15/03/2018 London News

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for the news where you are.

Good evening.

I'm Asad Ahmad.

For the first time

in nearly 30 years,

London's Air Ambulance says it's now

being called to more

stabbings and shootings

than road traffic accidents.

They say the nature

of the attacks is more 'brutal',

while staff feel 'horror'

at treating younger victims.

It comes as another teenager

in London was fatally stabbed,

and a man was shot dead.

Karl Mercer spent the day

with the Air Ambulance team.

As we were filming, another

call-out. They do this 1800 times a

year, nearly a third of their

missions are to victims of stabbings

and shootings.

We are seeing

patients who was stabbed multiple

times. Perhaps with much more brutal

weapons than we saw before. We are

still seeing people stabbed once and

passing away at the roadside. We're

also seeing schoolchildren, where we

have to of the school uniform to get

to them to try to help and do

operations, which is just tragic.

For the first time, stabbings and

shootings account for the biggest

number of missions, bigger than road

accidents. 560 victims of knife and

gun crime in the last year, many in

their teens.

The horror is not in

the injuries. It is in the youth of

the victims. And it is the constant

drip drip drip of life after life

after life being ruined.

And that

has got to stop. At the end of last

year, BBC London filmed a week at

the Royal London Hospital. This is

where the victims of the growing

violence brought. On busy nights,

the Air Ambulance crews can bring in

several victims. The ambulance is

paid for by charity donations, with

the NHS paying for the staff.

Every

member of the team has a case most

shifts where they come back

absolutely downtrodden because of

what they have seen and because they

have had to break the news to

relatives of those patients at the

scene, which is harrowing for

people. More harrowing for the

people involved, but it does affect

all the medical teams through the

system who trains to help.

One of

those trying to do just that the

surgeon Martin Griffiths.

It is very

concerning because we are living in

a society where youth is starting to

degrade. And people are having near

fatal events in their childhoods. I

mean, we talk about intervention for

children of that age and allowing

them to get into adulthood. With a

child stabbed 13, where'd you start

the prevention work?

That is it? As

for wider society. While it looks

for an answer, the will continue to

come. -- the victims.

More police will be

at West Ham United's next home game

at the London Stadium -

after crowd trouble on Saturday,

as the team lost to Burnley.

At an emergency meeting tonight,

the club was also warned it

could play behind closed doors,

if there's a repeat of the trouble.

New powers for the Mayor

of London have been proposed,

saying he should take charge

of Further Education

and Apprenticeships.

The report, by King's College

London, also recommends City Hall

has a chance to do more.

Here's our political

editor, Tim Donovan.

Here in Tottenham, students

are learning to animate by code,

as part of a module to design

their own computer games.

The college is the first FE

establishment specialising

in digital skills.

Everyone must do, as a starting

point, a computer science BTEC.

What steps do you advise to gain

a trademark protection?

As well as design,

they are taught the law,

ethics and basic business skills.

And there is a clear demand.

Across London, there are not

nearly enough students

coming through to fill

the tech jobs available.

There's quite a few other jobs

might be disappearing,

so it's quite a good field

to be going into.

Now I am even finding out a lot

of things that I never

thought that I would learn,

so it's cool.

There are 60 students

here on apprenticeships.

A new report says the Mayor should

have greater control of how

the money for that is spent

across the capital.

I think London has a particular

challenge around the digital

skills gap that it faces.

And I think the Mayor having control

of that budget will really help work

out where the funding could go most

effectively and efficiently.

The Mayor himself

backed that idea today.

Getting our schools policy right

in London will be absolutely vital

to creating a fairer,

more inclusive, more prosperous

city in 2030 and beyond.

The report, by King's

College London, also

recommends the Mayor head up

a new Health Authority

for the capital.

Have a seat.

This GP in Mile End would be nervous

about another reorganisation,

but she certainly believes more

money could better

reflect her workload.

If you're dealing with

somebody who's diabetic,

who's got heart disease,

who's asthmatic -

and lots of our patients have

all of those things.

Plus, they're in chronic pain,

they've got poverty,

they're homeless, they're struggling

with benefits, their housing's

threatened, all those things.

They come in, they see the GP.

Health and education in the capital

in need of more local leadership.

Tim Donovan, BBC London News.

London's museums are some

of the best in the world -

but they say they're

being overlooked

when it comes to Brexit.

So they met up today

to voice their fears

and impact it could have -

and Katharine Carpenter was there.

We'll place these as we planned...

Putting the final touches to this

exhibition of work by Austrian

artists is a precise business.

But after being shown at this

North London gallery,

some of these pieces might be loaned

elsewhere in the EU,

a fairly simple process

while we're still members.

It's really relatively smooth,

if it's a number of pieces of paper.

It means we can import and export

duty free, if you like.

But if administration,

bureaucracy then comes into it,

we'll have to employ somebody

at some stage to deal

with all that paperwork.

He says he's prepared

to make the necessary

changes, but needs to know

what they'll be - soon.

Getting clarity on these issues

is just as important

for large institutions.

Here at the Natural History Museum,

it can take up to three or four

years to plan an exhibition.

So even if you factor

in a transition period,

time is beginning to run out.

The Museums Association warns that

London's cultural offering could be

affected with access to funding

and staff major concerns.

30% of museums in the UK

employ staff from other

countries in the EU.

There is a concern that some of them

will leave and the museums

won't be able to attract

high-quality, specialist staff

in very niche subject areas,

which typically, they rely on to put

on the kind of amazing

exhibitions that you see today.

But some see Brexit as a chance

to widen the opportunity.

The Government says when it can set

its own immigration policy after

Brexit, it will welcome those with

the skills and expertise needed. So

do those words bring comfort to

members of the creative industries

Federation here for a Brexit

conference today?

We are pleased

government listening but will they

make sure that the absolutely

important issue on which this sector

depends with regard to Brexit, are

they going to be at the centre of

the negotiations in the final deal?

Space...

The final frontier -

and also the final stop

of tonnes of rubbish,

after so many launches from Earth.

So Airbus in Hertfordshire,

looking to pick up

the litter out there,

has designed a cleaner - of sorts.

Kate Bradbrook has been

taking a look at it.

Litter and waste is a growing

problem here on Planet Earth.

But it's also becoming

a serious issue in space.

Old satellites and space

craft from years gone

by discarded in low Earth orbit.

As the spacecraft are orbiting

around up there, then there's

the risk of them colliding

with each other.

And when they do, they explode,

to create a huge amount more debris

that then can collide with other

spacecraft, and you just get

the snowballing effect.

But there is a possible solution.

A giant litter picker,

or space harpoon, is being tested

here at Airbus in Stevenage.

Designed to capture debris

and safely dispose of it.

With 18,000 pieces of smaller

junk in orbit, there's

a tool for that too.

It's designed to harpoon small

spacecraft up to around the size

of a washing machine,

and reel them in, so they can

be safely deorbited.

This one is a non-functioning

satellite that's around the size

of a double-decker bus,

about eight tonnes, so it's

much too large for our

small harpoon to handle.

So we've developed this,

which is the Clean Space Harpoon.

And in many ways, it's very similar.

It has a lot of the same

technology behind it.

We pierce the satellite,

with the barbs.

We are now locked in,

so we can have a mechanical

interface with our satellite

and we can use our tether here

to turn it back to the atmosphere,

where it can be safely destroyed.

Testing in space will

begin later this year.

By the mid 2020s, this could provide

the answer to our cosmic clean-up.

That's it for now from me,

but let's find out what

the weather's up to with Nick.

The weekend is much colder,

significant wind-chill and snow at

at times. Rain overnight. This is

the latest radar picture, some

showers spreading from the south.

Into the small hours, we get more

cloud. Showers moving quite quickly

and behind that, clearing skies late

at night and temperatures not going

down four. Starting tomorrow with

sunny spells and we keep those

through the day. A bit of cloud

builds and you may catch a shower,

it could be heavy and possibly

thunder, Bob most of us stay dry

with temperatures nicely in double

figures with a light wind. It is the

last day of that because we are

watching over the weekend for much

colder air coming Galloway, a

significant wind-chill and Met

Office warning for snow and ice.

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