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This is BBC World News Today with me Kasia Madera. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
US President Barack Obama says he will send 200 military advisers | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Obama's comments come as Iraqi government forces battle Sunni | :00:09. | :00:17. | |
militants for control of the country's biggest oil refinery. | :00:18. | :00:26. | |
US President makes clear US intervention be limited. American | :00:27. | :00:34. | |
forces will not be returning to combat, but we will help Iraqis as | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
they take the fight to the terrorists. | :00:39. | :00:40. | |
Spain's new king, Felipe VI, calls for ?a new Spain we will | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
build together? as he is sworn in at a ceremony in Madrid. | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
The moment eleven days of misery came to an end as a German | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
cave explorer is rescued from the darkness in Bavaria. | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
It's do or die in the World Cup as Uruguay and England fans prepare | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
for their sides' crunch match in Sao Paulo. | :01:02. | :01:17. | |
Within the last hour, President Obama has announced that the US is | :01:18. | :01:28. | |
sending up to 300 military advisers to Iraq to help the Iraqi army | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
But he stressed US troops were not returning to combat. | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
On-the-ground fighting between the two sides is continuing. | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
There's confusion over who's in control of | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
Although the black flags of ISIS are reported to be flying | :01:42. | :01:48. | |
above the plant in Bayji, it's still not clear if they're | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
Let?s hear what President Obama said at the White House a short time ago. | :01:53. | :02:03. | |
We have had and advisers in Iraq through our embassy and we are | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
prepared to send a small number of military advisers, up to 300, to | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
assess how we can best trained, advice and support Iraqi security | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
forces. American forces will not be returning to combat in Iraq. But we | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
will help Iraqis as they take the fight to the terrorists. He has only | :02:27. | :02:43. | |
just started speaking. -- finish. He was adamant she stressed these | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
aren't troops returning to Iraq. -- to stress. | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
After intense negotiations, the conclusion from President Obama | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
seems to be that this is not America's fight. He gave the caveat | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
that if the situation changes, there could be limited action perhaps in | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
the form of air strikes that has been discussed by the national | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
security team. He said he would discuss with Congress if that was | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
the case. But he said it twice, American combat troops are not | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
returning to Iraq. For the moment, the president seems to have made a | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
decision that it is not in America's national-security | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
interests. He was very adamant that this is not | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
a military battle, it is a political one, calling us directly to the | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
Iraqi Government saying that their leaders must rise against their | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
differences. There is clearly a military battle | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
on the ground between the insurgents, but what the president | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
wants to stress is that there must be a political solution. He says | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
they are continuing to give advice to the Iraqis and they have done | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
since American forces withdrew and his message right now is we have | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
told you all along that you have to have an inclusive government, you | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
cannot come now that there is a crisis and expect a military | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
solution from America. The pressure from Washington on Baghdad is | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
political. The other thing that he mentioned | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
was that it was not the place for America to choose a rack's leaders. | :04:31. | :04:39. | |
-- Iraq's. Yes, he said the whole point of | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
installing democracy there was that we should give Iraqis the chance to | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
pick her own government. He also said America did not have a role to | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
take sides between Sunnis and Shias. He made an agreed reference | :04:56. | :05:08. | |
to the initial intervention in Iraq back in 2003 saying, the one thing | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
we have learnt is that there is a need to ask hard questions before | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
the US takes military action abroad. Clearly, his security team deciding | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
that the moment has not come. Thank you. | :05:25. | :05:32. | |
President Obama just finishing speaking on that announcement. | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
Well, Iraq is home to three main sectarian groups: | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
The research group D3 Systems interviewed 2,200 Iraqis and asked | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
them whether they were satisfied with how democracy is working. | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
The survey found that 63% of Kurds, who are mainly in the | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
semi-autonomous Kurdish region in the north, were satisfied with the | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
This compared to 46% of Shia Arabs, the biggest group in the country | :05:55. | :06:03. | |
who were widely marginalised under the rule of former dictator Saddam | :06:04. | :06:05. | |
Hussein, and only 15% of Sunni Muslims, who say they have been | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
sidelined since the 2003 US-led invasion, said they were satisfied. | :06:10. | :06:21. | |
With me is Matthew Warshaw, Vice President of D3 Systems, | :06:22. | :06:23. | |
the research company that carried out the survey. | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
Thank you for joining us. The findings pretty much echo what we | :06:31. | :06:40. | |
come to expect in the way that Iraq is divided into its groups. We have | :06:41. | :06:47. | |
been watching this for many years, doing pollen from 2004. But from | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
2002 until recently, we have seen increasing dissatisfaction amongst | :06:54. | :07:00. | |
Sunni Arabs while Kurds are increasingly isolated and not being | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
part of central government and only the Shia population feeling any eye | :07:05. | :07:06. | |
in -- One thing being stressed by Obama is | :07:07. | :07:18. | |
that the government is to work for everybody. But your survey found | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
that the different groups have different needs and perceptions of | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
where their country is going. This is a huge political crisis that is | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
overlaid over economic and social and ethnic tensions. The Kurds have | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
a much more secure region that they are living in, not as worried about | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
security, more worried about economic pressures. But Shias are | :07:44. | :07:51. | |
more concerned about services such as electricity and four Sunnis the | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
overwhelming concern is security. -- and for. | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
And whether they will be safe in the future. One other question you asked | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
is whether you believe decisions made by the Iraqi Government are... | :08:10. | :08:21. | |
Again, very different aspirations. Very different. Once again, the | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
Sunnis other least likely to feel that decisions made by central | :08:27. | :08:28. | |
Government are legitimate and binding. The Kurds are also somewhat | :08:29. | :08:35. | |
discouraged by. Only the Shias feel there is some it is a must see. | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
There is an enormous political problem. -- some legitimacy. | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
Only Iraqis can provide that. They need to be the ones that come | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
together and find a way to include these different groups and finally | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
government that can represent everyone. Nouri al-Maliki is having | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
meetings with different groups, but it feels a little late. It may be. | :09:03. | :09:10. | |
The elections gave his party 92 seats, but he needs 163 to have a | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
majority. It is not clear that other Shia parties would line up with him. | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
Whether or not he can bring together a coalition for 163 votes is the | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
question. Thank you. We Shell watch and wait. It has been fascinating. | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
-- we says Russia has moved more | :09:31. | :09:40. | |
troops to the Ukrainian border. NATO's Secretary General, | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said several thousand more soldiers | :09:47. | :09:48. | |
had been deployed. He said that is a matter | :09:49. | :09:50. | |
for grave concern. NATO: Russia to stop the flow of | :09:51. | :10:05. | |
weapons. To stop the flow of weapons from | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
Russia to separatist groups in eastern Ukraine. We call on Russia | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
to stop the support for pro-Russian armed gangs in eastern Ukraine and | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
recall Russia to stop is stabilising the situation and engage in a | :10:24. | :10:32. | |
constructive manner with the political leadership. -- and we call | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
on Russia to. Fighting is still raging in eastern | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
Ukraine as the Army battles pro-Russian insurgents. Daniel | :10:45. | :10:56. | |
Sandford is in the city of Luhansk. We have had a reasonably quiet 24 | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
hours until recently. There has been a grim exchange of bodies by the two | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
sides. The Ukrainian army and the rebels handing back the debt to the | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
other side, so that they can be given a burial. That is what has | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
been going on for the last 24-hour is. That said, there have been | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
reports recently of some quite heavy fighting breaking out in a heavily | :11:25. | :11:31. | |
fortified town to the north of Donetsk. Here we have not seen | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
fighting today, but we have seen lots and lots of evidence of the | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
aftermath of fighting. One of the things that has happened today is | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
that the leadership of the Donetsk People's Republic have been | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
appealing in Moscow saying they feel they are outnumbered and are looking | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
to Moscow for support. Of course, it is a difficult | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
situation there. The question over the troops, over the Russian troops | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
being brought back to the Ukrainian border which will be very | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
inflammatory, as well. Yes, it is. I think there is no | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
doubt now that our Russian troops building up on the other side of the | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
border. The reasons for that aren't clear. In fact, they are paid. NATO | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
were saying that they were hoping that it might mean that Russia is | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
trying to control the border batter, trying to prevent weaponry and | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
people coming to help the fight is here coming across the border. But | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
there are noises coming out of Moscow suggesting through sources, | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
nothing to direct, that the build-up of troops is to apply pressure on TF | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
after the Russian embassy in the year was of course attacked at the | :12:57. | :13:07. | |
weekend. -- on Kiev. One thing that is certain is that if | :13:08. | :13:14. | |
this tension keeps building, lots more people will die here and many | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
of them will be civilians. What everybody needs to be doing is | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
getting around the table and trying to get right things and we do not | :13:23. | :13:30. | |
see much sign of that. TRANSLATION: Were disadvantaged in numbers of | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
troops and lose in terms of armaments. -- we are. They have | :13:36. | :13:43. | |
another big advantage, the support of the West, which justifies all of | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
their actions, absolutely all, no matter how absurd. | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
You can see there that that requests for assistance from the Russians not | :13:54. | :14:01. | |
really a sign of people trying to de-escalate things. Back to you. | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
Thank you. Spain's new king, Felipe VI, | :14:05. | :14:06. | |
has called for unity and respect for diversity, at | :14:07. | :14:08. | |
a swearing-in ceremony in Madrid. It was a low-key event, | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
at a time of austerity and hardship for many Spaniards and when the | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
country is threatened by a growing Spain's first royal succession | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
follows the abdication of his father, King Juan Carlos, | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
earlier this month. The BBC's Chris Morris has been | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
watching events in Madrid. The morning after the night before, | :14:29. | :14:39. | |
the world champions may be out of the World Cup, but Spain has a new | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
king. This is the start of a new era. | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
Felipe VI received a red sash from the outgoing king, his father. It | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
signifies the rank of Captain General, the highest rank in the | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
Spanish army. Then to parliament where he was sworn in as head of | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
state. There were no foreign leaders | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
present, no coronation, this has been a day of deliberately | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
restrained ceremony. In the most important speech of his life, the | :15:16. | :15:22. | |
King appealed for unity without playing down the challenges that he | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
and his country face after years of economic and constitutional crisis. | :15:28. | :15:34. | |
TRANSLATION: I have communicated my sincere and honest feelings, | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
convictions and commitments about Spain I identify with, one I love | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
and aspire to. And the parliamentary monarchy I believe in. It has to be | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
a renovated monarchy for new times. And then the moment many people were | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
waiting for, the royal procession through the streets of Madrid. Here | :15:54. | :16:01. | |
is the new king. This is the first royal succession in Spain since the | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
restoration of democracy in the 1970s. Plenty of questions are being | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
asked about whether the monarchy is the right institution to take this | :16:11. | :16:23. | |
country forward. We have studies that say that monarchies are cheaper | :16:24. | :16:35. | |
in fact than republics. I think that Felipe VI will be the king of all | :16:36. | :16:42. | |
Spanish people. So I do not mind the Republic question. I think that | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
monarchy now is the better option, the best option for Spain. Finally | :16:47. | :16:54. | |
the appearance on the balcony of the Royal Palace. Waving to the | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
assembled crowds. But this cannot be business as usual for the Spanish | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
monarchy, and the new King seems to accept that. Now he has to deliver | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
on his promise. There's been a dramatic rescue | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
in Germany. Johann Westhauser was trapped | :17:13. | :17:14. | |
for 11 days in the Riesending cave, which is on the border of Austria | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
and Germany. The Riesending cave in | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
Southern Germany is the deepest Our Berlin Correspondent Stephen | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
Evans has the story. 11 days trapped underground, but now | :17:24. | :17:41. | |
it is over. Sometimes you hand best Hauser has been squeezed through the | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
tightest gaps. -- Johann Westhauser. It has been inch by inch. Up from a | :17:47. | :17:54. | |
whole 1000 metres deep. There was tension among the rescuers right to | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
the end. TRANSLATION: I have the joy his duty to let you know that the | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
injured man has no arrived at the clinic in a good state and we have | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
managed to fulfil the essential aim of the operation. The complex of | :18:10. | :18:19. | |
caves in the Alps is on the border with Germany and Austria. But there | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
are dangerous drops, sometimes 300 metres straight down. The caves | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
stretched horizontally to the injured man. 200 people had been | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
involved in the rescue, helicopters have constantly ferried supplies to | :18:38. | :18:46. | |
the top of the mountain, where a tiny hall gives access to the caves. | :18:47. | :18:53. | |
Cavers normally take out insurance, but this will go nowhere near | :18:54. | :18:54. | |
covering the operation. As temperatures rise in the UK | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
and Europe, thousands of people are expected to flock to holiday resorts | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
to soak up the summer sun. But new research reveals that | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
the sun's rays can be addictive and can give frequent sunbathers | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
a fix, much like heroin or morphine Well, Dr David Fisher | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
from the Harvard Medical School is Thank you for joining us. You are | :19:13. | :19:29. | |
suggesting that the sun is as addictive as heroin? It appears to | :19:30. | :19:37. | |
activate the same response, the opiate response, in the skin. It | :19:38. | :19:48. | |
creates a molecule which is our body's one version of the opiates. | :19:49. | :19:59. | |
Feel-good hormones? Yes, the study did not measure the euphoric sayyid | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
of it, but it measured the addictive qualities -- the euphoric effects of | :20:05. | :20:19. | |
it. A dependency would occur if we suddenly interrupted this, they | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
would be withdrawal symptoms, shaking and things of that nature, | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
due to the effect of EV radiation. We know that the sun and | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
overexposure can be dangerous for our skin, but what you are saying is | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
that it is addictive and we need to treat it with care? That is right. | :20:41. | :20:52. | |
It suggests that the strategy to break the sun seeking behaviour may | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
be more than a simple casual discussion but perhaps something | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
that recognises that there can be the behavioural influence of | :21:00. | :21:13. | |
carrying -- influences or carrying. There have been studies that have | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
been carried out in people to suggest that there are addictive | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
features. I think that this helps us to understand without happily exist | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
and perhaps that these would be regulated in a different way if the | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
process is activating a potent addiction like mechanisms in people. | :21:32. | :21:38. | |
You were using mace, critics have said that these were nocturnal | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
animals, they do not usually suffer from sun exposure. -- mice. What | :21:43. | :21:55. | |
conclusive results can you then take away from these mice and give to | :21:56. | :22:03. | |
humans? Any studies done outside of humans have to be validated in | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
people and the direct impact of that must be carefully analysed before it | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
is assumed to be absolutely identical. There are several key | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
features which we do to be quite confident that we can -- that what | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
we are looking at is very similar if not identical. There is evidence | :22:21. | :22:38. | |
that UV responses in the skin are very similar, again, if not | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
identical in mice as they iron men. Mice, even though they are fiery, | :22:45. | :22:58. | |
they still tan, -- furry. It was important was that the doses of UV | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
that we used were very low doses. These were not inflammatory doses, | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
these were very low, because we did not want to look at the effects at | :23:09. | :23:16. | |
an unusual exposure of UV. We are so sorry, we're out of time. But thank | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
you for that very serious message, be careful of the sun, it is | :23:23. | :23:23. | |
addictive. Now to the World Cup | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
and another big footballing nation could be following Spain towards | :23:27. | :23:28. | |
the exit door later. England kick off against Uruguay | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
in Sao Paulo shortly, The early game,which has just | :23:32. | :23:33. | |
finished, saw the two unbeaten teams from Group C, Colombia and | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
Ivory Coast, in action. It was a clash at the top of group | :23:39. | :23:53. | |
C. Emotions were running high, with both teams unbeaten so far. It | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
opened at blistering pace, end-to-end play with both sides | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
getting in shots on goal. Ivory Coast also had a chance. And then | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
this move almost put Colombia in the lead. In the second half, the goals | :24:12. | :24:20. | |
came. A superb header from this corner saw the South Americans call | :24:21. | :24:30. | |
one nil ahead. Then this call from the substitute. But Ivory Coast came | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
back and produced a spectacular goal. They kept the pressure on rate | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
until the end, but it was not enough will stop Colombia two, Ivory Coast | :24:41. | :24:43. | |
one. So coming up next, in just over half | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
an hour, a must-win game for Uruguay and England after both teams lost | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
their opening games. And the late game is another clash | :24:52. | :24:53. | |
between first-round losers, Here in the UK 20 million people are | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
expected to be glued to their sets So with anticipation building | :24:57. | :25:07. | |
and nerves jangling, we leave you tonight with a bit of blatant bias, | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
a patriotic call to arms! This special poem, | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
penned and filmed by the poet Henry Birtles, harks back to the | :25:14. | :25:15. | |
first and only time England won the Have we finally learnt our lesson, | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
do we finally know the score. Has reality come home to roost | :25:20. | :25:29. | |
and knocked on every door. In a land where blind conviction | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
never ceases to amaze. When you weigh up all those barren | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
years, Have we woken up with open eyes | :25:41. | :25:42. | |
and seized the reins of truth. Are we reckoning on nothing; | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
it?s the basement not the roof. Or yet once again has reason | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
from our senses taken leave. Has it forced us to declare | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
in hope; in England we believe. From the cobbled streets | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
of Holmfirth, Can we see our Lions prowling, | :26:01. | :26:03. | |
can we count upon these men. Will they interrupt the Samba | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
and evoke the ghost of Moore. Will they burn out, | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
will they whimper, From the Peckhams to the Beckhams, | :26:13. | :26:14. | |
from The Bridge up to The Lane. From The Valley to The Cottage, | :26:15. | :26:25. | |
is it four more years of pain. Are the car flags and the banners | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
just reminders to forget. Or will Gerrard?s Cross find Rooney | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
and will Rooney find the net. It?s that time again for all of us, | :26:32. | :26:34. | |
that time when we unite. Let the Scots cry Argentina, | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
let the hand of God be right. We won?t shy from blinkered passion, | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
so it?s time we gave what for. From the Stretford End to Rovers, | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
from the Hawthorns to Turf Moor. We will rally, we will gather, | :26:49. | :26:51. | |
we will throw all colours in. For our Team and for our Country, | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
for our Queen and for our kin. And when all is done and dusted and | :26:57. | :26:59. | |
they?ve dragged us through the dirt. We?ll still celebrate the honour | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
of Three Lions and The Shirt. | :27:04. | :27:12. |