23/05/2017 100 Days+

Across the region, other families are still awaiting news

Among them, 15-year-old Olivia Campbell from Ramsbottom.

Alison Howe and Lisa Lees, two mums from Royton who'd gone

to pick up their children from the arena.

And 29-year-old Martin Hett from Stockport.

His family's been unable to contact him since the concert.

Anyone worried a relative could have been caught up in the attack should

call Greater Manchester Police on 0800 096 0095.

The full horror of the atrocity became apparent around

Thousands of Ariana Granda fans pouring out of the Arena.

Jubilation from the concert turned to devastation at the doorway.

It was a scene of panic and confusion, death and horror

One of the first reporters there was Clare Fallon -

17,000 people inside the arena, from the details we have been given, it

seems like this was an attack that was designed to cause maximum

devastation, designed to kill as many people as possible and I say

that because of the timing. This man didn't make it into the arena

itself, he was in the lobby, he waited for the concert to come to an

end, for people to begin pouring out to go home. Of course, some of those

people did not make it home because of the attack.

Oh, my God. What's going on?

The sound of fear filled the arena as people ran.

And the enormity of what had happened soon became clear.

Did you get a sense of what it was, it was an explosion?

Yes, definitely an explosion, because there's nuts

Yeah, there are nuts and bolts everywhere.

So you think this was some kind of deliberate...

Yes, of course it was. Not accidental.

As we were coming out the door, we just heard

And then, what, you ran? We just ran, yeah.

With so many people hurt - some of them catastrophically -

inside the arena and Victoria station,

Having seen things no adult - let alone child - should ever see,

Amelia told me she's one of the lucky ones.

Suddenly, like, something really hot just flew over us

and my mum and my sister and we all, like,

22 people were killed near the entrance. Nearly 60 were injured.

Suddenly, a massive/. Small. I had to live my wife down on the floor.

She has had a bruise under her chin. And she has probably broken her

femur in her left leg. Something really hot just flew over others and

landed behind me and my mum and my sister and then we all dropped to

the floor but then my mum told me that they were behind us so then we

ran out but then I realised they weren't so I ran back in and shouted

on my mum but I could not hear anything because my year was blocked

and it was just really scary. All I could hear was screaming, people

crying. Everyone was just running everywhere. Completely random.

Before the night was over, the police knew they were dealing with

an attack by a suicide bomber with a home-made explosive device, packed

with metal fragments. It was a deliberate attack on children and

young people. Time when parents were waiting to pick up their sons and

daughters. During the night, specialist teams were brought in.

400 police officers were deployed along with forensic teams. Early on,

police appeared to know the identity of the bomber. Then, within the last

hour, an update. I can confirm that the man suspected of carrying out

last night's atrocity is 22-year-olds Salman Abede. However,

he has not yet been formally named by the coroner and therefore I would

not wish to comment further about him at this stage. And on the

streets, survivors, reliving a concert that ended in fear and

murder. This is Helen and Isabella. We hit the corridors when we saw

masses of people running in absolute terror and panic to get out of the

place. Young teenage children, 14, 15. There were mothers with

children, carrying them on their shoulder. There were people with

wheelchairs, panicking to get out. Laura and Isabella's concert ended a

case -- a chaotic search for the exits. We do is run. I do not know

where we came out of, but we just ran. Parents had to get home so they

were very scared obviously because they were on their own. Manchester

has been a city on edge today, shaken by alerts and rumours and a

shopping centre evacuated. It is now beyond doubt that the people of

Manchester and this country have followed victim to a callous

terrorist attack. An attack that targeted some of the youngest people

in our society with cold calculation. This was among the

worst terrorist incidents we have ever experienced in the United

Kingdom. During the day, police raided a number of houses. A

22-year-old man was arrested in connection with yesterday's bomb

attack. And attack had long been feared. Preventing a determined

suicide bomber is incredibly difficult. The priority for the

police will be to discover everything they can about this man,

whether he is part of a wider network and whether there is a risk

of further attacks. Off the back of it... Yes, well, of

course, the police investigation has been going on throughout the day to

try and establish exactly what happened. We now know the name of

the bomber, This eight child one -- was among those killed. It was an

attack directed at innocence. Well, we saw the very worst of humanity

here last night, but we are seeing the best of humanity in Manchester

since the attack. It is not just the way people responded that the

response has been extraordinary, it is people offering to give people a

little more a room or some hotel space or even a mobile phone to call

parents because there were so many children last night you were

separated from their parents in the panic, but it was also the

professionalism and the speed with which the emergency services

responded, because they were up those steps last night within

minutes. And it was perfectly possible to imagine that there would

be a second attack. Most people were fleeing the Syria to get away from a

secondary device. The emergency services were running into it and

into what they did not know. So their bravery really has been

commended today and I have just come from Albert Square were there was a

vigil this evening and a loud round of applause was for the men and

women who tended to the injured inside the Fourier. And I think the

other thing to say is the police and the way they have responded. Of

course, there is a very active forensic investigation underway.

Here at the arena. But also into the background of this Salman Abede, a

young man who may have connections to Libya. They are obviously looking

into his background because although it may well have been a crude

home-made device, there was an element of sophistication, certainly

in the planning and perhaps in the construction of the bomb, so what

they want to know is whether he was acting alone, whether you're blurred

those skills to make the bomb, or was he, and this is the worst-case

scenario, what he supplied that one ad is there a bomb maker that is

still at large that the police need to find. Clearly, this is going to

be a long investigation and for every parents of daughters who are

about that age and you love Ariana Grande, we know how many children

and parents have been affected by this, including the singer herself,

22-year-old Ariana Grande says that she was broken by the attack. The

rest of her European shows have now been suspended. 60 ambulances went

to Manchester Arena after the attack and those wooded are being treated

at eight hospitals around the city. We are now starting to get a picture

of the people who are caught up in it. Our special correspondence has

this report on the victims of terror.

This teenager idolise Ariana Grande. This was when she met her in 2015.

This afternoon, a college in Leyland said our thoughts and prayers go out

to all of Georgina's family friends and all of those affected by this

loss. And the latest of the 22 who died to be named, John Atkinson from

Bury. Friends said the 28-year-old was an amazing young man. In

Manchester, they are also remembering the injured. 59 people

were taken to hospital. It is not 12 of the casualties are children under

16. Clearly, there are a number of individuals who have very serious

injuries and requiring intensive care. And people are going to be in

hospital a long time. Some families are still waiting to hear from loved

ones. People like Louis Rutherford and William Currie from South

Shields and Laurie McIntire and Aileen McLeod from the Isle of Barra

and Courtney Boyle and Philip Tron from Gateshead. Behind every face, a

desperate search. We haven't seen this girl. I Anders Aslund if you

have seen this jungle. Have you seen this girl? She was at the concert

last night. This is the uncle of 15-year-old Olivia Campbell. Her

family asked us to show her picture and publicise the search, from

hotels to hospitals. We have been as close as we can to the arena to

check the back streets and we have been to this hospital, a couple

more. We have friends and family going to other hospitals. We have

friends in Blackburn who work there and they are looking at their

hospital. We are just coming to an end. All we need to do is get in

contact with anyone who sees or knows where she is. All we need is a

phone call and we can go and get her. And waiting at home, cousins,

grandparents, and a mother who wanted to record this message to

help find her daughter. I am worried sick. If anybody has seen her,

please contact the police, contact somebody, let us know that you have

seen her. Does let the police know, please. In just seconds, so much

changed. Young lives so cruelly taken.

Plenty of reaction here in Manchester today. Let's meet

introduce you to the CEO of human appeal, which is a Manchester -based

charity. You do a lot of work in Syria and Afghanistan as well. Tell

me a little bit about what you've heard from the police today about

this 22-year-old monk -- young man, some collections -- connections to

Libya. Should we be surprised that someone who has done something like

this would come from a country that is so unethical? I think we are very

surprised as well. -- that is still stable. The stability has produced a

lot of problems. Bearing in mind that immigration and those who have

migrated, millions of people came to Europe because of the instability

there in serious this means have a lot of responsibility, the

international community, to try our best to solve the problems there.

Does an incident like this make it much more difficult to integrate

people like that you are coming from these countries into British

society? Do you worry about the divisions that that might cause? I

am not that worried because, for example, or charity. We do our best

to bring young people and we have 2000 volunteers around the country.

We try to challenge -- channel their energy to do things to maybe raise

funds to do other activities to help those who are abroad. So we need to

find a way. So this means there is a collective responsibility in the

community and we need to work together to channel the energy of

these young people and reach them as well because we need to do a lot of

projects to reach young people, especially in editors bandaged -- in

disadvantaged areas and unstable countries. There will be a lot of

people who will say I am putting a liberal spin on it and saying we had

to do more in the community to help people who have recently arrived and

these are the sort of people that should no good from evil and some

times we are accused of being too liberal, but when you look be read

back to September the 11th, we have tried invasions, we have dropped

bombs and we have tried all sorts of counterterrorist measures that the

incidents are starting to escalate, so there is clearly a problem within

our societies in Europe were people of the kind you have just described

are being lost and they are dropping through the gaps. Yes. I think we

have a responsibility. We need to do a lot of work with the young people

who come here. We need to find a way to integrate them with the community

and find a way to tell -- to channel their energy. At the same time, we

cannot avoid speaking about the big picture were the international

community has a big responsibility to solve the problems there as well.

That is something because I do a lot of work in Syria, I have seen the

reality in my eyes. I just came two weeks ago from the border between

Turkey and Syria, Lebanon and Syria, so I grow frequently and ITV reality

there are so we have a big responsibility -- our Government has

a big responsibility to stop what is happening there because as I said

earlier, those who came to Europe because there was a problem there,

we need to support for example Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan, who host

now 4 million refugees sought we have a responsibility. And when they

arrive here, that is double. Extra responsibility. And we are more than

happy in the Western community to work with the local authorities like

we do here in Manchester and with local Government as well to help

integrate those who come to Europe from the unstable countries. OK.

Thank you very much for being with us. We can speak now to security

expert birdie-mac, who advises the Government on public protection. If

you were in Manchester today and advising the authorities in

Manchester, what would you be asking them to look at? Well, I think

everyone is going to enter some days of grieving, along with all of these

victims and the first consideration from the point of view of the public

is really going to be that 20,000 people in five minutes have had in

your death experience and traumatic separation from children, so this is

a massive effort for the community to sort out and for the schools to

help. In terms of the terrorism, the whole of Britain actually has a

lesson from this and that is that we are entering potentially a very new

phase of much more military style attacks and these may threaten ours

because they may be more effective with these mass casualties and also

aiming at hard targets like the police, as we have seen in a recent

attack. So it means the authorities and the public are going to have to

work more closely. The other thing that we learned from the very sad

situation at Manchester is that the terrorists are finding art

facilities inside are so well protected that the focus of their

targeting is outside the facility on the periphery. Airports around the

world have experienced this. We have seen people walk into arrivals to do

the attacks because getting in another way is to well protected. So

does that mean, from your firm's experience, that what security

officials now have to be looking at is the external of buildings like

this and what can they really realistically do about that, short

of making an entire city on lockdown? Well, this country already

has defence in depth and it is disguised in many ways in the street

furniture and the way barriers are up to stop ramming vehicles and

vehicle bombs getting too close to buildings. They worked usually on

that and in the Olympics they did you'd work with local communities

and businesses and there is a very tight in intelligence of people

talking to the police, but the design, particularly in the

facilities that I have been looking at, particularly in this leisure

area, our concern has very much been the front facade of the entry areas

as the weak spots because this seems to get uncontrolled and often

facilities are old and they don't always have explosion protection

glass and very tight fitting that won't become extra fragmentation if

you have this type of attack, so the engineers will look at this very

carefully. OK. Fascinating. Thank you very much for joining us. Well,

this type of attack is something that security forces in western

countries are always on alert for, but with soft targets like answered

Samaritans and sporting venues, as you heard, more can be done to

protect the public? Today, while he was in Israel, President Trump had

this to say about the assault. I will call them from now on losers

because that is what they are. They are losers. Well, joining me now is

Stephen Hadley, he served as national security adviser to

President Bush. Is it possible as President Trump has suggested for as

ever to eradicate the threat that comes from Islamic State? It is

going to take a long time. It is going to require a strategy on a

variety of levels, sustained over a long period of time. We are going

after Isis now. We are stripping them of their territory, of their

so-called caliphate. That is the right thing to do because it gives

them a place to train and it was a source of inspiration and

recruitment, but if we succeed, they will then go back down to being kind

of a terrorist organisation like Al-Qaeda and we will have two deal

with that, trying to get intelligence to disrupt attacks and

trying too hard on things here at home. We will all have do pay

special attention now to those major gatherings, sporting events,

concerts and be like to upgrade the security associated with both events

because that is a vulnerability that the terrorists are beginning to

exploit. We are going to be in this for the long haul and what President

Trump is trying to do is rally the world of Islam to join others in

that effort and really put down the line that these folks are working

off an extremist ideology that is a perversion of religion and is really

the enemy of all religion. Since September the 11th, intelligence

sharing has improved here in the United States and with Western

allies as well and with European countries, but it becomes

increasingly difficult when you can have an individual and we do not

know whether this was one person or a network but when you have an

individual who can strap on a bomb and cause this much damage trying to

trace that individual and stop them. Is it possible for us to keep track

of every single person who is a threat? Well, one of the things we

have to do is work in our local communities to identify people who

are at risk and tried to get them connected with their family, get

them to help and support so they don't move in the direction. But

sometimes people are on watch lists and the security services quite

understandably do not have the resources to keep everybody on a

list of the time. That is why it needs to be a community effort to

take some responsibility and to try to get young people in particular

heading down the right path and there are some programmes were this

is being attempted in countries around the world. We have to do

more. They are trying it in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. But it is going

to be a community wide effort and it is going to take all of us and there

will be times when terrorists are going to get through. Were you

involved in the investigation into the attack in Manchester, what would

you be looking for today? Well, the question and the people who have

been on your show have said very clearly, is this someone by

themselves doing this or are they part of a network, and if they are

part of a network then we have to find out where the financing came

from, where the materials and training came from. And there are a

lot of principles that are available to do that. So the first question is

is this person acting alone, are they part of a network and then we

have to run down the network and also make sure that this is not the

first of a wave because that is always the thing you worry about

when you have an attack is the second or third. Which is why you

need to be so vigorous in your investigation, get to the bottom of

it and make sure there isn't another attack planned and ready to go. OK.

Stephen Hadley. Thank you for joining me on the programme. One

issue that people here are talking about in the counterterrorism world

that has changed since the days that Stephen Hadley was national security

adviser is of course cyber and encryption and these individuals are

often using encrypted communications and flying blind in a way for the

national security services to try to keep track of them because they

can't be traced so easily. Yes, that is how they are communicating. We

were talking about people coming in from unstable regions of people

listening to that might say the sky was British foreign, lived here in

Manchester and grew up in Manchester and he did but we do not know what

other connections he has had, whether he has been to Libya or is

in connection or is just inspired by so-called Islamic state. We do not

know. The difference between what happened at Westminster Bridge eight

a few weeks ago and what has happened here is that the bomb might

not be particularly sophisticated but there has to be a certain amount

of planning that goes into it. In previous plots that have been

foiled, usually they make contact with somebody, perhaps a bomb maker

or somebody who cancellers materials. That gives them away and

sometimes they do not make the bomb properly, but the point is this man

has managed to blot out what he was going to do and has carried out

successfully and that will be a worry to the police. You are

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