:00:07. > :00:14.This is BBC World News Today. Chaotic scenes in Malaysia as
:00:15. > :00:20.relatives of the missing airline passengers are dragged screaming
:00:21. > :00:23.from a news conference. The Malaysian government says it regrets
:00:24. > :00:26.these scenes and can only imagine the anguish the families are going
:00:27. > :00:31.through, with teams from 26 countries still finding nothing in
:00:32. > :00:34.the search. Things turn nasty in Crimea as
:00:35. > :00:36.Russia troops and pro-Russian militia smash their way into
:00:37. > :00:48.Ukraine's naval headquarters in Sevastopol.
:00:49. > :00:52.She was glamourous, she was daring and she was certainly one of a kind.
:00:53. > :01:11.A rare peek into the private world of Marlene Dietrich. Hello, and
:01:12. > :01:14.welcome. It's been a day of anger and distress on the ground, as a
:01:15. > :01:16.massive international search continues for the missing Malaysian
:01:17. > :01:19.airliner. There were harrowing scenes in Kuala Lumpur when some
:01:20. > :01:22.relatives of Chinese passengers, still waiting for any information,
:01:23. > :01:25.were dragged away from journalists crying and screaming. The BBC's
:01:26. > :01:41.Jonah Fisher was there. His report contains a lot of flash photography
:01:42. > :01:47.and some disturbing images. After 12 days with no news, the pain
:01:48. > :01:51.for some is just too much to bear. Today, two Chinese relatives of
:01:52. > :01:53.those on board came to the main hotel for journalists, determined to
:01:54. > :01:57.have their voices heard. We do not know how long we have to wait, she
:01:58. > :02:00.says, it has been 12 days without my son, where is he, why will they not
:02:01. > :02:04.give me any answers? We have seen angry scenes like this in Beijing,
:02:05. > :02:10.but until today, the Malaysians have kept the relatives away, and most
:02:11. > :02:13.interviews have been with minders doesn't. This was not a message the
:02:14. > :02:17.Malaysians want the world to hear, and a crudely stepped in and drag
:02:18. > :02:26.the women kicking and screaming out of the room. Why are we being
:02:27. > :02:32.stopped from speaking to the relatives? Excuse me, sir. BBC News.
:02:33. > :02:37.Can you tell us why we are not allowed to speak to them? The
:02:38. > :02:40.Malaysians are not used to having their authority challenge like this,
:02:41. > :02:44.and when Fennessy prevailed, they issued an apology and said they
:02:45. > :02:51.would investigate what happened. -- sanity prevailed. We understand the
:02:52. > :02:58.concerns, and we are trying our very best, and it is hard to imagine,
:02:59. > :03:05.even for me. Away from the media circus, the flight for MH370
:03:06. > :03:08.continues. Satellite data has identified two arcs across Central
:03:09. > :03:13.Asia and in the waters of the southern Indian Ocean. The southern
:03:14. > :03:19.sector is now the focus of the search effort, with Australian and
:03:20. > :03:26.American planes lying overhead. -- flying overhead.
:03:27. > :03:31.We are watching every lead for you and our reporter has some new
:03:32. > :03:34.information. There are some sources telling the BBC some interesting
:03:35. > :03:40.things about the satellite transmissions. We heard about the
:03:41. > :03:44.final satellite transmission made at 811 in the morning. We have not
:03:45. > :03:49.heard about the other conditions that were detected at hourly
:03:50. > :03:57.intervals. From that, investigators can infer a rough track, or heading,
:03:58. > :04:00.for the aft craft -- the aircraft. They have a rough direction in which
:04:01. > :04:05.direction the truck or they have a rough idea in which direction it was
:04:06. > :04:09.heading -- they have a rough idea of which direction it was heading.
:04:10. > :04:13.These transmissions could only have come from a moving aircraft, so it
:04:14. > :04:19.seems to discount the period that it was parked up on the ground
:04:20. > :04:22.somewhere and was sending out these transmissions. It was moving for
:04:23. > :04:27.several hours. What more can you tell us about the direction where it
:04:28. > :04:31.seems to be headed? The Australians have given us a lot of hard data on
:04:32. > :04:34.this, and they seem to have very good indications of where it went
:04:35. > :04:40.down. They seem to be searching a very limited area, still hundreds of
:04:41. > :04:44.square miles, but at the end of the ark, so they have information that
:04:45. > :04:48.went down at the end of its fuel endurance. There is a theory going
:04:49. > :05:01.around on the internet that's when it got West of certain islands, it
:05:02. > :05:06.headed due south for the South Pole, approximately. I put that Kerry to
:05:07. > :05:11.one of my sources and the source apply -- I put that theory to one of
:05:12. > :05:14.my sources and they said it was a reasonable theory. It narrows down
:05:15. > :05:23.an absolutely massive search. We have been talking about the extent
:05:24. > :05:30.of the search. Why did some of this information and, before? That is a
:05:31. > :05:35.mystery. -- this information come out before. We have been hearing
:05:36. > :05:40.from authorities that the plane that could be in any of these two arcs,
:05:41. > :05:45.North or South. I think they could only be at the end of the two arcs
:05:46. > :05:48.because of the geometry and the mathematics, and that certainly
:05:49. > :05:52.seems to be with the Australians are assuming. They still have a huge
:05:53. > :05:57.area to search all stop they said yesterday it could take weeks to
:05:58. > :06:01.search. -- area to search. At least they know it is at the end of the
:06:02. > :06:06.art and not at any intervening point along the way. That seems to be the
:06:07. > :06:19.most tangible points so far. Thank you.
:06:20. > :06:21.Tensions rose dramatically in Crimea today as hundreds of Russian troops
:06:22. > :06:28.and pro-Russian militias stormed Ukraine's naval headquarters in
:06:29. > :06:31.Sevastopol. Ukraine has demanded the release of its navy commander, after
:06:32. > :06:34.he was led away. The Ukraine government now says it's making
:06:35. > :06:37.plans to pull troops from Crimea. With me is Dmitry Linnik, London
:06:38. > :06:41.bureau chief for Voice of Russia Radio, and Mary Kaldor, Professor of
:06:42. > :06:43.Global Governance at the LSE, the London School of Economics. After
:06:44. > :06:45.yesterday's Rands ceremony in the Kremlin, today, the grubby business
:06:46. > :06:57.of taking territory bit by bit. At the main gate of Ukraine's Naval
:06:58. > :07:02.Ace, Crimea in -- chromium volunteers. One flag taken down,
:07:03. > :07:10.another goes up. The Russification of the Crimean Peninsula goes on.
:07:11. > :07:14.Ukrainian servicemen could only look on and wonder what comes next. They
:07:15. > :07:19.did not have to wait long. The intruders forced their way inside
:07:20. > :07:25.the building. Symbols of Ukrainian rule were quickly removed. For those
:07:26. > :07:32.to support Crimea joining Russia, a good days work. Everything is fine
:07:33. > :07:37.says this member of a local self-defense units, not a drop of
:07:38. > :07:42.blood has been spilt, not a single scratch, not a single bruise. Ships
:07:43. > :07:48.of the Ukrainian Navy are still at the base, but they are stuck here,
:07:49. > :07:51.and control has slipped away. As if to emphasise the point, the
:07:52. > :07:57.commander of the Russian Black Sea fleet arrived at the Ukrainian
:07:58. > :08:02.headquarters. Cheered by the crowds, the changing of the guard
:08:03. > :08:07.was confirmed. The Ukrainian commander by contrast has been taken
:08:08. > :08:11.into custody, and all that was left for many Ukrainian personnel was to
:08:12. > :08:15.walk away. There was nothing we could do against the crowd, says
:08:16. > :08:20.this Ukrainian captain. There were many promises from the Russian side,
:08:21. > :08:24.but as you can see, there has been a takeover. Elster in the country,
:08:25. > :08:29.Ukrainian troops are on manoeuvres. -- elsewhere in the country. The
:08:30. > :08:32.government has dispatched its defence minister to Crimea to try to
:08:33. > :08:37.ensure that the crisis does not enter a more dangerous phase. On
:08:38. > :08:40.Independence Square in Kiev, they are starting to learn about the
:08:41. > :08:45.limits of sovereignty. The government now describes to me as
:08:46. > :08:49.occupied Ukrainian land, but in truth, there is nothing he can do to
:08:50. > :08:56.affect realities on the ground. -- this private Crimea. The UN security
:08:57. > :09:01.council is meeting to discuss the crisis, and our correspondent is at
:09:02. > :09:08.the UN headquarters in York. What can we expect? This is the eighth
:09:09. > :09:15.time the council is met to discuss Crimea and Ukraine. We are expecting
:09:16. > :09:20.to get a statement from the assistant Secretary General for
:09:21. > :09:30.human rights, who has been in Ukraine. The Security Council really
:09:31. > :09:34.has moved into kind of Cold War mode in recent times, not being used as a
:09:35. > :09:40.chamber in which to resolve crises, but a chamber in which to trade
:09:41. > :09:44.accusations, and the rhetoric has been very strong up until now.
:09:45. > :09:49.Talking to a queue to the mats, they expect it to be -- a few diplomats,
:09:50. > :10:00.they expected to be ramped up even further. 14 of the 15 members have
:10:01. > :10:09.been critical of Russia's actions. Thank you very much, and keep us in
:10:10. > :10:16.touch with any updates. We can speak now to our guests. Thank you both
:10:17. > :10:21.for coming in. Things are moving fairly quickly. The Ukrainian
:10:22. > :10:24.government has said it is withdrawing troops from Crimea and
:10:25. > :10:29.is going to withdraw from the independent state, the Moscow led
:10:30. > :10:33.body, and it is due to appeal to the United Nations over Crimea as well.
:10:34. > :10:37.Do you think there is any chance in the near term of Moscow and Kiev
:10:38. > :10:44.establishing a working relationship? The signs are inflicting. The latest
:10:45. > :10:52.moves by the Kiev government, Moscow is of course not agonising that, but
:10:53. > :10:55.one move was to suspend the signing of the economic part of the
:10:56. > :11:03.Association agreement with the EU, over which the whole thing erupted.
:11:04. > :11:09.Now it has introduced a visa regime with Russia, which is again ironic,
:11:10. > :11:16.because between two and 3 million Ukrainians actually work in Russia
:11:17. > :11:24.and contribute quite substantially to Russia's GDP. On the other hand,
:11:25. > :11:30.the acting premier has spoken to the east and south of the country,
:11:31. > :11:37.telling them that there will be no problems with the Russian language,
:11:38. > :11:42.that they are doing their best to be reasonable about things, about
:11:43. > :11:47.moving forwards, about greater autonomy for the regions, so these
:11:48. > :11:54.conflicting signals. And that is key, isn't it, to stop the situation
:11:55. > :11:59.developing further. It is absolutely crucial, but I think the situation
:12:00. > :12:02.is very dangerous. You cannot walk into the country, take it over and
:12:03. > :12:06.hope that things will go smoothly. There is bound to be tensions. We
:12:07. > :12:11.have seen today that the naval commander has been taken in Crimea.
:12:12. > :12:15.There is going to be problems or those Ukrainians in Crimea who do
:12:16. > :12:20.not want to become Russian citizens. Are they going to have rights to
:12:21. > :12:24.their property, to their businesses? There are a whole series of problems
:12:25. > :12:28.that need to be resolved before there is any kind of change, and to
:12:29. > :12:39.do it in this dramatic and illegal way makes it extremely difficult and
:12:40. > :12:43.tense. So when NATO says this is the most tense security crisis since the
:12:44. > :12:51.Cold War, do you agree with that? I believe it is. We saw George at five
:12:52. > :12:58.years ago, that was serious. -- we saw Georgia writers ago. On the
:12:59. > :13:03.other hand, it is a compilation of several factors that made Russia do
:13:04. > :13:09.what it did. The link between Russia and Crimea is unique, like nothing
:13:10. > :13:14.else probably that we have seen. It means much more to Russia than the
:13:15. > :13:20.Falklands needs to the UK. Meanwhile, the West is saying this
:13:21. > :13:27.is illegitimate. What can or should the West, the outside world, do and
:13:28. > :13:30.say to President Putin? If it is true that there is a link between
:13:31. > :13:35.Crimea and Russia, this is not the way to do it. The Crimean people did
:13:36. > :13:43.not ask for a referendum. But now that this has happened... Yes, they
:13:44. > :13:49.did. On the after the intervention. Moving on to what can happen now,
:13:50. > :13:54.what can Brussels and Washington do? We have heard the rhetoric, but what
:13:55. > :13:57.can they do? They cannot go to war. That would make everything much
:13:58. > :14:04.worse. We are clear about that. First of all, they have to be very
:14:05. > :14:10.clear about Ukraine's territorial integrity. They were signatories to
:14:11. > :14:13.the treaty that preserved the territory integrity when they gave
:14:14. > :14:17.up nuclear weapons, so they have to be clear that there is no
:14:18. > :14:22.intervention in eastern Ukraine. I am in favour of a smart sanctions on
:14:23. > :14:26.individuals am and what I think is most important is to help sustain
:14:27. > :14:33.Ukraine. I think we need a Marshall plan for Ukraine, so that it does
:14:34. > :14:38.not... A Marshall plan for Ukraine, and the EU is saying they will
:14:39. > :14:43.protect Ukraine. It started with the West saying to Russia, why don't you
:14:44. > :14:48.help out? You think it might exacerbate the problem? It won't
:14:49. > :14:53.exacerbate the problem, but Ukraine is a divided country, and there is
:14:54. > :14:57.no arguing about it. It is not about Ukrainian people versus, I don't
:14:58. > :15:08.know, Matt sin or what ever, it is not like that. -- Matt Putin stop
:15:09. > :15:14.--. We saw a tweet from a dignitary that said, I am back in every sense
:15:15. > :15:18.of the word. Is she a unifying figure for Ukraine? I am not so
:15:19. > :15:22.sure. I am not so sure either, but what I do think is that these
:15:23. > :15:26.protests did bring people together from East and West and they were
:15:27. > :15:33.about human rights, and they were about corruption, and I think it is
:15:34. > :15:36.terribly dangerous if we... What really worries me about this
:15:37. > :15:39.intervention in Crimea is that it will exacerbate an frame what is
:15:40. > :15:44.happening as a division between West and East it could be very dangerous.
:15:45. > :15:48.We have to leave it there, but I think that is a very good point at
:15:49. > :16:03.which to leave it. Thank you very much. Now a look at some of the days
:16:04. > :16:10.other news. President Jacob Zuma of South Africa has been ordered to
:16:11. > :16:17.repay some of the $23 million of public funds that have been spent on
:16:18. > :16:29.his residence. The President insisted that the work was for
:16:30. > :16:32.security reasons. At the Oscar Pistorius trial today the court
:16:33. > :16:36.heard from a key police ballistics expert. He says the athlete was not
:16:37. > :16:39.wearing his prosthetic legs when he shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp
:16:40. > :16:42.- and that one bullet was fired, then there was a pause, and then
:16:43. > :16:45.three more followed. Mr Pistorius denies murdering his girlfreind,
:16:46. > :16:48.saying he thought she was an intruder. The Japanese car giant,
:16:49. > :16:51.Toyota, has agreed to pay $1.2 billion to settle a criminal dispute
:16:52. > :16:54.with the United States over safety. Toyota admitted misleading the
:16:55. > :16:56.public over problems in its cars that could have caused sudden,
:16:57. > :16:59.uncontrolled acceleration. One of Sweden's most prolific serial
:17:00. > :17:02.killers has been released after authorities found that his eight
:17:03. > :17:04.murder convictions were based on false confessions. Sture Bergwall
:17:05. > :17:11.had been held in psychiatric detention for more than 20 years.
:17:12. > :17:15.But he retracted his confessions six years ago, saying he made them when
:17:16. > :17:19.he was heavily medicated and seeking attention. A shell dating back to
:17:20. > :17:22.the First World War has exploded in the Belgian city of Ypres, killing
:17:23. > :17:26.two people and seriously injuring at least one other. The device was set
:17:27. > :17:32.off when workmen at a building site tried to excavate it. It's one of
:17:33. > :17:42.the most important days in the British politicial calendar - the
:17:43. > :17:45.Budget. Today the Chancellor,George Osborne, has chosen to favour savers
:17:46. > :17:48.and pensioners, while continuing to limit rises in welfare spending. In
:17:49. > :17:50.a minute, we'll consider the health of the British economy set against
:17:51. > :17:53.international competitors. First this report from our political
:17:54. > :18:00.correspondent Rob Watson. For the last four years, the famous red box
:18:01. > :18:02.has contained mainly bad news as the government cut spending and raised
:18:03. > :18:11.taxes and economy seemed stuck in reverse. But no George Osborne is
:18:12. > :18:16.being cheered at least by his fellow conservatives. Britain is growing
:18:17. > :18:26.faster than most other developed nations. His message is that
:18:27. > :18:31.austerities working. The economy is continuing to recover and recovering
:18:32. > :18:38.faster than forecast. We have set out our plan and together with the
:18:39. > :18:45.British people, we held our nerve. With an eye on the general election
:18:46. > :18:56.next year, Mr Osborne is hinting that the job is not done yet. It is
:18:57. > :19:02.still one of the highest rates in Europe so today we take further
:19:03. > :19:07.action to bring it down. The leader of the Labour Party said that if the
:19:08. > :19:14.economy is recovering it does not feel like that to most people. At
:19:15. > :19:20.the heart of the argument we will have over the next 14 months we will
:19:21. > :19:30.ask whose recovery is it under the Conservatives? It is the recovery
:19:31. > :19:33.for the few rather than the many. Certainly, Britain was Mac economy
:19:34. > :19:38.is recovering with unemployment and inflation down but the question is
:19:39. > :19:53.if and when it will turn into a feel-good factor for the voters. The
:19:54. > :19:59.government hopes it will be awarded for any economic upturn despite the
:20:00. > :20:13.austerities so far and the asperity to come. -- austerity to come. Sarah
:20:14. > :20:18.Hewin is a senior economist at Standard Chartered and joins me now
:20:19. > :20:26.from their offices in London. How would you rate the UK economy? It is
:20:27. > :20:33.doing very well in an international context and we are one of the best
:20:34. > :20:38.performing economies. That is always a lots of concern about the size of
:20:39. > :20:44.the deficit but how big is the gap for Britain against other European
:20:45. > :20:50.countries? We are doing a lot better than most other European Union
:20:51. > :20:53.countries in terms of growth but we have a much larger deficit than
:20:54. > :20:59.almost any other European Union country. This is because we went
:21:00. > :21:03.into such a deep recession and our spending rose sharply to deal with
:21:04. > :21:08.this through prices and we are only now starting to pull out. We have
:21:09. > :21:12.the legacy of the financial crisis which is reflected in the very large
:21:13. > :21:19.government borrowing requirement. Are you considering crisis countries
:21:20. > :21:25.like Greece or Italy? Absolutely. If we look at countries that received
:21:26. > :21:31.bailouts such as Greece and Ireland and Portugal and also Spain and
:21:32. > :21:36.Italy who came close, all of those countries with the exception of
:21:37. > :21:41.Spain are likely to have lower government borrowing requirements
:21:42. > :21:47.this year than the United Kingdom. The Chancellor is saying that
:21:48. > :21:58.Britain has turned the corner. Does this mean that austerities has
:21:59. > :22:00.worked? The jury is still out on whether there was too much done and
:22:01. > :22:10.we should have allowed the economy to grow. Economic growth is normally
:22:11. > :22:18.the best way to solve government financial problems and there is the
:22:19. > :22:27.view that austerities made to earlier with a recent that growth
:22:28. > :22:30.has been slow. Only a third of spending cuts have happened so far
:22:31. > :22:39.so over the next two years that is where the emphasis will be. Thank
:22:40. > :22:43.you for joining us. She was smart, sultry and sophisticated - one of
:22:44. > :22:45.the outstanding film stars of the 20th century. Marlene Dietrich's
:22:46. > :22:53.career in music and the movies lasted decades. Now more than 250 of
:22:54. > :22:56.her personal belongings are going up for auction, with one letter from
:22:57. > :23:18.American author Ernest Hemingway expected to sell for more than
:23:19. > :23:26.$50,000. Alistair Leithead reports. # See what the boys in the backroom
:23:27. > :23:33.will have she was everything you would want in a movie star and she
:23:34. > :23:43.was always mysterious. Her grandson is auctioning off a lot of Marlene
:23:44. > :23:51.Dietrich 's personal items. It has been sitting in storage and things
:23:52. > :23:59.like that. One of the most interesting pieces up for auction is
:24:00. > :24:16.a letter written by Ennis Hemingway -- Ernest Hemingway. He says he is
:24:17. > :24:19.on stage drunk and naked. The reason they claimed they never slept
:24:20. > :24:33.together was that they were never single at the same time. She
:24:34. > :24:38.reinvented herself to stay in touch with the world and she did motion
:24:39. > :24:44.pictures and a cabaret and went to Las Vegas and workflows which she
:24:45. > :24:50.looked fabulous in and created a new fashion style for women. It must be
:24:51. > :24:59.strange having your grandmother as this sex symbol. Compared to some of
:25:00. > :25:03.the people know it is a bit team but jihad a year reputation which was
:25:04. > :25:08.deserved. She had girlfriends as well as men. She never got divorced
:25:09. > :25:12.and always loved her husband and was very much an actress in the sense
:25:13. > :25:16.that when she was in these relationships she was playing a
:25:17. > :25:42.part. With Hemingway she was a parlour. Pal. -- a little bit of
:25:43. > :25:58.personal glamorous yesterday. -- history. Ladybirds can reach speeds
:25:59. > :26:02.of almost 60 mph and can travel at altitudes close to 5000 feet which
:26:03. > :26:08.is close to the height of the highest mountain in the UK. A
:26:09. > :26:14.reminder of our main news. The frustration felt by the families of
:26:15. > :26:26.people aboard a missing airliner has lead to confrontation at a news
:26:27. > :26:31.conference in Malaysia. No -- now sources say that signals received
:26:32. > :26:42.could only have come from a moving aircraft. We hear that the
:26:43. > :26:50.Australians a leading part of the search which is now narrowed down.
:26:51. > :27:05.It will turn a good deal colder over the next few days and the change in
:27:06. > :27:07.the weather will come because of this act of