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a police officer in london has been suspended, afterfootage emerged of him kneeling on a man's neck during an arrest. the metropolitan police's deputy commissioner, says the images posted on social media, are extremely disturbing. another officer has been placed on restricted duties and an independent investigation is underway. danny shaw has the details. get off me! get off my neck! yesterday evening in islington. an officer appears to kneel on the neck of a man police are trying to detain. get off my neck! they were called after reports of a fight. the footage, shot by someone at the scene, shows the struggle with police. we've blurred the faces of those involved for legal reasons. at this point, the officer's knee seems to be on the ground, but his hand remains on the man's head.

when i went to see what happened, there was a crowd and his knee was stood on his neck like i told you. when i got there, his knee was on his neck still. the crowd has told him, "take your knee", they were screaming, "take your knee off his neck". so he listened to the crowd and removed his knee. scotland yard believes that in recent weeks, officers have been unfairly targeted for using force after footage of incidences appeared on social media. police say clips tell only part of the story. but on this occasion, the met‘s response to the video has been robust. in a statement, sir steve house, the met‘s second highest ranking officer, said... he went on... the incident comes after black lives matter protests sparked by the death of george floyd in america.

a police officer knelt on his neck for almost eight minutes. after this arrest, the suspect was taken to a police station and examined by a doctor. he's been charged with possession of a knife. danny shaw, bbc news. now on bbc news, it's time for our world. sri lanka: a paradise island of many faiths, popular with tourists all over the world. but the peace is about to be shattered by a series of terror attacks. this is the story of the minutes that followed and how they changed the lives of three people from thousands of miles away. when you walk on a day like today, it's a holiday today. the people are here, looking at the beach, in a way, for hope. the only way we as a family and i think, as a world can recover, is if something good comes out

of something so evil. easter sunday 2019, the luxury shangri—la hotel in the capital, colombo, was packed with visitors enjoying the holiday. i looked through the window, it was a beautiful morning, just like any other normal morning. i opened the door and could hear the nice music in the background. it's very zen—like in shangri—la. kieran from london was staying in the hotel while on business. haneke from australia had booked a last—minute holiday here. everything was done really well. the service, the quality, everything was done at a really high quality. i loved it, those first few days. i was walking through the corridor to the lift and i pressed the button and the lift opened and i got in.

two local men had also checked in. they were caught on security cameras on their way to breakfast. we walked into the restaurant passed all of the stations of food. these two men brushed past me, they were swinging around these big backpacks that i found quite odd at the time. one guy was looking quite intentely around the area. he got quite close to my face and i remember finding that very uncomfortable. the two men had sworn allegiance to the islamic state group and were here to kill tourists. i heard the big thud, the bomb underneath. everything goess silent, you don't hear any sound anymore. literally for a moment, you freeze.

all i remember was hearing a sound coming from my right and i remember feeling a pressure. the next thing i knew, iwas... on the ground. it must‘ve been about five seconds later, you can hear the screaming in the lift next to me. kids were screaming and you could see the jerk—stopping of the movement. the door opened and this is when you saw all of the carnage just in front of you. it was as if there was ash coming from the ceiling. i just saw the wires dropping out of the roof with the walls all shattered. you can hear the water sprinklers. you can see people with blood all over them running around. they were trying to escape. as i looked down and saw that,

i noticed that i was from head to toe covered in blood. i saw the destruction in the room that had been caused and i saw the terror in other people's eyes. i basically thought that we were definitely going to die. david lindsay was in london that day, but his father and brother and sister were staying in the shangri—la hotel. he's american and my mother's english. they are all pictures of them. how old is amelie here? she was probably 14. this is amelie and dad on the beach in california which is where we went every year. amelie was the glue that held the entire family together. she was as close to everyone. dad was the most selfless person you could ever have asked for. david, amelie and daniel's older brother had stayed at home to study for his exams. they were just on holiday really

because they were very adventurous people, they wanted to get to know the world better, develop a global view, really on how things worked as much as possible. they were caught up in the attack on the shangri—la while they were at breakfast. they had gone to get something from the buffet when it happened. and just because of the way they were standing, you know, my dad made it out with barely a scratch but they didn't. amelie and daniel were amongst those rushed to sri lanka's national hospital. dr indika de lanerolle was one of the medical staff trying to save the wounded. a lot of casualties were there, a lot of dead bodies around me. and i still remember ambulances were coming, so people were shouting to each other.

there was quite a lot of people who were affected, a lot of tourists and they were shell—shocked. a lot of people from european countries who have not seen something like this happen. amelie and daniel lindsey couldn't be saved — two of the 35 people who lost their lives in the shangri—la that morning. it wasn't just three luxury hotels that were bombed on easter sunday. the islands christian community was also a target on a day when churches were packed. it is a special day for christians, especially. it is a celebration day. at the zion church on the island's east coast, a young man arrived wearing a large rucksack. brother stanley who was helping

at service spoke to him. he was very young and he had a bag. he was very calm and then later on, i was thinking in different ways how he was looking. i spoke to him and he refused to come in. then, at that time, i didn't feel any danger. i went inside. the zion church recorded the sound of their service starting. explosion screams a huge sound, all the ceilings,

from the stage — one side fall down. this church was one of three bombed that day by other young men in the terorr group operating on the island inspired by the so—called islamic state. it was terrifying, terrifying scene. i've never, never seen in my life that way because i have seen many wars but i have never seen... i have never seen this kind of terror. across the island, another easter service was just finishing at saint sebastian's church in negombo. chandrani and herfamily, devout christians, were in the congregation that day as another suicide bomber

detonated his device. 115 people are believed to have been killed at saint sebastian's — 27 of them children. it was the worst loss of life

in the nine bombings that day. as sri lankans tried to rebuild their lives, the lindsay family was also trying to come to terms with their devastating loss. david was determined to do something positive for sri lanka, so the family established a charity in memory of amelie and daniel to provide support for the hospitals that were so overwhelmed that day. doctors in sri lanka are very good because they've dealt with the civil war for 30 years. they really did everything they could. there weren't enough trolley beds for people, people were being carried into the hospital and treated up against the wall.

as good as the doctors were, they couldn't... there was no way they could save everyone. now, nearly a year on, david has come to colombo to see a delivery of new hospital beds paid for by his charity fundraising in britain. here they are, the trolley beds. and you are in sri lanka to see them? what do you feel? i feel really a deep feeling of pride and gratitude for actually managing to get something done and for everybody who has helped us and allowed this to be possible. these were made in a localfactory and we wanted to source as much of the equipment locally as possible because the country has been hit very hard. every dollar of business we can give to local companies is helping more than just bringing them beds. the fact that you're in this hospital where you have actually seen the place your brother and sister were brought. this is very tough to deal with? very tough.

of course, when i saw that place last time, it was very, very upsetting. it is somewhat comforting to feel that upset replaced with a bit of pride with bringing the trolley beds. providing beds is just the start for the charity. then we go to bigger pieces of equipment and, if we get the funding, we could even build our own hospital. but we'lljust have to see what we can get and how things work out operationally. but i'm very optimistic. the charity is also working with the authorities to improve practical trauma care. and there are plans to help the wider community. we want to try and aid the recovery of the country both socially and economically. and there's a number of ways we're looking at doing that. we're looking at education, we're looking at skills, training, and we're are looking at direct mental health and counselling help. in its purest form, the charity exist to carry forward emily and daniel's values because they're

no longer here to do so. for kieran, now back in sri lanka, the shangri—la bomb was a flashback to the civil war he experienced growing up here as a child. for me, the civil war left a profound mark on my life. i remember as a child it was normal, you know, you look around, you see bombing at night, the middle of the night, you'll hear a shell coming from a big camp. and you'll think that was a very normal event. the war raged for 25 years as tamil insurgents sought to establish an independent state in sri lanka. the conflict killed tens of thousands of people and wounded

and displaced many thousands more. few families were left untouched, but kieran‘s torn apart, caught in the crossfire between insurgents and the sri lankan army. my brother, he was six years older than me. i must have been 11 or 12 at the time. i can see him coming from the senior school, running towards me and i was running towards him. i see him being shot, falling down. so i ran to him and there was a moment of shock, there was a moment of — i was very young. i didn't know what to do. but my father, he loved his son and he said, you know what, i do not care. and he walked into the camp to see the body. and they arrested him. and they kept him for six months for asking that and they tortured him.

kieran‘s father paid smugglers to get him out of sri lanka to britain and safety. kieran claimed asylum and lived with a tamil refugee charity in london. he excelled at school, went to university, and worked with prestigious firms in the city of london. then i decided that there must be a reason that god somehow saw me through this death and destruction on one side and somehow brought me all the way through this journey to england. kieran had set up an educational charity, aiming to help train young survivors of the civil war in technology. surviving the easter bombing gave new impetus and urgency to his plans.

kieran, too, is determined to help sri lankans get back on their feet after his own lucky escape from the shangri—la. this is a country that has given me everything in my life. and ifeel that this kind of enforces why we must — we can only overcome evil by education and empowerment. his charity is now focusing on high—tech training to provide employment and opportunity for the young. how are you? i'm all right. i want to make sure they are learning the machine learning of the world, the ai, the blockchain, whatever we think the future is going to be. two former students of kieran‘s have come to colombo to help him set up his high—tech academy. so i brought someone from india to teach augmented reality, because i'm very...

augmented reality? that's quite — that's pretty advanced. that's right, because you know — one of my things that my passion for these guys were that — when i was studying in sri lanka, if i wanted to learn about hearts i need to go and read like five or six books before i can understand, but because the technology, the augmented reality, you know, you can literally see the heart just literally in front of you. so i wanted to create that curiosity into education. you know, one of the things, guys, you know, when i listen to you guys, it's that — we have this grit within our culture, as a country we have this resilience, amazing resilience. chanting another shangri—la bomb survivor, haneke, like kieran, has her roots in this island. i was born in melbourne, australia, and my family is sri lankan. the first time i ever went was after the end of the civil war. i've been going back

on holidays ever since. there's a weird sense of home when i go back. when you have an experience like this where you think you're about to die, suddenly, all the things that you thought were important to you become quite clearly not that important. i never could have imagined how horrific these things could be and how much devastation it can cause. and we're all human, and seeing other people's pain firsthand... and so i started dine for lanka, which is a not—for—profit fundraiser. and it's focused on food because i think food brings people together regardless of their race or religion or political view or gender. we supported a local sri lankan charity called kind hearted lankans. they're doing all the hard work on the ground, working with us and distributing to help people in terms of their medical needs, people who were impacted by the attacks, in terms

of their financial needs, livelihood, assistance that they require. whether we help by providing prosthetics or beds for people so if they were paralysed they can get out of hospital and move back to their homes. an electric bed where they are not at risk of further spinal injuries. one thing i'm very aware of is that we can't undo what happened. and there's this entrenched pain and grief that a lot of people are dealing with. we can't undo that. butjust bringing a little bit of positivity or hope can keep someone going for a little bit longer. like many sri lankans, chandrani and her daughter are struggling to cope after

the loss of the family breadwinner, diluk. they depend on local people who've rallied around to help. crying those whose lives were destroyed by the bombings still struggle to comprehend these acts of hate. the attacks were an attempt to stir up religious conflict

in this multifaith nation. but appeals for calm by christian leaders helped stop further widespread bloodshed. that is much important, to live together, because they still love, you know, all the communities. as a christian, we love everyone, even we love the people, you know, who hated us. the shangri—la bombing brought three people from thousands of miles away together, with one aim: to let sri lankans know they won't be forgotten. this isn't the sri lanka that i knew and it's certainly not the sri lanka that i know now. this could have happened anywhere in the world and it's —

it's really important when things like this happen to move forward and learn lessons. a lot of the young people are hoping we can put all of this behind and move forward. and if you walk on a day like today, it's a holiday today and people are here on the beach. in a way, for hope. when something terrible happens, you're left with a huge hole in your life. our ultimate hope is that the only way we as a family, and i think as a world, can come to recover is that something good can come out of something so evil. and we've made a start.

hello there. a good chunk of england and wales enjoyed sunny skies on friday, and in that sunshine, it was pretty warm. temperatures reached 29 degrees celsius towards london and south—east england. and then it was a sunny end to what's been a pretty cloudy week. further north—west, though, we had some cooler and fresher air. and what separated the hot from the cooler was this weather front. it brought some rain to parts of northern england, north wales, northern ireland, too. and the front itself, this area of cloud, stretches quite a long way out into the atlantic, and indeed, we've got this bump on the cloud just here. that's known as a wave, and what that will do is it essentially will stop the weather front from moving very far very fast. so, small changes in the forecast as we get on through saturday. it means over the next few hours, we'll continue to see some rain across northern england, north wales, with rather misty conditions over the hills, a lot of low cloud. to the north of this,

a few showers in scotland, a few clear spells as well. and to the south of our front, it's a warm night, temperatures around 15 degrees in cardiff and london. now, into saturday itself, this weather front‘s still with us, slow—moving. the rain turns a bit heavier for a time late morning, north wales, northern areas of england. but you can see all the while, the front doesn't really move very far very fast, so still bringing some damp weather to wales, northern england, the north midlands into the afternoon. south—east of our front, i think the temperatures could well reach the high 20s in the hottest spots, but further north and west, we've got that cooler and fresher feel to the weather. now, for the test match in manchester, well, it's not looking great, really. it's a damp morning here. the rain slowly easing off, i think, as we head through the day, but there will be some disruptions to play here. now, through saturday evening and overnight, here is the same weather front only slowly moving down towards the south—east. so, on sunday, we will have a change in the weather pattern

across east anglia, south—east england, a cloudy start to the day with rain at times. behind that front, brighter skies work in with some sunshine and a few showers into the north—west of scotland. what you will notice, though, particularly across the south east of england and east anglia, is a fresher feel to the weather. those temperatures back down generally into the high teens to low 20s. now, beyond that, looking at the forecast into next week, high pressure looks set to build in, particularly across southern areas, so some dry and bright weather with some sunshine. turning a bit warmer as well as the week goes by. that's your latest forecast. bye for now.

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