:00:00. > :00:08.This is BBC World News Today with me, Philippa Thomas.
:00:09. > :00:11.A fast developing situation in Ukraine where the Government in
:00:12. > :00:16.Kiev, in the West, has begun a military operation against
:00:17. > :00:18.pro-Russian uprisings in the East. Ukrainian forces regain control of a
:00:19. > :00:30.military airfield after clashes with separatists. Area do it operation
:00:31. > :00:39.that has gone slower reaction from the US. -- a military operation. We
:00:40. > :00:44.have a series of eyewitness reports from BBC correspondents on the
:00:45. > :00:48.ground. I am coming in through the window. Protesters control this
:00:49. > :00:49.building and now are trying to reinforce the defence of the
:00:50. > :00:52.building. One year on from the double bombing
:00:53. > :00:55.of the Boston Marathon the city stops to remember the worst mass
:00:56. > :00:57.casualty attack on American soil since September 11th.
:00:58. > :01:00.Also coming up: As Oscar Pistorius finishes giving
:01:01. > :01:03.evidence the athlete says he was heartbroken at his girlfriend's
:01:04. > :01:07.death. And how to pack a Tyrannosaurus rex.
:01:08. > :01:09.The king of the dinosaurs hits the road for a journey 65 million years
:01:10. > :01:28.in the making. Hello and welcome. The city of
:01:29. > :01:32.Boston is marking one year since the bombing at the finish line of the
:01:33. > :01:39.city marathon, a double blast which killed three people and injured more
:01:40. > :01:43.than 260 more. A policeman was also shot dead during the manhunt which
:01:44. > :01:47.followed. In the last few hours, a memorial service and concert has
:01:48. > :01:50.taken place and as we speak, a procession is beginning at that
:01:51. > :01:55.finish line, a procession which will end with a moment of silence. Let's
:01:56. > :01:58.hear first from one of those who has paid tribute today, the Mayor of
:01:59. > :02:03.Boston at the time of the bombings, Thomas Menino. The first holiday
:02:04. > :02:08.without your daughter. The first July Fourth where the fireworks
:02:09. > :02:14.didn't scare you. The first step on a new leg. The first sleep without a
:02:15. > :02:18.nightmare. The first day when you believe that you're going to live
:02:19. > :02:23.your life in a way that corresponded with your dreams. Those words so
:02:24. > :02:29.many of us have used to describe the year of grief and recovery -
:02:30. > :02:32.resilience, courage and strength... Those words have even greater
:02:33. > :02:37.meaning now, because of what you have endured.
:02:38. > :02:46.Laura Trevelyan is in Washington for us now. First, just remind us of the
:02:47. > :02:50.enormity of what happened one year ago.
:02:51. > :02:56.Really the most extraordinary tragic day, one which is seared into the
:02:57. > :03:00.memory of this nation. It was a spring day, 23,000 people running
:03:01. > :03:03.the Boston Marathon. The crowds were at the finish line, ready to
:03:04. > :03:08.celebrate this huge achievement of all of the runners when ten seconds
:03:09. > :03:16.apart to different bonds, in pressure cookers, exploded. Just an
:03:17. > :03:23.extraordinary, out of no moment. Three people were killed, including
:03:24. > :03:31.an eight-year-old boy. Also a Chinese graduate student. They were
:03:32. > :03:35.killed in the -- and in the aftermath a police officer was
:03:36. > :03:41.killed. 260 people were wounded, such was the impact of these bonds.
:03:42. > :03:44.What happened was camera near the finish line caught on camera two
:03:45. > :03:50.suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and there was
:03:51. > :03:54.then a manhunt where the FBI released images of the two men a
:03:55. > :03:59.couple of days after the bombing. During the manhunt, Tamerlan
:04:00. > :04:06.Tsarnaev was shot and killed and eventually Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was
:04:07. > :04:11.captured and they manhunt gripped Boston. There was a curfew in parts
:04:12. > :04:15.of the city and to personalise was found underneath a keyboard 30 had
:04:16. > :04:20.been hiding. It was practically a paramilitary operation in downtown
:04:21. > :04:24.Boston. Helicopters, police, a manhunt which paralysed and gripped
:04:25. > :04:30.the city. All of this happened just a year ago today.
:04:31. > :04:36.The trial of the younger brother is still to take place.
:04:37. > :04:41.Yes, he has pleaded not guilty to more than 30 charges. If convicted,
:04:42. > :04:44.he could potentially face the death penalty. It has been an
:04:45. > :04:48.extraordinary series of events leading up to that and there is a
:04:49. > :04:55.report that Congress is considering which shows that the brothers,
:04:56. > :04:57.originally from Kurdistan, that the Russians had actually some
:04:58. > :05:01.information about Tamerlan Tsarnaev which they did not share with
:05:02. > :05:06.investigators, two years before the Boston Marathon bombing, when he
:05:07. > :05:10.came to the attention of the FBI here. They followed up with the
:05:11. > :05:15.Russians and they give some information but not all the
:05:16. > :05:18.information that they had on him. Questions are being asked is whether
:05:19. > :05:22.the Russians had been more forthcoming with what they knew
:05:23. > :05:25.about him, is it possible that investigators in this country might
:05:26. > :05:28.have been in a position to prevent the Boston bombings. That is a
:05:29. > :05:37.question nobody will know the answer to. They -- there is still not a
:05:38. > :05:42.very clear water. Prosecutors say that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev scrawl a
:05:43. > :05:49.handwritten note inside the boat. -- still not even a clear motive. Still
:05:50. > :05:52.the prosecutors have not time the brothers to a wider extremist
:05:53. > :05:55.movement. Tell us what will happen in 45
:05:56. > :06:00.minutes' time, at the exact moment one year later.
:06:01. > :06:05.There will be a moment of silence at that finish line in Boston, when the
:06:06. > :06:09.entire city will remember the three who died at the finish line, the
:06:10. > :06:20.force who died in the aftermath, the 260 who were injured. The mayor
:06:21. > :06:26.summed up the mood of the city when he said on Monday those who run the
:06:27. > :06:30.Boston Marathon will send a message to the world that we will never
:06:31. > :06:34.yield, America will never stand down, we are Boston, Wii U on the
:06:35. > :06:40.finish line. Thinking very much for that update.
:06:41. > :06:42.-- we all know the finish line. Ukrainian security forces appear to
:06:43. > :06:45.have retaliated against pro-Russian gunmen in the East of the country.
:06:46. > :06:51.The Ukrainian president claims that an airfield has been retaken amid
:06:52. > :06:53.reports of heavy gunfire. There have also been reports of armoured
:06:54. > :06:56.vehicles with guns, squads of police, and more helicopters
:06:57. > :06:59.operating in the region. The White House has described the military
:07:00. > :07:02.operation against the militants as measured, saying Ukraine is facing
:07:03. > :07:08.an untenable situation over the separatist uprisings. Russian media
:07:09. > :07:14.are reporting that up to 11 people have been killed. Daniel Sandford
:07:15. > :07:17.reports. Ukrainian fighter jets screaming
:07:18. > :07:23.through the sky above the East of the country. There was gunfire also
:07:24. > :07:25.at the local air field and reports of casualties as the Government
:07:26. > :07:33.started trying to reassert its control. On one of the main roads
:07:34. > :07:39.into the restless Donatsk region, Ukrainian troops - well-armed and on
:07:40. > :07:43.very public display. After days in which we have seen very little sign
:07:44. > :07:46.of the Kiev government exerting its authority in Eastern Ukraine,
:07:47. > :07:53.suddenly the most public display of force that you could imagine. A
:07:54. > :07:59.helicopter had just arrived to deliver ammunition. I asked one of
:08:00. > :08:03.the soldiers what his orders were. TRANSLATION: We are cooperating with
:08:04. > :08:08.the troops so that we can give them back up. We will not be engaging
:08:09. > :08:11.peaceful citizens. After weeks of people questioning whether Kiev
:08:12. > :08:18.could still demonstrate power in the East, this was a very public answer.
:08:19. > :08:23.But less than an hour's drive South, we saw once again the extent of the
:08:24. > :08:26.problem that confronts them. Outside the main council offices in
:08:27. > :08:32.Sloviansk, very well-armed men, much more disciplined than we have seen
:08:33. > :08:36.so far, appeared to be in charge. Men who looked similar to the
:08:37. > :08:39.Russian troops we saw in Crimea. They had taken over the town's seat
:08:40. > :08:44.of power and were asking everybody to leave. Staff coming out of the
:08:45. > :08:48.local council told us they had been ordered to go home, leaving the
:08:49. > :08:52.building in the hands of the men with guns. Marina, a senior civil
:08:53. > :08:59.servant, was one of those who had had to abandon their desks.
:09:00. > :09:04.TRANSLATION: Today we arrived at work. They allowed in three people
:09:05. > :09:08.at a time so we could take our personal belongings. Now we are
:09:09. > :09:11.having to work from home. Just 25 miles apart, both sides, both
:09:12. > :09:15.heavily-armed, were in position. Both claiming to be defending the
:09:16. > :09:23.rights of the people in Eastern Ukraine.
:09:24. > :09:26.It's more than 24 hours since the deadline set by Ukraine's interim
:09:27. > :09:30.government for separatist militants to leave the official buildings
:09:31. > :09:33.they've been occupying. But most of the protestors have stayed put.
:09:34. > :09:38.Their actions are attracting crowds of supporters, both inside and
:09:39. > :09:42.outside these flash point buildings. One of the biggest gatherings is at
:09:43. > :09:45.Mariupol near Donetsk. The BBC's James Reynolds and Olga Ivshina sent
:09:46. > :09:50.us their reports from both sides of the barricades there.
:09:51. > :09:57.These are the barricades that pro-Russian protesters have erected
:09:58. > :10:01.here in Mariupol in Ukraine. They have done so because they have taken
:10:02. > :10:04.over this building, have a look. This is a government building now in
:10:05. > :10:10.the hands of pro-Russian protesters, militants. Just before
:10:11. > :10:14.we walk in, I wanted to show you that life continues normally in this
:10:15. > :10:17.city. There are people going about their business. Those who are
:10:18. > :10:23.curious make their way here, past the tyres and through this field.
:10:24. > :10:26.Come and have a look with me. They make their way towards the building
:10:27. > :10:31.here. It has become an attraction for people. Particularly
:10:32. > :10:37.pro-Russians. There is one man in a balaclava... And a utility belt. He
:10:38. > :10:41.is checking his phone and does not appear to be armed. There is a
:10:42. > :10:47.gentleman here waving an Oblast flag. Oblast? Oblast. Let's have a
:10:48. > :10:53.look here towards the front. Hello. Hello. Here is where the protesters
:10:54. > :11:04.are. Have a look at those men on the top. Do you see them waving flags?
:11:05. > :11:09.They have got a selection of flags - the Donbas, the flag of Donetsk. And
:11:10. > :11:12.this is as far as we can go. This is the entrance to the area guarded by
:11:13. > :11:15.pro-Russian protesters. They have put sandbags up and obviously they
:11:16. > :11:19.are trying to make sure that Ukraine itself does not take back this area
:11:20. > :11:21.and does not take back the other buildings taken over by Russian
:11:22. > :11:28.protesters... Pro-Russian protesters here in Eastern Ukraine.
:11:29. > :11:33.We are in the local administration building in Mariupol. Thank you very
:11:34. > :11:37.much. I am coming through the window from the roof. The roof is
:11:38. > :11:41.barricaded with tyres. Protesters control this building for a few days
:11:42. > :11:46.already and now they are trying to reinforce the defence of the
:11:47. > :11:51.building. Most of the people we have seen are un-armed but at least one
:11:52. > :11:55.man is armed with an automatic gun. People claim that they were forced
:11:56. > :11:58.to siege this building because they wanted to hold a referendum and
:11:59. > :12:03.there was no other guarantee of safety and of their demands being
:12:04. > :12:07.fulfilled, as they say. People say they are going to stay here for
:12:08. > :12:11.quite a while, until their demands are fulfilled. And as you can see,
:12:12. > :12:14.they have organised some places for sleeping, eating and at the same
:12:15. > :12:24.time, they keep barricading the building to protect themselves
:12:25. > :12:31.against possible actions. Actions from the Government.
:12:32. > :12:33.Now a look at some of the day's other news.
:12:34. > :12:36.? Here in the UK, commemorations have been held to mark the 25th
:12:37. > :12:39.anniversary of the disaster at the Hillsborough football stadium. 96
:12:40. > :12:42.Liverpool fans died when the terraces became overcrowded during
:12:43. > :12:44.an FA Cup semifinal match. A memorial service was held at
:12:45. > :12:48.Liverpool's Anfield ground and church bells were rung across the
:12:49. > :12:53.city to mark the moment the game was stopped in 1989.
:12:54. > :12:57.The former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been ordered
:12:58. > :13:02.to help the elderly for his tax fraud conviction. The Supreme Court
:13:03. > :13:05.had initially sentenced him to prison but because of his age this
:13:06. > :13:12.was reduced to either house arrest or community service.
:13:13. > :13:16.Judges at the International Criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
:13:17. > :13:18.have rejected a move to drop some of the most serious genocide charges
:13:19. > :13:22.against the former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic. Mr
:13:23. > :13:25.Mladic is accused of having commanded the forces that killed
:13:26. > :13:32.more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the town of Srebrenica in 1995.
:13:33. > :13:38.Oscar Pistorius's girlfriend told him she loved him in a Valentine's
:13:39. > :13:41.Day card on the day she died. The athlete was asked to read out Reeva
:13:42. > :13:45.Steenkamp's message in court as his five day cross-examination came to
:13:46. > :13:50.an end. Pistorius denies murder, saying he thought he was shooting at
:13:51. > :13:59.an intruder. Our Africa Correspondent Andrew Harding was in
:14:00. > :14:03.Pretoria. One final morning in the witness box
:14:04. > :14:08.for Oscar Pistorius. Soon his fate will be back in the hands of others.
:14:09. > :14:12.Five days of remoteness cross-examination ended with the
:14:13. > :14:18.story is trying to explain what was going through his head as he killed
:14:19. > :14:25.Reeva Steenkamp. I was overcome with terror and... Despair. You were not
:14:26. > :14:33.screaming at Reeva Steenkamp because she was hiding in a toilet? No, my
:14:34. > :14:36.lady. The story is, not shown on the court cameras, has struggled all
:14:37. > :14:45.week with the question of who is to blame. We should blame you -- not
:14:46. > :14:50.blame you? We should blame somebody, who should we blame? I am not sure,
:14:51. > :14:56.my lady. The prosecution are still battling to prove that Oscar
:14:57. > :14:59.Pistorius killed Reeva Steenkamp on purpose but I am told that they are
:15:00. > :15:03.fairly confident that they have now shown that he fired at this were
:15:04. > :15:08.intending to kill whoever was behind it. The defence then tried to limit
:15:09. > :15:13.the damage of the past two days, asking the stories about this, the
:15:14. > :15:20.Valentines card Reeva Steenkamp had given him that night. She says, "I
:15:21. > :15:25.think today is a good day to tell you that... And love you." With
:15:26. > :15:30.that, he drained the story of lift the witness box, is forensic team
:15:31. > :15:36.taking over, seeking to show that the evidence supports his claim that
:15:37. > :15:45.it was all a terrible accident. The U.S. Navy has told the BBC that
:15:46. > :15:48.under water drawn has found no sign of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370
:15:49. > :15:53.during its first mission deep in the Indian Ocean. -- drone. It was able
:15:54. > :16:06.to gather several hours worth of data that has revealed no trace of
:16:07. > :16:12.the missing aircraft. A hunt that once spanned almost 7.5 million
:16:13. > :16:17.square kilometres. It now centres on those five metre long unmanned
:16:18. > :16:23.submarine. It has begun mapping the sea bed, looking for tell-tale lumps
:16:24. > :16:31.of wreckage. It is diving down, roughly where the search team heard
:16:32. > :16:36.this noise. It is the metronomic signal from the bottom of the ocean
:16:37. > :16:44.which experts are convinced comes from one of the airline's black-box
:16:45. > :16:51.locator beacons. The submarine only saunters along at walking pace,
:16:52. > :16:56.disappearing for 70 hours at a time. It can plunge to 4.5 kilometres but
:16:57. > :17:04.the ocean around here is even deeper. They may need machines that
:17:05. > :17:08.can dive even further. This -- these remotely controlled vehicles on the
:17:09. > :17:13.end of cable can scan the sea bed, take photographs and pick up debris
:17:14. > :17:18.with their pincers. But it is the black boxes which are the big
:17:19. > :17:21.prize. For larger pieces of wreckage, they will need larger
:17:22. > :17:26.crane ships with substantial cables. This is the chilling moment
:17:27. > :17:30.that they used similar kit to grab the black box from a French airliner
:17:31. > :17:37.which crashed into the Atlantic four years ago. One black-box record
:17:38. > :17:44.sounds from the cockpit. It only keeps the final two hours of any
:17:45. > :17:49.thing, so it may not yield clues. The other records technical data. It
:17:50. > :18:00.should tell investigators if there was a mechanical problem. .
:18:01. > :18:04.It's 65 million years old, it weighs around seven tonnes and it's coming
:18:05. > :18:07.to the end of a four-day road trip across the USA. The most complete
:18:08. > :18:11.T-Rex fossil discovered so far arrives in Washington later. Jane
:18:12. > :18:16.Orion reports. In a basement at the Museum of the
:18:17. > :18:22.Rockies, one of the most delicate packing jobs is underway. This is
:18:23. > :18:30.the pubis, this large bone here, part of the pelvis of 80 wrecks. 16
:18:31. > :18:36.boxes filled with dinosaur bones. The remains of the Wankel T. Rex,
:18:37. > :18:42.bound for a museum in Washington. This sort of thing does not come
:18:43. > :18:47.around very often. It is a moment to be packing up a Tyrannosaurus Rex
:18:48. > :18:53.and then ship it around the country and put it on display. Most museums
:18:54. > :19:00.get one shot at that. It is named after a woman, a branch of the found
:19:01. > :19:06.the bones in 1988. We could tell, when it was fully exposed, it was
:19:07. > :19:13.one of the most fully complete skeletons. It is an example of a
:19:14. > :19:17.complete tyrannosaurus forearm and it is one of the most documented in
:19:18. > :19:24.the world. But the signs of discovery can be basic. At the end
:19:25. > :19:31.of the day, I'm usually walking a wrong -- walking along with a
:19:32. > :19:36.pickaxe, there's -- that is my tool. Montana is dinosaur country because
:19:37. > :19:45.of its geology. But how do scientists know they have found a
:19:46. > :19:54.fossil? Just put your tongue on it. It sticks! Try your tongue on the
:19:55. > :20:00.rock. It doesn't stick on the rock. You can tell dinosaur bone from rock
:20:01. > :20:04.by putting your tongue on it. Many dinosaur bones have left Montana,
:20:05. > :20:09.but few have been packed with such care. It has taken the best part of
:20:10. > :20:15.a week to get to this stage. Hundreds of TREC 's bones, some of
:20:16. > :20:18.them tiny fragments, individually wrapped for shipping. The question
:20:19. > :20:25.is how to get them to washing -- to Washington. The bones are being
:20:26. > :20:29.transported in a huge climate controlled a truck. It has security
:20:30. > :20:35.systems and the journey is under satellite surveillance. Knowing that
:20:36. > :20:42.that skeleton is packed well, is on that beautiful truck, on its way to
:20:43. > :20:49.Washington. I can't wait to be at the other end. This bronze cast of
:20:50. > :20:55.the skeleton gives an idea of how it will look. The first time in 66
:20:56. > :21:06.million years that the nation's TREC 's will stand on its own two feet.
:21:07. > :21:09.An exhibition that is being billed as one of the biggest art shows in
:21:10. > :21:12.years. When ill health stopped the French
:21:13. > :21:15.artist Henri Matisse from painting he began to cut out paper shapes to
:21:16. > :21:19.create stunning collages. Around 130 of his stunning cut-outs are going
:21:20. > :21:22.on display at Tate Modern later this week in an exhibition being billed
:21:23. > :21:25.as one of the biggest art shows in years. David Sillito has been to see
:21:26. > :21:31.them. This is the great master, when he
:21:32. > :21:35.was fearing death. He lacked the ability to paint but he began
:21:36. > :21:39.cutting out paper shapes. It was the beginning of this, a new art form,
:21:40. > :21:47.an explosion of creativity from a man in his 80s, bed bound in his
:21:48. > :21:54.studio. This is his own personal garden. And this is where it began,
:21:55. > :22:02.on the walls of his studio. Some people thought it was all over? He
:22:03. > :22:11.definitely proved them wrong. He was an incredible man through to the
:22:12. > :22:18.very end was a great painter. This shows it. They are such famous
:22:19. > :22:23.images, these. When you see them in books, they look so perfect. This
:22:24. > :22:29.allows you to look close up and see jagged edges, a reminder of how he
:22:30. > :22:36.worked, with shears, cutting the pig out, working quickly. The idea of
:22:37. > :22:41.feeding an enormous pair of scissors and slicing people -- pieces paper,
:22:42. > :22:46.that was a revolutionary thing and people could not take it seriously.
:22:47. > :22:54.They thought he had lost it. How wrong they were. We can now see the
:22:55. > :23:00.full force of his late flowering. An Indian summer, a celebration of
:23:01. > :23:04.life. Images of a different nature now.
:23:05. > :23:06.And finally, sky watchers in the Americas, the Caribbean, and
:23:07. > :23:10.Australia have witnessed a rare celestial show. The Moon appeared to
:23:11. > :23:13.change colour, first to orange and then to blood red, in a total lunar
:23:14. > :23:16.eclipse. The so-called blood Moon happens when the Earth's shadow
:23:17. > :23:20.passes over the Moon. And it'll be repeated three times this year and
:23:21. > :23:22.next. Let's take a look at some of the striking images of the blood
:23:23. > :24:06.Moon. Those images of the blood Moon. We
:24:07. > :24:09.will take you back now to look at pictures of what is happening in the
:24:10. > :24:17.city of Boston, a year since that double bombing. The finish line of
:24:18. > :24:24.the Boston Marathon. Watching these images for us, Laura Trevelyan. You
:24:25. > :24:28.covered the aftermath of the blasts? Yes, and this is a very emotional
:24:29. > :24:34.moment. You can see the people gathering at the finish line of the
:24:35. > :24:38.Boston Marathon. In about 19 minutes' time, there will be a
:24:39. > :24:44.moment of silence to remember that moment exactly a year ago when two
:24:45. > :24:50.home-made bombs in pressure cookers exploded at the finish line of that
:24:51. > :24:55.Marathon, killing three people and injuring 260. Leading to this
:24:56. > :25:04.dramatic manhunt which shut down sections of Boston and ended up with
:25:05. > :25:11.two brothers who, one was killed after a shoot out, and a police
:25:12. > :25:13.officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was killed.
:25:14. > :25:18.Prosecutors said it was by the brothers who wanted to steal his
:25:19. > :25:23.garden. The other brother -- wanted to steal his gun. The other brother
:25:24. > :25:30.was found hiding in a boat in downtown Boston in a backyard. This
:25:31. > :25:34.story gripped and horrified Boston. You can see an official delegation
:25:35. > :25:40.coming to the finish line. There will be a musical performance of God
:25:41. > :25:44.bless America followed by a moment of silence. This is a day when
:25:45. > :25:51.Boston is remembering a tragedy which shook the city. One of the
:25:52. > :25:56.survivors of that day, a dancer, who lost her lower left leg, has been
:25:57. > :26:00.talking about that experience. She says that this survivors' club is
:26:01. > :26:07.not one she ever wanted to be part of. But on Monday, the Boston
:26:08. > :26:12.Marathon will be run. 36,000 will be running it. 9000 more than last
:26:13. > :26:18.year. Joe Biden said that they will be sending a message to the world.
:26:19. > :26:24.We are Boston, we are America, America will not stand down, we own
:26:25. > :26:27.the finish line. Laura Trevelyan, thank you. You were
:26:28. > :26:31.looking at pictures coming from Boston, one year from the double
:26:32. > :26:35.bomb blast which hit the annual Boston Marathon at the finish line.
:26:36. > :26:55.They queue for being with us on world -- on World News Tonight.
:26:56. > :27:07.Hello. We have had another day of largely clear skies. Long spells of
:27:08. > :27:09.spring sunshine. It reached 70 degrees in some places. More of the
:27:10. > :27:10.same to come on