helena, thank you, helena lee, at king's college hospital.ou that number if you have concerns about family orfriends number if you have concerns about family or friends who may have been caught up in everything here in central london last night. it is a freephone number. that is the emergency helpline number if you are worried that perhaps you have friends or family who may have been in the area of london bridge or borough market here last night. the prime minister made a number of forthright statements about the threat from terrorism and how the country should respond in her downing street speech. here's a little more of what she had to say. in terms of their planning and execution, the recent attacks are not connected, but we believe we are experiencing a new trend in the threat we face, as terrorism breeds terrorism, if and perpetrators are inspired to attack, not only on the basis of carefully constructed plots after years of planning and training, and not even as lone attackers radicalised online, but by copying one another, and often us

earlier our correspondent, helena lee spoke to bishop peter hancock about his reaction to the report.t's an extremely harrowing, a very disturbing report. it's been very clear, not only in speaking about the nature of the abuse but the effect, the fact that the church failed to respond adequately, appropriately and effectively when this abuse was brought before them and they knew of this and therefore today, i offer those who are the victims and survivors and their families of this abuse my wholehearted and sincere apology. what happened was inexcusable. the effect on their lives has been devastating it is my responsibility as the lead bishop for safeguarding the church of england to make sure that going forward, we'd take the recommendations that have been given in this report and that they are swiftly a nd in this report and that they are swiftly and decisively and effectively taken forward. clearly, all of the recommendations are important but is there any one particular one that stands out for you to stop this from happening ain? you to stop this from happening again? the second r

helena lee. we have had a statement from the prime minister in light of this tragedy.orrespondent. tell us about some of the political reaction. jane, we are ina the political reaction. jane, we are in a strange situation here in westminster. the government is not, parliament is not really sitting. we only really have mps being sworn in. many for the first time coming here to the commons, but the prime minister has, as you said, made a statement saying that she is saddened by the tragic loss of life and is being kept updated on the situation. now, there will be a meeting, a cross government meeting, starting within half an hour, at about 4pm where this will be discussed to co—ordinate the government response and to provide any assistance and any extra assistance to the emergency services and any other response that might be needed. that's going to be chaired by the fire minister, nick hurd and in the commons within the last few minutes or so we've heard from the speakerjohn bercow who has been swearing in new mps, but he has made reference to what has happened. all of

helena lee at st thomas' hospital.n central london in that terrorist attack. 48 people injured. continuing coverage from london bridge. we will talk to an eyewitness in just a bridge. we will talk to an eyewitness injust a moment. you are watching bbc news. as we have been talking about those hurt overnight, 48 injured, seven people known to have died in that attack. and a very strong statement from the prime minister. let's take a few minutes to reflect on everything that went on here in this london bridge area, late on a saturday night, in warm saturday evening in the capital. even if you don't know london, you would have the sense on such a beautiful evening as that but a huge number of people would have been out and about, trying to enjoy themselves on what should have beenjust about, trying to enjoy themselves on what should have been just a about, trying to enjoy themselves on what should have beenjust a red or saturday evening. richard angell has joined me here at the shard —— a beautiful saturday evening. richa

let's talk to our correspondent helena lee, whose north london for is that the chalcots estate.uge operation to be undertaking at this time of night. we can see council officials behind you. what's the latest happening there? that's right. a mass evacuation here this evening. we are outside the taplow tower block, one of the tower blocks —— five tower blocks on the chalcots estate in camden, which are evacuating all of their residence this evening. we understand there are 400 households affected by this, and 4000 people who are having to leave their homes the night. the evacuation began just after 8pm this evening. we saw council members go into this tower block and the other four tower blocks, and they went in and they told residents that they had to prepare for evacuation and ta ke had to prepare for evacuation and take their essentials. wheeler were last night there was a meeting between council members and also residents from this block, who were very concerned, because we know the cladding is similar to that used at the grenfell tower, and today, fire chiefs have carried ou

our correspondent helena lee is at court and can bring us up to date.which is fairly typicalfor a only lasted for four minutes, which is fairly typical for a first appearance. darren osborne is the father of four, 47 years old, was brought into dock at court one. he had a police officer sat on either side of him and he had a black eye. he was wearing a white police issued t—shirt. he was asked for his name and his date of birth, which he told the court. he was then asked to confirm his address and he said he didn't have one. then those charges we re didn't have one. then those charges were read out in court, one of murder and one of attempted murder, and they are being treated as terrorism related offences. in court, the crown said it was their case that darren osborne had been motivated by extreme political views and a personal hatred of muslims, and a personal hatred of muslims, and he acted to kill, maim and terrify as many people as possible. nowjust to remind you, the finsbury park attack happened in the early hours of monday morning. if white van

the 47—year—old has appeared at westminster magistrates' court — our reporter helena lee is there.red in the dock year at court one of the magistrates' court. he had on a white issue, had officers either side of him, and had a black eye. he was asked to stand, gave his name and date of birth, he was then asked for his address. he said he didn't have an address. and then the charges were read out in court. he has been charged with murder and attempted murder, in relation, as you mentioned, to the incident in finsbury park. a white van ploughed into a finsbury park. a white van ploughed intoa group finsbury park. a white van ploughed into a group of muslims after they we re into a group of muslims after they were returning from payers. and in that incident, one man died, a 51—year—old map father of six, and nine were injured. in court, we heard as part of the crown's case, it is their case that aaron osborne was motivated by extreme political views and that it was a deliberate and premeditated act. —— darren osborne was motivated by... and it is being treated as a terrorism case. he

helena lee is at st thomas's hospital for us.ured overnight and what the hospital authorities are saying to you there. in terms of location, we are about a mile away from where you are, where those attacks took place last night. we are on the south end of westminster bridge, outside saint thomas' hospital. the latest from london ambulances that 40 people we re london ambulances that 40 people were taken to hospital following the attacks. some of them are being treated there and here last night ts, treated there and here last night ‘s, when the ongoing incident happens, there was locked down at this hospital. staff, patients and relatives were kept inside because of what was going on outside and keep them safe. we have had an update on the last few moments from the hospital here, who have told us that they had nine patients admitted there last night, six men and five women. they say that earlier on, five of those nine work discharged and four remain here in hospital, but it would clearly tell us what condition therein. we know ove

our correspondent helena lee was in court. whatmore was said?first appearance, it lasted only four mac minutes. darren osborne, a father of four, a 10—year—old, putin the dock. he had an officer either side of he was wearing a white, police issued t—shirt, and had a black eye. he was asked to say his name and date of birth, which he did. he was then asked to provide his address, he said he didn't have one. then the charges were read out in court. he has been charged with murder, attempted murder, and these charges are being treated as terrorist related offences. and the crown in court said that it was their case that darren osborne, i quote, had been motivated by extreme political views and personal hatred of muslims, and he acted to kill, maim and terrifying as many as possible. and just a minder of the incident in finsbury park in the early hours of monday morning, a van which had been hired from close to cardiff was driven into a group of muslims who had been returning from prayers, one man was killed in that incident, a 51—year—old, and nine

our correspondent, helena lee, is at church house in westminster. the church of england. it's a difficult dare for the church of england but not to forget the victims in are case, the survivors of it who found it incredibly distressing. we know that the victims were asked to give their thoughts for this review, to tell the review what happened to them but many of them found itjust too distressing to talk to the people here about it all. we know one of peter's victims, he took his own life in 2012, so he never got justice himself. but the church of england, once again here, apologised for what had happened, we heard in martin's report there, that lord cary, who was the then archbishop has been highly criticised in this report as he has been accused of not passing on some of the accusations to the police at the time. we have had a statement from lord cary himself. he says: the report makes for deeply uncomfortable reading and he accepts the criticisms made of him and he goes on to say that he believes that the church is willing to think the unthinkabl

our correspondent, helena lee, is at church house in westminster.urch of england. it's been very critical of the church and it's handling of the peter ball case, the information it got, who knew what they knew and how much information they knew and how much information they passed on to the police. the archbishop of canterbury, justin welby, responded to this report, saying it makes for harrowing reading and the behaviour of the church is inexcusable. criticising not only the church but how it dealt with the victims at the time. i have with the victims at the time. i have with me bishop peter had been come, the lead bishop in safeguarding at the lead bishop in safeguarding at the church. what went through your mind? harrowing. it is a harrowing and a disturbing report, clear in 5peak being the nature of the abuse and the fact that the church failed to respond, adequately, appropriately and effectively when the abuse was brought before them and at the knew of this. so, therefore, today i offer the victims of the survivors and the families of thi5 abu

helena lee is there.now from the london ambulance service, 74 people are now being treated in hospital and those at 20 patients we are told are ina and those at 20 patients we are told are in a critical condition. ten of those patients made their own way to hospital so 74 patients in hospital at the moment and 20 in a critical condition. here at chelsea and westminster hospital we are about three miles or so away from where you are. patients were brought here overnight and we don't know how many are being treated here at the moment but it is a busy london hospital and they have an accident and the mayor to see hospital here and crucially have a specialist burns unit here. they have multidisciplinary teams which include specialist burns consultancy and nurses and also psychologists because as well as the medical treatment in these patients will receive clearly as we have had from eyewitnesses they will have gone through a hugely dramatic experience last night. —— traumatic. that is the latest from the hosp