is heard police confirm that the attacker was shot dead at the scene our correspondent shadi edwards dashti has more details from the. london bridge is still completely on lockdown that follows the incident that broke out earlier this afternoon at 158 local time as you can still see there are still mass evacuations happening from the office building surrounding the london bridge vicinity it was indeed a major incident and earlier this afternoon the assistant police commission and they'll pursue confirmed it was terrorist related and as you would expect the nature of the incident we responded as though this was terrorist related are now in a position that it has been declared a terrorist incident the suspect who was also a fake a hoax explosives attached to him he was shot down at the scene on london bridge is understood that before he was shot down dead there are members of the public that were pinning him down that was video footage that emerged not reportedly at this moment in time as i say the incident broke out some 3 hours ago and since then there were convoys of emergency services flo

court dismissed concerns that the lessons were inappropriate for young children are too shabby edwards dashti as the story. well this has been an ongoing case for quite some time now concerning parents who are fundamentally in opposition to l g b t classes being taught at schools and of course those teaching them now often months of months of up for an outrage from petitions to protest today the high court has ruled a permanent ban on protests outside the school and they have suggested the school is promoting homosexuality when it is not parents misunderstood and misrepresented to it is being taught in the school so what is making these parents so angry well a majority of the parents are from the muslim community and for them these classes are a step too far not to mention of course the kids being taught these such lessons are of quite a young age even at times as young as 4 or 5 and as a result the parents have taken them out of the schools but it's not just this school in question that's at the forefront of the protests other schools across bernie and have also seen parents in uproar and ou

turning a blind eye of a fee if he could face accusations of racism and putting next his shoddy edwards dashti. hidden under the guise of religion faith and belief witchcraft is an ever increasing threat in child abuse cases in britain the number of such incidents has risen by more than a 3rd in just 2 years as local councils say they are housing the equivalent of 38 cases every single week the shocking research released by the u.k.'s local government association also highlights f.p.m. or female genital mutilation it puts numbers at a record high with 1000 children having already been abused or at risk of it in the last year while it's more common incessant african communities the u.k. did have its 1st conviction for f.d.m. back in february. despite that life threatening and dangerous practices like f.d.m. put as many as 60000 girls at risk every year there's a misconception that the ancient custom of s.g.m. is a religious one even though it originated some 2500 years ago meaning it predates both islam and christianity and is not mentioned in any holy scriptures nor indorsed by religious leade

i thank our correspondent in london said it edwards dashti. ok let's get some expert analysis now from peter williams who's a policing and terror expert at liverpool john moores university very good evening to you. so you have no doubt a chance to say you have a look at the some of the pictures coming from the scene and the latest news reports what's your initial response having saying. well my initial response is that it's. i sell 3 probably was linked to a terrorist site mon sim was a couple reasons for me saying that one as being the recent stock by the americans on the leading lysis. i was expecting some sort of. you know some research. anywhere really because we in the u.k. as you probably know meal on the new year or your views will know what are in the middle of a general election campaign in the lead up to christmas the what's the u.k. very much in the full forms of news and of course one of the chemos a very scenes of any sort of course is to exploits as much media coverage possible so i think that's very an issue my 2nd mike baird re