Be that field or continue to be divided by things like this, the terrorists have i would say to everybody, it is very scary, i feel that for myself, but from tomorrow, hopefully things will be back to normal. We should keep those injured in our thoughts and prayers, but streatham is a resilient community, and i am sure we will be fine. The local mp for streatham talking to mea the local mp for streatham talking to me a little earlier. Lets sum up what we know about what has happened here on streatham highroad this afternoon before 2pm, this man who was shot by police carried out a stabbing, according to an eyewitness run intoa stabbing, according to an eyewitness run into a shop and stole a kitchen knife for £4, then was pursued by Undercover Police officers who had been carrying out a surveillance operation on him, shouted a warning to him to stop, he did not and he
was shot with three bullets. Three people had been injured, two stabbed, one with life threatening injuries, that is the latest we are hearing and i will hand you back now from streatham to the studio. We have just had a statement from the Prime Minister. In addition i have had a briefing to discover more about the man in question at the heart of this streatham attack, he had been very recently released from prison but he was serving a ten on offence, he had beenjailed for a little over three years, had served half his sentence and was released towards the end of last month. The view within government as something needs to change because we saw something very similar with the attack at fishmongers whole and
december. I understand the view of the Prime Minister is that why was this man not behind bars and this is a view Prime Minister shares. There we re a view Prime Minister shares. There were no existing powers to stop him being released. He was under surveillance, being followed, arm surveillance, being followed, arm surveillance which is why the Police Responded as quick as eyewitnesses have described. There are strict conditions around his licensing since his release but ultimately he was not in prison because there was no Legal Mechanism for him staying there. I will bring you the once from the Prime Minister, we will hear from the from the Prime Minister, we will hearfrom the home from the Prime Minister, we will hear from the home secretary soon. He says my thoughts are with the injured victims and their loved ones following the horrific attack, i wa nt to following the horrific attack, i want to pay tribute to the speed and bravery of the Police Responded to prevent further injuries and all the Emergency Services came to the aid. An investigation is taking lease to
establish full facts and the government will provide all necessary support to police and Security Services. He has the crucial bit about what happens next, following the full events and december, we have moved quickly to introduce a package of measures to strengthen elements to a response to terrorism including a longer prison sentences and more money for the police. Tomorrow we will announce further plans for fundamental changes to the system for dealing with those convicted of terrorist offences. That means there is real deep concern and government we have had to instance and the space of months where someone who had been convicted of terrorist offences and been jailed was then let out and gone on to commit a series offence. The view within government as if someone the view within government as if someone like this man whom they are not naming was jailed for ap did of
time and is let out halfway through the sentence, which is standard, there is still a view they are dangerous, something is clearly going wrong in the system. How they going wrong in the system. How they go about resolving that and tightening up what they see as a legal loophole is going to be a big and pressing challenge because as those in government are acknowledging, it is not difficult for a member of the public to conclude the obvious solution to a situation like this is that somebody who has already been jailed for a terror offence should be staying ngo rather than being released. Staying injail rather than being released. Staying in jail rather than rather than being released. Staying injail rather than being released. The key details we know as the man who was shot by police after this terrorist incident and streatham had recently been released from prison having served a pd dove time and jailfora from prison having served a pd dove time and jail for a terrorist offence, i understand that was
possession of extremist material. A relatively short sentence of around about three years, released halfway through that, crucially there is an acknowledgement that the system did not work, that ultimately there were insufficient Legal Mechanisms for keeping this man in prison despite the fact that at the time of his release there are concerns about whether it was safe for him to be on the street. In terms of the briefing at the latest from downing street, any indication of the likely measures that could be introduced . Not really. There is an acknowledgement that will be more money going to police and this desire we have had borisjohnson talking about to increase the number of Police Officers, clearly critics will make the answer is that numbers since the conservatives came to government have fallen in the ad in
the process of trying to reverse that. On the specific and this is why the focus of the questioning is clearly going to be in the coming days as what can the government do to ensure that those who are convicted of terrorism offences, and other once have been through the judicial process and said to prison, because of a conviction, that they cannot be released if that is the view that either as part of that sentence they have to fulfil or crucially they are believed still to bea crucially they are believed still to be a danger to the public. The view iam be a danger to the public. The view i am told at the very top of government as there is clearly a problem here with how the law currently works. We saw the Prime Minister during the Election Campaign makea minister during the Election Campaign make a similar argument, he will have to make it again and clearly he will have to be something done is the view of government. I
was told that was a view expressed that some of these meetings this afternoon that the government machine, whitehall had been told the clock is ticking, this has to be resolved, we have to do something to ensure we do not have a system where people we know to be dangerous and we know who they are because they have been convicted and been in prison are out and we know they are dangerous and there is obviously an infinitely greater likelihood that they can commit an offence however heavy the surveillance that they are behind bars. What is the reaction to the Prime Minister and pretty patel clamping down . I think what is quite striking as that on occasion and the past when the have been discussions involving home secretaries and Prime Ministers about liberty versus security, at what point does a liberal democracy detain somebody in
prison for the safety of others versus their liberty if they are seen versus their liberty if they are seen to have served their sentence and done their time, that is the perpetual dilemma that the country is facing and successive governments have faced. In this instance and the incident in december and thrown into particularly sharp relief is that it is one thing a public reaction to a terrorist incident among the winds of why went security sources following a person, that they not know about them . Following a person, that they not know about them . It is that bit more direct and spiky in terms of to what extent is the law working when somebody who was convicted and so was absolutely known to the police and criminalJustice System and known to be dangerous is released because the terms of the law as it is currently set out means that is the only thing that can be done
legally. Given the overlapping circumstances here and with what happened before christmas, the absolute focus over and above the ongoing discussions around Police Numbers will be on this issue of longer prison sentences for those convicted of terror offences. There does remain the central challenge, the philosophical challenge of liberty versus security in that if you increase the sentences, it keeps somebody in prison for longer, if they reach the end of their sentence and theres still a concern around their safety, whether they are safe to be out on the streets, what do you then do in terms of creating a mechanism that ensures they are not a danger on the prospect of him being a danger is minimised as much as possible. One of the ultimate dilemmas of government. Any chance that the Terror Threat level could be affected by this . The honest a nswer be affected by this . The honest answer speaking as a particle
corresponded as i do not know. What we are told when we speak to people and the home office as these things are always kept under review so you can expect that this is not a thing that will be discussed and talked about and coming days, set by a body that isnt arms length from the government. I dont think we can expect there to be a cobra meeting, the mechanism via which government officials and Security Services can gatherfor officials and Security Services can gather for a Committee Meeting officials and Security Services can gatherfor a Committee Meeting when the something of national importance, i do not think that will happen and this instance but clearly the government is well aware and will have to be seen to do something now around this whole issue of the release of terrorist offenders giving the parallels that are between what happened here and what happened and december. How much support does the Prime Minister have from thejudicial body
support does the Prime Minister have from the judicial body because they see their hands were tied. That is precisely what has happened in this instance. Ultimately the Prime Minister sitting on a comfortable majority can use the levers of his power to change the law. The specifics of how you go about doing that and how quickly you can do that is obviously an interesting question. I would is obviously an interesting question. Iwould have is obviously an interesting question. I would have thought even without the kind of majority he has no that being seen to do something legally around these particular cases will be the sort of thing that would command widespread support in the house of commons whatever its make up. Clearly there will be the ongoing discussion around security and made on both sides but i think you can expect from those i have spoken to that what is happening now in the heart of government as a very serious set of questions being asked across government about what has to be done to ensure that is less likelihood of this happening in the
future. I think in particular questions are being asked about the convention around terror offences for somebody to be released at the Halfway Point of the sentence. Arguably that would only postpone a problem, rather than remove it entirely. If viewers arentjoining us, it is the weekend, but the Key Development and this story on streatham road, coming from downing street and also details concerning the man involved. The new intermission we have learnt in the last ten minutes as the man involved in the attack this afternoon had recently been released from prison, having served and owned about 18 months for the possession and distribution of extremist material, sentenced to three years, he was released halfway through as is standard and there was no Legal Mechanism for keeping him in prison despite the fact there were concerns
about whether it was safe for him to be leased. He was under strict licensing, strict surveillance, thats why police were able to react as quickly as they did this afternoon because they were on the scene as afternoon because they were on the scene as it happened as opposed to being called to the scene and conventional sense. We will leave it there for no but hoping to hear from there for no but hoping to hear from the home secretary priti patel at some point and perhaps also an update from the metropolitan police stop thank you for that. You are watching bbc news, stay with us because we are waiting for a response from priti patel following the new information that the man involved in the stabbing attack in streatham in south london was on release, he had been released from prison, sentenced for three years and served half a sentence and was sentenced and found guilty for the
possession and distribution of extremist material. More on that right here on bbc news. As we get it. In the last few minutes, eleven more british nationals have returned to the uk from wuhan, the chinese city at the centre of the coronavirus outbreak. Theyll be taken to the wirral in the north west, to begin two weeks in isolation. Meanwhile the first death from the virus has been confirmed outside china, in the phillipines. In all more than 300 people have died. This report from John Sudworth in beijing contains some images viewers may find distressing. As a man sobs in a hospital ward, he is asked, whos died . My father, comes the reply. Just outside, eight body bags are counted. And here a patient films across the ward. These unverified images show a city and a Health System overwhelmed. This woman, visiting wuhan from the us, says her sick relatives cant even get to hospital. The hospital told them they could not perform the tests. I think it is because of capacity issues. That suggests it is likely that the real picture of the infections could be much higher than the official figures suggest . I think so, because a lot of people either choose not to go to hospital,
or they do want to be officially tested, but theyre not able to. This footage appears to show a body being removed, not from a hospital, but a home. Today, another 11 britons were flown out on a french repatriation flight. Landing in france first, and then transferred to the uk. While china tries to show the world its coping, building this hospital in just ten days, it is becoming clear that more could have been done earlier. This was one of the first doctors to pick up signs of the new strange virus. But his online posts were censored and the police made him sign this confession, along with seven others, for spreading rumours. Just one month on, this giant economy has been brought to a stand still. Good Public Health care depends on transparency and the timely release of information. Precisely the things that are lacking here. A place obsessed with political control. The streets of beijing show the impact of a system that has helped turn a local crisis into a national emergency. And an international one, too. This philippines hospital the first to record a Death Outside of china. Those 11 british people who have returned from china are on their way to Arrowe Park Hospital, that is on the world, from brize norton, where they landed on board a french plane. On the wirral. Our correspondent danny savage sent us this update. These two grey buildings behind me at Arrowe Park Hospital on the wirral where 83
british people are in quarantine at the moment after arriving from wuhan in china on friday. Now, they will be joined later today by 11 more british citizens and that second wave of arrivals was really always on the cards, because so many of them missed the flight initially on thursday. They have been scooped up by the french authorities, they are on that flight with many other nationalities, which will land in marseille this afternoon. We understand then they will be transferred on another flight into raf brize norton near oxford and then brought by bus up here to merseyside to the wirral later today. Similar to the operation which happened on friday. We also understand that once they arrive here, the 11 new arrivals will be kept separate from the 83 people already here in quarantine. So they will be in the same building, but kept separate from them. Meanwhile in york, over on the other side of the pennines, the search is still under way for anybody who had close contact with the two confirmed cases of coronavirus here in the uk. They have been offered Health Advice once they have been traced and contacted. And of course, we also had the two
people who did prove positive in the tests last week and they are still being treated in the Infectious Diseases department at the royal victoria infirmary in newcastle. But here on merseyside today, we are expecting those 11 other arrivals being flown from china back here to be put into quarantine. The foreign secretary, dominic raab, says the uk wants a canada style Free Trade Agreement with the european union, which would mean not having to follow eu rules and regulations. Borisjohnson will set out the governments negotiating position in a speech tomorrow. Heres our Political Correspondent chris mason. From the theatrics of the big brexit moment on friday. Equipped with props and a loitering photographer. Are you trying to shift the goalposts . To the tv studio on sunday and the negotiations to come. The government wants a loose agreement with the eu like the one canada has, that gets rid of most import taxes, on goods, but doesnt cover services, which dominate the uk economy. It is more a question of getting clarity, we are not going to be aligning with eu rules. That is not in the negotiating room. Ministers are irritated that the eu wants the uk to stick to a lot of rules, despite leaving and wanting to go its own way. The irish Prime Minister, battling to keep hisjob in a general election, points out both sides agreed to this last autumn. If were going to have tariff free trade with the uk, which what is we have with canada on almost everything, then that needs to come with a level playing field. As ever, there is no shortage of reflections on offer from opposition parties. Labour reckon the Prime Minister is contradicting himself. We need a baseline of protection. He said there will be,
on the other he said that wont happen in the negotiations. I like a prop the Prime Ministers not the only one with an eye for what makes a photo. Nigel farage brandishing a commemorative brexit coin and arguing the eu is worried about the uk setting its own rules. What they fear is a competitor on their doorstep. That terrifies them. What we should be doing in our National Interest is to make sure that we are a competitor on their doorstep. It is only two days that that countdown clock was emblazened all all over downing street. But it is far from the end of the story. Tomorrow, both the Prime Minister and the eu will set out their stalls for the talks to come. The negotiations proper wont start until next month. Brexit noise is going to continue throughout this year and possibly beyond. Four victims of the late convicted sex offender
jeffrey epstein have written an open letter to prince andrew, urging him to talk to the fbi, about his relationship with the disgraced businessman. Published in the mail on sunday, it says epsteins victims have lived a life of suffering, shame and humilation. The duke is asked to co operate with the us authorities, and to take whats described as the decent and moral path. Prince andrew denies any wrongdoing. In the us, the president ial race kicks off in iowa on monday where democrats will cast the first ballots to decide who will be their nominee to take on President Trump in novembers election. Its a close race with the Party Divided between leftist candidates and moderates. Nick bryant reports. The road to the white house passes first through iowa, one of the most
rural states in america, one of the vital states in america. But since the turn of america, the democrat who has won here has gone on to become the partys president ial nominee. The next president of the united states. Cheering a front runner here is a 78 year old senator, treated like a pop idol by the young. Bernie sanders is a one time socialist who believes radicalism is the only way to defeat donald trump, a Political Revolution of the left. No other candidate in iowa has pulled the crowd as big as this. Let us go forward together, let us defeat donald trump. Let us transform this country. The former Vice President joe biden is a soft jazz sort of candidate, easy listening moderation that appeals especially to the old. Eight years
of donald trump can fundamentally change who we are. I really mean it. Ina change who we are. I really mean it. In a significant way. He is an inspiring speaker but comes alive face to face. Great to see you. Jimmy genial, empathetic, he is selling himself as the candidate best able to beat president tom. A quick word for the bbc . The bbc. I am irish. Senator Elizabeth Warren has been sat all week in the trial of donald trump so no wonder she is keen to make up for lost campaigning time. She is another candidate of the left, another woman trying to shatter the most resilient Glass Ceiling in politics. This moment is our moment to dream big, fight hard and when. This man wants to become americas first openly gay occupant of the white house. He is the youngest candidate in the race. For the past 60 years it has been
moderate democrats have made it to the white house, kennedy, johnson, carter, clinton and obama. In these change political times, when normal rules do not seem to apply, will voters opt for the radicalism of Bernie Sanders . It is a battle for the soul of the party over who is the soul of the party over who is the best candidate to be donald trump. Lets return to our main story this evening. A man who was shot dead after stabbing people in streatham in london. We have learned he was recently released from prison after serving time for terror offences. We will speak to chris phillips, the former head of the National Counterterrorism security office. Having learnt these new details, what do you make of the events tonight . Sadly it comes as no surprise that this individual was someone, surprise that this individual was someone, it is already well known to
the police. Already well known to the police. Already well known to the authorities and convicted of a terrorist offence and released. This is just not good enough. Terrorist offence and released. This isjust not good enough. If terrorist offence and released. This is just not good enough. If we want to keep our people safe, we need to keep these bad people behind bars are not let them out. How do you suggest that is going to happen . That is the challenge that the Prime Minister said he will be tackling tomorrow. What is the best way to do that . Lets be honest, if you have already been involved in terrorist planning, really, unless you can prove without any doubt whatsoever that you are safe, then the best place for society for these people is behind bars. We are giving the police an impossible job to do to try to keep this number of people under surveillance. The Police Officers today have been following this man. It appears he has got away from them and has managed to kill people. Certainly attack people and he has got killed himself. This is a
really bad man that we have had in controlling our prison and we have released him back into society. We should not be doing that. In your experience, what decides whether an individual is put under surveillance . He was under surveillance. We know that plainclothes Police Officers were following him, and yet he still managed to carry out this attack. Following him, and yet he still managed to carry out this attackm is quite easy, really. If you pick up is quite easy, really. If you pick upa is quite easy, really. If you pick up a knife and start stabbing people, it is an impossible thing to stop. What we have got here is a man who was obviously dedicated to doing this. It was known. Bear in mind it is only a limited number of Police Officers that can follow people. We are asking them to make really difficult decisions as to who is dangerous, most dangerous, and who can be ignored for the time being. They were obviously behind the right man and because of that, they have managed to prevent a mass murder
event, more of a small incident, if you like, rather than a huge catastrophe, with lots of people being killed. You say they have limited resources. What resources do they have, what do they need . What would you be saying to Boris Johnson . There will never be enough Police Officers. If you release terrors back into society when they are still dangerous, there will never be enough Police Officers, no matter how many you give us to monitor these people. There are 23,000 plus people in the uk at the moment that are dangerous. That number is replicated across europe in different countries. Number is replicated across europe in different countrieslj number is replicated across europe in different countries. Ijust want to get in this last question. You had your challenges as part of the counterterrorism unit. What are the legal challenges you came up against in keeping these people behind bars, how do you do it legally . Our criminal Justice System how do you do it legally . Our criminalJustice System at the moment allows people out halfway
through their sentence. That is crass and ridiculous. We need to keep prisoners for their full sentence unless they are not dangerous any more and i think there are people out there who have not yet been convicted but are known to be dangerous and we need to start thinking about putting those people under security, more control than ever before, because we cannot keep going on having these attacks one after the other. The next one could be far worse than this. 0k, we will leave it there. Chris phillips, the former head of the National Counterterrorism security office. Thank you for your take on this latest development this evening. What we have learned is that the man that was shot dead this evening by police in streatham in south london had police in streatham in south london ha d rece ntly police in streatham in south london had recently been released from prison. He had been imprisoned for three years. He had only served half of that sentence for the possession and distribution of terrorist
information. He was released a week ago. His name has been confirmed and it is on the screen. He was judged he was jailed at the age of 18. More on this. This is bbc world news today. Im karin giannone. Our top stories. Police in south london shoot dead a man, in what theyre calling a terrorist incident. And what happened then . What did you do . Ijust ran. Ijust ran for my life. How frightening was that . Very frightening, and im still shaking. Its emerged the man shot dead had onlyjust been released from prison. He was jailed for having extremist material. In other news signs the coronavirus outbreak may be even worse than officials admit. And the baftas british film big night are underway in london. Join me at the Royal Albert Hall in london in 30 minutes when we will
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