30/03/2017 London News

Good evening. I'm Asad Ahmad.

A defiant former Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone has appeared before

a Labour Party misconduct panel - saying he has nothing

to apologise for - after making controversial comments

Last year, speaking on BBC Radio London,

Mr Livingstone claimed that Hitler "collaborated" with

If found guilty, he could be thrown out of the party -

Here's our political correspondent, Karl Mercer.

This was the scene in Westminster a year ago.

Ken Livingstone at the centre of a media scrum over

comments he made earlier on BBC Radio London's

It is completely over the top to try and dismiss it.

Let's remember, when Hitler won his election in 1932 his policy

then was Jews should be moved to Israel.

He was supporting Zionism before he went mad.

Opponents labelled the comments anti-Semitic and Livingstone

Berated that morning by angry fellow MP John Mann.

This morning London's former mayor turned up at a Labour Party

disciplinary hearing, which will rule if he will be

He was asked if he will apologise for those comments.

If you look at the Jewish Chronicle website that day, it states I said

Hitler was a Zionist, it states I said Jews

He again defended his words of a year ago.

I simply said that back in 1933 Hitler's Government signed a deal

with the Zionist movement which would mean that

Germany's Jewish community were moved to what is now Israel.

That's very different to saying Hitler supporter Zionism.

The meeting's being held behind closed doors, taking evidence

Ken's consistent failure to recognise the hurt,

pain and the offence he's caused within the Jewish community

and to Holocaust survivors in the UK make it clear that can be no future

for somebody in the Labour Party who has such an appalling disregard

and lack of sensitivity around these issues.

There's no point hanging around today.

The hearing is scheduled to last two days.

A Christian nurse sacked by the NHS after offering

to pray for patients - is claiming she was

Sarah Kuteh was dismissed from Darent Valley Hospital

in Dartford, for what was described as "gross misconduct".

One complaint from a cancer patient, claimed that the nurse had told him

he would have a better chance of survival if he prayed.

There is a line that is not distinct yet.

She was sacked after ignoring warnings following

Patients say she preached and made them feel awkward.

Governors at a school in Lambeth have tonight been discussing

whether to issue masks for its pupils.

London won't have seen anything like it since

the Second World War, but these masks are to

An over-reaction - or a sensible step that could be copied?

Could this mask be the future for children in London?

Today, Archbishop Sumner School in Lambeth discussed

whether to introduce them to pupils to help limit the effects

The real concern as a parent and from the other parents around

here is not enough is being done to address diesel fumes

We are looking to see if there is a way we can help

parents find better routes to school, to invest in masks

Nine-year-old Henry thinks it's a good idea.

He has asthma and his mum uses backroads to take him to school

He says he wishes fewer people used cars.

When I'm walking to school I get wheezy and I start to cough

and all the car fumes go into my lungs and it makes it

Earlier this year the mayor announced toxic air audits would be

carried out at 50 primary schools in some of the most polluted areas

in London, including at this school in the city,

to help the schools work out how to better protect pupils.

But in the latest stats from City Hall, it was found 360

primary schools are in areas that are exposed to dangerous levels

Experts say much more must be done to tackle the problem.

ClientEarth is calling for the lower emission zone to cover

We are talking about minute particles, less than a 20th

What we need to focus on is ensuring the air is clean for everyone

to breathe without resorting to things like mask.

We need to tackle emissions from road transport,

especially diesel vehicles, which are known to

The mayor has said he is committed to improving air quality in London

and will make a further announcement next week.

For many, the time has come to take the problem

After spending over 200 years making ammunition and explosives

for Britain's Armed Forces, the former Royal Arsenal munitions

factory in Woolwich has taken another significant step forward

It's been given the go-ahead to create hundreds of jobs

It'll rival the South Bank and we sent Yvonne Hall to take a look.

His Majesty visits one of our great arms factories to see for himself

how Mr Herbert Morrison's go-to-it policy is operating.

King George VI on a morale-boosting visit

Work here was crucial to supplying troops

in the Boer War and both world wars, but gradually arms

Now Greenwich council plans to turn the

site into a major arts and entertainment complex.

This is an amazing courtyard at the back of the

ammunition factory and it will be an outdoor event space.

We will be able to have, for example,

Greenwich and Docklands International Festival, we will be

able to have dance here, we can bring in seating, if necessary.

The ?31 million development won council approval

It includes theatres, music venues and artists' spaces.

This is the biggest factory on the site

Women used to fill gun cartridges here with TNT.

It turned their skin yellow and many died

The council has discovered this building has amazing

acoustics and they will hold orchestral performances

Local historians are delighted they will

If they bring these buildings back into the public realm

and ensure people will be able to get into them and the type of

It was the warmest day of the year so far, wonderful spring sunshine

out and about, but it will turn cooler over the next 24 hours. It's

17 Celsius in the centre of town, with the southerly wind bringing

quite a bit of clouding. There could be an odd isolated light shower

across western areas overnight. For most of us, a dry night. Pictures

drifting slowly down to 11-12. Tomorrow, a cold front pushes across

the region in the morning. It will bring cloud and a few spots of rain

in Hampshire. By the time it pushes across the Southeast it will be so

weak, it could stay entirely dry. It's uncertain we will see much in

the way of rain. As we head into the afternoon the cloud breaks up and we

will see sunshine. Not quite as warm us today, 17 LCF is good for the

time of year. The chance of a shower on

time of year. The chance of a shower on Saturday. Sunday will be dry.

Hello, it will cool off over the next few days but that's not

unusual, given how warm it was today. This was London. We just had

the warmest March day since 2012, 20 two Celsius in the Sunnis skies in

the south-east. It was much warmer than recently in north-eastern

Scotland, but in between we had a zone of outbreaks of rain. It's

pretty wet in south-west Scotland and North West England at the

moment. This was the scene earlier, with rainy skies. There's more rain

to come overnight. We could see a few splashes running eastwards into

England, but most of the wet weather is further west. We will see heavy

rain arriving in Northern Ireland.