Today's Top Story - Jan 4th 2016

TOP STORY
CAMERON: VIDEO SHOWS IS 'DESPERATION'
A video by so-called Islamic State (IS) featuring a man and young boy with British accents is "desperate stuff", Prime Minister David Cameron has said.
The film, which purports to show the killing of five men who IS says were spying for the UK, is from a group that is "losing territory" and "increasingly losing anybody's sympathy", he said.
The UK's intelligence agencies are examining the footage.
Voice-print analysis will be carried out to try to identify the masked man.
The man says the 10-minute video - which has not been independently verified - is a message for David Cameron, and he threatens attacks in the UK. On a visit to east London, Mr Cameron said it was "desperate stuff" from a group that carried out "the most utterly despicable and ghastly acts".
"But this is an organisation that's losing territory, it's losing ground, it's, I think, increasingly losing anybody's sympathy," he said.
He said IS hated the UK for being a "successful, tolerant, democratic, multi-faith, multi-ethnic nation", but added that Britain would "never be cowed".
Speaking to radio station LBC, Mr Cameron said he had viewed "part" of the execution video.
He said media organisations should "use their judgement" about showing the video, adding: "I don't mind people seeing, within limits, a little bit of this just to remind them about what a truly ghastly, murderous organisation we're up against."