:00:09. > :00:17.This is BBC World News. Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is lost.
:00:18. > :00:21.Presumed it ditched in the Southern Indian Ocean. Relatives are told
:00:22. > :00:22.there is no hope as the Malaysia and Prime Minister announces the flight
:00:23. > :00:31.'s last known position as many hours from land.
:00:32. > :00:44.It is therefore with deep sadness and regret that I must inform you
:00:45. > :00:56.that according to this new data, the live image, it ended in the Southern
:00:57. > :00:59.Indian Ocean -- one ended. We have the track on the British
:01:00. > :01:04.firm that got the most definitive reading of the location. Over 100
:01:05. > :01:07.people are now missing after a massive mudslide in the United
:01:08. > :01:13.States. And protests in Egypt as it caught
:01:14. > :01:23.sentences more than 500 supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood to death.
:01:24. > :01:29.Hello and welcome. Waiting families were told by text message that it
:01:30. > :01:32.has to be assumed "beyond reasonable doubt" that the Malaysia Airlines
:01:33. > :01:37.flight which took off 16 days ago and vanished is lost. An
:01:38. > :01:40.international search is still scouring the waters far south-west
:01:41. > :01:51.of Perth, Australia, where it is believed the aircraft went down. We
:01:52. > :01:54.have more on the search for evidence, and on the data that
:01:55. > :01:57.finally led investigators to this conclusion. But first, Alistair
:01:58. > :02:03.Leithead reports from the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur.
:02:04. > :02:07.It was a moment the world was expecting, but the families of those
:02:08. > :02:13.on board Flight MH370 were hoping would never come. The Malaysia Prime
:02:14. > :02:17.Minister 's announcement was based on new information from the British
:02:18. > :02:23.communications company at the heart of this investigation. The UK
:02:24. > :02:30.company that provided the satellite data using a type of analysis never
:02:31. > :02:38.before used in an investigation of this sort, they have been able to
:02:39. > :02:43.shed more light on Flight MH370 's Pap.
:02:44. > :02:49.Inmarsat Jese data sent from the plane to the satellite to establish
:02:50. > :02:54.corridors of light could have troubled -- sense data. They used
:02:55. > :02:57.computer modelling to discount the northern corridor so the plane 's
:02:58. > :03:04.last signal must have come from here in the Southern Indian Ocean. This
:03:05. > :03:12.is a remote location. Far from any possible landing sites. It is
:03:13. > :03:25.therefore with deep sadness and regret that I must inform you that
:03:26. > :03:35.according to this new data, Flight MH370 ended in the Southern Indian
:03:36. > :03:39.Ocean. This was the reaction in Beijing
:03:40. > :03:46.when the families heard the terrible news.
:03:47. > :03:51.Anger replaced this sudden and brutal loss of hope. The Malaysians
:03:52. > :03:55.are talking nonsense, shouts this man, until the wreckage is found,
:03:56. > :04:01.the truth will be hard to accept. Chinese aircraft joined the search
:04:02. > :04:06.for wreckage today, 1,500 miles off the coast of Western Australia. They
:04:07. > :04:11.photographed unidentified floating objects, as did an Australian
:04:12. > :04:16.aircraft crew. Ships are also on the way to the search area. This is just
:04:17. > :04:21.the first step in trying to solve one of the world 's great aviation
:04:22. > :04:25.mysteries, a wreckage linked to the flight has not been positively
:04:26. > :04:30.identified so the search must go on for remains of the plane, its
:04:31. > :04:33.black-box, flight recorder, to piece together the last hours of the
:04:34. > :04:38.passion Joe -- the passengers and crew on board. Why it went down
:04:39. > :04:43.thousands of miles off-course deep in the Southern Indian Ocean may
:04:44. > :04:46.never be known. Well, the Malaysian Prime Minister's
:04:47. > :04:49.announcement followed new analysis by experts at the UK's Air Accidents
:04:50. > :04:51.Investigation Branch and by Inmarsat, that is the British
:04:52. > :04:58.company which provided the satellite data. Our transport correspondent,
:04:59. > :05:06.Richard Westcott, has been talking to the team behind the breakthrough.
:05:07. > :05:10.This is the room where they would have been receiving the data from
:05:11. > :05:15.Flight MH370 and this is where they have put together a new analysis to
:05:16. > :05:17.confirm the aircraft definitely flew South and is definitely somewhere
:05:18. > :05:25.down here. How have you finally concluded it
:05:26. > :05:30.flew South? We took aircraft data, and modelled that and put that
:05:31. > :05:35.against the northern and Southern parts and what we discovered was
:05:36. > :05:42.that the path to the South is undoubtedly the one taken. Why has
:05:43. > :05:47.it taken so long? We have been dealing with a totally new area. We
:05:48. > :05:51.have been trying to help an investigation based on a signal
:05:52. > :05:56.signal once an hour from an aircraft without GPS data, any time and
:05:57. > :06:00.distance information. This was a bit of a shot in the dark and it is to
:06:01. > :06:06.the credit of our scientific team that they could model this. Are you
:06:07. > :06:11.happy with the way the Malaysians have processed this data? The
:06:12. > :06:14.emphasis must have been on cutting back the data they were getting, I
:06:15. > :06:17.would have been dealing with neighbours they might not get on
:06:18. > :06:21.with, they would have been trying to get through a series of data to
:06:22. > :06:27.eliminate so it is hard to criticise them. It will frighten people that
:06:28. > :06:33.an aircraft can just disappear. Is there anything to stop it happening
:06:34. > :06:37.in the future? If you look at ships at sea, long-range tracking and
:06:38. > :06:41.identification is a requirement as part of safety arrangements.
:06:42. > :06:45.Aircraft could have their positions reported now with existing
:06:46. > :06:49.technology, it would cost less than $1 an hour.
:06:50. > :06:52.The search for the wreckage of Flight MH370 is continuing, and
:06:53. > :06:55.continuing to focus on a stretch of the Southern Indian Ocean. An
:06:56. > :06:58.Australian naval ship has been looking for four objects in the sea
:06:59. > :07:01.which were spotted by a surveillance aircraft. Jon Donnison has been
:07:02. > :07:03.following the search from the centre of the operation, the Australian
:07:04. > :07:17.city of Perth. The five days, the vast Southern
:07:18. > :07:22.Indian Ocean has yielded few clues. Today, that changed. An Australian
:07:23. > :07:27.search plane fired flares to mark the spot after four pieces of
:07:28. > :07:37.possible debris from the missing Malaysians get was spotted. -- jet.
:07:38. > :07:42.They tracked shift in position caused by the objects. -- ships. It
:07:43. > :07:46.was rectangular, slightly below the ocean. The second object was
:07:47. > :07:54.circular and slightly below the ocean, we came across a cylindrical
:07:55. > :08:02.object, and a couple of items in the area. It was also cylindrical in
:08:03. > :08:06.shape. Dozens of flights this week have spotted virtually nothing. But
:08:07. > :08:12.today, a Chinese plane also reported seeing suspicious objects among the
:08:13. > :08:17.waves. But from the Australian Prime Minister, a word of caution. Planes
:08:18. > :08:23.and ships continue to search the area for any sign of the missing
:08:24. > :08:32.aircraft. I caution again that we do not know whether any of these
:08:33. > :08:37.objects from Flight MH370. An Australian Navy ship is one of
:08:38. > :08:44.several vessels trying to find that out. It could then take days to
:08:45. > :08:49.transport anything they do find the 1,500 miles back to dry land. And
:08:50. > :08:54.unless the plane 's crucial lockbox is found, we may know what happened
:08:55. > :08:58.but we will not know why -- black box.
:08:59. > :09:01.David Gleave is an aviation safety investigator from Loughborough
:09:02. > :09:10.University. He joins us from Leicester, in the English Midlands.
:09:11. > :09:18.Still, a very difficult search for any evidence, what does the priority
:09:19. > :09:24.have to be? The priority has to be to call for as many naval assets as
:09:25. > :09:27.we can get hold of and search and rescue aeroplanes to carry out the
:09:28. > :09:33.search, to try to identify anything on the surface. And also, to start
:09:34. > :09:39.the subsea search, to see if we can hear the units which are
:09:40. > :09:44.broadcasting radio signals from the black-box. Provided they have not
:09:45. > :09:48.been interfered with and they work, we could detect them for about the
:09:49. > :09:53.next three weeks. What it is a bust area to search for. After three
:09:54. > :09:58.weeks, that signal fades? And presumably, it you have the issue of
:09:59. > :10:03.currents carrying debris further from the stretch of water? -- you
:10:04. > :10:08.have. Yes, but most of the aircraft if it
:10:09. > :10:14.is in the Southern Indian Ocean will have sunk, then it will be settled
:10:15. > :10:18.on the ocean floor. It will be sufficiently dense and it should not
:10:19. > :10:23.move too far, but there could be ocean currents on the surface that
:10:24. > :10:27.build-up silt. It is probably reasonably stable, the area, but
:10:28. > :10:32.anything that is floating that we find would be very useful. But it is
:10:33. > :10:38.now a long way from where the aircraft wreckage would be and we
:10:39. > :10:41.need to rely on the oceanographers to give an indication as to where
:10:42. > :10:46.the aircraft could be, but that search pattern gets wider every day.
:10:47. > :10:51.Do you think we will ever know why the plane went down? There are
:10:52. > :10:57.several credible theories still around. If we get hold of the
:10:58. > :11:01.black-box, Ben Maher been deliberate interference with those on board,
:11:02. > :11:05.they should have survived reasonably well -- there may have been. The
:11:06. > :11:10.question is whether it has been interfered with. We may need to get
:11:11. > :11:17.a cockpit section back to see who was on the flight deck. What theory
:11:18. > :11:22.has seemed most edible so far? Statistically, that aircraft would
:11:23. > :11:29.appear to have been taken deliberately. -- credible. Given
:11:30. > :11:34.that we have no political or religious claims for any form of
:11:35. > :11:38.terrorism, we are starting to look towards intentional taking the
:11:39. > :11:42.aeroplane and crashing it for some form of personal financial reason is
:11:43. > :11:48.the most likely explanation. Statistically, that is the most
:11:49. > :11:52.likely cause at this moment. From the limited evidence we have, you
:11:53. > :11:55.think it is unlikely something catastrophic happens suddenly,
:11:56. > :12:01.taking everyone by surprise? -- happened. It is relatively
:12:02. > :12:05.unlikely, the aeroplane disappeared at the point of maximum confusion
:12:06. > :12:09.when you are handing over between two traffic control centres, it is
:12:10. > :12:15.tracked between Malaysia and Thailand, splitting the border, and
:12:16. > :12:19.the wine of maximum confusion. And to head intentionally into the
:12:20. > :12:22.Indian Ocean, there would be no reason for the navigation system to
:12:23. > :12:27.disappear into that direction so it looks as if the aircraft has, from
:12:28. > :12:31.somebody on board and we do not know who, anybody could be trained given
:12:32. > :12:36.sufficient time and with the right technical team behind them, the
:12:37. > :12:40.aircraft appears to have been crashed a long way from Australia.
:12:41. > :12:44.In order to hide the wreckage or make it as difficult as possible to
:12:45. > :12:48.find. There appears to be a degree of likelihood it has been done
:12:49. > :12:54.intentionally rather than on intentionally, mechanical failure
:12:55. > :12:57.for example. Thank you for your insight.
:12:58. > :13:00.Eight people are confirmed dead and 108 are still missing after a huge
:13:01. > :13:02.mudslide on Saturday in the north-western US state of
:13:03. > :13:06.Washington. Eyewitnesses have spoken about a massive wall of mud sweeping
:13:07. > :13:09.near the town of Oso, about 55 miles North of Seattle, and leaving behind
:13:10. > :13:14.a square mile of "total devastation". Akiko Fujita, from our
:13:15. > :13:16.colleagues at ABC News, sent this report from rescue headquarters in
:13:17. > :13:31.nearby Arlington. Another day of searching, no signs
:13:32. > :13:36.of life, rescue crews coming through mud 15 feet deep and neighbourhoods
:13:37. > :13:40.flattened. There may be people in cars and on houses, we are trying to
:13:41. > :13:45.track that down the best we can. Half a mountain slid through this
:13:46. > :13:52.community, a full square mile, enough to cover 484 fields. Shaun
:13:53. > :13:56.Wright ran towards the screens to find a baby and mother buried under
:13:57. > :14:05.their home, he used chainsaws to get out alive. You could not tell
:14:06. > :14:08.anything, it was debris. With no rain expected today, crews are
:14:09. > :14:13.scrambling to find survivors, searching from the air, braving
:14:14. > :14:18.quicksand on the ground. Heavy rainfall is expected later in the
:14:19. > :14:23.week, the hope for any light is dimming with every hour. We hope
:14:24. > :14:29.every hour they find people alive and cant get them to help. This is
:14:30. > :14:34.after the wettest march in years, more than seven inches of rain fell,
:14:35. > :14:37.twice the average, and there is more expected tomorrow.
:14:38. > :14:41.A court in Egypt has sentenced to death 528 supporters of ousted
:14:42. > :14:45.Islamist President Mohamed Morsi in a case which only began two days ago
:14:46. > :14:50.and which centred on the killing of a single police officer. The Muslim
:14:51. > :14:55.Brotherhood's spokesman in London told the BBC the sentences show that
:14:56. > :15:07.Egypt is now a dictatorship. It's expected the defendants will appeal.
:15:08. > :15:10.Here in Carol, there has been an angry reaction from human rights
:15:11. > :15:14.campaigners. One said of the judiciary has become a tool for
:15:15. > :15:20.taking revenge. Another said the verdict was a scandal and a disaster
:15:21. > :15:23.for Egypt. In the southern province outside the courthouse, some
:15:24. > :15:27.relatives were screaming and shouting after the verdict,
:15:28. > :15:32.protesting against the decision. One said the judge had not listened to
:15:33. > :15:38.the lawyers, the accused or the witnesses before reaching a verdict.
:15:39. > :15:42.A spokesman for the band Muslim Brotherhood said the ruling had come
:15:43. > :15:47.from a kangaroo court. We are expecting an appeal in this case and
:15:48. > :15:51.several legal experts are addicting a retrial. This was a case involving
:15:52. > :15:57.the death of one police officer and more than 520 defendants were
:15:58. > :16:01.sentenced to death at breathtaking speed. The case opened on Saturday
:16:02. > :16:04.and at first hearing was quickly adjourned and the verdict came today
:16:05. > :16:18.in what was only the second session of the case. The judgement has been
:16:19. > :16:23.passed and the sentences can be rejected or accepted. While death
:16:24. > :16:28.sentences have been handed down regularly in Egypt, in recent years,
:16:29. > :16:33.few have been carried out. We are expecting another hearing tomorrow,
:16:34. > :16:36.another mass trial of a large group of Brotherhood defendants and are
:16:37. > :16:39.expected in the dark, facing charges.
:16:40. > :16:43.I'm joined now by a webcam from Cairo by Dr Hisham Hellyer. He is an
:16:44. > :16:50.associate fellow of the Royal United Services Institute. How unusual is
:16:51. > :16:55.it to hand out so many death sentences so quickly? It is
:16:56. > :17:01.incredibly unusual, there is no precedent in this in any judiciary
:17:02. > :17:04.around the world. The fact that so many people were on trial at the
:17:05. > :17:11.same time, the fact that the case went through so quickly, the fact
:17:12. > :17:15.that so many of them were not even in the court, let alone having their
:17:16. > :17:26.lawyers listening will stop many will appeal but I want it to you,
:17:27. > :17:29.one could from a human rights group that accused the judges of handing
:17:30. > :17:35.down political revenge. Is that fair? It could very well be. We will
:17:36. > :17:40.have two wait and see what will happen with the next hearing. There
:17:41. > :17:44.will be an appeal, that is scheduled for the end of April. I am cautious
:17:45. > :17:53.about talking about political motivations for the case and the
:17:54. > :17:56.verdict. It implies there is some singular line whereas in reality,
:17:57. > :18:00.what we have seen over the last couple of months is that
:18:01. > :18:05.institutions within the state are not as organised as that. I am sure
:18:06. > :18:08.there are parts of the state that would prefer not to see these sorts
:18:09. > :18:18.of cases go forward and others that are happy to drum the war drums in
:18:19. > :18:23.the context of this war on terror. The statement not be acting with one
:18:24. > :18:27.voice but three years on from the overthrow of President Mubarak, do
:18:28. > :18:34.you have the sense of political ties in Egypt coming full circle? Full
:18:35. > :18:43.circle may be simplistic in that you do have forces that are linked to
:18:44. > :18:51.the former regime in certain parts of the state. New forces ticking
:18:52. > :18:55.over instead. This is not as simple or correct to say the regime has
:18:56. > :19:01.been reinvented. There is something new that has been fought. It is not
:19:02. > :19:05.quite the same and you will see different calculation is over the
:19:06. > :19:09.coming months and different fighter taking place between different parts
:19:10. > :19:15.of that new regime as it begins to form but it is a different regime.
:19:16. > :19:23.Tell us about the reaction within Egypt to these 528 death sentences
:19:24. > :19:29.being passed down. A lot of talk? Not that much talk, to be honest.
:19:30. > :19:32.You do see the human rights organisations coming out against it
:19:33. > :19:37.and rightly so on the basis of everything that has happened. The
:19:38. > :19:40.public reaction thus far has not been as strong as people might
:19:41. > :19:47.think, keeping in mind that at the moment, there is this presentation
:19:48. > :19:51.of a war on terror throughout the media in Egypt and many people do
:19:52. > :19:56.believe that and as a result, they are willing to allow the state to
:19:57. > :20:04.get away with quite a lot in pursuance of that goal of defeating
:20:05. > :20:08.terrorism. . Ukraine has ordered the withdrawal
:20:09. > :20:11.of its forces from Crimea after the third attack on a military base by
:20:12. > :20:15.Russian troops in 48 hours, although it appears many of those forces may
:20:16. > :20:18.have defected already. As for the international response, leaders of
:20:19. > :20:22.what is now the G-7 group of industrialised nations are meeting
:20:23. > :20:26.in the Netherlands. President Obama has said Europe and the US are
:20:27. > :20:34.united in imposing a cost for Russia's actions.
:20:35. > :20:40.In the Crimea, every Ukrainian military base is now under Russian
:20:41. > :20:43.control. Many of the Ukrainian soldiers without their uniforms are
:20:44. > :20:53.being pulled out of the region took an resistance has ended. In Moscow,
:20:54. > :20:57.in the parliament, the flags of Crimea and Sebastopol were added to
:20:58. > :21:00.the flags of Russiapos-mac regions. Images intended to demonstrate that
:21:01. > :21:06.from the Russian perspective, Crimeapos-mac future has been
:21:07. > :21:09.settled. In the Netherlands, President Obama arrived for a summit
:21:10. > :21:13.on nuclear security but it was completely overshadowed by the
:21:14. > :21:18.crisis in Ukraine. The American president who was shown in restored
:21:19. > :21:23.museum for Dutch Masters was determined to keep pressure on
:21:24. > :21:27.Russia and the signal it could not expect a place at the worldpos-mac
:21:28. > :21:33.top table for the time being. Europe and America are united in our
:21:34. > :21:37.support of the Ukrainian government and the Ukrainian people. We are
:21:38. > :21:43.united in imposing a cost on Russia for its actions so far. As the
:21:44. > :21:47.motorcade swept into the Hague, President Putin was not among them.
:21:48. > :21:53.The leaders of the worlds most powerful economies, the G8, were
:21:54. > :21:59.said to discuss what to do Russia. It is now time to exclude Russia
:22:00. > :22:03.from the G8 and make it a G7? There is not going to be a G8 summit this
:22:04. > :22:07.year in Russia, that is absolutely clear. We will meet tonight, the
:22:08. > :22:12.seven other countries, to determine the way forward but frankly, it is
:22:13. > :22:15.Russia that needs to change course. The White House indicated that
:22:16. > :22:23.Russia would not be formally kicked out of the grip of it. More a cold
:22:24. > :22:28.shoulder. The President Obama a thriving here, the primary -- the
:22:29. > :22:32.priority is to demonstrate how isolated Russia is within the
:22:33. > :22:36.international community and also to try and show that the United States
:22:37. > :22:42.and Europe are united when it comes to dealing with Russia over the
:22:43. > :22:47.crisis in Ukraine. On the sidelines of this meeting there was one more
:22:48. > :22:50.positive sign, there are reports the Russian foreign minister is expected
:22:51. > :22:58.to meet his Ukrainian counterpart for the first time.
:22:59. > :23:01.The French Prime Minister has urged voters to back whichever candidate
:23:02. > :23:05.is best placed to beat the far right front National in the second round
:23:06. > :23:12.of Francepos-mac Ochil elections on Sunday. The party led by Marine Le
:23:13. > :23:15.Penn said better-than-expected in the first round, winning an outright
:23:16. > :23:19.majority in the northern former coal-mining town of Helen Beaumont.
:23:20. > :23:22.It led the polls in some southern cities as well.
:23:23. > :23:25.The jury at the Oscar Pistorius murder trial has been told about
:23:26. > :23:29.text messages exchanged between the athlete and his girlfriend Reeva
:23:30. > :23:35.Steenkamp. In one message she tells him, I am scared of you sometimes.
:23:36. > :23:39.Oscar Pistorius admits shooting Ms Steenkamp on Valentine's Day last
:23:40. > :23:48.year but says he mistook her for an intruder.
:23:49. > :23:51.A bruising day ahead for Oscar Pistorius, the athletepos-mac
:23:52. > :23:56.relationship with Reeva Steenkamp under scrutiny for the first time.
:23:57. > :24:04.Prosecution revealing evidence from a couple mobile phones. In
:24:05. > :24:13.particular, a series of bitter text messages. I know you are not happy
:24:14. > :24:19.and I am very sad. In public, they were South Africapos-mac new
:24:20. > :24:22.glamorous couple but today we heard evidence of public fights and
:24:23. > :24:25.private tears in the weeks before Reeva Steenkamppos-mac death. I do
:24:26. > :24:40.everything to make you happy, she wrote.
:24:41. > :24:46.Oscar Pistorius appeared to weep and there was worse to come. Reeva
:24:47. > :24:52.Steenkamp saying she felt threatened. I am scared by you
:24:53. > :24:57.sometimes and how you will react to me. The police expert acknowledged
:24:58. > :25:00.that 90% of the messages between the couple were nothing but the damage
:25:01. > :25:05.had already been done. In court today, Oscar Pistorius was revealed
:25:06. > :25:11.as a jealous and at times domineering boyfriend. That does not
:25:12. > :25:16.prove he killed Reeva Steenkamp deliberately but the athlete has his
:25:17. > :25:24.work cut out as he prepares to take to the witness stand himself perhaps
:25:25. > :25:26.later this week. Malaysia's Prime Minister, Najib
:25:27. > :25:30.Razak, says the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 crashed in the
:25:31. > :25:34.southern Indian Ocean. Mr Razak said satellite data showed the aircraft
:25:35. > :25:40.had ended its journey in the remote seas west of Australia, far from any
:25:41. > :25:43.possible landing site. He appealed to the media to respect the privacy
:25:44. > :25:48.of the families of the 239 passengers and crew. Most of the
:25:49. > :25:50.people on board were Chinese. Officials in Beijing have demanded
:25:51. > :25:56.Malaysia provide all evidence and information about the incident. The
:25:57. > :26:01.plane vanished from radar screens more than two weeks ago. A fleet of
:26:02. > :26:15.ships and aircraft are investigating a flurry of sightings of possible
:26:16. > :26:20.wreckage. If you are following this story, you
:26:21. > :26:25.can find more background on the complexity for the hunt for MH370 on
:26:26. > :26:28.our website. You can look at the latest, the search, the high-tech
:26:29. > :26:33.methods that have been used in tracking it down.
:26:34. > :26:37.That's all from the programme. The weather is next. From me and the
:26:38. > :26:41.rest of the team, goodbye.