:00:00. > :00:17.We're in Manchester, where 22 people have been
:00:18. > :00:21.The terror threat level has just been raised to critical ,
:00:22. > :00:24.meaning a further attack may be imminent.
:00:25. > :00:27.It happened at the end of a pop concert attended
:00:28. > :00:30.by thousands of young people, when a man detonated a bomb
:00:31. > :00:39.It was soon apparent that a major atrocity had taken place,
:00:40. > :00:43.as police and emergency services rushed to the scene.
:00:44. > :00:50.Shouting, just people - mad, chaotic rush to the nearest exit.
:00:51. > :00:56.All I could hear was screaming, crying, people running everywhere.
:00:57. > :01:00.Among the victims were 18 year-old Georgina Callander,
:01:01. > :01:03.eight-year-old Saffie Roussos and 28-year-old John Atkinson.
:01:04. > :01:06.Earlier today, police named the suspect as
:01:07. > :01:12.He's understood to have been born in Manchester
:01:13. > :01:22.Police and Security Services launched a wide-ranging
:01:23. > :01:25.investigation, as the Prime Minister shared the outcome of the latest
:01:26. > :01:30.meeting of the Cabinet emergency committee. It is now concluded, on
:01:31. > :01:36.the basis of today's investigations, that the threat level should be
:01:37. > :01:39.increased, for the time being, from severe to critical.
:01:40. > :01:42.Among the thousands of fans at the arena last night,
:01:43. > :01:44.there were many who'd been looking forward to the concert
:01:45. > :01:53.It had been building up for me, for like years. Since we got the
:01:54. > :01:55.tickets, it was so exciting. It's turned into like the most traumatic
:01:56. > :01:57.thing. We'll be reporting on the remarkable
:01:58. > :01:59.strength of spirit among the people of Manchester and how the community
:02:00. > :02:08.has responded. And we'll talk to people who
:02:09. > :02:11.attended tonight's vigil in the heart of the city, where they heard
:02:12. > :02:18.a message of strength and solidarity.
:02:19. > :02:21.And in other news tonight - the actor Sir Roger Moore has
:02:22. > :02:25.He was best known for playing the spy James Bond.
:02:26. > :02:46.His family said he'd had "a short but brave battle with cancer."
:02:47. > :02:51.We're in Manchester where the worst terror attack Britain has seen in 12
:02:52. > :02:54.years took place late last night, at the end of a pop concert
:02:55. > :02:58.22 people, including some children, are known to have died and 59
:02:59. > :03:00.people were injured, when a suicide bomber
:03:01. > :03:05.detonated a device as people were leaving the concert.
:03:06. > :03:09.Police have named the suspect as 22-year-old Salman Abedi.
:03:10. > :03:12.The BBC understands he was born here in Manchester
:03:13. > :03:21.Tonight, the Prime Minister, a few moments ago, announced that the
:03:22. > :03:26.terror threat level is being raised from severe to critical. That is the
:03:27. > :03:29.very highest level. Mrs May said it was possible that Salman Abedi was
:03:30. > :03:37.part of a network, planning further attacks.
:03:38. > :03:39.Our first report tonight, in this extended programme,
:03:40. > :03:41.is by our chief correspondent, Gavin Hewitt.
:03:42. > :03:43.There are distressing images in his report on the attack.
:03:44. > :03:47.Police were called to the arena just after 10. 30pm last night after the
:03:48. > :03:52.performance from the American star, Ariana Grande. The explosion
:03:53. > :03:56.happened in the foyer that connects the venue to Victoria train station.
:03:57. > :04:01.Those injured are being treated at eight hospitals in the Greater
:04:02. > :04:05.Manchester region. Earlier today the Prime Minister chaired the first of
:04:06. > :04:08.today's meetings of the Cabinet's emergency committee, known as COBRA.
:04:09. > :04:11.She made a statement in Downing Street, condemning the callous,
:04:12. > :04:16.appalling and sickening attack, before then making her way to
:04:17. > :04:19.Manchester to see police and members of the emergency services here. All
:04:20. > :04:25.election campaigning was suspended for the day. Our first report
:04:26. > :04:29.tonight, in this extended programme, is by our chief correspondent, Gavin
:04:30. > :04:35.Hewitt. There are some distressing images in his report on the attack.
:04:36. > :04:44.Ariana Grande's concert was coming to an end. From the foyer, the sound
:04:45. > :04:52.of an explosion. Oh, my God. What's going on. What just happened. What's
:04:53. > :04:58.going on. Oh, my God! There were screams, then running. A crowd of
:04:59. > :05:04.children, teenagers, parents, all heading for whatever exit they could
:05:05. > :05:13.find. Near the entrance, 22 people were killed, around 60 were injured.
:05:14. > :05:16.Suddenly, a massive flash, a bang, smoke and my wife, I had lay her
:05:17. > :05:22.down on the floor. She's got bruising there. She's had one that's
:05:23. > :05:28.under her chin there and bruised. She's probably broken her fever in
:05:29. > :05:32.her left leg. -- femur. Something really hot just flew over us and
:05:33. > :05:39.landed behind me and my mum and my sister. Then we all like dropped to
:05:40. > :05:44.the floor, but then my mum told me they're running, then I realised
:05:45. > :05:47.when I tried to run back, in because I was worried, I shouted my mum, but
:05:48. > :05:54.I couldn't hear anything because this ear is all blocked and it were
:05:55. > :05:56.just really scary. All I could hear was screaming, people crying.
:05:57. > :06:01.Everyone was just running everywhere. It was completely
:06:02. > :06:10.madness. This is a public safety announcement... It was like out of a
:06:11. > :06:14.film, everyone cramming through. People had cuts like on their arms
:06:15. > :06:18.and their legs. The injured were taken to eight hospitals across
:06:19. > :06:24.Greater Manchester. Some families and friends were split up in the
:06:25. > :06:27.rush to get emergency treatment. Armed police units patrolled the
:06:28. > :06:32.streets by the arena, before the night was over, the police knew they
:06:33. > :06:36.were dealing with an attack by a suicide bomber, with a home-made
:06:37. > :06:40.explosive device packed with metal fragments. During the night,
:06:41. > :06:46.specialist teams were brought in, in case there were other explosive
:06:47. > :06:50.devices. It was a deliberate attack on children and young people, timed
:06:51. > :06:57.just at the moment when parents were waiting to pick up their sons and
:06:58. > :07:01.daughters. 400 police officers were deployed along with forensic teams.
:07:02. > :07:04.Earlier on, police knew the identity of the bomber, but they didn't
:07:05. > :07:12.reveal his name until late afternoon. I can confirm that the
:07:13. > :07:16.man suspected of carrying out last night's atrocity is 22-year-old
:07:17. > :07:20.Salman Abedi, however he has not yet been formally named by the Coroner
:07:21. > :07:28.and I wouldn't wish to therefore comment any further about him at
:07:29. > :07:33.this stage. Salman Abedi was the son of refugees, a student at Salford
:07:34. > :07:38.University. On the streets today, survivors, reliving the terror of a
:07:39. > :07:45.concert that ended with murder. This is Helen and Issa bella. We hit the
:07:46. > :07:51.corridor, when we saw masses of people running in absolute terror
:07:52. > :07:56.and panic to get out of the place - young, teenage children, 14, 15.
:07:57. > :08:00.There were mothers with children carrying them over their shoulder.
:08:01. > :08:08.There were people with even wheelchairs panicking to get out.
:08:09. > :08:12.Laura and Isabella's concert ended in a chaotic search for an exit. We
:08:13. > :08:18.just ran, I don't know which entrance we came out of, we just
:08:19. > :08:23.ran. But we also found two girls that had lost their parents or had
:08:24. > :08:27.to get home on their own. We were - they were very scared, obviously,
:08:28. > :08:33.because they were on their own. Thank you. Manchester has been a
:08:34. > :08:39.city on edge today. Shaken by alerts and rumours and a shopping centre
:08:40. > :08:46.evacuated. It is now beyond doubt that the people of Manchester and of
:08:47. > :08:50.this country have fallen victim to a callous terrorist attack, an attack
:08:51. > :08:57.that targeted some of the youngest people in our society, with cold
:08:58. > :09:00.calculation. This was among the worst terrorist incidents we have
:09:01. > :09:04.ever experienced in the United Kingdom and although it is not the
:09:05. > :09:09.first time Manchester has suffered in this way, it is the worst attack
:09:10. > :09:15.the city has experienced and the worst ever to hit the north of
:09:16. > :09:21.England. Dozens of people are still trying to trace loved ones after
:09:22. > :09:24.last night's bombing. Among the missing, Olivia Campbell, aged 15.
:09:25. > :09:29.Some of the first victims of the attack have been named. Georgina
:09:30. > :09:36.Callander was aged 18, seen here with Ariana Grande at a previous
:09:37. > :09:41.event. John at kin son, aged 28 from Bury. And eight-year-old Saffie
:09:42. > :09:47.Roussos was among those killed. It was an attack directed at young
:09:48. > :09:51.people, at innocence. During the day, police raided a number of
:09:52. > :09:57.houses, a 23-year-old man was arrested in connection with
:09:58. > :10:01.yesterday's bombing. An attack on a family event happened here last
:10:02. > :10:03.night was long feared. Preventing a determined suicide bomber is
:10:04. > :10:07.incredibly difficult. The priority for the police will be to discover
:10:08. > :10:11.everything they can about this man, whether he's part a wider network
:10:12. > :10:18.and whether there is a risk of further attacks. Tonight, the Prime
:10:19. > :10:23.Minister raised the threat level to its highest category. It is now
:10:24. > :10:28.concluded, on the basis of today's investigations that the threat level
:10:29. > :10:34.should be increased, for the time being, from severe to critical. This
:10:35. > :10:38.means that their assessment is not only that an attack remains highly
:10:39. > :10:45.likely, but that a further attack may be imminent. Tonight, thousands
:10:46. > :10:50.of people gathered outside the Town Hall in a mark of defiance. One by
:10:51. > :10:56.one, members of different faiths insisted they would not be cowed.
:10:57. > :11:01.These were Sikhs with placards, "I love Manchester". Then the crowd
:11:02. > :11:06.heard from a local poet Tony Walsh. There's hard times again in these
:11:07. > :11:10.streets of our city, but we won't take defeats and we don't want your
:11:11. > :11:15.pity because this is is the place where we stand strong together, with
:11:16. > :11:19.a smile on our face, Mancunians forever, because this is the place
:11:20. > :11:23.in our hearts, in our homes, because this is the place that's a part of
:11:24. > :11:36.our bones. Because Manchester gives us such strength from the facts that
:11:37. > :11:41.this... Is THE place. Defiance, yes, but questions too as to what drove a
:11:42. > :11:47.young man to murder so many. Gavin Hewitt, BBC News.
:11:48. > :11:51.That statement tonight by the Prime Minister when she announced that the
:11:52. > :11:55.terror threat level has been increased to critical, that is the
:11:56. > :11:59.highest level, she made that statement in the past half hour or
:12:00. > :12:04.so in ten Downing Street. Let's talk about that decision. We talk to our
:12:05. > :12:07.Security Correspondent at MI5 headquarters in Central London and
:12:08. > :12:11.our political editor in Downing Street. Gordon, first of all, talk
:12:12. > :12:17.to us about this decision to raise the threat level and what that means
:12:18. > :12:20.in practical terms. Yes, the announcement was made based on
:12:21. > :12:25.intelligence from the joint terrorism analysis centre, which is
:12:26. > :12:28.based here in MI5. It is only the third time ever that the threat
:12:29. > :12:33.level has gone up to its highest level and the first time in ten
:12:34. > :12:38.years. Now why has it happened? Well a source I've been speaking to has
:12:39. > :12:43.said all day the focus of the investigation has been - did Salman
:12:44. > :12:47.Abedi act alone or was he part of a network? And this evening, they
:12:48. > :12:51.could not resolve that there weren't other people who could still be out
:12:52. > :12:55.there and pose a threat. They are not saying they know for certain
:12:56. > :13:00.that there are others out there, who are planning an attack. They just
:13:01. > :13:03.cannot rule that out at the moment and based on that, the Prime
:13:04. > :13:07.Minister has taken the decision that an attack may be imminent and the
:13:08. > :13:12.threat level needs to be raised to critical. What does it mean in
:13:13. > :13:15.practice? What it means advisably, tomorrow, we will see the military
:13:16. > :13:20.out on the streets in places where previously we would have seen armed
:13:21. > :13:24.police. That will be the visible sign something called Operation
:13:25. > :13:27.Tempura. Behind-the-scenes, the efforts here at MI5 will be trying
:13:28. > :13:33.to resolve that question - are there other people out there still who
:13:34. > :13:38.pose a real threat? Gordon, thank you. Let's go to Downing Street and
:13:39. > :13:41.talk to Laura. Second time today, Laura, the Prime Minister's chaired
:13:42. > :13:46.the emergency committee known as COBRA. What are Downing Street
:13:47. > :13:50.telling you tonight? # It's a very serious step for any Government to
:13:51. > :13:54.make, raising the threat level like this, a step that has not been taken
:13:55. > :13:57.on the advice of the Security Services for ten years. Of course,
:13:58. > :14:00.it's a step that members of the public will see and feel when
:14:01. > :14:04.they're out and about tomorrow, as Gordon was saying. In some places we
:14:05. > :14:09.will see members of the military on the streets supporting the police.
:14:10. > :14:13.This is a big step for any Prime Minister to take and it's one that
:14:14. > :14:17.has obviously not been taken lightly. It's clear there's a wider
:14:18. > :14:20.belief in Government it's not possible to rule out the possibility
:14:21. > :14:24.there was a wider plot in action here. There could have been, there
:14:25. > :14:29.could yet be a bigger group of individuals who'd been involved in
:14:30. > :14:33.the horror of what unfolded last night with potential plans for
:14:34. > :14:38.something else. Of course, this is all unfolding right in the middle of
:14:39. > :14:41.a general election campaign, a campaign that's been characterised
:14:42. > :14:44.by clamour and noisy debate. But in the last few minutes, all the main
:14:45. > :14:50.parties have confirmed that for them, the campaigning tomorrow is
:14:51. > :14:52.out of the question. The campaign, their hostilities, are suspended the
:14:53. > :14:56.Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May have been in frequent touch today, I'm
:14:57. > :15:01.told. They've spoken again in the last couple of hours. This is a
:15:02. > :15:05.moment when despite all their political disagreements, tonight,
:15:06. > :15:09.for once, the political parties are in agreement about one thing: That
:15:10. > :15:18.their disputes with each other come second to the security of us all.
:15:19. > :15:22.Thank you again, with the latest from Downing Street and MI5, in
:15:23. > :15:24.Central London. As we've heard, the first victim
:15:25. > :15:27.to be named was Georgina Callander, an 18-year-old student
:15:28. > :15:29.at Runshaw College in Lancashire. Another of the victims
:15:30. > :15:33.was John Atkinson, who was 28. And the youngest to be named
:15:34. > :15:37.so far was Saffie Roussos, who was eight years old,
:15:38. > :15:39.from Leyland, in Lancashire. They were among the thousands
:15:40. > :15:41.who had travelled to the Manchester Arena for the concert
:15:42. > :15:45.by the American singer Ariana Our special correspondent,
:15:46. > :15:50.Ed Thomas, reports now The youngest life lost -
:15:51. > :15:55.eight-year-old Saffie Roussos, at the concert with her mother
:15:56. > :16:00.and sister from Lancashire. Today, her headteacher said
:16:01. > :16:02.she was simply a beautiful little Also killed, student
:16:03. > :16:06.Georgina Callander. This was the teenager
:16:07. > :16:16.meeting the singer in 2015. This afternoon, Runshaw
:16:17. > :16:19.College in Leyland said: Our thoughts and prayers go out to
:16:20. > :16:22.all of Georgina's family, friends, and all of those
:16:23. > :16:25.affected by this loss. My daughter left for school
:16:26. > :16:30.at 8:30am this morning and I was just praying that nobody
:16:31. > :16:34.from her school was involved, and around 11 o'clock,
:16:35. > :16:43.the school announced Georgina Callander had been
:16:44. > :16:53.confirmed, that she passed away last one down the road so,
:16:54. > :16:57.you know, all within four miles, Also confirmed among the 22
:16:58. > :17:01.who died, John Atkinson from Bury. Friends said the 28-year-old
:17:02. > :17:03.old was an amazing young man. And tonight, families are still
:17:04. > :17:06.waiting to hear from loved ones, people like Chloe Rutherford
:17:07. > :17:18.and Liam Curry, from South Shields, Courtney Boyle and Philip Tron from
:17:19. > :17:21.Gateshead, the daughter of Angelika and Marcin Klis has
:17:22. > :17:24.asked for help finding her parents. Wendy Fawell from Leeds
:17:25. > :17:25.has not been found. And mothers Alison Howe
:17:26. > :17:28.and Lisa Lees are not accounted for after visiting the Arena
:17:29. > :17:30.to collect their children. Behind every face,
:17:31. > :17:33.a desperate search. You haven't seen this girl
:17:34. > :17:40.by any chance, have you? Excuse me, I'm just asking if you've
:17:41. > :17:43.seen this young girl? This is the uncle of
:17:44. > :17:48.15-year-old Olivia Campbell. Her family asked us and other media
:17:49. > :17:51.to show her picture and publicise We have been as close
:17:52. > :17:55.as we can to the arena. We have friends and family
:17:56. > :18:07.going to other hospitals, friends in Blackburn who work there,
:18:08. > :18:10.looking at their hospital. We need to get in contact
:18:11. > :18:17.if anyone sees her. Just a phone call and we can go and
:18:18. > :18:20.get her. Manchester is also
:18:21. > :18:21.remembering the injured. It's thought 12 of the casualties
:18:22. > :18:25.are children under 16. Clearly, there are a number
:18:26. > :18:27.of individuals who have very, very serious injuries
:18:28. > :18:30.and are requiring intensive care. And people who are going to be
:18:31. > :18:34.in hospital for a long time. And tonight, at least
:18:35. > :18:37.some cause for hope. Laura McIntyre, here on the left,
:18:38. > :18:41.has been found in hospital Her friend from the Isle of Barra,
:18:42. > :18:48.Eilidh McLeod, is still missing. It's beyond comprehension
:18:49. > :18:53.and understanding. We know that Laura is in hospital
:18:54. > :19:01.with serious injuries and we have no further news on Eilidh McLeod than
:19:02. > :19:04.we had earlier this morning and that Like so many others,
:19:05. > :19:12.young lives changed in seconds. Ed is at the Manchester
:19:13. > :19:24.Arena for us tonight. Which is a couple of hundred yards
:19:25. > :19:29.away. Just reflecting on the fact that you have spent most of the last
:19:30. > :19:33.24 hours reporting on this dreadful event and spoken to a lot of people
:19:34. > :19:39.today, what are your impressions today about how people have
:19:40. > :19:43.responded? The response has been great. It has been uniform, people
:19:44. > :19:49.have come together determined to try and hold on and show the good side
:19:50. > :19:54.of Manchester, to show a positive image, but what is difficult to
:19:55. > :20:00.leave here is the images of children, young children, teenagers,
:20:01. > :20:04.in shock and in disbelief. We watched when it -- many on their
:20:05. > :20:08.phone trying to get hold of their parents, just wanting to leave this
:20:09. > :20:12.city. And parents trying to get hold of their children, they did not know
:20:13. > :20:16.where they work and if they were safe or they had been heard. And in
:20:17. > :20:21.the middle of that, confusion. We watched strangers coming to court
:20:22. > :20:26.like this and giving out bottles of water to offer help and one image
:20:27. > :20:33.has stuck with me of a father holding onto his two children, two
:20:34. > :20:38.daughters, 12 and ten. He said, where am I? I want to go home. A
:20:39. > :20:44.stranger said, I am not a taxi driver but I will take you home, you
:20:45. > :20:49.will be safe. Many people holding onto that goodness because what
:20:50. > :20:51.happened here, an attack on younger, defenceless children in the foyer
:20:52. > :21:00.after a concert has left many people in complete disbelief. Thank you
:21:01. > :21:07.again, reporting all day outside the Manchester Arena.
:21:08. > :21:10.The latest figure is that 59 people were injured last night,
:21:11. > :21:16.including 12 people under the age of 16.
:21:17. > :21:18.Many are being treated in eight hospitals in the
:21:19. > :21:23.Our health editor, Hugh Pym, is at the Manchester Royal Infirmary.
:21:24. > :21:33.What is the latest on those being treated? Of those 59 patients, nine
:21:34. > :21:38.of them are here at Manchester Royal infirmary. We do not know how many
:21:39. > :21:41.seriously injured or with life-threatening conditions. Some of
:21:42. > :21:44.them are in the state and had been in intensive care and we are told
:21:45. > :21:50.some could be in hospital for quite a while yet. Talking is North West
:21:51. > :21:54.Ambulance Service and NHS leaders, it has been made clear however much
:21:55. > :21:59.you plan for this, nothing can prepare you for the sadness and
:22:00. > :22:03.shock of a tragedy like this. But there is a quiet sense of relief
:22:04. > :22:07.that the disaster plan they drew up was put into practice and it gets
:22:08. > :22:13.delivered. And they say they spend money months planning for just a
:22:14. > :22:17.scenario like this. A major incident was declared, hospitals were called
:22:18. > :22:21.in, the staff were called in overnight, the stuff they needed,
:22:22. > :22:26.and others came in who were not on duty, so many that some were sent
:22:27. > :22:29.back home. The Ambulance Service as well were greatly backed up. The
:22:30. > :22:36.point they want to make is the spirit of local Manchester people.
:22:37. > :22:41.People donating blood over the road bringing in food throughout the day
:22:42. > :22:48.for staff. They say they are very thankful, another example, they say,
:22:49. > :22:49.of the spirit of Manchester. Many thanks. The latest at Manchester
:22:50. > :22:51.Royal infirmary. By noon today, the police had
:22:52. > :22:54.arrested a 23-year-old man He's thought to be from Chorlton,
:22:55. > :22:58.in South Manchester. One of the priorities
:22:59. > :23:02.for investigators is to find out if the suicide bomber was working
:23:03. > :23:15.alone or was part of a network that might have been
:23:16. > :23:21.planning other attacks. That is why they have raised the
:23:22. > :23:26.threat level to critical tonight. Mark Easton, is at the Greater
:23:27. > :23:29.Manchester Police headquarters The report does contain flash
:23:30. > :23:35.photography. Who was behind this
:23:36. > :23:37.attack on innocents? As the concert ended
:23:38. > :23:39.and the lights came up, as children left for home,
:23:40. > :23:45.music in their ears, smiles on their young faces,
:23:46. > :23:48.who chose that moment Take your time and
:23:49. > :24:05.exit the building. Police are convinced the suicide
:24:06. > :24:11.bomber was Salman Abedi and they are desperate to find out if they have
:24:12. > :24:14.accomplices still at large. Our priority along with the police
:24:15. > :24:18.counterterrorist network and our security partners is to continue to
:24:19. > :24:26.establish whether he was acting alone or working as part of a wider
:24:27. > :24:30.network. A man named as the suicide bomber is Salman Abedi, 22, born in
:24:31. > :24:34.Manchester. The son of Libyan refugees who fled from Colonel
:24:35. > :24:37.Gaddafi, an apparently normal boy who went to a local school and
:24:38. > :24:41.supported Manchester United and worked late in a bakery. Today,
:24:42. > :24:46.officers launched raids on people thought to have been associates of
:24:47. > :24:53.Abedi. A 23-year-old man was arrested in the Manchester district
:24:54. > :24:57.of Whalley Range. At another house in Fallowfield, a controlled
:24:58. > :25:04.explosion took place. When you watch films and you hear a bomb go off,
:25:05. > :25:07.but with muffled sound, the parents were screaming. It was like what you
:25:08. > :25:11.see on a movie, everyone was literally scared at that moment and
:25:12. > :25:15.we got to the Avenue and we saw the police and it hit home that it is
:25:16. > :25:20.real, or on your doorstep. This part of the City is known to have been
:25:21. > :25:25.home to a number of Islamist extremists in recent years, some
:25:26. > :25:29.with links to Syria and Libya. Abedi is understood to have returned from
:25:30. > :25:35.the Libyan capital of Tripoli a couple of days ago. To construct a
:25:36. > :25:39.viable bomb that can be safely transported and secreted through
:25:40. > :25:44.security and detonated on command is not something and it can easily
:25:45. > :25:47.achieve. Police say the device was home-made with report contained nuts
:25:48. > :25:54.and bolts and ball bearings and nails. The view among security
:25:55. > :25:58.expert is the attack bears the hallmarks of a coordinated
:25:59. > :26:03.operation. This attack was planned and premeditated. And they're almost
:26:04. > :26:07.certainly will be other people involved in this attack. The most
:26:08. > :26:11.important thing is to catch them and to identify them and to bring them
:26:12. > :26:16.into custody and until we have done that, this attack really is not
:26:17. > :26:20.over. Almost exactly a year ago, police and emergency services in
:26:21. > :26:26.Manchester held a training exercise for just this kind of terrorist
:26:27. > :26:30.incident. Stay down! For a number of years, the threat level has been set
:26:31. > :26:33.at severe, meaning an attack is highly likely, it now it is
:26:34. > :26:39.critical, an attack is expected imminently. Understandably, the City
:26:40. > :26:45.is nervous, people on edge. There is a determination not to be held by
:26:46. > :26:50.terror. Manchester United is the fitting response to eat fishes
:26:51. > :26:56.attack on this fair Manchester City is -- is to a vicious attack.
:26:57. > :26:58.Our home affairs correspondent, Daniel Sandford, is at
:26:59. > :27:03.Greater Manchester Police headquarters.
:27:04. > :27:09.This is within the hour, the Prime Minister having told us about the
:27:10. > :27:15.terror threat level is being increased. What are the police
:27:16. > :27:21.saying? Are they got a good start to the investigation, they got an IDS
:27:22. > :27:25.earlier Arnon on the man who Salman Abedi believed to be the suspected
:27:26. > :27:30.suicide bomber because he had identification on Emma so they were
:27:31. > :27:36.quick to raid addresses linked to him and carry out a controlled
:27:37. > :27:41.explosion to break into an address and to identify him as a 22-year-old
:27:42. > :27:45.man who was born here to refugees, from Libya. Then it became difficult
:27:46. > :27:51.because they just could not get to the stage where they could rule out
:27:52. > :27:53.the possibility of others so that is the ongoing question and critically
:27:54. > :27:58.tonight, they also have not got to the bottom of of why a man who grew
:27:59. > :28:04.up here and went to school here suddenly turned against the country
:28:05. > :28:10.that gave him refuge. Thank you, Daniel. The latest thoughts at
:28:11. > :28:12.Greater Manchester Police headquarters.
:28:13. > :28:13.As we mentioned earlier, election campaigning
:28:14. > :28:16.Theresa May, who visited Manchester, said last night's atrocity
:28:17. > :28:19.was an act of sickening cowardice, while Jeremy Corbyn said the country
:28:20. > :28:29.should not allow the act of violence to cause divisions.
:28:30. > :28:33.Theresa May will chair and a meeting of the Cabinet's emergency committee
:28:34. > :28:35.tomorrow. Our political editor,
:28:36. > :28:36.Laura Kuennsberg, reports now on reaction in the UK
:28:37. > :28:39.and across the world And in Belfast, as in every place,
:28:40. > :29:19.showing respect and regret, whether with thoughts,
:29:20. > :29:23.prayers or speech. It is an absolutely barbaric attack
:29:24. > :29:27.that has taken place, to cut off young lives in this way,
:29:28. > :29:32.and it is absolutely devastating. And our thoughts and prayers must be
:29:33. > :29:38.with their families and friends. An election campaign
:29:39. > :29:41.in full pelt, now on pause. Tory central command, Labour HQ,
:29:42. > :29:47.hardly a soul to be seen. In these circumstances,
:29:48. > :29:49.a city and a community comes together in solidarity
:29:50. > :29:52.and in strength. We don't allow these attacks
:29:53. > :29:59.and these people to divide us or prevent us from leading
:30:00. > :30:01.the decent, normal lives And in Scotland, the SNP
:30:02. > :30:06.events called off, an end There can be nothing more cowardly
:30:07. > :30:15.than attacking children and young Across Scotland today,
:30:16. > :30:20.we stand in solidarity Memories stirred in Westminster
:30:21. > :30:31.of March's attack. This was a terrorist attack,
:30:32. > :30:33.deliberately targeted at children Revulsion shared by President Trump
:30:34. > :30:46.on his Middle Eastern tour. I won't call them monsters
:30:47. > :30:55.because they would like that term. They would think
:30:56. > :31:00.that's a great name. I will call them from now
:31:01. > :31:04.on losers, because that's To make a point about freedom,
:31:05. > :31:14.the new French President strolled the short distance
:31:15. > :31:20.to the British Embassy to say this. TRANSLATION: We will be
:31:21. > :31:25.resolute on our continent. And from Berlin, where
:31:26. > :31:27.the British Embassy flag flew And flags lowered in Brussels,
:31:28. > :31:41.condolences expressed online May I ask you to join
:31:42. > :31:50.in a minute's silence? And we stop in this moment too,
:31:51. > :31:56.to remember in Peterborough... With love, we pray for all caught
:31:57. > :32:01.up in these events... In Winchester tonight
:32:02. > :32:22.and perhaps everywhere, As we know, the attack happened at
:32:23. > :32:25.the end of a concert, almost exactly 24 hours ago. As thousands of
:32:26. > :32:29.people, including many young people and children were leaving that
:32:30. > :32:35.arena, others were arriving to take them home. Many of them witnessed
:32:36. > :32:40.some really harrowing scenes as the events unfolded. Our correspondent
:32:41. > :32:46.has been listening to the story of teenage cousins,
:32:47. > :32:48.of teenage cousins, Ellie Clayton and Polly Asquith-Brown,
:32:49. > :32:51.who'd saved up for months to see their favourite star perform
:32:52. > :32:54.I've been waiting to see a tour for about four years.
:32:55. > :32:57.So I've literally been waiting for so long.
:32:58. > :32:59.And then she finally released her tour dates.
:33:00. > :33:02.We were like, we'll save up, we're gonna get really good tickets,
:33:03. > :33:05.cos we are gonna be at the front, and we did.
:33:06. > :33:11.And it was just one of those things that I just had to go.
:33:12. > :33:18.People behind me were crying, and everyone was just...
:33:19. > :33:20.It's just a bit overwhelming when you meet someone
:33:21. > :33:22.you've just idolised for four, five years.
:33:23. > :33:25.The gig was nearly finished, or pretty much finished?
:33:26. > :33:27.Yeah, she'd done an encore and she'd just left.
:33:28. > :33:30.We got up out of our seats, literally walked to the end
:33:31. > :33:33.of our aisle, and that's when we heard...it happened.
:33:34. > :33:44.It sounded more like a gun shot, but like a really loud one.
:33:45. > :33:47.It was too loud to be a gunshot and it kind of shock,
:33:48. > :33:49.everywhere just shook, and everyone screamed,
:33:50. > :33:52.No-one really knew what was happening.
:33:53. > :33:54.And then we just heard people screaming and shouting, run!
:33:55. > :33:58.It was just like a massive stampede of people.
:33:59. > :34:01.And then that's when we kind of just saw everything.
:34:02. > :34:07.A lot of the sounds and the things that I saw,
:34:08. > :34:10.certain sights that you just, you can't unsee that.
:34:11. > :34:13.And it's real life, it's not a picture you see on Facebook,
:34:14. > :34:16.it's not something you see on the news, it is real life.
:34:17. > :34:27.She was sat outside on the stairs of the arena and she had, like,
:34:28. > :34:30.a big gash on her chin and blood was just coming down her clothes,
:34:31. > :34:32.and was just screaming and her parents were crying.
:34:33. > :34:35.As we were walking further and further up, there were just
:34:36. > :34:37.blue lights everywhere, there were police everywhere and
:34:38. > :34:46.That's when we just thought, we were just
:34:47. > :34:50.Did you realise that people had died?
:34:51. > :34:53.I kind of caught a glimpse of inside the station
:34:54. > :35:00.You just don't ever want to see things like that.
:35:01. > :35:03.There were just people lying there and the whole station,
:35:04. > :35:08.wherever the foyer bit was, it was just in pieces.
:35:09. > :35:17.It's so sad to think that people have gone
:35:18. > :35:20.and then not come back to, like, a happy event, to a concert.
:35:21. > :35:23.And what was going to be, like, the best night of our lives,
:35:24. > :35:26.It had been building up for me for, like, years.
:35:27. > :35:31.It was so exciting and it's just turned into, like,
:35:32. > :35:34.the most traumatic thing personally that I've ever been through.
:35:35. > :35:37.Do you feel lucky in a way to have come back OK?
:35:38. > :35:41.It's horrible to think that, you know, what their families
:35:42. > :35:46.And the people that we could hear crying and screaming for people,
:35:47. > :35:54.Ellie Clayton and Polly Asquith-Brown speaking
:35:55. > :36:01.This evening, thousands of people gathered in
:36:02. > :36:04.the centre of Manchester in Albert Square to attend a vigil.
:36:05. > :36:06.The newly-elected Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham,
:36:07. > :36:09.said the city had shown its true spirit
:36:10. > :36:12.in the way it's responded to such a brutal event.
:36:13. > :36:15.Our special correspondent, Fergal Keane, reports now on a city
:36:16. > :36:22.trying to come to terms with a terrible shock.
:36:23. > :36:26.Our cities cannot live in constant fear of terror,
:36:27. > :36:32.however much part of life it has become.
:36:33. > :36:36.So when the night is torn by violence, there is shock,
:36:37. > :36:41.there is strength and there are questions.
:36:42. > :36:44.Today, we asked the Mancunians we met to speak directly
:36:45. > :36:57.Our way of life is being controlled by it now,
:36:58. > :37:02.We're such a united city, and it's quite harrowing to think
:37:03. > :37:10.It's devastating how young people fell victim to it
:37:11. > :37:15.You wouldn't expect it anywhere, but Manchester is such a welcoming
:37:16. > :37:21.You don't expect things like that to happen here,
:37:22. > :37:25.Makes you scared at first, but you just realise
:37:26. > :37:31.You thank the emergency services for all they've done.
:37:32. > :37:47.Yet also a place of emphatic declaration.
:37:48. > :37:51.Allah, we ask that you allow the perpetrators of this evil
:37:52. > :37:53.action, Allah, bring them to justice.
:37:54. > :38:00.If I had one of the victims' fathers or somebody who's
:38:01. > :38:03.lost their daughter or son in yesterday's attack and I'm
:38:04. > :38:07.saying to him "Look, George, Alan, whoever,
:38:08. > :38:11.this is nothing to do with Muslims", and yet he knows that the person
:38:12. > :38:15.who did it adhered to a so-called faith, it's hard to talk to a person
:38:16. > :38:18.like that and say this is nothing to do with the faith.
:38:19. > :38:22.I'm saying to people publicly and privately,
:38:23. > :38:25.we have to distance our faith from these barbaric terrorists.
:38:26. > :38:29.They're criminals with criminal mindsets.
:38:30. > :38:31.People here already knew what it meant to face and recover
:38:32. > :38:40.An IRA bomb devastated Manchester city centre in 1996.
:38:41. > :38:44.Three years earlier in nearby Warrington, an IRA bomb killed
:38:45. > :38:49.three-year-old Jonathan Ball and 12-year-old Tim Parry.
:38:50. > :38:53.Tim's father Colin became a peace campaigner, but today
:38:54. > :38:58.he was thinking of the inexpressible burden of parents' grief.
:38:59. > :39:06.Losing a child is the most awful event in anybody's life.
:39:07. > :39:10.There's no easy way to say you will one day get
:39:11. > :39:13.over it and recover, because you might, you might not.
:39:14. > :39:24.The fact that terrorism is part of the collective memory
:39:25. > :39:27.of this city does nothing to reduce the sense of raw shock
:39:28. > :39:34.But Manchester's past experience does remind us of the resilience
:39:35. > :39:38.of democracies in the face of terrorist campaigns,
:39:39. > :39:43.and of the strength of the bonds of community.
:39:44. > :39:46.After terror attacks, the word defiance is often used.
:39:47. > :39:59.But it's the communal sense of grief that is most profound.
:40:00. > :40:02.thoughts of our special correspondent on how Manchester is
:40:03. > :40:05.trying to come to terms with the attack that happened here last
:40:06. > :40:07.night. We'll be back in Manchester later in the programme. Now let's
:40:08. > :40:11.join Reeta in studio. Sir Roger Moore, best known
:40:12. > :40:13.for playing James Bond, He played the iconic role
:40:14. > :40:18.in seven Bond films, including Live and Let Die
:40:19. > :40:21.and A View to a Kill. David Sillito looks
:40:22. > :40:26.back at his life. When Roger Moore took on James Bond,
:40:27. > :40:34.he was a little nervous. Sean Connery had defined
:40:35. > :40:37.the role, but Roger Moore did have his own secret
:40:38. > :40:40.weapon - wit. When one is in Egypt, one should
:40:41. > :40:45.delve deeply into its treasures. He'd come a long way from his early
:40:46. > :40:59.days as a model for knitwear. His big break on television had come
:41:00. > :41:03.in armour, in Ivanhoe. Born in South London,
:41:04. > :41:08.the son of a policeman, Rada had helped him develop his image
:41:09. > :41:11.as a suave English gent. And in The Saint, you could see
:41:12. > :41:17.the template for what was to come. In this and in The Persuaders,
:41:18. > :41:23.he was the action man You know, because I really
:41:24. > :41:41.don't...see myself as a hero. When he finally said
:41:42. > :41:51.goodbye to Bond, his acting But he relished a new
:41:52. > :41:54.role with Unicef. They paid tribute today,
:41:55. > :41:56.saying the world had lost one Forgive me, Father,
:41:57. > :42:00.for I have sinned. As an actor, Sir Roger never
:42:01. > :42:04.pretended to have great depth. He was funny, good company,
:42:05. > :42:11.and he never took it too seriously. Sir Roger Moore, who has
:42:12. > :42:22.died at the age of 89. A trial, in which Royal Bank
:42:23. > :42:25.of Scotland is accused by investors of misleading them over shares
:42:26. > :42:27.they bought in 2008, The shareholders claimed
:42:28. > :42:31.they were duped into putting extra money into a failing bank,
:42:32. > :42:35.but the judge has been told by lawyers, on both sides,
:42:36. > :42:37.that they are close Donald Trump has delivered
:42:38. > :42:41.a speech in Jerusalem, saying he's personally committed
:42:42. > :42:44.to working to end the conflict Before he left Israel, the President
:42:45. > :42:51.laid a wreath at Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the six million
:42:52. > :42:54.Jews killed in the Nazi holocaust. He also visited the
:42:55. > :42:57.Palestinian president, Let's return now to Huw in
:42:58. > :43:12.Manchester. Thank you very much. To recap, after
:43:13. > :43:17.last night's dreadful terror attack here in Manchester, 22 people were
:43:18. > :43:20.killed, 59 people injured, many of them seriously. We heard earlier
:43:21. > :43:24.from the Prime Minister in Downing Street, after a second meeting of
:43:25. > :43:28.the Cabinet emergency committee today, COBRA, as it's known, that
:43:29. > :43:32.the terror threat level that's been raised to critical and that is the
:43:33. > :43:37.highest possible level, meaning that an attack is considered to be
:43:38. > :43:40.imminent, a further attack considered to be imminent. Let's
:43:41. > :43:46.have the latest on the intelligence that the Prime Minister's statement
:43:47. > :43:50.was based on. Let's speak to Gordon again. Bring us up to date on what
:43:51. > :43:55.you've learned in the past hour or so. Yes, a dramatic development as
:43:56. > :43:58.the threat level is raised to critical for the first time in ten
:43:59. > :44:01.years. That, sources are telling me, is because they cannot rule out the
:44:02. > :44:05.possibility that there remain people at large linked to the attacker last
:44:06. > :44:08.night who might pose a threat, who could carry out a further attack.
:44:09. > :44:12.They're not saying that's for certain. But they cannot rule out
:44:13. > :44:16.that possibility. As a result, the threat level has gone up to critical
:44:17. > :44:22.and we are going to see the military deployed on the streets in support
:44:23. > :44:24.of police. Gordon, thank you for bringing us up
:44:25. > :44:30.to date. As we mentioned earlier, The attack here in Manchester
:44:31. > :44:32.was the worst in the UK since the London bombings
:44:33. > :44:34.of July 2005. As news of the bombing spread
:44:35. > :44:37.across the city last night, many rushed to offer to help
:44:38. > :44:39.those in need. Families offered accommodation
:44:40. > :44:41.to those caught in the turmoil, and taxi drivers offered free rides
:44:42. > :44:46.to anyone in need. Our correspondent, Sophie Long,
:44:47. > :44:49.reports on how the community come Manchester was a city understandably
:44:50. > :44:58.on edge this morning - panic as another building
:44:59. > :45:01.in the city centre was evacuated. Smashed all the windows down
:45:02. > :45:04.in the Arndale to get out. This time it was a false alarm
:45:05. > :45:14.and while the threat is felt acutely, people here are coming
:45:15. > :45:17.together and the human spirit, No amount of evilness will ever,
:45:18. > :45:25.ever dampen any good thought Cab drivers who worked
:45:26. > :45:32.through the night, foregoing their fares,
:45:33. > :45:34.were back keeping the city Mostly the teenagers, like,
:45:35. > :45:42.8 to 16 or 14 years old, all these girls they're crying
:45:43. > :45:44.for their mothers and their parents Then we take to their home,
:45:45. > :45:50.take to the hotel, take Jump in the cab and
:45:51. > :45:54.I'll drop you there." When I asked people how they feel
:45:55. > :45:59.about what happened here, so many people have said to me -
:46:00. > :46:03.I have no words, and words have been difficult to find today as people
:46:04. > :46:06.just begin to get their heads around the atrocity that took place right
:46:07. > :46:08.in the heart of their city. What comes more easily
:46:09. > :46:19.to people here are actions. I just really wanted to come down
:46:20. > :46:22.and see if I could help at all. It's such a massive tragedy. There's been
:46:23. > :46:30.an overwhelming response on social media. I thought I'd come down and
:46:31. > :46:35.try to give blood, do my bit, yeah. Others took food to hospitals where
:46:36. > :46:39.victims are being treated. People connected, in person, by phone. Even
:46:40. > :46:42.the very young were among those responding. Find the policeman.
:46:43. > :46:49.Helping to keep people going. Thank you. It's so close to home.
:46:50. > :46:54.We're sat at home, might as well help in whichever way we can. On the
:46:55. > :47:00.city's streets today, a real sense of community. After what happened
:47:01. > :47:03.yesterday, there's a responsibility to do something. And just want to
:47:04. > :47:07.show people that they're loved, so we're just going round hugging
:47:08. > :47:13.people, because ultimately, love is the only thing we can do when we're
:47:14. > :47:16.faced with hate. And tonight, concert goers were undeterred as
:47:17. > :47:31.Simple Minds took to the stage just a mile away. Think of the victims of
:47:32. > :47:35.last night. This is how will people are responding to the horror visited
:47:36. > :47:40.on their city. They are coming together and they are carrying on.
:47:41. > :47:42.As we've heard, last night, the crowds had come
:47:43. > :47:45.to see the American star Ariana Grande in concert.
:47:46. > :47:48.Many of the audience were teenagers, some even younger.
:47:49. > :47:50.Emergency services say that of the 59 casualties taken
:47:51. > :47:53.to hospital following the attack, 12 were under the age of 16.
:47:54. > :48:00.Our correspondent, Seema Kotecha, has been hearing from one young fan.
:48:01. > :48:08.Ariana Grande, once a child star, now a global pop icon.
:48:09. > :48:10.The 23-year-old rose to fame after starring in a TV series
:48:11. > :48:26.She then turned to music and topped the charts with her songs.
:48:27. > :48:30.On social media, she is one of only six people in the world
:48:31. > :48:32.who have more than 100 million followers on Instagram.
:48:33. > :48:37.On Snapchat, she's one of the most viewed.
:48:38. > :48:39.And her trademark bunny ears are popular with millions.
:48:40. > :48:49.She's nice and she's kind, and she's really pretty.
:48:50. > :48:52.Nine-year-old Summer describes herself as the pop
:48:53. > :48:55.She went to the concert last night after getting
:48:56. > :49:04.If I saw Ariana Grande, just sat right there, I would cry!
:49:05. > :49:14.And I would hug her, and I'd do anything to meet Ariana Grande.
:49:15. > :49:17.Tens of thousands of fans packed Manchester Arena
:49:18. > :49:31.The singer responded to the attack on Twitter by saying...
:49:32. > :49:36.Other celebrities with young fans have taken to social media to pay
:49:37. > :49:40.tribute to those who died, and to express their shock.
:49:41. > :49:43.I think that the greatest thing we can do is just unite,
:49:44. > :49:58.When I think of Manchester, the place that I know,
:49:59. > :50:00.I think of the spirit of the people there.
:50:01. > :50:02.And I'm telling you, a more tight-knit group of people
:50:03. > :50:08.We will go to bed holding our little ones even tighter this evening.
:50:09. > :50:12.Summer and her father are spending time together.
:50:13. > :50:15.They're talking about what happened - something child psychologists say
:50:16. > :50:27.young people who might be affected by the attack should do.
:50:28. > :50:31.The Mayor of Manchester, Andy Burnham, is with me.
:50:32. > :50:38.He took up a couple of weeks ago. You have expressed today your
:50:39. > :50:43.unlimited pride in the people of the City. It has just grown and grown
:50:44. > :50:47.throughout the day, I have been out visiting NHS hospitals in the last
:50:48. > :50:52.couple of hours and the story from staff was people flooded in,
:50:53. > :50:56.porters, cleaners, surgeons and nurses to help. Not on shift, and
:50:57. > :51:02.the public were bringing in food and there is a report of a homeless man
:51:03. > :51:07.and helping tends to be injured. This city has really gone at great
:51:08. > :51:12.length to pull together in the last 24 hours. Last night was our darkest
:51:13. > :51:15.night, no doubt about that, but the people of Greater Manchester have
:51:16. > :51:19.pulled together and there is at least some hope in that tonight and
:51:20. > :51:23.that should give people some pride. Individual which took place which we
:51:24. > :51:29.will have some images of, there was also a stronger message. The vigil
:51:30. > :51:32.was a message of great togetherness and a little defiance, and that is
:51:33. > :51:39.important because moments like this do not just of bullies but it came
:51:40. > :51:43.true that Manchester was fighting back -- but moments like this do hit
:51:44. > :51:49.just self belief. To send a strong message out we will not be defeated.
:51:50. > :51:50.Thank you, Andy Burnham, the Mayor of Greater Manchester with his
:51:51. > :51:52.thoughts. Earlier this evening,
:51:53. > :51:53.several thousand people came together in Albert Square -
:51:54. > :51:56.outside the Town Hall - to attend a vigil, where they heard
:51:57. > :52:00.expressions of pride in the city's strength of character,
:52:01. > :52:02.its diversity and resilience. I spoke to some of the
:52:03. > :52:07.people who were there. This city is greater than the forces
:52:08. > :52:15.that align itself against it. And as we say that, we're sending
:52:16. > :52:18.a signal not just to Manchester, I live here, my children
:52:19. > :52:26.have been born here. And with such an atrocious act that
:52:27. > :52:29.happened last night, Why was it important
:52:30. > :52:35.for you to be here? It's important to me because,
:52:36. > :52:37.like Mum said, I was born in Manchester and I know people
:52:38. > :52:42.who were at the concert. I find it very upsetting that
:52:43. > :52:46.somebody would just walk into a place and kill themselves,
:52:47. > :52:49.along with other people, You cannot defeat us
:52:50. > :52:59.because love, in the end, The spirit of Manchester cannot be
:53:00. > :53:11.broken by a nutter with a nail bomb. There's much more to
:53:12. > :53:13.this city than that. I'm really proud
:53:14. > :53:15.to be from this city. It's a wonderful place,
:53:16. > :53:17.full of culture, a very multicultural city, and we can't be
:53:18. > :53:20.defeated by something like this. We are diverse, we
:53:21. > :53:24.welcome everybody in. You know, for somebody just
:53:25. > :53:27.to think they can come in and do what they've done,
:53:28. > :53:30.taking what's ours, this is our city And with it being a terrorist
:53:31. > :53:43.attack, I feel like a lot of Muslims As Muslims, we do care,
:53:44. > :53:50.no matter what these... We don't agree with anything
:53:51. > :53:53.that's gone on at all. You've seen everybody around here,
:53:54. > :53:56.how diverse it is, that's Manchester It's not easy really to deflect
:53:57. > :54:01.anger on a day like this, is it? We're not blaming each other,
:54:02. > :54:03.we want to help each other. Anger should be diverted
:54:04. > :54:08.in the right way. To be honest, I've never been
:54:09. > :54:12.to one of these before. You know, my heart's gone
:54:13. > :54:15.out to all the victims Some of the voices at tonight's
:54:16. > :54:34.vigil here in central Manchester, all of them united in declaring
:54:35. > :54:37.that the spirit of this city is as resilient tonight
:54:38. > :54:42.as it has ever been. There's more coverage on the BBC
:54:43. > :54:44.News Channel but, for now, from the heart of Manchester,
:54:45. > :54:46.after a harrowing 24 hours for the people
:54:47. > :54:51.of this city, goodnight.