warnings of a public health emergency in the uk this winterfor the nhs, amid fears services could be even more stretched after a bad summer. and a show of solidarity for salman rushdie: authors gather in new york to demonstrate their support, a week after he was attacked. we start in the us, where a former british member of the islamic state terror group, has been sentenced to life in prison, by a court in virginia. el shafee elsheikh, who s 3a, 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 t
cnn s chief white house correspondent caikate lynn coll with us. the daughter of alexander dugina was killed. they believe someone planted explosives and ordered the attack. darya dugina died at the scene, she was a russian tv commentator and outspoken supporter of russia s actions in ukraine. dugina s father alexander owned the vehicle and might have been the intended target. he is an influential writer in russia, he advocates for an aggressive imperialist russia and many believe that his ideas have a lot of sway inside the kremlin. some russian officials are already blaming ukraine for the deadly bombing, but a top adviser to ukraine s president says that his country had nothing to do with it. fred pleitgen has the latest from the moscow. reporter: hi there, kaitlan. the read of russia today, kremlin controlled media, has come out and demanded that kyiv be hit in response to the death of darya dugina. you already just mentioned the fact that there are some in russia who
been shot and injured, in an incident in the last hour. let me show you the pictures which havejust come in, they re taken in the immidiate aftermath of this incident. you can see a flurry of bodygaurds in the moments after shots were fired, the prime minister then rushed to hospital. the pictures also show a man being pinned to the floor and then arrested. let s speak to sara cincurova, a freelance journalist based in bratislava. thank you for being with us. there must be great shark at this news. thank you for having me. yes, indeed, this event sparked a huge wave of shock. in slovakia. both in terms of the general population but also with politicians who are, obviously, very shocked, and even the president has expressed her fear and her shock after this. and her shock after this. horrible event. i want and her shock after this. horrible event. i want to and her shock after this. horrible event. i want to just and her shock after this. horrible event. i want to just
hello and welcome to the bbc news at one. in the last hour, the mp natalie elphicke has become the latest conservative to defect to the labour party. natalie elphicke has been the mp for dover in kent since 2019. our chief political correspondent henry zeffmanjoins me from the houses of parliament henry, was this a surprise? it was a shock. if you had asked me before this afternoon to list 100 conservative mps most likely to defect to the labour party, natalie elphicke would have been nowhere near that list. and i think that was reflected in the faces of conservative mps at prime minister s questions, as keir starmer announced at the start of his question that he wanted to welcome her to the labour side. mps had not noticed her there, and they were expressing to bewilderment to each other. natalie elphicke s announcement will hurt rishi sunak, because she goes for him on an issue that is central to his attempt to recover his political position. she accuses him of failing on
t tri is heduled to begin monday with ry selection, potential jurors will be asked 42 questions including their feelings about donald trump, jury selection is often where you win or lose trial live from london this is cnn newsroom with max foster hello, welcome to our viewers. join your sum all around the world. i max foster, it s monday, april the fifth dave, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 11:00 a.m. in israel, where officials are contemplating a response to iran s unprecedented aerial assault this weekend, there s been an all-out diplomatic push to contain the fallout and to prevent any further escalation of violence g7 members held a virtual meeting and regional leaders have been speaking with their global counterparts in an emergency session of the un council, the secretary general urged restraint the middle is, is on the brink the people of the region are confronting a real danger of a devastating full-scale conflict. now is the, time to defuse and de-escalate now i