:00:00. > :00:00.terrorist incident. It is both moving and uplifting.
:00:00. > :00:21.Welcome to BBC London news outside Finsbury Park, where worshippers
:00:22. > :00:26.have been arriving for prayers. Security has been stepped up at the
:00:27. > :00:33.mosque and at mosques across the capital. You can probably see an
:00:34. > :00:37.increased police presencing presence to reassure a community feeling
:00:38. > :00:42.anxious. But we know London's police force is already stretched and the
:00:43. > :00:46.mayor is urging the Government to reverse planned cuts to the Met.
:00:47. > :00:50.Here is our home affairs correspondent.
:00:51. > :00:51.An east London mosque evacuated this afternoon.
:00:52. > :00:54.They had found a mobile phone ringing, the caller
:00:55. > :00:59.There wasn't, but it's left people worried.
:01:00. > :01:02.It has been an immensely difficult day.
:01:03. > :01:06.On top of everything, everyone here is fasting it's
:01:07. > :01:09.still Ramadan and yeah it is a very sensitive time at the moment
:01:10. > :01:15.and the community is feeling vulnerable and scared.
:01:16. > :01:18.In North London, the Prime Minister was visiting Finsbury Park Mosque.
:01:19. > :01:24.Just yards from where the attack took place last night.
:01:25. > :01:26.Through coming here the Prime Minister is looking
:01:27. > :01:30.to offer reassurance, but many people have told us that
:01:31. > :01:33.although they're shocked and saddened by what happened,
:01:34. > :01:35.they're not necessarily surprised that Muslims have been
:01:36. > :01:40.Some people here told us they had feared a backlash after the recent
:01:41. > :01:49.We met 28-year-old hospital worker Selma.
:01:50. > :01:52.I used to think London was a safe place to live,
:01:53. > :02:04.I was slowly convinced in London Bridge, because the people
:02:05. > :02:07.keep upsetting people, they're going to fight back.
:02:08. > :02:09.So that's not going to do us a favour.
:02:10. > :02:12.Even though we had nothing to do with it.
:02:13. > :02:15.Scotland Yard said it took the threat of right-wing extremism
:02:16. > :02:18.seriously and there would be patrols across the capital in
:02:19. > :02:30.The people of this community have a I think very good working
:02:31. > :02:32.relationship with the local police they will be seeing more police
:02:33. > :02:42.in the area, particularly around religious establishments.
:02:43. > :02:44.They will more officers on the streets.
:02:45. > :02:47.They may see more armed officers on the streets as well.
:02:48. > :02:49.And we will be communicating with them and listening
:02:50. > :02:52.to them as we have today about their concerns about about any
:02:53. > :02:57.But one former head of counter terrorism at the city of London
:02:58. > :02:59.police was sceptical that all places of worship could be protected.
:03:00. > :03:02.There are more than 500 mosques in London alone and hundreds
:03:03. > :03:06.and hundreds of Muslim centres, it is simply not realistic to have
:03:07. > :03:13.officers outside all of them and in this type of attack,
:03:14. > :03:17.people patrolling on the street are completely ineffective.
:03:18. > :03:21.The only way to stop somebody in a vehicle
:03:22. > :03:23.with barriers and extremists, being shoot them immediately.
:03:24. > :03:29.This was the third terror attack in four months.
:03:30. > :03:35.The mayor said he was worried that the Met didn't have enough
:03:36. > :03:37.resources and appealed to the Government to reverse planned
:03:38. > :03:44.I am concerned about the resources the Met Office and others have.
:03:45. > :03:50.I have been lobbying for more resources.
:03:51. > :03:53.My message for the Government is the plans for further
:03:54. > :03:55.cuts of ?400 million, don't do it, my message
:03:56. > :03:58.to the government is the plans you have to change the police
:03:59. > :04:00.funding formula so London loses more money, don't do it.
:04:01. > :04:04.The Home Office told us the Met could would have the resource too
:04:05. > :04:07.keep us safe and secure and thrill will be a public consultation
:04:08. > :04:16.Tensions are running high in some places.
:04:17. > :04:18.This has been a traumatic week for London.
:04:19. > :04:20.First fire and now terrorism once again.
:04:21. > :04:38.For many, weariness as well as worry hangs in the summer air.
:04:39. > :04:45.Our reporter joins me, and the worry that Nick mentioned, you have been
:04:46. > :04:50.speaking to people, what is their feeling? Many people have come to
:04:51. > :04:53.prayer and it is very full here. But of course a sense of anxiety, but
:04:54. > :04:58.what I have got from people is that they feel the need to carry on with
:04:59. > :05:04.their lives. Obviously, everybody's anxious and we are worried about, we
:05:05. > :05:10.don't know, I mean, is this going to happen again or is this the last
:05:11. > :05:14.time? We just hope that everybody gets united and you know. You felt
:05:15. > :05:20.the need to come back tonight? Yes. Why? We do not want to be stopped by
:05:21. > :05:28.such activities. I mean, it shouldn't deter people from going
:05:29. > :05:34.about their own business. It is not just Muslim people here? No you will
:05:35. > :05:40.see love will win, terror will lose. People from all faiths are here,
:05:41. > :05:46.there is table with people giving out tea and food and all faiths
:05:47. > :05:51.coming together. Thank you. There is no doubt that these are challenging
:05:52. > :05:57.times for the capital it comes days after the Grenfell Tower fire.
:05:58. > :06:00.Today, the commander leading the investigation gave his account of
:06:01. > :06:07.what he and the emergency services saw and what they were faced with
:06:08. > :06:11.that day. I have investigated major crime for most of my service and I
:06:12. > :06:17.have seen some terrible things, but I don't think anything prepared me
:06:18. > :06:21.more what I was going to see. It is hard to describe my feelings, I can
:06:22. > :06:27.not imagine and I would not want to put myself in the position of those
:06:28. > :06:33.families, but being can colleagues from the London Fire Brigade and
:06:34. > :06:37.from the London ambulance service and other police officers, I think
:06:38. > :06:43.it is fair to say it is a very emotional working in there. But we
:06:44. > :06:49.will do it with professionalism and do everything we can as quickly as
:06:50. > :07:00.we can, to locate and recover everybody who is in there. Stuart
:07:01. > :07:03.Cundy there. We have learned that fire adits in London have -- audits
:07:04. > :07:08.in London have changed. The Fire Brigades Union have called for
:07:09. > :07:12.checks to be tightened and the Government's asked councils to check
:07:13. > :07:18.which blocks have the same cladding material used in the Grenfell Tower.
:07:19. > :07:29.What happened here has again focussed attention on the
:07:30. > :07:38.safety of the capital's tower blocks.
:07:39. > :07:42.Sonia has lived here in Tower Hamlets for four years, her block
:07:43. > :07:45.doesn't have sprinklers and while it has been
:07:46. > :07:51.They do checks and everything else, I'm not going to
:07:52. > :07:55.But it still don't make you feel better
:07:56. > :08:00.I'm sure they said they done fire checks.
:08:01. > :08:07.The Fire Brigades Union also has concerns about checks.
:08:08. > :08:10.It says job cuts have reduced its role,
:08:11. > :08:13.private companies can now carry out assessments and these minutes show
:08:14. > :08:17.that cuts even led to a delay of a fire audit on a tower close to
:08:18. > :08:24.It was put down to internal staffing issues at the fire service.
:08:25. > :08:35.In fact, fire audits over a five year period in London have
:08:36. > :08:38.And the unions want regulations tightened.
:08:39. > :08:43.You will find a lot of premises are being inspected by
:08:44. > :08:45.third party companies, I don't believe they're as skilled as the
:08:46. > :08:48.We used to inspect a range of businesses,
:08:49. > :08:56.private residences, highrises.
:08:57. > :09:03.We no longer carry out that same regime and I think what we are
:09:04. > :09:07.witnessing is the regulations being avoided in some areas. Today the
:09:08. > :09:12.Government wrote to councils asking them to check if their tower blocks
:09:13. > :09:16.had been cladded using same materials to those at Grenfell
:09:17. > :09:25.Tower. A fire assessment was carried out at the tower in 2016. In tower
:09:26. > :09:30.hamments the council -- tower hamments the council says the blocks
:09:31. > :09:34.have been given up-to-date fire risk assessment. At this block tomorrow
:09:35. > :09:42.there will be an emergency meeting to try and reassure rest debts. The
:09:43. > :09:48.Government said it invests heavily in prior prevention. -- fire
:09:49. > :09:53.prevention. A review by the mayor said the fire service had coped well
:09:54. > :10:02.with the cuts. But the questions are not fading and answers could be
:10:03. > :10:06.months away. That is all from us in Finsbury Park tonight. I will wish
:10:07. > :10:14.you a peaceful good night and hand you to Wendy for a check on the
:10:15. > :10:22.weather. Well we had the hottest day of the year, 32.4 degree and the
:10:23. > :10:27.heat wave continues. We have another warm evening. And that leads into
:10:28. > :10:32.another one of those uncomfortable nights. We had clear sky and light
:10:33. > :10:38.winds and very muggy. Temperatures fall nothing lower than 20 degrees.
:10:39. > :10:42.Another warm start tomorrow. A sweaty commute and fierce sunshine
:10:43. > :10:49.with just a smattering of cloud from the north. More of a breeze
:10:50. > :10:54.tomorrow, but still high temperatures, up to 31 degrees in
:10:55. > :10:58.central land and up to 32 on Wednesday as the wind swings to the
:10:59. > :11:04.west. It freshens up later in west. It freshens up later in the
:11:05. > :11:16.week. Now thele national forecast. The heat we are experiencing in some
:11:17. > :11:22.parts is now the most prolonged spell of heat in June, that is the
:11:23. > :11:25.key, in June, for around 20 years. We have had five days of
:11:26. > :11:32.temperatures of 30 degrees or more in a row and today up to 33 degrees
:11:33. > :11:40.just west of London. So a little too hot for some. We are on a par with
:11:41. > :11:45.many exotic locations, including Athens. Let me show you the
:11:46. > :11:51.temperatures around now, so still around the mid 20s. At 11 o'clock.
:11:52. > :11:55.The reason I'm showing you is these vams that you can see -- values you
:11:56. > :11:58.can see are higher than what we would normally get during the day
:11:59. > :11:59.time this time in