:00:00. > :00:00.This is BBC World News Today with me Daniela Ritorto.
:00:07. > :00:14.Hours before it was due to end, Israeli planes struck Gaza
:00:15. > :00:18.after accusing Hamas of firing rockets across the border.
:00:19. > :00:21.The Iraqi army goes on the offensive against Islamic State militants
:00:22. > :00:27.but meets fierce resistance as it tries to recapture Tikrit.
:00:28. > :00:31.The arrival of the National Guard in the Missouri town of Ferguson
:00:32. > :00:53.has failed to stop another night of violent protests.
:00:54. > :01:01.I refuse to allow criminals to define this neighbourhood and to
:01:02. > :01:12.define what we can do to make this right.
:01:13. > :01:18.The Israeli military says it's carried out air strikes in the
:01:19. > :01:20.Gaza Strip in response to fresh Hamas rocket attacks,
:01:21. > :01:22.breaking the latest ceasefire hours before it was set to expire.
:01:23. > :01:30.These were the scenes in Gaza just a short time ago.
:01:31. > :01:34.Hamas has denied firing any of the rockets.
:01:35. > :01:37.Israeli officials say three rockets were fired towards the towns of
:01:38. > :01:44.Beersheva and another two missiles were intercepted by the Iron Dome.
:01:45. > :01:46.But Hamas has denied firing any of the rockets.
:01:47. > :01:49.Israel has now ordered its delegation pull out of talks
:01:50. > :01:51.in Cairo which were trying to broker a longer term truce.
:01:52. > :01:54.The Palestinian delegation now also says the talks have reached
:01:55. > :01:58.Both sides are blaming each other, let's here what they have to say.
:01:59. > :02:09.Today's rocket attacks is a grave and direct violation of the
:02:10. > :02:14.cease-fire that Hamas committed to. This is the 11th cease-fire that
:02:15. > :02:18.Hamas has either rejected or violated and it is clear that a
:02:19. > :02:23.cease-fire has to be a two-way street. It is not just that Israel
:02:24. > :02:30.hold its fire, Hamas must hold its fire as well. Up until this moment
:02:31. > :02:35.there is no progress and the situation is getting more
:02:36. > :02:42.complicated. We have presented the Palestinian delegation position to
:02:43. > :02:46.the Egyptian brothers a few hours ago and we are waiting for a final
:02:47. > :02:49.answer. The Israeli delegation and maybe you have followed the
:02:50. > :02:53.statements of the Israeli Prime Minister and they are now trying to
:02:54. > :02:54.force what they want. This is impossible to accept as
:02:55. > :02:58.Palestinians. With me now is Edgard Jallad from
:02:59. > :03:06.the BBC's Arabic Service. Our correspondent Yolande Knell is
:03:07. > :03:15.in Gaza for us. Thousands of people are fleeing the
:03:16. > :03:21.Gaza Strip once again? Certainly people are leaving their homes.
:03:22. > :03:25.There are neighbourhoods that have been targeted by Israel during the
:03:26. > :03:32.military offensive that began on the 8th of July. People had really only
:03:33. > :03:36.just returned to those homes in the past few days. Now we also have a
:03:37. > :03:41.very clear picture of uncertainty that is emerging here in Gaza once
:03:42. > :03:45.again. There were breaches of the cease-fire in the last few hours.
:03:46. > :03:49.The expiry of the latest truce is supposed to be at midnight local
:03:50. > :03:54.time but there have been about eight rockets fired from the Gaza Strip
:03:55. > :04:00.into southern Israel, at least two of them intercepted by the Iron Dome
:04:01. > :04:06.missile defence system and a series of Israeli air strikes -- air
:04:07. > :04:09.up-and-downer Gaza strip mainly targeted urban areas and we have not
:04:10. > :04:13.heard reports of serious injuries on either side but what is important is
:04:14. > :04:18.the effect these are having on the talks that had been taking place in
:04:19. > :04:22.Cairo, overseen by the Egyptians, taking place at the Egyptian
:04:23. > :04:27.intelligence buildings and we knew there were big gaps remaining
:04:28. > :04:31.between the two sides but now the Palestinians have reported that they
:04:32. > :04:35.have reached a dead end and we know the Israeli delegation has left
:04:36. > :04:42.Cairo. What has the intensity of the air strikes been like? Certainly it
:04:43. > :04:49.has been karma for the last hour or so. There was a period where Gaza
:04:50. > :04:54.took quite a pounding around sunset, looking across the Gaza
:04:55. > :05:01.Strip from our rooftop position you could see the huge plumes of smoke
:05:02. > :05:05.rising up in the area to the north and in the eastern border areas and
:05:06. > :05:08.writes down to the south of the Gaza Strip there were a few light
:05:09. > :05:14.injuries that were reported there, a couple of children were hurt. Hamas
:05:15. > :05:17.has denied firing the rockets. Is there any chance they are telling
:05:18. > :05:24.the truth and this is a rogue element? Well, there are obviously
:05:25. > :05:29.other militant groups here in Gaza as well. Repeatedly when the truces
:05:30. > :05:32.have proved to be shaky in the last couple of weeks it has been other
:05:33. > :05:37.militant groups that have been responsible but they also have a
:05:38. > :05:40.presence at the talks in Cairo. Israel says it holds Hamas
:05:41. > :05:45.responsible for any rocket fire that comes from Gaza as it remains the
:05:46. > :05:51.dominant political force here and in control of the Gaza Strip. For the
:05:52. > :06:00.time being thank you very much. We will now get the analysis from
:06:01. > :06:07.aired. It looks like the talks are over. Well, if you talk about
:06:08. > :06:12.diplomacy, it is never over. Maybe yesterday it was like the opposite,
:06:13. > :06:15.we were expecting a deal at the last minute and we were as journalists
:06:16. > :06:21.preparing ourselves for positive breaking news and suddenly in just
:06:22. > :06:29.ten minutes everything was back to square one. Now it is a matter of
:06:30. > :06:33.immediate pressure. It is coordinated with some action on the
:06:34. > :06:37.ground. I am not saying that the negotiations are on their way to
:06:38. > :06:43.succeed or reach a point, on the contrary I cannot see why the
:06:44. > :06:49.Israelis should give the Palestinians and Hamas what they
:06:50. > :06:55.refused to give them years ago. There is no defeat here. The balance
:06:56. > :07:08.of power is still in favour of the Israelis and Gaza is still the party
:07:09. > :07:11.that will what will be destroyed. Israelis are still not suffering
:07:12. > :07:16.from any casualties why they should now give Hamas what they refused to
:07:17. > :07:21.them in the past? Do they have the upper hand? The balance is
:07:22. > :07:26.definitely not established here, it is not equal between both parties.
:07:27. > :07:30.Hamas confident that of course they have hit the Israelis hard this
:07:31. > :07:39.time, much more than the previous two wars in the past years but if we
:07:40. > :07:42.look at the situation now, regardless of the casualties, Hamas
:07:43. > :07:48.is under extreme pressure because the situation is not sustainable
:07:49. > :07:55.inside the Gaza Strip and people will start to turn against Hamas at
:07:56. > :08:00.some point so they have to find something and they cannot just leave
:08:01. > :08:03.the negotiations, giving up everything and leaving the Israelis
:08:04. > :08:07.just saying they want peace. All of these talks only seem to have
:08:08. > :08:11.achieved extending the cease-fire is for another few days here and there
:08:12. > :08:17.but other than that they feel like a failure. We have to look at it from
:08:18. > :08:22.a different angle as well. There is no appetite in both parties to carry
:08:23. > :08:26.on fighting. As I said the Israelis have achieved what they wanted and
:08:27. > :08:31.now they have thrown the ball -- ball into the hands of Hamas. They
:08:32. > :08:35.can wait four months in this situation extending and extending.
:08:36. > :08:40.On the other side Hamas is saying that at least now they did not give
:08:41. > :08:45.up anything and they are trying to show the world and their people that
:08:46. > :08:50.they are trying to get something out of this war so they have no choice
:08:51. > :08:54.but trying to do something. Definitely both parties have no
:08:55. > :08:59.interest in resuming the fighting, at least this is how we see now, the
:09:00. > :09:12.picture. As always, thank you very much.
:09:13. > :09:14.In Iraq, Government troops are now attempting to push Islamic State
:09:15. > :09:17.fighters out of the city of Tikrit, the birthplace of Saddam Hussein.
:09:18. > :09:18.Meanwhile the United Nations is mounting
:09:19. > :09:22.a huge aid operation to reach more than half a million people who have
:09:23. > :09:26.Many of the refugees have arrived in Dohuk near the Syrian border.
:09:27. > :09:29.From there our correspondent Jeremy Cooke reports.
:09:30. > :09:38.They say help is coming. It is desperately needed. In this wind
:09:39. > :09:43.swept dust bowl in searing heat, the camps keep growing. In each tent is
:09:44. > :09:56.a family and each family has time now to reflect on horror and loss.
:09:57. > :10:03.This dad is called Henry, that is what the troops named him when he
:10:04. > :10:10.was a translator for six years. Now he wants sanctuary for his whole
:10:11. > :10:14.family, especially the kids. Where will you go? Anywhere. Any
:10:15. > :10:19.country, Europe, Australia, Canada, America, anywhere. Children, there
:10:20. > :10:23.are so many here, they have escaped and they are alive but they are
:10:24. > :10:28.still traumatised and vulnerable after days without food and water.
:10:29. > :10:37.The clinic is overwhelmed. From 50 patients a day it is now 500 and one
:10:38. > :10:44.single doctor. Can you imagine a child is sick as these with no water
:10:45. > :10:48.and no food and no drink, they are all vomiting and now you can see
:10:49. > :10:55.this bed, one, two, three, three children on a single bed. This is
:10:56. > :11:00.just one part of one camp and you really get the feeling that an
:11:01. > :11:04.entire people have been displaced. Most of them are telling us that
:11:05. > :11:10.they believe that they can never go home but how can they stay here?
:11:11. > :11:16.Look at this family, this family, every child was ill. Hard to believe
:11:17. > :11:22.but it can get even worse. The camps are so full that many are forced to
:11:23. > :11:32.fend for themselves, out here, with temperatures nudging 50 Celsius. We
:11:33. > :11:39.want a UN safe house for our children and our religion. You
:11:40. > :11:44.understand? The camps are being improved and finally there is a
:11:45. > :11:48.promise of a major aid effort. They will welcome shelter and food but
:11:49. > :11:59.how can it begin to replace all that they have lost.
:12:00. > :12:02.The capture of Mosul Dam by Kurdish forces is being described
:12:03. > :12:05.as a major step forward in the fight against Islamic State militants.
:12:06. > :12:08.Jim Muir is at the dam in northern Iraq, and sent this report.
:12:09. > :12:14.This is the enormous lake that is backed up behind Mosul Dam, it is
:12:15. > :12:17.something up to 11 billion cubic metres of water and feel was that
:12:18. > :12:23.when the radicals took over the installation now might use it as a
:12:24. > :12:27.weapon of mass destruction or it could get damaged because there
:12:28. > :12:33.would be battles here in a few weeks. The Islamic radicals have
:12:34. > :12:38.been pushed off but it was after quite a battle. All the approach
:12:39. > :12:43.road show the fallout from that where positions have been hit by
:12:44. > :12:46.mortar fire or blown apart by air power because the Americans have
:12:47. > :12:52.been carrying out air strikes in support of this campaign by gorillas
:12:53. > :13:00.and the government forces that are helping them. There have been
:13:01. > :13:07.explosions from the south West over there and shooting. The fighting is
:13:08. > :13:16.going on. You can see the guerrillas are very relaxed there. The battle
:13:17. > :13:18.is going on further to the south west but in the meantime the dam
:13:19. > :13:26.seems to be back in safe hands. It's been another night of unrest
:13:27. > :13:29.in Ferguson in Missouri, the US town where black teenager Michael
:13:30. > :13:32.Brown was shot and killed by a Last night the Governor of Missouri
:13:33. > :13:36.called in the National Guard and President Obama called for
:13:37. > :13:39.people to listen and not just shout, Michael Brown's family say getting
:13:40. > :13:42.justice means arresting and charging Joining me now
:13:43. > :14:00.from Ferguson is Yameesh Alsindoor. Despite the calls from Barack Obama
:14:01. > :14:07.for calm last night was as violent as any other night with 31 arrests,
:14:08. > :14:13.what is the mood like today? The mood today is calm right now because
:14:14. > :14:16.it is daylight hours and this is typical of Ferguson now, having been
:14:17. > :14:22.here more than a week, people are usually calm during the day and
:14:23. > :14:25.there will be a few walking around protesting but the real issue comes
:14:26. > :14:29.when it gets dark and people get rowdy and the police tell people to
:14:30. > :14:35.go home and that is when we see clashes and violence and tear gas.
:14:36. > :14:39.Right now Ferguson is calm but we cannot say it will be calm for long
:14:40. > :14:43.because we do not know. You have been poor reporting on this -- you
:14:44. > :14:50.have been reporting on this for some time so what is the reaction to the
:14:51. > :14:54.Commons from the president? He says he understands the passion but
:14:55. > :14:58.looting and attacking the police only raises attention. People really
:14:59. > :15:02.agree with the president here. A lot of people that I talked to said that
:15:03. > :15:06.the looters are really overshadowing the real message here and the real
:15:07. > :15:09.message for people who are protesting is that they really want
:15:10. > :15:14.an officer to be charged with the death of Michael Brown and they won
:15:15. > :15:19.him to be charged with murder and they want people to know that these
:15:20. > :15:23.protests are about police brutality and it is how black people are being
:15:24. > :15:26.treated in America and it is about poor neighbourhoods and how poor
:15:27. > :15:30.neighbourhoods are treated so people are really upset when looters come
:15:31. > :15:35.along and take away from that message so people are very pleased
:15:36. > :15:40.with what Barack Obama is saying and they are really hoping that there
:15:41. > :15:45.will be changing Ferguson tonight. I can see people in military fatigues
:15:46. > :15:50.uniforms behind you. What is it going to take for this to end, for
:15:51. > :15:58.the protesters to go home and the police and the National Guard to go
:15:59. > :16:02.home? If In my newspaper we did a story on that yesterday, and we
:16:03. > :16:09.spoke to dozens of people about that. We asked people on both sides.
:16:10. > :16:15.It comes down to whether this officer was going to be charged,
:16:16. > :16:18.taken into custody and arrested. Then, people you might be calmed
:16:19. > :16:25.down. People want to see action. Other people tell me that when
:16:26. > :16:29.Michael Brown is laid to rest and his family are able to bury him,
:16:30. > :16:39.that might bring some calm. Others say that it might be when the police
:16:40. > :16:44.lead. -- lead. There are a lot of questions, about what it is going to
:16:45. > :16:48.take for Ferguson to be calm, but for the majority of people that I
:16:49. > :16:52.talk to, it is about indicting that offers around making sure that
:16:53. > :17:00.justice is done, and justice, for them, is having this officer
:17:01. > :17:02.indicted. Something like 80% of African-Americans say that this
:17:03. > :17:09.issue has raised important issues about race. 37% of white people
:17:10. > :17:13.thought the same in the same survey. And 47% of why people think that the
:17:14. > :17:17.issue of race gets too much attention. I guess this shows you
:17:18. > :17:33.how divided public opinion is on this. I am not surprised by those
:17:34. > :17:38.statistics. USA Today did a study when the Trevon Martin case was
:17:39. > :17:42.going on. In that case, like people said that it was a case of
:17:43. > :17:46.providing, and are called into question race relations here. This
:17:47. > :17:51.is typical of American society. Most times when there was a racial issue,
:17:52. > :17:54.when there is somebody saying that they have been racially profiled by
:17:55. > :17:59.the police, unfortunately, in most cases, blacks will say, this is
:18:00. > :18:06.happening, we need to talk about this, and white people, identify as
:18:07. > :18:08.white, but say no, that people are blowing this out of proportion and
:18:09. > :18:13.that they are pulling the race card, so that is very typical of the
:18:14. > :18:18.American public. -- they are playing the race card.
:18:19. > :18:21.Now look at some of the day's the news.
:18:22. > :18:23.The Liberian government says three African doctors receiving
:18:24. > :18:25.the ebola drug ZMapp showing remarkable signs of improvement.
:18:26. > :18:28.17 suspected ebola patients who had fled a quarantine centre
:18:29. > :18:31.in the capital Monrovia at the weekend have now been found.
:18:32. > :18:36.A court in India has ordered the release of an activist who's
:18:37. > :18:40.Irom Sharmila was arrested in 2000 after going on an indefinite fast.
:18:41. > :18:44.She demanded the repeal of a law allowing India's armed forces
:18:45. > :18:49.to hold people without charge and shoot to kill in some situations.
:18:50. > :18:51.She had been force-fed by the authorities
:18:52. > :18:57.The American food manufacturer Heinz has recalled some baby food products
:18:58. > :18:59.in China after local regulators said they
:19:00. > :19:06.The company, known globally for its ketchup and baked beans,
:19:07. > :19:08.said it had recalled four batches of a high-protein cereal product
:19:09. > :19:20.Now, you might not have heard of Krautrock,
:19:21. > :19:22.but in post-war Germany it had quite a following.
:19:23. > :19:25.The musical movement had its roots in 1960s counter-culture
:19:26. > :19:34.and it gave birth to bands such as Tangerine Dream, Can and
:19:35. > :19:36.Kraftwerk, which had a big following right through the seventies.
:19:37. > :19:39.It's also credited with inspiring a lot of modern dance music
:19:40. > :19:43.Just in case you can't quite remember what they sounded like,
:19:44. > :19:54.here's some Kraftwerk, from 1976, celebrating the joys of rail travel.
:19:55. > :20:07.With me is the rock music writer David Stubbs.
:20:08. > :20:09.His new book is Future Days: Krautrock
:20:10. > :20:14.and the Building of Modern Germany.
:20:15. > :20:20.It's the first large-scale survey of this type of music.
:20:21. > :20:40.Can I ask you about the term, Krautrock? Some of the bands found
:20:41. > :20:45.that insulting at the time. It was coined by a British journalist. But
:20:46. > :20:49.it is a useful term. Although these bands were very diverse, what they
:20:50. > :20:55.all had in common was various things. Firstly it was a tendency to
:20:56. > :20:59.be innovative. They were the first post-war generation to come of age.
:21:00. > :21:06.They kind of realised what had happened during the war. It had not
:21:07. > :21:09.been mentioned by their fathers and grandparents or anybody in the
:21:10. > :21:16.family. So there was a sense of new identity. Lots of people expressed
:21:17. > :21:21.that through music. And not just Anglo-American blues. There were
:21:22. > :21:26.American and UK soldiers posted in West Germany. There was a sense that
:21:27. > :21:30.as well as being occupied in that sense, that they were kind of
:21:31. > :21:35.culturally occupied because of things like the Beatles, just
:21:36. > :21:40.imitating music from abroad. All of these bands where concerned with
:21:41. > :21:46.creating music entirely new, which meant electronic music, which was
:21:47. > :21:50.just beginning to come into play. It meant making music from scratch, as
:21:51. > :21:53.if music had never been made before. That was what made it so
:21:54. > :22:02.influential, because it was so innovative. We were watching a
:22:03. > :22:10.little bit of Kraftwerk. You say that part of the title of the book
:22:11. > :22:15.is building modern Germany. The irony is that these bands, in
:22:16. > :22:21.Germany itself, they were very lightly regarded indeed. They only
:22:22. > :22:31.got a hearing in France, initially, to be taken seriously, and then in
:22:32. > :22:33.the UK. Initially, people in the UK thought that there was something
:22:34. > :22:39.inherently unusual about Germans making music, hence the term,
:22:40. > :22:44.Krautrock. It was seen as inherently comical. But there was much wider
:22:45. > :22:50.respect for the music when David Bowie started taking it seriously,
:22:51. > :22:56.he went to Berlin in the 70s. He thought that the people making these
:22:57. > :23:00.records. And then there was a completely new attitude towards this
:23:01. > :23:07.German music. If David Bowie says that it is cool, then it must be
:23:08. > :23:11.cool. And what did the same to you? I didn't think it was a story that
:23:12. > :23:18.had been properly told before. It is almost like a sort of posthumous,
:23:19. > :23:22.most music tends to be celebrated as it is taking place, in its own time
:23:23. > :23:27.and payday. But this was a music that, in its own era, was not taken
:23:28. > :23:32.as seriously as it should have been. Neither time it started been taken
:23:33. > :23:38.really seriously, it had kind of petered out for the most part, with
:23:39. > :23:45.the exception of Kraftwerk. From the 70s, 80s, 90s, there have been wave
:23:46. > :23:51.after wave, generation after generation, which has rediscovered
:23:52. > :23:52.this music. Thank you for coming in and talking about the book. A
:23:53. > :23:59.fascinating topic. New research suggests more of
:24:00. > :24:01.Africa's elephants are being killed Nearly 35,000 elephants are
:24:02. > :24:05.killed on the continent every year, And that if that rate of poaching
:24:06. > :24:09.doesn't slow down, African elephants Our science correspondent Rebecca
:24:10. > :24:12.Morelle reports. A giant that once thrived
:24:13. > :24:14.across Africa, New research suggests they could
:24:15. > :24:20.vanish from the continent forever. A trail of blood leading to a scene
:24:21. > :24:28.that has become all too common. The animals' tusks have been hacked
:24:29. > :24:36.off, their bodies left to rot. Poaching has soared in recent years,
:24:37. > :24:38.fuelled by a rapidly growing The demand is
:24:39. > :24:42.so high that a kilogram of ivory is The latest figures show that
:24:43. > :24:47.the illegal ivory trade is having a devastating impact on Africa's
:24:48. > :24:52.elephants. Since 2010, an average of 34,000
:24:53. > :24:59.elephants have been killed annually. This means that every year 7%
:25:00. > :25:02.of Africa's elephant population is being wiped out,
:25:03. > :25:05.and that more animals are now dying At this safari park they say the
:25:06. > :25:12.situation in Africa is critical. The fear is that one day
:25:13. > :25:15.the only place left to see these Without these, a lot
:25:16. > :25:26.of other animals will be affected They provide foot paths
:25:27. > :25:32.for smaller animals, they knock food down for smaller animals, so not
:25:33. > :25:40.only will elephants be affected, but a lot of other animals in the same
:25:41. > :25:43.ecosystem will be affected as well. Conservationists say
:25:44. > :25:47.urgent action is needed. Some ivory stockpiles are being
:25:48. > :25:50.destroyed in an effort to curb the demand, but there are also calls
:25:51. > :25:56.for greater protection for the animals on the ground,
:25:57. > :25:59.and tougher penalties for poachers. If nothing is done and the
:26:00. > :26:02.slaughter doesn't stop, scientists believe that Africa's elephants
:26:03. > :26:17.could become extinct in 100 years. We have another animal story now,
:26:18. > :26:22.something a bit more cute and cuddly. Cats and dogs are not known
:26:23. > :26:27.to be the best of friends, but have a look at these. This is a three and
:26:28. > :26:34.a half month cheetah cub which has a puppy for his best friend. The young
:26:35. > :26:39.cheetah's mother had rejected him. It looks like a budding friendship
:26:40. > :26:44.that seems to be a success. Don't forget you can see me, and the rest
:26:45. > :26:51.of the team, on twitter. We look forward to hearing all of your
:26:52. > :27:04.We will see a few more showers developing tomorrow. Probably not as
:27:05. > :27:08.many as today. There is a good chance of staying dry, with sunny
:27:09. > :27:10.spells. First thing in the morning, it will feel pretty