:00:00. > :00:19.As the US reveals it tried to free kidnapped journalist James Foley,
:00:20. > :00:29.??EDPREV If we were starving and migss food, he would share his
:00:30. > :00:44.ration. And surrogacy under the spotlight -
:00:45. > :00:47.the fate of Baby Gammy sparks questions about how best to protect
:00:48. > :01:07.parents and children. The United States has continued to
:01:08. > :01:10.launch air strikes in northern Iraq despite threats from Islamic State
:01:11. > :01:14.militants to kill a second American The attacks come as the Pentagon
:01:15. > :01:19.revealed a US secret military mission had
:01:20. > :01:22.tried to free reporter James Foley The pictures posted online of
:01:23. > :01:27.Mr Foley's beheading continue to From Washington,
:01:28. > :01:41.Tom Esslemont reports. Tributes have been flooding in from
:01:42. > :01:50.friends and fellow journalists. He has been described as, kind, ed ,ed
:01:51. > :01:59.ed a venrous and tough. To his parents, he is a martyr.
:02:00. > :02:06.They risk their lives. Major network. The honest is they stay in
:02:07. > :02:15.their environments so they get better stories. We really have
:02:16. > :02:24.enough regard for the who do this work. It has emerged that American
:02:25. > :02:30.commandos tried to rescue him and a number other American held by
:02:31. > :02:34.Islamic State militants. They in Syria earlier this summer. When they
:02:35. > :02:37.arrived, officials said they not the hostages. , it is race against time
:02:38. > :02:42.So, what can Britain and the United States do with the limited
:02:43. > :02:50.information they have? President Obama has said he doesn't want
:02:51. > :02:55.America to get drawn into a long conflict confronting jihadists. That
:02:56. > :03:00.was before James Foley was killed. A killing a former head of the CIA has
:03:01. > :03:13.described as the first attack against America. The
:03:14. > :03:15.The French journalist Nicolas Henin was taken hostage in Syria in June
:03:16. > :03:20.He spent seven months in captivity of them with James Foley.
:03:21. > :03:22.Mr Henin's not spoken at length about his experience
:03:23. > :03:25.because he didn't want to jeopardize the safety of other captives.
:03:26. > :03:27.But after the beheading, he decided to speak to our Paris
:03:28. > :03:44.We spent seven months in a very extreme situation together.
:03:45. > :03:49.Including for one week we were handcuffed, one to the other, day
:03:50. > :03:57.and night. What were the conditions like you and James were held in? In
:03:58. > :04:01.In circumstances where you are held captive you have some kind of
:04:02. > :04:05.survival instincts. Meaning, for instance, you try and grab
:04:06. > :04:08.everything you can find and James was the total opposite. Basically
:04:09. > :04:12.everything he could share, he would share it. If we were cold and we
:04:13. > :04:17.were missing blankets, he would share his blankets. If we were
:04:18. > :04:22.starving and missing food, he would share his ration. Did he cope with
:04:23. > :04:26.the conditions better than the rest of you? I would say, yes. Even
:04:27. > :04:30.though, being an American he was probably more targeted by the
:04:31. > :04:42.kidnappers, by the guards. In what way? It would be... He was some kind
:04:43. > :04:47.of scapegoat. Why were you released and he wasn't? Some countries
:04:48. > :04:51.negotiate. What they negotiate, I don't know. I don't know if it is
:04:52. > :04:57.money, prisoner exchange. Some countries like America, but also
:04:58. > :05:02.like the UK, do not negotiate. And, well, that puts the people at risk.
:05:03. > :05:08.Everyone who sees that video is horrified. What were you feeling
:05:09. > :05:20.when you saw that video? I am just horrified because it's not... It was
:05:21. > :05:25.a friend and my best soul mate. How would you like to remember James
:05:26. > :05:35.Foley? I will try. I am afraid it will take a few days, but I will try
:05:36. > :05:41.to just remember a few, very few opportunities we had to laugh loud.
:05:42. > :05:56.The together. It did happen a couple of times.
:05:57. > :06:03.Our correspondent is with us now. Bring us up-to-date with what we
:06:04. > :06:06.know now? There are three British jihadist whoss have been guarding
:06:07. > :06:13.western hostages, held by the Islamic State. Probably in Syria.
:06:14. > :06:18.And they've actually even been given nicknames. This was a story which
:06:19. > :06:22.came out. They have the names of the Beatles - John, Paul and Ringo. The
:06:23. > :06:26.accounts we are getting from a number of people are some of the
:06:27. > :06:30.hostages are treated very badly indeed, that they are beaten.
:06:31. > :06:36.Clearly these air strikes, these US air strikes in the last few days and
:06:37. > :06:40.weeks have infuriated the jihadists of Islamic State. They have checked
:06:41. > :06:45.their advance into Kurdistan and started to push them back. Whether
:06:46. > :06:49.it is permanent, who knows. It is really upset them a lot. I think
:06:50. > :06:52.that has been taken out on the hostages to some extent. There are
:06:53. > :06:57.over 20 being held. Probably in different locations. It turns out
:06:58. > :07:05.there was indeed an e-mail, a very angry e-mail sent to of Mr Foley's a
:07:06. > :07:09.week before he was killed. Killed told them he was going to be killed
:07:10. > :07:15.because of the air strikes. The focus is on the men with the British
:07:16. > :07:19.accents. What are UK Security Services doing to try and ascertain
:07:20. > :07:23.who these people are? There is a lot involved in this. In a way, I am not
:07:24. > :07:28.saying it is a pointless exercise, but it will not necessarily lead to
:07:29. > :07:32.any great resolution, because unless his killer or killers come back or
:07:33. > :07:35.leave Syria and Iraq, they are not going to be brought to justice.
:07:36. > :07:40.There's no Government in that part of the Middle East you can go to and
:07:41. > :07:45.say, we want an extradition order to get them out. They are in a land
:07:46. > :07:50.controlled by Islamic State. So, unless you send in a snatch squad,
:07:51. > :07:53.from what we have seen, it has not worked for the Americans when they
:07:54. > :07:57.sent in Special Forces. Their intelligence was wrong. They landed
:07:58. > :08:04.in the wrong place, the hostages were not there. And it is a city -
:08:05. > :08:08.so not easy at all. But the FBI, internationally, are the lead
:08:09. > :08:13.agency. The victim was American, so they are doing their best, whatever
:08:14. > :08:17.sources they've got, to try and find out who exactly was the person that
:08:18. > :08:22.killed him. The video is confusing. It is a horrible video to look at.
:08:23. > :08:26.It is not clear whether the voice on there is indeed of the person in the
:08:27. > :08:31.black mask, because you cannot see his lips moving. It is possible, in
:08:32. > :08:35.my view, that it's been put on afterwards. A really important point
:08:36. > :08:40.about this is, obviously there is huge tension in the western media
:08:41. > :08:43.because he was a hapless western journalist trying to do his job.
:08:44. > :08:47.This is happening to Iraqis and Syrians and it has happened to other
:08:48. > :08:50.Arab journalists all over the Middle East for a very long time, but
:08:51. > :08:54.particularly in recent times. They are paying with their lives to do
:08:55. > :08:58.the story. Arab journalists are bearing the braunt of it. We have a
:08:59. > :09:05.lot of interest when it happens to one of our own. But my goodness me,
:09:06. > :09:11.Arab journalists have paid a terrible price - whether it is
:09:12. > :09:15.Palestinians in Gaza, Algerians in North African, or Iraqis and
:09:16. > :09:21.Syrians. This is a tiny tip of the iceberg we are seeing here. In terms
:09:22. > :09:25.of the way that Mr Hennin was speaking about it, that perhaps
:09:26. > :09:30.James Foley was slightly Worsley treated because of the fact he's
:09:31. > :09:34.American - of course the US and the UK make a big deal about not
:09:35. > :09:42.negotiating. I do don't. Actuallivy to say that European countries have
:09:43. > :09:47.been not honest about this. If you remember the G8 summit more than a
:09:48. > :09:51.year ago, that was held in Britain, in Northern Ireland - all eight G8
:09:52. > :09:57.countries signed up to an agreement that they would not pay ransoms to
:09:58. > :10:01.terrorists who kidnap hostages. Only the UK and the US, as far as I
:10:02. > :10:07.know, have actually abided by that. Of course, it comes at a terrible
:10:08. > :10:10.price. Their hostages get killed. Others get released. It is easy to
:10:11. > :10:15.say sitting in the comfort of the studio, but when your nearest and
:10:16. > :10:20.deariest get kidnapped, most people want to do whatever they can to get
:10:21. > :10:25.them out. The amounts involved are huge. They have somebody running
:10:26. > :10:30.this, in charge. It is a money-making business. One Iraqi of
:10:31. > :10:35.source put the figures at $200 million earned by Islamic State in
:10:36. > :10:38.ransoming nearly a dozen western hostages. Europeans paid up, the
:10:39. > :10:45.Britains and the Americans don't. Thank you very much.
:10:46. > :10:48.The armed wing of Hamas says three of its senior
:10:49. > :10:51.commanders have been killed in a pre-dawn Israeli air strike in
:10:52. > :10:55.Palestinian rescue services say the three were among six people
:10:56. > :10:58.killed when a four-storey building was destroyed in the attack.
:10:59. > :11:00.The United Nations Security Council is calling for an immediate
:11:01. > :11:04.humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza and for peace talks to resume.
:11:05. > :11:06.The BBC's Kevin Connolly is in Jerusalem.
:11:07. > :11:15.He told me more about the three Hamas commanders
:11:16. > :11:22.They are not names that will resonate with western audiences.
:11:23. > :11:25.They were key figures in the Hamas leadership. I think there is a sense
:11:26. > :11:29.in which Israel has been trying throughout the weeks of fighting to
:11:30. > :11:36.pull off some kind of operation like this. It tried a couple of days ago
:11:37. > :11:39.to kill the overall military commander of Hamas. It is not
:11:40. > :11:42.entirely clear how that operation turned out.
:11:43. > :11:49.This, from the Israeli perspective, will be seen as a huge and decisive
:11:50. > :11:53.success - a blow to Hamas. And also something designed to make other
:11:54. > :12:03.Hamas leaders feel vulnerable, because this, of course, will...
:12:04. > :12:07.Excuse me - that they have good, real-time intelligence and has the
:12:08. > :12:10.military capability to act on that intelligence. As I say, it is a
:12:11. > :12:15.victory of the kind that Israel has been looking to and it will see this
:12:16. > :12:19.as a very important moment in the overall conflict. In terms of peace
:12:20. > :12:26.talks - of course they have collapsed. What hopes they may bring
:12:27. > :12:31.- well, restart? Well, the UN Security Council talks about the
:12:32. > :12:35.importance of getting another ceasefire in place, for humanitarian
:12:36. > :12:39.reasons. Frankly, that is an aspiration, not a policy. It is not
:12:40. > :12:44.really clear who would have the power to get the two sides back to
:12:45. > :12:49.the table. The talks appear to have collapsed for the very simple reason
:12:50. > :12:52.that the two sides were so far apart on the fundamental issues. Although
:12:53. > :12:56.there is international pressure to get the two sides back on to a
:12:57. > :13:01.diplomatic track, there's no sign that is about to happen.
:13:02. > :13:08.And Kevin, just bring us up-to-date, whether we've had any strikes on
:13:09. > :13:15.Israel today? We have had word of rocket attacks in the southern part
:13:16. > :13:19.of Israel. Word an empty school building was hit. One Israeli has
:13:20. > :13:22.been injured, we understand, this morning and that rocket campaign
:13:23. > :13:26.continues. There have been Israeli air strikes in Gaza. We are still
:13:27. > :13:31.working to establish the details of exactly what has happened in those
:13:32. > :13:37.air strikes. Essentially, in terms of this conflict, day 45 now - I
:13:38. > :13:40.suppose for both sides and for civilians, on both sides, it is
:13:41. > :13:44.business as usual and very hard to see where a diplomatic solution
:13:45. > :13:49.comes from. Where the politicians can do work to provide an
:13:50. > :13:55.alternative to the on-going military campaign.
:13:56. > :13:57.In other news The internationally-acclaimed
:13:58. > :13:59.environmental campaigner Marina Silva, has been chosen
:14:00. > :14:02.by Brazil's Socialist Party as its new Presidential candidate.
:14:03. > :14:05.She replaces her running mate, Eduardo Campos, who was killed last
:14:06. > :14:10.Ms Silva is seen as a leading challenger to President Dilma
:14:11. > :14:18.Iceland has evacuated an area close to the country's Baroarbunga
:14:19. > :14:23.The area, which is more than 300 kilometres from the capital
:14:24. > :14:25.Reykjavik, has no permanent residents but sits within a national
:14:26. > :14:30.Geologists have detected about 300 earthquakes in
:14:31. > :14:39.Russia's consumer safety agency has ordered the temporary closure of
:14:40. > :14:41.four branches of the American fast food chain, McDonald's, in Moscow
:14:42. > :14:44.due to what it says are numerous violations of sanitary regulations.
:14:45. > :14:47.McDonald's - which has more than 400 restaurants in Russia -
:14:48. > :15:04.The agency denied that its actions were politically motivated.
:15:05. > :15:14.Why Panasonic is turning its hand to growing vegetables.
:15:15. > :15:19.Ukrainian border guards are preparing to inspect
:15:20. > :15:21.the first trucks from a huge Russian aid convoy, heading to
:15:22. > :15:26.It comes as heavy fighting continues in Eastern Ukraine as government
:15:27. > :15:35.forces continue to push back against the pro-Russian rebels.
:15:36. > :15:42.MH17 crashed in Ukraine and there has been serious fighting in the
:15:43. > :15:47.area since the government sent in troops to take back territory taken
:15:48. > :15:53.by separatist gunmen this year. This is the land they used to control in
:15:54. > :15:59.April. They have now been pushed back into the orange areas. Who
:16:00. > :16:09.controls what? Deserted streets where pro-Russian separatists have
:16:10. > :16:11.been surrounded by pro-dash-macro Ukrainian military and the city is
:16:12. > :16:15.suffering acute shortages of food and water. The other rebel
:16:16. > :16:18.stronghold is Donetsk, where Ukrainian forces are also trying to
:16:19. > :16:24.take. They are finding it hard to cut off the separatist supply lines.
:16:25. > :16:29.Russia is accused of orchestrating the rebellion in eastern Ukraine.
:16:30. > :16:32.The Kremlin denies this but NATO accuses Moscow of supplying them
:16:33. > :16:40.with military equipment. Tanks, rocket launchers and the surface to
:16:41. > :16:46.air weapons which is thought to have brought down MH17 have been seen
:16:47. > :16:50.going across the board. Donetsk says some of its fighters were trained in
:16:51. > :16:55.Russia which is thought to have 20,000 troops on its side of the
:16:56. > :17:02.border. The UN says around 140,000 people have been forced to flee
:17:03. > :17:04.their homes and over 2000 people and rising have been killed including
:17:05. > :17:09.civilians, soldiers and rebels. About five hours and have been
:17:10. > :17:20.injured, that is an average of 60 casualties a day.
:17:21. > :17:27.The US reveals it tried to rescue American hostages in Syria
:17:28. > :17:30.earlier this year, including the murdered journalist James Foley.
:17:31. > :17:33.As the violence in Gaza continues - Hamas says three of its senior
:17:34. > :17:46.military leaders have been killed in an Israeli air strike.
:17:47. > :17:56.One of the two aid workers who contracted a bowler in Nigeria are
:17:57. > :18:05.expected to be released from hospital. -- Ebola.
:18:06. > :18:08.Police in the United States say it's been a relatively calm night
:18:09. > :18:10.in the St Louis suburb of Ferguson where there's been almost two weeks
:18:11. > :18:14.of protests sparked by a white police officer shooting
:18:15. > :18:17.The US attorney general, Eric Holder, has been meeting police
:18:18. > :18:21.and residents and says he hopes a thorough investigation
:18:22. > :18:22.into the killing of Michael Brown will have a calming influence.
:18:23. > :18:26.Our North America Correspondent Rajini Vai-dya-nathan says there's
:18:27. > :18:35.a marked change in the atmosphere among the protestors.
:18:36. > :18:45.We ask you right now, Lord Jesus, keep us together as one. In Ferguson
:18:46. > :18:49.there is a different tone this evening. Anon of the violence we
:18:50. > :18:53.have seen in previous nights. Much calmer and more of a sense of a
:18:54. > :18:59.vigil. People have candles and they have been saying prayers for Michael
:19:00. > :19:02.Brown. Many of the people said they will stay here as long as it takes
:19:03. > :19:09.to get justice. These are the hard-core who want to keep their
:19:10. > :19:11.voices heard. I am joined by Minister Gary Hill, who has been
:19:12. > :19:17.praying with some of the people. Why do you think things are, this
:19:18. > :19:21.evening after what has been ten nights of violent protests? First of
:19:22. > :19:30.all, I want to say, you give up a prayer to God, because when people
:19:31. > :19:33.break, he answers. What has happened is prayers have been cancelled. I am
:19:34. > :19:40.going to go into the crowd to talk to some of the protesters. Courtney,
:19:41. > :19:48.how long have you been here protesting? Since the first day. How
:19:49. > :19:53.long will you be here? Until we get justice, I cannot say. When there is
:19:54. > :19:56.justice, I might go home. I have got to stand strong. One of the
:19:57. > :20:06.protesters speaking to our correspondent. One aspect of the
:20:07. > :20:13.Islamic state emergence has been support from young Muslims from
:20:14. > :20:20.Europe. Some have been seen on the streets of Holland waving a black
:20:21. > :20:24.flag. The black standard flag is the most
:20:25. > :20:31.recognisable symbol used by the Islamic state. It is spreading
:20:32. > :20:40.across Iraq and Syria. And now, appearing on the streets of Europe.
:20:41. > :20:42.This footage posted on you Tube is said to show IIS supporters in the
:20:43. > :20:51.Hague, encouraging vulnerable young people to join them. It shows them
:20:52. > :20:59.cutting off heads, you think, I don't have any future, I am going
:21:00. > :21:04.there and it is Islam. One person said this is the thing and they feel
:21:05. > :21:09.they must go. Many in this predominantly Muslim neighbourhood
:21:10. > :21:22.to support the formation of an Islamic state, most oppose the
:21:23. > :21:30.brutality of IS. This boy is one who has gone to take part with jihad. He
:21:31. > :21:31.has trained with the Dutch army and is using those skills to teach new
:21:32. > :21:39.recruits fighting against resident is sad in Syria. I have been
:21:40. > :21:43.speaking to him on this instant messenger application. I ask him if
:21:44. > :21:50.he is still fighting in Syria? He says yes. Then I ask if he is also
:21:51. > :21:56.fighting with a desire to form an Islamic state? He says, which
:21:57. > :22:00.fighter from abroad does not want Islamic law? The Dutch security
:22:01. > :22:06.services said the threat is mutating with home-grown jihad ease using
:22:07. > :22:14.sophisticated, multimedia propaganda tools. They make better use of the
:22:15. > :22:23.Internet, social media, of YouTube, movies, we have young men and girls
:22:24. > :22:29.aged 16, 17, some of them 14 who want to go to Syria or Iraq. This
:22:30. > :22:36.film shows and the Dutch citizen, now understood to be based in Iraq.
:22:37. > :22:38.As IS influence spreads, there are fears these foreign fighters will
:22:39. > :22:45.return home battle hardened to haunt Europe. It is a time bomb in our
:22:46. > :22:49.society. It is not just in the Netherlands, all our countries face
:22:50. > :22:55.the same problems from the jihadists who want sharia in the Netherlands
:22:56. > :23:06.and will use firearms to achieve it. I am not fantasising, this is
:23:07. > :23:09.reality today. Right now, the Netherlands is struggling to find a
:23:10. > :23:17.constructive formula to fight the threat within European borders.
:23:18. > :23:20.The case of Gammy, a baby with Down's syndrome born to
:23:21. > :23:22.a Thai surrogate and allegedly left behind by the
:23:23. > :23:24.intended Australian parents, has caused international controversy.
:23:25. > :23:26.This year - it's projected that in the UK alone,
:23:27. > :23:29.around 200 babies will be registered as being born through surrogacy.
:23:30. > :23:33.But it's still illegal to PAY for a woman to have your baby
:23:34. > :23:34.in Britain and any agreement drawn up is not legally binding.
:23:35. > :23:38.There are calls for more regulation to protect parents and surrogates.
:23:39. > :23:49.This is Sarah Jones and had two children. Sarah also has three
:23:50. > :23:56.surrogate children and the latest is Elliott with a gay couple, Nick and
:23:57. > :23:58.Michael. Elliott is one of the children registered as being born
:23:59. > :24:04.through surrogacy. The arrangement is based on trust and they drew up
:24:05. > :24:10.an agreement, but it is not legally enforceable. They were talking about
:24:11. > :24:15.the children growing up. Being teenagers and still seeing their
:24:16. > :24:21.surrogates family. That friendship still being there. I think Sarah has
:24:22. > :24:24.given us, obviously a son and a likely would not have, an
:24:25. > :24:31.opportunity to be parents. I am hopeful Elliott will be an amazing
:24:32. > :24:36.kid and adults from the kind of life we can give him. Sarah has given the
:24:37. > :24:43.chance to others. We might not have had that chance otherwise. The UK
:24:44. > :24:47.agency that linked together encourages everyone to stay in
:24:48. > :24:50.touch. But because there are no contracts, anyone can change their
:24:51. > :24:57.mind. The only money that can change hands in the UK is for expenses, but
:24:58. > :25:00.that is open to abuse. It was a lack of guarantees that let this couple
:25:01. > :25:06.to surrogacy in India where everything is contract did.
:25:07. > :25:20.Everything is done professionally over there. When the surrogates
:25:21. > :25:32.falls pregnant, she is taken to a nice, clean home for the next nine
:25:33. > :25:39.months and we get up dated. We get a breakdowns on the bills. It is well
:25:40. > :25:46.presented in India. Robbie and Nicky have spent over ?100,000 having
:25:47. > :25:51.Daisy and Dylan in India. She argues you should be able to pay a
:25:52. > :25:58.surrogates in the UK. There are loads of women out there who want to
:25:59. > :26:10.help couples have babies. But because you cannot put it in the
:26:11. > :26:11.papers, it is too closed up. Sarah is against commercialisation in the
:26:12. > :26:13.UK but says parents need better protection. More regulation is good,
:26:14. > :26:15.definitely. The parents of the child need to be recognised as the parents
:26:16. > :26:19.of the child straightaway. It would make it easier. The way it works in
:26:20. > :26:21.the UK has its problems, that there is a system that is working, but it
:26:22. > :26:23.is not legislated for properly. As demand increases, UK groups argue
:26:24. > :26:25.better, legal protection would encourage more woman -- women to
:26:26. > :26:33.come forward as surrogates. If you think the company Panasonic
:26:34. > :26:36.is an electronics giant you'd be right. But now it's turning its hand
:26:37. > :26:38.to growing vegetables. The Japanese brand that built its name on TVs and
:26:39. > :26:41.DVD players and has branched out into everything from smart phones to
:26:42. > :26:45.cameras is now growing lettuces and radishes in Singapore. It's because
:26:46. > :26:47.most vegetables there are imported and so their business plan is to
:26:48. > :26:59.make it more food efficient.