:00:07. > :00:10.Brought down by high energy objects that pierced
:00:11. > :00:12.the plane - investigators release the first official report into
:00:13. > :00:18.Rescue workers try to reach flood hit areas of Pakistan and India
:00:19. > :00:31.A man's killed in a shark attack in a popular tourist spot in Australia.
:00:32. > :00:34.And concern over a potential flashpoint in the South
:00:35. > :00:41.China Sea - we have a special report from the Spratly islands.
:00:42. > :00:47.As you can see, it has been transformed into a construction
:00:48. > :00:49.site. And this is where the Philippine government thinks that
:00:50. > :01:05.China might be building and your base. -- and here base.
:01:06. > :01:11.A report on the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 disaster in eastern
:01:12. > :01:20.Ukraine says it was probably caused by the aircraft being struck
:01:21. > :01:23.by multiple high-energy objects from the outside.
:01:24. > :01:26.The report by Dutch officials says there are no indications that
:01:27. > :01:29.the crash was due to a technical fault and there was no evidence
:01:30. > :01:34.The report has found the pattern of the wreckage
:01:35. > :01:36.on the ground suggests the plane broke up during the flight.
:01:37. > :01:39.All 298 people died in the crash in July.
:01:40. > :01:43.This report doesn't blame anyone directly.
:01:44. > :01:48.Meanwhile a top rebel commander in Ukraine, Alexander Zakharchenko,
:01:49. > :01:52.has reiterated the separatists' claim that they
:01:53. > :01:55.never had the air defence capability to shoot down a commercial jet.
:01:56. > :02:06.I asked our correspondent Anna Holligan about the findings.
:02:07. > :02:09.Under normal circumstances, an aviation investigation would start
:02:10. > :02:12.at the scene of the crash. But these investigators were not allowed to
:02:13. > :02:17.access the site. The Dutch government was afraid that their
:02:18. > :02:24.presence might jeopardise the forensics team's effort to recover
:02:25. > :02:26.the bodies. The evidence used to compile today's report includes the
:02:27. > :02:32.black box flight data recorder, satellite images, information from
:02:33. > :02:35.Air Traffic Control, and photos from the scene. This is the headquarters
:02:36. > :02:41.of the Dutch safety board which has been leading the international
:02:42. > :02:44.investigation. Experts from the UK, the US, Germany, Russia, Ukraine,
:02:45. > :02:49.Malaysia and Australia have been collaborating on this case. This is
:02:50. > :03:00.not the final report. That is due out sometime next year. But the
:03:01. > :03:03.preliminary report is significant, because it is the first account of
:03:04. > :03:08.what actually happened. So far, more
:03:09. > :03:10.than 220 coffins have been returned to
:03:11. > :03:12.the Netherlands. An unknown number of
:03:13. > :03:16.people have been identified. From the moment the first bodies were
:03:17. > :03:18.repatriated, the Dutch authorities have sought to restore the honour
:03:19. > :03:22.and dignity stolen from the families. One of the main purposes
:03:23. > :03:24.of this preliminary report is to give relatives conclusive answers to
:03:25. > :03:38.The military in Ukraine says there's been further
:03:39. > :03:41.fighting with pro-Russia rebels in the east of the country.
:03:42. > :03:44.A spokesman for the defence ministry said four government troops had
:03:45. > :03:46.been killed since a ceasefire deal was signed with the rebels.
:03:47. > :03:49.In another statement, the government in Kiev confirmed that 648 prisoners
:03:50. > :03:52.who were held by the rebel forces have been released -
:03:53. > :03:58.with negotiations ongoing to secure the release of a further 500.
:03:59. > :04:00.Meanwhile Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said the ceasefire
:04:01. > :04:08.He said he hoped talks between the Ukrainian government
:04:09. > :04:10.and the pro-Russian rebels, which had been agreed in principle
:04:11. > :04:14.But he added that Russia was worried about a heavy concentration
:04:15. > :04:18.of Ukrainian troops in parts of Eastern Ukraine.
:04:19. > :04:21.Rescue workers are struggling to reach thousands of people stranded
:04:22. > :04:26.400 people are thought to have died in severe flooding
:04:27. > :04:29.in the two countries, most of them in Pakistan's Punjab province.
:04:30. > :04:31.The floods are described as the worst in the area
:04:32. > :04:36.The BBC's Sanjoy Majumdar joined a relief operation in Jammu State
:04:37. > :04:52.I'm on an Indian helicopter carrying relief supplies to flood victims. We
:04:53. > :04:58.have just taken off from Jammu and are flying over the mountains
:04:59. > :05:07.towards the Kashmir valley to a place, one of the worst affected. We
:05:08. > :05:17.have supplies of food packed inside his sex. Tomatoes, eggplant,
:05:18. > :05:23.onions. -- inside the ease sacks. These communities are desperate for
:05:24. > :05:32.help. We have now landed at the meaning your base. -- the main
:05:33. > :05:35.airbase. Apart from vegetables, there are also cartons of milk and
:05:36. > :05:39.chickens that have been brought by other flights. All of this will be
:05:40. > :05:46.loaded onto military trucks and driven to the villages in the
:05:47. > :05:51.mountains and beyond. Ordinarily, these would have come by road from
:05:52. > :05:54.the main highway but that has been washed away. So there are no
:05:55. > :06:03.supplies getting through to the market. The only way to get this to
:06:04. > :06:05.the community is this way. Lots of help urgently needed there.
:06:06. > :06:08.In other news, the charity Medecins Sans Frontieres says it is
:06:09. > :06:10.being "completely overwhelmed" by the growing number of Ebola
:06:11. > :06:16.MSF says its main treatment centre in the capital Monrovia is having to
:06:17. > :06:18.turn desperate people away every day and describes the situation
:06:19. > :06:26.New figures from the United Nations suggest the amount of carbon dioxide
:06:27. > :06:28.in the earth's atmosphere hit a record level last year.
:06:29. > :06:31.The World Meteorological Organisation also said
:06:32. > :06:36.concentrations of greenhouse gases rose at their fastest rate since
:06:37. > :06:39.1984, and called for a new global treaty to tackle climate change.
:06:40. > :06:42.The International Cricket Council has suspended Pakistan off-spinner
:06:43. > :06:46.Saeed Ajmal from bowling in international matches
:06:47. > :06:49.after his bowling action was found to be illegal.
:06:50. > :06:53.Tests showed Ajmal, who's currently the best one-day
:06:54. > :06:57.bowler in the world, was flexing his arm more than the laws allow.
:06:58. > :06:59.He won't be allowed to bowl in international matches until he
:07:00. > :07:11.After much haggling and brinkmanship,
:07:12. > :07:16.the Iraqi parliament has approved a new, inclusive government led
:07:17. > :07:20.Jobs for ministers have been assigned under a power-sharing deal
:07:21. > :07:22.between the Shia majority, the Sunnis and the Kurds.
:07:23. > :07:24.A credible government is considered crucial to the struggle
:07:25. > :07:26.against the jihadists of the group Islamic State.
:07:27. > :07:28.The BBC's Jim Muir is in Irbil in Iraqi Kurdistan.
:07:29. > :07:31.He told me more about the reaction to the announcement
:07:32. > :07:43.And would say that all around, there's cautious relief that they
:07:44. > :07:46.had last have a government in place. -- I would say. But nobody has any
:07:47. > :07:53.illusions about the task that lies ahead. The Sunnis are involved, yes,
:07:54. > :07:59.and most of the Kurds are back, who had pulled out of al Maliki's
:08:00. > :08:02.government. But that does not mean that they will stay. The Kurds have
:08:03. > :08:09.said that if their demands are not left, they will walk out. -- demands
:08:10. > :08:15.are not met. The question is with the Sunnis, whether they will be
:08:16. > :08:20.given a degree of autonomy, at least control over their own security, and
:08:21. > :08:24.finance, and the kind of devolution that will be needed to defuse the
:08:25. > :08:29.ban sectarian tensions that are now raging on the ground, especially
:08:30. > :08:33.after the latest upheaval of the last three months, which have turned
:08:34. > :08:37.Shia against Sunni, Sunni against Kurds and so on. It is a vicious
:08:38. > :08:41.situation. It is not a solid platform for launching a unified
:08:42. > :08:47.attempt to root out Islamic State from the communities where they had
:08:48. > :08:51.been able to establish themselves. A huge amount of work has to be done.
:08:52. > :08:58.Just having some ministers in a cabinet in Baghdad is only the
:08:59. > :09:08.beginning of a long uphill struggle. More on our breaking news this
:09:09. > :09:15.morning, on the report into the MH17 plane crash. And we have had a
:09:16. > :09:19.statement from the Prime Minister of Malaysia, that go to our
:09:20. > :09:22.correspondent in Kuala Lumpur. Tell us more about what the Prime
:09:23. > :09:30.Minister has said. -- let's go to our. The Prime Minister says that
:09:31. > :09:34.the report confirms what Malaysian officials have been saying all
:09:35. > :09:37.along, that the plane did not enter into restricted airspace, that the
:09:38. > :09:41.aircraft itself was fit to fly, and that the crew had acted properly. In
:09:42. > :09:47.other words, the national carrier did nothing wrong. He also says that
:09:48. > :09:55.the report suggests that this was a missile attack but he adds Cotchin,
:09:56. > :09:59.seeing that further investigative work is needed. -- urges caution. He
:10:00. > :10:03.says that the Malaysian officials need to go down to collect
:10:04. > :10:07.additional evidence from the site. He has promised the family members
:10:08. > :10:12.of the victims that they will get to the bottom of this and all those
:10:13. > :10:14.accountable. In fact, there is a Malaysian team already in Ukraine
:10:15. > :10:19.trying to gain access to the crash site, not only to collect remains
:10:20. > :10:26.but also to collect evidence and today we saw two more bodies being
:10:27. > :10:30.returned to Malaysia with full military honours. It is incredible
:10:31. > :10:34.that it has taken so long. Very distressing for the families. There
:10:35. > :10:39.has been general criticism about the route and the fact that Malaysian
:10:40. > :10:43.airlines flew through Ukraine. Is that mentioned in the report? And
:10:44. > :10:46.what is the response more generally to the publication? Malaysian
:10:47. > :10:51.officials have said strongly all along that they were cleared to fly
:10:52. > :10:57.over that airspace. It is considered one of the highways of traffic from
:10:58. > :11:01.Asia to Europe. They have said that they were flying well above the
:11:02. > :11:04.recommended height, and that they were not in the wrong. It seems that
:11:05. > :11:08.the Malaysians have generally accepted that. What they want is
:11:09. > :11:12.someone to be held accountable. We cannot forget that this country is
:11:13. > :11:16.not facing just this one a disaster. They are looking at another one, for
:11:17. > :11:23.which there was no conclusion and no evidence. So Malaysians are very
:11:24. > :11:27.anxious to bring closure, at the very least, to one of these airline
:11:28. > :11:31.disasters. And they are looking forward to the investigative team
:11:32. > :11:35.finding more, and to hold those accountable, as the Prime Minister
:11:36. > :11:44.says. Really, we were reporting on the missing flight, the previous one
:11:45. > :11:49.earlier this year. -- briefly. What about people's confidence in flying
:11:50. > :11:56.with Malaysian airliners? Malaysia airlines has taken a beating from
:11:57. > :11:59.these disasters. We saw a drop on passengers. They are currently
:12:00. > :12:05.selling a lot of advertising for cheaper airfares. And there is a
:12:06. > :12:13.movement among Malaysians after MH17 that they feel that they should
:12:14. > :12:18.support the national carrier. Right now, the government has taken it
:12:19. > :12:21.back to restructure it, but have to remind you that the airline itself
:12:22. > :12:27.had been facing problems financially long before these disasters. It is
:12:28. > :12:32.not necessarily mean that it cuts into the quality of its flying or
:12:33. > :12:37.any safety features, but it does mean that the airline is looking at
:12:38. > :12:39.extensive restructuring, and they are looking at job cuts amounting to
:12:40. > :12:45.about 30% of their staff. Thank you. Yemeni soldiers have opened fire
:12:46. > :12:48.on protesters attempting to storm the cabinet building
:12:49. > :12:49.in the capital Sanaa. Latest reports say four people were
:12:50. > :12:52.killed, and several more injured. Protesters have blocked
:12:53. > :12:55.the main road to Sanaa's airport and for weeks have held sit-ins
:12:56. > :12:59.at ministries in an attempt to oust the government
:13:00. > :13:15.and reinstate fuel subsidies. Our correspondent is in Sanaa. This
:13:16. > :13:18.is a country that people have been worried about for many years. Bring
:13:19. > :13:23.us up to date on recent events. Let me start with today. Reports say
:13:24. > :13:28.that there have been clashes with protesters and government forces.
:13:29. > :13:35.Outside the Cabinet building in Sanaa. And this has all happened
:13:36. > :13:40.after police opened fire on protesters. As you mentioned, there
:13:41. > :13:46.are reports of several deaths and injuries. These protests have
:13:47. > :13:56.actually started a few weeks ago. In the capital, Sanaa, after these
:13:57. > :14:00.demonstrations were staged, following the government's decision
:14:01. > :14:07.to lift subsidies on fuel. Now they are demanding the government stepped
:14:08. > :14:12.down and revoke their decision to lift fuel subsidies. Of course, we
:14:13. > :14:17.have seen in the past of the US involved in Yemen. How do you sum up
:14:18. > :14:25.the political stability there at the moment? Yemen has been going through
:14:26. > :14:33.a transitional period ever since the 2011 revolution. This transitional
:14:34. > :14:39.period has been backed by the Gulf Corporation Counsel in the region as
:14:40. > :14:44.well as the UN. This resulted in a national dialogue and the government
:14:45. > :14:51.was in process of them committing these outcomes. The 30s are saying
:14:52. > :14:57.that this government is not actually going forward in influencing what
:14:58. > :15:01.had been agreed upon in this national dialogue. -- the
:15:02. > :15:03.protesters. You can see that there are political tensions between
:15:04. > :15:08.different factions. We are seeing some of the pictures that have been
:15:09. > :15:12.coming in over the last day or so. In terms of these current protests
:15:13. > :15:18.and what has happened today, how worrying is it? Well, no one knows
:15:19. > :15:24.really what is going to happen next. But this is a country that is
:15:25. > :15:32.heavily armed. Most households here carry weapons. People say it is a
:15:33. > :15:41.miracle that it has not escalated into a Civil War after the first
:15:42. > :15:46.revolution. So people cannot really expect... There is a sense of worry
:15:47. > :15:50.and concern that if the situation is not contained, it could escalate
:15:51. > :15:52.into a white skill complex. Good to talk to you. Many thanks. --
:15:53. > :16:06.widescale complex. Could you do this now or let alone
:16:07. > :16:07.when you are more than 80 years old? We meet the British choreographer
:16:08. > :16:10.still teaching today. Here in the UK all eyes are
:16:11. > :16:13.on opinion polls which suggest that next week's
:16:14. > :16:16.referendum on Scottish independence The debate is being closely followed
:16:17. > :16:22.by our European partners, France and Scotland have
:16:23. > :16:26.a historical relationship going So how has that long-standing
:16:27. > :16:31.friendship shaped attitudes in France today towards Scottish
:16:32. > :16:35.independence? Hugh Schofield has been to
:16:36. > :16:50.central France to find out. What are Scottish pipe bands doing
:16:51. > :16:57.parading in July through the middle an obscure Central Frenchtown? Here
:16:58. > :17:04.they have annual festivities to mark the Auld Alliance. In the 100 years
:17:05. > :17:07.War, Stewarts from the Scottish royal family Ford near here
:17:08. > :17:15.alongside the French against the English. They were rewarded with the
:17:16. > :17:21.lordship and the local chateaux, which stayed Scottish for nearly 400
:17:22. > :17:24.years. Enthusiasm for things Caledonian here extends to the
:17:25. > :17:33.culinary. This is French haggis. The bond is heartfelt. It is a question
:17:34. > :17:39.of love. -- blood. Scottish people bled for French people and French
:17:40. > :17:45.people bled for Scotland. What else? Whether it is the Auld Alliance and
:17:46. > :17:49.their common antipathy towards the English, or whether it is just that
:17:50. > :17:53.both countries like to share a drink, there is clearly deep simile
:17:54. > :17:58.for the Scots across France. As for Scottish independence, we carried
:17:59. > :17:59.out an impromptu poll with the audience. The result was clear
:18:00. > :18:15.enough. A report
:18:16. > :18:22.by Dutch investigators appears to confirm that Malaysian Airlines MH17
:18:23. > :18:27.was shot down over eastern Ukraine. Thousands
:18:28. > :18:29.of people are still stranded after Countries have wrangled over
:18:30. > :18:40.territory in the South China Sea for generations,
:18:41. > :18:43.but a recent upsurge in tension has sparked concern that the area is
:18:44. > :18:47.becoming a serious flashpoint. The Spratlys are an island chain,
:18:48. > :18:51.situated in a key shipping route, This is how the islands would be
:18:52. > :18:59.divided up between neighbouring countries if a 200 mile,
:19:00. > :19:03.global exclusion zone is applied. But China believes this red line,
:19:04. > :19:08.which stretches hundreds of miles from its own coastline,
:19:09. > :19:11.gives it control of the Spratlys. The BBC's Rupert Wingfield Hayes
:19:12. > :19:14.travelled to the Gaven reef in the Spratlys,
:19:15. > :19:31.where he found China has a new way On a fishing boat in the middle of
:19:32. > :19:36.the South China Sea, I am on the hunt for the Spratlys. I want to
:19:37. > :19:38.find out whether claims that China is building new territory out
:19:39. > :19:43.whether claims that China is building new territory and here, are
:19:44. > :19:51.true. Then on the horizon what looks like land. An island where there
:19:52. > :19:57.should not be one. On my GPS, and this has the latest software, it
:19:58. > :20:01.says elevated house with the mark of a reef. It is very clear that this
:20:02. > :20:06.airhead is not a reef. It is an island. And that Ireland was not
:20:07. > :20:12.there a few months ago. As we moved closer, the weather closed in. The
:20:13. > :20:21.new islands disappeared behind the rain. We plough on South and the
:20:22. > :20:24.rain gradually clears. After four hours, we spot a Vietnamese fishing
:20:25. > :20:34.boat. And then dead ahead, another island. This one even bigger. It is
:20:35. > :20:37.a hive of activity. This place behind me is called Johnson South,
:20:38. > :20:42.and until a few months ago there was a Chinese control submerged reef.
:20:43. > :20:46.Now it has been transformed into a giant construction site. This is
:20:47. > :20:54.where the Philippine government thinks China may be building its
:20:55. > :20:59.South China Sea airbase. These aerial photos show what this place
:21:00. > :21:02.looked like a year ago. And in February, and finally March this
:21:03. > :21:07.year. Millions of tonnes of material have been pumped into the reef to
:21:08. > :21:16.create new life. Her Filipino captain is shocked.
:21:17. > :21:19.We used to come here all the time to fish, he says. Now with all this
:21:20. > :21:26.construction, it won't be long until we cannot come here any more.
:21:27. > :21:34.As if on cue, the Chinese start firing flares into the sky, warning
:21:35. > :21:39.us it is time to leave. China claims the entire South China Sea,
:21:40. > :21:47.including all the Spratlys. Beneath this vast claim may lie billions of
:21:48. > :21:52.oil and gas. -- billions of tonnes. Early next morning, a new silhouette
:21:53. > :22:01.appears on the horizon. A rusting World War II hawk stuck atop another
:22:02. > :22:07.reef. -- hulk. This is the Philippine Navy ship. OnBoard, a
:22:08. > :22:12.tiny garrison of ten Philippine Marines, all that stands in the way
:22:13. > :22:20.of another Chinese takeover. Just beyond the reef, two Chinese ships
:22:21. > :22:28.Rome burned down. The coast of the Philippines is about 220 nautical
:22:29. > :22:33.miles in that direction. The coast of China is 800 miles in that
:22:34. > :22:38.direction. But those two Chinese ships are here to enforce Beijing's
:22:39. > :22:43.claim that this submerged reef is actually Chinese territory.
:22:44. > :22:48.For the last year, the Chinese ships have been blockading the Sierra
:22:49. > :22:55.Madre, trying to stop fresh supplies and wearing down the Marine's -- the
:22:56. > :23:00.Marines's morale. Our families are far away, he says. It is a big
:23:01. > :23:03.sacrifice. Food is limited and it is difficult to avoid boredom and
:23:04. > :23:10.sadness. While these Philippine Marines live in peril of falling
:23:11. > :23:13.through their own rusting deck, Beijing's ambition to turn this is
:23:14. > :23:21.seeing to it Chinese lake moves on word, almost unopposed.
:23:22. > :23:23.A man has died following a shark attack off
:23:24. > :23:28.Officials say the man was bitten on his leg at the popular tourist
:23:29. > :23:39.Features open closed for 24-hour is and people have been told to stay
:23:40. > :23:41.out of the water. -- beaches have been closed.
:23:42. > :23:43.Could you do the splits when you're 88 years old?
:23:44. > :23:47.The renowned British dancer and choreographer Dame Gillian Lynne
:23:48. > :23:49.was just 17 when she was sent to perform for troops fighting
:23:50. > :23:54.David Sillito went to meet her to find out about the secret
:23:55. > :24:16.Up, down, up again. Change this, do that. The lady with the restless
:24:17. > :24:21.energy is Dame Gillian Lynne. She is recreating a ballet from her youth,
:24:22. > :24:24.a ballet about working-class life in Glasgow that was performed near the
:24:25. > :24:29.battlefields of Germany to soldiers fighting in the Second World War.
:24:30. > :24:43.This is quite able raunchy little sequence. 70 years on from from --
:24:44. > :24:52.from when it first appeared. That is me. On the end! And here she is,
:24:53. > :25:00.aged 17. Gillian Lynne performing in 1944. These people you were playing
:25:01. > :25:05.for, they had probably never seen done it before. I think most of them
:25:06. > :25:10.had not. Most of them had not. And I am quite sure there was quite a bit
:25:11. > :25:15.of swearing about, oh, is that all we have got to see? For the results
:25:16. > :25:22.were wonderful. Then they became fans. The question on my mind was a
:25:23. > :25:27.how, at 88, does she keep so active? The answer is in her morning
:25:28. > :25:33.routine. You notice I get down in a funny way that is because of the
:25:34. > :25:40.metal hips. You have two metal hips? Yes. And this Ford has got two huge
:25:41. > :25:46.nails through it because it is fused. I had 35 springs on it. You
:25:47. > :25:53.have to keep these legs limber. You have to keep your crotch open. And
:25:54. > :25:59.you don't give up. If you wake up and think, I am too tired to do it
:26:00. > :26:04.today, that is the beginning of the end, especially for an older person.
:26:05. > :26:16.Are you going to retire? No! I den not. -- I dare not.
:26:17. > :26:25.So now you know. To create something like this at 88, you need to start
:26:26. > :26:29.the day the Dame Gillian way. Sadly that is never going to happen
:26:30. > :26:33.in our household. She looks absolutely amazing. We are very
:26:34. > :26:37.impressed. We are going to leave you with a story about Justin Bieber.
:26:38. > :26:43.Persecutors in Canada have dropped assault charges against him. The
:26:44. > :26:48.case relates to an alleged assault last December in Toronto when he was
:26:49. > :26:52.picked up from a nightclub in a limousine. People weren't -- police
:26:53. > :26:56.were investigating claims he had the driver in the back of the head. The
:26:57. > :26:58.charges have been dropped because there is no reasonable prospect of
:26:59. > :27:00.conviction. That's it