:00:00. > :00:00.This is BBC World News Today with me Kasia Madeira.
:00:07. > :00:08.The humanitarian situation in northern Iraq is still
:00:09. > :00:13.in deep crisis according to the United Nations.
:00:14. > :00:18.But President Barack Obama says US air strikes has broken the siege
:00:19. > :00:24.of Mount Sinjar and alllow thousands of refugees to escape.
:00:25. > :00:30.We broke the siege of Mount Sinjar and help vulnerable people to safety
:00:31. > :00:37.and help to save innocent lives. Heavy shelling has hit
:00:38. > :00:39.the rebel-held Ukrainian city of Donetsk, amid a continuing row over
:00:40. > :00:42.a controversial Russian aid convoy. Police search musician Sir Cliff
:00:43. > :00:45.Richard's home in connection with If you are enjoying your binge-watch
:00:46. > :00:53.- stay with as we keep you hyper-connected with new additions
:00:54. > :00:55.to the Oxford Online dictionary - definitions available later -
:00:56. > :01:11.but will these new words last? Obama says the siege of the Yazidis
:01:12. > :01:19.on Mount Sinjar has been broken. But that does not mean that
:01:20. > :01:21.the humanitarian crisis in Iraq caused by the advance of Islamic
:01:22. > :01:25.State militants has lessened. In fact, it has acquired
:01:26. > :01:28.a new official urgency, with the United Nations declaring it to
:01:29. > :01:36.be its highest level of emergency. It estimates that 1.2
:01:37. > :01:38.million Iraqis have been It HAD thought tens
:01:39. > :01:40.of thousands Yazidis were besieged on Mount Sinjar without food or
:01:41. > :01:43.water after fleeing the nearby town But the US says a rescue mission
:01:44. > :01:57.there is now unlikely to be needed, as there are fewer people than
:01:58. > :02:12.thought still on the mountain. The US military conducted airdrops
:02:13. > :02:20.every night over the last week, delivering 114,000 meals, and 35,000
:02:21. > :02:27.gallons of water. They were joined in the effort by the UK and other
:02:28. > :02:30.allies. The military was able to successfully strike targets around
:02:31. > :02:33.the mountain which improved conditions for civilians to evacuate
:02:34. > :02:37.the mountain safely. Our World Affairs Correspondent Paul
:02:38. > :02:40.Wood has also been to Mount Sinjar This is the one road from
:02:41. > :02:44.Mount Sinjar not controlled This harsh and barren terrain,
:02:45. > :02:48.the only way of escape for tens A few are still making
:02:49. > :02:58.their way out on foot. This family hid for days, silent and
:02:59. > :03:05.terrified, before sneaking away. There were bodies in the streets
:03:06. > :03:11.of the town of Sinjar, he says. A few people remain scattered
:03:12. > :03:16.across the mountain. They have cobbled together a camp
:03:17. > :03:19.with supplies dropped by the RAF. They have next to nothing but they
:03:20. > :03:31.say they have no choice but to flee. One man tells me had had a gun put
:03:32. > :03:35.to his head and was told to convert or die. Like everyone here, he says
:03:36. > :03:40.he will never abandon his faith. Sheltered courtesy of the British
:03:41. > :03:42.taxpayer, they are profoundly grateful for the aid they have
:03:43. > :03:45.received by they are also desperate First they came for the Christians,
:03:46. > :03:58.and then us, the Yazidis. They have struck all
:03:59. > :04:00.of the minorities. If the international community does
:04:01. > :04:02.not step in, The only soldiers confronting
:04:03. > :04:12.Islamic State in this part of Iraq The US and Britain are
:04:13. > :04:16.determined not to send troops. Even with US air support, there is
:04:17. > :04:22.not much these armed Kurds can do. They are stuck here
:04:23. > :04:26.along with those who fled. By one count, more than 100,000
:04:27. > :04:32.terrified Yazidis fled over this mountain, many of them at risk
:04:33. > :04:36.of dying from heat or thirst. The humanitarian catastrophe has
:04:37. > :04:37.been averted The question remains,
:04:38. > :04:44.how are these people and 1 million other displaced Iraqis going to get
:04:45. > :04:47.home when the Islamic State controls Most of those Yazidis are now
:04:48. > :05:11.in the Dohuk governate, where Kurdish officials say
:05:12. > :05:13.the situation is critical - it's being overwhelmed by the arrival
:05:14. > :05:15.of 300,000 displaced people. Our World Affairs correspondent
:05:16. > :05:17.Caroline Wyatt has spent the day at a hospital where the doctors
:05:18. > :05:21.have been treating Yazidi refugees. at a hospital where the doctors
:05:22. > :05:22.Volunteer Kurdish medical teams have been risking
:05:23. > :05:25.their lives to reach Mount Sinjar to These are
:05:26. > :05:29.the images they brought back. Over the past few days,
:05:30. > :05:31.the number still stranded there Many
:05:32. > :05:38.of the most vulnerable survivors are still arriving in Iraqi Kurdistan
:05:39. > :05:41.in urgent need of treatment. In one day alone, hospitals
:05:42. > :05:43.treated up to 800 casualties. In the exodus, even
:05:44. > :05:50.the old had to walk to survive. He told me he had to go on foot down
:05:51. > :05:54.the mountain for over 50 kilometres. The real focus is on how to look
:05:55. > :06:11.after the survivors and to treat the sick and injured from the mountains,
:06:12. > :06:15.and how to prevent any outbreak of disease, thanks to the conditions
:06:16. > :06:24.that many refugees are living in. The Yazidi families who made it to
:06:25. > :06:36.safety remain Maybe in a few days we may
:06:37. > :06:40.see some endemic diseases. We may have cholera
:06:41. > :06:43.because the places where they live Existing refugee camps
:06:44. > :06:53.are already full. The province is now home to 400,000
:06:54. > :06:56.people fleeing Islamic State fighters,
:06:57. > :06:57.doubling the population here. Support from outside is what they
:06:58. > :07:04.need here and some of that was visible last night in the form of
:07:05. > :07:30.another RAF airdrop of aid to Mount The centre of the rebel-held
:07:31. > :07:32.Ukrainian city if Donetsk has come under heavy shelling,
:07:33. > :07:34.leaving at least two people dead. The city has been surrounded for
:07:35. > :07:38.several weeks by Ukrainian forces, Eyewitnesses say shells landed
:07:39. > :07:40.on shopping centres and a university, as well as city-centre
:07:41. > :07:42.buildings occupied by the rebels. The latest violence comes
:07:43. > :07:44.as a Russian convoy, said by Moscow to be carrying aid,
:07:45. > :07:47.makes its way towards a rebel-held The government in Kiev says
:07:48. > :07:51.the convoy is a cover to send Our correspondent Steve Rosenberg
:07:52. > :07:55.is travelling with the convoy. Those who saw it today
:07:56. > :07:57.could only stop and stare. It is one
:07:58. > :07:59.of the largest humanitarian convoys Nearly 300 lorries packed, Moscow
:08:00. > :08:02.says, with aid for eastern Ukraine. All day it snaked its way to
:08:03. > :08:05.southern Russia before stopping in But Ukraine is reluctant to let
:08:06. > :08:09.the lorries in. It fears it may be a cover
:08:10. > :08:12.for a Russian military operation. The border with Ukraine is just
:08:13. > :08:15.a short drive away from here. If Russia decides to take this
:08:16. > :08:18.convoy across that border without the permission of Kiev,
:08:19. > :08:20.then the Ukrainian government will We asked to see what was in
:08:21. > :08:25.the lorries so they opened one up. No secret weapons shipments here,
:08:26. > :08:32.just sleeping bags. One of the drivers told me that
:08:33. > :08:35.Russia was trying to help Ukrainians and that it was the West who was
:08:36. > :08:46.the aggressor. America, he says,
:08:47. > :08:50.wants to grab Ukraine for itself. Today, Ukraine dispatched
:08:51. > :08:52.a rival humanitarian convoy to The Red Cross is warning that
:08:53. > :09:00.the humanitarian situation Thousands are lacking water
:09:01. > :09:04.and medicine, and with no sign In Donetsk,
:09:05. > :09:12.they were sifting through the rubble I don't have anywhere
:09:13. > :09:30.else to run to. Ukraine accuses Russia
:09:31. > :09:32.of starting this war. That is why when Russia says it
:09:33. > :09:39.wants to help by distributing aid, Joining me now from St Helier in
:09:40. > :10:10.Jersey is Sir Andrew Wood, former Do you trust President Putin when he
:10:11. > :10:18.says this is purely humanitarian? I think he has lost trust by lying
:10:19. > :10:22.about other things. This is a group of 280 lorries, military lorries,
:10:23. > :10:31.painted white, they have stopped at military bases along the way and
:10:32. > :10:34.they are clearly following an order to prevaricate about what is in the
:10:35. > :10:41.lorries. I am not surprised that Ukraine is suspicious. Our
:10:42. > :10:52.correspondent got access into one of the lorries, and there were just
:10:53. > :10:55.sleeping bags there. I am sorry? One of the lorries, which are
:10:56. > :11:03.correspondent saw inside, only had sleeping bags. Surely we can have
:11:04. > :11:07.some kind of trust in this? Why would they not cooperate properly
:11:08. > :11:13.with the Red Cross in explaining what was in the lorries? Why did
:11:14. > :11:17.they stop at the bases and why are they military lorries? All I am
:11:18. > :11:23.saying is that Ukraine has every reason to be distrustful of the way
:11:24. > :11:27.the Russians have turned to humanitarian aid, as opposed to
:11:28. > :11:39.military aides and military personnel. If this convoy crosses at
:11:40. > :11:43.a point that is controlled by pro-Russian separatists, what can
:11:44. > :11:50.Ukraine do? They originally said they would cross further to the
:11:51. > :11:55.north in Ukrainian held territory. They must have a reason for not
:11:56. > :12:00.doing that and the obvious supposition is sat they are
:12:01. > :12:08.concealing something. A Trojan horse? I did not hear. I apologise,
:12:09. > :12:14.the line is not good. You believe that this is a Trojan horse? How
:12:15. > :12:20.damaging is this for Russia's reputation? Russia's reputation has
:12:21. > :12:26.been severely damaged by what it has done so far. The fact that the
:12:27. > :12:32.president and authorities have continuously misled everybody.
:12:33. > :12:37.President Putin said he would cooperate instantly and fully into
:12:38. > :12:49.the investigation of the destruction of the Malaysian aircraft. No such
:12:50. > :12:56.thing happened. The rebel separatists made absolutely sure
:12:57. > :12:59.that no investigation was possible. I do not see any reason to see that
:13:00. > :13:11.they have changed their general attitude. We saw President Putin had
:13:12. > :13:22.been to Crimea. Does that mean Ukraine will never get Crimea back?
:13:23. > :13:27.In a paradoxical way, there is some reason to be relatively short that
:13:28. > :13:36.the president is just manoeuvring rather than making a definite
:13:37. > :13:45.decision. He said that Crimea is now Russian, and this is his desire and
:13:46. > :13:53.fate. -- its desire and fate. He did not go on to say that eastern
:13:54. > :13:59.Ukraine is also part of the proper Russian sphere. He did not describe
:14:00. > :14:05.it as new Russia. So, maybe, but there has been so much manoeuvring
:14:06. > :14:11.and so much changing, that it is quite hard to know what it is that
:14:12. > :14:19.he wants, and easy to suspect that he is not sure what he can get. We
:14:20. > :14:23.have to leave it there. Thank you for joining us.
:14:24. > :14:26.The British singer Sir Cliff Richard has had his home in Berkshire
:14:27. > :14:29.searched by South Yorkshire Police, in connection with an allegation
:14:30. > :14:32.of sexual assault involving a boy who was under 16 at the time.
:14:33. > :14:34.The allegation, which Sir Cliff strongly denies, was made recently
:14:35. > :14:39.The BBC understands the alleged sexual assault is said to have taken
:14:40. > :14:41.place at an event by the Christian evangelist Billy Graham at Bramall
:14:42. > :14:55.Our correspondent David Sillito reports.
:14:56. > :15:02.A small convoy of unmarked police cars arrived quietly this morning at
:15:03. > :15:08.this complex of apartments. From the air, we saw
:15:09. > :15:11.this complex of apartments. From the penthouse flat. Inside,
:15:12. > :15:14.this complex of apartments. From the the search. The trigger for this: An
:15:15. > :15:29.allegation that he the search. The trigger for this: An
:15:30. > :15:33.16. It was at a rally in 1985. Today I can confirm that South Yorkshire
:15:34. > :15:36.Police have gained entry to a property. Officers are currently
:15:37. > :15:41.searching the property, a search warrant was granted after the
:15:42. > :15:46.receipt of an allegation relating to a sexual nature. The allegation
:15:47. > :15:51.relates to a young boy under the age of 16 years. The owner of the
:15:52. > :15:56.property is not present. Sir Cliff Richard, one of Britain's most
:15:57. > :16:01.successful and popular performers. A committed Christian. There was a
:16:02. > :16:07.hint of rock and roll rebellion, but since then he
:16:08. > :16:08.hint of rock and roll rebellion, but clean cut family friendly music. He
:16:09. > :16:13.is clean cut family friendly music. He
:16:14. > :16:19.Wimbledon. She has clean cut family friendly music. He
:16:20. > :16:23.recently pledging his recordings. It is going back to grass roots, the
:16:24. > :16:27.album is full of iconic rock is going back to grass roots, the
:16:28. > :16:40.roll songs. He released a statement today.
:16:41. > :16:56.. It is understood about Sir Cliff is in Portugal at the moment,
:16:57. > :16:59.. It is understood about Sir Cliff however there was no sight of him at
:17:00. > :17:04.this address. Meanwhile, back at his Berkshire home, we watched as the
:17:05. > :17:09.police began to leave the apartment. This venture is a joint operation
:17:10. > :17:13.between South Yorkshire Police and Thames Valley Police, as you can
:17:14. > :17:17.see, the first of the vehicles are leaving. They have been in there for
:17:18. > :17:20.more than five hours, we have already seen items taken from the
:17:21. > :17:25.flat packed up in already seen items taken from the
:17:26. > :17:32.taken away for examination. It is just a search full stop never rest,
:17:33. > :17:38.no charge, one allegation that he has strenuously denied.
:17:39. > :17:41.President Barack Obama has called for peace and calm on the streets
:17:42. > :17:44.of Ferguson, Missouri, after four nights of violence that followed
:17:45. > :17:46.the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by police there.
:17:47. > :17:49.The President urged all sides to take a step back,
:17:50. > :17:53.and called for a transparent enquiry into the shooting last Saturday.
:17:54. > :17:56.When something like this happens, the local authorities, including
:17:57. > :17:59.the police, have the responsibility to be open and transparent
:18:00. > :18:04.about how they are investigating it, and how they are protecting people
:18:05. > :18:12.There is never an excuse for violence against police or for
:18:13. > :18:18.those who would use this tragedy as a cover for vandalism or looting.
:18:19. > :18:21.There is also no excuse for police to use excessive force
:18:22. > :18:26.Or to throw protesters in jail for lawfully exercising
:18:27. > :18:31.Here in the United States of America, police should not be
:18:32. > :18:34.bullying or arresting journalists who are just trying to do their jobs
:18:35. > :18:39.and report to the American people about what they see on the ground.
:18:40. > :18:47.We all need to hold ourselves to a high standard.
:18:48. > :18:50.BBC's Aleem Maqbool is in Ferguson, Missouri for us with the latest.
:18:51. > :18:53.Aleem, the President has noted the criticisms over the way the
:18:54. > :19:16.He did say that a couple of days as well. The last 204I was haven't been
:19:17. > :19:25.calm. Most protests have been like this. There have been occasions
:19:26. > :19:31.where looting has taken place, vandals came in last night as police
:19:32. > :19:35.tried to move people off the streets of Ferguson. There was
:19:36. > :19:42.confrontation, tear gas was fired. These people here by the side of the
:19:43. > :19:47.road, there are two main slogans. The first is hands up, don't shoot,
:19:48. > :19:52.that refers to what happened to Michael Brown, who was shot dead by
:19:53. > :19:58.police on Saturday morning. The police say he was involved in a
:19:59. > :20:11.scuffle, eyewitnesses say he approached them with his hand up.
:20:12. > :20:15.The other slogan is very telling, no justice no peace. They will
:20:16. > :20:20.continue, they say, until they see justice not in this case but in
:20:21. > :20:30.society as a whole. Tell us a little bit about how the community is
:20:31. > :20:35.broken up? When they say they want justice, it is about a full
:20:36. > :20:38.investigation into what happened to 18-year-old Michael Brown and
:20:39. > :20:43.punishment for the police officer who shot him. The other things they
:20:44. > :20:49.are talking about is the fact that while they are in a predominantly
:20:50. > :20:53.black community here in Ferguson, two thirds of the community is
:20:54. > :20:57.African American, they have very low representation in the government
:20:58. > :21:01.here, there are very few black police officers. They want that to
:21:02. > :21:06.change, they say they are being harassed and feel like second-class
:21:07. > :21:10.citizens. It has opened up an issue which is very uncomfortable, not
:21:11. > :21:12.just here, but in many parts of America. For the time being, thank
:21:13. > :21:16.you very much. A new, extended ceasefire is holding
:21:17. > :21:18.in Gaza after both sides briefly breached it
:21:19. > :21:21.soon after it began early Thursday. Israeli
:21:22. > :21:23.and Palestinian negotiators are expected to resume talks on Monday
:21:24. > :21:27.after consulting on the terms. They are seeking agreement
:21:28. > :21:30.on a lasting truce in Gaza Kenya's national airline will
:21:31. > :21:36.continue to fly to west African nations hit by the Ebola virus,
:21:37. > :21:39.despite the World Health Organisation's warning that the East
:21:40. > :21:44.African nation is "at high risk." British Airways has already
:21:45. > :21:47.suspended some services. More than a thousand people
:21:48. > :21:51.have now died in four countries. The Uruguay captain Luis Suarez has
:21:52. > :21:55.lost his appeal against a four-month game ban after biting an Italian
:21:56. > :22:00.defender during the World Cup. But the Court of Arbitration
:22:01. > :22:03.for Sport in Switzerland has given him permission to train with
:22:04. > :22:14.his new club, Barcelona. If you've no idea what any of that
:22:15. > :22:21.means then, like me, you need to check with Oxford Dictionaries,
:22:22. > :22:23.who today added all of these words It's not the
:22:24. > :22:26.Oxford English Dictionary, but an online offering, run by Oxford
:22:27. > :22:30.University Press, that focuses on current English and includes
:22:31. > :22:35.the modern meanings of words. Let's take a quick look at some
:22:36. > :22:38.of the new words or phrases that First, Amazeballs, meaning very
:22:39. > :22:43.impressive, enjoyable, It means
:22:44. > :22:59.to make an ostensibly modest or self-deprecating statement, whose
:23:00. > :23:01.actual purpose is to draw attention Second screen has been added, it's
:23:02. > :23:06.a mobile device used while watching And YOLO, which is simply
:23:07. > :23:12.an acronym for You only live once. Joining me from New York is
:23:13. > :23:14.Katherine Connor Martin. She's an editor with
:23:15. > :23:28.Oxford University Press. Thank you for joining us, these
:23:29. > :23:33.words, they won't reach the final version, the printed version will
:23:34. > :23:41.they? They may someday, it is quite possible. Right now, both the
:23:42. > :23:46.historical dictionary and the online dictionary are publishing words
:23:47. > :23:49.there first. It is faster to get information out that way and it is
:23:50. > :23:55.the way that most readers want to get to the information we have.
:23:56. > :24:01.These words added now may well be added in a year or two. Some of
:24:02. > :24:13.these words I can understand, whinge watch, we watch a lot of box sets.
:24:14. > :24:22.Hate watch as well, where you complain about it on twitter. Craig
:24:23. > :24:30.for crazy is another one. Shortening our characteristics of words, there
:24:31. > :24:42.is also abbreviations of adorable. There is also bullying. What about
:24:43. > :24:52.Amazeballs, but increases what you have to say. I think it is the same
:24:53. > :24:59.number of syllables, but the use of balls is a funny way to enhance the
:25:00. > :25:04.meaning of the word. It is easily recognisable because it has that
:25:05. > :25:14.beginning part from amazing. Informal speech uses the techniques
:25:15. > :25:18.of neologism, creating new words to make language more fun and
:25:19. > :25:23.expressive. I imagine some people are cringing listening to these new
:25:24. > :25:30.words. I am sure that is true, I must say that when we did the
:25:31. > :25:34.research on Amazeballs and found it qualify for inclusion, we looked at
:25:35. > :25:39.each other and thought it was get a response. We don't advocate that
:25:40. > :25:43.people use these words, but we just ready how people use these words. If
:25:44. > :25:47.new words are rising and we think that our readership will encounter
:25:48. > :25:55.them, we add them to the dictionary. How do they qualified them? We need
:25:56. > :26:02.to see that they are being used a lot in a broad array of sources. If
:26:03. > :26:07.something is just on twitter, we probably wouldn't do it. But if
:26:08. > :26:10.something has achieved a certain amount of frequency, when we think
:26:11. > :26:36.our readers will encounter it in their daily lives, then. My
:26:37. > :26:38.favourite is bro hug, while mine is listicle.
:26:39. > :26:43.Well that's all from the programme. Next the weather. But for now from
:26:44. > :26:56.me and the rest of the team goodbye.
:26:57. > :27:05.Hello again, today's thunderstorms caused flooding and hail. The
:27:06. > :27:10.weather has been influenced by