0:00:00 > 0:00:00Now on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.
0:00:12 > 0:00:15Good evening, I'm Asad Ahmad.
0:00:15 > 0:00:18The argument that a planned increase in police stop-and-search in London
0:00:18 > 0:00:22will disproportionately target young black has been addressed
0:00:22 > 0:00:30head-on by the Mayor of London.
0:00:30 > 0:00:32Sadiq Khan, who supports more stop-and-search,
0:00:32 > 0:00:34says it shouldn't be overlooked that black, Asian and minority
0:00:34 > 0:00:36Londoners are also the main victims of knife crime.
0:00:36 > 0:00:39He spoke to our correspondent Karl Mercer.
0:00:39 > 0:00:42Expect to see plenty more of this, high visibility policing
0:00:42 > 0:00:44with a highly visible mayor, both with a knife-crime
0:00:44 > 0:00:48problem on their hands.
0:00:48 > 0:00:50It has risen more than 20% in London.
0:00:50 > 0:00:56In the last year alone, more than 20 teenagers were killed.
0:00:56 > 0:01:00I accept that knife crime is too high and has been going up too
0:01:00 > 0:01:02much across the country for the last three years.
0:01:02 > 0:01:04I accept we have to do much more.
0:01:04 > 0:01:06We've already had a couple of residents come down
0:01:06 > 0:01:07and ask what we're doing...
0:01:07 > 0:01:09People don't want to be found with knives on them,
0:01:09 > 0:01:11so they're finding other ways of storing weapons,
0:01:11 > 0:01:14and then we would try to find where that is,
0:01:14 > 0:01:16and this is part of that with a weapons sweep.
0:01:16 > 0:01:18Therefore to remove weapons from circulation,
0:01:18 > 0:01:21and we have found a number of knives in the past few months
0:01:21 > 0:01:25in Wandsworth, and one firearm, so yes, they do work.
0:01:25 > 0:01:29He's handed the Met £15 million more to tackle the issue.
0:01:29 > 0:01:32You will see more police operations across London,
0:01:32 > 0:01:34more weapons sweeps like this, more disruption of people
0:01:34 > 0:01:37who may be carrying knives, targeting known offenders,
0:01:37 > 0:01:44an increase of intelligence-led targeted stop and search.
0:01:44 > 0:01:47You know that will be controversial, and it has been already.
0:01:47 > 0:01:49You've had criticism saying members of the black community,
0:01:49 > 0:01:52young black men, will say, "Here we go again,
0:01:52 > 0:01:55we have seen this before, we are going to be targeted,
0:01:55 > 0:01:58and it will increase community tensions."
0:01:58 > 0:02:01None of us should pretend that the increased use of targeted
0:02:01 > 0:02:04stop and search will by itself reduce knife crime.
0:02:04 > 0:02:07What I do know is that we have a comprehensive package.
0:02:07 > 0:02:10When I speak to the victims of knife crime, bereaved families,
0:02:10 > 0:02:12communities, they remind me that the largest number of victims
0:02:12 > 0:02:18of knife crime are black, Asian, minority-ethnic Londoners.
0:02:18 > 0:02:21The mayor has blamed government cuts for falling police numbers but says
0:02:21 > 0:02:24in the coming few weeks he expects to announce City Hall money to boost
0:02:24 > 0:02:27youth services across the capital.
0:02:27 > 0:02:30I want to invest that in services for young people,
0:02:30 > 0:02:32in the context of the massive cuts over the last eight years
0:02:33 > 0:02:35around youth services.
0:02:35 > 0:02:37Are we talking about £20, £30 million?
0:02:37 > 0:02:40I don't want to speculate on what the figure could be,
0:02:40 > 0:02:43but I'm hoping to find in the budget in the next few weeks
0:02:43 > 0:02:48about £20 million which I'd like to use for young people in London.
0:02:48 > 0:02:51A promise of more money and of more of this sort of thing,
0:02:51 > 0:02:55and a sign of the real concern at City Hall and Scotland Yard
0:02:55 > 0:02:56about one of their highest profile problems.
0:02:56 > 0:03:03Karl Mercer, BBC London News.
0:03:03 > 0:03:05There were many concerns voiced weeks after the
0:03:05 > 0:03:08Grenfell Tower fire in June that the money being donated
0:03:08 > 0:03:11wasn't finding it's way to the people who needed it.
0:03:11 > 0:03:16Well, now new figures show that charities have distributed
0:03:16 > 0:03:20nearly 80% of the millions of pounds raised.
0:03:20 > 0:03:24With the figures, here's Ayshea Buksh.
0:03:24 > 0:03:26Well, the latest figures focus on the money raised
0:03:26 > 0:03:28and come from the Charity Commission for England and Wales.
0:03:28 > 0:03:31So back in July, just a few weeks after the fire,
0:03:31 > 0:03:34£20 million had been raised.
0:03:34 > 0:03:38But less than £800,000 of that had been distributed.
0:03:38 > 0:03:42Since then, more cash has been raised but also given out.
0:03:42 > 0:03:47So the overall figure now is £26.5 million,
0:03:47 > 0:03:50and 20.9 million of that has been given to survivors
0:03:50 > 0:03:53and their relatives.
0:03:53 > 0:03:55So where did the money come from?
0:03:55 > 0:03:59Well, many different charities were involved,
0:03:59 > 0:04:02but the big three appear to be the British Red Cross,
0:04:02 > 0:04:04the Kensington and Chelsea Foundation,
0:04:04 > 0:04:08and the London Community Foundation.
0:04:08 > 0:04:1118 other fundraisers also were involved, including Muslim Aid,
0:04:11 > 0:04:16Family Action, and the Art for Grenfell auction.
0:04:16 > 0:04:22But that's not all that's been donated.
0:04:22 > 0:04:24We've reported before on the hundreds of items -
0:04:24 > 0:04:27clothes, toys and household goods that were collected by volunteers.
0:04:27 > 0:04:30The Red Cross says over 200 tonnes of things were handed in.
0:04:30 > 0:04:32That's a whopping 40,000 boxes, enough to fill three
0:04:32 > 0:04:36full-sized football pitches.
0:04:36 > 0:04:38We distributed back to the Grenfell Tower community,
0:04:38 > 0:04:42but what we also did is sell the second-hand clothes in our shops
0:04:42 > 0:04:47and then recycle the funding from that back
0:04:47 > 0:04:52into the London Fire Relief Fund, raising over £200,000 from that.
0:04:52 > 0:04:56And not taking any penny in terms of administrative charges.
0:04:56 > 0:05:00Every single penny was then recycled back to the community.
0:05:00 > 0:05:03In response to some of that criticism as to why things
0:05:03 > 0:05:04were not distributed quicker,
0:05:04 > 0:05:06a spokesperson for the London Emergencies Trust
0:05:06 > 0:05:14says it was a complex financial management challenge.
0:05:14 > 0:05:17I also spoke to the Kensington and Chelsea Foundation,
0:05:17 > 0:05:22who told me that they are in this for the long haul
0:05:22 > 0:05:27and future generations will still be affected by this tragedy.
0:05:27 > 0:05:29Ayshea Buksh.
0:05:29 > 0:05:32Charlotte Franks, we heard money is being earmarked for the future.
0:05:32 > 0:05:37What's meant by that?
0:05:37 > 0:05:41Well, the focus now is on how best those victims of the Grenfell fire
0:05:41 > 0:05:47can be supported going forward, and today 25 charities met with the
0:05:47 > 0:05:50Charity Commission, really to discuss what they have learned since
0:05:50 > 0:05:54Grenfell, and also what they have learned since other tragedies last
0:05:54 > 0:05:58year, including the Manchester bombing and the London Bridge
0:05:58 > 0:06:01attack. They also asked in the meeting at something like Grenfell
0:06:01 > 0:06:06were to happen again, how would they work together, would they do
0:06:06 > 0:06:08anything differently, would they work in exactly the same way? Once
0:06:08 > 0:06:13they have come to the conclusion, the report will be published.
0:06:13 > 0:06:14Charlotte, thank you very
0:06:14 > 0:06:17Finally, police in Essex had a bit of a surprise
0:06:17 > 0:06:18when they searched a house in Westcliff-on-Sea.
0:06:18 > 0:06:21They stumbled across a four foot crocodile and lots of snakes.
0:06:21 > 0:06:24A man was arrested for keeping a dangerous animal
0:06:24 > 0:06:26without a licence and animal cruelty offences,
0:06:26 > 0:06:28as well as suspicion of cannabis production.
0:06:34 > 0:06:38OK, let's get the weekend weather forecast from Tomasz.
0:06:38 > 0:06:43The weather not looking great, don't get too snappy! A bright morning,
0:06:43 > 0:06:47lots of rain on the way on Saturday, and I think as far as this evening
0:06:47 > 0:06:52is concerned, it is quiet, not an awful lot happening, just a little
0:06:52 > 0:06:56bit of a chill in the air, a touch of frost early on, but by the end of
0:06:56 > 0:07:02the night air four degrees in zone one, outside just a degree or so
0:07:02 > 0:07:05above freezing. So the morning is looking bright, make the most of it
0:07:05 > 0:07:12if you can, and then a bit of rain comes through, it is just going to
0:07:12 > 0:07:16be damp and cloudy. South-westerly winds continue into Sunday, they
0:07:16 > 0:07:19keep bringing mild weather conditions, so temperatures could
0:07:19 > 0:07:24get up to around 13 degrees in one or two areas, so a bright day on the
0:07:24 > 0:07:30way, but overall pretty cloudy. So let's have a look at the outlook
0:07:30 > 0:07:32now, you can see a lot of cloud