:00:07. > :00:09.This is BBC World News Today, with me Philippa Thomas.
:00:10. > :00:13.One of its biggest cities is now under the
:00:14. > :00:16.control of Islamists, hundreds of prisoners are on the run, and there
:00:17. > :00:22.The jihadist fighters took over Mosul as police and army officers
:00:23. > :00:25.fled, and thousands of civilians are now trying to get
:00:26. > :00:41.TRANSLATION: All of the people have fled, they have left their homes,
:00:42. > :00:43.and people are lying dead on the streets.
:00:44. > :00:45.The Taliban strike Pakistan's largest airport again -
:00:46. > :00:49.security forces in Karachi come under attack a day after militants
:00:50. > :00:53.Trapped deep beneath the surface of the earth - 200 rescuers race to
:00:54. > :00:56.save an injured man stranded inside one of Europe's most
:00:57. > :01:06.TRANSLATION: It is quite interesting, though difficult. They
:01:07. > :01:08.speak differently. And schooling through soccer -
:01:09. > :01:11.how Brazil's children are learning about new countries,
:01:12. > :01:24.thanks to the World Cup. Images like these remind us
:01:25. > :01:29.of the Iraq war at its peak - thousands of families fleeing their
:01:30. > :01:32.homes for safety, with barely enough But these are images taken today,
:01:33. > :01:38.two and a half years These are civilians leaving
:01:39. > :01:43.their homes because of the Islamic takeover of one
:01:44. > :01:45.of Iraq's biggest cities, Mosul, Those responsible belong to
:01:46. > :01:53.the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIS, an offshoot
:01:54. > :01:57.of Al Qaeda that has already seized But this is their boldest move yet,
:01:58. > :02:25.one that has given them control After four days of this, the jihadi
:02:26. > :02:32.'s are effectively in control of Iraq's second largest city. DCs
:02:33. > :02:37.control of the port and the jails. 1000 prisoners escaped, it is said.
:02:38. > :02:44.The government broadcast an appeal for the men to resist the militants.
:02:45. > :02:50.Police and soldiers abandoned the posts as well. Many refugees
:02:51. > :02:58.followed them. TRANSLATION: The army dissolved. They were terrified. They
:02:59. > :03:02.fled, so we left as well. TRANSLATION: The commanders were the
:03:03. > :03:07.first to flee, leaving the soldiers alone. The commanders are to blame.
:03:08. > :03:13.TRANSLATION: All of the people have fled, they have left their homes and
:03:14. > :03:23.many people were lying dead on the streets. Will Iraq except this? Wrap
:03:24. > :03:29.Carmack Iraq will not accept this -- Iraq will not accept this, says the
:03:30. > :03:35.Prime Minister. Plumes of smoke hanging over the city from abandoned
:03:36. > :03:42.and looted police stations. The Islamic world have fresh weapons
:03:43. > :03:52.even if they lose most of them now -- the Islamic state.
:03:53. > :03:55.Laith Kubba is a former spokesman for the Iraqi
:03:56. > :03:58.government, now a senior director with the National Endowment
:03:59. > :04:21.Welcome. What does this say about the state that Iraq is in? They have
:04:22. > :04:29.passed the new threshold. Those who attacked the city are a few hundred
:04:30. > :04:33.of ISIS, but this was an army that was allowed to grow over the last
:04:34. > :04:38.few years. They are very well equipped, they have, and structure,
:04:39. > :04:44.and infrastructure of communication. They have managed to run a number of
:04:45. > :04:49.operations against three or four cities in Iraq, many multiple fronts
:04:50. > :04:56.at the same time effectively and successfully. The fact that the
:04:57. > :05:06.Iraqi army cannot defend the second largest city, it is most alarming.
:05:07. > :05:09.Of course, the Prime Minister, as commander-in-chief of all of the
:05:10. > :05:14.Armed Forces and the Prime Minister, he bears the responsibility for
:05:15. > :05:20.this. But it is an indication of much serious these -- much more
:05:21. > :05:25.serious fears that Iraq is going through. Do you think that Iraq can
:05:26. > :05:33.cope alone, or do you think there has to be reading answer? There is
:05:34. > :05:40.no question that ISIS is not exclusively and Iraq problem. It now
:05:41. > :05:44.has solid supply lines of arms and men and recruits, not only from
:05:45. > :05:48.Syria but from all over the region. I think their recent successes are
:05:49. > :05:56.going to become a magnet where more people will join an anti-war just
:05:57. > :06:04.get stronger. -- and they will just get stronger. The whole thing can
:06:05. > :06:11.start unfolding internally, perhaps with more tensions and breakdown of
:06:12. > :06:15.authority. If the Iraqi army cannot defend cities then why should
:06:16. > :06:18.anybody go back to Baghdad? But for the rest of the region, if this
:06:19. > :06:22.force is allowed to grow beyond this, now that the control vast
:06:23. > :06:28.territories with white numbers of soldiers with successes, I think
:06:29. > :06:36.that Jardine should be worried, other countries should be worried in
:06:37. > :06:39.the region. -- Jordan. It is no longer a great throwing skirmishes
:06:40. > :06:43.and a great throwing skirmishes and attacks here and more serious threat
:06:44. > :06:56.that will take months, if not longer, to confront. I understand
:06:57. > :07:04.that you have family roots in Mosul. Put Kurdish forces join with those
:07:05. > :07:08.in Baghdad? Regrettably those issues are being politicised in a very
:07:09. > :07:15.petty, silly way, while the Titanic is sinking. I think that politicians
:07:16. > :07:18.are just scrambling about, dividing power. They have come out of the
:07:19. > :07:31.elections and are squabbling about Bashir of elections and positions.
:07:32. > :07:33.-- about oil and positions. The Kurds do not feel immediately
:07:34. > :07:41.threatened by this. It is somebody else's territory. So I think that
:07:42. > :07:45.the leaders of Iraq bear the first and full responsibility for the
:07:46. > :07:51.deterioration. They can do more. Bear in mind, Iraq had an army that
:07:52. > :07:56.kept Iran in check for eight years in the 1980s and now it cannot even
:07:57. > :08:00.stand an attack of a few hundreds from this new force. This says a lot
:08:01. > :08:06.about how far Iraq has deteriorated as a state and other government.
:08:07. > :08:09.Thank you for your time and your insight.
:08:10. > :08:12.A day after security forces regained control of Karachi's airport
:08:13. > :08:15.from militants, gunmen on motorbikes have fired shots at a training camp
:08:16. > :08:18.used by security forces just outside the airport's perimeter.
:08:19. > :08:21.The Taliban says it was responsible and a hunt is under way
:08:22. > :08:31.From Islamabad, the BBC's Mike Wooldridge has more.
:08:32. > :08:40.A new gunfight today, at the end of Pakistan's busiest airport. The
:08:41. > :08:44.target was a balding close to the airport perimeter used by the
:08:45. > :08:49.specialist security forces for training and weapons storage. The
:08:50. > :08:51.greatest clash erupted, according to officials, when two gunmen tried to
:08:52. > :09:00.enter the security building firing shots. They then fled. The army and
:09:01. > :09:06.police bring in reinforcements. At the moment, the situation is 100%
:09:07. > :09:11.under control. No terrorist is present in the area. No one has
:09:12. > :09:16.penetrated security. Flights are operating normally. Pakistan's Prime
:09:17. > :09:20.Minister called for the attackers to be eliminated. Today, the bodies of
:09:21. > :09:25.seven more victims of Sunday's attack were recovered. They had
:09:26. > :09:30.taken refuge in a cold storage building and died a day before they
:09:31. > :09:33.could be rescued. In all of this, there are tragic echoes of the cycle
:09:34. > :09:38.of violence that accompanied Taliban militancy at its peak year only
:09:39. > :09:45.months after peace negotiations made a halting start.
:09:46. > :09:48.Now a look at some of the day?s other news.
:09:49. > :09:50.At least six people have been killed by violent storms
:09:51. > :09:54.Most of the victims were killed by falling trees.
:09:55. > :09:56.Trains were cancelled and flights diverted in Dusseldorf
:09:57. > :09:59.and Cologne, as gusts of wind reached more than 150km an hour.
:10:00. > :10:01.Weather forecasters are now issuing storm warnings for Hannover
:10:02. > :10:05.US military sources have confirmed that five American soldiers have
:10:06. > :10:07.been killed accidentally by their own side in southern Afghanistan.
:10:08. > :10:11.Two Afghans were also killed in the incident, which happened on Monday
:10:12. > :10:18.during a joint operation by Afghan and US troops in Zabul province.
:10:19. > :10:21.In South Korea the trial has begun of the captain
:10:22. > :10:25.They're on trial for murder, for their actions in the Sewol
:10:26. > :10:29.Divers are still searching for victims at the site
:10:30. > :10:32.of the sinking which left more than 300 people dead.
:10:33. > :10:38.A further 11 crew members are facing lesser charges.
:10:39. > :10:41.An international four-day summit on how to end sexual violence during
:10:42. > :10:46.The event, hosted by the British foreign secretary William Hague
:10:47. > :10:48.and the actress and UN special envoy Angelina Jolie,
:10:49. > :10:54.is the culmination of a two-year campaign to raise awareness.
:10:55. > :10:57.It produced a Declaration of Commitment to End Sexual Violence
:10:58. > :11:01.in Conflict and that's been endorsed by 148 countries.
:11:02. > :11:10.Let's listen to some of what Angelina Jolie had to say.
:11:11. > :11:17.We really do need your help. This whole subject has been taboo for far
:11:18. > :11:26.too long. War zone rape is a crime that thrives on silence. And on
:11:27. > :11:32.denial. The stigma Himes survivors and it causes feelings of shame and
:11:33. > :11:35.worthlessness, it feeds ignorance, such as the notion that rape has
:11:36. > :11:39.anything to do with normal sexual impulses. But most of all, it allows
:11:40. > :11:43.the rapist to get away with it. FIFA President Sepp Blatter is
:11:44. > :11:45.facing growing calls to step The head of the
:11:46. > :11:48.Dutch Football Association said Blatter should not stand
:11:49. > :11:51.because FIFA had been too badly Blatter was also challenged over
:11:52. > :11:57.his claims that critics of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar were motivated
:11:58. > :12:04.by racism and discrimination. The calls were made
:12:05. > :12:06.as football officials met in Sao Paulo to discuss
:12:07. > :12:09.the allegations of corruption just two days before the start of this
:12:10. > :12:11.year's tournament in Brazil. Well, as those officials gather,
:12:12. > :12:13.football fans across Brazil are counting down the
:12:14. > :12:17.hours until the World Cup opening But while excitement is growing,
:12:18. > :12:21.there's still also a great deal of anger over the billions spent
:12:22. > :12:24.on the tournament - with protests across the country
:12:25. > :12:30.showing little sign of dying down. The BBC's Julia Carneiro is in Rio
:12:31. > :12:43.with the latest. Are there are still threats to
:12:44. > :12:49.disrupt the tournament itself? There are several protest planned for
:12:50. > :12:57.during the tournament, also for the day of the opening match, in several
:12:58. > :13:01.cities, in Rio, Sao Paulo. But whether they will be large and have
:13:02. > :13:07.the capacity to disrupt the match or things that are going on in the
:13:08. > :13:11.country, that is still very unclear. The skill that we saw last year and
:13:12. > :13:18.the demonstrations was very large -- the scale. Everything that has been
:13:19. > :13:25.happening recently has been much smaller. There has been nothing in
:13:26. > :13:30.that scale of hundreds of thousands of people in the street as we saw
:13:31. > :13:32.last year. What is new is that joining the protest movement is that
:13:33. > :13:40.joining the protest movements there have been lots of strokes, Sao Paulo
:13:41. > :13:43.for instance, something which could disrupt the opening match of the
:13:44. > :13:48.Strait of underground workers. They have decided to have an assembly
:13:49. > :13:52.rate before the opening match on Wednesday evening to decide whether
:13:53. > :13:59.they will strike on the Thursday or not. So these movements, the
:14:00. > :14:08.underground workers for instance, and other classes of workers, from
:14:09. > :14:12.these industrial actions, it could lead to destruction during the World
:14:13. > :14:18.Cup. -- disruption. 200 rescuers from Germany, Italy,
:14:19. > :14:20.Switzerland and Austria are working to bring out an injured man stuck
:14:21. > :14:24.inside one of the most complicated The 52-year-old researcher was one
:14:25. > :14:28.of the first to discover the Riesending cave,
:14:29. > :14:30.which is near the town of He was exploring it further
:14:31. > :14:37.when he was injured by falling rocks Let's talk more about the challenges
:14:38. > :14:45.of this rescue operation. I'm joined from Sheffield by
:14:46. > :14:56.Bill Whitehouse, chairman What do you think is the most
:14:57. > :15:05.difficult thing about this operation? The size of the
:15:06. > :15:08.operation. It is an enormous cave. The deepest and longest in Germany
:15:09. > :15:17.and goes down to about 1100 metres deep. There are a total of 19
:15:18. > :15:29.kilometres of passages. He is about 1000 metres from the entrance and
:15:30. > :15:34.about six kilometres horizontally. I think the biggest shaft is about 300
:15:35. > :15:43.metres deep. You must get down all these shafts. You must go down on
:15:44. > :15:53.single rope is and come back up the same ropes. After about 900 metres,
:15:54. > :16:00.it gets more horizontal. There are a lot of constricted passages and it
:16:01. > :16:08.is very cold, about three degrees at this time of year. It is damp and
:16:09. > :16:17.completely dark all the time. It sounds terrifying. Something that
:16:18. > :16:23.strikes me is how can the people at the top know what is happening
:16:24. > :16:32.underground? Can make communicate? -- can they communicate? Radios and
:16:33. > :16:42.mobiles don't work through solid rock so you can either lay a phone
:16:43. > :16:52.line or use special radios which allow you to send text messages
:16:53. > :17:00.about 1000 metres maximum. It is like being able to send messages
:17:01. > :17:12.from one point to another but you can't communicate between -- if you
:17:13. > :17:15.are between those points. How will they look after the medical
:17:16. > :17:22.condition of this man as they bring him out? How do they supply him with
:17:23. > :17:29.drugs or check his condition? It depends on his condition. I have
:17:30. > :17:36.heard he is not as bad as first thought. I think he is able to stand
:17:37. > :17:44.and walk a little bit. What condition he is an will depend on
:17:45. > :17:51.what they have to do. The first-team will reach and 24 hours after his
:17:52. > :17:54.accident so they will be interested in attending him medically and
:17:55. > :18:01.stabilising him and keeping him warm and fed and getting into the
:18:02. > :18:06.condition before evacuation. How the evacuation goes will depend on
:18:07. > :18:13.whether he can move himself or whether he must be in a stretcher.
:18:14. > :18:23.If that is the case it will be a very long exercise. If he can walk
:18:24. > :18:29.through some of the parts and perhaps only goal in a stretcher to
:18:30. > :18:34.go up the egg shafts then it will be quicker.
:18:35. > :18:37.The British government has admitted that royal pardons were secretly
:18:38. > :18:39.given to paramilitaries in Northern Ireland in return for information
:18:40. > :18:44.But the current Northern Ireland Secretary has told the BBC details
:18:45. > :18:47.of who received the pardons should not be published because it could
:18:48. > :18:54.Our Ireland correspondent Chris Buckler has the details.
:18:55. > :19:02.In cemeteries across Northern Ireland there are headstones that
:19:03. > :19:07.remember the murdered, loved ones killed in acts of terrorism. In many
:19:08. > :19:15.cases, there have never been convictions. This man was shot dead
:19:16. > :19:18.by the IRA as he left work in 1982. His family learned during a review
:19:19. > :19:32.of the case that the main suspect had been given a so-called On The
:19:33. > :19:41.Run letter. It is so wrong. I can't understand why a government would do
:19:42. > :19:50.this to people, to innocent victims. The On The Run scheme was made
:19:51. > :19:53.public recently. The man was the main suspect in the Hyde Park
:19:54. > :20:00.bombing and although he always denied involvement. The letters are
:20:01. > :20:09.the focus of a judge led inquiry and a House of Commons committee. To
:20:10. > :20:16.deal with some cases, the government used the Royal prerogative of mercy
:20:17. > :20:22.which is more usually known as a royal pardon. Documents relating to
:20:23. > :20:28.some of these are missing. The government has admitted that royal
:20:29. > :20:38.pardons were used in some terrorist related incidents as far back as the
:20:39. > :20:45.1980s. Yes, there were some. It was used in relation to cases where
:20:46. > :20:51.people may be released early on compassionate grounds if they had
:20:52. > :20:57.terminal illnesses and also in some instances, I understand, in exchange
:20:58. > :21:04.for information provided to assist the police in prosecuting other
:21:05. > :21:10.people. It is believed the pardons involved people who gave evidence in
:21:11. > :21:18.support grass trials. -- super grass. People will begin to ask what
:21:19. > :21:24.else can we not know about and what other deals have been done. In
:21:25. > :21:27.Northern Ireland, people are still hurting as a result of years of
:21:28. > :21:29.violence and politics remains chained to the past.
:21:30. > :21:32.And now the latest in our Living Online series.
:21:33. > :21:35.One year ago, photography was just a hobby for Daniel Arnold.
:21:36. > :21:38.Dissatisfied with his corporate job, he walked the streets of New York
:21:39. > :21:40.taking pictures of the unusual sights of the city.
:21:41. > :22:00.My name is Daniel Arnold and I am a photographer living in Brooklyn New
:22:01. > :22:07.York. I have been photographing New York for 11 years. I always had a
:22:08. > :22:12.camera in my hand. I try to capture things as they happen, not
:22:13. > :22:21.interrupted or asking for permission or opposing anything. There were two
:22:22. > :22:30.ladies on a bench and they were not paying attention to their dog and
:22:31. > :22:36.another dog came past with a horrible ferocious beast face.
:22:37. > :22:43.Sometimes I just feel moved by something, a quirk or oddity about
:22:44. > :22:48.something. I think there is something about timelessness where
:22:49. > :22:56.people can't be placed that really draws me to that. I started putting
:22:57. > :23:01.photographs on Instagram two years ago and I got a really good
:23:02. > :23:06.response. The fact I press a button and what ever I saw goes to 52,000
:23:07. > :23:14.people is incredible. It's unheard of and bizarre. An April Fools' Day
:23:15. > :23:27.last year, I quit a job at Nickelodeon. My occupation at this
:23:28. > :23:36.point is to go and wonder. -- wander. I asked people to send me a
:23:37. > :23:48.shot on Instagram and I would give them money. Instead of having to
:23:49. > :23:56.figure out how to eat tomorrow, Ali sold -- I sold lots of pictures.
:23:57. > :24:02.Once people start paying attention to my work, they see things
:24:03. > :24:07.differently. That is so cool. I have been able to translate those first
:24:08. > :24:13.more personal successes into some traditional work. I have got several
:24:14. > :24:16.editorial jobs and done commercial work. The assignment is go and do
:24:17. > :24:25.your thing, do what you do. Back to the World Cup now,
:24:26. > :24:29.and some schools in Brazil are using the upcoming tournament to motivate
:24:30. > :24:31.pupils to learn more geography. In several Brazilian cities
:24:32. > :24:34.which are hosting national football teams, classes are now focusing on
:24:35. > :24:37.those countries - some of which were completely
:24:38. > :25:01.unknown to the students before now. TRANSLATION: I had never heard of
:25:02. > :25:07.Bosnia but I decided to research its government to learn more. They have
:25:08. > :25:16.three presidents, representatives from Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia.
:25:17. > :25:24.TRANSLATION: So I started to learn about Mexico here at the
:25:25. > :25:47.storytelling room. We learned about Frieda Callow -- Frida Kahlo.
:25:48. > :26:04.TRANSLATION: Yesterday I learned about their language. Football and
:26:05. > :26:07.their lives overall. It is quite interesting, though difficult. They
:26:08. > :26:18.speak a bit differently. But it is really interesting. I even learned a
:26:19. > :26:29.little word. Welcome in Algerian. It is Algerian, right?
:26:30. > :26:33.Iraq's Prime Minister has put the country on maximum alert
:26:34. > :26:36.and urged parliament to declare a state of emergency after Islamist
:26:37. > :26:38.militants effectively took control of the city of Mosul.
:26:39. > :27:02.Nouri Maliki acknowledged "vital areas" of the country's second
:27:03. > :27:03.Today, with sunshine in East Anglia, we nearly got to