12/03/2017 London News

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Now on BBC one, it's time for the news where you are.

Good evening, I'm Claudia-Liza Armah.

One of the capital's top Universities is reviewing

its procedures for tackling anti-semitism, after a spike

in reported incidents involving students across

SOAS - The School of Oriental and African Studies -

is currently investigating claims two of ITS students were targeted

When does a healthy campus debate turn into something more serious?

At University College London they are wrestling with this issue

as the contentious Israel apartheid week draws to a close,

here and at dozens of academic institutions.

We expect them to have robust policy and procedures in place

to comply with the law, to investigate and swiftly address

hate crime, including any anti-Semitic incidents

Back in October, things got really out of hand here.

The university's Friends of Israel group organised a talk

from a former Israeli soldier, but didn't follow

The university rejected their application, but changed their mind

at the last moment on appeal, causing Palestinian supporters

to accuse the University of double standards,

Things got very heated, the police were called,

but there were no arrests and no reports of serious violence.

However, UCL's official report into the event found that:

Anti-Semitism has been in the spotlight amid a reported 30%

year on year increase in incidents nationally,

and a doubling of incidents involving students or academics.

This woman said she and her friend were targeted

Two guys came to us and they tried to do something to my friend's

phone, so I like stepped in the middle, between them,

and the same guy, he went round me, he took my flag, my Israeli flag

I wasn't provoking, it was inside my bag,

and he just like, took it out, and my friend was "How dare you take

They started to, like, there was almost violence,

they started to walk into each other.

One of the things I have agreed with the Union of Jewish Students

but also with our SOAS society, is that we will review our

procedures, but also do a lot more signposting,

so that people who feel that there is a concern

Five men have been arrested on suspicion of murder

after the death of a man from stab wounds near Chelmsford.

Officers were called to a property at

Rettendon Common just before midnight last night and found

a 19-year-old man suffering from stab wounds.

This is one-year-old Sophia Elia-Schenka.

To look at she's like any other toddler, but she has a rare

And where life expectancy in most cases is just two years.

Her parents, from Loughton, are now desperately trying to raise

money for her treatment and boost public awareness

of the condition, so other families won't have to face

Like most 18 month olds, Sofia loves to play with her toys

and read her books, but for her these things aren't

easy, because she has spinal muscular atrophy type one,

So her muscles don't get messages from the motor neurons,

so they don't know to work and therefore they waste away.

Though few people will have heard of the condition,

it is the most common inherited cause of death in infants.

And in 95% of case, life expectancy is under two years old.

Yet despite its severity, Sofia's parents Victoria and Gee

have struggled to access the treatment and

We went and we started talking to the NHS about getting it

At that time she was already close to one-and-a-half.

Victoria and Gee told us that the NHS said they weren't

eligible for a wheelchair because they live up a very

narrow flight of stairs, and there is nowhere

here on the ground floor for an electric wheelchair

It's the most difficult thing to have to watch

your child struggling with the simplest of tasks.

She can't turn a page of a book, she can't pick up

We contacted their local NHS, who said they do offer a range

of services for children with life limiting conditions,

and Epping Forest Council claimed they are trying to help,

in spite of a shortage of social housing.

Now a look at the weather with Lucy Martin.

A fairly cloudy and damp end to the weekend, but as we move

into the working week, we are going to return

to something that bit brighter, some sunshine on the way.

So if we put the detail on to the map then, that band

of rain finally clearing as we move through this evening and overnight.

Some clearer spells into the early hours, overnight lows

of between three and seven degrees Celsius.

So a chilly start to the day tomorrow, some cloud round first

thing, but brightening up as we move through the morning.

Mmaximum temperature 16 degrees Celsius, so feeling

We are staying mild as we move through the first part of the week,

but it will turn increasingly cloudy.

Hello, the weather was hit-and-miss today across the UK, bit of

sunshine, a few spots of rain, the skies are clearing now, particularly

in western area, and unlike the last few nights, this coming night, it is

going to turn chilly, there is a touch of frost on the way, these are

clouds from today. Some of it rain bearing, this gap in the weather,

that is going to be over the UK, during the course of the night so

hence the temperatures will dip away.