0:00:00 > 0:00:01Minister is said to be close to a deal with the EU that
0:00:12 > 0:00:15Good afternoon, I'm Asad Ahmad.
0:00:15 > 0:00:18In a year which has seen four terrorist attacks
0:00:18 > 0:00:25in London, this afternoon,
0:00:25 > 0:00:27personnel from the emergency services who showed "exceptional
0:00:27 > 0:00:29bravery" at the time are being recognised
0:00:29 > 0:00:30at the Guildhall.
0:00:30 > 0:00:32Members of the public will also receive awards
0:00:32 > 0:00:34for the way they reacted, and the Metropolitan
0:00:34 > 0:00:35Police Commissioner Cressida Dick has been
0:00:35 > 0:00:36sharing her thoughts with us.
0:00:36 > 0:00:41It's been a terrible year.
0:00:41 > 0:00:43There's no other way to describe it.
0:00:43 > 0:00:46And so many people have lost their lives and other people
0:00:46 > 0:00:49have had their lives turned upside down.
0:00:49 > 0:00:51As we are commending these colleagues and members
0:00:51 > 0:00:54of the public this afternoon, we'll be thinking about them,
0:00:54 > 0:00:57but I think we'll also be very proud and we will be recognising that
0:00:57 > 0:01:00actually, London came together right at the time of those attacks
0:01:00 > 0:01:04and ordinary Londoners showed extraordinary courage
0:01:04 > 0:01:05and resilience.
0:01:05 > 0:01:07And London has carried on.
0:01:07 > 0:01:09We've carried on with all our events, carried
0:01:09 > 0:01:11on with our business, carried on with our shopping,
0:01:12 > 0:01:13carried on with our tourism.
0:01:13 > 0:01:17And the public are immensely supportive of their police
0:01:17 > 0:01:24so I'm very proud.
0:01:24 > 0:01:26Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick speaking to us
0:01:26 > 0:01:27earlier.
0:01:27 > 0:01:30Well, our reporter Chris Rogers has been speaking to one
0:01:30 > 0:01:32of recipients of the awards, who'll be at the Guildhall
0:01:32 > 0:01:33this afternoon.
0:01:33 > 0:01:35I got the call to London Bridge.
0:01:35 > 0:01:37It was given as a road traffic collision at the time.
0:01:37 > 0:01:41Erm, I arrived and then, erm, got told it was a major incident.
0:01:41 > 0:01:46I took a handover from an advanced paramedic on scene very quickly.
0:01:46 > 0:01:51We then heard gunfire.
0:01:51 > 0:01:54I then took cover.
0:01:54 > 0:01:57As soon as the gunfire had finished, I come back out and my
0:01:57 > 0:01:59training just kicked in.
0:01:59 > 0:02:00I was very, very nervous.
0:02:00 > 0:02:04Erm, there's no way I'm going to deny that.
0:02:04 > 0:02:08But the training does kick in and it was, to me,
0:02:08 > 0:02:11I need to get as many patients out of this area and into hospital
0:02:11 > 0:02:14as soon as I possibly could.
0:02:14 > 0:02:18Do you feel like a hero or do you feel like someone who just
0:02:18 > 0:02:19did his job that day?
0:02:19 > 0:02:22I don't feel a hero at all, I'll be quite honest with you.
0:02:22 > 0:02:24I do feel like I was just doing my job.
0:02:24 > 0:02:26There's a lot of people behind us.
0:02:26 > 0:02:29You know, it is a big, big team.
0:02:29 > 0:02:31The London Ambulance Service, the police services and members
0:02:31 > 0:02:34of the public, all the Londoners that helped us on that
0:02:34 > 0:02:35evening was unbelievable.
0:02:35 > 0:02:38You know, without any of them, this wouldn't have happened.
0:02:38 > 0:02:41The control room staff, the people on the road, everybody,
0:02:41 > 0:02:46everybody just mucked in, one big team and we just made it.
0:02:46 > 0:02:49Did you get a sense that day that it was very much the emergency
0:02:49 > 0:02:52services and public coming together?
0:02:52 > 0:02:55Definitely, definitely.
0:02:55 > 0:02:58Without the public, while I was waiting for my staff
0:02:58 > 0:03:03to arrive, without the public, I wouldn't have been able to do
0:03:03 > 0:03:09or save as many people as we could, I don't think.
0:03:09 > 0:03:15A very humble Andy Beasley, there, speaking to Chris Rogers.
0:03:15 > 0:03:18A man has died after being hit by a marked police car
0:03:18 > 0:03:19on an emergency call in north London.
0:03:19 > 0:03:22It happened on Seven Sisters Road, near the junction with Elizabeth
0:03:22 > 0:03:23Road, in Haringey yesterday evening.
0:03:23 > 0:03:25Officers in the vehicle gave first aid but were unable
0:03:26 > 0:03:28to save the man aged in his 40s.
0:03:28 > 0:03:29The Metropolitan Police Directorate of Professional Standards
0:03:29 > 0:03:32and the Independent Police Complaints Commission
0:03:32 > 0:03:36will investigate.
0:03:36 > 0:03:39Facebook's biggest engineering hub outside the US has opened
0:03:39 > 0:03:43just off Oxford Street, creating hundreds of new jobs.
0:03:43 > 0:03:47It comes exactly a decade after the social media company
0:03:47 > 0:03:50opened its first office in London.
0:03:50 > 0:03:54Tarah Welsh has been taking a look around.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01Apparently, there's something to sing about at these brand-new
0:04:01 > 0:04:05offices in central London. Dancers and entertainers brought in to
0:04:05 > 0:04:09Facebook HQ to celebrate its latest investment in the UK. Even the
0:04:09 > 0:04:13Chancellor turned up. His office has promised to crack down on companies
0:04:13 > 0:04:19that avoid paying tax in the UK. In 2014, Facebook was criticised after
0:04:19 > 0:04:25it transpired it paid just over £4000 in tax by putting UK sales
0:04:25 > 0:04:29through its island office. Many people were outraged about the tax
0:04:29 > 0:04:33setup of Facebook. What would you say to them now?Yeah, well we make
0:04:33 > 0:04:37sure that we comply with all of the tax laws within all of the areas
0:04:37 > 0:04:41that we operate. You might have seen that last year, we moved our
0:04:41 > 0:04:47revenues that we received from our client in the UK into our UK office
0:04:47 > 0:04:53and that is now recognised and taxed as corporations with proper account
0:04:53 > 0:04:56ability. Our focus here is about making sure we continue to grow and
0:04:56 > 0:05:01invest. For Londoners to have a new square, to hear confident in the
0:05:01 > 0:05:06city and the sector, at which London excels, we think is a great message.
0:05:06 > 0:05:10The company is hiring another 800 people in London so by the end of
0:05:10 > 0:05:15next year, there will be 2300 people working here. It makes this this
0:05:15 > 0:05:19biggest engineering base outside the US. -- their biggest. What is it
0:05:19 > 0:05:23like to work here? Meals are free, there's plenty of treats, including
0:05:23 > 0:05:28a bus full of sweets. But they say that is just a small part of the
0:05:28 > 0:05:32culture here.I was out on maternity leave for seven months and I was
0:05:32 > 0:05:37able to come back to an environment that is very flexible, very
0:05:37 > 0:05:41supportive, both internally from my manager and my team and so on but
0:05:41 > 0:05:45also kind of the benefits that we get.Today's movie is being hailed
0:05:45 > 0:05:49as good news for both the government and the mayor, welcoming this global
0:05:49 > 0:05:53giant that did not even exist 15 years ago. Tarah Welsh, BBC London
0:05:53 > 0:05:55News.
0:05:55 > 0:05:57The Mayor of London has blamed the government and singled out
0:05:57 > 0:06:00the Prime Minister for making it difficult for Indian nationals
0:06:00 > 0:06:01to work and study in Britain.
0:06:01 > 0:06:04He was speaking during a visit to Mumbai, where he met leading
0:06:04 > 0:06:07Indian business representatives, making it clear he wanted talented
0:06:07 > 0:06:11young people to come to London.
0:06:11 > 0:06:13He explained his thoughts and criticism of Theresa May
0:06:13 > 0:06:15to our political correspondent Karl Mercer.
0:06:15 > 0:06:19One of the things that is clear to me when I speak to really
0:06:19 > 0:06:25talented Indians, chief executives, investors, innovators but also
0:06:25 > 0:06:29students, is they love London, they love the UK but find it
0:06:29 > 0:06:31incredibly hard to do business in London and incredibly hard
0:06:31 > 0:06:34to come to our top universities.
0:06:34 > 0:06:38What I'm saying today is we can't on the one hand encourage
0:06:38 > 0:06:41Indians to trade with us, to do business with us
0:06:41 > 0:06:43and on the other hand, make it so difficult
0:06:43 > 0:06:45for entrepreneurs and students to come to London.
0:06:45 > 0:06:48And it was made difficult by the current Prime Minister
0:06:48 > 0:06:49when she was Home Secretary.
0:06:49 > 0:06:53She changed the rules when it comes to students in particular.
0:06:53 > 0:06:57Well, Theresa May made a huge mistake, a huge error of judgment
0:06:57 > 0:07:02in 2012 when she stopped the post-study work visa.
0:07:02 > 0:07:05She made a huge error when she included students
0:07:05 > 0:07:08on the immigration cap.
0:07:08 > 0:07:11What I am saying to the government is they've got to do
0:07:11 > 0:07:12a number of things.
0:07:12 > 0:07:14They've got to remove students from the immigration cap.
0:07:14 > 0:07:16We need to begin a new post-study work visa.
0:07:16 > 0:07:20We've also got to make it far easier for entrepreneurs who want to come
0:07:20 > 0:07:27to London to invest and do business to do so.
0:07:27 > 0:07:29Sadiq Khan, the mayor London, speaking to our political
0:07:29 > 0:07:31correspondent, Karl Mercer.
0:07:31 > 0:07:34The RSPCA is aiming to get this totally blind cat
0:07:34 > 0:07:35and her inseparable, earless son re-homed
0:07:35 > 0:07:36in time for Christmas.
0:07:36 > 0:07:38They were rescued in September after being abandoned.
0:07:38 > 0:07:41They're called Ross and Rachel.
0:07:41 > 0:07:44They're looking for a good home.
0:07:44 > 0:07:46Now let's check on the weather with Kate.
0:07:46 > 0:07:47Good afternoon.
0:07:47 > 0:07:56Well, it's been quite a quiet day of weather so far.
0:07:56 > 0:07:59We started with a bit of sunshine, lots of blue sky around
0:07:59 > 0:08:00first thing this morning.
0:08:00 > 0:08:03A bit more cloud has been rolling in since then but we're
0:08:03 > 0:08:06still getting some bright spells this afternoon and we will still see
0:08:06 > 0:08:08a little bit of sunshine here and there through the cloud.
0:08:08 > 0:08:10So again, we continue in quite a quiet way.
0:08:10 > 0:08:12The wind is very light this afternoon.
0:08:12 > 0:08:14The temperature again not too cold, really,
0:08:14 > 0:08:15nine or ten Celsius as a maximum.
0:08:15 > 0:08:18As we head into the evening, we are hanging onto the cloud,
0:08:18 > 0:08:20patchy cloud, though, so we could see it break
0:08:20 > 0:08:21from time to time.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24Where it does break, we run the risk of maybe a bit
0:08:24 > 0:08:27of mist developing and maybe fog by dawn and also under the clear
0:08:27 > 0:08:29spells, the temperature dropping that little bit further.
0:08:29 > 0:08:33But for most of us, we are going to be stuck under this
0:08:33 > 0:08:35cloud and that means the temperatures not dropping
0:08:35 > 0:08:36down especially far.
0:08:36 > 0:08:38Five or six Celsius as a minimum.
0:08:38 > 0:08:41So a rather cloudy start tomorrow, the cloud thick enough to produce
0:08:41 > 0:08:44a spot of rain here and there but it does stay predominantly dry.
0:08:44 > 0:08:46More bright spells as opposed to sunny spells tomorrow
0:08:46 > 0:08:48but the temperature remains similar, nine or ten Celsius
0:08:48 > 0:08:50by the end of the afternoon.
0:08:50 > 0:08:52On Wednesday, the wind will really start to pick up.
0:08:52 > 0:08:56A little bit unsettled with a band of rain as a cold front starts
0:08:56 > 0:08:58to move south and that introduces this cold air.
0:08:58 > 0:09:01By the end of Thursday, things are going to feel quite bitter.
0:09:01 > 0:09:04We've also got a bit of a breeze mixed in there as well
0:09:04 > 0:09:06so the temperature gradually dropping as we head towards the end
0:09:06 > 0:09:09of the week and then by the time we get to Friday,
0:09:09 > 0:09:11it is going to feel pretty chilly, especially compared
0:09:11 > 0:09:13to the next few days.
0:09:13 > 0:09:15That's it.
0:09:15 > 0:09:19Riz will be here with our next news on BBC One at 6.30.
0:09:19 > 0:09:23And there's plenty more on our Facebook page.
0:09:23 > 0:09:25Have a good afternoon.