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Domestic violence is soaring in London, | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
where men find themselves as the victims. | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
Official figures show an 80% rise in reported attacks, | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
with London being described as the "worst place in the country | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
That's partly because there isn't a single safe house in the city, | :00:28. | :00:38. | |
so you'd have to go to the Midlands or the south coast | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
It started with a slap and then escalated into a full-scale bashing. | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
This is sadly a familiar story but when we don't | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
Dan was just 25 when the violent abuse started from his partner. | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
There was nobody I could approach, even when my friends or people | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
at work would see my black eyes or my broken collarbone. | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
Nobody felt comfortable addressing it. | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
What I needed was a space for a few days but because I'm | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
a man there was nothing on offer except advice. | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
At the very least there needs to be safe spaces | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
If councils provide full support to male victims, | :01:16. | :01:22. | |
Dan is one of hundreds of men to suffer from | :01:23. | :01:29. | |
Last year, the UK's leading domestic violence charity received over | :01:30. | :01:38. | |
3000 calls to its helpline from men, a fifth of all its calls nationally. | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
They believe what is lacking are council run refuges for men in need. | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
Their options are to face homelessness or carry on living | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
BBC London has learned that in 2012, the Met Police handled over 9000 | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
reports from male victims of domestic abuse. | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
In 2015, this had risen to over 16,000. | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
With the number of male victims rising, we contacted all London | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
boroughs to explore what they were doing to address | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
the problem and see what victim support services they provided. | :02:14. | :02:15. | |
We found that 18 areas in England and Wales do | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
However, for victims in London, we discovered there is not one | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
single refuge available for male victims of domestic abuse. | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
Men are not always willing to go and get help and sometimes | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
that is part of the problem in tackling this issue. | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
The issue for men, when they are a victim, | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
is that they feel a sense of damaged pride, a fear of not being believed. | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
London is the worst place in the country to be a male | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
Men, just like women, need places to go if they are victims | :02:48. | :02:56. | |
of domestic violence that are safe, that do provide refuge. | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
We view those spaces as an automatic right for women. | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
Domestic abuse catches people by surprise. | :03:05. | :03:13. | |
That is why councils need to make sure they have services available | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
Survivors such as Dan hope their experiences will influence | :03:17. | :03:23. | |
policymakers and refuges and safe spaces for men will be | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
If you've been affected by the issues in that | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
report, you can speak to the Men's Advice Line | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
Police and the Health and Safety Executive have launched | :03:37. | :03:48. | |
separate investigations into the death of a tree surgeon, | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
who was killed while trimming a tree in Bermondsey. | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
31-year-old Gregory Bulbuc was left dangling from a rope | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
Getting London known around the world for safe travel | :04:02. | :04:12. | |
was a pledge made by Mayor Sadeeq Khan, | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
which is why recent events have come as such a blow. | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
Three cyclists and two pedestrians have been killed this month, | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
leading to campaigners calling for urgent action. | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
Responsibility falls heavily on the new Walking and Cycling | :04:29. | :04:30. | |
Commissioner for London, who's been speak to our Political | :04:31. | :04:32. | |
It's day four of Will Norman's new job as London's Walking | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
It won't be the last time he's pictured on his bike. | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
Ten months after Sadiq Khan came to power, this is the man he wants | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
If we can get more people walking, more people cycling over the next | :04:44. | :04:51. | |
few years, then I see that as a huge success. | :04:52. | :04:53. | |
But he starts work the week after three cyclists and two | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
pedestrians were killed on London's streets. | :04:57. | :04:57. | |
At the weekend there were more protests by campaigners, | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
more demands that the mayor and City Hall do more. | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
What happened last week was an absolute tragedy. | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
You know, one cyclist getting injured, one pedestrian getting | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
injured is one too many, but have three killed in one week | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
and two pedestrians killed in the same week is tragic, | :05:15. | :05:16. | |
and that's why my role is so important. | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
That's why we need to take action on this. | :05:21. | :05:22. | |
We have got challenges ahead of us and I'm determined | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
Cycling campaigners have welcomed the appointment, | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
but say City Hall now has to deliver on its promises. | :05:29. | :05:30. | |
We're really excited to have him here. | :05:31. | :05:32. | |
What we want now is some momentum, you know? | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
We've seen a lot of fine words from the new Mayor, | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
from Val Shawcross, his deputy, and we've seen some | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
of the big changes coming in, but what we haven't seen this | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
The man who used to do Will Norman's job when Boris Johnson was mayor | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
is sceptical about the mayor's promises of ?770 million | :05:50. | :05:51. | |
All the talk of extra money means nothing without the political | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
will to actually spend it on something meaningful. | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
We've not seen any new schemes at all proposed since Sadiq came | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
to office and we've seen most of our schemes that we inherited | :06:06. | :06:07. | |
either dumped or kicked into the long grass. | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
This roundabout in Westminster is the most dangerous | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
in the capital, being changed at the moment to make it safer, | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
and the new Cycling Commissioner says more will follow. | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
One of my jobs coming in, it's day four at the moment, | :06:18. | :06:25. | |
but it's about looking at where the potential new schemes | :06:26. | :06:27. | |
that will be coming in, what else can we be doing to this? | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
The budget is there, Sadiq's committed a record-breaking | :06:32. | :06:33. | |
budget for this agenda, because he recognises | :06:34. | :06:35. | |
Bold pledges on day four, ones he and the mayor will be judged on. | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
Hope turned to despair today for hundreds of thousands | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
The Aslef Union had agreed a deal to end the dispute, | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
It's been a long term saga and Marc Ashdown has been | :06:48. | :06:55. | |
looking at the "deals, or no deals" that have | :06:56. | :06:57. | |
It's a simple enough question, who should operate the doors | :06:58. | :07:05. | |
on a train, the driver or the conductor? | :07:06. | :07:07. | |
But it's led to nearly a year of industrial strife. | :07:08. | :07:09. | |
The first talks between the RMT and Southern took place just | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
With confidence high it could be ended quickly, | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
More strikes followed in May and June. | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
I just think they really need to sort it out. | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
July brought some respite, but by August another five-day | :07:26. | :07:27. | |
Back round the negotiating table, and could there be an end in sight? | :07:28. | :07:36. | |
Southern put forward an 8-point plan with certain sweetness | :07:37. | :07:38. | |
The RMT claimed the government intervened to block any agreement, | :07:39. | :07:48. | |
Remember, remember the 7th of September? | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
And in October relations soured further. | :07:54. | :08:06. | |
Managers put a take it or leave it deal on the table for conductors, | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
accept a one-off payment and new terms or face the sack. | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
The talks collapsed, a three-day strike followed. | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
A second union now joined in, Aslef, representing train drivers. | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
After a day of talks, Aslef said it was hopeful | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
The RMT claimed it was banned from talks and negotiations | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
No deal, and the first all-out strike - drivers and conductors. | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
For three days no trains ran on any of the 2242 Southern services, | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
I don't care now, I just want it resolved. | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
It led to protests outside the Department for Transport. | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
And in January, a six-day strike split into two three-day walk outs, | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
BBC London got all sides round the table on podiums to try | :09:04. | :09:13. | |
to try and thrash it out in a public debate. | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
And now they're refusing to come to compromise. | :09:17. | :09:18. | |
I am deeply sorry for the inconvenience | :09:19. | :09:20. | |
Finally at the start of this month, Aslef struck a deal with Southern. | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
No, I hadn't heard that, but thank you, that's terrific news. | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
Great news then, all the union had to do was get its members to accept. | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
At one o'clock today, it was rejected. | :09:32. | :09:39. | |
Aslef says it respects the decision and will keep | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
Southern says it's saddened and hugely disappointed. | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
For passengers, this long-running dispute continues. | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
That's it for now from me, but lets find out what the weather's | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
Yes, much better winners than yesterday. But we were all looking | :10:00. | :10:13. | |
at something cheery today. Tomorrow morning a bit grey. Wouldn't be | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
surprised if there is some rain for some early commuters. But as the day | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
gets going, not too much in the way of breeze. I think it will turn out | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
to be a decent day. Probably not as much sunshine is today and just peg | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
those temperatures back by a degree or two. 10-11. You're probably | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
thinking just in time for the weekend, comes up weather front but | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
it's running into the high pressure, that tends to throttle the life out | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
of the systems. May see thickening cloud but I think the day on | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
Saturday primarily a dry one, not too much in the way of breeze, get | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
out and get on with it sort of day. Having seen that on Saturday, | :10:53. | :10:54. | |
another front will come down towards us but I think we have a lot of dry | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
weather again. The top temperature of 11. Not too bad for the | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
forthcoming weekend. Here is Nick Miller | :11:02. | :11:02. | |
forthcoming weekend. Here is Nick Miller with a resume of the National | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
weather picture. Hello, rain for some of us today | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
although it won't make much of a dent in the dry winter so far across | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
much of the UK. A few threatening clouds in Cumbria but more than a | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
threat of rain across the pond for Friday. The wettest weather system | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
of the season is over heading into California, and there have been a | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
few, with copious amounts of rain and lots of mountain snow. | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
Record-breaking wet winter so far in parts of California. In Los Angeles | :11:36. | :11:36. |