:00:00. > :00:00.This is BBC World News Today with me Zeinab Badawi.
:00:07. > :00:09.On a surprise visit to Baghdad, the US Secretary of State John
:00:10. > :00:13.Kerry warns of a "critical moment" for Iraq, as ISIS insurgents extend
:00:14. > :00:21.territory under their control in the north and west.
:00:22. > :00:23.He warns Iraqi leaders that the country's future survival
:00:24. > :00:27.depends on them uniting, urgently, against the jihadists.
:00:28. > :00:43.The support will be intense and sustained and if the readers of Iraq
:00:44. > :00:49.take the necessary steps it will be effective.
:00:50. > :00:52.Shock at the outcome of the trial in Egypt of three Al Jazeera
:00:53. > :00:57.They?re jailed for seven years, convicted of "spreading false news".
:00:58. > :01:01.Pro-Russian separatists say they will respect a ceasefire declared
:01:02. > :01:16.In Spain finally win a World Cup match, defeating Australia 3-0. Both
:01:17. > :01:25.teams go home anyway. The US Secretary of State John Kerry
:01:26. > :01:29.has been in Iraq today for crisis talks as the situation
:01:30. > :01:35.in the country escalates. Sunni militants have tightened
:01:36. > :01:38.their grip in the north and west of the country, seizing control
:01:39. > :01:40.of strategic border towns. Mr Kerry has asked the Iraqi
:01:41. > :01:42.Prime-Minister Nouri al-Maliki to The rebels led by the jihadist group
:01:43. > :01:53.ISIS are now in control of much of They've also reportedly retaken
:01:54. > :02:00.control of the town of Tal Afar - The group are also effectively
:02:01. > :02:03.in control of Iraq's western border And government forces have pulled
:02:04. > :02:07.out of al-Waleed crossing with Syria and
:02:08. > :02:08.the Turaibil crossing with Jordan. Well Mr Kerry has also visited
:02:09. > :02:12.Jordan today, After the recent collapse
:02:13. > :02:25.of the Iraqi army, these pictures seem to show greater determination
:02:26. > :02:29.and it is clear from the evidence that they are starting to be
:02:30. > :02:32.successful in taking back territory Still, ISIS has scored further
:02:33. > :02:42.successes just today, it has taken over more border crossings and it
:02:43. > :02:47.is sounding a major hydroelectric So this is the position that
:02:48. > :02:52.John Kerry, the US Secretary of The atmosphere when he met the
:02:53. > :02:59.Iraqi Prime Minister was not He thinks
:03:00. > :03:08.the Americans are deliberately not Mr Kerry wants him to step
:03:09. > :03:13.down or at least to widen It is essential that Iraq's leaders
:03:14. > :03:20.form a genuinely inclusive government
:03:21. > :03:22.as rapidly as possible within The most Mr Kerry has probably gone
:03:23. > :03:26.from this visit is an undertaking from the Iraqi Prime Minister that
:03:27. > :03:29.he will broaden his government to It is the feeling amongst Sunni
:03:30. > :03:33.people that they have been excluded from power, which has turned many
:03:34. > :03:46.of them into supporters of ISIS. We would like a new government
:03:47. > :03:49.as well but it is not time for If the parliament decide something
:03:50. > :03:57.else this is a democratic country so we believe in democracy, we
:03:58. > :04:00.believe in the will of the people. This is the way ISIS
:04:01. > :04:03.likes to present itself. In this case the pictures are
:04:04. > :04:09.from the city of Mosul ISIS fighters are handing
:04:10. > :04:16.out copies of the Koran. They are not unbeatable
:04:17. > :04:21.but it will take sole American help with the Iraqi government is to win
:04:22. > :04:36.back places like Mosul. Pro-Russian separatist leaders
:04:37. > :04:38.in eastern Ukraine have announced It comes after talks
:04:39. > :04:42.between Ukrainian, The ceasefire in Donetsk and Luhansk
:04:43. > :04:48.is expected to last until Friday and will run parallel to
:04:49. > :04:52.a unilateral Ukrainian ceasefire that was declared by
:04:53. > :04:57.President Petro Poroshenko David Stern is in Kiev
:04:58. > :05:16.and joins me now. What will happen when the cease-fire
:05:17. > :05:21.takes effect? What is important is what is not going to happen.
:05:22. > :05:25.Apparently there will be a truce, both sides have agreed that they are
:05:26. > :05:36.not going to conduct any operations against the other side until, as you
:05:37. > :05:41.say, Friday at 10am local time. We will see if that lasts, there is
:05:42. > :05:45.still a great deal of tension. The pro-Russian separatists have agreed
:05:46. > :05:52.to a cease-fire. This is a unilateral cease-fire. The rebels
:05:53. > :05:56.have agreed to match that. Until the time that the government cease-fire
:05:57. > :06:00.is supposed to expire, this obviously is a positive step that is
:06:01. > :06:06.being welcomed as such here in the yes. The question is, what will
:06:07. > :06:09.happen next? They have also announced a 14 point peace plan.
:06:10. > :06:14.They hope to bring peace ultimately to the east. The rebels say they
:06:15. > :06:19.will not accept anything less than what their demands are, but
:06:20. > :06:23.obviously both sides are talking to one another. This was a contact
:06:24. > :06:29.group that met. It was not top officials. There is some contact
:06:30. > :06:32.among European officials and with the Russian ambassador so it remains
:06:33. > :06:38.to be seen what will happen but obviously any time they are not
:06:39. > :06:44.fighting in the East, this is a positive development. Thank you for
:06:45. > :06:49.that commitment. Three journalists with the
:06:50. > :06:51.Al Jazeera network have been jailed for seven years in Egypt,
:06:52. > :06:53.after being convicted of spreading false news and supporting
:06:54. > :06:57.the banned Muslim Brotherhood. The case of Peter Greste,
:06:58. > :06:59.from Australia, and Egyptians Mohamed Fahmy and Baher
:07:00. > :07:03.Mohamed has attracted international attention, and sparked outrage since
:07:04. > :07:06.they were detained last December. They were
:07:07. > :07:10.among twenty defendants accused Inside, Australian Peter Greste
:07:11. > :07:25.and two Al Jazeera colleagues desperately hoping this
:07:26. > :07:31.ordeal is about to end. The judge had sat through 12
:07:32. > :07:34.hearings at this trial, which Amnesty International dismissed
:07:35. > :07:37.as a vindictive farce. The verdicts, then,
:07:38. > :07:40.even more shocking. Peter's parents
:07:41. > :07:55.watching a live feed in Australia. My God!
:07:56. > :07:59.My God! Of 20 people on trial,
:08:00. > :08:02.only two were acquitted. The rest,
:08:03. > :08:04.most of them tried in their absence, In court, the families
:08:05. > :08:13.reacted with disbelief. Seven years is
:08:14. > :08:19.absolutely ridiculous. For the families,
:08:20. > :08:21.this is the verdict they had feared And no wonder
:08:22. > :08:25.the prisoners shout in anguish. From here,
:08:26. > :08:27.they will be taken back to the cell they've shared for six
:08:28. > :08:29.months. It is three metres by four metres,
:08:30. > :08:33.just a small window and three beds. They are in lockdown
:08:34. > :08:37.for 23 hours a day. This was the night of the arrests
:08:38. > :08:43.in late December and the recording of the raid on the
:08:44. > :08:46.Marriott hotel room where the Al Jazeera journalists
:08:47. > :08:49.were working. Peter and the Cairo bureau chief
:08:50. > :08:52.sitting next to him were charged with spreading false news in support
:08:53. > :08:58.of the banned Muslim Brotherhood. For six months,
:08:59. > :09:00.the international media has run But in the absence
:09:01. > :09:04.of any real evidence, it seemed certain this case was
:09:05. > :09:07.part of the wider diplomatic row between Egypt and the Gulf
:09:08. > :09:11.state Qatar, which owns Al Jazeera and has backed the deposed Islamist
:09:12. > :09:18.president Mohamed Morsi. Outside court today,
:09:19. > :09:21.Muhamed's mother said her son is If they could find any one
:09:22. > :09:29.single evidence... Anyone doing anything should
:09:30. > :09:34.take the punishment. From here,
:09:35. > :09:43.the appeals process is a long road. There can be no presidential pardon
:09:44. > :09:59.until the legal battle is exhausted. We're joined now from Qatar
:10:00. > :10:01.by Dominic Kane, a journalist for Al Jazeera English who was
:10:02. > :10:14.today convicted in absentia and Dominic, first novel, shock and
:10:15. > :10:21.outrage at what has happened to your colleagues absolutely. Shock was the
:10:22. > :10:24.first reaction of all others. Like you just heard there, the evidence
:10:25. > :10:31.against us was flimsy in the extreme. It was inconsistent, at
:10:32. > :10:35.times it was incoherent. Because of that and because he believed in the
:10:36. > :10:39.Egyptian justice system that the judges would see that the evidence
:10:40. > :10:43.was flimsy and take the only decision possible, which was clearly
:10:44. > :10:47.to acquire all of us, but since then in the last few hours we have had
:10:48. > :10:51.tainted digests this and now our reaction is one of outrage. This is
:10:52. > :10:57.a serious miscarriage of justice. It should not be allowed to happen and
:10:58. > :10:59.in the new Egypt's where there was a referendum on a new constitution
:11:00. > :11:04.that was supposed to enshrine the freedom of expression, the only
:11:05. > :11:10.verdict that should have come from that was not guilty. It did not
:11:11. > :11:13.come. Yes, our journalists was in the dock and I was in the dock in
:11:14. > :11:18.absentia but now the only thing that should be in the dock is the
:11:19. > :11:22.Egyptian justice system. Dominic, you have a ten year jail sentence in
:11:23. > :11:28.absentia. What does that mean for you? For those of us who were
:11:29. > :11:33.convicted in our absence and given ten year sentences it is quite
:11:34. > :11:36.profound. It means we cannot go to any country which has a valid
:11:37. > :11:41.extradition treaty with Egypt for fear that extradition rights may be
:11:42. > :11:47.sought by the Egyptians. There is a recent development which is of
:11:48. > :11:51.concern. The joke was allowed back into the African union in the last
:11:52. > :11:56.few days as a consequence of the election of the president. The
:11:57. > :12:01.African union has a convention which allows for the extradition of people
:12:02. > :12:09.who have been charged and convicted of terrorist letting fences. --
:12:10. > :12:12.terrorist related offences. The worst-case scenario is that the
:12:13. > :12:19.entire African continent is out of bounds for us. What would you all
:12:20. > :12:25.like to happen from here on out? What do you want the international
:12:26. > :12:27.community to do? The Egyptian ambassador in London was summoned to
:12:28. > :12:34.the Foreign Office. What do you want? Obviously I would like the
:12:35. > :12:37.verdict to be overturned. Let's not forget that journalism is not a
:12:38. > :12:45.trained in the reality is that my friends and colleagues are now deal
:12:46. > :12:50.with rapists and murderers and they have done nothing wrong. Immediately
:12:51. > :12:56.they must be released. Secondly, unfortunately because of the nature
:12:57. > :13:02.of the Egyptian justice system either myself or my colleagues can
:13:03. > :13:08.appeal against this convection and as he heard the appeals process can
:13:09. > :13:10.be very protracted. What we are calling for as British citizens is
:13:11. > :13:17.that the British government take whatever action it can in order for
:13:18. > :13:21.this terrible travesty of a trial to be overturned and for the innocent
:13:22. > :13:28.journalists that we are to be recognised as such for my colleagues
:13:29. > :13:29.to be released and for all the convictions to be overturned. Thank
:13:30. > :13:35.you very much. convictions to be overturned. Thank
:13:36. > :13:37.Dominic Keane who was today convicted in absentia in Cairo and
:13:38. > :13:39.given ten years. Let's speak now Gamal Abdel-Gawad,
:13:40. > :13:41.Professor of political science at The American University in Cairo
:13:42. > :13:56.and advisor to Al-Ahram Centre . A travesty of a trial is what
:13:57. > :14:03.Dominic said. What does this tell us about the independence of the
:14:04. > :14:05.Egyptian judiciary? To a great extent I think it is highly
:14:06. > :14:12.influenced by the political development, looking at the verdict
:14:13. > :14:16.it is clear that the judge applied articles that are in the law but on
:14:17. > :14:18.the other hand it is also politicised in terms of the fact
:14:19. > :14:27.that those articles apparently have been interpreted in a way that is a
:14:28. > :14:30.highly influenced by the political atmosphere in the country. Those
:14:31. > :14:33.journalists have been caught in the middle of a fierce power struggle
:14:34. > :14:39.between the Muslim brotherhood on one hand and the government on the
:14:40. > :14:43.other and also there is an original damage and do that, they are
:14:44. > :14:51.struggling between Egypt and the fact that in the state the
:14:52. > :14:55.government of Qatar owns Al Jazeera and to some extent at least Al
:14:56. > :15:02.Jazeera has been influenced by the political differences in the state
:15:03. > :15:13.of Qatar. This is not a good thing to happen for the journalists. Do
:15:14. > :15:16.they not make a distinction between Al Jazeera English and Al Jazeera
:15:17. > :15:24.Arabic? There have been criticisms of that. Al Jazeera is based in cat
:15:25. > :15:29.that which is very pro-Mohamed Morsi anti-Muslim brotherhood. There are
:15:30. > :15:34.even worse the exiles living in cat and the Egyptian authorities are not
:15:35. > :15:38.very happy about that. This distinction between art is either
:15:39. > :15:45.English and Al Jazeera Arabic is not very much accepted by the Egyptian
:15:46. > :15:49.facials. They see both of them as a package, as a tool used by the
:15:50. > :15:53.Qatari government to advance its policy in the region, a policy that
:15:54. > :16:02.has been perceived here as an outstanding policy. That they
:16:03. > :16:04.provided a kind of extraordinary instance of coverage of the
:16:05. > :16:10.developments in Egypt, not only reporting the news but also giving a
:16:11. > :16:15.broad room for opinion critical of the Egyptian government. This was
:16:16. > :16:21.perceived negatively in the Egyptian government and apparently this case
:16:22. > :16:28.against journalists of Al Jazeera is a -- to any great extent and outcome
:16:29. > :16:30.of that. And one question on Iraq. We have the Americans and others
:16:31. > :16:38.think they want a more inclusive government. A lot of people are
:16:39. > :16:41.saying that actually the president is being encouraged to step down.
:16:42. > :16:46.What do they see in the Arab world about what is going on in Iraq? Do
:16:47. > :16:55.they see him as being an obstacle? Yes, this is a white belief you're
:16:56. > :16:59.in the Arab world, that the performance over the past eight
:17:00. > :17:02.years was not really encouraging to people around the Arab world. And
:17:03. > :17:10.the fact that those developments are happening at the end of his second
:17:11. > :17:17.term are strong indication of his failures to providing clues of, to
:17:18. > :17:22.recompile and integrate the Sunni segments of Iraqi society. -- to
:17:23. > :17:27.provide an inclusive government. This is a popular demand around
:17:28. > :17:30.here, a new Prime Minister for Iraq. He is also losing the American
:17:31. > :17:39.support. They are not happy with him. If the crowd decides that he is
:17:40. > :17:45.not right, I think we are likely to see a new premier in Iraq. Thank you
:17:46. > :17:47.very much indeed for talking to us both about what has gone on in Egypt
:17:48. > :17:48.and Iraq. In other news Israel says it's
:17:49. > :17:51.carried out air strikes Latest reports say at least ten
:17:52. > :17:54.Syrian soldiers were killed in the raids, on positions near
:17:55. > :17:59.the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The attacks were in response to
:18:00. > :18:02.the killing of a teenage boy Two other people,
:18:03. > :18:07.including the boy's father, were Police in Kosovo have fired tear gas
:18:08. > :18:12.and used batons to disperse hundreds of ethnic Albanians
:18:13. > :18:15.angry about minority Serbs reinforcing a barricade on a bridge
:18:16. > :18:20.in central Mitrovica. At least seven police officers were
:18:21. > :18:24.injured and five cars set on fire. The clashes follow the decision
:18:25. > :18:27.by the authorities last week to remove a three-year old blockade on
:18:28. > :18:30.the bridge, which has been the scene A court in Sudan has ordered
:18:31. > :18:41.the release of a 27-year-old woman who was sentenced to death last
:18:42. > :18:43.month for converting The case of Meriam Ibrahim,
:18:44. > :18:47.who is married to a Christian Sudanese-American,
:18:48. > :18:51.triggered an international outcry. She gave birth to the couple's baby
:18:52. > :18:58.daughter while in prison last month. The BBC has learned that a third
:18:59. > :19:04.British man in a recruitment video for the Islamic militant group Isis
:19:05. > :19:09.is from Aberdeen in Scotland. The 13-minute video emerged
:19:10. > :19:11.on Friday, Two of the other fighters have been
:19:12. > :19:17.identified as Nasser Muthana The BBC has also been told that
:19:18. > :19:36.the families -- that a third grew up in Aberdeen
:19:37. > :19:40.although he was originally from Bangladesh. One former acquaintance
:19:41. > :19:44.spoke of his shock at seeing the man sitting with a very self-declared
:19:45. > :19:50.Jihadist, urging others to take part in jihad. He does not want to be
:19:51. > :19:55.named for fear of retribution but said that he had regularly been in
:19:56. > :19:59.trouble as a young teenager. He came here when he was a younger child and
:20:00. > :20:03.went to primary and secondary school year. After that, he was around in
:20:04. > :20:08.Aberdeen. He was a bit arrogant, maybe something to prove. He ended
:20:09. > :20:12.up in a lot of fights. To learn he has accepted religion in such an
:20:13. > :20:17.extreme way is shocking because he is from Aberdeen and has ended up
:20:18. > :20:18.somewhere like that. A former acquaintance of one Jihadist from
:20:19. > :20:20.Aberdeen. With me now is Usama Hasan,
:20:21. > :20:22.a senior researcher with the counter extremism think tank
:20:23. > :20:30.the Quilliam Foundation. First of all, let's get the numbers
:20:31. > :20:36.right, are we talking about a fairly small number of vulnerable young men
:20:37. > :20:39.who get recruited? No, we are talking about 500 at least in the
:20:40. > :20:44.area at the moment. For those in from across Europe. They are
:20:45. > :20:52.fighting in Syria with this highly brittle terrorist group. These are
:20:53. > :20:55.fairly large numbers. A very small proportion of Europe's Muslim
:20:56. > :20:58.communities, which are tens of millions strong. That is what I
:20:59. > :21:06.really meant. Fortunately, there are very small. But they have larger
:21:07. > :21:10.support networks and sympathisers, who clearly provide the mood music
:21:11. > :21:17.for them to carry on doing this kind of recruitment and activity. How
:21:18. > :21:21.I've recruited? What would be typical way for a young man to end
:21:22. > :21:26.up in Syria or Iraq? -- how I've recruited? British Jihadist is 20
:21:27. > :21:33.years old, when people went to Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kashmir,
:21:34. > :21:44.Pakistan, Somalia and most recently Syria. There are networks in place.
:21:45. > :21:48.I went to fight in -- some went to my -- I went to fight in
:21:49. > :21:56.Afghanistan. What motivated you? It was a very similar, narrow ideology,
:21:57. > :22:00.this idea of not being able to live in a non-Muslim country like Britain
:22:01. > :22:03.or Europe, we had to live in an Islamic state and be willing to
:22:04. > :22:09.fight and die for it. In Afghanistan, we had an Islamic state
:22:10. > :22:13.at the time. So it is a continuation of this kind of thing. People carry
:22:14. > :22:17.these kind of ideas and make contact with like-minded people. What do you
:22:18. > :22:23.do about it? Do you make it punishable by law and the that you
:22:24. > :22:27.are going to be in real trouble? That is what the law says at the
:22:28. > :22:31.moment. Under the terrorism legislation, if you fight abroad and
:22:32. > :22:36.are not a member of a legitimate Armed Forces, you are a terrorist.
:22:37. > :22:38.There is that very hard option to prosecute. In parts of Europe, they
:22:39. > :22:44.are taking a very different approach. In Belgium and part of
:22:45. > :22:46.Germany, they have a civic reintegration programme to try to
:22:47. > :22:49.support them and give them counselling when they returned to
:22:50. > :22:53.get rid of their, and help them reintegrate into civilian life and
:22:54. > :22:58.find a job. -- get rid of their trauma. That is likely to work in
:22:59. > :23:03.the long term but is quite a difficult one because some of them
:23:04. > :23:07.may relapse into Jihadist and more terrorism. It is quite difficult to
:23:08. > :23:14.do when you have passed laws against terrorism. What do you do? We have
:23:15. > :23:19.to destroy the narrow ideology which promotes this. It is isolationist
:23:20. > :23:23.and says that Muslims cannot love of anywhere else and that causes
:23:24. > :23:24.problems over. That is the core of this that we must tackle. Thank you
:23:25. > :23:27.very much. Now to the World Cup in Brazil,
:23:28. > :23:30.where the tournament is nearing the end of week two and every match is
:23:31. > :23:35.testing the strength of each team. Today is a big day, as the hosts,
:23:36. > :23:53.Brazil, compete in their next game He joins us now. A couple of hours
:23:54. > :23:59.to catch your breath before that they match. Absolutely. We are
:24:00. > :24:03.looking forward to that. Let me tell you about the games we have already
:24:04. > :24:08.had today. Four altogether. We have had two. Let's talk about the
:24:09. > :24:18.Netherlands against Chile. 2-0 to the Netherlands. The first was
:24:19. > :24:26.scored by a player from Norwich City, who had come on as a sub. He
:24:27. > :24:32.has got one. Then it was the 92nd minute for the second goal. They
:24:33. > :24:36.finished top of group be and will probably face Mexico or Croatia in
:24:37. > :24:42.the next round. Chile lost but will probably face result. In the other
:24:43. > :24:46.game, Spain beat Australia 3-0, salvaging a little bit of Spanish
:24:47. > :24:54.pride. Not finishing bottom of the group. Fernando Torres scored one of
:24:55. > :24:58.those goals. And what do we expect in the Brazil
:24:59. > :25:04.team? That is the one that everybody is going to be watching in the
:25:05. > :25:08.stadium. It certainly is. Let me sure you down here on Copacabana
:25:09. > :25:13.Beach, behind me, they are going to be showing it on the big screen.
:25:14. > :25:18.Already, couple of hours to go, and Brazilian fans are packing in. A
:25:19. > :25:23.beautiful place to watch football. Brazil, the host and favourites in
:25:24. > :25:26.the tournament, a few are little bit nervous but they only need a draw
:25:27. > :25:31.against Cameroon and the other game, Croatia against Mexico.
:25:32. > :25:34.Thank you very much indeed, from Rio de Janeiro.
:25:35. > :25:36.And for more on the World Cup
:25:37. > :25:39.You can catch up with all the latest news
:25:40. > :25:43.and find out what's on offer today, including who is tipped to win.
:25:44. > :26:04.You can also join the conversation on Twitter using #bbcworldcup.
:26:05. > :26:09.Police say a bomb explosion in northern Nigeria killed at least
:26:10. > :26:13.eight people. 20 people were injured as students gathered to pick up the
:26:14. > :26:20.admission letters for the next term. It is not yet known who
:26:21. > :26:27.carried out the attack but the area has previously been targeted by Boko
:26:28. > :26:31.Haram. Let's bring you a reminder of our top story. John Kerry has been
:26:32. > :26:36.in Iraq for crisis talks as the situation in the country escalates.
:26:37. > :26:38.Sunni militants from a jihadist group have taken their grip on the
:26:39. > :26:39.country. But for now, from me and the rest
:26:40. > :27:02.of the team, goodbye. month so far. There will be some
:27:03. > :27:07.subtle changes in the forecast but it will not be too drastic. There
:27:08. > :27:08.will be some sunny spells or tomorrow and a few showers but