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This is BBC World News Today with me, Alice Baxter. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
With more allegations of Russian military involvement in Ukraine, the | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
UN Security Council is meeting for an emergency session on Ukraine. | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
Pro-Russian rebels there have taken over the town of Novoazovsk, | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
NATO says a thousand Russian troops are inside Ukraine. | :00:21. | :00:35. | |
, but it is difficult to fight with Russia and its army. | :00:36. | :00:45. | |
We'll hear reports that Jihadist militants from Islamic State appear | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
to have executed "dozens" of captured Syrian army soldiers. | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
The outgoing Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been sworn | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
in as president at a ceremony in Turkey's parliament. | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
Research says graduates from the top universities and fee-paying | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
schools dominate the most senior positions in British public life. | :01:03. | :01:20. | |
An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council is | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
getting underway in New York to discuss the situation in Ukraine. | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
It comes as Russia is accused of sending troops over the border. | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
NATO says there are well over a thousand Russian troops operating | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
inside Ukraine, a claim the Kremlin denies. | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
It comes as pro-Russian separatists opened up a new front | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
The rebels have taken the coastal town of Novoazovsk | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
and are threatening the strategic port city of Mariupol. | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
The BBC's Diplomatic Correspondent James Robbins reports. | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
A Ukrainian soldier warns his colleagues, a sniper threatens. | :02:07. | :02:14. | |
But now as victory looks possible they are being forced out from | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
some areas amid claims Russia has sent reinforcements to the rebels. | :02:20. | :02:31. | |
Russia has sent a number of armoured personal vehicles, tanks and troops. | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
Ukrainian forces are capable to tackle and to cope with | :02:35. | :02:36. | |
the Russian-led guerrillas, but this is quite difficult for us | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
Moscow denies its forces are in Ukraine. | :02:40. | :02:51. | |
But that was undermined by this rebel leader, Alexander Zakharchenko | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
admitted Russian soldiers fight alongside his men, but claiming the | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
Earlier this week, these Russian paratroopers were apparently caught | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
Moscow says they crossed the border by mistake, but now | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
their mothers are appealing to the Kremlin to get them released. | :03:12. | :03:13. | |
Over the past few weeks, Ukraine's Government forces have | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
It is almost two months since rebels were forced to free | :03:18. | :03:25. | |
You can see how the area they once controlled has shrunk. | :03:26. | :03:32. | |
There are still forced to be between 3000 and 4000 separatist | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
fighters, bolstered apparently by a significant number of Russian | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
troops, despite Moscow's formal denials. | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
Further south, another front opened according to several reports | :03:48. | :03:49. | |
a town was taking largely by Russian troops and tanks. | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
Look at this video, which Ukrainians say is a Russian | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
It could be another part of Russian efforts to prevent a defeat, not | :03:58. | :04:09. | |
just of the rebels, but also of the Kremlin's strategy and prestige. | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
NATO has released aerial pictures it says shows Russian armour inside | :04:16. | :04:17. | |
Ukraine, a blatant attempt says one NATO general to change the momentum | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
of the fighting that currently favours the Ukrainian military. | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
As the battle for control of the eastern Ukraine rages on, | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
EU leaders use words like "intolerable" and "aggression" | :04:29. | :04:30. | |
David Cameron is warning of further consequences if President | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
Let's go to the United Nations in New York where | :04:36. | :04:48. | |
an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council is underway. | :04:49. | :04:50. | |
This meeting was called for by Lithuania. What has been said? | :04:51. | :05:04. | |
The meeting was just this moment getting under way. The | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
undersecretary general is briefing the Council on the latest in Ukraine | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
and he is likely to carry the message of the UN | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
Secretary-General, basically warning that further de-escalation of the | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
crisis and urging parties to come together for talks in a manner that | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
respects Ukraine's sovereignty. Before the meeting began, the | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
president of the Security Council said this meeting would basically | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
put Russia in the public light, having to answer questions about why | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
they are sending troops into Ukraine, something Russia denies. In | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
the Security Council, there has been concern for months that they could | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
be direct confrontation between Ukraine and Russia and so this | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
meeting will likely get the US and the Europeans hounding Russia for | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
their actions and the Russians denying it, saying they have no | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
troops. Many out there will be asking what | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
good or talking will do. Only a few days, we saw Presidents Poroshenko | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
shaking hands with President Putin in Minsk. Well today's meeting prove | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
any more useful? Really, the US and Europeans feel it | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
is important to have a meeting where Ukraine can lay out the information | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
they have about Russian interference. And where Russia can | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
speak for itself and deny or try to deny its involvement. But the | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
accused aggressor is a permanent member of the Security Council and | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
that is why it has not been able to act, because they hold a veto power. | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
Beside this open forum, there is little concrete action. | :07:03. | :07:12. | |
Steven Pifer is a former US ambassador to Ukraine, | :07:13. | :07:14. | |
I would like to begin with these new aerial shots that NATO has. They say | :07:15. | :07:34. | |
it represents and it escalation of Russia's interference. How much of | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
an escalation you think we are seeing in the country. | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
I think this is a major step. The Ukrainian military have made | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
increasing progress in terms of squeezing the area that the | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
separatists have. It looked like a separatists were on the verge of | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
defeat and now Russia has taken this new step of deploying Russian forces | :08:04. | :08:12. | |
into Ukraine. And yet Russia denies this. We have had some sort of | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
acknowledgement that there may be Russian boots on the ground in some | :08:16. | :08:23. | |
sort of voluntary capacity, but we heard from the separatist leader | :08:24. | :08:25. | |
Alexander Zakharchenko saying there are lots three to 4000 Russians | :08:26. | :08:33. | |
fighting. How do you think the outside world should read this | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
situation? I think we have seen a situation where President Putin has | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
chosen to escalate, as he does not want to see the insurgency in | :08:45. | :08:52. | |
eastern Ukraine defeated. And so he has now escalated, including Russian | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
forces, and I think this will create a difficult situation, because on | :08:56. | :09:03. | |
the other side Mr Poroshenko is in a situation where he does not want | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
another conflict in eastern Ukraine. He knows that Crimea is a | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
long-term issue, but he wants to resolve it. It is hard to see | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
unfortunately how you can get on a diplomatic path that might lead to a | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
political settlement. Indeed, diplomatic efforts are under way in | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
New York. And in the past couple of hours, we have had it confirmed that | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
Ukraine will be reinstating army conscription. To what extent can | :09:31. | :09:41. | |
NATO and the European Union really help? I think there are couple of | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
things it. Mr Poroshenko has described things such as the | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
decentralisation of power and status of the Russian language, he says he | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
does not want to deepen his relationship with nature, these | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
could be the basis of a settlement, but Moscow has not moved to go | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
towards a settlement and now we are in a situation where the West should | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
consider whether there is anything they could do to change President | :10:11. | :10:17. | |
Putin's calculation. A second step might be to be put right the | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
Ukrainian military with some military assistance, such as | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
anti-armour weapons. Maybe surfaced MSI was that will allow the | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
Ukrainian military to drive up the cost. Reports from Russia suggest | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
the Russian Government is trying to hide reports of Russian casualties | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
in Ukraine. If Russia begins to suffer economic pain and begins to | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
see Russian casualties, does that affect their calculations? | :10:50. | :11:00. | |
OK, thank you. Thank you. | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
Reports from Syria say that fighters from the Islamic State group have | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
killed dozens of captured Syrian soldiers after overrunning an | :11:07. | :11:08. | |
A video posted online purportedly shows the aftermath of the killings, | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
with a long line of bodies of young men lying face | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
There is no independent confirmation of this video. | :11:19. | :11:26. | |
With me is Sebastian Usher, Middle East Regional Editor at | :11:27. | :11:28. | |
We have both watched this video. What did you make of it? | :11:29. | :11:45. | |
It's did not seem the kind of thing that is unexpected with the Islamic | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
State. We have seen when they have overrun other brigades in their | :11:52. | :12:04. | |
stronghold, after taking the brigade headquarters, they massacred the | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
soldiers. In fact, they did worse than what you are describing there, | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
they put their heads on spikes in the middle of the city. It does not | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
seem a strange thing for them to have done in the way that they are | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
trying to instil fear in their enemies. In that sense, we can be | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
reasonably sure that when they claim they have done it and other sources | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
say they do, and we see the pictures, it adds up to pretty | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
conclusive evidence. In the last few hours, we have had a | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
second video being posted online. We will not show it as it is very | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
upsetting and is a much more select and better edited video showing the | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
execution of a Kurdish man. This is sending a strong message to the | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
Kurds and the United States. This is the difference levels they operate | :13:02. | :13:02. | |
on. The early video was a the difference levels they operate | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
on. The early video was grainy one to document what happened after an | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
attack. This is that they have just put up is very similar to the James | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
Foley video, different camera angles are used, | :13:19. | :13:20. | |
Foley video, different camera angles are it is a set piece, you first see | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
a dozen or so suppose Kurdish fighters, supposedly the strongest | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
force against the Islamic State in Iraq, speaking, and then one is | :13:32. | :13:43. | |
shown in the backdrop... It is a great dramatic backdrop. It is very | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
staged and do the same as they did with James Foley, they say that more | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
will be executed if the Kurds fight on the site of the United States and | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
then they slit his throat, they do not show the moment, they show the | :14:01. | :14:07. | |
prove afterwards. He is wearing an orange jumpsuit. It is very | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
choreographed. It is called A Message In Blood. We have not shown | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
it as it is very upsetting. Another development, 43 UN peacekeepers... | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
Wouldn't know capture them, but we do not think it is Islamic State. We | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
don't think so as they are not operating that far south. This is | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
different rebel forces. It is nothing to be too positive about as | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
the group to Haslam is probably an Al-Qaeda affiliates -- group that | :14:40. | :14:52. | |
has them. In another similar case, they were released, but this is | :14:53. | :14:59. | |
different. There are many nationalities who make up this force | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
that patrols this area. There is a big concern that perhaps they may be | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
passing over training to other people. | :15:09. | :15:17. | |
Now a look at some of the days other news. | :15:18. | :15:19. | |
The World Health Organisation's warning that the number of cases | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
of Ebola in West Africa could eventually exceed 20,000. | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
So far, more than 1,550 people have died from the virus, | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
and there are more than 3,000 confirmed cases - mostly in Guinea, | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
The children's charity, Barnardos, has warned that the widespread child | :15:37. | :15:55. | |
abuse uncovered in Rotherham is just the "tip of the iceberg". | :15:56. | :15:57. | |
1,400 children were abused over a sixteen year period - | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
but the charity says the problem is rife across Britain's | :16:01. | :16:02. | |
country and that it works with thousands of children every year | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
Wayne Rooney's been named the new England captain | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
The 28-year-old Manchester United striker takes over from Liverpool's | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
Steven Gerrard, who retired after England's World Cup elimination. | :16:12. | :16:13. | |
In a statement on his official website Rooney said | :16:14. | :16:15. | |
that to be appointed captain was beyond his wildest dreams. | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
Here in Britain a prominent Conservative MP, Douglas Carswell, | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
has announced he is defecting to the UK Independence Party. | :16:28. | :16:29. | |
He'll resign as an MP, triggering a by-election. | :16:30. | :16:31. | |
If he wins, he will deliver UKIP their first seat in parliament. | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
Here's our political correspondent, Ben Wright. | :16:36. | :16:45. | |
The For 1's a Westminster news conference delivered a real | :16:46. | :16:54. | |
political bombshell. -- for once. I am needing the Conservative Party | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
and joining UKIP. Douglas Carswell said it had not been an easy | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
decision. Independent minded and Euro-sceptic, he said on the UKIP | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
can shake up the cosy clique of Westminster. The top talk before | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
elections and see what they must to get our support but on so many | :17:16. | :17:24. | |
issues, on modernising our politics, controlling our borders, bank | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
reform, cutting public debts, EU Referendum, they never make it | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
happen. Nigel Farage predicted others would follow him into the | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
UKIP fold. This is not my show today, this is Douglas's shawl. It | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
is no great secret that are a number of members of Parliament sitting on | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
Conservative and Labour benches who hold UKIP views very strongly. This | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
will be the same of the big by-election battle. UKIP had a | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
resounding victory here in the Euro elections and Douglas Carswell has a | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
significant personal following so will they vote for him? Yes, I think | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
it is the best thing he could do because now he will get extra votes. | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
I think it is the wrong moves, I do not think he will get re-elected. I | :18:20. | :18:27. | |
voted for them before. I like his policies. He has moved over to UKIP | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
and that is good news. If he gets a foothold for UKIP here in Essex | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
months before the general election, it will help his new party make | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
further inroads elsewhere in the country. David Cameron knows he has | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
got a fight on his hands. It is deeply regrettable when things | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
happen like this and people behave in this week, but it is also | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
counter-productive. If you want a referendum of the future of Britain | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
in the EU, the only way to get that is to have a Conservative government | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
after the next election and that is what until very recently Douglas | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
Carswell himself was saying. Many MPs are heading back to Westminster | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
after the holidays and in the coming weeks they will be back on the | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
seaside trying to turn the tide against UKIP. | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
The outgoing Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been sworn | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
It follows his victory in Turkey's first ever popular vote for head | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
Mr Erdogan has vowed to give more power to the previously ceremonial | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
post of president but his critics say the move will | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
The star of Turkish politics continues to soar. | :19:46. | :19:59. | |
Recep Tayyip Erdogan arriving to be sworn in. He took the oath of | :20:00. | :20:09. | |
allegiance inside the parliament building. Applauded by many, but | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
booed by the opposition who left the chamber in revolt. The pomp and | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
ceremony was on show for the new head of state who has promised to | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
increase his powers by changing the constitution. He is the first ever | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
popularly elected president in this country's history. It was previously | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
ceremonial post but he has managed to change and he was elected to | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
weeks ago with 52% of the vote. He then went on to be a wreath at the | :20:42. | :20:48. | |
mausoleums of the founding father of the country. His critics say he has | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
strayed from the secular principles of Turkey and is too Islamic. | :20:53. | :20:59. | |
Speaking at the palace, he sounded our conciliar literary note. | :21:00. | :21:06. | |
TRANSLATION: We will work hand-in-hand for economic growth and | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
to improve social welfare. He has had a volatile year. Anti-government | :21:12. | :21:18. | |
protesters raged against his authoritarianism. The opposition say | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
it is typical of his style. But he has also transformed the economy. | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
His challenge now is to unite a divided country. Western Allies were | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
absent to date, perhaps a sign of Turkey's recent isolation but | :21:37. | :21:37. | |
absent to date, perhaps a sign of will have to work with the new | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
leader of a powerful new tool member, a key ally in a region | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
fraught with danger. Britain is still | :21:46. | :21:53. | |
"deeply elitist" towards people who went to private school - | :21:54. | :21:55. | |
and Oxbridge graduates dominate the most senior positions in public life | :21:56. | :21:57. | |
- that's according to a new report. The Social Mobility and | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
Child Poverty Commission found that seventy percent of senior judges, | :22:01. | :22:02. | |
half of the house of Lords and a third of | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
the cabinet went to private school. A degree from Oxford and Cambridge | :22:06. | :22:07. | |
is not just about academic excellence and personal success, | :22:08. | :22:18. | |
it also opens doors. Today's report shows today's | :22:19. | :22:20. | |
graduates still have Three quarters of our top judges, | :22:21. | :22:30. | |
59 percent of the Cabinet and almost half of all newspaper | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
columnists have Oxbridge degrees. But this report shows elitism | :22:36. | :22:42. | |
begins even earlier. Only 7% of the population is | :22:43. | :22:44. | |
privately educated but one third of MPs went to fee-paying schools | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
as did 62% of senior military officers and more than half | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
of the highest-ranking diplomats. The report warns this lack | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
of diversity means Britain's key institutions do not | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
represent the public they serve or Its authors say it's time to end | :23:03. | :23:04. | |
what they call the closed shop With me is David Johnston. | :23:05. | :23:19. | |
He's a commissioner with the Social Mobility and | :23:20. | :23:20. | |
Child Poverty Commission. Thank you for coming in. You believe | :23:21. | :23:33. | |
it is a clothes shop at the top? Not entirely, but it certainly is for | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
most people, the chances of getting in if you went to an ordinary state | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
school. It is not impossible, but it is very difficult. Do you believe | :23:46. | :23:53. | |
that by bringing out this report we might see a change in the way some | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
institutions hire graduates? I hope so. Often when we talk about this, | :24:00. | :24:09. | |
we focus on politics, we see the Shadow Cabinet is unrepresentative | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
for instance. Often lawyers, diplomats and people doing those | :24:15. | :24:16. | |
interviews are from the same background. All of our key | :24:17. | :24:23. | |
institutions in public life have theirs. What the commission is | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
calling for is to remove the University name of candidates when | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
you look at them for jobs. When they do that, deselect a very different | :24:35. | :24:42. | |
of people. I do not think it is positive discrimination, it is | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
levelling the playing field. I would say positive discrimination exists | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
at the moment, if you are using an old school tie to get ahead in your | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
job or if you are using personal connections to get a work | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
placement. That could be just outright discrimination. What about | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
families who prioritise getting their children to private schools | :25:09. | :25:16. | |
and decide not to buy expensive holidays and houses but put the | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
money towards good schools for their children, are being penalised? Quite | :25:21. | :25:27. | |
the contrary. They made a wise decision because they can see the | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
advantages that a private school buys in British society but it is | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
important to recognise that the vast majority of people in this country | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
cannot make that sort of choice. They would not have the means to | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
send their children to private schools. Only 1% of people who go to | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
private school get their fees paid for. The vast majority cannot afford | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
this. What do you want to see happen now? The first thing is to improve | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
the standard of education that everyone gets. We want universities | :26:00. | :26:07. | |
to look at the way they select, so they are not simply selecting those | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
with the top grades from schools Best Out producing top grades. Then | :26:12. | :26:19. | |
we want businesses to put aside some of the preconceptions they have | :26:20. | :26:21. | |
about the School university that people have been to. In the | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
interview room that we want them to judge how well someone could do the | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
job rather than other things like recognising their university and how | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
they interact in the universe -- in the interview room. Many thanks for | :26:38. | :26:45. | |
coming in to talk to us. You have been watching world News today. | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
Child Poverty Commission. watching. | :26:49. | :27:03. | |
Good evening. Some lively weather on the way for the British | :27:04. | :27:04. |