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Good evening, I'm Asad Ahmad.

Traders on Oxford Street are to meet

senior police officers -

to see what lessons can be learned

after yesterday's mass panic

which arose after many people

believed they heard gun shots.

which arose after many people

believed they heard gunshots.

Already, there are suggestions

for a 'loud speaker system' -

to give public safety advice.

Here's Sarah Harris.

Back to its bustling best,

Oxford Street customers

starting their Christmas shopping

in earnest as

relaxed as that can be

on a busy Saturday.

It's a far cry from the panic

on the streets yesterday, as

darkness fell.

With many wrongly thinking

that shots had been

fired.

Mustapha runs a restaurant a stone's

throw from Oxford Circus.

He

says one of the problems was not

being given direct information by

official sources,

fuelling the mayhem.

They're running around

and screaming, so whoever came here,

they were in one shoe,

they were hurt here and there,

but it was all panicking.

We tried to take people in,

they needed help, you see.

16 people were treated for minor

injuries in hospital with many more

given First Aid at the scene.

Oxford Street traders

are meeting with

senior Met officers to call

for loudspeaker systems to be

installed like the ones in the City.

They say there are

improvements to be made.

I think we are relieved obviously,

it was a false incident.

And but there are some

good lessons to learn

operationally.

And social media, there is a lot

of misinformation out

there.

So we have to learn that lesson,

think about the command and

the control and where

the calls come from.

There's no doubt with so many shops

shutting early, millions of pounds

will have been lost in revenue,

but today it's as if

the incident never happened.

London open for business, as usual.

Sarah Harris, BBC London News.

A teenage boy has been found guilty

of murder after a man

was stabbed and killed in Mile End

earlier this year.

Syed Islam was attacked

by the boy, now aged 16 -

after an argument escalated.

Three other men were also been

convicted of conspiracy

to commit Actual Bodily Harm.

The mother from Hampstead,

who's in jail in Iran -

has spoken to those campaigning

for her release -

on a phone - from prison.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe said

the only thing on her mind

was to be back home with her family.

But in a positive sounding

message, she spoke warmly

of the help she's received.

It has been an amazing journey,

although it has been really, really

difficult to be away from my family.

difficult to be away from my family.

Now, time to meet Britain's

very own Karate Kid -

who's from Luton.

Jordan Thomas is 25 year's old,

the current World Karate Champion

and he's got his eyes fixed

on his next big challenge.

But his achievement is all

the greater, when you consider he's

lucky to even be alive.

James Burridge has been to meet him.

This is Great Britain's

new Karate Kid.

A 25-year-old world champion

with menace in his eyes and a

devastating kick.

I've always seen punching

and kicking in my life.

I'm streetwise, to be fair,

if you look for trouble,

you'll find trouble.

When I go into that

professional environment

I'm ready to fight anybody.

I do not care.

I am ready to ruin your plans today.

Jordan Thomas grew up

a proud Luton lad,

yet one that's lucky

to

be alive.

He was run over outside his own

front door when he was just two.

Apparently I went

flying up in the air

Apparently I went flying up

in the air and landed - on the

floor.

Got brought to the hospital,

breaking two parts of my leg.

So if you can imagine

just two years old,

and the impact of being hit

by a car just two years old.

The doctors said I would never

be able to walk again,

I broke two parts of

my leg and my femur.

Have you dreamt about what it

would be like to make

an Olympic Games and potentially

stand on the podium?

Oh, yeah, of course.

Olympic champion,

there is nothing better.

I've grown up with watching

the success of them

Olympians.

Karate is a way of life.

The way I talk, the way

I walk, the way I

move.

For me it's kind of everything.

So I want to be one of them people

who come off and says,

"I'm an Olympic champion

and I've done it."

And something tells me he might just

do it!

And something tells me

he might just do it!

And something tells me

he might just do it!

A look at tomorrow's weather.

And it will be much like today.

A frosty start followed by sunshine.

It will be chilly again with a top

temperature of 8 Celsius.

That's it for now, I hope you have

a very good evening.

Goodbye.