of afghan territory. ryan. ivan watson with the latest on the violence in afghanistan. thank you. al qaeda s master bombmaker may be dead according to a u.n. team that tracks terrorist groups. al asiri is one of the most dangerous operatives alive. he may have been killed last year. he was behind the underwear bomber in 2009. the u.n. report gave no indication how al asiri died or who was responsible. there have been counterterrorism strikes to rule out other terrorists in yemen. a report reveals that china is developing a fleet of bombers and likely training pilots for missions targeting the u.s. the report says china is pursuing a nuclear ability with the bombers. the report would provide china with nuclear deliveries across air, sea and land.
described in the report are criminal and morally reprehensible. those were betrayals of the victims that rob the victims of their dig ani victims that rob the victims of their dig anty and faith. he hopes the church will embrace the grand jury recommendations and including the statute of limitations. and a woman has filed a lawsuit seeking to be reunited with her infant daughter who needs to be breast fed. the woman also wants the government to reconsider her denied asylum claim. in may, she came to the u.s. with her then 11 month old. they were separated. she was set to be deported on thursday. the judge has halted deportation of families who had been reunited so the children can have parental assistance on the claims. al qaeda s master bombmaker may be dead according to a u.n.
well, trying to contain the network means more raids. we ve had raids over the last three days since this attack took place on monday evening. we had more raids this morning, not in manchester, but in another city in the northwest as well. and we ve had another arrest this morning. so, in total, ten people have been arrested. two of them have been released without charge, which means, as you said, there are still eight people who currently remain in custody. but what is crucial here is that authorities are saying that inside of some of these raids, they have managed to find vital pieces of evidence. now, does that mean they found evidence of potentially bomb-making activity, a bomb-making factory in some of these apartments and properties that they ve been raiding? we just don t know that level of detail. but what we do know is that they ve seemed to have veered away from the idea that salman abedi may have just been a mule carrying the device and there may be a master bombmaker on the
get pieces of this device, that s very helpful for the investigation, in terms of trying to determined the signature and who the actual manufacturer of this may be. exactly. i have worked with scotland yard a couple of years ago with one of their detectives that was amazing and took prepaid cell phone calls and the rest of it and they pieced together a suicide bombing, this was in lebanon, but it s remarkable once they get into the metadata, get into the signature of the bomb, get into cctv coverage and the rest of it, i think within days they re going to be able to piece this together who was behind it. and if in fact there was a master bombmaker, i think they ll be able to identify him. christiane, what kind of effect do you think this will have domestically in britain, politically and otherwise? reporter: politically, it has caused the suspension of the election campaign.
it. and if in fact there was a master bombmaker, i think they ll be able to identify them. what kind of an effect do you think this will have in britain, politically and otherwise? reporter: politically, it has caused the suspension of the election campaign. don t forget there s a general election on june 8 here, it s been suspended and the parties are not cam paining. i must say, in terms of security and a little bit of a political shot across the bow, the home secretary here today expressed, quote, irritation at the leaks that were coming out from the americans. it will be interesting to know from bob how this happened, some of the, for instance, the name of the bomber, these pictures that you re reporting from the new york times and others, and various different details apparently have come out from leaks in the united states, officials there, and the homeland secretary says that can