:00:10. > :00:11.This is BBC World News Today with me, Daniela Ritorto.
:00:12. > :00:14.The US says it's considering options to save thousands of people trapped
:00:15. > :00:16.by Islamic militants on a mountain in Northern Iraq.
:00:17. > :00:19.The options could include creating a safe corridor
:00:20. > :00:21.and airlifting thousands of the stranded Yazidi people.
:00:22. > :00:23.The British Prime Minister David Cameron says the UK will join
:00:24. > :00:39.We will continue to play a role to help these people but we need a plan
:00:40. > :00:42.to get these people off that mountain.
:00:43. > :00:44.Three days of national mourning is declared
:00:45. > :00:46.in Brazil after presidential candidate Eduardo Campos dies in a
:00:47. > :00:52.The dangers of the Alps - six French climbers die after bad weather
:00:53. > :00:56.And several people are injured after a train derails in
:00:57. > :01:13.You know how to whistle, don't you, is the -- Steve?
:01:14. > :01:15.Remembering one of Hollywood's leading ladies - Lauren Bacall has
:01:16. > :01:27.Hello and welcome - the international mission to rescue
:01:28. > :01:30.tens of thousands of minority Yazidis trapped
:01:31. > :01:35.The United States has sent 130 military advisers
:01:36. > :01:44.The White House insists the marines and special operations
:01:45. > :01:47.forces will not be engaged in combat, but hasn't ruled out their
:01:48. > :01:51.France has announced it will supply arms to Kurdish forces
:01:52. > :01:57.While Britain has Chinook helicopters on standby for
:01:58. > :02:01.additional humanitarian aid drops, with possible plans to use the
:02:02. > :02:18.Everyday the scale of the humanitarian crisis and of
:02:19. > :02:21.individual suffering for those fleeing the extremists in northern
:02:22. > :02:27.Iraq becomes more apparent. It has been a frightening and painful
:02:28. > :02:32.escape for those able to get away from the fighters of the Islamic
:02:33. > :02:37.State. There has been more relief from the air, a third wave of
:02:38. > :02:44.British airdrops of clean water and shelter kits for those exposed to
:02:45. > :02:48.the searing heat on Mount Sinjar. David Cameron is now back in Downing
:02:49. > :02:52.Street after his holiday, weighing up how far to go,
:02:53. > :02:55.Street after his holiday, weighing up how far to stepping up Britain's
:02:56. > :03:00.military involvement in Iraq. The first thing to do is to deal
:03:01. > :03:05.with this desperate humanitarian situation, people exposed, starving,
:03:06. > :03:09.dying of thirst on this mountainside, getting them to
:03:10. > :03:14.safety. It is Iraqi to the forces like these
:03:15. > :03:19.Britain and the US insist must remain the front line, trying to
:03:20. > :03:22.push back the extremists of the Islamic State. France is in our
:03:23. > :03:26.offering to arm them directly. Written says it will help them
:03:27. > :03:35.deliver but not supply wet -- weaponry. -- Britain. David Cameron
:03:36. > :03:38.stresses it is not a military intervention but a humanitarian one,
:03:39. > :03:45.something the Prime Minister says does not demanded the recall of
:03:46. > :03:49.Parliament. Tens of thousands fleeing the
:03:50. > :03:50.militants have arrived in Iraqi Kurdistan with little food and
:03:51. > :03:59.shelter. This is now their home,
:04:00. > :04:04.by a parched roadside half an hour's drive from the Syrian
:04:05. > :04:08.Yazidi men, women and children, all in one room
:04:09. > :04:15.For the survivors of Mount Sinjar, this is the next step
:04:16. > :04:24.No private space, no sanitation and no clean water to wash in.
:04:25. > :04:31.Most of the food and water has come from local well-wishers.
:04:32. > :04:36.This boy is the youngest refugee here.
:04:37. > :04:39.He was ten days old when his mother carried him
:04:40. > :04:49.His father says other newborns were slaughtered by Islamist fighters.
:04:50. > :04:54.He survived for seven days and nights on Mount Sinjar.
:04:55. > :04:58.His mother says he is sickly now and needs medical help.
:04:59. > :05:00.The young women here escaped the worst fate.
:05:01. > :05:02.Other teenage girls were taken to prison -
:05:03. > :05:09.the fear is, to be sold into slavery.
:05:10. > :05:14.As they have done for thousands of years, the Yazidi are helping
:05:15. > :05:18.each other survive, but it is hard to explain to the youngest here why
:05:19. > :05:21.they have been singled out for slaughter or why they will never
:05:22. > :05:25.see their home again, or their family.
:05:26. > :05:30.She is almost blind and was lost in the chaos when her
:05:31. > :05:36.She has no idea if her family are alive.
:05:37. > :05:38.The kindness of strangers helped her survive.
:05:39. > :05:45.The man next to her carried her down from the mountain top to safety.
:05:46. > :05:59.There are now 35,000 refugees from the Yazidi minority who have
:06:00. > :06:02.flooded into northern Iraq in recent days and weeks.
:06:03. > :06:06.They are adding to the numbers already here
:06:07. > :06:08.and the province has now grown to 400,000 refugees.
:06:09. > :06:12.Northern Iraq as a whole has almost a million
:06:13. > :06:15.displaced people fleeing fighting in Syria and other parts of Iraq.
:06:16. > :06:21.Most of them are living in places like this.
:06:22. > :06:25.Many survivors still have not found shelter.
:06:26. > :06:28.This family had to stop just outside a local town to
:06:29. > :06:36.They are cooled with a hosepipe by the local police.
:06:37. > :06:38.This woman still has milk for her baby.
:06:39. > :06:43.Many other women don't, too hungry or traumatised to nourish a child.
:06:44. > :06:54.The question is how much longer those on the mountain can wait.
:06:55. > :06:59.With me is Hamid Alkifaey, a former Iraqi Government spokesman, writer,
:07:00. > :07:01.journalist and friend of Haider al-Abadi who's been nominated as
:07:02. > :07:14.Thank you for coming in. We were just watching Caroline's report,
:07:15. > :07:19.tragic pictures of the desperation of people in the north of your
:07:20. > :07:25.country. The world does seem to be stepping up, are they doing enough?
:07:26. > :07:33.Clearly it is too late. They should have done this a long time ago. The
:07:34. > :07:42.examiner could -- Islamic extremists took over Mosul in June and for two
:07:43. > :07:47.and a half months people have been killed, people have been in the
:07:48. > :07:53.baking sun, and nobody has turned up. The Western world seems to be on
:07:54. > :07:58.holiday. It is too little too late but a lot needs to be done right now
:07:59. > :08:05.and urgently because people are dying right now. It was the Iraqi
:08:06. > :08:14.government's responsibility to look after these people. Yes, but it was
:08:15. > :08:17.bigger than what Iraq could deliver. The government needs the help of the
:08:18. > :08:24.international community because it is an international problem. ISIS
:08:25. > :08:32.come from all over the world, even Britain. It is a criminal
:08:33. > :08:38.organisation, a criminal gang, and it needs to be dealt with by the
:08:39. > :08:46.international community, Britain and the US. As we watch riches of those
:08:47. > :08:52.militants, it feels as though as that happens Baghdad is squabbling
:08:53. > :09:07.over political positions. ? We watch pictures. Elections in April were
:09:08. > :09:14.inconclusive so we had so many factions, election lists, so there
:09:15. > :09:20.needs to be a coalition government, as has been the case over the last
:09:21. > :09:29.two elections. The incumbent prime minister, Mr Maliki, thinks he is
:09:30. > :09:44.the person to be nominated to form the government. The government
:09:45. > :09:50.nominated Mr Albert that -- Haider al-Abadi. If he does become the
:09:51. > :09:58.prime minister, what will he do differently? He is a different kind
:09:59. > :10:03.of person, he is highly educated, he knows what a democracy is like and
:10:04. > :10:08.how to run things. He has experience in government, he has been head of
:10:09. > :10:14.the financial and economic committee in the Iraqi parliament. He is
:10:15. > :10:25.acceptable and highly respected by all Iraqi political groups and his
:10:26. > :10:31.nomination has been worked on by the US, Turkey, many other countries,
:10:32. > :10:35.and I wish him luck. Thanks for coming in to the BBC.
:10:36. > :10:38.The UN says the number of people killed in rebel-held areas
:10:39. > :10:41.in eastern Ukraine has nearly doubled in the last two weeks.
:10:42. > :10:44.The Red Cross says thousands of people are without access to
:10:45. > :10:47.But Ukraine's Interior Minister insists that
:10:48. > :10:52.a Russian aid convoy will NOT be allowed to enter his country.
:10:53. > :10:55.The trucks left Moscow bound for rebel-controlled Luhansk on Tuesday.
:10:56. > :11:01.At least some of the trucks are currently waiting in Voronezh
:11:02. > :11:04.until a final decision is made as to when or under what conditions
:11:05. > :11:15.For the latest update I am joined by the BBC's David Stern in Kiev.
:11:16. > :11:24.Are these trucks going to be let in? That is the big question right now,
:11:25. > :11:31.among a number of questions. What are on the trucks, in what direction
:11:32. > :11:36.are they headed, because it is not clear what their final destination
:11:37. > :11:39.is, and we have been getting various statements from Russian officials
:11:40. > :11:43.about the number of trucks, but the ultimate question is what will
:11:44. > :11:49.happen when they reach the border. It makes a big difference where they
:11:50. > :11:55.reach the border. If it is a point that Ukraine controls, Ukraine will
:11:56. > :12:03.insist that they can inspect the trucks and that the cargo is
:12:04. > :12:08.off-loaded and loaded onto other vehicles. If it is through an area
:12:09. > :12:12.that the rebels control the Ukrainians say this could be viewed
:12:13. > :12:17.as a hostile act. The question is what will happen and what will be
:12:18. > :12:22.the reaction by Moscow. Lots of questions there. We will keep an eye
:12:23. > :12:28.on the situation. Brazilian presidential candidate
:12:29. > :12:29.Eduardo Campos, a contender to in October elections,
:12:30. > :12:32.has died after the jet he was travelling in crashed in bad weather
:12:33. > :12:36.in the south of the country. The private plane was flying from Rio de
:12:37. > :12:39.Janeiro to the city of Guaruja, near Santos in Sao Paulo state. Reports
:12:40. > :12:42.say it was forced to abort its landing because of bad weather and
:12:43. > :12:45.then lost contact with air traffic control. It then plunged into
:12:46. > :12:48.several houses, sending a plume of smoke into the air. President Dilma
:12:49. > :12:50.Rousseff has cancelled all campaign activities for three days after
:12:51. > :12:53.receiving news of his death. Julia Carneiro joins us now on the
:12:54. > :13:03.line from Rio. I expect it is a nation in mourning
:13:04. > :13:08.and in shock. Exactly, yesterday everybody was seeing Mr Campos on
:13:09. > :13:13.television, he was doing an interview for the prime-time news
:13:14. > :13:16.programme here, being questioned about his aspirations and plans as
:13:17. > :13:23.eventual president of Brazil, and now this news. President Rousseff
:13:24. > :13:28.has declared three days of national mourning. She issued a statement
:13:29. > :13:31.saying he was a big and important political leader and politicians
:13:32. > :13:36.across the country are expressing their regret on social media. Mr
:13:37. > :13:42.Campos was a prominent political figure in Brazil, he had twice been
:13:43. > :13:49.governor of a state in the North East. He had been a strong ally of
:13:50. > :13:56.the workers party of President Rousseff and the former president
:13:57. > :14:03.Lula. He changed side and decided to run for presidency himself, joining
:14:04. > :14:13.forces with the former environment minister, so now he was the third
:14:14. > :14:20.candidate with the most intentions to vote according to recent polls.
:14:21. > :14:24.10% of voters had the intention of voting on him and there is lots of
:14:25. > :14:26.speculation about what will happen in the elections in a month and a
:14:27. > :14:30.half after his death. Unusually bad weather at
:14:31. > :14:32.the height of tourism season in the Six climbers have died on Mont Blanc
:14:33. > :14:36.in France, after they went missing on Western Europe's highest mountain
:14:37. > :14:39.in the midst of a blizzard. Meanwhile,
:14:40. > :14:41.a Swiss train has derailed after a landslide near St Moritz.
:14:42. > :14:54.Imogen Foulkes reports from Geneva. The French climbers are believed to
:14:55. > :14:57.have been experienced and they had a guide. It is thought they turned
:14:58. > :15:03.back from the summit of Mont Blanc when bad weather closed in. They
:15:04. > :15:09.tried to reach an Alpine shelter, but never got there. French rescue
:15:10. > :15:14.workers say they fell 250 metres. Their deaths are the latest in what
:15:15. > :15:18.has been a very bad season on Europe's highest mountain. In July,
:15:19. > :15:23.six climbers were killed, and two more at the start of this month.
:15:24. > :15:28.This should be the best time of year to enjoy the Alps, but not this
:15:29. > :15:32.summer. Instead, heavy rain, strong winds, and even snow storms at high
:15:33. > :15:40.altitude are creating very dangerous conditions in the mountains. And the
:15:41. > :15:44.dangers caused by the weather are being seen across the Alps, in
:15:45. > :15:52.Switzerland as well. Torrential rain caused a landslide onto the railway
:15:53. > :15:56.line close to the resort of Saint Moritz. A train is derailed, three
:15:57. > :16:01.carriages leaving the tracks, one plunging down into a ravine.
:16:02. > :16:06.Passengers who escaped had a terrifying experience. TRANSLATION:
:16:07. > :16:11.We were scared and shocked. They told us to go to the rear of the
:16:12. > :16:15.train, and then to the front, but eventually, we were told to walk
:16:16. > :16:18.through the tunnel. After a massive rescue operation,
:16:19. > :16:25.Swiss police say six people were seriously hurt, five with minor
:16:26. > :16:30.injuries. But the fact no one was killed constitutes a minor miracle.
:16:31. > :16:34.A 72-hour ceasefire in Gaza is in its third day and due to end
:16:35. > :16:38.The two sides are meeting in Cairo, but so far, there's been no
:16:39. > :16:43.In Gaza, six people were killed as experts
:16:44. > :16:47.Amongst the dead were Simone Camilli,
:16:48. > :16:52.a journalist with the Associated Press and a Palestinian translator.
:16:53. > :17:01.We can speak now to Yuval Steinitz, Israel's Minister of Intelligence.
:17:02. > :17:07.Thank you very much for joining us here. What is going to happen in
:17:08. > :17:13.three hours? Well, the real answer is, we don't
:17:14. > :17:16.know. We are ready to extend the cease-fire, officially or
:17:17. > :17:22.unofficially. We already say that quiet will be answered by quiet. But
:17:23. > :17:28.with such terrorist organisations as Hamas, from the same family as ISIS
:17:29. > :17:35.in Iraq or Al-Qaeda, or Boko Haram, we prepare ourselves for everything.
:17:36. > :17:40.All possibilities and developments. But you won't attack first team
:17:41. > :17:45.approach no. We already said we are ready for any
:17:46. > :17:52.truce. We didn't want this round of violence in the first place. We
:17:53. > :17:55.accepted all the seven cease-fire proposals by the Egyptians and the
:17:56. > :18:00.UN. All of them were violated by Hamas. At least this one was so far
:18:01. > :18:08.capped by both sides. Let's wait and see. We have no interest in any kind
:18:09. > :18:13.of violation of the cease-fire. We are ready to extend it. Maybe more
:18:14. > :18:20.time is needed in order to arrange or to reach some understanding, some
:18:21. > :18:25.arrangements, and we are ready for a truce or a cease-fire, but of
:18:26. > :18:29.course, we have two also be ready for the possibility that Hamas will
:18:30. > :18:34.resume mortars or rocket attacks on our citizens, and then, of course,
:18:35. > :18:38.we will have to defend ourselves, as before.
:18:39. > :18:41.You say you will have to defend yourselves as before, but if Hamas
:18:42. > :18:47.is a terrorist organisation like you say, the same as ISIS and Boko
:18:48. > :18:52.Haram, isn't it Israel's responsibility as the state to take
:18:53. > :18:57.a responsibility here to quieten things down, not to retaliate?
:18:58. > :19:02.You know, this is funny. First, it is funny that you ask me if Hamas is
:19:03. > :19:06.a terrorist organisation. Let me tell you, you wouldn't ask such
:19:07. > :19:10.questions about Al-Qaeda or ISIS. ISIS is working in Iraq and Syria,
:19:11. > :19:16.Al-Qaeda worldwide. Why is Hamas different? It is the same ideology.
:19:17. > :19:19.A terrorist ideology. And by the way, Hamas is recognised as a
:19:20. > :19:25.terrorist organisation not just by Israel, but by the United States,
:19:26. > :19:30.Canada, the European Union, the United Kingdom. So, first, I suggest
:19:31. > :19:34.you call it the right name, a terrorist organisation who in the
:19:35. > :19:40.past, when it was possible, sent hundreds of suicide bombers into
:19:41. > :19:45.Israel and killed 1000 Israelis civilians in the second intifada.
:19:46. > :19:49.Now, it is impossible to send suicide bombers from Gaza into
:19:50. > :19:53.Israel, so instead, it is launching rockets in Gaza into Israel. But it
:19:54. > :19:56.is a terrorist organisation, and this fact is recognised not just by
:19:57. > :20:01.Israel, but also by Europe and America and all the civilised world.
:20:02. > :20:03.OK, but how is this going to end? How will this conflict and in your
:20:04. > :20:09.eyes? You'll agree you ask me? Yes. You
:20:10. > :20:14.have to ask them. They started the conflict. They violated seven
:20:15. > :20:19.previous cease-fires. Unfortunately, this one, the eighth cease-fire, has
:20:20. > :20:25.been capped by both eyes. -- fortunately. The very fact you have
:20:26. > :20:29.a terrorist organisation armed with thousands of rockets in Gaza, which
:20:30. > :20:35.was supposed to be totally demilitarised, let me remind you,
:20:36. > :20:37.according to the Oslo agreement, there is clear Palestinian a
:20:38. > :20:43.commitment that Gaza and the West Bank will be totally demilitarised,
:20:44. > :20:47.what may. So the very fact that instead, there are thousands of
:20:48. > :20:50.Iranian rockets in Gaza and thousands of them already being
:20:51. > :20:56.launched into Israel, this is a very sad fact. We have to protect
:20:57. > :20:59.ourselves, as sooner or later, Gaza should be demilitarised again for
:21:00. > :21:03.the benefit of both Israelis and the people of Gaza. Thank you very much
:21:04. > :21:08.upcoming on. Many thanks.
:21:09. > :21:11.She was one of the last survivors of Hollywood's studio age.
:21:12. > :21:14.Lauren Bacall has died at the age of 89 in New York.
:21:15. > :21:16.She was known for her smouldering looks, husky voice,
:21:17. > :21:19.and her partnership - on and off screen - with Humphrey Bogart.
:21:20. > :21:22.She emerged as a star of the silver screen in the 1940s in
:21:23. > :21:25.the film To Have And Have Not, when she played Bogart's leading lady.
:21:26. > :21:36.David Sillito looks back at her life and career.
:21:37. > :21:42.Rarely has an actress made such an impact with her first appearance.
:21:43. > :21:46.She was 19, unknown, and playing opposite a screen legend, Humphrey
:21:47. > :21:50.Bogart. But this sultry blonde became an instant star, tough, wise
:21:51. > :21:54.beyond her years, but with an air of vulnerability, although masked by a
:21:55. > :22:00.voice that one critic said it sounded as if it had been smoked in
:22:01. > :22:04.thanks. The couple fell in love off-screen as well, and Lauren
:22:05. > :22:12.Bacall married Humphrey Bogart, 25 years her senior, in 1945. If my
:22:13. > :22:15.father should hear this! They had 11 happy years together before
:22:16. > :22:20.Bogart's death from cancer. In the years after, she was briefly engaged
:22:21. > :22:24.to Frank Sinatra, then married for eight years to Jason Robards. But
:22:25. > :22:28.professionally, she said she struggled to escape the shadow of
:22:29. > :22:36.Bogart. That is, until a stage musical, Applause, revive her career
:22:37. > :22:40.and brought more films such as Murder On The Orient Express. What
:22:41. > :22:44.is the matter with him? But she knew she would be most remembered for her
:22:45. > :22:47.first film, and one cinema's most famous lines.
:22:48. > :22:49.You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve?
:22:50. > :22:51.You just put your lips together and...
:22:52. > :22:59.Wasn't she sensational? I love that scene.
:23:00. > :23:01.With me is the film critic and admirer of Lauren Bacall,
:23:02. > :23:09.I just love that scene. Cannot watch it enough. She was 19 when she did
:23:10. > :23:13.that. No 19-year-old could do that now. Most 19-year-olds now, they
:23:14. > :23:19.look like children, but she looks the same now as she did at 19. She
:23:20. > :23:23.had the poise, the grace, it is one of the great screen debuts. But
:23:24. > :23:27.amazing that that is the first time anyone had seen her. Bogart fell in
:23:28. > :23:31.love with her, we fell in love with her, and I fell in love with movies
:23:32. > :23:38.because of femme fatales like that. She was seductive, hard, dangerous,
:23:39. > :23:43.but she also get this kind of water with her. The reason she is an icon
:23:44. > :23:47.of the old studio system is because they did not make them like that any
:23:48. > :23:52.more. She instructed this image and carried it with her until this
:23:53. > :23:56.morning. So I there is this kind of... We shall not look upon her
:23:57. > :23:59.like again will stop we don't respect celebrities in the same way.
:24:00. > :24:03.We take pictures of them coming out of yoga and carrying shopping bags.
:24:04. > :24:08.You never saw Lauren Bacall carrying shopping in the supermarket.
:24:09. > :24:11.So maybe part of her appeal was that she was of a different era, and
:24:12. > :24:16.maybe it is not the actresses these days, maybe it is not their fault
:24:17. > :24:19.that we do not see them in such a scene? What you think?
:24:20. > :24:25.I do think celebrity culture has led to everyone being a celebrity, so
:24:26. > :24:30.you can't differentiate between the truly great and the knot. Lauren
:24:31. > :24:34.Bacall in the big sleep, Key Largo, How To Marry A Millionaire, not that
:24:35. > :24:39.many pictures she made. You can reel them off. I loved her turn in Murder
:24:40. > :24:44.On The Orient Express, but it is that kind of connection that she
:24:45. > :24:49.had, how she was always talking. She was brilliant on talk shows. She
:24:50. > :24:53.would spill secrets on Marilyn Monroe and Dean Martin, Frank
:24:54. > :24:57.Sinatra and Humphrey Bogart. Just those words, anyone connected to
:24:58. > :25:02.that era, it is precious. I think that is why we her life. When they
:25:03. > :25:06.are gone, we just feel a little less connected to that Iraq, and it has
:25:07. > :25:10.kind of drifted off into the silver screen.
:25:11. > :25:13.All I keep thinking is, the phrase old school. She reminds me of the
:25:14. > :25:18.old school. You have interesting story about that.
:25:19. > :25:23.I was in Venice seeing a film she had done with Nicole Kidman called
:25:24. > :25:27.Birth, and a journalist next to me said, it must be amazing in a film
:25:28. > :25:32.to have two screen legends in a film. Lauren Bacall just went to
:25:33. > :25:38.nickel Pitman, she's not a legend! She's not old enough to be a legend!
:25:39. > :25:42.She is a beginner! Nicholl Kidman was like, OK! Lauren Bacall knew how
:25:43. > :25:47.to be a legend. She hated the word, funnily enough. I think there was
:25:48. > :25:51.some false modesty in their, because she grew into the part of legend and
:25:52. > :25:55.carried it with her. It is kind of an irony that all the headlines as a
:25:56. > :25:59.Hollywood legend, and she went to the grave saying, I hate that word,
:26:00. > :26:04.don't use that word. You could not use it in their presence, and that
:26:05. > :26:08.was partly because she used and macro they used it lightly
:26:09. > :26:12.sometimes, and she bought a lot of work into being a legend. Your
:26:13. > :26:17.favourite memory? That memory of the story with Nicole Kidman will stick
:26:18. > :26:25.with me. On-screen, today, I have been enjoying that scene you just
:26:26. > :26:28.played, and it is the sexiest line in cinema. Jason, thank you very
:26:29. > :26:32.much, sharing your memories of Lauren Bacall.
:26:33. > :26:45.It is a bittersweet day, but it is nice to watch all those old movie
:26:46. > :26:46.clips back. Thank you all for watching. , the
:26:47. > :27:02.weather. Hello. Our weather patterns will
:27:03. > :27:05.stay pretty unsettled over the next 24 hours. We have had quite a few
:27:06. > :27:08.showers around today, which will continue overnight, particularly in
:27:09. > :27:11.Northern Ireland, as this conclusion continues to push southwards and
:27:12. > :27:17.eastwards. This will provide the real focus of the heavy showers
:27:18. > :27:18.through tomorrow, particularly early in the morning across