:00:00. > :00:08.This is BBC World News Today with me, Kasia Madera.
:00:09. > :00:11.Possible new clues about the location of the missing Malaysia
:00:12. > :00:14.Airlines plane. Military radar shows the Malaysian
:00:15. > :00:21.airlines plane changed course, heading West before it vanished.
:00:22. > :00:23.In another development, Interpol have identified two Iranians who
:00:24. > :00:36.used the stolen passports. The CIA does not rule out terrorism. Also
:00:37. > :00:39.coming up, the number of people killed in drone strikes crippled
:00:40. > :00:40.according to the UN support. -- UN report.
:00:41. > :00:44.And, British jugglers, tightrope walkers and trapeze artists are to
:00:45. > :00:46.be given the same recognition as performers in the world of music and
:00:47. > :01:01.theatre. Hello and welcome.
:01:02. > :01:05.We start with perhaps a few more clues about what happened to flight
:01:06. > :01:08.MH 370 before it vanished four days ago. The Malaysian military says it
:01:09. > :01:18.has radar -- we know that the plane lost
:01:19. > :01:21.contact with civilian authorities between Malaysia and Vietnam but now
:01:22. > :01:25.the Norwegian military says they have radar evidence that suggests
:01:26. > :01:29.the plane headed west and could have made it as far as the Malacca
:01:30. > :01:32.Straits, hundreds of colour mutters away. But with still no sighting,
:01:33. > :01:35.there's confusion about how and why it vanished. Interpol says they
:01:36. > :01:44.don't believe there are any terrorism links to its fate.
:01:45. > :01:51.Jonathan Head reports. Dozens of planes, and maps. But no wreckage.
:01:52. > :01:56.They have been scanning these seas for four days. Now they are being
:01:57. > :02:01.forced to consider an extraordinary possibility, that the plane deviated
:02:02. > :02:06.hundreds of miles off course without being detected. The search area has
:02:07. > :02:11.been doubled. One Mr Lee has been solved, the identities of the two
:02:12. > :02:15.men travelling on stolen passports. Both of them Iranians have been
:02:16. > :02:21.disclosed and any links to terrorism dismissed. In the past 24 hours UCD
:02:22. > :02:26.story changing, as the belief becomes more certain that these
:02:27. > :02:33.individuals were probably not terrorists. We were in school
:02:34. > :02:38.together. Hamlet is a young Iranian living in Kuala Lumpur. He has asked
:02:39. > :02:45.to keep his identity heaven. -- Mohammed is a young Iranian. He said
:02:46. > :02:50.his friend had flown from Iran and wanted to go to Europe to seek
:02:51. > :02:56.asylum. We went to the village shop and printed a ticket, then I saw the
:02:57. > :03:04.ticket and I said, this is not your name. And then he said, I have
:03:05. > :03:09.another passport. After that I do not want to continue this story. I
:03:10. > :03:13.just said OK. Is there any possibility in his mind that his
:03:14. > :03:20.friend could have had anything to do with the disappearance of the plane?
:03:21. > :03:26.He was just looking for freedom. He was looking for a better life. He
:03:27. > :03:30.wanted to live in freedom. All of those fears that the stolen
:03:31. > :03:33.passports have perhaps been used by terrorists to board the ill-fated
:03:34. > :03:38.airliner had ended here in an ordinarily Kuala Lumpur suburb and
:03:39. > :03:49.with a simple tale of young men from a troubled country in search of
:03:50. > :03:50.something better. Let's discuss the suggestion that the plane veered
:03:51. > :03:52.course. From Washington we're joined by
:03:53. > :03:58.Stephen Trimble, Americas Managing Editor of Flight-global, which
:03:59. > :04:05.provides online aviation news. What do you make of this suggestion that
:04:06. > :04:10.radar shows the plane actually, not necessarily did a U-turn but
:04:11. > :04:17.certainly changed direction. They have been seeing almost since day
:04:18. > :04:24.one that militarily radar detected a slight U-turn or even a full U-turn
:04:25. > :04:30.by the aircraft around the time that or just shortly before it dropped
:04:31. > :04:36.off radar. The suggestions today that it then continued somehow
:04:37. > :04:47.across Malaysia into the Straits of Malacca seem very interesting, it is
:04:48. > :04:51.also troubling. Why do you think it is travelling? The suggestion is
:04:52. > :04:57.that when it's turned it could have actually been flying for up to an
:04:58. > :05:03.hour. It certainly had enough fuel to fly for several more hours. But
:05:04. > :05:07.the idea of an aircraft the size of a 777 flying across a populated
:05:08. > :05:12.landmass at any altitude and not being detected either just by people
:05:13. > :05:19.listening and hearing something they were not expecting Apple altitude or
:05:20. > :05:25.especially by middle tele- radar -- militarily radar is unusual. For
:05:26. > :05:30.them to show up again on the other side in the Malacca Straits in
:05:31. > :05:39.militarily radar is also very strange. Almost inexplicable.
:05:40. > :05:45.Doesn't let go with what the search vessels have not found in the South
:05:46. > :05:48.China Sea? We have been looking at the map, the fact that because
:05:49. > :05:53.nothing was found there then it could potentially be that it did
:05:54. > :05:59.turn around. It seems that there is now an excavation at the moment. One
:06:00. > :06:03.explanation could be that it is still in the South China Sea and we
:06:04. > :06:08.just have either recovered the degree or it is not big enough to be
:06:09. > :06:15.visible. That is still a possibility. If it did reach the
:06:16. > :06:20.Straits of Malacca that raises a whole new list of questions about
:06:21. > :06:30.how it got across Malaysia. An aircraft the size of a 777 is very
:06:31. > :06:34.hard to hide. Governments do not like their fact that size crossing
:06:35. > :06:40.into their airspace. Unidentified, without the transponder, it all
:06:41. > :06:44.seems very strange. What is happening with the transponder? Why
:06:45. > :06:49.are we not getting any information from that? All we know is that the
:06:50. > :06:55.transponder stopped working almost at the same time that it dropped off
:06:56. > :06:59.radar. What that means is that it is anybody's guess. It could have been
:07:00. > :07:07.turned off or it stopped working. It could have been damaged or lost. But
:07:08. > :07:12.we do not know. Thank you very much for giving us some of your inside.
:07:13. > :07:18.As you say, it is worrying and we will continue to monitor that. Like
:07:19. > :07:22.I say we will continue to monitor this. You can look at the map of the
:07:23. > :07:25.plane deviated. Now to Ukraine, diplomatic efforts
:07:26. > :07:28.to settle the crisis are proving unsuccessful. In a crossfire of
:07:29. > :07:31.words, the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, told Russia's Foreign
:07:32. > :07:34.Minister that it was unacceptable that Russian forces were taking
:07:35. > :07:36.matters into their own hands in Crimea. While Russia called the
:07:37. > :07:42.United State's one million dollar pledge to Kiev illegal. And now
:07:43. > :07:45.Ukraine's acting president is calling for the creation of a
:07:46. > :07:48.national guard to help defend the country. The BBC's Diplomatic
:07:49. > :07:57.Correspondent Bridget Kendall reports.
:07:58. > :08:02.Pro-Russian forces consolidating their grip on Ukraine's Crimean
:08:03. > :08:05.peninsula. This large military convoy presumably Russian was on the
:08:06. > :08:09.move just outside the port city of Sevastopol. Pro-Russian Cossacks are
:08:10. > :08:15.among the self-defence forces manning checkpoints. There are also
:08:16. > :08:20.patrols at the main cranium airport in the capital where it seems that
:08:21. > :08:28.you flights from Kiev have all been cancelled. The only planes landing
:08:29. > :08:31.now come from Russia. And they are getting ready for Sunday 's
:08:32. > :08:35.referendum, hastily arranged and Dorsey planned to break away from
:08:36. > :08:39.Ukraine and possibly join Russia. A step welcomed in Moscow but
:08:40. > :08:47.condemned as illegitimate in Kiev and Western capitals. Today a copy
:08:48. > :08:50.of the ballot paper was on display. It gives Crimean voters to choices,
:08:51. > :08:57.joined Russia straightaway or possibly later. Meanwhile in
:08:58. > :09:02.southern Russia be hosted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has made
:09:03. > :09:06.another appearance. To scotch rumours that he had suffered a heart
:09:07. > :09:10.attack and had announced that the band of the Nationalists and
:09:11. > :09:17.neofascists he claims have seized power in Kiev with the help of
:09:18. > :09:21.Western backers. TRANSLATION: I would like to ask the western
:09:22. > :09:25.masters of these dark forces, have you gone blind? Have you lost your
:09:26. > :09:33.memory? Have you forgotten what fascism is? As for Ukraine's new
:09:34. > :09:36.authorities, they are continuing to brace themselves. Calling for
:09:37. > :09:38.military veterans to join the reserves to help defend the country
:09:39. > :09:43.if necessary. The house most worrying of all is the ratcheting up
:09:44. > :09:47.of tensions between the West and Russia, a meeting between President
:09:48. > :09:51.Putin and his Foreign Minister yesterday it clear there is no
:09:52. > :09:56.foreign ground. This was later confirmed by the Americans. The US
:09:57. > :10:00.Secretary of State John Kerry last met face-to-face with the Russian
:10:01. > :10:04.Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Rome on Thursday. This book again
:10:05. > :10:08.today on the phone but there was no indication that they made any
:10:09. > :10:15.headway. As Ukrainian troops begin on their side in the cranium border
:10:16. > :10:20.the scene is set for further escalation. The West no debates
:10:21. > :10:22.targeted sanctions against Russia to be imposed within days of nothing
:10:23. > :10:25.changes. Our World Affairs Editor, John
:10:26. > :10:35.Simpson describes a tense standoff at a military base in northern
:10:36. > :10:39.Crimea. This is a curious situation, I am standing more or less in front
:10:40. > :10:44.of an air defence base belonging to the Ukrainian forces. We are
:10:45. > :10:48.standing a little bit away from it so as not to upset the Russian
:10:49. > :10:53.troops who have taken it over to much. They have been fairly relaxed
:10:54. > :11:02.but we managed to get a call through to the commanding officer, who came
:11:03. > :11:07.out to speak to us. The Ukrainian officer, very nervous indeed. It
:11:08. > :11:11.must have taken him some courage to walk out and walk past the Russian
:11:12. > :11:14.soldiers and speak to us. He would not be interviewed on camera, you
:11:15. > :11:19.would not be interviewed on a tape recorder. He did not even give us
:11:20. > :11:25.his name, all he would say is that things were extremely tense inside,
:11:26. > :11:31.he said his men had their weapons and had plenty of ammunition but
:11:32. > :11:38.they were clearly extremely tense and nervous about what might happen.
:11:39. > :11:42.Then quite shortly after he started talking to us a Russian, probably an
:11:43. > :11:47.officer but with no markings, came over very politely and said
:11:48. > :11:52.something to him in a quiet voice. And he turned and went away. That
:11:53. > :11:57.was it. He is now back inside, the tension is palpable but we cannot
:11:58. > :12:00.see any of it from the outside here. John Simpson reporting from Crimea.
:12:01. > :12:10.Tension rising ahead of Sunday's referendum. We will continue to
:12:11. > :12:14.monitor the events in Ukraine. The United Nations says 45 civilians
:12:15. > :12:17.were killed last year in drone strikes, an increase on the year
:12:18. > :12:20.before. In a new report, the UN Human Rights Council is calling on
:12:21. > :12:23.governments to carry out independent investigations into any allegations
:12:24. > :12:33.of civilian deaths. Our Security Correspondent, Gordon Corera has
:12:34. > :12:37.been looking at the report. Drones have become an increasingly
:12:38. > :12:42.common tool of war, a means for targeted killing from the error. But
:12:43. > :12:46.our government is open enough about the innocents who are caught up when
:12:47. > :12:49.their weapons are unleashed? Now a new study has provided details of
:12:50. > :12:57.what has happened in dozens of incidents in which civilians have
:12:58. > :12:59.been injured or killed. A UN special investigator has investigated 30
:13:00. > :13:03.strikes in different countries, modelling what happened and how
:13:04. > :13:08.civilians were affected. He believes the idea that only combatants are
:13:09. > :13:13.killed as wrong and that mistakes must be acknowledged. Where things
:13:14. > :13:20.go wrong we regard them as essential for promoting reconciliation,
:13:21. > :13:23.promoting reparation, that those who have been responsible take
:13:24. > :13:33.responsibility and make public the results of their own enquiries. The
:13:34. > :13:38.team have used advanced computer forensics to recreate the strikes,
:13:39. > :13:44.in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Gazza and Pakistan. They examine evidence
:13:45. > :13:48.about who was killed and how. Last year he says 45 civilians were
:13:49. > :13:54.killed in 19 confirmed drone strikes in Afghanistan. One strike was in
:13:55. > :13:59.Yemen, it killed the Al-Qaeda militants but to villagers also
:14:00. > :14:04.died. One was a cleric who denounced Al-Qaeda. His brother-in-law
:14:05. > :14:07.witnessed the attack. TRANSLATION: It was the most frightening sound I
:14:08. > :14:11.have heard in my whole life, with all of the wars we have seen in this
:14:12. > :14:17.country between the north and South. It felt like the mountain have
:14:18. > :14:22.fallen on us. Although there have been a few voices of dissent at home
:14:23. > :14:25.the US has been at the forefront of using drones to after Al-Qaeda.
:14:26. > :14:30.Crippling the readership in Pakistan. President Obama has
:14:31. > :14:34.justified his increased use of drone strikes seeing they are self defence
:14:35. > :14:38.against terrorists planning to attack Americans but he has conceded
:14:39. > :14:42.there must be near certainty that civilians will not be killed before
:14:43. > :14:48.any strike takes place. The loans are a new weapon in the earth here
:14:49. > :14:52.to stay. What the UN investigator is calling for is greater debate and
:14:53. > :14:56.legal clarity about how they are used and openness about what the
:14:57. > :14:59.costs really are. Now a look at some of the day's
:15:00. > :15:03.other news: Protesters have clashed with police in the Turkish cities of
:15:04. > :15:06.Ankara and Istanbul on Tuesday after the death of a 15-year-old boy. In
:15:07. > :15:10.Istanbul, police fired tear gas at protesters, who gathered outside an
:15:11. > :15:17.Istanbul hospital to mourn the death of a teenager. The boy, Berkin
:15:18. > :15:20.Elvan, who died after a long coma, was hit in the head by a police gas
:15:21. > :15:30.canister during anti-government protests in June.
:15:31. > :15:33.In the last few hours the Libyan Prime Minister, Ali Zeidan, has been
:15:34. > :15:36.ousted by parliament after MPs said a tanker laden with oil from a
:15:37. > :15:39.rebel-held port broke through a naval blockade and escaped to sea.
:15:40. > :15:42.The North Korean-flagged tanker had docked there without government
:15:43. > :15:51.permission to take on the cargo. The defence minister has been appointed
:15:52. > :15:55.as interim Prime Minister. A powerful US Senator has made
:15:56. > :15:57.explosive accusations against the CIA. The head of the US Senate
:15:58. > :16:00.Intelligence Committee, Dianne Feinstein, has accused it of
:16:01. > :16:03.interfering with a computer network which was set up to help Congress
:16:04. > :16:06.investigate allegations of CIA abuses during the Bush
:16:07. > :16:14.administration. This is what she told the Senate. Based in what the
:16:15. > :16:23.director has informed us, I have grave concerns that the CIA search
:16:24. > :16:24.may well have violated the separation powers principles
:16:25. > :16:30.embodied in the United States Constitution. Including the speech
:16:31. > :16:34.and debate clause. It may have undermined the constitutional
:16:35. > :16:39.framework essential to effective Congressional oversight of
:16:40. > :16:44.intelligence activities or any other government function. That was
:16:45. > :16:50.Senator Dianne Feinstein. The BBC's Rajini Vaidyanathan is in
:16:51. > :16:56.Washington. These are really big accusations. Potentially the CIA
:16:57. > :17:03.could have violated federal law 's, according to the Senator? That is
:17:04. > :17:05.exactly what she is saying. It is quite remarkable. You might hear
:17:06. > :17:11.about leaks and accusations coming out against the CIA, but it is very
:17:12. > :17:17.rare that you get a powerful senator standing on the Senate floor making
:17:18. > :17:21.these accusations. Her claims all surround the work of her committee,
:17:22. > :17:25.the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is looking into accusations
:17:26. > :17:27.and allegations that the Bush administration used torture and
:17:28. > :17:35.interrogation techniques. She is accusing the CIA tampering with
:17:36. > :17:42.their investigation. And what are the CIA saying about this? They are
:17:43. > :17:45.denying the accusations, they are saying that they are not spying on
:17:46. > :17:50.the committee or the Senate. I should elaborate more about what
:17:51. > :17:54.exactly they are talking about. As part of the investigation, computer
:17:55. > :17:58.files, millions of files of CIA records and e-mails, or handed over
:17:59. > :18:04.to the Senate committee on a secure computer network. What Senator
:18:05. > :18:08.Dianne Feinstein is accusing the CIA of his unauthorised access of this.
:18:09. > :18:12.She says they went into the secure computers to see what this committee
:18:13. > :18:17.was up to and look at some of the reports. She also says they removed
:18:18. > :18:21.hundreds of files. Quite strong accusations, and the director of the
:18:22. > :18:25.CIA says that these accusations could not be further from the truth.
:18:26. > :18:28.They are not spying on the committee or the Senate, and he was confident
:18:29. > :18:35.the authorities would review things appropriately. Thank you very much.
:18:36. > :18:38.Five and a half million children in Syria have been affected by the
:18:39. > :18:41.country's civil war. A report by Unicef also says that at least
:18:42. > :18:45.10,000 children have been killed in the conflict. The UN's children's
:18:46. > :18:49.charity warns that unless there is an immediate end to the fighting, a
:18:50. > :18:58.whole generation of children will be lost. With the story, here's Paul
:18:59. > :19:02.Wood. Hundreds of thousands of Syrian
:19:03. > :19:09.children are growing up in refugee camps. Here in Lebanon, there is a
:19:10. > :19:14.permanent refugee population. A generation spending childhood in
:19:15. > :19:17.squalor and deprivation. Refugees are just one aspect of the crisis of
:19:18. > :19:24.quite staggering proportions. The Unicef report as a series of
:19:25. > :19:26.horrifying statistics. 1 million children are refugees in foreign
:19:27. > :19:31.countries, another 3 million have lost their homes within Syria. Some
:19:32. > :19:35.3 million as well have had their educations disrupted. Another
:19:36. > :19:42.million children are cut off, under siege, unable to get humanitarian
:19:43. > :19:47.aid. And 2 million need counselling for psychological trauma. A Unicef
:19:48. > :19:55.School is a taste of the normal life they have lost. Even young children
:19:56. > :20:01.work to support their families. This nine-year-old girl used to pick
:20:02. > :20:10.potatoes, $4 for a day's work. It is tiring, she says. She would like to
:20:11. > :20:14.go home to Syria. Home for the past year and a half has been this tent,
:20:15. > :20:20.shared with 13 brothers and sisters. Her father says he had to send his
:20:21. > :20:25.children out to work. Somebody had to bring bread for the family, he
:20:26. > :20:32.says. It is a tragedy. Refugee children grow up too fast. This
:20:33. > :20:36.woman was married off aged 13 because her parents were destitute.
:20:37. > :20:44.She was badly beaten and returned home. She once trained of becoming a
:20:45. > :20:49.lawyer. I have no more dreams, she says. No more ambitions. My life has
:20:50. > :20:55.changed, nothing will ever be the same. Inside Syria, conditions are
:20:56. > :21:01.often far worse than in the refugee camps. The Civil War is entering its
:21:02. > :21:07.fourth year. Unicef says Syria's children cannot afford another year
:21:08. > :21:10.like the one just passed. People in Spain have been marking
:21:11. > :21:13.the 10th anniversary of the Madrid train bombings, which killed 191
:21:14. > :21:19.people and injured more than 1,800, in the worst terror attack in
:21:20. > :21:22.Spanish history. Memorial events have been taking place in the
:21:23. > :21:31.Spanish capital, from where our correspondent Tom Burridge reports.
:21:32. > :21:38.It felt like the normal daily commute. But this morning was not.
:21:39. > :21:44.Because ten years ago was a day in Madrid like no other. Bombs placed
:21:45. > :21:56.on packed commuter trains during the morning rush-hour, 191 people died.
:21:57. > :21:59.More than 1800 injured. Today, at the scene of one of the attacks,
:22:00. > :22:13.Madrid's main train station, they remembered. Music, flowers and a
:22:14. > :22:19.balloon for each person killed. This woman lost 34-year-old son.
:22:20. > :22:26.TRANSLATION: They have taken our lives and destroyed us forever.
:22:27. > :22:32.Across town at the Capitol's main cathedral, a more real service.
:22:33. > :22:42.Relatives of victims, survivors, politicians and McCain. -- and their
:22:43. > :22:48.king. In many respects, today was a show of unity in Spain, a moment of
:22:49. > :22:50.common grief. Ten years ago, in the days following the attacks, the
:22:51. > :22:57.country was split. The then government insisted for three days
:22:58. > :23:00.that the Basque militant group was responsible, when there was strong
:23:01. > :23:05.evidence to suggest that Islamist extremists were to blame. Vote is
:23:06. > :23:10.punished as party at the subsequent general election. Surrounded by the
:23:11. > :23:17.police, the seven alleged Al-Qaeda inspired ringleaders blew themselves
:23:18. > :23:23.up in a flat three weeks later. Ten years on, it was not a time to break
:23:24. > :23:27.-- it was not a time to debate but a chance to remember the victims on
:23:28. > :23:31.one of the most violent days in Spain's recent past.
:23:32. > :23:35.Ever felt tempted to run away and join the circus? Well now you can
:23:36. > :23:38.take the dream a step further and even get a degree. The National
:23:39. > :23:41.Centre for Circus Arts is, for the first time here in Britain,
:23:42. > :23:44.introducing a degree in circus studies. The idea to get circus
:23:45. > :23:51.skills into the mainstream actually places the UK in line with many
:23:52. > :23:54.other countries. So what is it like to study circus arts? And do
:23:55. > :24:06.students manage to find enough work at the end of the course?
:24:07. > :24:13.Circus is... A theatrical experience. Circus is dangerous.
:24:14. > :24:23.Creating a relationship with the audience. Beautiful, intelligent,
:24:24. > :24:29.hard. How far can you push yourself? I am a juggler, that is my
:24:30. > :24:39.specialisation. I use these clubs. I was always quite a hyperactive
:24:40. > :24:42.child. I am dyslexic, academic work was something I never excelled at.
:24:43. > :24:46.The National Centre has given me the opportunity to do what I love and
:24:47. > :24:51.make a living out of it. We are trying to set up a new company, it
:24:52. > :24:53.feels like it is already starting while I am at university. It is so
:24:54. > :25:05.exciting. What we are really trying to do here
:25:06. > :25:09.is grow a culture of circus in the UK. We believe that it is an art
:25:10. > :25:14.form that deserves to be centre stage, and by becoming the National
:25:15. > :25:19.Centre for Circus Arts, it gives us the recognition, brings us into the
:25:20. > :25:24.fold. It does actually cost a lot to train a circus artist, but we have
:25:25. > :25:27.generous supporters and sponsors, which mean that we have got
:25:28. > :25:33.bursaries available and we keep the costs as low as possible. You need
:25:34. > :25:37.to look like you're only just holding your balance. When you see
:25:38. > :25:41.the things our students do, when you see how they amaze people when they
:25:42. > :25:49.are performing, you see the joy and wonder they create, that cancer is
:25:50. > :25:55.any critic. -- that cancer Mac any critic.
:25:56. > :26:07.It is two ropes suspended in shapes. I have always been a crazy physical
:26:08. > :26:13.person, running around, climbing trees, jumping on stuff. You have
:26:14. > :26:20.got something that is physically challenging, which is a great
:26:21. > :26:24.feeling. Doing something engaging for your body, as well as being able
:26:25. > :26:28.to perform. It is really great when you're in a show and somebody goes,
:26:29. > :26:41.that is disgusting, how did she do that! Or you can hear audible gasps.
:26:42. > :26:50.I got rope burn on my neck. It is tiring. Let's go home, get in Bath.
:26:51. > :26:56.With my feet firmly on the ground, from me and the team, had by. Thank
:26:57. > :27:01.you for watching. Hello. Over the next few days we
:27:02. > :27:07.will stick with sunshine. Essentially, it will be dry.
:27:08. > :27:09.Sunshine coming and going. Some places will see brighter skies, for
:27:10. > :27:13.others there is a little more cloud around. The reason for the changes
:27:14. > :27:14.courtesy of our, switching further