28/05/2017 BBC Weekend News

Thousands of people take to the streets of Manchester

Remembering the 22 victims of Monday's bomb attack,

the city came together for the Great Northern Run to show

It has obviously been an exceptionally difficult week for

But what the Great Run Manchester is saying is we will get

through it, it will go forward together.

There were more raids and arrests today in

We'll have the latest live from Manchester.

Misery for BA passengers as more flights are cancelled and delayed

I've never seen anything like it in my life.

We've always flown BA, we've always been happy with BA,

I don't think we can trust them again.

And back to winning ways for the former Wimbledon

champion Petra Kvitova, after surviving a knife attack last

The victims of the Manchester terror attack have been remembered

in church services across the city today while thousands of runners

have been taking part in the Great Manchester Run.

The organisers say they were determined it should go ahead

In the centre of Manchester, people ran in remembrance and in defiance.

Holding this race in the streets just days after an attack here

was in itself sending an important message.

It has been an exceptionally difficult week for everybody but

Greater Manchester is saying we will get through it and go forward

together. This simple act of gathering

together after a bombing that left so many families grieving expressed

a sentiment that only a few could Do something through

courage and through pain. Do something for someone

that you care for. Do something to help

out with the cost. Do something for someone

that you're there for. Do something for someone

that you've lost. Yet this attempt to return

to normality exposed what has become at least for the moment

the new normal. Armed officers and extra security

are now an obvious presence, here to offer reassurance,

but they're also a reminder of what happened in Manchester

less than a week ago. Yes, I was a bit nervous,

I'm here with my husband. If anything else could have

happened, you know.... I've got children at home,

so I did think twice, People paid their respects

all along the race route. And at services nearby

in Manchester Cathedral. Today we remember Megan Hurley,

Elaine McIver, Courtney Boyle, There, the names of each one

of the 22 people killed The family and friends of one of

them, Martyn Hett, stopped this evening. Like so many others, they

are trying to move on into remembering, not forgetting. That

leaves Manchester City is still in need of both support and

reassurance. Chris Buckler, BBC News, Manchester.

Police investigating the Manchester Arena attack have

arrested another man on suspicion of terrorism offences and have

carried out searches in the Moss Side area of the city.

13 people are now being held for questioning.

This massive police operation continued at a frantic pace today.

1000 officers and police staff were involved. The arrests continued. And

man pulled from his car in the middle of the street in Trafford. A

raid on a house in the Moss Side area. Heavily armed police arrested

three men, at one point bringing a police dog. Roads were closed.

Later, police and most all those arrested had been released, despite

the daughter of one of them being blown from the hinges with

explosives. The family insisted we had nothing to do with the bombing.

In this area in particular, the police operation is causing enormous

and rest. We don't want anything like this in our community, it is so

ridiculous. I am annoyed. It is not a nice feeling at all. People here

worry there will be a backlash. In fact, this operation has touched

many communities in the city. The explosions and guns or unnerving but

life does go on. 12 remain in custody and more arrests are

expected. Chris Buckler is a Manchester. What are the police

saying about the state of the investigation? Women a dozen people

being questioned and a dozen locations being searched, they

continue to appeal for information and ask people for help in

identifying CCTV footage and giving them more information about the

bomber. Beyond that, they have released an unusual statement

tonight, thanking people for their kindness and support. That goes for

the way they have been treating strangers as well as the way they

have been treating the emergency services. A real sense of

solidarity. Indeed, there were scenes of solidarity and

togetherness we saw earlier at the Great Manchester Run, they were

extraordinary. Yes and you get a real sense that although this has

been an emotional day from Manchester, it is not just tears,

there has been laughter and cheers, this city is determined to show its

resilience and you will find that no more so than here at Saint and

square. Behind me, the number of balloons and flowers and messages of

solidarity continue to grow. And while the city gets back to normal

and the hustle and bustle continues in the streets around Europe, this

place remains quiet and calm. It is a place to remember and if one thing

is clear today, it is that the people of Manchester are determined

to remember. Many thanks for that. Chris Buckler in Manchester.

Both the Conservatives and Labour have been focusing

on national security today in the election campaign.

The Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, reaffirmed that the Conservatives

would set up a commission to promote British values and tackle extremism,

while Labour wants to recruit 1000 security experts in addition

Here's our political correspondent, Alex Forsyth.

In the aftermath of such an atrocity, inevitable questions

about how to stop something like this happening again.

The actions of this man, Salman Abedi, forced a pause

Now preventing others like him is part of the debate.

The Home Secretary said today the Government had for the first

time used powers to prevent suspected terrorists

On the Manchester attack, she said police and security

With questions about who knew what and when, she was asked

about reports that friends and community leaders had raised

Was Salman Abedi on a surveillance list?

I don't know those details that you have set out to me

because the intelligence services are still collecting information

But I wouldn't rush to conclusions, as you seem to be, that they somehow

People had phoned the terror hotline, as they are told to do.

And the reason we have put in place the terror hotline,

the reason we have put in place the Prevent strategy

is because we recognise the scale of the problem.

So what would different parties do to tackle the problem?

Well, the Conservatives would introduce

So far short on detail, it would advise new laws and policies.

Yhey say they have committed extra funding for counterterrorism

agencies and recruiting more security officers.

Labour, too, has promised more security and intelligence staff

and 10,000 more police officers as well as more prison

In the battle for power here, Labour are attacking

the Conservatives over cuts, saying they have left

The Tories are defending their record on crime.

But like so much in this election, want to make this

The Shadow Home Secretary was asked again today about past

comments she had made, seemingly supportive of the IRA.

It was 34 years ago, I had a rather splendid Afro at the time.

I don't have the same hairstyle and I don't have the same views.

Labour says the focus now should be how to keep

people safe from this, an attack which, rather

than undermine the democratic system, has highlighted the choice

Who is best to lead, who is best to protect?

Thousands of British airways passengers have faced a second day

of disruption following a global IT failure. Flights at Gatwick are

getting back to normal but a third of services from Heathrow from BA

were cancelled because of the knock-on effects around the world of

the disruption yesterday. Passengers in Rome have been told it would not

be able to fly back to the UK until Tuesday. Joe Lynam is at Heathrow.

Good evening. A day after queueing and cancellations and questionable

customer care. Hundreds of BA passengers still at the terminal

trying to catch delayed flights, thousands have had the holidays

curtailed or ruined. The airline says things are getting back to

normal but for many people, today did not feel like normal.

For some BA customers, it had been a long,

Bleary passengers this morning, still hoping to catch their plane.

Even free bottles of water in a heavily

It's just a lot of moving around, standing in lines

I think it's too big that they don't know what to do with it.

We've been in the line for about five hours, we have no

idea how much longer we'll be here and we're getting no

Sarah Booth and her family should be on holiday in Budapest.

Instead she is stuck having lunch at a pub near Heathrow.

She was told by BA to come to the airport, only to find

We only travelled based on the fact our fight

was still running and we had been told by BA to make sure

all flights were running, before we left home and we did that.

Malvern in Worcestershire and my sister and her family have

BA passengers in Rome have been told it might be Tuesday

Some travelled here by train from Naples, after spending hours

on a plane there yesterday that never took off.

We've been booked on a flight from here to Barcelona,

and Barcelona to London, but our Barcelona fight has been

delayed an hour and so we have 30 minutes to get the connecting flight

in the hope we get back to London tonight.

Otherwise we've got to wait two days.

As thousands of people waited in a packed Heathrow,

dozens of flights were cancelled and many more will not

depart as the airline struggled to reset its global network after a

That, for some aviation insiders, is inexcusable.

What seems remarkable is that there

was no back-up system kicking in within minutes

Businesses of this size need systems backed up all the time.

That's what passengers expect and rely on.

Some passengers have been told their flight is cancelled

online and then get the exact opposite message when they call

This problem looks set to persist for far more than just a few hours.

Still lots of problems and confusion, is BA giving clear advice

to passengers tonight? We have asked for interviews with BA to clarify

what has gone on and they have not put anyone up. The Chief Executive

did post a video message today and yesterday in which he apologised to

customers once again for the chaos and said his team are pulling out

all of the stops to get things back to normal. We urge passengers not to

come to the airport unless they have a confirmed booking for their

flight, not to come to the airport any earlier than 90 minutes before

take-off and always check they manage my booking part of the

website. But this will have a major... Major issues for BA going

forward, not just financial cost of compensation but the reputational

damage, people said they would never fly with BA again so they will have

to work hard to put this back on an even keel going forward. Thank you,

Joe Lynam at Heathrow. A man's been shot dead

in a supermarket car The victim, who was 55,

was hit several times as he got out Hundreds of shoppers

were in the area. Northern Ireland Police have

launched a murder inquiry. Six men who accused the late

Lord Janner of sexually abusing them as children have

abandoned their civil case. He was charged with 22 sexual

offences dating back to the 1960s, but the 87-year-old was found unfit

to stand trial just days His accusers had been seeking

damages from his estate. The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn,

has refused any possibility of an alliance with the Scottish

National Party, if there's a hung The leader of the SNP,

Nicola Sturgeon, had said in an interview today

that she would consider what she called a progressive

alliance with Mr Corbyn, despite having reservations

about his leadership and policies. He's been campaigning in Glasgow

tonight from where our Jeremy Corbyn is clearly enthused by

opinion polls suggesting increasing support for Labour. As he promises

higher public spending, he says the Tories are trying to hide cuts in a

dishonest manifesto. That means there is a risk to the quality of

public services. Not my words, that is a damning verdict of the

Institute for Fiscal Studies. But the IFF has also taken aim at

Labour's manifesto. The Institute of this custom is has said your tax

plans will not raise as much money as you think. If that was the case,

would you choose to raise taxes or cut public spending? What they have

said is it is a gap between what we have said we would raise and what

they believe could be raised from existing taxes. What they have not

taken into consideration is the effectiveness of transaction taxes,

which we want to bring in, and offshore property taxes that we want

to bring in. We believe they will raise money necessary. The city of

Glasgow always used to be known as an absolutely rock-solid Labour

heartland. What has happened to the party here is a good illustration of

what has happened across Scotland. Until recently, every Glasgow MP was

Labour. In the 2015 election they lost every seat in the city to the

SNP. Now, but even their most optimistic campaigners believe they

are likely to win any of them back in the selection. Labour are

fighting to keep the single MP they have in Scotland, and maybe add a

couple more to add him company. At a vintage year in the East End of

Glasgow, I spoke to voters who switched between Labour and the SNP

in the past. I really like Jeremy Corbyn's manifesto and his attitude

and his beliefs in what he stands for. Good neighbour tempt you back?

Not with Jeremy Corbyn. The MORI listen to Jeremy Corbyn, the MORI

believe he speaks from the heart. You would vote for him? Yes.

Tonight, the SNP leader said she would consider a coalition with

Labour. If there was a hung parliament, of course we would look

to be part of the Progressive Alliance that pursued policies but

let us get back to the reality of this election. The reality of the

selection, even with narrowing polls, is we will face a Tory

government perhaps with a bigger majority so my priority is to say to

people in Scotland, if you want our interests protected and our voice

heard, you must vote SNP. Jeremy Corbyn says no coalitions and no

pacts with anyone. He insists he believes he can win this election

outright. Sarah Smith, BBC News, Glasgow.

Back to the election now and there's one thing

all the parties seem to agree on - that the UK housing

Some believe it's actually broken, with the supply of homes failing

All the major parties are pledging to help both renters and buyers.

As part of our Reality Check series on the key issues

in the run-up to the election, Steph McGovern investigates

Having a place to call home is a dream for a lot

of people but does it matter if you own it or not?

Home ownership is now at its lowest level since 1985,

whereas private renting is at its highest since the 1980s.

That is partly because it is much harder now to save for a deposit.

So if you look back at the '90s, it would take an average household

three years if they were saving 5% of their income every year

Let's get some thoughts on this with my cleverly placed mic...

Mark, I am pleased to say you have just bought your first

Was it hard getting the money together?

It did take a number of years to save up

And I've been very fortunate that I have my parents

and my partner's parents to chip in for the deposit as well.

Without that, we wouldn't have been able to get a home.

Yes, the Bank of Mum and Dad makes a big difference, doesn't it?

Steph, for you, you are renting at the moment, can you see a day

when you can buy a home, is that what you want to do?

Yeah, I'd like to buy eventually but I think at the same time

as renting it is quite difficult to save for a deposit.

When do you reckon you will be able to buy?

So although renting can provide flexibility for people like Steph,

things can be tough for Generation Rent.

Over the last six years, rents have been going up

Now the gap between the two has grown to 15%, which means keeping up

with rising rents can be really tough.

David, you are a housing provider, there are people out

there who don't necessarily want to own their own home.

There are people who want to rent, for every home we let there is 120

people or 150 people who want to rent it,

so there are loads of people who want to rent.

We offer people opportunities to buy and we have this new scheme called

Rent To Buy so you can rent to begin with and then you can buy it

after five years and you pay less than the market rent

If you take the UK's low-paid workforce, perhaps people

in jobs like hairdressing, security, factory workers, then

according to research by Shelter, 15 hours of their working week

So that's three hours of every day slogging it just to keep

And Kate, this is all about affordability, isn't it?

Absolutely, people's rents are just completely out of step

And people are really struggling to keep up with that kind of rent.

We have also found that people have to borrow, getting into debt,

putting loans on credit cards just to pay the rent.

They can't afford to save, which means, of course,

they have very little hope of putting a deposit aside

There's just generally a really big problem between what people

are ending and how much they have to pay on rent.

And it puts a lot of pressure on them.

There is also quite a generational difference so half of 24-35 Google's

rent privately, almost double compared to what it was ten years

ago. With buying down and renting up, owning a home is less of a

realistic aspiration for many. Instead, it looks like we could be

moving to more of the German model of living, when renting is seen as

the norm. Steph McGovern, BBC News, Manchester.

With all the sport, here's Karthi Gnanasegram

The second Grand Slam of the tennis season started today but it's

already over for the top seed, Angelique Kerber.

She became the first women's world number one to be knocked

out of the French Open in the first round.

But fans' favourite, Petra Kvitova, made a triumphant

It has never taken Petra Kvitova so much to reach the first round.

Five months ago everything was in doubt.

A knife attack at her home left with tendon damage on her left

She only stepped onto a practice court earlier this month so has

to rely on skill and stealth rather than strength.

That comes from the stands where her family sit.

The first set was won, the second followed

This is the eighth time she has made it to the second

It was a nice and really heart-warming welcome.

My team was there, my family were there, everyone who helped me

I am happy with the game, of course, but it was not really

Next on court, Angelique Kerber, officially the world's best,

Such is her lack of form, her defeat to Ekaterina Makarova

Britain's Dan Evans started strongly against Tommy Robredo.

Robredo's roots are in clay and he eventually blossomed.

The British challenge in Paris will have to come from elsewhere.

Sebastian Vettel has provided Ferrari with their first victory

at the Monaco Grand Prix in 16 years.

Lewis Hamilton finished in seventh place, after starting

Vettel's victory extended his World Championship lead over

But Jenson Button's one-off return to Formula One for McLaren

It's time to pop out of the room if you don't want to know today's

football results as Sportscene follows soon on BBC One in Scotland.

Hamilton Academical have retained their Scottish Premiership

status after beating Dundee United 1-0 in the second leg

Greg Docherty, who has been at Hamilton since he was eight years

Blackpool have been promoted to League One with a 2-1

It's an immediate return after relegation to

But only around 6,000 Blackpool supporters went to Wembley due

to an ongoing protest against the club's owners.

Sir Ben Ainslie's Great Britain team have lost both of their races today

in the qualifying stages of sailing's America's

They are in second place in the six team table after mistakes in both

of today's races but they are aiming to become the first British crew

Alexander Noren has won the PGA championship at Wentworth by two

shots, the Swede's final round of 62, ten under par, broke the course

record and he described it as one of the best minds of his career. --

best rounds of his career. England's rugby union side have

beaten the Barbarians by 28 points to 14 at Twickenham in their last

match before their They then Earl scoring the pick of

the tries. -- Nathan Earl. You can see more on all of today's

stories on the BBC News Channel. But do stay with us on BBC One -

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