back to you in doha. >> barnaby phillips in westminster. >> thank you. let's move on to the other story. a 3-day nationwide shutdown. confining people to their homes has come in effect in sierra leone. of the virus killed over 2,000 people, a third from sierra leone. health workers will go from house to house to identify andest late victims. critics say it is likely to destroy trust between doctors and people. >>> seven bodies in neighbouring guinea have been found, after an attack on health workers. they were working to raise awareness, but wept missing on thursday. three journalists were killed also. >>> well, the u.n. security council dislard the ebola -- declared the ebola outbreak a threat to peace and stability. our diplomatic editor james basereports. >> reporter: a unanimous vote on a rare meeting on a public health crisis. the resolution pledging support for the fight to stop the spread of ebola, a fight that the world is losing. the outbreak is the largest that the world has seep. the number of cases is doubling. through the cases in liberia, t

. >>> let's go to barnaby phillips now live for us in london. aby the mp's have voted and spoken overwhelming for to join the coalition in air strikes in iraq. what is the public opinion? >> the public opinion so far as we can tell is there is support with caveats for what parliament has agreed. i saw a poll that said 57% favored this action. what helped was the brutal killing in recent weeks, including the british aid worker, has solidified the opinion behind the prime minister. i will also say that could change in the weeks and indeed months to come. the prime minister warned that this was a long-term campaign and i don't think there are many politicians or members of the public in this country who are under any illusions of just what could go wrong. the possibility of mission creep, whether it is logical to only attack isil in iraq and not syria, whether iraqi forces on the ground can do a necessary job, because this coalition is only striking from the air. there's very little faith in the ability of the iraqi army. it has been trained at enor

let's go to barnaby phillips who joins us live from london. barnaby, this result really was not unexpected. >> it wasn't unexpected, and it was an overwhelming majority, more than 500 members of parliament voted in favor. but some 40-odd voted against from different political parties, and there must have been a substantial number of abstentions as well. many of the members of parliament -- even the ones that said they would be voting for them, said they did so with heavy hearts and they looked on the situation in iraq with a great deal of trepidation and of course there is a profound awareness in this country of the disastrous legacy of the war in 2003 in iraq and how recent military adventures in afghanistan and libya have not produced the desired results. >> it was always made very clear that british troops would not be joining in. british troops would not be on the ground shall we say, and this attack will only be limited to iraq and not syria. >> yes, that's right. those were the terms under which the prime minister knew he could win this d

the kurds are discovering finding willing buyers is not as straightforward as barnaby phillips explains. >> we know oil from iraqi kurdistan has been loaded on tankers in recent weeks. perhaps some 10 to 12 ships in all since june. we believe that three are currently at sea. one of the tangors, the united leadership has been anchored off the coast of morocco for some three months. and another tanker, the u.k. collaborator is thought to be off the coast of texas in the gulf mexico. the third tanker was in the south china sea where it unloaded much of its cargo on to another mystery ship analysts say tracking these movements is no easy task. >> so we have this ways with a number of vessels that is holding consider amounts of oil that are floating around in different parts of the world. we have other vessels who have done ship to ship transfers they have moved vessels from one vessel to another. that can be hard to track the identity of the vessel that oil has gone to which makes it much easier to sell because then there is relatively little providence and it's difficult to trace. >> the t

let's now go to barnaby phillips who is standing by for us beside parliament house. this is not a surprise, was it? we were expecting the vote to go david cameron's way. >> yes, we were. he had the backing of most of the members of parliament in his governing coalition, and he had the backing of the opposition labor party, so he knew really from this morning that he was going to avoid the kind of humiliation he experienced last year, when the british government failed to push through a motion in favor of attacking the government of syria at that stage. crucially, he had a request from the iraqi government, so he was able to say to the house of commons, that, look, we're not going to attack iraq, we're going to assist iraq, and that gives us a legal clarity. i think that argument had resonance, but be under no mistake, the motion passed was very specific that britain will be involved in air strikes in iraq and not against syria which is seen as a much more complicated and dangerous proposition, so it is limited at the moment to that broader coalition that the united s

. >> barnaby phillips is outside of parliament. aby is there going to be a vote and if there is, will the prime minister win it? >> there will be a vote, and i can't predict that the prime minister will win it. he has the support of most, so we won't suffer a repeat of last summer when parliament voted against attacks on the assad regime in syria. but that does not that everyone is happy. the debate has been very active. i have heard a lot of members asking about the logic of only striking isil in iraq why not also in syria, given that that organization operates across that border with impunity. i'll put that question to my guest. does it make sense if the british are joining this coalition, and it looks as if that is going to happen, to be only attacking isil on one part of the territory that they control? >> strategically it makes no sense at all just to focus on isil in iraq. but it is important to bare in mind that britain is just one part of this coalition, and the coalition is going to cross the border and taking on isil acros

tankers have been sailing around the world trying to off load crude but as barnaby phillips explains, finding buyers has been a problem. >> oil has been loaded on tangors in recent weeks. perhaps 10 to 12 ships in all since june. we believe three are currently at sea. one of the tangors, the united leadership has been anchored off the coast of morocco for some three months. and another tankser is thought to be off the u.s. state of texas in the gulf of mexico. the third tanker, the united emblem was in the south china sea where it unblowed much of its cargo to another mystery ship. analysts say tracking these movements is no easy task. >> so we have this situation with a number of vessels that are holding significant quantities of oil that are floating around in various parts of the world. we have had other vessels that have done ship to ship transfers. they've moved the vessel from one place to another. often that can be difficult to track the identity of the vessel that the oil has gone into. which makes it easier to sell because there is relatively little providence and there is no

. >> let's go to london with barnaby phillips. what's been the reaction from the government there?the overwhelming reaction is one of relief. david cameron did not want to go down in history as the man who lost scotland after a 300 year union and who presided over the breakup of the united kingdom. that would a disastrous legacy, but politicians here in westminster know that they can't ignore that vote in scotland. the turnout was extraordinary. more than 1.5 million people voted to leave the united kingdom despite all the uncertainty that that would have entailed, glasgow voted to leave the united kingdom. that can't be ignored. a short time ago, david cameron had this to say. >> now it is time for our united kingdom to come together and move forward. a vital part of that will be a balanced settlement, fair to people in scotland, and importantly to everyone in england, wales and northern ireland, as well. >> in other words, what the prime minister is saying there is that westminster political parties have to keep their promises to devolve more fewer scotland but at the same time i