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hello, this is bbc news with martine croxall. the headlines: the government says it's determined to press ahead with efforts to approve boris johnson's brexit plan. a double murder investigation has begun in milton keynes after two 17—year—old boys were stabbed to death at a house party last night. kurdish—led forces in syria say they have left a strategic border town under a truce with turkey. there's been more violence on the streets of hong kong as police fired tear gas at demonstrators marching in defiance of a police ban.

and 30 wooden coffins of men, women and children, thought to belong to the families of high priests, have been found in egypt. and now bbc news explores the rise of knife crime in london, following teenage stab victims over the course of several months, from the operating theatre through to their rehabilitation. the following programme contains scenes some viewers might find upsetting as well as flashing images. these are stories over a three—month period from the front line of the epidemic of knife crime in britain. they just stabbed him. my brain was telling me... your brain was telling you that... ..you're nearing death. we're just killing each other, and it's pointless. it's still early. the guys aren't even tipping out of the pubs yet. absolutely anything could happen tonight. let's face it, it doesn't take much

to get stabbed in our society today. on any given day in britain, a knife attack will intrude on a young life. the youngest to die so far this year just 14. how best to give our youth a chance we've been trying to find out with the help of one of the busiest trauma centres in europe. it's, um, what? just after one in the morning, we've been here now for five days, and there have been seven in all, stabbing victims, admitted to the royal london. so at least one a day. and what's really sad is that the staff say it's been a slow week.

this is 16—year—old lucas. at approximately 1630, he's been allegedly assaulted by a group of people. a single incision wound to the left upper quadrant. lucas perry has been stabbed in the chest. one of two knife victims admitted to the royal london hospital this evening. his painkillers haven't kicked in. 0k, chest x—ray, complete the primary. consultant martin griffiths will soon operate on lucas. he's stabilised but nothing's certain. how are you doing? i'm right here. open your eyes. look at me. what's your name? lucas. how old are you? 16. and what happened to you? the attacker‘s knife pierced

his liver and punctured his stomach after lucas refused to hand over his bike and phone to a group of teen robbers. i got a phone call that my son had been stabbed. i just can't believe... i just... it's absolutely awful. they have just got to open him up and see where the knife‘s gone, what it's hit, and take it from there, really. there's lots of things that could go wrong. lucas was randomly assaulted, but a rising number of victims are being specifically targeted by people who know what they're doing. we know we're seeing a lot more, about a 10% rise year—on—year. and we get the feeling we're seeing more complex wounds, in junctional areas like the neck and the groin, and that suggests that there's a movement towards more severe wounds, more numbers of wounds, so individual people get more wounds in more dangerous areas that require the expertise of our service. what you think is going on then? what's going on out there?

i hope it'sjust a blip. i worry that there's a change in attitude towards knife injury — that people are becoming better educated on how to cause more damage. those often first on the scene, the paramedics, have noticed a trend too. in the last year or two years, we've seen more severity in the stab wounds and the frequency as well. this is a 17—year—old, slashed seven or eight times in the buttocks, lower back, really deep wounds. martin is very, very worried, because this man has lost a lot of blood. it's going to be touch and go. another victim comes in, stabbed in a targeted strike several times. one patient who didn't want us to show his face had been cut around the buttocks, and the surgeon who treated him speculated his attackers were hoping to permanently damage his anus. forcing him to use a colostomy bag.

one example of the twisted nature of the story of knife crime. a veteran of all the violence, martin griffiths has now been appointed the national health service's violent crime reduction chief for london to educate wider society on the causes of knife crime to find solutions. let's strip away conventions, really, let's strip away what we expect to happen in our lives. let's strip away, um, resource, shelter, warmth, comfort, parenting, structure. let's reintroduce chaotic parenting, inconsistent food, inconsistent shelter, with no aspiration, who have no aspiration, and a group — or society around you in which that behaviour is the norm. and put around that a big fence, from where people are judging you from and deeming you to be worthless. and let's give you no access to get out of that place.

and let's see how you behave. what will happen? it's going to be explosive. it won't be positive. # i got stabbed in my arm seven times and my trigger finger still works... today's poets, writers, and musicians haven't shied away from the nightmare. ask rapper michael polden — a cautionary tale from his own music video. i got stabbed 11 times recently. what am i meant to do, stay in my house? hide? you know what i mean? this time, a blade has injured tendons in his left arm and may have severed an artery going into his wrist. he shies away from telling us exactly what happened. so i could meet with some... i got stabbed 11 times. i made a song that week talking the talk and got millions of views. michael, that's pretty bad.

no, it's not that bad. "it's not that bad"! i've got a song called it's not that bad. music plays. he's now trying to escape a world where violence is glamorised, no longer suggesting it's cool to carry. but the bottom line is there's not one borough on the whole of this map in london that is not affected by youth violence and has not been affected by young people being murdered on the streets. and that's the reality. and, you know, the fact that we're living in a society where this is normal... how is that acceptable?! children being murdered on the street. roisin keville works alongside martin griffiths. an outreach worker, she offers the support some families need to prevent young people from turning to violence. if you're big enough to be walking around with a knife and thinking you're bad enough, but the reality is these kids don't fully understand, they fully don't comprehend, cos how many of them, i do wonder,

actually intend to murder? some do, i reckon, because of the level of violence that they inflict on their victims, but i don't believe that they set out on that day, "yeah, i'm going to go and murder someone." a huge concern is revenge attacks. and, ultimately, the aim is to stop those young people getting readmitted back here. getting readmitted or becoming perpetrators. because whether they're readmitted, that's another trauma, or if they become perpetrators that's an even bigger trauma. stopping them coming from victim... to perpetrator. where they'll end up in the criminaljustice system, where they could end up being responsible for taking someone‘s life. i came on duty one day to a 17—year—old in one of our beds who'd murdered one of my clients the night before. and he got 17 years. he was 17. he looked 15. but i told him, when i met him, because they don't know if he was fully responsible

for the young person's death. i know now he's been charged, he's doing the life sentence, but i said to him, "you don't even understand the enormity of what you've done." "you cannot fathom it." i said, "i said if you're not guilty, you are good, innit?" "but if you are guilty you better start praying, you better start repenting, you need to do something, because eventually the enormity of what you have done last night it is going to take its toll and it's going to weigh you down and it's going to hurt you emotionally and mentally." but some seem willing to accept that guilt for the rush of revenge. meetjermaine, a nightclub bouncer who was attacked for refusing entry to one customer. so this guy cut my face because he thought he was disrespected. it's a respect thing. it makes sense. people are fighting for their territory, people are fighting for their respect. but back in the day, this would be so disrespectful that he'd cut my face.

back in the day, i'd have to prove a point that i would have a week to get him back. it's pointless. cos we're killing each other. it's black—on—black. we're just killing each other, and it's pointless. on the wind, another emergency. the anguish was overwhelming for freda and peter mulla when they found out their son gadi had been stabbed. the 15—year—old is now recovering. he was attacked on his way home from football training. "let him be alive, god, please, let him be alive," that was my concern at that point, those were my feelings as a mum. what i actually remember is i heard i got stabbed here, as you can see, the things there now. i got an entry wound, stabbed in here. and i did not see him actually aim for there. i didn't know and then i remember he stabbed me here and i think i tried to grab the knife off him and then i wasjust screaming. and those few minutes of violence are now forcing this family to question everything.

so they're saying the best thing to do is to move out of the area. that's their fear. it shouldn't be like that. it is not new, so you've just got to live with it. but for gadi, there's a realism fuelled by social media. they are always showing you videos of people getting stabbed or they're showing you pictures of police who say they caught someone with this, and then someone that was there at the time took a picture of the actual weapon used, and it would be a knife or a gun and it's like you look at it and you're like, well, it's london so. social media always, always, like, portraying it, everywhere. we are dealing with a generation that are angry, that are disheartened, that have been neglect, that are let down, that no—one really cares about. that is why roisin and her colleagues try to talk to stab victims straight after their surgery, to tackle their emotional as well as physical injuries. if you've got a parent who's a substance abuser,

or mental health or there's domestic violence, you cannot nurture that child as much as that child really needs nurturing because you're consumed with whatever you are holding as the adult. does it depress you...? yeah. ..seeing this all the time? oh, it breaks your heart. cos you're seeing children, you're seeing families whose lives are destroyed. you know, i had a young person here a couple of weeks ago, his mum found out on snapchat. she found out on snapchat that her child had been stabbed. now, what does that say about society? after receiving the treatment he needs, michael discharged himself and is heading home. so are you worried about going back out there, onto the streets? not worried, i'm not worried. you've just got to be more aware, more on point. if you know other people are rolling

or carrying things like that, then you're going to carry things like that to protect yourself also, and then it becomes... and then it becomes a spiral. do you carry a knife? i used to. my little brother has been stabbed as well. which one, the 21—year—old? the 21—year—old, yeah. did he carry a knife? he recently got arrested for carrying a knife. is that the problem that a lot of young men have in london, that fear that they are going to be attacked so they have to carry and, as a result, it is a spiral thatjust goes on and on? how many people have seen or heard about a friend or something that's happened to them and they think, "oh, that's not happening, i'm going to safeguard myself, and i'm going carry this to protect myself." "i do not want that to happen to me." it is part of the game, innit? that's what i think.

what game? life? yeah. it's part of life. part of... part of being in london? a young man in london? yeah, maybe part of growing up in london. it gets like that. i think so. i can't sleep well at night, because sometimes i'm still up cos i'm just like paranoid orjust like, i think about it and i don't want to sleep. so you know, it's one of those things. back at home, gadi is experiencing nightmares, flashbacks of the day he was stabbed. these guys come up to us and they like, they said, "where you guys from?" and then ijust froze, everything just froze. like, i didn't know what to say. then my friend just said, "run". i trip over, like i'm stumbling. i don't even remember him stabbing me here and stuff. and that's when he got me here. i was bleeding, i was bleeding. and then i saw loads of blood pouring out. i wasjust holding it tight, squeezing it. i told myself, what i've got to do

is keep calm, at that time. don't panic because, if i panic, then you never know, cos your heart starts racing and then, like, you know, you're just scared. like, if you panic, if i panic, i feel i could have passed away. if i would like panic and didn't know what to do, i would've passed away, but in that situation i told myself "just keep calm." football eases his mind, helps dispel the memories, and he's good — hoping to turn professional. he has built a life around football where he lives and does not want to leave because of what happened, but his family's first instinct is to escape. if you are not safe, there's no way you're going to play football. if you are not safe, you're not going to do your gcse. but there's a tension. moving away from this part of london, will that give you peace of mind? probably it will give a little bit peace of mind. the dilemma of a decent family being driven away

by a violence that's staying put. i am completely against it, to be honest, cos i have football and i have school. and that's why i'm going to put it just against the fact of moving. it's not like they targetted me, dad. i know, i know. it's like about me being safe. how do you know they didn't target you? that? cos i'm not involved with anything. i know. why would they come and attack an innocent person, why? you right? cool. six weeks later, gadi is catching up with levine smith, his caseworker from the st giles trust. she's been providing him with added support from the moment he was stabbed. they have been supportive? yeah, they said they were going to refer me to a counsellor. i said i'd think about it. i'll be lying in bed and i'd just get frustrated sometimes. of course. and i'd just be angry sometime. why me? stuff like that. why him? why all the other victims of knife crime? so many young lives disrupted

at the point of a blade. lucas‘s operation lasted two hours. but it wouldn't go straight through you, it goes through the muscles, and into your liver — front and back — right through your liver, and it hits your stomach and punches a hole in your stomach. he is sore and on the mend, but what about his family? all of you have been traumatised by this. all of you. even when you look all right. if you look all right, you're probably not all right, ok, so it is going to be a long process — not six weeks, not six months, it can be years before you're back in a happier place. being home will help that process, and we catch up with lucas a few days after being discharged. you're ok now, are you? yeah, i'm good now. he's now finally able to tell me what happened. and they just started pulled out knives. i am not going to run away.

what were they after? they wanted to push back or something. i don't know, i was on the phone, but then i come over, cos he was trying to stab one of my mates so i come over and he stabbed me. well, i think it'sjust the way the youngsters now think. it's just one of those things you hear happening so often. it isjust life, it'sjust something that could happen in their lifetime. if you're walking along the street and you see them, what's going to happen? obviously i'd want them to feel what i felt, but i wouldn't stab them. edmonton, in north london, a youth on a moped joins two other men attacking with knives, in broad daylight, a young man pinned to the floor. the shouts of onlookers have no effect. they slash and cut with impunity as normal life goes on around.

as the attackers escape, one of the weapons clearly visible. onlookers then try to help. an ambulance eventually arrived and took the victim to hospital. he survives, but this was a warning — they'd have killed him if they felt like it. the attack an everyday reality in many of our cities. where did society go wrong? a consensus is now developing that tackling knife claims needs a holistic approach, that the perpetrators as well as the victims must be treated with some degree of understanding. i'm angry, not with these young boys, not with their parents, but with a society that's failed them, notjust once or twice, but throughout their entire lives and allowed us to create a situation

whereby violence is a part and parcel of how they meet. and they are all victims of violence, they are not perpetrators. every person i see who has been stabbed or shot, has had somebody use a weapon on them, and they deserve my help. i know it is easy to fall into that sort of abyss of apathy and negativity about "these people", "these boys", "these things happen to them", and them and them and them, and tolerate it, but, no, i know that every single one of these kids does not want the life they have got, deep down. they don't want the fear, or the anxiety, or the stress. when you understand the rules of the game, you understand what happens. and can you see that it is kind of oozing here? in the battle against knife crime, teenagers in parts of london now have the options of learning life—saving skills alongside their studies.

martin's team is trying to raise awareness. it has come to this. innocence erased at so young an age, but the fake blood mayjust save real lives and make a young person think twice about carrying a knife. what happens if you are out and you find out somebody‘s carrying a knife, what are you going to do? tell them, "what do you think are doing?!" laughter. are you going to go to the police? yeah, it is pretty scary. so you are going to tell me it is good to carry? no, it is not good at all, but like, where i come from, some of the people that — not that i know but i've heard that these guys have rivalries, and they think it plays some significance in their lives,

and they do not really understand the impact in the long—term, that can harm them, if they get hurt or in danger. someone won't like another person, and then all of these people that a friends with the people just have a reason not to like another person. itjust escalates. people who carry are not evil people, they do it for fear, they do it for protection, they do it out of peer pressure, to be part of a gang, they do it because that's what everybody else does, because no—one else doesn't do it. but knives make you more likely to be violent, because it is in your pocket and you can use it. any metropolis is burdened by the capacity of a few for violence that will never go away. but when it comes to rising levels of knife crime, martin griffiths argues things can change, if society appreciates the true nature of the problem. after three months filming on the frontline of this crisis, the complexity of the issue is clear, less so perhaps, the solution.

hello there. some quieter weather on the way to start the week. something we haven't seen for a while, an area of high pressure builds in across the uk, and for most it will mean a dry monday. but this area of low pressure will spoil things towards parts of southeast england, as we'll see in a moment, with some rain heading in. later in the night, we'll see some outbreaks of rain pushing in towards kent. lots of cloud across england and wales, a northeasterly breeze, a few showers still, so temperatures hotting up here. lighter winds, clearer skies in northern ireland and scotland allow temperatures to dip away. in rural aberdeenshire could be down to minus two or minus three degrees celsius as we start the day tomorrow.

although cloud is going to increase from the west, it'll be a fine day across much of scotland and northern ireland. some rain heading towards the northern isles late in the day. remember that area of low pressure? east anglia, south east england, the chance of seeing some rain, especially the further east you are, some heavier bursts into kent and essex, for example, maybe coastal suffolk. and as for the temperatures, well, most of the places will see some sunny spells developing, and we'll be around ten to 1a degrees. now, a cooler night in england and wales monday night and into tuesday with a few fog patches developing in places, parts of the midlands and southern england. they could be slow to clear, and perhaps dense in a few spots, because winds are light here, and into tuesday high pressure is holding on, low pressure getting closer to northern scotland on tuesday morning, so more cloud here and some outbreaks of rain. but for most of us it's looking dry, and after any of that fog clears from england of wales, we'll see some sunny spells developing, so for the most part tuesday is looking like another fine day, and actually temperatures are starting to creep up a degree or so. now as we go on

through the rest of the week, low pressure does get closer to us and starts to feed in, especially across parts of scotland and northern ireland. it's only wetter for some of us here. and there's another weak weather front heading towards east anglia and the south east on wednesday, it may produce a few showers. so two things going on on wednesday, in between there's a slice of sunnier weather and as for those temperatures, again mid to low teens. so some quieter weather around to start the week, but from midweek in scotland and northern ireland expect the wind to pick up, and you will be seeing some rain at times for england and wales. we'll get to see the quieter face of autumn. it's not going to be dry all week, but it's going to be drier than it's been. 00:28:41,563 --> 2147483051:51:05,497 but remember there'll be 2147483051:51:05,497 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 a few fog patches around at times.