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singapore. this is bbc world news. its newsday. hello, it is midnight here in london, 7am in singapore and also of course the midnight in the city of manchester police are responding to what they say is a serious incident ata what they say is a serious incident at a concert venue. in the last few minutes, they have reported a number of fatalities. this happened at the manchester and arena at the end of a performance by american singer ariana grande. there were reports of loud bang. police say they are investigating. they may have been explosions. it is not entirely clear what those banks were from eyewitnesses have said earlier they we re eyewitnesses have said earlier they were a number of casualties. the building is above a railway station. train services have been suspended. let s recap what we know because there are so many things at this stage which are unequivocal stop however, in the last few minutes, manchester police have confirmed that there are a number of fa ....
regional police. manchester victory station is nearby. so to police forces nearby. eyewitnesses have spoken about a helicopter overhead. it was a very large response by the emergency services. “ it was a very large response by the emergency services. two police forces. we a re emergency services. two police forces. we are seeing pictures of the arena being emptied in panic and confusion. we believe the arena itself is now clear. emergency services are dealing with the casualties at the scene. it looks a casino in absolute panic. there were sounds of this explosion. nobody was quite sure what was happening. people in the arena were talking about a bomb. it obviously engendered a lot of fear. people wa nted engendered a lot of fear. people wanted to get out as soon as they could. a lot of young people they are, some of them perhaps not with their guardians, on their own. we had reports of fights and scuffles and people being injured as they attempted to get out o ....
terrorism. they say this was a suspected terrorist attack. that has been confirmed in the last few minutes by manchester police. there isa minutes by manchester police. there is a lot of information coming on social media. but that is from greater manchester police, they say that this was a suspected terrorist attack. an incident in manchester, and just a bit more detail about that. we were told at the centre of this explosion was the foyer. as people were leaving, as many teenagers and young children were leaving that concert, the foyer was the main entrance and exit to manchester arena. it is in their way you can buy merchandise, where you can stop after the concert and get your scarf or post up. we have been told that that was the centre of this explosion. that has not been confirmed yet, another piece of information, we were talking to one man who was with two daughters at the concert, and he said after the blast he on the floor holding on to his wife, his leg was s ....
Get a jump on the day s news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. we will watch the situation very closely. paula, thank you for the report. jury selection begins later this morning in the federal trial of the former trump campaign paul manafort for alleged financial crimes. the first test for special counsel robert mueller and his prosecutors although russia is not the center of the trial. we have more from evan perez from washington. reporter: dave and laura, paul manafort, the former campaign chairman, is going on trial in virginia on federal tax and bank fraud charges. this is the first trial to come from robert mueller s investigation. don t expect the trial to be about russia or collusion or president trump. prosecutors and attorneys plan to stick closely to the issues in the charges which have to do with the government s accusations that manafort used secret foreign bank accounts to hide millions of dollars he earned working for the ukrainian government and fail ....
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