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The Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, has said that the government

will not shrink from taking action to remove material from the internet

Ms Rudd also said the security services needed access to encrypted

material on platforms such as the messaging service, Whatsapp,

which was used by the Westminster attacker just before he killed four

Scotland Yard believes all this was the work of one man acting alone.

But was Khalid Masood encouraged in some way? He was active on the

messaging app WhatsApp on his phone just seconds before he struck but

the police are unable to see the content of these cryptic messages

and in an interview this morning the Home Secretary said social media

companies must do more to help the authorities. It is completely

unacceptable, there should be no place for terrorists to hide. We

need to make sure that organisations like WhatsApp and there are plenty

of others like it do not provide a secret place for terrorists to

communicate. It used to be people would steam open envelopes or listen

in on phones when they wanted to find out what people were doing,

legally, through warrants, but in this situation we need to make sure

the intelligence services have the ability to get into in situations

like encrypted WhatsApp. And her message was supported by the man

running the EU crime-fighting agency. I agree with the call for

changes to be made. What the solution for that is for her and

other lawmakers to decide but from my point of view I would agree

something has to be done to make sure we can apply a more consistent

form of interception of communication in all parts of the

way in which terrorists invade our lives. All messages sent on WhatsApp

have end encryption which means they are scrambled and even if they are

intercepted data cannot be read. But WhatsApp, which is owned by

Facebook, said it had a duty to protect the private negations of its

billion users worldwide. Here at Westminster at the tributes to PC

Keith Palmer and the other victims continue to grow. The Metropolitan

Police have now released more details about what was a brief but

deadly assault. At 2:40pm on Wednesday afternoon Khalid Masood

mounts the pavement on Westminster Bridge. He drives on and 30 seconds

later crashes into the Palace of Westminster. The first 999 call is

then received and have a minute later Khalid Masood is shot dead. A

rampage lasting 82 seconds from start to finish. But for the police

it is an ongoing and complex investigation. They have no wonder

they may never understand why Khalid Masood carried out the attack, which

has carried criticism of the prevent strategy, the current government

policy for combating extremism. I think in its current form it has

huge problems, it is broken, the brand is toxic. There are questions

about the training and the trainers and a level of quality of training

within schools, how it is being implemented on the front line and

therefore what I have asked for is a pause, an independent review. Any

changes will be too late for the victims of the Westminster attack

including PC Keith Palmer. His family have thanked those who tried

to save him and say they have been overwhelmed by the love and support

they have received. Merseyside Fire and Rescue say

a suspected gas explosion in the Wirral last night caused

extensive damage and it could be several days before local people

are allowed back into their homes. Dozens of people were hurt

by the blast and several About 20 people living nearby have

been moved to safety. The scale of the devastation shows

just how powerful the explosion was. One building, housing three

businesses, totally destroyed. This is what it looked

like before last night. The blast was heard

up to six miles away. The sound of the building

blowing up was captured Two people were taken

to a trauma unit in Liverpool 32 others were treated at hospitals

in Wirral and Chester. There is a multitude of injuries

that have happened but the two patients that have gone

through to the major trauma unit at Aintree,

they have significant injuries. The emergency services

won't speculate on the cause of the blast but a number of local

people had said they smelt gas yesterday and on Friday National

Grid engineers were on the scene. This incident is likely to be

protracted, this is likely to last several days,

very significant damage So it will be some time before

people will be allowed Some people whose homes had

to be evacuated spent Nearby roads are likely to be

closed for some time. Let's go to the scene

of the explosion at New Ferry on the Wirral, our correspondent

Linsey Smith is there We know some of those people remain

in hospital this lunchtime and an investigation is taking place to

find out how this happened. The clean-up operation will take some

time, there is a car park about 150 metres away and that and all the

vehicles in it are completely peppered with bricks, it travelled

that far. Opposite was a Chinese restaurant which was very busy on a

Saturday evening, the blast blew the windows through and debris went

through the windows. Souris emerging, some people thought a bomb

had gone off unto Calver, others dragging their friends and family

out of debris. What remains is that we do not know which building the

explosion happened then, the sentiment is that people are

surprised and grateful there were not more people seriously injured.

In Ohio - police say one person was killed and 15 others injured

when at least two men opened fire in a nightclub in Cincinnati.

They say hundreds of people were in the club at the time,

and that it was a "horrific situation".

The authorities say it's not clear what prompted the shooting

Three people have been taken to hospital after a car mounted

a pavement and hit a group of drinkers outside

The police say the incident in Islington is not terror-related.

The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says Labour will oppose plans to give

ministers the powers to change some aspects of European

laws, without needing the approving of Parliament.

Speaking ahead of this Thursday's publication of a white paper

on the Great Repeal Bill, he insisted that Parliament

We need total accountability at every stage of this

I understand there is going to be about 12 ancillary related bills.

We're not going to sit there and hand over power to this

Government to override Parliament, override democracy and just set

down a series of diktats for what is going to happen

We'd be failing in our duty as democratically-elected

With me now is our political correspondent Mark Lobel -

Mark tell us more about this Great Repeal Bill and what

This is the process of repealing the 1972 act which gave EU law effect in

this country by translating it into domestic law so there are no legal

black holes. The government want to do that by giving ministers special

powers to avoid parliamentary scrutiny on certain elements they

think do not make sense in British law any more, for example if you

wanted to tender a public sector contract you would have to publish

it in an EU publication or mention an EU institution you do not need to

mention any more. But Jeremy Corbyn is opposed to this and wants

accountability at every stage of negotiations. In response to that of

the Commons leader said every element of the special powers will

be agreed in Parliament beforehand so we will get more details of what

he means on Thursday but the bill will not be voted on until the

spring. Thank you. The taxi firm Uber has

suspended its pilot programme for driverless cars after an early

model of its self-driving car The accident is the latest

in a series of crashes involving It's not yet known whether the car

was in self driving mode Uber said it caused

no serious injuries. The first race of the new

Formula One season, the Australian Grand Prix,

has been won by Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel,

his team's first victory since 2015. Lewis Hamilton finished ten seconds

behind, with his Mercedes team-mate You can see more on all of today's

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