0:00:00 > 0:00:00Here on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.
0:00:16 > 0:00:20Good evening, I'm Asad Ahmad.
0:00:20 > 0:00:23There's going to be a significant increase in Police stop and search
0:00:23 > 0:00:27activity this year aimed at reducing knife crime on London's streets.
0:00:27 > 0:00:31The controversial method, often criticised for disproportionately
0:00:31 > 0:00:33targeting ethnic minority groups, today got the backing
0:00:36 > 0:00:38of Mayor Sadeeq Khan.
0:00:38 > 0:00:41But among those who think its a bad idea are some of those directly
0:00:41 > 0:00:42effected by the violence.
0:00:42 > 0:00:44Karl Mercer has been finding out why.
0:00:44 > 0:00:47Patrick Boyce is only too aware of the damage knives can do
0:00:47 > 0:00:48in the hands of the wrong person.
0:00:48 > 0:00:49So is Angeleen Hill.
0:00:49 > 0:00:52Both Londoners whose families have been badly damaged by a crime
0:00:52 > 0:00:54that is on the increase again.
0:00:54 > 0:00:56Today, Patrick is in the cafe he runs in Brixton.
0:00:56 > 0:00:58Are you OK?
0:00:58 > 0:01:03This is where he spends much of his time.
0:01:03 > 0:01:09We've filmed him last year with his son who was stabbed in the heart.
0:01:09 > 0:01:14This woman is planning a website for families
0:01:14 > 0:01:20affected by knife crime.
0:01:20 > 0:01:22What do they make of the London Mayor?
0:01:32 > 0:01:34The measures you are making are counteracted
0:01:34 > 0:01:36to what you are trying to do.
0:01:36 > 0:01:39Stop and search will take it away from the police.
0:01:39 > 0:01:42They will not go to the police when they have problems.
0:01:42 > 0:01:48It will take us back to youth against police.
0:01:48 > 0:01:54I can understand the initiative.
0:01:54 > 0:01:57It is good to make the public feel safe but the reality is it
0:01:57 > 0:02:01will not change the problem.
0:02:01 > 0:02:04The reality is, why are these kids walking about with knives?
0:02:04 > 0:02:06Luther was 32.
0:02:06 > 0:02:10There are a lot of victims who are not young people.
0:02:10 > 0:02:15City Hall refused requests for interviews today,
0:02:15 > 0:02:25we could not ask what the mayor meant by a significant increase
0:02:25 > 0:02:27tackling knife crime is seen as a priority.
0:02:27 > 0:02:31This video and a call for schools to produce knife ones last week.
0:02:31 > 0:02:33There are some who welcomed the news.
0:02:33 > 0:02:35Five years ago, one in ten stop and searches resulted
0:02:36 > 0:02:38in finding something.
0:02:38 > 0:02:40Now the figure is about one in three, which is loads better.
0:02:40 > 0:02:43It is a tool we can use, and an important tool.
0:02:43 > 0:02:46The police will be wearing cameras, so we can see what happens.
0:02:46 > 0:02:49Cressida Dick has previously said you were back an increase in stop
0:02:49 > 0:02:54and search if it led to lower knife crime.
0:02:54 > 0:02:57The opponents of the mayor said it will need to be done sensitively.
0:02:57 > 0:03:01Young people feel victimised.
0:03:01 > 0:03:07This will crush community policing, which affects all crime in London.
0:03:07 > 0:03:11Scotland Yard and the men know this will have to be matched
0:03:11 > 0:03:14by a drop in knife crime.
0:03:14 > 0:03:18Scotland Yard and the mayor know it will have to be matched by a drop in
0:03:18 > 0:03:20knife crime.
0:03:20 > 0:03:23If you're one of the thousands of passengers hit by delays
0:03:23 > 0:03:27on Southern or Thameslink trains, you got an apology today from the
0:03:27 > 0:03:29Transport Secretary, Chris Grayling.
0:03:29 > 0:03:32But it might not be the sorry you'd hoped for.
0:03:32 > 0:03:37This was a sorry that blamed unions for the problems,
0:03:37 > 0:03:39while giving a pat on the back to the government for
0:03:40 > 0:03:41the work they're doing.
0:03:41 > 0:03:42Here's our Transport Correspondent Tom Edwards.
0:03:42 > 0:03:45Unreliable, not value for money, the worst service in the country.
0:03:45 > 0:03:49It won't surprise many passengers that today there's more damning
0:03:49 > 0:03:53evidence on Govia Thameslink.
0:03:53 > 0:03:55Blighted by industrial action and a lack of understanding
0:03:55 > 0:03:58from Government, at its worst, only two thirds of
0:03:58 > 0:04:03trains arrived on time.
0:04:03 > 0:04:05A shabby train service?
0:04:05 > 0:04:08The franchise covers Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern services
0:04:08 > 0:04:11and today's report outlines how 60% of delays have been due
0:04:11 > 0:04:14to the operator, mainly because of industrial action
0:04:14 > 0:04:17and a lack of crew.
0:04:17 > 0:04:20Nearly 40% of delays are down to Network Rail's
0:04:20 > 0:04:22poor infrastructure.
0:04:22 > 0:04:26I think from a passenger's point of view, what they don't
0:04:26 > 0:04:28want to hear is people passing the buck and saying
0:04:28 > 0:04:31it is someone else's fault.
0:04:31 > 0:04:36What they want to know is that action is being taken to sort this
0:04:36 > 0:04:39out, and to make sure that they see improvements in service.
0:04:39 > 0:04:41The report also criticises the Government for trying
0:04:41 > 0:04:44to increase services as well as introducing new trains
0:04:44 > 0:04:48and getting rid of the guards, leading to strikes.
0:04:48 > 0:04:51The report says the Government didn't know about a lack of drivers,
0:04:51 > 0:04:55or the state of the infrastructure.
0:04:55 > 0:04:58I think this report shows the incompetence and the dogma
0:04:58 > 0:05:01of the DfT and the Government and seeking to put the blame
0:05:01 > 0:05:05on the trade unions when they knew they were going to cause this issue
0:05:05 > 0:05:08is a false premise, and seeking to blame the companies
0:05:08 > 0:05:10who are forced to bid for what they put out
0:05:10 > 0:05:12there is a false premise.
0:05:12 > 0:05:15If this is dogma, the dogma has to change.
0:05:15 > 0:05:20The Government says unions are the main cause of the problems.
0:05:20 > 0:05:27I make no apology for that huge investment in the network.
0:05:27 > 0:05:31The introduction of brand-new 12 coach trains all across the network.
0:05:31 > 0:05:35What I do apologise or is we were not able to avoid
0:05:35 > 0:05:39the extraordinarily ill judged actions by the trade
0:05:39 > 0:05:43unions, who caused massive trouble for passengers.
0:05:43 > 0:05:49The report does say reliability on the services is improving and it
0:05:49 > 0:05:52wants the Government to learn lessons when it sets
0:05:52 > 0:05:56up other franchises.
0:05:56 > 0:05:59Police have released CCTV images of two teenagers they want to speak
0:05:59 > 0:06:03to in connection with the death of a shopkeeper in North London.
0:06:03 > 0:06:06The boys are believed to have been at the shop at the time
0:06:06 > 0:06:09Mr Vijay Patel was attacked in Mill Hill on Saturday night.
0:06:09 > 0:06:11Detectives believe the teenagers will have information that
0:06:11 > 0:06:14could help in their investigation.
0:06:14 > 0:06:17Another 16 year-old has been charged with murder.
0:06:19 > 0:06:22The Holocaust.
0:06:22 > 0:06:26It claimed the lives of six million Jews and hundreds
0:06:26 > 0:06:27of thousands of others.
0:06:27 > 0:06:32Today, one of the survivors from Auchwitz, sat on a sofa
0:06:32 > 0:06:35at a train station in London to allow anyone who wanted to speak
0:06:35 > 0:06:36to her to do just that.
0:06:36 > 0:06:38Chris Rogers, spoke to her too.
0:06:38 > 0:06:40In one of London's busiest railway stations,
0:06:40 > 0:06:45an 87-year-old woman is hoping to have a chat with passers-by.
0:06:45 > 0:06:48She's set up a sofa in Liverpool Street and has only
0:06:48 > 0:06:52a sign to encourage people to stop and listen to her story.
0:06:52 > 0:06:58They put us in ghettos and from there they took us
0:06:58 > 0:07:02to the camp, to Auschwitz.
0:07:02 > 0:07:06Lily Ebert is a Holocaust survivor.
0:07:06 > 0:07:09How much do you know about the Holocaust?
0:07:09 > 0:07:13We were not taught at school but I educated myself.
0:07:13 > 0:07:18In times where there is rising racism and anti-Semitism,
0:07:18 > 0:07:21her message is that we must live together.
0:07:21 > 0:07:24That is a powerful message.
0:07:24 > 0:07:27It was heart-warming that she was saying we are the same.
0:07:27 > 0:07:33In the world at the moment, it does not seem we are together,
0:07:33 > 0:07:34united, and are the same.
0:07:34 > 0:07:39The final photo of Lily and her siblings in Hungary.
0:07:39 > 0:07:43The family were sent to Auschwitz.
0:07:43 > 0:07:46She and her two sisters were forced into Labour but the rest
0:07:46 > 0:07:51of her family were sent to the gas chambers.
0:07:51 > 0:07:57Does it upset you when people say they face discrimination,
0:07:57 > 0:08:00stigma and racism, that it still goes on today?
0:08:00 > 0:08:02Yes.
0:08:02 > 0:08:04They should know.
0:08:04 > 0:08:10The truth is, we look different but it does not mean someone
0:08:10 > 0:08:16is better or worse than you are.
0:08:16 > 0:08:22They are only different.
0:08:22 > 0:08:26This statue is a reminder of the 10,000 unaccompanied children
0:08:26 > 0:08:29who arrived at this train station when they fled persecution
0:08:29 > 0:08:33in their home towns in Germany, Czechoslovakia and Austria.
0:08:33 > 0:08:37After World War II very few were able to be reunited
0:08:37 > 0:08:39with their families.
0:08:39 > 0:08:42Supported by the Holocaust educational Trust, Lily tours
0:08:42 > 0:08:46schools, sharing her story with today's children in the hope
0:08:46 > 0:08:52that the murder of six million Jews is never forgotten or misunderstood.
0:08:52 > 0:08:55Chris Rogers, BBC London News.
0:08:55 > 0:08:59Triple Oscar winning actor, Meryl Streep says that sexual
0:08:59 > 0:09:02equality is going through a long overdue period of change both
0:09:02 > 0:09:05in America and on this side of the Atlantic too.
0:09:05 > 0:09:07Speaking to me tonight at the UK premiere of 'The Post'
0:09:07 > 0:09:15in Leicester Square where she plays a newspaper publisher
0:09:15 > 0:09:17in 1970's America,
0:09:17 > 0:09:23Streep said men and women won't be silenced anymore.
0:09:23 > 0:09:28I think this change is seismic because there's been an imbalance of
0:09:28 > 0:09:34power in the human family for ever and it's just reached the sort of
0:09:34 > 0:09:40tipping point and I think it's changing everywhere. We feel it
0:09:40 > 0:09:44here, in Parliament, you know, in our congress, there is a slush fund
0:09:44 > 0:09:49paid for by the taxpayers to pay off sexual harassment suits and to
0:09:49 > 0:09:53silence people. It won't happen any more. People won't be silent.
0:09:53 > 0:09:55Meryl Streep speaking to me earlier.
0:09:55 > 0:09:58Now the weather forecast with Susan.
0:09:58 > 0:09:59Now the weather forecast with Susan.
0:09:59 > 0:10:04Not a bad day today? Not too bad in the end. A bit of
0:10:04 > 0:10:08cloud, a gloomy start then the skies brightened. The cloud didn't go
0:10:08 > 0:10:12away. It mostly shifted north. If you watch the satellite picture you
0:10:12 > 0:10:15can see what happened in the afternoon. The cloud is pushing back
0:10:15 > 0:10:20in from the north. Actually outside at the moment, the skies are pretty
0:10:20 > 0:10:25overcast and there's going to be a lot of low cloud about. Misty and
0:10:25 > 0:10:29murky conditions and drizzly rain coming in by the end of the night. A
0:10:29 > 0:10:34cool feel, rural lows, two, three degrees and, if we get a few breaks,
0:10:34 > 0:10:37we may see temperatures dipping down closer to freezing. A chilly start
0:10:37 > 0:10:41to Thursday. Drizzly rain around during the morning. It will be a
0:10:41 > 0:10:45grey start. Hopefully we may see something a little brighter come the
0:10:45 > 0:10:49afternoon but we'll never really shake off the cloud. Our top
0:10:49 > 0:10:53temperatures, seven or eight. Friday and Saturday, pretty similar as
0:10:53 > 0:10:58well. Thick cloud on Friday and some patches of mist and murk. If you are
0:10:58 > 0:11:00travelling further afield in the