been awash with livestock. Nobody is

buying stock to put back on their properties. If the cattle are not

good enough for an abattoir, then the price is very low.

This is BBC World News. The headlines: Possible wreckage of the

missing Malaysian airline is found on satellite images of the Southern

Ocean. A Norwegian cargo ship is searching

the area and military aircraft and naval vessels are on their way.

More diplomatic efforts over Russia's annexation of Crimea - the

UN Secretary General is going to Moscow for talks with President

Putin, while the EU considers more sanctions.

Now, more on our top story - it's day 13 of the search efforts and we

now have a "credible lead". Satellites have picked up images

showing two large objects that could possibly be debris from the missing

plane. They've been found just beyond the Southern most tip of the

search operation. They are about 2300 kilometres from Perth in

Western Australia. With me to discuss this is the BBC's

Andy Moore. You've been doing a lot of digging as to how that plane came

to be where it may have been found. Sources were telling me last night

they were pretty sure the aircraft would be found in this approximate

area. That was based on the signals coming from the satellite which were

recorded at hourly intervals. They showed when the fuel ran out it was

likely to be in the Southern Ocean, said they were pretty sure that

there would be some kind of evidence in this area. It seems that is the

case today. Let's just where that debris is at the moment. Here is the

map, it is 304,000 square kilometres, over 2000 kilometres

from Perth. It is a long way out in a hostile ocean. What are the

chances of finding much more? Firstly, we need to find the debris

field. Then we need to bind the impact point. It may have travelled

a very long distance from the actual impact point. Authorities can use

data of the probable cause of the aircraft. Let me show you and the

viewers this, from the website of the Australian government. The

Australian Maritime Safety Authority has produced this. These two lines

coming down here, that is where the search is now underway. But the fact

that there are two lines with this tag - possible routes - have the

NTSB known more all along? It seems so. They have not said anything

along the record -- other than the record but they clearly have a plot.

Those two lines, according to Australians, are based on different

as speeds of the aircraft. You can see there are three blocks. The

first is the Australian search on day one. The second larger one is

the search on day two. The third smaller one to the bottom and right

is the search today. That is based on this satellite image showing some

kind of debris outside the search area. If it is the plane, this is

where it ran out of fuel after seven hours of flying? This was all

prompted from the handshakes the plane was giving out every hour.

That seems to be the case. Nobody is saying that on the record. They are

all leaving it to the Malaysians to give the public information, and the

Malaysians are not putting in the public domain information that the

search authorities are clearly working on. I have to say, it is

only credible evidence it may be debris. We don't know at the moment,

at least not in the public space. 11 people have been killed by

suicide bombers in an attack on a police station in Afghanistan. The

attack was in the eastern city of Jalalabad early on Thursday morning.

More than 20 others were injured. Suicide bombers stormed the station

in the city centre, close to the office of the governor of Ningarhar

province. At least nine people have been

killed in a train crash in Southern Turkey. Reports suggest that the

train crashed into a minibus carrying workers at a level crossing

in Mersin. The train was heading towards the city of Adana 100

kilometres away. They've nicknamed it "the chicken

from hell". Scientists at Washington's Natural History Museum

say they've identified a brand new species of dinosaur. It looks like a

cross between an Ostrich and a lizard. Jane O'Brien has been

speaking to the museum's curator, Hans Sues.

What do we have here? This is a cast of the reconstructed skull of a new

dinosaur. It is noteworthy for a number of features. It has this

strange bony crest, it has a beak rather than any kind of teeth, and a

really peculiar jaw joint. This growth on the lower jaw, there are

bridges that it in so it can slide back and forth to cut up vegetation

and small animals, whatever it ate. So it did not have teeth. That is

right. You see this really sharp crest of the bone, you can see these

groups. So how big would this have been? This creature reached a length

of 3.5 metres and stood 1.5 metres tall. Why is it so important? Based

on these three partial skeletons, it is the first time we have gotten an

impression of what these creatures looked like. Previous, we had bits

of bones, but this is the first time we've really got in an impression of

what they look like. Basically, a large ground dwelling bird like an

e-mail or ostrich, crossed with an alligator, because it has a huge

long tail and other reptilian features. Does it tell us anything

about dinosaurs in general that we did not know?

Birdlike lineage, suggesting birds are from the lineage of dinosaurs.

And finally, more diversity in the dinosaurs alive at the final age of

the quotation period. It was long thought that dinosaur do visit it

was on the decline at that time, so that is interesting. This find,

along with others, shows that dinosaur diversity was not

diminished. So in other words, when the asteroids hit, that was the end

of the dinosaurs. That was the end, other than birds.

Before we go, let me show you these videos from China. That is one of

the airports aircraft 's of the US aircraft. On-board is Michelle

Obama, arriving for a week-long visit to promote education and

cultural ties with the US. She is accompanied thereby had two

daughters and is due to make a speech at Beijing University. She

will spend a day with the first lady of China. Much more to come about

what is happening in the Southern Ocean. Goodbye.