21/04/2017 World News Today

This is BBC World News today. The headlines from... The man who shot

dead a policeman in Paris on Thursday, carrying shoes he had for

the these convictions. Officials have given details of his time in

prison. Melo during his imprisonment, or 14 years, during

that entire period he did not show any signs of radicalisation.

Security forces mobilised head of the French presidential elections.

The Prime Minister says everything will be done to make the election

goes smoothly. As Theresa May campaigns for the upcoming election

here in the UK, there are suggestions of a possible softening

of her Government's promise not to raise taxes. Police investigating

the bomb attack on the football team bus last week make an arrest and

revealing motive may have been money. Melo last year, Harry Stiles

went to number one... Can he do it again? Built Ed shearer in the claim

that top spot? He had 13 weeks at number one before Harry came along

as spoiled his Easter. Sounds familiar.

LAUGHTER The royal couple on radio as they

visit the BBC to talk about mental health and play some chart-topping

music. Nearly 24 hours after his deadly

attack on the Champs-Elysees, a full picture of the man who shot dead a

police officer in the heart of Paris is starting to emerge. Karim Cheurfi

was a violent serial offender who had spent more than 14 years in

jail. French officials say he was inspected are becoming radicalised

just over a year ago. Security remains tight, both in Paris and

right across France, head of the first round of residential voting on

Sunday. But those fatal shots fired by Karim have already cast a shadow

over the ballot. In this election, not everyone fighting for influence

is a politician. Last night, a lone attacker with an often Matic weapon

brought chaos to the capital's well guarded heart.

His target, French police. Curling a country on the cusp of an election

after two years on high alert. This mobile phone footage shows the

moment he killed a policeman and injured two others before being shot

dead on France's most famous street. The policeman he killed was

identified today, and dead for doing his duty, the interior minister

said. The group calling itself Islamic state has claimed

responsibility, the gunmen named as 39 The Rd Frenchman karim Cheurfi --

karim Cheurfi, who had already spent years in prison for attacking

police. Officers today searched his family house east of Paris, three of

those living there are now being questioned. Neighbours told us they

did not see the family very often, one man said he read about the

attack in this morning's paper and discovered that karim Cheurfi had

been living on his state. Melo today another house and neighbourhood

rebranded as part of the story of France's terrorist attacks. But

thousands of people from ordinary areas listed as potential threats,

security services here are stretched to breaking point. This election was

always seen as a target for terrorism, 50,000 security forces

have been brought into security vote. The leading candidates have

promised thousands more police posts if they are elected, and when it

comes to being tough on terrorism, it is sometimes hard to tell them

apart. Tries Melo we want to take back control of our borders.

TRANSLATION: I will raise the level of protection on our borders by

renegotiating the treaty. TRANSLATION: Preachers of hatred

must be expelled and Islamist mosques closed. TRANSLATION: Note a

man in any mosque will be able to preach against the values of the

Republic. The liberal newcomer said their duty was the key. TRANSLATION:

At heart it is our democracy that is being targeted, our unity. I say

don't give in to fear, or division or intimidation. France's locked in

a debate about how to stop attacks like this, even harder perhaps to

stop them influencing its democratic transition of power. Our

correspondence in Paris, Christian Fraser spoke to a counsellor for

Left Front, one of the millions of people are likely to vote for no one

in Sunday's election. Melo my natural candidate would be John Luke

Melling John, because he is from the same political side. I have too many

disagreements with him. For example on immigration. I think that

today... Goes back years to tough? Yes. I am for the free

installation... I am not for his controls on frontiers. I think that

happens today in the integration of happens today in the integration of

people from Africa, North Africa... Goes like you would have an open

door policy? Maybe you were collared open door, but you cannot prevent

people from emigrating. It is impossible. The obstacles that are

put in a way might be counter-productive? I think we have

about everybody, not just give papers to people that work, but to

everybody. Joining me now is the Anglo-French journalist and

broadcaster. Badge driven coming in. How are those Poles looking? Very

tight. All polling and campaigning stops tonight. So that the French

people can have time to reflect, read up and to think about their

vote. Uppermost in their minds will be security issues and the future of

France. The polls, the four leading candidates is that of the two front

ones, are Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen, you have Francois Fillon, and

then you have surprised a Jean-Luc Melenchon, but it seems to be

tightening as we had the first three I mentioned within about 4% of each

other. It is the most unpredictable and wide open presidential election

in modern history. Many people voted for and none of the above. Why?

We'll see what the French people decide, that is what the pollsters

think, and there are people who says they will abstain will do what they

call in French... I think a lot of people who are disillusioned in

France and indeed in other countries with politicians, the political

class, and that is why a candidate like Emmanuel Macron is saying it is

no longer do think of right and left, we need some of the policies

on one side and some of the other, he were to become President at 39

years old it would be remarkable. Other people are saying that the

latest shooting in Paris and killing of a police officer, serious

wounding two others and of a German tourist are really going to play to

the fears of some people, to use the Marine Le Pen senators plan to close

the Borders, stop immigration, not just illegal in the but chuck out

anybody who is suspected by intelligence services are is

foreign. We were ultimately see who goes through to the two candidates,

who get the most votes, we don't think anyone will get 50%, so who

are the two people who are going to go forward and you then will be

within a very short breadth of the palace itself on the 7th of May.

What about turnout? What are you expecting? You say people are

disillusioned, do you expect...? And that is also an unknown. How correct

at the polls? Who will go thrower but how many people abstain? It was

33% a few weeks ago, it looks like people have been making their minds

up in the last week. We think it might be 23% abstention, but it is a

very important election not just for France but for the United Kingdom,

it will have an effect on the rest of the EU. It is crucial for France

and we will see who versus who I will find that out on 7pm London

time this Sunday. Police in Germany have arrested a man accused of

bombing the boss of the German football team Dortmund last week.

One player was injured on the bus was on its way to the stadium. The

suspect may have been carrying out a complex financial scam. The bombing

was potentially deadly, shattering the windows of the coach, it was

only a matter of luck that no one was killed. Police initially thought

the attack on the team bus was an act of politically motivated terror,

but now prosecutors say the attacker was driven by greed, not ideology. A

28-year-old man who stayed in the same hotel as the players is accused

of bombing the team in order to force the club's share price down,

prosecutors say his aim was to make a huge profit on the stock market.

TRANSLATION: Retraced the accused by noticeable option dealings, we now

know that the accused but the different derivatives of the

Dortmund stock. With all these directors he speculated on falling

stock prices, but the main part of these finance products himself on

April 11, so the day of the attack. The team has expressed relief that

the perpetrator appears to have been caught, but there is also widespread

disgust in Germany that summer may have been prepared to kill in order

to make money from shares. The team is looking for to the next match on

Sunday but some players have not yet fully recovered. TRANSLATION: Is a

success would give us a boost, I can speak for myself. I think that I am

able and at the moment I don't see why I personally cannot, with all

the emotion involved cannot coach this game. The bombing shocked

Germany, particularly because it was not clear who the attack and why.

Officials remain cautious, saying in the perpetrators could be Islamist

extremists or criminals with a completely different motivation. Now

it seems that caution has paid off. US military officials say a close

associate of the group that calls itself Islamic state.

US military officials say a close associate of the leader of the group

which calls itself Islamic State, has been killed in a commando raid

Abdurakhmon Uzbeki was reportedly killed during the ground assault

Our correspondent in Washington, Gary O'Donoghue, has more details.

The attack took place on the 6th of April. I think the reason foreign

the gap is that they try to gather as much intelligence as they could

in order to get the man they thought they had got. That was probably the

reason for the delay. It was a ground operation, in other words the

US spent a lot of time hitting people in Syria and Iraq,

individuals through drone strikes and hellfire missiles fired from

drones, much more rare is using commandos on the ground.

As hacking becomes a bigger and bigger problem ,

signs emerge of how young the hackers are.

The bodies of the dead still inside. I never thought they would go

through with it. Some places have already had nearly

as much rain as they normally expect in an entire year. For millions of

Americans, the death of Richard Nixon has meant conflicting

emotions, a national day of mourning next Wednesday, sitting somehow

uneasily with the abiding memories of the shame of Watergate. Liftoff

of the spaceship discovery with the Hubble space telescope, our window

on the universe. The man who shot dead a policeman

in Paris on Thursday , Karim Sure-fee , had

four previous convictions. The Chancellor and Prime Minister

given a first hints on what will be the Conservative manifesto. Theresa

May says she would keep the current spending on foreign aid despite

pressure within our own party to cut it. The Chancellor has hinted that

he would like to end the party's promise not to increase taxes. I

Deputy political editor reports. No leader stays popular forever, but

Reza made feels she's liked enough for now to make policy some might

like and others won't. She was confident enough, have promised when

we heard before and will again. Melo my passion in politics is to make

the United Kingdom a country that works for everyone and not just the

privileged few. That today that meant sticking to Britain's target

for spending on foreign aid, which some right-wingers want cut. We need

is look at how that money is spent and make sure we are able to spend

that money in the most effective way. But what about that

costly pledge? Keeping up the value costly pledge? Keeping up the value

of pensions? Again today, you are telling the country that you are a

leader that people can trust. Can pensioners trust you to go on

raising the state pension year by year, just as your party and

Government is now? What I would say to pensioners is just look at what

the Conservatives in Government have done. P yesterday, ?1250 a year

better off as a result of action taken. We were clear about the need

to ensure that we support people in their old age and that is what we

have done. That wasn't a yes. Here and that is what we have done. That

wasn't a yes. Here in Baxter, plenty of people like the idea of looking

after pensioners. They have worked all their lives, paid their national

insurance. I think they deserve it as much as anyone else. If if you

can't look after the elderly, what can you do? If it can be done, stop

it. A lot of them put it in the bank. Trees may may be about to

upset a lot of voters, even thinking about dropping the Tories promised

to pensioners takes a leader very confident about the election,

especially now she is protecting overseas aid spending. A big lead in

the polls comes in handy if you about to annoy millions of

pensioners. A big majority in the Commons, even more so she then on

and doesn't. That deserves a hug, Jeremy Corbyn parred campaigning his

way to small crowds and big ones. No talk of saving on benefits here, the

carbon wayside like this. Theresa May seems incapable of answering any

questions about the protection of the triple lock. I give you that

commitment now, Labour will maintain the triple lock. Standing by what is

called the triple lock, painted up every year by inflation or average

earnings or 2.5%. And not sure where I'm going. Nor is anyone for sure,

the campaign has barely started. The Lib Dems look perky, they are sure

this election will be better than last time. And we are the only clear

opposition to the Conservatives, opposing a hard Brexit, it and being

a clear and effective opposition on every other level. And on they go.

Pollsters and pundits may think they know how this ends, but there are

still 48 days to polling day. The internet is creating a new kind

of criminal according to a new report from the UK's

National Crime Agency and that criminal is younger and far more

tech-saavy than many of the others law enforcement are

used to encountering. The agency says an increasing number

of young people are slipping Doctor Merry 18 is a cyber

psychologist who has done extensive research on the pathways young

people take to cybercrime. What sort of person is attracted to the world

of hacking? We published a report last year where we found that the

typical profile of the youth hacker was male, highly intelligent,

clearly had an avid interest and skills said regarding technology.

Had some need for affiliation and affirmation, so to a group, and also

enjoyed the challenges involved in tracking behaviour. How do they take

that first step onto that pathway to crime? It's a good question. We know

a lot about real-world criminality, we know very little about cyber

criminality. Where the pathway from into cyber juvenile delivers the

bank potentially into organised cybercrime will stop we do need more

research in this area. There is no point and actually considering

hacking when a young person is 15, they don't just wake up and become a

hacker we have to go back in a developmental context and start

thinking about identifying these kids very early, and I'm talking

about school entry age. We have IQ metrics and CQ metrics, but we have

no CQ, we have no technology quarter, everywhere in the identify

these kids we would be able to engage with them, nurture them,

during the educational process and stop them going outside the system

to seek affirmation. That also is very technical. How easy is it to

achieve? It is to design a scale, and that's a major piece of work for

behavioural scientists, but it is not such a big thing to do for them,

a scale would be an assessment that you give to young children and you

would aim to identify latent talent of talent that would manifest over

time. At that point, you could then hot house them and get them to

engage in parts of the curriculum where they could build their

self-esteem within the educational system rather than engaging in

potentially criminal behaviour. That is a way of staging an educational

intervention. In addition to that, we also need to stage interventions

in terms of the actual behaviour. It would be very difficult for any

parent of a tech talented 13-year-old to explain to them,

well, if you are engaging in this behaviour online and you are at the

perimeter of the network, that is OK, but if you do this in terms of

penetrating the network then that is criminal. It would be difficult for

a teacher to teach that to a young person. What we need is extensive

education. Sorry to interrupt, running out of time. Teenagers and

consequences. Thank you very much. Hugh Ferris has these bought for us.

They've met in two of the last three finals...

There'll be a Madrid derby in the SEMI-finals

Real have been drawn against Atletico in the last four...

where surprise package Monaco will take on Juventus in the other match.

It is friends reunited because it is the fourth year in a row they will

meet any cabbage leaf. Past three seasons we have two finals,

1/4-final, and on every one of those occasions rearm and it has come out

as the winner of those ties. It will be looking for revenge, this season

in La Liga, Ray R Madrid had a 3-1 win and they met only a couple of

weeks ago, another Madrid derby that finished 1-1. It will be close and

tight and tense. It means they won't meet in the final, got into the last

three seasons they have met any final, this tiny meet semifinal.

Ajax will play Lyon in the semi finals while Manchester United

will face Celta Vigo in the other tie.

There's been another shock at the Monte Carlo Master tennis,

with world number two Novak Djokovic beaten in three sets

The Belgian raced through the first set to take it 6-2 against

the number two seed Early in the second Djokovic lost his

BUT he did recover well to take it 6-3.

BUT it was the number ten seed who progressed despite the Serb

As Goffin set up a last-four meeting with nine time champion Rafa Nadal

They say that when Ding Junhui plays snooker...

There's over a billion people glued to their TV sets in China.

Well you can bet there's even more watching his second round match

at the World Championship in Sheffield, England as he's up

against China's number two player Liang Wenbo for a place

in the quarter-finals These are live pictures from the Crucible...

Ding leads 9-6 so this is the final frame of their session before

Meanwhile one of her grandchildren, the Duke of Cambridge,

made a surprise public appearance here at the BBC buildings in London.

Can he do it again? All will edit shearing reclaim that top spot 13

weeks at number one before Harry spoiled his Easter. Santa milia.

LAUGHTER -- sounds familiar. Didn't they do

well? That is it from the programme. Cheerio.

It looks like many others will have a shot to the system next week as

winter makes a return. But funny weekend it will be mostly dry. It

will be some ground frost and it will be quite chilly overnight.