05/06/2017 BBC News at One

The London Bridge attack - police say they know the identities

of the three men who killed seven people and left many

More properties in East London have been raided in the early

A number of people have been detained.

30-year-old Christine Archibald - a Canadian - is the first

She was visiting London for the first time with her fiance.

21 of them remain critically ill in a number of hospitals

More tales of heroism - the Romanian chef who filmed this

hit one terrorist over the head with a crate and sheltered 20

TRANSLATION: I really thought I was in danger,

so I threw a bread crate at one of the attackers.

I saw he was going to dodge it, so I hit

Security moves centre stage in the general election campaign,

as Labour and the Conservatives clash over who's best placed

The UK terror threat level remains at severe,

but additional security measures are being put in place including

We'll have the latest live from Borough Market.

Also on the programme this lunchtime...

The first funeral for a victim of the Manchester suicide bombing,

as 14-year-old Eilidh MacLeod is laid to rest on the Outer

High emotions, and a TV audience peaking at 14.5 million,

for the benefit concert staged by Ariana Grande less than two

And coming up in the sport on BBC News, Andy Murray's bidding to reach

the quarterfinals of the French Open.

We'll have the action from his match against Karen Khachanov in Paris

Good afternoon and welcome to BBC News from London Bridge,

where a vigil will be held tonight in honour of the victims

Seven people were killed when three men drove

into pedestrians on the bridge, then began stabbing people in nearby

21 remain in a critical condition in hospital.

In the early hours of this morning police carried out more raids

in East London and detained a number of people.

Our correspondent Richard Galpin has the latest.

This is Borough Market in the midst of the attack.

It's being filmed by Florin Morariu,

But instead of running to safety, he attacks the three men

TRANSLATION: I really thought I was in danger so I threw a bread

I saw he was going to dodge it so I hit him

He also sheltered 20 people in the bakery where he works.

They and many others describing him as a hero.

But already seven people were dead and

30-year-old Christine Archibald from Canada is the first of those killed

She left Canada to be with her fiance and died in

his arms on London Bridge on Saturday night.

The police are working hard to establish the

identity of all of those who were tragically

killed or injured in the

event on Saturday night, but it is now clear that

sadly victims came from a number of nationalities.

This was an attack on London and the United Kingdom

but it was also an attack on the free world.

This morning counterterrorism police carried out more raids in north-east

London, targeting two properties, as the hunt

for any accomplices of the attackers continues.

Around about 4:10 this morning I heard a

massive loud explosion, gunshots, about 20 gunshots going off

across the road like an MOT car tyre place across

The police say they already know the identity of the three attackers.

But while so-called Islamic State claims it was behind

the attack, the police doubt the militant group was directly

All the recent attacks, I think, have a primarily domestic

In the five we have foiled and these three recent

attacks, in some of them there are

undoubtedly international dimensions.

We will always be looking to see if anything has been

directed from overseas but I would say the majority of the threat we

are facing at the moment doesn't appear to be directed from overseas.

In the last hour, the Mayor of London has condemned what he

described as the poisonous ideology of the men who carried out the

The acts of these three men on Saturday night was cowardly, was

evil, and I'm angry and furious that these

three men are seeking to

justify their actions by using the faith that I belong

The ideology they follow is perverse and is poisonous,

This was the third attack in just three months.

Two of them on bridges, where security is

And the threat level remains at severe, meaning yet

Our home affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford is at

More raids in the early hours of the morning. Police say they know who

the attackers were. What's the latest on the investigation? There

is still a massive forensic crime scene operation going on where you

are, still an awful lot of forensic work going on in Borough Market,

Borough High Street and bits of London Bridge. That's incredibly

important, because if this case ever comes to trial or for inquest, the

counterterrorism officers need to know exactly what happened and

where. They are starting to acquire a huge amount of CCTV material,

videos sent from members of the public who witnessed things. They

are starting to go through computers and mobile phones seized during the

course of the operation. That's a big part of the work. Although there

were two new raids overnight, there were no formal arrests made on those

rates. People were detained and spoken to, but at this rate nobody

has been formally arrested. The number of people arrested remains at

12, one of them being released very soon, seven women and four men still

in custody. That's an important part of the investigation. Did anyone

else know what was going to happen, was anyone else involved in

assisting what was going to happen? The element spoken about by Cressida

Dick, the commissioner, was it being guided in some way from overseas?

There is a working assumption at the moment that wasn't necessarily the

case. The ideology might have come from overseas, but it doesn't seem

at this stage to be a guiding hand. There is a reassurance element to

the investigation, overnight sprouting new barriers on three of

the main London Bridges, a barrier between the roadway and the

pavement, so any vehicle that chose to drive off the roadway into crowds

of people on the pavement would bump into those barriers, a form of

protection for pedestrians in the capital. Daniel Sandford at Scotland

Yard, thank you. The first victim of the attack to be

named is 30-year-old Canadian She was living in the Netherlands

with her fiance and had travelled A French citizen was also killed,

and four others seriously hurt. Four Australians are also known to

have been caught up in the attack. One British Transport Police officer

and five Metropolitan A total of 48 people were injured -

21 of them remain critically ill. To her family, she was Chrissie, a

person who had room in their heart for everyone, they said. A person

who believe everyone should be valued and respected. Christine had

moved to Europe from Canada to be with her boyfriend Tyler. On

Saturday night she died in Tyler's arms. They had been walking over

London Bridge as the attack began. The van hit 30-year-old Christine.

Her boyfriend's family say he tried desperately to keep her alive and

paramedics were on the scene very quickly, but there was nothing they

could do to save her. In a statement her family said she wouldn't have

understood the callous cruelty of her death. They also made this

plea... Christine Archibald had worked at a

homeless shelter back in Canada. She had studied social work at

university in Calgary, where she was remembered as a shy and talented

student. The area of social work she chose to work in is one of the most

challenging areas and required substantial commitment, substantial

compassion, and she was able to do that really successfully. She would

be somebody we would be proud to have called a social work colleague.

Australian Candice Hedge was stabbed in the neck on Saturday night. She

had been trying to hide from the attackers in Borough Market. Her

family believe she is actually one of the lucky ones. I was really

scared, yeah, really, really scared. We eventually got onto the hospital.

They spoke to me and said she had gone to surgery. She had a knife

wound in her neck. Across the London hospitals, injured are still being

treated. The King's College Hospital, eight people remain in

critical care. All the patients are being cared for by intensive care

and surgical teams, who are doing an excellent job. A number of patients

remained in critical care, where they receive good treatment, and I

expect them to remain there for a knob of days or weeks to come. In

the coming hours and days, the names of the other six killed will be made

public, as will the anguish and pain of their family and friends. Daniela

Relph, BBC News. Our Health Editor Hugh Pym

is at King's College Hospital in South London where some of those

injured are being treated. The most seriously injured among

them, medical staff have been speaking about them in the last

hour. What have they had to say? NHS England has put out an update on the

number of patients. There are still 36 patients at five London hospitals

following the attacks on Saturday night. But the number in critical

care is now 18. It was 21 as of last night. Some of those are at Kings

College Hospital, a major trauma centre in south London. We just

heard from Doctor Malcolm Tunnicliff in the hospital, paying tribute to

the work of staff and making it clear that some of those critically

ill patients will be in hospital for a little time to come. He said that

on the night a major incident plan had been put into action, and within

an hour or so, a large number of doctors and nursing staff had been

called in. They had planned for just this sort of thing, and were dealing

with a series of knife wounds and also injuries consistent with people

being hit on the bridge. That was the sort of thing he said hospitals

like this have to deal with fairly regularly, although not quite on

this scale. He said the plan had been put into practice in a way they

were pleased with. It's also worth saying that it's not just the trauma

staff, on the night there are a series of different hospital

professions involved watching out for ongoing infections among the

victims as a result of the attacks. Tribute also paid to hospital

chaplains, occupational therapists and other staff, all of whom very

much involved in treating patients. Health editor Hugh Pym, thank you.

Campaigning has resumed for Thursday's general election

after being suspended because of the terror attack

Security is taking centre stage as the Leader of the Labour Party,

Jeremy Corbyn has called on the Prime Minister Theresa May

to resign for presiding over cuts in police numbers

when she was Home Secretary.

The Prime Minister has defended her record.

Our Political Correspondent Chris Mason reports.

What happened in London on Saturday night has, for the second time in

this campaign, refocused the election on national security. The

question is blunt, which leader do you think is the best chance of

keeping us safe? When she launched a campaign for the Conservative

leadership last summer, Theresa May set out what she sees as the

differences between her and Labour's Jeremy Corbyn, from terrorism to

nuclear weapons. In this election there is one leader who has made it

his life's ambition to get rid of Trident, and one who is committed to

keeping it. One leader who has boasted about opposing every single

counter terror law, and one who has been responsible for passing them.

One leader who has opposed the use of shoot to kill and given cover to

the IRA when they bombed and shot our citizens, and who now in the

midst of an election campaign wants to do all he can to hide or deny

those views. But security issues have been Theresa May's

responsibility since 2010 when she became Home Secretary. Since then

the number of conventional police officers and those who are armed has

fallen. Jeremy Corbyn can frequently draw a crowd. He was in

Middlesbrough this morning and said it was vital that campaigning

continued. We're not going to allow anybody to dictate how we live our

lives or how we go about enjoying ourselves. And for those people that

imagine somehow or other, these kind of terrorist attacks will deter us

from exercising our democratic right to have our election to decide who

our government is going to be. Wrong. We carry on. Democracy will

prevail. Jeremy Corbyn went on to say he wants Theresa May to resign

over her handling of security issues, but of course he does, he

wants to be Prime Minister on Friday, take her job and form a

government here. What was more surprising was David Cameron's

former aide Steve Hilton suggesting the same thing for the same reasons.

But Theresa May remains defiant and says, for instance, extra money is

being put in to recruit additional armed police. But both the SNP and

the Liberal Democrats are questioning her record. This is a

point where we look at how we keep our country, our people safe. As

things stand we have a Prime Minister who told off the police for

saying they were crying wolf, and that was at a time where she was

responsible for making cuts in our police numbers in every part of our

country, and today she stands and says enough is enough. Enough was

enough the first time this happened. This is the moment where we stand

behind our police and security services and do the one thing we

know will make us safer and invest in police. An election that was

called because of Brexit feels very different several weeks later. Of

course Brexit will be a massive issue for the next government, but

so will national security. Chris Mason, BBC News.

Our assistant political editor Norman Smith is in Westminster.

With so few days left until the general election, national security

very much taking centre stage now. It is also clear Mrs May wants to

put the issue of security and leadership, keeping the nation safe

at the heart of her campaign, and really went after Jeremy Corbyn

today saying he opposed shoot to kill. He voted against every piece

of counterterrorism legislation citing his ties to Sinn Fein, IRA

and Hamas. But in a funny sort of way, it was Mrs May who has come

under pressure over her record in Government and those cuts to police

numbers. 20,000 fewer police repeatedly Prestatyn conference

about the impact on community policing, neighbourhood policing on

the way those officers could provide intelligence and information about

extremists and radicals to the intelligence services. She was also

challenged about the decision to scrap control orders, her opposition

to some of the de-radicalisation proposals put forward by Michael

Gove, and what will happen when we leave the EU and no longer have

EU-wide security arrangements. Indeed Mr Corbyn was asked if he

would back calls for Mrs May to resign over cuts to police numbers

and he said indeed I would. You sensed almost whoever wins this

election, they will face profound difficulties informing a cross-party

agreement, a consensus, to push forward with a new counterterrorism

legislation, so charged and so acrimonious has become this debate.

And in a way that has become the story of successive governments

going all the way back to the 7/7 bombings and repeated attempts to

improve on counterterrorism which have come to nothing because of very

diverging views. Norman Smith in Westminster, thank you.

The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police,

Cressida Dick, says they do know the identities of the three

attackers but are not naming them publicly for the time being.

But she said the latest attacks in the UK

do not seem to have been directed from overseas.

Our Security Correspondent Frank Gardner reports

Chasing down a suspect in East London, as armed

For the third time in three months, police are scrambling to follow up

In Barking in east London, suspects were made to lie on the ground.

This is one of the three murderers on Saturday night

It's emerged that at least one of the three had been reported

for his extremist views, but apparently no action was taken.

We have hundreds and hundreds of officers engaged in trying

to piece together whether anybody else knew about

or supported it in any way at all, and we have been arresting people.

It's the conflict in Syria that has massively ramped up

Hundreds of British jihadis have gone to join the ranks

As that group faces defeat in the Middle East, hundreds have

come back and thousands more are being recruited into Islamic

What we have seen after this flurry of attacks now is that people

are becoming frustrated, people do want to see concrete steps

and actions from the Government in a meaningful way that can

mitigate this threat, that can manage it down.

Educating people about the risks of radicalisation extends

This was a school in Waverley, Birmingham.

The Government's Prevent programme aims to steer people away

Help groups have also been set up to offer advice

Having that deep involvement, actually that parental

Yeah. Which is the key here.

And that's why our work is centred around mothers, because they are

They are the first ones to spot the signs.

Given the state of the terrorist threat, this is unlikely to be

the last time Britain mourns its victims from

Challenging the ideology that feeds terrorism has now

The Prime Minister has accused technology firms of not doing enough

Google, Facebook and Twitter say they're investing significant

resources in fighting the spread of extremism.

Our Technology Correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones in our

How difficult a task ahead for these technology companies?

I think there is some confusion amongst the technology companies.

One senior figure at one firm told me, we are told something must be

done, we are not quite clear what that something is. If it is to work

with the Government to do more to take down extremist material, we are

doing a lot there and can certainly do more. They fear the Government

may look to Germany where there is a draft law possibly coming in

Wychwood fine companies for not removing hate speech and extremist

content quickly enough. They that would make them effectively the

censors of the internet. But what they really fear is more talk about

getting rid of end to end encryption. The Government has

talked about there not being a safe space for terrorists online. The

companies say getting rid of encryption would make everybody less

safe. Thank you. I will be back later in the programme, when I will

be talking to the Bishop of Southwark.

More properties in East London have been raided in the early

hours of this morning - a number of people

We go back with a mother and daughter, who were at

the Manchester Arena terror attack as they attend the Ariana

the Manchester Arena terror attack as they attend

Coming up in sport at 1:30, Premier League champions Chelsea

are waiting to discover if Eden Hazard will be fit

for the start of next season after he fractured his ankle

in training on international duty with Belgium.

The first funeral of a victim of the Manchester Arena attack

is taking place on the island of Barra in the Outer Hebrides.

Eilidh MacLeod was on a school outing to the Ariana Grande concert

when a suicide bomber killed 22 people.

Her friend, 15-year-old Laura MacIntyre, remains in hospital.

From Barra, our Scotland Correspondent Lorna Gordon reports.

Under grey Atlantic skies, Eilidh MacLeod was returned to her island

home. Slowly, gently, her coffin carried across the sand. As a piper

played music, the teenager had been learning. This small community on

the peaceful island where she lived has been in shock at her death. The

local school closed, businesses shut as hundreds of islanders filled the

church and lined the streets for her funeral. Her family wanted this to

be a celebration of Eilidh 's life. Kind and cheerful who loved music,

reading and spending time with her friends. She had gone to Manchester

with her friend, Laura MacIntyre, who remains in hospital with serious

injuries. This stands as a testament for ever

to the world of love, innocence, generosity, kindness...

Eilidh will be laid to rest in the village in which she grew up.

Six Arab countries including Saudi Arabia and Egypt have cut

diplomatic ties with Qatar, accusing it of

They say Qatar backs militant groups including so-called

Islamic State and Al Qaeda, claims which Qatar denies.

Several airlines have cancelled all flights

Our Diplomatic Correspondent James Landale joins me now.

What's this all about? This is one of those simmering tensions that has

suddenly exploded into one of the most serious diplomatic breakdowns

in the Gulf countries for many years. The Gulf countries led by

Saudi Arabia and others, they believe and accuse Qatar of

supporting Islamist groups including Muslim Brotherhood, and also of

being supportive of Iran's agenda. Iran is the great enemy for many of

these countries. What has happened is that just a week or so on since

the Donald Trump visit to the region, these countries have felt

emboldened to say now is the moment to try to crack down on Qatar and

say we will not put up with this any further. They have cut off transport

ties and planes are not flying in. This matters because Qatar is a

small country, a very wealthy one full of oil and liquid natural gas.

Any disruption could potentially have an impact on the oil price.

Secondly one of the largest US air bases in the region is based there,

10,000 troops runs a lot of counter so-called Islamic State operations

there, will that be destabilised? Also Qatar was a huge investor here,

it owns big shard tower building, the Harrods department store and

companies like Sainsbury's. Any impact could have potential blowback

here in the UK. Last night 50,000 people gathered

in Manchester for a benefit concert for the victims

of the suicide bomb at Manchester Arena last month that

left 22 people dead. It was an evening of defiance,

celebration, and unity - all the more so given the events

here in London just 24 hours before. But it brought back

difficult memories for some. Graham Satchell spent the day

with a mother and daughter who were at Manchester Arena

when the bomb went off. Not quite two weeks after the attack

in Manchester, and not quite 24 hours after the latest

outrage in London, 50,000 people came to

a concert, determined

to enjoy themselves. Manchester stands together

and I think you can see For 13-year-old Lucy and her mum,

Anne-Marie, it's not that simple. This is is a fantastic gesture,

that this concert's taking place, Lucy's been having panic

attacks through the night. What have the last

two weeks been like? Lucy and Anne-Marie were at

the Manchester Arena two weeks ago. I just don't understand

why they would... Just getting to last night's concert

after witnessing the horrors of the suicide bomber,

an extraordinary achievement. return to Manchester

for Ariana Grande - compassion, dignity,

courage at just 23. With her, stars from all over

the world like Justin Bieber, CROWD: LOVE!

LOVE! There were heart-warming moments,

heart-breaking moments. It was a night that saw

the very best of Manchester. Lucy and Anne-Marie,

hugely appreciative. They were all brilliant,

absolutely brilliant, But for us, you know, it's not

going to take away that memory. I'm really pleased you have got

a smile on your face. It's a smal first step,

but an important one - a moment of normality in what has

been a deeply traumatic time. Graham Satchell, BBC

News, Manchester. Let's go back to our top story,

the terror attack on Saturday night on London Bridge and Borough Market

in which seven people were killed As you can see behind me, there is a

huge cordon here, the whole area is closed off. London Bridge State --

station is open, and the cathedral has been closed, sealed off to the

public for now. I'm joined by the Bishop of Southwark, good afternoon

and thank you for joining us. Can you remember a time when the

cathedral was closed like this? There is no precedent because we are

dealing with exceptional events. We had a great service full of young

people who were all home by the time the incident happened, many others

were enjoying the vicinity, out and about in it. Yesterday we closed the

cathedral because it is within the sealed area. In the evening, the

large Pentecost service where people were coming from all over south

London, we managed to relocate to a church in Kennington. This morning

you have been to a meeting with the Metropolitan Police and other faith

leaders, what was the message? I was at new Scotland Yard for a meeting

of the consultative group of faith leaders, being briefed by the

police. This area is likely to be sealed off, possibly for another

24-36 hours while the police go about their work and they have been

working both very effectively the forensic teams, and also very well

in dealing with the public and giving reassurance, taking time to

talk to people. We were also concerned that when we speak, we

speak with one united voice across the great faiths which are

represented in this global city in which we live. We want to celebrate

our diversity, regarded as a blessing, and to speak out against

those who are to undermine unity, goodwill and common purpose. The

Bishop of Southwark, thank you for joining us.

Time for a look at the weather. Here's Louise Lear.

Sunshine for some today but vain for most and that's the story with this

rain we can see from the weather watcher picture in Cumbria, but it's

moving from the west and if you've had some sunshine it will be a thing

of the past as we go through the afternoon. The wet and windy

weather, the worst of which across Wales and north-west England. It

will be this intense rainfall that is the real issue and worth bearing

in mind if you are going to be out on the roads this afternoon. Some of

that rain persistent, accompanied by gale force winds. So, as we go

through this afternoon the strongest of the winds gusting to gale force

on exposed coasts in the south-west, the rain gradually drifting steadily

eastwards but there will be some heavy bursts across the south-west.

Dribs and drabs into London during the afternoon but we will seek heavy

persistent rain as we go through this evening. The rain lingering

across the north-west of England and north Wales, but for Northern

Ireland and Scotland scattered showers into the afternoon. Cannot

rule out the odd rumble of thunder, but temperatures peaking at around

16 degrees. Through this evening and overnight it will be the wet and

windy weather that will be the theme as it continues to push steadily

north and east, so it will be a real wet and windy night for many, with

gales on exposed coasts and overnight lows generally of around

9-13d. We start off tomorrow morning with the area of low pressure

centred through the spine of the country and drifting steadily north

and east. The isobars squeezing together, the strongest of the winds

to the south-west of that bloke and that's where we are likely to

continue to see gale force gusts for a time. The rain slowly clears away

through central and eastern England but perhaps lingers for much of the

far north-east of Scotland for most of the day. Following behind, sunny

spells and scattered showers, a breezy day and it will feel cooler

than it has of late. The low pressure finally eases away during

Wednesday night, the wind swings round to a westerly direction, and

it looks to be largely fine and dry. But on exposed north west coasts, it

will feel quite fresh, 11-14d. Highest values in the south-east

with 20. Back to you, Sophie. Police say they know the identities of the

three men who killed seven people and left many more critically

injured. That's all from the BBC News at One

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