24/01/2017 London News

A headteacher pays tribute after a 15-year-old pupil is fatally

He was positive about learning, had a very bright future and will be

greatly missed by his many friends in school, and in fact

A derailed freight train during this morning's rush hour severely

Services on Southeastern here at Charing Cross

We look at plans to convert this former Victorian market

into a new state-of-the art home for the Museum for London.

Actor Timothy Spall tells us how playing a Holocaust denier has been

Welcome to BBC London News with me Riz Lateef.

"A pupil with a bright future who will be missed

A headmaster's tribute to a 15-year-old boy

who was stabbed to death in front of his classmates

Quamari Barnes was attacked outside his school in Kensal Rise

Our Home affairs correspondent, Nick Beake, joins us from outside

This evening friends and family are still outside the school,

remembering a young boy who said goodbye to his' yesterday morning,

but didn't come home. All day, they have been bringing flowers, leaving

messages. -- to his' yesterday. People are at a loss to understand

why a young boy was killed in this way.

At the school gates, just metres from where their loved

Surrounded by friends who only yesterday were sharing lessons

and jokes with the latest teenager to be murdered in London.

15-year-old Quamari Barnes was heard to shout, "He's going to stab me!"

One boy who didn't want to show his face told us he could only watch

He was the most loved person in the whole of our school, like...

It was emotional, because we gave him hugs, said get home say.

And I come out of school, and I see that he's stabbed, like...

It's a small world, like, all these teenagers out here running

As the police looked for evidence near the school,

it emerged they had arrested another 15-year-old boy,

Detectives say the motive for the killing is not clear.

A killing which has clearly hit this community hard.

We're all deeply saddened by this death.

It's undoubtedly a tragic loss of life, and our thoughts

and prayers are with the boy's family and those who

He was positive about learning, had a very bright future,

and will be greatly missed by his many friends

in school and in fact the entire school community.

And for Rebecca, who herself went to the school,

and knows the family well, it is such a waste.

I just saw a picture of him, with RIP, and I was just,

Quamari Barnes is the second teenager to be stabbed

The number of young people being injured with knives has gone

The headteacher we saw in the report there has said that counselling is

available to all pupils who feel that they needed. The Metropolitan

Police have had officers here all day, detectives going door-to-door,

we're also seen officers patrolling the perimeter of the school. The

police are really appealing directly to pupils here, and also their

parents, because they say their evidence, their information could be

vital as they proceed with this case. As for that 15-year-old boy

who was arrested this afternoon on suspicion of murder, he remains in

police custody this evening. Thank you. Our home affairs correspondent

in Kensal Green. We look at why cyclists

are being allowed to use the pavement in one part London

without facing prosecution. Thousands of commuters faced major

disruption during this morning's rush hour after a freight train

derailed in south east London. It meant all services

on the Southeastern network Let's get the latest

from Alice Bhandhukravi who's A slightly less busy evening here at

Charing Cross than usual, and it's no wonder given the level of

disruption on Southeastern this morning's rush-hour. Lots of people

rushing past us now to get into the station, only to be greeted by signs

that say delayed and cancelled. Just before 6am, when this freight

train derailed in Lewisham, it meant services on Southeastern

from London were delayed, diverted or cancelled, which made

for a punishing rush-hour. Many commuters documented

their journeys, and took to social For some, it was just another

example of the major difficulties many face commuting in and out

of London from the south-east. Network Rail, which is investigating

the cause of the derailment, Both Network Rail and Southeastern

expect disruption to The latest on that issue of

compensation is that Network Rail has announced it will be doubling

the level of compensation for delays for those who are eligible. That

might soften the blow for some. But as I said earlier, services are not

going to resume as normal tomorrow. We are told that there will be a

normal service from Hale is to Charing Cross, but it went be

stopping at Lewisham. -- from Hayes to Charing Cross. As always, check

before you travel. You can keep up-to-date on our breakfast

bulletins and on radio London. Absolutely. Thank you for that

update. The capital again suffered from high

levels of pollution today. It came as the Mayor said he'd be

funding schools in polluted areas to look at ways to deal

with bad air. But one of his major schemes

an ultra low emission zone Here's our Emvironment

correspondent, Tom Edwards. From the air, you can clearly make

out today the pollution over London. On the ground, this school

in Southwark is right Many pupils have asthma,

and here they want action And I'm very aware of when I change

a display just in the entrance here, as I clean the shelves of the glass

cabinet, it comes So, even though the doors are shut

all day, it's coming in. My problem is, the bad guys

are criticising me and not Today, pollution got political

as the mayor lay into his opponents. He will now fund audits of 50

schools, which will recommend Such as moving entrances and play

areas, or changing road layouts. I have announced today a package

to support schools in London, Those schools in the most

polluted parts of London, the dirtiest parts of London,

will be more likely That's not politicising it,

that's addressing the issues. The mayor's taken some

really good steps. The commitment to the emission

zone and expanding it from the north to south circular,

for example, will be very important London's air is particularly

poor at the moment. According to City Hall,

a lack of wind isn't blowing away vehicle emissions and pollutants

from domestic wood burning. Now the Tories in the assembly have

criticised the mayor's flagship policy, and expanded ultralow

emission zone within the North Where more polluting vehicles

will have to pay to enter. They say it won't deliver

big enough benefits. We think the mayor should use

the money that would have to be made available for the wider zone,

going to the north and south circular,

in a much more targeted way. We think he could procure over 2000

hybrid buses, for example. He can retrofit 10,000

of the black taxis to put them on liquid petroleum gas,

which is zero emission. We think that those measures

would be much more targeted, and would deliver a much more

beneficial result than simply expanding the zone,

which is what he is proposing The mayor says his policies will

work, although while the capital continues to suffer from bad air,

air quality campaigners say An Arsenal midfielder has been

interviewed by police following an allegation he racially

abused a British Airways Our sports reporter

Chris Slegg is here - Granit Xhaka is the player in

question. This incident happened just before 7:30am at Heathrow

terminal five last night -- 7:30pm. Users whose international

midfielder, he joined Arsenal last year for just over ?30 million. On

Sunday he was sent off in the second time this season in their 2-1 win

over Burnley, and then last night he is believed to have been taking a

friend had come to visit him here in London back to the airport. It's

believed his friend arrived too late to prevent the flight and was

prevented it from doing so. Some sort of titillation seems to have

happened at the moment, which is when the allegation of Dutch or some

sort of altercation. Arsenal have said it is a private matter, beyond

that they said they won't be commenting any further -- the

allegation of altercation. They say the allegation was made by a third

party, witness to the incident. They haven't named Xhaka, but they say

the officers attended the scene, that the person involved was seen,

and voluntarily attended a police station. It was not arrested, but

arrested and a police caution. They say their enquiries are continuing.

Chris, thank you very much. A strike on Southern Rail

will continue tomorrow by RMT members in their long running

dispute with rail bosses over Only a dozen train drivers took part

in today's walk-out. Southern admitted cancellations

were mainly due to crew sickness Tomorrow's strike is

still due to go ahead. Firefighters are still tackling

a blaze at a warehouse It broke out last night and fire

officers have been working all day People nearby have been advised

to keep their windows closed. An investigation into

the cause has been launched. An explosion at a block of flats

in Hornchurch yesterday may have been caused by the preparation

of drugs according to Two men have been arrested

following the blast which caused part of the building

to partially collapse. Four people were taken to hospital

and 25 had to be rescued. The cause of the explosion

is not yet known. Figures tell us that people living

in London are affected by the HIV virus more than anywhere else

in the UK. Two in every five people with it

are here in the capital. But the number of newly diagnosed

cases in London is falling. Four of the biggest clinics say

they've seen a 40 to 50% drop Some experts say it's due to large

numbers of gay men taking a drug currently not available on the NHS -

but available online. He is part of a growing

number of HIV negative gay men who are choosing

to have unprotected sex. I have had sex with people

without using a condom. And some of them have been HIV

positive, and some of them Because I've been on PReP,

that increased my confidence Last, four of London's leading

sexual health clinics saw the greatest reduction in new HIV

diagnoses they seen since the beginning of the epidemic

in the 1980s will stop experts are advising it may

be due to this drug. PReP is widely taken in other

countries as treatment There are a lot of questions yet

to be answered, that there are many groups I think who are at equal

and perhaps even greater risk of HIV, who perhaps

don't know about PReP, don't feel comfortable about it,

don't have all of the information. Critics of the drug say it's

expensive and not foolproof. However, despite this, the NHS lost

a court case, meaning it will have to fund it in future,

a move supported by some clinics. PReP is a very effective

prevention strategy. I wouldn't say it's a wonder drug,

because nothing in isolation is the answer when it comes

to preventing HIV transmission. PReP has given us a really effective

additional tool to combine with the other tools we had,

but which were not working. Until it becomes available

on the NHS, men like Jason are resorting to the web

for their medication. About 25,000-35,000 Londoners

have visited our site What we've done in effect is created

a community health care system that's sitting outside

of the National health care system. Jason gets tested regularly,

but these days he doesn't An HIV test yesterday,

and the results came through in the evening of the same

day, because test results And I knew that it would be,

because I've been on PrEP And although I've had a lot

of sexual encounters with different levels of risk,

I'm now confident I'm He says by providing this drug

on the NHS in the future, others too will benefit

from the same piece of mind. We find out how the Museum of London

is ?180 million closer to making this forlorn bit

of Farringdon its new home. Another weather warning for the

white office of fog and also some ice tonight, with a very cold day on

Thursday. -- from the Met office. More later.

Should cyclists be able to ride on the pavement

Well, police in Camden have defended their decision not

to punish some people who do just that.

Instead they'll look at why riders use footpaths rather than roads.

Needless to say it's divided opinion - as Ayshea Buksh reports.

Sharing the road for many cyclists is tough enough, and showing the

pavement sometimes is a necessary manoeuvre. Here in north London,

police were told by residents to many were also going on to local

streets. The neighbourhood Sergeant decided it was better to work with a

cyclist rather than against them, and decided not to punish them. The

complaint was that there on the pavements. We said we accept that

undercut the reasons why, so we can fix that and get them off the

pavement. It is not the free for all, we're responding to concerns

Dutch weblog we accept that and want to know the reasons. The advice from

the Department for Transport says all police officers can use their

discretion. If a cyclist is cycling rudely and dangerously he should be

fine. Where would you like your cyclist or the child or parent or

your pension to cycle? -- he should be fined. Had locals in Primrose

Hill feel about it? It worries me, in case they get, you know, they

sort of gaining momentum and don't break, especially male cyclists. It

is complicated with a pushchair to have cyclists and questionnaires. We

can't go the same way, so we have to go on the road. Why did you sound

your own? He was cycling in the middle-of-the-road. Because it is

illegal to cycle in the middle-of-the-road. The Sergeant

makes a stop, not cyclist but a car steadily I used my home to one

cyclist, because he was cycling in the middle-of-the-road. A lot of

cyclists are being intimidated, forced over, and that one who is

taking a damaging row position to prevent that happening, but

intimidating, inconsiderate behaviour from behind. That is one

end upon the pavement, which is where we don't want them. The

friction on the crowded London roads and pavements is to continue, but in

this part of the capital, any coexistence may come.

He says it's one of his most challenging roles.

In his latest move Timothy Spall - plays a London historian who wrote

controversial books denying the Holocaust ever happened -

who was then challenged by an American academic sparking

Our Entertainment Correspondent Brenda Emmanus has been chatting

April 2000, when London historian David Irving faced a humiliating

Having sued Penguin books and their American author,

Deborah Lipstadt, who had accused him of denying

I've been defending it against someone who wanted to abuse it.

Rachel Weisz now portrays Deborah in the film Denial,

with Timothy Spall as her infamous adversary, Irving.

Let me reveal something to you, Professor.

I am that David Irving about whom you have been so rude.

And it puzzles me that you think yourself qualified to attack me,

given that I have 30 years' experience in the archive.

And was this your most challenging role to date?

I would say it always felt like it was going to be a challenge,

because I know he's a controversial character, and he's alive,

So my job as a human being, I have a responsibility

I have to conclude that the reason you don't engage with people

you disagree with is because you can't!

Denial was shot predominantly in the capital, where

With Deborah Lipstadt closely involved from the time her book

Can you put into words what it was like taking

on this very abrasive, London historian?

Well, it was frightening at the beginning, because I didn't

know how I would do it, what I would do, and calling

the historian because as we proved he lies and he manipulates

There were moments that were really scary.

This case is happening to you, but it's not about you.

This man hates me, he's coming for me.

And when someone comes after you, you take him on.

Why do you think he specifically targeted Deborah?

I think one of the motivations, as I see it from his point of view,

Was that he was protecting his professional reputation,

his existence, because I presume he made the assumption that

being called a Holocaust denier would affect sales of his books.

All involved can see that Denial is a timely film,

considering the current talking politics of alternative truths,

Promotional posters have already been defaced across London.

They wait until the Tube stop is empty and no one's there,

and then they take out a black magic marker and they write something.

Why they write on Timothy Spall's face, he's playing

Plans for a new state-of-the-art home for the Museum of London have

been a big boost today - in the form of nearly ?200

As Emma North reports - the proposal is to redevelop

The Museum of London's getting ?180 million leg up

to develop its new home at West Smithfield.

And the woman who secured the money is happy.

I cycled home through London, singing to myself.

We will be able to put on more exhibitions, more collections,

bring more things out of our stores, have great programmes.

And I want us to be a 24-hour museum.

The old market at West Smithfield will become home to the 6 million

items currently down the road at the old Museum of London.

With the ?70 million slice coming from City Hall,

this is the largest cultural investment made by a London mayor.

It's a project designed to build legacies.

I campaigned saying I wanted to make sure culture was a top priority.

I think culture's in the DNA of our city, the glue

We'll have this museum, not simply the best of the last

2000 years in our city, we're going to go back more

than 450,000 years and it's going to be fantastic.

Three years ago, a project to turn the site into shops was blocked,

despite being backed by the very people who today dipped

into their pockets to the tune of ?110 million.

It was called in by the Secretary of State,

You have to accept that decision, and we've now made the best of it

by buying the building for the museum.

In the shadow of the old buildings, they've been waiting for something

It will bring more people, not tourists.

All this promises much for Smithfield, but with one in six

Londoners working in the culture industry, does ploughing so much

cash into a single thing put too much focus on one high project?

We're working with student spaces, with live music venues,

and a range of different kind of smaller businesses to make sure

that the whole ballot of London's cultural

There has been a market here for 1000 years.

With a little more fundraising and that all-important

planning application, it was promised today that this

It's that time of the evening now for a check on the

There is more fog. We have still got plenty of it about, for the next

couple of days. This is the familiar picture across the region this

morning, with some sunshine eventually breaking through. The Met

office has is covered by a weather warning once again, for dense

patches and also some freezing fog patches. In addition, there is an

ice warning tonight as well. All that moisture is just going to stick

to everything, and untreated roads will be very tricky tomorrow,

especially in those fog patches. It is because we finished the day with

those lovely clear skies. I want to draw your attention to the fog over

across the low countries, and the cloud by height it which has been

producing some snow grains over parts of Germany. We could get a

tiny dusting through Wednesday and Thursday as well. Not very much.

Before that, we must worry about the fog filling in out there at the

moment. Dense, freezing patches and then more cloud creeping into the

south-east as the night goes out. It will list the temperature there, but

where you are seeing the negative figures, you're dealing with

freezing fog and possibly ice as well. Tricky driving conditions

first thing tomorrow morning. The fog will eventually lift up after a

dank and murky start. Then the sort of swap the grey fog for grey skies,

as there is cloud filling in throughout the day. It will feel

chilly because we haven't had the benefit of the sunshine through the

day tomorrow. 3-6 degrees at best. It is feeling even called on

Thursday, but for different reasons. The cloud gets nibbled at by a

slightly drier air coming in from the south-east. It is good in some

ways, it gets rid of some of the fog. It is dry, cold air, and it

means it will feel very chilly through the day on Thursday.

Temperatures may be only one, two, three degrees at best. When you

factor in the wind and dryness of the committal feel like -3 places,

so quite bitter bitter on Thursday. In the latter part of the Wii,

temperatures pick up a bit. 8 degrees on Friday, and possibly

double fingers. In the meantime, it is the fairway have do contend with.

Thank you very much. Draft legislation -

allowing the government to start the process of leaving the EU

is to be introduced within days. It follows a Supreme Court ruling

Parliament should be given a vote Shares in BT plunged today

after the company revealed the impact of an accounting scandal

in its Italian business is far worse The head of BT Europe

resigned this afternoon. Detectives investigating the death

of a teenager outside his school in Willesden yesterday afternoon

have arrested a fifteen Quamari Barnes was stabbed in front

of pupils and taken to hospital And this year's Oscar nominations

were revealed today - with the musical La La Land

the most nominated film. Londoners Dev Patel and Naomie

Harris are also shortlisted. from everyone on the team,

have a lovely evening.