29/08/2017 London News


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I'm Alice Salfield. news teams where you are.

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The murder of a Palestinian cartoonist, who was shot in London,

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a political cartoonist for a Kuwaiti newspaper, was shot in the neck

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as he walked to his office in Knightsbridge.

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Dan Freedman is in West London where it happened.

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Dan, the Met are hoping an image they're releasing will help

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Yes. This is the image the Metropolitan Police released today

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of the man they believe was responsible for Mr Al-Ali's death.

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It has opinion aged 30 years artificially. You can see what they

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think he would look like today. Mr Al-Ali, a political cartoonist for a

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Kuwaiti newspaper was shot here in Knightsbridge on 22nd July 1987.

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No-one's ever been convicted of his myrrhed. The gun used was only found

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two years later. His tatter cal cartoons which featured a character,

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you can see those on your screen now, poked funity Palestinian regime

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which they got quite upset about. He'd received a number of death

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threats in the run up to his murder. People who might not have felt

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confident at the time, in relation to coming forward, I'd encourage

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them now to speak to us. The police in particular do not

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close such inquiries. At the time of his death, Middle

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East commentators Sir miced this could be the work of Palestinian

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liberation organisation, the PLO, who were known to quash anyone who

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would condemn their tactics. Of course, the family believe there

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might have been Israeli involvement as well, the secret service Mossad

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being mentioned. In the eighties, police named a suspect. The family

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want to revisit that. What is clear amongst this uncertainty is this was

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a political assassination. While they look for that victim, they will

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be looking along those lines in terms of who committed this time 30

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years ago. Dan, thank you. A cyclist has been killed

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after a collision involving a van The driver was arrested

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on suspicion of causing death The man, who's believed

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to have been in his 30s, was killed in Camden Road in Lower

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Holloway just after 6am. Four months after a 14-metre

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sinkhole opened up on a high street there's criticism over how long

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it's taking to repair. The road is still closed,

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affecting buses, access to people's homes

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and businesses. Locals say there's also been a lack

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of information about what caused it. This is High Street Green in Hemel,

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a major road through the town and normally absolutely teeming with

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traffic. On May 12th, a small hole appeared. Chen engineers

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investigated, they found underneath was a huge tunnel-shaped sinkhole at

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least eight metres deep and six metres long. Four months on and no

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work's been done to repair it and people round here haven't been told

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what caused it or when it will be repaired. They're furious. I pass

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here every day on my way into work. At the beginning of the week I walk

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down here and over the past go or three months I've seen nothing being

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done. The last time was about three months ago when they were putting

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the fences up. This is the state of it now. Often enough, you'll see

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kids trying to throw sticks into the hole and having a look. It becomes

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slightly dangerous. I became seriously worried a couple of weeks

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ago To find it is pushing towards the flats. This is a sinkhole that

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opened up in Hemel on 2014 on the site of an old mine cavity.

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Hertfordshire County Council says it is trying to find out how this

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sinkhole appeared and when it will be repaired. They admit nearly four

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months on they don't know how the ground sank here or when residents

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will have their road open General. A city full of drones, electric

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vehicles and under-used roads That's one vision of how

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London will look in 2050. As a part of our new series, we're

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looking at the future of London. Today, our correspondent

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Tom Edwards looks at transport. Could flying cars be the future of

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transport in cities? This is the latest sky if I Braid-runners film.

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Or could jet packs revolutionise travel? Probably not. There are

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plenty of of ideas that don't make it. Remember this conversation in

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three or four years' time, every... This is more likely. Mark has an

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electric car. The plan is for all vehicles in London to be zero

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emissions by 2050. Our kids will not know what an engine sounds like. An

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rev in years to come. There is no reason why people won't go electric.

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You can see with the upsell of electric cars it will be the way

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forward. The big challenge for city planners will be a growing

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population and increasing demands on limited space. It is predicted in 25

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years' time, the population of London will be 10.5 million. That

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will mean increased investment in infrastructure, Crossrail 2,

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Crossrail 3, perhaps even Crossrail 4. At the transport museum there are

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all kinds of concepts of the future. These are T bottoms. They designate

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road space. This car stores while in the in use. Could drones play a

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part? In the 1900s they thought commutes would be be done by air.

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Mobility by a service means you use apps and smartphones to call up

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vehicles to where you are. Some people say that means in the future

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we won't need to vetty own cars. The question is, what does that mean for

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the capital's streets? We are already seeing trials of driverless

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vehicles in the capital. Will autumnation make the roads, buses

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and trains run safer and quicker? What would that mean if there are

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fewer vehicles? One interesting statistic is the average car today

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is parked for 95% of its lifetime. Most cars are hardly ever used. You

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see that in London. The streets are filled with parked cars. In the

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future, if we stop buying the cars we don't need and only use mobility

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as a service, it could be we free up a lot of road space for other uses

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whether that's walking, cycling, more cafes, shops, restaurants. You

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foment it. There's room on board for a passenger. This is another idea

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that didn't make it. Nonetheless, innovation and investment will be

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key for the future of London's transport. It would certainly make

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the morning comUtah bit more interesting. After a warm but not to

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sunny start, let's check on the weather.

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Another very warm day today. We are seeing a bit more in the way of

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cloud. A stunning picture here captured by one of our weather

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watchers in plum stead. You can see there is quite a lot of cloud

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through the next few hours. Some breaks for brightness and sunshine

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but the odd outbreak of rain. Temperatures getting up to 27

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Celsius for South East London. But the further north-west you go, the

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lower those temperatures are. Still up to about 24 degrees. We may see a

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bit of thundery activity later on as well. Through the night, further

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outbreaks of rain. More in the way of cloud. A northerly breeze picking

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up. Temperatures about 13 or 14 Celsius. Tomorrow will feel very

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different. Quite a lot of cloud around. There will be some

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brightness. Even some sunny spells A fair bit of rain as well. It will be

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fairly heavy at types. Temperatures only up to 16 Celsius in some spots

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and 14 in other areas. It will feel very different. By Thursday morning,

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we'll see the back of that rain. It should brighten up to sunny spells.

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A largely dry day with a few showers around. Friday a similar picture.

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Looking like a fairly fine weekend. Those temperatures where they should

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be for the time of year, closer to 20 Celsius.

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That's all we've got time for this lunchtime.

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But hopefully you can join Asad at 6.30pm this evening.

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Until then, as always, you can stay up to date through our website.

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For now though, from all of us on the team,

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thanks for watching and have a lovely day.

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