:00:00. > :00:00.This is BBC World News Today with me, Philippa Thomas.
:00:00. > :00:08.The number of Palestinians killed passes 100 on day four of Israel's
:00:09. > :00:15.More rubble in Gaza, more Palestinian casualties today,
:00:16. > :00:17.but Israel's Prime Minister says the military offensive will
:00:18. > :00:22.continue until the militants' rocket fire stops for good.
:00:23. > :00:25.John Kerry meets with Afghanistan's presidential rivals in Kabul
:00:26. > :00:30.as the US tries to stop the dispute over who won from escalating.
:00:31. > :00:36.They may be out of the World Cup finals, but this Brazil fan show us
:00:37. > :00:43.why his countrymen still have footballing spirit.
:00:44. > :00:45.And did you prefer StreetFighter or Pacman?
:00:46. > :00:48.We'll look at a one man's bid to save the video
:00:49. > :01:08.More than 100 Palestinians have now died as a result of Israeli
:01:09. > :01:11.airstrikes according to officials in Gaza.
:01:12. > :01:13.Today, militants in Gaza have continued to
:01:14. > :01:18.No Israelis have died in the exchanges.
:01:19. > :01:22.These are some of the latest images taken a few hours ago of Israel's
:01:23. > :01:27.ongoing military operation, called Protective Edge, which has attacked
:01:28. > :01:32.And these are pictures of some of the destruction,
:01:33. > :01:36.a three story building in the southern town of Rafah completely
:01:37. > :01:43.The Israel Defence Forces say 490 Hamas rockets have been launched
:01:44. > :01:50.Around 130 more have been intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome
:01:51. > :01:55.You can see here just how widespread the targets across Israel have been.
:01:56. > :01:59.The first serious Israeli casualty came today when a rocket hit
:02:00. > :02:06.And we've heard reports that rockets have also been fired into Israel
:02:07. > :02:16.With more on the day's events here's our Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen.
:02:17. > :02:25.The streets are silent in Gaza, but they're not peaceful. It looks as if
:02:26. > :02:32.there's a curfew here, and there is, in a way. In forced by the Israeli
:02:33. > :02:40.military. Israel's air raid continue, they say they are after
:02:41. > :02:43.her Hamas and its fighters. But there was a child among the nine
:02:44. > :02:49.Palestinians killed overnight who were buried in the town of Rafah.
:02:50. > :02:52.More than half of over 100 people killed in Gaza by Israeli raids were
:02:53. > :02:57.women and children. That is according to the health minister. In
:02:58. > :03:02.Israel, a petrol station exploded when it was hit by a rocket from
:03:03. > :03:05.Gaza. One man was critically injured. Israel's Prime Minister
:03:06. > :03:11.defended the military campaign he ordered. TRANSLATION: The difference
:03:12. > :03:15.between us is simple. We are using missiles to protect our people, and
:03:16. > :03:22.they are using people to protect their missiles. And that is the
:03:23. > :03:25.difference. We are hurting their militants, and sometimes,
:03:26. > :03:30.unintentionally, we are hurting civilians. The doctors in the
:03:31. > :03:34.intensive care unit at Gaza's main hospital view things differently.
:03:35. > :03:40.This eight-year-old has had brain surgery. She was helping her mother
:03:41. > :03:46.at home and she was hit by shrapnel that invaded itself in her brain. --
:03:47. > :03:52.embedded itself. Her neurosurgeon says she will survive but it is too
:03:53. > :03:56.soon to talk about a full recovery. You know that most difficult thing
:03:57. > :04:04.is that ideal here, it is when I deal with the kids. Sometimes, I
:04:05. > :04:11.can... Put my heart away, but when something to do with the kids, it's
:04:12. > :04:17.something difficult. I am a father. I don't care if fat at all Hamas is
:04:18. > :04:25.right, I want to feel that my kids are safe inside my house. She is
:04:26. > :04:30.alive -- she is an only child born after three rounds of IVF. Outside
:04:31. > :04:34.in the corridor, her father waits. He said, my message to Israeli
:04:35. > :04:38.parents is, look at our children as if they are yours. Look at their
:04:39. > :04:43.human rights, and treat them like human beings. There is a terrible
:04:44. > :04:50.familiarity, a sameness, about what has been happening in the last few
:04:51. > :04:53.days and that is because it has happened before. The underlying
:04:54. > :04:56.political realities of the conflict have not been tackled. Many Israelis
:04:57. > :04:59.would say that is because Palestinians will not accept the
:05:00. > :05:04.existence of their state. Palestinians and plenty of others
:05:05. > :05:08.say the problem is that they do not have independence. That if they had
:05:09. > :05:13.their own state, things might be very different. The latest peace
:05:14. > :05:18.talks collapsed recently. In the past, death, destruction and human
:05:19. > :05:19.pain have filled the gap left by failed negotiations. It's happened
:05:20. > :05:23.again. Yigal Palmor is a spokesman for the
:05:24. > :05:35.Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Thank you for being on the
:05:36. > :05:39.programme. Benjamin Netanyahu said today that the rocket fire from Gaza
:05:40. > :05:45.must stop for good. How do you achieve that? Of course, I am not
:05:46. > :05:49.going to go into military plans. But you achieve that with determination,
:05:50. > :05:52.careful planning and with patients. This is not something that can be
:05:53. > :05:59.achieved overnight. This is something that is going to be
:06:00. > :06:03.inevitably painful, because rocket firing into Israel must stop. It is
:06:04. > :06:07.inadmissible and intolerable that millions of Israelis should come
:06:08. > :06:15.under a rain of rockets every time Hamas fancies it. We have been
:06:16. > :06:18.through this. In 2009 and then again in 2012, this is the time when we
:06:19. > :06:25.want to put this behind us, we want to stop all the capacity from Hamas,
:06:26. > :06:32.to remove the threat once and for all. If you want to remove that
:06:33. > :06:35.capacity, Israel will keep going despite the human cost in Gaza and
:06:36. > :06:39.the destruction of infrastructure, that is how you see it? If we do not
:06:40. > :06:44.remove the threat, they will be at it again and again and again. This
:06:45. > :06:48.is their declared purpose, to destroy Israel. They have no other
:06:49. > :06:53.project, they have no other purpose. This is what their plans are and
:06:54. > :06:56.this is how they expose them. They don't have any projects for the
:06:57. > :07:00.Palestinians in Gaza or elsewhere. Other than fight Israel until the
:07:01. > :07:05.bitter end and destroy Israel. There is no other perspective for the
:07:06. > :07:10.Palestinians. And therefore, this threat is not only a threat on
:07:11. > :07:13.Israel, it is a threat to Palestinians as well, the same
:07:14. > :07:18.Palestinian civilians who suffer from Hamas hiding behind them,
:07:19. > :07:21.firing rockets from within civilian neighbourhoods, hiding rockets in
:07:22. > :07:28.the basements of schools and homes and making them legitimate military
:07:29. > :07:32.targets. Calling on civilians to go on rooftops in order to serve as
:07:33. > :07:35.human shields. I am referring to public calls by Hamas leaders over
:07:36. > :07:39.the last few days. This is something that must stop. The Palestinian
:07:40. > :07:44.health minister, we have heard in that piece there, more than half of
:07:45. > :07:49.the 100 people killed have been women and children. Is that an axe
:07:50. > :07:57.at the level of risk? -- acceptable level? There is no axe at the level
:07:58. > :08:05.of civilian losses. In terms of human value, every human life is
:08:06. > :08:10.worse as the whole world. There is their question. The question is, how
:08:11. > :08:16.are you going to react to rockets being fired in big cities? The only
:08:17. > :08:19.reason there are not casualties in Israel is we have developed a very
:08:20. > :08:23.efficient anti-missile defence system and we are not going to
:08:24. > :08:27.apologise for having developed that system. It is efficient and
:08:28. > :09:03.protecting Israeli civilians. When you do the body count, excuse
:09:04. > :09:04.rejoices in and praises debt and causes Palestinians to die for its
:09:05. > :09:06.cause. And we can now go to Beirut
:09:07. > :09:19.and speak to Osama Hamdan, First, your reaction to Mr Netanyahu
:09:20. > :09:22.saying that the offensive will continue, it will continue until the
:09:23. > :09:30.rocket fire stops coming into Israel? Well, I think several prime
:09:31. > :09:37.ministers said the same before and they failed. Because they were
:09:38. > :09:43.ignoring the main problem. The main problem is the occupation itself. I
:09:44. > :09:47.believe without that, the Israeli will be the same -- the situation
:09:48. > :09:54.will be the same. The Israelis think they will take over and kill
:09:55. > :09:59.Palestinians, unable -- and then we will have a cease-fire and that is
:10:00. > :10:04.it. People have done that before, and now he is trying to do that
:10:05. > :10:09.same. I think what Netanyahu is ignoring is, he has destroyed the
:10:10. > :10:18.peace process. He has destroyed any chance is to have a two state
:10:19. > :10:22.solution, and now he is trying to destroy the Palestinian people
:10:23. > :10:25.themselves. Yet by the rocket fire continuing, those who are being hurt
:10:26. > :10:30.by the reprisals are Palestinians, they are civilians. There are so
:10:31. > :10:33.many women and children in this 100 who have now died. What you are
:10:34. > :10:39.continuing to do is self-destructive, isn't it? It is
:10:40. > :10:43.not, indeed it is not. I have to say, more than 70% of the people who
:10:44. > :10:47.were killed were civilians, women and children mostly. And I have to
:10:48. > :10:53.say, we are not using their houses or the civilian places to use
:10:54. > :10:59.rockets. At every house bombed, there was no militants. I dare any
:11:00. > :11:04.one to say there was militants in that house. Maybe there were
:11:05. > :11:08.families of some leaders of the jihad but there were no militant
:11:09. > :11:14.targets there. And you never send civilians after the rooftops to act
:11:15. > :11:17.as human shields? No one is using civilians as human shields. This is
:11:18. > :11:24.the propaganda from Israel, and when you hear this from the Israelis,
:11:25. > :11:29.your member what Hitler said, he tried to defend what he was doing by
:11:30. > :11:32.talking about the same issue. We are now talking about the Palestinians
:11:33. > :11:39.in the same way, committing the Holocaust. Can I ask you what you
:11:40. > :11:43.think you are achieving? With the rocket continuing to go into Israel,
:11:44. > :11:51.doesn't it play into the hands of the Israel government to say that
:11:52. > :11:57.you are attacking civilians? This will be a very important question if
:11:58. > :12:01.Hamas was firing is against Israeli, but the Israelis started the fight
:12:02. > :12:05.and they bombed house killing 11 civilians, injuring more than 40,
:12:06. > :12:11.and then there was a reaction from the resistance. All the
:12:12. > :12:16.Palestinians are doing is resisting the occupation and being killed. It
:12:17. > :12:22.was a collective punishment against the Palestinians, four weeks ago. No
:12:23. > :12:25.one knows the real story about those three settlers who disappeared and
:12:26. > :12:32.they were found killed, no one had any story except Netanyahu. We
:12:33. > :12:35.believe it is a corrupt story and no one is buying it from the
:12:36. > :12:40.Palestinians. The important issue here is to end the occupation and I
:12:41. > :12:42.believe the suffering will be ended for the Palestinians at that moment.
:12:43. > :12:45.Thank you for your time. The US secretary of State John Kerry
:12:46. > :12:50.says the legitimacy of Afghanistan's presidential election hangs in
:12:51. > :12:52.the balance, as do the chances for In a sign of American concern Mr
:12:53. > :13:03.Kerry has travelled to Kabul to meet the outgoing president Hamid Karzai
:13:04. > :13:06.and urge both candidates to succeed him, to cooperate with a wide
:13:07. > :13:09.ranging audit of the vote count. This report from Karen Allen
:13:10. > :13:11.contains flash photography. John Kerry is no stranger
:13:12. > :13:13.to crises in Afghanistan. The battle to elect
:13:14. > :13:15.a successor to Hamid Karzai leaves a smooth transition hanging
:13:16. > :13:18.in the balance, just as foreign So when he met presidential hopeful
:13:19. > :13:26.Ashraf Ghani, who is leading in provisional polls,
:13:27. > :13:29.he expressed optimism. We obviously have high hopes that
:13:30. > :13:31.the questions about the election will be solved quickly,
:13:32. > :13:34.can be resolved, and the way forward can take place which can give
:13:35. > :13:37.Afghans confidence that they have a presidency and a government that is
:13:38. > :13:41.capable of unifying all Afghans In the other political camp is
:13:42. > :13:45.Abdullah Abdullah, who has seen his fortunes reversed after he was
:13:46. > :13:57.the frontrunner in the first round. He wants his concerns
:13:58. > :14:02.about foul play addressed more comprehensively and he's counting
:14:03. > :14:06.on the US to help fix the fraud. The tearing down of
:14:07. > :14:16.a presidential portrait by Abdullah supporters earlier this week gave
:14:17. > :14:19.a flavour of what might be to come. Many of his supporters have tried to
:14:20. > :14:22.push him to set up a parallel government but he stopped short
:14:23. > :14:25.of that, warned by the US of dire For John Kerry, this is more than
:14:26. > :14:32.simply crisis talks or This is about ensuring
:14:33. > :14:38.the future stability here after more than a decade of international
:14:39. > :14:42.military and financial support. And it comes
:14:43. > :14:45.as the world is drawing parallels I'm now joined from Washington
:14:46. > :14:55.by Ali Jalali, he's a former Afghan Interior Minister, a professor
:14:56. > :15:08.at the National Defense University. Good afternoon to you. It is quite
:15:09. > :15:12.an impasse between these two both determined to succeed Hamid Karzai,
:15:13. > :15:19.how do you think it will be all can be resolved? I believe that looking
:15:20. > :15:26.at the experience of the country in the past, in the challenges that
:15:27. > :15:30.face is the country, and also, the responsibility that both candidates
:15:31. > :15:36.feel for the stability of the country, I do believe that they will
:15:37. > :15:40.eventually reach a settlement. Do you think they will do that between
:15:41. > :15:44.themselves or do you think international mediation is
:15:45. > :15:51.absolutely necessary here? I think international mediation is necessary
:15:52. > :15:56.since there is a trust deficit now between them. And the dispute should
:15:57. > :16:04.be resolved through a legal process in Afghanistan. And both candidates
:16:05. > :16:11.should avoid doing things beyond the legal process of election in the
:16:12. > :16:17.country. Is John Kerry the right man to do this? Is he credible in Kabul?
:16:18. > :16:22.He is trusted by both candidates I believe, and he was there in 20 --
:16:23. > :16:28.2009 and he succeeded in resolving the dispute that was there in the
:16:29. > :16:33.presidential election in 2009. So I am not surprised to see him again in
:16:34. > :16:39.Kabul, both candidates are trusting him and also, president Hamid Karzai
:16:40. > :16:43.said he approves of his mediation. We are now in something of a
:16:44. > :16:47.political vacuum, what are your concerns about national security? I
:16:48. > :16:58.think the Afghan National Security forces with the cooperation of the
:16:59. > :17:01.eye are capable of providing security in these challenges. The
:17:02. > :17:08.country has faced challenges in the past, during the two rounds of
:17:09. > :17:12.elections the security forces were able to provide the security of the
:17:13. > :17:20.vote. So I do believe that they are in the position to be able to
:17:21. > :17:24.respond to any threats that emerge links to the disputes that we have
:17:25. > :17:27.seen in Afghanistan. Isn't there a danger that the same could happen in
:17:28. > :17:32.Afghanistan as has happened in Iraq, after the withdrawal of
:17:33. > :17:36.international forces? I think they are two different countries with two
:17:37. > :17:45.different histories. And also, to different kind of societies.
:17:46. > :17:50.Afghanistan proved that going in the last 13 years, it has transformed a
:17:51. > :17:54.lot. The tribal and ethnic alliances are now replaced by political
:17:55. > :17:55.alliances and you can see it very clearly in the two camps that the
:17:56. > :18:01.competing in the action. Iraqi Kurds have taken over two
:18:02. > :18:04.oil fields amid a growing dispute They've taken control
:18:05. > :18:07.of two key oilfields Fighters from Iraq's Kurdish region
:18:08. > :18:11.moved into Kirkuk last month after government troops pulled out
:18:12. > :18:14.in the face of the advance by Sunni Kurdish ministers are now saying
:18:15. > :18:18.they have suspended their involvement
:18:19. > :18:38.in the national government. What you can see is the remnants of
:18:39. > :18:45.a building that has collapsed and in the middle you might be up to make
:18:46. > :18:49.out the head of a baby that is trapped inside the rubble. If you
:18:50. > :18:58.listen, you can hear the baby crying. The BBC has not been able to
:18:59. > :19:02.independently verify the sources of systematic video but the baby was
:19:03. > :19:11.two months old, reportedly trapped in the rubble after a barrel bombs
:19:12. > :19:19.was dropped in this area of Syria. It took 16 hours of digging to reach
:19:20. > :19:24.this stage before the baby was rescued. You can see the baby alive.
:19:25. > :19:29.Thousands of people have been killed by barrel bombs in the first half of
:19:30. > :19:47.this year. In Cambodia, the remains
:19:48. > :19:49.of the former King, Sihanouk, have been paraded
:19:50. > :19:51.through the streets of Phnom Penh. Thousands lined the streets of
:19:52. > :19:55.the capital to pay their respects. The king, who died two years ago,
:19:56. > :19:58.led the country through decades of conflict and finally to peace
:19:59. > :20:00.following Cambodia's independence The German foreign minister has said
:20:01. > :20:08.it was the right decision by his government to expel the senior
:20:09. > :20:11.representative of US intelligence He said it was
:20:12. > :20:15.a fitting reaction to the breach of trust that had occurred with
:20:16. > :20:17.recent revelations of espionage. Relations were already under strain
:20:18. > :20:20.following news last year that the NSA had monitored
:20:21. > :20:25.Chancellor Angela Merkel's phone. The Indonesian presidential
:20:26. > :20:28.candidate, Prabowo Subianto, says will accept the result
:20:29. > :20:31.of this week's election and return The official result is not due
:20:32. > :20:37.until July 22 and both candidates are claiming victory based
:20:38. > :20:39.on unofficial tallies. The former governor of Jakarta,
:20:40. > :20:42.Joko Widodo, had a slight lead The World Cup is nearly over -
:20:43. > :20:55.the final is staged on Sunday - and today we want to take you to a
:20:56. > :20:59.street in Rio that's been decorated in Brazil's national colours
:21:00. > :21:01.for every World Cup since 1986. Alexandre dos Santos has been
:21:02. > :21:04.putting up the yellow and green, and the big screen set up
:21:05. > :21:07.at the end of his street also serves The BBC's Franz Strasser visited
:21:08. > :21:11.the street to ask dos Santos how his neighbours are dealing with
:21:12. > :23:22.Brazil's defeat. And even though there's no action
:23:23. > :23:25.on the pitch at the moment - you can follow events on the
:23:26. > :23:27.BBC Sport website. There's full analysis
:23:28. > :23:29.and background. And you can take part in the
:23:30. > :23:32.conversation in Twitter - look out Staying with football and Liverpool
:23:33. > :23:40.football club are selling Luis Suarez to Barcelona
:23:41. > :23:43.for close to $128 million, making him the 3rd most expensive
:23:44. > :23:45.player in football history.The Uruguayan superstar was idolised
:23:46. > :23:47.by Liverpool fans despite several on-field
:23:48. > :23:48.indiscretions and lengthy bans. Suarez of course is currently banned
:23:49. > :23:50.for 4 months and 9 international games for biting
:23:51. > :23:53.Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini Video-game arcades used to be quite
:23:54. > :24:09.a common sight around the world. But in the last two decades many
:24:10. > :24:13.of them have closed down. Now, one British man is on
:24:14. > :24:16.a mission to save the arcade. Mark Starkey has rebuilt one
:24:17. > :24:18.from scratch here in London And it's building up quite
:24:19. > :24:28.a fan base. It is the last of its kind, the
:24:29. > :24:33.last arcade of the 20th century. I think the generation of kids
:24:34. > :24:43.growing up now, most of them started Social gaming is something that
:24:44. > :24:56.everybody should experience. I think it offers a lot of things to
:24:57. > :25:00.the player that you simply don't get Instead of playing online
:25:01. > :25:07.at home alone, you get to come down here and play with people who
:25:08. > :25:11.are passionate about the game and What really happened was a lot
:25:12. > :25:33.of the old timers who used to run the arcades back in the 1980s
:25:34. > :25:37.and 90s they dissolve their idea Nostalgia is something that
:25:38. > :25:44.generally just hits you, it isn't something you are
:25:45. > :25:49.physically immersed in. But here for people who haven't seen
:25:50. > :26:14.games that are over 20 years old, We will show you these pictures of
:26:15. > :26:19.an outsider flying home in a photo finish at Brighton racecourse. This
:26:20. > :26:24.seagull was caught on camera soaring past the horses and cause they
:26:25. > :26:31.flap. It is thought to be the first birds to feature in a photo finish
:26:32. > :26:37.for a horse race. The main news, and Minette in Yahoos says he won't cave
:26:38. > :26:41.in to pressure to end error attacks in the Gaza Strip. He said despite
:26:42. > :26:48.calls from world leaders, Israel will continue its offensive until
:26:49. > :27:03.the rockets stopped. -- Benjamin Netanyahu. That
:27:04. > :27:04.It has been a mixed day in terms of the weather today, sunshine across