12/03/2017 London News

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Good evening, I'm Claudia-Liza Armah.

One of the capital's top universities is reviewing

its procedures for tackling anti-semitism, after a spike

in reported incidents involving students across

A number of concerns were raised after a week of anti-Israeli

As Dan Freedman reports it's proving a difficult area

When does a healthy campus debate turn into something more serious?

At University College London they are wrestling with this issue

as the contentious Israel apartheid week draws to a close,

here and at dozens of academic institutions.

We expect them to have robust policy and procedures in place

to comply with the law, to investigate and swiftly address

hate crime, including any anti-Semitic incidents

Back in October, things got really out of hand here.

The university's Friends of Israel group organised a talk

from a former Israeli soldier, but didn't follow

The university rejected their application, but changed their mind

at the last moment on appeal, causing Palestinian supporters

to accuse the University of double standards,

Things got very heated, the police were called,

but there were no arrests and no reports of serious violence.

However, UCL's official report into the event found that:

Anti-Semitism has been in the spotlight amid a reported 30%

year on year increase in incidents nationally,

and a doubling of incidents involving students or academics.

One thing I have agreed is that we will review our procedure but also

do a lot more sign posting, so that people who feel that there is a

concern, that they know where to go. This is one-year-old

Sophia Elia-Schenka. To look at she's like any other

toddler, but she has a rare condition, where life expectancy

in most cases is just two years. Her parents, from Loughton,

are now desperately trying to raise money for her treatment and boost

public awareness of the condition. Like most 18 month olds,

Sofia loves to play with her toys and read her books,

but for her these things aren't easy, because she has spinal

muscular atrophy type one, So her muscles don't get messages

from the motor neurons, so they don't know to work

and therefore they waste away. Though few people will have

heard of the condition, it is the most common inherited

cause of death in infants. And in 95% of case, life expectancy

is under two years old. Yet despite its severity,

Sofia's parents Victoria and Gee have struggled to access

the treatment and We went and we started talking

to the NHS about getting it At that time she was already

close to one-and-a-half. Victoria and Gee told us

that the NHS said they weren't eligible for a wheelchair

because they live up a very narrow flight of stairs,

and there is nowhere here on the ground floor

for an electric wheelchair It's the most difficult

thing to have to watch your child struggling

with the simplest of tasks. She can't turn a page

of a book, she can't pick up We contacted their local NHS,

who said they do offer a range of services for children with life

limiting conditions, and Epping Forest Council claimed

they are trying to help, in spite of a shortage

of social housing. Any early cloud should clear,

to make way for some sunshine. Cloud in the afternoon,

but staying dry. Asad is here with BBC

Breakfast in the morning. But from all of us here,

have a good night. Good evening. For many places it was

a fairly cloudy day on suspend but there was sunshine for western areas

during the afternoon, and here are the clear skies at sunset in

Northern Ireland. Thanks to weather watcher Robin for this picture,

those clear skies have been making their way further east ward.

Temperatures are dropping away, we have seen temperatures of freezing

in parts of Northern Ireland. More cloud rolling in