capitol building. this of course as i mentioned to you previously is the most important building in washington. if the centre of government. around that area, you have so many different offices, the us supreme court, but also of course it was the centre of those very disturbing riots back onjanuary the 6th, when crowds of president trump supporters broke in and rioted throughout the us capital, one of the most important buildings in the us. so, let's take you back to the live shot now. there we have it. there is the capitol building. you can't really tell much from this shot, but reports suggesting that two police officers have been injured. also reports of gunfire in the area. these are just reports, i have to reiterate. we don't know exactly what happened, but there are reports that there has been some sort of gunfire in the area, and our north america editor saying reports of shots fired as well. the camera is moving a little bit closer into the capitol building. as i mentioned earlier, this is the scene from january the 6th of the riots. they were all over the news at the time, and it was basically president trump supporters breaking in and riding throughout the us capital, and since then it has to be said the security has been tightened in the area. the streets surrounding the capital and the congressional office buildings are currently in lockdown. nobody is allowed to enter those streets and nobody is allowed to go out of the streets. there is a huge, heavy police presence in the area. that is according to a reuters eyewitness. it's not helpful, but we are getting bits and pieces of reports about what's going on. and the whole area has actually been pretty much on high alert. since those it is the seat us government. it contains other key sites, the us supreme court is just around the corner. the library of congress, so many office buildings, lawmakers, staff, all getting on with their work and they have all clearly at the moment been told to stay in gois because the area has been knocked down. what we do know is that two police officers have been injured, a car has hit them, and another bit of information that i have been told now is that two people have been shot. those are reports of two people being shot. of what i am saying to you is just reports because we have not been getting any clear information right now. mainly because this is very much an ongoing offence right now. the parties are trying to deal with it as let us trying to deal with it as let us trying to deal with it as let us trying to deal with media inquiries. you can imagine there is a lot of news going around that may or may not be what is actually happening. you need to be very careful about what we say is truth orjust report. i can tell you that the streets surrounding the us capital are in knockdown. we have a car which apparently tried to drive into a security barrier around the capitol building. we have reports of, we have another tweet from the us capitol police. this is the official twitter account. a safe us epa is responding to the north barricade vehicle access point along independence avenue for reports someone rammed the vehicle into to review acp offices. the latest excise a suspect custody, both officers are injured, all three have been transported to hospital. just to reiterate, this is the latest from the official us capitol police twitter account. from the official us capitol police twitteraccount. it from the official us capitol police twitter account. it says they us epa, the us capitol police is responding to the north barricade vehicle access point along independence avenue for reports someone rammed a vehicle into to review acp offices. a suspect is in custody. both officers are injured, all three have been taken to hospital. this also is showing us capitol police critical incidents. i can tell you what we do know for sure is that the area surrounding the building and i can take you back to that type shot now. daily it. the area you can see more clearly. a little closer is not clearly that capitol building and surrounding areas. we know the whole area around their which is very busy teeming with officers, lawmakers, office workers, supreme court, the library of congress, lots of politicians working around there. it's been in knockdown now for the last 20 or so minutes. what we do know from the us capitol police and you can see lots of police cars at the bottom of the frame flashing blue lights on appropriate police cars. they say to us capitol police say two officers and the suspect have been taken to hospital. clearly the suspect has also been injured somehow. reports suggesting that the suspect drove the car into a police barricade on independence avenue injuring two police officers. two capitol police officers and am not sure if the person injured themselves or they were shocked, there were reports of gunfire. there is still no entry or exit from exhibiting the area. the whole area is still incomplete knockdown. pretty much no one is allowed to enter the area, no one is allowed to enter the area, no one is allowed to enter the area, no one is allowed to leave the area. this is an ongoing incident and it is a serious incident because the whole capital area has been very much on alert since riots onjanuary sixth alert since riots on january sixth 2021 when protests in washington, dc led to crowds of former president trump support is breaking in and writing throughout the area in one of the countries most important buildings. this is an area of washington, dc which is of course the capital city of the united states where congress is situated. if extremely busy and the us capitol police committee basically card the building. criticism during those protests on january the 6th building. criticism during those protests onjanuary the 6th because of how some people perceive to be a lack of police presence when the rioters broke into the building. since then, since that criticism of some of the police officers, there have been a lot of security in the whole area. i want to reiterate what we know so far. this is an ongoing security incident and the capital area, capital building area of washington. let us go back to twitter now to show you the treats that we received so we saw from the us capitol police. it says they us capitol police is responding to the north barricade vehicle access point along independence avenue for reports someone rammed the vehicle into two us cp officers. a suspect is in custody. both officers are injured. it ends with all three have been transported to hospital. 0ur north american editor a bit area to be that there are reports that shots had been fired in the area so potentially after the car rammed a security barrier, there were shots fired. we do not know whether that happened or not. wejust fired. we do not know whether that happened or not. we just know that there are reports that this has happened. the only information we have so far is that the area is in knockdown, no one can enter them and no one can exit. lots of security obviously in the area. the streets surrounding the us capital and congressional office buildings were locked down. i now cross slides to our correspondence i think police in washington for us. our washington correspondent. good to talk to you. what's the latest? all the —— all e—mail is the information based on the street at the us capitol police. we know there is a lockdown. at this stage it's a fast moving situation. somebody rammed into this area. let me explain what's happening because since the inauguration, since january six, a lot of the us capitol has had dispensing, non—scalable fencing around it. other —— over the last few weeks they began to take a lot of that out. just last week i walked into the us capitol and walked into the us capitol and walked into the us capitol and walked into one of the senate office buildings and there were significantly less security around this capitol place however there were still one layer of fencing and there was still a few national guardsmen who were guarding displays progress stemming from the advance of january progress stemming from the advance ofjanuary six. progress stemming from the advance of january six. there's always some amount of us capitol police in this area as well and this is why this is an incident that has raised concern based on all the reporting from january six about the possibility of this being a target for some extremists. hearing that the whole area is in knockdown, an important area, lots of people work there lawmakers, people come —— can't come in and out of that area now can they? in and out of that area now can the ? , , ., , ., in and out of that area now can the ? , , ., , . ~ they? this is our understanding. we have not seen _ they? this is our understanding. we have not seen the _ they? this is our understanding. we have not seen the us _ they? this is our understanding. we have not seen the us capital - they? this is our understanding. we have not seen the us capital on - have not seen the us capital on lockdown since january six even though it's been heavily protected they have loc this large part of the capital in washington where notjust congressman rekik, centrist work here, the staff. people who are related to the functioning of the us congress where laws are made and people coming in. guests, media, other support staff, large number of them at the us capitol. maybe even some metro police and all of this now we understand that lockdown and not a lot of information coming in. a great deal of concern for people watching it but also people who have family, friends, who had any other relations in this part of the city. i am reading relations in this part of the city. iam reading —— reading and eyewitness report that says that heavy police presence every —— on friday because the security threats and given what happened onjanuary the 6th, giving the criticism of some areas of the us capitol police, you would imagine they would be taking any threat extremely seriously?— taking any threat extremely seriousl ? , �* , , ., taking any threat extremely seriousl ? , �*, , ., ., seriously? yes. there's been a lot of criticism _ seriously? yes. there's been a lot of criticism of _ seriously? yes. there's been a lot of criticism of the _ seriously? yes. there's been a lot of criticism of the lady _ seriously? yes. there's been a lot of criticism of the lady us - seriously? yes. there's been a lot of criticism of the lady us capitoll of criticism of the lady us capitol police handled the attack on the capital. the insurrection and the lack of preparedness. maybe some amount of intelligence that was ignored and varies a review ongoing that the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi appointed the general to look into all of the preparedness and what the us capitol police state and the days leading up to the weeks up to january six. the there is a heightened amount of awareness because of that because of those events we watched around the world. something like 800 people breached the capital outside borders and they did in fact the capital. and they sat in the speakers house and they made it inside the floor of the senate and police were overrun. they were not enough of them and they did not expect as many people some of whom were armed. it is much more concerning based on all of that context and that background. find context and that background. and also we had _ context and that background. and also we had some news earlier on and i want to say welcome to our bbc world the rest right now. we had some news earlier on from a white house spokesperson who said they were not aware of any situation at the capital. this really is has happened in the last few minutes and is very much ongoing. yes. happened in the last few minutes and is very much ongoing.— is very much ongoing. yes. because the have is very much ongoing. yes. because they have been _ is very much ongoing. yes. because they have been briefing _ is very much ongoing. yes. because they have been briefing from - is very much ongoing. yes. because they have been briefing from the . they have been briefing from the daily press briefing and it is the white house spokesperson who speaks for president biden and she was not aware of that. this is something that's very fast—moving and we are watching and reprinting and seeing if we can get any more information coming in and what we do know is that the us capital is under lockdown and this is where america's lawmakers work. so congressman, senators, staff, a lot of other people who are related to the lawmaking, the lobbyists that come here, citizens who are allowed to do toys, i'm not sure if tories have been happening during covid—i9. a lot of people. like i mentioned for viewersjoining us i was therejust about a week ago getting up, we need as the media, we need specific ids and badges to come in today's complex and he's just expired last week so we have to pick up my new badge and a lot of the security arrangements were there before and after every six and began to be removed. and they got into space and beating him to the inauguration have left. there is been one layer of fencing that still been around the us capitol and nobody has been allowed in and unless you are specifically a number of staff or a member of congress or a senator or you have business to be there. this is why this is of concern because of how unusual and how heavily guarded the place has been afterjanuary six. ~ ., ,., the place has been afterjanuary six. ~ ., ., , six. we are getting some more news cominu six. we are getting some more news coming into — six. we are getting some more news coming into our— six. we are getting some more news coming into our office _ six. we are getting some more news coming into our office from - six. we are getting some more news coming into our office from a - six. we are getting some more news coming into our office from a treat i coming into our office from a treat from our north american editor and he says there are reports that the driver and the blue car rammed the barricade at the capital and emerged with nice. 0ne policeman was reportedly injured and he goes on to say cnn anything the suspect apparently in custody. there is a smashed up blue car on the grounds of the us capital. the blue is up and it's all cordoned off and we believe this is the car involved. if these reports are correct it looks like i want to say underlying the fact that these reports. we don't know the real story but it looks like a lone terrorist or man or perpetrator who crashed into the barricade. ., ., , ,, barricade. that would be consistent with what we _ barricade. that would be consistent with what we are _ barricade. that would be consistent with what we are hearing. - barricade. that would be consistent with what we are hearing. it's - with what we are hearing. it's fast—moving and we are 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