01/04/2017

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:00:10. > :00:12.Good evening. I'm Asad Ahmad.

:00:13. > :00:14.Thousands of refugees who came to London from Belgium

:00:15. > :00:17.during the First World War have been remembered in the place where many

:00:18. > :00:24.It was in Richmond and Twickenham, close to a Belgian munitions

:00:25. > :00:28.factory, where a memorial, paid for partly by proud local

:00:29. > :00:40.Those who settled here 100 years ago during World War I may have passed

:00:41. > :00:44.on, but the spirit of affection between Belgium and London

:00:45. > :00:49.was very much alive by the river in Twickenham.

:00:50. > :00:53.The monument stood where the munitions factory set up

:00:54. > :00:56.by Guy Pelabon's grandfather and great uncle once was.

:00:57. > :01:01.6000 Belgian refugees joining the war effort with their hard work.

:01:02. > :01:05.These refugees, the Belgian refugees, were very much welcomed

:01:06. > :01:11.by the London community here, the London people, very warmly.

:01:12. > :01:15.They were able to start their business going, you know.

:01:16. > :01:21.I think more broadly, they were all part of the same

:01:22. > :01:28.project, which was resilience, survival, and eventually, victory.

:01:29. > :01:30.The German invasion of Belgium led to a mass exodus.

:01:31. > :01:34.As many as 250,000 fled across the Channel.

:01:35. > :01:37.Many ended up in camps south of the River Thames.

:01:38. > :01:41.It became a story about two different communities

:01:42. > :01:47.So, you know, there are parallels with the flow of refugees

:01:48. > :01:51.today and with, sort of, intercommunity tensions.

:01:52. > :01:57.The owner of the factory was a Frenchman.

:01:58. > :02:03.The people receiving them both were British and all of this

:02:04. > :02:09.As Belgian ambassador, we try to multiply these,

:02:10. > :02:14.I would say, bilateral gatherings, to show that we are in

:02:15. > :02:22.And local schoolchildren reinforced that message.

:02:23. > :02:24.Whatever the political changes in the future,

:02:25. > :02:27.there will always be a special bond between London and

:02:28. > :02:39.A teenager in south London has been critically injured

:02:40. > :02:44.-- is in a serious but stable condition in hospital after he was

:02:45. > :02:46.set upon by a gang when they discovered he was an asylum seeker.

:02:47. > :02:48.Police say the 17-year-old Iranian-Kurd was waiting at a bus

:02:49. > :02:51.stop with two friends in Croydon, when he was attacked

:02:52. > :02:53.It's being treated as a "hate crime".

:02:54. > :02:56.It was, I would say, a frenzied attack by a large number

:02:57. > :02:59.of people of a young person on the floor, kicking this

:03:00. > :03:01.individual repeatedly and by all accounts,

:03:02. > :03:04.members of the public asking them to stop.

:03:05. > :03:07.They continued and it is only with the sound of police

:03:08. > :03:12.sirens did this frenzied, horrendous attack actually stop.

:03:13. > :03:15.More than a dozen people have been arrested for "various offences"

:03:16. > :03:17.as far-right groups and anti-fascist protestors clashed

:03:18. > :03:22.A march and rally planned by Britain First and

:03:23. > :03:26.the English Defence League, described as a "march

:03:27. > :03:28.against terrorism", took place near a counter-demonstration

:03:29. > :03:33.Frantic scenes unfolded when ex-EDL leader Tommy Robinson

:03:34. > :03:44.arrived and police moved to contain potential trouble.

:03:45. > :03:47.An unexploded World War II bomb is believed to have been discovered

:03:48. > :03:50.on the banks of the River Thames in Putney, just a day before

:03:51. > :03:54.Scotland Yard said it was called to an area of the Chelsea

:03:55. > :03:58.A decision on the Boat Race going ahead will be made

:03:59. > :04:05.The Metropolitan Police say all those who were arrested

:04:06. > :04:07.in connection with the attack in Westminster ten days

:04:08. > :04:09.ago have been released, and no further action will be

:04:10. > :04:12.A dozen people have been questioned about possible

:04:13. > :04:16.links to Khalid Masood, who killed three people

:04:17. > :04:19.on Westminster Bridge before fatally stabbing PC Keith Palmer

:04:20. > :04:26.Digital signs are being installed this weekend at the site of Croydon

:04:27. > :04:32.Seven people died and more than 50 were injured

:04:33. > :04:37.The signs will show drivers the speed limit

:04:38. > :04:46.After a cool start, it should be dry for the rest of the day.

:04:47. > :04:49.And if you're interested in the Boat Race, if it goes ahead,

:04:50. > :04:55.I'll be back tomorrow at the slightly earlier time of 6:40pm.

:04:56. > :05:18.Good evening. It is the 1st of April today and appropriately enough, we

:05:19. > :05:22.had a day of sunny spells and showers. We saw some rainbows, this

:05:23. > :05:25.lovely double rainbow captured by one of -- one of our Weather

:05:26. > :05:28.Watchers in Leicestershire. Some showers still dotted around but the

:05:29. > :05:32.trend is they will become fewer and further between and most fading away

:05:33. > :05:35.overnight and it will turn a bit chilly. The next few hours, some

:05:36. > :05:38.showers dotted around but as we go through the small hours of the

:05:39. > :05:42.morning, it becomes dry virtually everywhere and with clearing skies

:05:43. > :05:43.and light wind, temperatures will