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Transcripts For BBCAMERICA BBC World News 20140821

Commanders. What lessons can be learned from Police Forces in other parts of the country . 25 years ago we would not have had this conversation. There would have been an enormous amount of aaron is here. Real problems for a major u. S. Brand in russia. Doesnt get much bigger than this brand. Its under scrutiny closing four stores . Moscow and inspecting others around the country. Were going to ask is this just tit for tat sanctions between russia and the west. Its midday london, 7 00 a. M. Washington, 2 00 p. M. Mosul dam Northern Iraq where United States has continued air strikes a day after Islamic State released a horrific video showing the killing of journalist james foley. Security forces confirmed to bbc the family of james foley received an angry email apparently from captors about a week before he was beheaded. The e mail said he was going to be killed in retaliation for air strikes from the u. S. Military. The sl what could drive someone towards extreme views by someone expressed by the Islamic State . We have been speaking to a british recruit to i. S. Who shares views intolerable to majority but strongly held. You may find his comments distressing. Who is this man . Yesterday we saw him kill american journalist james foley. Hes apparently british which we know little else. His actions condemned by so many have been praised by fellow members of the Islamic State. Ive been speaking to two british jihadists today about their reaction to the video. They both told me they believed he was an american soldier not a journalist. Ive been speaking to one of the men three months by instant messaging services. Hes given insight into the brutality of british men fighting a long side the group Islamic State. He is referenced to a dead al qaeda cleric he resembles. Hes a 27yearold british pakistani. Hes been part of the advance in aleppo. He says he went to syria to fight the assad regime accused of atrocities. He eventually joined the islam pick state. It was the possible Group Fighting for return. Other groups claimed to be islamic. Actions proved otherwise. After capturing towns around aleppo from other rebel groups last week, Islamic State beheaded a number of captured fighters. I asked if it was true. Yeah, we kind of beheaded some guys. I believe maybe four, three or four guys that we beheaded. May have been more. Im not aware of them. Im aware of three or four guys i beheaded and put the heads back as usual in the town center. The reason for heads in the town center is to be more reliesed or cause fear in the hearts amongst us. Theres spies amongst us. Islamic state say they killed foley in response to u. S. Air strikes against the group in iraq. Before the strikes had taken place, i asked this fighter what the response would be to any American Action against them. His answers at times sounded like pure propaganda. Bring your soldiers. Your american soldiers. Your british soldiers. Bring them all to isis. Well send them one by one in corpses. America doesnt need to attack isis in iraq for us to attack them back. America started a war against muslims long time ago. So even if american troops do not come on our soil, well come to american soil. You slaughtered brothers a and sisters. For much of my interaction with him, he was softly spoken. I asked what led him down this radical path. Living the life of opposite past really. Just around so much. Just start questioning yourself what am i doing type thing. Being lost in this world. I question what am i doing. Theres huge concern amongst the Muslim Community here in the uk and elsewhere over what Islamic State represents. So much so that some have released a video rejecting the organizations beliefs. Lets show you that video now. Its extremely horrifying and terribly upsetting to see that beheading, killing, persecution of people taking place in the name of islam. Every soul is precious in islam. Whosoever kills a soul of a muslim, it says any soul, it is they have killed whole of humanity. If terror is going killing innocent people, islam has nothing to do with it. Theyre raising concern in the online message. We just saw the report. Our security correspondent frank gardener. The last comment made by the man youre interviewing in syria, he sounds like a young lad from around the streets where i live. It is shocking. Do you get the sense this radicalization with these young men is on the rise . The one thing that struck me most about our interaction was how softly spoken he was. I know clips we heard there were shocking. Much of the other conversation we had, he seemed like a normal, british young man. He talked about his family, about relationships, about food he miss ed from the uk. What i think is really quite striking is just how normal, in quoation mark as i say, some of these men are. I believe at the moment in parts of uk, were seeing a subset of younger Muslim Community who belief the acti leave actions of the Islamic State are justified. The vast majority would bed discusted by the video of foley some feel this is their duty. He made comments the only way hed come back to uk is with a bomb to blow up britain. Newsletters are handed out in london about things like this. How does do Intelligence Services monitor this activity . Theyve been slow to realize the gravity and scale of threat not just britain but to europe. Its gathered pace slowly. Initially there was this idea that if people want to go off to syria, well thats their loss to their danger. Actually now theres a realization more than half that go to syria to join extremist troops are coming back to uk. Do we have a number . 500 to 700 france, similar number from belgium. Its thought to be 2,000 to 2500 european jihadist going out to join Islamic State. If you look at numbers continuing to join, its huge. The syria for human rights put out figures saying in the last month, over 6,000 volunteers have joined Islamic State. 20 are from outside syria and iraq. A lot of coming from europe. Youve spoken to young men radicaliz radicalized. We hear from families and police saying theyre working together to combat this. Why is the message not getting through . Its a difficult job. As soon as the leaders start working with police, the fact to anyone who has this kind of radical belief, they become part of the enemy. If one well known for working with Government Agency for example comes into contact with someone who has extremists, they will say you were a government agent. Why should i listen to you . Its a difficult job. I think from my own interaction with these young men, one way that seems to be possible to reach out to them and make them question whether whats happening in syria, whether the actions of Islamic State are islamic justified. Its when i asked them for example the profit mohamed for example would he approve of beheading a journalist and placing his head on top of his back for example, did they really engage and thought well actually does islam allow this kind of mutilation. The head of beheading of tribes people is happening across the region at the moment. We have been focussing on the death of james foley which was of course tragic. I know you have details youve heard in the past few minutes of what happened there and also of the jihadist holding other hostages in syria. We have had confirmation from people in the middle east that there suddenly are three british jihadist guarding prisoners who have been held by islam pick state. Probably in northern syria, probably the de facto capital. Its talked about quite some time the british jihadist are amongst the most of the captors. They beat their captives. James foley got a hard time because hes american. Even though he was by nature apparently an easy going guy, he probably got beaten more than others. Ransoms paid are huge. Millions of per person. Britains and america do not pay ranso ransoms. 11 western hostages have been able to get out because money changes hands. Money is relatively small compared to vast amounts Islamic State have got. Nevertheless they organize this as an actual business. Hostage taking, ransoming, propaganda, human shield purposes and if that fails, they get the money. We have to leave it there. Thank you both for joining us. Now we can keep a cross the crisis in iraq on the website. Whats happening on the ground as well with the fighting. Theres background and analysis for you on Islamic State as well as the humanitarian crisis. Just showing how much territory they hold at the moment, go to bbc. Com news iraq. Time to bring you up to date with other news now. One of two american aid workers that contracted ebola in liberia has been released. Kent brantley and nancy were flown to atlanta to be treated in an isolation unit. Brantley has said to be recovered after given the ex experimental drug. The general who led the coup has been appointed new Prime Minister in thailand. Police in indonesia have used tear gas and Water Cannons to drive protestors near the Constitutional Court in the capital. The court now is preparing to deliver the verdict on claims of fraud in julys president ial election. Supporters of the defeated candidate has tried to break through barriers around the court building. The winner of the vote has strongly contested allegations of fraud. Do stay with us here on bbc world news. Coming up. As violence escalates in eastern ukraine, were speaking to a journalist who heads to the besieged city. 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Israel says they were involved in building tunnels used for r cross border attackattacks, no e weapons and also the plan to capture the israeli soldier here held for five years. I have to ask reaction kevin. Is it a feeling coming from israel . I certainly think of this as the kind of operation that israel has been trying to carry out probably since this conflict started. The Israeli Armed forces are as they like to see them. It demonstrates they have accurate, Real Time Intelligence coming from gaza and have the capacity to act on it. So when israeli Prime Minister netanyahu appeared in the televised News Conference last night, he seemed to be preparing Public Opinion for what would be a long war rather than a quick or easy victory. This is much more the kind of campaign that israelis would like to see. They do believe that removing key figures in the military leadership of hamas will weaken the morale and weaken ability to carry on through a long campaign. Theres certainly a sense of satisfaction here. Israel Still Believes its an open question as to whether or not the overall military commander of hamas survived the attempt to assassinate him 24 hours before the operation. Theres no question israel would see this as a victory and the kind of victory for which its been looking. Any talks at all about talks about truce or diplomacy at all . Benjamin netanyahu made talks of horizons opening up. Its hard to see much life in the political process. Look around the horizon, no new initiatives. I think both sides may be ready to seek a way out of this, but they are trapped by politics of middle east. Israel, politically netanyahu for internal reasons, cannot afford to let hamas have a victory without concession to show its own people. As long as that remains the people, its hard to see how it can be resolved. Yolande, netanyahu telling israelis theyre in for a long campaign. That must be the feeling there as well in gaza . Thats certainly the feeling with people ive been speak together. Theres a belief the brigades, hamas warned to have revenge on israel for killing of three senior commanders. Weve had defiant messages coming out after what was an assassination attempt on the top of the military wing of hamas after the israeli air strike killed his wife and infant son. Their funerals took place just one day ago. The brigade said Foreign Airlines should no longer fly to tel aviv suggesting it was planning to continue the use of longer range missiles which have been used to target tel aviv and jerusalem in the the past. Thank you for joining us. Weve seen an easy calm in ferguson, missouri, the suburb in st. Louis has seen clashes in recent days after the black teenager was killed by the white police officer. There were no major clashes with protestors last night. No molotov cocktails, no fires, no shootings. We did not see a single handgun. There were no confrontations. Just like tuesday night, tonight we deployed no smoke, no tear gas, no mace. Again tonight, police fired not a single bullet. The standoff we have seen between police and africanamerican protestors in ferguson are not new. In the streets of missouri, theyre remanenembe reminiscent 1992. We are getting word this evening of rock throwing in South Central los angeles where the verdicts are from the rising of the king beating. 1992, South Central los angeles, violence and looting spread across the city. The Los Angeles Police department was institutionally racist. The beating of rodney king was the proof on video tape of an everyday reality. For years, people had a grievance about what they call police abuse. What rodney king did on video tape validated every abuse complaint that people ever had. They were able to point it out and say that happened to me. When the policemen responsible were acquitted, the city exploded. Dozens died in six days of violence. Theyre saying the same thing in ferguson, missouri today. Two days after Michael Brown was killed in ferguson, a 24yearold was shot dead by police in la. He was unarmed and had learning difficulties. The protests here have not been as big or violent. Witnesses say he was lying face down and shot in the back. The la Police Department says in a struggle he went for the officers gun. Communities are furious. The la police chief came to the Community Meeting to hear peoples concerns. Are there were many. My question is when is this going to be ignited and fixed . How many more times are we going to come here to hear the same old you know what . Theres anger here after the shooting of ford. Its a remarkable contrast to reaction weve seen in ferguson, missouri. This is a Community Meeting for people able to take the microphone and talk directly to the police chief. 20 to 25 years ago we would not have had this information. There would have been an enormous amount where community would not trust us. A lot changed after the la riots. The police chief resigned. More black and hispanic officers were recruited. They had to bring in the National Guard in overwhelming force. Ending the violence in ferguson, missouri will be hard enough. Finding a long Term Solution will take many years of rebuilding trusts. Bbc news la. If you think panasonic is an electronic giant, youd be right. Now its turning its hand to growing vegetables. Now its branched out to smart phones and cameras. Its growing lettuce and radish in singapore. Most vegetables there are imported. Their Business Plan is make it more efficient. Stay with us coming up the next half hour on gmt. Well have more on the deadly ebola outbreak. Ill talk to the chief scientific advisor about the global battle to contain the virus. Ill speak to one of the western journalist in the ukrainian city of luhansk. Theres escalating conflict in that city and donetsk as well and ongoing humanitar

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