the kids are from ripoll. we are from ripoll. this is like a family.was made up of a group of friends. it included four sets of brothers. all of this seemed to point to a tight—knit cell, according to a police intelligence officer, who also spoke anonymously. translation: the fact that there were four pairs of brothers, this had never happened before and in a town like ripoll, a small town, this had never happened before either. also part of the group was a key figure, an imam, abdelbaki es satty. the imam, es satty, was killed here in the blast in alcanar. he was older than the others and had a long track record of links to extremists going back more than a decade. so the question is, what did the authorities know about him? abdelbaki es satty first came to the attention of the authorities soon after he came from morocco in 2002. he was connected to one person investigated in relation to the madrid train bombings in 200a. he lived in the same flat as a man who went on to be a suicide bomber in iraq. the bbc has learned es satty was also on a database

the kids are from ripoll. we are from ripoll. this is like a family.ttack was made up of a group of friends. it included four sets of brothers. all of this seemed to point to a tight—knit cell, according to a police intelligence officer, who also spoke anonymously. translation: the fact that there were four pairs of brothers, this had never happened before, and in a town like ripoll, a small town, this had never happened before either. also part of the group was a key figure, an imam, abdelbaki es satty. the imam, es satty, was killed here in the blast in alcanar. he was older than the others and had a long track record of links to extremists going back more than a decade. so the question is, what did the authorities know about him? abdelbaki es satty first came to the attention of the authorities soon after he came from morocco in 2002. he was connected to one person investigated in relation to the madrid train bombings in 200a. he lived in the same flat as a man who went on to be a suicide bomber in iraq. the bbc has learned es satty was also on a da

three days of commemorations began in ripoll, where an imam radicalised a number of young men behindidge that collapsed in genoa on tuesday, killing at least 38 people. the company has 15 days to demonstrate it met all its obligations. now it is time to look at the stories that are making the headlines in international media, and as you can well imagine, one person makes newspaperfront pages around the world. aretha franklin's death dominates across europe and america, including of course her home city. the detroit free press has a special edition dedicated to the musician. it also highlights her civil rights activism and points out her classics are climbing up the charts one again. to other stories now, and the telegraph here in the uk, and are eu officials being bugged by the british over brexit? yes, the paper claims. some are concerned that intelligence services are getting their hands on secret negotiation documents. the financial times now, and it has got the latest on the turkish lira, sliding again after the us put yet threatened turkey with more tariffs, halting its currency

the attackers were all from a small town called ripoll and included four sets of brothers and an imam before the barcelona attack, there'd been a massive explosion here in the seaside town of alcanar. police initially thought it had been a drugs factory but then realised something much more serious may have been averted. these pictures reveal how the men had been using the house to build explosives which detonated by accident. translation: the explosion was huge. the magnitude of what was being cooked there, what was being generated there, could have demolished a large building. this is all that's left of what was once a bomb factory. here, amidst the rubble, police found a suicide vest and more than 100 gas canisters. we've learned that the original plan was to launch a major attack, notjust here in spain, but also across the border in france. testimony obtained by the bbc from one person who was at the house points to there having been a second cell. our investigation makes clear this was not an isolated group but one with links to 12 countries, including the uk. after the attack, s