Kremlin Critic Killed Outside Hotel In Ukraine
HALA GORANI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, I'm Hala Gorani in London.</s>NEWTON: And I'm Paula Newton in New York. These are the top news headlines we're following for you this hour.</s>NEWTON: The terror attack at British Parliament has claimed another life. London police say a 75-year-old man that had been receiving medical treatment in hospital for his injury has been taken off life support. Tonight, the death toll now stands at four. British police have made eight arrests as they investigate Wednesday's deadly attack. Detectives swarmed locations in Birmingham and other cities over night. And Thursday morning, they've also identified the attacker. He's 52-year-old, Khalid Masood, a British native with a history of violent crime. In Antwerp, Belgium, authorities say they thwarted an attempted terrorist attack. Now, they intercepted a French man driving toward a busy pedestrian area at a very high speed in the red car you see being towed in the distance there. Authorities say inside were weapons and a canister with an unknown substance. Officials say the U.S. won't be voting on a Republican health care plan, Thursday, as expected. Party leaders and present Donald Trump have been holding meetings to try and get the votes pass the measure as Republicans are set to go behind closed doors in the coming hours to discuss that situation. Israeli police say a teenager has been arrested in connection with bomb threats against Jewish institutions and community centers across the U.S. and in several other countries. Now, a police spokesperson said the 19- year-old used advanced camouflage technology to cover his tracks, a motive still unknown. [0:35:07] The president of Ukraine is calling the killing of a Kremlin critic a "Russian state terrorist act". Denis Voronenkov, a former Russian lawmaker, who fled to Ukraine last year was shot and killed outside the Kiev Hotel in broad daylight. Officials say a suspect is now in custody. The Kremlin spokesman says any claims that Russia is tied to the killing are "absurd".</s>GORANI: All right, Paula, we'll get back to you in a moment. But to recap the fourth fatality in the London attack has just been announced. Police say he was a 75-year-old man. Earlier today we learned more about the other three victims. They were the police officer Keith Palmer along with an American tourist and a British teacher. These flags represent the nationalities of the victims and casualties in Central London on Wednesday. There were three children from France, two people from Romania, four from South Korea, one from Poland, one from Ireland, one from China, one person as well up from Germany, Italy and America, two from Greece and 12 people from right here in Britain. They all required treatment. The American who lost his life was Kurt Cochran. He was celebrating his 25th wedding anniversary with his wife Melissa. She survived. Another victim was Aysha Frade. She was 43 years old, s teacher of Spanish descent, partly. The mayor of her hometown said she lived here for several years. At the United Nations in New York, the Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson who was also mayor of London said that an attack on London is an attack on the world. Listen to Johnson.</s>BORIS JOHNSON, BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY: You may know that today there are victims in London from 11 nations, which goes to show the attack on London is an attack on the world. And I can tell you from my talks here in the United States with the U.S. government and with partners from around the world that the world is uniting to defeat the people who launched this attack and to defeat their bankrupt and odious ideology.</s>GORANI: Well, that was Boris Johnson. He's in New York today. He was visiting with the Trump White House a couple days ago in Washington. Nick Paton Walsh joins me from Westminster with more about the victims, what we know about them. Nick.</s>NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Absolutely. And as the days gone on, we have learned more about the lives tragically lost in the violent acts that began pretty much where I'm standing here on Westminster Bridge. Now, we don't know vast amounts of details about how people were injured, the sequence, but the Hyundai four-by-four vehicle rose up on the pavement where I'm standing, here. And the vicinity of where I am moving down here, it was Kurt Cochran here on his 25th anniversary with his wife Melissa. He was killed by that car moving quickly. Amateur video showing people actually flung into oncoming traffic. One woman in fact, it's either thrown over or jumping off this bridge in sort of attempt to escape further injury and also, too, as well as you said Aysha Frade, a 43-year-old Spanish teacher, resident for quite some time here in London killed, too. The car then continues further to cross this bridge down to the other side. Now passed or early on this after, police lines, it crashed into the railings there. Interestingly enough, we saw this bridge teeming with people, obviously it's less tonight. In fact, behind me it appears that police and medical staffs have pulled over a car on this bridge now and having quite impassion discussion with what are these occupants. But that goes to show how the city is still very much on some sense of alert here because it was Khalid Masood who drove that Hyundai further across the bridge. It crashes the railings, gone out and then tried to -- seems getting to the Parliament court yards with that knife. He was then shot dead, but not before he took as life of his third of four victims. During that afternoon, I met with PC Keith Palmer, killed this evening by that knife wilted by Khalid Masood. And as you said as well now the 75- year-old man has in fact died of his injuries in hospital, Hala. But that death toll hasn't grown tragically in the last hour. So about 40 people injured, possibly showed about 10 of those in are pretty serious conditions as far as we understand now. Hala.</s>GORANI: All right. Thanks very much, Nick Paton Walsh. Not far from our position here there on Westminster Bridge. Thanks very much, Nick, reiterating there the breaking news. In the last just half-hour or so, we learned from authorities that a fourth person has died as a result of this attack, a 75-year-old man who was taken off life support, who was fighting for his life and unfortunately died as a result of the car attack on the bridge. [0:40:07] Now, in a sign of solidarity in Germany, a Union flag was projected on to the side of the famous Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. There you have it just showing, you know, unity. We saw it with the French flag and the Belgian flag and it just goes to show you that just of the last several years, Paula, in New York we have had so many of these attacks and we have covered so many of them including one in fact in Germany quite similar to this one, except that it was with the truck on that Christmas market in Berlin, this one causing the deaths of four people. Paula, back to your in New York.</s>NEWTON: Yes. And it is obviously a heartening just to see all of those tributes. As you said, we've had to go through this kind of thing before. I mean, Hala, it so struck me. You're talking to Paton Walsh (ph) earlier and you know he made it clear. The good news is that they haven't found this kind of hardcore cell there that was part of this terrorist attack according to police, at the same time Hala, I mean you are there. You're at Parliament when this happened. It must strike you that one person can cause just so much devastation.</s>GORANI: Yes. And the issue too is that these are very common items. I mean everyone has access to a weapon like a knife. Everyone pretty much can rent a car as long as you have driver's license. So if you want to cause mayhem and damage like this on this the type of scale, you can if you have the intent, especially if in the end, you accept the fact that you are probably going to get killed. It's just that pretty typical murder suicide scenario of someone -- probably according to official who is inspired by this radical ideology, this twisted ideology. Whether it was inspired or a copycat attack were directed from the ISIS-controlled territory, but, you know, in the end, the question is, does it really matters? It's just this ideology is finding a home in the twisted mind of some people, but it takes just one person to bring complete chaos to a very busy area like Westminster. How do you stop it? Every, you know, expert you talked to is basically, I hate to say it, it's very, very difficult especially if it is a lone-wolf type person, especially if it's someone who's not part of a network because how do you monitor someone who is sort of a solo operative? There is no real chat or they're not are really exchanging ideas with anyone. So, you know, ultimately either you can have to sort of figure out a way to make sure that people who have any kind of potential to slide into this type of activity are monitored or, you know, fight the ideology at the base, try to figure out a way, a brag to make ISIS less of an attractive option for some of these people on or in the communities. We were speaking by the way with Lord Admiral Allen West. He was saying in some of these communities to make those communities perhaps more of a part of the wider community as well. In some instances would probably help combat this. So it's multi-pronged approach, but a very, very difficult problem to address especially when it is just one individual, Paula.</s>NEWTON: And if any country has been looking at how to do that multi- pronged approach, it is a Britain as they will continue to do. Our Hala Gorani remains there at the scene for us. We will get to you just a little bit later on. And from us now, the future of President Trump's pledge to repeal and replace Obamacare is in jeopardy. The bill doesn't have the support it needs. The vote for tonight is up.