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The headlines at six: Explosions in a suburb of the city as armed

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The mayor says a suspect was shot and is now in custody.

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The raid is linked to an arrest made in Paris overnight.

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A man is being held on suspicion of planning a terror attack.

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It's reported he had links to the ringleader

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Belgian prosecutors say the second suicide bomber at Brussels Airport

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Previous reports suggested he was on the run after failing

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A British man is confirmed as a victim of the Brussels

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David Dixon's been missing since the bombings on Tuesday.

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American defence officials say a fighter described

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as the Islamic State's second-in-command has been killed

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Also in the next hour, a backlash against education reforms

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There's a growing row over the government's plan to turn

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all state schools in England into academies.

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The ?250 million repair bill for the bridges and roads ruined

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Our top story: Police in Brussels have opened fire on a man suspected

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of involvement in a terror plot, wounding him in the leg

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Officials said the man was linked to a suspect arrested last night

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in Paris who the French say was in the advanced stages

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Ben Brown has been in Brussels for us.

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It's the third of three days of national mourning for the dead

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from Tuesday's attacks, but today, many developments

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in the investigation into exactly how those attacks were carried out

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And now, we've got confirmation from the authorities here that one

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of the three attackers at Brussels International Airport

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At one stage, he was thought to have been on the run after those attacks

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but he died, he was a suicide bomber who blew himself up at the airport.

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And very significantly, the authorities are saying his DNA

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was found at places connected to the Paris attacks,

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Both attacks, of course, in November in which 130 people died.

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It is thought that he was one of the bomb makers behind the Paris

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attacks and he blew himself up here in Brussels

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at the International Airport on Tuesday morning.

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The other main development is that there's been a major police raid

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in the Schaerbeek area of the city today.

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In broad daylight, heavily armed police and troops involved

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Bomb disposal experts used at the scene to carry-out controlled

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explosions. There was a backpack on that suspect which was blown up in a

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controlled explosion by the authorities.

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Yet another major police operation is underway in the Belgian capital

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today, with armed officers surrounding the building.

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There have been explosions here but it's not known

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The security forces though have been taking no chances,

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sending in a bomb disposal expert after a man emerged on the streets.

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The police shot and injured him and he's now under arrest.

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It was later detonated by explosion experts from the Belgian army.

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All this happening in Schaerbeek in the north-east of Brussels,

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the raid linked to the arrest yesterday in Paris of a man

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suspected of planning another attack on France.

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In the midst of all this, the US Secretary of State John Kerry

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To pay his respects to the 31 people killed in the Belgian capital

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But he also came here to show solidarity with the Belgian

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government and the other European countries now dealing

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with the threat posed by the militant group

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And we will come back with greater resolve,

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greater strength, and we will not rest until we have eliminated

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nihilistic beliefs and cowardice from the face of this.

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Today it's been confirmed that the British man David Dixon

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from Hartlepool, who'd been living in Brussels for many years,

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was killed in the bomb attack on the Metro.

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He texted his family earlier to say he was safe after the first bombs

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went off in the airport, but then, he took the Metro.

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It has also been announced that this brother and sister from New York

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were amongst those who died in the attacks.

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While the process of mourning and naming those who have been

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killed continues, some extraordinary stories of survival have

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Mason Wells survived recent bomb attacks in Boston and Paris and this

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week was caught up in the bombings in Brussels.

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I was covered in a fair amount of blood, not necessarily mine even.

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And I remember seeing fire in front of my face and also fire down

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I feel lucky to have escaped with what I did.

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Back on the streets of Brussels, the police still have a massive task

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Trying to track down one or potentially two suspects thought

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to still be on the run after Tuesday's attacks.

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No one here can let down their guard.

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We have just heard from the French President Francois Hollande saying

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that the Brussels -- Paris militant network is in the process of being

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wiped out but he did warn the other networks continue to pose a threat.

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Let's talk to our correspondent who is in central Brussels at the moment

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and who has been at the scene in Schaerbeek where that rate took

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place and that the rest took place early on. What was that atmosphere

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like and what more do we know about what happened there? We know that

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there was a used one explosion heard in some gunfire. There was a Pirlo

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big police cordoned put up on this afternoon, one man was shot in the

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leg and taken into arrest, bringing the total to three people arrested

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here. The picture that is emerging is quite substantial links between

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Paris and Brussels when it comes to beat two attacks that have taking

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place but also potential new links between people who may have been

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planning to carry out further attacks as well. As Francois

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Hollande mentioned, all of that is leading to big questions about how

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connected these different groups of people are and whether they are in

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fact part of one very big network which spans two countries. The raids

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today in Schaerbeek and Brussels followed the arrest of a key suspect

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close to Paris. We know that. We are also hearing that purged Najim

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Laachraoui appears to have been the bomb maker behind the Paris attacks.

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That's right. Perhaps it's not surprising his DNA was found on

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suicide vests in the Bataclan and Stade de France. People had long

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assumed he had a hand in making those explosives but the news

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confirmed today that he was the second suicide bomber at the airport

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really confirms the link between the two groups of people who carried out

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those two attacks. Other links between the groups, Abdul Rahman

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al-Qaduli who was seen with members of the Paris attackers and also

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captured here in Brussels. But these new leads coming out of this arrest

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in Paris, the authorities there, the interior minister has said there is

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no tangible link between the plot they feel they have followed their

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and the attacks that have already taken place but what there may be is

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potential links across the two countries and another group of

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people who may been planning an attack. There are a lot of questions

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for the security agencies and police in both France and here in Belgium.

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They seem to have known the names and identities of some of the

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suspects after the Paris attacks and yet they have been able to carry out

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more attacks here in the Belgian capital. I think it's very difficult

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indeed that the intelligence agencies and security agencies in

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both countries. They are trying to monitor a growing number of people

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who have gone to Syria, come back and may potentially pose a threat in

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the future. What the arrest of Abdul Rahman al-Qaduli highlighted, it's

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not a matter of getting your man, it's matter of questioning him,

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getting information out of him that might prevent you carrying out

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future attacks. Thank you very much indeed. Lucy Williamson with the

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latest there. Let's tell you what's going on here in the centre of

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Brussels. People have been congregating, lighting candles,

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laying flowers and some of the flags from countries around the world you

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can see there behind me. It's an indication of the mood here in

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Brussels, where people really feel they want to come out onto the

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streets and they want to pay their respects to the dead, but they also

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want to show very much that despite all that is still going on around

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them here in the city with continuing raids and arrests and the

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shooting of the suspect here in Schaerbeek today, they want to show

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that life goes on as normal, and although they are paying their

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respects to the dead, they say that whenever you talk to anybody here,

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they want to show that they would be cowed by terror. That's the latest

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from Brussels, back to you in London.

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The American military says it believes it's killed a senior figure

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in the Islamic State group described as the organisation's

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The US Defence Secretary, Ash Carter, said Haji Iman oversaw

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the funding for the group's operations and that his death

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in Syria would hurt their ability to pay fighters and hire recruits.

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Mr Carter gave the details at a news conference in Virginia.

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We are systematically eliminating Isil's Cabinet.

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Indeed, the US military killed several key Isil

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Serving as a Finance Minister, a senior leader, and responsible

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He was a well-known terrorist within Isil's ranks,

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dating back to its earliest iteration as al-Qaeda in Iraq,

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when he worked under Zarkawi with liaisons

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The removal of this Isil leader will hamper the organisation's

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abilities to conduct operations both inside and outside

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This is the second senior Isil leader we have successfully targeted

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this month, after confirming the death of Isil's so-called

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When I said we were going after the Isil financial structure,

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we started with the storage sites where it holds its cash.

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Now we have taken out the leader, who oversees the funding

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for the Isil operations, hurting their ability to pay

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As I have said, our campaign plan is first and foremost to collapse

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Isil's parent tumour, in Iraq and Syria, focussing

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on the power centres of Raqqa and Mosul.

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In Syria, motivated local sources that we support took the town

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of Sadadi, repelled Isil's counterattacks and severered

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the main artery between Syria and northern Iraq, it has become

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harder for the Isil leaders and forces to travel

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Our Washington correspondent, Jane O'Brien, explained how

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significant the death of this IS militant is for the US.

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This is a man that had a $7 million price tag on his head and as you

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just heard, the Defence Secretary said this is a huge step forward as

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far as the Pentagon is concerned in cutting off the head of Islamic

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State's senior leadership. The big question which he didn't answer was,

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is killing leaders like Haji Iman going to prevent terrorist attacks

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like we have seen in Brussels, Paris and the US? That is something he

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could not really address. He admitted that even though this was a

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high-value target, whether or not... Just how much involved in these

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leaders are in directing attacks externally is still open to question

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and he said the influence really runs a range of things from

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directing fighters who return from Syria to their home countries,

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helping to train people who can then go on and it commit terrorist

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attacks or simply by inspiring lone wolf attackers, it's very difficult

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to pinpoint exactly what influence these people have outside Syria. But

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nevertheless, it's clearly something the Pentagon is very pleased about.

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Explosions in a suburb of Brussels as armed police storm a property -

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the mayor says a suspect was shot and is now in custody.

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American defence officials say a fighter described

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as the Islamic State's second-in-command has been killed

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And a growing row over the government's plan

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to turn all state schools in England into academies.

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Councils are facing bills totalling almost ?250 million to repair damage

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to roads and bridges caused by this winter's floods.

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They are concerned the final tally could be much higher and say they'll

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need more financial help, as our UK affairs correspondent,

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A raging flood, an elemental force of nature.

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Enough to change the landscape, enough to bring down

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bridges that have stood for centuries.

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

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

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Eamont Bridge was rocked to its foundations,

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The danger with this is getting into the water,

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we need the water flows to be suitable to get

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divers in, first of all, to do inspections.

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

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very high water levels and very fast flowing water,

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which has made it difficult and dangerous to get

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

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of just how high and fast the waters rose.

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The amount of damage has been immense, and many

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communities are still living with washed out bridges and closed

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Of course, it's not just about money.

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For Carol Pollitt, dramatically rescued from the upper floors

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

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

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There was so many jobs that needed doing.

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

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

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It's estimated that the winter floods

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have cost insurance companies more than ?1 billion.

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The Local Government Association puts the public bill for fixing

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

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We'll either have to reduce some of our

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existing council services or we will face a real problem.

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What we are saying is that the Government has

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got to recognise the cost to local government.

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Ministers say they are providing an extra ?130 million

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specifically to help councils repair roads and bridges.

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The Government also stresses it is to spend an additional

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

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Ministers insist they stand squarely behind flood affected

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A 32-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the death

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Mr Shah, who was 40, was discovered with serious injuries

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in Glasgow's Southside just after nine o clock last night.

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He was taken to the city's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital

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Police this evening say they're treating his death

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Its been called the forgotten conflict - a year since a Saudi-led

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coalition of Arab countries began carrying out air strikes on rebel

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The UN says that more than 3000 people have been killed

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The BBC's Orla Guerin reports from Yemen on the devastating

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A citadel perched on a cliff, a tourist attraction that somehow

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At this ancient site in Kaukaban, we found new destruction.

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The wreckage here includes a house that stood tall for 1400 years.

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They attacked these plates, says Ahmed.

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His brother-in-law was one of seven people buried beneath the rubble.

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Hidden from view in this rugged terrain, the broader regional power

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struggle between Saudi Arabia and its great rival,

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When the Saudis and their allies began the bombing campaign here,

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the stated aim was to restore the ousted president to power.

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But 12 months of air strikes have had devastating consequences for

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With the death toll mounting, there are plenty of troubling

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questions about what has happened here, and not only for Saudi Arabia.

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This ceramics factory employed 350 people before the war.

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It was empty when it was struck last September, but we were told one

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Here, says Ghalib al-Sawary, one of the owners, are remnants

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found in the wreckage which prove that British cruise

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And you can see that this is the name of the producer,

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He can't understand why a weapon made in the UK,

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where he studied, was used against him.

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The British people, we respect and we like.

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But you don't want to destroy our life in Yemen like that.

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We asked the Government for a response to

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A spokesperson said the UK takes its arms export

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responsibilities very seriously, and believes it's not in breach

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In the capital, Sana'a, put on display what may be

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Security officials claim this cluster bomb unit was dropped

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The coalition has denied using cluster munitions,

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But it's hard to deny the body count.

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The UN says most were victims of coalition air strikes.

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Abdel Bari Omar survived one outside Sana'a last month, but only just.

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TRANSLATION: I'm in excruciating pain.

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I'm afraid this very strong pain in my chest will stop my heart.

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Across town we got news of another massive air strike

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from Mohamed Ali Houthi, the rebel leader who now

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His Shia fighters claim to control two thirds of Yemen,

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If there is no peace settlement, how long can you continue to fight?

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Forever, he says, adding they won't won't accept

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a solution that jeopardises the sovereignty of Yemen.

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But, he says, if the Saudis want peace, they want it even more.

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In the meantime, the Houthis look victorious at their weekly rally

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More peace talks are coming, but there are fears now that this

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fractured state could become another Syria.

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The Rolling Stones are preparing for a free concert in Cuba,

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which is expected to attract 500,000 people.

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The show's being seen as another sign of real change on the island.

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It comes three days after a historic visit by US President Barack Obama.

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A career spanning over 50 years. Tours on every continent, countless

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cakes. But the Rolling Stones had never stepped foot in Cuba, until

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now, that is. Rock 'n' roll legends don't get bigger B but under

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Fidel Castro, their songs were kept from the Cuban youth as subversive

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material. It wasn't so long ago that your music was banned from the

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airwaves. Obviously something has happened in the last... That's what

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happens when you ban things! Time changes everything. Does this feel

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historic? They haven't had any big shows before. And it would've been

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surprising ten years ago the Vista have happened and anyone who has

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been a long time knows that. It comes at the end of an extra

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ordinary week in Cuba. Began with a first visit of the US President in

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90 years and ends with the first concert by Britain's rock royalty.

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This free concert has taken weeks of planning and preparation but now, in

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the final hours before showtime, everything is in place for the

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biggest concert have an has ever seen. If there was a sign that Cuba

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is changing, it's this, the world's biggest rock group playing a concert

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for free in one of the last communist strongholds on earth. What

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we be looking for in Cuba that you can't find anywhere else? Cigars!

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Thank you so much. It has been a beautiful day out

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there across many parts of the country. The satellite image shows

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we have a band of cloud moving in across Northern Ireland, parts of

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Scotland, bringing some rain, but the bulk of the country we end the

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day with clear skies. It was the scene in Whitby. It shows those blue

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skies. There were the cloud around but things are about to get rather

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more unsettled as we head to the remainder of the Easter weekend. The

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weather front in the north-west moves across Northern Ireland and

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Scotland, strengthening winds here, possibly severe gales. We start of

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Saturday with that wind and rain towards the north-west of the

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country. For the rest of Easter, things look pretty unsettled. Some

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sunshine. Particularly in between those heavy downpours on Easter day

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but on Saturday, this frontal system works its way eastwards. Strong

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winds, gales, Hilson coasts, working across England and Wales. Parts of

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East Anglia and the south-east remaining dry but the wind is

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picking up, the rain rolling in later on. Northern Ireland in

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western Scotland having a quite spelt their heavy downpours rolling

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in. This main bulk of rain and strong gusty winds moves away

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towards the east so a quiet interlude in the weather and on

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Easter day, sunny spells and scattered showers. Some of the

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showers will be pretty happy with hail, thunder and wind in and around

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the showers. Temperatures 8-12dC but will build chilly where you are

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exposed to the breeze with those downpours. We see storm Katie

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approaching from the Atlantic. This storm system moving in from the

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south-west. Type is a bar is so another spell of windy weather

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during the day on Easter Monday. Strong winds and heavy rainfall

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working gradually northwards and eastwards across much of the

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country. England and Wales will bear the brunt. Northern Ireland and

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Scotland, a quite a spell of weather here. Still blustery though with

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heavy showers. If you have got plans to travel on Easter Monday, be

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warned. The combination of gales and heavy rain could lead to travel

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disruption. Your BBC local radio will keep you up-to-date with any

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problems. After a glorious day, things are looking much more stormy

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through the remainder of the

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