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:01:16. > :01:32.They all helped and we called everyone, and they called the police

:01:33. > :01:36.and ambulance. I said, why did you do that, why are you trying to kill

:01:37. > :01:45.people? And he wasn't responding, except to say, kill me. Members of

:01:46. > :01:48.the public had been speaking about how they held the man who had jumped

:01:49. > :01:53.out of the fight ban on the ground as they waited for police to arrive,

:01:54. > :01:58.police said they were at the scene in 10 minutes. A ?48 man has been

:01:59. > :02:04.arrested, taken to hospital as a precaution. Home Secretary Amber

:02:05. > :02:08.Rudd says this is being treated as a terrorist incident. Counterterrorism

:02:09. > :02:13.police officers are investigating. This was an attack on London and all

:02:14. > :02:14.Londoners. We should all stand together against extremists whatever

:02:15. > :02:43.their calls. Good morning, do join us live in

:02:44. > :02:45.France free Park this morning, counter terrorism officers

:02:46. > :02:50.investigating an incident involving a vehicle being driven into a crowd

:02:51. > :02:57.of people on the streets of London. This happened just after the police

:02:58. > :03:02.cordoned behind me, behind us, is most -- Muslim welfare house, on

:03:03. > :03:07.other side of the road is the mosque that is 1 of the biggest in the

:03:08. > :03:12.country, Finsbury Park mosque and people had been praying inside

:03:13. > :03:16.there, people gathered in local cafes, this is Ramadan, they were

:03:17. > :03:22.breaking the Ramadan fast at the end of Muslim prayers. Just outside

:03:23. > :03:25.Muslim welfare house a man had actually collapsed in the street and

:03:26. > :03:32.was being attended to by some of those who had seen what happened.

:03:33. > :03:35.This was a self-contained incident initially, it seemed he collapsed

:03:36. > :03:39.from a heart attack, then a fan drove at speed along the road,

:03:40. > :03:43.mounted the pavement and drove into people helping that man who had

:03:44. > :03:49.collapsed, police say he has died and at least 10 others have been

:03:50. > :03:53.injured as a result of that fan driving into the crowd. We spoke to

:03:54. > :04:00.people who describe how they saw the man get out of the van, they told

:04:01. > :04:04.him to the ground, they waited for police to come and arrest him. There

:04:05. > :04:08.were initial reports that police took some time to arrive but the

:04:09. > :04:13.least say they were there within 10 minutes of getting the initial call.

:04:14. > :04:17.The Muslim Council of Britain has said there has been an increase in

:04:18. > :04:21.Islam phobia in recent months and it's calling for more security

:04:22. > :04:23.around mosques. Let's bring you right up with all of the latest

:04:24. > :04:25.developments. The Seven Sisters Road

:04:26. > :04:28.in North London just after midnight. This footage filmed by an eyewitness

:04:29. > :04:32.was recorded moments after a van mounted the pavement

:04:33. > :04:36.and struck several pedestrians. The streets had been filled

:04:37. > :04:39.with worshippers who just left evening prayers at the Finsbury Park

:04:40. > :04:42.mosque and the nearby He looked straight,

:04:43. > :04:47.he looked straight like it He basically drove on the pavement,

:04:48. > :04:57.coming straight towards all the Muslims, and as he was coming

:04:58. > :05:01.to them, he hit all of them. Within hours, the Muslim Council

:05:02. > :05:03.of Britain claimed the van was Police say the driver,

:05:04. > :05:11.a 48-year-old man, was found by members of the public and handed

:05:12. > :05:14.over to officers to be arrested. He has since been taken

:05:15. > :05:16.to hospital as a precaution. And I saw a large crowd

:05:17. > :05:23.of people on the pavement. I learned after that a van

:05:24. > :05:26.that was standing by the traffic lights was the van that mowed

:05:27. > :05:29.the people down. Several ambulances were on the scene

:05:30. > :05:32.soon afterwards with trauma teams Theresa May says police are treating

:05:33. > :05:39.this as a potential terrorist The local MP and Labour leader

:05:40. > :05:49.Jeremy Corbyn said he'd been in touch with Islington Council

:05:50. > :05:52.and local mosques in the area. This morning the scene

:05:53. > :05:55.remained sealed off as counterterrorism

:05:56. > :06:00.officers for the third investigate a vehicle driven

:06:01. > :06:30.into people on London streets Theresa May -- Minister Michael will

:06:31. > :06:37.be chairing an emergency committee meeting of Cobra. Police have been

:06:38. > :06:41.bringing us up-to-date. The attack unfolded whilst the man was

:06:42. > :06:48.receiving 1st aid and sadly that man has died. Any positive link between

:06:49. > :06:53.his death and the attack will form part of the investigation. It is too

:06:54. > :06:58.early -- too early to say if his death was the result of this attack.

:06:59. > :07:02.Our thoughts are absolutely with all of those affected by the incident at

:07:03. > :07:07.Seven Sisters Road and their family and friends and the wider community.

:07:08. > :07:11.No matter what the motivation for this attack proves to be we are

:07:12. > :07:16.keeping an open mind. This is being treated as a terrorist attack and

:07:17. > :07:20.the counterterrorism command is investigating. This was an attack on

:07:21. > :07:26.London and all Londoners and we should all stand together against

:07:27. > :07:31.extremists whatever the cause. From 21 minutes past midnight this

:07:32. > :07:33.morning police received a number of calls to Seven Sisters Road

:07:34. > :07:39.following a van having collided with pedestrians. Officers were in the

:07:40. > :07:45.immediate vicinity at the time, actually as the attack unfolded and

:07:46. > :07:50.they responded instantly. Additional officers were on the scene within 10

:07:51. > :07:55.minutes. 1 man as I said, was pronounced dead at the scene, 8

:07:56. > :07:59.others are in hospital, two more treated at the scene. All the

:08:00. > :08:04.victims were from the Muslim community. I'd like to praise the

:08:05. > :08:08.police officers who immediately responded he gave life-saving

:08:09. > :08:11.treatment at the scene but also very much those members of the public who

:08:12. > :08:17.assisted before and after this incident. Also at the scene,

:08:18. > :08:21.detained by members of that community was the man suspected of

:08:22. > :08:27.being the driver during this attack. He has been arrested on suspicion of

:08:28. > :08:31.attempted murder. I would like to thank those people who helped police

:08:32. > :08:35.detained the man and worked with officers to calmly and quickly get

:08:36. > :08:39.him into our custody. There is strength in the circumstances is

:08:40. > :08:46.commendable. This investigation is ongoing and we are working fast to

:08:47. > :08:49.gain full details of how and why it took place. At this early stage of

:08:50. > :08:54.the investigation no other suspects have been identified and reported to

:08:55. > :09:00.police and there were no reports of any people having suffered any knife

:09:01. > :09:02.injuries. The van used has been examined by specialist officers but

:09:03. > :09:07.nothing that would cause a risk to the public was found within it.

:09:08. > :09:11.Extra policing resources have deployed across London in order to

:09:12. > :09:16.reassure communities especially those observing Ramadan at this very

:09:17. > :09:22.sensitive time. I would urge everyone to remain camp and remain

:09:23. > :09:27.vigilant. I asked the public with any information about this incident

:09:28. > :09:29.or anything that causes them concern suspicion to call police on a weird

:09:30. > :09:41.hundred 789 321. -- calm. Obviously this is a furry early

:09:42. > :09:45.stage of the investigation however as and when I can make or

:09:46. > :09:49.information available I will. This has been an incredibly challenging

:09:50. > :09:54.time for London and the emergency services are stretched. Nevertheless

:09:55. > :09:59.we will all do absolutely everything we can with our partners to protect

:10:00. > :10:04.Londoners and our city. Now is a time once again for London to stand

:10:05. > :10:08.together to face those who seek to divide us. What we are seeing and

:10:09. > :10:14.what witnesses report to us there was nobody else in the fan and it

:10:15. > :10:18.appears this time this attack attacked alone, that is not to say

:10:19. > :10:22.we are not investigating the full circumstances of how he came to be

:10:23. > :10:31.where he was but at this point in time there was nobody else in the

:10:32. > :10:37.van. Let me tell you a bit more about where we are. Behind me you

:10:38. > :10:44.can see the police vans, a line of officers, just behind the camera, a

:10:45. > :10:47.huge number of people here, a lot of reporters reporting on this latest

:10:48. > :10:52.terror incident in London. Also a lot of local people gathering,

:10:53. > :10:57.shocked to wake to the news this morning and people who have simply

:10:58. > :11:02.been up all night having witnessed what was happening, not able to go

:11:03. > :11:06.to bed. Just still here, talking about what they saw and experienced.

:11:07. > :11:10.We've heard from several people who gave chase to the attacker as he

:11:11. > :11:17.tried to leave the scene having jumped out of the van, he was

:11:18. > :11:22.actually knocked to the ground by those people who gave chase and held

:11:23. > :11:24.until police arrived, police said they were here within 10 minutes

:11:25. > :11:29.although initial reports from people at the scene but that it felt like

:11:30. > :11:33.longer but police said they were here very quickly. As with other

:11:34. > :11:38.attacks, there was a sense initially of utter confusion, when they were

:11:39. > :11:45.actually tending to a man who had collapsed in the street and as

:11:46. > :11:51.locals help that person who was on the ground, a van deliberately drove

:11:52. > :11:54.into them. That obviously lead to immense confusion as to what exactly

:11:55. > :11:59.was happening but very quickly, they realised, jumped out of the way, 10

:12:00. > :12:04.people injured and taken to hospital and police say it is the man who was

:12:05. > :12:08.being tended to in the street who died. It is unclear whether he died

:12:09. > :12:14.as the result of apparently having had a heart attack or whether it was

:12:15. > :12:18.injuries sustained by the van. Jeremy Corbyn is the local MP, he

:12:19. > :12:27.has said he is completely shocked by what happened, he has been speaking

:12:28. > :12:29.to some of those working at the Muslim welfare house. The Home

:12:30. > :12:34.Secretary Amber Rudd has described her shock at what happened.

:12:35. > :12:36.Unfortunately we have again woken up to another terrible incident

:12:37. > :12:40.in London where a man has taken hold of a van and driven it into a group

:12:41. > :12:45.There was one fatal fatality that we know about and a number

:12:46. > :12:47.of casualties, and the police are treating it as a

:12:48. > :12:51.We know that the police were on hand immediately,

:12:52. > :12:54.we know that they have treated it immediately as a suspected terrorist

:12:55. > :12:57.event, and that is the normal procedure and we will see

:12:58. > :13:01.whether they confirm that later this morning.

:13:02. > :13:07.It was treated immediately as a suspected terrorist attack.

:13:08. > :13:10.We must allow the police to deal with the facts and they will make

:13:11. > :13:15.sure that they make those facts available as soon as they can.

:13:16. > :13:18.Our priority must be to support the people who have been victims

:13:19. > :13:21.of this and to make sure the investigation is done with all

:13:22. > :13:27.We are concerned about everybody, Londoners have been hit

:13:28. > :13:29.with a series of attacks and have actually been nothing

:13:30. > :13:37.We will always make sure that everybody's protected.

:13:38. > :13:41.We have a Places Of Worship fund, which we announced last summer,

:13:42. > :13:44.which is there to protect places of worship like mosques.

:13:45. > :13:47.We will make sure that we do all we can to reduce

:13:48. > :13:56.I am joined by our Home Affairs Correspondent,

:13:57. > :14:07.Another attack involving a van being driven into people on the streets of

:14:08. > :14:11.London. It's extraordinary, think about it, 3 times this year,

:14:12. > :14:16.vehicles driven into pedestrians in London, as part of what are

:14:17. > :14:20.apparently deliberate attacks. Slight difference this time, it

:14:21. > :14:25.seems to have been a deliberate attack on the Muslim community

:14:26. > :14:29.rather than an attack on the wider population of London. Either in

:14:30. > :14:35.Westminster or having a night out in London Bridge. A couple of things

:14:36. > :14:41.worth saying at this stage, firstly, as you were picking up earlier on,

:14:42. > :14:46.the man who has died, it seems as if he was already very, very ill. He

:14:47. > :14:50.seems to have been suffering some sort of heart attack and as far as I

:14:51. > :14:56.can tell, police are really unclear at this stage whether he was hit by

:14:57. > :14:59.the van or in fact his death was something that was going to happen

:15:00. > :15:04.anyway. That said, of course, 10 people injured, 8 of them very

:15:05. > :15:08.badly, ending up in hospital, the other thing worth saying,

:15:09. > :15:13.preliminary investigations owing on into the 40 age-old man who appears

:15:14. > :15:20.to have been driving this vehicle. At this stage it looks as if there

:15:21. > :15:24.may be some mental health issues, clearly anybody who deliberately

:15:25. > :15:29.targets a group of Muslims is going to have some kind of extremist bent

:15:30. > :15:34.what it looks as if he's not as at work, someone that is a known

:15:35. > :15:37.extremist at this stage it's very, very early, but someone known to be

:15:38. > :15:40.suffering from mental health difficulties. That would be

:15:41. > :15:43.something that causes controversy because I think the Muslim community

:15:44. > :15:47.often says when we are targeted at someone with mental health of the

:15:48. > :15:52.Gulbis, when other communities are targeted its a lone wolf. At this

:15:53. > :15:57.stage, it seems to be for this investigation may be going. He was

:15:58. > :16:01.taken to hospital, was he injured? That's unclear, the fact he was

:16:02. > :16:04.taken to hospital with suggest there may be some physical injuries on a

:16:05. > :16:10.clearly, think about what happened, this band driven up the bustling,

:16:11. > :16:16.turning left and running into this group of worshippers between the two

:16:17. > :16:22.prays during Ramadan, he was grabbed by the community, it's quite likely

:16:23. > :16:26.he has either sustained injuries from crashing the vehicle or from

:16:27. > :16:32.being restrained by the community but I think that's going to come out

:16:33. > :16:37.over the hours and days ahead. Certainly, at stage, police,

:16:38. > :16:41.contrary to what some eyewitnesses seem to suggest, think he was the

:16:42. > :16:46.only person there and was apparently the driver of the vehicle, obviously

:16:47. > :16:49.the man who has been arrested so there are legal constraints but

:16:50. > :16:54.that's what seems to have happened. It happened by Finsbury Park mosque,

:16:55. > :16:57.well-known, 1 of the largest in the country, how close was it, does it

:16:58. > :16:58.look like it was sort of specifically because of the

:16:59. > :17:08.location? Well, for two years there has been

:17:09. > :17:12.two mosques here. Finsbury Park Mosque was an infamous mosque at one

:17:13. > :17:19.stage, but has become a fairly standard mosque. There is also

:17:20. > :17:24.Muslim welfare House, that's closer to the incident, but this place

:17:25. > :17:28.where this happened is a place where people from both mosques tend to go

:17:29. > :17:32.between the two prayers during Ramadan. It is like an open space

:17:33. > :17:36.off the main road. There is a cafe nearby, but it's a place where

:17:37. > :17:40.people bring camping chairs and sit around and chat and share food

:17:41. > :17:43.because of course that's the time when the Muslim community can eat

:17:44. > :17:48.during the time of Ramadan. So, these were people who had gathered

:17:49. > :17:54.in a little quiet side street to share food, and to discuss and to be

:17:55. > :17:58.contemplative when somebody has taken ill and they are treating that

:17:59. > :18:03.person and then out of the blue, this hired van from Wales comes

:18:04. > :18:07.ploughing into the group of them and all hell breaks loose. Talking to

:18:08. > :18:12.eyewitnesses, the first police officers did arrive within minutes

:18:13. > :18:17.and were helping to treat the man who had suffered from this apparent

:18:18. > :18:21.heart attack, but it did a lot of time for them, ambulances and more

:18:22. > :18:25.police support to come in. Partly that was because of the large

:18:26. > :18:32.numbers of people that were around: Did he say anything? Well, again,

:18:33. > :18:35.we're reliant on eyewitnesses, but eyewitnesses are saying that he was

:18:36. > :18:39.restrained. At one point somebody had him in a headlock and they were

:18:40. > :18:43.holding him on the ground and they say that the man that they were

:18:44. > :18:49.holding was saying, "Kill me now. Kill me now. My job is duvenlt"

:18:50. > :18:53.That's quite second-hand at the moment and we need wait until we get

:18:54. > :18:57.further down the line, but it does seem that he was suggesting that he

:18:58. > :19:06.had done what hell come to do and he was prepared to die. That was the

:19:07. > :19:09.implication. We were not present and this has been said to us. This is

:19:10. > :19:16.being investigated by counter terrorism officers? Yes, that's

:19:17. > :19:20.automatic. If anyone is believed to have attacked for an extremist

:19:21. > :19:24.reason and clearly, targeting a Muslim community would be an

:19:25. > :19:27.extremist thing then the counter-terrorism police steps in.

:19:28. > :19:33.If you think about the murder of Jo Cox, it was dealt with by

:19:34. > :19:35.counter-terrorism police and it went through the counter-terrorism

:19:36. > :19:41.protocol within the courts and I think you can assume at this stage

:19:42. > :19:45.unless something changes it will be the counter-terrorism that deals

:19:46. > :19:51.with this incident. Daniel, I would like to bring in two young men who

:19:52. > :19:54.were were there in the aftermath. Would you mind just introducing

:19:55. > :20:02.yourself and telling us where you were. I have been living in this

:20:03. > :20:06.area for all my life near enough. I have been coming to this mosque for

:20:07. > :20:12.as long as I can remember. I have been coming here this Ramadan. Oon

:20:13. > :20:17.the last ten days is something in which the Muslims like to frequent

:20:18. > :20:21.the mosque much more because it's longer night prayers and I was here.

:20:22. > :20:29.I broke my fast here. After I broke my fast, I prayed a little. I went

:20:30. > :20:33.to the shop and when I come back, I've met with incident anarchy, you

:20:34. > :20:38.know. Just talk us through what happened. Did you see the van?

:20:39. > :20:44.Obviously, I saw the van, but I didn't see the collision, but I saw

:20:45. > :20:49.the van and I saw there were people on the floor, the women and the men,

:20:50. > :20:55.screaming and shouting, pandemonium, the assailant was on the floor. The

:20:56. > :21:00.imam was telling people to deal with him properly and deal with him

:21:01. > :21:07.justly as Muslims should do. I saw the police apprehend him after as

:21:08. > :21:12.well and the community is in a state of, they are terrified, traumatised,

:21:13. > :21:16.in a state of shock especially what happened in Grenfell Tower, you

:21:17. > :21:22.know, some of the people in this area, they personally, I know of

:21:23. > :21:29.some persons who have gone and helped volunteers at Grenfell Tower

:21:30. > :21:35.and I have known some personally who have family that have passed away in

:21:36. > :21:41.Grenfell Tower. Stay with us. Want to introduce you. Can you introduce

:21:42. > :21:45.yourself as well. I live in Walthamstow. What happened today is

:21:46. > :21:49.a reaction. This is a reaction to what happened to the London Bridge

:21:50. > :21:54.attack. A similar attack, the guy in a van. Did you actually see

:21:55. > :22:00.happened? Were you here last night? We came out of the prayers and there

:22:01. > :22:04.was loads of Muslims on the street and the man ploughed into them and

:22:05. > :22:08.the driver was eventually dragged out of the car and pinned to the

:22:09. > :22:14.floor and people were hitting him and punching him and what happened

:22:15. > :22:21.was the imam came out of the mosque and said, "Don't hit him. Pin him

:22:22. > :22:23.down and call the police." As Muslims today, we're victimised and

:22:24. > :22:27.we're labelled terrorists when this isn't the case. Muslims don't feel

:22:28. > :22:31.safe walking the streets of Britain and it shouldn't have to be this

:22:32. > :22:35.way. Were you in the group of people around the man when he was taken out

:22:36. > :22:40.of the van? Yes. What happened? Was he trying to stay in the van? No, he

:22:41. > :22:43.was trying to, it was a struggle to get him out. Eventually he was

:22:44. > :22:48.getting out. He was pinned down to the floor and people were beating

:22:49. > :22:51.him up and they would do because of the actions he has done. Once he was

:22:52. > :22:55.Palestinianed do you think the police came, but the response took

:22:56. > :23:01.too long. I spoke to police on the other side of the bridge and I asked

:23:02. > :23:08.them why did it take so lock, in the London Bridge incident it took them

:23:09. > :23:12.six minutes and with Lee Rigby, it took them four minutes. The

:23:13. > :23:18.Metropolitan Police have got to answer why it took them so long. I

:23:19. > :23:24.have got footage of a woman on the floor covered in blood. The

:23:25. > :23:30.ambulance took 40 minutes. I asked a policeman and he said I can't

:23:31. > :23:34.disclose any information. It was reported as a driver has crashed and

:23:35. > :23:45.therefore it wasn't priority. When did people think it was something

:23:46. > :23:51.other than didn'tal collision? When we saw the violence. He was building

:23:52. > :23:55.up speed. It was a reaction to what happened in London Bridge. It was a

:23:56. > :24:02.premeditated attack. He picked Finsbury Park. It is a Muslim area.

:24:03. > :24:05.It is highly populated. He knew what time prayers was finishing and he

:24:06. > :24:10.came out in the van and he specifically ran the Muslims over.

:24:11. > :24:13.It's not fair on Muslims. No one feels safe, we can't go to the

:24:14. > :24:18.mosque without looking behind our backs. We have to look behind our

:24:19. > :24:21.backs to practise our religion. We're living in fear. We shouldn't

:24:22. > :24:27.have to live like this. Did he say anything? 123450 When he was

:24:28. > :24:32.arrested and put in the van he screamed, "I'll do it again." He was

:24:33. > :24:37.in the van... Out of his van? No, into the police van. As police were

:24:38. > :24:44.leading him into the van and as he was getting led into the van, he

:24:45. > :24:48.said I'll do it again. And did you hear hill say anything prior to

:24:49. > :24:52.that? I didn't hear anything happen. I was just kind of bewildered at the

:24:53. > :24:56.situation. I didn't know what was happening. I was in a state of

:24:57. > :25:03.confusion. I could see people getting CPR on the floor. The Muslim

:25:04. > :25:08.community from this attack that has happened especially in Finsbury Park

:25:09. > :25:13.is a close-knit community. Muslims are deeply saddened by what's

:25:14. > :25:18.happened andits just sad because the response the Government gave. After

:25:19. > :25:23.there, I have gone home and I'm watching the news and they are

:25:24. > :25:27.saying it's a major incident. If this was maybe an individual from an

:25:28. > :25:34.ethnic minority, a Muslim, somebody who has got a Muslim name, he has

:25:35. > :25:37.done this to another place of worship, it would be treated as a

:25:38. > :25:41.terrorist attack. The Prime Minister says it has been treated as a

:25:42. > :25:44.terrorism attack. And counter-terrorism officers are

:25:45. > :25:49.investigating. You don't believe it's being treated properly as a

:25:50. > :25:54.terrorist attack. The problem I'm having is the response. The problem

:25:55. > :26:02.I'm having is the way that extremism is dealt with. There is different

:26:03. > :26:10.speck tums from different people. If an individual from a Muslim

:26:11. > :26:15.background commits terrorism, Belmarsh, all these prisons, but if

:26:16. > :26:23.somebody juz like the Jo Cox, the way she was killed, that was a huge

:26:24. > :26:31.tragedy. How can somebody from a far-right extremism kill a minister

:26:32. > :26:36.of Parliament? That's major. If that was to be a Muslim, it would be a

:26:37. > :26:40.different reaction. The way the Government is dealing with extremism

:26:41. > :26:44.is incorrect. You want there to be a one minute's silence. There should

:26:45. > :26:48.be. Not only for this, but for the time who died in the tower. Enough

:26:49. > :26:51.is not being done and a one minute's silence should be done to raise

:26:52. > :26:56.awareness. The Government are asking and the media what security measures

:26:57. > :27:00.can be taking place, not only for news limbs, and the truth of the

:27:01. > :27:05.matter is nothing can be done. Violence will be on the streets

:27:06. > :27:15.until I day we lie. Let me just say, there will abminute's silence at 11

:27:16. > :27:19.o'clock. Every reaction has an action. The London mayor said it was

:27:20. > :27:24.an attack on all our shared values. How important is it that all

:27:25. > :27:31.communities come together now? Of course, it is. To show unity. There

:27:32. > :27:35.was a lady from a white background and she said, "Leave our Muslim

:27:36. > :27:43.communities alone." She is not even Muslim. We are always stereotyped.

:27:44. > :27:47.It's not fair. We're victimised. Sisters and mothers and brothers are

:27:48. > :27:57.afraid to leave the house. Why should we have to live out of fear

:27:58. > :28:05.to practise our religion? Thank you very much. Police have

:28:06. > :28:08.been saying there is a lot of anger and there have been reports from the

:28:09. > :28:12.people who were there that the police were slow to respond. The

:28:13. > :28:18.police say they were there quickly. Initially the incident was reported

:28:19. > :28:22.as effectively a road accident because there was confusion when the

:28:23. > :28:28.van initially went off the road, but as we were hearing from our

:28:29. > :28:37.eyewitnesses the van was speeding up and so it became clear that it was

:28:38. > :28:41.an incident that did not seem to be an accident. It was deliberate and

:28:42. > :28:44.there were reinforcements sent to the scene. The person who died in

:28:45. > :28:48.the attack was someone who was being looked after by a crowd of people

:28:49. > :28:53.who had gathered. They were in the streets after breaking the Ramadan

:28:54. > :28:56.fast and they saw a man who was struggling on the floor. It seemed

:28:57. > :28:59.he had a heart attack and they were helping him and he is the person who

:29:00. > :29:07.has died. At least ten others have been injured. Well, I'm joined by

:29:08. > :29:11.two more guests. Would you mind just introducing yourself. Hussain. Were

:29:12. > :29:16.you there last night? Did you see what happened? I heard the noise and

:29:17. > :29:26.stuff up there. And then I looked back and I see the van and I thought

:29:27. > :29:35.an explosion would follow. I ran all the way down to the corner. This is

:29:36. > :29:50.a Muslim area and three different mosques within a very close area.

:29:51. > :29:57.The Islamic centre where the media say Islamic terrorists and I think

:29:58. > :30:03.that was backlash and innocent people paid the price for those back

:30:04. > :30:07.lashes and most people that I spoke, when I left the area, they keep

:30:08. > :30:12.saying he was proud that he did this. Some people said he was

:30:13. > :30:17.smiling. That's the people who were holding him and involved with him.

:30:18. > :30:21.Did you see him? No, I was far away when they were holding him. That's

:30:22. > :30:29.when I actually see the man. Could you introduce yourself? Abdul. Where

:30:30. > :30:35.were you? I was travelling from Central London to North London

:30:36. > :30:39.around 12.30. And I saw just going past after a huge amount of police

:30:40. > :30:43.vans and ambulances past me, a few seconds later I came to the scene. I

:30:44. > :30:47.didn't know what was happening. I parked my car. I was just curious

:30:48. > :30:53.and I went and I realised something is not right. I saw at least two

:30:54. > :30:57.bodies on the ground, motionless, I couldn't tell if they were still

:30:58. > :31:02.alive or dead. Their clothes were bloodied. I asked people what's

:31:03. > :31:07.happening? One man said to me, do you see that van behind us? And

:31:08. > :31:12.there were a few other bodies on the ground. I couldn't see, but people

:31:13. > :31:15.told me there were eight bodies and beyond that, he pointed to a white

:31:16. > :31:21.van saying a man was driving that and he just ploughed through and

:31:22. > :31:25.yes, the police are looking to investigate what happened but a lot

:31:26. > :31:27.of people I spoke to, eyewitnesses, they were adamant, no doubt, what

:31:28. > :31:43.happened was deliberate. That's what he said, even the BBC

:31:44. > :31:52.guy said, he said clearly, the guy said to him, I want to kill more

:31:53. > :31:57.Muslims and this was he holds, this ideology that kind of terrorists

:31:58. > :32:03.hauled and he wants is to take as many Muslims as he can but there

:32:04. > :32:09.will be more casualties than we are counting tonight. Luckily there were

:32:10. > :32:12.only 8 few casualties, people were chatting around, some people

:32:13. > :32:20.chatting, this is the people that suffer in the area. I mean, again, I

:32:21. > :32:25.spoke, I came a few seconds after the incident I did not see it

:32:26. > :32:29.myself, I was there just after it happened, police cordons were not

:32:30. > :32:33.just put up just yet, it took a while but CPR was being

:32:34. > :32:36.administrated, it was quite busy, nobody knew what was happening, it

:32:37. > :32:42.took a while for people to work out, this does not look good. We heard

:32:43. > :32:49.the Imam came out of the mosque and told people to remain can, it seems

:32:50. > :32:58.that some... He was pulled out of the van and people were angry...

:32:59. > :33:04.Eyewitnesses saw the man, he was apprehended, put into a van, more

:33:05. > :33:08.than 1 person said the guy was almost a jubilant, he raised his

:33:09. > :33:13.hands in triumph, he didn't, you know, look sorry, that's what people

:33:14. > :33:19.were telling me on the ground. People are really shocked, people

:33:20. > :33:26.walking back, trying to find out, women were holding their mouths,

:33:27. > :33:31.gasping, realising what might have happened and people cannot believe

:33:32. > :33:36.this has actually happened. The Muslim Council of Britain has spoken

:33:37. > :33:44.of rising Islam phobia and the feelings around mosques,

:33:45. > :33:51.particularly around Ramadan. The women said we can't go because we

:33:52. > :33:56.are... The tensions are high, people don't know the difference between

:33:57. > :34:01.Muslims, they sabotaged us, the whole community, they are scared.

:34:02. > :34:06.Most people out at midnight are the men, they think maybe they are

:34:07. > :34:11.strong and can defend themselves, I don't think a lot of women should

:34:12. > :34:19.pray in this area and feel safe. Men like me, praying is a spiritual

:34:20. > :34:24.thing, between you and God, when you stand there you want peace and

:34:25. > :34:30.quiet, it doesn't matter if it's a mosque or a Christian church or any

:34:31. > :34:36.for else, nobody deserves to terrorise, to feel unsafe within the

:34:37. > :34:39.community where you hold your own fasting and peace between you and

:34:40. > :34:47.God and being quiet. Some people choose to commit crime as they did

:34:48. > :34:53.London Bridge and in Manchester and I think it's time for us to change

:34:54. > :34:57.and said this is the criminals, we should point the criminals, it's not

:34:58. > :35:01.too sabotaged communities, we should not say their name and sabotaged the

:35:02. > :35:05.community because they hold the same name and some people will pay the

:35:06. > :35:11.price by saying, you did it. It's like me saying he was white, he was

:35:12. > :35:14.Christian, it's nothing to do with that, these people aren't my

:35:15. > :35:19.doctors, my neighbours, they did nothing, he was the 1 who chose to

:35:20. > :35:24.commit crime and he killed somebody's dad, mother and

:35:25. > :35:28.grandfather as they did before. They did, both sides, they want a clash

:35:29. > :35:32.of civilisations and they want separation and they want destruction

:35:33. > :35:36.everywhere, not just in the UK. What do you think about the reaction

:35:37. > :35:39.there has been from politicians and the community in terms of trying to

:35:40. > :35:50.make sure people come together rather than get driven apart? A lot

:35:51. > :35:55.of us weren't paying attention to sound bites, politicians coming out

:35:56. > :36:00.strongly as they do with others suspected terrorist attacks or

:36:01. > :36:06.incidents, Muslim eyewitnesses I spoke to in the early hours of

:36:07. > :36:09.yesterday were all adamant this was a deliberate attack, they all came

:36:10. > :36:14.out with strong words and they want to similar strong words swiftly and

:36:15. > :36:19.quickly from politicians and other believers. What do you think about

:36:20. > :36:25.the reaction has been? From politicians? Well, it's their own

:36:26. > :36:31.game, with the politicians but I think they should separate the

:36:32. > :36:35.criminality part, doesn't matter if they are Islamic terrorists or

:36:36. > :36:40.nationalists or racist, or they are a far right extremists, they choose

:36:41. > :36:45.to commit crime and we should finger point and persecute them and for

:36:46. > :36:51.ever they are, link them and stop them, that's what politicians should

:36:52. > :36:58.do. Let us, and let us say, strong and stable... They should say, they

:36:59. > :37:05.are criminals, they are Muslims, they could be anyone, don't divide

:37:06. > :37:09.the nation, there are some people out there, don't see these people,

:37:10. > :37:14.all these faces the media feeding them all this hate and they think

:37:15. > :37:20.all Muslims are of 2 something, we are not, we are doctors, we aren't

:37:21. > :37:25.like normal families, the person who died is a grandfather. He went to

:37:26. > :37:29.spiritual things between him and his God and no 1 should feel unsafe, I'm

:37:30. > :37:35.not saying this is calling for Muslims, this is us as a society and

:37:36. > :37:38.we have problems we need to solve and tell people being radicalised,

:37:39. > :37:44.please, don't be so. Thank you very much. We are broadcasting live from

:37:45. > :37:51.them is pre- Park in North London. There has been another terrorist and

:37:52. > :37:56.involving a van being driven into a crowd of people on the streets of

:37:57. > :37:58.London. -- broadcasting live from Finsbury Park. Let's bring you up to

:37:59. > :38:09.date. The Seven Sisters Road

:38:10. > :38:11.in North London just after midnight. This footage filmed by an eyewitness

:38:12. > :38:14.was recorded moments after a van mounted the pavement

:38:15. > :38:16.and struck several pedestrians. The streets had been filled

:38:17. > :38:19.with worshippers who just left evening prayers at the Finsbury Park

:38:20. > :38:21.mosque and the nearby He looked straight,

:38:22. > :38:24.he looked straight like it He basically drove on the pavement,

:38:25. > :38:30.coming straight towards all the Muslims, and as he was coming

:38:31. > :38:34.to them, he hit all of them. Within hours, the Muslim Council

:38:35. > :38:37.of Britain claimed the van was Police say the driver,

:38:38. > :38:43.a 48-year-old man, was found by members of the public and handed

:38:44. > :38:51.over to officers to be arrested. He has since been taken

:38:52. > :38:54.to hospital as a precaution. And I saw a large crowd

:38:55. > :39:01.of people on the pavement. I learned after that a van

:39:02. > :39:03.that was standing by the traffic lights was the van that mowed

:39:04. > :39:06.the people down. Several ambulances were on the scene

:39:07. > :39:08.soon afterwards with trauma teams Theresa May says police are treating

:39:09. > :39:14.this as a potential terrorist The local MP and Labour leader

:39:15. > :39:21.Jeremy Corbyn said he'd been in touch with Islington Council

:39:22. > :39:28.and local mosques in the area. This morning the scene

:39:29. > :39:30.remained sealed off as counterterrorism

:39:31. > :39:33.officers for the third investigate a vehicle driven

:39:34. > :39:54.into people on London streets Theresa May is currently chairing an

:39:55. > :39:58.emergency meeting of the Cobra committee, after that add about 10

:39:59. > :40:03.AM she will make a statement and we will bring that to you live. The

:40:04. > :40:08.London Mayor Siddiqui can spoke about the importance of community is

:40:09. > :40:14.coming together. My message to Londoners and those across the

:40:15. > :40:18.country is to be cam and vigilant, there will be an increased visible

:40:19. > :40:24.police presence in London today, around mosques and places of

:40:25. > :40:28.worship. Just to go on that increased visibility, how much more

:40:29. > :40:34.can we expect? Each borough commander across London, there are

:40:35. > :40:37.32 boroughs, they will make sure there is additional uniformed

:40:38. > :40:43.officers around mosques, some of that is people being brought back

:40:44. > :40:48.from leave to make sure we are people that are keeping people safe,

:40:49. > :40:52.towards the end of Ramadan, more and more worshippers go to the mosques

:40:53. > :40:54.in the evenings, what we don't want to do is let anyone think they can't

:40:55. > :41:03.go about their lives because they feel vulnerable or scared. With me

:41:04. > :41:07.now is Chris Phillips, former head of counterterrorism security. We

:41:08. > :41:12.obviously have a huge police presence, this is being investigated

:41:13. > :41:16.by counterterrorism police, what does that mean specifically about

:41:17. > :41:21.how it will be investigated? It means for sure this is being treated

:41:22. > :41:24.as a terrorism act, it means there will be an enormous amount of

:41:25. > :41:28.forensic work going on at the moment. And of course, what they

:41:29. > :41:34.will need to know 1st and foremost, who is this person, who is his

:41:35. > :41:37.contacts, then they are looking at who he has been in contact with,

:41:38. > :41:40.whether there is anyone else involved because like all terrorist

:41:41. > :41:45.attacks, we need to make sure there is no 1 out that is a thread. There

:41:46. > :41:49.were initial reports perhaps there had been other people in the vehicle

:41:50. > :41:53.but those reports seem to have gone away. The fact that there no 1 else

:41:54. > :41:56.the vehicle doesn't mean there's no 1 else involved, but could be other

:41:57. > :42:02.people linked in with this person in some way, that means they have some

:42:03. > :42:07.involvement. We need to find out who hired the van, or did they get that

:42:08. > :42:12.from, what money did they use and see if this is actually, a history

:42:13. > :42:15.of this person being involved in kind of right-wing extremism,

:42:16. > :42:20.perhaps, to see his motives as to how and why he did this. There is of

:42:21. > :42:24.course someone in custody which hasn't always been the case in

:42:25. > :42:28.counterterrorism investigations. It's always good when you get the

:42:29. > :42:32.person involved because you can move very quickly then to find out who

:42:33. > :42:36.they are, DNA samples, fingerprints will tell police who this person is

:42:37. > :42:41.and they can work on that and make sure you can close down anyone else

:42:42. > :42:45.who might be involved. This can be a lone actor, most likely is, but

:42:46. > :42:50.there could the other people linked to him who have similar feelings.

:42:51. > :42:55.The police have to go in with an open mind and explore every option,

:42:56. > :43:01.obviously. In terms of the level of resources, this is another incident

:43:02. > :43:05.involving a vehicle on the streets of London, counterterrorism police

:43:06. > :43:09.investigating the 3rd attack in as many months. What does that mean for

:43:10. > :43:14.police resources? I can tell you for that means, they are already

:43:15. > :43:17.stretched, I think the police announced hundreds of officers were

:43:18. > :43:21.involved in each inquiry, those officers don't come from nowhere,

:43:22. > :43:25.they have to be taken off the duties and officers dealing with this now

:43:26. > :43:28.will have been perhaps previously doing other work such as following

:43:29. > :43:34.other people who are also a terrorist threat. This is about

:43:35. > :43:38.having enough people in times of emergency and crisis because some of

:43:39. > :43:43.these guys will have been on for a long time, for a lot of days and

:43:44. > :43:47.they can't last for ever, it's incredible. We are asking a lot of

:43:48. > :43:52.our police force to not only stop attacks from happening but deal with

:43:53. > :43:58.the fallout when something happens. In terms of bolstering that very

:43:59. > :44:02.special expertise how does that happen? As you say, expertise,

:44:03. > :44:07.doesn't come quickly and when you are trying to get people into the

:44:08. > :44:11.world of counterterrorism and understand how things operate,

:44:12. > :44:15.detectives, as an example, there is a massive shortage in The Met, only

:44:16. > :44:18.a few weeks ago then it came out and said they needed more and they would

:44:19. > :44:22.take them direct off the street, effectively. A don't become

:44:23. > :44:26.detectives overnight, these things take time and I really do hope that

:44:27. > :44:31.in government there is a recognition that not only the police but the

:44:32. > :44:35.Fire Brigade needy enough people to keep us safe and to make sure they

:44:36. > :44:39.can do what all these incidents, these crises that we are having

:44:40. > :44:43.across the country. There's been some frustration amongst people who

:44:44. > :44:48.were here as it was unfolding that the police response wasn't quick

:44:49. > :44:51.enough. The police say they sent responds immediately but initially

:44:52. > :44:55.the reports were of a road traffic incident and then as soon as it

:44:56. > :44:59.became clear it was something other than that, reinforcements were sent.

:45:00. > :45:05.I think the police respond to for a get, it depends, we don't know what

:45:06. > :45:08.a phone call said, probably said a vehicle has crashed, there are

:45:09. > :45:13.hundreds of vehicle crashes every day and every night in London and

:45:14. > :45:16.unfortunately, when you look at the resources that the police have

:45:17. > :45:20.actually got on the street, they can't deal with these accidents. We

:45:21. > :45:24.don't actually centre they don't send officers out to these accidents

:45:25. > :45:28.because they simply cannot deal with the sheer quantity. I can tell you

:45:29. > :45:32.know as soon as they had even an inkling this was a terrorist attack

:45:33. > :45:36.they would have been on to it like a flash and got here and at the end of

:45:37. > :45:39.the day members of the public did a great job but the police came in and

:45:40. > :45:44.sorted it out as well. We shouldn't be, I think there is always a desire

:45:45. > :45:47.to look at some form of criticism on the police and I think we need to

:45:48. > :45:51.just bear in mind the typical job they have to do. As you say it's

:45:52. > :45:56.worth noting that the public came together here and they actually

:45:57. > :46:03.stopped the man as he tried to leave the scene. Yes, it must be noted

:46:04. > :46:07.here that actually, I should, Isis, this is absolutely made for them,

:46:08. > :46:11.it's exactly what they want to happen, they want communities to

:46:12. > :46:17.fight each other, and whoever this person is, if that's been his

:46:18. > :46:22.desire, then he's effectively working for Isis because that's what

:46:23. > :46:26.they want and we as normal people, further they are Muslims, Christians

:46:27. > :46:29.or any other religion or no religion, need to make sure we

:46:30. > :46:33.understand that's what they want and we must really come together rather

:46:34. > :46:37.than pushing ourselves apart because if we push ourselves apart we will

:46:38. > :46:41.see more of these types of incident. Thank you. A little bit earlier this

:46:42. > :46:44.morning the counterterrorism police officer in charge of the

:46:45. > :46:47.investigation gave an update on the latest.

:46:48. > :46:50.Sadly, Londoners are waking up to the news of another dreadful

:46:51. > :46:52.incident in the capital that has left a number of people

:46:53. > :46:57.The attack unfolded whilst a man was already receiving first aid

:46:58. > :47:01.from the public at the scene, and sadly that man has died.

:47:02. > :47:04.Any causative link between his death and the attack will form part

:47:05. > :47:10.It is too early to say that his death was as

:47:11. > :47:19.Our thoughts are absolutely with all of those affected by the incident

:47:20. > :47:21.at Seven Sisters Road, and their family, friends,

:47:22. > :47:24.No matter what the motivation for this attack proves to be,

:47:25. > :47:31.This is being treated as a terrorist attack,

:47:32. > :47:35.and the counterterrorism command is investigating.

:47:36. > :47:38.This was an attack on London, and all Londoners, and we should all

:47:39. > :47:44.stand together against extremists, whatever their cause.

:47:45. > :47:47.From 00:21am this morning, police received a number of calls

:47:48. > :47:49.to Seven Sisters Road following a van having

:47:50. > :47:54.Officers were in the immediate vicinity at the time,

:47:55. > :48:00.actually as the attack unfolded, and they responded instantly.

:48:01. > :48:05.Additional officers were on scene within ten minutes.

:48:06. > :48:12.One man, as I said, was pronounced dead at the scene.

:48:13. > :48:15.Eight others are in hospital, and two more were treated at the scene.

:48:16. > :48:19.All the victims were from the Muslim community.

:48:20. > :48:22.I'd like to praise the police officers who immediately responded,

:48:23. > :48:26.who gave life-saving treatment at the scene.

:48:27. > :48:29.But also very much those members of the public who assisted before

:48:30. > :48:33.Also at the scene, detained by members of that community,

:48:34. > :48:35.was the man suspected of being the driver

:48:36. > :48:42.He has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.

:48:43. > :48:48.I would like to thank those people who helped police in detaining

:48:49. > :48:51.the man and worked with officers to calmly and quickly

:48:52. > :48:55.Their restraint in the circumstances is commendable.

:48:56. > :49:00.This investigation is ongoing and we are working fast to know

:49:01. > :49:03.the full details of how and why it took place.

:49:04. > :49:05.At this early stage in the investigation,

:49:06. > :49:09.no other suspects have been identified or reported to police.

:49:10. > :49:11.And there were no reports of any people having

:49:12. > :49:18.The van used has been examined by specialist officers but nothing

:49:19. > :49:22.that would cause a risk to the public was found within it.

:49:23. > :49:25.Extra policing resources have been deployed across London

:49:26. > :49:32.to reassure communities, especially those observing Ramadan

:49:33. > :49:35.I would urge everyone to remain calm and remain vigilant.

:49:36. > :49:39.I ask the public with any information about this incident

:49:40. > :49:42.or anything that causes them concern or suspicion to call

:49:43. > :49:56.Obviously this is a very early stage of the investigation.

:49:57. > :50:02.However, as and when I can make more information available, I will.

:50:03. > :50:06.This has been an incredibly challenging time for

:50:07. > :50:08.London and the emergency services are stretched.

:50:09. > :50:10.Nevertheless, we will all do absolutely everything we can

:50:11. > :50:12.with our partners to protect Londoners and our city.

:50:13. > :50:15.Now is the time once again for London to stand together to face

:50:16. > :50:33.From what we are seeing, there was nobody else in the van and it

:50:34. > :50:36.appears at this time this attacker attacked alone. That's not to say

:50:37. > :50:40.that we are not investigating the full circumstances of how he came to

:50:41. > :50:42.be where he was. And at this point in time there was nobody else in the

:50:43. > :50:57.van. With me now is Abdul. Tell me where

:50:58. > :51:02.you were when everything started to happen? I was walking past that road

:51:03. > :51:08.where the incident did happen and I saw a sight that I usually see every

:51:09. > :51:13.night, I saw people eating and drinking. I waved at them. I went

:51:14. > :51:20.into here, about 100 yards after, two or three minutes after, I heard

:51:21. > :51:24.the incident happen. I rushed back to see horrific scenes. Police and

:51:25. > :51:30.emergency services, a couple of them came, most of the area was

:51:31. > :51:37.congregated by worshippers who were speculate that one of their family

:51:38. > :51:41.members were involved. The area was hectic. Most of the emergency

:51:42. > :51:47.services that was there, was trying to resuscitate a man who was in a

:51:48. > :51:51.ritical condition. It was very, very weird, very bizarre scenes. How many

:51:52. > :51:56.people were there? All together? Yes. More people came. A lot of

:51:57. > :52:00.people, it was like a chain reaction, more people heard about

:52:01. > :52:04.it, more people came out, came out, came out, the area was engulfed by

:52:05. > :52:09.people trying to see exactly and make sense of what happened. It

:52:10. > :52:15.overwhelmed the emergency services, but they quickly got a hand of it.

:52:16. > :52:22.Initially people thought it was some sort of a road traffic accident? It

:52:23. > :52:26.unnerved a lot of people. A lot of people came to check out what it

:52:27. > :52:30.was. The scenes were very horrific. Did you see the driver of the van? I

:52:31. > :52:35.did, indeed. What was he doing? What was happening with him? Well, I

:52:36. > :52:39.didn't see him being apprehended by the police. I saw him in his face

:52:40. > :52:42.and he looked indifferent. He looked like he didn't really care what he

:52:43. > :52:45.did. If it was something he regretted, he would have showed it

:52:46. > :52:50.by his face. There was no sign of regret. There is speculation this

:52:51. > :52:53.might be a terrorist attack. This is 100% a terrorist attack. All the

:52:54. > :52:58.evidence shows it was a terrorist attack. He was in a bus lane which

:52:59. > :53:05.he had no right to be in, he had a hired van. He said things like,

:53:06. > :53:09."Kill me. I've done my job. ." People were trying to hold him down.

:53:10. > :53:15.People were asking him why did he do it? He has given weird answers. All

:53:16. > :53:23.of these things have been said by people who were there. Some said he

:53:24. > :53:27.didn't speak. The people I spoke to, I went to the people that I did see

:53:28. > :53:44.and they said exactly that's what he said. So I didn't speak to any light

:53:45. > :53:49.har lottance. He told me it is 100% a racially motivated attack. It is

:53:50. > :53:53.100% a hate crime. You saw some of those injured? This is before the

:53:54. > :53:58.emergency services blocked off the area. We saw people on the floor and

:53:59. > :54:02.things like this. We saw prior to them create ago barricade, we saw

:54:03. > :54:08.people, people are walking over bodies, so on and so forth. The vans

:54:09. > :54:15.that were behind us have moved so we can see clearly down. The police

:54:16. > :54:20.vans are further douvenlt just explain because you know this area

:54:21. > :54:25.well. That's the mosque. You see that. That's next to the station.

:54:26. > :54:31.That's the mosque. Where the incident happened is 20 to 30 meters

:54:32. > :54:37.right past there. That's by the Muslim Welfare House? 20 or 30

:54:38. > :54:42.meters away. It was so busy because Muslims were at night prayers and

:54:43. > :54:47.breaking the fast? The thing was because in the last ten days, it is

:54:48. > :54:52.a period where people pray like a second round. So it's 12 o'clock to

:54:53. > :54:57.1am is the time. It's the buffer period between the two. People go

:54:58. > :55:01.out and get food and some back and that's when it happened. That's when

:55:02. > :55:03.the incident happened. What do you think about the reaction there has

:55:04. > :55:08.been in terms of the political reaction. The Prime Minister came

:55:09. > :55:10.out quickly and said this appears to be a terrorism incident and

:55:11. > :55:18.counter-terrorism police are investigating. Sadiq Khan... That's

:55:19. > :55:21.what they say. Even the way the news tabloids are reporting this, they

:55:22. > :55:29.are saying, "It maybe terrorists." It shows it is 100% a terrorist

:55:30. > :55:32.attack. The Daily Mail blurred out the person's face. The newspapers,

:55:33. > :55:37.vehicle cold leuds. The words they use. It goes to show. This is not

:55:38. > :55:42.like, this is something we see all the time. However, the way they

:55:43. > :55:45.portray it, vehicle cold leuds. It makes it sound like it's a road

:55:46. > :55:48.accident. A lot of people thought it was a road accident because of

:55:49. > :55:52.reading newspapers like this. What's the best thing to be done in terms

:55:53. > :55:56.of making sure communities come together after this? The thing is

:55:57. > :56:01.the only people that actually benefit from things like this are

:56:02. > :56:07.far-right extremist groups like Isis. Now they have incentives to

:56:08. > :56:11.radicalise this. They can say you are law abiding citizens, you pay

:56:12. > :56:16.your taxes, you are still being targeted. The only way you will be

:56:17. > :56:20.secure is if you become militant and that's open, that's path ways to

:56:21. > :56:23.becoming radicalised. A lot of people that's what they are scared

:56:24. > :56:27.of. We don't want to see someone getting involved in this, but things

:56:28. > :56:32.like that, they are pushed towards that agenda. Things like this can't

:56:33. > :56:38.be ignored. When you say people are scared of this happening? I've lived

:56:39. > :56:42.here my whole life. I've never seen an atrocity like this ever. It only

:56:43. > :56:48.benefits radical groups, radical groups. Do you mean people coming

:56:49. > :56:52.along and trying to radicalise them? That's the after effect of something

:56:53. > :56:57.like this. We have to stay close-knit as a community. We have

:56:58. > :57:01.to stick together. Things like this drives a wedge into the community

:57:02. > :57:14.and it allows far-right groups to radicalise people. It gives them an

:57:15. > :57:19.incentive. The person is clearly, I guarantee is probably, he belongs to

:57:20. > :57:26.Britain First or EDL, what he was saying... We know nothing about

:57:27. > :57:32.that. He will be investigated. The evidence that we do know and it's

:57:33. > :57:38.most deaf litly. I spoke to some people and it's 100% a hate crime.

:57:39. > :57:41.100% a hate crime. There is no speculation about that. What needs

:57:42. > :57:48.to be done to reassure the community after this? A lot of people, as we

:57:49. > :57:53.saw, are out, feeling vulnerable. Do they need more security around

:57:54. > :57:57.mosques? When it's coming from the Islamic side, they say even a hint

:57:58. > :58:02.of radicalisation the authorities are quick to nip that in the bud.

:58:03. > :58:06.However, far-right groups have, it's accepted by the broader society, a

:58:07. > :58:12.lot of people don't condone this and because of that people feel the need

:58:13. > :58:18.that they get radicalised. The only way that you can potentially be safe

:58:19. > :58:22.is if you crackdown all sides of the spectrum and make sure that any

:58:23. > :58:24.radicalisation from any side is dealt with immediately and dealt

:58:25. > :58:29.with effectively. Thank you very much. Thank you for

:58:30. > :58:36.joining us. If you are just joining us let me bring you right up-to-date

:58:37. > :58:40.with the latest. We are in Finsbury Park, North London, broadcasting

:58:41. > :58:45.live after another terrorist incident involving a week being

:58:46. > :58:47.driven to people on the streets at speed. We are expecting to hear from

:58:48. > :58:51.the Prime Minister, Theresa May, shortly. She has been chairing an

:58:52. > :58:58.emergency Cobra committee meeting and she is expected to address the

:58:59. > :59:01.media after 10am. The London mayor, Sadiq Khan, has spoken of the

:59:02. > :59:06.importance of communities coming together after this attack. All the

:59:07. > :59:10.very latest is coming up in a few minutes.

:59:11. > :59:15.We've off to a very warm start particularly so across England and

:59:16. > :59:21.Wales where the temperature is 26 Celsius. Fresher in Belfast and also

:59:22. > :59:24.Stornoway. That's because we have a weather front which is producing

:59:25. > :59:28.rain at the moment. The rain will fizzle as we go throughout day, but

:59:29. > :59:32.it is a weather front introducing fresher conditions behind it. A lot

:59:33. > :59:35.of sunshine. The highest temperature somewhere in the South East around

:59:36. > :59:39.33 Celsius. As temperatures rise it could spark off thundery showers.

:59:40. > :59:42.Across parts of eastern and central England and Southern Scotland and

:59:43. > :59:45.northern England and Northern Ireland, but they are showers so

:59:46. > :59:47.they will be hit and miss. As we head through the evening and

:59:48. > :59:52.overnight, the showers will fade. There will be a lot of dry weather

:59:53. > :59:55.around. A bit more cloud too and another sultry night across England

:59:56. > :00:00.and Wales. Fresher across the far north. That leads us into tomorrow.

:00:01. > :00:03.Again, lower temperatures by a good ten Celsius in eastern areas. A lot

:00:04. > :00:05.of sunshine. Some showers in the west and here the highest

:00:06. > :00:20.temperatures. Hello. It's 10am. I'm Joanna

:00:21. > :00:23.Gosling. We are broadcasting live from Finsbury in North London where

:00:24. > :00:26.in the early hours of this morning a van mounted a pavement and drove

:00:27. > :00:30.into a crowd of people. One man is dead. At least ten people are

:00:31. > :00:35.injured. The van travelling at speed hit a crowd as they helped an

:00:36. > :00:37.elderly man who had been collapsed on the Seven Sisters Road. He has

:00:38. > :00:45.died. The incident happened

:00:46. > :00:59.at 20 past midnight, by the Muslim Welfare House

:01:00. > :01:01.on Seven Sisters road, which is round the corner

:01:02. > :01:04.from the well known Finsbury Park mosque, and which also

:01:05. > :01:05.houses another mosque. Many of the victims are believed

:01:06. > :01:08.to have just left evening prayers there after breaking

:01:09. > :01:11.the Ramadan fast. A 48-year-old man has been arrested

:01:12. > :01:14.for attempted murder at the scene. He's been taken to hospital

:01:15. > :01:16.but will be questioned Members of the public spoke of how

:01:17. > :01:20.they held him to the ground Driver was eventually

:01:21. > :01:27.pulled out of the car, pinned to the floor and people

:01:28. > :01:30.were hitting him and punching him, but they would do because they were

:01:31. > :01:33.angry with his actions. And then what happened was the imman

:01:34. > :01:36.actually came out of the mosque Pin him down, call the police,

:01:37. > :01:43.which is the right thing to do. The Home secretary says

:01:44. > :01:47.this is being treated as a terrorism incident -

:01:48. > :01:49.Counter-terror police are on the scene and the Prime Minister,

:01:50. > :01:52.Theresa May, will chair a meeting of the emergency Cobra

:01:53. > :01:58.committee later. This is being treated

:01:59. > :02:07.as a terrorist attack. And we should already

:02:08. > :02:11.stand against extremists. Good morning and welcome

:02:12. > :02:30.back to Finsbury Park - another community left dealing

:02:31. > :02:32.with the aftermath Last night a van was driven at speed

:02:33. > :02:42.into a group of worshippers leaving evening prayers at Finsbury Park

:02:43. > :02:44.Mosque. They were giving first aid to a man

:02:45. > :02:57.who had collapsed in the street. The man died, and ten

:02:58. > :03:00.people were injured- police say they were all members

:03:01. > :03:11.of the Muslim community. Police say the man who died was the

:03:12. > :03:16.man who was being looked after underground. -- who was being looked

:03:17. > :03:18.after on the ground. The incident is being treated

:03:19. > :03:20.as a terrorist attack. The driver tried to escape but was

:03:21. > :03:23.stopped by people at the scene. They have reported he said

:03:24. > :03:26."I want to kill muslims". A forty-eight year-old man has been

:03:27. > :03:28.arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and is currently

:03:29. > :03:30.being treated in hospital. Theresa May is currently chairing

:03:31. > :03:33.a meeting of the government's emergency COBRA committee; she's

:03:34. > :03:34.expected to make Let's bring you up-to-date with all

:03:35. > :03:45.the developments. The Seven Sisters Road

:03:46. > :03:48.in North London just after midnight. This footage filmed by an eyewitness

:03:49. > :03:50.was recorded moments after a van mounted the pavement

:03:51. > :03:52.and struck several pedestrians. The streets had been filled

:03:53. > :03:55.with worshippers who just left evening prayers at the Finsbury Park

:03:56. > :03:57.mosque and the nearby He looked straight,

:03:58. > :04:01.he looked straight like it He basically drove on the pavement,

:04:02. > :04:09.coming straight towards all the Muslims, and as he was coming

:04:10. > :04:13.to them, he hit all of them. Within hours, the Muslim Council

:04:14. > :04:15.of Britain claimed the van was Police say the driver,

:04:16. > :04:24.a 48-year-old man, was found by members of the public and handed

:04:25. > :04:27.over to officers to be arrested. He has since been taken

:04:28. > :04:29.to hospital as a precaution. And I saw a large crowd

:04:30. > :04:38.of people on the pavement. I learned after that a van

:04:39. > :04:41.that was standing by the traffic lights was the van that mowed

:04:42. > :04:46.the people down. Several ambulances were on the scene

:04:47. > :04:49.soon afterwards with trauma teams Theresa May says police are treating

:04:50. > :04:55.this as a potential terrorist The local MP and Labour leader

:04:56. > :04:59.Jeremy Corbyn said he'd been in touch with Islington Council

:05:00. > :05:06.and local mosques in the area. This morning the scene

:05:07. > :05:09.remained sealed off as counterterrorism

:05:10. > :05:11.officers for the third investigate a vehicle driven

:05:12. > :05:41.into people on London streets With me now is a representative of

:05:42. > :05:47.the Muslim Council of Great Britain. People are worried, scared, these

:05:48. > :05:51.were ordinary individuals walking back from warship, this is what

:05:52. > :05:54.happened to them. What is really angered some of these people and

:05:55. > :05:59.many people across the country, they have been talking about a rise in

:06:00. > :06:04.hate crime against Muslims over a period of time, it has happened

:06:05. > :06:08.again and again, there was a bomb against Finsbury Park mosque, the

:06:09. > :06:12.murder of the Muslim individual, a terror attack a couple of years ago,

:06:13. > :06:16.attack after attack against Muslims and it feels like this has not being

:06:17. > :06:20.taken seriously and muslin communities are worried. Why did

:06:21. > :06:24.happen in other mosques across the country and that's why there is

:06:25. > :06:28.positive news, the Mayor of London talks about the fact there will be

:06:29. > :06:32.extra police on the streets to reassure people, the Prime Minister

:06:33. > :06:35.talked about a Cobra meeting to deal with this in a serious way and let's

:06:36. > :06:41.hope that means this is taken seriously, finally. With extra

:06:42. > :06:45.security around mosques make any difference and should that happen?

:06:46. > :06:49.That's a good question, 1 element of reassurance, people need to safe,

:06:50. > :06:53.feel this won't happen in hundreds of mosques across the country, 1

:06:54. > :06:57.would have thought, it's about reassurance but also the fact if

:06:58. > :07:01.there is that presents it hopefully might deter people from going ahead

:07:02. > :07:06.and doing these things in the short term but we don't know. Communities

:07:07. > :07:11.need to be reassured but there is a longer term issue, the fact that

:07:12. > :07:22.Baroness Warsi talked about the fact, Islam phobia has become

:07:23. > :07:28.socially acceptable to talk about, we've had major newspapers in this

:07:29. > :07:32.country spreading hate, and newspaper talked about how less

:07:33. > :07:35.Islam is the answer, more than half the population in the UK thinking

:07:36. > :07:39.Islam as a threat to people in the UK, 30% of young people thinking

:07:40. > :07:41.Muslims are taking over the country, it's not seen as a problem that

:07:42. > :07:45.needs to be dealt with, of course people are going to get worried that

:07:46. > :07:49.no 1 is taking it seriously. We hope this will be taken seriously,

:07:50. > :07:53.Muslims are not going to be treated in any 2nd-class way and we've seen

:07:54. > :07:57.the reaction has been very good, we've seen this attack treated like

:07:58. > :08:03.any other terror attack and we hope the precursors are dealt with. I was

:08:04. > :08:06.speaking to a former counterterrorism head earlier and he

:08:07. > :08:13.said this act is effectively an act on behalf of pious, I was talking to

:08:14. > :08:20.a young man Abdul who says he is worried about it being used as a

:08:21. > :08:26.call to arms, effectively. -- on behalf of Islamic State. People from

:08:27. > :08:31.the far right, people who call themselves Muslim who want to divide

:08:32. > :08:35.us, it's up to us as a society to say no to terror, enough is enough

:08:36. > :08:39.and this will not happen on our watch, we will not let us as be

:08:40. > :08:42.divided, we will stand up as Britons and not allow intolerance to spread

:08:43. > :08:46.and NBC and tolerance we will stand up against it, hate is unacceptable

:08:47. > :08:50.for their it's had against Muslims are western society, aid is not

:08:51. > :08:55.something that we should accept in our society. You spoke previously

:08:56. > :09:00.about their having been other incidents, do you feel tension is

:09:01. > :09:05.had been escalating? It crime incidents have been rising, whether

:09:06. > :09:09.it's the Metropolitan lose, whether its third-party organisations,

:09:10. > :09:15.whether it's the Mayor of London Siddikur can. Crimes against Muslims

:09:16. > :09:20.have increased significantly in the last few weeks particularly, that is

:09:21. > :09:26.a reality the government is aware of but what we need is action, not just

:09:27. > :09:38.words, but we need hate crime against Muslims to beat tackled.

:09:39. > :10:00.Basically there was a man who came out of his van, to do a lot of harm

:10:01. > :10:09.to people, he came past my side, I tackled him down to the ground, with

:10:10. > :10:16.the help of other people, we managed to... Get into the ground. What was

:10:17. > :10:19.he saying? He was running, saying I going to throw more people, pulling

:10:20. > :10:24.punches with his hand, when he was on the ground I asked, why did you

:10:25. > :10:29.do that, innocent people and he goes... I want to kill Muslims. I

:10:30. > :10:39.want to kill Muslims? And kill me. He said I am not going to kill you,

:10:40. > :10:49.I wouldn't do that, and he didn't answer. I thought, was it by

:10:50. > :10:55.imagination, I was just, within a second, people on the floor. Did it

:10:56. > :10:59.feel like you are being targeted? Deliberately, 100%, basically, the

:11:00. > :11:02.way he was driving on the corner of it, because when we were on the

:11:03. > :11:11.floor with the old man, we were trying to give him CPR... Explain,

:11:12. > :11:15.you had come out of the mosque... Basically, where it happened, there

:11:16. > :11:19.is coffee, me and by friends were meeting there, we saw this man on

:11:20. > :11:24.the floor, I said let's go and see him first before we have a coffee.

:11:25. > :11:29.This was completely separate. We were helping him, he collapsed on

:11:30. > :11:32.the floor. A little crowd of people. Some people were saying maybe he

:11:33. > :11:40.thought there was a mosque, people came out, he saw the crowd, that's

:11:41. > :11:44.why he turned on the corner... But I don't know, I somehow managed to

:11:45. > :11:48.escape... Can I ask you one more question, we've heard very as

:11:49. > :11:54.reports there were three people in this van... I could only see one

:11:55. > :12:00.person, out from the firm, he was a big man, very strong, big man, very

:12:01. > :12:06.strong. That's why there was other people trying to get him hold, when

:12:07. > :12:10.I tackled him, we put him on the ground until the police came and

:12:11. > :12:14.went thank God, the police came, there was still some emotion with

:12:15. > :12:22.the guys all over because they were sad because there was a man trying

:12:23. > :12:28.to, people give him CPR, he already was on the ground and then the van

:12:29. > :12:32.made it worse. Can I ask you this question, do you feel safe on the

:12:33. > :12:35.street? I don't know, I'm not sure to be honest with you, if we all

:12:36. > :12:47.come together we can be safe. We are expecting shortly to hear

:12:48. > :12:51.from the Prime Minister, she's been sharing an emergency Cobra committee

:12:52. > :12:55.meeting this morning, let's go to Norman Smith in Downing Street.

:12:56. > :13:00.Norman, what will have been happening at that Cobra meeting? The

:13:01. > :13:04.first thing though be trying to do is pull together the information we

:13:05. > :13:08.know about the attack in Finsbury Park, there'll be officials not just

:13:09. > :13:12.from the police and emergency services but also the intelligence

:13:13. > :13:17.services, the local authority and so on to get a full picture of what has

:13:18. > :13:21.happened. The next part of the Cobra meeting I imagine will focus on

:13:22. > :13:25.security and reassurance. On security, it's a slightly more shall

:13:26. > :13:30.we say problematic incident in the is much more security in central

:13:31. > :13:36.London, Finsbury Park is in a suburb in north London, not the same police

:13:37. > :13:40.presence, not the same security precautions in place, the Home

:13:41. > :13:45.Secretary this morning was saying there is at the moment already funds

:13:46. > :13:48.set aside to provide additional security for places of worship that

:13:49. > :13:52.feel for one reason or another they might be vulnerable. I think

:13:53. > :13:56.something like two and a half million pounds is available and I

:13:57. > :14:01.think something like a dozen mosques have taken advantage of that but

:14:02. > :14:03.some churches too. I think the Home Secretary also signalled she would

:14:04. > :14:07.look to extend that funding because one of the areas they will want to

:14:08. > :14:11.look at is whether there are now has to be some sort of additional

:14:12. > :14:15.security provided for places of worship. And then the second thing

:14:16. > :14:20.they will want to focus on this reassurance, this being the fourth

:14:21. > :14:22.attack we've had in the past three or four months, particularly in

:14:23. > :14:27.London were of course we had three attacks. There will be double headed

:14:28. > :14:31.element to the meeting I suspect, one of them trying to give a message

:14:32. > :14:36.of reassurance and then to give additional security and see what can

:14:37. > :14:37.be put in place, that was outlined by the Home Secretary Amber Rudd

:14:38. > :14:42.earlier. Unfortunately we have again woken up

:14:43. > :14:45.to another terrible incident in London where a man has taken hold

:14:46. > :14:49.of a van and driven it into a group There was one fatal fatality

:14:50. > :14:53.that we know about and a number of casualties, and the police

:14:54. > :14:55.are treating it as a We know that the police

:14:56. > :14:58.were on hand immediately, we know that they have treated it

:14:59. > :15:01.immediately as a suspected terrorist event, and that is the normal

:15:02. > :15:04.procedure and we will see whether they confirm

:15:05. > :15:06.that later this morning. It was treated immediately

:15:07. > :15:09.as a suspected terrorist attack. We must allow the police to deal

:15:10. > :15:12.with the facts and they will make sure that they make those facts

:15:13. > :15:15.available as soon as they can. Our priority must be to support

:15:16. > :15:18.the people who have been victims of this and to make sure

:15:19. > :15:21.the investigation is done with all We are concerned about everybody,

:15:22. > :15:27.Londoners have been hit with a series of attacks and have

:15:28. > :15:30.actually been nothing We will always make sure that

:15:31. > :15:41.everybody's protected. We have a Places Of Worship fund,

:15:42. > :15:44.which we announced last summer, which is there to protect places

:15:45. > :15:46.of worship like mosques. We will make sure that we do

:15:47. > :16:10.all we can to reduce She said that the police had

:16:11. > :16:14.significant resources. You remember in the wake of the London Bridge

:16:15. > :16:17.attack there were questions as to whether cuts in police numbers had

:16:18. > :16:24.contributed to maybe a lack of intelligence at least about these

:16:25. > :16:28.attackers with community police not being as prevalent as they were in

:16:29. > :16:32.the past. We will, I expect, hear from the Prime Minister later this

:16:33. > :16:36.morning. Now, she has to calibrate this right obviously and a very

:16:37. > :16:40.different tone, I suspect, maybe approach from that in the wake of

:16:41. > :16:45.the London Bridge attack when you remember the Prime Minister gave

:16:46. > :16:52.that speech about enough is enough and the need to counter Islamist

:16:53. > :16:55.extremism. Now, we appear to have an attack targeted specifically on the

:16:56. > :17:00.Muslim community. Then the Prime Minister talking about how there

:17:01. > :17:05.were far too many, as she called safe spaces for extremism and

:17:06. > :17:09.intolerance and not just, she said, on the internet and cyberspace, but

:17:10. > :17:14.also, she particularly talked about the public sector, about schools in

:17:15. > :17:17.low Local Government and she was talking about the need for a

:17:18. > :17:22.complete culture change. Now, what will be interesting when we hear

:17:23. > :17:26.from her later is how she calibrates this particular attack and I suspect

:17:27. > :17:30.there will be some attention on how far maybe the focus has just been on

:17:31. > :17:35.the threat from Islamist extremism and whether there has been any sense

:17:36. > :17:38.that the Security Services have maybe been diverted from focussing

:17:39. > :17:42.on far-right and those sort of groups. So that, it will abvery,

:17:43. > :17:46.very different approach because previously as I say, it was very

:17:47. > :17:52.much a series of measures she outlined, she also went on to talk

:17:53. > :17:56.about possibly trying to beef up TPims, making them more like the old

:17:57. > :18:04.control orders which were abandoned the she also talked about making it

:18:05. > :18:07.easier to deport people, and suggested maybe that involved

:18:08. > :18:12.rerighting the Human Rights Act. Today, I suspect she will have to

:18:13. > :18:16.have a very different sort of message to counter a different sort

:18:17. > :18:21.of threat. Quite an important moment for the Prime Minister not just to

:18:22. > :18:23.strike the right tone, but to offer some reassurance to London which has

:18:24. > :18:27.been going through some pretty difficult tiles recently with the

:18:28. > :18:33.Grenfell Tower fire too and to try and cafe that mood of solidarity I

:18:34. > :18:43.guess in the capital. So, for her, quite an important moment.

:18:44. > :18:53.Thank you very much, Norman. Well, the Secretary of State for

:18:54. > :19:07.communities, Sajid Javid is due to arrive. Boris Johnson has said, "My

:19:08. > :19:11.con dough labses to the victims of last night's despicable attack. We

:19:12. > :19:22.must never allow hate to divide us. " With me are three members of an

:19:23. > :19:26.interfaith group. Thank you all for joining us. I know that you have all

:19:27. > :19:31.been working together through the night to make sure that, do what you

:19:32. > :19:39.can to make sure that communities come together. We are going through

:19:40. > :19:45.difficult times. The communities are worried. There is a lot of stress.

:19:46. > :19:51.In the community. There is a lot of anger. We need to channel that anger

:19:52. > :19:57.through the right channels and ensure that anger doesn't turn into

:19:58. > :20:02.something uglier and we also need to make sure that we, as people of

:20:03. > :20:08.Britain, as Britons, as people of London, we are all in it together.

:20:09. > :20:15.We are not in it as Muslim or Jew as Christian. If part of our community,

:20:16. > :20:19.in this case it is a Muslim community targeted, we are all

:20:20. > :20:23.together shoulder-to-shoulder as you see now and we are really so

:20:24. > :20:27.grateful to so many Jewish and Christian and other leaders who have

:20:28. > :20:34.been spending their own night with us tonight to see how to respond to

:20:35. > :20:41.this ins didn't. We will never allow these extremists whether they come

:20:42. > :20:46.from right-wing or relblegous extremists, we will never allow them

:20:47. > :20:50.to divide us. I would love to say something about anger. Righteous

:20:51. > :20:55.indignation at the moment is the right thing. At the moment we have

:20:56. > :20:59.seen so many incidents, I was with the 500 immals who spoke out against

:21:00. > :21:03.the terrorist attacks just a fau days ago, last week, in London

:21:04. > :21:08.Bridge, righteous indignation says this will not carry on here. This

:21:09. > :21:11.kind of behaviour is absolutely condemned by Britain and this will

:21:12. > :21:17.not be the pattern about how communities get on with each other,

:21:18. > :21:25.whatever faith or no faith, righteous indignation can take us

:21:26. > :21:30.further away from this. Agree Ab? Attack on one faith is an attack on

:21:31. > :21:35.all faiths it seems to me and the reason so many peel have turned up

:21:36. > :21:39.today from all different faith communities is believe we want to

:21:40. > :21:44.stand in solidarity with our Muslim brothers and sisters. Just a few

:21:45. > :21:51.hours before they had been gathering with members of the Christian and

:21:52. > :21:59.the Jewish community in support of the Jo Cox Foundation. It's ironic,

:22:00. > :22:04.within a couple of miles this happens. But it's not irony because

:22:05. > :22:07.that's the thing that really infuriates people who don't want

:22:08. > :22:11.peel to get together, don't want that message. So in response to a

:22:12. > :22:16.message of a we will carry on and we will carry on despite this, is

:22:17. > :22:22.exactly the message. That is the point that made them so angry and

:22:23. > :22:27.therefore, we have to respond by being together and being together.

:22:28. > :22:31.We are. We will see greater numbers arrive by the moment. Laura was

:22:32. > :22:37.saying about the right out anger. What are you feeling is the reaction

:22:38. > :22:41.this morning? Well, I think there is certainly a lot of Islamophobia in

:22:42. > :22:46.the media. Some of it is pla tent. Some of it is more hidden. We really

:22:47. > :22:51.need to deal with the root cause of this. We need to treat all

:22:52. > :22:57.communities in a fair, and equal manner. If we discriminate, whether

:22:58. > :23:01.it's into the legal system or through authorities, even the

:23:02. > :23:09.perception of it, we must deal with. It may not be all of it true, but

:23:10. > :23:17.the perceptions are there. And I would say, as the bishop rightly

:23:18. > :23:23.said, 500 imams are saying it is not so much to do with religion per se,

:23:24. > :23:29.it's to do with people, using religion, abusing religion in a

:23:30. > :23:36.wrong way and I think, my message to people in power to presidents of the

:23:37. > :23:43.free world, is please deal with the sources of extremism both within

:23:44. > :23:48.your right-wing extremists, don't be their voice. Don't target Muslim

:23:49. > :23:53.communities and stop some of your so-called allies from funding these

:23:54. > :23:58.religious extremists. Unless we're honest and deal with this issue

:23:59. > :24:03.head-on, we're going to beat around the bush. There is an important role

:24:04. > :24:07.for local communities in this. London is an extraordinary global

:24:08. > :24:10.city. 40% of the population of this city were born outside the United

:24:11. > :24:16.Kingdom and we have a good track record of actually living together

:24:17. > :24:22.in peace and harmony. That's a story we need to tell better and better.

:24:23. > :24:28.It's a story that we aren't as good as telling that story as we ought to

:24:29. > :24:32.be. We have 100 members of our neighbourhood came to the mosque

:24:33. > :24:38.after the fire. We have been overwhelmed with offers of gifts, of

:24:39. > :24:41.gifts and of help, of volunteering, they all want to come to our mosque

:24:42. > :24:46.to do the packaging. This is London. This is the beauty of London. Why is

:24:47. > :24:51.the media not covering the positive stories more often? I think one of

:24:52. > :24:56.the most positive store Chris that happened in Muslim Britain, Britain,

:24:57. > :25:01.certainly Muslim London, has been the 500 imams who came out with a

:25:02. > :25:04.very clear plan. We will not give a Muslim funeral, we will not Bury, we

:25:05. > :25:08.need to deal with what is happening on line, we need to deal with what

:25:09. > :25:12.is happening in the curriculum, that's a fantastic story about

:25:13. > :25:15.change that is happening from within the Muslim communities in Britain.

:25:16. > :25:21.That is transformational. That was the first time 500 imams, it was

:25:22. > :25:27.amazing. Usually Muslims are reactive to events. In this case,

:25:28. > :25:33.they were proactive. This will to act like that has always been there,

:25:34. > :25:36.it is just that the community doesn't know how to organise it, how

:25:37. > :25:41.to say it, I'm glad that the voices of reason have a better outlet to

:25:42. > :25:46.the media and knows how to deal with PR.

:25:47. > :25:50.This is a story actually where the people came together and

:25:51. > :25:55.effectively, effected a citizen's arrest while they were waiting for

:25:56. > :26:00.the police to come? Muslims who were attacked, they did not attack the

:26:01. > :26:06.attacker. They just held him. Waiting for the police to arrest.

:26:07. > :26:15.What does that tell you? These are law abiding citizens. Even at a time

:26:16. > :26:18.of anger they did not act in an unreasonable manner. Somebody, a

:26:19. > :26:22.person, an individual human being has died here and many have been

:26:23. > :26:26.injured and we need to hold that particular part of the human story

:26:27. > :26:29.in our hearts of the it's easy for people to gather on an occasion like

:26:30. > :26:34.this and to make it into something more and there is a bigger story to

:26:35. > :26:37.be told here, the human story, the personal story is important as well.

:26:38. > :26:41.The community secretary will be coming here. What do you want to

:26:42. > :26:49.hear from him? What do people want to hear from him? From him. Yes. Two

:26:50. > :26:54.things is people being here alongside saying I'm in pain, I'm

:26:55. > :26:58.sorry, this is human life and then a plan because what we need is a plan

:26:59. > :27:02.for a Britain that we have seen has become more segregated. We need a

:27:03. > :27:06.plan that works on many levels in order to change the narrative, to

:27:07. > :27:10.change the narrative in Britain and to work out what happens in schools,

:27:11. > :27:16.having difficult conversations, that's what we need from him. We

:27:17. > :27:20.also need the Government to be transparent. To give right data, to

:27:21. > :27:24.be more aware of the needs of the Muslim community. To not leave any

:27:25. > :27:29.stone unturned. When crimes happen against Muslims, they need to treat

:27:30. > :27:35.it the same way as they would treat other communities.

:27:36. > :27:38.Sorry to interrupt, but Sajid Javid is walking behind us, the

:27:39. > :27:42.communities secretary. He has gone through the cordon. We hadn't

:27:43. > :27:46.expected him to go through. He is going to go down and look at the

:27:47. > :27:49.scene and then he will meet with members of the community and come

:27:50. > :27:57.back. I know that the three of you are meeting him and we're joined by

:27:58. > :28:05.another guest. I'm part of the London Muslim community Forum. I

:28:06. > :28:10.represent Newham and Red Bridge. What happened in Manchester and what

:28:11. > :28:15.happened in Westminster, on London Bridge and at the Grenfell Tower and

:28:16. > :28:18.now this. We work to make sure that there is community engagement and

:28:19. > :28:27.cohesion, everyone pulling together as one community. We have got

:28:28. > :28:30.pictures now of the suspect, I think, being arrested, the moment

:28:31. > :28:35.the suspect was arrested by the police and we were hearing how

:28:36. > :28:40.members of the community who were there as the van drove into that

:28:41. > :28:44.crowd and mounted the pavement, injured at least ten people, one

:28:45. > :28:51.person has died. That person who WHO has died is the man who was actually

:28:52. > :28:54.being tendered to by locals who had seen him struggling in the street

:28:55. > :28:59.having apparently had a heart attack. He has died. We're not sure

:29:00. > :29:02.if as a result of the heart attack or injuries sustained when the

:29:03. > :29:07.vehicle went off the road and into the crowds. Those are the pictures

:29:08. > :29:11.we have of the suspect as he was taken away by police. Let's hear

:29:12. > :29:17.from Jeremy Corbyn. He is the local MP here and he has spoken of his

:29:18. > :29:22.shock. I live down there on Seven Sisters Road and obviously I was

:29:23. > :29:25.aware of the ins didn't very quickly because of the number of police

:29:26. > :29:33.vehicles and the helicopter overhead. I know the community very

:29:34. > :29:38.well and I came here last night to talk to the police and the

:29:39. > :29:42.firefighters and ambulance crew who were here and the response by all

:29:43. > :29:49.three emergency services was very timely and very quick and the police

:29:50. > :29:56.managed to arrest the suspect, who was driving the van, and taken away

:29:57. > :30:01.from the area and sadly, the gentleman who died, his body was on

:30:02. > :30:06.the ground and covered by a tent so a forensic examination could take

:30:07. > :30:09.place. The community here became very angry because in the initial

:30:10. > :30:13.stages this wasn't being referred to as a terrorist attack. Do you think

:30:14. > :30:18.this terrorist attack is being treated as seriously as others?

:30:19. > :30:23.Well, I'm treating it as seriously as any other attack. This was a van

:30:24. > :30:28.driven into a crowd of people who were tending a man who was already

:30:29. > :30:33.injured and they were coming home from night-time prayers in the

:30:34. > :30:37.mosque, it's Ramadan and it's perfectly normal and eight people

:30:38. > :30:40.have been injuredmed some of them I understand extremely seriously and

:30:41. > :30:44.as I see it, this is a terror on the streets and it's a terror of the

:30:45. > :30:46.people in the streets in the communities I'm very proud to

:30:47. > :30:49.represent in Parliament and that's why I'm here today. It is your

:30:50. > :30:53.constituency. Has the Prime Minister been in touch with you this morning

:30:54. > :30:57.to talk to you about this? Yes, Downing Street have been in touch

:30:58. > :31:01.with us and I was speaking to the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan as well,

:31:02. > :31:07.we had a long conversation at about 4am whilst I was in Muslim Welfare

:31:08. > :31:12.House so we were making sure the response was as efficient and as

:31:13. > :31:15.co-ordinated and also to give reassurance to the community,

:31:16. > :31:18.reassurance to the community of their safety and reassurance that

:31:19. > :31:22.they are free to practise their faith. They are free to walk about

:31:23. > :31:25.the streets and people must be able to do that, but I have to say the

:31:26. > :31:30.stress levels I've met already from people both last night and this

:31:31. > :31:34.morning they are just frightened, just frightened that something like

:31:35. > :31:38.this would happen again. So we need efficient and effective policing. We

:31:39. > :31:41.obviously need also an attitude in our society of support for each

:31:42. > :31:46.other. The only way to deal with this kind of issue is communities

:31:47. > :31:52.coming together and this is a very multi-faith community. Christians,

:31:53. > :31:57.Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist. All live around here and this is a

:31:58. > :32:07.microcosm of a community working together.

:32:08. > :32:16.Do you think there should be more security around mosques now? We have

:32:17. > :32:22.had threats made to muslin welfare house and other religious places in

:32:23. > :32:27.the area. An attack on a mosque, a synagogue, a church is an attack on

:32:28. > :32:31.all of us, we have to protect each other's faith, way of life and that

:32:32. > :32:34.is what makes a strong society and community. I am not complaining at

:32:35. > :32:39.all about the local police, they work very well together with both

:32:40. > :32:42.the mosques infant spree part to make sure they have the support that

:32:43. > :32:47.they need and I am in close touch with police as well as those in

:32:48. > :32:51.Scotland Yard. You said you spoke to Downing Street have you spoken

:32:52. > :32:55.directly to Theresa May was to mark I haven't spoken to her directly but

:32:56. > :33:00.our offices have in touch and she has expressed condolences for the

:33:01. > :33:05.deaf and also concerns about what happened last night. Do you expect

:33:06. > :33:10.her to make a visit today? It's not up to me to decide what the Prime

:33:11. > :33:13.Minister Doss, I am the local MP, I am the leader of the Labour Party

:33:14. > :33:18.and the opposition and at the moment, I am here as you would

:33:19. > :33:22.expect any constituency MP to be present and these are people I have

:33:23. > :33:25.represented for more than 35 years, I know many of them extremely well

:33:26. > :33:30.and I feel their pain today and I feel stressed today and I think we

:33:31. > :33:33.have to all reach out and feel their pain under stress. The only answer

:33:34. > :33:39.to this, the only answer to this has to be strong community and strong

:33:40. > :33:49.communities together, to end these dreadful incidents. Let's just take

:33:50. > :33:52.a look at the latest pictures that we have that had just come through,

:33:53. > :33:58.the moment the suspect was taken away by police, having been stopped

:33:59. > :34:14.from fleeing the scene by the bull here who had gathered. And there was

:34:15. > :34:19.a lot of anger, confusion initially. -- stopped from fleeing the scene by

:34:20. > :34:25.bit people here. The streets were very busy here, Muslims breaking the

:34:26. > :34:29.Ramadan fast, gathering in a local cafe on the other side of the road,

:34:30. > :34:33.leaving Finsbury Park mosque where they had been for evening prayers.

:34:34. > :34:39.People as they realised what had happened were very angry. The

:34:40. > :34:43.suspect was stopped from leaving by people who managed to pin him to the

:34:44. > :34:51.ground and wait for police to arrive. Let's get some reaction from

:34:52. > :34:56.a local MP, Catherine West, the neighbouring constituency Hornsey

:34:57. > :34:59.and Wood Green. A terrible thing to have happened here and quite

:35:00. > :35:06.understandably, a huge amount of anger. Importantly, well done to the

:35:07. > :35:11.community and the people worshipping last night because they were so calm

:35:12. > :35:15.in the face of what must have been a terrifying event and they were able

:35:16. > :35:19.to assist the police by holding down the person involved. And by playing

:35:20. > :35:24.their role in bringing this person to account which is what we need, we

:35:25. > :35:29.need to understand why somebody would do such a terrible thing,

:35:30. > :35:34.particularly at this sensitive time of the calendar, being Ramadan and

:35:35. > :35:38.also, a big shout out also to local council who were here on the scene

:35:39. > :35:40.as soon as possible and also to all the local representatives who have

:35:41. > :35:46.come to show solidarity this morning. We've spoken to faith

:35:47. > :35:49.leaders who have come together in an interfaith group which is already

:35:50. > :35:53.something that happens and they've been speaking very much about the

:35:54. > :35:57.need for communities to come together, this is the sort of thing

:35:58. > :36:02.that could lead to people who want to exploit it using it as a way to

:36:03. > :36:05.exploit people's fears. The Muslim welfare house which is how it is

:36:06. > :36:12.known locally has an amazing impact across the community, 180 languages

:36:13. > :36:17.spoken in local schools, we have Jewish, Muslim or people of no faith

:36:18. > :36:20.who come together on an open day to come and celebrate being together,

:36:21. > :36:26.through the Joe Cox Memorial Day yesterday we came together, this was

:36:27. > :36:31.one of the places together in which people came together and we are

:36:32. > :36:44.externally focused here, we want to bring people in, to share what

:36:45. > :36:46.different people believe, enjoy the fact that we are part of this

:36:47. > :36:51.amazing community. -- Jo Cox. I will have to interrupt you, police are

:36:52. > :36:59.about to give an up date on the tower fire... To establish how many

:37:00. > :37:08.people we believe are missing and as of this morning, I'm afraid to say

:37:09. > :37:20.there are 79 people died we believe are either dead or missing and I

:37:21. > :37:26.sadly have to presume are dead. Of that 79 we have formally identified

:37:27. > :37:34.five people. We are supporting the families and loved ones of each of

:37:35. > :37:39.those 79 and with the agreement of the families and the coroner, once

:37:40. > :37:46.we have confirmed identities of those that have died, we will be

:37:47. > :37:52.releasing their names. Now sadly, for many families, they have lost

:37:53. > :37:58.more than one family member and my heart truly goes out to them. This

:37:59. > :38:07.is an incredibly distressing time for all of them. And I said before,

:38:08. > :38:12.one of my absolute priorities is to identify people as quick as we can,

:38:13. > :38:21.to recover them from Grenfell Tower, that numbered 79, may change. I

:38:22. > :38:27.believe there may be people who were in Grenfell Tower, that people may

:38:28. > :38:34.not know or missing and may not have realised they were in there on the

:38:35. > :38:40.night. Equally there may be people who thankfully managed to escape the

:38:41. > :38:46.fire and for whatever reason and for whatever reason, have not let their

:38:47. > :38:52.family and friends or police know they are safe. If that is you, and

:38:53. > :39:02.we haven't been informed, I don't care what that reason is but I urge

:39:03. > :39:06.you to get in touch. The search and recovery operation was in Grenfell

:39:07. > :39:09.Tower continues. We are working closely with colleagues from the

:39:10. > :39:15.London Fire Brigade, from the London Ambulance Service and are specially

:39:16. > :39:22.trained police officers to as swiftly as we can, recovery and

:39:23. > :39:25.those that have died. This is an incredibly distressing time for

:39:26. > :39:37.families and they have my commitment that we will do this as quickly as

:39:38. > :39:41.we possibly can. The awful reality as I've said before is that due to

:39:42. > :39:46.the intensity of the fire and the devastation within Grenfell Tower,

:39:47. > :39:51.that we may not be able to identify everybody that wide. We have been

:39:52. > :39:57.from the top to the bottom of Grenfell Tower. The search operation

:39:58. > :40:02.will be painstaking and having been in there myself it's really hard to

:40:03. > :40:10.describe the devastation that the fire has caused. And that is why we

:40:11. > :40:12.released some images and photographs of some of the damage caused

:40:13. > :40:17.yesterday and I'm incredibly grateful to the occupier of the

:40:18. > :40:20.flats shown to let us share about so the public and families can

:40:21. > :40:29.understand what it is and for that looks like within Grenfell Tower.

:40:30. > :40:32.Now the investigation was commenced on day one, so we as the

:40:33. > :40:36.Metropolitan Police have primacy investigation and right from the

:40:37. > :40:39.very outset than working with colleagues, investigators from the

:40:40. > :40:45.London Fire Brigade, the Health and Safety Executive, using a wide range

:40:46. > :40:50.of specialist as part of our enquiries. What's important for me

:40:51. > :40:56.is to find answers for those families that have been so deeply

:40:57. > :41:00.affected. The investigation will look at a wide range of areas from

:41:01. > :41:06.how the building was constructed, the refurbishment that has

:41:07. > :41:10.previously been reported on, how it is managed and maintained, fire

:41:11. > :41:18.safety measures and a wide range of other areas. It would be wrong for

:41:19. > :41:22.me to speculate today what the outcome of that investigation might

:41:23. > :41:26.be. But I'd like to reassure everybody that we will be looking at

:41:27. > :41:35.all criminal offences that may have been committed by any individual or

:41:36. > :41:39.any organisation. We will go for the evidence may take us and for

:41:40. > :41:43.offences have been committed, I will do everything within my gift to

:41:44. > :41:50.ensure that those responsible are brought to justice. The

:41:51. > :42:00.investigation is going to be hugely complex and it will be exhaustive.

:42:01. > :42:04.It would be wholly inappropriate were right to give a running

:42:05. > :42:08.commentary on that investigation, however, I would give everybody the

:42:09. > :42:15.assurance that if I identified, as a result of our enquiries, and issued

:42:16. > :42:22.that is a risk to public safety, we will be sharing that immediately

:42:23. > :42:27.with the relevant authorities. And finally I would like to thank the

:42:28. > :42:30.local community, to Grenfell Tower for the patients that they have

:42:31. > :42:37.shown the emergency services since the outset. Our search and recovery

:42:38. > :42:48.operation will take a long time. I expect it to take many, many weeks.

:42:49. > :42:52.And of course, most importantly, my thoughts and those of all of us are

:42:53. > :42:57.with those families that have been so deeply affected by this tragedy.

:42:58. > :43:03.I am happy to take some questions. You went into the building yourself

:43:04. > :43:14.on Saturday. Can you describe what that same was like? So the images

:43:15. > :43:20.which we shared yesterday tries to get across the nature of what is in

:43:21. > :43:24.there. I've investigated major crime for most of my service, and I've

:43:25. > :43:29.seen some terrible things but I don't think anything prepared me for

:43:30. > :43:38.what I was going to see when I was in there. Can you give us a picture

:43:39. > :43:45.of what it was like to be in amongst the devastation? So, it's hard to

:43:46. > :43:48.describe my feelings, I can't imagine putting myself in the

:43:49. > :43:54.position of those families who have lost loved ones. But being with

:43:55. > :43:58.those colleagues from the London Fire Brigade when I was in there,

:43:59. > :44:02.colleagues from the London Ambulance Service and other police officers, I

:44:03. > :44:06.think it's fair to say it's incredibly emotional working in

:44:07. > :44:10.America but we will do it with our utmost professionalism and we will

:44:11. > :44:21.do everything we can as quickly as we can, to locate and recover

:44:22. > :44:25.everybody who is in there. Are you expecting the number may change

:44:26. > :44:32.significantly? So, as I said, today, this morning, I know there are 79

:44:33. > :44:36.people that are either confirmed dead that have been identified or

:44:37. > :44:41.are missing and sadly I have to presume are dead. I do think there

:44:42. > :44:45.may be some change to that number. The work we are doing is about

:44:46. > :44:49.trying to find those people to see if they are safe and well and

:44:50. > :44:53.thankfully, over the last few days, we have identified five people who

:44:54. > :45:04.people believed were missing and I'm so grateful that they actually are

:45:05. > :45:10.safe and well. That is the latest from the police on the Grenfell

:45:11. > :45:13.Tower disaster, 79 people dead or missing, the latest figure that we

:45:14. > :45:18.heard and he said very sadly, they do have to believe those 79 are

:45:19. > :45:22.dead. There is still potentially some hope that some people have not

:45:23. > :45:26.reported themselves as not being in the building, there is a list of Ms

:45:27. > :45:30.-- of missing unaccounted for and police say if there is anyone out

:45:31. > :45:35.there who may be on the list report themselves, five people, it's been

:45:36. > :45:40.discovered, who were on the list previously have come forward in the

:45:41. > :45:45.last few days but a very, very sombre statement from the police

:45:46. > :45:49.with the death toll now up to 79, it is presumed. Those very distressing

:45:50. > :45:55.pictures released of the inside of the building indicating exactly what

:45:56. > :46:00.terrible difficulties they are dealing with as they try to continue

:46:01. > :46:05.to do with what has happened at Grenfell Tower.

:46:06. > :46:11.We are live in Finsbury Park because there has been another terror

:46:12. > :46:16.incident after midnight last night. A man driving a white van left the

:46:17. > :46:21.pavement and hit several people who were gathered in the street after

:46:22. > :46:25.the mosque was holding evening prayers. People had been outside the

:46:26. > :46:31.mosque as well breaking the Ramadan fast. They were in the streets and a

:46:32. > :46:35.van at speed deliberately drove into the crowd of people who were

:46:36. > :46:38.gathered there. One man, who is 48, has been arrested. With me now is

:46:39. > :46:44.Sajid Javid, the Communities Secretary. You have been down to the

:46:45. > :46:48.scene. You have been meeting some of those who were here. Local people.

:46:49. > :46:52.What have you seen? What are your thoughts? I wanted to come here as

:46:53. > :46:56.soon as I can. First of all to express my sympathy to the victims,

:46:57. > :47:00.their family and their friends for this des pickcable attack, but also

:47:01. > :47:04.to condemn what has happened here there, attack on innocent people.

:47:05. > :47:08.I've talked to the police here. The police will be issuing information

:47:09. > :47:13.later, more about what has actually happened, but let's remember that

:47:14. > :47:17.the people, the person, that's perpetrated this attack, his sole

:47:18. > :47:21.purpose, like the attacks that we have seen in Manchester dreadfully

:47:22. > :47:26.and London recently is to try and divide our society and that will

:47:27. > :47:31.fail. These people, these perpetrators will never succeed. The

:47:32. > :47:35.other reason I'm here as well I want to reassure first the local Muslim

:47:36. > :47:40.community and Muslims across Britain that we will always as a Government

:47:41. > :47:45.take a zero tolerance approach to hate crime, where there is

:47:46. > :47:48.anti-Muslim hate crime, any type of hate crime in our community. The

:47:49. > :47:53.Muslim community has our full support, I want to learn more from

:47:54. > :47:56.the community that more we can do to reassure them at this very difficult

:47:57. > :48:01.time. We have been speaking to a lot of people here this morning that

:48:02. > :48:04.feel that Islamophobia has not been treated in the same way as other

:48:05. > :48:09.forms of extremism and feel that voices haven't been heard and felt

:48:10. > :48:14.that the incident here has been treated differently? This incident

:48:15. > :48:19.is being very seriously, the police are treating this as a terrorist

:48:20. > :48:21.incident and it is being investigated by the

:48:22. > :48:24.counter-terrorism unit. There is lots of people here today, there is

:48:25. > :48:27.a meeting going on right now and there is a meet that the Prime

:48:28. > :48:31.Minister is chairing right now of the mbleg Cobra committee to see

:48:32. > :48:34.what other response we can have that can help both here, but also perhaps

:48:35. > :48:38.nationally as well if required. In Government, now, for a number of

:48:39. > :48:42.years we have had a Muslim hate crime working group that works with

:48:43. > :48:44.my department, the Home Office, and we work with Muslim leaders

:48:45. > :48:49.throughout Britain to see what more we can do. But when you have a

:48:50. > :48:53.perpetrator like this and of course, we don't know enough about the

:48:54. > :48:57.individual's motives and I don't want to jump to any conclusion, but

:48:58. > :49:01.clearly from what we have seen and what we know already, this is a hate

:49:02. > :49:04.crime attack, it is unacceptable in any community and I want to make

:49:05. > :49:06.sure that every community in Britain, but particularly right now,

:49:07. > :49:11.Britain's Muslim community feels that it has all the support that it

:49:12. > :49:15.needs and I want to give the maximum reassurance and that's one reason

:49:16. > :49:19.for me being here right now is to talk to local people and talk to the

:49:20. > :49:24.local leaders and see what more it is that we can do to give them

:49:25. > :49:28.reassurance. We have heard from people who are feeling that it's too

:49:29. > :49:33.frightening, perhaps to go and pray at mosques late at night. I have

:49:34. > :49:36.spoken to a lot of young men who said that female members of the

:49:37. > :49:39.family aren't doing it because they feel too vulnerable. What about

:49:40. > :49:44.security at mosques? Will that be chakeed? I can understand those

:49:45. > :49:49.feelings. It is a Ramadan period and people will be fasting all day and

:49:50. > :49:52.then breaking their fast late at night and it is an opportunity for

:49:53. > :49:55.them to get together and celebrate opening their fast and I want people

:49:56. > :49:59.to feel as safe and as secure as possible. What will you do to make

:50:00. > :50:02.that the case? Well, already I think the police here in London have

:50:03. > :50:05.announced that they will put on extra patrols, have more visible

:50:06. > :50:09.policing, I think that in itself will be helpful, but also give

:50:10. > :50:12.reassure Abs, but we have got to will be to local leaders and others

:50:13. > :50:17.about what more it is that they think we can do. In the end though,

:50:18. > :50:22.resources are tight. Are you going, can you give a pledge that what you

:50:23. > :50:26.are asked for, you will give? I can absolutely be clear that whatever

:50:27. > :50:28.resources are necessary to give people the reassurance and the

:50:29. > :50:32.security they want, that's what we will be providing. You said about

:50:33. > :50:38.patrols, for instance, if the people at this mosque say what we want is

:50:39. > :50:42.dedicated policing, whatever they ask, will they get it? Right now the

:50:43. > :50:46.police say they can provide extra support and that's good. Already

:50:47. > :50:49.that message, even so early this morning, I think is reassuring to so

:50:50. > :50:53.many people. I have had people come and say that to me already in

:50:54. > :50:56.Finsbury Park. But if the police say they need more support and more

:50:57. > :51:00.resources, of course, that will be provided. How will that be done?

:51:01. > :51:04.Because the police are already stretched? Well, one of the reasons

:51:05. > :51:08.to have the Cobra committee meeting this morning is that all the key

:51:09. > :51:11.decision makers including the Prime Minister, the Home Office, the Mayor

:51:12. > :51:15.of London, are around the same table making these decisions. That meeting

:51:16. > :51:19.is going on now. I'm sure after the meeting, there will be a statement

:51:20. > :51:22.and it will touch on the issue of resources. Can the police in London

:51:23. > :51:26.cope actually with everything that's been thrown at them right now? I

:51:27. > :51:30.think that's a very fair question given everything that we have seen

:51:31. > :51:33.of course, the terrible tragedy at Grenfell Tower, the attacks at

:51:34. > :51:38.Westminster and London Bridge. I think first of all I have nothing,

:51:39. > :51:42.but admiration for our police, but all our emergency services in London

:51:43. > :51:45.and for that reason in and Manchester elsewhere how they have

:51:46. > :51:48.responded to these tragedies, but I think one message that's always

:51:49. > :51:53.clear to all our emergency services, particularly at a time like this is

:51:54. > :51:56.that you must feel come qortable with the resources that you have and

:51:57. > :52:01.if you don't, then you must let the decision makers know and we should

:52:02. > :52:05.react to that. I mean here today, the police's response, I'm told they

:52:06. > :52:09.were here within a couple of minutes when they first heard the attack.

:52:10. > :52:14.There has been a professional and thorough response and many members

:52:15. > :52:18.of the local community are grateful to the police how quickly they could

:52:19. > :52:21.respond to this terrible attack. You met people who were caught up in

:52:22. > :52:25.this. Theresa May was criticised after Grenfell Tower for not being

:52:26. > :52:29.on the ground quickly enough and not meeting people. Is she going to

:52:30. > :52:31.come? Right now, as we speak, the Prime Minister is chairing the

:52:32. > :52:36.emergency Cobra meeting on this incident to see what more she can do

:52:37. > :52:41.across Government to help with the situation. I'm sure after that Cobra

:52:42. > :52:45.meeting, she will make a statement and set out what she can do, what

:52:46. > :52:50.more she can do to Is the empathy help. As much as anything as

:52:51. > :52:56.important to people as the practical assistance that people feel listened

:52:57. > :53:00.to and understood? Absolutely. I think, for me, as soon as I heard

:53:01. > :53:04.this news, the first, my first instinct was I must come here and

:53:05. > :53:10.meet people. Not just the community leaders, who are hugely important,

:53:11. > :53:14.not just the police who are doing a wonderful job, but I'm here to talk

:53:15. > :53:18.to local people who use the mosque, people from other relige Obamas, I

:53:19. > :53:22.have met local Christians and others that see this as very much part of

:53:23. > :53:28.their community. They see the Muslims very much as part of one

:53:29. > :53:31.united community. One thing I learned that the mosque in question

:53:32. > :53:35.yesterday afternoon, they were having a great get together and that

:53:36. > :53:39.is something that happened almost a year ago to the day. We had the

:53:40. > :53:44.murder of Jo Cox, which again, was a terrible crime to try and divide our

:53:45. > :53:50.country. And this mosque, you know, in the afternoon, it is holding a

:53:51. > :53:54.great together with members of the whole community from right across

:53:55. > :53:58.Finsbury Park and a few hours this terrible hate crime is perpetrated

:53:59. > :54:02.on it. Do you doubt there will be people who are seeking to exploit

:54:03. > :54:07.it? There are people that seek to divide us and this is an example of

:54:08. > :54:10.that. There are already people on social media, and other places that

:54:11. > :54:13.are trying to use this as a way to try and divide people. But my

:54:14. > :54:17.message to those people, whether they are the non-violent extremists

:54:18. > :54:21.or the violent extremists, whether they are the kinds of attacks that

:54:22. > :54:26.sadly we have seen in Manchester or London or this kind of attack here,

:54:27. > :54:29.they will fail. They will fail because the Government, the people

:54:30. > :54:32.in the communities, we are all united to make sure they will never

:54:33. > :54:37.ever succeed in dividing us. Sajid Javid, thank you very much. Thank

:54:38. > :54:41.you. Well, Sajid Javid has been at the

:54:42. > :54:45.scene of the incident. It is the other side of the police cordon. The

:54:46. > :54:52.cordon opened up a little bit with the police vans moving so we can see

:54:53. > :54:59.more of what is happening behind us. The Finsbury Park Mosque is down

:55:00. > :55:04.there on the left and the Muslim Welfare House which is where, it was

:55:05. > :55:07.just outside the Muslim Welfare House that the ins didn't happened.

:55:08. > :55:16.A couple of guests joining us. If you could introduce yourself? I'm

:55:17. > :55:25.Emma. I'm 15. I'm a local resident. I'm a teacher and I'm a NUT

:55:26. > :55:31.representative. So Emma, what are your thoughts today? I just wanted

:55:32. > :55:39.to talk about how things like this, you know, like might have been

:55:40. > :55:44.fuelled by things in the media that causes Islamophobia. I feel like,

:55:45. > :55:50.it's just wrong. I don't agree with it because when terror attacks

:55:51. > :55:55.happen and you know they are all Muslim and they have been called out

:55:56. > :55:59.and then things like this happen as retaliation to that, it is just

:56:00. > :56:05.corrupting our society. I feel like personally, I feel slightly targeted

:56:06. > :56:09.in our community and I feel that social barriers have been put down

:56:10. > :56:13.thanks to things like that. When you say targeted, have you been feeling

:56:14. > :56:17.that for sometime and what made you feel that way? The increase in

:56:18. > :56:22.terror attacks in the media and how they are associated with Islam and

:56:23. > :56:26.how mus littles have been portrayed as extremists and things like this.

:56:27. > :56:29.Like the people in the van might have have felt the need to, OK,

:56:30. > :56:35.Muslims are terrorists, we need to get rid of them. Run them over or

:56:36. > :56:42.whatever. I feel slightly unsafe in my own community thanks to stuff

:56:43. > :56:48.like this. We are in a very mixed area. That's everywhere in London. I

:56:49. > :56:54.have come down to express solidarity from teachers with people like Emma,

:56:55. > :56:58.her parents, her fellow students and teachers and one thing I want to

:56:59. > :57:02.make sure is that Islington NUT regards this as a terrorist attack

:57:03. > :57:07.and it wants it to be regarded as a terrorist attack. It's an attack on

:57:08. > :57:13.our community and an attempt to divide us when we should be uniting

:57:14. > :57:17.against racism, war and terror and austerity. Emma, are you hearing

:57:18. > :57:22.messages from politician and community leaders? I feel like now

:57:23. > :57:25.I'm hearing the right messages, but it shouldn't take something like

:57:26. > :57:29.this for people to feel the need to stand up and say, "We shouldn't be

:57:30. > :57:35.doing things like this." It shouldn't happen in the first place.

:57:36. > :57:40.I feel like those messages should have been told before it led to

:57:41. > :57:45.things like this. People shouldn't feel the need to harm innocent

:57:46. > :57:49.people for the action of others. It has no connection to religion,

:57:50. > :57:54.specific individuals who have the wrong ideologies and I just don't

:57:55. > :57:58.agree with, you know, terror in itself, like taking innocent lives

:57:59. > :58:02.is wrong. Thank you very much Well, the message loud and clear here this

:58:03. > :58:05.morning is that communities must come together. The Communities

:58:06. > :58:11.Secretary Sajid Javid is here talking to leaders of all faiths.

:58:12. > :58:18.Let me remind you of why they are here. Just after midnight last night

:58:19. > :58:22.a van was driven deliberately into a group of people in the street. It's

:58:23. > :58:26.the third time a vehicle has been used to attack people on the streets

:58:27. > :58:30.of London. The police are investigating as a terrorism

:58:31. > :58:34.incident. Well, that's just about it from us here in North London. At

:58:35. > :58:37.11am there will be a one minute's silence held across the UK for the

:58:38. > :58:41.victims of the Grenfell Tower disaster.

:58:42. > :58:45.The nation will shortly pause to observe a minute's silence in memory

:58:46. > :58:50.of those who died when a fire broke out five days ago in Grenfell Tower

:58:51. > :58:54.in North Kensington, West London before midnight. The Metropolitan

:58:55. > :58:58.Police say they believe 79 people lost their lives in the fire, the

:58:59. > :59:03.worst in our recent history. Police say conditions inside the building

:59:04. > :59:07.were indejibable and the challenge facing they will as they search the

:59:08. > :59:08.tower to recover those people still inside and return them to their

:59:09. > :59:18.loved ones A nationwide silence is being held

:59:19. > :59:22.across all government buildings and across the UK people are gathering

:59:23. > :59:23.to show their respects to those who died and all those affected by the

:59:24. > :02:15.fire. There will be further coverage on

:02:16. > :02:16.BBC One and BBC News channel and we will bring you