she was not a teenager when she travelled to join islamic state, she travelled to join islamic state,er of the irish defence voices, somebody with military training. she became disillusioned with her life. in 2011 she converted to islam and then in 2015 she made the decision to leave her husband and go andjoin the decision to leave her husband and go and join the islamic state. now, she resurfaced again in the summer now, she resurfaced again in the summer of this year, when the islamic state was collapsing she was held by us backed forces in syria. she was in the refugee camp and at that time the bbc caught up with her in that camp and asked her what she had been doing while she was with islamic state and she denied that she had better military skills to any offensive use. lisa smith is now in the custody of the irish police and they will of course be testing that story of hers, about what she did during those four years in syria. they will clearly wa nt those four years in syria. they will clearly want to know in detail who exactly clearly want to know in detail who exa ctly s he cl

of western africa and the there's a lot of speculations why it might be that the islamic state centrally want to strongly control the fuel if you live the former hiram fraction of the islamic state in west africa is stronger than their all islamic state in greater samarra but we don't know really what these corporation mean so far we don't know if it's directly controlled if it's just a name what we can see though is that the islamic state in africa the former part that was islamic state in great just our house because much more efficient in the border areas between the mali and niger we can see larger scale attacks coming from that organization against also larger military formations know. as you've said neither negotiations nor military operations have managed to restore security so what else needs to happen at this stage and how can the international community secure the saddle. ok what the international community needs to do is really to share the burden and the burden is not just to believe that not to trust the africans of course it's it's easy to believe that they are no

most were recruited to the islamic state by their own parents. parts of northern iraq semi autonomous kurdish region were among the longest held i-s. territories this is all that remains of cinderella. this is he was once the center of the is edis an ethnic minority targeted by ass in a campaign of ethnic cleansing. kurdish troops recaptured send in the autumn of 2015 today it lies in ruins its outskirts littered with dozens of mass graves. in center alone i was murdered some 10000 years edis thousands of women and girls were abducted raped and enslaved. i was also kidnapped young boys to enlist them as child soldiers. is from center she managed to flee when i as fighters captured the city in the summer of 2014 but 71 members of her extended family were trapped by troops of the so-called calif it i'm not able to escape most were never heard from again. a diva travels tirelessly from one refugee camp to another to help where she can and in the hope of finding lost relatives. was very explicit that if into. the phone all the family were together. b

an irish woman who travelled to syria to join the islamic state group is arrested after arriving backin with her two—year—old daughter. irving burgie, the american composer who helped to popularise caribbean music and wrote the hit song day—0, dies at the age of 95. and arsenal's winless run goes on, as they draw 2—2 with norwich. reaction to that and rest of the day's action in sportsday in half an hour. good evening, welcome to bbc news. the second victim killed in the terrorist attack close to london bridge on friday, has been named — she was saskia jones, who was 23 from stratford—upon—avon. she was a volunteer with the charity learning together. this charity organised the conference that was taking place when the attack happened. her family describe her as a wonderful and positive influence at the centre of many people lives. jack merritt, who was 25 and from cambridgeshire was also a graduate of cambridge university. three other people were injured. the attacker, usman khan who was later shot dead by the police, was a convicted terrorist, who'd served 8 years of a 16 yearjail se

an irish woman who travelled to syria to join the islamic state group is arrested after arriving back in dublin with her two—year—old daughter. former wales rugby captain gareth thomas says he wants breaking the stigma around hiv to be his ‘everlasting legacy‘ in an interview with prince harry to mark world aids day. watford sack manager qu—que sanchez flores afterjust 85 days in the role. and claims that bullying is rife in the beauty industry — we'll have that and other stories in victoria derbyshire: the week in review. that's in half an hour. the prime minister has told the bbc that 7a people who were jailed for terror offences — have been released before serving their full sentences. their cases are now being reviewed. it follows the attack on london bridge on friday in which the convicted terrorist usman khan killed two people and injured three others. khan had been released after serving half of a 16 year sentence. in the past hour it's been announced that the woman who died in the attack was a former student at the university of cambridge. one of the three other people injured

we had no option, the entire border was in the hands of the islamic state. we had no options. then the islamic state intended to wipe out the entire population of a small town south of the border. that town was occupied by syrian kurds. half the fighting force were women. they were awesome. the islamic state was afraid of getting close to them because if you get killed in action in that environment, you're not going to paradise. when we saw that they were able to hold their own but they would be overwhelmed eventually, president obama decided to poor on american firepower. between the aircraft and carriers, we stopped them. we learned that with special forces thrown in to support, we learned we now had an ally. the kurds can fight and they were ready to fight. we needed them. we organized through our special operators and 2200 american troops, we organized the capacity for the kurds to fight. the kurds defeated the main force units of the islamic state. 11,000 kurds were killed writing this people. i think we had five of our troops were killed. one is tragic, five is awful. in

talk to us about a so-called islamic state they're active in that region why how come are they there is it inspired or are they indeed so-called militants well it's suspected that it is the islamic state militants because they are operating in that region just by the border and sometimes crossing into into mali but they've not said anything yet and we'll probably hear from them soon because this is the kind of event they thrive upon either with a statement or pro probably even recorded on video and put it out as part of their propaganda this is a group that has operated in this in this region for a while they are building their presence so while there is a decline in for example syria and iraq they are thriving in the hell this is a vast region that is difficult to govern and. as well are also operating because that's the whole the problem of course with the sahara region in west africa it's just a no man's land basically so can these countries because it's not just new share you've got mali as well that suffers from these militants and these nations cope they've been struggling mali

there are signs that the islamic state group is re—organising in iraq.wo years since is lost its territory in the country, but now kurdish and western intelligence officials have told the bbc that the is presence in iraq is a sophisticated insurgency, with militants moving freely, raising funds and carrying out attacks. the militants are now more skilled and more dangerous than al-qaeda, according to one top kurdish counter—terrorism official. there are believed to be about 10,000 of them and security forces are warning that history is in danger of repeating itself, as 0rla guerin reports. from a hilltop in northern iraq, a sweeping view of territory reclaimed from the islamic state group. the kurdish peshmerga, who helped drive them out, tell us now they are making a comeback. the militants are exploiting an area of no man's land, disputed terrain between kurdish and iraqi forces. looking at this territory here now right in front of us, do isis have free rein here now? yes, i can say, yes. especially between, the delta between the great zab and tigris r

now, she resurfaced again in the summer of this year, when the islamic state was collapsing.ey asked what she had been doing while she was with islamic state and she denied that she had put her military skills to any offensive use. lisa smith is now in the custody of the irish police and they will, of course, be testing that story about what she did during those four years in syria. they will clearly want to know in detail who exactly she was with, where she was and what she did. now, irish police can hold herfor three days before they have to make some sort of decision on charge or release. falkirk council says it is on standby to help vulnerable residents after thousands of homes have been left without heating following a gas mains failure in central scotland. with the temperature in the area just above freezing, electric heaters and cookers are being offered to elderly or sick customers and those with young children. scottish gas networks said engineers were trying to fix the problem but didn't know when gas would be restored. irving burgie, the american composer who helpe

an irishwoman who became a so—called islamic state bride in syria, has been arrested after arriving backhe war—torn country in 2015 — after converting to islam and becoming radicalised. she had been living with her child in a syrian refugee camp. she has also revealed that the father of her child was a suspected member of is who died last year. 0ur correspondent, john campbell has more on ms smith's background. she was a woman in her 30s, she had been a member of the irish defence forces, so, somebody with military training. she became disillusioned with her life. in 2011, she converted to islam, and then in 2015 she made that decision to leave her husband and go and join the islamic state. now, she resurfaced again in the summer of this year, when the islamic state was collapsing. she was held by us—backed forces in syria. she was in a refugee camp and, at that time, the bbc caught up with her in that camp. we asked what she had been doing while she was with islamic state and she denied that she had put her military skills to any offensive use. lisa smith is now in the custody of the ir

islamic state claims responsibility for friday's stabbing attack in london which left 2 people dead. u.s. democrat strategists who work for barack obama urged to creating fake local news in a bid to sway the 2020 election. and the biggest shopping day isn't just a bargain extravaganza we look at black fridays less attractive aspects from causing brawl stop bombing the environment. life from moscow studio where it's just a minute past 4 o'clock in the morning you're watching international welcome to the program. the terrorist group islamic state has claimed responsibility for a stabbing in central london 2 people were killed on friday and 3 of the severely injured and it's since been revealed that the suspect had served time for a terrorist plot the british prime minister has criticized the practice of automatic early release. clear to me that. this guy was i thought he'd served half of the sentence he was out on automatic early release and i have long said that this system simply isn't working it does not make sense for us as a society to put it in putting terrorist people who have c

from their point of view the greater danger between taliban and islamic state is the islamic state. so if that means they need to warm up the relations with the taliban in order to prepare for the expected panic departure of the u.s. and the collapse of afghanistan, that's what they're doing. you have a definite warmingg. of relations between the iranians of the taliban as you have between the russians and the taliban. in both cases it is premised on the two perceptions, and islamic islamic state is a bigger threat, and you can't trust the americans to hold up their end and afghanistan, , they walk out and leave chaos. i have to have friends. >> okay. >> thank you. turning to humanitarian issues. how concerned should we be about the human costs of sanctions on iran for ordinary iranian civilians? >> how much we should be or how much are we? >> should be, should be. >> if you're looking at it from a purely moral and ethical point of view, it's a little bit like our sanctions on iraq and the leader of to the 2003 war in which we frankly took a position that the humanitarian crisis tha

the fight online against the islamic state group in mosul.lassical ballet com pa ny. but first, as part of the bbc‘s crossing divides season, we bring you two perspectives on an historic moment in the relationship between the us and iran. in 1979, a group of iranian students overran the us embassy in tehran and took the americans inside hostage. massoumeh ebtekar was the spokesperson and translator for the revolutionary students. we had an opportunity to convey the message of the iranian people to the world, and we had to make the best of this opportunity.

the largest or the deadliest attack so far on asia arion troops we mentioned that the so-called islamic state is present in this area are they behind this attack well we don't know yet we'll find out soon this is the kind of attack especially one of the size that you had a groups tend to treasure and we'll hear something from them you know soon whether in form of a statement or even sometimes a form of a recording they tend to record these attacks but these state has this growing presence in the city held not just in asia and when people look at for example syria and iraq and this you you know because the islamic state has had a decline there that it's over that's not the case in this the hell this is a difficult place to govern and it's a place where they will feel like they can grow they can breed and they can attack targets in that region so we're talking about a serious security risk for this the whole region can these nations cope these are poor nations in the say hell they have vost as well the vast territory difficult to govern and they've been looking to the outside world for help bec

in nate's in the southwest also wounded 12 soldiers and left several more missing the so-called islamic state has long been active in the area. and did have you reporter tommy on that people has been looking into this story for us he's with us here in studio hi tommy what more can you tell us about this attack well board from the defense ministry that they say hundreds of attackers came to this camp there was and she's day hundreds of them came with gunfire with mortar shells even suicide car bombs and storm that have the fighting went on for about 3 hours before the defense ministry says the attackers then fled across the nearby border to mali so this is this is believed to be the largest or the deadliest attack so far on these areas and troops we mentioned that the so-called islamic state is present in this area are they behind this attack well we don't know yet we'll find out soon this is the kind of attack especially one of this size that you had a groups tend to treasure and we'll hear something from them you know soon whether in form of a statement or even sometimes a form of a recordin

a comeback for islamic state in iraq.group's reorganising and getting stronger. dozens of former thomas cook employees say they're struggling to access benefits and pay bills — three months after the travel chain collapsed. also this hour — catch up on all the latest gadgets, games and computer industry news with click. sport — and for a full round—up from the bbc sport centre here's jane dougall. good morning. as you've been hearing, the pfa have called for a government investigation into racism in football after the chelsea player antonio rudiger was allegedly abused by fans at tottenham's stadium. the first step of fifa's protocol was invoked with a stadium announcement asking fans to cease racist behaviour. the sports minister nigel adams has said he'll speak to tottenham's directors today. rudiger‘s manager, frank lampard says he'll support his defender as much as he needs. all i know is that toni rudiger has said that he heard some racist chanting, or comments. i haven't had an individual conversation with toni, i'v

the islamic state franchise terrorizing this part of the country since 2009. which has been fighting a jury and military forces attacking schools and declaring an islamic state in territory it controls since then through attacks and suicide bombings that killed an estimated 27000 people over 2000000 civilians have been displaced. we've heard disturbing reports the tramadol might be playing a role in the insurgency. to understand how the conflict is affecting civilians here we interview a psychiatry my degrees federal neuropsychiatric hospital. i many patients although he shows us around a rehab. isn't it it's almost empty but that isn't for lack of those needing treatment. and. the source of livelihood of. treatment also since the insurrection began he's seen previously unthinkably high dosages of tramadol come on to the market we have. 625. individuals to 10. $25.00 shocking indeed that's over 60 times the maximum legal dosage. one of those who can't afford treatment is above my. comment than if i didn't i won a number of items of which were the. same questio

that he helped the islamic state that he never fought against the islamic state that he used w.m.c. even in cases where scientists actually disagree it came up in firstly this pro regime change crowd made it seem as if the rebels fighting assad were more moderate than they actually were not so for example it's been very embarrassing to them with all of the additional evidence that the rebels were interfacing with very radical salafi jihadists groups like al qaida and that was even cooperation between the rebels which the international community supported and the higher level isis leaders including baghdad and some of the more time goes on the more evidence are emerging to the more it becomes difficult to claim you know assad of all evil in the rebels' war all good and some much murkier picture where some of the allegations against assad have been revealed to be maximum true and we're learning more about the rebel opposition which have them in a much more extreme life. max thanks very much for sharing your research an investigation into this over the course of all this investigation

that all the shia militias together fight against the islamic state very successfully since july have been incorporated as an ohm of the iraqi government so what we have just witnessed then is the u.s. bombing of the iraqi government the iraqi state at least on paper you could have discussions as to whether these groups are actually taking at taking command from baghdad or not and so on however on paper what we have just seen is u.s. government attacking the iraqi administration. chevre tanser going to have to leave it there with the latest from washington d.c. thank you it's. the ukrainian government and russian backed separatists have exchanged all 200 of their prisoners in a move that 5 years of war a group has just arrived back in the ukrainian capital kiev where they were welcomed by president. and. there's those. soldiers civilians and members of a special police force who are accused of killing protesters in 2014 exchange follows talks between ukraine and russia a few weeks ago in paris and is being seen as a sign of a possible resolution to the. reports. for many this was

terrorist group islamic state says it carried out friday stopping attack in london which left 2 people that the perpetrator was known to the authorities. and u.s. democrats are calling for the program public and fox news t.v. network to be registered as a foreign agent. in france residents of rwanda still demanding answers and action from the government 2 months after a massive chemical factory fire left a toxic cloud over there said. to me thanks for joining us you're watching the weekly here on out. the terrorist group islamic state says it carried out friday stabbing in central london 2 people were killed in that attack 3 others badly injured perpetrator had served time in prison for previous terrorist offenses before being freed early on license last year british prime minister has criticised that practice of automatic really. clear to me that. this guy was out. half of the sentence he was out on automatic early release and i have long said that this system simply isn't working it does not make sense for us as a society to be putting terrorist people convicted of terrorist offenses

troops to fight the islamic state group but the u.s. incncasingly coconsiders in ckcked militias a more significant threat. iraq is close to both the u.s. and iran and isis increasinglgly caught in the middle of tensnsions. the iraqi prime minister made no public comment on the attack. but did cocondemned the u.s. retaliatory strike. calling it a dangerous escalation that threatens the security of iraq and the region. >> let's bring in middle east specialist, thanksks for taking the timeme to speak to us. do you think these u.s. strikes will truly deterer other attttas against u.u.s. forces s like the we saw on friday? >> this is very possible. iran and the u.s. are sending messages through these kind of attacks. except that the u.s. air raid or the drone attack recently on the iraqi militia positions was an important one strategically speaking. those borders are for -- are extremely important. they connenect iran with the mediterranean. so the u.s. wanted to show this kind of determination in retaliating to the previouss attacks. >> th

of west african provence faction so i think you know the collapse of the physical islamic state you know has led to a massive flow through porous borders of experienced jihad based who have now you know were found a safe haven and a much more fit hard ground for them to recruit and run what i call a sword to islamic state within the region and they've taken advantage you know as you know where we've seen. the porosity of the borders and the instability within the region you remember in 2012 the french launched operation back in which was you know to actually drive the as our what jihad the east from from a bamako but that has trickled down to booking a facile which also has a governance issue and porosity you know within the region so i think this is a great consent especially with the fact that you don't just have the g. 5 so hell you also have the motor national joint task force you know within where and chad are members of that force of including nigeria and benny and then you have the french you know coming up with this operation tuku but which is going to be run by the euro

woman: a huge blow to islamic state's operations.hoes] ramsay: i'm stuart ramsay in turkey, and this is "hotspots." tonight, we're going to take you behind the scenes of the world's biggest and hardest-hitting stories. we uncover a terror group's secrets... man: to have that kind of information is just, i would say, unprecedented. ramsay: we report on america's epideof

the turkish military the y p g has been allied with the united states in the fight against the islamic state nevertheless this doesn't diminish the turkish sense of threat coming from the fact that the why p.g. is so closely associated with the p k k you know we you look at turkey a nato it looks in the eyes of many as to be the black sheep of nato but it's also we have to say it's had success on playing hardball recently we're going to have a look at that issue in just a 2nd but 1st i want to go back to the last week which was the week of the thinks giving holiday in the united states take a listen. it seems that democrats are accusing me of being too soft on turkey but bread and butter i should note that i'd like previous witnesses you and i have actually met it's very unusual. listening explain this to our international audience that the u.s. president there kind of making a pun about forgiving the country turkey while he pardons the things giving turkey which is a tradition of presidential tradition in the united states and are the democrats right however when they criticize trump for no

others say the so-called islamic state is responsible. kurds in the region are deeply skeptical about if the zone should be regarded as safe. >> with the current situation, the united nations should really intervene. >> many kurds make it clear that turkish troops are not welcome here, greeting their tanks with a barrage of stones. brent: let's go back to our correspondent, max hofmann, in london. turkey looks a lot like the black sheep in nato. we know that its president met this evening with the leaders of britain, germany, france, and downing street for a summit about turkey's military intervention in northern syria. has there been any result from them? max: turkey at least has a very different approach to doing things, and that, by the way, is one of the reasons emmanuel macron says they do not necessarily have the same foundations anymore, if they cannot even agree on what is and is not a terrorist. so your definition of a black sheep would probably be shared by some of those nato member states, and that's why a lot of people were an

terror group islamic state says it carried out friday stabbing attack in london that left. a trace there was no. democrats are calling for the probe republican fox news t.v. network to be registered as a foreign agent. and in france residents of rwanda still demanding action from the government of massive chemical factory toxic. thanks for joining us this is the weekly. islamic state has claimed responsibility for friday's stabbing in central london 2 people were killed in that attack 3 others badly injured the perpetrator had served time in prison for previous terrorist offenses before being freed early on license last year the british prime minister has criticised the practice of automatic early release clear to me that. this guy was. half of his sentence automatic early release and i have long said that this system simply isn't working it does not make sense for us as a society to be putting terrorist people convicted of terrorist offenses a serious offenses out on early release. 20 year old was monk karmas released from prison last december he was jailed for planning a

the fight online against the islamic state group in mosul and the dancers who broke down barriers toe the first black classical ballet company. but first, as part of the bbc‘s crossing divide season, we bring you two perspectives on a historic moment in the relationship between the us and iran. in 1979, a group of iranian students overran the us embassy in tehran and took the americans inside hostage. we had an opportunity to convey the message of the iranian people to the world. we had to make the best of this opportunity. in iran, hundreds of students have broken into the american embassy in tehran, holding a number of staff hostage. revolutionary guards and police did nothing to stop the students' takeover. the last week has seen a series of strong verbal attacks on the united states, including several statements on the ayatollah. today, he voices support for the student's action. i was attending classes at the university when i was approached by some of the students who told me that the students inside the embassy, they need you. they're asking for you to join them. we were young

terror group islamic state says it carried out friday stopping attack in london which left 2 people the perpetrator was. some u.s. democrat supporting for the probe republican fox news t.v. now but just as a foreign agent. in france residents of rue are still demanding answers on action from the government 2 months after a massive chemical factory fire left tops a cloud hanging over that city. a very warm welcome you're watching the weekly aeronauts international where we run you through the biggest stories of the week starting with this one islamic state has claimed responsibility for friday's stopping in central london 2 people were killed in that attack and 3 others injured the perpetrator had supper time for previous terrified says before being freed on license last year the british prime minister has criticized the practice of automatic release clear to me that. this guy was. half of his sentence automatic early release and i have long said this system simply isn't working it does not make sense for us as a society to be putting terrorist people who have terrorist offenses a seriou

terror group islamic state says it carried out friday. which left 2 people dead the . public and fox news t.v. . france residents of. chemical factory. welcome to the program. now the terrorist group islamic state says it carried out friday central london 2 people killed in that incident and 3 others. time for previous terrorist offenses before being freed early last year. has criticized the practice. clear to me that. this guy was. half of his sentence automatic early release and i have this system simply isn't working it does not make sense for us as a society to be putting terrorist people of terrorist offenses a serious offenses on early release. 28 year old carmen was released from prison last december he was jailed for planning a bomb attack on the london stock exchange and 2010 his other targets back then reportedly included the u.s. embassy and boris johnson the mayor of london at the time khan was still wearing his the electronic tag when he carried out friday's attack. videos showing the aftermath of the stabbing have been posted to social media as you can se

terror group islamic state says it carried out friday stopping attack in london which left 2 people dead puppetry was still far. from us democrat supporting for the program public and fox news t.v. network to be registered as a foreign agent. and in france residents of were asked still demanding answers and action from the government 2 months after a massive chemical. toxic cloud over that city. it's 4 pm sunday and it's the weekend here on options national well look at the stories that shape the week thanks for joining us. and let's start with probably the biggest story in recent days islamic state has claimed responsibility for friday stopping in central london 2 people were killed in that attack and 3 others badly injured the perpetrator had soft time for previous tara fences before being freed me on license last year the british prime minister has criticised the practice of automatic release clear to me that. this guy was. half of the sentence automatic early release and i have long said that this system simply isn't working it does not make sense for us as a society to be putting te