:00:00. > :00:14.As Iraqi forces close in on so called Islamic State
:00:15. > :00:16.in the heart of Mosul - the militants launch
:00:17. > :00:21.a counter attack, we report from the front line.
:00:22. > :00:23.The fight here is at extremely close quarters.
:00:24. > :00:25.This is the most forward position the Iraqi troops have.
:00:26. > :00:29.Around 150 people are killed after an oil tanker
:00:30. > :00:33.explodes in a huge fireball in Pakistan's Punjab province.
:00:34. > :00:35.In Britain, 60 high-rise buildings fail safety tests carried out
:00:36. > :01:01.We begin in the Iraqi city of Mosul and reports from there say
:01:02. > :01:04.fighters from so called Islamic State have mounted
:01:05. > :01:07.a counter attack in districts to the west of the Old City -
:01:08. > :01:11.The army has told the BBC that British fighters
:01:12. > :01:14.Earlier, the Iraqi military said it had captured
:01:15. > :01:16.almost all of the area - our correspondent Orla Guerin,
:01:17. > :01:18.and cameraman Nico Hameon, have sent us this report
:01:19. > :01:36.But troops from Iraq's emergency response division
:01:37. > :01:48.The target here - a hospital complex.
:01:49. > :01:55.Getting a chance to see how the fight is being taken
:01:56. > :02:15.Well, the fight here is at extremely close quarters,
:02:16. > :02:19.this is the most forward position the Iraqi troops have.
:02:20. > :02:26.They tell us that the nearest IS position is just 15 metres away,
:02:27. > :02:28.and when they are firing here, the distance is so small
:02:29. > :02:34.that sometimes they can see the faces of the IS militants.
:02:35. > :02:42.The troops here, mostly young, determined to end a reign of terror.
:02:43. > :02:47."Daesh came and killed civilians," says Ali Mahdi,
:02:48. > :02:49."They destroyed life in the city, our duty is to bring
:02:50. > :02:57.Here is the hospital building where commanders say about 200
:02:58. > :03:05.foreign militants are holed up, including some Britons.
:03:06. > :03:09."That is what our intelligence tells us," says Colonel Falah al-Abdan,
:03:10. > :03:13."And also we heard them speaking on the radio -
:03:14. > :03:18.we can tell their nationality from that."
:03:19. > :03:21.Now their caliphate is turning to ash,
:03:22. > :03:24.their positions being pounded from above
:03:25. > :03:38.Part of the final push to eliminate an enemy
:03:39. > :03:40.that once controlled a third of Iraq.
:03:41. > :03:48.Years of conflict in Yemen have destroyed
:03:49. > :03:54.The collapse of water and sanitation systems has left almost 15 million
:03:55. > :03:56.people without access to basic health care.
:03:57. > :03:58.As a result, easily treatable diseases such
:03:59. > :04:02.as cholera are spreading at an unprecedented rate.
:04:03. > :04:04.More than 200,000 people are believed to be infected,
:04:05. > :04:07.and more than 1,300 people have already died - a quarter
:04:08. > :04:13.Dr Richard Brennan is the World Health Organisation's Director
:04:14. > :04:27.He joins us now live. Good to have you with us. Talk through the
:04:28. > :04:34.particular challenges are facing in Yemen, giving the damage done to
:04:35. > :04:39.infrastructure. The conflict has been going on for a
:04:40. > :04:40.couple of years but that has been on the back of decades of
:04:41. > :04:46.underdevelopment and political tensions. There has been intense
:04:47. > :04:55.conflict over the last two years, divided government in Yemen so there
:04:56. > :05:04.is a government based in the northern city, the southern city,
:05:05. > :05:09.which has the backing of international communities, the
:05:10. > :05:14.legitimate government. There are huge problems with access to people
:05:15. > :05:18.in need because of conflict. There are major political cliches to get
:05:19. > :05:22.access to people in need because of the divided political situation. As
:05:23. > :05:28.you rightly say, a lack of support for the health system over the years
:05:29. > :05:32.has really resulted in major deterioration in the infrastructure
:05:33. > :05:34.any health service available so we estimate now that 14.8 million
:05:35. > :05:41.people do not have access to basic health care. Along with that, health
:05:42. > :05:45.care workers, among the best and brightest, have left the country or
:05:46. > :05:49.not being paid and many have not been paid for eight months. So
:05:50. > :05:56.defend very difficult to get these health care workers to come to the
:05:57. > :06:04.facility. There has been a big international effort to address
:06:05. > :06:08.these problems, massive cholera outbreak that you mention but the
:06:09. > :06:14.hurdles are substantial indeed. You have dealt with other conflict
:06:15. > :06:17.zones and trying to reach people in desperate need, how does the
:06:18. > :06:23.situation compare with what you have seen elsewhere?
:06:24. > :06:27.This is certainly amongst the toughest that I have been faced
:06:28. > :06:31.with. There are more people in need of humanitarian assistance generally
:06:32. > :06:36.in Yemen today there now are in any other country around the world. It
:06:37. > :06:43.is a tough situation for the committee globally right now. The
:06:44. > :06:46.WHO, we have great emergencies, major crisis and, normally would
:06:47. > :06:49.with expect one of those every couple of years, we have seven
:06:50. > :06:56.ongoing at the moment. Including Syria and a rock, Somalia, south
:06:57. > :07:01.Sudan and so on. The Yemen situation which has been declared one of the
:07:02. > :07:10.pre-famine situated globally right now is at least one of the top two
:07:11. > :07:14.or three in terms of... Need and level of difficulty in which to
:07:15. > :07:20.work. OK, Richard, many thanks for that.
:07:21. > :07:22.Apologies for the glitches on the line but thank you for persisting.
:07:23. > :07:25.At least 150 people have died after an oil tanker
:07:26. > :07:31.caught fire in Pakistan, according to the authorities there.
:07:32. > :07:33.More than 100 other people are in critical
:07:34. > :07:38.The fire started after a tanker carrying 50,000 litres
:07:39. > :07:40.of petrol overturned on the outskirts of Bahawalpur
:07:41. > :07:44.Villagers rushed to collect the fuel and a dropped cigarette may have
:07:45. > :07:55.Hundreds of local villagers flocked to the scene of the overturned
:07:56. > :07:59.In this impoverished area, they collected fuel in buckets,
:08:00. > :08:02.jerry cans, and even empty water bottles.
:08:03. > :08:06.But moments later, grief and anguish -
:08:07. > :08:08.thousands of litres of petrol went up in flames,
:08:09. > :08:16.Early reports suggest the blaze began when someone lit a cigarette.
:08:17. > :08:17.TRANSLATION: The oil tanker capsized, people
:08:18. > :08:27.The local traffic police asked people to leave,
:08:28. > :08:29.warning it may explode, then suddenly there was fire.
:08:30. > :08:32.TRANSLATION: I had already taken some petrol, I was about to fill
:08:33. > :08:35.another can but felt dizzy due to the fumes so decided not
:08:36. > :08:43.Dozens of the injured had to be airlifted to hospital.
:08:44. > :08:48.The nearest burns unit is around 100 miles away from the site.
:08:49. > :08:50.Medical teams worked flat out to assist the injured
:08:51. > :08:54.Some in Pakistan have blamed the victims for rushing
:08:55. > :08:58.towards the scene of the accident, but in other quarters
:08:59. > :09:03.there is a sense of anger that people here are not educated enough
:09:04. > :09:05.about basic safety issues, and that poverty forces them
:09:06. > :09:11.to risk their lives for a few litres of free petrol.
:09:12. > :09:14.The tragedy casts a shadow over preparations for the Muslim
:09:15. > :09:18.festival of Eid al-Fitr, due to take place here tomorrow.
:09:19. > :09:20.Instead of celebrations, there'll be funerals.
:09:21. > :09:31.Materials used in 60 high rise buildings in the UK have failed
:09:32. > :09:34.safety tests done after a huge fire in West London which killed
:09:35. > :09:38.Local authorities have been testing the external cladding used on some
:09:39. > :09:43.So far, every single sample has failed the fire safety test.
:09:44. > :09:45.Thousands of residents were evacuated from other
:09:46. > :09:48.blocks in London - but some refused to leave,
:09:49. > :09:57.Pendleton in Salford, the latest location where tower block cladding
:09:58. > :10:04.is being removed, an unsettling sight for another group of residents
:10:05. > :10:11.It has left us, as residents, very confused and very concerned about
:10:12. > :10:20.Tonight the Government released new figures
:10:21. > :10:22.showing the latest buildings to have tests on cladding.
:10:23. > :10:24.They show a 100% failure rate on samples.
:10:25. > :10:26.60 buildings have now failed those tests.
:10:27. > :10:33.The buildings stretch across 25 local authorities.
:10:34. > :10:36.Immediacy is to give advice to the residents, to
:10:37. > :10:38.reassure the residents, and ensure those buildings that are high rise
:10:39. > :10:40.buildings are as safe as they possibly can
:10:41. > :10:51.The Government says it can test around 100 samples in any 24-hour
:10:52. > :10:54.period, but at the moment it is only testing
:10:55. > :10:55.eight or nine a day, so with
:10:56. > :10:58.up to 600 tower blocks in need of testing, unless those samples
:10:59. > :11:00.start arriving much more quickly, this is
:11:01. > :11:08.Arnold has been a fire safety expert for 20 years.
:11:09. > :11:15.He says cladding currently only has to withstand
:11:16. > :11:18.flame tests from the front - he says this simply isn't enough.
:11:19. > :11:21.Test everything, test every angle, then you will know
:11:22. > :11:31.In Camden, entire families have today been hauling their
:11:32. > :11:34.possessions away from four tower blocks as safety measures are being
:11:35. > :11:39.We went with Maureen and 87-year-old father
:11:40. > :11:46.unsure if they should leave their tower.
:11:47. > :11:54.Maureen went in and filmed on her mobile phone,
:11:55. > :11:59.Afterwards, she seemed satisfied with what was being
:12:00. > :12:13.Tonight, residents in Camden who have moved out of their
:12:14. > :12:16.tower blocks have been with Muslims celebrating
:12:17. > :12:21.small moment of relaxation amid the uncertainties
:12:22. > :12:33.Duncan Kennedy, BBC News, in north London.
:12:34. > :12:36.Let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news.
:12:37. > :12:38.At least seven people died when the world's second highest
:12:39. > :12:41.cable car crashed in the tourist resort of Gulmarg in
:12:42. > :12:48.Police say the cable that operates the six-seater cabins snapped
:12:49. > :12:51.Hundreds were stranded in the dangling cabins
:12:52. > :12:54.The Italian government has stepped in with $19 billion
:12:55. > :12:59.The amount is three times higher than originally forecast.
:13:00. > :13:03.$5 billion will go to bail out Banca Popolare di
:13:04. > :13:07.Vicenza and Veneto Banca with the remainder set
:13:08. > :13:11.The Prime Minister defended the use of public money to avoid
:13:12. > :13:19.Hundreds of police have lined the streets of Istanbul to try
:13:20. > :13:22.and stop the annual Gay Pride march from going ahead.
:13:23. > :13:26.It's the third year in a row the march has been banned -
:13:27. > :13:27.authorities say it's because of security concerns
:13:28. > :13:35.More than 2,000 people in south west Spain have been
:13:36. > :13:37.evacuated from the path of a huge forest fire.
:13:38. > :13:42.The fire broke out in a pine forest near the city
:13:43. > :13:45.It's being treated as a level one maximum threat,
:13:46. > :13:48.Windy conditions are making it difficult to bring
:13:49. > :13:56.Stay with us on BBC World News, coming up in sport...
:13:57. > :13:59.The latest installment in Formula One's great rivalry -
:14:00. > :14:01.championship leader Sebastian Vettel takes on Lewis Hamilton
:14:02. > :14:28.We have a rightful claim in certain parts of this country. I take pride
:14:29. > :14:53.in the words... He believes God told him to plead
:14:54. > :15:00.guilty and that was the end of it. They have advised the government
:15:01. > :15:21.that the increase in lung cancer is due to smoking tobacco.
:15:22. > :15:27.Hello, this is a BBC World News today.
:15:28. > :15:29.As Iraqi forces close in on so called Islamic State
:15:30. > :15:31.in the heart of Mosul - the militants launch
:15:32. > :15:35.And more than 150 people are killed - as an oil tanker
:15:36. > :15:39.bursts into flames - in the Pakistani province of Punjab.
:15:40. > :15:49.Lewis Hamilton called Sebastian Vettel's driving
:15:50. > :15:51."disgusting" after the two clashed in an incident packed
:15:52. > :15:55.A remarkable race that featured three safety cars and several
:15:56. > :15:59.crashes was won by Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo.
:16:00. > :16:01.Vettel was penalised for hitting Hamilton's Mercedes
:16:02. > :16:03.as they prepared for a re-start following a safety car.
:16:04. > :16:06.Hamilton was on course for victory with 19 laps to go in Baku,
:16:07. > :16:14.but was forced to stop to replace the head rest on his car.
:16:15. > :16:17.He ended up fifth, behind Vettel who's extended his championship lead
:16:18. > :16:34.18-year-old Canadian Lance role came in third for Williams.
:16:35. > :16:36.Germany and Chile are through to the semifinals
:16:37. > :16:41.Germany beat Cameroon 3-1 in Sochi, and the moment of the game came when
:16:42. > :16:43.the referee consulted the Video Assistant Referee
:16:44. > :16:45.after this reckless high challenge by Ernest Mabouka on Emre Can.
:16:46. > :16:48.But it was Sebastien Siani who was wrongly sent off in a case
:16:49. > :16:52.It was only after Cameroon's players insisted the players review
:16:53. > :16:54.the incident again that he sent off the right person.
:16:55. > :17:00.Timo Werner scored twice in a dominant Germany performance.
:17:01. > :17:03.Chile advanced after a 1-1 draw with Australia in Moscow.
:17:04. > :17:08.James Troisi put the Socceroos on the front foot with a goal just
:17:09. > :17:11.before the half time interval but Chile only needing a draw
:17:12. > :17:13.to qualify for the last four levelled matters
:17:14. > :17:16.through Martin Rodriguez giving them all they required to join
:17:17. > :17:24.With a week to go until Wimbledon someone, who knows a thing
:17:25. > :17:26.or two about winning it, Petra Kvitova, has won
:17:27. > :17:30.just her second tournament back since returning from a knife attack
:17:31. > :17:34.The Czech, who's a two time champion at the All-England Club,
:17:35. > :17:37.defeated 21-year-old Australian Asheligh Barty, having
:17:38. > :17:40.suffered the attack during a robbery at her home in December.
:17:41. > :17:43.The 27-year-old's hand was damaged and was out of action until last
:17:44. > :17:48.month's French Open, having been told she may not play again.
:17:49. > :17:58.And after dropping the first set, came back to triumph 4-6 6-3 6-2.
:17:59. > :18:10.I could not imagine a better comeback. I won a Trophy, about what
:18:11. > :18:16.is why I was fighting to play tennis again. I was still able to have
:18:17. > :18:18.great motivation to win titles for example here in Birmingham.
:18:19. > :18:21.Roger Federer created history of his own by winning his ninth
:18:22. > :18:25.The 18-time Grand Slam champion was a straight sets winner over
:18:26. > :18:27.Germany's Alexander Zverev in less than an hour.
:18:28. > :18:29.The 35-year-old top seed lost his first match
:18:30. > :18:31.of the grass-court season last week in Stuttgart to Tommy Haas,
:18:32. > :18:34.but was back on track at Halle - culminating in this 6-1,
:18:35. > :18:43.6-3 victory over the home favourite Zverev.
:18:44. > :18:46.Now to cricket, where South Africa beat Pakistan by three wickets
:18:47. > :18:48.in their first match of the Women's World
:18:49. > :18:54.Pakistan posted their highest ever World Cup score with opener
:18:55. > :18:56.Nahida Khan making 79 as they finished on 206-8.
:18:57. > :18:59.In response South Africa slumped from 113 for no loss to 177
:19:00. > :19:02.for seven with number nine Shabnim Ismail striking consecutive
:19:03. > :19:05.boundaries in the 49th over to secure a win.
:19:06. > :19:09.Not so good for South Africa's men, though.
:19:10. > :19:13.They've lost to England 2-1 in their best-of-three T20 series.
:19:14. > :19:17.Chasing 182 to win, the Proteas came up 19 runs short.
:19:18. > :19:19.The two sides will next contest a four-match Test series,
:19:20. > :19:32.For the natives of Alaska, the challenge of climate change
:19:33. > :19:34.means traditional reindeer hunting seasons are becoming shorter.
:19:35. > :19:36.That means changes to farming techniques -
:19:37. > :19:38.including larger herds to take advantage of the weather windows.
:19:39. > :19:40.Our North America Correspondent James Cook has been
:19:41. > :19:56.Reindeer meat is lean, tender, high in protein
:19:57. > :20:14.In Finland as part of a cheese soup and in Alaska...
:20:15. > :20:20.As ice cream. It is high in carbs and fat. You load up the fat bees
:20:21. > :20:24.with lots of berries, different kind of berries and it is pretty tasty.
:20:25. > :20:27.Traditionally this land was home to hunters of wild caribou.
:20:28. > :20:30.But as temperatures rise, everything changes.
:20:31. > :20:33.On the coast of Alaska, people are used to fending
:20:34. > :20:38.for themselves, to surviving without outside help.
:20:39. > :20:41.But even here, there is now a feeling that the rest of the world
:20:42. > :20:43.should pay attention, because local problems
:20:44. > :20:52.And while politicians wonder about those problems,
:20:53. > :20:55.these people are finding that hunting is harder
:20:56. > :21:02.The elders, they are watching climate change and versus
:21:03. > :21:10.back in the day when they knew exactly when to go hunting and to do
:21:11. > :21:14.Now they have to play with the weather.
:21:15. > :21:16.The winters are colder and a little shorter
:21:17. > :21:17.and spring is coming earlier
:21:18. > :21:23.And so the reshaping of Alaska, with permafrost melting and glaciers
:21:24. > :21:31.We have millions of hectares of the most productive
:21:32. > :21:41.We can put reindeer on these ranch lands.
:21:42. > :21:48.We need reindeer to feed people and so
:21:49. > :21:51.I guess it is my job to take the magic out of Christmas.
:21:52. > :21:54.Plans are now underway to fly thousands of reindeer to remote
:21:55. > :22:08.Rump of Rudolph could yet become an Alaskan delicacy.
:22:09. > :22:10.It took him six years from his small stage debut,
:22:11. > :22:15.but tonight, Ed Sheeran will be the closing headliner
:22:16. > :22:21.at the Glastonbury music festival, in the south west of England.
:22:22. > :22:24.Last night the Foo Fighters finally had their chance to headline,
:22:25. > :22:26.two years after an injury meant they were forced to pull
:22:27. > :22:41.A lot of activity. Mind your head. A sense of what is going on.
:22:42. > :22:45.This is the very end of a festival. Three days of music here, a wide
:22:46. > :22:53.variety of acts, the consensus seems to be from most people here that it
:22:54. > :23:00.has gone obituary well. A didactic -- energetic performances. A range
:23:01. > :23:06.of acts across the whole site, ranging from people like grime
:23:07. > :23:12.artists to an explosion of disco here on the main stage earlier where
:23:13. > :23:16.Barry Gibb played BeeGees classics and now Rogers played some of the
:23:17. > :23:21.greatest disco songs of the 70s and 80s. People are now waiting for the
:23:22. > :23:26.closing headliner, Mr Ed Sheeran. Tens of thousands of people out
:23:27. > :23:33.there waiting to see him. Along with the wonderful weather, Glastonbury
:23:34. > :23:38.is usually the other M word, muddy. That has been very little. It has
:23:39. > :23:43.meant that most people recorded as being a success. We are relying on
:23:44. > :23:49.Ed Sheeran to finish that. Mentioning Ed Sheeran, he is very
:23:50. > :23:54.much a mainstream musician, mainstream performer. Do you think
:23:55. > :23:56.perhaps Glastonbury has lost some of the edginess, the types of site or
:23:57. > :24:10.has that been very much stillbirth, still present?
:24:11. > :24:15.I do not think so. Grime artist headlining, you see so much going
:24:16. > :24:21.on. If you look at recent years, Metallica playing, Jay-Z a couple of
:24:22. > :24:24.years ago. They do like to take something a bit risky and not
:24:25. > :24:30.exactly out of the mainstream that the outer edges of that that
:24:31. > :24:37.mainstream British music bands that might not want to go see. Look at
:24:38. > :24:42.the line-up this year, Radiohead headlining, adored by their fans and
:24:43. > :24:46.then Foo Fighters, a great rock band. I know we've got the biggest
:24:47. > :24:50.orders from the UK at the moment, Ed Sheeran. He has been dominating the
:24:51. > :24:53.singles charts, number one albums, extraordinary. I think the
:24:54. > :24:58.combination of all those things across Glastonbury mean that people
:24:59. > :25:02.do not feel it has lost its edginess because the kind of music they want,
:25:03. > :25:05.they can always find. Just briefly, the crowds there
:25:06. > :25:13.waiting in great anticipation. They want to be wild. Any surprises that
:25:14. > :25:16.we might have from Ed Sheeran later? No, we are always waiting to find
:25:17. > :25:19.out if people are going to have special guest coming in or anything
:25:20. > :25:24.like that. Dunn has been playing his cards very close to his chest. The
:25:25. > :25:28.kind of artist he is, he just likes to let his personality shine out. It
:25:29. > :25:33.would not surprise me if we saw this kind of big celebrities from other
:25:34. > :25:38.music artist coming out tonight because he's not really that kind of
:25:39. > :25:41.artist, the people that are here wanted CB Ed Sheeran that they love
:25:42. > :25:45.from his albums and this year when he has extremely success.
:25:46. > :25:49.Have a great evening. I hope the weather holds out as well.
:25:50. > :25:51.Don't forget you can get in touch with me and some
:25:52. > :25:53.of the team on Twitter - I'm BenMBland.
:25:54. > :26:08.This is BBC in world news today. Thank you for watching.