18/08/2017 BBC News at Ten

Tributes pour in for the television legend, Sir Bruce Forstyth,

A star of Strictly - he passed away at home this

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From the Generation Game to the Price is Right,

Sir Bruce proved to be one of the most popular and versatile

If you want an all-round entertainer, I think you think,

Because it was his warmth, his charm, his sense of fun, the way he

That came across to the public always.

Starting out in 1942, his career spanned more than 70

Also tonight - police in Spain say they believe those involved in the

Barcelona attack were planning much bigger atrocities.

In total, 14 killed and scores injured.

Today police released pictures of those they believe were involved.

the country stopped today to remember the dead, before

spontaneous chants from the crowds here in Barcelona in defiance of the

killers. Also on the programme,

President Trump has fired another Steve Bannon was his

chief strategist - part of the inner circle -

who helped Donald Trump And celebrating Black Britain -

actors, politicians, musicians are all part

of a new exhibition heading Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News,

Alistair Cook helps England forge ahead on a rain-filled second day,

in the First Test against One of British television's biggest

stars, Sir Bruce Forsyth, has died this afternoon

at the age of 89. The Prime Minister and stars of

stage and screen have been paying tribute to the man whose

career in show business began in 1942 when he was just 14.

He continued to work for more than 70 years with hit shows

including Sunday Night at the London Palladium,

Play your cards right, the Generation Game and most

His former co-presenter Tess Daly said today that she was heartbroken

to hear of his death and called him a friend, a gentleman

Our correspondent, David Sillito, looks back on his life.

Live from London, this is Strictly Come Dancing.

When it comes to TV history, Bruce Forsyth was simply

Strictly Come Dancing, the last hurrah in a career that

The Boy Bruce, The Mighty Atom was just the beginning of a life

It only took 16 years of struggle to become an overnight star

of Sunday Nights at the London Palladium.

A fellow veteran of the show had nothing but admiration

He was great, he was one of our greatest

Lovely piano player, nice tap dancer.

Not a gag man, but made people roar laughing.

And he was, without doubt, a national treasure.

50 odd years of the top in our business?

One key part of the Palladium's formula was the game

The comic chaos, the rapport with the public, he was a natural.

And nowhere showcased the talent better than

The catchphrases became part of national life.

Among the tributes today, the director-general of the BBC

Lord Hall said he was one of our greatest entertainers.

After that, Play Your Cards Right on ITV -

If he had a regret, it was not making it in America,

in films and his main love, as a song and dance man.

If you want an all-round entertainer, I think you think first

It'll be like The Generation Game, all right?

You're never quite prepared for the end, are you?

He was such a remarkable, iconic figure.

There's no more remarkable in all of television

history in this country, that's the kind of man

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He first appeared on the BBC in August 1939.

70 years later, he was still there - still the king of Saturday night.

Sir Bruce Forsyth, who has died today at the age of 89.

The BBC Director General, Tony Hall, said today that Sir Bruce had

invented and then re-invented Saturday night entertainment.

His career took off in post-war Britain -

Our media editor, Amol Rajan, looks at how Sir Bruce managed

to keep changing with the times and adapt to the evolving television

landscape to become one of the giants of light

The nation that first met Bruce Forsyth has long since vanish. First

on the BBC in the year that Britain went to war, he came to prominence

in a country and a culture that was very different. Back then there was

just one television station in black and white. That meant tens of

millions sat together to watch the biggest shows. As Britain fell in

love with the small screen, it was Sir Bruce's mischievious smile that

provided the humour and humanity. This evening, the BBC's

Director-General said: In many ways we're living through a

golden age of television, with more choice than ever before and the

freedom to watch what we want when we want. But something precious has

been lost too - television still has the power to unite the country, of

course, but very few shows can command the sorts of vast audience

that Sir Bruce could rely on week in, week out. He had a way of making

contact with an audience, either in a theatre or through a television

camera. He was your friend and of course, he never let you down. He

never underperformed. He never disappointed. He was a great picker

of what shows were the right shows to do. Sheer talent and likability

meant he spanned the generations, staying not just relevant but

riveting to viewers of Strictly come dancing a full seven decades after

his first performance. And uniquely today he spanned the genres too,

prolific in dance, film, on stage and screen. Bruce's legacy - the

most entertaining, all-round, maul I-talented performer this country

has ever produced, absolutely amazing. But I think when you think

of Bruce, you smile. Because it was his warmth, his charm, his sense of

fun, the way he embraced you when you spoke to him. That came across

to the public always. He was exceptional. Through all the

upheaval of post war British history there had been a constance presence

- the wit, warmth and wisdom of Sir Bruce. The more that Britain and

television changed, the more he stayed the same. Truly, we will

never see his like again. David Sillito, our arts

correspondent, is with me now. He played such a huge role in

television history. The magic is the day he walked onto the Sunday night

at the London Palladium. He'd had 16 years on stage, but it's the magic

of speaking and making 2,000 people laugh in the auditorium, millions of

people feel connected at home. Also, putting at ease people on the stage.

No-one had been on TV before that. Being made stars of the show. He did

it all. He did it best when it all went wrong. There are so many people

who could have done it, but when it went wrong, those lightning

reflexes, watch it on the generation game, you realise, that's why decade

after decade after decade, Bruce Forsyth kept on coming back because

they knew, on Saturday night, he could be entirely trusted. He was

the king of Saturday night. He really was. David, thank you.

The rest of the news now, and police in Spain say they believe

the suspects in the two terror attacks, carried out in Barcelona

and Cambrils, had been planning something much bigger.

14 people have died and more than 130 have been injured.

Clive Myrie is in Barcelona tonight.

We are here right in the heart of the city. The focus of a huge police

investigation, looking into the deaths of 14 people in all and more

than 100 people injured following those two terror attacks along the

coast here. But the police now say that the killers had spent months

planning much bigger atrocities. Last night, five terror suspects

were killed. They were shot in a place called Cambrils, about 120

kilometres along the coast from here. One of those men who were

killed last night by police is thought to have been the driver the

van that caused so much havoc and pain here yesterday afternoon, when

it came careering down the Las Ramblas pedestrian area behind me

there, mowing into people and causing so much death and

destruction. In all 130 people have been injured. Some of them are

Britons. Today hundreds of people turned up to the park just to my

right here to show solidarity for the police efforts and for the

authorities here, but also to pay tribute to those who died. Also to

show defiance, many people chanting, "We are not afraid."

Let's take a look back at how events unfolded.

On Wednesday night, there was an explosion at a house

in Alcanar, 120 miles from Barcelona, where gas cannisters

One person was killed and 16 others injured.

Yesterday afternoon a white Fiat van veers off the road and into a crowd

outside the Placa de Catalunya metro station.

It then continues its path down Las Ramblas, a pedesterian street

And at 1 o'clock this morning there was a second attack

in Cambrils when a car rammed into pedestrians.

Police shot dead the five attackers, who were wearing what turned out

The first of our reports tonight looks at the attacks and those

Across another European city touched by terror,

one minute of stillness filled the space that words could not.

A void with a single burning question - why?

Then, as King Felipe and Prime Minister Rajoy looked on,

No tinc por! No tinc por!

But the previous 24 hours of violence were shocking.

This, a street in the coastal town of Cambrils.

A terror suspect is cornered and is wearing what police

They decide there is only one course of action.

The dead man was one of five who tried to mow people down

All the attackers were shot by police and investigators now

believe they were part of a terrorist cell

of eight to 12 people, some of whom were in this house,

120 miles from Barcelona the night before, when a blast killed one

It's thought explosive devices were being prepared,

as well as the blueprint for Barcelona's Las Ramblas attack.

Nick Mouncey and Stephanie Walton from Lincoln were caught up

in the panic as a white van ploughed into the path of hundreds of people.

They ran for cover into a nearby cafe.

The only thing that was going through my head was the Paris

and the London attacks, where the attackers would come

through restaurants and bars, shooting and stabbing people.

I just thought, oh, my God, we're going to get shot, Nick,

It just felt like it was never ending, wasn't it?

When we turned around, on that first bang,

everybody on the floor, bodies everywhere, there were kids

I can't seem to shift that from my mind at all.

It is absolutely heartbreaking, what people have gone through here.

You run in in sheer panic and terror because you don't really understand

what's happened for probably about a minute or two.

And then when you see the people on the floor, you realise

But despite the horror of the last couple of days, investigators

believe the killers were planning an even bigger attack, using

The police operation to find other members of the terror

cell is one of the biggest in Spain for more than a decade.

And this evening, more details are emerging

Like Bruno Gulotta, who was 35, from Rome, on holiday

with his wife and two young children.

A little boy and girl, now left fatherless.

And there are concerns for Julian Cadman, who's seven

and thought to have dual Australian and British nationality.

He hasn't been seen since the attack.

24 hours after the blood-letting, this is Las Ramblas.

Where a few hours ago bodies lay, now there are flowers.

And on the boulevard where the white van eventually crashed,

So many have told us life must go on,

But lives have been changed here forever.

As we have heard, the initial thought at the beginning was that

what happened here was improvised, is a spontaneous attack. Now it

looks like something more ambitious, as Gordon Corera reports.

The day before the attack in the city, an explosion ripped through

this house in a small town south of Barcelona.

At first, it was reported to have been a gas leak, some kind

But now police say those inside may have been preparing

a bomb using gas cylinders, before something went wrong.

Police suspect they were building an explosive

device large enough to be carried in a truck to target the city.

But something went wrong in the bomb factory,

Now, without a bomb and knowing the explosion might put

police on the trail, the cell decided they had to act fast.

At least one member went to Las Ramblas

in a hired van and struck the pedestrians on Thursday afternoon

That evening, another van, perhaps used as a

getaway vehicle, was found in a town north of Barcelona.

In the early hours of Friday morning, the cell made

another attempt to kill before they were hunted down, again,

using what they could, a car driven at people

in Cambrils, like Las Ramblas, a place packed with tourists.

But the car overturned and the men inside,

some wearing fake suicide vests, were shot by police before they

could attack more people with knives.

It's suspected that Moussa Oukabir, who may have been the

driver of the van in Las Ramblas, might have been one

What looked yesterday like perhaps a lone individual inspired

by extremist ideology, driving down the streets

here at Las Ramblas, now

looks like the remnants of a larger, more ambitious plot.

There certainly may be questions about

whether there were any tip-offs or whether more

could have been done to protect all the people here.

There may also be a sense that Spain may have narrowly missed out on

something even worse. These are some of the members of the cell. It is

thought to have been more than a dozen strong, unusually large.

So-called Islamic State said they were what is called its soldiers.

That doesn't always mean there was a direct connection with the group,

but one terrorism expert told me he suspected someone provided this

group of relatively young local man with expertise. 17 years old, so he

had no driving licence. Very young. The other two are 18 and 20, and 22.

They were preparing a big, big bomb in that house. So, I think somebody

with more experience and maybe can organise a cell like this. And that

might be a link to so-called Islamic State in Iraq or Syria? In my

opinion, this will be discovered in the next days. The authorities are

still hunting for more members of the network and they will be

urgently trying to establish just how big this cell was, and trying to

understand why, given its size, it wasn't spotted earlier.

Let's go live now to our correspondent, Wyre Davies,

As you remember, last night, five terror suspects were shot by the

police. You have more information tonight on the identities of those

that were killed? After a terrible day for the security sources, some

news tonight that the 17-year-old youth, Moussa Oukabir, believed to

be responsible for the attack, was himself killed in a terrible

incident here hours later, when six people died. Five of those were

young jihadis who drove the car onto the pavement coming to a crowd of

spectators. They emerged with what appeared to be viable explosive

vests, brandishing knives and sending people scattering. They were

shot dead on the spot by police, but not before they fatally stabbed a

middle-aged woman. Despite the return of tourists and locals, the

shops reopening, until the police catch everybody responsible for

these atrocities and the planning, the security forces will not rest

easy. And our security correspondent,

Gordon Corera, is with me now. The police will be incredibly

concerned about the ambitions that these terror suspects had in

relation to the kind of plot that they were hatching? That's right,

Clive. The fact that the authorities have identified some of those at

Cambrils, as we have heard, suggests they are beginning to get their arms

around and understand the nature of this cell. But it is how close they

came to something much more serious, without knowing it, that will really

worry them. It appears they knew nothing about this relatively large

group building a bomb not far from here in Barcelona. It was only

because the bomb went off accidentally that the men turned to

what we call low-tech terrorism. I think it was the fact that the

authorities were not onto them, they didn't know about this large group

of people, that will worry them going forward, as much as the

terrible carnage that some of those men carried out here. Gordon, thank

you. Before we go, I should give you some travel advice.

A quick word about travel to Barcelona from the airlines.

British Airways and Easyjet say customers who are due to fly

into or out of Barcelona in the coming days are being offered

options to either bring forward or postpone their journeys,

President Trump has fired one of his top advisers,

his controversial chief strategist Steve Bannon.

He was part of Donald Trump's inner circle and was behind

the election campaign which won him the presidency.

Critics have accused him of having ties to white supremacists.

Our Washington correspondent Aleem Maqbool reports.

To be the most controversial character in a crisis-ridden

But Steve Bannon may just have managed it.

Now, though, after months of tension amongst

"White House chief of staff John Kelly and Steve Bannon have

mutually agreed today would be Steve's last day.

We're grateful for his service and wish him the best."

But throughout, Steve Bannon was at loggerheads with

He came from a background of running a news agency which became

It is widely acknowledged he played a huge role in the strategy that got

President Trump elected, based on a platform

of nationalism and a sentiment of taking back the country.

He's going to continue to press his agenda.

As economic conditions get better, as more jobs get better,

If you think they're giving your country back without a fight,

The violence at a far right rally in Charlottesville brought back

into focus accusations Steve Bannon, the President's chief strategist,

Concerns that were dismissed just days ago by Donald Trump.

He is not a racist, I can tell you that.

He actually get a very unfair press, in that regard.

On the late-night comedy shows, Steve Bannon was portrayed

But also the real brains behind the Trump operation.

Something that's not likely to have pleased the President.

This photograph of Donald Trump's close aides was taken just a few

Less than seven months later, he's lost his National Security Adviser,

his press secretary, his chief of staff,

Which may leave Donald Trump looking a lonely figure.

But Steve Bannon's dismissal is a victory for those wanting

to remove the extreme elements surrounding their President.

But it will take a lot to convince many that this will lead to a better

How damaging is this for President Trump? Well, it is certainly very

embarrassing for him to have this massive turnover of top staff in

such a short space of time. It makes the White House looked like it is

running a chaotic manner. There are those that will say, at least now,

however belatedly, things are being whipped into shape. We have a new

chief of staff, General John Kelly, trying to get things on more of an

even keel. But no matter the staff, the person most important is the one

at the very top. Donald Trump as shown in last week that he is going

to continue to say what he wants, however controversial, do what he

wants. Those hoping for calmer times because of Steve Bannon are likely

to be left disappointed. Thank you. A brief look at some of the day's

other news stories... Former BBC news correspondent Liz

Mackean has died at the age of 52. The award winning journalist

and presenter worked on Newsnight for 14 years as well as presenting

on BBC Breakfast. She was best known for her coverage

of the Jimmy Savile scandal The entertainer Michael Barrymore

has been told he's entitled to damages from Essex Police

after claiming his wrongful Mr Barrymore was arrested

on suspicion of the rape and murder of 31-year-old Stuart Lubbock

at his home in 2001, Around 600 people are still missing

in West Africa after the huge landslide and flooding that hit

Sierra Leone's capital, At least 460 people

are known to have died. 3,000 have been left homeless

and are in desperate need of help. The UK has pledged ?5 million

to help the survivors, as Martin Patience reports from

Freetown. The lush green hills

of Freetown dominate the city. But they can be

deadly when it rains. Volunteer rescue teams

are sifting through debris. One gentleman and a lady,

this colourful lady. And there's also another dead body

inside that we need these logs to be removed before we can access

those dead bodies. But we don't have the equipment

to cut off these logs To the body's just

going to rot, then? This neighbourhood was once home

to dozens of families. Mothers would be cooking, children

would be coming home from school. TRANSLATION: We've got

no drinking water. We think there may

be body parts in it. A mass burial took place yesterday

to prevent an outbreak of cholera. For those that survived,

there's no comfort, just grief. She doesn't know how she'll

provide for her children. We need help, the government needs

to support us, she says. We need housing, we need help to

start up our businesses again. Many are too young to

know what they've lost. They're some of Britain's most

successful black musicians, actors, sports stars,

politicians - and now their pictures will be put on display

at the National Portrait Gallery in London to celebrate

black Britain. The photographs go

on display next year - but Chi Chi Izundu has been given

a sneak preview. 37 faces of the most

influential names in For the first time,

a collection will feature in a major new exhibition

at the National Portrait Gallery. It's the gallery's

biggest acquisition Photographer Simon Frederick

originally took the pictures for a BBC Two documentary,

Black Is The New Black, but donated the whole

portfolio to the gallery. I kept reading newspaper saying

that we were a failing community. But then in those very same

newspapers, the media seeing us In fashion, in sport,

in music, in industry. I just felt that it was time

to tell a different story. Science, politics, music

and business, just some of the industries that those who sat

for these portraits represent. With a list of more than 750 names,

Simon is hoping that this collection The images include Line of Duty

star Thandie Newton, the new editor in chief

of British Vogue, Edward Enninful, I think probably one of my favourite

shots is this one of Sir Trevor. An honour is how DJ and presenter

Trevor Nelson feels I didn't realise how seismic

it was until I'd actually visited The magnitude of the

place is ridiculous. It's like the whole history of this

country in pictures and portraits. To feel like a part of it is to feel

like a bit of the brickwork, maybe, And as for the man behind

the camera, will he be I don't know, maybe one

day it would be nice After the death of Bruce Forsyth, we

will leave you to enjoy some of the most memorable moments from one

Briton's biggest TV stars. Good night.

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