19/06/2017 BBC News at Six

London wakes up to another terror attack -

Nine people injured - worshipers were leaving their mosque

He was shouting, "Where are all the Muslims?

Arrested under terrorism laws - bystanders pinned down the suspect

He's understood to be 47-year-old Darren Osborne

More police, including armed officers will patrol

the area, Theresa May called the attack sickening.

It is a reminder that terrorism, extremism and hatred take many

forms, and our determination to tackle them must be the same -

We'll be asking if threats against Muslims have been

A minute's silence to remember the victims

of the Grenfell Tower fire - the number confirmed

This was the moment firefighters realised the scale

And all smiles now, tough talking to come -

a year on from the Brexit vote, the formal negotiations begin.

And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News:

We'll have all the tennis news from Queen's and

the latest from Birmingham, where Heather Watson has been

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at 6.

Nine people have been injured in what Theresa May has described

as a sickening terrorist attack on Muslims in north London.

One man died, though he'd collapsed before the attack, and the cause

It happened outside the Muslim Welfare House

Many of the victims had been taking part in evening prayers

A group of people had been helping a worshipper who had fallen down

That's when a van mounted the pavement and drove into people.

Bystanders tackled the driver, holding him until police

A 47-year-old man - understood by the BBC to be

Darren Osborne from the Cardiff area - has been arrested

Daniel Sandford is live at the scene.

We have now entered the last week of the holy month of Ramadan, a month

of fasting during the day and coming together as a community to break the

fast and pray at night. But last night, on a sweltering summer

evening, the Muslim community here in Finsbury Park was brutally

attacked. My report contains both distressing and flashing images.

It was just after midnight in London, and the third attack using a

vehicle in just three months. This time, the Muslim community was the

target. Basically drove on the pavement, coming straight towards

all the Muslims. As he is coming to them, he hit all of them.

After the van had crashed through worshippers marking the holy month

of Ramadan, leaving eight badly injured, men who'd been to late

night prayers found themselves wrestling the suspected van driver

to the road. When he was on the ground I asked him, why did you do

that, why? You know, innocent people. He goes, I want to kill

Muslims. After a prolonged struggle, the

suspected driver was arrested. The imam had intervened to prevent

further violence and he was handed over to the first police officers to

arrive. We've dragged them down and told them the situation, there is a

man, he is restrained, mowed down a group of people with his van and

there is a mob attempting to hurt him, if you don't take him, God

forbid he might be seriously hurt. What we proceeded to do, me and 20

people, lift the van and the man who got his leg stuck under it got his

leg out, although he was in a critical state, really bad, bleeding

from his ears and the rest of his body. The 47-year-old suspect is

believed to be Darren Osborne, a father of four from Cardiff, a man

unknown to MI5 but somebody who police are now investigating for any

extremist or racist views he may have expressed in the past. By

lunchtime, the Prime Minister had arrived close to the scene of the

attack. Visiting Finsbury Park Mosque, one of two whose worshippers

were caught up in the violence. The terrible terrorist attack that

took place last night was an act borne out of hatred and it is has

devastated a community. I'm pleased to have been here today, to see the

strength of that community, coming together, all faiths united in one

desire, to see extremism and hatred of all sorts driven out of our

society. There is no place for this hatred in our country today and we

need to work together as one society, as one community to drive

it out, this evil that is affecting so many families.

The Prime Minister's visit came up just after 12 hours after the van

ploughed into a group of worshippers. Theresa May clearly

wanting to be seen among the community that was attacked as soon

as possible. Jeremy Corbyn, who is the local MP,

was up most of the night talking to his constituents. And visited the

scene with the Labour Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan. Throughout the

day the enormity of what had happened and appeared to weigh on

the shoulders of politicians from all parties.

This is terror on the streets and a terror of the people on the streets,

in the communities I'm very proud to represent impoundment, that's why

I'm here today. All around the politicians visiting, a huge police

forensic operation was underway. The focus, this white van rented in

Wales. It had turned off the main Seven Sisters Road into a

cul-de-sac, hitting the worshippers as it went through. Some of them had

been treating a man who was apparently suffering a heart attack.

He later died. It is unclear if he was hit by the van. He was the only

person who died here last night. This was quite clearly an attack on

Muslims, who looked like they were probably Muslims and they were

coming from a prayer meeting. We treat this as a terrorist attack,

and we in the net are as shocked as anybody in this local community and

across the country, at what has happened.

In this year of terror, the Muslim community of North London was a new

target, but the consequences of the violence were the same. Eight people

are still in hospital this evening, some with potentially life changing

injuries. Daniel Stanford, BBC News, Finsbury Park.

As we heard the Metropolitan Police Commissioner said this was "clearly

Communities have been calling for increased action to tackle

the growth in Islamophobic hate crime, especially since

Extra police have been deployed on the streets

Our religious affairs correspondent Martin Bashir reports.

With temperatures and tensions rising in this multiethnic part of

North London, the chairman of Finsbury Park Mosque offered words

of unity. An attack on one faith is an attack on all faith and

communities. Those who try to divide us and who Adema to spread fear,

hatred and division will not succeed.

Statements from all the major faiths echoed these sentiments, with the

Archbishop of Canterbury describing this as a crime against God and

humanity. While religious leaders have

condemned this attack in unison, many in this community are angered

by the media coverage and what they say is the rush to connect acts of

terror with Islam, but a reluctance to do so when the victims are

Muslim. As news of the attack began to

spread, the anger only increased. I was here on the ground for two and

a half hours on the anger was stemmed from the fact that news

outlets, BBC News and Sky News were calling it a major incident, a minor

incident, a car collision. Let's call it what it is from the get go,

if it was any shade darker than white they were to call it a terror

attack. I'm glad they're starting to take steps to call it what it is.

Nobody feels safe, who wants to go to the mosque now? We have to look

behind our backs just a practice our religion. We are living in fear. As

he spoke to reporters, community secretary Sajid Javid was

interrupted. As a Muslim, how do I keep me and my son safe? We don't

feel safe at the moment. I didn't want to send him to school. Well,

first of all, I am a Muslim, I have children. I know many members of the

community across Britain that express a very similar feeling to

what you've just said. Sajid Javid tried to offer some consolation.

This is my community, and to hear all these things happening in

London, as a Muslim you feel so pushed out.

Other faith leaders argue that if Muslims are being asked to help in

the fight against radical extremism, then the least they deserve is

fairness when they become the victims.

I think Islamophobia has probably lurked below the surface for a while

and I think sometimes incidents like this happen and it brings it to the

surface. I think that community leaders have a real responsibility

to speak out and say, this is not acceptable.

Those community leaders will now play a central role, as people in

north London respond to this latest terror attack.

So the BBC understands the suspect to be 47-year-old Darren Osborne. We

can join Sian Lloyd outside his house in Cardiff. What more can you

tell us? Well, there has been a heavy police

presence outside this property, in a very residential part of Cardiff,

for the most part of the day. I have spoken to the next-door neighbour.

She told me that the family had been living here for some years, that

Darren Osborne has a partner and four children. The children would

often be seen playing and they were described as lovely kids. She said

he was quite quiet, he kept himself to himself but he would sometimes

helps neighbours with DIY. We understand he'd actually changed a

tap in a neighbour's property yesterday morning. The other

connection is that around 60 miles away from here there is a car van

hire company. Its branding was on the van that we'd seen in the

pictures there, used in the attack. I've been there today. That company

has put out a statement describing their shock. This community have

said how shocked they are. People here, it's still very much sinking

in. Thank you very much. And we'll have more

from Finsbury Park, The number of people believed

to have died in the Grenfell Tower disaster in west London

has risen to 79. The Metropolitan Police have warned

that they may never be able As our Home Editor Mark Easton

reports, a minute's silence for the dead was observed at eleven

o'clock this morning across the UK. There have been too

many days like this. The firefighters of Red Watch,

first on the scene last Wednesday, linking arms with others

across the United Kingdom, the country pausing to reflect

on the Grenfell Tower tragedy, a nation once

again standing silently. And then, for Red Watch, it was back

to their harrowing work in the tower as the official count of those now

presumed to have died in the fire Police today confirmed that

24-year-old Khadija Saye, 65-year-old Tony Disson,

and 39-year-old Ibrahim were This was the reaction of

firefighters when they raced to the scene last Wednesday morning. How is

that possible? Like so many, disbelieving at the scale and

ferocity of the blaze. I've investigated major crime for most of

my service, and I've seen some terrible things, but I don't think

anything prepared me for what I was going to see when I was in there.

Grenfell response team including Red Cross on Whitehall departments is

providing financial, physical and psychological support of more than

2000 people, over ?200,000 in aid has been given out, hotels and

estate agents are helping find temporary beds and permanent homes.

But why did it take so long? It's almost as if you arrived three days

too late. The arrangements were not evoked by the Borough of Kensington

and Chelsea until Thursday afternoon, that's when we stepped

in. Why didn't they ask for help earlier? That's something people

will want to know why. Some residents from evacuated homes next

door to Grenfell Tower say they've been told their only option is to

return to the flats. One resident, Joe Delaney, said a number of his

neighbours are now in homes without hot water and other amenities.

Without hot water and with water coming from a tank under that

charred husk of a tower, yes, that's where we're being asked to live at

the moment. The authorities say no one has been forced to move back.

The blackened shell of Grenfell Tower stand against the clear blue

sky the summer's day and seems to challenge all those who stand in its

shadow to demand answers and to demand justice for these scores of

people we now know that lost their lives here. But what does justice

mean? The focus on the cladding used at Grenfell Tower, the government

has asked councils and housing associations to check immediately

whether tower blocks in their areas use the same material. A criminal

investigation is underway, with Scotland Yard promising to go where

ever the evidence takes them. Where offences have been committed, I will

do everything within my gift to ensure that those responsible are

brought to justice. This evening, a silent protest in the shadow of

Grenfell Tower, from a community that says that hasn't been listened

to for far too long. The Government has begun making

emergency fund payments to those Ministers say every surviving

family will get ?500 in cash, and ?5,000

paid into their bank. Our special correspondent

Lucy Manning reports on the impact of the relief effort

and the continuing She is just 12 years old, but those

who know her say she is a remarkable young woman. She starred in a Comic

Relief debate just two months ago. Unrealistic to think that it will

disappear like this, as Bill Gates said we have to raise the bar. Now

her six-year brother, 13-year-old brother and parents are feared to

have been killed in the fire. There is no doubt that she and the other

children had wonderful futures. The children were taken on activity

trips and after-school activities. They were intelligent, always asked

sensible questions, and she was inquisitive, she had a thirst for

knowledge, she was always learning and teaching the Georgian. The

oldest child absolutely loved football. Always making jokes, had a

brilliant sense of humour, two beautiful souls. The younger child

was a bundle of energy. So many children lost in this community. A

community still struggling to get all the help that it needs.

Miguel Almgauer is lived on the 13th floor of Grenfell and now his home

is a room on the 14th floor of a hotel with his wife and two

children. They promised me they will do something in the next three or

four weeks. You think you will be in the hotel for between three and four

weeks? I don't know but I expect that, yes. So you had to ask the

council with help with housing? They didn't come and ask you? Nobody

contacted me. Has anybody contribute you from the council about help? No,

I had to go and do it myself. Miguel Cotto Mac family received ?500 from

them yesterday but Miguel is struggling to get new documents and

needs his family's cards in the tower block. The youngest need help

too. Ryan and Tina write a message for six-year-old Yacob who was their

friend. Their mum tells me many of the children here will need support.

Well, tonight details are emerging about warnings to government,

Our special correspondent Richard Bilton joins me.

The accusation is there were warnings but nothing was done. I

have letters here that show the government was given plenty of

warnings, that fire safety and tower blocks wasn't good enough and

experts were predicting that they could be a disaster and they did

that for years. It follows a fatal fire in 2009 in south London. There

were recommendations designed to keep people safe. Four years later,

2013, the government said there would be a review of fire

originations but nothing has been published. That brings us up to now

and we have seen these letters from the Parliamentary fire safety group.

They are informed by experts, these letters were sent over a long period

of time and there is a dozen of them full of warnings. They say that two

years ago the government could not afford to wait for another tragedy,

and just two months ago these letters warn it is now time to

listen. Now, over the period of time that these letters were sent they

went to four government ministers but the fire regulations whenever

tight end. When we spoke to the government today they said there is

no timetable for a review, even now some of these fire regulations.

Richard Galpin, thank you. And you can see that

Panorama programme looking at the Grenfell Tower fire

on BBC One at 8:30pm this evening. Viewers in Northern Ireland can see

the programme at 10:50pm. Almost exactly a year since Britain

voted to leave the European Union formal negotiations have

begun in Brussels. The Brexit Secretary, David Davis,

has vowed to get a deal His opposite number, representing

the European Commission, is Michel Barnier who wants

to address the uncertainties Hay said this evening the clock is

ticking. Our Europe correspondent

Damian Grammaticas reports. This is history being made and

unmade. Ready to make history? David Davis's mission in Brussels,

to un-stitch a relationship 44 years old. It's almost exactly a year

since the referendum and David Davis says with these talks he's going to

end up with a deal like no other before it and the EU side are simply

waiting to see what it is he wants. But the UK has yet to decide and

Article 50 has been triggered, so negotiations have to begin. Between

Mr Davies and his opposite number Michel Barnier. This day it was

about setting the tone can already be decided talks will happen in

English and French one week a month. They swapped gifts on a

mountaineering theme. Many believe in front of them is a mountain to

climb. The first item on the talks agenda will be how to secure

citizens' rights in future, the EU citizens in the UK and UK citizens

in the EU forced on how to calculate the UK's financial obligations to

the EU on how to negotiate border controls between the UK and Ireland.

Ireland will be one of the hardest issues of all and this afternoon

Theresa May met with Ireland's new Prime Minister. It will remain our

priority to work closely with the Irish government to maintain a

frictionless as possible border as possible.

They emerge this evening to say they had made much progress. Both of us

want to achieve the best possible at command strongest possible

partnership, one that works for the UK and for the EU.

David Davis has conceded a major point. He will follow the EU's plan

for phased talks. In the first step we will deal with

the most pressing issues. We must lift the uncertainty caused by

Brexit. We want to make sure that the withdrawal of the UK happens in

an orderly manner. That means the UK must satisfy the EU's initial

demands before talks about a future relationship can happen. Possibly in

the autumn. Damian Grammaticas, BBC News at Brussels.

And our Europe editor Katya Adler joins me now.

Day one of many, any surprises? Well, you could say if you were a

cynic it is quite surprising that in the 12 months since the referendum

in the UK to leave the EU all of that Mussolini you have had on both

sides, the two chief negotiators from both sides today burst out of

their talks today to say it was positive and constructive. The EU's

chief negotiator Michel Barnier said a fair deal for both sides is

perfectly possible and David Davis said he is a determined optimist.

However, he had wanted to talk about trade right from the off in parallel

with the divorce details, and as we heard from Damian Grammaticas it

appears the EU has got its way, that has got to come later. What David

Davis insisted that Brexit means Brexit in those terms. It means a

high Brexit in his opinion as described by some, out of the Single

Market, and out of the customs union as well. Both men agreed today that

these will be transparent negotiations informing parliaments

across the EU and the United Kingdom, informing the public as

well. Of course, the British public and the EU negotiators here are

waiting to hear any details on the British negotiation to date. Katya

Adler, thank you very much. Portugal has announced three days

of mourning as firefighters continue to battle a forest fire which killed

more than 60 people at the weekend. The blaze took hold

in a densely forested region in the Pedrogao Grande area

in central Portugal. Many of those who died

were trapped in their cars Our correspondent

James Reynolds reports. These are the flames of Portugal's

worst disaster for more For a third day here in the centre

of the country, forests burn. On Saturday, flames quickly

engulfed this road. The fire caught families who'd been

trying to drive to safety. It's hard to conceive

of their last minutes. Portugal has more forest

fires than any other It's had years to make

proper preparations, and yet on this road dozens

lost their lives in the fire. The village of Nodeirinho

watched the fires approach. A dozen residents jumped into this

water tank to escape. 84-year-old Marta da Conceicao

was helped in by her daughter. "Oh god, oh god, it was

awful", she tells me. The rescue effort continues

during a three-day period The country now asks

why its most isolated residents James Reynolds, BBC

News, central Portugal. Let's return to our main story

and the terror attack in Finsbury Park in North London

and join our correspondent Daniel, you have been there much of

the day. If you can, some up what's happened.

First of all, a reminder that a 47-year-old man from Cardiff called

David Osborne is in custody for running into, allegedly, a group of

worshippers who were breaking the fast during Ramadan just down the

road here. This evening this is a community that is an incredibly

diverse part of London. It is a place where old white working-class

Londoners mixed with generations of immigrants and then more recently

with lawyers and bankers who have spread out and populated some of the

suburban streets around here. It's a place where Abu Hamza controlled one

of the local mosques, the same mosque was where the Prime Minister

Theresa may visited today, and very different place now. This is a place

where there is raw anger from what happened last night, but at the same

time a place of solidarity. The majority of the flowers laid here

behind me have been laid by members who are not from the Muslim

community. Daniel, thank you very much.

Just to confirm the man who is the suspect arrested is Darren Osborne.

Another hot day, temperatures have been rising day on a day, today the

hottest day of the year so far with temperatures up to 33 degrees. This

was the scene captured in Cambridgeshire by a weather watcher

and narrow go. It has not been that hot everywhere, 33 degrees in the

sunshine in London but further north more cloud across Scotland and

Northern Ireland, temperatures in Stornaway around 15 Celsius. As we

had through this evening and overnight it is going to be pretty

humid, sticky overnight, particularly across the southern

half of England and Wales. We have a weak cold front slipping south, so

fresh conditions across the northern half of the country. Temperatures in

Glasgow falling to 11 degrees but in London and Cardiff 20 or 21 Celsius,

that's the overnight low. Through the day tomorrow it will not be as

hot as today in parts of northern England, Northern Ireland and

Scotland but further south across southern England and South Wales we

have that heat and humidity sticking around, so temperatures yet again

reaching 30 degrees or even higher, further north in Newcastle top

temperatures around 17, with more cloud around eastern parts of

England. If you are heading to Royal Ascot in the next few days, be

prepared for some strong sunshine, things looked dry and temperatures

around the high 20s. Into Wednesday we will season heavy showers and

thunderstorms across parts of Northern Ireland, Scotland and

northern England where the heat and humidity will add fuel for the

thunderstorms. Further south it looks like it will remain dry and

again temperatures up to 30 degrees or a little higher. Eventually

towards the end of the week there will be some slightly fresher and

showery weather moving towards southern parts of the UK. For the

next few days it is looking pretty hot and sunny.

Thank you, Sarah. That's all from