nigel evans speaking to ben brown earlier.garda searching the vehicle that was used, a ford fiesta. the met police have put out a statement saying there in the process of removing the cordon around the area and they thank the public for their patience and understanding because there has been a lot of disruption in the area. the immediate scene is between our and square and horseferry road, the junction with lambeth bridge, that remain cordoned off, they gave no indication for how long i could back in that immediate area, still cordoned off to traffic. a large section of a motorway bridge has collapsed in northern italy — with dozens of people feared dead. cars and lorries are thought to have fallen onto the train tracks below in an industrial area of the city of genoa. with me is our global affairs correspondent, naomi grimley. a catastrophe unfolding here, just bring us up to date. you can see from the pictures this is a serious incident. the italian transport minister is talking about it being an immense tragedy, he says he

we can talk now to the former commons deputy speaker, nigel evans, who is here with me just outside theo the alice of westminster. nigel, what are your thoughts? bywords on television and have monitors there, we we re television and have monitors there, we were able to see whether the call was and we knew that normally there would be police there and that vehicle would have followed the route into the car park for the house of lords. clearly at 7:30am, and we're in recess, i'm not ashok there any police there, though they certainly weren't shortly afterwards. there are constantly police around the parliamentary estate now, they were on the scene would play. it was chaos for people who work in parliament today, my staff and i were working from home today, which is quite a right, safer today, which is quite a right, safer to work from home. but the only people in parliament at this time during a recess with the cleaners and canteen staff, the chances of any members of parliament being on site would be scarce, i would say. the other thing is, when he rounded the barrier, where would he go