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china warns the united states it will "pay the price" if us house speaker nancy pelosi visits taiwan during her asia trip. life support is expected to be withdrawn from 12—year—old archie battersbee today, after court of appeal judges said his treatment should not continue. british airways halts sales of tickets on short—haul flights from heathrow for a week as disruption for travellers continues. hello and welcome, whether you're watching in the uk or around the world. the leader of al-qaeda, ayman al—zawahiri, has been killed in an american drone strike in afghanistan. alâ€...

Mention the — al-qaeda morphs into eventually. you mention the isis movement and i wonder if you could tell me a bit more about al-qaeda's ideology and how it differs from other factions, including the islamic state group? well, i am not sure there are significant differences in terms of ideology. some scholars tend to pick small, if you like, differences in the way that for example isis defines who is a muslim and therefore, who can be killed for being an upper state —— an apostate. they have had to do that in order to exclude al-qaeda and research that i have done recently, speaking to...

The last of the iconic leaders, of course, bin laden was killed and so have others been, many others, including some whose names will not be household names, except in the extremist circles, such as abu nasser al—zarqawi who gave birth to the isis movement. so the point here is that the old al-qaeda is dead but the brand of al-qaeda will continue, as indeed the nazi brand continued after the death of hitler and the defeat of the nazis in germany. so i don't think we could call it an end but a transition phase in whatever al-qaeda morphs into eventually. you