Wales are out of the Rugby World Cup, after losing to south africa in the semi final. And in half an hour, well take a more in depth look at some of the weeks stories in dateline london. Us media are reporting the military has conducted an operation against the leader of the so called Islamic State group. The white house says President Trump will make a statement later today. There are unconfirmed reports he will announce the groups leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi was killed during a us led raid yesterday. The is leader has been described as the worlds most wanted man. In 2011 the us officially designated him a terrorist and offered a reward of ten Million Dollars for information leading to his capture or death. His death has 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. Mark lowen reports. A night time strike on the
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Down by politicians hong kongs chief executive carrie lamb is forced to delay her annual policy speech. And im li harding with sports the olympic marathons in tokyo are being moved to avoid the summer heat and barcelonas match with real madrid could be switched because of the protests in the city. President has promised to keep fighting in syria until all these countries goals have been based rich of Tayyip Erdogan is shrugging off International Pressure for an immediate cease fire and the battle on the ground goes on the town of wrestle and remains the front line of the conflict theres gunfire and heavy artillery that have been heard across the city as turkish and Kurdish Forces battle for control diplomatic if its to end the fighting role so intensifying u. S. Vice president mike pence and secretary of state. A travelling to turkey to push for a cease fire the u. S. Delegation is due to meet the turkish president. With President Trumps threat of more sanctions if theyre ignored but t
Plans to withdraw the remaining us troops in Northern Syria. Kenyan runner Brigid Kosgei sets a new world record for the womens marathon, beating paul radcliffes time set 16 years ago. The family of 19 year old harry dunn who was killed in a motorbike accident are on their way to the United States in the hope of a meeting the woman involved in the crash. Ann sacoolas, the wife of an intelligence officer, left for the us after the accident in northamptonshire. Police say theyre liaising closely with the Foreign Office. Heres andy moore with the latest. On her way to the states, harry dunns mother. She now has an apology from the woman who killed her son. But she said sorry just wasnt enough. Harrys father is on the same flight. The parents want to lobby politicians and raise the profile of their case in america. They also hope to meet anne sacoolas, who now has agreed to a meeting. In a statement, through her lawyers, she said. Harry dunn was riding his motorbike when he was hit by mrs
Weeks that they believe that the body was either immersed into acid or destroyed in an oven that was built inside the consuls president so these questions they will have to be one of the key problems between saudi arabia and turkey is took insisting on who gave the order to kill you because from a turkish perspective they believe this is someone who is really the loans of the of the of the saudis chain of command let me ask you about a few things that are mentioned in the report now hashim this special rapporteur war found that both the investigation of requests conducted by saudi arabia and turkey also failed she said to meet International Standards regarding the investigation into unlawful deaths so she is somewhat pointing a finger here at turkey saying that they didnt do the investigation correctly what access what sort of access did the terrorists have to the consulate what sort of evidence did they come up with do we know that. Well basically when i was here she was denied access