18/06/2014 BBC News at One

Fierce fighting around one of Iraq's vital oil refineries - government

With more reports of ISIS advances - neighbouring Iran warns that it

will not hesitate to protect Shia shrines in Iraq.

Fighting is forcing thousands more to flee their homes -

we have a special report from inside a refugee camp.

We here at the same story again and again. Attacks and then the flight

of civilians. We'll get the latest

from our correspondents in Iraq - Financially not so healthy -

the NHS in England faces a funding The poorer white working-class

children whose exam results are much worse than disadvantaged

black or Asian pupils. The Duchess of Cambridge meets

the World War Two code-breakers who And high speed delivery - the baby

girl born in a car stopped by police Later on BBC London:

Police seek these men in connection with an illegal rave where a

15-year-old died. And the High Court petition seeking

to overturn the election of the Good afternoon

and welcome to the BBC News at One. The prime minister

of Iraq has condemned the Sunni Muslim extremists advancing

towards Baghdad and appealed to Nouri al-Maliki said they were

trying to destroy Iraq, This morning it appeared

the extremists had seized much of Iraq's biggest oil refinery to

the north of the capital, but the Meanwhile, neighbouring Iran has

promised to defend the holy shrines of Shia Islam in Iraq from those it

calls "killers and terrorists." We'll be reporting live this

lunchtime from Irbil in the north But first let's cross to Baghdad

and our correspondent there, I was out on the streets of Baghdad

today with Iraqi special forces. A choreographed opportunity by the

Iraqi government to show they are in charge. But just odometers north of

year there has been fierce fighting. The largest oil refinery in the

country is there and we have reports that 75 cent of that refinery is in

the control of Isis and Shia militants. Emily Buchanan has the

latest details. Long live Isis, they cry. This

footage shows triumphant militants driving Iraqi army vehicles. The

facility is still under siege. In an address to the nation the Iraqi

Prime Minister pointed a finger at disaffected Sunni Muslims, leading

to them to distance themselves from the extremist. Not every setback is

a defeat. This has allowed Iraq to recover national unity. Only the

terrorists will benefit and those who trade in arms. Those who start

the Fire are burnt by fire. Day after day excited she volunteers in

bag dad are flocking to boost the Army 's manpower -- Baghdad. They

want to protect the capital from the threat from Isis. This officer said

their training course was finished and they would soon be on the front

line the new recruits are responding to calls from around. Their

president Rouhani told a packed stadium his nation would spare no

effort to help detect holy sites inside Iraq. These terrorist groups

and those who support them are nothing in the face of the great

Iraqi nations's willpower. And God willing they will be defeated. So as

the country braces itself for more ferocious battles, bomb attacks

inside Baghdad continue. This blast within the market in the Shia

district. For all the appeal for unity, many feared the looming

spectre of sectarian civil war. Well the violence is having a huge

impact on families in Iraq. Many are fleeing their homes for safety. Our

correspondent has been to one refugee camp in the Kurdish region.

As the fighting spreads, people have arrived from further away and we

here the same story over and over again. The militant takeover of

their areas followed by air strikes and the flight of civilians.

This woman is saying she has been here for three days and has not

received any aid. She wants to go home. She says she fears nothing

from the militants. Muscle is in much better shape after the

militants took over, she says. Prices of petrol and tomatoes,

everything has become cheaper after the militants came. Their only

afraid of shelling and air strikes by the Iraqi army. -- they are.

We fled the bombing. They showed a hospital and houses, people

scattered all over. They went everywhere, not just here. No one

stayed. Well we should be able to join or correspondent now in Irbil.

What is the situation where you are. Well they are trying to avoid a

clash with Isis in a big way. There has been friction along the border.

Iraqi Kurdistan, its border with Iraq as it where, is about 1050

kilometres long. 1000 of those chronometers is now a border with

Isis, with the rebels. So this is a huge challenge to the Kurdish area.

Of course they have expanded outwards from the original Iraqi

Kurdistan and taken over Crawcrook with its oil riches. It could end up

being controversial. But in the meantime they are avoiding head-on

collision with Isis. They're not teaming up with the Iraqi army. They

are under pressure from Iran. The Prime Minister here went to Iran on

Monday and the belief he was urged to use the Peshmerga to join the

fight. But they are not going to do his fighting for him. They already

had fallen out with him, they blame him for the fighting. And they will

not impose order which they do not know what it is going to be. And

certainly not do it on his behalf. There has been comments about the

need to protect Shia shrines. How significant are these comments from

the Iranians president. I think he is following rather than leading on

that. There are already something like 5000 volunteers who may be on

the way to protect those shrines. For Iran it is clear there is a red

line around those Shi'ite shrines in Baghdad. And also in the South. They

will not allow those to go and anything it takes, they will do to

keep those shrines in Shia hands. We also heard from Nouri al-Maliki who

urged the country to unite. The trouble is at the moment this

country does not seem united and is not able to combat the threat of

Isis at the moment. As the conflict continues we're

learning more about the group - ISIS - our world affairs

correspondent Paul Adams is here. They use social media, they are

almost corporate. Well the more you examine the group and what they say

about themselves, if you look at some of the reporting they are

conducting for top for the last couple of years they have put

together audits of their operations in Iraq. Some of that makes pretty

gruesome reading. They break down their violent at DVDs to every

conceivable activity. Suicide bombs, car bombs, even I quote, apostates

run over and unbelievers expelled. Some of those statistics might be

massaged for effect. They are interested of course in attracting

donors but also use bank robberies and extortion. But what they are now

displaying is a formidable ability to organise and an intention to take

over the country. I think the collapse of muscle alarmed everyone.

When you look at those statistics you realise they have made a massive

effort to destabilise the situation up in the North. -- Mosul. They have

become a much more formidable enemy that anyone allowed themselves to

admit. And in the words of one recent American analysis, they could

become a permanent fixture in the Middle East unless there is a

strategy to defeat them. Well Norman Smith is in Westminster. How much of

an influence they thought to have here. Well yesterday the Prime

Minister described them as the greatest security threat we face.

Today he was more explicit about the threat we face from British born

citizens going out there and training as terrorists and then

coming back. He said, I quote, they are planning to attack us here at

home in the UK. Yesterday was thought a tilt in British foreign

policy reaching out to Iran and today we had a tilt in British

security policy -- security policy. The Prime Minister said he had a

series of meetings to refocus efforts on jihadists coming back

from Iraq and Syria. He says there are now a greater threat than

terrorism is coming back from Afghanistan or Pakistan. He also

confirmed the Home Secretary has seized the passports of a number of

Britain's who are thought to go out to Iraq or Syria. One final thing,

there was no party politics about this at Prime Ministers Questions.

There is broad cross-party consensus that this is a very serious threat

that we now face. And there'll be

a special programme on the Iraq crisis on the BBC News Channel

and 4 o'clock this afternoon. Health chiefs are warning

of a major funding gap in England's The BBC understands that there is

a projected deficit of up to two billion pounds in the financial year

beginning next April. The Department of Health says it

will continue to make the necessary The report contains some flash

photography. These are challenging times for the National Health

Service. The budget has been frozen as part of plans to reduce the

deficit to keep up with the rising population and increasing demands on

the NHS, efficiency savings have been required. Now health chiefs

have warned that for the next financial year the sums do not add

up. I have tension costs have added to existing pressures and a new

policy moving resources to community care for the elderly from hospitals

will hit finances. One report underlines the scale of the

challenge. The annual budget is ?78 billion and there is a funding gap

of just over five within pounds. A deficit of ?1.6 billion will remain

even after budget measures. The worry is the contagion now taking

place from a few NHS providers in difficulty to many experiencing

this. And that is a real worry both politically and for patients and the

public. The Government is going to have to choose between allowing

quality to fall back, waiting times to grow, or putting that extra money

in. List is say the health service can still deliver high-quality care

and make further efficiency savings. They point out a report by a think

tank the Commonwealth foundation rated the NHS is top amongst leading

economies for safe and efficient patient care. Hugh joins me now. Up

to ?2 billion, can the whole be plugged? It depends who you talk to.

If you speak to hospital chiefs, there is a real worry that it is

going to be very difficult to plug this gap. Rising demand still, and

the extra factors like higher pension contributions and the new

Government policy, better care, to shift resources from hospitals on to

the community, a widely praised policy, but the worry is it will

take money out of hospitals when they are already struggling.

Government sources aching clear that a lot of efficiency savings have

achieved, ?20 billion over the course of this Parliament in annual

running costs. What's to say that can't be achieved for next year? The

view I hear from Whitehall is that it is not a precise figure, they are

still trying to look at what it will end up as. But not far from a

general election, this needs to be resolved fairly soon to give peace

of mind to politicians and health professionals. Hugh Pym, thank you

very much. White, working-class children leave school with worse

qualifications the equally poor black and Asian pupils. That is

according to a group of MPs who are calling for longer school day is to

allow pupils to do her work in school. They also say that more

incentives are needed to attract the best teachers to deprived areas.

The 11 and 12-year-olds at Northshore Academy in Stockton are

the lucky ones. Despite living in one of the poorest parts of the

country, they are being taught in a rapidly improving school. But white

working-class children elsewhere are falling far behind pupils who are

wealthy or come from different ethnic groups. Here, they believe it

is caused by lack of confidence. Generation of families have not

achieved in the past, and so no jobs, no aspirations, why go to

school? Just under one third of poor white British children got at least

five good GCSEs including English and maths last year, compared with

more than half of all children from an Indian background and over three

quarters of underprivileged children from a Chinese background. There are

no excuses, and we can make a huge and transformative difference to

poor children if we improve the quality of schools, if we increase

the incentives to deploy the best teachers to provide education for

the most challenging circumstances. This is one of the places where they

teach teachers. The Institute of education attract students from all

over the world. But are the teachers of tomorrow prepared to move and

work in some of our more disadvantaged communities? I have a

job