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this is bbc news. the headlines at 16:00. a 25—year—old man is arrested as armed police stage a further raid as part of inquiries into the manchester arena bomb attack. this is the scene live in moss side where police say a man was detained for offences contrary to the terrorism act. the conservatives and labour promise more action to minimise the threat of terror attacks in the wake of the manchester bombing. the 22 victims have been remembered at church services held across the city this morning. british airways is still having to cancel and delay flights at heathrow, to the fury of passengers, who are not now being admitted to terminal five until 90 minutes before departure. alex cruz who is the ceo of british airways, i understand he not doing any media interviews, but i think he should come out of its box and apologised to his customers and
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resign, i think. also in the next hour, at least 150 people have been killed in sri lanka's worst flooding in years. all the homes, shops, worship places, schools, everything is under flood. many people died in this flood. many people died in this flood. thousands of people have been cut off from basic services. sebastian vettel wins the monaco grand prix for ferrari, extending his formula one championship lead over lewis hamilton to 25 points. and nick robinson sits down for dinner with a group of voters. that's in nick's election takeaways, in half an hour, here on bbc news. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. in the last hour, police investigating the manchester terror
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attack have arrested another man on suspicion of terror offences. the man, who's 25 years old, was detained in old trafford, and officers are searching a property in the moss side area. there's also a report of a controlled explosion. at least a dozen people are now in custody after the atrocity at the manchester arena, which left 22 dead. we are seeing police officers at the scene of the raid which has been taking place this lunchtime. the arrest of a 25—year—old man in connection with terrorism offences, contrary to the terrorism act. these pictures are being seen as we have it at the moment. in all, 14 people have been arrested, 12 are still in detention, two people were released by police jeering because of the week. we are expecting to hear in
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just a few minutes time about the developments at moss side. what we know is that a number of police vehicles are actually attending the area, attending the scene, and there we re area, attending the scene, and there were reports of an explosion. we will have more on that as soon as we get it. let's now look at the report in the course of today. our correspondent dan johnson is in moss side in manchester. in the centre of manchester, people are making a point of being seen to come together. some might call this defiance, but staging the great manchester run less than a week after the bomb attack that left so many families grieving, is about something more simple. it's an attempt to return to normality. however, for the moment, this is the new normal. armed officers and extra security a very visible presence on the streets, to try to offer reassurance. but inevitably, they are a reminder
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of the attack on the city. i was a bit nervous. i am here with my husband, if anything else could have happened, i've got children at home. i did think twice, i'm not going to lie, but i'm here. originally it was to run for us, but not now, it's to run for manchester. the yellow, the ribbon is for that. we've just got to do it. we just can't let them win. and on shirt, after shirt, people are showing support for the families of the 22 people who were killed at the manchester arena. bells toll along the race route they stood silent to show their respect. and inside manchester cathedral, they joined that spirit of remembrance. the names of each of the 22 people
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who died were read out during today's services. we as a city need to hold together and stand together and live out all those values of compassion, of caring, of togetherness. manchester is on the way back to not living in fear. the terror threat has been reduced, but it remains severe and this is a city still in need of reassurance and support. the mayor of greater manchester, andy burnham was among the runners taking part in the race. he explained why organisers were so determined that it should take place. we did think very carefully about it. always, we wanted to do it. we wanted to send the message out that you are not going to beat us. you are not going to change us.
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you will not stop as doing what we want to do and live the life we want to live. that is what we were trying to do all week. that is the message we have got all week. let's return to those pictures from moss side. from the ongoing police operation there, adelaide this is led to the —— a rate that has led to the arrest of a further person. we are awaiting reports of a controlled explosion. 14 people have been arrested, 12 remaining custody, two released without charge. british airways is continuing to suffer delays caused by yesterday's power breakdown which had a catastrophic affect on its it services. heathrow continues to be the worst hit. some shops at the airport have run out of food and many people reportedly slept on the floor overnight. there are long queues at terminal five, where passengers are complaining about a lack of information. the airline says it is "pulling out all the stops" to deal
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with the situation. it is decided that they will not let people into terminal five until 90 minutes before the flight. joe lynam reports. for some ba customers, it's been a long, uncomfortable night. bleary passengers, still hoping to catch their plane. refreshment was being handed out by the airline in a heavily congested terminal five, but some customers were not in the holiday mood. it's just a lot of moving around, standing in lines and lack of information. i think it's just too big that they don't know what to do about it and it just seems like there's not enough people. we've been in the line for about five hours now. we've no idea how much longer we'll be here and we're getting no communication from the staff. as thousands of people wait in packed terminals, many will not get to fly today at all. dozens of flights have already been cancelled and many more will not
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depart as the airline struggles to reset its global network after a major power failure. for aviation insiders though, this would be a lot more than just an operational headache for ba. the passengers don't fly, the airline loses revenue from those passengers and maybe even has to refund and book another airline. but at the same time, they are incurring additional costs because there's compensation in some cases, that may need to be paid, not least from a regulatory point of view. a lot of hidden costs, repatriating peoples' bags for example. some customers have been told their flight is cancelled online, then to get the exact opposite message when they call the airline to confirm. this issue for ba looks as if it's set to persist for far more than just a few hours. well, ba haven't yet been willing to do any broadcast interviews. but in a statement in the past hour, the company's chief executive alex cruz told passengers: live to heathrow — and the latest
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from our correspondent andy moore. you're outside, the rain is coming down and there are quite a lot of passengers in the same situation as you? they might not be lucky enough to have brought a splendid bbc news umbrella with them to shelter from the rain. what is the airport saying about this decision to keep passengers waiting outside terminal five? the airport is not commenting on that. what we heard in that video
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statement from the chief executive is that it is a question of crowd management. they are trying to reduce congestion in terminal five and it seems they have managed to do it. the queues inside the terminal have been reduced quite a lot over the last few hours this partially because there is management of people going into the terminal by police and by security and they are only allowing people in who are police and by security and they are only allownzié got in who are ! riff: ‘ii 1—— them in $sé°w~~~m~~~”ww”w them in “a"; minutes wwmwmmmw them in “a"; minutes before ww--.” allowing them in 90 minutes before that flight. you are normally told to turn up to hours before or three hours before a long haulflight. there are no reports of the moment of huge queues outside terminal five. there were some problems earlier on, but it seems as though the queueing problem, the congestion, has diminished a little. saying that, there are a lot of planes cancelled. we heard from the chief executive that they were
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hoping to get away most of the long haulflights, but hoping to get away most of the long haul flights, but that would be at the price of short—haul cancellations. until lunchtime, probably about a quarter of ba's flights are going out of heathrow and were cancelled. heathrow, cancelled, gatwick seem to have got back to normal virtually. thank you. the home secretary, amber rudd, says the conservatives will set up a commission to tackle terrorism and hate crime, and promote british values, if they win the general election. security experts. new cctv pictures of the manchester bomber, salman abedi, have been released. here's our political correspondent matt cole. salman abedi, the man who massacred children in manchester, pictured on the night of the attack. but where had he been, who knew his plans and what happened when his friends, his mosque, alerted the security services
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about his extremism? questions for the home secretary. was salman abedi on a surveillance list? i don't know those details because the intelligence services are still collecting information about him and about the people around him. i wouldn't rush to conclusions, but you seem to be, that they missed something. people had phoned the terror hotline. as they should do. we will look to see what else we can do, the prime minister announced in our manifesto before this, there would be a commission for extremism. that commission will include promoting british values to produce a counter narrative to terrorist‘s views. there will be a specific focus in attitudes affecting women, such as female genital mutilation. but there are unanswered questions, how is the commission to identify extremism? how will it be funded and how will they fit in with existing counterterror work such as the prevent strategy?
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labour's security pledges 10,000 new police officers to replace half of the 20,000 lost on the recent government cuts and today, they have promised 1,000 extra security officers. but they admit it is only committing to the numbers promised under david cameron's government. we are saying that we want to recruit 10,000 extra police officers, community police officers because we think community policing is key. we want to recruit 3000 extra firefighters, 3000 extra prison officers, 1000, as is say, people in the security field. but setting out her plans to keep britain said, but setting out her plans to keep britain safe, diane abbott said she regrets sounding previously supportive of the ira once claiming the freedom of the british state is freedom for all of us. it was 3a years ago, i had a splendid afro at the time. i don't have the same hairstyle
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and i don't have the same views. protecting the public is considered the first duty of the government. there is just ten days left to see if this remains a key strad of the election campain. breaking news of that police raid in moss side in greater manchester. dan johnson that police raid in moss side in greater manchester. danjohnson is there now. what we know about what happened? it looks as though after a fairly quiet morning in respect of police activity in manchester, there was suddenly a frenzy of police raids at about two o'clock this afternoon. a property further down this street was raided by a heavily armed team of officers. one man was seen being put in a police van, although officers haven't confirmed an arrest. a few streets away, there
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is another property that police have sealed off. another property that is being searched. that is where we understand a 25 your man has been arrested. that is under the terrorism act. in total since monday's attack, greater manchester police has arrested 1a people, 12 of those remaining custody, 12 men being questioned by police in relation to monday's attack on relation to monday's attack on relation to monday's attack on relation to them having some releva nce to relation to them having some relevance to salman abedi and the one that was decimated in that arena. these rays of that happening right across manchester and beyond. police activity popping up in different suburbs and areas in manchester. some people have seen these officers and mistaking them for sas soldiers or militarily because they are so heavily armed.
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they have had police dogs here is pa rt they have had police dogs here is part of this search and some residents here and in other sites have told us that they have heard an explosion. that is we think a method of entry that the police are using to know the doors open on these houses to get as much evidence as quickly as possible as they can. they believe that they have some link to salman abedi and the people who are behind this attack. the mood of uncertainty has ebbed and flowed during the cause of the week. every time there is a raid, people become heightened in their concerns as to what prompted it. the overall terror threat level has been reduced. to use get any sense that the police feel that the direct operational side is coming to an end and they are now moving to investigation phase of this? we did get a sense of that yesterday. the police seem to have been growing in confidence as the week has gone on. they have made
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more arrests and conducted more searches. they have given the signal that they thought they had got to grips with the main body of the terror network, if that is what it is. that is partly why we saw the reduction of the overall threat level. these rates have carry on and there have been more arrests. it is something that does unnerve people in the streets that have seen this kind of operation. i was with people when the terror level was downgraded. people said they don't feel any safer because we have just had this arrive on our doorsteps and we feel worried by it. the police did not rule out the possibility of more arrests and there is a huge amount of work for them to do. thousands of hours of cctv for them to trawl through, they have seized hundreds of exhibits from the homes that they have searched and they have got these 12 men in custody that they will be talking to and
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trying to see what information they can give them. that might provide further leads that the police have two follow—up. either in greater manchester or further afield. this is an investigation that carries on growing. there are more than 1000 investigators working on it around the clock. dan johnson in moss side. thank you for that update. much of the planned election campaigning was stopped. the plaid cymru leader leanne wood was asked on the andrew marr show, whether her party would back stronger surveillance measures to combat extremism. we are against mass surveillance, we are in favour of more targeted surveillance. if people are under suspicion then the police need to keep a close eye on them. we support resources for that. the idea of watching everyone and being able to access everyone's e—mail and communications, that is where we
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have a problem and that is where our mps have voted. consistently come against the snoopers charter for example. the co—leader of the green party criticised the government's prevent programme, its strategy for combating extremism, saying it was alienating the muslim community. many in the muslim community believe there has been an attack on their group in particular. we want there to be a mechanism by which people can come to the state with concerns. when it is perceived by the muslim community itself as being a toxic, big brother brand, then we need to look at it again. that is what the mayor of manchester is saying, we need to make sure it is seen as something that is broad, inclusive and absolutely bottom—up, not top down through big brother. ukip leader paul nuttall defended his party's pledge to ban face—covering veils, saying it was essential for effective surveillance. what we are talking about is banning face covering. whether that is the niqab
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or the burka, or people turning up at an edl protest or an edl march, you have got to be prepared to show your face. whether you like it or not, we are the most watched people in the world. there is more cctv per head than anywhere else on the planet. for cctv to be effective, you need to be able to see people's faces. the snp leader nicola sturgeon said she thought it was right to have an open debate about the implications of foreign policy on extremism in the uk. it is not an excuse, not a justification. i remember when the former head of m15 herself said that the war in iraq had led to radicalisation in the uk and had raised different issues about different threats and other issues with keeping the country safe. terrorists are trying to undermine our democracy, we have got to protect our ability in a healthy democracy to have these debates.
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and first minister nicola sturgeon will be the latest leader in the hot seat talking to andrew neil. you can see that at six o'clock this evening on bbc one — and it'll be repeated here on bbc news at 12.30 more than 150 people are now known to have died in sri lanka in flooding and landslides caused by heavy monsoon rains. officials say aid is now reaching remote areas in the worst affected areas in the south and west of the island. 95 people are in hospital and more than a hundred are still missing. at least 2,000 houses have been destroyed, and almost 500,000 people have been forced from their homes and are sheltering in government buildings or with friends and relatives. some families are sitting on rooftops waiting for supplies. indian naval ships are helping with the relief effort. our reporter azzam ameen sent this update. we're now in a village in the western district and the villages inundated with floods since friday. all the homes, shops,
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worship places, schools, everything is under flood. the roads are completely underwater and residents rely on boat services for food and other essential supplies. we see families and children seated on the terrace waiting for supply. more than 50 people died in this whole district, one of the worst affected areas. thousands here have been displaced and are cut off from basic services. in addition to severe flooding, this village witnessed an unexpected mudslide which killed at least seven people. we spoke to a man who lost four of his grandchildren in the mudslide. translation: it was raining here and started to flood. i brought my four children to my sister's house, thinking it would be safe. i went back to take our belongings. suddenly, i heard a big noise. when i came and saw, children were under the rubble. water levels are gradually receding, but with more rain predicted in the next couple of days.
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residents are scared that there will be more flooding. that aranda from the bbc sport centre. —— lets get a round—up. sebastian vettel has extended his lead over lewis hamilton by 25 point. jenson button's one—off return to formula 1 ended in a collision. ferrari have lewis hamilton and mercedes on the run. qualifying 13th made winning on monica's twisty streets almost impossible for hamilton. ferrari's number one driver, it was no surprise that fettle ended up in the lead. hamilton chose to stay out
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longer, moving up the order as others changed their tyres. hamilton at one point was the fastest man on the track, but could only finish seventh. jenson button covering for fernando alonso. his one on return to action ended prematurely. jenson button might not race again. ferrari red every lap with them delivering their first red every lap with them delivering theirfirst win in red every lap with them delivering their first win in the principality since 2001. hamilton has plenty of catching up to do. there's been a surprise result on the first day of the french open — with the world number one and top seed angelique kerber going out in the first round to ekatarina makarova. kerber, who hasn't been on great form coming in to the grand slam, struggled throughout — losing the first set 6—2. and it didn't get any better for the german in the second set.
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she lost by the same scoreline. a straight sets defeat making kerber the first women's top seed to be knocked out in the first round of the french open since the women's game became professional in 1968. petra kvitova has won herfirst match on her return to tennis, five months after she was stabbed in an attack at her home. the czech player suffered a career—threatening hand injury, but made her comeback in the first round of the french open this morning. kvitova's opponent was the world number 85julia bose—rup. kvitova broke the american's serve early on, and showed little sign of letting up, taking the first set 6—3. a short rain delay didn't interrupt her rhythm, as she went on to take the second set 6—2, cheered on by her parents and brothers and an encouraging crowd on her return. in the men's draw the british number four, dan evans made an impressive start to his first round match. evans is facing clay court specialist, tommy robredo and broke early in the first set to go 2—0 up, but he has been broken back since then and evans is struggling in the humid weather.
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it is going with serving the second set, four games all. hamilton have the lead. one nil. there were going to the scottish premier that result states. in wembley, is the league 2 play—off final between blackpool and exeter city. no site has played in more play—off final in blackpool and they took the lead inside three minutes. exeter found an equaliser shortly before half—time. a welljudged finish. they are into the second half. it is still 1—1. kell brook's trainer says the boxer will need an operation to fix the broken left eye socket he sustained in his ibf welterweight loss to errol spence junior last night. his coach dominic ingle, says he will discuss
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brook's boxing future, including any changes in weight division. brook was knocked down by spence in the tenth round. the fight was stopped in the 11th with his eye heavily swollen. it's the same injury that brook suffered in his fight against golovkin eight months ago, but in the opposite eye. that's all sport for now. you can keep up to date with all those stories on the bbc sport website. i'll have more in the next hour. thank you very much. let's take a look at the weather prospects. a mixed picture at the start of the week. many places have enjoyed a fine afternoon. variable clouds, hazy sunshine. quite warm. it is going to stay dry across northern areas as we head into this evening, but rain already in the southern areas will continue to move northwards. some of it will be heavy. the satellite
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picture, there has been plenty of sunshine around. clouds thickening up. rain pushing out to france. it is been moving northwards. bright colours in the radar, indicating a heavier burst. this evening, quite wet through central parts of england in towards wales. the south—west of england is slowly moving northwards, tending to fizzle. across the north though it will be a dry end to the day and present arr pleasant conditions in the central belt. 16 or 17 degrees in glasgow. clouds thickening up through england and in the midlands there will be rain, some can be heavy. winds will remain light across the board. more rain will be pushing into the south—west and southern parts of the de mac england. quite a warm and muggy feel. rain continues to move northwards. an area of rain continues to move northwards, the second part of the night, we could see more significant rain moving across the south—east quadrant of
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england, some of that could be torrential in places with thunder and lightning. a little bit drier moving in across the south later on. temperature wise, warm and muggy in the south. cool and fresh from the northern half of scotland. bank holiday monday, rather cloudy. damp outbreaks of rain, zero, moving northwards. could be thundery in places. in the south, skies will brighten up with sunshine developing and humid air in the south—east. it could spark off one or two showers and thunderstorms. cooler fresher feel to things further north and west. that area of low pressure pushes away during monday night in towards scandinavia. this feature moves in for tuesday. brisk winds on the north and the west and a band of cloud in the rain. middle of the week, high pressure moves in and it should turn drier and warmer with
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good spells of sunshine. hello. this is bbc news. the headlines: a 25—year—old man is arrested as armed police stage a further raid as part of inquiries into the manchester arena bomb attack. the conservatives and labour promise more action to minimise the threat of terror attacks in the wake of the manchester bombing. the 22 victims have been remembered in church services held across the city this morning.
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