:00:07. > :00:12.Good morning. The nation will shortly pause to observe a minutes'
:00:13. > :00:18.silence in memory of those who died when fire broke out five days ago at
:00:19. > :00:22.Grenfell Tower in Kensington in North London. The Metropolitan
:00:23. > :00:27.Police say they believe 79 people lost their lives in the fire, the
:00:28. > :00:31.worst in our recent history. Police say conditions inside the building
:00:32. > :00:34.were indescribable and the challenge facing them, as they searched the
:00:35. > :00:38.tower to recover those people still inside and return them to their
:00:39. > :00:42.loved ones, could take weeks to complete. The nationwide silence is
:00:43. > :00:46.being held across all Government buildings and around the UK people
:00:47. > :00:49.are gathering to show their respect to those who died and all those
:00:50. > :03:19.affected by the fire. The nation then observing a minutes
:03:20. > :03:23.silence for those who lost their lives and all those affected by the
:03:24. > :03:29.fire in Grenfell Tower in West London. Police now say 79 people are
:03:30. > :03:33.believed to have died. There'll be further coverage from Grenfell Tower
:03:34. > :03:37.on BBC One and the BBC News Channel and we'll bring you any updates from
:03:38. > :03:51.the police and emergency services as soon as we have them.
:03:52. > :03:56.The Prime Minister is chairing a meeting of the Grenfell recovery
:03:57. > :03:59.tower Task Force. We'll bring you updates throughout the morning.
:04:00. > :04:04.Another community in shock this morning. One man dead and ten people
:04:05. > :04:08.injured after a van was driven into worshippers outside a mosque in
:04:09. > :04:11.Finsbury park. A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted
:04:12. > :04:14.murder. Theresa May's held a meeting of the cobra emergency committee in
:04:15. > :04:17.response to that attack, now described as a terrorist attack. We
:04:18. > :04:19.can go live to the scene now and join my colleague, Ben Brown who is
:04:20. > :04:32.there. This is BBC News, I'm Ben Brown live
:04:33. > :04:35.in Finsbury park where police are investigating the third terror
:04:36. > :04:40.attack in London in three months. Once again, a vehicle was used to
:04:41. > :04:44.target people as a van was driven at speed into a crowd of Muslim
:04:45. > :04:49.worshippers close to a mosque. One person has died, ten have been
:04:50. > :04:53.injured. By standers pin down the terror
:04:54. > :04:59.suspect beforehanding him over to the police. When he was running, he
:05:00. > :05:03.said he was going to kill more people because he was going like
:05:04. > :05:09.this with his hand. I asked him, why do you do that, you know, why?
:05:10. > :05:16.Innocent people. He goes, I want to kill Muslims.
:05:17. > :05:47.A 48-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
:05:48. > :05:53.Good morning to you from Finsbury Park in North London where one man
:05:54. > :05:59.has died and ten people have been injured. Two of them seriously after
:06:00. > :06:06.a man drove a van into worshippers at a mosque near here where we are.
:06:07. > :06:10.The van hit people after mounting a pavement. Just after Midnight at the
:06:11. > :06:15.Muslim welfare house mosque close to the Finsbury Park mosque. A
:06:16. > :06:20.48-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
:06:21. > :06:25.Scotland Yard and the Home Secretary Amber Rudd both saying that it's
:06:26. > :06:28.being treated as a terrorist incident, Counter-Terrorism officers
:06:29. > :06:33.are here at the scene investigating right now. The Mayor of London,
:06:34. > :06:41.Sadiq Khan, said the attack is "an assault on all of our shared values
:06:42. > :06:45.of tolerance, freedom and respect. " We are going to hear from some
:06:46. > :06:49.eyewitnesses who spoke to my colleague Joanna Gosling earlier.
:06:50. > :06:52.We were here last night, came out for prayers, there was loads of
:06:53. > :06:57.Muslims on the street. The van ploughed into them and then the
:06:58. > :07:00.drive was eventually dragged out of the car on to the floor, people were
:07:01. > :07:04.hitting him and punching with him because they were angry with his
:07:05. > :07:07.actions. The Imam came out and said, do not hit him, pin him down and
:07:08. > :07:13.call the police, which is the right thing to do. He's given us good
:07:14. > :07:16.words of advice but still as Muslims today, we are victimised and store
:07:17. > :07:20.owe typed and ladies and gentemened as terrorists when we are not.
:07:21. > :07:24.Muslims don't feel safe walking the streets of Britain. Were you in the
:07:25. > :07:28.group of people around the man when he was taken out of the van? Yes.
:07:29. > :07:35.What was that like? Was he trying to stay in the van? It was a struggle
:07:36. > :07:40.to get him out. Eventually he was pinned to the floor and people were
:07:41. > :07:44.beating him up because they were angry residents about his actions.
:07:45. > :07:47.Once he was pinned down, the police came but the response time was
:07:48. > :07:51.actually too long. I spoke to the police on the other side of the
:07:52. > :07:55.police and asked why it took so long when the London Bridge incident it
:07:56. > :08:00.was four minutes' response time, Lee Rigby response time 6 minutes, it
:08:01. > :08:05.took far longer today and the Metropolitan Police have to answer
:08:06. > :08:10.that, why it took so long. I have video footage of a Somalian woman on
:08:11. > :08:14.the floor covered in blood. The ambulance took 40 minutes to come. I
:08:15. > :08:17.asked the policeman and he said, I can't disclose any information. I
:08:18. > :08:22.spoke to another officer and he said to me, it was because it was
:08:23. > :08:26.reported as a collision, a driver's crashed, therefore it wasn't a
:08:27. > :08:32.priority. When did people think that it was something other than an
:08:33. > :08:35.accidental collision? Everyone was confused thinking maybe the driver
:08:36. > :08:39.slipped up, crashed, using his phone or something. When we saw the
:08:40. > :08:43.violence, he was building up speed towards us to plough into us, it was
:08:44. > :08:49.a reaction of what happened to London Bridge. It was a premeditated
:08:50. > :08:53.attack. He specifically picked Finsbury Park, predominantly a
:08:54. > :08:56.Muslim area, highly populated, he knew exactly what time prayers were
:08:57. > :09:00.finishing and he came out and specifically run the Muslims over.
:09:01. > :09:03.It's not fair on Muslims, we are already victimised as it is, we
:09:04. > :09:07.don't feel safe, who is going to want to go the mosque now looking
:09:08. > :09:11.behind our backs just to practise our religion. We are living in fear
:09:12. > :09:18.and we shouldn't have to live like this.
:09:19. > :09:23.We have heard from the Commissioner of The Metropolitan Police, Cressida
:09:24. > :09:26.Dick saying London is a city of many faiths and nationalities, an attack
:09:27. > :09:30.on one community is an attack on us all. She said terrorists would not
:09:31. > :09:36.succeed in their attempts to divide us and to make us live in fear. That
:09:37. > :09:40.was from the Commissioner of The Metropolitan Police, Cressida Dick,
:09:41. > :09:44.also from the deputy assistant commissioner Neil Basu saying there
:09:45. > :09:47.would be extra police patrols in all communities in London, particularly
:09:48. > :09:50.though those marking Ramadan. Let's get this report on the latest from
:09:51. > :10:09.Richard Galpin. Hit by a van which ploughed into the
:10:10. > :10:13.crowd, leaving many casualties. He basically drove on the pavement,
:10:14. > :10:19.coming straight towards all the Muslims and he, as he was coming to
:10:20. > :10:23.them, he hit all of them. I was coming from the shops and I saw a
:10:24. > :10:28.large crowd of people on the palement. I learnt after, a van that
:10:29. > :10:33.was standing out by the traffic lights, was the van that mowed the
:10:34. > :10:38.people down. The crowd managed to catch the van driver, pinning him
:10:39. > :10:42.down before he could escape. These pictures appear to show the
:10:43. > :10:47.suspect being detained by the police. This is being treated as a
:10:48. > :10:51.terrorist attack and the Counter Terrorism Commander is
:10:52. > :10:55.investigating. This was an attack on London and all Londoners and we
:10:56. > :11:01.should all stand together against extremists whatever their cause. In
:11:02. > :11:08.the aftermath of the attack, some started praying on the streets. This
:11:09. > :11:12.is the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Amongst the community here, there
:11:13. > :11:15.have been some accusations that the authorities were slow to call this a
:11:16. > :11:18.terrorist attack. But this is being denied by the
:11:19. > :11:23.Government. It was treated immediately as a
:11:24. > :11:27.suspected terrorist attack. We must allow the police to deal with the
:11:28. > :11:30.facts and they will make sure that they madeth make those facts
:11:31. > :11:33.available as soon as they can. Our priority must be to support the
:11:34. > :11:38.people who've been the victims of this and to make sure the
:11:39. > :11:42.investigation is done with all due speed and professionalism.
:11:43. > :11:47.This morning, the area remains sealed off, as the police
:11:48. > :11:53.investigation continues. Already, there are plans to increase security
:11:54. > :11:57.around mosques. Each borough commander across London, there are
:11:58. > :12:01.32 boroughs we are talking about, we'll make sure there are additional
:12:02. > :12:06.uniformed officers around mosques. Some of that is from people being
:12:07. > :12:10.brought back off leave to make sure we are keeping everyone safe.
:12:11. > :12:13.Towards the end of the month of Ramadan, it's the highest part of
:12:14. > :12:17.the month with more and more worshippers going to mosque,
:12:18. > :12:20.particularly in the evenings. We don't want to make anybody think
:12:21. > :12:24.they can't go about their life through feeling vulnerable or
:12:25. > :12:28.scared. Muslim leaders say there have been many incidents of
:12:29. > :12:32.Islamophobia, following the attacks in Manchester and London, by
:12:33. > :12:34.Islamist extremists. What's happened in Finsbury park now is by far the
:12:35. > :12:52.worst. Richard Galpin, BBC News. Counterterrorist officers are here.
:12:53. > :12:54.Let's talk to the former head of the national Counter-Terrorism Serious
:12:55. > :13:00.Fraud Office who joins me at the scene. What will Counter-Terrorism
:13:01. > :13:05.officers be doing now? It's similar to other attacks, similar to other
:13:06. > :13:08.attacks, therefore they need to get as much evidence as they can about
:13:09. > :13:11.what's happened at the scene, witnesses and things like that, but
:13:12. > :13:15.also the forensics that go along with that. The most important thing
:13:16. > :13:19.again is, just because this person was in the van on his own, it
:13:20. > :13:23.doesn't mean he's acted alone. It's important they track down anyone
:13:24. > :13:26.linked to him in any way. Luckily they've arrested him, they've got
:13:27. > :13:30.him in custody, so that should be easy to find out. Also of course his
:13:31. > :13:33.motives because that's very important from the terrorist
:13:34. > :13:38.perspective. So trying to find out if it's a wider conspiracy, not just
:13:39. > :13:43.him acting alone? Yes, and to all intents and purposes, at the moment,
:13:44. > :13:47.it looks like it's him acting alone, but we don't know, there may be
:13:48. > :13:51.other people involved in and and how did he come to do this. There is a
:13:52. > :13:55.big difference between a lone actor and a person who is part of a wider
:13:56. > :14:00.network and it's important for the police to identify that, tie that
:14:01. > :14:04.down and get won the job of taking the man to court. We have seen a
:14:05. > :14:08.vehicle, it seems, attacking pedestrians. It appears to be the
:14:09. > :14:13.new method, if you like, of terrorist attacks? Of course, it's
:14:14. > :14:18.very simple and it's an easy thing to copy cat. Men and you could do
:14:19. > :14:23.out in a car and decide to do that if we were inclined. Very difficult
:14:24. > :14:26.for the police to do anything about unless they have prior intelligence
:14:27. > :14:30.about that and we have a lot of people out there that might be so
:14:31. > :14:33.inclined. Unfortunately, it's an easy thing to do and it's something
:14:34. > :14:37.we might have to deal with in the future. How stretched do you think
:14:38. > :14:40.Scotland Yard would be? Right now they have had so much to deal with
:14:41. > :14:46.in the last few months, the Westminster attack, the London
:14:47. > :14:52.Bridge attack, the Grenfell Tower as well. Police have been put on the
:14:53. > :14:56.Grenfell Tower issue so I don't know how the Government can go ahead with
:14:57. > :14:59.the further cuts coming up for the police perhaps this year, really the
:15:00. > :15:03.Government needs to tell the police here and now that those cuts cannot
:15:04. > :15:07.go ahead, in fact they need more money to keep us safe, because the
:15:08. > :15:12.police, as we stand, are so stretched. Part of the reason
:15:13. > :15:17.perhaps that the response was a bit lax here overnight was because these
:15:18. > :15:22.officers have been working so hard all this last few weeks. Scotland
:15:23. > :15:24.Yard saying they were on the scene pretty quickly within ten minutes
:15:25. > :15:30.certainly of the first call. Chris Phillips, thank you very much
:15:31. > :15:33.indeed, former head of the Counter-Terrorism office. Norman
:15:34. > :15:38.Smith has the latest from Downing Street. Norman.
:15:39. > :15:42.Thank you very much. That cobra meeting bringing together all the
:15:43. > :15:46.emergency services, Intelligence Services, local authority, all the
:15:47. > :15:50.key players. I think that has now actually finished because we saw the
:15:51. > :15:54.Home Secretary Amber Rudd leaving a short time ago. They'll have been
:15:55. > :15:58.trying to work out - if you look behind me actually, they are
:15:59. > :16:01.bringing out a lectern, that will be for the Prime Minister to make a
:16:02. > :16:07.statement I would think in the next sort of 15 minutes or so. An
:16:08. > :16:11.important statement from the Prime Minister and how she calibrates this
:16:12. > :16:17.because she's faced a lot of criticism in the wake of the
:16:18. > :16:21.Grenfell Tower disaster, so she'll want to catch the rights mood and
:16:22. > :16:25.strike the right note. Obviously a very different response to the
:16:26. > :16:28.aftermath of the London Bridge attack when you will remember the
:16:29. > :16:33.Prime Minister gave that speech about enough is enough and she's set
:16:34. > :16:38.out a series of measures to confront Islamist extremism. Now of course
:16:39. > :16:41.she's having to address terrorism directed, it seems, at the Muslim
:16:42. > :16:47.community. Then she was talking about a series of policy
:16:48. > :16:50.initiatives, for example, beefing up TPims, the security orders placed on
:16:51. > :16:55.terror suspects. She talked about trying to make it easier to deport
:16:56. > :17:00.people even suggesting maybe opting out of elements of the Human Rights
:17:01. > :17:09.Act to make it easier to pursue such policies. Today a different sort of
:17:10. > :17:11.statement, the Prime Minister will want to stress terrorism is
:17:12. > :17:15.terrorism from wherever it comes, but also a moment when I expect she
:17:16. > :17:20.will want to offer some words of reassurance because this is the
:17:21. > :17:28.fourth terrorist incident we have had in the last three months, the
:17:29. > :17:33.third in London. So just to try and reassure people that they can still
:17:34. > :17:38.go about their daily lives. The other area which of course is going
:17:39. > :17:41.to be a focus of a lot of attention will be resources, are there
:17:42. > :17:45.sufficient police resources to deal with this threat we now seem to
:17:46. > :17:50.face? The Home Secretary saying earlier that she did not believe
:17:51. > :17:54.resources were an issue and the emergency services were satisfied
:17:55. > :17:57.with what they have got. We know in the wake of the London Bridge attack
:17:58. > :18:02.there was a degree of criticism of the fact that 20,000 police officers
:18:03. > :18:05.have been cut over the period of the last five or six years, although the
:18:06. > :18:10.Home Secretary is believed now the home, emergency services have
:18:11. > :18:16.sufficient resources but she said that would be kept under review.
:18:17. > :18:25.Norman, we have had this succession of terrible events, London,
:18:26. > :18:27.Westminster Bridge, London Bridge, the Grenfell Tower disaster, and now
:18:28. > :18:35.this, that would be enough to test the mettle of any Prime Minister and
:18:36. > :18:41.any government. Sure, these are extraordinarily
:18:42. > :18:44.difficult, turbulence and daunting times and unsettling times. That's
:18:45. > :18:49.why I say it is so imperative the Prime Minister manages to strike the
:18:50. > :18:53.right tone, that as Prime Minister she manages to give voice, perhaps,
:18:54. > :19:00.yes, to the sense of horror and grievance, but also just to reassure
:19:01. > :19:03.people that our way of life can continue, people can go about their
:19:04. > :19:08.daily business, the police are putting an additional resources,
:19:09. > :19:11.just to strike the right national mood. Interesting too I thought that
:19:12. > :19:16.Sajid Javid, the Communities Secretary has been down to Finsbury
:19:17. > :19:21.Park. He said it was his first instinct is to go down there. We
:19:22. > :19:24.don't know whether Theresa May will go there but Sajid Javid has been
:19:25. > :19:28.there. Also interesting trying to reassure people there about the
:19:29. > :19:32.police response about which there has been criticism on the ground
:19:33. > :19:36.describing it as thorough and professional. He said the police had
:19:37. > :19:40.been on the site within a couple of minutes, which would be a very swift
:19:41. > :19:44.response indeed, but clearly he feels the police did manage to
:19:45. > :19:50.respond very, very swiftly to the first reports of the attack in
:19:51. > :19:52.Finsbury Park. We should get more details about the Government's
:19:53. > :20:00.overall response shortly from the Prime Minister.
:20:01. > :20:05.OK, Norman, thank you. Norman Smith, Assistant political editor. Some
:20:06. > :20:08.police officers in the vicinity responded almost immediately and
:20:09. > :20:16.others within about ten minutes of the first emergency cool, at
:20:17. > :20:21.12:21am. The community secretary Sajid Javid has been here and Jeremy
:20:22. > :20:26.Corbyn was here overnight for a considerable amount of time saying
:20:27. > :20:30.he was shocked by this horrific and cruel attack and is expected to come
:20:31. > :20:34.a bit later on to attend prayers at the Finsbury Park Mosque just down
:20:35. > :20:36.the road from here. Let's talk to somebody who witnessed the aftermath
:20:37. > :20:37.of what happened here. Joining me now is the BBC
:20:38. > :20:48.reporter Abdirahim Saeed. He works for the BBC World Service.
:20:49. > :20:54.Tell us what you saw and heard. I arrived just what looks like after
:20:55. > :20:58.the incident has happened. I was driving from central London into
:20:59. > :21:02.North London to my home address and by pure coincidence I saw a huge
:21:03. > :21:06.amount of police cars and ambulances trying to get through, and just like
:21:07. > :21:10.others I made my way, opened the way for them and we came through and I
:21:11. > :21:15.passed the incident, or the location of what happened on my left hand
:21:16. > :21:19.side and immediately looked to my left and realised something was not
:21:20. > :21:23.right. There were just too many people shouting, disorganised, and I
:21:24. > :21:28.immediately chose to park my car at the next left and came back perhaps
:21:29. > :21:34.30 steps, walked back, and I saw one of the most horrific scenes. I saw a
:21:35. > :21:43.couple of bodies motionless, not moving. Two men, their clothes were
:21:44. > :21:51.bloodied. I spoke to people and I said, what did you see? More than
:21:52. > :21:55.one person confirmed. One person said I saw everything from a to Z.
:21:56. > :21:59.He said, do you see that white van behind us? There was a white van
:22:00. > :22:03.just across the bodies and I was told eventually there were eight
:22:04. > :22:07.bodies minimum on the ground and one person told me, can you see that
:22:08. > :22:12.Van? That van took an immediate swerve left and mowed into a group
:22:13. > :22:19.of people. This was a side road, dead-end, there is a local cafe. I
:22:20. > :22:22.asked more than once, I was told that the Islamic community normally
:22:23. > :22:26.congregates there. To give you context, there are a couple of
:22:27. > :22:29.mosques around here, the nearest one is 30 seconds away. Remember that
:22:30. > :22:33.this is the last few days of Ramadan, a lot of people would have
:22:34. > :22:36.been leaving that mask, performing their last prayers in the evening
:22:37. > :22:40.very late in the day and probably they have either finished, or they
:22:41. > :22:44.were taking a break at the cafe, so there were lots of people milling
:22:45. > :22:45.around that area and it was very busy.
:22:46. > :22:52.So the people you saw lying on the floor, what we know was ten people
:22:53. > :22:56.were injured and two seriously, say the police command one man who died.
:22:57. > :23:01.He was already being treated, we are told, perhaps for a heart condition,
:23:02. > :23:06.that's when the van struck the people they're treating that man.
:23:07. > :23:10.The actual suspected attack happened not in front of the two mosques,
:23:11. > :23:15.although the two mosques are very nearby, a few seconds walk, they
:23:16. > :23:20.happened a few seconds walk from the side road at the cafe. What more
:23:21. > :23:24.than one person told me is there was an old gentleman, lots of people
:23:25. > :23:27.described him as an Asian man, he wasn't feeling well and he collapsed
:23:28. > :23:31.at the side road. A lot of people who were just leaving the mosque and
:23:32. > :23:34.other people, Muslims and non-Muslims, tried to help him so
:23:35. > :23:40.lots of people were gathered around him. And I have been told, just as
:23:41. > :23:43.that happened that van just drove through. You've been here for quite
:23:44. > :23:47.a few hours. What do you sense is the mood of the community? How much
:23:48. > :23:53.anger is there? I didn't leave immediately, I stayed there for an
:23:54. > :23:57.hour, until the police got there, but when I arrived there was no
:23:58. > :24:00.police cordoned, people were dealing with the immediate aftermath and I
:24:01. > :24:06.had access to the scene. Fortunately there were people already performing
:24:07. > :24:11.CPR, and also by that time a few of the ambulance crews had also
:24:12. > :24:15.arrived. I spoke to people, I spoke to many people. Some saw exacting
:24:16. > :24:20.what happened and some were quite worried. Lot people were quite
:24:21. > :24:25.shocked initially, has this really happened here? A lot of people just
:24:26. > :24:29.had their mouths covered, gasping, can't believe what just happened,
:24:30. > :24:33.and later on people started opening up. Given the circumstances, the
:24:34. > :24:36.number of people that were on the ground, given the fact a lot of
:24:37. > :24:42.people said I did not see it myself but came soon after, a lot of people
:24:43. > :24:46.said the man was apprehended. We have confirmation on the police but
:24:47. > :24:52.his identity has not been confirmed. A lot of people said he was a white
:24:53. > :24:55.man. Given that, given what he uttered, I did not see that and I
:24:56. > :25:04.did not hear him but he uttered anti-Muslim, antique Islamic, --
:25:05. > :25:07.anti-Islamic, Islamophobic slogans. Things moved from shock into
:25:08. > :25:15.condemnation. This should not be happening. A lot of people said they
:25:16. > :25:17.are looking for swift and fast condemnation from politicians. They
:25:18. > :25:24.should not be waiting. Very good to talk to you, thank you for being
:25:25. > :25:29.with us, Abdirahim Saeed, who saw the aftermath of what happened,
:25:30. > :25:32.works for the BBC World Service. We spoke to Abdul-Rahman earlier, who
:25:33. > :25:35.said the man from the van, the driver, said kill all Muslims and
:25:36. > :25:41.this eyewitness was one of several people who hit him and pinned him to
:25:42. > :25:49.the ground and a local imam came and told them just keep hold of the man
:25:50. > :25:53.until the police arrived. The imams appealed for calm. That's the latest
:25:54. > :25:57.from here at the scene. We know that after this attack which is being
:25:58. > :26:02.treated as a suspected terror attack by counterterror officers who are
:26:03. > :26:05.here on the scene, one man has died, ten are injured, two seriously. We
:26:06. > :26:11.expect a statement from the Prime Minister at about 11:30am. This is
:26:12. > :26:19.the scene in Downing Street. We will bring that to you live as soon as
:26:20. > :26:21.the Prime Minister appears from No 10 with the statement on this latest
:26:22. > :26:24.terror attack to strike the United Kingdom, the fourth in four months.
:26:25. > :26:30.That's it from Finsbury Park, back to Rebecca in the studio.
:26:31. > :26:36.Thank you, Ben. More on the Grenfell Tower fire now. Police say 79 people
:26:37. > :26:38.are either dead or missing and presumed dead. Home affairs
:26:39. > :26:41.correspondent Dominic De McDonagh Cassie Arnie is at new Scotland
:26:42. > :26:46.Yard. We have heard from the Metropolitan Police within the last
:26:47. > :26:50.hour. It has been a very grim update.
:26:51. > :26:58.It has indeed, it's been really quite grim, Commander Stuart Cundy
:26:59. > :27:03.in charge of this incredibly large operation, 250 investigators now
:27:04. > :27:07.working on this operation to try and recover the remains of those killed
:27:08. > :27:13.in this fire. And also secure the scene and understand what has
:27:14. > :27:16.happened. A little while ago Commander Stuart Cundy came out to
:27:17. > :27:20.give us an update on those figures. Let's hear what he said. Over the
:27:21. > :27:25.last 48 hours are investigators have been working tirelessly and working
:27:26. > :27:36.with families to establish just how many we believe are missing from
:27:37. > :27:41.Grenfell Tower. And as of this morning, I'm afraid to say there are
:27:42. > :27:53.now 79 people who we believe are either dead or missing, and I have
:27:54. > :27:58.sadly to presume are dead. Of that 79 we have formally identified five
:27:59. > :28:07.people. We are supporting the families and loved ones of each of
:28:08. > :28:11.those 79. With the agreement of the families and the coroner, once we
:28:12. > :28:20.have confirmed identities of those who have died we will be releasing
:28:21. > :28:25.their names. Now, sadly, for many families they have lost more than
:28:26. > :28:32.one family member and my heart truly goes out to them.
:28:33. > :28:35.Commander Stuart Cundy there. You got a sense of the emotion in his
:28:36. > :28:40.own voice. He went into Grenfell Tower on Saturday morning with his
:28:41. > :28:44.team and he told us that he simply couldn't find the words to describe
:28:45. > :28:49.the devastation he saw in there, the absolutely appalling scene from flat
:28:50. > :28:52.to flat, from floor to floor as he went through the building from top
:28:53. > :28:55.to bottom to get a sense of how awful this fire had been. I will
:28:56. > :28:59.give you a sense of how difficult it is now going to be for the police to
:29:00. > :29:04.move forward in terms of identifying all of the 79, and potentially other
:29:05. > :29:09.victims as well, if these figures change. The police have already
:29:10. > :29:13.worked out that there may have to go abroad, they may have to try and
:29:14. > :29:17.retrieve dental records from overseas, quite simply because so
:29:18. > :29:21.many people who lived in Grenfell began their lives in another part of
:29:22. > :29:24.the world. That in itself will delay the investigation and enormous
:29:25. > :29:28.amount as well. The criminal investigation, this site is also
:29:29. > :29:32.very important, the police say they are looking at potentially all types
:29:33. > :29:35.of criminal offences and they are breaking the investigation down into
:29:36. > :29:38.three parts. They are going to be looking at how the building was
:29:39. > :29:42.managed and maintained down the years, its fire safety record and
:29:43. > :29:48.the procedure is there to manage if I should an emergency happen and
:29:49. > :29:51.finally the reconstruction and refurbishment of Grenfell Tower
:29:52. > :29:54.which has been at centre of a great deal of speculation over the last
:29:55. > :29:57.few days. Commander Stuart Cundy said it would be a far-reaching
:29:58. > :30:00.investigation but he would not put a figure on how long it will take. In
:30:01. > :30:05.terms of the recovery of the victims that take many weeks. Thanks,
:30:06. > :30:09.Dominic, Dominic Casciani, home affairs correspondent.
:30:10. > :30:13.Footage has emerged of firefighters on their way to the blaze last
:30:14. > :30:20.Wednesday morning and some viewers may find this distressing.
:30:21. > :30:37.Jesus, Christ, mate. If that has got a lot of people in it... EXPLETIVE
:30:38. > :30:48.Jesus Christ. My God! There's kids in there!
:30:49. > :30:59.Its towering Inferno, isn't it? How is that possible? It has jumped up
:31:00. > :31:05.all the way along the flats, look. How the EXPLETIVE is that possible?
:31:06. > :31:07.How has that happened? Footage of firefighters on their way to the
:31:08. > :31:12.blaze at Grenfell Tower last Wednesday morning. More now on the
:31:13. > :31:13.attack at Finsbury Park Mosque and let's returned to my colleague Ben
:31:14. > :31:21.Brown who is there. Thank you. We are expecting a
:31:22. > :31:24.statement in Downing Street in the next few minutes from the Prime
:31:25. > :31:28.Minister on this latest terror attack to hit the United Kingdom and
:31:29. > :31:33.to hit London as well. We'll bring that to you as soon as she appears
:31:34. > :31:37.out of Number Ten. But first of all, let's talk to Professor Andrew Silk
:31:38. > :31:41.here at the scene, director of terrorism studies at the University
:31:42. > :31:45.of East London. So, Andrew, we've got another attack, again using a
:31:46. > :31:50.vehicle, one person dead, ten injured. What are your thoughts
:31:51. > :31:54.about this attack? Well, it's the latest in a series of lethal
:31:55. > :31:58.incidents in the UK and I think one of the lessons that comes from it is
:31:59. > :32:03.just how easy it is to carry out fatal attacks. You don't need to
:32:04. > :32:07.acquire weapons, you don't need to make them, you just need a vehicle
:32:08. > :32:12.to go out and kill people. One of the concerns, of course, is the
:32:13. > :32:20.motivation this time seems to be more right-wing reactionary and that
:32:21. > :32:23.kind of feeds into the whole, if you want, extremists and means we are
:32:24. > :32:25.more likely to see more attacks than less and it ramps up the
:32:26. > :32:31.temperature. There is a fear that there is an element of copy cat in
:32:32. > :32:35.this isn't there, once you see a vehicle being used, you copy it?
:32:36. > :32:39.Yes, absolutely. In the UK it's not easy to get hold of firearms and
:32:40. > :32:42.weapons, that's something a lot of terrorist groups have struggled
:32:43. > :32:46.with. What we see now is, the solution is, use a vehicle, knives,
:32:47. > :32:48.something that you can acquire cheaply and quickly without
:32:49. > :32:55.attracting suspicion and then you can go out and carry out an attack.
:32:56. > :32:59.This isn't an Islamist motivated assault, this is coming from a
:33:00. > :33:04.completely different direction, but it's using the merits that have been
:33:05. > :33:07.used in other types of attacks and that's a real worry. The police
:33:08. > :33:11.investigating here will want to know whether this man was acting alone or
:33:12. > :33:16.was acting with others or with the help of others? Absolutely. It will
:33:17. > :33:20.be the same cape of questions like we were looking at with Manchester
:33:21. > :33:24.and Westminster, is this an isolated individual or someone with
:33:25. > :33:27.connection to a network. If it's right-wing extremism, there are more
:33:28. > :33:31.isolated individuals coming from that direction and don't have the
:33:32. > :33:35.same profile that we see with the Islamist attackers, so we'd expect
:33:36. > :33:38.some differences but it's still politically motivated violence, it's
:33:39. > :33:42.still going to be terrorism if that's what the agenda was by the
:33:43. > :33:46.perpetrator. The UK had gone for a number of years without any major
:33:47. > :33:53.attacks since 7/7 and we've had what, four in three or four months?
:33:54. > :33:56.Yes, this is a particularly bad period, arguely the worst since 2005
:33:57. > :34:03.when there were a lot of plots coming. There are big question marks
:34:04. > :34:08.over why is it so bad now, why is it happening one reason you could look
:34:09. > :34:13.at is Islamic state. Then there is the counterreaction from the far
:34:14. > :34:19.right which is either stirred up or feeding into it. The result is, as
:34:20. > :34:21.the violence gets worse, the likelihood of more attacks
:34:22. > :34:26.increases. It puts the Security Services under a lot of pressure.
:34:27. > :34:30.The Prime Minister's talked a lot about the dangers of hate online and
:34:31. > :34:35.trying to crack down on that. What is your view of that and what the
:34:36. > :34:39.authorities can do? The role of online in terms of driving
:34:40. > :34:43.radicalisation and extremism, it plays a role and is there in the
:34:44. > :34:46.background. In most cases we find there are real world issues
:34:47. > :34:52.happening, so it's friends, family, personal experiences and it's not
:34:53. > :34:55.just happening in somebody's bedroom while they're surfing the net.
:34:56. > :35:01.That's part of the problem but it's not, I would argue, the biggest
:35:02. > :35:07.part. Very good to talk to you, thank you very much. Cobra has been
:35:08. > :35:11.meeting. That is the Government's emergency committee which has been
:35:12. > :35:14.meeting or seems to be meeting pretty regularly sadly these days
:35:15. > :35:18.and we are going to hear very soon we think from the Prime Minister in
:35:19. > :35:24.Downing Street. Let's go to our assistant Political Editor, Norman
:35:25. > :35:28.Smith again. They've become almost routine, these cobra meetings? I'm
:35:29. > :35:32.afraid they have in recent weeks and months, Ben. They follow a familiar
:35:33. > :35:36.format of trying to pull together all the information that we know
:35:37. > :35:39.about these attacks and then two, I suppose, main elements, one is
:35:40. > :35:45.reassurance and the other is security. Obviously given this is
:35:46. > :35:49.the third terror attack in London in as many months, there will be a need
:35:50. > :35:55.to offer a sense of confidence that people can go about their daily
:35:56. > :36:00.lives, that business and work and everything continues as normal. At
:36:01. > :36:05.the same time, there has to be an awareness that additional security
:36:06. > :36:11.will be put in the right place. We heard from Sajid Javid saying
:36:12. > :36:17.there'll be a more visible profile jute side mosques. Amber Rudd
:36:18. > :36:22.flagging up too that there is money available to places of worship to
:36:23. > :36:27.apply for grants to improve the security around those premises. That
:36:28. > :36:31.is going to be continued. For those mosques and churches which feel for
:36:32. > :36:35.one reason or another that they are at risk. A lot of focus too I
:36:36. > :36:39.imagine will be on resources because, in the wake of the London
:36:40. > :36:43.Bridge attack, there was a lot of concern about whether cuts to police
:36:44. > :36:48.numbers had impacted on the ability of the police, forgot just to patrol
:36:49. > :36:54.the streets but to gather intelligence about potential
:36:55. > :36:57.threats. Then when we hear from the Prime Minister, interesting in a
:36:58. > :37:00.number of ways, one obviously is a lot of pressure on the Prime
:37:01. > :37:04.Minister to get the tone right, to strike the right note given that a
:37:05. > :37:09.good deal of the criticism she's faced in the wake of the Grenfell
:37:10. > :37:13.Tower, so there'll be an imperative on striking the right note to be
:37:14. > :37:17.suitably empathetic. Interesting too because the last time the Prime
:37:18. > :37:22.Minister spoke here in the wake of a terror attack, in the wake of London
:37:23. > :37:25.bridge, she set out a series of steps directed at Islamist extreme
:37:26. > :37:31.it. . She talked about trying to reduce the number of safe spaces for
:37:32. > :37:36.intolerance and extremism to breed and she talked about, in the public
:37:37. > :37:39.sector in particular, citing examples in schools and Local
:37:40. > :37:43.Government where she felt there would been far too much tolerance of
:37:44. > :37:49.extremism for too long. Today of course we have a different sort of
:37:50. > :37:55.terrorist attack, directed specifically at Muslims. Mrs May no
:37:56. > :37:59.doubt will want to we flect that and I imagine she will want to stress
:38:00. > :38:03.her belief that terrorism is terrorism wherever it comes from and
:38:04. > :38:07.whichever community it is directed against. Interesting too, Ben, to
:38:08. > :38:16.see whether the Prime Minister chooses to go down to Finsbury Park
:38:17. > :38:22.now we don't know. She didn't meet some of the relatives and survivors
:38:23. > :38:32.of the Grenfell Tower fire. We know Sajid Javid has been down to
:38:33. > :38:36.Finsbury Park, he said it was his first instinct to go down there.
:38:37. > :38:41.We'll see whether Mrs May goes down there. I would imagine that is
:38:42. > :38:48.something that is being thought through inside Number Ten.
:38:49. > :38:51.All right, Norman, back with you as soon as the Prime Minister emerges,
:38:52. > :38:55.of course, in treat. Let's in the meantime talk here at the scene in
:38:56. > :38:59.Finsbury Park where we know after this attack one person is dead, ten
:39:00. > :39:04.injured, two of them seriously, after the van was driven into a
:39:05. > :39:13.crowd of people close to a couple of mosques here. Let's talk to a member
:39:14. > :39:16.of an independent think-tank addressing issues of
:39:17. > :39:22.counterextremism. What are your thoughts after this terrible attack?
:39:23. > :39:29.I think the adjectives have run out, to be honest - tragic, sad, all of
:39:30. > :39:33.those. Thinking that we are still reeling from Grenfell, thinking of
:39:34. > :39:36.victims over there still waiting for answers and now everyone's turned
:39:37. > :39:40.away because of this tragedy in North London. It's a wake-up call. I
:39:41. > :39:46.think what today has proven is what we have been saying for years, that
:39:47. > :39:52.is that extremism has no colour, faith, creed. The victims aren't
:39:53. > :39:56.discriminated according to their faith, race and ethnicity and today
:39:57. > :40:00.is proof of that. Hopefully that will ring bells with the
:40:01. > :40:02.authorities, whether they be Government or the Counter-Terrorism
:40:03. > :40:07.strategists, whether they be the police force and the Security
:40:08. > :40:10.Forces. But it's about time that we realised once again all colours of
:40:11. > :40:15.the community come together today. That is how we can effectively fight
:40:16. > :40:18.this scourge on our society, with everyone coming totality. Once
:40:19. > :40:23.again, it's taken a tragedy such as this to bring people together, but
:40:24. > :40:27.it's a must that we bottle this and use this somehow. Is it your view
:40:28. > :40:30.that there's been rising Islamophobia in the United Kingdom
:40:31. > :40:35.in recent weeks and months? It's not me that is saying it, it's every
:40:36. > :40:38.single strand of study and research that's been carried out over the
:40:39. > :40:44.past ten years, that year on year there is a steep rise in
:40:45. > :40:49.Islamophobic tendencies and basically Islamophobia is racism of
:40:50. > :40:53.sorts. We manage to deal with the scourge of racism, or we thought we
:40:54. > :40:56.did, but this has taken on a different guise and claimed a
:40:57. > :41:01.different victim. The fight must be the same and again, the fight must
:41:02. > :41:07.be with a united front. Unfortunately for years now, where I
:41:08. > :41:10.feel we have gone wrong, is that we have seen the Muslim community -
:41:11. > :41:15.fine they are not all terrorists but there is sort of a dwell mark
:41:16. > :41:21.hanging or looming over them - that's problematic, you can't fight
:41:22. > :41:27.this fight against the fight and scourge against terrorism and
:41:28. > :41:31.extremism with a divided front. I'm hoping today is a wake-up call.
:41:32. > :41:34.Police say they'll mount extra patrols in London, particularly
:41:35. > :41:38.around the Muslim communities observing Ramadan and so on. Is that
:41:39. > :41:42.right and necessary in your view? I think it is necessary and it saddens
:41:43. > :41:45.me to say it's necessary. I would rather that we have a situation
:41:46. > :41:47.whereby communities police themselves and look after each
:41:48. > :41:54.other. I think that we have that. But in light of the recent attacks
:41:55. > :41:58.in London, as well as all the rest of the country, they've had it tough
:41:59. > :42:05.in the past few weeks, it seems like it's inevitable. Once again I think
:42:06. > :42:10.that is merely a patch, not a real treatment of the problem. The real
:42:11. > :42:12.treatment of the problem is to change our vision and outlook of the
:42:13. > :42:18.whole problem and how we deal with it. Very good to talk to you, thank
:42:19. > :42:22.you for your time, Anas. We are going to talk on the same
:42:23. > :42:27.theme really to Brendan Cox now, who is in our Westminster studio,
:42:28. > :42:33.husband of the late Jo Cox, the murdered MP killed a year ago.
:42:34. > :42:37.Brendan Cox, since Jo's death, so much horror and tragedy and just
:42:38. > :42:41.this here in Finsbury Park where we are now, just the latest instalment?
:42:42. > :42:47.Yes. And I think what we are seeing in all of these cases is that there
:42:48. > :42:51.is a handful of extremists from all different communities using all
:42:52. > :42:56.different idealogies and backgrounds to drive a hatred of the other. Our
:42:57. > :43:01.communities need to get much better at pushing that out. The hey
:43:02. > :43:06.tremendous that perve seen in the last day, the hatred that drove the
:43:07. > :43:09.attacks in Manchester and Birmingham, essentially they are the
:43:10. > :43:13.same hatred, these are people that hate the other, that don't believe
:43:14. > :43:17.that people of different backgrounds, faith and races should
:43:18. > :43:20.mix and what we need to show is that in fact we can, we do and, you know,
:43:21. > :43:23.over the weekend we saw tens of millions of people get together with
:43:24. > :43:27.their neighbours to celebrate the things that we have in common. We as
:43:28. > :43:30.a country I think need to get much better at noing that and showing
:43:31. > :43:38.frankly how much we do have in common.
:43:39. > :43:41.How do we do that? You are terrific in talking about this and you preach
:43:42. > :43:46.that message, but what else would you like society in general to do to
:43:47. > :43:49.promote those values? So I think it happens all the time, there are
:43:50. > :43:54.groups across the country who work on this day in day out. My son goes
:43:55. > :43:56.to the local Beaver group and, you know, there are people of all
:43:57. > :44:00.different back grounds there. I think one of the problems that we
:44:01. > :44:03.have at the moment is that the communities that bind us together,
:44:04. > :44:07.the institutions that used to bind us together, whether they're
:44:08. > :44:10.churches, pubs or working men's clubs or whatever, those are weaker
:44:11. > :44:15.than they have ever been, they don't do the job of bringing communities
:44:16. > :44:18.together in a way they once did. We have to rebuild that infrastructure
:44:19. > :44:22.that brings communities together so that events like we had over the
:44:23. > :44:25.weekend where people really did come together with their neighbours
:44:26. > :44:33.become the norm, not the exceptional. -- exception. Our kids
:44:34. > :44:36.are less likely to play out on the streets, that is an age we live in.
:44:37. > :44:40.We all worry about that but we have to do something about it. It's
:44:41. > :44:46.partly about the institutions but partly about us taking small, basic
:44:47. > :44:49.steps to knock on the door of a new neighbour when they move into the
:44:50. > :44:52.street to welcome them. Those things make a huge difference to the
:44:53. > :44:56.tightness of the communities we live in. When you live in tight, close
:44:57. > :45:04.communities, it's very hard for extremism to prosper.
:45:05. > :45:07.How worried are you that with all the recent attacks, so horrific
:45:08. > :45:13.that, we are becoming a less United kingdom, if you like, a more divided
:45:14. > :45:19.United Kingdom. My last guess was talking about relentless rises of
:45:20. > :45:23.Islamophobia? I think we are becoming an increasingly united
:45:24. > :45:27.country. I think if you look across social attitudes, we are
:45:28. > :45:30.increasingly tolerant to difference, whether that is difference on the
:45:31. > :45:34.basis of sexuality, race or religion, our country's becoming
:45:35. > :45:38.more tolerance. But what is happening, you are having a reaction
:45:39. > :45:43.against that at the extremes and I think what's happened in the last
:45:44. > :45:48.period is that those extremists, a tiny minority of our country, but
:45:49. > :45:52.they've been emboldened. The narrative that comes out of Trump
:45:53. > :45:56.and Le Pen that legitimizes that hatred means people are not growing
:45:57. > :46:00.in terms of the size of the population, but they are becoming
:46:01. > :46:03.more active and feeling that their narrative is more legitimate and
:46:04. > :46:07.they're feeling more confident to act on the narrative. I think this
:46:08. > :46:13.is the last gasp of the extremists, but it's not going to be something
:46:14. > :46:17.that disappears in the next few weeks or months. It's something we
:46:18. > :46:22.are going to have to endure but also to take on. Often in response to
:46:23. > :46:27.events like the attacks in Manchester or Birmingham, we ask,
:46:28. > :46:31.where did this ideaology and hey tremendous come from. In -- hatred
:46:32. > :46:36.come from. In response to ourselves as well, we need to ask ourselves
:46:37. > :46:40.the same questions. Of course, the natural human
:46:41. > :46:46.response after any attack is anger. You must have felt anger after Jo's
:46:47. > :46:56.death - how do you say to society, we need to channel that anger or,
:46:57. > :47:00.you know, somehow calm that anger? As you say, it is illegitimate human
:47:01. > :47:07.response to be angry in response to these horrific attacks. To be hugely
:47:08. > :47:10.sad about the impact it has on the family of the people affected, that
:47:11. > :47:13.is always my first thought, especially having been through what
:47:14. > :47:16.I have been through. We should not tell people not to be angry.
:47:17. > :47:20.Sometimes there is a narrative out there about respond to this with
:47:21. > :47:27.peace and love and I don't think that's true at all. I think we
:47:28. > :47:35.should be angry, the question is how we use that anger and I think we use
:47:36. > :47:37.it into microwaves. One is to make sure the security response is strong
:47:38. > :47:39.and powerful and police have resources, powers and information
:47:40. > :47:48.they need to crack down on extremists no matter where they come
:47:49. > :48:21.from. Secondly, we must use the anchor to challenge ourselves to do
:48:22. > :48:23.more to drive out the hatred. Anger is a powerful emotion, which just
:48:24. > :48:25.about how we channel it and I think there are very few of us in our
:48:26. > :48:27.lives who will come across a would-be terrorist, whether that's
:48:28. > :48:28.the type of person that might have committed last night's crime or the
:48:29. > :48:35.type of person that committed the crimes in Birmingham, Manchester or
:48:36. > :48:41.Westminster but lots of us will come across hatred and it is the hatred
:48:42. > :48:42.that breeds violence. Whether that's homophobia, Islamophobia, racism,
:48:43. > :48:44.anti-Semitism, all of us in every community can do more in our
:48:45. > :48:48.day-to-day conversations to drive it out. Thank you, Brendan Cox. I must
:48:49. > :48:56.interrupt you because the Prime Minister is speaking. This morning,
:48:57. > :49:29.our country work to the news of another terrorist attack on the
:49:30. > :49:36.streets of our capital city. The second this month, and every bit as
:49:37. > :49:39.sickening as those which have come before. It was an attack that once
:49:40. > :49:42.again targeted the ordinary and the innocent going about their daily
:49:43. > :49:42.lives. This time British Muslims, as they left a mosque, having broken
:49:43. > :49:43.their fast and prayed together at this sacred time of year. Today we
:49:44. > :49:44.come together as we have done before to condemn this act and state once
:49:45. > :49:44.again the hatred and evil of this kind will never succeed. The
:49:45. > :49:45.Government's emergency committee Cobra has just met and I can set out
:49:46. > :49:45.what we know about what happened and the steps that we are taking to
:49:46. > :49:46.respond. Just after 12:20am the Metropolitan Police received reports
:49:47. > :49:47.that a van had been driven into a crowd of people on Seven Sisters
:49:48. > :49:48.Road in Finsbury Park. Officers were in the immediate vicinity as the
:49:49. > :49:49.attack unfolded and responded within one minute. Police declared it a
:49:50. > :49:52.terrorist incident within eight minutes. One man was pronounced dead
:49:53. > :49:53.at the scene. Eight injured were taken to three separate hospitals
:49:54. > :49:57.while two were treated at the scene for more minor injuries. The driver
:49:58. > :50:02.of the van, a white man aged 48, was briefly detained by members of the
:50:03. > :50:08.public at the scene and then arrested by police. The early
:50:09. > :50:14.assessment by police is that the attacker acted alone. Our thoughts
:50:15. > :50:20.and prayers this morning are with the family and friends of the man
:50:21. > :50:24.who died, and those who were injured. On behalf of the people of
:50:25. > :50:27.London and the whole country I want to thank the police and emergency
:50:28. > :50:34.services once again for responding as they always do, with great
:50:35. > :50:39.professionalism and courage. Extra police resources have already been
:50:40. > :50:46.deployed and the police will continue to assess the security
:50:47. > :50:52.needs of mosques and provide any additional resources needed,
:50:53. > :50:57.especially during this final week before Eid, a particularly important
:50:58. > :51:07.time for the whole Muslim community. This was an attack on Muslims near
:51:08. > :51:11.their place of worship and like all terrorism in whatever form it shares
:51:12. > :51:15.the same fundamental goal. It seeks to drive us apart and break the
:51:16. > :51:19.precious bonds of solidarity and citizenship that we share in this
:51:20. > :51:26.country. We will not let this happen. When I stood here for the
:51:27. > :51:30.first time as Prime Minister last summer I spoke about our precious
:51:31. > :51:33.belief in the union, not just the bond between the four nations of the
:51:34. > :51:39.United Kingdom, but the bond between all our citizens every one of us,
:51:40. > :51:43.whoever we are and whether we are from. At the heart of that bond is a
:51:44. > :51:50.belief in the fundamental freedoms and liberties that we all cherish.
:51:51. > :51:56.The freedom of speech, the freedom to live how we choose, and yes, the
:51:57. > :52:02.freedom to practice religion in peace. This morning we have seen a
:52:03. > :52:05.sickening attempt to destroy those freedoms and to break those bonds of
:52:06. > :52:11.citizenship that define our United Kingdom. It is a reminder that
:52:12. > :52:17.terrorism, extremism, and hatred take many forms and our
:52:18. > :52:24.determination to tackle them must be the same whoever is responsible. As
:52:25. > :52:29.I said here two weeks ago there has been far too much tolerance of
:52:30. > :52:35.extremism in our country over many years, and that means extremism of
:52:36. > :52:40.any kind, including Islamophobia. That is why this government will act
:52:41. > :52:45.to stamp out extremist and hateful ideology, both across society and on
:52:46. > :52:51.the Internet, so it is denied a safe space to grow. It is why we will be
:52:52. > :52:55.reviewing our counterterrorism strategy and ensuring the police and
:52:56. > :53:00.security services have the powers they need. It is why we will
:53:01. > :53:04.establish a new commission for countering extremism as a statutory
:53:05. > :53:09.body to help fight hatred and extremism in the same way as we have
:53:10. > :53:21.fought racism, because this extremism is every bit as insidious
:53:22. > :53:25.and destructive to our values and our way of life and we will stop at
:53:26. > :53:30.nothing to defeat it. Today's attack falls at a difficult time in the
:53:31. > :53:31.life of this city following on from the attack on London Bridge two
:53:32. > :53:34.weeks ago, and of course the unimaginable tragedy of Grenfell
:53:35. > :53:40.Tower last week, on which I will chair another meeting of ministers
:53:41. > :53:44.and officials later today. But what we have seen throughout, whether in
:53:45. > :53:48.the heroism of the ordinary citizens who fought off the attackers at
:53:49. > :53:51.London Bridge, the unbreakable resolve of the residents in
:53:52. > :53:55.Kensington, or this morning the spirit of the community that
:53:56. > :54:01.apprehended this attacker, is that this is an extraordinary city of
:54:02. > :54:05.extraordinary people. It is home to a multitude of communities that
:54:06. > :54:12.together make London one of the greatest cities on earth. Diverse,
:54:13. > :54:18.welcoming, vibrant, compassionate, confident and determined never to
:54:19. > :54:23.give in to hate. These are the values that define this city. These
:54:24. > :54:28.are the values that define this country. These are the values that
:54:29. > :54:44.this government will uphold. These are the values that will prevail.
:54:45. > :54:49.You have been listening to the Prime Minister Theresa May condemning this
:54:50. > :54:55.latest terror attack in the capital saying that London is an
:54:56. > :54:59.extraordinary city of extraordinary people, and announcing this as an
:55:00. > :55:03.attack on the innocent who had been praying together at this sacred time
:55:04. > :55:09.of Ramadan, condemning this as an act of hatred and evil and hatred
:55:10. > :55:16.and evil of this kind, she said, will never succeed and she praised
:55:17. > :55:22.the bravery of those who had stepped into detain the driver of the van
:55:23. > :55:26.who had attacked people. She said one man had died, pronounced dead at
:55:27. > :55:30.the scene, eight others had been injured and taken to three different
:55:31. > :55:36.hospitals and two received minor injuries and were treated at the
:55:37. > :55:41.scene. Let's go to our assistant political editor who was listening
:55:42. > :55:45.to that. Once again the Prime Minister having to condemn another
:55:46. > :55:48.act of terrorism. Interesting that in her very first remarks she
:55:49. > :55:52.condemned this as an act of terrorism, a different type of
:55:53. > :55:59.terrorism, but terrorism nonetheless the same as we had seen at London
:56:00. > :56:03.Bridge, an attempt, she said, to divide communities and break the
:56:04. > :56:08.bonds that unite us as a nation. She harked back to her first speech in
:56:09. > :56:12.Downing Street when she talked about what unites this country, not just
:56:13. > :56:18.the union between the different nations but the union between
:56:19. > :56:23.different communities. I thought interesting too the way she went out
:56:24. > :56:27.of her way to extol the response of London and the virtues of London and
:56:28. > :56:32.the character of London, talking about the difficult times London now
:56:33. > :56:38.faced, not just with the recent terror attacks, but obviously
:56:39. > :56:42.Grenfell Tower and now this as well. I sensed Mrs May trying to catch the
:56:43. > :56:51.mood of the capital city, that sense of defiance and determination of
:56:52. > :56:53.community is adamant they will not allow these sort of events to divide
:56:54. > :56:57.people. Interesting too, I thought, she talked again about this
:56:58. > :57:03.commission to counter extremism which the government see as similar
:57:04. > :57:08.to the commission for racial equality in the 70s and 80s, which
:57:09. > :57:12.many people believe changed a lot of the arguments and perceptions around
:57:13. > :57:18.racism and the clear hope of this commission to counter extremism was
:57:19. > :57:22.that that may have the same impact in countering some of the extremist
:57:23. > :57:27.views from whichever quarter they come. Mrs May was clear the
:57:28. > :57:34.extremism of Islamophobia in her view is as dangerous as those
:57:35. > :57:38.perpetuated by Islamist extremists. Mrs May wrapping it all together in
:57:39. > :57:46.terms of the terrorist threat we face.
:57:47. > :57:49.Norman, for the moment, thank you, Norman Smith, assistant political
:57:50. > :57:53.editor. We have also heard from Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader,
:57:54. > :57:58.who was here for quite a lot of the night, saying he was shocked by this
:57:59. > :58:01.horrific and cruel attack. He has met Muslim community leaders and he
:58:02. > :58:06.will be back here later to attend prayers at Finsbury Park Mosque.
:58:07. > :58:11.Let's listen to what Mr Corbyn said. I know people at the mosque and in
:58:12. > :58:17.the community well and I came here last night to talk to the police and
:58:18. > :58:20.firefighters and ambulance crew who were here and the response by all
:58:21. > :58:27.three emergency services was very timely and very quick. The police
:58:28. > :58:34.managed to arrest the suspect who was driving the van and taken away
:58:35. > :58:39.from the area. Sadly the gentleman who died's body was on the ground,
:58:40. > :58:43.covered respectfully by forensic tense so that examination could take
:58:44. > :58:48.place. The community became very angry because in the initial stages
:58:49. > :58:51.it was not referred to as a terrorist attack. Do you think this
:58:52. > :58:56.terrorist attack is being treated as seriously as others? Well, I'm
:58:57. > :59:01.treating it absolutely as serious as any other attack. This was a van
:59:02. > :59:09.driven into a crowd of people who were attending a man who was already
:59:10. > :59:30.injured. They were coming home from night-time prayers in the mosque,
:59:31. > :59:33.it's Ramadan and it's perfectly normal. Eight people have been
:59:34. > :59:34.injured, some of them, I understand, extremely seriously. This is terror
:59:35. > :59:35.on the streets and it is terror of the people on the streets in the
:59:36. > :59:36.community is I'm very proud to represent and that's why I'm here
:59:37. > :59:38.today. That was the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, the constituency MP
:59:39. > :59:43.for this area, and he has been here through the night and will be back
:59:44. > :59:46.here this afternoon. Let's remind you of the words of the Prime
:59:47. > :59:51.Minister in the last few minutes as well on this terror attack. She said
:59:52. > :59:55.it was a terror attack, one man died and was pronounced dead at the scene
:59:56. > :00:01.and others injured, taken to three different hospitals. Three seriously
:00:02. > :00:06.injured and two with minor injuries who were treated at the scene.
:00:07. > :00:09.Theresa May said it was an attack on the Muslim community and the
:00:10. > :00:13.innocent who had been praying together at this sacred time of
:00:14. > :00:19.Ramadan. She condemned this as an act of hatred and evil, but this
:00:20. > :00:24.kind of hatred and evil, she said, will never succeed. She called it a
:00:25. > :00:26.sickening attempt to destroy the freedoms to worship in the United
:00:27. > :00:33.Kingdom and to destroy the bonds that unite us. She praised the
:00:34. > :00:36.bravery of the local people who had pinned down the driver of the van, a
:00:37. > :00:41.48-year-old man has been arrested. She talked about London having
:00:42. > :00:46.suffered a succession of terror attacks force of the Westminster
:00:47. > :00:53.attack. The London Bridge attack. And now this. She said this is an
:00:54. > :01:00.extraordinary city of extraordinary people. Those were the words of the
:01:01. > :01:02.Prime Minister Theresa May a short time ago in Downing Street. You have
:01:03. > :01:07.been watching special coverage from where people always seem to
:01:08. > :01:14.understand what I do - Japan. I go there a lot and it's
:01:15. > :01:17.a constant source of inspiration. It gives me a chance to pull
:01:18. > :01:21.together thoughts about whether historical fiction is
:01:22. > :01:25.legitimate,