:00:19. > :00:24.An RAF plane has made the first British airdrop of
:00:25. > :00:26.humanitarian aid in Northern Iraq, to help up to 150,000 civilians who
:00:27. > :00:35.Overnight, the US military intensified its intervention, with
:00:36. > :00:38.four fresh air strikes on Islamist militants belonging to Islamic
:00:39. > :00:43.Washington said the strikes had destroyed military
:00:44. > :00:46.vehicles, which had been firing on people from the Yazidi community
:00:47. > :01:02.Britain's first airdrop to those who have fled the Sunni militant advance
:01:03. > :01:04.in northern Iraq, and who are now exposed and desperate on a
:01:05. > :01:09.mountainside. The Americans have also now carried out their third
:01:10. > :01:12.airdrop. Britain says there will be a constant drumbeat of such
:01:13. > :01:17.operations, but governments are also urgently looking at how to get these
:01:18. > :01:22.people, mainly from Iraq's Yazidi people, of the mountain to safety.
:01:23. > :01:29.Christians and other Iraqi menorah tees have fled the Midlands --
:01:30. > :01:33.minorities have fled the Muslims. It is a terrible humanitarian
:01:34. > :01:38.situation. There are people who have actually been forced out of their
:01:39. > :01:42.homes but now they are so scared, they have even abandoned the places
:01:43. > :01:49.where they have taken shelter. Only last week. There have been four more
:01:50. > :01:53.US air strikes, the first directly targeting militants attacking those
:01:54. > :01:56.on the mountainside but in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, France's Foreign
:01:57. > :02:04.Minister has also been driving home the West's broader message, that
:02:05. > :02:08.Iraq's divided opposition must bury their differences. TRANSLATION: It
:02:09. > :02:11.is important that the moment that Iraq has a broad-based unity
:02:12. > :02:16.government. All Iraqis must feel represented. Together they can lead
:02:17. > :02:20.the battle against terrorism. Islamic state fighters, in their own
:02:21. > :02:25.video, celebrate their latest successes, but the Iraqi government
:02:26. > :02:28.is now saying the militants killed 500 Yazidi people, including women
:02:29. > :02:33.and children, in their advance. In the northern city of a bill,
:02:34. > :02:38.Christians and other minorities have flocked for refuge but their bill
:02:39. > :02:40.itself is also under militant threat.
:02:41. > :02:42.Israel says it will stay away from stalled talks on
:02:43. > :02:45.a lasting ceasefire in Gaza, as long as Palestinian militants continue
:02:46. > :02:49.Negotiations were due to continue in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.
:02:50. > :02:50.Palestinian negotiators are threatening to walk away
:02:51. > :02:55.from the talks today if Israel doesn't attend.
:02:56. > :03:01.Our Middle East correspondent Kevin Connelly reports from Gaza
:03:02. > :03:07.Israel's ground forces have left Gaza, but remain within striking
:03:08. > :03:13.distance. Israel says its military operations will go on until the
:03:14. > :03:18.rocket fire from Gaza stops. TRANSLATION: The operation will
:03:19. > :03:21.continue until its objective, the restoration of quiet over a
:03:22. > :03:30.protracted period, is achieved. It will take time and stamina Israel's
:03:31. > :03:36.air strikes continue. This is the wreckage left by an overnight air
:03:37. > :03:40.raid. This house one of the many thousands damaged or destroyed here.
:03:41. > :03:45.Getting in the supplies to rebuild through Gaza's tightly controlled
:03:46. > :03:54.borders is a key issue in cease-fire talks. For the building's owners, it
:03:55. > :03:57.is more personal. TRANSLATION: They attacked two houses, mine and my
:03:58. > :04:01.brother's house were destroyed. We worked all our life to build these
:04:02. > :04:06.houses and in one minute they destroyed it. Every minute fighting
:04:07. > :04:10.continues will make peace tougher to achieve. Diplomatically, this could
:04:11. > :04:14.be a big day. Palestinian negotiators in Cairo say they will
:04:15. > :04:17.walk away from the talks unless the Israeli team returns to Egypt.
:04:18. > :04:22.Israel says it doesn't negotiate under rocket fire. A cease-fire
:04:23. > :04:26.remains the immediate goal but the talks could yet unravel.
:04:27. > :04:29.Voters in Turkey are going to the polls today in the country's first
:04:30. > :04:35.Previously, the President was elected by parliament.
:04:36. > :04:41.Let's speak to our Correspondent Mark Lowen is in Ankara for us.
:04:42. > :04:47.This is an opportunity for a Prime Minister who has been in post so
:04:48. > :04:53.long he can't stand again. Absolutely. Wanting to secure the
:04:54. > :04:57.post of president and to enhance his powers. He is a very divisive
:04:58. > :05:05.figure, though. He is as adored as he is hated, loved by his supporters
:05:06. > :05:08.for transforming the economy here in Turkey, making at the 15th largest
:05:09. > :05:11.economy in the world, hated by his critics for his perceived
:05:12. > :05:16.authoritarianism and mixing religion and politics in a secular state. All
:05:17. > :05:22.of this matters though because Turkey is a troubled country, it has
:05:23. > :05:26.huge US military bases. It is the entry point for the West and for the
:05:27. > :05:29.US into the Middle East. That is why whoever wins the day in the
:05:30. > :05:32.selection, three candidates standing, will hold an important
:05:33. > :05:36.geopolitical and regional position, and that is why this election will
:05:37. > :05:42.be watched far beyond Turkey's borders.
:05:43. > :05:43.Baroness Warsi, the former Conservative minister who
:05:44. > :05:46.resigned over the government's stance on the Gaza conflict,
:05:47. > :05:48.has said the Tories won't win the next election unless it does more
:05:49. > :05:52.But one backbench Conservative has said the Baroness, who was
:05:53. > :05:54.the first Muslim woman in the Cabinet, has "embarrassed herself"
:05:55. > :06:14.For much of the last decade, Lady War C has been at David Cameron's
:06:15. > :06:16.side, the first Muslim woman in the Cabinet, she co-chaired the
:06:17. > :06:25.Conservatives and was seen by some as a symbol of how the party had
:06:26. > :06:30.changed. Some of her colleagues are but she, she says, and she touches
:06:31. > :06:32.on two raw nerves for the Tories and the pro Minister. She told the
:06:33. > :06:56.Sunday Times: Baroness Warsi here in a party to
:06:57. > :06:59.celebrate the marriage of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge hinted the
:07:00. > :07:01.primaries the would-be butter served by a more diverse bunch of people
:07:02. > :07:19.working for him. The peer resigned last week, over
:07:20. > :07:22.what she called the government's morally if the hands of all policy.
:07:23. > :07:27.Critics say she has now gone too far. I think she is more of an
:07:28. > :07:32.embarrassment to herself today that she has moved from her principled
:07:33. > :07:36.resignation about an issue she believed strongly in the then start
:07:37. > :07:41.criticising the government in other areas, which have not reflected in
:07:42. > :07:45.her original resignation. Downing Street is not being drawn on all of
:07:46. > :07:46.this, merely repeating the prime list was disappointed to see her
:07:47. > :07:48.leave the government. Much of
:07:49. > :07:50.the country is being lashed by the Our Correspondent Andy Moore is
:07:51. > :08:06.in Peacehaven in West Sussex. What has it been like there? Welcome
:08:07. > :08:11.to the breezy side in the peak holiday season. If it was in autumn,
:08:12. > :08:19.it would not be remarkable. INAUDIBLE
:08:20. > :08:24.The storm now heading north and east, it could be pretty nasty in
:08:25. > :08:26.the North of England and Scotland tomorrow. Hundreds of volunteers are
:08:27. > :08:29.on stand-by tomorrow. Hundreds of volunteers are
:08:30. > :08:34.just in case and quite a few coastal alerts. Stay at home with a hot
:08:35. > :08:40.chocolate, today, I think applies to everyone. We got a bit of that!
:08:41. > :08:45.Sorry it was very difficult to hear what he was actually saying there, a
:08:46. > :08:47.lot of the rain has moved up, it is moving up through the country now,
:08:48. > :08:49.northwards from where Andy was. A nine-year-old boy
:08:50. > :08:51.from Florida has been speaking about the moment he fought off a nine foot
:08:52. > :08:55.long alligator with his bare hands. James Barnley Junior was swimming
:08:56. > :08:57.in a lake near Orlando He's in hospital recovering from
:08:58. > :09:11.his injuries which left him with 30 At first, I thought someone was just
:09:12. > :09:18.playing with me, and I didn't know what happened. I reached down to go
:09:19. > :09:24.grab it, and I felt its jaw, I felt its teeth. I didn't know what to do.
:09:25. > :09:30.So I immediately reacted and hit a couple of times. So then it was
:09:31. > :09:35.letting go a little, and then, finally, I had enough strength left
:09:36. > :09:40.to pry its jaw open a little. Extraordinary story.
:09:41. > :09:55.That's it. The next news on BBC One is at 6.35 pm, bye for now.
:09:56. > :10:01.A very good afternoon, you have probably heard hurricane Bertha is
:10:02. > :10:04.partly powering an area of low pressure that is bringing us for
:10:05. > :10:08.many areas a wet and windy day. Whether you would normally expect to
:10:09. > :10:13.see in autumn rather than the stage of summer. Having made a 4000 mile
:10:14. > :10:17.trip across the Atlantic, here it is as it arrived earlier across our
:10:18. > :10:20.shores. It looked like thunder clouds moving in across the British
:10:21. > :10:22.Isles, that is pretty much what they are