Save my son: Japanese man's mother appeals to PM

“What has my child done wrong?...There’s no more time.”

The mother of a Japanese hostage held by Islamic State (IS) extremists has made an emotional appeal to prime minister Shinzo Abe to save her son after his captors issued what they said was a final death threat.

Junko Ishido, the mother of freelance journalist Kenji Goto, read out her plea to Mr Abe to “please save Kenji”, which she said she sent today.