‘ofthe ‘ of the youth have a member of the youth committee of the manchester islamic centre. we also have another trustee of the manchester islamic centre. we would like to pay our respects to the victims of monday's atrocity with a minute's silence, please. silence thank you. i will now call on a

representative to read the press statement. thank you. good afternoon all. peace be upon you. peace be upon you all. my name is fawzi haffar and i upon you all. my name is fawzi haffarand i am upon you all. my name is fawzi haffar and i am a trustee of the manchester islamic centre. i would like to make one point very clear — that after reading this press statement we will not be making any further comments and we will not be taking any questions. so we will not be taking any questions. the press

statement reads as follows, "the manchester islamic centre's thoughts and prayers are with the victims, theirfamilies, theirfriends, and prayers are with the victims, their families, their friends, and oui’ their families, their friends, and our diverse communities across greater manchester. the horrific atrocity that occurred in manchester on monday night has shocked us all. it has indeed shocked us all. this act of cowardice has no place in our religion or any other religion for that matter. we encourage anyone and i repeat, we encourage anyone, to may have information about the individual involved to contact the

police without any delay. so they can assist with their investigations. the manchester islamic centre, where you are all standing, isa islamic centre, where you are all standing, is a public venue and as such, we welcome thousands of attendees and i do mean thousands of attendees. muslims and non—muslims andi attendees. muslims and non—muslims and i repeat muslims and non—muslims. every week this is happening. this happens every week. this centre has been part of our fine and great city and the did bury community. this has been going on

since the 1960s. the doors of this centre are open to all. they are open to all. as a centre, we serve all people, from all backgrounds, and faiths, from ourfood all people, from all backgrounds, and faiths, from our food and clothe banks to all our interfaith dialogues. some media reports, some media reports, have reported that the bomber worked at the manchester islamic centre. so some media reports have reported this. this is

not true. i assure everyone, listeners, viewers, in the uk, around the uk, this bomber has never worked in this centre. we express concern worked in this centre. we express concern that a small section, it's a very small section, of the media, are manufacturing stories and making unfounded points without any verification or context or corroboration. we are concerned about reports we are receiving, reports we are receiving, about anti—muslim acts, these are terrible

anti—muslim acts, these are terrible anti—muslim acts, these are terrible anti—muslim acts ranging from verbal abuse, to acts of criminal damage to mosques in the area and outside the area. we encourage, again we do encourage, any incidents to be reported as a hate crime. these incidents have to be reported as hate crimes. the manchester islamic centre would like to take this opportunity to thank the police, and the emergency services, as well as ordinary people, people like you and i. ordinary people, people like you and i, all ages, including

ordinary people, people like you and i, allages, including taxi ordinary people, people like you and i, all ages, including taxi drivers, ta keaways, restau ra nts, i, all ages, including taxi drivers, takeaways, restaurants, mosques, hotels, homeowners, who provided assistance in the immediate aftermath of this atrocity. please do remember this — do not cut this out of your stories. that's very important. manchester is a great city with a great history and a prosperous and bright future ahead of it. the manchester islamic centre is proud to be part of this great city of manchester. i thank you for attending and listening. reporter: did salman abedi pray

here? welcome to our world viewers who are joining us. we have been listening to fawzi haffar who is a trustee at the manchester islamic centre and did bury mosque. this is the mosque that reports say that sal salman abedi, acontinueded did bury mosque. there were reports that he called the prayer at that mosque, but the trustee saying at no point had he worked at the manchester islamic centre. those reports, he said, are not true, but condemning in the strongest terms the atrocity that we had here on monday evening. "it shocked us all." the cowardice has no place in our religion. he mentioned that there were concerns in the muslim community that there might bea in the muslim community that there might be a backlash, verbal abuse or hate crimes, those, he said, must be reported to the police. we are at

the cordon not far from manchester arena. these are the steps up to the arena. there is a bit of police activity. we understand they are going to move the cordon to get the roads around the centre reopened, but around manchester and certainly in london, we are starting to see a much more visible presence of the security, the threat level, of course has been increased to critical and we are seeing the deployment of soldiers, 984 deployed so far, but many more at their disposal. let's cross to norman smith who is in westminster. thank you very much indeed. we have seen thank you very much indeed. we have seen soldiers outside parliament including paratroopers being brought in by buses to replace police officers, who normally guard parliament. we've also seen soldiers at the gates of downing street, part of this process of using the mulltry to —— military to enable police officers to take part in the counter—terrorism operation. i'm joined by the defence secretary, sir

michael fallon. this is a fairly significant development. what actually are these troops going to be doing? well, at the request of the police, we've deployed some 980 troops today to take over some basic guard duties that would otherwise be done by armed police officers to free up those armed police officers to be out there on patrol. so these troops will be doing basic guarding at power stations, at foreign embassies, at some of the sites, the iconic sites in london, but also, helping to free up more armed police so helping to free up more armed police so they can be out on the streets of our other cities including manchester. could we see troops on the streets in the high street? no, the streets in the high street? no, the police have asked us at the moment to take over these basic guarding duties so that more police can be freed to go out on patrol and that involves around 980 and we've not been, we've not been asked to request, we have not been asked for any further assistance beyond that at the moment. 3800 troops are

available if necessary, if those other troops are brought in, what would they be doing? well, we have well rehearsed plans to help augment the police presence. if the police need additional patrolling for example of railway stations or at sporting events then we're ready to help do that, but we're not at that stage yet. we are simply making this initial deployment of 980 troops to ta ke initial deployment of 980 troops to take over some basic guarding duties and that frees up around 1,000 armed police officers to be out there on patrol protecting the public. does the use of the troops suggest though that the scale of this anti—terrorist investigation is such that the police actually are stretched? no, this is at the request of the police and troops will always be under the control, under the direction of the police in carrying out their duties. but at the moment, there is an unknown

element to this threat. we don't yet know whether the terrorist was acting entirely alone, who else might have had access to the explosives that he concocted and until we're sure of that, we have this independent threat assessment that we should adjust to critical and that is why you're now seeing more armed police on patrol this our streets and it is to release those armed police from basic guarding duties that we have made this military deployment today. i can't recall troops on the gates of downing street or indeed guarding parliament. are you at all concerned about the symbolism of that and whether it could be presented as a ricktry for the terrorist, the fact that we've had to bring troops in to put them on parliament? no, i hope the public will understand that this releases more armed police officers to be out on patrol, to keep them safe, rather than having to stand and guard buildings which troops can very easily do as back—up to normal

police duties. this frees up more armed police officers to be out on patrol, protecting the public. i appreciate there is a limit to what you can say about the actual investigation, but we learn of more arrests today. is your sense that this man was part of a wider network which the security forces are now having to identify and roll up? well, we need to establish as quickly as we can whether he was pa rt of quickly as we can whether he was part of a wider network and whether anybody else in that network had access to the explosives that he used on that terrible night. so that is an on going investigation, it is an extremely urgent investigation and it's a very fast moving one. there have been developments today. and are we clear as to whether he did receive training in syria, there have been reports that he went to libya and then went to syria, do we have confirmation that's what happened? i'm not going to comment on where this investigation is going on. it's on going, it is a fast

moving investigation, but it is very important to establish whether he was part of a wider network and whether other attacks on the british mainland are likely. we know the election campaign has been suspended for the time being. when do you think it is likely to resume? well, we have to first of all be clear about the nature of the threat, the independent threat assessment is that a further attack is still very likely. we don't yet know whether or not this particular terrorist acted alone. and we need to be clear about that. and then in the end, it will be for the political parties to decide when it's appropriate to resume campaigning. 0k, sir michael fal on, thank you very much for your time. christian, ishould fal on, thank you very much for your time. christian, i should say the only sign of the election resuming is tomorrow with ukip who are going to be launching their manifesto, but i have to say talking to the all the other parties i get the sense no one is poised to follow their example. so they will be very much going it

alone tomorrow. norman, before i let you go, there are reports on social media, it's breaking news that jeremy are reports on social media, it's breaking news thatjeremy corbyn is telling staff at labour hq that local campaigning will resume tomorrow with the national campaign restarting on friday. what do you make of that? well, it's certainly true when you talk to mr corbyn's aides, they are keen to resume campaigning. it was suggested to me they did want to see the election start again on friday. i think there will be an issue around the tone of which labour resume any sort of campaign. it was also suggested to me that they would have a graduated campaign so it maybe that they allow campaigning in constituencies while holding back at a national level. i mean, i would suggest it probably depends to some degree on what happens with the counter—terrorism operation, what other parties do and although they may have a desire to resume, i would think it's probably not sort of firmly bolted down yet

until they see how everything else is unfolding. yes, absolutely, we will keep an eye on that and we will confirm it when we get something from labour hq. let's speak now to sir malcolm rifkind, former foreign secretary and chair of the intelligence and security select committee. he is in our westminster studio. with your hat on as a former foreign secretary, let's talk about libya because there will be a lot of people concerned that as we start to get to grips with syria and the situation in mosul that libya becomes the next failed state and these attacks start to come from that direction. well, i think the point about libya at the moment, libya, the isis in libya did control significant amount of coastal territory until two or three months ago and then they were thrown out of that. they don't control territory, but they might have some agreement with al-qaeda to share their activities in the various bits of the country that their operatives might live in. there is some suggestion that the person responsible for the killing in manchester might have been in

contact with them in libya, but i don't know if that's true or not. the french president, emmanuel macron, was saying yesterday that he wa nts to macron, was saying yesterday that he wants to see closer collaboration between european countries on tackling this sort of threat. it caught me a bit by surprise because i thought there was a lot of work done since the bataclan incident. do you think there is still work to be done? the united kingdom is transport and crucial to that, not because we are brilliant or particularly excellent, we are good, but the experience we have is because of the ira period. we had a good number of years of having to deal with a terrorist threat and therefore, we're quite well ahead of a number of continental countries, belgium for example which has been suffering isis terrorism, has no history of a terrorist threat and therefore, it needs to learn from others who have had that kind of experience. so quite apart from the brexit issues, the united kingdom and continental european countries

agree we must continue to work closely together to ensure sharing of intelligence and a more combined and co—operative approach to dealing with the terrorist threat. it is an international threat and therefore, there has to be an international response. with regards to the libyan community here in manchester, it is one of the biggest in the country. a lot of them came over here while colonel gaddafi was in power, do you think with hindsight there has been enough attention as to wh has been coming here from libya and their background checks?” coming here from libya and their background checks? i don't know the people concerned, but my asurption would be that the majority of the libyan community in manchester will be as shocked as the rest of the public and worried that someone from their own community appears to have been responsible. many of these libyans were been responsible. many of these libya ns were asylum been responsible. many of these libyans were asylum seekers from gaddafi who was himself responsible for terrorism and one remembers the pan am explosion over lockerbie which the libyan government under gaddafi was responsible for. so the

libyans in britain, if they fled from gaddafi, they are likely to be as hostile to terrorism as the british public are. there will be the odd individual exception, but i doubt if it's a broader problem than that. sir malcolm rifkind, thank you very much for being with us. interesting thoughts from sir malcolm. we have got some breaks news. this is from the bbc, a muslim community worker told the bbc that members of the public called the police anti—terror hot line warning about salman abedi and his extreme and violent views several years ago. sir malcolm was saying that the libyan community was concerned about what happened, but they had actually informed on him and the community worker, who didn't wa nt to and the community worker, who didn't want to be identified, said that two people, who knew salman abedi at couege people, who knew salman abedi at college made separate calls to the police. they were worried that he was supporting terrorism and expressed their concerns that his views were about being a suicide

bomber and that was ok. the friends had argued with him and we heard reports that he was radicalised in 2011. they say that they had tried to tell him that it was wrong, but he had become so radicalised that they had become concerned and informed the police. the community worker also told the bbc that all of the publicity is about muslims not coming forward and this shows that they are coming forward and they are expressing their concerns. it shows that the pre vent policy which has been criticised in some quarters is a failure because it didn't work making lots of muslims feel scared didn't work, it didn't stop this person being radicalised. the calls are thought to have been made around five years ago, according to this which seems it fit with the reports that he was radicalised in 2011, shrtly after he left school here in manchester, lots of reports in the morning press this morning that he was easily influenced and he was slightly gullible and he smoked

marijuana and this seems to tally with that. he mixed with gangs in south manchester and greater manchester police said they were presented with this by bbc news that they wouldn't comment on the claims although we do know from greater manchester police and also from the home secretary amber rudd that he was known to they will in some shape orform. the bbc says was known to they will in some shape or form. the bbc says they understand that abedi was in manchester earlier this year when he told people of the value of dying for a cause and made hard—line state m e nts for a cause and made hard—line statements about suicide operations and the conflict in libya. some extraordinary detail there. so, and the conflict in libya. some extraordinary detailthere. so, he was certainly known to people in his community. they had advised police about him and of course, the implication of that is on this occasion those warnings were either overlooked or missed, but we've said before, there are so many people to keep an eye on in some of these communities that it is always difficult and inevitably every now and again one does slip through the net. we will get more on that from

tom symonds our home affairs correspondent who has been looking into that detail as and when he can join us. so let mejust join us. so let me just remind you if you are joining us this evening that we are keeping an eye on the victims. there are 20 people still in a crit ale condition in the hospitals in manchester. 22 people confirmed to have died. that is the death count at the moment. 12 of them have been identified, but greater manchester police telling us today that they have informed all 22 families, next of kin, they believe they know the identity of all the people that were killed on monday evening. let gentlemenjust go killed on monday evening. let gentlemen just go through the developments. four people are still in custody in connection with the attack. there is a report from frank gardner, our security correspondent, that the bomber is thought to have

been a mule. so he was not the bomb maker, according to this report, he was provided with the device by someone was provided with the device by someone else which will be of concern to the authorities because it suggests that a bomb maker is still at large and maybe that bomb maker's identity is not known. the chief constable said the families of all 22 had been contacted. he also confirmed today that a serving female police officer, who was off duty and was at the manchester arena was one of the 22 that was killed. we also understand that her husband was severely injured as were the two children who they were with at the concert. the terror threat level as you were just hearing from michael fallonks the defence secretary has been raised to critical and almost 1,000 troops now have been deployed to protect key sites around the country. there are plenty more troops available should senior police officers require them in the coming days as and when the threat

level is sustained. well, let's get more on today's development from richard galpin. of those killed in the attack on monday night, more have been named including olivia campbell who was 15 years old. her family had been desperately searching for her, hoping she was still alive. amongst the other victims was kelly brewster from sheffield whose partner said he and their daughter, like everyone, were absolutely devastated. and martyn hett, a pr manager, whose friends described him as wonderful, iconic and beautiful. much more is also now known of the person who detonated the powerful bomb filled with metal nuts and bolts at the manchester arena, killing and maiming so many people. he was 22—year—old salman abedi, born and brought up in manchester, of libyan parents. he was known to the security services. a former classmate has described him

as gullible and short tempered and that he had become increasingly religious at school. there are now reports he travelled to countries where islamist extremists are based. the french interior minister said he had been told by investigators here in britain that abedi had gone to libya and then probably to syria. he was radicalised and decided to commit this attack, he said. yesterday heavily armed police carried out raids in south manchester, arresting his brother. and there have been more raids today with another three men arrested in the city. with the authorities increasingly concerned, abedi was part of a network of extremists,

the terrorist threat level has been raised to critical, the highest possible. it means armed police can now be backed up by thousands of troops across the country. some are already in place guarding downing street. this was a horrific, violent event. it was more sophisticated than some of the horrific events that we've seen in the past or in other parts of europe so people are reasonably wondering whether he did this on his own? buckingham palace is one of the key locations where troops will be positioned instead of police. and today, the usual ceremony around the changing of the guard was cancelled. and there has been particularly high security at st paul's cathedral in london for a visit by the queen and duke of edinburgh. we've got so many big events across the country. we will be working with the organisers to review the security, review their stewarding arrangements and review our policing arrangements and make sure that decisions are taken that events only go ahead

when it's sensible and safe to do so. in manchester, while people continue to grieve, there is also determination to remain united as a community. we were numb yesterday with shock. today i guess we're waking up to the enormity. people did take enormous comfort from what happened yesterday. it was our darkest hour, but also you saw the best of greater manchester yesterday. i was in the hospitals late last night and i was hearing stories that porters, cleaners, surgeons, nurses came in from not being on shift to help out. the public were bringing in food. people really did pull together and we should take a great deal of pride in that, that at our most testing moment that greater manchester came together. that sense of community spirit is vital, but it will still take time for the city to recover from the trauma of what happened here on monday night. this is the most difficult and most

complex investigation that greater manchester police will have faced and it is fast moving. there have been a number of raids around the city. most in the south of the city. one interesting development today was a raid on an apartment in the heart of the business district. the police search continues. we have been hearing from the chief co nsta ble been hearing from the chief constable ian hopkins about that raid and about the wider investigation. so let's have a listen to what he had to say. i would like to confirm that we are now confident that we have spoken to the immediate family of all those who sadly died in monday's attack and they are being supported price

specially trained family liaison officers. i'm also aware of speculation on social media and the wider media around the occupation of one of the victims. very sadly i can confirm that one of the victims is a serving police officer. in respecting their families's wishes i will make no further comment at this stage. due to the number of victims, the home office postmortems are likely to take for up to five days. after this we will be in a position to formally named the victims in line with guidance from the coroner. i would also like to confirm that we have spoken to all of the families of those that lay injured in our hospitals and we are doing all we can to support all of them, too. you will be aware that the level of activity in this investigation is intense and is continuing at a fast pace. we have made three further arrests in connection with the tax

overnight and this afternoon we entered an address in manchester city centre using a controlled explosion. officers are currently at the scene searching that address but in order to execute that entry we did have to close a mainline railway line for a short period, but this now has reopened as we continue to searches. so that brings the total number of people in custody currently two four. people across greater manchester will have seen a significant increase in the number of armed officers on mobile patrols and static points across the city. we have been supported by forces from across the north west and beyond and this forms part of our well tried and tested plans for any major terrorist attack. with the announcement from the prime minister last night of the increase in the threat level to critical, you will be aware that the military are

supporting policing across the country under the codename operation temperer. this is about the military being used to guard iconic sites and other sites outside of london and across parts of the north. this frees up armed police officers to then give the police service capacity to deploy them to places like manchester as part of our plans for keeping the country safe. what they would confirm is that there are no military personnel patrolling the streets of greater manchester, nor are there any plans for that to happen at this time. the armed police that is now available throughout the rest of the country is being used to supplement mind armed officers here in manchester and in particular it is enabling us to work to make sure that the planned manchester games and ten k run go ahead this weekend. we obviously had significant plans in place with event organisers at

manchester city council around as annual events. we are now obviously reviewing those plans with organisers and the city council in light of this week's attack to make sure that we can't allow them to go ahead ina sure that we can't allow them to go ahead in a safe and in cash and environment as possible. i have a few lines of breaking news it want to bring you. a 14th vic them has been named. she is michelle kiss, she was a mother of three. this is coming from the greater manchester police press office. she died on monday night. herfamily was her life and we are all obviously devastated by her loss. she has been taken away from us and all of that love in the most dramatic way possible. that is the note from the

family of michelle kiss who has been named as the 14th victim out of 22. greater manchester police have informed all of the families, the next of kin of all of those who were killed. another line of breaking news, buckingham palace has confirmed that there will be another minute's silence tomorrow. there was a minute's silence that the queen prince phillip observed yesterday, but there will be another tomorrow. after that, the conservative central office is sent that local campaigning in the election, that will resume and a national campaign will resume and a national campaign will start again on friday. that tallies with whatjeremy corbyn was saying earlier. he said there would be local campaigning among labour mps and candidates and they will resume the campaign on friday. so things will get back to normal

towards the end of the week. i brought you some news earlier that police were warned about salman abedi some time ago, five years ago, warned by a community worker who had concerns about his behaviour, that he had been radicalised and that he was talking about ending his life in the way that he did. those warnings appear to have been missed. let's bring in someone from the muslim association of britain. thank you for being with us. how would you react to that information that perhaps the warning from the muslim community have been there and weren't picked up? first of all other collectors say art condolences go out to the families affected. it was a horrific attack, made worse by the fact that many of the victims we re

the fact that many of the victims were children and teenagers. the key thing here is to focus on the victims and the whole community spirit that brought the mancunians together, both muslims and non—muslims. they showed immense support for each other in their time of need and they continue to do so. i appreciate that and endorsed what you're saying but there are some important points on this from this muslim community worker, the point being that the prevent policy says this person, is a failure because it didn't work. it didn't do the job. can you comment on that, what the prevent programmers doing in this and communities? i think it is everyone's duty to try their best to prevent terrorism, to root it out. it is as much the muslim community to do so as it is the government and

various other communities within the uk. the prevent strategy itself has been criticised by a number of people, by some mps, by youth workers, by some teachers. baroness wore seat criticised it. there has to bea wore seat criticised it. there has to be a rethink of the way this strategy is implemented. right now, the majority of the people implementing this strategy, most of them are undertrained. they seemed to confuse normal religious practice with extremism, which further leads the young muslim youth like myself feeling alienate it from society and may be leading them down to a path that we don't want them to go down. with that in mind, can't you suggest ways in which the programme might work better? in terms of policy, i

believe that to the security experts, the sociologists to come up with a well working strategy. speaking on behalf of the muslim association of britain, we are reaching out to youth on a grassroots level, trying to encourage them to integrate, to assimilate that their society. we are trying to drum into them that there are british muslim identity. muslim youth in the uk face an identity crisis. within the uk they are seen as identity crisis. within the uk they are seen as outsiders, muslims, people out to get us, and when to go back on they are seen as british. we are working at the grassroots level with young muslims to try to push through that you are very much part of the society, you are here to stay. work for the betterment of the society and keep going the way you are. mustapha, thank you very much

for being with us. without a statement today from didsbury mosque, this is the mosque that salman abedi went to, as did his father. there are reports that he called a prayer at the mosque. they have condemned in the strongest terms what happened here and they have called on people who know any thing to come forward and to inform the police. the best intelligence will of course come from the libyan community, one of the biggest libyan communities here in manchester. a fast—moving investigation. the face of salman abedi. identified as a manchester city fire bomber. he's now thought to have had helped quite possibly from an expert bomb maker. this amateur footage taken yesterday is believed to show his brother being arrested in manchester. at the family home nearby, police used explosives to gain access and then search for clues.

but there are international connections to this plot. from manchester, abedi is believed to have gone to libya, a failed state. and today, the french interior minister said war—torn syria was also a country he'd probably spent time in. increasingly, investigators have been coming round to the conclusion that the bomber, salman abedi, was not working alone. that he was simply the mule, carrying a device designed and built for him by somebody else. the bomb—maker would still be at large which is why the uk terror threat level has been raised to critical. mis, the security service, is working with police and other intelligence agencies to try to trace every possible connection he had in this country and abroad. this is what we know about salman abedi. he was born in manchester in 1994 of libyan parents from tripoli. he dropped out of salford university and was already known to security services.

in fact, the individual i spoke to yesterday who was a very close friend of the family, described him as a nieve individual. it would indicate he could not have put the explosive belt on. he must have had support helping him do that. meanwhile, the search for clues continues. forensic, digital and testimonies from witnesses and suspects. this, say the police, is a fast moving, wide—ranging investigation. far more important of course to focus on the victims than on salman abedi so let's do that for a second. 14 abedi so let's do that for a second. 1a people so far name. ijust told you about michelle kiss, he has been

named by the police. the latest victim before michelle was surrounded the kosky from leeds. another 1a euros, nelljones was identified earlier today. 32—year—old kelly brewster from sheffield, and 15—year—old olivia campbell, who beat focused a lot on our programmes yesterday. you might have seen the pictures of her mother desperately appealing for information. sadly, she is one of the victims. eight—year—old saffie roussos, described by her headteacher to date as simply a beautiful little girl in every aspect of the word. as we get more details about the people who were killed, what is quite obvious is that some of them are young victims, but also some were parents who were waiting to collect their children. goodness knows what their children

must have gone through on the night. little saffie roussos had gone with her mother to dance to her pop idol. she became the youngest known victim of the arena attack. the eight—year—old's death has hit her community hard. parents holding their children close and mound of flowers and tributes at her family's fish and chip shop, continuing to grow. saffie was a pupil at a village primary school in lancashire. her loss has affected parents, pupils and staff who held a minute's silence for her this morning. saffie was simply a beautiful little girl in every aspect of the word. she was loved by everyone and her warmth and kindness will be remembered fondly. saffie was quiet and unassuming with a creative flair. saffie comes from a close, loving family and we can only imagine what they are going through. the names of those killed keep emerging. the identities of half of the 22 concertgoers who died are now known publicly. amongst them teenagers who had gone to the gig and at least four parents who had gone to collect their

children at the end of the show. greater manchester police say they're now confident they have been able to identify all of those killed, but their families have been contacted and they are being supported by specially trained officers. yesterday, the mother of teenager olivia campbell was searching for her daughter. today came confirmation that the 15—year—old is amongst those who died. her mum paying tribute to her on facebook. 59 people were injured in the attack. hospitals across manchester are continuing to treat many of them. they are traumatic injuries you would expect in terms of the type of device used, the proximity to the people who were injured. we are dealing with loss of limbs potentially, we are dealing with embedded objects, all the horrific injuries that you would expect from the event that happened. 20 years ago, this church

was damaged in the ira bomb attack. today it's just one spot in the city which provides a focal point for grief and a place where strength and solidarity are on show too. plenty of that in evidence here in manchester. there are tribute springing up all around the city, not in one particular place, just outside poignant positions. people laying there tributes wherever they see fit. a few minutes ago i told you that the muslim community worker told bbc news that members of the public called the anti—terrorism hotline warning about salman abedi some years ago. let's get more on that. tom symonds has been investigating for us. we have had a

tea m investigating for us. we have had a team of journalists looking investigating for us. we have had a team ofjournalists looking at salman abedi's background, both in manchester, london and in libya. in manchester, london and in libya. in manchester, a community worker told us that about five years ago when salman abedi was leaving school and going to college he was running into some bad company, hanging out with manchester gangs. two people separately called up police hotline warning that he was talking about being a suicide bomber, being something that was ok, and saying that he was a supporter of terrorism. the person we have spoken to has not given us any idea of the outcome of that call. it is possible that salman abedi was referred to the prevent strand of the government's work to fight terrorism. greater manchester police have refused to discuss this. having

said that, the home secretary said this morning that salman abedi was somebody that was known to the security services, but the question is what did they know about him and what did they do? what she said was that they knew about him to a point. this suggest that they knew more about him than the home secretary told us this morning. that surely will be a huge frustration the families involved here on monday night. let's notjump to conclusions because the security services know a lot about a lot of people. their big job is what you might call triage. they need to go through all the information they have and decide what stuff they can ignore, what stuff they can do something about them what's that they need to take seriously. at that stage, five years ago, it was possible that he didn't pose a threat, and not regarded as posing a threat, that his was idle talk. but he ended up doing of course makes it much more difficult to make a case that something should

have been done about him over the last five years. we have managed to gather other lines of intelligence. we had a suggestion that he was acting as a mule carrying this device on behalf of somebody else. the somebody else being the important question, who years that? we have some suggestions that he was certainly radicalised or stop we have looked at his background. his father he is talking this evening in libya, is saying that he wasn't somebody with extremist views, but his father was somebody connected with an organisation that bot colonel gaddafi in libya during the 19905 and had tendencies towards wanting to have an islamic state and sharia law reintroduced to that country. it doesn't mean that he supported terrorism in any way, but it shows that he came from a family with this sort of discussion, this sort of politics has at least been discussed. he say quite rightly we

shouldn't jump to conclusions because we don't know what the police hadn't, but we said before that the french terrorist attacks that the french terrorist attacks that they need to make a decision. they can't possibly monitor everyone all the time. they have to be selective and inevitably at times one will slip through. absolutely. this a1 slips through does ignore the fact that about a dozen terrorist plots have been foiled over the last two years. this one clearly has slipped through. we don't know what they knew. again, it is to do with the level of him information they have on somebody, the seriousness of the planning taking place and the ability of that person to get hold of the kind of things they would need to carry out a plot like this. making a bomb is not easy. a can obviously go wrong. in the terrorist attack around 2005

in london there was a lot of work to trace back where those devices have come from, there was a house in leeds that was surrounded, a barrier built around it to deal with the knox —ish —— knox smells coming out of it. they are trying to find anyone who might have supplied salman abedi with the device or anybody who might have radicalised them. no one should underestimate them. no one should underestimate the terrific job that the terrificjob that the intelligence services do. thank you. we have had two men dressed in detail today from the doctors who helped on monday night. let's hear from the intensive care paediatrician at royal manchester children's hospital. he came out with doctor steve jones. the volumes of patients coming

through was relatively small, which is different to normal practice, but the severity of their injuries, by virtue that we are the trauma centre in the city, the patients were very much more sick than we usually get in terms of the volume. in that sense, it potentially have the ability to overwhelm what we were doing, but the setup both from the emergency service site three into intensive care for the patients they needed that and the ward side of staff was amazing. by seven o'clock in the morning on the first night the emergency department here on the aduu the emergency department here on the adult site was back to normal. if you had walked into the resuscitation sweet it was clean as a whistle and you wouldn't have known that anything else gone on. it was incredible. the children's work was incredible. the children's work was a little bit slower through the emergency department but not much further behind and their volumes we re further behind and their volumes were higher than ours. all in all, it was a very different day. a very

different day. remarkable in many senses. one of a time, guys. inaudible question. we can discuss the injuries orfrom a side of it at all, really. inaudible question. i think it affects people in very different ways. working with collea g u es different ways. working with colleagues particularly today when people have had a bit of time to reflect, there is a broad spectrum. some people actually are struggling a little bit with what they have seen a little bit with what they have seen and gone through, a lot of people are very thoughtful. i go back to one of my first statements, there is an immense feeling of pride and comradeship having pulled through what has been a difficult

time on every angle, just in terms of what you're saying, how busy it has been, but people have pulled out the stops left, right and centre. they have been very organised about that. the planning and everything around the emergency procedures has paid off in that we haven't been overwhelmed with everybody wanting to be there at the right time. there has been a very structured handover between shifts and people passing on the sort of duties to we can keep the sort of duties to we can keep the work going. this morning and yesterday morning they have been able to continue to look after patients not involved with this event he also needed urgent emergency care, so event he also needed urgent emergency care, so nothing has been delayed from elsewhere throughout. inaudible question. the feedback we have had generally has been extraordinarily supportive and we felt the community around us. there has been so much well wishing on social media that we have seen. we have had fantastic support in terms

of people very kindly is sending in the most amazing amount of sandwiches, pizzas, whatever. i think the staff will almost roll—out of the departments, potentially! also, the professional organisation, our suppliers have bent over backwards to make sure we haven't run out of anything essential to us so we run out of anything essential to us so we could continue to give the ca re so we could continue to give the care that we needed to to the children and adults we looked after. so, although the doctors plan for this, how incredibly professionally they completed but they had to do on monday evening, so much so that they we re monday evening, so much so that they were back to normal in the intensive ca re were back to normal in the intensive care unit by seven o'clock the next morning. also, how traumatic it must‘ve been for the doctors because they said they were taking people into surgery and applying treatments to people whose name they didn't even know. they were painfully aware that the children had been from families. it is the staff of the hospitals who will need some care as

much as the relatives. let me bring you a line of breaking news coming out of tripoli in libya. the younger brother of salman abedi arrested in tripoli by counterterrorism forces on suspicion of association with so—called islamic state. bbc world service is also reporting that line at the moment. they are saying that the special deterrent force in tripoli was the force that picked him up. so, two brothers are now in custody. that this his brother here in manchester, and also his brother who is in tripoli with the family. my who is in tripoli with the family. my daughter has been asking lots of questions about what went on here at the manchester arena. it must be very difficult for the families of people who were here on monday night. it was a sell—out, 21,000

people in the concert hall. very difficult to come to terms with what happened close to where they were. how do we inform children about what happened? how do we explain the enormity of what has happened here. we have been to a school in manchester. good morning, everyone. has everyone heard the news? yeah. it is the start of the school day. and for these primary—school children in south manchester, there is a change to normal lessons. these 11—year—old pupils have been given the chance to talk about what happened at the manchester arena. all over the uk, teachers are trying to explain to their students what happened on monday night. many schools in manchester have been offered extra counselling to help children over the next few days.

i would say to the parents, just be there. i was quite scared because, like, it would happen even more closer to us. i always speak to an adult about any worries i have, mainly my mother. but maybe if she is not available and it is late at night, i have a teddy bear that sits at the end of my bed. it makes me feel a lot better. i talk to my dad and he said it would be all right and police officers would investigate and everyone is helpful. how do you feel about what you have heard this morning? for teachers, sharing

this news is never easy, but they said they are reassuring the children as much as they can. all of these children involved, it makes it even more difficult for children to understand, and it makes it even more important for us to talk about it to reassure them and help them feel safe, because, you know, lots of them go to the manchester arena and see concerts. it is somewhere they would know. it becomes really real for them. last night, simple minds played at the bridgewater hall. we had a chat about it and he decided he wanted to come along. for many children the attack will be the talking point in the playground but it is at times

like this that children show was all over silly and they can be. that's it from me at the moment. let's get the weather. today has been the warmest it has been all year, 26 degrees in the sunshine. we have had some cloud, in western parts of northern ireland and west of scotland. most of that cloud will be pushed further north overnight. despite clearing skies, it will be a warm night. quite humid, as well. temperatures will rise quickly tomorrow in the sunshine. a lot of the fog will tend to disappear through the day. although we see a bit of fair weather cloud, for the most part it is blue skies. light winds from many

of us as well, the temperature is widely getting into the mid—205 or so widely getting into the mid—205 or so and set to climb even higher, peaking in scotland on friday before we get some thundery rain on saturday and across northern ireland, the 30 degrees as possible in the south—east of england. countless tributes have been presented by the people of manchester, to all of those affected by the worst terror attack in britain for 12 years. an off—duty policewoman was among the 22 who were killed. police say they now know the identities of all the victims. police say the suspect, 22—year—old salman abedi, was part of a wider network, who may have been planning further attacks. but his libyan father says his son was innocent. hundreds of troops have been

deployed in prominent sites around the uk, as the police continue their wide—ranging investigation. it's very clear that this is a network that we are investigating, and as i said it continues at a pace, there's extensive investigations going on and activity taking place across greater manchester.