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Hello and welcome to a special edition of One Hundred Days.

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I'm Christian Fraser live in Westminster.

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Our headlines: Police name the suspect behind Wednesday's

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terror attack here as 52-year-old Khalid Masood.

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What I can confirm is that the man was British-born and that some years

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ago, he was once investigated by M15 in relation to concerns

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Tributes in parliament, a moment's silence is held for the victims,

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an American tourist, a mother, and a policeman killed

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Eight people are arrested in raids across London and Birmingham,

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so-called Islamic State says one of its soldiers carried

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Here in the US, the British Foreign Secretary attends an anti-Islamic

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State summit and at the UN, rallies world partners

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Our values are superior, our view of the world

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is better and more generous and our will is stronger.

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In the shadow of Big Ben, politicians and people

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of all faiths attend a vigil, three candles are lit

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for each of the victims of the Westminster attack.

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And Berlin's Brandenburg Gate is bathed in the Union flag

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as cities around the world show solidarity with London.

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It has been a sombre, reflective day at the Palace of Westminster.

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We are on the edge of the Peace Corps in which is still in place as

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we speak. The police are still concluding the final investigation.

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It has been a sombre, reflective day at the Palace of Westminster.

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The thoughts of everyone remain with the family of the murdered

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Policeman Keith Palmer and two other people killed as they walked

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across Westminster bridge yesterday afternoon.

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In total 29 people were injured, among them 13 nationalities,

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several we are told remain in a critical condition.

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This morning, Parliament paused for a minutes

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The Queen expressed her sympathies for those killed and in the past

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hour hundreds of people have gathered for a vigil

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in Trafalgar Square, just a short walk away.

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Candles were lit for the three victims who lost their lives,

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We know much more about the man suspected of

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Khaled Massood, a 52-year-old British man from Kent,

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he had a number of previous convictions for violence,

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and he was on the periphery of a terror investigation some years

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ago, though he was not currently on the radar

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This evening the police said that eight people,

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three women and five men, have been arrested in London

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and Birmingham on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts.

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Let s get our first report from our special correspondent, Lucy Manning.

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With a car and a knife, he brought terror to Parliament. He is the lead

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Masood, a British-born attacker, known to the police with a 20 year

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criminal record, though not for terrorism. The 52-year-old

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responsible for the murder of a policeman, a mother on her way to

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collect the children and. The lead Masood was born in Kent and was most

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recently living in the West Midlands. He had a range of previous

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convictions including GB huge, possession of offensive weapons and

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public order offences. His last conviction was in 2003 for

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possession of a knife. He was also known by a number of aliases and he

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was known to security services. What I can confirm is that the man was

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British-born and that some years ago he was once investigated by MI5 in

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relation to concerns about violent extremism. He was a peripheral

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figure. The case is historic. He was not part of the current intelligence

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

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plot. Intensive investigations continue. Just metres from where the

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Prime Minister spoke, on their knees, police slowly, meticulously

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searching for evidence on the same ground where one of their own lay

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just yesterday to stop determined to find out everything they can about

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the man who murdered PC Keith Palmer in the shadow of the then and ran

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over those are just walking on Westminster Bridge. Not just routine

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police work, this time, it is personal. Across the country,

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overnight, police swung into action. A flat in Birmingham was raided.

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Neighbours said they thought Masood lived there recently. Also in

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Birmingham, in the Ladywood area, filmed by neighbours, heavily armed

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officers searched another flat. Locals said it was like a scene from

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the film. Like a war. Down the street, like something you only see

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in movies. I saw it from behind my windows on the street. It was very

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frightening. It was like, what the hell is happening here? As well as

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searches in Birmingham police also raided homes and made arrests in the

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forest gate area of east London. In Wales, Surrey and Sussex, a total of

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eight people have been arrested in six separate locations. It is now

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known the people he turned into a weapon was a rental car he retired

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in Birmingham in the Spring Hill branch of enterprise cards. There

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has been intense police activity all day in Birmingham. With the attacker

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dead, the focus is on his friends and family, whether they knew about

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his motivations, his intentions, whether he had only help with the

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attack on parliament. It is still our belief, which is point out about

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our investigation, that the attacker acted alone and was inspired by

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international terrorism. To be explicit, at this stage, we have no

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significant information about further threat to the public.

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So-called Islamic State, without providing any evidence, and the

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attacker was, as they described him, one of their soldiers. The police

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are now attracting Masood's movements. The man who put into a

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car and drove terror into the heart of Westminster.

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There is a lot of discussion about the investigation. Each of these

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stories about the victims seems heartbreaking. A lot of people have

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spoken about how London must pick itself up and get on with it. We

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will do that, because we have been here before, but there is heartfelt

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sadness for the three victims. In terrorist attacks are always tragic

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stories but particularly so in this instance because you have a mother

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who was crossing the bridge were going to pick up her daughters who

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were waiting in a school. I am a father, you can imagine what it must

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be like for children to be working there for the mother who doesn't

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arrive. Kurt Cochran and his wife, Melissa, who worked at the end of a

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vacation. They probably spent a lot of money on it, they had been around

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Europe, they came here to see her parents who are working in London.

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They are Mormon missionaries. They were due to go back today and then,

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of course, the story of PC Keith Palmer, he gave his life to service

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in the Royal Artillery and then in the Metropolitan Police. When

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everyone was running away from the violence, he was running towards it

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and without a weapon. Just selfless bravery which is sad indeed, when

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you reflect on what happened to him. Londoners will get on with it but in

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the mind of everybody as they make their way home, they will be

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thinking especially of those three people. Let's speak to our security

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correspondent, Frank Gardner. We are learning more about coloured Masood.

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Not a typical profile, quite old and he has not been inside since 2003.

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Yes, unusual. He was known to the police and MI5, but he was not an

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anti-terror watch list. He had an extensive record for petty crime,

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mainly for violent assault, possession of a knife, grievous

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bodily harm, but he had not been in trouble with the law since 2003. He

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was peripheral. He was not an anti-terror watch list. That is

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quite worrying because there will be many others like him. He was

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relatively old for a jihadist, 52. It is not unheard of. There was

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somebody who blew himself up in Iraq, the British jihadist, if you

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weeks ago and he was 51. Generally, most jihadists are in their teens

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and 20s. We had this situation yesterday where we had 68 nations

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meeting here in Washington, promising to commit themselves to

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try and eradicate the threat from Islamic terrorism. What have these

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these terms like soldier of Islamic State and we don't know what that

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means, that shows just how difficult it is, doesn't it? That is Islamic

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State digging itself up. It is possible they didn't know about this

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and there were no actual communications between Islamic State

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and this man. It is possible that a posthumous video, in martyrdom

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video, will appear afterwards. He does seem to have largely acted on

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his own. There is no such thing as a completely lone wolf attack. There

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will be digital footprints. GCHQ will be looking into what is

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encrypted on his computer to work out who he had been in touch with

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and who he had met. Forensics will look at the fingerprints in the car

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to see who else had been in it. He is a strange character. Born in Kent

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in south-east England, he lived in Luton which has been described as a

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hotbed of Islamic fundamentalism, where some people referred to him as

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the vampire because neighbours said he would always go out only at night

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and dressed in black. The body is suggesting he drank blood, but he

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was a strange character, very conflicted and this is a very

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typical. A large number of jihadists attackers have a criminal or violent

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records that have nothing to do with terrorism and it is hard to spot

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them. Thank you Frank. The British Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson has

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been here in the US since Tuesday attending the meeting of the

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coalition against so-called Islamic State.

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This morning, he appeared on MSNBC's Morning Joe where I spoke

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The Prime Minister said something interesting which points to a

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problem with intelligence services, which is that this figure had been

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peripheral in previous investigations, but was not

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currently part of any intelligence investigations. It is hard, isn't

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it? Intelligence services have to prioritise and they clearly did not

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prioritise this individual. It has happened before with the leader of

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the 7-7 attacks who was under surveillance and then it wasn't

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under surveillance, how do we make those choices? I understand where

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you are going with this. This is not something I can get into. Suffice it

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to say, we have, in London, as is almost certainly the case in New

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York and many other great metropolises, there are a number of

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people who are under surveillance, people who are objects of concern.

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The important thing to realise is that the kind of extremism that they

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espouse is dangerous, it all too often leads to their involvement, or

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there would be involvement in terrorist acts. I am afraid they

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require a huge amount of surveillance, of monitoring and they

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move up and down the hierarchy of risk.

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The Foreign Secretary sounded like I was trying to criticism. It is far

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too early to know whether the security services demand some kind

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of criticism. What I was 20 point out is that it is almost impossible,

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with the resources that intelligence agencies have and equally self, to

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monitor everybody permanently good comes on their radar. As Frank

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pointed out, this is not an obvious candidate and he had been off the

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radar for a long time. These are difficult choices for all Western

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nations to make. Absolutely. As a former Paris correspondent when I

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was in France, the French authorities said this all the time.

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They had thousands of people on there at risk list. The people they

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thought were a risk to French society and they couldn't monitor

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them all times. They have to pick those who are the biggest risk of

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one particular moment and some drop off the list, dropped off the radar

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and come back on them. I have seen that happen. I can also think of two

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incidents, one in 2014, similar to this. A man was shouting is slogans

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out of the window, injured 13 people and he was not, in the strictest

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sense, a trained Islamic jihadist. He had not been to Syria, he was not

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a soldier of Islam, if you will, he was someone who was deranged,

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suffered from depression. The same was true of the man in Nice. He

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suffered from depression, a loner, broken relationships, petty crime

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and it looks, and there is a lot we need to find out, but it looks like

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the Masood might 50s in profile. That is difficult to tackle,

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especially when they are not using conventional weapons. There are

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times intelligence services do make mistakes and we will open them up to

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scrutiny, but it is worth recognising that these are

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incredibly difficult choices that have to be made with limited

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resources. Absolutely. You have to have a discussion within countries

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about how much you put into security and how you close your society. We

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respect and like the fact that it is free here, especially in this

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village in Westminster where people can go into Parliament. How much

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security do you around it will be a debate for the weeks and months to

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come. Emotions here have been running high within the UK

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Parliament. MPs paid tribute to those

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who died, including There was a personal response

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from an MP who once served with PC The Prime Minister Theresa May said,

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we will never waver The streets are as busy as ever, the

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offices of food, copy shops and cafes bustling. As I speak, millions

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will be boarding trains and aeroplanes to travel to London and

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see for themselves the greatest city on earth. It is in these actions,

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millions of acts of normality that we find the best response to

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terrorism. A response that denies our enemies their victory, that

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refuses to let them win, that shows we will never give in. A response

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driven by that same spirit that drove a husband and father to put

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himself between us and our attacker and to pay the ultimate price. I

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would like to turn for a moment to PC Keith, who I first met 25 years

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ago has gone Keith Palmer at headquarters battery, Royal

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Artillery. He was a strong, professional public servant. It was

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a delight to meeting here again only a few months after being elected.

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Wood my right honourable friend, the Prime Minister, in recognition of

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the work that he did and the other police officers and public servants

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here in the house do to consider recognising his gallantry and

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sacrifice formally a posthumous recognition? Well, I thank my

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honourable friend for the obvious compassion and passion with which he

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has spoken about an individual EU and he bears witness to the

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tremendous public service that Keith Palmer had given this country in so

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many ways. Having served in our Armed Forces and then come here to

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this place and paid the ultimate sacrifice here at our heart of

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democracy. I can assure my honourable friend that the issue he

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has raised is one that will be considered in due course.

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A difficult day for many MPs today. They were locked down for hours

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yesterday at not knowing what was going on and the palace. Let me

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introduce you to Harriet Harmon, former deputy leader of the Labour

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Party. He spoke today at the debate. Tell us what your thoughts are

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tonight. We all felt very sad indeed for the PC who lost his life

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defending us, keeping us safe and our heartfelt sympathy goes to his

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family. Also, isn't that the House of Commons had to be business as

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usual. We were not going to let this crime prevent us doing our job and

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fear and concern about the people who are still lying in hospital, but

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a sense that, as an act of terror, this is field. As a crank killed and

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injured people and it was a horrific crime. People will still, as they

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are tonight, go about their business in London. There has been a lot of

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focus about courage he just behind this at the foot of the then. He

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managed to get through the gate. It is a busy gate. You are the longest

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serving woman in the Commons and I said that because you will have seen

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over the years how secure -- how security has changed. Are you happy

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with security as it is tonight? In 1982 when I first became a member of

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Parliament there was no system of passes, there was no security at

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all. People would just walk in and out. That might be one or two police

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on the door just to show the public where they could go to see their MP

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and then there were the IRA threats, so there was security raised then

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and then there was Al-Qaeda. Over the years, the security has been

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increased. Very reluctantly anyway, because one thing Parliament values

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is its relationship with the public and its accessibility. There would

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be sensible, thorough review of this awful crime and there will be

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sensible precautionary measures. We are going to carry on going on with

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our business. We also value the fact that our policemen did not carry

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weapons. We are different to the United States. This is an area of

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London disposed of risk. This is one of the main targets in the country,

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so should these policemen just behind us, shouldn't they be armed?

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Some of them are armed and some work without weapons as PC, was unharmed.

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There would be a discussion within the Metropolitan Police and with the

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Home Office about where the balance lies. That is something that will

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have to be considered. Harriet Harman, it is give you to come, we

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will let you go and warm. In all, three people were killed

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by the attacker, PC Palmer, an American tourist identified today

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as Kurt Cochran from Utah and Aysha Frade, who lived

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in London with her two young Some who are still in

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a critical condition, A mother on the school run,

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mown down in broad daylight. Aysha Frade was 43 years

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old and leaves behind a husband Friends and neighbours have been

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paying tribute to her. She was just a lovely person

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with two lovely children. You leave your kids,

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you took them to school to go and pick them up and now this has

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happened to you. She worked as a college

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near Westminster Bridge and was on her way to pick

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up her children when Helpful, supportive, smiley,

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always willing to help out with whatever the challenges

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and demands that teaching staff may And today, she was remembered

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by people in the Galician Her family are understood to be

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travelling to Britain. In London, celebrating their 25th

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wedding anniversary, Melissa and Kurt Cochran from Utah

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in the United States. They were due to fly

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home today but instead, Kurt was killed and Melissa

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was left seriously injured. This afternoon, President Trump

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described Kurt as a great American. The people who were injured came

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from 11 different countries, including the United States,

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China, France and Germany. They were taken from Westminster

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to hospitals across London, Undergoing treatment for a fractured

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

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

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stretchered him away from the scene. Waiting for news inside the locked

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down Parliament building was his tutor from Edge Hill

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University. She told me today that

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Travis is doing well. Lots of messages from other students

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wanting to know how he is. Clearly, he's not well,

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but he's dealing with it and he's Another school trip

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caught up in the chaos. Three students from this school

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in Brittany were injured. Two of them are reported to have

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suffered serious fractures. The French Foreign Minister

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travelled to London to visit them. I wanted to stop first, to say

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a message to the British people. Romanian officials say a woman

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understood to be Andreea Cristea who fell into the Thames has

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undergone surgery to treat The boyfriend, Andrei Burnaz

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sustained a broken foot. They'd been celebrating

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his birthday. Several people remain in hospital

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including two police officers This was an attack in London

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but its effects are being A vigil has been held tonight in

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Trafalgar Square, just a short distance from where I am now. Three

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candles were lit for the victims of the attack. Our correspondent is

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therefore is. The Acting Commissioner of the

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Metropolitan Police, Keith Mackie, spoke. He was here on a routine

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called Westminster yesterday. They were three very moving speeches here

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to several rounds of applause. Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London invited

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Londoners and visitors to come here to Trafalgar Square, just minutes

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away from where the incident happened in Westminster. As you can

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see behind me, people have been laying candles and flowers to pay

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their respects to those who have died and ingratitude for those who

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have helped. They have turned up in their hundreds. People from all

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corners of the globe, all walks of life, of all ages. There are reasons

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have been varied. I spoke to one young lady earlier he said she lost

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a friend in the attack and she was very close by. She had to come for

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some closure and to pay her respects. Another young man I spoke

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to said he was too young to remember the incidence of 7-7, this was the

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first time this had really come and he needed to come here some of

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London could stand together and, indeed, it did stand in Unity

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tonight. Thank you very much. It wasn't just London that stayed with

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the people, then the attack. We saw at the Brandenburg gate in Berlin,

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this is the scene from Berlin. Let up in the union flag. They are

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breaking the heart of Germany. There was one German injured in the

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attack, the enormous solidarity from the world. You are watching a

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