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This is BBC World News Today with me, Ben Brown, | :00:07. | :00:08. | |
Belgian prosecutors say they've identified two of the three suicide | :00:09. | :00:17. | |
bombers who carried out Tuesday's attacks in Brussels. | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
Two of them are said to be brothers - both Belgian nationals - | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
police are still hunting a third man seen in these airport images. | :00:26. | :00:35. | |
The names and nationalities of victims are starting to emerge. | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
The first fatality to be confirmed - a Peruvian woman - | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
In other news: Senator Ted Cruz is endorsed by Jeb Bush, | :00:44. | :00:51. | |
in a last-ditch attempt to try to stop Donald Trump getting | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
the Republican nomination in the US presidential election. | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
And changing the look of the British countryside forever - | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
fears that the Ash tree is just years away from extinction. | :01:00. | :01:20. | |
The people of Belgium are observing three days of national mourning | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
as the investigation into Tuesday's attacks | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
Two of the suspected suicide bombers have been named by Belgian | :01:26. | :01:36. | |
shown here on the left - targeted the Maelbeek metro station | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
while Brahim el-Bakraoui struck at the airport. | :01:43. | :01:43. | |
Meanwhile a massive manhunt is still underway for a key suspect | :01:44. | :02:01. | |
And we crossed live to Brussels to Ben Brown. We are at Place de la | :02:02. | :02:12. | |
Bourse. This is where people have been paying the respect of the dead | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
and holding the Belgian flag and laying flowers and we had one | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
minute's silence earlier. We had also chanting slogans and symbols of | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
the finds from the Belgian people who say that life has to go on and | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
on their words the terrorists cannot be allowed to win. A similar | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
reaction perhaps to what we saw in Paris after the Charlie Heddle | :02:35. | :02:46. | |
attacks. --Hebdo. There were three explosions and there were CCTV | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
images of three suspects going into the airport before the explosions | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
there. One of those men pictured in the CCTV image is still on the run | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
according to the Belgian federal prosecutor and as I wanted man. They | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
have named two of the bombers who died in the attack. They have been | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
named as brothers, Khalid and Brahim el-Bakraoui. 31 people, it is now | :03:10. | :03:18. | |
known, died though that death toll could rise because of the very | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
serious nature of some of the injuries to victims who are being | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
treated in hospitals around Brussels today. 260 injured altogether, that | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
is the latest we're giving. The other main development of the last | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
three hours is at midday local time here in Belgium that was a minute's | :03:37. | :03:44. | |
silence observed here in Place de la Bourse and around the city of | :03:45. | :03:46. | |
Brussels as people remember the dead and after the minute's salads there | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
was a spontaneous round of applause to show that life does go on. We are | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
beginning to get the names of some of those who died in the attacks. | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
The first to be confirmed dead was a Peruvian woman aged 37 and the | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
mother of young when girls, Adelma Tapia Ruiz. -- when. --Twin. As you | :04:08. | :04:22. | |
here behind me and other spontaneous round of applause with people | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
affirming the right to live in freedom and without fear here in the | :04:26. | :04:27. | |
Belgian capital. But first, here's Katya Adler | :04:28. | :04:35. | |
on the day's events. Silence spoke far louder | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
than words in Brussels today. In sadness for the victims | :04:40. | :04:59. | |
of yesterday's bombings. In fear that there | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
will be a next time. And that next time, | :05:05. | :05:16. | |
it could be them. But there is a strong sense | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
here of defiance, too. Long live Belgium, | :05:24. | :05:32. | |
these people shouted. And on a massive manhunt | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
for all those linked to this, yesterday's devastating | :05:37. | :05:44. | |
bombing at Brussels Airport Police say they are | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
looking for this man. There is confusion about his | :05:49. | :05:57. | |
identity, but it is believed he could have raised | :05:58. | :06:09. | |
the casualty count even higher. TRANSLATION: The third suspect, | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
wearing a light-coloured coat and hat is on the run, | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
he left a large bag and departed His bag contained the biggest | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
explosive device. Shortly after the arrival | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
of the bomb disposal unit, the bag was detonated | :06:20. | :06:21. | |
because of the volatility The other two men in this photo | :06:22. | :06:23. | |
were suicide bombers. In the middle, you see Brahim | :06:24. | :06:36. | |
el-Bakraoui, a Belgian national. Police have found a note | :06:37. | :06:38. | |
in which he writes that he is under pressure and on the run | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
to avoid arrest. Belgian media said he had recently | :06:42. | :06:43. | |
been linked to the Paris This is his brother Khalid, | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
the metro suicide bomber. Today, Belgium's Prime Minister | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
accompanied the country's king and queen to visit some | :06:54. | :07:02. | |
of the 260 injured yesterday. Julian Firkin was one | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
of the lucky ones. He and his girlfriend emerged | :07:09. | :07:10. | |
unscathed, physically at least. The second explosion happened, | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
and at that point I jumped on top of her and grabbed her suitcase | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
and kind of held that over the top of both of us just to protect | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
us from the ceiling, The commotion died down a little | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
bit, but there was lots of screaming and people running around, | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
and then the airport staff came running and screaming and shouting | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
at everyone to get out of the building, evacuate, evacuate, | :07:42. | :07:43. | |
as quickly as you can. This city is still digesting | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
the full horror of yesterday's attacks, but on the surface | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
at least, there is a sense of life It is not that commuters here have | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
forgotten about the attacks one day on, or that they don't care | :07:56. | :08:03. | |
they are unaware of the warnings But this is a gritty, | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
down-to-earth city. The attitude here it is, | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
life has to go on. People are grateful | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
for the extra security. Maybe it is not in Brussels, | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
maybe it is another country. TRANSLATION: There is a risk, | :08:21. | :08:31. | |
but keeping our jobs mean taking trains, and at least | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
there are more police here now. More police, more soldiers, | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
more security checks at train Most people here tell | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
you they refuse to be scared, I want to give you a sense of the | :08:46. | :09:09. | |
atmosphere as you rejoin as live in Place de la Bourse because it is | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
absolutely packed with people who are singing songs and have been | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
chanting slogans. They had a minute's silence earlier on which | :09:17. | :09:17. | |
was very sombre, minute's silence earlier on which | :09:18. | :09:25. | |
of young people here. You're just trying to show that they will | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
defeated by terrorism, just as the people of Paris showed that in | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
November. I'm joined by a couple of the people here. | :09:35. | :09:52. | |
November. I'm joined by a couple of flowers. Just for peace and love. To | :09:53. | :09:54. | |
show solidarity and spread some light and love in these dark and | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
dreadful times. What happened here yesterday was a terrible event. | :10:01. | :10:02. | |
dreadful times. What happened here has done to the of Brussels, do you | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
think? I think it has shocked a lot of people but it is most important | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
to simply rise and not let it crush her spirits. So you're trying to | :10:15. | :10:25. | |
raise everybody's spirits but are you nervous that could be more | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
attacks like the one yesterday? I do not think the next moment now. Not | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
even Brussels. Maybe another place. -- not here in Brussels. Do you | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
think it is important as a message against the terrorists that you hand | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
out flowers? Yes, simply to spread a positive vibe. That is all that | :10:51. | :11:05. | |
matters. Thank you very much. Spreading a message of light and | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
love. During the day some of the names of the victims of the attacks | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
yesterday began to edge and the arm from many different nationalities. | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
The Foreign Ministry has been seeing as many of the mag as 40 different | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
nationalities among the dead and injured and the first to be named | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
today was a 37-year-old Peruvian woman by the name of Adelma Tapia | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
Ruiz was tragically the mother of four-year-old twin girls. She died | :11:33. | :11:41. | |
in the airport explosions. Lucy Williamson has been following the | :11:42. | :11:42. | |
stories of some of the victims. Among the questions left | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
by Tuesday's attacks is this one. What happened to British IT | :11:47. | :11:48. | |
contractor David Dixon? After two days searching | :11:49. | :11:50. | |
the hospitals here, his partner David left for work | :11:51. | :11:52. | |
yesterday as usual. Maelbeek station was not | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
far from his office. After the explosion there at 9am, | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
Charlotte tried to reach him. 270 people from dozens of countries | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
are now known to have been injured Inside this hospital, | :12:08. | :12:26. | |
two British survivors lie While their relatives wait for news, | :12:27. | :12:37. | |
in a separate part of the hospital, other families of other victims | :12:38. | :12:44. | |
begin the grim process Among the first deaths to be | :12:45. | :12:46. | |
confirmed was 20-year-old Leopold A law student at Saint Louis | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
University here in Brussels. And Peruvian Adelma Tapia Ruiz | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
who died during the airport attack. Her four-year-old twin girls | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
survived the blast because they ran Her brother described it | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
as incomprehensible. TRANSLATION: She had twins called | :13:07. | :13:13. | |
Maureen and Elondra. They were in the | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
Brussels airport too. They were connecting | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
through to New York to meet She also planned to come | :13:20. | :13:21. | |
back to Peru this year, Tonight in Brussels there | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
is solidarity in Europe's anger But terrorism's toughest | :13:28. | :13:35. | |
challenge is private. For some, these were not just | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
attacks on their home or values but on the people | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
they love the most. There has been a lot of criticism of | :13:46. | :14:00. | |
the Belgian security agencies both in the aftermath of the Paris | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
attacks and now in the aftermath of the Brussels attacks as well. A lot | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
of claims they could have done more. We have had today claims from the | :14:09. | :14:15. | |
Turkish president that Turkey gave warning to the Belgian authorities | :14:16. | :14:17. | |
about one of the suicide bombers involved yesterday, | :14:18. | :14:29. | |
Brahim el-Bakraoui who blew himself up at the airport. The president | :14:30. | :14:42. | |
made these claims in a press conference and said that Brahim | :14:43. | :14:49. | |
el-Bakraoui had been detained in the south of the country near the Syrian | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
border in June of last year. He had then been deported to the | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
Netherlands and was briefly heard in Belgium before being freed. The | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
president said both the Dutch and Belgian authorities had been warned | :15:03. | :15:11. | |
by Turkey but he said that Belgium had ignored that warning and he said | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
that despite warnings that this person was a foreign terrorist | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
fighter Belgium could not establish any links with terrorism. Belgian | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
prosecutors have confirmed the two brothers, Khalid and Brahim | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
el-Bakraoui did have a criminal record for armed robbery but they | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
say that there was nothing unrelated to terrorism and Belgian authorities | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
have not confirmed or denied and have not commented on these claims | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
by the President of Turkey. Turkey is of course itself a country in a | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
high state of alert at the moment after four suicide bombings in its | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
two cities this year alone. The most recent was five days ago in Istanbul | :15:53. | :16:00. | |
in which four people were killed. Turkish authorities have said they | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
have detained three people on suspicion of planning a further | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
attack in Istanbul and those arrests are based on information from both | :16:10. | :16:12. | |
Turkish and German intelligence, they say. Thank you, Daniel. A | :16:13. | :16:25. | |
sombre mood this evening in the heart of Brussels where you can see | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
all the candles that have been let in memory of the 31 people who died | :16:30. | :16:37. | |
here yesterday both in those exposed yesterday at International Airport | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
and on the Metro at Maelbeek station. I warning from the health | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
ministry in Belgium today that they expect this death toll to rise in | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
the coming days because many of the tune and 60 people injured in the | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
biggest blasts are critically well and fighting for their lives and may | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
not survive. The injured are being treated in a number of hospitals. | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
The overwhelming message I think for people here today -- from people | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
here today who have paid their respects is not just one of morning | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
but also defiance as the people of Paris after the attacks there should | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
defiance, people in Brussels want to show defiance and they have been | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
singing songs today and cheering and chanting slogans against Islamic | :17:25. | :17:31. | |
State as well and the King of Belgium has said that the people | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
here in Belgium must respond to what he called audience attacks with 40 | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
sheep, calm and dignity and I think discourtesy that he and the centre | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
of Brussels today that is exactly what they have been doing. | :17:43. | :17:58. | |
And of course there's more analysis and reporting on the attacks | :17:59. | :18:00. | |
in Brussels on our website - bbc dot come forward slash news. | :18:01. | :18:09. | |
And you can also get everything on your mobile using the BBC | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
And all the latest developments will be on our Twitter account, | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
The Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo has indicated | :18:20. | :18:20. | |
that her government will not take in its share of migrants under an EU | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
plan - because of the Brussels attacks. | :18:27. | :18:27. | |
the Belgian Embassy in Warsaw she said that the government now had | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
to look after the security of its citizens and could not take | :18:33. | :18:34. | |
on any immigrants under the present circumstances. | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
Her Conservative government had earlier agreed to welcome around | :18:38. | :18:39. | |
7,000 refugees over the next three years. | :18:40. | :18:41. | |
However, the EU's Commissioner for Migration said the union's | :18:42. | :18:43. | |
member states should be taking a very different message away | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
it is not a message it is a question. Do they really believe | :18:47. | :18:55. | |
that by following this line they will be successful and fighting | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
terrorism? The occurrences and the answer. -- give the answer. There is | :19:00. | :19:08. | |
only one road to follow witches cooperate more and exchange | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
information and develop more trust between us. Among member states. | :19:13. | :19:20. | |
The Presidents of the United States and Argentina have said they're | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
optimistic they can open a new chapter in relations | :19:24. | :19:25. | |
They have promised more co-operation on trade, | :19:26. | :19:28. | |
fighting the Zika virus and combating climate change. | :19:29. | :19:30. | |
Barack Obama's visit is the first official trip by a US head of state | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
That is a principal message that I have not only for Argentina but for | :19:34. | :19:47. | |
the entire hemisphere. I have a slick came Cuba and we have put a | :19:48. | :19:55. | |
great emphasis on making sure that some of the ideologies and disputes | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
of the past are frankly acknowledged that there be also able to look to | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
the future and not just behind us. Another day, another twist | :20:05. | :20:13. | |
in the thoroughly unpredictable twist in the race to be | :20:14. | :20:15. | |
the Republican candidate for US president - and Jeb Bush has | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
announced he's endorsing Senator Ted Cruz - | :20:20. | :20:21. | |
a last-ditch attempt to try and stop Donald Trump securing | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
the nomination. Mr Bush, who's the brother of one | :20:25. | :20:25. | |
former president and the son of another, dropped out | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
of the race last month. He said Ted Cruz was a consistent, | :20:29. | :20:30. | |
principled conservative who has demonstrated the ability to appeal | :20:31. | :20:32. | |
to voters and win primary contests. That news will come as some | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
consolation to Mr Cruz following Tuesday's | :20:36. | :20:37. | |
presidential primary results. He lost to Donald Trump in Arizona | :20:38. | :20:39. | |
but claimed first place in Utah. In the Democratic race, | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
the front runner Hilary Clinton took Arizona, but lost out in two other | :20:43. | :20:51. | |
contests to Bernie Sanders. Earlier I spoke to Anthony Zurcher | :20:52. | :20:59. | |
our North America reporter who has Ted Cruz has been running against | :21:00. | :21:10. | |
what it calls the Washington cartel but I do not think there is anybody | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
who embodies the Republican party in Washington are more than shared that | :21:17. | :21:24. | |
Bush. -- Jeb Bush. Will he add many delegates to the running total? He | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
does not really have any delegates to speak of and they did not win a | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
lot when he was running for president. He will not be able to | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
shift a lot of voters towards Ted Cruz but they could direct | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
fundraisers and the car she was able to amass and he has people in the | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
Bush family who are very prodigious fundraisers and could help Ted Cruz | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
and their other problem protect Cruz is not that he is lacking in money, | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
it is that he is lacking in votes to catch Donald Trump so it may help | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
little bit but I do not think it will be that big a deal. Is it too | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
late for Ted Cruz or could he unite the party? He was always been quite | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
a divisive figure in the publican party. He has been a very divisive | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
figure and he was not really a team player when he was elected to | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
Congress four years ago. He made a lot of waves in that he blocked the | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
leadership within the Senate and tried to torpedo deals between the | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
president and the congressional leadership which led to shut down of | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
the government for a while over health care plans so if people do | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
end up rallying behind it is only because they view Donald Champ is a | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
much greater threat but there is a very narrow window for him, if not | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
catch Donald Trump, keep him from getting the magic 1237 delegates. It | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
will be an eel biter coming right down to the end. In terms of the | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
Republican leadership, I be in full panic mode so far? I think that is a | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
very good way to describe it. They have been hoping and wishing | :23:02. | :23:09. | |
unbelieving that some point would see Donald Trump stumbling and he | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
would see something and people would turn their back on him but the poll | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
numbers showing enormous support from were enacted it, but Donald | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
Trump has been going on a steady march towards the nomination and one | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
will be close whether he actually gets before the convention, I do not | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
think anybody imagined this would be the result when this all started | :23:32. | :23:32. | |
about eight months ago. There are fears that one of the most | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
common trees in Europe, the Ash, could be wiped out | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
across the continent. Those fears are outlined in a study, | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
published today in the Journal of Ecology, which says the tree | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
faces two serious threats - one from a fungus | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
and one from a beetle. Our environment correspondent | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
Clare Marshall reports. This wood in Norfolk is where one | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
of the worst fears of tree lovers Ash die-back, a devastating fungal | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
disease, was in the wild. The leaves die first and the rest | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
of the tree follows. Today's report adds | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
to the bleak picture. Chalara, as it is also known, | :24:11. | :24:12. | |
will help to wipe out Ash is the second most common tree | :24:13. | :24:14. | |
in the UK. To lose all the trees | :24:15. | :24:26. | |
would be devastating. This wood in Somerset just waking up | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
from winter is filled with ash trees and, like thousands of others, | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
it is under threat, but it isn't The emerald ash borer like Ash | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
die-back is native to Asia. Its larvae go into the bark | :24:39. | :24:46. | |
and kill the tree. It isn't yet in the UK | :24:47. | :24:54. | |
but it is heading this way and the new research says it | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
could soon pose the greatest threat. Hundreds of species are dependent | :24:58. | :25:00. | |
on the ash tree and they are likely One small hope is that some ash | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
trees have shown resistance against the fungus, but that | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
will not protect them The aftermath of the attacks on | :25:09. | :25:29. | |
Brussels. This is the scene live in the centre of Brussels this evening. | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
As you can see hundreds of people have gathered laying flowers and | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
also candles to remember the victims of the attacks and the authorities | :25:41. | :25:47. | |
say 31 people have died. A couple of hundred have been injured, many of | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
them seriously and fears that that number of dead may rise but the mood | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
in Brussels as we've been hearing is defiant this evening. For now from | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
me and the rest of the team, | :26:03. | :26:04. |