:00:00. > :00:00.This is BBC World News Today with me Tim Willcox.
:00:00. > :00:08.After nearly a fortnight's searching, a signal
:00:09. > :00:13.But will the recorder eventually reveal the truth behind the loss
:00:14. > :00:21.The mystery of the 40 dead tiger cubs found in a freezer
:00:22. > :00:23.at a controversial Thai Buddhist temple accused of involvement
:00:24. > :00:29.One of the UK's most prolific paedophiles admits to more than 70
:00:30. > :00:34.charges of child sexual abuse in South East Asia.
:00:35. > :00:37.And a new high-speed rail-link across Europe.
:00:38. > :00:40.At more than 55 kilometres, the world's longest and deepest rail
:00:41. > :01:03.We start with the Egyptair flight, which went missing
:01:04. > :01:09.French investigators say they have detected signals from one
:01:10. > :01:13.of the black box flight recorders from the Airbus A320,
:01:14. > :01:16.and now face the challenge of retrieving it before it stops
:01:17. > :01:21.The airliner left Paris in the evening for Cairo
:01:22. > :01:29.It vanished from radar screens north of the Egyptian coast
:01:30. > :01:35.Debris has since been recovered 290km north of Alexandria.
:01:36. > :01:38.The Greek Defence Minister said the plane's last movements included
:01:39. > :01:42.a 90 degree turn to the left, followed by a 360 degree turn
:01:43. > :01:48.to the right - a claim the Egyptian authorities have disputed.
:01:49. > :01:51.The plane is believed to lie at a possible depth of 3,000 metres
:01:52. > :01:55.A specialist vessel carrying robots, able to dive to this depth,
:01:56. > :01:59.They'll be searching underwater for the black box.
:02:00. > :02:02.It could either be the device holding technical data or the one
:02:03. > :02:07.Until the black box is recovered, any chance of discovering exactly
:02:08. > :02:09.what happened to the plane remains slim.
:02:10. > :02:11.Our correspondent in Cairo, Orla Guerin, has
:02:12. > :02:17.For the country, it's been a great tragedy.
:02:18. > :02:20.There has been a real sense of loss across this country,
:02:21. > :02:23.keenly felt by families in many different areas.
:02:24. > :02:26.There have been many poignant stories about the Egyptians
:02:27. > :02:28.who were on that plane, why they were taking the flight.
:02:29. > :02:31.For example, one woman who had been receiving cancer treatment in Paris
:02:32. > :02:35.who had actually managed to beat the disease and who was on her way
:02:36. > :02:38.home with her husband to her three small children, who were waiting
:02:39. > :02:42.Both she and her husband were among the victims.
:02:43. > :02:45.Initially, in the very early stages after the crash, the authorities
:02:46. > :02:49.here said that a terrorist attack was more likely
:02:50. > :02:58.Since then, officials have appeared to back away a bit from that line.
:02:59. > :03:01.They are saying that all theories are still being investigated.
:03:02. > :03:04.All possibilities are being considered.
:03:05. > :03:06.We actually know what this point is that there are indications
:03:07. > :03:09.of smoke and of a possible fire on board.
:03:10. > :03:12.We don't know what started that experts stressing that
:03:13. > :03:15.while the black boxes should provide some answers, they may have two rule
:03:16. > :03:18.things out like, for example, a bomb or an attempt
:03:19. > :03:23.They may not provide all of the answers that
:03:24. > :03:27.We can get more now from aviation expert David Learmount,
:03:28. > :03:34.who's a consulting editor at Flight Global.
:03:35. > :03:40.She was stressing the point that maybe not all the data from this
:03:41. > :03:51.light box will be there. But what sort of things will be here? --
:03:52. > :03:55.light box. -- will we here? If there's an explosion, even if it
:03:56. > :04:00.blows the aeroplane apart, you will hear the beginning of it. There will
:04:01. > :04:07.a pulse of sound or pressure and then everything goes dead. I don't
:04:08. > :04:12.think we've got enough information at this point, which is why we so
:04:13. > :04:20.desperately need the recorders, to know what happens. We don't know
:04:21. > :04:23.whether there was a fire started by sabotage or whether it was a
:04:24. > :04:28.straightforward electrical faults caused by maintenance, and oversight
:04:29. > :04:34.of maintenance, or design. It's been discovered now within a
:04:35. > :04:39.fortnight. The race is on to retrieve it from the sea bed, a long
:04:40. > :04:42.way down. Is there a risk that this data recorder might have nothing on
:04:43. > :04:47.it? The very same risk, but we've got
:04:48. > :04:53.some pretty good information which suggests there is a good chance
:04:54. > :05:01.it'll be working because the same team, the French investigation team,
:05:02. > :05:05.back in 2009 started searching for thousand metres down in the South
:05:06. > :05:11.Atlantic for the Air France aircraft that went missing. It took them two
:05:12. > :05:17.years to find both the flight recorders and they both worked
:05:18. > :05:22.completely. So, not only does this prove two things. First, they are
:05:23. > :05:26.extremely good at finding these things. Secondly, they are quite
:05:27. > :05:31.likely to tell us a lot. Do the electronics need to be dried
:05:32. > :05:33.out, or is it in a watertight Capshaw which means once you've
:05:34. > :05:38.retrieved it you can get that information?
:05:39. > :05:44.-- capsule. It depends how much damage was done,
:05:45. > :05:47.impact with is not much more gentle than impacting the surface of the
:05:48. > :05:53.Earth. High-speed water is very, very hard. But they shouldn't need
:05:54. > :05:58.drying out. If they do need trying out, they cancel be made to work.
:05:59. > :06:04.It's quite remarkable what agencies like the EEA can find out.
:06:05. > :06:11.Thus far, we have only found this more body parts and luggage, but not
:06:12. > :06:17.the main fuselage of this aircraft. Would that be intact?
:06:18. > :06:20.Well, we don't know. This is the thing, it's amazing how little we
:06:21. > :06:24.know. I have a suspicion that more is known by the Egyptian authorities
:06:25. > :06:30.than there are inclined to release at the moment. They haven't released
:06:31. > :06:34.anything, for example, about the spread of the wreckage on the
:06:35. > :06:39.surface. If the aircraft breaks up in the sky because of sabotage, the
:06:40. > :06:43.wreckage is spread very widely and it's a good early indicator. But
:06:44. > :06:46.they haven't said anything about how the wreckage that they have found
:06:47. > :06:49.has been spread. I think they know more than they're saying.
:06:50. > :06:54.Thank you for joining us. The University of California's Los
:06:55. > :06:58.Angeles campus is on lockdown, Police are searching
:06:59. > :07:20.university buildings, We don't know whether those victims
:07:21. > :07:22.have been shot dead or injured. It is a large campus just outside Los
:07:23. > :07:24.Angeles. Joining me now with more on this
:07:25. > :07:35.story is our correspondent What is the latest information?
:07:36. > :07:41.We first heard reports about one hour ago that there have been a
:07:42. > :07:45.shooting at his university campus just to the west of the city of Los
:07:46. > :07:50.Angeles. At this stage, we don't know a great deal of concrete
:07:51. > :07:55.information. There were reports that two people had been injured although
:07:56. > :07:59.I spoke to the LAPD about 20 minutes ago and they said they could not
:08:00. > :08:03.confirm those reports. That doesn't necessarily mean that they're not
:08:04. > :08:07.true. A spokesman at the scene may have been talking to local media.
:08:08. > :08:13.Just to exercise some caution, we have heard reports that two people
:08:14. > :08:18.may be "Down". We don't know whether that means they have been killed or
:08:19. > :08:21.injured. What we do know is that the police are swarming around this
:08:22. > :08:30.building. There has been a major response to this report of an active
:08:31. > :08:33.shooter at the scene and authorities have responded very quickly. The
:08:34. > :08:38.campus is in lockdown and people have been told to get to safety and
:08:39. > :08:43.lock the door, do the usual things that people are told to do in
:08:44. > :08:47.situations like this. At the moment, we have relatively little concrete
:08:48. > :08:50.information on whether there is one shooter or more than one shooter.
:08:51. > :08:54.Or, indeed, whether people have been injured.
:08:55. > :08:58.There is always that campus alert system. We have heard a game that
:08:59. > :09:02.police are telling everyone on campus to lock themselves inside
:09:03. > :09:09.their rooms. -- heard the game. We believe this happened outside and
:09:10. > :09:11.engineering campus. It is a big campus, tens of thousands of
:09:12. > :09:18.students. There are 43,000 students studying
:09:19. > :09:21.at the moment. It's a major international campus, a lots of
:09:22. > :09:27.overseas students come to Los Angeles to study at UCLA. This is
:09:28. > :09:31.happening close to the engineering building, we are told. But there are
:09:32. > :09:38.many different disciplines. There is a large Medical School at UCLA. It
:09:39. > :09:43.is a very densely populated area. It is somewhere between the city of Los
:09:44. > :09:48.Angeles and Santa Monica which is on the coast. If you had West out of
:09:49. > :09:54.Los Angeles, this is in the city of westward on the way to the coast. It
:09:55. > :09:58.is a relatively small campus in that it is a concentrated area, lots of
:09:59. > :10:08.winding roads around the campus to get to the various buildings. It is
:10:09. > :10:15.really the major part of Westwood, the city revolves around the
:10:16. > :10:18.university in this part of town. You can only imagine the chaos of the
:10:19. > :10:21.police attention is causing today. Thank you very much.
:10:22. > :10:24.Authorities in Thailand have discovered 40 dead tiger cubs
:10:25. > :10:27.in a freezer during a raid on a temple accused of alleged
:10:28. > :10:31.The temple is in Kanchanaburi province, to the west of Bangkok.
:10:32. > :10:34.Known in English as "Tiger Temple", it had been suspected
:10:35. > :10:41.Animal activists have long campaigned for its closure.
:10:42. > :10:44.The gruesome discovery came during the ongoing operation
:10:45. > :10:47.to remove more than 130 live tigers from the site.
:10:48. > :10:49.A warning - the following report contains images which may
:10:50. > :10:58.It was a raid to remove live tigers from a suspected animal trafficking
:10:59. > :11:02.operation in Thailand's Kanchanabury province.
:11:03. > :11:08.The last thing authorities expected was this shocking discovery.
:11:09. > :11:12.Lined up, one by one, the 40 dead tiger cubs.
:11:13. > :11:15.Some are believed to be just one or two days old.
:11:16. > :11:27.They were found in a freezer at Tiger Temple on Wednesday.
:11:28. > :11:29.TRANSLATION: We were told there are some remains of tiger
:11:30. > :11:32.cubs in the freezer, so be asked to see them.
:11:33. > :11:33.We found 40 dead cubs, horns, antlers
:11:34. > :11:40.Tiger Temple has long been a tourist destination, making millions of
:11:41. > :11:46.But 2001, authorities have been locked in a battle with those
:11:47. > :11:48.who run the temple after allegations of wildlife trafficking
:11:49. > :11:57.There's a question and a debate to have about how animals should be
:11:58. > :12:00.kept in captivity and how they should be kept around tourists
:12:01. > :12:05.But if this is being used as a facade for an illegal
:12:06. > :12:14.trafficking business then that's very troubling.
:12:15. > :12:17.The monks behind Tiger Temple have denied any wrongdoing.
:12:18. > :12:28.A statement on their Facebook page says...
:12:29. > :12:36.What is clear is that this once popular tourist attraction
:12:37. > :12:38.faces a long road ahead, starting with the removal of the
:12:39. > :12:43.remaining live tigers before authorities consider potential
:12:44. > :12:52.It's the world's longest and deepest rail tunnel under the Swiss Alps,
:12:53. > :12:55.and today it officially opened after almost two decades
:12:56. > :13:01.Officials say the 35-mile Gotthard tunnel, a high-speed
:13:02. > :13:02.link between northern and southern Europe,
:13:03. > :13:04.will revolutionise freight transport, taking a million lorries
:13:05. > :13:20.Today is the culmination of 20 years of hard graft.
:13:21. > :13:28.The Swiss have been digging, blasting out enough rock to build
:13:29. > :13:31.six Egyptian pyramids, all to provide a high speed rail link
:13:32. > :13:34.through what are sometimes called Europe's biggest
:13:35. > :13:36.through what are sometimes called Europe's biggest trade
:13:37. > :13:39.Whether it's Italian olive oil going north,
:13:40. > :13:41.or Scottish whisky going south, Europe's goods have got to get
:13:42. > :13:45.In the middle ages, they were dragged up here by mule
:13:46. > :13:50.Even today, much of Europe's freight relies on 19th-century railway
:13:51. > :14:04.Until now, over 1 million heavy lorries a year have been
:14:05. > :14:09.valleys with traffic, putting the fragile alpine
:14:10. > :14:16.We have on biodiversity, every year, a loss of flora and fauna.
:14:17. > :14:19.It's all a part of our policy that we have to protect not only
:14:20. > :14:30.the atmosphere but also the Alpine region.
:14:31. > :14:39.During test runs, trains have reached speeds of over 150 mph.
:14:40. > :14:46.It will be hugely important to Europe's economy.
:14:47. > :14:52.Hundreds of freight trains a day are expected to use it.
:14:53. > :14:55.But it came with a hefty price tag for Switzerland.
:14:56. > :14:58.At the Swiss believe if the new tunnel protects
:14:59. > :15:03.the alpine environment, it will all have been worth it.
:15:04. > :15:05.With me is Martin Knights, managing director of an international
:15:06. > :15:19.You were there when the tunnel part was complete. The actual tunnelling
:15:20. > :15:24.was done under 20 years? The hole in the ground was finished
:15:25. > :15:29.in 2010. They spent the last six years kitting it out with railway
:15:30. > :15:33.lines and safety equipment. It took just over ten years in a tunnelling
:15:34. > :15:38.construction using four tunnel boring machines.
:15:39. > :15:43.And that is pretty fast? Some of the rates of progress were
:15:44. > :15:47.up to about 55 metres in one day. Generally, we are talking about 20
:15:48. > :15:50.metres a day. That is 40 minutes a day if you are going in off the
:15:51. > :16:03.directions. -- 40 metres a day. Excavating all the Rock, where does
:16:04. > :16:07.that go? What the machine does is it churns
:16:08. > :16:10.up the rock and then takes it to the back of the machine by conveyor out
:16:11. > :16:16.onto a railway system which goes out into the open. There is lots of cut
:16:17. > :16:19.and fill in order to form a high-speed railway anywhere. All
:16:20. > :16:24.that is generally needed for recycling on the job.
:16:25. > :16:30.The Swiss had a referendum on this, didn't they?
:16:31. > :16:33.They voted 84% in favour in 1994 because there was so much freight
:16:34. > :16:38.traffic going through Switzerland on lorries. It was going between
:16:39. > :16:42.Germany and Scandinavia perhaps. They voted for environmental reasons
:16:43. > :16:46.and safety reasons in order to have something which was safer and
:16:47. > :16:51.quicker. Switzerland is not a member of the
:16:52. > :16:54.EU. It is not part of the trading agreement. Is this part of a
:16:55. > :16:58.pan-European network? It is. There are two other tunnel is
:16:59. > :17:10.now being planned between cheering and Leon -- Turin and Lyon. They are
:17:11. > :17:17.now creating eastern and western Europe links. All to facilitate
:17:18. > :17:23.trade. A bit like a modern-day silk Road.
:17:24. > :17:27.Are there other projects internationally? Doesn't China want
:17:28. > :17:33.some kind of tunnel would tie one? Absolutely. That is 150 kilometres.
:17:34. > :17:36.It is stretching it, but the technology is there. The Norwegians
:17:37. > :17:42.are also thinking about it. The technology has grown and the funding
:17:43. > :17:51.is there. Everyone is behind these large tunnels.
:17:52. > :17:54.Briefly, it's only for trains? Yes, trains only.
:17:55. > :17:57.A 30-year-old man, believed to be one of the UK's
:17:58. > :18:00.worst child abusers, is being sentenced
:18:01. > :18:04.Richard Huckle has admitted 71 offences that he committed
:18:05. > :18:08.His victims were aged between six months and 12 years old.
:18:09. > :18:29.Richard Huckle sought out children in the poorest
:18:30. > :18:45.But it's also the way he got close to this girl,
:18:46. > :18:56.He took videos of me naked, and I told him I wanted
:18:57. > :19:00.I didn't realise what he was doing because I was only three years old.
:19:01. > :19:04.I don't want him to come back to Malaysia.
:19:05. > :19:11.He targeted the vulnerable, getting to know them.
:19:12. > :19:15.Staying in the slums for days on end.
:19:16. > :19:18.Huckle was often at this woman's home.
:19:19. > :19:27.But she says when her granddaughter was just 12,
:19:28. > :19:37.To charities and orphanages where he helped out and targeted children.
:19:38. > :19:47.That day he brought one of his victims.
:19:48. > :20:00.But all too often it was a prelude to rape and abuse.
:20:01. > :20:04.Tens of thousands of images and videos.
:20:05. > :20:11.He then posted them in secret forums on the so-called "dark web".
:20:12. > :20:14.Huckle also wrote a self-help guide for other would-be abusers,
:20:15. > :20:22.It's not often that you get intimate access inside a police sting...
:20:23. > :20:28.He was finally identified by police in Australia.
:20:29. > :20:34.In one of the biggest ever investigations into sex offenders
:20:35. > :20:38.Paul Griffiths is a former British detectives, now
:20:39. > :20:42.How great a danger did he posed to children?
:20:43. > :20:45.If he hadn't been arrested, if he hadn't have been
:20:46. > :20:47.taken out of circulation, he would still be offending
:20:48. > :20:54.He certainly struck me as the kind of person who would make
:20:55. > :20:59.If he have the opportunity to offend against a child,
:21:00. > :21:03.Huckle's victims are left traumatised.
:21:04. > :21:06.Abused by a man who said he'd come to help them.
:21:07. > :21:19.He used his face to seek them out and then betray them.
:21:20. > :21:36.And update on the shooting at UCLA campus in Los Angeles. Police are
:21:37. > :21:42.now confirming two victims at that shooting. The shooter is still at
:21:43. > :21:48.large, according to police. SWAT teams are flooding the campus which
:21:49. > :21:52.has tens of thousands of students just to the west of Los Angeles
:21:53. > :21:57.itself. There are some reports suggesting this happened outside the
:21:58. > :22:01.engineering building at the campus. The campus alert system has been
:22:02. > :22:04.activated with police telling everyone to lock themselves inside
:22:05. > :22:10.their rooms. One report describes the shooter as a white male around
:22:11. > :22:16.six foot tall wearing a black jacket and black trousers. A lots of police
:22:17. > :22:21.activity, as you can see. The campus is in lockdown. Police confirmed two
:22:22. > :22:26.death in that shooting incident which still appears to be going on.
:22:27. > :22:29.A young woman teacher who was set on fire by a group of men
:22:30. > :22:37.The hospital where Maria Sadaqat died says 85% of her body
:22:38. > :22:40.was burnt and she died of multiple organ failure.
:22:41. > :22:43.Her aunt said she was attacked for refusing a man's
:22:44. > :22:46.TRANSLATION: The girl was very intelligent.
:22:47. > :22:52.The man's family sent in the proposal, but he was already
:22:53. > :22:57.The goal's father rejected the proposal.
:22:58. > :23:01.The man's family got angry and did this.
:23:02. > :23:09.The BBC Urdu's reporter, Iram Abbasi, was at
:23:10. > :23:12.when Maria's body was handed to her family.
:23:13. > :23:14.The autopsy was conducted here in a local hospital,
:23:15. > :23:17.40 kilometres away from the capital city of Islamabad.
:23:18. > :23:20.There is a lot of anger and panic among the family and villagers.
:23:21. > :23:23.Half of the villages or family members were gathered outside
:23:24. > :23:25.the hospital when the autopsy was taking place.
:23:26. > :23:27.Now that the procedure is done, the family is taking Maria's dead
:23:28. > :23:32.When I spoke to his father, he told me that the incident
:23:33. > :23:37.He alleges that a group of five men barged into their house,
:23:38. > :23:40.locked Maria in the room and beat her up after she refused
:23:41. > :23:47.According to him, after torching Maria, they took her to a ditch
:23:48. > :23:51.and doused her in kerosene oil and set her on fire.
:23:52. > :23:53.According to police, a case has been registered
:23:54. > :24:01.The investigation is still undergoing.
:24:02. > :24:05.French investigators have confirmed that one of their naval
:24:06. > :24:09.vessels has detected signals from one of two flight recorders
:24:10. > :24:12.belonging to the EgyptAir plane, which crashed last month
:24:13. > :24:18.They say the signals had been picked up from the seabed
:24:19. > :24:26.The Airbus 320, with 66 people on board,
:24:27. > :24:30.came down two weeks ago during a flight from Paris to Cairo.
:24:31. > :24:34.It vanished from Greek and Egyptian radar screens,
:24:35. > :24:39.apparently without having sent a distress call.
:24:40. > :24:42.Now, she's one of the most recognisable faces of the last
:24:43. > :24:44.century and would have celebrated her 90th
:24:45. > :24:48.A Hollywood actress and one of the most famous pin-up
:24:49. > :24:51.Have you guessed who I'm talking about yet?
:24:52. > :26:01.Marilyn Munro, who would have been 90.