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Today at six we're in Brussels, where people have paused in silence

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to remember the victims of yesterday's bomb attacks.

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Belgium is observing three days of mourning after 31 people died

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One of the attackers at the airport was said to be working

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Police are still hunting for a third man seen in the images.

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The third suspect, wearing a light coloured coat and a hat,

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He left a large bag and departed before the explosions.

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His bag contained the biggest explosive device.

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There were four British people among the many injured,

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and another, David Dixon, is still unaccounted for.

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He's a lovely guy, he's an amazing man who deeply,

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Also on tonight's programme: Two British students are convicted

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of plotting a terror attack in London.

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They planned drive-by shootings inspired by so-called Islamic State.

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Their targets included police and soldiers.

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cover when they strike at the end of April.

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a new report says early warnings fell on deaf ears.

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And coming up in the sport on BBC News: England collapse

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spectacularly, but survive to beat Afghanistan by 15 runs at the World

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Where a rally is taking place this evening and a show of support

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against the attacks were 31 people died, and,

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where earlier today thousands gathered to observe a minute's

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silence to remember the victims of yesterday's bomb attacks

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Two of the suspected suicide bombers have been named

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as Khalid and Brahim el-Bakraoui, two brothers

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there is still a major police hunt going on for a third man.

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Among the hundreds injured were four Britons,

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and another is still unaccounted for.

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We'll have all the latest on the investigation

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into the attacks, but first our Europe editor

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Katya Adler reports on the day's events.

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Silence spoke far louder than words in Brussels today.

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It was screaming. In sadness for the victims of yesterday's bombings. In

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rage at the attackers. In fear that there will be a next time. And that

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next time, it could be them. But there is a strong sense here of

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defiance, too. Long-lived Belgium, these people

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shouted. But this is a country in turmoil. And on a massive manhunt

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for all those linked to this, yesterday's devastating bombing at

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Brussels Airport and on the Metro. Police say they are looking for this

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man. There is confusion about his identity, but it is believed he

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could have raised the casualties can even higher.

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TRANSLATION: The third suspect, wearing a light-coloured coat and

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hat is on the run, he left a large bag and departed before the

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explosions. His bag contained the biggest explosive device. Shortly

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after the arrival of the bomb disposal unit, the bag was detonated

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because of the volatility of the explosives. The other two men in

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this photo were suicide bombers. In the middle, UC Brahim el-Bakraoui, a

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Belgian national. Police have found a note in which he writes that he is

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under pressure and on the run to avoid arrest. Belgian media said he

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had recently been linked to the Paris attacks last year. This is his

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brother Khalid, the metro suicide bomber. Europe is worried about the

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attacks. Today, Belgium's Prime Minister accompanied the country's

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king and queen to visit some of the 260 injured yesterday. Julian Firkin

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was one of the lucky ones. He and his girlfriend emerged unscathed,

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physically at least. The second explosion happened, and at that

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point I jumped on top of her and grabbed her suitcase and kind of

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held that over the top of both of us just to protect us from the ceiling,

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the bits that were falling down. The commotion died down a little bit,

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but there was lots of screaming and people running around, and then the

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airport staff came running and screaming and shouting at everyone

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to get out of the building, evacuate, evacuate, as quickly as

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you can. This city is still digesting the full horror of

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yesterday's attacks, but on the surface at least, there is a sense

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of life in Brussels returning to normal. It is not that commuters

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here have forgotten about the attacks one day on, or that they

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don't care they are unaware of the warnings possible future bombings.

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But this is a gritty, down-to-earth city. The attitude here it is, life

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has to go on. People are grateful for the extra security. Life goes

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on. It can happen anywhere, any time. You cannot know when the next

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time. Maybe it is not in Brussels, maybe it is another country. You

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know there is a risk? There is always a risk.

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TRANSLATION: There is a risk, but keeping our jobs mean taking trains,

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and at least there are more police here now. More police, more

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soldiers, more security checks at train stations and across the city.

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Most people here tell you they refuse to be scared, but they don't

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feel safe. Katya Adler, BBC News, Brussels. Here are the Place de la

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Bourse this evening, quite a lot of singing and chanting, a lot of

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singing going on during the day, a lot of it expressing opposition to

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so-called exotics to -- so-called Islamic State, and expressing

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solidarity with the rest of Belgium. Other streets around Belgium are

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pretty quiet, some deserted, but this isn't representative of all of

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Russell is this evening. During the day, some

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of the victims' names and nationalities

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have begun to emerge. The first fatality to be confirmed

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was that of a 37-year-old daughters who are four years old,

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all of whom survived. Our correspondent Lucy Williamson

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has been following the stories of some of those caught up

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in yesterday's attacks. Including the missing Briton, David

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Dixon. Among the questions left

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by Tuesday's attacks is this one. What happened to British IT

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contractor David Dixon? After two days searching

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the hospitals here, his partner David left for work

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yesterday as usual. Maelbeek station was not

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far from his office. After the explosion there at 9am,

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Charlotte tried to reach him. 270 people from dozens of countries

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are now known to have been injured Inside this hospital,

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two British survivors lie While their relatives wait for news,

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in a separate part of the hospital, other families of other victims

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begin the grim process Among the first deaths to be

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confirmed was 20-year-old Leopold A law student at Saint Louis

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University here in Brussels. And Peruvian Adelma Tapia Ruiz

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who died during the airport attack. Her four-year-old twin girls

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survived the blast because they ran Her brother described it

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as incomprehensible. TRANSLATION: She had twins called

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Maureen and Elondra. They were in the

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Brussels airport too. They were connecting

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through to New York to meet Tonight in Brussels there

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is solidarity in Europe's anger But terrorism's toughest

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challenge is private. So, where do we stand this evening

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with the investigation and the continued response? Lets talk to

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Frank Gardner, our security correspondent, and Katya Adler who

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is in another part of this city. Frank, a lot of questions today

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about how efficient the work of the Belgian security services is. What

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is your view on that? You won't hear that echoed publicly

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by MI5, the security service over my shoulder here, but they are taking

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an intense interest in all of this, because memories of the London

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bombings are still very raw. There is no question that Belgium has got

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chronic problems when it comes to security. They have six different

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police forces spread across 19 boroughs, they speak to different

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languages, they have a problem when it comes to different names coming

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in on lists, Belgian intelligence is not sharing everything with Belgian

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police, and above all, they have got a problem when it comes to community

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policing. They simply don't have their tentacles stretched down into

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the communities, feeding them the kind of tip-offs that the British

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police and MI5 are getting here in Britain. That is not to say it

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couldn't happen here, but Britain has come a long way in the last ten

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years, and Belgium needs to catch up in the way Britain did. Frank, thank

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you very much. Katya Adler, when people talk about a degree of

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co-operation needed on a European level to address directly some of

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the security failures that we have seen over the past 12 months

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certainly, what has been said today? As far as Belgium particularly is

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concerned, they are hearing their Prime Minister warning of possible

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further attacks, and they are hearing in the media at home and

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abroad opportunities missed by the Secret Service is here considering

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intelligence. There is reference to angling Belgians, and even worse.

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But if the finger of blame is going to be pointed, it does really need

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to be pointed in all sorts of directions. In the recent terror

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attacks, Paris last January, Paris last November, and now here in

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Brussels. There have been repeated promises by secret services across

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the European Union that they will work better together and share more

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information, but the problem with secret services is they liked it

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keep the information secret. We are outside the European Union

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institution buildings where one of the bombs went off near by, and they

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say this was an attack on Europe and it needs much more of a European

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solution. Katya Adler, our Europe editor, thank you Ray Mutch, and

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Frank Gardner earlier. More from Brussels later,

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when I'll be talking to a journalist who found herself at

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the airport yesterday . Her images have been seen by many

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around the world. In the meantime, it is back to London.

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Here, two British students have been convicted of plotting drive-by

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terror attacks in London inspired by so-called Islamic State.

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Suhaib Majeed was convicted of conspiracy to murder

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The plot's ringleader, Tarik Hassane, had already pleaded

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Daniel Sandford has been following the case.

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Posing with a gun and a enlarged and book, Tarik Hassane, leader of an IS

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plot that targeted London. Their intention was to commit a drive-by

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shooting using open Ed and a firearm, targeting specifically the

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police, the military or members of the public industry. It was around

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the A40 flyover in West London that Tarik Hassane and his school friend

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Sahagun Majeed grew up and became supporters of violent jihad. They

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made their connections to the men who supplied the gun, both former

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altar boys. But as they finalise their plot in the summer of 2014,

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they were under surveillance. Majeed was watched using sophisticated

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encryption receiving messages from someone suspected to be in Syria,

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and photographed taking delivery of the gun from local criminal Neil

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Hamlett. He threw the pistol, silencer and bullets from his

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bedroom window when he was apprehended. The threat level in the

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UK was raised to severe, meaning that a terrorist attack in the UK

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was assessed as highly likely. This was one of the first time that

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so-called Islamic State supporters had targeted the West. It eventually

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led to the terrifying Paris attacks last November. So how did Tarik

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Hassane, who had wanted to be a heart surgeon, end up swearing

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allegiance to IS's his father, or possibly stepfather, is a Saudi

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ambassador, seen here meeting the Saudi king. The BBC has learned he

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was already an extremist while at his secondary school, where he was

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reported for calling on other boys to attack Israel. He and Majeed were

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part of a network of extremists from West London, at least three of their

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friends died fighting in Iraq Syria, and two of them were school friends

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of Jihadi John, Mohammed Emwazi. This was Tarik Hassane as a teenager

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in an anti-knife crime video. Four years later, he had been so

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radicalised coming he was plotting in the same streets to unleashed

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terror with a semiautomatic gun. Have you been to a police station

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before? No. Refusing to answer questions in his police interview,

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before eventually pleading guilty. Daniel Sandford, BBC News, at the

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Old Bailey. Our top story this evening:

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A nation in mourning - Belgium remembers the 31 people

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who died in yesterday's attacks. And still to come:

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An eyewitness to terror - the photographer who found herself

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in the middle of the mayhem. Coming up in Sportsday

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on BBC News... Formula One in crisis -

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Jensen Button and other drivers write an open letter to the sport,

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demanding change at the top. For the first time junior doctors

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will refuse to cover emergency care It's a dramatic escalation

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in the row between the British Medical Association

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and the Government over pay Ministers described the move

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as desperate and irresponsible. The BMA says other staff -

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including consultants - will be expected to

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cover A departments. This bitter dispute over working

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hours and pay has intensified again. For the first time in the history

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of the NHS, a group of doctors will refuse to provide emergency

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cover as well as routine care. Up to now, the strikes have affected

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nonurgent procedures. Their union, the BMA,

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says they have no alternative. It is the only way we can see

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of getting Mr Cameron and Mr Hunt We wish to talk, we wish them

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to return to negotiations and to come to some sort of adult

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and safe resolution. Junior doctors in England have

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already been on strike three times. The next planned action,

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starting on the 6th of April, will last 48 hours and again

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affect routine care. But a similar 48-hour strike planned

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from the 26th of April will now be between 8am and 5pm each day

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and affect all care, Ministers say they had to impose

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a contract after talks broke down, They claimed the only sticking point

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is the union's insistence on higher The fact is that if the BMA had

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agreed to negotiate about Saturday premium rates, as they said

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they would, it wouldn't have been The only people who will suffer

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will be patients. The BMA had planned a full walk-out

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by junior doctors affecting all forms of care at an earlier

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stage of this dispute, but, much to the relief of NHS

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management, that was called off as a new round of talks got under

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way Right now, though, there is no sign of further

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negotiations taking place, and an all-out strike by junior

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doctors is back on the agenda. There have been thousands

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of cancelled routine operations, but there has been majority public

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support so far for What remains to be seen

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is whether that continues and whether patient care

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is compromised when the action An independent review commissioned

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in the aftermath of the Rotherham child sex exploitation scandal has

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found that South Yorkshire Police force's response across

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the county was inadequate. It says early attempts to alert

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senior officers fell on deaf ears, though there have been

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improvements in recent years. As our social affairs correspondent

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Michael Buchanan reports, nearly 1500 youngsters

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were exploited over Day and night across

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South Yorkshire, children The police knew, but for

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years they walked on by. This woman was repeatedly abused

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in Sheffield as a teenager. They knew everything

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that was going on. The amount of times they had taken

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us from these houses where there would be men around

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and knew what these men were doing. Senior command lacked professional

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curiosity. Today we discovered why

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South Yorkshire Police For about a decade from 2000,

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a top-down culture existed. Prioritising robbery,

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burglary and car crime South Yorkshire Police had

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within its grasp on perhaps six or seven occasions an opportunity

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to do more than they did do. This spreadsheet that we obtained

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last year highlights some of the allegations that the force

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refused to investigate. Children being raped,

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beaten, trafficked. This former officer asked his

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superiors to allow him to investigate child

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sexual exploitation. Really, really frustrated

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by what has happened. Because it is ten, 12 years later,

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I still think about it. I still think, you know,

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what could we have done? Back then if we had learned

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from my report that went in, and what all the intelligence

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reports were saying, Because if they had it,

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some of these young girls' lives For South Yorkshire Police today,

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tackling child sexual exploitation No one has been fired,

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however, for past mistakes. But dozens of officers

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are under investigation. Young people are far more protected

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in South Yorkshire today But the more resources the police

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put towards a crime, the bigger the problem

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appears to get. In the past three years more

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than 2000 young people have been identified as potential victims

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of child sexual exploitation. Michael Buchanan,

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BBC News, Sheffield. Let's return to Huw now

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with the latest from Brussels. Within seconds of yesterday's bomb

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attacks at the airport there were images being circulated

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on social media of the chaotic The journalist who found herself

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in the departures hall, standing just a few metres away

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from both explosions, is Kate Kardava of Georgia

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Public Broadcasting, She has been here for the past seven

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years. The images she took in the minutes

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after the bombing have been seen by many millions of

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people around the world. I've been speaking to her about

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the events of yesterday morning. I didn't realise what

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happened, you know? I looked and there was a flame,

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very big flame, and very strong Smoke and dust and doors and

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windows, everything flying around. And much stronger.

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or were you still standing? My friends told me

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today, "You are lucky." Yes, I'm really lucky

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because I was the only person And first, what I did,

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I wanted to feel my legs, you know? And all around you were

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people who were injured? They were on the floor, on the floor

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with injuries, in blood. So first, what I did,

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take my iPhone and began I had a chance to show everybody

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in the world and show the world And I think that this is the face

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of terrorism, you know? There will be some people,

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Kate, who say, you know, you've produced these very strong

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images - as a journalist we understand why you did that -

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but why didn't you help people around you who were clearly

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in need of help? I couldn't help, I am not a doctor,

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I am a journalist. for me to take photos,

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and doctors will help them. What are your thoughts today,

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24 hours later, when you think that we might not be having

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this conversation today? Today I really better realise

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what happened yesterday, yeah. The thoughts of that journalist from

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Georgia Public Broadcasting on the trauma they all suffered at that

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output yesterday. It is almost 7:30pm here, 6:30pm at home, now the

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weather. It has been dry for some time across

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our shores, all change, more unsettled and wind and rain crossing

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the UK. The first spell of that is evident on the satellite sequence

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fast approaching the north and west. It has been Kodi Bear drive the

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many, a bit of rain so far. For parts of Scotland in particular.

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Something more substantial will arrive by dawn. Most of England and

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Wales will be fine and dry. Why do you have the clear skies,

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temperatures will drop, maybe frost and mist and fog patches -- where

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you have the clear skies. The morning is pretty wet and windy

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across the north and west of Scotland, not too much across the

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east, but some. Not a great rush hour in Northern Ireland, wet and

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windy. For the Midlands and eastern England, it should be a bright start

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date, chilly for some, six or 7 degrees, not particularly one. The

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winds are picking up, code setting in for the west of Wales. Largely

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dry for Cornwall and Devon, rain is on the move, trudging towards the

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south-east for the afternoon. Not too much rain to the east of the

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Pennines, but some. Some improvement for Scotland and Northern Ireland in

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the afternoon. Temperatures typically nine or ten,

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but not feeling great in the wind and rain.

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A chilly start with a touch of frost for Good Friday, but looking pretty

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decent. 14 degrees and light winds in London, feeling pleasant enough.

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Make the most of that, all change on Saturday. The next weather front is

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coming into the north-west of the UK, that will bring in rain, so

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quite windy as well. Back to you. That's all from BBC News

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at Six in Brussels. In a moment on BBC One we'll

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join our news teams where you are, but I'll leave you with some

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