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13 people dead and more than 100 injured

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after a van ploughs into crowds at one of Barcelona's most

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The white van drove for more than half a mile, hitting shoppers

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and holiday-makers in the busy market area, Las Ramblas.

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Panic on the streets as people flee from the streets,

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running into nearby shops to take shelter.

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I saw a white van, with the side door open.

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Whether it was the police or from the van, I don't know.

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I saw people falling on the pavement.

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And then I was doubting what to do, to run towards,

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Armed police combed the streets for a man seen running from the van.

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Tonight they've arrested two suspects.

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This is the man police say is suspected of renting the van used

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This evening, so-called Islamic state said it was behind the attack.

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We'll have the latest from Barcelona.

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Also tonight: The first rise in top A-level grades for six years,

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President Trump says America's history is being "ripped apart",

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as statues with links to slavery are pulled down.

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And why a pink ball is being used for the first time

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We'll get get the latest updates on Barcelona.

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13 people have been killed in Barcelona and more

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than 100 have been injured, after a van was driven

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into the crowds at one of the city's most popular tourist sites.

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So-called Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack.

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Thousands of people - holiday-makers,

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were on the packed street in Barcelona when the attack

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The white van was driven at speed along the famous pedestrianised

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The driver turned into the crowds at this point here and drove

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the rented van for around half a mile through them -

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killing and wounding dozens of people as he went.

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Our correspondent, Gavin Lee, is in Las Ramblas for us now.

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Tonight the police have completely cordoned off and put on lock down

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Las Ramblas. The most popular promenade in Spain. They are saying

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13 people have been killed, more than 100 injured and 50 in critical

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condition. Tonight people have been told to hide. They are hiding in a

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museum nearby because the search is on for more men who are said to be

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behind this terrorist attack. Here is how the events unfolded tonight.

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Tonight. Terror on the streets of Europe, again. Again. And again a

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vehicle used as a weapon. Come on, come on, just go. Las

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Ramblas in Barcelona, a packed sunny evening on Spain yes, sir most

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famous boulevard, in panic. On Spain's most famous boulevard, in

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panic. This white van mounted the pavement and ploughed into

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pedestrians. Bodies were left lying on the street. Those who were

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nearby, rushed to help the injured. Emergency services arrived quickly.

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And the hunt for those responsible began. The city's Metro and train

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stations were closed down. The nearby streets quickly deserted, as

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people were told to stay inside. I saw a white van with the side door

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open. We heard gunshots. Whether it was the police or from the van, I

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don't know. I didn't hang around for that. We ran into the Burger King to

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get shelter. REPORTER: What was going through your mind when it was

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going on? Are we going to survive? We were just scared they were going

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to get in there. They pulled all the shutters down. Just kept us safe and

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that was it. It. I saw people falling to the ground and that

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struck my eyes, rather than the car. I immediately sensed it was a

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Nice-like event. And people around it ran away, fled away in panic.

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Authorities say the vehicle was driven half a kilometre down Las

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Ramblas boulevard, reportedly at up to 80 kilometres an hour. Police

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have released a photo of this man, Driss Oubakir, said to have rented

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the van. He is understood to have been known to police, a former

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prisoner, released five years ago. Police say two people have been

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arrested tonight but investigators are still working to get to the

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bottom of how this happened and who was behind it. Right now, people are

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being told to stay well away from the city. But this attack has

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happened in the middle of summer. There are locals, tourists,

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thousands of people here, unsure of where to go and whether it is safe

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and whether there are more people out there, planning another attack.

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You cannot be sure to go anywhere else, anything can happen. Wherever

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we go, we will still be exposed to something. Tonight, as people start

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to comprehend the brutality of what's happened, they are being told

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to stay awane indoors, as police try -- away and indoors I as police try

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to co-ordinate who carried out the attack and if any threat remains.

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Well, today's attack using a vehicle to mow down pedestrians is one

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of at least seven to have been carried out in Europe

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And, as ever, the problem for the authorities is that such

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attacks are extremely difficult to prevent.

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Our security correspondent, Gordon Corera, has been

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looking at what more - if anything - can be done.

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Barcelona is just the late nest a series of vehicle attacks, leaving a

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terrible but almost familiar scene on the streets of Europe. The first

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major Ince detective dent was in Nice when a lorry ploughed into a

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crowd just over a year ago. It was a target and moment to maximise the

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casualties and impact. Then a alreadiy attack on auto Christmas

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market in Berlin -- then a lorry attack and a van driven into the

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city centre in Stockholm. Britain has not immune. In March, a man

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ploughed into a Westminster Bridge. Three men drove down London Bridge

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in June before attacking people with knives and feignsbury park mosque,

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people were struck by a car. Stopping these attacks is hard. Here

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at Westminster Bridge they have stopped the barriers to stop

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vehicles ramming into pedestrians on the bridge but an attacker could

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just pick a different crowded place. The authorities are also looking at

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more checks on people making short-notice rentals of vans but the

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problem is, these attacks require just every day items, just a car, no

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guns or explosives and with so little planning required, it can be

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hard to spot them, and stop them. New shock absorbing barriers, like

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this one, shown in a test, may offer some protection but

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counter-terrorism experts caution they cannot stop all attacks

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happening. It's an almost impossible thing to prevent completely but you

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can try to make it a little bit more difficult for terrorists and that,

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to some extent is all we can do. The way we stop this from happening is

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by preventing people from becoming radicalised or by people willing to

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come forward to say - I know someone who might do this. This is how we

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stop it. This is one of the men police believe it is responsible and

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tonight Islamic State, so-called said it was responsible. But this

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does not always mean there was a direct link with the group and one

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major concern for security forces around the world, is that these kind

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of attacks can be carried out with little or no training, direction or

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coordination. Back to Gavin Lee in Barcelona now.

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Two arrests made and huge parts of the city cordoned off. What is the

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latest on the police operation there? Some people still being moved

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back now. We are talking about thousands of people who cannot get

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back to either their holiday hotels or local lives here. The police are

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saying this developed after the car that drove half a kilometre, just

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further down on Las Ramblas. The chase took to the streets, there

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were two men hiding in bars. This is why at the same time police very

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quickly at the scene managed to hide, we are thinking, we are told

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hundreds of people inside the museum and other bars. Both those men were

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arrested. Another man, a third man was shot dead. 500m from here there

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was a car chase a man went through three small checkpoints as they

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tried to stop him. We are also being told that this is an investigation

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that involves more people. So tonight, five hours into the

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investigation, this is just starting to start as to how big the plot was

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and how it was co-ordinated. Thank you for now. Back to you later in

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the programme. The number of teenagers achieving

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top A-level grades has increased for the first time in six years

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in England, Wales Hundreds of thousands of students

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received their grades today. For the first time in 17 years,

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boys were ahead of the girls Here's our Education Editor,

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Branwen Jeffreys. I'm on the way to get my

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A-level results now. Yeah, I'm starting

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to feel a bit nervous. I don't know, I guess

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it's a good thing. It's all going to be

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over in literally, like, For Sarah, Alex and Georgia,

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a day of reckoning. Two years of hard work,

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results riding on one set of exams. So, how do they feel

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about the new A-levels, where AS exams no longer count

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in some subjects? I personally found

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it really stressful. The idea that everything

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all of a sudden is at the end of two years, is very intimidating,

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I think, for many of us. It really is, like you have got

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to remember things from two years ago and you sit there in the exam

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and you are like - With the old system,

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if you did badly in your AS results you would have to resit that

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but at least it gives you a chance to redeem yourself

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if you have done bad. Despite the stress, exam

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results have held up. Just a tiny dip in the new A-levels

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and for boys, the best top grades for decades,

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getting more A and A* All their hopes and fears

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compressed into a few hours And in England this year, the stakes

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have felt particularly high, with students road testing

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a new system of exams. With more new-style A-levels next

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year, headteachers say We know where we want to get our

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students but we haven't had a map, we haven't had directions

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and when we have had these, they've So we've had to muddle through that

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and use our experience to get That's an incredibly

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stressful situation. For those who missed out on grades,

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places still on offer at Hull Hello, this is the University

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of Hull clearing centre. Thousands will still get

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to uni through clearing. Tuition fees now more

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than ?9,000 a year. No sign yet it's putting

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young people off. But at the top of universities,

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they know the debate has shifted. It has opened up and I think the key

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issue for universities is that the funding that we have

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for higher education must have the confidence

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and trust of young people. It's important that young

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people are not deterred Graduates earn more

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in their lifetime. What's changed this year

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is the politics, a big youth vote One of the most famous students

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who got her results today was the Nobel Peace Prize

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winner, Malala Yousafzai. Pictured here getting her grades

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this morning, the 20-year-old has gained a place at Oxford University

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to study philosophy, Malala was campaigning on girls'

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rights to education in her native Pakistan in 2012, when she was

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almost killed by the Taliban. President Trump says American

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history and culture are being ripped apart by the removal of statues,

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some of which commemorate those The violence in Virginia last

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weekend was sparked when far right nationalists protested

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against proposals to remove symbols celebrating those

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who fought to defend slavery The clashes left one woman dead

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and many more injured. Our North America Editor, Jon Sopel,

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reports from Leesburg in Virginia. Does this statute represent

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heritage or hate? Last night, this monument

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to a Confederate soldier - the Army from the south

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in the US Civil War that fought to maintain slavery

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- was vandalised. Today, as we filmed in Leesburg,

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Virginia, the local authorities decided it was time to install

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closed-circuit TV to keep a watchful And this famous landmark of this

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pretty town was dividing opinion, Do you believe the statue

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should come down? It's not good history,

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but it's a reminder of what not You know, that they have

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to nit-pick stuff like this. It's a representation of past

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actions that have shackled and chained people both

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mentally and physically. But it's not only this Vietnam vet

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saluting these monuments. Today, Donald Trump entered

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the fray, tweeting... "Sad to see the history and culture

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of our great country being ripped apart with the removal

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of our beautiful You can't change history,

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but you can learn from it. It was plans to dismantle the statue

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of General Lee that sparked these hate-drenched scenes

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in Charlottesville at the weekend No doubt these people will be

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cheering the President to But in Durham, North Carolina,

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those people who believe these statues are symbols of America's

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dark past are taking matters There are statues like this

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all across the southern Yes, they represent

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history and heritage. They are also about the toxic state

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of race relations in America today, and the continuing search

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of African-Americans to find An old soldier who now seems

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to represent an America uncomfortable about its past,

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divided about its present, Jon Sopel, BBC News,

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Leesburg, Virginia. A jury at the Old Bailey has heard

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that a cyclist who's accused of killing a mother of two

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when he crashed into her, was riding Charlie Alliston hit 44-year-old

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Kim Briggs in east London He denies manslaughter

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and another charge. Kim Briggs was killed when crossing

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the road in her lunch break. She was knocked down

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by a man on his bicycle. In what's thought to be

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a legal first, the cyclist, Charlie Alliston, is

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charged with manslaughter. Moments before the crash,

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he was travelling at In the final metres,

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he slowed to between ten Charlie Alliston told the court

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he shouted out to Kim Briggs to warn her before he reached this

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yellow crisscross area on the road. A few metres later,

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he shouted again. He then said he swerved to the left

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to try and pass her on the inside. Kim Briggs was already

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out in the road. He told the court that

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at the last moment, she stepped Illegal on the road,

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and according to the prosecution, But in court today,

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Mr Alliston claimed he couldn't have avoided Mrs Briggs,

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even with a front brake. Comments written by Charlie Alliston

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online in the hours and days following the crash have been read

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out in court. On the evening of

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the crash he wrote... Today, in court, Charlie Alliston

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said all of the comments which he wrote online in the hours

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and days after the crash were stupid The charge of manslaughter

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is unusual in the case of a cyclist. Mr Alliston denies that charge

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and a separate charge brought under a very old law of intent to cause

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bodily harm by wonton Tom Burridge, BBC News

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at the Old Bailey. Today's terror attack

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in Barcelona has been claimed by so-called Islamic State -

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the latest they have carried out But on the battlefields in Iraq

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and Syria, the Islamic State group has been collapsing as it's driven

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out of its strongholds. But as they go, they're leaving

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behind a deadly legacy - children schooled in hate

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and trained for combat. More than 2000 boys

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are thought to have graduated Our Middle East correspondent

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Quentin Somerville has the second part of his report

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on what IS calls its lion Turning a child into

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a suicide bomber takes time. In Raqqa, they crowd

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round to watch a man, The so-called Islamic State

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charge sheet reads that His punishment is

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children's entertainment. Growing up in conflict, destruction

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and violence become routine. Mosul and elsewhere became

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fertile recruitment ground IS didn't just concentrate its

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attentions here on the battlefield. It also moved into homes

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and into classrooms and there they filled young minds full

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of tales of jihad, of suicide So even though the fighting has

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stopped, they've left behind a toxic legacy,

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a new generation of hate and that And the songs from their propaganda

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videos soon made their way into This boy can't forget the songs, and

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he can't forget IS. He says their education

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was about jihad and how to blow yourself up, and teaching them how

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to use weapons and how He says, "Yes, they were scary,

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they cut off heads. We'd get 15 lashes for

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a haircut like this." Recruitment started

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here in the classroom. TRANSLATION: Children

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are fertile ground. Schools and curriculums

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are the way to train the students and brainwash them,

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until they're ready to join military When IS arrived, they destroyed

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the existing curriculum In words and pictures they make war

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and destruction commonplace. Kids learn to read the clock

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by looking at timebombs. In Arabic, the differences

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between big and small, long and short, are shown

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with bazookas, bullets and rockets and gym class ends with lessons,

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a guide to stripping Other armed groups have used

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children to fight before. It's a war crime but IS turned it

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into an efficient process. He faught with rebels

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in Syria and then IS. It's been a shattering experience

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for him and his family. TRANSLATION: When I came back

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someone said to me, "You are a loser and if I were you I wouldn't have

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done what you have done, I just keep thinking

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of that word "loser." The Islamic State was formed

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in a torment and it has destroyed It has ruined lives,

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warped and stalled the future Repairing that damage will be

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an even greater task than rebuilding The education watchdog Ofsted has

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published a damning report into one of the UK's largest adult training

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and apprenticeship providers - Ofsted rated the company -

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which has received hundreds of millions of pounds of public

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money - as inadequate. That's the worst rating

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the watchdog can give. The Department for Education has

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said it will withdraw Cricket now - and there

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were centuries for both Alastair Cook and Joe Root

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as England began the first day-night Test with the West

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Indies at Edgbaston. And all eyes were on the pink ball,

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which is being used for the first time in a Test match

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in this country. Our sports correspondent

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Joe Wilson reports. If you came to Birmingham this week,

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you knew about the cricket. Arrive in the sun,

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to leave after dark. You're in lovely green

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shorts, you've got short Is there another couple

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of layers in there? Some waterproofs and layers along

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with the provisions, yeah. Mark Stoneman, on debut,

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lasted six balls. Tom Westley also fell quickly,

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LBW, given after review. But Alastair Cook was seeing this

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ball as clearly as ever. Remember, entertainment is the point

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of this whole exercise. Well, the ball could be red,

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pink, or polka dot. That had four written all over it

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and Root, the captain, The 100 for Alastair Cook came

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shortly before 7:30pm and it all seemed a bit easy,

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but Joe Root fell for 136, and did Remember, the whole point

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about the new pink ball is that it can be used after dark,

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and finally, at about 8:30pm, the floodlight

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was coming into its own. A shiny pink ball under lights

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is what batsmen had feared. See you in the morning -

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or rather, the afternoon. Pupils at a school in West London,

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which sits in the shadow of Grenfell Tower, were among those

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who received their Many of them lived in

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or around the tower block. Four students and one former

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pupil died in the fire. Others lost their homes

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as they were preparing The head teacher of the Kensington

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Aldridge Academy has been telling our education correspondent,

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Gillian Hargreaves, how proud Their school lies at the foot

:25:55.:25:56.

of the burned out tower. They haven't been able to use

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it for three months. This is the first time

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the headteacher has spoken It was very, very difficult

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and very, very challenging. There was the emotion

:26:15.:26:20.

of the situation and the deep concern that we had for the members

:26:21.:26:22.

of our school community, but there was also a whole load

:26:23.:26:25.

of practical challenges in place. You know, children have one chance

:26:26.:26:29.

in life at an education. Today, at least, there were results

:26:30.:26:33.

to celebrate at their temporary I think that the fact that we can

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walk in here and get our results and have smiles on our faces,

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I think it's part of remembering, and it's part of celebrating

:26:49.:26:51.

the people who lived in Grenfell. Our strength brings strength

:26:52.:26:56.

to the community, and strength in the community I think

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is everything we can hope for. We're sticking together,

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rather than getting angry. We're still trying to,

:27:07.:27:08.

like, obviously move on, but we will never move

:27:09.:27:15.

on from what happened. And although we don't

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want to mention it, we'll Although barely touched by the fire,

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the school remains shut until next Easter, as it's

:27:20.:27:24.

within the police cordon. To lose five pupils,

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four all at once, two in one year group, that is immense

:27:29.:27:34.

for a school to endure. I'm incredibly proud of my staff

:27:35.:27:37.

and what they've done. What I saw after Grenfell

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was incredible, because, you know, they had the bravery and the courage

:27:51.:27:56.

to come back in, feeling very confused and uneasy

:27:57.:28:00.

about what had happened. And they had the maturity to listen

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to us about what we were saying was important, and then

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they supported each So, you know, you should assume

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the best about children and in a challenge like this we saw

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that they could rise to it. After all of that, today's

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a good day for you. Mm, today is a really

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good day for us. The head teacher of

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the Kensington Aldridge Academy, David Benson, speaking

:28:31.:28:32.

to our education correspondent, Let's go back to our main story

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tonight, and the terror 13 people have been killed and at

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least 100 have been injured, after a van was driven into crowds at one of

:28:50.:28:53.

the city's most popular tourist sites and there are warnings that

:28:54.:28:56.

the death toll may rise. Gavin Lee is there with the latest.

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The police press conference has just finished in the past few minutes.

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The latest details we know, more than 100 people injured, 13 people

:29:08.:29:11.

dead, 15 people in a critical condition in hospital. Behind me

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this is the stretch of last Rambus, the most famous promenade in Spain,

:29:16.:29:20.

where police are going from house to house right now -- the stretch of

:29:21.:29:23.

last Rambus. They are investigating exactly who is in because they

:29:24.:29:27.

believe there's a bigger plot, more men involved. They say two men have

:29:28.:29:31.

been arrested. They were hiding in bars about 500 metres down the

:29:32.:29:36.

street. There were about 200 people inside a museum, inside some of the

:29:37.:29:40.

shops, hiding out. They are being told to stay, take cover. There's

:29:41.:29:47.

been two men a third has an shot about 500 metres from here, shot

:29:48.:29:53.

dead. Two men fled on foot, a third man appears to have tried to escape

:29:54.:29:57.

500 metres away. I can bring in an eyewitness here, Aamer Anwar, from

:29:58.:30:02.

Scotland. You were amongst the people who were told to stay away

:30:03.:30:07.

and all the tourists around us cannot go back into the city. Tell

:30:08.:30:12.

me what you saw this evening? I literally had come onto Las Ramblas,

:30:13.:30:18.

I was about to stop there, it was too busy, there were families, young

:30:19.:30:24.

people, it was too busy so I decided to walk on. Just as I walked on,

:30:25.:30:28.

literally ten seconds, I heard the sound of a crash, screams at the

:30:29.:30:32.

same time and thousands of people started to run. I turned around,

:30:33.:30:36.

looked, and started to run. I didn't know why I was running, I could hear

:30:37.:30:40.

the screaming. After ten seconds I stopped. The man behind me was in

:30:41.:30:45.

tears, a Bengali man who was crying, I could hear him speaking and he

:30:46.:30:52.

said he had seen a car mounted the pavement, go into a crowd of people

:30:53.:30:55.

and he thought five or six people were dead. Instantaneously the

:30:56.:30:58.

police arrived, the emergency services response was amazing.

:30:59.:31:03.

Within 30 seconds, hundreds of police, ambulances and fire brigade.

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What about you tonight? Nobody has told me to do anything. The

:31:09.:31:11.

emergency response was brilliant but there are thousands of people not

:31:12.:31:16.

quite knowing what to do, trying to get to my hotel which is only five

:31:17.:31:20.

minutes from where this happened and people are standing about, not

:31:21.:31:23.

knowing where to go. They don't know the addresses, they don't know how

:31:24.:31:28.

to get there. Thank you for talking to me. Amongst hundreds of people

:31:29.:31:31.

around me now the police investigation continues, for what

:31:32.:31:35.

has been the biggest terrorist attack here in Spain in more than a

:31:36.:31:39.

decade. Gavin Lee with the latest from

:31:40.:31:43.

Barcelona. There will be continuing coverage from Barcelona throughout

:31:44.:31:47.

the night on the BBC News Channel. Newsnight is about to begin on BBC

:31:48.:31:52.

Two in a few moments. Here's Nick Ferrari.

:31:53.:31:56.

Tonight, all the latest on the Barcelona attack, plus, as A-level

:31:57.:31:59.

students get their results, is the system of higher education that

:32:00.:32:06.

awaits many of them fundamentally broken? Join me now on BBC Two.

:32:07.:32:07.

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