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That's Newsnight with Emily. | 0:00:00 | 0:00:00 | |
Here on BBC One, it's time
for the news where you are. | 0:00:00 | 0:00:13 | |
Welcome to BBC London News,
I'm Claudia Liza Armah. | 0:00:13 | 0:00:15 | |
16 young people have been stabbed
to death on the streets | 0:00:15 | 0:00:18 | |
of London this year -
that's up by almost 30% - | 0:00:18 | 0:00:21 | |
with some saying it's an epidemic. | 0:00:21 | 0:00:24 | |
Today, City Hall outlined a new plan
it hopes will help save lives. | 0:00:24 | 0:00:27 | |
The Mayor, Sadiq Khan,
is using social media | 0:00:27 | 0:00:30 | |
to spread the message,
but with so many violent videos | 0:00:30 | 0:00:34 | |
available online glamorising knives,
will young people take any notice? | 0:00:34 | 0:00:37 | |
Our home affairs correspondent
Nick Beake reports. | 0:00:37 | 0:00:39 | |
I am this postcode, this city. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:42 | |
This world. | 0:00:42 | 0:00:43 | |
I'm important. | 0:00:43 | 0:00:45 | |
My friends would miss
me if I was gone. | 0:00:45 | 0:00:48 | |
I'm, like, the funniest
person in the school. | 0:00:48 | 0:00:50 | |
Young voices from different parts
of our city, but all | 0:00:50 | 0:00:52 | |
with the same message. | 0:00:52 | 0:00:54 | |
London needs me alive.
London needs me alive. | 0:00:54 | 0:00:56 | |
London needs me alive. | 0:00:56 | 0:00:58 | |
After a year of more stabbings,
this is the Mayor's attempt to get | 0:00:58 | 0:01:02 | |
teenagers to think twice before
reaching for a blade. | 0:01:02 | 0:01:07 | |
So I don't carry a knife. | 0:01:07 | 0:01:09 | |
The plea is that London desperately
needs their talents. | 0:01:09 | 0:01:12 | |
Remember, London needs you alive. | 0:01:12 | 0:01:14 | |
Your talent is needed,
your brain is needed, | 0:01:14 | 0:01:17 | |
your intelligence is needed. | 0:01:17 | 0:01:19 | |
HIP HOP MUSIC. | 0:01:19 | 0:01:22 | |
The musician Bossman Birdie
used to carry a knife | 0:01:23 | 0:01:26 | |
growing up in Tottenham. | 0:01:26 | 0:01:29 | |
He then spent time in prison
for making a threat to kill. | 0:01:29 | 0:01:32 | |
Now City Hall have signed him up
for their anti-knife campaign. | 0:01:32 | 0:01:36 | |
To me, it's a complete waste of life
and it's a waste of this beautiful | 0:01:36 | 0:01:40 | |
city that we are occupants of,
London, you know? | 0:01:40 | 0:01:44 | |
When you're going around,
carrying a knife, you know, | 0:01:44 | 0:01:49 | |
you're giving away your opportunity
to become something crazy. | 0:01:49 | 0:01:53 | |
Three, two, one.
London needs you alive! | 0:01:53 | 0:01:58 | |
This morning in Brixton,
Sadiq Khan met children who have | 0:01:58 | 0:02:00 | |
been posting online,
explaining why their | 0:02:00 | 0:02:03 | |
lives are valuable. | 0:02:03 | 0:02:05 | |
It's a campaign backed by London
rappers, bloggers and musicians. | 0:02:05 | 0:02:09 | |
It is hoped their status
on social media will help | 0:02:09 | 0:02:16 | |
the message get through. | 0:02:16 | 0:02:17 | |
Is this actually going
to make a difference? | 0:02:17 | 0:02:19 | |
Look, we've got to do
all that we can to address | 0:02:19 | 0:02:21 | |
the issue of knife crime,
which is rising across the country, | 0:02:21 | 0:02:26 | |
not just in London. | 0:02:26 | 0:02:27 | |
This is part of a package
of measures, along with schools | 0:02:27 | 0:02:29 | |
playing their part, the police
playing their part, parents, | 0:02:29 | 0:02:31 | |
civic leaders, youth leaders. | 0:02:31 | 0:02:36 | |
All of us have a role to play
in making sure we address | 0:02:36 | 0:02:39 | |
the issue of knife crime. | 0:02:39 | 0:02:40 | |
Yvonne Lawson's teenage
son Godwin was stabbed | 0:02:40 | 0:02:42 | |
to death seven years ago. | 0:02:42 | 0:02:43 | |
What does she make of the campaign? | 0:02:43 | 0:02:44 | |
It can make a slight
difference for the younger | 0:02:44 | 0:02:47 | |
generation, the under 16s. | 0:02:47 | 0:02:48 | |
Whether it can make a huge
difference to the young people that | 0:02:48 | 0:02:51 | |
are already engrossed
in criminality, that's | 0:02:51 | 0:02:53 | |
yet to be proven. | 0:02:53 | 0:02:56 | |
This positive message may well get
through to some kids in London | 0:02:56 | 0:02:59 | |
but there's no doubt it will also be
competing with many other | 0:02:59 | 0:03:02 | |
negative messages online. | 0:03:02 | 0:03:05 | |
We're talking about videos and music
which glorify violence, | 0:03:05 | 0:03:10 | |
intensify gang rivalry,
and lead to more knife crime. | 0:03:10 | 0:03:14 | |
For eight months this year,
YouTube refused the Met Police's | 0:03:14 | 0:03:18 | |
request to take down
these four videos. | 0:03:18 | 0:03:22 | |
Now they've relented,
apart from this one, still up today, | 0:03:22 | 0:03:25 | |
which Scotland Yard claims
is encouraging stabbings. | 0:03:25 | 0:03:30 | |
Bossman Birdie simply sees these
videos as a waste of time. | 0:03:30 | 0:03:34 | |
You're that talented,
to sit there and write these lyrics, | 0:03:34 | 0:03:40 | |
thinking of metaphors,
thinking of rhyming schemes. | 0:03:40 | 0:03:43 | |
To basically make something
that is not going to go | 0:03:43 | 0:03:47 | |
anywhere, purposely. | 0:03:47 | 0:03:50 | |
It doesn't make sense to me. | 0:03:50 | 0:03:52 | |
The noise you can't turn off.
Nothing moves forward without me. | 0:03:52 | 0:03:55 | |
So, social media videos,
a force for good and bad. | 0:03:55 | 0:03:59 | |
In this case, they hope
it will save lives. | 0:03:59 | 0:04:02 | |
Nick Beake, BBC London News. | 0:04:02 | 0:04:06 | |
So just how bad is knife crime
in London at the moment, | 0:04:06 | 0:04:09 | |
and what's behind the rise? | 0:04:09 | 0:04:11 | |
Tolu Adeoye has been investigating. | 0:04:11 | 0:04:20 | |
These are the faces of the 16
teenagers stabbed to death | 0:04:20 | 0:04:22 | |
in London this year. | 0:04:23 | 0:04:24 | |
Knife crime has risen by 31%
in the capital in the last year, | 0:04:24 | 0:04:27 | |
the biggest increase in the UK. | 0:04:27 | 0:04:29 | |
The latest teenager to be killed
was 17-year-old Michael Jonas. | 0:04:29 | 0:04:31 | |
His father said he'd hoped to one
day to become a mechanical engineer. | 0:04:31 | 0:04:35 | |
He's warned that anyone
could be a victim. | 0:04:35 | 0:04:41 | |
Presently, right now, in our own
London, here, you don't have to be a | 0:04:41 | 0:04:47 | |
rude boy, you don't have to be in a
gang, you don't have to be, you | 0:04:47 | 0:04:52 | |
know, among certain people because
things, people that tend to want to | 0:04:52 | 0:04:57 | |
stereotype, because you think it is
only bad boys that get stabbed but | 0:04:57 | 0:05:02 | |
no, it does not have to be. Our
innocent kids are dying. | 0:05:02 | 0:05:07 | |
So why is knife crime rising? | 0:05:07 | 0:05:09 | |
Perhaps surprisingly,
last year the Met revealed | 0:05:09 | 0:05:12 | |
the overwhelming majority of young
people who carry knives | 0:05:12 | 0:05:14 | |
are not gang members. | 0:05:14 | 0:05:15 | |
Just 20% of stabbings
are linked to them. | 0:05:15 | 0:05:17 | |
St Giles Trust, which works
with attackers and victims, | 0:05:17 | 0:05:20 | |
says there's been a shift in culture
among some young people, | 0:05:20 | 0:05:23 | |
and more resources must be invested
to help turn the tide. | 0:05:23 | 0:05:29 | |
Young people feel in fears that they
are turning to carrying knives and | 0:05:29 | 0:05:36 | |
weapons, there's a glamorisation of
that which is happening across | 0:05:36 | 0:05:38 | |
social media as well. Equally, there
are cutbacks in services, that were | 0:05:38 | 0:05:44 | |
really important, grassroots
services such as community centres, | 0:05:44 | 0:05:48 | |
youth organisations that would keep
young people safe. | 0:05:48 | 0:05:51 | |
So what about police tactics? | 0:05:51 | 0:05:52 | |
We know the use of stop and search
was curbed by the former | 0:05:52 | 0:05:55 | |
Police Commissioner,
Sir Bernard Hogan Howe, | 0:05:55 | 0:05:57 | |
and subsequently knife crime rose. | 0:05:57 | 0:05:58 | |
One expert has told us stop
and search is an essential | 0:05:58 | 0:06:01 | |
tactic but it must be
used more strategically. | 0:06:01 | 0:06:07 | |
Rather than targeting a whole lot of
very scared kids, you need those | 0:06:07 | 0:06:13 | |
kids on board to tell you who you
ought to be targeting. Then it's not | 0:06:13 | 0:06:18 | |
nearly as resource intensive. The
police can't afford to throw lots of | 0:06:18 | 0:06:23 | |
police out on the streets endlessly
searching people, even if it was | 0:06:23 | 0:06:26 | |
going to do any good. They need an
intelligent approach to focusing | 0:06:26 | 0:06:30 | |
their search operations on the
hard-core of individuals who are | 0:06:30 | 0:06:34 | |
prepared to use offensive weapons to
terrorise and cause serious damage. | 0:06:34 | 0:06:38 | |
Well, the Met say they are now
using more stop and search, | 0:06:38 | 0:06:41 | |
and in a more sensitive
and intelligent way, | 0:06:41 | 0:06:43 | |
including carrying out
monthly weapon sweeps. | 0:06:43 | 0:06:44 | |
But they say they can't
and won't arrest their way | 0:06:44 | 0:06:47 | |
out of this problem. | 0:06:47 | 0:06:48 | |
Knife crime is proving to be a far
bigger societal challenge. | 0:06:48 | 0:06:51 | |
"If the intention was to intimidate
us, the effect has actually been | 0:06:54 | 0:06:57 | |
to bring us closer together." | 0:06:57 | 0:07:01 | |
That's been the response of MPs
BBC London has spoken | 0:07:01 | 0:07:05 | |
to who are among a group accused
of being "Brexit mutineers". | 0:07:05 | 0:07:08 | |
More than a dozen Tory MPs have
signalled they will vote | 0:07:08 | 0:07:10 | |
against government plans to put
the exact date of Brexit into law. | 0:07:10 | 0:07:13 | |
Our political editor
Tim Donovan has the details. | 0:07:13 | 0:07:16 | |
They woke up this morning
to find their pictures on the front | 0:07:16 | 0:07:18 | |
page of a newspaper,
below a headline | 0:07:18 | 0:07:21 | |
"The Brexit Mutineers". | 0:07:21 | 0:07:23 | |
Their leader, according
to the paper, is Dominic Grieve, | 0:07:23 | 0:07:25 | |
former Attorney General,
and MP for Beaconsfield. | 0:07:25 | 0:07:29 | |
Alongside him, Oliver Heald,
MP for North East Hertfordshire. | 0:07:29 | 0:07:33 | |
Then there's Vicky Ford
from Chelmsford, Bob Neale, | 0:07:33 | 0:07:35 | |
MP for Bromley, and finally
Stephen Hammond, whose | 0:07:35 | 0:07:38 | |
seat is Wimbledon. | 0:07:38 | 0:07:40 | |
I thought it was a bit odd, really. | 0:07:40 | 0:07:42 | |
I mean, I've never voted
against the government before | 0:07:42 | 0:07:46 | |
but there are a number of things
in this bill which need | 0:07:46 | 0:07:49 | |
to be corrected. | 0:07:49 | 0:07:50 | |
He and the others have been targeted
because they want to block | 0:07:50 | 0:07:53 | |
government plans to write the exact
Brexit leave date into law. | 0:07:53 | 0:07:56 | |
Actually, it's illogical to do this. | 0:07:56 | 0:07:57 | |
The government says it wants
a freer hand to negotiate. | 0:07:57 | 0:08:00 | |
By doing this, the government's
actually restricting its own ability | 0:08:00 | 0:08:02 | |
to negotiate with what will
be our ex-partners. | 0:08:02 | 0:08:06 | |
Do you feel you're singled out?
Well, I think it's silly. | 0:08:06 | 0:08:09 | |
Some people have
classed it as bullying. | 0:08:09 | 0:08:10 | |
It doesn't worry me
in the slightest. | 0:08:10 | 0:08:12 | |
My job as a Member of
Parliament is to represent my | 0:08:12 | 0:08:15 | |
constituents and the country. | 0:08:15 | 0:08:17 | |
She's pretty bloody furious. | 0:08:17 | 0:08:19 | |
But another of those
accused of mutineering | 0:08:19 | 0:08:20 | |
puts it more strongly. | 0:08:20 | 0:08:21 | |
What I don't like is this attempt
by some parts of the press to bully | 0:08:21 | 0:08:25 | |
and to muzzle dissent. | 0:08:25 | 0:08:27 | |
And that is a serious point,
because it's almost as bad | 0:08:27 | 0:08:30 | |
as the attack on the judges
after they did what was simply | 0:08:30 | 0:08:33 | |
their institutional job. | 0:08:33 | 0:08:37 | |
their constitutional job. | 0:08:37 | 0:08:38 | |
But some of their pro-Brexit
colleagues accuse them of wanting | 0:08:38 | 0:08:41 | |
to wriggle out of Brexit. | 0:08:41 | 0:08:42 | |
Well, absolutely not. | 0:08:42 | 0:08:44 | |
I accepted the result
of the referendum even though | 0:08:44 | 0:08:46 | |
I didn't like it and that's why
I voted to trigger Article 50. | 0:08:46 | 0:08:49 | |
36% of my constituents work in
financial and professional services. | 0:08:49 | 0:08:53 | |
It's important to them
to get it right. | 0:08:53 | 0:09:00 | |
Billions of pounds of tax revenue
come to our public services, | 0:09:00 | 0:09:02 | |
from the financial services sector. | 0:09:02 | 0:09:03 | |
The last thing they want is any
heightened risk of a cliff edge. | 0:09:03 | 0:09:07 | |
We've said time after time, this
is not about frustrating Brexit. | 0:09:07 | 0:09:09 | |
We understand the will
of what the people voted last year | 0:09:09 | 0:09:12 | |
but what this is about is ensuring
this country gets a good deal. | 0:09:12 | 0:09:15 | |
They won't be put off,
but with feelings running high, | 0:09:15 | 0:09:17 | |
the Speaker of the House of Commons
today warned that MPs should not be | 0:09:17 | 0:09:21 | |
subject to threats for expressing
a political opinion. | 0:09:21 | 0:09:23 | |
Tim Donovan, BBC London News. | 0:09:23 | 0:09:27 | |
Plans to build a new Westfield
shopping centre in Croydon | 0:09:27 | 0:09:29 | |
have been approved. | 0:09:29 | 0:09:31 | |
Work will begin on the £1.4
billion project in 2019, | 0:09:31 | 0:09:35 | |
with the promise of 7,000 new jobs
and 1,000 new homes. | 0:09:35 | 0:09:39 | |
The complex will be the third
Westfield in the capital. | 0:09:39 | 0:09:46 | |
That's it for now from me, but let's
find out what the weather's up | 0:09:46 | 0:09:50 | |
to with Chris Fawkes. | 0:09:50 | 0:09:51 | |
Hello, this weather front will be
sliding its way eastwards across the | 0:09:54 | 0:09:58 | |
British Isles. This front is coming
our way but it will arrive quite | 0:09:58 | 0:10:01 | |
late tomorrow afternoon and for much
of the day, it will be quite cloudy | 0:10:01 | 0:10:05 | |
once again. Cloudy skies overnight
as well but there could be one or | 0:10:05 | 0:10:10 | |
two mist and fog patches dotted
around and visibility quite poor for | 0:10:10 | 0:10:13 | |
a short time in one or two areas. A
dry night for most but one or two | 0:10:13 | 0:10:17 | |
spots of rain falling from the cloud
with temperatures between eight and | 0:10:17 | 0:10:20 | |
ten Celsius. Looking at the weather
picture on Thursday, a bit | 0:10:20 | 0:10:24 | |
changeable, cloudy, then sunny, then
clouding over again, one of those | 0:10:24 | 0:10:29 | |
days, we start off with rather murky
conditions, a bit of mist over the | 0:10:29 | 0:10:32 | |
hills and then a better chance of
sunshine towards the middle of the | 0:10:32 | 0:10:35 | |
day before then is cloud over. That
is the weak weather front I showed | 0:10:35 | 0:10:39 | |
you at the start of the bulletin,
could bring a few spots of rain to | 0:10:39 | 0:10:42 | |
London, about 4pm but it won't
amount to much and when that front | 0:10:42 | 0:10:48 | |
is through, by Friday we will see
much more in the way of sunshine but | 0:10:48 | 0:10:51 | |
things turned a bit cooler,
temperatures 8 degrees with a | 0:10:51 | 0:10:54 | |
north-westerly breeze. The weekend
not looking too bad, temperatures | 0:10:54 | 0:10:57 | |
back into double figures and it
should be largely dry with some | 0:10:57 | 0:11:00 | |
spells of sunshine. That is it from
the | 0:11:00 | 0:11:03 |