And political commentator adam raphael. Welcome to you all and thank you forjoining us. How much does one death disrupt a Terror Movement . In 2014, abu bakr al baghdadi, the leader of thejihadi Group Islamic state, declared a caliphate in iraq and syria. By the time of his death last weekend the territory had been lost, his caliphate had crumbled. But is has already declared a new leader and vowed revenge. So, barry, you start us off. Tell us what we know about this new leader. The new leader is Abu Ibrahim Al hashimi alqurayshi, he is actually an ex Saddam Hussein man. He could be more brutal than abu bakr al baghdadi. He is very influential. His name is giving a lot of meanings. When he says alqurayshi, it means that he comes from mecca, and when he says al hashimi, it means he is of the prophet. Do you believe that is true or do they have two add all of that to make it look like a deliberate link back to the profit . Do they have to add all of that . It is a deliberate move. They w
Comes from mecca and when he says al hashimi it means he is of the profit. It has a deliberate move from the he has of the prophet. They would like to say that they have more islamic legitimacy in particular. Isis is not alqaeda. It is not a one man show like a counter. There summer by night and was everything like alqaeda. Osama bin laden was everything. Isis is about the ideology and very strong ideology and they managed to create a precedent on the middle east and the islamic world to create first a state with a population of more than 7 million. The size of the state is bigger than britain. It used to have about 1 million income from the oil and gas of celia, so they still have branches in afghanistan and north africa the oil and gas of assyria. Isis is still there. The corruption, the lack of Good Governance and the sectarianism. The anarchy. If you see that there is uprising in iraq and lebanon. We will come back to all of that because there is a lot to unpack there. On this indi
Now on bbc news, dateline london. Hello and welcome to dateline london. Im carrie gracie. This week, one of the worlds most wanted men blows himself up in a suicide vest to evade us capture, but where does that leave the terror group he led . And yet another brexit deadline has passed without brexit. Can a general election now resolve this crisis . My guests today abdel bari atwan, a writer on arab affairs, the veteran New York Times Foreign Correspondent john fisher burns, broadcaster maria margaronis, and political commentator adam raphael. Welcome to you all and thank you forjoining us. Now, how much does one death disrupt a Terror Movement . In 2014, abu bakr al baghdadi, the leader of thejihadi Group Islamic state, declared a caliphate in iraq and syria. By the time of his death last weekend, the territory had been lost. His caliphate had crumbled. But is has already declared a new leader and vowed revenge. So barry, you start us off. Tell us what we know about this new leader. Th
Its dateline london. Hello and welcome to dateline london. Im carrie gracie. This week. One of the worlds most wanted men blows himself up in a suicide vest to evade us capture, but where does that leave the terror group he led . And yet another brexit deadline has passed without brexit. Can a general election now resolve this crisis . My guests today abdel bari atwan, writer on arab affairs. The veteran New York Times reporterjohn fisher burns. Broadcaster, maria margaronis, and political commentator adam raphael. Welcome to you all and thank you forjoining us. How much does one death disrupt a Terror Movement . In 2014, abu bakr al baghdadi, the leader of thejihadi Group Islamic state, declared a caliphate in iraq and syria. By the time of his death last weekend, the territory had been lost, his caliphate had crumbled. But is has already declared a new leader and vowed revenge. So, bari, you start us off. Tell us what we know about this new leader. The new leader, Abu Ibrahim Al hash
An extra hour in school for some pupils in wales as heads try out changes to the Academic Year. The Winter Olympics torch relay kicks off in beijing as chinas capital gears up for the games. Good morning. Quite a lot of Cloud Producing Light Rain in the north and east. Not as windy as it has been but it is still going to be mild. Details later in the programme. Good morning. Its wednesday, the 2nd of february. The government will today set out its long delayed Manifesto Plan to level up the lives of millions of people across the uk. The proposals include a series of pledges to improve education, Public Transport and housing in some of the most disadvantaged areas of the country. Labour have dismissed the project as more slogans and strategies. Our Political Correspondent Jessica Parker reports. We are a government committed to levelling up. It is absolutely what levelling up is all about. What were doing is levelling up. Level up across the whole of the uk. Ministers have talked about