22/08/2014 BBC News at One

Forces says the West has to talk to President Assad of Syria to tackle

the threat of the militant group Islamic State.

The comments follow warnings from Washington that Islamic State is the

most dangerous threat to the US in recent years.

It is a sophisticated and as well funded as any we have seen. They are

beyond just a terrorist group. We'll have the latest on the

strategy developing to defeat Islamic State. Also this lunch time:

Ukraine has accused Russia of invading its ser territory after

humanitarian aid lorries of crossed the border without permission.

Ceremonies have taken place marking the return home of the first

Malaysian victims of Flight MH17, shot down over Ukraine last month.

Doctors who make mistakes could face tougher sanctions and might be

forced to apologise to their patients. And who are the latest

people to succumb to the new charity craze, raising awareness of motor

neurone disease. Tube drivers walk out on strike,

causing wide-spread disruption. A 14-year-old boy is arrested on

suspicion of ing a woman at the Reading festival.

A very good afternoon to you. Welcome to the BBC News.

The former head of British Armed Forces says Islamic State extremists

need to be attacked in their own back yard in Syria. So talks must be

held with President Assad. It is a view backed by the chair of the

parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee. The United

States says that the jihadists are the most dangerous threat America

has faced in recent times and pose an imminent threat to every interest

we have. Our defence correspondent has the story. For the past two

weeks, America has been using its military power to halt the advance

of the Islamic State fighters in northern Iraq.

A bombing campaign that's only recently been stepped up, following

the brutal beheading of the US journalist James Foley. It is his

death and the shock waves which is refocussing minds on both sides of

the Atlantic. Intelligence agencies are trying to establish the identity

of his executer in, who is believed to be British. He's of one of many

foreign fighters who have joined the ranks of an extreme barbaric

organisation, which America says posed the greatest threat to the

West. They are beyond just a terrorist group. They marry

ideology, a sophistication of strategic and tactical military

prowess. They are tremendously well funded. This is beyond anything that

we've seen. We must prepare for everything. The only way you do that

is you take a cold, hard look at it and get ready.

The problem though is not just that their fighters are well trained,

well armed and well funded. It is one of geography, with the tentals

of the Islamic State recognising no borders. What President Obama calls

a cancer, has already spread from its source in Syria to large swathes

of Iraq. How can the threat be defeated, not only contained? This

is an organisation which have an end of days strategic vision. And which

will eventually have to be defeated. To your question, can they be

defeated without addressing that part of their organisation which

resides in Syria? The answer is, no. Tln lies the dilemma. The West and

the Syrian regime have a common enemy in the Islamic State. Britain

and America also oppose the Syrian dictator. He too has committed

atrocities. One year ago his forces gassed his own people. I think the

hard conclusion you probably have to reach is that the old statement of

my enemy's enemy is my friend might have some truth in it. It just might

be either under the counter or over the counter. Some conversation may

have to go on with the Assange regime in order toful -- with the

Assad regime to bring an answer. The West caught between the devy and the

deep blue sea. Our correspondent is in Erbil, in

Kurdish Iraq for us now. In the West are calling for Islamic State to be

attacked on two fronts - Syria as well as Iraq. That is a huge task,

surely? It is. It's not at all straightforward, as Jonathan was

saying there. They are reluctant to put their own boots on the ground.

The Pentagon recognise that would complicate the situation, even if

they were willing to do it, which they are not. You have to have other

local forces, as has been happening here in Kurdistan, where the

Americans have been supporting Kurdish forces with air power.

Extending that to the rest of Iraq and Syria involves complications. In

Iraq, there is basically a very strong civil war going on between

Iraqi Shi'ites and Sunnis. The Sunnis recent the Government in

Baghdad, which is now outgoing. Until there's a broad-based

representative Government in there which has a big enough Sunni

component to pull the rug from under the Islamic militants who have been

able to exploit Sunni grievances, until that happens the Americans

cannot wade in without taking sides which is essentially in some

respects a civil war. In Syria they cannot wade in and bomb. They need

ground forces. The Syrian opposition is against the Syrian regime. Both

are supposedly against the radicals. The priority of the opposition is to

hit the regime, not the radicals. So you have a whole set of

relationships there which will have to be fundamentally reavaining

ranged if there is to -- rearranged if there is to be a conclusion. It

is horrendously complicated A lot of things have to change. Thanks, Jim.

Well, with me now is our security correspondent. Let's return to the

killing of the US journalist James Foley. Has there been any progress

in trying to identify his killer? If there has, no-one in Whitehall is

announcing it publicly. This is an on-going investigation. For the US,

for the Americans, it is a murder investigation as ordered be I the US

Attorney General thasmt are not giving out any confirmation. There

is huge speculation in the press as to who it might be. Databases have

been trawled through. Academics and others have looked through their

databases to see if they can match up who it is. Remember that the

alleged or suspected killer, the militant holding the knife in the

video has got much of his face masked. Then there is the voice on

the tape, which I am not 100% convinced is his. The problem is

even if you can identify, what do you do? How do you bring him to

justice? You cannot present an extradition request to the Syrian

Government. This is, for a start Britain doesn't have relations with

the Syrian Government any more. It is beyond their control it is under

control of the jihadists. So, then you are looking at a snatch

operation, like the Americans try and failed in early July to try and

rescue the hostages. I would say this though, the Americans have long

memories offen this. And they took -- memories of this. They did a

raid, not that long ago in Tripoli, where they got somebody they

suspected. Possibly the wrong person, possibly the right, who

knows and they have done it in Somalia. They are capable of doing

this. Eventually the Americans, I think, will try and bring this

person to justice. Many thanks for that.

Now, a Russian convoy that the Kremlin says is carrying

humanitarian supplies including food and water for civilians in eastern

Ukraine has moved into the country. The Red Cross planned to escort the

mission, but said it couldn't because of insufficient security

guarantees. Kiev says the convoy, in crossing the border, has made a

direct invasion of Ukrainian territory. Our correspondent is in

Moscow. Just bring us up-to-date with the convoy now. It has crossed

into Ukrainian territory. The Ukrainians are saying this is

effectively an invasion. Yes. Basically it's not the entire convoy

we first saw last week of more than 200 trucks. We think it is about 70

or so of these white-painted trucks, have crossed the border. Some of

those trucks, journalists were able to look into and saw there was water

and grain and sleeping bags in the back. Some of the trucks, about 30,

were inspected by Ukrainian custom officials earlier this week. Far

more trucks than those inspected by the Ukrainians have crossed the

border. They are saying they don't know what are in the trucks. That I

say they have cross -- they are saying they have crossed the border

without the permission of Ukraine. That is in violation of the

principals of the international law. And the Ukrainians are asking

international partners to join them in condemning what they call Russian

aggression. The trucks have started up the road towards a city in

pro-gunmen hands. For these trucks to get into there they have to cross

the front line twice. They will probably take a back route into the

city and may not go through the fighting. They are effectively going

to cross the front line twice. So, there are huge risks if the convoy

either gets blocked or fired at by the Ukrainian side that this

conflict could escalate further. What the Ukrainians are saying is,

although this is as they call it a direct invasion, that they will not

try and block the convoy and they will not fire on the convoy, because

they don't want to cause a provocation.

Thanks. Doctors could be forced to apologise

if they have not done so for making mistakes in the care of their

patients. It is part of tougher sanctions being considered by the

General Medical Council. These proposals are aimed at the

tiny minority of doctors who believe that sorry is the hardest word. The

majority can and do honestly admit their mistakes. Doctors are human.

If they make a one-off error, they generally won't have to go before

the General Medical Council. In some serious cases, the GMC believes

patients want to see stronger action.

What we are saying is that doctors who very seriously fall below our

standards, is it right that a panel should either be required to make

them say sorry, or indeed take into account if they have said sorry,

when that took place. In the wake of the scandal at

Stafford Hospital, where hundreds of people died unness sarly, the health

-- unnecessarily, the Health Secretary says he's taking steps to

improve patients' safety and insure doctors are held to account for poor

care. Some say the balance is just about right.

The vast majority of doctors come to work every day and do a good job.

Others say sanctions are necessary. Some of these proposals make very

good sense and we welcome them. What we really need to see is a

wholesale, root and branch reform of health professional regulation.

Doctors who say sorry won't be exposing themselves to financial

claims. Usually there will be less difficulty if they are open and

honest at the time something goes wrong. The general public will be

asked to have their say on these proposals.

A national day of mourning is being held in Malaysia,. The bodies were

returned home with full state honours and a moment of silence is

being held in their arrival at Kuala Lumpur.

Jonathan Head is there. It had been a long journey home. Five weeks

after Flight MH17 was shot down, the first of the 4 Malaysian victims

arrived -- the firsts of the Malaysian victims were brought home.

To mark what has been a terrible law w Malaysia Airlines suffering two

major disasters in just four months. So the this family are not alone in

their grief. The 37-year-old mother of two was a flight attendant on the

ill fated plane. They are still adjusting to the fact she's gone.

She was just my companion. We do everything together. So, it's: When

she's gone, it is a total loss for me.

She was the best thing and I talked to when I had problems. There was

some comfort in a community coming together to say goodbye. As one of

them pointed out, at least they had a body to bury.

The fate of the 239 people on board that earlier Malaysian flight which

went missing in March is still unknown. What we have been

witnessing today is loss and at a very personal level. And also on a

much larger scale. This has been a horribly unlucky year for Malaysia.

One for which its national airline at least will struggle to recover.

Even as they bury their dead, Malaysians are asking questions. Why

a civilian airliners on a routine flight was shot out of the sky? And

what on earth happened to that other Malaysian airliner which simply

vanished? resumed their search for people

believed to be missing after landslides near Hiroshima.

Mountainsides gave way after the equivalent of a month's rain in just

four hours. In the last 12 hours, the news from

Hiroshima has continued to get worse. Yesterday, rescuers thought

only a handful of people were buried under these huge mudslides. Now they

think the number is closer to 50. It seems as a whole families were

buried as they slept. For the rescuers, it is hard to know where

to start digging amid all of this. Many houses have been completely

obliterated. Time is rapidly running out. TRANSLATION: We have to be

extremely careful here as we are looking at potentially a secondary

disaster. Rescue and search operations are going through a

difficult patch right now. Harrowing stories have also begun to emerge

here. This is a spot where a father handed his three rod son to a

fireman, only to see both swept away and killed seconds later by a fresh

landslide. Everyone here talks of the astonishing speed with which all

this happened, and of the extraordinary amount of rain that

caused it, nearly ten inches in just four hours. TRANSLATION: I have

never seen such heavy rain before. It poured down like waterfalls. The

lightning was also very frightening. My family lived across the street

and I decided to come and help. Many others who lived even further also

came. We all want to help. Japan is an extremely mountainous country and

landslides here are not uncommon. But the Japanese government's own

figures are very clear. The sort of extreme weather event which caused

the landslide in Hiroshima on Wednesday are becoming more and more

common, and not surprisingly, the landslides they cause are becoming

more deadly as well. Our top story this lunchtime:

The United States calls the jihadist group Islamic State,

And still to come - 50 years of the BBC's iconic football show.

Later on BBC London: We look ahead to Twenty20 Cup finals day. Can

Surrey go one better than last year and when it? And who created the

Notting Hill Carnival? We look at the controversy over its origins.

After the Hillsborough disaster in 1989 claimed the lives

of 96 people, all-seater stadia were made compulsory in

Since then many fans have campaigned to change this, saying standing to

shout on your team adds to the atmosphere of the game.

Now the Liberal Democrats are calling for designated safe standing

zones for fans and Richard Conway has more from Burnley.

Here, fans have been getting used to the Premier League, watching it this

season but when they do so, they have to be seated in seats and not

stood up as spectators at other sports can do. Now the Liberal

Democrats are agreeing with lots of other farm organisations and are

calling for a wider debate on the issue.

Standing to watch top-flight football,

The sight of thousands of fans crammed in as they watched their

team play is now a distant memory in this age of all-seated stadiums.

With many fans persistently refusing to sit down at Premier League

grounds and with several clubs in favour, sections of so-called

rail seats, which can be unlocked to create standing or seated areas,

are being heralded as a way for terracing to be introduced.

I enjoyed those days, but they are long gone.

The big difference is that people would have unallocated areas to

stand in. And in the old days, where people stood crammed together

and left vast swathes of it empty, those days would be long gone.

You would have a place where you would go on the stand

Here at Rochdale, fans can turn up here and stand.

That is not the case higher up the leagues.

Supporters say there will be no going back to this style

of terracing. Those who are against it say that football should

The report following the Hillsborough disaster,

in which 96 Liverpool fans lost their lives, called for

the introduction of seating in British football.

The image of the game ought to be lifted and it should start

Given the significant investment in improving stadiums

and the match-day experience, many remain opposed to change.

The Premier League has stated it felt no reform was necessary.

Despite that, 25 years on from the revolutionary

recommendations of that report, the debate over new safer standing

is under way, both within football and now, the political arena.

The Premier League remain opposed to bringing back standing, pointing of

the investments that many clubs have made. Football League are calling

for a pilot. It seems as as if this debate will go on long past the

season and past the next election. Thank you.

Experts are warning that illnesses caused by malnutrition are

on the rise, because more people can't afford good quality food.

Recent figures have shown an increase in hospital admissions.

Several police forces across England and Wales are also seeing a rise in

Our social affairs correspondent, Michael Buchanan, has the story.

At this children's centre in the West Midlands,

the Housing Association has put on affordable activities to help

As well as fun, the children get food.

Useful help over the long and costly holidays.

Because we have been here, they are being fed their breakfast.

I mean, we do get up early, so they do have a piece

So they don't always tend to eat breakfast,

Many others could use the help these families are getting.

There is a growing health emergency, according to experts.

Food-related ill-health is getting worse in this country.

It is getting worse through extreme poverty and the use of food banks.

It is getting worse where people cannot afford good-quality food.

It is getting worse when things like malnutrition, rickets,

and other manifestations of extreme poor diet are becoming apparent.

The problems of buying decent food may be one reason why police forces

are also reporting increases of food theft from shops.

Devon and Cornwall saw a rise of 31% over the past year.

This woman turned to shoplifting of milk and cheese. It is wrong. I

cannot justify it. But it was really important to me that we did not get

sick and end up exhausted and sick and unable to function. The

government say they are providing support so that people can live

healthy lifestyles. They have given councils ?5 billion to help them

deal with public health problems. Now, if you haven't heard

of the ice bucket challenge, It's the charity craze that involves

celebrities and high profile figures dousing themselves in freezing water

and posting video evidence online, to help raise money and awareness

of Motor Neurone Disease. A former President of the

United States has taken up the challenge, but his successor in the

Oval Office is keeping a respectful distance, as Nomia Iqbal explains. I

do not think it is presidential for me to be splashed... Even former

President George W Bush has taken on the Ice Bucket Challenge. From Bill

Gates, the Beckham 's and Oprah Winfrey, to ordinary people. They

have all been tipping a bucket of water over their heads and they are

nominating someone else to do it. It all began in the US, when this man,

a baseball player, was diagnosed with no new Rome disease, known as

ALS in the States. The terminal disease gradually shuts down the

body's organs and there is no cure -- motor neurone disease. Peter and

his friends came up with the challenge and it took off on social

media. Facebook says 28 million people mentioned the challenge on

the social network and 2.4 million videos were posted. People are

choosing to either drop the water on their heads or donate ?100 to the

Association for the disease. Some are going to extraordinary lengths.

Anybody who says they are doing it or are not doing it, are raising

awareness of motor neurone disease. That is the important thing, raising

awareness and raising funds so we can work out how to help people

manage this disease and develop a cure. Not everyone is taking part.

President Obama has been banned by the US State Department any water

over his head, but he donated money. The campaign has brought in around

?25 million for the US Association, that is ?24 million more than they

raised last year. The BBC's iconic football TV show,

Match Of The Day, The programme, which kicked off

in 1964 with Liverpool's 3-2 win over Arsenal was originally intended

to be a one-off series. But the highlights programme soon

became an established part of Saturday night viewing

for fans young and old. Here's our sports

correspondent Natalie Pirks. Welcome to Match Of The Day, the

first of a weekly series coming to you every Saturday. The faces may

have changed, but one thing has remained. For football lovers, no

Saturday night is complete without this familiar tune. It was one of

the things that I was allowed to do by my parents. They let me watch

Match Of The Day. If I have been to the game, I love coming home and

watching it because you can reassess your thoughts in a way, see if you

were right, see if you were wrong. The format has always been simple,

the main highlights with discussion in between. To get that six in an

hour and a half of everything that happens on that day, it really does

work. Match Of The Day began life as a pre-recorded show on BBC Two in

1964. The first goal broadcast was Roger Hunt for Liverpool against

Arsenal. Kenneth Wolstenholme was followed by a raft of famous

presenters who brought their own special charm to the show. Sorry

about the noise! And then there are the commentators. That is absolutely

phenomenal! One of the most famous voices returns for a one-off

commentary tomorrow, ten years after his retirement. Barry Davies says it

remains appointment to view television. It is the comfort that

people feel. They know they television. It is the comfort that

people feel. They know have got the package. It is true they try not to

know the results of other matches and they go home and watch. They can

get all the schools in the ground let alone when they leave the

ground. It is a phenomenon. The presenters, the commentary and the

goals that give you goose bumps. Match Of The Day is a broadcasting

institution. And we will see you next Saturday, good night.

And the BBC is tonight celebrating that milestone with a special

programme - Match Of The Day At 50, at 10.35pm here on BBC One.

Viewers in Northern Ireland can see it

Hello, it has been brightening up nicely today. Through the rest of

the afternoon, plenty of decent spells of sunshine. A few showers

but many of us will avoid them. This is the satellite image which shows

us the cloud we have already had. A few showers and some of those

showers could be heavy north of Scotland. I think across parts of

north and eastern England, one or two showers to be seen. The odd

rumble of thunder around. Brighter skies as we move down the South --

south through Scotland. Temperatures around 15 or 16 across northern

areas. For England, most of the showers to the east of the Pennines.

For the south coast down to Cornwall, sunny spells tolerating

things through the rest of the afternoon and quite a good deal of

dry weather as well through Wales. Into the evening, we will keep the

risk of showers filtering in through the Liverpool Bay region and into

the Midlands, but generally clear skies. It will be quite a cool

night. It will be a crisp and cool start to Saturday. It is shaping up

like a decent day again. A few showers mainly across central and

eastern parts of England and Scotland as well. The best of the

sunshine for the southern and western parts of the UK. Temperature

wise, little call for the time of year. 19 or 20 Celsius towards the

south-east. And there are plenty of festivals happening this weekend. At

Leeds there is the chance of a shower. Less of a chance for Reading

and also in Southampton. If you are sleeping under canvas this weekend,

Saturday night will be a cold one. We will see temperatures down to

around freezing in other areas. Sunday will dawn on a chilly old

note. Despite the cut cold start, there is plenty of sunshine. The low

pressure get to move on through Monday. Some spells of wet weather

pushing across England and Wales but it is not a complete write-off.

Temperatures up to 19 degrees or so. All in all, it is looking