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top stories. America considers expanding | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
operations against Islamic State militants. Is it time to take them | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
on in Syria? They are beyond just a terrorist group. They marry | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
ideology, sophistication of strategic and tactical military | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
prowess, this is beyond anything that we have seen. A Russian aid | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
convoy enters Ukraine without permission, after what the Kremlin | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
calls "intolerable delays" on the border. | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
Five weeks after the downing of Flight MH17 over Ukraine, Malaysia | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
brings home the first of its victims. | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
And would you drench yourself on camera for charity? The ice bucket | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
challenges flooding the Internet, but has President Obama got cold | :00:58. | :00:58. | |
feet? The US has warned the threat | :00:59. | :01:13. | |
from Islamic State militants is the most dangerous it's faced | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
in recent years, and there is a growing recognition | :01:18. | :01:19. | |
in the West that efforts to defeat them will need to extend to Syria, | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
the heart of their power base. The US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
has described the threat as imminent While the US Army's senior general, | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
Martin Dempsey, said efforts to defeat the militant group would have | :01:29. | :01:43. | |
to extend into Syria, describing the border between the two countries | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
as essentially "non-existent." Tom Esslemont reports | :01:47. | :01:48. | |
from Washington. How should America and its | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
allies tackle the Islamic State? During recent months, | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
militants have been gaining ground in Syria and Iraq, seizing towns | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
and killing those who refuse to Britain and America are now hunting | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
for the man who killed The jihadists have threatened | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
another hostage, Steven Sotloff, and his fate hinges on what America | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
does next. At a news conference, | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
US defence officials said two weeks of American air strikes had helped | :02:20. | :02:21. | |
break the Islamic State's advance. But they gave a bleak picture | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
of the threat they pose. They are | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
beyond just a terrorist group. They marry ideology, | :02:30. | :02:37. | |
a sophistication of strategic and tactical military prowess, | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
they are tremendously well-funded. This is | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
beyond anything we have seen. And the only way you do that is you | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
take a cold, steely, So far, the US has focused | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
on containing the militants in The Pentagon is now hinting | :02:57. | :03:07. | |
at a wider strategy, This is an organisation | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
which has an apocalyptic, end-of-days strategy, which will | :03:15. | :03:22. | |
eventually have to be defeated. To your question, | :03:23. | :03:24. | |
can they be defeated without addressing that part of | :03:25. | :03:26. | |
the organisation residing in Syria? The answer is no, | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
it will have to be addressed on both President Obama has described it | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
as a cancer. The question is, how to cure it, | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
when there is so little domestic Officials say they are | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
not ruling anything out. After days waiting at the border, a | :03:45. | :04:09. | |
steady procession of some 70 Russian trucks with food, water and | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
generators on board have crossed into the Ukraine. The latest reports | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
we have said around 90 tracks were heading towards the rebel held city | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
of Luhansk. The convoy itself was supposed to be travelling with the | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
International Red Cross, but the agency has said that security | :04:26. | :04:27. | |
concerns are preventing them from accompanying it. We have got these | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
pictures for you of those lorries, heading on their way towards Luhansk | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
full stop as we look at those, I'm joined by the BBC's Ukraine analyst. | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
It has taken an awful long time for them to start rolling, but there is | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
huge attention straightaway that they have gone. Yes, and the tension | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
is no longer about what is inside the trucks, but the way the convoy | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
was put together and the potential risks it creates. It goes through | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
territory which is partly controlled by the rebels and partly controlled | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
by the Ukrainian army. It is not clear what sort of guarantees the | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
Russian Federation has got from the rebels. The Ukrainian side is saying | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
that it is not the rebels' guarantees and their responsibility, | :05:13. | :05:21. | |
the responsibility is on the Russian side. This convoy creates a lot of | :05:22. | :05:23. | |
potential risk. If anything happens to it, the Russian government has | :05:24. | :05:25. | |
already indicated it will blame the Ukrainian side for something | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
untoward which may happen with the convoy. The Ukrainian side, I am not | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
sure it has formulated its position. What are the choices, are they going | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
to stop it, escorted, and if it is going to the city of Luhansk itself, | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
there is very, very severe fighting reported in the city. There is | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
shelling, certainly the rebels and the Russian media are blaming the | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
Ukrainian side, the Ukrainians are saying the rebels are shelling. That | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
is typically the problem, isn't it, because we cannot know the sure | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
whether a full verification has been carried out or not, whether the | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
Ukrainian authorities are holding it back a bit or if Russian authorities | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
are pushing it through come what may. I think the Russian line, | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
certainly from the statement of the Foreign Ministry, is that this is | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
pure humanitarian aid. The Ukrainian position is that this is a | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
humanitarian invasion, and they are very fearful that this could be a | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
pretext to something more sinister. I think the timing is also very, | :06:23. | :06:30. | |
very important. August 24 is Independence Day in Ukraine, and the | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
Ukrainians want to have a big parade in the city centre. The Russian | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
ministry says that probably this is the reason they are preventing the | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
convoy from entering Luhansk. They want to finish the operation there. | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
Chancellor Angela Merkel is coming to Kiev tomorrow, and there is a | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
meeting planned between President Putin and President Poroshenko, or | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
at least, there is talk about this meeting, in Minsk on Tuesday. | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
Politically, it creates a very big area of tension, when many people | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
thought that, at least diplomatically, there could be some | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
sort of movement. Our focus on this convoy, it is a very visual element | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
of the story, which slightly takes our right off the ball of what is | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
going on around Donetsk and Luhansk. What is the situation | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
there? Extremely tense. There is heavy fighting reported in a place | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
called in a vice, which is halfway through this corridor which cuts | :07:23. | :07:30. | |
Donetsk from Luhansk. -- ill advice. There is very heavy loss of life, | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
including civilian life. Roughly 60 people a day are dying in the area, | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
and there is a lot of loss for them and that -- the Ukrainian military. | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
Today they reported the downing of another military helicopter, with | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
the crew being killed. This happened two days ago but was only reported | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
now. There are also reports of a lot of regular Russian troops spotted in | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
the area. There is very little hard -- hard evidence to prove this. But | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
at least the Ukrainian officials have produced some of the evidence | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
of armoured personnel carriers, with Russian documents, with driving | :08:06. | :08:07. | |
licences, with military cards inside. The Russian defence Ministry | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
dismisses that as yet another provocation. One more illustration | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
to the blame game, and one more illustration of how tense the | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
situation is and how difficult it is to resolve it. The convoy does not | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
act as a resolution. It may not alleviate the aid situation, but it | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
creates an additional area of tension. | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
Malaysia is observing a national day of mourning to mark the return home | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
of the first 20 victims from the downing of Flight MH17 over Ukraine. | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
43 Malaysians in all were amongst the 298 passengers and crew killed | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
in the crash. The remaining bodies are still in the process of being | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
identified by experts in the Netherlands, where most of the | :08:54. | :09:02. | |
victims were from. Finally home. These were the first | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
Malaysian victims of Flight MH17 to be identified. They were welcomed | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
back with a full state ceremony, reflecting the sorrow felt here not | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
just for these 20 passengers and crew and their families, but also | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
over the extraordinary double tragedies which have struck this | :09:21. | :09:22. | |
country's aviation industry this year. Malaysia's top leaders were | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
all here, along with politicians and diplomats. Later, the bodies were | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
reunited with their families. In some cases, flown by military | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
aircraft to home towns in more distant parts of the country. Ten | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
more bodies are due to come back this weekend. The task of | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
identification has been complicated by continuing conflict in eastern | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
Ukraine. Investigators have been unable to get to the crash site for | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
the past two weeks. The remains of some victims have yet to be | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
recovered and identified. The families of Flight MH17's victims, | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
though, can at least start to mourn their loss. For those who lost | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
family members on board the earlier Malaysian airline, flight and made | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
370, which vanished without trace in March, there is as yet no closure. | :10:15. | :10:24. | |
-- flight MH370. Some forlorn faces for you here, | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
because heavy rain is delaying the search for more than 50 people | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
believed to have been buried under a landslide at the edge of Hiroshima. | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
The official death toll stands at 39, but that is expected to rise. | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
Rescue workers fear the continuing rain could set off though the | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
landslide in the area. Our correspondent is in Tokyo with the | :10:46. | :10:47. | |
latest on the number of people missing. | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
This changed dramatically overnight. Yesterday at this time we were | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
talking about 39 people dead, at only a few more, maybe six or seven | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
more, were recorded as missing. Now, authorities are talking about more | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
than 50 people still being missing. So it seems that they have, or they | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
had, yesterday, is usually underestimated the extent of this | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
disaster. And it is only as they are going through, house-to-house, that | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
they are realising that entire families are buried under these | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
mudslides. Nobody had reported these people missing before. They had been | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
waiting for relatives and so on to turn up at these mudslides and tell | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
the authorities who lives in these houses, and that has made these | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
numbers go up very dramatically. So now we are starting to hear just how | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
fast, dramatic and awful these mudslides were on Wednesday morning. | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
One description of people seeing a mother standing outside her house, | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
as frantic digging took place to get her children out, but then bringing | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
at least two small children, won two years old, one in 11 years old, both | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
of them lifeless. And then the description of a father who handed | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
his small child to a rescuer, thinking that the rescuer was going | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
to be able to take the child to safety, but in fact the rescue and | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
the small child were then engulfed by a secondary landslide, swept | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
away, and both of them were killed as well. Really horrific stories of | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
these people trying to escape, but having no time to do so, as this | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
enormous volume of mud and rock swept down the mountainside. | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
Still to come on the programme, could the oceans be helping to slow | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
down the pace of climate change? We will take a look beneath the surface | :12:35. | :12:36. | |
in a moment. Venezuelans may soon have to provide | :12:37. | :12:48. | |
their fingerprints in order to buy their bread. President Nicholas | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
Majuro wants to introduce fingerprinting to stop people buying | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
Venezuelan food, which is heavily subsidised, and then selling it on | :12:56. | :13:03. | |
at a profit in Colombia. The weekly shop at Venezuelan | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
supermarket can be difficult enough. A shortage of basic goods and a lack | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
of imports make life complicated. Soon, these shoppers will have to do | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
have their fingerprints scanned at the till, to stop them making | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
repeated visits or buying unusually large amounts of food. Is this | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
rationing, or a against smuggling? TRANSLATION: These are populist | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
measures to mislead people, to distract them from shortages caused | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
by the government due to its poor public administration of the | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
country. It's not going to stop smuggling. It won't stop anything. | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
It's a tragedy, because it leads to even more radical control than what | :13:43. | :13:50. | |
we've experienced so far. The president announced the plan earlier | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
this week. The idea for a biometric system, he said, will be like the | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
fingerprint readers in the electoral system. It is a blessing against | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
fraud. And there clearly is a problem. The authorities claim up to | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
40% of government subsidised goods are smuggled to neighbouring | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
Colombia, where they can be sold at much higher prices. Earlier this | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
month, Venezuelan began to close its border with the country at night to | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
try to combat smuggling. And the Venezuelan economy is suffering, | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
with chronic shortages and an annual inflation rate of more than 60%. | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
Critics say it is the government's meddling in the economy which is | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
causing the problems, and left-wing president interfering with the free | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
market. But ministers insist they are helping the poor by providing | :14:37. | :14:38. | |
food at a reasonable price. The United States says | :14:39. | :14:47. | |
the jihadist group Islamic State is the most dangerous threat | :14:48. | :14:54. | |
the US has faced in recent times. Trucks from a Russian aid convoy | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
stream into Ukraine without permission after Russia accuses | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
Ukraine of obstructions. For the last 15 years or so, | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
scientists have been puzzled as to why average global temperatures have | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
been going up more slowly. A number of theories have been put | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
forward to explain the so-called "pause" - ranging from | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
volcanic activity, to pollution. But new research, | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
published in the journal Science, has found it might actually be | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
current of the seas and those of Let's get the thoughts of | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
Piers Forster, a Professor of Climate Change at Leeds | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
University, who joins me from Oslo. If it is the oceans, is it a bad | :15:34. | :15:47. | |
thing if they're taking up the slack? I do think it... Heat in the | :15:48. | :16:09. | |
oceans could be giving us a respite from global warming. When you say of | :16:10. | :16:16. | |
respite, does that mean it is a good thing in itself or is this something | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
that will turn around to bite us again later? | :16:21. | :16:29. | |
Yes, it is a good thing for the time being so it has been keeping the | :16:30. | :16:36. | |
surface relatively cool for the last 15 year period but we expect that | :16:37. | :16:45. | |
might reverse within the next couple of decades. We can expect | :16:46. | :16:55. | |
accelerated global warming. Given it was difficult to work this | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
out, what gives you the confidence to say we can forecast it will | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
reverse over the next couple of decades? | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
Yes, in fact I think this is where the work is interesting because it | :17:09. | :17:18. | |
really does indicate that we are looking at something that is quite | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
distinct from our estimates of long-term global warming and we have | :17:25. | :17:31. | |
a relatively robust understanding of the long-term global warming trend, | :17:32. | :17:42. | |
this is more to do with the ocean mixing the heat internally so I | :17:43. | :17:50. | |
think this work is a real indication that we are looking at quite a | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
different mechanism done this overall long-term temperature trend | :17:57. | :18:03. | |
caused by our activities. An intriguing new study. Sorry to | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
interrupt you, Professor, we must leave it there. Thank you for | :18:08. | :18:14. | |
joining us. As we have heard, the advance of the Islamic State has | :18:15. | :18:16. | |
sent ripples across the region. In Lebanon, people are anxiously | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
monitoring the group's expansion. Just two weeks ago, groups | :18:20. | :18:21. | |
affiliated to IS and other jihadist movements clashed with the army - | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
raising fears that the Islamic State, which already controls large | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
swaths of territory between Syria From these mountains across the | :18:28. | :18:42. | |
Lebanese Syrian border, the first battle between the Lebanese army and | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
jihadi groups was launched. Just two weeks ago, the border town, saw | :18:49. | :18:55. | |
fierce battles between the army and jihadi fighters followed the arrest | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
of a jihadi leader who had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. | :19:00. | :19:06. | |
This lady from the town is still traumatised by the bomb that hit her | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
house. She fears the threat is not over. | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
TRANSLATION: I did not see it coming, Moore is | :19:15. | :19:21. | |
yet to happen. The Lebanese army has found itself joining other armies in | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
the region in the fight against jihadi groups. Western powers, | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
including the USA and the UK, have pledged military aid to bolster the | :19:33. | :19:40. | |
army arsenal. Lebanon faces a new wave of Islamist terror which is a | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
mounting challenge creating great anxiety here. In that context, we've | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
decided to prioritise what we can do to support the Lebanese state but | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
also the Lebanese army, one of the uniting groups in the country and an | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
army that has proved effective so far. But the army is not the only | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
Lebanese force fighting groups such as the Islamic State. Long before | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
the Lebanese army confronted Sonny J Hardy groups, the sheer party has | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
Boller went to fight alongside the Syrian regime. -- Shia Muslim party. | :20:17. | :20:25. | |
They say they had to fend them off. Today, the fight against the Islamic | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
State is central to the party's narrative. Scores of has Boller | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
members have been battling jihadis. Has Boller sees them as a threat for | :20:36. | :20:43. | |
Lebanon and the wider region. -- has blah. From Iraqi came hundreds of | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
Christians fleeing the onslaught of the Islamic State. They became | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
refugees in Lebanon on. Their plight, the recent battle and the | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
images of atrocities coming from Syria and Iraq have also sent shock | :20:57. | :21:06. | |
waves across Lebanon on. Just adding to the situation in Syria, | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
The United Nations says more than 190,000 people have been killed | :21:11. | :21:12. | |
during the three year conflict in Syria, more than double | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
The figure is the first issued by the UN's human rights office | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
since July 2013, when it documented more than 100,000 killed. | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
And just a reminder that you can find much | :21:25. | :21:26. | |
more on the conflicts in the Middle East - including a special report on | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
the background of the militant group Islamic State on the BBC website. | :21:30. | :21:44. | |
It was once a leper colony, and then became one | :21:45. | :21:46. | |
These days Big Island, or Il-ya Grande, | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, is a popular tourist destination. | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
Julio de Almeida arrived on the island in 1958, aged just 27. | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
Now 83, after serving his time reportedly for multiple | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
murders, he was given a conditional release to remain until this year. | :22:05. | :22:06. | |
BBC News went to meet Julio at home in the shadow | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
To something very wet and cold now - the ice bucket challenge, | :22:10. | :24:58. | |
which has fast become a worldwide internet phenomenon. | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
In case you've missed it - you drench yourself on camera - to raise | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
Getting wet here - former Manchester United footballers | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
And here's Justin Timberlake with his tour team - and singer | :25:13. | :25:20. | |
You're then allowed to nominate someone else to repeat the feat. | :25:21. | :25:27. | |
But it seems even the ice bucket challenge has reached its limit - | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
with President Obama saying he's not going to drench himself for charity. | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
He has tried his hand at most things. | :25:37. | :25:51. | |
But when it comes to the Ice Bucket Challenge, President | :25:52. | :25:53. | |
The President's predecessor was not so shy, however. | :25:54. | :26:01. | |
George W Bush was soaked by his wife Laura. | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
It is unclear exactly whose challenge the President is refusing. | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
Now I nominate Ellen, Barack Obama... | :26:13. | :26:15. | |
Justin Bieber was the first to nominate him. | :26:16. | :26:22. | |
And 86-year-old Kennedy family matriarch Ethel also named him, | :26:23. | :26:31. | |
Mr Obama won't be alone in staying dry. | :26:32. | :26:34. | |
The US government says an ethics code means officials are | :26:35. | :26:36. | |
So the White House won't become the Wet House. | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
The charity says the President has donated an undisclosed sum. | :26:43. | :26:53. | |
pretty much everyone else is at it. Nominations for the challenge, get | :26:54. | :27:00. | |
in touch with us on | :27:01. | :27:01. |