:00:21. > :00:23.Medical teams in Sierra Leone are treating a Briton who has
:00:24. > :00:30.The person, who hasn't been named, is understood to be
:00:31. > :00:33.Preparations are thought to be underway to return them to
:00:34. > :00:35.the United Kingdom where they would be treated
:00:36. > :00:45.Our correspondent Sarah Campbell reports.
:00:46. > :00:51.Clinics in Sierra Leone are being overwhelmed as the deadly virus
:00:52. > :00:55.spreads. Details about the first British man to have contracting the
:00:56. > :00:59.disease are few. He is believed to be a charity worker and the decision
:01:00. > :01:04.is now being taken as to whether he should stay in Africa or return to
:01:05. > :01:10.the UK. This is the specialist isolation unit in the Royal free
:01:11. > :01:13.Hospital in London. Films by the BBC earlier this month, it is the only
:01:14. > :01:17.unit of this kind in Europe and it is where he would be brought if it
:01:18. > :01:23.is decided he could be better treated here. It is now recognised
:01:24. > :01:28.cure for Ebola but two American doctors who were flown back to the
:01:29. > :01:32.US after contracting the virus in Liberia were successfully treated
:01:33. > :01:35.with an experimental drug. Three further people in Liberia are
:01:36. > :01:41.showing signs of improvement having taken it. In West Africa, the
:01:42. > :01:46.disease continues to spread. The number of infections is more than
:01:47. > :01:51.2600. More than half of those who have caught it have died. Do we know
:01:52. > :01:56.when a decision will be made on bringing this person by?
:01:57. > :02:00.We are led to believe it may be later today. Currently the person is
:02:01. > :02:03.receiving consular attention in Sierra Leone. I decision will be
:02:04. > :02:09.made about whether they should stay or come back to the UK. Clearly that
:02:10. > :02:14.will take into account his fitness to travel and the level of care he
:02:15. > :02:19.is getting at the moment. If it does happen, he will be flown back to the
:02:20. > :02:24.UK by a specialist in a Mac team. He will then be transported to the
:02:25. > :02:28.Royal free Hospital in North London. As you saw there, they have a
:02:29. > :02:33.specialist unit designed to look after such patients. There will be
:02:34. > :02:37.people who are worried about an infected patient being brought back
:02:38. > :02:42.to the UK. It is definitely worth restating, as the deputy medical
:02:43. > :02:50.officer has stated today, the overall risk to the public is very
:02:51. > :02:57.low. Ebola is bred by bodily fluids. It is much more difficult to conduct
:02:58. > :02:59.trike than influenza. -- it is much more difficult to contract than
:03:00. > :03:02.influenza. Thank you.
:03:03. > :03:04.The Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond, has said the government is
:03:05. > :03:06.investing significant resources to combat Islamic extremism.
:03:07. > :03:08.It follows the murder of the American journalist
:03:09. > :03:10.James Foley by a member of the extremist group Islamic State
:03:11. > :03:14.In Iraq, more refugees have been fleeing
:03:15. > :03:20.Our world affairs correspondent Mike Wooldridge reports
:03:21. > :03:28.Four. The refugees keep coming from the fighting in northern Iraq. For
:03:29. > :03:34.some families like this, they have now had to move twice. We fled to a
:03:35. > :03:42.place where there were tense. We stayed there for ten days. Then the
:03:43. > :03:46.militants came again. Followers of an ancient religious sect fled from
:03:47. > :03:51.advancing Islamic State forces onto the Baron and Rocky Mount Sinjar.
:03:52. > :03:59.They were held later by British and other air drops. Viewers are now
:04:00. > :04:05.growing for some 18,000 members of the Turkmen community. They are said
:04:06. > :04:09.to have little food or water. They have effectively manage to
:04:10. > :04:11.ethnically cleanse all the minorities, minority communities who
:04:12. > :04:18.have been living in Iraq for thousands of years. They have been
:04:19. > :04:24.ethnically cleansed from the areas which are now under the control of
:04:25. > :04:28.ISIS. This is the hunt continues for those suspected of being involved in
:04:29. > :04:31.the beheading of the American journalist James Foley, among them
:04:32. > :04:38.the mastermind with a British accent, seen in the video posted
:04:39. > :04:43.online by the IS. Today, the Foreign Secretary rates in the Sunday Times,
:04:44. > :04:48.it is horrifying to think that the perpetrator of this act it has been
:04:49. > :04:51.brought up in Britain. It is an utter betrayal of our country, our
:04:52. > :04:58.values and every thing the British people stand for. One Briton's
:04:59. > :05:02.response, he reiterates, the Prime Minister and I have made clear that
:05:03. > :05:07.there will be no British combat boots on the ground in Iraq. The
:05:08. > :05:12.former Shadow Home Secretary has called for British fighters to be
:05:13. > :05:16.stripped of their citizenship. An American network has said it has
:05:17. > :05:19.learned that US and British intelligence are closing in on the
:05:20. > :05:26.identity of the man who killed James Foley.
:05:27. > :05:28.The Ukrainian President says the country will be under constant
:05:29. > :05:30.military threat for the foreseeable future and pledged three billion
:05:31. > :05:33.Ukraine has been marking its independence day with
:05:34. > :05:37.The display of military might comes as the
:05:38. > :05:40.country faces its worst crisis since the break up of the Soviet Union.
:05:41. > :05:42.Pro-Russian rebels in the city of Donetsk,
:05:43. > :05:45.the scene of the heaviest fighting, say they will hold their own parade
:05:46. > :05:47.Sir Cliff Richard has been interviewed by police investigating
:05:48. > :05:51.The claim, which Sir Cliff denies, involves a boy under the age
:05:52. > :05:55.The interview took place in South Yorkshire.
:05:56. > :06:02.Sir Cliff Richard was questioned about claims of an alleged sexual
:06:03. > :06:07.assault that took place at a religious event in Sheffield in
:06:08. > :06:11.1985. South Yorkshire Police have confirmed that this Avintia
:06:12. > :06:15.three-year-old man attended police premises by prior arrangement. He
:06:16. > :06:22.was interviewed under caution but was not arrested or charged. It
:06:23. > :06:26.comes after police searched the singer's flat in Berkshire on the
:06:27. > :06:31.14th of August as part of their investigation. A spokesman for Sir
:06:32. > :06:35.Cliff says he cooperated fully with officers and answer the questions
:06:36. > :06:38.put to him. Other than restating that this allegation is completely
:06:39. > :06:43.false and that he will continue to cooperate fully with the police, it
:06:44. > :06:48.would not be appropriate for Sir Cliff to say anything further at
:06:49. > :06:51.this time. Since the allegation, he has pulled out of numerous public
:06:52. > :06:57.engagements and fans have rallied around him. Leanne Brown, BBC News.
:06:58. > :07:00.You can see more on all of today's stories on the BBC News Channel.
:07:01. > :07:22.Good afternoon. There may be some further in-house fighting with the
:07:23. > :07:23.heating controls over the next few days. There probably