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Hello, it's Friday, it's 9am, I'm Joanna Gosling - | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
More details emerge of the man who carried out | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
Khalid Masood was born Adrian Russell Ajao | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
We'll ask how the 52-year-old was converted to radical Islam. | :00:21. | :00:30. | |
In the past hour, police say they've made two further significant arrests | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
overnight and are trawling through massive amounts | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
We've had contact with about 3500 witnesses, including 1000 people | :00:36. | :00:43. | |
from Westminster Bridge, and about 2500 who were within | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
An American tourist posts a picture of murdered police | :00:46. | :00:54. | |
officer Keith Palmer, taken less than an hour before | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
he died, as police name the 75-year-old man who died | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
from his injuries last night as Leslie Rhodes from South London. | :00:59. | :01:05. | |
I'm Ben Brown life at Westminster, where all the roads now have | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
reopened for the first time since the attack. I will have the latest | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
on the fast-moving police investigation into what happened | :01:14. | :01:14. | |
here. Hello, welcome to the programme, | :01:15. | :01:27. | |
we're live until 11am this morning. We'll have the very latest | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
on the aftermath of Wednesday's terror attacks throughout | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
the programme this morning. One person who rushed to the aid | :01:34. | :01:34. | |
of victims on Westminster Bridge We'll also hear from | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
senior faith leaders. Plus people caught up in the terror | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
attacks in Nice, Paris, Berlin and Brussels tell us how | :01:42. | :01:43. | |
they coped afterwards. Do get in touch on all the stories | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
we're talking about this morning - If you text, you will be charged | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
at the standard network rate. First let's get the latest | :01:51. | :02:00. | |
from my colleague Ben Brown, who's In the last hour, police | :02:01. | :02:12. | |
investigating the attack here at Westminster have revealed that they | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
have made two further significant arrests overnight, so nine people | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
are now in custody altogether, one woman has been released, we hear, on | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
bail. A fourth victim, meanwhile, who died last night has been named | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
by the police as 75-year-old Leslie Rhodes, he was from Streatham in | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
south London. Scotland Yard's Acting Deputy Commissioner Mark Rowley said | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
the attacker, Khalid Masood, had been born Adrian Russell Ajao. With | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
the latest, here is Jane Francis Kelly. | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
This photo is thought to have been taken of PC Keith Palmer just 45 | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
minutes before he died. The American tourist scene with him was at | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
Westminster prior to the attack and asked if she could pose with the | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
opposite. Other victims of the attack were Aysha Frade, a mother of | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
two. Also an American tourist, Kurt Cochran. Police have also confirmed | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
another man has died. Sadly last night another man died in | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
hospital as a result of the injury sustained during the attack. Whilst | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
we await formal identification, we believe that he is Leslie Rhodes, | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
aged 75, from Streatham in south London. My thoughts are with his | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
family at this time. Furthermore, two people remain in hospital in | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
what is described as critical condition, and one person is | :03:37. | :03:38. | |
considered to have life-threatening injuries. | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
The man responsible for the deaths was 52-year-old Khalid Masood, his | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
birth name Adrian Russell Ajao. He was born in Kent and most recently | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
lived in the West Midlands. He had a range of previous convictions | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
including GBH, possessing of offensive weapons, and public order | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
offences. His last conviction was in 2003 for possession of a knife. He | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
was also known under a number of aliases and was known to the | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
security services. Police said overnight there were two significant | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
arrests in the West Midlands and Northwest, nine people are in | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
custody, one woman has been released on bail. They appealed for | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
information. Anyone who knew Khalid Masood well, anyone who understands | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
who his associates were, anyone who can provide information about the | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
places he has recently visited. There might well be people out there | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
who did have concerns about Masood but weren't sure all didn't feel | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
comfortable for whatever reason in passing that information to us. I | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
now urge anyone with such information to callers. The attack | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
has reverberated across the world, but it was an attack at the heart of | :04:45. | :04:52. | |
British democracy. Shots show the Prime Minister being led away to | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
safety by her security team, the scene of uncertainty. It was still | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
unclear what had gone on outside the gates of Westminster. Last night the | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
police, politicians and faith leaders joined thousands of people | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
in Trafalgar Square, with the message that terrorism and fear will | :05:09. | :05:09. | |
not prevail. We have had more details, as you | :05:10. | :05:18. | |
were hearing, about the police investigation, including news that | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
they have made two more significant arrests as they told us this | :05:23. | :05:23. | |
morning. Let's get the latest | :05:24. | :05:24. | |
from the Metropolitan Police Headquarters at Scotland Yard | :05:25. | :05:26. | |
with our correspondent Yes, we had that update just under | :05:27. | :05:39. | |
an hour ago from Acting Deputy Commissioner Mark Rowley. He came | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
out and spoke just behind me here, and initially paid tribute to those | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
who died. He named 75-year-old Leslie Rhodes from south London, and | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
he gave us an update also on those in hospital, as we said two people | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
critical, one person still have life-threatening injuries. He also | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
mentioned another two police officers who had been taken to | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
hospital, they remain in hospital with significant injuries. He said | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
in total 50 people required hospital attention. Then he went on to focus | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
on the attacker, Khalid Masood. His birth name, Adrian Russell Ajao. | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
What he said is that the investigation will focus on how and | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
when he came to be radicalised. The words that he used, he wanted | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
information, they are trying to piece together this picture on his | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
motivation, his preparation, and also his associates. So he called | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
for anyone with any information, anyone who knew him at all, to come | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
forward and speak to police. He also mentioned the two arrests, his words | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
were there were two significant arrests overnight, there had | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
previously been eight, one woman has been released on bail. He also spoke | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
about the number of people who have already come forward, more than 3000 | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
people have already come forward with witness details. He didn't go | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
into detail as to what they have come forward with, but he said it | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
was a significant amount of people who have come forward. He also | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
talked about security at Parliament, he said that would be reviewed, | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
although he made the point that Parliament is a tourist attraction, | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
it is open to visitors, but in light of what happened they would have to | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
review security there. But he very much said that London is open for | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
business, and he made the point that armed officers were patrolling | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
London at double strength at this point. | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
Alexandra thank you very much indeed. | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
Armed police have raided several properties in Birmingham in | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
connection to the attack here at Westminster. Let's cross to our | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
correspondent Kathryn Stanczyszyn, who is in Birmingham for us this | :07:59. | :07:59. | |
morning. We know that Birmingham is a centre | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
of police interest in this case, partly because the assailant hired | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
the beer call that he used in the attack there in Birmingham. | :08:10. | :08:17. | |
Yes, that is correct, and those two significant arrests that police have | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
updated in the last hour, one of those was made overnight here in the | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
West Midlands as well, one in the north-west, and seven of the arrests | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
yesterday were made here in the West Midlands as well. As you say, we | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
know that the car used on the Westminster Bridge attack was | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
actually hired from a rental centre around five minutes from where I am | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
now on Hagley Road. This is where the activity was focused first here | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
in Birmingham on Wednesday night, a flat behind me was raided by armed | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
officers. The activity then moved to a flat about five minutes away where | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
it is believed the attacker actually lived for some time, neighbours | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
shocked to recognise Khalid Masood in photographs, saying that they | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
believed he had been living in a house there up until around two | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
months ago. The car rental centre is just a short walk from there and BBC | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
sources have told us they believe he actually hired that car directly | :09:18. | :09:25. | |
himself. This has been a huge police operation, searches have spanned a | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
big geographical area, Sussex, London, here in the West Midlands | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
and in Wales as well, but of course the prevalence of the arrests made | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
here in Birmingham have led people to talk about whether the city has a | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
problem with radicalisation, some of the press describing Birmingham as a | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
terror hotspot this morning. Of course, the vast majority of Muslims | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
say this is not even in the same universe as their fate, and of | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
course the Birmingham Faith leaders network has put out a statement | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
saying, we completely reject any opportunity to blame any faith in | :09:58. | :10:05. | |
the city for the perverted actions of one individual, and indeed a | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
special unity Pigem is going to be held in Birmingham on the high | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
street at 5pm today, that has been organised by the Muslim engagement | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
network and Stand Up To Racism jointly, they say they want to pay | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
tribute to the victims of the attack but also show all communities in | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
Birmingham are standing together. Thank you very much indeed. | :10:29. | :10:30. | |
Last night, police said a 75-year-old man had died | :10:31. | :10:32. | |
It takes the number of victims to four. | :10:33. | :10:41. | |
In terms of casualties, police said 50 people were injured in all and | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
two are still in a critical condition. Let's get the latest on | :10:48. | :10:49. | |
those casualties. My colleague Fiona Lamdin | :10:50. | :10:51. | |
is at Kings College Hospital Yes, I am about three miles from | :10:52. | :11:04. | |
where the attack took place, you can see the police still here regarding | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
the hospital, very sad news came in last night that 75-year-old Leslie | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
Rhodes from Streatham, not far from here, died here at the hospital last | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
night, which takes the number of victims to ball who died following | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
the attacks, so we now know Leslie Rhodes, PC Keith Palmer, the police | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
officer who was protecting Parliament who was stabbed, Aysha | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
Frade, who was on her way to pick up a two children from school, and Kurt | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
Cochran, the US tourist who was here celebrating his 25th wedding | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
anniversary. The hospital told us on Wednesday afternoon, they brought | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
eight victims here to Kings College Hospital, we know that one is still | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
in a critical condition, two people were allowed home yesterday which | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
must have been a huge relief to their family, so this morning we | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
know there are five victims being treated here behind me. | :11:59. | :11:58. | |
The owner, thank you very much. Here at Westminster, life is | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
returning to normal, the roads have reopened, traffic is moving as | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
normal for the first time since the attack, in keeping really with the | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
Prime Minister's message that life here in London and in the country | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
has to continue as normal and that terrorism cannot be seen to win. | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
That is the very latest from Westminster. You are watching BBC | :12:20. | :12:21. | |
News. A summary now of the day's of the | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
news at the BBC newsroom. Bad behaviour in English schools | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
is not being dealt with properly and pupils' performance | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
is being negatively effected. That's the view of the | :12:37. | :12:37. | |
the Government's school In a review published today, he says | :12:38. | :12:39. | |
more funding and better training The report also recommends that | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
school inspectors pay more attention to behaviour issues, and warns | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
they are often glossed over The President of the European | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
Commission has told the BBC that the EU will not seek to punish | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
Britain during Brexit negotiations. Speaking on the eve of the EU's 60th | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
anniversary celebrations, Jean-Claude Juncker said the exit | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
talks will be approached fairly but warned that Britain will be held | :13:08. | :13:09. | |
to financial commitments made Customers should be paid automatic | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
compensation by their phone companies for problems | :13:13. | :13:21. | |
with landlines and broadband. The telecoms regulator Ofcom says | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
providers should pay customers for slow repairs, | :13:26. | :13:27. | |
delayed connections The plans could affect more | :13:28. | :13:28. | |
than 2.5 million customers who would receive up to ?185 million | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
in new compensation At the moment, compensation is only | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
paid to a small number of customers. That's a summary of the latest BBC | :13:36. | :13:47. | |
News - more at 9.30am. We will shortly talk to one of the | :13:48. | :13:56. | |
people who was first at the scene after the Westminster attack, did | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
not realise it was a terror attack at that stage but stepped in to help | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
one victim in particular who had been injured. We will also be | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
talking about security at Westminster, which is being looked | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
at in the aftermath of the attack, and we will be asking, should police | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
officers in the UK now be routinely armed? Get in touch with your | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
thoughts. An e-mail from Michael saying, I'm a retired London taxi | :14:22. | :14:23. | |
driver who'd used to drive in with MPs all the time through that gate. | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
The policemen just glanced into the back of the cap to recognise the MP | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
and then nodded to me to go ahead. That is not good enough, what is | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
needed is similar to the gates to Downing Street. How they all knew | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
more than 100 MPs with just a glance beats me. | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
And a text to say the last photo of the police officer killed is the | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
most the coverage of the attack, reducing me to tears, thank you to | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
the lady for releasing it for the family, it brings home the human | :14:55. | :14:56. | |
tragedy of the attack. We will have more in a few moments, | :14:57. | :14:58. | |
but let's catch up with the sport. The new Formula 1 season is | :14:59. | :15:05. | |
underway, how has Lewis Hamilton been getting on? | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
Is very, very impressive start the Lewis Hamilton in Australia | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
overnight, fastest in both sessions ahead of the Australian Grand Prix | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
and in second practice, these are the pictures from a lap which was a | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
scorcher, more than half a second faster than anyone else, potentially | :15:23. | :15:29. | |
knocking up to five seconds off lap times. The second quickest to | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
Hamilton was Sebastian Vettel in his Ferrari, who claimed would be | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
Mercedes' biggest rival for a fourth straight title. He said they would | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
be the ones to beat, which, after what happened today, seems no more | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
than mind games. To tell you about the other changes to the cars, they | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
are wider, wider back wheels as well, up to 80 centimetres wider, | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
which as you saw on the pictures is quite a lot in Formula 1 terms but | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
makes them harder to drive and certainly harder to overtake, so | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
while there is excitement about the speed, we hope that is matched by | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
the track -- on the track with all that overtaking. | :16:10. | :16:12. | |
What about the latest on Rory McIlroy? | :16:13. | :16:14. | |
Is not such a good day for him, he is out of the match play in Texas, | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
he only played one round this week, the second of his three opponents, | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
Gary Woodland, actually pulled out last night, which left Soren | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
Kjeldsen, who beat McIlroy on Wednesday, needing only half a point | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
in his match. He got a full point against Emiliano Grillo, Kjeldsen | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
was due to play his final group match against Gary Woodland, said | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
because he is guaranteed a win McIlroy cannot qualify. Tyrrell | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
Hatton here holing Dani from distance. Danny Willett is also out. | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
Just so you know, there are three games in the group stages and the | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
top 16 go through to the knockout rounds on Saturday and Sunday. | :16:59. | :17:06. | |
On Wednesday afternoon tiny singer was on a bus heading towards | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
Westminster Bridge just moments before the attack that brought chaos | :17:11. | :17:11. | |
and terror to the heart of London. The person she helped was | :17:12. | :17:31. | |
unconscious with serious head injuries and after ambulances | :17:32. | :17:33. | |
arrived she left the scene only later to discover the truth about | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
what had happened. Dani joins us now in the studio. Thank you for coming | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
in. Those are the pictures of you on the day, tell us what the first you | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
knew, what was the first you knew of what was happening? | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
We saw the car careering off the pavement. People saw the car | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
knocking several people over. Somebody on the bus sheltered, if | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
anyone had first aid training they should get off the bus and go and | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
help. I got off straightaway and went to the first person I saw who | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
looked like they won't being attended to. It was a man with quite | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
significant head injury and potentially other injuries we | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
couldn't see. At that point we didn't know that anything was going | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
to happen. What help did you give? The other chap who was with me | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
helping the don't and we were with was a medic. There wasn't a lot we | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
could practically do, it was just monitoring polls and breathing and | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
checking his airways were clear. I was just talking to him, really. | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
You're never aware of what people are aware of themselves. I was | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
telling him what was going on, describing when the ambulance were | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
coming, hoping some parts of him was registering our presence and that we | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
were there to help him. Do you know how he is? I've got no idea. As you | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
said, you didn't know it was a terror attack. You went off when the | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
ambulance arrived, when did you discover what had actually happened? | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
I went to wash my hands basically. I came back to the people I was with | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
on the bus. We had to be diverted all the way round. It was ten | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
minutes later when I realised from what they had said that there had | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
been gunshots fired, a police officer had been stabbed, then we | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
realised it was probably part of the same incident and it probably was a | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
terrorist attack of some sort. How did you feel at that point? I wanted | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
to get away as quickly as possible. The area was so hectic with armed | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
police and paramedics and sirens. I just wanted to get home as soon as | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
possible really. Your image was one of the images used many times on the | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
day. It must have been quite strange to you afterwards to realise what | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
you had been caught up in. It was. As soon as I got home I had people | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
contacting me. A friend in Hungary said his sister in Israel had seen | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
the picture of me and wanted to check I was OK. I had a few people | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
getting in touch saying they had seen that and then people phoning | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
saying they had seen me on the news. That was really strange, to be | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
someone's reference point or something. Something so big and of | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
this level of magnitude. There were lots of people injured, you | :20:27. | :20:28. | |
obviously went straight to one person and focused on helping them. | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
Were you able to take in much of what was going on around you and how | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
other people were reacting? Not really. We were aware of the people | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
and the longer we stayed there the more it became apparent that further | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
up the bridge more people have been injured. At one point I wasn't even | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
aware of the photographs being taken, I was just looking to | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
ambulances and any progress, really. How would you, could you describe | :20:58. | :21:04. | |
the way people work, was it people reacting calmly in dealing with the | :21:05. | :21:12. | |
situation? Was there chaos? I didn't feel it was chaotic. Everyone dealt | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
with it amazingly, especially the NHS staff at St Thomas' They came | :21:17. | :21:23. | |
running out. They are obviously very close, just on the other side of the | :21:24. | :21:31. | |
bridge. Maybe within one or two minutes, a chap came up to me and | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
said I'm on holiday but I'm still a doctor, what can I do? All the | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
civilians who helped who maybe didn't have that training, they were | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
just there to be doing whatever needed to be done. The police | :21:43. | :21:49. | |
response was incredibly quick, also. I suppose everything went smoothly | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
as far as the response was concerned. As a Londoner, how do you | :21:53. | :22:00. | |
feel? I feel affected by having been there but I don't feel affected as a | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
Londoner. You don't feel more vulnerable? No, this is the sort of | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
thing that is in the back of our minds could happen at any time. As | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
people are saying, London is open and we stand united. I'm certainly | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
not going to use this as an excuse to be more afraid of the different | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
communities who make up London. In fact, it solidified in me the fact | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
London is a diverse multicultural city and we can celebrate that | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
through our unity together. I'm too, Dani. Following yesterday's vigil in | :22:32. | :22:40. | |
Trafalgar Square we will be talking a bit later about the impact on | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
communities and different faiths coming together. Let's focus on | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
questions being raised once again about the effectiveness of security | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
around the Houses of Parliament. The attacker Khalid Masood was able to | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
get past the carriage Gates at Westminster before he was shot by | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
police. This is what Scotland Yard's Mark Rowley had to say about | :23:03. | :23:04. | |
reviewing security. I understand why tragic events such | :23:05. | :23:12. | |
as this generates questions about the security of Parliament. Our | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
current arrangements have been developed with Parliament over many | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
years, and are designed to provide access to the seat of our | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
government, balanced carefully with security that is proportionate but | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
not overly intrusive. Of course after an incident like this, as | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
would be expected, my team will work with Parliamentary authorities to | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
assess whether a different tone or a different balance is necessary. More | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
widely across the country, the police service will sustain an | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
enhanced armed and unarmed presence over the next few days. London and | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
the UK are open for business, and we're out there in greater numbers | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
to make sure the public see a high presence, to help reassure them as | :23:55. | :24:01. | |
they go about their daily lives. In London, the number of armed officers | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
remains at nearly double strength, whilst other parts of the UK are up | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
to one third more officers on duty. We can now speak to Sidney Mackay, | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
a former Chief Superintendent His daughter, also a Met Officer, | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
was killed while on duty. His son is currently | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
serving Met officer. Tony Long, a former | :24:18. | :24:19. | |
police firearms officer. Anthony Glees who directs | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies | :24:24. | :24:25. | |
at the University of Buckingham. And Philip Ingram, a former | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
British Army Intelligence officer who has been | :24:29. | :24:30. | |
following the intelligence Thank you for joining us. We were | :24:31. | :24:43. | |
hearing that armed officers patrolling London are at double | :24:44. | :24:50. | |
strength. Tony, do you think police should be routinely armed? My | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
personal opinion is yes. I know I'm out of sync with a lot of my former | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
colleagues that are still serving but I think over the years, an | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
increasing percentage are coming towards that viewpoint. I think if | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
you have a limited resource, the chances are it's not going to be in | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
the right place at the right time. What is your view on arming police | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
officers? Privately I think it's inevitable that every officer will | :25:16. | :25:26. | |
become armed. The growing incidence of incidents such as two days ago | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
will require it. In this situation it was actually a protection officer | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
working for the Defence Secretary who fired the bullet that stopped | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
the attacker. What is your view, Tony, of the level of armed police | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
that are around Westminster in particular? We don't know why it was | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
a closed protection officer, perhaps he just happened to be the person at | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
that moment in time that found himself closest. In my experience, | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
normally, there are at least two uniformed armed officers in the | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
vicinity of that gate or certainly in the vicinity of that yard. They | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
may well have been there but this particular officer happen to be | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
nearest. The point I would make is that this assailant, terrorist, call | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
him what you will, made life relatively easy for the police in | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
this incident. Having run over his victims on Westminster Bridge, he | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
made his way to probably the most heavily armed building in London. If | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
he had done the same at the other end of Whitehall, and driven around | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
Trafalgar Square running people over or god forbid up into the West End, | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
we wouldn't have had static police officers waiting for him. We would | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
have had armed response vehicles, trying to make sense of gobbled | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
radio messages, trying to get through gridlocked streets. They | :26:48. | :26:49. | |
would have had to find him before they could have put his attack to a | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
finish. That's the point I'm making, if you have a limited resource and | :26:56. | :27:02. | |
you major firearms officers to specialist, Mr Rowley has just said | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
that there are double the amount of armed officers on the streets, | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
that's fine, but it's not sustainable. Those officers will be | :27:12. | :27:14. | |
an overtime because there aren't enough of them to maintain that. | :27:15. | :27:21. | |
With that scenario that Tony Long is outlining, a complete nightmare | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
scenario, something that would be much harder to handle, what are your | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
thoughts on the best way to protect people on the streets? The best way | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
to protect people and the best way to protect Parliament is actually to | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
protect it. What we saw two days ago was a lack of protection. I'm very | :27:41. | :27:46. | |
disturbed by the kind of complacent attitude, I'm afraid. I know, it's | :27:47. | :27:52. | |
been a terrible tragedy and people are traumatised by it, | :27:53. | :27:57. | |
understandably. But the fact is, both in immediate terms and in wider | :27:58. | :28:03. | |
terms, this was a failure of security policy. People may have | :28:04. | :28:06. | |
seen the pictures I've just seen on Twitter a few moments ago of Mrs May | :28:07. | :28:15. | |
being taken at great speed, in an extreme condition of chaos, Act of | :28:16. | :28:19. | |
Parliament. This was somebody who got within 100 metres of whether | :28:20. | :28:23. | |
Prime Minister was. If it had an explosive vest, you and I would be | :28:24. | :28:27. | |
having a very different conversation. When Mr Rowley says, | :28:28. | :28:32. | |
we've been planning this for a long time, it was proportionate, etc. It | :28:33. | :28:37. | |
wasn't proportionate at all. A very brave police officer confronted a | :28:38. | :28:45. | |
crazed Islamist attacker, without a weapon. This is lack of planning. I | :28:46. | :28:50. | |
think we become complacent in this country. Nobody wants to see armed | :28:51. | :28:56. | |
police, but that is the only response, particularly in | :28:57. | :29:02. | |
Westminster. The more we know about the perpetrator, the terrorist, the | :29:03. | :29:06. | |
more questions will be asked why this man slipped off the radar of | :29:07. | :29:11. | |
MI5. We've got a security service, we know there are 3000 people in | :29:12. | :29:15. | |
this country that want to do us harm, they should jolly well have | :29:16. | :29:20. | |
their collars felt. You are shaking your head at what was being said | :29:21. | :29:25. | |
there. I think it's been grossly unfair in misrepresenting what was | :29:26. | :29:28. | |
going on. I was in Westminster not long after the incident happened. | :29:29. | :29:32. | |
The police and emergency service response was phenomenally quick. | :29:33. | :29:39. | |
There's a balance between having complete security. If you do that, | :29:40. | :29:43. | |
everywhere is on all time, every member of the police is armed, | :29:44. | :29:46. | |
you've got soldiers on the street and that's a totalitarian state. We | :29:47. | :29:51. | |
are not, we are a free liberal democracy and we have to let people | :29:52. | :29:54. | |
go about their normal lives without oppressive security oppressive | :29:55. | :29:57. | |
security. Security starts with an outer ring of intelligence. It's | :29:58. | :30:02. | |
very difficult when you're looking at lone wolf attacks, which this | :30:03. | :30:06. | |
seems to have been, to pick up the intelligence that would indicate it. | :30:07. | :30:10. | |
Especially when some of the attackers that carry out these sort | :30:11. | :30:16. | |
of events go from zero to being crude boot recruited to jihad within | :30:17. | :30:22. | |
48 hours. Australian police last year stopped 216-year-olds from | :30:23. | :30:25. | |
carrying out attacks, they made an assessment that they had been | :30:26. | :30:29. | |
recruited to jihad within 48 hours. That's virtually impossible for any | :30:30. | :30:34. | |
security organisation to be able to keep on top. I agree with the | :30:35. | :30:37. | |
speakers in saying that I think now is time when our police forces, | :30:38. | :30:43. | |
certainly in our major cities and areas where there's concentrations | :30:44. | :30:48. | |
of people, should be routinely armed. | :30:49. | :30:53. | |
You are all of the consensus that it is time to routinely armed police... | :30:54. | :30:59. | |
There will be an awful lot of criticism and already has been in | :31:00. | :31:06. | |
terms of how he got as far as he did. It is worth bearing in mind | :31:07. | :31:13. | |
that in 1979, in the middle of a concerted Irish terrorism campaign, | :31:14. | :31:18. | |
a car bomb was detonated under a vehicle by the IRA within yards of | :31:19. | :31:25. | |
where the officer was killed the other day going into the underground | :31:26. | :31:32. | |
car park. But despite that between 1979 and the Twin towers going down | :31:33. | :31:38. | |
in 2001 Parliament consistently refused to have any armed police | :31:39. | :31:43. | |
officers within the Palace of Westminster. There is a tradition, | :31:44. | :31:47. | |
and quite understandably so around that building, the Sergeant at Arms | :31:48. | :31:56. | |
basically has to say yes or no to all of the security there and I | :31:57. | :32:00. | |
guarantee if the gates were shut the first person to complain about it, | :32:01. | :32:03. | |
probably because they would could not ride their bicycles through it, | :32:04. | :32:07. | |
would be a member of Parliament or cabinet member, so the unarmed | :32:08. | :32:10. | |
uniformed officers that are effectively meters and greeters and | :32:11. | :32:16. | |
pass checkers know that community well and they are on first name | :32:17. | :32:20. | |
terms with the MPs and everything else, and I think that that inspires | :32:21. | :32:28. | |
a lack of security in many ways, but most people seem to be in agreement, | :32:29. | :32:33. | |
if you are going to have officers there, this perception that because | :32:34. | :32:37. | |
they are carrying a gun changes the way they do policing, is, I'm | :32:38. | :32:43. | |
afraid, delusional. I carry guns over tea and covertly, I have been | :32:44. | :32:46. | |
there and communicated with the public, given them directions and | :32:47. | :32:49. | |
acted like an ordinary police officer as I was for the whole of my | :32:50. | :32:54. | |
service. Having a gun on your hip does not stop... Elsewhere in the | :32:55. | :32:58. | |
world it is almost insulting to suggest that the Dutch police or | :32:59. | :33:02. | |
French police or Swiss police don't have community policing, that their | :33:03. | :33:05. | |
officers are not approachable simply because they have a gun. It is a | :33:06. | :33:09. | |
fallacy that has been allowed to perpetuate to such an extent that | :33:10. | :33:13. | |
serving officers think that is what would happen if they had to carry a | :33:14. | :33:19. | |
gun, and it is simply not true. Olivier having on to say, should all | :33:20. | :33:23. | |
officers be armed, no, but more should. I'm a police officer, | :33:24. | :33:27. | |
British police haven't recruited officers with firearms in mind, then | :33:28. | :33:31. | |
he would not want to carry all not have the skills or aptitude, but all | :33:32. | :33:34. | |
officers should be offered the chance to carry a weapon and if they | :33:35. | :33:38. | |
have -- if they pass the rigorous selection and training they should | :33:39. | :33:42. | |
carry, this occurred in the most heavily policed area in the country, | :33:43. | :33:47. | |
if it happened in other areas it could take 45 minutes for armed | :33:48. | :33:49. | |
police to arrive. What is your view on whether there | :33:50. | :33:54. | |
would be an appetite for the police to be armed? I have to agree with | :33:55. | :33:58. | |
Tony, there has been a recent poll by the Met Police Federation on | :33:59. | :34:04. | |
firearms and Taser 's within the federation membership, and I think | :34:05. | :34:07. | |
they were all in favour of Tasers but rejected considerably not to | :34:08. | :34:19. | |
carry firearms. I think it is a mystique that has been built up over | :34:20. | :34:23. | |
the years not just by police but by the public as well, the perception | :34:24. | :34:27. | |
of the public, that we've always traditionally had a unarmed police, | :34:28. | :34:32. | |
and this is a gold standard of some sort. I don't deny that and I | :34:33. | :34:39. | |
recognise it, but there is a mindset for the moment not to carry firearms | :34:40. | :34:43. | |
but I think, as I said initially, that it will be inevitable that | :34:44. | :34:48. | |
officers will personally realise that they must go along that path. | :34:49. | :34:53. | |
It might not be tomorrow, but I think it will be sometime in the not | :34:54. | :34:59. | |
too distant future. It will have huge resource implications for the | :35:00. | :35:03. | |
UK police service as a whole, both in training and getting officers to | :35:04. | :35:09. | |
volunteer under present circumstances to carry a weapon. | :35:10. | :35:13. | |
Thank you all very much for joining us, and if you have any more | :35:14. | :35:16. | |
comments they are always welcome, the usual ways of getting in touch. | :35:17. | :35:21. | |
Following yesterday's vigil in Trafalgar Square, | :35:22. | :35:29. | |
I'll talk to religious leaders from various fates about what role | :35:30. | :35:33. | |
religion can play in the aftermath of a terrorist attack. | :35:34. | :35:35. | |
And we'll look at the global fight against so-called Islamic State | :35:36. | :35:38. | |
and whether we're likely to see more terror attacks in the west. | :35:39. | :35:42. | |
Here's Annita in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of today's news. | :35:43. | :35:48. | |
A fourth victim who died last night after being knocked down | :35:49. | :35:51. | |
in the Westminster attack has been named by police as 75-year-old | :35:52. | :35:54. | |
Leslie Rhodes from Streatham, in South London. | :35:55. | :35:57. | |
Two people remain in hospital in a critical condition. | :35:58. | :36:02. | |
Two police officers hurt in the attack are also in hospital | :36:03. | :36:04. | |
In a statement this morning, police investigating the attack have | :36:05. | :36:12. | |
revealed that they've made two further significant | :36:13. | :36:13. | |
Nine people are now in custody, one woman has been released on bail. | :36:14. | :36:21. | |
Police have also revealed the attacker, Khalid Masood, was born | :36:22. | :36:23. | |
The police have appealed for information from anyone | :36:24. | :36:26. | |
Bad behaviour in English schools is not being dealt with properly | :36:27. | :36:33. | |
and pupils' performance is being negatively effected. | :36:34. | :36:35. | |
That's the view of the the Government's school | :36:36. | :36:38. | |
In a review published today, he says more funding | :36:39. | :36:41. | |
and better training are needed to tackle the issue. | :36:42. | :36:43. | |
The report also recommends that school inspectors pay more attention | :36:44. | :36:46. | |
to behaviour issues, and warns they are often | :36:47. | :36:48. | |
glossed over when schools produce good results. | :36:49. | :36:54. | |
The President of the European Commission has told the BBC | :36:55. | :36:57. | |
that the EU will not seek to punish Britain during Brexit negotiations. | :36:58. | :37:02. | |
Speaking on the eve of the EU's 60th anniversary celebrations, | :37:03. | :37:05. | |
Jean-Claude Juncker said the exit talks will be approached fairly | :37:06. | :37:07. | |
but warned that Britain will be held to financial commitments made | :37:08. | :37:10. | |
Customers should be paid automatic compensation by their phone | :37:11. | :37:15. | |
companies for problems with landlines and broadband. | :37:16. | :37:20. | |
The telecoms regulator Ofcom says providers should pay | :37:21. | :37:22. | |
customers for slow repairs, delayed connections | :37:23. | :37:24. | |
The plans could affect more than 2.5 million customers | :37:25. | :37:29. | |
who would receive up to ?185 million in new compensation | :37:30. | :37:32. | |
At the moment, compensation is only paid to a small number of customers. | :37:33. | :37:44. | |
That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 10am. | :37:45. | :37:47. | |
Lewis Hamilton called his first day of the new Formula One season "99% | :37:48. | :37:59. | |
perfect" after finishing fastest in both practice sessions | :38:00. | :38:01. | |
He was more than half a second quicker than the rest | :38:02. | :38:10. | |
in the second session and that, in Formula One, | :38:11. | :38:20. | |
particularly with the new faster cars, is a lot. | :38:21. | :38:22. | |
That lap allowed him to finish ahead of Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel | :38:23. | :38:25. | |
and new Mercedes teammate Valteri Bottas in Melbourne. | :38:26. | :38:27. | |
Soren Kjeldsen's win at the WGC Match Play golf sends | :38:28. | :38:29. | |
And the world number two didn't even play after his opponent withdrew. | :38:30. | :38:33. | |
As a result Kjeldsen needed just a half to prevent McIlroy | :38:34. | :38:36. | |
British Swimming is conducting an investigation after multiple | :38:37. | :38:39. | |
bullying claims were made by Paralympians about a coach. | :38:40. | :38:41. | |
BBC Sport has learned the complainants include | :38:42. | :38:43. | |
And David Haye has been called before boxing authorities | :38:44. | :38:46. | |
to explain his comments in the build-up to his heavyweight | :38:47. | :38:48. | |
Haye had graphically described the injuries that he hoped | :38:49. | :38:52. | |
Last night a candlelit vigil was held in Trafalgar Square | :38:53. | :39:24. | |
to remember those that lost their lives and that | :39:25. | :39:31. | |
These are the words from London's mayor. | :39:32. | :39:38. | |
London is a city with people from all sorts of backgrounds. When | :39:39. | :39:41. | |
London faces diversity, we all pull together. We stand up for our | :39:42. | :39:50. | |
values, and we show the world we are the greatest city in the world. | :39:51. | :39:54. | |
Let's speak now to the Archdeacon of London, Luke Miller. | :39:55. | :39:58. | |
The Rabbi Dr Jonathan Roman, who has edited a book called Terror, | :39:59. | :40:03. | |
Trauma And Tragedy, on how communities should respond | :40:04. | :40:05. | |
And Imam Yunus Dudhwala, who is the Head of Chaplaincy | :40:06. | :40:11. | |
and Bereavement Services to Barts Health NHS Trust. | :40:12. | :40:16. | |
Thank you all for coming in, Father Luke Millar, you were at the vigil, | :40:17. | :40:23. | |
tell us what it was like. It was an extraordinary experience to have the | :40:24. | :40:26. | |
privilege of looking across so many people who had come to show that | :40:27. | :40:29. | |
London stands together, that we are unified in the face of this kind of | :40:30. | :40:35. | |
attack and determined we will not be terrorised out of normal behaviour, | :40:36. | :40:40. | |
that we shall carry on in all our extraordinary multifarious | :40:41. | :40:45. | |
diversity. Imam Yunus Dudhwala, what is your view of faith leaders at a | :40:46. | :40:49. | |
time like this? We have a very important role to play to try to | :40:50. | :40:52. | |
bring communities together, especially in communities that are | :40:53. | :40:58. | |
very diverse. We have mosques, churches, synagogues, temples, we | :40:59. | :41:02. | |
have communities, we have people from different religious | :41:03. | :41:09. | |
backgrounds, so it is a time for us to mind ourselves as leaders and | :41:10. | :41:13. | |
lead from the front to make sure people understand our values are | :41:14. | :41:17. | |
very similar, our backgrounds are similar in terms of humanity, and | :41:18. | :41:22. | |
the need to respect each other and tolerance, but faith leaders have a | :41:23. | :41:26. | |
very important role. What is the evidence you have seen about how | :41:27. | :41:32. | |
people are responding? I live in London and looking at how people | :41:33. | :41:36. | |
have been going about their normal business, the vigil that was held at | :41:37. | :41:41. | |
Trafalgar Square last night, there were many other vigils in Tower | :41:42. | :41:45. | |
Hamlets, Leeds, Manchester, other places as well, so I think | :41:46. | :41:49. | |
communities realise that one person does not represent the whole | :41:50. | :41:54. | |
community and it is about our human values. Rabbi Jonathan Roman, would | :41:55. | :41:59. | |
you have concerns about division in the aftermath of something like | :42:00. | :42:01. | |
this? No, the fact there are three -- the Christian, a Jew and Muslim | :42:02. | :42:15. | |
sitting together, after the last attack, I said a prayer in Hebrew, | :42:16. | :42:24. | |
an imam came and said a prayer in Arabic. Something like that would | :42:25. | :42:28. | |
not have happened if there had not been an attack like that? Yes, | :42:29. | :42:32. | |
although to be honest it was built on years and years of coming | :42:33. | :42:35. | |
together and although, yes, we are now talking about it, actually the | :42:36. | :42:39. | |
interfaith dialogue has been going on for decades, probably 50 or 60 | :42:40. | :42:44. | |
years, and it is that slow local individual work that has been | :42:45. | :42:47. | |
building up which allows us to be on first name terms and know about each | :42:48. | :42:54. | |
other's theology. The only problem about last night was a pop-up | :42:55. | :42:58. | |
community and I think this is where religious buildings and institutions | :42:59. | :43:04. | |
school because people do need their candlelight, their songs, their | :43:05. | :43:06. | |
camaraderie, but what happens next week? That community in Trafalgar | :43:07. | :43:10. | |
Square has gone but the synagogue, the mosque, the church will be open | :43:11. | :43:14. | |
week after week so people who have the need to disperse -- to express | :43:15. | :43:18. | |
their dismay, anger, for solidarity, they have a place to go week after | :43:19. | :43:24. | |
week. What you talk about, the slow building of relations in communities | :43:25. | :43:29. | |
obviously sounds absolutely ideal and like a good place to be. Luke, | :43:30. | :43:36. | |
how do you see that actually in operation? In London I think we have | :43:37. | :43:43. | |
a very deep sense of the work that goes on in that way locally all the | :43:44. | :43:46. | |
time, it was one of those things that bubbles from the bottom up, | :43:47. | :43:50. | |
people know one another because they share the same streets and shops, we | :43:51. | :43:55. | |
work together in all sorts of places, schools and across all | :43:56. | :44:03. | |
workplaces. We see, therefore, as Jonathan says, we see this bubbling | :44:04. | :44:08. | |
up from the bottom all the time. I think one of the main pieces of work | :44:09. | :44:11. | |
that we have going on is precisely this response to major attacks and | :44:12. | :44:17. | |
other things that can happen, whether it be a flood or a fire, | :44:18. | :44:21. | |
where the faith communities have a well worked out system for working | :44:22. | :44:25. | |
together. What I'm hearing from all of you is a very positive message | :44:26. | :44:30. | |
about when it goes right but clearly there are incidents of division of | :44:31. | :44:35. | |
people who are not pulling together, and hatred being fuelled. To be | :44:36. | :44:41. | |
honest, there are lunatics out there, not just religious lunatics | :44:42. | :44:44. | |
but political lunatics, animal-rights lunatics, it is human | :44:45. | :44:48. | |
nature, not religion, and by and large religion is there as a force | :44:49. | :44:53. | |
for good. And again, thinking about what happened yesterday, there was | :44:54. | :44:57. | |
one terrorist but hundreds of people who stopped to rescue, comfort, give | :44:58. | :45:01. | |
medical aid, thousands upon thousands now giving money, and we | :45:02. | :45:05. | |
underestimate that most people are good, decent, friendly. Brendan Cox | :45:06. | :45:13. | |
make the point that just because a Yorkshireman committed a murder it | :45:14. | :45:17. | |
does not make all Yorkshiremen murderers. On that, Yunus, how | :45:18. | :45:24. | |
important is the language, because Theresa May said yesterday it was | :45:25. | :45:27. | |
wrong to describe the attack as Islamic terrorism, she said it was | :45:28. | :45:32. | |
Islamist, a perversion of the great debate. I personally think Islamist | :45:33. | :45:36. | |
is also a perversion, because if you bring Islam into it, even as | :45:37. | :45:41. | |
Islamist, I think that is a problem in itself. How would you describe | :45:42. | :45:47. | |
it? For me, it is a lot to do with politics, it is a lot to do with the | :45:48. | :45:51. | |
Middle East, it is a lot to do with power structures within the Middle | :45:52. | :45:57. | |
East, and then the connection that the international players try to | :45:58. | :46:03. | |
find within this community of hours to say, look, I connection with you | :46:04. | :46:09. | |
and I is Islam, and they use is lamb as the catch. Yes, if land is used | :46:10. | :46:13. | |
as a cat but in reality there are lots of different issues -- Islam. | :46:14. | :46:22. | |
Are you concerned that bringing the term Islam is divisive? Yes, it is | :46:23. | :46:26. | |
part of the problem, but not the whole problem. This individual might | :46:27. | :46:29. | |
have been a Muslim but there are lots of issues going on. I think one | :46:30. | :46:34. | |
of the biggest issues that we have to try to bring the communities | :46:35. | :46:43. | |
together is the outcast routes, people live on the same streets but | :46:44. | :46:46. | |
don't talk to each other, people go to the shops but don't talk to the | :46:47. | :46:50. | |
person in front of them. People have taken Islam from the media or from | :46:51. | :46:55. | |
what they see or they breed and it gives that message. I would urge | :46:56. | :46:59. | |
people to talk to each other, Muslims talking to Christians, | :47:00. | :47:03. | |
Christians talking to Jews. It has to happen at grassroots. I have been | :47:04. | :47:07. | |
invited, before this incident, to speak to some rabbis next week in an | :47:08. | :47:14. | |
mosque, and that is how it is going to happen, communities need to open | :47:15. | :47:17. | |
their doors and we need to speak to each other. In the 60s and 70s doors | :47:18. | :47:22. | |
were open, everyone knew each other. Today we are very individualistic | :47:23. | :47:26. | |
and therefore people just ignore each other, they take the news all | :47:27. | :47:29. | |
the information from the media and it can be skewed. | :47:30. | :47:34. | |
The coming together you are talking about is very much faith -based. But | :47:35. | :47:39. | |
not everybody out there has faith and is involved in communities like | :47:40. | :47:44. | |
that. And actually they live in communities where people don't | :47:45. | :47:47. | |
intersect with each other. If there's one thing that people do as | :47:48. | :47:50. | |
a result of what happened at Westminster, it is that if you have | :47:51. | :47:54. | |
a neighbour or someone in your street of a different race, colour, | :47:55. | :47:59. | |
ethnic group of faith, or in the office at work, who you nod to but | :48:00. | :48:03. | |
don't know, say, come round for a cup of tea. Do you think people | :48:04. | :48:08. | |
would do that these days? People think, what can we do. Is a | :48:09. | :48:13. | |
practical example. Spend 15 minutes with someone, get to know them and | :48:14. | :48:17. | |
find out how they are different but how they worry about the same | :48:18. | :48:23. | |
things, education, mortgage, and see the commonality underneath. Going | :48:24. | :48:27. | |
back to your earlier point about words, I wouldn't want to describe | :48:28. | :48:32. | |
the chap yesterday as Islamist, call him a criminal, call him a murderer, | :48:33. | :48:36. | |
and put him on a par with all the other people who do atrocious | :48:37. | :48:44. | |
things. Absolutely. Just going back to... Ask people why they dress | :48:45. | :48:47. | |
differently, ask about their cultures, don't just as Schumann. | :48:48. | :48:51. | |
Sometimes we see somebody on the street and just because it's written | :48:52. | :48:58. | |
this person used to dress in black, or they used to dress in white | :48:59. | :49:08. | |
robes. -- don't just assume. That brings suspicion. What if he was a | :49:09. | :49:11. | |
gardener, what if he was a coffee shop owner? Are all copy shop owners | :49:12. | :49:18. | |
or gardeners now guilty? Language is really important, we need to be | :49:19. | :49:21. | |
careful with language. What are your thoughts? I think the atomisation of | :49:22. | :49:27. | |
society are something we stand against as religious people. The | :49:28. | :49:31. | |
message of most religions is about people coming together. Just talking | :49:32. | :49:34. | |
to our neighbours, engaging with the person in the shop. We go to the | :49:35. | :49:40. | |
machine, the card pins and we walk away without engaging with anybody. | :49:41. | :49:45. | |
Finding all those opportunities, in the workplace, wherever we are | :49:46. | :49:48. | |
during the day, how we are engaging with the people with whom we live | :49:49. | :49:52. | |
and with whom we share our society. And finding those opportunities to | :49:53. | :49:56. | |
reach out to them, rather than just being in an atomised world. I think | :49:57. | :50:00. | |
the other thing is that if we are clear about what we believe and | :50:01. | :50:03. | |
think ourselves, we more easily reach out to someone who is | :50:04. | :50:09. | |
different. What we have tended to do in our discussion about inclusivity, | :50:10. | :50:13. | |
is to ask for a kind of anodyne uniformity, that then sees | :50:14. | :50:19. | |
difference as something of which to be afraid. That kind of unity isn't | :50:20. | :50:26. | |
unity at all. It's a way of expressing atomisation and of | :50:27. | :50:29. | |
increasing fear. Whereas if we are able in all of our wonderful | :50:30. | :50:33. | |
difference, to express that clearly, and then from that to be able to | :50:34. | :50:37. | |
reach out to others, it seems to me we can form a stronger and more | :50:38. | :50:42. | |
effective society. And at the same time rescue got from the terrorists. | :50:43. | :50:46. | |
There's no doubt religion has been hijacked by these lunatics and we | :50:47. | :50:50. | |
can say actually... That's been going on forever. We had Protestant | :50:51. | :50:56. | |
and Catholic terrorists and all that sort of thing. Thank you for joining | :50:57. | :51:02. | |
us. Let us know your thoughts. We'll be talking in a few moments about | :51:03. | :51:08. | |
how to actually tackle IS. Let's bring you some breaking news we are | :51:09. | :51:13. | |
hearing out of Egypt. We hear the former President Hosni Mubarak has | :51:14. | :51:16. | |
walked free for the first time in six years. He has been released from | :51:17. | :51:25. | |
jail. There is an image of him. He is out of prison for the first time | :51:26. | :51:29. | |
in six years. We will bring you more on that as we have it. | :51:30. | :51:33. | |
Coming up, we look at the threat of home-grown terror, | :51:34. | :51:35. | |
and what the government is doing to stop UK citizens | :51:36. | :51:37. | |
We can bring you some comments on arming the police following on from | :51:38. | :51:53. | |
the earlier conversation we had about security issues arising from | :51:54. | :51:57. | |
the terror attack. One viewer says, I think all police should receive | :51:58. | :52:00. | |
firearms training but I don't think they should be routinely armed. | :52:01. | :52:05. | |
Another viewer says, people need to step back, we don't need armed | :52:06. | :52:08. | |
police on our streets, let's not forget the attack failed. Another | :52:09. | :52:14. | |
tweet, guns, tasered, buttons, give the police something. Another Tweet, | :52:15. | :52:20. | |
the world is changing, the threat is changing, for the safety of police | :52:21. | :52:23. | |
and public they all have to be armed. A tweet, armed police should | :52:24. | :52:28. | |
have been around the gate to cover the backs of the an armed police. | :52:29. | :52:36. | |
Imagine if the terrorist had a gun. Please keep your comments coming in. | :52:37. | :52:40. | |
The so-called Islamic State yesterday claimed it was behind | :52:41. | :52:42. | |
the attack in London which resulted in the death of three people | :52:43. | :52:45. | |
Over the last 18 months IS has claimed responsibility for several | :52:46. | :52:48. | |
atrocities in Europe, including shootings | :52:49. | :52:50. | |
But the Islamist group has suffered heavy losses in Syria, | :52:51. | :52:53. | |
and in Iraq is facing defeat in its last stronghold in Mosul. | :52:54. | :52:56. | |
Does that mean future attacks in the West are less likely? | :52:57. | :53:07. | |
Joining me now is Dr Natasha Underhill from | :53:08. | :53:09. | |
Nottingham Trent University and Charlie Winter from | :53:10. | :53:11. | |
the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation | :53:12. | :53:13. | |
and Political Violence at King's College London. | :53:14. | :53:16. | |
Thank you for joining us. IS has claimed Khalid Masood as one of its | :53:17. | :53:24. | |
soldiers and said this is an act of IS. Natasha, what are your thoughts | :53:25. | :53:28. | |
on whether this was effectively a lone wolf or whether, as IS claims, | :53:29. | :53:35. | |
it had some level of involvement? I would be more inclined to assume | :53:36. | :53:39. | |
this was a lone wolf, that this person had become almost self | :53:40. | :53:43. | |
radicalised. What IS are actually doing is capitalising on the | :53:44. | :53:46. | |
publicity. All terrorist organisations want a theatre and | :53:47. | :53:51. | |
this is a global news story. Essentially they are just | :53:52. | :53:54. | |
capitalising on the fact that this is getting their name out there, | :53:55. | :53:58. | |
because of the losses they have been suffering, they need something to | :53:59. | :54:01. | |
promote themselves again. This is the perfect example of that. | :54:02. | :54:08. | |
Charlie, do you doubt that IS was directly involved? Security services | :54:09. | :54:14. | |
look at three options whether IS could have actively directed | :54:15. | :54:16. | |
something, enabled it or inspired it. Based on the information that we | :54:17. | :54:23. | |
have in front of us now, based on everything that Islamic State has | :54:24. | :54:26. | |
said over the course of the last 36 hours, there's nothing to indicate | :54:27. | :54:32. | |
it had an instructive role in the operation. The way it's framed its | :54:33. | :54:37. | |
messaging sense and all of its propaganda regarding everything | :54:38. | :54:41. | |
else, the way it's talking or not talking about London, is really | :54:42. | :54:45. | |
significant. You can read into that based on what happened in the past. | :54:46. | :54:48. | |
All of the indication is that this was an attack it's trying to framer | :54:49. | :54:54. | |
something it inspired rather than it directed. If it had directed it, it | :54:55. | :55:00. | |
would be going to town on showing it did. Martyrdom videos frequently | :55:01. | :55:05. | |
emerge, don't they? They do, there is a slim chance that Khalid Masood | :55:06. | :55:10. | |
could have filmed himself pledging allegiance to the leader of Islamic | :55:11. | :55:13. | |
State and sent it out and there could be a video that will show | :55:14. | :55:18. | |
that. But until that happens, I don't think we should think about it | :55:19. | :55:25. | |
as if it's a reality already. Worthy organisation to try and claim this | :55:26. | :55:28. | |
operation as something it directed, the whole propaganda response would | :55:29. | :55:32. | |
have been very different -- were the organisation to try and claim this | :55:33. | :55:36. | |
operation. We talked about the impact on the ground on IS's | :55:37. | :55:41. | |
capabilities, is translating to IS's power being reduced in terms of the | :55:42. | :55:46. | |
operations that can be carried out, away from Syria and Iraqi? There's | :55:47. | :55:50. | |
definitely a relationship between what happens in Syria and Iraq and | :55:51. | :55:54. | |
the rest of the world. But I would be a bit cautious about drawing to | :55:55. | :55:59. | |
linear a connection between the two. Definitely the case is that, as the | :56:00. | :56:05. | |
Islamic State loses Mosul and its territories in Syria crumble, that's | :56:06. | :56:09. | |
not even to mention Libya, it really does need this kind of attack, it | :56:10. | :56:13. | |
needs to derive momentum from somewhere in order to keep its | :56:14. | :56:17. | |
current supporters interested, to maintain a sense of legitimacy, | :56:18. | :56:21. | |
credibility, relevance. So this kind of attack and the propaganda that | :56:22. | :56:25. | |
follows it, the impact, is so important for Islamic State now. If | :56:26. | :56:32. | |
we understand all of these atrocities through that lens, I | :56:33. | :56:36. | |
think it really helps to allow us to point towards its strategic logic. | :56:37. | :56:40. | |
How would you describe the strategic logic of IS, Natasha? And what its | :56:41. | :56:47. | |
capabilities are? At the moment I think we are slightly over | :56:48. | :56:50. | |
estimating the group. I think in a way we are giving them too much | :56:51. | :56:53. | |
credit for what they can achieve. Yes, they've taken territory, yes | :56:54. | :56:57. | |
they been able to contain and control. What we need to do is | :56:58. | :57:01. | |
capitalise on their losses. We have to remember they are built on an | :57:02. | :57:04. | |
ideology whether caliphate is key. They were able to establish that but | :57:05. | :57:09. | |
now they are losing that territory again. What we need to do is make | :57:10. | :57:15. | |
sure we aren't just challenging then militarily but also targeting that | :57:16. | :57:19. | |
ideology. Discredit their idea of the caliphate, discredit them in | :57:20. | :57:22. | |
terms of their successes and capitalise on that. I think we need | :57:23. | :57:25. | |
to think clearly about countering not just the organisation itself, | :57:26. | :57:30. | |
but also its ideology. This is the most dangerous thing for us here in | :57:31. | :57:35. | |
the West. Charlie, a fundamental aspect of the way it operates is | :57:36. | :57:39. | |
online. Absolutely. And through propaganda that it disseminates | :57:40. | :57:42. | |
online. What we've seen over the last few days is a utter | :57:43. | :57:46. | |
transformation in how it uses the inter-net. Things like Twitter, | :57:47. | :57:51. | |
Facebook, they are still important, but it's inhospitable for Islamic | :57:52. | :57:55. | |
State supporters. We've seen a retreat into darker parts of the | :57:56. | :57:59. | |
inter-net which are more difficult to access, which is good in the | :58:00. | :58:02. | |
grand scheme of things but it means in terms of getting propaganda out | :58:03. | :58:06. | |
there it's a lot more difficult. Of course that makes it more difficult | :58:07. | :58:09. | |
to monitor for the intelligence services because a lot of these | :58:10. | :58:13. | |
channels are encrypted or secret and that's another level of difficulty. | :58:14. | :58:19. | |
In the broadest terms, the fact is its propaganda is no longer as easy | :58:20. | :58:23. | |
to access on the inter-as it once was. We have to commend everyone | :58:24. | :58:28. | |
involved in making that situation happen. -- the inter-net. Coming up. | :58:29. | :58:36. | |
Coming up, coping with the aftermath of a terror attack. | :58:37. | :58:38. | |
I'll hear from some people who witnessed horrific events | :58:39. | :58:40. | |
Good morning. Contrasting weather conditions across the UK at the | :58:41. | :58:53. | |
moment. This is the scene for many of you, a lovely shot there. We've | :58:54. | :58:58. | |
got blue skies overhead. It's a different story across some southern | :58:59. | :59:03. | |
parts of England and the North of Scotland. Cloudy conditions much | :59:04. | :59:08. | |
like this one. That's under this sheet of clouds. There are two areas | :59:09. | :59:13. | |
of cloud, this is high cloud, the most it's sunny conditions through | :59:14. | :59:19. | |
the central area of the UK. This cloud is producing outbreaks of rain | :59:20. | :59:23. | |
across Somerset, Devon and Cornwall. Pretty cold in the South banks to | :59:24. | :59:26. | |
the wind. Things will brighten up here. Rain through parts of northern | :59:27. | :59:32. | |
Scotland this morning but something a bit brighter into the afternoon. | :59:33. | :59:38. | |
The vast majority of the UK, it's a sunny Friday and very pleasant too | :59:39. | :59:45. | |
with light winds. But high pressure is in charge for the central suede | :59:46. | :59:49. | |
and where the winds are lightest, will seize on mist and fog form. -- | :59:50. | :59:55. | |
the central area where the winds are lightest. Conditions are colder than | :59:56. | :00:05. | |
last night. We're into the weekend on a pretty chilly start. High | :00:06. | :00:10. | |
pressure is their right across us. On the outskirts we've got breezy | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
conditions in northern Scotland. A brighter day in the south but still | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
pretty blustery, weather winds are lightest and for most of you, it | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
will be a sunny day. Even sunnier across the South than today. | :00:23. | :00:24. | |
Temperatures will lift up quite nicely. If you are along some of | :00:25. | :00:36. | |
these eastern coasts it's a different story. Strong winds coming | :00:37. | :00:44. | |
off a chilly North Sea. You'll still have the same strong sunshine | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
overhead. That's because high pressure remains with us. It's there | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
into Saturday night. Just a bit further north, the focus for some | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
mist and fog and coldest conditions will be Scotland, Northern Ireland | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
and northern England. Most. Mothering Sunday on a dry and sunny | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
note. Quite chilly across eastern areas. We could get around 16 or 17 | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
Celsius. Warmest conditions perhaps in the highlands of Scotland. On | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
Sunday, that clock change is coming and we are going to British | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
summertime. Good news for those working the night shift, not so much | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
for those who don't want to get up early. At least the evenings will be | :01:22. | :01:22. | |
brighter. Hello, I'm Joanna Gosling, | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
welcome to the show. More details emerge | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
of the man who carried out Khalid Masood was previously known | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
as Adrian Russell Ajao A woman who rushed to help one | :01:34. | :01:45. | |
of the victims on Westminster bridge I was just talking to him, really, | :01:46. | :01:59. | |
he was unconscious but you never know what people are aware of | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
themselves so I was talking to him, telling him what was going on, | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
describing when the ambulances were coming and hoping some part of him | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
was registering our present and that we were there to help him. | :02:10. | :02:11. | |
An American tourist posts a picture of murdered police | :02:12. | :02:21. | |
officer Keith Palmer before he died, as the 75-year-old man | :02:22. | :02:23. | |
who died from his injuries last night is named as Leslie Rhodes | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
Police say they have made two most significant arrests overnight and | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
are trawling through massive amounts of computer data. They urge the | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
public to help them. We have had contact with 3500 witnesses, | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
including 1000 people from Westminster Bridge and about 2500 | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
within the Parliamentary estate. I'm Ben Brown live at Westminster | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
where the roads have reopened for the first time since the attack. I | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
will bring you the latest on the fast-moving police investigation | :02:56. | :02:55. | |
into what happened here. Hello, welcome to the programme, we | :02:56. | :03:11. | |
are live until 11am. One e-mail, we must protect the | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
protectors. In this day and age, police are like soldiers on our | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
street and they need armour like the Knights of old. They are here rose | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
and the threat of anyone, any time needs to be addressed properly. | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
Another e-mail, the police should carry Tasers in places like | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
Parliament. If PC Palmer had been armed with one, he may still be | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
alive. An e-mail from Val, I would feel | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
reassured seeing police armed on the streets. We have to wake up and | :03:39. | :03:47. | |
realise this is the world we are now living in. | :03:48. | :03:49. | |
Thank you for those comments, you are always welcome to get in touch | :03:50. | :03:51. | |
with us throughout the programme. Texts will be charged at the | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
standard network rate. Let's get the latest from Ben Brown now in | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
Westminster. Good morning, Joanna. Westminster | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
seems to be back to normal this morning, the roads around here open | :04:02. | :04:02. | |
border first time since the attack. Police investigating the attack | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
on Westminster have revealed that they've made two further | :04:06. | :04:07. | |
"significant" arrests overnight. Nine people are now in custody, | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
one woman has been released on bail. A fourth victim who died last night | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
has been named by police as 75-year-old Leslie Rhodes | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
from Streatham, in South London. Scotland Yard's Acting | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
Deputy Commissioner, Mark Rowley, said the attacker, | :04:27. | :04:28. | |
Khalid Masood, had been born First, for the latest | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
on the investigation, This photo is thought to have been | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
taken of PC Keith Palmer just 45 The American tourist seen with him | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
was at Westminster prior to the attack and asked | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
if she could pose with the opposite. Other victims of the attack | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
were Aysha Frade, a mother of two. Also an American | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
tourist, Kurt Cochran. Police have also confirmed that | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
another man has died. Whilst we await formal | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
identification, we believe that he is Leslie Rhodes, | :05:08. | :05:09. | |
aged 75, from Streatham My thoughts are with his | :05:10. | :05:11. | |
family at this time. Furthermore, two people remain | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
in hospital in what is described as critical condition, | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
and one person is considered to have The man responsible for the deaths | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
was 52-year-old Khalid Masood, he was previously known | :05:23. | :05:38. | |
as Adrian Russell Ajao. He was born in Kent and most | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
recently lived in the West Midlands. He had a range of previous | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
convictions including GBH, possession of offensive weapons, | :05:46. | :05:47. | |
and public order offences. His last conviction was in 2003 | :05:48. | :05:49. | |
for possession of a knife. He was also known under a number | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
of aliases, and he was known Police said overnight | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
there were two significant arrests Nine people are in custody, | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
one woman has been released on bail. Live searches are continuing. 2700 | :05:59. | :06:10. | |
items have been seized, including computer data. Police are appealing | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
to the public for information as they try to piece together whether | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
Masood acted alone or as part of a wider network. | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
Anyone who knew Khalid Masood well, anyone who understands | :06:22. | :06:23. | |
who his associates were, anyone who can provide | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
information about the places he's recently visited. | :06:28. | :06:29. | |
There might well be people out there who did have concerns | :06:30. | :06:31. | |
about Masood but weren't sure or didn't feel comfortable | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
for whatever reasons in passing that information to us. | :06:35. | :06:36. | |
I now urge anyone with such information to call us. | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
The attack has reverberated across the world, but it was an attack | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
Shots show the Prime Minister being led away to safety | :06:45. | :06:54. | |
by her security team, a scene of uncertainty. | :06:55. | :06:56. | |
It was still unclear what had gone on outside the gates of Westminster. | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
Last night the police, politicians and faith leaders | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
joined thousands of people in Trafalgar Square, | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
with the message that terrorism and fear will not prevail. | :07:08. | :07:16. | |
A lot more detail emerging this morning about the police | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
investigation. Let's get the latest | :07:20. | :07:20. | |
from the Metropolitan Police Headquarters at Scotland Yard | :07:21. | :07:22. | |
with our correspondent Yes, first we got more details about | :07:23. | :07:34. | |
those who were injured in this attack, police now saying 50 people | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
injured and of those being treated in hospital they said two are still | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
considered to be in critical condition and one person considered | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
to have life-threatening injuries. Two police officers remain in | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
hospital with what are described as very significant injuries. Police | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
said that those affected are from a cross-section of different ages and | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
from at least 12 different nationalities, and we heard there in | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
that report also new information about aliases used by the attacker, | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
Khalid Masood. We have also heard more about the scope of this | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
inquiries, police say it is an investigation involving hundreds of | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
officers from across the counter terrorism network, they describe it | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
as a very large, fast-paced investigation, focusing on Masood's | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
possible motivation, preparation, potential associates. Police say | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
they are determined to find out if he acted totally alone, if he was | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
inspired by terrorist propaganda, if others had encouraged, supported or | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
directed him. They said there have now been searches at five addresses | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
ongoing, 16 searches concluded. They also say they have had contact with | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
around 3500 witnesses, these are witnesses either from Westminster | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
Bridge or the Parliamentary estate, and also an update on security, | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
police saying there is now an enhanced armed police presence in | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
London, they say the number of armed officers remains near double | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
strength and in other parts of the UK up to one third more armed | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
officers on duty. OK, Daniel, thank you very much | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
indeed, Daniel Boettcher there for us at New Scotland Yard. | :09:17. | :09:18. | |
Armed police have raided several properties in Birmingham | :09:19. | :09:20. | |
Our correspondent Kathryn Stanczyszyn | :09:21. | :09:22. | |
Two significant arrests that police have updated in the last hour, | :09:23. | :09:29. | |
one of those was made overnight here in the West Midlands, | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
one in the north-west, and seven of the arrests yesterday | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
were made here in the West Midlands, too. | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
As you say, we know the car that was used on that | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
Westminster Bridge attack was actually hired from a rental | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
centre around five minutes away from where I am now on Hagley Road. | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
This was where the activity was focused first here | :09:52. | :09:53. | |
in Birmingham on Wednesday night, a flat behind me was | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
The activity then moved to a house about five minutes | :09:57. | :10:06. | |
away, where it's believed that the attacker actually | :10:07. | :10:08. | |
Neighbours shocked to recognise Khalid Masood in photographs, | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
saying that they believed he'd been living in a house there up | :10:15. | :10:16. | |
And the car rental centre was just a short walk from there, | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
and BBC sources have told us that they believe he actually hired | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
Now, this has been a huge police operation. | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
Of course searches have spanned a big geographical area - | :10:34. | :10:35. | |
Sussex, London, here in the West Midlands | :10:36. | :10:37. | |
But of course the prevalence of the arrests made here | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
in Birmingham have led people to talk about whether the city has | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
Some of the press describing Birmingham as a terror | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
Of course the vast majority of Muslims say this attack is not | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
even in the same universe as their faith. | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
And, indeed, the Birmingham Faith Leaders' Network has put out | :11:01. | :11:12. | |
a statement saying, "We completely reject any attempt to see | :11:13. | :11:14. | |
an opportunity to blame any particular community or faith | :11:15. | :11:16. | |
in this city for the perverted actions of one individual." | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
And, indeed, a special unity vigil is going to be held | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
in Birmingham on the high street at 5pm today. | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
That's been organised by the Muslim Engagement Network | :11:27. | :11:28. | |
They say they want to pay tribute to the victims of this attack | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
but also show that all communities in Birmingham are standing together. | :11:33. | :11:40. | |
Kathryn Stanczyszyn reporting there from Birmingham. | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
Last night, police said a 75-year-old man had died | :11:44. | :11:45. | |
He has been named as Leslie Rhodes from Streatham in south London, | :11:46. | :11:54. | |
taking the number of fatalities to four. More than 30 victims are being | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
treated in various London hospitals, two people said to be critically | :12:00. | :12:01. | |
ill. My colleague Fiona Lamdin | :12:02. | :12:03. | |
was at King's College Hospital I'm about three miles | :12:04. | :12:05. | |
from where the attack took place You can see the police | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
still very much here, The very sad news that came in last | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
night that 75-year-old Leslie Rhodes from Streatham, | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
not far from here, died here at the hospital last night, | :12:19. | :12:20. | |
which takes the number of victims to four who died | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
following the attacks. So we now know Leslie Rhodes, | :12:24. | :12:25. | |
we know PC Keith Palmer, the police officer who was protecting | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
Parliament, who was stabbed. Aysha Frade, who was on her way | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
to pick her two children up from school, and Kurt Cochran, | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
the US tourist who was here celebrating his 25th | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
wedding anniversary. Now, the hospital told us | :12:43. | :12:43. | |
on Wednesday afternoon they brought We now know one is still in a very | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
critical condition. Two people were allowed home | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
yesterday, must have been a huge relief to their family, | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
and so this morning we know there are still five victims | :12:56. | :12:57. | |
being treated here behind me. Fiona Lamdin reporting. Here at | :12:58. | :13:08. | |
Westminster the roads have reopened, live starting to return to normal, | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
the tube station, Westminster Tube has reopened as well, but the police | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
investigation gathering momentum and at the heart of it police trying to | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
find out was this man, Khalid Masood, a lone wolf or did he have a | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
composite? That is the latest from Westminster. -- did he have an | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
accomplice. Here's Annita in the BBC Newsroom | :13:28. | :13:28. | |
with a summary of today's news. The former president of Egypt, Hosni | :13:29. | :13:38. | |
Mubarak, who was overthrown in 2011, has been released from a military | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
hospital. He was serving six years for the treatment of protest is but | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
he has been cleared of charges and has now left the military hospital | :13:49. | :13:50. | |
where he was serving his sentence. Bad behaviour in English schools | :13:51. | :13:52. | |
is not being dealt with properly and pupils' performance | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
is being negatively effected. That's the view of | :13:56. | :13:57. | |
the the Government's school behaviour expert, | :13:58. | :13:58. | |
Tom Bennett. In a review published today, | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
he says more funding and better training are needed | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
to tackle the issue. The report also recommends that | :14:06. | :14:07. | |
school inspectors pay more attention to behaviour issues, | :14:08. | :14:09. | |
and warns they are often glossed over when schools | :14:10. | :14:11. | |
produce good results. The President of the European | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
Commission has told the BBC that the EU will not seek to punish | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
Britain during Brexit negotiations. Speaking on the eve of the EU's 60th | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
anniversary celebrations, Jean-Claude Juncker said the exit | :14:22. | :14:23. | |
talks will be approached fairly but warned that Britain will be held | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
to financial commitments made Customers should be paid automatic | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
compensation by their phone companies for problems | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
with landlines and broadband. The telecoms regulator Ofcom says | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
providers should pay customers for slow repairs, | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
delayed connections The plans could affect more | :14:43. | :14:44. | |
than 2.5 million customers who would receive up to ?185 million | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
in new compensation At the moment, compensation is only | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
paid to a small number of customers. That's a summary of the latest BBC | :14:53. | :15:01. | |
News - more at 10.30am. Do get in touch with us | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
throughout the morning, in particular, lots of you getting | :15:08. | :15:18. | |
in touch on whether police should be routinely armed in the wake of the | :15:19. | :15:20. | |
terror attack in London. If you text, you will be charged | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
at the standard network rate. It's been an impressive start | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
to the new Formula One season for Lewis Hamilton as he goes | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
for a fourth world title. He was fastest in both practice | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
sessions today ahead And in second practice | :15:35. | :15:36. | |
he was more than half a second faster than anyone, | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
with the new cars for the 2017 season potentially knocking up | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
to five seconds off lap times. Second quickest was Sebastian Vettel | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
in his Ferrari, who Hamilton claimed would be his Mercedes team's biggest | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
rivals this season. Hamilton called his opening 99% | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
perfect. Rory McIlroy is out of the WGC | :15:59. | :16:06. | |
Match Play golf, having The second of his three opponents | :16:07. | :16:08. | |
in the round robin group stage of the tournament in Texas, | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
Gary Woodland, pulled out, leaving Denmark's Soren Kjeldsen - | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
who beat McIlroy on Wednesday - needing only a half | :16:16. | :16:17. | |
a point in his match against Argentine Emiliano Grillo | :16:18. | :16:19. | |
to eliminate the Northern Irishman. Kjeldsen was due to play his final | :16:20. | :16:21. | |
group match against Woodland, so since he's guaranteed a win, | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
McIlroy can't qualify. England's Tyrrell Hatton | :16:25. | :16:26. | |
and Paul Casey won to But Masters champion | :16:27. | :16:28. | |
Danny Willett is out. British Swimming is conducting | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
an investigation after multiple bullying claims were made | :16:35. | :16:36. | |
by Paralympians about a coach. BBC Sport has learned | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
the complainants include Wales manager Chris Coleman | :16:40. | :16:40. | |
insists their crucial World Cup qualifier against the Republic | :16:41. | :16:56. | |
of Ireland tonight is not a must-win game, but admits there's | :16:57. | :16:58. | |
a "desperation" in the squad Ireland are top of group D | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
after four matches unbeaten, with Wales, having only won one | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
of their qualifiers so far, You get halfway and see where you | :17:05. | :17:21. | |
are in the campaign. You fighting at the wrong end or at the right end? | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
All this pressure on us is what we've always wanted. I wish it, I've | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
dreamt about it. To be halfway in the campaign and still have a say in | :17:32. | :17:33. | |
who finishes top, who comes second. More details have emerged | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
about Khalid Masood, the 52-year-old man who drove a car | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge on Wednesday before fatally | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
stabbing a policeman guarding He was not an immigrant, | :17:47. | :17:48. | |
he was previously known as Adrian Russell Ajao and lived | :17:49. | :17:58. | |
in Dartford in Kent He grew up with his mum in Rye | :17:59. | :18:00. | |
in East Sussex and there are reports of a conviction in Eastbourne | :18:01. | :18:07. | |
in a local paper as late as 2003, At some point after 2003, | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
he changed religion and adopted He is also believed to have lived | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
in Luton and east London, and most recently in the West | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
Midlands. The Sun newspaper claims he spent | :18:21. | :18:21. | |
some time in Saudi Arabia as an English language teacher, | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
but the BBC has been He was known to police | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
and M15 and had convictions for assaults including GBH, | :18:28. | :18:35. | |
possession of offensive weapons He'd also spent time in prison, | :18:36. | :18:37. | |
but not recently and not So-called Islamic State have claimed | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
responsibility for the attack. So how does some living on British | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
soil become radicalised and are the UK Government's | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
strategies to stop people carrying Let's speak now to Rashad Ali, | :18:51. | :18:52. | |
a Senior fellow at the institute for Strategic Dialogue, | :18:53. | :19:02. | |
which is a Counter Extremism Think Sara Khan, co-founder | :19:03. | :19:04. | |
of the counter-extremism Dr Brooke Rogers, a Senior lecturer | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
in Risk and Terror in the Department of War Studies at King's College | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
London. She's a social psychologist | :19:15. | :19:15. | |
specializing in the psychology of radicalization and the impact | :19:16. | :19:17. | |
of terrorism and currently researching Lone Actor | :19:18. | :19:19. | |
Extremist Events. Ali Milani, who is President of the | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
Brunel University Students Union. And joining us from Salford | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
we have Rizwaan Sabir, a Lecturer of Criminology | :19:30. | :19:31. | |
at Liverpool John Moores University, a was himself arrested | :19:32. | :19:33. | |
under anti-terror law. Thank you for joining us. What is | :19:34. | :19:47. | |
your perspective on whether the government is doing the right thing | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
on trying to stop radicalisation? We are talking about somebody who was | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
born here, not born a Muslim and at some stage in his life he became | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
radicalised. I think the case is a good illustration of the limitations | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
of what any government can do. Essentially, thankfully, we don't | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
live in a totalitarian state, which means we aren't monitoring every | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
individual. We aren't gathering intelligence on everyone and keeping | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
it. So therefore, there is no way you can stop an individual from | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
getting into a car and committing something like this. It's one of the | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
prices we pay for living in a liberal democracy. Having said that, | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
there are big debates around radicalisation that are probably | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
pertinent to understanding how we can tackle this. And what the actual | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
cause is, and how does an individual get involved in this. Because I | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
think it's easy to talk about counter extremism and prevention. | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
But really, when it comes down to the individual level, it's often | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
very difficult to be able to treat individuals who are being | :20:56. | :20:57. | |
radicalised, for a number of reasons. The government does have an | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
approach to this which is the channel programme, which has reached | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
out to several thousand individuals that have gone through this. Three | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
quarters allegedly from Islamist backgrounds and around 25% who are | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
considered to be far right terrorists. There is a spectrum of | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
individuals on the programme which the government is trying to do. I | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
think the bigger problem is civil society. Which is what we can do to | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
tackle this. What can we do to help as a community and society to stop | :21:29. | :21:35. | |
the process of radicalisation within different parts of our society, stop | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
the polarisation. We chat individuals we know of and provide | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
support. In that regard there are lots of activities that are | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
happening, but there's a huge gap in terms of what the extremists are | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
doing, what they are Priscilla tithing and how they are active | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
online. If you look at Britain First, they've got it enormous | :21:58. | :22:05. | |
following on Facebook. Our response frankly has been, let's just say, | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
not as effective, not as impactful or resourceful. What do you think | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
are the most effective ways of stopping someone being radicalised? | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
We know there isn't a single profile. Khalid Masood was a | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
52-year-old man, that has caused shock among many young people | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
because the assumption is its young people. There is no single profile. | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
It's really important to recognise that it's a multi pronged approach. | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
There is no one solution. There is no one answer, there has to be a | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
multi pronged approach and engaged with all sections of society. I | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
believe schools have a huge role to play in terms of building | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
resilience, teaching young people critical thinking skills so they | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
don't buy into online propaganda that we see available online, or in | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
communities. Faith institutions have a very important role to play in | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
teaching theological counter narratives to extremist ideology. | :23:05. | :23:11. | |
Khalid Masood, there were concerns around him holding extreme views. I | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
agree that the role of civil society is really critical. We need to be | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
engaging with the police, we need to be reporting people if we have | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
concerns to the Anti-Terrorist Hotline. I feel there is a gap where | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
we recognise that we need to effectively counter the speech, come | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
to the arguments, challenge those within our society who are promoting | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
extremist views, because we know for a fact there are. I think it's | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
really important we don't underestimate the reality. We know | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
that MI5 in the past have said they are monitoring 3000 violent British | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
Islamist extremists wanting to cause harm to our country. We know that | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
there have been hundreds who have travelled to Syria to join jihadists | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
organisations. We know there have been around 269 people convicted for | :24:03. | :24:10. | |
Islamist terrorism offences. There's clearly a problem. It requires a | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
multi pronged response from all sections of society, government, | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
police, education and civil society. Are we getting better at stopping | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
radicalisation in this country? This has been an ongoing debate and there | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
are programmes in place, the Prevent programme, to try to do that. I | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
think we are improving in respect of understanding the variety of ways in | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
which we can intervene. If you think about Prevent, it's been very | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
difficult to actually measure that in terms of establishing clear | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
indicators of success. They did have a national indicator that they | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
removed because it was so difficult to actually measure the success of | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
Prevent programmes. When you look at the work being undertaken on the | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
ground, you can see that even across boroughs, even a few streets away | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
from one another, Prevent can take many different forms. For example, | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
engaging with mothers to teach them about internet safety so they can | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
pass that on. In another street, it could be engaging with youth groups | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
to look at identity issues. On another road, it could be engaging | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
with the facilities that can actually host guest speakers in | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
making sure they are aware of the hate laws and that they are aware of | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
the speakers coming in to engage within their facilities. This is a | :25:29. | :25:36. | |
52-year-old man and that has caused surprise, it's somebody who is older | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
and doesn't fit the normal profiles. What are your thoughts on what has | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
happened? It's already been mentioned that there is no | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
straightforward profiles are individuals who engage in armed | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
violence. Usually we associate armed and political violence with young | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
people but this case shows there is no one rule that applies to the | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
whole process. I think when we use terms such as radicalisation and | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
extremism, we are extremely careful as to these terms. The reason why I | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
say that is because the term radicalisation, which has gained so | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
much traction, is based on a framework that doesn't actually have | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
any evidence. When we talk about radicalisation, the official | :26:21. | :26:22. | |
definition is the process by which an individual leaves nonviolence and | :26:23. | :26:29. | |
becomes engaged in armed violence. There is no empirical evidence to | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
prove the core reason individuals become involved in armed violence, | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
which the government's Prevent strategy says is ideology, actually | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
causes terrorism. We have to make sure that we aren't using these | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
terms and critically. The same applies to the turn extremism. One | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
of your guests just referred to political violence through violent | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
extremist Islamist. These are polemical turns that don't mean | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
anything. What they eventually do is play, according to this historic | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
discourse, in which we, the civilised West, are at war with a | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
barbaric opponent that cannot be brought to the table. The anyway we | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
can defeat them is by basically excluding them. Partially one of the | :27:13. | :27:18. | |
reasons why political violence has become, or a militarised form of | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
activism by Muslims, has become more normalised, is because the | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
geopolitical situation and the international structures of the | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
world powers essentially exclude Muslims from articulating an | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
identity that seeks to govern according to a political | :27:38. | :27:40. | |
interpretation of their faith. I think until we recognise that these | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
are the drivers of political violence, political factors, we can | :27:46. | :27:47. | |
sit here and talk about radicalisation and extremism and how | :27:48. | :27:52. | |
we can implement more bollards outside Parliament or structure our | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
landscapes to ensure security. But the reality is, there will always be | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
somebody who will be willing to jump into a car and pick up a knife and | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
undertake acts of violence. I would issue a word of caution around using | :28:06. | :28:09. | |
these terms uncritically and look at the empirical evidence, which | :28:10. | :28:12. | |
doesn't give us a simple profile into why people become involved in | :28:13. | :28:16. | |
political violence. Partly I would agree with some of that. There is no | :28:17. | :28:22. | |
singular profile. There were some factual mistakes that were made in | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
terms of the government's perspective on this. It isn't that | :28:27. | :28:32. | |
ideology is the cause, it's multifactorial and there's a lot of | :28:33. | :28:34. | |
literature they put out to explain that. It is one of the primary | :28:35. | :28:41. | |
motivating factor is that they say is extremist ideology. As I was | :28:42. | :28:50. | |
saying, they've explained there is multiple factors, ideology being one | :28:51. | :28:56. | |
of them. In terms of being able to understand that and put it into | :28:57. | :29:01. | |
context, if you have an individual who has very strong political | :29:02. | :29:05. | |
grievances, somebody who has personal, psychological issues | :29:06. | :29:08. | |
maybe. If you take this as an example, not that we know the | :29:09. | :29:13. | |
details but Khalid Masood obviously has a violent past. He's someone who | :29:14. | :29:21. | |
is disposition and towards violence. A lot of people obviously have | :29:22. | :29:24. | |
strong political views and don't turn to violence. Exactly. There's a | :29:25. | :29:27. | |
danger in what the other guest was saying which was to create the idea | :29:28. | :29:31. | |
that just because you have strong political views, that means you are | :29:32. | :29:34. | |
inclined towards violence. It's not true. I'm not saying that. It's a | :29:35. | :29:41. | |
dangerous part of what you were saying, it implies that strong | :29:42. | :29:43. | |
political views somehow lead to violence, that's not the case. | :29:44. | :29:48. | |
That's what the government is framing its Prevent infrastructure | :29:49. | :29:51. | |
on. I did think anybody has said that except yourself. Let's let Sara | :29:52. | :30:00. | |
come in. I think there is a clear misunderstanding of what the | :30:01. | :30:04. | |
government's position on radicalisation is, on Prevent. If | :30:05. | :30:08. | |
you look at the Channel guidance, it makes it clear that there is no | :30:09. | :30:12. | |
single profile. It lists a range of different factors. It could be | :30:13. | :30:16. | |
bullying, peer pressure and mental health issues. The beauty of Channel | :30:17. | :30:22. | |
and Prevent in particular if it can recognise a multitude of | :30:23. | :30:24. | |
vulnerabilities and should be able to be flexible enough to recognise | :30:25. | :30:25. | |
that. One of those factors could be | :30:26. | :30:33. | |
ideology, I have come across many young people in my years as an | :30:34. | :30:39. | |
activist and they have highlighted how their children have been | :30:40. | :30:42. | |
radicalised and given violent extremist views. We cannot | :30:43. | :30:45. | |
underestimate that either but I think it is important to recognise | :30:46. | :30:50. | |
that it is not a one size fits all solution, but the fact is we have to | :30:51. | :30:53. | |
recognise that there is a problem and on the issue of Channel I | :30:54. | :30:59. | |
remember the former director-general in the office for counterterrorism, | :31:00. | :31:03. | |
he gave an interesting speech where he said 70% of people who went | :31:04. | :31:08. | |
through the Channel scheme did not need further intervention or help, | :31:09. | :31:16. | |
showing that Channel and Prevent is working, and if there was not | :31:17. | :31:21. | |
Channel all Prevent, what would we have in place to provide support to | :31:22. | :31:25. | |
those people in our country who are at risk of radicalisation? At the | :31:26. | :31:32. | |
moment, those who oppose Prevent have not offered any other strategy | :31:33. | :31:40. | |
to help people who are prepared to carry out these acts against our | :31:41. | :31:45. | |
country. We're out of time... Very briefly. The point about Channel and | :31:46. | :31:49. | |
mentioning mental health, etc, these sound like legitimate points but the | :31:50. | :31:54. | |
key point is that we are lumping the blame on the individual rather than | :31:55. | :31:57. | |
looking at the political reality within which the individual | :31:58. | :32:02. | |
operates, saying, this is nothing to do with us, and if you look at the | :32:03. | :32:05. | |
history of the world it has everything to do with us. Thank you. | :32:06. | :32:11. | |
Sorry, we are out of time, we've got lots more ground to cover on the | :32:12. | :32:14. | |
programme, but thank you all very much. | :32:15. | :32:17. | |
I just want to bring another comment on armed police because this is one | :32:18. | :32:21. | |
aspect of what we have been talking about this morning, it has got lots | :32:22. | :32:25. | |
of comments from you. Phil says, as a serving officer I would advise | :32:26. | :32:29. | |
that most officers do not want to carry firearms for one reason and | :32:30. | :32:33. | |
one reason alone, when we are forced to use them we get crucified by the | :32:34. | :32:37. | |
CPS, the courts, politicians and the media. Any officer could look | :32:38. | :32:42. | |
forward to 18 to 24 months of uncertainty, not knowing if they are | :32:43. | :32:45. | |
going to jail or going to lose their job and pension. The officers and | :32:46. | :32:49. | |
decisions they make in an instant under extreme pressure are judged by | :32:50. | :32:53. | |
armchair experts who have never had to face life or death decision. | :32:54. | :32:57. | |
Whilst I agree there must be oversight and transparency, at the | :32:58. | :33:00. | |
moment we have a witchhunt. Thank you for that, keep them | :33:01. | :33:02. | |
coming. Also coming up... We'll hear from some who have | :33:03. | :33:05. | |
witnessed horrific events With the news, here's Annita | :33:06. | :33:08. | |
in the BBC Newsroom. A fourth victim who died last night | :33:09. | :33:17. | |
after being knocked down in the Westminster attack has been | :33:18. | :33:22. | |
named by police as 75-year-old Leslie Rhodes from Streatham, | :33:23. | :33:25. | |
in South London. Two people remain in hospital | :33:26. | :33:27. | |
in a critical condition. Two police officers hurt | :33:28. | :33:31. | |
in the attack are also in hospital In a statement this morning, | :33:32. | :33:33. | |
police investigating the attack have revealed that they've made two | :33:34. | :33:40. | |
further significant Nine people are now in custody, | :33:41. | :33:41. | |
one woman has been released on bail. Police have also revealed | :33:42. | :33:47. | |
the attacker, Khalid Masood, was previously called | :33:48. | :33:58. | |
Adrian Russell Ajao. The police have appealed | :33:59. | :34:01. | |
for information from anyone The former president of Egypt, | :34:02. | :34:03. | |
Hosni Mubarak, who was overthrown after the Arab Spring uprisings | :34:04. | :34:06. | |
of 2011, has been freed Mubarak served almost six years | :34:07. | :34:08. | |
in detention on charges of killing protesters in the uprising that | :34:09. | :34:17. | |
ended his 30-year rule. But earlier this month an appeals | :34:18. | :34:19. | |
court cleared him of these charges Let's speed now to our correspondent | :34:20. | :34:31. | |
in Cairo. Presumably his release is controversial? | :34:32. | :34:36. | |
Definitely, it is controversial, it is disappointing, frustrating to | :34:37. | :34:42. | |
many people who supported the Revolution one day, people who took | :34:43. | :34:47. | |
to Tahrir Square to topple former president Mubarak, they saw him as a | :34:48. | :34:51. | |
symbol of corruption and repression so the fact that he went back home | :34:52. | :34:55. | |
today having breakfast with his family and friends, as his lawyer | :34:56. | :35:02. | |
told us a short while ago, this is a matter of great frustration and | :35:03. | :35:07. | |
disappointment to supporters of the revolution. But on the other hand | :35:08. | :35:11. | |
there are some of the people who see Mubarak as a story of the past, they | :35:12. | :35:17. | |
just focus on Egypt today, concerned more about the economic conditions, | :35:18. | :35:22. | |
the political situation, so there are people who see this as | :35:23. | :35:27. | |
frustration and disappointment, and there are others who just want to | :35:28. | :35:31. | |
focus on what is lying ahead, and they just considered Mubarak | :35:32. | :35:35. | |
something from the past. But still, his release today lies in sharp | :35:36. | :35:41. | |
contradiction with having tens of thousands of political prisoners | :35:42. | :35:45. | |
behind bars according to many local NGOs, so the fact that this man was | :35:46. | :35:49. | |
seen as a symbol of corruption and oppression by some people is free | :35:50. | :35:52. | |
while many political activist and political prisoners are behind bars | :35:53. | :35:56. | |
still brings a lot of disappointment, especially to those | :35:57. | :36:00. | |
who supported the revolution more than six years ago. | :36:01. | :36:01. | |
Sally, thank you for that. Bad behaviour in English schools | :36:02. | :36:05. | |
is not being dealt with properly and pupils' performance | :36:06. | :36:07. | |
is being negatively effected. That's the view of | :36:08. | :36:09. | |
the the Government's school behaviour expert, | :36:10. | :36:11. | |
Tom Bennett. In a review published today, | :36:12. | :36:13. | |
he says more funding and better training are needed | :36:14. | :36:15. | |
to tackle the issue. The report also recommends that | :36:16. | :36:18. | |
school inspectors pay more attention to behaviour issues, | :36:19. | :36:20. | |
and warns they are often glossed over when schools | :36:21. | :36:22. | |
produce good results. The President of the European | :36:23. | :36:28. | |
Commission has told the BBC that the EU will not seek to punish | :36:29. | :36:31. | |
Britain during Brexit negotiations. Speaking on the eve of the EU's 60th | :36:32. | :36:34. | |
anniversary celebrations, Jean-Claude Juncker said the exit | :36:35. | :36:37. | |
talks will be approached fairly but warned that Britain will be held | :36:38. | :36:40. | |
to financial commitments made Customers should be paid automatic | :36:41. | :36:43. | |
compensation by their phone companies for problems | :36:44. | :36:50. | |
with landlines and broadband. The telecoms regulator Ofcom says | :36:51. | :36:53. | |
providers should pay customers for slow repairs, | :36:54. | :36:56. | |
delayed connections The plans could affect more | :36:57. | :36:58. | |
than 2.5 million customers who would receive up to ?185 million | :36:59. | :37:03. | |
in new compensation At the moment, compensation is only | :37:04. | :37:06. | |
paid to a small number of customers. That's a summary of the latest | :37:07. | :37:16. | |
news, join me for BBC Lewis Hamilton called his first day | :37:17. | :37:19. | |
of the new Formula One season "99% perfect" after finishing fastest | :37:20. | :37:30. | |
in both practice sessions ahead He was more than half a second | :37:31. | :37:32. | |
quicker than the rest in the second session and that, | :37:33. | :37:39. | |
in Formula One, particularly That lap allowed him to finish ahead | :37:40. | :37:41. | |
of Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel and new Mercedes teammate | :37:42. | :37:51. | |
Valteri Bottas in Melbourne. Tottenham's Dele Alli is banned | :37:52. | :37:55. | |
for three European club games after his red card | :37:56. | :37:59. | |
during the Europa League The suspension will be | :38:00. | :38:01. | |
served if Spurs get Soren Kjeldsen's win at the WGC | :38:02. | :38:05. | |
Match Play golf sends And the world number two didn't even | :38:06. | :38:10. | |
play after his opponent withdrew. As a result Kjeldsen needed just | :38:11. | :38:18. | |
a half to prevent McIlroy reaching He got the point he needed, McIlroy | :38:19. | :38:21. | |
is out. And David Haye has been called | :38:22. | :38:27. | |
before boxing authorities to explain his comments | :38:28. | :38:29. | |
in the build-up to his heavyweight Haye had graphically described | :38:30. | :38:31. | |
the injuries that he hoped That is all Gosport Borough now, | :38:32. | :38:45. | |
more on BBC News throughout the day. Last night a candlelit vigil was | :38:46. | :38:47. | |
held in Trafalgar Square to remember those who lost their lives and were | :38:48. | :38:51. | |
injured in the Westminster terror attack. Among thousands who attended | :38:52. | :38:57. | |
were religious leaders from a number of faith is keen to show unity and | :38:58. | :38:58. | |
bring communities together. People have tried to tear this city | :38:59. | :39:14. | |
apart with acts of terror many times before. They have never succeeded, | :39:15. | :39:20. | |
and they never will. APPLAUSE. | :39:21. | :39:31. | |
We come together as Londoners tonight to remember those who have | :39:32. | :39:36. | |
lost their lives and all those affected by the horrific attack | :39:37. | :39:42. | |
yesterday. Londoners will never be cowed by terrorism will stop | :39:43. | :39:44. | |
APPLAUSE. As London and the UK begin to come | :39:45. | :40:29. | |
to terms with what has happened, how does the healing process start, and | :40:30. | :40:30. | |
is it possible to move forward? Well, we can now speak to four | :40:31. | :40:35. | |
people who have witnessed terror attacks that have happened | :40:36. | :40:38. | |
across Europe in recent years about their experiences and how | :40:39. | :40:40. | |
they learnt to cope with what they'd been through and deal | :40:41. | :40:43. | |
with the aftermath. Joining us via Skype from Nice | :40:44. | :40:45. | |
is Peter Chesley, who was almost hit by a truck in the Nice | :40:46. | :40:48. | |
attack last summer. Sumit Gupta owns a restaurant | :40:49. | :40:50. | |
in Brussels, he can talk to us about how he was impacted | :40:51. | :40:53. | |
by the suicide bombings He's on the phone in Blackpool, | :40:54. | :40:56. | |
and got caught up in the Berlin Peter, you were nearly hit by the | :40:57. | :41:11. | |
truck in Nice, what happened to you? I was on the promenade with lots of | :41:12. | :41:15. | |
other people after watching the fireworks in celebration, and I was | :41:16. | :41:23. | |
with my ex-girlfriend, we were one of the luckier ones, really, because | :41:24. | :41:27. | |
the truck mistrust by a few metres. It came between us, my girlfriend | :41:28. | :41:35. | |
went one way, I went the other way, it just missed bus but I watched the | :41:36. | :41:42. | |
truck the whole way because of the swirling to make sure I didn't run | :41:43. | :41:47. | |
in front of it. I saw lots of people get hit and some people die. What | :41:48. | :41:57. | |
impact has that had on you? Locally, the kind of person I am, it didn't | :41:58. | :42:02. | |
have as much impact on me as maybe it has on others, and as I know it | :42:03. | :42:07. | |
has on others. My girlfriend, ex-girlfriend, is still having | :42:08. | :42:12. | |
treatment in terms of with a psychiatrist, but for me it was | :42:13. | :42:17. | |
quite a quick process to kind of come to terms with it. I'm a | :42:18. | :42:24. | |
logical, rational person, and I know, before it happened I knew it | :42:25. | :42:28. | |
could happen, I know which could happen again, it's the kind of world | :42:29. | :42:33. | |
we live in, so I'm kind of prepared as much as I can be for these | :42:34. | :42:40. | |
things. And how do you do that? You say you know it could happen again, | :42:41. | :42:44. | |
does that mean you go around in fear? No, no, I don't let these | :42:45. | :42:48. | |
things affect my life any more than it has already. It affected me | :42:49. | :42:51. | |
because I was there and I had to deal with the situation, look after | :42:52. | :42:59. | |
my ex-girlfriend, and kind of process the information, but I don't | :43:00. | :43:01. | |
let these things affect my life any more than it has to. Sumit, you own | :43:02. | :43:08. | |
a hotel near to where the Brussels bombings happened. What was the | :43:09. | :43:13. | |
impact on you of that attack? For us, it is like every other business | :43:14. | :43:18. | |
because Brussels got highlighted too much, in the news and everything, a | :43:19. | :43:22. | |
lot of people stopped coming to Brussels so it is not only me but | :43:23. | :43:26. | |
like a lot of other small businesses they got impacted because we are in | :43:27. | :43:33. | |
the centre of Brussels, most of the companies moved their meetings out | :43:34. | :43:37. | |
of Brussels to other cities, so it is a bit of financial loss but for | :43:38. | :43:41. | |
sure it is nothing as compared to the lives which people are losing, | :43:42. | :43:46. | |
so I don't care too much about the financial losses but it is a pity, | :43:47. | :43:53. | |
what I would say, it is a pity these things are happening still, we need | :43:54. | :43:59. | |
to get control of it. Obviously you are putting it in context but it is | :44:00. | :44:03. | |
your livelihood and affected by things out of your control. Indeed, | :44:04. | :44:11. | |
we have to see the bigger picture, all these incidents affecting people | :44:12. | :44:18. | |
like us owning some businesses and other cities, I'm sure it happened | :44:19. | :44:23. | |
in these as well, tourism got affected -- in Nice, people stop | :44:24. | :44:29. | |
going to these places for some time, I think it is the same in Berlin, so | :44:30. | :44:32. | |
we just have to stick together and not let them when, that is what I | :44:33. | :44:39. | |
will say, you know? We cannot just, how do you say, make them win by not | :44:40. | :44:43. | |
visiting those cities or avoiding those cities, because it can happen | :44:44. | :44:48. | |
anywhere, like the other guy was telling, I forgot his name, but it | :44:49. | :44:52. | |
can happen any time, anywhere, you cannot just stop living. They are | :44:53. | :44:59. | |
losses for business and everything, but for sure we will recover soon. | :45:00. | :45:06. | |
Dave, you were caught up in the Berlin attack. Tell us the impact it | :45:07. | :45:10. | |
had a new and actually what happened to you. I think we have now lost | :45:11. | :45:15. | |
Dave, we will try to re-establish the connection. I think we can talk | :45:16. | :45:20. | |
to Frederica lad who was in the stadium during the Paris attacks in | :45:21. | :45:27. | |
November 2000 and 15. Thank you for joining us, what happened to you? | :45:28. | :45:39. | |
Frederik, can you hear me? No, I think we've lost our connection to | :45:40. | :45:48. | |
Frederik as well. Peter, you were both talking very resiliently about | :45:49. | :45:53. | |
not letting things like this define your lives. What would you say to | :45:54. | :45:59. | |
people in London who may be feeling vulnerable? Even if you aren't | :46:00. | :46:02. | |
directly caught up in something, it can still have a big impact. I | :46:03. | :46:11. | |
couldn't give any advice, but, like I've already said, we know these | :46:12. | :46:18. | |
things happen, and we know that they normally happen in important cities | :46:19. | :46:24. | |
like London, New York, Nice and the other cities as well. So we kind of | :46:25. | :46:31. | |
have two, unfortunately we have to prepare ourselves. We should be | :46:32. | :46:35. | |
preparing ourselves mentally to deal with this kind of situation if we | :46:36. | :46:41. | |
can, if it happens. The more we can prepare ourselves, the more we can | :46:42. | :46:48. | |
cope afterwards. In terms of coping afterwards, all I could say is what | :46:49. | :46:56. | |
I'm doing, it seems to be working. By worrying about it afterwards, by | :46:57. | :47:00. | |
fearing it afterwards, it affects our life even more. It doesn't help | :47:01. | :47:08. | |
us, if we think like that. I know it's easier said than done. I'm not | :47:09. | :47:14. | |
saying it's easy. I think we need to be as strong as we can and just to | :47:15. | :47:19. | |
think that these things do happen. We have to deal with them as well as | :47:20. | :47:25. | |
possible. Have you come up with practical solutions for you in terms | :47:26. | :47:31. | |
of being out and about? You were caught up in a situation similar to | :47:32. | :47:38. | |
the one in London, a car, a vehicle is deliberately driven into | :47:39. | :47:42. | |
pedestrians. If you are out there is a fear of that happening, are their | :47:43. | :47:51. | |
practical ideas to have in mind? I suppose, to be more vigilant. We | :47:52. | :47:56. | |
don't want, when we leave our house, we don't want to keep looking at | :47:57. | :48:02. | |
cars or planes or people. I think we need to try to, I've heightened my | :48:03. | :48:10. | |
sense of vigilance a little bit. Especially when I'm on the promenade | :48:11. | :48:17. | |
because I'm not afraid of the area, I run there, I go there, it's a | :48:18. | :48:21. | |
beautiful place. But I'm slightly more wary now. But it's kind of, | :48:22. | :48:27. | |
it's an indirect thing. I'm not letting my wariness affect my | :48:28. | :48:31. | |
enjoyment of the area or what I do in life. Thank you both. | :48:32. | :48:42. | |
Still to come, we'll be looking at the role of social media in | :48:43. | :48:49. | |
radicalisation. I've just received more of your comments. One viewer | :48:50. | :48:53. | |
says, as a true Muslim I totally condemn the killing of innocent | :48:54. | :48:57. | |
people and Islam is the religion of peace. We don't allow killing of | :48:58. | :49:01. | |
innocent people in any circumstances. I call upon all miss | :49:02. | :49:04. | |
ins we need to stand together and take a stand that Islam against the | :49:05. | :49:11. | |
so-called Muslims. An e-mail says, front line police should be armed, | :49:12. | :49:15. | |
stab proof vests must be warm. Police dogs must be situated in all | :49:16. | :49:21. | |
government buildings -- stab proof vests must be worn. Another viewer | :49:22. | :49:26. | |
says, what is the point of a police officer standing outside Parliament | :49:27. | :49:32. | |
if he isn't equipped to deal with the kind of threat. Khalid Masood | :49:33. | :49:39. | |
has been proven to stay in a hotel in Brighton the night before the | :49:40. | :49:42. | |
attack, we've been speaking to the hotel manager. The police came on | :49:43. | :49:47. | |
Wednesday night to start their investigation. I was called at home | :49:48. | :49:55. | |
quite late at night by the police. They asked for my advice and... They | :49:56. | :50:08. | |
asked the staff questions, we are quite open to this. It's normal for | :50:09. | :50:13. | |
us. Obviously we were trying to run our business at the same time. | :50:14. | :50:18. | |
Yesterday we had police in the hotel, investigating, seeing the | :50:19. | :50:23. | |
room, interviewing all the staff in the middle of our service. It was a | :50:24. | :50:28. | |
bit inconvenient but we had to cooperate with them and try to help | :50:29. | :50:30. | |
to give them all the information. Luckily, we have all the back-up for | :50:31. | :50:38. | |
this. We have the contact, the address, the telephone number, the | :50:39. | :50:44. | |
person's name. We have all this for the police and all the staff. Most | :50:45. | :50:50. | |
of the staff have been interviewed by the police and given the correct | :50:51. | :50:54. | |
information to assist them with their enquiries. Did he give his | :50:55. | :50:59. | |
address as Birmingham? Yes. He gave the correct address and the | :51:00. | :51:03. | |
registration card when he checked in. But later on I heard on the news | :51:04. | :51:08. | |
that the address in Birmingham was correct. Everything he said to us | :51:09. | :51:12. | |
was correct, his correct name and address, telephone number, | :51:13. | :51:17. | |
everything he gave us when he checked in is correct and is the | :51:18. | :51:22. | |
same as what was mentioned in the news later on. And the car that he | :51:23. | :51:26. | |
checked into your car part, was that the same car that was used in the | :51:27. | :51:30. | |
London atrocities? Yes, we haven't seen the registration in the paper | :51:31. | :51:38. | |
yet but however, it's 90% the same car. We know it was a great car, a | :51:39. | :51:48. | |
four by four. -- four by four. It's the same car. We request car | :51:49. | :51:53. | |
registration numbers when people check in. The car looked the same as | :51:54. | :52:06. | |
the one he... My colleagues saw the car and she confirmed it was the | :52:07. | :52:12. | |
same car. We need to confirm the registration number. That's the | :52:13. | :52:18. | |
manager of a hotel in Brighton where it has emerged Khalid Masood stayed | :52:19. | :52:21. | |
the night before the attack in London. To bring the right | :52:22. | :52:25. | |
up-to-date with all the latest developments, police have said | :52:26. | :52:29. | |
they've made two more significant arrests in connection with the | :52:30. | :52:34. | |
attack in Westminster. The suspects were held overnight in the West | :52:35. | :52:38. | |
Midlands and the north-west. Weevils are learned this morning that the | :52:39. | :52:45. | |
birth name of Khalid Masood was Adrian Russell Ajao. Earlier I spoke | :52:46. | :52:51. | |
to Dani Singer who witnessed the attack on the bridge. People on the | :52:52. | :52:58. | |
other side of the bus saw what happened. Some on uncharted, if | :52:59. | :53:01. | |
anyone has first aid training they should get off the bus and help. I | :53:02. | :53:06. | |
went to the first person I saw who looked like they weren't being | :53:07. | :53:10. | |
attended to. It was a man who had quite a significant head injury and | :53:11. | :53:15. | |
potentially other injuries we couldn't see. At that point we | :53:16. | :53:18. | |
didn't really know that anything else was going to happen, it hadn't | :53:19. | :53:23. | |
even happened yet. What helped did you give? The other chap who was | :53:24. | :53:28. | |
with me helping the gentleman was a medic. There wasn't a lot we could | :53:29. | :53:34. | |
practically do, it was just monitoring polls and breathing and | :53:35. | :53:37. | |
checking his airways were clear. I was just talking to him, he was | :53:38. | :53:43. | |
unconscious but you're never aware of what people are aware of | :53:44. | :53:47. | |
themselves. So I was talking to him, describing when the ambulances were | :53:48. | :53:51. | |
coming and hoping that some part of him was registering our presence and | :53:52. | :53:54. | |
that we were there to help him. Do you know how he is now? I've got no | :53:55. | :54:01. | |
idea. As he said, you didn't know it was a terror attack happening. You | :54:02. | :54:06. | |
went off when the ambulances arrived, when did you discover what | :54:07. | :54:11. | |
had actually happened? I went to wash my hands basically and then I | :54:12. | :54:14. | |
came back to the people I was with on the bus. We had to be diverted | :54:15. | :54:18. | |
all the way around. It was about ten minutes later when I realised from | :54:19. | :54:23. | |
what they had said there had been gunshots fired and a police officer | :54:24. | :54:27. | |
had been stabbed. Then we put two and two together and realised it was | :54:28. | :54:31. | |
probably part of the same incident and it was probably a terrorist | :54:32. | :54:34. | |
attack. How did you feel at that point? I wanted to get away as | :54:35. | :54:39. | |
quickly as possible. The area was so hectic with armed police and | :54:40. | :54:44. | |
paramedics and sirens, so I just wanted to get home as soon as | :54:45. | :54:47. | |
possible, really. Your image has become one of the images used many | :54:48. | :54:59. | |
times on the day. As soon as I got home I had people contacting me, a | :55:00. | :55:03. | |
friend in Hungary contacted me because he said his sister in Israel | :55:04. | :55:07. | |
had seen the picture of me and wanted to check I was OK. I had a | :55:08. | :55:11. | |
few people getting in touch saying they had seen that and then people | :55:12. | :55:14. | |
phoning saying they saw me on the knees. That was really strange, just | :55:15. | :55:21. | |
to be part of, to be someone's reference point -- saying they saw | :55:22. | :55:24. | |
me on the news. There were lots of injured people along the bridge, you | :55:25. | :55:28. | |
obviously went straight to one person and focused on helping them, | :55:29. | :55:32. | |
but were you able to take in much of what was going on around you and how | :55:33. | :55:36. | |
other people were reacting? Not really. We were aware of the people, | :55:37. | :55:40. | |
we could see who had been injured. The longer we stay the more apparent | :55:41. | :55:43. | |
it was more and more people have been injured further up the bridge. | :55:44. | :55:48. | |
At one point when the photograph was taken, I wasn't even aware of that. | :55:49. | :55:54. | |
I was just looking to ambulances and her any progress, really. I wasn't | :55:55. | :56:00. | |
aware of that. Could you describe the way people work? Was it people | :56:01. | :56:09. | |
reacting calmly in dealing with the situation, was their chaos? It | :56:10. | :56:14. | |
wasn't chaotic. Everyone dealt with it amazingly, especially the NHS | :56:15. | :56:19. | |
staff at St Thomas who came running out, saying, what can I do? They are | :56:20. | :56:23. | |
obviously very close, how quickly were people there? Within, it felt | :56:24. | :56:29. | |
like seconds. Maybe it was one or two minutes. There was a chap at one | :56:30. | :56:33. | |
point he came next to me and said, I'm on holiday but I'm a doctor, | :56:34. | :56:37. | |
what can I do? All the civilians who helped, maybe people without the | :56:38. | :56:40. | |
training, they were just there to be doing whatever need to be done. The | :56:41. | :56:44. | |
police response was incredibly quick, also. I suppose everything | :56:45. | :56:51. | |
went smoothly as far as the response was concerned. As a Londoner how do | :56:52. | :56:57. | |
you feel now? I feel affected by having been there but I don't feel | :56:58. | :57:00. | |
affected as a Londoner. You don't feel more vulnerable? I don't. This | :57:01. | :57:06. | |
is the sort of thing that we keep in the back of our minds that could | :57:07. | :57:12. | |
happen at any time. As everybody is saying, London is open and we stand | :57:13. | :57:16. | |
united. I'm certainly not going to use this as an excuse to be more | :57:17. | :57:20. | |
afraid of the different communities who make up London. In fact, it has | :57:21. | :57:27. | |
solidified in me the fact London is a multicultural, diverse city and we | :57:28. | :57:29. | |
can celebrate that through our unity, together. Dani Singer who was | :57:30. | :57:35. | |
one of the first at the scene of the attack on Westminster Bridge. | :57:36. | :57:40. | |
Just to remind you of the appeal police have been making for | :57:41. | :57:46. | |
eyewitnesses to get in touch. They say, we remain keen to hear from | :57:47. | :57:52. | |
anyone who knew Khalid Masood well, who knows his associates and can | :57:53. | :57:57. | |
provide us with information about places he has recently visited. | :57:58. | :58:00. | |
There may be people out there with concerns about him but didn't feel | :58:01. | :58:02. | |
comfortable in passing those concerns on. Police are trying to | :58:03. | :58:09. | |
piece together exactly what led to Khalid Masood being radicalised, | :58:10. | :58:13. | |
carrying out that attack in Westminster on Wednesday with the | :58:14. | :58:20. | |
loss of four members of the public. 75-year-old Leslie Rhodes has been | :58:21. | :58:24. | |
named as the latest victim to have died. | :58:25. | :58:25. | |
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