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hello. i'm lucy hawkings. a cease-fire in gaza appears to be holding for a second day. as residents return home to inspect the damage, the u.s. secretary of state tells the bbc both sides must look for a permanent end to fighting. >> how are we going to make peace? how do we missouri to a different future? that's our goal. >> is it the largest breach
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ever? a gang of criminals allegedly steal 1.2 billion internet user names and passwords. >> and space exploration begins after ten years of chasing a comet, the rosetta makes contact. we'll take you to the space operations center. also aaron joins us. it's not often we see rupert murdoch on his back foot. >> it's rare but 21st century fox has withdrawn the bid for time warner. time rejected the offer and refused to negotiate other deals. the with drawl pushed time warnerer's share prices lower. it's midday in london, 7:00 a.m. in washington, 2:00 p.m. in
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gaza where a cease-fire between israel and hamas appears to be holding for a second day. negotiations from israel and hamas are in cairo having indirect talks on a peace deal after almost a month of fighting thousands of displaced palestinians are taking advantage of the calm returning home to inspect the damage. in a moment we'll take you live to gaza to speak to our correspondent about what life is like for palestinians returning back to their homes and to see if some semblance of ordinary life is being managed in gaza. let's now look at the cease-fire and floem diplomacy. if it holds talks will turn to the possibility of a lasting peace agreement. it should be a major player in the process but remember it doesn't speak directly with hamas. the bbc sat down with the u.s. secretary of state john kerry
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for his first international interview since the cease-fire. she asked if he supported the military offensive in gaza. >> we support israel's right to defend itself and the fact that it was under attack by rockets, by tunnels. it had to take action against hamas. hamas has behaved in the most unbelievably shocking manner of engaging in this activity. yes, there has been a horrible collateral damage as a result which is why the united states worked very hard with israel, egyptians, palestinian authority, president abbas to try to move toward a cease-fire. finally now that cease-fire is hopefully in place in a way that can allow parties to come to the table and be able to not only deal with the question of how do you do a sustainable cease-fire but the more critical underlying, longer term issues of how are we going to make
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peace? how are we going to eliminate rockets, missouri to a different future? that's our goal. this is an important beginning with the cease-fire and hopefully get there. >> reporter: you say de mille triez which is the goal. they say also the blockade. do you back that request? >> we clearly back as part of an overall solution a giving on both sides with respect to the issues. we made it clear in the cease-fire announcement we had. it didn't hold unfortunately. >> that's u.s. secretary of state john kerry there talking with the bbc. watch the full interview on hard talk on bbc world news at the
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times on your screen now. his first interview since the conflict began. let's see what's happening in gaza now. we can join john donaldson. what's the overwhelming feeling at the moment? is it relief that the cease-fire is holding? >> yes. i think it is. it's a residence pipite. we are on the second day of the cease-fire. people will be hoping it holds and builds into something more. i have to say most people in gaza and israel will think what john kerry is saying is pie in the sky. they have seen half a dozen secretaries of state over the years talking about the need for a long lasting peace between israelis and palestinians. but they have never seen it materialize. i don't see any reason why this should happen now. this cease-fire is a short-term fix. none of the big issues have been resolved. while the cease-fire for israel
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is about security, stopping those tunnels being dug and carrying out attacks in israel. it's about destroying hamas's weapons. for palestinians, this conflict is not just about the last four weeks. they want to see it end. that's what so many u.s. presidents, so many u.s. secretary of states have failed to do. >> in terms of daily life now, how are people managing. i mean, returning to their homes that no longerer exist. food shortages there. how are people managing? >> well, look. gaza has come back to life today. people are back on the street. the markets are busy. people are stocking up on supplies. there isn't actually a shortage of food in gaza. the problem is people don't have money to buy it. because the economy has been so badly damaged by the blockade that they similar posimply don'
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money. they are relying on aid. there is the question of people going back to their houses. hundreds of thousands of palestinians have been displaced. many have no home to go to. we visited several families rebuilding their house for the second or third time. they are going to have to rebuild it for the second or third time. there is every chance that without a longlasting peace, and i don't think that's on the cards, that this same sort of situation could arise in a couple years' time. >> thanks for joining us from gaza with that update. john there talking about the diplomacy taking place in cairo at the moment. all sides coming together for further negotiations to see if the cease-fire can be extendedment central to that is the united states. we have seen that interview with john kerry. let's talk more about the relationship now between the u.s. thanks for being with us. john kerry saying he wants peace. do you think america has moved
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to a place in which it's not just rhetoric but they are prepared to put real pressure on the israelis. >> in the last year john kerry tried to put pressure on the israelis. in his bid which failed he called it quits in april or may. trying to get a two-state solution, negotiations back on track. >> people say they feel there is pressure from america. >> -- pressure to be publically disrespectful to the secretary of state. they were obviously feeling something. i think in many ways, i would echo what john would say. if you follow the conflict from afar, the events have been terrible. they haven't been game changers at all. i think the u.s. will continue because it's the strategy of the u.s. going back for decades.
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remember, talk thes are taking place in cairo. they provide a home for these talks and until recently, they provided the open tunnels that allowed a certain amount of men and material to slip into gaza. this is part of the situation. there is inertia even in the west about the situation. there is a sense i get that the israelis aren't prepared to seriously discuss peace. certain elements within the palestinian community aren't seriously prepared to recognize israel and discuss the two-state solution. while that's on they are looking for stability amongst israel. >> are you sensing a change in time particularly in the u.s. media? lines have been clearly drawn. it feels different. >> the emotion engendered by horrible pictures and everyone feels them.
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it's beginning to turn up in poland. younger people were no longer in america willing to give israel carte blanche. it's interesting to me. in october of last year there was a major poll surveying jewish activities. they are stepping from a blank check. a coming generation is perhaps questioning the roll of blanket support to israel. in terms of the big players in washington, nothing has changed. >> thanks for joining us. other news making headlines this hour, ukrainian forces are moving closer to donetsk.
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three civilians were killed in overnight fighting between government forces and pro russian rebels. nato says russia amassed around 20,000 troops on ukraine's eastern border. police say a man suspected of making a bomb hoax above a flight has been assessed for mental health. tuesday there was a threat of a device on board. the man who has not been named was assessed by medical staff after the incident. >> hundreds have been forced from their homes as firefighters battle a massive fire in sweden. it's been described as the worst in living memory. the fire has been burning since thursday. there are extreme conditions in the country. that made it difficult to contain. but a light rain over the region late on tuesday has given firefighters hope. a u.s. firm specializing in
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discover i discovering internet hacking has found a massive 1.2 billion user name and pass word breach belonging to 500 million e-mail addresses. the stolen information was collected from more than 420,000 websites. gordon, this appears massive. >> it does. it's something we have known that's happening a lot recently. we are getting more talk of the huge data breaches of companies losing a large amount of credit card and log in details from customers or people who use the sites. here we have one kind of database which appears to have been a group in russia who have accumulated a huge amount from lots of different places. what they are using them for isn't entirely clear. they may be using them to send spam e-mails from e-mail addresses they have stolen
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access to. they could use this information for identity theft or credit card theft and to make money out of it. there is a lot of concern about the size of the database and what could be done with this kind of information. >> is it relatively easy then to steal this information? >> the problem is a lot of companies aren't as secure as they could be. a lot of them don't know the material might have gone. we have seen company after company getting breached. target was the most recent. there was a huge amount taken which cost jobs of senior executives. it's common. hackers can get in through the security of the systems and extract vast amounts of data in one go which they can work out what to do with. >> if people are worried or vulnerable, what do we do to protect ourselves? >> have a secure pass word and use different pass words for different sites. if it gets breached in one place, potentially hackers can get into all your sites.
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use different pass words and complicated pass words. >> you're talking to me. >> not simple dictionary words, not your birthday, nothing like that. complicated phrases, mixes of letters, numbers and symbols. that makes it hard to remember. that's one of the challenges. the whole system of passwords is bust. it doesn't work that well. it's too hard to remember. it's too hard to use and too easy to compromise. there is investment and research looking at biometrics, new ways to affirm your identity on the web which doesn't involve pass words and log-ins which can be compromised and used against you. >> i feel delicately told off. i will change all my pass word. stay with us on bbc world news. still to come -- after a decade-long race across the galaxy the rosetta spacecraft successfully orbits a comet. relish...the sweet pleasure of fruity drinks...
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welcome back. after a journey lasting more than a decade, the comet chasing spacecraft rosetta has finally reached its destination. in an historic first it is now orbiting the comet. its instruments will investigate the composition of the comet and perhaps answer where did life on earth come from. here's our science correspondent. >> reporter: the rosetta spacecraft has begun its orbit of the comet. it will spend the next few months analyzing what it's made from. its mission is to find out whether comets might have kick started life on our planet. they hit the earth four and a
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half billion years ago bringing water and ingredients for life which mingled creating life. >> charles darwin described the origin of life in a warm pond. water could have come from a comet. the carbon and the dna we are made from could have come from a comet. >> reporter: the theory is comets brought basic building blocks of life. molecules like carbon, water, methane and many other chemical compounds. they all mixed together in primordial soup to form simple organisms which evolved to plants and animals we see around us today. what started off as pond life evolved into more complex organisms, including us.
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this researcher works in a laboratory here in surrey. he'll be following the results that the rosetta spacecraft sends back very closely. >> one of the big questions that rosetta is addressing is did comets kick start life on earth? did they bring the key ingredients for the primordial soup that led to the developments of life. >> reporter: never before will a spacecraft be so close to a comet for so long. rosetta will spend a few months taking measurements and pictures. >> it's up close and personal. we can understand everything there is to understand about the comet, about the chemical composition, about whether the ice on the comet was indeed the source of the oceans on planet earth. >> reporter: in november, scientists plan to land a probe to see what it's made of and find out whether comets really
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do hold the key to how life on earth began. bbc news. rebecca morelle has been at the european space station. it must have been quite a moment when they got it right after all this time. >> reporter: exactly. it was a nervous half an hour while they knew the maneuver was taking place. it takes so long for the message to come back to the scientists here. the comet and the spacecraft is far away. they have to wait 22 and a half minutes. they found out it was a success. an historic milestone was retched. the rosetta spacecraft got into orbit around the comet. now some of the finer details of science are being presented. some of the first images being taken of the comet are being pored over by scientists. we are trying to find out what happened, what it means. it's been an epic journey. rosetta launched ten years ago and traveled 6.4 billion
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kilometers through space to reach the final destination. now i'm here with dr. matt taylor, rosetta's project scientist. how exciting was it when you had the news that rosetta had finally got into orbit. >> i'm gob-smacked. i lost my words for a moment. we are able to start the science we have been talking about for over a decade. >> you're so dedicated to the mission. i heard you have had a tattoo. can we have a look? >> you want me to flash my leg? yes, you can. it's on my thigh. >> so what you have here is the lander on the surface. >> this is how confident i am with the mission that we have already landed. i think the tattoo did a good job in describing some of the features on the comet, even before we had seen it. that was a good job.
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>> that's confidence. tell me about the next stage of the mission. the first is audacious. the next part people say is bonkers. we are trying to set down a lander on the surface of the comet. >> we are looking at how this comet is now, how it -- trying to track that. then it will go summer next year when it comes close to the sun and it is most active. we have a ringside seat. we have a lander deploying in november, the cherry on top of the mission. we are preparing for the landing and setting the tone for the entire mission, looking at how the nucleus, the main part of the comet evolves over time. yeah, it's a crammed schedule now. we are excited to look at it to try to work out -- learn about the comet, what is it? what can we do and how can we land on it? >> thank you very much.
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that's dr. matt taylor with his tattoo. talking about the comet is weird. we have seen some of the first pictures of it. you think of the comet being a misshapen potato. this one is a flying rubber duck. in fact, i saw this lying around mission control earlier. a 3-d printed model of the comet. they have stuck on duck features. it's not far off the truth actually. now how you land on this thing will be really, really tricky. they thought it would be hard to put a lander on the comet anyway. putting something on a flying space duck will be more of a challenge, i think. >> becky, thank you very much for that. you gave us a number of first. a duck-shaped comet, and a tattoo on a leg. it's been quite an experience. as you can see on screen now that's the approach right now
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happening on screen. the latest pictures we have been receiving into the bbc. becky described it there as a duck-shaped comet. it looks like it. more for you on the website as well. now let's take you oh to china. authorities say at least 589 people are known to have died in the earthquake that hit the southwestern province of hunan on saturday. many of the casualties reported in the town of zhaoyang p. celia hatton has the report. >> reporter: helicopters are providing a lifeline to survivors of the earthquake, the only sure way to transport desperately needed supplies to camps located high in the mountains. for some the temporary village functions as a grim waiting area. one woman hasn't seen her husband since the tremors first
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struck. >> translator: i hope my husband is still alive. i won't give up hope. i want to keep searching. i i have gone to the headquarters to make a request. they have done nothing so far. >> reporter: search teams are struggling to cope. here a fresh land sclied buried trucks leaving 55 dead. dozens are missing. >> translator: now we have four search and rescue dogs, three radar life detectors, audio and video life detectors and heavy duty supporting machines on the way. >> reporter: directing resources means greater delays in reaching remote village that is haven't achieved assistance since the original earthquake. in this part of oh china, earthquakes are a regular part of life. this time even experienced rescuers say they are making difficult decisions to decide who gets help first. celia hatton, bbc news, beijing. >> now aaron's favorite story of the day. dramatic video from australia.
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this is bbc world news. in this hour, doctors say they are taking a single aspirin every day could significantly reduce your chances of getting certain cancers. we'll look at the warnings that go with it as well . and in northern iraq thousands of members of a community flee into the mountains to escape an offensive by jihadist rebels. and aaron is back. it's all about narrowing the
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battlefield. >> arch rivals apple and samsung agreed to drop all legal cases outside the united states. yes, the battle continues to rage. we'll ask why after spending all that money these two giants agreed to fight their patent dispute only in the american courts. welcome back. could the humble painkiller aspirin reduce the risk of developing or dying from certain types of cancer? researchers think it can. they have been working on a big study that looks into the preventive use. people in their early 60s should talk to their doctor about a small daily dose. >> reporter: it's acheap everyday medicine which can be
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bought over the counter. many people take daily aspirin to avoid health problems. now there is further evidence it might help prevent cancer. researchers looked at a wide range of oh studies about aspirin and found it helped prevent cases and deaths from stomach, bowel and esophageal cancer. risks included having stomach bleeds or stroke. but researchers believe many people aged between 50 and 65 would benefit from taking a low dose every day for at least five years. >> we think individuals of this age should consider taking aspirin. consult their gp for advice about potential side effects. overall the benefits seem to far outweigh the risks. >> cancer research uk says aspirin is showing promise. it believes important answers are still needed.
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so doctors can have better information about who might suffer side effects. jane draper, bbc news. dr. julie sharp from cancer research uk. are you excited by this or feeling cautious about the research? >> aspirin is showing real potential. we think in the future it could help prevent certain types of cancer this otherwise healthy people. but we just think there are certain questions we need to answer. >> what are those? >> we need to understand a little bit more about who is at risk of the side effects because these include bleeding, ulcers, sometimes even strokes. we don't always know who at the moment who the people who are at risk. we need to understand more exactly what is the right dose, how long should people take it for and when should they stop taking it. into your 70s the risks become
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greater. >> if you have a patient will they know which people will suffer side effects and which won't? >> we need to develop better tests, easier tests so the gp will know they can't take aspirin maybe because of other medical conditions. we need better ways of telling who is at risk. >> what about when a big sur va comes out? do gps find themselves inundated with patients saying should i take aspirin every day? >> there has been huge media coverage today. we know gp ps will be asked questions. it's important people go to their gp but understand that the gp also won't have all the answers yet. we do need to answer some of
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those vital research questions. >> make sure you see your doctor before you start taking a daily aspirin. let's take you to west africa now. nigeria confirmed five new cases of ebola in lagos and a second death from the virus. nearly 900 people died across four west african countries since the outbreak began in february. the world health organization is now holding an emergency meeting to discuss how to tackle the crisis. it will consider whether or not the w.h.o. should be declaring a global health emergency. let's bring you up to date with tomi oladipo in lagos. what do we know about the latest death? >> the news came saying there were five additional cases. people tested and this death bringing the total number of cases to seven.
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as of late yesterday they denied there was a second death. so the news coming fresh. but the most important thing is how the government handles the cases and the spread. >> is the general public feeling worried about this the neerj? >> when you go around people expressing caution talking about minimizing their contact they are having with each other as well as minimizing in terms of people eating, different kind of food sold in the open as well as if you go around a lot of people buying hand sanitizer and that sort of thing. there is a caution. the message is going around.
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people, companies and the government sending out messages in social media telling people how to keep safe and take precautions. >> thanks for the update. let's get you up to date with business. you see rupert murdoch on the back foot. >> makes you question. some suggest it could be a tactic to push time warner shares lower. we don't know. we'll see. 21st century fox is withdrawing the offer for time warner. it was only three weeks ago when the $80 billion take over offer. it's since refused to negotiate any other deals. >> reporter: this is a rare public defeat for murdoch, a man who built a media empire over decades.
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this time he could not even get his target to the bargaining table. time warner is the second largest media company in the world. it owns several popular cable channels like hbo, it owns a hollywood movie studio and of course the tv news channel cnn. combining those assets with 21st century fox's own line-up of tv channels and a movie studio would have transformed the media industry. but time warner refused to even entertain the idea. the companies never met to discuss the offer. in abandoning the bid the market value of his own firm was damaged by news of the planned takeover. >> i think murdoch felt he couldn't get the deal done at the price he was talking about under the terms he was
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considering. the stock declined about 11% since the deal was announced, weakening his offer which would require him to have more cash in the deal, take on more debt. i don't think it's what they were interested in doing. >> it would have been one of the biggest deals in murdoch's long career. given his reputation for being a determined suitor, the decision to abandon his pursuit of time warner has surprised many. but the play for big media companies may not be over yet. bbc news, new york. >> it's not over. we'll keep eyes on that. let's talk about the arch rivals samsung and apple. they have decided, believe it or not, to drop a series of bitter patent disputes pending in court outside the united states. they sued each other over a range of the patent disputes in nine countries outside the u.s. including here in the uk, south
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korea, japan and germany. in a joint statement it said the agreement doesn't involve any licensing arrangements and they would continue to pursue existing cases all in the u.s. courts. the battle continues. let's go toru pert goodwin, technology journalist. great to have you on the program. what's going on here? i can only imagine there were millions spent on the cases. the only winners are probably the lawyers. why did they agree to do this? >> well, it all seemed to start when steve jobs decided google and samsung, it was a holy war. he pushed the button on this. i think since then the fact that apple had no knockout blows. they are both locked in an expensive legal process with no signs of getting close. it's a waste of time and effort. >> we are seeing verdicts already in u.s. courts mostly leaning toward apple's favor.
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why would sam sung agree to fight its battles in u.s. courts when it could be home court advantage for apple. >> we don't have the details of why they agree to do this. it could be they couldn't agree with what to do with the u.s. yet. it's going back to home turf. eventually they will agree to talk out of court, reach a cross licensing agreement among themselves and carry on. this is the way it always happens. it's gone this way since the industrial revolution. >> this is going on for some time. i want to ask you, just remind viewers around the world. this is a bit of, hey, you stole that from us or, no, you stole it from us. what are the bits and pieces we are talking about. >> to the sane person they look ridiculous. one affidavit patent infringements is if you swipe down a list, you let go, the screen bounces up a little bit
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as if it was on springs which is nice but not worth going to war over. anything they think they can get in court they will push. >> wish i was a lawyer. thanks for joining us. rupert goodwin -- i don't know if he got that. this is a cracker. listen to this. especially if you're in new york. what do you do if an unhappy customer posts a bad review or negative feedback about your company online. one hotel in the town of hudson, new york, which hosts a lot of wedding parties has reportedly warned happy couples it will deduct $500 from their deposits if one of the guests posts a negative review of the hotel on one of those review websites such as trip adviser. that in itself has drawn plenty of publicity. let's listen to the view of one
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expert. >> they can certainly represent the case to trip adviser and ask for the review the to be taken down because it's not true. what's important is the way hotels approach bad reviews. they should be answering the reviews as much as they can. they should be dealing with problems there and have been transparent. >> if you know the hotel name, tweet me. follow me @bbc aaron. >> you are such a stirrer. >> don't shoot the messenger. i'm gob-smacked. >> stay with us on bbc world news. still to come, a look at the short but hugely influential career of the french artist in paris of the 1800s. [ male announcer ] it's one of the most amazing things we build and it doesn't even fly. we build it in classrooms and exhibit halls,
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thanks for being with us on gmt. our top stories this hour. as residents of gaza try to rebuild their lives, israeli and palestinian delegations begin indirect talks in cairo. european space probe rosetta is flying alongside a comet after a ten-year chase, the first time this has been achieved. a senior kurdish official said forces from turkey and syria are joining iraqi forces in the fight against islamic militants. they have been battling for control of several towns around the kurdish region. al malaki ordered the military to provide support for kurds, the first sign of cooperation between baghdad and the kurds in
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months. expressing concern now that 40 children from are the minority have died as a result. thousands of these have fled into the mountains in the northwest after jihadist over ran their town. talking more about it in a moment. let's take you to istanbul where the bbc has returned from spending time. thanks for being with us. tell us what you saw and what's happening in terms of the military operations in the area at the moment. >> at the time we were there, we went to the kurdish front line which was very close. it was the time when christians were escaping because they had to convert to islam. their position was more defensive than offensive.
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in the past isis surprised all of us and they took over three cities. they are strategically important in the triangle between syria, iraq and turkey which was in the control of kurds. so since then obviously the kurds started and were surprised. they are trying to get back what was lost last weekend. from syria the protection units came inside iraqi kurghistan and yesterday hundreds of kurdish guerilla fighters who have been fighting in the past two decades came down the mountain and were transferred to the front line. their aim is to protect those people not muslim who have been purse cuted. there are reports of hundreds of
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families finding refuge in the mountains. it's a town captured by isis last weekend. they are in hiding. >> what about supplying military support to the kurds? how will it be received and is it significant? >> the kurds are asking for help. they didn't ask the iraqi central government, as much as we know. they have asked americans and western countries to help them. they said isis has more sophisticated weapons than them. at the same time, it seems to me in baghdad has come together to face the serious threat of isis and in the past two years they had a lot of problems. they weren't talking together. even in the same place at the moment, they are fighting isis. just two years ago.
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they clashed together. seems at the moment because of the common enemy and the threat of isis, both have been forced to talk together. there is talk about a community who could coordinate the joint military actions with the iraqi army. >> thank you very much. we are getting some newsline from a kurdish official in northern iraq warning 50,000 members of the yazidi minority are facing starvation if they are not rescued, saying it could take days to provide humanitarian safe passage for them out of the mountains. joined now by our editor. tell us about the yazidis. >> they are an ancient community that dates back 4,000 years. they predate islam and christianity. the problem is being a minority in northern iraq now that the fighters, the group known as
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isis, have moved in. they have already turned against christians. the yazidis face a worse potential fate from these jihadists. they are seen -- it's a popular misconception they worship the devil because amongst images they worship is something called a peacock angel. an angel who fell from grace with god like lucifer. they have faced massacres, persecutions in the past. >> we know some of them up in the mountains and caves. but they are not surviving. there are reports children are dying from starvation. what's the situation? >> they rushed out. they didn't have food, water. you can see from the pictures that these are people who are poor people to start off with. they don't have any kind of
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combat around them. they are living in a biblical way. the kurds are saying, the u.n. are saying they need to get food and water to them. at the moment they can't get down the roads to then. isis has closed them off. this is the real problem. one kurdish leader said it is such a serious situation within the next 24 hours people could be dying of thirst and dehydration. >> it could take days to open safe passage. thank you very much for that. let's take you to the 1800s in paris. his wasn't particularly a long career, but he was influential, henri de toulouse-lautrec. he had such an influence on the art world it still resonates today. his images of performers, prostitutes, won him in assistant fame. now the museum of modern art in new york is show casing the extensive collection of
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toulouse-lautrec's best work. and we have been speaking about his influence. >> paris in this moment developed the reputation as an international party city. i'm the author of the paris of toulouse-lautrec, prints and posters from the medium of modern art. toulouse-lautrec is one of the most important artists of belle epoch paris and one of the most interesting characters in modern history . for toulouse-lautrec the posters he made of places like moulin rouge or performers like jane avril gave him fame. he had reserved tables waiting for hill. men and women could drink together, socialize, flirt, dance. it was a time of tremendous.
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♪ in the majority of toulouse-lautrec's works the subject is women. women were formative in his life. his mother was extremely present in his life from the time he was a very young child. he also developed a tremendously close circle of female friends, many were the performers he was depicting in his prints and posters. i think they were honestly a subject of great fascination for him. in all guises from the women who ran the hat shops and hats were one of his favorite things to depict, to prostitutes he depicted in beautiful works. to the performers and dancers. you see in the images he was interested in portraying all aspects of life in paris. you get the entire range of parisian society in this work. he was a populist.
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he liked to read pulp fiction, go to cohick opera. he liked the can-can, loved the the surface. these popular entertainments were what he loved. that's part of the reason his work appeals to a broad portion of the population today. he died in 1901 and what's remarkable is essentially all of the work we know was made only over ten years. you think of the work in the way the idea of toulouse-lautrec can immediately call an image to your mind. you realize that this was only a career that lasted for a decade. it's really a tremendous accomplishment and really a testament to just how lasting an influence he's been. >> the wonderful work of toulouse-lautrec. we have breaking news coming from saudi arabia. a man there suspected of contracting the ebola virus during a recent business trip to
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