:00:06. > :00:15.day. That is it for now. -- festivities. On BBC One we join the
:00:15. > :00:19.Good evening, from BBC London News. "We want the person who did this to
:00:19. > :00:23.give themselves up." The words of the family of Veronica Chango-
:00:23. > :00:28.Alavrez, who was killed after being hit by a car as she stood at a bus
:00:28. > :00:31.stop in Streatham, on her way to work. The 31 year old died of
:00:31. > :00:34.multiple injuries. Police are trying to trace a 27-year-old man
:00:34. > :00:42.in connection with the incident. Our reporter, Gareth Furby, is at
:00:42. > :00:48.the scene. The victim's family has gathered
:00:48. > :00:52.inside the house behind me, the mother's house. The plan was for a
:00:52. > :00:57.family celebration of Christmas but tonight, Christmas Eve after what
:00:57. > :01:03.has happened is all about offering each other comfort.
:01:03. > :01:07.There is little left of where she was waiting, but that can be
:01:07. > :01:13.rebuilt, unlike the happiness of her family who were preparing to
:01:13. > :01:20.spend Christmas together. But at about 5:30am on Saturday, Veronica
:01:20. > :01:26.Chango-Alavrez walked out of her mother's house to catch a bus. The
:01:26. > :01:31.stop is just outside the door. just heard a big bang like an
:01:31. > :01:38.explosion. The she was really badly hurt and there was nothing we could
:01:38. > :01:43.do. In a few miles away along a London Road, evidence of an earlier
:01:43. > :01:48.crash and one theory is two cars may have been racing. A driver of a
:01:48. > :01:54.Folkes Fardon was injured here but another driver in an Audi continues
:01:54. > :02:00.-- Volkswagen. It crashed into the stop and ran off. I think that
:02:00. > :02:06.person needs to pay for what he did to our family because he ruined our
:02:06. > :02:11.family. Be only think the family wants is these guys to come -- the
:02:11. > :02:15.only thing. To come clean and to give themselves up and go to the
:02:15. > :02:22.police and accept they killed someone. This is one of the last
:02:22. > :02:27.pictures the family have a Veronica, on the right. It was taking a week
:02:27. > :02:31.before the crash as she celebrated her mother's birthdays. My memory
:02:31. > :02:35.is when we were celebrating together, she came here on Friday
:02:35. > :02:39.to celebrate Christmas. She was going to bring a turkey from the
:02:39. > :02:44.hotel because they give her one every Christmas.
:02:45. > :02:50.Tonight, police issued this picture of the man they want to speak to.
:02:50. > :02:56.Nathan Davis has been linked to the Audi car involved in the collision.
:02:56. > :03:06.Police also want to talk to anybody who saw this man. If you want -- if
:03:06. > :03:11.you can help, call for non- emergency line 101. The family are
:03:11. > :03:15.also saying they will try to get through this, but at this time of
:03:15. > :03:18.year, it will be exceptionally difficult.
:03:18. > :03:22.A Met Police officer has been praised, after disarming a man with
:03:22. > :03:26.a samurai sword who had attacked a woman in North London. The sergeant
:03:26. > :03:29.was called to Holloway Road in the early hours of this morning. The
:03:29. > :03:32.22-year-old victim is in a serious condition in hospital.
:03:32. > :03:34.Hundreds of foreign students claim they are stranded in the capital
:03:34. > :03:37.this Christmas, after they surrendered their passports to the
:03:38. > :03:39.UK Border Agency. They are all connected to the London
:03:40. > :03:44.Metropolitan University, which was stopped from teaching international
:03:44. > :03:47.students earlier this year. Emma North reports.
:03:47. > :03:57.Nick Refuerzo had planned to be home with his family in California
:03:57. > :03:59.
:03:59. > :04:03.for Christmas. We are Filipino so it is all about family. We are
:04:03. > :04:06.different ages so it is nice to have everybody under one roof.
:04:06. > :04:08.Nick is one of hundreds caught up after London Metropolitain
:04:08. > :04:11.University was stopped from teaching foreign students. He is
:04:11. > :04:15.enrolled at the London Film School, but the school is affiliated to the
:04:15. > :04:18.Met, so Nick had to send off his passport to apply for a fresh visa
:04:18. > :04:22.to continue his studies. More than a month later, the passport has
:04:22. > :04:28.still not come back. I do not understand why it takes so
:04:28. > :04:31.long, honestly. It is just a matter of sending in the documentation on
:04:31. > :04:34.times. However, what angers them is not the delay, but the difficulty
:04:34. > :04:39.claimants have had getting information from the UK Border
:04:39. > :04:44.Agency. We needed for them to get new visas
:04:44. > :04:49.which we did quickly, but around November, nobody was answering the
:04:49. > :04:54.phones. It is not good for business and running international education
:04:54. > :04:58.in the UK. The UK Border Agency has not supplied individual information
:04:58. > :05:02.but a spokesperson said it has already sent out passports to
:05:02. > :05:06.anybody who applied for one before last Thursday. This is of little
:05:06. > :05:09.use to Nick. Even if his passport does arrive, there are no
:05:09. > :05:12.affordable flights back home, and none would get him there in time.
:05:12. > :05:19.Christmas will be spent with others in the same situation, taking
:05:19. > :05:28.comfort from the fact they are stranded together.
:05:28. > :05:34.Father Christmas should have a smooth ride tonight, a dry night
:05:34. > :05:38.with just a few showers in places. Temperatures down to around six,
:05:38. > :05:45.seven degrees Celsius. Other Christmas morning, a few showers,
:05:45. > :05:50.mostly light, some heavy, but it should be a dry finish to the day.
:05:50. > :05:54.Temperatures a bit colder with highs of 8, 9 Celsius. The best