:00:00. > :00:12.World representatives remember and reflect, 100 years
:00:13. > :00:20.after Germany invaded Belgium and Britain entered World War One.
:00:21. > :00:21.These are the live pictures from a ceremony
:00:22. > :00:35.Among the very first victims were the people of Belgium, whose
:00:36. > :00:36.resistance was as gallant as their suffering was great.
:00:37. > :00:43.Funerals take place in Gaza, during a unilateral, partial pause
:00:44. > :00:51.The truce comes a day after an Israeli strike on a UN refuge
:00:52. > :01:00.killed ten Palestinians, sparking United Nations condemnation.
:01:01. > :01:02.And why a mystical branch of Islam is under threat
:01:03. > :01:23.from extremists - and how its followers have pledged to save it.
:01:24. > :01:27.It's 100 years to the day since a conflict
:01:28. > :01:31.in the Balkans became a global war that was to last four years.
:01:32. > :01:34.On 4th August 1914 Germany invaded neutral Belgium and Britain
:01:35. > :01:42.Commemorative events are being held to mark the anniversary
:01:43. > :01:46.of the war which left almost 17 million people dead.
:01:47. > :01:49.One of the main ceremonies at the Cointe memorial in Liege in
:01:50. > :01:53.Germany's President and Britain's Duke of Cambridge were among
:01:54. > :01:59.Before they made their remarks, King Philippe of Belgium recalled
:02:00. > :02:03.He said it was important to remember not just the losses of
:02:04. > :02:15.The war brought the people of different countries together
:02:16. > :02:25.We may be commemorating that suffering today, but we are also
:02:26. > :02:30.remembering the distance that has been covered since then.
:02:31. > :02:32.This commemoration is of vital importance for building
:02:33. > :02:46.TRANSLATION: Ladies and gentlemen, those were bitter and very horrible
:02:47. > :02:52.lessons that we had to learn as a result of the two world wars. We
:02:53. > :02:59.should not only demonstrate without words, but also through our everyday
:03:00. > :03:07.activities and actions that we have learned our lessons. The peace that
:03:08. > :03:11.we enjoy here together as allies and partners does not simply mean no
:03:12. > :03:16.more bloodshed. It means something deeper than that. The fact that the
:03:17. > :03:23.presidents of Germany and Austria are here today, and that other
:03:24. > :03:31.nations, then enemies, I hear too bears testimony to the power of
:03:32. > :03:37.reconciliation. -- are here. Not only is war between us unthinkable
:03:38. > :03:42.that we have spread and entrenched democracy the three generations
:03:43. > :03:49.across Europe and promoted our shared values around the world. We
:03:50. > :03:53.were enemies more than once in the last century and today we are
:03:54. > :03:59.friends and allies. We salute those who died to give us our freedom. We
:04:00. > :04:02.will remember them. Prince William speaking about one hour ago in
:04:03. > :04:13.Liege. Another ceremony is taking place at the St Symphorien Memorial
:04:14. > :04:22.Cemetery. What do we expect to see in Mons? It was due to start at
:04:23. > :04:26.8:30pm local time. Edner Cherry from around the world attending this
:04:27. > :04:33.including Prince Harry and David Cameron. There are VIPs as well as
:04:34. > :04:44.family members of those who lost their lives on the 21st of August in
:04:45. > :04:49.that year. A combination of German and Commonwealth soldiers buried
:04:50. > :04:54.just a few metres apart from each other. The theme tonight very much
:04:55. > :05:02.one of reconciliation remembering the millions of people, 9.5 million
:05:03. > :05:08.soldiers who lost their lives and the people who were badly wounded in
:05:09. > :05:15.that war. They will be readings and speeches but the theme is very much
:05:16. > :05:23.reconciliation. This is a beautiful cemetery just outside Mons. Looking
:05:24. > :05:25.around here the immaculate parkland, immaculately kept
:05:26. > :05:31.tombstones, why is this such an important place? As you pointed out
:05:32. > :05:35.this is the cemetery where we had our first and last casualties of the
:05:36. > :05:40.First World War, we had the first Victoria Cross here and
:05:41. > :05:43.reconciliation as friend and foe were buried together in cemeteries
:05:44. > :05:51.throughout France and Flanders, this is an important cemetery of where it
:05:52. > :05:55.started and finished. It encapsulates, in a way, the futility
:05:56. > :06:00.of war. This is worth one of the first battles of the First World War
:06:01. > :06:06.was fought and they had to retreat to Paris and then they came back and
:06:07. > :06:12.there was another British casualty there. We visit battle sites here in
:06:13. > :06:15.pilgrimages to see exactly those sites of action and the enormous
:06:16. > :06:20.cost to all nations, but particularly to our own nation. We
:06:21. > :06:22.were talking only about the collective memory that exists in
:06:23. > :06:27.Belgium about what happened, even though there are no veterans left
:06:28. > :06:30.from the great War. Do you get a sense there are new generation is
:06:31. > :06:35.coming through remembering the great War and there is still a real
:06:36. > :06:37.interest in what happened? Indeed. Through our school programmes we
:06:38. > :06:44.have many pilgrimages coming from our schools. If you went there on
:06:45. > :06:49.any night during the week there are hundreds of people. A few years ago
:06:50. > :06:53.they would have been nine or ten of us there. On a windy night may be
:06:54. > :06:56.just the buglers and one or two. But now every evening throughout the
:06:57. > :07:04.year thousands of people come just to remember. You are based over here
:07:05. > :07:08.in the Somme, down on the Somme. The actual maintaining of these war
:07:09. > :07:14.cemeteries, is that something that is guaranteed for ever. Is there a
:07:15. > :07:21.fund and other finances to keep them in this pristine condition? These
:07:22. > :07:28.are the works of the Commonwealth commission. They committed a
:07:29. > :07:31.significant amount of money and this is the debt of honour in perpetuity
:07:32. > :07:35.that we owe to our fallen and that is greatly done by the Commonwealth
:07:36. > :07:38.War Graves commission and each Commonwealth country pays
:07:39. > :07:45.proportionally into that fund each year. Thank you very much indeed. We
:07:46. > :07:49.will be broadcasting here throughout the afternoon and this evening from
:07:50. > :07:53.a special ceremony that will last just over an hour beginning at
:07:54. > :07:58.8:30pm. We will take in the speeches. As the world leaders and
:07:59. > :08:02.VIPs leave they will light hurricane lamps and leave them at the big
:08:03. > :08:07.obelisk in this cemetery here as a sort of moving, flaming tribute to
:08:08. > :08:12.all of those millions of soldiers who lost their lives. Thank you for
:08:13. > :08:18.joining us. Back to you of course Thurau the day.
:08:19. > :08:21.With me is historian Lynelle Howson from the Commonwealth War
:08:22. > :08:26.There has been a ceremony on the back of the Commonwealth Games
:08:27. > :08:31.because it is important to remember that people died from many nations
:08:32. > :08:34.and continents. Indeed it is and it is very fitting for the British that
:08:35. > :08:39.our first ceremony should take place in Britain, but very specifically to
:08:40. > :08:42.look at the service and sacrifice of all of the members of our
:08:43. > :08:47.Commonwealth. Anthony people lost their lives? I know that many in
:08:48. > :08:52.India from the Punjab lost their lives. This is a very big war. It is
:08:53. > :08:58.very hard to express in simple words and numbers. -- how many people. I
:08:59. > :09:03.would say for the British and Empire we are looking at about 9 million
:09:04. > :09:08.lost in the First World War. The range of countries involved? It
:09:09. > :09:12.ranged from every corner of the world, from China, from Singapore,
:09:13. > :09:17.from undivided India, all of those nations that are separate today,
:09:18. > :09:22.from many countries in Africa like Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa. Is
:09:23. > :09:26.there a sense when you speak to the families involved that those
:09:27. > :09:31.soldiers understood what they were getting into? There are almost as
:09:32. > :09:35.many answers as there are people. For many of these people from
:09:36. > :09:39.Commonwealth countries they may not have had literacy to write to their
:09:40. > :09:43.families and they may not have had the ability to leave those sorts of
:09:44. > :09:46.records that we can then interpret now 100 years later. But there were
:09:47. > :09:50.many who did it for idealistic reasons and many who did it for
:09:51. > :09:55.pragmatic and practical reasons. It is different from person to person.
:09:56. > :09:58.We are seeing those scenes in Glasgow of Prince Charles in the
:09:59. > :10:02.procession in the church. Of course, there has been a raging debate
:10:03. > :10:07.historically for a long time about the question of the futility of the
:10:08. > :10:11.war, was this a wasted war because so many people died, many people say
:10:12. > :10:16.needlessly when you look at the divisions in the Middle East and
:10:17. > :10:20.what happened the Second World War, is that all was going to be there,
:10:21. > :10:25.do you think? I think you have made a good point by connecting it to the
:10:26. > :10:29.Second World War. Futility is very much a judgement of hindsight will
:10:30. > :10:32.stop it is quite unfair to use hindsight when you judge people in
:10:33. > :10:36.the past because they didn't know what the outcome of the war was
:10:37. > :10:40.going to be. They only knew that they had to try and make it. There
:10:41. > :10:44.are ways in which the ideals which were hoped for when not reached but
:10:45. > :10:48.they didn't know that at the time. Does that mean the effort they put
:10:49. > :10:52.in was futile? Does that devalue the service and sacrifice of the people
:10:53. > :10:56.that we should be commemorating? We are just seeing the King of Belgium
:10:57. > :11:03.in Liege just about an hour ago standing in front of one great
:11:04. > :11:08.wreath. Why is it just one wreath? They have chosen symbolically to use
:11:09. > :11:11.only one wreath as a sign of Europe's togetherness at this point
:11:12. > :11:14.of commemoration, instead of the separateness that was the story
:11:15. > :11:18.before and during the war. Lynelle Howson, many thanks. You will be
:11:19. > :11:23.with us throughout the day that we will leave it there for now. We
:11:24. > :11:24.return to Gaza where of course it has been a very difficult few days
:11:25. > :11:29.and weeks. In Gaza,
:11:30. > :11:31.a seven-hour pause in Israel's military operation is now underway,
:11:32. > :11:34.but only in parts of the territory. There are reports that a child died
:11:35. > :11:37.in an Israeli air strike in Gaza City minutes after the lull
:11:38. > :11:39.in hostilities came into effect. The pause doesn't apply to
:11:40. > :11:42.the southern town of Rafah where Nor is it recognised by Hamas have
:11:43. > :11:47.accused Israel of trying to divert attention away from asking what
:11:48. > :11:50.they call "Israeli massacres". I spoke earlier to the BBC's Martin
:11:51. > :11:53.Patience who's in Gaza and I began by asking Martin about
:11:54. > :12:04.the latest incident in Gaza city. I heard the explosion and it
:12:05. > :12:10.happened minutes after this cease-fire went into effect. The BBC
:12:11. > :12:13.team has been down to the scene and a house has been destroyed.
:12:14. > :12:16.Palestinians there say it was carried out by an Israeli air
:12:17. > :12:20.strike. At least one person has been killed and we understand 12 others
:12:21. > :12:25.are injured. Just to be clear, this happened in a part of the Gaza Strip
:12:26. > :12:31.where the cease-fire was supposed to be effective. We are waiting for
:12:32. > :12:35.word from the Israeli military. But this is a serious incident here in
:12:36. > :12:39.the Gaza Strip, which was supposed to be safe during this seven hour
:12:40. > :12:47.lull in the fighting. It is yet another allegation by the
:12:48. > :12:52.Palestinians that they do not trust Israel on the cease-fires that they
:12:53. > :12:57.announce and they don't believe any part of Gaza is safe. Bethany Bell
:12:58. > :13:05.injuries alone, there are reports that Israel is scaling back some of
:13:06. > :13:10.its military activity. Well, we have heard from the Israeli army that it
:13:11. > :13:14.is redeploying some of its troops. We understand there is a pull-back
:13:15. > :13:20.towards the Gaza border area in certain parts of the Gaza Strip.
:13:21. > :13:25.Although, crucially not down south around Rafah. The operations, the
:13:26. > :13:29.Army say, are continuing down there. But there is some speculation here
:13:30. > :13:35.that Israel may be considering some type of unilateral withdrawal from
:13:36. > :13:41.Gaza without an agreed negotiated cease-fire with Hamas. But I think
:13:42. > :13:46.there is little sign that people are expecting the fighting to end soon.
:13:47. > :13:51.The Israeli army said it will respond to rocket fire from Gaza.
:13:52. > :13:56.There have been at least ten rockets fired from Gaza into Israel today.
:13:57. > :14:02.And there may also be more cross-border tunnels the Army has
:14:03. > :14:07.not identified yet. It said that it destroyed most of those that it has
:14:08. > :14:11.identified but it is likely that intelligence will be trying to scour
:14:12. > :14:16.the area along the border to see you there are more of them. Martin
:14:17. > :14:19.Patience in Gaza, when Israel says it is pausing for humanitarian
:14:20. > :14:24.purposes and then we see a strike like this after the strike over the
:14:25. > :14:30.weekend, obviously it is going to add to the criticism of Israel. But
:14:31. > :14:34.also, is this a humanitarian pause, or does it fit in any case with what
:14:35. > :14:43.Israel's strategy on the ground in Gaza is? What we are seeing on the
:14:44. > :14:46.ground is people are being told they cannot go back to their
:14:47. > :14:51.neighbourhoods because they have been heavily bombed. Israel says
:14:52. > :14:57.they will be used by Palestinian militants to fire out rockets.
:14:58. > :15:00.People don't want to go back because they fear they will face Israeli
:15:01. > :15:07.shelling. I think what we have to remember is the reason is Israeli
:15:08. > :15:10.soldiers were in Gaza was to destroy the tunnels which had been dug by
:15:11. > :15:19.Hamas to launch attacks inside Israel. That has been finished, so
:15:20. > :15:23.there is no reason for the soldiers to remain inside the territory. We
:15:24. > :15:30.asked Dean signs, particularly in the north and central Gaza, that
:15:31. > :15:39.Israeli troops have pushed out. But they are still on the ground in
:15:40. > :15:44.southern Rafah. That is where it is believed an Israeli soldier was
:15:45. > :15:51.kidnapped, now he has been killed in the fighting. There is activity down
:15:52. > :15:54.there. Elsewhere, across to the Israeli border, it does appear that
:15:55. > :16:00.many Israeli soldiers have left the territory.
:16:01. > :16:02.A rescue operation is underway in China
:16:03. > :16:05.after a strong earthquake struck a remote area of Yunnan province,
:16:06. > :16:09.in the south west of the country, killing at least 400 people .
:16:10. > :16:11.President Xi Jinping has called for "all-out efforts" to find
:16:12. > :16:17.survivors as he dispatched thousands of troops to the disaster region.
:16:18. > :16:25.From Beijing, our correspondent Celia Hatton reports.
:16:26. > :16:32.A massive rescue operation is swinging into place. But emergency
:16:33. > :16:36.crews are struggling to reach thousands who need help. Landslides
:16:37. > :16:43.are blocking the only roads leading to the epicentre and unrelenting
:16:44. > :16:47.rain is making the situation worse. This region is used to regular
:16:48. > :16:52.tremors, but this earthquake was different, the local say. Brick
:16:53. > :16:56.homes that had stood the decades were destroyed. Rescuers and
:16:57. > :17:00.survivors are digging through piles of rubble to find the missing and
:17:01. > :17:07.the dead. The local hospitals are overwhelmed.
:17:08. > :17:10.TRANSLATION: all the houses had already collapsed. Their bodies were
:17:11. > :17:14.everywhere and there were a lot of injured people.
:17:15. > :17:19.Medical teams are asking for emergency blood donations. The
:17:20. > :17:24.government is calling for healthy volunteers, anyone to hand out
:17:25. > :17:28.supplies and help crews discover the final death toll.
:17:29. > :17:32.Stay with us on BBC World News, still to come:
:17:33. > :17:36.Why a mystical branch of Islam is under threat from
:17:37. > :17:40.extremists and how its followers from extremists and how its
:17:41. > :17:48.Rescue workers in northern Italy say four people were killed
:17:49. > :17:52.were swept away by a flash flood during a village festival. Eight
:17:53. > :17:56.The torrent of mud and water, caused by a ten-minute thunderstorm
:17:57. > :17:59.inundated streets in Refrontolo, north of Venice.
:18:00. > :18:12.A desperate search for survivors. The aftermath of a flash flood so
:18:13. > :18:22.powerful, it picked up cars like this one and hurled them down the
:18:23. > :18:33.river. It swept over the banks of this rule by an old Mill house where
:18:34. > :18:34.a village festival was being held. Suddenly more than 100 people found
:18:35. > :18:36.themselves engulfed by a racing, raging torrent. Some managed to
:18:37. > :18:40.cling to trees but others were swept to their deaths. All that is left of
:18:41. > :18:49.the tents but up to how's the festival.
:18:50. > :18:53.TRANSLATION: I was here last night and I left in our V4 the water. I
:18:54. > :18:59.had set up an exhibition that should have been inaugurated today. I have
:19:00. > :19:06.never seen such a thing in the 50 years since I have been here.
:19:07. > :19:10.This was a flood capable of ripping out big trees and piling them on a
:19:11. > :19:14.bridge, high above the normal water level. In its wake, it left the sea
:19:15. > :19:21.of mud which became the scene of a major rescue effort amid the chaos.
:19:22. > :19:21.In the matter of a few moments, this normally peaceful setting had become
:19:22. > :19:28.a place of terror and sudden death. In the US, wildfires have been
:19:29. > :19:31.raging on the west coast. In California a number of homes have
:19:32. > :19:35.been destroyed and hundreds of others are threatened by the fires.
:19:36. > :19:36.In Washington state 300 homes have been destroyed in a fire that has
:19:37. > :19:40.been burning for nearly three weeks. High temperatures and severe drought
:19:41. > :19:42.conditions have made for a Representatives from 50 countries
:19:43. > :19:56.have been attending commemorations in Belgium, 100 years after Germany
:19:57. > :19:58.invaded the country and Britain A unilateral pause in Israel's
:19:59. > :20:07.military operation is under way But there are already reports
:20:08. > :20:14.of breaches. A British Royal Navy ship helping to
:20:15. > :20:17.evacuate foreign nationals caught up in the fighting
:20:18. > :20:21.in Libya has arrived in Malta. Most of those on board HMS
:20:22. > :20:24.Enterprise are British citizens; More than 200 people have died
:20:25. > :20:30.in violence between rival militia groups
:20:31. > :20:45.in Libya over the past two weeks. Foreign nationals are leaving in
:20:46. > :20:51.droves, worried Libya is going up in flames. In Tripoli, smoke like this
:20:52. > :20:55.is a familiar part of the skyline. At least eight oil depots have been
:20:56. > :21:00.set on fire I rebel forces who are battling for control for the
:21:01. > :21:05.International Airport. At least 20 people died at the weekend bringing
:21:06. > :21:09.the total number of people killed here and in Benghazi over the last
:21:10. > :21:15.two weeks to over 200. The escalating violence is too much. On
:21:16. > :21:22.Saturday Greek naval ship evacuated around 180 people, most from Greece
:21:23. > :21:27.and China. Then the UK Government said the HMS enterprise to Tripoli.
:21:28. > :21:32.It has taken 110 people to Malta. Most of them British. It was not
:21:33. > :21:37.seen as a rescue mission, there are still some commercial flights
:21:38. > :21:41.available. But now the operation is complete, the British embassy will
:21:42. > :21:42.close its doors. It will be one of the last Western embassies to leave.
:21:43. > :21:57.The British ambassador tweeted: But for some, it must be hard to
:21:58. > :22:02.hang onto any hope the descent into chaos can be stopped. Libya is
:22:03. > :22:06.seeing its worst violence since Colonel Gaddafi was ousted in 2011
:22:07. > :22:11.and now it is up to these men and women to do something about it. They
:22:12. > :22:15.make up the newly elected parliament which met for the first time on
:22:16. > :22:20.Saturday. It needs to do what the previous government could not, find
:22:21. > :22:25.a way to gain control of a country which is overrun by heavily armed
:22:26. > :22:30.rival militias. With no effective army, it must be a daunting task as
:22:31. > :22:36.politicians, firefighters and police do what they can to tackle this
:22:37. > :22:38.country's burgeoning problems. Thousands head in the opposite
:22:39. > :22:46.direction getting as far as they can away from Libya's burning skies.
:22:47. > :22:50.Fighters from the militant group ISIS have taken control of two Iraqi
:22:51. > :22:53.towns, an oil field and the main dam near the city of Mosul.
:22:54. > :22:57.The black flags of ISIS have been seen flying over Zumar and nearby
:22:58. > :23:00.Sinjar where the UN said a humanitarian tragedy was unfolding.
:23:01. > :23:03.Thousands of people have been fleeing
:23:04. > :23:08.the violence and crossing into the autonomous Kurdistan region.
:23:09. > :23:11.And at least one person has been killed after a river in north
:23:12. > :23:16.of people following weeks of torrential rain. The government says
:23:17. > :23:28.the situation remains critical with two dams overflowing.
:23:29. > :23:30.For centuries the Indian subcontinent was a place where
:23:31. > :23:32.the mystical Islamic concept of Sufism thrived.
:23:33. > :23:36.Its adherents are known as Sufis and the concept still has millions
:23:37. > :23:39.But with the spread of a more hardline type of Islam
:23:40. > :23:44.Our correspondent, Kim Ghattas has travelled to Bhit Shah, a small
:23:45. > :24:02.They come at dusk, eating their drums and praising their saint.
:24:03. > :24:06.Swirling and chanting, they are hoping to achieve a trance that will
:24:07. > :24:14.bring them closer to God. Families have travelled hours, if not days to
:24:15. > :24:21.pray at the shrine of the Saint, the saint. Men and women coming together
:24:22. > :24:27.to dance and play music with passion and read them in a place of worship.
:24:28. > :24:36.These are scenes unthinkable in most of Pakistan to date, except at Sufis
:24:37. > :24:43.shrines like this. But the Taliban are furious, the shrines and the
:24:44. > :24:51.devotion to Saints are heresy, they say and Sufis are coming under
:24:52. > :24:56.attack. This man is the 12th descendant of the saint. His car was
:24:57. > :25:00.fired up recently but he escaped unscathed. Security has been
:25:01. > :25:06.increased after the shrine received threats. I am worried, but I am not
:25:07. > :25:15.hopeless. I believe sufism has two stay for ever. There is no way
:25:16. > :25:22.terrorism could stand in the way of sufism. Sufis believe their
:25:23. > :25:29.practices of the purist form of communicating with God. But the
:25:30. > :25:35.pushback against sufism is ideological also. In an madras are
:25:36. > :25:35.just a few hours away in Karachi, they spend hours memorising the
:25:36. > :25:41.Koran. This is a purist they spend hours memorising the
:25:42. > :25:46.brand of Islam and is being taught at thousands of religious seminaries
:25:47. > :25:54.across the country, many inspired by Saudi Arabia.
:25:55. > :26:00.TRANSLATION: we reject sufism. We also reject violence. We are the
:26:01. > :26:08.ones teaching true Islam. But Sufis feel vulnerable and the barriers
:26:09. > :26:14.have come up. In Karachi, this lady says it is a cultural war. When you
:26:15. > :26:22.come from outside and come into a culture that is is accepting and
:26:23. > :26:27.welcoming as Sufis culture is and you start telling them your way of
:26:28. > :26:32.life is wrong, it is sinful and you should be punished, not just in the
:26:33. > :26:36.next world, but in this one by girls for Pratt to sing your culture and
:26:37. > :26:42.your traditions. I see that as psychological violence. At the
:26:43. > :26:48.shrine, the celebrations continue, the devotees keep coming undaunted
:26:49. > :26:52.for now. The Taliban might have their guns, one of them told me, but
:26:53. > :26:59.we have truth and are drums. That is it from others, we up back
:27:00. > :27:02.tomorrow and we hope you can join as then. Thanks for watching.