:00:07. > :00:14.Police in the Spanish region of Catalonia say the terror network
:00:15. > :00:16.behind Thursday's deadly attacks was originally planning
:00:17. > :00:36.Hundreds of flowers and candles now mark the spot where the biggest
:00:37. > :00:39.Side by side for a minute's silence, Spain's King Felipe VI
:00:40. > :00:46.Two people die and eight others are injured in a stabbing in Finland.
:00:47. > :00:48.Police say it's not currently being treated as a terrorist incident.
:00:49. > :00:50.And Steve Bannon - the man once described
:00:51. > :00:53.as the President's brain - has been fired from his role
:00:54. > :01:17.Hello and welcome to World News Today.
:01:18. > :01:20.Police in the Spanish region of Catalonia say the jihadists
:01:21. > :01:22.who killed 14 people in two vehicle attacks had been planning
:01:23. > :01:24.a much bigger atrocity involving explosives.
:01:25. > :01:27.The Chief of Police said their plot appeared to have been disrupted
:01:28. > :01:35.by the explosion of a bomb factory in the town
:01:36. > :01:38.of Alcanar on Wednesday, leading them to adopt more
:01:39. > :01:42.13 people were killed and scores wounded yesterday afternoon
:01:43. > :01:45.when a van was driven into crowds on Las Ramblas in the
:01:46. > :01:47.centre of Barcelona - a popular tourist site.
:01:48. > :01:49.During the night, five suspected terrorists were shot dead
:01:50. > :01:55.in the coastal town of Cambrils after they drove a car into people,
:01:56. > :01:59.So far, four people have been arrested in
:02:00. > :02:16.Across another European city touched by terror,
:02:17. > :02:19.one minute of stillness filled the space that words could not.
:02:20. > :02:24.A void with a single burning question, why?
:02:25. > :02:27.Then, as King Felipe and the Prime Minister looked on,
:02:28. > :02:55.But the previous 24 hours of violence were shocking.
:02:56. > :02:58.This, a street in the coastal town of Cambrils.
:02:59. > :03:01.A terror suspect is cornered and is wearing what police
:03:02. > :03:08.They decide there is only one course of action.
:03:09. > :03:10.The dead man was one of five who tried to mow
:03:11. > :03:15.All of the attackers were shot by police and investigators now
:03:16. > :03:17.believe they were part of a terrorist cell
:03:18. > :03:21.of eight to 12 people, some of whom were in this house,
:03:22. > :03:24.120 miles from Barcelona the night before, when a blast killed one
:03:25. > :03:30.It is thought explosive devices were being prepared,
:03:31. > :03:38.as well as the blueprint for Barcelona's Las Ramblas attack.
:03:39. > :03:43.Nick and Stephanie from Lincoln were caught up in the panic.
:03:44. > :03:46.A white van ploughed into the path of hundreds of people.
:03:47. > :03:51.They run for cover into a nearby cafe.
:03:52. > :03:55.The only thing going through my head was Paris, and the London attacks,
:03:56. > :03:57.where the attackers would come through restaurants and bars,
:03:58. > :04:02.I thought, we are going to get shot, we are going to get shot.
:04:03. > :04:08.When we turned around, after the first bang,
:04:09. > :04:14.bodies everywhere, kids everywhere, people shouting.
:04:15. > :04:17.I can't seem to shift that from my mind at all.
:04:18. > :04:22.It is absolutely heartbreaking, what people have gone through here.
:04:23. > :04:30.You don't understand what is happening.
:04:31. > :04:34.And then you see the people on the floor, you realise
:04:35. > :04:43.Police have released this image of four suspects.
:04:44. > :04:46.A young Moroccan man, Moussa Oukabir, three others.
:04:47. > :04:48.His older brother was arrested and then released yesterday.
:04:49. > :04:53.More information is coming out about the victims,
:04:54. > :04:56.like Bruno Gulotta, 35 and from Rome, on holiday
:04:57. > :04:58.with his wife and two children, a little boy
:04:59. > :05:04.There are concerns for Julian Cadman, who is seven
:05:05. > :05:07.and thought to have dual Australian and British nationality.
:05:08. > :05:09.He has not been seen since the attack.
:05:10. > :05:18.24 hours after the blood-letting, this is Las Ramblas,
:05:19. > :05:22.where, a few hours ago, bodies lay, now there are flowers.
:05:23. > :05:25.On the boulevard where the white van eventually crashed,
:05:26. > :05:30.So many have told us that life must go on,
:05:31. > :05:37.But lives have been changed here for ever.
:05:38. > :05:45.Let's speak to the BBC's Ben Brown, who's in Barcelona.
:05:46. > :05:52.Then, we are seeing how life is continuing. Las Ramblas is now a
:05:53. > :05:58.shrine. Where are we in the investigation now? Yes, people are
:05:59. > :06:02.back on the streets 24 hours after that attack on Las Ramblas, but a
:06:03. > :06:06.few minutes ago Google were again and running in terror, there was
:06:07. > :06:09.some kind of fight a few hundred yards from our location. That was
:06:10. > :06:14.enough to get people running in panic once more and it is quite an
:06:15. > :06:19.Aidy and tense atmosphere, although people wanting to show they are
:06:20. > :06:23.prepared to come back out onto the streets and defy terrorism. Where we
:06:24. > :06:31.are in this the destination is that police have arrested four men but
:06:32. > :06:34.they are looking for more, those men that you saw and that report,
:06:35. > :06:39.including Moussa Oukabir who is believed to have been the driver of
:06:40. > :06:42.the van that caused so much death and destruction in Las Ramblas.
:06:43. > :06:51.According to some reports, he then went to this other town south-west
:06:52. > :06:57.of hair, Cambrils and that is where he was one of five terror suspects
:06:58. > :06:59.shot dead there. That has not been confirmed but there are persistent
:07:00. > :07:04.reports in the Spanish media that he was one of the five terror suspects
:07:05. > :07:08.killed there as well. What seems to now be the case and this is what the
:07:09. > :07:12.Catalan police are telling us is that they do believe there was a
:07:13. > :07:20.much more deadly atrocity that was being planned by this wider terror
:07:21. > :07:23.network. They had a lot of gas canisters at this house south of
:07:24. > :07:26.here. They somehow blocked on Wednesday night at the house where
:07:27. > :07:29.they were stored and that changed the plans of the terrorist because
:07:30. > :07:32.after that they could not carry out wit Wardle bomb attack they were
:07:33. > :07:38.planning and they decided in the words of the police to carry out a
:07:39. > :07:41.much more rudimentary attack using vehicles. So here in Barcelona and a
:07:42. > :07:45.few hours later in the early hours of the morning down about the course
:07:46. > :07:52.hundred kilometres from here. The total death toll from that is 14
:07:53. > :07:55.with more than 130 people injured. And we are hearing more details
:07:56. > :08:05.about the people that lost their lives. Yes, and from many different
:08:06. > :08:10.countries, the injured we are hearing are from some 34 different
:08:11. > :08:17.countries. The dead are from countries like the United States,
:08:18. > :08:21.Italy, Belgium and so on. Barcelona is a city that attracts people, of
:08:22. > :08:26.course, from all over the world, it is one of the most beautiful cities
:08:27. > :08:33.in the world, not surprising, but Las Ramblas, when that van drove at
:08:34. > :08:35.high speed for some half a kilometre along there, swerving into
:08:36. > :08:39.pedestrians, Las Ramblas was absolutely packed with people from
:08:40. > :08:42.many different countries, tourists, holiday-makers, sightseers. This is
:08:43. > :08:46.one of the main tourist attractions in Barcelona, it is what people come
:08:47. > :08:52.to see, the promenade along the Las Ramblas. So that is queried what the
:08:53. > :08:58.terrorists had in mind, they wanted to kill people not only from
:08:59. > :09:00.Barcelona but for killing people from many different countries as
:09:01. > :09:06.well and they had succeeded in doing that. But the police believe that
:09:07. > :09:09.perhaps a much more deadly atrocity may have been prevented just by the
:09:10. > :09:15.fact that those gas canisters blew up on Wednesday night. Then, a
:09:16. > :09:21.sobering note on which to end. Thank you. Ben Brown, speaking live from
:09:22. > :09:22.Barcelona. We will be speaking to an expert on terrorism later on, do
:09:23. > :09:26.stay with us for that. Police in Finland say two people
:09:27. > :09:29.have been killed and at least seven others injured in a stabbing attack
:09:30. > :09:32.in the south-western city of Turku. A young man has been
:09:33. > :09:35.arrested - he is thought The authorities say
:09:36. > :09:37.they are reinforcing security at border crossings
:09:38. > :09:39.and across the country. European Commission President
:09:40. > :09:41.Jean-Claude Juncker has since issued a statement saying,
:09:42. > :09:43."We strongly condemn this unprovoked attack which comes only 24 hours
:09:44. > :09:46.after the horror that My thoughts are with the victims
:09:47. > :09:55.and their loved ones." On the line is Wali Hashi,
:09:56. > :10:09.a journalist from Finland. I know that you were very quickly
:10:10. > :10:15.after the attacks took place, you were quickly on the scene, tell us
:10:16. > :10:29.what you saw. Thank you very much. I was at the bank and I just saw
:10:30. > :10:35.people running, I do not hold a reason, but when I came out I saw
:10:36. > :10:43.that they were shouting. A few seconds later I saw that two ladies
:10:44. > :10:54.were stabbed in front of the bank and I ran into another building. I
:10:55. > :11:01.try to help one of the woman but at the same time, tried to call the
:11:02. > :11:05.police and emergency services. It was a terrible situation at that
:11:06. > :11:16.time. This was one of the people who had been attacked? Yes. We try to
:11:17. > :11:20.concentrate on the lady, tried to save her life if we could and at the
:11:21. > :11:27.same time called the police and the ambulance. For about ten minutes
:11:28. > :11:33.after that, the ambulance came down and tried to save and taken to
:11:34. > :11:42.hospital. It was a very bad situation, especially for this lady
:11:43. > :11:47.because she was stabbed in the neck and I would be surprised if she
:11:48. > :11:50.survived. I know that you then went to the press conference that the
:11:51. > :12:00.authorities give, what points of information do you think stood up
:12:01. > :12:03.from what they said? Not so much. We're talking about a country that
:12:04. > :12:15.has been very peaceful for some time, one of the best locations in
:12:16. > :12:20.the world, if you like for that. It is a civilised country, the man.
:12:21. > :12:29.People were shocked that this happened in this country. We have
:12:30. > :12:34.seen their televisions in Barcelona, France and London, but we thought we
:12:35. > :12:38.would be different because we are not a colonised country and so on.
:12:39. > :12:43.But when I saw the press conference and the police, the first thing you
:12:44. > :12:47.can see is that everything is about the beginning, they do not want to
:12:48. > :12:53.give anything away. They do not want to tell you that this is terrorism,
:12:54. > :13:00.the only thing we got from them is that we try to find out how many
:13:01. > :13:06.people were injured or died. Two people died and seven were injured
:13:07. > :13:13.in Turku today. Everything is about trying to find out what was the
:13:14. > :13:18.motivation, who was this guy, and why he did what he has done. We do
:13:19. > :13:23.not know if it is linked to Barcelona, those questions have not
:13:24. > :13:26.been answered at this conference. Thank you very much for sharing your
:13:27. > :13:29.experience and thank you for telling us about what you saw arriving on
:13:30. > :13:32.the scene shortly after those attacks. The journalist from
:13:33. > :13:39.Finland, telling us about those attacks.
:13:40. > :13:41.President Trump's controversial chief strategist
:13:42. > :13:45.The embattled White House chief strategist who helped the President
:13:46. > :13:47.win the 2016 election is the latest to get the push.
:13:48. > :13:49.Let's go straight to our correspondent Gary O'Donoghue
:13:50. > :13:59.This is Gary, there was a lot of discrepancy about whether he
:14:00. > :14:05.resigned, whether he was pushed, we do now know that he was actually
:14:06. > :14:09.getting a little help to me. Yes, he was fired, no question about that.
:14:10. > :14:13.He was going to be fired a few weeks ago for various reasons and they
:14:14. > :14:18.held. But the new chief of staff inside the White House, General John
:14:19. > :14:22.Kelly, clearly had enough of Steve Bannon, who had gone off and done a
:14:23. > :14:27.bunch of unauthorised interviews recently. The latest one, really
:14:28. > :14:32.countering the White House message on things like North Korea. He
:14:33. > :14:38.described North Korea as a sideshow, not something the White House once
:14:39. > :14:41.said Atol in public because he did not -- because he does not believe
:14:42. > :14:45.it. But also because of some friction he was said to be causing
:14:46. > :14:49.between himself and the national security adviser HR McMaster who was
:14:50. > :14:53.also falling out with people like Jared Kushner, the President's
:14:54. > :15:00.son-in-law on policy issues as well. So he has gone. He was a hugely
:15:01. > :15:06.influential figure for the president in many ways, a sort of ideological
:15:07. > :15:13.base from where the present in many ways won has election victory. --
:15:14. > :15:16.for the President. Donald Trump had been distancing himself from Steve
:15:17. > :15:25.Bannon, telling everyone he had his own strategists, but he has set up
:15:26. > :15:32.the Breitbart right-wing website and it has a voice that is still out
:15:33. > :15:36.there, many of those, has poorer nonurban white reporters who did
:15:37. > :15:40.vote for Donald Trump will not be happy about Steve Bannon's
:15:41. > :15:44.departure. There was a very interesting to read from the editor
:15:45. > :15:56.of Breitbart in the last few minutes. One single word with one
:15:57. > :16:02.hashtag, war. We saw the president criticised for taking a long time to
:16:03. > :16:05.react to the rallies in Charlottesville, was that making
:16:06. > :16:09.Steve Bannon's position untenable or was it simply the fact that he was
:16:10. > :16:13.not fitting in as well any more and he was simply taking too much
:16:14. > :16:16.limelight away from the President? I think the latter name but also in
:16:17. > :16:24.this particular week, with the Charlottesville problem, and the
:16:25. > :16:30.President being accused of any since drawing a moral equivalence between
:16:31. > :16:34.neo- Nazis and those who, to protest against getting rid of Steve Bannon
:16:35. > :16:41.may help send that message that he really is not ambivalent about
:16:42. > :16:45.right-wing supporters or the far right in America, so I think it will
:16:46. > :16:50.be helpful in that sense, although, to be fair, it is not really Steve
:16:51. > :16:54.Bannon that has done the damage to Donald Trump this week, it is Donald
:16:55. > :16:57.Trump that has done the damage to Donald Trump this week. But it may
:16:58. > :17:05.help to allay some of that criticism, I think. But, you know,
:17:06. > :17:11.you must remember that the Donald Trump victory was based on a lot of
:17:12. > :17:15.ideology that Steve Bannon proposes, economic nationalism, as it is
:17:16. > :17:20.called, making America great again and bringing manufacturing and jobs
:17:21. > :17:24.back to this country. So I would be surprised if you saw a radical,
:17:25. > :17:27.ideological switch on the approach of Donald Trump from there won't
:17:28. > :17:31.even though he has got rid of his chief strategist. OK, Gary, we will
:17:32. > :17:34.leave it there for the time being. I am sure we will get more reaction on
:17:35. > :17:36.this. Thank you very much. Let's take a look at some of
:17:37. > :17:40.the other stories making the news... The South African Government has
:17:41. > :17:42.denied media reports that it's planning to grant diplomatic
:17:43. > :17:44.immunity to the Grace Mugabe is accused
:17:45. > :17:47.of beating a 20-year-old model in a hotel room,
:17:48. > :17:49.near Johannesburg, Police expected Mrs Mugabe to turn
:17:50. > :17:53.herself in on Tuesday, Firefighters are struggling
:17:54. > :18:00.to control two major blazes in central Portugal that have cut
:18:01. > :18:04.off a village of 2,000 people. The fires broke out on Tuesday
:18:05. > :18:06.evening and have so far left 92 people injured,
:18:07. > :18:15.seven of them seriously. Let's go back to our top story -
:18:16. > :18:18.Barcelona is the latest European city to suffer an attack
:18:19. > :18:20.where vehicles have been used For authorities, such attacks
:18:21. > :18:25.are extremely difficult to prevent and many have been wondering
:18:26. > :18:28.what more - if anything - Let's speak to Colin Clarke
:18:29. > :18:37.who is a political scientist at the RAND Corporation -
:18:38. > :18:40.a US think-tank - where his research focuses on terrorism,
:18:41. > :18:41.insurgency and criminal networks. He joins me via webcam
:18:42. > :18:53.from Pittsburgh. Thank you for joining us live from
:18:54. > :18:58.Pittsburgh. In terms of where this group was plotting all of this, we
:18:59. > :19:05.are talking about Barcelona, south from Barcelona, were you aware that
:19:06. > :19:09.this was such a hot for this of activity? Indeed, this has long been
:19:10. > :19:14.known to be a Hot Spot of radical Islamic activity, in fact, the
:19:15. > :19:19.leading terrorist in the 911 attacks met with an Al-Qaeda operative beer
:19:20. > :19:27.prior to 9/11 just a couple of years ago in 2015. We saw a number of
:19:28. > :19:31.businesses, butchers, phone call centres that were cracked down upon
:19:32. > :19:35.and investigated for financing terrorism and sending money from
:19:36. > :19:40.Spain to the Middle East and it has been documented that Spain has over
:19:41. > :19:44.120 citizens that were known to travel to Iraq and Syria to fight
:19:45. > :19:49.with ISAs and other Jihadi groups as foreign fighters. So quite a bit
:19:50. > :19:54.that is there. Quite a bit of activity. In terms of this
:19:55. > :19:58.particular group, do you think that it was being controlled by so-called
:19:59. > :20:07.Islamic State or was it just motivated by it, how does that work?
:20:08. > :20:10.That is a great question, unfortunately it is too early to
:20:11. > :20:16.tell the forensics, with what happened, poor that this was a group
:20:17. > :20:20.of individuals that had consumed large quantities of Isis propaganda
:20:21. > :20:25.or decided to act on their own or whether there was a virtual planning
:20:26. > :20:27.going on were Isis chiefs were communicating from Iraq and Syria
:20:28. > :20:32.through encrypted duplications with these men in Spain and talking to
:20:33. > :20:38.them about the tactics of such an attack. I would tell you that the
:20:39. > :20:43.levels of sophistication of this attack, although the house blew up
:20:44. > :20:46.on Wednesday night and Alcanar and the other vehicle attack was foiled,
:20:47. > :20:52.there was some sophistication to this attack, so that this hint that
:20:53. > :20:55.potentially Isis could have added more direct role. You talk about
:20:56. > :21:00.Alcanar and it could have been so much couldn't it? If that house had
:21:01. > :21:04.not exploded, the potential to do damage could have been an awful lot
:21:05. > :21:12.worse, what do you make of that? Absolutely, what do I make of it?
:21:13. > :21:15.Once again, they were saved by the ineptitude of the Terrace partly. We
:21:16. > :21:20.talk about the capabilities of law enforcement but often we are saved
:21:21. > :21:24.by inept terrorists. Unfortunately, they were not totally inept, they
:21:25. > :21:28.were able to take vehicles and drive them into people but again, that
:21:29. > :21:35.does not take a lot of skill, it is a very crude, basic attack and
:21:36. > :21:41.unfortunately, it is a trend and we have seen that across Europe, in
:21:42. > :21:44.East Berlin and London and the use of the vehicle is very troubling
:21:45. > :21:50.because it is so easy to attack soft targets. Colin Clarke from the Rand
:21:51. > :21:55.Corporation, thank you for sharing your expertise in terrorism with us.
:21:56. > :21:57.More than 460 people are now confirmed to have died
:21:58. > :22:00.in the landslide and flooding that hit Sierra Leone's capital Freetown,
:22:01. > :22:04.Around 600 are still missing and the UK has pledged nearly
:22:05. > :22:11.The BBC's Martin Patience reports from Freetown.
:22:12. > :22:18.A simple wooden coffin for a victim with no name.
:22:19. > :22:23.More than 200 graves were freshly dug for a mass burial of those
:22:24. > :22:30.The bodies are being brought from the main mortuary in Freetown
:22:31. > :22:36.This cemetery was last used during the Ebola outbreak,
:22:37. > :22:39.and it gives you some sense of the scale of this problem
:22:40. > :22:43.and how the authorities have been overwhelmed.
:22:44. > :22:48.The country's president is calling for national unity.
:22:49. > :22:57.This is another painful episode in our nation's history.
:22:58. > :22:59.Hundreds of our unsuspecting compatriots were swept
:23:00. > :23:08.At a distribution centre, tempers are fraying.
:23:09. > :23:20.Getting your hands on clean water is a struggle.
:23:21. > :23:26.Families are now sheltering in half built houses.
:23:27. > :23:33.There is no comfort here, just grief.
:23:34. > :23:37.This woman lost both parents and now she doesn't know how she'll
:23:38. > :23:52."We need help, the government needs to support us," she said.
:23:53. > :24:01."We need housing, we need help to start up our businesses again."
:24:02. > :24:07.This young girl flicks through pictures of family.
:24:08. > :24:11.But she may be too young to ever remember them.
:24:12. > :24:25.In the US, millions of people will get their first chance to see
:24:26. > :24:27.a total solar eclipse with their own eyes,
:24:28. > :24:30.but for one couple in Missouri it will be a familiar sight.
:24:31. > :24:32.They've travelled the world chasing eclipses for 26 years,
:24:33. > :24:35.but on Monday, the celestial event will come right to their backyard.
:24:36. > :24:48.We caught up with them to hear why this eclipse will be so special.
:24:49. > :25:00.Nothing is like a total solar eclipse.
:25:01. > :25:03.Well, I'm not a mystic at all, but it does have a kind
:25:04. > :25:07.My name is Sharon Hahs and I've been married to Billy Hahs for 48 years
:25:08. > :25:11.and I think we like to call ourselves eclipse aficionados.
:25:12. > :25:18.We have loved chasing solar eclipses around the globe for about 26 years.
:25:19. > :25:21.So these are the photos that we captured in Thailand.
:25:22. > :25:30.We have been to 14 and we have seen and experienced 11 because...
:25:31. > :25:33.We were rained out in Costa Rica, we were snowed out in Mongolia
:25:34. > :25:38.And, of course, next is Missouri, USA.
:25:39. > :25:43.Even though this was the third eclipse, this was the first time
:25:44. > :25:48.we noticed that the sky was actually not black.
:25:49. > :25:51.If you want to get in touch with us here at BBC World News,
:25:52. > :26:01.Thank you for watching World News Today.
:26:02. > :26:10.Many of us saw some heavy, thundery downpours today.
:26:11. > :26:13.Tomorrow, on the face of it, is still a showery day