:00:00. > :00:00.That's all from us. There is a first look at the papers on the news
:00:00. > :00:00.look at the papers on the ndws channel. Now it's time for the news
:00:00. > :00:19.where you are. A very good evening from BBC London
:00:20. > :00:24.News. A Green Party peer and form`l
:00:25. > :00:29.mayoral candidate is demandhng answers from Scotland Yard `fter she
:00:30. > :00:33.discovered she was tracked on a database for extremists. Jenny Jones
:00:34. > :00:37.has criticised the force. She is pursuing legal action. Here is our
:00:38. > :00:43.home affairs correspondent, guy Smith. She is a prominent mdmber of
:00:44. > :00:47.the Green Party, a former ddputy Mayor of London and now a B`roness
:00:48. > :00:52.in the House of Lords. Jennx Jones is not shy of coming forward and
:00:53. > :00:56.expressing her political vidws. Seen here demonstrating at St Patl's
:00:57. > :01:02.Cathedral. She's been a member of the police watchdog, scrutinising
:01:03. > :01:07.the Met. Closing down... I feel proud of being there... Now we know
:01:08. > :01:12.for more than a decade Scotland Yard recorded her activities on ` secret
:01:13. > :01:18.database set up to track dolestic extremists. Anyone can applx to see
:01:19. > :01:23.their police file if they think they have got one. You pay ?10 and fill
:01:24. > :01:27.out a long form. When I got mine I was shocked to find it was three
:01:28. > :01:32.pages of essentially gossip. She does not have a criminal record but
:01:33. > :01:36.the Met kept a record of her political movements. There hs a
:01:37. > :01:42.record of a post on social ledia about a pro cycling protest. Are you
:01:43. > :01:47.a political extremist? Well, I suppose as a Green Party politician
:01:48. > :01:51.I probably am. This morning, we asked the Met if there were any
:01:52. > :01:55.other bol tigss on the list `` politicians on the list and if so,
:01:56. > :02:03.who? No answer. What about the media. As a BBC journalist, am I on
:02:04. > :02:07.this database? No answer. Wd asked if it was appropriate to have
:02:08. > :02:12.details of an elected polithcian on this database. They said thdy were
:02:13. > :02:16.unable to discuss individual cases. Last year there were 9,000
:02:17. > :02:21.individuals on the anti`extremist database. Following a review that is
:02:22. > :02:26.down to just under a quarter, after it was thought some intelligence
:02:27. > :02:31.records were unjustified. Wd don't know if Baroness Jones's details
:02:32. > :02:35.have been deleted. Well, to reassure the public, the
:02:36. > :02:39.Metropolitan Police say thex do have a new policy on what intellhgence
:02:40. > :02:43.they keep on the database. They only keep records that are necessary
:02:44. > :02:47.proportionate and justified. A 15`year`old boy has died in hospital
:02:48. > :02:54.after he was taken ill at an illegal rave in East Croydon in the early
:02:55. > :02:59.hours of Sunday morning. He was at the event at a disused sorthng
:03:00. > :03:02.office. There's been mixed reaction from
:03:03. > :03:05.business leaders in London over a decision which will continud to make
:03:06. > :03:09.it easier for Chinese visitors to come to the UK. A new strealline
:03:10. > :03:15.visa service, launched last year, will now be extended T annotncement
:03:16. > :03:24.was made to coincide with the start of a four`day visit by Chin`'s Prime
:03:25. > :03:32.Minister. Pomp, pageantry and tourists.
:03:33. > :03:38.European, American and Indi`n visitors, but only a handful of
:03:39. > :03:42.Chinese, most from Hong Kong. Like this woman and her family. @s the
:03:43. > :03:51.city used to be British, thdy have UK passports and do not havd need a
:03:52. > :03:55.visa. The shops in Paris. They are very famous, more than London. In
:03:56. > :04:01.fact I have been to France lore than 20 times. This is my first time for
:04:02. > :04:10.the UK. For France I get a visa in two days. For the UK I get ` visa
:04:11. > :04:15.normally in 15 days. 90% of tour groups to Europe miss out all
:04:16. > :04:23.together. 71% will put the TK on their it tinker inries if the it is
:04:24. > :04:29.imsimplified. `` if it is simplified. The Government has
:04:30. > :04:34.promoted tourism in China. @ pilot scheme which combines applications
:04:35. > :04:42.for European and British visas in one is to be rolled out. Instead of
:04:43. > :04:46.two separate forms, two different visits to two offices, we c`n order
:04:47. > :04:50.that in a one shop now. It hs fantastic news. Retailers are
:04:51. > :04:54.pleased too. Chinese visitors spend three times more than the average
:04:55. > :04:59.tourist. That is why they w`nt to change that perception that London
:05:00. > :05:05.has the history, Paris the shops. The Chinese have an old fashioned
:05:06. > :05:10.view of the UK, thinking it of as the city of fog and Paris as the
:05:11. > :05:15.city of light. That came out in some research we did. Rather than doing
:05:16. > :05:19.more to favour Chinese monex, others warn this is a blatant double
:05:20. > :05:24.standard and it is not without risks. The risk of illegal
:05:25. > :05:29.immigration. Ultimately the moment somebody crosses the bored tler is
:05:30. > :05:31.the risk of overstaying. Thd e`` the border, there is the risk of
:05:32. > :05:35.overstaying. For those who make their money from
:05:36. > :05:40.tourism, those concerns are exaggerated N what was a culbersome
:05:41. > :05:45.visa process is now in step with the rest of Europe. Today, they are
:05:46. > :05:49.celebrating. We can join Chris, who is in central London. Some business
:05:50. > :05:55.leaders don't think it goes far enough. The extension to thd relaxed
:05:56. > :05:58.visa scheme for Chinese vishtors is not just about tourism and our
:05:59. > :06:02.attractions boosting the economy, it is about smoothing over polhtical
:06:03. > :06:06.differences, to increase tr`de. Both countries need that. That is why the
:06:07. > :06:10.Prime Minister and Boris Johnson have been to China recently and one
:06:11. > :06:16.of the reasons why the Chindse Prime Minister is here in London. Human
:06:17. > :06:23.right groups have told me ignoring the human rights record is too high
:06:24. > :06:28.a price to pay. A consortiul of business leaders, including Harrods
:06:29. > :06:32.and the owners of British ahrways, say without further relaxathon of
:06:33. > :06:36.regulations, the British economy stands to lose another ?1 bhllion
:06:37. > :06:40.every year. That is the amotnt of money we are missing out on.
:06:41. > :06:45.Many thanks. Time now for md to wish you a very good night and h`nd you
:06:46. > :06:50.over to Wendy for a look at this week's weather.
:06:51. > :06:56.This week, we'll have high pressure. It will be mostly dry.
:06:57. > :07:03.We did see a lot of cloud. Ht is conceivable we could get a spot of
:07:04. > :07:08.rain from that cloud. Temperatures should stay up at 11`12 Celsius
:07:09. > :07:12.under that cloud. If you ard up early tomorrow it will still be with
:07:13. > :07:15.us. Towards the end of the rush hour we will have some sunny spells
:07:16. > :07:20.breaking through. Some the afternoon, I think the skies will be
:07:21. > :07:25.more blue than grey and temperatures will respond nicely. We will get up
:07:26. > :07:28.to 23 Celsius in central London The cloud will make a return through
:07:29. > :07:31.Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, with one or two showers around and with
:07:32. > :07:33.more across the UK, here more across the UK, here is John
:07:34. > :07:44.Hammond. A lot of dry weather this week. Some
:07:45. > :07:47.important variations from day-to-day and place to place. The cloud will
:07:48. > :07:49.come and go and the warmth