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BBC news 2015-04-09

BBC news with Julie Candler.

The man accused of carrying out the Boston marathon bombing in 2013 has been found guilty of multiple charges that carry a death sentence. After the jury deliberated for more than 11 hours. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted of all 30 counts, including using a weapon of mass destruction to kill 3 people at the marathon and murdering a police officer several days later. Nick Bryant has the details. “Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is still with his head bowed as the 30 guilty verdicts were read out in court. He calls himself as "a soldier in a holy war". He targetted Boston's famous marathon because the eyes of the world would be on the city and placed a pressure coke bomb close to the finishing line and next to a row of small children. Tsarnaev's defence team had admitted his role in the bombings but claimed he was under the influence of his elder brother Tamerlan, who was killed in a shootout with police. They'll make that case again in the second phase of the trial, which will determine whether he will receive the death penalty or life imprisonment.” Sentencing will take place next week.

The Iraqi government has announced the start of a new offensive against Islamic state militants. The campaign will focus on the vast of Anbar province, a predominantly Sunni Muslim terrority west of Baghdad. Jim Muir reports. “The Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi flew to the airbase at the Habbaniya on the Euphrates River to oversee the start of the campaign to, as he put it, liberat Al Anbar in its entirety from the IS militants. As all security have began their immediate focus appeared to beyond an area to the east of the provincial capital Ramadi, where IS fighters were reported to have been pushed back. Another major city close to Baghdad Fallujah was said to be blockaded on 3 sides amidst a buildup for an assault.”

Aid supplies have at last begun reaching Yemen after a series of delays as the humanitarian situation deteriorated amids continued fighting. The International Committee of the Red Cross says a ship carrying medical supplies has docked in Aden. 2 planes were also expected to land in the capital Sanaa, loaded with aid.

A protest against police brutality is taking place in the US state of South Carolina, where a white police officer has been charged with shooting dead a black man who was running away. Aleem Maqbool reports.“There have been demonstrations here in North Charleston after the killing of Walter Scott, who was 50 years old, but they are small. But this time around there has been unusually swift action against the police officer involved where about many feel because the mobilephone footage that exists in the incident. The footage is chilling, it shows Walter Scott running from officer Michale Slager, and as he gets further away, the officer pulls out a gun and fires 8 times. Mr. Scott slams forward to the ground motionless, but he's handcuffed in any case. It all happened after Mr. Scott apparently unarmed were stopped for having a broken rear light on his car.”BBC news.

An American woman has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing her son in order to attract attention for her blog on social media. Lacey Spears poisoned 5-year-old Garnett by ministering lethal doses of salt through a drape as he reamined sick in hospital. She then wrote online about his failing health. Prosecutors called her "a calculated child-killer". The judge in New York said she was suffering from a rare mental disorder Munchausen by proxy in which a parent deliberately inflicts harm on a child to seek attention.

Russia's president Vladimir Putin says the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipars did not travel to Moscow seeking a financial bailout. After meeting the Greek leader, Mr. Putin denied that Russia was cultivating Greece to exploy divisions in Europe over the Greek bailout. But he told reporters that Russia could lend money to Greece for large joint projects. Mr. Tsipras called for an end to what he described as "the vicious cycle of sanctions against Russia".

The member have confirmed new cases of Ebola in West Africa has fallen to its lowest level in nearly a year. The World Health Organization says there was a total of 30 new cases in the past week, most them in Guinea. Grant Ferrett has this report.“You have to go back to last May when Ebola was beginning to take hold across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone to find a similarly low level in new infections. Liberia had no confirmed new cases in the past week, Sierra Leone fell to just 9. Schools there are due to reopen next week. Guinea also recorded a sharp fall down to 21, but the WHO has warned that unsafe burials are still taking place in Guinea, where the first case was recorded in December 2013.”

The man in overall charge of England's cricket team Paul Downton has been sacked weeks after England's lack last performance in the World Cup. Paul Downton became managing director of the England and Wales cricket board last year. BBC news.