Around half of the more than 4,000 people infected with ebola have died so far. But as Syria and Iraq dominated headlines, is the international community paying enough attention to containing the crisis? No, according to Brookings Institution senior fellow Michael O’Hanlon. He discusses the risks on the News Hub with Sara Murray.

Is the World Doing Enough on Ebola Outbreak?

LONDON primary school-aged children are being trained for jihad as intelligence chiefs warn British fighters returning from Iraq and Syria were preparing terrorist attacks on the capital.

The threat has prompted authorities to call on teachers, social workers and other child protection staff to look out for radicalisation in children with fears their families were pushing them to extremism.

London Deputy Mayor Stephen Greenhalgh yesterday revealed he and mayor Boris Johnson were shocked when briefed by security chiefs and Scotland Yard about children under the age of 10 being trained to be “junior jihadis”.

He described as “shocking” case studies which found children subjected to extreme ideology and propaganda and indoctrinated against their home in Britain.

“It is pretty horrendous when you hear how some of these children are being radicalised,” he told The London Evening Standard.

“The threat of radicalisation of young people is real and this is a problem that is going to be with us not just for a couple of years but for the next generation.”

TONY ABBOTT; Beheadings could happen in Australia

NEXT STEP: Australia ‘to disrupt Islamic State militants’ capabilities

British security chiefs also revealed at least 40 British fighters returning to the UK from conflict with terror groups overseas were plotting “blowback” terrorist attacks back at home.

Earlier this year, British authorities revealed a plot, dubbed Operation Trojan Horse, where Islamic fanatics were covertly moving into schools and marginalising or forcing out head teachers to put their own fanatics in to segregate class rooms into Muslim and non-Muslim and indoctrinate the curricular with anti-West and extremist views.

The operation was in Birmingham but the fanatics had allegedly been discussing how to expand the program to other cities.

An investigation concluded there had been a “coordinated, deliberate and sustained” attempt to introduce “intolerant and aggressive Islamic ethos” into Birmingham schools. Several schools were named and some principals resigned in what many Muslim groups claimed was a deliberate witch hunt against their faith.