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This is BBC World News Today with me, Zeinab Badawi. | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
the country's most senior Shia cleric issues a call to arms to | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
As insurgents seize more towns, Iraq's most senior Shia cleric calls | :00:18. | :00:29. | |
We will not be sending US troops act into combat in Iraq, that we are | :00:30. | :00:44. | |
arranging other options. Ukrainian government forces regain | :00:45. | :00:55. | |
control of the eastern city of Mariupol | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
from pro-Russian separatists. Five insurgents were reported | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
killed and at least four And attention on day two | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
of the World Cup is turning to the much anticipated repeat of the | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
2010 final - the reigning champions The final stage in the presidential | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
election in Afghanistan on Saturday Abdullah Abdullah is | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
the front-runner. Thousands of civilian volunteers, | :01:15. | :01:28. | |
mostly Shias are seeking to take up arms against the militants | :01:29. | :01:36. | |
from the extremist ISIS group - raising the spectre | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
of all out sectarian war between after taking Fallujah in January | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
and they've advanced rapidly seizing Mosul and Saddam Hussein's | :01:43. | :01:55. | |
home town of Tikrit this week. The city of Samarra is surrounded | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
by ISIS forces and fighting between Shia militias and jihadists | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
has broken out in Diyala. They are now just 80 miles from the | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
Iraqi capital in Diyala Province. Our Defence correspondent | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
Jonathan Beale is in Baghdad. This was the US military | :02:14. | :02:27. | |
headquarters in Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's hometown, now taken over | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
why ISIS. This unverified video shows the Islamist celebrating as | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
they continued their advance. They are also strengthening their grip on | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
Mosul, Iraq's second largest city. No sign yet of a government | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
fightback. It is religious leaders who URL in the charge. Today, a | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
representative of the most senior Shia Derek spoke out. People need to | :03:00. | :03:10. | |
volunteer and join the security forces. And in the south of Iraq, | :03:11. | :03:18. | |
young men have in signing up to fight the militants linked to | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
Al-Qaeda. And the cost is not just the human misery of refugees fleeing | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
their homes. It is hard to see how this cycle of the Aryan violence | :03:30. | :03:37. | |
will end. ISIS propaganda videos worn they will show no mercy. We | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
have received reports of the execution of Iraqi soldiers during | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
the capture of Mosul and 17 civilians in one street. In Baghdad | :03:50. | :03:57. | |
there is some security and order, but people aren't relying on | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
government forces to protect them. Militias as well are making their | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
mark. Even though there are soldiers from the Iraqi army, these militia | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
have arrived. It shows there is little confidence in the government | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
and they are taking control of the own security. The Iraqi prime | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
minister faces his toughest challenge yet to keep this fractured | :04:22. | :04:31. | |
nation together. The US secretary of state John Kerry says that they are | :04:32. | :04:39. | |
considering all options. American combat troops on the ground has been | :04:40. | :04:47. | |
ruled out. Frank Gardner has this report. | :04:48. | :04:57. | |
Life under ISIS. The show of strength by the Sunni group who are | :04:58. | :05:12. | |
threatening Baghdad. Washington is considering its response. We will | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
not be sending US troops back into combat in Iraq, but I have asked by | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
national security team to arrange other options and I will be | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
reviewing those options in the days ahead. Iraq is no longer home to US | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
combat troops, but the Pentagon still has a string of military bases | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
across the region. It also has the use of airfields in nearby | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
countries. The fighter jets in Bahrain. There are also undermanned | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
drones that can loiter for hours over a target. They can carry out | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
reconnaissance of fire missiles. But it is fast jets like these that Iraq | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
are requesting. If deployed, they could have a big impact on the | :06:06. | :06:17. | |
militia's advance. There could be a strikes or the movement of drones. | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
This would be a disaster. The United States would not know who they are | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
bombing. They will be driving popular alienation which is that you | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
read of this problem. The dynamic of the war would also change, putting | :06:32. | :06:41. | |
America on the side of Iraq's Shia dominated government and potentially | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
making the West a target for ISIS fighters. In other news the | :06:49. | :07:13. | |
Ukrainian crisis continues. Tell us more about the fighting today in | :07:14. | :07:23. | |
Mariupol. It is a significant victory for the government forces if | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
it holds. Mariupol has changed hands several times. The Ukrainian flag | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
has been raised over several times. The Ukrainian flag | :07:38. | :07:50. | |
so many setbacks. The Russians have a hold of the eastern parts of | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
Ukraine. This could be a turning point, but that is not clear. There | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
is fighting and tension and tension with Russia as well on the | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
diplomatic front. You said Mariupol is a strategic city. Why is it | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
important and where does it fit in relation to other significant places | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
in the pro-Russian separatist areas? Mariupol is a port. It is the | :08:19. | :08:29. | |
second-largest city in the Donetsk region. As we know, in the capital | :08:30. | :08:40. | |
the process but is movement began when they took over the main | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
government building. Mariupol is seen as an important city as it does | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
revive the base seen as an important city as it does | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
separatists. Now that the government has taken back control and move | :08:56. | :09:06. | |
their operations back to marry Paul, it significant that a back to | :09:07. | :09:22. | |
Mariupol, it is significant. How much difference will this make? | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
There is a great deal of tension and there is fighting. We are seeing | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
tensions with Moscow. The Ukrainians are preparing for the Russians | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
possibly turning the gas off on Monday. That will escalate tensions | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
between Moscow and Kiev. There is also ongoing tensions between Kiev | :09:47. | :09:55. | |
and the separatist. Time now for some of the day 's other news. The | :09:56. | :10:03. | |
US soldier held captive by the Taliban for five years has arrived | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
back in the US. He is at an army Taliban for five years has arrived | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
hospital where he will continue his next phase of recovery. Thailand's | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
military government has lifted the curfew imposed last month, but | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
political road tests and criticism of the queue remained banned by the | :10:25. | :10:34. | |
raging. The committee has voted to retain a constitutional clause that | :10:35. | :10:47. | |
prevents the poet Laureate from becoming president. The mere of | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
Venice has designed after allegations of corruption. | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
held with other officials over bribery claims regarding | :11:01. | :11:09. | |
construction of barriers to protect the city. The second game of the | :11:10. | :11:16. | |
World Cup has just finished. The defending champions Spain will take | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
on the Netherlands in just a few hours. Let us go to a man in the | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
midst of that exciting action, although it looks pretty calm behind | :11:26. | :11:34. | |
you. Peter is on Copacabana Beach. That must be some hardship. | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
Camarillo is a strong African team, but they were defeated by Mexico. | :11:40. | :11:46. | |
That is right. Cameroon used to be one of the biggest African teams, | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
but in recent years they have not been performing well and in the | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
run-up to this World Cup they have had their problems. I do think the | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
scoreline will be much of a surprise to African fans back home. Some more | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
dodgy officiating situations. Cameroon had two goals ruled | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
offside, but replays showed they should have stood. Luckily for | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
Mexico they scored that goal and they did win by 1-0. The party is | :12:18. | :12:25. | |
starting here at poke about Hannah -- is starting here at poke her -- | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
Copacabana beach. -- is starting here at poke her -- | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
Tension and passion finally released. This World Cup means so | :12:38. | :12:45. | |
much to the players. The home team were stunned into silence after an | :12:46. | :12:58. | |
own goal after ten minutes. There were some fine work in midfield that | :12:59. | :12:59. | |
followed. Brazil were sluggish were some fine work in midfield that | :13:00. | :13:11. | |
they were awarded a seemingly fortunate penalty. Neymar scored, | :13:12. | :13:25. | |
just. Croatia felt aggrieved at half-time and Brazil were relieved. | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
They will be hoping that fortune continues to favour them. | :13:32. | :13:41. | |
That game ending 3-1 in favour of the host. Thousands of Brazilian | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
fans packed the stadium in Sao Paulo for that game, but spare a thought | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
for the thousands more who have come from all over the world. I mean, | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
Ozil is not a cheap country to come to an full many fans, it is quite a | :13:57. | :14:05. | |
distance. My colleague has been looking at the cost to attend this | :14:06. | :14:06. | |
World Cup. tiring and also expensive. The cost | :14:07. | :14:23. | |
of flights, hotels would put off many, but not the hardened football | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
fan. Supporters from all over the world had begged, script and | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
borrowed to get to this World Cup. They have gone online to check the | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
cheapest hotels and flights and even though it is set to cost on average | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
$16,000, they simply don't care about the money. Every penny, it is | :14:42. | :14:48. | |
worth it, we have been planning this trip for two years. We had feared | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
Arab money and it is definitely worth it. We got everything last | :14:52. | :15:00. | |
winter, that is when we went online and booked everything up. We checked | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
now and some of the flights to get to a city three hours away our | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
$1500, so we are glad we got in early. At the moment, we had snow on | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
the grounds in New Zealand so coming here, it is wonderful. You cannot | :15:16. | :15:27. | |
put a price on having a good time. If your team does well, that is just | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
a bonus. You pay your money to be able to say, I was there. | :15:33. | :15:42. | |
A few hours ago, I was on the beach and I saw fans from Argentina, from | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
Spain, from the Netherlands. My colleagues have seen fans from all | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
over the world here in Brazil as well. Some of them, spending their | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
life savings to get here. What we are waiting for now is the next | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
game, it is a repeat of the final from 40 black years ago, the world | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
champions Spain against Catalans. That game will be remembered for how | :16:07. | :16:14. | |
rough the Dutch way, but we hope that this time around, we will see | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
some good for football because both countries do play some beautiful | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
football. That game is about to kick off in a few minutes. Back now to | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
the studio in London. The long drawn out presidential | :16:27. | :16:39. | |
election in Afghanistan reaches its climax on Saturday - a run-off | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
vote between the two remaining The front-runner Abdullah Abdullah | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
survived what appeared to be an assassination attempt a week ago, | :16:46. | :16:52. | |
but there is hope that this election will mark a major milestone in | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
the stabilisation of Afghanistan. Donkeys under armed guard, this is | :16:57. | :17:12. | |
how elections look in Afghanistan. Here in the mountainous north-east | :17:13. | :17:14. | |
of the country, Here in the mountainous north-east | :17:15. | :17:16. | |
materials are being delivered by any means possible. Not everyone is | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
happy to have been hired for their job but with rough tracks instead of | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
tarmac roads, it is the only way people can exercise their democratic | :17:29. | :17:36. | |
rights. We are working for one year for the whole election in Monday. On | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
this issue, we are ready to consult these problems and we have good | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
plans. This may look like a scene from redeemed times but many here | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
hope these polls will put the country on a firm footing for | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
generations to come. About a quarter of all provinces in Afghanistan | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
generations to come. About a quarter relying on donkeys to get allotment | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
yield to the right places. This problems have hired 300 donkeys and | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
they are moving under heavily armed escort. The men with guns here as | :18:07. | :18:13. | |
much to protect against ambush as to reduce the risk of election fraud. | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
After three decades of war, this is considered one of the superpowers -- | :18:19. | :18:28. | |
safest parts of Afghanistan. In the capital, security is tighter than | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
ever. Elite police units are on high alert. They are among the 26,000 | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
Afghan security forces alert. They are among the 26,000 | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
city where life is now overshadowed by the very real risk of suicide | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
attacks. They were out on patrol today in a robust show of force. The | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
Taliban, threatening to disrupt the second round of this landmark | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
presidential race. How much more safe is Afghanistan but this round | :18:58. | :18:59. | |
of elections, compared to the previous round? TRANSLATION: ahead | :19:00. | :19:07. | |
of the second round of polling, we have had more threat than before | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
because the weather is warmer and it is the traditional fighting season | :19:12. | :19:13. | |
for the Taliban. My men are better prepared. The numbers of checkpoints | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
have rapidly increased. Weapons, grenades and a suicide vests seized | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
have rapidly increased. Weapons, night. Afghanistan's security forces | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
are under orders to deliver a safe presidential race. The world is | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
hungry for a successful story of transition. | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
Older people should be encouraged to stay in work longer to boost | :19:37. | :19:38. | |
their own pensions and to help the economy, according to new guidelines | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
The number of older workers will increase substantially | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
in the next decade, and the Pensions Minister says they're an untapped | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
There is a sea change on their way in the workforce. In the coming | :19:54. | :20:09. | |
decade, there will be 3.7 million more people between 50 and the state | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
pension age. Many will be either employed or looking for work, a huge | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
rise with big indications. We are moving to a world where retiring | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
early with a big pension is something of the past so we will | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
need to work longer but it is in business's benefit to retain | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
productive workers. More of us are living longer, healthier lives but | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
the government knows that this potentially a bigger burden on the | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
state in terms of pensions and benefits. It wants as many of us as | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
possible to expand our working lives too. That includes getting people | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
back into work. At this job centre in Birmingham, they are piloting | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
killer provision for job-seekers as those who lose their jobs in their | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
50s and 60s tend to be an android longer. I have an adviser who looks | :21:02. | :21:09. | |
after the over 50s and I find that beneficial because I have built a | :21:10. | :21:11. | |
relationship with her and she understands my needs. There is a job | :21:12. | :21:20. | |
out there for me, it is just getting to it first, there are so many going | :21:21. | :21:28. | |
for it. I do get the feeling that when I apply for a job, the look of | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
my age and thing, he is good for another three for years. To help | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
encourage more of this, companies who value more advanced stuff, the | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
government plans to appoint an older workers Champion and firms will be | :21:44. | :21:45. | |
encouraged to allow flexible working, allowing staff to change | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
work patterns or find alternative roles but some warn that working | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
longer will not be suitable for all. Working longer is fine for people | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
with is a genuine choice and where they are physically and mentally | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
able but people should not be forced to carry on working simply because | :22:01. | :22:08. | |
they cannot afford to retire. Working in our 60s and beyond looks | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
set to become the new norm but that will create challenges when | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
businesses, workers and the government like. | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
More now on the developments today in Iraq that we have been reporting | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
on. The advance by jihadists fighters from the ISIS cine | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
extremist group are now about 80 miles outside Baghdad and today | :22:33. | :22:34. | |
there have been clashes between them and Shia fighters. I have been | :22:35. | :22:42. | |
joined by a professor of international relations at the | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
London School of economic. Iraq already is in all other sectarian | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
war, isn't it? The truth is, nobody talks about it. ISIS will not have | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
done as well as it has by exploiting the sectarian side. Three years ago, | :22:56. | :23:02. | |
ISIS was basically dying, on the verge of collapse. Now, there are is | :23:03. | :23:10. | |
a surge. This is because of a deep sectarian fault line has emerged. | :23:11. | :23:17. | |
The minority community that feels marginalised and excluded, and the | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
Prime Minister who is accused of being a sectarian lead Prime | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
Minister. A lot of finger-pointing at Newry malarkey, is there any | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
possibility that he may just remove himself, seeing to be in the best | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
interests of the unity of the government? One would hope so, he | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
has been in power for too long. This is a personal defeat for him. A huge | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
defeat. He made the fight against ISIS and he's betrayed himself as | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
the one and only leader. It was under his watch that ISIS has | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
surged. Under his watch that deep sectarian fault lines have emerged. | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
It is his personal failure will stop he has mismanaged the economy and | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
political system on it is broken. Do you think people behind the scenes | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
like the Americans will quietly put pressure on him to do that, | :24:13. | :24:20. | |
step-down? Absolutely. The Americans, they are sending messages | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
differently, they did not even tell President Mubarak to go in Egypt. | :24:28. | :24:37. | |
One development that might come out of this particular dark moment in | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
Iraq's history is for the political past to rise up and to find an | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
inclusive government, new leadership. What about the | :24:47. | :24:54. | |
mainstream Sunni Arabs, not the Kurds who are obviously sunny but | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
they are not Arab. Who do they dislike more, ISIS, these extreme | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
jihadists to go around executing people, or this year led government? | :25:05. | :25:12. | |
Where are the cine Arab moderates now? They are pressed between the | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
Iraq of ISIS and a significant segment of cine opinion. That is | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
deeply polarised and feels marginalised and excluded. The | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
policies of the Prime Minister did not count. Some tribal leaders, | :25:29. | :25:35. | |
members of Parliament who basically call on the Americans and said in a | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
public conference and asked the Americans to come back. This tells | :25:43. | :25:51. | |
you how desperate they are. ISIS is a very tiny fringe group, it would | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
not have done as well but the support of the community. We have | :25:57. | :26:07. | |
seen them cheering ISIS in other places despite the fact they are | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
still extremist. We know what they are going to do, they did it in | :26:15. | :26:26. | |
2003. The likelihood of the militias coming out and being armed again? It | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
was suggested to being a peace brigade rather than a militia. The | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
aunt -- the most important element is to come and fight ISIS and the | :26:37. | :26:39. | |
extremists. But for now from me | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
and the rest of the team, goodbye. There will be some reasonable | :26:44. | :27:05. | |
weather around for most of us. Generally | :27:06. | :27:06. |