19/09/2016 BBC News at Six

The man suspected of planting bombs in New York and New Jersey.

Injured in the exchange of fire, he is an Afghan-born American

He's also allegedly linked to another device found at a train

We'll bring you the latest as Americans are urged to be

vigilant in the face of this new threat.

Theresa May is to tell world leaders at a migration summit.

Five years after he first confessed, a man is convicted

Table -- today we have received the justice that has felt like an

eternity coming for our beautiful little girl, Becky.

A bright future for British technology, says one

helped his struggling brother over the finishing line.

And coming up in the sport on BBC News.

Mo Farah is the latest high-profile athlete to have confidential medical

records released by hackers who stole files.

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at six.

This is the face of the man the FBI suspects of planting at least

three bombs in New York and New Jersey at the weekend.

He was captured this afternoon in a shoot out with police ,

he is twenty eight year old Ahmad Khan Rahami,

a naturalised US citizen who was born in Afghanistan.

He's also being linked to a back pack containing at least five

explosive devices found overnight at a train station near his home

Our north America correspondent Nicky Bryant is there for

This only happened sure while ago, what more can you tell us? Early

this morning, millions of people living in the New Jersey and New

York area received a text alert from the police telling them to be on the

lookout for a suspect in the New York bombing and warning them that

he may be armed and dangerous. Little over an hour ago in this

suburban street behind me following a shoot out with the

authorities, he was taken into custody. This is a suspect who

police believe carried out the New York bombing. Bloodied and bandaged

following a shoot out with police. Now in custody after a dramatic

manhunt. His name is Ahmad Khan Rahami, a 28-year-old naturalised US

citizen who was born in Afghanistan. The police had released photographs

of him early this morning after he was spotted on surveillance footage

at the sight of the New York bombing and also where a second device was

found just streets away. The public had been warned that he was armed

and dangerous. I saw the cops shooting at the guy. For me, that

was it. 12 shots rang out, I guess he got in by them. The morning

started with two bomb squad robot sub investigating a suspicious

package which exploded before they could even deactivated. It had been

left near a railway station in the town of Elizabeth, New Jersey, and

the blast clearly took detectives by surprise. This is a town where Ahmad

Khan Rahami lives and an investigation quickly turned into a

manhunt. The FBI carried out searches at his family's business, a

fried chicken restaurant with the authorities say he worked. They have

been investigating possible links with a spate of attacks over the

weekend. They began on Saturday morning when a pipe bomb exploded

ahead of a charity run ahead the struggle for Marines. That was

followed on Saturday evening by an explosion in Chelsea New York which

injured 29, a second device was found nearby, both work shrapnel

filled pressure cookers. The same evening

nine people were stabbed at a Minnesota shopping centre by a man

of Somali origin who was later shot dead by police. So-called Islamic

State has claimed responsibility. Late yesterday evening, a backpack

with explosive devices was found in New Jersey. Speaking in New York,

where the attacks of 9/11 were commemorated last week, the

President was defiant. By showing those who want to do us harm that

they will never beat us, by showing the entire world that as Americans

we do not and never will give in to fear, that is going to be the most

important ingredient in us defeating those who would carry out terrorist

acts against us. On the streets of New York, what authorities are

calling the biggest security presence in the city has ever seen.

With 1000 additional police officers and national guardsmen protecting

key sites. This week, security was already going to be tight with more

than 103rd he heads of state and government attending the United

Nations General Assembly, but extra precautions are now being taken. The

police clearly believe they now have the New York bombing suspect in

custody, one of the questions now, or was he

a lone wolf or part of a wider plot? Nick Bryant, BBC News, New Jersey.

Well among the world leaders arriving in New York

She's expected to tell her fellow heads of governments that refugees

should claim asylum in the first safe country they reach.

Meeting the United Nations Secretary General, she also called

for a clearer distinction between genuine refugees

fleeing their homes and those who are leaving

Across the world today there are 65 million displaced people.

That has particular resonance for the United Kingdom.

It is equivalent to our entire population.

It is also nearly double the number of displaced

And yet, UN appeals are underfunded, host countries are not getting

enough support and displaced people are not receiving the aid

Our deputy political editor John Pienaar is outside the UN.

Theresa May taking a different line on migration there to her German

counterpart, Angela Merkel who has also been talking today. That is

certainly true, Fiona, this business of redesigning and rebuilding

Britain's relationship with the wider world and Europe after the EU

referendum was going to be tough. It gets tougher all the time and that

is true of the migration crisis which has engulfed Europe in the way

we have seen. Theresa May is going to be addressing a special meeting

of leaders here at the UN any moment now and she will be setting out

those ideas but also reading them something of a lesson, reminding

them that a country including Britain has a right to police its

own borders, reminding them of the difference between those seeking a

better way of life and those fleeing conflict and telling them it is

better to spend more money close to those conflict region borders than

see people sweep across a continent like Europe. I spoke to her and she

said it was about leaders getting their heads together and coming up

with a plan. Given that Britain is under pressure to do more to take in

more migrants and leaders like Angela Merkel need no reminding of

how different the situation is, this may be resented by some of them a

lot. Angela Merkel is accepting that mistakes were made in Germany and to

get a lesson from Theresa May of this kind may not go down terribly

well. Theresa May got the lesson from Brexit and she sees that people

are worried about controlling British borders and that is one

lesson she does not mean to forget. Thank you.

Christopher Halliwell must have thought he'd got away with murder.

He confessed to killing 20-year-old Becky Godden five years ago

and even showed a police officer where he'd buried her body.

But a police blunder meant he couldn't be brought

Today he was convicted of her murder alongside his current sentence

Victims of burglary and we want to understand...

2001 and Becky Godden was in the audience

I don't want to keep coming back every couple of years on a different

She was strangled by taxi driver Christopher Halliwell,

who is now finally convicted of her murder.

Tonight, Becky's mum described it as a momentous day.

It has been an extremely painful journey but today, we've received

the justice that has felt like an eternity coming

for our beautiful little girl, Becky.

What makes this case so unusual is that 5 years ago,

Halliwell led police to this remote area of Gloucestershire and showed

them the spot where he said he had buried a prostitute.

This is where they found Becky's remains.

Given that Christopher Halliwell stood in this field and told

officers that he had strangled the woman and then buried her here,

you might think this case would have been dealt with quickly.

In fact it has been anything but straightforward.

Halliwell was arrested in 2011 over the disappearance of another young

Straightaway he led the police to her body.

And then he stunned officers by directing them to the field

where Becky's remains were found too.

He said he had killed her almost a decade earlier.

But because the detective in charge hadn't followed the correct

procedures when he arrested Halliwell, none of that evidence

Detective Steve Fulcher was later found guilty of gross misconduct

In a statement tonight he says he still believes he did the right

and moral thing in letting Halliwell lead him to the bodies

rather than going straight to the police station.

Tonight, Becky's mum thanked the officer.

I will always respect him and will be indebted to him

for making that moral decision as a police officer.

In the end, new forensic evidence helped police bring the case

back to court and now, Christopher Halliwell is finally

A senior officer told the BBC that he thinks there could be more

victims. As for Halliwell, as he was hearing this guilty verdict in the

dock, he laughed and as he was taken away in handcuffs, he deliberately

stopped and paused and he stared at Becky's family in the eye and smiled

at them very deliberately, something that upset them even more. Fiona.

Jon Kay in Bristol, thank you. The Ministry of Defence has

confirmed that a British aircraft was involved in a US-led Coalition

air strike at the weekend that killed dozens of Syrian soldiers.

The attack involved a remotely Our defence correspondent

Jonathan Beale is outside the MoD, this has already become

the focus of angry exchanges between the US and the Russians ,

who are backing Syrian forces. Now it turns out Britain

was involved too... This exchange of fire has already

become a heated row between the US and Russia and Britain appears to

have become involved as well. You are right, Fiona, this was an attack

on Saturday involving Coalition warplanes, they thought they were

hitting Islamic State positions in Syria and they were told by Russia

that they were hitting forces loyal to President Assad. We know already

that US jets and Danish jets and Australian jets were involved and

there was confirmation from the Ministry of Defence that an unmanned

Reaper Drone took part in those air strikes. These are remotely piloted

aircraft, thrown -- flown thousands of miles away in bases in the US and

UK that carry hellfire missiles and some of those weapons were used, we

were not told for exactly what by the MoD, but this was an incident

that has caused diplomatic rows between America and Russia. There

was meant to be coordination between Russia and America, about focusing

their air power on Islamic State and now there are questions about

whether that coordination will continue and whether that ceasefire

to protect civilians will hold. Tonight, President Assad is already

saying that that ceasefire is dead. Thank you.

One of the world's top technology bosses has told the BBC that Brexit

is only a short term issue and it shouldn't distract

Britain from doing business beyond the European Union

Matt Brittin, the head of Google in Europe,

Middle East and Africa said the future for British

In the first of our reports this week on Britain's technology

industry, he was speaking to our Economics Editor,

Silicon Valley, the sun-kissed home to the American giants some have

argued could never have made it in Britain.

Multi-billion pound companies started in garages and

It isn't just the weather that makes the difference.

Here in the UK, the head of Google says that

things are improving but

You need entrepreneurs, skills and finance.

My sense is that we have amazing skills, Google employs over

They are as good as anywhere in the world.

Finance, access to finance is getting better.

They are as good as anywhere in the world.

Finance, access to finance is getting better.

I think the ambition and realising you can do big

things is ever more present for British entrepreneurs.

They are as good as anywhere in the world.

Much talk focuses on the referendum result, a

concern to many tech leaders, but this is a global battle in which

The Internet population is doubling from

2.7 billion people to over 5 billion people

in a 4-5-year period, that is

the trend that entrepreneurs must pay attention to and ultimately, I'm

sure that the government will sort out solutions to all of the local

Here are robots making a difference at Sir

Our whole setup is about creating technology...

The founder said the next Google could be making

batteries or creating artificial intelligence.

Technology applied to hardware, algorithm software applied

to hardware, is growing far faster than companies

So I think that technology, this horrible word that analogy companies

are the only companies involved in the Internet, is complete rot.

This is silicone roundabout's London's

humbler and noisily expanding riposte to Silicon Valley.

It was here in 2010 that David Cameron made

his famous speech asking why isn't there a Google in the UK.

But since then, there has been rapid expansion.

The number of tech companies based here six years ago

That figure has increased to 2500 now.

Up the road, Improbable, makers of virtual

Not selling out and raising finance from abroad, the

founder says the final prize is huge.

One break-out success is worth more than the average outcome for

thousands of other companies because that single break-out success

becomes not only GDP moving, it becomes a foundation, when it's

employees branch out and leave and start new companies in the same

That's ultimately how Silicon Valley has been so

successful, one Titan becomes the kind of progenitor of many

smaller businesses that spring up and grow.

The hunt for Titans goes on, for a sector that already

We may not have a Google yet, but do not underestimate

The man suspected of planting three bombs in New York

and New Jersey is captured after a police shoot out.

A colourful closing ceremony in Rio as Britain's Paralympians

Rangers suspend their midfielder Joey Barton for three weeks,

six days after he was sent home from training following

a heated argument with team mate Andy Halliday.

As we heard earlier in the programme, Theresa May

will attend an international summit aimed at dealing with the migrant

crisis, which has seen a huge influx of refugees crossing into Europe.

But the vast majority of those who have fled Syria -

over 4.8 million - have stayed in the region.

Of the 2.7 million who are now in Turkey, just under one

Only one in four of them are getting any form of education.

Many of them are having to work instead.

We've been speaking to two young boys working six days a week

Caroline Hawley and cameraman Sakir Khader have their story.

Dreams die quickly and water. Like many of the other children working

in this shoe factory, camel is a Syrian refugee. -- Kamil is a Syrian

refugee. The rest of Kamil's family was

planning to free to Turkey, to, but God cut off by fighting around

Aleppo. 12-year-old Hussain also worked 12

hour shifts in a nearby factory. This is Hussain's home now. His

wages support a family of six. His father was injured in the war.

We asked Hussein why he isn't in school.

The story of two magpies fleeing the conflict in Syria. -- two boys.

The chairman of the troubled Southern Health Trust has resigned

Tim Smart took on the role in May following damning criticism

of the Trust's investigations into hundreds of unexpected deaths.

After Katrina Percy resigned as chief executive last month,

there was further controversy when another job was created

Fly-tipping is the scourge of many communities up and down

the country and now councils, communities and some

They're coming up with new ways to track the illegal rubbish

and find those who dump it as our correspondent

On a street corner in Croydon, south London, Stephen

and Ola are holding their breath and brushing away the flies

as they rummage through somebody else's rubbish.

I think people just don't care about the environment.

A lot of the ones we've found, you ask them, why did

Well, the council will collect it one day.

Croydon's community safety team spend every day chasing

As fast as they clear it up, the filth appears somewhere else.

In cities, villages, in the countryside, the blight

Here on Merseyside, someone has broken the locks of an empty

warehouse and dumped 600 tonnes of waste.

Because we can't clearly see how far the waste goes

Over the last two years, government figures show a steady

increase in the number of fly-tipping incidents across

They range from the contents of a car boot to material that has

Some blame the increase charges at local recycling sites,

others the activities of unlicensed contractors.

Whatever has caused this blight, councils must find ways

Near Stroud in Gloucestershire, a fresh pile of dumped rubbish has

Lucy Biddle, the investigator, is on the trail of those responsible.

And she's found a treasure trove of clues.

Pretty much got everything we need in one bag.

CCTV is another weapon in the armoury of the

council and there is a clear warning that penalties don't just apply to

Those who hire them can also be liable to hefty

The BBC's investigations have revealed the levels of effort and

investment that local authorities are putting

But they face a fundamental difficulty, those intent on spoiling

our environment still take the view that someone else will always clear

it up and unless there is a real change in that attitude, it is a

The problem of flytipping will be featured on special editions

of Inside Out across England tonight on BBC One at 7.30pm.

The Paralympic Games have ended in Rio, with a colourful closing

ceremony in a packed Maracana Stadium.

Britain's Paralympians have been celebrating their best

Para GB ended in second place in the medals table with 147

Andy Swiss has been looking at what lies behind our

extraordinary summer of sporting success.

The record-breaker, the history maker, Kadeena Cox!

Great Britain's Glover and Stanning defend their title.

Two Games, one never-ending gold rush.

After London 2012, few thought it could get any better

but Britain's Olympians and Paralympians have

Last night they were flying the flag for the final time in Rio,

the Paralympics closing ceremony the end of a summer

A lot of countries don't perform at the Games after they've

Team GB and ParalympicsGB have just been amazing.

At London 2012, Britain's Olympians and Paralympians won

185 medals between them including 63 gold medals.

Here in Rio, without home advantage, they've done even better.

And while in London they both finished third in the medals table,

The first time they've both made the top two.

Some ?350 million or ?1.6 million per medal.

Covering everything from the pre-Games training base

in Brazil to the details that can make that difference.

Here at the Paralympic Games, the swimmers have benefited

from more streamlined caps, swimming caps.

So it could make the difference between a gold and a silver.

The only problem now for British sport is how do you follow

There is money in sport and long may that continue.

So we've also got to be smart as we go forward and other countries

are going to catch up, whether it is with

But as the fans head home, for British sport it is the end

And finally, a story of brotherly love.

British brothers and rivals Jonny and Alastair Brownlee

were about to follow up their Olympic glory yesterday

at a triathlon in Mexico - when things suddenly

Over an hour and a half in and Johnny Brownlee looks certain to be

World Champion. Until this. He is losing his sense of direction. This

is worrying. Oh, goodness me. In the lead with around 500 metres to go, a

dramatic decline. He looked like he was about to collapse after weaving

across the road in hot and humid conditions. Then his big brother,

Alistair, stepped in to help. Unbelievable scenes. Unbelievable

scenes. The Brownlee brothers, arm in arm. He was determined to get his

brother over the line. Even as South Africa's Henry Schuman overtook

them. Jonny can hardly stand and Alistair is having to drag him

across the line, pushing him home, pushing him home for second. At the

finishing line, a little shove did the trick. I have been in that

position before and when it happened to me in London all those years ago,

I remember sprinting away in second place and turning around to look at

my position, and someone told me I was in tenth. Literally, it could

happen to anyone. If it had happened to Henri, I would have helped him. I

just wish I had got over the finish line first. Johnny Brownlee said

this tweet in testament to his brother from hospital.

Not such a great story but we saw two sides to the weather today. Some

blue skies here in Scotland. This was sterling, where we had some

welcome blue skies. In Dorset, much more cloud and some outbreaks of

rain. It kept the temperatures down. This was a figure band of cloud. It

really has not moved very far at all today. Turning heavier over the past

few hours. We could see heavy bursts across East Anglia during the

evening. Clear skies in Wales and towards Scotland and Northern

Ireland. In the countryside, it will turn chilly. Milder for Easter and

England under that cloud. A gloomy start with rain and drizzle around.

That will tends to become light and patchy. Sharp showers in the

afternoon for East Anglia and the south-east. No such problems further

west across Wales and England. Temperatures tomorrow very similar

to those of today. As we head into Wednesday, we will look to the West

to see our weather arriving. Another weather front pushing and, initially

more active. We will see the wind picking up in western areas with a

band of rain coming in. Some lively showers for western areas.

Temperatures will be higher in the sunshine. For East Anglia and the

south-east, that weather front could provide a focus for heavy showers as

we head into Thursday. But during Friday, high pressure tending to

building across the UK except towards the north-west. By the end

of the week, the wind will be stronger with outbreaks of rain in

the north-west but towards the south-east, drier, brighter and

warmer. That's all from the BBC News at Six,

so it's goodbye from me