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This is BBC World News Today with me, Ben Brown,

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Belgian prosecutors say they've identified two of the three suicide

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bombers who carried out Tuesday's attacks in Brussels.

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Two of them are said to be brothers - both Belgian nationals -

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police are still hunting a third man seen in these airport images.

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The names and nationalities of victims are starting to emerge.

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The first fatality to be confirmed - a Peruvian woman -

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In other news: Senator Ted Cruz is endorsed by Jeb Bush,

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in a last-ditch attempt to try to stop Donald Trump getting

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the Republican nomination in the US presidential election.

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And changing the look of the British countryside forever -

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fears that the Ash tree is just years away from extinction.

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The people of Belgium are observing three days of national mourning

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as the investigation into Tuesday's attacks

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Two of the suspected suicide bombers have been named by Belgian

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shown here on the left - targeted the Maelbeek metro station

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while Brahim el-Bakraoui struck at the airport.

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Meanwhile a massive manhunt is still underway for a key suspect

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And we crossed live to Brussels to Ben Brown. We are at Place de la

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Bourse. This is where people have been paying the respect of the dead

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and holding the Belgian flag and laying flowers and we had one

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minute's silence earlier. We had also chanting slogans and symbols of

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the finds from the Belgian people who say that life has to go on and

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on their words the terrorists cannot be allowed to win. A similar

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reaction perhaps to what we saw in Paris after the Charlie Heddle

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attacks. --Hebdo. There were three explosions and there were CCTV

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images of three suspects going into the airport before the explosions

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there. One of those men pictured in the CCTV image is still on the run

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according to the Belgian federal prosecutor and as I wanted man. They

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have named two of the bombers who died in the attack. They have been

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named as brothers, Khalid and Brahim el-Bakraoui. 31 people, it is now

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known, died though that death toll could rise because of the very

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serious nature of some of the injuries to victims who are being

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treated in hospitals around Brussels today. 260 injured altogether, that

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is the latest we're giving. The other main development of the last

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three hours is at midday local time here in Belgium that was a minute's

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silence observed here in Place de la Bourse and around the city of

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Brussels as people remember the dead and after the minute's salads there

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was a spontaneous round of applause to show that life does go on. We are

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beginning to get the names of some of those who died in the attacks.

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The first to be confirmed dead was a Peruvian woman aged 37 and the

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mother of young when girls, Adelma Tapia Ruiz. -- when. --Twin. As you

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here behind me and other spontaneous round of applause with people

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affirming the right to live in freedom and without fear here in the

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Belgian capital. But first, here's Katya Adler

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on the day's events. Silence spoke far louder

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than words in Brussels today. In sadness for the victims

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of yesterday's bombings. In fear that there

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will be a next time. And that next time,

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it could be them. But there is a strong sense

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here of defiance, too. Long live Belgium,

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these people shouted. And on a massive manhunt

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for all those linked to this, yesterday's devastating

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bombing at Brussels Airport Police say they are

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looking for this man. There is confusion about his

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identity, but it is believed he could have raised

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the casualty count even higher. TRANSLATION: The third suspect,

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wearing a light-coloured coat and hat is on the run,

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he left a large bag and departed His bag contained the biggest

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explosive device. Shortly after the arrival

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of the bomb disposal unit, the bag was detonated

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because of the volatility The other two men in this photo

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were suicide bombers. In the middle, you see Brahim

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el-Bakraoui, a Belgian national. Police have found a note

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in which he writes that he is under pressure and on the run

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to avoid arrest. Belgian media said he had recently

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been linked to the Paris This is his brother Khalid,

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the metro suicide bomber. Today, Belgium's Prime Minister

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accompanied the country's king and queen to visit some

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of the 260 injured yesterday. Julian Firkin was one

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of the lucky ones. He and his girlfriend emerged

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unscathed, physically at least. The second explosion happened,

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and at that point I jumped on top of her and grabbed her suitcase

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and kind of held that over the top of both of us just to protect

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us from the ceiling, The commotion died down a little

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bit, but there was lots of screaming and people running around,

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and then the airport staff came running and screaming and shouting

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at everyone to get out of the building, evacuate, evacuate,

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as quickly as you can. This city is still digesting

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the full horror of yesterday's attacks, but on the surface

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at least, there is a sense of life It is not that commuters here have

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forgotten about the attacks one day on, or that they don't care

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they are unaware of the warnings But this is a gritty,

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down-to-earth city. The attitude here it is,

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life has to go on. People are grateful

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for the extra security. Maybe it is not in Brussels,

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maybe it is another country. TRANSLATION: There is a risk,

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but keeping our jobs mean taking trains, and at least

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there are more police here now. More police, more soldiers,

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more security checks at train Most people here tell

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you they refuse to be scared, I want to give you a sense of the

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atmosphere as you rejoin as live in Place de la Bourse because it is

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absolutely packed with people who are singing songs and have been

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chanting slogans. They had a minute's silence earlier on which

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was very sombre, minute's silence earlier on which

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of young people here. You're just trying to show that they will

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defeated by terrorism, just as the people of Paris showed that in

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November. I'm joined by a couple of the people here.

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November. I'm joined by a couple of flowers. Just for peace and love. To

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show solidarity and spread some light and love in these dark and

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dreadful times. What happened here yesterday was a terrible event.

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dreadful times. What happened here has done to the of Brussels, do you

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think? I think it has shocked a lot of people but it is most important

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to simply rise and not let it crush her spirits. So you're trying to

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raise everybody's spirits but are you nervous that could be more

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attacks like the one yesterday? I do not think the next moment now. Not

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even Brussels. Maybe another place. -- not here in Brussels. Do you

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think it is important as a message against the terrorists that you hand

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out flowers? Yes, simply to spread a positive vibe. That is all that

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matters. Thank you very much. Spreading a message of light and

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love. During the day some of the names of the victims of the attacks

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yesterday began to edge and the arm from many different nationalities.

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The Foreign Ministry has been seeing as many of the mag as 40 different

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nationalities among the dead and injured and the first to be named

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today was a 37-year-old Peruvian woman by the name of Adelma Tapia

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Ruiz was tragically the mother of four-year-old twin girls. She died

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in the airport explosions. Lucy Williamson has been following the

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stories of some of the victims. Among the questions left

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

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contractor David Dixon? After two days searching

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the hospitals here, his partner David left for work

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yesterday as usual. Maelbeek station was not

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

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

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are now known to have been injured Inside this hospital,

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two British survivors lie While their relatives wait for news,

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

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begin the grim process Among the first deaths to be

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

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University here in Brussels. And Peruvian Adelma Tapia Ruiz

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

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survived the blast because they ran Her brother described it

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as incomprehensible. TRANSLATION: She had twins called

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Maureen and Elondra. They were in the

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Brussels airport too. They were connecting

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through to New York to meet She also planned to come

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back to Peru this year, Tonight in Brussels there

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

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challenge is private. For some, these were not just

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attacks on their home or values but on the people

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they love the most. There has been a lot of criticism of

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the Belgian security agencies both in the aftermath of the Paris

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attacks and now in the aftermath of the Brussels attacks as well. A lot

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of claims they could have done more. We have had today claims from the

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Turkish president that Turkey gave warning to the Belgian authorities

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about one of the suicide bombers involved yesterday,

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Brahim el-Bakraoui who blew himself up at the airport. The president

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made these claims in a press conference and said that Brahim

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el-Bakraoui had been detained in the south of the country near the Syrian

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border in June of last year. He had then been deported to the

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Netherlands and was briefly heard in Belgium before being freed. The

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president said both the Dutch and Belgian authorities had been warned

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by Turkey but he said that Belgium had ignored that warning and he said

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that despite warnings that this person was a foreign terrorist

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fighter Belgium could not establish any links with terrorism. Belgian

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prosecutors have confirmed the two brothers, Khalid and Brahim

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el-Bakraoui did have a criminal record for armed robbery but they

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say that there was nothing unrelated to terrorism and Belgian authorities

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have not confirmed or denied and have not commented on these claims

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by the President of Turkey. Turkey is of course itself a country in a

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high state of alert at the moment after four suicide bombings in its

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two cities this year alone. The most recent was five days ago in Istanbul

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in which four people were killed. Turkish authorities have said they

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have detained three people on suspicion of planning a further

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attack in Istanbul and those arrests are based on information from both

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Turkish and German intelligence, they say. Thank you, Daniel. A

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sombre mood this evening in the heart of Brussels where you can see

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all the candles that have been let in memory of the 31 people who died

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here yesterday both in those exposed yesterday at International Airport

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and on the Metro at Maelbeek station. I warning from the health

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ministry in Belgium today that they expect this death toll to rise in

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the coming days because many of the tune and 60 people injured in the

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biggest blasts are critically well and fighting for their lives and may

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not survive. The injured are being treated in a number of hospitals.

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The overwhelming message I think for people here today -- from people

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here today who have paid their respects is not just one of morning

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but also defiance as the people of Paris after the attacks there should

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defiance, people in Brussels want to show defiance and they have been

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singing songs today and cheering and chanting slogans against Islamic

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State as well and the King of Belgium has said that the people

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here in Belgium must respond to what he called audience attacks with 40

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sheep, calm and dignity and I think discourtesy that he and the centre

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of Brussels today that is exactly what they have been doing.

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And of course there's more analysis and reporting on the attacks

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in Brussels on our website - bbc dot come forward slash news.

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And you can also get everything on your mobile using the BBC

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And all the latest developments will be on our Twitter account,

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The Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo has indicated

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that her government will not take in its share of migrants under an EU

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plan - because of the Brussels attacks.

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the Belgian Embassy in Warsaw she said that the government now had

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to look after the security of its citizens and could not take

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on any immigrants under the present circumstances.

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Her Conservative government had earlier agreed to welcome around

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7,000 refugees over the next three years.

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However, the EU's Commissioner for Migration said the union's

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member states should be taking a very different message away

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it is not a message it is a question. Do they really believe

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that by following this line they will be successful and fighting

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terrorism? The occurrences and the answer. -- give the answer. There is

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only one road to follow witches cooperate more and exchange

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information and develop more trust between us. Among member states.

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The Presidents of the United States and Argentina have said they're

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optimistic they can open a new chapter in relations

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They have promised more co-operation on trade,

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fighting the Zika virus and combating climate change.

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Barack Obama's visit is the first official trip by a US head of state

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That is a principal message that I have not only for Argentina but for

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the entire hemisphere. I have a slick came Cuba and we have put a

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great emphasis on making sure that some of the ideologies and disputes

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of the past are frankly acknowledged that there be also able to look to

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the future and not just behind us. Another day, another twist

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in the thoroughly unpredictable twist in the race to be

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the Republican candidate for US president - and Jeb Bush has

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announced he's endorsing Senator Ted Cruz -

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a last-ditch attempt to try and stop Donald Trump securing

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the nomination. Mr Bush, who's the brother of one

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former president and the son of another, dropped out

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of the race last month. He said Ted Cruz was a consistent,

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principled conservative who has demonstrated the ability to appeal

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to voters and win primary contests. That news will come as some

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consolation to Mr Cruz following Tuesday's

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presidential primary results. He lost to Donald Trump in Arizona

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but claimed first place in Utah. In the Democratic race,

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the front runner Hilary Clinton took Arizona, but lost out in two other

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contests to Bernie Sanders. Earlier I spoke to Anthony Zurcher

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our North America reporter who has Ted Cruz has been running against

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what it calls the Washington cartel but I do not think there is anybody

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who embodies the Republican party in Washington are more than shared that

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Bush. -- Jeb Bush. Will he add many delegates to the running total? He

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does not really have any delegates to speak of and they did not win a

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lot when he was running for president. He will not be able to

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shift a lot of voters towards Ted Cruz but they could direct

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fundraisers and the car she was able to amass and he has people in the

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Bush family who are very prodigious fundraisers and could help Ted Cruz

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and their other problem protect Cruz is not that he is lacking in money,

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it is that he is lacking in votes to catch Donald Trump so it may help

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little bit but I do not think it will be that big a deal. Is it too

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late for Ted Cruz or could he unite the party? He was always been quite

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a divisive figure in the publican party. He has been a very divisive

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figure and he was not really a team player when he was elected to

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Congress four years ago. He made a lot of waves in that he blocked the

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leadership within the Senate and tried to torpedo deals between the

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president and the congressional leadership which led to shut down of

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the government for a while over health care plans so if people do

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end up rallying behind it is only because they view Donald Champ is a

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much greater threat but there is a very narrow window for him, if not

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catch Donald Trump, keep him from getting the magic 1237 delegates. It

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will be an eel biter coming right down to the end. In terms of the

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Republican leadership, I be in full panic mode so far? I think that is a

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very good way to describe it. They have been hoping and wishing

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unbelieving that some point would see Donald Trump stumbling and he

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would see something and people would turn their back on him but the poll

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numbers showing enormous support from were enacted it, but Donald

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Trump has been going on a steady march towards the nomination and one

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will be close whether he actually gets before the convention, I do not

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think anybody imagined this would be the result when this all started

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about eight months ago. There are fears that one of the most

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common trees in Europe, the Ash, could be wiped out

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across the continent. Those fears are outlined in a study,

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published today in the Journal of Ecology, which says the tree

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faces two serious threats - one from a fungus

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and one from a beetle. Our environment correspondent

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Clare Marshall reports. This wood in Norfolk is where one

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of the worst fears of tree lovers Ash die-back, a devastating fungal

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disease, was in the wild. The leaves die first and the rest

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of the tree follows. Today's report adds

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to the bleak picture. Chalara, as it is also known,

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will help to wipe out Ash is the second most common tree

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in the UK. To lose all the trees

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would be devastating. This wood in Somerset just waking up

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from winter is filled with ash trees and, like thousands of others,

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it is under threat, but it isn't The emerald ash borer like Ash

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die-back is native to Asia. Its larvae go into the bark

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and kill the tree. It isn't yet in the UK

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but it is heading this way and the new research says it

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could soon pose the greatest threat. Hundreds of species are dependent

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on the ash tree and they are likely One small hope is that some ash

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trees have shown resistance against the fungus, but that

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will not protect them The aftermath of the attacks on

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Brussels. This is the scene live in the centre of Brussels this evening.

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As you can see hundreds of people have gathered laying flowers and

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also candles to remember the victims of the attacks and the authorities

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say 31 people have died. A couple of hundred have been injured, many of

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them seriously and fears that that number of dead may rise but the mood

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in Brussels as we've been hearing is defiant this evening. For now from

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me and the rest of the team,

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