:00:16. > :00:19.The French president opens an international conference on the
:00:20. > :00:24.threat posed by Islamic State militants, saying there is no time
:00:25. > :00:33.to lose. The murders virus appears to have jumped from camels to humans
:00:34. > :00:41.in Saudi Arabia with no known cure. -- the Mers virus. And Prince Harry
:00:42. > :00:47.turns 30 at the in Victor 's games. And the man accused of killing a
:00:48. > :00:49.former Russian spy is to host a television show about critics of the
:00:50. > :01:10.Kremlin. Hello and welcome. The French
:01:11. > :01:15.president has called for a global response to fight Islamic State
:01:16. > :01:18.militants. Opening an international conference in Paris, the president
:01:19. > :01:22.said the group posed a security threat the world over. About 30
:01:23. > :01:26.countries have gathered for the world over. About 30 countries have
:01:27. > :01:31.gathered further talks taken control of parts of northern Iraq Syria.
:01:32. > :01:37.Here is what resident Hollande had to say. This terrorist movement has
:01:38. > :01:44.attacked the week and most of an rubble, women and children. This
:01:45. > :01:54.terrorist movement has also attacked religious minorities, it has pursued
:01:55. > :02:03.them, it has sought to destroy whole communities. This terrorist movement
:02:04. > :02:12.has acted on whole swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria. It
:02:13. > :02:15.ignores borders and even claims to have established a state. So this is
:02:16. > :02:24.a global threat, and the response has to be a global response. The
:02:25. > :02:28.Iraqi president also spoke of the urgency in tackling Islamic State.
:02:29. > :02:36.Today, we are in the midst of a confrontation in Iraq. We are at a
:02:37. > :02:45.quality to the juncture in the terrorists thinking. --
:02:46. > :02:49.qualitative. They no longer act to terrorise populations, they commit
:02:50. > :02:58.various crimes in order to establish a state. That is what has happened.
:02:59. > :03:06.In fact, the victims of the occupation of all faiths, all ethnic
:03:07. > :03:09.groups, all religions. More on the conference in the next few minutes
:03:10. > :03:13.but firstly we go to a domestic problem in Saudi Arabia because
:03:14. > :03:16.health officials there say they are doing all they can to avoid an
:03:17. > :03:23.outbreak of the deadly Middle East respiratory syndrome or Mers virus
:03:24. > :03:28.at this years of Hajj pilgrimage. It was first detected in Saudi Arabia
:03:29. > :03:32.in 2012. Since then more than 855 cases of infection have been
:03:33. > :03:37.confirmed and more than 300 people have died. Cases have been confirmed
:03:38. > :03:42.in Qatar, Jordan, as well of parts of the UAE, especially after
:03:43. > :03:46.travelling to the Middle East. The source of the infection is known but
:03:47. > :03:48.it can cause kidney failure and pneumonia. Saudi officials have been
:03:49. > :03:51.accused of not doing enough to contain the outbreak but the country
:03:52. > :03:53.'s acting health minister has told the BBC the situation is now under
:03:54. > :04:07.control. Is this the key source of the deadly
:04:08. > :04:11.Mers virus? Camels are a prime suspect for passing the disease to
:04:12. > :04:17.humans, which is why health officials are taking samples from
:04:18. > :04:20.these prized animals. There is believed to be a strong link between
:04:21. > :04:25.camels and the virus, but still very little is known about how it jumps
:04:26. > :04:31.from animals to humans, and that is worrying scientists. The virus is
:04:32. > :04:35.fairly harmless in the animals but in humans it can cause pneumonia and
:04:36. > :04:41.kidney failure, killing more than a third of those infected. But the
:04:42. > :04:47.real problem began when patients ended up here. Poor infection
:04:48. > :04:51.control measures in hospitals like this one where I was shown around
:04:52. > :04:56.meant that when a Mers patient arrived, the virus spread fast.
:04:57. > :04:59.Doctors here admit staff weren't washing their hands between patients
:05:00. > :05:06.or wearing masks properly which means that they were helping pass it
:05:07. > :05:09.on. It wasn't until a year and a half into the outbreak when the king
:05:10. > :05:14.sacked his health minister over his handling of the crisis, and things
:05:15. > :05:20.started to change. So now we are going to start. Now hundreds of
:05:21. > :05:23.hospital staff are trained in infection control and the number of
:05:24. > :05:30.Mers patients have fallen dramatically from hundreds back in
:05:31. > :05:32.spring to very sporadic cases now. Your first exercises to take a
:05:33. > :05:40.normal breath, deep breathing for one minute. But still relatively
:05:41. > :05:43.little is known about Mers. The government has advised people to
:05:44. > :05:48.wear protective gear when handling camels, especially if they are sick.
:05:49. > :05:53.But at this market on the outskirts of the town, we didn't see anybody
:05:54. > :06:00.taking much notice. Raw camel milk, which could contain the virus, was
:06:01. > :06:04.being sold and drunk freely. TRANSLATION: A Mac I don't know
:06:05. > :06:10.about this virus. It didn't come here. I have drunk raw camel milk
:06:11. > :06:16.every day for the last 17 years and I'm fine. At these high bio-security
:06:17. > :06:20.lapse, scientists are trying to figure out where this virus came
:06:21. > :06:24.from. Particularly on the run-up to the Hajj pilgrimage, when more than
:06:25. > :06:29.2 million people will descend on Mecca. Being a virus transferred
:06:30. > :06:35.from human to human, it is really a big concern for the pilgrimage. We
:06:36. > :06:39.have intensive overcrowding in the pilgrimage and this is an excellent
:06:40. > :06:46.medium for this infection to spread. By the government is
:06:47. > :06:50.reassuring pilgrims. Mers is not an issue in Saudi. We will do our best
:06:51. > :06:55.to ensure that we continue doing all we can do to have a safe Hajj
:06:56. > :07:01.pilgrimage for all our guests and pilgrims. Can break may be under
:07:02. > :07:05.control for now, but the world health organisation says that the
:07:06. > :07:10.situation continues to be a public health concern.
:07:11. > :07:18.Let's go back now to our top story, the International conference on the
:07:19. > :07:21.threat posed by Isis. Our correspondent is in Baghdad for us.
:07:22. > :07:26.We are hearing from this conference that bolstering the Iraqi army is
:07:27. > :07:31.one option. More air strikes, and getting a sort of regional
:07:32. > :07:35.coalition. From your perspective in Iraq, first of all, how that's now
:07:36. > :07:43.is the advance of Isis and what is the threat from them perceive? For
:07:44. > :07:50.many people, they have seen worse days, especially in June, where the
:07:51. > :07:56.threat of Isis was very clear here in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq.
:07:57. > :07:59.Back then, something interesting happened, and actually it was not
:08:00. > :08:04.just the Iraqi troops that defended the Iraqi capital, but when that
:08:05. > :08:11.threat became very near to the Shi'ite heartland, both the Iraqi
:08:12. > :08:15.troops and Shi'ite militias, those are militias that are backed,
:08:16. > :08:19.sponsored and trained by Iran, coming to the front lines to defend
:08:20. > :08:23.the Iraqi capital with significant Iranians support. There was also
:08:24. > :08:29.Iranians support for the Kurds in the north as well. Two months on,
:08:30. > :08:36.the scene is a bit different. There is some kind of balance. Iraqi
:08:37. > :08:42.troops in many places have actually bounced back specially in breaking
:08:43. > :08:47.the siege. Also the Kurdish Peshmerga in the north, with
:08:48. > :08:52.significant air support from the American air force succeeded to push
:08:53. > :08:58.back as well. Now the threat is not as it was in June, but you still
:08:59. > :09:02.have towns and cities in northern and western Iraq, primarily the
:09:03. > :09:08.Sunni areas, the part where the Sunni minority lives, that is still
:09:09. > :09:14.under the control of Isis. For Iraqis who are hoping to get that
:09:15. > :09:19.part of their country back, something more needs to happen. What
:09:20. > :09:24.is your understanding, and it's a complicated picture, but if there is
:09:25. > :09:27.going to be more Western backed intervention, is that going to
:09:28. > :09:32.regain go down very badly as we have seen in previous interventions? Does
:09:33. > :09:41.the responsibility of regional powers and the involvement of
:09:42. > :09:51.regional powers help? Can you hear us? We may have lost the line there.
:09:52. > :10:02.I can hear you now. I got most of that question. Yes. Well, two
:10:03. > :10:05.things. First, Iraqis manage to form a more inclusive government last
:10:06. > :10:10.week. This needs to be built on, according to many people that have
:10:11. > :10:16.been talking, this is a government now based on a power-sharing
:10:17. > :10:20.agreement between the main factions here in Iraq, the Shi'ite majority,
:10:21. > :10:27.the Kurds in the north and the Sunnis. That needs to be built on in
:10:28. > :10:33.terms of having a united Iraq East and is against IIS. At the same
:10:34. > :10:38.time, more coordination, especially with the Western military backing in
:10:39. > :10:43.terms of air support, that is the combination that is required. But
:10:44. > :10:48.also without antagonising Iran. Iran still has influence and good
:10:49. > :10:53.relations with many parties in Iraq, especially the Shi'ite and the
:10:54. > :10:54.Kurds. Iran has the have a kind of role in this whole strategy if it is
:10:55. > :11:02.to succeed. And they are not at the to succeed. And they are not at the
:11:03. > :11:07.thanks very much indeed. Sorry about the problems on the line. Troops
:11:08. > :11:10.from the United States and 14 other countries are
:11:11. > :11:12.from the United States and 14 other military exercises in western
:11:13. > :11:16.Ukraine. At the trouble spot of course which we have been reporting
:11:17. > :11:19.from the many months now. The cease-fire in the east of the
:11:20. > :11:21.country does seem to be holding and that is despite both sides claiming
:11:22. > :11:27.that the other side has broken the truce.
:11:28. > :11:38.A show of force. This is clearly rebel held territory. Visible and
:11:39. > :11:42.verbal support surrounds the separatists here in the eastern
:11:43. > :11:48.Ukrainian city and for now, the guns are silent. But after months of
:11:49. > :11:52.daily shelling, the conflict has left its scars. A church service was
:11:53. > :11:57.held to remember the victims killed during this war. More than 3000
:11:58. > :12:03.people have died and this city is still without power or running
:12:04. > :12:07.water. There has been some progress. 73 Ukrainian army and
:12:08. > :12:12.pro-Russian fighters exchanged. But among the rebel troops, there is no
:12:13. > :12:18.attempt to hide that this is an unfinished war. I think the
:12:19. > :12:23.cease-fire will be over soon. We are waiting for the Ukrainian army. We
:12:24. > :12:26.will see each other soon. On the Ukrainian side, these fighters near
:12:27. > :12:33.the city of Marriott Paul strengthened their defences. Help
:12:34. > :12:37.from outside Ukraine is on its way. It has been ten days since the
:12:38. > :12:41.cease-fire began and it is holding although both sides claim
:12:42. > :12:44.violations. Nevertheless, TF is showing signs of softening its
:12:45. > :12:51.stands in these eastern regions dashed the air of. Pedro polish Anco
:12:52. > :12:55.says he will submit a bill to parliament claiming wider self rule
:12:56. > :12:59.rights to these regions although they will remain part of Ukraine.
:13:00. > :13:06.However, critics say he is surrendering too much power here.
:13:07. > :13:14.Here in Donetsk, months of fighting has left deep scars. In recent days,
:13:15. > :13:21.shelling and gunfire has rocked the city. TRANSLATION: Low back we all
:13:22. > :13:23.hope that the cease-fire, but where was that cease-fire? You should
:13:24. > :13:29.stick to what you say at least. Not when the rebels, do not blame Kiev,
:13:30. > :13:34.just do what you say. For the people of this area, the cease-fire held at
:13:35. > :13:41.the best prospect of peace. But it is an uneasy truce. Laura Westbrook,
:13:42. > :13:45.BBC News. In other news today, the bodies of two British tourists have
:13:46. > :13:49.been found on a beach in Thailand. The man and woman were found with
:13:50. > :13:59.head wounds on the island of Koh Tao in the Gulf of Thailand. Police say
:14:00. > :14:03.their clothes and a bloodstained rag were found nearby. Rescuers have
:14:04. > :14:06.resumed in parts of India and Pakistan after the floods there.
:14:07. > :14:12.They were called off temporarily because of more rain. More than 400
:14:13. > :14:15.people have died after days of heavy rainfall. Hundreds of thousands of
:14:16. > :14:19.people are still trapped by the waters. Winds of up to 200
:14:20. > :14:24.kilometres per hour have uprooted trees and shaken buildings as a
:14:25. > :14:28.hurricane made landfall in the Southern California and insulin
:14:29. > :14:34.Mexico. Authorities have declared a maximum alert the region and have
:14:35. > :14:39.prepared shelters for people around the tourist resorts. Stay with is
:14:40. > :14:45.here on BBC world News dashed California peninsula. We are hoping
:14:46. > :14:52.to land a result of probe on a comet. The link between Poland and
:14:53. > :14:56.William Shakespeare might not be immediately obvious to you. But in
:14:57. > :15:00.the 17th-century the Polish city of Gdansk was one of the main
:15:01. > :15:05.destinations for travelling English actors. Now, a new theatre hopes to
:15:06. > :15:12.revive that tradition. Our correspondence went to Gdansk to
:15:13. > :15:16.have a look for herself. The works of Shakespeare was so popular in
:15:17. > :15:21.this part of Poland that this black brick building stands on the site of
:15:22. > :15:24.the 17th century Elizabethan playhouse. The original was built
:15:25. > :15:30.especially for the travelling English actors who would come every
:15:31. > :15:36.summer to perform. We are standing right now on the site of this
:15:37. > :15:38.theatre where English players performed and during Shakespeare's
:15:39. > :15:44.own lifetime his plays were performed here. The whole idea of
:15:45. > :15:51.having Shakespeare is not somebody is crazy idea I would have thought.
:15:52. > :15:56.It has a strong historical backing. Unlike Shakespeare's actors, today's
:15:57. > :16:01.performers have one big advantage. This is the only theatre in the
:16:02. > :16:05.whole world with an opening roof to give theatre-goers that authentic
:16:06. > :16:09.Shakespearean experience come rain or shine. It takes a whole three
:16:10. > :16:15.minutes that this roof to fully open. The theatre has some famous
:16:16. > :16:20.supporters, Britain's Prince Charles is an honorary patron along with
:16:21. > :16:27.Poland 's most celebrated director. TRANSLATION: The performance at this
:16:28. > :16:30.theatre will be mainly by groups who act in different languages, they
:16:31. > :16:36.will show their interpretation of the plays, this will be beautiful.
:16:37. > :16:40.Shakespeare has returned here. The cursed be raised as will the roof
:16:41. > :16:43.for the theatre 's grand opening at the end of the week. -- the curtains
:16:44. > :16:54.will be raised. The French President has opened
:16:55. > :17:03.an international conference on the threat posed by
:17:04. > :17:06.Islamic State militants by saying their threat was global
:17:07. > :17:09.and the response must be global. Health officials
:17:10. > :17:16.in Saudi Arabia say they are doing all they can to prevent further
:17:17. > :17:20.cases of the deadly Mers virus ahead Australia has announced it will send
:17:21. > :17:27.600 troops and fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates to
:17:28. > :17:29.assist the international coalition The Prime Minister, Tony Abbott,
:17:30. > :17:34.said that the death of a British aid worker showed the need for more to
:17:35. > :17:37.be done to counter the jihadists. Our Sydney correspondent
:17:38. > :17:58.Jon Donnison reports. Syria, and Australia's first suicide
:17:59. > :18:06.bomber. A man known as giving his final video address in September
:18:07. > :18:10.last year. Originally from Brisbane, here he is preparing the explosives.
:18:11. > :18:17.Before setting off in a truck to blow himself up at a Syrian army
:18:18. > :18:25.checkpoint. Australia like Britain has a problem. There are an
:18:26. > :18:30.estimated 60 Australians training and fighting with extremist groups
:18:31. > :18:33.in Syria and Iraq. On social media you can find them promoting their
:18:34. > :18:41.ideas with a distinctive Aussie twang. This is the message I want to
:18:42. > :18:45.send to you. A message from our Muslims brothers heart to another
:18:46. > :18:51.brother 's heart. The most notable is amongst them is this man, the
:18:52. > :18:55.one-time Sydney gangster and drug dealer who is now fighting with
:18:56. > :18:59.Islamic State in Syria. He recently posted this picture of a boy
:19:00. > :19:06.believed to be his son holding a severed head. He had previously been
:19:07. > :19:11.jailed for his part in a plot to carry out attacks in Australia. Like
:19:12. > :19:15.with British jihadis, the authorities here are concerned about
:19:16. > :19:23.what happens if any of these men return home. We are. We also know
:19:24. > :19:27.very well from the returnees, they do not all return and the comely
:19:28. > :19:30.lunatic terrorists, some of them have had their boots filled with
:19:31. > :19:36.violence sufficient to last them a lifetime, but we know from
:19:37. > :19:39.experience that numbers have come back and got involved in
:19:40. > :19:44.proselytising and recruiting others and planning terrorist events. That
:19:45. > :19:52.also presents a challenge for Australia's mainstream moderate
:19:53. > :19:55.Islamic population. Australia like Britain has a long established
:19:56. > :19:59.Islamic population. Australia like Muslim community. On the whole it is
:20:00. > :20:03.pretty well integrated into Australian society, but many Muslims
:20:04. > :20:08.are unhappy about what is happening in Iraq and Syria and Psalm are
:20:09. > :20:16.prepared to go and fight. -- some. Hello? This is John from the BBC. We
:20:17. > :20:20.managed to get hold of one man by phone who said he left Australia six
:20:21. > :20:24.months ago and is now fighting with Islamic State in northern Iraq. He
:20:25. > :20:29.is of Middle Eastern origin but had been living and working in Sydney. I
:20:30. > :20:30.asked him about the recent beheading of the American journalist James
:20:31. > :20:55.Foley. But on the streets of Sydney,
:20:56. > :20:59.Australia's government is worried such people could carry out this
:21:00. > :21:02.kind of threat here if they ever make it home. This country like
:21:03. > :21:05.kind of threat here if they ever Britain is facing huge challenges,
:21:06. > :21:14.more than a decade on from its support for the US support in Iraq.
:21:15. > :21:21.A war that is still not over. -- US war. We will take you now over to
:21:22. > :21:31.Paris. There is the meeting to deal with Isis and a number of foreign
:21:32. > :21:35.ministers have gathered in Paris. We are just about to see a press
:21:36. > :21:42.conference. We heard statements earlier from Francois Hollande and
:21:43. > :21:48.from the Iraqi president also. Basically calling for a quick,
:21:49. > :21:53.radical response. Saying that the only way to protect global security
:21:54. > :21:58.was to come together, a Swift, radical response is what the Iraqi
:21:59. > :22:03.president called for. The French have said they are starting to look
:22:04. > :22:09.at an interim reconnaissance mission, just starting that in a
:22:10. > :22:11.rock today. As of course, the stepping up of military action
:22:12. > :22:23.Experian likely. -- in Iraq today. -- the stepping up of military
:22:24. > :22:31.action looks extremely likely. TRANSLATION: If you give a brief
:22:32. > :22:38.account of the meeting which brought together 29 delegations, 29
:22:39. > :22:47.countries and international organisations amongst which the five
:22:48. > :22:52.permanent members of the UN Security Council, a number of Arab countries
:22:53. > :23:02.and more generally representative from across the world. The object of
:23:03. > :23:06.the conference was to find this morning by the Iraqi and French
:23:07. > :23:18.presidents. That is to bring together a strong movement for peace
:23:19. > :23:23.and security in Iraq. In a few moments, we shall circulate the
:23:24. > :23:30.conclusions that the two of us draw from the meeting. I will first give
:23:31. > :23:35.the floor to my colleague and friend, but first of all I should
:23:36. > :23:48.like to stress a few points. First of all, the movement, it is not a
:23:49. > :23:54.state nor representative of Islam. It is a movement which is extremely
:23:55. > :24:05.dangerous, this is Isis. All of the people who are here states that it
:24:06. > :24:17.is necessary to make Isis retreat and disappear. Because this
:24:18. > :24:25.terrorist movement's way of doing things is very straightforward. The
:24:26. > :24:31.Isis murderers say to the world either you are with us or we kill
:24:32. > :24:39.you. And when you are facing a group like that, there is no other
:24:40. > :24:45.possibility but to defend yourself. And that is what the international
:24:46. > :24:53.community, what ever the differences and nuances have decided to do. A
:24:54. > :24:58.second point is that this is something that concerns everybody,
:24:59. > :25:03.not only the countries that first hit Iraq, Syria and the neighbouring
:25:04. > :25:12.countries, but it is all of the near and Middle East, Europe itself, and
:25:13. > :25:17.the world as a whole. A terrorist group does not stop of its own
:25:18. > :25:22.accord. That is why recently there was a meeting in Jeddah, other
:25:23. > :25:29.meetings, there will soon be a mother meeting at UN, there will be
:25:30. > :25:36.further meetings because everybody is concerned. -- another meeting. My
:25:37. > :25:45.third point is that in order to fight these terrorists efficiently
:25:46. > :25:49.and that is going to take time there has to be an all-inclusive action.
:25:50. > :25:59.This morning we discussed the political approach, because the
:26:00. > :26:03.Iraqi authorities have now decided on an inclusive approach following
:26:04. > :26:09.the elections, which with our support we will be able to carry
:26:10. > :26:14.forth. It is a political approach which is called for and indeed
:26:15. > :26:20.essential and that explains our united support to the new Iraqi
:26:21. > :26:25.authorities. A political approach, but beyond that there is a
:26:26. > :26:29.security, when you are facing a terrorist group as dangerous as this
:26:30. > :26:36.one, a certain number of measures have to be taken of a military
:26:37. > :26:42.nature and these will vary according to the country. But they will serve
:26:43. > :26:50.to help our Iraqi friends in their struggle. That is the French Foreign
:26:51. > :26:55.Minister speaking lies in Paris at that conference to take on Islamic
:26:56. > :26:59.State. All the western countries wanting a broad coalition crucially
:27:00. > :27:04.involving the Sunni Arab states. More on that on BBC news throughout
:27:05. > :27:06.I'm a friend of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
:27:07. > :27:13.What exactly does it entail, this job?
:27:14. > :27:17.There aren't many mums who'd let their sons run off to join
:27:18. > :27:20.the circus. Welcome to Keele University.