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me now on BBC Two. That's Newsnight with Emily in | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
Washington. A suspected unexploded World War | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
II bomb has been found in the River Thames tonight - | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
by the Victoria Embankment. It led to the temporary | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
closure of Westminster and Waterloo Bridges, | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
but road closures Louisa Preston is there for us | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
tonight, and she can tell us That's right, as you can see behind | :00:26. | :00:42. | |
me, the whole of Victoria and Embankment is still closed, all the | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
way down to Waterloo Bridge. During the rush hour, Westminster Bridge, | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
Waterloo Bridge and I'm being told part of Westminster Tube station, | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
were also closed. We are being told bomb disposal experts, specialist | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
officers from the Met Police, are working on the river at the moment, | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
working on the device, which is believed to be a World War II bomb. | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
The Port of London authority also told us earlier this evening that | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
this device is about two foot long and one foot wide. So quite a big | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
device. We don't know when these roads are going to reopen. We don't | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
know how long this is going to take for this device to be made safe. But | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
there have been many devices found across London like this. We had won | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
only last year. The whole area around Victoria was evacuated back | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
in February last year. After well over a decade, | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
London's congestion charge could be heading for reform - | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
with suggestions of making drivers pay by the mile, | :01:37. | :01:38. | |
or having the congestion charge It may not prove popular | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
with motorists, but as traffic problems and air pollution worsen, | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
it could be the only solution. Here's our transport | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
correspondent, Tom Edwards. Welcome to Charing Cross Road, | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
the third-most congested in London, where traffic creeps along | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
at a walking pace, It feels like TfL are doing it | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
on purpose to put drivers off, A lot of the cut-through roads | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
are no longer there, they're cycle lanes only the way | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
you want to go. I have done 12 miles in the last | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
two and a half hours. A growing population, more vehicles, | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
more minicabs and delivery vans and construction, | :02:21. | :02:31. | |
and public roadworks for pedestrians Now a report calls for a reform | :02:32. | :02:33. | |
of the congestion charge. We need to be charging vehicles more | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
if they're travelling at peak times and they drive around | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
the zone a lot. In the longer term we have got | :02:44. | :02:44. | |
to look at road pricing in London to tackle the congestion hotspots | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
to mean that if you do choose to use your car, | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
you will pay a bit more for that, rather than those who opt | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
for public transport. But also we are looking at other | :02:55. | :02:56. | |
things such as tackling deliveries, moving some of those to night-time, | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
and also encouraging people not to have their delivery | :03:00. | :03:01. | |
sent to their work. Road pricing, though, | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
could be contentious. Singapore is one of the few places | :03:06. | :03:07. | |
where you pay per mile. Our concern is road pricing could be | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
used as a cash cow and could make We think it's important that | :03:12. | :03:19. | |
any new system reflects the economic value of a journey, | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
so deliveries to London's museums and restaurants, | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
that is a valuable contribution, perhaps more so than a private | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
individual taking a journey. Maybe the system | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
should reflect that. City Hall does concede | :03:33. | :03:34. | |
the 14-year-old congestion Currently 30,000 private hire | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
vehicles enter the zone Or drivers could pay | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
different amounts at Although a ban on personal | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
deliveries to offices We do need to be making | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
the delivery industry much more It's not at the moment and is using | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
way too much road space. Something like 20% of the traffic | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
on the roads in London at the moment We think there's a lot of really | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
good models we can use to actually try and organise these deliveries | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
in a much more efficient way. Today, the mayor also issued | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
a pollution warning, as traffic fumes worsened | :04:20. | :04:21. | |
London's air. Congestion is one of the big | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
challenges cities face. How he will tackle the jams will be | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
revealed in the next few months. After going head-to-head | :04:28. | :04:37. | |
with Prime Minister Theresa May over Brexit yesterday, | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
today, the Mayor of London found himself in the same town as her, | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
doing the same thing as her ? selling the benefits | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
of investing in London. And crucial to any deal | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
is keeping the City of London It's the place where the world comes | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
every year to talk and do business. They do it under the watchful eyes | :04:54. | :05:02. | |
of marksmen, and the more And in Davos today, | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
the British Prime Minister and London's Mayor, both talking | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
Brexit and the effect it could have The mayor taking his message | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
to an international audience. You're going to get a hard Brexit, | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
whether you like it or not. No, what's really important | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
is sensible minds try and put So far, is there already | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
signs companies leaving, You say you want people to access | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
the EU single market, London has been a city | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
which has attracted trade, talent and ideas for more | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
than 1000 years. In recent days two major banks, | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
HSBC and UBS, have warned We have roughly 5000 | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
people in London. Real passporting business | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
is probably down to about 1000 of those employees in London, | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
and for them we need to look at what the ultimate deal | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
will be mapped out with. I am glad to hear from the European | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
side they want a symmetrical So we are still waiting | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
for what is happening. Today, another of the banking | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
world's big guns had some words of comfort for the City, | :06:16. | :06:17. | |
though he too warned I do not believe the European | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
financial centre will leave I think the UK will continue to be | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
the financial lungs for Europe. We may have to move certain | :06:26. | :06:35. | |
activities, we may have to change the legal structure that we use | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
to operate in Europe. The banks, financial services | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
institutions, the tech companies, the pharmaceuticals, | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
companies and businesses that create jobs, wealth and prosperity, | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
want to stay in London. We've got to make it | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
easy for them to do so. The Prime Minister met senior | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
bankers this afternoon, where we're told she stressed | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
the positive aspects The founder of the WikiLeaks | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
website, Julian Assange, says he stands by his offer to go | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
to the United States, now that the American whistle-blower | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
Chelsea Manning is to be released. Assange has spent the past | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
four and a half years in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
avoiding extradition to Sweden. He claims that would lead to | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
attempts to extradite him to the US A 'Blue Cockerel', a 'Ship | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
in a Bottle' and the current one. They're all appeared | :07:31. | :07:38. | |
on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square - | :07:39. | :07:40. | |
some received more And now the short list of what could | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
come next, has been unveiled. Our arts correspondent | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
Brenda Emmanus can show us. It's the 11th artwork to sit | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
on Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth. And David Shrigley's seven-metre | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
high sculpture, Really Good, will attempt to inspire optimism | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
until replaced in 2018. We're looking for artworks that | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
connect to the square, have a story to tell, | :08:05. | :08:06. | |
that are beautifully executed and that will get a conversation | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
going with the public. So what will be given | :08:10. | :08:11. | |
the thumbs up next? Today, the five shortlisted | :08:12. | :08:13. | |
proposals were presented at the National Gallery, | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
offering the public a chance to share their opinion | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
on what should dominate the north-west corner of this | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
historic London site. Choices include a truck loaded | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
with oil cans and ladders, an empty robe, and a recreation | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
of a protective deity that was destroyed by so-called | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
Islamic State in 2015. It's the most international | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
shortlist so far, with the sole Londoner being Hackney resident | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
Heather Philipson, who presents a swirl of cream with a cherry, | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
fly and drone on top. The cream is something, | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
obviously cream is a very unstable material and something always | :08:50. | :08:51. | |
on the verge of collapse, so the sculpture holds within it | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
this possibility of something that may be, kind of, imminent | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
catastrophe, perhaps. All five proposals can be seen | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
at the National Gallery for the next two months, | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
where the public can Do you like the idea of commissions | :09:07. | :09:08. | |
on the fourth plinth? I do like it, because it's | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
an opportunity to see something The Heather Philipson one, | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
when it's constructed, I think it would work well | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
within the context of the other I think it is kind | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
of topical as well. We're looking for works | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
that we think can be popular, but we also have to consider | :09:34. | :09:34. | |
all sorts of other criteria to do with their construction, | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
their feasibility, all things that The two chosen winners will be | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
announced in March and take pride of place on the plinth in 2018 | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
and 2020, respectively. That's it for now from me, but let's | :09:46. | :09:53. | |
find out what the weather's It is cold out there, but whether we | :09:54. | :10:07. | |
will lurking near the fourth plinth or elsewhere in the city, or perhaps | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
you got in the countryside, we've been spoiled of late with those | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
gorgeous clear skies. It's a completely different story through | :10:16. | :10:17. | |
parts of Wales and the Midlands. It's that close to Earth. Many of | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
the Southern counties enjoyed the sort of clear skies that we saw | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
today, but as you already commented we've paid the price with frosty | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
starts and here we go again, right on into the first part of Friday. | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
Somewhere roundabout certainly a frost, maybe -4-macro or minus five. | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
The sun comes up at about 750 Faure and then we are into another | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
gorgeous day. -- 7:54am. The odd patch of cloud but it won't spoil | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
the day. Thankfully there is much wind at the moment. It is coming | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
from the east, what little wind there is. With the sunshine and | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
five, 6 degrees won't feel too bad at all. The big question is can we | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
keep it going into the weekend? It looks as though we can, a bit more | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
cloud looks as though we can, a bit more | :11:04. | :11:05. | |
cloud on Sunday. Now the national picture. | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
Good evening, it will gradually get colder in the UK in the next few | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
days, something we don't have to worry about in Australia at this | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
time of year. Of course it's the Australian tennis open at the moment | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
and there's a big storm moving through Melbourne at the moment. | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
Hopefully it will have cleared through by the time of Andy Murray's | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
match. We have high withers and light winds and some interesting | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
contrasts despite things being very slow moving, with the sunshine to | :11:39. | :11:39. |