:00:08. > :00:15.This is BBC World News Today with me, Daniela Ritorto. No sign of a
:00:16. > :00:19.letup in the violence in eastern Ukraine, where rebels have shot down
:00:20. > :00:28.a military helicopter killing 14 people. The outgoing president
:00:29. > :00:35.claimed the rebels used a Russian weapon system.
:00:36. > :00:40.Australian officials say that Flight MH370 is not in the area the search
:00:41. > :00:47.was focused on. Is there any chance of finding the Malaysian plane?
:00:48. > :00:52.Former military chief Ann wins Egypt's election. Those who voted
:00:53. > :00:57.delivered a landslide but turnout was less than 50%.
:00:58. > :01:02.The world's waistlines are getting wider. New research says a third of
:01:03. > :01:19.people globally are classified as overweight or OBC. -- obese.
:01:20. > :01:19.We start in Ukraine, where the government has
:01:20. > :01:23.We start in Ukraine, where the government confirmed that 14
:01:24. > :01:28.soldiers, including an army general, were killed after a helicopter was
:01:29. > :01:33.shot down by rope -- by pro-Russian rebels in the east. This photograph
:01:34. > :01:37.was taken shortly after the crash. The helicopter had been dropping off
:01:38. > :01:41.soldiers at the base in Sloviansk, the city which has become the
:01:42. > :01:47.epicentre of fighting between government and pro-Russian forces.
:01:48. > :01:51.Local people captured the aftermath of the crash, a thick plume of smoke
:01:52. > :01:57.rising above the wreckage of the helicopter. It was brought down by
:01:58. > :02:02.pro-Russian rebels as it transported personnel to a military base for a
:02:03. > :02:09.chief -- a shift change. On board were 14 people, including an army
:02:10. > :02:15.general. Ukraine's outgoing president, Alexander Turchynov, said
:02:16. > :02:20.the helicopter had been hit by a Russian-made anti-aircraft missile.
:02:21. > :02:26.A real war is going on in the east. I have just heard from the East that
:02:27. > :02:30.one of our helicopters, which was taking armed servicemen for military
:02:31. > :02:35.rotation, has been shot down by terrorists. There is a sense of
:02:36. > :02:41.lawlessness in eastern Ukraine. Today militia men were guarding the
:02:42. > :02:46.airport at the nets after a theist -- fierce battle earlier in the
:02:47. > :02:51.week. On Monday four members of the OSCE were abducted in Sloviansk by
:02:52. > :02:56.militiamen. They have not been seen since.
:02:57. > :03:03.We are concerned but we are using all of our contacts with the
:03:04. > :03:07.government and the non-state actors to re-establish contact with them.
:03:08. > :03:13.We believe they are fine they are well, but we want to see them
:03:14. > :03:17.returned to base. In Ukraine's capital of Kiev
:03:18. > :03:23.barriers and banners are still in place following Sunday's election.
:03:24. > :03:28.Many people now want a return to normality. The to crush the
:03:29. > :03:35.rebellion within hours rather than months. -- the new president has
:03:36. > :03:44.promised to crush. He faces an immense challenge.
:03:45. > :03:49.A former US ambassador to the Ukraine is now at the National
:03:50. > :03:52.Institute for Health and Care Excellence. He joins us now.
:03:53. > :04:02.Ukrainians are killing each other in their scores, what is it going to
:04:03. > :04:08.take to end this? -- is now at the Brookings Institution. I am glad
:04:09. > :04:14.that the Russians are prepared to say they will respect the will of
:04:15. > :04:20.the elections. They could use their influence on the rebels to get them
:04:21. > :04:26.to de-escalate, and then the government could de-escalate. We
:04:27. > :04:30.have just had some news in that pro-Moscow separatists say that most
:04:31. > :04:35.of the fighters killed at the nets could airport were from Russia. I
:04:36. > :04:44.suppose that does not surprise you. -- Donetsk airport. The Russians
:04:45. > :04:48.have said they want a more normal relationship with Kiev but there is
:04:49. > :04:55.this influx of fighters and weapons into Ukraine. It has to be that if
:04:56. > :05:00.the Russian border guards wanted the shot that down they would. On Monday
:05:01. > :05:04.you had pro-Russian separatists attacking the airport in Donetsk and
:05:05. > :05:13.the Ukrainian army pushed them back. The next day Moscow criticised the
:05:14. > :05:19.Ukrainian army but said nothing about the separatists. One wonders
:05:20. > :05:24.where the rebels are getting weaponry which can shoot down
:05:25. > :05:28.military helicopters. That is a big question. Some years ago there was a
:05:29. > :05:36.NATO programme working with Ukraine to eliminate those shoulder fired
:05:37. > :05:42.shots -- surface-to-air missiles because they were a tempting target
:05:43. > :05:46.for terrorists. Most of the infantry in Ukraine was eliminated and one
:05:47. > :05:51.wonders where the separatists get sophisticated weapons like that. My
:05:52. > :05:56.guess they -- my guess is that it was not at the local police
:05:57. > :06:00.stations. Let's talk about outside players, the EU and the United
:06:01. > :06:07.States. What would you like to see them doing? There is two things. It
:06:08. > :06:12.looks like the Sunday collection was good in several counts, a good
:06:13. > :06:19.turnout, it was described as free and fair, and a clear victor.
:06:20. > :06:27.Poroshenko now has a renewed democratic mandate to tackle some of
:06:28. > :06:31.these issues. The West needs to support him critically so that he
:06:32. > :06:38.can address the difficult domestic challenges, and other things that
:06:39. > :06:41.the European Union and the US can do vis-a-vis Russia so that Russia
:06:42. > :06:49.becomes part of the solution, not the problem. We are seeing an
:06:50. > :06:55.escalation of violence and is there a danger in this vacuum? It creates
:06:56. > :07:00.a difficult situation. Ideally the separatists would have -- would not
:07:01. > :07:04.have chosen Monday to take the airport, which seems to have
:07:05. > :07:10.triggered a lot of the fighting now taking place in the city in Donetsk.
:07:11. > :07:14.I think the plan is that he will take office in about ten days and he
:07:15. > :07:19.is going to have a very full agenda, I think. You begin to see
:07:20. > :07:23.some signs that he is beginning to move and take charge and put his
:07:24. > :07:32.imprint on government policy, so I do not think time will be lost. To
:07:33. > :07:35.the extent that events in Luhansk and Donetsk are deteriorating, that
:07:36. > :07:43.will make it much more difficult for him from the outset. Thank you for
:07:44. > :07:47.your analysis and your time. France next, because thousands of
:07:48. > :07:52.people have taken to the streets of Paris to protest a victory of the
:07:53. > :07:56.far right National front in the European Parliament elections. The
:07:57. > :08:02.anti-immigration Eurosceptic party took 24 seats in France compared
:08:03. > :08:06.with just three in 2009. Today the protesters, many students, gathered
:08:07. > :08:10.in Bastille Square in the centre of Paris. They say the National Front
:08:11. > :08:15.threatens French values of tolerance and social justice.
:08:16. > :08:21.It has been nearly three months and still nobody seems to have any idea
:08:22. > :08:26.about what happened to Flight MH370, which was carrying 239 people. A
:08:27. > :08:37.robotics arena has just finished scouring an area of the sea bed off
:08:38. > :08:43.the Australian coast. -- a robotic machine.
:08:44. > :08:48.After nearly three months, almost back to square one. The underwater
:08:49. > :08:51.search in the southern Indian Ocean using this automated submarine
:08:52. > :08:58.lasted six weeks. It was focusing on an area where kings, or signals, had
:08:59. > :09:08.been detected, possibly from the plane's black box, but nothing was
:09:09. > :09:16.found. -- pings. The safety bureau has advised that the search can be
:09:17. > :09:19.considered complete. In its professional judgement the area can
:09:20. > :09:26.now be discounted as the final resting place for Flight MH370. It
:09:27. > :09:32.is another blow for the families of the 239 people who were on board. It
:09:33. > :09:35.is a far cry from the optimism the Australian prime minister showed
:09:36. > :09:40.last month. We have very much narrowed down the
:09:41. > :09:45.search area and we are very confident that the signals we are
:09:46. > :09:51.detecting are from the black box on Flight MH370.
:09:52. > :09:55.Investigators will continue to scan the ocean floor. Commercial
:09:56. > :10:01.contractors will be brought in. But the search area is having to be
:10:02. > :10:05.massively extended to an area of over 60,000 square kilometres,
:10:06. > :10:11.roughly half the size of England. The cost is massive. The Australian
:10:12. > :10:17.government allocated recently a further 80 million US dollars to the
:10:18. > :10:21.search but both time and money have failed to solve the mystery of
:10:22. > :10:29.Flight MH370. They may not even be looking in the right place.
:10:30. > :10:34.Let's talk to Simon Boxall, and oceanographer with the University of
:10:35. > :10:42.Southampton. Not even looking in the right place, that is a drug testing
:10:43. > :10:47.-- depressing prospect. Yes, and the next stage is to widen the search to
:10:48. > :10:53.about 60,000 square miles. That will get bigger as time goes on. It has
:10:54. > :10:56.gone from a difficult task to one that is almost impossible because
:10:57. > :11:01.they are searching such a large area in such deep water. I think there is
:11:02. > :11:08.little chance of finding anything now. What makes you think that? The
:11:09. > :11:16.enormity of the task. You are looking at a task of several years,
:11:17. > :11:19.so it will run into not tens of millions but possibly hundreds of
:11:20. > :11:24.millions of pounds over the next few years. As in all of these things,
:11:25. > :11:33.they could turn lucky and tripped over it on day one but this main
:11:34. > :11:41.lead of picking up the pings from the plane, that was the best they
:11:42. > :11:45.had to go on. I would not dismiss the area they have been surging
:11:46. > :11:49.incompletely. We know from the air France flight that landed in the
:11:50. > :11:57.Atlantic a few years earlier, they had survey the area where they
:11:58. > :12:04.finally found it and finally they found it. -- they had searched the
:12:05. > :12:10.area. What would be the right equipment to use? There are wetter
:12:11. > :12:14.tools which are more expensive and need more support, but given the
:12:15. > :12:24.amount of investment that has been put in so far, they need a system
:12:25. > :12:29.capable at much deeper areas, because the Bluefin-21 is not really
:12:30. > :12:33.designed for this kind of task. Do you think they need to revisit the
:12:34. > :12:40.data that got them there in the first place? Very quickly, for the
:12:41. > :12:49.sake of the families, you say it may never be found, but they can't give
:12:50. > :12:55.up, surely? There is a point where... They really are looking for
:12:56. > :13:05.a needle in a field of haystacks so it is probable, I want say
:13:06. > :13:09.definite, that they won't find it. The Chinese and the Malaysians are
:13:10. > :13:16.keen to continue but it starts to open up a massive issue over, how
:13:17. > :13:22.long does one go on for before one says, look, we have searched the
:13:23. > :13:35.area 's we thought we might have found the aircraft, do we broaden it
:13:36. > :13:38.or stop? -- searched the areas. I really appreciate your thoughts,
:13:39. > :13:44.thank you very much. Let's look at some of the other top
:13:45. > :13:47.stories. Pakistani's prime minister has demanded immediate action after
:13:48. > :13:53.a pregnant woman was bludgeoned to death with bricks outside the High
:13:54. > :13:58.Court in Lahore. She was killed on Tuesday by men in her family for
:13:59. > :14:01.marrying against their witnesses. Eyewitnesses say the police were
:14:02. > :14:05.present but had nothing. That has been denied by the head of the
:14:06. > :14:08.police force. One man has been arrested and
:14:09. > :14:19.charges have been made against other men in India over the rape of two
:14:20. > :14:25.girls. Three policemen have been suspended.
:14:26. > :14:30.International medical aid teams have arrived in eastern Sierra Leone to
:14:31. > :14:43.start dealing with an out rake of the Ebola virus. They face a,
:14:44. > :14:47.catered task, -- a complicated task. Turkey's constitutional court has
:14:48. > :14:56.ordered YouTube the -- to be unblocked Thomas saying it violates
:14:57. > :15:04.freedom of expression. -- to be unblocked, saying. In April the
:15:05. > :15:09.court lifted the ban on Twitter as well.
:15:10. > :15:13.The former army chief in Egypt, Pardeep Singh, has won the
:15:14. > :15:20.presidential election with more than 90% of the vote. The left if --
:15:21. > :15:28.leftist candidate has conceded defeat and the Muslim brotherhood
:15:29. > :15:43.and other groups boycotted it. We can now look at some of the numbers.
:15:44. > :15:58.Only 3% opted to vote for his opponent. Despite the crushing
:15:59. > :16:04.victory, I want to take a closer look at these numbers. This is not
:16:05. > :16:11.the mandate that he wanted to legitimise the overthrow of the
:16:12. > :16:16.previous regime. There was an assumption the turnout would be a
:16:17. > :16:21.lot higher than it was. You can see the authorities seem very concerned
:16:22. > :16:26.about that. On the second day of voting, the final day of voting, but
:16:27. > :16:31.abruptly, the committee declared that they would make a third day of
:16:32. > :16:38.voting, and extended day of voting, which indicated to many people in
:16:39. > :16:44.the capital that the authorities were very worried about the turnout.
:16:45. > :16:48.There were all sorts of messages. Celebrities were telling people not
:16:49. > :16:55.to vote. Is this getting embarrassing for Abdel-Fattah
:16:56. > :17:00.el-Sisi? It is certainly not what the authorities had in mind. Some of
:17:01. > :17:05.the big shopping centres were closed. You also had the media
:17:06. > :17:11.pushing a huge campaign on all sorts of media to try and get people out
:17:12. > :17:17.to vote. There was hysteria on some of the private channels. This is not
:17:18. > :17:23.want people in authority wanted to see. You would hope they would take
:17:24. > :17:27.notice of this going forward that there was a passive boycott of
:17:28. > :17:33.people who simply did not want to be involved and not because they oppose
:17:34. > :17:37.the system. But there was certainly an active one as well and that
:17:38. > :17:41.represent something that we hope the state authorities would take
:17:42. > :17:50.seriously in the way forward. In many ways, winning the election was
:17:51. > :17:55.the easy part for Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi. He has a lot of problems in
:17:56. > :18:05.the country. The likes of health care, education. Yes, I knew budget
:18:06. > :18:11.was signed off on by the interim government and those will have quite
:18:12. > :18:18.dramatic repercussions on social policies with eejit the economic,
:18:19. > :18:25.slow set of economic problems that are unfolding, they do not seem to
:18:26. > :18:34.be getting any better. Summer is coming. The hottest months of the
:18:35. > :18:41.year. The most electricity will be consumed, which put a strain on
:18:42. > :18:46.energy consumption. This will be a difficult period going forward. It
:18:47. > :18:53.is unclear, because we have not seen any proper programme. We have not
:18:54. > :18:58.seen what Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi is going to do about this problem.
:18:59. > :19:00.Private letters between former British Prime minister Tony Blair
:19:01. > :19:05.and George W Bush, written in the run up to the Iraq War will not be
:19:06. > :19:08.published in full. The chairman of the inquiry into the Iraq War, Sir
:19:09. > :19:11.John Chilcott, has said that only quotes or suggestions of the notes'
:19:12. > :19:14.content, will be made public. The inquiry completed its public
:19:15. > :19:17.hearings in 2011 and today's announcement comes amid mounting
:19:18. > :19:20.criticism of the delay in releasing the report. The report contains some
:19:21. > :19:43.For many, it was the war which never really ended, which cost so many
:19:44. > :19:49.ways, some say 100,000. Some people say it is many times that figure.
:19:50. > :19:54.There is still no official version of events as to what led to Great
:19:55. > :20:00.Britain and the United States attacking Iraq. What was said
:20:01. > :20:07.between the British Prime Minister to the American President, what had
:20:08. > :20:13.he promised? An enquiry was launched a staggering 58 months ago to find
:20:14. > :20:17.the full story. It was there that Tony Blair came to give his account
:20:18. > :20:27.of his actions and was told to spell out exactly what he had told George
:20:28. > :20:32.Bush in 130 private conversations. I said we would stand shoulder to
:20:33. > :20:36.shoulder with them. We did in Afghanistan and I was determined to
:20:37. > :20:42.do that once more. Today, we learnt of the deal done. In a letter to a
:20:43. > :20:50.top civil servant, the enquiry chairman said he will only publish
:20:51. > :20:55.quotes and suggestions, not full documents. They should not reflect
:20:56. > :21:00.the views of President Bush. Direct quotations from the document should
:21:01. > :21:06.be the minimum necessary. The mother of one of the 179 soldiers from
:21:07. > :21:14.Great Britain killed in the conflict was very disappointed. We want to
:21:15. > :21:20.know, so we can understand what led to the invading Iraq. We want to
:21:21. > :21:29.know the correspondence between Tony Blair and George Bush. It is more
:21:30. > :21:34.than ten years since the invasion. Tony Blair has always insisted that
:21:35. > :21:39.the dramatic and bloody story contains no secrets and that he
:21:40. > :21:41.wants the enquiry out as soon as possible. We should be able to read
:21:42. > :21:44.it later this year. It is not just rich countries
:21:45. > :21:47.anymore - the whole world is getting fatter. New research conducted here
:21:48. > :21:51.in the UK by the medical journal The Lancet suggests that more than two
:21:52. > :21:54.billion people are now overweight, one third of the entire global
:21:55. > :22:11.population. Once an element of rich countries,
:22:12. > :22:17.it is no people of all ages and incomes who are tipping the Scales.
:22:18. > :22:20.The heavy burden is no greater than ever before. Not one country has
:22:21. > :22:26.succeeded in bringing down the problem. The survey found a
:22:27. > :22:35.staggering 2.1 billion people worldwide are overweight or obese.
:22:36. > :22:42.The United States tops the list. China came in second, followed by
:22:43. > :22:49.India, together making up 15% of the world 's obese. Also in the top ten
:22:50. > :22:52.where Pakistan and India uneasy. Two thirds of those who are obese are
:22:53. > :23:01.living in developing countries, which is an example of new
:23:02. > :23:10.prosperity and greater access to Western fat foods. It is destroying
:23:11. > :23:14.the indigenous food culture. It is perceived in those countries as
:23:15. > :23:19.being rather chic to eat there. We have not had that in their lives.
:23:20. > :23:24.There are these wonderful stores where you can eat very easily. The
:23:25. > :23:30.study also found that in developing countries women are more likely to
:23:31. > :23:35.be overweight than men, the reverse is true in developed nations. It is
:23:36. > :23:44.the most comprehensive study of its kind. With obesity rates rising in
:23:45. > :23:47.children by 50%, a urgent changes needed at government level before
:23:48. > :23:49.the next generation is also consumed by this.
:23:50. > :23:54.Professor Nick Finer is Chair of Clinical Care with the World Obesity
:23:55. > :23:59.Federation. He joins us from Cambridge.
:24:00. > :24:06.I would guess that these findings do not shop queue at all? No, we have
:24:07. > :24:12.known for a while that this is getting worse, most rapidly in
:24:13. > :24:17.developing countries. It is a devastating and bleak future for the
:24:18. > :24:24.evolving health care systems in those countries. What is happening
:24:25. > :24:32.there. And the getting richer and doing less exercise and eating the
:24:33. > :24:38.wrong foods, following the West? That is part of it. There are also
:24:39. > :24:43.changes in the interior of which could affect obesity and its
:24:44. > :24:49.complications. But the bottom line is that the mechanism is more food
:24:50. > :24:54.in, less energy out. The real question is what is on the causes
:24:55. > :24:59.behind these mechanisms. We know that there are changes in our
:25:00. > :25:04.society. We are eating too much and not exercising enough, but it has
:25:05. > :25:11.been 30 years since last major study like this. Why are we not reversing
:25:12. > :25:17.the trend? I do not think is simple. It involves a concerted approach,
:25:18. > :25:24.which I think has to be led by government. There has to be a
:25:25. > :25:32.recognition by people, individuals, society, that obesity is a disease.
:25:33. > :25:37.It is a major health risk. It is now threatening to reverse the advances
:25:38. > :25:42.in longevity that we have made over the last 30-40 years. And the next
:25:43. > :25:49.generation may actually die younger than the current generation. On the
:25:50. > :25:53.one hand, there is a conflict. We have food industries and agriculture
:25:54. > :26:02.and all sorts of action and bodies they do not want to upset. If you
:26:03. > :26:08.label obesity as a disease, but does not take away the personal
:26:09. > :26:14.responsibility for a person 's health? It meets all the criteria
:26:15. > :26:17.for a disease. There is a physiology that causes obesity print
:26:18. > :26:22.environments change and I do not think it takes away people 's
:26:23. > :26:30.responsibility any more than someone with diabetes does not have the duty
:26:31. > :26:35.to look after that disease. But if we do not recognise it for what it
:26:36. > :26:38.is, governments will continue to ignore the overwhelming evidence
:26:39. > :26:44.that they have got to do something about this. Thank you very much for
:26:45. > :26:55.speaking tours. We will see you again very soon.
:26:56. > :27:04.Good evening. Things have settled down quite nicely for the end of the
:27:05. > :27:10.week. There is a good deal of dry and bright weather tomorrow. They
:27:11. > :27:15.will be a fair bit of cloud, as well. The high pressure is building
:27:16. > :27:19.from the North. We have got this week whether from just popping the
:27:20. > :27:20.South West of