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russia. they could be imposed as early as next week. three years after the nuclear disaster at fukushima in japan, 100,000 people near site are still living as evacuees. hello and welcome. the authorities in malaysia have identified this man. one of the two passengers seen here in slightly blurred photos we have been given. this was a man aboard the missing airliner has now been named. he is a 19 iranian my grant with no known links to terrorist activity. the search for the missing plane has been widened to include the

west of the straits. 239 passengers and crew were aboard. the police say the iranian was most likely trying to migrate to germany. >> he is an iranian. he is 19 years old. we believe he's an iranian. we have been also checked in with on his behalf.

he is not likely to be a member of any terrorist group. and we believe he is trying to migrate to germany. >> they also outlines possible causes of the disappearance of the claim. >> we have four main areas we are focusing on. hijacking, sabotage, personnel problem amongst the crews and the visitors. >> well, she's are shots of the interpol press conference that we are expect to go start in the next few minutes.

being held in france. and we will take you to that just as soon as we can. we're hoping for more details on what they might know. especially about the two people we know have traveled on stolen passports. our correspondent is jennifer pack. jennifer, we saw the earlier news conference out of malaysia. interesting they gave us four different lines of inquiry but saying one of the suspects was iranian, doesn't seem to have any terrorist links as far as they know. >> reporter: indeed. and that's been in line with what some have been saying. people from iran, other countries are able to come here without a visa or at least easy access to get the visa. and most of the time if people come here on stolen passports or forge identities is usually

because they are here for illegal activities or trying to seek asylum. so the information they have for this one passenger seems to fit that category. what does this tell us about the disappearance of the flight? that's not clear. authorities have widened the search as far west as the western side of peninsula, malaysia. it's not a good sign. it means the authorities still have no idea where they can locate this aircraft. >> and people are finding it very, very difficult to understand how given all the technology, the satellite equipment, the radars possible, this is a very busy area for aircraft. how days on people don't even seem to know the location, where the plane was, at the time it

disappeared. >> reporter: you're right. you're asking the same question that journalists here have been asking malaysian officials for days. but they haven't been able to give us much detail, other than the scope and how wide they are looking and how many ships and aircraft they are using. they haven't been able to give us details. you have a close-knit bunch of countries close together, which means they could be overlapping sometimes. it's impossible to imagine other countries have not been able to track down the flight or deticket or anything. that is a bigamistry. malaysian officials say this is an unprecedented situation they have never felt before. they want people to stop

spreading rumors. . jennifer pak in k can kuala lumpur. they said this week ma labor a that did not use their system. in fact, many countries are not using their system they set up to track stolen passports. we heard there are 40 million stolen passports available. they have to act on information, tip-offs before they can check everything. interpol have been critical as to the fact that their database is not being used. whether they can shed any more light on these two people who

did use a stolen passport, we will be waiting to see. we will bring you that as soon as it gets under way. now, looks move to the other top story dominating the headlines. tougher sanctions against russia over its intervention of the region of crimea. the secretary of state john kerry has turned down a meeting with vladimir putin. the ousted leader viktor yanukovych said he is still the legitimate president of ukraine. >> translator: as soon as the circumstances allow me, i'm sure it will not be long, i will be back in kiev. and i say the elections that were announced to take place on the 25th of may, by those who

take ukraine are not legitimate and they are not legal. just to let you know, sarah is in kiev. after the referendum they will ask to join russia as an inspect state. that's from newspaper agencies come canning out of the region. any surprise there? what is likely to happen this weekend? >> well, no. i think that's what everyone has been expecting from the pro-russian authorities there saying they see their future with russia and simply going through the motions for that to happen just another way of underlining how rapidly things are moving on the ground.

we have heard from the u.s. state department, secretary of state john kerry was trying to have talks with president obama. but he says that's not possible unless the u.s. sees that russia isn't supporting this referendum and it's prepared to move its military, troops from the streets then. until the u.s. sees concrete signs of that they are saying there won't be any meetings between the secretary of state and president putin in russia. so attempts really to bring all the sides to the talking tableable and trying to negotiate a way on to it at an impasse at a time when things on the ground in crimea are moving extremely quickly to what looks like the annexation by russia are there indications that once the vote happens this weekend that russia will stop fair? is that what is expected?

>> well, it's really difficult to say, of course. at the very beginning when the military buildup began, there was a lot of talk how far president putin would want to go, how far he would push this. would he start sending troops into eastern ukraine, parts of ukraine where there is a large russian speaking population. was that his end game if you would like? a lot of people here in kiev worry about that in particular. there is a passionate feeling that it would spread from crimea to the eastern parts of the country. we have seen pro-russian rallies and scuffles, fights, violence, different groups seizing administration buildings in

parts of ukraine. >> many thanks indeed. reuters reporting, they are warning it faces dissolution unless sunday's referendum is called out. dissolution by wednesday. therefore the central government trying to make the local parliament effectively redundant. but we will see how that plays out of course following all the developments for you by the hour. the new zealand prime minister wants a referendum to change the country's flag. it represents a colonial area that is lost. one popular alternative would be a silver fern against a black background. veterans associations are amongst those who are most

opposed to any change in the flag. swedish journalist has been killed in kabul. he died on his way to the hospital after being shot by a gunman by a busy roundabout. sit home to diplomats. two suspects have been arrested >> the state of colorado can has raised $2 million in taxes on cannabis in january, the first month the drug was on sale legally. colorado is first american state to allow the sale of marijuana for recreational use. the rest of america still considers the drug illegal. japan is marking three years since the northeast coast was hit but a huge earthquake and tsunami which triggered a nuclear leak. 100,000 people are still living as evacuees.

more residents have died from the disaster than those initially by the tsunami. rupert wingfield-hayes reports. >> reporter: this is the dead zone. in the little zones around the fukushima nuclear plant, time stands still. the destruction by the earthquake lies unrepaired. but what has happened to the people who once lived here? forced to flee the radiation, forced to abandon all they own. three years after the disaster, there are now very serious questions about its aftermath that need to be answered. firstly, has the threat of radiation to people's health here actually been greatly

overstated by, for example, the media and anti-nuclear campaigners. secondly, is the fear of radiation turning out to be much more lethal than the radiation itself. in a private clinic 60 kilometers from the plant, a little boy is having his thyroid gland examined. his mother is scared. since the disaster, 33 fukushima children have been found with thyroid cancer. she worries he could be next. >> translator: at chernobyl children were diagnosed many years after the disaster. children here may be fine now. but if there's any risk i want to find out as soon as possible. >> reporter: the child cancer experts say fukushima cannot be compared with chernobyl. the 33 cases discovered so far are not linked to the disaster.

>> translator: the radiation released from fukushima was much less than at cher noble, he says. children here got a much smaller dose. once you start using sensitive equipment to test for thyroid cancer, you will find more cancer. that's why we are seeing an increase, not because of the disaster. but the fukushima disaster is taking lives. she has come to pray at her father's grave. she said his health collapsed after he had to the abandon his farm and animals. two years later he is dead. >> translator: i blame the power company for his death. they took his dreams, hope, took his land and scattered his family far from home. nothing will ever bring those back. >> reporter: no one has died from radiation in fukushima.

unable to return home, a number of evacuees are dying. anxiety, from suicide and from losing the will to live. okay. just going to take you straight to lyon. the interpol news conference has started on the fate of the malaysian airplane. >> i would like to take a moment to remind ourselves why we are all here. why are interpol staff, police in malaysia and elsewhere have been working around the clock sharing information and facilitate thing information with countries, police across asia europe, and beyond. just this morning i had the honor of hosting alessandro pansa, head of the italian state police. italy has played a vital role in

making sure that when a passport is reported past or stole especially in italy, the data senior entered into interpol's database for one reason, so people can be screened before cross borders and before people enter planes. but most importantly, we need to remind ourselves for whom we are doing this and for whom we will never stop even when a spotlight will have moved from this case. we owe it to the 239 passengers of flight mh-370, to their families, to their loved ones and their friends. to toepl i say a a priority will always be to putting an ebld to the uncertain pain of uncertainty. not stoepbl passports, not conspiracy theories was our very first thought. the moment interpol learned of

the disappearance of the flight mh-370, we immediately offered our assistance to the countries involved. we are ready to commit that as soon as the fate of flight mh-370 is ascertained. we work to examine all options, including terrorism, organized crime, illegal movement of people. whether in the form of human trafficking or smuggling. we have information to is share with you that hasn't been publicly made available until now. do we have the slide? there have been images on the media about the two individuals believed to be the two individuals who were in possession of the stoepbl italian passport and the stolen

austrian passport to board flight 370. we have this photograph showing two individuals who traveled using passports not that were stolen, not that were italian and not that were austrian. this image is showing them using a passport of iranian nationality. the names are pouri, first name, pouri. last name on the is nourmohammadi. date of birth, 30, april, 1995. in the media there's been reports of a 19-year-old. again, what we know is the iranian passport information.

his identity is something we're going to ask the media and viewers around the world to help us confirm. the second individual, who i have not read his name in the media, is named delavar and the last name is eyedmohammadreza. sey edmohammadreza. again, iranian passport. 21, september, 1984, date of birth on passport. neither of these iranian passports were reported stolen or were listed in interpol's

databases. therefore any airline, any border control agency comparing these passport names and numbers would not have had a hit. we know that. once these two individuals arrived in k can uala lumpur in february, they boarded flight 370 using different identities. a stolen austrian passport. we are asking countries around the world to provide us any information concerning the images, the names on the passports and the passport numbers. we are cooperating with interpol malaysia, interpol malaysia, interpol iran and all the other countries involved in this investigation. there has been great, great speculation ever since was

revealed that the two passport holders were carrying passports reported lost or stolen. great speculation to whether it was or was not a terrorist attack. suddenly people seem to be concerned for the first time, whether it's good or bad, to allow people to travel the world using stolen passports. people begin to understand how dangerous it is to have people traveling the world using stolen passports. already in the last 24 hours you say the story changing as the belief becomes more certain that these two individuals were probably not terrorists. the interest seems to be dying down because they might just be people who are being smuggled or trafficked. the fear and concern we should all have is more than a billion times each year people across

borders against the database, from experience from february 26th, 1993 when the first world trade center bombing occurred, we know the terrorist and mastermind bombing was carrying a stolen iraqi passport across borders. in europe, we had an assassination of a prime minister committed by umak, who had his passport stamped 27 times without having it compared to interpol's data bases. and we know that the so-called white widow was in possession of a stolen passport. i close by saying the focus of the world right now and of law enforcement, interpol should be on trying to find the plane and hopefully find survivors, as

difficult as that might be to believe might occur and helping support the investigations on the ground ward to that. but also thinking about the next case or cases where dangerous people, not innocent people, danger theous people could be crossing borders with evil on their hearts and minds to harm us all. thank you very much. take any questions you might have. >> we'll take questions. please state your name, where you're from, and please use the microphone next to you. do we have any questions? >> hello. jamie keaton from associated press. i just want -- if we could just make sure i'm understanding what's particularly new with your announce. if you could recap that briefly and also about the sltp

database. first, i would like to know, since this incident have you noticed an increase in the number of references to the database from national authorities? and could you also explain the cost of it as specifically as possible. >> right p. so since the first media reports that two individuals possessing stolen passports were aboard mh-370, are border being controlled the way they should be, and passengers being skraoepd the way they should be has been front and center in the media. remember where countries weren't participating as actively as they were before, were committing themselves to become more actively engaged. there's also been attention drawn to an initiative interpol has launched called i check it. our goal was to reinforce the

work police were doing at borders to allow the airports to check the passports. and i can announce today that qatar airways and air arabia are two airlines making sure that all passengers boarding their planes will have their passports screened against interpol's. in terms of what's new in the image that i was showing you is we, for the first time as a law enforcement community, given names of two individuals flying with iranian passports that were not in interpol's database, flying from doha to kuala lumpur, undetected. because there was no reason to detect them. and to make the point that i was

in kuala lumpur. they are believed to have used a stole austria and stolen italian passport to board mh-370. >> the cost. >> could i just explain? i'll give you an example. for switzerland to connect, all law enforcement in the country to i-247 cost $60,000. so the cost could go let's say from 30,000 to maybe 250,000. that's just to set it up. once it is set up, whatever services you have from providers you have will allow you to exchange information with interpol and get a response within two seconds. it's the post cost-effective there i what to screen passports that we know of.

>> translator: have you got any proposals and cooperation between china and interpol? >> generally, when there's an investigation that involves terrorism, generally the country is conducting the investigation don't share information of what they are finding when they find it. because terrorist investigations are so sensitive. but actually china and interpol china has been sharing information with us in terms of the identities of people they've come across, whom they are interested in and also in terms of the identities of individual who boarded flight 370 in kuala

lumpur. i would say it is generally good. but in this investigation it's exceptional good. >> the secretary general of interpol. there's a reuters report that the malaysian military believe it has tracked the missing plane on radar in the straits. i cannot confirm that. two unnamed passengers have been named by interpol too. this is "bbc world news". i'm geeta guru-murthy. do stay with us for more coverage. low pressure looks like it will start to shape up here and really intensify some of the thunderstorm activity. for the south, a very different story. largely clear skies across northern argentina and a day too. you can see during the course of tuesday, looks like some of the showers will thrust their way farther north.

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members of parliament on the influential treasury select committee are expect to go ask exactly what bank officials knew about the allegations that key prices on the london foreign exchange markets were being manipulated as long as eight years ago. the bank of england has suspended one employee and more than 20 traders looking deutsche, city have been

suspended or asked to leave. we ask what led to this inquiry. >> this is the second rigging scandal to take not only a household name in the city of london but potentially the central bank that's in charge of them. governor mark carney faces tough questions. dealers may have agreed to place large trades close to the price setting deadline, edging the price up and allowing others in the know to sell later at a profit at the expense of investors everywhere. what is clear is beyond today's testimony, the forensic examination of what officials said and did and to who is still at an early stage. >> millions of meetings here show that it was aware of allegations of possible price fixing on the foreign changes as

early as july 2006. indeed, officials held meetings with traders. but a later investigation, an examination of thousands of documents show there had been no collusion. the governor is under extreme pressure to say why after eight years there's been no discerning inquiry. as the city goes to work as usual, what could come out of all of this? >> i think it will at least embarrass the bank into thinking about was there a culture of condoning or turning a blind eye to the major benchmark exchange rates. it may be that traders believe it was an eecdotal evidence. but it wasn't serious enough to warrant any investigation. >> with 40% of the world's $5

trillion daily currency trades going through the city london's reputation is everything. the bank of england governor is said to pull out all the stops about his bank's actions or inaction. nigel cast by, "bbc world news". let's move on. bangladesh is the world's second biggest garment exporter. but the factories and the customers in the west have been under intense pressure to improve safety since the 2013 collapse of the plaza which killed 1,1 workers. it has had a slow start with 10 factories out of the more than 5,000 expected at date. higher wages for bangladeshi

bosses. they will be speaking to lawmakers about their efforts. you and i spoke about it. it has been a slow start with all of this. what are we expecting to hear from the big bosses of the retailers? they haven't been making enough of an effort. >> these companies invested amount to improve the knowledge. >> in recent years or since the run-up? >> in recent years. it's a long-standing effort. they invested a lot of money and resources to work closer with factories. it's not too little.

the supply chains are complicated. most retailers don't own the factories. in a way they contribute to their knowledge. >> are those numbers right? only 10 factories inspected out of the 5,000 that are there? >> in an organization that was set up a few months ago and therefore they are picking up and doing their work. in the past 15 years, hundreds of thousands of factories have been inspected by the many retailers and brands that source from them not to taken establish the risks from them. >> it may have been expected. but we had a fire. >> yeah. >> we had the collapse. were those factories inspected? >> well, we were but not degree that they are inspected now. some have been vetted for supplies. some of them have not.

some of the factories are illegal. because the way it is now being produced, some factories subcontract to illegal entities in order to making the demand. now, it is clear that the retailers that are making much more of an effort. and the government is updating the sector in bangladesh. they are ruling out programs, including my company, to improve the situation there. >> what are the improvements? what are we seeing? >> we are seeing awareness among factory workers is much better. >> most of them are on board. they understand they need to invest in areas which are not giving them revenues like training and compliance. but at the same time there is

more responsibility among the retailers, a shared conviction they must work together to bring that change about. >> we'll speak to you as always. joining us from green gate. let's touch on some of the or business stories around the world. the company said while john and donna had performed well, the financial performance had not fully met expectations. not bad if you can get it, right? the big coin exchanged that will collapse last month after a collapse of 46,000 coins has filed for bankruptcy in the united states. it is expected to rule whether a u.s. class action can go ahead against the company.

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hello there. this is "sport today" on the bbc. a player collapses and the game is called off. a football match is abandoned as well. it's fan violence that ruins a league match in turkey. and eight paralympic gold medals. pell low there. thanks for joining us. the national hockey league dallas stars stated rich peverley is in stable condition. when he dropped in the game against the columbus bluejackets it was red alert. the team is in panic as he falls to the ground. it caused the officials to call off the match six minutes in. he was conscious when he was e taken to hospital. he missed the start of the

season due to a procedure to correct an irregular heartbeat. >> a lot of people are very shaken over what happened with rich peverl he y at the bench. they did a wonderful job. they just jumped in and did the job. >> we need somebody real quick. when he dropped it was red alert. don't worry about the game, anything else. turn around and scream for a doctor. >> heavy fog in sochi delayed the start of several events. the super combined skiing has been postponed. so only the slalom will take place. and the women's biathlon was one by wicker. and the men's 12.5 kilometers

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france won the race and added another gold medal to her women's downhill at sochi 2014. bow shea finished two seconds ahead of her close friend and teammate. and anna schaffelhuber wins gold in the downhill competition. a turkish league match between fenerbahce had to be abandoned as fans threw things on the bench. fenerbahce was leading 1-0. fa

arsene wenger warned the referee to be aware of dirty tricks. arsenal need to overturn the german giants 2-0 advantage in munich. he's confident they can do that. also on tuesday the fans will be raucous as madrid go into their second leg against milan 1-0 up. >> reporter: the quarterfinals of the champions league await eight european football teams as the second leg ties commence this week. madrid prepare to protect their slender lead over ac milan on tuesday to secure a place in the last eight for the last time since 1997. >> translator: the players have loud them to play offensively. they can change the system if

their attack does not work. we have to be aware because we do have fast players. if we manage to control the sensor of the pitch who will find space. if we don't find a good team, argue. >> bayern munich overturning a 2-0 deficit. they narrowly went out to bayern. arsene wenger is confident that the task at hand is not possible. >> it is a possible task. that's the most important for us. i believe this team is -- my team is quality ambition. overall i believe that do we produce a top level performance we can do it. >> we have to denied for the time. it is not a dream for me right

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hello. i'm geeta guru-murthy with "bbc world news". our top stories. interpol named two passengers who boarded a missing malaysian airliner using stolen passports. both iranian nationals. >> neither were reported stolen or were listed in interpol's data bases. >> they are voted to declare independence. they will ask to join russia if it is approved at the