05/06/2017 London News

That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me.

Tonight on BBC London News - we're live at City Hall

where a vigil is being held in honour of the victims

many with messages of love and support for the families

In the past few minutes they heard this tribute from the Mayor.

The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan says London stands in defiance

As the London, it wants to send a clear message to the sick and evil

extremists who commit these hideous crimes. We will defeat you. You will

not win. Today we mourn the loss of innocent lives. Londoners and people

from around the world. We sent our love to the victims' families and

all those who were injured. And we thank our courageous emergency

services and the brave Londoners who risk their lives to care for others.

You are the best of us. APPLAUSE

As you heard, huge applause for his words there, the crowd that is a

mixture of ages and faces and faiths coming together here tonight. There

has been a mixture of emotions because of the last couple of days

we have heard heartbreaking accounts of how those tragic events unfolded

that we have also hired heart-warming stories and remarkable

tales of courage and compassion. Our correspondent Karl Mercer has

spoken to one doctor who described the wounds

that he and colleagues treated. London's NHS was tested once

again on Saturday night. From the front line paramedics

who treated people around Borough Market, to the specialist

trauma teams who cared People like Malik Ramadhan, a doctor

at the Royal London in Whitechapel, cycling home when he saw dozens

of police cars shoot past him. He turned round and went back

to work just as the first I think what was perhaps different

was if we take 12 casualties normally there will be a range

of injuries and severity but all 12 of the people we received

were very severely injured. The thing that was perhaps different

was the clear lethality. The stab wounds were

designed to kill people. There were no little slices,

there were no flesh wounds, they were all very deep,

penetrating injuries And they all needed an operation,

they all needed something to repair London's Ambulance Service sent 80

medics to the scene, eventually taking 48 patients

to hospitals across the capital. There were lots and lots of patients

and quite confusing information Lots of members of the police

and the public did some quite heroic things to try and save the lives

of people who had been 14 patients remain at Kings College

hospital, half of them The predominant injuries

we are treating our stab wounds to the head, neck,

torso and abdomen. We have also got a number

of patients who suffered blunt force trauma as well from probably

being hit by a vehicle. And how do you deal with the

relatives when they come in? That is something that has been more

difficult than normal, a huge range of nationalities and couples and I

think that is something that has been quite different for us, a

series of couples walking along the bridge had been knocked down. Some

people have pushed their loved one out of the way of the fun and

another injured and so we have had to cope with the feelings of people

who are injured but were also part of the events. As well as looking

after the person who is injured from the event. I have dealt with a

number of incidents like this before so vile I would say it has become a

normality, I have a way of coping with it and I will sit back and

reflect on what went one and reflect on the excellent care that the teams

you has delivered. A look round and I can see a bunch of world-class

people saving lives and I am part of that. To think I was temporarily

leaving the team is incredibly humbling. I'm

pleased to say the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan joins me. We had that

we're living in a new reality and it is a second time we are talking

individual to remember Londoners who have lost their lives. Is it getting

harder to reassure people? The threat level for a number of years

now has been at severe. That means an attack is highly likely. It went

up for a short period after Manchester but we have to be

vigilant, make sure we are come at anything suspicious we report to the

police. One of the first things I did as mayor was to approve the 600

additional armed officers to be sure we are as safe as possible but we

all have a role to play to make sure we stay safe. Is it harder to

reassure Londoners when people like President Trump criticise us? My

focus since Saturday has been dealing with the horrific attack on

a city, on Londoners and visitors. I really don't have time to respond to

preach from Donald Trump will stop we have to recognise some people

want to divide committees, some people thrive on fuelling division.

That is not me on the London that I know and we are not going to allow

anybody like Donald Trump or anyone to divide our communities. These

three men who committed this act of terror, these terrorists who killed

a number of people and injured many others, they believe in a perverse,

twisted poisonous form of Islam but I don't recognise, this doesn't

recognise the face that I know. We know that plots have been disrupted

since Westminster, questions are being raised about how we're going

to stop this because these were unsophisticated attacks, vehicles

and a knife, they are harder to prevent? We need to recognise that

those who want to harm us are evolving and finding new ways to

harm us and to injure us and we have to bring finding new ways to defend

ourselves. We know that two of them tonight have been named and are from

London? They don't represent the Londoner that we know, we saw their

review of our city is twisted and not one that we recognise and I

condemn them unequivocally. I condemn the poisonous ideology that

they subscribe to but also I say to any would-be terrorists, any

would-be extremist or extremist, yard going to win. You're not go to

divide our communities. Thank you. We did hear comments from the Prime

Minister yesterday saying enough is enough and things need to change

when it comes to tackling Exuma is. Asad Ahmad has visited East London

and has been hearing conflicting views on how to stop

home grown terrorism. There are not frightened,

they're not scared. They are your typical

resilient Londoners. Here in east London, like elsewhere,

people are still feeling uncomfortable that Saturday's

attack even happened. And uncomfortable too,

among Muslims anyway, that the attackers claimed to be

acting in the name of their faith. To me, I don't believe any

Muslim would do this. If there are extremists out

there in the mosque, But to actually just

blame the Muslims, all I am not proposing the round-up

people at random, I am proposing that we use the intelligence we have

available, place it in front of a panel of specially cleared

senior judges who can make a decision and they

would detain them for But locking up people before

a crime is even committed We have to ensure that we get

the evidence, generate information from the community

and if the evidence We don't lock up people

without due process and rule of law because if we do,

we are exactly the same Similarly, on our streets there

is no one view as to the causes And they should change

their foreign policy. When they get information then

the authorities should take action And you are concerned

that they don't always act? I would advise not anyone to be

scared of reporting. It is important that you do

because it is safe for our country The radicalisation debate

within muslim communities has been going on at least to some

extent since 7/7. But today the Archbishop

of Canterbury said this time in the extremists narrative

was challenged head-on. Religious tradition, scriptures,

have been twisted and misused. We have to say that if something

is happening within our own faith tradition, we must take

responsibility for being very What is clear is that there is no

single answer to solving violent extremism and that Londoners

are clearly not lacking in hope and ideas and also the commitment

to want to work together. it is natural for people to respond

to another attack on a city in different ways. Some people feel

defiant, others are resilient there is sadness and other people are

saying it is OK to feel scared. Londoners may be trying to get

back to their routine, but there was a sense of people

paying their respects close to where so many were injured

and lost their lives. Russell Lancaster was making

his way into the city. He collected his children

from a concert at the O2 on Saturday night and was keeping calm for them

but today it hit home. When you are here it is just scary,

it grabs you, doesn't it? But the city will move

on and it will recover Cafes close to the cordon

opened their doors as usual, some serving refreshments to police

officers and hospital There is no sense of panic but dad

of three Claudio stopped his son going on a class trip

to the British Museum today. You don't know where and you don't

know when, so I would rather have my child stay by his mother's

side rather than go If he wants to learn

about the British Museum, I'm sure we will take trips

again but at this period of time as a father,

that's what you do, you tend It is hard for some people to sum up

the sense of caution they feel. Businesswoman Irene says

she is thinking twice about a trip to the Shard but thinks

she will carry on. When an incident like that happens,

you are fearful for your family travelling into London

but it is an apprehension and I think that it does

make you more aware. Mini brought flowers

to show that they cared. The Sumners live in a flat

overlooking Borough Market I think people are more kind to each

other but also if they see something strange they would report

to the police. I think this is what

we did yesterday. We saw something from our window

and we went to the police In London, keeping calm and carrying

on is said to be part of the DNA. But after the shock many who live

and work close to where the attack Have been speaking to some many down

here, many of them and talk about why it was so important to come but

you can hear in their voices the emotion that they are feeling, a

difficult they feel it is to still come here and think about what has

actually happened. We can speak to two people who have come here today.

User saying this he was very personal, tell us why. I commute in

and out of London Bridge every day, socialise and Borough Market fairly

often and have friends and family that Oracle to the area. We spent a

lot of time here, this is summer I am everyday. For to happen on your

doorstep is quite violating. I was so important for you to come? I

think everyone is still in a state of shock and there is something very

cathartic and healing about being here together and listening to the

mayor it is very comforting anyway so it was important to process what

happened to be here with everyone. Your urban family. We have heard a

lot in social media, talking about whether the jewels like this do any

good but many people are saying but it was important for them to come

and they thought it said a message of defiance. -- vigils like this.

Saturday night's attack was the first time Scotland Yard issued a

warning during a terror attack ASCII people to run and hide and tell the

authorities what was happening. We look at Whatmore wannabe done to

stop further attacks. Nice men were on the loose rampaging

through Borough Market. At 11:46pm, the Metropolitan Police treated this

instruction, run, hide, Teller. The best option is to evacuate but only

do so... For the past 18 months we have been urged to know what to do

if there is an attack. The officer in charge of policing Borough Market

believes the public response. We don't put these things out unless we

really need to but the committee reacted fantastically well and

people don't as they were asked and acted heroically and got in there

and help other people and protected one another and helped officers and

I can speak highly enough. They were outstanding. The man who last year

reviewed how well a Londoner was prepared for a terror attack is

urging Londoners to do more to plan for the worst. It needs to be part

of everyday life that you automatically know that in the event

of an incident like that you run away from danger. If you can't run

because you are boxed in or what ever else, then you hide as well as

you can and as soon as you're safe, make contact with the police to let

them know that you are there and that however many other people out

there with you. This morning the police but temporary barriers onto

Westminster Bridge will stop on Saturday night, pedestrians and a

famous London Crossing. You will see from Whitehall that their work

permit solutions put in place after 7-7 and that is what we are working

towards no. It looks like a barriers in London will become normal. But

this is a specific response to a specific threat, using vehicles to

target pedestrians. On Saturday night the attackers also had knives.

In Manchester it was an expose of device. The terror threat we face is

evolving. I think what is happening is unprecedented. There is very

strange ways that people are going about what is happening and we are

faced with scenarios that we have never seen before so it is hard as

police to plan for this sort of thing. No one quite knows how the

city will look and feel in the coming months and years as it

confronts a different type of terror threat.

I am pleased to say that the chair of the bank said a resident forum is

with me. You took refuge with the Dean of Suffolk. We spoke to you on

Sunday. Why is it important to come here today? It is important to come

here because I felt emotional at the time because of the fact that Andrew

gave me shelter and coming here to see so many different people in

unity and solidarity, I feel quite touched and I felt it was important

to pay respect to those people who had lost their lives and I can't

imagine what their families are going through because I know when I

was stranded and lost, my mother was constantly calling me. I felt it was

important to come and pay my respects. How would you do shave in

the mood here? People are discussing but it was packed. There is a sombre

peaceful mood here and everyone is united and feel that together we

will never let any division come between us. There is a lot of unity

and that is what everyone feels. Thank you. Hearing another message

of determination and resilience, carry on with your daily activities

as much as possible. Now - Campaigning for the general

election has resumed after being suspended temporarily --

Our political editor, Tim Donovan, has visited Hounslow to see if this

terror attack has had any impact on how people plan

to vote on Thursday. Some will never be convinced that

Jeremy Corbyn is the right man. There is no way" of what foreign

labour. She has a terrorist sympathiser. Picking up their

children from school today, others had been persuaded. To lose a

telly-mac it seems to me that Jeremy Corbyn has the right kind of

approach. Was the London terror attack plane and minds coach-mac I

am carrying on as normal because if we live our life in fear it only

creates more fear are just trying to spread love and light. It makes you

think about who is probably the safest person to look after our

families and communities and it should be in peoples minds. I'm not

sure who that is. Still a few days. In the high Street, a strong sense

of not being an easy solution. It can prompt and incite racial hate

more than anything. It is a religion but you get the picture. It is

inevitable. The problem is that politicians have is that of a

suggested is anything to do with religious beliefs that will inflame

people who have religious belief. As the Hounslow mosque, the words of

the prime Minster, enough is enough had been heard clearly. I think the

premise that pointed out yesterday quite clearly it is more internet

driven than mosque driven by the Government is to work more closely

with mosques and other faith centres to come up with solutions. It is a

borough that has lost police officers and a number of community

support officers has fallen from 100 to 20 in six years. We have CCTV and

you are under surveillance but I think there needs to be under the

public eye you need to see the police walking up and down street.

You can have 100 policemen parading this small high street but if

somebody is going to do something stupid and they are going to do it.

Whose message will cut through and the last few campaign days and

expectedly clouded by terror risen? -- terrorism

let's see what the weather is good to do. Good evening. We have some

sunshine earlier. But of course the cloud gathered into the afternoon

and it is been a fresh and windy feeling day and some rain spreading

in from the west. The very wet state ahead. Not too much improvement of

the week, and quite unsettled but at times it will feel much more like

October. Wet and windy and gusty tomorrow but dry days, Wednesday and

Friday with some sunshine and times. But a complete wash-out but it will

be a wash-out of finite, rain spreading from the west could be

quite heavy at times and poor driving conditions across the

capital. Wet and windy and the rainbow than later and more patchy

as we head into the first part of tomorrow morning. Still quite windy

and wet and if you clear spells and the rest, temptress down to around

eight or 9 degrees. Tomorrow a particularly windy day, casts an

excess of 40 to 45 mph that she at times. Tomorrow morning rain to

clear and it will outbreaks earlier which will clear to sunny spells and

showers but very windy as we head through the afternoon particularly

where the showers are which could turn out to be heavy but in the best

of sunshine top temptress of a 17 or 18. Wednesday is looking a lot

better. Drier with spells of greatness and sunshine in the area

of low pressure heads a on Thursday is once again the wind will pick up

and it will probably be quite wet at times particularly for the second

half of the day on Thursday. Friday is next best day of the week, with

temperatures peaking around 22 and it will stay dry and some cloud

around for much of the day. But once more on Saturday wet and improving

on Sunday and the start of next week it will settle down.

I just want to show you something because I think this sums up the

spirit of the city. There is a row of young boys standing there saying

a lot for all he could for none, United against extremist. Standing

there in the rain with that message. That's it, we will be back later

during the ten o'clock news, but for now from everyone

on the team have a lovely evening. Today we mourn the loss

of innocent lives. Londoners and people

from around the world. We sent our love to

the victims' families and