:00:00. > :00:07.This is BBC World News Today with me Kasia Madera.
:00:08. > :00:11.Another twist in the conflict in Iraq as an attack on a mosque
:00:12. > :00:15.in the province of Diyala leaves over 60 Sunnis dead.
:00:16. > :00:17.The fight against Islamic State continues and there's debate
:00:18. > :00:19.in western countries about whether to tackle the group
:00:20. > :00:26.in Syria, which could mean working with the Assad government.
:00:27. > :00:28.A Russian aid convoy arrives in the besieged city of Luhansk
:00:29. > :00:33.in eastern Ukraine, the government in Kiev calls it an "invasion".
:00:34. > :00:36.18 suspected informers for the Israelis are shot dead
:00:37. > :00:40.by Hamas gunmen in Gaza, as more rockets hit targets in Israel.
:00:41. > :00:46.From presidents to pop stars, find out why thousands of people
:00:47. > :01:02.around the world are tipping buckets of icy water over themselves.
:01:03. > :01:08.Dozens of people have been killed in an attack on a Sunni mosque.
:01:09. > :01:10.Officials say a bomber blew himself up
:01:11. > :01:16.The attack happened in the eastern province of Diyala, about 120km
:01:17. > :01:24.The area has seen heavy fighting between Islamic State fighters,
:01:25. > :01:27.who are Sunni, and Iraqi troops, backed by Shia militiamen.
:01:28. > :01:30.Some reports say Shia militias carried out the attack, while others
:01:31. > :01:36.say IS militants targeted local Sunnis who refused to join them.
:01:37. > :01:43.IS forces remain present in large parts of Iraq and Syria.
:01:44. > :01:46.The Syrian government is reported to have killed 70 Islamic State
:01:47. > :01:49.jihadist fighters in the last 48 hours of fighting .The
:01:50. > :02:03.It is going to be a long battle. Kurdish fighters have
:02:04. > :02:20.themselves and are pushing back against Islamic State.
:02:21. > :02:23.themselves and are pushing back the job. American air strikes
:02:24. > :02:28.launched from carriers can have a decisive factor, but to hurt Islamic
:02:29. > :02:32.State badly, they would have two target their power base in northern
:02:33. > :02:37.Syria. That is why some voices are saying it is time to make a deal
:02:38. > :02:44.with President Assad. On practical grounds, we have to consider taking
:02:45. > :02:52.a deep breath and holding our nose and saying, it would seem to us now
:02:53. > :02:57.that the extreme leave vicious and evil nature of Islamic State is
:02:58. > :03:02.worse than what Assad has been doing and if any situation in history
:03:03. > :03:09.where my enemy's enemy becomes my friend. The West's strategy so far
:03:10. > :03:15.include the departure of President Assad. Britain says it would change
:03:16. > :03:19.its mind about him. I have said often that one of the first things
:03:20. > :03:23.you learn in the Middle East is that my enemy's enemy is not necessarily
:03:24. > :03:30.your friend, you may find that the Arab mind against a common enemy,
:03:31. > :03:38.but that does not make us friends. It does not make is able to work for
:03:39. > :03:44.them. Islamic State controls part of Iraq.
:03:45. > :03:56.Their power base is here. The US has said whatever it takes, but what are
:03:57. > :04:03.the options? More air strikes. Doing that in Syria without the regime's
:04:04. > :04:10.consent would be difficult. Work with neighbouring states such as
:04:11. > :04:15.Iran, but building a coalition means getting tangled in difficult and
:04:16. > :04:20.often bloody local politics. That is why there is talk about working with
:04:21. > :04:24.President Assad. His Armed Forces have the intelligence and are well
:04:25. > :04:32.supplied, but his price would be the end of pressure on him to go. A year
:04:33. > :04:36.ago, Syrian Kurds fled to camps in Iraq in the face of Islamic State
:04:37. > :04:44.advances. Now all they want as much help as they can to keep them
:04:45. > :04:46.relatively safe. With the Syrian war merging with the sectarian
:04:47. > :04:51.violence, the challenge facing anyone who wants peace comes twice
:04:52. > :04:56.as big. Syria's war has been impossible to stop, no one yet has
:04:57. > :05:02.much of a strategy to stop the war in Iraq, either.
:05:03. > :05:05.Let's discuss the situation. From Beirut we're joined by Noah
:05:06. > :05:07.Bonsey, Senior Analyst on Syria from We'll speak about the issues
:05:08. > :05:17.surrounding Syria and the Western A lot of hope is being pinned on a
:05:18. > :05:28.new Government in Iraq to be more inclusive, but when we see attacks
:05:29. > :05:40.such as the Sunni mosque attack, what hope do you have? Today's awful
:05:41. > :05:43.killings is another reminder. It is not simply the formation of a
:05:44. > :05:48.Government that is threatened, if indeed it turns out that Shia
:05:49. > :05:52.militias were responsible, that will only help the Islamic State's
:05:53. > :06:01.recruitment inside Iraq. What we have seen is that the Iraqi
:06:02. > :06:05.Government's dependence upon militias, similar to the approach
:06:06. > :06:17.used by the assigned regime, has only fanned the problem. As well as
:06:18. > :06:23.banning the jeopardy flames. -- fanning the jet
:06:24. > :06:30.we had a horrific video beheading of James Foley and we are hearing about
:06:31. > :06:38.a siege in a town where up to 20,000 Turkmen gets being held, it shows
:06:39. > :06:47.how many fronts Islamic State is now fighting.
:06:48. > :06:55.That is very true. One cannot simply focus on Iraq, ISO ignores the
:06:56. > :07:02.border. We should too. We need to take the Syrian situation more into
:07:03. > :07:08.account, but that means developing relationships with local forces. One
:07:09. > :07:16.cannot just rely on air strikes or on government forces, be it Iraq or
:07:17. > :07:21.Syria. Given their reliance on militias. These are all problems
:07:22. > :07:28.that are helping Islamic State recruit among Sunnis and beyond.
:07:29. > :07:33.It's the fight was taken into Syria, there has been a big discussion
:07:34. > :07:37.about maybe President Assad needs to be brought into the conversation, do
:07:38. > :07:46.you think that is something that needs to be done or can Western
:07:47. > :07:53.forces just rely on local tribes? Local tribes would be sufficient.
:07:54. > :08:02.There needs to be weapons and manpower. -- will not be sufficient.
:08:03. > :08:09.In Syria, conditions are slightly better, there are rebel groups who
:08:10. > :08:12.identify ISIS as an enemy. They are fairly well-organised, but they need
:08:13. > :08:18.better organisation and better arms to be able to fight effectively
:08:19. > :08:24.against ISIS and the regime. However, there does need to be a
:08:25. > :08:30.broader strategy, I think, to address the systemic problems of the
:08:31. > :08:35.governments of both of these countries and empower moderate
:08:36. > :08:44.forces in general. Moderate forces are the enemy of both ISIS and the
:08:45. > :08:46.regime. Thank you. We are out of time, it
:08:47. > :08:51.was good to talk to you. Reports from Israel say
:08:52. > :08:53.a four-year-old boy has been killed in a mortar attack near
:08:54. > :08:56.the border with the Gaza Strip. It is the first Israeli death
:08:57. > :08:59.since the collapse of ceasefire In Gaza, Palestinian militants have
:09:00. > :09:03.killed 18 people, accused of being Eyewitnesses say six men were
:09:04. > :09:08.grabbed from amongst hundreds of worshippers at Gaza City's largest
:09:09. > :09:15.mosque and gunned down by militants. The killings come a day
:09:16. > :09:33.after an Israeli air strike killed We will talk about Hamas in a
:09:34. > :09:39.moment, but bring us up-to-date with the death of a four-year-old boy.
:09:40. > :09:47.Police and medics are saying that in a few hundred meters away, several
:09:48. > :09:52.mortar rounds fell and the only place you can be protected from such
:09:53. > :09:58.things is inside one of the shelters that most houses in Israel have as
:09:59. > :10:03.the Iron Dome cannot get anywhere near such short-range weapons.
:10:04. > :10:06.Medics say the four-year-old was playing in his living room and got
:10:07. > :10:13.struck in the head and was tragically killed. It was the first
:10:14. > :10:20.death since the cease-fire was a few days ago after brokered talks. The
:10:21. > :10:28.Egyptian Prime Minister has sent his condolences to the family and says
:10:29. > :10:33.Hamas will pay. -- is really reminisce. There have been Israeli
:10:34. > :10:43.strikes, and four others were killed in Gaza today. -- the Israeli Prime
:10:44. > :10:50.Minister. Talk us through the executions of apparent Israeli
:10:51. > :10:55.informers by Hamas. These killings take place quite regularly in Gaza,
:10:56. > :11:00.but not usually in public and that is the key thing, these were 18
:11:01. > :11:06.people killed in public, clearly a tactic of deterrent for anyone
:11:07. > :11:11.thinking of passing on invading nation -- passing on information to
:11:12. > :11:18.Israel. Some took place this morning and we believe some of the killings
:11:19. > :11:23.took place after Friday prayers. All of this suggests that they are
:11:24. > :11:26.trying to really get the message across that this passing of
:11:27. > :11:34.information should not be taking place again. All the while, as their
:11:35. > :11:38.studies -- as the hostilities continue, it is an Israeli strategy
:11:39. > :11:42.to not negotiate whilst under fire, so the peace talks that seem to be
:11:43. > :11:44.doing well at the beginning of the week seen so far away now. -- seemed
:11:45. > :11:47.to be. More than 100 Russian lorries
:11:48. > :11:48.carrying humanitarian aid have arrived in the eastern
:11:49. > :11:51.Ukraine city of Luhansk. That's despite the convoy not
:11:52. > :11:53.having permission to cross the Kiev calls the move an
:11:54. > :12:13."invasion" and a "violation of David, bring us up-to-date on the
:12:14. > :12:18.whereabouts of the convoy. The convoy has entered Ukrainian
:12:19. > :12:23.territory, we're not sure how many trucks have reached a Luhansk. Local
:12:24. > :12:26.authority say some have gone there and the question is how long they
:12:27. > :12:35.were last there and stay there and what else they will do? The trucks
:12:36. > :12:38.entered Ukraine without Ukrainian permission, the Ukrainians say they
:12:39. > :12:45.will not use force against the convoy, however, and this is how the
:12:46. > :12:50.events unfolded today. In the end, Russian officials said
:12:51. > :12:54.it could not wait any longer. After nearly a week on the Ukrainian
:12:55. > :13:04.border, Moscow announced it would dispatch its aid, the -- its aid
:13:05. > :13:08.convoy without Ukrainian permission. Moscow says it is sending a variety
:13:09. > :13:15.of supplies, including water, electric generators and baby food.
:13:16. > :13:19.We are certain we are doing the right thing, saving people's lives.
:13:20. > :13:29.We blamed Kiev and country standing behind it that...
:13:30. > :13:39.The Pentagon and lay the blame squarely at Russia's feet and said
:13:40. > :13:45.there could be further actions against Moscow. Russia should not
:13:46. > :13:49.send vehicles, persons or cargo of any kind in the Ukraine, whether
:13:50. > :13:57.under the guise of humanitarian unvoiced or any other context.
:13:58. > :14:02.Eastern Ukraine is a war zone and the fighting in the last days has
:14:03. > :14:08.intensified. The Red Cross was meant to oversee the convoy in Ukraine and
:14:09. > :14:11.the distribution of the aid, but officials from their say Moscow
:14:12. > :14:16.decided to move forward without them. -- officials from Red Cross.
:14:17. > :14:21.TRANSLATION: Because of a difficult security situation in Luhansk where
:14:22. > :14:29.we are told about continuing violence, we do not have sufficient
:14:30. > :14:37.security guarantees to accompany the convoy.
:14:38. > :14:42.Ukrainian officials have viewed the convoy with suspicion. At best, a
:14:43. > :14:46.propaganda stunt, at worst a cover for military operations. Ukrainian
:14:47. > :14:55.authorities say they have only inspected if -- 34 trucks and now
:14:56. > :14:56.the trucks are in Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan is it will be used for
:14:57. > :15:17.military purposes. -- and Kiev. Ukrainian officials have said they
:15:18. > :15:22.will not use force to stop the convoy. But they condemn it in no
:15:23. > :15:31.uncertain terms. Where the trucks go now and how long they will remain
:15:32. > :15:35.Ukraine is an open question. We heard someone from the Red Cross
:15:36. > :15:42.saying they were not involved in this convoy. Can you explain an
:15:43. > :15:46.elaborate why that is. Yes, the Red Cross was supposed to be very much
:15:47. > :15:52.involved. They were supposed to supervise the movement of the
:15:53. > :15:59.convoy. Eventually, they were supposed to reach a spot that they
:16:00. > :16:04.would use as a base to distribute the aid. It would be off-loaded and
:16:05. > :16:06.sent around the area. The Red Cross said they would not do this until
:16:07. > :16:11.they received security guarantees and they said they did not go in
:16:12. > :16:15.this time because these security guarantees were not available, they
:16:16. > :16:21.didn't get them from the side that were fighting. The fact that this
:16:22. > :16:24.convoy is entering without the Red Cross supervision is another point
:16:25. > :16:25.of concern for people here in Ukraine as well as Western
:16:26. > :16:29.officials. Now a look at some of the day's
:16:30. > :16:32.other news. Nigeria has recorded two
:16:33. > :16:36.new cases of Ebola. Health officials say two spouses
:16:37. > :16:39.of people earlier infected with the disease have tested positive to
:16:40. > :16:50.the deadly virus. Sierra Leone has passed a bill so
:16:51. > :16:53.that anyone hiding big teams can be sent to jail.
:16:54. > :16:55.Malaysia is observing a national day of mourning, as the
:16:56. > :16:58.remains of the first 20 victims are returned home from flight MH17 that
:16:59. > :17:03.In a sombre ceremony at Kuala Lumpur airport, soldiers carried
:17:04. > :17:10.28 of the 43 Malaysian victims have been identified.
:17:11. > :17:13.The number of people missing after a landslide in the Japanese city of
:17:14. > :17:16.Hiroshima is now believed to be much higher than originally thought.
:17:17. > :17:20.More than 50 people are thought to be buried under the huge mudslides.
:17:21. > :17:23.That could put the eventual death toll from
:17:24. > :17:38.Two buses have collided on the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, killing 33
:17:39. > :17:47.people. The accident took place at the holiday resort -- 50 kilometres
:17:48. > :17:52.from our holiday resort. Some people are in a critical condition.
:17:53. > :17:55.Some of the most famous people in the world have been drenching
:17:56. > :17:57.themselves in freezing cold water and posting the video online
:17:58. > :17:59.in a fundraising stunt called the ice bucket challenge.
:18:00. > :18:02.The clips have taken over social media in recent weeks, but despite
:18:03. > :18:05.some very public nominations, some celebrities are now refusing to
:18:06. > :18:09.take part and that includes perhaps the most high profile of them all -
:18:10. > :18:31.He has tried his hand at most things but when it comes to be ice bucket
:18:32. > :18:38.challenge, President Obama seems cold on the idea. The President's
:18:39. > :18:44.predecessor was not so shy. George W Bush was soaked by his wife Laura.
:18:45. > :18:52.It is unclear exactly whose challenge the president is refusing.
:18:53. > :19:05.Justin Bieber was the first to nominate him. And 86-year-old
:19:06. > :19:09.Kennedy family matriarch Ethel also named him after her drenching. Mr
:19:10. > :19:16.Obama will not be alone in staying dry. US government says officials
:19:17. > :19:20.are banned from the stunt because of an ethics code. So the White House
:19:21. > :19:28.will not become the White House. But the charity has said the charity --
:19:29. > :19:33.says the president has donated an undisclosed sum.
:19:34. > :19:36.We're joined by John Kell, policy manager for the charity MNDA,
:19:37. > :19:54.How did this start? It took off in America a few weeks ago for a
:19:55. > :19:58.baseball player who is now living with motor neurone disease. We saw
:19:59. > :20:03.celebrities doing it there and then it came over here and we have had
:20:04. > :20:09.Stuart Broad, Zoe Ball, fat boy Slim doing it. But also, people who have
:20:10. > :20:14.been affected by MND and have lost loved ones from it and even those
:20:15. > :20:20.who have never heard of it before the ice bucket challenge. Are you
:20:21. > :20:25.surprised at how pro -- high profile this has become? Yes, it has been
:20:26. > :20:31.really remarkable. Certainly do have that many celebrities involved is
:20:32. > :20:34.amazing. It is very valuable to us to have celebrities reaching out to
:20:35. > :20:39.their fans through social media because they do have such a big
:20:40. > :20:43.reach. So, even if there are people looking at it because it is their
:20:44. > :20:48.favourite celebrity involved, the vast amount of people who have heard
:20:49. > :20:55.of motor neurone disease now. This started off in the US. But your
:20:56. > :21:02.organisation will also benefit from this. Yes, people are donating to us
:21:03. > :21:06.and we have raised ?60,000 directly so far and we know that many people
:21:07. > :21:10.have set up their own giving pages and will be donating and that will
:21:11. > :21:16.go to fund not only support that we provide to people with MND but also
:21:17. > :21:22.research into the causes and working towards a jewel. 60,000, that is
:21:23. > :21:26.fantastic. When you say you will look at further research. At the
:21:27. > :21:33.moment, it is terminal and there is no cause -- cure for it. There is
:21:34. > :21:38.still a great deal to find out about it. We have a major genetics project
:21:39. > :21:45.underway where will -- where we will be sequencing the genomes for 1500
:21:46. > :21:50.people with MND. It is the first time we have been able to do this on
:21:51. > :21:55.this kind of scale so it is very exciting. And of every red disease
:21:56. > :22:02.but explain somebody who has it, what kind of debilitating life did
:22:03. > :22:06.they have? Yes, it is a very cruel disease. It affects all voluntary
:22:07. > :22:11.movements so it means someone can lose the ability to walk about, to
:22:12. > :22:17.use their arms, their hands, to eat, to swallow, to speak and eventually
:22:18. > :22:22.to breathe so when people die of MND it is usually of respiratory
:22:23. > :22:27.failure. It is also quite fast moving so 30% of people die within
:22:28. > :22:30.one year of getting the diagnosis and more than half within two years
:22:31. > :22:36.so it is a very rapidly progressing disease. A very famous sufferer,
:22:37. > :22:42.Stephen Hawking, he has had the disease for many years. And yes, he
:22:43. > :22:48.lived a remarkable length of time with it and is very unusual in that
:22:49. > :22:52.regard. It would be very helpful to understand exactly why that
:22:53. > :22:57.happened. A very unusual case. Let's hope that the ice bucket challenge
:22:58. > :22:59.continues to raise lots of money but from the time being, thank you very
:23:00. > :23:03.much for coming in to speak to us. Gibraltar's monkeys are a big
:23:04. > :23:05.tourist attraction. But are they getting a bit too cheeky for their
:23:06. > :23:08.own good? Locals say they've started invading urban spaces and are
:23:09. > :23:11.becoming too aggressive. So now Gibraltar is planning to banish some
:23:12. > :23:14.of them. Just take a look at what they get up to with
:23:15. > :23:20.the BBC's macaque ice Tom Burridge. They know the locals
:23:21. > :23:30.and amuse the tourists. But in search of a meal, Gibraltar's
:23:31. > :23:45.monkeys are venturing into town. We have just come out
:23:46. > :23:51.of our hotel to go and do some shopping and we did not think we
:23:52. > :23:54.would see a monkey perched up on the I have heard about them but I didn't
:23:55. > :24:02.think we would see them at all, so, But the monkeys have a taste
:24:03. > :24:15.for what humans can provide. How often do the monkeys appear
:24:16. > :24:17.at school? They have become a nuisance
:24:18. > :24:26.at the school. the leader, with the male, and lots
:24:27. > :24:30.of babies, lots of little monkeys, some are very cute and some others
:24:31. > :24:35.are aggressive and threatening. Gibraltar's 200 monkeys spent
:24:36. > :24:39.the vast majority of their time up on the rock but the
:24:40. > :24:44.authorities out working to stop some a Mars Bar and the Macaque will go
:24:45. > :24:56.for the Mars Bar. At the moment, a lot of resources
:24:57. > :24:59.are put into providing sort of more open spaces for the Macaques
:25:00. > :25:02.so they can forage in the upper rock A large effort in pushing them from
:25:03. > :25:23.the town into the nature reserve. They are also working to
:25:24. > :25:25.control their numbers. 13 monkeys will be exported to a safari park
:25:26. > :25:29.abroad. Gibraltar's monkeys are thought to have travelled on ships
:25:30. > :25:31.just over the water in Africa several centuries ago. Their numbers
:25:32. > :25:35.were culled several years ago but that is not seen as part of the
:25:36. > :25:38.solution now. Just some of these guys and girls will soon have a new
:25:39. > :25:41.home. And from their current home, they can see Africa, where their
:25:42. > :25:48.ancestors lived in the distance just over the water. Gibraltar's monkeys
:25:49. > :25:52.are an asset but sometimes, some of them are also now nuisance
:25:53. > :26:04.neighbours, too. Well, that's all from the programme.
:26:05. > :26:15.Next, the weather. Let's bring you up-to-date with our
:26:16. > :26:22.top story. More than 60 worshippers in eastern Iraq have been killed.
:26:23. > :26:31.Government burst in and fired worse shoppers -- gunman burst in and
:26:32. > :26:41.fired the -- fired on the worshippers. We have more on our
:26:42. > :26:43.website. From the other team, thank you very much for watching. See you
:26:44. > :27:01.very soon. Goodbye. Plenty of dry and fine weather in
:27:02. > :27:05.store for you over the course of the weekend but some chilly nights to
:27:06. > :27:09.come as well. Tomorrow night will start off chilly but some sunshine
:27:10. > :27:12.developing widely through the course of the day. One or two showers. High
:27:13. > :27:14.pressure just north-west of