IS releases new video of captured British journalist

The footage shows a man in an orange jumpsuit similar to those worn in the videos depicting the beheading of the American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and the British aid worker David Haines.

In the video, the hostage, who admits that he is a prisoner of Isis, is shown sitting on his own in a darkened room reading about the terror group from a pre-prepared script. Unlike in previous videos, the clip does not feature any militants or suggest that the journalist has been harmed.

In comments which appear to have been made under duress, the man says that he and others have been abandoned by the US and UK governments.

He goes on to say that he has filmed several “programmes” which he says will “show the truth as the Western media tries to drag the public back to the abyss of another war with the Islamic State”.

It is unclear when the recording was made.

Its release comes on the day that a group of more than 100 leading British Muslims joined together to denounce the capture by Isis of another British national, Alan Henning.