:00:00. > :00:27.Rebels fighting government forces say thousands are fighting on their
:00:28. > :00:34.side. Fighting to contain the disease crisis. People in the UK
:00:35. > :00:51.calling for followers of both faiths to stamp out racism in Gaza.
:00:52. > :00:58.Thanks for being with us. The Ukraine president has said that his
:00:59. > :01:01.country has been invaded by Russia. He has cancelled a trip to Turkey
:01:02. > :01:06.and is calling an emergency meeting of his Security Council. The United
:01:07. > :01:12.States said Russian troops are intervening directly in fighting in
:01:13. > :01:16.south-east Ukraine. A new front has effectively opened along this CD.
:01:17. > :01:22.Russian backed separatist tab opens the town of Novoazvosk -- entered
:01:23. > :01:27.the town of Novoazvosk and they are reinforcing strategic port cities
:01:28. > :01:34.where the separatists have said is their neck is objective. -- next
:01:35. > :01:40.objective. They are pushing deep into separatist held areas. These
:01:41. > :01:44.pictures show the Italians -- Italians fighting. -- Harrison 's
:01:45. > :01:55.fighting. -- Garrison 's fighting. They have said that they have got
:01:56. > :01:59.3000 fighters from Russia fighting with separatist troops. He said it
:02:00. > :02:03.is because they prefer to spend their holidays in Ukraine rather
:02:04. > :02:08.than on the beach, as they put it. They know this government in Kiev is
:02:09. > :02:14.calling on May so for help. They are holding a summit in Wales in a feud
:02:15. > :02:17.days. A lot of the papers in Russia are speaking about the security
:02:18. > :02:21.meeting that took place on Tuesday. I asked our correspondent in Moscow
:02:22. > :02:28.if any of the newspapers were picking up on this new separatist
:02:29. > :02:33.front in Ukraine. One exclusion, we have got correspondent here and
:02:34. > :02:38.there was a witness of a takeover and he saw groups of uniformed
:02:39. > :02:45.soldiers and tanks with no identification. Again, no proof it
:02:46. > :02:49.was the Russian soldiers. We have seen it in Crimea in the early
:02:50. > :02:55.stages of the Russian takeover. For weeks they had been soldiers very
:02:56. > :02:59.well equipped and nobody could tell who they were officially. But they
:03:00. > :03:05.turned out to be Russians. Is there a public, I do not know if it is a
:03:06. > :03:11.scratching of heads or a dawning realisation as to what is going on,
:03:12. > :03:17.but what if the perception of what is happening among Russian people?
:03:18. > :03:22.The general attitude towards Russian involvement in eastern Ukraine
:03:23. > :03:25.remains positive according to many reports but some reports say that
:03:26. > :03:29.the majority of Russians do not agree with sending Russian soldiers
:03:30. > :03:32.in Ukraine. But nobody is talking about this officially. What is
:03:33. > :03:37.happening parallel to this are numerous reports on social media and
:03:38. > :03:44.Russian media about funerals of service men. Nobody explains
:03:45. > :03:48.officially how they were killed. But the human rights organisations have
:03:49. > :03:54.called soldiers in various regions and they are very concerned. There
:03:55. > :03:58.are reports of funerals and a lot of wounded. There are these officials
:03:59. > :04:04.trying to coordinate act and they are going to Russia and visiting
:04:05. > :04:12.hospitals to see what is happening. -- coordinate action. It has been a
:04:13. > :04:17.bit of a shock, hasn't it? A new front opening up like that. And out
:04:18. > :04:22.of nowhere. The areas that were controlled by Ukrainian soldiers,
:04:23. > :04:26.they did not have this grouping. The only way for it to appear in the
:04:27. > :04:30.area next to the coastline of the resort was across the Russian
:04:31. > :04:36.border. This was observed by a Russian reporter and a reporter for
:04:37. > :04:44.the New York Times that was there at the time. The idea of 3000 Russians
:04:45. > :04:48.soldiers fighting, is that credible? It is coming from a person that
:04:49. > :04:53.should know. He is a self proclaimed leader of the self acclaimed
:04:54. > :05:04.republic. This message is not coming for the first time. There was an
:05:05. > :05:08.admission that the 12,012 hundred -- the 1200 troops on the raid on a
:05:09. > :05:14.Russian city across the border... There is more and more evidence of
:05:15. > :05:19.armour not used idea cranium military. The idea that it was
:05:20. > :05:23.captured via the rebels does not stack up. There was another soldier
:05:24. > :05:32.that was captured by the Ukrainian military describing in detail how he
:05:33. > :05:35.was told and the soldiers stripped signs of weaponry before it was
:05:36. > :05:40.handed to the rebels. There is an indirect support. They have been
:05:41. > :05:46.Russian consistent denials that this was taking place. But I think it is
:05:47. > :05:50.getting more difficult with the mounting evidence coming from
:05:51. > :05:57.multiple sources. It is interesting that these remarks about starting a
:05:58. > :06:01.war in Europe, I guess they are looking to NATO and wondering what
:06:02. > :06:04.they can do. But they are not members and not about to become
:06:05. > :06:09.members and I suppose there is only so much they can expect. I think
:06:10. > :06:13.there is real is about European Union assistance and what Europe and
:06:14. > :06:17.NATO can do and what the United States can do. I think there is more
:06:18. > :06:20.realisation among the Ukrainian leadership that they need to rely
:06:21. > :06:24.among themselves. But they are limited in what they can do. The
:06:25. > :06:29.Ukrainian army is not prepared for war. It has not been for a long
:06:30. > :06:33.time. The volunteers that are fighting, they are fighting
:06:34. > :06:36.well-trained rebels in the east of the country and those volunteers are
:06:37. > :06:46.full of Pat -- patriotism but are not
:06:47. > :06:51.necessarily prepared. It has been depleted. The gunships, many of them
:06:52. > :06:58.have been shot. The aircraft is in disarray. And the danger is that if
:06:59. > :07:01.now the rebels, or according to the Ukrainians, the Russian invaders, if
:07:02. > :07:11.they go all the way and cut off the southern coast of the sea, from the
:07:12. > :07:15.territory, it opens up absolutely unlimited opportunities for weapon
:07:16. > :07:21.suppliers across the maritime border with Ukrainian forces will not be
:07:22. > :07:24.able to protect. It will not just BBS, it will be completely
:07:25. > :07:32.uncontrollable. It is a grim prospect. An audit of votes from the
:07:33. > :07:35.Afghanistan disputed residential election has restarted without
:07:36. > :07:39.observers from either of the candidate teams. It is a setback
:07:40. > :07:43.after one of the candidates said that he would boycott the count. His
:07:44. > :07:47.supporters have alleged large-scale fraud and said hundreds of thousands
:07:48. > :07:56.of false ballots were cast for his rival. I am joined why my
:07:57. > :08:02.correspondent in Kabul. It sounds like another the terrible tipping
:08:03. > :08:11.point for Afghanistan in pursuit of some sort of democratic process. It
:08:12. > :08:18.is. I was speaking to a political aide close to Mr Abdullah and they
:08:19. > :08:21.said that they felt that it was handled politically by the United
:08:22. > :08:25.Nations, the Afghanistan government and by the election and he said,
:08:26. > :08:28.look, he does not trust any one of those parties. This is
:08:29. > :08:34.look, he does not trust any one of time that he has boycotted the
:08:35. > :08:39.audit. And as this is happening, separately, Mr Abdullah and his
:08:40. > :08:44.political aides are meeting with the opposition camp and they are trying
:08:45. > :08:47.to find a political solution. Some kind of power-sharing formula which
:08:48. > :08:51.could put an end to the deadlock which shattered the confidence of
:08:52. > :08:54.the Afghanistan people. It has affected them all with the security
:08:55. > :08:58.forces. They are fighting large-scale Taliban attacks. And
:08:59. > :09:02.let's not forget the finance minister only told the BBC last week
:09:03. > :09:08.that he would not be able to pay the salaries of the ploys in the next
:09:09. > :09:15.month or so. There is a lot which is at stake. Because of this election
:09:16. > :09:19.deadlock. Elections were brought for the international community and the
:09:20. > :09:26.Afghanistan government and it seems that the very success is at risk.
:09:27. > :09:30.Thank you very much indeed. A big picture from Kabul as well. The West
:09:31. > :09:33.African health ministers are meeting in Ghana and discussing how to
:09:34. > :09:42.prevent the deadly if those around break from spreading across the
:09:43. > :09:46.region. The world health organisation said the cases might
:09:47. > :09:51.eventually reach 20,000. They are looking at experimental vaccines and
:09:52. > :09:54.looking to build up 10,000 doses for emergency deployment. In Nigeria
:09:55. > :10:00.there has been a further depth this time of a doctor in the oil hub of
:10:01. > :10:05.Port Harcourt. Will Ross is in Lagos. Starting with that last bit
:10:06. > :10:13.of news, that is going to send some shock waves of anxiety through a big
:10:14. > :10:19.community of people, I guess. Yes, it will. It is a big setback as
:10:20. > :10:27.well. For the attempt to stop Ebola here. People were thinking that it
:10:28. > :10:30.was contained. And there had not been any confirmed cases outside
:10:31. > :10:33.Lagos. And what seems to have happened according to the health
:10:34. > :10:41.Minister is that a man that came into contact with the Liberian
:10:42. > :10:45.American man that came into Nigeria from Liberia last month and then
:10:46. > :10:50.died from Ebola, a man coming into contact with him, instead of
:10:51. > :10:53.reporting to the authorities, got onto a plane and went to Port
:10:54. > :11:01.Harcourt and was treated at a doctor there. And that medical treatment
:11:02. > :11:07.was not relayed to the central team here in Lagos. It was almost being
:11:08. > :11:13.done in secret. The man recovered. But the doctor treating him has
:11:14. > :11:19.died. And we have got 70 people now being watched in Port Harcourt. We
:11:20. > :11:24.understand that the doctor 's wife is also one of those being
:11:25. > :11:30.monitored. She is not well. It is a setback. It has now moved outside
:11:31. > :11:33.Lagos. The key is what happens next as far as containment is concerned.
:11:34. > :11:41.But it demonstrates the need for people not to hide away cases which
:11:42. > :11:45.have happened before in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. They need
:11:46. > :11:51.to work with the authorities. We know that almost half of the people
:11:52. > :11:54.that get it are surviving. It is not a death sentence. People need to
:11:55. > :12:00.report early and it needs to be transparent. Thank you very much.
:12:01. > :12:06.Stay with pass on BBC World News. Coming up... Getting a haircut, if
:12:07. > :12:10.you can call it that. The Australian sheep has finally been shorn. Will
:12:11. > :12:18.this hefty fleece set a world record? We will find out.
:12:19. > :12:21.Researchers have said that not enough is being done to tackle
:12:22. > :12:27.depression suffered by large numbers of cancer patients in the UK. A
:12:28. > :12:32.study found rates of depression were three times higher among cancer
:12:33. > :12:34.victims than the general population. Treatment is rarely offered however.
:12:35. > :12:38.But in Scotland there are trials underway. They are looking at the
:12:39. > :12:47.effects of targeted treatment for patients. Here is our correspondent.
:12:48. > :12:53.A diagnosis of bowel cancer left her reeling. Her marriage fell apart.
:12:54. > :12:58.She started drinking and she felt depressed and lonely. I just felt so
:12:59. > :13:05.alone. I felt like a burden to society and not knowing about how to
:13:06. > :13:12.cope with things after going through so much. Treatment and things like
:13:13. > :13:19.that. It is like a new normal for a cancer patient. Things are never the
:13:20. > :13:24.same again. The research today says depression is often overlooked in
:13:25. > :13:27.cancer treatment. In a study of 21,000 NHS patients at cancer
:13:28. > :13:30.clinics in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee, they found rates of
:13:31. > :13:36.depression were several times higher than the general population. Almost
:13:37. > :13:40.75% were not having the depression treated. A new approach with cancer
:13:41. > :13:44.nurses offering support made a difference to almost two thirds that
:13:45. > :13:50.tried it. People often lose their jobs. They become quite passive IV
:13:51. > :13:53.treatment. They are a patient receiving treatment. They come out
:13:54. > :13:58.of the of this treatment with good news often that they have been cured
:13:59. > :14:03.from the cancer. But they have lost their sense of themselves and their
:14:04. > :14:08.lives. They have to rebuild. Caring for her pets has been part of her
:14:09. > :14:11.recovery. She is now in remission and have had help from Macmillan
:14:12. > :14:12.Cancer support who have said that it is a heartbreaking and sometimes
:14:13. > :14:30.difficult problem. STUDIO: This is BBC World News. The
:14:31. > :14:35.latest headlines... The President of Ukraine has cancelled his trip to
:14:36. > :14:39.Turkey and is holding an emergency meeting of the National Security
:14:40. > :14:43.Council to discuss what he called a Russian invasion of his country.
:14:44. > :14:47.West African health ministers are meeting in Ghana to discuss how to
:14:48. > :14:55.prevent the deadly Ebola outbreak in Liberia, S Leone and Guinea from
:14:56. > :14:58.spreading across the region. The United Nations World Food Programme
:14:59. > :15:03.has delivered aid supplies into Gaza from Egypt for the first time since
:15:04. > :15:06.a blockade of the Palestinian territories started seven years ago.
:15:07. > :15:11.The convoy entered through a crossing after a cease-fire between
:15:12. > :15:14.Israel and Hamas. In the UK, Muslim and Jewish leaders are calling for
:15:15. > :15:20.followers of both faiths to export a piece to Gaza, and stamp out racism
:15:21. > :15:24.as well. They have issued a statement condemning the civilian
:15:25. > :15:30.casualties. Earlier I spoke to the president of the board of deputies
:15:31. > :15:33.of reduced Jews and a doctor and a secretary general of the Muslim
:15:34. > :15:36.Council of Britain. I asked if it was positive that they were both
:15:37. > :15:52.seeking the same thing. So we have a lot in common and
:15:53. > :15:58.really we should be stressing that. It has got to a state of desperation
:15:59. > :16:03.with regard to Gaza, hasn't it? I suppose an element about this is
:16:04. > :16:10.that we have differentiation is that you both have to make between being
:16:11. > :16:14.Jewish and looking at Israel and being a Muslim and looking at the
:16:15. > :16:21.Palestinian situation. Is that what you're doing here, almost separating
:16:22. > :16:28.nationality from religion? I think this is about ourselves as
:16:29. > :16:33.representatives of our communities. We have a number of things which are
:16:34. > :16:40.common. More commonalities than differences between us. And we want
:16:41. > :16:48.to make sure that problems overseas abroad do not get brought here as
:16:49. > :16:51.problems. We need to maintain good relationships and we generally have
:16:52. > :16:55.good relationships with the commonalities. We want to make sure
:16:56. > :17:00.that that exists and that we are not deflected on those issues. The idea
:17:01. > :17:05.of that not being exported, you would say that in terms of
:17:06. > :17:13.anti-Semitic incidents in the UK, that is on the rise anyway, so it is
:17:14. > :17:20.about stopping the export? Yes, stopping importing conflicts, but as
:17:21. > :17:26.well we want to export peace. That is the message here. We Jews are
:17:27. > :17:30.passionately committed to Israel. So there is no condemnation here of the
:17:31. > :17:38.Israeli government? In spite of everything that has happened over
:17:39. > :17:44.the past few weeks? Certainly not. The Jewish community has very strong
:17:45. > :17:48.feelings about this. It is not united but it has strong feelings.
:17:49. > :17:53.We acknowledge that there are strong feelings on both sides, but let's
:17:54. > :18:00.not play out the battle on the streets of the UK, that is the
:18:01. > :18:05.idea. We all feel strongly but here in the UK we respect each other and
:18:06. > :18:12.live together as citizens. Can you separate those elements? We should
:18:13. > :18:17.all agree that we should all have peace, that is a lovely ideal for
:18:18. > :18:24.everybody. At the realities are different. -- but the realities are
:18:25. > :18:28.different. There is no condemnation of the Israeli government, I guess
:18:29. > :18:35.there is no condemnation of the Hamas perspective either? This is
:18:36. > :18:41.about not reinforcing that we need to have our relationships
:18:42. > :18:45.appropriate, but also maintain those good relationships, but also make
:18:46. > :18:49.sure that conflict outside is not going to affect it. And we certainly
:18:50. > :18:53.agree that we disagree on certain things, particularly in this
:18:54. > :19:04.particular conflict, and we each have a right to take up positions
:19:05. > :19:11.and do whatever is appropriate. In doing so, there is no place for
:19:12. > :19:17.anti-Semitism, there is no place for Islamophobia, there is no place for
:19:18. > :19:22.violence, and that is what this is about, to reinforce and say that
:19:23. > :19:29.publicly. Here in Britain the news is being dominated by a child abuse
:19:30. > :19:34.scandal in the North of England. For 16 years, more than 1400 children in
:19:35. > :19:44.Rotherham were sexually exploited. The crimes are shocking in their
:19:45. > :19:51.nature and their scale. One of the victims has been talking to the BBC.
:19:52. > :19:53.We are calling her Jessica. She was groomed from the age of 14 and
:19:54. > :20:05.suffered years of violent abuse. A very silly teenager, I thought we
:20:06. > :20:10.was going to get married, have kids, It was only later on
:20:11. > :20:14.when it changed and things started Jessica was just one of hundreds
:20:15. > :20:18.of teenage girls in Rotherham abused With the violence you get so used to
:20:19. > :20:23.it and it becomes kind of just - it sounds very strange,
:20:24. > :20:33.but you do just get used to it. Were there moments where
:20:34. > :20:38.you feared for your life? Yeah, there were so many occasions,
:20:39. > :20:41.I remember towards the end I It was just so painful.
:20:42. > :20:45.I just could not take any more. Did you go to the police?
:20:46. > :20:49.Yeah, I did. I went to the police when I was 16
:20:50. > :20:54.and he basically said, he has got The policeman said that?
:20:55. > :20:59.Yeah. And I will never, ever forget
:21:00. > :21:03.those words, what he said. You know, if the police are saying
:21:04. > :21:07.no, where do you go from that? Like so many here in Rotherham,
:21:08. > :21:12.and across the country, Jessica says she feels betrayed by the police, by
:21:13. > :21:15.the local authority, by the system. I mean, 1400 people, you know,
:21:16. > :21:18.there has to be more than one They are not sorry
:21:19. > :21:24.because I got abused, they are sorry because they got caught out in
:21:25. > :21:28.a scandal that has hit the media. What would you say to other girls
:21:29. > :21:31.who are still currently They have to be strong.
:21:32. > :21:34.You have to stay strong. You have to come forward,
:21:35. > :21:36.tell someone. I just hope that it is taken
:21:37. > :22:03.seriously Britain is still deeply elitist
:22:04. > :22:08.towards people who went to private school, and Oxbridge graduates
:22:09. > :22:15.dominate the most senior positions in public life. This is the case
:22:16. > :22:20.according to a new report. Half of the House of Lords and the third of
:22:21. > :22:23.the Cabinet went to private school. A degree from Oxford or Cambridge is
:22:24. > :22:29.not just about academic excellence and personal success, it also opens
:22:30. > :22:33.doors. Today's report shows that graduates from the two universities
:22:34. > :22:39.still have a disproportionate hold on the top jobs. Three quarters of
:22:40. > :22:45.our top judges, 59% of the Cabinet and almost half of all newspaper
:22:46. > :22:52.columnist have Oxbridge degrees. But this report shows elitism begins
:22:53. > :22:56.even earlier. Only 7% of the population is privately educated,
:22:57. > :23:05.but one third of MPs went to fee-paying schools, as it 62% of
:23:06. > :23:10.senior military officers and more than half of the highest ranking
:23:11. > :23:13.diplomats. The report warns that this lack of diversity means that
:23:14. > :23:17.Britain's key institutions do not represent the public they serve, or
:23:18. > :23:21.employ the best people. Its authors say it is time to end what they call
:23:22. > :23:25.the closed shop at the top. Michel Platini has announced that he will
:23:26. > :23:33.not be running against Sepp Blatter for the presidency of the football
:23:34. > :23:38.world governing body, FIFA. He says he wants to continue his work as the
:23:39. > :23:43.head of European football's governing body and he will stand for
:23:44. > :23:48.re-election as president of UEFA. Sepp Blatter prepares to put himself
:23:49. > :23:55.forward for a fifth term, despite his public promise not to stand for
:23:56. > :24:01.another term. Every year hundreds of mountaineers heading off from around
:24:02. > :24:06.the world to climb Mount Everest and other Himalayan peaks in Nepal, and
:24:07. > :24:10.each year they leave behind tonnes of discarded tents, oxygen
:24:11. > :24:19.cylinders, you name it, or left there for others to clear up. We
:24:20. > :24:23.have been to one of the dumping grounds in the capital. It is a
:24:24. > :24:30.garbage dump as you can see, but this is not from the city of
:24:31. > :24:34.Kathmandu, most of this waste comes from the Himalayan mountains. Every
:24:35. > :24:43.year hundreds of climbers attempt to scale Everest and other peaks. They
:24:44. > :24:48.carry a lot with them but they bring everything back and whatever is
:24:49. > :24:53.disposed goes to the Himalayan mountain side. The recycled waste is
:24:54. > :24:59.brought to the capital, Kathmandu. On average officials here say around
:25:00. > :25:05.500 kilograms of waste are brought from the mountains to this place.
:25:06. > :25:07.Food cans, plastic bottles, wine bottles, all kinds of waste. But
:25:08. > :25:18.what happens to that garbage left? bottles, all kinds of waste. But
:25:19. > :25:24.Some estimates suggest that a lot of garbage is still on Mount Everest
:25:25. > :25:36.and it will take years to climb Everest. -- to clean it up. They are
:25:37. > :25:44.asking whether it is justifiable to allow more mountaineers to go to the
:25:45. > :25:46.Himalayan region, and they should take
:25:47. > :25:55.you an update on a story you might have seen on BBC. We brought you the
:25:56. > :26:04.news of an Australian sheep named, imaginatively enough, Shaun. He was
:26:05. > :26:09.found in Tasmania and they thought he might well be the woolly sheep in
:26:10. > :26:11.the world. He had never been shorn before and they thought the fleece
:26:12. > :26:18.might be a world record. before and they thought the fleece
:26:19. > :26:22.quite a task, quite a wait, coming in at 23 kilograms. That was
:26:23. > :26:27.actually below the world record, so not only did he lose his wonderful
:26:28. > :26:31.fleece but he lost frankly all his dignity, when you look at him left
:26:32. > :26:37.in that state of some shock and no doubt trembling in the relative
:26:38. > :26:42.cold. Poor old Shaun. Of course we have got plenty more for you on the
:26:43. > :26:45.main stories. Our main story this hour, the president of Ukraine,
:26:46. > :26:59.retro porridge he will be holding a meeting of the
:27:00. > :27:00.Security Council to discuss what he called a Russian invasion of his
:27:01. > :27:02.country.