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US air strikes in northern Iraq help Kurdish forces to fight back against | :00:07. | :00:14. | |
Islamist militants. They also give time for desperate Yazidi refugees, | :00:15. | :00:21. | |
trapped in the Sinjar moup tans to escape to -- mountains to escape to | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
safer areas. time for desperate Yazidi refugees, | :00:24. | :00:24. | |
trapped in the Supporters of Nouri al-Maliki take | :00:25. | :00:24. | |
time for desperate Yazidi refugees, trapped in the Sinjar to the street, | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
as America warns him not to stoke tensions further. | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
Also this lunch time: Still holding - a three-day | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
ceasefire is observed in Gaza, as Israel sends negotiators to care | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
row. Calls for the relabelling of alcoholic drinks to give warnings of | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
the harmful effects of drinking. The rise in rural crime, with a spate of | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
sheep rustling and a theft in farming vehicles. | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
Rory McIlroy says he's playing the best golf of his life after winning | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
the US PGA. Later on BBC London - the | :01:01. | :01:11. | |
multimillion pound project to create the largest wetland nature reserve | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
in Walthamstow. Good afternoon. Welcome to the BBC | :01:14. | :01:38. | |
News. Air strikes by US planes are halting the advance of the Islamic | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
State's militants in Iraq. That is according to the American Defence | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
Secretary, Chuck Hagel, who said the US would continue to support the | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
Iraqi security forces in every way that we can. On the ground, Kurdish | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
forces have made head way against ISIS fighters and have called for | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
more western military aid. This morning, Islamists are reported to | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
have captured Jalawla, 100 miles to the north-east of Baghdad. Our world | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
affairs correspondent has the latest. The forlorn and desperate | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
trek continues to some kind of safety. Some of the thousands of | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
members of Iraq's Yazidi minoritied, fleeing the advance and the -- | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
minority fleeing the advance of the Islamic State. | :02:25. | :02:26. | |
I had to walk halfway here alone. I have three children. This one is | :02:27. | :02:34. | |
with me. I have lost the others. I haven't seen them or my husband. I | :02:35. | :02:43. | |
have walked from the Sinjar mountains to Syria. Walking. We have | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
a bottle of water. Sometimes we drink it, no more. More US air drops | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
of vital supplies to desperate Yazidis still trapped and exposed on | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
Mount Sinjar in northern Iraq. This humanitarian crisis has re-focussed | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
international concern on the threat posed by the Sunni militants in Iraq | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
and beyond. With the help of US air strike, Kurdish forces have re-taken | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
some ground from the militants in the north but, as the militants | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
celebrate and parade their successes in their own videos, they have made | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
a new advance further south, closer to the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
Heightened security on the streets of the capital, but this, it seem, | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
is because of the heightened political crisis among the divided | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
leadership. As he struggles to keep his job, the | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
Shi'ite Prime Minister went on national television overnight, | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
saying he was taking the country's President to court a show of support | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
on the streets reports from the capital, the turmoil seems set to | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
deepen. All this will dismay the Americans and others. | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
One thing all Iraqis need to know that there'll be little | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
international support of any kind whatsoever for anything that | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
deefiates from legitimate constitutional process that's in | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
place and being worked on now. In northern Iraq, this camp offers a | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
place of relative sanctuary for some. There's no end in sight to the | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
crisis. Our diplomatic correspondent is with | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
me now. The arming of the Kurds by the United States - how significant | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
is that? This is coming from senior American officials. It has not been | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
formally announced yet. It seems likely, given the new Islamic State | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
advances that Nick was talking about in his report. It seems to be a | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
subject very much the air. Some of the European countries are talking | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
about the need to shore up the Kurdish capability, the French and | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
the Italians talk of a need for an emergency Foreign Minister's meeting | :05:00. | :05:01. | |
about this. It makes clear, if it is true, just how much is at stake here | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
for the United States and its allies in this latest Iraqi crisis. You | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
might think, look they step back from intervening in Syria, they said | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
they would not arm the moderate fighters in Syria. Why are they now, | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
if it is true, going to arm the Kurds in Iraq? Of course, in Syria, | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
part of the reason holding back was to stop those arms from getting into | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
the hands of extremist militants like Islamic State or ISIS, as it | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
used to be called. The irony is these same fighters now they have | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
moved from northern Syria into northern Iraq, they have their hands | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
on some of this weaponry anyway. When towns like Mosul fell to them | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
and the Iraqi army fled n part, armed by the Americans after their | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
intervention in 2003, this heavy weaponry, some sophisticated, fell | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
into the hands of these fighters. Now you have the Americans facing | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
this terrible situation, where the advancing Islamic State fighters | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
might have their hands on kit that they themselves have in Iraq. They | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
have to do something. That is number one. Number two, the humanitarian | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
situation, the devastating situation of some of these ancient | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
communities. Number three, the importance of northern Kurdish Iraq | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
to the US and other Allies. It whats been a linchpin for them. A haven, | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
where they felt they had have a loyal ally. There is another irony | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
here. Whilst America supports the Kurds of the north, they are not | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
supporting Nouri al-Maliki, the Prime Minister, in Baghdad. It is a | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
complete mess, isn't it? Part of the problem is, the reason Islamic state | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
fighters were able to make their way, flood across northern Iraq, is | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
because the Sunni tribes were so disenchanted with Mr Maliki's Shia | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
Government in Baghdad, they let them in. If he's part of the problem, he | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
cannot be part of the solution. Across Europe too have pushed for a | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
more inclusive Government, a unity Government which does not have Mr | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
Maliki as Prime Minister. He is fighting back. His forces are | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
deployed on the streets of Baghdad. You have a weaker central | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
Government. The danger for western allies is if they start to support | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
the Kurds more, but a al-Maliki-led Government in Baghdad less, there is | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
another nightmare, withsy the country could fragment. Thank you. | :07:27. | :07:34. | |
For more on the developing situation on Iraq, visit our website: You can | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
find an interactive guide which explains how the fighters have | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
become such a powerful force. It gives you a time line and facts and | :07:45. | :07:54. | |
figures. Neers have -- negotiators have arrived in Cairo on how to find | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
a long-term solution to the conflict in Gaza. A three-day ceasefire | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
appears to be holding. Our Middle East correspondent is at the Rafah | :08:05. | :08:12. | |
crossing. This ceasefire, as I say, is holding, attention is focussed on | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
these talks? No reports of any breaches to this ceasefire deal for | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
now. Right down here, in the south-east corner of the Gaza Strip, | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
you can see how that is affecting things on the ground, because we've | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
actually seen some people able to cross through into, the border we | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
Egypt is just over here behind me. Just off to my east, these lorries | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
are coming from the border crossing with Israel. Now, that crossing was | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
actually actually closed yesterday because of militants firing rockets | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
in that direction. With this three-day truce agreed, it has been | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
able to re-open. We have seen supplies and aid coming through here | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
over the past few hours. Israeli negotiators have now | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
returned to Cairo for talks on a longer term ceasefire deal. If that | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
can be reached, it will really enable people here in Gaza to start | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
to rebuild their lives. After now more than four weeks of fighting. | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
Across Gaza, there are scenes of dramatic destruction. This is the | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
result of an Israeli air strike that took place after the last three-day | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
truce expired and just before a new one was agreed. | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
Dozens of mosques, as well as tens of thousands of homes, have been | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
lost in this conflict. More than 1900 Palestinian lives. Now, there | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
are fresh hopes here that people can start to re-build. | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
Already families are packing up their belongings and leaving | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
temporary shelters to return to the neighbourhoods they fled during the | :09:48. | :09:49. | |
violence. TRANSLATION: We want a complete | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
ceasefire. We don't accept a two or three-day truce. We want to go back | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
home. We want to end this situation and live a comfortable life. Some | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
Israelis living not far away feel much the same. | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
Neighbours greet each other as they return to their properties near the | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
Gaza border. TRANSLATION: I am very happy. This | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
is our home. We haven't been here for a month and two weeks. Supplies | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
brought by Palestinian businesses and aid rolled into Gaza today from | :10:24. | :10:25. | |
Israel. With talks on a longer term deal in | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
Cairo under way again, Israeli security and the tight border | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
controls imposed by Israel and Egypt are key. | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
These lorries are bringing goods into Gaza from Israel's only | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
commercial crossing point, which is just down the road. Palestinians | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
want it to be open more fully, so they can drad effectively. -- trade | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
effectively. Behind me you have the Rafah crossing point we Egypt. It | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
has been mostly closed to travellers for the past year. Palestinians say | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
it should be the gateway to the world. For now, only those with | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
foreign passports or residency can make it back across the border. The | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
challenge for negotiators in Egypt is to bring both Israel and the | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
Palestinians close together and that will require serious compromises. | :11:14. | :11:23. | |
Those talks in Cairo taking place amid much secrecy and tight security | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
as well. A lot of international pressure and support on the | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
different parties there. The hope really that they can solve the | :11:31. | :11:39. | |
underlying problems that led to this crisis in Gaza in the first place. | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
As was pointed out there, huge pressure in terms of the | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
humanitarian situation in Gaza. What about within Israel and the | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
political pressure there for some sort of longer term deal? Well, it | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
is the same, obviously relief everywhere there is now a prolonged, | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
hopefully, period of peace and people can go bobbing to their | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
communities along -- can go back to their communities along the border. | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
Binyamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister here has been pressured, | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
particularly from right-wingers who say the job in Gaza should have been | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
finished. Everybody in that position says if we allow Hamas to re-arm and | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
do not solve the long-term pron problems, there'll be another | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
conflict. Many people here, both on the left and the right, increasingly | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
on the right, say Israel has to defeat Hamas, it has to demilitarise | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
the Gaza Strip. The problem is, as both sides are sitting down now in | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
Cairo, they are so far apart, those Israeli demands and Hamas demands - | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
it is very unlikely they will agree to those demands. The European Union | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
and the Palestinian Authority are going to have to try and make | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
progress elsewhere to make sure we don't end up with another conflict | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
in a few weeks or a few months. Thank you. | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
The Foreign Office minister Mark Simmonds has resigned. The second | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
minister to leave in a week. Downing Street says his departure is | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
completely unrelated to events in Israel. Let's speak to our political | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
correspondent. This raises eyebrows after the hi-profile resignation of | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
Baroness Warsi. There's no escaping the fact within less than seven days | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
the Foreign Office has lost two ministers. That is at a time when | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
there are three crisises. We have Ebola in West Africa. We have the | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
violence in Iraq, you have heard about and we have the on-going | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
confrontation in Israel, between Israel and Hamas. Baroness Warsi | :13:42. | :13:51. | |
said she could no longer stand by the Government's morally | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
indefensible of policy on Gaza. Mark Simmonds says it is about his | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
personal, political future. We have seen letters between him and the | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
Prime Minister around the time of the reshuffle. He | :14:04. | :14:03. | |
Rafah crossing point we Egypt. It has been mostly closed to said he | :14:04. | :14:04. | |
wasn't going to has been mostly closed to travellers | :14:05. | :14:05. | |
for the past stand in the election of next year. So, that is why he | :14:06. | :14:07. | |
went. It is not clear whether for the past year. Palestinians say | :14:08. | :14:09. | |
it should be he said, I am for the past year. Palestinians say | :14:10. | :14:10. | |
it should be the gateway going and the Prime Minister sacked him or the | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
Prime Minister sacked him and then he said he will not stand. It is | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
bizarre to an extent. foreign passports or residency can | :14:17. | :14:18. | |
make it back across the Why make it back across the border. The | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
challenge six days after Warsi's departure would another minister | :14:24. | :14:25. | |
resign at the Foreign Office? Thank you very much. Cigarette-style | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
health warnings should be put on of alcohol products. That is what MPs | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
on the All Party Parliamentary Group say needs to be done to alert | :14:37. | :14:52. | |
consumers of the harmful effects Almost half the alcohol we drink is | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
bought in shops. A change in the pattern of drinking. There is a call | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
for minimum prices and stronger warnings, measures they say are | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
needed because of the costs of alcohol to society. We know alcohol | :15:07. | :15:15. | |
costs are 21 billion pounds a year in as a consequence of health and | :15:16. | :15:25. | |
related crimes to alcohol abuse. Plans are being backed for a minimum | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
price in Scotland and Wales and campaigners say drinkers need to be | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
more aware of the risks. Most people know you damage your letter if you | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
drink too much. But drinking alcohol is also implicated in heart | :15:41. | :15:44. |