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A terror attack on Brussels - the city is rocked by explosions | :00:07. | :00:16. | |
at the airport and the metro - more than 30 people | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
Two bombs were set off in the airport departure area - | :00:19. | :00:30. | |
as passengers were checking in for morning flights. | :00:31. | :00:39. | |
TRANSLATION: I heard a gunshot in what sounded like Arabic. | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
Then I heard boom and an enormous explosion. | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
A third bomb exploded inside a carriage on the underground | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
The country's prime minister calls it a time of tragedy - | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
more than 100 are injured at the metro station. | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
We received a big blast of air and the train stopped and we had | :00:57. | :01:04. | |
the normal recording announcement saying, | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
we've just had an incident on the line. | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
Brussels under lockdown tonight - security officials say some suspects | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
Belgian authorities are looking for the man | :01:13. | :01:22. | |
wearing a hat on the right of this CCTV image. | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
The attacks have prompted security alerts across Europe | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
The row over George Osborne's budget - the Chancellor admits he made | :01:29. | :01:42. | |
And coming up in the sport on BBC News - former World Cup-winning | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
captain and coach Franz Beckenbauer is one of six men investigated | :01:46. | :02:07. | |
Brussels is under lockdown tonight in the aftermath of | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
The strike on a city at the heart of Europe has prompted security | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
The explosions in the Belgian capital have left more than 30 dead | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
The first bomb went off in the departures hall of Zavontem | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
As people fled the area, there was a second, | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
At least 11 people were killed in this blast. | :02:37. | :02:47. | |
Around an hour later, in the city centre at the peak | :02:48. | :02:49. | |
of the morning rush hour, a third blast tore through Maelbeek | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
This afternoon, so-called Islamic State claimed | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
Our Europe editor Katya Adler has our first report. | :03:00. | :03:09. | |
It does contain some distressing images. | :03:10. | :03:17. | |
It is OK, it is OK! When a shaky voice tries to sound reassuring, | :03:18. | :03:28. | |
crying out from clouds of smoke that it is OK, out of the debris of | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
devastation, you know that it is not all right. It is not all right at | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
all. Seconds before this mobile phone footage was filmed, these | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
suitcases were in the firm grasp of crowds of travellers, queueing | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
impatiently at check-in. A busy morning for businessmen and women | :03:51. | :03:52. | |
and families setting off for the Easter holidays. As the bombers well | :03:53. | :04:03. | |
knew. Just past 8am, they set of twin explosions here. At least one | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
of them was detonated by a suicide bomber, the Belgian authorities | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
believe. Watch this father grab his infant before running for cover. He | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
is not sure such cover exists. Bags and belongings no longer held any | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
importance, just their nearest and dearest and their own lives. And | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
then there were the selfless and the brave. This man is a baggage | :04:32. | :04:42. | |
handlers at Brussels airport. TRANSLATION: I heard a gunshot and | :04:43. | :04:50. | |
what sounded like Arabic. Then I heard, boom, an enormous explosion. | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
Afterwards, people ran to the lift of the escalators. Two all people | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
who came towards me, I saved them. I put them in the lift but they did | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
not want to let go of me. I could not take them with me, there were | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
too many people there. An incident has just occurred on the line... | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
While he was saving lives, elsewhere in the city, another group of | :05:16. | :05:26. | |
bombers was trying to take them. A nightmare come true for every train | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
traveller. People here were in between Metro stops when a bomb went | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
off in the central carriage. Panicked survivors had to pick their | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
way through the darkness. Praying they would get to safety. Only once | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
they had clambered back to daylight did the horror of what had happened | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
really hit. TRANSLATION: I am in shock. I was in the first carriage. | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
I saw an explosion, a flash of light. And then the whole Metro | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
exploded. The windows came light. And then the whole Metro | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
doors opened, and everybody dropped to the ground. | :06:09. | :06:19. | |
The dazed and the injured covered the pavements here, usually trodden | :06:20. | :06:27. | |
by stiffly dressed civil stunts. This bombing took place near | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
from the European Parliament. This bombing took place near | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
civil servants. Brussels has turned into a city of sirens and a centre | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
of fear. These police cars are rushing to the Metro station where | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
the explosion went off earlier. Unconfirmed reports of casualties | :06:48. | :06:49. | |
there are mounting, including deaths. Questions for Belgium's | :06:50. | :06:57. | |
security apparatus, supposedly on high alert after perpetrators of | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
last year's Paris attacks were found in Brussels. So-called Islamic State | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
says it masterminded the attacks in both countries. The presumed message | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
from the bombers today - no-one is safe, not here, not anywhere in | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
Europe. TRANSLATION: In this black moment | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
for our country, now, more than ever, I call on everyone to show | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
calm and solidarity. We are facing a difficult challenge. We have to face | :07:27. | :07:34. | |
it together. TRANSLATION: This attack has struck Belgium, but it | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
was Europe that was targeted. And the whole world is concerned. We | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
have to realise the gravity of this terrorist attack. Belgians are in no | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
doubt as to the gravity of the situation today. Similar to Paris, | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
after the attacks there, people here in Brussels are determined not to | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
give into terror, they say. But many are scared. How are you feeling as a | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
mother? As a mother, it is very scary. When we found out about the | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
news, our children were already at school. When they are not you, you | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
really are skier scared, especially as the attack was near our school. | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
It was the airport and then the Metro and you do not know what is | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
coming up. I think people are ready for extreme measures, what ever it | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
takes to keep people safe. This man told me he would walk everywhere | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
from now on, no more public transport for him. He blamed the | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
Belgian state for today's attack, for lack of intelligence, he said, | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
and decisive action. As messages of support came in from around the | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
world, the people of Brussels are gathering in the city centre this | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
evening to show solidarity, support one another and pray for better | :08:49. | :08:49. | |
times. Brussels' Zaventem airport is one | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
of the busiest in Europe. So far, some 200 flights | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
have been diverted. Our correspondent Ben Wright | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
was at the airport as people fled the scene, and he has been | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
talking to some of them. They arrived here for holidays and | :09:03. | :09:17. | |
work. They fled in panic and fear. As the shattered airport billowed | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
smoke a survivors described the horror inside. We were like... Were | :09:24. | :09:32. | |
you lying on the ground? Yes, I was, because we were in the one with all | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
the glass which fell down. So you saw glass falling down, and people | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
were like running like crazy. You do not know where to run, so you go on | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
the ground. The man who was with me was like looking, what is happening? | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
And I said, go on the ground! All morning we saw fire crews and | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
ambulances and the police coming towards the airport. Some of the | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
injured were bussed away for treatment. It is about three hours | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
after the explosions here at the airport. Emergency vehicles continue | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
to go towards the terminal. There is a constant stream of people coming | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
the other way, pulling bags - holiday-makers, commuters, airport | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
workers, who had a Tuesday morning appended in terror and chaos. You | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
are very shaken? Yes, very. Can you tell me where you werewhat did you | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
see? Just in the hall, checking in. I had a dog and because of my dog, | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
they said to me, go to the next desk. And there we were when it | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
exploded behind us. If we were at the check-in, we exploded, too. | :10:39. | :10:48. | |
Chance - and look. How is everybody? I think they are OK. How is | :10:49. | :10:50. | |
everybody...? Also I think they are OK. How is | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
were a basketball team from Antwerp heading to Milan for a match. It is | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
a frightening experience. You think it happens only in other countries | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
but now it is in Belgium. It is coming closer. We have to make the | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
best of it and just stay calm, I think. This woman and her family | :11:10. | :11:17. | |
were heading to Venice for a cruise. The dream is over, she told us. | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
Although suffering minor injuries, she is just relieved to be alive. At | :11:24. | :11:34. | |
a sports centre close to the airport, people who had planned to | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
be far from here sat with their bags, their families and their | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
thoughts. Outside the airport, cars arrived to collect the victims of | :11:44. | :11:50. | |
this Tuesday morning of terror. Ben, you were there talking to people | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
shortly after the attacks. Now, as evening unfolds, what is the mood in | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
the city? George, it is quieter here now. The police presence is less | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
intense. The convoys of ambulances have gone. There are, though, we are | :12:06. | :12:14. | |
told still dozens of people being sheltered at the Sheraton hotel, | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
neck to the airport itself. The police presence in this airport had | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
been highly visible before today, an intense security operation had been | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
put in place in the months since the Paris attack. People had become used | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
to heavily armed police at the airport, on the Metro, and on the | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
streets. That could not stop three people walking into the departure | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
hall at the airport and causing the carnage which we have seen today. | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
The authorities have said a third device was found which did not | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
explode, which was detonated later on, and that they are looking for | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
one of the attackers. This airport at the heart of Europe will be | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
closed tomorrow. It is said it may reopen on Thursday. | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
Today's attacks came just four days after the arrest of one of the key | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
suspects in last November's Paris massacre. | :13:01. | :13:02. | |
Salah Abdeslam was captured in Brussels in a suburb known to be | :13:03. | :13:04. | |
The Belgian authorities say people involved in today's outrage may | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
still be at large and they warn that further attacks are possible. | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
Here is our security correspondent Gordon Corera. | :13:13. | :13:24. | |
Soldiers on the streets of Brussels today - and not for the first | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
Soldiers on the streets of Brussels The Belgian capital has been | :13:28. | :13:29. | |
described as the epicentre of the terrorist threat in Europe. And it | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
has now become its target. So, why Belgium? It took only hours after | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
the November attacks on Paris for the links to be made to Belgium. | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
Many of the attackers had come from there, and Brussels will soon | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
identified as the logistics base for the attack. Raids began, and within | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
days, the centre of Brussels was locked down amid fears of an | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
imminent threat. But the trail for the most wanted man, Salah Abdeslam, | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
went cold of police issued this CCTV of him at a petrol station. Then on | :14:02. | :14:09. | |
Friday he was shot and arrested in Brussels, in a notorious | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
neighbourhood for jihadists, raising the question of how he had managed | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
to hide their foot off the months. This afternoon, Islamic State said | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
he was behind the attack today. It is not yet clear if it was carried | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
out in response to the arrest of Salah Abdeslam on Friday, with that | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
make work speeding up its plans in fear of the authorities being on its | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
trail, or if this was a completely separate cell. There is now another | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
hunt, for the man seen here in the white, either, in this CCTV image | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
from the airport. But there are real concerns about a lack of | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
intelligence. The security services in Brussels have a bit of a problem. | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
Clearly they have not got a lot of intelligence. It appears that they | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
are operating almost blind and deaf. They were not able to arrest Salah | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
Abdeslam, even though he was the most wanted man in Europe. So | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
Belgium has a problem. For decades it has been home to groups of | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
jihadists, and many have gone to Syria and Iraq. As a proportion of | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
the population, twice as many as from France, and four times as many | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
as from Britain. 100 from Brussels alone. Add to that the fact that the | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
country's capability to deal with this threat is weak. Government has | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
been divided and information sharing between police and security services | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
has been criticised as poor. Those problems may extend across Europe. | :15:31. | :15:37. | |
Security services across Europe have shown increased trust in each other, | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
they had had to, but there is still a lack of intelligence sharing, of | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
co-operation. I think there's a severe capacity problem. Brussels | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
may be the focus of concern today, but Belgium is not the only country | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
facing a serious terrorist threat. Security has been stepped up | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
at airports and stations around Europe - including the UK - | :16:02. | :16:03. | |
after this morning's attack. There is a heavier than normal | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
police presence at both Heathrow Our transport correspondent | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
Richard Westcott looks at the challenge of providing | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
security in places where people They are images that will inevitably | :16:14. | :16:28. | |
frighten travellers. The attackers focusing on sbly frighten | :16:29. | :16:30. | |
travellers. The attackers focusing on soft targets - airports, | :16:31. | :16:32. | |
underground trains. Just like in London a decade ago, picking on | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
ordinary people. But can you can ever make the transport system safe? | :16:37. | :16:43. | |
We are all familiar with airport security checks like these. But | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
critically the Brussels bombers never went through them. The thing | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
is there are still large parts of airports before you get to security | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
that are effectively big open public places where anybody can walk in | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
carrying a bag, posing as a passenger. It's not just airports. | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
It's the underground network as well. It is big railway stations. | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
The reality is it is nigh on impossible to keep the whole | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
transport network completely safe. Already you will see more police | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
patrolling Britain's railway stations and airports. The Prime | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
Minister insisting they are well prepared. If there is information | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
that implies there's a direct threat to the United Kingdom, then we would | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
raise the security threat level even higher than it is today. But it | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
already stands at severe, which means we believe an attack is highly | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
likely and that's been the case for some time. So we'll continue to keep | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
the situation under review. Some airports, especially in the Middle | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
East, screen passengers before they are allowed into the building. Every | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
time you come up with a solution there's always a problem associated | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
with it. But the former head of security at Heathrow says that can | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
create its own problems. Then would be building up queues outside the | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
terminal. You are then massing a group of people which are another | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
perfect target for a bomber or a drive-by shooter. Experts say the | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
best way to stop this is to know the attacks coming in advance through | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
surveillance and tip-offs. Tonight the Government's warning Britons not | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
to travel to Brussels unless it is essential. | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
Our deputy political editor, James Landale, is in Downing Street. | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
James, this is being described, we heard earlier, as an attack on all | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
of Europe, and Downing Street quick to review security situation here. | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
George, here in Downing Street they've got the Belgian flag flying | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
here and they've ordered owl flags across Whitehall to be lowered to | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
half-mast in an act of solidarity with the people of Belgium. The | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
Prime Minister this morning chaired a meeting of the Government's | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
emergency committee known as COBRA. There was a big meeting this | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
afternoon of senior officials across Whitehall to assess how the UK | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
should respond to that. They haven't changed the threat level, which is | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
still Severe, which means an attack is highly likely. That hasn't | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
changed. What they have decided to do is change the travel advice for | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
people saying you don't go to Brussels unless it is absolutely | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
necessary. And they've stepped up a huge amount of security across | :19:31. | :19:38. | |
transport hubs, particularly St Pancras, at the Eurostar base. | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
And for more on the Brussels attack, you can go to our website | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
for up-to-the-minute developments and further analysis. | :19:47. | :19:48. | |
Terror attacks in Brussels - more than 30 killed. | :19:49. | :19:57. | |
This is the aftermath of two explosions at the city's airport. | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
Another bomb exploded on a Metro carriage in the city centre. | :20:03. | :20:04. | |
The country's Prime Minister calls it a dark day. | :20:05. | :20:11. | |
And coming up in sport on BBC News, England's women make it two wins out | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
of two at the World 20/20 with a tense two-wicket victory | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
George Osborne has admitted the proposed cuts to some disability | :20:18. | :20:37. | |
benefits in his Budget last week were a mistake. | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
He said there won't be any more welfare cuts in this Parliament. | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
Opening the Budget debate today he said he'd "listened and learned". | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
Our political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, reports | :20:48. | :20:49. | |
on the latest in what has been a tumultuous few days in Westminster | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
following the resignation of Iain Duncan Smith, | :20:54. | :20:55. | |
the former Work and Pensions Secretary. | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
There he is, the former military man who's fallen spectacularly | :21:00. | :21:01. | |
Quietly walking through Westminster today, phoning a friend? | :21:02. | :21:11. | |
While his old political pals were at their weekly Cabinet meeting | :21:12. | :21:13. | |
trying to agree answers to his list of accusations. | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
His replacement, Stephen Crabb, getting used to the new ministerial | :21:20. | :21:21. | |
And George Osborne dealing with the biggest problem of all - | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
trying to make his Budget sums add up. | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
A Chancellor less than a week since his Budget having to explain | :21:35. | :21:45. | |
why he's already junked part of his plans and answer a political | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
I'm sorry that my right honourable friend chose to leave | :21:49. | :21:55. | |
And let me here in this House recognise his achievements | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
in helping to make work pay, protecting the vulnerable | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
and breaking the decades-old cycle of welfare dependency. | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
But there was no apology for confusion over capping | :22:09. | :22:10. | |
But there was no apology for confusion over scrapping | :22:11. | :22:22. | |
And looking for remorse over a Budget that had unravelled? | :22:23. | :22:29. | |
save for their future, that freezes their fuel duty, | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
cuts income tax so they keep more of the money they earn. | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
That's the Budget we are voting on tonight. | :22:39. | :22:40. | |
It's a Budget that delivers security, that helps the next | :22:41. | :22:42. | |
It is a one-nation compassionate Conservative Budget and I ask | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
"More, more," they cried from the Tory benches. | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
But Labour knows this Budget has hurt the Chancellor's reputation | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
and he's only too happy the push the bruise. | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
The behaviour of the Chancellor over the last 11 days calls | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
into question his fitness for the office he now holds. | :23:02. | :23:09. | |
What we've seen is not the actions of a Chancellor, | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
a senior Government Minister, but the grubby, incompetent | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
manipulations of a political chancer. | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
But I certainly think for the sake of the country it's time | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
Yet the Tory party managers seems to have done their job. | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
George Osborne and Michael Gove relaxed enough to share a laugh. | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
No sign of the very real Tory doubts and frustrations about the Budget. | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
Had he listened to the advice of the party opposite | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
in the last five years, our national debt would be | :23:45. | :23:46. | |
13 years in Government was a Post-it note saying there's no money left. | :23:47. | :23:55. | |
We've taken 3 million people, the lowest paid workers out | :23:56. | :23:57. | |
The Government would be wise to keep sniffing for more trouble, | :23:58. | :24:08. | |
but Number Ten and Eleven do tonight have their party under more control. | :24:09. | :24:17. | |
In the next half our MPs will vote on some of the measure in this the | :24:18. | :24:24. | |
Budget. The Chancellor has been noticeably surrounded by Tory | :24:25. | :24:27. | |
backbenchers ready to jump up and defend him. But his reputation has | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
taken a pasting in the last few days. One afternoon in the Commons | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
isn't going to change that. His party, the opposition and probably | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
many members of the public won't forget it either. There are | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
unanswered questions about his Budget that he can't escape forever. | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
Many thanks, Laura. The SNP says Scotland's highest | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
earners will not receive a tax cut proposed for the rest | :24:50. | :24:51. | |
of the UK if the party wins First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
any move to cut taxes was wrong and the money should | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
be used for investing Next year the Scottish Parliament | :24:59. | :25:00. | |
will get new powers to set income tax rates which apply | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
to Scotland alone. Our Scotland Editor Sarah | :25:05. | :25:06. | |
Smith is in Glasgow. So this effectively means that | :25:07. | :25:16. | |
Scottish taxpayers end up paying more than their counterparts in the | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
rest of the UK Sarah? That's exactly what it could mean. It would be the | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
first time Scottish taxpayers would be paying a different rate of tax | :25:23. | :25:25. | |
than people in the rest of the United Kingdom. Because the SNP say | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
they won't pass on that tax cut proposed by George Osborne in the | :25:29. | :25:31. | |
Budget last week, that would mean anyone in Scotland earning over | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
?43,000 would be paying ?323 more in income tax than anybody who lived in | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
England, Wales or Northern Ireland. The SNP say that would raise over | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
the course of five years over ?1 billion to invest in public | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
services. And the First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, is pretty | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
confidence. She thinks Scots won't mind paying a bit more tax if they | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
see the money going into health and education. Some of the opposition | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
parties propose to go even further. Scottish Labour and the Liberal | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
Democrats say they would put a penny on every rate of income tax in | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
Scotland. That leavers the Scottish Conservatives as the only major | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
party not proposing to put up tax for Scottish taxpayers. Sarah, thank | :26:14. | :26:15. | |
you. Terror attacks in Brussels - | :26:16. | :26:22. | |
more than 30 killed. I wonder if there is any suggestion | :26:23. | :26:35. | |
that the authorities should have been more vigilance. There are | :26:36. | :26:42. | |
plenty of recriminations now. In the Belgian media and on Belgian | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
streets. I've spoken to a number of people today. They are sad, they are | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
scared, they say, but angry. They blame the Belgian Government for as | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
they see it bungling the Belgian investigation into the Paris | :26:55. | :26:57. | |
attacks. Just four days ago they arrested one of the main suspects in | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
those attacks here. But people here feel the authorities celebrate toad | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
early, allowing the perpetrators of today's bombings to act in peace and | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
tranquillity. There's a lot of resentment amongst many Belgians | :27:09. | :27:11. | |
that the authorities here never really got to grips with the | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
Brussels area of Molenbeek. It is known by some as a hotbed of terror. | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
Terror. There's a lot of innocent people who live there but it is | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
associated with Islamic extremism. There are marginalised unemployed | :27:27. | :27:29. | |
Muslim men living there, and the authorities haven't dealt with that. | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
And it is an area it is known you can buy an illegal weapon easily | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
indeed. The terror threat is very much alive tonight. We've heard from | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
the Belgian prosecutor's office that in an investigation close to here | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
they found an eggs explosive device packed with nails. It is a worried | :27:49. | :27:54. | |
but defiant city. You see people gathering around showing solidarity | :27:55. | :27:58. | |
but wondering, could I be next? Katia, thank you. | :27:59. | :28:07. | |
This was the view in Herefordshire. A lucky few saw | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
This was the view in Herefordshire. A lucky few saw some sunshine. The | :28:12. | :28:15. | |
best of the breaks overnight are in southern and eastern England. You | :28:16. | :28:19. | |
might see temperatures dipping away, a touch of frost. But most places | :28:20. | :28:24. | |
dry under the cloud. Temperatures in major towns and cities typically 5-7 | :28:25. | :28:29. | |
degrees. In the morning northern Scotland will be cloudy with | :28:30. | :28:32. | |
outbreaks of rain. Fine and dry in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen. | :28:33. | :28:36. | |
Largely dry in Northern Ireland but there's rain lurking to the west. | :28:37. | :28:40. | |
East of the Pennines breaks in the cloud. Chilly for some. A bright | :28:41. | :28:44. | |
start here and bright spells along the South Coast. However, the | :28:45. | :28:47. | |
further west you go that cloud could be thick enough for a few spits and | :28:48. | :28:50. | |
spots of rain. There might be a bit of rain in western parts of England | :28:51. | :28:54. | |
and Wales. Eastern England stands a good chance of seeing spells of | :28:55. | :28:57. | |
sunshine, but notice the rain crossing through Northern Ireland | :28:58. | :29:00. | |
and getting into western Scotland. Not an overly active weather front | :29:01. | :29:04. | |
but rain nonetheless. Afternoon temperatures of 9 degrees in | :29:05. | :29:09. | |
Glasgow. Pleasant in London, 12-13 degrees. With light winds, that's | :29:10. | :29:13. | |
not so bad. Through the evening the patchy rain moves away in many parts | :29:14. | :29:17. | |
of the United Kingdom, replaced by something much more substantial by | :29:18. | :29:22. | |
dawn on Thursday. This weather front comes in from the Atlantic, the | :29:23. | :29:26. | |
weather fronts bring rain. It will be quite windy, so yes a change to | :29:27. | :29:31. | |
wetter, windier, much more unsettled weather on Thursday. It will take | :29:32. | :29:34. | |
until the evening before the rain reaches the south-east, but it will | :29:35. | :29:40. | |
do eventually. That sets us up for an unsettled Easter weekend. Windy, | :29:41. | :29:44. | |
bringing rain from the Atlantic. But there should be some sunshine. | :29:45. | :29:51. | |
Let's return to our main story and this morning's terror attacks | :29:52. | :29:54. | |
in Brussels that have killed 31 people and left scores injured. | :29:55. | :29:57. | |
This was the scene at Zaventem airport in Brussels as two | :29:58. | :30:00. | |
explosions tore through the departures area shortly | :30:01. | :30:02. | |
Mobile phone footage shows passengers running from the airport | :30:03. | :30:08. | |
You can see smoke rising from the terminal, with the glass | :30:09. | :30:12. | |
blown out from the front of the building. | :30:13. | :30:16. | |
Around an hour later, a third explosion at Maelbeek Metro station. | :30:17. | :30:20. | |
This time, in the middle of a three-carriage train | :30:21. | :30:22. | |
Belgium's Foreign Minister, Didier Reynders, has warned that | :30:23. | :30:27. | |
authorities fear the suspects could still be at large. | :30:28. | :30:33. | |
That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me, | :30:34. | :30:36. | |
and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are. | :30:37. | :30:41. |