welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is mike embley. our top stories: terror on one of barcelona best—known streets, as a van ploughs into a crowd, killing 13, injuring more than 100. i saw people falling to the ground, and i immediately sensed that it was a nice—like event. and people around it ran away, fled away, in panic. and police believe they have stopped a second attempted attack. they have shot and killed several people in the town of cambrils, south of barcelona. these pictures coming to us live. we will be speaking to an eyewitness. president trump says american history and culture are being ripped apart by the removal of confederate monuments. and playground propaganda.

we meet some of the children schooled by is to become suicide bombers. hello. police in spain are hunting the driver of a van which was deliberately driven into crowds of people in barcelona, killing at least 13 and injuring more than 100. the vehicle zigzagged at speed along the city's best—known thoroughfare, las ramblas, sending hundreds of people running for their lives. and, in the past couple of hours, police say they have shot dead four terrorist suspects in the port town of cambrils, south of barcelona. earlier, seven people, including a police officer, were injured when a car drove into them in the town. police are linking the events in cambrils and barcelona. sarah corker has the latest on the day's events. hundreds of holidaymakers, locals, shoppers, running,

screaming, trying to escape from a vehicle being used as a weapon to kill in the centre of barcelona. come on, come on, come on. just come on. another european city under attack. it was just after 5:00pm on a sunny thursday evening when this white van ploughed into pedestrians on spain's most famous boulevard. eyewitnesses say, for half a kilometre, at speeds of up to 80 km/h, the van weaved from side to side, a deliberate attack on innocent people, police said. bodies were left lying on the streets. those nearby trying to help. i saw a white van with the side door open. we heard gunshots,

whether it was the police or from the van, i don't know. didn't hang around for that. we ran into the burger king to get shelter. reporter: what was going to your mind when it was going on? whether we would survive. we were scared they were just going to get in there. they pulled all of the shutters down, just kept us safe, and that was it. i saw people falling to the ground, and that struck my eyes, rather than the car. and i immediately sensed that it was a nice—like event, and people around ran away, fled a way, in panic. then, the van driver abandoned the vehicle and ran away. armed officers searched the surrounding area. police have released a photo of this man, driss 0ukabir, born in morocco, whose documents were used to rent the van. however, latest reports suggest he has told police his

passport was stolen. late into the night, the city centre was on lockdown. two people have been arrested, a spaniard and a moroccan, but police say neither was the driver. the so—called islamic state group said it was behind the attack. translation: i want to express the solidarity of the whole of spain with barcelona, today hit byjihadist terrorism. like other cities around the world before it, cities like madrid, paris, nice, brussels and london, experienced the same pain and insecurity that the city of barcelona is feeling today. and, as people anxiously wait for news of loved ones, the authorities have warned the numbers of dead may rise. a huge security operation is now underway.

investigators are piecing together how this happened, who is behind it, and asking why. 0n the line is fitzroy davies. he was with his friends on a night out in cambrils when he got caught up in events there. very glad you are ok, you and your friends. you are on holiday there. tell us what happened, and the first you knew of all this. we were sitting at the bar, and these girls ran in, ran into the bar, and some people started running past us, and then one of our friends looked down then one of our friends looked down the street, and he says run. the next thing we see this guy come running at us. and then somebody shouted, call the police, call the police. and then next thing, the

police. and then next thing, the police was right there. it was really quick. and then they started shouting at the guy, and then next thing, they just shot shouting at the guy, and then next thing, theyjust shot him. they shot him, and then he fell on the ground, then he got back up. and then... he, like, went towards the police, and then they shot him again, and that was it. i just like then they shot him again, and that was it. ijust like to say then they shot him again, and that was it. i just like to say that everybody is ok, so there is a lot of people may be worried, but we are all 0k. of people may be worried, but we are all ok. that is the main thing i wa nted all ok. that is the main thing i wanted to get across. and talking about being worried, fitzroy, somebody described the man who was running as having an explosive vest on. was he running towards you? he was running away from us, and then he turned around, and then he came running up the street, and then he stopped. and that's when the police car came, stopped. and that's when the police carcame, and then stopped. and that's when the police car came, and then they were shouting at him, and then he was walking around in a circle, and then

they shot him, and then he fell to they shot him, and then he fell to the ground. then he came back up, and he stepped over the fence, and he was smiling at them, and then he came walking to the police, and was, like, taunting him, sort of thing, and then they shot him again, and that was it. and he went down. and fitzroy, you were very, very close to all this. wasn't one of your friends hit as mac yes, one of our friends, he got shrapnel in his leg. he is ok, it is a surface wound, but i think we are going to go to the hospital with him tomorrow and get a tetanus shot. and i understand that in cambrils, just before this, there had been, rather similar in cambrils, just before this, there had been, rathersimilarto in cambrils, just before this, there had been, rather similar to the attack in las ramblas, in barcelona, there had been a car driven into a crowd again, and six civilians, i think one police officer, hurt. we didn't see that, we were just sitting in a bar with a group of friends who we hadn't seen for ages,

so we friends who we hadn't seen for ages, so we didn't really see anything. the first thing we knew that was when we seen people running the street. and that is all we know, thatis street. and that is all we know, that is all i could... fitzroy, street. and that is all we know, that is alli could... fitzroy, had you heard what had been going on already in barcelona 7 you heard what had been going on already in barcelona? i mean, was there a nervousness that? there was, because we had a lot of parents ringing up, because we were at the pub and we had a lot of parents ringing up andjust pub and we had a lot of parents ringing up and just reassuring everybody that we are ok, and things like that. so it was kind of calm. and some of the patrons went out, and we thought it was ok, everything is ok, and then this happened. so we have to decide what we are going to do tomorrow. all of this happening very close to the beachfront promenade in cambrils, and that live shot we have on our screens, the police now saying the situation is under control. thank you very much indeed for talking to us. you and your friends, take care. indeed for talking to us. you and yourfriends, take care. thank you.

we will have much more later in the programme, and on our website. simply go to bbc.com/news, where you will also find a live page with the latest developments. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news: us defence secretary james mattis has warned north korea of strong military consequences if it was to start hostilities. he was speaking after a meeting with japan's foreign and defence ministers in washington. the us and japan have announced they will increase their defence cooperation to deal with the threat from north korea. a ten—year—old rape victim in india has given birth to a baby girl, weeks after a plea for an abortion was rejected by the country's highest court. the victim was allegedly raped by her uncle, who has been arrested. the supreme court turned down the request after a medical panel said her pregnancy was too far advanced, sparking protests. police have issued a red alert on south africa's border to prevent the zimbabwean first lady from fleeing the country. grace mugabe is accused of beating a 20—year—old model in a hotel room nearjohannesburg

with an extension cord. police expected mrs mugabe to turn herself in on tuesday, but she failed to show up. president trump has criticised efforts in a number of us states to remove statues honouring civil war leaders who fought to defend slavery, saying that america's culture and history were being ripped apart. a 32—year—old woman was killed and 20 people were injured at the weekend, when violence broke out at a white nationalist protest against plans to take down one such statue in virginia. 0ur north america editorjon sopel reports from leesburg in virginia. bell tolls does this statute represent heritage or hate, dignity or division? last night, this monument to a confederate soldier, the army from the south in the us civil war, that fought to maintain slavery, was vandalised. today, as we filmed in leesburg,

virginia, the local authorities decided it was time to install closed—circuit tv, to keep a watchful eye on the monument. and this famous landmark of a pretty town was dividing opinion, just as it is across the country. do you believe the statue should come down? no, i don't. like i said, its history. it's not good history, but it's a reminder of what not to repeat in the past. it's a shame, it's a darn shame, you know, that they have to nit—pick stuff like this. should these statues stay or go? i think they should go. i believe these statues should go. it's a representation of past actions that have shackled and chained people both mentally and physically. but it is not only this vietnam vet saluting these monuments. today, donald trump entered the fray, tweeting. .. it was plans to dismantle the statue of general lee that sparked these

hate—drenched scenes in charlottesville at the weekend, which left one person dead. no doubt these people will be cheering the president to the rafters for his comments today. but in durham, north carolina, those people who believe these statues are symbols of america's dark past are taking matters into their own hands. cheering there are statues like this all across the southern states of america. yes, they represent history and heritage. but that is only part of the story. they are also about the toxic state of race relations in america today, and the continuing search of african—americans to find equality and respect. an old soldier who now seems to represent an america uncomfortable about its past, divided about its present, uncertain about the future. jon sopel, bbc news,

leesburg, virginia. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: three years after his capture by so—called islamic state, a yazidi boy is reunited with his family in canada. washington, the world's most political city, is today assessing the political health of the world's most powerful man. indeed, i did have a relationship with miss lewinsky that was not appropriate. in fact, it was wrong. in south africa, 97 people have been killed today in one of the worst days of violence between rival black groups. over the last iten days, 500 have died. chanting: czechoslovakia must be free! russia is observing a national day of mourning for the 118 submariners who died on board the kursk.

we're all with them now, within our hearts. the pope has celebrated mass before a congregation of more than 2.5 million people, in his hometown of krakow. "stay with us, stay with us," chanted this ocean of humanity. "well, well," joked the pope, "so you want me to desert rome?" this is bbc news. the latest headlines: three days of mourning have been declared after a van deliberately ploughed into a crowd in the centre of barcelona, killing 13 people. as the security operation gathers pace, four people, described as terrorists, have been killed in the town of cambrils, south of barcelona. let's stay with our main story now.

i spoke to michael s smith, who's a terrorism analyst. he explained the apparent complexity of the attack. it says you haven't a pretty dynamic plot or set of plots that have been unfolding in spain today. so far what we can surmise is that people involved with this set of actions are in direct communication with people inside the islamic state so—called caliphate because you had an exceptionally quick claim of responsibility for this attack. the fa ct responsibility for this attack. the fact that it was exceptionally quick, what does that say? again it says there is some level of interaction between the people involved and the people inside the so—called caliphate. it may be that people have been deployed to spain to help co—ordinate the series of activities that would not be without precedent. of course the man who was a key participant in the november 2015 attack in paris had been

deployed into europe to co—ordinate attacks before that attack. he travelled back to syria and then travelled back to syria and then travelled back to europe to participate in the terror plot. so that's one possibility. another is simply that a group of people in spain who are supportive of islamic state have heeded the call to execute attacks in europe, at that have been calling for, and they reached out to group members of internet or some sort of encrypted text on or chat applications. there isa text on or chat applications. there is a long list of tools that they are using to engage with people around the world and they produced a video or something like that that firmly attribute of the attack to the group and the group is in possession of that link of attribution to the group. we get told off at low tech attacks like this as they are called are relatively easy to carry out and a sign that the group is getting

squeezed on the battlefield, but it is getting desperate. you discount that? i would say that flimsy analysis. islamic state has been employing people in europe to execute attacks for a while. there was an attack in brussels before islamic state declared its caliphate, months before that, by somebody who was ostensibly sent into europe to do just that. and so while the loss of territorial holdings is problematic for the group, ithink holdings is problematic for the group, i think the efforts to execute attacks in the west and punish the so—called disbelievers, as they call us here, that's something that in the strategic calculation of the group's leadership has always factored in their capacity to build goodwill amongst the many jihadis their capacity to build goodwill amongst the manyjihadis around the world whom they are trying to move into the group's ranks, from groups like al qaeda, which have refused to merge with it. will there be some alarm that there can be two so full

bottle attacks so close together in spain? absolutely. -- four from four. you have to keep in mind the so—called theatre of terrorism. it's one thing for a horrible attack like the one that occurred earlier in the day, if you can arrange for a cascading series of attacks that will certainly amplify the fear factor and that's an important ingredient in this larger recipe for their efforts to terrorise us here in the west. the terror attack in barcelona has been claimed by so—called islamic state, the latest they've carried out in europe this year. but on the battlefields in iraq and syria, is has been collapsing as it's driven out of its strongholds. but as they go, they're leaving behind a deadly legacy. children schooled in hate and trained for combat. more than 2,000 boys are thought to have graduated from is military training. 0ur middle east correspondent quentin sommerville has the second part of his report on what is calls its ‘lion cubs' of the caliphate. turning a child into

a suicide bomber takes time. and it might start here. in raqqa, they crowd round to watch a man, caged like an animal. the so—called islamic state charge sheet reads that he harassed a woman. his punishment is children's entertainment. war brutalises. growing up in conflict, destruction and violence become routine. mosul and elsewhere became fertile recruitment ground for the islamic state group. is didn'tjust concentrate its attentions here on the battlefield. it also moved into homes and into classrooms and there they filled young minds full of tales ofjihad, of suicide bombers and of conquering the west. so even though the fighting has stopped, they've left behind a toxic legacy, a new generation of hate and that will be difficult to erase. and the songs from their propaganda

videos soon made their way into playgrounds and children's mouths. boy sings this boy can't forget the songs, and he can't forget is. he says their education was aboutjihad and how to blow yourself up, and teaching them how to use weapons and how to take a gun apart. he says, "yes, they were scary, they cut off heads. we'd get 15 lashes for a haircut like this." recruitment started here in the classroom. bashir is a tutor in mosul. translation: children are fertile ground. schools and curriculums are the way to train the students and brainwash them, until they're ready tojoin military training and take pa rt in battles. when is arrived, they destroyed

the existing curriculum and created another. in words and pictures, they make war and destruction commonplace. kids learn to read the clock by looking at timebombs. in arabic, the differences between big and small, long and short, are shown with bazookas, bullets and rockets and gym class ends with lessons, a guide to stripping and cleaning a kalashnikov. 0ther armed groups have used children to fight before. it's a war crime but is turned it into an efficient process. in turkey, i met maqmood. he faught with rebels in syria and then is. it's been a shattering experience for him and his family.

translation: when i came back someone said to me, "you are a loser and if i were you i wouldn't have done what you have done, no human being should. this is called failure." ijust keep thinking of that word "loser." the islamic state was formed in a torment and it has destroyed more than just cities. it has ruined lives, warped and stalled the future of an entire generation. repairing that damage will be an even greater task than rebuilding these ruined streets. quinton sommerville bbc news. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news. the us navy says it has lost confidence in the commanding officer of a us warship and two of his senior colleagues, after a fatal collision off the coast of japan earlier this year. they are among 12 sailors to be disciplined after seven crew members were killed in a collision between the uss fitzgerald and a philippines cargo vessel in june. fire fighters are struggling to control two major blazes in central portugal that have cut off a village of 2,000 people, according to local officials.

the fires broke out on tuesday evening and have so far left 92 people injured, seven seriously. there's a warning that even hotter weather is on the way for the region in the coming days. a 12—year—old yazidi boy has been reunited with his family, three years after being captured by so—called islamic state militants in iraq. his mother, who now lives in canada, only discovered her son was alive last month, as the bbc‘s adam mcilrick reports. his report contains some flash photography. flanked by family and photographers, this was a moment worth cap on. mother and son together again. this 12—year—old yazidi boy was given a heroes welcome to what is now his new home in winnipeg, canada. translation: i am

new home in winnipeg, canada. translation: iam happy new home in winnipeg, canada. translation: i am happy and very thankful to anybody who had something to do with the reuniting with my mother. emad reserved special thanks for his uncle and the canadian government for making this possible, a day few thought would ever come. emad and his family were ca ptu red ever come. emad and his family were captured by so—called islamic state in 2014, when the militants took control of their town in northern iraq. two years later his mother and four of her six children escaped to a refugee camp before they were granted asylum in canada. as emad, he was later sent to stay with one of his uncles, where he recovered from his ordeal. this photo of the boy was taken just after his rescue. the image was shed on social media and discovered by his mother last month. 0nly and discovered by his mother last month. only then did she know her son was still alive. translation: i

am very happy and thankful and thank god that we got here safe and sound. —— we got here. god that we got here safe and sound. -- we got here. the end of an incredible journey and a new one in a new country about to begin. let's leave you with that live shot from the spanish town of cambrils, just south of barcelona. spanish police have said in the last few hours they shot dead four suspected terrorists, allegedly linked to the van attack in barcelona earlier, which killed at least 13 people and injured hundreds of others. a vehicle was deliberately driven into pedestrians earlier. the bomb squad is trying to figure out whether the bomb —— man was wearing and

explosive vest. they say the situation is now under control. friday is looking a bit cooler across the board, and there'll plenty of showers around, too, some of them merging together to produce longer spells of rain, particularly across the north and the west of the uk. we the west of the uk. start the day on a fine note in central, we start the day on a fine note in central, southern and eastern areas. showers from the word go in the north of the uk. longer spells of rain in the north—west of scotland and heavier bursts in eastern areas. some sunshine in the south and sunshine for northern ireland. temperatures starting off at about 12- 13 temperatures starting off at about 12— 13 for glasgow and belfast. the england and wales most of the showers in northern and western areas. eastwood starting dry. more ofa areas. eastwood starting dry. more of a breeze around. temperatures 15— 17 celsius. the breeze stronger across the western coast. digging up around the irish sea coast. longer spells of rain across scotland. rain

will push into wales, western parts of england, later. temperatures not that great. feeling chilly across the north of scotland. temperatures low to mid teens at best. further pulses of rain moving through. plenty of showers during friday night. as we reach the early hours of saturday, still little bit dry and breezy. there will be a few chilly spots as well in some rural places. for saturday we are in between weather system and it looks fairly dry for many areas. still a few showers in northern and western areas but aside from that plenty of dry weather. still breezy. not feeling bad in the sunshine. temperatures in the low 20s in east and better. and and northern ireland. this area of low pressure will contain the remnants of what was x are came —— the ex— arik on.

we start sunday on a fine note in northern and eastern areas and then we have rain spilling into southern and western areas through the day. the extent of it and how will heavy it will be uncertain at the moment. into monday we have warm air in the south. cooler air coming down from the north on tuesday. this is bbc news. the headlines: police in spain are hunting for the driver of a van which was deliberately driven into crowds of people in the city of barcelona, killing at least 13 and injuring more than 100. the spanish prime minister, mariano rajoy, said jihadist terrorism was to blame. so—called islamic state claims it was behind the attack. in a fresh development, the government of catalonia says police believe they have stopped a second attempted attack, shooting dead several people in the town of cambrils, south of barcelona. the authorities say four suspected terrorists were wearing

what appeared to be suicide belts. president trump has criticised efforts in several us states to remove statues honouring civil war leaders who fought to defend slavery, saying that america's culture and history were being ripped apart. he said the controversial monuments were beautiful and would be greatly missed. plans to take down a statue in virginia last weekend led to violent clashes in which a woman was killed. now on bbc news, panorama. looking forward to your summer holiday abroad? better hope you're not stuck on a flight with this lot. 0n panorama tonight, we investigate the rise in drunk and disorderly passengers, and the chaos they are bringing to uk flights. when people were getting on the plane, they were really clearly very drunk. a panorama survey of uk cabin crew

reveals the scale of our problem with booze in the skies.