Hello to you. Officials in the Us Defence Department have confirmed that the remains of Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, leader of the extremist group, the so called Islamic State, have been disposed of. But theyve refused to confirm he was buried at sea. Our international correspondent, orla guerin, has been speaking to one syrian victim of Islamic State and sent this report from the turkish syrian border. Just a warning, it does contain testimony you may find upsetting. A scar on the landscape, scorched earth after the us raid. This is where the Islamic State leader met his end in a tunnel beneath the soil of syria, a country he terrorised. In chicago today, President Trump regaling Police Chiefs with his war stories. Hes dead. Hes dead as a doornail. Laughter they walked into my office, sir, we killed this leader level, this leader. I said, i never heard of him. I said, i want al baghdadi, thats only one i know now. I want al baghdadi. Get him and they got him. The us operation to capture or kill al baghdadi was codenamed kayla mueller, in honour of the american aid worker he enslaved and raped. But most victims of is were muslims in the middle east. Like Ibrahim Abdul qader, a young activist from raqqa who dared to oppose them, and was slaughtered in 2015. They tried to kill his brother ahmed, who had to go into exile. We reached today in paris, where hes still getting medical treatment. But some traumas may never heal. Translation i carried ibrahim. His head was separated from his body. And he had 160 stab wounds. I was shot three times, but i dont think theres a worse pain than the one i had when i carried ibrahim in my arms. How do you think ibrahim would feel if he was alive today, knowing that al baghdadi is gone . Translation he would have celebrated in the street and shouted, we are still here and you died. Your state collapsed he always used to say that we would survive and baghdadi will die. His death was quick. As us forces closed in, he detonated his suicide vest. Is will outlive al baghdadi. And some fear that under new leader it could re emerge from the ruins. Orla guerin, bbc news, on the turkey syria border. General David Petraeus, former director of the cia, gave us his reaction to the death of al baghdadi. He was speaking to the bbcs michelle fleury. Well, i think this is very significant. Its a huge achievement. Baghdadi was, after all, the leader who established achievements that had never been seen before by islamist extremists, not even by Osama Bin Laden. He established the first caliphate. Controlled an area that i think is roughly the size of great britain. Certainly the size of the state of indiana. A very large portion of Northern Iraq and North Eastern syria. And also took the whole effort on social media and the whole effort on social media and the internet to an entirely new level. So this. The finality of his death obviously literally puts a stake through the heart of many of the images that he tried to project, not the least of which again was this extraordinary achievement of the caliphate. All of that said, i think every observer has noted that history shows us that the death of a leader of an extremist organisation, even a hugely successful one like baghdadi or Osama Bin Laden or zarqawi or others, does not end the threat posed by the organisation. Given your background in intelligence, an operation like this, a raid like this, depends on having intel on the ground but with us troops withdrawing from syria, does that mean an operation like this wouldnt be possible in the future, or at least would be a lot harder . I think the reassuring news of recent days is that the United States is going to retain somewhere around 50 60 of that area that they controlled before, using, of course, the Syrian Democratic forces, largely Syrian Kurdish forces, largely Syrian Kurdish forces, on the ground in North Eastern syria. That is quite heartening. When i heard that we we re heartening. When i heard that we were withdrawing completely from North Eastern syria, i thought that that represented a new opportunity for the Islamic State, an opportunity for a resurgence, it gave a victory to iran and russia, not our friends, and gave a victory to iran and russia, not ourfriends, and indeed it called into question our credibility not just called into question our credibility notjust in called into question our credibility not just in syria called into question our credibility notjust in syria but around the world. General David Petraeus speaking earlier to michelle fleury. Up and down the state of california, wildfires are driving people from their homes. A new blaze close to la has forced many to leave their homes, including Arnold Schwarzenegger and lebron james. Firefighters are trying to protect the getty center, home to priceless works of art. The states governor has declared a state of emergency. The bbcs sophie long has the latest. You will probably be able to see the fire burning behind me. Were quite high up here. But you can see the smoke coming up from the trees. There are flames down there. Weve been down here for the past hour or so and have watched as helicopters and planes have been fighting this fire from the air, dropping the red retardant. Just in the distance there, if you see the trees and the houses, and theres some thicker smoke. That is the 405 freeway behind there, and that is the only thing separating these flames from the mansions of bel air and the rest of the sprawling city of los angeles beyond. So people are very worried about the location of this fire. Its currently burning about 500 acres. Which is tiny in comparison to other fires that are burning at the moment, particularly that one in sonoma, the kincade fire, that is still burning, that started on wednesday, and firefighters are still fighting that around the clock. But here in los angeles the main priority at the moment to get people out of their homes. There has been an Evacuation Order in place since the early hours of this morning. Most people are heading that advice, but you listen to some people on the local radio who say, hey, im going to say. I think i can fight it. Well, one los angeles politician said, if youre watching this news briefing on television then youre an idiot, you need to get out, its not safe. And most people understand that. People are used to wildfires here. Theyve had terrible wildfires for the past two years. The worst in the States History last year that killed 86 people. So the priority here in los angeles is to get people out of their homes and to safety. On our way here we saw people evacuating horses from the topanga valley and getting their animals to safety. Meanwhile, in Sonoma County firefighters continue to fight that around the clock. The latest there is that its now burning 66,000 acres. So that is a huge fire. And still, theyre only at 5 containment. Sophie long there. Communications are difficult to the area, as you can imagine. We can now speak to david hagele, who is mayor of healdsburg, a town thats been evacuated due to the kincade fire burning nearby. He joins us from the city of napa, which is around an hour south of the fire. If we can hear each other all right, give us an idea of how it is . Healdsburg was actually spared from the fires. Everything really for us. The fires. Everything really for us. On tuesday evening we got notification to activate the emergency evacuation centre, which we did, and our staff tojump right to do that, opened around midnight. And then on wednesday. Im sorry, on saturday morning around 10am, we gave the evacuation notices to everybody in the county. Not eve ryo ne everybody in the county. Not everyone in the county but the affected zones. Theres an emergency Evacuation Order, so we we re emergency Evacuation Order, so we were able to evacuate healdsburg fairly smoothly, everyone was gone around apm. Power went out around 5pm or 6pm, then on sunday morning around 3am, thats when the winds really, really kicked up. We were pretty nervous in healdsburg. There we re pretty nervous in healdsburg. There were historic wins that really hit the area, but we had a massive show of force with the First Responders that were in town, and i cant stress this enough, because our Community Members listens to the direction to evacuate, our First Responders had the entire city to be able to stage and prepare and fight the fire without having to worry about evacuating people. I cant speak highly enough of our community. We were lucky none of these structures, none of the homes 01 these structures, none of the homes or businesses in healdsburg were affected by the fire. We still dont have power or gas, and we are still underan have power or gas, and we are still under an Evacuation Order and the fires a little bit south of us. David, you know the area, and you will probably know the answer to this it is fire season, of course, you expect Something Like this to happen but i hear the weather is making things much more difficult with the heat and low humidity but lots of people talking about these extreme winds, which people are saying were unexpected and making things a lot more dangerous. The winds are really the issue. Two yea rs winds are really the issue. Two years ago the winds. They were just enormous when we had the tux fire and then a spark created that started that fire. When these wins came we had the fire going already, which made it scary for the people here. But ill say in this, in this area, we are prepared for these kinds of things. We dont like to see this, but when you smell the smoke in the air, it does trigger memories, but at the same time, i cant say enough about whether its healdsburg, Sonoma County all the bay area, we are a very Resilient Community and when the fire is contained, we bounce back quickly. The message i want to get out to people is what you see on tv is horrible and we are there for all of our neighbours, but our businesses, they are suffering through this and they are suffering through this and they are suffering through this and they are closed, but when this fire is over, like i said, its a Resilient Community, the businesses are back up and running. If youve got plans to come visit, you dont need to cancel them down the road. Clearly we want to make sure the fire is taken care of those, but it is something. Along with having this type of thing happen regularly, its made the residents in our community. They are quick to leave when told and they are quick to bounce back when its over. David hagele, mayor of healdsburg, thanks for talking to us and im sure everyone will wish you and eve ryo ne sure everyone will wish you and everyone around you all the best. Thank you. The us house of representatives will vote for the first time this thursday on procedures for the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. In a letter to democrats, speaker of the house nancy pelosi says it will lay the groundwork for public hearings and the next phase of the inquiry. Live now to our north america correspondent, david willis. David, how significant is this news . I well, i think it follows pressure, doesnt it, mike, from donald trump and Senior Republicans who have argued consistently the impeachment inquiry is illegitimate all the time it is not backed by a full vote of the house of representatives. Indeed, even though there is no obligation in the Us Constitution for such a vote to take place, but whitehouse has used that as justification for withholding documents, discouraging witnesses and basically disregarding subpoenas. It wont have the opportunity to do so. Or as much excuse to do so, anyway, once a vote ta kes pla ce excuse to do so, anyway, once a vote takes place on thursday because that will be a vote in the house of representatives, where the democrats have the majority, and its almost certain to be approved. What all this indicates is we could be heading slowly but surely towards the next phase of this impeachment inquiry. The public phase. Weve had all the testimony in private up to now as part of what senior democrats are calling the fact finding part of the impeachment investigation, but fairly soon, we could be entering the public phase, and that will mean that up to now private testimony. Or transcripts of private testimony are released to the public. The chairman of the house intelligence committee, adam schiff, has said he wants to move ahead with this impeachment inquiry, as he put it, expeditiously bows quote, so theres momentum building and we could see proceedings in public ina and we could see proceedings in public in a matter of weeks. Expeditiously ,. Stay with us on bbc news, still to come challenging our ideas about time and space. The new super telescope that might give us more clues about dark energy. Indira gandhi, ruler of the Worlds Largest democracy, died today. Only yesterday shed spoken of dying in the service of her country and said, i would be proud of it, every drop of my blood would contribute to the growth of this nation. After 46 years of unhappiness, these two countries have concluded a chapter of history. No more suspicion, no more fear, no more uncertainty of what each day might bring. Booster ignition and lift off of discovery, with a crew of six astronaut heroes and one american legend. Well, enjoying the show is right. This is beautiful. A milestone in human history. Born today, this girl in india is the 7 billionth person on the planet. This is bbc news. The latest headlines the remains of the is leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi have been disposed of, but american officials wont say where. Wildfires in california move closer to los angeles thousands of homes and businesses are evacuated. The british Prime Minister is to make another attempt on tuesday to call an election, before christmas. Parliament rejected his third attempt on monday. And against his wishes, European Union ambassadors agreed to extend the brexit deadline by three months, until the end of january. Our Political EditorLaura Kuenssberg has the story. Throw your hands up if you like. Very short and efficient and constructive meeting, and i am happy that the decision has been taken. Short and efficient . Not how anyone could describe the brexit process. Reporter is this extension too long . Full of missteps and stumbles. Be careful, be careful. Take care. But the meeting in brussels to give the uk another three month delay was exactly that. Despite borisjohnsons rush, hes broken his brexit deadline and his promise to leave by halloween. Instead, this afternoon, trying to push mps to the ballot box. There is a widespread view that this parliament has run its course, and that is because i simply do not believe that this house is capable of delivering on the priorities of the people, whether that means brexit or anything else. Technically, this sessions only been going a couple of weeks, but the current cast have been in place since 2017. Theres nothing comfortable about this for labour, but they wont agree a contest yet. He will avoid his responsibilities, break his promises to dodge scrutiny. And, today, he wants an election and his bill well, not with our endorsement. Theres a message to the people of scotland. The snp and the lib dems, though, werent ready to back the Prime Minister tonight, but tomorrow, when hell need only to win by one, might be a different story. We will not vote with the government tonight, but make no mistake the Scottish National party are ready to give people back their say. The way forward now is to have an election, but to do so responsibly not letting the Prime Minister force through his bad brexit deal. Division clear the lobby ultimately, the Prime Minister was miles off what he needed. The ayes to the right, 299. The noes to the left, 70. But, just when one vote has gone, along comes another round here. Number ten will ask mps again tomorrow to back an election on december the 12th, but theyll vow this time to ditch any effort to get their brexit deal through parliament. With that gone, the opposition parties may be more enthusiastic, but suspicions of borisjohnsons motives are all around tonight. Laura kuenssberg there. A lorry driver has appeared in court in britain, over the deaths of the 39 people who were found in a refrigerated lorry not far from london. Maurice robinson, whos 23, has been charged with manslaughter and several other offences. Some 14,000km away in vietnam, families are waiting to find out if their loved ones are among the dead. Jonathan head reports from the village of yen than in the north of the country. In a vietnamese front room, a family endures an agonising wait. Its 10 days since they last heard from 26 year old win chuk tai. A month ago i heard him talking of a business idea with a friend, says his father. But he never asked for money, so i didnt think he was going overseas. He called us several times after arriving in germany, explained his uncle. But not in the past 10 days. They began to hear news that something had gone terribly wrong. Then the police came, asking for samples of finger