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Ambassador: Sanctions must be "painful to Russians"
As the fallout from Crimea's Sunday referendum continues, Becky spoke to Volodymyr Khandogiy, the Ukrainian ambassador to the United Kingdom. She asked him whether the sanctions imposed by the U.S. and the European Union go far enough.
Khandogiy said a lot more can be done. According to him, two things are key to any actions that will make Russia take notice: "First of all they have to be effective and second of all they have to be painful to Russians."
He went on to say that there is more that can be done to help Ukraine. "Of course we will be happy to receive military technical assistance from our partners." Khandogiy says that kind of help was the subject of recent talks between the Foreign Minister of Ukraine and the Secretary General of NATO.
Though Khandogiy says he doesn’t know Russian President Vladimir Putin’s motivations for certain, he says that one possible motive resonates the most with him – Putin's "perception that Ukraine does not deserve to be an independent state."
Could a plane hide from radar detection?
As the mystery of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 continues, Becky made a visit to City University in London, to learn more about the technical mechanisms behind an aircraft.
Inside an Airbus A320 flight simulator, she spoke to David Stupples, electrical engineer and specialist in radar systems.
Stupples explained the concept of a "satellite handshake", and why the arch that it creates is so huge. He then demonstrated how to turn off the communication inside the cockpit.
In answer to the biggest question on a lot of people’s minds – how the flight could have continued flying undetected – Stupples answered: "If the pilot or the person flying the airplane at that time knew roughly where all the ranges of the radar were he could probably steer a way around the radar coverage. Certainly if he was low enough. What he then would do is to hide himself inside one of the commercial flight corridors because if you come out of those then people will immediately say 'hey, you're an unidentified aircraft'."
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