On the government over brexit, is named the most influential black briton of the year. Its ok to be who you are because it will make you a success, not in spite of it. And coming up on sportsday on bbc news. Jesse lingards on song for manchester united. Well tell you if they reached the quarterfinals on a big night of league cup action. Good evening. President xijinping has consolidated his position at the top of chinese politics, becoming the nations most powerful leaderfor a generation. His name and his political philosophy, summarised as socialism with chinese characteristics, have now been added to the communist partys constitution, a rare honour only given to two other former leaders, chairman mao and deng xiao ping. The announcement came on the final day of the 19th Party Congress in beijing, and could see the president remain in power beyond the end of his second and supposedly final five year term in 2022. Rivals now wont be able to challenge him without threatening the communi
Bankrolled brexit. But is he all he seems . We have been investigating. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Two republican senators have attacked president trump. In a fierce attack on president trump, jeff flake claims reckless, outrageous and undignified behaviour at the top of Us Government is endangering democracy. Mr trump has previously called mr flake toxic. Bob corker described him as an utterly untruthful president. Our north america editorjon sopel is in washington. We are used to politicians talking in code. This doesnt need to go into google translate. He says the flag ra nt into google translate. He says the flagrant disregard for truth or decency by the president , most often for the pettiest and most personal reasons. Hes not alone. There was another republican senator standing down, senator bob corker, who said the president seems incapable of telling the truth. Does this matter . Well, the republicans have the most narrow majority in the senate, 52 to 48 democrats. W
Is thought to have died while clearing landmines in the city of raqqa. The former it worker had first travelled to the middle east two years ago, and had been fighting with Kurdish Militia groups. Quentin sommerville reports. Today is the 26th september and daesh attacked behind our lines in raqqa. Syria wasnt his country and he wasnt a soldier, but jack holmes from bournemouth made the battle against the so called Islamic State his own. He said the fight against is was everyones war. I met him just over a month ago before raqqa fell. It was to be his last television interview. Is were a threat to the world, he said. They are a barbaric, fascist terrorist organisation who essentially want to take over the world and, if you dont comply by their rules, they will kill you. You worked in it, right, in bournemouth . Yeah, a long time ago. Yeah, a long time ago now, but why is that your fight . Originally, ijust feel like it was something that i wanted to do, i had to do it and i knew i coul