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Good evening and welcome to BBC London News, | :00:11. | :00:12. | |
They were once thought to be the greener choice for drivers, | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
but the pollution diesel cars emit means they could soon be paying | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
an extra 'toxin tax' to drive in the capital. | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
Now the Mayor has written to the Prime Minister, | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
asking her to help diesel drivers who were encouraged to buy | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
their vehicles with tax incentives and lower costs. | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
But the mayor wants to make it more difficult to drive | :00:33. | :00:43. | |
He says our toxic air leaves him no choice. | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
But it's not welcome news to drivers like Saffy, | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
I went diesel because of economic reasons, | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
They tend to do more miles than a petrol car, | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
I thought they were better for the environment. | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
We were led to believe that diesel was the way forward and many | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
The mayor's plans include the T charge - drivers of the worst | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
polluting cars would pay an extra ?10 in the Congestion Zone. | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
Today, he wrote to the Prime Minister calling for the government | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
The total cost, thought to be more than ?500 million. | :01:25. | :01:48. | |
The mayor recognises he's in a difficult position. | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
On the one hand, he says it's vital to clean up the capital's air. | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
On the other, he is under pressure not unfairly penalise London's | :01:55. | :01:56. | |
drivers who were once encouraged buy diesel cars. | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
And encouraged by the mayor's own party. | :02:04. | :02:12. | |
It was a Labour government who lowered the tax on diesel | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
at a time many believed it was greener. | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
I think it's a good thing for politicians | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
Now the experts say that diesel is responsible for a lot of the air | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
I don't want to leave families worse off, I don't want to leave | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
I'm saying, the government has got to step up and help. | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
But some are worried whether they will get | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
Most cars at this dealership in Willesden are diesel, | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
because they say that's what most customers still want. | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
At the moment a lot of our vehicles are diesel. | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
Obviously if Sadiq Khan is looking at a scrappage scheme it'll | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
affect us in the long run, because we could have diesel | :02:53. | :02:54. | |
vehicles we can't sell and customers who are very concerned. | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
The mayor agrees the message to consumers must be clearer, | :03:00. | :03:01. | |
but says it is now over to the government to play its part. | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
He wants drivers discouraged from using diesel, but not punished | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
We heard the Mayor asking for the government's help. | :03:09. | :03:22. | |
It's a possibility. The reason Sadiq Khan is pushing hard on this is | :03:23. | :03:31. | |
because London is one of the most polluted cities in Europe. More than | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
9000 people die early as a result of pollution, caused by diesel | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
vehicles. If Sadiq Khan wants them scraps, but it's tough for him, but | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
it's Labour that encouraged us to buy diesel in the first place. So he | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
needs the help of a Tory government. Theresa May has signalled in the | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
last few days she doesn't want to see the owners of diesel cars | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
punished. So the signs are looking good. But she's got big things | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
coming up this year, Brexit and soap it's not known how much of a | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
priority this is for her. The indications are that diesel cars are | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
going to be on our roads for some time yet. | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
A woman from St Albans accused of knocking down and killing | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
a 70-year-old cyclist has been cleared of careless driving. | :04:18. | :04:19. | |
Michael Mason was knocked off his bike on Regent Street | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
and died three weeks later from a brain injury. | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
The case, brought by a cycling charity, is believed to be | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
the first to be paid for through crowd funding. | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
The Prime Minister has used the launch of her party's local | :04:32. | :04:33. | |
election campaign to attack Labour for its handling of the Ken | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
Theresa May said the Jewish community had been betrayed | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
A Labour Party, which just this week revealed the depths | :04:42. | :04:49. | |
to which it has now sunk, betraying the Jewish community | :04:50. | :04:51. | |
in our country by letting Ken Livingstone off the hook. | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
It could not be clearer that the Labour Party is now a long | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
way away from the common centre ground of British politics today. | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
An Essex council is heading to the High Court to stop | :05:06. | :05:07. | |
the construction of two illegal travellers' sites. | :05:08. | :05:09. | |
The Hovefield camps are less than two miles from Dale Farm - | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
which cost Basildon Council millions of pounds to clear six years ago. | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
The travellers at the new site say they have nowhere else to go, | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
Green belt land in Basildon, which the council says should | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
Last month, people living nearby on Hovefields Avenue | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
Tarmac was laid, and mobile homes appeared. | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
That's despite an injunction by the High Court back in October, | :05:37. | :05:38. | |
banning any further development on two specific sites. | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
If you develop an area, you have to have infrastructure, | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
The council has to agree, you cannot just set up, | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
be it a caravan, a house, a bungalow, just where you think | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
you will, because you have decided to develop. | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
It matters not that they are Travellers, it's just an individual | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
or a group of people cannot develop illegally. | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
Basildon Council is now taking legal action. | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
On this one, we've had injunctions down for a number of months now | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
which have been breached, and that is a criminal offence. | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
The unauthorised development is just three miles away | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
from the Dale Farm Travellers Site in Wickford. | :06:25. | :06:25. | |
There are two separately-owned pieces of land in question, | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
one is west of Hovefields Avenue, the other is known as | :06:29. | :06:30. | |
And, if nothing's done, some people fear a repeat of this, | :06:31. | :06:39. | |
the chaotic clearance in 2011 of the part of Dale Farm that had | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
been illegally occupied and developed by Travellers | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
80 families were evicted from unlawful plots, | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
the process costing Basildon Council more than ?4 million. | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
Six years on, and Dale Farm, to the right of the existing legal | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
site, is slowly returning to green belt. | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
But those who work with Travellers say there aren't | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
People have to exist, and they have to have a place to live. | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
They can buy their own property, they can put in for planning | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
permission, but sometimes that takes years to go through. | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
And in the meantime, 99.9% of Gypsy and Traveller | :07:16. | :07:17. | |
Lawyers for Basildon Council will come here to the High Court | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
tomorrow to ask for an order giving them permission to go onto the land | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
west of Hovefields Avenue, to undo some of the recent | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
developments, and restore the site to how it was in October | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
when the injunction banning further development was issued. | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
Although, it could be just the start of a long | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
Refugees should be treated with respect and sympathy - | :07:43. | :07:51. | |
that's the message from Kurdish leaders in Croydon, after a teenage | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
asylum seeker was severely beaten there last week. | :07:56. | :07:57. | |
Members of his community have been visiting him in hospital and told | :07:58. | :07:59. | |
us how he's grateful for people's support. | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
With a broken spine, fractured eye socket | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
and a bleed on his brain, Reker Ahmed had trouble recognising | :08:09. | :08:10. | |
But when he did, he told them what was going through his mind | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
He thought he was really going to die. | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
That's what he said, he thought he is gone. | :08:20. | :08:21. | |
You could see from his face when he was trying to move, | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
that he was in quite a bit of pain and agony. | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
His left eye, he couldn't quite open it, it was black and blue. | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
The 17-year-old had been settling well into his local community. | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
He had fled the regime in Iran last year. | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
What is it that drove Reker to the UK? | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
There's a huge repression and oppression against | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
So he fled from the persecutions and oppression over there, | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
He's been living there, and for something like this | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
to happen to a refugee who has gone through so much suffering | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
13 people have been charged in connection | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
The teenager was beaten and kicked by a gang as he waited | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
Since then, more than ?50,000 has been raised to help him. | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
When I actually conveyed the message to say that the British people | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
were well behind him, that they were totally | :09:22. | :09:23. | |
against this attack, it put a big smile on his face, | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
and he actually lifted his hand and put it on his | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
So he did really appreciate that, and that was something I think that | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
I hope that he's going to make a steady recovery, and this will not | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
cause him any further complications as a result of this attack. | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
But nevertheless, I think this will stay with him | :09:45. | :09:46. | |
You could see from the extent of the injuries to his face | :09:47. | :09:53. | |
and body, he will never forget about this attack. | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
That's it for now from me, but let's find out what | :09:57. | :10:04. | |
Three more days and days to come and temperatures will be on the rise. | :10:05. | :10:16. | |
After a quiet day today we have sunshine, sky clear tonight. | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
Temperatures dip away. It will be a chilly start, a chilly start to what | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
should be a lovely day with long spells of sunshine. The sun will be | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
up quite quickly in the morning. It will be a lovely morning. A bit | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
chilly, like winds, some sunshine could compensate. Patchy cloud in | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
the afternoon. 16-17, very nice. The wind direction will change as we go | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
into the weekend. The south-easterly breeze develops. With that comes | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
some slightly warmer air. Temperatures on Saturday rising a | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
touch or two. Another decent day with patchy cloud and sunny spells. | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
The outlook, temperatures continuing to rise into the weekend. We'll see | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
Hello. There was some warm sunshine around today, but it's set to get | :11:01. | :11:12. | |
even warmer this weekend. 18 Celsius in London this afternoon. This was | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
the scene in Chiswick, much quieter than it was on Sunday for the boat | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
race. Under the cloud for | :11:21. | :11:21. |