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Now on BBC one it's time for the news where you are. | :00:00. | :00:14. | |
Good evening, I'm Claudia-Liza Armah. | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
One of the capital's top universities is reviewing | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
its procedures for tackling anti-semitism, after a spike | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
in reported incidents involving students across | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
A number of concerns were raised after a week of anti-Israeli | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
As Dan Freedman reports it's proving a difficult area | :00:30. | :00:36. | |
When does a healthy campus debate turn into something more serious? | :00:37. | :00:45. | |
At University College London they are wrestling with this issue | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
as the contentious Israel apartheid week draws to a close, | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
here and at dozens of academic institutions. | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
We expect them to have robust policy and procedures in place | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
to comply with the law, to investigate and swiftly address | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
hate crime, including any anti-Semitic incidents | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
Back in October, things got really out of hand here. | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
The university's Friends of Israel group organised a talk | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
from a former Israeli soldier, but didn't follow | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
The university rejected their application, but changed their mind | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
at the last moment on appeal, causing Palestinian supporters | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
to accuse the University of double standards, | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
Things got very heated, the police were called, | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
but there were no arrests and no reports of serious violence. | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
However, UCL's official report into the event found that: | :01:32. | :01:56. | |
Anti-Semitism has been in the spotlight amid a reported 30% | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
year on year increase in incidents nationally, | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
and a doubling of incidents involving students or academics. | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
One thing I have agreed is that we will review our procedure but also | :02:13. | :02:20. | |
do a lot more sign posting, so that people who feel that there is a | :02:21. | :02:22. | |
concern, that they know where to go. This is one-year-old | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
Sophia Elia-Schenka. To look at she's like any other | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
toddler, but she has a rare condition, where life expectancy | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
in most cases is just two years. Her parents, from Loughton, | :02:37. | :02:38. | |
are now desperately trying to raise money for her treatment and boost | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
public awareness of the condition. Like most 18 month olds, | :02:42. | :02:43. | |
Sofia loves to play with her toys and read her books, | :02:44. | :02:54. | |
but for her these things aren't easy, because she has spinal | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
muscular atrophy type one, So her muscles don't get messages | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
from the motor neurons, so they don't know to work | :03:02. | :03:11. | |
and therefore they waste away. Though few people will have | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
heard of the condition, it is the most common inherited | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
cause of death in infants. And in 95% of case, life expectancy | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
is under two years old. Yet despite its severity, | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
Sofia's parents Victoria and Gee have struggled to access | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
the treatment and We went and we started talking | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
to the NHS about getting it At that time she was already | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
close to one-and-a-half. Victoria and Gee told us | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
that the NHS said they weren't eligible for a wheelchair | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
because they live up a very narrow flight of stairs, | :03:51. | :03:52. | |
and there is nowhere here on the ground floor | :03:53. | :03:54. | |
for an electric wheelchair It's the most difficult | :03:55. | :03:56. | |
thing to have to watch your child struggling | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
with the simplest of tasks. She can't turn a page | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
of a book, she can't pick up We contacted their local NHS, | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
who said they do offer a range of services for children with life | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
limiting conditions, and Epping Forest Council claimed | :04:21. | :04:22. | |
they are trying to help, in spite of a shortage | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
of social housing. Any early cloud should clear, | :04:25. | :04:32. | |
to make way for some sunshine. Cloud in the afternoon, | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
but staying dry. Asad is here with BBC | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
Breakfast in the morning. But from all of us here, | :04:42. | :04:51. | |
have a good night. Good evening. For many places it was | :04:52. | :05:11. | |
a fairly cloudy day on suspend but there was sunshine for western areas | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
during the afternoon, and here are the clear skies at sunset in | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
Northern Ireland. Thanks to weather watcher Robin for this picture, | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
those clear skies have been making their way further east ward. | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
Temperatures are dropping away, we have seen temperatures of freezing | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
in parts of Northern Ireland. More cloud rolling in | :05:33. | :05:33. |