26/01/2018 London News

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I'm Alex Bushill.

The Mayor has promised he'll

find millions of pounds

to give to London's youth services

to help tackle growing knife crime.

Speaking to BBC London this morning,

he said the money would be on top

of the £15 million extra

he is already giving to the police.

He also said there would be more use

of the controversial

tactic - stop and search.

Here's our political

correspondent, Karl Mercer.

Expect to see plenty more of this.

High-visibility policing,

with a highly visible Mayor.

Both with a knife crime

problem on their hands.

It's risen more than 20% in London.

You said when you came

into office that your

number one priority

was the safety of Londoners.

Cressida Dick, in her first week

as commissioner, said

tackling violent crime

was what she would be judged on.

Do you accept that both

of you at the moment are

failing?

I accept knife crime is too high.

I accept knife crime has been

going up too much across the country

for the last three years.

I accept we have got

to do much more.

How are you?

How's it going?

He's handed the Met £15 million more

to tackle the issue.

What you're going to see is more

police operations across

London.

More weapons swoops,

like we are seeing this morning.

More disruption of people who may be

carrying knives, targeting known

knife offenders.

But, yes, an increase

of intelligence led,

targeted stop and search.

You know that that is going to be

controversial, don't you?

And it has been already.

You have had criticism saying, look,

members of the black

community, young black men

will say, here we go again.

We have seen this before.

We are going to be targeted

and it is going to increase

community tensions.

None of us should pretend

that the increased

use of targeted stop and search

will, by itself, reduce knife crime.

What I do know is that we have

a comprehensive package.

When I speak to the

victims of knife crime,

bereaved families,

communities, they remind me

that the largest number

of

victims of knife crimes are black,

Asian, multiethnic Londoners.

The mayor has blamed Government cuts

for falling police numbers

but says in the coming weeks

he expects to announce city hall

money to boost youth

services across the capital.

What are we talking

about, 20, £30 million?

Is that the sort of

figure we're looking at?

I won't speculate what

the figure could be but I am

hoping to find in the Budget

in the next few weeks

around £20 million,

which I would like to use for young

people in London.

These sort of searches are very

much for the cameras.

They do, though, highlight

the concern at City Hall

and Scotland Yard

of one of their highest

profile problems.

A man has been charged over

a double murder that

took place a decade ago.

Two Colombian nationals were found

with stab wounds at a block

of flats in Muller Road,

Clapham in June 2007.

35-year-old Gonzalo Remolina has

been charged with their murders

and is due to appear before

Westminster magistrates later.

Police on a raid in Essex have

found a 4ft-long Caiman

crocodile and 16 snakes

at a house in Westcliff.

A scorpion was also

discovered at the premises.

The operation was in connection

with a cannabis factory found

in Basildon two years ago.

Lots of reptiles

were also found there.

Now, robot skies and surveillance

drones all across the city?

That's just one vision

of the capital that's

outlined in a new exhibition

at the Museum of London.

Wendy Hurrell took a look

at what the future might hold.

At the Museum of London,

after delving into the capital's

past, the present is a nice sit

down and a cup of tea.

Over year, this is what London might

be like just a few decades from now.

Fantastical futures

by artists, designers,

architects and film-makers.

In The Robot Skies creates a world

controlled by surveillance drones.

The film itself was shot using them.

The first film, as far as we know,

to be entirely shot using

autonomous drone systems.

And that was important for us

because it was really about trying

to see the city through the eyes

of a drone network, which is

monitoring and controlling it.

Two young people are confined

in opposite towers and fall in love,

communicating by a drone

that they hack.

It was filmed on the Somerset

estate in Battersea.

It is brutalist, a lot of hard

surfaces, very confronting

and uncompromising and particularly

we chose this one because there

are two extraordinary,

imposing towers that became

the perfect setting

for our narrative.

And we had one of our characters

in one tower and another

in the other tower.

As we were able to get our drone

to sort of dance back

and forth between them.

So, a familiar setting and story.

And this exhibition

takes what we now know,

what we know from history,

and uses them to explore

what happens next.

No-one can predict the future,

so the best way to do

that is to exaggerate the reality

that we live in now.

Stretch it and then

project it in the future.

So, this way, we can take

a hypothetical scenario and we can

look into these issues.

It is a future that

doesn't seem so far away.

A lot of the technology

is already here.

They are going to be a really

important part of our lives.

They are soon going to be

as ubiquitous as pigeons

in a city like this one.

And that is something that we need

to be talking about.

London Visions, at the Museum

of London, is on until April.

It suggests that the future's not

us all moving to Mars,

it is a much more grounded

reflection on life.

Now to football, and lots

of our teams are in FA Cup

action this weekend.

Tottenham travel to Newport,

who are in League Two.

So, could Spurs go all the way

this season and win?

Emma Jones asked one

of the players at a project

which encourages people to get fit.

An exercise class

with a special guest.

This is tournament fielder

Erik Lamela visiting a Shape Up For

Spurs class.

It's a programme set up by the club

to help local people

learn about being fit and healthy.

Fashion designer Jackie Dublin says

it hasn't just changed her

appearance but whole lifestyle.

I feel great.

And what is happening now is that

everybody's looking at

me and they can see the difference.

They are saying,

Jackie, you look great.

And I am saying, and I feel great!

And, you know, the feeling,

you can't pay for that.

It is such an amazing

feeling, to feel healthy

and strong.

And if Erik appears a little

reluctant to take part, it

might be because he only recently

returned from a hip injury.

An injury which meant he didn't

play for over a year.

It was so hard to be out,

but it is football.

That happens.

I got the injury and I need

to respect the times after the

surgery.

And now, I am back

again and I'm enjoying.

Next up for Spurs, a trip

to Newport in the FA Cup.

The League Two side have even added

a temporary stand for the extra

supporters.

Excitement for them but also perhaps

for a Tottenham team who

might believe they can win

the cup this season.

We need to go forward

in all the competitions and try to

win one trophy this season.

Because I think we

have a very good squad

and I believe in this team, that

we're going to achieve something.

Tottenham are currently using

Wembley as their temporary home.

Could they be there in May

to celebrate FA Cup success?

Now the weather,

with Elizabeth Ritzini.

Good afternoon. It was a very chilly

start of the day with some early

mist patches around and some light

showers as well. Plenty of cloud. It

is starting to thin and break and we

should see more bright and sunny

patches emerging through the

afternoon. Temperature is not quite

as high as yesterday but still quite

decent. We might see eight or nine

Celsius later in central London.

Overnight tonight, it will stay dry.

Lots of clear skies around and maybe

some mist and fog forming as we head

into tomorrow morning as the

temperature drops away. Temperatures

could be low enough for a touch of

rural frost, otherwise holding to

between five and six Celsius into

tomorrow morning. That mist and fog

will lift into low cloud gradually.

It is predominantly cloudy tomorrow.

The weather front coming through

will be mostly patchy drizzle. The

wind will pick up and it will be 10

Celsius by the time we get to the

end of the day. Very mild night on

Saturday into Sunday. On Sunday,

still quite windy and grey but it

should we try our mostly dry. We

will see brighter spells perhaps

form into the afternoon.

Temperatures all the way up to 13

Celsius. Possibly some rain around

on Monday, staying mild but cooler

and more settled for much of the

rest of the week.

That's about it from me.

Riz will be here with our

6.30 evening programme.

But for now, from us all,

a very good afternoon.