and the scottish city returning cultural artefacts looted from india during british rule in the 19th century. hello and welcome to bbc news. we start in the us, where a former british member of the islamic state group has been sentenced to life in prison by a court in virginia. 34 year old el shafee elsheikh was among a group of british is members who carried out a brutal reign of terror in syria. our north america correspondent nomia iqbal reports from virginia. and then they would ask me to. el shafee elsheikh claimed he was a simple is fighter who wanted to help. but it wasn t true. he was part of the islamic state group which terrorised large swathes of iraq and syria between 2014 and 2017. beatings, electrocutions and mock executions were carried out by the jihadists on western hostages, who called their torturers the beatles due to their english accents. elsheikh, who left london tojoin is, was convicted of his part in a hostage murder plot in which four americans were
photographs of her dead husband and daughter after a fatal helicopter crash. and the scottish city returning cultural artefacts looted from india during british rule in the 19th century. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. we start in the us, where a former british member of the islamic state group has been sentenced to life in prison by a court in virginia. 34 year old el shafee elsheikh was among a group of british is members who carried out a brutal reign of terror in syria. our north america correspondent nomia iqbal reports from virginia. and then they would ask me to. el shafee elsheikh claimed he was a simple is fighter who wanted to help. but it wasn t true. he was part of the islamic state group which terrorised large swathes of iraq and syria between 2014 and 2017. beatings, electrocutions and mock executions were carried out by the jihadists on western hostages, who called their torturers the beatles due to their english accents. elsheikh
obtained by cnn suggest otherwise. cnn s sam kiley has more on a potential diplomatic breakthrough in an attempt to avoid a nuclear disaster. here s more from sam. yes, it could be seen as some kind of diplomatic breakthrough that the russian president has endorsed the idea that the international atomic energy authority, the body responsible for inindividuallating, if you like, nuclear power stations around the world, should be allowed to go to the zaporizhzhia nuclear power station and check it out, and install and reinstall the monitoring systems. the fact of the matter, though, is that this is a repeated russian offer and amidst a russian rejection of the international community s demands that they demilitarize the nuclear power station and the town around it. the reason the international community wants to see that is that this has been the locus of fighting. it s effectively on the front line. we know for an absolute fact, jim, that there are missiles being fired out o
worst drought in 1,200 years. we ll drive this lake down to elevation 1,000. that is 100 feet above dead pool, and you re at the bottom of the martina glass. prosecutors now have less than one week to submit proposed redactions to the judge so he can decide what might be released publicly. i think judge rinehart is going to protect the identity of confidential informants. even as his legal problems are mounting his hold on the republican party is tightening. i m phil mattingly in washington. pamela brown has the day off, and you are in the cnn newsroom. we want to begin this hour in ukraine as it wrestles with the terrifying fear of a nuclear disaster. it is now almost six months to the day since russia launched its unprovoked invasion. new video from ukraine s ministry of defense right here says this is a successful strike destroying a rare russian radar complex in south eastern ukraine. ukraine is about to get more u.s. help in its fight against russia. the pent
rifled through melania s closet in donald trump s office. let s hope we get that camera footage which they have. or the fact that an anti trump judge is giving the fbi carte blanche to redact whatever it wants from the affidavit we deserve to see. maybe you saw hunter biden enjoying a free stay at a $20 million south carolina mansion and thought to yourself, how come the fbi is not going after him? how dare you ask that question? how dare you question the fbi s credibility. don t you know you are starting a civil war? at this point, i do think we have to have serious conversations around preparing for actual violence. people keep saying a civil war is coming. i would say a civil war is here. and i don t mean to be hyperbolic. pete: civil war is here. she means it the left has been rooting for a national divorce for years. if, in fact, there is a civil war here, it s the tiffany crosses, the hillary clintons. the pelosis of the world who started it. they serve the papers.