Browse content similar to 28/03/2016. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!
Line | From | To | |
---|---|---|---|
A shooting at the United States Capitol building -- | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
two are wounded and a gunman arrested after he opened fire | :00:12. | :00:13. | |
Funerals for some of the 70 plus people killed at a playground | :00:14. | :00:23. | |
suicide bombing in Pakistan -- many of them were children. | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
Belgian police release their only suspect in custody after last week's | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
Brussels attacks -- citing a lack of evidence | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
The first pictures from inside the historic city of Palmyra -- | :00:32. | :00:43. | |
Be having a look at the front pages. This is the front page of the Metro | :00:44. | :00:55. | |
carrying a picture of some of the damage caused by the storm. In | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
football, Northern Ireland sees a victory over Slovenia in their | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
friendly at Windsor Park and they are now unbeaten in ten games. | :01:05. | :01:21. | |
Good evening and welcome to BBC News. | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
Police have arrested a gunman after he shot and wounded a police | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
officer inside the US Capitol Building visitors centre. | :01:28. | :01:28. | |
The building and the White House were put on lockdown earlier | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
One policeman and a female bind stander were winded as well as the | :01:32. | :01:50. | |
gunmen. The US Capitol police chief said there is no reason to think the | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
innocent was anything other than a criminal act and a weapon was found | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
at the same. Every day thousands of people visit the United States | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
Capitol and the officers and more than 2 million people per year are | :02:04. | :02:11. | |
screened through the visitor centre. Today at approximately 2:39 p.m., an | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
adult male, subject entered the North screening facility at the | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
centre and during routine screening, the individual drew what appeared to | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
be a weapon and pointed it at officers. An officer fired and | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
struck the suspect who was subsequently treated by medical | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
personnel. The suspect was taken into custody and transported to the | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
hospital for treatment. The suspect is currently undergoing surgery and | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
his cadet -- condition is unknown at this time. A weapon was recovered on | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
the scene. The Congressional complex was locked down and there was a | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
shelter in place based on the initial investigation at around 3:40 | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
p.m., the lockdown was lifted and that was in all buildings except the | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
CDC will weather as counselling processing. | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
Our Washington Correspondent Barbara Plett joins us. | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
People will be relieved that the police seem to be playing this down | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
as not a terrorist attack but a criminal act but it still leaves a | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
lot of questions how someone with a gun got so close into a high secure | :03:22. | :03:29. | |
area. Yes, he got to the visitor centre which is the gateway which | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
all tourists have to go to to get into the Capitol buildings and a | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
police officer there said he was apprehended at the screening process | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
and he appeared to draw a weapon as he was being screened and he was | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
shot, taken to hospital. They would argue that the system worked, he did | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
not get through screening and into the buildings. This centre was set | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
up after a fatal shooting in 1998 when a number of police officers | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
were killed. It is a security element | :04:00. | :04:20. | |
that has increased over the years. Certainly the pictures of people | :04:21. | :04:22. | |
running and screaming on Capitol Hill, the stories we were told by | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
people who had been in the centre, they were told to run or take cover | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
or to shelter in place or hit the ground, all of these things raise | :04:29. | :04:30. | |
fear in Americans. They are nervous about terrorist attacks because of | :04:31. | :04:32. | |
what they hear about happily in Europe and previous attacks. It is a | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
very nervous time. Would you say that what we saw, so many armed | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
police on the scene very quickly, the arrest very quickly, would you | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
say that this was actually a security operation that did go to | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
plan, because America is on such high alert? From all the evidence we | :04:51. | :04:59. | |
have heard and I asked the people, the tourists who had been at the | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
centre how they felt the police responded and they felt that the | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
response had been very quick, that the police had been in control, they | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
were told what to do, one gentleman said he was outside the building, a | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
row of police officers carrying heavy guns, training them on the | :05:18. | :05:24. | |
centre, and the man being arrested so quickly, shot as well, and then | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
the lockdown happening, not for a very long time, but until it was | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
determined that he was an individual, it seems that the | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
security response was adequate. Thank you. | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
Security forces in Pakistan say they've arrested a number of people | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
and seized weapons in the hunt for those behind yesterday's bomb | :05:44. | :05:45. | |
The death toll has risen to more than 70 - | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
A breakaway faction of the Pakistani Taliban claimed | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
responsibility -- saying it was targeting the city's | :05:55. | :05:56. | |
Our Correspondent Shaimaa Khalil reports now from Lahore. | :05:57. | :06:05. | |
Eerily quiet this morning, the park where dozens | :06:06. | :06:07. | |
Families had come here to celebrate Easter, | :06:08. | :06:15. | |
but instead, were caught up in carnage. | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
A place where children came to play, now the site of a massacre. | :06:19. | :06:33. | |
A 16-year-old boy had been at the park with his brother. | :06:34. | :06:35. | |
His mother was too distressed to speak. | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
All she could tell us was the last time she saw him | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
The body of the 16-year-old has just been brought outside his family | :06:43. | :06:52. | |
He's just one victim among the dozens killed in yesterday's | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
blasts and many families across Lahore will be mourning | :06:57. | :06:58. | |
Christians were the target of the bombing by a splinter group | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
Christians and Muslims, men, women and children, | :07:06. | :07:17. | |
When we came to know, our hearts broke. | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
We could not handle ourselves because we knew it was Sunday, | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
many Christians and Muslims would be gathered there. | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
And when we came to know that the majority was Christian, | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
even the Muslims, all are human beings, and really, we cried. | :07:31. | :07:42. | |
Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif visited survivors today. | :07:43. | :07:44. | |
He vowed to hunt down those responsible. | :07:45. | :07:46. | |
He admitted that Pakistan's different security agencies needed | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
to be better coordinated in the fight against terrorism. | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
This is another attempt by government and security forces | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
to show strength in the face of a national tragedy. | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
But for families burying their dead today any | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
security operation will be of little consolation. | :08:01. | :08:14. | |
Let's speak to Lord Alton of Liverpool, he's launched a report | :08:15. | :08:16. | |
on the plight of religious minorities in Pakistan | :08:17. | :08:18. | |
He joins us via webcam from Longridge in Lancashire. | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
That report was to try Commons the British Government to see | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
persecution as the general issue, the persecution of Christians. Do | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
you think this heightens what you're trying to put forward? The report | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
was published a few weeks ago in Parliament. It was at attempt to | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
demonstrate to the government that Christians in Pakistan are not | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
facing discrimination, the phrase the Home Office used, but they are | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
facing outright persecution and the Taliban made it clear that they are | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
specifically targeting Christians and this was a particularly cowardly | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
attack where children and women were targeted in an audio violence. The | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
genesis of these events was really five years ago when the Minister for | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
minorities was assassinated and since then there has been a culture | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
of ingenuity as religious minorities have been hunted down, there have | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
been killings, there have been rapes and abductions, forced conversions, | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
a whole litany of things that need to be addressed and the culture of | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
impunity in Pakistan needs to be changed. We have both seen what | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
happens to those Christians who flee Pakistan to countries like Thailand | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
where asylum is not recognised, they are often locked up in prisons. What | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
difference would it make if the British Government did recognise the | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
persecution of Christians in a more general scenario? With that mean | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
they could find refuge in the UK? After I visited the detention | :09:53. | :10:00. | |
centres, that report has helped to concentrate the minds of just the | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
British Government but the United Nations High Commission of refugees, | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
some of these questions and there are thousands of them, many of them | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
are held in appalling conditions, the United Nations say that the | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
conditions in Thailand prisons are worse than the detention centres and | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
yet they are not processing asylum claims and that is the key. Many | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
countries are key -- keen to accept asylum seekers from Pakistan but | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
unless the United Nations speed up applications they will continue to | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
languish in prisons. One of the things I saw in the documentary was | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
that people, men and boys, women and girls sharing accommodation, small | :10:46. | :10:47. | |
rooms where there is not enough room to sleep on the floor and people | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
have to stand around the walls while others had a chance to sleep, women, | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
lactating mothers, women with babies, young children in those | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
conditions, it is their ages. I think events in Lahore might help to | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
concentrate the minds of the government of Pakistan particularly | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
about the reasons why people are fleeing these horrors. When the | :11:10. | :11:16. | |
state of Pakistan was founded in 1947 it was based on a constitution | :11:17. | :11:23. | |
and it was said that it was a place where all minorities would be able | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
to live in equality and diversity and that is paid in the not the case | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
today. The buck does stop of Pakistan, people would not have to | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
run if there was not so much persecution and Human Rights Watch | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
in 2015 criticised the Pakistani government for not doing enough to | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
protect them religious minorities, is that fair criticism and with the | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
British Government be better off putting more pressure on the | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
Pakistani government to do more? Certainly add one of the | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
recommendations we made in our report, which was taken after | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
several days of evidence taking both in London and amongst people who had | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
flee -- who had fled persecution, is that the Pakistan government is the | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
key to making the situation better but the British Government gives | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
over half ?1 billion in development aid to Pakistan, they are the | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
biggest recipients of bilateral aid and we should be demanding that that | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
money is used to create protection for these minorities and also an end | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
to the culture of impunity that does not bring people to justice for the | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
horrors they perpetrate. Thank you. A man who was charged | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
with "terrorist murder" just two days ago over the Brussels attacks | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
has this afternoon been released Belgium's federal prosecutor's | :12:37. | :12:38. | |
office now says it does not have enough evidence to continue | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
holding the suspect, It means that Belgian police | :12:43. | :12:44. | |
are still hunting for the man seen here in the light jacket and hat | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
on CCTV from Brussels airport He's believed to still be on the run | :12:49. | :12:50. | |
after his bomb failed to detonate. Authorities say the two men with him | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
- Najim lash-RAA-wi and Ibrahim El The death toll has now risen to 35 - | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
that excludes three suicide Our correspondent Anna Holligan gave | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
us this update from Brussels. This is quite a remarkable | :13:04. | :13:17. | |
development, given that Faycel C was the only person | :13:18. | :13:19. | |
who had been charged with terrorist murders in connection | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
with those attacks Belgian police have just released | :13:23. | :13:24. | |
a statement saying that the evidence that led to his arrest | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
could not be validated. The circumstances of his arrest | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
were interesting in themselves. He was picked up outside | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
the prosecutor's office here in Belgium | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
and he was charged. Belgian media had been reporting | :13:45. | :13:46. | |
that Faycal C was the third man in that CCTV footage taken | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
from the airport before the man in white on the | :13:53. | :13:54. | |
right of the screen. He, Faycal C, | :13:55. | :14:04. | |
has been released without charge. The man in the CCTV video has | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
not been identified. This was that decision | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
by the Belgian authorities today. They have asked for anyone | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
with information about this man, anyone who recognises | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
him, to come forward and share their information | :14:23. | :14:23. | |
with the police. Earlier I spoke to Evan Lawrence | :14:24. | :14:36. | |
who's a specialist in counter terrorism at the University | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
of Central Lancashire. She said it was unlikely the suspect | :14:40. | :14:40. | |
who had been released was an imminent | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
threat to the public. I think that realistically the | :14:44. | :14:54. | |
police have enough power is in most countries that if they suspect the | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
-- suspected someone of being an imminent threat to society, they | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
have those safeguards in place where they can hold that person without | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
charging them. So, to me, this tells us that we have a case of perhaps | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
mistaken identity or the evidence that they have is not able to be | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
admissible in a court. Perhaps they want that person released to follow | :15:21. | :15:27. | |
up and see where he goes and what he does. So there are a couple of | :15:28. | :15:34. | |
different reasons but certainly the police would not be releasing anyone | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
that was going to be an imminent threat to society. The police will | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
be able to monitor him and watches every move? Absolutely. I would be | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
surprised if he does not have some form of tracking device, whether it | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
is an ankle bracelet or something along those lines. He will certainly | :15:53. | :15:59. | |
be being watched closely by the police, but it may be a case of | :16:00. | :16:07. | |
mistaken identity, it may be a case of someone wanting to take credit | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
for something they did not do as well. That happens in these kinds of | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
situations. Let us bring you up-to-date with the latest | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
headlines. The shooting at the United States Capitol building, two | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
were wooded and gunmen arrested after he opened fire at visitor | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
centre. Funerals for some of the 70 plus people killed at a playground | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
suicide bombing in Pakistan, many of them were children. As we have just | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
been hearing, Belgian police release their only suspect in custody after | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
the attacks in Brussels last week, citing a lack of evidence against | :16:42. | :16:43. | |
him. Storm Katie has battered large parts | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
of Southern Britain - leaving flights cancelled, | :16:47. | :16:48. | |
property damaged - and thousands of | :16:49. | :16:50. | |
people without power. Gusts of up to 106mph were recorded | :16:51. | :16:52. | |
- as more than 100,000 homes were left without power | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
at the height of the winds, with thousands still awaiting | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
reconnection tonight. The Environment Agency has also | :16:59. | :16:59. | |
issued 27 flood warnings Robert Hall reports | :17:00. | :17:01. | |
from Woodley in Berkshire. A rude awakening after | :17:02. | :17:10. | |
the Easter weekend. Storm Katie may have arrived | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
while most of us were asleep, but there was no missing | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
its journey east. The storm dismantled three | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
stories of scaffolding. Some of these businesses | :17:21. | :17:27. | |
will be closed for one to two days until | :17:28. | :17:29. | |
scaffolding is repaired. We also have to make sure | :17:30. | :17:31. | |
electricity lines or anything untoward, making sure | :17:32. | :17:33. | |
all the residents are safe In Gosport in Hampshire a series | :17:34. | :17:35. | |
of storm force gusts tore the entire Suddenly we heard this tremendous | :17:36. | :17:44. | |
crash and the whole building And that kind of got us out | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
of bed quite quickly. The storm had tracked | :17:52. | :18:02. | |
from Cornwall to the North Sea. Toppling trees, damaging buildings, | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
bringing down power lines. At its peak the gale had enough | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
force to twist this tower crane Along the south coast | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
there were warnings of coastal flooding and ferry | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
sailings were disrupted. More than 80 flights were cancelled | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
at Heathrow and Gatwick airports, and some fights that did attempt | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
to make it in were forced to abort. An uncomfortable few minutes | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
for travellers on the way home. In the Thames Valley, | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
the centre of Woodley was sealed off after scaffolding | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
collapsed to the street. Back in Gosport, the sun is shining | :18:44. | :18:45. | |
but the clear-up has some way to go. At these flats near the naval base, | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
roofing installation and timbers had dropped three storeys | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
and crashed onto cars below. Storm Katie may have been relatively | :18:52. | :18:53. | |
short lived but the incidents we have seen give some indication of | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
its power. If it had not moved | :18:57. | :18:58. | |
through in the hours of darkness, the consequences could | :18:59. | :19:00. | |
have been more serious. Russia's President Putin has phoned | :19:01. | :19:19. | |
President Assad to congratulate him on the recapture of Palmyra. The | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
Army says it will use the city as a strategic stronghold to make further | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
advances. Palmyra is a World Heritage Site and there are hopes | :19:28. | :19:34. | |
that IAS might not have rigged as much damage as first feared. | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
Syrian troops relaxing in the streets of Palmyra town | :19:38. | :19:39. | |
after what appears to have been a victory | :19:40. | :19:41. | |
It took them just a few weeks to recapture the area which lies | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
on a vital highway leading from Damascus | :19:48. | :19:48. | |
They had significant support from the Russian air force. | :19:49. | :20:03. | |
The militants took control of Palmyra in May last year and soon | :20:04. | :20:11. | |
began a campaign of destruction. They publish this photograph showing | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
one of several ancient tombs in the area being blown up. This new video | :20:16. | :20:23. | |
seems to show that they expected wholesale destruction of the UNESCO | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
World Heritage Site has not happened. To the relief of | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
archaeologists everywhere, especially in Syria. When my son was | :20:30. | :20:37. | |
born it was one of the most beautiful days of my life, the | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
second beautiful day of my life was the celebration of Palmyra, that it | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
is not destroyed completely. Palmyra was saved in part because the top | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
archaeologist at the site refused to reveal the whereabouts of hundreds | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
of artefacts which had been moved away. He was later be headed. But | :21:00. | :21:07. | |
recapturing Palmyra from so-called Islamic State has significance | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
beyond preserving the prized agent city, it is also an important | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
strategic gain. Because from Palmyra the Syrian military can broaden its | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
offensive against jihadist forces to attack another key city held by IS | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
and the Syrian Army is even vowing to move against another city, | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
regarded as the headquarters of Islamic State in Syria. The Russian | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
air force would probably be behind all of this, it has already been in | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
action in one city in recent months. The combination of Russian air | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
strikes and reenergised Syrian forces on the ground is putting a | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
President Assad and at the Kremlin at the forefront of the battle | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
against Islamic State in this country. And western leaders are not | :21:56. | :22:05. | |
complaining. That is the latest from BC news, next a look at the papers | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
tomorrow. -- BBC | :22:09. | :22:09. |