levels of security for people like me who report outside downing street to go there. over the years, there has been a significant ramping up of security, and at least after an attack a few years ago at the front gates of parliamentjust down the road from me at whitehall about 50 metres from where we are just now, that attack on someone drove there and made it into the front garden, new palace yard of the palace of westminster, so it s definitely right to say that over the last few years, there has been a significant ramping up of the security presence around parliament, which would mean that the police had thought about the possibility of a situation like this with a car driving towards downing street, as we have seen in those images that we brought you a few minutes ago. nevertheless, i can t remember seeing one get through that first security level before and into those front gates of downing street. downing street. nick, stay there, but for peeple downing street. nick,
downing street, told not to be too much into that, though he was due to leave already. i much into that, though he was due to leave already- leave already. i want to ust put onto the screen leave already. i want to just put onto the screen another- leave already. i want to just put onto the screen another picture| leave already. i want to just put - onto the screen another picture that we have in. it is a still picture, and that you can see, it gives you a first glimpse into what nick has been describing over the last little while. and you can see the nature of the security gate there at the bottom end of downing street. the boot up as part of that operation that we still see is going on. that car that is stopped right there at the beginnings of downing street, and that is a really heavy medal gate. behind outcome of the other layers of security that exists at downing street, and the armed police that stands the other side of that closed gate. that is what protects
but someone who potentially is a target as well. what was the procedure of actually arriving to do the interview and where were you taken? so the procedure was quite something, and lyse would know this well, but a journey, we were staying in one of the hotels that journalists staying in the centre of kyiv and a journey that i m told normally takes ten minutes took nearly an hour. as we were changing, cars taken past checkpoints. a lot of men with guns. a lot of anti tank obstacles. eventually, we got to a big medal gate. we went through, and the the aide who was accompanying us said, and i remember it very vividly said, welcome to our fortress. and then we went into the fortress down, down, up, down, all over dimmed corridors. we had to leave not just all of our electronics, but everything, including our pens, anything that could potentially give away our location. and we emerged out of out of the dimness of the corridors to a room that you will recognise, because it s the room that