Browse content similar to 22/03/2016. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!
Line | From | To | |
---|---|---|---|
Terror strikes in the heart of Belgium. | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
At least 31 people are dead and dozens more injured in a series | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
Two blasts ripped through the city's airport soon after eight | :00:21. | :00:28. | |
This was the scene in the departure hall just moments afterwards. | :00:29. | :00:39. | |
I heard a gunshot and what sounded like Arabic, then I heard boom, | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
An hour later at least 20 people were killed when a third bomb went | :00:43. | :01:00. | |
off on an underground train during the rush hour. | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
Are these the men responsible for the carnage? | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
The Belgian authorities are hunting the man wearing a hat on the right | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
The other two are thought to have blown themselves up. | :01:13. | :01:20. | |
Belgian's Prime Minister says it's a "black moment" for his country, | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
as the so-called Islamic State claims responsibility. | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
President Obama and the British Prime Minister are among world | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
These were attacks in Belgium, they could just be attacks, | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
just as well be attacks in Britain, or France or Germany | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
In Paris tonight the Eiffel Tower is lit up in the colours | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
of the Belgian flag, while in Rome, the Trevi Fountain is also shining | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
in red, yellow and black, in solidarity with the victims. | :01:53. | :02:22. | |
Good evening, I am here live outside Brussels International Airport Wales | :02:23. | :02:30. | |
Today's attacks began with two explosions killing at least 11 | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
people and injuring dozens of others. Then about an hour later | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
there was an attack on the Brussels metal at the heart of the city. | :02:42. | :02:49. | |
Tonight there is a series of police raids in operation in Brussels as | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
police and security forces try to find accomplices of those who | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
carried out today's attacks. The king of Belgium has just been | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
speaking and we will bring you that in just a moment. Let's first recap | :03:01. | :03:08. | |
the day's events as we have them. They were a series of bomb attacks | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
in Brussels today and they began at Brussels airport this morning at | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
around 8am local time. A very busy time at the airport and at least 11 | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
people dry, one explosion and then others ran from that explosion | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
towards the exits and there was a second explosion killing many | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
others. Then around an hour later there was a explosion on the | :03:39. | :03:47. | |
Brussels Metro at the heart of the city. It was rush-hour and at least | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
20 people were killed and many others injured. The devastating | :03:53. | :04:02. | |
attacks today have come just four days after the arrest of 26 she | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
ruled Salah Abdeslam, the man wanted in connection with the Paris terror | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
attacks that left many dead and it is. Today's -- today's attacks could | :04:15. | :04:22. | |
be a response to the arrest, or even fears among his accomplices that the | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
police services may be onto him. Let's hear no from the King of | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
Belgium who has been talking to his people and a special address. | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
For each one of us, 22nd March will no longer be a day | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
The broken lives, the deep wounds, our whole country bears this | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
The Queen and I share your pain - you, who have lost someone | :04:49. | :04:58. | |
close to you, or who have been | :04:59. | :05:00. | |
injured by the cowardly and despicable attacks today. | :05:01. | :05:02. | |
We give our support to the members of the emergency | :05:03. | :05:04. | |
Our gratitude also goes to all those who offer their help spontaneously. | :05:05. | :05:14. | |
As for the threat we face, we will continue to respond together | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
That was the king of Belgium talking to his people a short time ago and | :05:18. | :05:39. | |
we also heard from the Belgian Prime Minister who said today's backpacks | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
were violent and cowardly. He said this was a black day for Belgium and | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
Barack Obama has condemned the attacks as cowardly and odious. The | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
security threat level has been raised even further from the levels | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
of the yet was previously. There had been a series of police raids | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
throughout the day in response to what happened and also the police | :06:05. | :06:12. | |
have issued an arrest notice for one of the men seen on CCTV footage | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
entering the airport building early today pushing trolleys. One of those | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
men is believed to have survived and the other two have blown themselves | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
up and dry but one is not to be on the run. Let's get a report on the | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
day's horrific events. When a shaky voice tries to sound | :06:31. | :06:47. | |
reassuring. When a shaky voice tries to sound | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
reassuring, crying out from clouds of smoke that it is OK, | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
out of the debris of devastation, Seconds before this mobile phone | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
footage was filmed, these suitcases were in the firm grasp of crowds | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
of travellers, queueing A busy morning for businessmen | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
and women and families setting off This evening Belgian police released | :07:07. | :07:32. | |
this from an airport CCTV camera. This man is a key suspect, they | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
said. Just past 8am, they set | :07:35. | :07:34. | |
of twin explosions here. At least one of them was detonated | :07:35. | :07:36. | |
by a suicide bomber, Watch this father grab his infant | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
before running for cover. Bags and belongings no longer | :07:40. | :07:47. | |
held any importance, just their nearest and dearest | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
and their own lives. And then there were | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
the selfless and the brave. This man is a baggage handler | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
at Brussels airport. TRANSLATION: I heard a gunshot | :08:03. | :08:11. | |
and what sounded like Arabic. Then I heard, boom, | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
an enormous explosion. Afterwards, people ran | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
to the lift of the escalators. Two old people who came | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
towards me, I saved them. I put them in the lift | :08:27. | :08:28. | |
but they did not want to let I could not take them with me, | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
there were too many people there. An incident has just | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
occurred on the line... While he was saving lives, | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
elsewhere in the city, another group of bombers | :08:41. | :08:42. | |
was trying to take them. A nightmare come true | :08:43. | :08:55. | |
for every train traveller. People here were in between Metro | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
stops when a bomb went off Panicked survivors had | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
to pick their way Only once they had clambered back | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
to daylight did the horror I saw an explosion, | :09:08. | :09:18. | |
a flash of light. The windows came in, | :09:19. | :09:33. | |
the doors opened, and everybody The dazed and the injured | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
covered the pavements here, usually trodden by stiffly | :09:39. | :09:49. | |
dressed civil stunts. This bombing took place | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
near European Union headquarters, minutes from the | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
European Parliament. Brussels has turned into a city | :09:58. | :09:58. | |
of sirens and a centre of fear. Unconfirmed reports | :09:59. | :10:13. | |
of casualties there are Questions for Belgium's security | :10:14. | :10:14. | |
apparatus, supposedly on high alert after perpetrators of last | :10:15. | :10:23. | |
year's Paris attacks So-called Islamic State says it | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
masterminded the attacks The presumed message | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
from the bombers today - no-one is safe, not here, | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
not anywhere in Europe. TRANSLATION: In this black | :10:39. | :10:46. | |
moment for our country, now, more than ever, | :10:47. | :10:48. | |
I call on everyone to show TRANSLATION: This attack has struck | :10:49. | :10:50. | |
Belgium, but it was Europe We have to realise the gravity | :10:51. | :11:04. | |
of this terrorist attack. Belgians are in no doubt | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
as to the gravity of Similar to Paris, after the attacks | :11:12. | :11:13. | |
there, people here in Brussels are determined not to give | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
into terror, they say. When we found out about the news, | :11:19. | :11:20. | |
our children were already at school. When they are not with you, | :11:21. | :11:38. | |
you really are scared, especially as the attack | :11:39. | :11:40. | |
was near our school. It was the airport and then | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
the Metro and you do not I think people are ready | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
for extreme measures, what ever it takes | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
to keep people safe. This man told me he would walk | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
everywhere from now on, He blamed the Belgian | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
state for today's attack, for lack of intelligence, he said, | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
and decisive action. As messages of support came | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
in from around the world, the people of Brussels are gathering | :12:08. | :12:09. | |
in the city centre this evening to show solidarity, support one | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
another and pray for better times. we are here at Brussels | :12:13. | :12:37. | |
International Airport being kept away, a crime scene with the huge | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
investigation going underway with a big forensic search underway for any | :12:42. | :12:51. | |
clues. It is thought that two of the three people seen entering the | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
airport have been killed and a third is now on the run. Let's show you | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
know the latest life pictures from Brussels city centre from Maelbeek | :13:01. | :13:10. | |
station where so many people dry. At least 20 it | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
station where so many people dry. At As many as 106 injured, many of them | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
seriously. The airport death toll is thought to be 11 with 81 entered, so | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
around about 200 injured altogether and today's attacks and 31 at least | :13:28. | :13:35. | |
killed. You can see you're the scene, this is really a virtual and | :13:36. | :13:42. | |
as was said, an opportunity for the people of Brussels to save the want | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
to show solidarity and kill the terrorists just as after Paris they | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
cannot wind, even if they strike at the very heart of Europe and of | :13:54. | :13:55. | |
Belgium as it was today. Our correspondent Stephen Sackur | :13:56. | :13:57. | |
is in Brussels city centre. He was actually in the city centre | :13:58. | :14:07. | |
this morning when that attack on the Underground station happened. That | :14:08. | :14:15. | |
is right, I wasn't very close because I was actually attending a | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
conference just a short distance away, and it was extraordinary to | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
see what happened, people on the smartphones got social media | :14:26. | :14:27. | |
messages saying that had been a bomb attack and then a second attack, the | :14:28. | :14:36. | |
room was filled with tension and consternation and as he went on to | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
lock down it was quite a high-level meeting. The building was cloud off | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
and surrounded by armed police and a few soldiers as well and for several | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
hours nobody could get in or get out and there was just one indication of | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
what has been happening in this city today. It has been a day of terror | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
and chaos and heartache as has become clear that so many people, | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
believed to be 31 but possibly higher, lost their lives. One at the | :15:07. | :15:14. | |
airport and the one just a few hundred metres from where I am | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
talking to you now in the Maelbeek Metro station. It is a very strange | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
neighbourhood because it is full of official buildings but there is also | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
a neighbourhood were the a lot of people who live in rather nice | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
terraced houses, a very quiet neighbourhood. One of them who lives | :15:33. | :15:40. | |
here I am going to introduce to you know, you are British citizen but | :15:41. | :15:42. | |
you have lived in Brussels for the last 20 years. You happen to be very | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
close to the scene of the Maelbeek bomb. Just tell me what you | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
experienced. I left the square two minutes away from the Maelbeek | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
station, it has three entrances. I came out of my house at about five | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
past nine and I didn't hear an explosion but I could smell smoke. | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
Immediately two police cars were racing by and the speed at which | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
they were moving I knew they were responding something and as I was | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
walking towards the station, I saw people streaming away from the | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
station. Panic stricken. On their phones, text thing and running in | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
disbelief and panic. Could you see any signs of injuries are | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
casualties? There are only few people who came out not seriously | :16:38. | :16:44. | |
quite bloody, one woman, her face was cut and they were in their 40s | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
or 50s, very upset. Someone stopped a card on the road, a complete | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
stranger, and asked to take her to the hospital and he obliged. The | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
emergency services were just arriving. I am just wondering if you | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
are able to stay long enough to see how quickly the security services, | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
who have been on high alert, how quickly did they respond? They | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
responded quickly. The place was locked down and I would say within | :17:19. | :17:20. | |
ten minutes it was completely cordoned off. They work, and those | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
in balaclavas and ambulances and police so they were pretty quick. I | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
am interested to know how you have been feeling over the last few weeks | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
because there has been so much focus on Brussels and we now know there | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
has been some sort of network of activists, terrorists, who are based | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
in Brussels, and so much security activity including Belgian and | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
French forces in the city over the last few weeks, the bigger nest last | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
Friday and now this. Have you been feeling apprehensive? Brussels is | :17:55. | :18:03. | |
generally a very peaceful place. Anxiety is in everyone's mind at the | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
moment, because you are kind of expecting something to happen, and | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
with these terrorists being in Maelbeek apparently you felt | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
something would happen and that it would happen it would happen in the | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
European area, so there has been a certain amount of caution and | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
anxiety. We have to leave it there but thank you for joining us. Really | :18:26. | :18:34. | |
a very sad day for the people of this country. On that sombre note I | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
will hand back to you at the airport. | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
Thank you. I was here on Friday when Salah Abdeslam was arrested and it | :18:46. | :18:53. | |
was interesting to see armed troops patrolling the streets of Brussels | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
as they have been doing for weeks ever since the Palace attacks, so | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
there was already a heightened sense of security around the city, and | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
people were always fearful there would be an attack like the one we | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
have seen today, but desperately hoping it wouldn't happen but today | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
all the worst fears came true. It started here at Brussels | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
International Airport, a really busy time of the day and people were | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
coming in and going to check in for various flights around Europe, and | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
there was an explosion and many of them ran towards the exit and then | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
there was a second even bigger explosion and at least 11 we gather | :19:36. | :19:42. | |
were killed. The suspects it is believed were seen entering the | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
terminal building, two of them were killed and one may be on the run. | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
Let's get this report from Ben Wright. | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
They arrived here for holidays and work. | :19:53. | :19:54. | |
As the shattered airport billowed smoke a survivors described | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
Yes, I was, because we were in the one with all the glass | :20:00. | :20:14. | |
So you saw glass falling down, and people were like | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
You do not know where to run, so you go on the ground. | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
The man who was with me was like looking, what is happening? | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
All morning we saw fire crews and ambulances and the police coming | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
Some of the injured were bussed away for treatment. | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
It is about three hours after the explosions | :20:38. | :20:39. | |
Emergency vehicles continue to go towards the terminal. | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
There is a constant stream of people coming the other way, | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
pulling bags - holiday-makers, commuters, airport workers, | :20:49. | :20:59. | |
who had a Tuesday morning up-ended in terror and chaos. | :21:00. | :21:01. | |
Can you tell me where you werewhat did you see? | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
I had a dog and because of my dog, they said to me, go | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
And there we were when it exploded behind us. | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
If we were at the check-in, we exploded, too. | :21:16. | :21:24. | |
Also at the airport were a basketball team from Antwerp | :21:25. | :21:33. | |
You think it happens only in other countries but now it is in Belgium. | :21:34. | :21:41. | |
We have to make the best of it and just stay calm, | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
This woman and her family were heading to Venice for a cruise. | :21:47. | :21:56. | |
Although suffering minor injuries, she is just relieved to be alive. | :21:57. | :22:14. | |
planned to be far from here sat with their bags, | :22:15. | :22:16. | |
As we were hearing earlier, the attack at the Metro station very | :22:17. | :22:50. | |
close to European rain institutions. These attacks mark another low by | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
the terrorists in the service of hatred and violence. | :22:54. | :22:55. | |
Well, Dr Stephen Wright joins us down the line from our Leeds studio. | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
He's an expert in commercial aviation at the University of Leeds. | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
Thank you for being with us. Is there anything that airports like | :23:03. | :23:11. | |
Brussels International Airport and other airports around the world can | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
do to prevent an attack like this, a terrorists simply walking into the | :23:19. | :23:20. | |
Department journey the up and setting off bombs. That is the $64 | :23:21. | :23:27. | |
million question, can we prevent this? The issue is that level of | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
protection is driven by intelligence and the fact to events have | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
transpired within 40 minutes of each other suggests that in this | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
occurrence, intelligence just isn't there and it has not been possible | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
for security services to offer that level of protection that perhaps we | :23:50. | :24:00. | |
in the UK are more accustomed to. Would it have helped, some | :24:01. | :24:01. | |
in the UK are more accustomed to. UC scanners and body checks before | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
people go in. Is that a possibility that European airports should be | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
considering? That is an interesting question. The problem I suspect is | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
the European model was to have centralised transport hub so one | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
would expect to more than European airports to have trains, buses, | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
pedestrian access, car parking, and if you're going to start screening | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
absolutely everybody that is going to enter, weird as the screening | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
likely to take place? It doesn't quite fit the standard model, and I | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
know it exists in other parts of the world but they don't have an | :24:41. | :24:43. | |
international train station immediately underneath a brand-new | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
terminal, so I do not think that is likely. In other words, there could | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
be more attacks like today's attacks at airports anywhere in Europe or | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
around the world? Potentially, that is always the less, but the risk is | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
mitigated by heightened levels of security such as plainclothes | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
officers, armed officers, the deployment of troops. These would-be | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
items that perhaps we wouldn't naturally want to advertise but | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
would the risk to a more acceptable level. This thank you for being with | :25:21. | :25:30. | |
us, an aviation expert talking to us from Leeds. Let's bring you | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
up-to-date with the latest information we have, if you are just | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
joining us. In terms of the attack at the airport where I am, the death | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
toll currently standing at 11 with some 81 injured and there were two | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
explosions here, a third device was also found and made safe afterwords, | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
a Kalashnikov rifle, and that Maelbeek station, 20 dead at least | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
and 106 injured, so a deadly and horrific day at the heart of Europe | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
in Brussels. | :26:08. | :26:09. |