who joined the islamic state group in syria, has been found guilty of involvement in a series of beheadings, by a court in the us. el shafee el sheikh was part of an is militant cell nicknamed the beatles by hostages because of their british accents. now on bbc news: jassa ahluwalia has mixed indian and english heritage, and he looks white. he goes on a journey to explore his identity to try and answer his question: am i english? my name is jassa ahluwalia and i m actor, writer and film maker. do you want to come to a party tonight? i ve been in things like some girls for bbc three, unforgotten on itv, peaky blinders. birmingham wasjust the bait. why are you telling us this? strange, isn t it? having, like, an actualfull on landmark that is part of ourfamily? you had blonde hair, and then in i walked, indian guy with dark hair, and everybody s thinking, what s going on here? i snapped. my mixed heritage mixing in a tube. somebody did shout out, 0h, random white guy, or what
bucha, borodyanka, mariupol. so i don t have, you know, it s not about me, it s more about russia. the first asylum seekers could be flown from the uk to rwanda in weeks, according to the british government. the scheme aims to deter people crossing the english channel, but critics say it is inhumane. more than 340 people are now known to have died in the south african province of kwazulu natal, in the worst flooding there in decades. it s hoped new research mapping the genetic code of brain tumours could lead to more accurate diagnoses and potentially better treatments. joe root has stepped down as england test captain after his side s defeat by the west indies. appointed in 2017, he holds the record for the highest number of matches and wins as captain. the russian defence ministry says it has warned it ll intensify attacks around the ukraine capital, kyiv, after accusing ukraine of targeting russian border towns. moscow also claims its sea based cruise missiles have struck
which is trying to help as much as they can and last night the president was there to look at the extent of the damage and one of the tricky things is that covid wrecked havoc on the provincial municipal budget. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, another vacancy at the top of english ticket. joe root has stepped down as england test captain after the team s run of poor performances. (00v)england slumped to a 10 wicket defeat to the west indies in the third test in grenayda last month as their winless run stretched to nine matches. in the aftermath, root said he wanted to stay on but now says the timing is right to step down. he holds the record for the most number of matches and wins as england captain. this is what root had to say. | am immensely proud to have captained my country and will look back on the past five years with enormous pride. it has been an honour to have done thejob and to have been a custodian of what is the pinnacle of english cri