for life. and coming up in sportsday on bbc news. testing times for the champions leicester, this time in europe, as they faced the spanish side sevilla in the last 16 of the champions league. good evening. the fiance of the children s author helen bailey has been found guilty of murdering her and dumping her body in a cesspit under their garage in hertfordshire. ian stewart, who s 56, drugged ms bailey over several weeks before smothering her in april last year, in the hope of claiming a multi million pound inheritance. the couple had met through an online bereavement group. it s emerged that detectives are now re examining the sudden death of mr stewart s first wife in 2010. our home affairs correspondent june kelly reports. police recorded ian stewart s arrest at his home. i m arresting you on suspicion of the murder of helen bailey. you re joking! he was stunned he d finally been caught out. for three months he d been living with the body of his wealthy partner buried und
the job seeking challenge faced by south africa s 2.8 million disabled people. iraqi security services say they ve arrested over 1,000 suspected islamic state members in eastern mosul since it was recaptured over a month ago. as militants attempt to fight off government forces for control of the western half of the city, the authorities say sleeper cells 0n the hunt for sleeper cells, these agents from the national security service are on their way to raid a addresses across eastern mosul, chasing those who fight for the so called islamic state. and it is not long before they track down their first suspect. after his arrest, he was questioned about other suspects. the agents learn there are more men in the house. three suspects are rounded up in this raid. including a teenager. this man claims he is innocent. a warning shot. in this area, everyone is treated with suspicion. security is so important in mosul at the moment, and it is a big concern. raids on sleeper cells are co
updates on the french presidential elections with the first vote just two months away. lots has been going on today. we can show you some of the pictures. here you can see the far right candidate marine le pen, she has been talking about foreign policy. the centralist, emmanuel macron, has picked up the support of france while francois bayroux. the police have been firing tear gas at students who have been protesting against a member of the police force who raped a student. there have been suggestions that marine le pen will come top of the first round. i asked james reynolds for more about marine le pen‘s she has been talking about foreign policy. we know a lot of her positions. she would like an alliance with russia s president. she wants france to leave nato. she wa nts to she wants france to leave nato. she wants to hold a reference mick a referendum about france s membership of the eu. and she also wants to talk about deporting criminals. we know a lot of her pos
puzzling day for the markets stop staging their intraday reversal since march and the move came as reversed sharply off lows, this following tragic death of uk lawmakers some interpreted to mean decrease odds of brexit. is brexit now off the table? how do the markets respond? bk, you made the observation first. it s terrible that market is actually reacting to this type of thing and action. that did move the market, the pound move and the rest of the markets. i take this as saying it s not necessarily off the table at all. but given the way the markets were trading, you had so many down days in a row, a lot of people short-term shorts in it. it was probably a good place for people to cover and that accelerated itself. i would not necessarily buy into the rumor brexit is off the table. i think it s still out there but there are other issues we have out there and that s the slowing of the global economy. if you believe it s an option, on the table, you had market reaction,
civil suit. the justice department dropping its two-year effort. we ve got the details on that coming up. meantime, amazon is making a big bet on its echo device called alexa. all the alexas answering out there, people listening in. they re looking to make it a $1 billion business. will increasing competition from apple and google get in its way. that s something we ll look at coming up here. plus, the end of an era. the partnership between american express and costco will officially end on monday. we ve got new details on how american express is looking to address the losses. what citigroup and visa are planning next. let s start with the concerns over next week s uk vote whether to leave the european union. will fred front is about to head over to london for coverage of that big event. before you leave, though, will, give us the latest. thanks very much. campaigning on both sides of the brexit debate was postponed today following that fatal shooting of labor party,