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Welcome back. We continue to broadcast from the small market town | :00:12. | :00:21. | |
of Birstall, not far from Leeds in the North of England. Today began | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
with the latest instalment in a fierce at all between two sides of | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
the UK's referendum on EU membership. It has ended in unified | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
grief across the political spectrum. The local member of Parliament for | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
this part of England, Jo Cox, was stabbed and shot in the street just | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
buying the. She died later from her injuries. A man was arrested. | :00:47. | :00:59. | |
Weapons have been recovered. 52-year-old man has been arrested at | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
the scene. A witness told the BBC they heard him shout put Britain | :01:05. | :01:12. | |
first before the attack began. This picture of Jo Cox was posted on | :01:13. | :01:20. | |
Twitter by her husband Brendan. Tributes have come from across the | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
country. We have lost a great star. She was a great campaigning MP with | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
huge compassion and a big heart. People are going to be very sad at | :01:32. | :01:39. | |
what have happened. Dreadful news. Both campaigns have suspended | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
activities in response to Jo Cox's death. | :01:46. | :02:01. | |
You will sometimes hear criticism of politicians being career | :02:02. | :02:10. | |
politicians, people are never held another job. That certainly was not | :02:11. | :02:20. | |
the case with Jo Cox. She was head of Department the Oxfam. As we have | :02:21. | :02:30. | |
been hearing, today she had planned to hold a surgery, a chance to meet | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
her constituents, not just the ones who voted for her but any the Met | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
have concerns about what was happening in this country or in this | :02:39. | :02:47. | |
constituency. Many people said it was evidence of her commitment to | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
succeed in politics the right way. Carole Walker looks at her | :02:53. | :02:53. | |
achievements. Jo Cox was one of 53 Labour MPs | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
newly elected in 2015. And she swiftly made | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
a name for herself as a rising star, hugely popular, friends | :03:04. | :03:05. | |
and colleagues of all parties were shocked and deeply saddened | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
at the news of her death. Tonight, the Prime Minister | :03:09. | :03:10. | |
led the tributes. This is absolutely | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
tragic and dreadful news and my thoughts | :03:14. | :03:15. | |
are with Jo's husband Brendan | :03:16. | :03:17. | |
and the two children She was a great | :03:18. | :03:19. | |
campaigning MP with huge compassion, a big heart, | :03:20. | :03:27. | |
and people are going to be very, very sad | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
at what has happened. It is just over a year | :03:35. | :03:36. | |
since Jo Cox was sworn in as MP Born and raised locally, | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
she had studied at Cambridge and was the first in her | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
family to graduate from university. Before she entered Parliament, Jo | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
Cox was a passionate charity worker, who had spent a decade in a variety | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
of roles with the aid agency Oxfam and at Westminster she continued | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
to campaign on international This is somebody who | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
had spent her whole career not in a bubble somewhere, | :03:59. | :04:10. | |
but really out in the field, working for Oxfam, of course, and absolutely | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
understanding how things work out there in the real world and I share | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
an office with Jo and, well, Parliament will be | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
a much poorer place. She described herself | :04:21. | :04:22. | |
as a proud Yorkshire lass. In London, she lived | :04:23. | :04:33. | |
with her husband and children I am hoping I will be | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
zipping down to the House of Commons, | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
which is about half an hour from where | :04:42. | :04:42. | |
I live on the boat. From the outset, her honesty | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
and determination won her I have decided I'm going | :04:46. | :04:47. | |
to approach being a member of Parliament with a decent and healthy | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
sense of cynicism and humour. It is an amazing building, | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
I am not going to let it Can the Prime Minister tell | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
the house whether he thinks he has led public opinion on the refugee | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
crisis or followed it? Away from Westminster, | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
constituency surgeries and open meetings are an essential | :05:09. | :05:09. | |
part of the work of MPs. Though referendum | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
campaigning was suspended today as a mark of respect, | :05:15. | :05:16. | |
several MPs have said young and talented colleague must | :05:17. | :05:18. | |
not be allowed to harm the process Are still many elements of the | :05:19. | :05:45. | |
tragic events of today which remain incomprehensible to the residents of | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
Birstall. Not least the violent attack. One man who witnessed the | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
attack has been speaking to Derek Thomas. I should warn you, this | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
description of the attack is distressing. I had finished work. I | :06:03. | :06:17. | |
heard a loud noise. It was like a car backfiring. As I turned around | :06:18. | :06:28. | |
to look, I heard a woman screaming. I saw man with what looked like a | :06:29. | :06:36. | |
gun in his hand. People were wrestling to get him. He wielded a | :06:37. | :06:45. | |
knife and they backed. What words did you hear? I heard him say | :06:46. | :06:53. | |
Britain first or put Britain first. He shouted it at least twice. We're | :06:54. | :07:04. | |
going to speak to campaign director for campaigning network. You live in | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
London. You have come up here -- pay your respects? I have been in London | :07:09. | :07:17. | |
these past few weeks. I have worked with Brendan, Jo's husband for many | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
years. Many of our staff have had the privilege and honour of working | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
with Jo. I wanted to come here. I was at the vigil service and the | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
church was packed to the rafters. That speaks to who Jo was. She was a | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
hero. A champion of the people of Birstall, but also a champion of | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
people around the world, from Syrian refugees to women in Africa. My | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
organisation has set up a message board online per-pupil been sending | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
thoughts. We had 10,000 messages in the last of hours. I have some of | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
them printed out. This is from Laura. My deep and tender | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
condolences to this family. Jo was a brave and smart example of a woman | :08:11. | :08:19. | |
serving her community. Sacrifice will be forgotten. That is a sample | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
of how people are feeling at this moment. And how much she meant to so | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
many people. It is not often you hear a politician praised for the | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
hard work that they do. Jaw was absolutely a hero. You're right. You | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
don't hear politicians being praised so often. Hash tag for thank your MP | :08:43. | :08:50. | |
is generating. It is astonishing to see the loss of Jo Cox has prompted | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
people to stop and reflect on the hard work that many politicians do. | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
Which perhaps doesn't get the coverage that some of the more | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
untoward behaviour does. Think that is right. Are really shone through | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
with Jo was how much he cared about unity and bringing people together. | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
People react to that. Use yet time and time again when someone let's | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
the light shine in the world, people are drawn to that and feel inspired. | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
That is why he loss today is so tragic for our world, for the UK | :09:24. | :09:30. | |
especially. You run a campaigning organisation. Some people say these | :09:31. | :09:38. | |
organisations have replaced the need for politics. Do you think Jo Cox | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
still believed in the old-fashioned principles of getting elected and | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
representing a fixed group of people? Absolutely. A lot of young | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
people are shunning away from party politics, but both models have | :09:58. | :09:59. | |
advantages and disadvantages. It is not either, or. For our | :10:00. | :10:09. | |
organisation, we fly best when we are working closely with politicians | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
pushing forward good agendas and good policies, like protecting | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
Syrian children refugees. We are so saddened by what has happened today. | :10:18. | :10:30. | |
Thank you. Over 10,000 messages have been put on Matt message board. | :10:31. | :10:32. | |
Perhaps the most moving of all Satan is today comes from Jo Cox's husband | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
Brendan. I will read you the statement he released in full. | :10:40. | :11:16. | |
A statement from Jo Cox's husband. Jo Cox represented the Labour Party, | :11:17. | :11:29. | |
the main opposition party in the UK. One of its Shadow Cabinet members, | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
Lucy Powell, has been speaking to the BBC. | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
Jo was a wonderful woman, parliamentarian, mother and wife. | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
Her life has been taken through an act of warped hatred | :11:47. | :11:56. | |
She had a wonderful life while she was here. | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
And she would want us to celebrate that life. | :12:02. | :12:03. | |
A lot of people have spoken about her work with refugees. | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
She has had a life of commitment to campaigning for those | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
most in need in the UK and around the world. | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
At Christmas time in her holidays, as well as through our work. | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
She raised issues with a great deal of passion and intelligence | :12:23. | :12:32. | |
She was on track to have a really astounding parliamentary career | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
It was astonishing how much of a profile she had in that time. | :12:37. | :12:58. | |
She has achieved a great deal in her whole life, | :12:59. | :13:00. | |
She knew what she wanted to see and campaign on. | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
She made a real impact in Parliament as a parliamentarian, | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
She was probably one of the most popular MPs right across the board | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
because she was at a bubbly, happy person who loved | :13:13. | :13:14. | |
life, as well as being a brilliant public servant. | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
Both sides have suspended their campaigning. | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
We need to understand the motives for this appalling | :13:24. | :13:37. | |
It seems clear that was one born from hatred. | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
As a society, we should say that is absolutely unacceptable | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
and take time to properly reflect on that. | :13:48. | :13:54. | |
And to make sure this kind of act, this sort of hatred that people feel | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
It is difficult for MPs because a lot of your work | :13:59. | :14:11. | |
One thing Jo would not want would be for MPs to hide away. | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
She was an MP for the place she grew up. | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
That was a real part about who Jo was. | :14:20. | :14:30. | |
A Yorkshire lass through and through. | :14:31. | :14:31. | |
She wouldn't want us to hide away from that. | :14:32. | :14:38. | |
Obviously your colleagues are all in a state of shock today? | :14:39. | :14:49. | |
And parliamentarians right across-the-board. | :14:50. | :14:51. | |
Because she was so vivid, so popular, so dynamic, | :14:52. | :14:53. | |
And she was undertaking her work as a constituency MP, | :14:54. | :15:04. | |
what we all do week in week out and we are often vilified as MPs. | :15:05. | :15:17. | |
And she was undertaking her work as a constituency MP, | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
Made as these hate characters, but at the end of the day | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
we are mothers, friends, wives, humans trying | :15:27. | :15:28. | |
And that is what Jo was trying to do today. | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
Abel have are just a few hours to comprehend to this news. -- people. | :15:34. | :15:42. | |
In Orlando, people love adds several days to start the grieving process | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
for the huge number of people shot dead in the nightclub. President | :15:48. | :15:55. | |
Obama has been visiting there. We will be live in a few minutes. Let's | :15:56. | :16:12. | |
continue our coverage of the murder of Jo Cox. She worked with the | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
charity campaigner Sarah Brown. Hearing the breaking news | :16:16. | :16:26. | |
that she had been shot in her constituency, | :16:27. | :16:28. | |
everyone just stopped. To reach the end of the day | :16:29. | :16:30. | |
realising she had lost her life Can you tell me how you first | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
met her and in what circumstances I knew her for many years | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
when we were involved She moved from her job | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
at Oxfam to come and join me She came in as the director | :16:44. | :16:51. | |
of our maternal mortality campaign. We were working side-by-side, | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
going all around the world, arguing and making the case | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
for policies to change to save the lives of | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
mothers and children It was a positive experience | :17:06. | :17:07. | |
although we were tackling Jo brought an energy | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
to that campaign. A vivacity and determination | :17:14. | :17:33. | |
that I think really Such a lively, bright, | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
bubbly person. She would always put such huge | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
energy behind everything she did. Really committed to helping | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
the most marginalised, the poorest families | :17:47. | :17:47. | |
and children around the world. You were friends over many years | :17:48. | :17:49. | |
from that first meeting. You must have been very pleased | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
when she became an MP? She was very committed | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
to the Labour Party. On charity causees, | :17:59. | :18:10. | |
you put that to one side. That she became chair | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
of the Labour women's group. She was so delighted | :18:18. | :18:19. | |
to represent her home in Yorkshire. There is alive page on this story on | :18:20. | :18:36. | |
our -- on our website and on our phone app. -- a live page. I live | :18:37. | :18:46. | |
with you in Birstall, a small market town in West Yorkshire in the | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
north-west of England, not far from Leeds. Just buying me, in front of | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
the local library, the member of Parliament Jo Cox was stabbed and | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
shot. She later died from her injuries. President Obama is in | :19:01. | :19:13. | |
Orlando, meeting some of those who were injured in a nightclub at the | :19:14. | :19:24. | |
weekend. Let's listen to some of what he said. At the worst of | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
humanity reared its ugly head. The best of humanity came roaring back. | :19:30. | :19:41. | |
Let me quote more precisely. After the worst of humanity reared its | :19:42. | :19:52. | |
evil head, the best of humanity came roaring back. We are all going to | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
have to work together. At every level of government, across | :20:00. | :20:08. | |
political lines, to do more to stop killers who want to terrorise us. We | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
will continue to be relentless. Against terrorist groups like I soak | :20:15. | :20:21. | |
and Al-Qaeda. Were going to destroy them. We are going to disrupt their | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
networks and their financing. And the flow of fighters in and out of | :20:27. | :20:34. | |
water fields. We are going to disrupt their propaganda. That | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
poisons so many minds around the world. We are going to do all that. | :20:42. | :20:50. | |
Our resolve is clear. But given the fact that the last two terrorist | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
attacks on our soil, Orlando and San Bernardino, were home-grown, carried | :20:58. | :21:04. | |
out by it appears not external plotters, not by vast networks or | :21:05. | :21:13. | |
sophisticated cells, but by deranged individuals, warped by the hateful | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
propaganda they had seen over the internet, then broken just to do | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
more to prevent these kinds of events from occurring. It will take | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
more than just our military. It is going to require more than just our | :21:32. | :21:38. | |
intelligence teams. As good as they are, as dedicated as they are, as | :21:39. | :21:45. | |
focused as they are, if you have lone wolf attacks like this, hatched | :21:46. | :22:00. | |
in the minds of a disturbed person, then we are going to have to take | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
different kinds of steps in order to prevent something like this from | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
happening. Now, those who were killed and injured here were gunned | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
down by a single killer with a powerful assault weapon. The motives | :22:16. | :22:24. | |
of this killer may have been different than the mass shooters in | :22:25. | :22:31. | |
Aurora or Newtown. But the instruments of death were so | :22:32. | :22:40. | |
similar. And now another 49 innocent people are dead. Another 53 are | :22:41. | :22:48. | |
injured, some are still fighting for their lives. Some other ones that | :22:49. | :22:58. | |
will last a lifetime. We cannot anticipate or catch every single day | :22:59. | :23:07. | |
range person that may wish to do harm to his neighbours or his | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
friends or his co-workers or strangers, but we can do something | :23:12. | :23:22. | |
about the amount of damage... President Obama was speaking | :23:23. | :23:31. | |
earlier. Offering solidarity to the LG BT community and offering a | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
message to all Americans that he continues to take the threat of | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
Islamic state very seriously indeed. Let's quickly talk with Rob Watson | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
who is here with be in West Yorkshire. There is a hash tag going | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
around just now saying thank your MP. It is extraordinary to see a | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
real outpouring of affection and gratitude to MPs, all as a tribute | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
to Jo Cox. That is incredibly unusual because for most of the time | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
British politicians are treated like a football by the media. And buy a | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
lot of voters. This extraordinary incident that has happened just | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
behind us, it is not just shocking here, but it sends shock waves | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
around the country. It will lead to debates regarding how we can discuss | :24:27. | :24:36. | |
politics in this country. We are going to leave it there. If the | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
campaign is around the UK have shown us democracy in full swing with | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
Everton that goes with it, perhaps today has shown a different kind of | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
democracy. The work of elected officials listing to the concerns of | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
the people they represent and doing their very best to act on them. The | :24:55. | :25:01. | |
country is united in grief at the loss of Jo Cox, MP. You will see | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
further coverage of how the nation responds here on BBC news. | :25:08. | :25:12. |