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This is BBC World News Today with me, Alice Baxter. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
A setback for Ukrainian forces as they're forced to withdraw | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
Pro-Russian separatists have made gains in the east of the country - | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
Ukraine's President has accused Moscow of direct | :00:16. | :00:17. | |
Iraqi Government forces drive Islamic State militants | :00:18. | :00:24. | |
from the town of Amerli - we report on what life's been | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
A Railway at War everything is safe, but we have a huge at work to do to | :00:27. | :00:40. | |
restore this town back to what it was. | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
The British Prime Minister unveils new powers to stop | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
Britons going abroad to fight with terrorist groups. | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
A Railway at War we will introduce legislation to fill this gap by | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
providing police with temporary powers to seize a passport. They | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
will be able to investigate individuals. | :01:00. | :01:00. | |
We'll have all the comings and goings on football's transfer | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
deadline day - the window closes in a few hours' time. | :01:04. | :01:18. | |
Ukrainian forces fighting separatists in the east | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
of the country have been forced to retreat from the strategically | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
important airport at Luhansk after they were attacked by a column | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
Kiev says it is also sending reinforcements to fight separatists | :01:31. | :01:37. | |
in the north-eastern port city of Mariupol. | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
Ukraine's President has again accused Russia | :01:42. | :01:43. | |
of launching direct and open agression on the eastern region. | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
But the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, denies there has | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
been any military intervention, calling for "a peaceful settlement" | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
Meanwhile, President Putin says Ukraine is refusing to engage in | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
What is the essence of the tragedy that is happening now in Ukraine? I | :02:01. | :02:17. | |
think the main reason is that the key authorities do not want to | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
conduct substantive political dialogue with the east of the | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
country. Now is the beginning of a very important process, the process | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
of direct negotiations. We have been working on it for a long time and we | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
agree with President Poroshenko, such contacts are starting now. | :02:36. | :02:36. | |
our correspondent Mike Wooldridge has this report. | :02:37. | :02:44. | |
In the restive region now at the centre of a progressively | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
intensifying diplomatic crisis, pro-Russian separatists prepare to | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
fight. One of their leaders said they were heading to Donetsk | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
airport, shut at the end of May after clashes between the rebels and | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
Government forces. It has been under control of the military ever since. | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
Today, Russia's Foreign Minister repeated Moscow's denials of direct | :03:07. | :03:14. | |
involvement in a new global push. He said talks on the Ukraine crisis is | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
taking place today in Minsk were mainly about an imminent and | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
unconditional cease-fire. But international concern now focusing | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
on the key port city of Mariupol, its defence is being reinforced | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
because it is only a short distance from the swathe of territory seized | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
by separatists in recent days. Residents of Mariupol took to the | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
streets yesterday to protest and to pray for peace. The Ukrainian | :03:44. | :03:53. | |
President used a gathering of military cadets to accuse Russia of | :03:54. | :03:55. | |
what he called direct and open aggression against his country. He | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
said it had radically changed the situation in the zone of conflict. | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
The US and Europe have also challenged -- charged rusher with | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
sending its own troops to intervene. But the OSCE said today it was hard | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
to confirm the presence of regular Russian forces within Ukrainian | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
territory. That said, Australia has stepped up its sanctions against | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
Russia. I want to make it clear, the bullying of small nations by big | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
ones and assertions that might bullying of small nations by big | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
right should have no place in our world. In the latest developments on | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
the ground, Ukrainian officials say the troops have retreated from the | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
airport close to this, the rebel stronghold of Luhansk, after coming | :04:46. | :04:46. | |
under artillery fire. The German Chancellor, Angel Merkel, | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
has said it was now clear that the conflict in Eastern Ukraine had | :04:50. | :04:51. | |
never been an internal one, Let's talk about this radical change | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
correspondent, Bridget Kendall. Let's talk about this radical change | :04:55. | :05:07. | |
we have seen on the battle Let's talk about this radical change | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
does seem to be an Let's talk about this radical change | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
turnaround. Ukrainian to say this is about Russian troops coming over the | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
turnaround. Ukrainian to say this is is typical of President Putin when | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
there is a setback, you will remember when the ousted President | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
Fred -- fled from the Ukraine, there is a pause and then he goes on the | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
offensive. In that case, he took over Crimea. It does seem that the | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
pictures of Russian hardware and troops coming over the border, and | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
it is the case that Ukrainian forces are having to retreat, they seem to | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
be very worried in Kiev that they are on the back foot. Moscow | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
consistently saying they are not directly involved, but what do you | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
think is the strategic thinking of the Kremlin? Mr Putin and his | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
advisers keep saying we do not want to break up Ukraine or invade | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
Ukraine. Maybe they really do mean that because it looks as though what | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
they want to do is to make President Poroshenko realise he cannot win | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
this war, that Russia is too powerful ally for the rebels to let | :06:14. | :06:15. | |
that happen. And powerful ally for the rebels to let | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
no choice but to reach a peace deal on Russia's terms. That brings us to | :06:22. | :06:30. | |
no choice but to reach a peace deal talks, what Mr Putin wants is an | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
agreement that bubble leaders in southeastern Ukraine should have a | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
new status, which would give it a veto over important decisions in | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
Kiev, which would give Russia a leverage to influence what happens | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
in Kiev. Timing is important, this is on the eve of the NATO summit. | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
Maybe Mr Putin is sending a message to the Ukrainian leader. Not to rely | :06:52. | :07:03. | |
on NATO. We are seeing a softening of the tone coming out | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
on NATO. We are seeing a softening conflict. Do you think that this | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
plan you suggest of Mr Putin will actually work? I am not sure. He may | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
think he is offering a decent deal to President Poroshenko, he is just | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
saying that perhaps the root not break away, they just want more | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
autonomy. But there is so little now. Kiev will be worried that this | :07:27. | :07:33. | |
is a way of Russia poking its nose into Ukrainian politics. Besides | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
which, when you try and force a position through threats, they and | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
the European leaders may just think, Mr Putin is too dangerous, we have | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
to stand up to him. We already know that tougher sanctions are around | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
the corner and there will be intense debate on how we should help Ukraine | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
inside the EU and inside NATO. How worried do you think Mr Putin and | :07:58. | :07:59. | |
the Kremlin generally will be by those comments from Angela Merkel? | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
Not that worried. The general view of the Kremlin is that this is an | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
existential fight for them, they see Ukraine as part of Russia's broader | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
sense of itself, they are prepared to go to the end on this and I think | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
Europe will either be divided or it will care too much about trade and | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
relations with Russia, and in the end, this will get resolved | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
diplomatically and they will get their way. | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
The Iraqi Army, backed by Shia militias and Kurdish | :08:31. | :08:32. | |
fighters, is continuing its biggest offensive so far against | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
Islamic State jihadists to try to win back towns and territory. | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
The UN says about 1,400 people were killed | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
The BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse managed to get into the town of Amerli, | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
where thousands of people had been trapped for months. | :08:50. | :09:08. | |
This is the first time in two months that we have been able to go down | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
this road. We are skirting round Amerli to the East and trying to | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
come at it from there, because of two are right, there are still | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
pockets of Islamic State fighters. We are off dust everywhere, heading | :09:27. | :09:34. | |
along a bumpy road. What we do not know is what we will find at the end | :09:35. | :09:42. | |
of this, in Amerli. This is it, the entrance to Amerli, and these are | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
the men who held out for two months, surrounded by Islamic State | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
fighters. They say everything is OK now, everything is safe, but we have | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
a huge amount of work to do to restore this time back to what it | :09:56. | :10:05. | |
was. -- this town. These are incredibly emotional scenes. This | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
commander who calls himself the son of Iraq, has not seen his family for | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
two months. There have been tears, hugs and kisses, reuniting with his | :10:16. | :10:26. | |
father and family. This woman is expanding to me how they survived | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
those two long months. She would bake bread here in oven. But as | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
fuel, they had to use cow dung. She has just been showing me. Down here, | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
the cow dung is what they had to use as fuel, to fire the oven. The | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
water, they had to rely on this tiny borehole over here. This tiny little | :10:53. | :11:00. | |
hole in the ground is where they got their water from. She is saying that | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
at times, they did not have enough milk for their babies and they ran | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
out of flour, and life was very tough. | :11:11. | :11:11. | |
British police will be given temporary powers to seize passports | :11:12. | :11:13. | |
at UK borders of British citizens they believe are travelling abroad | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
The Prime Minister says airlines will now be legally obliged to | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
hand over passenger lists to help identify Islamist fighters. | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
David Cameron told Parliament that the terrorist threat | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
from the Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq poses a direct | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
Our deputy political editor, James Landale, reports. | :11:34. | :11:44. | |
No one knows how may Britons like these are fighting for Islamic State | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
in Syria and Iraq. Some officials say about 500, others think it might | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
be more. What we all agree is that some will pose a huge security | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
threat if they return home. David Cameron's security people do not | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
like him walk into Westminster, but today, just days after the threat | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
level was raised to severe, the Prime Minister marched down | :12:10. | :12:11. | |
Whitehall to tell MPs that threat from British jihadis was real. I | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
have said all along there should not be a knee jerk reaction or the | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
introduction of sweeping new powers that would ultimately be | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
ineffective. That is not what those who work so hard to keep us safe | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
want. They want a targeted approach that reflects a forensics focus on | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
the threat we face. He announced the police would have temporary new | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
powers to save -- sees passports. Airlines would have to hand over | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
more information about passenger lists earlier, and security services | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
would be given back the power to relocate terror suspects away from | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
their home towns, power they have had until control orders were | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
abolished. But it was clear that the coalition parties had been unable to | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
agree on plans to stop British fighters returning home. We are | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
clear that what we need is a targeted discretionary power to | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
allow us to exclude British nationals from the UK and we will | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
work up proposals on this basis with our agencies in line with our | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
obligations and discuss the details on a cross-party basis. In other | :13:17. | :13:28. | |
words, after days of warning about the threats from British jihadis, | :13:29. | :13:30. | |
there is still no agreement about how to stop them coming home. The | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
Government is constrained by law and politics. We have been listening to | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
this for over a decade, it does not replace charges, evidence, proof and | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
prison. The Government insists these announcements are not the whole | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
story. These threats will only be resolved by political change on the | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
ground. But that will not be coming soon. | :13:50. | :13:50. | |
To Pakistan now, where there's been a day of violent clashes in the | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
capital, Islamabad, as protestors continue to press their calls | :13:54. | :13:55. | |
for the country's Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, to step down. | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
At one point they occupied the headquarters of state | :14:00. | :14:01. | |
broadcaster PTV, but were eventually ousted by security forces. | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
With the very latest, here's Shazeb Jillani. | :14:08. | :14:14. | |
Angry, violent and determined to get rid of the Pakistani Prime Minister. | :14:15. | :14:24. | |
These protesters met with resistance when they stormed the headquarters | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
of PTV. Once inside, they went on the rampage, smashing broadcast | :14:30. | :14:38. | |
equipment and harassing staff. Protesters have managed to barge | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
their way into PTV headquarters and they have made their way into some | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
of the newsrooms. They are armed with sticks and the important thing | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
is, we must remain calm, there is no reason to panic at this stage. Soon | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
after, troops arrived and cleared the building. The protesters welcome | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
the soldiers and shouted slogans in favour of the Pakistani army. The | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
channel is now back on favour of the Pakistani army. The | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
troops are now guarding the building. What this incident shows | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
is that unless this confrontation is resolved peacefully, things can get | :15:13. | :15:13. | |
out of hand. The Pakistani army has asked | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
the government to resolve But without resorting to use | :15:18. | :15:19. | |
of force. The Army's position appears to | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
have emboldened the protesters. Earlier today, they pushed forward | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
towards government buildings, The protesters now occupy more | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
and more space on this main road He said he has used it on policemen, | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
but in his defence. The government has said the Prime | :15:37. | :15:53. | |
Minister will not resign, but it is running out of options to resolve | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
this confrontation peacefully. With me is Shahid Sadullah, a | :15:59. | :16:07. | |
commentator on Pakistani politics. Who is behind these protests? Do | :16:08. | :16:24. | |
these opposition figures really enjoy mass popular support? The | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
turnout in the demonstrations that have been going on have not been as | :16:32. | :16:41. | |
massive as they were originally claimed to be. Imran Khan is a | :16:42. | :16:42. | |
popular politician. claimed to be. Imran Khan is a | :16:43. | :16:51. | |
8 million votes in the last election. But addressing your | :16:52. | :17:00. | |
question, who is behind this? The common perception is that Imran | :17:01. | :17:11. | |
Khan's demands are for the resignation of the Prime Minister, | :17:12. | :17:19. | |
which is where everything has got stuck. Other demands have been | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
agreed upon. That demand is so extreme that there is no | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
constitutional way of solving it. Pakistan has spent 33 years of its | :17:31. | :17:37. | |
60 years of independence under military rule. The most common | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
conclusion is that the Armed Forces will be behind it. The president of | :17:43. | :17:59. | |
the party of Imran Khan has left over the differences in strategy. He | :18:00. | :18:07. | |
is quoted as saying that Imran Khan has said the Army was behind this. | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
The storming of the television station came after two weeks of | :18:13. | :18:21. | |
protests. People are asking if this could have happened without the | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
consent of the Army? The government itself has been very slow in acting. | :18:26. | :18:33. | |
It should originally... These troubles should have been taken care | :18:34. | :18:46. | |
of much earlier. Protesters were killed and the government refused to | :18:47. | :18:53. | |
launch an investigation. Imran Khan has been saying that the elections | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
were not really free of malpractice. He has been seeing this the better | :19:01. | :19:08. | |
part of 13 or 14 months. That demand has never really been addressed. | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
There has been a lot that has been going on. Thank you for talking to | :19:15. | :19:16. | |
us. Now a look at some | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
of the day's other news. A couple who removed their | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
seriously ill son from hospital in Britain are in a Spanish jail after | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
refusing to return back to the UK. A judge in Madrid has ruled that | :19:26. | :19:28. | |
the couple must be held while the court considers whether to grant | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
Britain an extradition request. Five-year-old Ashya | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
King has brain cancer. His family say they took him | :19:38. | :19:39. | |
to Spain in search Iran's President, Hassan Rouhani, | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
has urged his country's clerics to be more tolerant of the internet | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
and new technologies. In a speech broadcast on Iranian | :19:49. | :19:50. | |
television, Mr Rouhani said the internet was | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
vital to connect with the world of science, and the younger generation | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
should not be denied access to it. Edinburgh Zoo says it fears that | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
the UK's only female giant panda Keepers say Tian Tian is now | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
past her due date and hormone They say there is still a remote | :20:06. | :20:15. | |
chance the panda might give birth this year but the evidence suggests | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
it is more likely to be bad news. Now, for those of you looking for | :20:19. | :20:26. | |
that little something extra in your In China, it seems, | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
brides-and-grooms-to-be want a bit more than just | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
a nice record of the day. John Sudworth reports | :20:36. | :20:37. | |
on the country's booming industry It is a photo shoot guaranteed | :20:38. | :20:39. | |
to take the breath away. China's buoyant, | :20:40. | :20:55. | |
booming economy has seen a splurge in wedding spending in | :20:56. | :20:57. | |
recent years and with it has come a It is special for us because a lot | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
of couples choose original styles, I think underwater is more | :21:02. | :21:09. | |
beautiful for the couple, I think. If you can't afford time off work | :21:10. | :21:21. | |
for those special images, then why These photos of a paramilitary | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
police officer and his wife recently Unlike in the West, couples have | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
their main set of photographs taken well in advance of the wedding | :21:32. | :21:42. | |
and with more than half a million registered wedding photographers | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
countrywide, competition is fierce. In Shanghai alone, there are dozens | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
of studios with the special tanks China might not have invented | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
the genre, but it has caught on fast as old traditions are | :21:55. | :22:04. | |
swamped by a flood of new ones. This photo shoot is costing this | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
couple a little more than US$300, but with some ten million Chinese | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
couples tying the knot each year, that spending soon adds up | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
and the industry today is worth That is more than | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
the total output of some European economies and includes all wedding | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
spending, ceremonies, For photographers who want to hang | :22:29. | :22:35. | |
onto their share of it, spotting the next new trend may | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
decide whether they sink or swim. Now to football and the clock is | :22:39. | :22:47. | |
ticking for clubs to sign that new star player with the transfer window | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
closing across Europe within hours. English clubs such as | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
Manchester United have already spent a record $1.3 billion | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
on new players this year. Tulsen Tollett has all the latest | :23:00. | :23:01. | |
news from the BBC Sport Centre. There are only a few hours left in a | :23:02. | :23:21. | |
transfer window. It has been a busy day. Manchester United, Falcao, that | :23:22. | :23:39. | |
is the biggest one. $10 million. Manchester United will pay on a | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
permanent deal if everything works out for Falcao at Old Trafford, that | :23:43. | :23:50. | |
is $72 million. That is not an eye watering amount of money for | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
somebody described as the best in the world. But $10 million for a few | :23:55. | :24:04. | |
months is a lot. He has been here for five years, for three different | :24:05. | :24:15. | |
teams and he has a goal record of scoring in every game. And that is | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
something that Manchester United need. Javier Hernandez has moved to | :24:19. | :24:29. | |
Real Madrid, where will you fit in? I'm not sure of what the answer to | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
that is. Perhaps it Real Madrid or in a situation where Benzema is | :24:34. | :24:41. | |
guaranteed to start up front. He has been a player that has not benefited | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
from having someone to challenge him. 24 hours ago, everyone thought | :24:47. | :24:56. | |
that Falcao would be going to Real Madrid. Danny Welbeck, another one | :24:57. | :25:07. | |
from Manchester United. There is talk of him going to Arsenal. I was | :25:08. | :25:20. | |
in danger, people have a go at him when he does not sign players, but | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
they will have a go at him if he signs as one. I was in danger has | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
not come out and said he needs a striker, but why would he? -- ours | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
and if they can get Danny Welbeck in on | :25:34. | :25:41. | |
loan, that will look like a good deal. Lewis Holtby did not have a | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
good time at Tottenham, he is on his way to Hamburg. That is a great | :25:49. | :26:04. | |
deal. He has fallen off the face of international football since moving | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
to Tottenham. I think he will be buying back in his homeland. What | :26:09. | :26:16. | |
about better check, he has been treating today. -- better check... | :26:17. | :26:31. | |
He has been saying that anything can happen today. | :26:32. | :26:34. | |
Transfer deadline day, dreams are made and shattered today. I watering | :26:35. | :26:44. | |
sums involved. That is from the programme. The weather coming up | :26:45. | :26:46. | |
next. | :26:47. | :26:51. |