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frank gardner has this. frank: familiar, tedious, time-consuming.etting laptops and other devices through airport security on direct flights from the middle east to the u.k. is effectively -- about to get more complicated. british airways, easyjet, and for other u.k. airlines are affected, and so or eight middle eastern and north african carriers, following a similar measure introduced by the united states. the list of affected airlines was published by the government, which says the security of the traveling public is its highest priority. what caused this? last year's laptop bomb aboard despite out of somalia raised a lot of concerns. smuggled aboard by the group al-shabab, it blew a hole in the plane, killing the bar. amazingly, the pilot was able to landed safely. the year before, the islamic state put a bomb on a russian passenger plane out of egypt. in whitehall, the bbc understands, there were some concerns about introducing this ban. it is not based on any specific plot. rather, and evolving threat. there is bound to be a commercial and dipl

frank gardner, bbc news.e were arrests last night. what information do you have? it's not clear exactly how the police activity here involves and relates to everything else that's going on in this wider investigation, but what we do know is that this is one of the number of properties across the west midlands that have been raided and searched since yesterday afternoon, when the attack happened in westminster. this appears to be a key pa rt, in westminster. this appears to be a key part, a key focus, four officers right now. eyewitnesses have told us that at about midnight last night a large number of police, some of them armed, descended on this area of hagley road, which is about half a mile from the centre of the city of birmingham. some of them armed, we are told, and some have told us that about three people left with police. i'm not sure if they were formally arrested or not, but that's what we've been told. i've spoken to one guy who saw it from his window, and he said what he saw was terrifying. i saw

frank gardner, bbc news.irmation of another of the fatalities on westminster bridge. we knew that frayed frayed frayed a —— ays ha knew that frayed frayed frayed a —— aysha frade, the spanish teacher, died in the attack and now considerate cochran, who died when the car sped along the pavement. some said it seemed to be travelling at 70 miles an hour. kurt cochran was here celebrating his 25th wedding anniversary to his wife, melissa. the family have put out a statement saying that they are heart broken to learn of the death of their son and brother—in—law, a good man and loving husband to sister and daughter, melissa. they were in europe, there to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary, scheduled to return to the united states today, in fact. to return to the united states today, infact. melissa to return to the united states today, in fact. melissa was also seriously injured in the attack and is currently here in london in hospital. the family of melissa, expressing their gratitude to the emergency and me

frank gardner, bbc news.victims who died in the attack on westminster bridge has been named as an american citizen, kirt w cochrane. he was in london. let's bring you this statement we received from his family. the family saying that they are heart broke tonne to learn of the death and brother, son—in—law, kirt. he was a good man and a loving husband to our sister and daughter, melissa. good man and a loving husband to our sisterand daughter, melissa. in europe to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary and scheduled to return to the united states on thursday. melissa was also seriously injured in the attack and is being cared for in hospital. the family are saying that they express their gratitude to the emergency and to the medical personnel who cared for them and ask for people's prayers on behalf of the family and melissa. so, k rushgs rt cochrane from utah. also, let me tell you in belgium, we are getting news that the belgium police arrested a man after he tried to drive into a crowd at high—speed in t

i spoke with our security correspondent frank gardner.ia have not confirmed it and they probably never will, but the experts say that and knowledge are used can only be used by insiders and it has come from somebody inside who has either hacked it or leaked it. it is very damaging for them because for the second time in less than five yea rs, the second time in less than five years, not just the the second time in less than five years, notjust the us, but the entire western intelligence community, usa, britain, australia, new zealand and canada, they share a lot of intelligence, and for the second time in five years they have had their methods revealed potentially to their enemies. they are all compromised? or their methods might be? this is 8000 pages of classified cia documents with millions of lines of code and scripting it, so they have to assume the worst and they have to go right back to zero and based their assumptions on the fact that neither people they were tracking, whether they hard—core people they were tracking, whether they

our security correspondent frank gardner looks at what's prompted this latest tightening of security.nd other devices through airport security on direct flights from the middle east to the uk is about to get even more complicated. anything bigger than a smartphone will now have to go in the hold. british airways, easyjet and four so, too, are eight middle eastern and north africa carriers. it follows a similar measure introduced by the united states. the list of affected airlines was published today by the government, which says the security is its highest priority. so what has prompted this? last year's laptop bomb on board this flight out of somalia raised a lot of concerns. smuggled aboard in a laptop a bomb blew a hole in the side of a plane. amazingly, the pilot was able to land it safely. the year before, so—called islamic state put a bomb on a passenger plane out of egypt, killing everyone on board. that device was in the hold, where the new ban on laptops does not apply. in whitehall, the bbc understands, there were some concerns about introducing this ban. it is not based on

our security correspondent frank gardner is here.hat might there be in his past that could give an indication as to what he did? very little in his early past. there are commonalities here in the life of this man khalid masood with a number of people who ended up being jihadist killers. so, for example, the 52—year—old british—born guy whoened up blowing himself up in iraq, he spent time in guantanamo bay, blew himself up a few weeks ago near mosu leshgs, now he when he came back from guantanamo bay was initially a person of mild suspicion but that was quickly dropped and he went quiet for years, there was nothing to indicate that he was going to do that. the man who carried out the christmas market bombing, the christmas market vehicle attack in berlin before christmas, he was — he went through the prison system in italy and then ended up doing that. prison is an incredibly radicalising thing. we don't know if that's where he was converted to radical islam. i would be staggered if the police don't come up with some clues as to how t

gchq took the unprecedented step of calling we'll have the latest with our security correspondent frank gardner. also this lunchtime; on scotland's independence and that no uk prime minister should dare stand in the way. the former chancellor george osborne has been appointed editor of the london evening standard but says he'll remain an mp. there's a warning of a funding shortage for schools, despite record spending by the government. finals of the champions league. coming up in sports at half past on bbc news, it's gold cup day at cheltenham. colin tizzard's cue card is one of the favourites on the final day of the festival. it's rare for britain's intelligence community to make a public statement about anything. so the fact that gchq felt it had to rebut allegations that it spied on donald trump shows how seriously they took the comments made by the white house press secretary, sean spicer. gchq said the claims were "nonsense, utterly ridiculous, and should be ignored". £225 i292; £553,516? £52531— ”777", ——— downing street says it's been promised by the white house that the allegations won'

let's speak to our security correspondent, frank gardner.coloured masood. not a typical profile, quite old and he has not been inside since 2003. yes, unusual. he was known to the police and mi5, but he was not an anti—terror watch list. he had an extensive record for petty crime, mainly for violent assault, possession of a knife, grievous bodily harm, but he had not been in trouble with the law since 2003. he was peripheral. he was not an anti—terror watch list. that is quite worrying because there will be many others like him. he was relatively old for a jihadist, 52. it is not unheard of. there was somebody who blew himself up in iraq, the britishjihadist, if you weeks ago and he was 51. generally, most jihadists weeks ago and he was 51. generally, mostjihadists are in their weeks ago and he was 51. generally, most jihadists are in their teens and 205. most jihadists are in their teens and 20s. we had this situation yesterday where we had 68 nations meeting here in washington, promising to commit themselves to try and eradicate the threat

our security correspondent, frank gardner, is with me.ies do not like making statements. this was a political decision, gchq refers to the foreign secretary borisjohnson, who is in africa, and for them to make this very public denial, to contradict the statement coming out of the white house, the centre of britain's most gowerful and i of the white house, the centre of britain's most gowerful and closest britain's most powerful and closest ally, would not have happened ally, would not have happened a nod from number ten. my without a nod from number ten. my understanding, there was a meeting in e;z;f , ,, earlier understanding, there was a meeting in e, grffg s earlier this understanding, there was a meeting in 5; grffg s earlier this week in downing street earlier this week to discuss concerns over this claim, which they felt was completely unfounded. probably people thought, let's hope it goes away, but then sean spicer repeated it on thursday, hence the very strongly worded statement which came out on thursday night, it is very unusual

with me is our security correspondent frank gardner. yes, he has got a number of convictions for violent assault, gbh, he has got a number of convictions forviolent assault, gbh, possession ofa forviolent assault, gbh, possession of a knife. but they were criminal convictions. he does not have a terrorist record. the prime minister earlier said that he was investigated some years ago for violent extremism, but he was not actually on any current terrorism watch lists or investigations. it prompts the question, why on earth not? the answer is, unless m15 and the police have screwed up, unlikely given the sophistication of their monitoring these days, he probably did not show his hand. it is hard to look inside someone's head. and predict when somebody who is simply angry is going to actually move to action. this is the problem with the two murderers who killed, lee rigby, fusilier lee rigby in 2013. the home secretary said there was not a failure of intelligence, just because someone is known to authorities that does not mean there is 2a—

our security correspondent frank gardner told me why the intelligence agencies chose to speak on thisn. they did not do this in isolation. this was a political decision. gchq reports to the foreign secretary borisjohnson, who is in africa, and for them to make this very public denial, to contradict the statement coming out of the white house, the centre of britain's most powerful and closest ally, would not have happened without a nod from number ten. my understanding is there was a meeting in downing street earlier this week to discuss concerns over this claim, which they felt was completely unfounded. probably people thought, let's hope it goes away, but then sean spicer repeated it on thursday, hence the very strongly worded statement which came out on thursday night. it is very unusual for this to be public. usually when there is an intelligence story, the agency say they never comment on intelligence issues. this is an intelligence issue and they have commented on it and they feel very strongly about it. the career intelligence professionals on both sides of the atlantic, the cia

we can bring in frank gardner, our security correspondent. is it a ridiculous claim?ce of this is a media commentator, a ‘judge speaking on fox news, formerjudge speaking on fox news, so formerjudge speaking on fox news, so it is not as if it is sourced from somewhere solid, it is a comment that has been’p’ig‘eefii from somewhere solid, it is a comment that has been’p’izee’ei up by comment that has been picked up by the white house. but this is a really dangerous development, because just as your two commentators were mentioning there, britain and the united states have the closest intelligence co—operation sharing of any two nations in the - and the wider nations in the world, and the wider group of five eyes, australia, new zealand, canada, the us and britain, they have this very close co—operation. now, it is unheard of that you can be in a situation where those agencies, which ultimately report to supreme elected political power, number ten, the foreign office in britain, the white house in the united states, that they are now effectively contradicting that now eff

a number of developments, we have had a press conference from new scotland yard, frank gardner is atthat we, the media, are trying to identify this person, that is what the media do, and he is asking the media to hold off that for the moment while they carry out their investigations, and these are going to be very compact, they are looking at where the car came from, who worked was hired from, which conversations this man had with anybody before he left birmingham. the victims are not being identified yet, but we were given their ages, and a brief description, but other than pc keith palmer, who was stabbed to death, they are not actually naming the victims. frank, our location here, just outside the security cordon, but westminster bridge itself and the immediate surroundings to the commons are effectively a crime scene, and we know there have been a number of police raids elsewhere in the country and here in london. yeah, i mean, the phrase loan wharf is a bit misleading, because even if it is just one person carrying out the attack —— the phrase lone wolf. they would have been rad

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our security correspondent frank gardner has more. familiar, tedious, time—consuming. laptops and other electrical devices through airport security on certain direct flights from the middle east to the uk is about to get even more complicated. anything bigger than a smartphone will now have to go in the hold, creating new opportunities for thieves.

the new rules are said to be based on intelligence, as our security correspondent frank gardner reports. familiar, tedious, time—consuming. getting laptops and other electrical devices through airport security on certain direct flights from the middle east to the uk is about to get even more complicated. anything bigger than a smartphone will now have to go in the hold, creating new opportunities for thieves. so too are eight middle eastern and north african carriers. it follows a similar measure introduced by the united states which shares its intelligence §iiti1 eriitgi'rgf ’ ' ' so what exactly has prompted this? elevated intelligence that we're aware of indicates that terrorist groups continue to target commercial aviation and are aggressive their attacks to include smuggling explosive devices in various consumer objects. there is some recent evidence l;— 2.5 257251252l1 fuze -% 5.45.4, he was killed but miraculously everyone else survived. the passengers on this russian airliner in 2015 it came down over the egyptian sinai killing everyone onboard now have to stow their laptops. be