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The US targets Islamic State militants in a fresh round | :00:14. | :00:32. | |
of air strikes - the first under a new international | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
It's parliament has signed the EU deal which sparked off | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
the current crisis - and given the separatist east limited self rule. | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
President Obama will announce later that America is to send | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
3000 troops to Liberia - to help fight | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
And we'll tell you the incredible story of George, the Australian | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
goldfish who is recovering after a life-saving operation. | :00:51. | :01:00. | |
The United States has taken the first step in its wider battle | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
The military says it's launched airstrikes near Baghdad in support | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
The attack is part of President Obama's strategy to | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
The shaded yellow parts of the map here show the areas that | :01:15. | :01:24. | |
Islamic State militants now control across Syria and Iraq. | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
On the eastern side of Iraq, Kurdish Peshmerga troops continue | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
their fight against Islamic State militants near Irbil. | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
Our correspondent Gabriel Gatehouse is with them and sent this report. | :01:33. | :01:39. | |
It is on these fighters that the statesmen in Paris are pinning | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
many of their hopes. This is one | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
of the Peshmerga's front lines. That town in the distance is held | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
by Islamic State. It was specifically Britain's | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
support for Kurdish forces that the black masked murderer of | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
David Haines cited The UK is flying weapons | :01:58. | :01:59. | |
and ammunition into northern Iraq The weapons we are getting from | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
Britain and the others are good and It is not enough | :02:07. | :02:14. | |
against the terrorist state. We need more to win a war | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
against IS. The Kurds have made | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
modest advances against the jihadists here at Jalawla, which is | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
less than 100 miles from Baghdad. Many of their weapons are old | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
and stocks are depleted. They say they are yet to receive any | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
of the guns or This is about as far east as IS | :02:33. | :02:34. | |
goes. We are almost | :02:35. | :02:45. | |
on the border with Iran. The jihadist state now stretches | :02:46. | :02:47. | |
west across Iraq, into Syria, Each time another Western hostage is | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
brutally beheaded on camera, so the pressure grows in Western | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
capitals to do more. We drove towards a second Peshmerga | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
position. In Paris, | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
leaders from 30 countries including Arab governments were pledging | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
the support for a co-ordinated Concrete details were | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
in short supply. In 1991, British, | :03:14. | :03:21. | |
French and American air support helped the Peshmerga defeat Saddam | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
Hussein's army in northern Iraq. Now, they say they are ready to take | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
on Islamic State There's no sense here | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
of preparations If there were, that would be of | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
little comfort to the second British hostage whose life is now in danger, | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
as are the many others who are being IS is waiting just over a mile | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
from here. Its fighters could come charging | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
back up this road at any moment. Neither the Syrian government nor | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
its principal backer, Iran, was invited to join the coalition | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
of the willing in Paris. In the absence of a unified strategy | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
across Iraq and Syria, it is far from clear whether more bombing will | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
have the desired results. Our correspondent Paul Wood is | :04:12. | :04:22. | |
in Beirut. He says there's still little sense | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
of what this new strategy will mean. We had an announcement from the US | :04:25. | :04:32. | |
military last night that the first of a new face of attacks against | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
Islamic State have been embarked upon and that was some air strikes | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
about ten or 15 miles south-west of Baghdad. This is not shock and awe, | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
these small-scale strikes, a tank here, a tank there, some armoured | :04:48. | :04:55. | |
Humvees on a hilltop. The Americans have sensed as part of this new | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
strategy, about 500 personnel to Baghdad to rebuild the Iraqi army's | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
command and control. -- have sent. They will not send ground troops, | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
this will be airpower, plus the Kurds and the Iraqis on the ground. | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
As Gabriel said this will be a slow and incremental process. Is there | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
any real likelihood of military support from other countries in your | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
view? What is the scale of the task facing those pitted against IS? It | :05:28. | :05:35. | |
is a 30 nation coalition. I believe United Arab Emirates has said they | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
made contribute strike aircraft, they helped in the air war over | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
Libya along with Britain and France, possibly catalogue may contribute. | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
Saudi Arabia not hinting at any contribution before, it could be one | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
of the places that Syrian rebels are trained. There are ten Arab nations | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
in the coalition. The coalition that went to Paris yesterday. I do not | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
think they will make a significant military contribution either in the | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
air or on the ground, but it is vitally important for the propaganda | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
war. Islamic State has tried to draw in the Americans. For them a battle | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
in Syria, a battle in Iraq is part of a holy war, they are attracting | :06:19. | :06:26. | |
new recruits. The Americans have to show they have many allies, Sunni | :06:27. | :06:34. | |
Arab Muslim allies. If the West is refusing to engage with the Assad | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
regime, but it wants to take on IS, is there a ground of moderate | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
militants that can be put in place? The United States and Britain would | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
say there have always been moderate levels. The rebels would say they | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
have been promised a lot and little has been delivered. That may be | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
about to change if what President Obama is acted upon. It may now be | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
more overt, in other places like Saudi Arabia. It takes a long time | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
to affect events on the ground and Islamic State have made gains. We | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
are hearing stories about rebels who are previously fighting them, and | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
key about whether to swear allegiance to them. Things are | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
changing on the ground. In the past half hour, the Ukrainian | :07:20. | :07:29. | |
and European parliaments have ratified a controversial association | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
agreement strengthening economic The Ukrainian President Petro | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
Poroshenko said the ratification of the treaty would be a | :07:40. | :07:41. | |
"historic day". The debates are going on as | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
separatists in Donetsk have continued their assault | :07:45. | :07:46. | |
on the government-held airport Local authorities report that 10 | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
civilians have been killed Under peace moves put forward by | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
President Poroshenko, the Ukrainian parliament has passed laws granting | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
limited self-rule for eastern Our correspondent is in Kiev. Those | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
who have not followed the legalities, this is quite a big | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
deal. This whole agreement sparked off the crisis and it is about trade | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
and politics and where Ukraine is stuck between East and West full. | :08:11. | :08:18. | |
Exactly. It is a historic day. As many officials have said, the | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
question is how historic and what will happen next. The fact that this | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
agreement which set off the Ukrainian crisis back in November | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
last year when the former president Viktor Yanukovych prompted the | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
signing of the agreement, that drove them from power, it created the | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
situation of disturbance in Ukraine. We had a annexation of Crimea, the | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
fighting in the east and now the Ukrainian parliament as well as the | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
European Parliament have ratified these agreements. It is also | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
controversial. The agreement has two parts, political, making the Ukraine | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
stick to a reform programme for politics, and also trade. Part of | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
the trade agreement has been postponed. The implementation has | :09:06. | :09:12. | |
been postponed. Crucially, the fourth section which requires | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
Ukraine to drop its tariffs to European goods to introduce European | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
technical standards, other things like laws on public tenders, in | :09:22. | :09:29. | |
general this is being seen as a major move forward as the president | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
has promised that the reform process in Ukraine will go forward. Is it | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
not fair enough Russia to say how long we do not want our markets to | :09:40. | :09:47. | |
be flooded by EU goods? Yes, but the EU has said that their markets will | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
not be flooded by EU goods. In fact, I watched a very remarkable speech | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
by Jose Manuel Barroso over the weekend here in Kiev where he said | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
the Russians were well informed of the agreement. The EU went through | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
it from the very beginning about what this agreement meant and that | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
they were not in danger. He used the word lying when the Russians said | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
they were not informed. There is some question about what exactly the | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
Russians object to. Some people think it is because they do not want | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
Ukraine to introduce reforms at all, become more democratic and move | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
away from the corruption and undemocratic system which has | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
plagued it for the last 23 years. Thousands of people are still | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
thought to be stranded in Kashmir nearly | :10:45. | :10:46. | |
thought to be stranded in Kashmir floods there. At least 200 people | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
have died and many people are missing. There are fears of disease | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
as criticism grows of the government support. This report comes from the | :10:57. | :11:04. | |
Kashmiri capital. The centre of the town after its worst flood in living | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
memory. Some are calling it Kashmir's Katrina. When the | :11:10. | :11:18. | |
government was totally overwhelmed. We found a way in on foot as the | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
waters begin to recede. It is just incredible devastation around here, | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
this whole road has been completely washed away. Other head I am hearing | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
things are even worse. -- up ahead. This was once a better offer | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
neighbourhood. Many have lost everything and this man says he | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
feels abandoned by the government. TRANSLATION: We made a makeshift | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
bridge ourselves and we have been trying to drain the water out. | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
Nobody came to help us, you are the first person from outside we have | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
seen here. The centre of town has been utterly destroyed by this | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
flood. Everywhere we go we find buildings flattened, roads washed | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
away, but what is most striking about the disaster is the amount of | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
anger that is and increasingly that is becoming a backlash against the | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
authorities. After decades of strife between Kashmir's Muslim majority | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
and the government, the flood has brought old resentments back to the | :12:21. | :12:28. | |
surface. We have not seen this state. We are angry. Really, we are | :12:29. | :12:36. | |
angry. They dropped water bottles and biscuits, they were expired. | :12:37. | :12:44. | |
Water bottles, they were 2009. Biscuits, 2009, 2008. More aid is | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
starting to come in, like this mobile drinking water service. The | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
authorities insist they are doing all they can. The government is not | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
capable and will never be capable of reaching 100% of all affected areas | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
immediately and therefore we have tried to reach those areas that are | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
most in need of it will stop if you have been able to reach an area, it | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
is accessible and if people are able to take care of themselves, how | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
resources are better tasks in areas where you cannot reach. Where there | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
is still four or five feet of water accumulating. Indians are well used | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
to fending for themselves, get in the heart of this historic city, | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
many people feel their government has taken their resilience for | :13:31. | :13:31. | |
granted. President Obama is expected to | :13:32. | :13:43. | |
unfurl a plan later today to boost US involvement in fighting the Ebola | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
outbreak in West Africa. He has going -- is going to outline further | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
details when he visits Atlanta. He will send 3000 troops to Liberia. | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
They will be responsible for training as many as 500 health care | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
is each week. They will be building 17 medical facilities with at least | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
100 bed each. 50,000 home health care kits will be sent out to | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
households in Liberia. The World Health Organisation says the | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
outbreak has now killed more than 2400 people since it began in March. | :14:18. | :14:24. | |
For more than six months, Ebola has rampaged through part of west | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
Africa, infecting thousands regardless of age and killing well | :14:29. | :14:35. | |
over 2000 people, including health workers battling against the odds to | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
help those most in need. For months, the international community have | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
been accused of not doing enough. Now ahead of two key meetings of the | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
United Nations and the UN Security Council, the US ambassador made this | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
play. We can contain this, we know how to do it and we must avoid panic | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
and fear, but our collective response to date has not been | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
sufficient. We must move forward aggressively in a quarterly to | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
fashion and together. It is highly an usual for the United Nations | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
Security Council to meet together and discuss public health issues, | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
but this is unprecedented and has become the deadliest on record. One | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
factor is blamed on the rapid spread of the virus is a shortage of | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
protective equipment. The United Nations is calling the $600 million | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
to deal with the crisis and is asking countries to send supplies | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
including trucks, birds and doctors to the worst affected areas. The | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
latest move is said to come from President Obama his -- who is | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
expected to send 3000 troops to help build hospitals and health trained | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
doctors. International efforts to combat the virus have been welcomed | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
by the President of Ghana who has been critical of the response so | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
far. With Ebola, it is a scary disease and when it started, getting | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
people to come in and assess has not been easy. I do believe that | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
international response was slow, but happily it is picking up now. But in | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
countries where health systems were already fragile, the promise of help | :16:14. | :16:15. | |
could not come soon enough. One person has been killed and | :16:16. | :16:23. | |
another seriously injured in a shooting inside a court in | :16:24. | :16:25. | |
Denmark. Police say shots were fired | :16:26. | :16:27. | |
at the Bailiff's court in A suspect has been arrested and a | :16:28. | :16:29. | |
shotgun has been seized. The shooting happened in the past | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
few hours. Stay with us on BBC World News, | :16:34. | :16:35. | |
still to come: This man is serving | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
life in prison for rape and murder and has just been given permission | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
to have doctors end his life. This time on Friday, we should be | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
very close to knowing if Scotland voted for independence. The three | :16:46. | :16:55. | |
main party leaders in Westminster have signed a pledge promising more | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
powers for Scotland, if it decides to stay part of the United | :17:00. | :17:08. | |
Kingdom. Both the Yes and No campaigns have | :17:09. | :17:10. | |
been busy trying to persuade Prime Minister David Cameron has | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
made an impassioned appeal to the Scottish people to stay in the | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
Union. But Scotland's First Minister, Alex Salmond, has | :17:18. | :17:19. | |
been focussing on the economy, dismissing fears about the country's | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
future. Well, Scotland's not the first place | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
to make a breakaway bid. Here's a roundup of other | :17:27. | :17:28. | |
referendums held around the world. The US military has launched its | :17:29. | :18:57. | |
first air strikes against Islamic State militants under its | :18:58. | :19:05. | |
new strategy to combat the group. The Ukrainian and European | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
parliaments have ratified a landmark agreement that strengthens their | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
economic and political ties. sentenced to death for mutiny and | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
attempted murder after shots were fired at their commanding officer in | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
the north-eastern city of Maiduguri, in May. The soldiers were angry | :19:23. | :19:32. | |
after a convoy was ambushed on a road frequently targeted by | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
Islamist Boko Haram militants. All denied the charges at a court | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
martial in Abuja. Our reporter is in Lagos. Is it too | :19:41. | :19:51. | |
simplistic to say these soldiers were worried about taking on ISC | :19:52. | :20:00. | |
militants? -- IS. The Boko Haram fighters are well and | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
determined and many are brainwashed. So they hardly fear death. For the | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
Nigerian soldiers, they are always going to face a difficult challenge | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
and what they have always said is, we need better equipment. This | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
particular case goes back to May when there was an extraordinary | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
outburst of anger by the soldiers. They were upset because some of | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
their colleagues had gone out on this journey and they saw that road | :20:30. | :20:36. | |
is very dangerous. They were reluctant and they were forced to | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
go. When the dead bodies were brought into the barracks, these | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
soldiers were so angry, they shot into the air and they even shot at | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
the commander of the forces in the region. So turning your own guns on | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
your commander would be punished very severely anywhere in the | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
world. But it points to some real key issues in the Nigerian military, | :20:58. | :21:05. | |
issues of low morale. And we have had a lot of complaints from | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
soldiers telling the BBC that they do not have the equipment to fight | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
Boko Haram. And we have had to demonstrations by waves of soldiers | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
saying, do not send our husbands to the front line, they do not have the | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
equipment -- wives. It is a severe problem the Nigerian military faces | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
and the military is saying that this tribunal is a sign it is a | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
professional army that has rules and regulations, but for many Nigerians, | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
it is a very public example of the problems undermining the fight | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
against Boko Haram. That is the place where the 200 | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
schoolgirls were abducted this year, sentencing these men to death, you | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
can understand it from a military point of view to show they are | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
taking it seriously, but there will surely be a massive reaction? | :21:56. | :22:02. | |
I understand the sentences can be appealed by the soldiers who denied | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
the charges. But it is likely to send shock waves through the | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
military. There have been other examples of soldiers almost staging | :22:12. | :22:18. | |
a mutiny. Some of them have refused to go to the front line. There are | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
clearly problems that need to be addressed and this will send out a | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
shock wave. But from the militarily's point of view, they had | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
to take a stronger line to ensure such incidences did not happen again | :22:32. | :22:40. | |
-- the military. This is an extreme case but other examples show the | :22:41. | :22:48. | |
problems are undermining the fight against Boko Haram. And reports of | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
hundreds of soldiers on the way to the North East who were ambushed in | :22:52. | :23:00. | |
a state of the South even than the capital. A scion of the problems -- | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
that is a sign of the problems taking gone Boko Haram. | :23:08. | :23:15. | |
Alarming for any government. Can you update us on the news of the girls | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
who have disappeared, is there a sign of a return? | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
I am afraid no news whatsoever from the Nigerian military. They say, we | :23:26. | :23:32. | |
are still determined to find them. The parents are still desperate for | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
any news but all we are hearing is that we were divided into much | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
smaller groups and they were spread out possibly over a large area, so | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
it will be difficult to get them back even now. And no news from the | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
international forces that have been trying to help the Nigerian | :23:50. | :23:51. | |
military. Thank you very much. | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
A Belgian man serving a life sentence for rape and murder | :23:58. | :23:59. | |
has been granted permission to have doctors end his life. | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
The ruling is the first involving a prisoner | :24:03. | :24:04. | |
since the assisted dying law was introduced in Belgium. | :24:05. | :24:06. | |
50-year-old Frank Van Den Bleeken argued | :24:07. | :24:18. | |
he would never be freed because he is unable to control | :24:19. | :24:20. | |
his violent sexual urges. | :24:21. | :24:21. | |
Van den Bleeken's lawyer says he requested euthanasia due to | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
what he described as his 'unbearable psychological suffering'. | :24:25. | :24:26. | |
A number of psychiatrists and Doctors have said my client's Lovell | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
of suffering is long-standing and there is nothing that can alleviate | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
that -- level. More on that on the website. | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
A suicide bomb attack in the Afghan capital Kabul has killed at least | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
three members of the NATO-led military forces and injured many | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
others. The explosion targeted a convoy on the airport road near | :24:50. | :24:51. | |
the US embassy. The Taliban says that it carried out the attack. | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
The explosion is the first major bomb attack in the city in weeks. | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
BBC Persian's Kawoon Kamoosh was near the explosion when it happened. | :24:58. | :25:00. | |
I was standing on the roadside and just a big last happened. I saw a | :25:01. | :25:11. | |
lot of people shocked -- a big explosion happened. People were | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
escaping from the area as the suicide happened at the busiest time | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
of the day. At eight o'clock in the morning when the people come from | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
their houses and go to work. I saw a lot of women and children escaping | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
from the area. Also, a number of vehicles destroyed in the area. It | :25:33. | :25:47. | |
happened near a resident area, where a lot of people come out of their | :25:48. | :25:50. | |
houses in the morning. The attack was huge and I saw Adi parts of | :25:51. | :25:59. | |
people. -- body parts. It was on the street. | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
The Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott says a vote on recognising | :26:06. | :26:07. | |
Indigenous Australians in the constitution would need to have | :26:08. | :26:09. | |
overwhelming support or it would fuel existing racial tensions. | :26:10. | :26:11. | |
Speaking from a remote Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory, | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
Mr Abbott said a vote would help to bring the country together. But if | :26:15. | :26:17. | |
the result was close or defeated, it would be a step back. | :26:18. | :26:20. | |
Mr Abbott has spent a week every year working as | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
a volunteer in Aboriginal communities since 2008. | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
A pet goldfish, called George, is recovering after emergency surgery | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
to remove a life-threatening tumour on his head. Vets in Melbourne, | :26:33. | :26:34. | |
Australia, decided to operate on the ten-year-old fish, which was having | :26:35. | :26:41. | |
trouble eating and getting around his tank. | :26:42. | :26:44. | |
The procedure, which lasted 45 minutes, saw George | :26:45. | :26:46. | |
sedated in a bucket of water laced with anaesthetic. | :26:47. | :26:49. | |
Owner Pip Joyce said George is a beloved pet and he | :26:50. | :26:52. | |
and his partner were "quite attached" to their fishy friend. | :26:53. | :26:54. | |
He is expected to live another 20 years! | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
So it was worth it! That is it from me, thank | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
or to stay part of the United Kingdom? | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
The BBC's online coverage will keep you up to date with every development | :27:11. | :27:16. |