:00:10. > :00:11.The United States carries out more airstrikes
:00:12. > :00:16.We report from the frontline, as Iraqi Kurd soldiers try to halt
:00:17. > :00:33.They are digging in there for what looks like a fight. As the fighting
:00:34. > :00:34.continues, Britain drops its first humanitarian aid packages to the
:00:35. > :00:40.tens of thousands of Also on the programme this evening,
:00:41. > :00:42.Baroness Warsi, who resigned over Gaza,
:00:43. > :00:44.warns the Conservatives won't win the next election unless they appeal
:00:45. > :00:51.to more ethnic minority voters. The Australian couple accused
:00:52. > :00:54.of abandoning a surrogate baby with people trapped in the mountains. We
:00:55. > :00:56.want to bring him with us. Down's Syndrome speak publicly
:00:57. > :00:59.for the first time. And Arsenal beat Manchester City,
:01:00. > :01:01.to lift the Community Shield US forces have carried out further
:01:02. > :01:28.airstrikes in Iraq, against militants from The Islamic
:01:29. > :01:30.State, the group formerly known as ISIS, which has taken control
:01:31. > :01:35.of large parts of the country. The attacks came as Britain
:01:36. > :01:38.delivered its first airdrop of humanitarian aid, to people trapped
:01:39. > :01:42.on a mountain in northern Iraq. US airstrikes were concentrated
:01:43. > :01:45.around the Kurdish-controlled city of Irbil, where thousands of
:01:46. > :01:48.Christians have taken refuge from Our World Affairs Correspondent
:01:49. > :01:54.Caroline Wyatt has travelled beyond Kalak, west of Irbil,
:01:55. > :01:56.where Kurdish peshmerga fighters have been digging in, to try to halt
:01:57. > :02:15.the militants' advance on the city. Taking aim at the Islamic state.
:02:16. > :02:19.Kurdish soldiers say they are now determined to fight back against the
:02:20. > :02:24.militants who have sown terror in their wake. Kurdish bulldozers are
:02:25. > :02:27.creating a defensive line to stop the extremists in their tracks,
:02:28. > :02:32.something these soldiers have been unable to do over the past weeks and
:02:33. > :02:37.days. These Kurdish fighters have now brought us to what is the final
:02:38. > :02:41.front line. They are digging in over there for what looks like a fight,
:02:42. > :02:48.because behind that rage is now controlled by the Islamic state. The
:02:49. > :02:51.men here want more ammunition and support from the US. The Brigadier
:02:52. > :02:57.in charge of this outpost blames the West for allowing the Islamic state
:02:58. > :03:01.to gain territory so far. TRANSLATION: What are the
:03:02. > :03:04.international community, the UN council therefore, if not to defend
:03:05. > :03:08.peace and humanity here. Of course, we want the Americans and others to
:03:09. > :03:13.be serious about air strikes to help us. But the families who had sought
:03:14. > :03:18.refuge at the camp just crossed the road are taking no chances. It
:03:19. > :03:23.emptied, as they fled again, many to the town of Irbil, just 40
:03:24. > :03:27.kilometres away. Already there, the Iraqi Christians. The men, women and
:03:28. > :03:35.children driven out of their homes a week ago. The Sunni fighters told
:03:36. > :03:38.them to convert to Islam or die. Tens of thousands of Iraqi Christian
:03:39. > :03:44.families have sought sanctuary here at the Cathedral and other churches,
:03:45. > :03:47.in private homes, and in derelict buildings across the city. Nobody
:03:48. > :03:52.knows how long they will have to stay here, seeking sanctuary, but
:03:53. > :03:56.they are beginning to realise it could be a long time. This
:03:57. > :04:03.three-month-old boy and his sister are too young to understand what is
:04:04. > :04:08.happening, but their parents do. Their mother breaks down, as she
:04:09. > :04:13.tells me she had to leave her mother behind, and doesn't know now if she
:04:14. > :04:16.is alive or dead. Her husband says the men took everything, first
:04:17. > :04:21.looting their houses then destroying their churches. We need an
:04:22. > :04:24.intervention now, and immediate intervention to help these people,
:04:25. > :04:33.because they are sleeping outside in the streets, actually in public
:04:34. > :04:37.places, so they are without nothing. And they are just a fraction of the
:04:38. > :04:42.hundreds of thousands of Iraqis forced to flee their homes in what
:04:43. > :04:43.people here are calling a humanitarian disaster that the West
:04:44. > :04:48.is failing to stop. The Iraqi government has said
:04:49. > :04:51.hundreds of members of the Yazidi community, who've taken refuge
:04:52. > :04:54.in mountains in the north, had been As we've heard,
:04:55. > :04:57.the international community is starting to provide aid,
:04:58. > :05:00.but has also told Iraqi politicians that they needed to show unity,
:05:01. > :05:06.to fight the extremist threat. From Washington,
:05:07. > :05:16.David Willis reports. The latest pictures from Mount
:05:17. > :05:23.Sinjar paint a truly appalling picture of human misery. Children,
:05:24. > :05:28.hurt and hungry, their parents in constant fear of attack. There were
:05:29. > :05:33.thought to be tens of thousands of members of the minority Yazidi
:05:34. > :05:38.community stuck here, after being driven from their homes by the
:05:39. > :05:43.militants. Aid supplies are starting to get through, and RAF Hercules
:05:44. > :05:50.delivered water supplies overnight, and American cargo planes have been
:05:51. > :05:52.doing the same. France too has pledged humanitarian support but the
:05:53. > :05:56.French Foreign Minister, on a visit to Iraq, said the fate of the
:05:57. > :06:02.country rests with the Iraqis themselves. TRANSLATION: It is
:06:03. > :06:06.particularly important at this moment that Iraq has a broad-based
:06:07. > :06:10.unity government, and all Iraqis must feel represented. Together,
:06:11. > :06:17.they can lead the battle against terrorism. The rapid advance of the
:06:18. > :06:21.Islamist fighters caught the White House off-guard, and there have
:06:22. > :06:26.already been calls here for the president to be more aggressive. The
:06:27. > :06:30.President's policy, for now at least, is one of containment,
:06:31. > :06:35.limiting the advance of the Islamist militants, but his critics argue
:06:36. > :06:42.that without a timetable he lacks a coherent strategy for dealing with
:06:43. > :06:47.this latest threat. The US continues to mount air strikes in the north of
:06:48. > :06:50.the country, and America's present in the skies above Iraq may be a
:06:51. > :06:55.feature of life for quite some time to come.
:06:56. > :06:58.In the last hour, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators
:06:59. > :07:01.have accepted an Egyptian proposal for a new 3 day ceasefire in Gaza,
:07:02. > :07:07.More than 1,900 Palestinians and 67 Israelis have been killed in the
:07:08. > :07:17.Our Middle East correspondent Orla Guerin is in Gaza.
:07:18. > :07:26.So, some slight glimmer of good news, if this cease-fire can indeed
:07:27. > :07:31.take hold and maintain? Well, I suppose it will be seen here, Jane,
:07:32. > :07:35.is another window of possibility. The cease-fire is due to begin at
:07:36. > :07:40.about midnight local time, that is 10pm in the UK. It is supposed to
:07:41. > :07:46.last for 72 hours. Earlier today, Palestinian factions had agreed, and
:07:47. > :07:53.then Israel also accepted the Egyptian request. Israel has said if
:07:54. > :08:00.the truce holds into tomorrow, it will send its negotiating team back
:08:01. > :08:05.to Cairo so those stop start talks can begin again. On both sides of
:08:06. > :08:09.the board of the warfare has been continuing. Four Palestinians have
:08:10. > :08:12.been killed today in a series of air strikes, the death toll includes a
:08:13. > :08:15.teenage boy and a woman. On the other side of the border, Israel
:08:16. > :08:21.says at least two dozen Palestinian rockets have landed, and within the
:08:22. > :08:24.last hour, we ourselves were very close to an F-16 Israel ES track, it
:08:25. > :08:29.happened within one minute of our hotel. The target was an apparently
:08:30. > :08:32.empty factory, but I can tell you the ground and all the buildings
:08:33. > :08:37.around shock. So certainly the night, until this truce takes place,
:08:38. > :08:40.Israel ES trikes are continuing and the conflict is still continuing. --
:08:41. > :08:42.air strikes are continuing. Baroness Warsi, who last week
:08:43. > :08:45.resigned as a Conservative minister because of the Government's stance
:08:46. > :08:47.on the Gaza conflict, has said the Tories won't win the
:08:48. > :08:50.next election unless they do more to But one backbench Conservative has
:08:51. > :08:53.said the Baroness has "embarrassed herself",
:08:54. > :08:56.with what he described as a tirade. Here's our political
:08:57. > :09:08.correspondent Vicky Young. Is the first Muslim woman to sit in
:09:09. > :09:11.Cabinet, Lady Warsi was seen by some as a symbol as to how the
:09:12. > :09:16.Conservative Party had changed and the David Cameron's leadership. For
:09:17. > :09:19.years, she was a familiar face beside her leader, but just days
:09:20. > :09:24.after resigning she has turned on him and lashed out at colleagues she
:09:25. > :09:28.describes as bitchy. Lady Warsi has previously mocked David Cameron for
:09:29. > :09:32.surrounding himself with old eat onions, and in her interview she
:09:33. > :09:38.contrasted her own background as a northern working-class woman is the
:09:39. > :09:47.premise to's public school advisers. She said:
:09:48. > :09:53.The peer resigned last week over what she called the government's
:09:54. > :09:58.morally principled policy on the conflict in Gaza, but critics say
:09:59. > :10:02.she has now gone too far. I think it is more of an embarrassment to
:10:03. > :10:06.herself today that she has moved from her principled resignation
:10:07. > :10:10.about an issue she believe strongly in the then start criticising the
:10:11. > :10:14.government in many other areas, which haven't reflected in her
:10:15. > :10:18.original resignation. She also told the Sunday Times the Conservatives
:10:19. > :10:22.would not win a general election outright until they started
:10:23. > :10:26.attracting more of the ethnic vote. This former adviser to Boris Johnson
:10:27. > :10:31.says the Tories do need to reflect modern Britain and it is a work in
:10:32. > :10:34.progress. There is a need to have more representation sometimes in the
:10:35. > :10:37.party, and that is what the party has been trying to do. That it is
:10:38. > :10:42.why it disappointing that Baroness Warsi has left. She brought an
:10:43. > :10:45.argument to the table, I am sorry to see her go, I'm sure the prime
:10:46. > :10:48.ministers as well. We need to now build on the good work she has
:10:49. > :10:54.done. Downing Street are refusing to be drawn on this, just repeating
:10:55. > :10:59.that the prime list was disappointed Lady Warsi left government. But they
:11:00. > :11:02.won't thank her of adding to the criticism often made of David
:11:03. > :11:06.Cameron by Labour that he and the Tory party are remote and out of
:11:07. > :11:09.touch and then to understand the lives of ordinary British voters.
:11:10. > :11:11.Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has become the country's
:11:12. > :11:18.With more than half the votes counted,
:11:19. > :11:20.Mr Erdogan has around 52% support - and a significant lead
:11:21. > :11:25.Until now the post has been a government appointment.
:11:26. > :11:27.An Australian couple accused of abandoning a surrogate baby with
:11:28. > :11:31.Down's syndrome, say they did want to take the little boy home.
:11:32. > :11:34.Speaking publicly for the first time, David and Wendy
:11:35. > :11:37.Farnell claim the surrogate mother in Thailand refused to give them
:11:38. > :11:43.The couple, who live near Perth, then returned to Australia with
:11:44. > :12:00.It is yet another twist in this already confused and complicated
:12:01. > :12:03.case. At the centre of it, the seven-month-old baby, born with
:12:04. > :12:08.Down's syndrome to a Thai surrogates mother. The Australian couple
:12:09. > :12:12.accused of abandoning him first said they had not known about their son,
:12:13. > :12:16.with the surrogate claiming they left the baby because of his
:12:17. > :12:21.condition. Now, Wendy and David Farnell claim they did want to take
:12:22. > :12:24.him, along with his twin sister, but weren't allowed. We wanted to bring
:12:25. > :12:30.him with us, but things were happening that we couldn't. The
:12:31. > :12:39.surrogate mother wanted to take our girl. And we were getting scared
:12:40. > :12:44.that we were going to lose her. The baby's sorry but has also changed
:12:45. > :12:49.her story. She now claims she didn't allow the couple to take the boy.
:12:50. > :12:52.TRANSLATION: I have never said I wanted to keep both babies. I did
:12:53. > :12:57.not allow him to go back with them because I feared he would be put in
:12:58. > :13:02.an institution. Now the Australian couple are being looked into, after
:13:03. > :13:08.revelations about David Farnell's past convictions. I have been
:13:09. > :13:13.convicted of child sex offences, I hang my head in shame for that. This
:13:14. > :13:18.has now become a case of who is telling the truth. The Farnells say
:13:19. > :13:23.they will fight to get their son back. His surrogate wants to keep
:13:24. > :13:25.him. His future stills seems very much uncertain.
:13:26. > :13:28.Heavy rain and strong winds have battered parts of Britain, as the
:13:29. > :13:31.remnants of the Caribbean Hurricane Bertha sweep across the country.
:13:32. > :13:34.In Hull, a small tornado brought down trees and damaged cars.
:13:35. > :13:37.The storm struck the south coast of England this morning,
:13:38. > :13:41.and nearly a month's worth of rain fell in parts of Wales overnight.
:13:42. > :13:43.Nine Met Office Flood Warnings, and dozens of Flood Alerts,
:13:44. > :13:57.Arsenal have won the traditional curtain raiser to the football
:13:58. > :14:00.season, the Community Shield. They beat Manchester City 3-0 at Wembley
:14:01. > :14:06.to win the season's first silverware. The Community Shield is
:14:07. > :14:10.a less precious piece of metal work than some bubble's prizes, as much a
:14:11. > :14:15.statement as a trophy for the reigning and FA Cup holders. Arsenal
:14:16. > :14:20.seemed intent to show that they can build on that victory. Santi Cazorla
:14:21. > :14:25.is two into games for the gunners, both in Wembley finals. City offered
:14:26. > :14:31.curiously little. Their free kick did prompt English's football first
:14:32. > :14:35.few or finishing spray but moving any other marks was proving tricky
:14:36. > :14:41.without many of their stars. Their defence faded fast when Aaron Ramsey
:14:42. > :14:44.ghosted through. Another goal from a cup final goal-scorer. The champions
:14:45. > :14:47.found some direction at half-time but not enough to beat Wojciech
:14:48. > :14:51.Szczesny in the Arsenal goal. And any hint of a revival ended when
:14:52. > :14:57.Olivier Giroud took aim. A deflection helped it in, the ball
:14:58. > :15:00.and the game had gone over City heads. Arsenal went nine years
:15:01. > :15:08.without a trophy. They are rediscovering the feel of them. That
:15:09. > :15:09.is all for now. I will be back with the late news here on BBC1 at 10pm.