18/08/2017 BBC News at One

Three days of mourning are declared in Spain as police say they believe

a network of at least eight people were behind the terror attacks that

During the early hours five suspects were shot dead in the coastal town

of Cambrils after they drove a car into people,

In Barcelona police are hunting the suspected driver of the van attack

on Las Ramblas. The sheer panic on everyone's faces,

you know you've just got to run and got to get to safety

and got to hide. The first victim is named

as Italian father-of-two, The two vehicle attacks

are being connected to a huge explosion which destroyed a house

further along the coast We'll have more from Spain

throughout the programme. A personal apology for the mother

whose son was killed in Iraq - the Defence Secretary admits better

protected vehicles Tackling childhood obesity -

food manufacturers will be told to reduce calories in products such

as pizzas, burgers and ready meals. And in sport on BBC News,

England opener Alastair Cook will resume on 153 not out,

hoping to bat into a second night in the first Test

against West Indies at Edgbaston. Good afternoon and welcome

to the BBC news at One. Police in Barcelona say that they

believed a terror network of at least eight people is behind two

terror attacks that have left 14 people dead, and 130 injured.

A van was driven into crowds on Las Ramblas

in the centre of Barcelona, a popular tourist site.

During the night, five suspected terrorists were shot dead

in the coastal town of Cambrils 65 miles away, after they drove a car

Five suspected terrorists were shot dead and they were wearing and what

were thought to be explosive belts, but they have turned out to be fake.

The total injured from both attacks are 34 different nationalities. The

Foreign Office in London has said a small number of British people have

been caught up in the attacks. They are among the victims. Ganguly, my

colleague is in Barcelona and has filed this report.

An early tribute on Las Ramblas, on the street named after its flower

market, in the biggest terrorist attack in Spain in over a decade.

The Boulevard is packed today with people picking up the pieces from

the night before. The first attack happened yesterday evening. A white

van driven at 50 miles an hour through the crowd. 13 people were

killed. More than 80, injured. The suspect fled on foot. An Italian

father of two, Bruno Gulotta, has been confirmed as the first victim.

People were told to hide inside as police searched for the attacker.

Two men were arrested in a nearby bar. Police believe this is the

image of one of the suspects, a Moroccan national living in Spain

whose passport was used to hire the van. 100 million people pass through

this Boulevard each year. It is the most crowded, famous street in

Spain, attracting people from worldwide. Amongst the victims, they

are 15 different nationalities including Britain, those killed or

injured in the attacks. There was a large gentleman on the floor who was

in serious trouble and in fact had been killed, two people lying on the

floor that had been killed. A further person, to the left of the

store, here. Then, one person directly behind where you are, at

the blue kiosk who, again, was killed. You could see lots of people

running around, helping each other. It was an horrendous sight. Then a

second attack. Five men in another car, 70 miles to the south, in the

village of Cambrils. Five people were injured, two critically. The

suspects believed to have been wearing fake suicide belts were shot

dead by police. Within 30 seconds the police turned up and they had

drawn the guns and they were shouting something to the guy. And

in the next thing I know, shots were fired. I suddenly heard bang, bang,

bang, even the port. And after that, people were screaming. Then the

police, screaming. Then, more swimming.

TRANSLATION: This is a quiet place to come with your family to enjoy

it. You think it is more likely to happen there, where the party is.

Investigators link with attacks to an explosion in a house in the town

of al-Qaeda on Monday where one man died and 20 canisters of propane gas

were found. The manhunt is still underway for the driver of the Las

Ramblas attack. Authorities believe there could be another band, used by

another cell in Catalonia. On the streets of Barcelona, a moment of

silence and signs, too. I am not scared, they shout. This is a city

with many national coming together. In defiance of yet another terror

attack. -- many nationalities. Let's get more on that attack in Cambrils.

It is 100 kilometres down the coast from Barcelona were those five

terror suspects were shot dead by police. They were wearing, it

appears, fake explosive belts. Our correspondent Wyre

Davies is in Cambrils. What more do we know about this?

This is the town of Cambrils, about 90 minutes Drive S. Of Barcelona. It

was there that bat second, coordinated fatal attack took place.

A saloon car mounted the curb, crashed into five people and flipped

onto its roof. The five occupants, some of whom were wearing vests,

those were viable suicide belts according to police, they had no

reason to believe these will not viable, those five occupants were

challenged by police. They kept on coming forward. They were shot dead

by police on the spot. There was a huge, heavily armed and Army

peasants up and down the Catalonian coast after what happened in

Barcelona. Sadly we have heard civilians were injured in that

attack. A women has also died, taking the total number of dead

killed in these attacks to at least 14. Most things are back to normal

here but there was a heavily armed police presence on the streets. We

know little about the attack is apart from they were said to be a

group of at least eight very young men, 17, 18 years old, perhaps in

recent -- recently radicalised. There is a heavily armed police

presence. There are maybe a third vehicle police tracked down that may

have been involved in the attack planning. This was clearly a

coordinated, fatal attack. Thank you very much indeed. In Barcelona

people are trying to come to terms with the horror that unfolded on Las

Ramblas. Among those running for their lives yesterday was Stefanie

Worden, who is from Lincoln, who was on holiday with her boyfriend. Can

you say what happened? -- Stephanie Walton. We arrived yesterday

morning. We went out to enjoy the sunshine but everybody. 90 minute

before the attack happened we walked across the road and there was a cafe

on the corner. The atmosphere was amazing. It was buzzing. Everybody

having a lot of fun. I had my back turned towards well the road was. I

remember this really loud bang and screaming from shoppers, and I

turned around and I saw a wall of people just rushing towards us and

tables everywhere, glasses and bottles flying everywhere.

Flip-flops everywhere. There was a second loud bang which scared

everybody even more. We ran inside the cafe. They shot all the shutters

down. I was thinking, is it like London, Paris, I was in the corner,

you could not even get to the stairs. There was a mass panic of

everybody. Then the owners opened the back door and we could all run

up the street then the police said to stay against the walls. Then we

had a better chance at it. I remember turning around. There were

so many people across the road, bodies, it was absolutely horrific.

You must have been terrified, not knowing what was happening next.

Absolutely. With the second one, you think, my God, it is happening. It

was only when the police ushered us out, there must have been an

unmarked vehicle which then set a third panic. They were just coming.

Absolutely terrifying. You can never comprehend what those people are

feeling until you experience it yourself. It was heartbreaking.

Stephanie Walton there from Lincoln, who witnessed the Las Ramblas

attack. We know that rented vehicles have become a weapon of choice for

terrorists across Europe. We have seen it in east but in asthma in

Berlin, Spain and London. Spain has not seen a terrorist attack since

2004. Using vehicles as weapons against

pedestrians is not new. Al-Qaeda in Yemen has urged its followers in the

West to attack civilians by driving into them. Al-Qaeda in Yemen urged

its followers to attack civilians by driving into them. That is what this

Tunisian trucker -- truck driver dead in Nice last summer killing 86

people before being shot dead. And three out of the four terrorist

attacks in Britain have involved driving into crowds at speed. One

was a far right extremist, others the party inspired by this man, the

chief propagandist for so-called Islamic State. In 2014, he urged

jihadists to adopt low-tech, high impact ways of attacking Western

civilians including using vehicles. Today, IS is on the back foot, with

its self-styled caliphate in the Middle East is shrinking by the day.

The more it is squeezed there, the more it tries to lash out at soft

targets in the West. Events in Spain this week can be seen in that

contest -- context, even if IS only inspired, not directed them. How

should European governments respond and how far can they go to predict

populations? City centres are particularly difficult. London

predominantly, we cannot just put bollards on the side of pavements.

You have to dig down to make sure that it is anchored into the ground

in a correct way. There was a standard for that. You have the

underground system, as well. The could be put in all the players but

sometimes logistically and from a protective point of view, you cannot

do that. Crash barriers and Pollard are increasingly becoming the norm

in London and other cities. These, outside Parliament, went up 14 years

ago to stop truck bombs. Today the threat comes from attackers

deliberately driving into crowds. The government can put some measures

in place to prevent this but it cannot shield everyone from every

attack. Ultimately, the challenge remains an intellectual one, to

persuade violent extremists of whatever type, not to do it. We have

heard that the injured and casualties are of some 30 different

nationalities. In London the Foreign Office said a small number of

British citizens are among the casualties.

Eleanor Garnier is in Westminster for us.

A small number of British people were injured in the attacks. The

Foreign Office is working out which further British people out here --

out there, need further help and assistance. It has deployed extra

staff in Spain. It is warning that the number of British people injured

could rise. It is advising people to follow the direction and advice of

the Spanish local authorities. There is a special helpline number that

has been set up to help those affected. You can find that number

on the BBC website. In Downing Street, the Spanish and Union flags

are flying at half-mast as well as at other buildings in Whitehall and

Westminster. In the last few minutes the Prime Minister has said that the

UK stands shoulder to shoulder with Spain. We must work together if we

are to confront this evil of terrorism. And to confront a deal

with the perverted, extremist ideology which drives it. Ridding

the Internet of poisonous material, and ensuring that the police and

security services have the powers that they need. Terrorism is the

great threat that we all face. Together, we will defeat it. It was

just a few months ago, London faced several attacks in Westminster,

London Bridge, Finsbury Park and that attack in Manchester also. The

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has expressed his condolences, saying

that London stands with Barcelona against the evil of terrorism. Thank

you, Eleanor. A couple of hours ago in this square, thousands of people

came to observe a minute's silence to pay respects to the dead and

injured from the attacks last night, in which 14 people lost their lives

and around 130 were injured. A minute's silence in front of the

King of Spain and the Spanish Prime Minister. Then, long applause, and

chance from the crowd of, we're not scared, we are not afraid, so a

gesture of defiance from the people of Barcelona and the tourists who

flock here, that they will not be cowed by terrorism.

Crowds gathered in Barcelona to pay respects to those who lost their

lives in the terror attacks. A massive manhunt is under way in

Spain for the man meant by Spanish media as a suspect responsible for

mowing down 13 people in Barcelona. And in sport, Europe captain

Annika Sorenstam is hoping careful planning will help them regain

the Solheim Cup from the United States when the 15th

edition of the event begins It's emerged that the Defence

Secretary Sir Michael Fallon has personally apologised to the mother

of a soldier killed in a lightly The BBC has seen the letter sent

to Sue Smith, whose son, Private Philip Hewett,

died in a bombing in 2005. Now other families who lost sons

in a similar way say that they too should receive a similar apology -

as our legal affairs correspondent Sue Smith's son, Private Philip

Hewett, was killed by an improvised explosive device while travelling

in a lightly armoured Snatch Land Sue hoped an inquest due to last

five days would provide answers about the Snatch,

and how Philip died, She found the inability to get

answers from the Ministry Sometimes I felt like they just

wanted me to either go away or die. In 2013, Sue and two other

families of soldiers killed in Snatch Land Rovers won a landmark

ruling at the Supreme Court, enabling them to sue the MoD

because the Human Rights Act was deemed to apply to soldiers

on the battlefield. It was the publication here in July

last year of the report into the inquiry into the Iraq war

by Sir John Chilcot that It gave a damning assessment of how

for years the Ministry of Defence failed to replace the inadequate

and lightly armoured Almost a year after the Chilcot

report, Sue's case along with those of two other bereaved families

has been settled. She received a letter of apology

from the Defence Secretary, Sir Michael Fallon,

in which he wrote... Iraq is almost forgotten now,

it's almost Britain's Vietnam. But at least, at the end

of it, it was worth it. Not his death, but for him

to be remembered for Major Matthew Bacon was killed

in a Snatch in Iraq in 2005. His father Roger, who didn't

bring a legal case, also Why didn't they think

about all those other families that The Secretaries of State should

now write to all of us Sue's 12 year legal battle

with the army that sent her son to Iraq is finally over,

but her grief will endure. Britain has pledged ?5 million

to help the victims of the mudslide in the West African state of Sierra

Leone. Red Cross officials say

more than 400 people are known to have died,

and 600 people are still missing. Torrential rain caused the side

of a mountain to collapse, engulfing a suburb of the capital

Freetown. There was a multi-faith memorial

service at the burial site, in the nearby city of Waterloo,

from where our correspondent A simple wooden coffin

for a victim with no name. More than 200 graves were freshly

dug for a mass burial of those The bodies are being brought

from the main mortuary in Freetown This cemetery was last used

during the Ebola outbreak, and it gives you some sense

of the scale of this problem and how the authorities

have been overwhelmed. The country's president

is calling for national unity. This is another painful episode

in our nation's history. Hundreds of our unsuspecting

compatriots were swept At a distribution centre,

tempers are fraying. Getting your hands on clean

water is a struggle. Families are now sheltering

in half built houses. There is no comfort

here, just grief. This woman lost both parents and now

she doesn't know how she'll "We need help, the government needs

to support us," she said. "We need housing, we need help to

start up our businesses again." This young girl flicks

through pictures of family. But she may be too young

to ever remember them. The entertainer Michael Barrymore

has won what are described as more than nominal damages

against Essex Police for his wrongful arrest

in connection with the death Mr Barrymore was held on suspicion

of the rape and murder of Stuart Lubbock who was found

in his swimming pool after a party The entertainer told the High Court

the arrest had destroyed his career. Our correspondent Keith Doyle

is outside the High Court Keith, what's happened in court

and what do we know in terms of the amount of damages

Mr Barrymore might be awarded? What do we understand about this

nominal amount of money? Michael Barrymore was seeking damages for

what he says was an unlawful West when he was arrested for the

suspicion of the rate and murder of Stuart Lubbock in 20 Dellacqua 2017.

Stuart Lubbock died six years earlier. No charges were ever

brought. Essex Police admitted the arrest was unlawful. The arresting

officer was not fully briefed. But they said any other officer in place

at the time could have made that arrest. The designated officer who

we know, the only one qualified to make the arrest, was stuck in

traffic. Mr Justice Stuart Smith said in a court that since nobody

present could have made that arrest lawfully, Mr Barrymore was entitled

to what he called more than nominal damages. You asked what that means,

Mr Barrymore was looking for ?2.5 million in compensation. Essex

Police says he should get ?1. Exactly how much he will get will be

decided at a later date. Mr Barrymore says he is relieved that

the judge has found he could not and would not have been lawfully

arrested, but in a statement Essex Police said that the judgment today

should not overshadow the unanswered questions about Stuart Lubbock's

death. Health officials are calling

for food manufacturers to reduce the calorie content of junk food

in an attempt to tackle Public Health England says it wants

to address the obesity crisis by cutting fat in the same way

as its tackling sugar but health campaigners say

ministers need to do more - as our health editor

Hugh Pym explains. Food manufacturers and retailers

have already been told to cut sugar It's not compulsory but when

the Childhood Obesity Strategy was unveiled last year

there were hints that if the industry didn't comply

there would be legislation. Now the same approach is to be

adopted for calorie content in manufactured products

including ready meals, pizzas, curries, savoury

snacks and sandwiches. This could mean smaller

portions or reducing high An average man is said to need

around 2,500 calories a day For an average woman,

the figure is around 2,000. For school aged children it's

anything between 1,600 and 2,500. Health officials say people

on average consume between 200 and 300 calories more

than they should, so We know through our work on salt

that a voluntary programme of salt We're seeing very positive

signs from the industry So we consider that a calorie

reduction programme would But the National Obesity Forum said

there was next to nothing to show for the Government's last 12 months

of work, and that was I think that only with legislation

will be really knock this issue. You can talk for as long as you will

with food manufacturers and soft drinks manufacturers, but many of

them will turn a blind eye and just do whatever they want.

Children at this holiday sports activity today were certainly

burning off the calories, but the boss of the company which runs it

says that the sessions they organise around the country, fitness levels

are generally poor. Suntans children can a two star jumps for a sustained

minute. That sounds crazy, but that is the situation we face across the

UK and a global phenomenon. When children are not active they will

put on weight. Health officials say exercise is

important that their focus is on tackling what people eat. As they

put it, you can't outrun a bad diet. New figures show that tourist visits

to the UK in June were up by 7% compared with the same

month last year. The Office for National Statistics

said there were 3.5 million visits by overseas residents,

and that the amount Our personal finance correspondent

Simon Gompertz has more. Getting into the British Museum

in London, the queues are getting longer as tourists from Europe,

from the US and from China take advantage not just of our free

museums but of the low value It's wonderful for us as people

from Berlin to go shopping here. Even books and CDs have now

come down to normal, If you went to New York City

in the United States to buy dinner, I don't see that the cost is any

greater here and in some I think it is very good

for visitors to come to London Visitors in June were up 7% to 3.5

million compared to the before. Brits going overseas rose 4%,

over 7 million, that's in the face The drop in the pound has put

a squeeze on British holiday makers going overseas but there is little

doubt it has given a boost to visitors coming here

because it is so much cheaper. What we don't know is how long

the effect is going to last. It's put money in the pockets

of traders who depend on tourists, but the currency impact

could be temporary. Price is a very

important determinant... Speaking for shops,

hotels and attractions, Ufi Ibrahim says the terrorist

attacks in the UK this year have The figures should have been much

better than they were, given the value of the pound

being so low. We saw a negative performance

for the European Union to the UK in the month of May,

which was immediately after the attacks in

London and Manchester. And we haven't seen that growth

recover significantly, the growth is still very weak

for the European Union. Even so, there are some places,

and Scotland is one of them, with the Edinburgh Festival now on,

which have done particularly well. Tourist businesses say it's not just

what is on offer to see, it's from spending millions

on marketing campaigns We return now to Spain and Ben Brown

who is in the centre of Barcelona - at the site of the horrific attack

last night when a van was driven into crowds on Las Ramblas,

leaving 14 people dead and many, Ben? You were just hearing about

tourism. Tourism is the lifeblood of Barcelona, and Las Ramblas, just

down the road from here, is where almost all tourists who come to

Barcelona go. Among the casualties from the attack yesterday, people

from 34 different nationalities, we hear. Today, really, to show they

will not be cowed or scared away by terrorism, the tourists have been

out and about on the streets of Barcelona, they are on Las Ramblas

again, some laying flowers and lighting candles in memory of those

who are killed. My colleagues... My colleague Gavin Lee is on Las

Ramblas this afternoon. The senses that people are coming

back, there is unity in numbers. Since the first flower late this

morning, and given it is an old flower market, there is a press

conference going on now and we have more clarity on who the police are

looking for. They believe there is a Catalan cell of five people and they

are looking for one particular person, Le Saux Kadir, and

18-year-old man. To try to find the dots between this and another

attack, 14 people were killed in both attacks. At the time the police

gave one image of a man called Driss Oukabir who was meant to have rented

the vehicle, he says he has no part and it was a stolen identity, it is

his brother, Moussa Oukabir, who is the chief suspect. Police believe he

is still in the city. In the getaway, another person was killed,

bringing the death toll to 15 people. One of the terrorists

stabbed a driver, took his car, went through a checkpoint, was shot by

police, shot back, injured a police officer and got away. We are in the

thick of the manhunt and it is getting bigger in terms of the

number involved, quite a significant Catalan terror cell. Thank you very

much, Gavin Lee reporting. Is that investigation continues in the

hospitals around Barcelona, full of casualties from the attack, many

people seriously or critically ill and people in this city have been

queueing up to donate blood to help the injured. That is the latest from

Barcelona. Thank you, Ben. Now the weather.

The remnants of a former hurricane will have an impact on the weather

over the next few days, but perhaps not how you might expect. This was

Hurricane Gert, quite a strong storm as it slid across the western

Atlantic close to the coast of the USA, but the storm has been

weakening as it has journeyed eastwards. Fairly broken cloud with

some rain but also containing them warm, humid tropical Allah and we

might feel that into the start of next week. -- warm, humid tropical

air. I Weather Watcher in Devon captured a big show a cloud, there

has been a lot of rain across a good part of Scotland and there is

reports of localised flooding close to Aberdeen. Plenty of rain continue

across north-east Scotland to the rest of the moon. Through south-west

Scotland, Northern Ireland and England and Wales stars of sunshine

with heavy downpours and Halo and thunder thrown in for good measure.

Quite a lot of rain in a short space, temperatures generally around

17 to 20 degrees and quite a blustery wind, particularly for

coastal parts of Wales and the south-west, where winds could touch

gale force in places into the late afternoon and early evening.

Do the evening showers continue, perhaps more persistent for a time

into East Anglia. Through the early hours of Saturday, most showers fade

away so most places try to stop the morning, apart from north-west

Scotland and Northern Ireland where some showers continue.

Tomorrow, more sunshine and showers but fewer showers than today and

more dry weather and sunshine. Still quite breezy, if you are in Scotland

you potentially catch quite a few showers, further south, not too

many. Generally on the cool side at 16 to 21 Celsius. A brief rid of

high pressure gives fine weather on Saturday night, a cool start to

Sunday. Remember the remnants of what was Hurricane Gert, quite it

weak weather front sliding in the south-west, Wales, perhaps towards

the Midlands. Further north and east, mostly dry with sunshine, 17

to 20. As the patchy rain continues to

journey north eastwards through Sunday into Monday, it will

introduce a south-westerly wind and someone, humid tropical air into

southern areas, so into the start of next week seven parts could get to

the mid to high 20s, the chance of rain at times further north and

west. A reminder of our main

story this lunchtime. A massive manhunt is under way in

Spain for Moussa Oukabir, the 18-year-old named by Spanish police

as the suspect responsible for mowing down 14 people in Barcelona.

That's all from us, goodbye from me and the team.