:00:00. > :00:11.A shooting at the United States Capitol building --
:00:12. > :00:13.two are wounded and a gunman arrested after he opened fire
:00:14. > :00:23.Funerals for some of the 70 plus people killed at a playground
:00:24. > :00:26.suicide bombing in Pakistan -- many of them were children.
:00:27. > :00:29.Belgian police release their only suspect in custody after last week's
:00:30. > :00:31.Brussels attacks -- citing a lack of evidence
:00:32. > :00:43.The first pictures from inside the historic city of Palmyra --
:00:44. > :00:55.Be having a look at the front pages. This is the front page of the Metro
:00:56. > :01:00.carrying a picture of some of the damage caused by the storm. In
:01:01. > :01:04.football, Northern Ireland sees a victory over Slovenia in their
:01:05. > :01:21.friendly at Windsor Park and they are now unbeaten in ten games.
:01:22. > :01:24.Good evening and welcome to BBC News.
:01:25. > :01:27.Police have arrested a gunman after he shot and wounded a police
:01:28. > :01:28.officer inside the US Capitol Building visitors centre.
:01:29. > :01:31.The building and the White House were put on lockdown earlier
:01:32. > :01:50.One policeman and a female bind stander were winded as well as the
:01:51. > :01:54.gunmen. The US Capitol police chief said there is no reason to think the
:01:55. > :01:59.innocent was anything other than a criminal act and a weapon was found
:02:00. > :02:03.at the same. Every day thousands of people visit the United States
:02:04. > :02:11.Capitol and the officers and more than 2 million people per year are
:02:12. > :02:14.screened through the visitor centre. Today at approximately 2:39 p.m., an
:02:15. > :02:19.adult male, subject entered the North screening facility at the
:02:20. > :02:22.centre and during routine screening, the individual drew what appeared to
:02:23. > :02:28.be a weapon and pointed it at officers. An officer fired and
:02:29. > :02:32.struck the suspect who was subsequently treated by medical
:02:33. > :02:37.personnel. The suspect was taken into custody and transported to the
:02:38. > :02:41.hospital for treatment. The suspect is currently undergoing surgery and
:02:42. > :02:47.his cadet -- condition is unknown at this time. A weapon was recovered on
:02:48. > :02:53.the scene. The Congressional complex was locked down and there was a
:02:54. > :02:59.shelter in place based on the initial investigation at around 3:40
:03:00. > :03:04.p.m., the lockdown was lifted and that was in all buildings except the
:03:05. > :03:07.CDC will weather as counselling processing.
:03:08. > :03:11.Our Washington Correspondent Barbara Plett joins us.
:03:12. > :03:17.People will be relieved that the police seem to be playing this down
:03:18. > :03:21.as not a terrorist attack but a criminal act but it still leaves a
:03:22. > :03:29.lot of questions how someone with a gun got so close into a high secure
:03:30. > :03:34.area. Yes, he got to the visitor centre which is the gateway which
:03:35. > :03:38.all tourists have to go to to get into the Capitol buildings and a
:03:39. > :03:41.police officer there said he was apprehended at the screening process
:03:42. > :03:45.and he appeared to draw a weapon as he was being screened and he was
:03:46. > :03:51.shot, taken to hospital. They would argue that the system worked, he did
:03:52. > :03:56.not get through screening and into the buildings. This centre was set
:03:57. > :03:59.up after a fatal shooting in 1998 when a number of police officers
:04:00. > :04:20.were killed. It is a security element
:04:21. > :04:22.that has increased over the years. Certainly the pictures of people
:04:23. > :04:25.running and screaming on Capitol Hill, the stories we were told by
:04:26. > :04:28.people who had been in the centre, they were told to run or take cover
:04:29. > :04:30.or to shelter in place or hit the ground, all of these things raise
:04:31. > :04:32.fear in Americans. They are nervous about terrorist attacks because of
:04:33. > :04:36.what they hear about happily in Europe and previous attacks. It is a
:04:37. > :04:42.very nervous time. Would you say that what we saw, so many armed
:04:43. > :04:47.police on the scene very quickly, the arrest very quickly, would you
:04:48. > :04:50.say that this was actually a security operation that did go to
:04:51. > :04:59.plan, because America is on such high alert? From all the evidence we
:05:00. > :05:04.have heard and I asked the people, the tourists who had been at the
:05:05. > :05:07.centre how they felt the police responded and they felt that the
:05:08. > :05:11.response had been very quick, that the police had been in control, they
:05:12. > :05:17.were told what to do, one gentleman said he was outside the building, a
:05:18. > :05:24.row of police officers carrying heavy guns, training them on the
:05:25. > :05:28.centre, and the man being arrested so quickly, shot as well, and then
:05:29. > :05:32.the lockdown happening, not for a very long time, but until it was
:05:33. > :05:35.determined that he was an individual, it seems that the
:05:36. > :05:40.security response was adequate. Thank you.
:05:41. > :05:43.Security forces in Pakistan say they've arrested a number of people
:05:44. > :05:45.and seized weapons in the hunt for those behind yesterday's bomb
:05:46. > :05:50.The death toll has risen to more than 70 -
:05:51. > :05:54.A breakaway faction of the Pakistani Taliban claimed
:05:55. > :05:56.responsibility -- saying it was targeting the city's
:05:57. > :06:05.Our Correspondent Shaimaa Khalil reports now from Lahore.
:06:06. > :06:07.Eerily quiet this morning, the park where dozens
:06:08. > :06:15.Families had come here to celebrate Easter,
:06:16. > :06:18.but instead, were caught up in carnage.
:06:19. > :06:33.A place where children came to play, now the site of a massacre.
:06:34. > :06:35.A 16-year-old boy had been at the park with his brother.
:06:36. > :06:39.His mother was too distressed to speak.
:06:40. > :06:42.All she could tell us was the last time she saw him
:06:43. > :06:52.The body of the 16-year-old has just been brought outside his family
:06:53. > :06:56.He's just one victim among the dozens killed in yesterday's
:06:57. > :06:58.blasts and many families across Lahore will be mourning
:06:59. > :07:05.Christians were the target of the bombing by a splinter group
:07:06. > :07:17.Christians and Muslims, men, women and children,
:07:18. > :07:20.When we came to know, our hearts broke.
:07:21. > :07:24.We could not handle ourselves because we knew it was Sunday,
:07:25. > :07:27.many Christians and Muslims would be gathered there.
:07:28. > :07:30.And when we came to know that the majority was Christian,
:07:31. > :07:42.even the Muslims, all are human beings, and really, we cried.
:07:43. > :07:44.Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif visited survivors today.
:07:45. > :07:46.He vowed to hunt down those responsible.
:07:47. > :07:48.He admitted that Pakistan's different security agencies needed
:07:49. > :07:51.to be better coordinated in the fight against terrorism.
:07:52. > :07:54.This is another attempt by government and security forces
:07:55. > :07:57.to show strength in the face of a national tragedy.
:07:58. > :08:00.But for families burying their dead today any
:08:01. > :08:14.security operation will be of little consolation.
:08:15. > :08:16.Let's speak to Lord Alton of Liverpool, he's launched a report
:08:17. > :08:18.on the plight of religious minorities in Pakistan
:08:19. > :08:22.He joins us via webcam from Longridge in Lancashire.
:08:23. > :08:29.That report was to try Commons the British Government to see
:08:30. > :08:32.persecution as the general issue, the persecution of Christians. Do
:08:33. > :08:37.you think this heightens what you're trying to put forward? The report
:08:38. > :08:43.was published a few weeks ago in Parliament. It was at attempt to
:08:44. > :08:46.demonstrate to the government that Christians in Pakistan are not
:08:47. > :08:51.facing discrimination, the phrase the Home Office used, but they are
:08:52. > :08:54.facing outright persecution and the Taliban made it clear that they are
:08:55. > :09:00.specifically targeting Christians and this was a particularly cowardly
:09:01. > :09:06.attack where children and women were targeted in an audio violence. The
:09:07. > :09:11.genesis of these events was really five years ago when the Minister for
:09:12. > :09:15.minorities was assassinated and since then there has been a culture
:09:16. > :09:20.of ingenuity as religious minorities have been hunted down, there have
:09:21. > :09:23.been killings, there have been rapes and abductions, forced conversions,
:09:24. > :09:28.a whole litany of things that need to be addressed and the culture of
:09:29. > :09:33.impunity in Pakistan needs to be changed. We have both seen what
:09:34. > :09:37.happens to those Christians who flee Pakistan to countries like Thailand
:09:38. > :09:43.where asylum is not recognised, they are often locked up in prisons. What
:09:44. > :09:46.difference would it make if the British Government did recognise the
:09:47. > :09:52.persecution of Christians in a more general scenario? With that mean
:09:53. > :10:00.they could find refuge in the UK? After I visited the detention
:10:01. > :10:05.centres, that report has helped to concentrate the minds of just the
:10:06. > :10:08.British Government but the United Nations High Commission of refugees,
:10:09. > :10:14.some of these questions and there are thousands of them, many of them
:10:15. > :10:17.are held in appalling conditions, the United Nations say that the
:10:18. > :10:22.conditions in Thailand prisons are worse than the detention centres and
:10:23. > :10:28.yet they are not processing asylum claims and that is the key. Many
:10:29. > :10:33.countries are key -- keen to accept asylum seekers from Pakistan but
:10:34. > :10:38.unless the United Nations speed up applications they will continue to
:10:39. > :10:45.languish in prisons. One of the things I saw in the documentary was
:10:46. > :10:47.that people, men and boys, women and girls sharing accommodation, small
:10:48. > :10:51.rooms where there is not enough room to sleep on the floor and people
:10:52. > :10:57.have to stand around the walls while others had a chance to sleep, women,
:10:58. > :11:02.lactating mothers, women with babies, young children in those
:11:03. > :11:06.conditions, it is their ages. I think events in Lahore might help to
:11:07. > :11:09.concentrate the minds of the government of Pakistan particularly
:11:10. > :11:16.about the reasons why people are fleeing these horrors. When the
:11:17. > :11:23.state of Pakistan was founded in 1947 it was based on a constitution
:11:24. > :11:27.and it was said that it was a place where all minorities would be able
:11:28. > :11:32.to live in equality and diversity and that is paid in the not the case
:11:33. > :11:35.today. The buck does stop of Pakistan, people would not have to
:11:36. > :11:40.run if there was not so much persecution and Human Rights Watch
:11:41. > :11:44.in 2015 criticised the Pakistani government for not doing enough to
:11:45. > :11:47.protect them religious minorities, is that fair criticism and with the
:11:48. > :11:52.British Government be better off putting more pressure on the
:11:53. > :11:56.Pakistani government to do more? Certainly add one of the
:11:57. > :11:59.recommendations we made in our report, which was taken after
:12:00. > :12:05.several days of evidence taking both in London and amongst people who had
:12:06. > :12:10.flee -- who had fled persecution, is that the Pakistan government is the
:12:11. > :12:14.key to making the situation better but the British Government gives
:12:15. > :12:17.over half ?1 billion in development aid to Pakistan, they are the
:12:18. > :12:22.biggest recipients of bilateral aid and we should be demanding that that
:12:23. > :12:25.money is used to create protection for these minorities and also an end
:12:26. > :12:30.to the culture of impunity that does not bring people to justice for the
:12:31. > :12:33.horrors they perpetrate. Thank you. A man who was charged
:12:34. > :12:36.with "terrorist murder" just two days ago over the Brussels attacks
:12:37. > :12:38.has this afternoon been released Belgium's federal prosecutor's
:12:39. > :12:42.office now says it does not have enough evidence to continue
:12:43. > :12:44.holding the suspect, It means that Belgian police
:12:45. > :12:48.are still hunting for the man seen here in the light jacket and hat
:12:49. > :12:50.on CCTV from Brussels airport He's believed to still be on the run
:12:51. > :12:55.after his bomb failed to detonate. Authorities say the two men with him
:12:56. > :12:58.- Najim lash-RAA-wi and Ibrahim El The death toll has now risen to 35 -
:12:59. > :13:03.that excludes three suicide Our correspondent Anna Holligan gave
:13:04. > :13:17.us this update from Brussels. This is quite a remarkable
:13:18. > :13:19.development, given that Faycel C was the only person
:13:20. > :13:22.who had been charged with terrorist murders in connection
:13:23. > :13:24.with those attacks Belgian police have just released
:13:25. > :13:31.a statement saying that the evidence that led to his arrest
:13:32. > :13:36.could not be validated. The circumstances of his arrest
:13:37. > :13:40.were interesting in themselves. He was picked up outside
:13:41. > :13:44.the prosecutor's office here in Belgium
:13:45. > :13:46.and he was charged. Belgian media had been reporting
:13:47. > :13:52.that Faycal C was the third man in that CCTV footage taken
:13:53. > :13:54.from the airport before the man in white on the
:13:55. > :14:04.right of the screen. He, Faycal C,
:14:05. > :14:10.has been released without charge. The man in the CCTV video has
:14:11. > :14:14.not been identified. This was that decision
:14:15. > :14:19.by the Belgian authorities today. They have asked for anyone
:14:20. > :14:22.with information about this man, anyone who recognises
:14:23. > :14:23.him, to come forward and share their information
:14:24. > :14:36.with the police. Earlier I spoke to Evan Lawrence
:14:37. > :14:39.who's a specialist in counter terrorism at the University
:14:40. > :14:40.of Central Lancashire. She said it was unlikely the suspect
:14:41. > :14:43.who had been released was an imminent
:14:44. > :14:54.threat to the public. I think that realistically the
:14:55. > :14:58.police have enough power is in most countries that if they suspect the
:14:59. > :15:02.-- suspected someone of being an imminent threat to society, they
:15:03. > :15:08.have those safeguards in place where they can hold that person without
:15:09. > :15:14.charging them. So, to me, this tells us that we have a case of perhaps
:15:15. > :15:20.mistaken identity or the evidence that they have is not able to be
:15:21. > :15:27.admissible in a court. Perhaps they want that person released to follow
:15:28. > :15:34.up and see where he goes and what he does. So there are a couple of
:15:35. > :15:38.different reasons but certainly the police would not be releasing anyone
:15:39. > :15:43.that was going to be an imminent threat to society. The police will
:15:44. > :15:48.be able to monitor him and watches every move? Absolutely. I would be
:15:49. > :15:52.surprised if he does not have some form of tracking device, whether it
:15:53. > :15:59.is an ankle bracelet or something along those lines. He will certainly
:16:00. > :16:07.be being watched closely by the police, but it may be a case of
:16:08. > :16:10.mistaken identity, it may be a case of someone wanting to take credit
:16:11. > :16:15.for something they did not do as well. That happens in these kinds of
:16:16. > :16:19.situations. Let us bring you up-to-date with the latest
:16:20. > :16:22.headlines. The shooting at the United States Capitol building, two
:16:23. > :16:29.were wooded and gunmen arrested after he opened fire at visitor
:16:30. > :16:32.centre. Funerals for some of the 70 plus people killed at a playground
:16:33. > :16:37.suicide bombing in Pakistan, many of them were children. As we have just
:16:38. > :16:41.been hearing, Belgian police release their only suspect in custody after
:16:42. > :16:43.the attacks in Brussels last week, citing a lack of evidence against
:16:44. > :16:46.him. Storm Katie has battered large parts
:16:47. > :16:48.of Southern Britain - leaving flights cancelled,
:16:49. > :16:50.property damaged - and thousands of
:16:51. > :16:52.people without power. Gusts of up to 106mph were recorded
:16:53. > :16:55.- as more than 100,000 homes were left without power
:16:56. > :16:58.at the height of the winds, with thousands still awaiting
:16:59. > :16:59.reconnection tonight. The Environment Agency has also
:17:00. > :17:01.issued 27 flood warnings Robert Hall reports
:17:02. > :17:10.from Woodley in Berkshire. A rude awakening after
:17:11. > :17:13.the Easter weekend. Storm Katie may have arrived
:17:14. > :17:17.while most of us were asleep, but there was no missing
:17:18. > :17:20.its journey east. The storm dismantled three
:17:21. > :17:27.stories of scaffolding. Some of these businesses
:17:28. > :17:29.will be closed for one to two days until
:17:30. > :17:31.scaffolding is repaired. We also have to make sure
:17:32. > :17:33.electricity lines or anything untoward, making sure
:17:34. > :17:35.all the residents are safe In Gosport in Hampshire a series
:17:36. > :17:44.of storm force gusts tore the entire Suddenly we heard this tremendous
:17:45. > :17:51.crash and the whole building And that kind of got us out
:17:52. > :18:02.of bed quite quickly. The storm had tracked
:18:03. > :18:05.from Cornwall to the North Sea. Toppling trees, damaging buildings,
:18:06. > :18:09.bringing down power lines. At its peak the gale had enough
:18:10. > :18:13.force to twist this tower crane Along the south coast
:18:14. > :18:20.there were warnings of coastal flooding and ferry
:18:21. > :18:24.sailings were disrupted. More than 80 flights were cancelled
:18:25. > :18:27.at Heathrow and Gatwick airports, and some fights that did attempt
:18:28. > :18:32.to make it in were forced to abort. An uncomfortable few minutes
:18:33. > :18:37.for travellers on the way home. In the Thames Valley,
:18:38. > :18:43.the centre of Woodley was sealed off after scaffolding
:18:44. > :18:45.collapsed to the street. Back in Gosport, the sun is shining
:18:46. > :18:48.but the clear-up has some way to go. At these flats near the naval base,
:18:49. > :18:51.roofing installation and timbers had dropped three storeys
:18:52. > :18:53.and crashed onto cars below. Storm Katie may have been relatively
:18:54. > :18:56.short lived but the incidents we have seen give some indication of
:18:57. > :18:58.its power. If it had not moved
:18:59. > :19:00.through in the hours of darkness, the consequences could
:19:01. > :19:19.have been more serious. Russia's President Putin has phoned
:19:20. > :19:23.President Assad to congratulate him on the recapture of Palmyra. The
:19:24. > :19:27.Army says it will use the city as a strategic stronghold to make further
:19:28. > :19:34.advances. Palmyra is a World Heritage Site and there are hopes
:19:35. > :19:37.that IAS might not have rigged as much damage as first feared.
:19:38. > :19:39.Syrian troops relaxing in the streets of Palmyra town
:19:40. > :19:41.after what appears to have been a victory
:19:42. > :19:47.It took them just a few weeks to recapture the area which lies
:19:48. > :19:48.on a vital highway leading from Damascus
:19:49. > :20:03.They had significant support from the Russian air force.
:20:04. > :20:11.The militants took control of Palmyra in May last year and soon
:20:12. > :20:15.began a campaign of destruction. They publish this photograph showing
:20:16. > :20:23.one of several ancient tombs in the area being blown up. This new video
:20:24. > :20:26.seems to show that they expected wholesale destruction of the UNESCO
:20:27. > :20:29.World Heritage Site has not happened. To the relief of
:20:30. > :20:37.archaeologists everywhere, especially in Syria. When my son was
:20:38. > :20:43.born it was one of the most beautiful days of my life, the
:20:44. > :20:50.second beautiful day of my life was the celebration of Palmyra, that it
:20:51. > :20:56.is not destroyed completely. Palmyra was saved in part because the top
:20:57. > :20:59.archaeologist at the site refused to reveal the whereabouts of hundreds
:21:00. > :21:07.of artefacts which had been moved away. He was later be headed. But
:21:08. > :21:10.recapturing Palmyra from so-called Islamic State has significance
:21:11. > :21:16.beyond preserving the prized agent city, it is also an important
:21:17. > :21:21.strategic gain. Because from Palmyra the Syrian military can broaden its
:21:22. > :21:26.offensive against jihadist forces to attack another key city held by IS
:21:27. > :21:29.and the Syrian Army is even vowing to move against another city,
:21:30. > :21:36.regarded as the headquarters of Islamic State in Syria. The Russian
:21:37. > :21:43.air force would probably be behind all of this, it has already been in
:21:44. > :21:47.action in one city in recent months. The combination of Russian air
:21:48. > :21:51.strikes and reenergised Syrian forces on the ground is putting a
:21:52. > :21:55.President Assad and at the Kremlin at the forefront of the battle
:21:56. > :22:05.against Islamic State in this country. And western leaders are not
:22:06. > :22:08.complaining. That is the latest from BC news, next a look at the papers
:22:09. > :22:09.tomorrow. -- BBC