25/03/2016 BBC News at Six

A Briton is confirmed among the dead in the Brussels attacks as a suspect

in the bombings is shot and arrested.

The man is caught at a tram stop, one of several arrests by police

in the Belgian capital as the investigation continues.

Briton David Dixon is named as having died in the metro bombing,

America pledges support for Belgium, and carries out strikes

Has revealed it has killed a leading member of the so-called Islamic

State. We will come back with greater

resolve, with greater strength and we will not rest until we have

eliminated your nihilistic beliefs and cowardice, from

the face of this earth. APPLAUSE

Jeremy Corbyn calls the government's plans to change schools into

academies as asset stripping education as he addresses the main

teaching union. The ?250 million repair bill

for the bridges and roads ruined And, remembering Ireland's Easter

rising 100 years on. Belgian police have shot and wounded

a suspect during an anti-terror Video footage of the operation

in the Schaerbeek district of the capital showed heavily armed

officers moving in on the man at a tram stop, several

explosions were also heard. Meanwhile, the Foreign Office has

confirmed that a British man, who'd been missing

since Tuesday's attacks, David Dixon, who was 53,

is thought to have been on the metro Our Europe Correspondent,

Damian Grammaticas has the latest I must warn you, his report contains

some graphic images. It's a police operation, the woman's

voice says. Outside, they advance behind a bullet-proof shields. A

child emerges and is hurried away. Lying in the tram stop a man has

been shot in the legs, police still training their weapons on him. The

view from across the street shows a bomb disposal robot approaching, he

is holding a bag and they want to check if there are explosives. Then,

officers moved in. This is the same Schaerbeek district where the

Brussels and Paris attackers have safe houses. This operation, though,

it seems was triggered by information gleaned from a raid in

Paris yesterday where one man was arrested apparently preparing a new

attack in France not linked to the Brussels bombings. They take the kid

and they shoot the man I think in the leg. He was not dying, he was

moving and the police asked him to put the bag far from him. That is

what they did. -- he did. After, he tried to move. I was very shocked.

Meanwhile, prosecutors today confirmed that one of the suspects

who is thought made one of the suicide vests in the Paris attacks

was one of the Brussels airport bombers. In total, some 300 people

were killed and injured in these attacks, their fates are starting to

become clearer. Some 40 nationalities touched, in total. The

pain and suffering is felt not just here but far afield, too. From

America to China, families are now morning and in the UK, too. David

Dixon, an IT consultant from Hartlepool texted his family after

the airport attack to say he was safe. The father of a seven-year-old

son died soon after in the metro blast. Mason Wells survived the

Boston Marathon bombing three years ago and survived again in Brussels

but has severe burns. I remember seeing fire front of my face and

also fired down by my feet on the ground. We were really close. I feel

lucky to have escaped with what I did. Brussels' airport is still

closed but the US secretary of state came to offer his support. He said

criticising Belgium for security failings before the facts are known

is inappropriate, adding the so-called Islamic State is lashing

out in Europe because it is under pressure. We will not rest until we

have eliminated your nihilistic beliefs and cowardice from the face

of this earth. But what many here fear is that the terror network

still lingers and despite the efforts to eliminate them, there

could be more bloodshed to come. One update this evening. Exactly a week

ago the Belgians arrested the Paris suspect and have been criticised for

not getting more information out of him. Tonight the prosecutors

released a statement saying they questioned him three times and he

only cooperated wants to talk about events in Paris. He would say

nothing about events following the attacks here in Brussels. He has

exercised his right to silence. He hasn't helped them. Thank you.

The US military says it has killed a number of leading militants

belonging to so-called Islamic State, including the man

said to be the group's second-in-command.

It described Abd ar-Rahman Mustafa al-Ka-dooley as the group's finance

minister and said he'd been responsible for terror plots outside

We can speak to our North America editor,

What do we know about this operation? What seems to have

happened is that special forces had been brought in, trying to intercept

him and take him alive so they could question him about what he knew but

a firefight broke out and he was killed. A very different method of

operating from the usual drone strike. It also tells us that the US

are getting increased intelligence now on who the people are who

control IS and where to find them, critically. One other thing Ashton

Carter said, the Defence Secretary, the momentum is moving our way. The

anti-IS forces are shrinking the amount of land that so-called

Islamic State hold and by attacking the finance minister today, is

reducing the ability of IS to pay the foreign fighters. That has an

important flip side. If they can't fight in Syria and there is no money

to pay them, they could soon be heading back to Europe with the

security implications that involves. Thank you.

The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has told the National Union

of Teachers this afternoon that the Government's push

for academy schools in England will lead to the "asset-stripping

Ministers want all state schools to have plans to convert

to academies by 2020, arguing that it will

From Brighton, our Education Editor Branwen Jeffreys has this report.

opened after another failed, an early academy set up under a Labour

government. Now, all England's schools will have to follow, even

good schools will be forced to become academies. Today, Jeremy

Corbyn came to one of the teacher union conferences, do voices

opposition. There is not a shred of evidence that academies

automatically improve standards. -- to voice his opposition. There are

very real fears about the intention of the government and those who pay

themselves exorbitant salaries to run academy chains. APPLAUSE

Loud applause for that message, here. But it's not just teachers'

unions that are angry about the academy plans. Some Tory councillors

are as well. They say they are already doing a good job of

overseeing their local schools. Since this academy was built, things

have changed. A fresh start has led to a better school for local kids.

And the head says she has much more freedom. She has introduced

performance related pay, to keep good staff. One of the things that

is so useful is that I have control over my budget. Because of that, I

can employ are the sort of staff that meet the needs of this

humility. I have just as many support staff as teachers. In

primary schools it is simpler, most answer to the council. Here in

Brighton they are considering their options, could council staff leave,

to set up a group of local academies? You don't want a

supermarket free style of education here in the city where these academy

trusts come in, cherry pickers best schools and essentially be those in

the margins of our educational system to fend for themselves.

Today, this schools minister told me that they will press ahead, even

though some in his own party are against these plans. Even in strong

authorities, let alone the authorities where there are far more

underperforming schools, this is about ensuring that we take the

excellent and high performing schools, take that expertise and

spread it. Schools, could also be learning a new language of

competition between chains of academy schools. All against the

background of union and counsel dissent.

Local councils say they need more financial help,

to repair the damage to roads and bridges caused by this

The Local Government Association says councils are facing bills of up

to ?250 million and the final tally could be higher.

The worst hit area is Cumbria, which sustained about ?175 million

From there, our UK Special Affairs correspondent Jeremy Cooke reports.

A raging flood, an elemental force of nature.

Enough to change the landscape, enough to bring down bridges that

The scale of the damage is overwhelming, and so is the bill

It's a task which can take months, like here in Cumbria.

Eamont Bridge was rocked to its foundations,

The danger with this is getting into the water and we need the water

flows to be suitable to get divers in, first of all,

And for very much of the time since December, we've had very high

water levels and very fast-flowing water, which has made it difficult

and dangerous to get in to survey bridges.

Across the flood zone, there's still plenty of evidence

of just how high and fast the waters rose.

The amount of damage has been immense, and many communities

are still living with washed out bridges and closed roads -

Of course, it's not just about money.

For Carol Pollitt, dramatically rescued from the upper floors

of her pub, the December floods were terrifying.

It all looks a lot different now, but there are still bills to pay

To be honest, I couldn't really see wood for the trees.

There was so many jobs that needed doing.

To start with it, it was to get rid of all the sludge that had been left

behind, so we spent a full month cleaning and cleaning.

It's estimated that the winter floods have cost insurance companies

The Local Government Association puts the public bill for fixing

infrastructure at ?250 million, which councils, it says,

We'll either have to reduce some of our existing council services

What we're saying is that Government's got to recognise

Ministers say they are providing an extra ?130 million specifically

to help councils repair roads and bridges.

The Government also stresses it is to spend an additional

?700 million on flood defences, bringing the total to ?3 billion.

Ministers insist they stand squarely behind flood affected communities.

Five people have been taken to hospital after reports of shots

One man is in a critical condition after the incident

Police believe the shots were fired from a vehicle,

Officers say there's no suggestion the incident was terrorist related.

Commemorations will take place across Ireland this weekend,

marking the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising,

the rebellion against British rule that was a key moment in the history

There will be ceremonies at historic sites across Dublin,

with more than half a million people expected to attend events on Sunday.

Our Ireland Correspondent, Chris Buckler, has this report.

100 years ago, the backstreets of Dublin became a battlefield

...smashing into this building beside us.

Around the city, buildings were turned into makeshift garrisons

and the city's post office, a military headquarters.

The Irish Republic is entitled to and hereby claims the allegiance

It was here, on Easter Monday, that Padraig Pearse read

the proclamation, declaring a rising, a Republic,

and the end of British rule, yet it was less than a week

from the start of rebellion to the point of surrender.

In that time, the lives of civilians, British soldiers

and Irish volunteers were lost, and much of the heart

A field military strategy, designed by men with more knowledge

They were poets, they were scholars, they were writers, teachers

What had happened under British rule, all of the Irishness was taken

Relatives of those who fought in the rising will be

It's thought Molly O'Reilly was just 15 years of age when she carried

messages between its leaders through the dangerous streets

Molly's account of what happened is held in Ireland's military archives.

"I brought back a dispatch to hold the building at all costs".

I have a daughter myself, who's 17, and I can't believe that somebody

was out for the whole week at that age, dodging

Initially, in Ireland, there was anger at the rebels

for bringing violence to the streets of Dublin.

But the execution of the rising's leaders changed opinions and marked

a moment when support for a Republic truly rose.

Given the deaths on all sides, there are sensitivities

in marking this Centenary, but these commemorations are seen

as important because in the story of the rising are the origins

A man has been charged with inciting racial hatred on social media,

after a message on his Twitter account said he'd confronted

a Muslim woman in London about the Brussels attacks.

Matthew Doyle, who's 46, and from South Croydon,

will appear before magistrates tomorrow.

The American comedian Garry Shandling has died

His career spanned four decades and influenced

He enjoyed a cult following for the sitcom

He enjoyed a cult following for the sitcom It's Garry Shandling's Show

in the award-winning "The Larry Sanders Show".

It always falls on different dates, but could that change?

The Archbishop of Canterbury wants churches to agree a fixed date

for Easter celebrations, an idea that has support among

Here's Our religious affairs correspondent Caroline Wyatt.

For Christians, this is the most important religious festival

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, was with the faithful

in Kent today, marking when Christians believe Jesus Christ

And yet, those in East and West celebrate Easter at different times.

So, why can't Christians get together to fix the date?

We started talking about it over 1,000 years

Given the number of people and churches around the world,

that seem to support the idea of having the same date for Easter,

A better chance for a long time that certainly it could be

It's a debate that might not quite be as old as the moon and stars

itself, but it is certainly one that dates back to the earliest

For centuries, astronomers such as those at Greenwich have been

vital in predicting when Easter will be celebrated.

It depends on two astronomical things, the spring

It was the British monk the Venerable Bede back in about 700

who came up with a nice easy way of remembering it.

It's the first Sunday after the first full moon

It was only in the year 664 in Whitby at this ancient Christian

site that the Synod ended the squabbling as to when Easter

should be marked in this part of the world.

Now, though, there are hopes that the date for Easter

On the second or third Sunday in April.

Perhaps it will resolve one of the longest running

As well as making it rather easier to plan your Easter holidays.

The idea has come from the Coptic Orthodox Church.

Although some other branches, like the

Russian Orthodox, might be less keen to compromise.

The difficulty is going to be that everyone is going

to have to sacrifice, because we all have our own ways

We have all calculated this way for centuries.

So, this is one debate that could go on, long after we have finished

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