04/04/2017

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:00:14. > :00:19.Eight further people, including a 15 year-old boy,

:00:20. > :00:23.have appeared in court in connection with an alleged attack on a teenage

:00:24. > :00:26.The 17-year-old Kurdish-Iranian boy is still in intensive care.

:00:27. > :00:29.As Ayshea Buksh reports, the incident has left

:00:30. > :00:38.He came to the UK in search of a better life, but is now

:00:39. > :00:40.in hospital recovering from an alleged violent

:00:41. > :00:43.17-year-old Reker Ahmed is an asylum seeker who fled

:00:44. > :00:51.He travelled across Europe and arrived on his own in Croydon

:00:52. > :00:59.He made friends with Dilshad Mohammed, a fellow Kurd from Iraq.

:01:00. > :01:02.He was with him at the time of the alleged attack on Friday.

:01:03. > :01:08.TRANSLATION: We was all wishing to come here,

:01:09. > :01:10.freedom, college, get visa, working...

:01:11. > :01:13.But now, after what happened to us, we are not happy

:01:14. > :01:20.Many asylum seekers have passed through Croydon.

:01:21. > :01:25.Lunar House is the Home Office centre for processing asylum claims.

:01:26. > :01:30.Earlier this year, the local Citizens UK group organised

:01:31. > :01:32.a welcome for unaccompanied children arriving from Europe,

:01:33. > :01:35.after the so-called Calais jungle was disbanded.

:01:36. > :01:44.We had children, refugee children from Europe coming to Lunar House

:01:45. > :01:48.here and just behind me almost every day there were sort of 200 people

:01:49. > :01:52.out here from local schools, from local churches,

:01:53. > :01:55.local mosques, just ordinary people from the local community,

:01:56. > :01:57.out here to say that refugees are welcome.

:01:58. > :01:59.So I think that is the true spirit of Croydon, that people

:02:00. > :02:06.On the night of the alleged attack, Reker and Dilshad were on their way

:02:07. > :02:08.to hang out with fellow Kurds in west Croydon.

:02:09. > :02:11.Other young Kurdish men I spoke to off-camera told me they have had

:02:12. > :02:14.some problems with locals before, but never anything this extreme.

:02:15. > :02:18.Dilshad says he's still shaken up by what happened and wants to go

:02:19. > :02:23.TRANSLATION: When we was kids, we were hoping

:02:24. > :02:31.Reker Ahmed is still in hospital with a fractured spine and eye

:02:32. > :02:39.Fundraising websites have been set up to help in his recovery.

:02:40. > :02:45.Tonight, a football ground fell silent to honour the police

:02:46. > :02:48.officer who was killed in the Westminster attack.

:02:49. > :02:52.PC Keith Palmer was a life-long fan of Charlton Athletic,

:02:53. > :02:55.and this evening the club and fans paid tribute to him.

:02:56. > :03:01.Tonight they came to pay their respects, and to say a proper

:03:02. > :03:06.One of the reasons I'm down here tonight, you know,

:03:07. > :03:08.to show my respects, and obviously get behind

:03:09. > :03:12.the team, but do my bit, tip my hat so to speak.

:03:13. > :03:16.A scarf was left on the seat from where he watched the last

:03:17. > :03:19.home game against Bradford on March 14th, and so many

:03:20. > :03:26.Today the scarf was removed and the seat was replaced by a white

:03:27. > :03:29.one, embossed with PC Keith Palmer's warrant number.

:03:30. > :03:33.That will stay in place until the end of the season,

:03:34. > :03:36.at which point a permanent memorial stone will be built

:03:37. > :03:43.Before kick off, PC Palmer's stepbrother led the teams out.

:03:44. > :03:47.The players were then joined by 22 of his former police colleagues,

:03:48. > :03:50.as the entire stadium fell silent in his memory.

:03:51. > :03:54.These players tonight have played in front of Keith this season.

:03:55. > :03:58.They are also husbands and fathers themselves, and when they heard

:03:59. > :04:00.about it, they were moved, because they wanted to send

:04:01. > :04:05.a message and give something towards a grieving family.

:04:06. > :04:10.In this corner of south-east London, and indeed throughout the capital,

:04:11. > :04:19.and the country, PC Keith Palmer will never be forgotten.

:04:20. > :04:25.Charleton SC paying tribute to PC Keith Palmer. -- Charlton paying

:04:26. > :04:28.tribute. Drivers could be hit by a new daily

:04:29. > :04:31.charge under the Mayor's plan He's previously announced plans to

:04:32. > :04:35.create an ultra-low emissions zone. Today, we learned when its coming

:04:36. > :04:38.in and how much motorists will pay. You can't see it,

:04:39. > :04:43.but the air in London, A stark warning from the mayor

:04:44. > :04:47.to these schoolchildren He compared today's air

:04:48. > :04:53.to the great smog in 1952, which led to the government passing

:04:54. > :04:56.the Clean Air Act. If you opened your front door,

:04:57. > :05:00.you would step out and you couldn't see in front of you,

:05:01. > :05:02.so it was incredibly visible. This was a smog that lasted not one

:05:03. > :05:06.day, not two days, but four days, But the really, I suppose

:05:07. > :05:10.the critical element was that The mayor has put cleaning up

:05:11. > :05:16.London's air at the heart of his mayoralty and today he set

:05:17. > :05:20.out a timetable for his plan. On top of the current

:05:21. > :05:24.congestion charge of ?11.50, from October this year a further

:05:25. > :05:27.T-Charge of ?10 will hit those But from April 2019 that will become

:05:28. > :05:34.the ULEZ, and that charge And by 2021, that's to be extended

:05:35. > :05:41.out as far as the North and South circulars for the most polluting

:05:42. > :05:44.cars, and it will be charged across the whole of Greater London

:05:45. > :05:47.for lorries and buses, Nowhere else in the

:05:48. > :05:54.world has done this. What we're doing is the ultralow

:05:55. > :05:57.emissions zone for central London by 2019, subject to consultation,

:05:58. > :06:01.that's the quickest we can go. We're going to go London wide

:06:02. > :06:07.for lorries, coaches and buses by 2020, subject to consultation,

:06:08. > :06:11.and the earliest we can do up to the South circular

:06:12. > :06:15.and North circular is 2021. We've got to give people a chance

:06:16. > :06:18.to move away from diesel. That's an adjustment

:06:19. > :06:20.that will be difficult for some business owners,

:06:21. > :06:22.like Jeremy, who runs this It's going to make a huge

:06:23. > :06:26.impact to the business, because it means virtually changing

:06:27. > :06:33.the entire fleet. The five we've changed her body cost

:06:34. > :06:36.just under ?750,000 and to upgrade the rest of the fleet will cost

:06:37. > :06:39.about ?2 million. Not the sort of money you keep

:06:40. > :06:42.in your back pocket. But for green campaigners it falls

:06:43. > :06:44.short of what the Mayor I was absolutely

:06:45. > :06:53.expecting much more. We were hoping that heavy

:06:54. > :06:55.goods vehicles, lorries, buses and coaches would all have

:06:56. > :06:58.to be ULEZ compliant by 2019. That's been pushed back to 2020,

:06:59. > :07:03.and that means more people being exposed to more dirty

:07:04. > :07:05.air for longer. The mayor hopes that introducing

:07:06. > :07:08.the ULEZ will lead to a 50% cut There will now be a public

:07:09. > :07:16.consultation on the plans. So as we've heard former

:07:17. > :07:23.Mayor Ken Livingstone has been suspended from the Labour Party

:07:24. > :07:31.following a disciplinary hearing It's not the first time

:07:32. > :07:35.the outspoken politician has fallen It was 31 years ago that

:07:36. > :07:38.Ken Livingstone waved goodbye He'd been its leader for five years,

:07:39. > :07:43.building a reputation on keeping fares down and courting controversy

:07:44. > :07:46.with some of the company he kept But he wasn't out of power

:07:47. > :07:49.for long, becoming MP Never far from the headlines,

:07:50. > :07:53.London's former lead politician decided he'd have a tilt at the top

:07:54. > :07:55.job again, when Tony Blair's government decided

:07:56. > :07:58.that capital needed a mayor. Folk hero to some, dangerous

:07:59. > :08:01.extremist to others, Ken Livingstone's always been

:08:02. > :08:03.a colourful character. Only Tony Blair didn't

:08:04. > :08:07.want Ken Livingstone. I think that would be disastrous

:08:08. > :08:09.for the Labour Party, Frank Dobson was selected

:08:10. > :08:16.as Labour's candidate, You can say now, are you going

:08:17. > :08:21.to support me or are you going Ken Livingstone leaving

:08:22. > :08:29.the Labour Party, to I have been forced to choose

:08:30. > :08:36.between the party I love and who I've given 31

:08:37. > :08:39.years of my life to, and upholding the democratic

:08:40. > :08:40.rights of Londoners. He won easily, back

:08:41. > :08:42.running London once more. As I was saying before I was so

:08:43. > :08:46.rudely interrupted 14 years ago... And before long, the Labour

:08:47. > :08:50.Party let him back in. It looks very much as if red Ken

:08:51. > :08:55.is having the last laugh. He went on to win the mayoral race

:08:56. > :08:57.as Labour's candidate the following year, but in 2005

:08:58. > :09:01.became involved in a high profile anti-Semitism row,

:09:02. > :09:03.after these comments to a newspaper reporter one

:09:04. > :09:20.night outside City Hall. It led him to being temporarily

:09:21. > :09:23.suspended from office a year later, and at the next election he lost

:09:24. > :09:28.to Boris Johnson. Ken Livingstone was proudly rolled

:09:29. > :09:31.out as one of Sadiq Khan's early backers when he decided to run

:09:32. > :09:34.for mayor, but after the outburst that got him into trouble,

:09:35. > :09:36.Labour's candidate for City Hall I'm disgusted and appalled

:09:37. > :09:42.by what Ken has been saying. Of course there has to be

:09:43. > :09:44.due process, but he's Tonight Ken Livingstone's been

:09:45. > :09:47.suspended from the party for two years, one of

:09:48. > :09:52.which he's already served. But let's get a check

:09:53. > :10:10.on the weather with Wendy. Thank you, Mrs T in Brentford

:10:11. > :10:15.spotted a fleeting glimpse of blue sky today. I think we will see a few

:10:16. > :10:20.more sunny spells through this week and in those it will feel quite

:10:21. > :10:24.warm, but not tonight. We are going to have clear skies. Almost clear

:10:25. > :10:28.completely out there at a moment and the temperature will fall back, 6-7,

:10:29. > :10:34.a little bit lower for some. There could be a touch of frost in

:10:35. > :10:38.sheltered spots. A sunny start tomorrow and a common theme in the

:10:39. > :10:42.next few days, rather more cloudy afternoon. Average temperatures up

:10:43. > :10:52.to about 14 degrees. This Thursday we'll be chasing some cloud around,

:10:53. > :10:55.some sunny from time to time and it will take one of those to get

:10:56. > :10:57.temperatures up to about 15 degrees. Light winds and dry again. On the

:10:58. > :11:01.outlook, more of the same for Friday and into the weekend it warms up a

:11:02. > :11:02.bit from the south, so we could