:00:10. > :00:14.Hello. On Geeta Guru-Murthy. This is BBC World News. Our top stories:
:00:15. > :00:17.More sightings of potential debris of missing flight MH370 - Malaysia
:00:18. > :00:23.says objects could be retrieved "within hours". A few minutes ago,
:00:24. > :00:27.the prime minister received a call from the prime minister of
:00:28. > :00:31.Australia, who informed him that an Australian search aircraft had
:00:32. > :00:34.located two objects in the Australian search area, one circular
:00:35. > :00:37.and one rectangular. More than 500 supporters of former
:00:38. > :00:40.Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi are sentenced to death for attacking
:00:41. > :00:49.police - their relatives protest outside court.
:00:50. > :00:53.Ukraine has ordered the withdrawal of its armed forces from Crimea.
:00:54. > :00:56.Russian troops have seized most of Ukraine's bases there.
:00:57. > :01:01.And it is the 70th anniversary of the Great Escape . Commemorations
:01:02. > :01:04.are taking this in Poland for the 76 Allied officers who tunnelled their
:01:05. > :01:25.way out of a high security Nazi prisoner of war camp.
:01:26. > :01:31.Australian search planes have found two new objects in the vast search
:01:32. > :01:34.area in the Indian Ocean - one circular, and one rectangular. It's
:01:35. > :01:37.hoped they can be retrieved in the coming hours.
:01:38. > :01:45.It's not yet clear if these are the same as the possible debris spotted
:01:46. > :01:48.earlier by a Chinese aircrew. Ten aircraft are taking part in the
:01:49. > :01:51.latest search operations for the Malaysia Airlines plane which went
:01:52. > :01:54.missing 16 days ago, with 239 people on board. A short while ago, the
:01:55. > :02:02.Malaysian authorities gave this update at a press conference. A few
:02:03. > :02:06.minutes ago, the prime minister received a call from the prime
:02:07. > :02:10.minister of Australia, who informed him that an Australian search
:02:11. > :02:18.aircraft had located to objects in the Australian search area, one
:02:19. > :02:21.circular and one rectangular. HMAS Success is in the vicinity, and it
:02:22. > :02:25.is possible that the objects could be received within the next few
:02:26. > :02:31.hours or by tomorrow morning at the latest. These three search areas,
:02:32. > :02:35.totalling approximately 20,000 square nautical miles, have been
:02:36. > :02:38.identified for operations today. Australia's prime minister, Tony
:02:39. > :02:48.Abbott, says an Australian navy ship may be able to retrieve these items
:02:49. > :02:55.within the next few hours. The Australian Maritime safety authority
:02:56. > :03:01.has advised that objects have been located by a royal Australian air
:03:02. > :03:06.force Orion. I can advise the house that HMAS Success is on scene is
:03:07. > :03:12.attempting to locate and recover these objects. The objects were
:03:13. > :03:19.spotted in a search area about 2500 kilometres south-west of birth at
:03:20. > :03:24.about two .45 p.m., our time. The crew on board the Orion said two
:03:25. > :03:32.objects, the first a grey or green circular object and the second and
:03:33. > :03:35.orange, rectangular object. These are separate to the objects reported
:03:36. > :03:41.earlier today by a Chinese search aircraft. We have just received
:03:42. > :03:46.these pictures from one of Australian planes which have been
:03:47. > :03:52.searching for flight MH370. The smoke you can see from the waves is
:03:53. > :03:56.from a marker dropped to mark where an object were spotted. It in turn
:03:57. > :03:59.helps determine the wind speed and the current, which then makes it
:04:00. > :04:03.easy for a ship to make contact with the object. It is not yet clear what
:04:04. > :04:07.the debris is. That can only be determined once it is retrieved. But
:04:08. > :04:15.it gives an idea of how the search is being carried out. Our
:04:16. > :04:21.correspondent is in Kuala Lumpur. Quite a few developments today.
:04:22. > :04:24.Obviously for the families, the wait goes on. Very difficult if the plane
:04:25. > :04:30.has gone down in this very deep waters? It is very difficult,
:04:31. > :04:35.because it seems as if we are almost on the verge of a breakthrough,
:04:36. > :04:39.never more so than now. There is an Australian ship in the area, trying
:04:40. > :04:44.to pick up whatever was by the Australian aircraft crew and bring
:04:45. > :04:48.it back for assessment. If what was seen is part of this airliner, that
:04:49. > :04:54.will be a breakthrough, because it will mean that we know where it
:04:55. > :04:58.ended up, which will help the search for the black box that could tell us
:04:59. > :05:02.the story of what happened. None of that is certain yet. More than two
:05:03. > :05:07.weeks after this plane went missing, the families are still waiting to
:05:08. > :05:13.know what happened to it and whether they will ever know what happened.
:05:14. > :05:20.Do we have an idea of how many ships are in the area? We have heard from
:05:21. > :05:22.the Australians that their ship could retrieve the objects in the
:05:23. > :05:28.next few hours, or possibly by tomorrow morning. There are several
:05:29. > :05:33.ships en route to the area, although progress can be quite slow. A
:05:34. > :05:38.British ship is en route from the Maldives. There is an American ship
:05:39. > :05:43.with specialist equipment that is designed to trace the black box
:05:44. > :05:48.recorder. Various other countries are sending vessels as well. At the
:05:49. > :05:51.moment, the focus is on the Australian ship, because if in the
:05:52. > :05:56.next few hours, they can retrieve these objects, it will put us on the
:05:57. > :06:02.path to understanding whether we are searching in the right area.
:06:03. > :06:05.More now on our story from Egypt, where preliminary death sentences
:06:06. > :06:08.have been given to 528 supporters of the former president, Mohammed
:06:09. > :06:11.Morsi. A court in Minya - south of Cairo - convicted them of
:06:12. > :06:13.involvement in the murder of a policeman and attacking police last
:06:14. > :06:22.August. Murad Batal Shishani from BBC Arabic
:06:23. > :06:26.is here. Only about 150 or so were in court, but they have been given
:06:27. > :06:30.death sentences and family are protesting, perhaps unsurprisingly?
:06:31. > :06:34.It seems a significant point in Egyptian politics. There is a
:06:35. > :06:47.mention of legal procedures which many people are now raising. As you
:06:48. > :06:50.mentioned, people are protesting. But more significantly, there is the
:06:51. > :07:03.political aspect of this court verdict. Egyptian authorities seem
:07:04. > :07:06.to be sending a strong political message about the way they are going
:07:07. > :07:16.to solve issues. The reaction of the Muslim Brotherhood may or may not be
:07:17. > :07:23.violent. All these questions are now being raised after the verdict.
:07:24. > :07:33.There is still a chance for appeal and we don't know if the grand mufti
:07:34. > :07:38.will appeal the sentence as yet. And a lot of people are on the run, so
:07:39. > :07:42.they may not be found at all. In terms of the political reaction,
:07:43. > :07:49.what is the position of the Muslim Brotherhood now? Obviously the fear
:07:50. > :07:52.is that as you say, you provoke and radicalise more people and you get
:07:53. > :07:56.more violence. But there has been such a tough crackdown by the
:07:57. > :08:01.military. Indeed. The Muslim Brotherhood is the biggest
:08:02. > :08:12.elliptical movement in the Arab world -- the biggest political
:08:13. > :08:16.movement. However, this group have historically used victimhood. They
:08:17. > :08:20.have never been in power apart from after the Arab Spring. Having said
:08:21. > :08:25.that, they can now recruit more youngsters by saying, we are victims
:08:26. > :08:29.of what is going on. We have seen a younger generation who feel isolated
:08:30. > :08:35.and frustrated, and the Muslim Brotherhood has not responded to
:08:36. > :08:42.their political needs. Having said that, they might be more politicised
:08:43. > :08:46.in the longer run. We believe the Muslim Brotherhood will stick to the
:08:47. > :08:52.old statements, saying that we are a non-violent group and we will carry
:08:53. > :08:56.on with protests. There will be a tilt in power between the new
:08:57. > :08:59.generation or whether they carry on more protests.
:09:00. > :09:02.Within the last few hours, the acting president of Ukraine has
:09:03. > :09:04.ordered the withdrawal of its forces from Crimea. President Turchynov
:09:05. > :09:08.said the decision had been taken because of threats to the lives of
:09:09. > :09:16.service personnel and their families. We have just confirmation
:09:17. > :09:22.from a Ukrainian official that every military base in Crimea is now under
:09:23. > :09:25.Russian control. Earlier today, Russian troops stormed the Feodosia
:09:26. > :09:28.naval base, using automatic weapons and stun grenades. A defence
:09:29. > :09:31.ministry spokesman in Kiev said members of the Ukrainian forces were
:09:32. > :09:34.led out with their hands tied. President Obama is in the
:09:35. > :09:37.Netherlands to meet the G7 group of industrialised countries to discuss
:09:38. > :09:41.Ukraine. The group are to hold talks on the sidelines of a nuclear
:09:42. > :09:43.security summit. Not long after arriving in the country, President
:09:44. > :09:52.Obama gave a news conference where he reaffirmed his support to the
:09:53. > :09:57.people of Ukraine. Europe and America are united in our support of
:09:58. > :10:02.the Ukrainian government and the Ukrainian people. We are united in
:10:03. > :10:12.imposing a cost on Russia for its actions so far. Growing sanctions
:10:13. > :10:18.will bring significant consequences to the Russian economy. I will be
:10:19. > :10:21.meeting my fellow G7 leaders today and we will continue to coordinate
:10:22. > :10:25.closely with the Netherlands and our European partners. We can go live
:10:26. > :10:31.now to Moscow, from where our correspondent Daniel Sandford joins
:10:32. > :10:36.us. It is not clear how far the West will go in terms of sanctions, but
:10:37. > :10:40.already I see that Russia's SNP back were saying today that 9 billion
:10:41. > :10:43.rubles have been withdrawn by deposit since US sanctions were
:10:44. > :10:49.announced last week. How much is Russia hurting already and how much
:10:50. > :10:53.more are they willing to take? I think they are willing to pay a very
:10:54. > :10:56.great price. That was part of the calculation that the Russian
:10:57. > :11:02.government made when they decided to annex Crimea. They knew there would
:11:03. > :11:10.be consequences. So far, none of the consequences that the West Ham
:11:11. > :11:17.brought about have surprised anyone -- the consequences that the West
:11:18. > :11:20.have brought about. I think people are probably moving their money out
:11:21. > :11:26.of banks which are likely to have robins with sanctions -- problems
:11:27. > :11:29.with sanctions. There will still be free-flowing money between the West
:11:30. > :11:35.and Russia. That is what they will be hoping for now. President Obama
:11:36. > :11:38.was talking about punishment for the actions that Russia have taken so
:11:39. > :11:42.far. There is still there for concern from America and the West
:11:43. > :11:45.that there might be further action by the Russians. The Russian defence
:11:46. > :11:50.minister has just turned up in Crimea. He is the first Russian
:11:51. > :11:54.cabinet ministers to turn up there. One of his first actions was to
:11:55. > :11:58.appoint as deputy leader of the Black Sea fleet a Ukrainian naval
:11:59. > :12:02.commander who had effectively betrayed the Ukrainian Navy by
:12:03. > :12:09.trying to persuade Ukrainian sailors to come over to the Russian side.
:12:10. > :12:14.Now that the Ukrainian government has ordered all its troops to leave
:12:15. > :12:17.Crimea, its future looks unclear. Our correspondent looks at some of
:12:18. > :12:24.the ways in which Crimea will change as it becomes part of Russia. A
:12:25. > :12:31.lovely cup of Crimean coffee. Today it costs about 25 Ukrainian, the
:12:32. > :12:34.equivalent of $2 50, but soon it will become 100 rubles as the
:12:35. > :12:39.Russian currency gradually replaces the Ukrainian one. A week ago, there
:12:40. > :12:44.was a sign nailed to this local parliament building, reading, the
:12:45. > :12:49.Parliament of the autonomous republic of Crimea, written in
:12:50. > :12:52.Russian but also Ukrainian. Now the new letters simply read, the
:12:53. > :12:57.Republic of Crimea State Council, written only in Russian, with the
:12:58. > :13:01.Russian trickle or flying proudly above. For now, most Crimean is like
:13:02. > :13:06.Natasha still have their Ukrainian passport. As of next month, if they
:13:07. > :13:11.want to keep that, I will have to officially declare it to the Russian
:13:12. > :13:13.Federation and be termed foreigners here in Crimea. Otherwise, they will
:13:14. > :13:18.automatically be issued with a Russian passport. Their
:13:19. > :13:22.nationalities will be officially changing within a matter of weeks.
:13:23. > :13:26.If you want to watch Ukrainian television now in Crimea, you have
:13:27. > :13:30.to get it via cable or satellite. If you are just watching analogue or
:13:31. > :13:34.terrestrial TV, you will only get the Russian channels. The media here
:13:35. > :13:40.has already made the shift. For now, it is the same time in Crimea as in
:13:41. > :13:45.mainland Ukraine, 2:40pm. But in a few weeks' time, that will zoom
:13:46. > :13:51.forward by two hours as Crimea adopts the Moscow Times on. Prepare
:13:52. > :14:00.to adjust your watches in the new Russian republic of Crimea.
:14:01. > :14:04.In other news, officials in Yemen say 20 soldiers have been killed in
:14:05. > :14:10.an attack on a military checkpoint. They died during a gun battle in the
:14:11. > :14:14.east of the country. Yemen has been in turmoil since President Ali
:14:15. > :14:16.Abdullah Saleh resigned in 2012. Al-Qaeda has been waging a campaign
:14:17. > :14:20.against the Western backed government. The United States is
:14:21. > :14:24.sending more special forces to Uganda to bolster the search for the
:14:25. > :14:26.Lord's Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony.
:14:27. > :14:31.A US spokesman said African Union led forces would remain in charge of
:14:32. > :14:33.the operation, with US working in and did buys a reroll.
:14:34. > :14:36.The far right National Front in France has done better than expected
:14:37. > :14:41.in the first round of voting in municipal elections. The party won
:14:42. > :14:46.and outright majority in a Northern town, and went through to the second
:14:47. > :14:49.round in some 200 places across the country. The vote is being seen as a
:14:50. > :14:52.sign of disenchantment with the governing Socialist Party of
:14:53. > :14:59.President Francois Hollande. Much more to come. A neighbour of
:15:00. > :15:07.Oscar Pistorius says she heard screaming followed by gunshots on
:15:08. > :15:09.the night he killed his girlfriend. Protests in Taiwan's capital,
:15:10. > :15:12.Taipei, have turned violent as riot police clashed with student
:15:13. > :15:15.demonstrators. Officers have been trying to evict several hundred
:15:16. > :15:22.protesters who broke into the Government's central headquarters.
:15:23. > :15:29.Our reporter managed to get inside the building and sent this report.
:15:30. > :15:39.I am inside the parliament. Students have occupied this chamber. At any
:15:40. > :15:46.given time, 400 students are here. Some of them are having lunch
:15:47. > :15:52.because it is lunchtime. Many of them have camped out and catching up
:15:53. > :15:56.on sleep. The students are organising themselves into
:15:57. > :16:03.committees. This committee is in charge of eight entrances to the
:16:04. > :16:12.chamber, which are blocked. They have pushed shares against the
:16:13. > :16:18.entrances. 700 other students tried to storm into the building
:16:19. > :16:23.yesterday. Police drove them away. The Government has also asked the
:16:24. > :16:26.students to leave, saying it is necessary to restore the normal
:16:27. > :16:30.functioning of democracy. The students believe what they are doing
:16:31. > :16:35.is important to protect the hard-fought democracy that Taiwan
:16:36. > :16:40.is. With me is a student spokesperson. Why do you believe
:16:41. > :16:45.what you are doing is so important? We can see the Government has failed
:16:46. > :16:53.to reflect the voices of people. We are calling for a constitutional
:16:54. > :17:00.conference to establish monitoring mechanisms for potentially harmful
:17:01. > :17:03.agreement with China. The Government has insisted the trade agreement
:17:04. > :17:06.should allow Taiwanese company is much greater access to China and
:17:07. > :17:08.this will create jobs for young people. Many people here do not
:17:09. > :17:21.agree with this. This is BBC World News. The latest
:17:22. > :17:25.headlines... Australian search planes have found new potential
:17:26. > :17:33.debris in the bar search area in the Indian Ocean for missing flight,
:17:34. > :17:43.MH370. The missing objects will be recovered in the next few hours, it
:17:44. > :17:47.is hoped. Supporters of Muhammad -- Mohammed more sea have been
:17:48. > :17:50.sentenced to death. Returning to our main story this hour, the news that
:17:51. > :17:53.teams searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 may
:17:54. > :17:56.have located two objects in the Indian Ocean which could be debris
:17:57. > :18:00.from a plane. Ships have been sent to pick the objects up that could
:18:01. > :18:03.happen within hours. It could mean an end, finally, to the waiting
:18:04. > :18:06.which the families and relatives of the 239 people board have been
:18:07. > :18:09.subjected to. There's been an outpouring of support in Malaysia,
:18:10. > :18:12.where one of the organisers is the prominent social activist and
:18:13. > :18:15.daughter of a former Prime Minister, Marina Mahathir. She spoke with the
:18:16. > :18:31.BBC's Jennifer Pak in Kuala Lumpur: it is a hard time for many of us,
:18:32. > :18:39.especially the families affected. We all do feel sort of band together
:18:40. > :18:47.with this plane. It is kind of a national tragedy. There have been a
:18:48. > :18:50.lock of criticism as to how Malaysian officials had been
:18:51. > :18:56.handling it. Other countries have been very critical, like China. Your
:18:57. > :19:02.father was leader of this country before, what do you think of the
:19:03. > :19:07.criticism of the nation? I think they are just being very cautious.
:19:08. > :19:14.The worst thing is to give people hope and then Dash it immediately.
:19:15. > :19:17.If the rest of us already feel like that, imagine what the families
:19:18. > :19:24.feel. I think they are doing the best they can. More than two thirds
:19:25. > :19:29.of the passengers on board from China. A lot of them are very angry.
:19:30. > :19:34.They seem to think that the Malaysian government is hiding
:19:35. > :19:38.something. I suspect there is a cultural problem here. Without being
:19:39. > :19:42.undiplomatic, perhaps they are used to a certain form of government and
:19:43. > :19:55.they think that everyone else is the same. A moment of silence... At this
:19:56. > :20:02.juncture, I am praying for some evidence to be found of where it is.
:20:03. > :20:06.Then we will have a clue of what might have happened and then we can
:20:07. > :20:17.take it from there. I think it will be a long process. Our correspondent
:20:18. > :20:22.is in Perth, where the search operation is being coordinated. We
:20:23. > :20:29.have some details about what has been spotted by the Australians,
:20:30. > :20:35.haven't we? Two pieces of debris that have been spotted by an
:20:36. > :20:41.Australian surveillance plane. One is a grey or green circular piece
:20:42. > :20:46.and the other an orange rectangle. These pieces were found 2500
:20:47. > :20:55.kilometres south-west of Perth. On their way to try to locate these
:20:56. > :21:00.bits of debris are sailors on board HMS success, an Australian naval
:21:01. > :21:05.vessel. They are being assisted because the Australian aircraft that
:21:06. > :21:09.spotted this debris dropped flares and GPS equipment into the ocean.
:21:10. > :21:13.That should help to narrow down the search. What the sailors on board
:21:14. > :21:18.the Australian naval ship are contending with it are some of the
:21:19. > :21:24.roughest seas in the world. Until that debris is in the hand of
:21:25. > :21:28.investigators, we will not know how significant this particular find
:21:29. > :21:35.is. How long we'll set the could it be before the ships reach it? It
:21:36. > :21:42.could be tomorrow morning, I understand. Here, in the west of
:21:43. > :21:46.Australia, it is approaching 8pm. Only time will tell when the
:21:47. > :21:51.Australian naval vessel is able to get to the precise area and, of
:21:52. > :21:54.course, trying to find these relatively small pieces of debris in
:21:55. > :22:00.the ocean could take them all night, it could take them all day.
:22:01. > :22:04.They may not find them. That is another unanswered question. If they
:22:05. > :22:08.do manage to retrieve them, it could take several days to make the long
:22:09. > :22:13.journey back to Perth in Australia, given they are having to contend
:22:14. > :22:20.with those icy and unpredictable waters in the southern Indian Ocean.
:22:21. > :22:23.Thank you. The BBC transport correspondent and a former British
:22:24. > :22:31.Airways pilot will answer some of your questions about the missing
:22:32. > :22:36.flight in a live twitter Q at 1:30pm today. You can tweet your
:22:37. > :22:38.question to @BBCwestcott using the hashtag #AskBBCRichard. E-mail
:22:39. > :22:49.Haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk or text your question.
:22:50. > :22:59.Many, many questions. We will keep you up to date as far as we can. An
:23:00. > :23:02.eight car commuter train derailed at Chicago 's O'Hare Airport overnight,
:23:03. > :23:05.injuring 32 people on board when it failed to stop at the airport's
:23:06. > :23:08.underground station. Police officials say the train hit the
:23:09. > :23:12.buffers then mounted the pavement, ending up on the escalators to the
:23:13. > :23:17.airport - one of the busiest in the US. The exact reason for the crash
:23:18. > :23:20.is still being investigated. A neighbour of Oscar Pistorius says
:23:21. > :23:29.she heard screaming followed by gunshots on the night he killed his
:23:30. > :23:35.girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. The trial has entered its fourth week.
:23:36. > :23:43.Oscar Pistorius denies intentionally shooting Reeva Steenkamp, saying he
:23:44. > :23:47.mistook her for an intruder. Thanks to the famous Hollywood movie, most
:23:48. > :23:54.of us are a bit familiar with the story of the great escape. -- the
:23:55. > :23:57.Great Escape when Allied officers tunnelled their way out of a
:23:58. > :24:08.high-security Nazi prisoner of war camp in Poland. Today marks the 70th
:24:09. > :24:12.anniversary of that escape. Moss covered brick and concrete provide
:24:13. > :24:18.the only remaining links to the wartime story which spawned a
:24:19. > :24:25.Hollywood blockbuster the story of an ambitious plan to tunnel out of
:24:26. > :24:30.what was billed as an escape route camp and allow Allied airmen to head
:24:31. > :24:36.for home. It was audacious. It was quite remarkable. When you think
:24:37. > :24:45.that tunnel was dug by people without tools, with the security and
:24:46. > :24:51.secrecy. We knew it was being planned because there was work going
:24:52. > :24:56.on in the room next to me. Three tunnels were dug and only one was
:24:57. > :25:00.used. The film-makers did their best to portray the claustrophobic and
:25:01. > :25:08.dangerous conditions ten metres down in the unstable sound. The prisoners
:25:09. > :25:17.excavated 200 tonnes of sand and used 4000 of their own boards to
:25:18. > :25:22.shore up the cramped passages. The final tunnel, codenamed Harry,
:25:23. > :25:26.stretched over 100 metres under the outer fence. It still lies beneath
:25:27. > :25:31.the feet of those who visit the spot where more than 70 men made a break
:25:32. > :25:37.for freedom. It was only the following day that we heard roughly
:25:38. > :25:41.how many had got through. The Germans we counted us to try to
:25:42. > :25:47.establish how many people were missing and, admittedly much they
:25:48. > :26:02.got little help from us because we kept moving around to confuse the
:26:03. > :26:07.counting. Today, veterans will remember those executed by the
:26:08. > :26:15.bizarre purge. Only three managed to return to the UK. -- the Gestapo.
:26:16. > :26:18.You escaped, you are caught, you are put into solitary confinement, you
:26:19. > :26:27.were released, you got a round of applause. After The Great Escape, it
:26:28. > :26:35.stopped being a game, it became, literally, deadly serious. Service
:26:36. > :26:39.volunteers have reconstructed the guard tower just a few feet from the
:26:40. > :26:43.tunnel. Veterans know they may not return but they are confident this
:26:44. > :26:50.story will be passed on. The Ait makes me emotional. What is
:26:51. > :26:55.interesting now, there was a gap when there was little interest in
:26:56. > :27:02.it. There is very much more interest in it now. It should be remembered
:27:03. > :27:03.what people sacrificed during