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Watch: BBC China correspondent ordered to stop filming and pushed at car attack scene
The gates outside the Zhuhai sports complex in China were closed. Inside, the stadium was in darkness, as were the grounds around it.
It was here, hours before, where dozens of people were killed when a man drove an SUV into a crowd. Many more were injured.
Only security guards appeared to be moving around behind the fence when the BBC arrived, and they had been ordered to keep an eye out for reporters.
One approached us asking: "Are you journalists?" When I asked why he wanted to know, he replied: "Oh just to understand the situation."
He and a colleague took photos of us and started making calls, watching us as they did.
Outside the gates people passed by to catch sight of the aftermath. But among them was a group of around a dozen people more interested in us.
A women started calling to the others: "Look, foreigners, foreigners."
Soon a man who was with her was aggressively interrupting our reporting, grabbing me and shouting.
The BBC's China correspondent was grabbed and pushed by an unidentified man
Often, when sensitive stories like this unfold in China, local Communist Party officials organise groups of cadres to pretend to be outraged locals who have been given the role of targeting foreign reporters and preventing any coverage.
Invariably it doesn't stop the stories, it just makes China look bad.
After former Premier Li Keqiang died last year, crowds of these loyalists were sent to the street outside his old family home. Any journalist that arrived was surrounded and shouted at, pushed and abused.
Premier Li's death was sensitive to the party not only because it was sudden and unexpected - but also because he was the last of the old liberal wing. It signalled that the party was now completely stacked with loyalists of President Xi Jinping.
But even for much more minor incidents the same things happen.
Last month, we travelled to a shopping mall in Shanghai where a man had randomly stabbed strangers to death.
The entire location had been cleansed of any evidence within hours of this horrible event taking place. By the morning after, the mall was up and running again as normal: no police crime scene tape, no flowers for the dead.
On one level, you can understand this - many of these inexplicable assaults on the community are copycat in nature. Tuesday's attack is not an outlier, though it is shocking for its death toll.
But officials here sometimes want these bad things to simply go away as quickly as possible.
Hours after our confrontation outside the site of the Zhuhai attack, carloads of police had arrived to better manage the situation.
A crowd of residents had also gathered to light candles to remember the dead, and videos shared on social media showed lines of volunteers at hospitals offering to donate blood.
President Xi has called on officials to manage society's problems in order to prevent this type of thing happening again in the future.
But, again, China is left wondering what has driven someone to such inconceivable horror. It is impossibly difficult to find the answers to this one.
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Mourners paying tribute to the victims outside the Zhuhei Sports Centre on Tuesday night
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Justin Welby became Archbishop of Canterbury in February 2013
The Archbishop of Canterbury has announced he will step down from his role following a damning report into a prolific child abuser associated with the Church of England.
It emerged last week Justin Welby, 68, failed to act on reports of John Smyth's "abhorrent" abuse of boys and young men and "several opportunities were missed" to report the abuse to police.
In a statement Mr Welby said: "Having sought the gracious permission of His Majesty The King, I have decided to resign as Archbishop of Canterbury."
He added that "it is very clear that I must take personal and institutional responsibility" for his role in the response to the abuse.
"I hope this decision makes clear how seriously the Church of England understands the need for change and our profound commitment to creating a safer church," he said.
"As I step down I do so in sorrow with all victims and survivors of abuse."
He said over in the days since the report into Smyth's abuse was published, he had felt a "profound sense of shame at the historic safeguarding failures of the Church of England".
"I hope this decision makes clear how seriously the Church of England understands the need for change and our profound commitment to creating a safer church," he added.
The archbishop had faced mounting pressure to resign after it emerged that he had failed to act on reports of Smyth's abuse of more than 100 boys and young men.
The report by Keith Makin described Smyth's "clearly sexually motivated, sadistic regime" of beatings during the 1970s and 1980s.
He singled out boys attending Christian camps and in sessions at leading public schools, including Winchester College, before taking them to his home and beating them with a garden cane in his shed.
Some of the victims had to wear adult nappies because of the bleeding they had suffered.
Smyth was able to travel to Zimbabwe and South Africa, where he is alleged to have continued his abuse.
He was a prominent barrister as well as a lay preacher - a member of the congregation who delivers sermons but is not ordained - and he died in 2018.
Justin Welby has resigned as Archbishop of Canterbury after facing increasing pressure to stand down over his failure to report prolific child abuser John Smyth.
Here are the events that led up to Mr Welby's resignation after 11 years in the post.
Why did Welby resign now?
A damning independent review published last week found Mr Welby - the most senior bishop within the Church of England - and other church officers should have formally reported Smyth in 2013 to police in the UK and authorities in South Africa.
Smyth was accused of attacking dozens of boys, including those he met at Christian camps, in the UK in the 1970s and 1980s.
The barrister and senior member of a Christian charity then moved to Zimbabwe and later South Africa, where he abused up to 100 boys aged 13 to 17, the Makin review added.
By 2013, the Church of England "knew, at the highest level" about Smyth's abuse, including Mr Welby who took up the Church's top job that year.
If he and other Church officers had reported this to police in the UK and authorities in South Africa at that time, “John Smyth could have [been] brought to justice at a much earlier point”, the independent report said.
Mr Welby had previously resisted calls to step aside over his response to the case since 2013.
But amid mounting pressure, he said in a statement on Tuesday he must take "personal and institutional responsibility".
Smyth's abuse was first reported to the charity Iwerne Trust, where he had been chairman, in the early 1980s.
A report detailing his "horrific" beatings of teenaged boys was presented to some Church leaders in 1982. But the recipients of that report "participated in an active cover-up" to prevent its findings, including that crimes had been committed, coming to light, the Makin review said.
Smyth's abuse in the UK re-emerged in 2012, when a church officer in Cambridgeshire received a letter “out of the blue” from a fellow survivor.
The review stated that five police forces were told of the abuse between 2013 and 2016. Church leaders however did not lodge a formal report.
It was not until 2017, after a Channel 4 documentary revealed details about Smyth's abuse to the public, that police launched a full investigation.
Smyth is believed to have continued his abuse in South Africa until his death in 2018.
How much did Welby know about Smyth?
Mr Welby worked at summer camps in Dorset where Smyth met some of his victims, but the archbishop said he was unaware of the nature of the allegations until 2013.
A member of the clergy warned Mr Welby about Smyth in the 1980s, but the archbishop told the review this had been "vague" and "there was no indication given of the abuses which later came to light".
After the Channel 4 documentary was broadcast in 2017, Mr Welby apologised "unreservedly" to Smyth's victims but did not resign.
Following the Makin review this month, the archbishop said he had considered resigning over its findings and repeated his apology.
Mr Welby acknowledged that the review made clear he had "personally failed to ensure it was energetically investigated".
But on Tuesday, following a petition set up by members of the Church's parliament - the General Synod - and mounting pressure to go, Mr Welby resigned.
What did his critics say?
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Bishop Hartley said it was "hard to find the words" to respond to last week's report
Critics included Bishop of Newcastle Helen-Ann Hartley, who said Mr Welby's resignation would "be a very clear indication that a line has been drawn, and that we must move towards independence of safeguarding".
A survivor of Smyth's abuse also called for Mr Welby to go, saying that he felt the archbishop's admission that he had not done enough in response to the reports meant that both he and the Church of England had effectively been involved in a "cover-up".
The petition calling for his resignation, which accused the archbishop of "allowing abuse to continue" and said his position was "no longer tenable", was signed by more than 14,000 people.
Who will replace Welby and how are they chosen?
It is not known how long the archbishop will remain in post but the process of finding a replacement is likely to take at least six months.
A consultation, which is expected to last several months, will ask people in and outside the Church of England what they want from the next archbishop.
The information will help form the basis of a longlist of suitable candidates.
While candidates cannot apply for the role, those chosen to be interviewed do not have to be from the Church of England and they do not have to be bishops, although they are likely to be.
The candidates will then be interviewed by a committee, with a chair appointed by the prime minister.
Members will include representatives from around the global Anglican Communion, the General Synod, as well as at least one bishop.
At least two-thirds of the committee members must agree before a decision is made.
The Archbishop of Canterbury is also the spiritual leader of the worldwide Anglican community.
Watch: BBC China correspondent ordered to stop filming and pushed at car attack scene
The gates outside the Zhuhai sports complex in China were closed. Inside, the stadium was in darkness, as were the grounds around it.
It was here, hours before, where dozens of people were killed when a man drove an SUV into a crowd. Many more were injured.
Only security guards appeared to be moving around behind the fence when the BBC arrived, and they had been ordered to keep an eye out for reporters.
One approached us asking: "Are you journalists?" When I asked why he wanted to know, he replied: "Oh just to understand the situation."
He and a colleague took photos of us and started making calls, watching us as they did.
Outside the gates people passed by to catch sight of the aftermath. But among them was a group of around a dozen people more interested in us.
A women started calling to the others: "Look, foreigners, foreigners."
Soon a man who was with her was aggressively interrupting our reporting, grabbing me and shouting.
The BBC's China correspondent was grabbed and pushed by an unidentified man
Often, when sensitive stories like this unfold in China, local Communist Party officials organise groups of cadres to pretend to be outraged locals who have been given the role of targeting foreign reporters and preventing any coverage.
Invariably it doesn't stop the stories, it just makes China look bad.
After former Premier Li Keqiang died last year, crowds of these loyalists were sent to the street outside his old family home. Any journalist that arrived was surrounded and shouted at, pushed and abused.
Premier Li's death was sensitive to the party not only because it was sudden and unexpected - but also because he was the last of the old liberal wing. It signalled that the party was now completely stacked with loyalists of President Xi Jinping.
But even for much more minor incidents the same things happen.
Last month, we travelled to a shopping mall in Shanghai where a man had randomly stabbed strangers to death.
The entire location had been cleansed of any evidence within hours of this horrible event taking place. By the morning after, the mall was up and running again as normal: no police crime scene tape, no flowers for the dead.
On one level, you can understand this - many of these inexplicable assaults on the community are copycat in nature. Tuesday's attack is not an outlier, though it is shocking for its death toll.
But officials here sometimes want these bad things to simply go away as quickly as possible.
Hours after our confrontation outside the site of the Zhuhai attack, carloads of police had arrived to better manage the situation.
A crowd of residents had also gathered to light candles to remember the dead, and videos shared on social media showed lines of volunteers at hospitals offering to donate blood.
President Xi has called on officials to manage society's problems in order to prevent this type of thing happening again in the future.
But, again, China is left wondering what has driven someone to such inconceivable horror. It is impossibly difficult to find the answers to this one.
Reuters
Mourners paying tribute to the victims outside the Zhuhei Sports Centre on Tuesday night
More than 100 Post Office branches and hundreds of head office jobs are at risk as part of a radical shake-up of the business, the BBC understands.
Under the plan, 115 loss-making branches wholly owned by the Post Office could be closed.
The Post Office is looking at options including alternative franchise arrangements where another operator or third party could take on the branches instead.
These sites employ around 1,000 workers. In addition to this, hundreds of jobs are under threat at the group's headquarters.
The Post Office's new chairman Nigel Railton will brief staff on Wednesday on the outcome of a review launched earlier this year.
The former boss of Camelot was appointed interim chairman of the Post Office after his predecessor Henry Staunton was sacked in January.
The aim of the review is to put the Post Office on a firmer financial footing.
The troubled organisation is currently the subject of a long-running inquiry into the Horizon IT scandal, in which hundreds of sub-postmasters were wrongly prosecuted after faulty software made it appear money was missing from their accounts.
Railton has already told the Post Office inquiry that a new deal was needed for sub-postmasters, to put them at the centre of the business.
The strategic review is designed to fundamentally change how the Post Office operates.
The business has 11,500 Post Offices across the UK, most of which are franchises.
Of this number, 115 are Crown Post Offices in city centres staffed by Post Office employees.
Earlier this month Post Office minister Gareth Thomas said the organisation was at a critical juncture and the government had already commissioned its own review into what the Post Office should look like in the future.
Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds told the inquiry on Monday that he didn't feel sub-postmasters were getting appropriate pay for the amount of business they conduct.
He hinted that Post Office branches could step into filling the gap left by High Street bank branch closures.
The new agreement builds on an earlier announcement in which the German automaker said it would invest up to $5 billion in Rivian, a maker of electric vehicles. The new venture brings them closer.
By raising prices and slowing the costly introduction of ever-larger turbines, wind companies like Vestas have recovered financial health. But the industry needs to keep investing in new plants and technology.
Higher education has been a favorite target of Republicans who believe schools have tilted leftward. Now, colleges and universities are bracing for the Trump administration to take action.
Democrats will soon have a leadership vacuum, and there will be no shortage of highly ambitious governors, senators and transportation secretaries looking to fill it.
Vice President Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff after her concession speech last week. She is expected to remain influential in the party, but other prominent Democrats will be more aggressively angling for leadership roles.
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