25/05/2017 100 Days+

Manchester police say they have made significant arrests

It comes as a minute's silence is held across the UK

There have been more raids as police hunt the network that

The arrests that we have made are significant and initial searches

of premises have revealed items that we believe are very important

Leaks of the investigation to US media are causing a serious row

Manchester police are no longer sharing information with America.

As the last of the victims are identified, the Queen visits

Manchester's Children's Hospital to meet some of the injured.

The attack in Manchester preoccupies world leaders

President Trump stands with his Nato colleagues in calling for a unified

But then takes them to task over defence spending.

The Republican candidate is charged with assaulting a reporter just

Hello, I am Christian Fraser, in London.

We're learning a bit more about Salman Abedi's movements

Last week we know he travelled through Dusseldorf Airport,

he was in transit, but where was he coming from and who

Authorities are trying to answer those questions.

There is a lot of sensitive material that still needs

The Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police,

Ian Hopkins, said that leaks in the United States

have caused distress to the families of the victims.

But he also said progress is being made in the investigation.

The arrests have taken place in Manchester,

Wigan and Nuneaton, and we are now carrying

out associated searches in relation to those arrests

These have been an intense three days for the officers and staff

of Greater Manchester Police along with the national counter-terrorist

policing network and UK intelligence services.

I want to reassure people that the arrests we have made

are significant and initial searches of premises have revealed items

that we believe are very important to the investigation.

Joining us from Manchester is Catriona Renton, outside

Significant developments today. A number of bomb scares around the

city? The first hours got off to a slow start. Significant progress in

the last 24-hours. The Chief Constable, Ian Hopkins, spoke to

reporters earlier today. He was able to say that eight people, eight men,

are in custody. They were arrested in Manchester, Wigan and Nuneaton in

the north of England. These, he said, were significant arrests. A

woman was arrested, but released without charge. Ongoing at the

moment searches ever associated properties. He said initial searches

of premises had revealed items they believe to be important to the

investigation. Now, as we speak, three properties, where three of

those men were arrested, are currently being searched. We

understand that the bomb disposal squad are at a property in

Manchester helping the police there. In Wigan, a street has been

evacuated. That was another location where somebody was arrested. We also

understand that that another property in Manchester is currently

being searched. A very fast moving investigation with new leads and

links coming in all the time. The police have said to expect these

searches to take several days. They've asked the public to bear

with them on this because these searches are very important. What

are they looking for? They are looking for components that would

have been used to make a bomb or chemicals, elements that would help

them discover what else is out there. That is the idea that is

coming forward this evening. While there is an enormous sense of

progress, there is also a much larger sense of doubt around the

bigger picture. What else is out there? That is what police are

trying to find out now. Who created the bomb that Salman Abedi carried

and who else is out there may have components? Are there other bombs

there. They need to find that. There is no sign at the moment that the

threat level will be lowered any time soon. A long way to go with

this investigation. Thank you very much for joining us.

It seems to be clear they are anxious to find the rest of this

network. I man, from previous experiences, I'm thinking of Paris,

which you covered, the Bataclan attacks. They don't know whether

another attack is imminent. There is a race against time for

investigators now? You are always on the clock if you don't know fully

what you are dealing with. You are right, it does have echoes of what

happened after the back clan because, remember, there was a

suicide vest dumped in a bin in northern Paris which told them there

was a suicide bomber who hadn't gone through with it. There was a support

network for him as well. It was a tip off from the family member who

was the recruiter for that cell that led them to that flat. When they

went in there, you will remember they almost blew up the apartment

getting at him, they killed him inside the apart. There was a blot

plot to hit the business district in Paris which they disrupted. They

were lucky. They went through that sea of information. It was that tip

off that helped. They will hope for something similar in that Manchester

investigation. The British authorities will be speaking to

French authorities to learn what happened after that attack, too.

Undoubtedly to both the French and German authorities, I would think.

Britain held a minute's silence today to remember

All 22 people who died have now been identified.

The Queen visited some of them today.

So you'd come specially for the concert, had you?

She sounds very good, very good singer.

That is 14-year-old Evie Mills, who travelled to the Arian Grande

concert, a birthday present she had been looking forward to.

Police investigating the attack say they have stopped sharing

information with American officials after intelligence was

The Prime Minister, Theresa May, has raised the issue

with President Trump at the Nato meeting in Brussels.

Mr Trump said that the leaks were "deeply troubling" adding...

"I am asking the department of Justice and other relevant

agencies to launch a complete review of this matter.

There is no relationship we cherish more than the Special Relationship

between the United States and the United Kingdom."

We have a Special Relationship with the USA.

It is our deepest defence and security partnership that we have.

Of course that partnership is built on trust and part of that trust

is knowing that intelligence can be shared confidently, and I will be

making clear to President Trump today that intelligence

that is shared between law enforcement agencies

Joining us to discuss this issue is Pete Hoekstra,

a Trump campaign advisor and former Chairman of the House

How unusual is this kind of a rift between British and American

Intelligence Services, Congressman? I think it's kind of unusual. The

United States, the Brits, the Australians, New Zealanders,

Canadians we have a relationship that means these are our closest

allies. Our closest partners in sharing information. Basically,

there's almost total transparency between all of our intelligence

agencies to work together and co-ordinate their activities.

American officials like to refer to the British relationship as the

special relationship. The Brits do it all the time too and sometimes it

goes through wobbles. It's a relationship that American officials

prize. How embarrassing is this to the United States at the moment that

these leaks are happening in this particular incident, where so much

pain has been caused in Manchester? I think it's very embarrassing. It's

a place that the United States of America doesn't want to be. It's a

very, very special relationship. More importantly, at thes's an

essential relationship if we're going to be successful in, you

know,ifyinging radical Islam or other threats that we will face in

the future, we need this kind of co-operation. As you said earlier in

your news report, you know, we need to be co-ordinating with the French,

we need to be co-ordinating with the Germans and we need to figure out

where this terrorist was, whether it was Libya, on the continent, to put

the pieces together to find what may be a network cell. It's absolutely

essential that we co-ordinate and work together if we're going to be

safe. Congressman. I'ming back to the Snowdon leak and they were

trying to investigate where it came from, there were 800,000 people who

had access to that information. So when Donald Trump says, "we'll

investigate and prosecute if we can", it's not going to be so

straight-forward, is it? I'm sure that the Brits have found that other

people who work in the intelligence area, we found it here in the United

States, it's very difficult to identify where the leaks are coming

from and what the actual motivation may be for any of these leaks. That

doesn't mean that we shouldn't try. In this case, there's a limited

number of people who may have had information to the data that the

Brits believe is very, very sensitive. We've had some other

leaks here recently again, a small universe of people. I think, if you

put a concerted effort, if you demonstrate that there is a

concerted effort that when there is a leak we will do everything we can

to find you and to hold you accountable to the law, that's what

I would expect our intelligence and Department of Justice to do. I think

that's what our partners would expect that we would do, to at least

demonstrate an effort to stop this. Briefly, you served on the Trump

campaign, do you think the President bears any responsibility for this in

this context. He has said some things about the US Intelligence

Services which have clearly not endeared them to those officials and

agents. Is that part of the break down in trust that we're seeing in

the Intelligence Services? That may lead to a break down between the

President and the intelligence community, but, you know, these

types of leaks break down the effectiveness of the intelligence

community and they break down the relationship the trust that we have

between the United States and the Brits. There is absolutely no excuse

for anybody in the intelligence community to be leaking this

information to do damage to the President because they may damage

the President but they are damning the national security of the United

States and our allies. There is absolutely no excuse for this type

of behaviour. Thank you very much for your thoughts. Donald Trump and

Theresa May talking today of the special relationship. Is this a

really big problem for them? Look, I think everybody on both sides of the

Atlantic. I have spoken to Senators here and British officials in the

last 24-hours recognise this relationship is very important be,

but they will will get over this. I have never in my time in the United

States, over the last 20 years, I can't remember an occasion with

where a British service like the Manchester Police who said, we are

not serving intelligence with America any more. That's serious.

It's embarrassing to US owe fishals and US Intelligence Services. They

will get over it. It doesn't sit well with with the American

intelligence to like to pride themselves of having a good

relationship with the United Kingdom. Leaking of information is

turning into a trend in the United States.

A transcript has appeared of a telephone call

between Donald Trump and the Philippine President,

Rodrigo Duterte ,which took place in late April.

The transcript revealed that Mr Trump disclosed that the US

military had moved two nuclear submarines near to North Korea -

something Pentagon officials have said should not have been discussed.

But the transcript was clearly confidential -

attached to it was a cover sheet saying just that.

It came this leak, not from the United States this time, from the

Philippines. The question will be - why was Mr Trump giving this

information? Should not have been discussed. Submarine, the very point

of it. Nuclear submarine. Even worse. OK.

Donald Trump was keen to use the Nato meeting to raise

the issue of defence funding among member countries.

But in the light of the Manchester attack, much of the discussion has

Nato has agreed to take a bigger role in the fight

Here was President Trump speaking out on Monday's attack.

It was a barbaric and vicious attack upon our civilisation.

All people who cherish life must unite in finding,

exposing and removing these killers and extremists.

Joining us now from Washington is Former US Ambassador

Nato members and the President seem to agree. How much can Nato be doing

in the fight against Islamic terrorism and terrorism in general?

There is a couple of ways to look at it what was agreed and decided

today. Nato an organisation will be part of the coalition. That means

that certain Nato assets such as surveillance aircraft, air to ground

surveillance, communications, command-and-control, they could be

made available to the coalition. It also provides a bit of additional

cover for individual allies to contribute. What more Nato could do

is to look at sharing intelligence internally, creating a fusion cell

and looking more at terrorist activities inside Nato areas itself.

That is something Nato has not yet done, but could do more of. That is

an area in which the leaders seem to agree, of course, an area which

there is some disagreement over is Donald Trump's relationship with

Nato more broadly. I understand there is some disquiet at the

Brussels meeting that the President didn't come out and offer more

fulsome support of Nato. He didn't come out and say it was be o sow

Lee. He didn't support the alliance. Would it have been helpful if he did

so. People are watching the words too carefully. Since he became

President a change in the language and a change in the policies from

what had been discussed during the campaign. We had Vice-President

Pence at the Munich security conference and meetings with Rex

Tillerson, the Secretary General calling Trump a few times and

visiting him at the White House. You had strong support for Nato. A push

on Nato defence spending. Wouldn't it have been use to have have heard

that directly from the President? Well, I'm not sure that they didn't

hear that directly. I think people are parting words too much. What I

think the President is trying to do though is to keep the focus on

European contributions and commit am to Nato. The US is under a

microscope here in the words he uses. We are actually doing the most

of the Nato efforts and the European allies are not. He is trying to keep

the focus on them. It's no secret that Nato leaders have been nervous

about Mr Trump's presidency. When he talks about spending he doesn't pull

his punches. But take a look at the reaction

of some of the European leaders If all Nato members had spent

just 2% of their GDP on defence last year,

we would have had another $119 billion for our collective

defence and for the financing They don't like be lectured. That is

clear from that body language I would say they feel sheepish. They

have all agreed to these multiple times. They know they are not doing

it yet. There we are. I think you are right. Good to talk to you.

Thank you very much for coming on the programme.

That is Dusko Markovic, the Prime Minister of Montenegro,

Mr Trump doesn't like being upstaged - and especially not by the newest

Perhaps he should be in the front row. I'm glad you weren't studying

your body language during the First Lady and the President during this

trip. This goes down well with Nato members they want somebody like the

American President to come in and, I've heard it, saying you have to up

your defence spending. I think this doesn't go down quite so badly as we

might think. We now know who died

in the Manchester attack. There are 10 teenagers

and children among those who were killed, the youngest

was just eight-years-old. The memorials are continuing to grow

and also emerging are some of the heart-rending stories

of the causalities. They were loved and they are

mourned. Taken by the bomb, their names keep coming. Elidih MacLeod.

She was full of nine. 19-year-old courty Boyle described as an amazing

rock. She went to the concert with her step dad, Philip Tron. He too

lost his life. Two people gone from one family. Wendy from Leeds. A mum

and school helper. Said to have touched the lives of so many. In her

home city today friends and neighbours observed the minute's

silence, joined by Wendy's relatives. Devastated. She knew a

lot of people shechl had a lot of friends, family. I think, even

people who just knew of her, it's just such a tragedy. It's just

awful. Also named today, Chloe Rutherford and Liam Curry,

girlfriend and boyfriend, known to be inseparate. They died together.

Elaine, a police officer who loved music and was on a night out

off-duty. Flowers have been laid for Elaine who started out as a

Volunteer Special Constable and rose up to work for the Organised Crime

Unit. She spent 20 years working for Cheshire Police.

Her colleagues and friends came in to work to learn that they'd lost

one of their own. Cheshire's Chief Constable opened a book of

condolence for the officer. Elaine, from all I've heard, all the best

traditions about the police service. Somebody who cared about community

and cared about victims. She left a lasting impression on those who met

her, both professionally and in victims of crime she helped. The

families of those killed can hardly take it all in. Charlotte Campbell

shared her grief at a vigil to mark the loss of her teenage daughter,

Olivia. This is such a hard time for us. I had to come. I didn't know

what to do. I don't know where to be. I don't know what to do. I just

knew, something told me I had to come here. The injured, so many

injured, have so much to come to terms with, too. 15-year-old Laura

Anderson has had surgery to remove shrapnel from her leg and shoulder.

My ears went muffled. Everyone was rushing around me. I was screaming.

I felt pain in my legs then, I think. 22 killed, more than 100

injured. We know their names and their Harrowing stories, but we will

never understand their terrible, unfathomable loss. Judith Moritz,

BBC News. Manchester still coming to terms with the most terrible

terrorist attack it had to face. A thoughtful report has come out in

the last couple of days in the States about how the press should

cover this kind of attack. It makes the point that actually replaying

endlessly the loops of the attacks itself is in some ways doing exactly

what these attackers want us to do. Glorifying their actions in a

horribly, perverted way. What this report suggests is that one of the

most useful things we can do is talk about the victims and who they were

as people and the lives they led and their families. It suggests we

should talk about the way that communities come together after

attacks like this. And the acts of kindness that we see and the acts of

heroism that sometimes follow these when people are acting in desperate

circumstances. You have come from Manchester. It sounds trite to say

that cities pull together and we see the best of humanity. The stories

out of Manchester, I'm sure you heard them, acts of heroism and a

city pulling together? So many acts of heroism. The eternal dilemma for

the media how much you focus on the bombing. People want to know and

understand why someone would do that. Inevitably, because of that,

you focus on Salman Abedi and where he has come from and who he is with.

Really, it should be, it must be the victims that are forefront in our

minds. That square St Ann's Square where I was standing last night.

Look at that. The flowers now, that has grown that sea of flowers since

last night. People have come and sung songs there and held hands

there. They have been lost with their thoughts. It really shows how

the community has come together. We spoke to someone last night on the

programme who said, "it does help the families when communities come

together like that. ." The Great City Games start tomorrow. Help each

other. They will be around the corner. The greatest athletes in the

WorldComing to Manchester. People will be out celebrating it. Well

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