Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome your host for tonight. Chris mccausland applause hello, ladies and gentlemen welcome to ouch storytelling live at the Edinburgh Festival fringe cheering and applause ijust turned 42, just a month ago. I am enjoying being in my 405, if im honest, i feel good for it. I dont do birthday parties though. I didnt even have a aoth. My mates, they took me to see guns n roses live, or so they told me anyway. We could have just gone to their houses and put the live album on, couldnt we . Charge me six quid a pint for three hours. Not as busy as you would have thought, this guns n roses concert, is it chris . Not as popular as they were, it seems. You enjoying yourself . Yeah, mate, sound. It sounds a bit weird, theres a cat, but never mind. We have go a series of storytellers today who each have a disability or a Mental Health difficulty. Some of these guys have never been on stage before. The theme this year is lost and found, and weve let the guys interpret
For kyle edmund in australia as he books his place in his first grand slam quarter final. More on that and the rest of the days sport in sportsday at 7. 30. Good evening. The authorities in afghanistan now say that m foreigners and four Afghan Nationals were killed in an attack on an International Hotel in the capital kabul. After heavy fighting that lasted twelve hours, Afghan Special forces took control of the intercontinental hotel, killing the gunmen who stormed it yesterday evening. More than 150 people managed to escape, or were rescued. The taliban says it carried out the attack. Our correspondent Zia Shahreyar reports from kabul. The final moments of a fight that had lasted all night. Gunfire and explosions as Afghan Special forces battled to regain control of the intercontinental hotel. One soldier throws a grenade. He moves away, then the explosion. The room is soon on fire, evidence of the struggle that had taken place. The Afghan National flag waving from the roof, proof th
Hello, im katty kay in washington, Christian Fraser is in london. It is almost eight years since american journalist james foley was kidnapped by the Islamic State group in syria. He was murdered by his captors. So too were alan henning, david haines from britain, peter kassig, Steven Sotloff and kayla muellerfrom america. Some of them forced to appear in propaganda videos pleading for their lives before they were killed. Today, two of the alleged members of the gang, that were dubbed the beatles Alexanda Kotey and el shafee elsheikh, were flown from an airbase in iraq to the United States. They become the first defendants to be prosecuted in a us court, for the beheadings of the american and british hostages. In all, thejihadist cell was responsible for the murders of 27 people. The ringleader was the former west londoner mohammed emwazi, who appeared as a black masked executioner, the man we knew as jihadi john. He was killed in 2015 in a us drone strike in raqqa. Kotay and elsheikh