26/03/2016 BBC Weekend News


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Belgian prosecutors have charged a man over Tuesday's bomb attacks

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in Brussels that left 31 people dead.

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The suspect, named only as Faisal C, is accused

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It's not yet clear whether he's the same

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man seen on CCTV at Brussels airport just before the blasts there.

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From Brussels, Damian Grammaticus reports.

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This is a watchful country on alert all the time. Everywhere. Brussels

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airport may not open until next week. Teams

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airport may not open until next building is safe to use again.

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Police investigations appear to be making progress. The man shot in the

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legs at a tram stop yesterday suspected of carrying explosives has

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been named. He was dragged away by police and are still being

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questioned. From the dozen men arrested in raids in the past few

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days two have been charged. Belgian prosecutors give only first names

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and have identified one of them as Faisal C, charged with murder and

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being part of a terrorist group. What we know about Faisal C is he

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was arrested right here outside the offices of the federal prosecutor on

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Thursday evening, two days after the attacks. What he was doing here we

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do not know. Neither is it clear what part prosecutors believe Faisal

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C played. Could he be in a man in the white jacket, the third airport

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attacker who ran away? The evidence is being assembled to unravel the

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networks behind this. French police and American FBI agents are helping

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the investigations. I called the Prime Minister of Belgium and

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offered him our support to bring to justice any terrorists involved in

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this unconscionable attack. Belgium's a close friend and ally of

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the United States and we have their back. Especially as we fight the

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scourge of terrorism. Belgian security services are stretched. The

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government has asked people not to turn out for a planned peace march

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tomorrow. Seeing it does not have the manpower to protect it. There

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are important inquiries going on. For these inquiries we need a lot of

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police capacity all over the country and it is our main priority to let

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the police in the best circumstances possible do this inquiries. The

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organisers say they have postponed their march, designed as a

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demonstration Brussels will not be cowed by fear because people's

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safety is the top priority. The Education Secretary,

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Nicky Morgan, has been heckled by teachers as she defended

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the government's plans to turn all state schools in

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England into academies. She said removing around 16,000

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schools from local authority control Nicky Morgan was speaking

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at the conference of the teachers' Education Secretary to speak

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here in almost 20 years? A message that was

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blunt and provocative. A call for teachers

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to stop complaining. None of us can and should not

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want to deny that the education system is in much better shape

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than it was five years ago. And to stop fighting and start

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supporting academy plans. I stand before you today to ask

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you to step up to decide to be a part of the exciting changes

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happening in the education system and to seize all

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of the opportunities that Her uncompromising message

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on academies was heard in near stony silence

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by the teachers here. There were jeers and shouts

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when she told them that teachers needed to speak up for their

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profession and the loudest applause was when Nicky Morgan said

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that the government doesn't always Not everyone heckled,

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even if they disagreed. So what did Michelle

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and Claire make of it? We appreciate she was brave enough

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to come to conference. I don't think that her message

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was one that should have been said. If Nicky is intent on raising

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standards, she needs to listen to people at the chalk face,

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that is how to raise standards. The union leader was not impressed

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either. The government should reconsider

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what it is that the academy If it is about raising standards,

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we have examples now where the standards have not been

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raised by academies, that should give them

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pause for thought. There was a sweetener,

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a promise to lighten their workload, but Labour says that the government

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would be foolish to ignore teachers' concerns, concerns shared by some

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Conservative councillors. A list of 250 business leaders

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who support Britain leaving the EU has been published by

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the Vote Leave campaign group. It includes the hotelier

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Sir Rocco Forte, the boss of JD Wetherspoon and the

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founder of Phones4U. Those arguing for Britain to stay

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have said the list represents individuals and doesn't address

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the concerns of businesses that Our Business

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correspondent has more. The economy is central

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to the referendum debate, and, until now, those campaigning

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to quit the EU have struggled to get high-profile business leaders

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to support their cause. The new business council

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by the Vote Leave group hopes Included on the list

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of 250 business leaders expressing their personal opinion

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is the former boss of HSBC, Michael Geoghegan,

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the hotelier Sir Rocco Forte, as well as the entrepreneur

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Luke Johnson, from Patisserie Valerie and the council will be

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chaired by John Longworth, who resigned from the British

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Chambers of Commerce for speaking out

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against EU membership, in breach of the organisation's

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neutrality on the subject. We have a list of supporters

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and business champions, who are some of the top business

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people and business owners, people who have created their own

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businesses, signing The Britain Stronger In campaign

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is quick to say that all those on this council are there

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in a personal capacity, and some of their companies may

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not feel the same way. The list also does not have any

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current chief executives Last month 36 FTSE 100 bosses

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signed a letter urging They included Carolyn McCall

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from easyJet, Sebastian James from Dixons Carphone

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and Sir Roger Carr from BAE Systems. If you look at virtually

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all of the opinion polls carried out in the last several months,

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the overwhelming majority show businesses wanting to stay in

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the European Union, from the CBI to the British Chambers

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of Commerce, to the poll of polls, 18 different polls, showing eight

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in ten small businesses would prefer to stay

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in the European Union. How companies react in the event

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of a vote to quit the EU is an important part

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of the referendum debate, as are the opinions

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of business leaders. But come June 23rd,

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they will have only one vote each, A 34-year-old man has appeared

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in court charged with murdering two mothers in separate

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incidents minutes apart. Alan Bennett, of Lingholme

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in Redcar, is accused of killing Lynne Freeman and Jodie

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Betteridge on Wednesday. There have been clashes between

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Serbian government forces and so-called Islamic State. The Syrian

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army is trying to recapture the city which fell to IS last year.

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In Cuba, half a million people have watched the Rolling Stones make

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The show was the first of its kind in Cuba.

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In the past, its communist rulers have condemned rock music as part

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# I was born in a crossfire hurricane #.

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It was the gig that generations of Cubans have been waiting to see.

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# But it's all right, in fact it's a gas #.

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Many in the crowd were not born when Jagger and Richards first

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wrote a song together, but had queued all day to make sure

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they did not miss this historic moment of rock 'n' roll.

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If the beginning of this week was a big deal with President Obama

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coming to visit, the end of it with the Rolling Stones

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These fans have come from all over the world.

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Mexico, Argentina, everywhere you can imagine, to see

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the Rolling Stones here in Havana, an historic event.

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Under Fidel Castro, Western rock music was considered

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anti-revolutionary and the Rolling Stones

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"Times are finally changing", said Mick Jagger on stage.

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But this was not a night for politics.

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TRANSLATION: They are one of the greatest bands of all time

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and to have them in our country is a dream come true.

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We are back with the late news at 10:25pm.

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