. hello. i'm geeta guru-murthy with bbc world news. our top stories. a three day ceasefire between israel and hamas is underway in gaza. the israeli military says all troops have been withdrawn outside the gaza strip. the world bank promises $200 million in west africa to fight ebola. they hope to have a vaccine by 2015. are prosecutors say they would accept an offer of $100 million from formula one head

bernie ecclestone to end the trial of bribery charges. more turkish arrests and the alleged spying on the prime minister. hello. we start in gaza where a flee day ceasefire between israel and hamas seems to be holding. israel has withdrawn forces from the gaza strip. this is the scene over in gaza. residence deputies taking advantage of the ceasefire to go buy food and get supplies. 1,800 palestinians having killed

since the operation began. 67 israelis have been killed, all but three are soldiers. >> for now rest after nearly a month of deadly confrontation that's taken a toll on gaza. will it blast? gazans take the opportunity to stock up on basic needs, how to turn this to something more lasting when both sides are so far apart on their terms for a ceasefire. one big difference this time, israeli troops heading out of gaza after according to israel completing their mission of destroying hamas tunnels. their maintaining defensive positions and will respond forcefully if attacked. the government is underlining what it wants from the ceasefire talks planned in cairo. >> for us it's crucial that hamas does not rearm.

they can't replenish stocks of rockets and start digging tunnels again. we'll be putting first on our a agenda preventing hamas from rearming and ultimately the palestinians have a written commitment that gaza should be demilitarized. it's time the community held them to that. >> a palestinian home in the west bank hit it seems by a rocket from gaza in a final flurry by hamas after the truce talks. the palestinians will have a long list of demands. >> first of which to lift the siege on gaza. israeli army should withdraw from gaza. up until now, israeli tanks are in the northern part of gaza. israeli planes are flying over gaza. drones and other planes. >> the seemingly relentless

seems of devastation and suffering in gaza are what stirred international alarms and efforts to hold the violence. israel insists it's targeting only militants and ability to attack israel. some from gaza have been leaving behind shelters. this truce may have been possible by mounting pressures on both sides. will they be enough to forge something more and more lasting? chick childs, bbc news. in a political development. a foreign british officer has resigned her post over the conflict. she became the first female muslim cabinet minister. she said she could no longer support the government's policy on gaza. she said the government's approach and language during the crisis is morally indefensible. more on that and news on the

region on the website, bbc.com/gaza. there are more from correspondents on the ground and a special report on the cost of human conflict. one of the world es immunologist hopes to have a vaccine for the ebola virus by 2015. west african countries are battling to contain the outbreak. it would be given to sierra leone, guinea. the worry is as more contract the disease it will spread. an american doctor who contracted it has flown back to the u.s.

his colleague who also has the disease is expected to arrive back in america tuesday. symptoms of ebola include high fever, headache, diarrhea, bleeding externally and internally. on monday, doctors at mount sinai in a hospital in new york said a man arrived showing ebola symptoms. he's in isolation. officials say the symptoms could be any number of diseases. they won't know for 24 to 48 hours whether he has ebola or not. the fact there are two people with the disease and another possible victim on american soil has caused alarm in some places. dr. william shafner, an infectious disease specialist at vanderbilt said there's absolutely nothing to worry about. >> it's not not like influenza.

you have to have close contact with person's body fluids to inquire the infection. there's absolutely no chance it's going to be embedded into the united states. >> $200 million pledged by the world bank will be split between governments of liberia, sierra leone and guinea as well as the world health organization. it will be used to pay aid workers and help those sick. there's a campaign to inform people about the facts of the disease. this payout has to be approved by the world bank board of directors. the hope is this is the first major step to bringing the outbreak under control. >> dr. anthony, director of u.s. institute of diseases says clinical trials of the vaccine starts next month. >> we're looking on a vaccine

that looks promising. we did it on animals. it looks promising. we're going to start early trials on humans that will last until january. if that looks goode, we'll start producing it. hopefully by end of 2015 we'll have vaccines to vaccinate health workers that put themselves at considerable risks taking care of patients. . now we are getting breaking news out of afghanistan. there's been a shooting incident at the officer's academy run by the british army. afghan sources are saying an afghan soldier opened fire and there may be international casualties. the afghan commander is reported to be injured. the cadets were taken in last october.

it's the only british military presence in afghanistan when combat operations end this year. there is news that there are afghan or british casualties involved in that shooting on that attack in kabul as far as we know. we'll bring you more as soon as we can. back to events on gaza and israel. there's been a political resignation here in london of a foreign office minister. she was the first muslim female cabinet minister in this country. our correspondent is there for us. she has tweeted her resignation. what reaction is there? >> this is significant because she is on the junior officer. she's one of the most prominent

asian military officers in this country. she says in quitting she believes the uk government approach and language during the crisis in gaza is mother-in-lawmother-in-law -- morally indefensible. in the way the current decisions are made. it's significant because she is probably this country's most prominent british asian politician. her job at the front office included community and relations here and also between the uk government and afghanistan and pakistan. i think what we're seeing today beside to be the fact this is the first resignation over

policy is significant cracks appearing. we're made aware of criticism inside the ruling conservative party. some believe is cameron's lack of willingness to speak out and criticize the government more strongly. some believe it's using disproportionate force in the conflict in gaza. we had mps bringing to him expressing that view last week. this is the coalition government of two parties. others have spoken of disproportion of force. that is not a word that the prime minister and his foreign secretary would use. they've described what they believe is a slaughter, intolerable circumstances. nonetheless it's clear she no longer believes she can stand with this prime minister and stand with the government with

the presence stance over what's going on in gaza. >> her policy has been consistently clear. the situation in gaza is intolerable. aaron is here. looking at events in the u.s. >> u.s. africa summit, it really is america trying to play catchup with investments. thanks very much geeta. hello there. today american companies hope to clinch deals with 45 africans heads of state and government that gathered there in washington. this man here speaks on legacy, first african-american president. he's keen to show his commitment to the continent. here's the problem currently, less than 1% of america's investment overseas goes to africa. for years the african government

has given 39 countries duty free access to that market. that's about to expire. many in africa want that extended. that summit wraps up tomorrow. this voucher firm groupon releases futures today. shareholders want to know more about the company's plan for its future. since its stock market debut back in 2011, groupon share price has sunk whopping 76%. some are worried it's an over high internet name that's struggling in the growing market. it's changed strategy where the company sends e-mails to users, more to a poll strategy where it attracts users to the website searching for deals.

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this is bbc world news. i'm geeta guru-murthy with the latest headlines for you. the israeli military says it's withdrawn forces from gaza as the ceasefire appearsing to holding. a leading immunologist tells bbc he hopes to have a ebola vaccine by 2015. our leading correspondent david is in kabul for us. what do we know? >> we know littl that the stage. this incident happened in the last couple of hours. what i can tell you is the ministry of defense in london say they're investigating a violent incident at the training academy or close to it ch.

i'm led to understand it may not be the training academy. it will be the only presence british military in afghanistan after the end of this year. the first group of cadets are due to graduate next month. also on that site, there are several other big military facilities. it's a huge training area, the afghan national defense university it's called. there are several american different contingents on that site as well. we're led to understand if there are casualties they may not be british. it's very early days as to information we're getting. most coming from afghan sources. what i'm being told what is there's an argument of some kind. the afghan commander of the officer's training academy was shot and possibly injured.

afghan witnesses describe seeing bodies on the ground of international soldiers. >> we've had reports of these sorts of incidents before. obviously you imagine the security in this establishment is tight. ultimately can can it ever be completely 100%? >> well that's of course the problem. if you're trying to trust soldiers and trying to turn them into officers, then at some point they may be given live ammunition. i've been on exercises with cadets. all the young men i met were of the highest standard. i would trust them with your life. you have to work with individuals you're working along side. in this situation there's no 100% security if there are individuals for whatever reason might have a grudge. there are investigations going on all the time. within the last few minutes i've

seen two black hawk helicopters going past my head from the u.s. military facility in kabul over the mountain towards kabul six or seven kilometers in that direction. they're going to investigate what's happened. we'll know more very soon. >> thanks very much indeed. now, prosecutors in germany have said they're willing to accept an offer of $100 million from the head of formula one racing. bernie ecclestone is on bribery charges. the case relates to a sale by a german bank of substantial stake in formula one. what is he accused of? >> he's accused of bribery and breach of trust. this is going on some time. this is the end of a very long court case for ecclestone who's

now 83. he's accused of paying a banker $44 million around about eight years ago. t this brings it to an end. the court to announce it will accept the $100 million. he has got to the age he feels time spent in long court process is time he could be spending somewhere else. obviously it's a drop in the ocean to him. he's a billionaire. this money won't be something that breaks the bank for him. he'll continue in formula one. the banker himself was allegedly paid to insure the f one state stake stayed with him. that banker is in rprison. it is a record, $100 million in

germany. dozens of police officers have been attending turkey as part of investigation of alleged spying and wiretapping of the prime minister and inner circle. 33 police officers across the country have been taken into custody. with me now the bbc turkish service. explain what the allegations are. >> what we know so far there's an operation in 14 turk i ciish cities. the allegation is spying on officials and planning a coup against the government. that's the accusation of the prime minister. the office areas that got arrested today and a week ago -- hundreds of them -- they are accused of plotting this crew in

line with the movement which is a close ally of the prime minister. couple of years ago their alliance started. now they're bitter rivals. >> it's based in the u.s.? >> yes. he's self-exile in pennsylvania, u.s. still he has followers in turkey. police officers are accused of following his orders. >> obviously we've got elections coming up. >> yes. >> this is obviously seen in a political perspective. >> yes. the main opposition party actually accuse the government and said they have elections this weekend and operation is going on today. this is the timing really interesting he said. also the deputy prime minister said a week ago during the previous operation that the

operations can actually spill over as well. >> given we've had a lot of political tensions and change in turkey, plus of course it's involved in the regional tensions. it's a crucial few days isn't it? >> yes, it is. it will be crucial few days. we don't know how it will will fold up and how far it will go. what we know so far is that these police officers were actually involved with the corruption case. they were investigating the corruption case that happened at the beginning of the year against the government officials and sons of ministers in turkey. now they're placed in different posts. now they're being detained. >> we saw briefly women laughing last week. people are watching this again on social media. we have to leave it there. we'll talk about this this week.

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i'm geeta guru-murthy. a three day ceasefire between israel and hamas is underway in gaza. the military says all troops are withdrawn outside the gaza strip. the leading immunologist hopes to have a sack seen by 2015. prosecutors say they would accept an offer of $100 million from formula one head bernie ecclestone to end his trial on bribery charges.

testing the waters ahead of the rio olympics, just two years to go. organizers battle a host of problem problems. hello. we start in gaza where a three day seize fire between israel and palestinian militant group hamas seems to be holding. israel says its withdrawn forces from the gaza strip. pictures show troops head fwoi back to base. 1800 palestinians have been killed since the operation began three weeks ago. 67 israelis have been killed, all but three soldiers. the bbc health correspond end is

at the border of gaza and israel. i spoke to him and asked him to give me the latest on the situation on the ground. >> there's no question it's quiet. ceasefires and truces have come and gone. the big difference with this ceasefire is the israeli military say they've pulled out of gaza. they'll no longer be operating inside the gaza strip. that reduces the chances of clashes between palestinian militants and israeli military. for that reason, many here will be thinking this ceasefire has got a better chance than ones that come before. this isn't end to fighting. only a three day ceasefire. we understand there are talks in cairo. they'll try to negotiate a long term truce to the fighting here in gaza. for most people they're taking opportunity to get out of the

streets to stop death and destruction in gaza over the last four weeks. >> martin there. bethany bell is in jerusalem for us. bethany, what do we know from the israeli side about this ceasefire, why it's happening? >> israel army says it's completed its task of destroying 32 cross border tunnels through can which palestinian militants have been trying to enter israel. it has said that task it identified as the main task in the conflict is complete. it's withdrawn troops back to the border. it says it can ready to respond to any rocket fire that may come from gaza into israel. it also has to be pointed out it's possible there are other

tunnels the army has not been able to detect. it's likely it will concentrate on trying to look for possible evidence of more tunnels. for the moment, it appears this temporary ceasefire is holding. >> live pictures there from gaza look quiet at least in that shot for us at the moment. what do we know now about a potential longer ceasefire negotiation? what is the israeli position? >> well israel left options open in this. a few days ago it didn't go to join negotiations in cairo. a palestinian delegation is there. it didn't close the door to that either. there's speculation they may be preparing to go. we don't know when it would go. whether they would wait until

the 72 hour ceasefire is over or if go at all. there's clearly international pressure on israel to come up with a negotiated end to the long term ceasefire to this conflict particularly given the incidents of the u.n. schools and the mounting civilian casualties in gaza. >> is israel worried? we've seen the public support absolutely holding up. calls for israel to be referred to criminal courts internationally and so on. increasing international condemnation. what about public support for mr. netanyahu? >> seems to be holding up as you say. the sense here is this country has been under attack from rockets. the question of the cross border tunnels is something that touched a deep nerve here. lots of concern about that. there's been loss of support for what the army has been doing

here. now i think what israel has been saying over recent days is they will return quiet for quiet. if it does this temporary ceasefire, then perhaps there's the possibility of a negotiated solution. people will be waiting and watching. of course the other big thing that remains that if the underlying causes of this conflict aren't tackled, the fear is that even if there is an end to this fighting now, they could just be paving a matter of time before the next round comes. it. >> thank you very much. well in a political development here, a british foreign officer has resigned her post. one of the most prominent muslim officers said she could no longer support the government and is leaving with deep regret. more on gaza at the website.

we have eyewitnesses on the ground, special section on humanitarian costs of this whole conflict. bbc.com/gaza. one of the world's leading immunologists told bbc he hopes to develop a vaccine for deadly ebola by 2015. west african countries are battling to contain the government. the money will be given to liberia, sierra leone and guinea. >> hundreds have died in the three countries. worry now is as more contract the disease it will spread outside weafrica. an american doctor has flown back to the u.s. his colleague also has the disease and expected to arrive

back in america on tuesday. symptoms of ebola include high fever, headache, vomiting, diarrhea, bleeding externally and internally. on monday, doctors at mount sinai hospital in new york said a man arrived in the emergency room showing ebola symptoms. officials said the symptoms could be from a number of diseases and they won't know for 24 to 48 hours whether he has ebola or not. the fact there are two people with the disease and another possible victim on american soil has caused alarm in some places. dr. william shaffner, an infectious disease specialist at vanderbilt university says there's nothing to worry about. >> this virus is not one readily spread like influenza. you have to have close,

prolonged contact with person's body fluids to inquire the infection. i think there's absolutely no chance it's going to be embedded into the united states. >> $200 million pledged by the world bank will be split between governments of liberia, sierra leone and guinea as well as the world health organization. the cash will be used to pay health workers and help those that are sick. some of it will be used to fund a campaign to inform people about the facts of the disease. this payout still has to be approved by the world bank board of directors. the hope is that this is the first major step to bringing the ebola outbreak under control. well dr. anthony, the director of the institute of infectious diseases says clinical trials start next month month. >> we've done it in animals.

looks very good. in september we're going to start early trial in human, phase one trials that will last until january. if that looks good, we'll start producing it and hopefully by the middle to end of 2015 we'll have act seen, at least to vaccinate health workers that put themselves at risk when they take care of these patients. >> going to let you know, we're getting break news out of south africa. the ap news agency says there's been an earthquake in johannesburg and buildings have been shaking. no immediate reports of casualties there. reports from the ap news agency of an earthquake in johannesburg. that's the only word we've got at the moment and will confirm as soon as we can. any pictures we'll bring them to you as soon as possible. dozens of police officers in

turkey are detained for allegedly wire tacking the prime minister. last month 100 officers were arrested in similar raids. rainfall in southeast florida has caused flooding and left motorists stranded. 16.5 centimeters monday made it the rainiest day in august in history. james brady has died at 73. he survived the assassination attempt on president reagan. he signed the background check on people that are buying handguns. united nations says there's a sharp rise in people fleeing ukraine. in the last foou months, security concerns and fears of

persecution forced more than 100,000 to leave their homes in luhansk and donetsk regions. our correspondent tom is in kiev for us. >> reporter: geeta, united nations says at the beginning of june, only two months ago, 2,000 had fled fighting in eastern ukraine and moved to another part of the country. that figure has risen to 102,000 people. 1,000 are fleeing the eastern zone to another part of the country every day. they're moving to cities in the east and kharkiv in the northeast. some come to the capital of kiev. at first glance, life appears normal here. that warehouse in the background is where these families now live. people forced from their homes by the fighting in eastern

ukraine. this couple and their four children have lived here more than two months. >> translator: we have a roof here. there aren't bombs falling from the sky she says. our kids cry. where would you like to be? at home is her reply. >> it's intense living here with so many other people. you can't relax like you would at home, he says. no one here knows for how long this will be their home. if anything, the fighting has intensified in eastern ukraine. 190 people are living in this building. as you see they're sleeping in cramped conditions in long rows of bunk beds. one u.n. official told me the kiev region is overloaded because of number of people who fled the fighting in the east.

the united nations says buildings like this won't be suitable when winter sets in and temperatures drop well below freezing. while the numbers of families including disabled and elderly people that need help here keeps rising. u.n. says there are others in eastern ukraine that wouldn't or couldn't leave. >> some people are fleeing the fighting. they tell me who they left at home. usually the people left back there are the most vulnerable. they are either people who couldn't walk or too old to move or sick. that's tragic because those are the areas there's nobody there to help. >> these families living here on an industrial estate look at signs of everyday life are in some way the lucky ones.

their futures are uncertain and conditions basic. their only comfort is they now live far from the war. other conditions in that factory are far from ideal. the united nations says conditions and shelters further east near the conflict zone near luhansk and donetsk are much more primitive. united nations says a shortage in the areas of basic things like mattresses, bed linens and hygiene items. united nations is particularly worried about the winter in ukraine. it's several months away. temperatures are high at the moment. it says the tamounts of shelter accomodation people can go to will be dramatically reduced. around a quarter of those people that friday the fighting need shelter accomodation. the united nations also warns if the war continues and fighting continues to intensify, this can

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this is bbc world news. i'm geeta guru-murthy with the latest headlines. israeli military has withdrawn forces from gaza as a three day ceasefire appears to be holding. the world bank announces $200 million to help fight ebola in west africa. an immunologist hopes to have a vaccine by 2015. just to bring you a couple of breaking news lines. the foreign officer ministry has resigned over the government's

policy on gaza. the finance minister here has said her decision to resign is disappointing and frankly unnecessary which is a pretty strong verdict on her decision. resignations are often a little more diplomatically handed. obviously an area in government about the resignation by warsi here in the uk. another breaking story. we told you about an earthquake in johannesburg. it's magnitude 5.3 and shaken south africa. no word on injuries or anyone caught up in that. the financial district will be populated if indeed that is the area hit. buildings reported to have been shaking. more on that as it comes in. another news line coming in the last hour.

a suspected green on blue attack on afghanistan. there's been a shooting incident at the officer's academy near kabul run by the british army. let's get the latest from david there for us. what do we know? >> within the last few minutes it's been confirmed from the afghan ministry of defense, they say several foreign soldiers, we understand up to four have been injured in the incident when an afghan soldier turned his gun on commanders and foreign soldiers at this training facility. earlier we heard the commanding officer, afghan commander of the cargo training facility has been injured in the incident. maybe four or five people, international troops and afghan commander injured is the indications we're hearing so far from afghan sources. this may not have been inside the training academy itself, but

cargo training academy modelled on the famous british academy in england is only one part of a huge site. the afghan national defense university which has a large american facility and other separate training facilities as well. it could have been in some other building on that site. there was enormous political sensitivity in this this. if it was a green on blue, insi insider attack at the academy which will be the only british legacy in afghanistan, planned to be the only legacy in afghanistan when combat operations end this year. >> thanks very much. i know you'll update in the next hour or so. thank you. german prosecutors say they will be accepting closure of bernie ecclestone bribery trial in exchange for $100 million payment by the formula one boss.

our correspondent is asked what a he has been accused of. >> he's been accused of bribery and breach of trust. this has been going on some time. this is the end of a very long court case for bernie ecclestone who's now 83. he's accused of paying a banker $44 million around about eight years ago. so this obviously brings it to an end. the court expected to announce they'll accept the $100 million that bernie ecclestone is going to pay as settlement. he's got to that age where he feels time spent in court in this long court process is time that he could be spending somewhere else. obviously it is a drop in the ocean to him. he's a billionaire. this money won't be something that breaks the bank for him. he'll continue in formula one. the banker himself was allegedly

paid by ecclestone to insure the formula one would stay with him. that banker is in prison. this brings to an end the long court case. it's a record $100 million in germany. the chinese authorities say they are investigating a canadian couple for the theft of military secrets. our correspondent in beijing told me more. >> i've spoken to the eldest son. he said he was shocked by these allegations. he thought they were a joke when he heard them. he described his panrents as normal people that ran a coffee

shop and loved community events. >> why have they been picked up? >> the government is painting a far different picture of the garretts. at the time ministry of foreign affairs saying kevin garratt and his wife are accused of collecting and stealing military secrets and scientific research programs. the government is painting a far different picture of this couple. it's a very difficult thing to know what is going on with this couple. we know -- we believe they've been detained. we aren't sure about their whereabouts. anything deemed state secret in china is classified. if this goes ahead, it's conducted behind closed doors. exactly two years from now the olympic torch will be lit in rio opening the 2016 games. first of 45 test events started

over the weekend. sailors from around for world tested the waters of the bay amid worries of water pollution. we report now from rio. >> the first official test event and the first olympic athletes in town have a taste of games that will start here in two year's time. there's still much work to be done all over rio as these sailors can see for themselves in the bay where floating debris could be a hurdle in the quest for olympic goals. pollution is a problem in the bay and officials say making significant improvement is a priority. >> it's obviously a concern. we're not hiding the fact there is an issue. we're using this test event to see how much we can make it better within the next two years. we're really concerned about the safety of athletes, health and risks of floating debris. we're working hard to reduce those risks as much as possible. >> this is what the olympic park

should look like in two years time. for now it's a massive construction site. a double shift of workers is racing to finish the venue. officials say it's about on schedule. the world cup matches were too expensive for most. he announced his government would give over 100 tickets for free to city residents. >> we're going to use our school systems. we have almost 700,000 kids in the city of rio. mainly poor people that go to public schools. these will let the olympics be more games of integration participation. >> this will improve mobility in a city that suffers daily. for now traffic is getting worse.

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hello. you're watching "gmt" on bbc world news. i'm lucy hockings. our top stories. a three day truce is observed in gaza. israel says all troops have been withdrawn. a small degree of daily life resumes in gaza. bodies are still being recovered from under rubble and some have no home to return top. world of the world's leading immunologists says a vaccine