do you think we should see a pickup in the middle of the ramadan? >> i think retail and individuals come back to the market definitely. that's the reason volumes have been lower than usual recently. i think there's still -- they're still adjusting to the changes and people are still -- maybe with that they'll come back to the market. >> how do you see the review playing out in the market aside from volume? >> we think that this is going to basically mean much more foreign investors will be looking at saudi arabia more closely at the moment if you're a global emerging market investor, saudi is not on your benchmark, there's no urgency to look at saudi arabia. debt is still below 1% below market cap. soic there is a lot of room for foreign influence into saudi arabia. over the next two to three years, depending on active position, we expect between $35 billion to $50 billion. >> that's it for this with the best of bloomberg markets middle east." we'll be here for the start of the trading week. alix: coming up on bloomberg best, the stories that shaped

fasting month for muslims, ramadan, comes to an end this weekend. with just a few days until eid, households are getting busy with furnishings and baked goods. we look at what muslims are buying online and at the shops. it's common to see a busy uptake to retailers just before a bank holiday. for the asia—pacific, retailers just before a bank holiday. forthe asia—pacific, home to over 60% of the world's muslims, there is no bigger event on the islamic calendar than the celebration of eid. i'm here with the co—founder of halalshop.sg. what makes your make up halalshop.sg. what makes your make up how halalshop.sg. what makes your make ow lyle? halalshop.sg. what makes your make up how lyle? there is no alcohol in the components used and it's made in an islamic way. have you seen business picked up in the last few weeks? 0h, business picked up in the last few weeks? oh, yes, i've been trying to get my regular customers to pick up their products quick because i'm running out of them. in a report that analysed over 8 million transactions from retai

the chief executive of the ramadan organisation joins us 110w. the ramadan organisation joins us now. we know some of what happened, but not exact details. people are saying the worshippers were deliberately targeted. what do you know? i witnessed on the ground i have spoken to say the vehicle deliberately swerved towards worshippers. we know it is registered, a hire van from done —— outside of london. we should not hesitate to call it what it is. these far right extremists will not succeed in dividing communities. what was your personal response when you had what happened? first of all, here we go again. enough is enough. we have suffered enough. human life is sacred. whatever its background. we must all come together and reject violence and hatred. i want to call out some of the commentators and media personalities perpetuating hatred towards islam and muslims, they are allowing an environment to exist where these people carry out these attacks. this morning, we have heard it is an assault on all shared values of tolerance and freedom and self—respect. that is something to rem

, one week left of ramadan. have an extra prayer about midnight. worshippers were leaving fins bury park mosque when this happened. there are armed police on the scene, according to our producer also on the scene. so police say there are a number of casualties, that were being worked on at the scene. that was the latest update from the police and said that one person has been arrested. we are monitoring the situation and will of course bring you all the latest as soon as we get them. >> all right, you were just listening to sister network sky news, and she was giving a breakdown of what happened in london. we're following breaking news out of north london where a vehicle veered into a crowd of pedestrians. it happenedbout 12:20 on monday morng. we're getting reports from police, several people injured and possible casualties there. we don't have a lot of information. that's all about police are giving us right now, but we do know it happened, london it's about 2:00 there now, happened about two hours ago, listen

where these people were actually going to ramadan prayers, night prayers that ta ke ramadan prayers, night prayers that take place, to do their prayer and get on with their worship and this is not something that many people wa nt to is not something that many people want to see, it was really emotional actually, being there, seeing the scene there. so sometimes, you know, i have been there, i have spoke to people and words cannot describe what is the feeling on the ground sometimes. do you think there was a sense that something like this was inevitable? we've heard from the muslim council of britain, saying that islamophobia has been on the increase. do you think this was inevitable or is it still shocking nonetheless? of course an attack like this is always shopping. i mean, you look at this in two ways. in many ways, this was inevitable and what we expect because we have seen numerous times and what we expect because we have seen numerous times with islamophobia attacks and they are verbal abuse to real attacks on individuals and attack on muslims and taken as a retaliation in a se

i'm guessing there was more of them because it was ramadan. so i'm guessing they were the victims because they were desperate. i saw so many of them crying and screaming, so i'm guessing if someone were run over people maybe they were there. >> the people you saw crying and trying to get police attention, they appeared to be muslim? how could you tell? >> they were all wearing the white muslim. because i'm so used to seeing them every day, i just assume there's some muslims between the victims i saw on the floor. >> we are hearing from police based on what they have put out, the information that we have that there are multiple casualties or a number of casualties are the words they used. from your vantage point, could you see how many people may have been injured? >> i saw a lot of people injured. they were trying to get away from the scene. i saw at least two on the floor. i saw at least two of them on the floor. one of them maybe was really, really bad hurt because i saw a police officer doing cardiac massage trying to resuscitate them. so i

kimberly: straight ahead, a teenage girl attacked with her friends before their ramadan fast. and a body pulled from a nearby pond. the police have charged a man with murder. and happening now in london, a van driver runs down worshipers outside of a mosque. we are tracking breaking as the investigation stretches into a fourth hour. the nationalert at mall a massive tree snaps and falls at a popular memorial. >> now, abc 7 news at 11:00, on your side. kimberly: good evening and thank you for joining us. 'm kimberly suiters. the teenaged girl was attacked and then went missing on her outing with friends in herndon. hours later, fairfax county police found a body in a nearby pond, then made an arrest and charged a man with murder. melissa has been following this story and is live in sterling with the very latest developments. heartbreaking and senseless, melissa. melissa: it is just terrible. the police say the girls body was found in the pond behind us. center not far from here, praying for ramadan, and they stopped to get a bite to eat, and sadly she did not return. >> she was

so, you think about soft targets. 1500 of them, in the middle of ramadan or end of ramadan, it ends i believe on saturday, six days from today. so, that is a lot of protecting that will need to be done. so, we will wait to see what the definitive statement is. i think what we do know now, though, is that the muslim population in london will feel threatened by this. they need to be able to observe their faith with freedom, especially during ramadan. and, so, it's incumbent on the mayor of london and the public safety apparatus to ensure that kind of security not for all the families that visit the mosque daily during ramadan, and that has got to be of primary importance now for a city that is as diverse as it is, for a mayor who is muslim and in a country that has suffered a lot, let's say, in the last six weeks. >> no doubt about it. they have endured so much. our hearts just go out to them, dealing with all this adversity right now. a short time ago i spoke with a woman who says she was praying inside the mosque when this van struck a group of pedestrians outside the muslim house of

ramadan ends saturday. can you explain a little more about ramadan? it doesn't appear this person driving the van just happened to come across this group of people. let's look at all our facts here. >> this is the move atonement and reflection of fasting. this was -- it had to be a plned attack with some days planning and not every night muslims will be coming out of a mock at midnight. the timing is different from mosque to mosque. we recite the quran nightly. after the evening prayer. some mosques take an hour, others take a half-hour. for the driver to know when that would happen, it must have been a planned event. this is exactly what isis wants. isis wants to rip apart society. they want vigilante acts to happen so muslims can be separated out even more and they become more forward for radicalization. if there is ever a time for religious freedom to be the fear against radical islam. but first thing first. if this does end up being an individual, we need to shore up our values of religious freedom. reporter: something we see year after year when

it's the last week of ramadan. so you would have found a diverse range of different people just going about their lives. what's sickening is how innocent people have been brutally killed tonight and our heart and prayers go out to the victims and their families. you say you've been speaking to people from the mosque, i imagine that they must be incredibly shocked right now? yes. pottable anger really. we've had to deal with the manchester terrorist attack and the london terrorist attack and the london terrorist attack and we spent the last week dealing with the grenfell tower fire and now this. one thing is very clear, our communities are resilient, we won't allow people to divide our communities and i salute the emergency services who were on the emergency services who were on the scene very quickly and provided support for the victims. obviously from what i can tell there have been a number of fatalities and we're thinking of their families. as you said earlier, there have been so as you said earlier, there have

we try since ramadan we make sure that the security measures took place in the mosque and we have our our a security team there we didn't want the police presence because we don't want to people to panic and think that there is something might happen and they said such people intentionally go to a drive over. group of people you know you cannot you cannot prevent it you cannot stop it actually it's happening and. it might happen in the in the future so what we need to do we need to work as a community with the thought with the authority and try to make sure that the nation happened between us and make sure that things in never happen like this again or with that what has been a very difficult evening for you on other worshippers of course at the at the mosque chairman of the finsbury park mosque in north london mohamad cosper thank you for coming on the program and sharing what you know her thoughts go out to the people who were hurt and hopefully at we do not hear of any casualties. in the area thank you very much mohamed. thank you. to other world news this hour a syrian fighter jet

think ramadan triggers things. the jihadist use ramadan and they will use anything they can including weaponization of an ideology and use of new means and including the emotionally charged month of ramadan to recruit home their own people. they always ask them questions here in france or britain how large is that will respect five roy blunt was on "fox news sunday" at we heard a comment from him a moment ago. he was also asked by chris wallace about the travel ban and he said the following. listen here. >> my view was the president does have, certainly, the right to put in place extreme betting and of course it's been four months since they needed four months to put that in place. you can do that without a travel and in his making the point that it's been four months. bill: was originally a 90 day ban on those six-seven countries, originally. this suggests that the white house could have completed its mission already given the time has expired. what you think about that? >> i'm not sure. i don't have the informati

this happened during ramadan, ramadan is supposed to be a time of peace, you can imagine the muslim community will be really upset about this. other thing to say, different from other discussions be we should pullback and look at what is happening in fight against isis that also impacts this, isis is now back on its heels in iraq and syria. where it a couple years ago it held a lot of terrory, making what is its last stand in iraq over next 6 months it holds a small mar part of mosul and a ce other towns, this will likely be pushed out soon, then operation to take towns and cities that isis holds i syria, like rack ra back, they will try to get more desperate, this is really a changing point in the fight against isis. >> david, does isis even need to be organized. because, for all we know, and we have seen this in other attacks, they have been conducted by people inspired by isis and self radicalized with no direction from isis. >> well, that right, you know, and this type of attack is also the least sophisticated of the terrorist attack. this taking a vehicle and driving it to people can be

i have been coming here this ramadan. oon the last ten days is something in which the muslims like to frequent the mosque much more because it's longer night prayers and i was here. i broke my fast here. after i broke my fast, i prayed a little. i went to the shop and when i come back, i've met with incident anarchy, you know. just talk us through what happened. did you see the van? obviously, i saw the van, but i didn't see the collision, but i saw the van and i saw there were people on the floor, the women and the men, screaming and shouting, pandemonium, the assailant was on the floor. the imam was telling people to deal with him properly and deal with him justly as muslims should do. i saw the police apprehend him after as well and the community is in a state of, they are terrified, traumatised, ina of, they are terrified, traumatised, in a state of shock especially what happened in grenfell tower, you know, some of the people in this area, they personally, i know of some persons who have gone and helped volunteers at

and muslims around the world mark the end of the holy month of ramadan with reports on the last celebrations in moscow. thank you for joining us this hour you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international all the latest headlines on the stories that shaped the week what we start with breaking news from the u.k. where a car has hit pedestrians outside a sports center in the city of newcastle it was hosting celebrations marking the end of the muslim holy month of ramadan you know five people have been injured police say that a forty two year old woman has been arrested so far the instant is not believed to be terror related it comes just one week after a man drove a van into people leaving a mosque in london an incident that is being investigated as terrorism. earlier this week hundreds of people in london have been evacuated from their tower block homes amid fears of a repeat of the ground filled tower disaster more than thirty blocks failed fire safety tests across the country earlier this week the british prime minister to resign may apologized for the tragedy. the support on the ground

the prox simity of the mosque, e fact that it occurred during ramadan, and the ramadan meals are happening, and evening prayers, and this could have as jim said, one of two things. it could have been a deliberate attack against muslim individuals or a drunk person who could have carried out a deliberate attack or not even known. so this is when the detectives of scotland yard or the met will come in and interview everybody, and then interview the injure and make a determination if it is a criminal offense related to terrorism or criminal offense related to dring as thk over th and you might see the video that there have an agitated crowd from the mosque. i have been reading certainly from good sources on twitter that they are very upset with this. and at the stage where met comes in and new scotland yard makes a determination up or down if it was a dlibt rat act of deliberate violence or an accident? >> and this new live video coming in, it appears that the photographer is close to what the line is, and where they are not allowing individuals past. it seems for the most part calm at this m

it is not ramadan specific. which sectors could you trade here? does the traditional thinking apply more consumer spending. look at retail. go defensive on construction and banking. is that valid? >> to some extent it would be valid. i think that would support the consumer same this year as going into it people were not -- were more negative. the outlook look slightly better. consumers will stand out. >> you mentioned we should see a lot of activity due to the rebalancing. what should we expect through that? should we see trading slowing over the region? that we tendarket to recognize? >> across the board without exception you have volumes falling on rom it on. if you have a global macro event following 240 or $30, that would be higher volumes across markets. awards the end you have review coming up. that is going to be important for saudi arabia. maybe traders will come back to their seats earlier then usual. >> do you think we should see a pickup in the middle of ramadan? >> i think individuals come back to the market then definitely. that is wh

it takes a long time but it means when you get to all of these points coming together, ramadan, benefit concert, election, they're actually positioned and poised to act. trace: i wonder if you hear about these events coming and this benefit concert tomorrow and other celebrities, ariana grandes who was the entertainer at the concert two weeks ago that was hit by that bomb and she was doing hospital visits today with the people. what are the odds that they've arrested 17 people from the manchester attack and what are the odds there's a connection between manchester and london? >> 100%. the next is not a silly there's an organization that there is a central theme or central individual or group that saying hey, you check in manchester last week and now you hit london this week and be prepared to be something else. it's not centrally directed. these are different kinds of networks where there is a posting that goes up that says attack during ramadan and people in the uk respond to that but it's not a direct order attack tomorrow. trace: guzman, i have very little time but you have these att

this is the last few days of ramadan. a lot of people would have been leaving the mosque, performing lead prayers. and would have either finished or taking a break at the cafe. there were loads of people milling around. it was very busy. so the people you saw lying on the floor, we know that ten people were injured, probably two seriously and one man who died. he was already being treated, we are told, perhaps heart condition, when the van struck the people treating the van struck the people treating the man? yes, the actual suspected attack happened not in front of the two of mosques, but a few seconds‘ walk at the side of the cafe. more than one person has told me there was an old gentleman, an asian man, who was not feeling well. suddenly he collapsed on the side road. a lot of people who were just leaving the mosque and other muslims, tried to help them out. a lot of people gathered around him. i have been told, just as that happened, the van and drove through. you have been first quite a few hours. what is the mood

you mention being in the middle of ramadan. it's a good point. look at that and the fact that the benefit concert for the manchester victims is tomorrow, you have an election coming up in five days in the u.k. the timing is extraordinarily important to somehow put into the equation. coming up next, a former counterterrorism adviser from the bush ministration is standing by to weigh in. our breaking news coverage on the multiple terror attack continues on fox news channel. radio: scorching heat today folks, stay cool out there! [ barks ] walter! stop suffering with hot ac. cool it yourself with a/c pro. just connect the hose, squeeze the trigger and check the gauge. with 2 times the cooling boosters enjoy the comfort of the #1 selling coldest air. nothing cools like a/c pro. [ rock music playing ] have fun with your replaced windows. run away! [ grunts ] leave him! leave him! [ music continues ] brick and mortar, what?! [ music continues ] [ tires screech ] [ laughs ] [ doorbell rings ] when you bundle home and auto insurance with progressive, you

you will hear a lot of people saying that we're during ramadan, this is significant, during ramadan there is an extra set of prayers that are say at midnight, that is why so many people would have just been finishing the prayers, and coming out of the mosque. that is when they were targeted by this van. we go to our sky correspondent mark white, good morning to you. reporter: at this stage, main focus of the investigation, would appear to be on the deliberate act. i am still waiting on confirmation that counterterrorism command has been involved in this. we know one person is in custody av the moment. it is still early on. only happened just two and a half hours ago. emergency status are still there. there are a large police contingents that is there. and these police personnel carriers, that have arrived at the scene around seven sisters road, just to seal off the area, and keep people back. they know that there are a lot of people out in the streets. as their were at the time this happened. it was just after people would have attended prayers at finsbury park mosque. in the local area,

just finishing ramadan prayers. being called a terrorist attack and being investigated by the counter terrorism yiewcket here. happened just after midnight near a muslim center just behind me. one man is now dead. over 10 injured. and it happens at a time when many muslims are out on the streets trying to celebrate the end of ramadan and now community members here trying to avoid division. but the stories that we hear are bodies strewn across the road. desperate attempts to save one person and still anger here. police arrested the driver as you say 48-year-old white man. weighs grappled to the ground by two by standards until police arrived. two men are being called heroes. eyewitnesses have also reported he said a number of times i have done my bit and i want to kill muslims. >> wait outside the mosque targeted muslims

ramadan ends at the end of the week. it happened outside the plus slim welfare house which is not far from the mosque. the van ran over worshipers leaving after midnight ramadan prayers. there are two mosques in that area. there were hundreds of worshipers in the area at the time. the statement reading in part quote within many will feel tear rides and be angry and saddened by what has taken place tonight. we are calm as the establishment established the facts. prime minister theresa may's office has been told about the crash and she describes it as a terrible incident. thee said all our thoughts are with those injured, and their loved ones. authorities in london say this is likely terror related but it's all still under investigation it's fresh. it happened just after midnight. the finsbury park mosque was associated with extreme ideology and was shut down. but it has not been associated with radical views for more than a decade. the alert level is high. let's keep an eye on that. let's go to our sister network sky news

many of the victims had just finished even impress after breaking their ramadan fast. this is the senior this morning as police continue to deal with what they described as a major incident. good morning, it's monday the 19th ofjune. also this morning:

for the muslims around the world mark the end of holy month of ramadan we report. in moscow. thanks for watching all. of you are welcome to the program. but we start in the u.k. where at least six people have been injured after a car hit but eschews outside a sports center in the city of new castle it was hosting celebrations marking the end of the muslim holy month of ramadan two shoulder year old boy were among those injured police say a forty two year old woman has been arrested and have confirmed that they do not believe the incident was a related it comes a week off from man drove a van into people leaving a mosque in london an incident that is being investigated as an act of terror. now hundreds of people in london have been evacuated from their tower block homes and fears of a repeat of the ground for tower disaster more than thirty blocks failed fire safety tests across the country earlier this week the british prime minister to resign may apologized for the tragedy the support on the ground for families in the initial hours was not good enough people were left withou

ok we were speaking to mohamed shafiq chivas section of the ramadan fund dition in the u.k. thank you very much and to you. know more than fifty eight people are believed to have died in whedon's these star a block inferno in west london police say that number is likely to rise as the search for bodies continues the fire broke out during the night and swiftly engulf the entire twenty four story building. with. a fuel truck. for me. a lot. of the fire on the slow government response has led to widespread public anger testers in the capital have been calling on the prime minister to step down they want outsiders as to why cheap flammable clopping was used on the building trade to me has admitted that the humbling off the disastrous not being good enough well done in street is expected to appointed judge to lead a public inquiry into the ground fell tower tragedy within the coming days and the prime minister's also ordered urgent safety checks in all similar tower blocks but an associate churkin to find out for many a lot more still needs to be done. we're right outside downing

the fact that this happened during ramadan is also curious. but isis did call for greater. attacks but again you're fact going to happen in a muslim predominantly muslim area throws a little curveball here and that's that's a little strange unless it was more radicalized individuals trying to go after more moderate. muslims. what line is this monday morning a syrian military jets been shot down by an american war play near the embattled syrian city of raka damascus says the pilot was carrying out a bombing run against islamic state but the pentagon claims it down the plane for bombing u.s. backed forces to mask a space journalist al abraham explains more. the statement of the us refers to certain demographic forces which is the militia group operating along with the u.s. led coalition trying to take the city off. from the control of ice all but we can also confirm according to suffer through sources from the syrian military operating in that area that the popular church was actually carrying airstrike against a convoy from ice and that the fig

but any hopes that fighting would conclude by the end of ramadan have faded. earlier, i spoke to carmela fonbuena, a writer with the online philippine newspaper, rappler, who was on the ground in marawi for the first three weeks of the fighting. i asked her why the government forces had been unable to stick to their deadline. deadline to finish before the celebration is not exactly a categorical deadline. the military has started issuing the deadlines because they missed so many. it was something they really as spied for. i remember in week one, they were there. the generals were telling the people they would want them to go back at the ablett to go back to their homes to celebrate eid. that didn't happen yesterday. people called it the saddest eid celebration. they were in evacuation centres. the clashes are still continue. and there was a bit of a truce during that celebration but u nfortu nately, truce during that celebration but unfortunately, the truth has been lifted. what do we know about the main figures lifted. what do we know about the mainfigures in

factor this happened during ramadan is also curious. but isis did call for greater. attacks but again your fact that it happened in a muslim predominantly muslim area throws a little curveball here and that that's a little strange unless it was more radicalized individuals trying to go after more moderate. muslims the finsbury mosque opened back in the late one nine hundred eighty s. has often been in the headlines as the muslim population in the area began to grow there since then it's been one of the biggest prayer holes in britain however in the one nine hundred ninety s. the mosque was accused of radicalism and its preaches linked to al qaeda twelve years ago it was reopened under the new chairman there but political commentator mullen says says it's going to struggle to shake off its radical link. attacks on muslim communities are the same as the attacks. on any cuties from during a terror attack i think the frustration for the security so far i see a social group elsewhere has been born other news agencies have. told us or two in

but any hopes that fighting would conclude by the end of ramadan have faded. earlier i spoke with carmela fonbuena, a writer with the online philippine newspaper rappler who was on the ground in marawi for the first three weeks of the fighting. i asked her why the government forces had been unable to stick to their deadline. the deadline to finish the clashes before the celebration is not exactly a categorical deadline. the military has started issuing those deadlines because they already missed so many. it is something they really aspired to. in the first week, generals were telling people that they wanted them to be able to go back to their homes. for the celebration. but that did not happen. people called it the saddest celebration they had seen. they were in the homes of their relatives in nearby cities. we are in week five and the clashes continue. and there was a bit of a truce during that celebration? but unfortunately, that truce has been lifted? what do we know about the main figures in this fight? reports are saying that malaysia's most wanted terror

there's another week of ramadan. my big fear, i think britain's big fear, they'll use this to inspire others. >> i read they already are. >> he's right. >> this ramming style attack with trucks, et cetera, what can be done short of having concrete barriers in front of >> the weapon of choice is one you can't really restrict. it's easily available. anybody can get it. what you have to do is identify the individual dranking it, which is the single hardest thing for investigators to do. we don't know yet with this plan, was it premeditated or a spontaneous act. i'll tell you, the act of the crowd who held the driver of the van reed mied me of united 93 on 9/11 where the community on the plane decides to act together to stop somebody. >> this is the third ramming-style attack in three months in london. does london need to change its posture and can it and to alex's point, how much can you actually prevent if they're determining to do it this way? >> security services there are very, very good. they rival in termscapabili

for muslim londoners, it's been a ramadan like no other. during this holiest of months, islamist extremists attacked london bridge and borough market. the grenfell tower fire in north kensington claimed many muslim lives. and worshippers were mowed down after praying at the mosque in finsbury park. for 30 days, observers fast from dawn to dusk. this time of year, that can mean hours without food or drink. many muslim aid workers and volunteers have been working with local people affected by the grenfell tower fire. as a volunteer, it's definitely been one of the hardest ramadans i have faced, working here in this tragic scene. so many loved ones are still looking for answers and this is going to be one of the hardest ramadans they have ever had. a long day of fasting is broken by a late evening is broken by a late evening meal. the spontaneous gathering outside the westway sports centre near the grenfell tower tower was more meaningful than ever. oh, my god, guys, can we please look at how amazing this is? during ramadan, muslims also give

eidpe that we can return to at the end of ramadan in our houses. and, make the children happy because happiness has died in people's hearts. >> we barely have anything to eat. my wife gave birth here in the camp and she's been eating tomatoes and cucumbers for the past six days. than 20,000re people from raqqa have some refuge. the cap administrators are desperate for assistance. was captured by the islamic state organization in 2013. since then, thousands of civilians have fled the violence. >> the situation has become unbearable. the oppression they are living through because of the islamic state group. reporter: since the launch of their operation to capture racket from the -- capture raqqa, they have gradually sealed off the approach to the city from the north, east, and west. its troops are now several miners -- several miles from raqqa, ready to begin the assault in a feud days. laura: in venezuela, where president nicolas maduro is pushing forward on plans for a constituent assembly with the power to rewrite the constitution. two lawmakers s

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we are in the month of ramadan. we still don't know the question exactly of the motivation here, if indeed it is a terrorist attack, but we just had within, you know, the last 12 hours an attack in marley by jihadi militants on a hotel. you know, every day and in the past ramadan season unfortunately we have seen minor or major attacks in countries around the world. while it is not clear what is happening in london tonight, this is a time of particular concern to law enforcement authorities. aislesis h isis has repeatedly called for attacks not only in 2017 but in years previous on ramadan, and militants have responded to that, including in the united states where an attack during the ramadan season was conducted in orlando, florida in which 49 people were killed. that's the context we are looking at right now. >> stand by with me, peter. i want to bring in cynthia vanzella. she is one of the people that took the picture we are looking at on the screen right now, the one in particular that seems to be close. cynthia

that is perhaps the commonality more than ramadan per se. >> and naveed jamali, thank you, sir. jim cavenaugh, if you are still with us, i wanted to ask you this, as you have been looking at the pictures of the casualties, and that is what this community could be very concerned about, as i mentioned earlier to liucy, these might b folks they know. i have been watching some of the picture pictures there that, okay, we are getting this in that reuters, that london police say that one dead in the incident, and that is according to reuters and now nbc news is confirming that london police say one dead in the incident, and this is what you and i have been watching as we get new pictures, and what we are doing is to put it in so that the viewers can see what happened. as you have been looking at the pictures of not only the stretchers of the pieces of blue cloth on the ground, and it would appear to be over individuals in this picture h e here, and others being wheeled away with what appears to be oxygen. what is some of the takeaways that you have had in seeing those? >> just that it

it is the last week of ramadan. you would have found a diverse range of different people just going about their lives. what is sickening is how innocent people are being killed tonight and our prayers go out to the victims and theirfamilies. prayers go out to the victims and their families. you say you have been speaking to people from the mosque. i imagine there must be incredibly shocked right now. just angen incredibly shocked right now. just anger, really. we had to deal with the manchester terror attack and then the london terror attack and then the london terror attack and the last week we have been dealing with grenfell tower fire. one thing is very clear. our communities are very resilient. i salute the emergency services who were on the scene very emergency services who were on the scene very quickly and provided support for the vic is. obviously, in what i can see, there have been a number of fatalities and we are thinking of their families. number of fatalities and we are thinking of theirfamilies. ——

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towards the end of ramadan, a pious pa rt towards the end of ramadan, a pious part of the month. more and more worshippers go to the mosque in the evenings. we don't want anybody to think they can go about their lives because they feel vulnerable and scared. the muslim community was already fearful. incidence of islamic state there have been on the rise following the recent attacks by islamic extremists in britain. what has happened now in finsbury park is by far the worst attack they have suffered. we were hearing from the mayor of london, sadiq khan. the prime minister has been here this afternoon. and the labour leader jeremy corbyn. let's get the latest from our political correspondent at westminster. we have seen a determined effort from the prime minister and the government to respond extremely quickly to this incident in north london. we have seen the prime minister come out into downing street making the statement. immediately condemning this as an act of terrorism. putting it in the same bracket as the attack at london bridge. and also in manchester. also very quick to v

the fact that this happened during ramadan is also curious. but isis did call for greater. attacks but again your fact that it happen in a muslim predominantly muslim area throws a little curveball here and that that's a little strange unless it was more radicalized individuals trying to go after more moderate. muslims so waking up again to see another tragic night for london it wasn't so long ago that this particular mosque was making plenty of headlines in the u.k. it's minus is about that the finsbury park mosque opened back in the late one nine hundred eighty s. as the muslim population in the area began to grow there since then it's off but in the headlines it is actually the still the biggest prayer one of the biggest prevails in britain but since the ninety's the mosque was accused of radicalism that's where you see the headlines most often and it's preachers linked to al qaeda one is a man that was preaching there back in one thousand nine hundred seven was in the tourist abu hamza that mosque became a meeting point for various extremi

the local mosque would have held a prayer session and people would have begun to break their -- for ramadan. there is a lot of individuals standing around who are apparently attending one of those prayer services. they seem to be repeating mostly what they're hearing on the radio, again, that a van drove into a cafe, and that there were a number of people injured. again, there is not a lot of real information coming out from the police here. they're not telling us exactly what is going on yet. we're still waiting for any kind of official confirmation of what is happening. >> we have a picture on screen, and we can bring that back up, of where this is geographically there in central london. finsbury park. can you give us a sense of where the 7 sisters road is at, this area where they're responding to an incident? is it north, south, east, west of this finsbury park space? >> yes, richard, the seven sisters road runs directly between the finsbury park station, just north of the finsbury park mosque. it is quite close to the arsenal football club, which is quite a nice area for london, and thi

this article makes clear fatalities are triple last year's ramadan season. as i look at every day of ramadan, we've had multiple attacks in iraq, afghanistan, europe and just yet in flint, michigan we had an attack in the homeland against a police officer in the airport. can you sort of comment on that and what is the department doing to prevent this? >> thank you for the initial comments, chairman. i appreciate it. and to the -- to the issue of the morale in the organization, i just have to say up front that i have talked to at this point hundreds of members of the workforce, whether they were in law enforcement here in washington, i have never once received any individual feedback other than, "i love my job, i love what i'm doing, i think i'm making a difference to protect the country," and it doesn't matter if it is down on the 110 degree border or in -- somewhere in the united states. the point is that they all love what they do. they think they're making a difference. but the overall morale, the reason it is so low i believe is they haven't been given m

this is the last week of ramadan. we are coming up to the main holiday that muslims celebrate every year. so, they do want to make sure there's added security, not just at mosques but communities around the country. there are fears, really, essentially, that what we have seen is the sort of awakening of extremists on both sides and that the situation is sort of percolating at a dangerous pace. no one wants to see anymore attacks like this happen anymore. john? >> no, indeed. one of the things you will hear people say is whoever carried out this attack and the twisted reasoning in his mind may have been for attacks earlier in london. if he was carrying out revenge, it was against innocent people at prayer. is this not playing into the hands of extremists? jihadists who want to see a religious war. >> it's a very important point you raise. it's something that, unfortunately, isis will try to exploit and capitalize. it will appear in the propaganda material very soon. they are trying to pit this scenario, us against them

shocked she was by what happens, particularly as the victims were worshippers who had been attending ramadan careers. her majesty ‘s thoughts and prayers are with you all. -- thoughts and prayers are with you all. —— attending ramadan players. inaudible taking a great interest in the muslim community in this country. we have been deeply impressed by imam and his remarkable actions on that terrible occasion. inaudible very lucky. as prince charles was leaving the scene he was asked about the health of the duke of edinburgh, prince philip had been admitted to hospital last night and was not with the queen today for the state opening of parliament. this is what prince charles had to say. how is the duke of edinburgh? he's getting better. thank you. doctors say three quarters of babies stillborn or who suffer brain damage during birth could have cut a different outcome if they had received better care. more than 700 cases were looked at in 2015. the uk has the second worst infa nt in 2015. the uk has the second worst infant mortality rate in western europe, the only country with a higher r

tower disaster have come together today to mark the muslim festival of eid, which marks the end of ramadan. the muslim festival of eid, but what should be a time of celebration has left many reflecting on their loss, as frankie mccamley reports. spilling as frankie mccamley reports. out onto the streets this spilling out onto the streets of this mosque to pray on a day of celebration for muslims across the country, but here in west london it is tainted with sadness. for us, at the centre of a wider community,... sorry, sorry about this... it is a day when people won't be able to see some of their relatives for a long time... and even for those trying to help, it's been tough. and we also know the tower block had hundreds of residents, and maybe also more visitors, so the number of missing 01’ visitors, so the number of missing or dead could be a lot higher than just 79. the mosque has not only become a place for those affected to collect donations from the public, but for some like hassan, it is now his home — his wife and two daughters are still missing. he is too upset to talk on cam

we are in a period of ramadan right now and inevitably, those that are following ramadan are fasting obviously during daylight hours and it is after daylight hours they will be able to go to worship, they will be able to go to worship, they will be able to eat and break their fast, this was a perfect opportunity for that person with ill intent to have the largest congregation of locals in one vicinity and particularly outside this particular location. they were congregated in the street and therefore, with their vehicle, as we've seen in many different attacks in the past, its easy for them to take as many casualties and fatalities as they can. we know this particular man is in police custody at the moment, what will the counterterrorism police priorities be? the really important thing is that he's been taken alive, that is fa ntastically that he's been taken alive, that is fantastically useful for the authorities in their subsequent interviews of him. he is apparently being medically treated right now and that is a standard for and for many reasons that has to be done to ensure that