16/06/2014 BBC World News

Suspected Islamist militants kill at least 48 people in a Kenyan

Pictures emerge that appear to show ISIS insurgents killing hundreds

Motor racing legend Michael Schumacher has come out

And heavy flooding causes problems in one World Cup city,

At least 48 people have been killed in Kenya, during attacks by gunmen

on a coastal town near the tourist destination of Lamu. The attack on

Mpeketoni began shortly after evening prayers, and lasted several

hours. The gunmen, thought to be from the Somali militant group

al-Shabaab, set fire to several hotels where local people had

gathered to watch World Cup football. They also targeted a

police station and a bank. It comes just days after the UK Government

closed its consulate in Mombasa, because of security concerns.

Rescue teams are still searching the buildings, and officials say

they do not know if the number of casualties will rise.

So far the numbers of bodies collected on the streets, there are

still some more bodies still on the streets. We are not able to identify

the casualties. Some of the images have been

described as looking like a war zone. These are graphic pictures.

Military chapters are collecting bodies on the streets. The building

is set ablaze, the police station as well, so much is happening right

now. Rescue teams are there, tried to assess the situation, counting

the number of houses that were burnt, the number of vehicles, the

people who have disappeared. Hot by numbers have been issued for those

who have lost their family members, to make a report. When the attack

happened, so many people escaped and went into the forest to hide. Many

are still unaccounted for as we speak. The Government is yet to

issue a press briefing on the situation. The Government says it is

Al-Shabab. The other theory is this could be a councillor attacked the

people and set ablaze the buildings over a long dispute. Mpeketoni is

not a tourist destination, Lamu is. The motive of this attack is what is

being investigated. When you say gang, what would the

motive? There are groups in the coastal

parts of Kenny of which have agitated to secede from the rest of

the country. Could this be a re-emergence of these groups?

Mpeketoni is not a tourist attraction. It is for commercial

farming, hotels only attract locals. There has been a battle over land

and resources. Could this be the same group reclaiming their land?

The scale of this attack is being questioned. Al-Shabab are not

normally known to spare women and children. In this case, 47 of those

killed were then and only one woman, although the Red Cross is saying all

of them were men. The houses that were attacked, people were told to

come out before they were torched. This is not the Al-Shabab kind of

attack. Al-Shabab are not known to come into the that. The motive is

being questioned right now. And who this gang is? Al-Shabab has not

claimed responsibility, nor have they denied it.

The US State Department says the latest graphic images from Iraq

show a ?horrifying bloodlust? from the al-Qaeda offshoot ISIS.

The images, posted on the Internet, appear to show ISIS fighters

executing hundreds of Iraqi soldiers.

With their sights set on taking the capital Baghdad, the group are

already in control of vast areas of the country including the cities

In the past few hours, we've also had reports that the northern city

The group want to create an Islamic state that would straddle

the borders of Iraq and Syria, where the country's civil war has allowed

And, as the group spreads across Iraq, it's creating concerns

more people eager to join the insurgency.

News from the front line may be mixed now.

The government says it has regained the initiative but there were

In Baghdad and many capitals, not least Washington,

This new Iraq crisis has reignited the debate over the legacy of this,

The latest intervention by Tony Blair, still insisting

the invasion wasn't a mistake, has stirred things further.

Meanwhile, these unverified images which the

militants say are military prisoners being led away for a mass execution,

It has deployed this aircraft carrier to the Gulf as

President Barack Obama ponders strikes over Iraq, something not

So many situations can arise that we cannot predict, so to rule all

things out in all circumstances tends to be a mistake.

In this situation today, and looking at a British military

This man, the Iranian president, is another key player.

Could the crisis bring together Washington

The Americans have said maybe, but an Iranian official has rejected

The latest recruits from Baghdad prepare to move out.

However the struggle unfolds on the ground, the latest diplomatic

moves are another reminder of the potential international fallout from

With me now is our security correspondent, Frank Gardner.

is there a sense that maybe the West backed the wrong Government in the

Syrian question, in terms of allowing the Sunnis to take over.

I don't think the West backed any Government really. They have given

small material support and diplomatic support to what turned

out to be a small rebel movement but which has been eclipsed by the more

violent rebel movement closer to the Al-Qaeda thinking. It has become

complicated. The dilemma for President Barack Obama and the West

is deciding whether or not to lend air support to the Government. This

is a huge turning point. When the history of this comes to be written,

this could be a defining week will stop if there is air strikes go

ahead, this means the West, the US, is entering this very conjugated

conflict on one side. This would be people dying because of US missiles.

In carrying the wrath of the jihadists again -- incurring.

Around 2000 European jihadists who have joined ISIS, many clamouring to

cross the border into Iraq. They will be coming under pressure, if

these air strikes go ahead, from their commanders, to go back to the

west and carry out attacks. What would the strikes achieved?

The considerations the national-security Council and US

military planners will be looking at is, if they intervene, is it worth

it? Will it make a significant amount of difference? In the Middle

East, this will be seen as the US taking the side of a Shi'ite

Government against Sunni militants. It puts America on the same side as

Iran. So, it is very complicate it. You have Saudi and Qatar, does the

US not have leverage over those countries?

Again, it is complicated. The headquarters of all US air

operations is based in Qatar. If they are to have an air campaign,

they will want to control it from Qatar and Qatar will have something

to say. In terms of Saudi, the operation to raise a rebel army to

fight President Assad has been an unmitigated failure. A certain

prince was supposed to be in charge, but they did not deliver. The Saudi

support for rebels in Syria has been in disarray. One reason why ISIS has

grown to be so powerful. Getting money from private donors and

extortion and taxes. It doesn't need Saudi Government support.

I am afraid we are out of time. A court in China has sentenced three

people to death for their roles in last October's attack

in Beijing's Tiananamen Square. Another person was given

a life sentence, and four others Two people were killed

and 40 injured when a car ploughed into a crowd

at the northern edge of the Square. Our correspondent Damian

Grammaticus reports from Beijing. Lined up in a Chinese court, the

eight people now convicted of being part of a violent terrorist attempt.

Their trial lasted one day. Pictures released by state TV. Relatives

watched as three were given a death sentence. They were identified as

members of the Chinese Muslim minority. It is claimed they

organised the attack in October in Beijing, a car with knives,

recruiting attackers, then this. The vehicle turned onto the pavement,

knocks down and kills two people, swerves through the crowd before

crashing into the square. Four people burned to death when petrol

inside the vehicle ignited. A man, his wife and mother in law, their

method was unsophisticated. The location was key. A symbolic centre

of the Chinese state. The first attack in the capital by disaffected

Uighurs. Since then, there have been more in other parts of China. In

March, 29 were killed when a group went on a rampage outside a train

station in Kunming. In May, 39 died when two vehicles ploughed into a

busy market in the provincial capital of Xinjiang. Uighur Muslims

today make up less than half of the published in Xinjiang. They resent

the huge influx of Chinese workers and settlers. Debut Chinese rule as

repressive. In recent years, there have been attacks on police and

Government workers, hundreds of deaths. China claims it is

instigated from outside the country and prosecutors said this group

watched radical videos before the attack. The death sentences are

meant to be a deterrent. They may not stem the rising tide of

violence. We return now to breaking news -

we've recently learned that the former motor racing world champion

Michael Schumacher is no longer in a coma and has left hospital

in the French town of Grenoble. Schumacher has been in hospital

since a skiing accident in December. We have been following developments.

The AFP news agency is saying he has been admitted by University Hospital

of Lausanne today. Moving from one hospital to another. You were there

at the time. What happened? It is six months

since the accident. He hit his head on a rock while at skiing with his

son. In between Christmas and New Year. He needed to operations on his

brain to reduce the swelling. Doctors put him into a medically

induced coma to reduce the swelling and aid recovery. In April, we had

from his manager doctors had started to try to bring him out that coma.

He was having moments of consciousness. Now we know he is no

longer in a coma. But we do not know and we should be cautious, we do not

know how mobile he is, whether he is talking, the extent of his injuries.

A crucial step in his recovery and his family say they want the next

phase of his rehabilitation to take place in private. There has been a

little bit of reaction. That statement from his manager

where his family thanked the nurses and doctors for the treatment he

received. And his fans, the messages of support they had had since the

accident had been helping. I have spoken to Ferrari, the team he

received most of his success with. Their communication said they were

overwhelmed with joy and there wasn't a day since the accident when

they haven't thought of him. the British throw-in steps out in

public. We take a peek at Prince George on his first royal walkabout.

In Egypt, three journalists for the Al Jazeera TV network who have been

held since December are back in court. They are accused of aiding

the now banned Muslim brotherhood organisation and defaming Egypt.

They deny the charges. The case has been condemned by rights groups and

media around the world. A man who has been stuck in a cave

underneath the mountains between Germany and Austria 48 days is

reported to be in a stable condition at the operation to bring him back

to the service continues. He was with two other men when he was

injured. It took 12 hours for one of them to reach the surface and

injured. It took 12 hours for one call for help.

For more than a week, rescuers have been working around the clock to

reach Johann. He was injured by falling rock when he was exploring

the complex system of caves underneath these mountains. It is

dangerous to rain. From the surface, there is a sheer drop of some 300

metres in places. Climbers have to be lowered down on ropes in stages.

Then, at about 1000 metres below the surface, the caves stretch out

horizontally. That is where the injured climber is, which is why it

has taken such a long time to reach him. But now comes the hardest part.

TRANSLATION: This is a very steep and sometimes angled descent. The

cave goes 1000 metres down, and we are forced to keep the patient

vertical a lot of the time. Around 100 emergency workers have been

involved in the rescue effort, and they have set up a medical and

communications centre half way between the surface and the cave the

injured climber is in. It is likely to take a few days to get him out,

but three doctors from Germany, Austria and Slovenia will be keeping

an eye on him during his journey back to the surface.

Suspected Islamist militants kill at least 48 people in a Kenyan

The former F1 champion, Michael Schumacher, has come out

The Russian energy giant, Gazprom, has reduced its gas supplies to

Ukraine, after a deadline passed for Kiev to repay $2 billion

Gazprom said that Ukraine would have to pay for its gas up front

The decision follows several rounds of unsuccessful talks involving

Russia, Ukraine and the European Union over the price that

With me is the BBC's Olexiy Solohubenko, the former editor

Habitats been turned off? Yes. We need to make it lame that jazz prom

reduced it to zero, which is shutting it off. They said that from

now on, it is a prepayment, and that the collapse of negotiations was the

result of the unwillingness of the Ukrainian government to strike a

deal. Obviously, the Ukrainian government has a different position.

It says Russia tried to blackmail it into the higher price. The European

Union was involved in mediation, and failed. Basically, it is the third

gas war as we know it, on the back of increased political and other

tensions between Ukraine and Russia. That climate does not help the

resolution of this issue. We understand that the supplies will

continue into Western Europe, because they come through Ukraine,

don't they? That is the theory. The trouble is, this is the same

pipeline. It is like getting water at home, and your water company

saying your water is cut off. But part of the same stream of water

through your pipeline goes to your neighbours. It is difficult to do it

technically. The other thing that is very difficult is to see how Europe

will not be affected, because a lot of the gas that Europe uses in

winter is pumped from the storage facilities which are in Ukraine. Now

the level of the stored gas is about 40% of what it should be at this

time of year. If gas from has cut off supplies to Ukraine now, Ukraine

will have to tap into those reserves to ensure zone since consumers are

not shut down completely. How long before Western consumers feel this?

It has been said that Ukraine is safe until September. From then on,

trouble begins. But I think both courts are now going to be stock on

the court of arbitration. Hopefully, the judicial process will

be fast and whoever is the guilty party will have to re-coop their

losses. Really? It will go through court rather than diplomacy? Do we

know how much higher the bill is from Russia? Well, if you count the

Russian calculation of the bill, this is an enormous bill. Between $2

billion and $4 billion, depending on which calculation you look at. If

you look at the Ukrainian bill against Russia, it is about six

billion. So it will be a very busy time for the arbitration lawyers in

Stockholm. Reports from the West Bank say

Israeli soldiers searching The Israeli president has said to

the Palestinian hazard and that he expect his help in finding three

Israeli teenagers who were kidnapped last week. Israel blames the

kidnapping on Hamas. He blames Mahmoud Abbas's response. One man

was reportedly shot dead. Muslims

in southern Sri Lanka say three of their community have been killed

in clashes with hardline Buddhists. Police fired tear gas and enforced

a curfew in the southern town of Aluthgama, where several shops

were burned and mosques attacked. It's the worst outbreak

of sectarian violence in Sri Lanka The Colombian President Juan Manuel

Santos has been re-elected, defeating his conservative rival,

Oscar Ivan Zuluaga. The main issue in the electoral

campaign was the future of peace Mr Santos,

who launched the negotiations in 2012, says he's aiming to reach

a deal by the end of the year. Now some World Cup news,

and day five will see Ghana take But the area has been hit

by severe weather - a month's rainfall in just two days caused

heavy flooding and landslides. So far, though, there's no danger

of the match being called off. The streets turned into a river

after a month's worth of rain fell in two days. People in the town have

told me it is the worst storm the city has been enormous two decades.

The morning after the night before, people can't believe an entire

favela has been washed away. A table still set from dinner the night

before standards, despite the devastation. Incredibly, no one was

hurt, but hundreds have been left homeless. Roads have sunk, and

others are almost impassable. But the FIFA machine moves on, as Ghana

take on the USA. The stadium cost $180 million. It looks like a lot of

that money was spent on the drainage. And it is money well

spent, as the picture looks in perfect condition and there is no

danger at all of this game being called off. We will just take it the

way it is. You are not complaining, you just go into the countries and

make the best out of it. If it goes OK, great. If not, you learn your

lesson. You need a lesson in order to improve as well. Thankfully, the

rain has eased, giving the locals and football is a respite from the

terrible conditions. But more storms are forecast for the rest of this

week. There is live reporting and analysis

of the day's action on our special website. You can get player profiles

and interviews and all the fixtures and results.

Now, the continuing fighting in Iraq has been causing heated political

debate around the world, including in Britain. The Mayor of London

described comments by the former British prime minister Tony Blair as

unhinged. The Blair had said the violent insurgency there has nothing

to do with the 2003 invasion. What we underestimated about Iraq,

Afghanistan and the whole of the region is that once you remove the

dictatorship, then out comes this tribal, ethnic and above all

religious tension. Then you are engaged in a different type of

struggle against that. But Boris Johnson, responding to those

comments, said the former prime minister should refrain from

commenting on the situation in Iraq. I can understand that he feels

very... Shattered and guilty about the whole thing about my general

message would be just to put a sock in it, really, paper bag on head

time. For those who don't know much about what Johnson, he's talked

about as a future Conservative party leader by his supporters. We view

with some cute pictures. The son of the Duke and Duchess

of Cambridge has taken Here's Prince George with

his mother, toddling around a charity polo match

in Gloucestershire on Sunday. As you'd expect, the newspapers here

have had plenty of fun with their headlines, tagging it

the Prince's first royal walkabout. And they're also suggesting that

given his skill at dribbling and dummies, he might be worth

calling up for the England World They did look like they needed some

help. A reminder of our top story. 48 people have been killed

by gunmen who attacked a Kenyan No group has admitted being behind

the attack. That was BBC World News. Back soon. Thanks for being