29/05/2017 BBC News at One

MI5 says it will investigate its handling of information

from the public about the Manchester bomber, Salman Abedi.

But as raids continue, the Home Secretary says the focus

should remain on arresting Abedi's known associates.

I think it's too early to try and look for where the mistakes,

if they were made, might have been made.

The important thing is that we conclude the operation now.

Meanwhile, Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats warn

national security could be at risk if Theresa May negotiates

As British Airways continues to deal with the disruption caused

by computer failings, the Chief Executive says sorry.

We will make a full investigation, exhaustive.

We will find out exactly what happened and we will make sure

And tributes to the Blue Peter presenter John Noakes,

Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.

The intelligence service MI5 is to review the way it deals

with information from the public, in the light of the Manchester

It will look in particular at its response to several warnings

that the man who carried out the attack, Salman

Meanwhile, the investigation into Abedi has led to police

searching properties in Manchester, Chester and West Sussex.

Here's our home affairs correspondent, June Kelly.

Who was Salman Abedi connected with? The connection to this massive

counterterrorism investigation. Overnight, the focus switched to the

English South Coast, more than 250 miles from Manchester. In the

seaside town of St Ann's Square in Sussex, officers moved in on

unaddressed and arrested a man of 23 who joins 13 others already in

custody. I watch past ten, hello, how are you doing? Salman Abedi was

caught on CCTV as he prepared to kill himself and to commit mass

murder. It has emerged five years ago, concerns began to be raised

with the authorities about his extremist views. And so since the

bombing, there has been criticism of the security service MI5. It has

launched two enquiries into the way it examined and assessed Abedi he

was not considered an immediate threat. The Home Secretary has

refused to be drawn on possible missed opportunities. Remember, this

is still a live operation, we are still seeing arrests being made. It

is right MI5 can look back and find out what has happened in the past

but at the moment, I'm going to focus on making sure that we get the

operation included and successfully serve. But after the atrocity at the

Manchester Arena, showed an intelligence agency investigating

itself? I think at this stage, it is appropriate it is internal. The

information is so sensitive and there needs to be speed and most

importantly, I need to identify if there are threats to the UK. In

time, the Intelligence and Security Committee in Parliament would be an

appropriate body to review what they come up with. In the North of

England, at the heart of the police enquiry, made such new locations.

This was Whalley Range in Manchester. I think they are Libyan

but I do not know much about them. They collect our parcels and we

collect their parcels and they are a nice family. So it is shocking to

see all of this activity and certainly the police here. A search

30 miles from here in the City of Chester. Seven days on from the

bombing, the pace of this investigation is unrelenting and

what detectives are discovering is taking them well beyond Salman

Abedi's home city. Well, June Kelly is in St Ann's

Square, in Manchester, for us now. June, we're only a week into this

investigation but, already, we've got MI5 admitting today

there maybe lessons to be learned? Yes, MI5 has faced questions over

that has seven days as to why there was not a red flag over Salman

Abedi. It has emerged he was a person of interest as he is turned

in intelligence circles. He was on a list of 20,000 people who had been

of interest in the past and he was not on a list of 3,000 considered to

pose a terrorist threat. This is very reminiscent of the 7/7 bombings

because MI5 were criticised over intelligence failings relating to

two of the bombers in that case. What is striking is the scope and

the pace of the police investigation. A number of raids

this morning and more arrests. And at the heart of this is a mass

murder enquiry. And this was brought home here just a couple of minutes

ago because we had the family of one of Salman Abedi's victims, one of

the 20 people he killed, they came here to look at the flowers. Thank

you very much, from central Manchester.

With events in Manchester focusing minds on national security,

the Liberal Democrats have this morning accused the Conservatives

of potentially weakening our ability to tackle terrorism

because of their approach to the Brexit negotiations.

The former Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, says Britain could be

excluded from accessing a vital EU-wide criminal data base

if Theresa May insists on leaving the jurisdiction

Here's our political correspondent, Eleanor Garnier.

Terrorists have attacked across Europe.

Countries like France, Belgium and Sweden, as well as the UK,

have all been targeted in recent years.

As Britain prepares for Brexit, the Lib Dems are warning

we could end up cut off from important security information.

They claim the Conservatives have some explaining to do.

I think it's important before the election they're actually forced

How do you continue to have access to these databases if,

at the same time, you don't want to abide by the rules

The Schengen Information System is a database of real-time alerts.

It contains information on thousands of people,

including suspected criminals wanted under the European Arrest Warrant.

And it's used by countries across the EU, plus a handful

The EU's leaders and the Prime Minister have said continued

cooperation on security is a priority in the

Today, the Conservatives insisted it's in the EU's interest

When we leave the European Union, we will need to have a new form

of agreement to make sure that we have access to those

information databases and that the information databases

which will be part of the EU have access to the information

In the wake of the attack in Manchester, security

and counterterrorism are likely to stay high on the campaign agenda.

The challenge for whoever wins - keeping the public safe

Is Brexit really a threat to national security?

I think those who regret the referendum result and to campaign to

stay in the European Union are making this argument to highlight

how they believe Britain's relationship with the EU is really

important. The Prime Minister has insisted security cooperation will

be an important priority in the negotiations and I think she sees

our police and security intelligence as a trump card in the negotiations.

Remember when she triggered the EU divorce talks a couple of months

ago, she gave a warning saying that if the negotiations ended in failure

without a deal, our cooperation on fighting crime and terrorism would

be weakened. I think one thing everybody can agree on is that

nobody wants to see any aspect of European security reduced or in any

way weakens but it will be up to whoever wins the general election

for them to make a deal in most ago stations. In the wider campaign, a

TV debate involving the two main party leaders later, what is their

main focus is likely to be? It will not be a head-to-head, they will

face questions from an audience and they will be grilled by Jeremy

Paxman. Theresa May is likely to face questions over accusations she

made a U-turn on social care and perhaps questions over her decision

to claw back some of the free school meals. Jeremy Corbyn, a lot of

attention recently on his relationships with some IRA

sympathisers and questions also on his leadership credentials. For both

of them, it is important not to mess up and any hint of a wobble or a

wrong foot and it will be seized. Thank you very much indeed.

British Airways says its flights are gradually returning to normal,

48 hours after the worldwide crash of the airline's computer system led

BA officials said the airline was resuming a full schedule

of services from Gatwick, but a Heathrow airport spokeswoman

said BA flights from the airport continued to face some disruption.

Our business correspondent, Joe Lynam, reports.

The queues no longer stretch outside the door and flights are

taking off, but that doesn't mean the disruption is over, nor all the

I know they are trying to accommodate us, but we had to call

Even though I already had a confirmed seat, I had to re-book

my own seat, so it's pretty stressful.

I work in IT and they are blaming this on IT problems.

It's basic enterprise practice to have

They should have had their communication

system and their booking system in different places so they could at

Just open a Google Mail account and send an e-mail.

BA says its services from Gatwick are back to normal,

as are all long-haul flights from Heathrow, but they concede

that some disruption to short-haul flights,

usually to continental Europe, will continue today.

The airline has faced mounting pressure to answer questions

We are profusely, profusely apologetic about what has happened.

We are very conscious of the hardship that

many of our customers have had to go through.

On Saturday morning, we did have a power surge in one

of our data centres which affected the network and hardware

which stopped messaging millions and millions of messages that come

between all the different systems and applications within the BA

network and affected all the operational systems -

baggage, operations, passenger processing, etc.

That is what provided the actual disruptions.

Mr Cruz said he would not be resigning and would find out why

The GMB Union has blamed the outsourcing last year of IT

contracts to the Indian company Tata for the chaos on Saturday -

an accusation which Mr Cruz has vehemently denied.

But BA will certainly have further questions to answer when the detail

emerges of exactly what happened and whether corners were cut.

North Korea has carried out the night missile test this year

prompting protest from Japan after it landed in their waters. Launched

from North Korea's eastern coast, it travelled before crashing into the

sea near the Japanese mainland. China has also condemned the test.

More than 200 drivers a day have been caught

using their mobile phones in the month after

Police across Britain caught almost 6,000 motorists in March,

but the figure could be higher because seven forces didn't respond

Drivers now pay six points on a licence and a ?200 fine, double the

previous penalty. The former Blue Peter

presenter John Noakes, who hosted the show in the 1960s

and '70s, has died at the age of 83. He was the BBC children's show's

longest-serving presenter, David Sillito looks

back at his life. Blue Peter has had many presenters,

but John Noakes was special - the cheery, funny daredevil from

Halifax. At this level, the plinth

on which Nelson stands I found myself literally

hanging from the ladder In an age with a rather relaxed

attitude to Health and Safety, the words, "And then

it was my turn..." Take the moment he crashed out

of a bobsleigh on the Cresta run. I carried on down the track

on my backside, still doing He had grown up near Halifax,

joined the RAF, then trained as an actor before landing the job

of presenting Blue Peter. The Yorkshire accent

and the willingness to do anything for a laugh at a time

when children's television He also had his own programme,

Go With Noakes, where he sampled all the pleasures of life out

and about in Britain. He tired of television and set off

on a yacht with his wife, settling His memories of Blue Peter

were not entirely fond. He felt he had been badly paid,

under-insured and overworked. I've been doing two

years of Go With Noakes You might wonder what

I'm doing up here. Occasionally, he returned to TV

screens, once to answer a question, "Whatever happened

to John Noakes and Shep?" In truth, the John Noakes

we all knew was, in many ways, an act he was happy to say goodbye

to, but that good-humoured daredevil did give us some

memorable TV moments. The former Blue Peter

presenter John Noakes, Let's return to the election now,

and as we were hearing earlier, the Conservatives are keen to get

back to campaigning on Brexit, while Labour are looking

to capitalise on a positive response Among a number of key battleground

areas will be Wolverhampton, It contains three constituencies -

all of which were Labour at the 2015 election -

in part due to strong support But there was a vote in favour

of leaving the EU at the referendum. So our Midlands political editor,

Patrick Burns, has been looking at how those communities

might vote now. Wolverhampton has a particularly

diverse mix of ethnic minorities, the Asian community

is by far the biggest. One clear majority though,

the 63% for Leave in the referendum. To find out how the core Labour vote

is faring in all of this, I have come to the local

Sikh temple. Do you talk to friends

and family around here about how they are going

to vote in the election? What do they say about

maybe having a change of My other half is changing his heart,

he would like to vote I have voted Labour all my

life, but I decided to Theresa May, I think

they will win again. They have done,

and they have shown people My mind leads me

to the Conservatives. I voted for a Conservative Mayor, I

voted Conservative because of their I think what we may

be seeing here is a fragmentation of the Labour vote,

so striking there in the Asian community, where the Conservatives

have been trying to win support for Well now, maybe, Brexit

could be the game changer. In search of a wider

reflection of opinion, I move on to see whether other ethnic

communities are facing a similar The reason why we are having this

election, we are told, is Is that what it really

is all about for you? I haven't really brought

Brexit into it, I have thought about what these parties can

do for people like me, I think that would be the best

way for me to vote. Which way do you think you're

going to vote when the time comes? I have voted Labour all my life,

but I'm not quite sure how I If I am not voting Labour,

I won't vote Conservative anyway. People were socially

frustrated and used Europe as a scapegoat and the Labour Party,

for me, is going to be far more beneficial for the majority of the

people than what I have heard than The city's main tram stop

is my journey's end as well, evening commuters are

heading home from work. Why do you think so many people

in Wolverhampton voted to I just think they want rights

for British people back. How does this lead to

people voting between the I think they are the party to take

us to the Brexit we voted for. I've spent most of my day

in the constituency once represented by Enoch Powell

and yet nobody I've met so much Maybe our politics has finally

moved on from all that. Patrick Burns, BBC

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