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A new Prime Minister for Iraq - and Britain offers weapons in the | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
We have exclusive access to an RAF mission over the north | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
of the country - helping the humanitarian effort | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
All of this is about gathering intelligence, getting an accurate | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
picture of what's happening down on the ground. | :00:23. | :00:30. | |
As Nouri al-Maliki stands down as Prime Minister - the west calls for | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
an inclusive government to be formed. | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
The Metropolitan Police confirms, for the first time, | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
the identity of undercover officers who had relationships with women. | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
The scale of the Ebola outbreak may have been vastly underestimated, | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
Criticism of the drugs watchdog, after it limits use of a prostate | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
And making a splash for charity - we find out more | :00:56. | :01:03. | |
about the ice bucket challenge, the latest craze to sweep social media. | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
Three years after the riots - a new report reveals that most | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
of the money earmarked for affected areas still hasn't been spent. | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
And surviving cancer - why London has some | :01:18. | :01:19. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. | :01:20. | :01:41. | |
The Foreign Secretary, Phillip Hammond, has said the UK | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
will "consider favourably" any request to send arms to the | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
Speaking on his way into an emergency meeting of EU | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
foreign ministers in Brussels, Mr Hammond also called | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
for the quick formation of an inclusive administration in Baghdad, | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
following the resignation of the Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki. | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
In a moment, we'll hear about the diplomatic | :02:04. | :02:05. | |
But first, this report from our correspondent Jeremy Cooke, | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
who's been given exclusive access to an RAF mission over Iraq. | :02:12. | :02:21. | |
RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus. We are joining the aircrew on a mission. Under | :02:22. | :02:29. | |
cover of darkness, it is full throttle. At this speed, it is a | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
short flight to the dark skies over Iraq. The crew is piloting what is | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
effectively a flying petrol station. Pretty soon, they are in | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
business. RADIO: We are going to need a left orbit before we go into | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
the air space. Tornado jets emerge from the gloom. They are potent | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
combat aircraft but this is a different role. RADIO: Request, five | :02:58. | :03:05. | |
seconds. Tonight's task is to fly high and fast over the killing | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
fields below. No bombs or bullets but instead, the combat fighters | :03:11. | :03:12. | |
carry state-of-the-art infrared surveillance equipment. They are the | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
eyes and ears of the wider operation. We are looking at fine | :03:18. | :03:26. | |
for another hour or 90 minutes before it comes back. This is a | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
critical operation to relieve the humanitarian issues we have on the | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
ground in Iraq. You know what you are doing is vital work. Very much | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
so. This is the first time in quite awhile we have had that feeling. Are | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
very happy to be here and we see it as a critical part of helping the | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
Iraqi people to alleviate themselves from the issues they have currently. | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
All this is about gathering intelligence, getting the most | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
accurate picture possible of exactly what is happening down the ground. | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
All of it could be vital in planning whatever comes next. For now, the | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
operation to deliver aid is on pause. But it could resume at any | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
time. It is still crucial to plot the ongoing advance of the Islamic. | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
And those fleeing the fighting. -- Islamic State. At dawn, the Jets are | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
back on base, preparing for the next operation. Their presence here is | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
just part of a build-up of military power in a region which remains | :04:29. | :04:29. | |
volatile and violent. Our world affairs correspondent | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
Mike Wooldridge has looked at what impact a change of leadership | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
in Iraq will have in the battle A new day in Baghdad, and a new | :04:37. | :04:51. | |
Prime Minister, taking over in the midst of deep political, military | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
and now humanitarian crisis. Some see the survival of Iraq as a | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
country at stake. Will Haider al-Abadi the key to the solution? | :05:00. | :05:07. | |
TRANSLATION: Domestic and international pressures meant Nouri | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
al-Maliki had to step down. We hope that the new designated Prime | :05:12. | :05:13. | |
Minister will correct past mistakes. With Haider al-Abadi by | :05:14. | :05:23. | |
his side, Mr Al-Maliki finally announced his departure, after | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
becoming seen increasingly -- increasingly as a divisive leader | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
with a pro-Shia agenda. Haider al-Abadi is from the same party and | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
his challenges to rebuild trust with the members of the Sunni and Kurdish | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
factions who have felt isolated. And from the Kurdish region, this new | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
appeal for their peshmerga forces to be supplied with weapons to match | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
those of the advancing and heavily armed Islamic State fighters. And | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
for greater support for Iraq as a whole. If there is no support for | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
the whole government, and especially Kurdistan, because if Kurdistan is | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
destabilised by terrorists, and somehow, they occupied the main | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
province in the North, then the whole of Iraq is going to fall into | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
chaos. Today's and scheduled EU Foreign Minister 's meeting on Iraq, | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
considering among other things, the question of arms supplies. France | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
has made an announcement that it is willing to supply arms. The UK has | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
said we will also consider favourably any requests for supplies | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
of arms. Iraq now need to have an inclusive government, representing | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
all the people of Iraq, so we can get behind it and push back this | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
terrible threat from ISIS. Unity on the arms issue may be elusive. But | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
Iraq's new Prime Minister not only enjoy support here. The country's | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
most senior cleric said today that the transition was a rare | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
opportunity to resolve Iraq's political and security problems. | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
Price, who's in Brussels, where the EU foreign ministers are holding | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
that emergency meeting. But first, Yalda Hakim, who's at a refugee camp | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
What kind of stories are you hearing where you are? I am just on the | :07:09. | :07:23. | |
outskirts of Dohuk in a refugee camp. About 15,000 people have fled | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
the fighting. Some of the most desperate people, who have told us | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
they were told to convert or die. The situation for them was really | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
very desperate. Just behind me, a complete tent city. Tractors are | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
making room for more sense to go up. It is relatively peaceful and | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
calm. -- more tempting. The Kurdish governorate are running it and they | :07:48. | :07:49. | |
are saying people are getting enough food and water, as will as managing | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
the humanitarian aid coming from the international community. I saw some | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
people who still don't have a tent. They have made shade from the sides | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
of cars and they were sitting, waiting for a tent to be put up for | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
them. Still a lot of very desperate people but at least better than what | :08:07. | :08:08. | |
they were facing before they came here. Let's go to Brussels. What | :08:09. | :08:16. | |
might we expect to hear from this emergency meeting? Ever since the | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
crisis started in Iraq, it has felt as though Europe has been relatively | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
reluctant to get directly involved. It has made noises about | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
humanitarian aid. But nothing more than that. The sense I get in | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
Brussels is that it is changing. It is worth reminding people that the | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
EU does not have any defence or real foreign policy power in the sense | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
that it cannot say, we are now, as a collective union, sending arms to | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
help the cottage fighters in Iraq. But what the French Foreign Minister | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
-- Kurdish fighters in Iraq. But the French and Minister is pushing for | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
some kind of statement, acknowledging the fact that European | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
countries need not just to supply humanitarian assistance to Iraq, but | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
also military assistance will stop as you saw Philip Hammond, the | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
Foreign Secretary, saying a moment ago, the French have Origi said they | :09:13. | :09:14. | |
are willing to send arms to Iraq and it looks like Britain has followed | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
that and will do so at some point. Even the Germans, the third big | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
power in European Union policy-making, are now indicating | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
they may be inclined to follow suit. There Foreign Minister is going to | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
Iraq this weekend. He has said they will do everything that is | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
politically and legally possible to help the Kurdish forces militarily | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
in their fight against Islamic State. It appears that there is a | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
national push to supply arms to the Kurds, and a European Union level | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
desire to allow it to happen. Thank you for joining us. | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
And for more analysis on the developing situation in Iraq, | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
You can find an interactive guide that explains how militant | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
fighters from the Islamic State have become such a powerful force. | :10:04. | :10:11. | |
The World Health Organisation says there's evidence that the scale of | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
the Ebola outbreak in West Africa may have been vastly underestimated. | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
Just over 1,000 deaths have been recorded out | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
of nearly 2,000 confirmed and suspected cases - making it | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
But the WHO believes that the situation is escalating. | :10:25. | :10:33. | |
With me is our global health correspondent Tulip Mazumder. | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
By how much do they think this may have been underestimated? The world | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
health organisation is not giving figures. It simply does not know. | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
Part of the reason for that is it is a very chaotic picture on the | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
ground. We have heard from one of the key medical charities who are | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
treating people on the ground, Doctors without Borders, in the last | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
hour. I have also been speaking to people on the ground. They are | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
saying that these are very weak health systems and they cannot cope | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
on their own. What we have heard today is that for example, one | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
treatment centre in Liberia has 40 beds and it is treating 140 people. | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
They are queueing outside the treatment centre and the bodies are | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
coming in faster than they can be buried. The way you stop an outbreak | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
and get a sense of how many people are really infected is to find | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
infected people and find out who they have been in close contact | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
with, and follow those people for 21 days. There simply aren't the | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
numbers on the ground required to do that huge work. This is why they | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
don't have a clearer idea. Also, we are still seeing that people are not | :11:43. | :11:51. | |
coming forward to get help because they are so afraid. And a quick | :11:52. | :11:53. | |
thought, a big question but what can they do about this? They have | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
announced today that we now know about 1 million people in the worst | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
affected area, the border between Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
have been put on lockdown. They cannot move freely. The world food | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
programme is bringing in supplies to make sure based a in one place. | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
These are the kind of measures being taken. There are no travel | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
restrictions. The WHO does not recommend them at the moment. And | :12:15. | :12:16. | |
the risk to the UK remains low. The drugs watchdog for the NHS | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
in England is facing criticism for rejecting a treatment | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
for men with prostate cancer. Abiraterone is available | :12:23. | :12:24. | |
post-chemotherapy, but the National Institute for Health | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
and Care Excellence says it's too Our health correspondent | :12:28. | :12:29. | |
Dominic Hughes reports. Mike knows first-hand what a | :12:30. | :12:45. | |
difference Abiraterone can make. Six years ago, he was diagnosed with | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
advanced prostate cancer. He has been taking the drug since March, | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
delaying the moment he has to resort to chemotherapy and the negative | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
impact it will have on his quality-of-life. Abiraterone has | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
allowed me in the recent past to carry on working and living, carry | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
on my family life. It's decreased my PSA levels. It has made things | :13:08. | :13:15. | |
better, and given me some pain relief as well which has also been | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
helpful. Prostate cancer is the most common form of the disease in men. | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
Across the UK, 40,000 men are diagnosed each year. The most | :13:25. | :13:26. | |
aggressive form of the disease claims more than 10,000 lives each | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
year. At more than 250,000 men are currently living with prostate | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
cancer. Abiraterone is already used to treat men after they have had | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
chemotherapy. But the drugs watchdog, Nice, says it is too | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
expensive to prescribe before chemotherapy starts. What we have | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
been looking at is earlier in the condition, where it is used as a | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
means of avoiding chemotherapy. That is clearly very important. But the | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
data we have got does not suggest that using it at that point is going | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
to extend life. Mike was one of around 3000 men to access the drug | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
in the past year through the Cancer Drugs Fund in England. But that is | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
not an option currently open to those in the rest of the UK. The | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
drug 's manufacturer says it is disappointed and will appeal against | :14:16. | :14:16. | |
the decision. BBC News has learned that | :14:17. | :14:18. | |
for the first time, the Metropolitan Police has confirmed the identity | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
of two undercover officers. Both men are accused | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
of deceiving women by having relationships with them, without | :14:25. | :14:26. | |
disclosing their true identity. The Met, which is being sued | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
by the women, denies authorising the relationships - which it claims | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
were based on genuine feelings. Our home affairs correspondent | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
Matt Prodger reports. They were members of a police unit | :14:38. | :14:51. | |
so secret, they are accused of deceiving activists into sexual | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
relationships, and even fathering children with them. Jim Boyling | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
later married and had two children with one of three women he was | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
involved with. Bob Lambert had sexual relationships with free women | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
from environmental and animal rights groups, and a child with a fourth. | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
It was abusive to people. It was damaging. Years later, you was | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
exposed and challenged by the activists he had infiltrated while a | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
member of the undercover special demonstration squad. A court order | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
has forced the Mets to confirm the two men's identities. The force has | :15:25. | :15:26. | |
also offered a defence. It has denied that intimate and | :15:27. | :15:38. | |
sexual Asian ships were started as a deliberate tactic. There was nothing | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
genuine about it. The entire relationship was based on a massive | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
web of lies. They had all the power. That is not love. It is abuse. Helen | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
Steel is an environmentalist, who says she was psychologically scarred | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
after being fooled into a two-year relationship with another undercover | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
officer. Eventually, I found out he had been using their identity of a | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
child that died when they were eight. At that point, my world fell | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
apart. She is one of more than ten women suing the police over the | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
activities of six police spies. Although the Metropolitan Police has | :16:15. | :16:16. | |
been activities of six police spies. | :16:17. | :16:16. | |
Although the Metropolitan forced to confirm the identities of two of | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
them, it is refusing to be drawn on the other four. It says it needs to | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
protect it undercover officers. Campaigners say that if an excuse to | :16:26. | :16:35. | |
hide wrongdoing. Why after all this time has the merit done this? A | :16:36. | :16:43. | |
court told them to. One of the officers has publicly admitted his | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
role. The other, the commissioner himself of the Metropolitan Police | :16:49. | :16:55. | |
three years ago and admitted that he was an undercover officer. This | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
argument the Met had that did not confirm or deny the identity of | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
officers was effectively thrown out by the judge at least in relation to | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
two cases. This is a step forward for these women trying to sue the | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
Metropolitan Police. This has wider background as well. Not just about | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
the tactics that undercover police officers employed but also their | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
targets. Last month it was revealed Scotland Yard had gathered | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
information secretly on 18 people involved in justice campaigns, | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
things like deaths in police custody and holding the police to account. | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
There is the ongoing inquiry which was sparked by claims that the | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
police had spied on the family of Stephen Lawrence. This is not one | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
thing that is going to go away quickly. | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
Britain offers weapons in the fight against Islamist extremists. | :17:54. | :18:07. | |
Not for the first time, he has been beaten on the inside edge. A | :18:08. | :18:14. | |
dominant England watch India collapse. | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
The squatters living close to Heathrow who could be evicted today | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
after more than four years of living there. | :18:22. | :18:23. | |
Chaos at Crystal Palace as their manager walks out only | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
hours before the start of the new football season. | :18:27. | :18:35. | |
Thousands of people have held vigils across America, in honour | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
of an unarmed black teenager killed by police in Missouri. | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
Moments of silence and protests were held in New York, Chicago, | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
Atlanta and elsewhere, five days after Michael Brown was shot dead. | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
After four nights of violence in Ferguson, Missouri, where | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
the 18-year-old died, state police have now taken charge of security. | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
There's been strong criticism of the way police tried to restore | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
Witnesses claim Michael Brown was shot with his hands up and that is | :19:05. | :19:21. | |
what they have been chanting at protests across the United States. | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
This one in Times Square, others in San Francisco, Dallas and Chicago. | :19:27. | :19:34. | |
Michael Brown, 18, was shot dead by police last Saturday in the small | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
Midwest suburb of Ferguson, Missouri. Exactly what happened was | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
not clear. The police claim one of their officers was assaulted. The | :19:44. | :19:50. | |
teenager's death has provoked several nights of violent | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
confrontation. There has been vandalism and some looting but the | :19:55. | :19:56. | |
police have been criticised for using excessive force. The governor | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
said parts of the state were turning into a war zone. We need to rebuild | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
the trust that has been lost and broken and help the community regain | :20:08. | :20:14. | |
stability. With the world looking on, the police have decided to take | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
a different approach. The boss of the State Highway Patrol is now in | :20:20. | :20:27. | |
charge. He has already been out walking with the protesters, | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
spreading a message that the police are there to serve and protect and | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
not to instil fear. We are a community. We are all in it | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
together. Last night there were more protests, but this time without | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
violence. Anger over Michael Brown's death has not subsided. It | :20:46. | :20:52. | |
is not a black or white thing, it is an everyday thing, people are being | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
killed everyday by authority. The streets maybe, but the mistrust | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
continues to linger and Americans are once again facing difficult | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
questions about policing, equality and race. | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
Investigations are continuing this morning into an allegation | :21:13. | :21:14. | |
of historical sexual assault made against Sir Cliff Richard. | :21:15. | :21:16. | |
The singer has described the claim as "completely false". | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
It's thought he is currently in Portugal. | :21:22. | :21:23. | |
We can cross now to our news correspondent, Dan Johnson, who's | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
outside South Yorkshire Police headquarters in Sheffield for us. | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
The police emphasising this investigation is still in its early | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
stages. The officers who travel down to Berkshire yesterday to search | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
Cliff Richard's apartment have returned here and it is thought they | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
have recovered some items from his flat which will be being examined | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
for evidence. They spent five hours yesterday on that secluded private | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
estate and left around 3:30pm yesterday after five hours searching | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
the penthouse apartment. We have not had anything further from Cliff | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
Richard himself after the complete denial of this allegation yesterday. | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
We understand his lawyers have been talking to the police and he has | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
said he will cooperate fully with the investigation. He is in Portugal | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
so we are not sure what will happen next in terms of talking to the | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
police. The allegation dates back to 1995 and relates to an event in | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
Sheffield where a preacher was giving a speech in 1985. Cliff | :22:32. | :22:38. | |
Richard denying that anything improper happened at that event. | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
Ukraine says its guards are inspecting a controversial Russian | :22:44. | :22:45. | |
Ukraine fears the convoy, which is bound for cities in eastern | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
Ukraine, may carry military supplies for the rebels, though it's | :22:52. | :22:53. | |
Our Moscow Correspondent Steve Rosenberg has been given access to | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
You can see the group of journalists behind me. | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
We're about to be taken on an official tour of the Russian | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
aid convoy which has been organised by Russia's Emergencies Ministry. | :23:07. | :23:13. | |
They have opened up some of these lorries | :23:14. | :23:14. | |
Some sacks, I do not know what is in them. | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
The one thing that strikes me about these vehicles is how empty | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
There are some boxes there, I do not know what they are, | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
What we have here is drinking water, and lots of it. | :23:29. | :24:03. | |
Russia has been insisting that it is transporting | :24:04. | :24:06. | |
Ukraine suspects that is not the case, that there could be fuel | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
and ammunition for pro-Russian separatists. | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
Moscow says that is completely absurd, that this is purely | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
One thing I find interesting is there is no sign | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
There's no sense this is a military operation and yet earlier today | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
when we came down here there were soldiers walking around, we saw | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
tanks driving past this field camp heading towards the border and it | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
did feel like a sense of heightened military tension. | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
Steve Rosenberg reporting there at the Ukrainian/Russian border. | :24:44. | :24:51. | |
England have made a good start to a rain-delayed final Test | :24:52. | :24:53. | |
England won the toss and put India into bat and straightaway | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
James Anderson took the wicket of Gautam Gambhir for | :24:58. | :24:59. | |
Our sport correspondent Joe Wilson sent this report from the Oval. | :25:00. | :25:13. | |
August 15 is a day of great Indian pride, independence day, | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
and the cricket team a travelling reflection of Indian resilience. | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
In theory as it hasn't looked that way recently. | :25:24. | :25:25. | |
This is not the only Indian supporter who wonders, is there life | :25:26. | :25:27. | |
after Sachin Tendulkar? Without him some of the batsmen | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
seem to be not trying enough? I think his presence makes all | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
the difference. He gives the players encouragement. | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
I miss him. India were fairly quickly exposed. | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
England decided to bowl first. This is the fourth ball of the day. | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
A delivery he was trying to leave. He looked at his bat as | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
if they had only just met. Anderson closing in | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
on the wicket taking record. Just seven more. | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
From the other end, Stuart Broad, protection removed | :26:02. | :26:03. | |
from his broken nose, he looked as if he had gone 12 rounds. | :26:04. | :26:12. | |
For a batsman this is a typical knockout. | :26:13. | :26:13. | |
India 10-2 and Pujara feeling blue. | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
The sun had come out and Anderson and Broad were having a rest. | :26:17. | :26:18. | |
Maybe India had weathered the storm. | :26:19. | :26:19. | |
Who else was going to bowl? Chris Jordan. LBW? Yes, said the | :26:20. | :26:37. | |
umpire. A catch gratefully accepted. 36-5. | :26:38. | :26:47. | |
The latest craze sweeping social media seems to involve pouring ice | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
cold water over yourself and then posting a video of it. | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
Called the Ice Bucket Challenge, it aims to raise money and awareness | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
Many celebrities have risen to the challenge and even | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
President Obama has been asked, although he's yet to respond. | :27:06. | :27:07. | |
This contains flash photography. It is the craze sweeping the US and the | :27:08. | :27:31. | |
internet, people being doused or dosing themselves with ice cold | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
water. It is to raise money and awareness of motor neuron disease. | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
Celebrities are queuing up to day part. Justin Timberlake. The | :27:41. | :27:59. | |
Facebook founder. And golfer Gary Player. It is catching on on this | :28:00. | :28:05. | |
side of the Atlantic. Paul Scholes and Gary Neville amongst the first | :28:06. | :28:13. | |
to day part here. -- take part. Other charities are following suit. | :28:14. | :28:20. | |
Many thousands more are expected to experience their own cold wet | :28:21. | :28:26. | |
summer's day. The trouble with that as it is not warm enough. | :28:27. | :28:35. | |
Things are going to get cooler. We had localised flooding yesterday. We | :28:36. | :28:47. | |
had a funnel cloud. Today there are a few showers around but by and | :28:48. | :28:50. | |
large lot of dry weather look forward to. -- a lot of dry weather. | :28:51. | :29:02. | |
We have showers working into Cumbria at the moment. For Scotland and | :29:03. | :29:09. | |
Northern Ireland, a relatively quiet day. Temperatures 15-17 Celsius. The | :29:10. | :29:15. | |
showers will bring fairly sharp downpours for a time across | :29:16. | :29:20. | |
Yorkshire but probably relatively few for East Anglia and central and | :29:21. | :29:27. | |
southern England. South-west England and Wales should have a largely dry | :29:28. | :29:30. | |
afternoon with a few showers across Wales. Overnight we are going to | :29:31. | :29:37. | |
lose those showers and we will have clearing skies for the most part. It | :29:38. | :29:44. | |
will be cooler in rural areas with temperatures getting down into | :29:45. | :29:49. | |
single figures. The winds will be picking up across the north-west of | :29:50. | :29:51. | |
Scotland, bringing cloud and shimmery burst of rain. Weekend is | :29:52. | :29:58. | |
looking -- though beach and is looking blustery. A promising start | :29:59. | :30:12. | |
with a freshening breeze. A band of frameworks southwards across | :30:13. | :30:15. | |
Scotland into Northern Ireland eventually reaching Cumbria through | :30:16. | :30:22. | |
the afternoon with a late breeze. Temperatures generally into the | :30:23. | :30:27. | |
teens. We might manage 22 in London. For the second half of the weekend, | :30:28. | :30:30. | |
the low pressure comes in and we have winds from the Arctic Circle so | :30:31. | :30:44. | |
there is going to be a in air. Showers filtering. Does it get | :30:45. | :30:55. | |
better? Not really. It gets cooler. Temperatures down to 14 in Belfast. | :30:56. | :31:02. | |
Across things will be cooling off and across the Scottish mountains it | :31:03. | :31:07. | |
will be cold enough for August snow. It looks as if summer is on | :31:08. | :31:10. | |
hold for the time being. Now a reminder | :31:11. | :31:15. | |
of our top story this lunchtime: EU foreign ministers hold | :31:16. | :31:18. | |
an emergency meeting Britain offers weapons in the | :31:19. | :31:19. | |
fight against Islamist extremists. Now on BBC One it's time | :31:20. | :31:29. | |
for the news where you are. | :31:30. | :31:32. |