03/04/2017 BBC News at Six

At least ten killed and dozens injured after an explosion

on the metro system in St Petersburg.

Fear and confusion on the daily commute, the Prime Minister says

The scene moments after, as passengers make their way

The entire system is now closed, with extra security.

TRANSLATION: Law enforcement and special services are working and

will do all they can to try and find the cause of what's happened.

We'll be looking at who might be behind the blast.

Seven people, including two sets of siblings,

are charged with the attack on a teenage asylum-seeker

Jaw-jaw not war-war, Theresa May laughs off any

suggestion of war with Spain over Gibraltar.

I'm sorry, says Sunderland manager David Moyes,

after he suggests he might slap a female reporter in an interview.

And the mysterious grammar vigilante correcting shop signs in Bristol.

And coming up in Sportday later in the hour on BBC News.

A vote of confidence, Mark Sampson names his England

squad for the Euros, three and half months before

A very good evening and welcome to the BBC news at six.

An explosion on the Underground system in St Petersburg is reported

to have killed ten people and injured as many as 50 more.

The explosion happened in the early afternoon local time,

and hit a train that was travelling between two stations.

Russia's National Anti-Terrorist Committee said an explosive device

at a third station was later found and made safe.

The Russian Prime Minister called the metro blast an act of terror,

and President Putin said all scenarios were

Here's our correspondent Sarah Rainsford.

Are there any children, a woman shouts, as passengers rushed to the

wreckage of a train. The blast was just down the line. This is the

immediate scene of panic. Mobile phone footage from another passing

train shows victims still lying on the platform. It was to 40 in the

afternoon and this is the heart of the Saint Petersburg Metro in

Russia's second city. Something exploded, a young man says. It was

loud, too. It is the next station and he is filming as the tunnel

filled with smoke. Ambulances, fire engines, even rescue helicopters

were sent to the scene as the injured began to emerge from

underground. And as they came, officials confirmed that they had

been targeted deliberately. Within hours a second home made device was

discovered at another station and made safe. The entire Metro system

has now been closed. Vladimir Putin was insane to be displayed today

meeting the president of Belarus. He described what has happened is a

tragedy. As to what is behind it, and official terrorism investigation

has been opened but Mr Putin said all options are being considered.

TRANSLATION: The investigation will show the cause of this but all

explanations are always looked into including an accident or criminal

causes and above all terrorism. The investigation will soon provide

answers to what has happened. It is now 18 months since President Putin

authorised air strikes in Syria, an operation he said was to fight

terrorism. He said extremist militants from Russia fighting with

Islamic State had to be stopped from coming back here to mount attacks.

Weeks later came this, a tourist flight from Egypt brought down on

its way to Saint Petersburg. Russia then blamed terrorists. And now the

city is suffering again. They will be three days of official mourning

here as investigators begin their search to understand who did this

and why. Sarah Rainsford, BBC News, Moscow.

With me is our Security Correspondent Frank Gardner

- the Russian Prime Minister says it's an act of terror -

if so, who will the Russians be looking at?

Well, this is what the FSB, the successors to the Soviet era KGB

have been looking out all afternoon, they have gone through CCTV footage,

looked at the friends at residue. Essentially suspicions fall on two

areas, one inspired by so-called Islamic State, remember that around

7000 Russian marginals, most from the north Caucasus, have gone to

join extremist groups in Syria. Some have been killed, some have stayed,

some comeback. The second group ones who have had form in attacking

Russia before, which is the Chechen and North Caucus they killed over 30

people in an attack in Moscow in 2010 on the Underground. It could

even be a combination of both. No one has yet claimed responsibility,

the Russians say they are keeping an open mind on it but that is a

suspicions life. Thank you. Theresa May has laughed off

suggestions of a military conflict between the UK and Spain over

Gibraltar. Yesterday the former Tory leader

Lord Howard suggested the Prime Minister would defend

Gibraltar during Brexit negotiations in the same way

the Falklands were defended in 1982. In a moment we'll talk to our

Deputy Political Editor Jon Pienaar, who's with the Prime Minister in

Amman, but first Tom Burridge sent They cross freely. Thousands commute

from Spain onto Rock of Gibraltar every morning. With Britain exiting

the European Union the arrangement of this border will be central to

what Brexit here. It's important for me and other Spanish workers, says

Maria, that things stay the same. That is probably what our Prime

Minister wants as well. Today on a visit to Jordan, she said, despite

strong words at the weekend she was keen to reach an amicable solution

in the Brexit negotiation. We are focusing on talking with the rest of

the EU, starting the formal negotiations and ensuring that at

the end of those negotiations we see a result that will be in the

interests of the UK and of Gibraltar but I think we'll be in the

interests of the 27 member states of the European Union as well. Back on

the other side of Gibraltar's border Spain lives in the shadow of

Gibraltar. The economy here, stagnant. It is a tale of two towns.

Take an employment, in Gibraltar, 1%, no one out of work. Next door in

the Spanish term it is 35%. Gibraltar is known for its low

taxes. Standard Corporation tax is a standard 10%, and Spain is 25%.

Gibraltar 's moneymaking economy is a source of grievance for Spain. So

Madrid might use Brexit to try to negotiate a better economic deal was

Gibraltar but London might tell Brussels and Gibraltar must have the

same deal as the rest of Britain. One thing that is clear after the

colourful rhetoric this weekend Britain will not but the Rock's

sovereignty on the table. Today Spain 's Foreign Minister criticised

the former Tory leader Lord Howard, who drew a parallel between

Gibraltar now and the war in the Falklands. TRANSLATION: To bring

back past episodes like the Falklands is a bit out of context. I

frankly think that someone in the UK is losing their temper and there's

no reason for that. This evening they headed home to Spain. The end

of the day's work at the beginning of a hard political negotiation that

will have some impact on a way of life on either side. Tom Burridge,

BBC News, in Gibraltar. Let's go to our Deputy Political

Editor Jon Pienaar who's So, Jon, Theresa May laughs off the

idea of a Gibraltar war, what does this episode tell us about the wider

Brexit negotiations? I think that today the Prime Minister has calmed

the tone of a dispute which had tipped well over the line into

files. Look at objectively any suggestion that this century's

oldest dispute over sovereignty could end with the Spanish invasion

and warp sat on a scale of probability between wildly

implausible and completely bonkers. With a sharp laugh, speaking to me

and journalists on the flight into Jordan the Prime Minister has added

some useful perspective. It still leaves a problem for Britain. And

that's telling Spain that they will have no decisive say in the future

of Gibraltar after Brexit. And remember that Spain like all the

other members of the European Union will have a vote and a veto over the

final Brexit steel. And looking further ahead I think it's a warning

for the future because you can bet there will be more awkward noises

off, and comfortable side issues before we get to the end of this

game over Brexit. Jon, many thanks. Jon P

Five people have been charged with an attack on a teenage

was approached at a bus stop in Croydon, and then chased

He was left with a fractured skull and a blood clot on his brain.

Here's our Home Affairs Correspondent Tom Symonds.

the suspects all live close to the attack happened on charged with

violent disorder, Jac Wilder hiding his face, his brother George alone

facing a charge of aggravated wounded. Daniel Davies and his

sister Danielle, and a fifth man, Barry Potts. It started outside this

pub. Two young asylum seekers allegedly confronted by a group of

up to 30, one third waiting at a nearby bus stop was dragged in and

police say what followed was a horrendous attack. I think this is

powered by numbers. So there has been an incident outside the pub,

they have obviously picked on three young men. And there was no reason

for this attack. And I believe that because of the numbers involved,

people have just jumped on the back of it and it has turned into this

violent brawl where somebody has been viciously beaten and is very

lucky not to have lost his life. Reker Ahmed's friends escaped, he

was chased by the group, he got as far as this street corner where he

was found with serious injuries. Neighbours came to help, unlike,

said police, some of his attackers, who may not have struck any blows

but did nothing to stop this happening. Please have gathered CCTV

footage and released pictures of two more men they want to speak to. 16

have been arrested and this evening and two more people charged. There

is a constant police presence here and an air of tension. Tom Symonds,

BBC News, Croydon. A man has admitted causing

the deaths of two young cousins by careless driving in a hit-and-run

crash on New Year's Eve. Twelve-year-old Helina Kotlarova

and Zaneta Krokova, who was just 11, were holding hands

when they were struck Hungarian driver Gabor Hegedus

pleaded guilty at Manchester's Train drivers belonging to the Aslef

union have narrowly rejected a deal intended to settle a dispute with

Southern Railway, the other union in the dispute about the role of

conductors, the RMT, is due to strike again on Saturday. The parent

company of Southern rail said it was hugely disappointing outcome.

Credit card companies have been told to do more to help millions

The Financial Regulator has published proposals that could mean

credit card companies cancelling any interest or charges

Figures suggest credit card debt is growing at its fastest rate

Our Personal Finance Correspondent Simon Gompertz joins me now.

So why is the watchdog calling for this? The Financial Conduct

Authority is very concerned about more than 3 million people who have

what they call persistent credit card debt. That is where they have

gone for 18 months paying high charges and interest but not

whittling away at the underlying borrowing. 2 million of those people

have gone for three years like that and of course the costs just mount

so for each ?1 of persistent credit card debt, typically people will be

paying ?2 50 in charges and interest. So here and other measures

the SCA would like to see. First, after 18 months, more effort to

encourage people to repay faster, prompting them, and if it goes on

for three years, a debt formal repayment plan should be in place.

And if people genuinely cannot afford that, that is the point at

which they might have their interest or their charges cancelled, and of

course the card cancelled at the same time. Now the FCA is saying

that if that happens customers will see a reduction in yearly of ?1.3

billion in charges. So a colossal sum. But debt experts are warning

that this doesn't go to the heart of the matter. They say the fact that

people are allowed just to have minimum repayments every month for

more than a few month and the debt just goes on and on, the most

expensive form of debt that there is should not probably be allowed.

At least ten people have been killed, and dozens injured,

after an explosion on the Metro system in St Petersburg.

A heart charity warns one in three need more exercise,

Coming up in Sportsday in the next 15 minutes on BBC News...

How a TV viewer cost the American golfer Lexi Thompson the

Disabled people are still being treated like second-class citizens,

according to a report by the Equality and

It says that although laws were introduced 20 years ago

banning discrimination, life chances for disabled people

remain very poor and public attitudes haven't changed enough.

Our Disabilities Correspondent, Nikki Fox, reports.

Chantelle has to take each day as it comes.

14 years ago, she owned a house and ran her own successful business.

But everything changed when her son, Harry, was born.

Harry has multiple life-limiting conditions.

He needed two liver transplants as a baby.

Single mum Chantelle feels she isn't receiving enough support to make

I cashed in the last of my pension pot five years ago,

to get replacement equipment I needed for Harry.

Wheelchairs, stairlift, specialist buggies.

And now he's come to the point where all of that needs replacing.

I now have debts which I'll never be able to clear,

And with reforms to Social Security, charities have warned the changes

have hit disabled people the hardest, and impacted

on their independence and standard of living.

at what it's like to be disabled in Britain.

It shows that disabled people are significantly more likely to go

without the very basics - with many having to turn to food

In the UK, nearly 20% of disabled people can't

afford a nutritious diet, compared to 7% of the rest

And almost 60% of British families with a disabled child struggle

to pay for the essentials - like food, rent and heating -

compared with an average deprivation rate of 20%.

The lack of support and services available to families to help care

for their disabled child can make it very difficult for them

to balance their caring responsibilities with

On the other hand, the additional costs associated with raising

a disabled child can be significantly higher.

Those disadvantages are being experienced

right across the board, from education, to health

Everybody assumes that the Disability Discrimination Act

There's been a missed opportunity in relation to making progress

And, I think, in many ways, progress has either stalled or,

The Government says it is committed to ensuring that a disability

or health condition should not dictate the path a person is

It says it's proud of the work it does to support people with

What's your dream for the future, Chantelle?

For me, just to be able to say I've got the freedom to be able to go out

The commission says society needs to stop ignoring the rights

of disabled people so that Britain can be a fair and inclusive country.

The manager of Sunderland Football Club, David Moyes, says he deeply

regrets threatening to "slap" a female reporter in

The comment was made to BBC 5Live's Vicki Sparks

Both the club and the BBC say the matter has been resolved,

but there have been calls for the Football Association

Here's our Sports News correspondent, Richard Conway.

It was a routine post match question and answer following Sunderland's

And the owner, Ellis Short, was here today.

Does it put any extra pressure on you as a manager

when you know the owner is in the stands watching on?

Just getting a wee bit naughty at the end there, so,

You still might get a slap, even though you're a woman.

Today, David Moyes apologised, having already said sorry

to the BBC's reporter Vicki Sparks, who did not make a complaint

and did not want to speak further about the incident.

It was in the heat of the moment and I deeply regret

It's certainly not the person who I am.

David Moyes had hoped his apology would mark the end of this matter

but the FA, here at Wembley, say they will write to him to ask

for his observations and it comes amidst calls for action to be taken.

The Shadow Sports Minister, Dr Rosena Allin-Khan,

has labelled the comments disgraceful, saying Moyes cannot get

Bottom of the table Sunderland's season is on the brink.

An FA inquiry into their manager is therefore an unhelpful

distraction from their efforts to escape the drop.

shares in British technology company has plummeted by 60% after Apple

said it was no longer be using its products. Imagination Technologies

make graphic chips for iPhones and iPads. Apple says it is designing

its own graphics platform. One in three adults in the UK

is physically inactive and at risk from coronary heart disease

according to a new report. The British Heart Foundation says

an average person spends the equivalent of more than 70 days

a year sitting down. The most inactive part of the UK

is the North West of England, followed by Northern Ireland,

Wales and the north-east. Danny Savage reports

from Chorley in Lancashire. Along the Leeds/Liverpool Canal

this afternoon, a health Not enough people in this part

of the country do enough exercise, so this group is trying to do

something about it. You're getting the exercise,

you're getting the fresh air. Your joints do seize up

and I think you become When you're out and enjoying

the weather, whatever kind of weather, even if it's raining,

it's good to be out. But that's all very well for this

group of people who were either On a nearby business park,

the only exercise some people might That's borne out by the staff

in this marketing firm. One girl started here

a few months ago. I'm going to bring my trainers

and I'm going to start walking. Just because of the demands

of the job, you just get They do keep fit but say

determination is needed. There's more of a trend for people

getting into exercise now. People are a bit more aware

and health-conscious, The British Heart Foundation says

adults should do at least 150 minutes of moderate activity,

or 75 minutes of vigorous exercise, There's a running club

at this tech company in Manchester, where they positively encourage

people to exercise We sleep a third of our lives

and we have a third of it at home. I think the third you have at work,

you need to try and make as pleasant North-west England may

have a problem with an lack of exercise but GPs are formally

recommending things like these walks, and little steps go

a long way to hitting Does misuse of the

apostrophe get you mad? A "grammar vigilante" has been

prowling the streets of Bristol at night,

correcting bad punctuation on street The man wants to remain

anonymous but he did agree Good evening. This is Herbert's

bakery in Bristol. A bakery that belongs to Herbert. There we go,

Herbert 's. That might look like an original'. It is the right colour

and font it has been added in the middle of the night by somebody who

deeply cares about such things. It has been rumoured for years there is

a gorilla grammarian working on the streets here. Now he is come forward

and admitted it is true. Roaming the streets

of Bristol writing wrongs. I've been doing it for quite

a lot of years now. At home, he makes sticky

punctuation marks. I'm trying to match the colour

of the apostrophe that's He's even invented a tool

which he calls his apostrophiser - to reach

the highest signs. A quick demo on the

dining room wall. By day, he's a highly-qualified

professional. Only his family know

what he gets up to after dark. He started his campaign

30 years ago. Elsewhere, he's added them,

leaving his mark all There will be some people,

maybe the owners of these shops, who say, "Hang on a minute,

you haven't got permission. I'd say it's more of a crime to have

the apostophes wrong in the first There's one sign he's been desperate

to correct for years. But using a purpose-built

trestle, he climbs up, cut a piece of yellow sticky back

plastic to size, and It's good to see people

still caring about English When you go past a sign

that you've corrected... The word you're

looking for is pride. It makes my heart

swell slightly when I Well, you can hear more

on The Apostrophiser from Jon Good evening. 18 degrees just to the

east of London this afternoon. A high tree pollen count. Both

temperatures and the tree pollen count will be coming down in the

next couple of days because we have is whether front moving in from the

West. The series of whether France are bringing in rain. Eventually we

will see Atlantic air coming in behind them. The rain comes in from

Scotland and Northern Ireland. It will turned chilly. With all the

cloud and patchy rain across England and Wales, to bridge are holding up

to around eight, 9 degrees. It will be a great start in the South West

of England. Not much rain. Quite a bit of cloud, particularly over

higher ground. A doll and damp start to the day in the south-east of

England. North, there is still a lot of cloud. It would be quite low over

the hills. Some brighter weather in Northern Ireland in southern and

eastern Scotland where there will be morning sunshine. Elsewhere there

will be a breeze and showers early on. We will continue to see the

showers on the western side of Scotland into the afternoon. It will

brighten up across Wales and into the south-west with sunshine coming

through but it was a pretty grey across East Anglia and the South

East. Temperatures down on today's values. Closer to 11, 12 for Glasgow

and Belfast. As you go through Tuesday night into Wednesday, high

pressure is building in all the while. It will be with us for a good

few days. There are a few isobars in the chart. Ill be quite breezy.

There will be quite a bit of cloud Anthony the high. -- it will be

quite breezy. Temperatures again went about 11-15 . Thank you.

At least ten people have been killed and dozens injured after an

explosion on the Metro system in Saint Petersburg. This was the scene

after passengers made their way smoke-filled concourse.