:00:00. > :00:07.Hello. I'm Dani Sinha with BBC World News.
:00:08. > :00:13.US officials try to verify the video posted by Islamic State
:00:14. > :00:19.militants, showing the beheading of American journalist James Foley.
:00:20. > :00:22.In Gaza, the wife and child of a Hamas militant leader are reportedly
:00:23. > :00:32.killed by Israeli air strikes launched in response to rocket fire.
:00:33. > :00:39.Police say they've arrested 47 people during a night of protests in
:00:40. > :00:44.the Missouri town rocked by violence over the police shooting of an
:00:45. > :00:46.And in Japan at least 27 people are killed
:00:47. > :00:49.after the equivalent of one months rain falls in 24 hours, triggering
:00:50. > :01:07.Islamic State militants have posted a graphic video online showing
:01:08. > :01:10.the beheading of American journalist James Foley,
:01:11. > :01:13.who's been missing since he was seized in Syria in November 2012.
:01:14. > :01:16.The militants say it's retribution for recent US airstrikes in Iraq.
:01:17. > :01:20.US officials say they are trying to establish the authenticity
:01:21. > :01:32.He was a journalist drawn to war reporting.
:01:33. > :01:34.Previously in Libya, he was captured and held
:01:35. > :01:42.Then I was hit several times with the butt of an AK-47,
:01:43. > :01:49.punched, and dragged into a vehicle with my hands tied behind my back.
:01:50. > :01:52.On a Facebook site campaigning for
:01:53. > :01:56.his freedom, James Foley's mother seemed to accept her son was dead.
:01:57. > :02:02.She urged his kidnappers to spare the lives of the remaining hostages.
:02:03. > :02:05.The militants say they are taking revenge for recent American air
:02:06. > :02:12.It is one of the few ways that they can hit back.
:02:13. > :02:17.In a video too graphic to be shown, a man with a British accent is seen
:02:18. > :02:20.executing James Foley, who went missing in Syria two years ago.
:02:21. > :02:23.The executioner goes on to threaten that unless
:02:24. > :02:28.President Obama stops attacking the Islamic State, the life of another
:02:29. > :02:36.The US first authorised airstrikes against the jihadi fighters earlier
:02:37. > :02:40.this month, to protect refugees and stop the advance on Kurdish areas.
:02:41. > :02:42.Since then they have been instrumental
:02:43. > :02:45.in pushing back the frontiers of the Islamic State, allowing
:02:46. > :02:51.Peshmerga fighters to recapture the vitally important Mosul Dam.
:02:52. > :02:54.It has been known for some time that up to 500 British
:02:55. > :02:59.They have appeared in propaganda videos,
:03:00. > :03:05.The identity of James Foley's executioner is unknown,
:03:06. > :03:08.but he appears to kill without a conscience, and says he is more
:03:09. > :03:18.Matthew van Dyke is a film-maker and journalist from Philadelphia
:03:19. > :03:29.who knew James Foley. He paid tribute to his friend.
:03:30. > :03:35.James was a true professional, you know, he was really dedicated to
:03:36. > :03:40.journalism. He believed in what he was doing, he wasn't going to let
:03:41. > :03:44.anything stop him. He was captured in Libya and right after he was
:03:45. > :03:48.released he went back to report on that conflict. Then he went on to
:03:49. > :03:56.Syria. He knew the risks and the dangers but he knew he believed in
:03:57. > :04:01.what he did. I saw him a couple of weeks before he went missing, I was
:04:02. > :04:07.working on a film and he was working as a journalist in Aleppo. I shot
:04:08. > :04:11.some photos and videos of him, and a couple of weeks later, you just
:04:12. > :04:16.vanished. There hasn't been much information about what happened. My
:04:17. > :04:23.Syrians is as were telling me he had been kidnapped and now it appears
:04:24. > :04:30.that information was correct, because when ISIS was formed, some
:04:31. > :04:31.people joined them, so they probably took him with them when that
:04:32. > :04:37.happened. Earlier, the BBC's Jiyar Gol gave me
:04:38. > :04:50.this update on the killing of James This is the first Westerner beheaded
:04:51. > :04:57.by this group but it shows why many in the area are afraid of them. Many
:04:58. > :05:03.people in tribes who have opposed them have been killed in a brutal
:05:04. > :05:07.fashion. That is why many are afraid of them and obviously this is the
:05:08. > :05:14.first time they are killing a Westerner. It is apparently a
:05:15. > :05:26.reaction to American air strikes. Yesterday, one of the most important
:05:27. > :05:33.areas fell and it would've impossible without the American air
:05:34. > :05:40.strikes. The video clearly warns America that if they can do need to
:05:41. > :05:43.help, they may execute more people. They paraded another American
:05:44. > :05:48.journalist in front of the camera and said his destiny and life would
:05:49. > :06:03.be dependent on Mr Obama's next move.
:06:04. > :06:05.The militants from the so-called IS group, who reportedly beheaded
:06:06. > :06:08.Mr Foley, are seeking to build what they call a 'caliphate' state.
:06:09. > :07:34.The BBC's Michael Hirst has produced this guide.
:07:35. > :07:36.Speaking to the BBC, the UK's Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
:07:37. > :07:39.says the footage posted online appears to be genuine and it's a
:07:40. > :07:45.matter of serious concern that the killer spoke with a British accent.
:07:46. > :07:47.We are absolutely aware that there are significant numbers
:07:48. > :07:49.of British nationals involved in terrible crimes, probably in the
:07:50. > :07:54.commission of atrocities, making jihad with IS and other extremist
:07:55. > :08:04.organisations. This is something we've been tracking and dealing with
:08:05. > :08:10.for many months, and I don't think this video changes anything, it just
:08:11. > :08:14.heightens awareness of a situation which is very grave and which we've
:08:15. > :08:38.David Cameron has cut short his holiday to host an emergency meeting
:08:39. > :08:49.to discuss the latest situation in Iraq and Syria following that
:08:50. > :08:54.killing. Earlier I spoke to a guest in our studio in Leeds and I asked
:08:55. > :08:57.why we keep on seeing British men going out to countries such as Iraq
:08:58. > :09:03.and Syria and becoming Islamic jihadists. If there are British
:09:04. > :09:08.people involved, that is against the tradition of Islam. The Islamic
:09:09. > :09:14.State has an ethos requiring compassion, justice and mercy. What
:09:15. > :09:18.has happened here is completely against that. Secondly, in terms of
:09:19. > :09:23.what has gone wrong in terms of finding British nationals going out
:09:24. > :09:27.there, the message is clear from the mosques that whatever is happening
:09:28. > :09:32.in those conflict areas is not Jihad. It is a complete
:09:33. > :09:37.misunderstanding if someone is going from Britain to take part in Iraq
:09:38. > :09:44.and Syria and places where there is conflict thinking they are
:09:45. > :09:48.contributing to the jihad ethos. That is not the case. We need to
:09:49. > :09:51.work together with the intelligence services, the police and the
:09:52. > :10:01.government to work out why it is that young people who perhaps are
:10:02. > :10:04.manipulated by those who are against the government to organise such
:10:05. > :10:05.activities where they take young, impressionable Muslims to take
:10:06. > :10:12.part. Later today, we'll have a special
:10:13. > :10:15.programme on Iraq and the Caliphate. As well as the latest
:10:16. > :10:17.from our team on the ground, we'll be looking at what the
:10:18. > :10:20.Caliphate is and who supports it. And what the consequences
:10:21. > :10:23.of the fight for it are That's from 3.00pm GMT on
:10:24. > :10:31.BBC World News. In Japan,
:10:32. > :10:33.at least 27 people have been killed after a series of landslides struck
:10:34. > :10:35.the city of Hiroshima. Dozens of houses were buried
:10:36. > :10:37.when hillsides collapsed A short
:10:38. > :10:40.while ago I spoke to the BBC's He told me we don't yet know
:10:41. > :10:58.the full extent of the devastation I think we are still expecting the
:10:59. > :11:01.death toll to rise a bit further. Rescue services and soldiers are on
:11:02. > :11:06.the scene going through the smashed houses one by one, but obviously
:11:07. > :11:11.there is a lot of mud and rock. There were least ten of these
:11:12. > :11:15.mudslides that came down out of the mountains on the northern edge of
:11:16. > :11:19.Hiroshima early this morning because of this absolutely enormous rainfall
:11:20. > :11:24.they got over night. Some of the houses, roads, cars are buried under
:11:25. > :11:31.very thick mud, so it will take them while to go through all the debris
:11:32. > :11:38.and perhaps discover people still trapped in houses.
:11:39. > :11:45.Why did this whether, as a surprise to most residents?
:11:46. > :11:52.Well, in most part because the government did not issue any
:11:53. > :11:56.warning. Japan is a country that is well prepared for disasters, there
:11:57. > :12:01.is a good system in place, but the local government said it simply was
:12:02. > :12:06.not expecting this. Looking at the radar pictures of the rainfall, it
:12:07. > :12:11.was relatively light rainfall elsewhere, and then suddenly you see
:12:12. > :12:16.this very intense red where the rain right over Hiroshima fell during the
:12:17. > :12:20.night. And it is really just this big blot right over the top of
:12:21. > :12:27.Hiroshima. Elsewhere, very little rain at all. So it is a very unusual
:12:28. > :12:31.weather pattern, although I have to say we started to see it more and
:12:32. > :12:34.more in Japan. Something similar happened last year in which 32
:12:35. > :12:37.people were killed much closer to Tokyo.
:12:38. > :12:39.Police in Ferguson, Missouri have arrested 47 people
:12:40. > :12:43.The town has been rocked by violence over the police shooting
:12:44. > :12:45.of an unarmed black teenager almost two weeks ago.
:12:46. > :12:46.Tuesday night saw largely peaceful protests following
:12:47. > :12:50.Earlier I spoke to our North America correspondent, Rajini Vaidyanathan,
:12:51. > :12:51.who's been at the protests in Ferguson.
:12:52. > :12:53.She told me the latest demonstrations have been
:12:54. > :13:12.Well, the protests are now over but I was down there earlier and mostly
:13:13. > :13:19.they were very peaceful protests, lines of demonstrators walking along
:13:20. > :13:22.the street chanting and saying they wanted justice for Michael Brown. Of
:13:23. > :13:28.course, the unarmed black teenager who was shot by a white police
:13:29. > :13:34.officer more than a week ago, and whose death has sparked a huge
:13:35. > :13:38.outrage here. As the evening progressed, most of the protesters
:13:39. > :13:44.went home, but police helicopters then called on the remaining crowds
:13:45. > :13:48.to disperse. Things got a bit tense than an police basically forced the
:13:49. > :13:53.protesters to move on. It is unclear exactly what happened because we
:13:54. > :13:58.weren't there to see that directly. But I was down there and my team
:13:59. > :14:03.were told that we had to leave, the media were moved from the scene and
:14:04. > :14:08.brought here to what is known as the media staging area. So, in the main,
:14:09. > :14:14.a calm protest which ended with some tension. To my knowledge there were
:14:15. > :14:19.no rockets thrown or tear gas, none of the violins we've seen in recent
:14:20. > :14:23.nights. We are expecting a grand jury could meet later today to
:14:24. > :14:27.discuss whether or not to charge the police officer who shot Michael
:14:28. > :14:31.Brown. In this particular system it is the grand jury that will listen
:14:32. > :14:38.and decide whether charges should be pressed.
:14:39. > :14:42.Still to come: We continue our look at cycling around the world.
:14:43. > :14:51.Next up, we had to Brazil and Nairobi.
:14:52. > :14:53.To Pakistan now, where the country's leaders are
:14:54. > :14:55.meeting, as tens of thousands of protesters gather outside
:14:56. > :15:19.Armed with wire cutters and cleans, the protesters broke down the
:15:20. > :15:24.barricades, from the security forces watched on. The area houses state
:15:25. > :15:32.buildings, foreign embassies and the city government. Leading tens of
:15:33. > :15:42.thousands of protesters, the former cricket star, Imran can. They are
:15:43. > :15:54.wanting the Prime Minister Nawaz cricket star, Imran can. They are
:15:55. > :16:06.the protesters are trying to destabilise democracy. They say will
:16:07. > :16:10.the Prime Minister Stepstone. The protest will be peaceful. But
:16:11. > :16:19.the Prime Minister Stepstone. The whether we are hungry or thirsty,
:16:20. > :16:27.the Prime Minister Stepstone. The will continue. We want all those
:16:28. > :16:33.requirements to be fulfilled. We want the society to become
:16:34. > :16:38.democratic in the true sense. We want the democracy to be visible, as
:16:39. > :16:46.it is in Western countries. Pakistan has a history of violent uprisings
:16:47. > :16:56.and it has given rise to fear of possible future direction.
:16:57. > :17:09.The latest headlines. The mother of the American journalist apparently
:17:10. > :17:20.be headed by Islamic militants said he gave his life trying to help the
:17:21. > :17:27.people of Syria. In fighting has continued between them forces and
:17:28. > :17:29.militants in Palestine. We will stay with that story.
:17:30. > :17:31.Fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants is
:17:32. > :17:34.continuing for a second day, after the collapse of peace talks
:17:35. > :17:37.Hamas says an Israeli air strike on Gaza City has killed
:17:38. > :17:39.the wife and two-year-old daughter of the commander of
:17:40. > :17:43.It is not known if he survived the attack.
:17:44. > :17:44.Yolande Knell has the latest from Gaza.
:17:45. > :17:46.Naftali Bennett, the Israeli Minister for Economy,
:17:47. > :17:56.is in Jerusalem and I asked him why the ceasefire had ended..
:17:57. > :18:05.They ended the cease-fire yesterday and really retaliated, which we will
:18:06. > :18:08.continue to do full. These cease-fires are very peculiar. They
:18:09. > :18:17.keep breaking them and keep filing honours. If they continue to do
:18:18. > :18:22.that, we will continue to respond. Some will question the taming of the
:18:23. > :18:29.ending of the cease-fire. You said they ended the cease-fire, but it
:18:30. > :18:39.doesn't coincide with an air strike on a top, under the regime. We are
:18:40. > :18:47.always looking to take out the commanders of these terror groups.
:18:48. > :18:57.We are both fighting radical Islam. We are talking about radical Islamic
:18:58. > :19:02.states which want to create one huge fight from Eric, through Tel Aviv
:19:03. > :19:07.into London. When you identify terrorists, you have to take them
:19:08. > :19:11.out. Let us talk about the people who are being killed, because
:19:12. > :19:17.whatever way you look at this, there are eight and equal number of
:19:18. > :19:25.casualties. 2000 Palestinians killed, mostly civilians, as opposed
:19:26. > :19:33.to just over 60 Israelis killed, mostly military casualties. Let us
:19:34. > :19:37.make no mistake, they are firing mostly military casualties. Let us
:19:38. > :19:44.rockets and missiles into concentrated civilian areas in
:19:45. > :19:51.Israel. How many Israelis need to die for us to gain your sympathy?
:19:52. > :19:56.The Palestinians want you to lift the siege. Why can't assume you to
:19:57. > :20:09.that that as it will bring about peace? We have no siege. In Gazza
:20:10. > :20:16.every day, there is dozens of shiploads of food, medical supplies
:20:17. > :20:21.and other strings. The trouble is other stuff that they try to bring
:20:22. > :20:28.into Gazza, such as weapons and concrete, to build more tunnels to
:20:29. > :20:32.Israelis, which is acceptable. The general rule is, anything
:20:33. > :20:36.humanitarian law going, anything which can create weapons to kill
:20:37. > :20:43.Israelis will not be allowed in. Will you go back to the peace talks
:20:44. > :20:49.end April? I think the talks are over. Once the Palestinians started
:20:50. > :20:56.shooting at us once again, we're not going to conduct talks under threat
:20:57. > :21:00.of shooting. We are facing a very determined and radical Islamic group
:21:01. > :21:11.and we need to beat them and we will. The New Zealand government has
:21:12. > :21:22.said it is to ban the practice of removing the funds from dead sharks.
:21:23. > :21:26.Around 120 tonnes is exported from the country every year. It has been
:21:27. > :21:36.told cynical and wasteful by environmentalists. Wildlife groups
:21:37. > :21:46.have welcomed the new state. A Chinese newspaper has demanded
:21:47. > :21:50.retribution against Australia after a politician described the people of
:21:51. > :21:59.China as mongrels who shoot each other. They said Australia has a
:22:00. > :22:04.friendly -- unfriendly attitude towards China.
:22:05. > :22:07.Cycling is generally seen to be good for our health, but with
:22:08. > :22:09.the rapid growth of mega-cities across the globe, riding a bike in
:22:10. > :22:14.All this week, we have been taking you around the world on two wheels.
:22:15. > :22:18.Let us head to Rio and Nairobi, to see what it is like to be
:22:19. > :22:45.My name is they are not. I am a cyclist. I cycle to work and to
:22:46. > :23:00.practice every day. My name is Joshua. I work as a
:23:01. > :23:26.career. I think Rio de Janiero was a
:23:27. > :23:34.beautiful city to say Colin, because of the sightseeing
:23:35. > :23:38.beautiful city to say Colin, because and the beaches. But casting not
:23:39. > :23:51.respect the bakes. We are trying to change this. I have had a number of
:23:52. > :24:06.bad injuries. I got a broken arm and one time, a taxi knocked me down.
:24:07. > :24:15.The traffic is very heavy in Nairobi, which is why a Raider
:24:16. > :24:24.bicycle. In Nairobi, we do not have cycling lanes. We think of the
:24:25. > :24:37.Olympic Games. They are going to be 100 kilometres of cycle lanes for
:24:38. > :24:40.that. My bait is my best friend. I use it for exercise, and for work.
:24:41. > :25:08.It is a big part of my life. I use my bicycle
:25:09. > :25:14.movement. Inspiring Olivers to get on our bakes.
:25:15. > :25:25.of the capital Monrovia in quarantine, as it struggles to
:25:26. > :25:50.The decision has also affected other airlines which use the city as a
:25:51. > :25:58.stopping off point. Consider the effect of a single person being
:25:59. > :26:08.diagnosed with the disease. It could have a devastating effect, at least
:26:09. > :26:12.$1 billion. This could affect the wider economy of the country,
:26:13. > :26:23.affecting trade between the country and its neighbours and abroad. The
:26:24. > :26:35.airport is a vital place of employment for many people. I used
:26:36. > :26:40.to make 10-12 trips a day when the airport was and fuel use, but no
:26:41. > :26:45.since the outbreak of the disease, I am making only maybe two or three
:26:46. > :26:58.trips a day and it is becoming more difficult for me to earn enough to
:26:59. > :26:59.feed my family. They see the suspension should go beyond the
:27:00. > :27:04.listed countries.