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 at a low 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 him 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. 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 they led. 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. A state of emergency is in place across the entire state of california, and heres why. The latest blaze to break out as the hot, dry weather continues to present the perfect conditions for fires to spark and then turn into massive infernos with incredible speed is in los angeles. The getty fire started this morning. Its already destroyed at least five homes and Authorities Say that number will almost certainly rise. Im in the Brentwood Hills in west la, you can see the fire burning behind me. Just behind the trees and houses is the 405 freeway, and that at the moment is the only thing separating the flames from the mansions of bel air and the rest of the sprawling city of los angeles beyond. The priority now is to get people out of the thousands of homes that remain at risk. As hungry flames lick parched land, the fight to save them is conducted from the air and the ground. Leave your home. Weve seen fires and tragedies where people have believed they can stay in place or they thought they could fight the fire and be a hero themselves, take out their garden hose do not do that. The only thing you cannot replace is you and your family. The threat here to houses and human life is real but this fire is tiny compared to the biggest and most disruptive blaze currently burning in kincaid in sonoma county, where winds continue to whip flames, destroying large swathes of the wine country. Its forced more than 180,000 people to flee their homes, many reliving the horror of the deadly fires that ravaged the area to years ago. Its been burning for nearly a week, tearing through nearly 66,000 acres, destroying nearly 100 structures and its still only 5 contained. Firefighters are working around the clock to contain the blazes as investigators try to determine what caused them to start. Sophie long, bbc news, los angeles. 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. I asked our correspondent, david willis, how significant the news is. 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, the white house 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 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, so theres momentum building and we could see proceedings in public in a matter of weeks. 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 editor, laura 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 10 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. Stay with us on bbc news, still to come the new super telescope with which scientists will track the position and the acceleration of more than thirty million galaxies. 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 world news. Our main headline the remains of is leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi have been disposed of, but us officials wont say where. Lets stay with this story now. Live now to washington, dc. Sinam mohamad is the american representative for the Syrian Democratic council which is the political wing of the Syrian Democratic forces. Welcome, thank you very much for your time. The stf includes the kurds. It seems to be, according to the latest reports, the case that there was a kurdish informant right in the inner circle of Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi helping American Special forces tracking in four months. Can you tell us more . Yes. Thank you so much. As you know, after the defeat of isis in the city of baghouz, that time we have the informant, they told us Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi left and walked from this area to idlib. At that time we informed our intelligence, also they were tracking him. And they could know where he stayed, played, lived in italy. From that time we are attacking him and getting information about his presence idlib. In his region of idlib. We we re idlib. In his region of idlib. We were having a cooperation at the high level from the intelligence of the sdf and with the Us Special Forces. Forgive me, there are a couple of things they want to ask you specifically. Can you confirm these reports that this person was acting as a security advisor to al baghdadi and was able to provide the americans with a blood sample, with some of his used underwear for dna, and also a room by room layout where he was living in the tunnel players . Thats correct. Tunnel plans. That is what happened actually. He was living with him for many months there. We got many information about him and even his underwear. And as you understand it, did it happen basically as President Trump says it happens, you can confirm all that . It happens, yes, it happen. But they dont know, mr trump, how he said about it, he said the attacks about that. Yes, it happened with the cooperation of our intelligence at the high level with the american us forces. Intelligence at the high level with the american us forceslj intelligence at the high level with the american us forces. I have tour skew, guess, what you make of the way the west is treating you, the kurds, in return for all because against is . I have tour skew. Kurds, in return for all because against is . I have tour skew. As you know, we are defeating isis on behalf of all the world. Imagine if all these thousands of isis now be in europe, being everywhere in the world, what could happen. So we could defeat isis there. And this is what we expect from our allies, actually, not to leave us to the attack of the turkish forces, attacking us, killing our people, destroying our cities, they have occupied with the Turkish Backed mercenaries who are really, some of them, were in isis as the leadership and are now with these forces who are attacking us. So we are killing, imean, ending are attacking us. So we are killing, i mean, ending isis, but at the same time now we are also attacked by another isis who are the mercenaries backed by turkey. Well, sinam mohamad, thank you for talking to us. Mohamad, thank you for talking to us. Thank you so much. A lorry driver has appeared in court in britain, over the deaths of the 39 people found in a refrigerated lorry not far outside london. Maurice robinson, whos 23, has been charged with manslaughter and several other offences. Some 111,000 kilometres away in vietnam, families are waiting to find out if the dead include their loved ones. Jonathan head reports from the village of yen than, in the north of vietnam. 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 fingernails and hair. The awful possibility that he was inside the container is beginning to hit home for this family. His mother pleads for the british authorities to be quick. Please help us, and find my son, she says. Most of the victims are thought to come from this part of vietnam. There are many other families here caught in the same misery of not knowing for sure. Its been said that its poverty driving young people to leave here and go overseas, but thats not quite true. Much of vietnam is poor, but here theyve seen just how well you can do after only a few years living in britain. Theyve seen the new houses and the shiny cars, and its that thats inducing the bright and ambitious young people to make that journey west. Its a journey this man made more than ten years ago. Cutting open the tarpaulin of a fruit and vegetable lorry, he says, to smuggle himself into britain. His stay was not a success. Recruited to work on a farm growing marijuana, he was arrested, spent seven months in prison, and then deported. Yet even now, he says he longs to go back with his family. There is an unexpected bond between britain and this quiet part of rural vietnam. One forged by dreams of better lives, and now, by tragedy. Jonathan head, bbc news, yen thanh, vietnam. Thousands of people have been protesting on the streets of the chilean capital and several other cities, despite moves by the president to quell the demonstrations over inequality which have swept the country for days. At least 20 people have been killed. President pinera has replaced eight cabinet ministers. Gareth barlow reports. On the streets of santiago, thousands of chilea ns on the streets of santiago, thousands of chileans continue to protest, angry at issues like the countrys huge wealth inequality, the cost of healthcare, and a lack of funding for schools. Outside the president ial, protesters made their voices heard. The authorities responded with water cannon and riot police. Inside, the the president , sebastian pinera, made sweeping changes to the cabinet, replacing eight ministers with the hope of placating the protesters. Translation chile has changed and the government must change whether confront these new challenges in these new times. At least 20 people have died in the demonstrations and many chilea ns want have died in the demonstrations and many chileans want the government to do more. Translation the cabinet should have been a cabinet with moore street participation, one that has empathy, the put themselves and the peoples shoes more street. Translation you can sit on histories, there is no possibility of this meeting. The people of chile are betting on a constituent see and. It seems for chiles government it will take more than water cannon to quell the flames of unhappiness and unrest. Gareth barlow, bbc news. Dark energy is defined by scientists as the force which causes the universe to expand at an ever increasing rate. We know very little about something that makes up most of the cosmos. But one of the worlds most powerful telescopes is about to start measuring the movements of 35 million galaxies, from arizona. Our science correspondent pallab ghosh has more details. This telescope in arizona is about to begin the most detailed observation of the universe ever carried out of an invisible force that dominates our universe. What we see here on earth and in the stars and galaxies are made of atoms that accounts for just 5 of the universe. The rest is mostly dark energy. It is just embarrassing to live in a universe where we understand only 5 of it, wouldnt you agree . I mean, how could we live in a universe knowing only 5 and not knowing about the other 95 . This is human curiosity. The nature of that dark energy, what is it, may well lead to a whole revolution in physics, in the whole of physics. In order to underst