maugher from the us coast guard. also with me in the studio is our science correspondentjonathon amos. thanks for giving your time when it is so valuable on a day like today. in the first instance, what is your latest assessment? in the first instance, what is your latest assessment? thank you for the o- ortuni latest assessment? thank you for the opportunity to latest assessment? thank you for the opportunity to come latest assessment? thank you for the opportunity to come onto latest assessment? thank you for the opportunity to come onto the - latest assessment? thank you for the opportunity to come onto the show. l opportunity to come onto the show. this has been a very complex and difficult case for everyone. as we continue to actively search for this submersible and the people on board, our thoughts are with the crew members and their families who i our thoughts are with the crew members and theirfamilies who i can imagine are having a very difficult time. we are
of a rice. why is the uk economy not snowing like other economies? hello, i m matthew amroliwala, welcome to verified live, 3 hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. we ll go to paris with the explosion and fire that we heard about earlier, it s a gas explosion but more details coming on all the time. initially city officials were talking about the fires, and we were seeing the pictures and apologies that the pictures are just flying around but these are life pictures coming from central pollys and that whole area is cordoned off. i am watching these pictures and they are still dealing with buildings that are on fire right there in the centre of the city. and let me tell you the latest that we are hearing from the mayor of that fifth district in central paris because he adjustments she has just been speaking and said that for people are in critical condition after this explosion occurred in their fifth district here in paris and you can see from the
the building on the side of it. you can see the whole part of that building is missing, so this explosion, and very quickly authorities saying it s was a gas explosion and so there is no talk of any terror motive or anything like that. very quickly, the authorities confirm and it was the result of a gas explosion but it is clearly a major explosion and incident with the number of casualties rising all the number of casualties rising all the time. so, we ll come away from those pictures and though some of the latest life pictures and life details but if there are updates we would obviously return straight a week to paris. earlier i spoke to out science correspondentjonathon amos and rear admiraljohn maugher from the us coast guard, we started by getting an updates
at this point, we have to continue to search for the submersible and we had a chance to talk to the families last night about the work that we have been doing and we understand how difficult this is. we understand from the emergency life support system that there is the possibility and so we are prosecuting this to the fullness of our ability, bringing as many assets as we can to bear on this, and different assets we have been able to collect different information and be prepared for different contingencies as well. that was rear admiraljohn maugher talking to us early on the programme. we have a live news conference from the us coast guard coming up in about 30 minutes time and we will carry that live on the programme on bbc news. this is bbc news, the headlines. underwater noises become a focus in the search a submersible missing
we turn to the race against time to find the submersible with five people onboard including a teenager that went missing on a mission to explore the wreck of the titanic. the us coast guard admiral has told the bbc that the sub may run out of emergency oxygen 20 hours from now. earlier us coastguards confirmed that underwater noises have been detected the sounds were picked up by a canadian aircraft according to one report, there was a banging noise at 30 minute intervals but searches so far, have produced no results. let s hear that interview with rear admiraljohn maugher from the us coast guard he was speaking to me and our science correspondentjon amos. we are looking at a period of time about 20 hours from now into tomorrow morning that we may be at the end of that 96 hour window. that