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This is BBC World News Today with me, Kasia Madera. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Vital supplies including food and water are air-dropped to | :00:09. | :00:10. | |
Yazidis stranded on a mountain in northern Iraq - but thousands | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
The move comes as President Obama offers his support to the nations | :00:14. | :00:21. | |
new leader, but will these pledges and foreign aid be enough for the | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
Described as a lightning storm of comic genius - he was loved | :00:25. | :00:40. | |
Actor Robin Williams dies in California at the age of 63. | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
World health officials give the go-ahead for the use of experimental | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
drugs in an effort to battle the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
They were the women who worked the land during the two world wars, | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
now the land girls are being remembered through art. | :00:55. | :01:10. | |
The crisis in Iraq continues in what?s now being called | :01:11. | :01:18. | |
Tens of thousands of people, mainly minority Yazidis are still | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
trapped on Mount Sinjar by Islamic State militants. | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
Helicopters are continuing to drop much needed supplies - | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
those stranded are so desperate to be rescued, they've clung to | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
British jets have dropped a second round of aid. | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
So far they have delivered more than 15,000 litres of water. | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
The US says its troops have dropped 85,000 meals. | :01:45. | :01:52. | |
As fierce fighting continues on the ground, some Yazidis have managed | :01:53. | :01:54. | |
to flee Mount Sinjar, and cross into Syria and Iraqi Kurdistan. | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
At last, the men and women from the mountain reach sanctuary of a sort. | :01:58. | :02:08. | |
Yazidi families are streaming over the borders with other | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
Carrying their children and little else, | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
The memory of the day that fighters from the Islamic state attacked | :02:19. | :02:29. | |
their villages is hard to bear, even though this woman and her six | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
We have tried for 15 years to make a home for us and the minute ISIS | :02:33. | :02:40. | |
comes and destroys everything, they killed my sister. | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
And we left them because we could not help them. | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
They are running from ISIS and they are in the mountains now. | :02:52. | :03:03. | |
For the youngest, finally a chance to sleep without fear. | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
And for the oldest, simple relief at this chance to sit | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
Somehow, these families have survived not only the massacre | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
by Islamist militants but the next enemies waiting | :03:23. | :03:24. | |
The families here came down from the mountain and they have walked | :03:25. | :03:33. | |
for days to get here through Syria and out to the relative safety of | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
Kurdistan , and as last, they are able to get food and water after | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
days without, but the aid agencies say that while they are doing their | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
For now, they are handing out the basics while well-wishers | :03:44. | :03:53. | |
from local towns have brought clean clothes and food. | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
This man and his family of nine have walked | :04:01. | :04:02. | |
They have just heard that there are vehicles ahead | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
which can take them to a derelict loading in the nearest town. | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
Others have no idea of where they are going next. | :04:13. | :04:22. | |
All they know is that they cannot go back. | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
The village is now dominated by the Islamic State , | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
Their fate at the mercy of the shifting realities | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
Aid missions to reach those still trapped | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
Just a short time ago we had reports that an aid helicopter crashed | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
The commander of the helicopter has been killed. | :04:42. | :04:49. | |
One of two New York Times journalists on board was injured. | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
As was Iraqi member of Parliament Vian Dakhil, who I interviewed here | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
She spoke about the suffering of the Yazidis and the kidnapping | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
She was the one who made an emotional appeal to the | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
Let's cross to California for the latest information on the death of | :05:07. | :05:31. | |
Robin Williams. I have prepared statements, and I ask that you hold | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
questions until the end of this statement. My last name is spelt | :05:38. | :05:54. | |
BOYD. On August the 11th, Marin County communications received a 911 | :05:55. | :06:03. | |
telephone call that a male adult was not breathing. The caller was | :06:04. | :06:12. | |
distraught, and indicated at that time that it was an apparent suicide | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
due to a hanging, and rigor mortis had set in. The Sheriff's Office | :06:18. | :06:26. | |
were dispatched to the incidents with emergency personnel arriving on | :06:27. | :06:34. | |
scene at 12pm. The male subjects was pronounced deceased just afterwards, | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
and has been identified as Robin Williams, a 63-year-old resident. | :06:41. | :06:48. | |
Preliminary information developed during the investigation has | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
revealed that Mr Williams had been seeking treatment for depression. He | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
was last seen alive by his wife at approximately 10:30pm on August the | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
10th, when she retired for the evening in a room in the home. It is | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
unknown at this time when Mr Williams retired for the evening to | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
his bedroom. At approximately 10:30am, on August the 11th, Mr | :07:16. | :07:23. | |
Williams's wife left the home, believing he was still asleep. The | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
personal assistant became concerned at 11:45am when he failed to respond | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
to knocks on his bedroom door. At that time, the personal assistant | :07:36. | :07:43. | |
was able to gain access to the bedroom and found him clothed, in a | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
seated position, unresponsive, with a belt secured around his neck and | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
the other end wedged between a closet door and a frame. His right | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
shoulder was touching the door, with his body perpendicular to the door | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
and slightly suspended. Mr Williams was cool to the touch with rigor | :08:06. | :08:14. | |
mortis present in his body. The inside of his left wrist had some | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
cuts, and a pocket knife with a blade was located in proximity to Mr | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
Williams. The knife was examined and a dry read material was identified | :08:27. | :08:37. | |
on the blade of the knife. It is unknown if the material is his lad | :08:38. | :08:46. | |
but scientific testing will be done. -- his blood. He was transported | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
from the scene to the morgue by the coroner, pending a forensic | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
examination which was conducted this morning prior to this press | :08:59. | :09:09. | |
conference. The forensic examination did not reveal any injuries | :09:10. | :09:11. | |
indicating Mr Williams had been in a struggle or a physical altercation | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
prior to him being located. The preliminary results of the | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
investigation revealed supporting physical signs that Mr Williams died | :09:22. | :09:30. | |
due to asphyxia because of hanging. Toxicology tests will be done to | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
determine if he had any chemicals in his system at the time of death. | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
Toxicology results will be available... Excuse me, will not be | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
available for two to six weeks while testing is being performed. Please | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
note that this is an active investigation into the circumstances | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
surrounding his death. Work is not complete at this time. Final cause | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
and manner of his death will not be certified until the conclusion of | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
the investigation which is several weeks away. When the investigation | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
is concluded and the final results are available, a press conference | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
will be scheduled at that time. Additionally, I have received | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
numerous requests for copies of 911 and this batch recordings. Please | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
note that each request will be handled in accordance with public | :10:28. | :10:36. | |
record guidelines and responses will be provided within ten days. Media | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
enquiries should be directed to me. This should be done on e-mail. I | :10:42. | :10:55. | |
will respond to these enquiries, time permitting, as I receive them. | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
Please keep in mind that the coroner is also investigating active cases | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
from other residents in this community. That includes my written | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
statement at this time and I will open up to take a few questions, | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
understanding that this is an active investigation and some information | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
will be withheld until the final press conference in several weeks. | :11:19. | :11:28. | |
Do you have a timeline about when this incident took place? Rigor | :11:29. | :11:36. | |
mortis is a sign that will be evaluated to try and correlate a | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
time period that the death may have occurred. Understand that there is | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
no perfect environments when you are talking about the perfect | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
environments so we will use known facts to surmise when the death | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
occurred. That was in attendance Keith Boyd, speaking from outside | :11:57. | :12:04. | |
the Sheriff Office. He is giving Saddam details about the death of | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
Robin Williams -- sad details. One of the main points he made was that | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
this was death by asphyxiation. He attached a belt around his neck and | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
that help was attached to a door. The full investigation will not be | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
confirmed until they get the toxicology results in around six | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
weeks' time, and that is when we expect another press conference to | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
give more details. There was one question from one of the | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
journalist, asking about rigor mortis and whether a timeline had | :12:46. | :12:53. | |
been apparent. The wife of Robin Williams had gone to bed without | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
seeing Robin Williams that evening, and then she had not seen him the | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
next morning, believing that he was still asleep. It was the actor's | :13:02. | :13:09. | |
assistant who had tried to wake him, knocked on the door, and got | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
concerned when he did not answer. She got access to the actor's room. | :13:14. | :13:20. | |
Some very unpleasant details. There was information about some cut to | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
the actor's left wrist, and there was a pocket knife, and a dry | :13:26. | :13:33. | |
substance which could have been blood. It is unknown whether that is | :13:34. | :13:48. | |
his life. Doctor Joseph Cohen, who studied the body afterwards, was | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
giving details that there was some cuts to the rest. -- wrist. Very sad | :13:55. | :14:05. | |
details of somebody who was revered in the acting world. Let's focus on | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
some of the happier aspects of his life because we are joined by Chris | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
Hewett from Empire magazine. Some sad details there. It goes to show | :14:15. | :14:21. | |
how low Robin Williams was feeling at the time. It is a complete | :14:22. | :14:29. | |
shock, a huge loss to the comedy world and acting world. It came out | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
of nowhere. It is extraordinary. This is a man who was one of the | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
funniest people of his generation, if not the funniest. I was thinking | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
about how inspirational he was two other mediums. Twitter was filled up | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
with the likes of Billy Crystal and Steve Martin. Other comedians as | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
well have paid tribute. I was thinking about how influential he | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
has been, and I think he was one of a kind. Even Monty Python, that was | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
influential. Robin Williams was a motormouth, he had incredible | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
energy, he could do impressions. His mind works faster than anybody's | :15:12. | :15:23. | |
else. It is amazing. He was very influential, even in animations, | :15:24. | :15:32. | |
like Aladdin. What he did in that movie was astonishing. He was a | :15:33. | :15:41. | |
brilliant actor in his own right. He was nominated for four Academy | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
Awards. He was phenomenal. He had a depth and shade as well. Real | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
sensitivity and the real soul as well. We saw that through many | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
films, for example, dead poets Society. Yes, an amazing film which | :15:58. | :16:04. | |
will definitely tug at the heartstrings. And also he injected | :16:05. | :16:13. | |
it with humour. We had the serious and comedic side. We're seeing | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
images from good morning Vietnam. Amazing. And so good in family films | :16:17. | :16:28. | |
as well. He voiced performances as well, for example in the Happy Feet | :16:29. | :16:37. | |
movies. Not to forget his stand-up. He was brilliant. Of course. Along | :16:38. | :16:48. | |
with television programmes. Thank you very much for sharing some of | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
the happier memories of Robin Williams, who has died, by taking | :16:53. | :17:00. | |
his own life in what we have just heard was by hanging at his home. | :17:01. | :17:08. | |
Some of the difficult details we heard from the press conference. We | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
will continue to monitor that and we expect lots of reaction on that. But | :17:13. | :17:19. | |
we will return now to our main story. The plight of the disease. | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
Tens of thousands are still trapped on Mount Sinjar. -- the plight of | :17:25. | :17:32. | |
the Yazidi people. These are difficult circumstances for these | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
people. We had a helicopter crashed just today. It contained a New York | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
journalist and a prominent Yazidi MP. Yes. It highlights the | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
difficulties faced by those trapped on the mountain and those trying to | :17:50. | :18:01. | |
deliver aid. And to the Yazidi people in particular. What is | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
happening in terms of fighting on the ground? What is happening in | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
terms of the Islamic State forces moving back in response to air | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
raids? What we have seen is that the fighting has moved to other parts of | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
the country. Of course, control has been regained of two towns which | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
were lost previously to Islamic State. They were aided by American | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
intervention. The American army is acting almost like an error force. | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
It is giving air cover to Kurdish fighters to allow them to catch | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
their breath. But fighting is also happening in other parts of Iraq, | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
between the Islamic State fighters and the Iraqi army. Thank you for | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
that. United Nations medical experts have | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
cleared the use of experimental drugs on Ebola victims. The World | :18:59. | :19:00. | |
Health Organisation said it was ethical - given the scale of the | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
outbreak - to give patients drugs which have not yet been widely | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
tested on humans. So far the disease has been confirmed in Guinea, | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. More than 1,000 people are believed | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
to have died. And at least 1,800 others have been infected. A Spanish | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
priest who was working in Liberia has become one of the latest to be | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
killed by the virus. our medical correspondent, Fergus | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
Walsh, reports. This is Miguel Pajares, a Catholic | :19:22. | :19:40. | |
missionary. He spent his life among the sick and poor and contracted a | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
bowler in Liberia. He was flown home to Madrid last week amid the | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
tightest while security, but died this morning. His body was swiftly | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
cremated to minimise the chance of a bolus spreading. He is one of just | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
three people treated with an experimental drug. The others were | :19:58. | :20:07. | |
an American aid worker and another. In an unusual move, global health | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
experts said it was ethical to offer untested drugs to a bowler patients. | :20:12. | :20:18. | |
In the past ten years, we have researched into a bowler | :20:19. | :20:33. | |
treatments... These support our efforts to control the disease. This | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
is the only experimental drug which has been used so far. It is created | :20:38. | :20:47. | |
by exposing mice to Ebola. But there are just 12 doses, all allocated or | :20:48. | :20:54. | |
used. There will be no more until the end of the year. Another | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
potential treatment is to use serum from patients who have recovered | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
from Ebola. There are also anti-viral drugs. As for prevention, | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
there are two vaccines in developing. But all of these have | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
only been tested in monkeys. We have to make sure there is no consent | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
from the patient. If the patient is conscience and able to give it, | :21:17. | :21:18. | |
otherwise from the family or community. We also must ensure the | :21:19. | :21:28. | |
patient is properly dealt with and data is collected so that we retain | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
information on whether these treatments work. Global health | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
officials said there had been limited research into the Mac to | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
drugs. The virus can overrun the immune system, but intravenous | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
fluids, oxygen, modern emergency medicine can help. It will not be | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
experimental drugs, but better health care. And the early isolation | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
of infected patients. That is what will bring this nightmare epidemic | :21:59. | :21:59. | |
to an end. Dr Ben Neuman is a virologist from | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
the University of Reading. He joins Let's focus on this new drug. With | :22:03. | :22:17. | |
such limited scope, how should they be used and on who? This is | :22:18. | :22:24. | |
something the medics will need to decide. It's not so important who | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
gets these. Anyone who gets these will be very lucky. If I had the | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
disease I would want it. It is likely to be safe because they are | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
antibodies that are used in sick people already but we will not know | :22:40. | :22:50. | |
till this is all over. What about the early testing stage in humans of | :22:51. | :23:00. | |
another drug? Yes. These are different drugs. The first one is | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
it's onto part of the virus and then the cell can destroy it. This second | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
drug is more experimental because there were some adverse effects in | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
initial trials. We don't know whether it will work. There is a | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
great work it could cause harm. In this situation, with this disease | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
being a serious as it is, it is a risk worth taking. When it comes to | :23:27. | :23:34. | |
vaccines I believe the latest dates are -- the United States are fast | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
tracking them. Even to fast-track a vaccine it could take months to | :23:41. | :23:42. | |
develop a full immunity responds. You need to check what kind of | :23:43. | :23:53. | |
immune response curves. The virus may burn itself out before we have a | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
vaccine. But it could help with the next outbreak. For those who are in | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
danger of being affected by this, what is there hope? It will give | :24:03. | :24:14. | |
people hope to know that there is something out there. We are hoping | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
this outbreak will be over by Christmas. But the outbreak should | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
have been over months ago and this has dragged on. We also hope it will | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
be over soon. Thank you. A Ukrainian security official says a | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
humanitarian convoy being dispatched to eastern Ukraine by Russia will | :24:35. | :24:36. | |
not be admitted into the country. A convoy of Russian trucks are heading | :24:37. | :24:39. | |
for Ukraine after agreement was reached on an international | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
humanitarian relief mission. But the Red Cross, which is due to | :24:43. | :24:44. | |
coordinate the operation, said it had no information on what the | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
trucks were carrying. Some cities, such as Luhansk, for | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
example have been cut off for any supplies for over the past month. We | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
know that the situation here is dire, in terms of supplies and | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
medical supplies. Access to water and electricity, everything. Of | :25:00. | :25:02. | |
course, we have heard of these Russian initiatives and have | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
realised that this was an agreement somewhere between the Russian and | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
Ukrainian authorities - that such a convoy should be a possibility, | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
provided that the IRC can be on board. We have said we could be on | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
board but we need clarification first, to implement such an | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
operation in this kind of environment. We need serious | :25:29. | :25:31. | |
security guarantees, for example, and direct contact with all the | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
parties. We don't have that yet. We also need to know what precisely is | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
in the convoy, the size of it, the various materials that will be | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
transported. We have heard from the Russian authorities that this convoy | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
consists of 280 trucks, so it is massive, and has left Moscow this | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
morning. It is supposed to be at the agreed point of the border tonight. | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
We are in constant contact with both the Ukrainian and Russian | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
authorities on this. They know what our requirements are and we are | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
waiting for their feedback. The Red Ross expressing concern | :26:12. | :26:27. | |
about that convoy. Just to go back to our breaking news: Robin Williams | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
has died due to suicide. We were given graphic details of how the | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
actor had attached a belt around his neck. A lot more detail on our | :26:39. | :26:45. | |
website. For now, goodbye. Hello. We have the remnants of | :26:46. | :27:00. | |
Hurricane Bertha sitting to the north of the British Isles, keeping | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
things breezy and showery. However, it will move further eastwards with | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
some quieter weather to come. Tomorrow, the showers will be fewer | :27:12. | :27:19. | |
and further between. Still a breezy day for the | :27:20. | :27:20. |