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Meeting of the cabinets emergency committee, cobra, the third in the past 2a hours. Good progress with the operation has been made with a number of arrests made over night, and that will continue. We have now gone to a critical level in terms of the threat. Well have all the latest live with huw in manchester. The other headlines this lunchtime. President trump meets the pope at the vatican and receives a signed copy of the pontiffs views on Climate Change. And profits at Marks And Spencer fell ...

It appears he drove a four-wheel-drive vehicle across westminster bridge, mount to the pavement, plowed into a number of people, another witness told us anywhere between 8-10 people, he, it seemed lying on the ground injured. then drove the same vehicle we now believe into the railings of the palace of westminster, which is literally just around the corner and attempted to get into the actual grounds of the parts of westminster itself. there, he was stopped by police officers, he stabbed a polic...

And also with other people are saying to. it was 18 minutes to 3:00 when first reports came through of a number of loud bangs in the westminster area. weve been reporting since then, police have drawn the conclusion or at least a theyre saying tentatively that it has the makings of a terrorist attack. theyre not confirming that at this stage. parliament was quickly suspended. as we been told a few moments ago, now a painstaking process involving dozens of armed police offices underway to make su...

Ongoing situation. a fire engine thats coming down through here, thats a first weve seen of those, but obviously considerable act. >> for now, well say thank you. >> we can bring you up this story. sean spicer, president trumps press officer has announced that the president has been briefed on the situation and the u.k. and is continuing to monitor and be updated on the situation. in terms of a number of emergency services that we are seeing, the embolus is parked on the square, we have seen a n...

Main gates into the palaces of westminster. he was tackled by a police officer who then sustained knife injuries and then one of the police officers colleagues, a manner he told the diplomatic attention group and who guard westminster and are armed that officer shot this attacker multiple times. at this stage, we been told that the both the police officer and the alleged attacker are injured, we have no more information and the extent of their injuries, but they again, have been treated at the s...

Earlier before medical treatment arrived. this is the latest footage we can bring you live in westminster of what is happening there on the ground, a huge number of emergency services there at the moment. at the area being evacuated here that you not running in that area as well. police are asking people to stay away and trying to clear that area as effectively as they can. >> as we continue to look at these pictures, lets go back to mark white who can reflect. it is not too early, the fact that...

Happened. about 30 minutes ago, reports came in initially of loud bangs, fallout bangs in the westminster area. shortly we learned parliament had been suspended and was in a state of lockdown. you can still see the bottom of the frame of that picture that youre looking at which is overlooking parliament square, the statue of winston churchill, you can see them parked up there. if there are ambulances which arrived pretty smartly. that ambulance on the ground, some of the police vehicles at parli...

Stabbed and he was then very swiftly shot. >> what can you see out of your window now? whats happening? >> there are two ambulances inside parliament. the officer will be seeing medical attention. westminster is in lockdown. journalists are ordered to remain at their desks and the traffic has been obviously stopped as well. >> what are the prime ministers movements? winners and he was inside the building at the time? >> yes, i dont know -- he was in the div a time and i think he has been evacuat...

Is suffering from knife related injuries. sources have also confirmed to me that multiple people are injured among westminster bridge. that, we believe is the result of having been struck by a vehicle. multiple people injured, you could be no more specific than multiple people. obviously been seeing some numbers on social media, but we havent been able to independently confirm that. what we can confirm through this source, multiple people were struck by a vehicle on westminster bridge. this isnt...

>> thanks very much. >> theres a couple of buses that are being stopped on the bridge. the tour guides that go along central london. it looks as though they were stopped from going anywhere and there were about to evacuate. >> its worth bearing in mind that st. thomas hospital my a major teaching hospital just on the south bend is opposite the house of parliament. medical help is literally that close. just an apology as well, if any of our live pictures or images, which you may find distressing,...