:00:00. > :00:07.This is BBC World News Today with me, Geeta Guru-Murthy.
:00:08. > :00:12.The Headlines: He got what he wanted, now he's off.
:00:13. > :00:13.Nigel Farage has resigned, saying he's achieved
:00:14. > :00:21.Nigel Farage took the UK Independence Party from a fringe
:00:22. > :00:23.movement, to a political force to be reckoned with.
:00:24. > :00:31.Now he says it's time for someone else to be leader.
:00:32. > :00:37.During the referendum campaign, I said I want my country back. What I
:00:38. > :00:39.am saying today as I want my life back.
:00:40. > :00:42.Top Gear, one of the BBC's most popular programmes, in a spin,
:00:43. > :00:46.as Chris Evans quits after just six episodes.
:00:47. > :00:48.After a journey of three billion kilometres, this little spacecraft
:00:49. > :00:50.is about to get just one shot at successfully entering
:00:51. > :00:55.And Iraq's bitter legacy, a special report from Fallujahm
:00:56. > :01:08.a week after so-called Islamic State forces were driven out.
:01:09. > :01:16.The argument goes back 1400 years but the invasion in 2003 had the
:01:17. > :01:17.effect of redefining and supercharging it for the 21st
:01:18. > :01:25.century. The leader of the party that spent
:01:26. > :01:28.a quarter of a century campaigning for Britain to leave
:01:29. > :01:31.the European Union has resigned. Nigel Farage, who heads
:01:32. > :01:33.the UK Independence Party, said his "political ambition
:01:34. > :01:36.had been achieved". But Mr Farage said he planned to see
:01:37. > :01:39.out his term as an MEP Our political correspondent
:01:40. > :01:50.Ben Wright looks at his career and what might happen to the party
:01:51. > :01:58.next. For two decades, Nigel Farage
:01:59. > :02:07.had a mission, to lead While Ukip has just one MP
:02:08. > :02:13.at Westminster, the party's impact Probably one of the most influential
:02:14. > :02:20.politicians in the post-war era, not just of this century,
:02:21. > :02:22.because if it wasn't for Nigel Farage and his hard work
:02:23. > :02:24.and the Ukip activists, we wouldn't have had a referendum
:02:25. > :02:32.on our membership of the EU. The former city trader was a founder
:02:33. > :02:35.of Ukip and soon distilled its pitch What people are saying is get
:02:36. > :02:44.Britain out. In 1999, Farage was elected
:02:45. > :02:46.to the European Parliament, You have the charisma of a damp
:02:47. > :02:51.rag and the appearance He wanted Britain to leave,
:02:52. > :02:58.but the years Ukip could not break through with voters and in 2006
:02:59. > :03:04.David Cameron memorably mocked them. I mean Ukip, it is just a bunch
:03:05. > :03:11.of fruit cakes and closet racists. A decade later, Nigel Farage
:03:12. > :03:16.would have the last laugh. With his love of the drink,
:03:17. > :03:19.Farage is not like most politicians but the jovial demeanour
:03:20. > :03:23.disguised serious intent. The seriousness that hardened
:03:24. > :03:26.after he was injured in a plane crash in 2010,
:03:27. > :03:29.an experience that spurred him on. Over the next five years
:03:30. > :03:33.Ukip made huge strides, coming first in the European
:03:34. > :03:37.elections in 2014. He celebrated in a Westminster
:03:38. > :03:41.pub of course. Ukip's campaign was cutting through,
:03:42. > :03:45.not only winning over disillusioned Tories, but many working-class
:03:46. > :03:49.Labour voters as well. David Cameron promised an EU
:03:50. > :03:52.referendum, in part to head Today in Essex, where Ukip came
:03:53. > :04:02.second in the general election, some disappointment
:04:03. > :04:06.at Nigel Farage's decision. Shocked when you told me,
:04:07. > :04:08.he seems a nice guy, It up the party from being
:04:09. > :04:14.a fringe organisation to a mainstream political force
:04:15. > :04:18.is so very impressive figure. I am glad he is going,
:04:19. > :04:21.especially the way he treated people in the EU, the way he spoke
:04:22. > :04:30.to people is disgusting. A divisive rabble-rouser to some,
:04:31. > :04:32.their hero to others, Ukip without Nigel Farage
:04:33. > :04:34.will lose some of its colour. Where the party heads next
:04:35. > :04:46.is a question for his successor. Immigration has of course been one
:04:47. > :04:48.of the main issues of Brexit. One question now is what will happen
:04:49. > :04:51.to the 3 million EU Theresa May has said that will be
:04:52. > :04:55.part of the negotiations and two other Conservative
:04:56. > :04:58.leadership candidates Liam Fox and Andrea Leadsome, who both
:04:59. > :05:00.campaigned to Leave, have also It must be respected
:05:01. > :05:15.and I will respect it. Hear, hear.
:05:16. > :05:22.APPLAUSE The United Kingdom will leave
:05:23. > :05:26.the European Union. Freedom of movement will end
:05:27. > :05:29.and the British Parliament will decide how many people
:05:30. > :05:31.enter our country each year to live, work and contribute
:05:32. > :05:39.to our national life. The decision taken
:05:40. > :05:41.by the British people was both historic and
:05:42. > :05:42.courageous. There can be no backsliding
:05:43. > :05:44.on this issue and no question of
:05:45. > :05:46.a second referendum. It is quite clear that the public
:05:47. > :05:49.rejected the concept of free movement and that the price of
:05:50. > :05:51.including such free movement as part of a trade deal would be
:05:52. > :05:54.regarded as a betrayal We have nothing to fear from a more
:05:55. > :06:24.free trade environment. Two of the Tory candidates for the
:06:25. > :06:27.job of Prime Minister. We will be speaking more on the Ukip question
:06:28. > :06:33.to the party in a few minutes. Chris Evans has stepped down
:06:34. > :06:35.as presenter of Top Gear saying his best shot
:06:36. > :06:38.at the programme wasn't good enough. Ratings for the BBC show,
:06:39. > :06:40.which was relaunched in May after Jeremy Clarkson
:06:41. > :06:42.was sacked, have been falling. Here's our Media Correspondent,
:06:43. > :06:51.David Sillito. Welcome to Top Gear with our
:06:52. > :06:55.all-new, improved audience. When Chris Evans
:06:56. > :06:57.replaced Jeremy Clarkson as the face of Top Gear,
:06:58. > :07:00.it was never going to be easy. Jeremy Clarkson had turned the show
:07:01. > :07:02.into a global success story and then he hit
:07:03. > :07:05.one of the show's producers. Chris Evans stepped
:07:06. > :07:06.in alongside former But Chris Evans has
:07:07. > :07:16.lasted just one series. He has faced a stream
:07:17. > :07:18.of negative stories in the press
:07:19. > :07:20.and also allegations about his behaviour
:07:21. > :07:24.going back to the 1990s. This morning, he said nothing
:07:25. > :07:26.as he left A few hours later,
:07:27. > :07:36.he sent this tweet. He said he had given
:07:37. > :07:38.it his best shot but sometimes,
:07:39. > :07:51.that's not enough. One Top Gear fan who is also a
:07:52. > :07:58.former Stig agrees. The shows have got an awful lot better but it was
:07:59. > :08:08.the key moment in the new show and they did not get the first one
:08:09. > :08:12.right. Around 9 million did watch the first programme but since then
:08:13. > :08:16.figures have dipped. Last nights ratings were below 2 million. The
:08:17. > :08:20.BBC says the show will continue and filming for the new series will
:08:21. > :08:36.begin in September. Chris Evans will be back on Radio 2 tomorrow.
:08:37. > :08:44.Three days of national mourning are underway in Iraq. The Islamic State
:08:45. > :08:48.group says it was as possible for the atrocity which comes just a week
:08:49. > :08:56.after militants last control of the nearby city of Falluja.
:08:57. > :09:06.This is Falluja, losing this town so hurt the Islamist, they lashed out
:09:07. > :09:10.by massacring civilians in Baghdad. Iraq 's perpetual war was caused by
:09:11. > :09:20.a chain of consequences that leads back to the invasion of 2003. Iraq
:09:21. > :09:24.since traders, the US and Britain, removed a hated dictator but they
:09:25. > :09:32.made no real plan to rebuild the country they broke. They improvised
:09:33. > :09:36.and made matters worse. IS fighters still lie where the dyed in the
:09:37. > :09:42.streets. Jihadists weren't in Iraq for the invasion and Shia and Sunni
:09:43. > :09:49.Muslims whose civil war started during the occupation could coexist.
:09:50. > :09:57.There is a lot of Isis members here. In this 13th year of war, elite
:09:58. > :10:00.units took the lead, helped by American -- American air strikes.
:10:01. > :10:06.One pulverise this compound. The bodies of more than a dozen
:10:07. > :10:12.Jihadists lie rotting in the rubble. Suicide vest. So-called Islamic
:10:13. > :10:21.State -- it's AmexStadium groat of Al-Qaeda, which are grouped in Iraq
:10:22. > :10:31.in the chaos following the invasion. When you pull it, it'll blow up.
:10:32. > :10:36.This is from a grenade. Yes, it blows up all the vehicles with him.
:10:37. > :10:45.So this was intended for a suicide mission. Yes, exactly. This car bomb
:10:46. > :10:50.was not used. After defeat in Falluja, IS put a much bigger one in
:10:51. > :10:56.Baghdad. In a suburban house, IS said at a prison. This is not the
:10:57. > :11:05.only private jail in Iraq. In a fractured country, arbitrary
:11:06. > :11:10.imprisonment is a display of power. I S chain prisoners in cages the
:11:11. > :11:15.size of dog kennels. To get power and keep it, politicians and
:11:16. > :11:20.warlords in Iraq have exploited sectarian fears. The Jihadists of
:11:21. > :11:25.Islamic State would not have been able to take such a grip on Iraq
:11:26. > :11:29.without the sectarian conflict between Shia and Sunni Muslims. The
:11:30. > :11:37.argument between Shia and Sunni Muslims goes back 1400 years but the
:11:38. > :11:47.invasion in 2003 had the effect of redefining and supercharging it for
:11:48. > :11:51.the 21st-century. Around 45,000 people, all Sunni Muslims displaced
:11:52. > :11:58.by the fighting against Islamic State, are in a camp outside
:11:59. > :12:04.Falluja. They get water, food and basic shelter from the heat. But new
:12:05. > :12:10.families are still arriving, Unicef says the lives of one in five Iraqi
:12:11. > :12:18.children, 3.6 million, are at serious risk because of war. A
:12:19. > :12:26.bullet hit this girl as they escaped Falluja. They said Shia militias
:12:27. > :12:31.separated men from women and beat them to days. This four-year-old
:12:32. > :12:35.hopes her father might join his family again. But a neighbour saw
:12:36. > :12:43.him beaten to death as other men were shot dead. Many men in the camp
:12:44. > :12:48.are still injured and all were too frightened to be identified. These
:12:49. > :12:52.Sunni Muslims blame the invasion for changing the balance of power in the
:12:53. > :12:56.Middle East. TRANSLATION:
:12:57. > :13:03.Outside countries entered Iraq and destroyed us. America put us in the
:13:04. > :13:11.mouth of Iran and other countries and left us.
:13:12. > :13:19.The camp is on edge. Police tried to control food queues by firing into
:13:20. > :13:24.the air. Iraqis have also made matters much worse for themselves.
:13:25. > :13:28.But mistakes made by the United States and Britain 13 years ago
:13:29. > :13:36.pushed them down the road to catastrophe.
:13:37. > :13:42.I just want to bring you some breaking news on what we are hearing
:13:43. > :13:48.from Baghdad. The area around the International Airport in Baghdad is
:13:49. > :13:50.being shelled, with two dozen projectiles exploding within the
:13:51. > :13:59.secured Perret. That is according to which this is. One witness living
:14:00. > :14:03.near the airport says they heard 20 explosions and a security source
:14:04. > :14:08.said it was a bombardment targeting the airport. It is not yet clear
:14:09. > :14:11.whether the airport facilities have been hit but reports of several
:14:12. > :14:16.rockets exploding near the airport at the moment. Not clear whether
:14:17. > :14:21.rockets or mortar fire are being used in the shelling. We will keep
:14:22. > :14:24.you updated just as soon as we can. We will move onto the Israeli visit
:14:25. > :14:30.that begun today. Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu's
:14:31. > :14:32.begun a four-nation tour of sub-Saharan Africa -
:14:33. > :14:34.the first visit by an Israeli Prime Minister
:14:35. > :14:36.to the continent since 1987. The visit's to try and develop
:14:37. > :14:38.economic and security ties But Mr Netanyahu called it a deeply
:14:39. > :14:43.moving day for him as he began by marking the anniversary
:14:44. > :14:45.of the raid in Entebbe, Uganda, in which his brother
:14:46. > :14:51.Jonathan was killed in 1976. With me is Colin Shindler,
:14:52. > :14:53.Professor Emeritus in Israeli studies at SOAS and an author
:14:54. > :15:04.on Israeli history. Can you just first of all tellers
:15:05. > :15:10.about what happened to Benjamin Netanyahu 's brother, this very
:15:11. > :15:17.personal link. He was the commander of the Israeli operation to rescue
:15:18. > :15:22.and release hostages that had been taken off and Air France Airbus
:15:23. > :15:30.flight from Athens to France. They were taken and there were 250
:15:31. > :15:37.passengers originally, they were separated into Jews and non-Jews.
:15:38. > :15:44.The identifiable Jews were put to one side and they even checked those
:15:45. > :15:50.who had pre-ordered kosher food. There is even a British dimension to
:15:51. > :15:57.this. There was a Jewish grandmother of 74 who was quite frail and Dylan
:15:58. > :16:05.hospitalised in Uganda and she was not rescued and she was killed later
:16:06. > :16:10.by ADR means forces. This visit is of great personal importers to the
:16:11. > :16:14.Prime Minister but it is more than just that, what is going on
:16:15. > :16:22.politically? There is a personal aspect of this, his brother who he
:16:23. > :16:31.looked up to was killed there, but also it builds on the original ties
:16:32. > :16:35.that Israel had with Africa. In the 1950s, Israel was barred from
:16:36. > :16:42.joining the nonaligned nations yet they gave much aid to the African
:16:43. > :16:46.nations, they even condemned apartheid several times during the
:16:47. > :16:52.1960s. After the 1973 Yom Kippur War, pressure from the Arab states,
:16:53. > :16:58.economic and indeed political pressure, was put on the emerging
:16:59. > :17:03.African nations to break diplomatic ties will stop this is what is
:17:04. > :17:07.effectively now being restored. It is not straightforward. There have
:17:08. > :17:14.been expressions of support for the politician as Palestinians,
:17:15. > :17:17.complaints on about African Jewish people who back out of Israel when
:17:18. > :17:22.they try to live there, so competitions. Yes, this is a wide
:17:23. > :17:28.delegation. It also contains many businessmen who are opposed to
:17:29. > :17:34.Benjamin Netanyahu 's policies, and are opposed to the politics of
:17:35. > :17:38.stagnation. There are so many protests against the deportation of
:17:39. > :17:43.Africans from Israel. They argued that it was against Jewish tradition
:17:44. > :17:51.to not welcome refugees. Thank you so much for coming in. My pleasure.
:17:52. > :17:53.A politician from the governing party in Bangladesh has spoken
:17:54. > :17:56.of his sorrow and shame after learning that his son
:17:57. > :17:58.was among the Islamist militants who attacked a cafe in the capital,
:17:59. > :18:02.Imtiaz Khan told the BBC Bengali Service that his son,
:18:03. > :18:05.Rohan, left home six months ago and hadn't been in touch since.
:18:06. > :18:07.The Islamic State group posted his picture on Facebook
:18:08. > :18:09.on Friday and said it carried out the attack,
:18:10. > :18:11.in which 20 mostly foreign hostages were killed.
:18:12. > :18:20.The five dead hostage-takers came from affluent families.
:18:21. > :18:22.TRANSLATION: I am stunned to learn this, dumbfounded.
:18:23. > :18:25.My son used to pray five times a day from a young age.
:18:26. > :18:28.There is a mosque just 25 feet from our home.
:18:29. > :18:30.He started going to prayers with his grandfather,
:18:31. > :18:33.There was nothing at all, no books or anything
:18:34. > :18:39.to indicate he was leaning that way, so we had no inkling.
:18:40. > :18:41.When I was searching for my son, I found that
:18:42. > :18:44.Well-educated boys from good educated families,
:18:45. > :18:46.children of professionals, garment officers...
:18:47. > :18:48.I used to share my sorrows with them.
:18:49. > :18:50.We do not know how this has happened.
:18:51. > :18:52.The only thing I can think about is the Internet.
:18:53. > :18:54.Maybe it is happening through the Internet.
:18:55. > :18:56.I don't really know why this is happening.
:18:57. > :19:19.Some more breaking news, there has been an explosion in the holy city
:19:20. > :19:21.of Medina in Saudi Arabia. Local media say a suicide
:19:22. > :19:23.bomber detonated a bomb near the Prophet's Mosque, one
:19:24. > :19:26.of the most sacred sites in Islam. The incident followed a suicide
:19:27. > :19:30.attack near a Shia mosque The bomber died in the blast,
:19:31. > :19:34.but there are no reports Earlier in the day, two
:19:35. > :19:38.security guards were wounded in a suicide blast near the US
:19:39. > :19:45.Consulate in Jeddah. Joining me now for the latest
:19:46. > :19:55.is the BBC's Alan Johnston. Reports are still coming in. What do
:19:56. > :20:00.we know? As you say, a day of a series of explosions in Saudi Arabia
:20:01. > :20:05.but by most women go far the most serious one is that in the holy city
:20:06. > :20:08.of Medina. It is important to say at this stage that we have no
:20:09. > :20:15.confirmation as to what caused this blast but a number of local outlets
:20:16. > :20:19.are saying that this was a suicide attack which appeared to target
:20:20. > :20:26.security forces in the headquarters near the prophets mask, one of the
:20:27. > :20:29.holiest sites in Islam and whatever the reason for this explosion, there
:20:30. > :20:34.will be many Muslims around the world who will be decent -- deeply
:20:35. > :20:41.disturbed of this sort of thing happening in this sort of place in
:20:42. > :20:43.these last days of Ramadan and that the same time, almost
:20:44. > :20:48.simultaneously, on the other side of the country, several hundred
:20:49. > :20:56.commenters away, another blast, this was a suicide bomber. It seemed that
:20:57. > :21:00.he targeted a mosque used by Shia Muslims. There were no injuries
:21:01. > :21:03.there other than the death of the bomber in itself. It seemed he
:21:04. > :21:08.struck at a time when it was the end of than fast and a lotta people were
:21:09. > :21:19.indoors and so the streets were not fall. Is this a Shia Sunni Muslim
:21:20. > :21:24.thing going on? At this stage, we have to say we don't know who was
:21:25. > :21:31.behind this attack but suspicion will certainly fall on the Islamic
:21:32. > :21:35.State group. This extremist organisation has attacked Shia
:21:36. > :21:43.Moslem targets repeatedly in the Gulf and in this Qatif region. No
:21:44. > :21:49.confirmation yet but it would not be surprising if we were to find out
:21:50. > :21:55.that it was IS again trying to drive a wedge between them in that area of
:21:56. > :22:00.the Gulf. Politicians around the world, including Hillary Clinton,
:22:01. > :22:08.have called on some of the Gulf states, including Saudi Arabia, to
:22:09. > :22:15.do more to stop their support, as they see it. What is going on there?
:22:16. > :22:20.I think the government is fully aware that it needs to front up and
:22:21. > :22:25.confront the Islamic State group, which clearly has the kingdom in its
:22:26. > :22:30.sights. We have seen a number of attacks by IS targeting Shia Muslim
:22:31. > :22:38.groups and targeting the Saudi security forces. There is very much
:22:39. > :22:42.an ongoing effort to try and uproot IS cells in the kingdom and that
:22:43. > :22:44.will only surely be stepped up after a day like today. Thank you very
:22:45. > :22:52.much. Let's return to our stop story,
:22:53. > :22:55.the resignation of Nigel Farage, the leader of the Uk's Independence
:22:56. > :22:57.Party who campaigned Joining me now is Peter Whittle
:22:58. > :23:03.Ukip's Culture spokesman. Thank you very much for joining us.
:23:04. > :23:06.Why has Nigel Farage gone? Want people feeling your party that he is
:23:07. > :23:11.leaving and abandoning them just as he has achieved what he wanted but
:23:12. > :23:17.there is still a lot to do and they got to decide? No, I don't think
:23:18. > :23:23.anybody begrudges Nigel going in the party. I am sad he has gone because
:23:24. > :23:30.he is the reason I came into the party. But the fact is, he is a man
:23:31. > :23:35.who is actually leaving on an absolute high. He is unassailable
:23:36. > :23:42.really. And there is this saying that all political careers end in
:23:43. > :23:45.failure, well, this is one example where it has basically ended in
:23:46. > :23:51.extraordinary success. He came into politics 20 years ago to get a
:23:52. > :23:55.referendum for Britain to get out of the European Union and he got that
:23:56. > :24:02.and indeed, also we are now out of the European Union. But want people
:24:03. > :24:06.say, the 17 million people who voted to leave, they will look at what has
:24:07. > :24:11.happened and say, hang on, Boris and Nigel Farage have gone. Michael Gove
:24:12. > :24:16.fatally wound, perhaps by his own hand. Why are these people who
:24:17. > :24:23.argued for Brexit who have now led to this result now abandoned ship?
:24:24. > :24:32.He has not abandoned anything. The fact is that Nigel Bildt Ukip up, we
:24:33. > :24:35.are about the only United party in the United Kingdom at the moment
:24:36. > :24:42.without question and I think everybody understands that he said
:24:43. > :24:47.today basically he wanted his country back, now he would quite
:24:48. > :24:51.like his life back. Has he really gone? He has resigned in the past.
:24:52. > :24:58.Do you have any idea what he wants to do next? There is a job vacancy
:24:59. > :25:08.at Top Gear. The fact is that Nigel has worked at a superhuman pace over
:25:09. > :25:13.the past 20 years, especially the past five - ten years, extraordinary
:25:14. > :25:21.salmonella, extraordinary workload -- stamina. Often in a atmosphere of
:25:22. > :25:23.considerable criticism and attacks. That requires a very strong
:25:24. > :25:27.character and that is exactly the man that he is but I think possibly
:25:28. > :25:33.he would quite like now to actually go out having actually achieved his
:25:34. > :25:38.political aim, which was getting us a referendum and indeed basically
:25:39. > :25:42.getting us out of the European Union. I think that when it comes to
:25:43. > :25:49.going forward, we as a party have got to make sure that no means no.
:25:50. > :25:53.That Brexit means Brexit. Thank you very much we are out of time.
:25:54. > :26:07.But for now from me and the rest of the team, goodbye.
:26:08. > :26:08.There are still no signs of any prolonged