:00:00. > :00:08.the London Mayor, Boris Johnson Now though, on BBC One, it's
:00:09. > :00:09.time for the news where you are Now though, on BBC One, it's
:00:10. > :00:32.time for the news where you forced to rerun last month's
:00:33. > :00:36.election. Lutfar Rahman inshsts election was above board but some of
:00:37. > :00:44.his opponents claim voters were intimidated at polling stathons and
:00:45. > :00:48.in some cases even told how to vote. I declare that Lutfar Rahman is duly
:00:49. > :00:55.elected as Mayor of Tower H`mlets. A second term as Mayor won after an
:00:56. > :01:04.acrimonious campaign and for some the bitter taste endures. Four local
:01:05. > :01:11.people have served Lutfar R`hman with allegations of malpractice We
:01:12. > :01:14.are examining the allegations and are collating the information. Among
:01:15. > :01:19.those allegations were that votes were cast in the name of people not
:01:20. > :01:24.entitled to be on the electoral register, that voting papers,
:01:25. > :01:30.including postal votes, werd acquired and marked in favotr of
:01:31. > :01:35.Lutfar Rahman, and canvassers were encouraging support for him. The
:01:36. > :01:40.Returning Officer is accused of allowing agents for Lutfar Rahman to
:01:41. > :01:44.canvass for votes in polling stations, to accompany voters when
:01:45. > :01:48.they cast their vote, and to leave campaign material in and around
:01:49. > :01:52.voting compartments. It is `lso alleged that Labour's mayor`l
:01:53. > :01:57.candidate was falsely accusdd of racism. I was very angry with that
:01:58. > :02:03.and felt it was a cynical ddvice used by them. I don't want to come
:02:04. > :02:07.across as a bad loser. The result was declared and I am the lhars but
:02:08. > :02:15.if serious questions are behng asked, they have to be explored
:02:16. > :02:19.Would they have affected thd result? Tower Hamlets Council said `ll the
:02:20. > :02:21.candidates accepted the mayoral result and the petition raise nod
:02:22. > :02:35.new issues. Is matters is fairly rare and this is
:02:36. > :02:39.very much the first stage of this petition. What happens now hs that
:02:40. > :02:43.the people behind it have 28 days to seek a hearing before a High Court
:02:44. > :02:47.judge, who will then decide whether there are grounds to take this
:02:48. > :02:51.further. And if there were, that might one day mean that ballot boxes
:02:52. > :02:57.being reopened and the counting being done again and even rdrunning
:02:58. > :03:02.the election. Police investigating an illdgal rave
:03:03. > :03:05.in Croydon over the weekend have released CCTV images of sevdn men
:03:06. > :03:11.they want to speak to. More than 1,000 people went to the evdnt at a
:03:12. > :03:15.disused postal sorting office. A 15`year`old boy fell ill at the
:03:16. > :03:20.party and later died, it is believed from the drug overdose. Offhcers say
:03:21. > :03:23.none of the men pictured here are thought to be connected to his
:03:24. > :03:31.death. Julian Assange, the founder of the
:03:32. > :03:36.website WikiLeaks, has been holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy for two
:03:37. > :03:39.years now. It has come at a cost to taxpayers. Scotland Yard has
:03:40. > :03:45.revealed they've spent more than ?6 million policing the embassx just in
:03:46. > :03:50.case he leaves. He is wanted in Sweden after allegedly sexu`lly
:03:51. > :03:52.assaulting two women. There are few signs he will be leaving London
:03:53. > :03:57.soon. For the officers outside thd
:03:58. > :04:03.Ecuadorian embassy it must feel like a never ending circle. Watched by
:04:04. > :04:08.Julian Assange's supporters, the police have been here for two years
:04:09. > :04:12.now, ready to arrest the WikiLeaks founder if he leaves the buhlding.
:04:13. > :04:16.They are still waiting and the Met is still paying. Police resources
:04:17. > :04:21.are stretched and now is thd time for the Mayor to ask the Government
:04:22. > :04:26.for them to foot the bill. There needs to be more pressure bdhind the
:04:27. > :04:32.scenes to resolve this once and for all. The Met says the bill for
:04:33. > :04:36.guarding Assange has now topped ?6 million. Most of that came from the
:04:37. > :04:43.diplomatic protection budget, but more than ?1 million has bedn in
:04:44. > :04:48.police overtime. A couple of months ago Julian Assange spoke to the BBC
:04:49. > :04:53.from within the embassy. Others are in a more difficult environlent But
:04:54. > :05:00.what's his life like in there two years on? A veteran journalhst
:05:01. > :05:06.knows. He visited his friend last week. It's hard in there without the
:05:07. > :05:10.air, without the sunlight. Ht is difficult. You realise wherd you
:05:11. > :05:16.are. Does he have a treadmill? He does, and a bicycle I think, with a
:05:17. > :05:24.stationary bicycle you can do some exercise. He has a group of
:05:25. > :05:30.WikiLeaks people with him, `nd he is constantly busy. His morale is good.
:05:31. > :05:34.Critics say Assange has end`ngered lives by publish as mass of top
:05:35. > :05:38.secret military intelligencd. Supporters say he's a fightdr for
:05:39. > :05:42.the truth who can end up in prison in the US if he leavers the embassy.
:05:43. > :05:47.He's been here two years. It has cost the Met more than ?6 mhllion
:05:48. > :05:51.and there is absolutely no indication that Julian Assange will
:05:52. > :05:54.be leaving here any time soon. And this former Government lawydr says
:05:55. > :05:59.there's no chance the officdrs will be withdrawn. The reason for that `
:06:00. > :06:05.the UK'sen responsibilities to Europe. ?6 million or whatever it is
:06:06. > :06:08.is a relatively small sum considering this is a very rare case
:06:09. > :06:12.involving international oblhgations to other countries. So if I were the
:06:13. > :06:18.Home Secretary or the Mayor of London or whoever is accountable for
:06:19. > :06:23.that spending, I would think it was money well spent rather than the
:06:24. > :06:27.expenditure I needed to put into immediately. Boris Johnson says the
:06:28. > :06:32.Met hasn't yet asked the Government for extra money to cover thd
:06:33. > :06:35.security costs. That could change depending on how long this
:06:36. > :06:47.particularly expensive resident remains here.
:06:48. > :06:53.Nice tie. And yours is lovely too. Agreed minds.
:06:54. > :06:58.High pressure dominated the scene. We saw the cloud clear and there was
:06:59. > :07:04.plenty of sunshine. Much of the capital will stay dry tonight, but
:07:05. > :07:06.cloud will blanket temperattres so another warm and muggy night to
:07:07. > :07:09.come. Tomorrow, plenty of sunshind around.
:07:10. > :07:13.Particularly for the first part of the day. It will turn warm,
:07:14. > :07:17.especially where we have thd sunshine. Cloud to begin with and
:07:18. > :07:21.that will break up. Lots of sunshine and then a band of cloud will start
:07:22. > :07:25.to spread down from the north during the afternoon. There may be one or
:07:26. > :07:30.two showers as it reaches southern parts of the capital. Most places
:07:31. > :07:33.remain dry. Top temperatures of 25 Celsius. The outlook for thd
:07:34. > :07:41.Celsius. The outlook for the weekend is looking pretty good.
:07:42. > :07:48.If you have outdoor plans, plenty of fine weather, warm nest the south.
:07:49. > :07:50.Is today, warm nest the north. Normally