:00:00. > :00:11.Kim Ghattas, BBC News, New York You can see
:00:12. > :00:16.Good evening and welcome to BBC London News, with me, Asad @hmad.
:00:17. > :00:19.A day after we showed how criminal gangs had infiltrated Scotl`nd Yard
:00:20. > :00:22.a decade ago, through allegddly corrupt officers, the head
:00:23. > :00:26.of the Metropolitan Police has told us it?s possible there's sthll
:00:27. > :00:31.Sir Bernard Hogan`Howe was responding to
:00:32. > :00:34.our special report which fotnd the Met concerned that dozens of
:00:35. > :00:37.officers had appeared to have turned a blind`eye to serious crimd.
:00:38. > :00:47.Here's our Home Affairs Correspondent, Guy Smith.
:00:48. > :00:54.The men responsible for heading up Scotland Yard, one a politician the
:00:55. > :00:59.other Briton's top cop, tod`y at a photo shoot to talk about stccessful
:01:00. > :01:04.police seizures of uninsured vehicles. But also another
:01:05. > :01:08.opportunity to explain to Londoners whether the Metropolitan police are
:01:09. > :01:14.still corrupt. You can never be sure there is no corruption, but we have
:01:15. > :01:22.a hundred officers dedicated to this. We do employ 50,000 pdople and
:01:23. > :01:31.it's possible. Last night BBC London reveal the scale of corrupthon. We
:01:32. > :01:37.found the secret Scotland Y`rd unit had identified 42 serving officers
:01:38. > :01:40.as corrupt. 19 ex`officers, and the same number of career criminals
:01:41. > :01:48.linked to eight major crime syndicates. The report, produced in
:01:49. > :01:54.2002, was disturbing account, it dealing in contract killings, in the
:01:55. > :01:59.full knowledge of contract `` detectives. It told us how hmportant
:02:00. > :02:01.court cases fail, about polhce operations and techniques bding
:02:02. > :02:08.betrayed. The fact none of the crime syndicates had been seriously
:02:09. > :02:11.disrupted shows us how affected the criminals were. It's still tnclear
:02:12. > :02:19.ten years on how many indivhduals the Metropolitan police havd
:02:20. > :02:22.prosecuted. There was a report in 2002 about corruption, and there was
:02:23. > :02:27.action taken about corruption, and we continue to take action now. It
:02:28. > :02:32.vital we maintain the confidence of the public and the British police
:02:33. > :02:34.service. Do you feel confiddnt in the leaders of Scotland Yard that
:02:35. > :02:39.they are telling you the trtth, that they have got a grip on corruption?
:02:40. > :02:42.I am confident they take thd issue seriously, and you can see hn the
:02:43. > :02:50.appointment of an assistant commissioner focused on this,
:02:51. > :02:54.looking at the historic casds, which has been announced by the Home
:02:55. > :03:01.Secretary. The announcement of the case will be into the murder of
:03:02. > :03:01.Stephen Lawrence. A recent investigation found reasonable
:03:02. > :03:09.grounds to suspect corruption. A gang of robbers has carridd out
:03:10. > :03:11.a smash`and`grab, in broad daylight, at the Qteen s
:03:12. > :03:14.silversmith, Mappin and Webb. Police are looking for thred
:03:15. > :03:19.suspects and are awaiting ddtails The wife of the musician Patl Weller
:03:20. > :03:23.has called for a change in the law to stop photos of children
:03:24. > :03:26.being published without consent Hannah Weller was speaking `fter
:03:27. > :03:28.The Mail: Online were ordered to pay damages
:03:29. > :03:48.to the couple for publishing He's been a famous face the nearly
:03:49. > :03:52.40 years. Paul Weller is usdd to being photographed, but he's
:03:53. > :03:54.children, these are not the offending pictures. They've been
:03:55. > :04:01.taken down, but the incident has left its mark. When the photographs
:04:02. > :04:06.were published later on, we realised that they had been followed all
:04:07. > :04:11.afternoon, and this person had been taking photographs covertly of our
:04:12. > :04:17.children. The fact that thex were published seems so wrong to me. It
:04:18. > :04:20.seems disgraceful. Today shd emerged from court having won the ldgal
:04:21. > :04:27.battle, but they want more. They want the law changing. This has been
:04:28. > :04:30.a long court case and Hannah Weller says it has been stressful `nd
:04:31. > :04:33.unpleasant. She feels no ond else should have to go through this, but
:04:34. > :04:39.the newspapers are going to resist the idea of making this a criminal
:04:40. > :04:41.matter. Especially given th`t many celebrities have, at certain
:04:42. > :04:45.moments, been more than happy to show off their offspring to the
:04:46. > :04:51.cameras and there are other problems with getting legal permission. What
:04:52. > :04:56.about crowd scenes? Football matches? How can you ask thd
:04:57. > :05:01.parent's permission? What about foreign disasters, wars, yot can't
:05:02. > :05:06.ask parents there? If you do that, you are breaking the new law. That's
:05:07. > :05:10.ridiculous. So while it was a victory for privacy today, turning
:05:11. > :05:15.photos of children into a crime will meet some determined resist`nce
:05:16. > :05:17.A 24`hour strike by London's firefighters continues tonight.
:05:18. > :05:20.It's over a row about pensions and is due to end tomorrow lorning.
:05:21. > :05:22.Let's get the latest on what's happening from
:05:23. > :05:25.Tarah Welsh, who's at Bethn`l Green Fire Station for us this evdning.
:05:26. > :05:37.The reason these strikes ard taking place is because the governlent
:05:38. > :05:42.wants to rage `` raise the `ge that firefighters want to retire and also
:05:43. > :05:45.increase the amount they contribute to pensions. The unions don't want
:05:46. > :05:49.that the government says it is a fair deal. They also say thdre is a
:05:50. > :05:54.contingency plan in place. We saw it in action earlier. There was a fire
:05:55. > :05:58.in Hackney down the road, no one was injured, but local people told me
:05:59. > :06:02.that the crews took 20 minutes to arrive. The strikers Tommy would
:06:03. > :06:07.normally take just four minttes This comes as London Fire Brigade
:06:08. > :06:11.during the World Cup, the alount of house`buyers go up because people
:06:12. > :06:16.have a drink and then cook. During the last World Cup in 2010, 40% of
:06:17. > :06:21.kitchen fires were caused bx cooking being left unattended. This strike
:06:22. > :06:26.ends at 9am tomorrow morning, but the message from London Fird Brigade
:06:27. > :06:28.is, whether there is or strhke or not, World Cup or not, do not get
:06:29. > :06:43.drunk and cook. 26 Celsius in central London, that
:06:44. > :06:48.was the top temperature we got two on Thursday, but it will be warmer
:06:49. > :06:52.tomorrow, and right now, thd temperature outside is 21 Cdlsius,
:06:53. > :06:54.the kind of temperature we would expect in the middle of the
:06:55. > :06:57.afternoon at this time of ydar. That just says a milder weather hs at the
:06:58. > :07:02.moment. I'll start tomorrow, and the moment. I'll start tomorrow, and the
:07:03. > :07:11.temperature should be up another notch. We will see highs evdntually
:07:12. > :07:14.reaching highs of 20 Celsius, and `` 20 seven Celsius. A lot of drier
:07:15. > :07:17.weather with sunshine and the warmest day of the year is likely
:07:18. > :07:20.that there will be cloud through the afternoon and I have to tell you as
:07:21. > :07:24.we head towards the evening there is a risk we could seek late evening
:07:25. > :07:30.showers and thunderstorms, so take an umbrella. As the weekend, set to
:07:31. > :07:35.turn pressure with temperattres easing back and here is my colleague
:07:36. > :07:39.with the rest of the weekend forecast.
:07:40. > :07:45.A day of contrast today. In the Northwest we saw cloud moving in
:07:46. > :07:50.which brought a little bit of rain but it also stopped temperatures
:07:51. > :07:54.from rising too far. 16 or 17 degrees typical, contrasted with 20
:07:55. > :07:58.degrees in London. We will see the skies clear across the southern half
:07:59. > :08:01.tonight. Some rural spots might dip into single figures and there might
:08:02. > :08:03.be showers, mist and fog in rural spots, but