22/11/2015 BBC Weekend News

Tonight at Ten, the Belgian authorities warn of an imminent

terror attack on the capital Brussels, possibly at several sites.

There are reports of a number of police operations in the city,

as the highest level of alert remains in force.

TRANSLATION: A state of alert in Brussels will remain at the highest

level. Level four will remain as there is a sustained, serious and

Police and army units are to be strengthened, while the metro

The hunt continues for one of the attackers from Paris, thought

French police identify a third suicide bomber

The BBC understands he entered Europe via Greece,

Here, the Chancellor George Osborne pledges more money for counter

terrorism, but doesn't rule out cuts in frontline policing.

We have exclusive access to the RAF drone centre,

And, a man wrongly convicted of the murder of a British tourist

who served 23 years in jail, talks about his miscarriage of justice.

Belgium's Prime Minister says there is a "serious and imminent threat"

of a terror attack on the capital Brussels, and the highest state

Charles Michel said the fear was of a Paris style attack

at several locations, and tonight there are reports

of a number of police operations in the centre of the city.

The security services are to be strengthened, with more army

The metro which was closed yesterday will

remain shut tomorrow, and schools won't be reopening on Monday.

Our correspondent James Reynolds reports from Brussels.

It has come to this, the capital city in the heart of western Europe

closes itself down. The city which houses the European Commission and

Nato, now protects itself against the threats of attack. The Belgian

government has taken extraordinary and dramatic measures to keep its

citizens say. TRANSLATION: We are doing everything we can to get back

to normal as soon as possible and I would like to thank the police

force, the army and the security services while working in difficult

circumstances. The investigation is continuing and we are monitoring the

situation. The police have cordoned off streets. Tonight there is a real

sense of tension in this city. The police have blocked off the road

behind me. This is the first time we have seen these measures in the

centre of town. This is how Brussels has lived its weekend, and the

maximum alert. The government has instructed its citizens to stay

clear of crowds. The population follows its orders.

People in the 1940s had to cope with more than this, he tells me. We can

get through it. The man at the top of the wanted list is this man, one

of the Paris attackers. The police believe he is now on the run here in

Belgian. The police are monitoring his neighbourhood in Brussels. They

think his network planned its operations from here. His brother

has told Belgian TV he believes Salah should surrender because he is

not a killer. TRANSLATION: It is more than my

hope, it is my belief. Salah is a very weatherman. I think the last

moment Salah decided to move back and decided not to do the things he

wanted to do. Customers at this shop have decided not to hide away at

home. A regular Sunday morning outing has now become an act of Mike

Roe defiance against fear. TRANSLATION: The customers are happy

we are open. We are calm and we doing business.

Tonight, the police continued their operations in the centre of the

capital. The plotters they are looking for may still be at large.

This city lives moment by moment. Our Europe Editor Katya Adler is in

Brussels.. What is the latest on the police

operations tonight? And number of them are still ongoing. One of them

in the main city Square a few hundred metres behind me. This is a

very nervous and tense city tonight. Police have asked people not to

report their movements on social media. They have asked people to

stay indoors. The fear is there are number of armed gunmen on the loose.

The Belgian Prime Minister has been clear. They have received

intelligence for plans of Paris style Tauqir, he has said. We have

seen these operations throughout this city, helicopters overhead. One

of the operations is said to have centred around an area where one of

the gunmen from the Paris attacks was last seen. As I said, a lot of

fear, as you can imagine. This is normally a small and quiet city.

Yes, it is the headquarters of the EU, but it is full of policymakers,

think tanks and NGOs. It is used to analysing the news, not being the

centre of it. People have been asked to stay indoors, they are at home or

in their hotel rooms in the city centre. Instant messaging going on

across the city. Are you safe, are you OK? Many thanks.

French Police have released the picture of a man believed to be

the third suicide bomber, who died at the Stade de France

The BBC understands he arrived on the Greek island of Leros

on October 3rd, with another of the Paris attackers.

What more do we know about this man? French investigators are

appealing for information. They released a picture of this man. They

said, tell us what you know about him. He arrived on the island on the

3rd of October. When he was there he had his photograph taken, his

fingerprints taken and he was with another suicide attack in Paris, Al

Mohammed and they went to get ferry tickets in Leros before making their

journey through Europe, through Serbia and on to Paris where they

detonated their suicide vests. We were told in a BBC investigation,

these two men were with four other people, for young Syrian men who

left the Greek islands together. This will lead to more pressure,

more questions about Europe's open borders. We have two people

confirmed they were making this migrant journey, pretending to be

refugees, but their real intentions were to kill. Thank you.

Well the government is to set out its strategy this week for tackling

the so-called Islamic State group, including possible airstrikes

The Chancellor George Osborne says Britain cannot stand on the

He's announced more money for counter terrorism, but refused

to rule out cuts to the number of frontline police officers, in

Here's our Political Correspondent Ben Wright.

The Paris attacks are reshaping politics here, forcing Parliament to

consider again, the fight against IS, hardening the government's

resolve to launch new air strikes abroad and pressuring ministers to

Senior police officers have warned they would struggle to cope

with Paris style attack if funding is cut to further this week.

The Chancellor will set out his five-year spending plans

Today, George Osborne announced more money for counterterrorism

but was asked if there will be cuts to front-line policing.

Every public service has to make sure it is spending money...

We will make sure Britain is properly defended

I would make a broader point about this spending review.

You cannot have national security without economic security.

But, as soldiers joined police on the streets of Brussels,

the terror threat has sharpened the political choices here.

Labour said any cuts to front-line policing would undermine security

but in his drive to balance the books, the Chancellor's room

The problem for the Chancellor is that he wants to find significant

savings out of a smaller and smaller group of departments.

Because he is protecting health, the biggest, in fact he is spending

more on that and he is protecting defence, protecting schools,

He ought to protect police as well and there's not much left to cut.

So this week, MPs will hear the Chancellor set out his plans for

carving up government spending with the questions are national-security

MPs will also hear the Prime Minister set out the

government's case for UK military action against IS in Syria.

At the moment, British bombing of IS is limited to Iraq.

Russia, is among the countries already carrying out air strikes

The government says the UK should not stand on the sidelines.

We are not going to go to the house of commons and lose again.

That would be a publicity coup for Isil,

that would send a terrible message about Britain's role in the world.

We are only going to call a vote when we are confident we are

The government is seared by this, the moment MPs voted

against air strikes on the President Assad regime two years ago.

This time, the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn,

Many of his MPs take a different view and today the Shadow

Chancellor, John McDonnell, did not rule out a free vote, meaning

Commons support the government's position could be there.

My view has always been that I think Parliament should act as Parliament,

We should arrive at a view which is the best interests of the country.

There has been solidarity and sympathy for France.

In Paris tomorrow, David Cameron will meet the French president to

express UK support and discuss where next in the fight against IS.

Well tomorrow, the details of a defence review of

the current risks facing the UK will be made public, and they're likely

to lead to a speeding up of the purchase of new fighter jets.Here's

to lead to a speeding up of the purchase of new fighter jets. Here's

our Defence Correspondent Jonathan Beale.

At an airbase in the middle east, an RAF drone armed with missiles is

about to fly another mission against the group known as Islamic State.

Your eyes are on the target location... This is where they are

being flown from, back in the UK. We have been asked not to identify them

for security reasons. RAF reapers have carried out an air strike on

Syria on a British Jihadi and they helped identify and target the man

known as Jihadi John. This is the confirmation they are hunting down

others with or without Parliamentary approval. There are groups actively

planning us harm and where the threat is very eminent and where

they can be identified, then we would be failing in our duty if we

didn't deal with it and we will. That suggest you are looking at

further individuals at the moment. Ministers won't talk about a hit

list, but they are keen to highlight extra resources. They will double

the size of the RAF's drone fleet from ten to 20. This is the front

line against Islamic State, and massive hangar at an RAF base in

Lincolnshire inside these cabins are RAF crews flying unmanned Reaper

drones thousands of miles away over Iraq and Syria. This is what David

Cameron believes is the future for the British military. There will

also be money for new jets. Britain will be buying dozens of the F35

jump jets for its two new aircraft carriers now being built. All part

of a defence review that in stark contrast to the last, will mean

increases to the defence budget, rather than more cuts. But at the

time of rising threats from IS more aggressive Russia. Defence is in a

better position than it thought it would be. Which is to say it is not

likely to be caught. But nevertheless would be small

increases in spending, it still finds it difficult to meet the

commitments the government wants it to meet. It will still take some

time before this new equipment is delivered. The Royal navy's aircraft

carriers or not be ready for combat for at least another five years.

Four Britons killed in a helicopter crash in New Zealand

Andrew Virco and Katharine Walker from Cambridge and Nigel and

Helen Charlton from Hampshire, died when the aircraft came down

on the Fox Glacier on South Island yesterday morning.

The Church of England says it's 'bewildered'

by a decision by leading cinemas, not to screen a Christmas advert,

Digital Cinema Media which sells advertising,

says it didn't accept messages that were religious or political.

Here's our Religious Affairs Correspondent, Caroline Wyatt.

The ad features a son grieving at his father's grave.

Street preachers, weightlifters, a farmer and the

We filmed as it was being put together, aimed at celebrating the

Whoever designed this prayer obviously seemed to have found

a language and words that makes one feel as

The idea was for the ad to be shown ahead of the new Star Wars film just

before Christmas, at a time when families will be

The agency that sells adverts for the major chains says it could

not show the ad because it was about religion.

The final advert was approved by the British Board of Film Classification

The Church of England says no concerns were raised

when it approached the agency, Digital Cinema Media, in July.

But in a statement, Digital Cinema Media told the BBC it

had a policy of not accepting political or religious advertising.

It added that some adverts could cause offence to those

We find that really astonishing, disappointing, certainly,

We would invite people to make their own mind up, for them to come

The cinema's refusal to show a specifically Christian ad

around Christmas may provoke some soul-searching about the place

of religion into today's society, although others agree with

The cinema chain might, if it took this advert, be even more

at risk of being sued if it decided it didn't want to take an advert

I can very much understand why they don't want to start on that.

The Church of England's advert, celebrating the Lord's Prayer is

The world number one, Novak Djokovic, has won the

ATP Tour Finals in London for a record fourth consecutive year.

He beat Roger Federer in straight sets.

Rory McIlroy has finished the season as Europe's top golfer.

He holed a mammoth putt during the course of his victory in the

McIlory , who missed three tournaments this

summer due to injury, said he was looking forward to a rest.

A man released from prison in America after serving 23 years

for killing a British tourist, has been speaking

Robert Jones was the subject of a BBC investigation,

which found that the judge and police detectives involved in his

case, didn't believe he was guilty, and said another man had already

Stott was murdered in New Orleans in 1992.

Aleem Maqbool has this exclusive report.

Robert Jones is finally out of prison,

to be with all his family for the first time in more than 23 years.

Among those he was reunited with, his mother, his sister, and the

A judge ruled he could be released pending a retrial

after it was found his original prosecution wasn't fair.

You must have been thinking about this moment for a long time.

Yes, I have been thinking about it for a million years.

The wheel of justice turned slow but it turned.

In April 1992, a series of violent crimes were

committed in New Orleans, the same attacker described each time.

One of the crimes was the killing of the British tourist,

Julie Stott, after which police received

Even though another man was eventually convicted of the murder

and had compelling evidence linking him to all of the crimes,

Last month, the original judge in that trial was among those who

told us prosecutors withheld key, favourable evidence that led to

The fact that he was wrongly convicted and was in jail

for something arguably he did not do weighs heavily on me.

But Robert Jones remained behind bars - until now.

Say, for instance, there is a guy that pulled out a pistol, that

You look at him as a cold-blooded murderer.

Here you have a District Attorney that takes and withholds favourable

evidence from a guy, takes his life, sends him to prison and most guys

Who is the murderer, who is not a murderer?

Robert talked of others he knew he believed were also innocent

I watched a lot of guys die in prison.

That is another added thing that gave me the strength.

Though he is now reunited with his family, he does still face a fight.

In spite of the original detectives and a

judge now standing by him, and of all he has been through, the state

is still insisting he endure a retrial.

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