this is bbc news. the headlines. el shafee el sheikh, one of four islamic state militants known as the beatles, gets life in prison in america, over the deaths of four us citizens. lived this sentencing make it clear to all who dared to kidnap, torture or kill any american citizen abroad. the usjustice or kill any american citizen abroad. the us justice department will find you, wherever you are. fears nhs will be overloaded as people's health will suffer from rising energy costs with households forced to choose between eating meals and heating their homes in a phone conservation with president macron, vladimir putin agrees on need to send inspectors to the zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

in ukraine while russia threatens to cut off power supplies to the plant. the prime minister of finland sanna marin has agreed to a drug test after a celebrity party video leaked on social media. and coming up in half an hour, foreign correspondents based in london give an outsider�*s view of events in the uk in dateline. a former british member of the islamic state terror group, has been sentenced to life

in prison, by a court in america. el shafee el sheikh was among a group of british i.s members, who carried out a brutal reign of terror in syria, and became known as the beatles, a name given to them by their captives. james foley was an american journalist murdered in 2014 at the hands of the group. his mother diane foley has been speaking outside the court about the sentencing of el shafee elsheikh. let this sentencing make clear to all who dare to kidnap, torture or kill any american citizen abroad that usjustice will find you wherever you are and that our govt will hold you accountable for your crimes against our citizens. our correspondent, nomia iqbal, reports from the court in virginia. he reports from the court in virginia. is the highest m

high—profile he is the highest member, the most high—profile member of the islamic state who faced a jury trial here in the us. the trial lasted more than two weeks and conclude in april where he was convicted on eight counts and today, he was past his sentence and was given a life sentence and was given a life sentence for his crimes. and with thejudge said in court, he described what el shafee elsheikh did is terrific, barbaric, crueland callous. he also said what he did was criminal. his actions are said to have resulted in the deaths of four us hostages, james foley also, stephen, kalin and peter as well as to british aid workers alan and david. he is the most high—profile member and he has been convicted to life injail. he declined member and he has been convicted to life in jail. he declined the opportunity to comment and the judge askedif opportunity to comment and the judge asked if you want to say anything and throughout the trial, he has never said anything apart from the fact that he denied he was a member

of the screw, describing himself as a simple ias fighter. the request he did make was not to be sent to super max jail which is the most high secure prison in the us and colorado but he said that was not done to him to decide but also to add, he is planning to appeal his sentence through one of his lawyers inside court, he said that he has disqualifying his team, claiming that he did not get a fair trial. frank gardner is our security correspondent. he clearly had notoriety, how significant or insignificant was he? in the bigger scheme of things for isis in terms of the military battles, completely insignificant. none of these british jihadist had any military experience whatsoever. but he arrived in syria and somebody else�*s civil war with a completely warped version or vision of islam, some of it acquired in prison and

having spent in early lifetime of petty crime and drug peddling, but they were useful to isis and propaganda terms and so, isis leadership decided it would give them free rain to look after these captives and raised a lot of money for them. captives and raised a lot of money forthem. chris captives and raised a lot of money for them. chris british and us captives were pretty much doomed from the day they were caught because breeden in the us do not pay terrorist ransoms, the europeans were all released one by one. reportedly for huge ransoms although no government is ever to this and they of course survived, went back home, told their stories and give evidence to investigators, including british detectives. these guys are just meeting out completely gratuitous sociopathic violence. they are not looking to extract information, what information do you get from someone who turned up in syria as an aid worker or a journalist? these are not military

captives that they had, these are innocent men were simply trying to do theirjobs and the so—called isis beatles just took out his sadistic tendencies by forcing them to fight each other, beating them, electrocuting them, waterboarding them, doing horrific things to them and the important thing i think is that the relatives, the families of the victims, at least two of them have said to me that we do not want them to be given the death penalty this was said before the trial, we want to see the men of the day in court, have a fair day in trial, not shipped off to some military tribunal, bev the fair trial with defence lawyers and so they get their day in court, so if they are convicted, they spent a long time in prison thinking about what they've done. fin prison thinking about what they've done. , ., ., ., done. on the question of what happened _ done. on the question of what happened to — done. on the question of what happened to many _ done. on the question of what happened to many of - done. on the question of what| happened to many of hundreds done. on the question of what i happened to many of hundreds of people who fought for the group that called itself islamic state. many of

them vanish from the scene but some of them are still active in this kind ofjihadist circle so they may be taking their activities elsewhere?— be taking their activities elsewhere? ., , , ., , elsewhere? the group is not very stron: in elsewhere? the group is not very strong in the _ elsewhere? the group is not very strong in the middle _ elsewhere? the group is not very strong in the middle east - elsewhere? the group is not very strong in the middle east now. i elsewhere? the group is not very. strong in the middle east now. the watermark of its power was in 2015 where one state, they controlled an area of northern iraq in eastern syria, northeast syria that was roughly the equivalent of the area of belgium. they had 8 million people under the rule it was a brutal rule. was able to extract taxes, basically extort money from farmers and traders and it was a functioning in many states, terrorist many state and thus able to attract a lot of people to its cause across borders, including people coming from britain. that all endedin people coming from britain. that all ended in syria a few years ago. so, the physical caliphate is no more

they are surviving with their ideology and pockets of strength in africa and in eastern afghanistan, and afghanistan they're fighting the taliban. they the insurgency now and afghanistan, bombing mosques and sikh temples, telling people where they can. they are taking advantage of under governed or poorly governed spaces and places where the theft they are able to roam at will and along with al-qaeda and other groups, they're pretty strong there, partly because often the local police and army behave so badly carrying out atrocities themselves that's fairly easy for isis and other groups to recruit. thank you very much- _ there have been more warnings about serious pressures

on the nhs this coming winter. in a letter to ministers, the nhs confederation, which represents employers in the health service says the uk is facing a �*public health emergency,�* because people are having to choose between heating and eating this winter, due to soaring energy prices. the government says it's giving millions of the most vulnerable households, £1200, to help with higher energy bills. but it comes at a time when nhs services are already under intense strain. 0ur health editor hugh pym reports jan had classic heart attack symptoms, including chest pain, and rang 999. she was told it was very busy and it wasn't clear when an ambulance would get to her. there was an anxious wait. i was mortified. i thought i was going to die in my flat, on my own. then two police officers arrived saying they had been sent by the hospital. within ten, 15 minutes, i couldn't even walk, so they had to support me out of their patrol car and take me to hospital. elsewhere, a makeshift

shelter was created for an 87—year—old man who'd fallen and fractured his pelvis. his son and daughter were told not to move him, but had to wait 15 hours for an ambulance to arrive. services are under intense pressure, with record urgent call—outs and delays waiting outside hospitals. it's absolutely soul—destroying at the moment. you don'tjoin the ambulance service to sit in an ambulance outside an emergency department for all of your shift. you join the ambulance service to make a difference to patients that really need your help in the community. that's the reality now, but there are warnings things could get worse this winter. covid could pick up again. flu is predicted to have a bigger impact than in recent years. and now, there are concerns that those struggling with fuel bills will have to economise on heating and put their health at risk. when people can't stay warm, long—term conditions like heart disease, diabetes are likely

to get worse. and we know that in a bad winter, they're likely to get hypothermia as well. so we see these consequences of the price of fuel from the patients that we are trying to look after, and we're expecting it to be a very significant problem this winter. the government's promised help for households with fuel costs. more is possible when a new prime minister is in place. plans in all the uk nations are being drawn up for the nhs this winter, but every week seems to heighten suspicions that the next six months will be extremely tough. hugh pym, bbc news. president's putin and macron have agreed on the need to send inspectors to zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant as fears grow around the safety of the plant. it comes as the un secretary general antonio guiterress said he hopes �*discreet diplomacy�* can secure the safety of the plant amid concerns it could be damanged by shellfire. mr guterres who�*s visiting the ukrainian port of 0desa told the bbc, the aim was to stop military activity around the facililty, and gain access for inspectors from the international atomic energy agency. 0ur correspondent hugo bachega

is in 0desa in southern ukraine the visit has been overshadowed by the tensions around the nuclear power complex for days russia and ukraine have traded accusations for who�*s responsible for showing the complex. ukrainians accuse or shift during this nuclear facility into a military base and using it to launch attacks against ukrainian towns, preps knowing ukrainians are unlikely to retaliate. the russians reject those accusations sing russian troops are there protecting this complex. i ask him about the zaporizhia complex and also the rejection by the rejection of the militarising the zone around the facility, take a listen. we hope it will be possible to engage in a way that we will come of this for the moment to end all military operations

in afterwards in the situation which is returning to its civilian nature. i also asked antonio guterres if any negotiations wrapping behind the scenes to visit the zaporizhia complex, he did not confirm or deny any mention discrete diplomacy and did mention the deal was negotiated between the russians and ukrainians and also other nations after discrete diplomacy and they sounded a bit hopeful that a deal can be reached and allow the suspect is into the plant and there�*s no sign that the russians are willing to allow those to visit this complex in southern ukraine. the summer of strike action continued today as london underground and 0verground workers took industrial action over pay,

conditions and pensions. some london bus drivers also refused to turn up for work. another national rail strike is planned tomorrow. katy austin has the very latest. the shutters are down at many tube stations in london today and there were long queues for buses this morning. struggling to get to work. it�*s just annoying. but i understand why they�*re doing it. but what can we do? thank you very much, the rmt. it's very kind of them. they've screwed up my day completely. repeated strikes are taking their toll on hospitality businesses. at this city—centre wine bar, tables are being laid, but customers aren�*t coming. for us, like, it costs thousands of pounds each day. and obviously, every day we don�*t make money, for us, it�*s, like, always a question to open the doors the day after. and this is, like, a really, really big problem for us. the rmt union is worried transport for london could sign an agreement with the government to secure the future of funding that

will affect underground staff�*s jobs and conditions. we need an unequivocal guarantee that there will be no changes to people's pensions, negative changes to people's pensions. we also demand that there will be no job cuts. tfl says it hasn�*t proposed such changes, and the london mayor urged unions to work with him to press the government for a decent deal. public transport around the country has been hit by a string of walk—outs. tomorrow will see the latest national strike by members of the rmt and tssa unions working for network rail and various other train companies. as with thursday, only about 20% of the usual train services will run. the transport secretary said today, if settlements in those national disputes couldn�*t be reached, changes would be pushed through anyway. if we can�*t get this resolved through the unions actually putting the offer to their members,

then we will have to instead impose these changes, and that�*s what we�*re moving to. more talks are expected, but the summer of transport disruption continues. katy austin, bbc news. new figures suggest more than a third of young people, are spending much higher proportions of their income, on rent. housing experts say paying landlords more than a third of wages on accomodation, is �*unaffordable.�* the numbers of young people struggling with high rental costs, is now said to be at a five year high. 0ur consumer affairs correspondent ,colletta smith, has that story. megan and richard have been struggling to pay the rent on zero—hours contracts in london. they had been paying £560 a month each in a house share but when their contracts ended a few months ago the landlord upped the rent, by a lot. 0ur rent increased 50% and that was just going to be completely unaffordable. more than half of their pay would have gone straight to the landlord. which would have left us with essentially nothing. hardly anything.

and they are not the only ones. outside of london, salford is one of the areas that�*s seen the biggest increase in rent compared to income. you can go for a nice walk after your tea and you�*re not worried about things like that. sarah loves her flat here but she is facing a hard decision in the autumn when the contract needs to be renewed. for the equivalent flat, were looking at an extra 200, 300 a month. she is already working full—time and fitting in two extra shifts a week in this cafe to try and earn more. does the rent you are paying at the moment feel affordable? not at the minute. it�*s the choice of, do go i go out for my friend�*s birthday or do i put that into savings? you�*re choosing between rent and the long—term because we can�*t save for a mortgage because rent is so high. young people spend more of their incomes on rent than any other age group so with rents going up so quickly at the same time as incomes are not, it�*s younger people who are being squeezed in the middle, and that�*s

before they�*ve even started paying for any of their other bills. the campaign group generation rent want the government to freeze rents and pause evictions as living costs spiral, but the department for housing say their new rental law will abolish no fault evictions and empower tenants to challenge unjustified rent increases. but megan and richard have taken things into their own hands and found a different solution. this is a guardianship where tenants look after an unused building in exchange for cheaper rent. they could be given a month�*s notice to leave and they are only paying £400 a month each including bills. it�*s not as much security but you obviously think it is worthwhile? 100%. you can't enjoy life if you're having to worry about the £9 and the £10. it means i can save, that is the big thing for me. as rental prices rise out of reach, many younger people are now making tough choices to balance their bills.

the government is to take over running the majority of liverpool city council, after a report found extensive errors by the authority. a commissioner is being put in place to oversee the councils finances, with four other commissioners already in place, controlling other operations, including planning and regeneration. finland�*s prime minster, sanna marin, says she has nothing to fear after taking a drugs test, following the emergence of a video of her, at a party. the 36—year—old took the test, after some in finland, interpreted comments by partygoers in the footage, as referring to drugs. here�*s caroline hawley. these are the pictures that have put the finnish prime minister in the spotlight for, her critics say, all the wrong reasons. sanna marin in the strappy black top enjoying herself at a party but the leaking of the footage prompted her to take a drugs test and today she announced she had. though she said she considered

the call is unfair and was doing it for her own legal protection. she said she had always been any fit state to lead the country. we didn�*t have any government meetings during that week and i had time off and spent it with my friends and did nothing illegal. when she was elected in 2019 she was the youngest world leader, applauded by her supporters by combining the top job with an active social life. but it has been a tough and demanding time for european leaders with covid and the current crisis in ukraine and this is not the first time herjudgment has been questioned. last december she went clubbing just hours after her foreign minister had tested positive for covid and missed a text saying she needed to isolate because she left her work phone at home. she had to apologise then for her behaviour. the 36—year—old prime minister says the latest partying was boisterous

but she would have left had she needed to work. the result of her drug test is due back next week. caroline hawley, bbc news. at the bbc sport centre. cricketers were thrashed by south africa. in the first test the tourist winning by endings in 12 runs inside three days. first of you for the new england captain for he says they will not compromise their high—risk of cricket. will not compromise their high-risk of cricket. ._ , of cricket. over the three days when there were bowling, _ of cricket. over the three days when there were bowling, whatever- of cricket. over the three days when there were bowling, whatever we i there were bowling, whatever we threw at them, they seem to counteract that. so, obviously, you have to give them a lot of credit but yeah, it was an off game for us and that�*s fine. i�*m not going to be

crying over it. did we commit to the way that we committed to everything in the first four tests of the summer and if everyone can say is, 100%, orjust didn�*t execute it the way, would then move onto the next test match and got there and try to win. what makes £35,000 after the clash with spurs boss last weekend and both were shown in red cards and and both were shown in red cards and a full whistle. $1150 and both were shown in red cards and a full whistle-— a full whistle. also find £15,000. suspended _ a full whistle. also find £15,000. suspended temporarily _ a full whistle. also find £15,000. suspended temporarily pending l suspended temporarily pending written reasons for the decision being sent through to chelsea and that means he can still take his place in the dugout for sunday�*s match at leeds. manchester united says that they want the club supporters to get behind the team with the threat of more protests against the clubs on her ahead of monday�*s match against liverpool. it

is anticipated that thousands of fans commit their feelings known an old trafford of united slipped to the bottom of the premier league following the humiliating 4—0 defeat last saturday. they say they have not been it united long enough to understand the detail behind the fence discontent. i understand the detail behind the fence discontent.— fence discontent. i can only say that they always _ fence discontent. i can only say that they always want - fence discontent. i can only say that they always want to - fence discontent. i can only say that they always want to win i fence discontent. i can only say| that they always want to win and they want to be behind the club and i understand sometimes but i can see all the backgrounds and we have to fight together and so, we have to be unified and fight together. the? unified and fight together. they have weighed — unified and fight together. they have weighed in _ unified and fight together. they have weighed in on _ unified and fight together. they have weighed in on that everett rotella rematch on saturday in saudi arabia £23 saviour and they�*ve been talk about and bulking up and they will be defending the title that

they 111 months ago. her european title in the next couple of hours in munich, qualified easily after recovering from cramps that forced her out of the 100 metres earlier in the week she revealed that it was a symptom of having her period at the time and more research needs to be done looking at how performances affected by the menstrual cycle. women sporting exercises rebecca robinson says it is fundamental. we are robinson says it is fundamental. - are learning more about menstrual cycles. it is quite a hard area to research and studies have not included. some of those details are difficult to track or looking for other areas. given the particularly if you must because you want to exclude those changes to the menstrual cycle and it�*s taking a while and changes during the month for most females and also different

symptoms affect different people and so there are lots of variables and that hasn�*t been researched as much today but that research is becoming quite exciting because internationally in the uk, their interesting studies that are being able to be applied to the female athletes of the elite level and that can filter through how we manage the health and the grass roots in the community. health and the grass roots in the community-— health and the grass roots in the communi . ., ., , , community. one of cycle and stuff his references _ community. one of cycle and stuff his references been _ community. one of cycle and stuff his references been broken i community. one of cycle and stuff his references been broken by i community. one of cycle and stuff. his references been broken by some and is not even a full—time writer. they made the attempt in switzerland and half a kilometre, covered 55.54 kilometres in 60 minutes and being a pro cyclist isn�*t even his dayjob, he works for the team as a performance engineer. to he works for the team as a performance engineer. he works for the team as a erformance enaineer. ., , , ., performance engineer. to put my name amon: performance engineer. to put my name among some — performance engineer. to put my name among some of — performance engineer. to put my name among some of the _ performance engineer. to put my name among some of the absolute _ performance engineer. to put my name among some of the absolute greatest i among some of the absolute greatest in the sport, it�*s mind blowing. i hadn�*t considered beforehand. it�*s

just a project to get my teeth sticking to it and i never consider the outcome of it whatever the means but it�*s such an enjoyable process and to go and do it, yeah, it�*s mind blowing. good evening. as the cloud cleared away the far south—east during this afternoon, it took with it the humid air, so it will be much more comfortable for sleeping tonight. and there will be another opportunity to witness the spectacular northern lights. this was taken last night, as you can see, in highland, but again, although not quite as strong as last night, the aurora forecast is that it should be seen again across scotland, particularly the north of scotland. we should see some clearer skies as well. we�*ve got showers with us through this evening,

but they should start to ease away, and then you can see some clearer skies on the satellite to the west of us for a time. and the showers elsewhere ease away as well across northern ireland, across northern england and any remaining across england and wales. so, a quiet start to this evening and overnight, but through the second half of the night, we get yet more rain pushing into scotland and northern ireland, driven in by a stronger wind. in fact, gales for the hebrides, so temperatures don�*t drop much here. further south, i think it will be a lot fresher. these are towns and cities, but we could get into single figures in the countryside, so the thing to take away is it will be more comfortable for sleeping. under a ridge of high pressure near the south tomorrow, more sunshine and dry weather to come, but our weather front will sink southwards and it�*ll still maintain some of the intensity. so, there could be some heavier bursts of rain, some thundery bursts as well as it sinks its way into southern scotland, away from northern ireland, into northern england, pushed away by those strong winds. some showers, though, will follow up, and there�*ll be some showers to the south of that weather

front as well, but it�*s either side of it where we�*ll see more sunshine. temperatures perhaps a degree or so down today because the wind will be a bit fresher, so it will feel still pleasant in the sunshine. then through the night, that weather front weakens further as it sinks into southern parts of england and, meaning cloudier skies potentially sunday. in fact, it could turn quite misty and murky around hills and coasts in the west with the advance of some initially quite light and patchy rain. but i think later in the day, some quite heavier rain, but instead with a ridge of high pressure further north, it looks drier for scotland, for northern england, for northern ireland as well. and as i say, feeling pleasantly warm in the strong august sunshine. but then through sunday evening and overnight, it looks as if many areas will see a dampening of the ground as that rain moves its way eastwards, perhaps about ten millimetres, possibly more over the higher ground. not guaranteed for all. it�*s a showery band of rain, and showers follow in the north thereafter, but it looks drier from midweek on further south.

hello, and welcome to the programme where british journalists debate the week�*s news with the correspondents who write, blog, podcast and broadcast from the dateline: london. living with double—digit inflation is an unwelcome, if familiar, experience in many countries. turkey, argentina, zimbabwe and iran started 2022 under that yoke. for the british, it had been a distant memory, but not any more. in the united states, presidentjoe biden signed into law the optimistically titled

inflation reduction act.