:00:14. > :00:20.Good evening. I'm Asad Ahmad.
:00:21. > :00:22.A defiant former Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone has appeared before
:00:23. > :00:26.a Labour Party misconduct panel - saying he has nothing
:00:27. > :00:30.to apologise for - after making controversial comments
:00:31. > :00:36.Last year, speaking on BBC Radio London,
:00:37. > :00:39.Mr Livingstone claimed that Hitler "collaborated" with
:00:40. > :00:45.If found guilty, he could be thrown out of the party -
:00:46. > :00:55.Here's our political correspondent, Karl Mercer.
:00:56. > :01:00.This was the scene in Westminster a year ago.
:01:01. > :01:04.Ken Livingstone at the centre of a media scrum over
:01:05. > :01:08.comments he made earlier on BBC Radio London's
:01:09. > :01:13.It is completely over the top to try and dismiss it.
:01:14. > :01:18.Let's remember, when Hitler won his election in 1932 his policy
:01:19. > :01:20.then was Jews should be moved to Israel.
:01:21. > :01:22.He was supporting Zionism before he went mad.
:01:23. > :01:26.Opponents labelled the comments anti-Semitic and Livingstone
:01:27. > :01:31.Berated that morning by angry fellow MP John Mann.
:01:32. > :01:39.This morning London's former mayor turned up at a Labour Party
:01:40. > :01:41.disciplinary hearing, which will rule if he will be
:01:42. > :01:45.He was asked if he will apologise for those comments.
:01:46. > :01:51.If you look at the Jewish Chronicle website that day, it states I said
:01:52. > :01:53.Hitler was a Zionist, it states I said Jews
:01:54. > :01:59.He again defended his words of a year ago.
:02:00. > :02:01.I simply said that back in 1933 Hitler's Government signed a deal
:02:02. > :02:05.with the Zionist movement which would mean that
:02:06. > :02:08.Germany's Jewish community were moved to what is now Israel.
:02:09. > :02:11.That's very different to saying Hitler supporter Zionism.
:02:12. > :02:17.The meeting's being held behind closed doors, taking evidence
:02:18. > :02:21.Ken's consistent failure to recognise the hurt,
:02:22. > :02:25.pain and the offence he's caused within the Jewish community
:02:26. > :02:29.and to Holocaust survivors in the UK make it clear that can be no future
:02:30. > :02:33.for somebody in the Labour Party who has such an appalling disregard
:02:34. > :02:36.and lack of sensitivity around these issues.
:02:37. > :02:38.There's no point hanging around today.
:02:39. > :02:45.The hearing is scheduled to last two days.
:02:46. > :02:48.A Christian nurse sacked by the NHS after offering
:02:49. > :02:51.to pray for patients - is claiming she was
:02:52. > :02:56.Sarah Kuteh was dismissed from Darent Valley Hospital
:02:57. > :02:59.in Dartford, for what was described as "gross misconduct".
:03:00. > :03:03.One complaint from a cancer patient, claimed that the nurse had told him
:03:04. > :04:00.he would have a better chance of survival if he prayed.
:04:01. > :04:25.There is a line that is not distinct yet.
:04:26. > :04:27.She was sacked after ignoring warnings following
:04:28. > :05:17.Patients say she preached and made them feel awkward.
:05:18. > :05:22.Governors at a school in Lambeth have tonight been discussing
:05:23. > :05:23.whether to issue masks for its pupils.
:05:24. > :05:24.London won't have seen anything like it since
:05:25. > :05:28.the Second World War, but these masks are to
:05:29. > :05:31.An over-reaction - or a sensible step that could be copied?
:05:32. > :05:33.Could this mask be the future for children in London?
:05:34. > :05:35.Today, Archbishop Sumner School in Lambeth discussed
:05:36. > :05:39.whether to introduce them to pupils to help limit the effects
:05:40. > :05:52.The real concern as a parent and from the other parents around
:05:53. > :05:55.here is not enough is being done to address diesel fumes
:05:56. > :06:02.We are looking to see if there is a way we can help
:06:03. > :06:05.parents find better routes to school, to invest in masks
:06:06. > :06:32.Nine-year-old Henry thinks it's a good idea.
:06:33. > :06:35.He has asthma and his mum uses backroads to take him to school
:06:36. > :06:42.He says he wishes fewer people used cars.
:06:43. > :06:44.When I'm walking to school I get wheezy and I start to cough
:06:45. > :06:47.and all the car fumes go into my lungs and it makes it
:06:48. > :06:52.Earlier this year the mayor announced toxic air audits would be
:06:53. > :06:55.carried out at 50 primary schools in some of the most polluted areas
:06:56. > :06:57.in London, including at this school in the city,
:06:58. > :07:00.to help the schools work out how to better protect pupils.
:07:01. > :07:02.But in the latest stats from City Hall, it was found 360
:07:03. > :07:05.primary schools are in areas that are exposed to dangerous levels
:07:06. > :07:10.Experts say much more must be done to tackle the problem.
:07:11. > :07:12.ClientEarth is calling for the lower emission zone to cover
:07:13. > :07:19.We are talking about minute particles, less than a 20th
:07:20. > :07:24.What we need to focus on is ensuring the air is clean for everyone
:07:25. > :07:26.to breathe without resorting to things like mask.
:07:27. > :07:28.We need to tackle emissions from road transport,
:07:29. > :07:30.especially diesel vehicles, which are known to
:07:31. > :07:34.The mayor has said he is committed to improving air quality in London
:07:35. > :07:36.and will make a further announcement next week.
:07:37. > :07:38.For many, the time has come to take the problem
:07:39. > :07:43.After spending over 200 years making ammunition and explosives
:07:44. > :07:46.for Britain's Armed Forces, the former Royal Arsenal munitions
:07:47. > :07:48.factory in Woolwich has taken another significant step forward
:07:49. > :07:52.It's been given the go-ahead to create hundreds of jobs
:07:53. > :08:03.It'll rival the South Bank and we sent Yvonne Hall to take a look.
:08:04. > :08:06.His Majesty visits one of our great arms factories to see for himself
:08:07. > :08:10.how Mr Herbert Morrison's go-to-it policy is operating.
:08:11. > :08:12.King George VI on a morale-boosting visit
:08:13. > :08:20.Work here was crucial to supplying troops
:08:21. > :08:23.in the Boer War and both world wars, but gradually arms
:08:24. > :08:27.Now Greenwich council plans to turn the
:08:28. > :08:30.site into a major arts and entertainment complex.
:08:31. > :08:33.This is an amazing courtyard at the back of the
:08:34. > :08:37.ammunition factory and it will be an outdoor event space.
:08:38. > :08:39.We will be able to have, for example,
:08:40. > :08:44.Greenwich and Docklands International Festival, we will be
:08:45. > :08:46.able to have dance here, we can bring in seating, if necessary.
:08:47. > :08:53.The ?31 million development won council approval
:08:54. > :08:59.It includes theatres, music venues and artists' spaces.
:09:00. > :09:01.This is the biggest factory on the site
:09:02. > :09:40.Women used to fill gun cartridges here with TNT.
:09:41. > :09:47.It turned their skin yellow and many died
:09:48. > :09:54.The council has discovered this building has amazing
:09:55. > :09:56.acoustics and they will hold orchestral performances
:09:57. > :10:05.Local historians are delighted they will
:10:06. > :10:09.If they bring these buildings back into the public realm
:10:10. > :10:12.and ensure people will be able to get into them and the type of
:10:13. > :10:19.It was the warmest day of the year so far, wonderful spring sunshine
:10:20. > :10:23.out and about, but it will turn cooler over the next 24 hours. It's
:10:24. > :10:26.17 Celsius in the centre of town, with the southerly wind bringing
:10:27. > :10:29.quite a bit of clouding. There could be an odd isolated light shower
:10:30. > :10:35.across western areas overnight. For most of us, a dry night. Pictures
:10:36. > :10:39.drifting slowly down to 11-12. Tomorrow, a cold front pushes across
:10:40. > :10:43.the region in the morning. It will bring cloud and a few spots of rain
:10:44. > :10:47.in Hampshire. By the time it pushes across the Southeast it will be so
:10:48. > :10:51.weak, it could stay entirely dry. It's uncertain we will see much in
:10:52. > :10:55.the way of rain. As we head into the afternoon the cloud breaks up and we
:10:56. > :11:00.will see sunshine. Not quite as warm us today, 17 LCF is good for the
:11:01. > :11:01.time of year. The chance of a shower on
:11:02. > :11:08.time of year. The chance of a shower on Saturday. Sunday will be dry.
:11:09. > :11:15.Hello, it will cool off over the next few days but that's not
:11:16. > :11:21.unusual, given how warm it was today. This was London. We just had
:11:22. > :11:25.the warmest March day since 2012, 20 two Celsius in the Sunnis skies in
:11:26. > :11:29.the south-east. It was much warmer than recently in north-eastern
:11:30. > :11:32.Scotland, but in between we had a zone of outbreaks of rain. It's
:11:33. > :11:36.pretty wet in south-west Scotland and North West England at the
:11:37. > :11:42.moment. This was the scene earlier, with rainy skies. There's more rain
:11:43. > :11:45.to come overnight. We could see a few splashes running eastwards into
:11:46. > :11:48.England, but most of the wet weather is further west. We will see heavy
:11:49. > :11:49.rain arriving in Northern Ireland.