23/06/2014 BBC News at Six

Muslims to travel to Iraq and Syria to fight a holy war.

He's been identified as Rakhib, a young man who grew up in Aberdeen

and found religion after getting into trouble as a teenager.

We'll be reporting from Iraq and hear from those who know the latest

A botched revenge attack, eight men are found guilty

of killing a mother and her three teenagers in Leicester after they

International condemnation as three Al Jazeera journalists are jailed

Among them the former BBC journalist Peter Greste, his parents found out

his fate following the trail online A high-speed rail

link between Manchester and Leeds, the Chancellor says it would turn

the north of England into an ?economic powerhouse?.

And Andy Murray breezes through to the second round at Wimbledon

as he begins the defence of his historic title.

Right-wing extremists clash with rivals at a family music festival.

One man's stabbed, another arrested for hate crimes.

And a man dies in a blaze during the fire-fighters strike.

The third British man in a recruitment video for the height is

good is from Aberdeen. The video and urged on week stop to others show

urging Muslims to join a holy war have been identified as 20 roll to

from Cardiff. James Cook is in Aberdeen to stop what more can you

tell us. This video has sent shock waves through Cardiff and that has

now spread to Aberdeen. As far as people who knew him are concerned he

was not susceptible to this kind of thing. He was a man who had perhaps

been violent, but only at the extent of having a fight after a nightclub,

getting into trouble with police, no indication he had been radicalised

in any way. He hasn't been seen in Aberdeen for a couple of years but

he was originally from Bangladesh. He was educated in Aberdeen and

hasn't been seen for a couple of years. It is believed his family

moved to Leicester but the former acquaintance who we have been

speaking to whose identity we have protected because he was scared

about the possibility of being recognised, retribution, he has

genuine fear about that, the reach of this organisation, he has been

telling us about Rakhib. He says he was a man who would solve problems

with his fists when he was younger but he says he did calm down when he

turned to Islam. He came here as a young man. He was a bit arrogant, he

ended up in a lot of fights. He is a youth from Aberdeen ending up

someone like that. It is shocking. People are genuinely stunned. They

insist they have never heard radical preaching, and they worry about the

impact this video might have on other impressionable young men.

The US Secretary of State, John Kerry has called on Iraq's

leaders to come together and stand united against Sunni militants,

who've seized large swathes of the north and west of the country.

Mr Kerry, who's on a visit to Baghdad said it was a 'critical

moment' for Iraq and he urged the Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to

For the first time the Iraqi government has acknowledged that

"hundreds" of soldiers have been killed in fighting with the ISIS

Our World Affairs Editor John Simpson reports from Baghdad.

The Iraqi forces are fighting back. After the recent collapse of the

Iraqi army these pictures seemed to show greater determination and it is

clear from other evidence they are starting to be successful in taking

back territory which ISIS had previously occupied. Still, Isis has

scored further successes just to date. It has taken over more border

crossings and it is surrounded and my hydroelectric dam. This is the

position John Kerry came to Baghdad to confront. The atmosphere when he

met the Iraqi Prime Minister wasn't entirely friendly. He thinks the

Americans are deliberately not doing enough to help. John Kerry wants him

to step down, or at least why didn't the basis of his government.

It is essential that Iraq's leaders form a genuinely inclusive

government as rapidly as possible within their own constitutional

framework. The most Mr Kerry has probably got

out of this visit is an undertaking from the Prime Minister he will

broaden his government to bring in more politicians for stop it is the

feeling among them they have been excluded from power that has turned

many of them into supporters of ISIS.

We would like new government as well. But it is not for the prime

ministers to stand down. We support him. It is a democratic country. We

believe in democracy, we believe in the will of people.

This is the way ISIS likes to present itself, in this case the

pictures are from the city of Mosel which they captured two weeks ago.

ISIS fighters are handing out copies of the Koran. They aren't

unbeatable, but they will take full American help if the Iraqi

government is to win back places like Mosel.

Eight men have been found guilty of killing a mother and her three

teenage children in Leicester in a 'botched revenge attack'.

The family all died in September last year

when a fire engulfed their house in the early hours of the morning.

The court heard how the men were seeking revenge after a 20-year-old

The arson attack in the suburban street destroyed not just a home but

a family. A 15-year-old boy and his older brother was living upstairs

when the house was set alight. They died, along with their mother and

19-year-old sister. Their father, surgeon working in Ireland that

night, today spoke of the impact of their deaths.

My wife and three beautiful children, I can say they were really

extraordinary people. They were very charitable. They had a strong

concern for the welfare of others, even before their own comfort. They

have devoted their lives to a dream to give to others, the needy, the

less privileged, and the misguided. For amazing human beings. Today two

men were each convicted of four counts of murder for their part in

the arson attack will mark another six or convicted of all counts of

manslaughter. It was an act of retaliation after their friend was

stabbed to death in this Leicester street earlier that day. The group,

four of whom are seen here on CCTV on the night of the fire, had hoped

to target their friend's attackers. One man who has known them for ten

years said emotions would have been running high.

The only thing that would have gone through the head in hindsight, we

need to get revenge, we have lost one of our own, we need to show this

individual who committed this crime that we are serious.

Intent on revenge, the men came here and in the early hours of the money

poured petrol through the letterbox and let it. Trapped upstairs were a

mother and her three children. The men had targeted the wrong house.

In one day we had month murder and then we had this whole family. And

In one day we had month murder and for us, we have lost the most

beautiful family I could have asked for. I don't know what neighbours

iambic to get again, I couldn't ask for better neighbours than what I

had. The respect felt for the quiet,

devout family was clear. Thousands attended a memorial service to show

support for Dr Taufiq. I don't use the world in spiralling

lightly. He has inspired many people, and I think that has been

reflected in the people, and I think that has been

members of the community. And as this community learns to live

with the scars of this devastating attack those responsible await their

sentence. A couple have been sentenced to life

in prison for murdering the woman's parents and burying them

in their garden in Mansfield. Susan Edwards and her husband

Christopher shot her parents dead in 1998 but kept up the pretence

they were still alive for 15 years. The couple, who were in debt,

also stole ?245,00. They must now serve a minimum

of 25 years. Unison says council workers and

school support staff in Wales, England and Northern Ireland will

strike in a protest about pay. The 24-hour stoppages to be held on the

10th of July. The local Association spokesman said the pay offer of 1%

for most workers was the fairest possible deal given budget

constraints. There's been international outrage

after three journalists working in Egypt for the Arabic

broadcaster, Al-Jazeera, were sentenced to seven years in jail for

spreading false news and supporting Peter Greste,

a former BBC journalist and his Egyptian colleagues,

Mohammed Fahmy, and Baher Mohammed, The US Secretary of State,

John Kerry described the verdicts The defendants cage, inside Peter

Greste and to Al Jazeera colleagues, desperately hoping this ordeal is

about to end. The judge had sat through 12 hearings of this trial

which Amnesty International dismissed as a vindictive farce. The

verdicts, or the more shocking for stop Peter Greste.

Guilty. Seven years for Peter Greste. His

parents watching a live feed in a stranger. My God.

Of 20 people on trial, only two were acquitted, the rest, most of them

tried in their absence, were given between seven and ten year

sentences. In court the families reacted with disbelief. Six months

is long enough. Seven years is ridiculous. For the families this is

the verdict they had feared but probably expected. No wonder the

prisoners shouted out. From here they will be taken back to the cell

they shared for six months, three metres by four metres, just a small

window, and three beds. And they are a knock-down 423 hours day for stop

-- for 23 hours each day. This is a recording of the raid where the

journalists were working. Peter and the Cairo bureau chief were charged

with spreading false news in support of the banned Muslim Brotherhood.

For six months the international media has run a huge campaign in

their support, but in the absence of any real evidence is the insert in

this case was a wider diplomatic row between Egypt and the Gulf state tar

which ends Al Jazeera and has backed the disposed Egyptian President

Morsi. I am so angry. If they could find

any one single evidence, we can say OK, and they should take the

punishment, but he didn't do anything. He didn't do anything.

From here the appeals process is a long road. There can be no

presidential pardon until the legal battle is exhausted.

It is coming up to quarter past six. Our top story this evening. The

third British jihadist filmed in an ISIS video is named as a young man

from Aberdeen. Still to come, a new way of topping

the Pops as online streaming is added to the weight we calculate

your music charts. disadvantaged pupils in the capital

are outperforming the rest of the in the capital are outperforming

the rest of the country. And the special Wimbledon tickets

that cost ?50,000 The Chancellor, George Osborne, has

been setting out his vision for a new high-speed rail link across

northern England which, he says, could join several cities to make an

economic "northern powerhouse" which collectively could "take on the

world". The HS3 would run between Manchester and Leeds, based on

upgraded existing rail routes. Speeding up journey times, which

currently take an average 49 minutes for the fastest services between the

two cities to just 30 minutes. And eventually link up Liverpool and

Hull, a journey which currently takes more than three hours, an hour

longer than the Eurostar from London to Paris. Our transport

correspondent, Richard Westcott, sent this report from Leeds. It's

called the TransPennine Express, but should it go a lot faster? The

Government says quicker trains will help England's northern cities keep

pace with London. We need an ambitious plan to make the cities

and the towns here in this northern belt radically more connected from

east to west, to create the equivalent of travelling around a

single global city. As well as fixing the roads, that means

considering a new high-speed rail link. On the 1209 from Leeds to

Manchester. This journey should take around 50 minutes. If this new

project goes ahead - and it is a big if - that journey time could come

down to under the half an hour. There is a big reason why this

project could be very expensive. Fast trains work best when the line

is flat and straight, not easy in the Pennines. A new line would

is flat and straight, not easy in a lot of tunnelling and could cost

?7 billion. But the Government insists that by using some of the

existing track they can keep costs down. Unsurprisingly if you ask

travellers if they want better trains, they always say yes. Faster

trains is always a better idea but it is depends what other people

want. There's capacity issues. There is a difference between what's

happening in the south and what's happening in the north in terms of

transport infrastructure He's right. In London the Government spends ?545

per person on transport. In the North-West it is just ?265 per

person. In Yorkshire and Humber it is ?246. It means a lot of older,

slower trains. Critics are sceptical of today's announcement. There's no

detail on price, date or route. We need connectivity to allow our

cities to grow, as we proposed in 2004. But he scrapped it. This has

nothing to do with connectivity in the North. It is about votes in the

north. There's more to do with electioneering to kick a manifesto

launch before the next election. There's tangible stuff in there

which has been around for some time. It is something that our members in

Greater Manchester are interested in seeing happen.

The Government has asked rail experts for a more detailed plan,

but it could be decades before a new high -speed link starts up, if it

happens at all. David Cameron has -- Downing

there was a full and frank exchange of views today when David Cameron

when Herman van Rompuy to discuss the issue. Here's Nick Robinson.

Now arriving from Brussels, a slow-motion political train crash.

What have you come to tell Mr Cameron? Is Mr Juncker the best

you've got? This is the week the top jobs in Europe will be handed out in

the summit. Herman jobs in Europe will be handed out in

David Cameron were all smiles before what Number Ten called full and

frank talks. The usual code for a mighty great row about who should

lead Europe next and who should decide. This is a point of principle

for Britain and I believe an important point of principle for

Europe that the head of the European Commission should be appointed by

the properly elected Heads of Government and heads of state that

sit round the European Council council. That is a poisons of

principle for me and it is why it is very important that we have a vote.

The vote which the Prime Minister looked doomed to lose and lose big

is over whether this man, Jean-Claude Juncker, the former

Prime Minister of Luxembourg, gets the most powerful job in Brussels,

as the next President of the European Commission, or top eurocrat

to you and me. You might think this is a good old-fashioned euro

squabble about who gets what job. That's not how they see it here.

They see it as a power struggle between the rights of national

Parliaments like that in Westminster and the rights of this place, the

European Parliament in Brussels. It would insist that it is the only

legitimate expression of the democratic wishes of the peoples of

the EU. Or put it another way, should this lot, the Prime Ministers

and presidents of 28 EU countries, decides, or the 751 people who will

fill these seats after the elections to the European Parliament?

You may not have been watching, but live TV debates were held for

Europe's top jobs between candidates backed by rival political alliances

in the European Parliament. Every vote for parties in the centre-right

bloc was treated as a vote for him. Jean-Claude Juncker has been

campaigning for the past two months around Europe. Thousands of

citizens, being supported by the DP pvrjts by its member parties, and

people were able to see him. People were able to hear

people were able to see him. People doesn't convince former MEP Nick

Clegg, who also met the man from Brussels today. It doesn't

Clegg, who also met the man from Labour eater, though they say the

Prime Minister's getting his tactics wrong. We all want

Prime Minister's getting his tactics President of the European Commission

that makes Europe work better for Britain. It is why it is a crucial

test for the Prime Minister and a time for leadership and not excuses

from David Cameron. Outside the Commons stands Oliver Cromwell, who

once fought for more power for Parliament. The question is, how

much more power should Brussels get? It is day one of Wimbledon and for

the first time in a very long time a British champion is defending his

title. The crowds gathered to see Andy Murray open his title on Centre

Court. Andy Murray is entirely spirit from

the England football team but I reckon some people watch willing

have had enough of sporting disappointment for one summer.

have had enough of sporting Murray's victory here today was

deliciously straightforward. Make way, tradition coming through.

The precious strawberry Make way, tradition coming through.

without security, retails at ?2.50 per bowl. Tastes familiar? You don't

come to Wimbledon for a rev looks. Here was the difference, fruit from

Kent, cream from Scotland. This the Centre Court reception for a British

men's champion. Support from the seats was guaranteed. At the other

end of the court Andy Murray had an ideal opponent, Belgium's David

Goffin had no great record on grass. Both player and court green.

Murray's hope is that the familiarity of Centre Court will

trigger a return to the form of 2013. This kind of thing...

APPLAUSE The first set finished in just 29 minutes. 6-1.

Goffin ranked just outside the world's top 100 was more competitive

in the second set. APPLAUSE But his best career

performances have come on clay and APPLAUSE But his best career

he continued to be at odds with the world beneath his feet here.

Whatever his opponent was doing, Murray was playing with the

Whatever his opponent was doing, of a champion, second set 16-4.

Goffin was undeterred, scrambling, retrieving and midway through the

third set producing a piece of on the line perfection, a shot which

may have surprised himself. The coach can only watch. Mauresmo had

no need to worry. Her man Maori took this set 17-5.

Game set and match... Sometimes you can win in three sets and not play

well and it can be a bit of a scrappy match. In terms of the way I

struck the ball today, it was a good start. A good start. The body

language suggests that Murray was delighted by his first-round

performance. Elsewhere the Queen's champion looked excellent. Novak

Djokovic was going well on Centre Court right now. Both are potential

second week opponents for Andy Murray, but let's not get too far

ahead of ourselves at the moment. Joe, thank you.

From next month, songs streamed online will be included in the

official chart countdown. The company which is responsible for

putting together music sales data says the number of people streaming

music has increased so much, it's time to reflect the trend. Chi Chi

Izundu reports. A quick stampede to the record

shops... It was from vinyl sales that helped compile the initial

charts back in the 1950s. The way we listened to music then changed.

Cassettes were added to the round-up, understand the late '80s

CDs joined the numbers. The last big change was ten years ago with

downloading. And now streaming is on the increase. 15-year-old Stella has

been using these service for a while. By playing her favourite

music she is contributing to 250 million streamed songs a week from

the UK. You can do it everywhere. It is not much hassle. Not like putting

on a CD and stuff. Pompeii by Bastille is the most

streamed track ever in the UK. A song which never even got to number

one. For us as a band it is massively gratifying and humbling to

know that so many people have chosen to click on our track and listen to

it and check out our songs and our album. It is nice to see that

reflected in the charts The change will be reflected in the chart for

the first time on BBC Radio 1 on 6th July. As consumption of music moves

more and more towards streaming, on to Spotify and Deezer is growing, we

need a more realistic, robust gauge of what our audience are doing.

Don't think manipulation of the charts will be easy. A song will

have to be streamed 100 times to make it the same as one sale and

then it will have to be played for 30 seconds to count. An individual

song will be capped at ten plays were user. Spotify is based here in

Stockholm. Because it is so popular it has 75% of the Swedish music

market. And 99% of the Swedish chart is currently determined by who

subscribes the the streaming service. That's helped because

broadband speeds here are much faster than in the UK. Not all bands

are happy. Some have openly criticised streaming services over

royalty payments, bus this could herald a change in what are rating

the most popular singles in the UK. Let's see if the weather is music to

your ears. It is pricked this evening for most

of us. There's a few thunderstorms around parts of the West Midlands

and East Anglia. -- it is pretty good this evening for a few of us.

This is where the angry weather's been, but it really is just a few of

us. For most of us it is a nice lovely end to the day. A few showers

will continue across the South East and for the rest of us for tonight

it is still, calm and tranquil. Temperatures dipping down a fresh

19-11 degrees in the far north of the country, in London, 15 degrees.

TV tomorrow, sunshine in the south but then a lot of cloud from the

north of the UK is heading southwards. That means by the middle

of the afternoon through here the skies will be overcast. 15 in

Newcastle, still in the mid 20s for the London area.

The weather is looking good for Wimbledon tomorrow. 22 degrees at

the very least. Through most of the day the weather should hold. There

is's the chance of a shower tomorrow evening. Showers lurking around,

almost circling Wimbledon. Wednesday - a fine, still day with

light winds. Sunshine around. Not as warm. 21 in London, 15 in Newcastle.

Increasing amounts of cloud. Dribs and drabs of rain in the north of

the country. Adry start to the week. It will

start to feel fresher through the week. Possibly for Glastonbury there

could be rain. On balance, not bad.