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has fallen into the hands of militants. That is all from the BBC | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
News at Six. detectives were bribed by some of | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
the capital's most notorious crime syndicates. | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
They weren't asking the right questions, they weren't being told | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
the situation. Alternativelx, a deliberate decision was taken that | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
it would be inappropriate to draw attention to just how weakened the | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
Metropolitan Police was. One officer said at the timd it | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
Metropolitan Police was. One officer said at the time it was | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
impossible to conduct an ethical murder investigation without it | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
being compromised. Also tonhght murder investigation without it | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
being compromised. Also tonight: The being compromised. Also tonight: The | :00:39. | :00:40. | |
Mayor and Home Secretary at odds over water cannon. Cree is a | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
Mayor and Home Secretary at odds over water cannon. Cree is ` `` | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
Theresa May says she is yet to agree their use. | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
Two teenagers die after falling from a balcony at a party. | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
Why Jazzy B is now officially a London legend. | :00:59. | :01:10. | |
Good evening. The details of a secret report describing widespread | :01:11. | :01:17. | |
corruption among some Met Police detectives in the early 2000s can be | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
revealed tonight. The document revealed tonight. The documdnt | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
called Operation Tiberius says revealed tonight. The document | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
called Operation Tiberius says more than 40 serving officers were | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
working with eight crime syndicates to help them evade justice for | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
crimes including murder and drug`trafficking. MPs whose job it | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
is to scrutinise the Met had asked to be given the intelligencd report | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
but Scotland Yard have only allowed six heavily redacted pages to be | :01:41. | :01:48. | |
published. You said this committee document and | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
You said this committee doctment and you have redacted so much | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
information. All that's left is the title. Five more pages with very | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
little detail about how organised little detail about how org`nised | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
crime syndicates infiltrated Scotland Yard. There are huge gaps. | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
That's all that the Metropolitan Police wanted MPs to know. BBC | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
London can reveal much more. There are 180 pages of top secret | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
intelligence. About drug deals, intelligence. About drug de`ls, | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
armed robberies and even contract killings. The document called | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
killings. The document calldd Operation Tiberius shows just how | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
bad the problem of police corruption had become in two areas of London. A | :02:33. | :02:39. | |
secret Scotland Yard unit identified 42 serving officers as corrupt. | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
secret Scotland Yard unit identified 42 serving officers as corrtpt. 19 | :02:43. | :02:42. | |
ex`officers and the same number 42 serving officers as corrupt. 19 | :02:43. | :02:44. | |
ex`officers and the same nulber of ex`officers and the same number of | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
career criminals linked to eight major crime syndicates. A rdtirement | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
major crime syndicates. A retirement lunch in 2002 for a senior | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
detective. Among the guests, at least four former officers who are | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
on the payroll of some of the most violent and dangerous criminal gangs | :03:01. | :03:02. | |
in North and East London. Serving in North and East London. Serving | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
officers are also here, potentially vulnerable to being recruitdd | :03:08. | :03:08. | |
officers are also here, potdntially vulnerable to being recruited into | :03:09. | :03:10. | |
this corrupt world. They ard vulnerable to being recruitdd into | :03:11. | :03:12. | |
this corrupt world. They are all under investigation by a Scotland | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
Yard anti`corruption team. The document says: | :03:17. | :03:34. | |
This man was the chairman of the defunct Met Police Authoritx. | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
defunct Met Police Authority. It acted as the watchdog oversdeing | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
defunct Met Police Authoritx. It acted as the watchdog overseeing and | :03:43. | :03:42. | |
acted as the watchdog oversdeing and scrutinising Britain's biggest | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
force. He says the Met reassured him they had a grip on corruption. The | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
general impression was that they took it seriously, they were | :03:52. | :03:53. | |
general impression was that they took it seriously, they werd clear | :03:54. | :03:53. | |
took it seriously, they were clear they still had work to do btt | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
essentially it was under control. The secret document reveals how | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
sports like golf are used to recruits serving officers. One page | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
states that a corrupt ex`detective even ran an annual golf trip to the | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
United States. The membershhp of which reads like a who's who of bent | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
cops. Simply, the crime syndicate is the customer. They have a so`called | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
conduit. This is an ex`detective who has close contacts with serving | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
officers who in turn have access to sensitive intelligence and the Met's | :04:29. | :04:36. | |
valuable databases. The conduit is often the only one who knows the | :04:37. | :04:38. | |
customer. It distances key lembers customer. It distances key lembers | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
of the syndicate from investigation. Interestingly, criminal gangs don't | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
want to work directly with crooked cops because they don't trust them. | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
The document states there is still a distaste towards corrupt officers. | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
But one of the most disturbhng statements in this document is from | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
a senior detective who says: "I feel at the current time I cannot carry | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
out an ethical murder investigation without the fear of it being | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
compromised." Either senior officers were unbelievably complacent, they | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
weren't asking the right questions, they weren't being told the | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
situation. Or alternatively, a deliberate decision was takdn | :05:19. | :05:19. | |
situation. Or alternatively, a deliberate decision was taken that | :05:20. | :05:19. | |
deliberate decision was takdn that it would be inappropriate to draw | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
attention to just how weakened the Metropolitan Police was, a | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
deliberate attempt to mislead the deliberate attempt to mislead the | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
Police Authority. That doesn't surprise this man. His brother was | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
killed in a pub car park in 198 and the murder of the private | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
investigator is still unsolved. There is now an independent review | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
into alleged police corruption. There is now an independent review | :05:43. | :05:44. | |
into alleged police corrupthon. If into alleged police corruption. If | :05:45. | :05:44. | |
the public were aware of thd real the public were aware of the real | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
extent and the seriousness of corruption in the police, that it | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
would seriously undermine public would seriously undermine ptblic | :05:54. | :06:01. | |
confidence. And I know that the vast majority of officers are | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
hard`working and honest. But nevertheless, I believe there is a | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
significant minority that are seriously corrupt. The full`scale of | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
corruption is unknown. But ht corruption is unknown. But ht | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
provides a disturbing insight into the threat to the Criminal Justice | :06:16. | :06:24. | |
System at that time. Keith Vaz, the chairman of the home | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
affairs Select Committee joins us. affairs Select Committee joins us. | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
Hello. You asked to see this report, but didn't get the full extent of | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
it. What is your reaction to what we have revealed tonight? Good evening. | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
Can I congratulate BBC London on doing better than the Home Affairs | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
doing better than the Home @ffairs Select Committee in obtaining | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
information from the Metropolitan Police Commission? The fact is, | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
exactly 24 hours ago I asked the Deputy Commissioner for the | :06:54. | :06:54. | |
information that you have just information that you have jtst | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
released and he said he was not able to release it. He only gave us a | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
redacted version. From what I have heard, I think both I and the rest | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
of the Committee will be astonished at some of the points that are | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
contained in that report and to be frank, it was quite possible to | :07:13. | :07:13. | |
contained in that report and to be frank, it was quite possibld to give | :07:14. | :07:14. | |
frank, it was quite possible to give us this information for publication | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
without the names of the officers, we weren't interested in the names, | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
we were interested in the extent of the problem of corruption and what | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
the Metropolitan Police were doing the Metropolitan Police were doing | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
about it. So I am disappointed and I will be writing to the Deputy | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
Commissioner again, indeed trying to phone him this evening to ask how it | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
was possible for this inforlation to get out into the public domain | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
without Parliament having it when we asked? And the extent of thd | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
asked? And the extent of the corruption, with organised crime | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
that's revealed, it is astonishing. But it is more than ten years ago. | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
Why does it matter? Well, exactly. That is exactly what we said when we | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
asked for the information. To be fair to the Deputy Commission, he | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
did say we could go to Scotland Yard and read it. Now, we can he`r | :08:03. | :08:04. | |
did say we could go to Scotland Yard and read it. Now, we can hear about | :08:05. | :08:04. | |
and read it. Now, we can he`r about it on the BBC, so we don't need to | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
do that. That was ten years ago. If it's been cleared up, as I hope that | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
it has been cleared up, I think this could be a big success story. Why | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
it has been cleared up, I think this could be a big success storx. Why is | :08:20. | :08:19. | |
it still being kept secret and it still being kept secret and | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
redacted? As you saw, whole pages containing no information wdre | :08:26. | :08:26. | |
redacted? As you saw, whole pages containing no information were put | :08:27. | :08:27. | |
containing no information wdre put on our website today, just to make | :08:28. | :08:28. | |
the point that we don't have the the point that we don't have the | :08:29. | :08:30. | |
information. I think what wd do need information. I think what wd do need | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
is a statement of clarification and I hope that he can provide it. I | :08:36. | :08:37. | |
I hope that he can provide ht. I will talk to other members of the | :08:38. | :08:39. | |
Committee. Perhaps it may be better Committee. Perhaps it may be better | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
to hear from him again next week as to precisely why this information | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
to precisely why this inforlation was withheld and how it's got into | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
the public domain. Also, an assurance that it's actuallx all | :08:51. | :08:51. | |
assurance that it's actually all been dealt with. That's what I think | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
the people in London want to know, that there was a thorough | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
investigation, properly completed and the matter is now closed. I | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
think probably it isn't closed because as we heard yesterday, | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
think probably it isn't closed because as we heard yesterd`y, it is | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
still ongoing. He talked about between four and six investigations. | :09:08. | :09:09. | |
If that is the case, then wd between four and six investhgations. | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
If that is the case, then we need between four and six investigations. | :09:13. | :09:12. | |
If that is the case, then we need to give him and the rest of thd | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
Metropolitan Police the resources they need to clear this up `s | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
quickly as possible so that they have a grip on corruption in the | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
Met. Thank you very much. With me here now is Guy Smith. | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
Shocking revelations. What hs With me here now is Guy Smith. | :09:34. | :09:35. | |
Shocking revelations. What hs the Met saying about this? As we heard | :09:36. | :09:37. | |
Met saying about this? As wd heard from Keith Vaz, the Met have | :09:38. | :09:39. | |
Met saying about this? As we heard from Keith Vaz, the Met havd invited | :09:40. | :09:40. | |
from Keith Vaz, the Met have invited MPs to read the document in private, | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
a full unredacted copy. But they say they are not prepared to discuss | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
publicly any of the detail. They have just, in the last hour, given | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
me a statement saying the passage of time does nothing to reduce the very | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
real risks to anti`corruption tactics, intelligence sourcds or | :09:59. | :10:05. | |
current operations. I asked them also a number of questions, firstly | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
how many individuals in this document have they prosecuted | :10:11. | :10:12. | |
how many individuals in this document have they prosecutdd and | :10:13. | :10:12. | |
document have they prosecuted and convicted over the last ten or so | :10:13. | :10:14. | |
years. They couldn't give md exact years. They couldn't give md exact | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
numbers. How confident is the Met that the level of corruption is | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
still not ongoing? Again, in a statement, they say the nattre of | :10:24. | :10:25. | |
corruption within the Met has corruption within the Met h`s | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
changed over the last decade, however we still have up to six live | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
anti`corruption investigations running at any one time. We are | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
determined for the good of Londoners and the honest, hard`working men and | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
women of the Met to do all we can to tackle current corrupt staff. | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
Finally, I asked them what was their reaction to the chair of the | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
Metropolitan Police Authority accusing them of being complacent or | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
misleading the Police Authority. They weren't prepared to colment. | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
Thank you. Coming up: On the day unemployment | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
falls in the capital, thous`nds falls in the capital, thousands | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
queue in Islington to visit a jobs fair. | :11:10. | :11:17. | |
The Home Secretary says she will decide is whether to approve | :11:18. | :11:18. | |
The Home Secretary says she will decide is whether to approvd the use | :11:19. | :11:18. | |
decide is whether to approve the use of water cannon in London only after | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
considering the safety issues carefully and properly. Theresa May | :11:24. | :11:24. | |
was responding after the Mayor gave was responding after the Maxor gave | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
the go`ahead for the Met to purchase three second hand machines from the | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
German police. It would be a big step for policing | :11:36. | :11:37. | |
here and the Home Office says it here and the Home Office saxs it | :11:38. | :11:39. | |
needs to get this right. The Mayor needs to get this right. The Mayor | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
claims there is urgency because if the Met don't buy three second hand | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
cannons for ?220,000 by July, they cannons for ?220,000 by July, they | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
will sell them to someone else. The decision was entirely to do with | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
efficiency in the management of public funds which is what I am paid | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
to do. And you would expect me to do that. Are you and your office, have | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
been frustrated by the Home Office's delay as you see it in making a | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
decision? Look, my view is that we have got to get on and make the ` | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
equip the police with the w`ter equip the police with the w`ter | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
cannon that they need. What if the Home Secretary says no, you have got | :12:23. | :12:24. | |
three water cannon, cannot... I think it highly | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
unlikely. You are again putting pressure on the Home Secret`ry? | :12:32. | :12:32. | |
unlikely. You are again putting pressure on the Home Secretary? I am | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
giving you my view. The Gerlan water cannon would have three years use | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
left in them. The Home Secrdtary faces a decision on a long`term plan | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
for the whole country, after consultation and safety tests. No | :12:45. | :12:46. | |
sign today of her being bounced. The sign today of her being bounced The | :12:47. | :12:54. | |
police have to put a case for water power. They did not submit that case | :12:55. | :13:01. | |
to the Home Office until March 014. I will be taking a decision but I | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
will be taking it on the right basis. Together, they rallied people | :13:06. | :13:13. | |
basis. Together, they rallidd people to clean up after the 2011 riots. | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
One desired affect for him lay have been the Times newspaper saying he | :13:20. | :13:21. | |
been the Times newspaper saxing he was challenging the Home Secretary's | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
authority. If or more likelx when she does finally approve water | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
cannon, expect the Mayor to point out it came after his lobbying. | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
Part of Central London was grid`locked this afternoon after | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
taxi drivers staged a protest around Trafalgar Square. They were | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
protesting at what they say is a lack of action from Transport for | :13:45. | :13:46. | |
London over a new app on the lack of action from Transport for | :13:47. | :13:47. | |
London over a new app on thd market London over a new app on thd market | :13:48. | :13:49. | |
called Uber which could revolutionise the industry. Our | :13:50. | :13:51. | |
transport correspondent Tom Edwards was there. | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
Central London became a car park this afternoon. Cabbies brotght the | :13:57. | :14:04. | |
road to a standstill. We are road to a standstill. We ard | :14:05. | :14:13. | |
protesting about TEFL. We are sticking together `` transport for | :14:14. | :14:20. | |
London. It is everyone's problem. The Met restricted the demonstration | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
to just Whitehall for one hour. But there was still widespread gridlock | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
right across central London. Is it worth getting arrested for? Do I | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
look like I am an imminent threat to my fellow Londoners quit in I would | :14:37. | :14:37. | |
not have thought so bust thd my fellow Londoners quit in I would | :14:38. | :14:39. | |
not have thought so bust thd reason are here today is because transport | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
for London are refusing to dnforce for London are refusing to dnforce | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
their own laws `` to my fellow Londoners? It is about this | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
smartphone app Uber. By law, Hackney carriages are the only taxis that | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
can use meters. The cab drivers say this is not just about a sm`rtphone | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
app. It is about what they call incompetence at transport for | :15:08. | :15:16. | |
London. There is no doubt that these smartphone apps are changing this | :15:17. | :15:25. | |
market. Transport for London says it licensed Uber after a complhance | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
check but it does want changes to the website to make it clear | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
bookings are being taken in London. Should you have licensed thdm if | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
they are not complying with your own rules? Well, they are complxing | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
they are not complying with your own rules? Well, they are complying with | :15:42. | :15:41. | |
rules? Well, they are complxing with the rules. You said they are not. | :15:42. | :15:43. | |
There are some things in thd the rules. You said they ard not. | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
There are some things in the terms There are some things in the terms | :15:47. | :15:48. | |
and conditions that is not `s clear and conditions that is not `s clear | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
as we would like it to be. We are working together to get it straight. | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
Uber says it complies with legislation and is bringing | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
competition to the market. The issue will end up in the High Court. The | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
whole industry is now facing big changes driven by technology. | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
was there. Two teenagers have fallen to | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
their deaths from the sixth`floor balcony of a flat in Deptford. | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
The pair were at a party. Police investigating their deaths | :16:19. | :16:20. | |
believe it was a tragic accident. Nick Beake has the story. | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
The banks of the Thames in dast London, a new riverside | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
development. The party was being held here on the sixth floor. The | :16:30. | :16:36. | |
one that has the red flag. This youth worker says he heard lusic | :16:37. | :16:38. | |
youth worker says he heard music coming from the flat and at one | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
point saw a young couple kissing right on the edge of the balcony. I | :16:42. | :16:49. | |
saw them go over. You saw it happen? Yeah. I was just like... My partner | :16:50. | :17:02. | |
screen. I just ran to put a top on and ran downstairs. Nothing could be | :17:03. | :17:09. | |
done to save the 18`year`old man and 19`year`old girl, students `t | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
done to save the 18`year`old man and 19`year`old girl, students at two | :17:13. | :17:12. | |
19`year`old girl, students `t two nearby colleges. Police said their | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
deaths are not suspicious and have the `` they have described ht | :17:19. | :17:19. | |
deaths are not suspicious and have the `` they have described it as an | :17:20. | :17:20. | |
the `` they have described ht as an accident. Just looking down, it is | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
pretty clear they would not have stood a chance. This evening, the | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
colleges released a joint statement saying that they will be providing | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
counselling to students and staff. Still to come, they look ahdad | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
counselling to students and staff. Still to come, they look ahead at | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
the weekend weather. Plus, rising stars and established stars and | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
music will be here at Roundhouse raising funds for over 14,000 young | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
musicians. Nick Beake has the story. | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
Unemployment has fallen to its lowest level in five ye`rs | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
in the UK. In London, | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
while the number of people out of work has also fallen, it's | :18:13. | :18:13. | |
higher than the national avdrage. higher than the national avdrage. | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
At a jobs fair in Islington today, thousands queued to meet potential | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
employers in the hope of securing work, as our political | :18:20. | :18:21. | |
correspondent, Karl Mercer, reports. Inside there was a lot | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
of selling going on. Employers selling their jobs. | :18:26. | :18:27. | |
Would`be employees selling themselves. | :18:28. | :18:28. | |
Outside, the queues of people wanting to find | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
work stretched right up the road. This jobs fair in Islington comes | :18:33. | :18:34. | |
on the day unemployment in the capital fell again. | :18:35. | :18:36. | |
But for many here, getting back to work or getting | :18:37. | :18:38. | |
the right job is still tough. If you have a permanent job, you can | :18:39. | :18:49. | |
plan for the future rather than living week to week. I have come | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
today to hopefully make an impression on someone. It has been | :18:54. | :18:55. | |
impression on someone. It h`s been pretty tough. Hopefully this job | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
that will open up opportunities for me. | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
the right job is still tough. With signs | :19:04. | :19:05. | |
the economy may be improving, the charity running this jobs fair | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
says there are more jobs on offer here than in previous years. | :19:09. | :19:09. | |
It started about four years ago and they have been getting biggdr and | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
better. This year we have a lot more vacancies and employers and people | :19:16. | :19:16. | |
coming through the door. here than in previous years. | :19:17. | :19:26. | |
One of the lucky ones today was Martin Cyrille. | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
Out of work since Christmas, he was up early for the jobs fair. | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
And tomorrow he will be interviewed for a new post. | :19:33. | :19:33. | |
I said, put me in for the caretaker. He made a phone call then | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
and there. I spoke to the guy caretaker. He made a phone call then | :19:37. | :19:38. | |
and there. I spoke to the gty and and there. I spoke to the gty and | :19:39. | :19:40. | |
they told me they had won in Hackney starting in four weeks and one in | :19:41. | :19:42. | |
Camden is ready to go now. interviewed for a new post. | :19:43. | :19:49. | |
Union leaders today though said many of the new jobs are | :19:50. | :19:51. | |
not well paid enough. London has been doing better than | :19:52. | :19:58. | |
anywhere else in the countrx but average wages have not been keeping | :19:59. | :20:00. | |
up with inflation. The picttre average wages have not been keeping | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
up with inflation. The picture for up with inflation. The picture for | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
London is positive. 350,000 private sector jobs, more than in 2010. It | :20:07. | :20:13. | |
is one of the strong engines in the country. You can see what is | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
happening on the skyline, in construction, as well as in | :20:19. | :20:19. | |
professional sectors. not well paid enough. | :20:20. | :20:26. | |
It?s hoped at least 200 people will get work | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
from today?s job fair in Islington. The first London Music Awards are | :20:30. | :20:31. | |
taking place at the Roundhotse taking place at the Roundhotse | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
in Camden this evening. They're being staged to recognise | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
the achievements of the capital's aspiring young | :20:42. | :20:43. | |
musicians and rising stars. Our entertainment correspondent, | :20:44. | :20:45. | |
Brenda Emmanus, is there. Some big names expected? | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
Including Jazzie B who is joining me right now. He will be joined by | :20:52. | :20:59. | |
Boris Johnson and others for the first London Music Awards. Tonight | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
Roundhouse will showcase London's rising stars and talent likd this. | :21:06. | :21:16. | |
Her vibrant and edgy pop music world and edgy pop music will do nicely | :21:17. | :21:17. | |
this singer officially decl`red a this singer officially decl`red a | :21:18. | :21:18. | |
rising star. `` will officially see. rising star. `` will offici`lly see. | :21:19. | :21:26. | |
The awards celebrates some of the talented individuals who have helped | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
ensure London's status as one of the world's great music capitals. I have | :21:31. | :21:37. | |
been independent up until this point. It is nice to get recognition | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
from the industry and support. It is getting there. We are going in your | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
right direction. The event has been organised to raise money for the | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
mayor's music fund which benefits over 14,000 young musicians. The | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
fund was set up in 2011 to help young Londoners who have a lot of | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
potential. They have real commitment and enthusiasm to learn a musical | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
instrument that they have not got the means to pursue their p`ssion. | :22:07. | :22:14. | |
The Voice winner will perform tonight having just been assigned a | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
new role by the mayor, his champion for music. We are going to be | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
ambassadors, leading the way for ambassadors, leading the way for | :22:25. | :22:26. | |
young musicians, making surd that young musicians, making surd that | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
people invest in young musicians so that they have the right | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
opportunities and the right platform to showcase their talent. That is | :22:34. | :22:43. | |
what the event is about. Tonight it is about celebrating talent and you | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
have become a London legend. How cool is that? Finally. Very | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
appropriate. You have travelled the world, just back from Afric`. | :22:54. | :22:55. | |
appropriate. You have travelled the world, just back from Africa. What | :22:56. | :22:56. | |
world, just back from Afric`. What makes London such a musical force? | :22:57. | :22:57. | |
We have always been innovathve and We have always been innovative and | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
creative. This is a good representation of it. The fact the | :23:05. | :23:06. | |
representation of it. The f`ct the mayor is backing it and supporting | :23:07. | :23:08. | |
it, great. The idea is to raise it, great. The idea is to raise | :23:09. | :23:15. | |
money for young musicians. How important is it? How much supporting | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
important is it? How much stpporting and mentoring do you do? It is | :23:20. | :23:20. | |
really important. That in the 8 s, and mentoring do you do? It is | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
really important. That in the 80s, I really important. That in the 80s, I | :23:25. | :23:24. | |
started out with the Manpowdr started out with the Manpower | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
services commission. I understand how important support is. For me, it | :23:28. | :23:34. | |
has been everything. Part and parcel of what we managed to creatd over | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
the last 25 years with the support of the community. It is very | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
important. How do you think London is seen on an international level? | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
Travelling the world and seding it for what it is, it has been | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
amazingly important. It just shows the power of this little country. | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
the power of this little cotntry. London is a powerful tool. You | :23:58. | :24:00. | |
the power of this little country. London is a powerful tool. Xou have | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
won numerous awards. Are they still important? It is nice to get the | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
accolade. For me, particularly something like this, it is equally | :24:10. | :24:11. | |
something like this, it is dqually important. It is part of my | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
community and how I grew up and it has just been so supportive. There | :24:16. | :24:17. | |
will be a special place on my table will be a special place on my table | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
for this award. Nice to meet a legend! Enjoy this evening. Back to | :24:23. | :24:34. | |
you, in the studio. Time now for a check on the weather. | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
I have not had much chance to experience it today. Tomorrow I am | :24:42. | :24:49. | |
at work again so I will miss the sunshine then as well. It has been | :24:50. | :24:51. | |
sunshine then as well. It h`s been pleasant. Temperatures into the low | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
20s quite widely. Not good for everybody. We have very high pollen | :24:57. | :24:58. | |
levels at the moment. For hay fever levels at the moment. For h`y fever | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
sufferers, we are moving into the peak of the grass pollen se`son It | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
is going to be just as bad tomorrow. The satellite pictures show us some | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
cloud developed this afternoon. Still some this evening. It will | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
break up once again. There will be late evening sunshine for many of | :25:17. | :25:17. | |
late evening sunshine for m`ny of us. A dry night to follow. Quite | :25:18. | :25:25. | |
warm air across as at the moment so it will not turn chilly. Down to 12, | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
13, 14. Perhaps in the centre of town, now lower than 15. If you are | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
up early enough, you will sde town, now lower than 15. If you are | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
up early enough, you will see the up early enough, you will sde the | :25:38. | :25:39. | |
odd patch of mist. It will not last long. We are in sunshine probably | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
than today. Cloud bubbling tp in the than today. Cloud bubbling up in the | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
afternoon. It will stay fairly well broken. We are looking at | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
temperatures of 23, 24, possibly 25. I would not be surprised if | :25:54. | :26:03. | |
somewhere manages 26. It will be pleasant tomorrow evening. Decent | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
for a barbecue. The dry weather staying with us. Friday, we might | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
see the peak of the warmth. Temperatures picking up verx | :26:13. | :26:13. | |
quickly. It will be dry again. quickly. It will be dry agahn. | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
Sunshine coming through. 25, again one or two places going warmer. | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
Sunshine coming through. 25, again one or two places going warler. Age | :26:24. | :26:25. | |
`` a change for the weekend. Temperatures dropping back a little. | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
Temperatures dropping back ` little. The peak of the warmth tomorrow. | :26:29. | :26:30. | |
The peak of the warmth tomorrow Over the weekend, still 21, 22. It | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
will be largely dry as well. The main headlines: | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
Extra staff are being draftdd Extra staff are being draftdd | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
in to deal with a big rise in passport applications | :26:44. | :26:45. | |
which have hit a 12`year high. Unions say a backlog is being caused | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
by job cuts, but ministers insist they are on top of the situ`tion. | :26:50. | :26:52. | |
they are on top of the situation. Unemployment has fallen to hts | :26:53. | :26:53. | |
Unemployment has fallen to its lowest level in over five ydars with | :26:54. | :26:56. | |
2.16 million people out of work The jobless total also fell | :26:57. | :26:57. | |
in London, although it remahns in London, although it remains | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
above the national average. A report into police corruption | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
in the early 2000s reveals how some detectives were bribed by London's | :27:05. | :27:07. | |
most notorious crime syndicates to help them avoid justice. | :27:08. | :27:16. | |
The Met Police say they cannot publish the report in full to detect | :27:17. | :27:26. | |
intelligence sorters ollie sources `` intelligence sources. | :27:27. | :27:28. | |
help them avoid justice. And hundreds of taxi drivers brought | :27:29. | :27:31. | |
part of central London to a standstill this afternoon. | :27:32. | :27:33. | |
They were protesting at a mobile phone app used by the cab firm Uber. | :27:34. | :27:36. | |
More on the day's stories on our website. | :27:37. | :27:39. | |
And Asad Ahmad will be back with our late news. | :27:40. | :27:41. | |
From me and the team here, thanks for watching | :27:42. | :27:43. | |
and have a lovely evening. | :27:44. | :27:48. |