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this is bbc news. the headlines at 4.00pm: the bbc obtains cctv pictures appearing to show the manchester bomber salman abedi shopping a day before the attack. staff say it's the same man. looking at that cctv it's the same guy that's been in the shop several times in the past. he looks exactly like the guy that they're saying has done the bombings. greater manchester police are searching a site in bury in connection with the attack. visitors have been evacuated from hamerton zoo park in cambridgeshire in what emergency services say is a "very serious incident". british airways chief executive says he's sorry about the disruption caused by a global computer meltdown, but says he won't resign. we will make a full investigation exhaustive. we will find out exactly what happened and we will make sure this will never happen again. also this hour, tributes to the legendary blue peter presenterjohn noakes, who's died aged 83.
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best known for his partnership with faithful dog shep and his daredevil stunts, his family say he'll be greatly missed. an australian pensioner gets a fright while fishing, when a great white shark leapt into his boat. in halfan in half an hour we had to hull, the uk city of culture for a performance ina uk city of culture for a performance in a cemetery. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the bbc has obtained new cctv footage, which appears to show the manchester bomber, salman abedi, shopping
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at a convenience store, just 36 hours before the attack. close to the granby road flat which abedi visited in the hours before the explosion. meanwhile, police investigating the bombing have arrested a man in shoreham—by—sea, near brighton. a total of 14 people are currently in custody. our home affairs correspondentjune kelly has this report. a young man in a hooded top, jogging pa nts a young man in a hooded top, jogging pants and trainers, on his own in a sunday shop. in this footage, he looks relaxed as he is captured on cctv, browsing the shelves of the manchester convenience store. his till receipt shows he's spent £8 7a and he brought cheering, scouring pads and their fresheners. stuff in the shop believe this was salman abedi. this was the day before the
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bombing. while he was shopping, he was also in the final stages of planning the attack and preparing for his own death. looking at that cctv, it is the same guy who has beenin cctv, it is the same guy who has been in the shop several times in the past. he looks exactly like the quy the past. he looks exactly like the guy they say has done the bombings. his eyes stand up so much from the quy his eyes stand up so much from the guy we recognise from the past. his trainers match those that salman abedi was wearing in images released by the police. here, you can see his facial features. in the by the police. here, you can see his facialfeatures. in the police pictures he seems to be wearing some of the same clothes. by this stage, he has his bomb on his back and is on the verge of committing mass murder. who was he connected with? this is a pivotal question for police in this massive counterterrorism investigation. overnight the focus switched to being a south coast, more than
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250,000 -- 250 miles being a south coast, more than 250,000 —— 250 miles from manchester. a 22—year—old man has been arrested in shoreham—by—sea. it has emerged five years ago, concerns began to be raised with the authority to use about salman abedi's extremist views. since the bombing there has been criticism of the security service mi5. it has launched two enquiries into how it examined and assessed him. he wasn't considered an immediate threat. the home secretary has refused to be drawn on possible missed opportunities. this is still alive operations, arrests being made. it is right mi5 will be able to look back and find out what has happened in the past, but at the moment i will focus on making sure we get the operation concluded and successfully so. operation concluded and successfully so. but after the atrocity at the
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manchester arena, should an intelligence agency be investigating itself? at this stage, it is appropriate it is internal. the information is so sensitive and there needs to be speed and they need to identify if there are threats to the uk. in the goodness of time, the intelligence and security committee of parliament would be an appropriate body to review what they come up with. there have been raids at new locations. this was whalley range in manchester. i think they are libyans, but manchester. i think they are libya ns, but i manchester. i think they are libyans, but i don't know much about them. they collect our parcels, we collect their parcels. they are a nice family. so it is shocking to see this activity and certainly the police here. a search dirty mouse from here in the city of chester. while the police question those suspected of the abedi link, they trying to build up a picture of the
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bomber himself. we know how he spent some of his final sunday morning, but after this, what did he do and who was he in contact with? there is further evidence this is a specifically live enquiry. we can show you pictures near the bury, and a landfill site where there is an extensive police search centred around that red building. the police vehicle is alongside it. it is an anti—terrorist search, we are told and it has been going on in the last hour or so. near bury, and it has been going on in the last hour orso. near bury, north and it has been going on in the last hour or so. near bury, north of manchester. obviously we will keep abreast of that. it is a further
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indication of how many different strands this police investigation continues to have the day, week after the attack. as you look at those pictures, we'll bring in our correspondent franking camberley in manchester. this investigation is still very much alive in different parts of the country today? yes, that just proves it, parts of the country today? yes, thatjust proves it, there was an arrest earlier this morning in the south of england and in the past hour, we are getting these latest pictures of another site being searched near bury, just north of manchester. this landfill site, forensics on the scene. police on the scene. very much ongoing investigation. police are coming forward to stress this investigation is not over, it is still going full
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pelt. so in the very early hours of this morning we had even more updates. a raid taking place in the whalley range area of south manchester and one around 50 miles from here in chester. are taking place in the early hours. and one of the most significant things to have happened in the very early hours of this morning was in shoreham—by—sea, at 23—year—old man was arrested on suspicion of terror charges. now we are told he is the 16th person to have been arrested in relation to the attack he in manchester that took place last monday. 14 people remain in police custody. two people we re remain in police custody. two people were released, woman a 16—year—old man. this is just were released, woman a 16—year—old man. this isjust another indication, with this latest line police are searching this site in bury in manchester, this is very much ongoing as they are trying to build a picture of what salman abedi
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was doing in the days, the hours and the weeks leading up to this attack. as you say, it is very much about what was going on around him, what he was doing, who really was with at any point in those preceding 48 hours. they have just released these new pictures of him in a nearby supermarket in the last 36 hours. it is about building a picture to try and get to the bottom of why and how this happen? yes, they are trying to build a picture of this man's live, what he was doing, who he was speaking to. this investigation following a similar pattern, please getting more information and then they carry out another raid. that is what we have seen happening over the last week, with these further raids taking place. but there are many more questions to be asked. although it has been a week since the attack took place. there are still many questions, not only about his life and who he was speaking to, his
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family, his friends, but also about the security services. mi5 have said they will carry out a review of what happened. they have been told his name has been mentioned to security services three times before this attack took place. we were told mi5, carrying out an internal review, asking what was happening when there we re asking what was happening when there were given this information? where was this information pasta? you had it, was enough done? or more have been done, could this attack have been done, could this attack have been stopped? we have heard from the home secretary amber rudd, who has said don't jump to home secretary amber rudd, who has said don'tjump to conclusions, let's not instantly think the security service did something wrong here, let's be patient and wait for those answers. rightly said, this investigation, very much still ongoing across the country now. thank you very much. we will keep across those events in pilsworth
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near bury as well, for you. emergency services have been called to what they have described as a "serious incident" at hamerton zoo park in cambridgeshire visitors have been evacuated — and an air ambulance is at the scene of the 25—acre wildlife park near huntingdon. the zoo is home to 500 animals, including a collection of malaysian and white tigers. on the line, is our correspondent, ben aneo, who is at hamerton zoo for us. what can you tell us? about 11:15am the police were called and the air ambulance was dispatched and arrived here. people online tweeted photographs showing it arriving, people visiting the zoo park at the time ona people visiting the zoo park at the time on a bank holiday monday. that will be exactly the kind of thing people with families would choose to do. the police have said a serious incident has taken place. they said they are unable to provide further
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information at this time, but they can confirm, as a matter of public reassurance, no animals have escaped and members of the public are safe. however, people we have spoken to here, members of the zoo who come here, members of the zoo who come here frequently said they had heard there had been an incident in the tiger enclosure, possibly involving a zookeeper. obviously somebody was heard because that is why the air ambulance was called, but we don't know a huge amount. it is important to wait for confirmation of events because it is one of those situations where so many rumours spread on social media? yes, there is plenty of information going around on twitter and facebook, but until we get confirmation, it is reckless to say what has happened. i have just spoken to the police and they said they are expected to release an updated statement in the next hour, so hopefully i will have more for you next hour, so hopefully i will have more for you soon. next hour, so hopefully i will have more for you soon. thank you very much indeed. i believe we have some
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still images from the park. there, as you see is the air ambulance, the helicopter that arrived at the scene, together with the police vehicles that were there. this was taken a little while ago. and we will be back when we get more information from those in authority at the zoo park. the chief executive of british airways has said a power surge in a data centre at heathrow airport was behind the it failure which has caused disruption for thousands of passengers over the bank holiday weekend. in his first interview since the problems, alex cruz, said the computer failure had nothing to do with either redundancies at the airline or cost cutting. our business correspondent joe lynam reports. it is day three of the ba crisis. the queues no longer stretch outside the door and flights are taking off, but that doesn't mean the disruption is over, nor all the questions gone.
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it's just ridiculous. i know they are trying to accommodate us, but we had to call and book our own re—bookings. even though i already had a confirmed seat, i had to re—book my own seat, so it's pretty stressful. they could have done so much better. i work in it and they are blaming this on it problems. it's basic enterprise practice to have a disaster recovery solution. they should have had their communication system and their booking system in different places so they could at least send us an e—mail. just open a google mail account and send an e—mail. how hard is that? ba says its services from gatwick are back to normal, as are all long—haul flights from heathrow, but they concede that some disruption to short—haul flights, usually to continental europe, will continue today. the airline has faced mounting pressure to answer questions as to why this all happened. today, it gave its first interview. we are profusely, profusely apologetic about what has happened. we are very conscious of the hardship that many of our customers have had
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to go through. on saturday morning we did have a power surge in one of our data centres which affected the network and hardware which stopped messaging millions and millions of messages that come between all the different systems and applications within the ba network and affected all the operational systems — baggage, operations, passenger processing, etc. that is what provided the actual disruptions. mr cruz said he would not be resigning and would find out why the back—up systems had failed. the gmb union has blamed the outsourcing last year of it contracts to the indian company tata for the chaos on saturday — an accusation which mr cruz has vehemently denied. but ba will certainly have further questions to answer when the detail emerges of exactly what happened and whether corners were cut. our news correspondent nick quraishi gave us this update earlier today.
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i3 short—haul flights have i3 short—haulflights have been cancelled and they were between the hours of nine and one p.m.. so far this afternoon, things are running much more smoothly than they have been. i think ba is trying to avoid what has been labelled by some, a pr disaster. alex cruz, the cruise executive up until now has limited his appearances to ba's twitter feed describing things as a horrible time for passengers. and, understanding their trying experiences. many have said it has been too little, too late. and that is why he sat down and in this interview with our transport correspondent, richard wescott. there was an absolute problem on saturday. the extent of the effect of the actual disruption
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affected some of systems. we were unable to stem the standard messages we sent the customer whenever there isa we sent the customer whenever there is a disruption, delay or particular cancellation. so on saturday there was a big problem. from late on saturday night, many of those messages are coming through. we began to reply to people and sunday we we re began to reply to people and sunday we were able to reach out to most of the customers in an electronic way. i have been the terminal five and the terminal three, between yesterday and this morning, i have been answering personal e—mails from passengers who have been writing to me. i have set up a special group of people who are helping me to answer some of those e—mails. i am not out of touch of the personal drama many passengers have had to had to go through in this instance. all our efforts at the moment are aimed at making sure we address the deeds of those passengers and we are trying very best. we know we have found solutions for over two thirds of those passengers by the end the day
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they will be at their final destination and we are trying to address the needs of the remainder of the passengers. it is clear this will do financial harm to the company. some are talking there will have to pay compensation of £150 million. also, reputational harm. 300,000 people, it is estimated, have been affected by what has gone on over the weekend. notjust here, but globally at what has been termed in the past as the world's favourite airline. the bbc obtains cctv pictures appearing to show the manchester bomber salman abedi shopping a day before the attack. staff say it's the same man. meanwhile, greater manchester police are searching a site in pilsworth in bury, in connection with the attack. visitors have been evacuated from hamerton zoo park in cambridgeshire in what emergency services say is a ‘very serious incident‘. sport now and for a full round up,
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from the bbc sport centre, here's james pearce it's billed as the richest match in football. the championship play off final between huddersfield and reading is currently taking place at wembley, with a place in next season's premier league at stake. it's been a tight game so far. huddersfield's izzy brown missed a golden opportunity to put his side ahead, inexplicably poking wide from just a couple of yards out. into the second half, its 0—0. commentary on 5 live and bbc sport website. northern ireland have called up southend's adam thompson and accrington stanley's shay mccartan for their internationals against new zealand and azerbaijan. mccartan, seen here scoring in the fa cup, scored 10 times in his last 18 games of the season for the league two club. he could make his international debut as fellow strikers conor washington and jamie ward are unavailable. here's the squad in full: they play new zealand
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on friday in a friendly, then take on azerbaijan in a world cup qualifier on iothjune. england's cricketers are heading for defeat in the third and final one day international against south africa at lord's eoin morgan's side were put in by the tourists and slumped to 20—6 in just five overs. england rallied somewhat withjonny bairstow reaching a half century and debutant toby roland jones making 37 not out. but they were still all out for 153. south africa started strongly with an opening stand of 95. england did take three quick wickets but the tourists are still in control. a few momenst ago, they were 133—3 in the 26th over. england have already sealed the series. britain's aliash bedene has won his first round match at the french open, beating
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the american ryan harrison. bedene won the first two sets against the american, who's ranked ten places above him at 42nd in the world, before harrison fought back to win the third. but the british number three took the fourth set 6—1, to progress to the next round. i was playing well. he gave me two games, made some stupid errors. it is never easy to start off in the third set like that. in a way, it was a tactic and it worked. defending men's champion novak djokovic had an easy time of it in his opening match. he dropped just nine games while easing past spain's marcel granollers, who's ranked 77th in the world. and rafael nadal launched his bid for a record 10th french open title with a convincing straight sets victory over benoit paire. it's three years since his last
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tournament win here, but the fourth seed is many people's favourite, having already won three clay—court titles this season. that's all sport for now. i'll have more in the next hour. the former blue peter presenterjohn noakes, who hosted the show in 1960s and ‘70s, has died at the age of 83. he was the bbc children's show‘s longest—serving presenter, appearing for more than 12 years. david sillito looks back at his life. i'm upside down at 30,000 feet. i'm upside down! 0h! i'm sure it does me good! how's that, then? blue peter has had many presenters, butjohn noakes was special — the cheery, funny daredevil from halifax. at this level, the plinth on which nelson stands
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overhangs the column. i found myself literally hanging from the ladder with nothing at all beneath me. in an age with a rather relaxed attitude to health and safety, the words, "and then it was my turn..." led to some startling moments. take the moment he crashed out of a bobsleigh on the cresta run. i carried on down the track on my backside, still doing around 80 miles an hour. he had grown up near halifax, joined the raf, then trained as an actor before landing the job of presenting blue peter. the yorkshire accent and the willingness to do anything for a laugh at a time when children's television was rather more formal. quick, have a sniff! he also had his own programme, go with noakes, where he sampled all the pleasures of life out and about in britain. he tired of television and set off on a yacht with his wife, settling in majorca after a shipwreck.
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his memories of blue peter were not entirely fond. he felt he had been badly paid, under—insured and overworked. i've been doing two years of go with noakes while i was still doing blue peter. i was doing a iii—month year. you might wonder what i'm doing up here. i'm beginning to wonder myself! occasionally, he returned to tv screens, once to answer a question, "whatever happened tojohn noakes and shep?" i have some very sad news. he died on saturday. i haven't got over it. no, shep, don't bite him! in truth, thejohn noakes we all knew was, in many ways, an act he was happy to say goodbye to, but that good—humoured down—to—earth daring did give us some memorable tv moments. you can feel the speed!
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the former blue peter presenter, john noakes, who has died at the age of 83. theresa may has been out on the campaign trail today. earlier she gave a speech in west london where she spoke about the government's response to the manchester terror attack. our political correspondent mark lobel is here. what else has she been saying? this was the first time theresa may was asked about a particular initiative that was created in 2015 called the temporary exclusion measures. it is to deal with suspected terror suspects, british suspects going abroad and what happens to them when they come back. this power was
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created in 2015. the way it works, when you are coming back, as the person who is potentially fighting abroad, you tell the authorities and they either prosecute you blame on they either prosecute you blame on the two, and if you don't tell them, you might not be allowed into the country for two years. but it was revealed recently by the home secretary, only one of those temporary exclusion orders has been used. a couple ofjournalists as the prime minister why only one happy news? i was home secretary over dosages. i excluded more hate preachers from coming to this country than any other home secretary has done before. there were 12! booted up the country as well. when i was home secretary we gave the police extra powers to ensure the police and security services had what they need to do the job they need to do on a
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day—to—day basis. and they have to be ever vigilant. in contrast, jeremy corbyn has said he has voted against and opposed every piece of anti—terror legislation since his time in parliament. i anti—terror legislation since his time in parliament. lam anti—terror legislation since his time in parliament. i am willing to stand up for our national security and do what is in the british interest. he is not. if you look at what we do with people who return, who might have been involved in fighting in somewhere like syria, everybody is looked at on a case— by—case everybody is looked at on a case—by—case basis. the temporary exclusion order didn't exist under the last labour government, it was me as home secretary that put it into the legislation to give the powers to the police. how those powers to the police. how those powers are applied our operational decisions for the police and security services. they will get everybody on case— by—case security services. they will get everybody on case—by—case basis.
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theresa may went on to underline what deal she wants with the eu if she is re—elected. but one question caught off—guard. she was asked why she was such a glum bucket by quentin letts. she said there had been an attack in manchester and it was a been an attack in manchester and it wasa campaign been an attack in manchester and it was a campaign about important issues. we're going to take you to australia now, where there's been a shark encounter of a very different kind. a 73—year—old fisherman has had a narrow escape after a great white jumped into his boat. it happened off the north coast of new south wales. the 200—kilogram beast injured terry selwood after knocking him to the floor of his vessel. here's terry sharing his story with abc news in australia. the hand line on the left—hand side made a bit of a jump. and i thought i had a bike. i touched the line and i caught a blur coming. out of instinct, i threw my right arm up and this thing hit me on my forearm and spun
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me around and knock me off my feet. thing hit me on my forearm and spun me around and knocked me off my feet. i turned round and fell on my knees. this thing was beside me. i looked over and said, oh, a shark. he was doing and mad dance around, thrashing everywhere. i got up as quick as i could. i thought he had broken my arm. but he hadn't. he badly bruised it and tore the skin of it and i took a handkerchief out of my pocket and tied it around as off it and i took a handkerchief out of my pocket and tied it around as tired as i could to stop the bleeding a bit. i hung on, grabbed my little radio and called the coastguard and they came to pick me up. disappointingly cloudy for a bank holiday monday. heavy, mainly
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thundery showers clearing away from the midlands and northern england as they head into this evening and the first part of the night. mr and murk across northern areas. a mild night across northern areas. a mild night across the south and fresher in the north than the west. weather front pushing in the atlantic will bring rain initially to northern ireland and then to scotland and as it clears through it will allow sunshine and showers to moving but the rain band fizzling out as he reaches and wales. so here, a little bit of cloud, one of two showers. fresher in the north and west but brighter to compensate. high pressure builds in for wednesday and thursday so it is looking dry with warm spells of sunshine. s hello. s this is bbc news.
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