from heathrow to new york, when over south west scotland a massive explosion in the cargo hold brought it down in seconds. all 259 passengers and crew died, most of them american, as did 11 others when wreckage fell on their homes. it remains the most deadly terrorist attack in british history. this is the man the us authorities accuse of making the bomb, abu agila mas ud, seen here in libya where he had beenjailed for unrelated crimes. two years ago the us attorney general formally charged mas ud with making the device which brought down flight 103. the american and the scottish authorities have always stressed that they would never stop trying to bring other people to justice. it was five years ago that the fbi learned that abu agila mas ud had confessed to a libyan official that he had built the lockerbie bomb. now he has finally been arrested and is being extradited to the united states.
this is newsday on the bbc. i m mariko 0i in singapore. the main story this hour: a libyan suspected of making the bomb that destroyed a passenger plane over the scottish town of lockerbie in 1988 is confirmed to be in us custody. ukrainian forces have struck a headquarters of russia s notorious wagner group in eastern ukraine based at a hotel, according to officials in the luhansk s region. wagner are state sponsored mercenaries who act in the kremlin s interests, according to western experts. their boss was filmed earlier this year recruiting translation: the biggest sin is desertion. no one backs down. no one retreats. no one surrenders. the recruited prisoners
this is newsday on the bbc. i m mariko 0i in singapore. 0ur headlines. a libyan suspected of making the bomb that destroyed a passenger plane over the scottish town of lockerbie in 1988 is confirmed to be in us custody. four children are in a critical condition after being pulled from a lake in freezing temperatures in central england. a minute s silence will be observed injersey on monday after a suspected gas explosion destroyed a block of flats, killing at least five people. it s feared that number will rise as more bodies are discovered. danjohnson reports from st helier. late last night, they accepted the reality that this rescue effort was over. the impact of this explosion was simply too devastating for anyone to survive. on friday night, the fire service had responded to
bringing a return to the moon one small step closer. days before the 34th anniversary of the lockerbie bombing, a libyan man accused by the united states of being the bomb maker has been taken into us custody. 270 people died when a pan am flight exploded over the scottish borders just before christmas 1988. as our north america editor sarah smith reports, the suspect is expected to appear in a us federal court on monday. just a few days before christmas in 1988, the town of lockerbie was suddenly engulfed in flame.
this man died on the plane. his sister welcomes the prospect of a court case in the us. to know now that one of those who is involved in the bombing is coming to the us to stand trial and face justice through our legal system, i think that it is something that we have been fighting for for over three decades, so i think there is a sense of finally justice for our loved ones. the only man to have been convicted of the lockerbie bombing, abdelbaset al megrahi, was jailed in 2001, but released eight years later and allowed to return home to libya because he was dying of cancer. some of the victims families still have doubts about his conviction and about the arrest of mas ud. it fills my mind with questions, really. first of all, why has it taken so long? secondly, what is he doing in america? this was a crime committed on scottish, well, above scottish soil, but which came to land