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Reporting from Washington, I am Tim Wilcox. Britain denies any

intelligence failed failure as it is revealed the man behind the London

terror attack was known to the police. Prime Minister Theresa May

is defined. We're not afraid, and our resolve will never waver

The victims are named. Policeman Keith Palmer died defending

parliament. He was a married father of. American Kurt Cochrane was

celebrating his wedding anniversary. In the last few minutes, we have

heard a 75-year-old man has died of his injuries.

Republicans are forced to delay the vote on their health care bill, a

setback for Congressional leaders and the White House.

Hello and welcome to our viewers on public television in America and

around the globe. The man behind the Westminster terror attack, and who

brought bloodshed to the heart of London, was British-born and known

to police. He has been named as 52-year-old Khalid Masood. The

so-called Islamic State group say they were behind the attack.

Tonight, we have also heard that a 75-year-old man has become the

fourth victim to have died of his injuries. Let's go straight to

London now, to Westminster, and to my colleague Christian Fraser. Thank

you very much. In the last half an hour, the court and around

Parliament Square has been lifted, you will see behind me that traffic

is now flowing freely and driving around the roundabout outside the

Palace of Westminster, and in fact, our camera has got down to the gate.

The forensic police have been there through the course of the evening,

finishing up their investigation, but there you can see people milling

around the gate. You may also be able to see why people had been

talking about it as a potential weak spot around the Palace of

Westminster. That gave through the day is where ministers drive -- that

gate, and where ministers leave the Palace of Westminster. Often it is

not closed, because it is so busy, and I think that will really be the

focus of the security review that takes place in the weeks and months

ahead. As Tim said, we have heard that while discordant was being

lifted, that another victim has sadly died in Hospital, 75-year-old

man who was receiving life-support. The decision was taken this evening

at Saint Thomas' hospital that his life not be saved, and that

life-support was withdrawn. We know a little bit more about the man who

attacked the Parliament yesterday. He was 52-year-old Khalid Masood,

born in Kent, who moved the Midlands some years ago. -- to the Midlands.

He was on police radar for a time, but appears to have dropped off it.

Our special correspondent Lucy Manning has taken a closer look at

the mitigation, and sent us this report from Birmingham.

With a car, and a knife, he brought terror to Parliament.

He is Khalid Masood, a British-born attacker known

to the police with a 20 year criminal record,

The 52-year-old responsible for the murder of a policeman,

a mother on her way to collect her children, and a tourist.

Masood was born in Kent, and was most recently living

He had a range of previous convictions including GBH,

possession of offensive weapons and public order offences.

His last conviction was in 2003 for the possession of a knife.

He was also known by a number of aliases and he was known

What I can confirm is that he was British-born and that some years ago

In relation to concerns about violent extremism.

He was a peripheral figure. The case is historic.

He is not part of the current intelligence picture.

There was no prior intelligence of his intent or of the plot.

Just metres from where the Prime Minister spoke,

on their knees, police slowly, meticulously searching for evidence,

on the same ground where one of their own lay just yesterday.

Determined to find out everything they can about the man who murdered

PC Keith Palmer in the shadow of Big Ben, and ran over those just

Not just routine police work - this time it's personal.

Across the country overnight, police swung into action.

A flat in the Winson Green area of Birmingham was raided.

Neighbours said they thought Masood lived there recently.

Also in Birmingham, in the Ladywood area,

filmed by neighbours, heavily armed officers

Locals said it was like a scene from a film.

Like a war, yeah. Down the streets.

It's something you see only in movies and I saw it

behind my windows on the street. It was very frightening.

It was like, what the hell is happening here?

As well as the searches in Birmingham, police also raided

homes and made arrests in the Forest Gate

In Wales, Surrey and Sussex, a total of eight people have been

It's now known the car he had turned into a weapon was a rental car

he had hired in Birmingham at the Spring Hill branch

There's been intense police activity here all day in Birmingham.

With the attacker dead, the focus is on his friends and family.

Whether they knew about his motivations, his intentions,

whether he had any help with the attack on Parliament.

It is still our belief that this attacker acted

alone and was inspired by international terrorism.

To be explicit, at this stage we have no specific information

So-called Islamic State, without providing any evidence,

claimed the attacker was, as they described him,

The police are now trucking Masood's movements.

The man who got into a car and drove terror into

Hundreds of people came together to write in Trafalgar Square, not far

from here, to light candles and pay tribute to victims, and indeed,

people laying flowers here. This is quite a busy area for government

offices, and people have been laying bouquets of flowers throughout the

day. Uppermost in minds is that policeman, PC Keith Palmer, who was

running towards that attacker when most people were running away. He

was unarmed, only with a stab vest, which did not save him. He had given

his life to serving the UK. Before the police, he was in the Royal

Artillery. Mark Easton has looked back at his life and death.

Honouring a fallen colleague. At 9:33am this morning, and minute's

silence for PC Keith Palmer. 48 years old, a husband

and a father, who went to work Boxing instructor and former soldier

Tony Davies saw the knife attack as he left a function at the Houses

of Parliament yesterday afternoon, and immediately ran

to Keith Palmer's aid. He brandished two knives, I'd seen,

attacking one of the policemen. That's the decision I took to then

leap the fence and try and give Yes, but it was a split-second

decision and people Tony Davies was once in the same

army regiment as Lee Rigby, the Fusilier stabbed to death

in a terrorist attack in 2013. He remembers watching

the scenes unfolding that day. And thinks that is part

of the reason why he ran I was the first person to approach

Keith and I noticed the head wound and I'm shouting,

"Medic, get an ambulance". The biggest wound

was in his rib cage. I tried to stem the blood flow

with my rain jacket. I checked his pulse,

to make sure he was breathing. I said, "Come on, Keith,

stay with us, son, stay with us". I'm sure the professionals

who were there did all they could. Some are saying he should be given

a medal for what he did. How do you feel about

the man you tried to save? He was protecting and sort

of being an adviser on one of our most historic assets of this

great nation and he's expecting to do his normal daily shift and go

home to have his tea A lot of people would regard

what you did yesterday as quite No, please, I don't want

anyone to feel that. One of the core values in the Army

is selfless commitment. Maybe I showed a bit of that

yesterday but just... It was frustrating more

than anything, that Keith did not pull through.

Sorry about that. Police Constable Keith Palmer

symbolises the selfless public service and sacrifice,

vital to a civilised society. He was unarmed, guarding

the epicentre of our democracy and epitomising the delicate balance

between our security That debate will go on in the house.

The Northern Ireland Secretary was saying today that they police the

defendant high-risk areas like the House of Commons should be armed at

all times. Something we will be talking about in the weeks ahead.

Let's talk about those victims, because 40 people were injured

yesterday. 29 of them admitted to hospital, and seven of several of

them are still in a critical condition. Sarah Campbell has been

looking at the victims for us. A mother on the school run,

mown down in broad daylight. Aysha Frade was 43 years

old and leaves behind a husband Friends and neighbours have been

paying tribute to her. She was just a lovely person

with two lovely children. You leave your kids, go to school,

and then to pick them up and then She worked at a college

near Westminster Bridge and was on her way to pick

up her children when Helpful, supportive, smiling,

always willing to help out with whatever the challenges

and demands that teaching staff Her mother was Spanish

and today she was remembered Her family are understood to be

travelling to Britain. In London, celebrating their 25th

wedding anniversary, Melissa and Kurt Cochran from Utah

in the United States. They were due to fly home today

but instead Kurt was killed This afternoon President Trump

described Kurt Cochran The people who were injured came

from 11 different countries including the United States,

China, France and Germany. They were taken from Westminster

to hospitals across London, Undergoing treatment for a fractured

leg is 19-year-old Travis Frain. He was with fellow students

on a field trip to Parliament He was pictured as emergency crews

stretchered him away from the scene. Waiting for news inside

the locked down parliament She told me today that

Travis is doing well. Lots of other messages from other

students wanting to know how he is. Clearly, he is not well,

but he is dealing with it and he is staying as cheerful

as he can. Another school trip caught up

in the chaos, three students from this school in Brittany

were injured, two of them were reported to have

suffered serious fractures. The French Foreign Minister

travelled to London to visit them. But I wanted to stop

to London first. And to say a message

to the British people, Romanian officials say

Andreea Cristea has undergone surgery to treat a blood clot

on her brain. Her boyfriend sustained a broken

foot and they had been Several people remain in hospital

including two police officers This was an attack in London

but the effects are being Just to confirm that since Sarah

file that report, we have heard the sad news that a 75-year-old has not

survived his injuries. The death toll going up to five, including the

attacker, and the 75-year-old was on life support, but that life-support

was withdrawn this evening. His family have been informed. Here at

Westminster, the cord and has now been lifted as Big Ben strikes

behind us. So from here, where the traffic is flowing freely again

around Parliament Square, I will hand you back to Tim in the studio.

Thank you and much, Kristian. Staying with those attacks, I have

been talking to Clint Watts, a former FBI special agent on the

joint terrorism task force, who is now at the Foreign Policy Research

Institute. What lessons can all of us, all

countries learn from yesterday's attack?

I think the big lesson we can learn is that the tactic, which was using

automobiles, cars, trucks, to create mass violence and chaos, is still

very much in effect. It is clear that Islamic State supporters are

just jihadist supporters in general, and have seen this as a tactic they

can implement anywhere, at any time. The other thing is, there is no

profile for these attackers. Khalid Masood was 52 years old, much out of

the normal. It is much older than most inspired plotters. That is not

something you would normally look for in a profile, but what is a

commonality of most of these Islamic State cases and the inspired

recruits is their criminal history and criminal past. They seem to be

more attractive to the Islamic State than previously to Al-Qaeda, which

would sort of fat and train and recruit people who have much less

common background. He had criminal convictions, but

none for terror. How do you track someone like that? There are

thousands and thousands of people with previous convictions who may

not necessarily be radicalised and do something like this.

Sadly, there is no one solution for it. What we have done so far, and

really the United Kingdom probably does better than anyone in the

world, is focus on these terror networks, the communications and

connections. The United Kingdom has a great system for doing that. They

triage much better than any of the other European countries, and

England is on a par with the United States. But it is almost impossible

to detect someone that maybe has been on the fringes of

radicalisation, and I would say is, at this point, we should probably

look for some kind of psychological trigger that happened recently and

cause him to take this path. How difficult is it to identify

these sites, given the dark web now and the ability to monitor so much

traffic? If you don't have a centre nexus, or

some kind of connection with the radical ideology or the actual

operatives connected to the group, it is like trying to pick a needle

out of a haystack. People are on social media, on the internet, all

the time for a host of different causes, which has some kind of

violent ideological bent, and how would you be able to take one

person's musings, or just having a tough day, and separate it from

someone who is willing to rent a car and go and kill citizens? It is

nearly impossible to do, but what we can look for reserves triggers.

Rental car companies oftentimes can indicate this kind of path, and that

is something we will have to include in our suspicions activity

reporting. -- suspicious activity. Thank you very much for joining us.

One of the victims was Kurt Cochrane from Utah, who was on Westminster

Bridge with his wife Melissa. James Cook choices now from Salt Lake

City. James, what have his family been saying there?

Well, we are just outside the house of Kurt Cochrane, where obviously,

this news has come as a terrible blow. Kurt and Melissa were in

London, celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary, and visiting

her parents, who were working as missionaries in the British capital

for the Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints. In particular,

Kurt seems to have been a very well-known individual here. He was a

well-known figure, particularly in the local music scene. He ran a

music recording studio in his house and had another one in the city as

well. I have talked to one friend and neighbour who knew him well, and

said he was a very warm and gregarious man, and he told me how

the community would rally around to help the family. Right now, as far

as before this happened, we were great friends, and now, we're great

friends, but this will be a tough time for us in the neighbourhood. I

really feel bad, and I think of Melissa, and what she is going to

have to face in the next while, and I'm sure that the community would

gather round her and held her in every way they can. And we have a

statement from Melissa's brother, who has issued a statement on behalf

of the family. He says the family are heartbroken.

They say they have lost at good man and a loving husband, and talking of

Melissa's condition, they say only that she has serious injuries and is

being cared for in hospital. The family have extended their thanks to

emergency services and medical personnel in London caring for her,

and they say that as for her husband, he will be greatly mist,

and indeed, President Trump has paid tribute to Kurt Cochran, describing

him as a great American. Thank you, James.

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