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BBC news 2014-08-30

BBC News with Jonathan Izard.

The British government says the events in Syria and Iraq have increased the risk of a terrorist attack in Britain. The threat level has been raised from substantial to severe, the second highest threat level meaning an attack is considered highly likely, but not imminent. The Prime Minister David Cameron said Islamic State was a greater threat to Britain than any group seen before.

We are in the middle of a generational struggle against the poisonous and extremist ideology that I believe will be fighting for years, and probably decades.

In the Netherlands, the government has been outlining how it plans to deal with the growth of Muslim radicalization. Proposals include extending the government's powers to strip people of their Dutch nationality if they joined terrorist organizations overseas. Officials hope to make agreements with website providers to block Jihadist propaganda.

The Nato's Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said the alliance will fully respect Ukraine's wish to join Nato if it chooses to do so. Earlier, the Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said his government would ask parliament to seek Nato membership. Mr. Rasmussen said Russia's actions in Ukraine were a blatant violation of Ukrainian sovereignty which defied all efforts for a peaceful solution. Vyacheslav Niconov a member of Russian State Duma said he didn't believe Ukrainian Nato membership would become a reality.

I think that will not happen in any foreseeable future because I don't think Nato is in a suicidal world. Ukraine in Nato, means just one thing, Article V, with an implication of Nato war with Russia, on faked evidence of Russian aggression, and that could probably be the last war of the human kind, so I think it's a realistic proposal, I think it's just a rhetoric.

Russia has accused Poland of compromising the safety of a flight carrying the Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoygu after it was initially refused entry into Polish airspace. The Russian Foreign Minister said the Polish refusal forced the Moscow-bound plane to turn back to refuel in the Slovakian capital Bratislava where Mr. Shoygu had been attending a meeting. The ministry said the snap would not go unanswered. The plane was allowed to enter Polish airspace once it changes its status from military to civilian.

Scientists say a clinical trial of the experimental Ebola drug ZMapp has shown to be 100% effective in tests on monkeys. Evidence published in the journal Nature suggests the drug can work up to 5 days after infection. Here is our health reporter James Gallagher.

More than 1,500 people have died in the outbreak of Ebola in west Africa. There is no cure or vaccine, but some patients have been given experimental treatments. ZMapp is a cocktail of antibodies which bind to the Ebola virus. It's been described as a secret serum due to the lack of publish data. Now evidence in the journal Nature shows the drug can clear the infection in the []. Effectiveness in people is still unclear though.

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An Iraqi TV channel has reported clashes in the northwest Iran between Islamic State militants and Iran's Revolutionary Guards. The satellite channel which supports the Sunni rebels in Iraq said there had been fighting in 7 Iranian towns. It said the guards had surrounded one of them.

A Rwandan army colonel and a retired general have appeared in court in Rwanda, charged with inciting the public to rebel against the government. Colonel Tom Byabagamba was the former commander of the presidential guard while General Frank Rusagara served as a defence attache at Rwanda's diplomatic mission to Britain. They are the latest in a series of military men to be accused of challenging the rule of President Paul Kagame. 

The Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has announced a series of changes designed to revamp the country's notoriously slow justice system. His plans include making judges and lawyers work faster and giving them less time off. Alan Johnston reports from Rome.

Italian justice moves extremely slowly. Trials drag on through round after round of appeals. On average it takes 8 years to resolve a civil case. A business that goes to court to enforce a contract can wait 3 years for a verdict, twice as long as in neighboring France. And this sort of problem is driving away desperately needed foreign investment. But now Prime Minister Renzi has set out plans for change. Across the Italian legal system, millions of court cases are waiting to be heard. But Mr. Renzi promises that he will cut that backlog in half in what he described as a revolution.

Rescue teams in Nicaragua are trying to reach at least 24 workers trapped by a cave-in at a gold mine in a remote region in the north of the country. Local officials said two miners have managed to dig themselves out when their mine shaft collapsed after heavy rain. Earlier the officials said they had heard more voices of those trapped alive.

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