this is bbc news. i'm sophie long. the headlines at lipm. swedish police believe the man they've arrested is the driver of the lorry who carried out yesterday's fatal attack in stockholm. a man with links to the incident was arrested this morning at 1:15am. the man arrested is suspected of being the one who drove the car. foreign secretary borisjohnson calls off a visit to moscow, saying the chemical weapons attack in syria has changed the situation ‘fundamentally‘. hertfordshire fire service confirms two people have died and 33 have been rescued after a fire at a care home in cheshunt. the rmt union has defended its decision to stage a 24—hour strike involving merseyrail on the day of the grand national horse race at aintree. also in the next hour...honouring

young people who've made extraordinary contributions to their communities. the seven winners collect their prize at a ceremony in manchester for the 10th anniversary of the rotary young citizen awards to help children in care. and in half an hour. charting the rise of china's snooker superstar in enter the dragon. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. swedish police say a man arrested in stockholm after yesterday's fatal lorry attack is almost certainly the driver, and a 39—year—old man from uzbekistan. four people were killed and 15 injured when the lorry crashed into the front of a department store. police have also confirmed that a "suspicious device" was found inside the truck. our correpondent, dan johnson, reports. after yesterday's horror there is calm, stillness

and sadness in stockholm. people have come to together. time to reflect, a moment to remember. we were walking in the shop yesterday when it happened. patrick and francesca are tourists who were in the basement of the department store when the truck hit. we went up the escalator and saw panic and police with guns and stuff like that. how did people react? everybody was screaming and running to the other side of the building, and we took the side entrance and went out, and we just kept running to the other side of the city. this is the moment terror spread suddenly through the streets of sweden's capital. a hijacked lorry driven deliberately at shoppers. late last night the wreckage was towed away as police questioned the man they think was at the wheel. we have confirmed that he is a subject, a man from

uzbekistan, 39 years old, that is what we know. in addition to that we would not like to say anything further about his whereabouts and his background. there is a quiet, contemplative mood here today. people are considering what happened yesterday. they know it will take time to sink in, but there's also concern about the deeper impact this may have. it is important now that we just show we are not afraid, that sweden will not change and that we will keep strong and work together for a better sweden. it's going to be a different stockholm from now on. you see the same thing in brussels and paris, and i hope not, but i think people will be more cautious. this morning, politicians and the crown princess paid their respects. everyone here wants to understand more about who attacked the heart of this nation and why. danjohnson, bbc news, stockholm.

our reporter, maddy savage, has the latest from stockholm. this wall of flowers stretches about 100 metres behind me. we're right opposite the department store which a truck ploughed into on friday afternoon, killing four people. as well as the flowers, plenty of other tributes. some people have lit candles with the message "saknar dig", which means "miss you" in swedish. others have left cards. one said, "don't pray for sweden, pray for mankind". there have been a number of high—profile visitors here in recent hours. crown princess victoria along with her husband prince daniel, as well as this swedish prime minister, stefan l fven. he said it is impossible to guarantee that incidents like this don't take place but he said he was doing everything he could to keep his country safe. it is worth noting that there have been debates in recent months about sweden's preparedness for this kind of attack but politicians from across the bows of the spectrum have come out today and said this isn't the time to discuss this, it is most important to focus

on security right now. two people have died in a fire at a care home in hertfordshire. firefighters were called to the newgrange care home in cheshunt early this morning. a number of people have been taken to hospital. i'm joined on the line now by darryl came. he is the chief fire service officer. the crew is still working ha rd officer. the crew is still working hard here to ensure that we can get the last two members of the public out of the property. as you can imagine there's an investigation going on. we are working closely with the police and amblin service to make sure that we can secure as much evidence from the scene as

possible —— ambulance service. u nfortu nately, two possible —— ambulance service. unfortunately, two people are deceased as a result of the incident. if the fire out? the entire property has been affected by the fire. we need to make sure that every element of that fire is out before we can leave the scene. but the first thing, most importantly, is to remove the unfortunately deceased people with as much dignity as possible. the operation there very much ongoing? can you tell us how it started? as you can imagine, there's a thorough investigation going on. at the earliest part of the incident, we ensured that all emergency services worked closely

together to make sure that no evidence was lost. the first cruise that arrived were presented with a very rapidly spreading fire, but that was confined to a small area at first, but it was apparent early on that it had spread rapidly through the yielding. that then escalated and the crews worked extremely hard, in difficult circumstances to rescue the 35 people in that property. rescues work carried out by ladder and the crews had reading apparatus. the crews worked extremely hard. and the crews had reading apparatus. the crews worked extremely hardlj imagine 35 people being evacuated is very difficult because some of those people won't necessarily be mobile? there were people who physically

wouldn't have been able to leave, not even under normal circumstances. there is no doubt about it, if the crews hadn't reacted as quickly and professionally as possible, there would be a worse situation that we would be a worse situation that we would be a worse situation that we would be faced with. it was serious enough. some praise already on social media for how well the crews acted. can you give us an indication of what can cause those buyers to spread so quickly? there are a range of things. it would be unwise to speculate at this point. thank you, darryl for being with us on bbc news. the foreign secretary borisjohnson has cancelled his planned trip

to moscow next monday in response to the chemical attack in syria. in a statement he said, "we deplore russia's continued defence of the assad regime." meanwhile, the united states has expressed disappointment but not surprise at russian criticism of its attack on a syrian government airbase. daniel boettcher reports. the cruise missile strikes on the syrian air base were a sharp departure from a president whose policy on the campaign trail to the white house was one of avoiding overseas conflicts. administration officials are saying the strikes were intended as a one off, not a change in direction, and at an emergency meeting of the un security council, the us insisted its actions were fully justified. it was time to say, enough. but not only say it, it was time to act. bashar al—assad must never use chemical weapons again, ever. syria denies using nerve gas in the attack on the rebel—held town but the us says it has crossed a line. it fired almost 60 cruise missiles at the air base outside homs which it says the syrian air force

used to launch the chemical weapons attack. but russia, syria's ally, accuses the us of an unprovoked show of force. russia's prime minister, dmitry medvedev, has said the strikes have brought moscow and washington to the verge of a military clash. britain's un ambassador criticised russia's continuing support for bashar al—assad. russia needs to listen to this council, listen to the arab world, listen to the rest of the international community. above all, listen to the syrian people. and the foreign secretary, borisjohnson, has pulled out of a visit to moscow next week, saying development in syria had changed the situation fundamentally. he said he would instead focus on building coordinated international support to secure a ceasefire and an intensified political process. but moscow has said it will strengthen syria's anti—aircraft defences.

it has also suspended a deal which is designed to prevent incidents between us and russian warplanes over the country, while washington says it is preparing further economic sanctions against syria. earlier, i spoke to our correspondent rajini vaidya nathan at president trump's residence in florida, and i asked how the trump administration is responding to international reaction to the strike on syria. i think at the moment there is a question of whether syria will respond at all and what we've been hearing from officials at the un and the secretary of state is that this was a targeted attack, an act of retaliation, so any further steps or measures it might take will depend on what syria's response is to that. but one thing that is important to stress is that we have been told... officials at mar—a—lago said last night that the us is preparing further sanctions against syria. it is unclear when they will be announced but the us treasury secretary did say that there will be further sanctions. it is worth noting that in 2013,

after the red line that president obama set after a chemical weapons attack in syria happened back then, the us did impose sanctions against syria, against certain assets and individuals they felt were involved in that chemical weapons attack back then but many would say that didn't make much of a difference. even russia has been criticised roundly by the us for being complicit in this recent chemical weapons attack, for failing to get rid of those chemical weapons in syria, having promised the international community that it would. i should just say that the focus now, certainly in the pentagon, is investigating whether russia played a role in the chemical attack last tuesday. the pentagon is looking at intelligence and specifically it is looking at the movements of a drone which flew over a hospital shortly after the chemical weapons attack and then later bombed the hospital. the pentagon is investigating

whether that was a russian drone that may have been trying to cover up evidence of the chemical weapons. interestingly, some indication from nikki haley that they would, although this was a one—off, we are told, be prepared to do the same again if they needed to. how is this all playing out politically for donald trump there? that is an interesting one because, actually, politically, president trump has had support for this targeted strike across the political spectrum so even democrats in congress have been saying that it was a good thing that he did that. there has been some comparison with president obama's progress to take action against syria back in 2013 and his failure to actually follow through. so you had people from both sides of the political lines saying they support that. interestingly, i've been reading about what some supporters of donald trump think of this, too. we've spoken

to people in palm beach who say it was a good thing that he did that but there are other people who voted for president trump who backed his idea that he was going to put america first and wasn't going to get involved in conflicts around the world. so there are some people who voted for president trump who are disappointed that he did this because they don't believe he should be getting involved in things like this. of course, it is worth pointing out that a week ago if i was talking to you, i would be telling you that us officials didn't have a strategy in terms of trying to oust president assad or even trying to take any action against his government. their focus, and it still is their focus, was to try to take out islamic state, so even six days ago we were hearing from senior officials that dealing with the assad regime was not a priority. of course, all of that changed after president trump saw those images of the chemical

attack on tuesday. some have said, is this emotional, was this an emotional response? does this show that the us doesn't have a clear strategy? certainly, those close to president trump say that is not the case, it wasn't an emotional response. but going forward, it is still not very clear what the next steps are in terms of america's overall strategy when it comes to syria. earlier, i spoke to our political correspondent, matt cole, and i asked him what the thinking was behind borisjohn‘s decision to cancel his trip to moscow. this would have been quite a historic visit really. five years or more since a british foreign secretary has been to moscow. he had been invited by his russian counterpart, but borisjohnson, now not going. in a statement of which i have a copy here, he makes it very clear that it's the developments in syria that have fundamentally changed the situation, deeming borisjohnson to cancel this trip. in this statement, he says, we deplore russia's continued

defence of the assad regime even after the chemical weapons attack on innocent civilians and calls on russia to do everything they can to find a diplomatic solution. so borisjohnson making it very clear that the chemical attack which the british and american authorities says was carried out by assad's regime from an airbase in syria which was then bombed by us jets on thursday night, they say that chemical attack, in that week earlier, was what's behind this. and yet rex tilison, the us secretary of state, is still going to go to moscow. is that right? that is right. so, what we understand from the foreign secretary is that borisjohnson was due to go tomorrow, on monday, rather. rex tillerson, a couple of days

later, in between those two events is a meeting of the g—7 foreign ministers. that is taking place in italy. borisjohnson will now go to that and we understand that he will lead the discussions on the g—7‘s response to all that is going on in syria. now, people close to borisjohnson say the thinking is this. that it would not have been a good idea for borisjohnson to go before this meeting, and rex to go afterwards because it will allow the russians to play the two men off against each other by having one visit which they decided would be the us secretary of state. they can have one, strong co—ordinated response to try and deal with this issue. in the meantime, that g—7 meeting in italy will try to deal with the issue of how to remove assad, plan for life after him and look at how planning can take place for peace and rebuilding in syria afterwards and look at how they might get russia to de—militarise in that country. you're watching bbc news.

our latest headline... our latest headlines.. swedish police believe the man they have arrested is the driver who carried out yesterday's fatal attack in stockholm. foreign secretary borisjohnson cause of a visit to moscow, saying the chemical weapons attack in syria has changed the situation two people have died in a fire in a ca re two people have died in a fire in a care home in cheshunt. dele alli opened the scoring at tottenham in their victory against watford. lewis hamilton takes pole position in shanghai prix, just ahead of sebastian vettel. great britain's hopes in the davis cup are hanging bya hopes in the davis cup are hanging by a parade. they are trailing two sets to one. they are 5—4 down in the set. they must win this match to keep the tie alive. the grand national is only one hour away. it's

the world's richest steeplechase. we will have more sport view at 530 pm. join us then. —— more sport for you. workers at three rail companies are taking part in a 24—hour strike on the day of the grand national race at aintree, near liverpool. the action, involving southern, merseyrail and arriva rail north, is part of an ongoing dispute over staffing and the role of conductors. merseyrail said choosing to strike on the day of the race meeting would damage liverpool's reputation. we have a strong relationship with the rmt and we have engaged in previous discussions and we would welcome further discussions. we made it quite clear that should a dispute take place on grand national day it would not change our stance. however we are willing to negotiate because we need to resolve this for the benefit of customers. new trains is a fantastic opportunity for the city region and is something we should all grasp with both hands and make it happen.

survey after survey indicates massive support from the public to retain guards on services. we had no issues with racegoers today. they're supportive of the trade union stance. passengers are paying for this level of safety in their ticket prices, so why, as a passenger, would you want to pay even more on your ticket price for less safety solely to benefit the profits of the private train operators? we think, as a trade union, it is unacceptable and passengers deserve a safe railway and a second safety critical conductor on every service. a teenage boy has appeared in court in northern ireland charged with attempting to obtain a machine gun and a hundred rounds of ammunition. the 14—year—old was arrested at a shopping centre in coleraine in country londonderry on thursday. our correspondent, john campbell, was in court for the hearing this morning. well, the boy was arrested at riverside retail park in coleraine on thursday. a police officer gave some details about what led up to that arrest. she said there had been a proactive police investigation for a number of weeks involving the dark web. she alleged the boy had reached out across the dark web in an attempt to buy a russian—made submachine gun and 100 rounds of ammunition.

she said that as part of that he came to the retail park and when he attempted to buy the ammunition, he was arrested by what she referred to as an operative. he has been released on bail. there are strict bail conditions, which include the fact that he's not able to possess a computer or mobile phone and he will appear in court again later this month. iraqi forces attempting to take the city of mosul are meeting fierce resistance from so—called islamic state. over the past five weeks the iraqi security forces have lost nearly 300 soldiers, while another 1,600 have been wounded in the battle for the western half of the city. our defence correspondent, jonathan beale, has this report. it's been called the toughest urban fighting since the second world war. the battle for mosul is still far from over but it has already brutally scarred the city. snipers are pinning down the iraqi

forces and slowing the advance. mortar fire, too, as we witnessed on the front line. a dangerous place, as the armoured vehicle in front of us is about to find out. that is the blast from an is rocket. we had to move fast to avoid being the next target. we are not sure as to what is going to come round the corner here, where is are. we've just come under sniper fire. there were mortars coming off nearby us. and then a vehicle in front of us got hit by an rpg. they're still within firing range but these are the streets recently freed from is control. these are the ones who managed to escape the extremists‘ clutches. many hid as the battle

reached their doors. like bashar and his family, who feared the extremists would take them to use them as human shields. he says, "is told everyone to move within the hour. they said anyone who stayed behind will be burnt alive in their home. we were rescued just in time". many civilians, though, are trapped as the fighting becomes harder. both sides breaking down walls to move undercover. a deadly labyrinth with the enemy sometimes hiding in the same building. downstairs was, until recently, an is position. they‘ re making sure they don't come back. this is unforgiving urban warfare against an enemy that has had three years to prepare and is proving hard to spot. with the iraqi security forces never

sure what might be round the corner. 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." some extraordinary acts by young people have been celebrated at the rotary young citizen awards in manchester today. there are seven winners, chosen from hundreds of people nominated across the uk

and the republic of ireland. the awards are now in their tenth year, and winners from the past decade also travelled to manchester for this year's celebrations. live now to noel phillips, who is in manchesterfor us. he has been speaking to the winners throughout the day and we can join him again now. hello, sophie. we have been hearing some incredible stories from young people and teenagers who have been recognised for doing truly incredible things. these are people who do not take no foran these are people who do not take no for an answer which is why they are being recognised at this young citizens awards here. owen, you have been on an incredible journey raising awareness of epilepsy? it's brilliant. we've heard today about winning the award and everything. i don't do the campaigning just to get

awards, i do it so that people can become aware of the condition, it's life—threatening. it may not appear like that to people, how it appears to people, a lot of people think it's jerking around on the floor, on tv. that is how it is to —— defined these days. this will motivate me even further to do what i'm doing. how hard is it to live with the condition? i was first hired nosed 111—15 years ago, when i was five. it's difficult. they dismissed it for six years, but then in april 2010, i was in hospital with a seizure for almost a week. i was then given a proper diagnosis. it's been a roller—coaster of a

journey, but different medication transitions, diagnosis, it's really difficult but having that other side to it. as you say, not taking no for an answerand to it. as you say, not taking no for an answer and not turning my back on the condition, putting a completely different twist on it has completely turned it around for me. you are talking so well, but the age of 18, how much have you raised so far?m the region of15— how much have you raised so far?m the region of 15— £16,000. it's come from different events where we have had fun runs, walks for young epilepsy, young epilepsy is the charity i raise money for. i raised some money with the purple party, so with everything together, 16—

£17,000. what important message would you like to tell people about epilepsy? don't ignore it. any long—term condition, the it epilepsy, mental health, anything, really. don't ignore it. don't become attached to the stigma that it has become, what it is defined by. go out there. to schools, to conferences, get your message out there. speak to doctors, people who suffer from it themselves. there. speak to doctors, people who sufferfrom it themselves. they there. speak to doctors, people who suffer from it themselves. they may agree with you or have different viewpoints, but what i have found is people are holding back from it. people like me want to hear from people. we are all on the same side

and we can all talk about it. thank you and congratulations. we've been inundated with inspirational people this year. you can watch the ceremony on the bbc news channel at 8:30pm tonight. you can also see it on for 30 pm tomorrow. time to bring you up—to—date with the weather. it's beautiful out there. thomas has all the details. a beautiful evening on the way with strong sunshine, pretty warned today. coastal areas are little on the nippy side button very little change over the next few hours. let's look at the evening temperatures, this is 7pm. in the high teens across southern and central parts of the