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Police say he was part of a wider network and four more

Before Salman Abedi carried out the attack he travelled to Libya -

Police believe he was not acting alone.

It's very clear that this is a network that we are investigating,

as I said it continues at a pace, there's extensive

Britain's threat level has been raised to critical -

the highest there is - it means there will be troops

As the victims are named - each brings a story of tragic loss -

from young lives cut short to parents who went

Britain is not happy that intelligence shared with America

about the attack was leaked to US journalists.

Officials in the UK say American authorities revealed

information which could have hindered the investigation.

Donald Trump goes to the Vatican for what he calls

These two weren't always so friendly.

Hi, I'm Christian Fraser in Manchester, Katty

It is impossible for security services to keep every terrorism

suspect under surveillance but tonight there are several signs

that the Manchester bomber was a known cause for concern.

He travelled to Libya and possibly Syria before the attack.

Members of his own community tell the BBC they warned authorities

about him and the French Government says he had proven

The Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, also says the suicide bomber

was known to the UK intelligence agencies and he probably had

For the victims and their grieving families, the news is no comfort.

And this was a horrific violent event, it was more sophisticated

than some of the events we have seen in the past or in other parts of

Europe, so people are reasonably wondering whether he did this on his

own and I am making sure that the police and the intelligence services

doing that investigation have the support they need to find out who

might be, have been working with him, because our focus is always

going to be on making sure we keep people safe. The best way to do that

is to ensure this operation ends. Here's the Manchester police

on the investigation. I think it is very clear that this

is a network we are investigating. It continues as apace. There are in

destinations going on extensively and taking place across greater

magister as we speak. Certainly the investigation is moving fast.

The attacker's father and younger brother were both

Five more people are being detained in Britain.

It is now thought Salman Abedi may have been a 'mule' ,

using a device built by someone else.

Our special correspondent Ed Thomas has more.

Suicide bomber Salman Abedi, an extremist who attacked the city of

his birth. Now investigators surround his home, like everyone

here, wanting answers. This man knew Abedi. He would watch him come and

go from Manchester to Libya. Now he can't believe what his neighbour

did. Unbelievably disgusted, to be honest. For a Muslim, and a Libyan

as well for. For us, being the law of the country is most important.

That is what the Prophet teaches us. He was shouting out the Koran in

Islamic. I don't know the language. The BBC was told a black flag with

Islamic writing was hung outside his home. Many had no idea what it

meant. I remember seeing some sort of flag outside. I didn't really

look at it. Was it English writing? No. A community worker who did not

want to go on camera told us to separate people who knew Salman

Abedi at college rang police several years ago. They said he was

supporting terrorism and had expressed a view that being a

suicide bomber was OK. Greater magister police will not comment on

those claims. And what about the Manchester bomber's family? This is

his brother Hashim now under arrest for is supporting so-called Islamic

State. This is his father, he's now back home Libya. On his Facebook

page he praises Al-Qaeda fighters in Syria. Before he left South

Manchester: we were told he would take part in praise at this mosque.

He is a guy who announces it. Police now want to know if anyone else what

Salman Abedi and his father believed. Salman Abedi's father, he

was in the mosque? Everyone knew him. A good man? He is a good man.

This man is close to the trustees at Didsbury mosque. Like many he had no

idea of the family's extremist links will stop we know he is connected to

extremist fighters in Libya. Groups close to Al-Qaeda. To us it did not

show. Is that a problem though? That people like yourself, good people,

don't know who they with? We go back again, the mosque trustees go have

to do more about that. A lot needs to be done. Tonight, Didsbury mosque

said Salman Abedi was a coward who has crime had no praise in their

religion. A man willing to kill and hurt in the city that was once his

home. No doubt the community has pulled

together and you can see the number of flowers that have been laid in

just the last few hours. This is now becoming the focus of the grieving

here in Manchester. This is the Metropolitan Mayor of Manchester.

Thank you for being with us. A lot of police activity today. It is very

noticeable for people in the city. Are you satisfied that they are

getting to grips with the investigation was to mark yes, I

have a high degree of confidence in what the police and security

services have been doing. There has been a huge amount of progress with

the investigation in the last 24 hours. I am confident that those

responsible will be hunted down, held to account. I'm also very

reassured by the police presence that we have in this city right now.

Really, the response of the public servants of greater Manchester has

been truly magnificent. It is obviously one of most complex

investigations Manchester police will perhaps ever undertake. One of

the things that alarming people is that there was information on Salman

Abedi that was perhaps missed. A community worker told the BBC today

that they had alerted the police several years ago to their concerns.

When the appropriate time cans, people will have to look back at

what was known in what was not known. I don't think this is

necessarily the time. But we always have to bear in mind how hard the

job of security services is. Information is coming in all the

time. They have foiled many plots in recent times and we have to give

them our support because they do an incredible job. This individual was

an extremist, a terrorist, does not represent the Muslim community of

greater Manchester, and certainly does not represent anybody here in

greater Manchester. This is the true greater Manchester that we are

seeing, the spirit that is coming through in these last 48 hours. You

had a big event here on Friday, -- you've got a big event, can you

reassure people that you are doing everything you can to protect them?

Yes, we are working closely with Government the security services.

The important thing is to get back to normal. That is the easiest

signal to say we will not be beaten by what is happening. And Manchester

has always done that, it does not ever back down to anybody and we

won't be backing down now. We want to bring the city back together. Of

course people will need to be vigilant but not unduly alarmed.

There will be a police presence on the street but the best response is

to come together, be strung together, and said that defiant

Manchester message out ran the country and the world. That Northern

spirit is certainly there. The investigation is moving fast.

The police are saying they arrested a man carrying a suspect package.

What you know about the latest arrests? We are just hearing of

another operation going on not far from here which seems to involve

about 45 police officers and 12 police vans. We are going down there

to check out what is going on. This afternoon the man arrested in Wigan

was arrested because he was carrying what seems to be a suspect package.

We have not heard whether that turned out to be anything or not.

Then of course there were three men arrested this morning who were

arrested because they knew the suspect it bomber. That is also out

of the investigation. Perhaps the most significant is invalid

development this evening is that the New York Times has published

photographs of what appears to be the remnants of the bomb from Monday

night. Some details about that bomb include the suggestion that it seems

to have been contained in some thin metal container, either in a blue

backpack or a black vest. And that there was a trigger of some sort in

the bomber's hands. That is probably the most significant of element as

we go on air tonight. Intelligence that Americans

journalists are getting information leaked to them from American

sources. I am fascinated to know how they got these pictures of the bomb

that our colleague was just telling us about. The Manchester attack was

Britain's second terror attack in just two months. And as people

rallied in London after the Westminster attack, people in

Manchester are now pulling together. So far we know the names of 13 of

the 22 people killed. As their names emerged today,

one thing was inescapable - The carefree tenderness

of the lives lost. Her family spent yesterday

frantically searching for her. They learned early today

that she had died. Her mother, Charlotte,

posted this message on Facebook. She went to Tarlton Community

Primary School in Lancashire. This morning, her classmates at

assembly sang, Don't Stop Believing. Her mother and sister

are still in hospital. Her warmth and kindness

will be remembered fondly. Saffie was quiet and unassuming

with a creative flair. Saffie comes from a close,

loving family and we can only Marcin and Angelika Klis

from Poland lived in York. This photograph was taken

shortly before the attack. They had come to collect

their daughters from the concert. Their girls lost both

parents in an instant. I've been a Deirdre

Barlow super fan. She's always been my

favourite character. This is Martyn Hett speaking

to the BBC in 2015. He was 29, gregarious,

full of enthusiasm. His partner wrote, our wonderful,

iconic and beautiful Martyn didn't survive -

he left this world how Kelly Brewster was 32

and from Sheffield. She died shielding her 11-year-old

niece from the blast. Her partner wrote, Kelly really

was the happiest she'd ever been. We had so many things

planned together. Georgina Callander had

adored Ariana Grande She was 18 and a second year student

of health and social care, planning a career committed

to helping others. John Atkinson, who was 28

and from Bury, also studied Jane Tweddle-Taylor was a school

receptionist and a mother of three She was waiting for

a friend's daughter. She is irreplaceable,

her colleagues said, bubbly, kind, welcoming,

funny, generous. Nel Jones was 14 and described

by her teachers as a bright It feels like the school

has lost a sister, Her mother and grandmother were

injured, her grandmother critically. Michelle was married

with three young children. Her family issued

a statement saying, family was her life, she has been taken

from us in the most traumatic way Friends Lisa Lees and Alison Howe

were waiting for their Both girls survived the blast

but their mothers died side-by-side. Look into these faces and youth

and optimism beam back at you. Children, young parents,

leading normal, blameless lives. after the attack, too many children,

too many families devastated by the bombing. It is terrible. Not just

the young victims who we've heard so much about in the last few days, but

14 of the 22 have now been named, it is a complex thing to name everyone

who has been killed and that is proceeding. But what we have so far

our young people who were at the concert but also parents who were

waiting in the four yay for their children to come out. We all know

what that is out, those of us who are parents, you go, you get as

close to the venue as you can hoping you can catch a imp libs of your

children as they come out, and that is when the bomb went off. Goodness

knows what must have gone through the minds of the children coming

out, some of them certainly lost their parents. Some were mothers,

one case I have read about today was to mothers are standing together who

were going to pick up their two daughters who went to the concert

together. It is heartbreaking, but it always is with these attacks.

There are always stories that touch you. In response to the attack the

terror threat across Britain has been raised from severe to critical,

it means is further attack may be imminent and troops have been

deployed to key locations across the country. Joining me is a senior

lecturer at the University of Salford, specialising in

psychotherapy and counselling. We were just talking about some of

those heart-rending stories. These flowers, and all these people that

are here tonight, for those who have lost people, does this make a

difference? I'm sure it must be an incredible comfort to know that

hundreds of thousands of people are supporting them and entire

communities are behind them. The thing we know that makes the most

important difference to people who have experienced trauma is social

support, which comes from family, friends, colleagues, peers,

classmates, but also from the wider community. So this must make them

feel very cared for. How does it change the psychology of the city? I

am from the north, some of my northern friends said we used to

think that all terror attacks were focused on London, and they are

nervous about the tube in London, but now they realise it can happen

here in the most ordinary place. I am not so sure about this, because

Manchester was bombed back in 1999. And a lot of people in Manchester

remember that. What has happened in the last few days has really

reminded them of that and brought a lot of those memories back. Think a

lot of people in Manchester had a sense for quite some time that we

were a potential target, and now this brings it very much alive. I

think it is possibly going to make it a bit nervous and apprehensive

for some time to come. Thank you very much. They will be very assured

a little bit by the police presence in the city, it is very noticeable.

We haven't seen any soldiers but there are plenty of armed police.

Well, Christian, here in New York - security is always at the forefront

Today I spoke with Richard Clarke, who served in multiple

administrations as a White House counter-terrorism official to get

Terrorists look at attacks and learn from them. Intelligence services

also learn from them. When you look at what happened in Manchester, what

strikes you? It shows us that you can have really good security around

a venue and in a venue, but there is always that area right in front of

the venue where people pile up. Whether it is the counters at the

airport before you go into the security zone, or the area outside

the concert hall when people are pouring out of the concert Hall. You

can't secure everything. You can't secure everything, but that is sort

of the option we are looking at, isn't it? If we want to make people

save they are will have to have increased security in public venues.

They will have to have that, but they will also have to get used to

greater eloquent eczema railings. Here the goal is to catch the

perpetrators before they put the bomb together. Before they moved to

the venue. When the bomb is on the way to the venue it is already too

late. Is Isis hard it to combat them Al-Qaeda was. Archive was

centralised. Isis shows a way of being decentralised. It is very

difficult to get these people who are self activated, who turned from

being just radicalised one minute to being martyrs the next. There are

reports that this individual travelled, he was of Libyan descent,

travelled to Libya and perhaps also Syria. Would that raise a red flag

for you? Certainly the fact that he had gone to Libya and Syria would

have put him on a watchlist. That list does not mean what people think

it does. It does not mean there are Scotland Yard guys following him

around all the time it means he is on an electronic watch list. To

actually follow someone 24 hours a day takes over 20 people. You can't

do that when you have ten or 20,000 people on a watch list. So

realistically, security services in Europe can never track the number of

people who are potential threats. Security services can never track

everybody and their watchlist. They can hope that they will find signals

in electronic media, but they can't possibly know everybody at what they

are doing. They are just on a watch list, it does not mean they are

being watched. British officials have made it clear they are not

happy that some intelligence that was given and shared with American

counterparts was leaked to US media. How damaging is that kind of

indiscretion? In this case it was not terribly damaging. American

officials announced the name of the perpetrator of the Manchester

bombing before British officials. That is embarrassing, it is a

slip-up, it should not have happened, but it has no real effect.

Donald Trump said repeatedly they would drive the terrorist out. Can

it be done? Driving them out implies using intelligence, military police

to them. That's fine, but you will do that for ever unless you get to

the root cause. Which are in some cases socioeconomic, ostracise age

and, in some cases the ideology and you have to counter that with a buy

better ideology. That will take years! Yes. We have to live with

this. After 9/11 President Bush said this will take a generation. And I

said no, sir, this will take several.

We will talk more about Manchester and the resignation but let's look

at the other news today. The Pope wants Donald Trump not

to pull America out of the Paris As a not perhaps so subtle gift,

the pontiff gave the President a parting gift of his 2015

encyclical letter on the We don't know whether Mr Trump

will be swayed by Francis' argument but he did leave the meeting

at the Vatican saying Before they went in for their 30

minute private chat they posed The President at least looks

very happy to be there. I am joined by a congressman. He

served as America's ambassador to the Vatican during the Bush

administration. Do you think there is much the Pope and President Trump

can agree about? Yes. There is a whole lot they can agree about

starting with the natural alignment of the United States and the holy

see as being the two entities in the world that are squarely founded on

religious freedom and the natural rights of man. We weather people

that put in place the Government experiment that John Locke wrote

about. Right, but... You will remember, during the cause of the

campaign just how much these two disagreed, particularly on the issue

of the Mexican wall. When it comes to migration, climate change,

there's not a lot of in common. I think there may be some

disagreements about climate change but there are disagreements on all

sides of the issue. Disagreement is actually among scientists as to how

reliable the models are that were contained in the international

climate change group 2040 report. The essence of diplomacy is not to

let your disagreements over come the opportunities to pursue common

objectives where you are aligned, and we have many of those, the fight

against Islamic terrorism, the effort to protect Christians in the

Middle East, to end trafficking of human beings, these are elements

where there is an enduring partnership and we can work

together. Would you'll I could President to listen to the Pope and

keep America in the Paris climate change accord? I would not want to

give the president advice on what he should do. I think there are so

many... You are a wise man. There are certainly debates on both sides.

Thank you for joining me. I'm sorry, we have to leave it there for the

moment. It was very interesting watching the photographs, they

looked a little forced I thought going into the meeting. They looked

much happier coming out. My suspicion is that even the president

will have gone into the Vatican and been just a little overawed. What do

you think? I suspect so for stop you know I was a former Rome

correspondence so I used to report on these meetings are not. There are

these little codes from the Vatican that tell you where you are in the

pecking order. I remember in 2007 Tony Blair came to Rome for his last

visit with the Pope and he was expecting to be given the red carpet

treatment. If fact he was given short shrift because the Pope, Pope

Benedict, did not agree with Labour's attitude to game our edge,

stem cell research, etc. He was rushed round the library and then

had a very brisk conversation at the end. I experienced some of that

because I went in to meet the Pope after that and he said,, the BBC!

And I thought oh no... But actually he listens to the BBC in the Second

World War so we got on quite well. You are