24/04/2017 London News

After 7 people were killed in a tram derailment in Croydon last year -

four drivers tell the BBC they fell asleep while operating

How many drivers do you think a fallen asleep and recovered? I would

say most drivers have at some point in their careers.

Victims welcome a new police unit dedicated to internet hate crime.

It's going to be a massive deterrent to those who think they can spread

hate online. for more than a century -

but could it now be the end And we talk to the stars

of the Marvel's superhero sequel Four drivers have admitted falling

asleep while operating trams in Croydon -

where seven people were killed after a tram derailed

in November last year. A BBC investigation has also

discovered a failure with a safety device that was not reported

to the regulator and three The tram operators said

they were satisfied the controls were safe and driver

fatigue was monitored. A speeding tram. No emergency brake.

The disaster here where seven people were killed. Over 50 injured. Have

you fallen asleep? Yes, once in ten years. How many drivers to think a

fallen asleep in the cab? I would say most drivers have in their

career. He's admitting what many would consider gross misconduct

because of this. It is called attraction brake controller, TBC.

The driving lever that powers the tram. Inside, the safety device

known as the dead man's handle. This driver says when he fell asleep it

didn't work. Was there an alarm? No. No emergency braking whatsoever. My

hand remained on the TBC. That was enough the dead man's handle to have

been activated. Why aren't drivers telling the operators what's going

on? If we were to come forward and say excuse me, I fell asleep, I

think you would just be dismissed. Four drivers have told the BBC he

had fallen asleep in the cab. They asked us to watch this footage

again. A tram driver who appears to be asleep. There is no alarm, no

emergency brakes. He's in and out of sleep, isn't he? He's coming to an

starting to doze. Why was there no alarm? Because if he were to

completely passed out, completely lose consciousness, then he would

relax his grip. But OK to slightly doze in and out? Of course it's not

all right. The company who operates the trams for TFL say driver fatigue

is monitored and on the driver's safety device says it is satisfied

the controls are fully functional. Can also reveal at least three trams

have been recorded speeding since the derailment. One was travelling

at 65 kilometres per hour in a 40 zone. The operator told us it had

increased speed checks since the sandy lands crash. It's changed my

life. He did everything for us. Still waiting for answers. The

families of those who died. My daughters are just devastated. What

is the question you want answered? Why they. Investigators are trying

to piece together a disaster that changed so many lives.

The Metropolitan Police now has a dedicated unit

It hopes to improve the force's response to internet abuse.

The Mayor of London, who launched the hub today,

says he told us he's targeted on a daily basis

Here's our Home Affairs Correspondent Nick Beake.

This woman is from forest gate, east London. Last year the borough

councillor was invited to the European Parliament in France for a

debate on refugees. Her views were forthright, calling for countries

which once had empires to pay compensation. To pay reparations to

the country they had previously colonised in the last 80 years.

After that clip was posted, she received a barrage of abuse. A lot

more trolling and online abuse from people I've never met before, asking

me to die, kill myself, exterminate all black people... Talking about

gas chambers, it was horrific. And here's another Londoner who has been

targeted, because of the colour of his skin. The mail of London. Have

you faced any of that online abuse since taking this job? On a daily

basis. There are people hurling abuse at me online, thinking that

there is available anonymity, thinking that they won't have action

taken against them. But impact has not had on you? It causes anxiety

and distress, not just to me, I have broad shoulders and a thick skin but

the members of my family, people who are the same religion or same colour

scheme is me, then they see someone like me receiving this online hate

crime, it's a ripple that is felt by members of the community. Have you

reported it? It reported by those who work for me, with the police and

others to ensure action is taken. Racist and reduce hate crime went up

18% in London last year, boosted by a spike the start of the Brexit

vote. But City Hall is concerned at much

Internet abuse goes unreported. So the mayor is setting up a police

unit to tackle it. Millions of us are online these days and an abusive

message can be sent in a matter of seconds. This new Met police unit to

target online hate crime will comprise just five police officers

so there is a limit to what they can achieve. Many people believe it's

the big social media companies that need to do more. Today buses from

Facebook and Twitter came to a conference on hate crime at City

Hall. The companies insist they are trying to reduce abuse sent on their

platforms and working with the police, but many campaigners want

them to take tougher action on those who spread hate online.

The right direction of travel but given the size of the task

I guess it's a start, you have five officers in this new team, led by

Detective Inspector, there is funding for two years, ?1.7 million

in all, we are told they will be specially trained to spot online

abuse, support victims and also to go for perpetrators. You could argue

it is just a drop in the ocean, considering the extent to which City

Hall believes that online hate crime is under reported. If you look at

the official Met police figures, just 5% of all hate crime is to do

with Internet abuse at one Jewish organisation believes it could be as

much as 20%. Another organisation who looks after people have suffered

Islamophobia believes it could be up to 70%. One thing this unit will be

trying to do is work out the full extent of the picture. We have seen

prosecutions, Internet trolls have been sent to prison, but it's clear

of people still believe they can say stuff online that they wouldn't

dream of saying industry. As we have seen, that includes racially abusing

the mayor of this city, some believe they can do that online.

As we know, young people across the capital are also facing issues on

social media. Not least so-called sex children's charities believe...

Victoria Hollins has been to meet a father of four who was so concerned

he devised an app to help parents monitoring them. Has this as at

once, it's never been easier to put yourself at risk. Over two thirds of

teenagers on a smartphone and with the prospect of sexting, for parents

that can be terrifying. This woman discovered her 12-year-old daughter

's rented bedsit inappropriate images by a point she knows. I

realise we're dealing with very young kids, as much as they think

they know everything, they don't know much, they don't even know the

terms they are using and they mean, nevertheless the consequences of

sending such an explicit image to each other. This man has developed

an app to tackle the problem. If installed on parent and child

devices, it sends an alert when the child receives or takes a naked

image. Once you receive an alert from a child, you click on the

child, we have an alert on March 29 in this case so we go into the

device, look under that date, and as you can see... There it is. It uses

image recognition software and he says has 96% accuracy. It hopes your

child should they create something, you are right on top of it. If they

receive something, that's a conversation that needs to happen as

well. Most important thing is, if they go on to share that image to

somebody else, that breaking the law. Advertising campaigns and

education means awareness is improving. Apparently there are a

lot of different reasons to teenagers since these pictures.

Other controls are available, focusing on controlling all of a

child abuse, but children's charities have still reported an

increase in the number of youngsters contacting them about sexting.

Parents don't need to know everything will it comes to online

safety, that they need to make sure they can seek help, they are having

an open, session with their children so that child knows they can come to

them of their word about anything that happens online, if an image

gets sent, if they are upset or endanger -- if they are worried.

Until they realise that sharing content between friends can be as

dangerous as with strangers, parents will need help tackling the issue.

Still to come, the European premiere of Guardians of the Galaxy, a film

much is about an outer space adventure as it is about music,

which is why we are at the Apollo in Hammersmith.

It will be a tough fight for UKIP in London.

There's been speculation today about how the party is strategically

focusing it's resources by only fielding candidates where

Today UKIP accepted it would be difficult to make

We can to beginning it our very best in London but our strong areas in

London or in the doughnut, going around decking, that side, the east

side, Hillingdon as well, it is worth remembering even in terms of

Brexit, 40% of Londoners voted to leave, it's not a tiny minority.

Well as we heard there, Rainham is one of the seats

And today we asked our Political Correspondent Karl Mercer to find

It would be fair to say the election fever has not yet kicked in at this

working men's club. Here they don't have a higher opinion of

politicians. Whoever gets in, they do nothing for you. I know that

woman out there now. Brian and Chris are perhaps typical of the locals,

fed up with politics, but both pro leaving the EU. This constituency

was the most pro-Brexit in the capital. That is good because we

should be out of the EU because they are trying to get people to pay out

more money, when people haven't got money, and there are no jobs around.

Out of Europe, definitely. Because what we pay all that money, when

that money could go to schools or hospitals and other things. Are

there signs this area could give Ukip a chance of the first London

seat? Back in the EU referendum this constituency voted 70#30 in favour

of Brexit. Also they came second here in the general election last

time. But with Brexit already underway, could they have mist their

chance? Not at all according to Peter Harris, runner up here in 2015

and running again. We didn't have enough to get over the line but this

time we could do it. We have an MP who backed romaine, who backed

Jeremy Corbyn as well and an electorate here who voted performing

the two leave the EU. The Tories have high hopes despite never having

won this constituency. I have believed in Brexit all my adult

life. If you want Brexit, you have two vote from conservatives on June

eight. We need genuinely strong, stable leadership. This is the man

they are aiming to travel, winning in 2015. -- aiming to topple. He is

trying to get other issues at the forefront of the campaign. Health,

the schools cuts, the infrastructure issues, the housing issues, some of

the real meat and potatoes of the general election campaign that

should be front and centre, it's a slight distraction, this Brexit

thing but I do take the point of the people voted for it. One of them

will have to work hard to infuse Chris and Brian if they want to get

the Westminster. Well our Political Editor Tim

Donovan is in Vauxhall for us now, Speculation about that, yes, that

the Ukip leader Paul Nuttall is suggesting they might withdraw their

candidate until their supporters to back the pro-Brexit Labour MP here.

Ukip got 1300 votes here, it's not immediately apparent that they could

have a huge impact by doing that, Kate Hoey has a majority of 12000

and more, and it will take a lot of Labour supporters to defect to the

Liberal Democrats to make those Ukip boats important. She says there has

been no talk of a pact with Ukip and doesn't want support from anyone,

but it is possible to see how the drawing, held by Labour Romanians

like Brentford, I or worse, could make a difference of those votes

went to the Conservatives. And indeed conversely if Ukip boat

collapses in those places. Ukip are not the only ones looking at

tactical manoeuvres. The Liberal Democrats, Vince Cable has said that

he wants the Liberal Democrats to stand aside in Brighton Pavilion,

the seat of the green leader, Caroline Lucas, to give her a clear

run and in return he says, can't the Green supporters in plug-in and

Richmond Park back him? There has been no decision made by the local

green associations and that is the key but their leader today said he

expected some moves like this in London.

The whole idea of progress and alliances there isn't one party

standing down for another but people reciprocating, working together,

recognising the common good and moving beyond tribal loyalties. So

in marginal seats, it's not the majority said that will be affected

but a small number of seats where things might happen, that

discussions are going on. What this amounts to is decisions of local

parties, just one seat, Ealing Central and Acton, the Greens have

already withdrawn but this is not top-down policy with Ukip or the

Greens, and across London, these decisions are going to be made this

week. Thank you. A murder investigation

is underway in Battersea, after a teenager was stabbed

to death at the weekend. The 17-year-old boy

is the fifth teenager to have lost his life to knife crime

in London this year. Police say the cyclist was ambushed

by a gang in the early A group of British firms has

unveiled plans to test driverless cars on city roads and motorways

for the first time - backed by government money,

intends to try out a fleet So far trials of driverless vehicles

in the UK have mainly taken place at slow speeds and not

on public roads. One of London's oldest clubs dropped

into non-league football for the first time in more

than a century this weekend. But there still remain

bigger questions about Leyton Orient's future -

as Emma Jones reports. Leyton Orient in Berkshire at

kick-off against Arsenal. Orient fans will have plenty of fond

memories of a club that has been in the football league 412 years,

however the most recent memory will be of the defeat on Saturday that

confirmed there medication. And many supporters will place the blame for

the downfall of the club with their owner, who has seen them drop from

the League 1 play-offs to non-league with ten different managers in his

three years in charge. We have to get control of the club back from

him because it's now become a toxic place under his regime and it can't

go on like this. It's completely mess. Will it a winding-up petition

last month but money is to ode to creditors and they have until June

12 to pay the debts or sell up. The staff at Leyton Orient released a

statement today reconfirming that no one at the club, including the

players, have been paid since March. They are now calling on the football

Association and the football league, to help them get answers from the

club's board because they say they are being met with a wall of

silence. This isn't just about being relegated, it's a genuine concern

about the future this football club. And that's a concern shared by local

businesses who rely on football fans for a large part of the trade. All

of latent is going to be behind this team -- late. It's a really big loss

if we lose Leyton Orient. This is where supporters meet on a match day

and with fans keen to find new investors and raise funds for a

stake in the club's future, the pub is hoping to do its bit. I am having

a charity night for them and we will try and do the things in the area to

try and get them some more money. We won't make enough money to get them

out without we can. The local community, try to do its part to

ensure a positive future for a club that has existed for over a century.

Next: It looks like a colourful explosion in a nursery

The words of one critic meant in a complimentary way -

to describe Marvel's outer-space adventure.

The sequel to Guardians of the Galaxy premieres in London

tonight, we'll join Wendy in a moment after a quick

Lovely to meet you, really enjoyed your film. Very much about the music

as much as anything else? It's fitting that we are here, the music

takes centre stage in many moments and it feels like a major character

in the film. Some of the scores were recorded not far from here? Yes,

they recorded some scores right here in Abbey Road, London, that was

pretty amazing, from what James told me, he was moved to tears, the big

symphony playing the music. It has become a thing, the mix tape. It

really has, volume two is going to be... I expect another wildly

successful soundtrack, and it's really cool because a lot of people

for whom these songs are emotionally resonant, it reminds them of their

upbringing, their childhood and there is a whole generation has

never heard some of these songs, so it's great for the artists to get a

big resistance. What is it like when you finally see everything come

together with the special effects and everything else, postproduction

was done here as well? On any kind of movie, when you sit down and

watch, if you are part of the process, it's difficult to step back

and watch it objectively but with films like this that have

semi-elements of postproduction, you really do get swept up, even as a

person starring in the film, you see the animated worlds for the first

time, you know what it looks like, you're seeing of it for the first

time career gets worked up and when you see the movie, be sure to see

all the way through the credits, because there are hundreds of

thousands of names of people who have worked the animation of this

movie, it's the best animated movie of all time, it's a mountain of

work, Elizabeth putting their heart and soul this film -- the biggest

animated movie. You get off lightly, you didn't have to be painted, and!

No make-up, I kind of showed up, and said the lines! In the evening.

If it's anything like the first one, it'll make you smile!

Is going to feel very much like we have been plunged back into winter,

even though we have the Spring flowers out the night. Tonight it's

going to feel very cold indeed but we got away with a nice first half

of the day. Then of course it clouded over, some outbreaks of

rain, but we got 16 degrees, now we have a cold front coming through

behind that, some very cold air in deed, that is going to happen

overnight tonight. But at least we will start of the day with plenty of

sunshine, the next few days it'll be telling much colder, the Knights

will be frosty. Actually northerly breeze with heavy showers but also

interspersed with quite a bit of sunshine around as well. Quite a bit

of crowd through the afternoon, here is the code front, -- cold front,

spreading its way southwards through the night, expecting temperatures to

drop back down to -1, even in central London tomorrow morning,

it'll only be three degrees. Frosty start the day but the sun is going

to rise, unless you're out and about very early, I don't know that you

will see any frost. Quite a nice morning, feeling warm and the

sunshine but the air will be cold, chilly in the shade, temperatures up

to 12 or 13 and later on, we start to see heavy showers, some of them

put been turning a bit wintry. Maybe some sleep over the higher ground.

Some very heavy showers, hail and thunder possible and again on

Wednesday as well. The risk of heavy showers all through the day, by the

time we get to Thursday, quite cloudy, temperatures will start to

recover at this time of year. Two political outsiders have made it

to the next round of the French So in two weeks time

voters will choose between Four drivers have admitted

falling asleep while The company which operates the trams

says driver fatigue is monitored. That although got time for. Thanks

for joining us. We are back during the Ten O'Clock News.

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times when people stand up and demand real, significant change.

we have the chance to shape a brighter future for Britain

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