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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58777274 A Canadian citizen who allegedly narrated violent propaganda videos for the Islamic State group (IS) has been charged in the US. Saudi-born Mohammed Khalifa is accused of being "the voice behind the violence" by providing English narration on some 15 videos. Many of them encouraged supporters to join IS, while some showed the "brutal execution" of prisoners and hostages. If convicted, the 38-year-old could face life in prison. Mr Khalifa will appear before a US court next week on charges of providing "material support to a terrorist organisation, resulting in death". He denies the charges. Prosecutors say he was also an IS fighter, and during one conflict shortly before being captured, threw a grenade at opposing forces. "Through his alleged leading role in translating, narrating, and advancing IS's online propaganda, Khalifa promoted the terrorist group... and expanded the reach of videos that glorified the horrific murders and indiscriminate cruelty of IS," Raj Parekh, acting US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia said in a statement. Among the videos are two IS productions which the US justice department has described as "the most influential and exceedingly violent" videos that promoted violence against foreign citizens, showed various IS attacks, and the deaths of unarmed prisoners. Another video includes a voice recording of Omar Mateen, who killed 49 people in the Pulse Nightclub attack in Florida in 2016, swearing allegiance to IS. Mr Khalifa left Canada in 2013 to join IS in Syria where he became a key member of the group's propaganda team, the US justice department said. He allegedly served in a number of prominent roles before becoming its lead translator due to his English and Arabic language skills. By translating the videos into English, he played an integral role in the recruitment and radicalisation of Westerners which caused the deaths of numerous people at the hands of IS, prosecutors say. INVESTIGATION: Giant library of IS propaganda discovered BACKGROUND: The rise and fall of IS propaganda Mohammed Khalifa was captured in January 2019 during a firefight between IS and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) - a US-backed Kurdish-led militia which spearheaded the fight against IS in northwest Syria. He was later handed over to the FBI. In a newspaper interview after his capture, he said he had been a low-level fighter and "just the voice" of IS. He insisted that he had played no role in filming or carrying out the gruesome scenes he narrated.

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/bringing-rear-jaguar-xe-vs-front-driven-bmw-and-audi-rivals The Jaguar XE is a car that has always deserved greater showroom success than it has achieved. With the latest updated version, its maker has thrown caution – and, apparently, quite a lot of profit margin – to the wind, by taking the most direct route imaginable to commercial headway. Having made some revisions to the car’s interior and equipment specification, Gaydon slashed more than £4000 off the price of an entry-level diesel XE earlier this year, while at the same time giving the car a 20bhp power hike. A 201bhp, rear-wheel-drive XE S D200 automatic thus became cheaper at list price (which is now only a whisker above £30,000) than a whole heap of cars you simply wouldn’t expect to compare it with. Is a 2.0-litre diesel Volkswagen Golf R-Line with a DSG gearbox on your shopping list? What about a mid-spec 2.0-litre diesel Vauxhall Insignia, or an entry-level Toyota Camry hybrid, or a diesel-engined Ford Focus ST? Well, if you like, now you can have an XE instead. Higher up the model range, the price ‘realignment’ has brought Jaguar’s most compact of executive saloons into competition with other new-found rivals. The XE line-up has been trimmed down since it was introduced in 2015 and now consists of only two mechanical derivatives: that rear-driven, 201bhp diesel and a four-wheel-drive, 296bhp four-cylinder P300 petrol junior performance saloon. The latter has benefited from an even bigger price slash than the former: a range-topping P300 R-Dynamic HSE is now £5000 cheaper than it was, and so it lines up almost exactly on price with an Audi S3 Saloon and BMW’s four-door M235i xDrive Gran Coupé. The sportiest XE has come down a full fighting weight classification, then. Is that a tacit admission of what so many have assumed: that this car won’t be replaced? If you were Jaguar, would you make that decision if you had an all-new XE coming in another three years’ time, a car that is heading back into competition with bigger fish? I doubt it. But either way, having been conceived as a classic longways-engined, rear-driven compact executive saloon to finally put Jaguar into the BMW 3 Series market, the XE is now taking on smaller, transverse-engined, natively front-wheel-drive saloons built on what we might think of as hatchback platforms. Easy meat? Let’s find out.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58659478 It is a typically bustling day in "Little India", a part of Queens in New York City that many South Asian immigrants call home. But things are much quieter at the Al Noor Meat Market, a local halal butchers on 73rd Street. It's not Covid keeping shoppers away, but the price of meat, which has risen sharply across the US lately. Shakeel Anjum, 36, a butcher at the shop, says the wholesale cost of goat meat has climbed from around $8 to $10 a pound, while beef is up from $5 to $6. "When meat is expensive, people eat less," he says, adding that the shop has put up its own prices to cope. "Business is very slow." According to his co-worker Raza Jawed, 50, it's big suppliers that are to blame. "They have come together and put up their prices," he says. "We can't do anything, they have all the power." From cars to clothing, the cost of living has jumped for US consumers since the economy reopened. Yet average meat prices have risen unusually sharply, with beef up 14% since December 2020, pork by 12.1% and poultry 6.6%. Consumers are increasingly concerned about rising grocery bills, and the White House has vowed to act. Part of the problem, it says, is a that a few big meat processing companies dominate US supply, allowing them to charge what they like. In an executive order in July, the president pledged $500m in federal loans and grants to help new meat processors enter the market and compete with the big players, in an attempt to bring down prices. The administration is investigating "price-fixing" in the chicken-processing industry (which has already led to a $107m fine for Pilgrim's Pride, a Colorado based supplier). And it plans to tighten the laws governing competition in the meat industry. Yet the major processors say the administration is "scapegoating" them and has misunderstood the "fundamentals" of the market. What's the beef about? Concern about meat prices is nothing new in America. In 1921, President Woodrow Wilson passed the Packers and Stockyards Act (which is still in force today) to rein in big meat processors who were similarly reported to be controlling prices. And in 1973 President Richard Nixon imposed ceilings on the price of beef, pork and lamb as the cost of living soared. These moves had limited success, and since the 1980s the meat processing industry has become highly consolidated as regulators have struggled to keep up with a fast-changing industry. Just four giants - JBS, Cargill Meat Solutions, Tyson Foods, and National Beef Packing Co - control between 55% and 85% of the market, depending on the meat. In the 1970s and 80s, the four largest packing firms controlled just 25-35%. The White House says this gives them too much power, not just over what they charge retailers and restaurants, but also over what they pay farmers for livestock. It has come to a head during the pandemic, as consumer demand for meat hit record levels due to people stockpiling or splashing out. Wholesale meat prices jumped and livestock or poultry prices fell, leaving some farmers unable to make a profit. Used cars and food push US prices higher Meanwhile, the biggest processors have seen record, or near record, profits and margins, leading the White House to accuse them of "pandemic profiteering". "Since the 1980s we've had concentration without oversight [in the processing industry] and that is a problem," says Joshua Specht, an environmental historian at Notre Dame University in Indiana. "The meatpackers are capturing more and more of the US food dollar." ] The industry adamantly denies the claims, saying the price rises are not due to consolidation. Instead it blames pandemic-related supply chain issues, including an "acute" labour shortage which led to plant closures last year. "Multiple, unprecedented market shocks, including a global pandemic and severe weather conditions, led to an unexpected and drastic drop in meat processors' abilities to operate at full capacity," Tyson Foods said in a statement last month. "This led to an oversupply of live cattle and an undersupply of beef, while demand for beef products was at an all-time high. So, as a result, the price for cattle fell, while the price for beef rose. Today, prices paid to cattle producers are rising." Ranchers like Brett Kenzy are unconvinced. He thinks there are simply not enough processing firms out there to buy his cattle, sometimes forcing him to accept the one and only bid he gets. Like others, he also suspects the "Big Meat" industry intentionally tries to keep it that way - claims the processors deny. The farmer, who rears over 3,000 cattle in South Dakota, welcomes the Biden administration's plans to make the sector more competitive. He says the trend for "cheap cattle and expensive beef" has been hurting his ranch since 2015. "It's been really hard," he says. "We've seen some blips of profitability in recent years but some huge losses. We're just about treading water." Like others, the 49-year-old has thought about selling up, but a certain stubbornness stops him. The ranch has been in his family for four generations and he wants to pass it on to his kids. "I have to remain hopeful we can find a solution," he says. The 'mind-blowing' choice facing US pig farmers R-Calf USA, a group that represents independent cattle farmers, is now suing the big four meat processors, accusing them of conspiring to suppress cattle prices to boost their profits. Tyson called the claims "baseless" while Cargill said they "lacked merit". R-Calf USA says pricing problems are hastening the closure of cattle farms across the US, around 17,000 of which shut each year because they aren't profitable enough. "It is hollowing out our rural communities and making it hard to recover from Covid," says chief executive Bill Bullford.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-58749594 The hugely indebted Chinese property giant Evergrande has missed interest payments to overseas investors for the second time in a week, reports say. Evergrande was due to pay foreign bond holders $47.5m (£35m) by Wednesday. But bondholders told Reuters news agency and Bloomberg that they were yet to receive any payment. Evergrande has not commented publicly on the issue. Once China's top-selling developer, the company is now facing debts of more than $300bn. It has been prioritising its liabilities within China, amid concerns of social unrest. Last week, Evergrande missed an $83.5m interest payment on an overseas bond, but struck an agreement with domestic investors over a $35.9m payment which was also due. As the deadline for a similar interest payment passed on Wednesday, sources told Reuters that some offshore Evergrande bondholders had not received any money or communication on the matter. Two bondholders told Bloomberg they had not received payment as of Thursday morning. Evergrande did, however, make a 10% repayment of wealth management products - largely owned by onshore retail investors - that was due by Thursday. The crisis engulfing the world's most indebted property developer has transfixed global markets in recent weeks. BACKGROUND: What is Evergrande and is it too big to fail? Evergrande expanded aggressively to become one of China's biggest companies by borrowing more than $300bn. But after Beijing brought in new rules to control the amount owed by big real estate developers, Evergrande started offering its properties at major discounts to ensure money was coming in to keep the business afloat. Now, it is struggling to meet the interest payments on its debts. Evergrande announced this week that it is selling its $1.5bn stake in a commercial bank, as it scrambles to raise the money it owes. Investors have been watching the crisis unfold as the firm teeters between a messy collapse with potentially far-reaching implications, a managed breakup or the less likely prospect of a bailout by the Chinese government.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58744150 North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said he is willing to restore a vital communication hotline with South Korea, in a possible offer of reconciliation. He also accused the US of proposing talks without changing its "hostile policy" towards the North. Pyongyang severed the hotlines in August this year in protest against South Korea-US military drills. Mr Kim's latest comments came during Pyongyang's annual parliament session. "The US is touting 'diplomatic engagement'... but it is no more than a petty trick for deceiving the international community and hiding its hostile acts," a report by state news outlet KCNA said. But Mr Kim appeared to extend a conditional olive branch towards South Korea. He wants to restore the communication lines by early Octo ber, but that is dependent on the "attitude of the South Korean authorities" and whether their relationship starts to improve or continues its "present state of worsening," KCNA reports. Mr Kim's latest comments echo those his sister made earlier last week, where she said the North was willing to resume talks with the South if it ended its "hostile policies". In a statement, Kim Yo-jong said South Korea needed to drop its "double-dealing attitudes" and "hostile stand of justifying [its] own acts while faulting our... right to self-defence." She added that face to face discussions to "declare the significant termination of war" could only be done once those conditions are met. North and South Korea are technically still at war because no peace agreement was reached when the Korean War ended in 1953. Communication hotlines between the two have been cut - and restored - several times over the past few years. In 2020, after a failed summit between the North and South, Pyongyang blew up an inter-Korean border office that had been built to improve communications. Why has Kim Jong Un decided to pursue peace with Seoul now? There are a few reasons to consider. First, the joint military exercises between the United States and South Korea are over for this year. The time for sabre-rattling is done. Seoul's President Moon tried to nudge the door for talks when he called on both sides to talk about officially ending the Korean war at the United Nations General Assembly. This appears to have had an impact. Or at least it was perfectly timed for Pyongyang to once again open its diplomatic playbook. North Korea's economy is in a dire state. Mr Kim will be keen for sanctions relief. He had hoped to make a deal with then US President Donald Trump in Hanoi, but that fell through, and Covid-19 border closures have exacerbated an already bad situation. There's a clock ticking too. The South Korean presidential elections are on the horizon. At least for now, Mr Kim knows who he is dealing with and he knows President Moon favours engagement. There's no guarantee that the next occupant of the Blue House will be so keen to talk. Analysts have also believed for many years that Pyongyang is keen to separate Washington and Seoul. Showing a willingness to talk to South Korea but not the US may be a ploy. Or North Korea might hope their new friends in Seoul will go to Washington to push for sanctions relief and other concessions on their behalf. So what happens next? Well, as two separate analysts put it to me earlier this week, we could be in for a busy time on this peninsula.

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/new-alfa-romeo-giulia-gta-all-500-units-now-sold Alfa Romeo has confirmed that it has taken its final order for the new Giulia GTA super-saloon, with all 500 units now spoken for. "To all intents and purposes, the Giulia GTA is now a collector’s car", the brand said, although it added that it will keep the reservations list open in case of any cancelled orders. The Giulia GTA is the most powerful road car Alfa Romeo has built, and - with a starting price of €176,500 (£153,300) for the standard car and €181,500 (£157,700) for the stripped-out GTAm variant - the most expensive, too. The limited-run 8C Competizione supercar, production of which finished in 2010, carried a £112,000 price. Alfa Romeo's Centro Stile design studio took inspiration from the original GTA's best-known motorsport victories for a range of available liveries, including a yellow-and-red paint scheme that harks back to the 1971 European Touring Car Championship-winning car. Standard colours, including Trophy White, Montreal Green and GTA Red, are also available. The historic GTA nameplate – which stands for Gran Turismo Alleggerita, or lightened grand tourer – has been revived to indicate the new car’s lightweight construction and performance potential. Alfa referred to the car’s unveiling as “a momentous comeback”, signifying a return to performance car construction. The GTA takes its power from the same twin-turbocharged 2.9-litre V6 engine as the Quadrifoglio, but calibration tweaks and the addition of a titanium Akrapovic exhaust help to boost its output from 503bhp to 533bhp, bringing the 0-62mph sprint time down from 3.9secs to 3.6secs and boosting top speed to 191mph. They’re also claimed to give the car a unique soundtrack. In addition to the power hike, the GTA benefits from a 100kg weight loss, courtesy of a bonnet, a roof panel, a front bumper, front wheel arches, rear arch inserts and a driveshaft made from carbonfibre. Aluminium and composite materials feature elsewhere on the car in order to further reduce kerb weight. The GTA is also claimed to perform better in corners than the Quadrifoglio, thanks to a bespoke suspension set-up and a 50mm-wider track at both the front and rear. Visual differences from the Quadrifoglio include a Formula 1-inspired active aero package comprising a larger front splitter, a carbonfibre rear diffuser and a rear wing. There are also 20in centre-lock wheels and Alcantara-trimmed interior panels. Like the similarly conceived Jaguar XE SV Project 8, the GTA is also available in hardcore track-focused guise, with the rear seats making way for a roll bar. Called the GTAm, it remains road-legal but swaps its front seats for race items with carbonfibre bases and six-point harnesses, gains a much larger spoiler and can crack the 0-62mph sprint in just 3.6sec. The GTA badge first appeared on a racing version of the 1965 Giulia Sprint, which used an all-aluminium bodyshell to weigh just 745kg, giving it an edge in motorsport and becoming one of the world’s most revered sports saloons.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-58729781 Australia's Daintree - the world's oldest tropical rainforest - has been returned to its Aboriginal custodians in a historic deal. The Unesco World Heritage site is over 180 million years old and has been home to generations of Aboriginal people. The Eastern Kuku Yalanji people will now manage the national park with Queensland's state government. The Daintree borders the Great Barrier Reef and is one of Australia's top tourism drawcards. It is famed for its ancient ecosystem and rugged, natural beauty which includes forest vistas, wild rivers, waterfalls, gorges and white sandy beaches. The deal also includes other Queensland national parks including Cedar Bay (Ngalba Bulal), Black Mountain (Kalkajaka) and Hope Islands - a combined area of over 160,000 hectares. In handing formal ownership back to the Eastern Kuku Yalanji people on Wednesday, the Queensland government recognised "one of the world's oldest living cultures". "This agreement recognises their right to own and manage their Country, to protect their culture, and to share it with visitors as they become leaders in the tourism industry," said Environment Minister Meaghan Scanlon in a statement. It followed four years of discussions, local media reported. The Eastern Kuku Yalanji people wished to eventually solely manage the forests and other wet tropics regions, said negotiator Chrissy Grant. "Bama [people] across the wet tropics have consistently lived within the rainforest. That in itself is something that is pretty unique to the world heritage listing," she told Guardian Australia. The agreement takes in both the Mossman Gorge and Cape Tribulation sides of the forest. The Daintree region attained World Heritage listing in 1988, following a campaign in Canberra to push back against logging and agricultural clearing endorsed by the then state government. Unesco recognises it as an "extremely important" site of rich and unique biodiversity, with over 3,000 plant species, 107 mammals, 368 bird and 113 reptile species. The area is also the largest tract of land in Australia that has continuously persisted as a rainforest. The Daintree contains the relicts of the great Gondwanan forests that covered Australia and parts of Antarctica before the continents split up 50 to 100 million years ago. As such, the rainforest "presents an unparalleled record of the ecological and evolutionary processes that shaped the flora and fauna of Australia", says Unesco. "Its living flora, with the highest concentration of primitive, archaic and relict taxa known, is the closest modern-day counterpart for Gondwanan forests," says the UN body.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58729765 Fumio Kishida has won a race to lead Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), putting him on course to become the next prime minister. Mr Kishida will succeed Yoshihide Suga, who decided to step down after just one year in office. His first mission as prime minister will be to lead the LDP to victory in an upcoming general election. The party's po[CENSORED]rity fell after it pushed to host the Tokyo Olympics despite public opposition. Mr Kishida, a former foreign minister, beat out Taro Kono, who was widely regarded as the most po[CENSORED]r candidate. Given the LDP's majority in parliament, Mr Kishida's position as prime minister has been all but cemented. Japan's Suga to step down as prime minister Mr Kishida, 64, has long targeted the prime ministerial role, losing out to Mr Suga in last year's poll. The new prime minister faces a range of tough issues including post-pandemic economic recovery and confronting threats from North Korea. He has called for a "health crisis management agency" to be established in order to deal with the pandemic and backs the idea of passing a resolution condemning China's treatment of the Uyghur minority. "My skill is to really listen to people," Mr Kishida said after securing his win. "I'm determined to make efforts with everyone for an open LDP and a bright future for Japan". Mr Suga decided to step down as prime minister after a year in office due to plummeting poll ratings caused by the handling of the pandemic. Who is Fumio Kishida? Mr Kishida, 64, hails from a political family. Both his father and grandfather were members of the country's House of Representatives He became the longest-serving foreign minister when he held the post between 2012 and 2017 A Hiroshima native, he opposes the use of nuclear weapons, having seen the impact on his home town Mr Kishida arranged President Barack Obama's 2016 visit to Hiroshima, the first visit to the bombed city by a sitting US president Japan's 100th prime minister High-profile minister Taro Kono, known for his frank replies to his 2.5 million Twitter followers, was seen by Japanese voters as the frontrunner. But he lost, and instead former foreign minister Fumio Kishida was chosen by the party. He will become the country's 100th prime minister when parliament holds an extraordinary session on 4 October. Mr Kishida comes from a family of politicians. He is known as a moderate-liberal politician so he's expected to steer the ruling conservative party slightly to the left. While his critics describe him as bland and boring, he's long been seen within the party as its future leader. And most crucially, unlike Mr Kono, he had the backing of the party's veteran politicians. He's promised to spend billions of dollars to help the world's third-biggest economy recover from Covid restrictions. Unlike another rival, Sanae Takaichi, he has been more critical of the economic policy of former prime minister Shinzo Abe, known as Abenomics, saying that only the rich got richer. With China also high on the agenda for the leadership election, Mr Kishida has accused Beijing of wanting to export "its authoritarian system". Ahead of Japan's general election, voters will be watching how he aims to balance relations with the US and China.

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/2022-subaru-solterra-evs-radical-new-interior-previewed Subaru's first electric vehicle, the Solterra, is a Europe-bound SUV built on a new EV platform co-developed with Toyota. The C-segment SUV, due to go on sale in 2022, is twinned with the recently revealed Toyota bZ4X concept, with which it shares most of its interior and exterior design cues. A fresh preview shot of the interior - following the near-complete exterior reveal last month – shows the Solterra will share the Toyota's curved centre console, prominent widescreen central display and wraparound-style gauge cluster. Subaru says the Solterra name is a fusion of the Latin words for sun and earth and has been chosen "to appreciate mother nature and further advance the form of coexistence with it". Japanese media had previously reported that the car could be called the Evoltis. The Solterra will be similar in size to the existing combustion-engined Forester. It will use the bespoke EV platform that Subaru partnered with Toyota to develop, known as e-TNGA. The architecture is designed to be highly adaptable to allow for vehicles of different lengths and can be used for front, rear and four-wheel-drive layouts, thanks to the ability to fit motors to both axles. It can also accept multiple battery sizes. Toyota is planning to develop six EVs on the e-TNGA platform. Beyond the use of the shared platform, Subaru has released no further technical details of the new EV. Earlier this year, Subaru displayed an electric concept car at a technology briefing in January (pictured), and it's expected that the eventual production EV will take styling cues from it. Subaru’s first EV is a major step in its electrification plans. The firm has recently introduced mild-hybrid versions of its Forester, Impreza and XC and is aiming for at least 40% of its global sales to be either electric or hybrid by 2030. Subaru had previously planned for its first electric car to be based on an existing model built on its own Global Platform, but it changed that concept due to its new partnership with Toyota.

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