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More now on the terrorist attack at Westminster. | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
Ever since 7/7, Londoners have been aware that the capital city will | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
Tonight as another difficult day draws to a close, | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
the reality of that threat has been brought home again with an attack | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
And as this footage shows, the attack began with a car | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
driving along the pavement on Westminster Bridge. | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
Numerous people were mowed down - one woman fatally - | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
She was later pulled out alive, but is tonight | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
Tonight, there is extra security on London's transport system | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
and armed police remain on the streets. | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
Our Home Affairs Correspondent Nick Beake is at New Scotland Yard - | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
Yes, this is the day that London was preparing for, but hoping it would | :00:54. | :01:08. | |
never see. We knew that our city was a prime target for those who would | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
do us ill, but today someone was able to get through and strike with | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
fatal consequences. Tonight, Scotland Yard is at the heart of the | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
investigation for a number of reasons. First of all, the | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
Metropolitan Police is in mourning. It has lost one of its own and | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
tonight, it has been announced that Keith Palmer, a 48-year-old officer | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
who had been with the Metro 15 years, was the unarmed officer who | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
was killed today. He was a father and husband. We are now seeing the | :01:38. | :01:46. | |
Met's counterterrorism operation in full swing but for Londoners, there | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
will be consequences. Lots of Westminster is still remains in | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
lockdown. Parliament Square, Whitehall, Westminster Bridge, | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
Lambeth Bridge, Victoria Street, Victoria embankment are all places | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
which are tonight closed down or stop I mentioned the bridge to my | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
right, the scene of one of the horrific events today. Our reporter | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
Louisa Preston has been talking to someone who witnessed what happened. | :02:13. | :02:14. | |
I heard a scream and to my left, there was a car driving down the | :02:15. | :02:24. | |
road quite quickly. Then it careered into some pedestrians. It looked | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
like it ran through a red light and went into a bunch of pedestrians. | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
Three of them went flying into the air. It knocked them down like | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
skittles. Then he carried on going down the road about 100 yards, and | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
then he turned left into the House of Commons, tried to crash into it. | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
I was stunned. I went over to whether people had been hit, and | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
there was a lady quite... She was unconscious. There was a man in a | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
lot of pain and screaming, a bit of blood. And there was another lady | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
who had her legs broken. I was just holding her hand for a while until | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
the police and the ambulance came. The people on the ground were badly | :03:11. | :03:20. | |
hurt. It was shocking. And you sat with the lady for quite a while. | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
What were you saying to her? She was badly concussed, so she kept asking | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
what had happened. She was convinced that it was her fault. She thought | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
she had crossed the road on a red light or something. But obviously, I | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
realised, because my light was green and I was crossing the road, so it | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
meant the guy had gone through a red light. So I was trying to calm her | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
down and she was screaming in pain because her leg was broken. The | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
police and paramedics were running past her and I kept trying to signal | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
them to give her some first aid and stuff, but they had done a triage on | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
her and decided she wasn't one of the worst ones, so she had to sit | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
there for a good 20 minutes while they were running around. There were | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
loads of paramedics, but they were attending to other people, so it | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
took them quite a while to get to know. | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
We were always told another terrorist attack here | :04:14. | :04:15. | |
in London wasn't a matter of if, but when. | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
So keeping London safe has long been a key priority for the Mayor. | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
Let's cross now to our political editor Tim Donovan, who's | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
Even if you thought all feared it was going to happen, the challenge | :04:25. | :04:35. | |
is now how to respond to it. The mayor has said his heart goes out to | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
the loved ones of those who died or were injured on that bridge, random | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
and in the wrong place at the wrong time. He has talked about the loss | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
of a police officer doing his job. And there has been the need for | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
reassurance. He posted a video he recorded here at City Hall on social | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
media today. Londoners should be aware. | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
Londoners should be aware that there will be additional armed | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
and unarmed police officers on our streets from tonight in order | :05:09. | :05:10. | |
to keep Londoners and all those visiting our city safe. | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
I want to reassure all Londoners and all our visitors not to be alarmed. | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
Our city remains one of the safest in the world. | :05:17. | :05:18. | |
London is the greatest city in the world, and we stand together | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
in the face of those who seek to harm us and destroy | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
Londoners will never be cowed by terrorism. | :05:25. | :05:33. | |
That refrain we had heard a lot. It was a question of when and not if, | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
designed in itself to be reassuring because it had a kind of solemn | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
realism about it. We are not going to give you false security and we | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
want you to be vigilant. It was based on intelligence not of an | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
imminent attack, but based on what had happened in Western Europe. | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
London was prepared, or said it was, as Karl Mercer reports. | :05:58. | :05:59. | |
Just four days into his new job as mayor and Sadiq Khan, | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
like other city leaders before him, was seeing how the Met Police train | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
Since August 2014, the capital, and the country, have been | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
on the second highest terror alert, an alert warning that | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
He asked Lord Harris to conduct a review of how well London was | :06:15. | :06:30. | |
prepared for an attack. We spoke to him tonight. Having looked at this | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
in detail only a few months ago, the reality is that this was something | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
that clearly, we had to expect in some form. I am pleased that it | :06:41. | :06:48. | |
looks as though all the emergency and contingency plans seem to have | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
clicked into place in the way you would expect. | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
Among his recommendations, that more bollards are put outside | :06:55. | :06:56. | |
public buildings like the ones installed outside Parliament back | :06:57. | :06:58. | |
in 2005, but also a recommendation of more armed response officers | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
In August last year, the Met announced it was recruiting | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
a further 600 armed officers to deal with the threat. | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
This is not giving every police officer in Britain a gun. | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
It's not giving everybody even in the Met a gun. | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
A controversial show of force for the announcement, perhaps, | :07:15. | :07:16. | |
but it appears this unit may have been deployed today, | :07:17. | :07:23. | |
the van they are in front of here clearly visible | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
on Westminster Bridge after the attack this afternoon. | :07:27. | :07:27. | |
London, of course, has been on high alert since the events of 7/7, | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
when 52 innocent people were killed after terrorist attacks | :07:32. | :07:33. | |
As the terror threat has developed, so have the warnings from senior | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
If you hear gunshots, the best option is to evacuate. | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
Two years ago, this video, warning people how to behave | :07:46. | :07:47. | |
if there was a terrorist attack at work, was put out by police. | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
I think anyone seeing the intelligence we're seeing | :07:55. | :07:56. | |
The reach of people overseas trying to influence people in the UK | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
They've warned that it was a matter of when, not if, | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
Today, it appears they've been proved right. | :08:09. | :08:22. | |
There was a meeting of course this evening of the committee Cobra, | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
which meets in circumstances like this. After it, the Prime Minister, | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
who chaired the meeting, talked of the need for resilience and | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
normality. Tomorrow morning, Parliament to meet as normal. We | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
will come together as normal. And Londoners and others from around the | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
world who have come here to visit this great city will get up and go | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
about their day as normal. They will board their trains. They will leave | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
their hotels, they will walk the streets. They will live their lives. | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
And we will all move forward together, never giving in to terror | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
and never allowing the voices of hate and evil to drive us apart. | :09:09. | :09:20. | |
Today, we know we have lost a police officer named as Keith Palmer. A | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
picture has been released of him fairly recently. We are told he is a | :09:26. | :09:35. | |
48-year-old father and husband. We know little more about him at this | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
stage. This was something that people were not expecting, even if | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
they said that it was something that was to be expected. While there may | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
have been a defiance about this attacker or silent attacking at the | :09:52. | :09:59. | |
heart of democracy, it might be difficult to find reassurance and | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
that, given that it has been the most heavily armed, one of the most | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
heavily armed parts of central London. Many questions will follow | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
over the next days and months. We will of course have more updates | :10:10. | :10:11. | |
and reaction to today's events from our breakfast bulletins | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
from 6.30 in the morning. Let's cross now to Jay Wynne, | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
with a look at the weather. It may be a slow start of the day | :10:19. | :10:27. | |
tomorrow, but things should gradually brighten up. We will see | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
sunshine getting through from the late morning onwards. Overnight | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
tonight, it is on the wet side, rain coming from the West - sorry, from | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
the east. By the end of the night, the brain is becoming lighter and | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
more patchy and it is rather chilly. It may start damp for some, but it | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
will brighten up as we get into the afternoon and we should see | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
temperatures peaking at around 12, 13 or 14 degrees. Friday should be a | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
decent day. Saturday could be a much better day, with some sunshine. | :11:01. | :11:02. | |
It certainly was a pretty wet day across parts of the country, lots of | :11:03. | :11:18. | |
downpours around. This is a picture from Kent, not particularly nice. We | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
still have some rain on the way for tonight. Tomorrow morning, some of | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
that when we'll be lingering, but there is sunshine on the way | :11:27. | :11:27. |