23/10/2017 Inside Out London

Here's what's coming up on tonight's show.

We investigate the classified ads website that has been hijacked

We are trying to find out why you are peddling cocaine.

Why record numbers of women are putting their eggs on ice.

I would love to be a mum one day, not necessarily right now.

This is allowing me to buy time and terms of how long

And as more music venues in London shut down we meet the artists

Some days you come out and you would do in hour

and you will make 50 and sometimes you will make 150.

It's just depends what spot you get, the weather, all the variables.

Tonight the shocking findings of an undercover investigation

into the availability of illegal products and services online.

Over the past six months we have the looking at craigslist,

the classified ads website which is being hijacked by criminals

Jonathan Gibson has this exclusive report.

As an investigative journalist of the sometimes easier to work

When people aren't watching what you are doing.

If you are looking for something illegal it is the go to part

of the internets that is hidden from prying eyes.

The place criminals are using encrypted websites

You don't need to bother with all that, mate.

Shouldn't you be getting on with the...

Craigslist, it was set up in America by a guy called Craig.

It's a website for people buy and sell everything

Just say where you live and get started.

But a lot of the stuff on craigslist will not be in the buy and sell

section of your local newspaper including bootleg tobacco.

The kind of cigarettes you would probably buy from some

dodgy geezer outside a pub or in this case

They have the packaging but they cannot resell

So he's just a middleman, he says his supplier

I've seen some crazy stuff on craigslist.

That is why I have come to another car park ready

And that is why his tobacco is just a third of the price

But there's a difference because counterfeit goods

are amongst the things craigslist says you are not supposed

Stuff that is illegal but no one takes any notice of that.

It's as easy to find marijuana on craigslist

And you might need a seat because what I am buying next

I am on a Derby estate to meet a dealer selling

Turns out as street cocaine goes it is pretty pure stuff.

I'm shocked at what is there because it is not difficult

for the internet companies to put elements onto their websites to be

And they should be policing it and taking it down.

But if you have made money from crime, you will not want

But where would I find someone to do that?

On a street corner and I am meeting Stacey.

She is offering her bank account on craigslist to anyone

But we are walking into the bank to pay in what I have

She will charge me a fee to get it back and there are plenty of people

on craigslist offering to do the same thing.

Sometimes through overseas bank accounts.

But if you have sent money overseas, how

What you need is a new identity or better still somebody else's.

I know just the place you can get it.

The place where I can find a stolen passport in Kent.

And there are plenty more where that came from.

I've known some stories with it has taken people ten years to get

After it has been completely trashed by people who have

But it will allow you to get on and commit other crimes.

And it's not just about selling stuff.

This advert is looking for London postmen to steal the letters

It is bank cards, checks, a lot of different things.

On craigslist there is also disorganised crime.

In Slough, this man wants someone to pass his driving

But for ?50 at is not that black and white.

For a start he is black and I am white and someone

They check your photo against a database.

There's no point, there is no way I am going to get through.

When I later revealed I am a journalist he did not

In fact when we asked it for an interview this

And that came from the top, the Chief Executive's office.

I think while they are making money and nobody is asking them or forcing

them to try and change what is going on, you will find

a site like this using the ostrich effect of what is going on,

No wonder criminals can carry on regardless.

Well, unless they are really selling to a journalist.

I would like to know how you out offering to sell...

Oh my God, my mother is going to kill me.

But he's not the only one thinking about his relatives.

I am trying to make money for my family.

Take a good look at my cocaine dealer because he is

And we are trying to find out why you are a peddling cocaine.

I am trying to find out why you are willing

Just like my passport thief back here in Kent.

I am not buying a passport off you because I work for the BBC.

I want to know why you are selling stolen passports.

Why are you selling stolen passports?

The amount of organised crime sitting behind other

It is critical that the police force, law enforcement agencies

force the likes of craigslist to do something about it.

When we asked to interview a minister all we got was

Well, we've kind of done that for them already.

So maybe it is time the Government forced websites like craigslist

Busking has become more and more sexy.

More and more people want to do it and people see it as a great

way of developing their performance skills and building an audience.

Building a fan base is the biggest thing you can do as a musician.

Over the past couple of years corporate

giants like Apple and Facebook have made headlines by offering to freeze

Here in the capital putting your eggs on

ice is becoming increasingly popular.

One London fertility Centre says that numbers have tripled in

But what are the risks of this costly process and

does it actually offer any guarantees?

Life coach and agony aunt Anna Williamson has been

It is something I would like to experience

in life and I am not necessarily in a relationship or time when I

Natasha has been a professional opera singer for the past 20 years.

When work stops you realise you want something else as well.

I have probably lived a lot of denial

about it because I have been, I am working and I am doing this.

But then life is life and I have just

realised that there's more to it than just one aspect of it.

Natasha's story is a familiar one and as a life coach it is

something that I am hearing more and more.

Women are meeting partners later in life, and their 30s and 40s

and as a result of putting off having babies until much later.

The problem with this is that fertility

I am in a situation at my age now when

everybody else has what I consider that a dream, they have had

I just feel a separateness so that is definitely a

I guess it does give me a little bit of sadness

At 41, Natasha has taken the decision

In the hope that one day her dream of having a baby

Today we are hoping to find the follicles ready to be

collected and to understand how many eggs we are expecting.

I am excited and a little bit nervous at the same time.

So I have done the best route I know, a 0% credit card.

For the past 11 days Natasha has been injecting a drug to

stimulate our ovaries and increase egg production.

There are always side-effects of any medication.

There are more short-term side-effects.

If you are using an injection every day in your stomach

you start to get just a little bit sore from

the actual area where the

Probably just a little bit of bloating but really I felt

For Natasha the emotional side has been

This is a second round of egg collecting as her

I do not want the same thing to happen again

and be one of the 1% to 3% that does not have any eggs.

So I am really hoping for a better result today.

This is the right ovary, one dominant follicle on the right.

We want at least 18 millimetres so just perfect.

The scan shows it is good news for Natasha.

I think if they could get five or six eggs I would be very

If the biologically optimum time to have a baby is between 18

and 30 but that is not necessarily socially the optimal time, what can

This London clinic expects to see a 41% increase in social egg

Egg freezing is one of the potential solutions that has been developed.

32-year-old Sharon has already decided she wants

The core reason for me wanting to do this is

I guess that this is allowing me to kind

woman of my age in their 30s that is lots of energy going on in the

I don't have much of a determination there but I have

instead chosen to put my energy into egg freezing instead.

This doctor has been researching the social

impact of egg freezing at the London women's clinic.

Why the increase in women seeking egg freezing?

It seems that the main reason women choose to

freeze their eggs is because they haven't yet met the right

They just want to buy a little bit more time or just feel a

What would you say to people that perhaps think it

I think the biggest potential risk of something

like egg freezing is that people have a false sense of security, that

they will feel they are guaranteed to have children when they want them

when of course that is not necessarily the case.

You are increasing your chances but we

certainly cannot say that egg freezing guarantees anybody children

In the laboratory, Natasha's eggs have been collected

She five mature eggs which can now be frozen.

It's just means that there is a chance for me to produce

a life and to be a mother because I think I would be pretty

So we have the eggs, what happens next?

We move the eggs from the solution onto the straw under the

microscope and then put it straight into liquid nitrogen.

And this allows the eggs to go from room

What are the chances of these eggs actually resulting in a baby?

In 2013 the national success rate was just 14%.

Women over the age of 38 that statistic

Clinics are saying those techniques have

improved but that is no recent data to prove this.

What is for sure is that it really has a long journey

from freezing your eggs to actually giving birth to a real life baby.

He is one of 60 babies to be born from

It is a miracle and I am really lucky and it is like

I sometimes have to pinch myself that it has actually

48-year-old Claire froze some eggs nine years ago when she

It was very important for me to have a

family and it was something I always wanted.

Things were not going in the direction I wanted them to and that

Claire's plan of finding a man to have a child with

never happened so last year she decided to take action.

I had given myself a deadline of 45 but I got

to 46 and I thought I am just going to do it, it is now or never.

Claire thought half of frozen eggs which

Then they transferred the one above average embryo and my body took it

and I was pregnant. I still have relevant eggs left some eBay you

will have a sublingual one day. At the clinic Natasha is pleased with

the outcome. I feel like I have done something that has given me kind of

an insurance and a way. If plan a doesn't work so far it has not so I

feel really good about that. After all of that process this is the

final destination. In this room there are potentially thousands of

babies just like Frankie. In this container there are over 4000 eggs

including Natasha is from women who have chosen to freeze their eggs to

be used at a later date. That is a lot of babies. Since the heyday in

the 1980s, many small music venues have struggled to survive. In the

past decade around 40% have closed down. For new artists that means

fewer places to hone their skills and make a living which is why more

are now taking to the streets to bask. We went to meet some of the

aspiring music stars of tomorrow. This is John, a London busker. He

follows a long line of stars show was performed on the streets. He is

already good enough to play in any concert tour anywhere in the world.

But I have also been aware of heeding the streets of London being

played badly for the 1000th time of having my own personal space taken

up by the musical mothers who insist on jumping on the tube. Performing

on the street is perfectly legal and buskers can be found all over the

capital. The former Mayor of London Boris Johnson decided that basking

would be a great thing to make a city more vibrant so wanted to

encourage high quality Street music. The Mayor of London's office now has

its own team and musical experts about to promote good music but

advise it would be buskers as to what they should and should not do

including not blasting loud music into people's years. They divide the

buskers scored talking to performers and councils and businesses and

landowners and the police and unions and it is a common-sense set of

guidelines that covers noise levels and are not setting up where there

is nowhere for people to pass by. You do not want pedestrians having

to step into the road. Noise charges can be one of the biggest source of

complaints and we acknowledge that. You do not want to be a blasting out

the 20 metres of the road. The seasoned busker is that you can

produce the sound you actually want from a battery-powered lamp. You do

not need Adidas owned, you want to create a nice atmosphere for your

audience. Most buskers today are aware of and

follow the code. Tim was just 13 when he started busking, he is now

17 and is a great example of the 17 and is a great example of the

serious news Schmidt using the street and says stage. I'm it out

and tried it and made a lot more money than I thought and had a lot

more fun than I thought and since then I was a little bit addicted.

This year I have been doing a bit of travelling around Europe to

different cities to try and find the best bots. As London one of the best

You could come out one day and it is You could come out one day and it is

great and another day it could not go so well so I have done Oxford

Street and Kings Cross and Borough Market and a couple of gigs in

Shoreditch. I like Oxford Street because any what a lot of places

around London there are queueing systems from the buskers so you

cannot play a lot of the time, you end up waiting. Also street you find

a free spot and just play. On it on a good day, how much would you make?

On Oxford Street at p, some days you will do one hour and he will make

?50 and Sundays ?150 so it's depends on what spot you get and the

weather, all the videos. Reed variables. Do you pray for a talent

scout? I checked my e-mail which saw me busking today and asked me to

come in for a meeting and it is the come in for a meeting and it is the

co-founder of iTunes and he works with Apple music and are starting a

new company which he signed me too, a music distribution companies and

here's my manager and they said the operative in writing sessions with

actors and producers so I am writing and collaborating at the moment have

lots of different people. Thank you. Busking has become more and more

sexy. More and more people want to do it and people see it as a great

way of developing their performance skills and building an audience,

building a fan base is the biggest thing you can do as a musician and

busking becomes a great alternative. You are out and a public space, you

have requested audience always changing. You can change with them,

it is a great practice area. So popular has busking become that

extra venues are now needed to. Busking on private land is illegal

without the owner's permission. Some landowners now see it as an image

enhancer. The stables market in Camden went to the Mayor of London's

office seeking out top-quality performance. We have had a talk

busking but generally it has been discouraged. That is a vibrant and

diverse committee in Camden but sometimes in terms of performance

to monitor. And the standard of to monitor. And the standard of

performance as a very varied job you wanted to create a space where

people could come and perform and it would enhance people's experience of

Camden rather than distract. Camden market is most certainly

enhanced by this funky flamenco and it seems that basking can actually

help lift the mood of our city. The day after the attacks around London

Bridge I was busking around there and the music was appreciated, the

mood was down but the music was appreciated and people verbally

whether saying to me thank you for being here and lifting the mid-and

being here this day after. That is the essence of busking. As a

musician you are providing a musician you are providing

service, and entertainment to people service, and entertainment to people

if you can catch them in the life and retaining them and give them

some kind of interest and positivity then that is my job done. Spirits

lifted, record deals to be had and more venues becoming available

suggest that basking is doing rather well. And there is good reason to be

had in the streets of London and with the Mayor of London getting

behind it may be the next big musician is not that far away. That

is just about at the far this week's programme. Before Google let us have

a quick look at what is coming up next week. One gunshot wounds to the

deft flank. 24 hours on the flood plain of aid from a unit, we find

out how a London hospital is coping. The majority of the bullet is in the

right side of his abdomen, he needs an operation to save his life. But

it ten capital is revealing the secrets of a pioneering hospital.

Seeing what they chose to place inside gives you a sense of

connection to be passed on to the people in particular. And how Shire

horses are becoming an endangered species. There are less than 2000,

the other than pandas. The something quintessentially British about Shire

horses and something very noble, the biggest force in the world. -- the

biggest horse. That is a fallacy, tonight's programme be available on

the eye player. Just head to our website. See you again next week.

Hello, I'm Riz Lateef with your 90 second update.

The European Commission has denied a report that Theresa May

"begged" the EU for help in the Brexit talks.

It's claimed she appeared "anxious" during a dinner

with the Commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, last week.

Drivers of older, more polluting vehicles,

will have to pay an extra ten pounds to drive in central London.

The charge applies to diesel and petrol vehicles

The widow of a US soldier says Donald Trump couldn't

remember her husband's name during a condolence call.

Sergeant La David Johnson was killed by Islamist militants last month.

A British man accused of public indecency in Dubai has had

Jamie Harron was sentenced to three months in prison after he touched