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This is BBC World News Today with me Daniela Ritorto. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
The atrocities in Syria's war laid bare | :00:08. | :00:09. | |
The United Nations accuses government forces and Islamic State | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
fighters of massacres and causing immeasurable suffering to civilians. | :00:16. | :00:26. | |
Children mostly boys from the age of 14, are recruited and trained to | :00:27. | :00:34. | |
fight in the ranks of IIS, along with others. | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
Yet more setbacks to settling the disputed Afghan presidential | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
We'll look at the consequences of the failure to finalise the result. | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
A new rebel front opens up in Ukraine. | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
Pro-Russian forces roll into a coastal town in the south | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
Most of us would be happy to get to our 80th birthdays but how | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
We meet the couple and find out the secret of their success. | :00:55. | :01:06. | |
We do love each other. The most useful thing is, as long as I agree | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
with her, then I am safe. Graphic details of mass atrocities | :01:13. | :01:23. | |
in Syria have been detailed in a damning UN report, | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
blaming both Islamic State militants The report says public executions | :01:29. | :01:30. | |
are a "common spectacle" in areas under IS control - along | :01:31. | :01:38. | |
with amputations and whippings. The UN is also scathing of Syrian | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
government forces - saying they drop barrel bombs and chlorine gas | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
on civilian neighbourhoods. Attention is now turning to whether | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
the US which is targeting Islamic State with airstrikes in Iraq will | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
extend their campaign to Syria. We do not know his age, but this | :01:54. | :02:18. | |
looks like a boy. Firing and American howitzer captured by | :02:19. | :02:26. | |
Islamic State extremists. The exact circumstances of the video cannot be | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
verified but the United Nations is clear, Islamic State relies on | :02:30. | :02:30. | |
massive recruitment of fighters as young as 15. The group which | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
beheaded the American journalist is accused of using a systematic terror | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
against civilians, especially children. Among the most disturbing | :02:38. | :02:46. | |
findings in this report and accounts of large training camps were | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
children, mostly boys from the age of 14, I recruited and trained to | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
fight in the ranks of ices along with others. The latest UN report | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
documents crimes against you manage to buy both rebels and the Syrian | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
government. But it is the increasing abuses by the Islamic State which | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
are highlighted this time. In areas they control, executions in public | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
are common spectacle. In some cases passers-by are forced to watch. IIS | :03:18. | :03:25. | |
also executed several boys, reportedly members of rival armed | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
groups. The UN accepts that bodies are placed on crucifixes for up to | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
three days to warn residents. Both the Syrian government and the | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
Islamic Revolution are abusing children by using them as soldiers | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
and spies which particularly troubles the UN. The UN worries that | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
US strikes could kill many boys soldiers and kidnap victims, warning | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
the US that any decision to bomb must respect the laws of war. The UN | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
stresses that President Assad's government forces continue their war | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
crimes, among those indiscriminate barrel bombing of civilian areas | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
along with chlorine gas attacks. The UN can see no end in sight, all | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
sides are engaged in fierce fighting well none appears capable of | :04:18. | :04:19. | |
achieving outright military victory. Meanwhile the American journalist | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
who spent two years in captivity after being kidnapped in Syria, says | :04:24. | :04:25. | |
he's been overwhelmed with emotion after learning of how many people | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
helped secure his release. Peter Theo Curtis had been held by the | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
militant group the Al-Nusrah Front. He's now returned to his mother's | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
home in Cambridge in Massachussets I had no idea when I was imprisoned | :04:35. | :04:48. | |
that so much effort was being expended on my behalf. No idea when | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
I was imprisoned that so much effort was being expended on my behalf. And | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
I am overwhelmed that total strangers have been coming up to me | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
in saying, welcome home, we're glad you are safe. Great to see you. I | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
suddenly remember how good the American people are and what | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
kindness they have in their hearts. To all those people I see a huge | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
thank you from the bottom of my heart. That was the free postage | :05:18. | :05:19. | |
Peter Theo Curtis. -- Freed hostage. Another US journalist, | :05:20. | :05:27. | |
31-year-old Steven Sotloff, is still being held by Islamic militants | :05:28. | :05:29. | |
from the group Islamic State. His mother, Shirley, has released | :05:30. | :05:31. | |
a video appealing directly to His mother, Shirley, has released | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
a video appealing directly to He is a loyal, brother, son and grandson. | :05:39. | :05:46. | |
We have not seen Steven for over a year and we miss him very much. We | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
want to see him home safe and sound to hug him. Since his capture, I | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
have learned a lot about Islam. I have learned that Islam teaches no | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
individual should be held responsible for the sins of others. | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
Steven has no controls over the actions of the US governments. | :06:07. | :06:20. | |
Here's an innocent journalist. The Israeli Prime Minister has gone on | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
television to say that Hamas has been hit hard with none of its | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
demands are met. He said Israel would respond if there was further | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
rocket fire. Hamas meanwhile has been holding a victory rally in | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
Gaddy where its leader praised the families of those whose relatives | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
died during the conflict. Trucks from the world food programme had | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
crossed into Gaza, the first time they have done so from Egypt in | :06:49. | :06:50. | |
seven years. Yet another setback | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
in resolving the disputed Afghan After one of the candidates, | :06:54. | :06:55. | |
Dr Abdullah Abdullah boycotted His supporters allege massive fraud, | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
saying that hundreds of thousands of false ballots were | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
cast for his rival Ashraf Ghani. The UN are now continuing | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
the audit alone. Tensions are high as Afghanistan | :07:05. | :07:20. | |
still struggles to find a winner in an election which began back in | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
April. Minor fights between rival party workers are daily events in | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
the warehouses where the recount is taking place. Now one of the | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
candidates, Abdullah Abdullah, has walked out seeing fraud has not been | :07:37. | :07:44. | |
dealt with. Our team have decided to boycott the recount process. Whoever | :07:45. | :07:52. | |
is for awarding this process, that is their problem, we in our team | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
will withdraw ourselves from is their problem, we in our team | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
process. The audit will go ahead without workers from the other camp | :08:02. | :08:09. | |
either. Ashraf Ghani held a meeting with US forces here. He has agreed | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
with the UN request to pull out of the process, they say they want a | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
level playing field. Doctor Abdul APPLAUSE | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
Was powerful ally is the former warlord working out in a gym at | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
home. He is now a successful businessman. | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
He is surrounded by mementos from his past. If the fraud goes on, he | :08:34. | :08:44. | |
is threatening a wave of protests. An orange movements, effectively a | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
revolution. TRANSLATION: If they are not clever enough to listen to the | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
voice of the people, we will start an orange movements, we will occupy | :08:54. | :09:01. | |
public buildings. Meeting supporters from across the country he promised | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
that any action would be peaceful. But in this land where violence | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
often breaks out, this may not be possible. This man said if they are | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
not listened to, they will do what they did against the Russians and | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
the Taliban. They will do the same thing against fraudulent | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
governments. The decision by Abdul APPLAUSE | :09:26. | :09:27. | |
Team to withdraw from the audit process means many Afghans will not | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
accept that it is fear and it makes the prospect of street protests far | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
more likely. The breakdown in law and order will | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
only encourage the Taliban and make international donors cut funds more | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
quickly. Julia to deal with the fraud here could have dire | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
consequences. -- failure to deal with. | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
Marvin Weinbaum is a former Afghanistan analyst with | :09:59. | :10:00. | |
He's now a scholar-in-residence at the Middle East Institute | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
This is much more than just a power struggle from two men. He says it | :10:04. | :10:16. | |
has dire consequences for Afghanistan, would you agree? But | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
yes, of course. If there is a failure to gain a new government to | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
come out of this process, with a government which has legitimacy, | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
this is going to be a real setback. It is a question as to whether the | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
international community would be willing to meet its obligations | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
towards Afghanistan without which it is hard to see how Afghanistan will | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
be a viable country economically and in its ability to fend off the | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
Taliban. There is something deeper here. That is we have to worry about | :10:54. | :11:05. | |
the possibility of actual Civil War. When this warlord speaks about | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
breaking away, this is the view of many. This is a Preludes to the | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
eventual splitting of the country and it is hard to believe that under | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
those circumstances, once again this country will be able to survive | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
politically and certainly not economically. Can we turn our | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
attention to this thought process. How do we know where their doctor | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
Abdullah Abdullah has a legitimate great? Does he know he has lost and | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
is trying to extract maximum concessions? I think that is | :11:44. | :11:51. | |
probably the case. This could well be a bargaining position, he has | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
done it before, in which he is not pleased with the rules that have | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
been made out by the UN. He sees those rules as leading to | :12:02. | :12:09. | |
disqualification of Ashraf Ghani's votes which will not be a sufficient | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
size to reverse the initial outcome of the election. This is its way to | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
perhaps be able to get a different set of standards which would then | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
leave many more votes questionable as to their validity. Most observers | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
have a sense now that Ashraf Ghani will emerge. The real question will | :12:33. | :12:40. | |
be whether, if that is the case, the two sides can nevertheless agree on | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
a unity government in which Doctor Abdullah Abdullah will have | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
sufficient authority as a chief executive search that his people | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
will not feel they have lost. You're sitting in Washington's, -- | :12:56. | :13:04. | |
Washington, can John Kerry play anymore in this day you think? He | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
has done it twice when he has anymore in this day you think? He | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
intervenes, I would not be surprised if he tries again. It seems this | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
time you can just play there's so many times. Now that Ashraf Ghani | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
has stepped out of the process, many times. Now that Ashraf Ghani | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
really is in the hands of the UN. If the UN can make a | :13:30. | :13:30. | |
really is in the hands of the UN. If the credible case for the fact that | :13:31. | :13:37. | |
it has done as good a job as it cute and then disqualifying various | :13:38. | :13:38. | |
candidates, then I believe the and then disqualifying various | :13:39. | :13:47. | |
that. Whether the followers of Abdullah Gul will do so is another | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
question. I believe he understands the consequences of this coming | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
apart and the consequences of this coming | :13:58. | :14:07. | |
analysis here on the BBC. Many thanks. | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
Here in the UK, there's outcry over the way the authorities failed to | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
deal with years of organised sexual abuse by gangs of men in Rotherham | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
a sixteen year period - up until last year. | :14:18. | :14:30. | |
1400 victims of sexual exploitation in one town. | :14:31. | :14:41. | |
Today, the people of Rotherham are trying to understand how such crimes | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
could have been committed here, and why those in authority ignored | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
I can't believe that's been going on for so long, so many years, | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
My friends are on the street at ten o'clock at that. | :14:55. | :15:06. | |
I would be terrified, just because of the amount of people out there. | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
Seeing it. White girls with them. | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
She says she was groomed by men in Rotherham from the age of 12. | :15:16. | :15:22. | |
The sexual exploitation began a year later. | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
She told police she had been raped several times. | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
These perpetrators make you feel like it isn't a crime, | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
it is just life, that's how it is, and that you are worthless. | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
The police, with their response, just backed that up. | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
So you sort of feel like you are overreacting, and maybe that is just | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
Most of the perpetrators were men of Pakistani origin, but some staff | :15:44. | :15:51. | |
at the council feared speaking up, afraid of being called racist. | :15:52. | :16:00. | |
He thinks abusers should be treated like any other criminals, | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
whatever their ethnic or religious background. | :16:08. | :16:09. | |
It is like a bomb has been dropped in Rotherham. | :16:10. | :16:16. | |
There are people who feel it isn't broken yet, and it will break | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
further if we don't deal with it in a proper manner. | :16:20. | :16:21. | |
Crime has been able to happen because of political correctness. | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
The pressure has been mounting on Shaun Wright, | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
now the elected Police and Crime Commissioner, | :16:30. | :16:31. | |
but for five years, he was the cabinet member for | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
the children's services in Rotherham. | :16:39. | :16:39. | |
When you are part of the 63-member council you take collective | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
Some at the council hoped a detailed report would help clear the air. | :16:45. | :16:53. | |
For the victims, all of the many apologies so far will not be enough. | :16:54. | :17:01. | |
Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine have pushed their way | :17:02. | :17:10. | |
into the coastal town of Novoazovsk after three days of shelling. | :17:11. | :17:12. | |
The town lies on the road from Russia to the key port city | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
of Mariupol, it's the first significant fighting along the | :17:16. | :17:17. | |
Meanwhile, fighting is also continuing further north around | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
Our correspondent in Kiev David Stern joins me now. | :17:22. | :17:31. | |
And when did the southern coastal part of the come back into play? | :17:32. | :17:40. | |
That is the question, it came back this week, many questions raised | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
about how this happened, because this really was under control of the | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
government forces until now and was fairly quiet for the last month and | :17:50. | :17:57. | |
stop but suddenly, rebel forces, or fighters we should say, came into | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
this period to launch a major counteroffensive, and making | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
headway, and the accusation by the Ukrainians and Western officials | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
from the United States, just a few moments ago, is this is an | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
encouraging from Russia, and indications from Western reporters | :18:16. | :18:22. | |
this is the case, but what will happen with father fighting, with | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
three fronts going, and whether this can be counter acted. And the | :18:30. | :18:37. | |
significance is this could be a way to get a road into the Crimea? | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
Exactly, the southern area is important, the southern coastal | :18:44. | :18:53. | |
area, it also can provide a land bridge we are Crimea is attached to | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
the Ukraine, but could also provide another supply route for the rebels, | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
as well as giving them a larger easier of land. The Ukrainians are | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
adamant this is a race in directive, if not actually Russian | :19:10. | :19:16. | |
forces, although Russia denies this. We have seen ten Russian | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
paratroopers arrested and detained yesterday and overnight. They said | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
they took a wrong turn, but they were 25 kilometres within Ukraine, | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
Ukrainian officials using this as evidence to sure this is a Russian | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
troop invasion of Ukraine. Thank you, as always. | :19:39. | :19:40. | |
A nine year-old girl in the US has accidentally killed her shooting | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
instructor while being shown how to use a high-powered automatic weapon. | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
The child was having a lesson at a firing range in Arizona, | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
when she pulled the trigger on an Uzi submachine gun | :19:50. | :19:51. | |
Just nine years old, with a loaded machine gun in her hands. | :19:52. | :20:06. | |
Turn this leg forward, just like that. | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
The little girl is shown how to fire the lethal weapon. | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
Moments later, unable to control the gun's recoil, | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
she accidentally shoots the instructor. | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
Charles Vacca, a 39-year-old former soldier, | :20:25. | :20:36. | |
was airlifted to hospital, but died shortly afterwards. | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
The shooting range, known as Bullets and Burgers, | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
is marketed as a family day out to include lunch | :20:43. | :20:44. | |
and the choice of more than 20 automatic weapons to fire. | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
It has been defending the policy of allowing children to handle guns. | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
A nine-year-old gets an uzi in her hand, within the criteria. | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
We instruct kids as young as five and they can handle firearms under | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
the supervision of their parents and our professional range masters. | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
The tragedy has reignited the controversy | :21:06. | :21:07. | |
Many Americans cherish their right to bear arms, | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
but the debate over whether that right | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
should be shared by the nation's children, is intensifying. | :21:17. | :21:29. | |
A couple from the English coastal town of | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
Bournemouth are celebrating their 80th wedding anniversary today. | :21:36. | :21:37. | |
Maurice and Helen Kaye, who are both more than 100 years old, | :21:38. | :21:39. | |
Duncan Kennedy has been to meet them to find out the secret | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
A lifetime spent having the time of their lives. | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
Maurice and Helen Kaye believe they have | :21:49. | :21:50. | |
Today celebrating eight decades of marriage. | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
Did you think then this could last 80 years? | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
I didn't think it would last the week. | :21:59. | :22:09. | |
Helen 101. Maurice 102. | :22:10. | :22:10. | |
After about three hours, my mother said to me, | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
They then courted for four years and married on this day in 1934. | :22:17. | :22:30. | |
What is the secret of this long happy marriage? | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
We are very tolerant of each other and we do love each other. | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
The most useful thing is, as long as I agree with her, then I am safe. | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
80 years ago, in 1934, bread was tuppence a loaf. | :22:45. | :22:57. | |
Helen and Maurice never once forgot their | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
And if you have to give in a little bit, so you give in a little bit. | :23:04. | :23:12. | |
You have to give in a little bit, as she says, she gives in a little bit. | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
Four generations of family have come from 80 years of marriage, known | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
Certainly, Maurice and Helen Kaye have the longest of roots, grounded | :23:20. | :23:27. | |
Duncan Kennedy, BBC News, in Bournemouth. | :23:28. | :23:47. | |
What a beautiful story. Congratulations to them. | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
This time yesterday, we told you about British singer | :23:51. | :23:52. | |
Kate Bush returning to the stage after 35 years. | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
She was back on the same stage she performed on in 1979 at | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
We spoke to some of those as they left the concert. | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
# When I was a child Running in the night | :24:04. | :24:06. | |
Absolutely everybody was on their feet. | :24:07. | :24:16. | |
A dream come true. Absolutely amazing. | :24:17. | :24:17. | |
# The hounds of love are hunting... # | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
It's spectacular. It's worth waiting 35 years for. | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
I'm from New Jersey, United States, it was fantastic, spectacular. | :24:29. | :24:30. | |
It was like a rock show, a theatre show, everything, it was wonderful. | :24:31. | :24:39. | |
It was theatrical, it was just out of this world. | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
There was puppetry, video, videos, it was like a piece of theatre it | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
We have waited 35 years to see this, so we are very excited. | :24:50. | :25:02. | |
We were too young last time. Yeah. | :25:03. | :25:04. | |
and she was part of my teenage years, so all of her here and all | :25:05. | :25:31. | |
Visual, hearing, taste, your whole body was on a sensation. | :25:32. | :25:40. | |
It just shows what an inspiration Kate Bush is. | :25:41. | :25:47. | |
To visualise her music and lyrics in that way was outstanding. | :25:48. | :25:55. | |
And I need to see that show five more times to see all the | :25:56. | :25:58. | |
It was outstanding and it will be a memory that is with | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
Some very happy Kate Bush fans there. | :26:03. | :26:12. | |
The United Nations has published graphic details of what | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
its says are atrocities by both sides in the conflict in Syria. | :26:18. | :26:20. | |
The latest UN human rights report says that jihadists of the | :26:21. | :26:22. | |
Islamic State group carry out frequent public executions that | :26:23. | :26:24. | |
the population, including children, is forced to watch. | :26:25. | :26:26. | |
At the same time, the UN says Syrian government forces drop barrel bombs | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
and chlorine gas from helicopters. That is it from the programme. Next | :26:31. | :26:40. | |
is the weather. Some mixed fortunes across the | :26:41. | :27:05. | |
British Isles tomorrow. Some spells of Warren sunshine, but some hefty | :27:06. | :27:06. |