:00:00. > :00:00.weather. We'll hear tributes to the front man
:00:00. > :00:20.of Motorhead Lemmy, who's died days after being diagnosed with cancer.
:00:21. > :00:27.Very warm welcome to you. US military officials say American-led
:00:28. > :00:31.air strikes in Syria and Iraq have killed ten leaders of the so-called
:00:32. > :00:38.Islamic State group, including two with links to last month's terror
:00:39. > :00:41.attacks in Paris. One of those killed was a Frenchman. He's thought
:00:42. > :00:50.to have been in close contact with the ring leader of the Paris
:00:51. > :01:00.attacks. A us Army Colonel announced the news from Baghdad. Last but not
:01:01. > :01:04.least, this is your headline, Al-moudahane was a south-eastern
:01:05. > :01:10.based member, with a direct link to the Paris attack cell leader. We
:01:11. > :01:15.killed him on December 24 in Syria. He was actively planning additional
:01:16. > :01:22.attacks against the West. My point is this: We will continue to hunt
:01:23. > :01:25.Isil leaders who are working to recruit, plan and inspire attacks
:01:26. > :01:29.against the United States of America and our allies. Zblt BBC's Laura
:01:30. > :01:34.Bicker in Washington has more details. Yes, he's said that in the
:01:35. > :01:39.last month, ten Islamic State leaders had been killed in air
:01:40. > :01:48.strikes. Two of which seemed to be significant. Now one of the names
:01:49. > :01:54.that he wanted headlined was Al Mouadan. He has direct links to the
:01:55. > :01:57.leader of the Paris attacks. He's a 27-year-old Frenchman, supposed to
:01:58. > :02:02.be a close acquaintance of the man at the centre of the Paris attacks.
:02:03. > :02:06.There are reports that his name was mentioned in connections with the
:02:07. > :02:09.Bataclan Concert Hall shootings. So that's something that investigators
:02:10. > :02:16.are working on to see whether or not he has been linked to that. Another
:02:17. > :02:21.Another name was Abdul Hakim. He was said to have been one of the
:02:22. > :02:25.operations specialists, external operations specialists. He's an
:02:26. > :02:28.expert at forgery and he too had links to the Paris terrorist
:02:29. > :02:37.attackers. One other significant name amongst the ten that he gave us
:02:38. > :02:42.was a man who was Bangladeshi, educated in the UK. He was a
:02:43. > :02:46.computer systems analyst, an expert in engineering in that regard. He
:02:47. > :02:51.worked on their anti-surveillance equipment and weapons equipment. Why
:02:52. > :02:54.are we given all these names? They're trying to show they're
:02:55. > :03:00.targeting and hunting out the leaders of the Islamic State.
:03:01. > :03:06.Staying with the fight against Islamic State group, and Iraq's
:03:07. > :03:09.Prime Minister has visited Ramadi a day after the Iraqi army announced
:03:10. > :03:14.it had driven the militants out of there. Much of the city's been
:03:15. > :03:17.damaged. Many of the thousands who fled will return to find nothing but
:03:18. > :03:23.rib. -- rubble.
:03:24. > :03:28.Safe at last. These are the first pictures of the families who were
:03:29. > :03:33.trapped on the frontline in Ramadi. Among the civilians many women and
:03:34. > :03:38.children and elderly people. They were handed food and water, as Ricky
:03:39. > :03:43.soldiers took -- Iraqi soldiers took them to safety in a nearby town.
:03:44. > :03:47.TRANSLATION: There's still fighting in Ramadi. Isis fighters are using
:03:48. > :03:52.our homes as shields. They didn't want to let us go. Residents got
:03:53. > :03:58.together and tried to get closer to where the army is. We screamed for
:03:59. > :04:01.help. When they heard us, they rushed towards us. Isis wanted to
:04:02. > :04:08.take us along with them to another area. But some families shut their
:04:09. > :04:15.doors and refused to go anywhere. Isis started to treat them like the
:04:16. > :04:20.enemy and they shot at them. Iraqi authorities are keen to show a
:04:21. > :04:26.triumphant face. The prime minister went to some of the city's areas to
:04:27. > :04:31.cheer the men who fought a week-long battle. But theifyinging has
:04:32. > :04:34.inflicted -- the fighting has inflicted monumental damage to the
:04:35. > :04:39.city. Humanitarian relief will be needed once Ramadi is secured, but
:04:40. > :04:43.it will take time to rebuild. For now, there is urgency to clear
:04:44. > :04:51.streets and buildings of booby traps. Here, Shia militia are going
:04:52. > :04:55.house to house. They were kept from the frontline to avoid sectarian
:04:56. > :05:00.clashes with the mostly Sunni residents. This campaign has brought
:05:01. > :05:05.momentum here, a victory in Ramadi will restore some trust in Iraqi
:05:06. > :05:09.forces. Support from coalition forces has been crucial and finally
:05:10. > :05:15.paid off. But the recapture of the city has shown that in the fight
:05:16. > :05:23.against Islamic State, military plans must combine ground and air
:05:24. > :05:28.action rather than one or the other. Now the United Nations Refugee
:05:29. > :05:32.Agency says the total number of migrants and other refugees crossing
:05:33. > :05:38.by sea to Europe in 2015 has now reached over one million. The UNHCR
:05:39. > :05:43.says more than 80% of these have arrived in Greece from nearby Turkey
:05:44. > :05:46.with most others crossing the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy.
:05:47. > :05:53.It's Europe's worst migration crisis since the Second World War.
:05:54. > :05:55.Two British teenagers, accused of stealing artefacts from Auschwitz
:05:56. > :06:00.during a school trip, will be put on trial. Now the pair were allegedly
:06:01. > :06:05.found with buttons and fragments of a spoon taken from an area where new
:06:06. > :06:08.arrivals to the camp were stripped of their belongings. The
:06:09. > :06:12.17-year-olds initially admitted responsibility and were find. Then
:06:13. > :06:18.later withdrew their admission of guilt.
:06:19. > :06:22.The World Health Organisation has officially declared the West African
:06:23. > :06:27.state of Guinea free of Ebola nearly two years after the virus was first
:06:28. > :06:35.detected there. More than 2,000 people died during the epidemic.
:06:36. > :06:40.With the new year around the corner, beginians have been -- Guineans have
:06:41. > :06:44.been given a new start, their country now free of Ebola
:06:45. > :06:47.transmission and they can officially get back to their everyday lives.
:06:48. > :06:52.There is still a warning - Guinea is not Ebola free. We have to be very
:06:53. > :06:57.clear that although today is an important milestone, it's only a
:06:58. > :07:02.milestone. It is not the end of the Ebola response in west Africa.
:07:03. > :07:07.Because what we've learned is while we've stopped the original chains of
:07:08. > :07:15.transmission, we're also seeing small flares, one, two, three cases
:07:16. > :07:19.occurring. In total 2,000 Guineans died of Ebola. More than 6,000
:07:20. > :07:25.children are now orphans having lost one or both parents to the disease.
:07:26. > :07:29.Those who have survived are still living in fear of the stigma and
:07:30. > :07:33.long-term side effects associated with the virus. The fight against
:07:34. > :07:37.Ebola has been particularly difficult in Guinea. Some
:07:38. > :07:43.communities didn't believe that the disease was real. A university
:07:44. > :07:47.teacher, whom I met in January at the height of the emergency, blamed
:07:48. > :07:55.Ebola on Western countries and the Guinean government. They want people
:07:56. > :08:04.to buy their - I don't know how to put it - their medicine. The medical
:08:05. > :08:08.charities says it will focus their activity on the 1300 survivors and
:08:09. > :08:11.their families as well as the frontline health staff who lost 115
:08:12. > :08:17.of their colleagues in the fight against the virus. For now, the
:08:18. > :08:22.country will celebrate. Some of the biggest names of African and Guinea
:08:23. > :08:34.music will perform at a huge concert on Wednesday in the capital to say
:08:35. > :08:39.bye-bye Ebola. Ghanaians can only Guineians can only hope they don't
:08:40. > :08:43.face such an epidemic again. More bad news for people in the
:08:44. > :08:47.North West of England. Already affected by flooding, they've been
:08:48. > :08:52.warned that they could now face a very bad situation with the arrival
:08:53. > :08:55.of a another storm tonight. The extreme weather could also affect
:08:56. > :08:59.people in southern and central Scotland as well as Wales and
:09:00. > :09:02.Northern Ireland. During the day, the people of York have been out and
:09:03. > :09:10.about assessing the damage caused to their city over the past week.
:09:11. > :09:17.Tonight, after days of resisting the torrent, the bridge over the river
:09:18. > :09:22.in Tadcaster finally, dramatically succumbed, collapsing into the water
:09:23. > :09:27.below. The impact of these floods will be felt by this community for
:09:28. > :09:34.months to come. It's all a reminder that this is not over yet. Despite
:09:35. > :09:39.today's sunshine, communities along the river Ooze are fighting to hold
:09:40. > :09:44.back the water. The ancient city of York, struggling to emerge from the
:09:45. > :09:49.worst floods in years. Flying over all of this water, in this kind of
:09:50. > :09:51.weather, looks dramatic and spectacular, and even quite
:09:52. > :09:56.beautiful, but what you realise of course is that it's down there on
:09:57. > :10:04.the ground, down in places like Huntington Road that things are very
:10:05. > :10:09.ugly. The flood has left its mark here. That's the house that got to.
:10:10. > :10:12.On Boxing Day. Jason and Jack among those returning home
:10:13. > :10:22.time. Their bee keeping business lost to the rising waters. It keeps
:10:23. > :10:26.going through your head. I haven't been able to sleep. It's terrible.
:10:27. > :10:31.You've got to keep smiling, you know. Around the corner, it's all
:10:32. > :10:39.hands to the pumps for the Fell family. Calculating what's been lost
:10:40. > :10:42.and of course, the insurance. We may not claim on it, we need to look
:10:43. > :10:45.into what's the best thing to do. If it's better not to claim and clean
:10:46. > :10:50.it up. York is coming out of this disaster,
:10:51. > :10:55.look at the difference 24 hours has made. But as the waters retreat, the
:10:56. > :10:59.questions for ministers keep coming. We have spent an incredible amount
:11:00. > :11:02.of money on flood defences over the last ten years. We will again over
:11:03. > :11:08.the next six. If more needs to happen, more needs to happen. The
:11:09. > :11:12.focus here now is all about cleaning up and moving on, throwing out was
:11:13. > :11:17.been destroyed and facing the future. Worst of it is being
:11:18. > :11:19.homeless. I can't tell you how many offers we've had of homes and
:11:20. > :11:25.everything, but you just want your own. Would it be rotten of me to say
:11:26. > :11:32.happy new year? No. I'm hoping that once this is over, next year's my
:11:33. > :11:36.new start. For a few, a very few, there is actually fun to be had
:11:37. > :11:39.here. For most, though, it's a matter of holding on, waiting for
:11:40. > :11:50.the great flood of history.
:11:51. > :11:54.Stay with us here on BBC News. Still to come: We're on patrol with the
:11:55. > :12:04.Nigerian Army as they take on militants from Boko Haram.
:12:05. > :12:08.Storm Frank is expected to cause yet more problems overnight as it hits
:12:09. > :12:12.areas of Northern Ireland, northern England and central and western
:12:13. > :12:16.Scotland. Doug Wilson is from the Environment Agency. What we're
:12:17. > :12:20.expecting over the course of this evening and into tomorrow is another
:12:21. > :12:28.weather front coming in, which will bring some rain with it. We're
:12:29. > :12:33.expecting the heaviest rain to be in Lancashire and also Cumbria, but
:12:34. > :12:37.we're looking there up to 40 millimetres in Lancashire and 60
:12:38. > :12:42.millimetres in Cumbria. Nowhere near the levels that we're expecting to
:12:43. > :12:45.see previously. We have issued or still have four severe flood
:12:46. > :12:50.warnings out. That means there is a risk to life. We also have seven
:12:51. > :12:53.other warnings as well. In the past hour, an 86-year-old man's been
:12:54. > :13:00.charged with the murder of another pensioner at a care home in Essex.
:13:01. > :13:06.Rita King was killed at the home yesterday.
:13:07. > :13:13.This is BBC World News. The latest headlines: The US military says
:13:14. > :13:20.coalition air strikes in Syria have killed a senior member of so-called
:13:21. > :13:24.Islamic State. He's stowed have had direct links to the ring leader of
:13:25. > :13:29.the Paris attacks. The Iraqi prime minister has visited
:13:30. > :13:35.Ramadi a day after federal forces announced the liberation of the city
:13:36. > :13:38.from the Islamic State group. Islamist extremists in Nigeria have
:13:39. > :13:42.killed dozen ever people days after the country's president said the war
:13:43. > :13:48.against Boko Haram had technically been won. The group's been
:13:49. > :13:51.responsible for thousands of deaths. Our correspondent Martin Patience
:13:52. > :13:54.has been granted exclusive access to the Nigerian Army, operating in the
:13:55. > :14:00.north-east of the country from where he sends this report.
:14:01. > :14:06.We're heading out of the city to some of the most dangerous territory
:14:07. > :14:12.on earth. Travelling in a military convoy, the Nigerian Army are taking
:14:13. > :14:18.us to the heart of the Boko Haram insurgency. All along the road,
:14:19. > :14:27.abandoned homes, herdsmen Football League the fighting with their
:14:28. > :14:31.cattle and military fire power. Half an hour later, we reach this once
:14:32. > :14:36.busy market town and now just a handful of people remain. The
:14:37. > :14:42.silence is eerie. Life seeped out of this town. This van was laden with
:14:43. > :14:46.explosives. It was a Boko Haram suicide attack, which fortunately
:14:47. > :14:50.failed, but the group brings death and destruction to towns and
:14:51. > :14:56.villages in this part of Nigeria. Take a look at this, you can see
:14:57. > :15:03.shop after shop has been burnt and looted by destroying people's
:15:04. > :15:07.livelihoods lobing harm, in effect -- Boko Haram, in effect, kills the
:15:08. > :15:14.town. At the military base, soldiers tooled up for a fight. Once low on
:15:15. > :15:17.morale, spirits are now high. Despite being hollowed out by
:15:18. > :15:24.corruption, the army insists victory is within sight. We're on the last
:15:25. > :15:29.lap right now. Because we have moved into a position where they are being
:15:30. > :15:37.caged. What is remaining is one last offensive and we're there. But the
:15:38. > :15:42.nature of this conflict is changing. Boko Haram are a resilient enemy.
:15:43. > :15:46.They've retreated to the bush, after being pushed from towns they once
:15:47. > :15:50.controlled. Before they had tanked looted from the Army. Announce they
:15:51. > :15:55.use suicide bombers. They're still holding thousands of kidnapped women
:15:56. > :15:59.and children, including the Chibok schoolgirls. Back with the army,
:16:00. > :16:07.we're taken to a fishing community close to the base. The villagers
:16:08. > :16:11.here live in the shadow of the insurgency. Bringing in the latest
:16:12. > :16:16.catch, these fishermen try to get on with life as best they can.
:16:17. > :16:20.TRANSLATION: We live in constant fear of being attacked. You can't
:16:21. > :16:25.guarantee safety, but we've got used to it. There's nothing else we can
:16:26. > :16:29.do. The army has made progress, though. A hewning amount of
:16:30. > :16:34.rebuilding -- huge amount of rebuilding needs to be done. Boko
:16:35. > :16:41.Haram are not finished as a force. They're just beyond the horizon.
:16:42. > :16:49.Let's cross to the BBC's sports centre now for the latest. ?
:16:50. > :16:52.Leicester could return to the top of the Premier League tonight with a
:16:53. > :16:58.win over Manchester City at the King Power Stadium. It's currently 0-0 at
:16:59. > :17:02.the moment, though. City would overtake Leicester to go second if
:17:03. > :17:07.they win. There's 15 minutes left in that match.
:17:08. > :17:12.Everton forward Steven Naismith is set to join Premier League rivals
:17:13. > :17:14.Norwich in an ?8 million deal next month. The 29-year-old Scotland
:17:15. > :17:17.international has started just four league matches this season but
:17:18. > :17:24.scored a hat-trick after coming on against Chelsea in September.
:17:25. > :17:28.Tributes are being paid today to the former Newcastle United and Czech
:17:29. > :17:33.Republic goalkeeper, Pavel Srnicek, who's died at the age of 47. He was
:17:34. > :17:36.in an induced coma since having a cardiac arrest last week. His agent
:17:37. > :17:40.confirmed that a decision was take ton switch off his life support
:17:41. > :17:42.machine earlier today. Former Newcastle striker Allan Shearer
:17:43. > :17:48.wrote on Twitter that he's so very sad to lose my friend and former
:17:49. > :17:53.team-mate. Fellow keeper peter Schmeichel described him as a
:17:54. > :17:56.gentleman and great sportsman. England's cricketers head into the
:17:57. > :18:01.final day of the first Test against South Africa needing six wickets to
:18:02. > :18:05.take victory. England were all out for 326 in their second innings just
:18:06. > :18:11.after lunch in Durban. Jonny Bairstow made 50 from 50 balls and
:18:12. > :18:20.top scored with 79. South Africa are the top ranked Test team in the
:18:21. > :18:25.world. They were set the highest ever total to win the match. Still
:18:26. > :18:29.280 runs behind England. They have high quality players to come. People
:18:30. > :18:33.with Test hundreds. We don't look at it that way. We look at every single
:18:34. > :18:37.wicket. We want all ten. Obviously de Villiers would be a big one to
:18:38. > :18:41.get. He's such a great player. But we come back tomorrow with six
:18:42. > :18:46.wickets to get. I don't care who we get out, as long as it's six wickets
:18:47. > :18:50.and for less runs than what we've got, I'll be happy. Australia have
:18:51. > :18:56.won the second Test against the West Indies by 177 runs and with it the
:18:57. > :19:03.series. They had declared before play began setting a target of 460.
:19:04. > :19:08.Holder top scored with 68. Having fought hard Windies lost their final
:19:09. > :19:11.four wickets for 32 in ten overs. That allowed Steven Smith's team the
:19:12. > :19:15.victory in Melbourne inside four days. They lead 2-0. The third and
:19:16. > :19:16.final Test starts in Sydney on Sunday.
:19:17. > :19:27.That's all the sport for now. Let's bring you other news this
:19:28. > :19:32.hour. A suspected suicide bomber on a motorbike has killed at least 22
:19:33. > :19:36.people in North West Pakistan. At least 30 others were injured in the
:19:37. > :19:40.attack, which happened as people queued at a government office. It's
:19:41. > :19:46.one of the deadliest attacks in a year, which has seen a decline in
:19:47. > :19:50.militant violence overall. The former Israeli Prime Minister
:19:51. > :19:54.has been ordered to serve 18 months in jail, by the country's Supreme
:19:55. > :20:01.Court. He will become the country's first head of government to spend
:20:02. > :20:09.time in prison. Mr Olmert was originally convicted lafrt year over
:20:10. > :20:12.taking bribes. Today's verdict partially overturns that conviction
:20:13. > :20:15.for which he had been given six years.
:20:16. > :20:19.Now he was known as Lemmy, the frontman and one of the founding
:20:20. > :20:28.members of the British rock band Motorhead. He's died at the age of
:20:29. > :20:37.70. The BBC's LizoMzimba looks back at his career.
:20:38. > :20:39.Fast, raucous, loud, no one sounded or looked quite
:20:40. > :20:42.like Motorhead or their bassist and singer Lemmy, every inch
:20:43. > :20:47.Grinding out hit after deafeningly-loud hit.
:20:48. > :20:50.All very different to one of his first bands, '60s
:20:51. > :21:00.A few years later he joined rock band Hawkwind, supplying the vocals
:21:01. > :21:08.They tried everyone else singing it except me.
:21:09. > :21:14.They had to ask me to try it because nobody else could do it.
:21:15. > :21:16.No-one else could reach the high notes.
:21:17. > :21:21.After being ejected from Hawkwind he formed Motorhead.
:21:22. > :21:24.# The ace of spades... #
:21:25. > :21:27.After a faltering start they recorded their breakthrough album.
:21:28. > :21:38.The title track became their anthem and they never looked back.
:21:39. > :21:41.The line-ups may have changed over the years but 40 years
:21:42. > :21:44.after he created the group, Motorhead and Lemmy were playing
:21:45. > :21:49.to thousands as recently as the summer's Glastonbury.
:21:50. > :21:56.For decades he embraced all aspects of rock style excess.
:21:57. > :22:17.I've been on the road, man and boy, for almost three years.
:22:18. > :22:27.Many more will miss one of rock's great characters.
:22:28. > :22:35.Don Lawson is a music journalist. I spoke to him about Lemmy's legacy.
:22:36. > :22:43.You can tell from the kind of depth sheer number of people that are
:22:44. > :22:48.tweeting and putting messages online about Lemmy is that what he did and
:22:49. > :22:53.what he represented completely transcended the niche area of music
:22:54. > :22:58.that he was involved in, you know, that motor head's music and Lemmy as
:22:59. > :23:06.a man touched people way beyond that. I think it's testament to how
:23:07. > :23:10.unique he was. They're often referred to as one of the loudest
:23:11. > :23:14.rock bands in history. I saw them perform this summer at Glastonbury.
:23:15. > :23:20.I can attest to that. He had amazing test presence even up until this
:23:21. > :23:25.summer. Absolutely, yeah. He was one of those people, you know, that they
:23:26. > :23:31.don't seem to make any more. He was a force of nature. People loved him.
:23:32. > :23:35.Partly because of the music he made, which was consistently extraordinary
:23:36. > :23:39.for a very long time. But also, because of what he represented in
:23:40. > :23:45.terms of the rock-and-roll spirit. A lot of people pretend to embody that
:23:46. > :23:51.and try a bit too hard. He just was rock-and-roll from the top of his
:23:52. > :23:57.head to the end of his toes. Talking of the rock-and-roll spirit, almost
:23:58. > :24:03.as well known for his music as he was for his lifestyle off the stage.
:24:04. > :24:10.He made no secret of his addiction to drink and to alcohol. Then he
:24:11. > :24:15.became involved in calling for legislation of heroin to remove the
:24:16. > :24:20.drug dealer from society. Do you think the image of a hard living
:24:21. > :24:27.rock-and-roll star was sometimes a bit misplaced? A little. He
:24:28. > :24:30.certainly was that. I mean, his prodigious amphetamine intake is the
:24:31. > :24:34.stuff of legend. But he also lived to be 70. He wasn't one of those
:24:35. > :24:38.people who ended up at casualty or in and out of rehab. This is a man
:24:39. > :24:45.who continued his habits until the bitter end pretty much. He was also
:24:46. > :24:50.ferociously intelligent. He was an eloquent leer sift. He studied
:24:51. > :24:56.history and was fascinated with the world and had a lot of intelligent
:24:57. > :25:01.things to say. Dom Lawson. Much more on the life of Lemmy available on
:25:02. > :25:04.the BBC website as there is on all of the stories this hour. For now,
:25:05. > :25:26.from me and the team, thanks for watching. Don't go away.
:25:27. > :25:29.Good evening. It's not any old storm heading our way but a weather bomb.