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
In business briefing, ill be speaking to the head of the largest Business Organisation in the world about brexit deadlines and delays. What do his 6 million members think . A warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. Also in the programme cashless and cut off by unacceptable it failures thats the conclusion from the Treasury Committee in its investigation into Online Banking crashes. Wed like to know have you been affected by it failure . If so what did it cost you . Get in touch, just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing allies of the United States have warned that the fight against the Islamic State group is not yet over, in spite of the death of its leader, Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi. President Emmanuel Macron said the raid was a blow to the group and that france would continue to work towards iss definitive defeat. Britain described it as an important moment but not the end of the organisation. Chris buckler reports from washington.
By sunday after the Supreme Court judges in the british territory ordered its release a new crew is on board in the supertanker results are being given a new name it will now sail under the rainy and flag after its registration was switched from panama and are simmons has the latest from japan. Heading towards this renamed the registered ship 44. 00 days after she was seized off the coast of gibraltar for Identification Systems still saying grace wong destination the mediterranean. As you can see theres nothing on the flagpole now the problem am flag has been removed apparently iranian flag will eventually arrive and down below theres no signage whatsoever to indicate what name this vessel has it is the adrian daria it was grace wong but no sign of it now and the Navigation Systems all of them indicates that its still growing swonk so in terms of ma its on lol this vessel really has no visible identity i think if you believe the media. If they look at the it then midway through friday