:00:00. > :00:07.Hello. Welcome to BBC World News.
:00:08. > :00:12.A three-day ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is underway in Gaza
:00:13. > :00:16.while the Israeli military says all its troops have been withdrawn
:00:17. > :00:21.The World Bank promises $200 million to help fight Ebola in West Africa -
:00:22. > :00:28.a leading immunologist tells the BBC he hopes to have a vaccine by 2015.
:00:29. > :00:32.Prosecutors say they would accept an offer of $100 million from Formula
:00:33. > :00:37.One head, Bernie Ecclestone, to end his trial on bribery charges.
:00:38. > :00:40.Testing the waters ahead of the Rio Olympics.
:00:41. > :00:43.With just two years to go organisers battle to overcome a host
:00:44. > :01:05.We start in Gaza where a three-day ceasefire between Israel
:01:06. > :01:09.and the Palestinian militant group Hamas seems to be holding.
:01:10. > :01:12.Israel says it has withdrawn all its forces from the Gaza Strip.
:01:13. > :01:15.These pictures show troops on the Israel-Gaza border in Southern
:01:16. > :01:23.This was the scene in Gaza - residents taking advantage
:01:24. > :01:26.of the ceasefire to go out and buy food and get supplies.1,800
:01:27. > :01:30.Palestinians have been killed since the operation began three weeks ago,
:01:31. > :01:49.Israelis have been killed, all but three of them soldiers.
:01:50. > :01:56.I spoke to our correspondent in Gaza. No question it is quiet. But I
:01:57. > :02:00.am not going to predict, cease-fires have come and gone. But the
:02:01. > :02:06.difference with this cease-fire is the Israeli military have pulled out
:02:07. > :02:10.of Gaza, so they will no longer be operating inside the Gaza strip and
:02:11. > :02:17.that reduces the chance of clashes between Palestinian militants and
:02:18. > :02:20.the Israeli military. For that reason, I think many will be
:02:21. > :02:26.thinking this cease-fire has a better chance than the ones before.
:02:27. > :02:31.This is not an end to the fighting, it is only a three-day cease-fire.
:02:32. > :02:36.We understand there will be talks in Cairo and they will try to negotiate
:02:37. > :02:40.a long-term truce to the fighting. I think for most people, they are
:02:41. > :02:45.taking the opportunity to get out on the streets, stock up on supplies
:02:46. > :02:48.and to try and make some sense of the death and destruction we have
:02:49. > :02:52.seen in Gaza over the last four weeks.
:02:53. > :02:56.The BBC's Bethany Bell is in Jerusalem.
:02:57. > :03:07.What do we know from the Israeli side about this cease-fire and why
:03:08. > :03:10.it is happening? Israel, the Army, says it has completed its task of
:03:11. > :03:16.destroying 32 cross-border tunnels, through which Palestinian militants
:03:17. > :03:23.have been trying to enter Israel. It has said that task was identified as
:03:24. > :03:30.its main task in this conflict. It has withdrawn its troops back to the
:03:31. > :03:36.border although it says it is ready to respond to any rocket fire that
:03:37. > :03:42.may come from Gaza into Israel. It also has to be pointed out, it is
:03:43. > :03:47.possible there are other tunnels the Army has so far not been able to
:03:48. > :03:50.detect. It is likely it will be concentrating on looking for
:03:51. > :03:56.possible evidence of more tunnels. But for the moment it appears this
:03:57. > :04:02.temporary cease-fire is holding. We have just seen live witches from
:04:03. > :04:10.Gaza looking quiet at least in that shot. -- live pictures. What do we
:04:11. > :04:16.know about a potential, longer cease-fire negotiation? What is the
:04:17. > :04:24.Israeli position? Israel has left its options open. A few days ago it
:04:25. > :04:30.did not go to join negotiations in Cairo, a Palestinian delegation is
:04:31. > :04:33.also there. But it did not close the door to that either. There is
:04:34. > :04:39.speculation and Israeli delegation may be preparing to go. If it does,
:04:40. > :04:44.we don't know when it will go, whether they will wait until the 72
:04:45. > :04:49.hour cease-fire is over, whether they go before that, or whether they
:04:50. > :04:53.go at all? There is a lot of international pressure on Israel to
:04:54. > :04:59.come up with a negotiated, long-term end to this conflict, given the
:05:00. > :05:05.incidents at the UN schools over recent days and the mounting
:05:06. > :05:10.civilian casualties in Gaza. Is Israel worried? We have seen the
:05:11. > :05:13.public support holding up, it seems, but calls for Israel to be
:05:14. > :05:21.referred to International Criminal Court 's, increasing international
:05:22. > :05:28.condemnation. What about public support now for Benjamin Netanyahu?
:05:29. > :05:33.It seems to be holding up. The sense here is this country has been under
:05:34. > :05:40.attack from rockets. The question of the cross-border tunnels is
:05:41. > :05:48.something that touched a deep nerve, lots of concern about that. There
:05:49. > :05:57.has been a lot of support for what the Army has been doing here. I
:05:58. > :06:00.think what Israel has been saying over recent days is they will return
:06:01. > :06:05.quiet for quiet. So if it does, December -- temporary cease-fire
:06:06. > :06:08.does hold, there is a possibility of a negotiated solution. People will
:06:09. > :06:11.be waiting and watching. The other thing that remains, if the
:06:12. > :06:16.underlying causes of this conflict are not tackled, the fear is that
:06:17. > :06:21.even if there is an end to this fighting now, it could be just a
:06:22. > :06:25.matter of time until the next round comes. Thank you very much.
:06:26. > :06:28.Well in another development, a British foreign office minister
:06:29. > :06:30.has resigned her post over the Gaza conflict.
:06:31. > :06:32.Baroness Warsi, who is one of Britain's most prominent Muslim
:06:33. > :06:35.politicians, said she could no longer support the British
:06:36. > :06:37.government's policy on Gaza and that she was leaving with "deep regret."
:06:38. > :06:39.There is more reporting and background about the conflict
:06:40. > :06:44.There are eyewitness reports from our correspondents
:06:45. > :06:47.on the ground and expert analysis as well as a special report
:06:48. > :06:53.One of the world's leading immunologists
:06:54. > :06:56.has told the BBC he hopes to develop a vaccine for the deadly Ebola virus
:06:57. > :07:00.The World Bank has now announced that it?s allocating $200 million
:07:01. > :07:03.in emergency assistance for West African countries battling to
:07:04. > :07:07.The money will be distributed to the governments of Liberia,
:07:08. > :07:28.More than 880 people have died from Ebola. The worry now is as more
:07:29. > :07:33.people contract the disease it will start to spread outside West Africa.
:07:34. > :07:38.An American Doctor Who was in fact did with Ebola has already flown
:07:39. > :07:46.back to the US. His colleague also has the disease. She is expected to
:07:47. > :07:51.arrive back in America on Tuesday. Symptoms of Ebola include high
:07:52. > :07:57.fever, headache, vomiting, diarrhoea and bleeding externally and
:07:58. > :08:01.internally. On Monday, doctors at Mount Sinai hospital in New York
:08:02. > :08:05.said a man arrived in the emergency room showing symptoms. He is now in
:08:06. > :08:11.isolation. Officials said his symptoms could be from any one of a
:08:12. > :08:18.number of diseases and they will not know for 24, 248 hours whether he
:08:19. > :08:23.has Ebola or not. The fact there are two people with the disease and
:08:24. > :08:27.another possible victim on American soil has caused alarm in some
:08:28. > :08:34.places. But Doctor Williams Schaffner, a specialist at
:08:35. > :08:39.Vanderbilt University says there is absolutely nothing to worry about.
:08:40. > :08:45.This virus is not one readily spread, it is not close, prolonged
:08:46. > :08:51.contact with body fluids to acquire the infection. There is no chance it
:08:52. > :08:56.is going to be embedded into the United States. The $200 million
:08:57. > :09:01.pledged by the world bank will be split between the governments of
:09:02. > :09:06.Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea as well as the World Health
:09:07. > :09:10.Organization. The cash will be used to pay health workers and help those
:09:11. > :09:14.who are sick. Some of it will be used to fund a campaign to inform
:09:15. > :09:22.people about the disease. This pay-out still has to be approved by
:09:23. > :09:26.the World Bank's board of us, but it is the hope it is the first major
:09:27. > :09:29.step to bring the Ebola outbreak under control.
:09:30. > :09:31.Dr Anthony Fauci, the Director of the US National
:09:32. > :09:35.Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said clinical trials of
:09:36. > :09:49.We are working on a vaccine. We have done it in animals and it looks very
:09:50. > :09:53.good. We will start trials in September on humans. If it looks
:09:54. > :09:59.good we will stop reducing it and hopefully by the middle or the end
:10:00. > :10:01.of 25th team we will have a vaccine to at least vaccinate health workers
:10:02. > :10:10.who put themselves at risk when they take care of these patients. We are
:10:11. > :10:15.getting breaking news out of South Africa. The AP News Agency is saying
:10:16. > :10:22.there has been an earthquake in Johannesburg and Goldings have been
:10:23. > :10:27.shaking. There have been no reports of any casualties. -- buildings. The
:10:28. > :10:34.only line we have on it at the moment. We will confirm that as soon
:10:35. > :10:36.as we can. In other news Turkish authorities
:10:37. > :10:39.have arrested dozens of police officers accused of illegally
:10:40. > :10:41.wire-tapping Prime Minister Recep Teams stormed police lodgings
:10:42. > :10:46.in Istanbul and 13 other cities. Last month,
:10:47. > :10:50.police detained more than a hundred A record rainfall in southwest
:10:51. > :10:53.Florida has caused major flooding Weather experts said the city
:10:54. > :10:58.of Naples received more than 16.5 centimetres on Monday making it the
:10:59. > :11:04.rainiest day in August in history. The former White House press
:11:05. > :11:06.secretary, James Brady, He survived an assassination attempt
:11:07. > :11:12.on President Ronald Regan in 1981, but was left with serious injuries
:11:13. > :11:15.and spent the rest of his life Mr Brady launched
:11:16. > :11:19.a personal crusade for gun control. A federal law requiring
:11:20. > :11:23.a background check on people buying The UN in Ukraine has told the BBC
:11:24. > :11:33.that the Kiev region is now overloaded with refugees who've left
:11:34. > :12:07.their homes in the east Only 2000 had fled the fighting in
:12:08. > :12:13.eastern Ukraine and move to another part of the country now that figure
:12:14. > :12:21.is fed -- raised up to 100,000 people. They are moving to cities
:12:22. > :12:28.like Edessa in the East, and some of them come here to the capital, Kiev.
:12:29. > :12:34.At first glance, life appears normal. But that warehouse in the
:12:35. > :12:39.background is where these families now live. People forced from their
:12:40. > :12:52.homes either fighting in eastern Ukraine. This family have lived here
:12:53. > :12:56.for more than two months. We have a roof here and there aren't
:12:57. > :13:01.bombs falling from the sky, she says. Our kids cried. Where would
:13:02. > :13:09.you liked to be, she asks her five-year-old daughter. At home, is
:13:10. > :13:15.her reply. It is intense living here with so
:13:16. > :13:19.many other people. You cannot relax, like you would at home, he says. No
:13:20. > :13:24.one here knows for how long this will be their home. If ain't the
:13:25. > :13:29.fighting has intensified in eastern Ukraine. 190 people are living in
:13:30. > :13:37.this building, and they are conditions in these bunk beds. One
:13:38. > :13:41.UN official told me the key every gin is now overloaded because of the
:13:42. > :13:45.number fleeing the fighting in the East. And the United Nations said
:13:46. > :13:50.buildings like this one will not be suitable when the winter sets in and
:13:51. > :13:55.temperatures drop below freezing. But while the number of families,
:13:56. > :14:00.including disabled and elderly people who need help, keeps rising,
:14:01. > :14:05.the UN says there are others in eastern Ukraine who wouldn't or
:14:06. > :14:11.couldn't leave. Some of these people who are fleeing the fighting, they
:14:12. > :14:15.tell me of who they left at home and usually the people who were left
:14:16. > :14:24.there, they are the most fun Rebels. They are either people who could not
:14:25. > :14:29.walk, or too old to move or sick. -- the most vulnerable. It is tragic.
:14:30. > :14:34.Those are the areas where there is nobody there to help. These families
:14:35. > :14:42.living here on an industrial estate full of signs of everyday life, are
:14:43. > :14:45.in some way the lucky ones. Their futures are uncertain and their
:14:46. > :14:50.conditions are basic. Their only comfort, they now live far from the
:14:51. > :14:56.war. Although conditions in that factory
:14:57. > :15:07.far ideal, the United Nations says conditions in shelters near the
:15:08. > :15:25.conflict is owned, near Donetsk are more primitive. The UN says there is
:15:26. > :15:28.a shortage in those areas of ASIC things like mattresses, bed linen
:15:29. > :15:36.and hygiene items. The UN is particularly worried about the
:15:37. > :15:48.winter in Ukraine. Though it is several months away, and
:15:49. > :15:52.temperatures are high at the moment, it says the amount of sheltered
:15:53. > :15:59.accommodation people can go to will be dramatically reduced.
:16:00. > :16:03.It's the second day of a landmark US-Africa summit in Washington.
:16:04. > :16:06.Not far from where the discussions are taking place is one of America's
:16:07. > :16:08.largest and most well-established African communities,
:16:09. > :16:11.While questions about development and democracy dominate official
:16:12. > :16:14.talks - issues of identity are top of the agenda for Ethiopians living
:16:15. > :16:33.In United States, Lee's American Ethiopian kids are at summer camp.
:16:34. > :16:36.-- like millions of children in the United States, these American
:16:37. > :16:42.Ethiopian kids are at summer camp. They are trying to maintain a
:16:43. > :16:44.connection with their roots. They are speaking their language, hearing
:16:45. > :16:46.folktales and learning traditional dance moves. You need to know a lot
:16:47. > :16:50.about your culture because you cannot just learn about another
:16:51. > :16:59.culture and think, I am from that culture. You have to think about old
:17:00. > :17:03.culture. The camp is organised by Washington's Ethiopian community
:17:04. > :17:09.centre. Carmella has been running it for 20 years. She is aware of the
:17:10. > :17:14.world that the children live in. I think it is an important thing for
:17:15. > :17:18.kids to have their own identity. They are here in the United States,
:17:19. > :17:22.they are American children, but still they have to keep their
:17:23. > :17:30.identity and heritage. It is very important. Ethiopians have put down
:17:31. > :17:34.strong roots here and while young people at the summer camp have been
:17:35. > :17:41.exploring the emotional and cultural relationships, there are also plenty
:17:42. > :17:46.of people in the yuppie in diaspora making an enormous financial
:17:47. > :17:51.investments back home. -- Ethiopian diaspora. A group of Ethiopian
:17:52. > :17:55.doctors have put together a plan to build a multi-million dollar private
:17:56. > :18:01.hospital in the capital, Addis Ababa. It is hoped it will be up and
:18:02. > :18:08.running by 2020. The risen emotional attachment to the country. -- there
:18:09. > :18:12.is an emotional attachment. The latest headlines, the Israeli
:18:13. > :18:14.military says it has withdrawn all its forces from Gaza as a cease-fire
:18:15. > :18:18.appears to be holding. As the World Bank announces $200
:18:19. > :18:21.million to help fight Ebola in West Africa - a leading immunologist says
:18:22. > :18:41.he hopes to have a vaccine by 2015. A couple of breaking news stories.
:18:42. > :18:47.Baroness Warsi has resigned over the government's policy on Gaza. George
:18:48. > :18:50.Osborne, the Finance Minister, he has said that her decision to resign
:18:51. > :18:59.is disappointing and unnecessary. That is a pretty strong verdict on
:19:00. > :19:01.her decision. Resignations are often a bit more diplomatically handled.
:19:02. > :19:08.Some anger within government about that resignation by Baroness Warsi
:19:09. > :19:11.in the UK. Also, another breaking news line of South Africa, we told
:19:12. > :19:17.you an earthquake in Johannesburg will stop more detail for you, it is
:19:18. > :19:22.a magnitude 5.3, according to the Reuters news agency, and it has
:19:23. > :19:29.shaken central South Africa. Felt in the financial district. No word on
:19:30. > :19:32.injuries or people caught up in that of the financial district will
:19:33. > :19:41.obviously be populated, if indeed that is the area hit. More on that
:19:42. > :19:43.as it comes in. Another news line coming in. A suspected green on blue
:19:44. > :19:53.attack coming in from Afghanistan. at the officers' academy near Kabul
:19:54. > :19:57.run by the British army. Lets get the very latest from
:19:58. > :20:04.our correspondent David Loyn who Within the last few minutes it has
:20:05. > :20:08.been confirmed that several, they say, several foreign soldiers, up to
:20:09. > :20:13.four, had been injured in this incident when an Afghan soldier
:20:14. > :20:17.turned his gun on Afghan commanders and foreign soldiers at this
:20:18. > :20:22.training Academy. Earlier, we heard that the commanding officer, the
:20:23. > :20:37.commander of the training Academy had been injured in the incident.
:20:38. > :20:40.Maybe four or five people, that is the indication. This may not have
:20:41. > :20:48.been inside the training Academy itself. The training Academy is
:20:49. > :20:52.modelled on Sandhurst in Britain, and it is only one part of a huge
:20:53. > :20:57.site. The National defence University has a large American
:20:58. > :21:05.facility and some other separate training facilities. There is
:21:06. > :21:14.enormous political sensitivity in this, if it was a green on blue
:21:15. > :21:23.attack. It will be the only British military legacy in Afghanistan when,
:21:24. > :21:31.operations and this year. -- end this year.
:21:32. > :21:33.German prosecutors say that they will accept closing Bernie
:21:34. > :21:36.Ecclestone's bribery trial in exchange for a 100 million dollar
:21:37. > :21:40.I asked our sports correspondent John Acres what Mr
:21:41. > :21:52.He has been accused of bribery and incitement to breach of trust. This
:21:53. > :21:54.has been going on for some time. This is the end of a long and
:21:55. > :22:04.arduous court case for Bernie Ecclestone, who is now 83. He is
:22:05. > :22:11.accused of paying a banker 44 billion dollars eight years ago, so
:22:12. > :22:18.this obviously brings to an end. The court has announced that they will
:22:19. > :22:23.accept the $100 million. -- $44 million. He has obviously got to the
:22:24. > :22:30.age when he feels that time spent in court is time that he could be
:22:31. > :22:34.better spending elsewhere. He is a billionaire, so this money will not
:22:35. > :22:42.be something that breaks the bank for him. And he will be able to
:22:43. > :22:45.continue in Formula 1. The banker himself was allegedly paid by Mr
:22:46. > :22:49.Ecclestone to ensure that a Formula 1 stake stayed with him. That was
:22:50. > :22:55.eight years ago. That banker is now in prison and this brings to an end
:22:56. > :22:59.a long court case. It is a record, that $100 million, in Germany.
:23:00. > :23:02.The Chinese authorities say they are investigating a Canadian couple
:23:03. > :23:06.for the suspected theft of military and defence secrets.
:23:07. > :23:09.The Chinese state news agency, Xinhua, named the couple as Kevin
:23:10. > :23:14.It said they were being investigated by state security officials
:23:15. > :23:16.in Dandong City on the border with North Korea.
:23:17. > :23:19.Our correspondent in Beijing Celia Hatton gave us the latest
:23:20. > :23:26.I've spoken to the eldest son of the Garretts. He said he was shocked by
:23:27. > :23:31.the allegations and the cold them a joke. He described his parents as
:23:32. > :23:39.being completely normal, kind, loving people, who ran a coffee
:23:40. > :23:43.shop. He said that they loved interacting with customers and
:23:44. > :23:48.holding immunity events. Why have they been picked up? The
:23:49. > :23:52.government is painting a different picture of the family. The Ministry
:23:53. > :23:55.of foreign affairs has released a statement saying that Kevin Garrett
:23:56. > :23:58.and his wife are suspected of collecting and stealing intelligence
:23:59. > :24:03.materials related to Chinese military targets and imported
:24:04. > :24:06.Chinese National defence scientific research programmes. The government
:24:07. > :24:11.is painting a different picture of this couple. It is very difficult to
:24:12. > :24:16.know at this point what is going on. We believe that they had been
:24:17. > :24:20.detained but we're not sure about their whereabouts. The difficulty is
:24:21. > :24:26.that anything deemed a state secret in China is classified. So this
:24:27. > :24:31.trial, if it goes ahead, will be conducted behind closed doors.
:24:32. > :24:34.Exactly two years from now, the Olympic torch will be lit
:24:35. > :24:36.in Rio's iconic Maracana stadium, opening the 2016 games.
:24:37. > :24:38.The first of 45 test events started at the
:24:39. > :24:42.Sailors from around the world tested the waters of the Guanabara Bay,
:24:43. > :24:58.The first official test event and the first Olympic athletes in town.
:24:59. > :25:02.A taste of the games that will start here in two years time. But there is
:25:03. > :25:08.still much work to be done all over town. As the sailors can see for
:25:09. > :25:13.themselves in the Bay. Floating debris could be a potential hurdle
:25:14. > :25:18.in the quest for Olympic. Pollution is a chronic problem here and
:25:19. > :25:22.Olympic officials say that making significant improvement is a
:25:23. > :25:25.priority. Obviously, it is a concern. We are not hiding the fact
:25:26. > :25:29.that there is an issue but we're using this event to see how much we
:25:30. > :25:33.can make it better within the next two years. We are concerned about
:25:34. > :25:38.the safety of the athletes and their health, and the risk of debris to
:25:39. > :25:42.their boats. We're working hard to reduce the risks as much as
:25:43. > :25:46.possible. This is what the Olympic park will look like in two years
:25:47. > :25:50.time. For now, it is just a construction site. A double shift of
:25:51. > :25:53.workers is racing to finish the venue and authorities say that
:25:54. > :25:58.everything is just about on schedule. After criticism that the
:25:59. > :26:03.tickets to the World Cup matches were too expensive for most
:26:04. > :26:06.Brazilians, the mere announced that his government would distribute over
:26:07. > :26:16.1 million tickets for free to city residents. We are going to use our
:26:17. > :26:22.school systems. We have 700,000 kids in the schools, mainly poor people
:26:23. > :26:28.who go to public school. So this will let the Olympics be much more
:26:29. > :26:33.of a games of integration and participation. High-speed bus
:26:34. > :26:37.corridors will connect distant areas and improve mobility in a city that
:26:38. > :26:40.suffers from gridlock on a daily basis. For now, traffic is only
:26:41. > :26:45.getting worse and residents are left hoping that the time passes quickly
:26:46. > :26:58.and leaves the city with a legacy of improvements. That is it from me.
:26:59. > :27:02.ABC News continues throughout the day. See you tomorrow. -- BBC News.