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This is BBC World News. Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is lost.

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Presumed it ditched in the Southern Indian Ocean. Relatives are told

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there is no hope as the Malaysia and Prime Minister announces the flight

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's last known position as many hours from land.

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It is therefore with deep sadness and regret that I must inform you

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that according to this new data, the live image, it ended in the Southern

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Indian Ocean -- one ended. We have the track on the British

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firm that got the most definitive reading of the location. Over 100

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people are now missing after a massive mudslide in the United

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States. And protests in Egypt as it caught

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sentences more than 500 supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood to death.

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Hello and welcome. Waiting families were told by text message that it

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has to be assumed "beyond reasonable doubt" that the Malaysia Airlines

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flight which took off 16 days ago and vanished is lost. An

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international search is still scouring the waters far south-west

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of Perth, Australia, where it is believed the aircraft went down. We

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have more on the search for evidence, and on the data that

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finally led investigators to this conclusion. But first, Alistair

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Leithead reports from the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur.

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It was a moment the world was expecting, but the families of those

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on board Flight MH370 were hoping would never come. The Malaysia Prime

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Minister 's announcement was based on new information from the British

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communications company at the heart of this investigation. The UK

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company that provided the satellite data using a type of analysis never

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before used in an investigation of this sort, they have been able to

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shed more light on Flight MH370 's Pap.

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Inmarsat Jese data sent from the plane to the satellite to establish

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corridors of light could have troubled -- sense data. They used

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computer modelling to discount the northern corridor so the plane 's

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last signal must have come from here in the Southern Indian Ocean. This

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is a remote location. Far from any possible landing sites. It is

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therefore with deep sadness and regret that I must inform you that

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according to this new data, Flight MH370 ended in the Southern Indian

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Ocean. This was the reaction in Beijing

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when the families heard the terrible news.

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Anger replaced this sudden and brutal loss of hope. The Malaysians

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are talking nonsense, shouts this man, until the wreckage is found,

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the truth will be hard to accept. Chinese aircraft joined the search

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for wreckage today, 1,500 miles off the coast of Western Australia. They

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photographed unidentified floating objects, as did an Australian

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aircraft crew. Ships are also on the way to the search area. This is just

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the first step in trying to solve one of the world 's great aviation

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mysteries, a wreckage linked to the flight has not been positively

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identified so the search must go on for remains of the plane, its

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black-box, flight recorder, to piece together the last hours of the

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passion Joe -- the passengers and crew on board. Why it went down

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thousands of miles off-course deep in the Southern Indian Ocean may

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never be known. Well, the Malaysian Prime Minister's

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announcement followed new analysis by experts at the UK's Air Accidents

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Investigation Branch and by Inmarsat, that is the British

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company which provided the satellite data. Our transport correspondent,

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Richard Westcott, has been talking to the team behind the breakthrough.

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This is the room where they would have been receiving the data from

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Flight MH370 and this is where they have put together a new analysis to

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confirm the aircraft definitely flew South and is definitely somewhere

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down here. How have you finally concluded it

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flew South? We took aircraft data, and modelled that and put that

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against the northern and Southern parts and what we discovered was

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that the path to the South is undoubtedly the one taken. Why has

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it taken so long? We have been dealing with a totally new area. We

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have been trying to help an investigation based on a signal

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signal once an hour from an aircraft without GPS data, any time and

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distance information. This was a bit of a shot in the dark and it is to

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the credit of our scientific team that they could model this. Are you

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happy with the way the Malaysians have processed this data? The

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emphasis must have been on cutting back the data they were getting, I

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would have been dealing with neighbours they might not get on

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with, they would have been trying to get through a series of data to

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eliminate so it is hard to criticise them. It will frighten people that

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an aircraft can just disappear. Is there anything to stop it happening

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in the future? If you look at ships at sea, long-range tracking and

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identification is a requirement as part of safety arrangements.

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Aircraft could have their positions reported now with existing

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technology, it would cost less than $1 an hour.

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The search for the wreckage of Flight MH370 is continuing, and

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continuing to focus on a stretch of the Southern Indian Ocean. An

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Australian naval ship has been looking for four objects in the sea

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which were spotted by a surveillance aircraft. Jon Donnison has been

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following the search from the centre of the operation, the Australian

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city of Perth. The five days, the vast Southern

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Indian Ocean has yielded few clues. Today, that changed. An Australian

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search plane fired flares to mark the spot after four pieces of

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possible debris from the missing Malaysians get was spotted. -- jet.

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They tracked shift in position caused by the objects. -- ships. It

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was rectangular, slightly below the ocean. The second object was

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circular and slightly below the ocean, we came across a cylindrical

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object, and a couple of items in the area. It was also cylindrical in

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shape. Dozens of flights this week have spotted virtually nothing. But

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today, a Chinese plane also reported seeing suspicious objects among the

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waves. But from the Australian Prime Minister, a word of caution. Planes

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and ships continue to search the area for any sign of the missing

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aircraft. I caution again that we do not know whether any of these

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objects from Flight MH370. An Australian Navy ship is one of

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several vessels trying to find that out. It could then take days to

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transport anything they do find the 1,500 miles back to dry land. And

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unless the plane 's crucial lockbox is found, we may know what happened

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but we will not know why -- black box.

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David Gleave is an aviation safety investigator from Loughborough

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University. He joins us from Leicester, in the English Midlands.

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Still, a very difficult search for any evidence, what does the priority

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have to be? The priority has to be to call for as many naval assets as

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we can get hold of and search and rescue aeroplanes to carry out the

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search, to try to identify anything on the surface. And also, to start

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the subsea search, to see if we can hear the units which are

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broadcasting radio signals from the black-box. Provided they have not

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been interfered with and they work, we could detect them for about the

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next three weeks. What it is a bust area to search for. After three

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weeks, that signal fades? And presumably, it you have the issue of

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currents carrying debris further from the stretch of water? -- you

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have. Yes, but most of the aircraft if it

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is in the Southern Indian Ocean will have sunk, then it will be settled

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on the ocean floor. It will be sufficiently dense and it should not

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move too far, but there could be ocean currents on the surface that

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build-up silt. It is probably reasonably stable, the area, but

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anything that is floating that we find would be very useful. But it is

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now a long way from where the aircraft wreckage would be and we

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need to rely on the oceanographers to give an indication as to where

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the aircraft could be, but that search pattern gets wider every day.

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Do you think we will ever know why the plane went down? There are

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several credible theories still around. If we get hold of the

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black-box, Ben Maher been deliberate interference with those on board,

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they should have survived reasonably well -- there may have been. The

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question is whether it has been interfered with. We may need to get

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a cockpit section back to see who was on the flight deck. What theory

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has seemed most edible so far? Statistically, that aircraft would

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appear to have been taken deliberately. -- credible. Given

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that we have no political or religious claims for any form of

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terrorism, we are starting to look towards intentional taking the

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aeroplane and crashing it for some form of personal financial reason is

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the most likely explanation. Statistically, that is the most

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likely cause at this moment. From the limited evidence we have, you

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think it is unlikely something catastrophic happens suddenly,

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taking everyone by surprise? -- happened. It is relatively

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unlikely, the aeroplane disappeared at the point of maximum confusion

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when you are handing over between two traffic control centres, it is

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tracked between Malaysia and Thailand, splitting the border, and

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the wine of maximum confusion. And to head intentionally into the

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Indian Ocean, there would be no reason for the navigation system to

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disappear into that direction so it looks as if the aircraft has, from

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somebody on board and we do not know who, anybody could be trained given

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sufficient time and with the right technical team behind them, the

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aircraft appears to have been crashed a long way from Australia.

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In order to hide the wreckage or make it as difficult as possible to

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find. There appears to be a degree of likelihood it has been done

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intentionally rather than on intentionally, mechanical failure

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for example. Thank you for your insight.

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Eight people are confirmed dead and 108 are still missing after a huge

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mudslide on Saturday in the north-western US state of

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Washington. Eyewitnesses have spoken about a massive wall of mud sweeping

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near the town of Oso, about 55 miles North of Seattle, and leaving behind

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a square mile of "total devastation". Akiko Fujita, from our

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colleagues at ABC News, sent this report from rescue headquarters in

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nearby Arlington. Another day of searching, no signs

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of life, rescue crews coming through mud 15 feet deep and neighbourhoods

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flattened. There may be people in cars and on houses, we are trying to

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track that down the best we can. Half a mountain slid through this

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community, a full square mile, enough to cover 484 fields. Shaun

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Wright ran towards the screens to find a baby and mother buried under

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their home, he used chainsaws to get out alive. You could not tell

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anything, it was debris. With no rain expected today, crews are

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scrambling to find survivors, searching from the air, braving

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quicksand on the ground. Heavy rainfall is expected later in the

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week, the hope for any light is dimming with every hour. We hope

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every hour they find people alive and cant get them to help. This is

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after the wettest march in years, more than seven inches of rain fell,

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twice the average, and there is more expected tomorrow.

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A court in Egypt has sentenced to death 528 supporters of ousted

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Islamist President Mohamed Morsi in a case which only began two days ago

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and which centred on the killing of a single police officer. The Muslim

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Brotherhood's spokesman in London told the BBC the sentences show that

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Egypt is now a dictatorship. It's expected the defendants will appeal.

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Here in Carol, there has been an angry reaction from human rights

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campaigners. One said of the judiciary has become a tool for

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taking revenge. Another said the verdict was a scandal and a disaster

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for Egypt. In the southern province outside the courthouse, some

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relatives were screaming and shouting after the verdict,

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protesting against the decision. One said the judge had not listened to

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the lawyers, the accused or the witnesses before reaching a verdict.

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A spokesman for the band Muslim Brotherhood said the ruling had come

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from a kangaroo court. We are expecting an appeal in this case and

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several legal experts are addicting a retrial. This was a case involving

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the death of one police officer and more than 520 defendants were

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sentenced to death at breathtaking speed. The case opened on Saturday

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and at first hearing was quickly adjourned and the verdict came today

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in what was only the second session of the case. The judgement has been

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passed and the sentences can be rejected or accepted. While death

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sentences have been handed down regularly in Egypt, in recent years,

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few have been carried out. We are expecting another hearing tomorrow,

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another mass trial of a large group of Brotherhood defendants and are

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expected in the dark, facing charges.

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I'm joined now by a webcam from Cairo by Dr Hisham Hellyer. He is an

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associate fellow of the Royal United Services Institute. How unusual is

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it to hand out so many death sentences so quickly? It is

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incredibly unusual, there is no precedent in this in any judiciary

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around the world. The fact that so many people were on trial at the

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same time, the fact that the case went through so quickly, the fact

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that so many of them were not even in the court, let alone having their

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lawyers listening will stop many will appeal but I want it to you,

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one could from a human rights group that accused the judges of handing

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down political revenge. Is that fair? It could very well be. We will

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have two wait and see what will happen with the next hearing. There

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will be an appeal, that is scheduled for the end of April. I am cautious

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about talking about political motivations for the case and the

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verdict. It implies there is some singular line whereas in reality,

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what we have seen over the last couple of months is that

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institutions within the state are not as organised as that. I am sure

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there are parts of the state that would prefer not to see these sorts

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of cases go forward and others that are happy to drum the war drums in

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the context of this war on terror. The statement not be acting with one

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voice but three years on from the overthrow of President Mubarak, do

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you have the sense of political ties in Egypt coming full circle? Full

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circle may be simplistic in that you do have forces that are linked to

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the former regime in certain parts of the state. New forces ticking

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over instead. This is not as simple or correct to say the regime has

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been reinvented. There is something new that has been fought. It is not

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quite the same and you will see different calculation is over the

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coming months and different fighter taking place between different parts

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of that new regime as it begins to form but it is a different regime.

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Tell us about the reaction within Egypt to these 528 death sentences

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being passed down. A lot of talk? Not that much talk, to be honest.

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You do see the human rights organisations coming out against it

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and rightly so on the basis of everything that has happened. The

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public reaction thus far has not been as strong as people might

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think, keeping in mind that at the moment, there is this presentation

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of a war on terror throughout the media in Egypt and many people do

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believe that and as a result, they are willing to allow the state to

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get away with quite a lot in pursuance of that goal of defeating

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terrorism. . Ukraine has ordered the withdrawal

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of its forces from Crimea after the third attack on a military base by

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Russian troops in 48 hours, although it appears many of those forces may

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have defected already. As for the international response, leaders of

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what is now the G-7 group of industrialised nations are meeting

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in the Netherlands. President Obama has said Europe and the US are

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united in imposing a cost for Russia's actions.

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In the Crimea, every Ukrainian military base is now under Russian

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control. Many of the Ukrainian soldiers without their uniforms are

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being pulled out of the region took an resistance has ended. In Moscow,

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in the parliament, the flags of Crimea and Sebastopol were added to

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the flags of Russiapos-mac regions. Images intended to demonstrate that

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from the Russian perspective, Crimeapos-mac future has been

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settled. In the Netherlands, President Obama arrived for a summit

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on nuclear security but it was completely overshadowed by the

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crisis in Ukraine. The American president who was shown in restored

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museum for Dutch Masters was determined to keep pressure on

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Russia and the signal it could not expect a place at the worldpos-mac

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top table for the time being. Europe and America are united in our

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support of the Ukrainian government and the Ukrainian people. We are

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united in imposing a cost on Russia for its actions so far. As the

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motorcade swept into the Hague, President Putin was not among them.

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The leaders of the worlds most powerful economies, the G8, were

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said to discuss what to do Russia. It is now time to exclude Russia

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from the G8 and make it a G7? There is not going to be a G8 summit this

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year in Russia, that is absolutely clear. We will meet tonight, the

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seven other countries, to determine the way forward but frankly, it is

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Russia that needs to change course. The White House indicated that

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Russia would not be formally kicked out of the grip of it. More a cold

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shoulder. The President Obama a thriving here, the primary -- the

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priority is to demonstrate how isolated Russia is within the

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international community and also to try and show that the United States

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and Europe are united when it comes to dealing with Russia over the

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crisis in Ukraine. On the sidelines of this meeting there was one more

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positive sign, there are reports the Russian foreign minister is expected

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to meet his Ukrainian counterpart for the first time.

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The French Prime Minister has urged voters to back whichever candidate

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is best placed to beat the far right front National in the second round

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of Francepos-mac Ochil elections on Sunday. The party led by Marine Le

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Penn said better-than-expected in the first round, winning an outright

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majority in the northern former coal-mining town of Helen Beaumont.

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It led the polls in some southern cities as well.

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The jury at the Oscar Pistorius murder trial has been told about

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text messages exchanged between the athlete and his girlfriend Reeva

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Steenkamp. In one message she tells him, I am scared of you sometimes.

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Oscar Pistorius admits shooting Ms Steenkamp on Valentine's Day last

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year but says he mistook her for an intruder.

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A bruising day ahead for Oscar Pistorius, the athletepos-mac

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relationship with Reeva Steenkamp under scrutiny for the first time.

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Prosecution revealing evidence from a couple mobile phones. In

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particular, a series of bitter text messages. I know you are not happy

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and I am very sad. In public, they were South Africapos-mac new

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glamorous couple but today we heard evidence of public fights and

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private tears in the weeks before Reeva Steenkamppos-mac death. I do

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everything to make you happy, she wrote.

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Oscar Pistorius appeared to weep and there was worse to come. Reeva

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Steenkamp saying she felt threatened. I am scared by you

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sometimes and how you will react to me. The police expert acknowledged

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that 90% of the messages between the couple were nothing but the damage

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had already been done. In court today, Oscar Pistorius was revealed

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as a jealous and at times domineering boyfriend. That does not

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prove he killed Reeva Steenkamp deliberately but the athlete has his

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work cut out as he prepares to take to the witness stand himself perhaps

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later this week. Malaysia's Prime Minister, Najib

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Razak, says the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 crashed in the

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southern Indian Ocean. Mr Razak said satellite data showed the aircraft

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had ended its journey in the remote seas west of Australia, far from any

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possible landing site. He appealed to the media to respect the privacy

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of the families of the 239 passengers and crew. Most of the

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people on board were Chinese. Officials in Beijing have demanded

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Malaysia provide all evidence and information about the incident. The

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plane vanished from radar screens more than two weeks ago. A fleet of

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ships and aircraft are investigating a flurry of sightings of possible

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wreckage. If you are following this story, you

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can find more background on the complexity for the hunt for MH370 on

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our website. You can look at the latest, the search, the high-tech

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methods that have been used in tracking it down.

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That's all from the programme. The weather is next. From me and the

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rest of the team, goodbye.

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