:00:07. > :00:11.I'm Ros Atkins in Birstall, West Yorkshire, where an MP has died
:00:12. > :00:14.after being shot in the street outside her consituency.
:00:15. > :00:19.Jo Cox, a married mother-of-two and former aid worker,
:00:20. > :00:25.was shot and stabbed by her attacker.
:00:26. > :00:27.A 52-year-old man was arrested close to the scene.
:00:28. > :00:30.He's been named locally as Tommy Mair.
:00:31. > :00:32.This picture of Jo Cox was posted by her husband
:00:33. > :00:36.Tributes are being paid at the highest level
:00:37. > :00:43.We've lost a great star, she was a great campaigning MP,
:00:44. > :00:47.huge compassion, with a big heart, and people are going to be very
:00:48. > :00:58.Our other headlines: President Obama arrives in Florida
:00:59. > :01:01.to offer his condolences to the relatives of the victims
:01:02. > :01:06.Breakthrough as the cockpit voice recorder from the Egypt Air crash,
:01:07. > :01:26.British political leaders have been paying tribute to Jo Cox,
:01:27. > :01:28.a Member of Parliament who's been who's been killed
:01:29. > :01:45.I win this as they sure shot and stabbed. -- eyewitnesses said she
:01:46. > :01:48.was shot and stabbed. An elderly man was also injured
:01:49. > :01:51.in the attack. All referendum campaigning
:01:52. > :02:05.has been suspended The area behind me is cordoned off
:02:06. > :02:07.and there are many people from the town are standing on the pavement in
:02:08. > :02:14.the early evening sunshine are trying to comprehend the devastating
:02:15. > :02:18.murder of their local MEP, Jo Cox. Jo Cox was attacked on a pavement
:02:19. > :02:22.just in front of the local library just a few metres behind where I am
:02:23. > :02:26.talking to you from. Let us begin with a story of what happened in
:02:27. > :02:33.this report from the BBC's Ed Thomas. This morning, Birstall was
:02:34. > :02:41.acquired Yorkshire town and now it is full of armoured police, fear and
:02:42. > :02:45.unanswered questions. Why was the local MP, Jo Cox, shot and stabbed
:02:46. > :02:53.in the middle of the day? I saw him up the gun out and then he went like
:02:54. > :02:59.that with it fired a shot. This man watched the attack on his local MP.
:03:00. > :03:06.It never crossed your mind that she would fall on the four, bleeding. Jo
:03:07. > :03:11.Cox had been stabbed and shot. She was rushed to Leeds General
:03:12. > :03:14.infirmary, but today at 5pm, West Yorkshire Police confirmed she had
:03:15. > :03:23.died, despite the efforts to save a life. Just before 1pm today, Jo Cox
:03:24. > :03:27.M P or the tags in market Street, Birstall. I am now sad to have to
:03:28. > :03:34.report that she has died as a result of her injuries. My heart goes out
:03:35. > :03:40.to Jo Cox's husband, Brendan, their two children and their family and
:03:41. > :03:42.friends. The pain they must now be enduring is unimaginable. Our
:03:43. > :03:47.thoughts and prayers are with them at this terrible time. Within
:03:48. > :03:51.minutes of the attack, this footage was filmed close by. The BBC
:03:52. > :03:58.understands that the man being arrested is: Tommy Mair. All day,
:03:59. > :04:02.police forensic teams searched his home. Neighbours are struggling to
:04:03. > :04:08.understand what has happened. Did you see him this morning? Yes. Did
:04:09. > :04:14.he appear calm? Yes, you just walked straight past. He's normally quiet
:04:15. > :04:21.person who likes gardening. Is he a friendly neighbour? A man of few
:04:22. > :04:25.words, really. Jo Cox had only been an MEP for a year, but her
:04:26. > :04:29.reputation was growing. Accessible and always willing to listen. Just
:04:30. > :04:34.before the attack, she was in the local library talking and trying to
:04:35. > :04:38.help the local constituents. She was very down-to-earth, a loving, caring
:04:39. > :04:44.person. You could ask any question and she would answer you honestly.
:04:45. > :04:51.She was lovely. Now, police need answers. Why did it happen? What was
:04:52. > :04:55.the motivation? Tonight, Jo Cox's husband releases picture of his
:04:56. > :05:02.wife. Not just an MEP, but also a mother to two young children, a
:05:03. > :05:06.reminder of what has been taken. Well, Jo Cox had only been a member
:05:07. > :05:10.of Parliament since the general election of 2015, but she had
:05:11. > :05:18.already forged a formidable reputation. Here is the BBC's Carol
:05:19. > :05:24.Walker. Jo Cox was 153 Labour MPs newly elected in 2015. She swiftly
:05:25. > :05:29.made a name for herself as a rising star, is hugely popular. Friends and
:05:30. > :05:33.colleagues of all parties are shocked and deeply saddened at the
:05:34. > :05:38.news of her death. Tonight, the Prime Minister led the tributes.
:05:39. > :05:43.This is tragic and a dreadful news and my thoughts are with her
:05:44. > :05:49.husband, Brendan, and their two children and wider family. We have
:05:50. > :05:55.lost a great star. She was a great campaigning MP with a huge com
:05:56. > :06:01.passion, a big heart and people will be very, very sad at what has
:06:02. > :06:08.happened. Dreadful, dreadful news. It is a year since Jo Cox was sworn
:06:09. > :06:11.in as MP. Border raised locally, she had been to Cambridge and was the
:06:12. > :06:15.first in a family to graduate from university. Before she entered
:06:16. > :06:20.Parliament, Jo Cox was a passionate charity worker who once spent a
:06:21. > :06:24.decade in a variety of roles with the aid agency Oxfam and at
:06:25. > :06:28.Westminster, she continued to campaign on international
:06:29. > :06:32.development and foreign policy. This is somebody who had spent her whole
:06:33. > :06:38.career not in a bubble somewhere, but out in the field, working for
:06:39. > :06:45.Oxfam and absolutely understanding how things work out there in the
:06:46. > :06:53.real world. I share an office with the and Parliament will be a much
:06:54. > :06:58.poorer place. She described herself as a proud Yorkshire lass. In
:06:59. > :07:02.London, she lived with her husband and children on a barge on the
:07:03. > :07:06.Thames. I will be zipping down to the House of Commons which is about
:07:07. > :07:10.half an hour from where I live on a boat. From the outset, her honesty
:07:11. > :07:16.and determination won her a huge amount of respect. I decided to
:07:17. > :07:20.approach being an MEP with a decent, healthy chunk of cynicism. It is
:07:21. > :07:24.very humbling. It's an amazing building, but I won't be
:07:25. > :07:28.intimidated. Can the Prime Minister tell the house whether he thinks he
:07:29. > :07:34.has led public opinion on the refugee crisis or followed it? Away
:07:35. > :07:39.from Westminster, constituency surgeries and open meetings of an
:07:40. > :07:43.essential part of the work of MPs. The referendum campaign was
:07:44. > :07:48.surrendered -- suspended today as a mark of respect and several MPs have
:07:49. > :07:56.said the tragic death of young and colleague must not be allowed to
:07:57. > :08:05.harm the process of democracy. Well, as Carol has been telling us, Jo Cox
:08:06. > :08:09.represented the constituency of Batley and a member of Parliament in
:08:10. > :08:14.between 1983 and 1987 was Elizabeth Peacock and she is joining us live
:08:15. > :08:19.now in a Birstall. Elizabeth, what are your emotions today? Looe-macro
:08:20. > :08:27.great sadness, shock, I couldn't believe when I heard the radio this
:08:28. > :08:31.afternoon. I had to stop my car and pull over, I just felt so sick. I
:08:32. > :08:35.felt so sick of it could happen when a member of Parliament is going
:08:36. > :08:39.about their business that she is elected to do, meet her constituents
:08:40. > :08:51.and take up their problems or views on their behalf. It is a huge loss.
:08:52. > :08:54.She was a bright, lively, very experienced and experienced in
:08:55. > :08:58.different walks of life. She would have been a great asset to
:08:59. > :09:01.Parliament. Europe is that the Conservatives, she ripped out of the
:09:02. > :09:04.Labour Party, but it is striking today at how people across the
:09:05. > :09:09.political spectrum helper her in such high regard. I think Parliament
:09:10. > :09:13.does that, and politics does it. You wouldn't think so when you see what
:09:14. > :09:16.is up in an hour over the referendum and people fighting almost. But
:09:17. > :09:21.Parliament is like that, it comes together when something happens and
:09:22. > :09:25.I can understand why everybody has, together to speak highly of her,
:09:26. > :09:31.even though she had only been in Parliament for one year. She had
:09:32. > :09:35.made her mark. I saw her make her maiden speech, she was presentable,
:09:36. > :09:41.she made her speech well, it was well crafted. I was very impressed
:09:42. > :09:47.and I sat down and wrote her a letter and said well done. A maiden
:09:48. > :09:52.speech is quite awe-inspiring for the first time and she did write
:09:53. > :09:58.back to me, so we were correspondence. But you don't
:09:59. > :10:03.believe this tragedy. She was here in Birstall to hold a surgery which
:10:04. > :10:09.is something that all MPs do on a regular basis. Would you ever think
:10:10. > :10:15.about your safety when you did them? I didn't, but my husband reminded me
:10:16. > :10:19.a couple of hours ago that we had about four occasions when the police
:10:20. > :10:25.were needed to be in eye surgery, because they knew somebody who was
:10:26. > :10:29.attending, so they were always hidden, I would not have them into
:10:30. > :10:33.view, because people had to feel they could come and see me privately
:10:34. > :10:38.and speak frankly. I held my surgeries in the library down the
:10:39. > :10:42.road where she was today. If members of Parliament can't do that, then I
:10:43. > :10:49.do believe they can fulfil their duties as a member of Parliament. I
:10:50. > :10:52.was going to ask you about that. The zoomable, one of the core elements
:10:53. > :10:55.of being a member of Parliament that you relished was in direct contact
:10:56. > :11:00.with the people you're a present, whether they voted for you or not?
:11:01. > :11:05.Yes, I made it clear. This being a Labour seat for 50 years, I made it
:11:06. > :11:09.clear when I was elected that I represented everybody, not just the
:11:10. > :11:13.people who voted for me and I reinforced that fairly regularly for
:11:14. > :11:15.the first 12 months, because people thought that wouldn't happen and it
:11:16. > :11:22.did and I didn't represent everybody. That is what she was
:11:23. > :11:26.doing. Just a few metres away from us, flowers are starting to be laid.
:11:27. > :11:32.How else would you like this town and this constituency to remember Jo
:11:33. > :11:37.Cox? I think they will remember her, I'm not sure at this stage how, but
:11:38. > :11:40.there is a service tonight in Saint Peter's church and I think there
:11:41. > :11:46.will be others. So many people are still in shock. It is not easy to
:11:47. > :11:50.think other than take flowers and that is just the start. There will
:11:51. > :11:56.be a service, I am sure and people will remember her. She made her mark
:11:57. > :12:02.in such a short time. , Elizabeth, thank you. Elizabeth Peacock was
:12:03. > :12:10.member of this constituency between 1983 and 1997. Let us go live to Tom
:12:11. > :12:13.Bateman in Westminster. I'm sure there has Libya model but the
:12:14. > :12:18.conversations is the terrible news started to come through. Tell us
:12:19. > :12:24.what you have heard from MPs? There is a rare moment in politics causes,
:12:25. > :12:28.comes to a standstill and simply reflects. And here in Westminster
:12:29. > :12:33.tonight, it is a mark of the magnitude of the events, but also
:12:34. > :12:38.the shock, members of Parliament, politicians from across ability to
:12:39. > :12:42.divide have been feeling about this. There was an impromptu vigil taking
:12:43. > :12:46.place and getting under way at the moment in Parliament Square beneath
:12:47. > :12:50.Big Ben where candles are being licked and flowers are beginning to
:12:51. > :12:56.be laid. We've heard in the last few hours that flags will be lowered to
:12:57. > :12:59.half-mast at Downing Street and Government departments and right
:13:00. > :13:04.across Westminster. I think it is a sense of the way in which Jo Cox was
:13:05. > :13:08.regarded, despite the fact she was a new MEP as we have been heard. She
:13:09. > :13:14.was elected only last year, describing herself as a proud
:13:15. > :13:17.Yorkshire lass and wanted to represent the seat in which she was
:13:18. > :13:21.aboard. She media Limited mark in Parliament and it is striking the
:13:22. > :13:27.number of MPs, but Conservative, Labour and across various colours
:13:28. > :13:32.here in Westminster of different parties, the way in which people are
:13:33. > :13:36.being being tribute. One called her outstanding. Another called a rising
:13:37. > :13:39.star. And it was the work as a humanitarian aid worker before she
:13:40. > :13:45.came to Parliament that helped her make her mark in that very short
:13:46. > :13:49.time. She was the co-chair of the friends of Syria Parliamentary group
:13:50. > :13:53.and took that fight about her concern for Syrian refugees to
:13:54. > :14:01.Parliament. She felt passionately about it and she was noticed for it
:14:02. > :14:04.in that short time she was an MP. Would I be right in thinking that
:14:05. > :14:10.most MPs will go about their day-to-day work with no security? Is
:14:11. > :14:15.it an issue that is often discussed? We have heard from at least one MP
:14:16. > :14:20.tonight in the way -- about the way in which a decade ago, there was no
:14:21. > :14:24.thoughts about security when it came to constituency surgeries. In the
:14:25. > :14:29.last 16 years or so, there have been at least two incidents in which one
:14:30. > :14:34.member of polymer was attacked and another in which an aide to a member
:14:35. > :14:39.of polymer was attacked. I feel there's more conscious thought was
:14:40. > :14:42.security. We now that MPs take some advice on the police about how to
:14:43. > :14:48.hold their surgeries and the fact members of the public will be coming
:14:49. > :14:52.in. We heard from one Conservative MP who was threatened by a
:14:53. > :14:56.constituent and call the police and this person was found to have a
:14:57. > :15:00.knife on him. I think it tells you about the fact that of course, when
:15:01. > :15:03.people are meeting members of the public on a regular basis, some
:15:04. > :15:09.level of risk, but it really hasn't been a concern I think until today
:15:10. > :15:13.and I think that is why we have had such a shock that these appalling
:15:14. > :15:17.events. You have to go back 20 years or more to find the last time an MP
:15:18. > :15:21.was killed as the result of a criminal like so now was at the end
:15:22. > :15:25.of the dark days of the Troubles of Northern Ireland, but there will be
:15:26. > :15:32.focusing of mind is now about how MPs think about their security. Tom,
:15:33. > :15:35.thank you for joining us from Westminster. Well, he in Birstall in
:15:36. > :15:40.West Yorkshire, the local parish church will be holding a vigil for
:15:41. > :15:48.Jo Cox. The Reverend Paul Knight spoke to me earlier on. She was
:15:49. > :15:53.public, lively, determined to work for her community. A lovely person.
:15:54. > :15:58.When you talk about politicians, they are divisive figure. But I've
:15:59. > :16:02.heard nobody say anything negative about her character or personality,
:16:03. > :16:06.regardless of their politics. I'm not aware of anything. As I say, she
:16:07. > :16:10.was determined to help this community, individuals and groups
:16:11. > :16:19.alike. People watching us all around the world, here in Birstall. Can you
:16:20. > :16:25.tell us about the place? It is a community of 15,000 people, it has a
:16:26. > :16:32.retail Park it has Jacobean houses and gardens. There was the major
:16:33. > :16:37.factory and there are churches here. It is full of good, Yorkshire people
:16:38. > :16:41.with good hearts. Here we are in the market. What would have been
:16:42. > :16:46.happening here around lunchtime on the attack happened? It is market
:16:47. > :16:49.today and that is one of the reasons Joe was here doing her surgery,
:16:50. > :16:53.meeting people in the community. They have the market stalls set up
:16:54. > :16:57.and they would have been doing all the different kind of things and
:16:58. > :17:02.they, once a week and people come to it and the local shop around. Just
:17:03. > :17:06.to explain to viewers, behind any of the local library and that is where
:17:07. > :17:10.she would have been holding her surgery and meeting constituents?
:17:11. > :17:14.Yes, it was advertised surgery and anybody could go along to speak to
:17:15. > :17:20.her about whatever their concerns were. Just a moment ago, the record
:17:21. > :17:23.all of 12-year-old girls staring through the cord and to where she
:17:24. > :17:28.was attacked. It is hard to know what to say to them or any of the
:17:29. > :17:34.other teenagers or kids who have been looking on are today. It is a
:17:35. > :17:38.story that is hard to explain. Or to comprehend. So often we are talking
:17:39. > :17:45.about gun crime in America, but when it comes into your own community,
:17:46. > :17:50.the whole issues of life and death are brought home. And those of you
:17:51. > :17:54.watching BBC News I must also remind you of you want to follow the story
:17:55. > :17:58.on line, the BBC newsroom is winning a life page on the front of the BBC
:17:59. > :18:06.News website and also the BBC News app. We will return to Birstall in a
:18:07. > :18:07.few moments. Let's look at some of
:18:08. > :18:09.the day's other news. In the last hour, President Obama
:18:10. > :18:11.has arrived in Orlando to pay his respects to the victims
:18:12. > :18:14.of Sunday's shootings 49 people were killed,
:18:15. > :18:17.and some of the injured Our correspondent Laura Bicker has
:18:18. > :18:21.been speaking to friends The people of Orlando are trying
:18:22. > :18:26.to mend their broken hearts. # Forever he will reign,
:18:27. > :18:33.my God is awesome.# I tried to talk to Luis
:18:34. > :18:42.about what happened in the early hours of Sunday morning,
:18:43. > :18:44.but he just couldn't I later discovered he lost
:18:45. > :18:53.five of his friends. He lost five friends
:18:54. > :18:57.in there This is a tragedy we never
:18:58. > :19:06.thought would happen. This community is hurting and
:19:07. > :19:09.the president is arriving to say he President Obama has seen
:19:10. > :19:16.a more mass shooting during his tenure
:19:17. > :19:26.than anyone before him. Orlando has the grim
:19:27. > :19:28.notoriety of being There's a real need
:19:29. > :19:31.the laughter amid the tears. A chance to forget, if just
:19:32. > :19:38.for the moment. A waiter at this gay-owned
:19:39. > :19:41.restaurant used to DJ at the Pulse. He is overwhelmed by the level
:19:42. > :19:44.of support he has received. And now everyone is
:19:45. > :19:46.throwing rainbows out One act of violence
:19:47. > :19:50.does not And sometimes, just sometimes,
:19:51. > :19:55.it can help people realise they have The Egyptian team investigating last
:19:56. > :20:02.month's airliner crash in the Mediterranean say they have
:20:03. > :20:04.recovered the plane's The search team said the instrument
:20:05. > :20:07.had been damaged but its The Egyptair flight came down
:20:08. > :20:12.during a flight from Paris to Cairo. Sally Nabil has been telling us
:20:13. > :20:17.what it means for Yes actually, this is a major
:20:18. > :20:24.breakthrough in the search What we understand now
:20:25. > :20:29.is that the black box has been retrieved and will be transferred
:20:30. > :20:34.from the search vessel in the Mediterranean to the Egyptian
:20:35. > :20:37.coastal city of Alexandria where it will be picked up by members
:20:38. > :20:41.of the investigation committee. After they receive it,
:20:42. > :20:43.they will start analysing the data stored
:20:44. > :20:48.on the voice recorder. The statement issued
:20:49. > :20:50.by the committee a short while ago did not say how long this analysis
:20:51. > :20:55.is expected to take. It did not say if the
:20:56. > :20:58.recorder will have to be transferred outside Egypt where
:20:59. > :21:01.there are people who can specialise The investigators now
:21:02. > :21:15.have a much better clue into what exactly happened
:21:16. > :21:17.and caused this plane to crash. Perhaps the black box will not say
:21:18. > :21:19.exactly what caused the plane to crash into
:21:20. > :21:22.the Mediterranean but at least it will lead the investigation team
:21:23. > :21:25.in a much better direction so they can find out what was the reason
:21:26. > :21:30.behind this tragic plane crash. Last night as well
:21:31. > :21:35.the search vessel managed wreckage and we understand
:21:36. > :21:42.the search teams are drawing a map of the wreckage which has been
:21:43. > :21:44.spotted in different areas of the
:21:45. > :21:49.Mediterranean. Both sides in the European
:21:50. > :21:54.referendum have suspended their campaigns after a British MP
:21:55. > :21:56.was shot and critically wounded in her constituency
:21:57. > :21:59.in the north of England. Back to my colleague
:22:00. > :22:01.Ros Atkins is near the scene of the attack in Birstall,
:22:02. > :22:16.West Yorkshire. There is disbelief and all around me
:22:17. > :22:20.are TV news reporters, but also groups of locals talking to each
:22:21. > :22:25.other, some of them eating pizza, all of them trying to comprehend
:22:26. > :22:30.what took place just behind where I'm speaking to you from, because in
:22:31. > :22:33.front of the local library where Jo Cox was going to be holding a
:22:34. > :22:37.surgery to meet constituents and hear about their concerns, she was
:22:38. > :22:42.attacked. She was shot and she was stabbed and she subsequently died of
:22:43. > :22:46.her injuries. Well, Jo Cox represented the opposition Labour
:22:47. > :22:52.Party. Its leader is Jeremy Corbyn and he has been paying tribute to
:22:53. > :22:56.her. The whole of the Labour family are devastated to night. Jo Cox has
:22:57. > :23:02.been killed doing her duty, her work as a constituency MP. She is
:23:03. > :23:08.somebody who dedicated her life to human rights and justice. She worked
:23:09. > :23:12.for anti-slavery campaigns, she worked for Oxfam and she became an
:23:13. > :23:19.MEP for the area where she was born and grew up and loved. -- MP. In
:23:20. > :23:22.polymer, she was respected across the house is somebody with deep
:23:23. > :23:29.commitment and passion for human rights and justice. Sadly, today,
:23:30. > :23:32.she died. She was killed on the streets of her constituency, doing
:23:33. > :23:40.her duty as a local member of Parliament, helping people. She
:23:41. > :23:44.leaves behind a husband, a wonderful man who, likewise, spends his life
:23:45. > :23:49.campaigning for human rights and justice. And she leaves behind two
:23:50. > :23:55.young children. Two young children who will never grow up to see their
:23:56. > :23:59.mother again. They can be proud of what she was, they can be proud of
:24:00. > :24:06.what she did and they can be very proud of everything that she stood
:24:07. > :24:11.for. We come together at a time like this to support the family and to
:24:12. > :24:19.mourn. And also to reflect that the violence is not an answer to
:24:20. > :24:23.anything. We need to come together and express our deepest condolences
:24:24. > :24:28.to Jo Cox and her family. We've lost a wonderful woman. We've lost a
:24:29. > :24:33.wonderful member of Parliament. But our democracy will go on. Her work
:24:34. > :24:37.will go on as we mourn her memory, we will work in her memory to
:24:38. > :24:43.achieve that better world she spent her life trying to achieve. Earlier
:24:44. > :24:49.in the afternoon, Jo Cox's husband, Brendan, posted a picture of her in
:24:50. > :24:53.London and then a couple of hours later, he released a statement in
:24:54. > :25:00.which she talked about her zest for life and the joy and love that he
:25:01. > :25:03.brought in to his family's life and he repeatedly emphasised the need to
:25:04. > :25:08.bring up their children with the love which she showed them and he
:25:09. > :25:14.reiterated his commitment to doing that. Meanwhile, the police have not
:25:15. > :25:16.commented in any way on a possible motivation for this attack. They
:25:17. > :25:22.have both said they are not looking for anyone else as part of their
:25:23. > :25:26.investigation. Remember, they are already holding a 52-year-old man
:25:27. > :25:31.who was arrested shortly after the attack. I will also remind you that
:25:32. > :25:36.if you online as you are watching the coverage here on television, you
:25:37. > :25:39.can get a life page from the BBC newsroom which has collected all the
:25:40. > :25:45.very latest information on the story. You can get that through the
:25:46. > :25:51.BBC News app or through the BBC News website. The main story here from
:25:52. > :25:55.Birstall in a west Yorkshire is that this town's local member of
:25:56. > :26:09.Parliament has been killed. Stabbed and shot in the street.
:26:10. > :26:11.Good evening. Scotland and Northern Ireland have