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turning wetter in northern sunshine. turning wetter in northern ireland and for much of scotland heading through the day. temperatures up to 18 in the south, the mid—teens in the north. this is bbc news, with the latest headlines. at least 153 people, most of them teenagers and young adults celebrating halloween have died in a crush in the capital seoul. president yoon suk—yeol promises a thorough investigation. translation: a tragedy and disaster | that should not have happened tookl place in the heart of seoul. i hope the people who are injured will get better soon. kent police has confirmed a number of incendiary devices were thrown at a border force centre in dover this morning. as the controversy grows over the home secretary, suella braverman, and allegations of security breaches, her cabinet colleagure michael gove says she "deserves a second chance". voting is under way in brazil —
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will they re—elect the hard right current presidentjair bolsonaro, or his left—wing predecessor luiz inacio lula da silva? thousands of families in south korea are trying to trace relatives they fear might have died in a crush in the capital seoul. at least 153 people are known to have died, most of them teenagers and young adults celebrating halloween in an area full of nightclubs and restaurants. it's thought the crush began in a narrow alley when people in the crowd fell over. from seoul, here'sjean mackenzie. as the bodies are counted
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and the victims are identified, devastating accounts of seoul's halloween night of horror are emerging. thousands packed onto the streets to party until this narrow alleyway became so crowded, people were crushed to death. this is where most people died. most people died here. this man was in the alley. he managed to climb onto a platform to safety, where he watched the horror play out. at first, someone pushed from the back. then from here. it was, like, quite a few times, then i realised something's going to happen. there's no way you can breathe. so everyone lifting up, like... gasps. ..and that's what they're doing, like, taking their last breath and things, so kind of suffocating. others describe how people fell to the floor like dominoes. i didn't sleep till now. i couldn't sleep because i see
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people dying in front of me. this nearby community centre is saturated with grief. families and friends come to register the missing. some get the terrible news that their loved ones are among the dead. waves were coming in from both sides. and more people fell, and i lost my friend. and i turn around and i told the crowd, "you can't come this way. "people are dying." for others, there's no information. this is almost as hard to hear. this woman's son went to work at a club in itaewon last night. i went home. i didn't see him. he didn't come home. he's the only son, the only one i have.
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visiting the scene, the president, too, said he was struggling to process his grief. "something that should never have happened, happened," he says, an acknowledgement that things went horribly wrong. this footage from last year shows police controlling the crowds at the same spot this year. this year, multiple witnesses say this didn't happen. the questions for authorities are how was this crowd allowed to get so out of control and what could have been done to stop this terrible tragedy? but for now, this country is mourning the death of so many of its young. jean mckenzie, bbc news, seoul. kent police have confirmed that a number of incendiary devices were thrown into a border force centre in dover.
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in the last few minutes, robertjenrick the immigration minister said he was being kept updated on the situation. note that he describes it as a serious incident, it is notjust that they were thrown, there are also consequences. i'm joined now by our reporter matt graveling who is at the scene in dover. the news has been somewhat confused, various reports about the man who is thought to have lobbed these devices into the detention centre. what can you tell us about the location and what happened? that you tell us about the location and what happened?— what happened? that is correct, there are mixed _ what happened? that is correct, there are mixed messages - what happened? that is correct, there are mixed messages thatl what happened? that is correct, i there are mixed messages that we have got coming through today, and the most important thing is that we do not yet know a motive for this, despite the three bombs, something like petrol bombs, that were thrown at the centre, which immigrants are
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processed in that centre here in dover. as i look at the scene here around me, despite the camera there is an army bomb disposal unit, with a couple of gentlemen in uniform stood next to it. we are by the bp garage where things finish today, we'll talk a bit more about that in a moment, but we have a number of police cars, five police cars just down this road, and a couple of uniformed officers on the forecourt as well. as you mention, there have been mixed messages coming through here today, but it was about 11:30am today that we started getting reports about a man who had gone to the immigration centre and started throwing petrol bombs. we believe of the three he threw, only two of them went off, and then the fire service were called to put those out, but following that, he drove here to this petrol station, and it is here where he took his own life. i don't know if you can see over my right
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shoulder, but there are a couple of police officers stood next to a white car with a blue tarpaulin over it, which is the car we believe the gentleman drove here. we still do not know any motive for this, that we have heard from the local mp, natalie elphicke, i spoke to her a couple of moments ago, and she is very shocked about what happens today, but she also took to social media saying, i am deeply shocked by the incident at dover today, i have spoken to the immigration minister about this incident, my thoughts are with everyone involved. as i say, we do not know the motive for this attack today, but natalie elphicke said to me that after the attack she spoke to the immigration minister and said, this is a problem, we have and said, this is a problem, we have an immigration crisis, and yesterday alone we saw almost 1000 migrants come to dover. she said it is something that needs to be taken seriously. she has already been speaking to the immigration minister this afternoon. we do not have any
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motive of why this attack took place, but i will believe you briefly with what the home office has told us, a home office spokeswoman said we are very aware of an incident in dover, and police are in attendance, but it would be inappropriate to comment further at this stage. we will be here throughout this afternoon, and will be bringing more information as it comes. the bbc has seen an email which raises more questions about suella braverman's version of events surrounding her resignation as home secretary just over ten days ago. she has said that she rapidly reported her mistake, after she sent a sensitive document from her private email account. suella braverman was re—appointed to the post by rishi sunak when he became prime minister. here's our political correspondent, tony bonsignore. five days on from her controversial reappointment as home secretary and the questions are mounting. suella braverman has insisted she proactively told officials after realising her mistake. but these latest revelations cast fresh doubt over that claim. we now know the original e—mail
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was sent atjust before 7:30am on the morning of the 19th of october in error to the office of another mp. at 8:30am, they responded back to the home secretary, pointing out the mistake. at 10am, she replied back, "please delete the message and ignore". that last message, the bbc understands, was two hours before suella braverman herself told officials about what had happened. a source close to suella braverman said the mistake needs to be seen in the context of her packed schedule. senior ministers are rallying round. suella apologised for the mistake she made and, indeed, resigned from government but the prime minister has made it clear that suella deserves another chance and i'm glad that suella is in cabinet because she is a first rate, front—rank politician. but it raises questions about rishi sunak�*sjudgment in reappointing her as home secretary after just six days.
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a decision he defended at his first prime minister's questions. the home secretary made an error ofjudgment but she recognised that, she raised the matter and she accepted her mistake. and that's why i was delighted to welcome her back into a united cabinet... labour is questioning the judgment of the prime minister. rishi sunak should be replacing her. it was an error ofjudgment - to appoint her to this immensely serious job and to do - so for the sake of a political dealjust in order to get his way into number tenjust shows- a carelessness towards those national security issues. - 0pposition parties are also raising security concerns about the home secretary's use of her personal e—mail, particularly in light of claims today that liz truss had her private messages hacked, when she was foreign secretary. urgent questions are likely to be raised in the commons when mps return tomorrow. tony bonsignore, bbc news.
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