captain le joon-seok and three crew members are accused of homicide. 11 others are charged on lesser charges of criminal negligence and violations of maritime law. harry fawcett is there for us. what has been happening so far? >> well, as you say, the case is now underway. it's a procedural day, the court outlining the processes that the trial will go through. the prosecution will give a list of the evidence that it intends to bring to court. the defense lawyers will be given a chance to respond to some of the accusations in a fairly short and brief way. the actual meat and the real evidence that will be coming out of the trial is not going to happen today. what we do have is is a large number of family members, relatives killed in the accident, hearing, listening and seeing the men close up, the men accused of abandoning their relatives. some of those families they want to see a change in the south korean law to allow lesser crimes to be punishable by higher sentences. four of the people on trial - the captain and three senior crew members face murder charges. it's a maximum penalty