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This is BBC World News Today with me. The headlines: Search teams find | :00:08. | :00:15. | |
wreckage of the EgyptAir plane that crashed en route from Paris to | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
Cairo. This is the plane on a previous flight. It fell more than | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
7000 metres before disappearing from radar. The debris has been found in | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
the southern Mediterranean, east of the Greek island create. | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
TRANSLATION: It made a 90 degrees turn to the left, and then a 360 | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
degrees turn to the right, descending from 37,000 to 50,000 | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
feet -- 15,000 feet. Then the picture we had was lost. Also coming | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
up, how the overuse of antibiotics is creating drug-resistant superbugs | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
that could kill someone every three seconds. And a special service is | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
held in memory of Sir Nicholas Winton, the man who saved hundreds | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
of children from the Holocaust. EgyptAir says wreckage | :01:00. | :01:10. | |
from its plane which crashed with 66 people on board, | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
has been found in the eastern Flight MS804 left Paris | :01:14. | :01:20. | |
on Wednesday, heading for Cairo. It was tracked by radar all the way | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
into Egyptian airspace EgyptAir tweeted that the flight | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
disappeared about 10 minutes The plane was flying at 37,000 | :01:27. | :01:36. | |
feet, or 11,000 metres. The Greek defence minister has said | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
"the plane carried out "a 90-degree turn to the left | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
and a 360-degree turn to the right, "falling to 15,000 feet before | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
the signal was lost". An Egyptian ship captain involved | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
in the search has posted these pictures on his Facebook page, | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
which he says show a lifejacket Keith Sommerville reports | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
from the Egyptian capital, Cairo. Their loved ones left Paris | :01:58. | :02:07. | |
on a flight before midnight. They woke to the reality | :02:08. | :02:17. | |
that they were gone, 66 people, including crew, | :02:18. | :02:19. | |
took flight MS804 to Cairo. The passengers were mostly | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
French and Egyptian. It has just been confirmed | :02:23. | :02:24. | |
that he was Richard Osman, a mining company executive who had | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
worked in Egypt for many years. Here, radar tracks the aircraft, | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
its red tail speeding across the Mediterranean, | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
until suddenly, it disappears. Was this a terror attack | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
or mechanical failure? France's president says nothing | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
should be ruled out. TRANSLATION: We also have the duty | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
to know everything about the causes No hypothesis should be | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
ruled out or preferred. In Cairo, relatives | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
gathered at the airport. Families have been arriving | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
here all morning, desperate to find out any information they can | :03:04. | :03:17. | |
on what happened to flight MS804. The flight was just 20 | :03:18. | :03:19. | |
minutes from landing here at Cairo International Airport | :03:20. | :03:21. | |
when, according to the authorities, it simply vanished, without anyone | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
in, without any distress call. This woman explains, | :03:25. | :03:26. | |
my daughter was a stewardess. Another says, we are worried | :03:27. | :03:28. | |
and afraid, and we are hearing different things on the internet | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
which we don't know Egypt's aviation minister was | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
called on for answers, but Minister, if I could just ask you, | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
do you have any security concerns about anyone on the plane, | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
whether they were passengers, whether they were crew, whether they | :03:49. | :03:50. | |
were on the flight deck? Nothing has been | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
reported about that. We haven't got any kind | :03:54. | :03:55. | |
of security concerns about a specific person, | :03:56. | :03:57. | |
but don't forget that the investigation is still going on, | :03:58. | :03:59. | |
and I'm pretty sure that there is a profiling process | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
for people on board, the security departments, | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
or the concerned security divisions, Shortly afterwards, a ship's captain | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
posted this picture - a yellow life jacket, | :04:12. | :04:18. | |
and part of an airline seat, In Egypt this evening, | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
families continue to wait for news, burdened by the knowledge that | :04:22. | :04:29. | |
officials here think this was more likely a terror | :04:30. | :04:31. | |
attack than an accident. Let's get the latest | :04:32. | :04:40. | |
from Kevin Connolly in Cairo. Kevin, this news that the wreckage | :04:41. | :04:55. | |
has been found, however going down with the families there? Well, I | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
think the discovery about wreckage and confirmation that it is from the | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
plane, does two things, really. First, it extinguishes any lingering | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
hopes that the families might have had. They now know for sure that | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
they have been waiting for a flight which will now never arrive. So I | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
suppose for them, the horror of uncertainty is replaced by the agony | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
of grief. At a more practical level, it also means that the authorities | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
are beginning to assemble the physical evidence they need to | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
establish what happened to the aircraft, why it came down, so | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
discovering that debris is a beginning. They will, of course, | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
need to discover the on-board flight recorders as well, but I think it is | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
fair to say that we are closer now to a point where the authorities | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
will begin to establish pretty quickly the story of the plane's | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
final and fatal moments. And we were hearing earlier that some of the | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
families were frustrated about how slow information was coming out. | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
What is the situation now? Has that improved? | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
I don't think it has. I think there were a couple of issues there, one | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
being the nature of the modern world, of course. Stories are | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
buzzing around the internet from all over Europe and further afield about | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
what may or may not have happened to the plane, a lot of explanation and | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
speculation, lots of bits and pieces of information. The families are | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
aware of those, and Egypt, of course, as a society, does not have | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
that tradition of free reporting, and so official information here | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
comes very slowly. So for the families, they will be the agony of | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
knowing the kind of stories that are circulating everywhere and not | :06:38. | :06:39. | |
hearing what their own government things about them. I think there is | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
not really very much to be done about that. You will see again, as | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
debris stars to be found, that will intensify speculation on the | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
internet. The families are following that, but then there is an enormous | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
lag between that unofficial information and speculation and | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
concrete word from the Egyptian government about what they are | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
saying really happened. OK, Kevin Connelly, in Cairo, thank | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
you very much for the update. Investigators will need to gather | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
much more information than is available right now before | :07:09. | :07:10. | |
deciding what caused the crash. Here's our Transport | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
Correspondent Richard Westcott. As more victims' families head | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
for Cairo, the question remains - was this an accident, | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
or something more sinister? Well, the aircraft | :07:22. | :07:23. | |
was an Airbus A320, and if you've ever flown, | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
the chances are, you've It's one of the most common planes | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
on earth, and it does And this is footage of the actual | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
aircraft that disappeared. Now, this aircraft was delivered | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
to EgyptAir in November 2003, and we also know that the captain | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
and the co-pilot were So, let's have a look | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
at what the radar tells us Well, having taken off from Paris | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
in the late evening, everything was normal for more | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
than three hours. Greek controllers say | :08:03. | :08:04. | |
the pilot is in good spirits Half an hour after that, | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
repeated radio calls go unanswered. Controllers raise the alarm, | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
but the plane has simply TRANSLATION: It made | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
a 90-degree turn to the left, and then a 360-degree turn | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
towards the right, descending from 37,000 | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
to 15,000 feet. This is why terrorism | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
can't be ruled out. A Russian airliner full | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
of tourists was brought down It is widely believed a group linked | :08:37. | :08:38. | |
to the so-called Islamic State They have vowed to target Egypt, | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
and westerners who visit. It appears that there's been some | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
catastrophic event at 37,000 feet, and the most likely thing to have | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
happened is actually some kind of an explosion inside | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
the aeroplane itself. This is the room at Cranfield | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
University where air accident investigators from all | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
over the world have Experts here say there | :09:09. | :09:10. | |
will be early clues, Generally, within a few hours, | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
we started to get a picture of what may have occurred, | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
but the detail of the investigation will take many months, | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
sometimes even years, to fully understand | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
what may have happened, and where the lessons | :09:29. | :09:30. | |
learned may be. So, it's an anxious | :09:31. | :09:32. | |
wait for the families, and for all flyers, like these | :09:33. | :09:34. | |
people, off to Cairo today. We can join him now. James, what is | :09:35. | :09:53. | |
the latest on the situation there that you are hearing? | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
We understand that three members of France's bureau of investigation and | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
analysis will tonight be on their way to Cairo to advise and assist | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
the Egyptian authorities with the search for that wreckage, in | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
particular, the French government says those three experts may be able | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
to advise on underwater searches for those flight recorders, which, as | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
you know, in the signals which will want to be picked up by rescuers. In | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
addition, one more person that will be travelling from Paris to Cairo is | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
a technical advisor from Airbus is self. Airbus is based in France, and | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
that investigated may be able to help understand what happened on | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
that plane. So France is playing a part in the investigation, but I | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
think the key thing to stress is, it will not be the major player in the | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
investigation. This was an Egyptian plane, most people on board were | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
Egyptian, and the debris may be returned to Egypt itself, so it | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
seems likely the investigation itself will be led by Egypt. France | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
will have to assist, but it will have to put a lot of faith into | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
organisations in that country which it may not believe have a | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
particularly great track record in independent investigations. | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
And what is the situation at the airport there? Has security been | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
noticeably stepped up? It has, but I should say at the | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
moment, things look reasonably normal around me. There was a flight | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
for Air China which decked in about an hour ago, a flight for cats are | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
Airways, which is checking in at the moment. Restaurants are open, and | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
occasionally you see heavily armed soldiers and policemen patrolling, | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
but over the last few months, in particular, since the November | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
attacks, Paris has been on a state of alert anyway, so security in the | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
airport has now become normal. What is the latest on the situation | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
regarding the families and friends of those who were on board we | :11:48. | :11:56. | |
understand that earlier in the day, some families, particularly those of | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
the 15 French people on board, were invited on to a special EgyptAir | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
flight which went to Cairo, and essentially, they may have decided | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
there was little point being here when the centre of affairs, the | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
centre of action, is Cairo itself. We don't now how many families may | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
have boarded that particular flight, we don't know if other families of | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
other nationalities are in Paris, or have decided not to go to Cairo. | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
James Reynolds in Cairo, thank you. With me now in the studio is Chris | :12:23. | :12:31. | |
Phillips, former head of the UK's National Counterterrorism Security | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
Office. We heard from James there that investigators from France are | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
on their way to the site. What will be investigating teams be doing now? | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
The first thing they will want to do is get hold of the black boxes that | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
are linked to this aeroplane, so they will do everything they can to | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
get those. Those will give them the definitive answer on what happened | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
inside that plane. Of course, security services in different parts | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
of the world will also be looking at who the people were on that plane, | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
if there was anyone there that may have taken a bomb, for example, onto | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
the plane, and also the locations where the plane has been, certainly | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
in the last 24 hours, because these planes travel all over the world, | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
stopping up a lot of different airports. Each airport is | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
potentially the place where a device may have been put onto the plane. So | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
there is lots of work to do, but the first thing is to get hold of those | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
black boxes. If it turns out to be some sort of | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
explosive device, how sure are you when you heard what had happened, | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
when you heard about the description of the plane veering to the left and | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
to the right, losing altitude rapidly, what were your first | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
thoughts? My first thoughts were that this was almost certainly some | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
form of terrorist attack. The reason I would say that is, we need to bear | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
in mind that these Airbuses are just so reliable, and very rarely do they | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
have any major incidents. Even if they do, the pilot can almost | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
invariably contact the ground and let them know what has happened, and | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
that something is happening. I have got to take over and fly the plane | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
first, but the second thing they would do is immediately radio and | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
SOS call. That did not happen, and what we saw was the plane dropped | :14:13. | :14:20. | |
very quickly down towards the sea, and that tends to indicate something | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
catastrophic has happened at 37,000 feet, in a pressurised environment, | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
where potentially, there has been a whole of some form in the fusilade, | :14:29. | :14:35. | |
and that whole will cause a depressurisation, and losing the air | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
plane. -- that hole. It would be interesting to get your | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
thoughts on one particular point. The families have spoken at their | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
frustration at how long it has taken to get information, how slow the | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
flow of information has been getting to them. As someone who has worked | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
in counterterrorism, why is there that delay for people who are | :14:55. | :14:56. | |
desperate to find out what has happened to develop 1's? | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
This is a sign of The Times. We are so used to information coming at us | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
within seconds of an incident, we are used to the idea that we'll find | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
out immediately. What the Egyptian and French authorities do is give | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
false, wrong information, so they will only say something when they | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
know it is a fact. Now, obviously, it takes a long time for that to | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
happen, and even though they have got all of the intelligence in the | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
world, they are not going to come out and say something that is not | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
true. So it is important that they go through the stages to say, we | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
must have accurate information, not just supposition that we and other | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
people can make. Really good to have you with us, and | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
we will catch up with you later. Thank you very much. | :15:41. | :15:41. | |
Now a look at some of the day's other news. | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
Heavy rain and loose ground is hindering the search for victims | :15:45. | :15:46. | |
Dozens of houses have been buried or flattened in one hilly area. | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
Rescue workers say more than 130 missing people could have died. | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
Days of torrential rains have flooded large parts of the island. | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
The first of the missing Nigerian schoolgirls to be rescued | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
from Boko Haram militants has met President Buhari in Abuja. | :16:04. | :16:05. | |
Amina Ali Nkeki, who is 19, was found with a baby | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
by an army-backed vigilante group on Tuesday in the huge | :16:09. | :16:10. | |
Sambisa Forest, close to the border with Cameroon. | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
After the meeting, the President said the government would | :16:15. | :16:16. | |
make continuing Amina's education a priority. | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
The Scottish golf club Muirfield has lost the chance to host | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
the prestigious Open Championship after its members voted | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
The club said women would continue to be welcomed as guests. | :16:27. | :16:36. | |
But the governing body of the Open said the event could not be staged | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
by a club that that did not admit women as full members. | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
It is one of the greatest challenges faced by doctors and surgeons - | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
the growing resistance to antibiotics, | :16:47. | :16:48. | |
largely because they are prescribed inappropriately. | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
Now a new report is warning that if nothing is done, | :16:53. | :16:54. | |
superbugs will kill someone, somewhere in the world | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
Our Medical Correspondent Fergus Walsh reports. | :16:58. | :17:05. | |
In the pre-antibiotic era, patients like Lily would simply have died. | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
She spent two weeks critically ill in Birmingham Children's Hospital | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
with a drug-resistant bacterial infection, | :17:19. | :17:20. | |
They weren't sure which infections she had. | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
It's amazing how these anitbiotics have cured our daughter. | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
This is what other sick kids experience, and it really makes | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
The economist who led the review into superbugs say they could kill | :17:36. | :17:47. | |
more people than cancer by 2050, unless antibiotics are safeguarded. | :17:48. | :17:49. | |
What we really need is efforts to reduce demand, and stop treating | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
these things like sweets, so an awareness campaign, | :17:53. | :18:01. | |
dramatic reduction of the misuse in agriculture. | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
These things can permanently solve the problem. | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
The review says rapid diagnostic tests should be developed, | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
so patients get antibiotics only if their infection is bacterial. | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
There should be major restrictions on the use of antibiotics | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
There would be a levy on drug companies to pay for research, | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
Gentamicin. Cefaroxin. | :18:24. | :18:34. | |
Chances are, at some point, your life will depend | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
on an antibiotic. But their Golden Age is over. | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
There hasn't been a completely new class of these drugs in decades, | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
and unless the world takes action, then in a few years, | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
you could come to hospital with a simple infection, | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
and the doctors and nurses will not be able to treat it. | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
Doctors are already seeing worrying signs that the superbugs | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
During the course of my career, I have noticed already quite a sharp | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
increase in the number of resistant bacteria | :19:08. | :19:09. | |
We have had to change the antibiotics we are | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
If we run out, then I don't know what we will do. | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
And we all need educating about how to prevent the spread | :19:20. | :19:21. | |
of germs and infections if antibiotics are to continue | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
The preventative benefits of taking aspirin have been | :19:27. | :19:36. | |
But now researchers from Oxford University say it should | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
be given immediately to people who've suffered strokes. | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
They say taking the blood-thinning drug reduces the risk of further | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
Here's our health correspondent Adam Brimelow. | :19:47. | :19:53. | |
Earlier this month, John Mason suffered a minor stroke. | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
He first noticed when he had trouble reading his e-mails. | :19:57. | :19:58. | |
He was taken to A, and on the way, took an aspirin | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
I was aware of the beneficial effects of taking aspirin, | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
but I had no idea how significant they were, and it's very, | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
very reassuring that I can carry on with my life, | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
knowing that the actions I have taken and the support I have had | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
mean there is a very low chance of a recurrence. | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
Researchers at Oxford University say that for every 100,000 people over | :20:25. | :20:26. | |
50 in the UK, one is likely to have a stroke every day. | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
But in the days after symptoms of a minor stroke, the risk | :20:30. | :20:36. | |
Taking aspirin immediately brings this down to about one in 100. | :20:37. | :20:46. | |
That is an 80% reduction in the risk of another stroke, | :20:47. | :20:48. | |
and where they do occur, they are likely to be less severe. | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
Nearly two weeks on from his stroke, John Mason is taking it easy, | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
He can get out in the garden and enjoy life. | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
This is a case of the patient doing the right thing at the right time, | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
meaning the risk of a major stroke was much reduced. | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
But the researchers say the message for doctors and the public | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
about the benefits of aspirin in this situation needs | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
We need to encourage people, if they think they have had some | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
neurological symptoms that might be a minor stroke, | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
they should take aspirin immediately, as well as ideally | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
NHS England says these findings will need to be | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
New stroke guidelines for doctors are due out in the autumn. | :21:29. | :21:36. | |
A memorial service has been held in London for Sir Nicholas Winton, | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
who rescued hundreds of children from the Holocaust in the months | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
Sir Nicholas organised the "Kindertransport", | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
in which more than 600 mostly Jewish children came to Britain by train | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
from Czechoslovakia in 1939. Sophie Long reports. | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
A mother kisses her child goodbye, knowing she may | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
Prague Station, early 1939, and young boys and girls head | :22:02. | :22:09. | |
to Britain to avoid the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia, | :22:10. | :22:11. | |
and the subsequent persecution of Jewish and other minority | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
Today, those children, now elderly men and women, | :22:15. | :22:23. | |
gathered to celebrate the life of the man who gave them a future. | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
Nicholas Winton was just 28, a young stockbroker in London, | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
when he organised trains to take Jewish children to safety | :22:36. | :22:37. | |
His kindertransport operation saved 669 children, | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
but for many years, he harboured an overriding regret | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
He kept quiet about what he had done until his wife found a scrapbook | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
Back here, you will see, is the list of all the children. | :22:53. | :23:00. | |
Finally, in 1988, Esther Rantzen publicised what he did on her TV | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
Vera Githing is here tonight. Hello, Vera. | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
And I should tell you, you are actually sitting next | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
So hello! APPLAUSE | :23:14. | :23:26. | |
Is there anyone in our audience tonight who owes their life | :23:27. | :23:28. | |
Anyone who owes their life to Nicky Winton, would | :23:29. | :23:41. | |
28 years later, it is estimated between five and 7,000 people do. | :23:42. | :23:48. | |
One of them is 92-year-old Kurt Hausig. | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
He still remembers the train journey from Prague. | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
He went on to become a Spitfire pilot. | :23:55. | :24:01. | |
Bio everything to him. And so does the rest of the family, and every | :24:02. | :24:10. | |
other child. Everything. Without him, nothing would have happened. -- | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
I owe. I wouldn't have been in the air force. I wouldn't have become | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
what I was. Today, Kurds and the others who continue to live the life | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
he gave them, remembered a modest hero and celebrated a life that was | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
prove one individual can make an incredible difference. -- curtain | :24:29. | :24:29. | |
remembered. Back now to Chris Phillips, | :24:30. | :24:31. | |
former head of the UK's With me is Chris Phillips, | :24:32. | :24:40. | |
former head of the UK's National Counterterrorism | :24:41. | :24:49. | |
Security Office. Presumably the investigation will | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
now be looking to find out what caused that crash. How will they be | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
doing that? I think they will start, first and foremost, with the people | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
on the plane, and unable to the plane itself and see where it has | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
been. We know it has been a Charles de Gaulle Airport. We know only a | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
couple of months ago that Charles de Gaulle Airport was a bit concerned | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
about the people had working air side that may have terrorist | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
tendencies, or certainly coming from an area where there is more | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
terrorism than other places. The aeroplane is effectively a bus. That | :25:23. | :25:29. | |
aeroplane has taken off and landed in numerous airports in the last | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
couple of days, and I think the focus may end up turning to those | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
airports, because, of course, you can put a device onto a plane, and | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
you can put a time a situation that will make it go off at some point in | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
the future. That is possibly what has happened. We're not sure yet, | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
but it is certainly one line of enquiry. | :25:50. | :25:51. | |
Thank you very much for that. We will keep across the latest of that | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
investigation, and you can find details on our live page. That is it | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
from the programme. The weather is next. | :26:00. | :26:10. | |
Hello. Plenty of rain in the outlook, but during | :26:11. | :26:12. |