Today. Its five oclock. Our main story. Two british medical students who travelled to join so called Islamic State almost two years ago have been killed in fighting in the iraqi city of mosul. They were pa rt of a group of british medics, many of them of sudanese origin, whojoined is in 2015. Our Home Affairs Correspondent Daniel Sandford reports. The Young British medic who travel to join so called Islamic State, then made a Propaganda Video to encourage others to follow. Ahmed sadi khider was seen in 2015 a p pa re ntly sadi khider was seen in 2015 apparently pitching is medical stu d e nts apparently pitching is medical students anatomy and appealing for other doctors tojoin the self declared caliphate. Other doctors tojoin the selfdeclared caliphate. All the people who specialise, surgeons, anything where you can help would be great, there will be great reward. And this isjihad. He was one of a group of around a dozen british students, mostly from sudanese families, who all studied
mostly girls schools across the country. according to an mp, at least 5000 students have been poisoned, they report headache, nausea, sometimes hospitalisations and there are serious concerns about the possibility of having a radical islamic group being behind these attacks. which is another push by them in order to force women to go back home and abandon their education. so on one hand we have a society that is a very progressive and once freedom and on the other had a government that is very religious and even within the government there are radical factions that it seems that the government are incapable of control. we are looking pictures now of the aftermath of some of those poisonings in schools and very few arrests and seemingly very little done to try and catch those behind
hard in a previous operation that we did, we just rolled them back, set them back ten years. we destroyed their attack titles, our senior commanders, we wiped out their aerial and naval capacity. and i think they have second thoughts before they enter it. they are trying to rebuild and reconstitute the losses including the economic losses for they have stayed on the sidelines. and that is okay but what is important to understand is ultimately, as long as you have a radical islamic group, terrorist group right next your doorstep, this is not thousands of miles away from state new york. this is a 5 meters or if you want, 40 miles from tel aviv. literally hundreds of meters from israeli communities. as long as you have that and they are committed to your destruction, you have only one course that is to be very strong. much stronger than them and hit
zero. start with senator lindsey graham. senator graham, as we sit here today, i think it s so important obviously to reflect, and that was a time of great tragedy and unique unity that you experienced on capitol hill that day. we re also finding ourselves in a difficult situation going forward. your thoughts. number 1, let s look back and honor those that were murdered. this was mass murder on a large scale by a radical islamic group who desires to impose a master religion on the world. let s remember the families of the fallen, the heros of that day and the heros the last 20 years that stepped up to fight these bastards. i ve never been so sick and mad as i am right now. 20 years later, who is in charge of afghanistan? what have we done? we left hundreds, not a hundred,