08/08/2017 London News

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Police have appealed for information after a jogger appeared to push

a woman into the path of a bus on a bridge in London.

The bus driver had to swerve to avoid her.

Officers are searching for the man after the incident was captured on

CCTV. 7. 41, the man jog on Putney bridge

and then this. The quick-thinking of the bus driver

saved the woman's life. The police believe the jogger

deliberately pushed her. When you look closely, you see him raise his

hands and make contact. The woman's head and shoulders are

then on the road in the path of the bus.

15 minutes later, the jogger came back across the bridge here running

straight past the woman he previously knocked over. She tried

to talk to him. He, just ignored her. Passers-by, as well as those

who got off the bus, helped the injured woman. The police say she

was shocked and upset but was not seriously hurt. It's very small

margins. If it hadn't been for the good reflexes on the part of the bus

driver or the level of force was such to push her even further into

the road, almost certainly this could have ended in a fatality. The

investigation is focussed on finding this man, the mysterious jogger.

Detectives say they have received a number of useful calls, including

other people reporting similar incidents elsewhere in London. Those

leading the investigation stress they believe this was an isolated

incident. But struggling to understand why anyone would

deliberately push someone into the road during the morning rush hour.

The Metropolitan Police Commissioner has told the BBC that tackling hate

crime and Islamophobia is one of the best ways of combating

It comes as Home Office figures show hate crime in the capital has risen

Nusrat and her family know what it's like to be

Last year, they were the victims of hate crime.

It happened around the time of the EU referendum.

One day I left my window open by mistake and when I came

kg tomatoes on window, kitchen shelf, floor

Three kilogrammes of tomatoes thrown through your kitchen window?

Yes, yes, then they started calling my husband names by his beard,

They called your husband Osama bin Laden because he had a beard?

They smashed my car, they break car's windscreen...

Her husband had to install CCTV to capture the intimidation.

After presenting the evidence to police, the boys

Over the last five years, there's been an upward trend

in the number of reported hate crimes across England and Wales.

In London last year there were more than 15,000 reports of racist abuse

For many the fear of becoming a victim is very real.

I can hear swearing coming out or you can hear someone saying get

out or you can hear someone saying leave our country.

It's why police are patrolling on foot around east London,

a visible presence to reassure the community.

Superintendent Waheed Khan is responsible for clamping down

on this type of crime in the capital.

Hate crime can take many forms and all of them

Whether it be online and increasingly we are seeing

But it can happen equally anywhere, it can happen on a bus,

The war against hate crime on the internet is being fought

It was launched in April by Mayor Sadiq Khan and works

closely with social media sites to identify and prosecute offenders.

The police hope that this combined approach of street and cyber patrols

will help to reassure London's diverse communities that they can

Charlotte is here now. We heard from concerned east Londoners there. The

Commissioner has been vocal about tackling hate crime. As we heard,

after recent attacks in London there was a sharp rise in reports of

so-called hate crime in London, particularly amongst the Muslim

community. The Commissioner said today that trend has now fallen off

but it is still something they're hugely concerned about. She said The

Met needs to work doubly hard to achieve confidence in the Muslim

community at New Scotland Yard today she took part in an hour-long radio

show with the BBC's Asian network and answered calls from listeners

and made the point that if The Met was seen to be tackling Islamophobia

that would then lead to confidence within the Muslim community which in

turn would help them to tackle extremism and terrorism.

One of the ways that we can tackle extremism together

is to ensure that Muslims, for example, feel protected

and feel properly protected and that we are taking hate crime

And I think if you look at the terrible

attack at Finsbury Park, a British Muslim and a proud

British man, we treated it as a terrorist incident,

it's charged as that, that is about extremism.

So basically it's about getting the community on board? Well, yes it

really is. That's really the key here. She said if you would start to

see progress when Muslim communities felt that they were able to

influence the police and also when they started joining the police. The

hope would be then that if you achieve a level of confidence within

the community then it would give you that extra opportunity should

someone perhaps suspect a friend or a neighbour, they would then be more

confident in getting in touch with the police and really expressing

their concerns. Thank you. A row over airport parking charges

that has left some holidaymakers Some have been leaving their cars

in residential streets near Luton airport, only to return from holiday

to find them vandalised. The council says it is

consulting about introducing The bond between London and Paris

hasn't been affected She's been speaking

candidly to BBC London about her view of the UK leaving

the European Union. Here's our Brexit reporter

Katharine Carpenter. When Sylvie Bermann was posted

to the Embassy here in London three years ago, colleagues warned her it

would be boring after Well, I think it has been

an historic period because I arrived just before the referendum

on Scotland and then I had two general elections and of course

the Brexit and Brexit is kind Around 100,000 French people living

in London voted in the French election earlier this year

but they had no say in the UK's Some have already left,

not a huge number of people, but some decided to leave

because they feel maybe less welcome in the city now and again the main

problem is uncertainty. You have talked about the Brexit

negotiations as being Do you still think

that's a good analogy? Well, that was a funny analogy

and I hope in the future there will be no losers,

I am not sure it's Does she think the City will be

one of those losers? I think that London will remain

a very important financial centre but at the same time,

some people and some activities will be relocated

as a consequence of Brexit, Generally speaking we have a policy

of strengthening the attractiveness of Paris.

If she's keen to play down any rivalry between Paris and London,

she's equally keen to talk up the friendship between what she

It's close, it's always been so and also we suffered terrorist

attacks and so while there was a lot of displays of solidarity

I was very touched also when I was invited to Wembley

and the Prime Minister and the Prince of Wales

It's understood she's off to Russia next, so what will she miss?

I like the culture and the sense of humour as well.

So I really enjoy my time in London, it's a bit too short

And I'll leave you with Lucy Martin for a look at the weather.

Umbrellas tomorrow, I gather? Yes, unfortunately, it's not looking too

summery yet. Today we managed to miss the majority of those showers.

A lot of dry weather across London today. But as we move into tomorrow

we don't look so lucky, heavy rain in the forecast and we actually have

a yellow weather warning in place because some of that rain could be

heavy, heavy outbreaks and one or two showers that could cause

localised flooding and tricky driving conditions.

As we move through tonight a fair amount of cloud, a few showery

outbreaks of rain. You can see that rain feeding in from the north-west

into the early hours. Overnight lows of between ten and 13. Some dry

intervals to begin first thing, particularly the further south and

east you are. But that rain feeding in from the north-west, some heavy

bursts in there and thunder and lightning could be seen.

Temperatures struggling with highs of between 15 and 18.

We will start to see things improving as we move into Thursday.

A ridge of high pressure means we will see sunny spells into the

afternoon. I will leave you with the outlook.

afternoon. I will leave you with the outlook. It's certainly wellies at

the ready tomorrow. Up next the national forecast.

I hoped to be starting the show with a temperature league and trying to

avoid saying what a scorcher. Instead these are the rainfall

totals. Showers in the south-west,

underneath that cloud