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Welcome. I am Philippa Thomas, from here in the newsroom we send | :00:18. | :00:25. | |
correspondence to bring you the best stories from around the globe. This | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
week... On the front line against Islamic State. Jim Muir joins the | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
Kurdish forces advancing against Islamic State in Iraq. Regaining | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
ground they lost so swiftly last month is proving hard. Protests to | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
the Russian authorities after the BBC Moscow team investigating the | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
story in Ukraine or attacked and their equipment tampered with. | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
Someone cleaned the hard drive on my computer. Is this the source of the | :00:59. | :01:07. | |
deadly virus? We travel to Saudi Arabia, where the authorities or | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
trying to stop a new outbreak. There is believed to be a strong link | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
between camels and the virus but little is known about how it jumps | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
from camels to humans and that is worrying. They are the front line on | :01:21. | :01:28. | |
the ground against what is called the biggest terrorist threat facing | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
the world. As US planes attacked Islamic State positions in Northern | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
Iraq and are Baghdad, Kurdish ground troops are pushing to retake the | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
plane of Mosul, seized by forces last month. BBC Jean village held by | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
the group on main highway. Jim Muir has been to both fronts, and he sent | :01:47. | :01:55. | |
this report on the battle. Cutting through the skies of Northern Iraq | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
at dawn, American jets providing air cover for the latest offensive | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
against IS positions. Below, it is Kurdish forces preparing for action. | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
American drones were also up there, but this time both they and the Jets | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
were just giving much. `` keeping watch. On the ground, the fire park | :02:19. | :02:31. | |
was coming from the Kurds. `` firepower. This is the objective, | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
this village leading to Mosul beyond the horizon. The area seized by IS | :02:38. | :02:45. | |
militants last month. Kurdish ground forces have advanced beyond their | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
old lives, preparing to move in on the village after the bombardment. | :02:49. | :02:57. | |
`` lines. From this position you can clearly see how it works, Americans | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
in the sky providing reconnaissance and possibly air strikes and Kurdish | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
forces on the ground, on barring with tanks and so one but despite | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
all of that, and the ground forces preparing to move him, regaining the | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
ground they lost swiftly to IS last month is proving a very hard job. | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
Far`away, on the other side of Mosul, Kurdish forces have been | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
pressing forward on another front. They recaptured nearby Mosul dam | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
nearly one month ago. But pushing further has been painfully slow. The | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
militants have a good technique, he says. They disappear and then launch | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
surprise attacks and leave many arms behind so we must be very careful. | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
It takes a lot of information and planning to drive them out. Back on | :03:46. | :03:54. | |
the front, the Kurds keep up the attack but the progress they have | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
made illustrates just how hard it will be to eliminate the militants | :03:58. | :04:06. | |
in the rest of Iraq and Syria. The official line from Moscow is that no | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
Russian servicemen are involved in the conflict in Ukraine, unless they | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
go on holiday or in their spare time. But when the BBC when to speak | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
to the sister of a Russian soldier killed near the Ukraine border, the | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
team was attacked, the cameraman beating up on his camera smashed. It | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
is not clear who was behind the attack but the BBC has lodged a | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
formal protest with the authorities. The team is now safe and back in | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
Moscow, from where Steve Rosenberg reports. Oksana tells me about the | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
brothers she calls a Russian hero. Constant time fought in Chechnya and | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
Georgia. This summer he performed his final mission. TRANSLATION: When | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
he called to say he was going away, he sounded scared. He said, I will | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
be heading south west, and I didn't understand. South West Ukraine, he | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
said. I thought perhaps he meant the Ukrainian border, stay safe I told | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
him. Three weeks later, her brother was dead, killed by an artillery | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
shell from Ukraine, one official said. Another claimed he died during | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
military exercises. TRANSLATION: I asked that official, do you believe | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
the words you are telling me? No, he said. So we say this? I just want to | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
understand how my brother was killed. Perhaps not everyone is so | :05:32. | :05:39. | |
keen on the truth. Later that day we were attacked by at least three men | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
as we were getting into the car. They hit the cameraman, smashed the | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
camera and drove off with it. We did not expect the day to end here in | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
the hospital and we are here because the cameraman is having x`rays and | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
is being checked out after this attack. Someone clearly did not want | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
this mature real broadcast. After four hours of questioning at the | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
police station, back in the car, we realised our equipment had been | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
tampered with. Someone cleaned the hard drive on my computer. Luckily, | :06:13. | :06:21. | |
we made copies of the mature real. State`controlled media admits that | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine but Russian television | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
portrays them as volunteers who have taken leave of absence to fight. | :06:29. | :06:37. | |
Those independent Russian journalists brave enough to conduct | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
their own investigations faced threats and intimidation. | :06:41. | :06:50. | |
TRANSLATION: They say there is no war, they say that our soldiers are | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
not involved. So who is to blame for his death? How did this happen? I am | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
tortured by this question. It is a simple question. All she wants is an | :07:01. | :07:09. | |
answer. It is a mystery virus with no known cure. Middle East rest | :07:10. | :07:17. | |
retreat system has killed thousands of people since been detected in | :07:18. | :07:19. | |
Saudi Arabia three years ago and it is spreading fast. Well a cases have | :07:20. | :07:27. | |
been confirmed in Jordan, Qatar, and the US. Usually after travel to | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
Saudi Arabia. Saudi officials are doing all they can to avoid an | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
outbreak of the disease at next month's Mecca, where 2 million | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
people are expected to attend. Is this the key source of the deadly | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
MUIRS virus? Camels are prime suspect for passing this disease to | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
humans. Which is why health officials are taking samples from | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
these prized animals. There is believed to be a very strong link | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
between camels and this virus is still very little is known about how | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
it jumps from animal to human and that is worrying scientists. The | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
virus is fairly harmless in the animals but in humans it can cause | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
pneumonia and kidney failure. Killing more than one third of those | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
infected. But the real problem began when patients ended up here. Poor | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
infection control measures and hospitals like this one meant that | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
when a patient arrives, the virus can spread fast. Doctors admit that | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
staff were not washing their hands between patients or wearing masks | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
properly, which means they were helping pass it on. It was not until | :08:46. | :08:53. | |
1.5 years into this outbreak when the king sectors Health Minister | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
over his handling of the crisis that things started to change. Now, | :08:57. | :09:04. | |
hundreds of hospital staff are trained in infection control and the | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
number of MUIRS patients has fallen dramatically, from hundreds in the | :09:10. | :09:17. | |
spring to very sporadic cases now. Deep breathing for one minute. Add | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
these hired by the Security labs, scientists are trying to figure out | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
where this came from. Particularly in the run`up to haj, when 2 million | :09:27. | :09:36. | |
people will descend on Mecca. Being transmittable from human to human is | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
a very big concern for haj. We have intense overcrowding and this is an | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
excellent media for this infection to spread. But the government is | :09:47. | :09:53. | |
reassuring pilgrims. MERS is not any more an issue in Saudi. We will do | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
our best to ensure we can continue to do all that we can do to have a | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
safe haj for all of our guests and pilgrims. The outbreak might be | :10:04. | :10:11. | |
under control for now, but the World Health Organisation says the | :10:12. | :10:13. | |
situation continues to be a public health concern. And that is all from | :10:14. | :10:21. | |
us this week. Goodbye. Some of us have had a great few days | :10:22. | :10:46. | |
and others have had a very warm, thundery time but were nearly in the | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
same boat tomorrow. Some sunshine and feeling fresher as well. The | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
cool start to the day will mean the odd shower close to eastern includes | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
the areas but with time they will fade | :11:00. | :11:00. |