deadin manslaughter after a baby was found dead in woodland in sussex yesterday. yet more revelations emerge from the former health secretary s leaked whatsapp messages, as matt hancock accuses the journalist behind it of a massive betrayal and breach of trust. and as children are encouraged to read on world book day, the bbc is encouraging them to write as well. the 500 word story and coming up in the sport on the bbc news channel. we ll give you the latest on the hearing into cricket s racism scandal, while in the tennis, djokovic delivers in dubai, the world number one cruises into the semi finals in straight sets good evening and welcome to the bbc news at ten. the inquiry into the manchester arena bombing has found that the security service, m15, missed a significant opportunity in the months running up to the bombing at an ariana grande concert that might have prevented the attack. the head of m15 has said he is profoundly sorry. the families of the 22 people who died i
bombings three years later. set against that, m15 have thwarted 37 terrorist attacks from 2017 until this year. so let s drill down into what went wrong with manchester. libya was a country that m15 underestimated in terms of terrorist risk. their attentions were focussed on syria, where isis had its so called caliphate. but isis also had a growing presence in libya. m15 knew that salman abedi, the bomber, had left the country. yet there was no port stop put in place at airports and ports to question him on his return from libya, just four days before he blew himself up. and another crucial failing was that once abedi came back to this country, he wasn t followed, despite his well known contacts with an extremist. if he had been followed, perhaps to where he d hidden the bomb, then it s possible but not certain that the attack
there was a realistic possibility that actionable intelligence could have been obtained which might have let to action preventing the attack. the reason for this missed opportunity included a failure by the security service, in my view, to act swiftly enough. abedi set off his suicide bomb in the foyer at the end of an ariana grande concert. parents were waiting for their children. the youngest to die we just eight years old. liam curry and his girlfriend chloe rutherford were teenage sweethearts. for their parents, and all the families still reeling from loss, the report s findings are hard to take. all we, as families, have asked for from day one is the truth. acknowledgement of failures. hopefully next time there won t be as many families going through the utter heartbreak we have had to endure for the last
deadin manslaughter after a baby was found dead in woodland in sussex yesterday. yet more revelations emerge from the former health secretary s leaked whatsapp messages, as matt hancock accuses the journalist behind it of a massive betrayal and breach of trust. and as children are encouraged to read on world book day, the bbc is encouraging them to write as well. the 500 word story and coming up in the sport on the bbc news channel. we ll give you the latest on the hearing into cricket s racism scandal, while in the tennis, djokovic delivers in dubai, the world number one cruises into the semi finals in straight sets good evening and welcome to the bbc news at ten. the inquiry into the manchester arena bombing has found that the security service, m15, missed a significant opportunity in the months running up to the bombing at an ariana grande concert that might have prevented the attack. the head of m15 has said
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