the week long time. travel now. tight ends. the at. the at. this is g.w. news live from by police identify the attacker who killed 2 people on london bridge police confirm he was a convicted terrorists and get been released from prison paul says by tackle the man on the with a knife and wearing a fake suicide vest before police arrived and shoot him down it.

would cut down thousands in malta demands justice as the crisis sparked by a murderous journalist or sense of bring down the country's political elite prime minister as it was cast is reportedly planning to resign. i'm going to humphrey glad you could join me police have identified the man who carried out friday's stabbing attack in london they say it was 28 year old khan who killed 2 people on london bridge she was later shot dead by police khan had been convicted in 2012 for terrorism offenses and was released from prison about a year ago meanwhile several onlookers captured friday's incident on their mobile phones some are being praised as heroes for disarming the attacker. members of the public pin the attacker to the ground. one of them taking away the knife used in

the attack. police are called and a riot quickly it's just been about 5 shots there's another 1. 10 i phones me who i. moments later the police shoot again. my heart. as you would expect due to the nature of the incident we responded as though this was terrorist related i'm now in a position to confirm that it has been declared a terrorist incident. by witnesses were visibly shocked. it was extremely frightening yeah but if you don't know what to do you know you have done so i just don't know what to do pick wise not just by nothing mom to come again. london's mayor denounced the attack terrorism is cowardly and evil we

must and we will stand united and resolute in the face of terror those who seek to attack us and divide us will never succeed and the british prime minister said he wants sentences for serious crimes to be most strongly enforced again i have long argued that it is a mistake to allow serious and violent criminals to come out of prison and it is very important that we get out of that habit and that we enforce the appropriate sentences for dangerous criminals especially for terrorists that i think the public want to see. this is the 2nd terror attack in this part of london in a little over 2 years earlier this month british authorities lowered the national terror threat level from severe to substantial questions will be asked in the coming days whether that decision was premature. and of course want to

show that parts joins us now from london charlotte more details have now emerged about the victims on the attack what more can you tell us. what we now know exactly what happened yesterday friday afternoon around london bridge the attack assad to stabbing people at fishmongers hall just at the end of london bridge an event location where cambridge students were meeting with former prisoners he stepped on several people there 2 of them subsequently died of their injuries and 3 more are in the hospitals at the moment they are stable and we now know also the details about the attacker you mentioned his name. to years old he was known to authorities because he was plotting a bomb attack on the london stock exchange and 2017 and he was not only known to authorities he was already in jail for plotting that he's been affiliated with al

qaeda spent 7 months in a london prison and was then released being monitored by authorities by an electronic tag a so authorities would know what his movements were but apparently could not prevent the attack yesterday so now investigators of course looking closely into why he was released after 7 months last december in 2018 he went free and on top of all of that shot i mean this is one of several terror attacks in recent years in the u.k. capital how long london is excuse me reacting. well londoners will be waking up to the news that the offender the attack was known to authorities and already in jail of course that will be quite a shock but yesterday there was quite a lot of panic on the streets. they're bringing back memories of course of that

2017 attack on the london bridge where many people died and dozens were injured those people that carried out the attack then with with the terror group islamic state so that brings back memories now the police presence around london will be enhanced in the coming days and weeks just to make london feel safe and this comes in the middle of a general election campaign in the country how will that be affected well it's too early to tell what who will be to blame for this incident of course but yeah you're right less than 2 weeks now to go to the general election on december 12th this country is extremely divided over the issue of breck's it over the issue of the election extremely polarized so it's a very emotional time for the country prime minister boris johnson of course yesterday we heard him in the report quick to react there expressing his sympathies

for the victims and the families and the charities his conservative parties suspending their complaint today as i'm sure will the other party so at the moment at least complaining is on stand still probably resuming next week so this will be this incident yesterday on london bridge will most likely be one of the big topics to be discussed in the last couple of weeks of the compay our correspondent in london thanks. as a look now at some of the other stories making news around the walt police in the netherlands are hunting a man who injured 3 people in a stabbing attack in the hague humanity scaped after hurting people in the city's main shopping street authorities say they have no information on his motives. peru's opposition leader kai co fujimori has walked free off to more than a year in prison she's been held in pretrial detention pending an investigation

into alleged money laundering the country's highest court ordered her release on monday but route the corruption case against her can still go ahead. it's been announced that balanced new international airport will finally open at the end of october next year now it was supposed to open 9 years ago but has been plagued by mismanagement corruption and structural problems the project to build the airport is also billions of viewers over budget. to iraq now where prime minister i don't matter he says that he will resign after 40 people were killed in the latest clashes between security forces and anti-government protesters the death toll since unrest broke out in october has now surpassed 400 people. a victory for protesters here celebrating in baghdad the prime minister says he'll resign amid relentless protests they've been demanding change since october in some of the

country's most sustained and deadly clashes. the over 400 people are now dead many of them on 2 young men and a staggering 17000 have been injured. most of the dead were killed by iraq's security forces. confers day alone over 60 people were killed after protesters set fire to in the rain in government buildings the protesters see the political class as corrupt and a puppet of outside forces especially iran. i'm off to thursday's bloodshed iraq's grand ayatollah alsa stanny used friday prayers to urge the prime minister to go. faith in jesus and no way out this. week or on the members of parliament from which this current government has emerged

to reconsider their options in this regard they are are to hear they had their share. but for the protestors it's just the beginning because there was a good sentiment such that the resignation of prime minister marty is not solving the entire problem the problem is about the system that brought him in they would be delusional if they think they can use him as a scapegoat and that the people will withdrawal from the streets after his resignation the real wisdom of the. violent clashes continued on friday in the holy city of new jeff just as new circulated that the prime minister was resigning the funerals continued to testament to the government's brutal response to this protest movement. well in multiple pressure is mounting on prime minister joseph leask out to step down this after a socio described as the mastermind behind the killing of a journalist was freed from prison now thousands of protests is gathered in the

capital letter to express their anger definite kind of want to get it was killed in a car bombing 2 years ago a family demanded that miscount resign after his former chief of staff keith schembri was released after spending 2 days in prison and these 2 witnesses say that schembri planned the killing. only murder or death maker when it gets yeah and the ensuing stand alone has exposed a swamp of corruption and organized crime in the country the w.'s bad as a vessel is in malta and we asked her what it would mean if the prime minister doesn't go. that would just be a mere beginning i mean of course people here want justice that's what they always screaming at those demonstrations now justice justice they want people to go to jail for the murder bought everybody here knows that. the disease kills so much deeper there is this mafia like concrete action of people being sort of doing business together and doing favors for each other and doing criminal favors for

each other and covering up money laundering is rampant on the island there is a whole cozy no economy that has developed that is laundering illegal money from russia from the near is from from everywhere really and it's streaming through the island passports are being sold to russians to chinese to all the guards from wherever who wanted a european passport for big sums that there are no controls in place this goes on and on and the whole economy and the political elite here are sort of totally in connected and there is this network really that is just an crusted in society and all this will really have to be torn and people the normal citizens here in malta really want that and they say we have lost our dignity we need to regain it and we want to be a democracy. in malta when media freedoms in poland has been

under attack in recent years a law passed in 2016 gave the government of the populace lauren justice party control over state for costas reporters without borders say this is turn them into propaganda channels or here in germany polish journalist yet let the ash has been on it for his commitment to up holding press freedoms in his home country his small . germany's president joined politicians celebrities and high society for what's considered the biggest event on balance social cand the german press bowl. the evening's highlight was the award ceremony d w correspondent chata cliquey was on it for outstanding journalistic work. lives in warsaw in preparation for the ball he and his wife worked up their dance floor moves.

for years to the polish press agency. fighting for independent press coverage but since the nationalists conservative p.a.'s party came to power in 2015 his job has gotten more difficult does pollution public remember the problem in poland is that we no longer have proper public broadcasters. the former public media outlets have been completely taken over by the government and the ruling party in which they were nominal last year began working for less polish department for more so. he and his colleagues remain committed to fighting for freedom of the press in photo and i'm really happy that they took a guy who worked for german media and also for polish media any builds bridges and i think he really deserves that and i'm also a bit happy to. they took regard for virtual reality. check

a piano which the award ceremony was a great honor and for the rest of the bowl go was a night to celebrate in style. and a reminder now the top story we're following for you police have identified the man who carried out friday's stabbing attack in london which killed 2 people on london bridge before being shot dead by police the attacker had been previously convicted on terrorism offenses are released from prison in iraq. you're watching the news from the ballet $903.00 more news at the top of the hour. where i come from we have to fight for a free press i was born and raised in a military dictatorship with just one t.v. shadow and a few newspapers with official information as a journalist i have worked on the streets of many counters and they have problems.