is just isjust a is just a vehicle isjust a vehicle you against. it is just a vehicle you can hire fora against. it is just a vehicle you can hire for a few pounds or euros and can be used like this as a weapon. it's hard to see how you can protect against this apart from dealing with the source, which is the people driving them. and the choice of target, of course, las ramblas, at a time of year, but particularly now, is such a magnet for people visiting barcelona. yes, i'm sure many people watching this will have been down that area. it's such a vibrant street where you can normally not move the tourists on either side. there are cafes, shops, street performers, and it is a core pa rt of street performers, and it is a core part of the barcelona tourist scene, and there will have been so many people there, and that's what makes it so devastating. it is a partly pedestrianised street but they have restricted the amount of traffic that can get along there because people just do walk in the road. yes, and it happened in the late afternoon, when people are out having a drink or a coffee, so it

would have been rammed full of people. i mean, it's utterly shocking, to deliberately targeted for that reason. that picture on the metro is of people comforting each other. unable to imagine or believe what it is they have seen. the daily mirror has a wider view of las ramblas. a specific choice has been made by the editors here, hasn't it? the metro might feel it is a free paper picked up by commuters. it doesn't need to sell itself on its front page, maybe. newspapers you have to pay money for have a more shocking front page. there are at least two bodies that have been pixelated out. three bodies on the back. it's shocking thing to see. the skill of editing a paper to see that across the front page tomorrow morning. we've already seen the number of people wounded has grown immensely through the last few hours. 13 dead and around 100 people

wounded. that could change, of course. because of the fact that the van weaved from side to side and just hit as many people as possible. and i think it's really indicative ofan and i think it's really indicative of an attack that can only really have lost that a couple of minutes or so, just how packed those streets were, as you can see from the picture. it is a very wide street and to be able to injure that many people in that sort of short space of time just shows how deliberately the action must be and how crowded it must be. and that for me was reminiscent of nice, wasn't it? when that lori was driven across the promenade. because, again, so many people had gathered in that place where they thought they would be safe. —— when a lorry was driven. i have to warn you, again, a shocking picture here. a man being tended to by police or paramedics, potentially. the emergency services

we re potentially. the emergency services were on the scene very fast because it's such a central place. in terms of picture selection, obviously you are not picture editors yourselves, but do you think it has changed, the kind of photographs newspapers are prepared to put on their front pages in recent years? i think, as you said in the opener, this is something that we are potentially becoming desensitised to, and also something we have to try to be careful not to be desensitised to, because every attack like this is a tragedy. if you were to try to draw a line, and it's very, very difficult, but including pictures of people who are obviously alive is a different choice to including pictures of people who are potentially not alive when families might recognise them, even if they... i mean, iwould recognise a family member if their face was pixelated. people might not be aware they were caught up in the attack,

let alone might have died. yes, and they are much more liberal now with their pictures they show their audiences. that guy's left leg looks very, very seriously injured to me. sol very, very seriously injured to me. so i agree. is his family where he is involved? so i agree. is his family where he is involved 7 i'm so i agree. is his family where he is involved? i'm not sure that's a good one to use given those issues and the child they are looking on. maybe the child knows him... i don't know. a lot of people have phones in their pockets now and they are looking at twitter and they are seeing even looking at twitter and they are seeing even worse looking at twitter and they are seeing even worse things there, so the papers feel they have to respond to that. those things are out there and people are absorbing them and maybe we should reflect that. and maybe we should reflect that. and maybe we should reflect that. and maybe we shouldn't be protected from the true horror of it. yes, and back in the day, when they were black and white, those awful pictures of people dying at hillsborough, continental newspapers publish them

and there was a massive row is the uk papers held back. i don't know, it's a difficult choice. and the headline for the times, "evil strikes again". and in all these cities. and then a woman killed in cha rlottesville by cities. and then a woman killed in charlottesville by a car being driven at the crowd deliberately. none of these people have signed up to any creed, they are just living their lives, but they are being blamed by the people behind it. they regularly claimed they were involved somewhere or another, is. regularly claimed they were involved somewhere or another, ise regularly claimed they were involved somewhere or another, is. if you look at the language crisis uses, they say they are a follower and soldier, and that doesn't mean it's been directed by somebody. there isn't a grand scheme. it could be someone isn't a grand scheme. it could be someone who is inspired by them or not. again, of course, we had an

outpouring of grief and condolences expressed from world leaders to spain to say we stand with you, but then you start to think, how is a city like barcelona meant to protect people and yet remain that kind of place that people want to visit? you can put barriers up, so we've seen barry is where we work around parliament, on westminster bridge, to try to stop vans. i think there's a limit to what you can do apart from trying to go at source and tackle the people behind this because the weapon used here is available to any grown—up. because the weapon used here is available to any grown—upm because the weapon used here is available to any grown-up. it is a sorry state of affairs where every single public square or those fast bridges has to have barriers to protect people, and that may be where we find ourselves, but it is sad that that is the action police and mayers might have to take. sad that that is the action police and mayers might have to takem sad that that is the action police and mayers might have to take. it is and mayers might have to take. it is a difficult balancing act, isn't it? the thing that people come to enjoy, but we expect to be kept safe. you don't want to make a place looked

like a war zone and that's the last thing we want. the houses of parliament are beautiful space and people come to see it and we want them to see it as an open space. it's a place of democracy people can look into and be part of, but if you've got to a wrecked concrete barriers around the people'ssafety, maybe that is what you have to do. we will pause for a second and look ata we will pause for a second and look at a couple of other stories in the ft. not barcelona, but we will have more coverage of what's happening in spain, because as we were mentioning, the police have said the driver of that ban has not yet been arrested. —— of that van. two suspects have been arrested. one is a spaniard and one is moroccan. but for the financial times, though, a—levels day. a rise in the number of pupils gaining top grades. that will worry some people thinking again, exams are getting easier. and

michael gove hit them harder! the only person who might have been sad about that is not their parents but michael gove, who was alarmed that exams seemed to be getting easier, andl exams seemed to be getting easier, and i think the greats have fallen in recent years but they seem to be on the rise again. —— i think the grades have fallen. i'm sure he feels he has a real stake in this! is quite interesting that boys are doing better. having won because i'm at the end of the two—year period and that is happening still. —— it is interesting because at the end of the two—year period you have this one exam. you want there to be a parity so you want boys and girls to be doing roughly the same and is generalising that girls tend to be more diligently studying throughout

their course and the boys tend to do better in the pressure of exams. of course it's a generalisation but these exams, the way the new exams seem these exams, the way the new exams seem to work, the old way seems to favour boys generally and so it would be interesting to see whether that gap increases or whether it does... is the coursework system fairon boys? i does... is the coursework system fair on boys? i think a does... is the coursework system fair on boys? ithinka mixture where both, and were talking generally, but a mixture might be perhaps the way. why not have boy and girl exams? pink and blue! why don't we have that? if you can really... well, you're doing both. you've got a pink and blue stripe. shall we leave it there?” you've got a pink and blue stripe. shall we leave it there? i would do! finally. thank you! can you unpick

this story for us in about 20 seconds? is all going a bit wrong for donald trump. he is saying here in his interview with the american prospect magazine that he was fighting every day with gary cohn, who is the chief advisor, and it is just evidence of a chaotic white house. and north korea is really actually the sort of main foreign policy threat that donald trump is facing at the moment and he... you know, steve bannon poured scorn over what the president has achieved and the us policy on it. but he likes loyalty? so we are told, but steve bannon occupies a different position in the white house. a strategist? but he might go too far with some of his comments! there's another theory about trump that he likes to see his

advisors pitted against each other, to see them fighting for his affections! kind of like he was running the apprentice and i wonder whether this might be part of that. like the offices! not at all! never! don't besmirch your fellow guest! that's it from us. because of the events in barcelona we will be back again at 11:30pm. don't forget you can see the front pages on the bbc news website. if you missed the programme any evening you can watch it later on the bbc iplayer. chris, jessica, thank you very much. see you later. we will bring you the latest from barcelona. hello, as if our weather wasn't complicated enough, we are going to

throw in some tropical air for good measure, and that comes in the shape of this cloud here, which was a hurricane early on, and that has been weakening, and the remnants will be heading towards our shores during the second half of the weekend. before then we have to make do with some showers in this cloud here has been thickening up in the west with longer spells of rain and downpours across notjust northern ireland but wetter weather across the sea to wales as well and then across northern england and scotland. some gusty winds with those downpours. some clearer skies further south and the lowest temperature about 11 or 12. quite a windy day to come on friday and we will start quite wet across the bulk of scotla nd will start quite wet across the bulk of scotland and the rain in the north—east could linger well into the afternoon. behind that, we have some sunshine, fewer showers to greet the day across northern ireland and fewer showers across northern england, though those should move through fairly quickly. the good chance you'll start with a dry and sunny day once again across

lincolnshire and the north—east. a few more filtering up through the bristol channel and into south wales. those stronger winds, we get a squeeze on those and they pushed showers into eastern parts of england by late morning and we could see another dose of rain running across ireland across into wales later in the afternoon. we still have the rain in north—east scotland, so a chilly day there. cooler than today everywhere, not just because of the showers but because of the strong gusty wind. that windy weather will push towards edgbaston later on in the day. things will then start to calm down overnight. we are left with a decent day for most of us on saturday. a breezy day, not as windy with many areas dry. a few showers in the north, mainly across scotland, though not many. still not that one. disappointing in glasgow and 21 or 22 in london. this area of low pressure contain some remnants of what is left of our —— the hurricane

and this is where we see uncertainty in the second—half of the weekend and the of next week probably as well. the wind picks up a bit and this rain moves across the country briefly given us some warmer air on monday. this is bbc news at 11pm. i'm martine croxall. our headlines: 13 people have been killed and more than 100 injured after a van ploughs into crowds at one of barcelona's most famous tourist areas. it was all of a sudden the police just shouted at everyone just to run and there was a really loud kind of crashing noise — i didn't stop to look back. there was just

crashing noise — i didn't stop to look back. there wasjust a kind of immediate stampede in the opposite direction. the white van drove for more than half a mile hitting shoppers and holidaymakers in the busy market area las ramblas. armed police combed the streets for a man seen running from the van. tonight they've arrested two suspects. in other news: a rise in the top a—level grades for the first time in six years, with boys overtaking girls for the first time