:00:16. > :00:18.A very good evening from BBC London News, I am Riz Lateef.
:00:19. > :00:21.First tonight, a warning that a hard Brexit could severely damage
:00:22. > :00:23.the capital's ability to build thousands of affordable homes needed
:00:24. > :00:26.Figures from the Mayor's office show around
:00:27. > :00:29.one in four builders in London is from the European Union.
:00:30. > :00:34.Our political correspondent Karl Mercer has the story.
:00:35. > :00:36.Valentine and Georgian are a long way from home,
:00:37. > :00:41.From Romania, they've been here nearly four years,
:00:42. > :00:48.that's helping power the capital's construction industry.
:00:49. > :00:50.When people come here for the first time, they think London
:00:51. > :00:52.is something amazing, but it's not like that.
:00:53. > :00:57.When you come, you start to make something here, it's not easy.
:00:58. > :01:02.You need a lot of power to make something here.
:01:03. > :01:20.Because you need the money, for all this you come here.
:01:21. > :01:22.Today, City Hall has released figures that show these
:01:23. > :01:26.They say there are something like 350,000 construction
:01:27. > :01:33.Of those, some 95,000, or 27%, are from the European Union,
:01:34. > :01:34.a further 3% are from other European countries,
:01:35. > :01:38.14% from other coutnries around the world.
:01:39. > :01:42.Eastern Europeans are the absolute lifeblood
:01:43. > :01:46.of the construction industry, especially in London.
:01:47. > :01:50.Our experience is that there's a perfect storm coming -
:01:51. > :01:55.we want to deliver more homes, we want to supply more homes,
:01:56. > :02:02.but frankly without the construction workers and with
:02:03. > :02:05.imports becoming more expensive, you're heading into a perfect storm.
:02:06. > :02:07.The Mayor has sent ambitious targets for housebuilding,
:02:08. > :02:09.his team today warning that anything that puts workers off
:02:10. > :02:16.Without them, you would not be able to meet the target that you have set
:02:17. > :02:18.yourselves of building at least 90,000 affordable homes by 2020?
:02:19. > :02:21.We have very challenging targets to meet,
:02:22. > :02:24.and we know it's going to be a marathon, not a sprint.
:02:25. > :02:27.We know it's going to be hard to get there,
:02:28. > :02:29.and I think this really underscores the fact
:02:30. > :02:31.that a hard Brexit would make that job a lot harder.
:02:32. > :02:34.You won't be able to do it without them, will you?
:02:35. > :02:36.We need to make sure we avoid a hard Brexit,
:02:37. > :02:39.so that we have those highly valuable, EU nationals contributing
:02:40. > :02:41.towards our efforts to increase building in London.
:02:42. > :02:43.You're not going to answer yes or no, are you?
:02:44. > :02:46.I think we need to avoid a hard Brexit.
:02:47. > :02:48.MPs were also asking the same question
:02:49. > :02:50.of the Housing Minister in Parliament this afternoon.
:02:51. > :02:53.If there is a mass exodus, if you like, what will be the effect?
:02:54. > :02:55.I don't really want to speculate on that,
:02:56. > :02:58.because I don't think that's what's going to happen.
:02:59. > :03:00.The Government is very, very clear that our priority,
:03:01. > :03:03.as soon as we get the negotiation under way, is to secure
:03:04. > :03:06.the status of British citizens in the EU and EU citizens here.
:03:07. > :03:08.People like Valentine and Georgian, helping London's building industry
:03:09. > :03:16.while it works out how to train more British workers.
:03:17. > :03:22.Two Met Police officers are set to keep their jobs
:03:23. > :03:24.after they stopped off at a McDonald's before
:03:25. > :03:30.in how they dealt with the case in which a woman committed suicide.
:03:31. > :03:32.Jim Wheble joins us with the details.
:03:33. > :03:40.Tell us more about the emergency they were responding to.
:03:41. > :03:50.Well, this focuses on events around midnight in April 2000 and 15. The
:03:51. > :03:54.two police officers were in a patrol car, they had accepted a 999 call,
:03:55. > :03:59.the information they were given was that a young woman, who was
:04:00. > :04:03.psychotic, had sent a suicidal text message to a friend. She wasn't
:04:04. > :04:07.opening her door, she was said to be a danger to herself. But the
:04:08. > :04:11.officers drove away and went to McDonald's, had a cup of tea, did
:04:12. > :04:15.some paperwork relating to another incident, and then under 40 minutes
:04:16. > :04:23.later, they went to the young woman's house, they found dead, she
:04:24. > :04:27.had hanged herself. What was said at the hearing today? Well, the two
:04:28. > :04:31.officers admitted they had made poor decisions, but they said their
:04:32. > :04:35.actions had not added to gross misconduct, but misconduct. Both
:04:36. > :04:40.parties except that, even if they had got there sooner, they wouldn't
:04:41. > :04:44.have been able to save this woman. Tellingly, the panel also accepted
:04:45. > :04:51.their argument that they hadn't been properly trained. The officers said
:04:52. > :04:57.they had had up to 60 minutes to respond to a category two call, not
:04:58. > :05:01.a top priority call. As a result of this, the charge was struck out, and
:05:02. > :05:03.tomorrow they will find out what sanction they face. Jim, thank you
:05:04. > :05:04.very much. BBC London has discovered that
:05:05. > :05:07.a growing number of men from the capital are among
:05:08. > :05:09.the thousands marrying who are then outcast
:05:10. > :05:13.by their own community. In some cases,
:05:14. > :05:15.the motive is financial, as the groom is given a dowry
:05:16. > :05:18.by the bride's family. Chris Rogers has
:05:19. > :05:21.this special report. She's one of thousands of women
:05:22. > :05:26.who entered an arranged marriage in her homeland willingly
:05:27. > :05:29.with a British Indian. She hasn't seen him
:05:30. > :05:32.since their wedding night. She spent all her savings
:05:33. > :05:34.to get here in the hope of meeting him
:05:35. > :05:37.and to get a divorce. Ritu insists she did not feel
:05:38. > :05:40.pressured into the marriage, but the wedding took place
:05:41. > :05:43.just 48 hours after they had met. he assured her that he would arrange
:05:44. > :05:49.for her to join him. But the marriage broke down,
:05:50. > :05:51.and it never happened. Why he did this?
:05:52. > :05:56.What has he gained out of it? Not a day had come in my life
:05:57. > :05:59.where you would really feel that you want to end this now.
:06:00. > :06:06.Sorry. I've travelled from London to Punjab
:06:07. > :06:10.in the north of India. It's the same journey
:06:11. > :06:12.that every year hundreds of Indian British nationals
:06:13. > :06:18.make, looking for a wife. there are well over 15,000
:06:19. > :06:22.abandoned wives here. Many believe they were
:06:23. > :06:25.married for money. Despite the dowry being outlawed
:06:26. > :06:28.since 1961, families still offer tens of thousands of pounds
:06:29. > :06:33.to the groom before the wedding. After the wedding,
:06:34. > :06:38.then I arrive in London... He said, "I don't love you,
:06:39. > :06:48.I just like you." The cultural stigma of divorce
:06:49. > :06:51.in India can leave women Back in London, Ritu finally gets
:06:52. > :07:00.to meet her husband in private. It was really sad
:07:01. > :07:05.that he didn't even recognise me, he doesn't want to answer
:07:06. > :07:08.any of my questions. Unable to secure a divorce
:07:09. > :07:12.from their British husbands, many South Asian wives resign
:07:13. > :07:15.themselves to life as an outcast, while their husbands face
:07:16. > :07:19.no such cultural barriers. Now, when it comes
:07:20. > :07:25.to last night's Oscars - the big mix-up over
:07:26. > :07:27.the award for Best Picture But there was no mistaking
:07:28. > :07:31.who won the Oscar In fact, it's the seventh year
:07:32. > :07:35.in a row that a London-based company
:07:36. > :07:37.has scooped the award. The Jungle Book was almost entirely
:07:38. > :07:46.made up of visual special effects. This mixture of one tiny actor
:07:47. > :07:49.and a cast of computer-generated animals was a recipe
:07:50. > :07:54.for Oscars success. Something like 50% of
:07:55. > :07:59.the shots were full CG. around 80% of the image
:08:00. > :08:05.at all times is digital. It took the efforts of 800 artists
:08:06. > :08:10.based here in London. Even for this team,
:08:11. > :08:12.it was a big ask. We're used to not noticing
:08:13. > :08:16.the visual effects in a film, and that's when you know you've
:08:17. > :08:19.done your job well. Obviously, in this case,
:08:20. > :08:22.it's the main point, A brilliant win for the people
:08:23. > :08:27.who did Jungle Book. they conjured up this
:08:28. > :08:31.amazing Indian jungle. I mean, it is so lifelike -
:08:32. > :08:36.next-level visual effects, I think. Special visual effects is a category
:08:37. > :08:40.London companies have dominated. In 2012, MPC won its first
:08:41. > :08:44.Oscar for Life Of Pi. Framestore followed
:08:45. > :08:48.that up with Gravity. Double Negative won two years
:08:49. > :08:50.running for Interstellar Now MPC has won again
:08:51. > :08:56.for The Jungle Book. It's a surrealistic experience, I
:08:57. > :08:58.have to say. When I woke up the morning and saw
:08:59. > :09:02.the Oscar sitting there in my house, but it's sort of sunk in a
:09:03. > :09:08.little more, if that makes sense. MPC is now working on
:09:09. > :09:10.a new version of The Lion King. Who'd bet against them winning again
:09:11. > :09:13.in a few years' time? But let's find out how the weather's
:09:14. > :09:31.shaping up with Wendy. No, a bit of shower dodging today,
:09:32. > :09:36.and there will be more of that, but the plus side of having showers and
:09:37. > :09:39.then some sunshine is that it looks very pretty. We had lots of lovely
:09:40. > :09:44.rainbows throughout London today, the Weather Watchers out in force,
:09:45. > :09:48.looking for pots of cold, one in Canary Wharf, who knew?! As we go
:09:49. > :09:53.through the week, that familiar mix of sunshine spells, some white
:09:54. > :09:56.weather, at first quite chilly, because the temperature at the
:09:57. > :10:07.moment is falling under clearing skies. Temperatures close to if not
:10:08. > :10:11.at freezing, so watch out for eyes and a foot first thing tomorrow
:10:12. > :10:16.morning. But for most of us, it will be a dry enough commute with some
:10:17. > :10:21.spells of sunshine, breezy from the outset, but don't be fooled, later
:10:22. > :10:26.on you might get caught in a shower, and they may have a wintry element
:10:27. > :10:30.as well, temperatures resolutely in single figures. As we go through the
:10:31. > :10:35.week, it will calm down a little bit at times, Wednesday mostly dry, a
:10:36. > :10:38.lot of cloud around, rain coming through after dark, then a brief
:10:39. > :10:42.ridge of high pressure on Thursday, perhaps with some sunshine, the
:10:43. > :10:47.breezy as day of the week, then more rain on Friday. This is the bigger
:10:48. > :10:50.outlook for the weekend, low pressure after low pressure after
:10:51. > :10:53.low pressure, another behind me, and as you can tell that means unsettled
:10:54. > :11:01.over the weekend. John Hammond has the weather for the
:11:02. > :11:14.rest of the country. According to one man-made
:11:15. > :11:19.definition, spring begins in a couple of days, but in reality
:11:20. > :11:26.weather does it own thing at its own pace. This was taken in Midlothian,
:11:27. > :11:30.a funny old day, some lovely rainbows, downpours, burst of
:11:31. > :11:35.sunshine, and out of the breeze it felt a little bit springlike. At the
:11:36. > :11:39.moment we have clusters of cloud crossing the country, generating
:11:40. > :11:43.wintry showers, clearer gaps in between allowing sunshine by day,
:11:44. > :11:44.but overnight that means dropping temperatures, already a frost in
:11:45. > :11:45.some