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A 19-year old man has been arrested by counter terrorism police after a suspicious device was blown up in a controlled explosion at North Greenwich Tube station on Thursday.

Officers discharged tasers during the arrest on Holloway Road, north London, but no firearms were discharged. The man has been taken to a London police station, where he remains in custody.

The Met Police said the device had been sent off to be forensically examined.

The device was discovered on an eastbound Jubilee Line train at North Greenwich in south-east London, at about 11:00 BST on Thursday. The tube station was evacuated and members of the Met’s bomb squad carried out the explosion, after the device was described as looking “real enough”.

Rail union bosses had earlier called for a security summit after the suspect device was found.

Two British warships have been sent to shadow a Russian aircraft carrier and other Russian naval ships heading towards the UK.

The carrier Admiral Kuznetsov and its task force is sailing south from the Norwegian Sea on its way to Syria. It is not clear if it will pass the British Isles via the English Channel or west of Ireland.

British Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said the ships would be “man-marked” every step of the way. “We will be watching as part of our steadfast commitment to keep Britain safe,” he said. It comes amid heightened tension between Russia and Nato.

Nato has accused Russia of provocative military manoeuvres, especially in the Baltic region. Russian warplanes have stepped up patrols near Nato countries’ airspace.

The UK’s Ministry of Defence said the destroyer HMS Duncan had sailed from Portsmouth to join HMS Richmond in escorting the group as it moves south. It also said another British destroyer, HMS Dragon, was due to meet two Russian corvettes travelling north towards the UK from the direction of Portugal.

The Russian naval task force is the most powerful to sail in northern Europe since 2014, Russian media has reported. The Admiral Kuznetsov is the only carrier in the Russian navy. It can carry more than 50 aircraft and its weapons systems include Granit anti-ship cruise missiles.

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A German 32-year-old special forces officer has died of his wounds after being shot during a raid on the home of a man linked to a far-right movement.

Four police were wounded as they tried to arrest a man in the Bavarian town of Georgensgmuend, south of Nuremberg.

The suspect, described as a member of the extremist Reichsbuerger movement, opened fire on the officers before he was eventually detained. Officials said a permit had been revoked for the 31 guns he owned.

Local authorities had called in the police after the man repeatedly refused to co-operate with them. When a special forces team moved in early on Wednesday he began shooting through his door, officials said.

Police confirmed the officer’s death on Thursday, having announced it prematurely late on Wednesday. Another policeman is being treated for serious gunshot wounds. Two others were lightly wounded. The gunman was lightly injured in the exchange.

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Thousands of people have fled the Mosul area and more are expected as Iraqi troops move on the city to liberate it from the so-called Islamic State (IS).

Some 5,000 people have crossed the border into Syria in the last 10 days, about 900 of them since the military began in areas around Mosul on Monday. They have arrived at the al-Hol refugee camp where conditions, aid workers say, are already filthy and overcrowded.

Up to 1.5 million are thought to be in Mosul, with up to 5,000 IS fighters.

The UN is preparing for what it fears could be the biggest man-made humanitarian crisis in recent times. Refugee camps are being built in the south, east and north of Mosul in preparation for a flood of people fleeing the city. The UN says it expects at least 200,000 in the coming days and weeks.

Mosul residents had been told by the Iraqi government that it might be safer to stay in the city while the operation is under way – with fears IS fighters have booby-trapped roads and placed snipers on routes in and out. But there are also fears that IS militants could use residents as human shields by moving into their neighbourhoods, and concern that the group may even use chemical weapons.

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A prisoner has died and two others were critically injured in a stabbing at HMP Pentonville, leading to claims the prison system is in a “dark place”.

The man in his 20s died at the London prison on Tuesday. The injured were taken to hospital with knife wounds. Two prisoners, aged 34 and 26, have been arrested on suspicion of murder.

The Prison Governors Association (PGA) said inmates were living in “squalid and brutal conditions”. The government said it is trying to reduce violence.

It is understood the stabbings happened in a prison wing and inmates were then moved into the jail’s exercise yard.  Following the attack, a PGA spokesman said: “Our members, uniformed staff and prisoners are working and living in squalid and brutal conditions which should not be tolerated in a country that is one of the richest in the Western world. “If a society is judged by how it treats those it locks up, then we are in a very dark place.”

The association has renewed calls for a public inquiry amid what it said was an “unprecedented” rise in prison violence and suicides.

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