Impact of social media on roles about fairness in court. We will discuss what this means and how it affects us. Vulnerable people in some parts of the country are being helped by charities funded by the police. Senior officers deny this is policing on the cheap and that it is a way of stopping resources being diverted away from fighting crime. We have a special report. Some breaking news, there are reports of an explosion at a London Underground station in south west london. We can show you this picture taken bya we can show you this picture taken by a commuter. The metro newspaper says people suffered facial burns after a white container exploded on the District Line at Parsons Green. Police and the London Ambulance service are currently at the scene. We will bring you up to date with the latest developments on the breaking story throughout the programme. People are posting photographs on social media, reporting a huge stampede at Parsons Green. Some photos have been circulating on social media of a white container catching fire on a carriage. Photographs of it have been posted. Armed police, we are just hearing, ron the scene. Somebody on social media, on twitter, has said, i am safe. I had to run for my life at Parsons Green station. Huge stampede, lots injured. Not sure why. Fire, explosion mentioned. We can cross to Sophie Raworth, who is on face time. What can you tell us . That is the scene now, this is Parsons Green tube station, which has been sealed off. Police, ambulance, and from what i have heard, from a passenger on board the train, she says she was in the early carriages of the train. There was an explosion, a bang, a pause, and then she said there were flames. A ball of flames. She says she believes she was protected from it by the people in front of her. But she said she saw people injured, she saw people with burns to their head. Then she describes the panic as everybody ran off the train. She says the doors opened as soon as it happened. She says there was complete panic as everybody rushed out of the station, crying, screaming and trying to get away from it. This is the scene as you can see, lots of and illnesses and fire injures, police everywhere. Fire engines. There are an awful lot of shocked and upset people here at the moment in west london. Obviously, a busy time of the morning, friday morning, this has happened in commuter rush hour. Do we have any sense yet of the scale of this incident and what has happened . At of this incident and what has happened . At the of this incident and what has happened . At the moment, all we are hearing is that it has been an incident which the police, armed police are there now, responding to. Absolutely. Im am sure you can see the armed police in the images i am showing you. I dont know the scale of it, i have arrived on the scene. It happened at 8 30 this morning. I spoke to somebody that came out of the station, he said he was going in to get the train, but there was a stampede of people coming out running away from the scene. I dont know how many have been injured, there were a lot of people in the tube station. It is a very busy line, 8 30 in the morning. It is a very busy time, indeed. A lot of people get on it. The train carriages are crammed at that time of the morning, it is rush hour. The lady who was on board was saying that there were a lot of people, and clearly, there have been people injured. Sophie, have you seen any of those people that have been injured . No, i havent seen anyone injured. But you can see there are ambulances leaving the scene. We have three ambulances leaving the scene already. The cheap station tube station, there is a bridge, and thatis tube station, there is a bridge, and that is the entrance. You can see the sign above the policemans head there. This whole area is absolutely crammed now with Emergency Services, fire engines, police and ambulances. Now the area has been cordoned off, people are moving away. Can you tell us more people are moving away. Can you tell us more about what the atmosphere is like theyre at the moment . We can see the pictures of ambulances and the police there at the moment where you are, but how far back as the area being extended, the cordoned . would say there is a good 0. 5 miles. You can see everybody trying to work out what is going on. I came up here because i was nearby, and there were a lot of people very worried about a mile away. The rumour had gone around that something had happened, soi around that something had happened, so i came up this way. I can see somebody now being stretchered off towards the ambulance here. Clearly, there have been people who have been injured. This is the sort of thing that people fear all the time, isnt it, millions of people get on the underground. I travel on the underground. I travel on the underground every day, and it is a lwa ys underground every day, and it is always in the back of your mind, this kind of thing. It appears that Something Like this has again happened. We are now able to show our viewers a photograph of the container, which we think is the container, which we think is the container that caught fire on the carriage where this incident took place. We are able to see that now, again. Bringing you this breaking news this morning, an incident on a District Line train at Parsons Green station. I am going to say, i couldnt show it for obvious reasons, but i havejust couldnt show it for obvious reasons, but i have just seen a woman stretchered off. Clearly, her legs are wrapped up, and she has burns to herface. She legs are wrapped up, and she has burns to her face. She was conscious, taking oxygen and pain relief as well. Clearly, people have sustained very nasty burns. She seemed to have burns all over her body, from top to toe, her legs wrapped up in some kind of protective plastic film. She definitely had ernst to her face as well. Very clearly, people have been injured. Can you tell us how many ambulances are there at the scene at the moment . Just counting, one, two. I cant see. The road is blocked off, they have blocked the other side as well. There must be ten or 12 ambulances. Move sorry. Other side as well. There must be ten or12 ambulances. Move sorry. A lot of armed police as well. Casualties being loaded into ambulances right now. I am just going to move back. A lot of people are here. There you go. You get the sense, sophie, that Emergency Services and more police are wrong the way . Move back, please do you get a sense that Emergency Services, additional Emergency Services and police are on the way . additional Emergency Services and police are on the way . I have no idea, iam police are on the way . I have no idea, i am afraid. There is a Police Helicopter up in the sky bright right now. There are a lot of police will stop by and clearing the area. The police say they have injured people coming through. I am going to make some space now. The Police Helicopter is up in the sky. On either side, half a helicopter is up in the sky. On eitherside, halfa mile, it has been shut off. And you can see a lot of ambulances. 9 09, how much time has passed since the incident happened . Has passed since the incident happened . People has passed since the incident happened . People being treated at the scene, happening within the last half an hour, in fact. Emergency services at the scene, armed police, and sophie has been talking to us. We can see what is happening down there at the moment. There is a police cordoned in place. Sophie, can you read p people arejoining us, what happened this morning when you arrived. I spoke to somebody that got to the station at 8 30, he was going to get the tube. He said that as he arrived, everybody started to run out of the station towards him, screaming and crying. I spoke to a woman on the carriage, in the carriage where it happened, and she said she was in the carriage. All of a sudden, there was a bang, a pause, and then there were flames. She said she saw the flames coming towards people, and she felt she was protected from the flames because there were people in front of her, but she described how she saw people that had been burned, people with burns to their head. I have seen somebody stretchered into this ambulance next to me now, who clearly is conscious, but she has burns all over her body, it looks like, certainly her legs and some burns to her face as well. A lot of people at the moment in Parsons Green, lots of worried and anxious people, trying to work out what is going on. Clearly, trying to get out of the station itself was pandemonium. It sounds like there we re pandemonium. It sounds like there were a lot of people rushing to get out and off the tube. The tube stopped the minute this happened, i am told, the doors opened, so people could get off their weekly. It is clear that people have been hurt. We can also now tell you, the Ambulance Service has confirmed a Hazardous Response Team is down there at the moment, making their way to the scene of this incident at Parsons Green. Sophie, give us a sense of what kind of area this is for people that dont know. This is southwest london, it is fulham, it is a very, very busy tube commuter line. It goes into earls court, one of the main hubs. Lots of people get on this tube every morning. Move move sorry. A lot of people are getting onto the tube this morning. I take this tube a lot, it is packed. You stand shoulder to shoulder with people. Move i am just stand shoulder to shoulder with people. Move i amjust moving back. Is there a sense of panic there at the moment . I can see, when you turned your phone around, we saw a lot of people standing by, watching what is happening. The police are moving us back at the moment. Into the park. The police are moving everybody back. Two armed policeman, as you heard, shouting at everybody to move. People standing here trying to move. People standing here trying to understand what has been going on. And. Yes, a sense of the world in. People dont know what has happened. I dont know where the passengers on board the train, i know some are being talked to by police at the moment. You can see the police are extending the cord on here, and pushing everybody right back. We can hear them now, sophie. What we can tell you at the moment, what we know is an incident happened ona train, what we know is an incident happened on a train, on a District Line underground train in Parsons Green, an area in south west london. We have been looking at a photograph of a white container, a photograph taken and a white container, a photograph ta ken and posted a white container, a photograph taken and posted on social media of a white container that was on fire. A Hazardous Response Team is down there at the moment. We have armed police down there on the scene. The Emergency Services are attending. Again, having a look at social media at the moment, some of the facts havent been verified, but there are eyewitnesses at the scene describing a fireball through the carriage after this container had caught fire. Also, others describing passengers with facial injuries. We have been speaking to Sophie Raworth from bbc news at the scene, describing seeing someone stretchered into an ambulance. Their legs were wrapped up. We are hearing of facial injuries, leg injuries and a hazardous team on site at the moment. We can bring you up to date. What can you tell us . As you can imagine, information from official sources at this stage is limited. This has been breaking in the last 40 this has been breaking in the last a0 minutes. What we can say with certainty is much of what you have just said, transport for london confirm the District Line is suspended between earls court and wimbledon due to a security alert. Police say they are aware of an incident, officers are attending the scene, and Parsons Green station is closed. The Ambulance Service are also on the scene. And they are sending a hazard area Response Team to the scene. Other than that, the rest of the information is from witnesses, Sophie Raworth, obviously. The metro had a reporter on the train. People with severe burns, but that information is witnessed here say at this stage, no more further information from official sources. Curran we will keep you up to date throughout the morning on what is happening. We are hearing there is a hazardous team there and armed police. We dont yet have a sense of the scale of the injuries. We do know there are several ambulances down there and armed police responding. What else can you tell us . Im afraid information is patchy at this stage. Obviously, twitter is alive with photographs and witness testimony, but its hard to be sure what is real at this stage. The mounting evidence appears to suggest that there has been some sort of white container or device which has exploded. Some people are severely injured and being stretchered off the scene. Police are clearly taking it seriously, as our transport for london. There was obviously disruption to Tube Services this morning, but until we have more confirmation, it is difficult to say with any degree of certainty. Transport for london say they have suspended the District Line between edgware road suspended the District Line between edgwa re road and suspended the District Line between edgware road and wimbledon after this incident. We have another statement from the assistant director of operations at London Ambulance service. They said there we re Ambulance Service. They said there were called at 8 20am to reports of an incident at Parsons Green underground station. We have sent multiple resources to the scene including single responders in cars, ambulance crews, Incident Response officers and our hazardous area Response Team, with the first of our medics arriving in under five minutes. A very Quick Response to what happened during rush hour. Our priority is to assess the level and nature of injuries. More information will follow when we have it. That is from the London Ambulance service. Matthew, let me ask you to recap what has happened from 8. 30 this morning for those arriving at work and finding out about this. All we know with certainty is that within the last a5 minutes, an explosion has seemingly taken place at Parsons Green station on the District Line of the London Underground. We know from police that they are aware of an incident. They said the station is closed. The London Ambulance service said they have sent a hazard area Response Team. We know from transport for london that the District Line is suspended between earls court and wimbledon. All we have other than that is eyewitness testimony. Sophie raworth, who will be familiar to viewers of the bbc news channel, says she has seen a woman stretchered off with burns to herface and woman stretchered off with burns to her face and legs. Woman stretchered off with burns to herface and legs. The woman stretchered off with burns to her face and legs. The metro newspaper seems to have had a reporter on the train, so they are publishing informative copy of an explosion, smoke, and evacuation and facial injuries and burns. Any other information is more speculative, but it seems that some level of significant event has taken place. With the metropolitan police say they will bring us an update soon. At the moment, we have been speaking to Sophie Raworth, who are viewers will know. She has described seeing some people being stretchered off into an ambulance with injuries to herface. A metro reporter is confirming the same type of injuries a Media Consultant as he was sitting on the District Line train bound for Central London when panic unfolded at around Central London when panic unfolded ataround 8 20am. Central london when panic unfolded at around 8 20am. He said he saw several people injured, apparently having been trampled as they tried to escape. You can imagine with 70 commuters at rush hour on the London Underground at that time of the money, not knowing what was going on, it would have caused an immense amount of panic. A Media Technology co nsulta nts amount of panic. A Media Technology consultants as he was blissfully reading his paper when suddenly, the whole world is charged past me down the platform. We had just stopped at parsons greg and i was on my way up towards paddington when there was panic. Lots of people were shouting and screaming. A woman on the platform said she had seen a bag, a flash and a bang, so something had gone off. It was a packed rush hour District Line train from wimbledon to edgware road. I saw crying women. There was lots of screaming. There was a bit of a cru