number of other points of interest, canada's minister of public safety and emergency preparedness, ralph goodallional security connection, no national security committee on, but an ongoing appeal for any information for anyone with information to come forward and the mayor saying the first responders did their absolute best on answering that 9/11 call on what was a beautiful spring afternoon, this attack started around 1:30 p.m., a beautiful spring afternoon according to the mayor, john tory. but those important points, the city is described as being safe, the officer who detained the suspect did a fantasticjob. no who detained the suspect did a fantastic job. no lines who detained the suspect did a fantasticjob. no lines of enquiry are being dismissed at the moment, all directions of enquiry are open, they are ongoing, one of the points mark saunders said was based on witness accounts, it was very clear that these were deliberate actions. the moment we get any more details and analysis and reaction we will give that to you. now on bbc news, all the latest business news live from singapore. goog

criminal record an interesting comment from canada's minister of public safety and national security ralph goodale who said there don't appear to be any connections at all to national security and officials had earlier said that they didn't think he was part of a larger plot but they didn't fill in a lot of the gaps that still exist and the police chief speaking at the same press conference said his investigators and those of the federal government and other layers of government were looking at all angles including national security whatever was being thought here at the outset they just don't know enough yet to say anything with absolute certainty people are going to find out more about the victims in the coming days the ten people so far who have died and the others who were injured many of those injuries are quite serious five or so are critical so that's going to be watched very closely and the area where the attack took place a very busy commuter area very busy area with colleges and shopping and businesses that's going to be closed because it's a giant crime scene more than a kilometer long

the most interesting piece came from canada's minister for public safety and national security ralph goodale let's just listen to what he had to say on the basis of all of the a little information at the present time there would appear to be no national security connection to this particular incident. the the events that happened on the street behind us are horrendous but they do not appear to be connected in any way to national security based on the information available just. they also have been reporting the mayor is asking people obviously to to avoid this area as they try to sort out what happened tell us more about this area. this is a very very busy part of town where where various modes of transport come together people go to university in one direction a college in another many places to work there are many places to live and a lot of places to shop so this was a gorgeous spring day in toronto after a long horrible winter and people were out on the streets doing what they do and that's when the van struck at midday so that area is now completely quiet it's a crime scene it extends f