:00:13. > :00:17.Good evening. Hundreds of police officers have been equipped with
:00:18. > :00:20.portable cameras attached to their uniforms. Scotland Yard says the
:00:21. > :00:23.state`of`the`art gadgets will help them deal with stop`and`search
:00:24. > :00:28.operations, and it's also hoped the technology will increase public
:00:29. > :00:36.trust in the police. But civil liberty campaigners say the cameras
:00:37. > :00:38.are open to abuse. Here's the BBC's home affairs correspondent, Matthew
:00:39. > :00:48.Prodger, and let me warn you that you may find some images in this
:00:49. > :00:54.report disturbing. Police respond to a report of
:00:55. > :01:03.domestic violence. The evidence from a police body camera is undeniable.
:01:04. > :01:10.Are their children here? The attacker was pleading guilty. His
:01:11. > :01:16.victim was spared a trip to court. Sometimes, the victim is so
:01:17. > :01:20.terrified, they feel unable to take the case to court, and we can put
:01:21. > :01:23.this evidence before a court, and it is important to me, as you will see
:01:24. > :01:29.in that footage, you can see the terror. This pilot scheme will
:01:30. > :01:38.establish however active body cameras are. They can help avoid
:01:39. > :01:41.costly trials. A similar exercise in California also found that officers
:01:42. > :01:48.fitted with cameras were less likely to use force, and complaints against
:01:49. > :01:51.the police dropped by 88%. The reasoning behind these body cameras
:01:52. > :01:54.is simple. If the criminal knows there is recorded evidence of their
:01:55. > :01:59.wrongdoing, they are more likely to plead guilty early, and if somebody
:02:00. > :02:07.knows that they are being filmed, they are less likely to be violent.
:02:08. > :02:11.He is walking away now. That one. Camera use will focus initially on
:02:12. > :02:15.reports of violence and stop and search. Video will be stored for a
:02:16. > :02:19.month, and then deleted unless it is needed for evidence in a prosecution
:02:20. > :02:22.or complaint. Police in Lambeth have been trying out a different body
:02:23. > :02:27.camera to provide an independent record of searches on the street.
:02:28. > :02:32.Often a flash point for animosity between officers and the public. But
:02:33. > :02:37.there are concerns the bidders may abuse their power to stop and start
:02:38. > :02:41.recording. `` that officers may abuse their power.
:02:42. > :02:45.Clearly there is a risk that the officer can turn the camera offers
:02:46. > :02:49.they don't want something recorded, and if that does happen and evidence
:02:50. > :02:56.isn't created, the Met police will have to crack down on that hard. The
:02:57. > :02:59.net predicts that in London alone, ten to 20,000 body cameras will
:03:00. > :03:03.eventually be in use, and many more across the UK.
:03:04. > :03:06.Police are still questioning the violent armed robber known as the
:03:07. > :03:10.Skull Cracker, who's been recaptured in east London after absconding from
:03:11. > :03:12.an open prison in Kent. Michael Wheatley was arrested in Tower
:03:13. > :03:13.Hamlets yesterday, hours after allegedly robbing a building society
:03:14. > :03:22.at Sunbury`on`Thames. Lawyers for the radical Muslim
:03:23. > :03:31.cleric Abu Hamza have claimed he secretly worked with MI5 to keep the
:03:32. > :03:34.streets of London safe. The cleric has been giving evidence at his
:03:35. > :03:36.trial in New York on terrorism charges. Our home affairs
:03:37. > :03:44.correspondent Guy Smith has this report.
:03:45. > :03:52.For many years, he was the face of Britain's battle against extremism.
:03:53. > :03:57.Abu Hamza, a British cleric, was jailed for inciting racial hatred.
:03:58. > :04:01.He was extradited to the United States and faces 11 terrorism
:04:02. > :04:05.charges there. In a New York courtroom, he repeatedly denied his
:04:06. > :04:10.part in the kidnapping of Western tourists in Yemen, a plot to set up
:04:11. > :04:15.training camp in Oregon, and calling for holy War in Afghanistan. But the
:04:16. > :04:19.court has also been told about claims he secretly worked for
:04:20. > :04:30.British intelligence agency MI5 to keep the streets of London safe.
:04:31. > :04:34.Abu Hamza's lawyer claims he was a moderating influence within the
:04:35. > :04:36.Muslim community, seen here around a decade ago preaching outside
:04:37. > :04:40.Finsbury Park mosque in north London will stop the defence wants to
:04:41. > :04:44.introduce documents from Scotland Yard showing how he cooperated with
:04:45. > :04:49.police to calm tensions and help release hostages. But the US judge
:04:50. > :04:56.has ruled that evidence inadmissible.
:04:57. > :04:59.The version Abu Hamza is presenting to an American court is very
:05:00. > :05:02.difficult from the one he resented here, that of running a global
:05:03. > :05:07.terror network from Finsbury Park. Claims of his working with reduced
:05:08. > :05:11.damage and will only go to fuel conspiracy theories about why he was
:05:12. > :05:18.able to reach hate in the UK for so long. Meanwhile, Abu Hamza told the
:05:19. > :05:22.court his life story of how he started out on the wrong side of
:05:23. > :05:27.morality, running a strip club in Soho, but then turned to Islam. He
:05:28. > :05:30.said he had been a member of the Royal Society for Arts and also
:05:31. > :05:36.worked at Sandhurst, the military Academy in Camberley, in Surrey full
:05:37. > :05:41.top Abu Hamza's testimony is expected to last into next week. He
:05:42. > :05:46.has already spent eight years in prison in the UK. If found guilty of
:05:47. > :05:53.aiding terrorism, he faces life in jail in the US full.
:05:54. > :05:56.Angelina Jolie is as much known for her humanitarian work as for her
:05:57. > :05:59.acting. Well, this evening she was in London promoting her new film
:06:00. > :06:03.Maleficent. But she took time out to speak to BBC London of her horror at
:06:04. > :06:07.the recent abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria. She also
:06:08. > :06:15.told us she's joined a campaign to get them freed.
:06:16. > :06:18.We need to start sending a message to the perpetrators that they will
:06:19. > :06:22.not get away with it, and we need to make sure that we not only returnees
:06:23. > :06:26.girls but prevent girls in the future from being taken.
:06:27. > :06:30.That's it from me for tonight, so it just leaves me to hand you over to
:06:31. > :06:34.Sarah for the weather forecast. Grim today, isn't it?
:06:35. > :06:45.That is the word. It has been wet and grey, and they will be a few
:06:46. > :06:49.showers on the cards as we head through the next few days. The
:06:50. > :06:55.breeze is quite a feature of the weather as we head through the next
:06:56. > :06:59.few days. It will be dried to start Friday morning. Sunny spells through
:07:00. > :07:03.the morning, but one or two fairly scattered heavy showers. By the
:07:04. > :07:07.afternoon, these will tend to fade away. We still have the breeze, but
:07:08. > :07:13.more in the way of sunshine in the afternoon will stop tomorrow, up to
:07:14. > :07:17.around 17 or 18 Celsius. The breeze will just take the edge off those
:07:18. > :07:22.temperatures. The weekend is set to start on a fairly damp note, but the
:07:23. > :07:27.main band of rain clears away. That is how it is looking. I leave you
:07:28. > :07:30.with an outlook of London's weather, and John Hammond will take
:07:31. > :07:32.a look at the National forecast over the course of tomorrow and through
:07:33. > :07:46.the weekend as well. The evening. Hello there. Fancy escaping the rain
:07:47. > :07:53.this weekend? We will be looking at the weather further afield in a
:07:54. > :07:57.moment. Another area of low pressure out here is lined up to the weekend.
:07:58. > :08:01.There will be some sunshine in between. Overnight tonight, most of
:08:02. > :08:06.the wet weather is across the North and the West, but later on in the
:08:07. > :08:11.night, showers will spread right the way across the country. Another cold
:08:12. > :08:22.night, temperatures are staying in double figures. Tomorrow, some
:08:23. > :08:26.places fare better, others worse. An improving story from the south
:08:27. > :08:36.across the country. Snapshot mid-afternoon, some showers across
:08:37. > :08:40.the Highlands. More prolonged bursts of rain across the North, and sharp
:08:41. > :08:42.showers across eastern counties, but further west, plenty of grey and
:08:43. > :08:44.breezy