On the outskirts of london. I think that those guys would have already committed violence if they could have so neither the nature of the violence and looking differently at Stamford Raffles, nor the amount of violence, founder of modern singapore i foresee changing substantially, an artist takes a more critical view now that baghdadi is gone. Three people, arrested of his place in history. After the discovery of 39 bodies in a refrigerated container lorry in the uk, have been released on bail. The driver Maurice Robinson is due to appear in court on monday, charged with manslaughter. Meanwhile the families of those feared dead, have been holding vigils announcer live from our studios in and ceremonies back in vietnam. Many are thought to have come london and singapore. This is bbc from the village of yen thanh, from wherejonathan head reports. World news, its newsday. Singing. A community overwhelmed its iam here in london, 9 00 in the morning by shock and despair. In singapore and 9
Hello, and welcome to bbc news. President trump has announced that us forces have killed the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, in syria. He said that he had watched images of the operation as it unfolded from the white house. The is leader had been described as the worlds most wanted man. In 2011 the us officially designated him a terrorist and offered a reward of 10 million for information leading to his capture or death. His death had been wrongly reported on several occasions. He emerged in 2010 as the leader of alqaeda in iraq, one of the groups that merged with is, and rose to prominence during the attempted merger with the al nusra front in syria. This report from our middle east editor, jeremy bowen. Explosions. The sound and flame of battle lasted around four hours, witnesses in the village told the bbc. In the morning, boys on their way to school checked out the rubble. Theyre from a new generation violent jihadists might try to recruit. Nothing was left
But first as we go to air this hour, argentinas left wing candidate, Alberto Fernandez, has won the countrys president ial election. The Current Centre right president , Mauricio Macri, has conceded defeat. Referring to mr fernandez as president elect, macri told his supporters the two spoke about beginning an orderly political transition. The result shifts one of latin americas biggest economies firmly back towards the left, after it was battered by economic crisis. The Peronist Alberto Fernandez had more than 47 of the vote, ahead of macris a0 . 45 was needed to avoid a runoff and win the election outright. This is being seen as a vote against austerity, a vote against an economic crisis that has hit millions of argentinians hard. One in three people now live in poverty and, with inflation at around 50 , the economic crisis is unmanageable and many blamed mr macri for failing to make things better. He said he needed more time. These are life pictures coming in from one of the capital
A more critical view. President trump has announced that us forces have killed the leader of the Islamic State group, abu bakral baghdadi, in syria. He said that he had watched images of the operation as it unfolded from the white house. This report from our middle east editorjeremy bowen. Explosions. The sound and flame of battle lasted around four hours, witnesses in the village told the bbc. In the morning, boys on their way to school checked out the rubble. Theyre from a new generation violent jihadists might try to recruit. Nothing was left of the house where baghdadi and his family had been staying. Translation the heli went back and fired. Soldiers rode down on the helis, on two sides, we couldnt stay longer than two minutes on the roof. We went down and hid inside. In 2014, Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi declared the establishment of a caliphate his brutal vision of an islamic entity. He spoke in mosul, iraqs second city, in the mosque his men destroyed as their caliphate fell three year
We are getting more information by the hour and the day about exactly what happened in manchester. Much of the focus on salman abedi, this young man who appears to have been the suicide bomber. The more we learn, the more you learn, does it seem to you this fits a familiar template or does this in any way seem different from europes other mass murders of recent times . I think it fits a familiar template but it is changing. You know, terrorism is not always the same. And within that sort of Third Generation jihadism that we have witnessed over the years, of course. Of course as a frenchman, what happened in manchester reminds us of the bataclan Music Hall Attack On 13th November 2015. But there it was a whole group of people who were largely organised, who had come back from syria through belgium, and you know, there were a number of people, the attacks took place in many places, they were coordinated, the stadium of france, in the sidewalk cafes, this is a loner. He acted alone. Maybe