A woman from birmingham, who bought her husband a combat knife that he planned to use in a terror attack, has been found guilty of preparing an act of terrorism. Madihah taheer, whos 21, had expressed her support for the Islamic State group on social media, but she told Woolwich Crown court that she hadnt known what the knife was for, as our Home Affairs Correspondent Dominic Casciani reports. Wrestled to the ground by armed police, a birmingham man setting out to kill. This was the man arrested, ummariyat mirza. He wanted to rampage in his home city. Now convicted alongside his wife, Madihah Taheer, and his sister, zainub, who encouraged them both. Mirza was obsessed with knives and replica guns. He wanted to fight in syria but then turned his attention to home. His pregnant wife bought him this combat knife on her credit card and he trained on this martial arts dummy. Mirzas attack plan wasnt fully formed when he was arrested but he has admitted preparing an act of terrorism by resea
Of Million Pounds for one cask of rare Scotch Whisky the private collection thats up for sale. And coming up on sportsday on bbc news liverpool, Manchester City and tottenham are all in Champions League action tonight. Spurs host defending champions real madrid at wembley. Good evening and welcome to the bbcs news at six. Police in new york say the man behind yesterdays attack, which left eight people dead and many others injured, had been planning it for weeks and carried it out in the name of so called islamic state. 29 year old sayfullo siapov moved to america from uzbekiztan on a us Visa Programme seven years ago. President trump has ordered Security Services to step up vetting procedures. And he said america must get tougher, smarter and much less politically correct. Yesterdays atrocity happened just a few blocks away from where the twin towers were attacked in 2001. Saipov swerved his truck onto a path and hit pedestrians and cyclists at speeds of up to 60 miles an hour, before
Breaking fa cup run, the city is experiencing a baby boom well find out why good evening and welcome to bbc news. In the past hour, the defence secretary sir Michael Fallon has resigned, saying his behaviour in the past may have fallen short. Lets go straight to westminster and speak to our Political Correspondent alex forsyth. What do we know . We have received a copy of a letter sir Michael Fallon sent to the Prime Minister setting out his reasons for his resignation. In that, he says in recent days and number of allegations have surfaced about mps including some about his previous conduct and he says that many have been false but he accepts that in the past he has fallen short of the High Standards expected of the armed forces so he has reviewed his position and therefore decided to resign. He talks about things he is proud of in his role, such as the fight against Islamic State in iraq and syria and he says he will continue his work on the backbenches. We have also had theresa mays
Into the record books. And coming up in the sport later in the hour on bbc news england women are pegged back on the opening day of the ashes test in sydney, one that they cant afford to lose. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. For the second time in just a week, theresa may is embarking on another cabinet reshuffle. She is carrying out a delicate balancing act as she decides who will replace priti patel as International Development secretary. Ms patel is a prominent brexit supporter, and the Prime Minister is facing calls to replace her with someone who also backs leaving the eu. 0ur Political Correspondent Eleanor Garnier reports from westminster. Cleaning up after a chaotic week. Notjust one but two cabinet ministers gone within days. No pressure on the Prime Minister to get her Government Back on track. How damaging is all this for the government . As the rest of a cabinet like the brexit secretary and fresh faces like the new chief whip try to get on with theirjobs
Process is gone through now. Labour said the exact allegations of the nature of the details that carl sa rg ea nt nature of the details that Carl Sargeant and his family were looking for when not going to be forthcoming for when not going to be forthcoming for quite some time. Under the rule book of the labour party, when allegations of a sexual nature are made, both parties need to provide written statements and then the accused received the exact nature of the allegations so that was going to come in time. There have been questions about the first ministers conduct in all of this, for example why the labour party initiated this independent inquiry last friday after he was sacked from the Welsh Government and the labour party initiated that, why then did carwyn jones on monday of this week to a round of interviews in which he spoke about those allegations. The familys solicitor had accused him of prejudicing the inquiry by giving those interviews. The Welsh Assembly said its important