but the comfort it provides is it's justimmeasurable.ece the america red cross brings hope and help to people in need every 8 minutes, every day. so this season give something that means something. hello, and welcome to "gmt" on "bbc world news." i'm stephen sackur. our top stories. a significant setback for islamic state, as kurdish fighters break the militant siege of mount sinjar. peshmerga fighters open up a humanitarian corridor to thousands of yazidi citizens trapped on the mountain and claim a significant strategic victory. australia reacts with shock to the discovery of eight dead

children and a woman with stab wounds in a family home in the northern city of cairns. and the murky world of online sex and blackmail. we have a special report from the philippines on a digital brand of organized crime. jamie's here with all the business, including a look at the fallout from the falling oil price for the wider industry. >> exactly, stephen. as oil prices fall, so investment falls. workers are being laid off. first in the oil industry, and then in connected industries. and oil revenues fall for governments as well. they rein in spending and the fragile politics of many oil producing nations will start to fracture. we'll be looking at the countries already in danger. a very warm welcome to "gmt." it is 7:00 a.m. in washington. noon here in london. 3:00 p.m. in the iraqi kurdish

regional capital of erbil, where kurdish leaders are claiming a significant victory in their military confrontation with the militant group known as islamic state. kurdish peshmergas say they have pushed jihadist fighters back from their positions around mown sinjar. effectively freeing hundreds of civilians from the yazidi community who have been trapped on the mountain for months. the peshmerga advance from zumar in the east creating a 700 square kilometer corridor. let's put some more re-detail on what has happened to the yazidis since the islamic state offensive swept through northern iraq last summer.

>> by one count, more than 100,000 terrified yazidis fled over this mansion, many at risk of dying from the heat or from thirst. a catastrophe has been averted. most people have moved on, there are just a few stragglers left behind.

>> a reminder there of what has happened around mount sinjar in recent months. we can go live now to erbil. the reports we're getting do suggest the peshmergas have made very significant advances around mount sinjar. what is the latest information you have? >> what we are hearing from them, obviously they have managed to reach the mountain. the kurdish officials say the kurdish peshmerga forces from the ground rejoined the kurdish fighters on the top of the mountain. during this siege of the mountain, there were a few hundred kurdish fighters in the mountain protecting those yazidis who were trapped there. they were preventing i.s. militants to reach the mountain. now they say they have

recaptured an area the size of around seven hundred square kilometers and this has received by kurdish community, by yazidi refugees with joy. many people are hoping this might pave the way for recapturing the city of sinjar. >> now, i remember you making trips and overflights of this area over recent months, and you obviously focused on the suffering of the yazidi civilians. what is the latest we know about those hundreds, maybe even a few thousands civilians who have remained on the mountain? are they now leaving? are they able to leave? >> well, many of them, they don't want to leave. we don't know exactly how many w yazidis are trapped in the mountain, because it's massive, big in the middle of the desert. many people in different corners of the mountain were hiding.

nobody knew exactly how many people were there. some of the families have expressed they want to leave the mountain and join their relatives and families who are in refugee camps in some other areas near erbil. but some other families have said they don't want to leave. they are hoping the city of sinjar and the villages around the city be free so they can go home soon. >> right. final point, some kurdish leader where is you are in erbil are suggesting that they have turned the strategic tide here, that something very important has happened, that they are now able to cut supply lines that islamic state has been using, and that in effect, they are now winning. is that the impression you have? i think we may have lost him. clearly there, the link we had has been lost. i'm afraid we're going to have to leave him there. but as we have learned already, the kurdish peshmerga forces are

now saying that they have made significant advances around mount sinjar. now we're going to actually stay with iraq. because not only have there been developments around sinjar, but we also -- let me actually just retrack for a moment. we're going to stick with this story for just a while longer. the kurdish offensive against islamic state forces began with the most intensive round of air strikes yet. that is by the americans, of course, and their coalition partners. the pentagon's top officer says several high ranking military leaders of islamic state were killed in the strikes, but meanwhile, in anbar, which of course is iraq's biggest province to the west of baghdad, it has seen some of the deadliest fighting between forces loyal to the government and islamic state. it's a vital supply route for the militants in syria. and it leads all the way to the

outskirts of baghdad. if it falls, it will be a major victory for the extremists, but the fight for anbar has gone largely unreported. mainly due to the dangers journalists face traveling to the region. our middle east correspondent quentin sommerville and cameraman tim facey are the first broadcasters to be imbedded at the air base, and they have sent this exclusive report. >> reporter: at the air base, they are fighting for their lives and the future of iraq. as every hour passes, the so-called islamic state moves closer. the base is being encircled. the front line was 20 miles away. 48 hours later, it's less than six. they've only just survived a surprise i.s. attack, and the strain is beginning to show. these soldiers have just arrived from the front line and their

furious. they say there have been no american air strikes in the past 40 hours. the consequence of that, the islamic state have moved through village after village unchecked. the soldier tells me, we stood our ground, but i.s. advance with tanks, we only have humvees. what we need are helicopters, combat aircraft. we need aerial support. i don't know why the planes didn't come. they're saying the conditions were wrong, but the weather is fine now. we stopped the i.s. offensive. they are terrorists. we suffered many casualties. we are desperate for air cover. it could make all the difference. after a few hours sleep, they're up and ready to face i.s. again. territory that took two weeks to gain was lost in just four hours. >> if we look just over there, we can see the perimeter of the base.

outside is anbar, and most of that province is in the control of islamic state and sunni militants, so for the moment, all that's standing between al assad and the islamic state are these men. at the base's airstrip, the dead and the injured wait together. the men have been hit hard. ragged death notices hang from the camp's perimeter. mourning the loss of the fallen. we thought we came here to see a military offensive. instead, we found a retreat. the soldiers are on edge. we can't stay on the ground for long. movement is spotted nearby. warning shots are fired. in many of these sunni villages, the islamic state is welcomed. for some, iraq's army is the enemy. the soldiers remain on their

guard. a year of fighting has left this province devastated. half a million people have fled their homes. the battle for iraq once again lies in anbar. if this province falls, the islamic state will stretch all the way from syria to the edges of baghdad. quentin sommerville, bbc news, anbar in western iraq. in other news, details have emerged of a failed attempt to secure the release of the kidnapped american aid worker kassig, who was killed by islamic state militants last month. a new york lawyer told the bbc he persuaded two radical muslim clerics to contact the militants, but the talks broke down when one of them was arrested by the jordanian government. kenya's president has signed into law a controversial new security measures that he says are necessary to fight al shabab extremists. president kenyatta condemned

parliamentary fighting on thursday. politicians pouring water over the deputy speaker. the legislation allows terror suspects to be detained without charge for up to a year. a study in the united states has supported the theory that animals can tell when a natural disaster is about to happen. the research found that golden-winged warblers fled their nesting grounds in tennessee to avoid a series of severe tornados and they returned as soon as it was safe. researchers said the birds were probably alerted by a low frequency noise that humans simply can't hear. the australian prime minister tony abbott has described as heartbreaking the police discovery of eight dead children in a house in the northern city of cairns. a 34-year-old woman with serious stab wounds was also found in the house. police say they do not believe a multiple killer is still at

large in the community. jon donnison in sydney has been following developments. >> reporter: for police in cairns, this must be a crime scene as grim as many of them have ever seen. in this suburban house, they discovered the bodies of eight children stabbed to death. the youngest just 18 months. the oldest, 15. officers were called to the house soon after 11:00 in the morning after reports that the mother of seven of the children was badly injured. she was taken to hospital where she's being treated for stab wounds. police have not said if she's a suspect. >> we have a 34-year-old woman assisting us currently with the circumstances surrounding this tragic event that's occurred here. it will be continuing until the next day or two. >> reporter: a relative who said she was a cousin of the family

said it was another of the women's children, a 20-year-old man, who had first alerted police. >> my family back home, they're waiting. i can't say anymore, i'm sorry. >> reporter: neighbors said the family had not been in trouble before. >> i'm really shocked, too, yeah. because, you know, i just saw th this with the kids. >> reporter: australia's prime minister tony abbott called the killings an unspeakable crime and said that all parents would feel a gut-wrenching sadness. he said these were trying days for australia. this horrific crime comes just four days after the sydney siege. they're still laying flowers here for the two hostages who were killed. australians were profoundly moved by that event, and many will be equally, if not more

shocked, by these killings in cairns. jon donnison, bbc news, sydney. do stay with us here on "bbc world news," because still to come, the criminal gangs blackmailing men through online flirting. how sextortion is catching out hundreds of thousands.

now we can bring you some breaking news. fifa's leaders have agreed to publish a report on alleged corruption in the bidding process to host the next two football world cups. the report's author michael garcia resigned from fifa on wednesday, questioning its culture and its leadership. our sports editor dan rowan joins us on the line now where fifa's executive committee has been meeting. dan, just clear up for me, what

exactly have fifa decided about publishing this long report into alleged wrong doing in the world cup bidding process? >> well, bear in mind that for a long time now, fifa have insisted that they couldn't publish if full 430-page report that the former u.s. attorney michael garcia, the leading investigator had compiled as a result of a 2-year-long interrogation, corruption connected to the bidding process for the next two world cups to be held in russia in 2018 and qatar in 2022. they said they helicoptcouldn't it because to do so would mean they would contravene their own rules, their own code of ethics. the more time went on, the more pressure built up from fans from the media, from sponsors, and indeed from within fifa. senior officials themselves all saying in the name of the

transparency, and the only way to restore trust and faith in this organization is to publish what garcia discovered. what fifa did do last month is publish a summary of those findings. that was compiled by a german judge. the trouble was that garcia himself disowned that summary, saying it contained various misrepresentations of what he found. he appealed. that appeal was dismissed and this week he resigned, plunging fifa into yet more chaos. the pressure intensified and today finally fifa bowed in, they caved in to that pressure. they unanimously agreed, we understand, to after all publish the garcia findings. however, there's two caveats. the first is that it will be heavily redacted because they say they were legally appropriate. we won't get to see everything, but a lot more than we currently do. the second caveat is that it won't be for some time. there are already investigations that have been brought against

senior football officials. fifa, we understand, say they must be completed before garcia's report is published. so we still wait. the skeptics will say this is typical fifa tactics, more delays, more process. just wearing down the critics. but on the other hand, it is they say something of a u-turn by fifa and there will be many who will be delighted that finally world football's governing body will respond to the pressure and agree to more transparency. >> thanks for bringing us that breaking news. we'll eventually get to see this full fifa report, but not yet. now, cyber crime is an increasing concern for many, especially in the wake of the recent hacking at sony pictures, for example. but some internet users are falling prey to much more personal and targeted attacks. a number of the criminal gangs are based in the philippines.

angus crawford went to find out more and september us this special report. >> reporter: from these slums, a new crime is emerging. targeting men thousands of miles away on the other side of the world. they call it sextortion. really, it's online blackmail. scammers can make hundreds of dollars a day. access to the internet is cheap and easy in the philippines, and this crime is now happening on an industrial scale. officers from the country's cyber crime unit raid a call center. they find young people working in shifts, targeting victims using social media. there are even bonuses for the workers who make the most money. but how exactly does this new crime work? a friend request online. she's attractive. and suggests a more intimate chat on a webcam. >> i was very frightened.

just the thought. >> reporter: as john found out, that chat is recorded, followed by a threat to put the video online, unless the victim pays up. >> she'd tell my family and friends. tell my daughter. tell my wife. you know, ruin your life. ruin your family. >> if anybody was looking at me right now on skype through video, that's what they would see. >> reporter: what victims don't know is most of the women aren't real. just prerecorded videos, programmed to obey commands. >> okay, wave to you. there's a wave. >> reporter: wayne runs a support group for victims and gets thousands of requests for help. >> so far today, we've had ten. >> reporter: the scammers, he says, are ruthless. >> i don't think they care. i really don't think they care what happens. just so long as they get that money. they tell people, i'm going to ruin your life. they'll say anything to them. don't care about the consequences. >> reporter: police are targeting the trade, but most

victims are too embarrassed to come forward, leaving the criminals hidden in the anonymity of the internet and the sprawling slums of manila. angus crawford, bbc news, in the philippines. now, listen carefully. habla espanol? don't worry if you don't speak any of those languages. a new app launched by skype aims to translate phone conversations in realtime. our technology correspondent gets lost in translation. >> reporter: the idea of live translation from one language to another has always been a bit of a sci-fi dream, but now it could be becoming a reality. skype has just launched shotgun ca -- something called translator. it's a trial at the moment. i'm going to give it a try, see if it works. hello, how are you, maria? good morning from london.

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and the man who makes movies appealing to the ear as well as the eye, composer of some of the greatest film scores ever written, enrico morricone shares his secret. also on the program, jamie is here, and he'll be looking at the true cost of that sony hacking scandal. >> well, the threat has brought condemnation. sony can live with a bit of criticism. we're going to look at how it will deal with the long-term cost to its business. a very warm welcome back to "gmt." in the last 24 hours, the pakistani army has hit back hard against the taliban militants who mounted the shocking assault on the army school in peshawar last tuesday, killing 131

children and nine teachers. now, according to military officials, 59 taliban fighters have been killed in the group's strongholds in the northwest of the country. the news comes as pakistan marks a third day of national mourning. now, shaimaa khalil is in peshawar. we can join her now. shaimaa, let's start where you are. i'm sure it has been another difficult day in peshawar. just tell me whether you feel any change in the mood on the streets as people come to terms with what has happened this week. >> reporter: well, stephen, i think the city is still very much in mourning and shock as well, but aside from that sense of deep sadness an grief, there is also a sense of defiance. people want to come out and resume their lives as normal. of course, in very difficult circumstances. but all throughout the past three days, including today, there have been students,

students who came in in their uniforms, stood outside the gate, and said we're here to pay respects, but we're also here to send a message to the people who carried out this attack, that one day we want to go back to school. but the other sentiment from people is one of confusion, and urging the leadership, the political leadership in particular to do something about what happened. i've spoken to someone at a funeral who said look, these big politicians walk around in very tight security. what about security for us? what about security for our families? and this is really the challenge now for the nawaz sharif government and the top policymakers, convincing the pakistani people that they're taking this seriously and that it will make a difference, this united stance against terrorism in their daily lives. >> you're right, shaimaa, it's a huge challenge. do you get the feeling that there is any faith this government can deliver on that big security question? >> reporter: well, after what happened on tuesday in this

school behind me, there's really very little faith, but also, there is hope. and people are quite anxious now to see a change. they haven't seen a united stance from the government for a very, very long time. we've seen different political parties with different stances on how to handle militancy, but things changed in the rhetoric at least after what happened in the school. the question is now whether they're going to change in their reality and daily lives of those people. >> absolutely, shaimaa. thank you for joining me from peshawar. we can now go live on the telephone to pakistan's defense minister. i'm delighted to say he's joining us here on "gmt." minister, the question for you given that your military officials are saying that over the last 24 hours you've launched a major operation against the taliban, are you now going to take the taliban on in

a different, more forceful, more effective way? >> absolutely. what happened in peshawar, there are calls for a very decisive action against the taliban. in urban centers, supporters, sympathizers. very little in number. but they are there. and they have their accomplices. and people are defiant. they are defiant in the urban centers. they're defieant in the schools and public places. they want the government to take them on. our air force has found their

hide-outs in the tribal areas. we have killed them in dozens in the last three days. and we have the intelligence about what actually happened and how it was planned and how it was executed, the massacre in peshawar three days back. and we have shared our intelligence with the government and it has to be a shared action, it has to be peace, and done by both governments. otherwise, pakistan is doing on its own and afghanistan is doing it on its own, and pakistan will never achieve any tangible results. >> if i may, minister, let me stop you just for a second. i just want to ask you a very simple question. why should the pakistani people have faith in your government's ability to deliver on the security challenge now, when so

many times in the past you've let them down? you've talked about taking on the taliban in the past, but frankly, you've played a double game, you haven't delivered. why should they believe you will deliver this time? >> well, this talk of double game or double standard, this applies -- they have been doing this off and on. who is supporting daesh, you know? we have been doing this thing for the last decade. and you still accuse us. so this sort of attitude that belittles our sacrifices. our people are dying on the front line. our soldiers are dying on the front line. we are fighting an enemy without

any discrimination, without any differentiation between one group of taliban or the other group of taliban. since june 14th, we have not made any differentiation. full force against all denominations of taliban. and this is evident from what happened. this was plan by the leadership of the taliban. if you look at the man, they were all there in planning this minister. >> minister, a final question. in the past, there have been attempts at dialogue between your government and other pakistani governments and the taliban. are you saying the time for dialogue is categorically over, and that you now believe that you can find a military solution to this?

that you can, in effect, eliminate the taliban? >> the three, four months which we were enrolled in a dialogue, that was the time we should have gone in for the military action. but because it was from different quarters, different parts of the country. so we went for negotiations. we knew negotiations would not be successful, but we went through the motions. what we gather from our

experien experience, the settlement is not possible. it has to be a military solution. we have to eliminate them first. what the people want, and what can be done. for the first time, the political leadership of our country is on the same page. we are united. it's a unity which was demonstrated a few days back in peshawar. if support of the government. >> pakistan's minister of defense. we thank you very much for joining us on "gmt." it wasn't a terrific telephone line, but i think you'll agree it's important we heard that

interview. the minister said there now has to be a military solution. now it's time to join jamie with all the business. i think you're going to first look at the implications in the fall of oil? >> yes, the continuing price in the fall of oil. cheaper energy can galvanize activity, but it also can put a strangle hold on economies. that contradiction is one reason why we've seen such fluctuations, as investors try to work out whether the price fall is a blessing or a curse. the oil industry already paying a high price for the low cost of oil. investments being shelved and staff being laid off. this is an pin oil and energy analyst and former opec official. the reason why this is happening is really because of a commercial decision by opec, or at least by the leaders of opec

to push out some of those cheap suppliers of oil. >> yes, that i think is the basic reason that you try to keep your -- defend your market share against the shale oil producers. on the u.s. side, scotland unemployment, the senators might put pressure on washington to do for it getting for it. nigeria, which is headlined today, suffering as they would pressure within the organization that they have to climb down.

>> but politically it's a very dangerous game, because some of these countries really are on the edge. as oil revenues dry up for the governments concerned. this is not just places like nigeria. it's at the heart of opec. >> of course, if you have no other rich or poor country receiving this. of course it will have an effect on their budget. within opec, there will be pressure to climb down and reach a conclusion. outside opec, that is another important factor. the united states and others would also feel the pressure. the united states secretary of energy coming towards opec, negotiating, even lobbying openly. so it is really who blinks first.

some people say a conspiracy theory. that the whole thing by washington is to put pressure on russia and make a financial problem even greater and greater. that, i'm no expert, but some people say that may be the reason. and as to when the two sides would reach an agreement, the two producers, if there is that scenario, i really can't say. but that is a possibility that the news use are portraying. >> let me ask you to speculate just for a bit how -- politically how low can the oil price go before we start to see real instabl in some of these countries? >> we already are feeling instability. i think a price of $60, already at the bottom. they experience that any of it can be repeated. all these countries managed to live with $10 a barrel in

1998-1999 for almost 18 months when they was going on. differently for balancing their budget and so on. it all depends on the conditions. now, of course, it's different from that time. the price of oil and the expectations of the people, the distribution of funds and trying to get the population happy with the distribution of money as happened in saudi arabia itself. so the people's expectation is greater. so there's more pressure on the governments to get them back to the domestic economies. >> thank you very much indeed for that. >> pleasure. >> the markets are on the up today. ftse not so much. dax and cac making late bit of a fallback. huge rises on the dow yesterday. s&p 500, the nasdaq, all up very sharply. the japanese market up overnight. this is really on the back still of the comments from federal reserve saying that they were going to be patient in their

regard to interest rates because they were going to wait a while before interest rates went up, and that's generally considered to be somewhere in the middle of next year. the other big item yesterday in the u.s. with some very good figures out of oracle. that pushed up the markets. fairly lukewarm response from the european markets. more later. that's it at the moment. >> do stay with us on "bbc world news," because still to come, imposing a vow of cellular silence. an italian priest takes it upon himself to stop the mobile phone's ringing in his congregation, and we're going to tell you how.

welcome back to "gmt." i'm stephen sackur. the top stories this hour.

kurdish fighters deal a strategic blow to islamic state and they open up a humanitarian kor dork liberating civilians who have been trapped on mount sinjar for months. in australia, a memorial service have been held after the boe bodies of eight children were found at a home in queensland. now, we've all suffered that little announce of the modern age. that moment when you're doing or saying something important, only to be interrupted by the ubiquitous sound of a mobile phone. ever since these devices have existed, they've been the bug bear of stage actors, singers, and those delivering sermons in church. it turns out that priests too have been having a hard time with phones disrupting their work. driving one minister in italy to actually do something about it, farther mchaley madonna became so incensed that he installed a

digital jamming device to shut them up. reportedly local police were supportive of his idea for a vow of cellular silence. now, is that the way that wider society is going? well, with me is hannah jane parkinson, the guardian's tech and culture writer and columnist. hannah, i know you spent a lot of time thinking about the culture of mobile phones. do you think it's acceptable for this priest to sort of jam signals in church? are you for it or against it? >> i can certainly see why he would do that. mobile phones are a huge irrita irritant. we've all been on a bus where somebody's having a huge thing with a relationship. we don't want to hear that. kids leaking their music on the phone. things like when you're in atal. there's so many instances of becoming an announce.

especially somewhere like a church. >> oh, hang on. sorry. it's my phone. hello? no. i can't talk right now. i'm actually live on tv. i'll call you right back. sorry. i've got to go. bye. i'm so sorry. i am so sorry. you might have guessed, we set that call up, but it's just an indication of how annoying it can be. >> precisely. >> so, should there be bans in more and more public places on that kind of thing happening? >> i think there's an argument for it. it's mostly -- these jammers, in europe and a lot of places, they are not illegal to own, but they are illegal to operate. there are a few exceptions. i think in new zealand, they're allowed to operate in jails, for instance, in prisons. there has been talk, there's conservative mp who raised the idea of introducing these in schools so kids can't be texting and stuff. when i was at school, i used to pass paper notes. that was the way we did it. if you're hooked up to a wi-fi

network, you can just use a messaging service like what's app to do the same thing. i think if kids are going to chat in schools, they'll get around it. but in places like churches and stuff, i mean, the key argument is that if you're in a church, you should probably be switching your phone off anyway. >> what is this mobile technology doing to all of us? i mean, how messed up are we by it? i bumped into somebody this morning on the street who wasn't looking where they were going because they were so busy texting and walking at the same time. are we end in the end finding ourselves becoming slaves to these devices? >> well, that is is an issue. there's talk about people's psychology changing and the way we're con stanly connected. you'll see two people having lunch and they're both doing this. well, what was the point of even going out? i grew up in kind of on messenger and had to come home from my school day and get straight on and start talking to my friends. i'd been there all day. so maybe i've got it out of my system. i'm not a massive texter. but we don't have the down time

or quiet time that we used to. and people are still on call all the time after office hours. i think it's part of the reason perhaps why a lot of people are stressed all the time because they feel the need to constantly be in contact. but i can't imagine the rules and regulations changing. i think it goes against the government's incentive after the kind of snowden revelations. >> we all want to be connected, i guess. hannah jane parkinson's, thank you very much for joining us. sorry about that phone call. now, you don't have to be a film buff to recognize the music of marange. he is the composer of theme tunes for "the good, the bad and the ugly." and a host of brilliant movies. he's been talking exclusively to our arts editor will gompert.

>> reporter: one of the most famous film scores ever written. which became the sound of not just a movie, but a whole gen a genergenre, the spaghetti western. it's the work of morricone, starting with a fistful of dollars. >> translator: the music i wrote for "a fistful of dollars" is not the best that i gave to leone. we reached our best in my opinion with "once upon a time in america." >> his career spans over half a century. he's composed music for more than 500 films and worked for 60-plus directors.

but never for clint eastwood. >> translator: clint eastwood, when he called me to write music for his films, i said no out of respect to sergio leone, not because i did not like the movies that he did. there you are. i said no to clint. i'm really sorry about that. >> these are your bafta and this is your oscar. >> reporter: maestro morricone, as he's known in his hometown, won an honorary oscar in 2007. do you think if you'd moved to hollywood, that the academy would have awarded you an oscar sooner? >> translator: no. i do not think so. when i did not take the oscar for the film "the mission," all the audience in the hall protested. there was a sort of riot.

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