tributes are being paid to the victims of monday night s attack. the suspect, salman abedi, a 22 year old born in manchester to libyan parents had been known to security services. it is said it is unlikely he was acting alone. the terror threat alert has been raised to critical, its highest level. more rate of taken place across the city today as police continue their investigation. so far, four people have been arrested, one is the suspect‘s older brother. the bbc understands the bomber is thought to have detonated a device built by someone else. the terror threat alert indicates further attacks may be imminent. hundreds of troops have been deployed to protect key sites across the country, including downing street. an off duty female police officer was among the 22 killed in the attack. husband is critically ill and their two children were also injured. we will have all the latest elements in manchester and reaction, but first this report. of those killed in the attack on
accepted the community and to be able to be a cce pted by the community and to be able to be accepted by our parents. the reason i would not come at my was because i would like to be disowned. the reason i would not come out to my pa rents reason i would not come out to my parents is because i would be disowned. hello. welcome to the programme, we re live until 11 this morning. do get in touch if one of your relatives has received poor care or if you work in a care home and are worried about workload and standards. we also want to hear about excellent care and your ideas for how things can change. do get in touch on all the stories we re talking about this morning use the hashtag #victorialive. if you text, you will be charged at the standard network rate. our top story today. the chairman of the iraq inquiry, sirjohn chilcot, has told the bbc that the former prime minister, tony blair, was not straight with the nation, or his inquiry, about the decisions made in the run
Israel closed its main crossing point for delivering badly needed humanitarian aid for Gaza on Sunday after Hamas militants attacked it, while the defence minister claimed Hamas wasn't serious about a ceasefire deal and warned of "a powerful operation in the very near future in Rafah and other places across all of Gaza."
The United Nations human rights chief on Tuesday said he was horrified by reports of the discovery of hundreds of bodies in mass graves at two medical facilities in Gaza and called for an independent investigation into the deaths and destruction of the complexes.
More bodies were recovered on Monday from what Gaza Civil Defence workers said were mass graves on the site of Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, the biggest in southern Gaza, raising the number of bodies found over the past week to 283. Israel says it was forced to battle inside that and other hospitals because Hamas fighters operated there, which medical staff and Hamas deny.