SUMMARY: A massive fire in London killed at least 12 people and injured several others Wednesday. The fire spread rapidly, engulfing the high-rise apartment building as trapped people called for help. The cause of the fire is still unknown and it could be several days before a final death count. Dan Rivers of Independent Television News reports.
Metropolitan police say they have identified two of the three attackers behind Saturday's terrorist attack.
Police said in a statement they believe Khuram Shazad Butt and Rachid Redouane, both from Barking, east London, were responsible for the attacks that killed seven and injured 48 on the London Bridge and Borough Market.
It was the third terrorist attack in the country in three months, occurring less than two weeks after a suicide bomber killed 22 and injured 116 at an Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena.
Butt, 27, was a Pakistan-born British citizen who was known to the police. But “there was no intelligence to suggest that this attack was being planned,” police said in a statement.
Redouane, 30, was believed to be Moroccan and Libyan; he also used the name Rachid Elkhdar, police said. A third attacker has not been identified.
Police and counter-terrorism officers have arrested 12 people since Saturday night's attacks. They've also searched six properties, officials said.
“The police and our partners are doing everything we can across the country to help prevent further attacks and protect the public from harm,” Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said in a statement.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan led a vigil for victims of the attack Monday night in Potters Bridge Park, “to show the world that we stand united in the face of those who seek to harm us and our way of life.”
“We must defeat this threat. Our values must prevail,” Khan wrote in an op-ed for the Evening Standard. We should not jump to knee-jerk conclusions, but failing to act is simply not an option.
SUMMARY: Police raided an apartment complex and tire shop Monday in East London, detaining more people in the wake of Saturday's attack that killed seven. Officials also named two of the attackers, who were shot dead minutes after driving a van into people and then stabbing others. Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant reports on how the attack is playing into politics on both sides of the Atlantic.
SUMMARY: Britain remains on high alert following Saturday night's terrorist attack on two locations in central London. At least seven people died after attackers ran a van into pedestrians on London Bridge and stabbed others nearby.NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Malcolm Brabant joins Hari Sreenivasan from London.
SUMMARY: British Prime Minister Theresa May called on the country to ramp up its security protocol hours after it was struck by the third terrorist attack Saturday in as many months. Peter Neumann, a professor at King's College who is also with the International Center for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence, joins Hari Sreenivasan from London to break down security tactics.
SUMMARY: Where once stood a 16th Century theater that first staged Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, a new London complex, including a 37-story residential tower, is rising. As the skyline changes at a head-spinning clip, archaeologists, by law, are digging down, uncovering fascinating artifacts. The theater excavation will be part of the new development, aptly called, “The Stage.” Jeffrey Brown reports.
JEFFREY BROWN (NewsHour): Along London's famous skyline, cranes and towers of all kinds, and hundreds more under construction or in the planning stages.
The recent Brexit vote may raise new questions about the future, but there's no question this city has been going through an unprecedented reshaping.
EDWIN HEATHCOTE, Financial Times:In the center of the city, there's never been anything on this scale. And when I say never, I mean, really, there never has been anything on this scale. So, even after the Great Fire of London, things were only rebuilt to five or six stories.
JEFFREY BROWN: When you say never, you mean — because there's a lot of history here.
EDWIN HEATHCOTE: A lot of history.
JEFFREY BROWN: You mean never.
EDWIN HEATHCOTE: I mean never.
(LAUGHTER)
JEFFREY BROWN: In this global financial capital, property prices have skyrocketed, along with the demand to build, and there's no place to go but up.
While Heathcote sees individual buildings he likes, he worries about the larger picture.
EDWIN HEATHCOTE: Now we have a much more generic, much more globalized city, in which the architecture is much more like Chicago or Singapore.
And so it is changing in the texture and the architectural language and the materials and the scale.
JEFFREY BROWN: But even as this city's future grows skyward, another part of London's story, its past, is being explored in a very different direction, below ground.
HEATHER KNIGHT, Archaeologist, Museum of London:If we were standing here on, say, a lovely summer's afternoon in the 1590s, we'd actually be standing on the stage of the Curtain Playhouse.
SUMMARY: As the torch for the Olympics traveled through London, anticipation for the opening ceremonies was palpable. Independent Television News' Geraint Vincent reports from London while final preparations are completed for the start of the 2012 Games.
SUMMARY: Olympics-watchers have more options than ever for following the Games as they happen. Ray Suarez talks to sports writer Christine Brennan from London about security, how to watch and what to watch, including high-profile swimming, track and field and gymnastics match-ups, plus the story of a South African double-amputee runner.
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