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BBC News with Sue Montgomery
It's been almost 24 hours since a Malaysian Airlines flight fromKuala Lumpur to Beijing was reported missing. But there's still no indication of what happeneddespite an air and sea search. Earlier reports of two apparent oil slicks sighted off the Vietnamesecoast have not been confirmed. Most of the 239 people aboard the plane were Chinese.Discrepancies on the passenger manifest have let some analysts to speculate about a possibleterrorist attack. Here's John Sandwort with more from Beijing.
With more than 150 Chinese nationals on board, The Foreign Minister Wang Yi told reporters thatit was being treated as a national emergency. Two men named as being on the passenger list arein fact reported to be safe and well. One Australian and one Italian and both are said to have hadtheir passports stolen while traveling in Thailand in recent years. If it is confirmed that thosepassports were used to board the plane, then it would of course be a potentially significant lead.
The United States has warned Russia that any moves to annex Crimea would close the door todiplomacy. In a telephone conversation, the American Secretary of State John Kerry has told hisRussian counterpart Sergei Lavrov that Crimea is part of Ukraine and the Moscow should avoidmilitary escalation. President Obama has been discussing the deepening crisis with world leaders.More than 50 international observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation inEurope have been turned back as they tried to enter Crimea, as in previous occasions, they werestopped by pro-Russia paramilitaries. Ben Brown is in Sevastopol.
This was the third day running the team of international observers had tried to cross the borderinto Crimea and the third day running, they've been turned back. This time though, there weresome additional menace in the air. The armed men who stopped them fired warning bursts ofautomatic gunfire. The fact of shots were fired or be as a warning is likely to be seen as anothershow of Russian defiance in Crimea and another slap in the face for the international community.
The United States says it's deeply concerned about what is described as the recent escalation ofviolence in the Sudanese region of Darfur. There's been no word so far from Khartoum. Here's ourAfrica editor Mary Harper.
In a statement, the US State Department said government-allied militias had recently burnedhomes and attacked civilians near the town of Nyala, causing thousands of people to flee. The USsaid the Sudanese air force had been involved, and urged Khatoum to stop its campaign of aerialbombardments in Darfur. The US said the people of Darfur have suffered insecurity, violence andatrocities for far too long and that now was the time for peaceful resolution to the violence.
World News from the BBC
The Syrian government says it's seized a town from rebels near the Lebanese border as part of itsefforts to block their supply lines. Sebastian Usher reports.
Battles continue to rage across Syria's some more significant than others. That's certainly how theSyrian government is talking up its recapture of the town of Zara. It's important to thegovernment because it's near the border with Lebanon, from where rebel fighters run vital supplylines for weapons and reinforcements. President Assad's forces are trying to block these, and maynow be closed to doing so. Since last month, they've been bombarding Yabroud, some 40kilometers south along the border. The storming of Zara may be a foretaste of what's in store forthat town's remaining residents. Opposition activists say some of those left in Zara were killed intheir homes.
Several thousand people have marched through the Lebanese capital Beirut to demand thepassage of law, protecting women against domestic violence. The rally coincides with InternationalWomen's Day. Lebanon is one of the most liberal countries in the Arab World, but there's no lawprotecting women from violence by their fathers, husbands or brothers.
