boots. and could grime artist stormzy take the brits by storm at tomorrow's awards? and coming up in sportsday on bbc news. manchester city produce an impressive display against monaco in tonight's last 16 champions league tie. manchester city have got another one and they have come from behind good evening. a british fighter who so—called islamic state claim died in a suicide bombing in iraq was a former detainee at guantanamo bay. fifty year old ronald fiddler was released from there in 2004 and was reportedly given compensation of up to a million pounds by the government. is claim that he detonated a car bomb in the last few days at an iraqi army base south west of mosul. there's been fierce fighting there involving iraqi troops and british special forces. our security correspondent, frank gardner, reports. the face of a suicide bomber. a british man, used by so—called islamic state to blow himself up in iraq. hello? is that the stock market? he was born ronald fiddler from manchester, changing his name later. this is him soon after his release, from 28 years in us detention in guantanamo bay. you know i mean business. this is where he chose to end his life. mosul in northern iraq. here at the bbc has been covering the intense fighting by iraqi forces to dislodge is from the second city. outgunned and outmanned, the jihadist have the second city. outgunned and outmanned, thejihadist have had the second city. outgunned and outmanned, the jihadist have had to resort to booby—traps and suicide bombers to try and slow down the iraqi advance. his journey began after the 9/11 attacks and in 2001 he travelled to pakistan. he was arrested the same year and eventually ta ken to arrested the same year and eventually taken to the us base in kandahar. in 2002 he was transferred to guantanamo bay. two years later he was repatriated to britain and released, reportedly winning compensation from the government. thenin compensation from the government. then in april 2014, he entered syria from turkey tojoin then in april 2014, he entered syria from turkey to join is as a fighter. lam from turkey to join is as a fighter. i am mystified as to how this person travelled out to syria and i can only assume under our false passport, as people who have served time in guantanamo bay would have been watched carefully by the british and american intelligence agencies. he was one of hundreds of men taken from afghanistan to be imprisoned in guantanamo bay without trial. britain lobbied for his release and he later spoke about the abuses he suffered there. did he fool the british government? when you have the dozens if not hundreds of suspects, there is very little that the security services can do to monitor all of them, all of the time. speaking to panorama after his release from guantanamo bay, his family spoke of the transformation they saw in him. he may have changed a little bit when he converted to be a little bit when he converted to be a muslim, he may have changed in that he did not do all the bad things, like going to clubs, going out and meeting girls, smoking, drinking... he turned into a placid person. in the end, it seems he chose to die for a group that has committed unspeakable acts on innocent people. frank is here now. the claim that ronald fiddler has blown himself up came from so—called islamic state and it has to be treated with caution. can any lessons be learned ? treated with caution. can any lessons be learned? the pipeline of british and european jihadist who we re british and european jihadist who were two or three years ago flooding across the turkish border into territory controlled by is at that has dried up and it is hard for them to cross the border. the lessons are, guantanamo bay, incredibly bad in terms of the ideological fight against extremism. it makes it very difficult for america, against extremism. it makes it very difficult foramerica, britain against extremism. it makes it very difficult for america, britain and other countries, whose nationals side there are two men taking any kind of moral high ground, because they were imprisoned without trial. this is very active, we talk about reopening it. there is the question of what you do about the 400 estimated britishjihadist of what you do about the 400 estimated british jihadist who of what you do about the 400 estimated britishjihadist who is still out there. if they do not die on the battlefields are they going to come back. how do you decide who is safe, do you believe the people who say they have turned their back on all of that, most people will wa nt to on all of that, most people will want to do exactly that, some may have other ideas. that is the challenge for the government now. three judges at the court of appeal have made it clear the current system in which only gay couples can have a civil partnership — and not straight couples — cannot continue indefinitely. while they rejected a challenge by a heterosexual couple from london who want a civil partnership , they acknowledged the couple had a potential case for discrimination — increasing pressure on the government to consider a change in the law. here's our our home editor mark easton. in 2005, eltonjohn and david furnish became one of the first gay couples to form a civil partnership, the government's answer to growing demands that homosexual partners enjoy equal rights to married heterosexual couples. in 2014, elton and david had another wedding, converting their civil partnership to a same—sex marriage as the law extended marriage rights to homosexuals. thousands of gay and lesbian weddings followed. but evolving rights for same—sex couples got some heterosexual partners like rebecca steinfield and charles keidan asking the courts why they couldn't have the same choice. they didn't fancy the baggage of getting married, but wanted the legal protection of a civil partnership. today, at the high court, they lost their case, but claimed the detail of the judgment meant they'd won the argument. all three of the judges agreed that we're being treated differently because of our sexual orientation and that this impacts our private and family life. all three rejected the argument that we could just get married. all three emphasised that the government cannot maintain the status quo for much longer. the judges said they thought government should have more time. we are handing down ourjudgments today... ministers have been wrestling about what to do about civil parer partnership ever since same—sex marriage became legal in 2014. it is an important matter of social policy. ministers ordered a review, which under helpfully simply told them the public was deeply divided on the issue, keeping them as they are, extending them to all or abolishing them completely all options on civil partnerships were opposed so the government decided to do nothing. some dismissed civil partnerships as a political stopgap, a second rate marriage. they confer the same rights as marriage, the right to be next of kin, access to your partner's estate and their pension but, unlike marriage, adultery is not grounds for leaguely annulling the relationship. thousands of same—sex couples have converted their partnership to a full marriage and there's been a big drop in new civil partnerships. government has always said it wanted to see what effect same—sex marriage would have before changing the law. some now argue they've had long enough. the government has to wake up and smell the coffee. there is a growing feeling this needs to happen. there's a growing appreciation, backed up by the court today, that this is inequality that cannot go on. the problem for ministers is thatle having invented civil partnerships they cannot uninvent them and whatever they do now is bound to outrage some. mark easton, bbc news. merseyside police are this evening hunting for a convicted murderer who was helped by two armed men to escape during a hospital visit in liverpool. 28—year—old shaun walmsley fled from aintree university hospital as he was getting into a car with prison officers. 0ur correspondent, judith moritz, is at the hospital. judith, what more can you tell us about what happened ? shaun walmsley was brought here for a hospital appointment this afternoon and he was escorted from liverpool prison around three miles away by two prison officers who were about to take him back to jail when they were ambushed as they were getting into a car. they were stopped by two men who had their faces covered and they were brandishing, we understand, a gun and a knife and they threaten the prison guards and force them to let shaun walmsley go and then they escaped with the prisoner in a gold coloured volvo. the prison officers were not injured and they were able to raise the alarm quickly and merseyside police say they are involved in an extensive search, they are combing cctv and they say they are working with the ministry ofjustice and other police forces nationwide to track down shaun walmsley. they described him as dangerous. he was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2015 for murder and merseyside police say he is still potentially in the company of the two men who escaped with them and they may be armed and they have told members of the public who have information and who may have seen the group, not to approach them but instead to call the police. more than three thousand people are trafficked into the uk every year, according to official statistics — and that number is rising. they come from all over the world, but by far the biggest share are from albania. in 2015, this relatively small country accounted for over 600 potential victims — about a fifth of the total. of those, the vast majority were female, and most of them were forced into prostitution. the authorities in albania have been criticised for failing to crack down on the problem with just 18 convictions last year. my colleague reeta chakrabarti has been speaking to some of the victims. blessed with natural beauty, but the centre of a dark trade. albania has over two decades built up a brutal industry, with human beings the commodity. translation: i hate them and i want them to get the punishment they deserve. saya, now still a teenager, was just 14 when she was sold into a trafficking ring by a man she thought was her boyfriend. she was forced to sleep with several men a day and tells of a bewildering and terrifying world of abuse in which she could trust no one. translation: there were other girls there as well, but i did not talk to them because you could not tell who was connected to whom. we were terrified. they would beat us up and not let us go out. to be controlled by someone, to be used as i was, is totally degrading. she lives here in a refuge for trafficked women in the south of the country. but these are schoolgirls here, and some already have children of their own. saya helped put some of hers behind bars. several convicted traffickers are held here in this high security prison. last year 18 people were sentenced, some here are serving 20 years or more. the albanian authorities let us talk to one of them. this man was sentenced to 15 years for trafficking children to greece and forcing them to work as prostitutes or beggars. what made him, a married man with his own children, commit such a crime? translation: it was a time where everyone was doing that kind of thing. you used a child in order to earn some money, isn't what you did entirely wrong? translation: it's terrible. what if that were my child and someone did that to them? he faced justice but albania has been criticised for a lack of prosecutions and there are concerns over police collusion. some senior figures question whether trafficking is a real problem but the official line is that there are systems to deal with it. it's not a big concern. it used to be many years ago. we had a system in place, and it was not an increasing trend, it is constant but it has to be tackled properly and to make always sure everyone is working together. it is away from the modern capital city that all too often traffickers find their victims. albania remains a poor country and in many areas a woman's role is still seen as being in the home. young women in small—town albania can be easy prey for grooomer who seduce them with promises of a better life. that better life is invariably outside albania but anna never dreamt of her fate. translation: he said he was looking for a girl like me to start a family. she is now in a safe house in the uk, duped into leaving home and then sold into prostitution, she weeps throughout our interview but insists she wants to tell her story. translation: i was somewhere underground with no sense of the world around me. they would not let me see. i entered the building blindfolded. and you were raped every day? translation: yes. every day. many men? translation: yes, many. anna is now supported in this safe house run by the salvation army. she has a baby which gives her a reason to carry on. her story should trigger alarm in authorities here and across europe. a broken life caused by a brutal crime. reeta chakrabarti, bbc news. hospital services across nearly two—thirds of england could be cut or scaled back. bbc analysis of plans to transform the health service and save costs in 44 areas has found that 28 of them affect hospital care, from closing hospitals entirely. to centralising services on fewer sites. nhs england argues that the plans will allow them to put more resources into care in the community. here's our health editor, hugh pym. nhs budgets in england are rising, but patient demand is growing even faster. now, each local area has been told to come up with a plan to cope with that. at this nottingham trust, seen here recently, they want to shift resources out of hospitals and into the community. if somebody is in a hospital bed, that costs a lot of money per day. if that could be better spent, by giving people the care they need in the community, then we can reinvest that money into those services. but the plan involves cutting 200 hospital beds at two sites and local campaigners are concerned that patient care will suffer. if we take out 200 beds, have we got the real capacity and professionalism to deal with those patients in the community? we've seen massive cuts in social care and we need to be assured that we can have the full professional capacity to treat those people. the nhs in england is under extreme pressure simply trying to deal with the daily needs of patients, budgets are overstretched, so trying to carry out an ambitious transformation programme, which itself requires more investment, is going to be a really big ask. local health and social care leaders in england have drawn up what are known as sustainability and transformation plans or stps, there are 44 stp areas. bbc analysis has found that in 28, cuts to services are proposed, these include plans to downgrade a&e units, schemes to centralise maternity services and to close some hospitals with resources being invested elsewhere. hi, i'm cathy, i'vejust come to see how you are. the plans also involve concentrating specialist care in centres of excellence. for one part of london, cancer experts are being brought together in one hospital, covering a population close to four million. so having a big team means we've been able to think of new ways, new models of giving treatments to patients close to their home. so a good example is breast cancer chemothearpy, where we're now testing a model where patients can now self—administer their own drugs in their own home. elsewhere in the uk, there are differing approaches. in scotland, there are hubs where gps work alongside social services and pharmacists. welsh local authorities and nhs bodies are pooling budgets to improve community care. whatever the proposed solutions, the big challenges for the nhs are the same around the country. hugh pym, bbc news. an israeli soldier who killed a wounded palestinian attacker has been sentenced to 18—months in prison. a military court convicted elor azaria of manslaughter for shooting dead abdul fatah al—sharif as he lay badly hurt on the ground in the occupied west bank. some israelis have called for the soldier to be pardoned, palestinians have condemned the sentence as too lenient. the prime minister, theresa may, has held talks with the french presidential candidate, emmanuel macron. the presidential frontrunner said he would like uk banks and workers to move to france after brexit. this evening, mr macron held a rally to addressed some of the 200,000 french voters in the capital who make london effectively france's sixth largest city. the government took in more money that it spent last month, according to the office for national statistics. the first month of the year traditionally sees a surplus because of the high level of receipts from income tax. but at £9.4 billion, the surplus last month was the biggest for 17 years. i'm joined by our economics editor, kamal ahmed. what can we draw from this? how many times have we sat on this set and said a barrowing black hole for the government. today, there seems to be borrowing green shoots. it's down to the performance of the economy, both before and after the referendum. it's been much stronger than people thought. when the economy is performing strongly, businesses make more profits. they start to pay more tax to the government, people's earnings go up, slightly more quickly, they pay more tax to the government. that all feeds into these good borrowing numbers today. of course, we are already starting to look towards the budget, which is on 8th march next month. what does it mean for that? i think a couple of things. the office for budget responsibility, the official economic watch dog dog for the country will upgrade growth again for 2017, good for borrowing. the chancellor may have some money to play with. could he help on that business rates controversy and help with the nhs and social care? to be clear, officials i spoke to in the treasury over recent days have been clear that mr hammond wants to balance the books. there is a concern in the treasury, there hasn't been a brexit impact on the economy yet, but with article 50 to be triggered, with the tough negotiations ahead about leaving the european union, if there is going to bea european union, if there is going to be a brexit effect, any money they will have now they will want to save up will have now they will want to save up and spend later to mitigate some of those economic risks. kamal, thank you. next week, northern ireland returns to the polls just nine months after stormont‘s last election. the power—sharing government fell apart last month after the deputy first minister, martin mcguinness, resigned, amid a complete break down of relations between the dup and sinn fein. bitter words between the former coalition partners have fuelled memories of divisive elections from northern ireland's past, as chris buckler reports. archive: well, one place that the polls so far and our own computer can't really help us is northern ireland. how elections are reported has changed over the decades. archive: the real issue before the ulster voters has not been power—saving, but power—sharing. but in northern ireland, it sometimes feels like the politics haven't changed much. throughout the years, votes have often been presented as a battle between irish nationalism and british unionism and it's clear those old divisions run deep in the bad blood of this current campaign. well, the allegation is that in northern ireland we don't have enough respect for 0rangemen to walk down a road for 10 minutes. that's different! this heated election follows the collapse of stormont‘s power—sharing government and there is frustration among voters following allegations of incompetence and even corruption. it's time they all got their act together, learnt to work together and put power—sharing and all it stood for into practice. archive: and, do you know... ian paisley‘s hardlined voice softened with age and he eventually lead his democratic unionist party into government with sinn fein, but 10 years later there's a new dup leader and irish republicans are once again being portrayed as the enemy. if you feed a crocodile, they're going to keep coming back and looking for more. arlene foster was forced from the office of first minister when sinn fein walked out of government over a financial scandal surrounding a botched green energy initiative. she was the minister in charge when the scheme was designed inexplicable without cost controls, but she's not asking for forgiveness, she's fighting back with what are, at times, harsh words. that's not fair, chris. i mean, if you've listened to what i've said, i've said i want devolution back up and running again so that we can have stability for our people. do you regret any of your words over the last months? well, maybe that's a question you should ask other parties because when you look at the brutality of what happened to me, in december, injanuary, when you look at the rhetoric that was directed towards me, i think we should all look at our words. stormont‘s opposition parties are back out on the road, campaigning again, including the nationalist sdlp. but they all know that there's no guarantee of a new power—sharing deal and that means there is a chance that westminster might have to take over government here, at least for a period, through what's known as direct rule. we could have exactly the same result or we could have change in our politics. the problem is, if we get the same result, we end up with direct rule and once we have direct rule, i'm not sure we'll get the assembly back up and running again. with all the cosy appearances now gone at stormont, the cross—community alliance party believes people have been given a taste ofjust how bitter things have become. every time we have an election, we get this sectarian rhetoric, we get this divisive rhetoric, and it drags the community back to a place that i don't really think we need to be. it sometimes feels like all politics here is dominated by unionism or nationalism, but there are real issues worrying people too, including health, education, the economy and brexit. i think the public, by in large, have moved on and i think us as politicians have a bit of catching up to do. i don't get depressed too often, but when i listened to one of the last debates and possibly the youngest dup member's contribution, it did get me down because he stood up looking sympathy because it had been a very difficult 10 years for the dup and it had been difficult because they don't want to share power. martin mcguinness, who made the journey from ira leader to deputy first minister, stepped down ahead of this election. the new face of the sinn fein leadership in northern ireland paramilitary past of her predecessor, but she's been criticised for speaking at an ira commemoration during this campaign. i attended the commemoration of four young fellas who i knew and grew up with. four young fellas that found themselves in extraordinary circumstances. but they were also four young men who were involved in an ira attack on a police station? and we'll always have a different narrative on the past, but that's where we need to get to in society, where we actually understand that we have a different narrative. it's undeniable that the peace process has changed northern ireland for the better, but the pictures of political togetherness seem somewhat dated now and after this election, it could take many months to get an agreement that would allow power—sharing to return at stormont. chris buckler, bbc news, belfast. manchester city's manager, pep guardiola, said his club's critics would "kill them" if they didn't reach the quarter—final of the champions league. tonight, at the etihad, they firmly kept the target in their sights in what can only be described as a goal—extravaganza. they faced monaco in the first leg and won 5—3. 0ur sports correspondent, andy swiss, reports. one of the great european nights. manchester city, monaco and a goal feast. city burst out of the blocks, raheem sterling with and monaco's had a howler, aguero somehow squirming it through for an equaliser. what next? well, this moment of magic from falcao. monaco 3—2 up, city once again in deep trouble. but thrillingly, remarkably, they turned it round. aguero levelled it up again before goals from stones and sane completed a staggering comeback. for the city fans, quite dazzling drama and a night they'll never forget. yes, one of the most extraordinary games you'll ever see. city do still have some work to do in the second leg, a 2—0 win would be enough for monaco, for now, at least, the fans here won't be worrying about that. they can just celebrate a quite, unforgettable night, fiona. andy, at the etihad, thank you. sutton united's reserve goalkeeper has resigned from the club after being investigated by the fa for potentially breaching betting rules. wayne shaw was caught on camera eating a pie during the club's fa cup tie with arsenal. before the match, a bookmaker had offered odds on the goalkeeper doing just that. he said it was just a bit of fun. its the biggest night in british music, tomorrow night's brit awards will have their usual glamour and potential for a bit of rock and roll misbehaviour, but they'll also have a big dose of grime. last year's awards were labelled "an embarrassment" by one grime artist, stormzy, after they failed to recognise the genre. this year, he's been nominated for breakthrough artist. here's our entertainment reporter, chi chi izundu. this is stormzy. .. # you're getting well too big for your boots #. ..he has millions of followers on social media and his music has been shared all over the world. he has global deals with huge brands, but 24—year—old michael 0mari hasn't even released his debut album yet. # shut up. # how can you be better than me #. but this homegrown british sound wasn't even recognised by last year's industry experts for the brits, they didn't nominate any artist from the grime scene and stormzy showed his frustration. # it's embarrassing, what? # and the mighties nominate for brixton, are you taking the piss? embarrassing #. because i had a lyric where i kind of highlighted that issue and said, what's that about? i kind of put them on blast a bit. # how dare you, wait there #. after discussions, the brits increased the diversity of their voters. stormzy says giving the genre the same recognition as pop or rock will increase its popularity and his appeal. i still consider myself to be in this, like, weird, limbo area of, like, where a lot of my peers and all, you know what i mean, a lot of, like, people, a lot of young people know me, but the world and the whole country sometimes doesn't know me. grime started in the early noughties, a fusion music including jamaican bashment, hip—hop and reggae emanating from east london and now it's getting global appeal. the fairly large chunk of listening comes from outside the uk, countries like canada, australia and america feature quite heavily, if you sort of look at consumption habits of grime artists and grime music. # well, it shut down. # that's not me, and it's shutdown #. this worldwide success hasn't come from the traditional roots, grime artists, like skepta, haven't signed to record labels, instead their fans have shared their music on their phones. # i'm very reserved #. for stormzy, brit nomination acknowledgment is the mainstream support the scene needs. does winning a brit christen you as successful? damn sure there's many incredible artists who haven't won a brit, do you know what i mean, like? there's incredible artists from my scene, like peers, that i know personally, who haven't won a brit and they are, like, inspirations to me. so, yeah, nothing, nothing can define you. you've got to be bigger than that. you've got to be bigger than any award. # get out of the booth, go home to your son #. whether grime wins big tomorrow night or not, it can no longer be deemed an underground movement. chi chi izundu, bbc news. newsnight is coming up on bbc two. here's evan. there was an ecstatic political rally in london tonight