Manchester attack, a lot of you sending in questions for myself and christian who will be live from manchester and well get to them in a few moments but a sixth person has been arrested in connection with the attack on monday evening. We also know the father of the attacker and brother been arrested in libya. Before the father was arrested he gave an interview to reuters and some of the details are starting to come through. Let me update you, he said he condemns Terrorist Attacks on civilians and innocence people, he went on to say his son did not have extremist beliefs or belong to Islamic State and that he had not travelled to syria. I said earlier that police have expressed suspicions he may have been to syria. He said he was going on a pilgrimage. Reuters speaking to the father of the man who carried out the attack, saying the last time he spoke to his son was five days ago and everything was normal. Tragically everything clearly was not normal and the details of the man who died b
Ahead despite the clear skies, muggy as well and temperatures rising quickly in the sunshine again on thursday. A great and misty start in irish sea coast at conditions here will improve. Cloud keeping in the Northern Isles but are far from some Fairweather Cloud developing inland, a lot of sunshine game. Storm sunshine that strong sunshine in South West England and wales. The mid 205, maybe 27 in london. Warmer than today, warmer in Northern Ireland and warmer across scotland with the mid 20s in the central belt. Still some cloud in the Northern Isles, hopefully things brightening up here on friday. Friday will be another dry and sunny day. The breeze a little fresher, bringing in some real warmth from the near continent and pushing that warmth north into scotland where the temperatures are likely to peak on friday, around 29 around the moray firth. Elsewhere inland across the uk, temperatures widely into the mid possibly high 20s. That heat and humidity drawn from the net continent a
Ahead despite the clear skies, muggy as well and temperatures rising quickly in the sunshine again on thursday. A great and misty start in irish sea coast at conditions here will improve. Cloud keeping in the Northern Isles but are far from some Fairweather Cloud developing inland, a lot of sunshine game. Storm sunshine that strong sunshine in South West England and wales. The mid 205, maybe 27 in london. Warmer than today, warmer in Northern Ireland and warmer across scotland with the mid 20s in the central belt. Still some cloud in the Northern Isles, hopefully things brightening up here on friday. Friday will be another dry and sunny day. The breeze a little fresher, bringing in some real warmth from the near continent and pushing that warmth north into scotland where the temperatures are likely to peak on friday, around 29 around the moray firth. Elsewhere inland across the uk, temperatures widely into the mid possibly high 20s. That heat and humidity drawn from the net continent a
Its newsday. Hello and welcome. Police in the uk say they are investigating a network of people in connection with monday nights bombing in manchester. The bomber, salman abedi, killed 22, including children, and injured more than 60 when he set off the explosion at the Ariana Grande a concert. As the investigation gathers pace a total of seven people have been arrested around manchester and other uk cities. 0ur chief correspondent gavin hewitt starts oui correspondent gavin hewitt starts our coverage. Late morning, central manchester, and a raid on a block of flats, part of a huge operation to discover the network of the manchester bomber. Police believe he stayed there as recently as 7pm on monday evening of the night of the attack. Todays operation involved armed units, some wearing military clothing. Got to the front door and was greeted by an armed Police Officer with a helmet, face mask machine gun. I asked him what was happening. Hejust said 0perations, out to gain access to the
We are getting more information by the hour and the day about exactly what happened in manchester. Much of the focus on salman abedi, this young man who appears to have been the suicide bomber. The more we learn, the more you learn, does it seem to you this fits a familiar template or does this in any way seem different from europes other mass murders of recent times . I think it fits a familiar template but it is changing. You know, terrorism is not always the same. And within that sort of Third Generation jihadism that we have witnessed over the years, of course. Of course as a frenchman, what happened in manchester reminds us of the bataclan Music Hall Attack On 13th November 2015. But there it was a whole group of people who were largely organised, who had come back from syria through belgium, and you know, there were a number of people, the attacks took place in many places, they were coordinated, the stadium of france, in the sidewalk cafes, this is a loner. He acted alone. Maybe