:00:00. > :00:13.Goodbye. on the BBC News Channel,
:00:14. > :00:20.Campaigners for cleaner air say London is in the grip of a health
:00:21. > :00:22.emergency and are urging ALL political parties
:00:23. > :00:26.Our Environment Correspondent, Tom Edwards reports on how
:00:27. > :00:28.the parties are reacting, realising it's an issue
:00:29. > :00:36.A community in Kennington demanding action on bad air.
:00:37. > :00:40.My name is Aoife, I'm seven years old...
:00:41. > :00:44.They want all parties to sign their Clean Air pledge.
:00:45. > :00:46.I want to try and clean up the pollution in the air
:00:47. > :00:49.so when I get older I won't have lung disease or problems
:00:50. > :00:54.There needs to be a Clean Air agenda.
:00:55. > :00:56.We can't continue like this, this is a killer.
:00:57. > :00:59.We are pretending it's not there because you can't see it,
:01:00. > :01:03.ARCHIVE: Here is the main source of atmospheric pollution.
:01:04. > :01:05.The last big political intervention on air quality
:01:06. > :01:11.The Clean Air Act banned coal after the great smog,
:01:12. > :01:17.There are now calls for new legislation to tackle
:01:18. > :01:23.About 50% of nitrogen dioxide is due to road traffic.
:01:24. > :01:27.The mayor says he can deal with about half of that
:01:28. > :01:29.with his ultralow emission zone where the polluter pays,
:01:30. > :01:33.but he'll need help from whoever is elected here to deal
:01:34. > :01:41.Children here at the Royal Brompton see the impact of London's high
:01:42. > :01:44.levels of pollution, especially nitrogen dioxide.
:01:45. > :01:51.These doctors want action and this week,
:01:52. > :01:53.took their message to Downing Street.
:01:54. > :01:58.It is about changing the fleet, removing the vehicle fleet,
:01:59. > :02:01.removing the vehicles that are most polluting, particularly
:02:02. > :02:04.In Kennington, the Women's Equality Party, the Greens,
:02:05. > :02:09.the Liberal Democrats and Labour all pledge to clean up pollution.
:02:10. > :02:12.We really do want to see a diesel scrappage scheme because we think
:02:13. > :02:15.getting diesel cars off our roads is the most important thing we can
:02:16. > :02:17.do to improve the air quality, particularly in London,
:02:18. > :02:20.particularly in places like Kennington.
:02:21. > :02:23.The running that Siddique Khan has done in London with higher emission
:02:24. > :02:26.zones and his toxicity charge have two now become national and that's
:02:27. > :02:32.As we got rid of smog in the past, we need to do with this and it needs
:02:33. > :02:38.We do need a diesel scrappage scheme, and you know who should pay?
:02:39. > :02:40.The car-makers should pay because they are the ones
:02:41. > :02:43.who cheated on the standards we established at a European level.
:02:44. > :02:46.The Conservatives didn't attend this event, they say they would only
:02:47. > :02:50.charge diesel drivers as a last resort.
:02:51. > :02:52.The real public health issues are in areas,
:02:53. > :02:54.our main cities where there are particular problems.
:02:55. > :02:59.That's where we should be focusing our effort.
:03:00. > :03:02.We don't want to see a national programme of penalising motorists.
:03:03. > :03:13.Clean air campaigners say London is now in the grip of a health
:03:14. > :03:22.emergency and say all parties should make tackling it a priority.
:03:23. > :03:29.So Tom, what differences can you detect between the parties so far?
:03:30. > :03:36.We haven't got the manifestos, but you can see some key differences on
:03:37. > :03:41.how they will get behaviour change, get people out of older, more
:03:42. > :03:50.polluting diesels. Labour said they could charge older diesels entering
:03:51. > :03:57.areas. That is a shift away from the policy of the previous Conservative
:03:58. > :04:01.mayor, Boris Johnson. What is also involved, and that is the courts,
:04:02. > :04:05.and the environmental lawyers have taken the government to court on a
:04:06. > :04:09.number of occasions over clean air already. They have said we will have
:04:10. > :04:13.to oblige the government to do things and not ask them. So it is
:04:14. > :04:16.feasible but courts could shape air-quality whoever wins. Tom
:04:17. > :04:18.Edwards, thank you very much. Meanwhile, the Green
:04:19. > :04:20.Party has launched its The party is putting
:04:21. > :04:24.up 67 candidates here and are campaigning to oppose
:04:25. > :04:28.spending cuts and a "hard" Brexit. The Royal College of Nursing says
:04:29. > :04:31.London is facing record numbers A Freedom of Information request
:04:32. > :04:34.to London's NHS Trusts, shows vacancies have risen by 20%
:04:35. > :04:38.over two years. The 12,000 unfilled posts are said
:04:39. > :04:41.to reflect "the worst ever shortage of nurses,
:04:42. > :04:49.London has seen". From the GP practice right
:04:50. > :04:51.through to theatres, to intensive care, to community,
:04:52. > :04:54.to mental health trusts, if you don't have registered
:04:55. > :04:59.nurses in post that deliver over 90% of the care to patients and clients,
:05:00. > :05:06.then that is going to have a very Well, the Conservative Party says
:05:07. > :05:09.there are thousands more nurses Labour describes the figures
:05:10. > :05:15.as "terrible news", claiming Brexit Now the weather foreast for the
:05:16. > :05:24.start of the week, with Elizabeth. Sunshine will be in rather
:05:25. > :05:26.short supply tomorrow, but it will still be mild
:05:27. > :05:29.and there'll be some rain A fairly bright start
:05:30. > :05:33.to the day, ten or 11 Celsius. The cloud will thicken
:05:34. > :05:35.from the West, we'll get some rain but most of it will tend to be quite
:05:36. > :05:39.light and patchy along with a fairly Temperatures still up
:05:40. > :05:42.to 17 degrees though. But not as muggy and warm
:05:43. > :05:45.as it will be on Tuesday. It should stay dry but there will be
:05:46. > :05:49.a lot of cloud around. I'm back on BBC One after the
:05:50. > :06:16.British Academy Television Awards. Good evening. Nice sunny Sunday for
:06:17. > :06:17.most today. Couple of showers, but