:00:15. > :00:21.Good evening from BBC London News. The Prime Minister has said he would
:00:22. > :00:24.like to see speedier extradition proceedings after Abu Hamza ` who
:00:25. > :00:27.for years spread racial hatred from Finsbury Park Mosque ` was found
:00:28. > :00:30.guilty of supporting terrorism by a court in New York. It took the US
:00:31. > :00:33.authorities ten years to get him extradited. Questions have also been
:00:34. > :00:36.raised about why the UK government wasn't able to prosecute the radical
:00:37. > :00:39.cleric for his part in a kidnapping which saw three Britons killed. Our
:00:40. > :00:45.Home Affairs Correspondent, Guy Smith reports.
:00:46. > :00:53.This was supposed to be a place for quiet contemplation, but during the
:00:54. > :00:58.1990s the dominant figure of Abu Hamza turned the Finsbury Park
:00:59. > :01:05.mosque into a set of political extremism, preaching hate and
:01:06. > :01:11.intolerance. Although eventually kicked out, his sermons on the
:01:12. > :01:16.street attracted more notoriety. Abu Hamza was not qualified, who was
:01:17. > :01:23.formerly a bouncer at a strip club who discovered religion, and had a
:01:24. > :01:29.smattering of Arabic, and unfortunately presented himself as a
:01:30. > :01:35.shake. In court, Abu Hamza was convicted of 11 offences. Among them
:01:36. > :01:40.helping to organise hostagetaking in the Yemen in which four tourists
:01:41. > :01:46.were killed. Asked why the British justice system didn't prosecute him
:01:47. > :01:50.rather than the US, this was the answer from government. The key
:01:51. > :01:55.thing is that Abu Hamza has faced justice and is likely to be behind
:01:56. > :02:03.bars for many years. The Crown Prosecution Service, which is
:02:04. > :02:09.independent from government, takes decisions and Abu Hamza has been
:02:10. > :02:13.sentenced to seven years in prison. This man is chairman of trustees at
:02:14. > :02:22.the mosque and knows all about the troubles. How damaging was Abu Hamza
:02:23. > :02:28.to the image of Islam in Britain? It has been tough for the Muslim
:02:29. > :02:35.community to deal with and it wasn't fair on the Muslim community to be
:02:36. > :02:40.in that position during that period. Tensions between communities, and
:02:41. > :02:47.some far right extremists coming here to protest. Do you think the
:02:48. > :02:51.security services failed to take Abu Hamza seriously? We all felt things
:02:52. > :02:58.could be done better during that period. In what way? In the way of
:02:59. > :03:05.bringing communities together, taking away hatred. This is Abu
:03:06. > :03:10.Hamza in 2002 talking to BBC London. What is going to stop you
:03:11. > :03:19.preaching? What do they have to do to stop you? Build me a grave. You
:03:20. > :03:23.are not going to stop? No. Today the mosque is a very different place,
:03:24. > :03:28.its management are saying it is what it is supposed to be ` ascent of for
:03:29. > :03:44.tolerance and understanding in the community. `` a centre for
:03:45. > :03:47.tolerance. UKIP supporters have been involved
:03:48. > :03:50.in clashes with protesters at a street rally in Croydon. It happened
:03:51. > :03:52.after protestors confronted UKIP party members about Nigel Farage's
:03:53. > :03:54.remarks last week about Romanian neighbours. The BBC's Political
:03:55. > :03:56.Correspondent, Ross Hawkins, reports. They hoped for a street
:03:57. > :04:00.party atmosphere, the mini carnival to highlight their candidates from
:04:01. > :04:07.ethnic minorities, but protesters moved in and the mood soured. Before
:04:08. > :04:11.long, the music stopped, the musicians hadn't been told that this
:04:12. > :04:17.was the UKIP event and when they found out they weren't happy. When
:04:18. > :04:23.did you first know this was a UKIP event? When I got here. The drums
:04:24. > :04:34.were packed away but the arguments went on. I use saying UKIP are going
:04:35. > :04:40.to be out on the streets? This is what he told the press about the
:04:41. > :04:44.place he wanted to serve. Successive governments still continue to fail
:04:45. > :04:50.communities like Croydon, Croydon which was once the place to be, the
:04:51. > :04:56.place to shop, and has now become a dump. Nigel Farage was expected to
:04:57. > :05:04.turn up but he didn't because... No, he wouldn't feel safe. Can you
:05:05. > :05:09.blame him? Croydon wasn't safe, said the candidate, bringing to an end as
:05:10. > :05:13.memorable and event as any in this campaign, if not perhaps the one
:05:14. > :05:16.that UKIP had planned. Ross Hawkins with that report. And
:05:17. > :05:17.there's a full list of candidates standing for election in Croydon, on
:05:18. > :05:25.the council's website. Tributes have been paid to veterans
:05:26. > :05:29.of the Second World War who served on HMS Belfast to mark the 70th
:05:30. > :05:32.anniversary of the D`day landings. They were joined onboard by Chelsea
:05:33. > :05:35.Pensioners as well as politicians including the Prime Minister and the
:05:36. > :05:41.Mayor of London for a special service. HMS Belfast was one of the
:05:42. > :05:57.first ships to open fire on German positions at 5:27am on the sixth
:05:58. > :06:02.June, 1944. This ship we are on now, when it is firing its guns you would
:06:03. > :06:07.have a big battleship and all of them bombarding the beach. I can
:06:08. > :06:19.remember our landing craft work in line, in past a line of battleships,
:06:20. > :06:23.and then cruise that were giving us firing cover on the beach. That's
:06:24. > :06:25.all from me, so I'll wish you a very goodnight. And hand you over to
:06:26. > :06:30.Wendy for a check on the weather. goodnight. And hand you over to
:06:31. > :06:34.Wendy for As we go through the next few days, we will see this warm
:06:35. > :06:39.sunny spell that was started the week with breaking down. We will
:06:40. > :06:43.have some breaks in the cloud developing and that could lead to
:06:44. > :06:48.some mist and fog patches. It will be a cooler night and last night,
:06:49. > :06:55.about 15 degrees, some places could fall as low as six degrees in the
:06:56. > :06:58.countryside. We will start the day with some rain pushing in, you might
:06:59. > :07:04.have to travel through that tomorrow morning. Generally through the day,
:07:05. > :07:10.the brighter it is going to be and the dryer it will be the further
:07:11. > :07:16.west you go. Temperatures will be at around 20 degrees in the centre of
:07:17. > :07:21.London. After that, we will see a batch of rain, quite torrential as
:07:22. > :07:25.it moves through overnight. The good news is that it will be out of the
:07:26. > :07:28.way by the time most of us getup on Thursday morning. There will be
:07:29. > :07:30.heavy showers but also heavy showers but also sunny spells.
:07:31. > :07:42.Maybe some showers for the weekend. Good evening, yet again we are
:07:43. > :07:45.finishing the day with some thunderstorms clustered across parts
:07:46. > :07:50.of Cumbria, some torrential downpours at the moment, and flashes
:07:51. > :07:54.of lightning. Along the front of this weather system, showers have
:07:55. > :07:56.developed. They are