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i am suits has been in london with the top stories here on al-jazeera aid workers have started evacuating critically ill patients from eastern guta in syria s capital damascus at least eighteen people have died while waiting is to go to is one of the last remaining rebel strongholds it s been under a tight government siege twenty thirteen and the target of hundreds of asterix and artillery attacks that s caused severe food and medical shortages for about four hundred thousand syrians trapped last month the u.n. called for five hundred people in need of urgent medical care to be allowed to leave but it was only after long negotiations that twenty nine critical cases were approved for medical evacuation i ll just say no harder has the latest and a warning some of the following images may be disturbing. it s a start but it s not enough only a handful of east critically ill are being allowed to leave to hospitals in damascus which is less than an hour s drive away twenty ni ....
in a compound in the afghan capital kabul the blast hit a shia muslim cultural center and the news agency afghan voice who has more from the capital kabul what we know now that. there were two attackers and one of according to the government here they said that the suicide bombing has killed at least forty and out on thirty people were wounded but some some sources but in the figures much more higher because some of the wounded. people were shipped were carried out by the family members to to their homes or maybe to a private hospitals regional security specialist in the stock rahim has more on the motivations for the attack. this is the shia community which has been the target of the. isis of honest and weighing of the isis i did have been targeting this year community to our two thousand and seventeen and they have been targeting the larger gatherings previously they have attacked some of the religious processions and gatherings and this was yet another one the second ....
arrested by police charlotte for. a program of confidence inside the virgin mary church on the outskirts of cairo the family members of a different victims brought together by gunmen killing in the name of. this is the suspected attacker it s believed he s wearing a suicide vest first he shot of the christian or and shot before moving to cairo s coptic mum in a church he opened fire on civilians and police officers outside who witness it people inside closed the door when they heard the shots. thank god they locked the door there were hundreds in sight if getting closer during that time it could have been worse than did back in the road a mosque in china relatives pieced together what had happened is they made it outside the hospital. and. one woman was killed when she tried to help the attacker thinking he had full and they say he saw her across dangling from her neck and shot at the one who she was asking him in the name of christ this something happened to you she wi ....
under way before the uk s general election. we will have all the details. 100,000 hotel rooms and 20 million visitors. dubai sets its sights high as it prepares for the 2020 world expo. we ll get the inside track from the hotelier hoping to cash in on the building boom. so luxury hotelsment we want to know what s the best perk you got from a hotel. keep it clean. let us know. just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. i dread to think what people will send after that comment from sally. there is just one day to go until voters here in the uk head to the polls for the general election. it s the second national poll in two years after the referendum on eu membership. in light of recent terror attacks, security been a key issue on the campaign trail, but the economy will be a key factor that influences how people vote. and that could be determined by brexit. minimising disruption to the economy is one of the most divisive issues between the governing conservatives and the opposition ....
western hostages. he s believed to be an associate of a former control order suspect. he traveleded to somalia in 2006 and is allegedly linked to an al shabaab association. he first appeared on a video put out by islamic state in august of last year when he apparently beheaded american journalist james foley, and has appeared in numerous other gruesome videos since. well joining me here in the studio now is our special correspondent, lucy manning, for more on this. just describe how important an announcement this is. who is jihadi john? jihadi john has become the figurehead of all of these barbaric video that the so-called islamic state have been putting out, showing numerous beheading of hostages. and his name has been known for some time by british and american police and authorities, but for operational reasons, hasn t been disclosed. but the bbc understands that he is mohammad emwazi. the metropolitan police have said they re not going to confirm the identity of a ....