:00:00. > :00:10.I am David Eades with BBC world News.
:00:11. > :00:13.A global health emergency is declared
:00:14. > :00:16.And the World Health Organisation calls for an "extraordinary"
:00:17. > :00:30.Countries affected to date simply do not have the capacity to manage an
:00:31. > :00:38.outbreak of this size and complexity on their own. Israel pulls out of
:00:39. > :00:39.peace talks with Hamas. Gaza, as Israelis and Palestinian
:00:40. > :00:42.militants exchange renewed fire, at Accusers the defence of twisting the
:00:43. > :00:51.facts. "An extraordinary event" and an
:00:52. > :01:17.international health emergency - that's what the World Health
:01:18. > :01:19.Organisation are calling The agency also predicts that
:01:20. > :01:25.the outbreak is likely to go on for months and things are likely to
:01:26. > :01:28.get worse before they better. Almost 1000 people have already
:01:29. > :01:41.died as a result of the disease. The head of the world health
:01:42. > :01:46.organisation says this is the largest, most severe and most
:01:47. > :01:52.complex outbreak of Ebola since it was identified nearly four decades
:01:53. > :01:55.ago. Now the WHO has declared it an international health emergency with
:01:56. > :01:58.an urgent plea for more international help for those
:01:59. > :02:06.countries affected. The committee's conclusions and my decisions clear
:02:07. > :02:12.call for international solidarity. Countries affected to date simply do
:02:13. > :02:20.not have the capacity to manage an outbreak of this size and complexity
:02:21. > :02:24.on their own. Liberian troops have been setting up roadblocks to try
:02:25. > :02:32.and halt the spread of the virus and the effected countries have declared
:02:33. > :02:36.a state of emergency. This is a region legged by civil unrest, the
:02:37. > :02:39.health services are weak and they are battling ignorant and suspicion
:02:40. > :02:47.of the measures needed to combat the disease. Official statistics say 932
:02:48. > :02:53.people have died so far in this outbreak, the number is expected to
:02:54. > :03:02.rise. Guinea, Sierra Leone and Lee Beery have been most effective. --
:03:03. > :03:05.Liberia have been most affected. It is not calling for a general ban on
:03:06. > :03:10.international travel or trade, for countries beyond the affected region
:03:11. > :03:14.there is a call for more information for travellers and preparations to
:03:15. > :03:22.detect and manage Ebola cases if they occur. But also this message:
:03:23. > :03:28.While Ebola is highly infectious, it is an infectious disease which can
:03:29. > :03:32.be contained. This is an infectious disease which can be contained, it
:03:33. > :03:38.is not mysterious, this is something which can be stopped. The WHO has
:03:39. > :03:46.limited resources, it wants its move to galvanise government and agencies
:03:47. > :03:48.to prevent the spread of the epidemic, the focus on West Africa
:03:49. > :03:52.as the major area of concern. Jimmy Whitworth is head
:03:53. > :03:54.of Population Health at the British He says
:03:55. > :04:04.the WHO statement is significant. It is a big deal, WHO does not put
:04:05. > :04:11.out these statements about public health emergencies of international
:04:12. > :04:15.concern lightly. It is hugely encouraging they have done so, this
:04:16. > :04:20.really shows the leadership we have been calling for from them to really
:04:21. > :04:25.control this outbreak. Encouraging at that level, maybe, rather
:04:26. > :04:30.discouraging for all of us wondering quite what this Ebola virus means
:04:31. > :04:35.and what our risks are here. That is true. This is an epidemic that has
:04:36. > :04:38.been going on for more than six months now and has not come under
:04:39. > :04:44.control, if anything, it is continuing to spread. We really do
:04:45. > :04:47.need WHO and the national governments to show leadership year
:04:48. > :04:52.so the international community and get right behind them. Margaret Chan
:04:53. > :04:57.talked about the resources available to some of these countries, the Evra
:04:58. > :05:02.Leone and Liberia in particular. -- Sierra Leone. You have experience
:05:03. > :05:07.working in the field, can they remotely cope with an outbreak like
:05:08. > :05:13.this? By themselves know, there is no prospect they can do that, these
:05:14. > :05:17.are some of the poorest countries in the world being affected and the
:05:18. > :05:21.population is at greatest risk are those that are very the moat from
:05:22. > :05:27.capital and other major cities. We really do need an infusion of
:05:28. > :05:33.external aid and support. What would be the most important thing is to
:05:34. > :05:38.provide? Expertise and equipment. Not so much money, it is people who
:05:39. > :05:42.will be able to get on the ground and effectively control this
:05:43. > :05:48.epidemic. I know you have worked extensively on HIV in Africa, Ebola
:05:49. > :05:53.is a bit of an unknown to many of us, is this something that is going
:05:54. > :06:00.to get worse before it gets better? We do not have a cure, we just have
:06:01. > :06:04.a vaccine. We do not. We have not turned the corner, even after all
:06:05. > :06:09.these months of trying to control this epidemic. I really do hope this
:06:10. > :06:14.WHO announcement will galvanise the community into action and we will be
:06:15. > :06:19.able to control it. In other outbreak this has been controlled
:06:20. > :06:22.relatively easily with pretty straightforward public health
:06:23. > :06:27.measures. There is no reason why that cannot happen here, this is
:06:28. > :06:28.logistically complex, but it is certainly feasible to control it
:06:29. > :06:33.with public health measures. In the last hour,
:06:34. > :06:35.Israel has said the ceasefire talks in Egypt are over following the
:06:36. > :06:39.resumption of hostilities in Gaza. Palestinian medics have said
:06:40. > :06:42.an Israeli air strike has killed Earlier, Israel announced it had
:06:43. > :06:46.targeted, what it called, terror sites, in the Gaza Strip
:06:47. > :07:08.in response to Palestinian rockets A short while ago I spoke to our
:07:09. > :07:12.correspondent injuries, you now -- Yolande Knell. The delegation in
:07:13. > :07:17.Cairo left early this morning before the expiry of this 72 hour truce
:07:18. > :07:22.that was in place. Israel said it was prepared to continue with that
:07:23. > :07:29.truce indefinitely, but Hamas said that in these indirect talks, being
:07:30. > :07:33.mediated through Egyptians and other parties in Cairo, Hamas said its
:07:34. > :07:38.demands must be met first, including an easing of the very tight border
:07:39. > :07:43.restrictions imposed on Gaza by Israel and by Egypt. Israeli
:07:44. > :07:48.officials have come out saying Israel does not negotiate under fire
:07:49. > :07:52.and they say since this morning when the cease-fire was breached there
:07:53. > :08:00.have been about 35 rockets and mortars fired into Israel, two
:08:01. > :08:06.Israelis have been injured, one soldier and one civilian. They put
:08:07. > :08:10.the full blame for this on Hamas, for not continuing with the truth.
:08:11. > :08:15.One of the main demands of Hamas isn't easing of the Israeli and
:08:16. > :08:23.Egyptian restrictions on movement in and out of Gaza. We hear from a key
:08:24. > :08:26.crossing point on the border. This is the border crossing between
:08:27. > :08:30.Israel and Gaza where most of the goods going into the Gaza Strip have
:08:31. > :08:36.two passed through. This is no man's land, what we have here are the
:08:37. > :08:43.regular goods and services which go into Gaza, mainly food and blankets
:08:44. > :08:46.stop other hardware and materials. A lot of building materials used to go
:08:47. > :08:53.through this point but since Israel accused Hamas of using building
:08:54. > :09:00.materials to construct tunnels, normal rate is going through. Though
:09:01. > :09:04.there is no food crisis, not enough food and goods are going in, say the
:09:05. > :09:12.Palestinians, it is one of the main demands of Hamas, that Israel lifts
:09:13. > :09:17.its controlled blockade of Gaza. We have some foodstuffs, onions, lots
:09:18. > :09:21.of onions, some blankets, and some other food. All of this has been
:09:22. > :09:29.going into Gaza over the last month, during fighting. The cease-fire
:09:30. > :09:36.formally ending this morning. Since it ended, militants from Gaza have
:09:37. > :09:40.fired more rockets into Israel and Israel has responded with air
:09:41. > :09:43.strikes and artillery fire. A lot of concern fighting will resume, if not
:09:44. > :09:50.immediately, certainly down the line, this five are so far apart
:09:51. > :09:55.their demands will not be met. Israel wants Gaza demilitarised,
:09:56. > :09:59.Hamas once the blockade on Gaza lifted. People think another
:10:00. > :10:00.conflict between Israel and the militants in Gaza is almost
:10:01. > :10:02.inevitable. Oscar Pistorius's defence lawyer is
:10:03. > :10:04.giving his closing arguments Barry Roux repeated the claim that
:10:05. > :10:08.the police had tampered with crucial evidence at the scene of
:10:09. > :10:11.the crime at Mr Pistorius's home. But referring to
:10:12. > :10:12.the prosecutions argument against the defence's case Mr Roux
:10:13. > :10:31.made clear he wasn't suggesting Gerrie Nel made this an admission
:10:32. > :10:35.yesterday. To say this conspiracy. The police would have moved a fan,
:10:36. > :10:41.the police would have moved the duvet, how would they have known?
:10:42. > :10:46.Where is this conspiracy? I said yesterday, I admitted to you, my
:10:47. > :10:51.lady, that that is not the case, we do not say it was conspiracy, we
:10:52. > :10:55.simply say they must have inadvertently moved because they
:10:56. > :11:00.would not have and could not have appreciated at the time the
:11:01. > :11:06.importance of the fans and the duvets. We are not alleging
:11:07. > :11:10.conspiracy. Mr Roux went on to talk to the moment Oscar Pistorius shot
:11:11. > :11:17.through the toilet door without, as the defence claims, realising it was
:11:18. > :11:29.his girlfriend behind it. Now you are standing at that door, you are
:11:30. > :11:34.vulnerable. You have the effect of the slow burn over many years. You
:11:35. > :11:40.are anxious. You trained as an athlete to react to sound.
:11:41. > :11:48.Sprinters. We all know them, they train. All of those factors into
:11:49. > :11:58.account. And he stands now with his finger ready to fire if necessary
:11:59. > :12:04.stop and he stands there and then... I made the noise loud. Barry Roux
:12:05. > :12:13.for the defence of Oscar Pistorius, the verdict expected between one and
:12:14. > :12:19.four weeks from now. Still to come: The latest on a Thai police raids on
:12:20. > :12:25.a gynaecology clinic as nine Sarah get babies believe to share the same
:12:26. > :12:29.Japanese father are found in a Bangkok apartment. If you have seen
:12:30. > :12:34.any of the transformer films you will know about robots who can
:12:35. > :12:38.disguise themselves by transforming into everyday machinery. That could
:12:39. > :12:41.be more than just the movie, a real-life transformer has been
:12:42. > :12:47.created by scientists inspired by origami. The robot could be
:12:48. > :12:52.especially useful for getting into confined spaces for example. For
:12:53. > :12:59.instance when searching for survivors in collapsed buildings.
:13:00. > :13:03.Victoria Gill. It takes just four minutes, it turns from a flat sheet
:13:04. > :13:06.into a tiny four-legged robot. Its design is made up of layers of
:13:07. > :13:11.different materials that have folding hinges built into them.
:13:12. > :13:14.Crucially one of these layers is a substance that tricks when it is
:13:15. > :13:18.heated and when it contracts the whole sheet folded in on its hinges
:13:19. > :13:22.and up pops the three-dimensional robot. It's forward crawl is powered
:13:23. > :13:28.by motors and batteries that are simply built onto it while it is
:13:29. > :13:32.still flat. Researchers say self-assembly devices could be
:13:33. > :13:36.useful in getting complex machinery into war zones or in space
:13:37. > :13:40.exploration where flat sheet could be transported and fold into
:13:41. > :13:44.existence when they arrive. The Harvard team also wants to share
:13:45. > :13:46.their origami inspired technology with other engineers and
:13:47. > :13:52.non-engineers who wants to build their own useful devices will stop
:13:53. > :13:53.they say it could enable anybody to build a flat machine that folds into
:13:54. > :13:59.use. Hawaiians are facing
:14:00. > :14:01.a rare pummelling Hurricane Iselle has made
:14:02. > :14:04.landfall at the archipelago's southernmost Big
:14:05. > :14:06.Island, bringing in strong winds, It's now weakened to
:14:07. > :14:17.a tropical storm, It is the first hurricane to hit
:14:18. > :14:23.the US state in 22 years. Residents have been heading into
:14:24. > :14:25.emergency shelters, while homes and businesses have been boarded up, and
:14:26. > :14:39.some flights have been cancelled. You are watching BBC world News. The
:14:40. > :14:43.latest headlines: The world health organisation has declared the spread
:14:44. > :14:47.of Ebola in West Africa to be an international public health
:14:48. > :14:52.emergency. A ten-year-old child reported to have been killed in an
:14:53. > :14:58.Israeli on Gaza city as hostilities resume at the end of a three-day
:14:59. > :15:01.cease-fire was President Obama has authorised air strikes against
:15:02. > :15:06.Islamist militants who have been overrunning much of northern Iraq.
:15:07. > :15:13.The advance of the Islamic state forces as threatened some of Iraq's
:15:14. > :15:17.religious minorities. They have seized Iraq's biggest Christian
:15:18. > :15:29.town, forcing locals to flee to the regional capital a bill. -- Irbil.
:15:30. > :15:31.In a prime-time address to the nation, the tone of the president
:15:32. > :15:35.was brisk. Targeted air strikes to protect
:15:36. > :15:38.our American personnel, and a humanitarian effort to help save
:15:39. > :15:41.thousands of Iraqi civilians who are trapped on a mountain without food,
:15:42. > :15:47.water, facing almost certain death. America, he said,
:15:48. > :15:55.was coming to help these people. A minority religious group who, for
:15:56. > :15:58.days, have been stranded at the top Tens of thousands are taking refuge
:15:59. > :16:03.from Islamic Sunni militants, They have no water,
:16:04. > :16:06.no food and nowhere to go. President Obama said the US had
:16:07. > :16:18.to act now to prevent genocide. Militant Sunni fighters, the Islamic
:16:19. > :16:20.State, formerly known as ISIS, With concerns they could advance to
:16:21. > :16:25.the northern city of Arbil, where US personnel are based, the president
:16:26. > :16:27.also authorised the use of air President Obama has been quick to
:16:28. > :16:33.reassure the American public there will be no
:16:34. > :16:38.boots on the ground in Iraq. This, after all,
:16:39. > :16:40.was the President who came into office promising to end America's
:16:41. > :16:45.involvement in the conflict there. But many here are worried that
:16:46. > :16:48.as the situation there worsens, the US could be dragged back
:16:49. > :17:09.into a long and bloody war. I have been speaking to our
:17:10. > :17:12.correspondent in Irbil, he told me News of the air strikes were
:17:13. > :17:18.welcomed in the Kurdish capital. It was a kind of relief from what I
:17:19. > :17:28.know here in Irbil for the community. Many people feared Isis
:17:29. > :17:32.might reach the capital city. Yes, I think the message last night was
:17:33. > :17:36.received very well here and many people are very hopeful and I think,
:17:37. > :17:42.excuse me, I think this would boost the morale of the Kurdish security
:17:43. > :17:47.forces because I feel as reached almost 40 kilometres from where I am
:17:48. > :17:52.standing, they captured the city yesterday that is 40 kilometres from
:17:53. > :18:02.Irbil. A highway between one of the main Kurdish cities and Irbil has
:18:03. > :18:06.been cut off by Isis. Many Christians who fled Mosul a few
:18:07. > :18:12.weeks ago settled with their relatives in cities, but had to move
:18:13. > :18:17.again, many reaching Irbil, staying in the Christian quarter of the
:18:18. > :18:27.city. Many could not and are trapped there. The most gruelling situation
:18:28. > :18:34.is for the Yazidi. There are fears many of them died from thirst,
:18:35. > :18:40.dehydration and starvation. Accounts are dreadful, aren't they? Do you
:18:41. > :18:45.get any sense that an Iraqi military are closer now to re-engage in,
:18:46. > :18:52.forging some sort of United front, or will it require a new Prime
:18:53. > :18:57.Minister, perhaps a new shape of government, for that to happen?
:18:58. > :19:01.There are so many differences between Baghdad and Irbil, they have
:19:02. > :19:10.not been cooperating in to years, Baghdad have refers to give the
:19:11. > :19:14.Kurdish area of share. They have not been able to export oil
:19:15. > :19:18.independently and sell it in the international market, that is why
:19:19. > :19:30.the Kurdish are very angry with Mr Malachy. -- al-Maliki. They have
:19:31. > :19:37.more advanced weapons ban us. Isis gets a lot of weapons. They are very
:19:38. > :19:43.motivated. The people here are hopeful if they give them weapons
:19:44. > :19:48.they might start the operations, we taking those places they have lost
:19:49. > :19:53.in the past week. -- taking those places again. Nine so baby is
:19:54. > :19:58.believed to share the same Japanese father were found in a Bangkok
:19:59. > :20:01.apartment. An Australian couple were said to have abandoned one of their
:20:02. > :20:07.babies because he had down syndrome, though they have denied
:20:08. > :20:10.those claims. It has led to a push to overhaul Thailand's surrogacy
:20:11. > :20:16.rules with a tough new law being considered by authorities. ABC
:20:17. > :20:23.Australia's Bangkok correspondent says these events are forcing Thai
:20:24. > :20:27.authorities to take swift action. This is a great moral shame for the
:20:28. > :20:32.Thai military, that is how they would see it. So they are moving
:20:33. > :20:40.quickly to bring in laws to regulate surrogacy in this country. It will
:20:41. > :20:43.mean only married couples and relatives can be involved in
:20:44. > :20:49.surrogacy arrangements, it will basically CNN 's two foreigners
:20:50. > :20:57.coming here for commercial surrogacy. They could have those
:20:58. > :21:03.laws in place as early as next week. They might make it a priority given
:21:04. > :21:08.a great deal of publicity. It will be hugely confusing, it takes nine
:21:09. > :21:14.months in pregnancy, they have to throw that in, retrospective issues,
:21:15. > :21:23.lots of people wanting and expecting arrangements to go through. It is
:21:24. > :21:28.very uncertain times for people who have surrogates who are pregnant in
:21:29. > :21:32.Thailand. Many of them are Australians and many other
:21:33. > :21:37.nationalities as well. There are many pregnant women here, many
:21:38. > :21:45.uncertain times ahead for the biological parents. I don't think
:21:46. > :21:49.the military has been clear yet as to whether these laws will be
:21:50. > :21:55.retrospect, whether they will apply to babies in utero. They are talking
:21:56. > :21:58.about a clause in these laws that would mean the sum of it would have
:21:59. > :22:04.to keep the baby for six months after its birth. Length the
:22:05. > :22:10.sobriquet would have to keep. It relates to breast-feeding. They say
:22:11. > :22:13.it is humanitarian. It would cast doubt over the future of the baby in
:22:14. > :22:15.utero, the couples