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The US said it targeted militants from the Islamic State group | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
near the Kurdish-held city of Irbil - just hours after President Obama | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
The World Health Organisation says West Africa can not manage the Ebola | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
outbreak alone - and declares an international public | :00:10. | :00:11. | |
A ten-year old boy is killed in Gaza, | :00:12. | :00:18. | |
as Israel and Palestinian militants resume cross-border attacks. | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
Together again - an Indonesian girl feared killed in the 2004 tsunami | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
Almost three years after withdrawing its troops from Iraq, the United | :00:26. | :00:50. | |
States has carried out military action against Islamist militants | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
Just hours after President Obama authorised their use - | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
the US launched an airstrike targeting fighters | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
from the Islamic State, formerly known as ISIS, who now control large | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
The attack hit artillery used by the militants near Irbil. | :01:05. | :01:12. | |
Earlier this week, the Islamists took Qaraqosh, | :01:13. | :01:13. | |
Meanwhile tens of thousands of people from the minority Yazidi sect | :01:14. | :01:20. | |
remain surrounded and trapped on Mount Sinjar, without food or water. | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
Today, the government here said British forces would assist | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
in carrying out air drops as part of the humanitarian effort | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
In a moment we'll get the latest from Washington, | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
but first here's our Diplomatic Correspondent James Robbins. | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
For months, the extremists of ISIS, now calling themselves simply | :01:41. | :01:51. | |
Islamic State have been pumping out video | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
as they seize more and more of Iraq, threatening | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
Now for the first time, the Islamists have come under | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
The Pentagon says two FA18 aircraft dropped laser-guided bombs on | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
These are thought to be first pictures of the American strike. | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
America acted because this city of Irbil is now under threat. | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
There are US personnel there but President Obama is stressing | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
To stop the advance on Irbil, I directed | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
the military to target strikes against ISIS terrorist convoys | :02:24. | :02:25. | |
But Washington is also committed to helping religious minorities | :02:26. | :02:35. | |
These pictures of the Yazidi people fleeing for their lives | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
on to a barren mountain without food or water shocked the world. | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
And today, speaking from the mountain, one of their leaders | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
The clash is now very close to where I stand. | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
There are now clashes on the final line of resistance. | :02:57. | :02:58. | |
They will kill all of us and we do not think we have enough time. | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
Now the first supplies have reached some of the Yazidi. | :03:06. | :03:07. | |
Iraqi authorities say these pictures, impossible to verify, | :03:08. | :03:09. | |
The Yazidi religion is older than Christianity or Islam and that is | :03:10. | :03:18. | |
enough to make them targets of the extremists who overrun their town. | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
When we face a situation like we do on that mountain with | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
innocent people facing the prospect of violence on horrific scale, | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
and we have a mandate to help - in this case a request from the Iraqi | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
government - and when we have the unique capabilities to help | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
overcome a massacre, then I believe the USA cannot turn a blind eye. | :03:39. | :03:46. | |
Let's look at the plight of the Yazidi people, | :03:47. | :03:48. | |
forced to flee their homes and seek refuge on the barren slopes | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
As this map shows, they took what?s really the only | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
road up the mountains and we now have reports that some essential | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
supplies including food and water have been delivered from the air | :04:02. | :04:03. | |
But what if the extremists try to pursue them up the mountain? | :04:04. | :04:13. | |
The hope must be that they can be spotted and attacked by American | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
The other religious minority under threat is the Christian community. | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
Their major centre, Qaraqosh, has fallen. | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
Among those who escaped, some have reached Irbil. | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
As Christian refugees streamed into Irbil, passing Kurdish forces, | :04:33. | :04:40. | |
Iraq's persecuted minorities are urging the outside world to do more | :04:41. | :04:42. | |
In Brussels, some of the extended families of the Yazidi | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
trapped on the mountainside appealed to action to end the genocide. | :04:49. | :04:58. | |
In London, an emergency meeting of ministers is authorised. | :04:59. | :05:00. | |
Military involvement in relief missions is to drop aid, | :05:01. | :05:02. | |
Our focus is on assisting the humanitarian | :05:03. | :05:10. | |
mission and using our military in support of the Americans in terms | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
of refuelling, surveillance and underpinning their mission, and to | :05:15. | :05:25. | |
add to it with food drops of our own. | :05:26. | :05:27. | |
The focus of aid drops will be the Yazidi, still out on the mountain. | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
Their desperate plight has come to symbolise the wider threat to | :05:32. | :05:33. | |
The BBC's David Willis is at the White House. | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
We saw that Obama was adamant that this will not be a prolonged attack. | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
Is anyone buying that? I have come from a briefing and the president 's | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
spokesman was asked about the end date and how long this action will | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
continue. He said there was no specific end date and it will be | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
driven by the security situation on the ground. He added that military | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
involvements, over a prolonged period, was not on the table at the | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
moment for top that said, of course, these fighters are known to be well | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
armed, well equipped and well trained. They are capable of going | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
for the long haul as far as this conflict is concerned and this | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
raises the possibility of mission creep, if you like. The President's | :06:32. | :06:40. | |
spokesman has said he is adamant that this will not involve boots on | :06:41. | :06:47. | |
the ground. America is back in Iraq but for how long? America wants to | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
suggest that this is in need of a political resolution in Iraq. Yes. | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
It is a situation that requires solving by the Iraqis themselves. | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
That means getting our representative in place who is | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
representative of all of the abuse. They see the Iraqi Prime Minister as | :07:13. | :07:19. | |
the chief culprit for the deteriorating security situation in | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
Iraq. Nobody is making the secret that they would rather he left. | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
With me now is an expert on US foreign policy and the | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
Middle East Majid Rafizadeh - he's an American political scientist | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
The fact that once again the USA is engaged militarily in Iraq, does | :07:37. | :07:49. | |
that mean US foreign policy has failed? What you are seeing here is | :07:50. | :08:02. | |
the remarkable advancement of the Islamic States, | :08:03. | :08:12. | |
the remarkable advancement of the towns in northern Iraq, particularly | :08:13. | :08:25. | |
in Mo is all -- Mosul, and this has proposed strategic and political | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
threats to the USA. I think, back to your question, the United States has | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
definitely failed to diplomatically push the government to allow some | :08:36. | :08:45. | |
kind of power-sharing government, an inclusive government, and to remove | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
the corruption and authoritarianism in the states, and that is the in | :08:51. | :09:00. | |
delaying -- the underlying reason. The United States was meant to leave | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
behind a strong army in Iraq, and it is obvious they cannot cope with the | :09:07. | :09:16. | |
ISIS extremists. That is correct. This will not put an end to the | :09:17. | :09:25. | |
civil war or the sectarian war, or the atrocity we are witnessing. The | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
military intervention from the United States is going to lead, | :09:31. | :09:38. | |
probably, to another Civil War. The USA is sides with the government, | :09:39. | :09:59. | |
and they are giving the Islamic State the tall to fight against what | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
they would call American imperialism. There was some support | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
for the insurgents in Iraq, and what is important is really finding a | :10:10. | :10:20. | |
political solution in Baghdad and is getting a power-sharing government | :10:21. | :10:30. | |
there. Widening this out, Islamic State fighters are fighting against | :10:31. | :10:39. | |
Assad in Syria. We are in a complicated scenario here. Exactly. | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
What is interesting is that you can see the emergence of the realignment | :10:47. | :11:00. | |
of interest, Iran, Saudi Arabia, these countries are considered to be | :11:01. | :11:11. | |
rivals. They have created a lot of adversity in the region. The one | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
thing that the USA could have done was to be a facilitator or | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
arbitrator between these countries in the Middle East who are trying to | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
take a collective action against ISIS. You are correct, I think the | :11:27. | :11:36. | |
remarkable advancement they had is a milestone in the movement, which was | :11:37. | :11:46. | |
started after the US led invasion of Iraq in 2003. OK, I figure we will | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
be speaking to you again, but for the time being, thank you very much | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
for sharing your thoughts. We will continue to monitor that situation | :11:59. | :11:59. | |
for you. Let's move on. "An extraordinary event" and an | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
international health emergency - that's what the World Health | :12:05. | :12:06. | |
Organisation are calling The agency also predicts that | :12:07. | :12:08. | |
the outbreak is likely to go on for months and things are likely to | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
get worse before they better. Almost 1000 people have already | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
died as a result of the disease. Our Health Correspondent Feargus | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
Walsh reports. How do you defend the world | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
against ebola? It is starts with more help for | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
West Africa. The worst affected | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
communities lack the basics. Adequate protective clothing, | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
trained medical staff The World Health Organisation says | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
only international support will This is an infectious disease | :12:37. | :12:46. | |
which can be contained. This is something | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
which can be stopped. This depends | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
on identifying everybody who has an Ebola infection, | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
and making sure they receive the right treatment and making sure | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
we stop the chain of transmission. Ebola is a viral infection | :13:10. | :13:11. | |
which originates in animals, It spreads between humans through | :13:12. | :13:13. | |
direct contact with blood The virus has an incubation period | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
of up to 21 days More than half | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
of those infected have died. Pneumonia kills 3,000 children a day | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
- more than Ebola has in 40 years. The number of people who have died | :13:28. | :13:42. | |
so far in this Ebola outbreak are dwarfed by those who died from | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
Tuberculous every day for example. The numbers are small | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
but the potential for an outbreak like this to go out of control | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
and to spread, and the numbers to The threat to countries | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
like Britain remain low. Even if Ebola did come here via | :13:59. | :14:07. | |
a sick air passenger, health authorities are confident | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
they can contain it with isolation The WHO has not called | :14:11. | :14:12. | |
for travel bans but is urging greater health surveillance | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
at airports in West Africa. In Liberia, soldiers are patrolling | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
roadblocks, limiting travel It all adds to the fear | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
among communities wondering It's been a day of renewed violence | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
in Gaza today after a three-day Israel is again attacking Gaza, | :14:31. | :14:40. | |
blaming Hamas for firing rockets And Israel has now pulled out | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
of talks in Cairo, saying it won't James Reynolds reports from | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
Gaza City. apart. The hospital may be the | :14:51. | :15:27. | |
safest place in this strip of land. These families, who have lost their | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
homes, have camped out in the hospital's grounds. This man sleeps | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
here with his wife and their seven children. There are so many dead | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
bodies in my neighbourhood, so I decided to take my family and come | :15:46. | :15:53. | |
here. Shoppers at the market have taken their chance to go and get | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
supplies. If there are rockets falling, we will have to stay at | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
home. We would be able to work any more. Here, this man shops for the | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
27 members of his immediate family. Stop this war, if you come and see | :16:11. | :16:21. | |
my home, my home was for flaws, but now it is on the land. The | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
cease-fire has been broken, so people here are going back to living | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
day by day. They have to buy as much as they can right now, because they | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
don't know what will happen tomorrow. The immediate future of | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
the people of Gaza may be decided through further truce talks in | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
Egypt. Before then, I have to prepare for anything. | :16:47. | :16:55. | |
With me now is Ed Husain from the American think tank | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
The conflict has two end and we have seen previous situations where after | :16:59. | :17:15. | |
three or four weeks, matters come to ahead and there is a short term | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
cessation of violence, but in the medium to long-term, they will come | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
again and again to this violence until the Israelis realise they | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
cannot contain 2 million people in this open-air prison in Gaza, and | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
when Hamas realise they cannot secure long-term peace by rocketing | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
innocent civilians in Israel. Unless both sides come to a recognition | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
that the current mindset leads them to mutual destruction, there would | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
be an end to this awful violence. You are talking about a complete | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
rethink of what Hamas is all about. Yes, we often make the mistake of | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
seeing Hamas as simply a terrorist organisation, but it is larger than | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
that. I have had the good and bad fortune of meeting their people in | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
various countries and they run a huge operation, from hospitals to | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
orphanages, they care for the widows of their fighters. Israel is at the | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
helm of pushing this image of Hamas as being only a terrorist | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
organisation. In this country, one of the benefits the Irish peace | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
process has offered globally is that yes, Sinn Fein had a terrorist flank | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
that was the IRA, but there was also the political wing with which the | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
Irish and British governments cut a deal. | :18:45. | :19:01. | |
they be embraced as the solution it when they fire the rockets first | :19:02. | :19:03. | |
like today. Israelis say Hamas when they fire the rockets first | :19:04. | :19:10. | |
abandon violence and give up their arms, but in the UK, we found you | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
abandon violence and give up their often had to turn a blind eye to the | :19:16. | :19:16. | |
armed men and top to politicians, reaching a stage when | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
the politicians can force politicians, reaching a stage when | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
armed men to hand over their weapons. If we continue to ignore | :19:25. | :19:33. | |
the political wing of Hamas, then what happens if the armed wing of | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
Hamas have the strength they continue to have, because they are | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
the guys that are fighting and they are the guys who have the strength | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
to say they are fighting the resistance. So the psychological | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
terms of approaching this conflict means to change. -- needs to change. | :19:52. | :20:00. | |
Now a look at some of the day's other news. | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
The murder trial of Oscar Pistorius has ended. | :20:04. | :20:05. | |
The judge announced she would deliver her verdict on the 11th | :20:06. | :20:07. | |
In his closing remarks, his lawyer said Mr Pistorius should have faced | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
a charge of culpable homicide, not murder, over the shooting | :20:12. | :20:13. | |
An investigation's underway after nine surrogate babies were | :20:14. | :20:26. | |
They are believed to share the same Japanese father. | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
The recent case of an Australian couple alleged to have abandoned | :20:31. | :20:32. | |
a baby with Down's syndrome, has prompted efforts to overhaul | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
Malaysia Airlines is to be removed from the stock exchange, | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
taken over by the state and completely overhauled. | :20:39. | :20:40. | |
The disappearance of a passenger jet in March and the crash of another | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
airliner in Ukraine last month have added to the company's already | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
Afghanistan's rival presidential candidates have signed | :20:47. | :20:58. | |
a deal to form a government of national unity, four months | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
Dr Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani had both claimed | :21:02. | :21:03. | |
victory and accused the other of electoral fraud. | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
The US Secretary of State John Kerry, | :21:08. | :21:09. | |
who helped to broker the agreement in Kabul, called it an Afghan | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
Our correspondent in Kabul, David Loyn, says there's optimism | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
John Kerry, you'll remember, has been here before, and they said | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
similar things three or four weeks ago when he came to really broker | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
a deal at a time when it looked as though there may be a coup and | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
genuine armed violence breaking out because | :21:33. | :21:34. | |
But certainly the mood today was very different, very conciliatory. | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
Abdullah Abdullah said it is a win-win situation. | :21:41. | :21:41. | |
Ashraf Ghani said the time for competition was over, | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
the time for campaigning was over, now they needed to cooperate | :21:46. | :21:47. | |
together in order to build this government of national unity. | :21:48. | :21:56. | |
And John Kerry, who put the deal together, | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
said they have now agreed what he called the rules of the road. | :22:00. | :22:09. | |
On Sunday, Turkey will hold a presidential election. | :22:10. | :22:10. | |
It's the first time in the country's history that the position will be | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
chosen, not by parliament, but by the Turkish public. | :22:15. | :22:16. | |
Leading the race is the current Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip | :22:17. | :22:18. | |
Erdogan, a politician with Islamist roots who has divided Turks. | :22:19. | :22:20. | |
The star of Turkish politics continues to soar. | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, aiming for glory in Sunday's presidential | :22:26. | :22:27. | |
His firebrand rhetoric hits out at Israel and foreign interests. | :22:28. | :22:35. | |
The rockstar politician pulls the crowds. | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
Three times Prime Minister, Erdogan dominates the campaign. | :22:39. | :22:46. | |
Islamist leaning, he's accused of mixing religion | :22:47. | :22:48. | |
But fans of all ages can't get enough. | :22:49. | :22:58. | |
He is working for Turkey, for everyone, for us, for women like me. | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
Before women couldn't work in universities or other places, but | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
This election has become a referendum about the man who's | :23:05. | :23:22. | |
His backers say he has transformed this country politically | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
His critics call him authoritarian and intolerant and say the cult | :23:26. | :23:32. | |
Istanbul's skyline tells of his success. | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
With massive infrastructure projects and EU candidate status, he says he | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
But huge protests last year against a construction project | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
Rage boiled over human rights and Erdogan's apparent autocracy. | :23:51. | :23:58. | |
Eight died, including a 14-year-old, Berkin Elvan. | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
His father says he went to buy bread, | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
Without Berkin, we don't even know if we're alive or dead. | :24:08. | :24:24. | |
The next target was an Islamic scholar, Fethullah Gulen. | :24:25. | :24:26. | |
Erdogan baming his followers for leaks implicating the | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
Critics say he is using a smokescreen. | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
He is the victim and always, there are some certain enemies | :24:37. | :24:39. | |
Enemies, foreign and interior, who are under trying to undermine | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
Adored and hated in equal measure, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has polarised | :24:43. | :24:53. | |
His ambition is lofty, but can he take a divided Turkey with him? | :24:54. | :25:00. | |
A miraculous story now of a young girl seemingly back from the dead. | :25:01. | :25:13. | |
A mother and father in Indonesia say that they've been reunited with | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
their daughter ten years after she was swept in to the sea during | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
Finally back together again after 10 years apart, this is the moment | :25:20. | :25:26. | |
14-year-old Raudhatul Jannah and her family never thought would happen. | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
Her parents gave up hope of ever finding her alive | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
after she was swept from their home in West Aceh during the devastating | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
According to Indonesian media, she was found more than 100 | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
kilometres away and raised by a family of fishermen. | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
A decade later, a family member spotted a girl in a village | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
walking home from school who bore a striking resemblance to lost girl. | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
Raudhatul's parents visited her in late June. | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
When I saw her, I knew she was the one and we also saw her photos from | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
A remarkable reunion for one little girl and her family, | :26:08. | :26:16. | |
One of Raudhatul's brothers, who disappeared when the tsunami | :26:17. | :26:19. | |
But for now from me and the rest of the team, goodbye. | :26:20. | :26:59. | |
Warnings are still in force. But things are settling | :27:00. | :27:00. |