To thank the police and Emergency Services. She has described the attack as devastating. It is an absolutely barbaric attack that has taken place to cut off young lives in this way, and it is absolutely devastating. Police are said to know the identity of the Suicide Bomber and they say theyve arrested a 23 year old man in south manchester. We will have the details of the terrible events in the city for you. In other news, the actor sir roger moore, best known for playing james bond, has died at the age of 89. Its five oclock. Were in manchester, where the the worst Terror Attack Britain has seen in 12 years took place last night at the end of a pop concert at the Manchester Arena. 22 people are known to have died and 59 people were injured, some of them very seriously, when a Suicide Bomber detonated a device as people were leaving the concert. Many of those whod come to see Ariana Grande in concert were young people. Among those who were killed was an eight Year Old Girl, saffie rose
Operations. Really interesting detail is that salman abedi, the manchester attacker, and also khalid masood, who committed the westminster attacks several weeks ago, were both former subjects of these enquiries. They will not live suspects at the time of their attacks. Its quite a jittery sort of fa ct attacks. Its quite a jittery sort of fact to learn, that they had been under suspicion that they had been deemed safe enough to move on enquiries from. You wonder how the Security Services are meant to cope with that number of potential suspects. Extraordinary. 20,000 who featured in that previous risk category, which is pretty scary. I heard an interesting debate on radio 2 today about, if we did not renew trident, we would release 400, sorry, £40 billion. Somebody was suggesting, we could put that straight into Security Services, because it takes 30 officers to monitor one suspect. Its incredibly labour intensive. They are just overwhelmed with work at the moment. There isjust too muc