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so it's goodbye from me, and on BBC One, we now join the BBC's news | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
teams where Ukraine, and the first week after | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
the ousting of Ukraine, and the first week after | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
the oustin I Questions Ukraine, and the first week after | :00:12. | :00:12. | |
Questions over security at a mental health unit were more than 200 | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
patients, including a convicted killer, have axed `` abscondee. They | :00:16. | :00:25. | |
are taking increasing risks when they let people out on escort adult | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
and escorted leave. `` escorted We look at the argument for and | :00:29. | :00:45. | |
against the mayor's plans for a new airport in the Thames Estuary. Also | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
tonight, the mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence tells us | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
why she believes parts of the police are still racist. There were streets | :00:54. | :01:02. | |
which were completely occupied by Belgian farmers. The rare footage | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
showing how thousands of Belgians fleeing the First World War ended up | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
in south`west London. Good evening and welcome to the | :01:10. | :01:26. | |
programme. There is criticism tonight of a mental health unit in | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
the capital after it emerged that more than 200 patients, including a | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
convicted killer, absconded. Eggers from a hospital trust revealed that | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
211 patients, mainly suffering from personality disorders, went absent | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
without leave from the unit in Homerton over a 13 year period. | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
While some are considered a risk to the public, SANE fears they could | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
also pose a risk to themselves. Jean Mackenzie reports. | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
This man was jailed for life for stabbing a 17`year`old boy to death | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
at a party three years ago. He was sent here to a centre in Homerton, | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
but in October last year he escaped and was on the run for more than | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
three months before being caught. Now figures obtained through a | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
freedom of information request show this case does not stand alone. Over | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
a period of 13 years, 211 prisoners have gone absent without leave. | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
Broken down, between 2001 and 2 04, over a three`year period, 48 | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
patients absconded. In the five years between 2004 and 2009, it was | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
68. In the last five years, 95 have gone absent without leave. A big | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
part of the care here is focused on reintegration into communities, and | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
that includes sending them on unaccompanied days out. If a | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
prisoner is 30 minutes late, they are recorded as an absconder, so the | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
trust is keen to point out that not all of these cases are people who | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
have chosen not to return. It also says it is careful about who is | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
granted leave. The decision to release the patient for the day is | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
made after very careful consideration, risk assessment, and | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
that is discussed with the Ministry of Justice were applicable to make | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
sure they agreed to it and grant the patient a number of leaves, and we | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
assess it carefully. But a leading mental health charity says it is | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
concerned about the increasing pressure on mental health services | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
and the impact it is having. This is the result of what has been | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
happening over the years, the relentless closure of hospitals the | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
idea that people don't need to be in hospital. The end result is that | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
there are people who may not be able to live in the community or go out | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
into the community and supported quite as quickly as is being | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
demanded. And the concern is that the patients may not only be a risk | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
to themselves but also to others. Coming up later in the programme, | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
forced from their primary school after the floods, the pupils now | :04:12. | :04:22. | |
getting lessons at university. Latest figures from Heathrow show | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
the airport is operating at 98% capacity after record passenger | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
numbers in 2013. It once again raises the question of where new | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
runway should be built in the south`east, something the Airports | :04:37. | :04:38. | |
Commission is currently looking at. We can find out more from Chris | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
Rogers, who is at Heathrow for us this evening. Chris. | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
Well, Heathrow have long argued the need for a third runway here to meet | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
demand, create jobs and boost the economy, and they say the facts | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
speak for themselves. A record 2 million passengers passed through | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
Heathrow last year, that is 2 million more than the previous year, | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
and when you can bet that into the number of flights needed to meet | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
demand, it is 470,000 flights in 2013. That is just 10,000 short of | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
the maximum capacity for Heathrow. Earlier I spoke to Chris Yates, a | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
civil aviation expert, and he said political indecision means time is | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
running out. Demand for air travel increases year on year on year, and | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
if we look back, even just 20 years ago, the demand that London Heathrow | :05:29. | :05:36. | |
is much less than it is now. People are moving an awful lot more than | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
they used to, moving Intercontinental Lee particularly, | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
and because of that the demand for London Heathrow as gone, quite | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
literally, through the roof. Of course, Chris, there are other | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
alternatives. Yes, it is down to the Airports | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
Commission to make recommendations to the government. They currently | :06:00. | :06:06. | |
have three ideas on the short list, two for expansion here, one at | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
Gatwick, and the fourth option is for a whole new airport on the | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
island of grain in Kent, known as Boris Island, because the mayor | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
backs it. `` the Isle of Grain. It is not politicians who can decide, | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
it is an environmentalist as well. It is not the most romantic of | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
places. In essence, it is wild, wet and windy. But alongside that | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
industrial backdrop, the wildlife thrives. We are on one of the five | :06:40. | :06:48. | |
great migratory routes on this planet, and some of these | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
populations are core populations. This current area is being | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
considered for an airport hub. This is the Isle of Grain, and if a new | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
proposed airport plan goes ahead, I will be standing right at the centre | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
of an international hub with four runways and carrying over 150 | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
million passengers a year. Clive Lawrence believes the airport is | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
just what the area needs. Much as we love the area, this is not paradise | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
on earth. There are tens of thousands of people who are in | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
poverty, so when a project comes along like the airport, which is | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
promises to deliver something of the order of at least ?100 million per | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
year to the local council for better public services, you can begin to | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
see what an attraction that can be. Those who live on the doorstep of | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
where the airport would be built to disagree. It is no place for an | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
airport. It must never come here. Isn't this a case of nobody wanting | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
an airport on their own doorstep? Of course they don't, but not everyone | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
has a world`class wetland on their doorstep, but we do, and our | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
government has a duty to protect it. One of the biggest supporters for | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
the airport is Boris Johnson. Daniel Moylan is his aviation adviser. I | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
think, as people look at it and they realise that Heathrow is never going | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
to be expanded, and Gatwick is not the right answer, the right place | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
for it to go, with the right support and services, from a social and | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
economic point of view, will be to the eastern side of the capital | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
Building an airport here would have a huge impact on this protected | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
marshland. The idea that all of this would need to be destroyed, would | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
need to be removed to make it safe to fly aircraft, let alone build an | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
airport on top of all of this, it would be environmental vandalism. | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
Under European law, if this protected marshland was built on, | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
developers would have to relocate these birds. The Airports Commission | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
will decide by September if the Isle of Grain is a viable option. | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
Well, as that report shows there, political infighting and the public | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
saying, not in my backyard, means the decision keeps being put off. We | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
will have to wait until the summer of 2015 after the general election | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
before we hear the final recommendation from the Airports | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
Commission. You can see more of that report as 7:30 on BBC One in Inside | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
Out. It is 15 years to the day that a | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
landmark inquiry into the murder of Stephen Lawrence described the | :09:30. | :09:30. | |
Metropolitan Police as institutionally racist. Stephen | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
Lawrence was stabbed to death in a racist attack at a bus stop in | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
south`east London 21 years ago. There were allegations of police | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
corruption in the initial murder investigation. In 1999, the judge, | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
Sir William Macpherson, published a report making 70 recommendations to | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
improve damaged relationships between police and ethnic minority | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
communities. Just two years ago two men were finally convicted and | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
jailed for the murder, Gary Dobson and David Norris receiving life | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
sentences. Detectives are still hunting other members of the gang. | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
With me now is Stephen's mother Doreen Lawrence, a warm welcome to | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
you. We know that almost all of the recommendations in the report have | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
now been implemented. That said do you feel that enough has changed in | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
15 years? We cannot question if almost all the 70 recommendations | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
have been implemented, because I was trying to find information to show | :10:28. | :10:35. | |
me that, and I can't find it. As things change, I would say a lot of | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
things have changed, and there has been some positive changes that have | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
happened, and within the police force I think there is some | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
changes, but there is still a lot more that needs to be done. Do you | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
think the younger members of the black community would feel the same? | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
I don't think so. I think based ill feel as if they are under siege | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
they are being stopped more than their white counterparts. `` I think | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
they still feel. At the end of the day, a mother like me is never going | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
to have as much stops as what they are going to have. So they can more | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
or less say life is not much different. The Metropolitan Police | :11:17. | :11:18. | |
would say they have made great strides in 15 years, and picking up | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
on stop and search, the current commissioner says he has tackled | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
stop and search in the last year or so, reduced them by a third, doubled | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
the arrests. It is more intelligence led. I do not think it is more | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
intelligence. I think when Stephen was killed, it was about five times | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
more likely. It has increased six or seven times more likely for a black | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
person to be stopped in the street. To say that has been reduced unless | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
you are living it, the commissioner can say that. The trust and | :11:50. | :11:58. | |
confidence that we want to see happening with the police force how | :11:59. | :12:05. | |
the communities see the police, that is so far below par. How do you go | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
some way to improve that trust? What about, for example, change from | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
within the force? Would you encourage a young black Londoner to | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
join the police? If that is what they want to do, then yes, I would, | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
but within the police, that needs to be changing, so there is no point in | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
encouraging young black man to get into the force if, when they get | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
there, they face the same discrimination as they did nearly 20 | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
years ago. We have heard that sort of damning and powerful phrase, 15 | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
years ago, let me ask you now, 5 years later, do you believe that the | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
Met is still institutionally racist? I think in some areas they still | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
are, and I think until you can admit and say, yes, we are still, and then | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
you try to work to do something about it, but the more you try to | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
say, we have moved on, it is not like what it was. I would agree to | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
some extent that it is not like it used to be, but there is still | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
pockets of institutional racism within the Met. Doreen Lawrence | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
many thanks for your time. Listening to Doreen Lawrence just now is | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
Amanda Mark Chishty, outside Scotland Yard. `` come and. Let s | :13:19. | :13:25. | |
just pick up on what Doreen Lawrence said there, that she still believes | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
15 years later that there are pockets of the Metropolitan Police | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
that are institutionally racist That must feel hugely disappointing | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
and gutting to hear. I think what is really encouraging is that huge | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
strides have been made and the whole of the organisation is not | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
institutionally racist. I think we all recognise that the Metropolitan | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
Police Service is a huge organisation, extremely | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
complicated, with 50,000 employees, and yes, there will be corridors and | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
parts of the process, and some attitudes which still harbour | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
institutional racism, which are an unwitting, which we don't want, | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
which we do want to root out, but unfortunately they are still there. | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
There is a determination to root them out, to make sure we eradicate | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
any form of racism whatsoever across the organisation. Is that good | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
enough, do you think? I think it is never going to be good enough until | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
we get to the end of the journey. A number of things have taken place in | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
the last 15 years which I am please have made the Met and London a | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
better place, for instance major investigations. We now have a family | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
liaison officers who do a vital role in supporting families and | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
witnesses. We have attempts to understand the community after a | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
major incident. We have members who are independent advisory group | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
members to give as decision`making support. They act as a critical | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
friend. So all of those things make us police in a much more | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
sophisticated and much more balanced way. But we have just heard from a | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
mother who says that, you know, the Met failed to 21 years ago, she says | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
the younger black community now still do not believe you, in that | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
sense. If you say that things are changing, perhaps perception is | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
reality in that case, in which case, maybe the Met is not managing its | :15:15. | :15:23. | |
reputation very well. The perception issue is a real challenge, and no | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
one is trying to hide from that We have to deal with that and form | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
relationships in neighbourhoods through youth groups. We want to | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
have relationships with young black men as well as all diverse | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
communities. You don't reflect London at the moment. 10% of ethnic | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
minority officers, when 42% of Londoners are from an ethnic | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
minority background. That is not good enough, is it? I am not arguing | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
that it is good enough. We need to do more. The point I would make is | :15:55. | :16:02. | |
that we are recruiting. There are 5000 opportunities. We are | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
determined to have 40% of our officers by 2015 from black and | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
ethnic minority backgrounds. According to which people to think | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
about the police as a career for them, because it is a fantastic | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
career opportunity and you are doing something good for your community. | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
Thank you. Still to come: Music saved her life | :16:22. | :16:32. | |
in a concentration camp. Tributes are paid to the oldest | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
known survivor of the Holocaust who's died aged 110. | :16:36. | :16:43. | |
The water levels may now be receding in the communities hit by the recent | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
flooding, but for many, the disruption will remain for many | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
months to come. Children in some of the worst affected areas returned to | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
school today after an extended half term break. Alice Bhandhukravi | :16:54. | :17:05. | |
reports from Wraysbury. Two weeks ago, this was the control | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
room for the relief effort in Wraysbury. Today, though, it is | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
maths four`year five. And although they have been out of the classroom | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
for longer than anyone expected the floods have given these children | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
quite an experience. We were putting everything up on high ground. We | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
were trying to stay calm. My grandad was helping out around the village. | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
So was my auntie. So we were all doing our part. We have dogs, a | :17:35. | :17:42. | |
lizard, hamsters, fish. We have a lot. The RSPCA came around our house | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
and helped evacuate them. Today the Army presented the school with a | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
plaque in honour of its role, fitting recognition for a school | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
whose mission statement was once to put Wraysbury on the map. To turn up | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
here on the first day and find the hall overrun by people in uniforms, | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
in dry suits, people with boats on the field, a helicopter on the | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
field, all of that was very strange. Wraysbury has come a long way. It | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
was not long ago that houses on the street were completely flooded. Now | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
there is barely any sign of water. That is not the case just a few | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
miles away. Here at a primary school in Egham, the school is still out of | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
action, so the pupils skipped secondary and went straight to | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
university. They will be having lessons at royal Holloway until | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
their school reopens. The children's faces when they were brought in this | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
morning was a picture. They were over the moon. The university has | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
given us a very creative learning area, with world maps and lots of | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
dynamic areas. The children are enjoying it. The flood has affected | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
people's hounds and the precipitation saturated the ground. | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
A future geography graduate, I think you will agree! | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
This year sees the anniversary of a hundred years since the outbreak of | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
World War One. To mark the centenary, BBC London has teamed up | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
with the Imperial War Museum to reveal the local stories which arose | :19:15. | :19:16. | |
from the global conflict. Every corner of the capital was in some | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
way involved in the war effort at home. In the first of our World War | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
One at Home series, historian Dr Dan Todman finds out where tens of | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
thousands of Belgian refugees made their home. | :19:28. | :19:40. | |
Today, Earls Court is one of London's best`known entertainment | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
venues. But almost 100 years ago, thousands of Belgian refugees passed | :19:47. | :19:48. | |
through this site, looking for safety. The German invasion of | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
Belgium led to Britain's entry into the war. It also resulted in a mass | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
exodus of Belgians. As many as quarter of a million fled across the | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
Channel on any boat that would take them. Many of them came to London, | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
where they ended up in one of several camps. The biggest ones were | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
at Alexandra palace, which closed after a year, and here at Earls | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
Court, which remained open throughout the war. This picture of | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
the camp gives a sense of the community that was housed in what | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
was then a dilapidated showground. It was huge. At its height, there | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
were 4000 bed is, schools and even a concert hall. The community here. | :20:32. | :20:39. | |
Christophe's grandfather was among the Belgians who came to London It | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
is a period he has carefully researched. When they arrived, they | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
were scattered all over London. Initially, the dispersal centres | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
looked after very large numbers Very early on, you had pockets | :20:55. | :21:02. | |
everywhere in London. If you look at pictures from any war year, there | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
were all on the pavement. The women without any hats were likely to be | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
Belgian. You can check. One of the largest communities was in East | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
Twickenham, where a Belgian factory opened in 1915. 2000 Belgians worked | :21:18. | :21:26. | |
there, making shelves for the Belgian `` making shelves for the | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
Belgian army. There is no sign of it today, but almost 100 years ago | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
this was the sight of the munitions works, the largest factory employing | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
Belgians in London. Few people know about you factory, but it is a story | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
Helen Baker, a local community historian, is determined to bring to | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
light. 6000 people lived in this area. They had their own shops. They | :21:52. | :21:59. | |
could buy their own foodstuffs. There were streets which were | :22:00. | :22:01. | |
completely occupied by Belgian families. So they had a real sense | :22:02. | :22:09. | |
that they were a Belgian village. In nearby taken in cemetery, there are | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
the graves of four Belgian former soldiers who died while working at | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
Pelabon. At the end of the war, the Belgians left as quickly as they had | :22:19. | :22:25. | |
come, and these graves are now the only reminder of their presence But | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
thanks to the work of local historians, their part in the war is | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
now being remembered. And our World War One at Home series | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
continues all this week. There's plenty more about the impact of the | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
Great War. Just go to bbc.co.uk ww1. Well, you may remember one Londoner | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
who was the oldest known survivor of the Holocaust during the Second | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
World War. Sadly, Alice Herz`Sommer passed away at her home in Belsize | :22:48. | :22:56. | |
Park yesterday at the age of 11 . Seen here playing the piano for us | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
nearly seven years ago, it was her musical talent that kept her alive | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
during her time in a concentration camp. Daniel Boettcher looks back on | :23:04. | :23:13. | |
her extraordinary life. My world is music. I am not | :23:14. | :23:20. | |
interested in anything else. For Alice Herz`Sommer, music was not | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
just her world, it was also what helped her during her darkest days. | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
She was born in Prague in 1903 during the German occupation check | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
Slovakia. She and her husband and young son were sent to the | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
concentration camp. It was used in Nazi film propaganda to portray a | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
model Jewish settlement, but it was a camp in which more than 33,00 | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
people died. Some prisoners were encouraged to put on performances. | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
Alice Herz`Sommer would play the piano, and believed that helped save | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
her life. Her experience of using music as a means to survival in the | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
concentration camps was shared by others. I can say without hesitation | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
that it saved my life. I knew what was going on in Auschwitz, so I | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
became a member of the orchestra, which was a complete life`saver | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
because as long as they wanted music, they could not put us in the | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
gas chamber. There is a certain amount of logic in the Germans. I | :24:13. | :24:23. | |
knew that we would play. And I was thinking, when we can play, it can't | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
be so terrible. The music, the music! Music is the first place of | :24:29. | :24:35. | |
art. Alice Herz`Sommer's long life has been recorded in a documentary | :24:36. | :24:44. | |
nominated for this year's Oscars. She looks back at her own life and | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
loss without bitterness. Every day, life is beautiful. Every day. It is | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
beautiful. Alice Herz`Sommer, who's died aged | :24:57. | :24:57. | |
110. Time for a look at the weather with | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
Wendy. How lovely to see a sunny start to the week. Wasn't it lovely? | :25:05. | :25:11. | |
It was the warmest day of the year so far. Let's see if we can top that | :25:12. | :25:18. | |
for the rest of the week. We got to 15 Celsius with the help of that | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
sunshine this morning, a bit higher than where we would expect it to be. | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
Not exceptional, but certainly a mild, springlike day. It will | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
continue to be mild, but often on the unsettled side. Today was a good | :25:33. | :25:44. | |
example. Behind me, the next band of rain will come in tonight. Then that | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
will be followed by showers. At the moment, there may be a few heavy | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
outbreaks of rain. And the wind throughout the night will be picking | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
up as well from a southerly direction. In the early hours of the | :26:01. | :26:08. | |
morning, that rain band is going to drift through. It will bring some | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
outbreaks of rain. It will not exacerbate any flooding problems, | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
but it will not help much either. If you wake up in the East tomorrow, it | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
might be a bit dull, but it will soon brighten from the West. In the | :26:24. | :26:25. | |
afternoon, we will have more sunshine. A few isolated showers are | :26:26. | :26:32. | |
likely to crop up which could have thunder or hail in them, but they | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
will not be for everyone. In the sunshine, it will feel pleasant | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
There will be a bit of a breeze blowing again, which might make it | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
feel not quite as warm as it did today. Wednesday stars Chile, but | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
the temperature will pick up in the sunshine. There will be another | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
spell of rain overnight into Thursday. It will cool off as we go | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
through the latter part of the week and into the weekend. | :27:01. | :27:08. | |
More on the day's stories on our website, and I'll be back with the | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
latest during the ten o'clock news. So from all of us on the team here, | :27:14. | :27:15. | |
have a lovely evening. Bye for now. | :27:16. | :27:22. |