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tonight at ten: a week on from the manchester attack, police launch an appeal to the public for fresh information about the bomber. it comes as new footage — obtained by the bbc — shows salman abedi shopping a day before the bombing, and police release an image of him with a suitcase. the investigation this afternoon focused on a landfill site — searching for evidence. and it emerged today that mi5 is to hold an inquiry into the way it dealt with warnings from the public that abedi was a potential threat. also tonight, sith ten days before the general election, jeremy corbyn and theresa may face a studio audience and a grilling. in yemen, a steep rise in the number of deaths from cholera. we have a special report. after two days of airport chaos, the boss of british airways finally says sorry. —— and he won't resign. tributes to the blue peter presenterjohn noakes, who's died at the age of 83. commentator: he takes that chance!
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and the multi—million pound penalty that saw huddersfield town promoted to the premier league. good evening. a week on from the manchester attack, police are urging anyone with information about the bomber to get in touch. it comes as the bbc obtained cctv footage appearing to show salman abedi shopping in a convenience store the day before the attack, in which 22 people were killed. police have released an image of him with a blue suitcase and have appealed for anyone who might have seen him with it in the four days leading up to the bombing to come forward. here's our home affairs correspondent, june kelly. a young man in a hooded top, jogging pants and trainers, on his own on a sunday morning shop.
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in this footage obtained by the bbc, he looks relaxed as he is captured on cctv, browsing the shelves of a manchester convenience store. his till receipt shows he spent £8.74 and he bought almonds, tuna, scouring pads and air fresheners. this was the day before the bombing. and staff in the shop believe this was salman abedi. looking at that cctv, it is the same guy that has been in the shop several times in the past. he looks exactly like the guy that they're saying has done the bombings. his eyes stand out so much from the guy that we recognise from the past. here you can see his face. and this is an image released by the police. in the police pictures he appears to be wearing some of the same clothes. by this stage he has the bomb on his back and is on the verge of committing mass murder. tonight police released this new image of him in manchester city centre on the day of the attack.
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they are trying to find his blue suitcase. they say they have no reason to believe it contains anything dangerous, but they are asking anyone who sees it to be cautious. early today, their investigation expanded to the south coast. in the sussex town of shoreham by sea, officers arrested a 23—year—old man. he's said to be a libyan trainee pilot. since the bombing there has been criticism of the security service mi5. it's now reviewing the way it assessed salman abedi. he was not considered to pose an immediate threat. the home secretary has refused to be drawn on possible missed opportunities. it's right that mi5 are going to be able to look back and find out what has happened in the past. but at the moment i'm going to focus on making sure that we get the operation concluded and successfully so. but after the arena atrocity, some are questioning whether an intelligence agency should be investigating itself.
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in the north of england, there have been more searches at new locations. this was whalley range in manchester. i think the're libyans, but i do not know much about them. they collect our parcels, we collect their parcels. and in bury this afternoon, this was the scene of one of the latest searches. a landfill site close to a motorway. an illustration of the size and scope of the police investigation. officers are also going through thousands of hours of cctv as they work to build a picture of the bomber and those close to him. we'll have more on the manchester bombing later in the programme. after a general election campaign, dominated in the last few days by the issue of security, the debate stepped up a gear tonight with theresa may and jeremy corbyn taking questions from a studio audience — and facing a grilling byjeremy paxman. both party leaders faced tough questions on brexit, on public spending, and on security, as our political correspondent,
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alex forsyth, reports. a smile on arrival. but she knows what's at stake. this time in ten days, the country will have decided — does she stay in downing street? could he get the keys to number ten? tonight, both took part in a televised grilling, trying to prove they've got what it takes. first, they've got what it takes. first, the labour leader faced questions from the audience. he was asked immediately about his approach to foreign policy and security and his sta nce foreign policy and security and his stance on the ira. you have openly supported the ira in the past. i can give you an example. attending a commemoration for the eight ira men killed at loch goole. in your words it was to honour them. maybe you can share with the electorate why those ira men were actually killed. the commemoration i think you're referring to was a meeting i was at in london, where there was a period
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of silence for everyone who had died in northern ireland. the contribution i made to that meeting was to call for a peace and dialogue process in northern ireland. it's only by dialogue and process we have brought about the peace in northern ireland. next quizzed on immigration, brexit, his leadership skills and policies. this country is badly divided between the richest and the poorest. you put corporate tax and tax at the top end down, the division gets greater. are you happy that so many of our children are going to school with super sized classes ? going to school with super sized classes? so many of our children are going to school hungry. in a one—to—one interview he was asked whether he had authorised a drone strike. i think you have to look at all the evidence that's there. you can't answer a hypothetical question about the evidence around it. it's not really hypothetical. it's a com pletly not really hypothetical. it's a completly —— completely hypothetical question. then it was theresa may's
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turn. she's avoided head—to—head debates with other party leaders. tonight she was asked about her plans to shake up social care funding. why, prime minister, should we, in my generation, vote for you? so what happens is people are paying for care, people are finding that they are having to sell their house, many people are having to sell their house to pay those care bills. and many find that they're not able to leave money to their families. now i wa nt leave money to their families. now i want to take those risks away and that's what the proposals i've put forward a re that's what the proposals i've put forward are about. it's about ensuring that nobody is going to have to sell their house to pay for ca re have to sell their house to pay for care in their lifetime. she confirmed there would be a cap on ca re costs, confirmed there would be a cap on care costs, but refused to say what it would be, before being asked about health funding, police funding and school funding. nobody can guarantee the real terms per pupil funding increase. the labour party's ma nifesto we funding increase. the labour party's manifesto we know the figures don't
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add up. what is important is that as we look... laughter what we need to do is to ensure we will put those record levels of funding into schools. the prime minister's been keen to talk brexit and got her chance, challenged about backing remain during the campaign. you have changed your mind, have you? we gave people the choice. you changed your mind. i'll answer that inai. changed your mind. i'll answer that in a i. —— a minute. the british people decided to leave the european union. i think it's important for them to see their politicians delivering on that choice and respecting the will of the people. back stage, the big hitters were out. trying to down play shaky moments and talk up their candidates. but what they think matters little. the only verdict that counts — the vote in just ten days' time. let'sjoin our
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let's join our political correspondent who's outside the debate studio for us now. ben, it's ten days till the election, this was effectively a resetting of the respective campaigns, how did they do? yeah, that's right. it'sjust finished in the last couple of minutes, the event here. it did feel as if the election was being rebooted. i think coming into this, the two party leaders had several aims, number one, to land their core campaign messages, secondly, in front of a live studio audience, avoid any gaffe, any embarrassing, awkward skirmish with a member of the audience. number three, as alex said, convince undecided voters, who are weighing up their choice. i thinkjeremy corbyn had a particular challenge to look prime ministerial. in polls he clearly lags behind theresa may when it comes to this question of leadership. i think team corbyn will have been pleased with how he came across. he was assured, he was confident. he wasn't rattled by the potentially difficult
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questions, around his past relationship with sinn fein or hamas, for instance or how he would oi’ hamas, for instance or how he would or would not use the nuclear deterrent. on domestic issues. he said he would like to see immigration come down but wouldn't give a number. theresa may's turn after that. it wasn't, as alex said, after that. it wasn't, as alex said, a harder encounterfor after that. it wasn't, as alex said, a harder encounter for the prime minister, perhaps not surprisingly because the tories have been in government for seven years, so there isa government for seven years, so there is a record to interrogate. she was asked about school funding, about police numbers. it wasn't always ease yr for her. nor was —— easy for her. nor was she thrown off course. she was asked about brexit. she wouldn't give a number in terms of how much to pay in terms of the divorce bill. she restated her view that no deal would be better than a bad deal, without explaining exactly what no deal would look like. as they leave here, they'll both be pretty pleased. it didn't do either of them any harm. ben, many thanks. the chief executive of british airways, alex cruz, says he won't resign over the computer
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failure which disrupted tens of thousands of people's travel over the bank holiday weekend. in his first interview since the it crash, mr cruz apologised, saying a power surge had caused computer failure and that a back—up system hadn't kicked in. ba services today returned to normal at gatwick, but not at heathrow. our transport correspondent, richard westcott, reports. how can a computer glitch be allowed to cripple an entire airline? spoilt holidays, weddings, honeymoons. three days in and the british airways boss has broken cover to give his first interview, admitting their back—up system failed. the actual problem only lasted a few minutes, so there was a power surge and there was a back—up system which did not work at that particular point in time. it was restored after a few hours in terms of some hardware changes, but eventually it took a long time for messaging and for assistance to come up again. three days in and terminal five here is getting back to something like normality. but it is one thing sorting out
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the immediate problem and getting people on their aircraft, it is going to take ba far longer to ease people's anger at the way they handled the whole situation. the meltdown hit 75,000 passengers across the world, each with a different story, but one main complaint. no—one was telling them what was going on. you've got to do a lot better in terms of communicating with people because that is the number one... people accept there are problems sometimes, that is the number one thing that grates people. we are fully aware that communications have to get better, particularly as social media continues to expand. so, yes, i agree with you, we will continue to invest in resources in ways in which we can actually directly reach out to people. ba made hundreds of it staff redundant recently, outsourcing theirjobs to india to save money. it has led to accusations that there are not enough experienced uk staff left to cope with the crisis. let me put this to mr cruz, if there were still ba employees, we can assure him that issue
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would have been resolved in minutes and the systems would be up and running. when i put it to mr cruz, he flatly denied that outsourcing had made any difference. so, totally unconnected, completely unconnected with all of those redundancies and with the outsourcing of the it systems? absolutely, yes, in this case. apart from some short—haul flights from heathrow, ba managed to fly most of its passengers today. some still can't believe how badly the airline messed up. i work in it and when there are it problems it is basic enterprise to have a disaster recovery solution. they should have had their communications system and their booking system in different places so they can at least send us an e—mail. one estimate has put the compensation bill at around £150 million. you can't put a price on the damage to their reputation. richard wescott, bbc news, heathrow. two years of war in yemen have
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created what the un has described as the world's largest humanitarian crisis. as well as impending famine, the country is also facing an unprecedented outbreak of cholera. in the past month, 52,000 cases of suspected cholera have been reported and the world health organisation believes that figure could rise to 300,000 within six months. there have been almost 500 reported deaths in the past month alone, three times more than during the previous six months. our corrrespondent nawal al—maghafi has this special report on a devastating new crisis hitting the people of yemen. frail, weak and fighting for their lives. these are the faces of yemen's latest crisis. preying on the weak and hungry, cholera has rapidly spread throughout the country. this hospital, already crippled by war, is overwhelmed.
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this family arrived in the capital after their town was heavily bombed. she hoped her children would be safe in the city, but two days after s moving here, their lives are at risk again. translation: the kids went to play and then the rubbish outside. my son washed his hands, butjust after dinner, he got really sick. yemen is a country broken by war and hunger. a place where the young and old become the first victims. it's always been poor, but two years of fighting has left it unable to cope with this emergency. translation: the war has meant that everything is deteriorating especially the health system.
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there are no medicines, no access to clean water, it's catastrophic. outside, the patients keep coming. but without spare beds they're treated in the courtyard, with over 200 new cases arriving each day to this hospital alone, makeshift tents have been set up to deal with the numbers. cholera is cheap and easy to treat, but the un says the delivery of aid has been slowed down by both sides, which means supplies don't reach the people in need. so far the outbreak has killed over 400 people. this man's wife is the latest victim.
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he buried her here just yesterday. she was so malnourished her body wasn't able to fight the disease. she was 21 years old. translation: her situation deteriorated, so we rushed her to the hospital. they couldn't help her. we took her to another hospital, but by then it was too late. everything in our life together was so lovely. she was so kind. our time together was too short. he was left widowed and his six—month—old son without a mother. with no peace in sight, yemen's war will continue to tear families apart. the french president, emmanuel macron, says he told the russian leader,
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vladimir putin, that any use of chemical weapons in syria would result in immediate french reprisals. president macron said they aired their "disagreements" in the meeting, which was held at the palace of versailles. but he also described wanting to work with russia over syria and in the struggle against terrorism. china has urged north korea to create the conditions for a return to talks after pyongyang carried out its ninth missile test this year. north korea defied un sanctions by firing a short—range missile into the sea off its eastern coast. hamerton park zoo in cambridgeshire has confirmed that a female zookeeper was killed in what's been described as a "freak accident" involving a tiger. the park will be closed tomorrow, while investigations continue, as ben ando reports. police said the female zookeeper who has not yet been named was mauled to death by one of the park's tigers
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inside their enclosure. it is not yet known exactly how. the park was busy with bank holiday visitors. those in the park were led away, though some people said they were allowed back in for a short period before the park was closed by zoo officials who later handed out a short statement which said, this appears to have been a freak accident. at no point during the incident did any animals escaped their enclosures and at no point was public safety affected in any way. nine years ago a cheater escaped through a broker electric fence. it was later captured nearby and no one was later captured nearby and no one was hurt. the forensic fans have left and the police say there are no suspicious circumstances surrounding what happened. a full investigation is under way in the zoo where this evening the animals are being prepared for the night. the gates are locked and the zoo says it will stay closed tomorrow.
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the former blue peter presenterjohn noakes has died at the age of 83. he hosted the show in the 19605 and 70s and was its longest—serving presenter, appearing for more than 12 years. david sillito looks back at his life. i'm upside down, at 30,000 feet and upside down. blue peter has had many presenters over the years, butjohn noakes, the cheery, funny daredevil from halifax was special. at this level the plinth on which nelson stands overhangs the column. i find 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 tv moments. his trip down the cresta run was also terrifying. ijumped onto the ice and carried on down the track on my backside still doing around 80 miles an hour. john noakes had started out in the raf before turning to acting and landed a job on blue peter.
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the yorkshire accent and the willingness to do anything for a laugh stood out in a rather more formal era of children's television. i think for a lot of people today is a very sad day. we have lost him and he looked pretty eternal from where i was sitting as a child. we have lost our childhoods too a bit. in those days there were only two channels and he was the whole of the bbc to me when i was watching. shep, don't bite him, he's a nice little fellow. that's enough. after 12 years he and his dog shep were part of national life, but he had tired of the risks and the workload and was happy to move on. he set off in a yacht and eventually settled in majorca. off—screen he was rather more shy and serious, thejohn noakes we knew was in many ways an act. johnny always had to have a character to play so he invented thatjohn noakes, not very different from him, but it was an extension of him and it was a john noakes that could do the things that he did
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on television that the real john noakes wouldn't do. his skydiving was record—breaking and almost went wrong, and his meeting with a baby elephant... ..a little tv landmark. oh, get off me foot! lulu hadn't stood on his foot, butjohn noakes always knew how to get a laugh. millions today were saying goodbye to a much loved part of childhood. the former blue peter presenterjohn noakes, who has died at the age of 83. ukip's paul nuttall was the latest party leader to face questions from andrew neil. speaking about his views on counter—terrorism, mr nuttall said he "wouldn't rule out internment" for terror suspects, saying that politicians had to look at ways of ensuring that people were safe. when you read this morning that there is suspected 23,000 jihadis that could be living amongst
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us, obviously, mi5 are stretched to capacity at this present moment in time. i think we've got to look at ways of ensuring that our people are safe, whether that's a return to — hold on, let me finish — whether that's a return to control orders, whether that's tagging these people, who knows. more on the election now, and penzance in the constituency of st ives has some of the poorest areas in cornwall. it was one of the hardest fought seats in the last election, when the conservatives took it from the liberal democrats. our south west political editor martyn oates has been taking in the view from penzance to assess the liberal democrats' chances this time round. luminous skies, water as far as the eye can see, even a fairy tale castle emerging from the waves. welcome to penzance, home to the poorest council estate
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in the poorest county. at the heart of the estate is this soup kitchen. there are more and more people living in food poverty. what is happening here is being replicated, i believe, across the country. rosemary has been helping to cook today's lunch. we are a hard—working county. we look after our own but we can't do it all. we need somebody to stand up for us in parliament. give us the help that we indeed. in seats across the south—west this constituency saw a lib dem mp replaced by a tory at the last election. i've been a lib dem all my life and i was gutted with what happened last time out. this time, will that change, i don't think so. it is a conservative shoo—in and that's that. are you going to vote? liberal democrat, that's
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who i am voting for. our candidate will do more for us than any of the others. you think the lib dem candidate has a chance? yes, i do. i am going to vote theresa may. why? she needs a chance. like we need a chance to get out of the eu. england should stand on its own two feet. simple as that. while some may be dancing to the brexit tune others still have the memories the coalition government. i used to support lib dems but they did a coalition with the tories. i also thinkjeremy corbyn can create enough to shift consciousness a little bit. the closest fight in cornwall between tories and lib dems took place here last time. this time lib dems have a lot of hopes riding on this constituency. whoever wins the privilege
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of representing this place parliament will also take on some responsibility for turning around an economy still haunted by the decline of traditional industries. after 20 years in a fairly traditional industry, fishing, this person is now successfully doing something completely different. the wine industry, as it is introduced, if it is given support to grow, from government, there is a huge growth and a huge impact to the economic situation of our region. we need that in cornwall. the cornish wine industry looks set for a bright future. but can the same be said for cornwall‘s liberal democrats? with all the sport here's james pearce at the bbc sport centre. huddersfield town have returned to the top division in english football for the first time in 45 years.
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they won the richest prize in the sport by beating reading on penalties in the championship play—off final to earn promotion to the premier league. david ornstein reports from wembley. the last game of the english season, arguably the most important, certainly the most lucrative. at sta ke, certainly the most lucrative. at stake, the final place in next season's premier league, a prize worth at least £170 million. a year ago, huddersfield and reading looked more likely to be relegated than promoted, but now a royal occasion to decide who would rise to football's promised land. huddersfield had been outside the top tier since 1972 and their hopes we re top tier since 1972 and their hopes were not helped by finishing like this. it looked easy for easy brown to score rather than mess. reading tried their luck from further out but were no more successful. there
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was barely anything to choose between these sides during the regular season and nor could they be separated in regular time here, with chances separated in regular time here, with cha nces few separated in regular time here, with chances few and far between at either end. an extra 30 minutes proved just as tight so penalties would be needed. and after daniel ward saved this one, christopher shriller —— schindler made no mistake to send them into dreamland. their 45 year wait ended in the most dramatic fashion. reading have now lost four play—off finals in a row. for huddersfield it is glory and they can look forward to the premier league and the enormous rewards that come with it. england's cricketers have been soundly beaten by south africa in the third and final match of their one—day series. south africa won at lords by 7 wickets. england never got going. batting first, at one stage they slumped to 20—6 before jonny bairstow and debutant toby roland—jones helped them limp to a total of 153 all out. the tourists eased to victory with 21 overs to spare.
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england had already won the series and will have to hope that this wasjust a blip before the champions trophy which begins later this week. great britain's recent struggles in their america's cup campaign continued in bermuda this evening as they were comprehensively beaten by france. sir ben ainslie and his crew had led for the first half of the race, but a couple of mistakes handed france the initiative and the british ended up losing by 53 seconds. it was their fourth defeat in a row. tennis, and the british number 3 aljaz bedene is through to the second round of the french open. he beat american ryan harrison in four sets. novak djokovic and rafael nadal were among the day's other winners. andy murray and johanna konta are due to play their first round matches tomorrow. and the british and irish lions have flown out for their series against the world champions new zealand. they'll play ten matches, including three tests, the first of them onjune 24th. that's all the sport, rita. now, it's a week to the day
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that the city of manchester suffered a major trauma, a bombing that claimed 22 lives and injured many more. our correspondent chris buckler is in manchesterfor us now. at this time exactly one week ago when ariana grande was finishing her concert, parents were gathering their children to go home and just outside a man was preparing to detonate the bomb that would claim 22 lives and change many others. there are people still being treated in hospital and so many others still reliving what happened at the o2 arena and grieving. tonight people gathered here to show their support and pay their respects. in st ann's square words mean something.

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