11/07/2014 World News Today

This is BBC World News Today with me, Philippa Thomas.

The number of Palestinians killed passes 100 on day four of Israel's

More rubble in Gaza, more Palestinian casualties today,

but Israel's Prime Minister says the military offensive will

continue until the militants' rocket fire stops for good.

John Kerry meets with Afghanistan's presidential rivals in Kabul

as the US tries to stop the dispute over who won from escalating.

They may be out of the World Cup finals, but this Brazil fan show us

why his countrymen still have footballing spirit.

And did you prefer StreetFighter or Pacman?

We'll look at a one man's bid to save the video

More than 100 Palestinians have now died as a result of Israeli

airstrikes according to officials in Gaza.

Today, militants in Gaza have continued to

No Israelis have died in the exchanges.

These are some of the latest images taken a few hours ago of Israel's

ongoing military operation, called Protective Edge, which has attacked

And these are pictures of some of the destruction,

a three story building in the southern town of Rafah completely

The Israel Defence Forces say 490 Hamas rockets have been launched

Around 130 more have been intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome

You can see here just how widespread the targets across Israel have been.

The first serious Israeli casualty came today when a rocket hit

And we've heard reports that rockets have also been fired into Israel

With more on the day's events here's our Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen.

The streets are silent in Gaza, but they're not peaceful. It looks as if

there's a curfew here, and there is, in a way. In forced by the Israeli

military. Israel's air raid continue, they say they are after

her Hamas and its fighters. But there was a child among the nine

Palestinians killed overnight who were buried in the town of Rafah.

More than half of over 100 people killed in Gaza by Israeli raids were

women and children. That is according to the health minister. In

Israel, a petrol station exploded when it was hit by a rocket from

Gaza. One man was critically injured. Israel's Prime Minister

defended the military campaign he ordered. TRANSLATION: The difference

between us is simple. We are using missiles to protect our people, and

they are using people to protect their missiles. And that is the

difference. We are hurting their militants, and sometimes,

unintentionally, we are hurting civilians. The doctors in the

intensive care unit at Gaza's main hospital view things differently.

This eight-year-old has had brain surgery. She was helping her mother

at home and she was hit by shrapnel that invaded itself in her brain. --

embedded itself. Her neurosurgeon says she will survive but it is too

soon to talk about a full recovery. You know that most difficult thing

is that ideal here, it is when I deal with the kids. Sometimes, I

can... Put my heart away, but when something to do with the kids, it's

something difficult. I am a father. I don't care if fat at all Hamas is

right, I want to feel that my kids are safe inside my house. She is

alive -- she is an only child born after three rounds of IVF. Outside

in the corridor, her father waits. He said, my message to Israeli

parents is, look at our children as if they are yours. Look at their

human rights, and treat them like human beings. There is a terrible

familiarity, a sameness, about what has been happening in the last few

days and that is because it has happened before. The underlying

political realities of the conflict have not been tackled. Many Israelis

would say that is because Palestinians will not accept the

existence of their state. Palestinians and plenty of others

say the problem is that they do not have independence. That if they had

their own state, things might be very different. The latest peace

talks collapsed recently. In the past, death, destruction and human

pain have filled the gap left by failed negotiations. It's happened

again. Yigal Palmor is a spokesman for the

Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Thank you for being on the

programme. Benjamin Netanyahu said today that the rocket fire from Gaza

must stop for good. How do you achieve that? Of course, I am not

going to go into military plans. But you achieve that with determination,

careful planning and with patients. This is not something that can be

achieved overnight. This is something that is going to be

inevitably painful, because rocket firing into Israel must stop. It is

inadmissible and intolerable that millions of Israelis should come

under a rain of rockets every time Hamas fancies it. We have been

through this. In 2009 and then again in 2012, this is the time when we

want to put this behind us, we want to stop all the capacity from Hamas,

to remove the threat once and for all. If you want to remove that

capacity, Israel will keep going despite the human cost in Gaza and

the destruction of infrastructure, that is how you see it? If we do not

remove the threat, they will be at it again and again and again. This

is their declared purpose, to destroy Israel. They have no other

project, they have no other purpose. This is what their plans are and

this is how they expose them. They don't have any projects for the

Palestinians in Gaza or elsewhere. Other than fight Israel until the

bitter end and destroy Israel. There is no other perspective for the

Palestinians. And therefore, this threat is not only a threat on

Israel, it is a threat to Palestinians as well, the same

Palestinian civilians who suffer from Hamas hiding behind them,

firing rockets from within civilian neighbourhoods, hiding rockets in

the basements of schools and homes and making them legitimate military

targets. Calling on civilians to go on rooftops in order to serve as

human shields. I am referring to public calls by Hamas leaders over

the last few days. This is something that must stop. The Palestinian

health minister, we have heard in that piece there, more than half of

the 100 people killed have been women and children. Is that an axe

at the level of risk? -- acceptable level? There is no axe at the level

of civilian losses. In terms of human value, every human life is

worse as the whole world. There is their question. The question is, how

are you going to react to rockets being fired in big cities? The only

reason there are not casualties in Israel is we have developed a very

efficient anti-missile defence system and we are not going to

apologise for having developed that system. It is efficient and

protecting Israeli civilians. When you do the body count, excuse

rejoices in and praises debt and causes Palestinians to die for its

cause. And we can now go to Beirut

and speak to Osama Hamdan, First, your reaction to Mr Netanyahu

saying that the offensive will continue, it will continue until the

rocket fire stops coming into Israel? Well, I think several prime

ministers said the same before and they failed. Because they were

ignoring the main problem. The main problem is the occupation itself. I

believe without that, the Israeli will be the same -- the situation

will be the same. The Israelis think they will take over and kill

Palestinians, unable -- and then we will have a cease-fire and that is

it. People have done that before, and now he is trying to do that

same. I think what Netanyahu is ignoring is, he has destroyed the

peace process. He has destroyed any chance is to have a two state

solution, and now he is trying to destroy the Palestinian people

themselves. Yet by the rocket fire continuing, those who are being hurt

by the reprisals are Palestinians, they are civilians. There are so

many women and children in this 100 who have now died. What you are

continuing to do is self-destructive, isn't it? It is

not, indeed it is not. I have to say, more than 70% of the people who

were killed were civilians, women and children mostly. And I have to

say, we are not using their houses or the civilian places to use

rockets. At every house bombed, there was no militants. I dare any

one to say there was militants in that house. Maybe there were

families of some leaders of the jihad but there were no militant

targets there. And you never send civilians after the rooftops to act

as human shields? No one is using civilians as human shields. This is

the propaganda from Israel, and when you hear this from the Israelis,

your member what Hitler said, he tried to defend what he was doing by

talking about the same issue. We are now talking about the Palestinians

in the same way, committing the Holocaust. Can I ask you what you

think you are achieving? With the rocket continuing to go into Israel,

doesn't it play into the hands of the Israel government to say that

you are attacking civilians? This will be a very important question if

Hamas was firing is against Israeli, but the Israelis started the fight

and they bombed house killing 11 civilians, injuring more than 40,

and then there was a reaction from the resistance. All the

Palestinians are doing is resisting the occupation and being killed. It

was a collective punishment against the Palestinians, four weeks ago. No

one knows the real story about those three settlers who disappeared and

they were found killed, no one had any story except Netanyahu. We

believe it is a corrupt story and no one is buying it from the

Palestinians. The important issue here is to end the occupation and I

believe the suffering will be ended for the Palestinians at that moment.

Thank you for your time. The US secretary of State John Kerry

says the legitimacy of Afghanistan's presidential election hangs in

the balance, as do the chances for In a sign of American concern Mr

Kerry has travelled to Kabul to meet the outgoing president Hamid Karzai

and urge both candidates to succeed him, to cooperate with a wide

ranging audit of the vote count. This report from Karen Allen

contains flash photography. John Kerry is no stranger

to crises in Afghanistan. The battle to elect

a successor to Hamid Karzai leaves a smooth transition hanging

in the balance, just as foreign So when he met presidential hopeful

Ashraf Ghani, who is leading in provisional polls,

he expressed optimism. We obviously have high hopes that

the questions about the election will be solved quickly,

can be resolved, and the way forward can take place which can give

Afghans confidence that they have a presidency and a government that is

capable of unifying all Afghans In the other political camp is

Abdullah Abdullah, who has seen his fortunes reversed after he was

the frontrunner in the first round. He wants his concerns

about foul play addressed more comprehensively and he's counting

on the US to help fix the fraud. The tearing down of

a presidential portrait by Abdullah supporters earlier this week gave

a flavour of what might be to come. Many of his supporters have tried to

push him to set up a parallel government but he stopped short

of that, warned by the US of dire For John Kerry, this is more than

simply crisis talks or This is about ensuring

the future stability here after more than a decade of international

military and financial support. And it comes

as the world is drawing parallels I'm now joined from Washington

by Ali Jalali, he's a former Afghan Interior Minister, a professor

at the National Defense University. Good afternoon to you. It is quite

an impasse between these two both determined to succeed Hamid Karzai,

how do you think it will be all can be resolved? I believe that looking

at the experience of the country in the past, in the challenges that

face is the country, and also, the responsibility that both candidates

feel for the stability of the country, I do believe that they will

eventually reach a settlement. Do you think they will do that between

themselves or do you think international mediation is

absolutely necessary here? I think international mediation is necessary

since there is a trust deficit now between them. And the dispute should

be resolved through a legal process in Afghanistan. And both candidates

should avoid doing things beyond the legal process of election in the

country. Is John Kerry the right man to do this? Is he credible in Kabul?

He is trusted by both candidates I believe, and he was there in 20 --

2009 and he succeeded in resolving the dispute that was there in the

presidential election in 2009. So I am not surprised to see him again in

Kabul, both candidates are trusting him and also, president Hamid Karzai

said he approves of his mediation. We are now in something of a

political vacuum, what are your concerns about national security? I

think the Afghan National Security forces with the cooperation of the

eye are capable of providing security in these challenges. The

country has faced challenges in the past, during the two rounds of

elections the security forces were able to provide the security of the

vote. So I do believe that they are in the position to be able to

respond to any threats that emerge links to the disputes that we have

seen in Afghanistan. Isn't there a danger that the same could happen in

Afghanistan as has happened in Iraq, after the withdrawal of

international forces? I think they are two different countries with two

different histories. And also, to different kind of societies.

Afghanistan proved that going in the last 13 years, it has transformed a

lot. The tribal and ethnic alliances are now replaced by political

alliances and you can see it very clearly in the two camps that the

competing in the action. Iraqi Kurds have taken over two

oil fields amid a growing dispute They've taken control

of two key oilfields Fighters from Iraq's Kurdish region

moved into Kirkuk last month after government troops pulled out

in the face of the advance by Sunni Kurdish ministers are now saying

they have suspended their involvement

in the national government. What you can see is the remnants of

a building that has collapsed and in the middle you might be up to make

out the head of a baby that is trapped inside the rubble. If you

listen, you can hear the baby crying. The BBC has not been able to

independently verify the sources of systematic video but the baby was

two months old, reportedly trapped in the rubble after a barrel bombs

was dropped in this area of Syria. It took 16 hours of digging to reach

this stage before the baby was rescued. You can see the baby alive.

Thousands of people have been killed by barrel bombs in the first half of

this year. In Cambodia, the remains

of the former King, Sihanouk, have been paraded

through the streets of Phnom Penh. Thousands lined the streets of

the capital to pay their respects. The king, who died two years ago,

led the country through decades of conflict and finally to peace

following Cambodia's independence The German foreign minister has said

it was the right decision by his government to expel the senior

representative of US intelligence He said it was

a fitting reaction to the breach of trust that had occurred with

recent revelations of espionage. Relations were already under strain

following news last year that the NSA had monitored

Chancellor Angela Merkel's phone. The Indonesian presidential

candidate, Prabowo Subianto, says will accept the result

of this week's election and return The official result is not due

until July 22 and both candidates are claiming victory based

on unofficial tallies. The former governor of Jakarta,

Joko Widodo, had a slight lead The World Cup is nearly over -

the final is staged on Sunday - and today we want to take you to a

street in Rio that's been decorated in Brazil's national colours

for every World Cup since 1986. Alexandre dos Santos has been

putting up the yellow and green, and the big screen set up

at the end of his street also serves The BBC's Franz Strasser visited

the street to ask dos Santos how his neighbours are dealing with

Brazil's defeat. And even though there's no action

on the pitch at the moment - you can follow events on the

BBC Sport website. There's full analysis

and background. And you can take part in the

conversation in Twitter - look out Staying with football and Liverpool

football club are selling Luis Suarez to Barcelona

for close to $128 million, making him the 3rd most expensive

player in football history.The Uruguayan superstar was idolised

by Liverpool fans despite several on-field

indiscretions and lengthy bans. Suarez of course is currently banned

for 4 months and 9 international games for biting

Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini Video-game arcades used to be quite

a common sight around the world. But in the last two decades many

of them have closed down. Now, one British man is on

a mission to save the arcade. Mark Starkey has rebuilt one

from scratch here in London And it's building up quite

a fan base. It is the last of its kind, the

last arcade of the 20th century. I think the generation of kids

growing up now, most of them started Social gaming is something that

everybody should experience. I think it offers a lot of things to

the player that you simply don't get Instead of playing online

at home alone, you get to come down here and play with people who

are passionate about the game and What really happened was a lot

of the old timers who used to run the arcades back in the 1980s

and 90s they dissolve their idea Nostalgia is something that

generally just hits you, it isn't something you are

physically immersed in. But here for people who haven't seen

games that are over 20 years old, We will show you these pictures of

an outsider flying home in a photo finish at Brighton racecourse. This

seagull was caught on camera soaring past the horses and cause they

flap. It is thought to be the first birds to feature in a photo finish

for a horse race. The main news, and Minette in Yahoos says he won't cave

in to pressure to end error attacks in the Gaza Strip. He said despite

calls from world leaders, Israel will continue its offensive until

the rockets stopped. -- Benjamin Netanyahu. That

It has been a mixed day in terms of the weather today, sunshine across