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This is BBC World News Today with me, Philippa Thomas. | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
Baghdad has formally called on the United States to launch air | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
North of Baghdad, the two sides have been fighting for control of Iraq's | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
Iraq's Prime Minister vows to drive back Islamist militants. | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
Meanwhile, President Hamid Karzai tells the BBC the escalating | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
sectarian violence in Iraq will not be repeated in Afghanistan. | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
Also coming up: Ending his reign with a hug and a kiss. Spain's King | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
Spain's King Juan Carlos signs the abdication act that will give | :00:36. | :00:44. | |
The throne to his son. And I am Jon Sopel in Brazil, where | :00:45. | :00:55. | |
the Netherlands look certain to progress after beating Australia, | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
which means Spain, the world champions, must avoid defeat to | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
ensure staying in. The Iraqi Government has formally | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
called on the United States to strikes against jihadist militants. | :01:09. | :01:21. | |
A battle is being waged over Iraq's biggest oil refinery as extremists | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
and government forces fight to take control. | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
The government claims it has now driven out ISIS extremists from the | :01:29. | :01:30. | |
refinery which lies about 100 miles north of the capital Baghdad in the | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
town of Baiji. But some rebels have claimed they hold three-quarters of | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
the plant. The Iraqi Prime minister Nouri | :01:37. | :01:38. | |
Maliki has again urged his countrymen, in a televised speech, | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
to unite against ISIS. My colleague Yalda Hakim is charting | :01:41. | :01:42. | |
the progress of the ISIS forces from Irbil in northern Iraq, not far from | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
Mosul, the first city to fall in Yalda, over to you. | :01:47. | :02:02. | |
Well, we spent the day on the outskirts of Irbil, 40 minutes away | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
from Mosul, which is where the insurgents in ISIS are at the moment | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
and have control. We saw so many people leaving Mosul for a safe | :02:14. | :02:23. | |
haven in Irbil. There are concerns this could lead to all-out sectarian | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
war, the kind of fighting we saw in 2006 and 2007. Across the country, | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
the battlefield keeps changing and the situation is very fluid at the | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
moment. Just south of Kirkup, in bhaji, there has been fighting | :02:40. | :02:47. | |
between Sunni insurgents and the Army -- Baiji. | :02:48. | :02:55. | |
Another day, and another assault by ISIS. | :02:56. | :02:57. | |
These images seemed to show the Sunni extremists triumphantly | :02:58. | :02:59. | |
entering Baiji, around 100 miles from the capital, | :03:00. | :03:01. | |
and making the most of the military equipment they have | :03:02. | :03:03. | |
Baiji is home to Iraq's largest oil refinery and in the past 24 hours, | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
We can't verify these images but they appear to show smoke rising | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
We were taken by the government to the west of Baghdad. | :03:13. | :03:20. | |
To see their special forces in action. | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
They were carrying out vehicle checks. | :03:24. | :03:25. | |
They appeared well armed and equipped | :03:26. | :03:27. | |
and said they were already battle hardened and ready to take on ISIS. | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
We fight them in Ramadi, Fallujah, we fight in Samarra too | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
So any time, you know, anywhere, we go and we fight them. | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
Do you think they will come to Baghdad? | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
This is a carefully choreographed media opportunity by the Iraqi | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
government to show off their best troops, their special forces | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
and to underline that they are in control of the capital Baghdad. | :04:00. | :04:01. | |
The reality is, though, that ISIS is still fighting | :04:02. | :04:12. | |
These are the latest volunteers for the Iraqi army. | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
They are still learning to march and how to fire their weapons. | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
And so far, government forces have proved unable to halt the advance | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
There is still evidence too of a sectarian divide. | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
They are chanting the name of the leading Shia cleric. | :04:33. | :04:34. | |
Yet Iraq's Prime Minister, addressing the nation, | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
still insists that despite failings, they are united. | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
TRANSLATION: Not every setback is a defeat. | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
This has allowed Iraq to recovered national unity. | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
This has allowed Iraq to recover national unity. | :04:53. | :04:54. | |
Not a single Iraqi would benefit from this crisis. | :04:55. | :04:56. | |
Only the terrorists will benefit and those who trade in arms. | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
Those who start the fire are burned by fire. | :05:00. | :05:01. | |
But if anyone thought ISIS was a disorganised, disparate group, | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
here is some evidence to make them think again. | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
This is their annual report for 2013, a slick document that | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
boasts of over 1,000 assassinations and more than 500 car bombings. | :05:11. | :05:18. | |
For Iraq, it is now a fight for survival. | :05:19. | :05:20. | |
Here, Kurdish militia are seen taking | :05:21. | :05:22. | |
Even if they can be defeated, ISIS has already opened up a sectarian | :05:23. | :05:30. | |
Today in Irbil, we have been hearing about people returning to Mosul, | :05:31. | :05:48. | |
trying to find some normality in their lives, but the crisis in Iraq | :05:49. | :05:50. | |
continues. Back to you in London. Yalda, thank you very much, from | :05:51. | :06:06. | |
Irbil in northern Iraq. With me in this year is professor Ali Ansari, a | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
specialist on Iran from the University of St Andrews in | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
Scotland, and joining me from Washington is David Gordon, head of | :06:13. | :06:13. | |
research with the Eurasia Group. He's worked at the highest levels | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
of foreign and national security, including the US State Department | :06:20. | :06:20. | |
and the National Intelligence Council. | :06:21. | :06:22. | |
Welcome both to world news today. -- World News Today. President Obama is | :06:23. | :06:33. | |
talking through with congressional leaders right now whether there | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
should be as strikes? Right, and I think the president's intention is | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
to walk what is going to be very tough line to walk. On the one | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
hand, I think that the United States is extremely worried about ISIS and | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
about the prospect of ISIS carving out large sections of northern and | :06:56. | :07:04. | |
western Iraq as an area that is a no-go zone for governing. On the | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
other hand, I think the president is very wary about getting involved | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
directly in what is increasingly looking like a sectarian civil war, | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
and so I think that the military option is that the United States is | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
going to get to hear are really going to focus on degrading ISIS and | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
particularly the ISIS leadership capabilities through drone strikes | :07:32. | :07:41. | |
and such activities, rather than engagement in the actual military | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
campaign on the side of the Iraqi government. Ali Ansari, if the US is | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
seen to be making common cause with Iran on tying to -- trying to | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
degrade ISIS, that will cause political problems in Washington | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
too. Is it likely to happen? This is not entirely new, we have seen | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
similar conflicts of interest with the Taliban in Afghanistan. We have | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
seen it where the United States and Afghanistan, for different reasons, | :08:14. | :08:15. | |
have approached the same targets and it has worked, in some ways, over | :08:16. | :08:23. | |
the last decade, in Iran's favour but in this case, it would be | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
interesting to see what sort of cooperation, and I wouldn't want to | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
say it is direct or intimate in any way, but what it would do to the | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
mood in Tehran itself, because obviously they view toward the | :08:38. | :08:39. | |
United States in official circles has been deeply antagonistic, but | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
the United States could be of assistance here. He gets the point | :08:45. | :08:51. | |
you are talking about the object, I suppose. America is talking about in | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
a future Iraq and Iran would be looking towards Shia interests. I | :08:57. | :09:14. | |
think divergences... The immediate problem is getting rid of ISIS and | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
we are looking at trust building, and we had to be quite modest in | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
what we can expect but there is the possibility that something could | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
emerge from this. David Gordon, you are talking about the limited | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
American appetite for military intervention. If getting that limit | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
means turning a blind eye to what Iran is doing, saying to -- say to | :09:34. | :09:41. | |
protect Shia shrines, cannot work from an American perspective? I | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
think the US here is not going to want to be seen at or as working | :09:49. | :09:58. | |
directly or even in the same course as Iran, and that is what this fine | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
line that I was talking about before means. -- same cause. The United | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
States is going to engage you in a counterterrorism operation, rather | :10:08. | :10:17. | |
than abroad operation to support the Shia dominated government and, of | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
course, President Obama made very clear last week that what he is | :10:22. | :10:32. | |
urging on Prime Minister Maliki is to build much more consensus -based | :10:33. | :10:40. | |
political centre in Iraq. That is not going to happen. I mean, right | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
now, for Maliki, the only part way forward is to mobilise the sheer | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
face, both in the conventional forces and through trying to -- Shia | :10:50. | :10:59. | |
base, both in the conventional forces and militias that are being | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
formed to support the army, so I don't see any US collaboration here, | :11:04. | :11:12. | |
even at the level of rhetoric, with the Iranians. It is true, and Ali | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
Ansari is right, that both the US and Iran share an interest in | :11:17. | :11:24. | |
degrading ISIS, and that is true. The hope for the United States... | :11:25. | :11:32. | |
Let me just bring in Ali Ansari on this a game, is there an Iranian | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
interest in Iraq holding together or not? I think there is at the moment | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
and one of the reasons is that Nouri al-Maliki is seen as Iran's man | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
effectively, so why sees any part of -- sees any part of Iraq when you | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
have what you may see as a client there. What you do have in the | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
United States is that Nouri al-Maliki hasn't done a terribly | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
good job, he has been fairly exclusive and alienated the Sunnis | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
and it will be interesting to see if they look at this in Tehran with a | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
little more sober reflection and say, we have troubles in Syria, | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
prolonged in in a prolonged struggle there, so we don't need anything on | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
our doorstep even more messy, so what sort of political arrangements | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
do we need to need to make to make sure this doesn't happen? Ali Ansari | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
David Gordon, sorry to cut you off, but thank you both for your insight. | :12:30. | :12:37. | |
It does seem as if Iraq has erupted after a delayed three years after | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
the American troops left. National Intelligence Council. | :12:41. | :12:49. | |
Is there a danger that something similar | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
could happen in Afghanistan, where US troops are due to finish combat | :12:53. | :12:54. | |
operations by the end of this year? Every morning, President Karzai | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
walks to the office with bodyguards He lives and works inside this | :12:59. | :13:00. | |
heavily protected palace. Taliban threats mean he very | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
rarely leaves his fortress. The men in his security cabinet have | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
worked alongside NATO forces for more than a decade, but like Iraq, | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
foreign combat troops are pulling out and there is concern Al-Qaeda | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
linked groups could make a comeback. So many around the world are now | :13:13. | :13:20. | |
asking, Afghans are asking, whether what is happening in Iraq | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
could happen in Afghanistan. I am confident about the Afghan | :13:24. | :13:25. | |
people. Yes, we do need international | :13:26. | :13:35. | |
support, where we don't have That is welcome, | :13:36. | :13:37. | |
for that we are grateful. But the keeping of the country, | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
the protection of the country, This government refused to take up | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
the offer of a strategic pact with the United States | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
which would have meant a long-term But the two men vying to be the next | :13:51. | :13:52. | |
president have both said they will sign the deal and that could help | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
Afghanistan avoid some of the worst For years, | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
many doubted there would even be Now the president checks goodbye | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
letters he will soon send to foreign leaders, including this one to | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
David Cameron. Mr President, what are you going to | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
say to the British Prime Minister I will thank him, | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
and the British people, for the help You have said that NATO forces have | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
done nothing good for Afghanistan, I said, as I have done on lots | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
of occasions, that the war on terror was not to be fought | :14:36. | :14:44. | |
in Afghan villages or Afghan homes. That the real war on terror is in | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
the sanctuary is beyond our borders. But as far as Mr Cameron is | :14:51. | :14:58. | |
concerned, he has been a good friend As the president walks home, his | :14:59. | :15:21. | |
aides discuss her insurgents chopped off the fingers of 11 Afghans who | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
voted in last week's elections. " What is happening in this country?", | :15:27. | :15:28. | |
he sighs. As Hamid Karzai prepares to move out | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
of this palace with his young family, his country moves | :15:34. | :15:35. | |
towards an uncertain future. Without the peace he | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
and his allies promised planning on the lateral cease fire | :15:39. | :15:40. | |
this. With me is the author and Washington | :15:41. | :16:17. | |
Post columnist, Anne Applebaum. She's written extensively about | :16:18. | :16:19. | |
Eastern Europe. --unilateral My school began the | :16:20. | :16:51. | |
fighting in the first place. --Moscow The military operations of | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
Ukraine where design to defend their country rather than than to attack | :16:56. | :17:05. | |
people. Is this because the sanctions are hurting? I am not sure | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
President Putin has agreed and the Russians have been very quiet about | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
what the well will not do and have been trying to keep the conflict | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
under the radar. We know that the sanctions have had an impact, more | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
indirectly, on business confidence and general confidence and he may be | :17:29. | :17:35. | |
feeling some of that or maybe feeling that the attempt to create a | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
separatist movement in eastern Ukraine has failed. It is very | :17:39. | :17:45. | |
different to Crimea, from his point of view? We do not know how the | :17:46. | :17:54. | |
Crimea situation will end either. But in eastern Ukraine they have | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
failed to achieve what they seem to set out to achieve. There may be all | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
this talk about the temperatures that it depends on what separatist | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
this site to do? Yes, the satirists and people who are funding them and | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
arming them. When they cease to have that support it becomes a very | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
different operation. Do you think they are centrally controlled rather | :18:21. | :18:34. | |
than more tournaments? --autonomous? Some of them are local and are also | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
some from outside, from places such as Russia. All the ammunition is | :18:40. | :18:50. | |
coming from Russia. It may be coming from different sources but it is | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
coming into the country from Russia. Another thing that is coming in from | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
Russia may not be as gas. Yes, the dispute on gas is an old one. This | :19:02. | :19:09. | |
is the third time that Russia has cut off gas from the Ukraine. It is | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
a very conjugated negotiation involving questions of high payments | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
are being used and I would not wonder one to get into this. --want | :19:21. | :19:40. | |
to get into this. Now a look at some of the day's | :19:41. | :19:49. | |
other news. There's been a sharp increase | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
in the number of people who have died from the outbreak of Ebola | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
disease in west Africa. Figures from the | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
World Health Organisation show that in the past week a total of nearly a | :20:00. | :20:00. | |
hundred people were recorded to have died in the three countries affected | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
- Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. This compares with | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
a cumulative total of 337 deaths At least 21 people who were | :20:08. | :20:09. | |
watching a World Cup match have been killed in a bomb blast | :20:10. | :20:26. | |
in northern Nigeria. The attack happened in Yobe state, | :20:27. | :20:28. | |
with witnesses saying a suicide bomber | :20:29. | :20:30. | |
on a tricycle taxi in Damaturu detonated explosives as people | :20:31. | :20:32. | |
watched Brazil's match against China's continuing programme | :20:33. | :20:34. | |
of economic modernisation will open up enormous opportunities | :20:35. | :20:42. | |
for British firms, according to He was speaking alongside British | :20:43. | :20:44. | |
finance minister George Osborne on the final full day | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
of his visit to Britain. He described the opportunity | :20:48. | :20:49. | |
as "win-win co-operation." Prince Felipe of Spain becomes king | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
at midnight - that's four hours from now in a country still | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
scarred by years of economic crisis. Juan Carlos signed a bill formally | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
abdicating power, at the royal palace in Madrid. Our Europe | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
correspondent Chris Morris is in This is a last act of a man who has | :21:05. | :21:20. | |
been on the throne of Spain for four decades. He helped free Spain from | :21:21. | :21:30. | |
the dictatorship of General Franco. There was applause for the long | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
reign to come to an end. The king said it was time for a new | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
generation take over. This historic Royal palaces will soon welcomed the | :21:39. | :21:45. | |
new King after he is sworn in as head of state on Thursday morning. | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
There will be no correlation and no foreign dignitaries royalty have | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
been invited. It is all deliberately low-key. This is the new king, he is | :21:54. | :22:08. | |
46-year-old. The Royal family has been hit by scandal and the last few | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
years and the country buffeted by economic crisis. He will have to try | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
to rehabilitate the image of the monarchy as a unifying institution. | :22:18. | :22:24. | |
He does not have the historical baggage which is father has and will | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
be able to perform this role again, the idea that the monarchy can help | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
to keep together the different territories and peoples and the | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
different nations that make up the Spanish state. That is definitely a | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
key role for him to try to play. There are those vocal and quite | :22:42. | :22:48. | |
substantial minority, who want a referendum on the future of the | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
monarchy. Many of them are supporters of republicanism. These | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
are challenging times and it cannot be business as usual for the new | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
cane but the Spanish flags are flying and most people here seem | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
prepared to give the new King chance. | :23:05. | :23:22. | |
Day Seven of the World cup, and it's already hotting up in Brazil. | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
It's do-or-die for defending champions Spain and a definite | :23:26. | :23:27. | |
contender for goal of tournament in the early match between | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
Let's go to Rio and join Jon Sopel later, for the | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
In the latest World Cup game, which finished half an hour ago, the | :23:34. | :23:45. | |
two. to beat Australia by three goals to | :23:46. | :23:53. | |
Arjen Robben opened the scoring as he sprinted clear from halfway and | :23:54. | :24:09. | |
seconds before Tim Cahill responded with a stunning volley. 1-1 at | :24:10. | :24:19. | |
halftime. The underdogs then took the | :24:20. | :24:21. | |
lead as Jedinak scored for Australia from the penalty spot after Janmaat | :24:22. | :24:37. | |
was adjudged to have handled the ball. | :24:38. | :24:38. | |
Again the lead was short-lived, as | :24:39. | :24:40. | |
Robin Van Persie scored for the Dutch. | :24:41. | :24:41. | |
And it was Van Persie who scored | :24:42. | :24:43. | |
Coming up next, a must-win game for Spain against Chile at the | :24:44. | :24:55. | |
the group A game in Manaus between Cameroon and Croatia - the loser | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
A number of Chilean fans without tickets have stormed in the press | :25:01. | :25:25. | |
centre press centre. The authorities are trying to restore some order | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
they are but that game is due to kick off in about 35 minutes and we | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
will keep you fully up-to-date with that. It is really crucial for | :25:34. | :25:49. | |
Spain, is it not? Spain come in as the champions and the other | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
fantastically gifted side but they were made to look absolutely | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
ordinary by the Dutch when they lost five goals to one. If chilly winter | :25:56. | :26:29. | |
night they when --Chile win. Then they will head the group. It is | :26:30. | :26:39. | |
hoped that a man in a cave who was trapped underground will be back | :26:40. | :26:48. | |
over ground in a couple of days. Thank you for watching, now time for | :26:49. | :26:59. | |
the weather. Yesterday Scotland and Northern Ireland had the highest | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
temperature of the year so far. We have had similar temperatures today | :27:04. | :27:10. | |
and I have been hot and humid days across Scotland and Northern Ireland | :27:11. | :27:12. | |
but this has | :27:13. | :27:13. |