28 May, 2017
Soldiers have been deployed on the streets and police presence has increased since the terrorist attack at Manchester Arena that left 22 people dead.
British Transport Police announced the measure in a bid to "disrupt and deter criminal activity" on the rail network after the United Kingdom terror threat level rose to critical in the wake of the Manchester attack.
British police are now hunting for a jihadist network believed to behind the deadly bombing of in Manchester that killed 22 people.
Greater Manchester Police say two men were arrested overnight in Manchester and in the Withington area in the south of the city. It is normal for a critical terror threat level to be maintained for just a few days. She asks that people's response to violence be to "to love more, to sing louder and to live more kindly and generously than we did before".
British intelligence officials were also reported to be working with German authorities to find out who bomber Salman Abedi met and where he went after trips to Syria and Libya.
"We are getting a greater understanding of the preparation of the bomb", Britain's most senior counter-terrorism officer Mark Rowley said.
Ariana Grande has broken her silence and has announced that she will put on a benefit concert for those affected by last week's terror attack during her Manchester concert.
"Today we are releasing an image of Salman Abedi taken from CCTV on the night he committed the attack", they said in a statement. They are also hunting for a second explosive device assembled by Abedi that may now be with another member of the network.
Investigators have searched 17 properties, including Abedi's home in south Manchester and other houses in nearby districts.
The development came as a vast security operation gets under way to protect hundreds of Spring Bank Holiday events across Britain this weekend.
TRT World's Jon Brain reports on the latest from Manchester. She later cancelled several concerts scheduled in London and Europe through June 5.
He died in the attack outside an Ariana Grande concert.
