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this is bbc news. i'm clive myrie. the headlines at 8pm: the third london bridge attacker is named — 22—year—old youssef zaghba was living in east london. his name was on a europe—wide watchlist. bell tolls this morning at 11, a minute's silence observed across the uk for the seven people who were killed in the attack and dozens who were injured. an australian nurse, kirsty boden, is the third victim to be named. she was killed as she ran to help others during the attack. also in the next hour, back on the campaign trail — theresa may has said she'll change human rights laws, if they stop her from tackling terrorism. with just two days left before we all have a chance to vote, the main parties return to their main manifesto themes.
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we'll be exploring what the outlook is for taxes. will they rise, stay the same, or fall, after thursday's election? and in half an hour's time, we'll be live at the newsbeat youth election debate in manchester. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the metropolitan police have named the third man who carried out the deadly attack on london bridge. he was 22—year—old youssef zaghba, who was an italian national of moroccan descent. it's emerged that last year italian authorities stopped him travelling tojoin so—called is in syria. it's being reported in italy that he was placed on a watch—list and the british authorities were tipped off. tonight there are questions about how one of the other two killers, khuram butt, slipped through the net after he'd been investigated two years ago. our home editor mark easton reports. the faces of a self
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appointed death squad. we now know the identities of all three men who went on a killing spree in london on saturday night, today police naming youssef zaghba as the third member of the gang. born in fez in morocco, to a moroccan father and italian mother, 22 years old, he recently moved to east london where he worked in a restaurant. last year he was stopped by security forces at bologna airport, in italy, on suspicion of trying to make his way to fight in syria — literature relating to so—called islamic state in his bag. placed on the italian terror watch—list, uk police today said neither they nor mi5 regarded him as a person of interest. in italy, a prosecutor claimed today that british authorities had been tipped off about zaghba, who lived at this house in bologna, one of his relatives said he hoped to find a job in the uk.
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translation: he went to london, he was away for two or three months and then he came back, he was here for a month and then he told his mother, i'm leaving, he there is nothing and in london i can work. the fact zaghba was a terror suspect in italy adds to the pressure on british security services to explain why they were called blind ahead of saturday's terrible attack, another member of the gang, khuram butt, was well—known to police and mi5, fronting to police and mi5, prompting searching questions as to whether more could or should have been done to prevent mass murder. we will look at how this, how the processes were followed, what they did. they will be wanting to look at that, because they will want to learn lessons for the future, if there are lessons to be learned. he appeared in this channel a documentary. on radical islamists, last year, linking into extremist
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preacher anjem choudary, now in jail for encouraging support for so—called islamic state. despite this, security service interest in him was scaled down. the bbc has described butt‘s cv, he describes himself as a motivated, zealous and trusted individual who has worked in security, welcoming guests and securing buildings. he worked on the london underground last year, but claimed his responsibilities included assisting customer evacuation where necessary. in pakistan today, his uncle said he was ashamed, and said his nephew's victims were constantly on his mind. i don't know why they were killed. and in the their shopping. why were
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they killed? —— and in the their shopping. why were they killed? -- theyjust came to they killed? -- theyjust came to the city to have their dinners and get their shopping. who would know anyone to push them and to hit them. nobody knows. some have suggested the killings might have been prevented if any of the men had been subject to a court order known as a t—pim, restricting freedom of terror suspects not convicted of a crime. the man who until recently officially reviewed let is legislation for the government said they would need thousands of orders to stop such attacks. they have been useful and they could be used more, if that is what police and mi5 decide is appropriate but they will never be used on a mass scale and that is because they are designed for people in respect of whom we have strong evidence that they are involved in terrorism. more detail emerged today about the last member of the three—man gang, north african born rachid redouane. he was married to a british citizen and living in dublin for a time before relocating to east london.
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was this where he lived? a house in ilford was targeted and a counterterror operation earlier today. at iiam, britain was encouraged to stop for one minute, to pause and reflect on the events of saturday night. through the minds of many will have run the question, why did this have to happen? our home affairs correspondent, daniel sandford is at new scotland yard and he explained that at least one of the perpetrators in the three terror attacks that have hit the uk recently were known to the security services. it didn't take us long today to find out that the third of the men to be named, youssef zaghba, had been stopped at bologna airport by police believed to be travelling to syria. they did not have enough evidence to prosecute but they had put him on to that europe—wide schengen information system, available location mark in the uk. italian prosecutors also insisted they told british intelligence officials directly. while scotland yard would
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not comment on that today, yesterday they did tell us that the first of they did tell us that the first of the men to be named, khuram butt, had been investigated by them since 2015, and by mi5, and that led to him slipping down the list of priorities, because they hadn't seen any evidence of attack planning, and i think that is the problem we have got here. it used to be that the security services were looking out for men trying to get hold of bomb—making equipment, weapons, but all these men had to do was go to b&q, hirea all these men had to do was go to b&q, hire a van, and get hold of some knives. they could have planned it in an afternoon, and that is very difficult to spot. that was daniel sa ndford difficult to spot. that was daniel sandford at scotland yard. as we heard across the country, from glasgow to cardiff and london, a minute's silence has been held to remember the victims of saturday's attack. today an australian national, kirsty boden, and a french national alexandre pigea rd were the latest of those killed on saturday night to be named.
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alison holt reports on how, for the second time in a fortnight, people have been paying tribute to those killed and injured in an act of terror. bells toll a time to remember, a time to reflect, on an attack at the heart of london. bells toll time to stand together on the streets where it happened. the ambulance crews who fought so hard to save lives, london's mayor at their side. manchester, still raw from the violence inflicted here just two weeks ago.
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and beyond. in these quiet moments, for some, the anguish is too much. nicola smith wanted to remember her ex—boyfriend. james mcmullan was one of the seven people killed on saturday, and she is struggling to understand why. i feel anger, but i can't let that override my feeling of love forjames and our memories, because i know that is not what he wanted. me, as a person, i am extremely angry. but because i have been with james, i know that i can't let anger when. —— but because i have been
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with james, i know that i can't let anger win. and today, 28—year—old australian, kirsty boden, was also named among those who died, she was a newly promoted senior nurse at guy's hospital, who ran to help others that night. there was absolutely nothing at all she would not do for somebody. she never saw bad in anybody. even if they were all having a bad day, kirsty was the person who was going to make you smile. others are still missing, including sara zelanak, working in london as a nanny — she is also an australian, and her family have heard nothing of her since the attack. she doesn't drink, doesn't do drugs, doesn't do anything wrong,
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she is amazing, a very spirited person, she is 21 years old. and for those caught up in the attack and their families, there remain many questions still to be answered about what happened. and we'll find out how this story and many others are covered in tomorrow's front pages, at 10:40 and 11:30 this evening in the papers. our guests joining me tonight are kate proctor, political correspondent at the london evening standard and the broadcaster, john stapleton. please stay with us for that. since saturday's attack, the election campaign has been dominated by the issue of security — and in the past hour, the prime minister theresa may said she would ensure police and intelligence agencies have the power they need in the face of an evolving terror threat. speaking at an election campaign rally in berkshire, she said that she would change human right laws if they stop her from tackling terrorism. our political correspondent, ben wright was there. this rally was the final stop for theresa may in slough, after she had
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snaked through theresa may in slough, after she had sna ked through the theresa may in slough, after she had snaked through the country from wales, the midlands, the south—westward cheltenham, and finally this rally in slough. lots of familiar themes, wanting to bring this campaign message back to its core essential elements. firstly, of course, brexit is going to happen, and she was as importers or they would trust to deliver it. secondly, this is now acutely political in light of the terror attack at the weekend, the issue of security. she has faced a lot of criticism from labour and other opposition parties over the last few days pointing to a record as home secretary when police numbers were cut by 20,000 and there was strong criticism today from the london mayor, siddique khan, but she wa nted london mayor, siddique khan, but she wanted to impress on the party faithful here, and of course voters, that she does have a plan for tackling extremism, and she was more explicit i thought that she had been until now about the sort of things she had in mind. she said she would if re—elected increase prison sentences for terror suspects, she would if there was justification perhaps change the low to enable people to be detained, even though there was no evidence they had been
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involved in plotting terrorist activity, and perhaps she is thinking about going back down the control order rope, and then i thought very interestingly she said, " if thought very interestingly she said, "if human rights low stops governments dealing with extremism, we will change it." i mean longer prison sentences for those convicted of terror offences, i mean making it easier for the authorities to deport foreign terrorist suspects back to their own countries... applause and i mean doing more to restrict the freedom and movements of terrorist suspects,... the freedom and movements of terrorist suspects, . .. when the freedom and movements of terrorist suspects,... when we have enough evidence to know they are a threat but not enough evidence to prosecute them in full in court. and if our human rights lows stop us from doing it, will change the lows so we can from doing it, will change the lows so we can do it. —— change the laws.
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and i can tell you that if i'm elected as prime minister on thursday, that work begins on friday. now, theresa may had been clear before today and the tory party manifesto is expert that they are not thinking about putting britain out of the european convention of human rights. that remains in place, but i think there isa remains in place, but i think there is a signal of intent she might be prepared if she is to win to go back and revisit human rights law, not an eu issue, because the european convention of human rights is different, but she might look at that further she thinks it is necessary to challenge extremism. as this campaign enters its final day off to matt, this issue of security and tackling extremism remains at the heart of this campaign —— final day or two. that was ben wright with the conservatives, but what has labour been saying? alex forsyth is atjeremy corbyn rally in
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birmingham. he has spoken, he has finished. what has he been saying, alex? jeremy corbyn came and addressed the crowd here in birmingham, there were simultaneous rallies taking place across the uk including scotland, london, and this was, as $0 including scotland, london, and this was, as so many years including scotland, london, and this was, as so many years these rallies have been forjeremy corbyn, a big crowd turned out and he gave a rousing speech. as ben wright was saying, it inevitably became dominated and focused on security issues due to recent events in manchester and london. the speech jeremy corbyn gives that these rallies remain focused on other issues, domestic policy issues, about the labour party manifesto. he was talking about their plans to invest in housing and the abolition of tuition fees, he got a big cheer for that one. about the protection for that one. about the protection for free school meals and investment in education and the health service. 0f in education and the health service. of course it has been so central to
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the labour party campaign throughout, when we started at the beginning seven weeks or so ago, the conservatives wanted to make it a campaign about brexit. jeremy corbyn and the labour party, from the start, wanted to make it about public services and they felt that was where their strength was. at the rally tonight, what he was saying was met with great reception. the labour party, forjeremy corbyn as it has always been, is whether you can cut through support at rallies like this to other areas of the country. alex, thank you. alex forsyth in birmingham. tonight, bbc newsbeat is hosting the last tv debate before the election. politicians from the seven main parties will face questions from a young audience, on topics ranging from security and health, to brexit and jobs. earlier i spoke to the bbc newsbeat‘s political editor, jonathan blake, about young people's engagement in politics. what you've seen during this election campaign is definitely, perhaps, more engagement than usual from younger voters in terms of the issues that have been discussed. coming so soon as it
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did after that brexit referendum that you mentioned, where turnout among under 25s was unusually high. i think what you will hear from the audience here in manchester tonight is a lot of passion. we talk about young voters a lot of the time as being apathetic, i can tell you having gone around the uk in this election campaign and talking to mainly under 25s about how they will vote and why they are not, a lot of them, at least, they care about the issues. they care about low wages, they care about their chances of going to university, they care about equal rights. what turns them off so often is the language of politics, and the performance of politics that we see on the tv and hear on the radio during election campaigns. so you might hear a bit of frustration as well, i think, from the audience tonight here in manchester — at how politicians all too often don't reach out to younger voters, don't reflect their interests and their opinions, and don't listen to what they have to say. i think the seven politicians turning up tonight to manchester to take part in our debate at the albert hall in the city centre are pretty brave, to be honest.
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and you can watch the full newsbeat election debate live here on the bbc news channel at 8.30, and then on bbc one following the regional and national news tonight, at 10.40. sport now. let's go to the bbc sport centre for a round—up of today's events. england reached the semi finals of cricket‘s champions trophy after beating new zealand by 84 runs in their second match of the tournament. jos buttler produced one of the shots of the fay jos buttler produced one of the shots of the day as he helped england post a total of 310 all out. the cameraman on the receiving end of this one. with nine wickets down new zealand were some way short of that as the visitors were all out for 223, england keeping alive their hopes of a first major victory in a 50 over tournament. the men's quarterfinals at the french open have been postponed until tomorrow because of rain. we were expecting both rafael nadal and novak djokovic to be in action at roland garros but the court covers were brought out. play had been delayed for most
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of the afternoon before the decision was made. it means all four men's quarterfinals will be played tomorrow including andy murray who's up against kei nishikori. before the rain delay, the women's quarterfinals were being played. caroline wozniacki was one set up against unseeded 19—year—old jelena ostapenko, she took the first set 6—4. in the other quarterfinal, 30th seed timea bacsinszky was leading home favourite kristina mladenovic after taking the first set 6—4. when played resumed mladenovic defended a break point on her serve, the second set was poised with bacsinszky leading four games to three before the rain started to fall again. ben ainslie's americas cup sailing team are attempting to beat new zealand in one of the qualifying events that precedes the america's cup proper. having been 2—0 down in the best of nine challenger semi final, they lost the first race of the day to new zealand, but pulled one back when their opponents capsized before the start of the fourth race in challenging
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conditions in bermuda. that's given the british team hope that they can turn their fortunes around and win the right to take on the holders oracle team usa in the final. that is all of the sport for now, i will be back with plenty more in the next hour. studio: john watson, many thanks. a man has been shot and wounded by police in paris, after he attacked an officer with a hammer outside notre—dame cathedral. hundreds of visitors were inside at the time. a little while ago our correspondent in paris hugh schofield gave me this update. we can explore what kind of terrorism, whether it was a so—called lone wolf or part of the plot, but i do not think there is any doubt that the man had islamist intentions. the interior minister told us that he shouted out "this is for syria ! " told us that he shouted out "this is for syria!" as he did it. he attacked a policeman with a hammer.
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an unattributed source close to the investigation said that in hospital, on the way to hospital, said that he was a soldier of the caliphate. it seems no doubt that this man was motivated by islamist ideas, whether 01’ motivated by islamist ideas, whether or not the theory i heard that this was some sort of spill—over knock—on effect from the london attack is one theory, the idea you have a major event like that which dominates the media, and in some way, that gets into the brain of people who are, i don't know, inclined to act on their own. and they see this as the trigger that they need. it's one idea. we will have to find out when the man is properly questioned, as he will be. we know that he was carrying on him papers that suggest he is an algerian man, and some of his registered as a student in france. hugh schofield reporting there. with two days to polling day ,
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we're going to take a look at policies on tax. in the lastest part of our reality check series , ahead of thursday's election , steph mcgovern has been exploring what the outlook is for taxes. tax, not many of us like paying it and sometimes we feel like we are paying in more than we get out. so where is the money coming from? what is it being spent on? on this chart you can see a big contributor is income tax at £175 billion per year, not far behind our vat and national insurance. to show government spending, you can see a lot of money going on social protection and health. you can also see with education and defence being big ones. that all amounts to about £750 billion every year. so how do people feel about the tax that they pay, and what the money is spent on? we have sean, liz and hannah here. does
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tax bother you? is taken out as i own money, i don't really notice the money, not the same as the self—employed but i would like to see governments tackle big corporations rather than individuals. you see tax is a big thing, liz? is not a punishment, it's a gift we give for living in the country. should it go up? as long as it goes to the right place. and hannah, is about where the money is spent? yes, it needs to be spent wisely. we are looking at national health, it was doing really well on 8% of gdp but now it looks to be falling down to 6.7%. that's not going to be enough. falling down to 6.7%. that's not going to be enoughlj falling down to 6.7%. that's not going to be enough. i will let get inside, thank you. obviously, the amount of tax you pay varies depending on how much you earn. let's take the averagejoe, or in ourcase, mr earn. let's take the averagejoe, or in our case, mr purge. this person is on in our case, mr purge. this person isona in our case, mr purge. this person is on a salary of about £26,000 per year. of that they pay out about £5,000 on things like income tax and
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national insurance. looking out what this person is spending money on, they pay about £2000 in vat, and £700 for things like alcohol and fuel duty. all of that adds up to about £8,000. about one third of his salary. so what about the rich against the poor? is there a difference? statisticians have estimated what people with different incomes will spend on different things, and work out some averages. if you look at the poorest households, those with an income of about £15,000 per year, they pay out about 35% in tax. at they pay out about 35% in tax. at the other end of the scale, a household with £88,000 per year coming in, they pay about 34%. the numbers do not suggest there is a big difference but some people feel that the tax system is unfair. ed, you are an economist?
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the numbers there are averages and the system is more complicated than that. all of this depends on what that. all of this depends on what that person spends, are they smoking? do they buy beer? do they drive a car? this all affects the amount of tax that they pay. it is complicated, thank you very much. whatever your situation, tax is something that we all pay in one form or another, in most cases more than a third of our income goes on tax. given pressures on public services, it is unlikely to go down any time soon. steph mcgovern, bbc news. two years ago east renfrewshire was like almost every other part of scotland — a few months after the independence referendum a majority of voters choosing to throw their weight behind the snp. some friendly competition on the golf course, a place rarely short on opinion. today's topic, the election. snp, i told you. sometimes you're all over the place,
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that's the labour party. the tories are so far right, i cannae vote for them. so i'm stuck with the snp. that's my snp drive, straight down the middle. the snp have such a hold, which i don't think they should have, because of the way they've acted, they've not solve any problems. in fact, they've made a lot of the problems worse. and it has become very difficult as to who to vote for. polarised views that reflect the wider debate in scotland. the question of independence never far away. i don't know if she should mention it as much as she's doing. i'm a fan, by the way. but i think she should put that on the back burner at the moment. the scorecard at the last westminster election contained some impressive snp numbers, 56 mps elected, compared to just one each for the conservatives, labour and lib dems. as the third largest party at westminster, the snp's success was unprecedented, even coming close to repeating that was always going to be a challenge.
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there are now attempting to do so in a very different political climate. it's just got a bit more difficult for the party. some of the enthusiasm for the yes campaign has dissipated, not least because, some of them voted to leave the european union, and that's to some degree put distance between them and the snp. nicola sturgeon is not so popular, and the scottish government's domestic record is also the subject of some dissatisfaction. a nearby gymnastics club provides another measure of that appeal. our time should be spent on processes in scotland and working on education, which they have had the opportunity to do. concentrate on the dayjob. i voted for independence, in the referendum, and i would do so again, just because i feel that powers for scotland should be decided in scotland. the snp is the party that's obviously fighting for that. everyone agrees the snp will win this election in scotland. assessing the scale of that victory and its wider
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consequences will start as soon as the handshakes are over. steven godden, bbc news, east renfrewshire. just a reminder, justa reminder, coming just a reminder, coming up, justa reminder, coming up, the just a reminder, coming up, the very final tv election debate from manchester, the newsbeat youth debate representatives of the seven main parties will be taking questions from an audience of 18—25 —year—olds. what more can politicians do to court their vote? and reduce some apathy people suspect exists in that section of society. but now it's time for the weather with thomas xavi. most of us today had a rough day of weather. good news is that tomorrow is going to bea good news is that tomorrow is going to be a lot better. sunshine on the way, it is going to be lighter winds. some gales across western areas, and heavy rain in eastern
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scotla nd areas, and heavy rain in eastern scotland and north east england. by the time this rain clears, in this portion of the country, sometime tomorrow, we will have seen maybe even 100 millimetres of rain in some areas. further west and south, it's areas. further west and south, it's a case of clearing sky through the course of the evening and overnight. tomorrow, rain and windy weather for some time across eastern scotland, maybe north—east england, but then the window of opportunity with sunshine before the next area of rain swings in from the atlantic. thursday for some of us will be a wet day. it does not look like it will be as windy. applause good evening. welcome to manchester. it is almost here, less than 36 hours to go, on thursday it is the general election, your chance to decide on who is running the country. tonight, we are
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here with 18 to 25—year—olds to hear what is on your mind stop tonight, it is all about you. hi, i am giles and one of my friends was taken in the manchester attack. my question

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