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This is BBC World News Today with me, Alice Baxter. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Israel warns it'll continue to destroy tunnels built by Palestinian | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
militants, with or without any possible cease-fire. | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
Despite growing international condemnation, | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
Israel says its military offensive will last for another few days. | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
In Gaza, the UN says residents are facing a precipice, | :00:26. | :00:33. | |
with a quarter of the population displaced from their homes. | :00:34. | :00:43. | |
Before the conflict started, 17,000 people were being housed by the UN. | :00:44. | :00:50. | |
Today it is 220,000. The organisation say that it is | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
overwhelmed and reaching breaking point. | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
After days of frustration, investigators finally reach | :00:58. | :00:58. | |
the crash site of MH17 in eastern Ukraine. | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
From the darkest corners of the internet to your doorstep - how | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
dealers are using the web to push illegal drugs around the world. | :01:04. | :01:19. | |
The United States has said civilian casualties in Gaza are too high, | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
and urged Israel to do more to protect life during its offensive | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
The Pentagon urged Israel to live up to its own high standards, | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
while the White House said the shelling of a UN school on | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has said the military | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
will continue to destroy tunnels used by Palestinian militants with | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
The Gaza conflict began 24 days ago and is now the longest war in Gaza | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
Israeli Defence Forces say they are just days away from destroying all | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
of the 32 tunnels that they have identified as being built by Hamas. | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
59,000 army reservists have now been mobilised. | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
Earlier, Israel called up an additional 16 thousand to replace | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
Our World Affairs Correspondent Orla Guerin has been speaking exclusively | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
to an Israeli air force pilot who's been bombing Gaza. | :02:23. | :02:33. | |
This is footage Israel is keen to share, an air strike in Gaza being | :02:34. | :02:42. | |
aborted because children have been spotted. But the UN say that most of | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
those killed by Israel are innocent civilians. | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
Today we met one of the air force pilots who flies over Gaza every | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
day, identifying targets. We cannot show his face. The aircraft used for | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
these missions have cameras mounted underneath and fly at up to 85,000 | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
feet. Gaza is a very densely populated | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
area. He shows us in a simulator his birds | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
eye view of the Touraine. It is a very crowded and many people | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
have no way to escape. You are attacking hospitals where people are | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
being treated. At the moment, we are doing | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
everything possible to ensure that the security and safety of both our | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
civilians and as much as possible the Palestinians civilians. We have | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
offered medical aid and field hospital. | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
Would it not be better if you stopped bombing the civilians? | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
Israel has always chosen a diplomatic situation. | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
Some people might ask how you sleep at night. | :03:55. | :03:55. | |
I sleep very well at night, because I know that what we are doing is | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
saving lives, the way I see it. Israeli lives? I know how many | :04:01. | :04:08. | |
attacks I have already called off. Numerous attacks. I know as a fact | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
that I have saved hundreds of -- dozens of lives. | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
But the lives lost in Gaza are according to international pressure | :04:19. | :04:26. | |
on Israel. Today, the Minister said that the offensive will continue. | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
TRANSLATION: We have neutralised dozens of tunnels and we will | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
continue the mission with or without a cease-fire. I will not accept any | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
proposal that will not allow the IDF to complete this task for the safety | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
of Israel. Near the Gaza border, soldiers rest | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
and regroup. An extra 16,000 reservists have been caught up. This | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
teacher has two sons fighting in Gaza and is going to join them. | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
This is our life. Nobody chooses it, we have to do it. It will be the end | :05:01. | :05:09. | |
of the story very soon. The army says that it will finish | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
destroying the attack tunnels within days, but a senior Israeli official | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
has told the BBC that there is no stopwatch for this operation. The | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
international community is pleading for a cease-fire, Israel is not | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
ruling out a much broader offensive if a Hamas attacks don't stop. | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
The choice ahead now for Israel is withdrawal or hit much harder. | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
At a meeting today, the UN warned that the population of Gaza is | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
facing a precipice and called upon the international community | :05:46. | :05:47. | |
A UN official in the region said his staff just couldn't cope. | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
So far, 1400 Palestinians have died in the conflict. | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
And 58 Israelis, all but two of them soldiers The UN estimates | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
that 425,000 Palestinians have been displaced by the fighting. | :06:03. | :06:10. | |
Our international correspondent Ian Pannell reports now | :06:11. | :06:12. | |
on the plight of some of those who have left their homes. | :06:13. | :06:23. | |
A rescue mission to a small town on the southern fringes of Gaza. A | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
front line between Israelis and militants. Every time the Red Cross | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
has tried to get in, they have been shot at. But this week, both sides | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
agreed to a brief cease-fire. We are just here to escort some | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
ambulances from the Palestinian society into, and rescue some | :06:48. | :06:56. | |
wounded people in this town and they have been isolated due to the | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
fighting drink the last few days. What is the situation that? | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
We do not know. It is on the border and it is very tense. | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
The Israelis refuse to let us in, but the team was given the all | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
clear. This town has been cut off by Israel and, many have died and the | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
few who could not escape are trapped. | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
The truce was brief. Unable to stay any longer, the Red Cross pulled | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
out. They recovered a handful of bodies and three elderly residents | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
hiding in the town. This woman is 95 years old. Her | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
family did not know that she was alive until two hours ago. They had | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
fled the fighting, but she was too old to run away at night, says she | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
spent five days living with a neighbour. | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
This 84-year-old man, barely able to stand, he also could not escape. | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
I cannot describe my feelings. It is horrible. We were living in fear for | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
five days. We could not contact them for five days, he barely can walk | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
alone. He can barely make food for himself. It was a nightmare. | :08:19. | :08:30. | |
We found that woman again today -- the man again today, lying on the | :08:31. | :08:32. | |
floor of the classroom that he shares with many others. | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
TRANSLATION: Don't me that life here is better. I want to go home. I was | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
born in that town, God willing, I will died there. | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
He was meant to stay in hospital longer, but they did not have the | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
space due to so many weird people. Before the conflict, there were | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
17,000 people being -- so many wounded people. Before the conflict, | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
there were 17,000 people being housed by the UN, now there are many | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
more thousands. In this school alone, there are more than five | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
dozen people living and taking shelter here. | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
-- 500 people. The UN says that few places are safe | :09:17. | :09:24. | |
any more. Does is beginning to feel near breaking point. Gaza is | :09:25. | :09:26. | |
beginning to feel. For more on the unfolding | :09:27. | :09:34. | |
humanitarian crisis in Gaz,a I'm She's the spokesperson | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
for the International Committee You were in Gaza last week. Tell me | :09:38. | :09:52. | |
what you saw. A group of seven colleagues from the | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
International Red Cross, we went into Gaza 12 days ago. The moment | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
that we went inside the street, there was heavy fighting taking | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
place. Being able to be in Gaza before, I was quite surprised, | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
because there was nobody industries, no people walking and there was a | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
lot of fighting, so then every day, the situation is happening. There is | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
a high intensity of combat taking place. Now it has a direct impact on | :10:24. | :10:33. | |
the civilian population. The combat is taking place in the north-east of | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
the Gaza Strip, as well as in the city of Gaza. The consequences of | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
this is that 350,000 people today are displaced. They were forced to | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
leave their houses to try and find a safe place in Gaza. If there is a | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
safe place. There are 7000 people who are wounded, and over a thousand | :10:56. | :11:04. | |
who have lost their lives. On the other hand, the infrastructure of | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
Gaza is going into a critical time now, because the power plant was | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
severely damaged a couple of days ago, so it was providing 30% of the | :11:14. | :11:21. | |
electricity in the Gaza Strip. The rest of the electricity was coming | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
from Israel or Egypt, depending on the alleged combines, where most of | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
the time they have been damaged or broken. -- of electrical lines. The | :11:30. | :11:36. | |
International Red Cross, we are working with the Palestinian | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
Authority 's. The more fighting that is taking place, we are finding that | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
our job is trying to do our best to evacuate the wounded to take them to | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
the hospital. That is one of the main activities. The other one is to | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
repair the infrastructure. The problem is that if we repair and | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
political line, as we did before, we managed to provide electricity for | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
800,000 Palestinians, the following day, though, the lines were damaged. | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
So it is very difficult to work under these circumstances. The | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
intensity of the combat is affecting the population directly. | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
This lack of electricity and power and water, as I understand, how was | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
that directly impacting on your attempts to treat people and to get | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
appropriate medical equipment into where you need to, such as | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
ambulances? The whole situation is the | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
infrastructure is not working. It makes the work of Palestinian | :12:41. | :12:48. | |
doctors and hospitals and any international humanitarian | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
organisation who are trying to provide, the work is getting more | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
and more difficult because of the situation. On the other hand, we | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
also need to talk about the psychological impact of this | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
conflict on the lives of thousands of Palestinians. The number of | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
children who unfortunately have lost their lives. Everyone is working | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
around the clock. Doctors and nurses. The ambulance drivers. | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
Everyone is offended by this conflict. So we are requesting -- | :13:20. | :13:27. | |
everyone is affected by this conflict. We are questing that the | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
Palestinians be able to take the wounded and the ill people to the | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
hospitals. We are finding that the different forces, that we have seven | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
ambulances, we need to go to a number of areas because we receive | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
so many phone calls. We want to go to the neighbourhood to take the | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
people out and taken to the hospital. Sometimes this task is a | :13:54. | :14:04. | |
huge challenge for the Palestine Society, because the fighting is | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
taking place. We need an agreement, we cannot risk the lives of our | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
people when they are trying to get the wounded out of those districts | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
where we know that the fighting is very intense. | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
We will have to leave it there. Thank you for sharing your memories | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
of having worked in Gaza. The spokesperson for the Red Cross. | :14:28. | :14:28. | |
Thank you. In eastern Ukraine, international | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
investigators have reached Fighting between government | :14:34. | :14:35. | |
and rebel forces had prevented them The investigators are from Australia | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
and the Netherlands. All 298 people on board died in | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
the plane crash earlier this month. 193 of them were Dutch, | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
27 of them were Australian. Dutch policeman Pieter Jaap | :14:47. | :14:56. | |
Aalbersberg is the head of the Flight 17 Recovery Mission and | :14:57. | :14:58. | |
explained what the team did today. The The experts have started the | :14:59. | :15:16. | |
search and today they have not seen anything. Once we get entry will | :15:17. | :15:26. | |
will -- we will try to search amongst the remains and personal | :15:27. | :15:27. | |
belongings. It is a positive development, but a | :15:28. | :15:47. | |
word of caution about how much we can read into it, because it is a | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
small mission, a reconnaissance mission today. Checking out the | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
site, some of the wreckage, possibly some of the human remains that are | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
still in that area of the countryside. But the real work can | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
only begin when the larger teams of Dutch and Australian police who are | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
several hours's drive from the main conflict zone, that is when the main | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
work will begin. First of all, to collect any human remains, victims | :16:17. | :16:24. | |
on board the flight and their belongings, only once they have done | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
that will be then investigate the wreckage in that large area of the | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
country in eastern Ukraine. Despite this positive step, as you call it, | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
what is the situation regarding the fighting in and around the crash | :16:38. | :16:48. | |
site and done yet? -- and Donetsk? They can only begin, when the | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
fighting dies down, possibly when the Ukrainian army takes control of | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
that site, but we believe that neither the Ukrainian army or the | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
rebels have control of that area of countryside completely. Donetsk is | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
the regional capital, it is held by pro-Russian rebels, it is being | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
shelled by the Ukrainian army, civilians inside the city have died | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
in the last few days. The fighting has intensified inside that city. | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
The Ukrainian army seems to have control of that territory around | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
those two cities, but of course taking either of those two cities | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
would be a lot harder and, of course, it will probably come at a | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
much higher human cost for any civilian population left ear, if and | :17:40. | :17:40. | |
when that happens. Now a look at some | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
of the days other news. The World Health Organisation is | :17:47. | :17:48. | |
launching a $100 million plan to combat the deadly Ebola outbreak | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
in West Africa. The WHO Director General will meet | :17:52. | :17:53. | |
Presidents of affected West African nations in Guinea on Friday to | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
outline a coordinated response. 729 people have already been | :17:57. | :17:58. | |
killed by the Ebola outbreak. Liberia and Sierra Leone have | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
announced broad emergency measures The European Court of Human Rights | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
has ruled that Russia must pay shareholders | :18:07. | :18:19. | |
in the former oil company Yukos It follows a similar court ruling | :18:20. | :18:21. | |
in The Hague that claimed Russian officials had manipulated the legal | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
system to bankrupt the company and jail its boss, the Kremlin | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Moscow has condemned the ruling | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
as politically motivated. Rescue workers in western India are | :18:32. | :18:44. | |
still trying to find survivors trapped under mud and debris after a | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
landslide destroyed a village. At least 30 people have been killed and | :18:48. | :18:49. | |
up to 200 were buried in Malin, near Like the iceberg, | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
most of the internet is out There are ways of using it, | :18:54. | :19:01. | |
and indeed many people do. And some use it to | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
sell illegal drugs. The BBC has learned that the amount | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
of illegal drugs listed for sale on the dark net appears to have more | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
than doubled in less than a year. Vacuum packed with a first-class | :19:16. | :19:33. | |
stamp, delivery guaranteed. Sam gets his cannabis through the post. He | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
used to buy it from a dealer on the street, now he simply logs onto the | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
so-called dark net and peas with untraceable bitcoins. His words are | :19:43. | :19:50. | |
spoken by an actor. I bought cannabis around every two or three | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
weeks from a street vendor, it was fairly terrifying. Practicality? | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
They do not even have to leave my house, I can click a button and it | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
will come the next day. Safety reasons, I do not have to reveal me | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
identity at all. No one will know who I am. I feel safe using it. | :20:10. | :20:17. | |
After months of negotiation we persuaded a dark net drug dealer in | :20:18. | :20:19. | |
California to talk to us but he would only do it anonymously and | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
using encrypted e-mail. He said... The FBI calls it the most | :20:23. | :20:48. | |
sophisticated market on the Internet. Last year the FBI closed | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
down the best-known drugs market on the Internet. Its founder was | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
arrested. But that has not stopped its trade. The and buyers use | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
special browsers and encrypted software. They are anonymous and | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
hard to trace. Which, for the authorities in the US, makes this | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
the front line. A sorting office in California, handling over 1 million | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
letters and parcels a month, each one x-rayed and inspected. | :21:19. | :21:25. | |
How often are you discovering illegal drugs? Daily. We find | :21:26. | :21:34. | |
something less it everyday. What they find here shows that it is a | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
truly global problem. We know that there is a trade in illegal drugs | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
from the USA to the UK, but Customs officials here say that it also | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
calls on the other direction. This they seized in the post, it is | :21:49. | :21:55. | |
synthetic methamphetamine and synthetic cannabis, packaged up and | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
sent by the Royal Mail. The crime agency says that it works closely | :22:01. | :22:10. | |
with the Royal Mail. They think that they might be doing online shopping, | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
they are wrong. They are committing crimes, they are working with | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
illegal drugs, they are fuelling the illegal drug trade. It may take some | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
time, they may be difficult to get at, but that does not mean that they | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
are out of our reach. But it does seem like more people like Sam will | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
continue to buy the drugs hidden in the dark net. | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
Now to some extraordinary images from Brazil. | :22:39. | :22:39. | |
A group of previously undiscovered indigenous people from the Amazon | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
has come face to face with a settled community of villagers for the first | :22:43. | :22:45. | |
time in the Brazilian state of Acre, according to authorities. | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
Experts believe the tribesmen may have left the safety of their tribe | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
owing to threats posed by illegal loggers or drug traffickers. | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
This is the moment it is believed an isolated tribe from the Amazon made | :22:55. | :23:13. | |
its first contact with the outside world. The meeting happened a month | :23:14. | :23:20. | |
ago. But the video was only released this week by the Brazilian | :23:21. | :23:22. | |
government. Seven indigenous young men made contact with the settled | :23:23. | :23:29. | |
community in this state of area Mack, near the border with police. | :23:30. | :23:44. | |
-- near the state of Acre. The men were filmed and warned not to take | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
anything for fear that they might fall ill. But they still took tools | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
and clothes. The group was already carrying objects. It is believed to | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
be had taken them from other villages. They retreated into the | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
forest and returned the next day. Coughing and sneezing, they had to | :24:06. | :24:12. | |
be treated for a cold. By choice, and contacted indigenous groups | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
don't normally reach out to people outside their trades, that is why | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
experts say that these men could possibly be looking for help. Some | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
speculate that team-mate have crossed -- that they might have | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
crossed the border from Peru under pressure from drug dealers or other | :24:30. | :24:31. | |
groups. Paris is not known for its wildlife, | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
but it very soon could be - The gardens of the Louvre Museum | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
have become infested by rats. And this real-life Ratatouille story | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
is less than a hit Elegant and scenic, what is not to | :24:42. | :24:55. | |
like about picture perfect Paris? This year's hot weather has brought | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
tourists and Parisien 's eight India droves -- Rizzi ins. -- tourist and | :25:01. | :25:14. | |
Parisiens out in the droves. TRANSLATION: There are a lot of | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
people who come here for a picnic and they leave leftovers. I think it | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
attracts them. I do not normally see rats. Real rats are not very good. | :25:24. | :25:33. | |
No, they are not, and that is why they exterminate us have been | :25:34. | :25:35. | |
brought in, but the task is proving difficult. There are lots of places | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
to duck and dive and the rats have been getting a helping hand from | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
some animal lovers. They have been digging up the poison and even | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
feeding them water. Some believe that it is the Ratatouille effect, | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
the story about the rat who wins over Paris with his food. But this | :25:58. | :26:11. | |
is another matter. They are no MS! Re-manger of -- | :26:12. | :26:23. | |
recap of the main news. The Pentagon has said that the | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
conflict in Gaza has been killing and wounding to many civilians. The | :26:29. | :26:35. | |
White House said that Israel's shelling of the United Nations | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
school sheltering Palestinian civilians was totally indefensible | :26:42. | :26:44. | |
and an acceptable. Next, the weather, but from me and | :26:45. | :26:47. | |
the rest of the team, goodbye. Hello. There will be some thundery | :26:48. | :27:01. | |
showers rumbling around this evening and then it turns a little bit | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
quieter. One night, followed by another day of sunny spells and | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
showers, but cloud will gather towards the West. We | :27:12. | :27:15. |