Boy fell into a well. The United States says it did everything it could to minimise civilian casualties during a raid in syria in which the leader of the Islamic State group was killed. The president said that Abu Ibrahim Al qurayshi, also known as Hajji Abdullah, blew himself up, along with four members of his family, as us specialforces approached the building. 13 people, including children, were killed, but no us casualties were reported. The bbc S State Department correspondent Barbara Plett usher reports. In a corner of Northwest Syria where a forgotten conflict simmers, america reminded the Islamic State group that its leaders were still a target. The raid took place in the dead of night and lasted two hours. Us Special Forces landed in helicopters near the home of the is leader, Hajji Abdullah. Those close by described a night of terror. Translation when we got out of the house, we saw aircraft flying over our heads. And after ten minutes, we heard them shouting, give yourself u
Hour. Stocks are set for a positive start after earnings reports, treasuries are falling. Chinese deflation danger growing. Softbanks vision fund set to return to profit. We are getting a slew of trade data from around the region. We see the goods trade surplus widening. We are seeing the current account surplus widening. This as we continue to watch the won as a key currency pair, sentiment has been souring. Not just south korea, always a bellwether when it comes to those first 20 days. We are expecting further weakness. The goods trade surplus is widening to 3. 985 billion, the current account number coming at 5. 8 billion. Shery take a look at how u. S. Futures are trading, we are seeing a muted picture. The s p 500 is being led higher by financials. There is a lot for markets to take in this week. We were talking about cpi numbers totaling more than 100 billion but the market has to digest. Were talking about more stability and investors are focused. Took a bit of time for digester
Reports of a man brandishing a knife. They try to deal with that situation at that location. But they say the man jumped into a car, took off that resulted in a pursuit. And during the pursuit, they say the man got out fired shots at deputies hitting for them before hopping back into his car. Taking off from the scene. But not before a sheriffs deputies returned fire on him. He ultimately crashed and died. They dont know if he died from gunfire or because he crashed his car and hit say, for example, a poll thats still part of the investigation, whether he was hit or not by the deputies. As pfar as the deputies, we do know that one was hit in the head critical but stable condition. 3 others, one was hit in the hand. 2 others in the leg at this particular point. The suspects name not being released to the public, but this area stony point road, you can see, as i mentioned, more officers arriving to the scene. Heres another one for you. Theyre not allowing anybody to go beyond belleview a
to death in nottingham say they ve been let down by police after their killer is given a hospital order for three counts of manslaughter by diminished responsibility. russia says missile fragments and black boxes have been found at the sight of a plane crash which has said to have killed tens of ukrainian prisoners of war. nhs consultants reject a new pay offer with 51% of union staying with the issue of capital punishment and according to amnesty international, the number of executions is rising globally, despite many countries abolishing the use of capital punishment. according to the latest figures, in 2022, 55 countries had the death penalty. one of those is japan, where a man has been sentenced to death following a deadly arson attack on an animation studio in kyoto in 2019 which killed 36 people. shinji aoba had previously admitted setting the building on fire. his lawyers had sought an acquittal on the grounds of mental incompetence, but the judge rejected that a
scheduled to open in 2025 so next year forjust over half the current expected cost. that was delayed to 2027, and the french utility operator edf now says it will be another two years before the project is complete. it s the latest setback in energy capacity and security for the uk and may put pressure on the british government to intervene. our business editor simon jack explains the wider implications for the british government. edf will shoulder the cost of this because they agreed back in 2016 or a higher price at which they would supply electricity, they would take the risk, but it is notjust their problem because the government wants to build an identical plant at sizewell in suffolk, and for that plant, customers will be on the hook a little bit, it will be added to their bills to pay for the construction over a decade or so. the government has put into 5p of its own money and trying to raise private capital to try and fund this. they say they are still supporters