15/07/2014 World News Today

This is BBC World News Today with me Philippa Thomas.

The first Israeli civilian has been killed by Palestinian rocket fire,

and Israel warns it will intensify its military campaign against Hamas,

Almost 200 Palestinians have now been killed by air raids.

Aid agencies in the Gaza Strip are warning that

the bombardment is close to destroying the water system there.

More top jobs for women in the British Cabinet,

up from three to five, and in the pre-election reshuffle,

the Foreign Secretary William Hague steps down.

At least 20 people are killed - more than 120 injured when a Moscow

subway train derails at the height of morning rush hour.

And we'll be in Berlin to hear all about the World Cup celebrations -

a huge welcome for Germany's victorious football team.

Israel's prime minister has just warned that the military campaign

in Gaza will be "expanded and intensified".

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel had no choice

as Hamas had rejected a diplomatic solution. The

first serious move to try to stop the fighting and bloodshed

between Israel and Hamas had come in the shape of a proposed ceasefire

laid on the table by Egypt. Israel agreed it and ceased fire.

But Hamas rejected the plan, saying they hadn't been consulted.

And so now Israel is to press ahead and intensify the military offensive

Since then more than 190 Palestinians have been killed.

More than 800 Palestinian rockets have hit Israel,

with at least 76 rockets fired from Gaza into southern Israel today.

Within the last two hours, the first Israeli civilian has been

One of the places hit was the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon,

from where the BBC's Quentin Sommerville sent us this report.

Bringing the battle between Israel and Hamas on the control was never

going to be easy. By early afternoon, cease-fire plans were

already in ruins. Rocket fire from Gaza narrowly missed an Israeli fuel

depot and dozens of rockets were launched while Israel observed the

cruise. About 25 firefighters here think that the rocket landed over

there. They are trying to hold back the fire because of our fuel tanks.

They are browsing the area with water, trying to stop it spreading.

It is about four hours since Israel agree to those cease-fire proposals.

, says it was not party to the talks. And the rockets continue to

hit Israel. -- Hammerson says it was not. -- Armas says it was not. We

know that the other side is apparently not interested in

cease-fire. We're prepared for the normal fighting to resume. And so it

did. More Palestinians have been told by Israeli air strikes. The

cease-fire was only in place for six hours. Hamas says it was not

genuine, from the start. The cease-fire proposal was discussed by

everyone except cars. Netanyahu and Egypt, but not Hamas. We will

continue to defend our people and fight, we are fighting to better our

conditions. This cease-fire proposal is like an ambush. On the Israeli

side of the border, this man has a farm. By mid-afternoon, rockets and

bombs were flying both ways. Violence, and more violence. This

field cease-fire will likely make the con -- will be likely to make

the conflict here even worse. It's the most significant reshuffle

of the British cabinet since the prime minister came to

power - and with ten months until the UK's next general election,

David Cameron has given his He's swept away some

of the old guard, increased the number of women in cabinet from

three to five and - in the biggest surprise - moved Michael Gove from

his job as Education Secretary. His replacement - Nicky Morgan who's

only been a minister for 9 months. William Hague will be replaced as

Foreign Secretary by Philip Hammond. He vacates his job as Defence

Secretary - to make way for former

energy minister Michael Fallon. Here's the BBC's Political

Editor Nick Robinson. We counted them in and we counted

them out, the ministers sacked or moved today, mostly men, and the

ones promoted, some of them women. In a wide ranging reshuffle, more

wide-ranging than anyone expected. The big news story of the day was

the promotion of Nicky Morgan, the first of three women to get

significant promotions. The answer, the job of Michael Gove. Michael

Gove is saying goodbye after four years of being in charge of

England's schools. Just as significant on a day that the

British defence industry showed off its finest, at the Farnborough

airshow, a change to the defence minister post of the new defence

minister is Michael Fallon who replaces Philip Hammond, who is now

the new Foreign Secretary. Tories say that he is more Eurosceptic than

William Hague. He once said he would vote to leave the EU if it could not

be reformed. I do not think that the way to enter negotiations is to

start issuing threats. You have to look for areas where you do agree,

and there are many issues where Britain is not isolated, where other

EU members also understand the need for reform. William Hague will be

spending much more time at home. As Leader of the Commons, you will be a

pre-dash-mac a key figure in the Tories election campaign. What about

the pledge that more women would take their place at the top table?

Liz truss will be needing her wellies as a new Environment

Secretary. The welfare Minister Esther McVey will only attend

Cabinet but has is a face and a voice that you will soon be familiar

with. The former TV reporter will now deploy her on-screen talent is

trying to sell the Conservatives to the country. She will be helped by

other women promoted to one rung below the Cabinet. He has promoted

people on the basis of their talent, and that is the most

important thing. Labour are not impressed. Politics has the look and

sound like Britain, and when so many of the Cabinet are men, that falls

short. The Labour Party has half and half men and women in their Shadow

Cabinet. The worst that happened today was a new cabinet minister,

trying to get into the wrong car. Well Foreign Secretary William Hague

will not just be leaving the Cabinet, he's stepping down in

2015 from his role Over the last four years in his role

as Foreign Secretary he's faced and the descent of Syria into civil

war to Cold War-style tensions over

Ukraine, and his recent work hosting ending sexual violence in conflict.

Angelina Jolie that focused on Writer and former Conservative MP

Louise Mensch is in New York, where she moved after standing

down from parliament two years ago. First, I should put it to you that

this was supposed to be a reshuffle that got rid of the mail, the pale

and the stale. Do you think it worked? I think it was there to

promote the best people to the job. You have seen the women who have

matured and grown since being elected in 2010 reaching a stage

where you can promote them into senior positions. The Prime Minister

has moved as fast as he could, without being gimmicky. I think it

is another action-winning reshuffle. -- it is an election-winning

reshuffle. But he seemed to be falling short of his target of

promoting women. People forget that it is easy to have someone elected

to Parliament. Before David Cameron changed selection procedures, the

Conservative Party was 91% white men with no woman to a point. All of the

women who have been appointed today was elected only in 2010. If Cameron

had promoted them before they had learned anything about element, he

would have looked very stupid. Now is about the right time for those

women to have mature and Sue have come through Parliament with four

years of experience, and Sir promoted them any earlier, it would

have been just diverting women for the sake of it. Do you think if you

had stayed you could have been one of those women walking into Downing

Street today? Having served as an MP I know all of these women

individually and I know how talented they are. Even from Labour, who are

complaining about the number of women, we saw that this was a

so-called massacre of the moderates, they were saying today on twitter,

because they have nothing else to say, I have not heard any

commentators say that any woman is being promoted just because she is a

woman. They have got a great new team in place. William Hague is

standing down with Philip Hammond taking his place. Philip Hammond is

thought to be more sceptical about Britain's future in Europe. Will

that set the cat amongst the pigeons? Let us hope so. This is an

election -winning reshuffle. He fought a lonely but principal battle

to stop Jean-Claude Juncker getting the plum job at the EU. We saw

conservative ratings go up over that. We would like to stay in the

EU, we like the balance of trade, but we need a strong renegotiation.

David Cameron sent an important electoral signal by appointing

Philip Hammond, there is no doubt about that at all.

Now a look at some of the day's other news.

Iraqi MPs have broken their deadlock and elected

It's the first step towards forming a new government in Baghdad -

a step seen as crucial to confronting the rebels who have

The new speaker is a Sunni - Salim Jabouri.

Parliament still has to elect a new Kurdish President and a Shia

Typhoon Rammasun has made landfall with winds of up to 130 kilometres.

Low-lying villages were flooded and a trail of destruction was left in

its wake. No casualties have yet been reported. Parts of the

Philippines are still recovering from Typhoon Haiyan,

which killed more than 6,000 people last year.

A French soldier has been killed in a suicide bombing in northern

Mali.The Foreign Legion soldier was killed in Gao on Monday -- the ninth

to die since France sent troops to its former colony in January last

year. Local and foreign troops have struggled to restore order after

beating back an Islamist insurgency there.

21 people have been killed in an accident on the Moscow Metro -

at the height of the morning rush hour. Local officials say a train

came off the rails after a power surge. Oleg Boldyrev is in Moscow

At mid-morning on Tuesday three carriages derailed. Rescuers are

still trying to pull people out of the crumpled metal. By mid afternoon

they speculated that there was nobody left alive. The injured and

those who escaped unharmed well read out a long hundreds of metres of

track after spending more than one hour in the darkness. The dozens of

wounded had to be brought out on stretchers. The most gravely injured

were flown out to hospital. We understand the majority of

casualties were caused by people being flung against the wall of the

carriages which derailed. I spoke to one lady who had a bad cut on her

leg. She said she was thrown into the wall, into pieces of smashed

glass. Another was struck by a fire extinguisher which was flung from

the wall. The number of deaths kept rising through the day. The Moscow

underground has seen bombs and explosions but nothing like this,

from a split second malfunction of something, just exactly what is yet

unknown. The authorities gave a number of theories from loss of

current to sagging track. An investigation has been launched. The

mayor of the city promised to return the defective linebacker service in

two days. In the meantime millions of passengers on the Moscow

underground will pay -- will feel uneasy at every shake of the train

they are in. In a city of 15 million people, the Metro is the most

functional way of transport. It has been a violin they in Afghanistan.

89 people have been killed and many injured in a suicide last in the

Eastern Province Kings. The victims include many women and children who

had been shopping in a busy market for Ramadan. Another explosion in

Cabo had killed two aides of the outgoing president, president cars

I. they went to the polls last month.

It happened to the east of the country close to the border with

Pakistan. What we understand from eyewitnesses as it was a vehicle

that was chased by the police. As it failed to stop at a checkpoint, the

driver drove into a busy marketplace before detonating the explosives. It

sent debris everywhere, more than 89 people were killed and

sent debris everywhere, more than 89 people were many more were injured.

Looking at pictures you can see the scale of the damage. Mark in stores

and buildings destroyed for a large area around. -- market. The governor

of the province has been speaking to us. The enemies of Afghanistan

detonated a car bomb in this area that hurt a lot of people. If you

look at this destruction you will come to the conclusion this action

is against Islam, against humanity and against our territory. All night

we have heard a lot of air activity, helicopters are bringing the injured

from Paktika to hospitals. This is the deadliest attack since we saw

the presidential elections last month. Those elections still to give

an indication of who the next president will be. At the weekend

deal was mediated. John Kerry was here. We are expecting the

widespread audit, all 8 million votes will be audited, counted again

in what will be a huge logistical operation. The two presidential

rivals have been meeting for the first time to try to give some shape

to a pledge that each of them made. Whoever will be the winner will hold

a government of national unity. Exactly what shape that will take,

we still don't know. The idea that happiness is a better

measure of a nation's success than income might have seemed very

radical when it was first proposed but it's now influenced governments

all over the world. Today we're going to look

at the related issue of how Just a few facts first to put you

in the picture. Around the world,

more than 350 million people suffer from depression, one of the most

common forms of mental disorders. It's a problem that doesn't

just affect adults. Around 20% of the world's children

are thought to suffer from some Whether you get treatment may

depend on where you live. The World Health Organisation tells

us you're 170 times more likely to find a psychiatrist in high income

countries than in low income ones. With me is the economist Professor

Lord Richard Layard who pioneered that "science of

happiness". He's now co-authored a book called

Thrive, urging political leaders to make

mental health a much higher Thank you for coming in to speak to

us. The economic case for prioritising mental health

treatment. Mental illness is the main illness of working age in

advanced countries. It has huge economic cost when people can't work

or go off sick. That is why it is so wonderful we now have evidence

-based psychological therapies that can lead to 50% recovery rates,

lower relapse rates and therefore when you think of the costs, they

get reduced by the psychological therapy and the psychological

therapy pays for itself and reduced welfare benefits and lost taxes. It

pays for itself a second time over introducing physical health care

costs because mentally health people cost 50% more than those who have

physical illness. You can show that completely covers the cost to the

health care authorities providing more psychological therapy because

of the savings on the physical. Tell us about the psychological therapy

that works, we know works. We have talked about what drugs can tackle

mental illness but here in the UK there has been some pioneering work

on behavioural therapy. Cognitive therapy. It works by getting people

to think better and that leads to them feeling better. And behaving

more constructively. This is the breakthrough therapy which has been

really well be searched so we now know but the outcomes of that. It

has much longer lasting effects and drugs do. That is the preferred

treatment for 75% of people. Do main teaching people how to adopt the

different anchor? Yes, yes. This is the good news. We have rolled it out

in Britain. Half a million people are getting treated. We have trained

6000 therapists. It is not costing us anything so it is a no-brainer.

The other point want to make is the cost isn't the only thing. The main

thing is human suffering. The research we have done shows that in

rich countries mental illness is the biggest single cause of human

suffering, more than physical illness, and a lot more than two

subjects I worked on which is poverty and unemployment. We need to

raise the profile of mental illness. I centre 's sake it should have a

Cabinet Minister. -- I sometimes say. That is a surprising fact you

are giving us. People tend to think about cancer or heart disease,

mental illness occurs it is abstract seems to fall down the list of

priorities. The extraordinary thing is the WHO figures show in terms of

morbidity, in rich countries, mental illness accounts for about twice as

much as cancer, heart disease, stroke and respiratory illness. It

it gets such a small fraction of the effort and has such a low prestige.

This has got to be be attacked and changed. Thank you very much to talk

that through with us. The European Parliament has

confirmed Jean-Claude Juncker as president of the European

Commission. He'll succeed the current president,

Jose Manuel Barroso, in November. Our correspondent, Chris Morris in

Strasbourg, explained the background to his appointment and what his

first order of business will be. It is hardly unexpected that Jose

Manuel Barroso -- Jean-Claude Juncker is confirmed as the next

president. He needed a minimum of 300 and 76 -- three and 76 votes.

But 250 MEPs against him. He certainly won't have everything his

own way as he tries to set out an agenda for the next five years. His

first task now is basically to set out the new commission. It has to

have one representative from each of the 28 member states and there's

lots of jockeying going on between different countries about who they

will nominate and which policy portfolios their nominee is going to

get. Overall, looking at the next five years, the big challenge for

Jean-Claude Juncker is pretty clear. It is the challenge for the

European Union, how to improve the economy in the Eurozone, how to

improve the governance. There are millions of young unemployed in

Europe. Even though the Eurozone crisis is well past his critical

phase it is not over stop there will be other things he will have to do.

Notably, dealing with the issue of whether Britain stays in all these

the European Union. He was rather bruised by Britain's implacable

opposition to his nomination as president of the European

Commission. He won that fight and when it comes to Jean-Claude Juncker

and Britain, Bridges will need to be built.

It is hardly unexpected that Jose Manuel Barroso -- Jean-Claude

The team that won the World Cup for Germany has been given

Hundreds of thousands of fans gathered at the Brandenburg

Gate to celebrate the men's arrival and Lucy Hockings was there for us,

At many talked about how they thought were the way young boys of

winning the World Cup. Imagine arriving home today, walking along

the States, holding the World Cup and looking down at this. Half an

onion people gathered here to see them and welcome them home. The fans

have been so excited. They are so proud of their team. It must've been

the most glorious moment for them. People are stretched as far as the

eye can see. Ever since Sunday night, the entire country has been

completely ecstatic and the party is going to continue for some time yet.

They add showing no sign of leaving. We should leave the last words at

the fans. Making sushi is considered a bit of

an art. We had always told not to play with

our food but that isn't how this woman rolls. She has transformed

this woman rolls. She has transformed the of art. Her designs

include faces that's change when you get them through. She was inspired

to make out using materials everyone would have at home. For Japanese it

is unheard of for a house not to have rice and seaweed even when I

lived alone I had that. I thought I could do something with those. That

is the added challenge of making sure the art not only looks good

that tastes good as well. This goes into your body is too if you just

paint a picture it may not have that much influence. This isn't something

you look out, it is something you can experience in a variety of ways.

She is sharing her skills and holding workshops teaching others

how to make their own masterpieces. It feels like I've made my own

artwork, more than making food. You can eat it that it is your own

creation. A creation that may not stay on display for too long! A

reminder of our main news. Israel's Prime Minister has warned the

military campaign in Gaza will be intensified unless --. How mass

rejected the cease-fire proposed by Egypt's. More than a Palestinians

have been killed and 1200 wounded and within the last few hours, the

first Israeli to billions have been killed. In the most significant

recent full of the British cabinets is David Cameron came to power,

there are more top jobs for women up from three to five. The Foreign

Secretary, William Hay, stands down with ten months to go until the next

general election. You can also talk to me about this

or any of our stories @PhilippaBBC. But for now, from me and the rest

of the team, goodbye. We saw a dry day on Tuesday with the

exception of a few showers across northern Scotland. We'll see more

rain come on Wednesday but what will really notice is somewhat of an

timidity of driving across the country. It is all tied in with this

set of weather front. It'll bring the rain across