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
A twisted ideology u. S. Officials say the man believed to be behind tuesdays attack in new york had links to eisele. So we want to immediately work with congress on the Diversity Lottery Program on terminating it the u. S. President cracks down on immigration off the u. S. Back Asylum Seekers charged over the worst attack in new york since nine eleven. Russias president made his iranian counterpart and reiterated his support for the nuclear deal after donald trump refuses to back it. The palestinians parade an effigy of the balfour as protests marked the run up to the seventeen or a of his famous declaration. Prosecutors in the u. S. Have charged a man with terrorism related crimes for tuesdays attack in new york eight people were killed. Old when it was pick immigrant say for siple for stay at a pickup truck into a lane filled with cyclists and pedestrians kristen salumi has the latest from new york. The complaint filed in federal court in manhattan list two charges against twenty ni
The ousted Catalan Leader, Carles Puigdemont, is facing a spanish arrest warrant as eight former colleagues are detained in the wake of the disputed independence referendum. And the most endangered ape in the world, a new species of orang utan, is discovered in indonesia. Its 5 oclock. Our main story is that the bank of england has announced the first rise in Interest Rates for more than a decade, in order to curb the rate of inflation. Members of the Banks Monetary Policy Committee voted by seven to two to raise the official bank rate, from a quarter to a half of 1 . And there could be more rises to come in the months ahead. The decision will mean higher Monthly Payments for millions of households with variable Rate Mortgages. But the banks governor mark carney said households across the uk are generally well positioned to deal with the rate increase, as our economics correspondent andy verity reports. The bank of england may look exactly as it did the last time Interest Rates rose, b
A car disputable whos in belgium well go live to barcelona as well as to brussels also coming up apples a bomb put trump the tech giant fears a demand for the new i phone x is off the charts on the first day of the sales and after the check drive hits and or time high. Lost in the next thirty minutes of walking out the not phone books of Climate Change experts in activism almost two hundred nations are gathering in bonn to figure out how to make the paris Climate Change a chord book. I know and welcome im. A spanish judge is expected to issue an International Arrest warrant for asif Catalan Leader. Only she jailed nine members of the deposed scotland government after they responded to questions at the National Court in madrid one was later released on bail they may all be charged with physician meanwhile crude you know is still in brussels ill be talking to our correspondent there as well as in barcelona in a moment but first this report. They used whatever they cute to make noise and
Last strongholds. Catalonians deposed leader says he will appeal any attempt to extradite him from belgium. The strong hes committed hes smart. President onil tromping ordered recent precedent in picking the next Us Federal Reserve chief and im Peter Simmons with all the sports news of the day as patrice evra has been suspended after kicking a phone in the head during a Europa League match all of that story and more later in the program. I saw the armed group whose dramatic rise captured headlines in two thousand and fourteen is staring a defeat in its final strongholds in both iraq and syria. Syrian state television says the army and its ally forces have pushed out of the eastern city of doors or it was the groups last remaining syrian stronghold and the capital of an oil rich province border in iraq the military campaign to recapture doors or began in september when the army managed to break a three year long siege on the city and its residents and neighboring iraq the army and shia