Hello, and welcome to bbc news. President trump has announced that us forces have killed the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, in syria. He said that he had watched images of the operation as it unfolded from the white house. The is leader had been described as the worlds most wanted man. In 2011 the us officially designated him a terrorist and offered a reward of 10 million for information leading to his capture or death. His death had 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. This report from our middle east editor, jeremy bowen. Explosions. The sound and flame of battle lasted around four hours, witnesses in the village told the bbc. In the morning, boys on their way to school checked out the rubble. Theyre from a new generation violent jihadists might try to recruit. Nothing was left
But first as we go to air this hour, argentinas left wing candidate, Alberto Fernandez, has won the countrys president ial election. The Current Centre right president , Mauricio Macri, has conceded defeat. Referring to mr fernandez as president elect, macri told his supporters the two spoke about beginning an orderly political transition. The result shifts one of latin americas biggest economies firmly back towards the left, after it was battered by economic crisis. The Peronist Alberto Fernandez had more than 47 of the vote, ahead of macris a0 . 45 was needed to avoid a runoff and win the election outright. This is being seen as a vote against austerity, a vote against an economic crisis that has hit millions of argentinians hard. One in three people now live in poverty and, with inflation at around 50 , the economic crisis is unmanageable and many blamed mr macri for failing to make things better. He said he needed more time. These are life pictures coming in from one of the capital
A more critical view. President trump has announced that us forces have killed the leader of the Islamic State group, abu bakral baghdadi, in syria. He said that he had watched images of the operation as it unfolded from the white house. This report from our middle east editorjeremy bowen. Explosions. The sound and flame of battle lasted around four hours, witnesses in the village told the bbc. In the morning, boys on their way to school checked out the rubble. Theyre from a new generation violent jihadists might try to recruit. Nothing was left of the house where baghdadi and his family had been staying. Translation the heli went back and fired. Soldiers rode down on the helis, on two sides, we couldnt stay longer than two minutes on the roof. We went down and hid inside. In 2014, Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi declared the establishment of a caliphate his brutal vision of an islamic entity. He spoke in mosul, iraqs second city, in the mosque his men destroyed as their caliphate fell three year
Hello. Apart from the odd pocket of fog this morning, its been a fine start and that dry, that sunny weather, that sunny weather, will continue for most of us throughout the rest of the day. Yes, there will be some low cloud lingering in the north east of scotland and yes, there is the risk of a scattering of showers for south west england, west wales and later Northern Ireland and the could well be thundery, but that is the but that but that is the exception to this dry rule. For most of us, it will feel warm again in the sunshine, but it will be tempered today by a stronger wind and a strong and gusty wind. Followed by a vendor for persistent rain, so not a pusher tomorrow as drier weather follows with the scattering of showers. We may skip, by the archer in the north and east, but most of us will have no cloud and breezy conditions. It is not going to be as warm and there is not going to be as warm and there is not going to be as warm and there is not going to be as warm and address
The health secretary, matt hancock, says he wont rule out bold action to protect children, after new figures show a fall in the take up of all routine vaccinations, for the under fives in england, in the last year. Coverage of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccination, or mmr, are also down, for the fifth year in a row. Our Health Editor hugh pym has more details. Vaccines work best when 95 of children have them, which stops the disease spreading. But that isnt the case just now in england with mmr. There wasnt a care in the world for these youngsters at a play centre this afternoon, but for their parents, plenty to think about, including whether to get their children vaccinated. Some are having second thoughts. But mothers i spoke to were clear it was the right thing to do. I, honestly, am 100 for vaccinations. I believe that putting a Childs Health and happiness is always more important. What you think is behind the fall in vaccination rate . I think probably social media has a lot