A British Embassy worker has been killed in beirut. The body of rebecca dykes was found by the side of a road in the city yesterday. What do we know about the circumstances and timing . Police sources believe rebecca dykes was murdered on friday night. They said they believed she had been strangled. An autopsy has been carried out and they will do another. Rebecca dykes worked at the embassy in beirut, having been there since january. She worked for the department for International Development and we have a statement from the Foreign Office in london who say they are liaising with the lebanese authorities, and also working with rebecca dykes family. The Foreign Office issued a statement from the family and they said they are devastated by the loss of our beloved rebecca and doing all they can to understand what happened. An important part of the world in terms of britains presence in the middle east. A terrible thing for the Expat Community, those involved with the Foreign Office and t
Pictures, which hands out the oscars, is meeting to decide whether to expel Harvey Weinstein after a string of allegations against him. Weather forecasters warn that hurricane ophelia is approaching the uk and may bring heavy rain and gusts of up to 80mph. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. A canadian man, kidnapped and held for nearly five years in afghanistan along with his pregnant wife, says she was raped and their baby daughter murdered. Joshua boyle and Caitlin Coleman were freed earlier this week, after being held hostage by islamic militants linked to the caliban. The caliban. He said his wife had given birth to four children, all in captivity, one of them, a baby girl, killed. Afghanistan, parts of the country remain in the grip of islamist militants. Caitlin coleman, travelled, he says, it was here that Canadian Joshua Boyle and his wife Caitlin Coleman, travelled, he says, to carry out aid work. But instead the couple were kidnapped by members of the haqqani network, li
Leave with them, the sunscreen for the little guys. Did i that yesterday for austin. They definitely needed one, out there in the sun, because the teach letters want to get them out there, get all of the energy burned off. Live look at i95 northbound, an accident, at allegheny avenue. It is on the northbound side causing delay from center city headed nor, south on 202, leaving the king of prussia mall area. And an accident just south of the ramps for 422, taking out the left lane. Benny looking good. Sun splashed, open up the sun roof, roll down the window, good looking start to the morning. Probably need the air later on today. North on 55, starting to see volume, headed in toward depford and then the clogged up work in toward the walt whitman bridge. Otherwise coming in from the suburbs, normal delays 422, the pennsylvania turnpike just under half hour, from philly over to valley forge. Mike and alex back over to you , angora terrace, somebody came up, shot him in the head, he tries
A lot of news to get to obviously the 15th year an very area of the september 11 terror attacks. First up a weather alert we need to bring you of Severe Thunderstorm Warning tore Worcester County. We want to get over to rob for a check of this forecast and what we have expecting right now. Reporter we have been tracking this line of storms moving through massachusetts when they were in western massachusetts they produced lots of reports of wind damage, mainly trees down across franklin and hampshire currently. That warning was just extend into Worcester County. Store moving about 35 Miles Per Hour as that puts them at gardner at about 19 pins and fitchburg in about 35 minutes with these storms heavy rain, wind gusts over 50 Miles Per Hour and as you can tell from our radar, a lot of lightning. Now the good news is you will be in and out of here pretty quick. The boston area later on this morning and already by 2 00 this afternoon these will be out to sea, skies will be clearing up. Hig
Covering both the syrian war and the radicalization of islam and. These rickety minibuses are how most syrian kurds get around. We were accompanied by a female fighter who was just 18 years old. The kurdish parts of syria have a very different feel to the rest of the. Many women here are uncovered on the security situation is relatively calm. But the famous syrian hospitality is very much in evidence here. Even we visited fighters on the front line we were invited to share their lunch. On this day go to them brett was on the menu. You simply cant refuse. This man is based in beirut of this cover the war in out here in the flat open ground with isis in the next lh the still scorn the isis leaders. If french russian or american fighters command to stay we will cooperate with them. Isis left a mark on nearby name. Mosque littered with mines. The silence here is breathtaking. You can just hear the complete absence of human life. Theres little in victory left to fight her. This is a very di