Britain Increases Security Level to Critical

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Twenty four hours after a British born suicide bomber killed 22 people at a pop concert, the UK prime minister has raised the national threat level to Critical, meaning another attack may be imminent. Margaret Gilmore of the Royal United Services Institute explains how security services will learn from Monday's attack and we hear from the BBC's Wyre Davies live in Manchester, the scene of the atrocity. After three die in protests on the Ivory Coast and a mutiny by thousands of serving soldiers, how can the country stay one of Africa's fastest growing economies? We hear from the BBC's Tamasin Ford in Abidjan. While the US President Donald Trump visits Europe, his first budget has been formally presented to Congress. It includes deep spending cuts with reductions in welfare and access to the national health care programme for the poor, but a 10% increase in military spending, and a big boost for border security, including more than one-and-a-half billion dollars to start building a wall along the Mexican border. We speak to financial journalist Caroline Baum about the repercussions. Joining us throughout the programme are Nancy Marshall-Genzer in Washington; she's from our sister programme Marketplace and the writer and journalist Madhavan Narayanan who's in Delhi. Meanwhile the BBC's correspondent in Hong Kong - Juliana Liu = tells us what's big business stories Asia is waking up to... ...and Yang Shuping - a student at the University of Maryland but originally from Kunming in China - incurs the wrath of her fellow citizens as her graduation speech contrasting home and university goes viral around the world. Picture: People gather at a candlelit vigil, honouring victims of Monday's terror attack at the Manchester Arena in England. Concert goers were leaving the venue after Ariana Grande had just finished performing when a suicide bomber struck. Greater Manchester Police are treating the explosion as a terrorist attack and have confirmed 22 fatalities and 59 injured. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)