03/09/2014

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:00:00. > :00:09.Britain will not be cowed, says the Prime Minister,

:00:10. > :00:13.after Islamic State extremists threaten to kill a British hostage.

:00:14. > :00:17.David Cameron says Britain won't pay ransoms to the terrorists

:00:18. > :00:20.and won't be intimidated. If they think we will weaken

:00:21. > :00:24.in the face of their threats, they are wrong.

:00:25. > :00:27.It will have the opposite effect. Unravelling the web -

:00:28. > :00:30.the investigators trying to track down the Islamic State fighters

:00:31. > :00:36.responsible for the atrocities. We have a special report.

:00:37. > :00:39.Also tonight, the parents of five-year-old Ashya King are

:00:40. > :00:43.reunited with their son in Spain after being released from prison.

:00:44. > :00:46.All I was doing the whole time was just crying.

:00:47. > :00:50.Crying and praying so I could be reunited with him again.

:00:51. > :00:54.President Obama calls for NATO to send an unmistakeable message

:00:55. > :00:57.of support to Ukraine in the face of "brazen Russian aggression".

:00:58. > :01:03.Given the all-clear - the British ebola survivor William

:01:04. > :01:05.Pooley leaves hospital in London. On BBC London, warnings

:01:06. > :01:10.the capital is facing a critical shortage of trainee teachers

:01:11. > :01:13.for classrooms of the future. And Basildon Hospital technicians

:01:14. > :01:33.jailed for conning the NHS out of ?400,000.

:01:34. > :01:37.Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

:01:38. > :01:40.The Government says it's examining every possible option to protect

:01:41. > :01:45.a British man who's been threatened with death by Islamic State

:01:46. > :01:47.fighters. Last night, the militants released

:01:48. > :01:50.a video appearing to show the beheading of a second American

:01:51. > :01:53.journalist, Steven Sotloff. In it, they claimed a British

:01:54. > :01:56.hostage would be next. Speaking in the Commons,

:01:57. > :01:59.the Prime Minister insisted that Britain would "never give in"

:02:00. > :02:02.to the Islamist militants. But tonight,

:02:03. > :02:04.David Cameron is under pressure from some MPs to toughen his response to

:02:05. > :02:05.the threat from Islamic State. Here's our deputy political

:02:06. > :02:16.editor James Landale. Steven Sotloff, freelance

:02:17. > :02:20.journalist, American citizen and now the second hostage to be murdered by

:02:21. > :02:24.Islamic State, joining his countryman James Foley as the latest

:02:25. > :02:28.westerner apparently beheaded by the extremists. The fear now is that the

:02:29. > :02:34.next propaganda video to emerge from the battlefields of Syria will show

:02:35. > :02:37.the face of a British hostage, a 44-year-old man with family in

:02:38. > :02:56.Scotland who was kidnapped in last March. That is the reality David

:02:57. > :03:01.Cameron is now facing. A country like ours will not be powered by

:03:02. > :03:08.these barbaric killers. His aim was clear. This so-called Islamic

:03:09. > :03:14.caliphate is unacceptable and needs to be squeezed out of existence.

:03:15. > :03:18.Labour agreed. I agree with the Prime Minister, events like this

:03:19. > :03:22.must strengthen, not weaken our resolve and he can be assured of our

:03:23. > :03:26.full support. What potentially could be the Prime Minister do to protect

:03:27. > :03:32.the British hostage? He could attempt a rescue mission but the US

:03:33. > :03:37.tried this and failed. He could step up diplomatic pressure on regional

:03:38. > :03:44.powers to do more to combat Islamic State, but that might not come in

:03:45. > :03:50.time. Or air strikes against Islamic State. This option is not all out.

:03:51. > :03:53.Ministers say they won't allow terrorism to dictate strategy. But

:03:54. > :04:00.demands for a tougher response are growing, not just on the

:04:01. > :04:05.Conservative benches. IS will not be beaten without air strikes in Syria

:04:06. > :04:13.as well. That means engaging with the acid regime in Iran and the

:04:14. > :04:15.Saudis, however unpalatable. We should use air strikes to diminish

:04:16. > :04:24.their military capability so that the countries who are our allies can

:04:25. > :04:28.be with them more effectively on their own. Ministers accept that at

:04:29. > :04:31.some stage they may have to consider air strikes, but only as part of a

:04:32. > :04:34.long-term plan to deal with Islamic State, not in a short-term response

:04:35. > :04:39.to the threat of another hostage killing. As ever, any decision by

:04:40. > :04:43.Britain to join in air strikes like these would have to be signed off by

:04:44. > :04:48.the Americans, who for now appear to some as pretty cautious. It is very

:04:49. > :04:58.important from my perspective that when we send our pilots in, to do a

:04:59. > :05:03.job... We know this is a mission that is going to work, that we are

:05:04. > :05:08.clear and our objectives, our targets, we have made the case to

:05:09. > :05:12.Congress and the American people... Tonight, David Cameron arrived in

:05:13. > :05:16.Wales ahead of the NATO summit where he will discuss the crisis with

:05:17. > :05:17.fellow leaders. Their opposition to Islamic State is clear. What he and

:05:18. > :05:24.they might do about it is less so. editor James Landale.

:05:25. > :05:27.As the Government brings in new measures to stop more

:05:28. > :05:32.Britons travelling abroad to fight with groups in Syria and Iraq,

:05:33. > :05:37.the parents of a 20-year-old woman from Glasgow have spoken of their

:05:38. > :05:39.feelings of betrayal after she travelled to Syria last year.

:05:40. > :05:46.Aqsa's parents, Khalida and Muzaffar Mahmood, say they were horrified

:05:47. > :05:54.Her family hoped she would become a doctor and save lives. Instead she

:05:55. > :05:59.is in Syria, radicalised and married to an Islamic State fighter. Her

:06:00. > :06:09.parents say they feel betrayed. A solicitor spoke on their behalf.

:06:10. > :06:13.Aqsa was always a sweet and inquisitive child. All parents want

:06:14. > :06:18.to be proud of their child but sadly we feel nothing but sorrow and shame

:06:19. > :06:21.for Aqsa. Comments on social media which seemed to be from the

:06:22. > :06:25.20-year-old appeared to promote terrorism. One says, follow the

:06:26. > :06:30.examples of your brothers from Woolwich, Texas and Boston. Another

:06:31. > :06:34.says, if you cannot make it to the battlefield, then bring the

:06:35. > :06:37.battlefields do yourself. Aqsa appears to have at a normal at

:06:38. > :06:43.bringing in Glasgow. She went to private school and university. -- a

:06:44. > :06:46.normal upbringing. Her parents say she became a bedroom radical and

:06:47. > :06:53.they warned that if it can happen to them, it can happen to anyone. They

:06:54. > :07:01.cannot and -- understand what happened. There is no smoking gun,

:07:02. > :07:03.no family member that can be blamed for her radicalisation. We have

:07:04. > :07:08.spent months asking ourselves whether we could have done better

:07:09. > :07:11.and we still do not know the answer. Their message to their daughter,

:07:12. > :07:17.they still love her and want her to come home.

:07:18. > :07:20.Mahmood, say they were horrified Well, the BBC has learnt that a team

:07:21. > :07:23.of international investigators, paid for by the British Government,

:07:24. > :07:26.are trying to compile evidence against Islamic State fighters who

:07:27. > :07:28.are carrying out these atrocities - evidence which could eventually be

:07:29. > :07:31.used to prosecute them for crimes against humanity.

:07:32. > :07:34.But how likely is it that they will be brought to justice?

:07:35. > :07:37.Frank Gardner reports. As the list grows longer

:07:38. > :07:41.of apparent atrocities by Islamic State fighters, will anyone

:07:42. > :07:43.ever be held to account? We have learned that, throughout

:07:44. > :07:47.this year, a team of international investigators with extensive

:07:48. > :07:52.experience in war crimes, funded by the British Government, has been

:07:53. > :07:55.compiling evidence for prosecution. The BBC has been given the first

:07:56. > :07:59.exclusive access to their work. For their own safety, they have

:08:00. > :08:03.asked to remain anonymous. But who exactly are

:08:04. > :08:06.they going after? We are after the highest level

:08:07. > :08:08.members of the IS, because these individuals are just as responsible

:08:09. > :08:12.for the countless murders as those men who kill with their own hands.

:08:13. > :08:15.Indeed those leaders are more responsible.

:08:16. > :08:18.On the ground in Syria, and in the neighbouring countries,

:08:19. > :08:20.the investigators say they have numerous sources feeding them back

:08:21. > :08:27.information and original documents, building up an intricate picture

:08:28. > :08:29.of the workings of Islamic State. Some sources are even

:08:30. > :08:34.inside its ranks, operating at huge personal risk.

:08:35. > :08:37.Very rarely do we get documentation such as this,

:08:38. > :08:39.the actual minutes of an Islamic State provincial level meeting.

:08:40. > :08:43.This kind of thing is golddust to us, because

:08:44. > :08:48.it shows there is a clear chain of command that controls everything

:08:49. > :08:51.that happens in that region. This is the command structure

:08:52. > :08:55.of Islamic State as compiled by the investigators.

:08:56. > :08:58.At the top, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-appointed caliph.

:08:59. > :09:02.Directly below him, four councils, most importantly Military

:09:03. > :09:06.and Security. This one-plus-four structure is

:09:07. > :09:11.then duplicated throughout the provinces where IS has a presence.

:09:12. > :09:17.Now the team is starting to put senior names to posts,

:09:18. > :09:20.joining up a web of the wanted. They conclude that the Islamic State

:09:21. > :09:23.is far more organised than previously thought.

:09:24. > :09:25.What we are witnessing is the process of nation-building, which

:09:26. > :09:28.includes the provision of services, looking after the population.

:09:29. > :09:33.There is a military element, of course, but the Islamic State is

:09:34. > :09:36.just what it says it is. So where do British jihadis fit

:09:37. > :09:39.into this picture? Once across the border into Syria,

:09:40. > :09:43.they get assigned specific roles in IS.

:09:44. > :09:46.So far none appear to have reached the upper ranks.

:09:47. > :09:50.By and large, the Westerners are given menial low-level tasks

:09:51. > :09:52.by the commanders because they tend to arrive with no discernible

:09:53. > :09:55.battlefield skills so it assumed they are better off providing

:09:56. > :09:58.support services to the group, as they are unlikely to have

:09:59. > :10:02.the skills, religious and military, that IS is looking for.

:10:03. > :10:06.Inside these boxes down in the basement of the investigation

:10:07. > :10:10.team's headquarters is the hard evidence which they say points to

:10:11. > :10:14.the leaders of Islamic State deemed culpable for some of the atrocities

:10:15. > :10:18.carried out in Syria. They believe it will be ready to

:10:19. > :10:21.take to prosecution by the end of this year.

:10:22. > :10:23.But arresting well protected Islamic State leaders in the ongoing

:10:24. > :10:27.conflict will be almost impossible, and there's another problem.

:10:28. > :10:34.Even when the prosecution files are complete, there is no court

:10:35. > :10:37.yet ready to try them. David Cameron has just arrived

:10:38. > :10:40.in Newport ahead of tomorrow's NATO summit.

:10:41. > :10:46.Our political editor Nick Robinson is there.

:10:47. > :10:52.What are the chances of Britain being drawn back into another war?

:10:53. > :10:56.What we are not going to see is an immediate military response to the

:10:57. > :11:00.plight of this British hostage, in part because ministers have known

:11:01. > :11:03.about it for a long time. In truth, the media have known about it for a

:11:04. > :11:08.long time and agreed to keep it secret in the hope of helping to

:11:09. > :11:13.preserve his life. What we are also not going to see is any repeat of

:11:14. > :11:17.the Iraq war of just over a decade ago, when Bush and Blair launched

:11:18. > :11:21.the invasion of Iraq. But what we are beginning to see is a sort of

:11:22. > :11:25.repeat of the coalition building that was tried by George Bush senior

:11:26. > :11:31.in 1990, a big array of countries that got together in order to deal

:11:32. > :11:35.with Sadam Hussein's invasion of. Kuwait Today David Cameron insisted

:11:36. > :11:41.that any intervention would not be western. They want it to be

:11:42. > :11:47.requested by the government, supported by Arab countries,

:11:48. > :11:53.particularly those in the Gulf. Ministers tell me they think there

:11:54. > :11:57.is both a legal and moral case for military action in Iraq. They have

:11:58. > :12:01.not made a decision yet but what will sway them perhaps is the

:12:02. > :12:05.atmosphere in the House of Commons today. Little criticism of that, a

:12:06. > :12:09.few warnings, most people were urging them on. Intriguingly, Labour

:12:10. > :12:14.leader Ed Miliband, although he is of course keeping his options open,

:12:15. > :12:17.was very warm in his support of the Prime Minister and his assistants --

:12:18. > :12:22.insistence that everything that needs to be done should be done to

:12:23. > :12:25.confront Islamic State forces. Thank you.

:12:26. > :12:28.is there. The parents of Ashya King have been

:12:29. > :12:31.reunited with their five-year-old son at the hospital in Spain where

:12:32. > :12:33.he is being cared for. Ashya,

:12:34. > :12:35.who's seriously ill with a brain tumour, was taken against medical

:12:36. > :12:37.advice from Southampton Hospital by Brett and Naghemeh King last week.

:12:38. > :12:39.They were freed from custody last night after

:12:40. > :12:42.the British authorities abandoned their attempts to extradite them.

:12:43. > :12:43.Jon Kay has been speaking to them today.

:12:44. > :12:51.He's in Malaga now. Right now, on the fourth floor, the

:12:52. > :12:58.cancer ward of the Children's Hospital, the Kings are reunited

:12:59. > :13:02.with their little boy. They got here a few hours ago. They seemed

:13:03. > :13:06.exhausted talking to me today, overwhelmed, baffled by what has

:13:07. > :13:13.happened in the last few days, but most of all so relieved to be back

:13:14. > :13:17.here with him. This was no ordinary hospital visit. The story of the

:13:18. > :13:25.King family has been followed all over the world. But now, released

:13:26. > :13:30.from prison, Brett and Naghemeh King could finally see their son, waiting

:13:31. > :13:34.for them upstairs, five-year-old Ashya, seriously ill with brain

:13:35. > :13:39.cancer. In an exclusive BBC interview after their release from

:13:40. > :13:43.prison last night, Ashya's parents told me they were desperate to get

:13:44. > :13:48.to the hospital. I just want to wet his mouth because he cannot drink

:13:49. > :13:52.through his mouth, brushes teeth, turn him from side to side every 15

:13:53. > :13:56.minutes because he can't move. I just want to do all of those things

:13:57. > :14:01.for him that I was doing in Southampton. As a mother, can you

:14:02. > :14:05.explain what it has been like for the last few days, being separated

:14:06. > :14:10.from your sick little boy? All the time I was crying, crying and

:14:11. > :14:14.praying so I could be reunited with him again. Their decision to take

:14:15. > :14:17.their little boy from Southampton General Hospital against medical

:14:18. > :14:22.advice and seek alternative treatment abroad led to Ashya's

:14:23. > :14:22.parents being the subject of a European arrest

:14:23. > :14:25.parents being the subject of a European warrant. But last night

:14:26. > :14:30.they were freed from prison, the case against them dropped in the UK

:14:31. > :14:35.after a review of the evidence. The couple had spent three days and

:14:36. > :14:40.nights in custody. How angry are you about all this? I wouldn't say

:14:41. > :14:45.angry, I am just missing my son so much. My heart is aching for my son.

:14:46. > :14:50.Anger cannot come in at the moment because I have these feelings that I

:14:51. > :14:54.have got to see my son's face. Southampton general claimed today

:14:55. > :14:58.that doctors had been trying to support the family while they

:14:59. > :15:02.arranged for treatment for Ashya and they were very concerned when his

:15:03. > :15:07.parents suddenly took him from the hospital, and that is why they

:15:08. > :15:12.alerted the police. I can understand that they were upset, yes, but I

:15:13. > :15:16.don't think it is ever in a child's best interest to be taken from a

:15:17. > :15:25.place of safety when the risks of being taken were known, without

:15:26. > :15:32.anyone within the medical profession knowing that they were leaving. I

:15:33. > :15:41.told them over and over again... They say they told the doctors they

:15:42. > :15:44.were planning to go to Prague, but they admit they did not tell the

:15:45. > :15:49.doctors they are going to Spain that day. There are many questions about

:15:50. > :15:53.what has happened to this little boy in the last week, but right now his

:15:54. > :16:13.parents only concern is spending time with him once again. He might

:16:14. > :16:18.have to have some chemotherapy, either here or in the UK, before he

:16:19. > :16:26.can be moved. But his mother says she will not be leaving his side.

:16:27. > :16:29.Jon, thank you. The time is just after a quarter past six.

:16:30. > :16:33.Our top story this evening: Britain will not be cowed,

:16:34. > :16:35.says the Prime Minister, after Islamic State extremists

:16:36. > :16:38.threaten to kill a British hostage. And still to come:

:16:39. > :16:42.Out of hospital - the British nurse who survived Ebola tells his tale.

:16:43. > :16:48.I was worried that I was going to die. I was worried about my family,

:16:49. > :16:51.and I was scared. who survived Ebola tells his tale.

:16:52. > :16:54.Later on BBC London: En route to two dedicated cycleways

:16:55. > :16:57.in London - we take a test ride around the capital.

:16:58. > :16:59.And reeling in the big stars - our guide to what's on offer at

:17:00. > :17:13.this year's London's film festival. In just over two weeks' time, we'll

:17:14. > :17:16.know whether Scotland is going to break away from the United Kingdom

:17:17. > :17:19.and become an independent country. As the campaign nears its climax,

:17:20. > :17:21.there's some concern that the passionate arguments

:17:22. > :17:25.on both sides should not boil over into aggressive behaviour.

:17:26. > :17:28.The moderator of the Church of Scotland has urged both sides

:17:29. > :17:29.in the referendum debate to treat each other with respect.

:17:30. > :17:48.From Glasgow, Allan Little reports. It is lovely to be back! Last week,

:17:49. > :17:51.he was pelted with eggs. This week, news back on tour. Jim Murphy is one

:17:52. > :17:57.of the most effective campaigners for the union. Anah stay has the

:17:58. > :18:04.campaign become? It is a great debate. It is passionate, involving

:18:05. > :18:14.more people than ever before. There was a hen do debating the merits of

:18:15. > :18:19.a currency union! But behaviour like this has tarnished the yes campaign.

:18:20. > :18:23.It is surely counter-productive, alienating far more people from the

:18:24. > :18:29.independence cause that could possibly persuade. People are

:18:30. > :18:33.engaged, empowered, excited, in a way that I have never known, on both

:18:34. > :18:38.sides. There will always be a minority who want to spoil that. We

:18:39. > :18:41.should all condemn what they do, but we shouldn't allow them to poison

:18:42. > :18:46.what is otherwise a fantastic debate. Everybody knows that have

:18:47. > :18:50.been deplorable acts of aggression and intimidation on both sides, and

:18:51. > :18:53.especially online. But how characteristic of the campaign have

:18:54. > :18:57.they been? Independence is a question that has divided lifelong

:18:58. > :19:02.friends from each other, divided families, even divided husbands from

:19:03. > :19:06.wives. In my experience, and national conversation is taking

:19:07. > :19:09.place that has been conducted with quiet, concerned civility and mutual

:19:10. > :19:15.respect. Especially given what is at stake. The better we behave towards

:19:16. > :19:21.one another now, the more chance we have got on September the 19th to be

:19:22. > :19:26.able to put the result aside, to be magnanimous in victory and gracious

:19:27. > :19:30.in defeat, and to move on and work together.

:19:31. > :19:34.The two sides came together today for a charity football match. This

:19:35. > :19:37.is the spirit Scotland will need actively to seek after the

:19:38. > :19:42.referendum. For whoever wins, both sides will have to wreck --

:19:43. > :19:48.reconcile themselves to the results. And for more

:19:49. > :19:51.on the independence debate, including detailed analysis of the

:19:52. > :19:52.issues, you can go to our website special at bbc.co.uk/Scotland

:19:53. > :19:57.Decides. The mayor of Calais has threatened

:19:58. > :20:00.to block the French port unless Britain does more to control

:20:01. > :20:02.the number of illegal migrants. Natacha Bouchart claimed

:20:03. > :20:04.the northern city was being taken hostage by

:20:05. > :20:07.around 1,200 migrants attempting to travel to the UK from France.

:20:08. > :20:08.In the past there have been violent clashes between migrants

:20:09. > :20:17.and illegal camps round the city. There are hopes tonight

:20:18. > :20:19.of a peace deal between pro-Russian rebels and government forces

:20:20. > :20:22.in Eastern Ukraine. President Obama is urging members

:20:23. > :20:26.of the NATO alliance to send an unmistakable message backing

:20:27. > :20:31.Ukraine in the face of what he called brazen aggression by Russia.

:20:32. > :20:34.It came as Barack Obama flew to Eastern Europe to reassure NATO

:20:35. > :20:38.members that the US would defend them in the event of Russian

:20:39. > :20:41.military action on their soil. Our Europe editor Gavin Hewitt sent

:20:42. > :20:47.this report from the Estonian capital.

:20:48. > :20:55.President Obama being greeted in Estonia just over 100 miles from the

:20:56. > :20:59.Russian border. Hanging over his visit, the fighting in Ukraine, with

:21:00. > :21:04.the president following closely conflicting reports of a cease-fire

:21:05. > :21:08.plan. But the American president was on a mission to reassure the Baltic

:21:09. > :21:15.states, increasingly wary of Russia and its actions in Ukraine. Estonia

:21:16. > :21:20.is a former Soviet republic. 25% of the people here are ethnic Russians,

:21:21. > :21:25.and President Putin has his admirers here.

:21:26. > :21:29.TRANSLATION: He is very clever. In Russia, we haven't had this kind of

:21:30. > :21:34.leader for a long time. I like him as a person and his politics. He is

:21:35. > :21:38.a very honourable person and a smart politician.

:21:39. > :21:43.President Obama told the people of the Baltics and more American forces

:21:44. > :21:49.were on the ground carrying out training and more NATO aircraft in

:21:50. > :21:52.the skies. So in practical terms, NATO is proposing setting up a rapid

:21:53. > :21:56.reaction force, which could come to places like Estonia within 48 hours,

:21:57. > :22:03.equipment having been pre-positioned here. In a major speech, President

:22:04. > :22:09.Obama gave the States this guarantee: If in such a moment you

:22:10. > :22:13.ever ask again, who will come to help, you will know the answer. The

:22:14. > :22:18.NATO alliance, including the Armed Forces of the United States of

:22:19. > :22:22.America right here, present, now. Then the president turned to

:22:23. > :22:29.Russia's actions in the Ukraine. It is a brazen assault on the

:22:30. > :22:33.territorial integrity of Ukraine. It challenges that most basic of

:22:34. > :22:38.principles of our international system, but Borders cannot be read

:22:39. > :22:43.raw at the barrel of a gun. Overnight in Ukraine, there was

:22:44. > :22:48.further shelling around the town of Donetsk. But there were reports that

:22:49. > :22:52.the Ukrainian president and President Putin had agreed on a plan

:22:53. > :22:54.that might agree to a cease-fire, with the possibility of the two

:22:55. > :22:56.sides launching a peace process later this week. Gavin Hewitt, BBC

:22:57. > :23:01.News. Our correspondent Steve

:23:02. > :23:14.Rosenberg is in Moscow. Hopes of a peace deal tonight, but

:23:15. > :23:19.what chance of it happening? According to the plan, Ukrainian

:23:20. > :23:23.forces and Moscow militants would halt all military operations, there

:23:24. > :23:34.would be a prisoner swap. Reaction to that plan in Kiev has been mixed.

:23:35. > :23:42.President Park -- Petro Poroshenko has been quite positive, but others

:23:43. > :23:45.have denounced it. But tonight, the feeling here is that Vladimir Putin

:23:46. > :23:50.is very much in the driving seat in any negotiation, because despite the

:23:51. > :23:55.strong language we heard from President Obama in Gavin's piece,

:23:56. > :24:01.despite a scathing attack on Russian aggression, America does not want to

:24:02. > :24:04.go to war with Russia over Ukraine. Neither does the European Union or

:24:05. > :24:04.NATO. And President Putin knows that.

:24:05. > :24:11.Thank you. William Pooley,

:24:12. > :24:13.the British nurse who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone,

:24:14. > :24:15.has left hospital in London this morning saying he feels "wonderfully

:24:16. > :24:18.lucky" to have survived. Mr Pooley, who's 29,

:24:19. > :24:21.was flown back to the UK last month for treatment in a special isolation

:24:22. > :24:24.unit at the Royal Free Hospital. He thanked staff for

:24:25. > :24:25.the world-class care he received. Here's our health correspondent

:24:26. > :24:36.Branwen Jeffreys. Just ten days ago, will truly was

:24:37. > :24:44.airlifted out of Sierra Leone. -- William Pooley. He was rushed to a

:24:45. > :24:51.special unit in London. Today, after a remarkable recovery, he described

:24:52. > :24:57.the moment he knew he had Ebola. I was worried I was going to die. I

:24:58. > :25:06.was worried about my family. And I was scared. Many hospitals in west

:25:07. > :25:17.Africa are basic and overstretched. Half of nurses or doctors infected

:25:18. > :25:24.with a bowler there are dying. -- infected with Ebola. In the face of

:25:25. > :25:29.possible death, they are working all day, every day, helping sick people.

:25:30. > :25:33.It is amazing. His treatment in London couldn't be more different.

:25:34. > :25:39.Nursed in a sealed tent, given the experimental drug ZMapp, tests now

:25:40. > :25:46.show he is completely clear of the virus. We know that people who have

:25:47. > :25:51.recovered from the virus are not infectious to other people. We even

:25:52. > :25:57.measure the virus in the blood until it has gone away completely. William

:25:58. > :26:01.Pooley has a complete physical recovery thanks to the world-class

:26:02. > :26:05.care he has had here. But to get over the trauma of what he saw in

:26:06. > :26:11.West Africa, and of being infected himself with the Ebola virus, could

:26:12. > :26:15.take him much longer. His parents, Jackie and Robin, have been at the

:26:16. > :26:24.hospital every day, hoping just taken home. They incinerated my

:26:25. > :26:31.passport, so my mum will be pleased to know that I can't go anywhere.

:26:32. > :26:38.This evening, Jenny's and at the family home in Suffolk. Will says he

:26:39. > :26:45.is more committed to nursing than ever, but first he needs to west.

:26:46. > :26:55.Today was not such a bad day, temperatures in the 20s. In terms of

:26:56. > :27:06.the weather, dry and clear this evening. We have a dig area of high

:27:07. > :27:12.pressure, all the way from Moscow towards Cork here. The weather is

:27:13. > :27:18.not going to be doing an awful lot through the course of the night.

:27:19. > :27:27.Some cloud floating across eastern areas. In towns and cities, a little

:27:28. > :27:31.colder than those temperatures. Tomorrow, the afternoon will be

:27:32. > :27:37.brighter than the morning. It will take time for the cloud to break,

:27:38. > :27:41.but there will be sunshine around. There might be a little more thicker

:27:42. > :27:44.cloud and possibly a few spots of rain in the very far north-west of

:27:45. > :27:50.the country. Through the course of Friday, we have a weak weather front

:27:51. > :27:57.across the north of the UK. There could be more persistent rain across

:27:58. > :28:05.Aberdeenshire. To the south of that, fine unsettled weather. For England

:28:06. > :28:10.and Wales, not much change. The weather front in the North will

:28:11. > :28:17.slowly sink southwards, bringing a little more cloud across Yorkshire.

:28:18. > :28:20.On Sunday, the further north you are, the fresher it will be, with

:28:21. > :28:26.temperatures hovering around 15 or 16 Celsius. But again in the south,

:28:27. > :28:27.not much change on the weather front. So at the moment, the weather

:28:28. > :28:38.is pretty steady. A reminder of our main story.

:28:39. > :28:42.Britain will not be cowed, says the Prime Minister. That is all from the

:28:43. > :28:43.BBC News At