24/08/2014 BBC Weekend News

Medical teams in Sierra Leone are treating a Briton who has

The person, who hasn't been named, is understood to be

Preparations are thought to be underway to return them to

the United Kingdom where they would be treated

Our correspondent Sarah Campbell reports.

Clinics in Sierra Leone are being overwhelmed as the deadly virus

spreads. Details about the first British man to have contracting the

disease are few. He is believed to be a charity worker and the decision

is now being taken as to whether he should stay in Africa or return to

the UK. This is the specialist isolation unit in the Royal free

Hospital in London. Films by the BBC earlier this month, it is the only

unit of this kind in Europe and it is where he would be brought if it

is decided he could be better treated here. It is now recognised

cure for Ebola but two American doctors who were flown back to the

US after contracting the virus in Liberia were successfully treated

with an experimental drug. Three further people in Liberia are

showing signs of improvement having taken it. In West Africa, the

disease continues to spread. The number of infections is more than

2600. More than half of those who have caught it have died. Do we know

when a decision will be made on bringing this person by?

We are led to believe it may be later today. Currently the person is

receiving consular attention in Sierra Leone. I decision will be

made about whether they should stay or come back to the UK. Clearly that

will take into account his fitness to travel and the level of care he

is getting at the moment. If it does happen, he will be flown back to the

UK by a specialist in a Mac team. He will then be transported to the

Royal free Hospital in North London. As you saw there, they have a

specialist unit designed to look after such patients. There will be

people who are worried about an infected patient being brought back

to the UK. It is definitely worth restating, as the deputy medical

officer has stated today, the overall risk to the public is very

low. Ebola is bred by bodily fluids. It is much more difficult to conduct

trike than influenza. -- it is much more difficult to contract than

influenza. Thank you.

The Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond, has said the government is

investing significant resources to combat Islamic extremism.

It follows the murder of the American journalist

James Foley by a member of the extremist group Islamic State

In Iraq, more refugees have been fleeing

Our world affairs correspondent Mike Wooldridge reports

Four. The refugees keep coming from the fighting in northern Iraq. For

some families like this, they have now had to move twice. We fled to a

place where there were tense. We stayed there for ten days. Then the

militants came again. Followers of an ancient religious sect fled from

advancing Islamic State forces onto the Baron and Rocky Mount Sinjar.

They were held later by British and other air drops. Viewers are now

growing for some 18,000 members of the Turkmen community. They are said

to have little food or water. They have effectively manage to

ethnically cleanse all the minorities, minority communities who

have been living in Iraq for thousands of years. They have been

ethnically cleansed from the areas which are now under the control of

ISIS. This is the hunt continues for those suspected of being involved in

the beheading of the American journalist James Foley, among them

the mastermind with a British accent, seen in the video posted

online by the IS. Today, the Foreign Secretary rates in the Sunday Times,

it is horrifying to think that the perpetrator of this act it has been

brought up in Britain. It is an utter betrayal of our country, our

values and every thing the British people stand for. One Briton's

response, he reiterates, the Prime Minister and I have made clear that

there will be no British combat boots on the ground in Iraq. The

former Shadow Home Secretary has called for British fighters to be

stripped of their citizenship. An American network has said it has

learned that US and British intelligence are closing in on the

identity of the man who killed James Foley.

The Ukrainian President says the country will be under constant

military threat for the foreseeable future and pledged three billion

Ukraine has been marking its independence day with

The display of military might comes as the

country faces its worst crisis since the break up of the Soviet Union.

Pro-Russian rebels in the city of Donetsk,

the scene of the heaviest fighting, say they will hold their own parade

Sir Cliff Richard has been interviewed by police investigating

The claim, which Sir Cliff denies, involves a boy under the age

The interview took place in South Yorkshire.

Sir Cliff Richard was questioned about claims of an alleged sexual

assault that took place at a religious event in Sheffield in

1985. South Yorkshire Police have confirmed that this Avintia

three-year-old man attended police premises by prior arrangement. He

was interviewed under caution but was not arrested or charged. It

comes after police searched the singer's flat in Berkshire on the

14th of August as part of their investigation. A spokesman for Sir

Cliff says he cooperated fully with officers and answer the questions

put to him. Other than restating that this allegation is completely

false and that he will continue to cooperate fully with the police, it

would not be appropriate for Sir Cliff to say anything further at

this time. Since the allegation, he has pulled out of numerous public

engagements and fans have rallied around him. Leanne Brown, BBC News.

You can see more on all of today's stories on the BBC News Channel.

Good afternoon. There may be some further in-house fighting with the

heating controls over the next few days. There probably