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This is BBC World News Today with me, Philippa Thomas. President Obama | :00:07. | :00:20. | |
has urged the world to help dismantle what he calls the Islamic | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
State's "network of death". The United States continues to | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
target Islamic State fighters with five more air-strikes across Syria | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
and Iraq. And combating the militant group | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
-tops the agenda at the United Nations General assembly in New | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
York. Also coming up: Radical Muslim | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
cleric Abu Qatada is freed from prison after a Jordanian court rules | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
there was insufficient evidence to convict him of terrorism offences. | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
Around the world in architectural styles - we'll take you on a journey | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
through the eyes of some of the world's top photographers. | :00:55. | :01:17. | |
Hello and welcome. President Obama tells the UN, the only language | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
Islamic State fighters understand is force, as the US-led coalition | :01:21. | :01:29. | |
military launched five more air-strikes near the Iraqi Syrian | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
border. Key IS targets were hit in an air strike in the Syrian town of | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
Al Qa'im on the Iraqi border. Two air strikes west of Baghdad and two | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
strikes southeast of Irbil destroyed IS vehicles, a weapons cache and key | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
militant fighting positions. Earlier there were reports of strikes near | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
the Syrian border with Turkey, around the Kurdish town of Kobane, | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
which has been besieged by IS fighters. It comes a day after the | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
first US airstrikes hit several key towns and cities across Syria | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
including Raqqa - Islamic State's self-declared capital. So far the US | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
military has launched missiles from two destroyers, a guided missile | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
cruiser in the Gulf and a destroyer in the Red Sea. Our Security | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
Correspondent Frank Gardner reports. | :02:15. | :02:28. | |
Called Islamic State, the United States has launched an offensive | :02:29. | :02:44. | |
against them. Britain did not take part in the attacks Pat has hinted | :02:45. | :02:53. | |
they may. We are working to make sure that we ultimately destroy this | :02:54. | :03:01. | |
evil organisation. These are Australian attack jets arriving at | :03:02. | :03:10. | |
an airbase. Five Arab countries have taken part in the air strikes with | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
others offering discreet logistical support. The governments see the | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
jihadists as a real threat although not all their populations will | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
agree. There is no doubting the deepening humanitarian crisis caused | :03:26. | :03:33. | |
by Islamic State crossing borders. Border guards and tacky as | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
struggling to contain the exodus of refugees. It is said that Islamic | :03:40. | :03:49. | |
State since militants have stepped up the pressure, the situation is | :03:50. | :03:58. | |
worsening. The latest figures are very worrying. I do not need to | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
quote the numbers again but there are 11 million people in need in | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
Syria. Much of the top at the United Nations today is how Islamic State | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
to defeat the so-called. Islamic State. Ran has called the air | :04:18. | :04:38. | |
strikes are legal. Iran has called the air strikes illegal. By Friday | :04:39. | :04:46. | |
we should know if Britain will take part in the air strikes. | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
And it's been confirmed within the last hour that the UK Parliament | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
will be recalled on Friday to debate British air strikes. Now our Chief | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
International Correspondent Lyse Doucet joins us from Baghdad - Lyse, | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
what part is the Iraqi military playing, or expecting to play, in | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
Any military officer would tell you that it will not be won through air | :05:02. | :05:20. | |
strikes. There have been six weeks of air strikes and 3000 sorties and | :05:21. | :05:29. | |
2000 raids have not diminished in any way the strength of the fighters | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
who are controlling about a quarter of Iraq. The Iraqi army which has | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
been backed up by air strikes has taken back a few times and some key | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
installations but every day we're still getting reports of their | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
brutality. Today 11 Iraqi soldiers were beheaded by Islamic state | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
fighters and a 16th century Islamic cemetery was destroyed and a seventh | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
century judge was also destroyed. A massacre of 300 or more Iraqi | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
soldiers killed at the base not far from Baghdad. This war is not over | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
and in the end it will have to be the Iraqi army on the ground that | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
will have to take the territory back and trying to work with the | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
malicious who are talking of forming a National Guard. --with the | :06:22. | :06:35. | |
militias. It will take time to mash together the volunteers and the | :06:36. | :06:47. | |
regular army. --mesh Full stop what do you make of the appeal by | :06:48. | :07:03. | |
President Obama not to -- for young Muslims not to take up arms? I would | :07:04. | :07:11. | |
say if I were a young Muslim that these calls should be matched by | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
action. They want jobs and investment in these areas and | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
opportunities and political stability but in one country after | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
another they have been better lonely -- bitterly disappointed by the | :07:27. | :07:50. | |
interaction of the West. President of Bama was speaking to the United | :07:51. | :08:07. | |
Nations in New York. --Obama. This is the president arriving. Here at | :08:08. | :08:17. | |
the United Nations, the president explained why this was not possible | :08:18. | :08:29. | |
when it came to extremists. There is no God who justifies this terror and | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
no grievance justifies these actions. There can be no reasoning | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
or negotiation with this brand of evil. The only language understood | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
by killers like this is the language of force. The United States of | :08:43. | :08:50. | |
America will work with a broad coalition to dismantle this network | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
of death. America has pulled together an international coalition | :08:56. | :09:05. | |
of around 40 countries. Five Arab states have joined. Not satisfied | :09:06. | :09:12. | |
with 40 nations, the president says that he wants the whole world to | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
unite in the fight against Islamic State. He also wants to deal with | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
the corruption of young minds by violent ideology. There were fresh | :09:25. | :09:34. | |
air strikes overnight and this unverified footage posted online | :09:35. | :09:42. | |
Islamic State purports to show fighting on Monday for control of | :09:43. | :10:05. | |
our time. -- a town. American jets committed air strikes against our | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
town in the morning. Thank God that only minor injuries and that life as | :10:10. | :10:11. | |
normal. France has confirmed that a French | :10:12. | :10:21. | |
tourist who was taken hostage in Algeria on Sunday has been killed. | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
Earlier an Algerian jihadist group with links to Islamic State released | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
a short video it said showed Herve Gourdal being beheaded. The group is | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
demanding an end to French Max Boot is a leading American | :10:31. | :10:32. | |
military historian and senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. | :10:33. | :10:41. | |
He joins me from New York. Do you think that President Obama, | :10:42. | :11:02. | |
and Nobel Peace Prize winner, is turning into hock? -- a hawk? I | :11:03. | :11:17. | |
think it will take more effective ground action to destroy this group | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
which controls an area larger than the United Kingdom. As the White | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
House considers that, do you feel that the heat is now of President | :11:30. | :11:40. | |
Assad? My concern is that we may be going to IDE factual Alliance --de | :11:41. | :12:01. | |
facto alliance. This alliance with President Assad and his resume would | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
be unfortunate because they have been even more brutal Islamic State | :12:09. | :12:18. | |
than Islamic State. They will not join any coalition in which Iran and | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
proxies of Iran and proxies overran figure prominently. It does look | :12:23. | :12:38. | |
like a rapprochement of sort. Iran is making the situation worse in | :12:39. | :12:54. | |
Syria and not better. Their hardline militias have driven people into the | :12:55. | :13:02. | |
arms of Islamic State. I think you can get a much more stable Iraq by | :13:03. | :13:11. | |
trying to mobilise moderate factions amongst several of the ethnic | :13:12. | :13:19. | |
groups. There are more responsible voices Npower in Baghdad, if this is | :13:20. | :13:31. | |
the case, and more active roles are taken by other factions, there is | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
the possibility of effectively sidelining Iran. During the US-led | :13:37. | :13:47. | |
surge into Iraq in 2007 2008, this card. --this occurred four. The | :13:48. | :14:07. | |
Iranians with their murderous tactics as just a big problem as | :14:08. | :14:16. | |
Islamic State. We should not align ourselves with one group of and Thai | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
Western extremists with another group of anti-western instruments. | :14:24. | :14:38. | |
--anti-Western extremists. Abu Qatada was deported from the UK | :14:39. | :14:47. | |
in 2013. He was freed | :14:48. | :14:49. | |
from prison earlier today. June Kelly's report contains | :14:50. | :14:51. | |
some flash photography. Abu Qatada return to his own country | :14:52. | :15:05. | |
last year as a terrorist suspect. Today he became a free man. One of | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
his first gestures was to kiss the feet of his father in a traditional | :15:12. | :15:19. | |
show of respect. He thanked first guard and then his lawyer for his | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
freedom. Earlier he was brought into the cage of the dark in the security | :15:26. | :15:33. | |
court to learn his faith. -- fate. As the knot guilty verdict was | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
delivered, the formality of the court was forgotten. -- not guilty. | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
His many sisters and brothers have followed his case from the start. | :15:45. | :15:52. | |
For his lawyer, there was a kiss. He has been cleared of conspiring in a | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
plot which was thwarted to attack Western and Israeli interests in | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
Jordan to 15 years ago. This has been an international legal | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
marathon. Abu Qatada took his case through every British court and then | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
on to Europe as he fought against being sent ask here to face these | :16:10. | :16:16. | |
charges. As part of the deal with the UK, the Jordanians promised that | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
test me obtained through torturing of the suspects would not be used | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
against him. The judge said the other remaining evidence was too | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
weak to convicted. There is no chance of him returning to Britain. | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
The UK courts here with clear that he was a threat. He is subject to a | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
deportation order and is subject to a UN travel ban and that means he | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
will not be returning to the UK. This afternoon, he made his way back | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
to the family home which he left when he moved to London and | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
established himself as an extremist preacher of international influence. | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
Since he was deported to the Middle East, he has condemned Islamic | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
state. But as he returns to family life he remains a supporter of | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
Al-Qaeda and Abu Qatada is now free to speak openly once again. | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
Now a look at some of the day's other news. | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
NATO says there's been a significant withdrawal of Russian | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
conventional troops from inside eastern Ukraine, although | :17:22. | :17:23. | |
Moscow has never acknowledged the presence of Russian troops | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
The European police agency, Europol, says more than1,000 people have | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
been arrested in what it said was the biggest ever | :17:32. | :17:33. | |
operation against organised crime across the continent. | :17:34. | :17:35. | |
200 people, 30 of them children, were saved from traffickers and | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
France's Defence minister has admitted that an operation to fly | :17:39. | :17:49. | |
suspected Islamic militants from Turkey to France was a "muddle" | :17:50. | :17:51. | |
and a "mess" after they walked free from Marseilles airport. | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
French police had been waiting for them at an airport in Paris. | :17:56. | :17:57. | |
In the end they handed themselves in to the authorities. | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
Air France has had to cancel more than half its scheduled flights | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
today - far more at some airports - following a ten day strike | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
by its pilots plans to expand its low cost airline Transavia. | :18:10. | :18:11. | |
Transavia carried 6.5 million passengers last year, | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
and Air France would like to double that number by 2017. | :18:17. | :18:23. | |
So what's the objection and how much damage is the strike | :18:24. | :18:25. | |
In our Paris studio is the Aviation consultant and CEO of the auditing | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
How bad is this for Air France? It is a terrible impact. The strike is | :18:32. | :18:51. | |
costing about 20 million euros in operational cost. Also in terms of | :18:52. | :19:00. | |
credibility, image, for maybe weeks, months and even years. It has a | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
terrible impact on duty-free shops, retail shops, taxis and the French | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
tourism industry. Tens of thousands of people have been stranded at | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
world airports for the past ten days. Tens of thousands of tourists | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
who were about to come to France for the holidays, thousands of investors | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
and businessmen prevented on coming to France to do their business. It | :19:28. | :19:35. | |
has a bad impact on the finances of Air France and the image and | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
credibility of France as a business and touristic destination. How is | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
the airline trying to change its business model in expanding this low | :19:45. | :19:51. | |
cost airline? Their plan is to expand Transavia France which is a | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
fully owned subsidy based in France and they are trying to set up a | :19:58. | :20:04. | |
company called Transavia Europe outside of France. A low-cost | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
subsidiary which will be in line in terms of the business model of | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
Ryanair and easyJet. That is their plan for the next few years to try | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
to compete against the low-cost airlines on European routes. That is | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
the main issue for the pilots, who fear that their jobs will be | :20:25. | :20:35. | |
relocated in other countries, and less in favour with the pilots | :20:36. | :20:47. | |
because of lower wages. That is at the heart of the problem at the | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
moment in the conflict between Air France and its pilots. Air France is | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
also trying to get round France's strict labour laws? They are trying | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
to get round the French labour laws indeed. Trying to find a business | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
model that will allow them to compete more affect Eveleigh against | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
Ryanair and easyJet and other low-cost airlines. -- compete | :21:12. | :21:21. | |
effectively. That is indeed the plan, they are trying to find ways | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
to pay their pilots lower wages and find ways to pay lower social | :21:28. | :21:35. | |
charges and find ways to have more flexible labour law to improve the | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
flexibility of the pilots's schedules. I am afraid we are going | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
to happen to leave it there. But thank you very much. | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
India has become the first country to succeed | :21:52. | :21:53. | |
in putting a spacecraft into orbit around Mars on the first attempt. | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
It is also one of the cheapest missions to Mars ever carried out. | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
Sanjoy Mujumder sent this report from Bangalore. | :22:00. | :22:08. | |
Celebrating a historic triumph at mission control. Reaching the red | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
planet on the very first attempt and joining an elite club of space | :22:15. | :22:22. | |
explorers. A proud moment for the scientists and India's Prime | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
Minister who had flown in a specially for the moment. History | :22:26. | :22:33. | |
has been created today. We have dared to reach out into the unknown | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
and have achieved the near impossible. There were a few tense | :22:41. | :22:49. | |
moments as the spacecraft was put through a series of critical moments | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
before being placed in orbit. But it all went to plan. There is a sense | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
of pride for not only succeeding in sending a mission to Mars on the | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
very first attempt, they have done it at a fraction of the cost of | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
compatible missions. India's home-grown mission is almost a 10th | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
of the cost from NASA, even cheaper than the Hollywood Lock buster, | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
gravity. It will explore the red planet's atmosphere and send its | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
findings back to Earth. But today was all about national pride. | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
From the first skyscrapers in New York to the modern towers of | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
Venezuela and the construction around | :23:32. | :23:33. | |
China's Three Gorges Dam, a new exhibition is opening on Thursday | :23:34. | :23:35. | |
that brings together powerful photographs of modern architecture. | :23:36. | :23:37. | |
I've been talking to some of the international photographers | :23:38. | :23:39. | |
featured in "Constructing Worlds" at London's Barbican Centre | :23:40. | :23:41. | |
This is the opening image of the exhibition, taken in 1932. It is | :23:42. | :23:55. | |
night view in New York. It was taken from the top of the Empire State | :23:56. | :24:03. | |
building, looking down at twilight on the December solstice. It begins | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
a global journey. Some of the images are grandiose, others are very down | :24:10. | :24:23. | |
to earth. The intention early on was to provide a global journey through | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
the 20th and 21st century, looking at how history is expressed through | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
architecture and the built form. We wanted to traverse the globe, | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
starting with New York and the first modern metropolis. Quickly sites of | :24:39. | :24:45. | |
interest is have changed over the last two decades. I am interested in | :24:46. | :25:00. | |
looking at the world with attention. To photograph something that is | :25:01. | :25:01. | |
obvious that doesn't require attention. I think attention is | :25:02. | :25:08. | |
better described by photographing the everyday. What seems fascinating | :25:09. | :25:20. | |
to me, is to go through life and the most ordinary moments with | :25:21. | :25:33. | |
attention. Here is work by a British-based photographer in 2007. | :25:34. | :25:41. | |
He travelled from the mouth of a river in Shanghai through to Tibet. | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
In one of his journeys he came across this brutalist sculpture | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
which is a controversial monument to the three Gorges Dam. I was in | :25:53. | :26:03. | |
Berlin and I had the opportunity to go and visit the Jewish Museum. It | :26:04. | :26:11. | |
is a very important Goulding and was still in construction, which is | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
something I love to photograph because the building is like a | :26:15. | :26:21. | |
skeleton. It is just concept, you don't need Windows or a fire escape. | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
It is just the main idea of the architecture. After those images | :26:26. | :26:35. | |
celebrating lights, comes a room in which darker forms loomed towards | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
us. The work of a Japanese photographer. His 1997 image of the | :26:41. | :26:48. | |
twin towers, the World Trade Center serves as a memorial to what is | :26:49. | :26:51. | |
gone. That is all, thanks for being here | :26:52. | :26:53. | |
today. Most of us have enjoyed some | :26:54. | :27:04. | |
sunshine today. Tomorrow will be different. We will have cloud around | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
and it will be thick enough to bring out rakes of rain. Weather fronts | :27:10. | :27:21. | |
continue to blow in. On Thursday, it will be a damp and mild | :27:22. | :27:22. |