sheffield united and brighton went through. but the biggest drama was saved for the last match of the day at old trafford, where manchester united beat fulham. joe wilson reports. match officials make decisions. they don't decide how footballers and managers behave. aleksandar mitrovic opened the scoring for fulham against manchester united. they were still leading when willian blocked this shot with his hand. it took a replay to decide it, but that was a red card for him. mitrovic confronted the referee, achieved nothing except getting himself sent off to bruno fernandes, scored the penalty and now united were playing against nine. immediately scored again. sabitzer. what would fulham's manager do? not much. marco silva was there? yes. after arguing earlier, fulham's manager had been sent off too. three red cards, three reds goals. bruno fernandes finished it. goodness. well, here's a calming glimpse of the brighton coastline. they'd migrated again. grimsby town and the haddock�*s

inflatable excitable. it's this sense of occasion which makes and remakes the fa cup�*s reputation, we're all reminded of its purpose because we can see how much it means to grimsby. league two grimsby wore salmon pink, premier league brighton in stripes. they keep finding and developing exciting players. evan ferguson, 18 years old, scored twice. surely a club with trophy potential. we all felt a little bit cruel when the score got to 5—0, but swapped the haddock for a seagull. the significance just changes hands. and goal of the day — how about this from tommy doyle for sheffield united to knock out blackburn 3—2. he said it was his best goal ever. and who'd argue? joe wilson, bbc news. here is the fa cup semifinal draw. manchester city, who hammered burnley 6—0 yesterday, will play championship side sheffield united, who beat blackburn 3—2 and brighton, who beat grimsby 5—0, will face manchester united. arsenal have extended their lead at the top of the premier league to eight points after beating managerless crystal palace at the emirates, in the only match

in the premier league on sunday. the gunners got off the mark thanks to a smart finish by gabriel martinelli. and that lead was doubled thanks to bukayo saka. arsenal were comfortable in the second half. granit xhaka made it three before palace, who sacked former gunners midfielder patrick vieira this week as their head coach, pulled one back. saka then completed the win, to make it 4—1 with his second of the day. mikel arteta's side now well clear of their nearest rivals, manchester city. the energy that we put in right from the game we were really determined and focused and we left thursday in the past and we played well and when the game. well and winn the game. well and win the game. after playing 120 minutes you have to go back and play against a team today who had a lot of needs. they have been tough to beat in the last two games and we were really dominant and won the game. sergio perez has won the saudi arabian grand prix ahead of team—mate max verstappen

and britain's george russell ben croucher reports. sport can sometimes be a numbers game, take max verstappen, starting in 15th for the saudi arabian grand prix. his team—mate sergio perez started first but wasn't there by the time they reach the first corner. fernando alonso�*s lead was short—lived, sergio perez passed him and soon put daylight between him and the rest of the field. max verstappen was flying too, that's lewis hamilton in front. or was, anyway. for a track that normally provides crashes, lance stroll�*s retirement brought out the only safety car, which pushed verstappen closer to the front runners. his right foot did the rest. it is victory at the saudi arabian grand prix! the chequered flag greeted with a mexican wave, with max verstappen taking second. regardless of where they start,

this red bull is in a class of one. after the six nations was done and dusted with ireland's victory over england yesterday, domestic matters are back on the agenda. and the premiership rugby cup went all the way to extra time today, with exeter getting the better of london irish. an early jacob atkins�* penalty put irish ahead in west london, but aidon davis�* tryjust before the break in extra—time sealed the win for exeter, 24—20. it's the second time in as many years that irish have lost the final after extra time. the victory for exeter gives them a third domestic cup since promotion to the top flight in 2010. and that's all the sport for now.

screaming. i'm at the men arena in manchester, there's a bombjust gone off in the foyer. 0k, just hold the line. go that way. the main concourse has had a very loud bang go off. evacuating the station immediately. it's definitely a bomb. people injured, at least 20 casualties. 10:31 may 22, 2017. salman abedi detonates a bomb in the city room entrance to the manchester arena. so we've got mass—casualties, it does look like it's been like a nail bomb. there's bolts and shrapnel everywhere inside. an area packed full of happy children and their families leaving the ariana grande concert. 22 people are killed, hundreds injured.

it's the most devastating terrorist attack on uk soil since the london bombings in july 2005. the bomber was a young mancunian, radicalised to the point where he could kill and maim children in the heart of the city he was born and raised in. what was salman abedi's journey towards mass murder? could the attack have been stopped? the final day of the manchester arena inquiry. it's lasted more than two years, heard from 267 witnesses and collected tens of thousands of pages of evidence. it's the day when the families of the 22 victims will hear inquiry chairman sirjohn saunders' verdict on how the security services dealt with salman abedi, someone who'd been known to them for years before the attack. he said there were failures. there was a realistic possibility that actionable intelligence could have been obtained, which might have led to action preventing the attack.

the reasons for this missed opportunity included a failure by the security service, in my view, to act swiftly enough. those that played any part in the murder of our children will never, ever get forgiveness. from top to bottom, mi5, to the associates of the attacker, we will always believe that you all played a part in the murder of our children. as a result of these failures, at the very least, a real- possibility of preventing this attack was lost. _ this is a devastating conclusion for us. i may the 23rd, the day after the arena attack. the hunt for answers has begun. detectives and forensic teams descend on salman abedi's home. it's the starting point of a trail that will lead from the unremarkable streets of inner city south

manchester to a north african war zone and into the dark complexities of radicalisation. salman abedi was a mancunian of libyan background, born and raised on these streets. he went to primary school round the corner, secondary school down the road. he was a manchester united supporter, played football on the streets with his mates, took little interest in schoolwork. a pretty typical teenage boy. but those teenage years became increasingly unstable. there were fights, shouting matches with teachers, petty crime. the head teacher at burnage high school described him as unlikable, lacklustre, just not engaged. moss side/hulme was a big hunting ground for people trying to recruit young people, especially for is and other related groups. due to social deprivation, people feeling marginalised, disenfranchised.

ismael lee south spends his life trying to tackle the spread of islamic extremism. he says some young muslims like salman abedi were seduced by the violent glamour of the is story, a stark contrast to their lives here. these things you would see on everyday news, front page of the newspapers are muslims, benefit frauds, benefit thieves. so muslims were very demonised, muslim youths were demonised and disenfranchised. so many muslims felt under attack. so when people were seeing the marketing of is, they were saying, "hey, i'm hated, but this could be a place "where i can live, where i'm free, where i can live in, "like in a utopia." salman abedi accessed extreme islamist propaganda online, but it was his immediate family who exerted the strongest influence. his father, ramadan abedi, was a hardcore islamist who fled gaddafi's regime. he arrived in manchester with his wife samir in 1993 and settled into what was to become

the largest libyan exile community in the uk. people living in this area call it little tripoli. ramadan was a member of the libyan islamic fighting group. it's thought all the key figures in this organisation lived in manchester at some point. in 2010, there was a report produced by thejoint terrorism analysis centre, which is, jtac, that's a, that's a..an office that exists in the heart of m15. and within that report, they highlighted that the libyan community or members of the libyan community were at risk of being radicalised, the younger members at risk of being radicalised by some of the older members who had perhaps lived through the gaddafi regime, who had got a different view around islamism and that this activity was going on. i'd like to think that if that report arrived on somebody�*s desk today,

they'd look at it and they'd think, "0k, we need some sort of community strategy to try and disrupt what's "going on", or actually understand better what's going on and identify those specific individuals who are involved. i see no evidence in the inquiry that that happened. one of those libyan extremists living in the city was this man, anas al—libi, a friend of ramadan abedi. given asylum here in 1995, he was later arrested by the us government, accused of plotting attacks on us embassies in nairobi and dar es salaam. this 180 page text on how to wage a jihadist war was found in his flat. it's now known as the manchester manual. salman abedi's brothers, ismail and hashem were also significant influences. the investigation revealed they both had large amounts of material relating to is. ismail, bbc news, can i ask you a few questions, please?

ismail refused to give evidence to the inquiry or talk to the bbc and is now in libya. why won't you speak to the inquiry? hashem was jailed for life for his part in planning the arena attack. disengaged, angry, salman abedi was, according to one expert witness to the arena inquiry, ripe for radicalisation. his close family clearly didn't, held the law in this country in pretty scant regard. it didn't really matter too much if they broke it. that was the first thing. so he had no connection to the legal side of british life in the sense of being law—abiding, getting a law—abiding world view, as we've already mentioned, for various reasons, such as lack of parental support. he didn't engage with that massive mechanism of mainstream education that wasn't open to him, although he did try, to be fair. he had various moments when he tried to engage. erm, and so really, he had no, no active connection to law—abiding british society.

i must admit, i've never seen such a complete picture of, of the petri dish absolutely brimming with germs, if you like. chanting prayers. didsbury mosque, the abedi family worshipped here. the arena inquiry heard claims from the family's legal teams that the mosque had turned a blind eye to extremism. sirjohn didn't find any evidence of that or that it radicalised salman abedi, but he said it wilfully ignored highly charged political tensions between libyan factions there. for the first time, the mosque agreed to answer those extremism allegations. how can people say that we have radicalised or are radicalising people? as i mentioned to other people, my children could have been at the arena. there were muslim children at the arena.

what that person, salman abedi, did was evil. and he definitely did not become radicalised by listening to a ten—minute sermon here orjoin forces with other so—called terrorists or other radicalised people at the centre. we have no room for radicalisation. i can say that 100%, i'm very sure. tell me about your relationship with the police and security services. i mean, there were some criticism that you hadn't worked, this mosque hadn't worked that closely. but were you ever told anything about abedi? you know, were you ever given any worrying information? we were never told anything about abedi. and i would reiterate and repeat that we were never told anything about abedi or anybody else. there were other terrorists who we were told used to frequent the centre. we never knew them. we were never told about them. of course, i'm going to criticise the police, if they knew, had they been told by the counterterrorism unit

that these people are frequenting this mosque or that mosque? and remember something else, it is not only this mosque that these people frequented. i do feel that this centre is being used as a scapegoat. i really do feel that. i know that the police and the ctu will always do their best. but as i said earlier on, and i'll repeat it, if we are not aware of these radical people who are coming to this centre to pray and go, i cannot help the police. they refuse to tell us. we never know anything about what's going on. we want to really put this behind us. but again, i cannot put everything that's happened behind me. 22 victims have gone. i cannot forget about them. may their souls rest in peace. whatever happened in manchester, it was the collapse of the gaddafi regime in 2011 and the years of civil war that followed that appear to have played a major part in turning radicalised salman abedi into a killer.

from 2011, salman abedi and his brothers made numerous trips to libya to join their parents and may have fought with the libyan islamic fighting group. anyone being involved in a conflict zone is likely to instigate a degree of trauma. they would have seen things, experience things that we wouldn't normally expect, especially young teenagers, to go through in the united kingdom. but also alongside that, we see a normalisation of violence. we see a normalisation of violence such that it becomes a solution to problems. it becomes something that they can imagine doing because they can see other people doing. but it also reinforces a sense of masculinity, especially where becoming a hero, a defender, being willing to protect through violence, through willingness to take up arms, is linked to being a hero, a good man. following his trips to libya, salman abedi became increasingly withdrawn.

the partying stopped. he was seen in the street outside his home, chanting prayers and wearing robes. he argued with fellow muslims who condemned is. he intensified his contact with this man, abdulraouf abdallah, who'd also fought in libya. the pair exchanged hundreds of texts, in some of them salman abedi talked of martyrdom. abdallah was laterjailed for trying to recruit fighters for is. salman abedi visited him in prison. abdallah gave evidence at the arena inquiry. i didn't play any part of radicalisation or anything. and again, just to tell you that my fight was against gaddafi and assad and the dictators in our countries. did you ever have any suspicion that he would become a suicide bomber? not me or my friends or anyone... ..had... ..any idea of what was going

on in salman�*s head. the fact is, when it happened, i heard it on the radio because i was in basic at the time in prison, and i actually called my friend elias on a prison phone, and i was crying and confused and shocked. i said, "what the hell happened? "i thought he was in libya." he said, "it's true, yeah, it is him. it's in the news." so... what happened to salman? it's a very... it's a very, something that... ..i can never, ever, ever take out of my mind. and it's haunting me to know because he's my friend and the salman that i knew... ..he had never, ever spoke about something like that. salman abedi returned from his final visit to libya in early may 2017. an unhappy, angry young man radicalised by his family, his friends online propaganda and exposure to violent conflict.

he was days away from launching his devastating attack. he put the bomb together here at a rented city centre flat. the parts collected over several weeks with the help of his younger brother, hashem. at seven in the evening, salman abedi set out to maim and kill, the rucksack he was carrying packed with 3,000 nuts and bolts around the explosive. salman abedi's final journey to the arena. as the crowds filled the city room, he detonated the device. witnesses said he smiled as he did so. 22 dead, more than 200 injured.

could m15 and counter—terrorism officers have prevented the attack? that was the focus of the third part of the manchester arena inquiry in 2022. much of the evidence was heard behind closed doors, a decision that angered families of the victims. but the inquiry did reveal that abedi had been known to police and m15 for years. members of the libyan community reported abedi to an anti—terrorism hotline. no further action was taken. m15 twice classified abedi as a subject of interest, but he was regarded as low level and his case file was closed. in 2014, abdulraouf abdallah�*s phone was seized in a counter—terrorism raid on his manchesterflat. there was no attempt to track down his friend salman, who sent texts about martyrdom. when abdallah�*s phone was seized, erm...

..abedi's telephone number was on that phone. it was identified as a distinct phone number, but no further investigative work was done to figure out who that person was. for me, it is again another missed opportunity. m15 knew that he was visiting abdallah. does the detail of what was in those messages, had they been ascribed back to abedi, possibly change our view of the intensity of the contact that he was having and the nature of the contact he was having with abdallah? i think probably, yes. in 2015 and 2016, salman abedi's name cropped up during investigations into extremists in manchester. his case wasn't reopened. may 2016, and concerns were raised that he travelled from turkey into libya. he wasn't questioned on his return. in 2017, he returned

from another trip to libya, days before the attack. again, he wasn't spoken to. that stop could have been useful. we don't know, but it could have been useful. it could have been useful for a number of reasons. first of all, it is possible that they would have gained intelligence from material that he would have had on him, like a phone, commonly. but secondly, it could have also acted as a disruption or deterrence. coming back from your route to libya, landing at heathrow or manchester, wherever it might be, and being stopped by the police under the terrorism act is probably going to say to you, you're being watched. and might that have affected his psyche? might that have changed his approach? we will never know. but the scale of the challenge faced by the security services can't be underestimated. in 2017, they were dealing with around 800 active investigations into potential terrorist attacks. there were 3,000 subjects

of interest that were being monitored at some level. but there were more than 20,000 former or lapsed subjects of interest no longer being monitored. and salman abedi was in this category. for the families of the 22 victims and the survivors of the attack, the third volume of the arena report was the one they'd been waiting for. answers to the big question — could the security services have anticipated and stopped salman abedi's attack? there are plenty of mights and could haves in sirjohn saunders' 200—page report, but he does conclude there were missed opportunities, two pieces of intelligence relating to abedi that may have led to the plot being uncovered. this, according to sirjohn, could have led police to the car where the bomb was being stored. the criticism of m15 prompted a rare public apology from the agency, but they refused to take questions.

gathering covert intelligence is difficult, but had we managed to seize the slim chance we had, those impacted might not have experienced such appalling loss and trauma. i am profoundly sorry that m15 did not prevent the attack. martyn hett was one of abedi's 22 victims. pr manager, coronation street superfan, described by his friends as a one—man hen party. he suffered unsurvivable injuries in the blast. for his mother, figen murray, sirjohn saunders' findings weren't a surprise. turning the clock back, i'm sure things would have maybe been done differently with the benefit of hindsight, but hindsight wasn't there, and whatever went wrong went wrong and you can't turn the clock back. so this is the situation we are faced with. a lot of the families have got

a real intense anger, as i'm sure you can understand. you haven't, have you? i have not been angry because anger to me is not a very useful emotion. i'd much rather channel my energy into proactivity and, and moving forward because, you know, martyn was such a fun—loving and people—loving guy. he was so full ofjoy. and i think if i was angry, depressed, sad all the time, i, erm, i'd do his very essence a disservice. the day after the anniversary, i remember coming downstairs and saying to my husband, the anniversary is over now. i now feel i need to go to schools because i felt that young people are so vulnerable to radicalisation and ijust wanted to give them the tools to know what to do if they feel they're being radicalised and also the knowledge to even know and recognise how they're

being or if they're being radicalised. obviously, when the attack happened we didn't have the tv or radio on because we were all really upset, understandably. and yet somebody kept buying newspapers and putting them on the dining room table. and i remember on day three, walking past the table and going, "oh, my god!" and i saw the picture of him for the first time because i didn't know who did the attack. and there he was on the front page and the caption said he was 22 years old. so i was shocked at the young age of the guy. so i've forgiven salman abedi because, as far as i'm concerned, he wasn't the true monster. the true monster is the ideology who turns people into extremists and turns them into people who go and kill. so i feel that he was born innocent and, erm... therefore, i feel that on that day, 23 people died. not 22.

people always mention 22, but actually the 23rd person lost their life as well. and that was salman abedi. and now you're at the end of that two—year process, do you feel that word "closure" or how do you feel now? no, no. you know, martyn died out of sequence. it should have been me dying before him. so he was ripped off out of our lives. and he was young and full of life and joy. so i've got a permanent, martyn—shaped hole in my soul that will always be there till the day i die _ i'm... i feel very broken, but not destroyed. and the brokenness is, is something that will never allow me to have closure. you know, it can't be fixed.

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