thwarting incidents. we don t know what the motive here is of the attacker. obviously the security forces, as in every capital these days, are prepared for this kind of occurrence. wolf, can i also say, not knowing fully the extent of the injuries, i know that members of the house of commons want to send their thoughts and prayers to those who have been affected and injured in this dent, and to get that message out more widely. and it looks like there are some serious injuries on that bridge. you can see people walking and you can see people being removed. it looks like injured being removed right now, even as we speak. it s a very, very tenuous situation. max foster, if you re still there, how close are you to the parliament right now? i know that police are trying to keep you and other journalists a bit away. reporter: yeah, phil black has gone down there, we re just a couple of miles away here. there s no way of getting close
was this an accident or was this deliberate? what can you tell us? reporter: well, if it was an accident, that suggests the area wouldn t have been locked down. but i just don t know at this point, wolf. it looks like a car has gone into the railings. what we need to know is what happened ahead of that. so what was that car doing before it went into those railings and who was affected as a result? if we tie that image with what we know from the metropolitan police, there s been a firearms incident, there are two serious incidents in a small space of london which is next to a landmark building. so this is very concerning indeed. we re getting word from reuters in london, max, that there are people have been injured, at least a dozen people injured near the parliament according to a reuters photographer who is on the scene. let me read from reuters. at least a dozen people have been injured on westminster bridge after large bangs were heard outside british parliament according to a r
from the very edges of parliament square itself, which is very close to whe. i want you to stand by, max. we have sir gerald horvath. sir gerald, you were inside parliament. tell us what you ve seen and heard, what is going on right now. well, the situation, the house of commons, was that in the business of voting, so most members of the parliament were here, it was suspended, and we are locked in as we get reports from reuters that it s very, very serious indeed. it s confusing. what we ve been told is that one police officer has been stabbed. a car was coming from westminster bridge, those who
so wolf, the situation here is, it seems the perimeter that the police have put in place around the parcel aments building, the perimeter is being expanded and pushed further back at the moment. it is as we would expect. there has been quite a crowd gathering here to witness what s taking place. we re going to get back to nic, we ll try to reestablish that connection. nic robertson is there. clearly they re expanding that perimeter, the parliament, the entire area now very much on lockdown. this is a serious situation, extraordinary situation in london unfolding. clarissa ward, you re here with us in washington right now. but you know this area well, you ve spent a lot of time there. as we just heard from that member of parliament, kevin
balustrade of the bridge itself. so it looked like the car was i m now assuming, i m now speculating, as if the car was swerving between the pavement and the road to hit people. i want to just thank you, raudek sikorsky, the polish foreign minister, who was on the scene and saw individuals lying on that bridge, presumably the result of that vehicle driving along the bridge and hitting people as it was moving closer towards the parliament. we re told president of the united states, president trump, has been briefed by his national security adviser, general h.r. mcmaster. he also spoke out about this just a few moments ago. we re about to get the videotape of president trump on what he has been told. i want to quickly go to nic robertson. you re getting more information. nic, what else are you learning? you re there.