this is bbc news. in the past hour, it's been confirmed that the seven—year—old british boyjulian cadman was one of the victims of the barcelona terror attack. the headlines: the police investigating the attacks that claimed 1a lives say they've say they've seized more than 120 gas canisters in the house which exploded in alcaner on wednesday. and police are unsure whether the man suspected of driving the van used in the attack on las ramblas is still in spain. earlier today the country's king and queen attend a special mass in barcelona to honour those killed in the catalonia attacks. fraudsters aiming to scam people out their pension could soon face fines of up to half a million pounds, as the government moves to tighten restrictions on cold callers. 500 people are thought to be dead after floods across south asia. the red cross say five million people have been affected in bangladesh alone. and around the world in much more than 80 days.

12 racing yachts set sail from liverpool on their 40,000 mile round the world trip in the clipper world yacht race. and coming up: a look at the us mexican border and the stories from the people who live their life in the borderlands that's in life in the shadow of the wall at liz30pm. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. spanish police say a 12—strong terror cell that carried out two attacks in the country, killing 1a, had collected 120 gas canisters and was planning to use them in vehicle attacks. police have also confirmed today that seven—year—old british born julian cadman was killed in the barcelona terror attack — he was in the country

on holiday with his mother, who is still being treated in hospital. as relatives mourn the dead, the hunt continues for this man younes abouyaaquob, who police believe may have been the driver of the van that hit dozens of people on barcelona's las ramblas. wyre davies reports. the pyrenean mountain town of ripoll, where eight of those involved or connected with the attacks in barcelona and cambrils came from. in this town ofjust 10,000 people, investigators are asking if this man, abdelbaki es satty, imam of the local mosque, was involved in directing those attacks. one theory being looked into is that the imam was killed in an explosion which destroyed a bomb factory in the town of alca nar last wednesday, prompting the others to carry out the attacks in barcelona and cambrils. today, police said they found 120 gas canisters at the destroyed

house, which they think may have been intended to make a massive bomb. the focus of this investigation is now very much on the imam, abdelbaki es satty. this was his tiny flat at the top of a building in the town. his bedroom has since been emptied everything by police. now, according to people at the mosque, he left two months ago on an extended trip to morocco, but we know from his flatmate here, who won't be filmed, and from other people in the town, that he was here as recently as last tuesday, when he suddenly left. all that's left here is his small koran and his empty bedroom. this morning i spoke to the devastated father of two of the attackers from ripoll, mohammed and 0mar hychami. he blames the imam for radicalising his sons and the others. translation: i've lost my two sons. i can't forgive them for what they've done, but they've left me

and their mother with nothing. what happened to my boys, mohammed and omar? police across the region are still hunting for the main suspect, younes abouyaaqoub, who is thought to have driven the van that killed so many people in barcelona. this morning, king felipe and queen letizia of spain lead a memorial service in barcelona's famous sagrada familia cathedral. in this often divided country, people are trying to come together to remember those killed in catalonia, support the injured. wyre davies, bbc news, ripoll. the latest development is the very sad news that the seven—year—old boy julian cadman, was of australian and british jewel nationality,

julian cadman, was of australian and britishjewel nationality, has been confirmed as being killed in the terrorist attack. so much hope across the world that some good news could come out of this darkness, that this terrified little boy could be found perhaps, just run away, but those hopes faded when the police said they were no longer searching for missing people. we have received a statement from his family via the australian government, which says" julian was a much loved and adored member of our family. he was sadly taken from us. he was so energetic, funny and cheeky, always bringing a smile to ourfaces. funny and cheeky, always bringing a smile to our faces. we are so blessed to have had him in our lives and we hold his memory dear to our hearts. we would like to thank all of those who helped us in searching forjulian. your kindness was incredible during that time. we also acknowledge we were not the only

family to be affected by the events. 0ur family to be affected by the events. our thoughts are with all those affected." the identities of all those who lost their lives have been released, their nationalities anyway. what is immediately obvious is that there were many tourists enjoying a holiday likejulian caught up in the attack. foreign offices around the world supporting the families, the victims and those who remain in hospital, who have still been treated for their injuries, including our own foreign 0ffice injuries, including our own foreign office who have also released a statement following the news of julian's death, saying "we are assisting the family who have our deepest sympathies at this time. our staff are doing all they can to support them, working with our australian colleagues and the spanish authorities." let's join our

correspondent, gavin lee, in barcelona following the latest developments. as i was saying, there was a lot of hope for a short while thatjulian was a lot of hope for a short while that julian may was a lot of hope for a short while thatjulian may be found. a lot of people pinning on that hope to help haul them through this awful tragedy. i think people wanted it to be true because on friday morning we knew that the last known whereabouts of the seven—year—old, julian cadman, who was born in britain and lived in australia with a jewel nationality, his grandfather sent a message on facebook to appeal for information of his last whereabouts in las ramblas. his mother was here withjulian, in las ramblas. his mother was here with julian, they were attending in las ramblas. his mother was here withjulian, they were attending a wedding in spain. the morning after, that message of hope, appeal for information, went worldwide because no information ofjulian, and i think part of the problem is his

fatherjohn is still in hospital with leg injuries and when it comes to the father, andrew who was here yesterday and he went to the mortuary to identify him. i think you are right, for lots of people there has been hoped. i have been speaking separately to the spanish authorities, who said all the way through there was no sense of anyone who witnessed the boy's whereabouts and it was a diminishing hope. in the last hour we have had the australian government, the spanish authorities and the british and foreign & commonwealth office saying he has died. borisjohnson said on twitter it is heartbreaking news and full sympathy with the family. we heard the statement a short while ago that the sympathy is with them for this tragedy, but it's the first identify british victim of the attacks. the youngest, a seven—year—old boy. we also know of

a three—year—old spanish boy who has not been named who was also killed in the attacks. yes, that loss of life clearly isn't deterring people from continuing with their holidays in spain and locals continuing to shopin in spain and locals continuing to shop in the area, in las ramblas, it has been very full in the last 48 hours. yes, you can see behind me, people continuing life and going shopping. after the attacks in brussels, berlin and paris, people talk about defiance being back. it is quite flighty, if there's a noise a couple of days ago people run from the square, but at the same time people are coming back, getting on with things, but the authorities are still in the middle of a manhunt. they say there is terror cell of 12 people, four have been arrested,

five killed and they believe two of them accidentally killed themselves in an explosion when they were testing bomb—making material in a house in alcaner. there are two chief suspects, younes abouyaaquob is still on the run. police say they have identified the driver but at the same time they are not confirming it is this 22—year—old who is still on the run. it is believed to be the driver. 0ne who is still on the run. it is believed to be the driver. one other point at the centre of this, we heard earlier from point at the centre of this, we heard earlierfrom our colleague who interviewed the father of two of the dead suspects. he said his sons were a group of eight moroccan boys who went to the same mosque where he believes they were influenced and radicalised by the local imam, a man called abdelbaki es satty, who also hasn't been identified but it's 14

may be one of the two who died in the explosion at the house in alcaner. thank you, much more from gavin throughout the day. you can also keep up—to—date with the latest developments from all of our correspondents in spain on the bbc news website. finland has observed a minute's silence this morning for the victims of a stabbing attack in the city of turku in which two women were killed and eight injured. investigators are treating it as the country's first terror attack. one of those injured — a british paramedic, hassan zubier — has described to the bbc how he tried in vain to save the life of one of the victims. iran against him and screamed. he stood up, he ran away, i ran after him a couple of metres. he turned around, showed the knife. he didn't say anything and then he ran away and i looked back at the girl and saw her injuries. so i ran there immediately, straight to her.

i tried to stop the blood coming up. yeah, tried to save her life. companies selling and arranging pension plans are to be banned from making unsolicited phone calls, and sending emails and text messages to prospective customers. the government says it's trying to tackle pension scams after fraudsters tricked elderly savers out of nearly five—million pounds in the first five months of this year. here's our business correspondent, joe lynam. chas drew lives in the forest of dean. he invested his retirement savings into a fund which did not deliver what was promised. the company has gone bust and he does not know how much of his money he will ever get back. pretty sick. i don't think i'm stupid and yet you think, how could you have been sucked in? rather than having a pension that i knew i could rely on,

i have a zero pension right now. what i am doing is managing to cash in one of the investments, the smaller one, but in little bits, which is giving me an income. since the restrictions on how we invest our pension savings were lifted three years ago, allowing people to spend their savings as they wished, 3,000 people have been defrauded by an average of £15,000, much of that arose from cold calls from bogus companies. £43 million worth of pensioners‘ funds were scammed since april 2014. that's a significant problem. it's preying on your parents, my parents, on the elderly and vulnerable, and we want to stop it. what the government wants to do is make it illegalfor companies to call you up cold to talk about pensions without prior permission. and even if you do give the permission, it needs to be with an established company with regular, up—to—date accounts, so you cannot transfer

money to a bogus entity. but this ban on cold calls cannot and will not apply to foreign companies. age uk welcomes the clamp—down on cold calls, but says the public should remain vigilant. their message is — if in doubt, hang up. joe lynam, bbc news. the prime minister of bangladesh, sheikh hasina, is visiting the northern part of the country to assess damage caused by the worst flooding in almost 30 years. floods in nepal, bangladesh and india are thought to have killed about 500 people and are expected to worsen. according to the red cross, in bangladesh alone, five million people have been affected, with over three hundred thousand displaced. from there, sanjoy majumder reports. flooding on a scale that bangladesh has not seen in decades. water where once roads existed, entire villages washed away. people trying to salvage what little can be retrieved. in this case, a mattress

floating in the water. when you have nothing left, every little possession is invaluable. this used to be nur hussein's home. he tells me how the water rose without warning at night, swirling through his house. translation: i saved my brother and his wife and came back to get some clothes and blankets, but by then it was too late for me to get away. i had to spend the night on a tree. there's now a sense of desperation among the survivors. aid workers bringing supplies of fresh water are soon surrounded, but there is simply not enough to go around, leaving behind angry and frustrated villagers. those who were lucky enough to escape have ended up in relief camps. this one is built on a narrow embankment surrounded by water. there are 2,000 people living here along with cattle and the problem is, with most

of their homes washed away, they are going to be here a while. with so much water around and people squeezed into every inch of dry land, there's now a fear that disease from contaminated water could spread rapidly among the survivors. sanjoy majumder, bangladesh. the headlines on bbc news: seven—year—old julian cadman, with dual british and australian citizenship, has been confirmed as one of the victims to die in the terrorist attack in barcelona. police investigating the attacks that claimed 14 lives say they've seized more than 120 gas canisters in the house which exploded in alcaner on wednesday. and police are unsure whether the man suspected of driving the van used in the attack on las ramblas is still in spain. fraudsters aiming to scam people out of their pension could soon face fines of up to £500,000, as the government introduces new measures to tackle

cold—callers. john watsonjoins us john watson joins us now with the sport news. tottenham and chelsea have just kicked off in the premier league. spurs will play all of their home games at wembley this season. huddersfield continued their superb start to the season with their second win in as many matches, with a 1—0 victory over newcastle, in what was their first home game in the top flight in 45 years tim hague reports. another step into the unknown for david wagner and his huddersfield town team. their first match in the top flight for 45 years, not a moment of this. you sense the players knew exactly what was

expected of them. against another promoted side, newcastle, the terriers put on the pressure, then soaked it up at the other end. that save proof that rafael benitez‘s side were farfrom save proof that rafael benitez‘s side were far from being bullied and went into half—time level, only to then go behind straight after. 45 yea rs then go behind straight after. 45 years waiting for a goal, and what a goal. well done, mr chairman, well done mr moye. perez the very guilty party, and despite their best effo rts party, and despite their best efforts of difficult week for the away side was completed by this defeat. huddersfield are well and truly back in the top division mope. two wins from two and this is, no step into the unknown now. for

ourselves we were excited, we were sure it would work and we have seen it worked in the first two games, with two clean sheets. everybody knows how difficult it is to get a clea n knows how difficult it is to get a clean sheet in the premier league with such high quality offensive players everyone has. great britain have won the team gold medal at the european eventing championships in poland. nicola wilson also took individual bronze. riding bulana in the showjumping, wilson could afford two penalties to secure the team gold but managed a perfect round. that confirmed britain's triumph, and her own bronze individual medal. germany claimed team silver, with sweden finishing third. i can't put into words how impressed iam by i can't put into words how impressed i am by how the riders rode and stuck to the system. you can probably hear i'm emotional but

that's no bad thing. if they ride to the system, they can only do their best and they all rode exactly as we trained and as they're capable of. mo farah will run his last ever track race in the united kingdom at the birmingham grand prix in around half an hour's time. but there's been plenty of action already. kyle langford, who made the mens 800m final at the london world championships, managed a sixth place finish today, just behind fellow countryman elliot giles. the race was won by botswana's nigel amos. fresh from helping great britain win the 4x100m men's relay gold at the world championships, cj ujah won today's exhibition 100m race. he pipped james dasaolu and zharnel hughes in a time of 10.08 seconds. and dina asher—smith went in the women's100m. she came home in fifth place, with a 11.21 second finish. jamaica's elaine thompson took the victory, after missing out on a medal at the world championships. and england's men have

opened their eurohockey campaign with a 6—0 win over poland. two goals each from mark gleghorne and sam ward alongside strikes from chris griffiths and david condon made for a comfortable win in amsterdam. they next play germany tomorrow afternoon, probably the pick of the games in pool b. and despite their win, england know they will need to improve. we were just sloppy all over the place really. too many bobbly passes, too many passes just out of reach. just the real basics that we need to make sure we get right the time, where we want to get to in world hockey. it doesn't matter who we are playing against, we got away with it today against the lesser opposition, we need to be bringing that out every day. scotland's women earned their first

point of the tournament — sharing a goalless draw with ireland. nikki lloyd had their best chance. they'll play england in their final group game on tuesday. that is all the sports are now. you can keep up—to—date with all of the stories this afternoon on the bbc sport website including tottenham's clash with chelsea. i will have more for you in around an hour's time. the iraqi army has begun an offensive to retake tal afar — the last major city in the country held by so—called islamic state. the iraqi prime minister, haider al—abadi, said the militants had no choice other than to leave or be killed. sarah corker reports. iraqi armed units head for the city of tal afar, 80 kilometres west of mosul. troops have the area surrounded and for several days, warplanes bombed is positions. so—called islamic state has held it since 2014. in a televised speech,

the iraqi prime minister announced the start of the ground offensive to retake the city. translation: i told them to either surrender or die. as we promised before, we promise now, we will continue the liberation process. it's five weeks since the iraqi government declared victory in mosul, iraq's second city, after a fierce nine—month battle. around 2,000 is militants are thought to remain in tal afar. thousands of civilians have fled under the cover of darkness for weeks now. it's not known how many remain. translation: if they had caught us, they would've given us a bullet to the head. thank god we fled. the situation over there is dire. they have no food, water anything to drink. the un has warned of a new wave of displaced civilians with fighting intensifying, and if the iraqi troops succeed

in liberating tal afar, it will be a severe blow to the is presence in iraq. the north norfolk town of cromer was reportedly in lockdown last night as disorder forced pubs and bars in the resort to shut. norfolk police said extra officers were on patrol to provide reassurance to the local community. some comments on social media have linked the disorder to the arrival of travellers in the area, although this has not been confirmed by police. earlier today i spoke to the member of parliament for north norfolk, norman lamb. this is one of the lowest crime areas of the country. a beautiful seaside town. never experienced anything like this in the past. and hope it never happens again in the future. but certainly from the people i've talked to in the town today, what happened yesterday was pretty intolerable. and it's really important that the police deal very firmly with the perpetrators of this.

what have people been telling you, norman? is it more than just a rowdy crowd drinking too much? did this feel like something that was targeted, organised? yes, quite intimidating. i mean, i'vejust been in the local indian restaurant, and they were confronted by 30—40 people behaving in a very intimidating way, just taking a drink out of the display fridge, effectively stealing it, including a bottle of champagne and loads of beer. but behaving in a very intimidating way towards the staff and other customers, who were frightened by it. the owner's wife had her arm trapped in the door deliberately by one of the people as they were leaving. they had concerns that there were police nearby who didn't intervene. so that's something i've already taken up with the local police. i've asked to meet with the chief constable to discuss the policing of this incident. but certainly, you know, nobody

should be above or beyond the law. and it's really important that intimidating behaviour of that sort is dealt with very firmly. norman, briefly, who do you think is behind the trouble? there are rumours on social media that it could be for travellers. we know that hasn't been confirmed at all by the police. but there are a new group of travellers in the area. well, i am told that about 30 motorhomes — not caravans, motorhomes — arrived in grosvenor on friday. parked in one of the car parks right on the promenade, staying illegally overnight. and that it appears to have been people who came in those motorhomes who have been causing the intimidating and aggressive behaviour. now, i don't care what we call them, but nobody can behave in this way. and when people behave in a criminal and violent or aggressive way, then the law needs to be very firm with that.

and it's not tolerable for a seaside town like cromer to have to put up with this. the clipper round the world yacht race has set off from albert dock in liverpool. 12 teams will spend a year sailing the globe in a 40,000 nautical mile race, featuring 700 participants over eight stages. the first leg of the race is a 35 day voyage across the atlantic to uruguay. our correspondent andy gill was at the docks as the teams prepared to set off and said not all of the crews were experienced sailors. about 40%of the people on the crews have never done any ocean sailing before. of course, they have been trained. with me is the founder of the race. why do people put themselves through this? i think there is a sense of adventure in people. they want to do something a bit different, a bit special with their lives.

they want to do something and say, i've done that, and be proud. you were the first man to sail solo, non—stop around the world. when you see them go out, do you have a hankering to think, i want to do that again? yes but of course, i did it on my own. they have all this crew here, it's slightly different! i see them and think, yes, i would quite like to be going. when they go through the training, do you ever find that people who put themselves forward, do you think, actually, they are not going to make it? yes, we do. it usually turns up in the first week of training. normally they would discover it for themselves, and they say, this isn't for me. there may be the odd person who you have to say to them, best drop out now. what do you think will be the most difficult thing for people who have not done it before to get used to? living in such a confined space, having to give and take. the discipline of a boat, the teamwork that is necessary.

you can't switch channels when the weather gets nasty, you've just got to live through it. the boat is your priority throughout. look after the boat, you will be all right. that's something they have to get used to, and that is what i keep telling them. look after the boat, it will look after you. thousands of people we can see here, this is a very big day for liverpool as well, because of its maritime history? liverpool's special like that. liverpool has a maritime personality. so when you throw an event, anything to do with the sea in liverpool, people come out to watch it. you have great crowds turning up, which is very exciting for the crews, to have that sendoff. and when the crews come back, they will be different people from when they set off, won't they? most certainly. that inner confidence that comes from taking on nature in the raw, saying, i have been through things that people can't believe. 80—foot waves, things like that.

they can say, i've done that. thank you very much indeed. the 12 yachts will be back in liverpool for the end of the race in july next year. the latest headlines on the way. first, a check on the weather. hello. cloud and patchy rain pushing across south—west england and wales this afternoon. but further east, there are some good spells of sunshine. and whilst the cloud may build through the afternoon, many places away from wales, south—west england and northern ireland will stay largely dry for much of daylight hours. certainly a much improved day across northern ireland and scotland, although temperatures here, 16 or 17 celsius up to 21 or 22 for eastern england. some outbreaks of rain push their way across more southern