Attack in Nice

:00:00. > :00:00.attack has been widely condemned across the world, with Angela Merkel

:00:00. > :00:07.telling a meeting of European and Asian leaders that words could not

:00:08. > :00:21.express what France felt. 84 people have been killed, many

:00:22. > :00:24.more have been injured. The victim bowed down by a large lorry driven

:00:25. > :00:29.into the crowds as celebrated Bastille Day in these late last

:00:30. > :00:33.night. Children are among the dead and at least a dozen people remain

:00:34. > :00:43.critically injured. There was panic as screaming people fled the scene.

:00:44. > :00:48.The driver had ploughed through the crowds for more than a mile after

:00:49. > :00:54.being shot dead. His truck was found to contain guns and a grenade.

:00:55. > :00:58.President Hollande has called off military and police reservists and

:00:59. > :01:05.extent of the country's state of emergency. He says horror has struck

:01:06. > :01:08.a front again. TRANSLATION: This attack, of which the terrorist

:01:09. > :01:16.character cannot be denied, is once again of an absolute violence. It is

:01:17. > :01:26.clear that we need to do everything we can to fight against terrorism.

:01:27. > :01:33.This is the scene in Nice this morning. Report says that the driver

:01:34. > :01:54.was known to the police but not the intelligence agencies.

:01:55. > :02:00.This is BBC News with continuing coverage of the France truck attack

:02:01. > :02:04.in Nice. At least 84 people are known to have been killed on the

:02:05. > :02:07.south coast of France when a truck ploughed into a crowd as they

:02:08. > :02:12.watched Bastille Day fireworks late into the evening. The attack

:02:13. > :02:16.happened at around 11pm local time in the Mediterranean city. 18 people

:02:17. > :02:21.are said to be in a critical condition, among at least 50

:02:22. > :02:26.injured. Eyewitnesses say that the truck was driven deliberately at

:02:27. > :02:31.speed running into the crowd over a long distance, about two kilometres,

:02:32. > :02:34.more than a mile, on the seafront avenue, the Promenade des Anglais,

:02:35. > :02:39.leaving a trail of dead and injured, several children among them. It is

:02:40. > :02:42.understood the truck was driven along the prom and eight is on way

:02:43. > :02:47.from west to east, so heading into the town. Witnesses say the truck

:02:48. > :02:57.struck several people near the Hotel Negra skill, a well-known local

:02:58. > :03:04.landmark. The French security forces set up a security cordon around

:03:05. > :03:07.where the area took place. President Hollande said he deplored what he

:03:08. > :03:09.called a terrorist attack and announced an extension of the

:03:10. > :03:15.National state of emergency the three months. We are expecting the

:03:16. > :03:19.president to emerge shortly after this emergency meeting held at the

:03:20. > :03:32.Kolisi Palace in Paris. From there, once he has spoken, -- at the at the

:03:33. > :03:42.Kolisi Palace. A lorry makes his way down a promenade of the more you

:03:43. > :03:46.watch, the more you realise this is no ordinary celebration. In an

:03:47. > :03:54.attack like this, all you can do is run. Chaos in France once again. A

:03:55. > :03:59.night of celebration forgotten in an instant. Surviving is all that

:04:00. > :04:03.matters now. I got separated from aunt and uncle and I was looking

:04:04. > :04:09.around for them. We just had no idea what was going on. Just complete

:04:10. > :04:13.chaos. People were screaming, kids were crying, security guards were on

:04:14. > :04:17.their walkie-talkies. We were so close, and to have all of that erupt

:04:18. > :04:22.on such a positive evening, it was just such a paradox. Witnesses spoke

:04:23. > :04:27.of how the vehicle swerved several times, maximising the carnage.

:04:28. > :04:30.Afterwards, it can be seen covered in bullet holes. People initially

:04:31. > :04:33.thought they were hearing the Bastille Day fireworks. The driver

:04:34. > :04:37.was shot dead but the French president says it is not clear if he

:04:38. > :04:43.had accomplices. TRANSLATION: France has been hit on the day of its

:04:44. > :04:54.national day. 14th of July, symbol of freedom. Because human rights are

:04:55. > :05:01.denied by fanatics. And France is therefore their target. Grenades and

:05:02. > :05:09.guns were also found. This country was meant to be on the road to

:05:10. > :05:12.recovery. Let's talk to our correspondence Jon Donnison, who is

:05:13. > :05:16.in Nice for us. John, we can see the lorry used by the attacker in the

:05:17. > :05:22.background. Just tell us first of all what is happening at the moment.

:05:23. > :05:27.The police have set up a cordon around 200 metres from that truck,

:05:28. > :05:32.which you can just make out. You can see the windscreen riddled with

:05:33. > :05:35.bullet holes, evidence of the police gun battle that instituted when they

:05:36. > :05:41.eventually got this man to stop, but not before he had ploughed along for

:05:42. > :05:46.a round about two kilometres, well over a mile, into thick crowds of

:05:47. > :05:50.people. A lot of people here in Nice are actually waking up to the news.

:05:51. > :05:54.It was quiet here an hour or so ago but you have got people coming down

:05:55. > :06:01.to take a look, and a real sense of shock. Partly just the simplicity

:06:02. > :06:06.and the brutality of the attack. This wasn't a high-tech method, but

:06:07. > :06:09.there is really very, very little that police could have done to stop

:06:10. > :06:15.it once this man was in this vehicle and determined to do what he did.

:06:16. > :06:19.Yes, that sense of shock that you talk about must be absolutely

:06:20. > :06:26.palpable. Something like this happening in what was supposed to be

:06:27. > :06:30.a relaxed celebratory atmosphere. Yes, Bastille Day, a national

:06:31. > :06:33.holiday in France, and the Promenade des Anglais last night will have

:06:34. > :06:36.been absolutely packed. This happened around 11 o'clock at night,

:06:37. > :06:40.the fireworks over the Mediterranean had just finished. There would have

:06:41. > :06:44.been thousands of families down here, a lot of children, and we are

:06:45. > :06:50.sadly hearing that we think ten children are among the dead. Lots of

:06:51. > :06:53.tourists, lots of locals. Once again, France is waking up to

:06:54. > :06:57.terrible news. The country was already in a state of emergency

:06:58. > :07:01.following those attacks in Paris last November. That has now been

:07:02. > :07:07.extended, that state of emergency, for a further three months. But a

:07:08. > :07:11.massive problem and arguably the largest single terrorist attack in

:07:12. > :07:17.France's history. John, we are seeing reports from police sources

:07:18. > :07:22.that the attacker has been formally identified, although that name has

:07:23. > :07:31.not been made public yet. That's right. What we are hearing is that

:07:32. > :07:34.it was a 31-year-old local man who held French and Tunisian

:07:35. > :07:40.nationality. Police say that he was known to them in a criminal capacity

:07:41. > :07:43.for minor criminal offences but not to the intelligence services here.

:07:44. > :07:49.We have also heard from officials in Nice, that they believe he started

:07:50. > :07:53.his journey out in the mountains and then drove into Nice in that truck,

:07:54. > :07:58.heading along the Promenade des Anglais behind me from the direction

:07:59. > :08:02.of the airport, and then bursting through the cordoned off areas.

:08:03. > :08:07.Yesterday, they Promenade des Anglais had been pedestrianised.

:08:08. > :08:10.Normally there are six lanes of traffic but yesterday the whole area

:08:11. > :08:15.was pedestrianised, which is why there was only people on the road

:08:16. > :08:19.and 70 people killed. We can just see the Dome of the Hotel Negresco

:08:20. > :08:25.where so many victims suffered. It is a long stretch, I suppose it is

:08:26. > :08:29.fair to say that France has had to come to terms with some dreadful

:08:30. > :08:35.incidents in the last year and a half, but the manner of this is just

:08:36. > :08:39.unprecedented. It is, and I think that's right, and I think it is the

:08:40. > :08:44.sort of banality of it, of the method. It was just brute force that

:08:45. > :08:48.was just shocking, different from what we saw in Paris in November

:08:49. > :08:53.with the attacks on the Bataclan and around the city of Paris. This is

:08:54. > :08:57.just someone who has used a vehicle as a weapon of war. It is frankly

:08:58. > :09:03.and precedent it, at least in Europe. In the Middle East they have

:09:04. > :09:07.had incidents like this. Then Israel one can think of where Palestinians

:09:08. > :09:11.have driven vehicles onto the sidewalk to try and kill Israelis

:09:12. > :09:19.but certainly not on this scale and certainly not to such devastating

:09:20. > :09:21.effect. Worth pointing out that obviously no organisation has an

:09:22. > :09:25.interest in declaring responsible at if what has happened, but I note

:09:26. > :09:29.that the French media in particular have been quite quick to quote a

:09:30. > :09:34.spokesman from so-called Islamic State from a couple of years ago,

:09:35. > :09:41.encouraging people to target what he called the French infidels, and if

:09:42. > :09:44.need be to use their car to do it. Yes, and there is material like that

:09:45. > :09:49.circulating online and I think it has been for some time. Police will

:09:50. > :09:54.be looking to see whether this individual was first of all acting

:09:55. > :10:00.alone, or whether he was part of some sort of radicalised group. Nice

:10:01. > :10:04.does have a large Muslim population, as does the rest of France. One

:10:05. > :10:07.thing I would say is that last night on the Promenade des Anglais, there

:10:08. > :10:11.would have been hundreds of Muslim families, and I am almost certain

:10:12. > :10:17.that amongst the victims there will be Muslim victims too. Only a couple

:10:18. > :10:21.of weeks since the results of a study, a report into the work of

:10:22. > :10:24.France's law enforcement officials was released. That was critical,

:10:25. > :10:29.wasn't it, of a lack of communication at times between the

:10:30. > :10:33.various branches of law enforcement. It is difficult to say in this case

:10:34. > :10:36.if it was an individual who was known criminally to the police but

:10:37. > :10:39.not the security services, or whether they could have been any

:10:40. > :10:47.more joined up thinking on this particular individual. There was

:10:48. > :10:51.criticism in that report, of communication between the different

:10:52. > :10:56.French agencies and also linking up with agencies in other European

:10:57. > :11:01.countries, and around the world. We just don't know at this stage what

:11:02. > :11:06.kind of individual this was. We do know that police say they found guns

:11:07. > :11:09.in the truck, as well as grenades. Where he got them from, where they

:11:10. > :11:12.were brought into the country, we just don't know at this stage. They

:11:13. > :11:17.are all things that authorities will be trying to find out in the coming

:11:18. > :11:21.hours and days. We are waiting to hear both from President Hollande

:11:22. > :11:23.and possibly from the new British Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson,

:11:24. > :11:30.responding to what has happened there. Is it fair to say, I mean,

:11:31. > :11:36.Nice is 500 miles or so from Paris, and awful long way away from the

:11:37. > :11:39.centre of power, perhaps from many of those real deep-seated fears as

:11:40. > :11:47.to the extent of the terrorist threat in France, or at least has

:11:48. > :11:50.been. I'm not sure about that. It is one of France's biggest cities,

:11:51. > :11:56.fifth or sixth biggest city in France, a city of around 400,000

:11:57. > :11:59.people. And we have had of course terrorist attacks carried out by

:12:00. > :12:06.extremists in other southern French cities. One thinks of Toulouse a few

:12:07. > :12:08.years ago. And certainly in Nice I was actually here on holiday and

:12:09. > :12:12.have been here for the last few days or so, there is a heavy security

:12:13. > :12:16.presence everywhere you go. At the airport you see heavily armed

:12:17. > :12:23.soldiers, and police in the main tourist areas around the old city of

:12:24. > :12:27.Nice. You see soldiers walking around in front of Jewish schools

:12:28. > :12:30.and synagogues in Nice, you see heavily armed police. I am almost

:12:31. > :12:36.certain that last night there will have been a big police presence too.

:12:37. > :12:41.But it is very, very difficult to stop a large truck when it is being

:12:42. > :12:47.driven at 70 or 80 kph down a wide road. The president of the European

:12:48. > :12:52.parliament Martin Schultz calling on the French people to stand strong

:12:53. > :12:56.and united, saying France should not surrender its values of freedom,

:12:57. > :13:01.equality and fraternity, but as the state of emergency is extended for

:13:02. > :13:07.another three months, it is difficult to know whether those

:13:08. > :13:11.things are compatible. It is difficult, and it is going to be

:13:12. > :13:15.difficult, and we saw that after the attacks in Paris last year, and then

:13:16. > :13:20.the other attacks in Paris, the Charlie Hebdo attacks before that.

:13:21. > :13:26.But I think those occasions France probably did show a pretty strong

:13:27. > :13:30.sense of unity and solidarity. The problem is when police and the

:13:31. > :13:36.security services, intelligence services, go about their business,

:13:37. > :13:41.trying to find out who did this, to stop other attacks, it can alienate

:13:42. > :13:46.and frustrate the large Muslim community that exists in France and

:13:47. > :13:50.in the city of Nice. Also, they would have to make a bit of an

:13:51. > :13:56.effort in the coming days and weeks to try and not let this become a

:13:57. > :13:59.divisive issue in France, which if it does turn out to have been

:14:00. > :14:04.carried out by an Islamic extremist is exactly the sort of thing they

:14:05. > :14:07.want to happen. Just coming back to the sense of what it was like last

:14:08. > :14:14.night, I noticed that Facebook for example but other social media have

:14:15. > :14:17.been putting out safety check features, giving people a chance in

:14:18. > :14:23.the area to identify themselves, or indeed others, so they know they are

:14:24. > :14:28.unhardened. There was a complete scattering, everyone running

:14:29. > :14:31.anywhere for safety. I guess that is one of the elements they have to

:14:32. > :14:38.deal with today, trying to match up people, relatives, friends, who have

:14:39. > :14:41.lost track of each other. That is right. And I think last night the

:14:42. > :14:47.city did come together to allow people to take shelter. There was

:14:48. > :14:58.trending on Twitter, and on Facebook, we open up your doors --

:14:59. > :15:03.our doors to you. There are a lot of people here in Nice who are on

:15:04. > :15:08.holiday, they are tourists. It is France's most popular tourist

:15:09. > :15:13.destination after Paris. They will today be feeling pretty fearful, and

:15:14. > :15:20.pretty disorientated. But at the moment, I have to say, Nice is

:15:21. > :15:23.pretty calm. It is certainly pretty subdued, and that tremendous sense

:15:24. > :15:27.of shock, but at the moment there doesn't seem to be any sense of

:15:28. > :15:31.panic. We have heard one or two cases of whether have been fears of

:15:32. > :15:35.secondary attacks, maybe police have attended things elsewhere in the

:15:36. > :15:41.city but so far has come to nothing. As I say, relatively, the moment.

:15:42. > :15:42.Thank you very much indeed, the very latest from the Promenade des

:15:43. > :15:46.Anglais. A reminder of the main developments

:15:47. > :15:49.on our breaking news this morning. At least 84 people have been killed

:15:50. > :15:53.in Nice by a truck that ploughed into packed crowds of people

:15:54. > :15:55.celebrating Bastille Day. President Hollande says

:15:56. > :15:57.the terrorist nature 50 people have been injured,

:15:58. > :16:04.at least a dozen of them critically, as France extends its state of

:16:05. > :16:09.emergency by another three months. The truck was only stopped

:16:10. > :16:13.when the driver was shot dead. Witnesses said he'd produced a gun

:16:14. > :16:18.and began firing. He's said to have been a French

:16:19. > :16:21.national of Tunisian origin Monsieur Hollande is holding

:16:22. > :16:25.an emergency security meeting The attack has been

:16:26. > :16:30.condemned around the world. President Obama described

:16:31. > :16:33.it as "horrific". Chancellor Merkel of Germany has

:16:34. > :16:48.spoken of shock and disbelief. TRANSLATION: This terrible attack

:16:49. > :16:52.happened on a national holiday, a holiday which is a day of pride, but

:16:53. > :16:54.which has now become a day of mourning.

:16:55. > :17:01.a Downing Street spokesman said the Prime Minister was

:17:02. > :17:05.The Foreign Office says officials are standing by to help any

:17:06. > :17:24.We are joined by Jim Harris on the line, from Leamington spa. He was in

:17:25. > :17:25.Nice at the time. Were also joined by American lawyer Eric draft

:17:26. > :17:45.health. -- Dratell. What did you experience?

:17:46. > :17:50.A group of people started running from the north end of the square. We

:17:51. > :17:55.didn't want to get trampled, so we turned and tried to run with them. A

:17:56. > :18:00.guy fell down in front of me and I stopped to help him up. I lost track

:18:01. > :18:08.of my friends and had to find them again. Did you find them? Yes, they

:18:09. > :18:13.are quite safe, with all the police circulating around us. That is one

:18:14. > :18:20.good thing. Eric, I cannot really imagine the feelings when this must

:18:21. > :18:23.be going on. There were gunshots which people thought might have been

:18:24. > :18:30.fireworks, a tidal wave of people running away. Yes, we were down on

:18:31. > :18:36.the beach at a restaurant. The Promenade des Anglais is about three

:18:37. > :18:43.metres or so above the beach, and we heard the gunshots. I don't know how

:18:44. > :18:48.people could have confused it for fireworks, because the fireworks

:18:49. > :18:55.show had ended minutes before. We heard a pop, pop, pop sound. My wife

:18:56. > :18:59.recognised the sound as gunfire, and we started running for shelter.

:19:00. > :19:05.People were throwing themselves off of the promenade and onto the beach

:19:06. > :19:11.from the corrugated metal roof of the restaurant. Did you see the

:19:12. > :19:18.truck at all? No, we were on beach level and the road is elevated.

:19:19. > :19:23.Again, the level of fear, I can't imagine. Where did you go from the

:19:24. > :19:29.beach from your hiding spot? What did you do? We went into an area in

:19:30. > :19:36.the restaurant that had toilets and a serving area, and people were

:19:37. > :19:42.sheltering in the toilet stalls. There were around ten people in the

:19:43. > :19:46.stall we were in. After a time, we started coming out into an enclosed

:19:47. > :19:53.area. After about an hour or so, we were ordered back into shelters

:19:54. > :20:00.far-away from the beach. I don't know why, they never told us. And

:20:01. > :20:11.then, about two hours after that, at around 12:30am, we were

:20:12. > :20:28.escorted to the Hotel NEgresco. What are you going to do now? Well, I

:20:29. > :20:34.live in London, and I have a flight scheduled for tomorrow. Nothing will

:20:35. > :20:39.happen today. There are police in front of the hotel now, and it looks

:20:40. > :20:44.like there are military ships off the coast patrolling. Hopefully, we

:20:45. > :20:50.will get back to London tomorrow. And Jim, I imagine it is similar for

:20:51. > :20:53.you - you want to get out quickly? We're not really sure at the moment.

:20:54. > :20:59.We are still waiting to understand what is going on. Not all of us have

:21:00. > :21:03.woken up yet this morning, so we haven't planned what we are going to

:21:04. > :21:09.do. You haven't been to the promenade this morning? Not yet.

:21:10. > :21:17.Will you want to go back and see the state of affairs there? I'm not sure

:21:18. > :21:22.at the moment. I almost feel I don't want to be here at that point. I can

:21:23. > :21:26.well imagine that. If I can, can I bring you back to what the

:21:27. > :21:32.atmosphere was like prior to this happening? It was Bastille Day,

:21:33. > :21:38.obviously a lovely, balmy evening, lots of people having a good time.

:21:39. > :21:42.We had been to the beach before going to the square. It was a lovely

:21:43. > :21:48.evening, a fantastic fireworks display and everything, and the next

:21:49. > :21:53.thing we knew, people running. Jim, thanks very much indeed for that. I

:21:54. > :21:57.just wonder, Eric, I appreciate you live in London, but for folks back

:21:58. > :22:01.home in the United States, they will be anxious to know of your

:22:02. > :22:06.whereabouts and your safety, I guess. Yes, we have checked in. I

:22:07. > :22:13.was on Twitter and my wife was on Facebook last night. We have spoken

:22:14. > :22:17.to our friends and family. I think everybody who needs to know about us

:22:18. > :22:21.knows. My wife had a minor injury, but she is fine. Compared to what

:22:22. > :22:26.other people had, it was really nothing. Does an incident like this,

:22:27. > :22:30.you are so close to it, how does that affect you and your thinking

:22:31. > :22:35.about what is going on at the moment in the world? It is a sad reflection

:22:36. > :22:43.on what is happening. I don't have an answer for it. I don't think we

:22:44. > :22:50.can give in and live in fear. Eric, thank you very much indeed. That is

:22:51. > :22:54.an American lawyer living in London. Also to you, Jim Harris. Thank you

:22:55. > :22:56.very much for giving us your feelings at what is an extremely

:22:57. > :23:06.difficult time for both of you. We're just seeing more details on

:23:07. > :23:10.the identity of this 31-year-old attacker, a Franco Tunisian man.

:23:11. > :23:19.We're told that his identity papers were found in the truck he used. We

:23:20. > :23:24.are also hearing from the Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, that one

:23:25. > :23:28.British national has been injured in that attack in Nice. Boris Johnson

:23:29. > :23:31.has just been speaking in the last few moments. Let's listen to what he

:23:32. > :23:35.had disabled. Obviously, our thoughts are very much with the

:23:36. > :23:41.people of France and Nice. An absolutely appalling incident. There

:23:42. > :23:47.will be ministerial meetings later today to discuss the implications

:23:48. > :23:51.for this country. I don't, at this time, know the implications for the

:23:52. > :24:00.UK. Clearly, this represents a continuing threat. If this is a

:24:01. > :24:04.terrorist threat, as it appeared to be, it is a continuing threat in

:24:05. > :24:10.Europe and we must meet it together. Other any Britons involved? The only

:24:11. > :24:18.information I have is, there is one British national who is injured. And

:24:19. > :24:23.you will be speaking to counterparts in France today? Yes. Boris Johnson,

:24:24. > :24:27.the new Foreign Secretary, speaking a few moments ago, reflecting what a

:24:28. > :24:31.number of international politicians have had a say in response to the

:24:32. > :24:40.attack. On the reference to one British person known to be caught up

:24:41. > :24:47.in it, the clue is in the name of the place - the Promenade des

:24:48. > :24:50.Anglais, which has associations with Britain going back many generations,

:24:51. > :24:53.so it would be no surprise at British people were involved.

:24:54. > :24:55.On the line is Andrew Pag, a journalist who was in Nice

:24:56. > :25:05.Thank you for taking the time to talk to us. Please tell us what you

:25:06. > :25:09.saw and heard last night. I got to the promenade about 30 or 40 minutes

:25:10. > :25:15.after the attack. At that point, there was already a police barrier

:25:16. > :25:18.around the area. I spoke to a couple of witnesses. The first person had

:25:19. > :25:22.blood on their legs and I assumed they had been injured, but he

:25:23. > :25:27.explained that he had picked up the blood while helping other people. He

:25:28. > :25:30.describes pretty traumatic first aid, that he had had to take

:25:31. > :25:40.shoelaces of one person and use them at a tourniquet to prevent bleeding.

:25:41. > :25:45.-- use them as a tourniquet. A scene of destruction in the wake of this

:25:46. > :25:49.truck. I was on Promenade des Anglais again this morning, and it

:25:50. > :25:52.was quite a strange scene. The small crowd that has been coming and going

:25:53. > :26:00.and growing and drinking, they are really in shock this morning. Ahead

:26:01. > :26:06.of me, I can see the truck about 100 metres away from the cordon. The

:26:07. > :26:10.worst street cleaners sweeping the street clean earlier. On the beach,

:26:11. > :26:15.further back behind where I am, there are people sunbathing and

:26:16. > :26:19.swimming in the water is a fair way back there. There are also patrol

:26:20. > :26:24.boats cruising up and down the seafront, so a strange mix of some

:26:25. > :26:29.people continuing their holiday, but also the aftermath of this terrible

:26:30. > :26:35.incident. Yes, the atmosphere there must be incredibly strange this

:26:36. > :26:38.morning. Yes, and again, I spoke to another witness last night who was

:26:39. > :26:42.able to clarify a little bit more about what had happened. He told me

:26:43. > :26:48.a story that sounded like an incredibly lucky one. The Promenade

:26:49. > :26:51.des Anglais stretches from where I am probably about three or four

:26:52. > :27:06.miles around the car was lying. It is a beautiful drive, with the sea

:27:07. > :27:10.on your right hand side. He was just stopped a few yards from where the

:27:11. > :27:15.truck came to a stop. Having travelled probably about 1.5 miles

:27:16. > :27:20.through a crowded area of people, hitting people as it went, this guy

:27:21. > :27:27.was just a few feet away from being hit himself, and he saw the driver

:27:28. > :27:30.when it came to a stop. In his shop, this man thought it had been an

:27:31. > :27:34.accident, maybe the brakes had failed or something like that, and

:27:35. > :27:40.he saw the driver reach into his pocket for something that he assumed

:27:41. > :27:46.was his phone, to phone his insurance company or something, and

:27:47. > :27:50.then he realised the driver was pulling out a handgun. He managed to

:27:51. > :27:55.get out of the way, and then he filmed with his phone the exchange

:27:56. > :27:59.of gunfire that place between three or four armed officers and the

:28:00. > :28:02.driver. Andrew, I am sorry, we had to interrupt you because we are

:28:03. > :28:14.going to go live to Paris now. To the AV is a palace, where a

:28:15. > :28:22.statement is being made. In these a... TRANSLATION: We're thinking

:28:23. > :28:31.about the city Nice, where we are going to visit shortly. Terrorism,

:28:32. > :28:36.we have said for a long time, is a threat that weighs heavily on France

:28:37. > :28:44.and which will carry on weighing on France. On many occasions, I said,

:28:45. > :28:52.unfortunately, that we would have had such incidents and there would

:28:53. > :28:57.be others. We are facing a war that terrorism has started against us.

:28:58. > :29:05.The objective of the terrorists is to instil fear and panic. France and

:29:06. > :29:09.the president of the Republic, the president has reminded us, is a big

:29:10. > :29:20.country, a big democracy that will not allow itself to be destabilised.

:29:21. > :29:24.The emergency that we have talked about is to welcome the families and

:29:25. > :29:29.looked after the bodies and loved ones after identification. The

:29:30. > :29:35.services of the state are being deployed to help the families and to

:29:36. > :29:52.accompany them during this particularly difficult time.

:29:53. > :30:09.For an immediate reaction to this type, the following measures have

:30:10. > :30:16.been decided: A crisis has been triggered, local emergency services

:30:17. > :30:20.have been placed on high alert. The Paris prosecutor's office is now in

:30:21. > :30:24.charge of the attack. And instructions are given by the public

:30:25. > :30:35.prosecutor. The interministerial to the victim

:30:36. > :30:42.soul has been triggered. The president told our compatriot that

:30:43. > :30:50.Sentinel operation will be maintained, and to recall the

:30:51. > :30:51.reserves along the condom level. Extra services -- along the gender,

:30:52. > :31:04.race level. The gendarmerie level. The delays

:31:05. > :31:14.and the mentalities of these operations are being put in place in

:31:15. > :31:21.the general direction. A draft law to prolong this state of emergency

:31:22. > :31:31.for an extra three months will be presented to the council of

:31:32. > :31:36.ministers next Tuesday, so that Parliament can study it and examine

:31:37. > :31:47.this text, next Wednesday and Thursday.

:31:48. > :32:01.The president of the Republic has called for national mourning for the

:32:02. > :32:07.16th, 17th and 18th of July from, out of respect for the victims.

:32:08. > :32:18.Flags will fly at half-mast along the Republic offices. -- official

:32:19. > :32:20.offices in the Republic. The meeting of defence and security, we would

:32:21. > :32:28.like to tell the French people that we will never give in. France will

:32:29. > :32:33.not give in to the terrorist threat. We have changed, times have changed,

:32:34. > :32:39.and France should learn to live with terrorism, and this is the message

:32:40. > :32:43.of the Republic. We have to show solidarity, calm, and collective

:32:44. > :32:51.calmness. France, once again, has been hit in its all on the 14th of

:32:52. > :33:01.July, our national day. -- hit in its soul. The only dignified and

:33:02. > :33:08.responsible response that France can give is that France will remain

:33:09. > :33:15.loyal to the spirit of a 14th of July, a United and assembled France

:33:16. > :33:20.around its values. This is the only demand that we are asking today.

:33:21. > :33:24.Ladies and gentlemen we will have other pop opportunities during the

:33:25. > :33:30.day to give you more supplementary elements. As you know the interior

:33:31. > :33:36.and health ministers are still on place in Nice, and see you later.

:33:37. > :33:44.The French Prime Minister Manuel Valls speaking in Paris, saying that

:33:45. > :33:48.President Hollande has called for three days of national mourning in

:33:49. > :33:57.France. The 16th, 17th and 18th of July. And quite a striking line from

:33:58. > :34:04.what he had to say there, France should learn to live with terrorism,

:34:05. > :34:09.he said. Thinking about the victims and the city of Nice, but that line,

:34:10. > :34:14.France should learn to live with terrorism I think possibly the most

:34:15. > :34:20.striking line in what he had to say. As the country tries to respond to

:34:21. > :34:23.this horrendous attack. The practical characterisation of that I

:34:24. > :34:28.suppose being this operation Sentinel, as they call it, another

:34:29. > :34:35.10,000 military being put back into play as France finds itself once

:34:36. > :34:41.again on the highest of alerts. I am joined by Margaret Gilmour from the

:34:42. > :34:44.Royal United services Institute. Quite a statement, France has got to

:34:45. > :34:50.learn to live with the -- with terrorism. A very sobering statement

:34:51. > :34:53.particularly when you take into account the scale of the attacks

:34:54. > :35:01.they have suffered in the last just over a year. We are talking 84 so

:35:02. > :35:06.far last night, over 120 in Paris. These are huge attacks, a very

:35:07. > :35:10.sobering thought, and if you compare that for example to the UK, the

:35:11. > :35:13.biggest ever terrorist attack against UK citizens was actually

:35:14. > :35:19.9/11, where nearly 70 UK citizens were taken out. But through the

:35:20. > :35:24.whole of the IRA era, because we have lived through terrorism for

:35:25. > :35:33.many decades, it never really went above 30, until we had the 52 on

:35:34. > :35:37.7/7. That is quite a difficult one. Very properly, he concentrated there

:35:38. > :35:41.on the families. Sadly, they know how to deal with these occasions,

:35:42. > :35:45.and do the proper thing, and he did that very well there. I am sure they

:35:46. > :35:50.do have details about what went on and who this person was but he

:35:51. > :35:55.clearly wanted the families first. He alluded to the identities without

:35:56. > :35:59.giving details. It will be difficult for many people to get beyond the

:36:00. > :36:04.thought that this is a jihadists, but it is only one person as far as

:36:05. > :36:07.we know. They will be working very hard to find out if it was but there

:36:08. > :36:11.was no evidence to suggest anything else. We have had reports come in

:36:12. > :36:17.that somebody on a motorcycle track to stop the vertical -- tried to

:36:18. > :36:20.stop the vehicle before it went into the crowd and we assumed they were

:36:21. > :36:24.undercover police officers who were on to it. I understand in fact that

:36:25. > :36:29.this was a rented vehicle. I am sure they know the identity, there were

:36:30. > :36:34.papers in the vehicle, and they will be searching a flat right now, I

:36:35. > :36:38.have no doubt, and the name will be being really put through the mill by

:36:39. > :36:43.every intelligence agency in Europe, in fact across the world, to see if

:36:44. > :36:53.he was communicating or linked to anybody else. That meeting in the

:36:54. > :36:57.Earth is a Palace, -- the Elysee Palace, in a sense, if the

:36:58. > :37:00.intelligence services did not know this person, they are dammed if they

:37:01. > :37:08.did and they are dammed if they didn't. The fact they didn't is

:37:09. > :37:08.going to concern people. Had they known who at once would perhaps

:37:09. > :37:12.concern people more. You can't win, they are doing a lot of work,

:37:13. > :37:16.arresting a lot of people across Europe and the UK, and they are

:37:17. > :37:19.thwarting plots. One thing is for sure that relations between the

:37:20. > :37:23.intelligence agencies is exceptionally good at the moment. I

:37:24. > :37:27.would be very surprised if there weren't British intelligence

:37:28. > :37:31.operatives in the same room as we speak as French ones, working away

:37:32. > :37:36.on this, trying to help them. So I think they will be trying to find

:37:37. > :37:39.out who he has been humiliated -- communicating with or who he has

:37:40. > :37:43.been inspired by. And they have to double check, if he is working with

:37:44. > :37:48.someone else, are they about to launch something else. Here we are

:37:49. > :37:54.sitting in what is known as the Golden mile in the centre of London,

:37:55. > :37:59.where since the day after the July seven, 2005 attacks, concrete and

:38:00. > :38:05.steel ball odds were literally brought in by cranes in front of the

:38:06. > :38:14.big public buildings, BBC security went sky-high. This type of security

:38:15. > :38:17.just doesn't happen in large parts of France, and they are going to

:38:18. > :38:23.have to think very carefully about that, putting out concrete to stop a

:38:24. > :38:25.vehicle bomb, all sorts of things to stop more certificate -- more

:38:26. > :38:38.sophisticated attacks but this, so awful and simple.

:38:39. > :38:44.Since November they have been in a state of emergency, the police don't

:38:45. > :38:48.get leave, they are stretched to breaking point. Absolutely, but I

:38:49. > :38:53.wonder before November if you had had a response as quick as the

:38:54. > :38:57.response was last night. If that security had not been in place. It

:38:58. > :38:59.is clear somebody was going to stop that vehicle going into the crowd

:39:00. > :39:06.before it actually ploughed into the crowd. And within a very few minutes

:39:07. > :39:09.terrible carnage. Within a few minutes there were officers who knew

:39:10. > :39:13.the direction it was going in who stood in front of it and have the

:39:14. > :39:21.authority to shoot at that driver to stop it continuing. Eventually,

:39:22. > :39:24.sadly. Very quickly. I suppose the other feature of what we have seen

:39:25. > :39:27.here and you have referred to the brutality of it, and Jon Donnison in

:39:28. > :39:32.Nice was saying and the simplicity of it. We have been saying this for

:39:33. > :39:36.a few years now, we keep getting incidents the like of which we have

:39:37. > :39:42.never seen before and they are coming on to our territory

:39:43. > :39:45.effectively. Absolutely and there had been a shift in concentration to

:39:46. > :39:49.understanding that Isis in particular had been training up

:39:50. > :39:53.these cells and sending them back quietly to Europe and carrying out

:39:54. > :39:58.these multiple gun and suicide attacks, control, manipulated by

:39:59. > :40:02.buses in Syria and Iraq. And here we have almost back to the years we saw

:40:03. > :40:06.before that, in a number of countries, many of them Isis

:40:07. > :40:10.inspired, where you have possibly and individual, you don't know fish

:40:11. > :40:19.oil, possibly doing something on his own in the simplest kind of world --

:40:20. > :40:24.in the simplest kind of way, but my goodness, devastating. Margaret

:40:25. > :40:29.Gilmore, thank you very much. Eyewitnesses have been telling us

:40:30. > :40:32.how the events unfolded last night. The BBC's Kelly described how people

:40:33. > :40:39.reacted when it became apparent that an attack was taking place. I was at

:40:40. > :40:43.the Bastille celebrations and had been watching the firework display.

:40:44. > :40:49.It finished round about 20 past ten local time. As I turned to walk away

:40:50. > :40:54.back to my apartment, I heard what I thought was at first a bit of an

:40:55. > :40:56.explosion but maybe that was my imagination, but almost

:40:57. > :41:01.instantaneously people started to scream and run in all directions.

:41:02. > :41:05.The police, who were not, promenade, who were redirecting the traffic in

:41:06. > :41:08.the city centre, they have started running in the opposite direction

:41:09. > :41:13.towards me, and they made a very firm point that we have to leave as

:41:14. > :41:16.quickly as possible. I then heard what I thought were firecrackers,

:41:17. > :41:19.just assumed it was part of the firework display but I later

:41:20. > :41:23.realised it was the gunshots that I heard. It was a case of panic for a

:41:24. > :41:30.good ten to 15 minutes that followed. I am staring at the lorry

:41:31. > :41:34.that is no more than half a mile away, and yes there are bullet holes

:41:35. > :41:37.in the windscreen. Quite extraordinary as to how it happened

:41:38. > :41:41.because the reports were that it was moving in the region of about 90

:41:42. > :41:46.kph. It is quite clear what its intention was. At that point that is

:41:47. > :41:50.when the police opened fire to try to stop it. It moved so quickly

:41:51. > :41:55.through the crowd that it was a most impossible if not impossible for

:41:56. > :41:59.people to get away. There was a huge, dense population of people

:42:00. > :42:03.coming to celebrate Bastille Day. And then all of a sudden, this huge

:42:04. > :42:10.panic erupted from the street and everyone was running in the general

:42:11. > :42:18.direction away from the Negresco, and where the Nice Jazz Festival was

:42:19. > :42:21.being held. I got separated from my aunt and uncle and I was looking

:42:22. > :42:24.around for them, and we just had no idea what was going on, it was

:42:25. > :42:27.complete chaos, and people were screaming, kids were crying,

:42:28. > :42:32.security guards were on their walkie-talkies. I only speak a

:42:33. > :42:38.little bit of French, but you could hear words being mumbled, suicide,

:42:39. > :42:45.and you are just thinking my gosh, what is going on? It was insane,

:42:46. > :42:52.because my family and I were in that exact spot in front of the Negresco

:42:53. > :42:58.20 minutes before it happened. We were so close. And to have all of

:42:59. > :43:07.that erupt on such a positive evening, it was just such a paradox.

:43:08. > :43:14.And so terrible. There were a few people caught in a push and a crush.

:43:15. > :43:21.I helped an elderly lady up and another lady as well. She just

:43:22. > :43:25.needed a bit of attention to get her a bit more to safety as well. Did

:43:26. > :43:30.you see anything as the attack was developing, and in the immediate

:43:31. > :43:34.aftermath? In the immediate aftermath I saw a little bit of it,

:43:35. > :43:39.it was quite hard to get to. Five or ten minutes afterwards, the police

:43:40. > :43:44.and the military were covering the promenade, it was completely closed

:43:45. > :43:49.down. I think they sort of gave themselves probably about a 100 yard

:43:50. > :43:53.barrier between where people could actually get up to two the truck

:43:54. > :43:59.where a lot of this carnage unfolded. You really struggle to see

:44:00. > :44:04.through there, the police and military presence was very happy and

:44:05. > :44:08.they were quite keen to try to push people away from the promenade. I am

:44:09. > :44:10.assuming that is just a safety protocol, to make sure nothing else

:44:11. > :44:18.and folded and people were out of harm's way. The voice of the will

:44:19. > :44:22.Shaw, one of the eyewitnesses. These are the pictures right now from

:44:23. > :44:28.Nice. You can see the police have put up a screen across the road.

:44:29. > :44:33.That effectively blocks out the view of the lowly, the lorry, that

:44:34. > :44:38.ploughed through so many people there late last night. The operation

:44:39. > :44:43.underway in terms of sealing off the site, as the investigation, and that

:44:44. > :44:46.will be run from Paris now, as that steps up a gear. Just to point out

:44:47. > :44:51.also that the French Prime Minister was talking about security levels

:44:52. > :44:54.and the highest state of alert across the country. We are hearing

:44:55. > :44:59.also that the German Federal police have announced they are also

:45:00. > :45:04.tightening controls at their French borders. That is in agreement with

:45:05. > :45:07.the French security authorities. So that sense of tightening of

:45:08. > :45:13.security, of raising the bar again clearly underway.

:45:14. > :45:21.As we heard in the last few minutes, Francois Hollande has announced

:45:22. > :45:27.three days of national mourning, the 16th, 17th and 18th of July. Let's

:45:28. > :45:37.listen to a little more about what the ad he -- of what he had to say.

:45:38. > :45:44.TRANSLATION: Horror has come down on France again. In Nice tonight, a

:45:45. > :45:49.truck rushed into a crowd who had gathered for the fireworks for the

:45:50. > :45:59.14th of July with the intention of killing, crushing and massacring. We

:46:00. > :46:06.deplore, at this moment, 77 victims, including several children. And

:46:07. > :46:12.around 20 people injured with critical injuries. This attack, of

:46:13. > :46:24.which the terrorist character cannot be denied, is once again of a

:46:25. > :46:27.violence that is horrific. It is clear that we need to do everything

:46:28. > :46:36.that we can to fight against terrorism. The driver has been shot

:46:37. > :46:46.down. We don't know at this moment whether he had accomplices, we are

:46:47. > :46:50.doing everything we can do to make sure that his identification puts us

:46:51. > :46:57.on the track of any accomplices. France has been hit on the day of

:46:58. > :47:07.its national day, the 14th of July, a symbol of freedom. Because human

:47:08. > :47:14.rights are denied by fanatics, and France is, therefore, their target.

:47:15. > :47:20.I am expressing on behalf of the nation our solidarity with the

:47:21. > :47:29.victims and with their families. All means available will be deployed to

:47:30. > :47:32.help the injured. The white plan, which mobilises all regional

:47:33. > :47:46.hospitals, has been set into motion. After Paris in January 2015, and

:47:47. > :47:54.then again in November, Nice is now hit. It is all of France which is

:47:55. > :48:04.under the threat of Islamic terrorism. Nothing will make us give

:48:05. > :48:11.up in our will to fight terrorism. And we will reinforce in our actions

:48:12. > :48:21.in Syria and Iraq, and we will continue to hit those who attack us

:48:22. > :48:29.on our soil in their homes. Present long that the Elysee Palace,

:48:30. > :48:38.speaking a few hours ago, his first response. His message was that

:48:39. > :48:43.France should learn to live with terrorism, as he raised the terror

:48:44. > :48:48.level to the highest. Let us go back to Nice, to our

:48:49. > :48:55.correspondent. The lorry has now been blocked from view. We can see

:48:56. > :48:59.the fight sheeting that has been put up. We are hearing that the

:49:00. > :49:07.attacker's identity papers were found in the lorry with him.

:49:08. > :49:11.That's right. We understand that his identification was found,

:49:12. > :49:14.identifying him as a 31-year-old of dual Tunisian and French

:49:15. > :49:18.nationality, a man who was apparently known to police in terms

:49:19. > :49:21.of a criminal background, for minor criminal offences, but he wasn't

:49:22. > :49:27.known, apparently, to intelligence services. Police are BS they going

:49:28. > :49:31.to be looking into his background today, trying to find if he was

:49:32. > :49:39.acting entirely alone was part of some sort of group. On the Promenade

:49:40. > :49:44.des Anglais this morning, an uneasy sense, an uneasy, really. And a sort

:49:45. > :49:48.of disbelief that jars with the beautiful surroundings here on the

:49:49. > :49:54.beach-front. Many people actually just woke up to this news this

:49:55. > :49:58.morning. The promenade behind me is cordoned off this morning, but last

:49:59. > :50:04.night it will have been absolutely packed with people who were enjoying

:50:05. > :50:08.those bastille day celebrations. They had been watching the fireworks

:50:09. > :50:14.that go off over the Mediterranean every year. And the whole area, it

:50:15. > :50:17.is a six lane Hwy, the Promenade des Anglais, but yesterday it had been

:50:18. > :50:21.cordoned off and pedestrianised. Many people had just been on the

:50:22. > :50:27.streets. Some of the video footage we've seen are the moment the attack

:50:28. > :50:32.happened, there was a sense of total disbelief, and then panic as people

:50:33. > :50:35.realised what was going on. And we have just been hearing from

:50:36. > :50:40.the French Prime Minister, saying that France would not allow itself

:50:41. > :50:44.to be destabilises by violence, but also saying that France should learn

:50:45. > :50:48.to live with terrorism. What you think people will make of those

:50:49. > :50:52.statements? Look, I think France has had to be

:50:53. > :50:58.living with the threat of terrorism for some time now, as have, indeed,

:50:59. > :51:02.many, many countries. I think what is so kind of shocking about this is

:51:03. > :51:10.that this was not some high-tech attack. This was shocking in its

:51:11. > :51:15.banality, I suppose, and its brutality. This was someone using a

:51:16. > :51:22.vehicle as a weapon of war, and we just simply haven't seen those

:51:23. > :51:26.methods, certainly not in Europe, in recent times. There have been

:51:27. > :51:32.attacks like that, using vehicles, in places like Israel, but we have

:51:33. > :51:38.not seen it in Europe, and certainly not on that sort of scale. The Prime

:51:39. > :51:42.Minister is right, I think, in saying that France will have to live

:51:43. > :51:45.with terrorism. Going back to something you said in

:51:46. > :51:49.your first response, John, about the attacker being known to police but

:51:50. > :51:56.not to the security services. It's not the first time, when we look at

:51:57. > :52:00.attacks in France in the last 18 months, that we have heard that, and

:52:01. > :52:04.I wonder, taking into consideration the review of cooperation between

:52:05. > :52:08.the various divisions of law enforcement in the country, whether

:52:09. > :52:13.this is something that police and security services will be looking at

:52:14. > :52:17.more closely in the future, whether someone who has a criminal record

:52:18. > :52:24.but is not known to be radicalised, whether that could be someone who is

:52:25. > :52:27.of interest to them. We don't know that at this stage, we

:52:28. > :52:39.do not know the background of this man.

:52:40. > :52:43.Apologies, we have lost the line to Nice, but we will hopefully be back

:52:44. > :52:48.with him very soon. We are going to have a word with

:52:49. > :52:53.John Woodcock, the Labour MP per barrel who narrowly missed being

:52:54. > :52:58.caught up in the attack. Thank you for joining us. Are you there on a

:52:59. > :53:07.break? -- the Labour MP for Barrow in Furness.

:53:08. > :53:10.We were here for the bastille day celebrations. We were very fortunate

:53:11. > :53:16.in that we left the promenade as soon as the fireworks finished. Our

:53:17. > :53:23.first sense that something was wrong was when lots of people were running

:53:24. > :53:27.past us, and sirens and police cars were going in the opposite

:53:28. > :53:31.direction. Everyone to whom I spoke who was running away did not know

:53:32. > :53:34.what they were running from. They were running because other people

:53:35. > :53:38.were running, so my guess was initially that this was some sort of

:53:39. > :53:49.false alarm which had panicked people. It was only once we were

:53:50. > :53:53.back and we invited a French family who had a better sense that

:53:54. > :53:56.something real had happened and were trying get -- trying to get off the

:53:57. > :54:00.street and back to the apartment that we were able to piece things

:54:01. > :54:12.together. We looked at Twitter and then eventually the French news. We

:54:13. > :54:17.have heard some really harrowing stories, some very shaken people,

:54:18. > :54:22.understandably. What do you make of all this? Yellow might well, you

:54:23. > :54:29.just... Everyone, I think, around the world and in Britain will feel

:54:30. > :54:38.for the people of Nice and the people of France, who have been

:54:39. > :54:44.targeted so much over recent months. We see now a city where people are,

:54:45. > :54:59.as you expect, going about their business. It is going about its day.

:55:00. > :55:03.It is heartbreaking to see, particularly on the day of

:55:04. > :55:08.liberation, their big celebration of freedom, that this kind of thing can

:55:09. > :55:12.strike France. You know from experience everywhere that there has

:55:13. > :55:23.been terrorist attacks, from London to Paris, that these are people who

:55:24. > :55:29.will resolutely not change their way of life, in spite of what man or

:55:30. > :55:32.maybe a group has been able to do. We are struggling a bit with the

:55:33. > :55:37.audio there, but the picture tells you that it is a city of beauty

:55:38. > :55:44.caught in a moment of devastation. Thank you very much for joining us.

:55:45. > :55:47.Joining us now from Bristol is Professor James Shields, who

:55:48. > :55:50.specialises in French politics and modern history. Professor Shields,

:55:51. > :55:56.thank you for taking the time to talk to us on BBC News today. I want

:55:57. > :55:59.to begin with those comments from the French Prime Minister, saying

:56:00. > :56:03.that France will not allow itself to be destabilised by violence, but

:56:04. > :56:07.that France should learn to live with terrorism, which of course it

:56:08. > :56:12.has been for the last 18 months or so. But nonetheless, it is quite

:56:13. > :56:18.striking French citizens to hear their political leaders say that. I

:56:19. > :56:25.think that's right. I think there is something of a shift going on here.

:56:26. > :56:28.Of course, we have said that this is the third major terrorist atrocity

:56:29. > :56:33.that France has suffered in 18 months, the third time that Francois

:56:34. > :56:37.Hollande has had to go on television, address the nation and

:56:38. > :56:43.seek to reassure the French that their Government is doing everything

:56:44. > :56:47.it can to keep them safe. What we are hearing now is that same

:56:48. > :56:50.discourse, that it is the Government was my responsibility to do

:56:51. > :56:55.everything it can to keep France safe, but on the other hand, there

:56:56. > :57:00.is no such thing, clearly, as absolute security, as last night's

:57:01. > :57:04.incident, during a state of emergency, proves. In that sense,

:57:05. > :57:11.then, is the further extension of the state of emergency, the use of

:57:12. > :57:17.these sorts of powers by a Government, particularly effective?

:57:18. > :57:22.Well, that is the question. We just don know whether stepping up the

:57:23. > :57:26.state of emergency is going to have any tangible effect. Of course, it

:57:27. > :57:32.has to be done, and the president has to be seen to do it. So we will

:57:33. > :57:41.see in France a continuation of this state of emergency, nine months now,

:57:42. > :57:46.and it may go one further. We will see armed police and military on the

:57:47. > :57:50.streets, liberties curtailed and more intrusive powers for the state

:57:51. > :57:54.upon the Citizen. All of these things Ahmed, firstly, to reassure,

:57:55. > :58:02.and secondly, to bring about some sort of increase in security. But it

:58:03. > :58:10.is very difficult -- all of these things are meant, firstly to

:58:11. > :58:13.reassure. How do you think this is going to filter through politics in

:58:14. > :58:19.France, particularly politics on the right in France? I think this will

:58:20. > :58:24.have serious political repercussions. Remember, we are only

:58:25. > :58:28.several months out from a presidential election next spring.

:58:29. > :58:31.Francois Hollande wants to run and be re-elected, but he has some

:58:32. > :58:37.serious challengers. What I think will happen is that, on the right

:58:38. > :58:44.particularly, as you suggest, the agenda will focus increasingly on

:58:45. > :58:48.security and on Francois Hollande's perceived failings to have kept

:58:49. > :58:55.France safe on his watch. I think this will become a central issue in

:58:56. > :58:59.the presidential campaign. We have primary is on the conservative right

:59:00. > :59:04.coming up in November, primaries on the socialist left coming up in

:59:05. > :59:08.January, and I see that this will now sit at the centre of both of

:59:09. > :59:17.those primary campaigns. Professor James Shields, thank you very much.

:59:18. > :59:22.You're watching BBC News. Just to bring you right up to date on the

:59:23. > :59:27.situation, we told you a moment or two ago, that the German authorities

:59:28. > :59:31.have said that they are raising security levels with their border

:59:32. > :59:35.points with France. Just to expand on that, that is road, rail and air

:59:36. > :59:38.crossings, all of them in conjunction with the French

:59:39. > :59:45.authorities are being after the incident last night in Nice itself,

:59:46. > :59:52.on the Promenade des Anglais, when so many people, 84 at last count,

:59:53. > :59:58.were killed in an attack by a gunman driving a truck for the best part of

:59:59. > :00:02.two kilometres along the seafront, killing as he went. We are keeping

:00:03. > :00:09.you across the details as they come to us here on BBC News.

:00:10. > :00:11.This is BBC News with David Eades and Annita McVeigh.

:00:12. > :00:15.A major attack in the French city of Nice - 84 people have been killed

:00:16. > :00:19.President Hollande says the truck attack in Nice that killed 84 people

:00:20. > :00:23.last night was undeniably terrorist in character.

:00:24. > :00:25.The lorry ploughed into huge crowds celebrating the national

:00:26. > :00:31.The Prime Minister Manuel Valls spoke in the last half hour.

:00:32. > :00:41.TRANSLATION: We have two show solidarity, calm and collected

:00:42. > :00:51.calmness. France once again has been hit in its sole on the 14th of July,

:00:52. > :00:56.our national day. They want to attack the unity of the French

:00:57. > :01:01.nation. The attack came without warning, many at first but it was a

:01:02. > :01:05.lorry out of control. The driver has been formally identified as a

:01:06. > :01:11.31-year-old male of Franco Tunisian origin. After he produced a gun he

:01:12. > :01:15.was shot dead. He is known to the place but not known to the

:01:16. > :01:19.intelligence agencies. Starts to excel from here on, and then you

:01:20. > :01:26.have this massacre taking place. But up until here it was driving like

:01:27. > :01:29.really in an odd way, very slowly. President Hollande has extended the

:01:30. > :01:33.country's state of emergency and prepared for the mobilisation of up

:01:34. > :01:38.to 10,000 military and police reserve lists. He has been holding

:01:39. > :01:47.emergency security meetings at the Elysee Palace. As flags are lowered

:01:48. > :01:53.at the French Embassy in London, a Downing Street spokesman says

:01:54. > :01:58.Britain is shocked by the incident. The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson

:01:59. > :02:03.gave his response. Clearly this represents a continuing threat, if

:02:04. > :02:06.this is a terrorist incident, as it appears to be, it represents a

:02:07. > :02:10.continuing threat to us in the whole of Europe and we must meet it

:02:11. > :02:13.together. France and ounces three days of national mourning. The

:02:14. > :02:21.attack has been condemned around the world. The European Commission

:02:22. > :02:24.President's said that Europe stood united with France. President Obama

:02:25. > :02:32.condemned what he described as an horrific attack. I am Jon Donnison

:02:33. > :02:35.live on these's Promenade des Anglais, where the French are once

:02:36. > :03:24.again waking up to news of mass murder on

:03:25. > :03:30.The attack happened at around 11pm local time in the Mediterranean

:03:31. > :03:35.city. 18 people are said to be in a critical condition. At least 50

:03:36. > :03:40.people were injured in oral, with confirmation that one Britain is

:03:41. > :03:45.among them. Witnesses say that the lorry was driven deliberately and at

:03:46. > :03:49.speed, ramming into the crowd over a long distance, about two kph the

:03:50. > :03:52.Promenade des Anglais, leaving a trail of dead and injured, several

:03:53. > :03:57.children among them. It is understood that the lorry was driven

:03:58. > :04:03.along the road from west to east, so heading into towards the centre of

:04:04. > :04:07.the city. Witnesses say the truck struck several people near the Hotel

:04:08. > :04:10.Negresco, a well-known local landmark. The French security

:04:11. > :04:15.services set up a security cordon around where the attack took place,

:04:16. > :04:21.centred on the Plas Massena. President Hollande said the deplored

:04:22. > :04:24.what he called a terrorist attack and he announced an extension of the

:04:25. > :04:32.state of emergency for a further three months. Jane Frances-Kelly has

:04:33. > :04:35.this report. A truck approaches the crowd, a motorcyclist swerves to

:04:36. > :04:40.avoid it before the police open fire. The vehicle speeds up.

:04:41. > :04:44.Eyewitnesses say it mounted the pavement, zigzagging as it

:04:45. > :04:50.went, indiscriminately mowing down everyone in its path. Families and

:04:51. > :04:53.friends who had gathered to watch the fireworks along the city's

:04:54. > :05:00.waterfront promenade fled in panic through the streets. One tourist

:05:01. > :05:04.described the immediate aftermath. I grabbed my fiance and he started

:05:05. > :05:06.running. We are not local so we really didn't know where we were

:05:07. > :05:12.going, if we were going towards something. It seemed like everyone

:05:13. > :05:15.was running away from something. We were just turning down alleys and

:05:16. > :05:20.kind of looking for somewhere that might be safe. This morning police

:05:21. > :05:26.have cordoned off the crime scene. The windscreen of the lorry is

:05:27. > :05:31.peppered with bullet holes. Eyewitnesses say when it came to a

:05:32. > :05:35.halt the driver opened fire before being shot dead by officers. The

:05:36. > :05:40.attackers thought to be a 31-year-old French born Tunisian who

:05:41. > :05:49.is known to police but the petty offences. He said carry out any

:05:50. > :05:53.attacks, even if you are on your own com you can use a knife commute and

:05:54. > :05:57.use a car, you can use what you like and you don't have to have a rubber

:05:58. > :06:01.stamp from us, was the message. And what happened was that there were

:06:02. > :06:06.attacks on every country that he mentioned and a number of other

:06:07. > :06:08.countries. At the Elysee Palace, military and government officials

:06:09. > :06:12.arrived for an emergency national and security defence meeting. It is

:06:13. > :06:15.being chaired by President Hollande, who earlier extended the state of

:06:16. > :06:22.emergency that has been in place since November's Paris attacks, in

:06:23. > :06:28.which 130 people died. TRANSLATION: France has been hit on its national

:06:29. > :06:38.day, 14th of July, symbol of freedom. Because human rights are

:06:39. > :06:42.denied by fanatics. And France is therefore their target. After the

:06:43. > :06:45.meeting, the French Prime Minister announced three days of national

:06:46. > :06:52.mourning, and the odd that the country would not be destabilised by

:06:53. > :06:55.violence. TRANSLATION: We would like to tell the French people that

:06:56. > :07:01.France will not give in to the terrorist threat. We have changed,

:07:02. > :07:07.times have changed, and France should learn to live with terrorism.

:07:08. > :07:14.This is the message of the Republic. We have two show solidarity, calm

:07:15. > :07:22.and collected calmness. British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson

:07:23. > :07:27.expressed grave concern. Clearly this represents a continuing threat

:07:28. > :07:32.to us if it is a terrorist incident, that it appears to be, and we must

:07:33. > :07:36.meet it together. Many remain in a critical condition in hospital, the

:07:37. > :07:41.city and France are in a state of shock.

:07:42. > :07:49.We are just seeing a comment from the French National front leader

:07:50. > :07:55.Marine Le Pen. She says on her party's website in response to this

:07:56. > :07:58.attack on Nice that the war against Islamist fundamentalism must begin.

:07:59. > :08:04.That is a quote from Marine Le Pen. If you saw just a few minutes ago

:08:05. > :08:07.our interview with a politics professor, someone who specialises

:08:08. > :08:12.in French politics, he argued that this attack would have significant

:08:13. > :08:17.implications for elections coming up in France in the next few months,

:08:18. > :08:24.with parties on the right of French politics in particular seeking to

:08:25. > :08:30.bolster their vote in the wake of this attack. We are getting the

:08:31. > :08:35.ramifications are spreading, a word from the London mayor, Sadiq Khan,

:08:36. > :08:40.also saying that we are reviewing our own safety measures in the light

:08:41. > :08:45.of what has gone on in Nice as well. Let's just get a sense as to what

:08:46. > :08:50.did happen in Nice last night. We are joined by a man who saw the

:08:51. > :08:53.attack happening, he joins us on the line from Nice. Thank you for

:08:54. > :09:03.joining us, tell us what you did see. Actually, first of all, you

:09:04. > :09:06.have to excuse my English, and my voice, because I am still in shock,

:09:07. > :09:13.still under the stress of the situation. So forgive me for any

:09:14. > :09:16.mistakes I will do in the language. I was up enjoying the fireworks

:09:17. > :09:22.among the people on the beach, and it was lovely, and just a few

:09:23. > :09:26.minutes after the ending of the fireworks, we moved to the main

:09:27. > :09:30.street just beside the sea. All the people were in the middle crossing

:09:31. > :09:37.the street, and suddenly we hear screaming loudly, a lot of people

:09:38. > :09:42.screaming, and I just looked in front of me, and I saw a truck just

:09:43. > :09:48.coming in front of me. It's just stopped one and a half metres in

:09:49. > :09:57.front of me. He was smashing all the people on his way under the truck.

:09:58. > :10:04.Me and someone just if few metres beside, we thought it was an

:10:05. > :10:10.accident, and that is why we were screaming at the driver to stop, to

:10:11. > :10:16.stop. I was waving to him, I could see him very clearly, actually, and

:10:17. > :10:22.he was very nervous, and he was moving in the car in a very nervous

:10:23. > :10:26.way. We thought he had lost control of the wheel and of the break, and

:10:27. > :10:35.that he couldn't stop the car. The guy mixed me pulled out a black tell

:10:36. > :10:39.from under the truck. She was not moving at all. I kept yelling at

:10:40. > :10:42.him, and I saw him picking up something that looked like a

:10:43. > :10:50.cellphone. I thought maybe he would the ambulance. Suddenly when he saw

:10:51. > :10:54.the police coming towards him, he was behind me, because I was facing

:10:55. > :10:59.the window of this car, and he was coming behind me, screaming,

:11:00. > :11:02.yelling, stop, stop! I saw him taking out his gun, and he started

:11:03. > :11:10.to shoot through the window. To the police. At that moment one of the

:11:11. > :11:17.French officers yelled at me, screamed, and he pushed me away. I

:11:18. > :11:22.realised that something was wrong, something wrong was happening, so I

:11:23. > :11:26.just stepped back for like four metres, and I didn't know what I was

:11:27. > :11:32.doing, except I just picked up my phone, my cell phone, and started

:11:33. > :11:41.filming the gun shooting. And the police surrounded the car and

:11:42. > :11:45.started shooting to ensure he was dead. I saw him dead already, I saw

:11:46. > :11:48.his head outside the window of the truck, and the French police officer

:11:49. > :11:54.when he saw Mr ending and filming, he came to me aggressively and

:11:55. > :12:02.yelled at me to get down, get down. So I got down, I was still filming,

:12:03. > :12:11.and after that, just one or two seconds, the police came to us,

:12:12. > :12:14.asking us seriously run, run. They asked all of the people on the beach

:12:15. > :12:17.to run, because they thought maybe there was a bomb in the car or

:12:18. > :12:24.something or other people hiding inside the truck. So at that moment

:12:25. > :12:29.I realised this is something really wrong, and I started to run with the

:12:30. > :12:36.people. So you were incredibly close to what happened. And to go from

:12:37. > :12:39.thinking that this was some sort of dreadful accident to realising that,

:12:40. > :12:44.in fact it was something very sinister was incredibly shocking,

:12:45. > :12:50.I'm sure. We never thought it was an attack, we thought it was an

:12:51. > :12:54.accident. Even when he took out his gun, I thought someone was attacking

:12:55. > :12:57.him and he is an innocent driver. And he is going to defend himself

:12:58. > :13:04.against someone attacking him from the other side, which I cannot see.

:13:05. > :13:08.But when he started to shoot over the police, I realised that

:13:09. > :13:13.something was wrong, clearly. I understand you are on holiday in

:13:14. > :13:20.Nice? Yes, I came just a couple of days ago, I arrived on Wednesday for

:13:21. > :13:23.a holiday for four days. So you are due to leave tomorrow presumably? I

:13:24. > :13:30.just wonder what you do with your time, with that sense of shock and

:13:31. > :13:33.deep grief, I imagine you are expertly and sing? I didn't think

:13:34. > :13:39.about anything, because a lot of people asked me about how I felt and

:13:40. > :13:42.why I acted like this. All I can say is I didn't think of anyone or

:13:43. > :13:47.anything, except trying to help the people on the ground. I saw them

:13:48. > :13:57.already injured or dead. I was trying to get some help. But did not

:13:58. > :14:05.think it was attack. It was an emotional reaction. I don't know. It

:14:06. > :14:08.just happened like that. I understand that you went into a cafe

:14:09. > :14:20.afterwards, and that staff there looked after you yes, somebody from

:14:21. > :14:26.the BBC was really kind, his name was Andy, the was a reporter, and he

:14:27. > :14:31.saw me running and I was really shaking because it was really cold

:14:32. > :14:38.or so. Under the shock and the stress of the situation he was

:14:39. > :14:42.trying to calm me down. He advised me to go home but I was alone so

:14:43. > :14:47.didn't like to go to the hotel. I just stopped in front of the cafe

:14:48. > :14:52.and realised what happened, they offered me to come inside to stand

:14:53. > :14:59.some bumps, and they offered me hot rinks and relaxing a little bit. --

:15:00. > :15:03.-- come inside just with some warmth. We have heard reports that

:15:04. > :15:09.the truck that was travelling clearly for quite a long way VR. On

:15:10. > :15:14.to the promenade itself off the road. Is that what you saw? I saw

:15:15. > :15:19.him coming, but I didn't know where he was coming from. I just saw him

:15:20. > :15:27.coming just in front of me. I cannot know where he came from or how long

:15:28. > :15:28.he drove, but all I can say is he was just taking anyone in front of

:15:29. > :15:39.him, just crashing them on his way. Thank you for your account of what

:15:40. > :15:44.was clearly an extremely difficult time for you. Many thanks. We can't

:15:45. > :15:50.talk now to James Nash, who was also near the scene of the attack. James,

:15:51. > :15:58.thank you for talking to us. Tell us what you saw. I didn't actually see

:15:59. > :16:05.the truck itself, but I was there with my sister and friend, watching

:16:06. > :16:13.the fireworks. We were opposite the tourism office on the Promenade des

:16:14. > :16:17.Anglais. When the fireworks finished, we crossed the promenade

:16:18. > :16:23.and the road to go one the pavement on the other side to head to the old

:16:24. > :16:30.town and go on to a bar. We heard some gunshots, or some loud bangs.

:16:31. > :16:34.At the time, we just thought it was some people letting off fireworks or

:16:35. > :16:42.bangers, crackers. We didn't think much of it. Moments after we turned

:16:43. > :16:46.onto a side street to go to the old town, we started to see a few people

:16:47. > :16:53.running. Again, we didn't think much of it. Then more people started

:16:54. > :16:59.running. Then a French lady shouted out that she had just seen somebody

:17:00. > :17:04.shooting, and then the crowd started to gather pace. Suddenly, it turned

:17:05. > :17:09.into hundreds of people going down all the streets. The shops were

:17:10. > :17:14.closing up. They had people inside them to try to keep them safe. We

:17:15. > :17:23.saw parents ticking up their kids and running. It was absolutely, you

:17:24. > :17:28.know, pandemonium. All those streets lead on to a large square in Nice, I

:17:29. > :17:33.forget the name of it. When we got there, we saw that every road

:17:34. > :17:36.leading from the promenade to that square was full of people running

:17:37. > :17:45.for their lives. Place Massena is the one you mean. Yes, correct. It

:17:46. > :17:52.stretches quite a long way from just a bit inland from the promenade. It

:17:53. > :17:57.was absolute chaos. At the time, we thought it could be a false alarm,

:17:58. > :18:01.cause it could have been fireworks let off by anyone. But we didn't

:18:02. > :18:06.want to take the risk, so we went straight to the car that was parked

:18:07. > :18:11.in a car park about 300 metres away, managed to get in the car, and then

:18:12. > :18:15.there were police waving us through red lights, telling us to get out of

:18:16. > :18:22.here. I think we were some of the last people to be able to get out of

:18:23. > :18:26.the city. James, I just wonder, you mentioned that the police were

:18:27. > :18:31.advising you to get out and fast - did you get a sense of a fast

:18:32. > :18:35.security response, if you like, to this incident? Yellow that you have

:18:36. > :18:41.to remember that there was a very heavy police presence, even before

:18:42. > :18:44.the incident. -- you have to remember that there was a very heavy

:18:45. > :18:54.police presence, even before the incident. The whole lot. They were

:18:55. > :19:01.probably quite well prepared, but afterwards, to answer your question,

:19:02. > :19:05.yes, when we started hearing sirens and seeing the looks on the faces

:19:06. > :19:08.police personnel, the way that ambulances were driving in the

:19:09. > :19:17.street, we had to veer off to them pass. We knew by then that it was

:19:18. > :19:27.serious. And we were listening to France catlike in full, the French

:19:28. > :19:36.news programme -- France Info, the French news programme, but it was

:19:37. > :19:40.only when we got back to our flat, about three or four kilometres

:19:41. > :19:44.outside of Nice, that the news started to pick up on the deaths and

:19:45. > :19:49.the fact that it was obviously terrorism related. James, it sounds

:19:50. > :19:53.from your description as though only really a very short time had elapsed

:19:54. > :20:00.between you leaving the promenade and hearing those sounds, which

:20:01. > :20:03.turned out to be gunshots. You must feel very lucky that you left the

:20:04. > :20:07.promenade when you did. I am not clear whether you are on holiday on

:20:08. > :20:16.whether you live in Nice, but how does the city fielded a cosmic

:20:17. > :20:20.first, we walked all the way along the promenade, move away from Hotel

:20:21. > :20:24.Negresco back to the town. We were trying to get to the opposite end of

:20:25. > :20:30.the beach, further away from the incident. The fireworks started-

:20:31. > :20:34.Ahrar earlier because of a forecast of high winds, so they managed to

:20:35. > :20:38.get it in earlier. Originally, they were going to cancel it, so it was

:20:39. > :20:44.touch and go whether the fireworks would happen in the first place. We

:20:45. > :20:49.walked straight past where the incident occurred. We were actually

:20:50. > :20:57.standing watching the fireworks when the truck passed. Obviously, I don't

:20:58. > :21:04.want to think about it too much, all the ifs. But it does make you think,

:21:05. > :21:08.it really does. In terms of the atmosphere in Nice, I am slightly

:21:09. > :21:13.outside Nice now, so I couldn't tell you that, but I am determined to go

:21:14. > :21:20.back to Nice before my holiday is over. I don't want these people to

:21:21. > :21:24.change our lives completely. James Nash, thank you very much indeed for

:21:25. > :21:32.giving us your account of what has happened. A major jazz festival

:21:33. > :21:37.takes place in Nice this weekend. That, of course, has been cancelled,

:21:38. > :21:43.as have all the cultural festivities for the time being.

:21:44. > :21:46.We're joined now by our security correspondent, Frank Gardner. Frank,

:21:47. > :21:51.it is not the first time that vehicles have been driven at

:21:52. > :21:55.pedestrians, but this, it seems to me, is unprecedented.

:21:56. > :22:09.This is on a totally different scale. You referred to an incident

:22:10. > :22:15.in Dijon in 2014, where a man with mental problems drove into a crowd

:22:16. > :22:18.will stop he had mental problems and there was no direct link to

:22:19. > :22:25.so-called Islamic State. But it was a warning, perhaps quite prescient,

:22:26. > :22:32.of the carnage that could because by something like this. The spokesman

:22:33. > :22:38.for so-called Islamic State, Abu Muhammad Al-Adnani, called on people

:22:39. > :22:42.months ago to carry out this type of attack. IES are under enormous

:22:43. > :22:46.pressure in Syria and Iraq, the war is not going their way in either of

:22:47. > :22:52.those places, but they are still a force to be reckoned with. They are

:22:53. > :22:59.still an attractive alternative for some people who have perhaps

:23:00. > :23:06.grievances with the Shi'ite regime in Iraq or President Assad in Syria.

:23:07. > :23:10.Their tentacles reach into a number of places all over the world, but

:23:11. > :23:15.particularly in Europe. I would be very surprised if this doesn't turn

:23:16. > :23:21.out to be in some way linked, not necessarily directed, they may take

:23:22. > :23:25.responsibility, I don't want to speculate, but it follows the

:23:26. > :23:31.pattern of other apparently lone wolf attacks where people have

:23:32. > :23:35.decided to take on the role themselves, without necessarily even

:23:36. > :23:39.having visited Syria. It is interesting, because there has

:23:40. > :23:46.been taught by both the president and Prime Minister of possible

:23:47. > :23:50.accomplices, saying they will hunt them down. They have extremely

:23:51. > :23:54.little to go on, not least because it appears the intelligence services

:23:55. > :24:01.were not following this individual. No, he is, according to police

:24:02. > :24:07.sources, he is a 31-year-old Tunisian born French person, but has

:24:08. > :24:12.no links to extreme radical groups. That is actually quite common. A lot

:24:13. > :24:15.of the people that IES and before them Al-Qaeda were getting to do

:24:16. > :24:21.their dirty work for them were at foot soldier level. I'd hesitate to

:24:22. > :24:28.call them soldiers, because they are criminals, murderers, and in this

:24:29. > :24:33.case, a childminder. They are people who have been in and out of prison,

:24:34. > :24:36.who have been involved in petty crime, theft, pickpocketing,

:24:37. > :24:41.prostitution, all sorts of things. And then they have this kind of

:24:42. > :24:45.conversion and the site to purge themselves of these earlier sins.

:24:46. > :24:51.They think they are doing this by committing some far greater horror.

:24:52. > :24:54.What evidence is there that the French security services will start

:24:55. > :24:59.to turn their attention towards these individuals? We spoke recently

:25:00. > :25:03.about that review policing, law enforcement, the security agencies

:25:04. > :25:08.in France, and it was critical of a lack of communication between the

:25:09. > :25:14.various branches, wasn't it? That is not a problem just in

:25:15. > :25:18.France, Belgium, too. It comes down to better intelligence. Thousands of

:25:19. > :25:22.troops on the streets may offer some reassurance and deterrence, but

:25:23. > :25:26.clearly, they haven't deterred this. This was Bastille Day, so it would

:25:27. > :25:30.have taken some elements are planning to do this. I would be very

:25:31. > :25:35.surprised if this was a completely lone wolf attack. There is no such

:25:36. > :25:39.thing as that. There are always connections, either online or in the

:25:40. > :25:44.real world. It is the latest in a series of

:25:45. > :25:48.dreadful incidents for France. Why France? There are things happening

:25:49. > :25:51.in other places, and Belgium is an example, but France is getting the

:25:52. > :25:57.brunt of this. It is the number one target of

:25:58. > :26:02.opportunity for IES and like-minded jihadists. It is for a number of

:26:03. > :26:06.reasons. It has taken an active role in trying to push back jihadists

:26:07. > :26:16.around the world, but notably in Mali, Iraq and Syria. They took a

:26:17. > :26:20.leading role in Mali. They stop Islamic State from taking over.

:26:21. > :26:24.Syria is a former French protectorate, and they have been

:26:25. > :26:28.active there in our strike, also in Iraq. There is a problem

:26:29. > :26:36.domestically within France. The ban on the burqa is seen as hostile to

:26:37. > :26:42.Islam. There are large areas of French cities, the suburbs. These

:26:43. > :26:49.are pretty desperate places, the suburbs, where hardly anybody is

:26:50. > :26:54.living there who hasn't arrived in the last generation or two. Many of

:26:55. > :26:58.them feel that they are left out of the modern French state. It is not

:26:59. > :27:05.unique to France. There are parts of Britain that feel the same, but in

:27:06. > :27:10.France, it has tapped into a vein of discontent that makes some people

:27:11. > :27:13.prone and former rebel to conversion to extreme radical Islam. If you

:27:14. > :27:19.look at the prisons in France, that is where a lot of it happens. So

:27:20. > :27:23.much radicalisation takes place in French prisons, so that people go in

:27:24. > :27:29.with a record of petty crime and they come out as hardened jihadists.

:27:30. > :27:32.What sort of cooperation will be going on between the French

:27:33. > :27:39.intelligence services and services elsewhere in Europe in the wake of

:27:40. > :27:43.this? They will probably have had communal

:27:44. > :27:51.calls together. This is an area where Britain, I think, Britain's

:27:52. > :27:56.expertise will be wanted, regardless of Brexit. Security overrides any of

:27:57. > :28:04.that. There will be a sharing of expertise. I have no doubt...

:28:05. > :28:10.Whether or not is a cobra crisis meeting is held in London today,

:28:11. > :28:14.there will be urgent consultations. Is Britain is doing everything it

:28:15. > :28:18.can? Is Germany? Germany in the last few hours has tightened its border

:28:19. > :28:22.controls. This is a problem with open borders in Europe. I am not

:28:23. > :28:27.saying they are good or bad, but it is a function of open borders that

:28:28. > :28:32.people have been able to pass from one country to another without

:28:33. > :28:35.detection, and so those need to be strengthened to stop this kind of

:28:36. > :28:39.thing. If you look at the aftermath of the Paris attacks and the

:28:40. > :28:43.Brussels attacks, there are signs that people have been able to cross

:28:44. > :28:47.over borders. Indeed, and with each of the last

:28:48. > :28:52.few of these incidents, there has been this clarion call to say, we,

:28:53. > :28:56.as a group of countries, must coordinate better. Is there any real

:28:57. > :28:59.sense that that is happening yet? There is no button you press that

:29:00. > :29:03.says, we now know where all the suspects are, but do you get a sense

:29:04. > :29:08.that there is a more coordinated effort going on?

:29:09. > :29:15.It is very slow, David. Part of the problem is that national

:29:16. > :29:18.intelligence agencies don't like putting good, hard intelligence into

:29:19. > :29:27.a wide pool. Why would they? The bigger the pool, the more likely it

:29:28. > :29:31.is to leak. The ideal of a pan-European intelligence agency, it

:29:32. > :29:35.isn't going to happen. There will continue to be close corporation

:29:36. > :29:40.between London and Paris, Paris and Madrid, Paris and Berlin. But top

:29:41. > :29:45.intelligence people will get together and share a general

:29:46. > :29:48.thoughts, but they are unlikely to share the immediate hard action

:29:49. > :29:50.intelligence with anybody other than the people they think need to act on

:29:51. > :29:57.it straightaway. Knight just on those comments from

:29:58. > :30:04.the French Prime Minister, saying that France has to learn to live

:30:05. > :30:08.with terrorism, it is an interesting thing, even though France has been

:30:09. > :30:13.in practical terms living with terrorism, living with these huge

:30:14. > :30:16.attacks for some time now. Yes, and of course the extension of the

:30:17. > :30:19.National state of emergency which was due to be finished this weekend,

:30:20. > :30:26.that will now go on for another three months. Is that really

:30:27. > :30:30.effective? It obviously hasn't been because it hasn't stopped this. It

:30:31. > :30:33.puts more troops on the streets, it gets people on their guard, but no,

:30:34. > :30:38.it is never going to be completely effective. You can make burglary

:30:39. > :30:46.crime but it is not going to stop burglary. It might reduce it, to it,

:30:47. > :30:51.but it will not stop it. The mentality behind this, and behind

:30:52. > :30:59.other attacks in France, actually, do you know what, it is too early to

:31:00. > :31:02.say exactly. But let's look at the previous Paris attacks in France,

:31:03. > :31:06.the Bataclan and the Charlie Hebdo, they are a commendation of

:31:07. > :31:10.deterrence and revenge. People saying if you are going to do this,

:31:11. > :31:15.we will do this back to you. They are also hoping to scare the French

:31:16. > :31:19.government away from taking part in air strikes. That isn't going to

:31:20. > :31:24.happen, I think. They would probably increase the commitment to the

:31:25. > :31:27.US-led action in Iraq and Syria. President Hollande has said

:31:28. > :31:31.precisely that, that both Syria and Iraq their efforts would be

:31:32. > :31:37.increased. Frank Gardner, thank you very much indeed. Just briefly tell

:31:38. > :31:45.you a line I am seeing on the AP newsagency, we don't have

:31:46. > :31:51.confirmation on these figures, saying

:31:52. > :31:56.you are watching BBC News, let me just remind you of the main

:31:57. > :32:01.developments on the breaking news in the last few hours. France has

:32:02. > :32:05.declared three days of national mourning for the 84 victims about is

:32:06. > :32:09.believed to have been a terror attack in the southern French city

:32:10. > :32:14.of Nice. A lorry ploughed into huge crowds as they enjoyed celebrations

:32:15. > :32:20.in the country's National bastille day. As we are hearing, children are

:32:21. > :32:23.among the dead. Around 50 people were injured, more than a dozen of

:32:24. > :32:28.them critically, one British person has been hurt. We have been told the

:32:29. > :32:32.Foreign Office says officials are standing by to help. The Foreign

:32:33. > :32:36.Secretary Boris Johnson gave this response.

:32:37. > :32:42.Clearly it represents a continuing threat, if it is a terrorist

:32:43. > :32:44.incident, as it appears to be, it represents a continuing threat to

:32:45. > :32:46.the whole of Europe and we must continue to

:32:47. > :32:51.meet it together. The attack itself came without warning after a

:32:52. > :32:55.fireworks display, many people thought it was just a lorry out of

:32:56. > :32:59.control. The driver who has a 31-year-old Franco Tunisian man was

:33:00. > :33:03.shot dead after he produced a gun. Downing Street is flying the French

:33:04. > :33:08.flag at half-mast. The attack has been condemned around the world.

:33:09. > :33:12.Chancellor Merkel of Germany spoke of her shock and disbelief and

:33:13. > :33:17.President Obama has condemned what he described as an horrific attack.

:33:18. > :33:23.President Hollande has been holding an urgent security meeting at the

:33:24. > :33:26.elite is a Palace. -- at the Elysee Palace. Plans are in place for the

:33:27. > :33:35.mobilisation of up to 10,000 military and police reserve lists.

:33:36. > :33:39.Announcing those three days of national mourning for the victims of

:33:40. > :33:42.the attack, the French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said France

:33:43. > :33:45.had to learn to live with terrorism but that it would not allow itself

:33:46. > :33:48.to be destabilised by the violence. This is what he said earlier.

:33:49. > :33:59.TRANSLATION:, following the meeting of the head of state, we have held a

:34:00. > :34:03.meeting bringing together security and defence ministers. France has

:34:04. > :34:11.once again been hit by a terrorist act, a cowardly act, and during

:34:12. > :34:17.these very difficult times, our thoughts are with the victims and

:34:18. > :34:23.with the families who have been affected by this tragedy. And we are

:34:24. > :34:29.thinking about the city of Nice, where we are going to visit shortly.

:34:30. > :34:34.Terrorism, we have been saying it for a long time, is a threat that is

:34:35. > :34:41.weighing heavily on France, and which will carry on to weigh on

:34:42. > :34:46.France. I had on many occasions said unfortunately that we would have had

:34:47. > :34:56.such incidents, and there will be others. We are facing a war that

:34:57. > :35:02.terrorism has started against us. The objectives of the terrorist is

:35:03. > :35:08.to instil fear and panic. France and the president of the Republic has

:35:09. > :35:14.reminded us is a big country, a big democracy, that will not allow

:35:15. > :35:21.itself to be destabilised. The emergency and the urgency that we

:35:22. > :35:25.have talked about is to welcome the families, and to look after the

:35:26. > :35:29.bodies and close ones after identifications. The whole of the

:35:30. > :35:37.services of the state are being deployed to help the families, and

:35:38. > :35:40.to accompany them during these particularly difficult times. The

:35:41. > :35:52.president of the Republic has called for national mourning for the 16th,

:35:53. > :36:00.17th and 18th of July. Out of respect for the victims. Flags will

:36:01. > :36:08.fly at half-mast along the Republic officers, the official offices in

:36:09. > :36:12.the Republic. The meeting of defence and security, we would like to tell

:36:13. > :36:20.the French people that we will never give in. France will not give in to

:36:21. > :36:23.the terrorist threat. We have changed, times have changed, and

:36:24. > :36:29.France should learn to live with terrorism, and this is the message

:36:30. > :36:35.of the Republic. We have to show solidarity, calm and collected

:36:36. > :36:47.calmness. France once again has been hit in its soul, on 14th of July, a

:36:48. > :36:51.national day. They wanted to attack the dignity of the French nation.

:36:52. > :36:55.The only responsible response that France can give is that France will

:36:56. > :37:05.remain loyal to the spirit of the 14th of July. A united and assembled

:37:06. > :37:06.France around its values. This is the only demand that we are asking

:37:07. > :37:16.today. Manuel Valls, the French Prime

:37:17. > :37:22.Minister, just had a few words from the Belgian feminist, following on

:37:23. > :37:27.from the March Belgium attack. This is Charles Michel, who said to

:37:28. > :37:30.journalists that the authorities had been considering the facility of a

:37:31. > :37:35.terrorist using a vehicle to attack a crowd. He added that there would

:37:36. > :37:38.be appropriate measures, did not specify them, but that appropriate

:37:39. > :37:47.measures would be taken to safeguard events scheduled to mark their

:37:48. > :37:54.Belgian national day on 21st July. Charles Michel speaking after a

:37:55. > :37:59.meeting of the Belgian government called following that lorry attack

:38:00. > :38:02.in Nice. We have been speaking to a number of witnesses who have been in

:38:03. > :38:14.Nice, were there last night. Among them Jim Harris, an American lawyer,

:38:15. > :38:20.who lives in London but is living in Nice. We were stood there watching a

:38:21. > :38:26.street performer when suddenly there was a massive surge of people

:38:27. > :38:33.heading from the north end. We didn't want to get trampled, so we

:38:34. > :38:36.try to run with them. Some of the rifle down in front of me and I had

:38:37. > :38:46.to stop and help them up and after that I lost track of my friends.

:38:47. > :38:52.Have you done so? Yes, I was able to find them. That is one good sign I

:38:53. > :38:55.suppose will stop Eric, I can't really imagine what the feelings

:38:56. > :39:00.must be like when this is going on? We heard there was done such --

:39:01. > :39:08.gunshots that people thought might have been fireworks. A total with

:39:09. > :39:11.the people running away. Yes, we were down on the beach at a

:39:12. > :39:18.restaurant. The Promenade des Anglais is about three metres or so

:39:19. > :39:22.above the beach, and we heard the gunshots. I do know how people could

:39:23. > :39:30.have confused it for fireworks, because the firework show had ended

:39:31. > :39:33.a number of minutes before. We heard the pop, pop, pop sounds, and my

:39:34. > :39:39.wife, though she is deaf actually, the sounds and people were throwing

:39:40. > :39:48.themselves off the promenade onto the beach. Onto the roof of the

:39:49. > :39:58.restaurant. Did you see the truck at all? No, we were on the beach level,

:39:59. > :40:03.and the road is elevated. Again, the level of fear I can't imagine. We

:40:04. > :40:09.are just leaving that to bring you to the French Embassy in London, the

:40:10. > :40:13.French ambassador to the UK. It is the third time France have been

:40:14. > :40:17.struck by a terrorist attack and all our thoughts are with the victims of

:40:18. > :40:23.the families of the victims. I would like to thank the British

:40:24. > :40:26.authorities as they expressed their sympathy and their solidarity, and

:40:27. > :40:31.we have received it from Theresa May, the Prime Minister, and Boris

:40:32. > :40:38.Johnson, the Foreign Secretary, who celebrated with us last night on

:40:39. > :40:45.Bastille Day. Also because the 14th of July is a very symbolic day, it

:40:46. > :40:52.is a symbol of freedom, liberty, egalitarian and fraternity and I

:40:53. > :40:57.think that is what the terrorists want to fight. I would like to tell

:40:58. > :41:05.you think case there are some British worrying, we have an

:41:06. > :41:27.emergency phone number, which I will read. 003343175646. Sorry. One

:41:28. > :41:33.second. You forgot one number. No. I would like to say also there has

:41:34. > :41:38.been a security and defence meeting this morning, and some extra

:41:39. > :41:43.measures have been taken and will be taken also in the future. The

:41:44. > :41:52.president will ask for the extension of this state of emergency, and for

:41:53. > :41:59.the operational reserves also. France is strong country, it is a

:42:00. > :42:05.resilient country, a united country, we are determined to fight against

:42:06. > :42:12.terrorism. Why is your country being hit with such frequency? That is

:42:13. > :42:21.what I said, we are a target because of the symbol, fume and the, and

:42:22. > :42:26.that is what they are fighting also. I have received many phone calls and

:42:27. > :42:34.messages from people, especially those who celebrated with us last

:42:35. > :42:37.night Bastille Day. The French ambassador to London just stressing

:42:38. > :42:49.that the attack in Nice was for her an attack on the symbolism of

:42:50. > :42:53.liberte, egalite, fraternite, and she put out a number for British

:42:54. > :43:04.citizens who might be worried about family members in Nice. 003343

:43:05. > :43:08.175646. If you do need to get in touch with anyone who you think

:43:09. > :43:12.should be in Nice, or may still be there, that is the number that the

:43:13. > :43:18.French authorities are putting out. The ambassador therefore adding that

:43:19. > :43:24.France may be a target but it is a strong, resilient and united

:43:25. > :43:30.country. And she said all our thoughts are with the victims of the

:43:31. > :43:35.attack in Nice, and their families. And she thanked the government in

:43:36. > :43:41.the UK for it's in the and solidarity, speaking as David was

:43:42. > :43:50.just saying about the very symbolic nature of the 14th July, and how the

:43:51. > :43:56.terrorists had chosen to strike on that day. We have heard from the

:43:57. > :44:01.Mayor of London also in terms of a statement just to say that the City

:44:02. > :44:08.of London is reviewing its own safety measures on the back of what

:44:09. > :44:10.has happened in Nice, and also the German authorities have said that in

:44:11. > :44:15.coordination with the French they are increasing security at the third

:44:16. > :44:24.border crossings with France, whether that is airports, but also

:44:25. > :44:29.by road and by rail. Our correspondent is outside the French

:44:30. > :44:35.Embassy in central London for us. The French ambassador there quickly

:44:36. > :44:38.as well as exposing her sympathy for the victims and their families

:44:39. > :44:45.quickly thanking the government here in the UK for its solidarity with

:44:46. > :44:54.the French government. Yes, that's right. The ambassador to France here

:44:55. > :45:03.in London spoke on the steps thanking Bush Johnson, the new

:45:04. > :45:09.Foreign Secretary, -- Boris Johnson, and we have heard that from a lot of

:45:10. > :45:17.authority figures throughout. She also went on to say it was a

:45:18. > :45:22.symbolic day of freedom in France, and that is where I she believes the

:45:23. > :45:25.terrorists struck, they will stop she said there had been a security

:45:26. > :45:30.and the task meeting this morning in France will stop obviously security

:45:31. > :45:34.hugely stepped-up in the country, but also here in London. The Mayor

:45:35. > :45:39.of London had said that security measures naturally are going to be

:45:40. > :45:43.looked at, reviewed, broader presences are going to be stepped

:45:44. > :45:48.up, and perhaps we might see many more police officers here in London

:45:49. > :45:53.over the coming days or weeks or so. She wanted to send out that message

:45:54. > :45:57.that France is a strong country, united with the UK here as well, and

:45:58. > :46:01.she also gave out that telephone number. If anyone is worried about

:46:02. > :46:11.relatives who may have been in Nice yesterday. 00314

:46:12. > :46:14.3175646 for anyone who was concerned about any relatives who may have

:46:15. > :46:24.been there yesterday. We go from the French embassy to

:46:25. > :46:28.Downing Street. Let's have a look at the scene in Downing Street at the

:46:29. > :46:32.moment. That is Boris Johnson a little earlier in the day. He has

:46:33. > :46:37.been responding. We will pick on what he is black pick-up on what he

:46:38. > :46:45.said in a moment. Just to you that Downing Street has the French flag

:46:46. > :46:52.flying at half-mast in support of all the French people. As for the

:46:53. > :46:56.new Foreign Secretary, Mr Johnson said the attack in Nice represents

:46:57. > :47:01.what he called a continuing threat to the UK and Europe. Beasley, our

:47:02. > :47:08.thoughts are very much with the people of France and Nice. An

:47:09. > :47:10.absolutely appalling incident. There will be ministerial meetings later

:47:11. > :47:18.on today to discuss the implications for this country. At this time, I

:47:19. > :47:25.don't know about any implications for the UK. Clearly, this represents

:47:26. > :47:29.a continuing threat, as a terrorist incident, to us and the whole of

:47:30. > :47:33.Europe, and we must meet it together. Do you know there are any

:47:34. > :47:37.Britons involved? The only information I have is that there was

:47:38. > :47:43.one UK national who is injured, but it is early at the moment. Witnesses

:47:44. > :47:50.have been telling us how the events unfolded in Nice last night. The

:47:51. > :47:55.BBC's Roy Cali told us how people reacted when it became apparent and

:47:56. > :47:59.attack was taking place. You'll like I was at the Bastille Day

:48:00. > :48:02.celebrations and I was watching the fireworks, about 200 metres away. It

:48:03. > :48:15.finished at about 10:20pm local time. -- I was at the Bastille Day

:48:16. > :48:20.celebrations. People started to scream and to run in older actions.

:48:21. > :48:22.The police who were redirecting the traffic in the city centre then

:48:23. > :48:28.started running in the opposite direction, towards me. They made a

:48:29. > :48:32.very firm point that we had to leave as quickly as possible. I then heard

:48:33. > :48:37.what I thought were firecrackers, I assumed it was part of the display,

:48:38. > :48:43.but I later realised it was the gunshots that I have. There was

:48:44. > :48:53.panic for a good 10-15 minutes. I am on the promenade days anglais now.

:48:54. > :48:57.There are bullet holes in the windscreen of the truck. -- on the

:48:58. > :49:00.Promenade des Anglais. It was travelling at around 90 kilometres

:49:01. > :49:04.per hour, and it was quite clear what its intention was. It was at

:49:05. > :49:09.that point that the police opened fire to try to stop it. It was

:49:10. > :49:14.almost impossible, if not impossible, for people to get away.

:49:15. > :49:20.There was this huge, dense population of people coming together

:49:21. > :49:25.to celebrate Bastille Day. Then this huge panic erupted in the street,

:49:26. > :49:32.and everybody was running in the general direction away from the

:49:33. > :49:36.Hotel Negresco and where the Nice Jazz Festival is being held. I got

:49:37. > :49:40.separated from my aunt and uncle, and I was looking around for them,

:49:41. > :49:48.and we had no idea what was going on. People were screaming, crying,

:49:49. > :49:51.security guards were on their walkie-talkies. I only speak a

:49:52. > :49:57.little French, but you could hear words being mumbled, like suicide.

:49:58. > :50:07.You are thinking, my gosh, what is going on? It was insane, because my

:50:08. > :50:12.family and I were in that exact spot in front of the Hotel Negresco 20

:50:13. > :50:20.minutes before it happened. We were so close. To have all of that erupt

:50:21. > :50:25.on such a positive evening, it was such a paradox and so terrible.

:50:26. > :50:31.There were a few people who were caught in a crush. They were fleeing

:50:32. > :50:34.through the narrow side streets. I helped an elderly lady up and

:50:35. > :50:38.another lady who had been pushed on the floor and was stuck there. She

:50:39. > :50:43.just needed some help to get back on her feet and get to safety. Did you

:50:44. > :50:49.see anything as the attack was developing? In the immediate

:50:50. > :50:59.aftermath, I saw a little bit. It was quite hard to get to. Five to

:51:00. > :51:02.ten minutes afterward, the police were completely covering the

:51:03. > :51:09.promenade and it was closed down. They created a 100 yard barrier

:51:10. > :51:13.between where people could get to and the truck, where obviously a lot

:51:14. > :51:23.of this carnage unfolded. You struggled to see through them. The

:51:24. > :51:26.police presence was very heavy and they were keen to push people away

:51:27. > :51:34.from the promenade. They were trying to make sure that people were out of

:51:35. > :51:38.harm's way. Will sure, speaking. You will have heard so far today that

:51:39. > :51:46.the attacker, the driver of this truck, has been identified by French

:51:47. > :51:51.police. He is a 31 your old Franco Tunisian with dual nationality.

:51:52. > :51:56.Reports are saying that he lived in Nice itself. He is reported to have

:51:57. > :52:00.been identified by his driver's license, mobile phone and credit

:52:01. > :52:04.card, which were found inside the lorry. Our diplomatic correspondent

:52:05. > :52:11.is telling us that the regional president of Nice said that the man

:52:12. > :52:16.had been picked up on security cameras, boarding the truck in the

:52:17. > :52:21.hills above Nice and then driving down to the seafront promenade. The

:52:22. > :52:26.regional president said that such attacks were not prepared our loan,

:52:27. > :52:31.that there was a chain of complicity that needed to be uncovered. Those

:52:32. > :52:36.are the latest details coming in to us about the attacker and his

:52:37. > :52:41.movements. This appalling incident happened

:52:42. > :52:44.barely 12 hours ago, so still far too early in the investigation to

:52:45. > :52:52.say exactly what happened. Francois Hollande as described the attack as

:52:53. > :53:01.having the characteristics of terrorism. The French Prime Minister

:53:02. > :53:05.described it as a war that terrorism has brought. Over the past to make

:53:06. > :53:16.years, France has suffered Islamist attacks. In January 2015, gun men

:53:17. > :53:30.opened fire at the offices of the French magazine Charlie Hebdo. Then

:53:31. > :53:38.a man was beheaded at Saint Quentin. And then in November last year, 130

:53:39. > :53:46.people died in a series of bomb attacks. Then a police commander and

:53:47. > :53:51.his wife were started death in April Christian suburb in June of this

:53:52. > :53:57.year. We have a producer at Radio France in Paris who has reported on

:53:58. > :54:03.past terror attacks. Catherine, thank you for joining us. This is

:54:04. > :54:07.not in the French capital, and it is essentially an unprecedented manner

:54:08. > :54:21.of attack, isn't it? Yeah yes, it is. He was not known by the

:54:22. > :54:35.intelligence services. He is not in what we all know here now as the

:54:36. > :54:46.less files, security files. -- what we now know here as the S files. He

:54:47. > :54:59.had a criminal record, having used weapons already, but it was indeed a

:55:00. > :55:01.new way to act. We know that the communications service of Islamic

:55:02. > :55:07.State have asked people to use whatever means, to use their car,

:55:08. > :55:11.and kill people, kill police and military. But this man has gone

:55:12. > :55:17.through a crowd for a lot of families were. We are hearing that

:55:18. > :55:21.50 children have been brought to the hospital since yesterday evening,

:55:22. > :55:28.and that at least two have died. So this is also a new thing. The horror

:55:29. > :55:44.is rising since January 2015 with the Charlie Hebdo

:55:45. > :55:47.killing. And then the November killing at the end of last year,

:55:48. > :55:53.when it was anyone, young people going to a concert. Now, children

:55:54. > :55:59.and families. Catherine, are the French saying to themselves, asking

:56:00. > :56:08.themselves why Bass? Why is this happening to our country? Of course.

:56:09. > :56:15.They will be wondering. France is aimed at several reasons. One of

:56:16. > :56:19.them is that the strategy of the perpetrators and those who push them

:56:20. > :56:26.is to divide our country. We have a strong Muslim community in France.

:56:27. > :56:32.They are the victims of lots of discrimination, and Isis is trying

:56:33. > :56:36.to divide us, to bring people to hate this one that is not like me,

:56:37. > :56:42.that is from a foreign background, that is young. And this is what they

:56:43. > :56:50.are trying to do. France is the ideal country to do so. The

:56:51. > :56:56.coalition has started to launch air strikes in the Middle East. We have

:56:57. > :57:02.several bad records for Isis, including a law forbidding the

:57:03. > :57:07.Islamic headscarf at school. It is internationally known that France

:57:08. > :57:13.has this law that is a symbolic discrimination, or that is seen as a

:57:14. > :57:19.symbolic discrimination against Muslims. You talk about what ISPs

:57:20. > :57:23.trying to do. The reality, from what we have hard from both the Prime

:57:24. > :57:28.Minister and the president in the last viewers, Manuel Valls said,

:57:29. > :57:33.France should learn to live with terrorism. There is a nuance, but a

:57:34. > :57:37.clear change in direction in terms of the effect that these attacks are

:57:38. > :57:43.having on the country. You are right. It has been said in other

:57:44. > :57:48.ways before, but this sense is very strong. How can we prevent someone

:57:49. > :57:57.from doing this type of thing without acting much before he is

:57:58. > :58:02.ready to act? It is a civilian war. It is not a war on our everyday

:58:03. > :58:09.lives and stop we live normally, like in every other democracy. We

:58:10. > :58:16.are rather rich and peaceful as a country. But it is indeed a war

:58:17. > :58:20.against a certain type of action that is so difficult to avoid. Those

:58:21. > :58:28.people were lucky enough to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

:58:29. > :58:33.They will attack when there are lots of people, and I hope that we won't

:58:34. > :58:40.be forbidden to gather again to celebrate together. We are not that

:58:41. > :58:45.far from a presidential election in France. There is an element also

:58:46. > :58:52.hear where a wedge is driven each time something like this happens

:58:53. > :58:59.within the nation, whether it is supporters of the Front National or

:59:00. > :59:05.the Socialist parties. That is why it is so difficult to find the good

:59:06. > :59:10.solution against all of this. Our Government, of course our president,

:59:11. > :59:12.who is probably running another -- running for another presidential

:59:13. > :59:19.election, is talking about war, using this kind of vocabulary to

:59:20. > :59:25.reassure everyone that he is a fighter who is going to war against

:59:26. > :59:35.our enemies. For the moment, it has only prompted more votes for the

:59:36. > :59:39.Front National. It had an amazing score, an amazing votes in the north

:59:40. > :59:47.and south of France in the last regional elections in December.

:59:48. > :59:50.Catherine, thank you very much. Giving us the political perspective

:59:51. > :59:56.on a tragedy in France, the attack in Nice. 84 people we know have been

:59:57. > :00:01.killed. As many as 50 children taken to hospital. Several children dead

:00:02. > :00:02.as well. We will keep across development for you here on BBC

:00:03. > :00:14.News. This is BBC News. A major attack in the French city

:00:15. > :00:16.of Nice - 84 people have been killed

:00:17. > :00:19.and many more are injured. through crowds celebrating

:00:20. > :00:23.Bastille Day in the riviera city - including families attending

:00:24. > :00:28.a fireworks display. The driver was shot dead by police

:00:29. > :00:34.after producing a gun. He was a 31-year-old

:00:35. > :00:35.Franco-Tunisian man - eyewitnesses described

:00:36. > :00:45.what happened. He starts to accelerate from here on

:00:46. > :00:51.and there, you had this massive call taking place, but up until here, it

:00:52. > :00:53.was driving in a really odd way, really slowly.

:00:54. > :00:56.Children are among the dead and one British person was hurt.

:00:57. > :01:02.France declares three days of national mourning.

:01:03. > :01:09.TRANSLATION: We have to show solidarity, calm and collected

:01:10. > :01:11.calmness. France, once again, has been hit in its soul.

:01:12. > :01:12.President Hollande says the terrorist nature

:01:13. > :01:18.He extends the state of emergency and mobilises military reserves,

:01:19. > :01:24.The attack is condemned around the world.

:01:25. > :01:28.In Moscow, a minute's silence is held at US-Russia talks.

:01:29. > :01:37.In London, the new Foreign Secretary gave his reaction.

:01:38. > :01:41.Clearly, this represents a continuing threat, if this is a

:01:42. > :01:45.terrorist incident, as it appears to be. It represents a continuing

:01:46. > :01:50.threat to the whole of us in Europe and we must meet it together. In the

:01:51. > :01:53.last few minutes, we have received these pictures as French police

:01:54. > :01:59.identify and investigate the suspect's home.

:02:00. > :02:02.Here on the scene in Nice, there is a real sense of unease. Hundreds

:02:03. > :02:06.have gathered here in the sunshine this afternoon to come and pay their

:02:07. > :02:08.respects as they try to make some sort of sense of what happened here

:02:09. > :02:27.last night. Hello, this is BBC News

:02:28. > :02:29.with continuing coverage At least 84 people have been killed

:02:30. > :02:40.on the south coast of France when a truck ploughed into crowds

:02:41. > :02:55.watching Bastille Day The fridge for Mr has declared three

:02:56. > :02:58.days of national mourning and said the country had been hit in its sole

:02:59. > :03:01.-- the French Prime Minister. 18 people are said to be

:03:02. > :03:03.in a critical condition. with confirmation that one

:03:04. > :03:07.Briton is among them. Witnesses say the truck was driven

:03:08. > :03:10.deliberately at speed, ramming into the crowd over a long

:03:11. > :03:13.distance - about two kilometres - on the seafront avenue

:03:14. > :03:18.the Promenade des Anglais, leaving a trail of dead and injured,

:03:19. > :03:24.including several children. Eyewitnesses say the truck struck

:03:25. > :03:26.several people near the Hotel Negresco,

:03:27. > :03:34.a well-known local landmark. The hotel's lobby was used as a

:03:35. > :03:43.clearing station to treat the wounded. The lorry then continued

:03:44. > :03:48.along the promenade. Police say there was an exchange of gunfire and

:03:49. > :03:56.it resulted in a Franco Tunisian being shot dead. President Hollande

:03:57. > :03:59.said he deplored what he declared a terrorist attack and declared a

:04:00. > :04:02.national state of emergency for a further three months.

:04:03. > :04:06.Jane Frances Kelly has this report. A truck approaches the crowds. A

:04:07. > :04:13.motorcyclist swerves to avoid it before the police opened fire. The

:04:14. > :04:17.vehicle speeds up. Eyewitnesses say it mounted the pavement, zigzagging

:04:18. > :04:22.as it went, indiscriminately mowing down everyone in its path.

:04:23. > :04:26.TRANSLATION: It was deliberate, he didn't lose control, it was really

:04:27. > :04:31.deliberate. He swerved from side to side to hit the maximum number of

:04:32. > :04:35.people. Families and friends who had gathered to watch the fireworks

:04:36. > :04:42.along the city's waterfront Paramount fled in panic through the

:04:43. > :04:46.streets. One tourist described the aftermath -- para promenade. We are

:04:47. > :04:53.not local, so we didn't really know where we were going. It seemed like

:04:54. > :04:56.everyone was running away from something, but just turning down

:04:57. > :05:01.alleys and looking for somewhere that might be safe. Pictures show

:05:02. > :05:04.people hugging each other, offering comfort, as they try to understand

:05:05. > :05:09.the horror of what they have just witnessed.

:05:10. > :05:14.TRANSLATION: There were people crying, people covered in blood

:05:15. > :05:18.everywhere. It is so sad. This morning, police have cordoned off

:05:19. > :05:21.the crime scene. The windscreen of the lorry is peppered with bullet

:05:22. > :05:26.holes. Eyewitnesses say when the truck came to a halt, the driver

:05:27. > :05:30.opened fire before being shot dead by officers. The attacker is thought

:05:31. > :05:33.to be a 31-year-old Tunisian born Frenchman, who was known to the

:05:34. > :05:38.police as a petty criminal but not for terrorist related offences.

:05:39. > :05:48.Experts say two years ago, and ices spokesman called on their followers

:05:49. > :05:51.to take action in the West. He said carry out any attacks, even if you

:05:52. > :05:54.are on your own. You can use a knife, you can use a car, you can

:05:55. > :05:57.use whatever you like and you don't have to have a rubber stamp from us

:05:58. > :06:01.was the message. And what happened was there were attacks in every

:06:02. > :06:10.country he mentioned and number of other countries. President: left the

:06:11. > :06:13.Palais this morning and is on his way for meetings. He vowed the

:06:14. > :06:19.country would not be destabilised by violence.

:06:20. > :06:22.TRANSLATION: We would like to tell the French people we will never go

:06:23. > :06:28.in. France will not give the terrorist threat. We have changed,

:06:29. > :06:32.times have changed and France should learn to live with terrorism. And

:06:33. > :06:40.this is the message of the Republic. We have to do show solidarity, calm

:06:41. > :06:45.and collected calmness. British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson

:06:46. > :06:49.expressed grave concern. Clearly, this represents a continuing threat,

:06:50. > :06:52.if this is a terrorism incident, as it appears to be, it represents a

:06:53. > :06:57.continuing threat to the whole of us in Europe and we must meet it

:06:58. > :07:00.together. Many remain in a critical condition in hospital. The city and

:07:01. > :07:05.France are in a state of shock and disbelief.

:07:06. > :07:11.We have got some pretty dramatic pictures to show you in a moment.

:07:12. > :07:16.These pictures were taken by a young Egyptian man, we were talking to him

:07:17. > :07:20.a few minutes ago, he was describing the scene, he was very close to it

:07:21. > :07:28.and he took these pictures at the very moment that police confronted

:07:29. > :07:38.the attacker. As you can see, the lorry is stationary by this point,

:07:39. > :07:43.at the end of the best part of two kilometres driving along the

:07:44. > :07:48.Promenade des Anglais. Police surrounded the lorry and shot dead

:07:49. > :07:53.the gunman. -- gunman. And that you can see, he was a very short

:07:54. > :08:00.distance away from all of this and he said to us that up until that

:08:01. > :08:05.point, he still thought, in shock, that this was an accident, that the

:08:06. > :08:10.driver had lost control of the lorry and it was at this point that he

:08:11. > :08:17.realised it was something entirely more sinister.

:08:18. > :08:22.We can go down to Nice and talk to our correspondent Andrew planned.

:08:23. > :08:28.What is the latest, tell us what is happening there right now.

:08:29. > :08:33.-- Andrew Plant. Good morning, there is an inevitably deep sense of

:08:34. > :08:36.unease here in Nice today. You can see there are lots of armed police,

:08:37. > :08:44.restrictions are people walking around this area are imposed with

:08:45. > :08:48.barriers, you can't go from one side of the street to the other. I am on

:08:49. > :08:52.my phone to talk to you so I can move around more freely, the media

:08:53. > :08:57.cameras have to be static in a corner. There is also, as you might

:08:58. > :09:01.expect, an awful lot of upset people here and I will do my best not to

:09:02. > :09:05.point my phone in their direction. I will turn the camera to show you

:09:06. > :09:09.what is going on, a lot of people have come to pay their respects.

:09:10. > :09:12.Hopefully you can see some of the crowds gathered here at the end of

:09:13. > :09:15.this promenade. This is where those fireworks were being held on

:09:16. > :09:21.Bastille Day last night and it was along this area that the truck drove

:09:22. > :09:27.at around half past ten through those people, killing more than 80

:09:28. > :09:32.people and injuring dozens more. Lots of people coming here today to

:09:33. > :09:37.begin to lay flowers, to start to pay their respects and try to come

:09:38. > :09:40.to terms with some of the events that happened here yesterday. I'm

:09:41. > :09:47.going to keep the camera facing that way. I will show you some of the

:09:48. > :09:51.things going on here right now. A lot of satellite dishes over there,

:09:52. > :09:56.inevitably there is a really big media presence in Nice, broadcasters

:09:57. > :10:02.from across the world have arrived. If I show you along here, what is

:10:03. > :10:08.normally a haven for holiday-makers, all feeling slightly surreal in the

:10:09. > :10:15.very heart Nice sunshine as we go past midday here, an hour ahead of

:10:16. > :10:18.you there in the UK. At the end of the road, they have recently put

:10:19. > :10:24.screens up past the palm trees, past the police, they have screened after

:10:25. > :10:27.the truck that was being driven last night.

:10:28. > :10:30.Andrew, I am sorry to interrupt, we hopefully will come back, we are

:10:31. > :10:36.going to take you to the Prime Minister Theresa May, who is

:10:37. > :10:39.responding to this attack. Yes, I am shocked and saddened by the

:10:40. > :10:43.horrifying attack in Nice last night. Our hearts go out to the

:10:44. > :10:47.French people and to all those who have lost loved ones or been

:10:48. > :10:51.injured. While the full picture is still emerging, it seems that at

:10:52. > :10:55.least 80 people are feared dead and many others have been injured. These

:10:56. > :11:01.were innocent victims enjoying a national celebration with their

:11:02. > :11:03.friends and families. We are working urgently to establish whether any

:11:04. > :11:09.British nationals were caught up in the attack. Our ambassador is

:11:10. > :11:11.travelling to Nice today with consciousness that and they will be

:11:12. > :11:17.doing all they can to help anyone affected. I have asked my deputy

:11:18. > :11:21.national security adviser to chair a COBRA meeting of senior officials,

:11:22. > :11:25.to review what we know and what we can do to help and I will speak to

:11:26. > :11:29.President Hollande today and make clear that the United Kingdom stands

:11:30. > :11:36.shoulder to shoulder with friends today, as we have done so often in

:11:37. > :11:39.the past. If, as we fear, this was a terrorist attack, then we must

:11:40. > :11:44.redouble our efforts to defeat these brutal murderers who want to destroy

:11:45. > :11:49.our way of life. We must work with France and our partners around the

:11:50. > :11:54.world to stand up for our values and our freedom. And Prime Minister,

:11:55. > :11:59.your Foreign Secretary said this morning that he thought one Briton

:12:00. > :12:03.was involved in those attacks. Can you give us any updates on how many

:12:04. > :12:10.Britons could be involved in this awful attack? Well, the full picture

:12:11. > :12:13.is still emerging and we are working... I am aware of the reports

:12:14. > :12:17.that there has been a Briton involved but we are working urgently

:12:18. > :12:21.to establish if there are British nationals involved, who have been

:12:22. > :12:25.caught up in this attack. And for people out there, how worried are

:12:26. > :12:31.you about copycat attacks in the UK and are you stepping up border

:12:32. > :12:36.security or taking any other action on British soil in light of the

:12:37. > :12:40.events in Nice? The threat level here in the United Kingdom is

:12:41. > :12:45.already at severe. That means that a terrorist attack is highly likely.

:12:46. > :12:49.Senior officials today will be reviewing what more we can do to

:12:50. > :12:54.ascertain whether there is any further action we need to take. But

:12:55. > :12:59.our security services and our police are ever vigilant and, as I say, the

:13:00. > :13:03.threat level here is already at a level that says and a terrorist -- a

:13:04. > :13:08.terrorist attack is highly likely. You were Home Secretary for six

:13:09. > :13:12.years and now you are Prime Minister. Do you think that we need

:13:13. > :13:15.more money to be spent on security and our security budget in light of

:13:16. > :13:20.what seems to be increasing terrorist attacks on the continent?

:13:21. > :13:23.Well, the Government is already making more funding available for

:13:24. > :13:27.the security services, which will enable them to increase their

:13:28. > :13:32.efforts. It's also making more funding available to the police for

:13:33. > :13:35.counter-terrorism policing. Of course, we always look at these

:13:36. > :13:40.issues. We have been living with a severe threat level for some time

:13:41. > :13:44.now, but today, our thoughts must be with those people in France, with

:13:45. > :13:47.the people of France and all of those who have lost their loved ones

:13:48. > :13:51.or have been injured in this attack. Thank you very much.

:13:52. > :13:58.So the new British Prime Minister Theresa May there responding to the

:13:59. > :14:02.attacks in Nice and also referencing the increasing likelihood of an

:14:03. > :14:06.attack within Britain as well. Those remarks coming into us just a few

:14:07. > :14:11.moments ago. Worth pointing out also, in Downing Street at the

:14:12. > :14:18.moment, the French flag is flying at half-mast. We have been bringing you

:14:19. > :14:23.the details that some children have been hit in these attacks. Some have

:14:24. > :14:28.been killed, dozens more injured and I wanted to speak now to Stephanie

:14:29. > :14:32.Simpson, who works for the paediatric hospital in Nice. Thank

:14:33. > :14:36.you for sparing us a few minutes of your time. I just wonder what the

:14:37. > :14:48.hospital has had to be dealing with in the last few hours. Hello,

:14:49. > :14:53.England. So right now, the hospital, as you know, we started a crisis

:14:54. > :15:02.team last night at 11pm, very quickly after the attack. Right now,

:15:03. > :15:11.we can say that we had 30 kids that were brought to our emergency room

:15:12. > :15:16.and unfortunately, we have already two deaths out of those 30 kids that

:15:17. > :15:19.were brought to the emergency room. And what is the condition of the

:15:20. > :15:30.others that you still have with you, Stephanie? Well, we have, you know,

:15:31. > :15:37.a great area of injuries and I am not in direct contact with the

:15:38. > :15:44.different departments here, but I know some are in light emergencies.

:15:45. > :15:54.The good thing is that we have enough doctors, last night, they

:15:55. > :15:59.came straightaway, so we have had great help from all of the hospitals

:16:00. > :16:10.around for equipment, etc. So in terms of logistics, we were ready,

:16:11. > :16:19.but then, this sort of injury, it is like damage control. Sorry to

:16:20. > :16:23.interrupt, we are just looking at pictures of the presidential plane,

:16:24. > :16:29.Francois Hollande has just arrived at Nice airport, very close to the

:16:30. > :16:34.city centre in any case, and he will no doubt be travelling down the

:16:35. > :16:39.road, maybe even down part of the Promenade des Anglais, to get to the

:16:40. > :16:42.scene of the incident. There is, of course, Stephanie, nothing more

:16:43. > :16:47.upsetting than when children are involved in an act of such

:16:48. > :16:50.barbarity. I know that you have to deal with the matter in hand, it is

:16:51. > :16:56.a professional operation, but this must be so difficult for staff and

:16:57. > :17:08.for family members. Yes, we were welcome families,

:17:09. > :17:15.siblings, families at large that are in shock. We also have some nurses

:17:16. > :17:19.and surgeons here that have had family members amongst the children,

:17:20. > :17:26.so everybody is very touched, everybody who lives near the

:17:27. > :17:31.hospital was watching the fireworks. I was myself with my family but

:17:32. > :17:41.thank God, decided to leave earlier. So it is a big trauma. We are just

:17:42. > :17:45.seeing pictures of Manuel Valls, the Prime Minister, meeting the

:17:46. > :17:55.president of the region, a senior French politician, and Bernard

:17:56. > :18:00.Cazenove, the interior minister, on the left. Understandably, they are

:18:01. > :18:08.coming in numbers for this terrible moment for Nice, indeed for France.

:18:09. > :18:13.They have arrived at the airport, along the coast from the Promenade

:18:14. > :18:16.des Anglais, as they will be further briefed on what the local police

:18:17. > :18:25.understand took place. They will get a better understanding of what has

:18:26. > :18:29.happened. We understand that President Hollande is on the way,

:18:30. > :18:36.perhaps in a separate presidential plane. The people you see with your

:18:37. > :18:42.backs to you, that is the interior Minister, per Bernard Cazenove, and

:18:43. > :18:47.Manuel Valls talking to one or two of the military officials in the

:18:48. > :18:55.area. Sorry to interrupt you, Stephanie, as we bring you the

:18:56. > :18:59.pictures from Nice. You are at the paediatric hospital, how many others

:19:00. > :19:03.have had to be called into action specifically to deal with children,

:19:04. > :19:10.or does it all fall to your hospital. Well, our foundation is

:19:11. > :19:22.the only paediatric hospital in the area, so we cover all of the

:19:23. > :19:32.departments in 1983 and 1984. We are the third largest emergency room in

:19:33. > :19:41.France, which means that it means we have do welcome a lot of... So in

:19:42. > :19:50.terms of numbers, you said you have 30 children, you are able to cope

:19:51. > :19:54.with that crisis. Yes, we call the parents that could be released this

:19:55. > :20:02.morning, to free up the rooms, so all of them could be freed up. And

:20:03. > :20:11.to clarify, how many children do you still have with you in the hospital.

:20:12. > :20:16.I think around 20, but this number is not validated, I need to double

:20:17. > :20:22.check, but around 20. Obviously you are tied up in a critical part of

:20:23. > :20:25.the response operation, if I can put it that way, but as a local

:20:26. > :20:36.resident, I can't imagine how this feels for you. Yes, I am a very new

:20:37. > :20:45.resident as well, so it is a shame. We've before the European

:20:46. > :20:49.Championships, we created this response team a few months ago and

:20:50. > :20:58.we hoped obviously not to have to experience that from here but now we

:20:59. > :21:07.are experience it. The foundation is a privately owned foundation and

:21:08. > :21:12.was, I think one of the children Valladolid first children's hospital

:21:13. > :21:16.created in France back in 1888 -- one of the first children's

:21:17. > :21:24.hospitals. It is a very important hospital here for the people and for

:21:25. > :21:29.the people of Nice. Thank you very much your time, Stephanie Simpson,

:21:30. > :21:31.from the Lenval paediatric hospital in Nice.

:21:32. > :21:38.You can still see on the screen, these pictures from Nice airport,

:21:39. > :21:41.the plane carrying the French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has just

:21:42. > :21:45.arrived there in the last few moments, he is alongside the French

:21:46. > :21:50.interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, they have taken part in various

:21:51. > :22:02.national security and defence meetings in Paris, and now in in

:22:03. > :22:08.Nice at the scene of the horrific attack, a lorry driven by a

:22:09. > :22:13.31-year-old Franco Tunisian man who lived in Nice, he ploughed through

:22:14. > :22:18.crowds of people out in the evening to celebrate Bastille Day.

:22:19. > :22:21.Obviously, the details precisely how it happened, who was involved, they

:22:22. > :22:25.are still coming in but we have heard from the Prime Minister and

:22:26. > :22:33.the president saying an additional 10,000 reservists will be called

:22:34. > :22:37.upon, together with and gendarmes and the state of emergency in

:22:38. > :22:42.France, which has been in place since the attacks in November in

:22:43. > :22:45.Paris, has now been extended for a further three months, just coming up

:22:46. > :22:51.to the point at which it was going to be over. That has been extended

:22:52. > :22:56.for a further three months. What they call operation Sentinel is back

:22:57. > :23:00.at the fullest alert as France tries to come to terms with another

:23:01. > :23:06.attack, another one but a different one again, a different sort of

:23:07. > :23:08.attack, further signs of the levels of brutality that various

:23:09. > :23:16.perpetrators of these crimes are prepared to go to.

:23:17. > :23:19.We can talk now to Natalie, who was on the seafront promenade with her

:23:20. > :23:25.husband when the attack took place. Thank you for talking to us and

:23:26. > :23:29.taking the time after the horrific events of only 12 hours ago. Tell us

:23:30. > :23:38.how you are feeling and what you saw. I am feeling right now very,

:23:39. > :23:45.very sad. It is just... Yesterday evening, I was able to do but today,

:23:46. > :23:53.I am crying. We were having dinner, with my husband, and as the service

:23:54. > :23:57.was slow, so long when the fireworks began, we quit the table to cross

:23:58. > :24:02.the promenade and watch these wonderful fireworks. Because we

:24:03. > :24:07.didn't finish our dinner, just at the end of the fireworks, we went

:24:08. > :24:12.back into the restaurant and three minutes later, this truck came and

:24:13. > :24:18.went on the people who were just at the place we were at. It was

:24:19. > :24:23.horrible and after 30 seconds, we heard shotguns and everybody was

:24:24. > :24:30.running everywhere, trying to find comfort or security place inside the

:24:31. > :24:36.restaurant. Then my husband and I crossed right away the promenade

:24:37. > :24:42.back, because there were people on the sidewalk and I stayed with one

:24:43. > :24:54.hour with two women holding their hands. One was holding her leg, the

:24:55. > :24:59.truck drove on it, the flesh was on both side of the tibia, her foot was

:25:00. > :25:07.broken, holding just by the flesh, it was horrible. The other woman was

:25:08. > :25:12.bleeding crazily. There was one dead guy, we put a tablecloth from the

:25:13. > :25:19.restaurant on him. There were two other children. There were about ten

:25:20. > :25:23.people, eight or nine people injured around us, but we had never realised

:25:24. > :25:30.that there were so many other people injured and we couldn't understand

:25:31. > :25:34.why the ambulances were so long to come. We stayed with those two

:25:35. > :25:41.people, those two girls, for a good hour.

:25:42. > :25:48.You describe an absolutely horrific scene and you ran back towards it,

:25:49. > :25:52.obviously your instinct was to help. I mean, at this stage, when he ran

:25:53. > :25:55.back across the road, did you realise that this was an attack

:25:56. > :26:01.rather than some sort of dreadful accident? I realised it because of

:26:02. > :26:07.the shotgun. Without it, I would have thought it was a crazy driver

:26:08. > :26:15.or an accident, but as soon as we heard the shot we knew it was a

:26:16. > :26:21.terrorist attack. But I just don't know, to tell you the truth, how I

:26:22. > :26:25.have been able to do this, how I have been able to stay for one hour

:26:26. > :26:32.with those women, because usually, when I am seeing blood, I fall down,

:26:33. > :26:39.I do not stand blood. And I was surrounded by blood and right now,

:26:40. > :26:47.I've just, I always see the picture of the leg of this woman. I am quite

:26:48. > :26:57.sure she will be amputate. I don't see how she can go out of it. I

:26:58. > :27:02.don't know how I do this. My husband said, I am hearing shotguns, let's

:27:03. > :27:06.leave and I said, no, you are crazy, I am staying. I don't know, just

:27:07. > :27:12.being able to stay for one hour and I am not sure I will be able to do

:27:13. > :27:17.it again. Well, you were incredibly brave, comforting those victims. I'm

:27:18. > :27:26.sure you would love to find out what has happened to them. I know one is

:27:27. > :27:31.called Claire, the one who in my opinion is going to lose her leg. I

:27:32. > :27:36.am going to wait seven days and try and find her. She is going to stay

:27:37. > :27:40.at the hospital for a long time. I don't know anything about the other

:27:41. > :27:44.people, because I stayed with those two girls. I stayed on my knees for

:27:45. > :27:50.one hour. Holding with my left hand, the woman was really bleeding and on

:27:51. > :27:56.my right with my right hand, the woman with her leg broken, all the

:27:57. > :28:00.flesh out. Horrible, it was horrible. I have never seen

:28:01. > :28:08.something like this. What has been so unbelievable, it is the speed. In

:28:09. > :28:13.less than five seconds, when the promenade was completely packed with

:28:14. > :28:20.people, in five seconds, it was empty. People ran crazy everywhere

:28:21. > :28:24.and this, it was empty, like the desert, except for those people

:28:25. > :28:36.still lying on the sidewalk. Natalie, where are you from? I am

:28:37. > :28:40.from France. We have been living in Nice for four years. It is a

:28:41. > :28:47.beautiful and very great city and we enjoy our life here, our life is

:28:48. > :28:55.really fantastic. And our life will go on, but one must say that really,

:28:56. > :29:02.it was a terrible, terrible time. And something else that I haven't

:29:03. > :29:07.seen personally, because I was bent on those women, never looked around

:29:08. > :29:13.me, my husband saw two middle Eastern boys, 20, 21 years old,

:29:14. > :29:19.putting down the American flag. Can you believe this? When there were

:29:20. > :29:27.people dying, there were some young putting down the flag. I find this

:29:28. > :29:31.terrible. Natalie, thank you so much for talking to us. Do take care

:29:32. > :29:39.after the dreadful events that you have witnessed in the last 12 hours

:29:40. > :29:44.or so, Natalie, who helped and stayed with two victims of the Nice

:29:45. > :29:48.attack for at least an hour last night.

:29:49. > :29:51.Just reflecting on some of the concerned, as she pointed out,

:29:52. > :30:01.referring to a couple of Middle Eastern men. Let's go back to Nice

:30:02. > :30:03.airport, because we see, this is, we understand, the presidential plane.

:30:04. > :30:06.We saw the Prime Minister arrived just a few moments ago along with

:30:07. > :30:10.his Interior Minister numbers in the ruck. It means they

:30:11. > :30:15.have the players out on the defensive line. Jamie Roberts moves

:30:16. > :30:28.a yard through the tackle. Jonathan Davies.

:30:29. > :30:33.right. Leigh Halfpenny from full-back. Wales do have the

:30:34. > :30:39.penalty. They never made any ground, that is still the 22 but the reward

:30:40. > :31:17.is a penalty. This is perhaps where patients comes in,

:31:18. > :31:23.mourning in France in response to this attack. -- a reminder. The

:31:24. > :31:27.16th, 17th and 18th of July, three days of national mourning across

:31:28. > :31:30.France. And we heard our security correspondent Frank Gardner tell us

:31:31. > :31:35.a short while ago that he would expect President Hollande to

:31:36. > :31:44.redouble France's efforts to pursue its efforts to deal with terrorism

:31:45. > :31:50.abroad, of course we don't know, we haven't got any confirmation that

:31:51. > :31:56.this attack has been carried out by so-called Islamic State, or inspired

:31:57. > :31:59.by so-called Islamic State, although that is a strong suspicion, as

:32:00. > :32:03.investigators work to try to find out more about the background of the

:32:04. > :32:09.attacker. But Frank Gardner saying to us earlier that he thinks that

:32:10. > :32:13.France will simply continue with and strengthen its efforts to deal with

:32:14. > :32:18.sources of terrorism. And there you see President Hollande, with his

:32:19. > :32:22.Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, at Nice airport.

:32:23. > :32:26.And he has, of course, a lot of symbolic, political and important

:32:27. > :32:30.support from around the world. We have heard from President Obama,

:32:31. > :32:33.Angela Merkel, British Prime Minister Theresa May saying that the

:32:34. > :32:38.United Kingdom will stand shoulder to shoulder with France against, as

:32:39. > :32:43.she called them, brutal murderers. Just with the caveat that that is

:32:44. > :32:47.indeed a terrorist attack, and people are making that point, there

:32:48. > :32:51.is a small conditional caveat by many of the responses coming in. But

:32:52. > :32:53.President Hollande, Francois Hollande, did say that the attack

:32:54. > :33:06.was what he called and -- an undeniable terrorist

:33:07. > :33:09.characteristic. We are just seeing a couple of

:33:10. > :33:19.reports now from French media that the attacker has been identified as

:33:20. > :33:23.a man who lived locally. We had heard that this 31-year-old man

:33:24. > :33:30.driving the lorry which ploughed through those crowds last night

:33:31. > :33:34.lived in Nice. He was module French Tunisian nationality. And we heard

:33:35. > :33:41.from our diplomatic correspondent Caroline Hawley that he is reported

:33:42. > :33:44.to have been identified by his thriving license, mobile phone and

:33:45. > :33:51.credit card, which were found inside the lorry. The regional president of

:33:52. > :33:55.Nice said that he had been picked up on security cameras boarding the

:33:56. > :34:01.track in the hills of Nice and then driving it down to the seafront

:34:02. > :34:05.promenade. The regional president saying that this attack was not

:34:06. > :34:09.prepared alone, that there was a chain of complicity that needed to

:34:10. > :34:13.be uncovered, and certainly that will be one of the lines of

:34:14. > :34:20.investigation, just to find out whether this individual was acting

:34:21. > :34:29.as a so-called lone wolf, or was there a chain of people that led up

:34:30. > :34:32.to him carrying out this attack. You are watching BBC News, let's remind

:34:33. > :34:34.you of the main developments on the breaking news that we have for you

:34:35. > :34:35.this morning. A lorry was driven for over

:34:36. > :34:38.a mile through crowds celebrating Bastille Day,

:34:39. > :34:40.including families watching a fireworks display,

:34:41. > :34:44.50 children are in hospital. The driver was shot dead by police

:34:45. > :34:48.after producing a gun. He was a 31-year-old

:34:49. > :34:54.Franco-Tunisian man. French reports have identified him

:34:55. > :34:59.as Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel. Two American citizens were killed,

:35:00. > :35:06.and one British person was hurt. France declares three days

:35:07. > :35:21.of national mourning. Valls has arrived in Nice, as has

:35:22. > :35:23.President Hollande. And well Valls said that France had been struck at

:35:24. > :35:25.its national soul. We will not give in to

:35:26. > :35:28.the terrorist threat. and France should learn

:35:29. > :35:36.to live with terrorism. President Hollande says

:35:37. > :35:40.the terrorist nature of the attack is undeniable -

:35:41. > :35:43.he extends the state of emergency and mobilises military reserves,

:35:44. > :35:49.as border checks are stepped up. The attack is condemned

:35:50. > :35:51.around the world. In Moscow, a minute's silence

:35:52. > :35:55.is held at US-Russia talks. In London, the new Foreign Secretary

:35:56. > :36:06.gave his reaction. Prime Minister Theresa May has been

:36:07. > :36:09.giving her reaction as well. I will speak to President Hollande today

:36:10. > :36:13.and make clear that the United Kingdom stands shoulder to shoulder

:36:14. > :36:22.with France today, as we have done so often in the past. Embassies and

:36:23. > :36:25.official buildings have begun flying flags at half-mast, including at Ten

:36:26. > :36:27.Downing Street, while flowers are being left at the French Embassy in

:36:28. > :36:36.London. As we said, President Hollande has

:36:37. > :36:43.arrived in Nice, he is already on his way now into the city itself. We

:36:44. > :36:45.have got a camera in the back of the cavalcade, the presidential

:36:46. > :36:50.cavalcade. It is really a pretty short journey, these are live

:36:51. > :36:54.pictures, a fairly short journey into the city itself, which takes

:36:55. > :36:58.you almost automatically, actually, to the Promenade des Anglais. What

:36:59. > :37:06.is he going to witness when he gets there? We can speak to Andrew Plant,

:37:07. > :37:12.who was on the Promenade des Anglais. Yes, it goes past midday

:37:13. > :37:16.here in Nice, the sun was blazing down, making the events of last

:37:17. > :37:19.night seem even more surreal. This is anything but a normal day in

:37:20. > :37:24.Nice, and it is worth saying again that because the media are so-called

:37:25. > :37:32.and off, pending on one side, we cannot move freely for obvious

:37:33. > :37:37.reasons. -- the media are so cordoned off. You can see the

:37:38. > :37:42.world's media has arrived, lots of armed police on the streets of Nice.

:37:43. > :37:45.I should tell you that there are, perhaps inevitably, an awful lot of

:37:46. > :37:50.very upset people, so I will try not to deliberately filmed them at

:37:51. > :37:54.least, not interrupt their grief. But also a lot of people have come

:37:55. > :37:59.down to pay their respects, to make some sort of sense of what happened

:38:00. > :38:03.here last night. I would just take you around here, excuse the jerky

:38:04. > :38:08.camera movements, but just to give you an idea of what is going on on

:38:09. > :38:12.the streets here in Nice. There has been a lot of people coming to pay

:38:13. > :38:20.their respects over the last hour or so. And you can see there are a lot

:38:21. > :38:24.of flowers just beginning to build up on the ground there. They have

:38:25. > :38:31.cordoned off this street, we are probably about 250 metres from where

:38:32. > :38:35.the truck came to a rest here yesterday at about 10:30pm, and you

:38:36. > :38:40.may just be able to see, at the end of the street, police in the last 45

:38:41. > :38:45.minutes have put up those white screens near the police car there.

:38:46. > :38:49.That is where those terrible events of yesterday unfolded, the track is

:38:50. > :38:57.still there. I could see it earlier with bullet holes in the screen. --

:38:58. > :39:04.truck. Police guarding that blockade there. And you can see people

:39:05. > :39:08.dressed for the beach here, the sun sparkling off the sea only about 15

:39:09. > :39:12.metres over my shoulder, but there is no-one down on the beach today.

:39:13. > :39:21.There is a real sense of unease here in Nice. No-one feeling like they

:39:22. > :39:25.are in holiday mood. Andrew, just give us a little bit of a sense, the

:39:26. > :39:29.Promenade des Anglais is a long road, isn't it? We know the lorry

:39:30. > :39:34.went for the best part of two kilometres, you are at the very end

:39:35. > :39:39.closest to the town, I think, is that right? Sorry, you will have to

:39:40. > :39:43.repeat that, it is quite noisy. Just trying to get a sense of the

:39:44. > :39:52.geography, from where the truck is. The Promenade des Anglais is a long

:39:53. > :39:54.road, and you are, I think, at the end of the promenade? That is

:39:55. > :39:58.exactly right, yes. It carries on over my shoulder down that way, the

:39:59. > :40:04.geography of yesterday's Benh Zeitlin the other direction, because

:40:05. > :40:09.the truck came from a there. -- yesterday's events are up in the

:40:10. > :40:13.other direction. We are told are travelled for a long way before it

:40:14. > :40:18.came to a rest. We know the death toll stands at over 80, lots more

:40:19. > :40:24.people injured too. Just trying to avoid people who have clearly come

:40:25. > :40:29.to flowers here. But, yes, that is the geography of the scene. I am

:40:30. > :40:33.told it would be much busying here normally today, even though it is

:40:34. > :40:41.pretty busy, but a lot of people clearly staying away from the scene

:40:42. > :40:44.today. -- much busier. And presumably anyone you speak to is

:40:45. > :40:50.just struck with disbelief, Andrew, this is just not what any of us are

:40:51. > :40:55.used to experiencing, expecting, certainly not seeing or witnessing.

:40:56. > :40:59.Everything is sectioned off. I'm so sorry, could you repeat that again,

:41:00. > :41:03.please? I think we are struggling to get through to Andrew, we got a

:41:04. > :41:07.clear picture as to the situation down on the scene at the moment,

:41:08. > :41:15.this is our steady shot, if you like. You can see in the background

:41:16. > :41:18.where the vehicle, where the lorry itself is just behind the screened

:41:19. > :41:21.off area there. We could see it clearly an hour or so ago with the

:41:22. > :41:27.20 odd bullet shots through the window, through the windscreen

:41:28. > :41:31.there, a very vivid picture for us, which has been, I suppose,

:41:32. > :41:35.mercifully removed, as the police intensify the level of

:41:36. > :41:39.investigation. It will obviously be of the highest order. It has been

:41:40. > :41:44.passed to the Paris prosecutor's office now to be treated at the

:41:45. > :41:47.highest level, a matter of state. The French president, Francois

:41:48. > :41:51.Hollande, along with his Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, they are now

:41:52. > :41:56.both in Nice, they have finished their journey into the city from the

:41:57. > :42:04.airport, and I'm sure they will be emerging somewhere around the scene

:42:05. > :42:11.of this picture in due course. Well, I think we can go now to an

:42:12. > :42:19.interview we had earlier with an eyewitness to the attack. He is an

:42:20. > :42:22.Egyptian on holiday in Nice, we saw some of the footage that he filmed

:42:23. > :42:28.on his phone earlier, dramatic footage of the police shooting the

:42:29. > :42:31.attacker. He was just a short distance away at the time. Let's

:42:32. > :42:37.listen now to what he told us. And suddenly we heard screaming

:42:38. > :42:39.loudly, a lot of people screaming, and I saw a big truck

:42:40. > :42:44.just coming in front of me. And it just stopped one and a half

:42:45. > :42:48.metres just in front of me. And he was smashing all the people

:42:49. > :42:55.on his way under the truck. And me and someone just a few

:42:56. > :43:01.metres beside, we thought it was an accident, and that's why

:43:02. > :43:06.we were screaming at the driver I was waving to him, I could see him

:43:07. > :43:14.very clearly, actually, and he was moving in the car

:43:15. > :43:21.in a very nervous way. We thought he had lost control

:43:22. > :43:24.of the wheels and of the brake, he just pulled out a black girl

:43:25. > :43:34.from under the truck. and I saw him picking up something

:43:35. > :43:43.that looked like a cellphone. I thought maybe

:43:44. > :43:46.he will the ambulance. Suddenly, when he saw the police

:43:47. > :43:50.coming towards him, they were behind me,

:43:51. > :43:55.because I was facing the window of this car,

:43:56. > :43:59.and they were coming behind me, and he started to shoot

:44:00. > :44:07.through the window, to the police. And at that moment,

:44:08. > :44:10.one of the French officers, he just yelled at me, screamed,

:44:11. > :44:15.and he pushed me away. I realised that something was wrong,

:44:16. > :44:20.something wrong was happening, so I just stepped back

:44:21. > :44:24.for like four metres, and I didn't know what I was doing,

:44:25. > :44:28.except I just took out my phone, my cellphone, and I started

:44:29. > :44:32.filming the gun shooting. and they kept shooting him

:44:33. > :44:37.until they were sure he was dead. I saw him dead already,

:44:38. > :44:40.I saw his head outside the window of the truck,

:44:41. > :44:53.and the French police officer, We wanted to bring you the latest

:44:54. > :44:57.pictures from what appeared to be the emergency operation room within,

:44:58. > :45:02.probably, police headquarters in Nice. On one side of the table, the

:45:03. > :45:05.French president, along with this Prime Minister to the right, the

:45:06. > :45:10.interior minister to the left, the camera roving for a moment to where

:45:11. > :45:14.it wants to be. But the point being that now, once again, the focus is

:45:15. > :45:18.very much on the president, and I suppose to a certain extent of those

:45:19. > :45:24.pictures of a president being seen to be taking charge, to be taking a

:45:25. > :45:29.role as soon as possible down in Nice at the heart of this operation.

:45:30. > :45:33.Accompanied, of course, by the French Prime Minister, by the

:45:34. > :45:38.interior minister as well, these senior leaders from the French

:45:39. > :45:41.government there on the ground in Nice to express their sympathy

:45:42. > :45:47.there, their solidarity, as David was saying, to show that they are

:45:48. > :45:53.taking control in this situation. We know that up to 10,000 additional

:45:54. > :46:00.troops, reservists, are being mobilised. It is Operation Sentinel,

:46:01. > :46:06.to bolster security in the wake of this horrific attack in Nice. And

:46:07. > :46:13.the French Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, saying just a little earlier

:46:14. > :46:21.that France will not allow itself to be disrupted by attacks like this,

:46:22. > :46:26.but saying also, alongside that, that France needs to learn to live

:46:27. > :46:32.with terrorism. The disruption is being felt across

:46:33. > :46:35.Europe, we have heard from the London mayor, even, saying that they

:46:36. > :46:40.will be reviewing their own security arrangements in London in the light

:46:41. > :46:43.of the attack there. We have heard from Belgium, from Germany. The

:46:44. > :46:48.German authorities are pointed out that they are raising their security

:46:49. > :46:54.levels and all the crossings across France. That is quite a number, but

:46:55. > :46:59.that is roads, rail, airports as well, and they say they are doing it

:47:00. > :47:04.in conjunction, of course, with the French authorities. We have had

:47:05. > :47:07.response from around the world, from President Obama, from President

:47:08. > :47:14.Putin as well, and many more besides, reflecting on what they all

:47:15. > :47:19.agree, provided it is indeed a terrorism attack, President Hollande

:47:20. > :47:24.says it has the undeniably characteristics of a terrorist

:47:25. > :47:32.attack, and a particularly brutal one at that. A short while ago the

:47:33. > :47:35.French ambassador to the UK, Sylvie Bermann, she emerged at the embassy

:47:36. > :47:38.in central London to thank the British Prime Minister and the

:47:39. > :47:49.government for their support after the attack. Good morning. There was

:47:50. > :47:53.a tragedy last night in Nice. It is the third time that France has been

:47:54. > :47:56.struck by a terrorist attack, and all of our thoughts are with the

:47:57. > :48:00.victims and the families of the victims. I would like to thank the

:48:01. > :48:09.British authorities, because they expressed their sympathy and their

:48:10. > :48:14.solidarity, from the Prime Minister and Boris Johnson, the Foreign

:48:15. > :48:18.Secretary, who celebrated with us at the French residence. And I think

:48:19. > :48:23.also because it is the 14th of July, it is a very symbolic day, it is the

:48:24. > :48:29.symbol of freedom, liberty, the Galaxy and fraternity, and I think

:48:30. > :48:38.that is what the terrorists also wanted to fight. -- the -- egality.

:48:39. > :48:43.I would like to say to you, in case there are British people worrying

:48:44. > :48:52.about British people in needs, we have an emergency phone number,

:48:53. > :48:57.which I will read. It is 0033-4317-5646. The French

:48:58. > :49:02.ambassador to the UK. Meanwhile, the French Prime Minister, Manuel Valls,

:49:03. > :49:05.who is in Nice along with President Hollande, before leaving Paris

:49:06. > :49:07.earlier, he said France had to learn to live with terrorism but it would

:49:08. > :49:11.not allow itself to be stabilised. TRANSLATION: Following the authority

:49:12. > :49:16.of the head of state, we have held a restricted

:49:17. > :49:18.Cabinet meeting, bringing together security

:49:19. > :49:22.and defence ministers. France has once again been hit

:49:23. > :49:25.by a terrorist act, a cowardly act, and during these very

:49:26. > :49:35.difficult times, we are... and with the families who have been

:49:36. > :49:40.affected by this tragedy. And we're thinking about

:49:41. > :49:42.the city of Nice, where we are going

:49:43. > :49:46.to visit shortly. Terrorism, and we have been

:49:47. > :49:50.saying it for a long time, is a threat that is

:49:51. > :49:55.weighing heavily on France, and which will carry on

:49:56. > :49:59.to weigh on France. I have on many occasions said,

:50:00. > :50:02.unfortunately, that we would have such incidents

:50:03. > :50:07.and there will be others. We are facing a war that

:50:08. > :50:13.terrorism has started against us. The objectives of the terrorists

:50:14. > :50:19.is to instil fear and panic. France, and the President

:50:20. > :50:25.of the Republic, has reminded us it is a big country,

:50:26. > :50:27.a big democracy, that will not allow

:50:28. > :50:34.itself to be destabilised. The emergency and the urgency

:50:35. > :50:37.that we have talked about is to welcome the families,

:50:38. > :50:46.and to look after the bodies and The whole of the services

:50:47. > :50:54.of the state are being deployed to help the families,

:50:55. > :50:55.and to accompany them during these particularly

:50:56. > :50:57.difficult times. The President of the Republic

:50:58. > :50:59.has called for national mourning Out of respect for the victims,

:51:00. > :51:16.the flags will fly at half-mast along the Republic offices,

:51:17. > :51:23.official offices in the Republic. we would like to tell the French

:51:24. > :51:32.people that we will never give in. France will not give in

:51:33. > :51:37.to the terrorist threat. We have changed, times have changed,

:51:38. > :51:41.and France should learn to live with terrorism, and this

:51:42. > :51:47.is the message of the Republic. We have to show solidarity, calm,

:51:48. > :51:53.and collected calmness. France, once again,

:51:54. > :51:56.has been hit in its soul, They wanted to attack

:51:57. > :52:05.the unity of the French nation. The only diginified and responsible

:52:06. > :52:10.response that France can give is that France will remain loyal

:52:11. > :52:15.to the spirit of the 14th of July, a united and assembled

:52:16. > :52:18.France around its values. This is the only demand

:52:19. > :52:38.that we are asking today. Manuel Valls, the French Prime

:52:39. > :52:41.Minister. 84 people have been killed, and the identity of those

:52:42. > :52:45.people is going to come in gradually, but the US State

:52:46. > :52:50.Department has said that there are two Americans. They have not named

:52:51. > :52:59.them, but a local Texan sports club has put something up on its Facebook

:53:00. > :53:05.page, referring to a man and his 11-year-old son among the victims.

:53:06. > :53:08.Well, with us now is Dr John Greason, a terrorism expert at

:53:09. > :53:13.King's College London. It is interesting that the Belgians,

:53:14. > :53:16.reacting to this this morning, had said that they had been preparing

:53:17. > :53:22.all were aware that such an attack might be carried out on Belgian

:53:23. > :53:26.soil. This is incredibly shocking, though, isn't it, the nature of this

:53:27. > :53:30.attack, and slightly surprising? Yes, the nature and method of

:53:31. > :53:34.attack, not the fact that an attack has been carried out, but the nature

:53:35. > :53:40.of this, against a crowd, indiscriminate murder of young

:53:41. > :53:43.children, as well as adults. With limited understanding of what the

:53:44. > :53:47.purpose of this is, other than to make a signal. Although I do think

:53:48. > :53:50.what you have mentioned about the Belgians is significant, it just

:53:51. > :53:54.demonstrates the importance of intelligence sharing not just at a

:53:55. > :53:57.national level, but across the European countries to face this

:53:58. > :54:02.challenge. Countries believe they have intelligence that there may be

:54:03. > :54:06.an attack on sale, I think this needs to be better coordinated. Just

:54:07. > :54:16.on that point, how good is that intelligence sharing? I'm afraid the

:54:17. > :54:20.answer is that it is a complex subject, countries find it difficult

:54:21. > :54:24.to share intelligence from different agencies down to their police

:54:25. > :54:27.forces, and countries find that difficult as well. It is partly to

:54:28. > :54:31.do with sources, with arrangements with other countries. If you get

:54:32. > :54:34.intelligence from a country with which you have a privileged

:54:35. > :54:37.relationship, you cannot share that with a third country unless the

:54:38. > :54:41.country that gave you the intelligence gives you permission.

:54:42. > :54:51.All of these things slow it down, and many people talk about

:54:52. > :54:53.terrorists having greater strategic agility, they can move faster. That

:54:54. > :54:56.is a pretty bleak assessment as to how far intelligent can get us. When

:54:57. > :54:59.you hear France talking about things needing to change, if we are going

:55:00. > :55:02.to be faced with this sort of terrorism in Europe and North

:55:03. > :55:05.America, things will have to change in how these countries do normal

:55:06. > :55:08.business, and I'm afraid to say that we normally talk about the

:55:09. > :55:12.preservation of normality - normality is good to change for most

:55:13. > :55:20.of these countries. Thank you very much for your time. We now know, at

:55:21. > :55:25.lunchtime today, that the latest details on this horrific attack in

:55:26. > :55:33.Nice last night, that 84 people have been killed, around 50 injured, 18

:55:34. > :55:37.of them critically. We have heard from the paediatric hospital in Nice

:55:38. > :55:41.that 39 children and teenagers were brought to it as a result of the

:55:42. > :55:45.attack, two of those children have died. A crisis team has been set up

:55:46. > :55:51.with psychologist on hand to help parents and siblings. The attacker

:55:52. > :55:54.has been named as Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel.

:55:55. > :55:57.The French Prime Minister summed it up, France should learn to live with

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