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David Cameron has condemned the murder of the British aid

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worker David Haines, describing it as an act of pure evil.

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An edited video posted online, by the militant group Islamic State,

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shows that Mr Haines was beheaded, apparently by a masked man.

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The 44 year-old was kidnapped in Syria 18 months ago.

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This report from our world affairs correspondent

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Caroline Hawley does not show any moving pictures from the video -

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but it does contain a still image, which you may find distressing.

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His family had only just appealed to his kidnappers to make contact.

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Hours later came the chilling response. The video is similar to

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those posted after the murders of two American journalists but

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addressed this time to America's allies and includes a threat to kill

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another British hostage. The capture appears to be the same man with a

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British accident scene in the previous videos. He blames

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Britain's decision to help armed Kurdish fighters. This British man

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has to pay the price for your promise, Cameron, to arm the

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Peshmerga against the Islamic state. David Cameron emerged after a

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meeting of the government's emergency committee, his resolve

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apparently only strengthened by what he called an unspeakable act. A bit

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Haines was a British hero. The fact that an aid worker was killed, held

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and brutally murdered at the hands of ISIL sums up what this

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organisation stands for. They are killing of slaughtering thousands of

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people, Muslims, Christians, minorities across Syria. They boast

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brutality and they claim to do this in the name of Islam. That is

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nonsense. Islam is a religion of peace. They are not Muslims, they

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are monsters. This was David Haines in Croatia, filmed in 2003, he spoke

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of helping people to return to homes they had abandoned during of the

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1990s. There are many people that want to return but they don't know

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how or who to who to turn to. In doing this are office normally goes

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across to Belgrade and actually meet the people so they can gain trust

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from us. Colleagues of David Haines say he was passionate about what he

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was doing, work that was to take him to some of the most dangerous places

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in the world, from here in the Balkans to Africa and the Middle

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East. When he was captured in March last year he was helping supply

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tents, food and water for refugees in northern Syria. Paying tribute to

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him his brother Mike After James Foley Steven Sotloff,

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David Haines is the third Western hostage to be killed since American

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air strikes against the so-called Islamic State began last month. As

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the government and its allies prepare their response David

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Haines's family said he would be missed a terribly. Caroline Hawley,

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BBC News. The meeting of

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the government's emergency committee - COBRA - was chaired by the Prime

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Minister and attended by key cabinet Our political correspondent Chris

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Mason is at Downing Street. The Prime Minister was using very

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strong language, Chris. Yes, the language could not have

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been stronger from David Cameron in his statement within Downing Street

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within the last hour. That talk of a British hero, monsters not Muslims.

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The political challenge, though, now is working out what to do next.

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Don't expect a knee jerk response. Government officials have pointed

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out they have known about hostage takings for many months, much

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earlier than news of the hostage takings became public, and they

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wouldn't want to respond in a knee jerk way for fear that would play

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into the hands of the militants. Instead the focus is on building a

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methodical approach, as one official described it to me, an intelligent

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approach trying to assemble a coalition both in the region,

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speaking constantly to the Iraqi government and to the Kurds, but

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crucially at home domestically assembling a political coalition as

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well. A year ago a defeat for the government over a strikes in Syria,

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the government does not want to repeat that if it goes down the road

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of potential air strikes in the future. Lots of conversations

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between MPs on the government side and the Labour side trying to

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establish a coalition here so that the government can act as one if

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there is military involvement via air strikes. The persist at the

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moment is they would not be boots on the ground, but the conversation is

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slowly heading closer and closer towards military action from the

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RAF. At this stage so far the focus is primarily has been humanitarian.

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Plenty of discussions ongoing. Thanks very much for that Chris.

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Let's take a closer look at this. The murder

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of David Haines will bring renewed focus on British and Western efforts

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to combat the threat of Islamic In his statement David Cameron

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said he would take whatever Our security correspondent Frank

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Gardner joins me. This is obviously very difficult.

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Ideally they would have done a hostage rescue which would have got

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them out before they faced the situation. The Americans tried it in

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July and it didn't work, they got the right place but the wrong time

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as the hostages had been moved. David Cameron has three choices.

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One: Do as so-called Islamic State have asked which is backed away from

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the whole thing. That's not really an option and he's ruled it out.

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Two: Carry on supplying arms and training to the Peshmerga, the

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Kurdish militia, to fight ISIS. And three: To step it up, incrementally

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in consultation with our other allies like the Australians and the

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Arab states in the region. I think that's probably what they will go

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for. In the end that could include air strikes by the RAF but we don't

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know yet. He also mentions we will hunt down the killers and get them

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eventually. Every Prime Minister says this every time, it very rarely

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happens in practice, because it's very difficult to do. The job was

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given to the Metropolitan Police and betrayal invariably goes cold. David

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Cameron said it last year after the gas siege in Algeria and before that

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Gordon Brown said it when a Briton was beheaded in the Sahara, and

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before that Tony Blair said it when Britons were beheaded in Iraq. I've

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never heard of any of these people being brought to justice. It's

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something that they say. Finally, in this video I would describe this as

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a form of asymmetric warfare. The jihadists count so far shoot down

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the American air strikes, they are hurting from those air strikes so

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they are getting back at the West through the medium of public

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information. Thank you very much, Frank.

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Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond has described Thursday's

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independence referendum as "a once in a generation opportunity".

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But the Better Together leader Alistair

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Darling has insisted there would be "no way back" from independence.

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The referendum result is too close to goal, but unlike the question of

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who would face the BBC cameras first it will not be settled on the toss

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of a coin. Alex Salmond will be hoping for a better result at the

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end of this week. He wins, you can go second. He was asked if there was

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a close vote could he envisage another referendum but he wants to

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win this one and not wait for the next so his message to supporters

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was, it's now or never. In my view this is a once in a generation,

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perhaps even a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Scotland. The

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generation of older people are most likely to vote, and also most likely

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to vote no. So the Yes campaign are writing to more than a million

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pensioners this weekend urging them to talk to younger family members to

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persuade them of the case for independence. And the Yes campaign

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know there are not enough committed nationalists to get them over the

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finish line, so they are writing an open letter to Labour supporters

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today too to convince them that an independent Scottish government

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would never be under Conservative control. This weakens the No

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campaign has been bringing out its big beasts, targeting around 500,000

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undecided voters. But they also have that as of shoring up support among

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those who usually vote Labour. One poll suggests four in ten voters in

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Scotland who backed Gordon Brown at the last general election are voting

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for independence now. Other polls put the figure at around one in

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four. His friends say he was initially sidelined in the campaign

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but is now seen as a vital weapon in convincing Labour voters to say no.

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And his successor as Chancellor Alistair Darling, leader of the

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Better Together campaign, stressed that this isn't a general election.

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The result is rather more permanent. It's not like an election where you

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can change mind if things don't work out. If things go wrong, you have

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already voted you are leaving and there is no going back. These two

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didn't look Better Together this morning, although they praised each

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other's abilities, you could see in their faces how much is at stake.

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Iain Watson, BBC News, Glasgow. A court in North Korea has sentenced

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the American, Matthew Miller to six years hard labour for trying to

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commit an act of espionage. The 24 year-old

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from California is alleged to have torn up his visa when he entered

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the country as a tourist in April. You can see more on all of today's

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stories on the BBC News Channel. Including David Cameron's. It on

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David Haines's murder in a moment. The next news on BBC One is

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at 6:35pm Good afternoon. If you are after a

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little bit of rain to perk up the garden at the moment, compared with

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the week gone you have a better chance this week that some areas

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favoured over others and overall still very little rain in the

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forecast. Most will stay dry

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