21/08/2017 BBC News at Ten

The main suspect in the Barcelona terror attack

22-year-old Younes Abouyaaquob is the man thought to have driven

the van through the crowds on Las Ramblas, killing 13 people.

Police say they found him in a village 25 miles

from Barcelona, wearing what turned out to be a fake suicide belt.

They believe the terror cell behind the attacks was 12-strong.

Eight suspects are dead and four are in custody.

Millions of people see the first total eclipse to sweep

From Oregon to North Carolina in 90 minutes, it wowed Americans

The US Navy pauses operations worldwide after an American warship

collides with a tanker near Singapore -

The England striker who's accused the national team

manager of discrimination gives her first TV interview.

And crowds gather in Westminster as Big Ben chimes for the last

time before four years of renovation work begins.

And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: Wayne Rooney happy

again in Manchester, but was his opener enough for

Everton to take all three points from Manchester City?

Police in Spain say they have shot dead the Moroccan man

who is believed to have driven the van into the crowds in Barcelona

The 22-year-old was found near a village about

Younes Abouyaaquob was killed after he ran into a vineyard holding

what turned out to be a fake suicide belt.

The authorities in Spain say the 12 original suspects have

all been killed or detained, but the operation is still ongoing.

Our correspondent Tom Burridge is in Subirats where

This is rural Catalonian wine country, 50 kilometres away from

Barcelona. After running down 13 men, women and children on Las

Ramblas and killing another man during his getaway, Younes

Abouyaaqoub, the driver of the van, somehow made it here. But his flight

from the security services came to a violent end.

The hunt for a young man who murdered so many ended here. The

normally tranquil part of Catalonian countryside, this afternoon swarmed

with armed police. In the sky, officers checking for accomplices.

But hunted for days, Younes Abouyaaqoub died out here on his

own. The Catalan police have shot dead Younes Abouyaaqoub, driver of

the van and the attack on Thursday causing the death of 13 people... It

all happened in the hills above Barcelona.

TRANSLATION: It is shocking for a terrorist to be in the village.

Everyone knows each other here. Locals say Younes Abouyaaqoub was

spotted by a woman this morning who tipped off police. He apparently

then ran off into a field. In the space of nearly four days, Younes

Abouyaaqoub had travelled out into the countryside here, tens of

kilometres away from Barcelona. When confronted by police, he revealed he

was wearing what appeared to be a suicide belts. One report said he

shouted God is great in Arabic before officers shot him dead.

Earlier today the manhunt moved up a gear. CCTV released of his movements

after he drove a van indiscriminately down Las Ramblas.

New images of a man motivated to kill as many as he could. We think

this video, filmed by a local woman, shows the car he stole after the Las

Ramblas attack. The owner was stabbed to death. He got out the

vehicle with all of the dozens. Lots of police suddenly right on him in

seconds. The police believe Younes Abouyaaqoub was part of a larger

network which they have now dismantled. Five suspected members

were shot dead when they try to carry out an attack last Thursday in

the town of Cambrils. Four more have been arrested. Two were killed in an

explosion including Abdelbaki Es Satty, an imam. The network's

suspected ringleader. It was in the sleepy town of Ripoll that he

preached, where it's believed he filled young minds with ideology and

hate, among them Younes Abouyaaqoub. His murderous mission ended here.

Born in Morocco, at 22 he became a killer in Spain.

Our correspondences in Barcelona tonight. So the main suspect is dead

but the investigation the police say continues. Do they think this is

part of a bigger network? They believe they have got the network,

they believed the 12 they have got means the network has been

dismantled but that doesn't mean the investigations stop because they

have so many more questions to ask. Was it just 12? Who did they know?

Did they travel around Europe? They want to investigate the movements of

the suspected ringleader who is now dead, the imam mentioned in Tom's

report. Did he succeed in radicalising any other young sets of

brothers? In the morning the four surviving members of this network

will be driven to the authority of anti-terrorism investigators in

Madrid who will seek answers to those questions. Tonight here at the

top of Las Ramblas there will be some small, immediate relief that

those responsible for the attack here and the attack in Cambrils have

been taken off the street but the city know what the world has learned

in recent years, the threat doesn't just stop because one particular

network has been taken down. James, with the latest from Barcelona,

thank you. The US Navy has ordered a pause

in its worldwide operations to reassess safety measures

after a collision between a US Ten sailors are still missing

after the incident which happened The guided

missile destroyer - the USS John S McCain -

was sailing east of Singapore It's the second collision involving

a US Navy ship in recent months. It then made it safely

into dock in Singapore. From there our Asia Correspondent

Karishma Vaswani reports. This is what happens

when a massive oil tanker collides with a US warship -

a gaping hole in the side of the USS John S McCain,

an American destroyer with more It was on its way to Singapore when,

just before dawn, it collided with this merchant vessel,

the Liberian flagged Alnic MC, an oil and chemical tanker much

larger than the warship. It's still not clear how

the collision happened, but ten American sailors

are still missing and five An international search and rescue

operation is under way, involving the US, Singapore

and neighbouring Malaysia. This is an international

disaster for them. It's possible that a number, er,

some combination of poor seamanship or some combination of things

going wrong with the ship, actually physically wrong with the ship,

that could have led to this. This collision couldn't have come

at a more awkward time It's in the midst of its annual

military drills with South Korea that was launched this week,

and it follows another collision with another US warship earlier

in the year with a merchant vessel. This trend demands

more forceful action. As such, I've directed

an operational pause be taken in all of our fleets

around the world. I want our fleet commanders to get

together with their leaders and their commands, to ensure that

we're taking all appropriate immediate actions to ensure safe

and effective operations And the US Defense Secretary,

James Mattis, says there will be a wider investigation into US naval

operations after the collision. The Chief of Naval Operations'

broader enquiry will look at all related accidents,

er, incidents at sea, He is going to look at all factors,

not just the immediate ones, which will fall rightly under

the Fleet Commander's investigation. All of this is raising questions

about just how effective the world's most powerful navy is in this part

of the world. Karishma Vaswani,

BBC News, Singapore. Our correspondent Rupert

Wingfield-Hayes is in Singapore, How embarrassing is this for the

Americans? It is a huge embarrassment for the US. As you can

tell from the response both from the Defence Secretary and from the Navy.

The fact they are taking this operational pause across the globe

is very significant of how seriously they are taking not just this

incident off the coast of Singapore but there have actually been three

incidents in the last two months. One here, one of the coast of South

Korea and one of the coast of Japan in June where seven sailors were

killed in a very similar incident to what happened here yesterday

morning. Those investigations were looking to a number of different

issues. They essentially want to find out if there is a systemic

problem either in the training or operations of vessels in the region

that's leading to these sorts of incidents happening. This is a very

important region for the US Navy. Not only do we have the tensions on

the Korean peninsula but we also have the US Navy facing off against

the Chinese in the China Sea service has very serious implications for

the credibility of the US Navy as it operates in east Asia and Southeast

Asia. Rupert, thank you. For the first time in 99 years,

a total eclipse has Millions of people watched

as the moon passed in front of the sun, casting a deep

shadow more than 60 miles It began on the west

coast of America above Oregon, and in the space

of about 90 minutes, swept across 13 Our science correspondent

Pallab Ghosh joined the sky They came in their tens of

thousands, like pilgrims, to the tiny town of Madras. They came to

witness one of nature's greatest spectacles. It is quarter past ten

in the morning but it seems like night-time, we are a few seconds

away from the total eclipse. The moon has almost completely covered

the sun, it looks like a smiling face in the sky. The sun DIMMs to an

airy, pale light. Up above, a thin smile in the sky. And then a flash,

a diamond ring, and then the moon blocks the sun's bright disc. Its

atmosphere, normally washed away by the solar light, now appears as a

halo around the moon. It seems like a shimmering black pearl, hanging in

the sky. CHEERING. It was like a religious experience to me. I

photographed it, I got some successful pictures, I cried. This

is definitely something you have to see in person, you cannot describe

it unless you have actually seen it. The eclipse crossed the entire US,

ten states. A distance of 2500 miles in just 90 minutes. From

coast-to-coast, it seemed everyone was interested. People were dazzled

by the spectacle. The last time and eclipse crossed the country was

nearly 100 years ago. Even American football pitches have been turned

over to science. All across the US, at astronomers collected data they

will send into Nasa. We would like to learn more about how these

eclipses affect the planet and the atmosphere, if there's any

atmospheric disturbance, if it's wind changes. For two incredible

minutes, a tiny town became the centre of the universe as those he

became the first in America to witness one of the great wonders of

the solar system. Pallab Ghosh, BBC News, Madras.

Although the great American eclipse is now over, because so many people

were able to see it, it will live long in the American memory.

Although the pictures show what an incredibly beautiful sight it is,

you really have to be at a total eclipse to get the full impact of

it. The light turns incredibly eerie, temperatures begin to fall,

and then there's a flash and all of a sudden your whole world is turned

upside down, as day turns tonight and you enter an almost dreamlike

state. Someone here once described it to me that on a scale of one to

ten, the experience is a million, but what's really incredible is that

the moon is exactly the right size and exactly the right distance from

the earth to block out only the bright part of the sun so you can

see its shimmering atmosphere in all its glory. And so we can only see

this awesome sight because of a remarkable cosmic coincidence.

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

Nearly 800 people are now known to have died in recent floods

triggered by monsoon rains in India, Nepal and Bangladesh.

Aid workers are warning of severe food shortages

The pharmaceutical giant Johnson Johnson's been ordered to pay

$417 million to an American woman over links between its baby

It's the largest payout yet awarded against the company,

which is facing more than a thousand law suits.

Johnson Johnson deny claims they've known about the links

An England footballer who's accused the national team manager

of discrimination has given her first TV interview.

The striker Eni Aluko claims she was dropped after speaking

out in what she thought was a confidential review

about alleged "racial and prejudicial" remarks made

He's been cleared of any wrongdoing in both an FA review

Eni Aluko has been speaking to our sports editor, Dan Roan.

She's one of her country's best-known female footballers,

but last year, Eni Aluko raised serious concerns about the culture

in the England setup, when asked to be part

And in her first broadcast interview since the controversy

began earlier this month, the striker told me she fears

The fact is that a week before I was dropped from the England team,

for the first time in 11 years, I had given my account

of what I felt was discrimination towards me, what I felt

So, whichever way you look at it, being part of that cultural

potentially cost me my England career.

England Manager Mark Sampson was the subject of Aluko's

complaints and the man who dropped her from the squad,

the timing of which the FA insists was purely coincidental.

Both an internal inquiry and an independent investigation

cleared him and his staff of any wrongdoing, and found no evidence

of an alleged racial remark to another player.

Sampson's vowed to improve his communication style, but Aluko -

who's a qualified lawyer - has now gone public with an alleged

incident involving the coach before a game in 2014.

He asked me, "Who's coming to watch the game for you?"

And I said, "Oh, I've got family coming in from Nigeria, actually.

And he said, erm, "Make sure they don't come over with Ebola."

When that was said, did you challenge him at the time?

And again, I go back to the definition.

I believe it was an unfavourable comment made to me, that made me

feel completely shocked and intimidated, that was said to me

Again, some will say, an offensive comment,

The FA says while this claim was included in general

correspondence last year, it was not raised as

The BBC understands that Sampson strongly denies

The FA refutes Aluko's suggestion the two investigations

into her original complaints were flawed, pointing out

she refused to participate in the independent inquiry.

They say they reached a financial settlement,

paying Aluko an amount understood to be ?80,000, to avoid disruption

to the England team ahead of this summer's European Championships

I feel that there's a lot of half-truths out in the public,

and I think it's in the public interest now to understand

To understand that this isn't something I decided

This wasn't a bitter, impassioned revenge on the England Manager.

This was something I was asked to do.

Aluko has won 102 caps for her country, but she says

she now fears her experience could deter other players

In the last few minutes, it's been reported that

an earthquake measuring 3.6 magnitude hit the island of Ischia,

Several buildings have collapsed, and there are reports that some

The island's hospital has been evacuated.

In a few hours, President Trump will set out his strategy

for Afghanistan, where security forces backed by foreign troops

have struggled to halt advances by the Taliban.

His plan is thought to involve sending more American troops.

Our North America editor, Jon Sopel, is in Washington for us.

So what is he expected to say? Well, there is a huge amount riding on

this and the decision-making process itself has been absolutely tortuous

because within the White House, you have had the faction of the generals

wanting to reinforce America's existing troop levels so that the

Afghan army does not collapse and it has increased capability. On the

other hand, you have had the nationalist wing, the populist wing,

saying, let's get out of Afghanistan, there is no good

staying there any longer. That faction was represented by Steve

Bannon and there is no coincidence his resignation last Friday Commons

as Donald Trump is about to announce the new policy today. So the

expectation must be there will be additional troops sent first, and

possibly as well involving Nato troops. So interesting to see if

other troop levels from other countries like Britain go up as

well. The two things Donald Trump has two avoid. He was so critical of

Barack Obama, saying we have to get our troops of Gannon is done, we are

wasting blood and treasure while they are there. So he has to make

sure it is not a continuation of that policy, convincing the American

people he is not just following in Barack Obama's footsteps. You say a

huge amount is riding on this, how much is at stake for the President,

given the events of the last few weeks? You have put your finger on

it. If you look at the criticism in the wake of President Donald Trump

since his intervention a couple of days ago in Charlottesville, he was

criticised from all sides and the only support he got was from the far

right and everybody said President did not seem presidential on the

questions of the big moral judgments of the day, and he fell short. This

is an opportunity for every set for Donald Trump and in previous foreign

policy speeches, he has been warmly applauded across the board. Of the

things he has said, and I think the White House is desperately hoping

this will be the reboot that Donald Trump so badly needs. From

Washington, thank you. Since the fall of Colonel Gaddafi

six years ago, Libya has been torn apart by the conflict

between warring militias and tribes. In 2013, Benghazi -

Libya's second city - Thousands were killed,

and thousands more fled their homes. But earlier this summer,

the Libyan National Army Their forces are now

thought to control most HARDtalk's Stephen Sackur has this

special report from Benghazi. Benghazi - a broken city,

in a divided country. Jihadist fighters from so-called

Islamic State were driven out Hundreds died, thousands

lost their homes. Only now are a few,

like Abdullah, venturing back. How do you feel now,

when you look at it? When Colonel Gaddafi

was overthrown six years ago, the leaders of Britain and France

rushed to Benghazi to claim credit Colonel Gaddafi said

he would hunt you down like rats, but you showed the courage of lions,

and we salute your courage! Jihadist militants turned

Benghazi into an annex This man rooted the jihadists out -

Marshal Khalifa Haftar, once Gaddafi's favourite General,

now commander of an army which has Marshal Haftar's army now controls

Libya's key assets, oil and gas. There have been times over the past

six years when it's looked like the the violence and political

chaos in Libya could shut down this vital industry,

but it has never quite happened. But as for the revenues

being generated, well, much of the money is being creamed

off by different You know now east of Libya

completely controlled by... I think in the nearest future,

all this problem will be solved. In pockets of Benghazi,

it's tempting to believe Marshal Haftar has put an end

to Libya's chaos. But then there's this -

evidence, seemingly, of a mass execution of prisoners

by Haftar's men. The International Criminal Court

is investigating this as a war crime and has issued an arrest warrant

for the officer in charge. 'As Haftar moved his forces back

into Benghazi, there were egregious Er, these reports came out

and he voiced his concern, and he said that he would address

them by investigating these people who have

been committing these, Have you seen those videos

and pictures, Minister, of people being shot in the back

of the head, bound hand Benghazi's young men have grown up

with guns, militias and war. Marshal Haftar has promised

them something better, but there are other sides in this

crippled country and few believe And you can see the full

version of Stephen's film - HARDtalk On The Road In Eastern

Libya - from tomorrow, Football, and in tonight's

Premier League game, Manchester City Wayne Rooney scored his

200th Premier league goal for the visitors,

but Manchester City equalised late on, despite having had Kyle Walker

sent off in the first half. The nation's most famous

bell won't chime again, except for on special

occasions, until 2021. Major repair work is getting

underway at the Houses of Parliament, but some MPs

are unhappy at the length Our political correspondent,

Ben Wright, joined As midday approached, a crowd

swelled in Parliament Square. All eyes on the clock,

waiting for the bell. There's about ten minutes to go

until we hear it for the last time. Well, it's just part

of being British, isn't it? You're around in London

and it's one of those things To be a part of all this, erm,

and it's gonna be the last time for four years,

erm, a little bit sad. Protecting the hearing of workers

renovating Elizabeth Tower is one reason Parliament decided Big Ben

must not be struck for four years, except for Remembrance Sunday

and New Year's Eve. But a few MPs are mourning,

not applauding, badgering the Commons authorities

to think again. Everybody's interested in what's

happening across the world, so it just shows what a symbol

of Britain Big Ben and the Palace These are the chimes of freedom,

and they've got to be respected. Most MPs are not fretting

about the infrequency of Big Ben's chimes,

but a Commons Commission has said it will look again

at the timetable for repairs. Trying to find a fix that

would enable the bells to be struck on the same basis

that they are currently, I think, It certainly would be a very,

very expensive option. The crowds have thinned,

the political rumpus will recede, and time,

of course, carries on. The renovations are now

beginning, and Big Ben... Newsnight is coming up on BBC Two.

A special report from the poll fray city of Mosul. Former residents want

to go home, but with Isis fighters in the city and booby traps in the

houses remaining, can people rebuild their lives? Join me now on BBC Two.

But another look at today's spectacular eclipse from America.

From everyone here, good night.