:00:08. > :00:09.Welcome to BBC News, my name's Mike Embley, our top
:00:10. > :00:12.stories: The US says airstrikes in Syria and Iraq have killed 10
:00:13. > :00:15.leaders of the extremist group, the so-called Islamic State, including
:00:16. > :00:19.Iraq's Prime Minister visits Ramadi a day after IS fighters were ousted
:00:20. > :00:24.Counting the cost of Britain's wild weather: after
:00:25. > :00:36.Storm Frank threatens further flooding.
:00:37. > :00:38.And, the American teenager who avoided jail for
:00:39. > :00:41.a fatal drink drive crash, claiming he suffered from "affluenza,"
:00:42. > :00:57.US military officials say American-led airstrikes in Syria
:00:58. > :01:00.and Iraq have killed ten leaders of the extremist group that calls
:01:01. > :01:03.itself Islamic State, including two with links to last
:01:04. > :01:07.One of those killed was a Frenchman called Charaffe al Mouadan.
:01:08. > :01:10.It's thought he had close contacts with the ringleader of the Paris
:01:11. > :01:13.A US Army Colonel, Steve Warren, announced the news to journalists
:01:14. > :01:38.These pictures, released by the US military, show fighter jets bombing
:01:39. > :01:44.Bridge is controlled by Islamic State in Iraq. The aim is to destroy
:01:45. > :01:47.key infrastructure and supply routes, but they have also been
:01:48. > :01:52.targeting the leaders of the group. Over the past month we have killed
:01:53. > :01:58.ten ISIS leadership figures with airstrikes. Including several
:01:59. > :02:02.external attack planners, some of whom are linked to the Paris
:02:03. > :02:06.attacks, others who had designs on further attacking the west. Among
:02:07. > :02:11.those killed is this man, Charaffe al-Mouadan. The US says he has a
:02:12. > :02:14.direct link to the cell leader who directly planned the Paris attacks.
:02:15. > :02:20.It is thought he was planning further attacks against the west.
:02:21. > :02:25.This organisation is losing its leadership. We are striking at the
:02:26. > :02:29.head of this snake. We haven't severed ahead the snake yet, and it
:02:30. > :02:36.still has fangs, we have to be clear about that. An acknowledgement that
:02:37. > :02:37.despite these airstrikes, the campaign against Islamic State is
:02:38. > :02:42.still far from over. More details now from the BBC's
:02:43. > :02:50.Laura Bicker in Washington. He said that in the last month, ten
:02:51. > :02:57.Islamic State leaders had been killed in airstrikes, two of which
:02:58. > :03:02.seem to be significant. One of the names he wanted headline was
:03:03. > :03:11.Charaffe al-Mouadan, who has direct links to the leader of the Paris
:03:12. > :03:17.attacks. He is a Frenchman, said to be a close acquaintance of the man
:03:18. > :03:22.at the centre of the Paris attacks. And there were some reports that his
:03:23. > :03:25.name was mentioned in connection with the Bataclan Concert Hall
:03:26. > :03:29.shootings. That is something they are working on to see whether Ron
:03:30. > :03:34.not he has been linked to that. Another name that was given to us
:03:35. > :03:40.was Abdul happy in, who was said to have been an operations specialist,
:03:41. > :03:50.who is an expert at forgery. He also had links to the Paris terror attack
:03:51. > :03:56.is. Another significant name was that of a Bangladeshi man who was
:03:57. > :04:01.educated in the UK, a computer systems analyst and expert in
:04:02. > :04:04.engineering. He worked on anti- surveillance equipment and weapons
:04:05. > :04:09.equipment. Why we have been given all these names? They are trying to
:04:10. > :04:10.show that they are targeting, hunting and targeting the leaders of
:04:11. > :04:18.the Islamic State. Iraq's Prime Minister Haider
:04:19. > :04:20.Al-Abadi has visited Ramadi - a day after the Iraqi army announced
:04:21. > :04:23.it had driven the so-called The centre of the city now
:04:24. > :04:27.appears calm, but sporadic clashes Engineering teams are clearing
:04:28. > :04:43.booby-trap bombs from streets Safe at last. These are the first
:04:44. > :04:48.pictures of the families who were trapped on the frontline in Ramadi.
:04:49. > :04:52.Among the civilians, many women and children and elderly people. They
:04:53. > :04:59.were handed food and water as Iraqi soldiers took them to safety in a
:05:00. > :05:03.nearby town. TRANSLATION: There is still fighting in Ramadi. ISIS
:05:04. > :05:10.fighters are using our homes as shields. They didn't want to let us
:05:11. > :05:13.go. We and other residents in the neighbourhood got together and tried
:05:14. > :05:18.to get closer to where the army was. We screamed for help, and when they
:05:19. > :05:22.heard us a rushed towards us. ISIS wanted to take us along with them to
:05:23. > :05:27.another area, but some families closed their doors and refused to go
:05:28. > :05:35.anywhere, so ISIS started to treat them like the enemy, and a shot at
:05:36. > :05:42.them. Iraqi authorities are keen to show a triumphant face. PM Haidar
:05:43. > :05:46.al-Abadi went to some areas to cheer the men who fought the week-long
:05:47. > :05:51.battle. But the fighting has inflicted monumental damage to the
:05:52. > :05:57.city. Humanitarian relief will be needed once Ramadi is secured, but
:05:58. > :06:01.it will take time to rebuild. For now, there is an urgency to clear
:06:02. > :06:08.streets and buildings of booby-traps. Here, militia are going
:06:09. > :06:14.house to house. They were kept from the frontline to avoid sectarian
:06:15. > :06:20.clashes with the mostly Sunni Muslims residence. A victory in
:06:21. > :06:24.Ramadi will restore some trust in Iraqi forces. Support from coalition
:06:25. > :06:29.forces has been crucial and has finally paid off, but the recapture
:06:30. > :06:32.of the city has shown that in the fight against Islamic State,
:06:33. > :06:34.military plans must combine ground and air action, rather than one or
:06:35. > :06:37.the other. For more on the liberation of
:06:38. > :06:40.Ramadi, and the fight against IS in Iraq and Syria, go to our website,
:06:41. > :06:43.where you'll find live updates, analysis and background information.
:06:44. > :07:01.That's all at bbc.com/news. A suspected suicide bomber
:07:02. > :07:04.on a motorbike has killed at least At least 30 others were injured,
:07:05. > :07:08.as they queued at a government It's one of the deadliest attacks
:07:09. > :07:13.in a year which has seen a decline A husband
:07:14. > :07:16.and wife have been found guilty in London of planning a terror attack
:07:17. > :07:19.on the city to coincide with the anniversary of the deadly bombings
:07:20. > :07:22.on July the seventh ten years ago. Mohammed Rehman used social media
:07:23. > :07:28.to ask people to suggest targets. The United Nations Refugee Agency
:07:29. > :07:30.says the total number of migrants and other refugees
:07:31. > :07:33.crossing by sea to Europe in 2015 The UNHCR says more than 89%
:07:34. > :07:38.of these have arrived in Greece from nearby Turkey,
:07:39. > :07:39.with most others crossing the It's Europe's worst migration
:07:40. > :07:47.crisis since the Second World War. People in the north-west of England
:07:48. > :07:49.already affected by flooding have been warned they
:07:50. > :07:52.could face a very bad situation The extreme weather could also
:07:53. > :07:55.affect people in southern and central Scotland, and parts
:07:56. > :07:58.of Wales and Northern Ireland. On Tuesday people in York were out
:07:59. > :08:01.assessing the damage done to Tonight, after three days of
:08:02. > :08:05.resisting the torrent, the bridge over the River Wharf in Tadcaster
:08:06. > :08:16.finally, dramatically, succumbed. Amid the destruction,
:08:17. > :08:18.a gas main was fractured, and that triggered the immediate
:08:19. > :08:21.evacuation of dozens of homes. A bitter blow
:08:22. > :08:23.for those who have already suffered We've just been evacuated from our
:08:24. > :08:34.home, that's just the culmination of It's all a reminder that
:08:35. > :08:51.is this is not over yet. Despite today's sunshine,
:08:52. > :08:53.communities along the River Ouse are still fighting to hold back
:08:54. > :08:55.the water. The ancient city of York,
:08:56. > :08:57.struggling to emerge Flying over all of this water
:08:58. > :09:03.in this kind of weather looks dramatic and spectacular,
:09:04. > :09:06.and even quite beautiful, but what you realise, of course, is
:09:07. > :09:10.that it's down there on the ground, down in places like Huntingdon Road
:09:11. > :09:17.that things are very ugly. Jason and Jack, among those
:09:18. > :09:30.returning home for the first time. Their beekeeping business
:09:31. > :09:33.lost to the rising waters. Look at
:09:34. > :09:46.the difference 24 hours has made. But, as the waters retreat, the
:09:47. > :09:51.questions for ministers keep coming. We have spent an incredible amount
:09:52. > :09:54.of money on flood defences over But if more needs to happen,
:09:55. > :10:01.more needs to happen. The focus here, now,
:10:02. > :10:04.is all about cleaning up and moving on, throwing out what's been
:10:05. > :10:08.destroyed and facing the future. I can't tell you how many offers we
:10:09. > :10:15.have had of homes and everything, Would it be rotten
:10:16. > :10:21.of me to say happy New Year? I am hoping that once this is
:10:22. > :10:27.over next year's my new start. For a few - a very few - there
:10:28. > :10:31.is actually fun to be had here. For most, though, it's a matter of
:10:32. > :10:37.holding on, waiting for the great Storm Frank is expected to sweep
:10:38. > :10:53.across the north-west of England through the night and on Wednesday
:10:54. > :10:55.bringing significant rainfall Parts of Wales and Northern Ireland
:10:56. > :10:59.are also likely to be affected. Our correspondent Robert Hall
:11:00. > :11:08.reports from Croston in Lancashire. Nine hours of back-breaking work
:11:09. > :11:10.and the calls How long has the operation
:11:11. > :11:14.been going on for here? In this farmyard on the outskirts
:11:15. > :11:22.of Croston, 50 volunteers have been working in shifts to meet
:11:23. > :11:25.the demands of villagers who fear Today, the Yarrow flowed sleepily
:11:26. > :11:34.behind Croston's pretty terraced cottages but the evidence
:11:35. > :11:36.of its Christmas assault A chaotic mess of carpets,
:11:37. > :11:50.furniture and personal belongings. The Jones family had lit
:11:51. > :11:53.a fire to bring some warmth to Now they fear Storm Frank
:11:54. > :11:58.may bring a third. As the days go on and the magnitude
:11:59. > :12:02.of what's about to face us becomes clear, then it becomes really like
:12:03. > :12:05.a process of mourning, I think. Across the road, one of Richard's
:12:06. > :12:07.neighbours is philosophical Obviously,
:12:08. > :12:22.the forecast is a bit concerning but it's at the point now if it happens
:12:23. > :12:26.again we've already flooded, so really we are just putting sandbags
:12:27. > :12:29.back in place to act as a filter if Across the fields,
:12:30. > :12:33.the thud of rotors heralding the arrival of a Chinook rushing 400
:12:34. > :12:37.tonnes of sandbags to a wide breach Engineers hope they've done just
:12:38. > :12:40.enough to protect the village. In the face of a new threat,
:12:41. > :12:44.villagers are turning to each other. Hundreds have found food and rest
:12:45. > :12:46.at Croston Sports Club where organisers have been overwhelmed by
:12:47. > :12:53.the local and national generosity. I am calling them heroes, that's the
:12:54. > :12:56.word we are tagging on Facebook. Tonight, there is another
:12:57. > :13:05.reassuring presence. Emergency services here
:13:06. > :13:07.in strength and ready to react. Everyone hopes they will have
:13:08. > :13:09.a quiet night. Stay with us on BBC News, still to
:13:10. > :13:20.come: Smart machines, smart money. Could the stockbrokers of the future
:13:21. > :13:29.be computers? The most ambitious financial
:13:30. > :13:33.and political change ever attempted has got underway with
:13:34. > :13:35.the introduction of the euro. Tomorrow, in Holland, we're gonna
:13:36. > :13:38.use money we picked up in Belgium today, then we'll be in France,
:13:39. > :13:42.and again it'll be the same money. George Harrison, the former Beatle,
:13:43. > :13:55.is recovering in hospital after being stabbed
:13:56. > :13:58.in his Oxfordshire home. A 33-year-old man from Liverpool is
:13:59. > :14:01.being interviewed by police The latest headlines: The US says
:14:02. > :14:44.airstrikes in Syria and Iraq have killed ten leaders
:14:45. > :14:47.of the Islamic State group in the last month, including two
:14:48. > :14:50.people linked to the Paris attacks. The Iraqi prime minister has visited
:14:51. > :14:52.Ramadi, a day after his government declared
:14:53. > :14:55.the city free from IS militants. Islamist extremists in Nigeria have
:14:56. > :14:57.killed dozens of people, just days after the country's
:14:58. > :15:00.President said the war against Boko The group has been responsible
:15:01. > :15:09.for thousands of deaths. Our correspondent, Martin Patience,
:15:10. > :15:11.has been granted exclusive access to the Nigerian army operating
:15:12. > :15:14.in the northeast of the country, We're heading out
:15:15. > :15:20.of the city to some of the most Travelling in a military convoy, the
:15:21. > :15:28.Nigerian army are taking us to the All along the road -
:15:29. > :15:32.abandoned homes, herdsmen fleeing the fighting with their cattle
:15:33. > :15:41.and military firepower. Half an hour later,
:15:42. > :15:45.we reach Konduga. Once a busy market town, now just
:15:46. > :15:48.a handful of people remain. The silence is eerie -
:15:49. > :16:00.life's seeped out of this town. But the group brings death
:16:01. > :16:07.and destruction to towns and Take a look at this
:16:08. > :16:17.and you can see shop after shop has By destroying people's livelihoods,
:16:18. > :16:20.Boko Haram in effect kills the town. At the military base,
:16:21. > :16:23.soldiers tooled up for a fight. Once low in morale,
:16:24. > :16:28.spirits are now high. Despite being hollowed out
:16:29. > :16:31.by corruption, the army insists We are the last line right now,
:16:32. > :16:42.because we have moved into a So what is remaining is one
:16:43. > :16:52.last offensive and we're there. But the nature
:16:53. > :16:54.of this conflict is changing. They've retreated to the bush,
:16:55. > :16:58.after being pushed out Before, they had tanks looted
:16:59. > :17:07.from the army. And they're still holding thousands
:17:08. > :17:11.of kidnapped women and children, Back with the army, we're taken to a
:17:12. > :17:20.fishing community close to the base. The villagers here live
:17:21. > :17:23.in the shadow of the insurgency. Bringing in the latest catch,
:17:24. > :17:25.these fishermen try to go TRANSLATION: We live
:17:26. > :17:36.in constant fear of being attacked. You can't guarantee safety,
:17:37. > :17:38.but we've got used to it. The army, though, has made progress,
:17:39. > :17:44.but a huge amount And Boko Haram are not finished
:17:45. > :17:48.as a force. The World Health Organisation has
:17:49. > :18:04.officially declared the West African state of Guinea free
:18:05. > :18:07.of Ebola nearly two years More than 2,000 people died
:18:08. > :18:15.there during the epidemic. With the New Year around the corner,
:18:16. > :18:18.Guineans have been given Their country is now declared free
:18:19. > :18:28.of the Ebola virus transmission and they can officially get back to
:18:29. > :18:31.their everyday lives. We have to be very clear,
:18:32. > :18:38.althought today is an important It is not the end of the Ebola
:18:39. > :18:43.response in West Africa. What we have learned is, while we
:18:44. > :18:46.have stopped the original chain of transmission, we are still seeing
:18:47. > :18:57.small flares, 2-3 cases reappearing. 2000 died and more than 6000
:18:58. > :19:00.children are now orphans, having Those who have survived are still
:19:01. > :19:13.living in fear of the stigma and the long-term side effects
:19:14. > :19:15.associated with the virus. The fight against Ebola has been
:19:16. > :19:18.particularly difficult in Guinea. Some communities didn't believe
:19:19. > :19:20.that the disease was real. A university teacher,
:19:21. > :19:22.whom I met in January at the height of the emergency,
:19:23. > :19:25.blamed Ebola on Western countries They want the people to buy there,
:19:26. > :19:35.I don't know how to call it, The medical charity, MSF,
:19:36. > :19:50.says it will now focus on the 1300 survivors and their families, as
:19:51. > :19:53.well as the frontline health staff who lost 115 of their colleagues
:19:54. > :19:56.in their fight against the virus. Some of the biggest names of African
:19:57. > :20:08.and Guinea music will perform at the huge concert on Wednesday at the
:20:09. > :20:11.capital to say, "goodbye, Ebola." They can only hope they will never
:20:12. > :20:26.face such a deadly epidemic again. An American teenager who avoided
:20:27. > :20:29.jail over a fatal drink-driving crash by claiming he suffered
:20:30. > :20:32.from affluenza has been detained by police in Mexico after breaching
:20:33. > :20:34.rules of his probation. He's a Texas teenager,
:20:35. > :20:44.who it was claimed, was so rich he Lawyers representing Ethan Couch
:20:45. > :20:55.said he suffered from "affluenza." They succesfully argued that his
:20:56. > :20:58.millionaire parents failed to instil In 2013, Ethan Couch was 16,
:20:59. > :21:06.when he crashed his pick-up truck in Fort Worth,
:21:07. > :21:08.and killed four pedestrians, he was three times the legal drink-drive
:21:09. > :21:18.limit and had been speeding. Earlier in the evening,
:21:19. > :21:21.he and his passengers had stolen two Couch pleaded guilty to four counts
:21:22. > :21:25.of intoxication manslaughter and faced up to 20 years in prison, but
:21:26. > :21:28.a juvenile court judge decided that he would be better served by 10
:21:29. > :21:31.years probation and enrolling in a private rehabilitation centre,
:21:32. > :21:40.paid for his parents. Earlier this month he failed to
:21:41. > :21:43.report to his probation officer in Texas
:21:44. > :21:45.and an arrest warrant was issued. It was claimed that he
:21:46. > :21:48.and his mother fled in November. On Monday they were detained in
:21:49. > :21:51.Mexico, and Tonya Couch and her son Ethan will be taken into custody
:21:52. > :21:56.and go to a hearing with We now have
:21:57. > :21:59.an arrest warrant issued for Tonya Police will also investigate reports
:22:00. > :22:10.there was a video of Ethan Couch If found to have been drinking, his
:22:11. > :22:15.probation will be revoked and he As part of the BBC's series looking
:22:16. > :22:26.at artificial intelligence, we now focus on how it's transforming
:22:27. > :22:28.the financial industry. Are machines taking over
:22:29. > :22:29.Wall Street? And what could it mean
:22:30. > :22:31.for investors? The BBC's New York correspondent
:22:32. > :22:49.Michelle Fleury takes a look. Hello, I am technology that is
:22:50. > :22:55.changing investing for. Your next stop may just be a computer. Wealth
:22:56. > :23:01.management firm, Charles Schwab, recently launched a new service. The
:23:02. > :23:06.service is unique in that it is not a person who decides where to invest
:23:07. > :23:11.your money, it is an algorithm. Lets imagine a 35-year-old investor.
:23:12. > :23:19.Saving for retirement. They will start at a minimum of $5,000. What
:23:20. > :23:25.do we have. We have a fairly aggressive investor, the choice to
:23:26. > :23:33.the right hand side. 77% stock, 11% fixed income -- have? For decades,
:23:34. > :23:37.this was the familiar face of Wall Street. But the work once done by
:23:38. > :23:44.traders is being replaced by a competitor that does not need
:23:45. > :23:49.cigarette or holiday breaks. Machines are now responsible for
:23:50. > :23:54.most of the activity on Wall Street. The computers can read the news
:23:55. > :23:59.faster, they can read a regulatory fine. As such, they can look through
:24:00. > :24:04.information and find anything in there that may have taken a human
:24:05. > :24:09.five minutes. Now, they can do it in fractions of a second. The changes
:24:10. > :24:14.the dynamics and speed of which things happen. Is now happening in
:24:15. > :24:22.nearly seconds. But as this trading expert explained, speed also has its
:24:23. > :24:27.downsides. There are a number of milliseconds in a second, a lot can
:24:28. > :24:33.happen before humans can react. Five years ago, the Dow Jones
:24:34. > :24:38.inexplicably plunged. An example of extreme market volatility, critics
:24:39. > :24:43.laying to computerise trading. For regulators, it raised awkward
:24:44. > :24:50.questions. Where they keeping pace with market changes? You need to
:24:51. > :24:55.spot it and adopt to them, get them in place and draft them properly.
:24:56. > :25:00.Implement the rules. What the stuff of science fiction, AI is taking
:25:01. > :25:04.over Wall Street. For better or worse, it is not going away.
:25:05. > :25:07.Divers on Japan's Honshu Island had a surprise visitor on Christmas Eve
:25:08. > :25:11.when a giant squid swam close to the coast.
:25:12. > :25:13.At 3.7 metres, it was certainly not the biggest
:25:14. > :25:18.creature of its kind - they can grow to 13 - but it was rare to see
:25:19. > :25:26.Divers took to the water with cameras as it swam
:25:27. > :25:45.A reminder of our top story: The US military is declaring the coalition
:25:46. > :25:48.air strikes have killed ten members of Islamic State, including this man
:25:49. > :25:51.who is said to have had direct links to the ringleaders of the Paris
:25:52. > :25:52.attacks. And you can get in touch with me
:25:53. > :25:57.and most of the team on Twitter,