:00:07. > :00:08.This is BBC World News Today with me Alice Baxter.
:00:09. > :00:11.Has Russia paved the way for a peace deal in Ukraine?
:00:12. > :00:13.Ukraine's president says he's reached an agreement with
:00:14. > :00:17.Vladimir Putin for a ceasefire process - the US president calls
:00:18. > :00:31.It is a brazen assaults on the integral tree of Ukraine, a
:00:32. > :00:33.sovereign nation. Unravelling the web -
:00:34. > :00:35.we'll have a special report on the investigators trying to track
:00:36. > :00:38.down the Islamic State leaders. the former partner of
:00:39. > :00:41.Francois Hollande pens a tell-all book, and it's not very flattering
:00:42. > :00:44.for the French president. After 100 days in office, we take a
:00:45. > :00:47.look at what India's prime minister Russia's President Vladimir Putin
:00:48. > :01:11.has proposed a peace plan for eastern Ukraine which he says
:01:12. > :01:15.could be agreed by Friday. Mr Putin said he and the Ukrainian
:01:16. > :01:18.president Petro Poroshenko were "close" on their thinking about a
:01:19. > :01:22.ceasefire between government forces Meanwhile, President Obama has been
:01:23. > :01:30.talking tough on a visit to Estonia. He said NATO members had to send
:01:31. > :01:33.Ukraine an unmistakeable message of support in the face of what he
:01:34. > :01:40.called a brazen assault on their Our Europe Editor, Gavin Hewitt,
:01:41. > :01:57.reports from the Estonian capital, President Obama being greeted in
:01:58. > :02:04.Estonia, 100 miles from the Russian border. Hanging over his visit, the
:02:05. > :02:07.conflict in Ukraine, with the president following closely the
:02:08. > :02:15.reports on the cease-fire. But he was named Mission to reassure the
:02:16. > :02:22.Baltic states, wary of the Russia and its actions in Ukraine is a
:02:23. > :02:27.former Soviet republic. Many people are ethnic Russians, and
:02:28. > :02:30.President Putin has his admirers. He is very clever. We have not had
:02:31. > :02:35.this He is very clever. We have not had
:02:36. > :02:38.I like him as a person and his politics.
:02:39. > :02:44.TRANSLATION: And honourable person and a smart politician.
:02:45. > :02:47.President Obama told the people that more American forces were on the
:02:48. > :02:54.ground carrying out training and more NATO aircraft in the sky. So,
:02:55. > :02:58.in practical terms, NATO is proposing setting up a radical
:02:59. > :03:04.action Force, but could come to places such as this in 48 hours,
:03:05. > :03:09.with equipment already have. In a major speech, President Obama gave
:03:10. > :03:15.the Baltic states this guarantee. If you ever ask who will come to
:03:16. > :03:20.help, you will know the answer. The NATO alliance, including the Armed
:03:21. > :03:23.Forces of the United States of America, right here now.
:03:24. > :03:28.Then the president turned to Russia's actions in Ukraine.
:03:29. > :03:34.It is a brazen assaults on the territory of Ukraine, a sovereign
:03:35. > :03:40.nation. The challenges that most basic principles of the system. That
:03:41. > :03:43.borders cannot be re-drawn at the barrel of a gun.
:03:44. > :03:49.Overnight in Ukraine, there was further shelling around Donetsk. But
:03:50. > :03:53.there were reports that Ukrainian president and President Putin had
:03:54. > :03:57.agreed on a plan that might just lead to a cease-fire, with the
:03:58. > :03:59.possibility of the two sides launching a peace process later this
:04:00. > :04:02.week. The BBC's Steve Rosenberg is
:04:03. > :04:14.in Moscow. President Putin says that they are
:04:15. > :04:22.close in thinking on a cease-fire. He has also spoken of a plan. Do we
:04:23. > :04:27.know what those terms? According to the peace plan, both
:04:28. > :04:31.sides in the conflict, the Ukrainian army and the pro-Russian militants,
:04:32. > :04:36.would halt offensive operations. There would be a prisoner exchange
:04:37. > :04:44.and international observers on the ground. Petro Poroshenko has
:04:45. > :04:50.welcomed it, he has welcomed what appears to be the start of a peace
:04:51. > :04:54.process, but Ukraine's Prime Minister has denounced it. He says
:04:55. > :05:00.that Russia's real plan is to destroy Ukraine. But tonight the
:05:01. > :05:05.feeling here is that Vladimir Putin is very much in the driving seat in
:05:06. > :05:11.any negotiation, because despite the very tough words we heard from
:05:12. > :05:14.President Obama and his scathing criticism of Russian aggression,
:05:15. > :05:19.America does not want to go to war with Russia over Ukraine and neither
:05:20. > :05:20.does NATO, neither does European Union, and Vladimir Putin knows that
:05:21. > :05:27.very well. Earlier President Obama has
:05:28. > :05:29.expressed his condolences to the family of Steven Sotloff,
:05:30. > :05:45.the second US hostage to be murdered He said that the United States would
:05:46. > :05:50.not be intimidated, after IS showed the beheading of the American
:05:51. > :05:56.journalist. Like James Foley, Steve's life stood
:05:57. > :06:04.in contrast to those who murdered him so totally. They make the claim
:06:05. > :06:08.that they kill in the name of religion, but it was Stephen who
:06:09. > :06:14.loved the Islamic world. The killers claim that they defend the
:06:15. > :06:19.oppressed, but it was Stephen who risked his life to tell the story of
:06:20. > :06:23.Muslim men and women demanding justice and dignity. Whatever these
:06:24. > :06:29.murderers think they will achieve by killing Americans like Stephen, they
:06:30. > :06:34.have already failed. A failed because, like people around the
:06:35. > :06:41.world, Americans are reports that why this barbarism. We will not be
:06:42. > :06:46.intimidated and the horrific acts will only make as Unite and take
:06:47. > :06:50.action. Those who make the mistakes of harming Americans will learn that
:06:51. > :06:51.we will not forget and that our reach is long and that justice will
:06:52. > :06:55.be served. Let's take a broader look now
:06:56. > :06:58.at President Obama's stance Kurt Volker is a former US
:06:59. > :07:02.ambassador to NATO, now Executive Director of the McCain Institute
:07:03. > :07:21.for International Leadership, We will talk about resident Obama's
:07:22. > :07:27.stands on Ukraine soon, but we will talk about what he was saying about
:07:28. > :07:37.this second tragic killing and the stamps on IS. -- the position on
:07:38. > :07:42.IS. But he was criticised last week for not having a strategy. Does he
:07:43. > :07:47.have a strategy now? Based on what we have heard, we do
:07:48. > :07:52.not know. We not have heard of it. There are elements that need to be
:07:53. > :07:59.put together. The first is a clear goal. I believe that this goal needs
:08:00. > :08:07.to be the destruction of Islamic State and solidarity three --
:08:08. > :08:11.against this. It has not been said by the President that that is his
:08:12. > :08:17.old yet. They also need to talk with regional
:08:18. > :08:23.players. We need to bring in the states that have the capacity and
:08:24. > :08:27.had in some extent been supporting extremist groups in Syria to make
:08:28. > :08:35.sure that they are working against IS. That would be Turkey, Jordan. We
:08:36. > :08:42.need a regional coalition with some European allies in order to isolate
:08:43. > :08:48.them. And then, we will need direct US military action on both sides of
:08:49. > :08:54.the Iraq and Syria border and we will need support on the ground by
:08:55. > :09:00.local forces that are there, the Iraqi armed forces, the Free Syrian
:09:01. > :09:04.Army. They will have to do work to help support those forces.
:09:05. > :09:10.Vladimir Putin was very clear that in order to defeat the barbarism of
:09:11. > :09:15.Isis, they need to be a response from the Muslim world to isolate the
:09:16. > :09:22.cancer. We know that the US has deployed more troops, not in a
:09:23. > :09:27.combat role, but for security at the embassy. But the key question is
:09:28. > :09:33.whether this will galvanise others into deeper involvement, as you say,
:09:34. > :09:35.not just in Iraq, but is well in Syria?
:09:36. > :09:41.That is right and that is the important question. Speaking about
:09:42. > :09:44.this earlier, the Pentagon leader was talking about strikes against
:09:45. > :09:49.Isis in terms of delivering humanitarian support, suppressive
:09:50. > :09:54.fire in order to deliver that support. We're not talking yet about
:09:55. > :10:00.strategic terms. I think we need to get to that point and it could be a
:10:01. > :10:06.changing events, but we have not seen that yet.
:10:07. > :10:12.We should talk about Ukraine. Obama launching a verbal force against
:10:13. > :10:17.President Putin, talking that country 's borders could not be
:10:18. > :10:21.redrawn at a barrel of a gun. Are these hollow words? Would they
:10:22. > :10:29.really go to war against Russia? Let's look at it from a few paces
:10:30. > :10:35.away. In response to Ukraine, good things being done. There is a
:10:36. > :10:41.commitment of securing the borders of the Baltic states, building on
:10:42. > :10:47.what has been done in the past. But that all very good steps. But if the
:10:48. > :10:53.issue is Russia and Ukraine, shouldn't NATO been doing something
:10:54. > :10:58.about Russia invading Ukraine? And we do not have anything on the table
:10:59. > :11:02.yet. I do think that Ukrainian 's help. Ukraine is fighting back
:11:03. > :11:07.against Russia on its territory. They have the troops, tanks,
:11:08. > :11:10.artillery, moving across the board. Ukrainian 's help to fight against
:11:11. > :11:14.this. You say that there is nothing on the
:11:15. > :11:17.table, but we have just heard from President Putin putting forward a
:11:18. > :11:24.peace plan that he hopes could be agreed on Friday?
:11:25. > :11:28.Right, Vladimir Putin is a master of playing Western governments and
:11:29. > :11:32.public opinion. He knows that there are several governments who would
:11:33. > :11:36.rather not take difficult decisions about pushing back militarily inside
:11:37. > :11:42.Ukraine. So now he is giving them a process that they can have some hope
:11:43. > :11:45.in in order to defer any decision-making at NATO. So rather
:11:46. > :11:50.than taking the steps that up to be done, they will say that they can't
:11:51. > :11:54.possibly do something that will upset this delicate political
:11:55. > :11:55.process. Meanwhile, I don't have any illusions that the goals in Ukraine
:11:56. > :11:59.have actually changed. Well, the BBC has learnt that a team
:12:00. > :12:02.of international investigators paid for by the British government are
:12:03. > :12:05.trying to compile evidence against Islamic state fighters who
:12:06. > :12:07.are carrying out these atrocities - evidence which could eventually be
:12:08. > :12:10.used to prosecute them But how likely is it that they
:12:11. > :12:17.will be brought to justice? As the list grows longer
:12:18. > :12:23.of apparent atrocities by Islamic State fighters,
:12:24. > :12:28.will anyone be held to account? We have learned that, throughout
:12:29. > :12:30.this year, a team of international investigators with extensive
:12:31. > :12:33.experience in war crimes, funded by the British Government, has been
:12:34. > :12:39.compiling evidence for prosecution. The BBC has been given the first
:12:40. > :12:43.exclusive access to their work. For their own safety, they have
:12:44. > :12:50.asked to remain anonymous. We are after the highest levels
:12:51. > :12:53.members of the IS, because these members are just as responsible as
:12:54. > :12:58.those who kill with their own hands. Indeed,
:12:59. > :13:00.those leaders are more responsible. On the ground in Syria and
:13:01. > :13:02.in the neighbouring countries, the investigators say they have
:13:03. > :13:06.numerous sources feeding back information and original documents,
:13:07. > :13:09.building up a picture of the Some sources are even
:13:10. > :13:15.inside its ranks, Vary rarely do we get documentation
:13:16. > :13:22.such as this which is the actual minutes of an Islamic
:13:23. > :13:25.State provincial level meeting. This kind of thing is gold dust to
:13:26. > :13:29.us, because it shows the clear chain of command that controls everything
:13:30. > :13:34.that happens in the region. This is the command structure
:13:35. > :13:37.of Islamic State as compiled At the top is
:13:38. > :13:44.the self appointed caliph. Below him four councils, the most
:13:45. > :13:48.important the military and security. This one plus four structure is then
:13:49. > :13:51.duplicated throughout all the provinces where Islamic State
:13:52. > :13:55.has a presence. Now they're starting to put senior
:13:56. > :14:00.names to them, joining up a web. They conclude that Islamic
:14:01. > :14:03.State is far more organised What we are witnessing is the
:14:04. > :14:10.process of nation-building, that includes the provision of services
:14:11. > :14:14.looking after the population. There was a military element,
:14:15. > :14:17.of course, but the Islamic State is So where do British jihadists
:14:18. > :14:22.fit into this picture? When they cross into Syria, they get
:14:23. > :14:27.assigned specific roles within IS. So far, no-one appears to
:14:28. > :14:30.have reached the upper ranks. By and large, they are given
:14:31. > :14:34.low-level tasks, because the British people tend to arrive with no
:14:35. > :14:39.battlefield skills, so it is believed that they are better off
:14:40. > :14:42.providing support services, because they are unlikely to have
:14:43. > :14:47.the religious and military skills Inside these boxes
:14:48. > :14:50.in the basement of the investigation team's headquarters is
:14:51. > :14:53.the hard evidence that they say points to the leaders of Islamic
:14:54. > :14:58.State responsible for some of They believe it will be ready to
:14:59. > :15:03.take to prosecution by the end But arresting well protected leaders
:15:04. > :15:09.in the conflict will be almost impossible,
:15:10. > :15:12.and there is another problem. Even when the prosecution files
:15:13. > :15:15.are complete, there is no court Now a look at some of the day's
:15:16. > :15:29.other news: The British nurse who contracted
:15:30. > :15:31.Ebola in the outbreak in West Africa has been discharged from
:15:32. > :15:33.London's Royal Free Hospital. William Pooley, who's 29,
:15:34. > :15:35.had been treated in a special isolation unit, and was
:15:36. > :15:40.given the experimental drug ZMapp. There are five women in the Japanese
:15:41. > :15:43.cabinet after a major reshuffle. They include Yuko Obuchi, who's
:15:44. > :15:46.become the head of the powerful Last year, Prime Minister Shinzo
:15:47. > :16:08.Abe set a target to increase the A judge in the United States has
:16:09. > :16:13.sentenced a white man who shot dead an unarmed black woman who knocked
:16:14. > :16:18.on his door late at night to 17 years in prison. He said he feared
:16:19. > :16:22.for his life when he shot the 19-year-old in Detroit. A jury
:16:23. > :16:31.rejected his claim of self defence. Pop star Gary Barlow has taken to
:16:32. > :16:34.Twitter to say sorry for being involved in an aggressive
:16:35. > :16:36.tax avoidance scheme, even The Take That frontman, who's had
:16:37. > :16:39.13 number-one singles in Britain, apologised to fans
:16:40. > :16:42.and anyone else who was offended He says a team
:16:43. > :16:53.of accountants are working to settle The parents of Ashya King have
:16:54. > :16:59.been reunited with their five-year- old son at the hospital in Spain
:17:00. > :17:02.where he is being cared for. Ashya,
:17:03. > :17:04.who's seriously ill with a brain tumour, was taken against medical
:17:05. > :17:06.advice from Southampton Hospital by Brett and Naghemeh King last
:17:07. > :17:08.week. They were freed
:17:09. > :17:10.from custody last night after the British authorities abandoned
:17:11. > :17:12.their attempts to extradite them. Jon Kay sent this report
:17:13. > :17:35.from Malaga. The case against the couple was
:17:36. > :17:58.dropped last night after a review of the evidence.
:17:59. > :18:04.How angry are you about all this? I wouldn't say angry,
:18:05. > :18:07.I'm just missing my son so much, and my heart is aching for my son.
:18:08. > :18:10.Anger can't come in at the moment because I have just
:18:11. > :18:13.got these feelings. I have got to see my son's face.
:18:14. > :18:16.Southampton General claimed today that doctors had been trying to
:18:17. > :18:18.support the family while they arranged foreign
:18:19. > :18:20.treatment for Ashya, and were very concerned when his parents suddenly
:18:21. > :18:23.took him from the hospital. That is why they alerted the police.
:18:24. > :18:25.I can understand that they were upset, yes.
:18:26. > :18:29.I don't think it is ever in a child's best interests to be
:18:30. > :18:32.taken from a place of safety when the risks of being taken out
:18:33. > :18:34.were known and without anyone within the medical profession knowing that
:18:35. > :18:37.they were leaving. I told them over and over again...
:18:38. > :18:40.The Kings claim they had told doctors they were planning to take
:18:41. > :18:43.Ashya to Prague for treatment, but they admit they did not tell them
:18:44. > :18:45.they were going to Spain that day. I couldn't tell them when,
:18:46. > :18:47.because otherwise they might have stopped me.
:18:48. > :18:49.I was in fear. Tonight they are still many
:18:50. > :18:53.questions about what has happened to this little boy in the course
:18:54. > :18:54.of the last week, but right now, his parents' only concern is
:18:55. > :18:58.spending time with him once again. India's new Prime Minister,
:18:59. > :19:00.Narendra Modi, has completed The right-wing nationalist leader
:19:01. > :19:04.was swept to power in May with the A powerful orator who loves using
:19:05. > :19:09.social media, Mr Modi had promised to bring good
:19:10. > :19:13.days to India during his campaign. His latest foreign visit
:19:14. > :19:27.has taken him to Japan. India's new leader is on a drive to
:19:28. > :19:30.attract greater foreign investment for the Indian economy, his meeting
:19:31. > :19:33.with the Japanese leadership one in a series of high-profile
:19:34. > :19:38.engagements, as he attempts to put Large numbers of Indians voted
:19:39. > :19:44.for Narendra Modi but the massive mandate brought with it huge
:19:45. > :19:49.expectations, so how has Mr Modi Here is a look at how he has
:19:50. > :20:00.dealt with some key issues. India's economy is growing again,
:20:01. > :20:03.at its fastest in two years. There is a buzz in the marketplace,
:20:04. > :20:07.which is good news Demand for his exquisite saris has
:20:08. > :20:14.finally picked up after years There has been a positive shift in
:20:15. > :20:23.the business because the willpower The customer is able to spend more
:20:24. > :20:29.because they understand the economy is going to give back to
:20:30. > :20:33.them in some way, and we have seen Women's safety has been
:20:34. > :20:37.a key concern after an increase Mr Modi used a key Independence Day
:20:38. > :20:42.speech to press for changing Men have placed
:20:43. > :20:52.so many restrictions on their daughters, questioning them about
:20:53. > :20:54.what they are going, but do you dare The person committing
:20:55. > :21:08.a rape is also someone's son. It started with a diplomatic coup,
:21:09. > :21:12.an icebreaking handshake, and Mr Modi invited Pakistan's leader,
:21:13. > :21:17.Nawaz Sharif, to his inauguration. Three months later,
:21:18. > :21:20.relations between the two rivals Hostilities along the border,
:21:21. > :21:26.differences over Kashmir, followed He hasn't deviated from
:21:27. > :21:34.the script of the BJP, the Hindu nationalist script where we are not
:21:35. > :21:37.going to meet you as equals, and we're not going to be soft, we are
:21:38. > :21:50.going to be the big, tough guys. Critics allege that there has been
:21:51. > :21:53.growing religious tensions since the new Government took over,
:21:54. > :21:55.and it's ignoring the plight There are fears that under Mr Modi,
:21:56. > :22:02.an unabashed Hindu nationalist, They say revenge is
:22:03. > :22:17.a dish best served cold, and with President Francois Hollande
:22:18. > :22:19.still suffering painfully low approval ratings with the French
:22:20. > :22:20.public, the last thing he would have wanted
:22:21. > :22:26.is a new book by his former partner Valerie Trierweiler detailing
:22:27. > :22:28.their acrimonious break-up. The book, called Thank You For
:22:29. > :22:33.This Moment, is being serialised One extract details how
:22:34. > :22:37.the President tried to stop his former partner swallowing
:22:38. > :22:43.sleeping pills after Ms Trierweiler discovered he was having an affair
:22:44. > :22:46.with the actress Julie Gayet. This is what
:22:47. > :22:50.Ms Trierweiler has to say. I grab the little plastic bag
:22:51. > :22:57.which has sleeping pills in. I reach out to pick them up,
:22:58. > :23:08.I swallow what I can. I don't want to live through
:23:09. > :23:19.the coming hours. Let's cross to Paris now
:23:20. > :23:24.and speak to the journalist She works as a columnist
:23:25. > :23:33.for the Daily Telegraph. Thanks for joining us. As that
:23:34. > :23:40.extract suggests, this is a no holds barred kiss and tell book isn't it?
:23:41. > :23:45.I guess it came as a complete shock to the President? He found out on
:23:46. > :23:50.Tuesday. How damaging is this for a President who is already suffering
:23:51. > :24:00.pretty low poll ratings? It is very damaging because it comes a few days
:24:01. > :24:03.after there has been a Cabinet reshuffle and what are supposed to
:24:04. > :24:08.be a great shift in policy is to get better results. It is also damaging
:24:09. > :24:13.because what she is saying in effect is that he lied to her, he lied to
:24:14. > :24:19.others, and in France, even if we say that we like politicians'
:24:20. > :24:25.private lives to remain private, in reality we are more and more
:24:26. > :24:29.interested because we feel... So in many ways it could not have come at
:24:30. > :24:33.a worse time for President Hollande. This is also a serious problem for
:24:34. > :24:36.him because as well is being embarrassing, revealing problems
:24:37. > :24:43.about their dramatic relationship, etc, Valerie Trierweiler also takes
:24:44. > :24:48.a swipe at his socialist credentials, saying he does not
:24:49. > :24:51.really like the poor. There is also an extract where she claims he
:24:52. > :24:56.bombarded her with text messages while meeting with the US President
:24:57. > :25:01.and Vladimir Putin. None of this really speaks very well of his
:25:02. > :25:07.credentials as a socialist President, does it? I must say that
:25:08. > :25:11.the excerpts about her family, she comes from a working-class
:25:12. > :25:14.background, and she says that during a family reunion, he met extremely
:25:15. > :25:19.disparaging comments about the way her family looked, and that is, I
:25:20. > :25:24.think, the most damaging of all, because he is very famous for having
:25:25. > :25:28.campaigned and saying he did not much like the rich, but it turns out
:25:29. > :25:37.he did not much like the poor either. She says she's very winded.
:25:38. > :25:41.She says he speaks to also so people over the heads of his advisers and
:25:42. > :25:46.the fact that he text message to her, it speaks of someone who cannot
:25:47. > :25:51.bring himself to have complete resolution over anything. He dropped
:25:52. > :25:56.her after an affair but was trying to have several dates and keep them
:25:57. > :26:01.throughout, which is also something which does not look terribly good
:26:02. > :26:05.right now or indeed at any time. But a lot of people see this simply as
:26:06. > :26:12.the writings of a woman scorned. Do you think the President has a right
:26:13. > :26:17.to be angry about the book? He went after her, she is a journalist, he
:26:18. > :26:22.knew perfectly well that she felt insecure throughout the seven or
:26:23. > :26:25.eight years they were together. If he did not expect something like
:26:26. > :26:34.this I think it was pretty naive of him. How do you expect... Oh, I am
:26:35. > :26:38.afraid we are out of time. This is a story we could keep talking about
:26:39. > :26:43.but for now, thanks for joining me. You have been watching World News
:26:44. > :26:56.Today. Up next, the weather, but for now, goodbye.
:26:57. > :27:05.Hello. Over the next few days, the weather is set to like the last few
:27:06. > :27:08.days. A lot of client. Light wind, but some breaks in the cloud and
:27:09. > :27:10.some sunshine at times. The