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Good evening from BBC London News. The Prime Minister has said he would | :00:15. | :00:21. | |
like to see speedier extradition proceedings after Abu Hamza ` who | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
for years spread racial hatred from Finsbury Park Mosque ` was found | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
guilty of supporting terrorism by a court in New York. It took the US | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
authorities ten years to get him extradited. Questions have also been | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
raised about why the UK government wasn't able to prosecute the radical | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
cleric for his part in a kidnapping which saw three Britons killed. Our | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
Home Affairs Correspondent, Guy Smith reports. | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
This was supposed to be a place for quiet contemplation, but during the | :00:46. | :00:53. | |
1990s the dominant figure of Abu Hamza turned the Finsbury Park | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
mosque into a set of political extremism, preaching hate and | :00:59. | :01:05. | |
intolerance. Although eventually kicked out, his sermons on the | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
street attracted more notoriety. Abu Hamza was not qualified, who was | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
formerly a bouncer at a strip club who discovered religion, and had a | :01:17. | :01:23. | |
smattering of Arabic, and unfortunately presented himself as a | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
shake. In court, Abu Hamza was convicted of 11 offences. Among them | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
helping to organise hostagetaking in the Yemen in which four tourists | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
were killed. Asked why the British justice system didn't prosecute him | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
rather than the US, this was the answer from government. The key | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
thing is that Abu Hamza has faced justice and is likely to be behind | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
bars for many years. The Crown Prosecution Service, which is | :01:56. | :02:03. | |
independent from government, takes decisions and Abu Hamza has been | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
sentenced to seven years in prison. This man is chairman of trustees at | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
the mosque and knows all about the troubles. How damaging was Abu Hamza | :02:14. | :02:22. | |
to the image of Islam in Britain? It has been tough for the Muslim | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
community to deal with and it wasn't fair on the Muslim community to be | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
in that position during that period. Tensions between communities, and | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
some far right extremists coming here to protest. Do you think the | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
security services failed to take Abu Hamza seriously? We all felt things | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
could be done better during that period. In what way? In the way of | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
bringing communities together, taking away hatred. This is Abu | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
Hamza in 2002 talking to BBC London. What is going to stop you | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
preaching? What do they have to do to stop you? Build me a grave. You | :03:11. | :03:19. | |
are not going to stop? No. Today the mosque is a very different place, | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
its management are saying it is what it is supposed to be ` ascent of for | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
tolerance and understanding in the community. `` a centre for | :03:29. | :03:44. | |
tolerance. UKIP supporters have been involved | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
in clashes with protesters at a street rally in Croydon. It happened | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
after protestors confronted UKIP party members about Nigel Farage's | :03:51. | :03:52. | |
remarks last week about Romanian neighbours. The BBC's Political | :03:53. | :03:54. | |
Correspondent, Ross Hawkins, reports. They hoped for a street | :03:55. | :03:56. | |
party atmosphere, the mini carnival to highlight their candidates from | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
ethnic minorities, but protesters moved in and the mood soured. Before | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
long, the music stopped, the musicians hadn't been told that this | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
was the UKIP event and when they found out they weren't happy. When | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
did you first know this was a UKIP event? When I got here. The drums | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
were packed away but the arguments went on. I use saying UKIP are going | :04:24. | :04:34. | |
to be out on the streets? This is what he told the press about the | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
place he wanted to serve. Successive governments still continue to fail | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
communities like Croydon, Croydon which was once the place to be, the | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
place to shop, and has now become a dump. Nigel Farage was expected to | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
turn up but he didn't because... No, he wouldn't feel safe. Can you | :04:57. | :05:04. | |
blame him? Croydon wasn't safe, said the candidate, bringing to an end as | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
memorable and event as any in this campaign, if not perhaps the one | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
that UKIP had planned. Ross Hawkins with that report. And | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
there's a full list of candidates standing for election in Croydon, on | :05:17. | :05:17. | |
the council's website. Tributes have been paid to veterans | :05:18. | :05:25. | |
of the Second World War who served on HMS Belfast to mark the 70th | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
anniversary of the D`day landings. They were joined onboard by Chelsea | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
Pensioners as well as politicians including the Prime Minister and the | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
Mayor of London for a special service. HMS Belfast was one of the | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
first ships to open fire on German positions at 5:27am on the sixth | :05:42. | :05:57. | |
June, 1944. This ship we are on now, when it is firing its guns you would | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
have a big battleship and all of them bombarding the beach. I can | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
remember our landing craft work in line, in past a line of battleships, | :06:08. | :06:19. | |
and then cruise that were giving us firing cover on the beach. That's | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
all from me, so I'll wish you a very goodnight. And hand you over to | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
Wendy for a check on the weather. goodnight. And hand you over to | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
Wendy for As we go through the next few days, we will see this warm | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
sunny spell that was started the week with breaking down. We will | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
have some breaks in the cloud developing and that could lead to | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
some mist and fog patches. It will be a cooler night and last night, | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
about 15 degrees, some places could fall as low as six degrees in the | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
countryside. We will start the day with some rain pushing in, you might | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
have to travel through that tomorrow morning. Generally through the day, | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
the brighter it is going to be and the dryer it will be the further | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
west you go. Temperatures will be at around 20 degrees in the centre of | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
London. After that, we will see a batch of rain, quite torrential as | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
it moves through overnight. The good news is that it will be out of the | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
way by the time most of us getup on Thursday morning. There will be | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
heavy showers but also heavy showers but also sunny spells. | :07:29. | :07:30. | |
Maybe some showers for the weekend. Good evening, yet again we are | :07:31. | :07:42. | |
finishing the day with some thunderstorms clustered across parts | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
of Cumbria, some torrential downpours at the moment, and flashes | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
of lightning. Along the front of this weather system, showers have | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
developed. They are | :07:55. | :07:56. |