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