:00:00. > :00:35.United States launches more air strikes against Islamic State
:00:36. > :00:37.militants in Iraq. They are carried out despite the execution of James
:00:38. > :00:41.Foley. We hear from this American
:00:42. > :00:58.doctor who survived Ebola. Today is miraculous, I am thrilled
:00:59. > :01:01.to be alive, well and reunited with my family.
:01:02. > :01:03.Evacuations and high alert for airlines as this Icelandic
:01:04. > :01:19.The United States has launched more air strikes in northern Iraq,
:01:20. > :01:23.despite threats by Islamic State fighters to kill a second American
:01:24. > :01:29.It comes as more details emerge about the murder of photojournalist
:01:30. > :01:33.James Foley after footage was released showing him being killed
:01:34. > :01:39.The Pentagon says it attempted to rescue Foley and a number
:01:40. > :01:43.of other hostages in a secret mission in Syria.
:01:44. > :01:46.Meanwhile, the US Attorney General has opened a criminal investigation
:01:47. > :01:52.And in the UK, security services are trying to identify
:01:53. > :02:05.Militants demanded a ransom for him. -- for James Foley.
:02:06. > :02:07.Frank Gardner's report on the murder investigation contains
:02:08. > :02:20.Clues from a suspected killer, not much to go on, but every detail has
:02:21. > :02:28.been studied from Islamic State's video of their murder of James
:02:29. > :02:33.Foley. Jesus and reporter, who survived an earlier kidnapping in
:02:34. > :02:36.Libya, he was held for nearly two years in Syria. Reports say his
:02:37. > :02:47.captors demanded a massive ransom and later sent his parents and angry
:02:48. > :02:57.e-mail, telling them he was about to be killed. This former French
:02:58. > :03:15.hostage spent months with him, he got out because a ransom was
:03:16. > :03:18.reportedly paid. Being American, it was probably more targeted by the
:03:19. > :03:21.guard, eaten a bit more, probably. Many countries negotiate. I do not
:03:22. > :03:22.know what, if it is money or prisoner exchange. Some countries,
:03:23. > :03:23.like America, but also the UK, do not. The manhunt will be zeroing in
:03:24. > :03:25.on the Syrian stronghold of Islamic State. These are weapons they
:03:26. > :03:25.captured this summer from the Iraqi army. Most of their foreign hostages
:03:26. > :03:28.are being held under jihadist control. Reports say they had three
:03:29. > :03:33.British guards watching over them, who often beat them. There are
:03:34. > :03:37.believed to be at least 20 others held, including this American
:03:38. > :03:42.journalist. It is only a matter of time before MI5 or the FBI
:03:43. > :03:49.identified the man who killed James Foley. Pinpointing where he is now
:03:50. > :03:53.we'll be harder, and ringing the suspect out of the country that is
:03:54. > :03:59.already torn apart by war and with similar because it is taking place
:04:00. > :04:03.every day will be almost impossible. The area where most foreign hostages
:04:04. > :04:10.are believed to be held has become a magnet for British jihadist. It is
:04:11. > :04:15.very likely we will discover his identity in the next days. We have a
:04:16. > :04:21.lot more means of finding out who that guy is reduced to have, 20 or
:04:22. > :04:26.30 years ago. Maybe 80% of the foreign fighters are involved in
:04:27. > :04:30.social media, they have Facebook accounts, Twitter accounts, they
:04:31. > :04:33.give away a lot of clues in terms of height,
:04:34. > :04:38.give away a lot of clues in terms of voice. Last month, America sent in
:04:39. > :04:44.commandos like these in a failed attempt to free it captured in
:04:45. > :04:47.Syria. Those who are held remain a massive propaganda tool in the
:04:48. > :04:50.jihadists' armoury. Well, despite threats by
:04:51. > :04:52.Islamic State to murder another American hostage, there were another
:04:53. > :04:54.six US air strikes today. Iraqi forces are also understood to
:04:55. > :04:57.have attacked the jihadists in Anbar province, and they're battling
:04:58. > :05:00.Islamic fighters in Tikrit. Our correspondent Jeremy Cooke sent
:05:01. > :05:20.this report from the front line It is time to fight back. The Iraqi
:05:21. > :05:28.army in full retreat just weeks ago, now taking on the Islamic State
:05:29. > :05:38.with maximum firepower. These special forces near Tikrit, facing
:05:39. > :05:43.fanatical fighters, but victory will not come easy. Outside, the front
:05:44. > :05:47.fanatical fighters, but victory will line is hardening. Here,
:05:48. > :05:55.Kurdish - motor, who fought the enemy to a standstill. Look down the
:05:56. > :06:00.barrel, across the river, 50 metres over the bridge, the black flag of
:06:01. > :06:06.the Islamic State. Everything it stands for as well. The staggering
:06:07. > :06:10.thing is how close the front lines. We have seen movement just over on
:06:11. > :06:15.the other side. These fighters say they are determined to protect their
:06:16. > :06:21.people, protect their homes. Several attacks have already been repelled.
:06:22. > :06:21.Their commander says his troops are ready to give their blood and
:06:22. > :06:31.lives. But they need help. ready to give their blood and
:06:32. > :06:33.asking the international community and European countries for weapons,
:06:34. > :06:38.he says. Our enemy has sophisticated and European countries for weapons,
:06:39. > :06:45.weapons. Hours are good, but we need better. There is no panic here, the
:06:46. > :06:49.people have faith in their fighting men, who defend the city. The
:06:50. > :06:53.governor told me he remains confident that the Islamic State
:06:54. > :07:04.will be defeated. It is a dangerous enemy. Not only the enemy of Iraq or
:07:05. > :07:09.Syria, it is the enemy that can go anywhere in this world. It may be a
:07:10. > :07:12.global issue, but for now, the future of the Islamic State will be
:07:13. > :07:18.determined on the battlefields of Syria and Iraq.
:07:19. > :07:21.Richard Barrett is a former head of counter terrorism at MI6 in the UK
:07:22. > :07:26.and a former coordinator of the UN's Al-Qaida-Taliban Monitoring Team.
:07:27. > :07:30.He's now Senior Vice President of the Soufan private security
:07:31. > :07:41.Group, and joins me via webcam from near New Yor
:07:42. > :07:49.Ultimately, did you think it will be possible to capture and identify the
:07:50. > :07:57.killers of James Foley? I do think it will be possible to identify
:07:58. > :08:02.them, yes. Not only will previous hostages have something to say, and
:08:03. > :08:10.his boys could be found on social media, -- his voice -- but there is
:08:11. > :08:15.also a whole community that he came from, people he was dealing with,
:08:16. > :08:19.and there will be many of them, if not all of them, who will be
:08:20. > :08:23.horrified by this video and would be willing to help the authorities
:08:24. > :08:27.track him down. I am relatively confident he will be identified. As
:08:28. > :08:32.for catching him, that is another matter. But there is a long time
:08:33. > :08:39.ahead, and nobody will forget about this. Ultimately, this act opens up
:08:40. > :08:45.a Pandora's box of political problems when it comes to what one
:08:46. > :08:52.does when one has already identified the killing, whoever has killed
:08:53. > :09:01.James Foley, what the US and UK forces then do. Indeed. He is likely
:09:02. > :09:06.to stay in Syria or Iraq for the foreseeable future, but let's hope
:09:07. > :09:11.that those countries settle down and there is more stability. But even
:09:12. > :09:16.before that, there will be a lot of local people, local tribesmen, who
:09:17. > :09:20.are also horrified at what the Islamic State are doing against
:09:21. > :09:24.their own people as well as against James Foley. They will also be
:09:25. > :09:31.willing to identify who the killers are or where they are. And help
:09:32. > :09:36.British and American justice, if we can call it that, to get hold of
:09:37. > :09:41.them, even if they do so for financial reason, that will still be
:09:42. > :09:45.a good result. Barack Obama has already said the US will not scale
:09:46. > :09:49.back its military actions, they have already launched more air strikes in
:09:50. > :09:55.northern Iraq, that the issue of remaining hostages is still a large
:09:56. > :10:02.issue. It is a very large issue, and that is why they have hostages. It
:10:03. > :10:09.is a business, a money making, but as you said earlier, with British
:10:10. > :10:13.and American hostages held, they know they will not get money, so
:10:14. > :10:19.they use them for other purposes, and with James Foley, it was to
:10:20. > :10:23.terrorise people, to re-emphasise their brutality, and perhaps put
:10:24. > :10:27.pressure on the American and British and other governments not to take
:10:28. > :10:31.action against them. There is no way the American government will be
:10:32. > :10:36.blackmailed, so the additional and strikes are hardly surprising. What
:10:37. > :10:40.to do think of the indications of this act on the wider political
:10:41. > :10:49.thinking towards the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria? It confirms what
:10:50. > :10:52.they are. They may have claimed they were just trying to create a new
:10:53. > :10:57.state that would look after people in a better way than current leaders
:10:58. > :11:02.in the middle east, and that is no longer tenable, that argument, we
:11:03. > :11:04.see what they are, they are the same as Al-Qaeda and other international
:11:05. > :11:11.terrorist groups. They have an agenda which tends entirely on them
:11:12. > :11:14.imposing their own will on people and enforcing their rules, come what
:11:15. > :11:18.may, even to the extent of killing people.
:11:19. > :11:22.Bank of America has agreed to pay almost $17 billion in a settlement
:11:23. > :11:26.with the US Department of Justice over questionable mortgages.
:11:27. > :11:29.It's the largest sum to be paid as a result of the fallout
:11:30. > :11:50.Why is this fine so big? If you asked the Justice Department, they
:11:51. > :11:54.would say, consider how many millions of Americans were affected
:11:55. > :11:58.by these mortgage backed securities and how many billions of dollars
:11:59. > :12:03.were lost during the financial crisis. You look at how there are
:12:04. > :12:06.still millions of Americans who are still trying to recover from what
:12:07. > :12:12.happened in the financial crisis, if you take that into consideration,
:12:13. > :12:20.the $17 billion does not seem so large. But it is one of the largest
:12:21. > :12:24.fines we have ever seen, on a single US corporation, and it trumps the
:12:25. > :12:35.fines we have seen in the past for these kinds of things, on the part
:12:36. > :12:39.of JP Morgan, $13 billion, or Citigroup, $7 billion. This had to
:12:40. > :12:44.do with these mortgage-backed securities, the financial
:12:45. > :12:47.instruments that were lumped in with the faulty mortgages and sold to
:12:48. > :12:52.investors as if they were safe. We know now that that led to the
:12:53. > :12:57.financial crisis, and ever since then, the US Department of Justice
:12:58. > :13:04.and the Barack Obama administration has been trying to call many of
:13:05. > :13:09.these banks into question and to seek justice in terms of what their
:13:10. > :13:14.role was in the financial crisis. The size of this fine, will it come
:13:15. > :13:23.as a shock to the Bank of America? They helped -- how have they
:13:24. > :13:30.reacted? There are a key things with this. We have known that this fine
:13:31. > :13:35.has been coming for many weeks. The actual sum has also been bandied
:13:36. > :13:41.about, at one point we were hearing 13 billion, then the 17 billion was
:13:42. > :13:45.around, so it did not come as a total shock to investors that they
:13:46. > :13:50.were going to be lumped with this kind of fine. As it is with every
:13:51. > :13:55.other bank when they are facing these charges, on the park of Bank
:13:56. > :14:02.of America, they are really happy to be able to put it behind them and
:14:03. > :14:05.continue on with business, knowing that almost everything related to
:14:06. > :14:10.the financial crisis has now finally been dealt with.
:14:11. > :14:13.Now a look at some of the day's other news.
:14:14. > :14:15.Hamas has announced that three of its senior military commanders
:14:16. > :14:18.have been killed by Israeli airstrikes on Gaza.
:14:19. > :14:20.Israel said the men were key to militant
:14:21. > :14:26.Thousands have joined the funeral processions of the three commanders.
:14:27. > :14:29.At least 50 people have been killed in Gaza since
:14:30. > :14:37.A forensic inquiry by India's premier laboratory has concluded
:14:38. > :14:41.that two girls found hanging from a tree in May were not
:14:42. > :14:46.sexually assaulted, contrary to the findings of an earlier post-mortem.
:14:47. > :14:49.Five men are being held on suspicion of involvement but are due to be
:14:50. > :14:55.Marina Silva, the internationally-acclaimed
:14:56. > :14:57.environmental campaigner, has been chosen by Brazil's Socialist Party
:14:58. > :15:05.She replaces Eduardo Campos, who was killed last week in a plane crash.
:15:06. > :15:08.Ms Silva is seen as a leading challenger to President Dilma
:15:09. > :15:23.Ireland's former Prime Minister, Albert Reynolds, has died.
:15:24. > :15:27.Mr Reynolds helped to shape the peace process in
:15:28. > :15:29.Northern Ireland, pushing for the IRA ceasefire with his British
:15:30. > :15:41.He served as prime minister between 1992 and 1994.
:15:42. > :15:43.South Africa has said it is banning all travellers from Guinea,
:15:44. > :15:45.Liberia and Sierra Leone from entering the country,
:15:46. > :15:50.apart from its own citizens - over fears of the Ebola virus spreading.
:15:51. > :15:53.The news comes as two American aid workers who were
:15:54. > :15:57.infected with the virus in Africa have been discharged from an Atlanta
:15:58. > :16:01.hospital where they were treated with experimental drugs.
:16:02. > :16:07.One of them - Dr. Kent Brantly - had this to say.
:16:08. > :16:16.Liberia, the use of an experimental drug and the expertise and resources
:16:17. > :16:23.life -the direct answer to thousands and thousands of prayers.
:16:24. > :16:28.I am incredibly thankful to all those who were involved in my care,
:16:29. > :16:32.from the first day of my illness all the way up to today,
:16:33. > :16:46.With me is the BBC's health reporter, Smitha Mundasad.
:16:47. > :16:52.Extraordinary to see him looking so well. What happened today?
:16:53. > :16:57.The American aid workers were flown to this hospital earlier this month.
:16:58. > :17:01.They received top-notch care of there. We did not get many details
:17:02. > :17:06.but we know they had access to intensive care therapy and access to
:17:07. > :17:11.an experimental drug. They have made a very good recovery. A remarkable
:17:12. > :17:15.recovery, the doctors say. Now they are looking to see whether other
:17:16. > :17:18.people could recover like this. They want to learn some lessons from
:17:19. > :17:21.this. They admit that the health facilities in the US are very
:17:22. > :17:26.different to the ones in West Africa.
:17:27. > :17:31.Indeed, and he refers to that experimental, untested drugs. We
:17:32. > :17:35.still know that more than 50% of individuals infected will die. The
:17:36. > :17:42.death toll currently stands at over 1000. What makes this outbreak
:17:43. > :17:50.different to previous ones? This is a different strain so some
:17:51. > :17:54.outbreaks have had rates of up to 90% of people dying who were
:17:55. > :17:57.infected. This strain is more concerning because actually it has
:17:58. > :18:02.moved from rural areas into urban areas so more people are affected.
:18:03. > :18:06.Or people are dying. Let's go back to your initial point
:18:07. > :18:10.about what happens in America is sometimes different to what happens
:18:11. > :18:24.in West Africa, where the majority of victims... The World Health
:18:25. > :18:29.Organisation has said that supplies are exhausted.
:18:30. > :18:32.We're not sure if this drug actually works. The doctors in the American
:18:33. > :18:35.Hospital were careful to say it was more likely to be the standard
:18:36. > :18:40.facilities in this hospital that really helps them. These were the
:18:41. > :18:43.two first people to receive this drug and, scientifically, it is hard
:18:44. > :18:47.to prove when just two people are receiving a drug that it does work.
:18:48. > :18:50.There have been reports that Liberian doctors who have received
:18:51. > :18:54.the drug are improving, but there are other reports that a Spanish
:18:55. > :18:57.priest who also receive the drug sadly died. It is very difficult to
:18:58. > :18:58.say that the drug actually has any positive effect.
:18:59. > :19:01.IQ. The Pakistani opposition leader
:19:02. > :19:04.Imran Khan says he is pulling out of talks with the government until
:19:05. > :19:06.Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif resigns. The two sides began discussions last
:19:07. > :19:13.night, after thousands of opposition supporters occupied a high-security
:19:14. > :19:15.zone in front of parliament. Our correspondent Shahzeb Jillani
:19:16. > :19:20.has been out among those protestors. These protesters are continuing to
:19:21. > :19:24.occupy this main road in front This place is called
:19:25. > :19:29.the Constitution Avenue. It's now more than a week since this
:19:30. > :19:42.anti-government campaign began. Thousands of these activists, many
:19:43. > :19:46.of them women, have been camping They say they will not move
:19:47. > :19:52.until the government resigns. For the government,
:19:53. > :19:55.the demand for the prime Minister's Earlier today, in the building
:19:56. > :19:59.behind me, the parliament also passed a unanimous resolution,
:20:00. > :20:02.supported by opposition parties, that demands by these protesters for
:20:03. > :20:07.the dismissal of the government and the dissolution of the
:20:08. > :20:12.National Assembly are unconstitutional. The Pakistani army
:20:13. > :20:16.has urged all parties to exercise restraint and try to resolve this
:20:17. > :20:20.turmoil through dialogue. It's not entirely clear how
:20:21. > :20:22.this confrontation will end. Both Imran Khan and Dr Tahirul Qadri
:20:23. > :20:26.are saying they want the government to resign, something
:20:27. > :20:29.the government and the parliament Ukrainian border guards are reported
:20:30. > :20:39.to have begun checks on 270 trucks in a Russian aid convoy heading
:20:40. > :20:44.for the rebel-held east of Ukraine. It's not clear if any trucks
:20:45. > :20:47.have crossed into Ukraine. Earlier, the International Red Cross
:20:48. > :20:49.issued specific instructions to They were told that the trucks must
:20:50. > :20:55.drive through a Ukrainian controlled border post and then directly to the
:20:56. > :20:59.delivery point without stopping. Each vehicle must have a Red Cross
:21:00. > :21:03.escort at all Now a look at some That quintessential American export
:21:04. > :21:12.- the McDonald's restaurant - is Several have been closed in Moscow
:21:13. > :21:16.for alleged health infringements. It comes at a time
:21:17. > :21:18.of deteriorating diplomatic relations between Washington and
:21:19. > :21:20.Moscow, as our Moscow Correspondent, This is Pushkin Square
:21:21. > :21:25.in the heart of Moscow. Every time I come here I remember
:21:26. > :21:29.the date, nearly 25 years ago, when Russia's first McDonald's
:21:30. > :21:33.opened its doors in the USSR. I was studying in Moscow
:21:34. > :21:36.at the time and I came The crowds that day were
:21:37. > :21:42.absolutely incredible. The queue went all
:21:43. > :21:44.the way round Pushkin Square. It took me three hours to get
:21:45. > :21:48.inside and be served, such was the level of excitement
:21:49. > :21:52.here that American burgers had burst through the Iron Curtain
:21:53. > :21:56.and were being served up in Moscow. They have ordered three of
:21:57. > :22:04.Moscow's McDonald's restaurants to be temporarily closed,
:22:05. > :22:07.citing sanitary violations. There will be more checks
:22:08. > :22:10.at more McDonald's across Russia. Centrestage now are Russian
:22:11. > :22:19.products, after Moscow banned imports of meat,
:22:20. > :22:22.dairy, fruit and vegetables It's the Kremlin's response
:22:23. > :22:29.to Western sanctions. But are Muscovites really
:22:30. > :22:34.bothered about the burgers? Personally,
:22:35. > :22:39.I prefer beetroot soup and Russian This is 99 percent politics,
:22:40. > :22:47.she tells me. Russia is looking
:22:48. > :22:50.for ways to hit back at the West. We did find someone at McDonald's
:22:51. > :22:53.today, this cow mascot for a Russian Part of Iceland has been evacuated
:22:54. > :23:07.amid growing fears that the country's Bardarbunga volcano
:23:08. > :23:09.could be about to erupt. In the past 24 hours,
:23:10. > :23:13.there's been around 1,000 This graphic from the
:23:14. > :23:20.Icelandic Met Office marks each one of those earthquakes -
:23:21. > :23:23.you can see just how deep they are. The volcano is inside a national
:23:24. > :23:29.park that's popular with tourists. The warning's raised fears that
:23:30. > :23:32.there could be a repeat of Professor Dougal Jerram is
:23:33. > :23:34.a volcanologist from the University He joins me from our newsroom
:23:35. > :23:43.in Birmingham. Thanks for joining us on the
:23:44. > :23:47.programme. How serious is the situation?
:23:48. > :23:52.Currently the Icelandic authorities have a cold orange and there is only
:23:53. > :23:59.one more level which is an eruption imminent. -- code orange. As magma
:24:00. > :24:02.works its way up through the crust, it can shake the ground and cause
:24:03. > :24:07.minor earthquakes. That is what the graphic shows, the vision of those
:24:08. > :24:10.earthquakes. They are also monitoring the ground, seeing
:24:11. > :24:15.whether the ground is rising with GPS, as magma comes in and swells
:24:16. > :24:22.the ground. They are quite concerned that an eruption is on its way.
:24:23. > :24:26.Any idea whether this could be as serious as the ash cloud situation
:24:27. > :24:31.that we had back in 2010? There are a number of possible
:24:32. > :24:36.scenarios. This volcano, in fact the whole area is one of the largest
:24:37. > :24:42.organic systems on the islands. In the past, it has had seismic tremors
:24:43. > :24:45.like these which have stopped. There is that possibility, but given the
:24:46. > :24:49.amount of earthquakes it is likely that there is some activity going to
:24:50. > :24:54.happen. There is a large ice cap which this volcano lies underneath.
:24:55. > :24:58.Sometimes, when it erupts, it does not actually breached the top of the
:24:59. > :25:03.ice cap, it just melt a lot of ice beneath, but that can be quite
:25:04. > :25:06.treacherous to any of the villagers that the potential place your ad
:25:07. > :25:11.watch would cover. How soon after the volcano erupts
:25:12. > :25:16.will you be able to tell how serious the situation will be?
:25:17. > :25:19.In order to come up with a situation like two dozen ten, where
:25:20. > :25:24.Eyjafjallajokull corrupted, Derrida was actually a magma which had been
:25:25. > :25:29.stored in the shallow crust for some period of time and had gathered up a
:25:30. > :25:32.lot of gases and so actually that material was much more explosive
:25:33. > :25:39.than we would normally expect these types labour. Ultimately, when it's
:25:40. > :25:44.at rotting we will get a feel for how explosive the volcano is. --
:25:45. > :25:47.types of live art. First of all, it will not be ice underneath but we
:25:48. > :25:54.would be concerned if it breach the service. Their own minds, we also
:25:55. > :25:58.need the as cloud to go high up into the atmosphere and also we need the
:25:59. > :26:01.win is to be on the right direction to take that ash over Europe. There
:26:02. > :26:08.are number of different elements that need to come into place to make
:26:09. > :26:10.a similar situation that we had in 2010.
:26:11. > :26:14.Volcanoes have been ranting and I flagged for centuries. We only seem
:26:15. > :26:19.to really be affected by Nan in recent years. Why is that?
:26:20. > :26:21.If you spoke to the average Icelander, they would take a
:26:22. > :26:26.different view. They have been affected in the past by many of
:26:27. > :26:30.these glacial floods where the volcanoes erupted under the ice, the
:26:31. > :26:35.water melts, builds up and catastrophically floods the
:26:36. > :26:38.landscape. They have suffered a loss of sheep through poisonous gases
:26:39. > :26:46.from volcanoes. It has affected humans. It is only recently that we
:26:47. > :26:51.have our easyJet and Ryanair... I'm afraid we will have to leave it
:26:52. > :27:02.Hello. At bit of a mixed bag of weather for the next few days.
:27:03. > :27:06.Feeling fairly autumnal for some areas. Tomorrow, not a bad day with
:27:07. > :27:12.spells of sunshine and a few showers. Many places will stay dry.
:27:13. > :27:13.We are seeing this weather front seeking its way south rebirthing
:27:14. > :27:15.night