Browse content similar to 14/09/2014. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!
Line | From | To | |
---|---|---|---|
David Cameron has condemned the murder of the British aid | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
worker David Haines, describing it as an act of pure evil. | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
An edited video posted online, by the militant group Islamic State, | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
shows that Mr Haines was beheaded, apparently by a masked man. | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
The 44 year-old was kidnapped in Syria 18 months ago. | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
This report from our world affairs correspondent | :00:25. | :00:25. | |
Caroline Hawley does not show any moving pictures from the video - | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
but it does contain a still image, which you may find distressing. | :00:29. | :00:38. | |
His family had only just appealed to his kidnappers to make contact. | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
Hours later came the chilling response. The video is similar to | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
those posted after the murders of two American journalists but | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
addressed this time to America's allies and includes a threat to kill | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
another British hostage. The capture appears to be the same man with a | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
British accident scene in the previous videos. He blames | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
Britain's decision to help armed Kurdish fighters. This British man | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
has to pay the price for your promise, Cameron, to arm the | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
Peshmerga against the Islamic state. David Cameron emerged after a | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
meeting of the government's emergency committee, his resolve | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
apparently only strengthened by what he called an unspeakable act. A bit | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
Haines was a British hero. The fact that an aid worker was killed, held | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
and brutally murdered at the hands of ISIL sums up what this | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
organisation stands for. They are killing of slaughtering thousands of | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
people, Muslims, Christians, minorities across Syria. They boast | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
brutality and they claim to do this in the name of Islam. That is | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
nonsense. Islam is a religion of peace. They are not Muslims, they | :01:54. | :02:01. | |
are monsters. This was David Haines in Croatia, filmed in 2003, he spoke | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
of helping people to return to homes they had abandoned during of the | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
1990s. There are many people that want to return but they don't know | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
how or who to who to turn to. In doing this are office normally goes | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
across to Belgrade and actually meet the people so they can gain trust | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
from us. Colleagues of David Haines say he was passionate about what he | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
was doing, work that was to take him to some of the most dangerous places | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
in the world, from here in the Balkans to Africa and the Middle | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
East. When he was captured in March last year he was helping supply | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
tents, food and water for refugees in northern Syria. Paying tribute to | :02:41. | :02:41. | |
him his brother Mike After James Foley Steven Sotloff, | :02:42. | :02:55. | |
David Haines is the third Western hostage to be killed since American | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
air strikes against the so-called Islamic State began last month. As | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
the government and its allies prepare their response David | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
Haines's family said he would be missed a terribly. Caroline Hawley, | :03:09. | :03:09. | |
BBC News. The meeting of | :03:10. | :03:11. | |
the government's emergency committee - COBRA - was chaired by the Prime | :03:12. | :03:12. | |
Minister and attended by key cabinet Our political correspondent Chris | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
Mason is at Downing Street. The Prime Minister was using very | :03:17. | :03:27. | |
strong language, Chris. Yes, the language could not have | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
been stronger from David Cameron in his statement within Downing Street | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
within the last hour. That talk of a British hero, monsters not Muslims. | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
The political challenge, though, now is working out what to do next. | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
Don't expect a knee jerk response. Government officials have pointed | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
out they have known about hostage takings for many months, much | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
earlier than news of the hostage takings became public, and they | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
wouldn't want to respond in a knee jerk way for fear that would play | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
into the hands of the militants. Instead the focus is on building a | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
methodical approach, as one official described it to me, an intelligent | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
approach trying to assemble a coalition both in the region, | :04:06. | :04:22. | |
speaking constantly to the Iraqi government and to the Kurds, but | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
crucially at home domestically assembling a political coalition as | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
well. A year ago a defeat for the government over a strikes in Syria, | :04:28. | :04:29. | |
the government does not want to repeat that if it goes down the road | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
of potential air strikes in the future. Lots of conversations | :04:33. | :04:34. | |
between MPs on the government side and the Labour side trying to | :04:35. | :04:36. | |
establish a coalition here so that the government can act as one if | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
there is military involvement via air strikes. The persist at the | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
moment is they would not be boots on the ground, but the conversation is | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
slowly heading closer and closer towards military action from the | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
RAF. At this stage so far the focus is primarily has been humanitarian. | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
Plenty of discussions ongoing. Thanks very much for that Chris. | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
Let's take a closer look at this. The murder | :04:58. | :04:59. | |
of David Haines will bring renewed focus on British and Western efforts | :05:00. | :05:00. | |
to combat the threat of Islamic In his statement David Cameron | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
said he would take whatever Our security correspondent Frank | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
Gardner joins me. This is obviously very difficult. | :05:08. | :05:19. | |
Ideally they would have done a hostage rescue which would have got | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
them out before they faced the situation. The Americans tried it in | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
July and it didn't work, they got the right place but the wrong time | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
as the hostages had been moved. David Cameron has three choices. | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
One: Do as so-called Islamic State have asked which is backed away from | :05:35. | :05:36. | |
the whole thing. That's not really an option and he's ruled it out. | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
Two: Carry on supplying arms and training to the Peshmerga, the | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
Kurdish militia, to fight ISIS. And three: To step it up, incrementally | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
in consultation with our other allies like the Australians and the | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
Arab states in the region. I think that's probably what they will go | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
for. In the end that could include air strikes by the RAF but we don't | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
know yet. He also mentions we will hunt down the killers and get them | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
eventually. Every Prime Minister says this every time, it very rarely | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
happens in practice, because it's very difficult to do. The job was | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
given to the Metropolitan Police and betrayal invariably goes cold. David | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
Cameron said it last year after the gas siege in Algeria and before that | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
Gordon Brown said it when a Briton was beheaded in the Sahara, and | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
before that Tony Blair said it when Britons were beheaded in Iraq. I've | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
never heard of any of these people being brought to justice. It's | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
something that they say. Finally, in this video I would describe this as | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
a form of asymmetric warfare. The jihadists count so far shoot down | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
the American air strikes, they are hurting from those air strikes so | :06:46. | :06:47. | |
they are getting back at the West through the medium of public | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
information. Thank you very much, Frank. | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond has described Thursday's | :06:56. | :06:57. | |
independence referendum as "a once in a generation opportunity". | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
But the Better Together leader Alistair | :07:01. | :07:01. | |
Darling has insisted there would be "no way back" from independence. | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
The referendum result is too close to goal, but unlike the question of | :07:06. | :07:17. | |
who would face the BBC cameras first it will not be settled on the toss | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
of a coin. Alex Salmond will be hoping for a better result at the | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
end of this week. He wins, you can go second. He was asked if there was | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
a close vote could he envisage another referendum but he wants to | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
win this one and not wait for the next so his message to supporters | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
was, it's now or never. In my view this is a once in a generation, | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
perhaps even a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Scotland. The | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
generation of older people are most likely to vote, and also most likely | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
to vote no. So the Yes campaign are writing to more than a million | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
pensioners this weekend urging them to talk to younger family members to | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
persuade them of the case for independence. And the Yes campaign | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
know there are not enough committed nationalists to get them over the | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
finish line, so they are writing an open letter to Labour supporters | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
today too to convince them that an independent Scottish government | :08:14. | :08:15. | |
would never be under Conservative control. This weakens the No | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
campaign has been bringing out its big beasts, targeting around 500,000 | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
undecided voters. But they also have that as of shoring up support among | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
those who usually vote Labour. One poll suggests four in ten voters in | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
Scotland who backed Gordon Brown at the last general election are voting | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
for independence now. Other polls put the figure at around one in | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
four. His friends say he was initially sidelined in the campaign | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
but is now seen as a vital weapon in convincing Labour voters to say no. | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
And his successor as Chancellor Alistair Darling, leader of the | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
Better Together campaign, stressed that this isn't a general election. | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
The result is rather more permanent. It's not like an election where you | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
can change mind if things don't work out. If things go wrong, you have | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
already voted you are leaving and there is no going back. These two | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
didn't look Better Together this morning, although they praised each | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
other's abilities, you could see in their faces how much is at stake. | :09:15. | :09:16. | |
Iain Watson, BBC News, Glasgow. A court in North Korea has sentenced | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
the American, Matthew Miller to six years hard labour for trying to | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
commit an act of espionage. The 24 year-old | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
from California is alleged to have torn up his visa when he entered | :09:27. | :09:28. | |
the country as a tourist in April. You can see more on all of today's | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
stories on the BBC News Channel. Including David Cameron's. It on | :09:33. | :09:40. | |
David Haines's murder in a moment. The next news on BBC One is | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
at 6:35pm Good afternoon. If you are after a | :09:45. | :10:00. | |
little bit of rain to perk up the garden at the moment, compared with | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
the week gone you have a better chance this week that some areas | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
favoured over others and overall still very little rain in the | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
forecast. Most will stay dry | :10:11. | :10:11. |