i'm geeta guru-murthy with the latest headlines. hospital officials in the german city of leipzig say a united nations employee being treated there has died of ebola. >>> the south african athlete oscar pistorius has returned to court for a second day of sentencing arguments over whether he should face prison for killing his girlfriend. >>> now, could more have been done to prevent the rise of islamic state militants in iraq and syria? catty kay has been speaking to former secretary of defense leon panetta. he said he was surprised by the group's rapid rise. >> i would not have believed it would have been as bad as it is. i didn't believe that some of that resulted in some of these foreign fighters going into syria and becoming part of isis. and i think it's fair to say that although we knew that there were extremists in syria, that there are very few that kind of looked at isis as that larger threat that it became in terms of invading iraq. >> you've run the cia, you've run the pentagon. do you think that this is an enemy that amer

i'm geeta guru-murthy with the top stories.s year's nobel peace prize has been won jointly by the pakistani activist malala yousafzai and india's kailash satyarthi for their work promoting children's rights. and doctors treating the spanish nurse infected with ebola say her condition has deteriorated. meanwhile, seven more people are now being monitored in hospital in spain for signs of the virus. >>> reports from south korea say that north and south korea have traded fire after the north shot at a south korean propaganda balloon. the incident happened near the south korean border town. let's find out more and speak to our correspondent steve levins. what do we know about what's happened here, steve? >> reporter: according to the south korean military, what happened about five hours ago is that activists and defectors from the north in the south send up propaganda balloons, very big balloons which are filled at the bottom with food and propaganda messages, anti-north korean messages. the north korean authorities have frequently

i'm geeta guru-murthy with bbc world news. our top stories. new hope for the fight against ebola with a promise in weeks that it can be contained with the right measures in place. >> it will be possible as it was possible in the past to contain this epidemic four to six months. >>> a march to the chief executive by people angered by people that he did not get the vote. >>> the pentagon is examining this i.s. video. >>> and on day six of the swedish hunt for a mystery submarine, the search narrows to the bay capital. >>> hello. a top red cross official says that with proper measures, the ebola outbreak can be brought under control in four to six months. his comments come with an emergency committee of the world health organization meeting shortly to make its latest assessment of the ebola outbreak in west africa. along with potential news of vaccines and treatments, let's find out the latest. a treatment is developed using antibodies from the blood of those that survived infection. facilities are set up in liberia to process blood. the vaccine

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thanks, geeta. hello there.ertainly as you've been hearing, dilma rousseff won the most votes in sunday's election, but she will need to take part in that runoff at the end of the month. after growing more than 4% a year during a commodities fuel boom last decade, brazil's economy has averaged less than 2% growth under rousseff, and there are many on wall street that have made no secret of their desire for more market-friendly policies. we're going to go live to our business reporter in brazil on "gmt" coming up in just over an hour's time. also this one. greece has released earlier today its draft budget for 2015 and after many very bleak years, it would seem that the country's economy is kind of turning a coroner. because the plan outlines the greece hopes to exit. its $240 million euro bailout package a year ahead of scheduled. it expects to report a budget surplus. when have we heard that? a budget surplus of 2.9% of its gdp next year, that would be just shy of the 3% target set by its international lenders,

i'm geeta guru-murthy with the latest headlines. the south african athlete oscar pistorius who was convicted of culpable homicide last month for killing his girlfriend has returned to court for sentencing. >>> liberian nurses and medical assistance are on national strike even as the ebola epidemic continues. >>> the u.s.-led coalition is reported to have launched seven more air strikes against islamic state militants, trying to capture the kurdish town of kobane in northern syria. the battle for the town has been going on for weeks. in a positive development for the kurdish, susan rice says that turkey has now agreed to let american-led air forces use military base on its territory. with me is the head of the turkish service. thanks for joining us. we've seen this incredible resistance, haven't we, of turkey to get involved. we've seen the tents literally parked on the lawn overlooking kobane. we've got some shots of the latest that's going on in kobane at the moment. where are we in what turkey's position is? >> it's a bit muddled

hello, geeta. samsung has warned it's had one of its toughest quarters for years and will see profits plunge by some 60%. now, it is the smart phone business that's being squeezed by fierce competition from apple's premium smart phones. the new ones, the biggest greens. and also undercut by chinese rivals. much cheaper, like lanovo. to combat this downturn, samsung has announced plans to invest some $15 billion into a chip-making factory, a move that samsung hopes to hold on to a lead position in that market, also to offset the decline that it's seeing at the moment. we'll have more on "gmt" coming up in just over an hour's time. how about this? the bank of japan ended its two-day meeting on a bit of a mixed note, because the board unanimously voted not to increase the country's economic stimulus package. however, the central bank delivered a cautionary line on the world's third largest economy, offering words of warning about the slowing housing market and weakening industrial output. basically ja

>> it's pretty complex, geeta. it is an unexpected shift. yesterday, the turkish president warned that he would not allow kurdish fighters in syria to be armed from turkish territory, for arms to go over into syria, and he warned washington against arming kurdish fighters. just a few hours later, the u.s. went ahead with air drops of weapons and ammunition for those kurdish fighters, so it appeared that turkey was at odds with its nato ally. but then today, the foreign minister made a statement in ankara that turkey is assisting peshmerga forces as kurdish forces in iraq to cross into koba kobane. turkey could be bowing to pressure from the u.s. to get involved in the fight in kobane in some way. but it's also possible that what the turkish president said yesterday was sort of for public consumption, that he would not want to attract the wrath of turkish nationalists here at the idea of helping the kurds, but then he bowed to politics and on the ground he is going to help kurdish fighters to go in and that's as far as turkey will go. but cer