02/03/2018 London News

Now on BBC1, it's time

for the news where you are.Have

Good evening, I'm Asad Ahmad.

Tonight, train passengers have

risked their lives after taking

matters into their own hands

when they became stranded

on a train in Lewisham.

Passengers on the Southeastern

service fed-up with being stuck

on the train started to jump off

and onto live tracks.

Police were called and the power

was urgently turned off.

Here's Ayshea Buksh.

A packed Southeast train out

of London is stranded.

Passengers wait for three hours

just outside Lewisham

station but, for some,

it's too much.

They manage to open a door and walk

out onto the tracks.

The power lines are turned

off and, as a result,

more trains are held up.

# Happy birthday to you!

Spirits inside this train

to Orpington are kept up

by chocolate and singing.

So we got on the train at about

6:30pm from London, Charing Cross.

Going ahead as normal and I think

we're just outside New Cross now.

We've been here for about

two and half hours.

Elsewhere on the train network,

passengers struggled to leave

the centre of London.

Southwest Trains said they'd

stopped running trains

out of Waterloo by 8pm.

Well, it's nearly half-past eight

at Waterloo station.

The station is now officially closed

but there are still quite a lot

of passengers on the concourse

wanting to travel and there are

still a few trains about to depart.

I also find Abdul, who's

on his own and can't get home.

Did you know about

the trains stopping?

I don't suppose you're

on social media?

Yeah, I checked it.

Abdul finally got his train back...

Thank you very much.

Others may not be so lucky

and are forced to stay

in London overnight.

Big problems at Waterloo station.

The train operators said they would

not be running trains beyond a

certain time. The message did not

get through to everyone. I spoke to

people who had come back from

holiday or had to take people to

hospital. They may have been on

business trips are struggling to get

back. As for that gentleman, he did

get help. There were station staff

out in force on platforms.

With

regards to Lewisham and people

jumping off the trains, that was

really dangerous, wasn't it?

They

were walking on live tracks, the

operator points out. If you follow

the south-east train Twitter feed,

there was a list of warning. Stay

inside the train to do not leave and

do not move. Power has been

restored. All the trapped trains

have been moved on through to

Lewisham, Orpington Way. If people

are on trains they will be moving

and they should be getting home.

Some people may not have made the

last train home. Very limited trains

out to Kent and Sussex this evening.

Tomorrow, there are planned

engineering works across the

network. South Eastern trains told

me if there is bad weather against

some of the rail replacement buses

will not be working tomorrow.

The

advice is to check before people

leave home.

Black and ethnic minority staff

working for London's authorities

are paid on average 17% less

than their white counterparts.

The Mayor of London published

the first ever ethnicity pay audit

of the Greater London Authority,

which includes the police

and Fire Service.

Sadiq Khan said he was determined

to confront the inequality.

An unqualified religious teacher

who attempted to groom children

in East London faces jail tonight

after being convicted

of preparing acts of terror.

Umar Haque had boys aged as young

as 11 act out roles involving

weapons and a car bomb,

while he planned attacks on dozens

of targets across London.

Here's Karl Mercer.

Now facing jail for plotting terror

attacks, Umar Haque is accused

of radicalising more than 100

youngsters in East London.

They were to be his so-called "army

of children", trained

and prepared to kill.

Inspired by the attack

on Westminster Bridge,

Haque is said to have plotted

attacks of his own on high-profile

London targets including Big Ben,

Westfield shopping centre,

Transport for London

and the Houses of Parliament.

When he was arrested,

police found this knife

in his Ford Focus car.

He was in the very early stages

of research, so he had researched

various iconic sites across London,

he had researched terrorist

propaganda and attacks that had

taken place elsewhere in the world.

Although not a trained teacher,

the court heard Haque had taken

classes at a private Islamic school

in Waltham Forest and at a mosque

in Barking, where he showed

terrorist material to young boys

in this marquee.

He would teach young boys in secret.

He had them physically training,

but also role-playing

for a terror attack or how

to kill police officers.

He warned them that if they revealed

what he'd told them,

they would die or go to hell.

We believe that he radicalised

about 110 children, 35

of which are now receiving

long-term safeguarding support.

Today the Charity

Commission revealed

it was investigating the mosque.

It also opened an investigation

into a school where Haque taught,

where it was alleged he tried

to radicalise boys.

For a year from September 2015,

Umar Haque worked here

at the Lantern of Knowledge School

in Waltham Forest.

He was employed as an administrator

but actually ended up teaching

so-called Islamic studies.

In fact, during those

lessons to young boys

aged between 11 and 16,

he was showing them videos.

The jury were unable to reach

a verdict on this charge,

but did find Haque guilty

of a number of other

terror-related charges.

The Lantern of Knowledge Trust said

today it treated the safety

and welfare of its pupils

with the utmost importance.

Also found guilty of preparing

acts of terrorism was

19-year-old Abuthaler Mamun.

27-year-old Muhammed

Abid, from East Ham.

The alleged armourer, Nadeem Patel,

pleaded guilty to possessing

a handgun but was cleared

of plotting a terror attack.

Haque will be sentenced

at the end of the month.

That's it from me.

I'll be back tomorrow

at 6.20am on BBC One,

but now the weather with Darren.

We have seen the back of the snow

but it is treacherous across many

parts of the region. As we head into

to it should not be as cold. It is

getting milder but we may get rain

later in the day. Not much falling

out of the sky. There will be a few

breaks in the cloud and the wind is

falling lighter. Attention turns to

icy conditions rather than the snow.

Temperatures down to -2 or minus

three. Still a cold start to the

weekend. It would be dry and

brighter and we may see sunshine

coming through after early mist and

fog. More of a southerly breeze,

lifting temperatures to around five,

6 degrees or so. Rain arriving later

in the evening. A wet start to

Sunday. The outlook shows

temperatures on the rise,