workers and the railway industry are outrageous. london euston station is eerily quiet this morning. some passengers are hoping to make a journey but there is widespread disruption across the rail network. how is the strike affecting you? are you working from home or did you have a trickyjounrey to work? do you support the strikes or not? we d like to hear your thoughts. get in touch with me on twitter @annitabbc and use the #bbcyourquestions. in other news a senior ukrainian official says russian forces have almost captured the strategic city of severodonetsk with ukrainian forces holding on to just one factory. a russian nobel peace laureate auctions his medalfor £81i million, to raise funds for children displaced by the war in ukraine. a former senior united nations official calls for an independent panel to investigate allegations of sexual abuse and corruption in the organisation. he attacks me in the elevator, he comes at me all of a sudden. i pleaded with him to sto
inside the arena described a stampede as panic spread. we have been treating this as a terrorist incident and we believe at this stage the attack last night was conducted by one man. right now the prime minister is chairing a meeting of the government s emergency committee, cobrament her home secretary, amber rudd described it as a barbaric attack. screaming, shouting, just people mad, chaotic rush to the nearest exit. suddenly something really hot just flew over us and landed behind me and my mum and my sister and then we all like dropped to the floor. this morning we are live in manchester and we will be talking to people who were at that concert. those young people, those teenagers, who were targeted by a suicide bomber. a lone man at this stage, as far as the police know, who exploded a device in the foyer of the manchester arena just after ariana grande finished her concert. we ll get reaction from the police and from local politicians and from people who live and work i
business overhaul. good afternoon, welcome to manchester. you can see that we have it moved position to the manchester by manchester arena behind me. we are told that police are still on site and the forensic work will continue, because the principal focus of the police right now is to establish who the bomb maker was. there will be fragments of bomb material in the foyer area and the forensic work will continue as long as is needed to pull together all the pieces as they need in this fast moving investigation. we know a little bit more about the bomber, named as 22 year old salman abedi, a manchester boy, he was in enrolled recently at university. he was knowing to security services, says amber rudd, to a point. it was known that he had left the country, he had gone to libya at some point. there are reports from the french government that he may have even gone to syria, but that is very much pa rt gone to syria, but that is very much part of the investigation. let s look
level is raised to critical the highest there is. good evening and organ to manchester, we are in the saint ambrose marco square in the heart of the city. there are a growing number of flowers being laid. there are plenty of places to put them and this is just plenty of places to put them and this isjust one plenty of places to put them and this is just one of them. also thought of heartfelt messages and talk messages left on the floor. i m looking at the manchester love hearts, messages of solidarity and sympathy with those who were killed. we now know the identities of sympathy with those who were killed. we now know the identities 01:14 who we re we now know the identities 01:14 who were killed including an off duty policeman who was in the foyer when the bomb went off. we are learning about the bomber, salman abedi. he was 22, enrolled at salford university and there have been a rest here and in libya. let s tell you about the key developments. officers here in the uk h