let's speak to tom symonds, our home affairs correspondent on southwark street. getting ever wider? we are at southwark street, as you said, which i would say is about a third of a mile from borough market and the southern end of london bridge, both the railway station and the bridge itself. that's where. .. the railway station and the bridge itself. that's where... we are constructing this so bear with us, we are constructing this from eyewitnesses we have spoken to in the last half an hour, maybe an hour, many of whom deeply shocked, i spoke to one man i will tell you about ina spoke to one man i will tell you about in a second who was deeply shocked by what he saw, and eyewitnesses sometimes think they have seen something they haven't or haven't given a clear description, so haven't given a clear description, so that's the health warning but what the eyewitnesses seem to be saying, and i will someday it up like this, a van ran over people on london bridge —— sum it up. three men came out of the van. they headed towards the borough market area. for people that

there were heading down southwark street. there were women in tears, women and men who had lost their friends were trying to call their friends and could not get through to them. clearly quite distraught. people who had been out on saturday night trying to enjoy myself. then i'd certainly has been transformed. obviously this had been a balmy summers evening in london and has now becomes a thing more horrific. they were running and they we re horrific. they were running and they were terrified and there were dozens of them. trying to get away from borough. at the moment, the nature of this incident and because of it, the nature of the injuries. we have some out on the line now, she was an eyewitness who lives across the road from london bridge station. thank you forjoining us. can you tell us wear when this incident began?” you forjoining us. can you tell us wear when this incident began? i am opposite the police station, not london bridge station. obviously we hear sirens but we were suddenly hearing far more than usual. or l

for periods, where i'm standing, not farfrom london bridge, southwark street.oving people on. this is a busy area on saturday night. people are where of what is happening. people were being ushered out what appeared to be to be the danger area at the time. police were shouting at them and telling them to move away for the rain safety. we have heard of this "run, hide, tell" approach the police were adopting. we heard from theresa may this was being treated as attentional terrorism. —— as potential. now the police say it is terrorism. jeremy corbyn has said that these incidents are brutal and shocking. that was after reports a van had ploughed into pedestrians, and another stabbing near the borough markets area. it is clearly a serious incident unfolding. it is only 2+ hours since the first details of what had happened. you will not be able to see, but behind me, it is fairly quiet again while the media are here. we can look at what is going on around here. journalists and camera crews clearly with not just one incident, what first happened on london bridge whic

nearby southwark street is closed east of southwark street is closed east of southwark bridge. k at the weather. good morning. a damp start this morning. there was rain overnight and it is windy. 0ne morning. there was rain overnight and it is windy. one or two bright spells around one not last long. it will stay wet and windy through the course of the morning. wet weather pushing in from the west, accompanied by a strong westerly wind. it is a gusty winds that will stay with us throughout the afternoon. further west it could turn more showery and a bit brighter later on today. further east you will probably hang onto that cloud. quite cool as well, 16— 18 celsius is the maximum temperature in today. these showers will continue into the evening, maybe some brighter spells before the sunsets. those showers will gradually become fewer and further in between. still breezy overnight, the minimum temperature dropping down to 11 or 12 celsius. a brighter start tomorrow. a brief respite. a dry red light of day, with some sunshine and rain. more rain overnight wednesday into thursday, s

all you have to do now is run as far as you can down southwark street. my memory there were at least two casualties. i think i saw three. two or three people in the middle of the road getting attention. it must be emotional. how are you feeling? i feel a little bit odd. a little bit in shock. it is like ijust experienced something... but i love london. this is where i am from. it feels like it is one of those things where you will not be shaken by it. liam and claudia they're speaking to mark easton. they were eyewitnesses of the attack that happened here at london bridge and borough market last night shortly after ten p.m.. we understand that six people have been killed and, of course, it is a fluid situation and the number of people injured now we understand has been totalled at a8, just shy of we will keep you up—to—date with what is happening with the investigation and reaction here from the scene in central london. we will return shortly. think very much. we will be back in just a few moments. i would like to bring in at this point a former police o

southwark street closed eastbound at southwark bridge.ges in central london. these pictures are from westminster bridge. similar measures have been taken at lambeth and waterloo following saturday's terror attack at london bridge. yesterday members of london's muslim community came out in condemnation of the attack and offered their solidarity to london's victims. on the one hand it was our great city coming under attack and so many great souls were killed and on the other hand our great religion was hurt, these people tarnished our great religion. we need to show solidarity because this matters to us, we are londoners. —— londoners. mayor of london sadiq khan has announced a vigil will be held this evening in honour of the victims of this weekends terror attack. people have been invited to potters fields park, next to city hall, at 6pm, to remember the seven people who died, support the injured and show their gratitude to the emergency service workers. a minute's silence will also be held at 6:20pm. let's have a check on the weather now

consignments on southwark street near london bridge. —— tom symonds.ice have put in a large cordon. you can see the furthest blue, flashing light, a short distance from the borough markets area. are market is a farmers market where people go for lunch. it is surrounded by bars and restaurants. it is opposite london bridge station where people go to head home after a night out in central london. putting together eyewitness reports, only eyewitness reports, which can be wrong, but the eyewitnesses we spoke to say a van ploughed into people on the southern end of london bridge, i was told by people in a pub that it was told by people in a pub that it was on the corner of the bridge, that grey, possibly four man, got out, armed with knives. —— three, possible four men,. one was mediterranean in terms of skin colour and had a black and red top on and had a long knife. i asked if it was a breadknife sized weapon and the eyewitness said he felt it was a long kitchen knife. they ran towards london bridge and, sorry, borough markets, went and attacked people. w

lots of screaming, yeah, so ijumped up, and i looked out the window onto what would be southwark streetlots of people screaming and running and just trying to get out of the way of something. most people trying to run down into the underground station, run down borough high street. yeah, people were running everywhere, you heard a man on the phone saying, there'd been a stabbing, "there's been a stabbing which..." and it was when i saw lots of people running down into the underground that i thought it seemed a lot more serious, because it was mass panic — it wasn't just a fight, it was something serious. and there was one ambulance that had obviously gone to this stabbing. one young guy seemed to come out of the pub, and he was knocking on the window of the ambulance, he was in a panic, saying, "you have to help me, my friend, he's been stabbed, and he's in the pub." whether or not he got stabbed in the pub or outside the pub, i don't know, and he said, "my friend's been stabbed, he's in the pub." and there was another guy who was probably in his 405, standing on the other side of the a

tom symonds is our home affairs correpsondent, he's on southwark street near borough market.has happened here? it's important to understand the geography here, people who don't know london won't know this area, london bridge runs across the city to a busy area of london, i come here a lot to report from the court. london bridge station is very busy, one of the busiest in the country, somewhere where people will have been heading to go home after the pub. round the corner from the to go home after the pub. round the cornerfrom the bridge is borough market, an area where there are cafes, in the daytime food stalls where people go for lunch. we understand from eyewitnesses, clearly we have to have a health warning there, eyewitnesses sometimes think they have seen something and describe things in various ways that isn't entirely accurate but what eyewitnesses seem to be centring on is a white van crashing into pedestrians at the southern end of the bridge outside a pub on the southern end of the bridge. two or three or maybe even four men getting out of the van, armed with knive

at london bridge, southwark street remains closed between borough high street and southwark bridge roade weather. good morning. not as much sunshine today as yesterday. a cloudy day, all in all. most of us should stay dry and the winds are a touch lighter than they were yesterday as well. a rather cloud is start, then. it isa well. a rather cloud is start, then. it is a mild start, though. 12— 14 at the moment. plenty of cloud around this morning. a bit of brightness. that will start to peep through more into the afternoon. the small chance of drizzle around this morning, maybe one or two showers later in the day. most of us try. —— dry. south—westerly winds still quite brisk, but lighter than yesterday. 0vernight tonight, the chance of 12 showers in places but most of us try and another mild start to the morning. —— dry. tomorrow there will be more sunshine around, and a greater chance of one 01’ around, and a greater chance of one or two showers, most of us still staying dry, the wind becoming lighter and the temperatures higher as well, 21 or 22 celsius on friday. it will feel quite

out onto what would be southwark street, and i saw lots of people screaming and running, just trying down into the underground station, run down borough high street. people running everywhere. you heard a man on the phone saying there has been a stabbing which... it was when i saw lots of people running down into the underground, i thought it seemed a lot more serious because it was mass panic. yeah. at that point, it wasn't just a fight, it was something serious. and there was one ambulance that had obviously gone to this stabbing. one young guy seemed to come out of the pub and he was knocking on the window of the ambulance service. he was in a panic. in a panic, saying, you have to help my friend, he's been stabbed and he's in the pub. whether or not he got stabbed in the pub or outside the pub, i don't know, but he said, my friend's been stabbed, he's in the pub. and there was another guy who was probably in his 40s standing on the other side of the ambulance, knocking on the other window, saying, i've been stabbed. he was covered in blood. you had no police at this stage? just an

all you have to do now is run as far as you can down southwark street.oad getting attention. it must be an emotional toll. how are you feeling right now? i feel a bit odd. i feel a little bit in shock. yeah. i feel like ijust a little bit in shock. yeah. i feel like i just watched a little bit in shock. yeah. i feel like ijust watched a film and experienced a movie. the thing is i love london, this is where i am from. it kind of feels like it is one of those things where you are not going to be shaken by it. no. if you are just tuning if you arejust tuning in, i would like to give you a sense of what happened last night. add ten —— and eight minutes past ten police first heard reports of an incident on london bridge. it involved people ploughing into pedestrians and later a knife attack in the borough market. we heard from the mayor of london, sadiq khan this morning saying that he thinks the london, andindeed saying that he thinks the london, and indeed the uk has the best security services in the world. that he was asked how it is possible to stop this

southwark street is still close between southwark bridge and southwark high—street, and borough market the camberley. that is because of emergency repairs to overhead power cables. in full, the traffic lights are not working on fulham broadway at highwood road. we also have traffic lights problems on holland road at shepherds bush, at holland road at shepherds bush, at holland park roundabout. now let's get a check on the weather. good morning. after the strong winds from yesterday, a brief bit of respite today. drier and brighter conditions, with some sunny spells. still quite breezy, at least for the morning, but gradually the breeze will start to fall away. patchy cloud around but some decent spells of sunshine. dealing pleasantly warm in the sunshine. we are looking at a maximum of 20 degrees in central london. 0vernight tonight, it is all change began. it starts off 0k. gradually these showers will move in from the west, heavy showers through there. quite a mild night, 14 or 15 celsius is the minimum temperature. quite a murky start tomorrow morning with low cloud around. you may

southwark. our top story this lunchtime. theresa may is meeting the leader of the democratic unionist party in downing street, as she seeks aovern. and still to come: we hear from the parents of a muslim convert who travelled to territory controlled by so—called islamic state about why they want the british government to help find him. coming up in sport, six—times paralympic champion david weir has announced he'll retire from track racing at the anniversary games next month. he'll continue to race on the road after winning his seventh london marathon in april. the pressure on donald trump over alleged links between his campaign and russia may step up today. in the latest appearance before us lawmakers, us attorney generaljeff sessions, he's the most senior member of president trump's administration to testify before a senate committee looking into allegations that russia had tried to meddle in last november's election. it comes less than a week after the former fbi chiefjames comey appeared at a similar hearing. peter bowes has the details. senatorjeff sessions! jeff sessions is the highest—ranking member of the trump admi

street. i know for certain that one of them had a long implement in his hand and they ran towards the southwarkthe police we saw a metal chair being thrown and i said at that point to my husband that we should go. i saw a man with a large blade. i guess ten inches and he was stabbing a man, mike stabbed about three times. fairly calmly. it looked like the man may have been trying to defend himself but there was not much he could do. he sunk to the ground. and then we heard three gunshot and we ran. yes, definitely gunshots. and we ran and that was all we experienced. a couple of eyewitnesses speaking on radio 5 live earlier about what they saw about a man being stabbed on borough high street, we can talk to the photographer we've two who took the photographer we've two who took the photographer we've two who took the photo we've been showing to you with one of the assailants on the ground with canisters on his body. hejoins us now ground with canisters on his body. he joins us now from ground with canisters on his body. hejoins us now from our central london studio. tell us exactly what happene

street level, with a host of safety rules designed to resist fire. but eight years ago, a blaze at this tower block in south london killed six people. southwarkaching fire regulations. and there are plenty of expert voices today saying that the lessons of what happened here at lakanal house have not been learned. the fire in west london last night, this morning, has demonstrated that they are still at risk in their own homes. these fires shouldn't be happening in 21st century london. we've got the ability to stop them from happening, and when fires to break out, to restrict them to small areas of flats or buildings. one key question in the spotlight today is about the design of tower blocks and how they're meant to keep people safe in case a fire breaks out. now normally, a fire hose can only reach about 15 metres. grenfell tower stands 67 metres high. in america, they rely on what's called "active safety". sprinklers fight fires in every room, but that can be expensive. the basic principle here, until recently, has been passive safety, designing the building to confine any blaze to a single room. clearly, that's failed. investigators will wa

street level, with a host of safety rules designed to resist fire. but, eight years ago, a blaze at this tower block in south london killed six people. southwarkf what happened here at lakanal house have not been learned. la ka nal house demonstrated that people were at risk in their own homes. the fire in west london last night, this morning, as demonstrated that they are still at risk in their own homes. these fires shouldn't be happening in 21st—century london. we've got the ability to stop them from happening, and when fires do break out, to restrict them to small areas of flats or buildings. one key question in the spotlight today is about the design of tower blocks, and how they are meant to keep people safe in case a fire breaks out. normally, a fire hose can only reach about 15 metres. grenfell tower stands 67 metres high. in america, they rely on what is called "active safety". sprinklers fight fires in every room, but that can be expensive. the basic principle here, until recently, has been passive safety, designing the building to confine any blaze to a single room. clearly, that has failed. investigators will want to know why. anot

street level, with a host of safety rules designed to resist fire. but eight years ago, a blaze at this tower block in south london killed six people. southwarknty of expert voices today saying that the lessons of what happened here at lakanal house have not been learned. la ka nal house demonstrated that people were at risk in their own homes. the fire in west london last night, this morning, has demonstrated that they are still at risk in their own homes. these fires shouldn't be happening in 21st century london. we've got the ability to stop them from happening, and when fires to break out, to restrict them to small areas of flats or buildings. one key question in the spotlight today is about the design of tower blocks and how they're meant to keep people safe in case a fire breaks out. now normally, a fire hose can only reach about 15 metres. grenfell tower stands 67 metres high. in america, they rely on what's called "active safety". sprinklers fight fires in every room, but that can be expensive. the basic principle here, until recently, has been passive safety, designing the building to confine any blaze to a single room. clearly, that

street level, with a host of safety rules designed to resist fire. but eight years ago, a blaze at this tower block in south london killed six people. southwarkfire regulations. and there are plenty of expert voices today saying that the lessons of what happened here at lakanal house have not been learned. la ka nal house demonstrated that people were at risk in their own homes. the fire in west london last night, this morning, as demonstrated that they are still at risk in their own homes. these fires shouldn't be happening in 21st—century london. we've got the ability to stop them from happening, and when fires do break out, to restrict them to small areas of flats or buildings. one key question in the spotlight today is about the design of tower blocks, and how they are meant to keep people safe in case a fire breaks out. normally, a fire hose can only reach about 15 metres. grenfell tower stands 67 metres high. in america, they rely on what is called "active safety". sprinklers fight fires in every room, but that can be expensive. the basic principle here, until recently, has been passive safety, designing the building to confine any blaz

street level, with a host of safety rules designed to resist fire. but eight years ago, a blaze at this tower block in south london killed six people. southwark not been learned. la ka nal house demonstrated that people were at risk in their own homes. the fire in west london last night, this morning, as demonstrated that they are still at risk in their own homes. these fires shouldn't be happening in 21st—century london. we've got the ability to stop them from happening, and when fires do break out, to restrict them to small areas of flats or buildings. one key question in the spotlight today is about the design of tower blocks, and how they are meant to keep people safe in case a fire breaks out. normally, a fire hose can only reach about 15 metres. grenfell tower stands 67 metres high. in america, they rely on what is called "active safety". sprinklers fight fires in every room, but that can be expensive. the basic principle here, until recently, has been passive safety, designing the building to confine any blaze to a single room. clearly, that has failed. investigators will want to know why. another focus will be on the cladding fitted t