23/03/2016 BBC News at Ten

Tonight at Ten, thousands of people gather in Brussels in solidarity

and sympathy after yesterday's bomb attacks.

A minute's silence at noon, as Belgium starts three days

of mourning, after 31 people died and more than 200 were injured.

One of the attackers at the airport was said to be working

Police say the man on the right is still on the run.

TRANSLATION: The third suspect, wearing a light coloured coat

He left a large bag and departed before the explosions.

His bag contained the biggest explosive device.

During the day, some of the victims' names and nationalities have

There were four British people among the many injured,

and another - David Dixon - is still unaccounted for.

He is an amazing man, who deeply, deeply loves his son.

Two British students are convicted for plotting a drive-by shooting

in London, inspired by so-called Islamic State.

Save our NHS! Save our NHS!

Junior doctors step up their strike action.

For the first time, they'll provide no emergency cover when they walk

Accused of genocide and crimes against humanity, the UN war crimes

tribunal prepares to deliver its verdict on the Bosnian Serb

And in sport, England survive a scare before beating Afghanistan

at the World T20, and maintain their hopes of a place

We're in the Place de la Bourse, where there's been an all-day rally

calling for solidarity against the forces of terror.

Earlier today, thousands gathered to observe a minute's silence

to remember the victims of yesterday's bomb attacks,

The people of Belgium have started three days of national mourning

as the investigation into the attacks continues.

Two of the suspected suicide bombers have been named

as Khalid and Brahim el-Bakraoui, two brothers

Among the hundreds injured were four Britons,

and another is still unaccounted for.

We'll have all the latest on the investigation

into the attacks, but first our Europe editor

Katya Adler reports on the day's events.

Silence spoke far louder than words in Brussels today.

In sadness for the victims of yesterday's bombings.

In rage at the attackers. In fear that there will be a next time. And

that next time, it could be them. But there's a strong sense here of

defiance, too. "Long-lived Belgian", these people

shouted. -- Long live Belgium. But this is a country in turmoil and on

a massive man holds. For all of those links to this. -- manhunt.

Yesterday's devastating bombing at Brussels airport and on the Metro.

Police say they are looking for this man, one of the airport attackers,

who fled the scene without detonating his bomb. TRANSLATION:

The suspect is wearing a light-coloured coat and a hat and is

on the run. He left a large bag and departed before the explosions. His

bag contained the biggest explosive device. Shortly after the arrival of

the bomb disposal unit, the bag was detonated. The other two men in this

photo were suicide bombers. In the middle, Brahim el-Bakraoui, a

Belgian national, deported from Turkey last year. The Turkish

president now says he warned the Belgian authorities that el-Bakraoui

was a militant. Police here have found a recently written note in

which he writes that he was under pressure and on the run. And this is

his brother, Khalid, the suicide bomber on the Metro. Belgian media

say he had recently been linked to the Paris attacks last year. Pauline

Greystone is one of the survivors of yesterday's horror, filmed at the

airport by a fellow traveller. Today at this cosy Belgian cafe, she told

me she still had not quite taken in her lucky escape. She, her husband

and daughter had just checked in for once-in-a-lifetime holiday to Puerto

Rico when the suicide bombers detonated their exposes. It was

clearly a bomb. You could feel the heat and see the light and smell the

burning and lots of the ceiling started falling down. This was when

it got very scary. I just remember hearing my mum telling me it was

going to be OK and that I should just wait. You hear about these

things on the news. It is never going to be you, is it? And suddenly

coming you think this is it. Europe's leaders are deeply worried

about the spread of terror attacks. Whenever European capitals have been

hit, there have been promises of better cooperation between security

services across the continent. That has not happened. It must, say EU

chiefs. Do they really believe that by following this line, they will be

successful in fighting terrorism? The events, the occurrences, give

the answer. The road to follow is only one, cooperate more, exchange

information and deepen even more the trust between us. Commissioner, is

the EU broken? It is not pulling together over terrorism or

migration. It is not broken yet but we follow this line, if some member

states persist on following a national policy, it might put one

day the European project at stake. Brussels is still digestive and the

enormity of yesterday's attacks. -- died testing -- died testing the

enormity. But on some level the city is returning to normal. It is not

that commuters have forgot about the attacks one day on or that they

don't care or that they are even unaware of the warnings of possible

future bombings. But this is a gritty, down-to-earth city. The

attitude here is that life has to go on. People are grateful for the

extra security. Life goes on. We were in school. It is anywhere, any

time. You can't know when the next time. Maybe it is not in Brussels,

maybe another country. There is a risk, you know. There is always a

risk. TRANSLATION: There is a risk but keeping our jobs means taking

trains. At least there are more police now. More police, more

soldiers, more security checks at train stations and across the city.

Most people here tell you they refuse to be scared. But they don't

feel safe. Katya Adler, BBC News, Brussels.

During the day, some of the victims' names

and nationalities have begun to emerge.

The first fatality to be confirmed was that of a 37-year-old

Peruvian woman, Adelma Tapia Ruiz, who died at the airport.

daughters, who are four years old, all of whom survived.

Our correspondent Lucy Williamson has been

following the stories of some of those caught up in yesterday's

attacks, including the missing Briton, David Dixon.

Among the questions left by Tuesday's attacks is this one.

What happened to British IT contractor, David Dixon?

After two days searching the hospitals here, his partner

David left for work yesterday as usual.

Maelbeek station was not far from his office.

After the explosion there at 9am, Charlotte tried to reach him.

He is an amazing man who deeply, deeply loves his son.

270 people from dozens of countries are now

known to have been injured in the attacks.

Inside this hospital, two British survivors lie

While their relatives wait for news, in a separate part of the hospital,

other families of other victims begin the grim process

Among the first deaths to be confirmed was

He was a law student at St Louis University in Brussels.

And Peruvian Adelma Tapia Ruiz, who died during the airport attack.

Her four-year-old twin girls survived the blast because they ran

Her brother described it as incomprehensible.

TRANSLATION: She had twins called Maureen and Elondra.

They were in the Brussels airport, too.

They were connecting through to New York to meet my

She also planned to come back to Peru this year.

Tonight in Brussels, there is solidarity in Europe's

anger, and comfort in its public grief.

But terrorism's toughest challenge is private.

For some, these were not just attacks on their home or values,

but on the people they love the most.

As we've heard, more details have emerged of those suspected

of involvement in yesterday's attacks.

And officials say new links are being drawn

between the Brussels bombings and last November's

The focus here in Brussels is on the south-western suburb

The focus here in Brussels is on the north-western suburb

of Molenbeek, where several extreme Islamist cells are known

has been to the district, and sent this report on the network

of extremists thought to be behind the attacks in both

Just ten minutes from the centre of Brussels, and the army is on the

street. This is Molenbeek, from where dozens of young men have set

off, first to wage war in Syria, now in Europe, too. Here, there was just

a small memorial today. I can't afford a nice candle, but it's my

heart that counts. This woman grew up here and no several of the young

men drawn to jihad by groups fighting in Syria. TRANSLATION: If

we think about them as cults that brainwash people, then we understand

that those people believe in our ideology. So yes, I do know people

who have been to Syria. Some really regret what they did but others,

sadly, don't. Is there a reason why these particular -- people are

particularly susceptible? There are people who have a far too long been

pushed aside. Young people who have been marginalised. We have not

invested in them but they are not victims. It is not the only reason,

just part of why they are open to being radicalised. The latest

attacks have raised new questions about failings by Belgium's security

services, whether they should have spotted the connections. We now know

that the two Brussels suicide bombers worthy brothers Brahim Taleb

Khalid el-Bakraoui, like many jihadi recruits, petty, no snow to police.

Brahe was one of the three attackers who targeted Brussels airport. --

Brahe. The man on the right abandoned his bomb and escaped, and

on the left, maybe Najim Laachraoui who also built the suicide belts

used in Paris so he is linked to Salah Abdeslam, the one surviving

Paris attacker captured last week. And the el-Bakraoui brothers have

been linked to safe houses used by Salah Abdeslam. Paris is clearly

connected to events now in Brussels. The area where all of these attacks

happened was in the city's Landmark district, in Brussels' European

quarter and the airport. But the area where most of the attackers,

both this time and for the Paris at attacks came from was here, along

the so-called Canal zone, the districts of scabies, and Molenbeek

so why have these areas produced so many radicalised young men? --

districts of Schaerbeek. Salah Abdeslam was from Molenbeek and was

hiding here when anti-terrorist police finally found him on Friday.

His family home is in the district's Central Square, a stone's throw

away, this book shop. The owner knew him from when he was a child. He

said the police have long been unpopular among some here.

TRANSLATION: You have some young guys here who provoke the police.

They have forgotten that the police are here for us, to protect us. But

there are also pleased to have forgotten that their role is as

policeman, not Chuck Norris, with the right to do whatever they want

just because they are in uniform. So police now searching local flats

don't have good informants to identify idolised young men. Police

district have not historically shared information well. And the

police have been undermanned, this local MP says, maybe 200 officers

short in Molenbeek alone. We have too few police that know the

neighbourhood. We don't need Rambos but people that understand the

neighbourhood, that can read it and detect radicalisation in the youth

and can interfere quite early in the process. Whether it is police

failings or alienation in Molenbeek and elsewhere, Belgium faces urgent

questions. Even as the police still hunt the one attacker still on the

run. Damian Grammaticas, BBC News, Brussels.

So to take stock tonight, we'll be talking to our Europe

But first, our security correspondent Frank Gardner

There are lots of questions, Frank, about, I suppose, the efficacy and

the thoroughness of the kind of cooperation we see on an

international level among the security agencies? What are you

being told? The fact that the London eye behind me bilge's national

colours is more than just symbolic. Belgian has been offered every help,

and it needed, particularly when it comes to digital surveillance, which

Britain is probably a head in. This should not mean we are complacent.

Europe generally, including Britain, suffers from a number of generic

problems, and the biggest one when it comes to counterterrorism comes

to the lists of names of people coming in and out of the European

area. There are many different spellings. One of the biggest

problems is the nicknames given to jihadists who go to Iraq and Syria

to fight and are given different names, often they are able to slip

back into the area, as we saw with the Paris attackers. These lists

need to be better monitored, better controlled and shared in quick time.

You remember the Madrid bombings, I think you even reported them,

incredible that 12 years may have not got this problem cracked. Thank

you, Frank Gardner. Let's talk to Europe editor, Katya

Adler. In your report you are asking one senior official, is that you

broken? Clearly asking whether a different kind of response can be

expected. -- is the broken? The response so far will not be

different. Once again, EU interior ministers will meet in Brussels

following the terrorist attack here in this city, but just four months

ago they met to discuss a terrorist attack in Paris and discussed

similar issues tabled for tomorrow, how to better police Europe's

external borders, that means Greece, of course, how to better share

passenger flight information, how to better deal with European jihadists

is returning from Syria. Because for the European Commission, just behind

me, the attacks in Brussels were not just an attack on Belgium but all of

Europe. The French Prime Minister called it a war on Europe, and the

only way that is believed in the European institutions is with more

Europe, to fight as cross-border terrorism. But that depends on the

climate. Britain is heading towards an in/ out referendum, other

countries are striking a nationalist tone. Holden said it would not be

taking in earning migrants, as agreed, the Prime Minister said it

would be difficult because of the ataxia -- Buddle not be taking in

any migrants. It will not be very digestible or easy for most EU

governments. Thank you very much, Katya Adler. It is getting on for

11:20pm. There are fewer people than there were earlier. For those who

want to comment to leave tributes and hidden messages, lots of candles

and poignant messages and tributes, when we start reading them, and some

people who feel that this entire city has been very badly damaged in

the eyes of the world, they want to show solidarity with the victims,

all those who have suffered in the past 24 hours or so. This is the

place to come. The streets around here are very quiet, pretty much

deserted, this is the focal point for those who want to make some kind

of public statement. Later I will be speaking to a journalist who has

been based in this city for several years. She is a foreign journalist,

one of those at the airport yesterday within a few metres of

where the explosion happened and somehow survived without injury. But

in the meantime, back to you, Sophie.

Here, two British students have been convicted of plotting to kill

soldiers, police and civilians in a drive-by terror attack

in London, in what's the first case involving supporters of so-called

Suhaib Majeed was found guilty of conspiracy to murder

The plot's ringleader, Tarik Hassane, had already pleaded

Daniel Sandford has been following the case.

Posing with a gun and a Bin Laden book, Tarik Hassane,

British medical student, son of a Saudi

Arabian diplomat, and leader of an IS plot that targeted London.

Their intention was to commit a drive-by shooting using a moped

and a firearm, targeting specifically

the police, the military or members of the public in the streets.

It was in the warren of estates around the A40 flyover

in West London that Tarik Hassane and his school friend,

up and became supporters of violent jihad.

It was here that they made their gangland connections

to the men who would supply the gun, Nyall

Hamlett and Nathan Cuffy, both former altar boys.

But as they finalised their plot in the summer

of 2014, they were under surveillance.

Majeed, a physics student, was watched using

sophisticated encryption to receive messages from a man police suspect

He was photographed taking delivery of the gun from local criminal,

Majeed threw the pistol, silencer and bullets

from his bedroom window when he was arrested.

In the middle of the lengthy surveillance

operation, the threat level in the UK was raised to severe,

meaning that a terrorist attack in the UK

This was one of the first times that so-called Islamic State supporters

had targeted the West, eventually leading to the terrifying

So how did Tarik Hassane, who had wanted to be

a heart surgeon, end up swearing allegiance to IS?

His father, or possibly stepfather, is a Saudi

ambassador, seen here meeting the Saudi king.

The BBC has learned he was already an extremist while at his secondary

school, where he was reported for calling on other boys

Hassane and Majeed were part of a network of extremists from West

At least three of their friends died fighting in Iraq or Syria.

Two of them were school friends of Jihadi

This was Tarik Hassane as a teenager in an anti-knife crime

Four years later, he had been so radicalised,

he was putting in the same streets to unleashed terror

Have you been to this police station before?

Refusing to answer questions in his police interview before

Daniel Sandford, BBC News at the Old Bailey.

Junior doctors in England are stepping up their strike

For the first time they will refuse to cover emergency care

It's a dramatic escalation in the row between the British

Medical Association and the government in the dispute

Ministers described the move as desperate and irresponsible.

But the BMA says senior doctors will be told to provide

This acrimonious dispute has intensified again.

For the first time in the history of the NHS, a group of doctors

will refuse to provide emergency cover as well as routine care.

Up until now, their strikes have affected nonurgent

Now their union, the BMA says they need to go further.

The fact is, the government simply refuse to enter into proper dialogue

When you are in this position and they are threatening,

actually imposing a contract on us, we have very little option left.

Junior doctors in England have already been

The next planned action, starting on the 6th

of April, will last 48 hours and again affect routine care.

But a similar 48-hour strike, planned for

the 26th of April, will now be between 8am and 5pm each day

and affect all care in hospitals, including emergencies.

Ministers say they had to impose a contract after talks broke down,

They claimed the only sticking point is the unions'

insistence on higher pay for Saturday working.

The fact is, if the BMA had agreed to negotiate about Saturday premium

rates as they said they would, it would not have been

The only people who will suffer will be

But doctors argue it is about unsafe working hours, with the new contract

How can you justify walking away from care of emergencies?

Our colleagues, our consultant colleagues, our non-junior doctor

colleagues, our allied healthcare professional

colleagues, will all still be there to care for the British public.

The BMA had planned a full walk-out by

junior doctors affecting all forms of care at an earlier stage

But much to the relief of NHS management, that was called off

as a new round of talks got underway.

Right now, though, there's no sign of further negotiations

An all-out strike by junior doctors is back on the agenda.

Hospital managers are concerned about what might happen.

So far, there's been majority public support for the junior doctors.

What remains to be seen is whether that

continues and whether patient care is compromised

A brief look at some of the day's other news stories.

A judge has approved a request from the US government to extradite

a trader accused of helping to cause a stock market crash six years ago.

Navinder Sarao is accused of manipulating prices to make

millions at the expense of other market traders.

The FBI allege his activity helped to cause the so-called "flash

crash", when US shares lost nearly $1 trillion of value

The French energy firm EDF has insisted that the new nuclear

power station at Hinkley Point in Somerset will be built.

The future of the ?24 billion project was cast

into doubt earlier this month, when it emerged that EDF was seeking

further funding from the French government.

The troubled retail group, BHS, which has more than 160

stores around the country, has secured a plan to try

Creditors have approved a rescue plan and reached a deal which allows

a cut in the rent bill for the majority of its UK stores.

An independent review commissioned in the aftermath of the Rotherham

child sex exploitation scandal has found that South Yorkshire Police

force's response across the county was inadequate.

Nearly 1500 youngsters were exploited over

The review says early attempts to alert senior officers fell

on deaf ears, though there have been improvements in recent years.

Here's our social affairs correspondent Michael Buchanan.

Day and night across South Yorkshire, children

The police knew but for years, they walked on by.

This woman was repeatedly abused in Sheffield as a teenager.

They knew everything that was going on.

The amount of times they had taken us from these houses,

They knew these men and knew what they were doing.

Senior command lacked professional curiosity...

Today, we discovered why South Yorkshire Police

For about a decade from 2000, a top-down culture existed,

prioritising robbery, burglary and car crime

South Yorkshire Police had within its grasp,

on perhaps six or seven occasions, an opportunity to do more

than they did and chose not to do so.

This spreadsheet that we obtained last year highlights some

of the allegations the force refused to investigate.

Children being raped, beaten, trafficked.

This former officer asked his superiors to allow him

to investigate child sexual exploitation.

Really, really frustrated by what has happened.

Because it is, it is ten or 12 years later and I still think about it.

I still think, what could we have done back then, if we had learned

from my report that went in, and what the other intelligence

Because if they had acted, some of these young girls' lives

Maybe some of these victims would not have been victims.

South Yorkshire's Chief Constable said this evening that he will

retire in November, leaving, according to today's review,

If you read the full report, I think what people will understand

is, yes, we're on a journey and yes, it is an improving journey.

But no one is denying that there were significant problems

in the past, some of which have not yet been fully put to bed.

Young people are far more protected in South Yorkshire today

than they were but the more resources police put

towards a crime, the bigger the problem appears to get.

In the past three years, more than 2000 young people have

been identified as potential victims of child sexual exploitation.

Progress, finally, from a shameful past.

Michael Buchanan, BBC News, Sheffield.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

is expected to return its verdict tomorrow in the case of Radovan

The former Bosnian-Serb leader is accused of genocide and crimes

against humanity in connection with the war in the Balkans

Our special correspondent, Allan Little, is at the Hague

This is arguably the most significant and symbolically charged

international war crimes verdict, certainly in Europe, since the

Nuremberg trials after the Second World War. Radovan Karadzic was the

leader of the Bosnian Serbs when they waged their three and a half

year war against their fellow Bosnians of Muslim and Croat

ethnicity. I should warn you that some viewers might find parts of

this report distressing. Good afternoon, your honour.

This is case number IT-95-5/18. The prosecutor versus

Mr Radovan Karadzic. Two decades ago, Radovan Karadzic

harnessed the twin demons of Balkan They led him to a prison

cell in the Hague. His forces besieged the city

of Sarajevo for 1,000 days. The woman in the white coat

is wounded by gunfire. She is taken to hospital

by UN peacekeepers. The bullet that passed through her

has killed her seven-year-old son. She took me back

to where it happened. She went to the Hague

to give evidence. I know that nothing will bring him

back, but I would go again tomorrow I can't tell you how important

it was for me to testify. At Srebrenica, Karadzic's forces

rounded up and killed 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in the

space of a few days. For this, Karadzic is

accused of genocide. Hassan survived only

because he worked as a translator His younger brother and his

father were murdered. The purpose of a genocide ruling

is to prevent the future genocides. So that the Serb kids,

you know, the Serb kids, the new generation, the Bosnian

kids, the Croat kids, do not live through the same

that we lived through 20 years ago. Karadzic is accused of the forced

removal of hundreds of thousands of non-Serbs, the so-called ethnic

cleansing to create an ethnically Thousands of men were held in prison

camps, where many were murdered. People were being taken out,

tortured, killed, women were raped. I could actually hear this happening

just behind the wall of the room In this prewar school photo,

Muslim and Serb teenagers sit side by side, unconcerned

by ethnic difference. But the boy on the left was one

of several classmates who would be This is how Bosnia was before

the war, and this is what Radovan Karadzic

managed to destroy. And now it's going to take us

decades and so many generations to possibly recreate

this kind of community. Momcilo Krajisnik was one

of Karadzic's closest lieutenants. He was convicted of war crimes

by the Hague tribunal. He returned to Bosnia in 2013

after serving a sentence. This is how fellow Serbs

greeted him. Do you think that for many

Bosnian-Serb people, TRANSLATION: Absolutely

they consider him a hero. Karadzic is absolutely a hero

and a victim, and Serbs here see it Bosnia looks to the young

for deliverance from its past. This man was eight years

old when his father was beaten I thought about the person

who killed my father, and I thought about his son,

and I thought, in whose shoes I'd rather be,

in my own shoes or in his? And I thought that whatever happens,

I would still rather live this life that I have lived, than live

with the fact that my father I think that I've avenged my father,

continued in his footsteps. I'm now a family man and am living

a happy and satisfied And that's the best

form of vengeance? You know, happiness and living well

is the best form of revenge. Allan Little, BBC News,

Sarajevo. That's it from me, now

back to Huw in Brussels. Within seconds of yesterday's bomb

attacks at the airport, there were images being circulated

on social media of the chaotic The journalist who found herself

in the departures hall standing just a few metres away from both

explosions is Kate Kardava of Georgia Public Broadcasting,

who's based here in Brussels. The images she took in the minutes

after the bombing have been seen by many millions of

people around the world. I've been speaking to her about

the events of yesterday morning. I didn't realise what

happened, you know? I looked and there was a flame,

very big flame, and very strong Sound, something, very

terrible, terrific. Smoke and dust and doors and

windows, everything flying around. Were you thrown to the floor,

or were you still standing? And in three or four

seconds, the second blast. My friends told me

today, "You are lucky". Yes, I'm really lucky

because I was the only person And first, what I did,

I wanted to feel my legs, you know? And all around you were

people who were injured? Yeah, all around.

All around. They were on the floor, on the floor

with injuries, in blood. So first, what I did,

take my iPhone and began I had a chance to show everybody

in the world and show the world And I think that this is the face

of terrorism, you know? I am very sorry that I took such

a picture, you know? There will be some people,

Kate, who say, you know, you've produced these

very strong images - as a journalist, we understand

why you did that - but why didn't you help people

around you who were clearly I couldn't help, I am not

a doctor, I am a journalist. First this came to my mind

that it was the priority for me to take photos, and

doctors will help them. What are your thoughts today,

24 hours later, when you think that we might not be having

this conversation today? Today, I really better realise

what happened yesterday, yeah. The journalist Kate Kardava bar of

Georgia Public broadcasting, talking earlier.

That's all from the BBC News at Ten in Brussels.

In a moment on BBC One we'll join our news teams where you are,

but I'll leave you with some of the voices and images

from the Belgian capital and London today.