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BBC news 2015-08-27

Hello, I am Jonathan Izard with the BBC news.

French prosecutors say the terror suspect who was tackled by passengers on a train last week had links to radical Islam and recently traveled to Turkey, a possible transit route to Syria. The senior prosecutor Francois Molins formally opening the investigation said it was clear the 25-year-old Moroccan suspect Ayoub El-Khazzani had intended to carry out manslaughter and he dismissed suggestions that the suspect had found his weapons and ammunitions in a bin and intended only to carry out a robbery. "At the end of the statement which I would describe as fanciful, he said that his plan involved robbing the passengers, smashing a window and jumping out of the moving train to make his escape. During questioning, his answers became more and more evasive as investigators' questions were tough and detailed. He claimed memory elapses or refused to reply up until a last couple of days. I think it was yesterday when he fell back on his right to remain silent.”

United States and Turkey have finalized a deal about Turkey's war planes take part in airstrikes as part of the coalition campaign against Islamic State militants. Here is Garry O’Donoghue in Washington. “The two countries have been discussing in cooperation of Turkish airpower into the fight against IS for some time. And today’s announcement represents a win for the US. American planes have been flying out of Turkish airbases since earlier this month. And Turkey has already conducted a handful of airstrikes against IS itself. But now the Turkish air force would be fully integrated as part of the coalition's air strategy.”

The Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has expressed confidence that his Russian and Iranian allies will stand by him. In a television interview, he rejected speculation that they might have abandoned him to facilitate settlement in Syria. Jim Muir reports. “President Assad spelled out positions which remain unchanged. Diplomatic efforts have been stepped up after the Iran nuclear agreement leading to speculation that there could be a breakthrough over Syria. But Mr. Assad said there was no imminent solution for that to happen. The outside quarters supporting what he called terrorism, he meant the Saudis, Turks and others, would have to stop their backing for the rebels. Any solution must be based first and foremost on a drive against terrorism, he said. He expressed full confidence in its Russian and Iranian allies who did not abandon their friends, he said, unlike the Americans.”

China's central bank has cut interest rates in an attempt to halt a dramatic slide in share prices. The main index in Shanghai closed down more than 7% on Tuesday after a drop of 8.5% on Monday, the cut was the 5th since November. 

The South Korean ambassador to the United Nations says she thinks North Korea's recent expression of regret over a landmine incident amounts to an apology. Seoul says the North planted the mine that wounded two South Korean soldiers in the demilitarized zone. BBC news.

United Nations Security Council says it will immediately impose arms embargo and targeted sanctions on South Sudan if the country's President fails to sign a peace accord. Salva Kiir indicated he would endorse the deal on Wednesday after refusing to do so last week. The UN panel experts said a Chinese state owned arms firm has sold South Sudan more than 20 million dollars’ worth of weapons in recent month. Here is Mary Harper. “The expert said South Sudan have brought from the Chinese thousands of heavy weapons, nearly ten thousands automatic rifles and twenty four million rounds of ammunition. It had also obtained four attack helicopters. They also said both sides in the conflict have engaged in what they described as incredible violence against civilians. The worse, they said, occurred earlier this year during a government offensive in Unity state, entire villagers were destroyed, houses burned with occupants inside.”

The French medical charity Medicins Sans Frontiers says it has evidence suggesting that anti-government groups in northern Syria have used chemical weapons against civilians. MSF says its staff in Aleppo province have treated four members of the same family who appeared to have been exposed to a chemical agent attack last Friday. Pablamacol Blankev is MSF's program manager for Syria. "The symptoms that the patients exhibited when our team treated them in our hospital Aleppo where the very thin laboratory assistant with assessing sort of the chemical agent. We cannot ascertain which one it is, we know that the symptoms were same and also the testimony of the patient have giving us is very persistent with mustard gas."

A court in Guatemala has ordered the country's 89-year-old former dictator Efrain Rios Montt can stand trial on genocide charges despite suffering from dementia. Rioss Montt was accused of ordering the massacre of 1700 indigenous Ixil Maya people. That's the latest BBC news.