In the premier league. The gap is down to three points after a 3 0 win over aston villa. Good morning. We are heading for a sparkling sunday, a much better day than yesterday, right across the country. Lots of sunshine to be hard, but it is also going to feel colder. All the details coming up shortly. Its sunday, the 27th of october. Our top story the white house says President Trump will make a major statement later, following reports of a Us Special Forces operation against the leader of the Islamic State group. Mr trump himself tweeted that something very big had just happened, although he gave no details. Us media say mr trump authorised the operation targetting Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi in the syrian province of idlib on saturday. We can speak now to our middle east correspondent tom bateman, who joins us from the turkey syria border. Tom, whats the latest . Well, i think the fact president has made the tweet you talked about there, and also does the white house is saying a major state
But we start with the Rugby World Cup and wales devastation after losing in their semi final to south africa. The two sides were evenly matched for most of the game, but the springboks just edged it 19 16. It means there now wont be an all british final as our Sports Correspondent andy swiss explains from yokohama. The anticipation was deafening, wales fans, hoping for history, could they join england in the World Cup Final . Well, their passion was obvious. But they would need poise as well. A scrappy first half wont have revealed much to watching england coach, eddiejones, but the springboks edged it. Andre pollard booting them 9 6 ahead at the break. After it, wales task got even tougher, as de allende bulldozed through to put south africa in command. But wales are a side of remarkable resilience, and back they came. Commentator world cup semifinal try josh adams giving their fans fresh hope. Suddenly it was 16 16. What drama. With less than five minutes to go, a penalty to south af
By us special forces. A brutal killer, one who has caused so a brutal killer, one who has caused so much hardship and death, it has violently been eliminated. The us says al baghdadi detonated an explosives vest, after being cornered in a compound, in North Western syria. The Government Presses ahead with attempts to get a december general election. Ministers will put a vote before parliament, tomorrow. Vigils are held in vietnam by families who fear their loved ones are among the 39 people found dead in a lorry in essex. Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With us are martin bentham, the evening standards home affairs editor, and business commentator, josie cox. Many of tomorrows front pages are already in. He died like a dog President Trumps words lead on the metro after the worlds most wanted man and leader of is Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi is killed in a us raid. The guardian also has that story. The telegraph reports the Prime Minister
Politicians hong kongs chief executive kerry limeys forced to delay her on your policy speech and anger in south korea after its football world cup qualifier in pyongyang is paid to empty stands without live coverage. I am. Thank you for joining as turkeys president won insists the military operation in syria will continue until his countrys objectives have been achieved speaking to his Party Members a short while ago otoh on reiterated that hes not against this area and people but against what he calls a violent forces in the region his comments come as u. S. Vice president mike pence along with a delegation make their way to ankara theyll be seeking an immediate cease fire in northeast syria as International Condemnation of the turkish offensive grows. But. We havent come to this point suddenly starting this operation after a struggle against the steere organization this is been a 40 year history and also within syria has an 8 year history in the last 40 years tens of thousands of pe
Officials in rwanda meet to decide how to stop the spread of ebola from neighboring democratic republic of congo. In sport the world of cycling mourns the death of a young writer for the 2 year old dog lambrakis killed in a crash at the top of pollard. But 1st the arguments between the worlds 2 largest economies are causing stock market volatility worldwide the main indices in tokyo and Hong Kong Shanghai and sydney they all suffered losses in early tuesday trading in europe the markets steadied after posting their biggest today drop in over 3 is investors a concern that china is allowing its currency to slide and using the yuan as a weapon in the trade war with the United States and woman. Day in the 1st movie its kind in 25 years the u. S. Treasury accused the chinese of being currency manipulator is Chinas Communist Party newspaper responded by accusing the americans of deliberately destroying International Order the value of the yuan has fallen almost 2 and a half percent in 3 days