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Good evening. Hundreds of police officers have been equipped with | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
portable cameras attached to their uniforms. Scotland Yard says the | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
state`of`the`art gadgets will help them deal with stop`and`search | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
operations, and it's also hoped the technology will increase public | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
trust in the police. But civil liberty campaigners say the cameras | :00:29. | :00:36. | |
are open to abuse. Here's the BBC's home affairs correspondent, Matthew | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
Prodger, and let me warn you that you may find some images in this | :00:39. | :00:48. | |
report disturbing. Police respond to a report of | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
domestic violence. The evidence from a police body camera is undeniable. | :00:55. | :01:03. | |
Are their children here? The attacker was pleading guilty. His | :01:04. | :01:10. | |
victim was spared a trip to court. Sometimes, the victim is so | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
terrified, they feel unable to take the case to court, and we can put | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
this evidence before a court, and it is important to me, as you will see | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
in that footage, you can see the terror. This pilot scheme will | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
establish however active body cameras are. They can help avoid | :01:30. | :01:38. | |
costly trials. A similar exercise in California also found that officers | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
fitted with cameras were less likely to use force, and complaints against | :01:42. | :01:48. | |
the police dropped by 88%. The reasoning behind these body cameras | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
is simple. If the criminal knows there is recorded evidence of their | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
wrongdoing, they are more likely to plead guilty early, and if somebody | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
knows that they are being filmed, they are less likely to be violent. | :02:00. | :02:07. | |
He is walking away now. That one. Camera use will focus initially on | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
reports of violence and stop and search. Video will be stored for a | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
month, and then deleted unless it is needed for evidence in a prosecution | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
or complaint. Police in Lambeth have been trying out a different body | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
camera to provide an independent record of searches on the street. | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
Often a flash point for animosity between officers and the public. But | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
there are concerns the bidders may abuse their power to stop and start | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
recording. `` that officers may abuse their power. | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
Clearly there is a risk that the officer can turn the camera offers | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
they don't want something recorded, and if that does happen and evidence | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
isn't created, the Met police will have to crack down on that hard. The | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
net predicts that in London alone, ten to 20,000 body cameras will | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
eventually be in use, and many more across the UK. | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
Police are still questioning the violent armed robber known as the | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
Skull Cracker, who's been recaptured in east London after absconding from | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
an open prison in Kent. Michael Wheatley was arrested in Tower | :03:11. | :03:12. | |
Hamlets yesterday, hours after allegedly robbing a building society | :03:13. | :03:13. | |
at Sunbury`on`Thames. Lawyers for the radical Muslim | :03:14. | :03:22. | |
cleric Abu Hamza have claimed he secretly worked with MI5 to keep the | :03:23. | :03:31. | |
streets of London safe. The cleric has been giving evidence at his | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
trial in New York on terrorism charges. Our home affairs | :03:35. | :03:36. | |
correspondent Guy Smith has this report. | :03:37. | :03:44. | |
For many years, he was the face of Britain's battle against extremism. | :03:45. | :03:52. | |
Abu Hamza, a British cleric, was jailed for inciting racial hatred. | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
He was extradited to the United States and faces 11 terrorism | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
charges there. In a New York courtroom, he repeatedly denied his | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
part in the kidnapping of Western tourists in Yemen, a plot to set up | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
training camp in Oregon, and calling for holy War in Afghanistan. But the | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
court has also been told about claims he secretly worked for | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
British intelligence agency MI5 to keep the streets of London safe. | :04:20. | :04:30. | |
Abu Hamza's lawyer claims he was a moderating influence within the | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
Muslim community, seen here around a decade ago preaching outside | :04:35. | :04:36. | |
Finsbury Park mosque in north London will stop the defence wants to | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
introduce documents from Scotland Yard showing how he cooperated with | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
police to calm tensions and help release hostages. But the US judge | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
has ruled that evidence inadmissible. | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
The version Abu Hamza is presenting to an American court is very | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
difficult from the one he resented here, that of running a global | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
terror network from Finsbury Park. Claims of his working with reduced | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
damage and will only go to fuel conspiracy theories about why he was | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
able to reach hate in the UK for so long. Meanwhile, Abu Hamza told the | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
court his life story of how he started out on the wrong side of | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
morality, running a strip club in Soho, but then turned to Islam. He | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
said he had been a member of the Royal Society for Arts and also | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
worked at Sandhurst, the military Academy in Camberley, in Surrey full | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
top Abu Hamza's testimony is expected to last into next week. He | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
has already spent eight years in prison in the UK. If found guilty of | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
aiding terrorism, he faces life in jail in the US full. | :05:47. | :05:53. | |
Angelina Jolie is as much known for her humanitarian work as for her | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
acting. Well, this evening she was in London promoting her new film | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
Maleficent. But she took time out to speak to BBC London of her horror at | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
the recent abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria. She also | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
told us she's joined a campaign to get them freed. | :06:08. | :06:15. | |
We need to start sending a message to the perpetrators that they will | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
not get away with it, and we need to make sure that we not only returnees | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
girls but prevent girls in the future from being taken. | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
That's it from me for tonight, so it just leaves me to hand you over to | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
Sarah for the weather forecast. Grim today, isn't it? | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
That is the word. It has been wet and grey, and they will be a few | :06:35. | :06:45. | |
showers on the cards as we head through the next few days. The | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
breeze is quite a feature of the weather as we head through the next | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
few days. It will be dried to start Friday morning. Sunny spells through | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
the morning, but one or two fairly scattered heavy showers. By the | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
afternoon, these will tend to fade away. We still have the breeze, but | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
more in the way of sunshine in the afternoon will stop tomorrow, up to | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
around 17 or 18 Celsius. The breeze will just take the edge off those | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
temperatures. The weekend is set to start on a fairly damp note, but the | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
main band of rain clears away. That is how it is looking. I leave you | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
with an outlook of London's weather, and John Hammond will take | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
a look at the National forecast over the course of tomorrow and through | :07:31. | :07:32. | |
the weekend as well. The evening. Hello there. Fancy escaping the rain | :07:33. | :07:46. | |
this weekend? We will be looking at the weather further afield in a | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
moment. Another area of low pressure out here is lined up to the weekend. | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
There will be some sunshine in between. Overnight tonight, most of | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
the wet weather is across the North and the West, but later on in the | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
night, showers will spread right the way across the country. Another cold | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
night, temperatures are staying in double figures. Tomorrow, some | :08:12. | :08:22. | |
places fare better, others worse. An improving story from the south | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
across the country. Snapshot mid-afternoon, some showers across | :08:27. | :08:36. | |
the Highlands. More prolonged bursts of rain across the North, and sharp | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
showers across eastern counties, but further west, plenty of grey and | :08:41. | :08:42. | |
breezy | :08:43. | :08:44. |