:00:09. > :00:12.A British health worker who's contracted the Ebola virus in
:00:13. > :00:13.Africa is on his way back to the UK.
:00:14. > :00:19.The man, who has not been named, was working in Sierra Leone, treating
:00:20. > :00:25.victims of the outbreak which has claimed more than 1400 lives across
:00:26. > :00:28.West Africa. He will be treated at a specialist isolation unit in London.
:00:29. > :00:34.Health officials say that he is not seriously ill. The risk of Ebola
:00:35. > :00:42.virus infection to the population of this country remains very low and it
:00:43. > :00:44.is not changed by this decision. In northern Iraq there's growing
:00:45. > :00:49.concern for thousands of people in one town, cut off by Islamic State
:00:50. > :00:51.militants. Police have interviewed Sir Cliff Richard about an alleged
:00:52. > :00:57.sex offence dating back to the 1980s. He denies any wrongdoing.
:00:58. > :01:04.COMMENTATOR: It is tough to go round the outside, he has tried... STUDIO:
:01:05. > :01:12.Lewis Hamilton accuses his own team-mate of a deliberate collision
:01:13. > :01:13.in the Belgian Grand Prix. -- accuses his team-mate, Nico Rosberg,
:01:14. > :01:26.of a deliberate collision. Good evening.
:01:27. > :01:29.A British man who's contracted the Ebola virus while working
:01:30. > :01:32.in Sierra Leone, is on his way back to the UK for specialist treatment.
:01:33. > :01:35.He is a health worker who'd volunteered to treat victims of
:01:36. > :01:38.the outbreak, which has killed more than 1,400 people in west Africa.
:01:39. > :01:40.Health officials say the man is "not seriously unwell"
:01:41. > :01:43.at the moment; the infection was diagnosed at an early stage.
:01:44. > :01:46.He was working at Kenema in Sierra Leone and
:01:47. > :01:48.is now on his way back to the UK in a Royal Airforce plane bound
:01:49. > :02:10.for RAF Northolt. From there,
:02:11. > :02:11.he will be taken to a specialist unit in North London.
:02:12. > :02:16.(ANI) Our The aeroplane carrying this man is
:02:17. > :02:20.due to arrive in the UK in the next few hours, when it touches down, a
:02:21. > :02:23.special ambulance will bring him here to this hospital, the isolation
:02:24. > :02:27.unit is the only one of its kind in Europe. The man became ill with a
:02:28. > :02:30.bowl in the past few days after working in one of the countries in
:02:31. > :02:37.West Africa that has been particularly badly affected. Fear
:02:38. > :02:40.has dominated this outbreak of the deadly volar virus. It has kept
:02:41. > :02:45.patients away from clinics, there have been more than two and a half
:02:46. > :02:49.thousand cases in West Africa. -- deadly Ebola virus. Now a British
:02:50. > :02:52.man working at a treatment centre in one of the worst affected parts of
:02:53. > :02:57.Sierra Leone is being flown home after falling ill. It would be in
:02:58. > :03:00.the best interests of the patient, and the health of the patient, for
:03:01. > :03:06.the patient to be brought back to the country. I would like to
:03:07. > :03:12.emphasise that the risk of Ebola virus infection to the population of
:03:13. > :03:18.this country remains very low, and has not changed by this decision.
:03:19. > :03:22.This is where he will be treated. It is the isolation unit, it has a
:03:23. > :03:25.special plastic tent, allowing the patient to receive food and
:03:26. > :03:31.treatment without the virus being passed on. Intimidating environment,
:03:32. > :03:39.but a necessary precaution, as one of the doctors told us: " it is a
:03:40. > :03:43.little bit restrictive, because you cannot really move around, but for
:03:44. > :03:49.the patient, it is probably intimidating. Ebola only spreads
:03:50. > :03:53.through direct contact with bodily fluids, the general public is not at
:03:54. > :03:58.risk. Medical experts warned that you cannot take chances with this
:03:59. > :04:07.virus. Once it infects a human, the mortality is very high. More than
:04:08. > :04:11.50%. It is one of the most lethal infections. Quite why this is we do
:04:12. > :04:16.not know, but it leads to the failure of many organs in the body,
:04:17. > :04:20.and bleeding. To aid workers had to be flown back to America after
:04:21. > :04:25.contracting Ebola in Liberia. -- two. They have both made a good
:04:26. > :04:29.recovery and were allowed home from hospital last week. They were given
:04:30. > :04:32.an experimental drug. Nobody can tell whether it helped their
:04:33. > :04:37.recovery. Supplies of the treatment have now run out. So far, the
:04:38. > :04:40.British patient is not seriously unwell. Doctors will be watching him
:04:41. > :04:48.closely in the coming days. Bringing the British patient to this
:04:49. > :04:52.hospital is part of a very careful, well rehearsed national plan, it is
:04:53. > :04:56.designed to protect the UK from infectious diseases. The current
:04:57. > :05:00.outbreak of Ebola has proved devastating in parts of West Africa.
:05:01. > :05:06.Here, the risk to the public remains very low. Thank you very much, Jane.
:05:07. > :05:11.There have been new appeals for help from civilians in a town in northern
:05:12. > :05:12.Iraq which is under siege by militants from the extremist group
:05:13. > :05:24.Islamic state. 18,000 people are trapped in the
:05:25. > :05:27.town of Amerli and are running short of food and water.
:05:28. > :05:28.Our correspondent Jim Muir has been to the front line nearby,
:05:29. > :05:32.and has sent us this report. Kurdish Peshmerga fighters on the
:05:33. > :05:34.front line, close to besieged family town, this position has been
:05:35. > :05:39.attacked several times by the Islamist 's, but the Kurdish have
:05:40. > :05:52.held the line. -- close to the besieged town of early town. --
:05:53. > :05:55.Amerli. You can see their black flag on the building a few hundred meters
:05:56. > :06:01.from here, this is the problem the outside world faces, and this is
:06:02. > :06:06.what the town faces, nothing can get in, nobody can get out, they are
:06:07. > :06:10.surrounded by militants. This man managed to escape just as the attack
:06:11. > :06:14.was starting, but his family is still trapped in the town. They tell
:06:15. > :06:19.him by telephone that conditions are desperate, with little food and
:06:20. > :06:21.water and electricity. I asked him what would happen if the Islamic
:06:22. > :06:35.statement and is moved in? TRANSLATION: They will start a war,
:06:36. > :06:39.the people have no way out. The district mayor in the nearby town
:06:40. > :06:46.appealed for the outside world to intervene, to avert a massacre in
:06:47. > :06:53.Amerli. We want military help, as has happened in other places.
:06:54. > :06:57.Humanitarian aid, but also, support by the Americans, air support. We
:06:58. > :07:02.wanted as soon as possible, to save the people of Amerli. The Americans
:07:03. > :07:07.have been carrying out air strikes in support of Kurdish will seize
:07:08. > :07:14.inside Iraqi Kurdistan. But Amerli is outside. The local Kurdish
:07:15. > :07:19.commander says that his orders are to stay on the defensive. For the
:07:20. > :07:26.moment, the besieged minority under threat at Amerli is on its own.
:07:27. > :07:31.The search continues to identify a British member of Islamic state who
:07:32. > :07:35.is suspected of killing the American journalist James Foley. The UK's
:07:36. > :07:40.ambassador in Washington says the authorities believe they're now
:07:41. > :07:44."close" to establishing who he is. We are not yet in a position to say
:07:45. > :07:48.exactly who this is but there is sophisticated voice identification
:07:49. > :07:53.technology and other measures that we have got which should allow us to
:07:54. > :08:00.be very clear about who this person is before very long. Just how close
:08:01. > :08:07.are we to finding out who the killer of James Foley is? Identification of
:08:08. > :08:15.the British jihadists, the British accented jihadists, could be close.
:08:16. > :08:20.We know that there has been close cooperation between Britain and the
:08:21. > :08:25.US authorities. The hope of course is that the sophisticated voice
:08:26. > :08:28.recognition techniques, that the ambassador was talking about, will
:08:29. > :08:31.have been particularly helpful in narrowing down the possibilities. At
:08:32. > :08:35.the same time, authorities have been pointing out that there is 500
:08:36. > :08:39.British jihadists who have gone to Syria and Iraq. Within the past
:08:40. > :08:44.hour, the Al Jazeera News Channel has reported that an American
:08:45. > :08:49.journalist who had been held hostage for nearly two years has been freed
:08:50. > :08:53.and handed over to a United Nations representative. He has been named as
:08:54. > :08:59.Peter Theo Curtis. He was kidnapped as he was found entering Syria from
:09:00. > :09:05.Turkey. The channel says it was unclear which group abducted him. If
:09:06. > :09:09.that is some good news, in the bleak picture of this past week, in which
:09:10. > :09:14.we learned of the beheading of James Foley, then there are, it must be
:09:15. > :09:18.remembered, other hostages still being held. Thank you very much.
:09:19. > :09:22.Sir Cliff Richard has been interviewed by police, investigating
:09:23. > :09:26.an allegation of sexual assault. The claim which Sir Cliff denies,
:09:27. > :09:30.involves a boy under the age of 16 and dates back to the 1980s.
:09:31. > :09:32.The interview took place in South Yorkshire.
:09:33. > :09:42.Here's Leanne Brown. speak with offices about their
:09:43. > :09:46.investigation, knee was questioned about a claim of an alleged sexual
:09:47. > :09:52.assault on a boy below the age of 16 in the 1980s. It comes after police
:09:53. > :09:57.obtained a warrant, to search the apartment of the singer, on a gated
:09:58. > :10:00.state near Sunningdale in Berkshire ten days ago, as part of the
:10:01. > :10:05.investigation, officers removed a number of items from the property.
:10:06. > :10:11.Cliff Richard was in Portugal at the time. Welcome tonight, Cliff
:10:12. > :10:14.Richard! The assault is alleged to have taken place at a Christian
:10:15. > :10:19.rally in Sheffield in 1985, organised by an American Evangelist,
:10:20. > :10:24.Billy Graham. Cliff Richard was a regular guest at his rallies. In a
:10:25. > :10:27.statement, a spokesman has said that Cliff Richard cooperated fully with
:10:28. > :10:31.offices and answered questions put to him. Full. Paul.
:10:32. > :10:44.Cliff Richard has been staying at his villa in Portugal over the
:10:45. > :10:48.summer, and since the allegation, has cancelled a number of high
:10:49. > :10:54.profile public appearances, and charity events.
:10:55. > :11:00.The governor of California has declared a state of emergency after
:11:01. > :11:03.an earthquake struck the north of the state. Police say that more than
:11:04. > :11:06.80 people have been treated in hospital, three of them for serious
:11:07. > :11:11.injuries, and thousands of homes have been left without electricity.
:11:12. > :11:18.The epicentre was in the Napa Valley, north of San Francisco.
:11:19. > :11:20.Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine have marched dozens of
:11:21. > :11:22.captured government troops through the city of Donetsk. It happened
:11:23. > :11:25.today as Ukranians celebrated Independence Day, with President
:11:26. > :11:26.Petro Poroshenko pledging to spend around three-billion dollars
:11:27. > :11:27.re-equipping the military in the next three years. Here's Steve
:11:28. > :11:38.Rosenberg. It looked like the kind of parade
:11:39. > :11:43.that you would see on Moscow's red Square, but this was Kiev, today. A
:11:44. > :11:50.display of defiance and military might, to mark Ukraine's
:11:51. > :11:53.Independence Day. President Petro Poroshenko said that his country was
:11:54. > :11:59.fighting a war against foreign aggression. He was confident Ukraine
:12:00. > :12:01.would win. But in eastern Ukraine, this was the response from the
:12:02. > :12:07.pro-Russia separatists: In violation of the Geneva
:12:08. > :12:10.Convention, they paraded captured Ukrainian soldiers, their prisoners
:12:11. > :12:15.of war, through the centre of the nets, and they vowed to continue
:12:16. > :12:22.their fight against clear. -- Donetsk. Ten miles from the front
:12:23. > :12:27.line, this town, the name of which means "happiness". But the local
:12:28. > :12:32.hospital, I met and 89 your old. And if you days ago, an artillery shell
:12:33. > :12:38.destroyed her home. She does not know who fired it. Was it the army
:12:39. > :12:42.or the militants? -- I met and 89-year-old woman. She says that she
:12:43. > :12:45.managed to survive World War II, she cannot understand why there is
:12:46. > :12:49.another war now. According to United Nations, more than 2000 people have
:12:50. > :12:54.been killed in eastern Ukraine since the violence began. Hundreds of
:12:55. > :12:59.thousands have fled their homes. Victims of a war that shows no sign
:13:00. > :13:04.of ending. Across town, this Ukrainian battalion showed us around
:13:05. > :13:09.their base. They are armed volunteers, they call themselves the
:13:10. > :13:14.Cinderella squad. They keep their prisoners down here in the cellar.
:13:15. > :13:20.Everybody into the corner, says the commander, so that the camera cannot
:13:21. > :13:32.see your faces. The soldiers say that they are unimpressed by the
:13:33. > :13:38.military show in Kiev. TRANSLATION: We need those tanks here, not Kiev,
:13:39. > :13:42.it was like dancing on the graves of Comrade. But they say that they will
:13:43. > :13:45.be able to defeat them, and reunite the country. The Formula One driver
:13:46. > :13:49.Lewis Hamilton has claimed that his Miss Adie 's team-mate Nico Rosberg
:13:50. > :13:55.admitted deliberately crashing into him during today's Belgian Grand
:13:56. > :13:57.Prix. Hamilton's world title hopes took a big blow after the early
:13:58. > :13:59.collision with Rosberg, which forced him to retire. The German went on to
:14:00. > :14:01.finish second behind Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo, extending his lead
:14:02. > :14:02.over Hamilton in the driver's championship to 29 points. Nick
:14:03. > :14:12.Parrot reports. For the third time this year, Lewis
:14:13. > :14:17.Hamilton's race ended in bitter disappointment. It would seem no
:14:18. > :14:21.matter how hard he tries, his team-mate and championship rival
:14:22. > :14:26.Nico Rosberg comes off better. At first, victory looked likely for the
:14:27. > :14:29.Britain, as he roared off the line at spa, beating the German to the
:14:30. > :14:34.first corner, but hopes evaporated on just the second lap. A puncture
:14:35. > :14:39.so Lewis Hamilton limp into the pits, and other damage to his car
:14:40. > :14:43.eventually forced him out with five laps remaining. The front wing of
:14:44. > :14:46.Nico Rosberg had to be changed, handing the lead to Daniel Riccardo
:14:47. > :14:50.of Red Bull Racing. Despite the self-inflicted damage, the German
:14:51. > :14:55.battled back from 15 up to second place, but the gap to Daniel
:14:56. > :14:57.Riccardo was too great, once again, the Australian benefited from
:14:58. > :15:02.Mercedes problems to claim his third win of the season. That sees Nico
:15:03. > :15:06.Rosberg extend his championship lead to 29 points. But he received
:15:07. > :15:11.bullying on the podium, the crowd was as angry as Hamilton and the
:15:12. > :15:12.Mercedes boss, who described the crash as "absolutely unacceptable".
:15:13. > :15:17.-- booing.