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and government voting is under way in south korea, but will new leadership make a difference this time? and the wasteland! american shopping malls lie deserted and retailers suffer. so what is president trump planning to do about the problem? hello and welcome to bbc news. a former acting attorney general has told a us senate committee that she warned the trump administration against hiring michael flynn as national security adviser. sally yates said she had let white house officials know injanuary that mr flynn had lied about contacts with russian diplomats, leaving him open to blackmail. nada tawfik has more. it was the hearing that many, not just in washington but across the country, had waited months for. sally yates, the former attorney general, speaking in public for the first time regarding her numerous warnings to the white house about general michael flynn. she testified that she spoke three times with white house counsel, saying that general flynn had lied a ....
that that controlled explosion was not actually a suspicious item. we believe it may have been clothing. abandoned clothing, we are hearing. soa abandoned clothing, we are hearing. so a precautionary measure, it seems, by the police here, to blow up seems, by the police here, to blow up whatever they found their. that is right. this often happens after these incidents. somebody saw some clothing, thought it was a bomb, and police had to act accordingly. i am sure they are getting similar reports elsewhere. the problem for police is to sift through that information and find out what they have to act upon. in this case, a precautionary controlled explosion. they have to sift through vast amounts of information. we have been hearing from so many people, andy, who told us from so many people, andy, who told us what it was like inside at the time of the explosion. how people reacted. one wasjosh elliot, who spoke to clive myrie. there was a loud bang. some said two, i only h ....
just finished the last song, he will be on the way out. and minutes later i heard a big explosion, and ijust saw my partner and my daughter running towards me. and my daughter was screaming, crying, and my partner said quickly, let s go. quickly, there has been an explosion, let s go. and ijust couldn t get out of their quick enough. and there were just all these people coming running down the stairs, screaming, pushing each other, screaming, crying, and it was just they were manic. i only had one explosion. that is all i heard, one explosion. that is all i heard, one explosion. so inrun, your partner and your daughter had literally been seconds out of the building when it went off imran. seconds out of the building when it went off imran. yes, she was at the top of the stairs when the explosion went off and she literally ran down the stairs with her. and luckily my car is quite distinctive, so luckily my car is quite distinctive, so she saw me straightaway. and th ....
young. for some it would have been their first concert and our parents are trying to reunite them, parents trying to reunite themselves with their children. in addition to this, their children. in addition to this, the railway station has been closed down, a lot of people will have come to and from the venue by train. that has been closed down, so thatjust add to the picture of confusion. thank you very much forjoining us for now. we will certainly come back to you when details emerge of what exactly happened there at the manchester arena. of course, as theresa may mentioned, this is being treated as a terror attack as security forces and emergency services in manchester and london try to piece together what exactly happened. as andy mentioned, a lot of teenagers at the concert, a lot of teenagers at the concert, a lot of confusion and a lot of panic but their testimony, as shaken as they might be, will be crucial to this investigation and piecing together the series of ....
terrorist attack. downing street says an emergency meeting of the cabinet office is expected to take place at around nine in the morning. that is local time. ed thomas is close to the scene of the incident in manchester and joins us now. it has been a few hours since the event. manchester police are treating it as a terrorist incident. they have confirmed that. give us an update. let it has been five hours now. several ambulances are still leaving. they are packed with injured people making their way down here and spreading them to hospitals gci’oss here and spreading them to hospitals across greater manchester. this is a sense of where i am. we have moved to the north of the city. the whole area is cordoned off. there is no getting in or out. this is as close as we can get to it. you can see the kew park. to the back is where the arena is. most people have made their way out. you can see people just wanting to get out of the city now and leave and get home and get to ....