andy moore is with us. update us.ster police in the last 20 minutes. 19 people are dead from the explosion confirmed. 50 injured. they are treating it as a terrorist incident. that is until they have information otherwise. we know that they are trying to set up a casualty bureau. they are also trying to set up a number to put you in touch with people in the arena, with your loved ones. we also know that the emergency services are still at the scene nearly three hours after the explosion. we know the north west ambulance service has told people not to call them unless it isa told people not to call them unless it is a life—threatening emergency. so, that gives you an indication of how many staff are involved in dealing with this incident at the moment with such high catch of the figures. it is not surprising. —— with such high casualty figures. officials are meeting in whitehall as we speak to discuss how to deal with the situation. a terrorist attack. some people are talking about a suicide bomber, but we have no info

thank you very much for the moment, andy moore. remind you of the main threads of what has happened in the last you hours, 19 people are now known to have died. around 15 people have been injured, sorry, 50, in a suspected terrorist attack in manchester arena during a concert i the american singer, ariana grande. we will pause for the weather. last week across the british isles, the weather can from low pressure. we change the week and the nature of the weather due to high pressure close to us through most of the week until the bank holiday weekend. lots of this kind of thing. buttercups enjoying the sunshine and fairly cloudy fare here in northern ireland. further north towards inverness, a lot of cloud. that were the feature is moving as we start tuesday towards the northern isles. —— weather. a chilly start to parts of scotland. further south, —— weather. a chilly start to parts of scotland. furthersouth, high pressure not in place. this air comes from the atlantic and it is warm and moist and will be all over the channel island

andy moore is still with me. minutes' warning to tell people if you hear another blast, do not panic. that's right, we heard the explosion live as we were broadcasting, so that was a controlled explosion. we now know that this is being treated as a terrorist incident. and we are getting information, ialluded terrorist incident. and we are getting information, i alluded to this earlier on, from sources in the states. we a re this earlier on, from sources in the states. we are getting an information —— information from us officials saying that a suicide bomber is suspected in the explosion. we haven't heard that officially from greater manchester police but according to sources in the states it was a suicide bomber. we heard from our correspondent, ed thomas, who had been talking to eyewitness is there. he talked about nuts and bolts being found on the floor. they may have been debris from the explosion, but it could also have been shrapnel which is often included in a suicide bomb, on occasions like this, so that

andy moore has an update.losion within the fallout at 10:30 p.m.. —— foyer. that confirms our eyewitness description from earlier. an explosion in the foyer area. emergency services are at the scene area. emergency services are at the scene and working to look for information. so no cause of the explosion, but we have a price location for it. please put it into context. this location of the arena, how close it is to the city centre, and its links with the rest of manchester. it is right next to victoria station, which is also affected. that is correct. it is just the north of the city it is quite close to the northern quarter of the city. lots of bars and restau ra nts. of the city. lots of bars and restaurants. lots of people milling around. it is quite early in the week, so it is a quiet night. you are right, it is next to victoria station, which, i understand, has been closed. extremely central part of the city. this is a huge value. something like 21,000 people were at the concert. yes, i think that is abo

andy moore is still with us.lf, there we re about the explosion itself, there were so many about the explosion itself, there were so many theories about what it might have been, other than the device. those were gradually discounted through the course of the hours. what do we actually know was behind it? well, according to british transport police, the source of the explosion, the seat of the explosion, was the foyer. and according to manchester arena, they say the explosion was in a public space outside the venue. and we have also heard from several eyewitnesses that they were blown actually inside the arena towards the arena by the force of the explosion outside. so it seems clear the explosion was not in the main auditorium. it was on the perimeter of the arena, either in the foyer or near the foyer or outside the building. police sources are talking about a terrorist incident, without being specific. from america, from security sources there, we are hearing that it may have been a suicide bomber. and it is in

andy moore has the latest.d the hospital bed of the man accused of killing two doctors. bampumim teixeira, who is 30, was shot when police officers, alerted by text message, found him inside the doctors' apartment. he was already on bail for a previous offence. after brief details of the case were heard thejudge ordered a remand. by agreement, with no objection by counsel, i will allow the commonwealth's motion to impound. order of impound will last for 90 days. british—born richard field and his american fiance, lina bolanos, were found dead at their apartment in boston on friday night. 45 minutes before he died, dr field had texted a friend, saying there was a serious situation with a gunman in his home. that alert was passed on to the police and they entered the apartment using keys they had found on the floor in the hallway outside. they saw teixeira inside and thought he was about to open fire. he was shot three times in the hand, stomach and leg. there is no evidence whatsoever at this stage to conclude t

live to heathrow — and the latest from our correspondent andy moore. fresh statement from british airways in the last few minutes. that is right. british airways are still not doing broadcast interviews, not subjecting themselves to any questioning, but have given this statement on video to their customers from the chief executive. he says they are hoping to get most of their long haul flights away from heathrow today, but that means cancellation of short—haulflights. but that means cancellation of short—haul flights. the bbc understands that something like a third, approaching a third of flights have been cancelled from heathrow today. he says they are pulling out all of the stops, but they have not got there yet. with me isa ba they have not got there yet. with me is a ba passenger who was flying with two families to budapest today. what was your experience ? with two families to budapest today. what was your experience? our experience was quite sad. we arrived at the airport at 10am fray 1250 departure. as we arrived, we were sent a text telling is

andy moore reports.he night to deal with the victims of the bombing. many of them had volunteered to come in after hearing of the attack. she also met four young girls recovering from the blast, and their parents. well, it's a shock, isn't it? yes, a big shock, a really big shock. for everybody, really. very scary. very wicked. one of the girls she met was 15—year—old millie robson, a proud ariana grande fan, still wearing the singer's t—shirt. i got to meet her before the concert as well, and she was lovely. really, did you? she won a competition for her and her friend to meet her backstage. the queen's visit was unannounced. but by the time she left, a crowd had gathered. there was a spontaneous round of cheering and applause. andy moore, bbc news. many health workers and ambulance staff have been working flat out since they got the call on monday night. one of the hospitals involved in treating the victims is stepping hill in stockport, and some of the staff there have had time now to reflect on what

andy moore in west london, thank you very much.ge of the election result here on bbc news today. coverage begins at 6.30 on the bbc news channel — that's in france decides: the presidential election 2017. now for a look at the headlines. labour is promising not to raise income tax for anyone earning less than £80,000 a year as it declares itself the party of low taxes for middle and low earners. the prime minister has announced plans to replacement or health legislation in england and wales with a new law tackling discrimination and the unnecessary detention of vulnerable people. the lib dems say their pledge is to keep the triple lock on pensions but those with incomes over £45,000 would lose the winter fuel payment. now for the sport. it is the second one—day international between england and ireland, the first time ireland have ever played at lord's. in the early stages of the match england are without loss in four overs. in a warm upfor without loss in four overs. in a warm up for the champions trophy with seven wickets in bris

andy moore, thank you. how long it will take to actually get things back on track. yes, later this morning we will be speaking to amber rudd, the home secretary, for the latest on the situation. right now, though, it is 6:14am. let's look at the weather. good morning. a lovely sunrise this morning. this was taken in southwark normal ago. there will be a bit of dry weather on offer this weekend. but also you can see for yourself in the wigan highland it is foggy this morning. we have quite a lot of low cloud coming off the north sea at the moment. all of that moisture. it has been muggy. we will move that and the fault will clear. you can see the cloud around. not plain sailing. we have low pressure across the country. rain around as well. a few showers elsewhere. they will start to move away. for england and wales it is an improving picture. we have a few scattered showers. further north it will take a while longerfor the rain to further north it will take a while longer for the rain to clear. further north

just fill us in, andy moore.r arena, an indoor arena that seats up to 21,000 people. there was some sort of incident at the end of the concert. i have seen video taken inside the arena and certainly, there were loud bangs inside. reason. people were panicking and running out, there we re panicking and running out, there were strings inside. we don't know what the bangs were. some people are saying exclusions, gunfire, is others are saying it was just balloons or speakers. we did not know the cause of the incident but we do know from the police that something is happening there. greater manchester police, as you say, talking about some kind of incident at the arena. they say that officers at the scene will provide more information and are urging people to stay away from the area. then we have an update from greater manchester transport police. manchester transport police. manchester station is nearby. a similar message, they are aware of an incident at manchester and arena. they say they have offices at the scene.

our news correspondence, correspondence, andy moore, is still here with me now. —— our news correspondenceurce of the explosion, he said it was never box office. it seems it might not have been in the main auditorium. it might have been on the perimeter of the arena, somewhere. he talked about many of casualties being very young. as you would imagine that a concert like this. many of the people they would have been very young. a lot of casualties were young children, in his words. so from the police, they are talking about an explosion. we still don't know whether that was an accident, or if there were some sort of criminal intent behind it. the police escalated the incident from an incident at first, then a serious incident, and now, as we are reporting, a number of fatalities. soa reporting, a number of fatalities. so a very serious incident in manchester. we are just showing a still of some of the police and emergency services present in the area. in fact, the area around the arena, according to local people, they were swamped with police and ambulances. bridge roads have been closed by

let's go to andy moore in east london. what is the situation there?g for a brain scan. i went to make the appointment together in, to check in. they said no, everything is down. they have no machine, nothing to do it with today. you will have to do it with today. you will have to go home, we will have to phone you, or get on to you later. let you know when we can come again.” you, or get on to you later. let you know when we can come again. i asked the hospital what systems they were working on. they said they were working on. they said they were working only windows xp system. i asked them if they had back—up, and asked them if they had back—up, and a spokesman told me she did not have any information. amber rudd will chair a meeting of the cobra committee this afternoon. questions about vulnerabilities in the systems. theresa may insisting that warnings were given about them. bring us up to date with the latest? the cobra emergency committee met over the weekend to discuss the responses. a meeting of ministers, officials, high—level officials intell

andy moore reports. the queen met dozens of staff who had worked through the night to deal with the victims of the bombing. many of them had volunteered to come in after hearing of the attack. she also met four young girls recovering from the blast, and their parents. well, it's a shock, isn't it? yes, a big shock, a really big shock. for everybody, really. very scary. very wicked. one of the girls she met was 15—year—old millie robson, a proud ariana grande fan, still wearing the singer's t—shirt. i got to meet her before the concert as well, and she was lovely. really, did you? she won a competition for her and her friend to meet her backstage. the queen's visit was unannounced. she told reporters about her recollection of the bombing. they tied jumpers around the main winds on my leg and then they picked me up and ran outside. a lot of the paramedics were outside and strangers were helping us. the queen made a woman who was injured. what happened? i had shrapnel injuries. it has gone through 15 centim

andy moore reports. the queen met dozens of staff who had worked through the night to deal with the victims of the bombing. many of them had volunteered to come in after hearing of the attack. she also met four young girls recovering from the blast, and their parents. well, it's a shock, isn't it? yes, a big shock, a really big shock. for everybody, really. very scary. very wicked. one of the girls she met was 15—year—old millie robson, a proud ariana grande fan, still wearing the singer's t—shirt. i got to meet her before the concert as well, and she was lovely. really, did you? she won a competition for her and her friend to meet her backstage. the queen's visit was unannounced. but by the time she left, a crowd had gathered. there was a spontaneous round of cheering and applause. andy moore, bbc news. we had a news conference from greater manchester police where they made a lot of interesting statements about the continuing investigation. police describing the recent arrests as significant and they we

andy moore, bbc news.e park. superintendent carl ratcliffe of staffordshire police said specially trained officers are supporting her family of what is a difficult time. our thoughts very much with her family friends following this tragic incident. he added that the health and safety executive has been informed of what happened. the west midlands ambulance service spokesman said on arrival the crews discovered a girl with serious injuries who had been rescued from the water. by park staff. ambulance staff administered advanced life support before she was flown to birmingham children‘s hospital with a doctor continued treatment en route. unfortunately shortly after arrival at hospital the girldied. the shortly after arrival at hospital the girl died. the family have requested that their wishes are respected at this difficult time. for privacy. so that news coming into us in the last few minutes, tragic news that an 11—year—old girl has died after being airlifted to hospital following an incident at a water

in a few minutes time we will speak to andy moore from outside the royal london hospital, one of theions still affected. the conservatives say they'lljoin forces with councils and housing associations to build thousands of new homes for rent — if they win the general election. theresa may says she wants to fix a broken market. it's not clear how much money the tories would invest, and labour have dismissed the announcement as spin. here's our political correspondent, iain watson. it is my great pleasure to hand that over to you. margaret thatcher became famous for selling off council houses. at this conservative prime minister is now pledging to help local authorities build more of them. if re—elected, theresa may would give councils new powers to purchase derelict land at below market value. housing authorities as well as local authorities could then use these to build more homes for rent. some homes would be sold off after ten or 15 years. tenants would have first option to purchase and then proceeds used to fund more rented housing. traditionally conservative supporters, including

live to heathrow — and the latest from our correspondent andy moore. what is the latest? of its flights will be leaving heathrow today despite that it outage. but they can't say precisely the number of delays and cancellations, so we have been taking a look at the departure boards and totting up the figures. between six and nine o'clock, afforded to ba flights did leave. but 29 were cancelled. that looks like a cancellation rate of around 40%. like a cancellation rate of around a0%. meanwhile, continuing problems at terminalfive, a0%. meanwhile, continuing problems at terminal five, lots of congestion there this morning. that may have reduced a little because the police are now managing access to the building. they are checking that people have got a flight booked for later on today. they are not allowing them into the terminal until 90 minutes before that flight. early on there were lots of people in the terminal trying to rebook theirflights, in the terminal trying to rebook their flights, they were urged not to come to the airport but they said they could not get in to

to cast their votes at special polling stations which have been set up today. 0ur correspondent, andy moorel london for us. good morning to you. good morning. about 300,000 french people live in the uk. it's estimated about 100,000 of those are registered to vote, and we have seen hundreds of them here at this polling station in south kensington. the station opened at eight o'clock this morning, but people were queueing from six a.m.. the process is going on, you can see people turning up. there is no postal voting in france, so if people want to vote, they have to turn up in person or send a proxy. when they get inside, they produce identification, the pick up two pieces of paper, each with the name of the candidate on. they go into the privacy of the booth and they put one of those pieces of paper inside a brown envelope. they then put that in a transparent box and cast the vote. we have seen the french ambassador do that this morning. we have heard about security in france. the met police are keeping an eye on things here. voting has been pretty brisk. last time around, there was about a

andy moore is here. what are we here in our?e incident. this one a few minutes ago says that emergency services are continuing to work at the scene of the incident. they ask people to avoid the area and follow their twitter account for updates. we have also heard from the bbc‘s home affairs corresponded. he said from his sources, the north—west counterterrorism unit is treating the incident as a possible terrorist incident. senior counterterrorist officers are assembling in london tonight. —— correspondent. they are liaising with officials. casualties could be in double figures. we have had not an official casualties figure from greater manchester police. they talked about a number of fatalities in casualties. and they said they were setting up a casualties bureau. we also heard from british transport police, they confirmed that the explosion was in the foyer area. looking at bit is, we get a sense of the magnitude of what has happened inside their. yes. that tweet from the police said the two hours after the incident, they are

andy moore is at heathrow. tell us when this started.blem started early this morning, we were hearing on social media by about 9am. there is no sign it has yet been resolved. in the past hour british airways said it has cancelled all flights from heathrow and gatwick until 6pm. it told passengers who were due to fly out not too common to the airport. they say that is because of problems with congestion. certainly at terminal five there has with congestion. certainly at terminalfive there has been huge problems which has a knock—on effect. if you cannot load the planes you cannot get them away then you cannot get arriving planes the gate which in turn means planes departing from european destinations are stuck on the tarmac. it has a terrible knock—on effect for the airline. the cause of the problem, some british airways staff told passengers they believed it was a cyber attack, one pilot told us passengers that, but the align themselves say that is no evidence of that. —— but the airline themselves. in the official state m e nts themselv

chief executive alex cruz told passengers: live to heathrow — and the latest from our correspondent andy moorede, the rain is coming down and there are quite a lot of passengers in the same situation as you? they might not be lucky enough to have brought a splendid bbc news umbrella with them to shelter from the rain. what is the airport saying about this decision to keep passengers waiting outside terminal five? the airport is not commenting on that. what we heard in that video statement from the chief executive is that it is a question of crowd management. they are trying to reduce congestion in terminal five and it seems they have managed to do it. the queues inside the terminal have been reduced quite a lot over the last few hours this partially because there is management of people going into the terminal by police and by security and they are only allowing people in who are police and by security and they are only allownzié got in who are ! riff: ‘ii 1—— them in $sé°w~~~m~~~”ww”w them in “a"; minutes wwmwmmmw them in “a"; minutes before ww--.” allowing them in 90 minutes before that flig

live to heathrow — and the latest from our correspondent andy moore.ing and going today? flights are coming in 0k, as far as we are aware, but the situation with outgoing flights, there are still problems there. reddish airways says it hopes to schedule the majority of its flights from london heathrow today, but that means there will still be a lot of cancellations and a lot of delays. there are still big problems at terminal five, ba's there are still big problems at terminalfive, ba's terminal. yesterday there was total chaos, today still be problems with congestion, long queues. and people complaining that they can't get the service they want from ba staff. bea is telling people not to turn up a all unless they are booked on a flight all unless they are booked on a flight today, but a lot of people are understandably ignoring bad advice. they are being told to bring ba, can't get in touch, being told to go on the website, they say they can't get on the website. they're coming to the airport to talk to somebody personally, to try to sort out their pro

the problem looks set to persist for far more than just a few hours. 0ur correspondent andy moore hasfrom heathrow today — he sent us this update a short while ago. the problems continue here at heathrow and we estimate something like one quarter of the outgoing ba flights have been cancelled today. we heard from the chief executive, who said the priority was the long haulflights who said the priority was the long haul flights and was planning to get most of those away but there would be problems with short—haul flights. we have had an updated statement from the company which says many of their it systems are back up to date, presumably at some are not, and they say they are doing their best to restore their programmes as fully as possible. gatwick seems to be running pretty well as normal but the company says there are still disruptions and cancellations at heathrow. they say terminal five is still congested so the advice is for passengers not to turn up at the airport unless they have a confirmed booking on a flight and only turn up 90 minutes in advance. normally, if you take a sho

our correspondent, andy moore, is at one of them in west london for us.ool. this is one of two locations in london where french people can vote. you may build to see some of the security checks behind me. there has been a steady stream of people since the polling stations open. there have been thousands of people queueing down along the streets. some of them have been waiting for an hourortwo some of them have been waiting for an hour oi’ two macro some of them have been waiting for an hour or two macro to vote. there is no postal voting in this election. if you want to vote, people living in london, french people living in london, french people living in london, french people living in london or the uk, they have to turn up in person by proxy, here, or at they have to turn up in person by proxy, here, orat several other locations in cities around the uk. the process is interesting that is not like where you put across in the box. you produce your identity and pick—up two pieces of paper, each with the name of the candidate. you go into the booths and put

andy moore has been following the stories is the beginning. he is still with us.e explosion happened at 10:35pm last night. 19 people have been confirmed dead. at least 50 a rigid. they say that they are treating it as a terrorist incident. —— 50 are injured. we heard there from andy that he was thrown into the building by the force of the explosion. we have heard of the manchester arena that the exposure was outside their venuein that the exposure was outside their venue in a public space. —— heard from. we also heard from eyewitnesses that they were leaving the building a security guard told them to run, and they ran back inside the building. so that suggests that there may have just been a few seconds warning that something was about to happen. now, we're hearing from american sources that it may have been a suicide bomber. we have not heard that from sources here in the uk. those eyewitness accounts may suggest that the security guards knew there was a suicide bomber, and were able to give a few seconds warning. we have also heard from our correspondent that i

andy moore is at heathrow. how much information is forthcoming directly from ba?y slow, and a lot of those passengers in the terminal is not only here at heathrow but at gatwick and around the world have been complaining that there has been very little information from british airways. that may be because their own staff do not know what is happening, because the computers are down. it may be that the public address systems have failed in some way. certainly a lot of passages are complaining they are not being updated about the situation. what we do know is that flights on heathrow and gatwick have been cancelled until at least 6pm. passengers have been told not to come to the airport here at heathrow or gatwick. if they are flying after that, then they are being asked to check with ba and check the internet as best they can. having said that, the ba website was down earlier on today. it seems to be back up and running at the moment. this is a majorfailure. one senior aviation source has told the bbc he has not heard of an it failure on this scale before. he belie

live to heathrow — and the latest from our correspondent andy moore.picture there at the moment? the problems are continuing here today. london gatwick seems to be ok. there are only about one consolation is that. ba says they will fly the majority of their flights from heathrow today, that does seem to be the case. around a third of the flights have been cancelled. between six o'clock and nine o'clock this morning and there we re nine o'clock this morning and there were 42 ea departures, but there we re were 42 ea departures, but there were also 29 cancellations. meanwhile, the queues are building up meanwhile, the queues are building up again in terminal five. people are being urged not to come to the terminal unless they are booked on a flight terminal unless they are booked on a flight today, but some people are ignoring the advice. they have been told to rebook their flights. they say they cannot get through to bea on the phone or the website. they are coming to the airport in person in the hope of speaking to somebody. we hear there is such conges

andy moore is in london colney in hertfordshire where affinity water is the first water company in theasically bone dry, there isa river is basically bone dry, there is a bit of water behind me but this bit is very dry. people say there is usually a bit of water flowing in here but they have not seen it this dry since the very dry summer of 1976. the bigger problem normally around here is flooding but i think we can show you some pictures from 2009 when this part of the river basically became something of a lake. but the current problem of dry weather is something that is being reported in rivers around the country by the environment agency. they say they are monitoring the situation. the water company here is affinity and say they have only had about half the normal amount of rainfall sincejuly about half the normal amount of rainfall since july 2016. they say they are urging their customers to be careful really. they say they wa nt be careful really. they say they want their customers to save water to help preserve supplies and minimise the possibility of restrictions this summer. 0n

our correspondent, andy moore, is at one of them in central london for us.. you go in, you produce your identification and then you pick up two pieces of paper with the names of their candidates on them. you go into the privacy of the voting booth and you put one of those names in a brown paper envelope, a small envelope, and you put it in the transparent box. that is another option, of course, which is another option, of course, which is to cast your vote, to put that envelope in the box, but there is no name inside. that is called a black vote. so you showing you support democratic process, but you don't like either of the candidates. voting in the uk in the first round was about 47% turnout here in the uk, which is pretty high for an overseas territory, and it looks as ifa overseas territory, and it looks as if a lot of people are coming along here to vote. i was told by an embassy bill you that, certainly for overseas voting in a french presidential election, you have to turn up in person or send a proxy. that is no postal voting for this election. this

andy moore reports.ols have taken to using metal arches to make sure no weapons are brought on to their premises. but figures obtained by the press association show that the number of seizures in the last year is up about 20% on the previous year. 32 out of 43 police forces in england and wales responded to freedom of information request about weapons found in schools. the figures showed that 2579 weapons were found in the two years to march this year. among them were samurai swords, axa ‘s and airguns. —— axes. them were samurai swords, axa ‘s and air guns. —— axes. many of the children were below the age of ten, and won five—year—old was caught with a knife. just ones dab wound that went straight in his heart. -- sta b that went straight in his heart. -- stab wound. the national police council said the increase in young people carrying weapons was worrying. it said it wanted to educate people that carrying a weapon illegally is never acceptable. after 6:30 we'll be discussing this with anti—violence ca

work to restore nhs computer systems will continue throughout the weekend, as andy moore reports.side saint barth —— barts hospital. here at barts the message has gone out to anybody with an outpatient appointment that it will be cancelled and they should not come along today. there are large parts of the nhs is not affected. for example, wales and northern ireland have not been hit. about a0 nhs organisations affected in england and scotland, but large parts of the country not hit. i think the message from nhs england is the national health service is up and running and you should use it as normal unless you hear otherwise. problems will continue in some areas, like at this hospital, and others run by barts nhs trust. we know the problems are continuing today. we do not know the situation tomorrow nor the day after that and it is likely problems will take some time to fix where they are experience. thanks. the nhs is not the only victim of this international attack. here's our technology correspondent, rory cellanjones. it looked at first like an attackjust on hospitals in the uk

let's speak now to andy moore who is outside the royal london hospital, part of barts health trust, thethe country. six only yet to be up and running. what are you hearing where you are? still some problems here but the good news, generally, according to amber ride is that 97% of nhs trusts in england are working normally. there are a handful still with problems and here at the royal london hospital there are handwritten notes on the entrance to emergency behind me saying that the it system is still down and it is being treated as a major incident with ambulances being diverted. a similar from with ambulances being diverted. a similarfrom —— a similar problem in lost off. another nhs trust say they are cancelling routine surgery tomorrow. 13 health boards affected in scotland. the scottish governments are some of those computer systems are operating as normal which means that some of the marmont that they expect all systems will be operating fully and com pletely will be operating fully and completely as they should buy tomorrow. thank you very much, andy. we will talk more about some o

live to heathrow — and the latest from our correspondent andy moore.appearance that the weather is deteriorating, not much fun for people who asked up outside the terminal building until 90 minutes before theirflight outside the terminal building until 90 minutes before their flight is ready to depart —— who are stuck outside. that is right, the last we heard, certainly inside the terminal, the congestion had diminished and hopefully there aren't too many people waiting outside the terminal, but that one stage there were police and security guards on the door checking people had a confirmed place on a plane that afternoon and that they were departing within the next 90 minutes otherwise they would not be allowed into the terminal. we heard from the chief executive of the eight, alex cruz, he said normally you would expect to turn up several hours of in advance, but he was saying passengers should only turn up 90 minutes before the fight because of the congestion. he said british airways had got through most of its long—haul flights, but that would be a

andy moore, who's outside st bartholemew‘s hospital in east london. the situation like for patients? the situation in this large nhs trust is routine outpatient appointments have been cancelled today. the disruption here continues. other nhs trusts will probably have similar problems where they have been affected by this attack. it has to be said large parts of the nhs have not been hit, and northern ireland and wales have not been hit, even parts of england and scotland have not. the message from the nhs is generally the system is up and running and you should use it normally unless you have been told otherwise. the home secretary amber rudd said lessons would have to be learned. we will have to wait and see whether these hospitals have backed up data, or whether some of them might even have to pay that ransom. we heard from a hospital in the states that was hit by a similar ransom attack last year. in the end, it paid something like £13,000, because it was the only way to get systems back—up and that took ten days before the it was back up and runni

let's speak now to andy moore who is outside the royal london hospital, part of barts health trust —n the country, what's the situation there? what are they telling you that this morning's the good news is generally comes from the home secretary amber rudd, she's a 97% of nhs trusts in england are working normally. there are at least seven nhs trust but are still experiencing problems. we have got one more to add to the list and thatis got one more to add to the list and that is the university hospital of midlands trust. they have confirmed that they are still expressing computer problems. the situation here at barts, the accident and emergency behind me, handwritten notices on the ancient saying they are suffering from it failure and there may be significant delays as a result. the hospitals here are still treating it as a major incident. a similar situation at the main hospital in lowestoft, they were treating us like saying there were long delays at accident and emergency because they had gone back to pen and paper. one has cancelled any routine surgery for tomorrow. the situation

andy moore reports.lice officers recommended a thorough background vetting for all police officers and community support officers. it's a process that takes several months and checks on all aspects of a person's background. it's designed to ensure that nobody unsuitable is employed. peter bunyan was a devon and cornwall community support officerjailed for misconduct in the 2013 after using the police database to contact women. an investigation by the independent police complaints commission found he would have been rejected if he had undergone proper vetting. the devon and cornwall police force still has more than 100 front—line staff who haven't been checked according to the latest guidelines. the bbc made a freedom of information request asking other forces what was the situation in theirarea. it found that a total of almost 111,000 police officers hadn't undergone thorough checks. in northumbria, almost nine out of ten of its officers, that's around 3000 people, hadn't been properly vetted. the force

chief executive alex cruz told passengers: live to heathrow — and the latest from our correspondent andy moorey clear from what you have said that although the initial phase of the problem is over, the knock on effect is considerable. yes, it is considerable, and we still don't know the initial it problem has been resolved, but ba says many of their systems a re resolved, but ba says many of their systems are up and running but we don't believe they have a complete reset of their systems yet. as for the knock on effect, ba said they will be running the majority of their flights from heathrow and they are planning to get away their long haulflights, but are planning to get away their long haul flights, but that is at the expense of the short—haul flights. ba have not been able to say how many cancellations there will be, but the bbc has been running to the departure boards and we believe until lunchtime about a0 flights we re until lunchtime about a0 flights were cancelled and that is about a quarter of all the flights leaving here from heathrow today. ba flights, of course. for every flight ou

andy moore has been monitoring the story. what happened?s was a flight that left melbourne 11 minutes past 11 at night local time and was due to arrive at kuala lumpur at about, six hours later. it made a turn back to melbourne after the operating captain was alerted by cabin crew of the passenger attempting to enter the passenger attempting to enter the cockpit. the plane returned rapidly to melbourne airport and is ona rapidly to melbourne airport and is on a remote bay according to malaysian airlines, waiting for security assistance to arrive at the aircraft. we understand federal police are surrounding the aircraft at the moment. it seems that the airport itself is closed to other aircraft, though it is one o'clock in the morning now in melbourne, so there wouldn't be a lot of arrivals and departures. we have had confirmation from the malaysian minister of transport. he said the plane landed safely after being forced to turn back due to a disruptive passenger attempting to enter the flight deck. there are reports that the man claimed he

able to cast their votes at special polling stations which have been set up today. 0ur reporter, andy mooremething like 100,000, maybe as many as 150,000 people will vote and it seems that hundreds of them are here at this one polling station in london. you can see some of the officials gathering behind me. this is the shoals of all french school. there are people waiting to get in and you can see behind me have been here for about one hour already. the queue goes down the end of the road here and then around the corner and extends for some way beyond that. a lot of enthusiasm. another queue on the other side of the building, many people will cast their vote. voting will go on all day and we should get the result early this evening. thank you very much. what a remarkable queue of people in london. absolutely. we will state was that story for you when polls open in london. —— stay across that story for you. the nigerian presidency has confirmed that 82 schoolgirls who were kidnapped by islamist militants in 2014 have been freed. they were among more than 270 girls seized from a boarding scho

andy moore is in london colney in hertfordshire, where affinity water has become the first water companyr river colne in hertfordshire. the section here is basically the bone dry. local people say they haven't seen it like this is the summer of 1976. the problem normally is not low water levels, its high water levels. the casual use of photographs of flooding back in 2009 when the section of the river was basically turned into a giant lake. the current problem of low water levels is something that's been reported around the country. the environment agency says it is monitoring the situation. affinity is the water company that operates in this area and they say that they've had less than half of their normal rainfall sincejuly last they've had less than half of their normal rainfall since july last year and they say that we can all do our bit to save water, to help preserve supplies and minimise the possibility of restrictions later on in the summer. 0ne possibility of restrictions later on in the summer. one way we can do that to turn off the tap when we're brushing our teeth and then si

half the average amount — with southern england seeing the driest weather. 0ur news correspondent andy moorart advising customers about water usage. you can see there is a bit of water behind me but the section here is basically bone dry. local people say they have not seen it like this since the summer of 1976, in fact the problem normally is not low water levels, its high water levels and we can show you photographs of flooding in 2009 when this section of river was basically turned into a giant lake. but the current problem of low water levels is something thatis of low water levels is something that is being reported around the country. the environment agency says it is monitoring the situation. now, affinities the water company that operates in this particular area. they say they have had less than half of their normal rainfall since july last year and they say we could all do our bit to save water to help preserve supplies and minimise the possibility of restrictions later on in the summer. 0ne possibility of restrictions later on in the summer. one way we could do thatis in the summe

work to restore nhs computer systems will continue throughout the weekend, as andy moore reports.ssage that flashed up on countless computers across the nhs. the system was locked, it said, and no files could be accessed until a ransom was paid. the cyber attack had an immediate effect on patient services. this man's heart operation in london was cancelled. i was all ready. i've been shaved down the front of my chest because they were going to open me up, my arms have been shaved. i was all ready to go. nothing in my mouth since this morning. at 1:30pm the surgeon turned up and said, unfortunately we've been hacked, and there's nothing we can do, we can't operate on you today. the nhs was just one of thousands of organisations dozens of countries. here at the national cyber security centre we are working around the clock with colleagues in policing, the health service, internationally, and with private—sector experts to lead our response to those cyber attacks as they affect the uk. in scotland, at least half the health boards have been affected in some way. wales and northern ire

with me our correspondent andy moore.we have a posting, we were called around 11:15am to a serious incident at hamerton park. the ambulance attended and ambulances. i have seen pictures of the ambulance. i have seen pictures on social media of police vehicles turning up, police officers with dogs at the scene. there are widespread rumours on social media about tiger being on the loose. i have spoken briefly to the loose. i have spoken briefly to the zoo and the woman who answered the zoo and the woman who answered the phone, i asked if she could tell me what was happening and she said she was not at liberty to say. she said there would be a press release in the day. i said, there are rumours tiger is on the loose. and she replied very firmly, at tiger is not on the loose. that doesn't mean that at some stage tiger wasn't running around and has now been recaptured. it doesn't mean this incident may have involved a tiger in some way. we don't know. we have to be aware of fake postings on social media. but there is quite a l

let's get the latest now from our reporter andy moore, who is outside one of the hospitals affected,azard had on the weekend? well, problems still continuing here —— has it had on the weekend. problems still continuing, longer than expected waiting list send some ambulances being diverted. a lot of our patients coming in today. the hospital says where it needs to cancel those appointments, hopefully they will be in touch with patients, but they can't guarantee it so some people might be turning up here and finding they can't be treated. it should be put in context. the vast majority of the nhs was not hit in the first place and a lot of hospitals have solved their problems. where they still experiencing problems, they are quite severe in a handful of trusts. we have heard for example from northumbria trust, who are still trying to get their computers up and running, and they say patients may not have access to test results and scans, so problems are carrying on. we will be talking to the minister responsible for cyber crime and security, ben wallace, at 7:40am. theresa may will today

andy moore reports.roperly vetted. the force said a retrospective programme of vetting was about to start. her majesty‘s inspector of constabulary, mike cunningham, said forces needed to address this matter urgently, while the police federation, which represents rank—and—file officers, said it was disappointed to see such a huge backlog. andy moore, bbc news. rolf harris will be released from prison today on bail to appear in person at his indecent assault trial next week. the former entertainer denies four counts of indecently assaulting three teenagers more than 30 years ago. the jurors had already been told that mr harris was jailed for other offences in 2014. american warplanes operating over syria have attacked a convoy carrying pro—government militia forces. the us—led coalition said it was moving towards a base used by western special forces near the border with iraq. let‘s speak to our reporter ben james, who‘s in beirut this morning. how serious is this? this is being played down by the defence

andy moore reports. of 43 police forces in england and wales responded to freedom of information requests about weapons found in schools. the figures showed that 2,579 weapons were found in the two years to march this year. among them were samurai swords, axes and air guns. at least 47 children were below the age of ten, and one five—year—old was caught with a knife. just one stab wound, that went straight in his heart. the national police chiefs council said the increase in young people carrying weapons was worrying. it said it wanted to educate people that carrying a weapon illegally is never acceptable. a london firm which makes virtual reality games has had a massive boost: a £400m investment from a japanese bank. it's one of the largest ever investments in a british technology company. the business, called improbable, was only set up five years ago. what we are building could be the foundation of a completely new industry. the ability to make massive simulations of the real world, to help make bette

our correspondent andy moore's been following the story — he's with me now.d what he was inside for? this story becomes more worrying and concerning as we find out more, initially we thought simply he escaped from his guards in some way but now we hear he actually overpowered them. we don't know how many guards were with him, he escaped with a razor blade. we are discovering more about his history, the police nor the ministry of justice would comment but we have records from the crown prosecution service that show he was jailed in luton for more than five years last year because he held, he tied up a mother and her daughter and subjected them to what the judge called a terrifying ordeal for more than eight hours. he held a large kitchen knife to the throat of the mother and threatened to kill her and both of them feared for their life for quite a long time. that is why he was in jail. the life for quite a long time. that is why he was injail. the hunt for him involves police dogs and helicopters, it involves a drone. we are now hearing from the police that it

with me is our correspondent andy moore.k holiday and half—time without a suitcase, what is going on? a busy day for the airport, when you turn up and checked in, you check in your suitcase and it goes off on the automated baggage system to the aircraft, that has broken down so they have to revert to a manual system. that is causing a lot of problems and delays, a lot of cues, and it means planes are taking off on time but some people are being told their suitcases are not on that plane, so a lot of people angry about that. the priority for the airline is to get the plane off on time and the baggage follows afterwards? yes, the airline is saying that when the system is fixed to the baggage will be put on the next available plane and you will be reunited with its doing. they said they are trying to resolve it as soon as possible but it has not been fixed yet. it is affecting a lot of airlines, easyj et, affecting a lot of airlines, easyjet, one of the biggest, have issued a statement to their customers saying a number of flig