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this is bbc news. i'm martine croxall. the headlines at 8pm: a british man, chris bevington, is named as one of the four people who died in the stockholm lorry attack. huge crowds have attended a commemoration for the victims near the attack site in the swedish capital. the so—called islamic state group says it was behind two separate bomb attacks targeting coptic churches in egypt. the attacks killed dozens. greater manchester police say they dealt with 31 calls relating to the drug "spice" injust 2a hours yesterday. the payday loan firm wonga says hundreds of thousands of its customers have had their accounts hacked. also in the next hour: the grand national winner, one for arthur, returns to his stables in kinross. the eight—year—old was welcomed back by fans after winning — the first scottish success in the race since 1979. and the travel show team visit thailand and meet the people cleaning up the canals of bangkok. that's at 8.30 here on bbc news. good evening and
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welcome to bbc news. a british father of two was among the victims of friday's terror attack in the swedish capital stockholm. chris bevington, who was 41, was among four people killed when a hijacked lorry crashed into a department store. today, as thousands attended a vigil for those who died, more details have been emerging of the man behind the attack. our correspondent dan johnson reports from stockholm. talented compassionate and caring, chris bevington in the words of his father. he chose to marry and call sweden home. he had young children here and worked for the music company spotify. he was here in stockholm's crowded shopping streets on friday afternoon when a hijacked truck was turned
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into a weapon. a belgian and two swedish citizens were also killed in the attack. today, investigators revealed more about the man they think was at the wheel. we know the suspect showed sympathies for extremist organisations, said the policeman. among them islamic state. he's a 39—year—old from uzbekistan, although he hasn't officially been named. he was on the security services radar, although they say he was a marginal figure. his application to stay in sweden was turned down last summer and the police were looking for him because he had avoided being deported. this is where the truck ended up, smashed against the department store window. people have come here to write messages of hope and defiance and there have been more tributes to the victims, too. just yards away, a vigil — a chance to share feelings,
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try to make sense of them, sadness, anger and fear, of what might happen next. quite emotional. i'm very sad and angry but it's so wonderful that people have come together. we stand here in solidarity. not just with those in stockholm, but around the world, with everyone, who needs to fill the love, that we are together and that we are not afraid. there's pride, too, in the response so far. spontaneous applause for the stockholm police, and a challenge to those who threaten the way of life here. if we become scared, then we play their hand. this is a good picture of how sweden reacted. this was a display of multiculturalism, kindness and tolerance, things people recognise could now face a threat. danjohnson, bbc news, stockholm.
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a short time ago danjohnson sent us this update from the scene of the attack. still something of a subdued mood here, two days on after this attack. there was a minute's silence in the city centre, close to where the truck hit at the exact time, and you could see of the thousands gathered together, many were trying to process the confusion of thoughts going through their minds over the weekend. they were thinking of the victims, considering what this attack could mean in terms of changes for the future, and absorbing some of the details about those who died. we know that, of the four who lost their lives when the truck crashed into this department store, two were swedish citizens, one was belgian and one was a british man, chris bevington, 41 yea rs british man, chris bevington, 41 years old, who had moved to sweden to build a life peer and a family.
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he had young children, he was married, and he worked for the music company spotify. his family have paid tribute to him this evening, and there has also been news from the police investigation. they have made progress and given more details about their main suspect. we know he is 39 and from uzbekistan, but we learned today he came to sweden in 2014 and applied for residency. that was refused last year and he should have been deported. police were searching for him but couldn't find him. we also know that he had expressed sympathy for certain extremist organisations, the police say, including islamic state. that questioning will continue and the reflection of people there about what happened on friday, that will ta ke what happened on friday, that will take time to sink in, to. and we'll find out how this story — and many others — are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 10:30 and 11:30pm this evening in the papers — our guestsjoining me tonight are the journalist lucy cavendish and tom bergin, business correspondent at reuters.
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more than 40 people have been killed and many others wounded in two attacks on christian coptic churches in egypt. 0ne blast, in tanta, north of cairo, happened as worshippers were gathering for palm sunday. so—called islamic state has said it carried out the attacks. this report from our middle east correspondent, yolande knell. egyptian christians had gathered to celebrate one of their holiest days. but this palm sunday brought violence. the first deadly explosion was during mass at st george's church in tanta, leaving blood everywhere, wooden pews shattered. just hours later there was another attack here, in the northern city of alexandria. this time just outside the church, the dead included police officers who had stopped the suicide bomberfrom entering. the head of egypt's coptic church, pope tawadros, had already left. in rome, at palm sunday prayers,
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pope francis condemned the bombings. he's due to visit egypt later this month. a recent upsurge in attacks on egypt's coptic christians is causing concern. they are one of the oldest christian communities in the world and they make up one in ten of the country's mainly muslim population. in february hundreds fled the sinai region following a threat from the so—called islamic state group which also claimed the latest bombings. and in december nearly 30 were killed in this church explosion in cairo. coptic leaders say christians feel increasingly threatened. i'm very blessed to be part of a church that has faced discrimination systematically for decades. and the response to that has always been quite gracious, non—retaliatory and non—violent. and i pray this continues, because if we get into a spiral of violence more and more people
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will get hurt. egypt's government says the latest attacks are another failed attempt to destroy national unity by causing religious tensions. but coptic christians, grieving once again, say much more needs to be done to make them feel safe in their own country. yolande knell, bbc news. the us secretary of state, rex tillerson, has criticised russia for failing to prevent last week's poison gas attack on syrian civilians. mr tillerson did not accuse moscow of involvement in the attack but he said he would discuss russia's international obligations on chemical weapons when he visits the country on tuesday. he also clarified there is no change in the us policy towards syria. i think the president was very clear in his message to the american people. this strike was related solely to the most recent, horrific use of chemical weapons against women, children and, as the president said, even small babies.
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the strike was a message to assad that your multiple violations of agreements at the un and under the chemical weapons charter in 2013, that those would not go without a response in the future and we are asking russia to fulfil its commitment and we are calling on assad to cease the use of these weapons. other than that, there is no change to our military. earlier i asked our washington correspondent david willis if the us air strike on syria was going to set the tone for mr tillerson‘s for mr tillerson‘s visit to moscow. the secretary of state, rex tillerson, has had some pretty harsh things to say about the russians in recent days, and he renewed his criticism on the american talk shows today, basically taking russia to task for its failure, as he saw it,
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of the commitment to oversee the destruction of syria's chemical weapons stockpile. rex tillerson said that the russians had either been, as he put it, incompetent, or outmanoeuvred by the syrian regime. rex tillerson goes to moscow next week to meet with his russian counterpart, sergei lavrov. he is expected to press the russians to follow through on that commitment about syria's chemical weapons, and also to rethink, in his words, the relationship they have, the close ties they have with the syrian government. and he said that this meeting will be a chance to basically look at how the relationship between the united states and russia might pan out over the course of the trump administration. there was of course administration. there was of course a lot of thought a couple of months ago that we may be heralding with
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this administration a new era of cooperation between the united states and russia. now that looks very much less likely. how is this playing out in congress, where there are divisions over what the united states did in syria with some republicans saying that this was not what mr trump should have done, he should not acted unilaterally? guests, and rex tillerson actually, ina sense, guests, and rex tillerson actually, in a sense, addressed some of those concerns in interviews that he gave today. he said that this did not represent, this cruise missile strike last week, a change in policy on the part of the trump administration as far as syria was concerned. the priority, as far as syria was concerned, he said remained the destruction, the elimination of so—called islamic state. 0nce elimination of so—called islamic state. once that had been achieved, thenit state. once that had been achieved, then it would be possible to cooperate with allies in attempting
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to get some sort of ceasefire on the ground in syria. but any suggestion that the cruise missile strike in response to that chemical weapons attack represented some sort of change in direction was false, mr tillerson said. there had been speculation that perhaps the isolationist, america first policy of donald trump had somehow been abandoned overnight, but that doesn't seem to be the case. joining me now from new york is leslie vinjamuri, us foreign policy expert at chatham house and senior lecturer in international relations at soas. thank you forjoining us on bbc news. going by the comments we have been hearing from the us and british governments, what do you think their combined intentions are towards russia? right now, presumably they are working closely together, it seems, to try and put as much pressure as possible diplomatically
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to get russia to reconsider its backing of assad. that's very difficult to do. clearly russia has come out in support of assad in the aftermath of these strikes, but this is really the only and most significant thing they can do when it comes to changing what they are doing in the conflict without taking stronger measures, which are dangerous and risk escalating and bringing the us and russia into direct confrontation, the us and uk would like to avoid. what is more worrying is that it seems right now looking at this that the us and uk, tillerson and boris johnson, looking at this that the us and uk, tillerson and borisjohnson, are more on the same page and some elements in the us government. nikki haley, the us ambassador to the united nations, came out with a much stronger line against assad and rex tillerson, indicating that it isn't quite clear that the us administration has got its strategic thinking together. this visit that tillerson is undertaking is going to be incredibly important and, if
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russia basically turns round and says, we are very sorry but we are not onside, it's not clear what the next step is, and that becomes incredibly important, that the us has fought through and they will do and doesn't get into a tricky position of escalating without thinking through the consequences. —— the us has thought through. thinking through the consequences. -- the us has thought through. what is the minimum rex tillerson needs to achieve when he meets his russian counterpart? the minimum is to make it clear that the us is a very strong position when it comes to not condoning or being willing to tolerate certainly the use of any further chemical weapons, any remaining weapons need to be removed, because that was the point of the strikes. these were limited strikes for a very specific goal. but there is obviously the broader strategic question of the conflict in syria, and doing as much as they can to try to persuade russia to contain assad, and to continue to
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support, the us continues to say that it support, the us continues to say thatitis support, the us continues to say that it is most important goal is fighting isis in syria, said that remains essential. but we are now in a very tricky game with a tremendous amount of risk, i think. this particular visit is extraordinarily important. the most important interaction that rex tillerson will have had to date. how simplistic is it to say, well, deal with is first and deal with assad later? that is what secretary tillerson is saying. i think it doesn't work because, of course, these two things are two sides of the same coin. isis is there in large part because of assad, and so the us needs to think very carefully, i think, about sending a signal that they don't support assad, as part of a move to try and bring out and support and to back any moderate forces that remain
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in syria. but despite again isis is crucial and i think, prior to the last week, that was clearly the us strategy, that the most important issue for us strategy was countering isis, and they have really moved away. just last week, president trump headset, what happened to assad was up for the syrian people to decide. —— president trump had said. that clearly is looking different now, but the sequencing strategy is, i think, not one that's going to work very well. pressure on assad and continuing the fight against isis must happen simultaneously. thank you very much. payday loan fund wonga says that lots of customers have been affected by data breach. professor alan woodward, a cyber security expert from the university of surrey joins me now. welcome, thank you very much for
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speaking to us. how significant potentially is this breach? very. i was just casting my mind back and i can't think of one in the uk where we've had financial information like this lead to quite such a scale. if it turns out to be that all 245,000 us customers —— uk customers, it is that detail. but one is too many. the fact that all of this information together has been leakeded is information together has been lea keded is really information together has been leakeded is really regrettable. how and why might somebody had wanted to hack into this and get this information? it might have been targeted, it might have been... but i wouldn't rule out an insidejob, because quite often insider threat isn't understood. somebody may have taken a copy of part of the
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database. 0r somebody taken a copy of part of the data base. 0r somebody may taken a copy of part of the database. 0r somebody may have been thinking, i wonder if i can rattle a fuel door handles and try it out, rather like they did with the tall torque attack. —— a few door handles. the teenager was just trying things out and to their surprise they got in. with wonga, you can imagine, if you got in, there would be financial information. it possibly was targeted but, at the same time, i wouldn't rule out people wandering around, rattling door handles until they found one open. what does it suggest to you about wonga's cyber security? the fact that all of this information appears to have gone at once tells you that, what a start, was the data encrypted? if so, it suggests somebody got at the live data. at the moment, all we are going on is what wonga have told us. but they were apparently made aware
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of this last tuesday. —— last tuesday. that often means that the data popped up on the dark web or a criminal site selling it. if that was true and that was when they became aware of it, that suggests they didn't even maybe know that this had happened. that would be doubly troubling. how worried should customers be, and what can they do in terms of rearguard action, if anything? whenever this kind of detail goes out, it's worrying. it's not the end of the world, but it's worrying. if it were me personally, i would go to wonga and change my password, for a start. unger say that apparently the accounts themselves have not been compromised. —— wonga. so it is other personal information that has been taken out, not username and password. but keep a close eye on your account and see if there are any funny transactions. if there are, get onto the bank straightaway, or maybe even be proactive and talk
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to the bank and say that you have been notified by wonga and can they keep an eye on the transactions as well. thank you. you are watching bbc news. a british man, chris bevington, is named as one of the four victims of the stockholm lorry attack. the so called islamic state group says it was behind two separate bomb attacks targeting coptic churches in egypt. greater manchester police say they dealt with 31 calls relating to the drug spice in just 24 hours yesterday. and now the sport. the final round of the masters is underway in augusta in what is said to bea underway in augusta in what is said to be a thrilling finish. justin rose at sergio garcia had a share of the lead overnight. they were both the lead overnight. they were both the last two t off and they hit
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their drives down the middle. garcia's second was even better, and he birdied the opening hole. it was a bit trickierfor he birdied the opening hole. it was a bit trickier for his he birdied the opening hole. it was a bit trickierfor his playing partner but, after a poor second shot, rose saved his par. shot of the day happened already. russell henley, he is not in contention, but an eagle at the fifth. straight in, not that he knew it at first. how he wishes he'd produced more of those earlier on this weekend. this is how the leaderboard is looking. sergio garcia is out on his own in front, after that birdie on an early hole. he is one shot ahead ofjustin rose. then charley hoffman, rickie fowler, jordan spieth, who had a sensational round yesterday, and rory mcilroy. he's just dropped a shot. he was one under earlier. any
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one of those, you'd think, will be in contention later. plenty of golf on the final day. that is all over on the final day. that is all over on bc radio five. manchester united are up to fifth in the premier league after a 3—0 win at sunderland, leaving sunderland closer to relegation. zlatan ibrahimovic got his 28th of the season, with henrikh mkhitaryan adding another. marcus rashford made it three. sunderland remain bottom, ten points from safety. the leicester revival is over as everton ended the champions' recent return to form. manager craig shakespeare's six game winning run is over, ended by striker romelu lukaku the premier league's leading goal—scorer, who scored twice in a 4—2 win. patrick gearey reports. inside that folder must be some formula, as leicester manager craig shakespeare's has won six in a row. but then this game proved how fast things changed in the premier league. inside half a minute, things changed in the premier
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league. inside halfa minute, off things changed in the premier league. inside half a minute, off a chance, tom davies, 1—0 everton. goodison park seemed huge, placed a rome, space equalised for slimani. not five minutes had passed. we haven't had ten when another one was lined up. most were too busy trying to keep up. with almost everything going in, it wouldn't be long before romelu lu ka ku going in, it wouldn't be long before romelu lukaku popped up. he score so many that he doesn't celebrate them all. when philjagielka gets them, he enjoys them. this was the second ina he enjoys them. this was the second in a week, 3—2 to everton. the second half was more stable, even predictable. if you don't clear and everton corner, you can guess what's next. lu ka ku's 23rd everton corner, you can guess what's next. lukaku's 23rd league goal of the season. 0ne next. lukaku's 23rd league goal of the season. one man's run continues, another‘s ends. lewis hamilton won the chinese grand prix this morning having led from start to finish in shanghai. his mercedes came in ahead of sebastian vettel who was second for ferrari, in what could prove to be the rivalry of the season.
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both drivers are now level on 43 points after two races. shanghai in the wet can be fearsome. lewis hamilton and sebastian vettel, battle lines drawn. hamilton's mercedes starting in front. all he had to do was stay there. while the track was driving, it was for a time confusion and chaos that reigned. staying on the track was, for some, proving a bit too difficult. the early la ps proving a bit too difficult. the early laps stifled by accident. a pit stop leaving sebastian vettel down the field. hamilton kept his calm and kept any trouble behind him. teenager max verstappen, having started in 16th, now up to second, but sebastian vettel‘s harare slowly fighting its way back. he would eventually regain his second place, but that was as close as he could get to hamilton. he led from start to finish. the pair are now level on
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points and, in the wet shanghai, this duel continues. sergio garcia now leading the masters on the final day at seven under. you can follow all of that on bbc radio 5 live. for now, that's all the spot. more for you later on. police in manchester have launched extra patrols in the city centre, after receiving a surge in calls about people passing out from taking the banned drug spice. it's been reported that the substance left some users looking like "zombies". shabnam younus—jewell reports. zombies in broad daylight — these people are users of spice, a synthetic drug which used to be legal, known to cause extreme effects including psychosis and muscle weakness. you see a lot of people who get absolutely smashed out of their trees, throwing up and falling all over the place. i don't smoke it to do that. ijust have a smoke and just relax, you know, like... basically, it's an escape route from the normalcy of life,
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with it being so cheap. this weekend, greater manchester police took 31 calls about people thought to have taken spice — 14 of them had collapsed and needed an ambulance. on this glorious day here in piccadilly gardens, shoppers are being entertained, but, at the same time, police are out here and there's quite a presence. it's because piccadilly gardens has been quite a problem area when it comes to spice use in the past. over this weekend, police have had special extra patrols on here, and have revealed they've made a number of arrests related to spice use. these volunteers do their bit. in one weekend we had seven overdoses and the paramedics were dealing with that. it is horrible to watch, messing with people badly. it just affects the city centre.
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police say their focus is on dealers of spice, but they'll continue to tackle all anti—social users of the drug. shabnam younus—jewell, bbc north west tonight, manchester. a father has been left with life—changing injuries after a family had acid thrown at them in north london. the 40—year—old and his wife and two—year—old son were attacked in broad daylight in islington yesterday lunchtime. marc ashdown reports. this is the spot behind me where this attack happened, and this is a busy london street, lots of families around. just behind us is a children's play park. yesterday lunchtime at about 1pm, a family was walking it, a 40—year—old man and his 36—year—old wife and their young son, just a two—year—old. police say they were attacked by someone armed
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with an acid substance, which was thrown on them. the child and woman suffered minor chemical burns but the man suffered far worse, burns to his hands and face. police have described his injuries as life changing. all three victims were treated at the scene by paramedics and firefighters. we understand they poured water on to their faces to try and cool down the burns. they we re try and cool down the burns. they were taken to hospital for treatment. the woman and toddler we re treatment. the woman and toddler were released overnight but the man remains in hospital. he doesn't have life—threatening injuries but they are life changing. these type of incidents are on the increase, with 450 last year in london, double the numberfrom 450 last year in london, double the number from the previous year. it's too early to say what happened in this incident, in which a family was attacked in broad daylight by someone armed with acid. police are appealing for witnesses. they have not yet made any arrests. grand national winner 0ne
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for arthur, has returned to his stables at kinross after winning what was the first scottish success in the race in almost 40 years. he was welcomed back by fans, though perhaps not by the bookmakers. they lost millions on his unexpected 14—1 win, as brian mclauchlin reports: back home after winning the world's greatest steeplechase. 0ne back home after winning the world's greatest steeplechase. one for arthur has quickly established a very strong fan base. it's amazing, a local winner! very strong fan base. it's amazing, a localwinner! we wouldn't very strong fan base. it's amazing, a local winner! we wouldn't expect it, but it's fantastic. didn't they do well? the team did a fantastic job. it's been a really exciting couple of days, so really happy for everybody involved. good for him! the weight itself went remarkably to plan. he jumped the last. the weight itself went remarkably to plan. hejumped the last. some say that he wasn't mentioned for the
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second half. that is his way, not the quickest in the world, but he can certainly jump. he the quickest in the world, but he can certainlyjump. he kept a nice turn of speed at the end. we have a tremendous staff and hopefully they will all be here today. it's their input that has done this. we are lucky to have a horse like arthur, and he is outstanding. he even does being a grand national winner well. the trailer, peter scudamore, a former championjockey the trailer, peter scudamore, a former champion jockey who never won the big race, is well aware what the victory means for such a small yard. we think sometimes we are in our own bubble, but the village has turned out to see them. our lads are buying their food out to see them. our lads are buying theirfood in out to see them. our lads are buying their food in the village, drinking their food in the village, drinking their drink, renting their houses. they are part of the village. the village is known for its famous sporting achievement! and now

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