either detonated or threw explosive devices at three different businesses in the nation s capital within the span of minutes sunday morning. officials are offering a reward for information leading to an arrest or conviction as the search continues. correspondent david spunk joins me live in washington. good evening, david. mike, good evening. still no word on a suspect or suspects. they believe there may be multiple people involved given that multiple locations were hit within 15 minutes. authorities are advertising a $20,000 reward for more information leading to the arrest of a suspect or, as i said, possibly multiple suspects. police are out with a wanted poster hoping to bring awareness and information to crack the case. it s hard to make out the suspect, but the vehicle is a gold champagne-colored acura tl with a clear clot of a maryland plate. now, the attacks began at 4:30 yesterday morning. the first a truist bank atm, someone detonated an explosive outside the buil
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delivering that speech on democracy in our country, preserving it in the wake of the attack on pelosi and other threats to leaders. and the escalating rhetoric. mary bruce at the white house. just six days now until the midterms. the economy issue number one. in nevada tonight, the first latina senator in the u.s., a democrat, fighting to hold onto her seat. former president obama trying to help. and what the voters there told our martha raddatz. pus tonight, georgia, pennsylvania, new hampshire, and ohio. rachel scott on these very tight races. we ll show you the numbers tonight. the fed hiking interest rates three quarters of a percent today to try to slow down inflation and try to stave off recession. how americans will feel this. in parkland, school shooter nikolas cruz face-to-face with families, formally sentenced tonight to 34 consecutive sentences of life in prison. victor oquendo is there. the alarming escalation by north korea. more than 20 missile tests lau
and the scottish city returning cultural artefacts looted from india during british rule in the 19th century. hello and welcome to bbc news. we start in the us, where a former british member of the islamic state group has been sentenced to life in prison by a court in virginia. 34 year old el shafee elsheikh 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 to their english accents. elsheikh, who left london tojoin is, was convicted of his part in a hostage murder plot in which four americans were
it s gold again for laura muir. on another golden night for the brits in munich, muir retains her crown as the 1,500 metre european champion. (organ plays) they were once a key part of going to the pictures. we ll take a look at the cinema organs being raised back to life. good morning. it is a blustery start to the good morning. it is a blustery start to the weekend, especially in the north west of the uk where there are also outbreaks of rain. but not everyone also outbreaks of rain. but not everyone will see wet weather today. all the everyone will see wet weather today. all the details are coming up. good morninu. it s saturday august 20. our main story: train passengers are being warned of more severe disruption across the uk s rail network today as tens of thousands of workers go on strike. it s the sixth day of national walk outs so far this summer in an ongoing dispute over pay, jobs and conditions. network rail says only a fifth of its services will be running