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die? No, he's going to be an average guy like you and your children. Tell

them to bring our troops back so you can live in peace. Men were shot and

wounded by police. The Prime Minister calls the attack sickening.

People across Britain, people in every community, I believe, will

utterly condemn this attack. We've had these sorts of attacks before in

our country and we never buckle in the face of them. As David Cameron

prepares to chair an emergency COBRA meeting tomorrow, new clues are

emerging about the identity of the attackers. Also on the programme: A

warning to Britain that more needs to be spent on economic growth, but

the IMF stops short of urgeling an end to austerity. -- urging an end

to austerity. Reuniting families separated by the

tornado, thousands have been left homeless.

How the red squirrel is just one of the many British species that could

On BBC London: The Mayor describes the murder of a soldier in Woolwich

as an unforgivable act of violence. And as police call for calm on the

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streets, we'll have the latest first some of those who

Astonishingly, the man did not flee the scene. They stood talking to

eyewitnesses as a horrified crowd gathered. They asked onlookers to

film them. You people will never be safe. Remove your government. You

think David Cameron will get caught in the street, when we start busting

our guns? Do you think it will be politicians? No, it will be you and

your children. Get rid of them, tell them to bring the troops back so

that you can live in peace. They could have easily got away from the

police car. They could have walked off and got caught later. But they

was just walking around the body like they want -- wanted the police

to get there. This witness said when the police arrived the men moved

forward, arms down, one carrying a gun and the police fired first. This

was the account given by a senior officer theeck -- this evening.

men were shot by police. They have both been taken to separate London

hospitals and are receiving treatment for their injuries.

violence in a nearby school, terrified children were kept inside

for their own safety. We also saw an ambulance helicopter land in the

playground. We all thought, people were saying we're going to die and

we all thought someone had died at that moment, because there was

choppers, police and ambulance around. We were very scared. A large

area of Woolwich is now cordoned off. This is now a complex police

investigation of several connected parts. First of all, the body of the

man killed, in the initial attack, then, the police shooting being

scrutinised by the Independent Police Complaints Commission and

beyond that, counter-terrorism officers will be trying to work out

who these men are, why they did this and whether anyone else is prepared

to carry out a similar attack. The forensics officers are likely to be

here all night. They will only be able to answer some of the many

questions that result from this unprecedented act of violence. It

leaves this area shocked and tense. Something else that stands out from

the incident earlier today, the ways in which people went to try to help

this man as he lay bleeding on the ground, regardless of the fact that

the attackers stood there with guns and knives. One of them it seems has

left flowers at the entrance to the barracks, that's not far from here,

this evening. It says" To the poor young man, who lost his life I'm so

sorry I couldn't stop these vile animals.

Thank you. The Government has held an emergency meeting about the

attack this evening and security at other military barracks across

London has been tightened. The two attackers are under armed guard in

hospital as the Security Services try to work out who they are. The

BBC understand that's one of them may be of Nigerian origin. Here's

our Security correspondent Frank Gardner. An extraordinary scene On

Trend order near street, one of the two alleged murderers today but what

do we know about them? There are unconfirmed reports that one is a

suspected jihadist. The statement to the cameras before he was shot by

police and take an way did carry a jihadist message of revenge.

Whitehall officials say the men tried to film the attack during

which they shouted Allah hu Akbar. The Prime Minister meeting the

French president in Paris this evening was clearly shocked by

events. Tonight, our thoughts should be with the victim, with their

family, with their friends. People across Britain, people in every

community, I believe, will utterly condemn this attack. We have had

these sorts of attacks before in our country and we never buckle in the

face of them. Inside the Security Service headquarters, the joint

terrorism analysis centre is now considering whether it needs to

raise the national terrorist threat level from substantial to severe. If

this proves to be a concerted plot, then that threat level could

possibly be raised. Tonight, key figures met in the Cabinet Office in

an emergency committee called COBRA. The fact that COBRA has met tonight

is a sign of just how seriously this is being taken. It was chaired by

the Home Secretary, Theresa May, in place of the Prime Minister. She was

supported by Andrew Parker, the Director-General of the Security

Service MI5. Senior Metropolitan Police officers were at the meeting.

Its their specialist operations unit SO15 which is leading the

investigation. The police and Security Service are establishing

the full facts of this barbaric case. But there is a strong case

that it was an act of terrorism. Security has been tightened not just

at Woolwich Barracks but at several defence and security establishments.

British Muslims have been quick to condemn the attack. This is a time

for unity, for communities to stand shoaleder to shoulder with the

family of this poor chap and with the armed forces more generally.

This is a time when we really need to reach out and recognise as a

community of British people we are one and we're united. There will be

no easy answers at the scene of the crime, but both the attackers are

being treated in hospital and are expected to be questioned. The

police and MI5's priority will be to prevent this bloody scene from being

repeated. And our Political Editor Nick

Robinson is in Westminster for us tonight. It was Theresa May talking

about the indications of terrorism tonight. At what point do you think

ministers became aware that this was more than a random attack?

understanding is that ministers and the Mayor of London learned early

about the potential seriousness of this. Within an hour of the attack,

reports started to appear on social media like Twitter, I understand

that the head of the Metropolitan Police was in touch. Now of course

at that stage nothing was clear. But the signs were there. A soldier,

near a barracks, in a Help for Heroes T-shirt, the suggestion from

records of witnesses on the ground that the attackers had done it in

the name of Islam, that they had waited to confront the police after

the attack, that they had boasted of their savagery and claimed to be

doing it for an aye Dee logical or political cause. It was not until

quite late this afternoon, just before 6pm that senior twhaul

sources started to talk in terms of its being terrorism. As the evening

has worn on that language has hardened up. Of course, behind me in

Whitehall in the Security Services and the police, they will be asking

themselves: Is this a one-off or the start of something else? And even if

a one-off, they'll be asking themselves just what led to it. The

seriousness is shown bit fact the Prime Minister's on his way back

from France, will chair a meeting of that emergency committee COBRA

tomorrow. He will know, as we all know, this is the first terrorism

fatality on the mainland since the attack on the bus and tube network

in London on July 7, 2005. It's a grave night here in

Westminster. Thank you. Let's bring you other new

now's. The International Monetary Fund has warned that Britain is a

long way from strong economic growth and has said that the Government

should spend billions more on infrastructure projects this year,

even if it means higher borrowing. But the watchdog said it was not

telling the Chancellor to abandon Our Economics Editor Stephanie

Flanders reports. Austerity. For years the IMF has supported the

Chancellor's plans for cutting the deficit, but it also said it should

slow the pace of austerity if growth continued to fall short. Today the

fund said the Chancellor should do more. The published statement was

careful to say the least. I asked the deputy manage ING Director to

translate. They're trying very hard to stick to their goals. What we're

suggesting is that the goal might be ajusteded this year, perhaps next

year for a while, in order to pro provile -- provide more support to

the economy. That's a novel suggestion and one that is worth

being considered. The fund wants the Chancellor to bring forward public

investments pencilled in for the future to help offset �10 billion in

budget cuts planned for this year. Time to make a trip to Battersea

Power Station which should have a new tube line when it's developed

thanks to his Government guarantees. The Treasury says the Government's

already doing a lot of the things the IMF has suggested it. -- today.

It's not a loud call for a plan b, but the fund is saying the

Chancellor should do more to promote growth this year, even if it means

borrowing more as well. Are you saying you're going to reject that

advice? The IMF says when your deficit is very high, that was built

up in the good years when we should have been paying down debt, when

it's very high, it's not a straightforward choice. Those are

their words, not mine. What we're doing is combining a credible plan

so that Britain deals with its debts, while at the same time,

investing in the kind of infrastructure, the roads, the

railways, the new buildings, the construction work that the country

badly needs. There were kind words for the Chancellor in today's press

conference and pointed talk about what the Bank of England and

financial regulators should be doing to support growth. But the

Opposition zeroed in about the advice on the budgets. We have been

calling for three years for the Chancellor to get the balance plan,

to get the deficit down but to get growth and jobs moving in the

economy. The IMF are saying the same. The Chancellor has to act.

IMF thinks the long-term plan to cut borrowing makes sense but right now

it says the Chancellor should not just think about easing the pace of

just think about easing the pace of just think about easing the pace of

austerity, but actually do it. Oklahoma,

of survival continue to emerge after one of America's deadliest tornadoes

pour through a suburb of Oklahoma City on Monday. Authorities are

winding down the search and rescue operation. 24 people died, including

nine children. Thousands have been left homeless. Mark Mardell is in

Oklahoma. A rubber duck and Dave back of

toys. People resolutely pick through the wreckage of their lives. Some

are asking if, in Tornado Alley, there should be more shelter from

the storm. The force of the tornado through cars into the air, scattered

microwave sunbeds and smashed the houses themselves, reducing them to

their component parts. More than the destruction, is the scale of it that

hard to grasp. Houses reduced to rubble, flat on the ground. Down the

hill, hunting through the ruins of her home. This used to be the

kitchen. The one room that they didn't have was an underground

shelter, her husband only survived because their neighbours did.

lucky, nobody in our family died. There was a shelter and they were

holding the doors down. That saved his life? Yes, it did. That's a

big, big tornado. Monday's twister was exceptional. Tornadoes are

common in this part of the world, but few have shelters. The mayor now

wants all new homes to have one goes like this one, where Karen and four

others hid from the elements. a roar of some kind. You can compare

it to an engine, a train. It was so intense. You could feel it pounding.

The tornado which tore out of the sky smashed flat not only homes but

two schools. Neither had bunkers. This is the school before and what

it looked like afterwards. Steve Cobb carried his daughter to safety.

His wife, a teacher, was the only shelter that the children had.

knew that if I was taken, the little babies underneath me would be gone

as well. So I just held on for dear life until the wall fell on top of

me and knocked me out. Francesco searches with quiet desperation for

family photos. Los Angeles police -- loss and relief are mingling. They

rescue a few shirts, as well as pictures showing the determination

that is evident all around. Rebuilding their life will take an

age. Labour Leader Ed Miliband today

accused Internet giant Google of going to extraordinary lengths to

avoid paying tax. Speaking at a Google conference, he said he was

disappointed that the company was paying a fraction of 1% on billions

of pounds of revenue. In Brussels, EU leaders have been discussing a

common approach to combat tax evasion.

The problem with a company motto is that people will tend to hold you to

it. Today, Ed Miliband did just that on a visit to what Google calls its

big tent. When Google goes to extraordinary lengths to avoid

paying taxes, I say it is wrong. The Labour Leader expected the Internet

giant's American boss to be there to hear him and not this empty chair.

I'm sorry that he's not here this morning to hear this directly.

when Google does great things, I will praise you. But when Eric

Schmidt says that its current approach to tax is just capitalism,

I disagree. Two days ago, Eric Schmidt did meet a political leader,

David Cameron in Downing Street. We are told the Prime Minister did not

raise the firm's tax arrangements. A committee of MPs recently described

them as devious, calculating and unethical, because Google makes

billions of pounds in Britain but pays just a few million in tax. Ed

Miliband said it reminded him of the bankers. Let's go back and rewind

the clock. What were the banks are saying in 2000? Don't regulators,

don't do the right thing or we will leave the country. But too often,

governments did not respond and do the right thing. A company with a

slogan don't be evil will not like being compared to the banks. But

like the banks, changing the behaviour of multinationals like

Google, Amazon or Starbucks will only be possible through

international agreement. Just such an international agreement is what

David Cameron says he is trying to negotiate. Today, at a summit of EU

leaders in Brussels, next month that the world's richest club, the G8,

which he will chair in Northern Ireland. What are putting this at

the front of the agenda has achieved is a proper agreement in the EU to

start with that all countries should exchange tax information and act on

clear beneficial ownership, so we know that he won't swap. I think

this is a big step forward. More than three hours after avoiding Ed

Miliband, Google's Chief Executive faced questions about avoiding tax

after arriving at his own company's event. I don't want there to be any

confusion, Google is a capitalist country... Company. We actually make

profits and we are proud of it. I cannot defend the international tax

regime. Your government, and we have said it needs to be rethought. Trust

me, I didn't design such an irrational structure. The man from

Google came here to promote his new book on shaping the future.

Politicians are competing to demonstrate how they can reshape his

The man accused of abducting and murdering five-year-old April Jones

last October has begun giving evidence at his trial. Mark Bridger

said he had problems remembering events because of his drinking. He

denies the charges against him, saying that he accidentally killed

April when he ran her over but he cannot recall what he did with her

body. A man has been charged in connection

with an IRA bomb attack in Hyde Park in London more than 30 years ago in

which four soldiers were killed. John Anthony Downey from County

Donegal appeared in court accused of leaving a car bomb. It exploded as

members of the Royal Household Cavalry rode from their barracks to

Buckingham Palace in 1982. South Africa is the economic

powerhouse of the African continent, responsible for nearly a third of

its entire GDP. But political uncertainty and the after-shocks of

racial apartheid have held its economy back in comparison to some

neighbours. In poor townships like Alexandra, you don't have to look

far to find examples of the economic change that is rippling across the

region. On the crowded streets of

Alexandra, some will tell you South Africa is not working. Crime and

unemployment certainly have deep roots in this township on the edge

of Johannesburg. The poorest wait for handouts as a sluggish economy

plays into the hands of the pessimists. People are angry

because, really, this is not the freedom that we have fought for. We

need jobs. We need houses. We need service delivery. We need to be

recognised, that we are human beings. We need that dignity to come

back to Alex. But Alex also offers reasons to be cheerful about this

boisterous country. For all of its daunting challenges, South Africa is

still the biggest, most sophisticated economy on the

continent. There is real energy, real optimism, even in places like

this. In the heart of Alex sits one of the busiest mauls in Africa. 1

million people flow through here each month. Truly world-class.The

owner tells me there is more jobs and money and pessimists would have

you believe. I think this tells the story of South Africa. Out of a

depressed economy, where there is poverty, there can also be upside of

success and wealth creation. As you can see, people here are not poor.

They actually live on a strictly cash basis. They don't buy anything

on credit. So, slowly, an entrepreneurial spirit is growing.

It is hampered by poor education and corruption, but a new generation is

impatient for change. It is really up to the youth, those that feel

they need to get up on their own two feet and make the difference. They

need to stand and do what the government is not doing. So, the day

ends with another party. South Africa has huge problems. But it

sometimes and sells itself. This is a young, vibrant country, tapping

into the rising confidence of an extinction in the UK unless urgent

action is taken. The warning comes from a major new report from 25

wildlife organisations assessing the state of Britain's nature. It looked

at more than 3000 native species. 60% were found to be in long-term

decline. The delicate colours of the high

brown glittery. This is a site that has becoming greasing the rare.

British wildlife has sharply declined in the last 50 years as

habitats have been shrinking. There are, of course, some successes. The

otter has returned to every county in England. At the first copper

offensive assessment of British nature has come up with a very stark

finding. The pressure on the natural world is greater than it ever was.

Our capacity and ingenuity of finding ways to destroy and poison

things is unparalleled. We can kill things at the drop of a hat. It's

not surprising things are getting worse. 25 conservation groups came

together to produce this stock take of wildlife. It found one in ten

species is facing extinction. Turtle doves are down 93% since 1970.

Hedgehogs are down by 33% since the year 2000. This is one attempt to

reverse that trend. A nature reserve on an old rubbish dump. This is can

restrict in London, right beside St Pancras station. But it is bustling

with all kinds of life. What is remarkable, even here in the middle

of London, is that nature can flourish if it is given a chance.

That's the good news from the report. The bad news is that we are

on course to lose a lot of species without really understanding the

consequences. Take these, famous for pollinating plants. A natural role

with a huge commercial value. water, clean air, controlling pests,

pollination, tourism, these are worth a great amount to us. Once we

lost it, we would realise how important it was. The report authors