:00:00. > :00:15.Welcome to BBC London News. is all from us for now.
:00:16. > :00:18.We start this lunchtime with police saying they're committed
:00:19. > :00:21.to tackling all forms of hate crime, after figures revealed
:00:22. > :00:24.a year-on-year rise since records began five years ago,
:00:25. > :00:26.with a real spike following terror attacks.
:00:27. > :00:29.Well, the BBC's Rickin Majithia has been out on patrol with a unit
:00:30. > :00:32.dedicated to tackling the problem finding out what they're doing
:00:33. > :00:40.Following a rise in reported hate crimes in the capital,
:00:41. > :00:44.these officers are trying to reassure the local community
:00:45. > :00:50.For me coming out, I really do get scared.
:00:51. > :00:52.So how do officers patrolling these neighbourhoods decide
:00:53. > :00:55.which incidents should be treated as hate crimes?
:00:56. > :00:57.Racially aggravated public order, where people get called names
:00:58. > :01:03.just purely on the basis of their colour, religion.
:01:04. > :01:06.It can be a racially aggravated attack where somebody has come
:01:07. > :01:10.along and purely attacks you because of your colour,
:01:11. > :01:15.just because of your race or your religion.
:01:16. > :01:18.The Mustapha family live in East Ham.
:01:19. > :01:21.Last year during the debates around EU referendum,
:01:22. > :01:24.they were subjected to abuse from youths living nearby.
:01:25. > :01:28.One day I left my window open by mistake and when I came back,
:01:29. > :01:30.about three kilos of tomatoes were here on the window,
:01:31. > :01:32.kitchen shelf, floor, on the wall, everywhere.
:01:33. > :01:34.Three kilograms of tomatoes thrown through your kitchen window?
:01:35. > :01:38.Yes, yes, yes, and then they started called my husband names,
:01:39. > :01:42.by his beard, calling him Osama bin Laden.
:01:43. > :01:44.It's the kind of case that Superintendant Waheed Khan
:01:45. > :01:50.He's the Met's Deputy Lead on combating hate crimes.
:01:51. > :01:52.Hate crime can take many forms and all of them
:01:53. > :01:59.I think you can be online and increasingly we are seeing
:02:00. > :02:02.online activity for hate crime, because of the fact that nowadays
:02:03. > :02:07.you have social media, you have a lot more people that have
:02:08. > :02:10.activity online, a presence and a digital footprint online.
:02:11. > :02:13.The war against hate crimes on the Internet is fought
:02:14. > :02:17.It was launched in April by Mayor Sadiq Khan and works
:02:18. > :02:22.closely with social media sites to identify and prosecute offenders.
:02:23. > :02:24.The police hope that this combined approach of police and cyber patrols
:02:25. > :02:28.will help to reassure London's diverse communities that they can
:02:29. > :02:37.And the Met Commissioner has this morning spoken
:02:38. > :02:40.to the BBC's Asian Network, saying the clampdown on hate crime
:02:41. > :02:48.One of the ways that we can tackle extremism together is to ensure that
:02:49. > :02:51.Muslims for example feel protected and feel properly protected
:02:52. > :02:55.and we are taking hate crime very, very seriously.
:02:56. > :02:57.Now, as she prepares to end her three years
:02:58. > :03:01.Sylvie Bermann has been speaking to BBC London
:03:02. > :03:06.Although she believes that the relationship between Paris
:03:07. > :03:10.she says uncertainty is still a major concern
:03:11. > :03:16.She spoke to our Brexit reporter Katharine Carpenter.
:03:17. > :03:20.When Sylvie Bermann was posted to the embassy here in London three
:03:21. > :03:22.years ago, colleagues warned her it would be boring after
:03:23. > :03:28.But, she says, it's been anything but.
:03:29. > :03:31.I think it has been a historic period because I arrived just before
:03:32. > :03:35.the referendum in Scotland and then I had two general elections
:03:36. > :03:43.The ambassador says Brexit negotiations so far have done little
:03:44. > :03:47.to allay the concerns of the 300,000 or so French citizens the embassy
:03:48. > :03:58.Not a huge number of people but some decided to leave because they feel
:03:59. > :04:05.Again, the main problem is uncertainty.
:04:06. > :04:07.You've talked about the Brexit negotiations as being a bit
:04:08. > :04:12.Do you still think that's a good analogy?
:04:13. > :04:19.I hope in the future there will be no losers.
:04:20. > :04:21.I'm not sure it's going to be the case.
:04:22. > :04:24.So does she think the city will be one of those losers?
:04:25. > :04:29.I think that London will remain a very important financial centre
:04:30. > :04:33.but, at the same time, some people and some
:04:34. > :04:40.activities will be relocated as a consequence of Brexit.
:04:41. > :04:43.But she says the bond between Paris and London is still strong
:04:44. > :04:45.and she will miss the city when she leaves
:04:46. > :04:51.I like the culture and the sense of humour, as well, so I've really
:04:52. > :05:07.It's a bit too short but that's the diplomatic life.
:05:08. > :05:09.The French Ambassador Sylvie Bermann ending that report
:05:10. > :05:13.Now, how would you fancy having the choice of 900 ales,
:05:14. > :05:17.Well, that's exactly what anyone going to this year's Great British
:05:18. > :05:22.Well, Egon Cossou is there in Olympia for us this lunchtime.
:05:23. > :05:30.Is very difficult job for you this afternoon, isn't it? I get all the
:05:31. > :05:33.difficult jobs but things are picking up here. This is the 40th
:05:34. > :05:39.annual celebration of beer. It's not all about the big breweries, though.
:05:40. > :05:41.Microbreweries are also getting in on the act. Let's check on one of
:05:42. > :05:42.them from Walthamstow. Wildcard Brewery, we are
:05:43. > :05:44.six-barrelled brewery plant. We started the brewery
:05:45. > :05:48.because we really, really like beer, so we thought let's do this
:05:49. > :05:50.for a living. My colleagues, Andrew and Will,
:05:51. > :05:58.old friends from uni. They were kind of home-brewing
:05:59. > :06:00.and I was home-brewing as well and they were like,
:06:01. > :06:03.it's session time, you know what, It was very, very difficult
:06:04. > :06:08.for us to kind of start up and that was mainly
:06:09. > :06:10.because of the lack We don't come from rich families,
:06:11. > :06:17.so what we did was we started out as kookaburras, so we were brewing
:06:18. > :06:21.using other breweries' equipment and then getting the beer
:06:22. > :06:24.back and selling that. And we did that a few times
:06:25. > :06:28.until we eventually got investment from the Brightside Trust,
:06:29. > :06:30.which was a scheme investing in young people at the time and we
:06:31. > :06:35.were able to afford this place. It's been quite challenging getting
:06:36. > :06:39.the business kind of started and a lot of that is to do
:06:40. > :06:42.with lack of capital. We're just about to do our first
:06:43. > :06:48.beer order to Russia which we are so, so excited
:06:49. > :06:56.about so next on the horizon for Wildcard, we are in
:06:57. > :06:58.the middle of moving sites. We've got another 12,000
:06:59. > :07:00.litres of capacity, It's pretty easy making
:07:01. > :07:06.beer when you love it, so you basically get to do
:07:07. > :07:21.what you love as a job, We are expecting 50,000 people
:07:22. > :07:25.through the doors here this week. Not all of them leaving as steadily
:07:26. > :07:30.Babs as they came in. That's it from me. Back to you. I believe you'd get
:07:31. > :07:31.back to all about hard work. So are we ever going
:07:32. > :07:33.to get a summer? Or will there just be rain,
:07:34. > :07:35.rain and more rain? Here's Kate Kinsella
:07:36. > :07:37.with the weather. Well, it stays rather unsettled
:07:38. > :07:41.for the next 24 hours or so. We started the day with a bit
:07:42. > :07:45.of mist and fog, as you can see here We've also seen a fair
:07:46. > :07:48.amount of cloud around, but by the same measure,
:07:49. > :07:51.some breaks in the cloud as well, We are likely to see,
:07:52. > :07:54.this afternoon, some The Met Office has issued a yellow
:07:55. > :07:59.weather warning for heavy rain. These showers, you may hear a rumble
:08:00. > :08:02.or two of thunder in them Quite slow-moving, so we could get
:08:03. > :08:07.quite a lot of rain in them before they start to disappear,
:08:08. > :08:10.as the wind is very light. The temperature is
:08:11. > :08:12.feeling a touch cooler. The maximum today around
:08:13. > :08:15.17 or 18 Celsius. The shower risk continues
:08:16. > :08:17.into the evening, but we will gradually get one
:08:18. > :08:20.or two drier spells. The wind stays very light overnight,
:08:21. > :08:23.but we hang on to the cloud. Could still see a bit
:08:24. > :08:26.of rain around as well. Minimum temperature
:08:27. > :08:29.between 13 and 14 Celsius. You see this rain -
:08:30. > :08:31.that's tomorrow's, and the Met Office has another
:08:32. > :08:34.yellow weather warning in place as that starts
:08:35. > :08:37.to make its way south again. Again, rumbles of thunder,
:08:38. > :08:39.and some heavy, more persistent rain It will feel that bit cooler,
:08:40. > :08:44.as we have a northerly breeze developing, so that's going to make
:08:45. > :08:47.it feel quite chilly, That rain's going to continue
:08:48. > :08:52.for a time overnight on Wednesday. Thursday morning it should
:08:53. > :08:54.start to clear away. Becoming a bit drier and brighter
:08:55. > :08:57.through the course of Thursday. Still the chance, of
:08:58. > :09:01.course, of a shower. Similar conditions for Friday, and
:09:02. > :09:13.staying unsettled into the weekend. Riz will be here tonight
:09:14. > :09:17.with the 6:30 evening programme. But for now, from us all,
:09:18. > :09:22.a very good afternoon.