23/03/2017 BBC News at Ten

Tonight at Ten, police have named the man

who carried out the terror attack at Westminster.

He was 52-year-old Khalid Masood, a British-born man who'd been living

The Islamic State group say he was one of their soldiers.

Overnight there were raids in Birmingham,

Eight people have been arrested so far.

These were some of the scenes inside Parliament yesterday,

But in the Commons today, a defiant message.

We are not afraid, and our resolve will never waver

Among the victims was PC Keith Palmer,

One of those who tried to save him was a former soldier.

When I seen the guy enter the gate, with two knives

in the air, attacking, that's the decision was made.

in the air, attacking, that's when the decision was made.

There were two other deaths - Kurt Cochran was in London

celebrating his 25th wedding anniversary.

And Aysha Frade was a teacher on her way to pick up her children.

Tonight there is news of a another victim.

And in Central London tonight, a vigil attended by thousands

to remember all victims of the Westminster attack.

And we're taking a look at how the developments are being reported in

the papers. One of the most extensive police

investigations of recent years has made swift progress today,

following the terror attack The attacker has been identified

and the Islamic State group has said The attacker was named

as Khalid Masood, He was 52, and lived

in the West Midlands. He had come to the attention

of the intelligence There have been eight arrests so far

- five men and three women - Tributes have been paid to those

who lost their lives, still in hospital.

Five are critically ill. Tonight, we'll have the latest

on the police investigation, and we'll hear from some of those

caught up in yesterday's events. First, we join our

Special Correspondent, Well the police have moved back from

the flat where they made arrests overnight. Yesterday we saw the face

of the attacker, today we know his name, Khalid Masood. He was on the

radar. His name was known to the police and to MI5 but they said that

they had no information he was planning a terrorist attack, showing

just how difficult it is for them to stop this sort of thing. It has been

a fast-moving day. Arrests have been made, most of them made here in

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, although not for

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

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

a pensioner. Today, on their knees, the police,

slowly, met I can Clarence Housely, searching for evidence. On the same

ground where one of their own lay, just a day ago.

As they searched outside Parliament, just metres away inside, the Prime

Minister spoke. What I can confirm, is that the man

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

in relation to concerns about violent extremism. He was a

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

current intelligence picture. There was no prior intelligence of his

intent or of the plot. Intensive investigations continue.

So what more is known about Khalid Masood? He was born in Kent, he was

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

convictions including GB H, possession of offensive weapons and

public order offences, the last conviction in 2003 for possession of

a knife. He was known by a number of aliases and Khalid Masood is not

believed to be the name he was born with. So they are determined to find

out everything that they can about the man who murdered PC Keith Palmer

in the shadow of Bill Clinton Ben and ran over those just walking on

Westminster Bridge. Not just routine police work, this time, it's

personal. It is still our belief, which

continues to be borne out by the investigation, that this attacker

acted alone and was inspired by international terrorism. To be

explicit at this stage we have no specific information about further

threats to the public. The police's attention on

Birmingham, overnight in the Ladywood area, the heavily armed

officers searched a flat. The neighbours said it was like a scene

from a film. It was like a war, a war down the

streets. Like something you see only in movies. I saw it behind my

windows on the street. It was very frightening. It was like, you know,

what the hell is happening here? Another flat in the Winsome Green

area of the city was raided. Neighbours said that they thought

that Khalid Masood lived there recently. It is known that the car

he turned into a weapon was a rental car that he hired in Birmingham here

at Enterprice Cars. With the attacker dead, the focus is on his

friends and family, whether they knew about his motivations, his

intentions, whether he had help with the attack on Parliament. The police

have made arrests in a number of different locations. Three

properties were searched in Birmingham and seven people

arrested. One woman was arrested in East London. There have been

searches in Carmarthenshire, Brighton and south-east London. The

eight arrested on suspicion of the preparation of Terrorist Acts. At a

house in Luton where it is believed that Khalid Masood lived a few years

ago, neighbours described him as a house proud family man.

As far as I'm aware he had two children at the time that he was

here. They appeared to be primary schoolchildren. He had a people

carrier, he was loading the children into the people carrier with child

seats. But today he was described

differently by the Islamic State. Without providing evidence they said

he was one of their soldiers. The police have been tracking Khalid

Masood's movements, the man who got into a car and caused terror in

Our Home Affairs Correspondent, Daniel Sandford,

We mentioned the fact that the investigation is making swift

progress. What is your assessment tonight? It is developing fast. We

believe that the police visited a hotel in Brighton where they are

looking at the fact that Khalid Masood may have spent his last few

nights there. That is obviously an important part of the investigation.

We believe that Khalid Masood's partner was arrested in Stratford in

East London, so clearly she is possibly going to be an important

source of information for the police but at the same time, these

fast-movements, the developments in terms of the investigation are

marred by tragedy and the news tonight that this 75-year-old man

who was being maintained on life support in a London hospital has in

fact died after life support was withdrawn. As I understand it he has

relatives overseas it had taken time to contact them. But the life

support has now been withdrawn. This is an investigation, which, as often

happens with the counter-terrorism investigations, that they expand

outwards. Eight people are in custody, each could develop leads,

so the investigation is still really at early stages. One thing I should

mention it is almost certain that Khalid Masood is not the birth name

of the man who actually carried out this attack.

Thank you very much, Daniel Sandford.

Members of the House of Commons stood in silence today,

to remember those who died yesterday,

including PC Keith Palmer, who lost his life defending

parliament and those who work there.

He'd been a police officer for 15 years.

The Prime Minister said he was "every inch a hero",

and his actions would never be forgotten.

Our Home Editor, Mark Easton, reports on the loss

At 9:33am this morning, a 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 had seen, attacking

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 how no-one went to his colleague's aid 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 am 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 on the scene

He's being called a hero, some are saying he should be given

How do you feel about the man you tried to save?

Well, not a normal guy, he was protecting and sort

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

great nation and he is expecting just to do his normal

daily shift and go home to have his tea with his family.

A lot of people would regard what you did yesterday as quite

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

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

Two other victims of yesterday's attack have been named.

Aysha Frade lived in London with her husband and

And Kurt Cochrane, an American citizen,

was in London with his wife to celebrate their 25th anniversary.

Some 40 people from 11 different countries were injured,

Sarah Campbell reports on the victims.

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,

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

Aysha's mother was Spanish and today she was remembered by people

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 Kurt was killed and Melissa

President Trump described Kurt Cochran as a great American.

His family said they are heartbroken.

The couple's next-door neighbour said Kurt was friends with everyone.

This is going to be a sad, tough time for everyone

I think of Melissa and what she will have to face in the next little

while and I'm sure the neighbourhood will gather around her and help

A 75-year-old man who had been in hospital following the attack,

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 building

Waiting for news inside the locked down Parliament building

was his tutor from Edge Hill University.

She told me today that Travis is doing well.

Lots of other messages from other students wanting to know how he is.

Clearly, he's not well, but he's dealing with it and he's

Another school trip caught up in the chaos, three French students

from this school in Brittany were injured, two of them

were reported to have suffered serious fractures.

Romanian officials say this woman, Andreea Cristea,

who fell into the Thames, has undergone surgery to treat

Her boyfriend sustained a broken foot.

They had been celebrating her birthday.

Several people remain in hospital including two police officers

This was an attack in London, but its effects are being

The Prime Minister has visited some of those

Many were taken to St Mary's in Paddington,

Our Health Editor, Hugh Pym, is there with the latest.

What are the officials they are saying about the condition of some

people being treated? It seems that 20 patients are still being treated

for a range of injuries at the in central London. The largest single

group is here at St Mary's in Paddington. Others are in Chelsea

and Westminster and Kings College Hospital. As of this morning, seven

were said to be in a critical condition. We were not told anything

else. But now sadly it is six, as one of them died this evening. We

don't know precisely which hospitals those six-hour in. We know they are

critically ill as of this evening. In total, 29 people needed hospital

treatment. Some of them were discharged today. As we have been

hearing, they were from several nationalities. 12 of them were

British. And of those, three were police officers who had been to an

awards ceremony, were crossing Westminster Bridge yesterday

afternoon and got caught up in the attack as the car ploughed through

people on the bridge. All those three, two are said to be in a

serious condition. Thank you. At Westminster, Home Secretary Amber

Rudd has told the BBC that it would be wrong to see yesterday's

attack as a failure She's spoke as members

of parliament returned to work, where they heard the Prime Minister

declare that they would never waver There are new images to light of the

moment the Prime Minister was rushed from Parliament when the attack

happened. Our Political Editor,

Laura Kuennsberg, reports on the way parliament has responded

to the attack. In the car, the Prime Minister's

bodyguards hurrying her to safety. When what was really

happening just wasn't clear. It was anything

but just another day. This morning, Westminster

a crime scene. But Parliament today

was determined its traditions would The Speaker's daily

procession, arcane as ever. MPs cramming in where they had been

locked down for hours. Yet first, to show

respect with silence. But yards from yesterday's escape,

the Prime Minister's stood Beyond these walls today,

in scenes repeated in towns and cities across the country,

millions of people are going about their days and getting

on with their lives. The streets are as busy as ever,

the offices full, the coffee As I speak, millions will be

boarding trains and aeroplanes to travel to London and to see

for themselves the It is in these actions,

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

to terrorism, a response that denies our enemies their victory,

that refuses to let them win, MPs queued to speak to mark

the sacrifice of PC Palmer, killed trying to stop

Khalid Masood getting in. Listening, the MP who tried

for minutes to keep him alive, as one of the officer's friends,

now a member of this He was a strong professional public

servant, and it was a delight to meet him here again only a few

months after being elected. Argument normally

fills the air here. It behoves us all not to rush

to judgment but to wait for the police to establish

the facts, to stay united in our communities and not allow

fear or the voices of hatred No terrorist outrage,

no terrorist outrage is representative of any faith

or of any faith community, and we recommit ourselves

to strengthening the bonds It has been little

short of a miracle that over the course

of the last few years we have

escaped so lightly. We must not allow, in the coming

days and weeks, anyone to try and divide our country on the basis

of faith and nationality We always know that the police keep

us safe but yesterday in the most shocking of ways we saw how

true that really is. The Muslim community itself have got

to root out this cancer, they've got to stand up

and be counted, and ensure that if they do know

people who are radicalised, But the Home Secretary

urged caution before pointing -- against pointing the finger of

blame. Of course there will be people

who try to sow discord, but what I'm seeing so far

is community leaders and people coming forward,

trying to head that off immediately by saying,

we will not be bowed by this. MI5 did know of this man

and decided not to track him, that looks like an

intelligence failure. That would be the wrong

judgment to make. I'm confident that as we get more

information, and I can't be drawn any further at the moment,

that we will learn more and take comfort from the information

that we have and the work that You are right, one got through,

there may be lessons to be learned. But I want people to know

that we don't just have a programme We have a programme that enters

into communities much earlier on to safeguard people

from becoming radicalised. For all its usual conflicts,

here today there is almost In the main, politicians with one

thought, to be here, But as the reality of exactly

what happened yesterday begins to emerge, there is,

creeping in, a deep unease. We understand it was one

of the Defence Secretary's bodyguards who shot

and stopped Masood, not Many wonder what more

could have gone wrong. Yet for any Government,

combining freedom and safety is perhaps the hardest of balances

to get right. Laura Kuennsberg, BBC

News, Westminster. Ever since the July 7th

bombings in London in 2005, counter-terrorism age

ncies have worked hard to improve their capacity

to uncover major plots But the threat posed

by lone operators avoiding sophisticated methods,

is far more difficult to counter. Our Security Correspondent,

Gordon Corera, looks at the questions facing

the intelligence agencies. Tonight, questions

about surveillance. Khalid Masood, the Prime Minister

said, did come cross But he was not being

watched at the time he That has led some to

question whether more After the July 7th

bombings in 2005, it emerged some of the men had,

like Masood, cropped up on the periphery

of an MI5 investigation. And the same was true

of those responsible for the killing of

Lee Rigby at Woolwich. The security services

and their colleagues in the police do a magnificent job,

and the intelligence services altogether know a great deal

about what's going on. But there will always be

the possibility to that One problem for the

authorities is scale. At the moment there are around 3000

people suspected of some And there are more than 500 live

police investigations. It takes dozens of

people to watch one It is very difficult to prioritise

which ones should be looked at and closely scrutinised

closely at any one time. There are fine judgments that have

to be made by senior police and senior intelligence officers,

at haste often, with limited But the challenge, as one person put

it, is working out who to put under the microscope and to try and spot

if their behaviour For instance, are they moving

towards planning an actual attack? All of that is getting harder

in a world of low-tech terrorists So-called Islamic State

today claimed Masood But that doesn't

necessarily mean he was directed rather than

just inspired by them. Investigators will want to know

if there was any contact. Police and MI5 rely

on communities here for help. Even if someone acts alone,

it's rare for no one else to have had any knowledge

or suspicions. But they need to be

willing to pass them on. Where they have come

across people who they feel are creating divisions

with our community, or purporting extremism and fundamentalism,

they are saying to the security services, just be

mindful about this individual. But they are also

reluctant to do so, because sometimes they are not sure

whether the security services will Surveillance by police and MI5 has

foiled many plots in recent years. But at this early stage, it's

impossible to say if this attack could have been stopped.

Gordon Corera, BBC News. Laura, what's your reading

of the government's response so far Time has been on fast forward since

we spoke last night. We had the sight of forensic officers crawling

over the cobbles of Westminster behind me. Tears and a tribute in

the House of Commons. In the wake of other terror attacks, whether here

or elsewhere in Europe, sometimes governments have said, we have to

look at new ways of countering this thread. We have to look at new ways

to respond. In contrast, the government position today has been

very much that we must not do anything knee jerk. Talking to the

Home Secretary earlier, she was clear she doesn't believe new

legislation or an injection of new resources are the kinds of solutions

that are required. The government's message has been very much getting

on and trying very hard to get back to business as usual. As the Home

Secretary has suggested, we may have too, in 2017, despite our best

efforts to combat this kind of attack, accept that, to use her

phrase, there are a lot of bad people out there. Of course, that is

something that other European cities have had to face up to some

painfully -- so painfully in the last couple of years, until

yesterday, cities in Britain had not had to realise or confront that in

recent times. Laura Kuenssberg at Westminster. We will have more from

Westminster in a short while. First, some of the other main stories.

The funeral of Martin McGuiness, the former Deputy First Minister

of Northern Ireland, has taken place in Londonderry.

Large crowds lined the streets of Derry to see his coffin taken

from his home in the Bogside area to St Columba's Roman

Catholic Church, where the congregation included

the Unionist leader, Arlene Foster, and the former US

Our Ireland Correspondent, Chris Buckler, reports.

This is a place that makes a point of remembering.

The Sinn Fein President, Gerry Adams, helped carry

Martin McGuinness's body through the large crowds

of Derry's Bogside, and beside the many murals that

detailed history that shaped him it was a time of violence,

for which some will always hold Martin McGuinness himself,

But the attendance of Presidents, Irish Prime Ministers and political

rivals at his funeral was testament to the years he spent

And the applause for the Unionist leader, British Arlene Foster,

a sign of how despite all the many disagreements that still exist,

APPLAUSE I, in the course of years, have had many conversations

with Martin and he knew only too well how many people

Republicans, we know, were not blameless, and many people

right across this community find it difficult to forgive

That is true on all sides and in the streets surrounding

the church people gathered to reflect not just on one life

Our friend earned this vast crowd today, even more,

he earned the right to ask us to honour his legacy by our living.

To finish the work that is there to be done.

As a member of the IRA, Martin McGuinness did play a role

in causing many other families to grieve but Republicans see

the past differently to the relatives of victims.

Martin McGuinness was not a terrorist.

Martin McGuinness was a freedom fighter.

Those words will anger some but the thousands who gathered

here today believed that Martin McGuinness will be missed

in the unfinished work of healing old divides.

Let's have a brief look at some of the day's other news.

Ukraine has accused Russia of an act of state terrorism, after a former

Russian MP and critic of the Kremlin, Denis

Voronenkov, was shot dead outside a hotel in Kiev.

Russia said any suggestion it was involved was absurd.

Nat West is to close more than 100 branches,

and Royal Bank of Scotland will close 30, because of

RBS, which owns Nat West, says around 470 jobs will be lost.

It says transactions at high street branches have

fallen by more than 40% since 2010.

Two official reports suggest the state pension age

One indicates that people aged 30 or under might have

to work until they're 70, before getting a state pension.

The other recommends those under 45 should wait until they're 68.

The UN estimates that 400,000 Iraqi civilians are trapped

in the Old City of Mosul as government forces try to capture

As people try to flee the city, one aid agency

is reporting that parents are sedating their children

or taping their mouths shut, so their cries and screams can't be

Our Middle East Editor and cameraman Nick Milard have been to the edge

of the old city, and have just sent this report.

Gunfire gunfire The rule of the jihad is to call

themselves Islamic State, has brought fire, destruction and death

down on Mosul, Iraq's second city. This is where the fight is now

concentrated, in the narrow Alice of the old city, too tightly packed for

armoured vehicles. It's a classic urban battlefield, a

place where jihadis who pray that they will die fighting have managed

in the last few days to install a defence past the Iraqi forces. The

Iraqi troops took us to a building about 100m from the IS jihadis. To

one of dozens of sniper positions... The threat from IS has managed to

recreate some unity in a country that's been torn to pieces by war.

Iraq is a very divided country. At the moment they have a common enemy,

the fear is that when they beat the Islamic State here in Mosul, they

may turn on each other. Violence has infested politics and become the

route to money, power and territory. War is Iraq's tragedy curse and its

normality. TRANSLATION: 10 minutes ago, I

killed one of them near the mosque. The men fighting now were children

when America and Britain invaded in 2003 and grew up during a sectarian

Civil War the invaders helped to create. In Mosul, eve no-one the

ruins, the Sunni Muslims are the majority but the government in

Baghdad is dominated by Iraq's bigger group, the Shia.

The battle grounds of West Mosul are still home to several hundred

thousands of civilians. This is a street about 700 metres from the

current confrontation line. The Sunnis here are nervous about the

future, they remember the old threats from the Shia politicians.

This man with his five-year-old daughter, says when the army fled in

2014, he thought it was a Sunni tribal revolution, then men from eye

earn, with accents of northern Saudi Arabia, began to impose their brutal

views. TRANSLATION: We used to die 1,000

times a day, it was hell. Poverty and disease-ridden. It was

indescribable. We were so scared, we used to hide our wives and children

from Daesh every day. Now the war has left their street

and the local IS contingent has left number 7, which they occupied. It is

said that the best thing is that the IS tyranny is ending. He has

protected his home with sandbags that saved them the morning that the

shell came in through the roof. By then, Mohammed's family had been

sheltering in the basement for a month with food and water, even toys

for the children. Innas held by IS in Mosul, thousands of other

families are still hiding from the war. But Mohammed, newly liberated,

has the luxury of wondering whether the government will keep its promise

to share power. TRANSLATION: They have always been

against Sunnis. Nobody came here to ask us what we needed. Sunni and

Shia understand each other as people, the problem is between the

Sunni and the Shia politicians. In the last few days, the fighting

has been the hardest in the evenings. The offensive has

slowed... This attack started in the last hour or so. It's pretty heavy.

It's a sign that Islamic State are still fighting, they are still

dangerous, they still have ammunition, they're organised,

they're prepared to die... But they are not prepared to sell their lives

cheaply. But with Iraqi forces backed by air

strikes from the American-led coalition, IS in Mosul can't

survive. Beating the jihadis outright, though, needs much more

than overwhelming force. Guns need to be aimed to preserve civilians'

lives so that the survivors can feel like winners, not victims. This war

will be followed by another if the Iraqi leaders can't share power.

Jeremy Bowen, BBC News, Mosul. A special report by our Middle East

A special report by our Middle East Editor, Jeremy Bowen.

To return to the main story, the terror attack at

The first victims were on Westminster Bridge,

where the attacker drove his car onto the pavement,

hitting many people as they walked across the bridge.

Matthew Price has walked the length of the bridge today,

to retrace the deadly route taken by the attacker.

Inside the white circle, difficult to spot is the dark car

It took him about 20 seconds to drive the 252 metres

At this point it was just an ordinary car driving

round a roundabout in Waterloo but he was about to enter

the bridge, Westminster, Bridge, drive on to it

it was an accident as Masood ran into his first victims.

One man fell over the wall of the bridge here and hit

It's believed this is where Kurt Cochran,

the US tourist on holiday with his wife, died.

At this point he puts his foot to the floor,

He hits someone else, just about here.

People walking along this pavement, desperate to get out of the way.

Some of them pushing themselves right up to the side barriers

And it's at this point where that CCTV footage shows the woman falling

Well, one eyewitness has told us that she was knocked

She was Andrea Christi, the Romanian tourist.

By this point it's become pretty clear to people

on the bridge what's going on, many of them, thankfully,

He drives along the pavement here but he knows he has to get

He drives along the pavement here but he knows that he has to get

back on to the roads, so he hits another couple of people

and then nips off into the cycle lane and these barriers

are the reason why he knew he had to get off the pavement.

Instead, he swung past it, carried on down that cycle lane there,

and then took an immediate left, slamming hard into the fence

There he killed his final victim, PC Keith Palmer and then with three

shots from the police, Masood's deadly journey

Matthew Price, BBC News, Westminster.

As we've heard, police have named the man who carried out yesterday's

The 52-year-old was not the subject of any current investigations,

but he did have a string of criminal convictions.

Eight people have been arrested so far on suspicion

Our Home Affairs Correspondent, Daniel Sandford, is at

Let's talk this time, Daniel, about the questions still being asked and,

I suppose, the lessons being learned by the agencies in these early

stages? Yes, whenever something like this happens, of course, Scotland

Yard looks back to see if anything could have been done better. I think

it would have been hard to prevent the loss of life on the bridge. If

somebody chooses to mow people down on the bridge, it is hard to

understand that. And the intelligence will have to look to

see if opportunities were missed. And off the record, the one thing

that could be looked at, the security at the palace of

Westminster. It should not have been possible, really, for a man, armed

with a knife, to have breached the external security of Westminster and

kill one of their own officers. They will have to look again at the kind

of arms security there is on the outside of the palace of

Westminster, a way of making it more secure without turning it into a

fortress. Daniel Sandford, once again, thank

you very much at New Scotland Yard. That's all from us tonight.

In a moment, the news where you are. But before we go, a look

at the candlelit vigil held in Trafalgar Square earlier this

evening, where Sophie Raworth spoke to some of those who come

to show their solidarity Police, politicians,

faith leaders from all over London. This morning the Mayor of London

urged people to join him Tonight, thousands

answered his call. Those evil and twisted individuals

who tried to destroy our shared way of life will never succeed

and we condemn them. Somewhere on their way home

from work, others had felt compelled to head into the capital

to be there. I don't protest and I don't wave

a banner, but today we wanted to come out just to show

that we are with London, Just half a mile from

Westminster Bridge one man I might have been there but I'd

changed my plans for the day. Just thinking I could have

helped stop it all. Amongst the crowd,

men in blue T-shirts, written on them the words,

I am a Muslim, ask me anything. It was extremely important

for us to come down, especially as Muslims,

to come here and stand with fellow Londoners, fellow countrymen,

shoulder to shoulder, irrespective of religion,

faith, creed, colour. And give out a message that these

attacks cannot divide us. In London today many of the police

officers I spoke to said they'd been amazed by the numbers of people

who wanted to thank them. It doesn't happen to you every day,

that members of the public come up to you and hug

you and say thank you. When the first person did it

I was quite shocked, actually. I did a double take, but it makes

you feel warm, to be honest. I've never had so many people

come up to me and thank you for what we've done,

but this is just our job. Candles for those who died

and for the dozens more But the message tonight is one

of defiance and quiet dignity