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