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:00:11. > :00:16.Reporting from Washington, I am Tim Wilcox. Britain denies any

:00:17. > :00:19.intelligence failed failure as it is revealed the man behind the London

:00:20. > :00:24.terror attack was known to the police. Prime Minister Theresa May

:00:25. > :00:26.is defined. We're not afraid, and our resolve will never waver

:00:27. > :00:36.The victims are named. Policeman Keith Palmer died defending

:00:37. > :00:44.parliament. He was a married father of. American Kurt Cochrane was

:00:45. > :00:47.celebrating his wedding anniversary. In the last few minutes, we have

:00:48. > :00:52.heard a 75-year-old man has died of his injuries.

:00:53. > :00:56.Republicans are forced to delay the vote on their health care bill, a

:00:57. > :01:13.setback for Congressional leaders and the White House.

:01:14. > :01:20.Hello and welcome to our viewers on public television in America and

:01:21. > :01:23.around the globe. The man behind the Westminster terror attack, and who

:01:24. > :01:27.brought bloodshed to the heart of London, was British-born and known

:01:28. > :01:31.to police. He has been named as 52-year-old Khalid Masood. The

:01:32. > :01:35.so-called Islamic State group say they were behind the attack.

:01:36. > :01:38.Tonight, we have also heard that a 75-year-old man has become the

:01:39. > :01:42.fourth victim to have died of his injuries. Let's go straight to

:01:43. > :01:47.London now, to Westminster, and to my colleague Christian Fraser. Thank

:01:48. > :01:49.you very much. In the last half an hour, the court and around

:01:50. > :01:54.Parliament Square has been lifted, you will see behind me that traffic

:01:55. > :01:56.is now flowing freely and driving around the roundabout outside the

:01:57. > :02:01.Palace of Westminster, and in fact, our camera has got down to the gate.

:02:02. > :02:06.The forensic police have been there through the course of the evening,

:02:07. > :02:10.finishing up their investigation, but there you can see people milling

:02:11. > :02:14.around the gate. You may also be able to see why people had been

:02:15. > :02:16.talking about it as a potential weak spot around the Palace of

:02:17. > :02:23.Westminster. That gave through the day is where ministers drive -- that

:02:24. > :02:26.gate, and where ministers leave the Palace of Westminster. Often it is

:02:27. > :02:30.not closed, because it is so busy, and I think that will really be the

:02:31. > :02:34.focus of the security review that takes place in the weeks and months

:02:35. > :02:39.ahead. As Tim said, we have heard that while discordant was being

:02:40. > :02:47.lifted, that another victim has sadly died in Hospital, 75-year-old

:02:48. > :02:50.man who was receiving life-support. The decision was taken this evening

:02:51. > :02:54.at Saint Thomas' hospital that his life not be saved, and that

:02:55. > :03:00.life-support was withdrawn. We know a little bit more about the man who

:03:01. > :03:04.attacked the Parliament yesterday. He was 52-year-old Khalid Masood,

:03:05. > :03:11.born in Kent, who moved the Midlands some years ago. -- to the Midlands.

:03:12. > :03:14.He was on police radar for a time, but appears to have dropped off it.

:03:15. > :03:18.Our special correspondent Lucy Manning has taken a closer look at

:03:19. > :03:19.the mitigation, and sent us this report from Birmingham.

:03:20. > :03:35.With a car, and a knife, he brought terror to Parliament.

:03:36. > :03:36.He is Khalid Masood, a British-born attacker known

:03:37. > :03:39.to the police with a 20 year criminal record,

:03:40. > :03:42.The 52-year-old responsible for the murder of a policeman,

:03:43. > :03:45.a mother on her way to collect her children, and a tourist.

:03:46. > :03:47.Masood was born in Kent, and was most recently living

:03:48. > :03:50.He had a range of previous convictions including GBH,

:03:51. > :03:56.possession of offensive weapons and public order offences.

:03:57. > :03:59.His last conviction was in 2003 for the possession of a knife.

:04:00. > :04:02.He was also known by a number of aliases and he was known

:04:03. > :04:06.What I can confirm is that he was British-born and that some years ago

:04:07. > :04:18.In relation to concerns about violent extremism.

:04:19. > :04:21.He was a peripheral figure. The case is historic.

:04:22. > :04:24.He is not part of the current intelligence picture.

:04:25. > :04:27.There was no prior intelligence of his intent or of the plot.

:04:28. > :04:32.Just metres from where the Prime Minister spoke,

:04:33. > :04:37.on their knees, police slowly, meticulously searching for evidence,

:04:38. > :04:41.on the same ground where one of their own lay just yesterday.

:04:42. > :04:44.Determined to find out everything they can about the man who murdered

:04:45. > :04:51.PC Keith Palmer in the shadow of Big Ben, and ran over those just

:04:52. > :04:57.Not just routine police work - this time it's personal.

:04:58. > :05:00.Across the country overnight, police swung into action.

:05:01. > :05:03.A flat in the Winson Green area of Birmingham was raided.

:05:04. > :05:08.Neighbours said they thought Masood lived there recently.

:05:09. > :05:10.Also in Birmingham, in the Ladywood area,

:05:11. > :05:13.filmed by neighbours, heavily armed officers

:05:14. > :05:18.Locals said it was like a scene from a film.

:05:19. > :05:22.Like a war, yeah. Down the streets.

:05:23. > :05:28.It's something you see only in movies and I saw it

:05:29. > :05:31.behind my windows on the street. It was very frightening.

:05:32. > :05:37.It was like, what the hell is happening here?

:05:38. > :05:41.As well as the searches in Birmingham, police also raided

:05:42. > :05:43.homes and made arrests in the Forest Gate

:05:44. > :05:50.In Wales, Surrey and Sussex, a total of eight people have been

:05:51. > :05:58.It's now known the car he had turned into a weapon was a rental car

:05:59. > :06:01.he had hired in Birmingham at the Spring Hill branch

:06:02. > :06:08.There's been intense police activity here all day in Birmingham.

:06:09. > :06:12.With the attacker dead, the focus is on his friends and family.

:06:13. > :06:16.Whether they knew about his motivations, his intentions,

:06:17. > :06:21.whether he had any help with the attack on Parliament.

:06:22. > :06:26.It is still our belief that this attacker acted

:06:27. > :06:29.alone and was inspired by international terrorism.

:06:30. > :06:33.To be explicit, at this stage we have no specific information

:06:34. > :06:40.So-called Islamic State, without providing any evidence,

:06:41. > :06:42.claimed the attacker was, as they described him,

:06:43. > :06:50.The police are now trucking Masood's movements.

:06:51. > :06:53.The man who got into a car and drove terror into

:06:54. > :07:12.Hundreds of people came together to write in Trafalgar Square, not far

:07:13. > :07:15.from here, to light candles and pay tribute to victims, and indeed,

:07:16. > :07:20.people laying flowers here. This is quite a busy area for government

:07:21. > :07:28.offices, and people have been laying bouquets of flowers throughout the

:07:29. > :07:31.day. Uppermost in minds is that policeman, PC Keith Palmer, who was

:07:32. > :07:35.running towards that attacker when most people were running away. He

:07:36. > :07:41.was unarmed, only with a stab vest, which did not save him. He had given

:07:42. > :07:44.his life to serving the UK. Before the police, he was in the Royal

:07:45. > :07:52.Artillery. Mark Easton has looked back at his life and death.

:07:53. > :07:53.Honouring a fallen colleague. At 9:33am this morning, and minute's

:07:54. > :07:55.silence for PC Keith Palmer. 48 years old, a husband

:07:56. > :08:00.and a father, who went to work Boxing instructor and former soldier

:08:01. > :08:08.Tony Davies saw the knife attack as he left a function at the Houses

:08:09. > :08:11.of Parliament yesterday afternoon, and immediately ran

:08:12. > :08:16.to Keith Palmer's aid. He brandished two knives, I'd seen,

:08:17. > :08:20.attacking one of the policemen. That's the decision I took to then

:08:21. > :08:25.leap the fence and try and give Yes, but it was a split-second

:08:26. > :08:36.decision and people Tony Davies was once in the same

:08:37. > :08:42.army regiment as Lee Rigby, the Fusilier stabbed to death

:08:43. > :08:47.in a terrorist attack in 2013. He remembers watching

:08:48. > :08:54.the scenes unfolding that day. And thinks that is part

:08:55. > :08:56.of the reason why he ran I was the first person to approach

:08:57. > :09:01.Keith and I noticed the head wound and I'm shouting,

:09:02. > :09:06."Medic, get an ambulance". The biggest wound

:09:07. > :09:11.was in his rib cage. I tried to stem the blood flow

:09:12. > :09:16.with my rain jacket. I checked his pulse,

:09:17. > :09:20.to make sure he was breathing. I said, "Come on, Keith,

:09:21. > :09:26.stay with us, son, stay with us". I'm sure the professionals

:09:27. > :09:31.who were there did all they could. Some are saying he should be given

:09:32. > :09:38.a medal for what he did. How do you feel about

:09:39. > :09:45.the man you tried to save? He was protecting and sort

:09:46. > :09:52.of being an adviser on one of our most historic assets of this

:09:53. > :09:58.great nation and he's expecting to do his normal daily shift and go

:09:59. > :10:02.home to have his tea A lot of people would regard

:10:03. > :10:09.what you did yesterday as quite No, please, I don't want

:10:10. > :10:13.anyone to feel that. One of the core values in the Army

:10:14. > :10:21.is selfless commitment. Maybe I showed a bit of that

:10:22. > :10:26.yesterday but just... It was frustrating more

:10:27. > :10:31.than anything, that Keith did not pull through.

:10:32. > :10:41.Sorry about that. Police Constable Keith Palmer

:10:42. > :10:44.symbolises the selfless public service and sacrifice,

:10:45. > :10:48.vital to a civilised society. He was unarmed, guarding

:10:49. > :10:52.the epicentre of our democracy and epitomising the delicate balance

:10:53. > :11:13.between our security That debate will go on in the house.

:11:14. > :11:17.The Northern Ireland Secretary was saying today that they police the

:11:18. > :11:21.defendant high-risk areas like the House of Commons should be armed at

:11:22. > :11:25.all times. Something we will be talking about in the weeks ahead.

:11:26. > :11:29.Let's talk about those victims, because 40 people were injured

:11:30. > :11:34.yesterday. 29 of them admitted to hospital, and seven of several of

:11:35. > :11:35.them are still in a critical condition. Sarah Campbell has been

:11:36. > :11:38.looking at the victims for us. A mother on the school run,

:11:39. > :11:40.mown down in broad daylight. Aysha Frade was 43 years

:11:41. > :11:43.old and leaves behind a husband Friends and neighbours have been

:11:44. > :11:47.paying tribute to her. She was just a lovely person

:11:48. > :11:49.with two lovely children. You leave your kids, go to school,

:11:50. > :12:00.and then to pick them up and then She worked at a college

:12:01. > :12:03.near Westminster Bridge and was on her way to pick

:12:04. > :12:06.up her children when Helpful, supportive, smiling,

:12:07. > :12:15.always willing to help out with whatever the challenges

:12:16. > :12:19.and demands that teaching staff Her mother was Spanish

:12:20. > :12:26.and today she was remembered Her family are understood to be

:12:27. > :12:33.travelling to Britain. In London, celebrating their 25th

:12:34. > :12:38.wedding anniversary, Melissa and Kurt Cochran from Utah

:12:39. > :12:44.in the United States. They were due to fly home today

:12:45. > :12:47.but instead Kurt was killed This afternoon President Trump

:12:48. > :12:50.described Kurt Cochran The people who were injured came

:12:51. > :12:55.from 11 different countries including the United States,

:12:56. > :12:58.China, France and Germany. They were taken from Westminster

:12:59. > :13:01.to hospitals across London, Undergoing treatment for a fractured

:13:02. > :13:10.leg is 19-year-old Travis Frain. He was with fellow students

:13:11. > :13:12.on a field trip to Parliament He was pictured as emergency crews

:13:13. > :13:17.stretchered him away from the scene. Waiting for news inside

:13:18. > :13:24.the locked down parliament She told me today that

:13:25. > :13:30.Travis is doing well. Lots of other messages from other

:13:31. > :13:36.students wanting to know how he is. Clearly, he is not well,

:13:37. > :13:39.but he is dealing with it and he is staying as cheerful

:13:40. > :13:41.as he can. Another school trip caught up

:13:42. > :13:44.in the chaos, three students from this school in Brittany

:13:45. > :13:48.were injured, two of them were reported to have

:13:49. > :13:52.suffered serious fractures. The French Foreign Minister

:13:53. > :13:55.travelled to London to visit them. But I wanted to stop

:13:56. > :14:02.to London first. And to say a message

:14:03. > :14:06.to the British people, Romanian officials say

:14:07. > :14:12.Andreea Cristea has undergone surgery to treat a blood clot

:14:13. > :14:19.on her brain. Her boyfriend sustained a broken

:14:20. > :14:21.foot and they had been Several people remain in hospital

:14:22. > :14:25.including two police officers This was an attack in London

:14:26. > :14:45.but the effects are being Just to confirm that since Sarah

:14:46. > :14:49.file that report, we have heard the sad news that a 75-year-old has not

:14:50. > :14:54.survived his injuries. The death toll going up to five, including the

:14:55. > :14:59.attacker, and the 75-year-old was on life support, but that life-support

:15:00. > :15:02.was withdrawn this evening. His family have been informed. Here at

:15:03. > :15:07.Westminster, the cord and has now been lifted as Big Ben strikes

:15:08. > :15:10.behind us. So from here, where the traffic is flowing freely again

:15:11. > :15:15.around Parliament Square, I will hand you back to Tim in the studio.

:15:16. > :15:21.Thank you and much, Kristian. Staying with those attacks, I have

:15:22. > :15:26.been talking to Clint Watts, a former FBI special agent on the

:15:27. > :15:29.joint terrorism task force, who is now at the Foreign Policy Research

:15:30. > :15:33.Institute. What lessons can all of us, all

:15:34. > :15:35.countries learn from yesterday's attack?

:15:36. > :15:41.I think the big lesson we can learn is that the tactic, which was using

:15:42. > :15:45.automobiles, cars, trucks, to create mass violence and chaos, is still

:15:46. > :15:50.very much in effect. It is clear that Islamic State supporters are

:15:51. > :15:53.just jihadist supporters in general, and have seen this as a tactic they

:15:54. > :15:59.can implement anywhere, at any time. The other thing is, there is no

:16:00. > :16:03.profile for these attackers. Khalid Masood was 52 years old, much out of

:16:04. > :16:06.the normal. It is much older than most inspired plotters. That is not

:16:07. > :16:10.something you would normally look for in a profile, but what is a

:16:11. > :16:15.commonality of most of these Islamic State cases and the inspired

:16:16. > :16:18.recruits is their criminal history and criminal past. They seem to be

:16:19. > :16:22.more attractive to the Islamic State than previously to Al-Qaeda, which

:16:23. > :16:25.would sort of fat and train and recruit people who have much less

:16:26. > :16:29.common background. He had criminal convictions, but

:16:30. > :16:33.none for terror. How do you track someone like that? There are

:16:34. > :16:36.thousands and thousands of people with previous convictions who may

:16:37. > :16:39.not necessarily be radicalised and do something like this.

:16:40. > :16:44.Sadly, there is no one solution for it. What we have done so far, and

:16:45. > :16:48.really the United Kingdom probably does better than anyone in the

:16:49. > :16:52.world, is focus on these terror networks, the communications and

:16:53. > :16:56.connections. The United Kingdom has a great system for doing that. They

:16:57. > :16:59.triage much better than any of the other European countries, and

:17:00. > :17:03.England is on a par with the United States. But it is almost impossible

:17:04. > :17:10.to detect someone that maybe has been on the fringes of

:17:11. > :17:13.radicalisation, and I would say is, at this point, we should probably

:17:14. > :17:18.look for some kind of psychological trigger that happened recently and

:17:19. > :17:23.cause him to take this path. How difficult is it to identify

:17:24. > :17:24.these sites, given the dark web now and the ability to monitor so much

:17:25. > :17:28.traffic? If you don't have a centre nexus, or

:17:29. > :17:32.some kind of connection with the radical ideology or the actual

:17:33. > :17:35.operatives connected to the group, it is like trying to pick a needle

:17:36. > :17:39.out of a haystack. People are on social media, on the internet, all

:17:40. > :17:43.the time for a host of different causes, which has some kind of

:17:44. > :17:46.violent ideological bent, and how would you be able to take one

:17:47. > :17:50.person's musings, or just having a tough day, and separate it from

:17:51. > :17:54.someone who is willing to rent a car and go and kill citizens? It is

:17:55. > :18:00.nearly impossible to do, but what we can look for reserves triggers.

:18:01. > :18:03.Rental car companies oftentimes can indicate this kind of path, and that

:18:04. > :18:07.is something we will have to include in our suspicions activity

:18:08. > :18:12.reporting. -- suspicious activity. Thank you very much for joining us.

:18:13. > :18:18.One of the victims was Kurt Cochrane from Utah, who was on Westminster

:18:19. > :18:21.Bridge with his wife Melissa. James Cook choices now from Salt Lake

:18:22. > :18:27.City. James, what have his family been saying there?

:18:28. > :18:30.Well, we are just outside the house of Kurt Cochrane, where obviously,

:18:31. > :18:35.this news has come as a terrible blow. Kurt and Melissa were in

:18:36. > :18:39.London, celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary, and visiting

:18:40. > :18:42.her parents, who were working as missionaries in the British capital

:18:43. > :18:48.for the Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints. In particular,

:18:49. > :18:51.Kurt seems to have been a very well-known individual here. He was a

:18:52. > :18:55.well-known figure, particularly in the local music scene. He ran a

:18:56. > :18:59.music recording studio in his house and had another one in the city as

:19:00. > :19:02.well. I have talked to one friend and neighbour who knew him well, and

:19:03. > :19:08.said he was a very warm and gregarious man, and he told me how

:19:09. > :19:13.the community would rally around to help the family. Right now, as far

:19:14. > :19:17.as before this happened, we were great friends, and now, we're great

:19:18. > :19:24.friends, but this will be a tough time for us in the neighbourhood. I

:19:25. > :19:27.really feel bad, and I think of Melissa, and what she is going to

:19:28. > :19:33.have to face in the next while, and I'm sure that the community would

:19:34. > :19:40.gather round her and held her in every way they can. And we have a

:19:41. > :19:43.statement from Melissa's brother, who has issued a statement on behalf

:19:44. > :19:47.of the family. He says the family are heartbroken.

:19:48. > :19:51.They say they have lost at good man and a loving husband, and talking of

:19:52. > :19:55.Melissa's condition, they say only that she has serious injuries and is

:19:56. > :19:58.being cared for in hospital. The family have extended their thanks to

:19:59. > :20:02.emergency services and medical personnel in London caring for her,

:20:03. > :20:06.and they say that as for her husband, he will be greatly mist,

:20:07. > :20:11.and indeed, President Trump has paid tribute to Kurt Cochran, describing

:20:12. > :20:15.him as a great American. Thank you, James.

:20:16. > :20:24.You are watching BBC world News. Still to come, trying to drum up

:20:25. > :20:25.support for their health care plan. Republicans say they need a little

:20:26. > :20:35.more time to get the votes. Former President Clinton has paid

:20:36. > :20:38.tribute to Martin McGuinness' ability to compromise as he

:20:39. > :20:41.delivered a eulogy for the former IRA commander and Northern Ireland

:20:42. > :20:45.Deputy First Minister. Mr Begin is coffin was carried through the

:20:46. > :20:50.streets of Londonderry before the funeral. -- Mr McGuinness. He died

:20:51. > :20:51.on Tuesday after suffering from a rare heart condition. Our Ireland

:20:52. > :20:55.correspondent has this report. This is a place that makes

:20:56. > :20:59.a point of remembering. Through the large crowds,

:21:00. > :21:02.Martin McGuinness' body was carried, past the paintings that detailed

:21:03. > :21:04.the divisive history that he lived It was also a time of violence

:21:05. > :21:16.for which some will always hold him But the attendance of Presidents,

:21:17. > :21:21.Irish prime ministers, was testament to the years

:21:22. > :21:30.he spent building peace. And the applause for the Unionist

:21:31. > :21:35.leader Arlene Foster, a sign of how, despite all the many disagreements

:21:36. > :21:37.that still exist, Northern Ireland I in the course of years have had

:21:38. > :21:51.many conversations with Martin, and he knew only too well how many

:21:52. > :21:56.people struggled with his IRA past. Republicans we know were not

:21:57. > :22:05.blameless, and many people right across this community found it

:22:06. > :22:07.difficult to forgive, and That is true on all sides,

:22:08. > :22:13.and in the streets surrounding the church, people gathered

:22:14. > :22:43.to reflect not just on one life, On BBC or world News America and

:22:44. > :22:47.all. As a single and President Obama, the Affordable Care Act was

:22:48. > :22:50.all was going to be one of the first time it's on the site President

:22:51. > :22:53.Trump. But what about its replacement? It seems we may have to

:22:54. > :22:57.wait longer. Republicans have been forced to delay their vote this

:22:58. > :23:00.evening. Our correspondent is on Capitol Hill with the latest. How

:23:01. > :23:04.big a setback? It all depends whether the vote is a

:23:05. > :23:09.day or whether it is delayed by much more than that, and I can tell you,

:23:10. > :23:13.the atmosphere here is absolutely fevered. Meetings going on every

:23:14. > :23:16.corner of the capital, Steve Bannon, the White House chief strategist,

:23:17. > :23:21.has been spotted striding through the corridors here, and I'm told a

:23:22. > :23:26.very intense meeting was going on between speaker Paul Ryan and the

:23:27. > :23:30.Freedom caucus, a conservative group who are big holdouts on this bill.

:23:31. > :23:33.They don't like what they call Obama care light. They were offered a big

:23:34. > :23:37.concession by the White House, and insurers could drop what they call

:23:38. > :23:41.the essential conditions that this over half to provide, things like

:23:42. > :23:44.maternity services, mammograms, emergency services. So conservatives

:23:45. > :23:47.are offered that, and all those could be dropped to make premiums

:23:48. > :23:53.cheaper, but that still was not enough. Negotiations are going on.

:23:54. > :23:57.And he can't blame it on the Democrats, can he?

:23:58. > :23:59.Not this time. And there is a split, because you have conservatives on

:24:00. > :24:03.one side of it, and then very centrist Republicans who are coming

:24:04. > :24:08.under tremendous pressure from their constituents, who are worried about

:24:09. > :24:09.losing coverage from doctors and patients and hospitals'

:24:10. > :24:14.associations, and the more that the White House does to bring over this

:24:15. > :24:18.big group of conservatives, the more moderates are splitting off, and the

:24:19. > :24:22.more difficult it makes to get it through the US Senate.

:24:23. > :24:24.So all to play for right now. A long night ahead. Laura, thank you very

:24:25. > :24:29.much. That brings today's show to a close.

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