this is bbc news. i'm maxine mawhinney. the headlines at ten... swedish police are questioning a man who they believe is the driver of a lorry which killed four people when it was driven at pedestrians in stockholm. the united states warns syria further military action can't be ruled out over its use of chemical weapons. more disruption for passengers as rail workers across england stage another strike — there's a warning of travel delays expected around the grand national. also in the next hour... honouring seven young people who've made extraordinary contributions to their communities. we'll be live at the ceremony in manchester for the tenth anniversary of the rotary young citizen awards. he has set the bar and raised it even higher. lewis hamilton storms to pole position for tomorrow's chinese grand prix, ahead of ferrari rival sebastian vettel. good morning and

welcome to bbc news. swedish police say a man they believe was the driver of a lorry which drove into pedestrians killing four people has been arrested on suspicion of terrorism. this morning, swedish media are reporting that exposes have been found in the lorry used in the attack. the police say they can't confirm that, however. downing street has just said that the prime minister, theresa may, has called the swedish prime minister. the statement reads, "the prime minister called the swedish prime minister today to express our condolences and bows of the british people after the attack that took place yesterday. she was

clear that the uk stands by sweden's side and they agreed on the importance of working together to tackle these threats which we all continue to face". our correspondent dan johnson reports. panic and confusion on the streets of another european capital. people are scared. something is happening. people running in terror, as a truck races towards shoppers in a stockholm shop. and this is how it ended. a fiery crash. translation: i saw exactly where the lorry went in. there was not much of a reaction but then the police arrived. they said you have to run. the truck belonged to a brewery company who say that it was hijacked when they were dropping off beer. the bluntest of weapons used to deliver a sudden and deadly blow that has hit sweden harder. police released images of a man they wanted to question, and within hours they had made an arrest.

translation: we released pictures of a man of interest to the investigation and a short while ago we apprehended a man who matches that description. the prime minister of sweden said his country would not give in to terror. we are determined never to let the values that we treasure, democracy, human rights, and freedom, to be undermined by hatred. after hours under lockdown, at least some normality is returning to the city. the metro has reopened, and people are returning. already, some are saying this is a wake—up call to security services. sweden has a history of being open to all. but now it is the latest country in europe forced to confront death so sudden and so shocking. i'm joined from stockholm by our reporter maddy savage. bring us up to date with everything

you know. the latest information that has been coming out is a speculation regarding a bag of explosives believed to have been found in the truck which ploughed into the busy pedestrian street and department store about 500 metres away from me. that information has come from police sources speaking to sweden's public service broadcaster svt, a reliable news organisation, but the police's official spokesperson has refused to confirm that information to the network or any other media so we are trying to get to the bottom of that. we know that one man has been arrested, accused of terror crimes. police have confirmed that his identity has not been made public but it has been widely circulating in the swedish media but it is a man originally from uzbekistan, 39 years old, a father of four who had been living in stock old. there were earlier reports of another arrest in a

different suburb of stock all believed to be linked to the violence on friday but police have not been making that connection in recent hours so it is a bit unclear how much we can read into that. in the meantime, security is still very tight across sweden. it has been tightened up on the borders but as you can see, starting to return to normalfor a you can see, starting to return to normal for a saturday. public transport is back up and running, people are out and about in the shops here and really coming together to talk about what happened yesterday, including a number of ministers who have been to put flowers at the sight of the attack in the past hour or so. thank you very much for that update. i'm joined via webcam by raffaello pantucci from the security think tank the royal united services institute. thank you forjoining us. what is it we are now waiting to hear? what will be the key information?” we are now waiting to hear? what will be the key information? i think the key information will be to make sure the police understand that they've disrupted the entire plot

that they saw one role on friday. the difficulty with these sorts of incidents is, you never quite know in the immediate aftermath if you are dealing with an individual act oi’ are dealing with an individual act ora are dealing with an individual act or a range of different actors or a network of people. the police priority will always be to quickly understand and ascertain that and be able to make sure they have total site of the plot. given we have seen a number of this type of attack using a vehicle, are they coordinated or just using a vehicle, are they coordinated orjust completely at random? it is very difficult to know. if we think about the last two, the one in westminster and the miss one of stock all, we have never had the total picture of either. we don't know what his motivation was. we have had reports and links, we know is was claiming in its latest magazines that it had praised the be at team westminster. there is no clear link or direction from them and that is what we are seeing here. we are seeing things coordinated in

some. . . we are seeing things coordinated in some... after the atrocity we saw in nice, groups, individuals, terrorist organisations, saw how this sort of attack could be extraordinarily successful and effective in murdering a lot of people very quickly and attracting a lot of attention to your cause. that probably breed to some degree of emulation and when people see how easy it is to lodge that sort of attack, they see how effective it can be. others who have been directed by groups or maybe latching onto the ideologies for their own motivations may decide to go ahead and do something on the same lines. they do seem to be one of the more difficult types of attacks both to predict and prevent. the difficulty is that it is such an individual act and doesn't necessarily require much preparation at all. as we saw in this incident, while all the details are not clear, it seems, at least with the drug, he stole one that he could find nearby. if these stories

about explosives proved to be true, there is more premeditation and consideration that goes into that but everything about the ease with which it is possible to get access toa which it is possible to get access to a truck, the fact that we can all get a ccess to a truck, the fact that we can all get access to it, and the fact that there are crowds wherever you look in every major city, it is very difficult to know when you are looking at a target and when you are looking at a target and when you are looking at a target and when you are looking at just an looking at a target and when you are looking atjust an ordinary scene and from a security services perspective, that means it is difficult to know where exactly to allocate the resources to do something about that and protecting people from this. does intelligence help in these instances? clearly, intelligence is going to be key in trying to get ahead of the terrorist a cts trying to get ahead of the terrorist acts in the sense that you have to know who the people are, what they are up to and you have to be able to prevent their behaviour before they move into act because they have told someone. move into act because they have told someone. that is where the difficulty comes in. with these sorts of acts, the individualised nature, the ease with which people can do them, it is also was clear

that they have told somebody else and that is often where intelligence agencies need to be able to prevent of someone decides, today is the day i'm going to commit a terrorist atrocity, but entirely on, they go grab atrocity, but entirely on, they go gmba atrocity, but entirely on, they go grab a truck and do it, it is difficult to know at what point intelligence agencies would have an entry into that act. thank you very much indeed. the united states says it's prepared to launch more military action against syria over its use of chemical weapons. it follows a missile strike on an airbase where the syrian government is said to have launched a deadly gas attack last week. the us says its also preparing new economic sanctions against the country. here's our washington correspondent, david willis. this was america's first direct involvement in the syrian crisis. its cruise missile attack a contradiction of the trump doctrine of avoiding conflicts in far away lands and putting america first. and as syria's army chief inspected the impact of the attack on the air base from which us officials insist

on tuesday's chemical weapons attack was launched, the trump administration insisted it was a one off and not the opening of a new front in the war against bashar al—assad. yet, although the administration's strategy in syria remains focused on defeating the so—called islamic state, there's no doubt it has hardened its stance on president assad quite considerably in the last few days. the united states took a very measured step last night. we are prepared to do more. but we hope that will not be necessary. all this has put donald trump on a collision course with his opposite number in the kremlin, vladimir putin. russia is syria's chief benefactor and following friday's missile strike, the russians have suspended military coordination in the skies over syria. meanwhile, the pentagon is looking into suggestions that russia may

have been complicit in the chemical weapons attack, possibly by seeking to cover up evidence — something which could harden the battle lines over one of the world's most intractable conflicts. with me is the american author and commentator carol gould. what do you make of this?” what do you make of this? i always say to people, when i was conceived harry truman was president so i'm giving away my age but i haven't known any historian or political analyst... we have to look back in history. i'm a bit worried because let's face it, the american adventure in the past 30 or a0 years have all ended in not disaster but have all ended in not disaster but have not ended well, going back to vietnam, afghanistan, iraq, even libya. the irony is that when the us

intervenes, the world says tom "oh, you are destroying our country". i remember a libyan journalist on newsnight saying libya had been destroyed after getting rid of gaddafi. so it is difficult to know what is going to come of this. the biggest worry to me is israel because is oil was the proxy of the us says syria isn't going to attack ships on a mediterranean but it could attack, or hezbollah could attack israel and that could start a conflagration. iran and russia do not want to see its bases in that order attacked and that goes back to the time of the soviet union. do you think this is president trump's own idea, or who is pulling the strings? he did make a 180 degrees change this week. until last week, he was saying "no interventions, america fi rst" saying "no interventions, america first" and basically being

isolationist president. sub me a few days ago he, he changed his mind. it occu i’s days ago he, he changed his mind. it occurs to me from the sources i have that his son—in—law occurs to me from the sources i have that his son—in—lanarrod kushner has been to iraq this week and likely spread to other leaders and came back and said, you have got to do something. irony also that it was hillary clinton who, in the past year, said we must intervene. even obama wanted to hit top people keep saying, obama and cameron didn't do anything, but obama overruled cameron and obama already knew that the republicans would oppose military action, in the same way that fdr was up against an isolationist republican congress in the 1930s. the thing is, now that he has started, does he have to finish? that is something that creates fear in leaders like those in egypt. the deputy ambassador to the un in

russia said, what is scary is that up russia said, what is scary is that up until now trump has said, leave it to the syrians, let's stay out of it. he said, to him, what appals him is that trump has said, let's attack the terrorists, but now he is attacking syria. how far is this going to go? are we going to see the whole air force destroyed? are we going to see whole parts of syria destroyed by the us? and let me tell you, hezbollah and iran are not going to keep quiet on that, and what does worry me is that this could escalate. it worries senator john mccain, so the generals and some in congress but congress wants trump to consult the senate and congress on where he goes next. thank you very much, as usual. president trump has said he believes "tremendous progress" has been made during meetings in florida with the chinese leader xi jinping. they've agreed a 100—day plan

for talks designed to reduce the us trade deficit with china. they also talked about north korea's nuclear weapons programme. a strike by rail workers at the rmt union is set to disrupt services workers at three rail companies have walked out in a dispute which will disrupt the travel plans of people going to aintree for the grand national. members of the rmt union at merseyrail, northern and southern are striking for 2a hours in a row about staffing and driver—only trains. jon ironmonger reports. picket lines outside liverpool lime street station this morning, the starting point for thousands of racegoers going to grand national date it docked if you are going to aintree on the train, you can expect some problems. the rmt says support for strikes on merseyrail and northern is rock solid with widespread delays, packed cancelled trains and replacement buses likely across all services. to limit the disruption, merseyrail has laid on a special timetable to and from the

course but other routes could be hit asa course but other routes could be hit as a result it up northern rail says it has moved the times of its last services from lime street to later in the evening. the strikers about the role of drivers on trains and began an southern rail a year ago and has spread to the northern areas in recent weeks. southerner said it expects to operate almost normal service because more of its trains can run with only a driver on board. so far talks to resolve the dispute have broken down. we canjoin our have broken down. we can join our correspondentjudith moritz outside liverpool lime street station and what sense are you getting there? at the moment it feels like the start of any grand national dated up the screen over my shoulder tells me that it the screen over my shoulder tells me thatitis the screen over my shoulder tells me that it is six hours, 58 minutes and 16 seconds until the race starts and this is a city which gears up for the whole day. the crowds are coming off the train at the moment, plenty

off the train at the moment, plenty of ladies wearing stilettos and fascinated, getting excited. over the course of the morning it is predicted that there will be some disruption. this is the picket line, from the rmt union. it has been there all morning. they have chosen it today to make some impact on obama says will be heard, that they will make an impact and racegoers here will see their message but in terms of what are hoping to do, they are, they say, hoping to minimise disruption by putting on a frequent train service, using managers to help. at peak times, running those trains between here and the city centre and the course at aintree every 7.5 minutes. on your normal race day, that is the case, you have a 7.5 minute train interval normally, so they are hoping that will be the same but they are only able to do that for a very short

time, over peak times today, so overall, in terms of the numbers, about 70,000 people go to a try on grand national day. a0,000 of those make a grand national day. a0,000 of those makea train grand national day. a0,000 of those make a train journey. merseyrail say one in every three racegoers use merseyrail trains, so the numbers involved here inevitably mean there will be queues, there are queues anyway, but at peak times particularly, racegoers arejust being told to plan theirjourneys, ta ke being told to plan theirjourneys, take account of it. reeva trains said they expect there will be disruption and are asking passengers to think about using other routes but this is one of the biggest days of the year for merseyside and they are in good spirits, as you have been able to see this morning, but the rmt picket line at the front of the rmt picket line at the front of the station is evident to everybody coming off trains today. for the moment, thank you. the headline... swedish police are

questioning a man who they believe is the driver of a lorry that killed four people when it was driven at pedestrians in stock. the united states has warned it could take further military action and sanctions against the syrian government hours after it fired a barrage of cruise missiles. and a strike by rail workers at the rmt union is expected to disrupt services to the grand national as members of three companies walk out ina members of three companies walk out in a dispute. we mentioned the grand national. that and all the rest of the sport from mike bushell at the bbc sport centre. the defending champion danny willett will not be involved in the final weekend of the masters, after he missed the cut. willett dropped four shots on the first hole and was one of several who struggled in their second round. but there is still some british interest among those chasing the leaders. patrick gearey reports. there is no sporting stage quite like augusta,

a mixture of beauty and cruelty, where nothing is guaranteed. ask lee westwood, whose opening—day charge wandered of course. resilience is key, not something you can always say about sergio garcia. a talent, but never a major winner. is he getting closer? experience matters. this player has plenty of that, as he won in 1992. he knows how to stay out of trouble. that was the goal of many. justin rose went neither forward or back. but he stayed in touch to be as did rory mcilroy. he knows the wind is due to drop and played will get easier. a perfect setting for the masters. patrick geary, bbc news. if you want more of the action from

yesterday, there is a stream on the bbc sport website and the red button. striker harry kane could start for spurs, when they take on watford in the lunchtime premier league kick off. kane, who's already scored 19 goals for spurs this season, has missed the last three matches with an ankle injury. we will see tomorrow if he starts the game or if he will be on the bench. but the good news is that he is ready and he feels good, and has a full recovery, that is good news for him and us. he is a good playerfor us and he will be available to help the team. that is fantastic. third—placed liverpool are at stoke this afternoon, with manchester city hosting hull. at the other end of the table, west ham will hope to halt their slide when they take on third from bottom swansea. leaders chelsea are at bournemouth in the tea—time kick—off.

there is an injury scare for sam warburton, who came off with a knee injury during cardiff blues' victory against ulster. warburton, who captained the lions on their last tourin captained the lions on their last tour in 2013, scored the blues' first try before hobbling off. he will undergo a scan to determine the seriousness of the injury. heather watson won't defend her monterrey open title, as the british reigning champion was beaten this morning in the quarterfinals by world number one angelique kerber. watson had plenty of chances to break kerber during the match, but failed to convert any of them. kerber won in straight sets, 6—a, 6—a. great britain face an uphill struggle to stay in the davis cup. without world number one andy murray, they trail france 2—0, after a disappointing first day of their quarterfinal in rouen. kyle edmund lost in straight sets to lucas pouille. dan evans then followed suit, beaten three sets to love byjeremy chardie. ifjamie murray and dominic inglot lose their doubles rubber to nicolas mahut, and julien benneteau, today, the tie will be over.

yeah, a lot of times it is guys thrown together to play. these guys have played a lot of matches together and won a bunch of tournaments over a long period of time. nico has been number one last six or seven months, perhaps. he's been playing well. they were in the final last year and won roland garros so it is going to be a tough match. that's all the sport for now. if you are trying to pick a horse for the grand national, the bbc sport website has all the information you need. you can keep up—to—date with all of those stories on the bbc sport website, bbc.co.uk/ sport. i will have more in the next hour. the basque separatist group eta has

handed over a file containing details of its remaining arms and explosives. its violent campaign for basque independence lasted forty years. our chief international correspondent, lyse doucet, witnessed the ceremony in bayonne in southern france. talk us through what happened. talk us through what happenedm talk us through what happened. it is sometimes extraordinary when history is made. decades of a very dark and bloody campaign for independence came down to a very simple ceremony ina came down to a very simple ceremony in a city hall here in the french city of bygone. men around a square table and it was opened by the basque mayor of this region who said, this is a moment we have all been waiting for and then a prominent french basque environmentalist brought this bulky folder and handed it over to an italian archbishop and the reverend harold goode, who played a key role

in the northern ireland peace process , in the northern ireland peace process, and from there it was handed over to the verification commission and from there to the french commission authorities. as we speak, they are now going in search of the last of the weapons and explosives and, we are told, a very significant quantity of explosives and a very small number of guns. remind the viewer is how we got to this point. viewers might be thinking of remembering what happened when the ira put weapons so—called beyond use. the governments were involved, the british government was involved, it was a very different process and this has emerged out of basque civil society because the french and spanish governments refused to negotiate with what is listed terrorist organisation. they are still making of eta so it emerged through society. they brought in negotiators, some of whom have been working with eta for 1a years and so

the process began and it ended in a unilateral ceasefire in 2011 and, since then, the mediators and civil society representatives have been cajoling and putting pressure on eta members, some of whom were reluctant to give up the guns for nothing, so it took six years to convince enough members to trace the location of weapons and, again, there is a northern ireland echo here. that is a highly structured organisation, eta, each cell with about three people who don't know the existence of the other so it was hard to track down all the weapons until they arrived here today at this ceremony, which lasted less than half an hour. all of the guns have been handed over. they still have to disband as an organisation and across the board in spain today, the spanish governing party is organising a counter governing party is organising a cou nter event governing party is organising a counter event to call on eta not just to dissolve itself but also to pay compensation and apologised to its many victims. lyse doucet, thank

you very much. the chief executive of ford has said he cannot guarantee the company will keep manufacturing in the uk after brexit. mark fields told bbc news it was "really important" for the uk to secure a free trade deal with the european union. he said ford was "going to be in the uk for quite some time", but that "nothing could be guaranteed over many years." he's been speaking to our correspondent robin brant. we need to make sure that all of our facilities around the world are globally competitive. listen, we are very proud to be in the uk and we're going to be in the uk for quite some time but it's going to be really important, particularly as article 50 is now triggered, that, from our standpoint, there needs to be free trade between the uk and the continent and that's really important to us. i think it is important to our business, important to our customers. are ford going to stay irrespective or is there always a chance that, you know,

you are a big global company, that maybe one day ford is not there? in the uk? in the uk, after brexit. well, i think overall, it depends... that's a very sweeping statement. i can't guarantee anything. nobody can guarantee anything over many, many years but i think our intent is making sure that our uk business remains very strong and that's why we're engaging with the governments to be able to say, "here's what we think we need to make sure that that remains a possibility and we stay across the continent and in the uk and we have a healthy business in europe." stay with us. in a few minutes, we will be celebrating the achievements of young people from across the uk and ireland with live coverage of the rotary young citizens award from manchester, presented by ellie crisell. meanwhile, we will have a quick look at the weather with ben roach. if you like warm weather and

sunshine there was plenty to enjoy this weekend. sunshine fairly strong and high uv levels for the time of year, turning pretty wanted dock the rest of today brings a sunny skies for almost all of us are just the far north of scotland with some breezy weather but in the south, 21, maybe 20 to. always cooler close to the coasts. this evening and tonight, it stays dry and under clear skies temperatures will drop away quite considerably. there will be the odd fog patch and although towns and cities will hold up around six or seven, towns and cities will hold up around six or seven, some towns and cities will hold up around six or seven, some rural spots will get cold enough for grass frost. tomorrow, for england and wales, another sunny day and cloud for western coasts. clouding over more generally for scotland and northern ireland with outbreaks of rain arriving here, fairly cool towards the north—west but parts of the south—east could get 25 degrees. good morning.

i'm ellie crisell and i am delighted to be here in manchester to celebrate the rotary young citizen awards 2017. this year is the tenth anniversary of the awards to honour the achievements of young people who've all done something extraordinary. i presented the very first awards when they were launched back in 2007. since then, hundreds of amazing young people have been recognised. each year, rotary clubs across britain and ireland nominate youngsters for the awards. and the eventual winners for 2017 are with us today, and you are about to meet some inspirational young people. so let's find out more about this year's award winners. ourfirst award goes to teenager abbey booker. abbey is in care but works tirelessly and selflessly to ensure other children have the best experience that they can. she spends her time volunteering, helping out with a number of schemes, and tries to change the way adults deal with other