:00:08. > :00:09.This is BBC World News Today with me Tim Willcox.
:00:10. > :00:12.'We're pretty sure we got him' - The Islamist militant known
:00:13. > :00:15.as Jihadi John is targeted in a US drone strike.
:00:16. > :00:17.The Pentagon says the death of Mohammed Emwazi would be
:00:18. > :00:26.We are reasonably certain that we killed the target that we intended
:00:27. > :00:34.At the same time, Kurdish fighters regain control of
:00:35. > :00:37.the strategic Iraqi town of Sinjar which had been held by Islamic State
:00:38. > :00:44.A rock star style appearance by Indian Prime Minister Narendra
:00:45. > :00:47.Modi at London's Wembley Stadium - where thousands have gathered to
:00:48. > :00:54.And we meet some of Russia's top athletes who - as
:00:55. > :00:57.their country faces allegations of state sponsored doping - are already
:00:58. > :01:16.We need to fight doping, but that doesn't mean the whole team should
:01:17. > :01:27.suffer. I don't think all athletes should be banned.
:01:28. > :01:32.He became the face of a gruesome propaganda campaign by the Islamic
:01:33. > :01:35.State group - today US sources say there is a "high degree of
:01:36. > :01:41.certainty" that Mohammed Emwazi, known as Jihadi John, has been
:01:42. > :01:44.killed in an airstrike. The Kuwaiti-born British militant had
:01:45. > :01:50.appeared in several videos of the beheadings of hostages. British
:01:51. > :01:53.Prime Minister David Cameron said the UK had been working with the US
:01:54. > :02:05.over the strike. Here's our Security Correspondent Frank Gardner.
:02:06. > :02:10.Tucker 's officials said suspected associate had been detained in
:02:11. > :02:14.Turkey. Mohammed Emwazi, dubbed Jihadi
:02:15. > :02:19.John. He has appeared in numerous Islamic state videos, threatening
:02:20. > :02:21.the West. I'm back, Obama. appeared to show him murdering
:02:22. > :02:25.his Western hostages in cold blood. Alan Henning a taxi driver from
:02:26. > :02:30.Salford, David Haynes, an aid worker from Perth, James Foley, a US
:02:31. > :02:33.journalist. Another American journalist, Steven Sotloff and
:02:34. > :02:40.a US aid worker who Today, David Cameron announced a
:02:41. > :02:48.joint operation involving British and American drones had probably
:02:49. > :02:53.killed This was a
:02:54. > :02:57.combined effort and the contribution
:02:58. > :03:01.of both our forces was essential. He is a barbaric murder and he was
:03:02. > :03:04.shown in the sickening videos with the beheading of British aid
:03:05. > :03:12.workers. He posed an ongoing series on to innocent civilians, not only
:03:13. > :03:23.in Syria, but around the world. The airstrike on rising took place
:03:24. > :03:29.a night in Syria. It's believed he was tracked
:03:30. > :03:34.from the air. The US unmanned drones a fired a
:03:35. > :03:36.precision guided missile at the vehicle is thought to contain
:03:37. > :03:44.Mohammed Emwazi, and another than a year trying to pin down his
:03:45. > :03:49.location. Verifying his death has been taking some time. We are
:03:50. > :03:57.reasonably certain we killed the target that we intended to kill,
:03:58. > :04:00.Jihadi John. It will take some time to be able to finally say we have
:04:01. > :04:02.had success. the Kurdish offensive has
:04:03. > :04:12.begun pushing an Islamic state forces out of the town of Sinjar
:04:13. > :04:15.captured last year. Mohammed Emwazi, was never a front-line soldier. His
:04:16. > :04:19.job was killing prisoners. Now, if the former London student's death
:04:20. > :04:22.is confirmed, there will be some who regret can never be
:04:23. > :04:39.brought to trial. The White House says families of
:04:40. > :04:41.victims were contacted before the dawn straight. The mother of victim
:04:42. > :04:49.James Foley gave her reaction. It saddens me that here in America
:04:50. > :04:52.here we are celebrating and the killing of this deranged,
:04:53. > :04:57.pathetic young man. Had
:04:58. > :05:07.the circumstances been different, Jim probably would have befriended
:05:08. > :05:10.him and tried to help him. It is just so sad that
:05:11. > :05:18.our precious resources have been concentrated to seek revenge if you
:05:19. > :05:25.will, or kill this man when if a bit of them had been utilised to save
:05:26. > :05:28.our young Americans, that's what our Protecting our citizens
:05:29. > :05:38.and the vulnerable, Not trying to seek revenge
:05:39. > :05:44.and bomb and... Jim would have been devastated
:05:45. > :05:49.that with the whole thing. He wanted to know how
:05:50. > :05:55.he could figure a why. For you there was no sense
:05:56. > :06:03.of justice in this strike? And I think we have to be careful
:06:04. > :06:36.as an American media not to glorify David Cameron said it was an act of
:06:37. > :06:41.self-defence, but how much of a blow with his death be too Islamic
:06:42. > :06:46.state? As a battlefield, and, he was
:06:47. > :06:52.utterly irrelevant, but as the public face, the recruiting
:06:53. > :06:58.Sergeant, the celebrity, even, of Islamic state he was very important.
:06:59. > :07:02.His appearance in those grotesque videos were we saw those hostages
:07:03. > :07:07.murdered is what changed American policy towards Islamic state. The
:07:08. > :07:12.other striking thing is how closely they had been monitoring him for the
:07:13. > :07:17.past few days. We have also learnt that a British drone was also
:07:18. > :07:21.involved in the operation, there were three drones, it was an
:07:22. > :07:25.American drawl that fired but the British were also involved. Barack
:07:26. > :07:30.Obama said a year ago the mission was to degrade and destroy Islamic
:07:31. > :07:36.state. Destroy? Not yet, but it seems to be underway.
:07:37. > :07:39.There's been another set-back for Islamic State, this time across the
:07:40. > :07:41.border in northern Iraq. Kurdish officials say their forces have
:07:42. > :07:44.taken the strategic town of Sinjar from the militant group. It was
:07:45. > :07:47.seized by Islamic State fighters 15 months ago. Local televison has
:07:48. > :07:50.shown pictures of a giant Kurdish flag being raised to mark the
:07:51. > :07:52.recapture of the town, and celebratory gunfire has been heard.
:07:53. > :07:55.The head of Kurdistan Regional Security Council says the battle
:07:56. > :07:58.would pave the way for future successes.
:07:59. > :08:05.Without doubt, any victory in any area will have a big impact on
:08:06. > :08:10.achieving victory in the remaining areas. The liberation of Sinjar will
:08:11. > :08:20.have a big impact on liberating morsel to stop -- Mosul.
:08:21. > :08:23.Our correspondent Jim Muir is travelling with the Kurdish forces,
:08:24. > :08:24.and we'll be bringing you his first-hand report
:08:25. > :08:29.in the coming hours. Tens of thousands of people, mainly
:08:30. > :08:32.British Indians or Indians resident in the UK, are at Wembley stadium in
:08:33. > :08:35.London for a speech by the visiting Indian Prime Minister, Narendra
:08:36. > :08:38.Modi. A massive fireworks display is planned for the rally which many are
:08:39. > :08:41.comparing to a rock concert. At the stadium, security is tight; all the
:08:42. > :08:54.food is vegetarian. Wembley today was a family day out
:08:55. > :08:58.and a political rally all rolled into one. Narendra Modi is a
:08:59. > :09:03.controversial figure back home, but listening to this audience you would
:09:04. > :09:08.not know it. Why are you here today? Too sure how important it is
:09:09. > :09:12.to me as a young person in Britain to be Indian and what it means to be
:09:13. > :09:18.Indian and understand a bit more about our nation and culture. I want
:09:19. > :09:25.to support Modi because he is doing a good job. He has raised the entire
:09:26. > :09:30.national image of India to a high degree. It is an honour to see
:09:31. > :09:35.someone from my background come to the UK and embrace diversity. With
:09:36. > :09:43.the air are heavy with feel-good factor, you warm up act 's went down
:09:44. > :09:46.well. The biggest roar of the afternoon was inevitably preserved
:09:47. > :09:50.for Narendra Modi himself. His British counterpart, with whom ?10
:09:51. > :09:56.billion of trade deals have been done, played host. But it was
:09:57. > :10:19.Narendra Modi who stole the show. This is a historic day. You are the
:10:20. > :10:25.heartbeat. Earlier ended day, a more sedate encounter, as Modi had lunch
:10:26. > :10:29.with the Queen. For a man who in the last decade was banned from the UK
:10:30. > :10:35.it is quite a turnaround in fortunes. Some of the controversy
:10:36. > :10:38.still sticks to him. Protests have dogged his visit. Critics say he
:10:39. > :10:40.only chapping is quite a turnaround in fortunes. Some of the controversy
:10:41. > :10:49.still sticks to him. Protests have dogged his visit. Critics say he
:10:50. > :10:57.only chapping the basically Hindu and passion to. This is not what
:10:58. > :11:03.India stands for FP came here to milk it, he certainly succeeded. It
:11:04. > :11:04.rocks that setting for the leader of an emerging power. He could have
:11:05. > :11:13.wished for nothing more. Africa's most populous nation -
:11:14. > :11:16.Nigeria - has sworn in a new cabinet - more than six months
:11:17. > :11:19.after its presidential election. One of the biggest challenges facing
:11:20. > :11:21.President Mohammudu Buhari is defeating the Islamic insurgency
:11:22. > :11:31.in the north east of the country. Boko Haram militants have killed
:11:32. > :11:34.thousands and more than two million Our correspondent -
:11:35. > :11:39.Martin Patience - has gained rare access to the city of Maiduguri
:11:40. > :11:42.at the heart of the insurgency. The children grab what
:11:43. > :11:47.respite they can. Maiduguri is traumatised
:11:48. > :11:52.by a brutal insurgency. It markets bombed so frequently that
:11:53. > :11:56.people shop late to avoid attacks. Every so often,
:11:57. > :12:00.you catch a military convoy heading out to the countryside where
:12:01. > :12:13.the insurgency is at its strongest. These young men know that
:12:14. > :12:16.violence first-hand. They are the sons
:12:17. > :12:18.of Baker's killed by Boko Haram. There village was attacked
:12:19. > :12:21.by the insurgents and they fled with Now,
:12:22. > :12:23.they have turned to their fathers' They have been taken in by this man,
:12:24. > :12:29.a baker in the city. TRANSLATION:
:12:30. > :12:31.I had to help, he said. What happened to them
:12:32. > :12:34.could happen to me. Among his recruits, Mohammed,
:12:35. > :12:37.who can't forget the morning TRANSLATION:
:12:38. > :12:45.We were woken up by gunshots. At first,
:12:46. > :12:49.I thought it was the military. But then I realised it was
:12:50. > :12:53.an attack. We all ran from the house
:12:54. > :12:58.in different directions. It was only
:12:59. > :13:09.when I reached the city that I It is just past dawn,
:13:10. > :13:20.and the curfew has ended in the city and, outside the bakery, crowds Stat
:13:21. > :13:36.of children have gathered, among int Then they along with their families
:13:37. > :13:46.at risk are going hungry. This is what desperation does. You fight to
:13:47. > :13:52.be fed. They have bought the death and destruction and its pursuit of
:13:53. > :13:55.an Islamic state. It gained international notoriety after
:13:56. > :14:01.kidnapping more than 200 schoolgirls, shown here after they
:14:02. > :14:05.were forced to convert to Islam. The insurgents killed or kidnapped
:14:06. > :14:10.anyone they consider an unbeliever. That includes this woman and her
:14:11. > :14:20.three daughters who fled their village before they could be
:14:21. > :14:28.captain. We were sitting -- this lot are you, when you're eating food
:14:29. > :14:32.they it away. For her, it is a miserable life and until she feels
:14:33. > :14:39.safe to return to normal this insurgency will not be over.
:14:40. > :14:41.Dozens of judges in Ghana are being investigated following the release
:14:42. > :14:51.of a documentary by investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas.
:14:52. > :14:53.of a documentary by investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw
:14:54. > :14:56.The film captured the judges on tape allegedly taking bribes.
:14:57. > :14:58.Over 30 judges and 170 judicial officers were
:14:59. > :14:59.implicated in the country's biggest corruption scandal.
:15:00. > :15:02.Today the undercover reporter Anas has been speaking to the
:15:03. > :15:07.BBC's Sammy Darko for the first time since the judicial scandal broke.
:15:08. > :15:17.I must put on record that I have triggered the necessary
:15:18. > :15:22.constitutional processes that would ensure that if these judges are
:15:23. > :15:32.guilty they are properly dealt with in accordance with the law. I have
:15:33. > :15:37.triggered the process. My commitment is to the Constitution. My second
:15:38. > :15:42.commitment, and perhaps most important commitment is to the
:15:43. > :15:49.people of Ghana. The work I did it for the people of Ghana. I trust in
:15:50. > :15:54.what I did and I felt it would be unfair to keep that information to
:15:55. > :15:58.myself and that's why I made it public. I am confident of the
:15:59. > :16:06.investigations I have done. The judges on the gods in the guise of
:16:07. > :16:12.men. If anything happens, everybody was Mac last resort is in the court.
:16:13. > :16:20.I have done a lot of investigation across the African continent and I
:16:21. > :16:24.think Africa has been, the problems in Africa, are a result of the
:16:25. > :16:29.problems you have with our judiciary and if we will be courageous enough
:16:30. > :16:33.to stand toe to toe and investigate some of these issues in our
:16:34. > :16:39.judiciary am sure Africans can only have a better life. This mask your
:16:40. > :16:49.wedding all the time has become symbolic. You will find many people
:16:50. > :17:05.and Ghana winning this mask. Why can't we see your face? Over the
:17:06. > :17:09.years, I have had this symbol on. I don't take it off because it helps
:17:10. > :17:16.when it comes to my anonymity. Are you ready to sit my face? We really
:17:17. > :17:35.want to see your face. And going to do it gradually. This is my hat. And
:17:36. > :17:43.then... I paid off... Bash -- I take off my hat, my beads, and. For those
:17:44. > :18:08.who want to see my face, this is my face. You said you wanted to see my
:18:09. > :18:13.face, so I have given you my face. So, you see, you never know what you
:18:14. > :18:19.will find. For me the important thing is focus. It is not about a
:18:20. > :18:26.mask, it is about all of us putting our hands together and ensuring we
:18:27. > :18:31.have a better continent. I think that anonymity has always been my
:18:32. > :18:42.secret weapon and I have always used it to the benefit of society.
:18:43. > :18:45.Police in Germany say they have found the remains of at least eight
:18:46. > :18:47.babies in an apartment in the southern state of Bavaria.
:18:48. > :18:50.The remains were discovered in the small town of Wallenfels,
:18:51. > :18:53.near the Czech border, in what could be one of the country's worst
:18:54. > :18:55.Forensic investigators are trying to establish whether
:18:56. > :19:02.Police are trying to interview the previous occupant of the apartment -
:19:03. > :19:10.a 45 year old woman - as the possible mother of the dead babies.
:19:11. > :19:15.Well, the BBC's Jenny Hill is in Wallenfels.
:19:16. > :19:19.She says local people have reacted with shock and sadness to the news
:19:20. > :19:22.that discovery. In a small town like this there is
:19:23. > :19:25.considerable shock, and sadness, too, you can probably see behind me
:19:26. > :19:28.that people who live here have come out this evening and placed lit
:19:29. > :19:31.candles on the windowsill of the apartment block where, last night,
:19:32. > :19:34.police were called by a member They found the bodies
:19:35. > :19:37.of eight babies. In such a poor state of
:19:38. > :19:40.decomposition that forensic experts who examined them today say it will
:19:41. > :19:43.be several days before they are able to determine when and, more
:19:44. > :19:46.importantly, how the children died. The police say that they are still
:19:47. > :19:50.searching for a 45-year-old woman. She is believed to be the mother
:19:51. > :19:53.of the infants. She is believed, too, to have
:19:54. > :19:57.lived at the property behind me. The police say they have no idea
:19:58. > :20:00.where she is but they are desperately trying to find her,
:20:01. > :20:03.as they try to build a picture All day, forensic teams have been
:20:04. > :20:07.in and out of the house, Medical experts have been examining
:20:08. > :20:11.the babies' bodies but, at the moment, they haven't got any
:20:12. > :20:14.conclusive results. Germany has, in recent years,
:20:15. > :20:24.been shocked as a country, by a series of multiple
:20:25. > :20:30.infanticides. We don't know what happened here
:20:31. > :20:33.but some people fear that this could Just last year,
:20:34. > :20:39.a German woman was convicted of killing two of her own babies
:20:40. > :20:42.and hiding their bodies in freezer. In another case,
:20:43. > :20:45.and there have been at least ten over the last ten years, perhaps one
:20:46. > :20:48.of the worst of its kind, a woman killed nine of her own infants
:20:49. > :20:52.and hid their bodies in flowerpots. The TV producer punched by
:20:53. > :20:54.Jeremy Clarkson is suing the former Top Gear host - and the
:20:55. > :20:58.BBC - for racial discrimination. The case brought by Oisin Tymon -
:20:59. > :21:01.who is Irish - centres on "verbal abuse" that accompanied Clarkson's
:21:02. > :21:06.physical attack in March. Clarkson was dropped by the BBC
:21:07. > :21:10.following an internal inquiry. Clarkson lashed out after being told
:21:11. > :21:13.there was no hot food available The BBC motoring show he presented
:21:14. > :21:23.has millions of worldwide fans. World athletics chiefs are in talks
:21:24. > :21:26.right now to decide whether Russia should be banned from all
:21:27. > :21:40.international competition, which accused Russia of widespread
:21:41. > :21:50.state sponsored doping, and Russia's elite athletes are
:21:51. > :21:57.already training But it is a dream that is now
:21:58. > :22:01.in doubt. Everyone I spoke to denied
:22:02. > :22:03.using drugs to boost But claims of a doping culture
:22:04. > :22:06.could still see them banned. Maxim's trainer says he was tested
:22:07. > :22:09.constantly as soon as he began throwing well
:22:10. > :22:11.and he was always clean. We need to fight doping, maybe,
:22:12. > :22:14.but that doesn't mean I don't think all athletes
:22:15. > :22:20.should be banned. And yet, in this German documentary,
:22:21. > :22:22.it was former team-mates who claimed that athletes
:22:23. > :22:24.and coaches were using drugs The investigation by the anti-doping
:22:25. > :22:34.agency, Wada, that followed found a culture of winning at all
:22:35. > :22:41.costs. Here, people question the word
:22:42. > :22:44.of whistle-blowers and deny that any For every one of the athletes
:22:45. > :22:47.training here, competing And the fear that that could be
:22:48. > :22:51.snatched from them has upset Many people here say that they don't
:22:52. > :22:56.believe this is all about sport, President Putin has avoided talk
:22:57. > :23:04.of a Western plot He has pledged to cooperate with
:23:05. > :23:08.Wada and ensure that sport is Some senior figures have
:23:09. > :23:10.already been removed. Russia is clearly battling to
:23:11. > :23:17.stay in the running for Rio. Here, they say a ban could be
:23:18. > :23:21.as devastating as the Olympic What happened through the 1980s was
:23:22. > :23:26.a tragedy for all the athletes. I really don't want
:23:27. > :23:28.to see that again. It was bad for the team,
:23:29. > :23:31.the country and for sport. So I hope that common
:23:32. > :23:38.sense will prevail. In the meantime, for the athletes,
:23:39. > :23:45.it is a nervous wait. You may remember
:23:46. > :23:48.the film, Goodfellas. Martin Scorsese's award-winning
:23:49. > :23:49.story of the life and times A real-life crime that helped
:23:50. > :23:54.inspire the film was a robbery Now a man who was accused
:23:55. > :24:02.of being involved in that raid Reputed mobster,
:24:03. > :24:10.charged with murder, extortion and the armed robbery
:24:11. > :24:15.that inspired the film, Goodfellas. I would like to thank my two
:24:16. > :24:25.lawyers. Without my two lawyers
:24:26. > :24:27.I would not be here now. And I thank you
:24:28. > :24:29.for treating me great. He intends to go home
:24:30. > :24:31.and spend Thanksgiving... I have got two years
:24:32. > :24:34.and I am dying to get home. He was arrested three decades
:24:35. > :24:41.after one of America's Armed robbers stole $6 million worth
:24:42. > :24:48.of money and jewels from Members of the mob testified against
:24:49. > :25:01.him, painting a picture of revenge Mafia-style murders, bodies buried
:25:02. > :25:04.in cement, racketeering and robbery. His lawyers raised doubts about
:25:05. > :25:14.the witnesses and their credibility, Martin Scorsese's mafia classic,
:25:15. > :25:27.Goodfellas, Robert De Niro played the man long
:25:28. > :25:37.believed to be the mastermind, most of the other suspects
:25:38. > :25:43.disappeared, died, or were killed. But for now from me
:25:44. > :26:13.and the rest of the team, goodbye. As storm Abigail news away all eyes
:26:14. > :26:17.are on the next weather system coming to the UK for the weekend.
:26:18. > :26:20.And look how far this area of rain trills across the Atlantic. It
:26:21. > :26:22.includes some tropical