25/03/2016 BBC News at Ten

A Briton is confirmed among the dead in the Brussels attacks as a suspect

is shot and arrested in a police raid.

The man was caught at a tram stop - one of several arrests by police

in the Belgian capital as the investigation continues.

The Foreign Office confirms that British man David Dixon died on

Tuesday's bombings and his family say they are devastated.

schools into academies "asset-stripping education",

as he addresses the main teaching union.

The Muslim shopkeeper killed after wishing his customers

Happy Easter - police confirm another Muslim has been arrested.

And, remembering Ireland's Easter Rising 100 years on.

Belgian police have shot and wounded a suspect during another anti-terror

Video footage of the operation in the Schaerbeek district

of the capital showed heavily-armed officers moving in on the man

Meanwhile, the Foreign Office here has confirmed that a British

man - who'd been missing since Tuesday's attacks -

David Dixon is thought to have been on the metro train blown

Our Europe correspondent, Damian Grammaticas has the latest

"It's a police operation", the woman's voice says.

Outside, they advance behind a bullet-proof shield.

Lying in the tram stop, a man has been shot in the legs.

Police still train their weapons on him.

The view from across the street shows a bomb disposal robot

approaching, he's holding a bag, they want to check

This is the same Schaerbeek district where the Brussels and Paris

This operation though, it seems, was triggered by information gleaned

from a raid in Paris yesterday, when one man was arrested,

apparently preparing a new attack in France and not linked

They take the kids in security, safe, and they shoot the man,

I'm not sure because he was not dying, he was moving,

and the police asked him to put the bag far from him.

After, I just watched, and he tried to move.

Meanwhile, prosecutors today confirmed that Najim Laachraoui,

who is thought made the suicide vests used in last year's Paris

attacks, was one of the Brussels airport bombers.

In total, some 300 people were killed and injured in these

attacks, their fates are starting to become clearer.

Some 40 nationalities touched in total.

The pain and suffering is felt not just here,

From America to China, families are now morning

From America to China, families are now mourning

David Dixon, an IT consultant from Hartlepool, texted his family

after the airport attack to say he was safe.

The father of a seven-year-old son died soon after in the metro blast.

Mason Wells survived the Boston Marathon bombing three

years ago, he survived again in Brussels, but has severe burns.

I remember seeing, you know, fire in front of my face and also

kind of fire down by my feet on the ground.

I feel lucky to have escaped with what I did.

Brussels' airport is still closed, but the US Secretary of State came

He said criticising Belgium for security failings before

all the facts are known is inappropriate, adding

the so-called Islamic State is lashing out in Europe

We will not rest until we have eliminated your nihilistic beliefs

and cowardice from the face of this earth.

But what many here fear is that the terror networks

That defiance was echoing in the centre of Brussels tonight. This is

a nation wounded and determined it won't be cowed by the men of

violence. Damian Grammaticas, BBC News, Brussels.

The US military says it has killed a number of leading militants

belonging to so-called Islamic State including the man said to be

It described Abd al-Rahman al-Qaduli as the group's finance minister

and said he'd been responsible for terror plots outside Syria

Let's speak to our North America Editor Jon Sopel.

Good evening. What more do we know about this operation? It wasn't a

drone strike, this was US special forces helicoptered in on the ground

trying to intercept him and apparently trying to take him alive

so they could question him about so-called Islamic State operations.

But a firefight ensued and he was killed. What is significant about

this is it shows the growing level of intelligence that the US has on

key IS figures and where to find them, so he is the latest person to

die. Ashton Carter, the US Defence Secretary, said momentum is moving

in the way of the US, saying IS control less ground and with the

killing of this person they would have less money to pay their foreign

fighters. Of course, the flip side to that is if they hold less ground

and foreign fighters are not getting paid, they might start making their

way back to Europe with all the security implications that that

involves. Jon Sopel, thank you very much.

The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has told the National Union

of Teachers this afternoon that the Government's push

for academy schools in England will lead to the "asset-stripping

Ministers want all state schools to have plans to convert

to academies by 2020, arguing that it will

Our education editor, Branwen Jeffreys, reports.

This school opened after another failed, an early academy set up

Now, all England's schools will have to follow, even good schools will be

Today, Jeremy Corbyn came to one of the teacher union conferences,

There is not a shred of evidence that academies automatically

There are very real fears about the intention

of the Government and those who pay themselves exorbitant salaries

Loud applause for that message, here.

But it's not just teachers' unions that are angry

They say they are already doing a good job of overseeing

Since this academy was built, things have changed.

A fresh start has led to a better school for local kids.

And the head says she has much more freedom.

She has introduced performance-related pay,

One of the things that is so useful is that I have control

Because of that, I can employ the sort of staff that meet

I have just as many support staff as teachers.

In primary schools it is simpler, most answer to the council.

Here in Brighton they are considering their options,

could council staff leave, to set up a group

You don't want a supermarket free-for-all style of education

here in the city where these academy trusts come in,

cherry pick the best schools and essentially leave those

in the margins of our educational system to fend for themselves.

Today, the Schools Minister told me that they will press ahead,

even though some in his own party are against these plans.

Even in strong authorities, let alone the authorities

where there are far more underperforming schools,

this is about ensuring that we take the excellent and high performing

schools, take that expertise and spread it.

Schools could also be learning a new language of competition

All against the background of union and counsel dissent.

Branwen Jeffreys, BBC News, Brighton.

A man has been arrested after a Muslim shopkeeper in Glasgow

was killed in what police are calling a "religiously

40-year-old Asad Shah was found seriously injured last night,

hours after apparently posting social media messages

wishing his Christian customers "Happy Easter".

that the man arrested is also Muslim.

Asad Shah, filmed last August, here behind the counter of the shop

in Glasgow he and his family had run for many years.

A pillar of the community, locals said.

A quiet man, who was gentle, cheery and kind.

Just yesterday, he posted this message on social media

in which he said he wished a happy Easter to his beloved

Hours later, just after 9.00pm in the evening, police were called

They found Mr Asad in the street, not far from his shop.

He'd been stabbed and was later pronounced dead in hospital.

Forensic specialists have spent the day searching the area

Shocked locals have been paying their respects.

Every morning we shook hands and said, good day,

You know, just a pleasant, lovely lad.

I think his customers loved him as well.

He was always praying on his mat, you know.

He was always, "back in five minutes" because he put a wee note

on the window and he always say, "I'm going to be back in five

"A full investigation is under way to establish the circumstances

surrounding Mr Shah's death, which is being treated

They confirmed that both Mr Shah and a 32-year-old man,

arrested in connection with his death, are Muslims.

Tonight, in this mainly residential part of Glasgow,

where Asad Shah worked and where he died, a silent vigil

for this much respected local shopkeeper who was loved

More than 20 people have been killed today in a series of suicide

bombings in Yemen - a reminder of the violent conflict

In the struggle for power between forces loyal

to the President and Houthi rebels, at least 3,200 civilians have been

The United Nations says many of the victims were killed

by air strikes by the Saudi- led coalition, in support

The BBC has seen evidence that a British-made bomb was used in one

of the strikes on a ceramics factory.

Our correspondent Orla Guerin has this special report

An ancient citadel perched on a cliff, hard to see why this

But take a look at what Saudi air strikes did to this tourist

The wreckage here includes a house that stood tall for 1,400 years.

They attacked these plates, says Ahmed Sharif, his brother-in-law

was one of seven people buried beneath the rubble last month.

But the suffering and death here is largely unseen,

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

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

That hasn't happened, but 12 months of air strikes have

had devastating consequences for the Arab world's poorest country.

With the death toll mounting, there are plenty of troubling

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

This ceramics factory employed 350 people before the war.

Air strikes last year reduced it to a shell and killed a man nearby.

Ghaleb Al Sawari, one of the owners, shows me remnants of munitions.

Proof, he says, the weapons used here were made by a UK company.

You can see the name of the producer, GEC-Marconi.

He can't understand why Britain, where he studied, exported arms that

Human rights campaigners say this looks like a breach of international

law and rules on UK arms sales, but the Government denies that,

saying there are robust controls on arms exports.

In the capital, Sanaa, evidence perhaps of a war crime -

Security officials claim it was dropped in the western

suburbs in January, and here some of the deadly bomblets

They are banned by over 100 countries.

But it's hard to deny the body count, at least 3,200

The UN says most were victims of coalition air strikes.

Abdul Barri Omar survived one outside Sanaa last month,

The van driver, who was transporting gas cylinders, has burns on over 40%

He says the pain is excruciating which ever way he turns,

"Only God knows how much", and he asks who will

Peace talks are coming soon, but the United Nations says one year

of war may already have set this forgotten country back by decades.

Commemorations are taking place across Ireland this weekend to mark

100 years since the Easter Rising of 1916.

A group of Irish Nationalists took up weapons and seized government

buildings then proclaimed a republic.

But after days of fierce fighting they surrendered.

The Rising was a key moment in Irish - and British -

history, as our special correspondent Fergal Keane reports.

They were nationalists who reached into a mythic past for inspiration

and evoked the Easter symbolism of sacrifice and resurrection

# Marching men in squadrons pass me by #

In schools like Cnoc An Ein, 1916 has been remembered

by a generation that has never known violence.

Tell me about your ancestor who fought.

And then during The Rising he fought in Jacob's Biscuit

And after that he became a Sergeant in the new Irish Army.

Are you very proud of him? Yes.

The rebels included poets, Gaelic language activists,

They fought against overwhelming odds.

They lost but shocked the British Empire.

What happened in 1916 raised fundamental questions

viability of the British Empire.

What would independence movements do to the British Empire

and to Britain's standing in the world?

Could they resist this idea of self-determination for small

World War was supposed to be fought for.

The revolution might have flickered out, were it not for the executions

of its leaders here at Kilmainham and other prisons.

The shootings of Patrick Pearse and the Edinburgh-born James Connolly,

among others, helped galvanise public

In the wake of the executions the poet William

Butler Yeats, who had opposed violent revolution,

wrote, "All is changed, changed utterly.

Yeats recognised that this was the defining moment

between Britain and Ireland.

But the narrative of glorious Revolution worries some.

The Troubles in Northern Ireland were in part inspired by a desire

to finish the work of 1916 by uniting Ireland.

And dissident Republicans are still killing.

1916 needs to be very critically appraised 100 years

later, because only recently Adrian Ismay, a prison officer

who was murdered in Northern Ireland by

Republicans claiming to be carrying forward the message of 1916

The dead included over 250 civilians and

British and Irish soldiers who died fighting the rebels.

It is a story of national resurrection in the long

Just before we go - in a couple of hours' time,

The Rolling Stones will take to the stage for their first

The Stones' music was considered subversive and was banned

by the country's communist government, along with much other

Tonight, though, they'll play for free in Havana.

Yeah, I think it feels like history because,

as you say, you know, they haven't had any really

No, they haven't had any big shows before and it would have been

surprising, say ten years ago, for this to have happened.

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