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police in nicaragua detain a roman catholic bishop who s been a prominent critic of the president we ve spoken to human rights advocate bianca jagger who s following his case. he has been held hostage for the last 15 days without being allowed to go to officiate maths mass, will be allowed to get food or medicine. and a show of solidarity for salman rushdie authors gather in new york to demonstrate their support, a week after he was attacked. hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. 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 pa ....
Well, in the bigger scheme of things for isis, in terms of isis military battles, completely insignificant. none of these british jihadists who turned up had any military experience whatsoever. they arrived in syria in the middle of somebody else s civil war with a completely warped version or vision of islam, some of it acquired in prison, having spent an early lifetime of petty crime and drug peddling. but they were useful to isis and propaganda terms. so isis leadership decided that they would give them free rein to look after these western captives and it raised a lot of money for them. so whereas the british and us captives were pretty much doomed from the day they were caught, because britain and us do not pay terrorists ransoms, the europeans were all released one by one, reportedly for huge ransoms. although no government has ever admitted to this. but they of course survived, ....