and the scottish city returning cultural artefacts looted from india during british rule in the 19th century. hello and welcome to bbc news. we start in the us, where a former british member of the islamic state group has been sentenced to life in prison by a court in virginia. 34 year old el shafee elsheikh was among a group of british is members who carried out a brutal reign of terror in syria. our north america correspondent nomia iqbal reports from virginia. and then they would ask me to. el shafee elsheikh claimed he was a simple is fighter who wanted to help. but it wasn t true. he was part of the islamic state group which terrorised large swathes of iraq and syria between 2014 and 2017. beatings, electrocutions and mock executions were carried out by the jihadists on western hostages, who called their torturers the beatles due to their english accents. elsheikh, who left london tojoin is, was convicted of his part in a hostage murder plot in which four americans were
we view the world. some books, most books, get ignored, but there are a few that touch us and hit us to the core and they do so because of how they inspire us with a sort of ineffable quality of love, and how we carry those books around with us and they become part of how we move around in the world and how we walk in the world. and the fundamental argument in that lecture is that hate does not do the same thing, you can t be inspired and pushed and changed and shaped by hate in the same fundamental way that you can be by love. and the bottom line of it all, when we re talking about literature and when we re talking about books, we re talking about love, and the possibility of it. the widow of the basketball star kobe bryant, who was killed in a helicopter crash in 2020, has testified in court that she had panic attacks after learning that emergency responders took
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