:00:00. > :00:00.Hello. This is BBC World News.
:00:00. > :00:15.a national day of mourning is being held in the Netherlands as the
:00:16. > :00:18.country waits for its dead. As Israel's military operation
:00:19. > :00:22.continues with more strikes, the UN Human Rights Commissioner
:00:23. > :00:25.suggests Israel could be committing war crimes in Gaza -
:00:26. > :00:29.and against children. And the 20th Commonwealth Games,
:00:30. > :00:32.featuring more than 4,000 athletes from around the world -
:00:33. > :00:51.begins in Glasgow today. The first bodies from the Malaysia
:00:52. > :00:56.Airlines plane that crashed in eastern Ukraine are being flown to
:00:57. > :01:00.the Netherlands - where a national day of mourning has been declared
:01:01. > :01:03.for the 298 people who were killed. US intelligence officials say
:01:04. > :01:05.the airliner was probably shot down They say there's no direct
:01:06. > :01:12.evidence of Russian involvement. Well,
:01:13. > :01:15.we're finding out more details Malaysia Airlines steward
:01:16. > :01:21.Sanjid Singh Sandhu was not supposed He had swapped shifts with
:01:22. > :01:24.a colleague to return home a day earlier
:01:25. > :01:27.so that he could visit his parents. In an extraordinary twist of fate,
:01:28. > :01:30.his wife, who is also a flight attendant, had been saved
:01:31. > :01:34.from a similar fate when she switched shifts from Malaysian jet
:01:35. > :01:37.MH370 which vanished en route from Fatima Dyczynski was a German
:01:38. > :01:44.aerospace engineer. She was travelling to Australia
:01:45. > :01:51.to begin an internship with IBM. She was the founder of a high-tech
:01:52. > :01:56.start-up based in the Netherlands. Its website describes her
:01:57. > :02:14.as 'brightly outspoken, ambitious This whole family has been lost.
:02:15. > :02:28.They were returning from a holiday. Their eldest son was about to start
:02:29. > :02:34.university. Today is a significant day because many of the bodies are
:02:35. > :02:38.being taken out of Ukraine. They are being flown to the Netherlands were
:02:39. > :02:42.a day of mourning is being held across the country. The Dutch king
:02:43. > :02:47.and queen will be in nine to open with the relatives of some of the
:02:48. > :02:52.298 people on board. From their Anna Holligan reports but first of all we
:02:53. > :02:58.are going to bring you a few words from the Dutch government
:02:59. > :03:01.representative who was in Kharkiv airport where there was a moving
:03:02. > :03:05.speech. We have
:03:06. > :03:09.a painful identification process to But, the Dutch government wants to
:03:10. > :03:14.assure family members and all those concerned that we want
:03:15. > :03:17.to do the identification as quickly as possible with full respect for
:03:18. > :03:33.human dignity and the individual. A few words from a representative of
:03:34. > :03:36.the Dutch government. Let's go to Anna Holligan who is in Eindhoven
:03:37. > :03:42.for us. A serene, stable nation caught up
:03:43. > :03:45.in somebody else's conflict. This shrine, growing everyday,
:03:46. > :03:52.now marks the spot at Departures 3, the point
:03:53. > :03:55.from which the dead departed. This started with just a couple
:03:56. > :03:58.of bouquets on Thursday evening and as more and more people heard
:03:59. > :04:01.about the disaster, just look Schiphol is an international hub
:04:02. > :04:06.airport and hundreds of passengers pass through these doors every day
:04:07. > :04:11.and many of them have been stopping off here to pay their respects to
:04:12. > :04:16.the passengers who were on board that flight, passengers just
:04:17. > :04:19.like them, many of them going away on holiday, and if you look down
:04:20. > :04:23.here you can see the international The Netherlands is a calm, reserved
:04:24. > :04:31.country but front-page images have moved emotions from shock and
:04:32. > :04:35.sadness to fury and frustration, Since Thursday I've been thinking,
:04:36. > :04:47.how horrible must have been the final moments of their lives when
:04:48. > :04:54.they knew the plane was going down. Did they lock hands with
:04:55. > :04:57.their loved ones? Did they hold their children
:04:58. > :05:05.close to their hearts? Did they look each other
:05:06. > :05:11.in the eyes one final time The bodies will be flown
:05:12. > :05:21.into Eindhoven. Families will wait alongside
:05:22. > :05:25.the Dutch king and queen. None of them will know
:05:26. > :05:28.whether the coffins will contain The list of names of the 193 missing
:05:29. > :05:33.Dutch victims was Some of the remains still lie
:05:34. > :05:41.in eastern Ukraine. At this Dutch military facility just
:05:42. > :05:44.outside the city of Hilversum they have been making preparations
:05:45. > :05:47.for the arrival of the remains. Soon the eyes of the internationally
:05:48. > :05:53.affected community will be on this Over the coming
:05:54. > :05:59.days, weeks and perhaps even months the bodies of those passengers will
:06:00. > :06:02.be driven through these gates to be Before they can finally be
:06:03. > :06:08.reunited with their families. This is a small nation,
:06:09. > :06:27.one that is not accustomed to such Anna Holligan in Eindhoven. We can
:06:28. > :06:32.also see Dutch flags flying at half-mast on buildings and boats in
:06:33. > :06:39.Amsterdam today. The country is observing a day of mourning for all
:06:40. > :06:44.of the crash victims. Around 200 of the almost 300 people on board were
:06:45. > :06:50.Dutch. So this is a huge tragedy for the nation. At the site itself the
:06:51. > :06:56.people there have been absolutely shaken by what has happened. Our
:06:57. > :07:01.correspondent Natalia Anteleva went to talk to some of the villagers in
:07:02. > :07:02.eastern Ukraine who have also been holding memorial services for the
:07:03. > :07:33.victims. We want to testify to the entire
:07:34. > :07:51.world, he says, that we are not terrorists.
:07:52. > :07:56.There is so many political disagreements here and so much
:07:57. > :08:00.blame. Everyone is blaming the rebels, the government in Kiev,
:08:01. > :08:04.Russia, the United States - but one thing that is very clear is that
:08:05. > :08:05.villagers who are living around here are very traumatised about what
:08:06. > :08:54.happened. That memorial service in eastern
:08:55. > :08:59.Ukraine, the reporter Natalia Anteleva. We are going to leave that
:09:00. > :09:03.news story and moved to our other news. Events in Gaza and Israel. In
:09:04. > :09:06.the last half an hour or so we have learned that a foreign worker has
:09:07. > :09:15.been killed by mortar fire from Gaza. Police say he was struck in
:09:16. > :09:20.Israel where he was working. We don't have any more details but
:09:21. > :09:23.we'll bring them as soon as we can. Unicef has told the BBC today that
:09:24. > :09:28.children in Gaza are dying at a rate of more than one an hour. The UN
:09:29. > :09:32.human rights Commissioner Navi Pillay has also told the
:09:33. > :09:35.organisation's human rights Council that the action could amount to war
:09:36. > :09:39.crimes. She said the disregard to the right to life is checking the
:09:40. > :09:46.evident and the apparent targeting of children playing on a Gaza beach.
:09:47. > :09:51.147 children have been killed in Gaza over the past 16 days. They had
:09:52. > :10:01.a right to life, just like children in any other country. Their killings
:10:02. > :10:08.raise concerns about the respectful proportionality and proportions in
:10:09. > :10:11.attack. -- respect for. Israeli children and parents and other
:10:12. > :10:15.citizens also have a right to live without the constant fear that a
:10:16. > :10:17.rocket fired from Gaza may land on their homes or their schools,
:10:18. > :10:28.killing or injuring them. The US Secretary of State John Kerry
:10:29. > :10:31.has arrived in Israel through the country's main international
:10:32. > :10:33.airport - despite a 24-hour ban It was imposed after
:10:34. > :10:36.a rocket fired from Gaza landed The Israeli Prime Minister,
:10:37. > :10:39.Benjamin Netanyahu, had earlier asked Mr Kerry to lift
:10:40. > :10:43.the ban, which had led to carriers from other countries have
:10:44. > :10:50.implementing their own suspensions. The US Federal aviation authority
:10:51. > :10:55.has introduced a 24-hour ban on flights after a rocket from Gaza
:10:56. > :11:01.landed near Tel Aviv's airport. Our correspondent Bethany Bell is at Ben
:11:02. > :11:05.Gurion Airport. The airport is open. We were told
:11:06. > :11:09.there are a number of flights going in and out. We were told by an
:11:10. > :11:16.airport spokesman a few minutes ago that there are 50% fewer flights
:11:17. > :11:19.here at the moment. Among the airlines still flying in our British
:11:20. > :11:27.airways, Royal Jordanian and the Israeli carrier. The mood among the
:11:28. > :11:31.people we have been speaking to is fairly relaxed. People talking about
:11:32. > :11:39.the annoyance they have been delayed but people here being -- have been
:11:40. > :11:44.said they are not that concerned. The Israeli aviation authority says
:11:45. > :11:51.Ben Gurion is safe for take-off and landing but there is a great deal of
:11:52. > :11:54.concern among US air carriers and other European ones like Lufthansa,
:11:55. > :12:01.because of this rocket which fell about a mile away from here
:12:02. > :12:06.yesterday. Given what happened in Ukraine I think there is a sense of
:12:07. > :12:14.a great deal of wishing to not take too many risks at the moment.
:12:15. > :12:22.Bethany Bell at Ben Gurion Airport. Shimon Peres earlier criticised the
:12:23. > :12:28.flight ban. I regret that airlines have suspended flights. The real
:12:29. > :12:33.answer to the danger of flying is not to stop the flights but to stop
:12:34. > :12:45.the rockets which are endangering the flights. If any understanding is
:12:46. > :12:51.shown by the ones who fired the rockets it is endangering air
:12:52. > :12:54.traffic. Shimon Peres. 18 Palestinians have been killed in
:12:55. > :12:58.fighting today bringing the total number of casualties to almost 650,
:12:59. > :13:04.more than 30 Israelis have also been killed so far. Our correspondent in
:13:05. > :13:10.Gaza Yolande Knell gave me this update on the violence there.
:13:11. > :13:14.Overnight the fighting continued into a 16th day, five people were
:13:15. > :13:17.killed in the southern town of Khan Younis, as you mentioned, and we
:13:18. > :13:22.also heard more shelling to the north-east of Gaza city this
:13:23. > :13:26.morning. This is where Israel said it is targeting tunnels used by
:13:27. > :13:29.Palestinian militants to launch cross-border raids into its
:13:30. > :13:33.territory, and also to store the rockets that are launched into its
:13:34. > :13:39.territory. But at the same time, perhaps, as some little signs of
:13:40. > :13:43.encouragement and hope on the Palestinian side, particularly after
:13:44. > :13:47.this meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organisation which is an
:13:48. > :13:52.umbrella body for the Palestinian factions that met in Ramallah late
:13:53. > :13:55.yesterday. And basically, it is headed by Palestinian President
:13:56. > :14:02.Mahmoud 's. He and other members of the PLO came out afterwards backing
:14:03. > :14:06.the central demands of Hamas for a cease-fire with Israel. It
:14:07. > :14:10.strengthens the Palestinian position when it comes back to this Egyptian
:14:11. > :14:14.efforts to mediate some kind of truce will stop what they are
:14:15. > :14:18.supporting is the idea there should be the release of many of these
:14:19. > :14:21.Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails and also an end to the very
:14:22. > :14:26.tight border restrictions, the blockade of Gaza imposed by both
:14:27. > :14:30.Israel and Egypt. And in particular they are looking to Cairo to reopen
:14:31. > :14:34.the Rafah border crossing. At the moment we have not heard a reply
:14:35. > :14:39.from the Hamas leadership to this suggestion and what the Palestinian
:14:40. > :14:43.President Mahmoud Abbas is also saying, his Fatah faction, there
:14:44. > :14:48.should be trees followed by five days of negotiation on these crucial
:14:49. > :14:52.issues. Knell. There has been a response to Navi Pillay's words that
:14:53. > :14:55.Israel might be committing war crimes from the Israeli ambassador
:14:56. > :15:03.speaking at the human rights Council in Geneva. He said Israel had the
:15:04. > :15:08.right to defend itself against attacks by Hamas, saying Hamas is
:15:09. > :15:10.committing war crimes when it fires rockets and missiles
:15:11. > :15:13.indiscriminately at Israeli towns and villages. It is launching
:15:14. > :15:19.tunnels from Gaza into Israel, trying to attack villages and there
:15:20. > :15:24.can be no moral symmetry, he says, between a terrorist aggressor and a
:15:25. > :15:32.democracy defending itself. So, clearly the diplomacy has some way
:15:33. > :15:38.to go. Stay with us on BBC Two, much more to come. The building that
:15:39. > :15:39.appeared in a spy drama and why families were made to leave it. More
:15:40. > :15:45.coming up. Nigeria's President Goodluck
:15:46. > :15:55.Jonathan has had his first meeting with the parents of some of the 219
:15:56. > :15:58.Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by The president has been criticised
:15:59. > :16:01.for not doing enough to rescue the girls since they were taken
:16:02. > :16:04.by Islamic militants in April. He sought to reassure them that
:16:05. > :16:27.the government is working to secure 14 weeks after the girls were taken,
:16:28. > :16:32.families and friends finally got the chance to meet Nigeria's president.
:16:33. > :16:35.Mothers, fathers and some of the girls who escaped the kidnappers
:16:36. > :16:41.came to the capital to find out what is being done to get them back.
:16:42. > :16:46.Still full of grief and pain, but all eager to hear what Goodluck
:16:47. > :16:51.Jonathan had to say. Afterwards, one father said he had been comforted by
:16:52. > :16:58.the President's words. TRANSLATION: The president is going to make every
:16:59. > :17:02.effort to bring the girls back. He has promised to sponsor the girls
:17:03. > :17:06.after their rescue, to continue their education. That has given me
:17:07. > :17:11.hope. Since April, when the girls were taken by militants from Boko
:17:12. > :17:15.Haram, the Nigerian government has been accused of doing too little.
:17:16. > :17:24.Critics say that the security forces are thinly spread, poorly armed and
:17:25. > :17:27.badly motivated. Meanwhile, Boko Haram continues to attack
:17:28. > :17:35.communities across the north of the country. The ongoing violence has
:17:36. > :17:39.killed at least seven parents of the missing girls. Relatives say that
:17:40. > :17:43.four more died from heart attacks or other illnesses. Northern Nigeria's
:17:44. > :17:49.troubles appear to be getting worse, not better.
:17:50. > :17:58.This is BBC World News. I'm Geeta Guru-Murthy.
:17:59. > :18:01.The first bodies recovered from flight MH17 are being flown to
:18:02. > :18:04.the Netherlands, where a national day of mourning is being held.
:18:05. > :18:06.The UN human rights commissioner suggests Israel could be committing
:18:07. > :18:08.war crimes in Gaza, as Israel's military operation
:18:09. > :18:26.Back to our top story of the diplomatic repercussions
:18:27. > :18:28.being discussed following the shooting down of the Malaysian
:18:29. > :18:34.German politicians are now call for Moscow to be preventing from
:18:35. > :18:37.hosting the next football World Cup in 2018, saying this would be more
:18:38. > :18:48.Damian McGuiness is live for us in Berlin.
:18:49. > :18:55.Is it actually Angela Merkel's supporters saying this? Because the
:18:56. > :19:01.links between Germany and Russia are very strong. That's right. There are
:19:02. > :19:05.deep trade and energy links between Germany and Russia. And what we have
:19:06. > :19:11.seen today is some leading politicians in Germany saying that
:19:12. > :19:17.they want to stop Russia holding the 2018 football World Cup, saying that
:19:18. > :19:20.unless Moscow is more cooperative in solving the Ukraine crisis, it would
:19:21. > :19:24.be outrageous to hold this international event there. But some
:19:25. > :19:33.of the politicians are from different parties. Also, one of the
:19:34. > :19:42.leaders of the Christian Democrats. It is across the board. There are
:19:43. > :19:48.opposition -- there is opposition to the suggestion. The Foreign Minister
:19:49. > :19:52.has said that it is too early to discuss such matters. But there is
:19:53. > :19:55.suggestion that 60% of Germans would support the move. A lot of people
:19:56. > :19:59.feel that economic sanctions are unpopular and will damage the German
:20:00. > :20:08.economy but it might not necessarily be effective. This could be more a
:20:09. > :20:17.way to get Moscow to be more cooperative. An emotive day to have
:20:18. > :20:21.this discussion. We hear that the second flight with more coffins has
:20:22. > :20:27.taken off from the airport in Ukraine. Those coffins being flown
:20:28. > :20:30.back to the Netherlands. The question of how much to antagonise
:20:31. > :20:35.the Russian bear, that has been discussed a lot in the last few
:20:36. > :20:40.days. Given global pressures, not least in Iraq, Syria, Middle East
:20:41. > :20:44.and Iran, how do you do business globally if Europe and the United
:20:45. > :20:49.States cannot work with Russia long-term? Politicians everywhere
:20:50. > :20:53.must have to look at that. It is about more than just football.
:20:54. > :21:00.That's right. The debate has shown the debate -- how much of a turning
:21:01. > :21:06.point the plane crash has been. Until last week, there was a feeling
:21:07. > :21:11.in Germany that a lot of people here attempted to understand Moscow's
:21:12. > :21:15.position. That patients with Moscow is evaporating because people are
:21:16. > :21:21.very shocked by what has happened, not only the crash but they also
:21:22. > :21:28.feel that Moscow has not done enough to ensure that the site itself is
:21:29. > :21:31.accessible, so that an investigation can be thoroughly carried out. A lot
:21:32. > :21:35.of people here who might have had sympathy for Moscow's edition say
:21:36. > :21:42.that when it comes to Crimea, they no longer have that feeling. We saw
:21:43. > :21:47.in your first report, pictures of EU leaders. Many people will say, the
:21:48. > :21:50.economic crisis that Angela Merkel has brought Germany through, and
:21:51. > :21:58.helped bring Europe through, has been paramount. Is she actually
:21:59. > :22:07.going to risk that growth, that success by antagonising Russia? That
:22:08. > :22:13.is the debate. It is very difficult to know which way she can go. On the
:22:14. > :22:16.one side, she clearly does not want to jeopardise Germany's economic
:22:17. > :22:20.growth. Germany is the economic powerhouse of Europe. On the other
:22:21. > :22:26.hand, there is growing pressure on the German government to take the
:22:27. > :22:31.problems in Ukraine seriously. There is no call for military action in
:22:32. > :22:36.Ukraine. There are very few calls for industry sanctions. Now it seems
:22:37. > :22:38.that according to public opinion polls, the majority of Germans
:22:39. > :22:44.favour some sort of economic sanction. This is quite new because
:22:45. > :22:50.until recently sanctions were very unpopular here and business leaders
:22:51. > :22:54.were lobbying fiercely, saying that they would really damage Germany's
:22:55. > :22:59.economy. But since the plane crash, there is a glowing feeling --
:23:00. > :23:04.growing feeling that if Germany suffers economic damage from
:23:05. > :23:07.sanctions, there are still a number of people here prepared to take that
:23:08. > :23:10.on the chin. Lots of countries, France and the UK not exempt from
:23:11. > :23:13.the debate on what to do about Russia. For now, Damian, many
:23:14. > :23:17.thanks. Venezuelan soldiers
:23:18. > :23:25.and officials are in the process of removing more than
:23:26. > :23:28.a thousand families from a 45-storey So far the eviction from the Tower
:23:29. > :23:31.of David is proceeding peacefully. Over the years it developed
:23:32. > :23:33.a notorious reputation for housing criminal gangs -
:23:34. > :23:37.so much so it featured in the US TV But recently residents say it's
:23:38. > :23:44.become a safe haven It is known as the vertical slum.
:23:45. > :23:46.The tower of David sits in the heart of Caracas. It was support to the
:23:47. > :23:49.Venezuela's answer to Wall Street but the banking centre failed to
:23:50. > :23:55.materialise when funding ran out in 1994. Instead, 3000 squatters have
:23:56. > :24:00.been living across the 45 floors. For almost a decade, the city's
:24:01. > :24:04.purists have called this home. But this week, a mass action is
:24:05. > :24:09.underway. These are the first of more than 1100 families to leave.
:24:10. > :24:12.The government minister overseeing the programme says that it is not a
:24:13. > :24:18.forced eviction and it is for their own group -- their own good. Anyone
:24:19. > :24:23.can see the grave danger that this has presented. It is very risky.
:24:24. > :24:28.Children, adults and Karzai have even fallen from the tower. Urgent
:24:29. > :24:31.intervention is needed. Walls are missing, there are no lefts, and
:24:32. > :24:37.water and power supplies are erratic. But it has become a
:24:38. > :24:42.commune. Families are now being relocated to a town south of the
:24:43. > :24:44.capital. Venezuela in soldiers and officials are assisting the process
:24:45. > :24:51.of bull not everyone wants to go. TRANSLATION: I did not want to move
:24:52. > :24:54.so far away. There are not any job opportunities there and I'll work
:24:55. > :25:02.here in Caracas. I do not like this. It is all part of a flagship
:25:03. > :25:07.policy called the great housing mission, initiated by Hugo Ch?vez
:25:08. > :25:11.and intended to help the poor. Tatiana Livesey and is one of the
:25:12. > :25:16.many excited about moving. She points out the damage from sewage
:25:17. > :25:21.coming in. I hope that this week they find somewhere for me. Many
:25:22. > :25:26.consider this a base for criminal gangs. Its reputation is so
:25:27. > :25:31.notorious it featured in the US TV drama, Homeland. But with eviction
:25:32. > :25:38.underway, what is thought to be the world's Hollister slum will soon
:25:39. > :25:44.just be another empty building. -- Hollister slum.
:25:45. > :25:46.After seven years of planning, the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games
:25:47. > :25:49.The opening ceremony will feature thousands of athletes
:25:50. > :25:50.from 71 Commonwealth nations and territories.
:25:51. > :27:02.Here's a look at how the games came to be, and why.
:27:03. > :27:03.The games begin very soon. And we will be there. Thanks are watching.