hello, this is bbc news with rebecca jones. the headlines. prince andrew categorically denies that has been a bit of cloud around, having sex with an american women who says she was forced to sleep with him when she wasjust i7. some sunshine, especially across parts of scotland, northern ireland and parts of england. a thick cloud and parts of england. a thick cloud and other bit of rain will push these words, clear skies crossing i can absolutely, categorically, north and west. he cold and frosty tell you that it never happened. the duke of york said he does not regret his friendship stock to scotland, northern ireland with the convicted sex offender and into wales. high pressure is jeffrey epstein. in the election — the conservatives promise going to bring some sunny and dry all migrants will be treated equally weather for most of the country after brexit — regardless of where they come from — through monday, indeed, into but the foreign secretary rules out setting a target for the number tuesday. that will assist them over of people entering the uk. the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, the near continent could bring some refuses to confirm cloud, stronger winds, a few showers whether or not free movement of people from the eu will be over the south—east, it should stay included in the party's general election manifesto. is sunny later in the day. the government and the armed forces are accused of covering up elsewhere, a sunny day with light illegal killings by british troops winds, were mist and fog lingers, it in afghanistan and iraq. could stay quite chilly otherwise, 7 to 10 celsius could be really high.

similar for tuesday. temperatures will cover a bit, critically for the south and west. they further west now on bbc news, you are, you will see thicker cloud, what makes a great city? the brighter weather for the north 00:01:10,818 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 and east. leading cities profiles the global cities that are taking a lead in innovation. from cutting—edge engineering and fiscal brilliance to world—class food and iconic green spaces, london has it all. i'm tamison ford in the uk capitalfor a special edition of leading cities. we'll be finding out how this historic supercity continues to reinvent itself to meet the needs of the people who live and work there. the financial district the world knows. nowhere like london links so many global markets together. but the city is running out of space. this is london's answer

to its rapidly growing finance and tech scene. basically, a brand—new mini city alongside the river thames. this new complex is set for completion in seven years. despite uncertainty over brexit, it aims to be a magnet for asian businesses. at one time, in victorian times, this was the centre of world trade. more goods came in and out of royal albert dock than in any other part of the world. forget silicon valley, this is silicon roundabout. london is home to more unicorns, that is billion—dollar tech start—ups, than anywhere else in europe. pay—as—you—go insurance company zego chose the city as its base. it has changed a lot in five years from 2009—2014, where there were only a few couple of start—ups and only a few investments. they were kind of big stories but very, very few things were happening. now, in the last five years,

it has really boomed. you can see that fintech has a massively grown just generally, there is a lot more investments, a lot more money has been invested. start—ups are becoming a real popular thing. less than a mile away, broadgate circle was once home to the city's big banks. now it is the home of financial technology. 20 years ago, i was working on one of those big buildings up there. i was working for a big bank. and i was looking down on an ice—skating rink, full of people sitting around, quite formally, sitting in restaurants, contemplating big financial deals. nowadays, it is a very different atmosphere here. this is fintech land, we have a lot of finance, a lot of tech, and a lot of entrepreneurs creating a great eco system that is making people's financial lives much better. when it comes to silicon valley, can london really compete? london is competing with silicon valley. silicon valley is all about tech. new york is all about finance.

london is where tech and finance and entrepreneurship are coming together to create this ecosystem. it is very, very powerful. and things are happening here in london that are not happening anywhere else in the world. the global home of post—production in the film industry. every best visual effects oscar nominee in the last eight years uses software made by this tech company. we have a shot from this film. computer whizz izzy genova shows me how it works. the fact that there is this software out there that allows us to do this is pretty incredible. it allows me to spend as much time as possible on being creative. it allows you to be the artist. exactly.

it allows me to be the artist, instead of having to focus on how exactly this is going to work. it can take as many as 1500 artists using this software to make the visual effects in a movie. so, why london? why is london where it is at? it is a brilliant place to work. it is a brilliant place to live. and from a tech perspective, the access to that pool of very talented people is awesome. and, frankly, at the end of the day, especially in central london, to be able to step out into a world capital that has everything you could want within a few miles' radius isjust... there isn't anywhere else in the world quite like that so for me it is the place to be. brexit is on the horizon but london is still moving. from tech and money giants to the city's monumental infrastructure. giants to the city's the tube. giants to the city's the oldest underground railway network in the world. it was an unprecedented engineering masterpiece in the 19th century, and it still is today, as it expands to meet the demands of a growing population.

so, welcome to tottenham court road's eastbound platform, the only curved platform on the whole of the elizabeth line. and why is it curved? i love this curved platform. the reason it is curved is because it has to avoid the piles underneath centrepoint, one of the landmark buildings in tottenham court road. tunnelling deep beneath the streets of the capital began ten years ago. it may be late and over budget but it is still impressive. how big an engineering feat is crossrail? crossrail is the biggest infrastructure project in europe, with 26 miles of tunnels and ten brand—new stations. in the central section, we had to tunnel underneath london with eight boring machines. it is absolutely huge. and, of course, in civil engineering alone, it is huge, but in terms of connectivity and communications, it is probably one of the most complex technical

systems we have ever seen. from deep beneath the ground to way up in the clouds. this new building has been dubbed the smartest commercial building in the world. in fact, it is so smart, even the windows have ip addresses. artificial intelligence has been woven into every one of its 62 floors. from a technology point of view, if you are a user in this building, it can start out from the way you arrive at the building, so the whole arrival sequence, you have the option to opt into using the best and latest biometric technology to have facial recognition. the building knows it is you. so, could it theoretically then know that you are coming in, and you like it slightly warmer than other people, and as you walk through, could it change the temperature?

it certainly could do that. in fact, it could even order me a flat white because my building app will recognise i am here and it will inform the cafe that that is my favourite coffee and it will be ready for me when i arrive at my desk or if i want to go to the gym for a work—out and have it there. this may look like just another beautiful victorian building but inside it is a whole lot more. london's sewer system, more than 130 kilometres of tunnels dug out by hand. even when it comes to sewage, the victorian design was exquisite. it was built more than 150 years ago when london's population was just two million. now at nine million, this engineering brilliance simply can't cope. tens of millions of tonnes of raw sewage overflows into the river thames every year. this is where the city's

super sewer comes in. a new giant tunnel to take the waste to a treatment plant before it gets put back into the river. so, this is essentially one of the biggest engineering projects happening in the uk at the moment. that's right. so, we've got 2a construction sites, all dotted along the river thames and some just away from the river. and we have about 4000 people working on the project so it is a very significant project for london and indeed the uk. they have been huge projects to build new tunnels, new rail lines, underground lines and so on. but this is unique because it is following the line of the river thames, that has never been done before, it is at very different depths, so it starts at 30 metres below a ground and it finishes at more like 80 metres below ground. a ground and it finishes at more like 80 metres below ground. this will be the first time in 200 years that we have created these new bits of land directly on the river thames. london is a master of reinvention.

but a city is more than the structures it is made up of. the people are the life blood. and one in six of them here works in the creative industries. we are talking art, film, fashion, media, design, basically all the cool jobs. in fact, they are the fastest growing part of the economy. take visual effects. london is home to more vfx companies than any other city in the world. multi—award—winning double negative was behind damien chazelle's first —— first man starring ryan gosling. founded 20 years ago, it now has 5,500 staff around the world. phil franklin was there the day it began. the kinds of movies we've worked on, or the kinds of movies i've worked on particularly, i worked on all three of christopher

nolan's dark knight movies. i designed the visual effects for those films. and also his films inception and interstellar, which both won me oscars for my work on those films. low now you slipped in there that you won a couple of oscars. i'm not going to let that go past. how many oscars have you actually won? i have won two, yes. two oscars. it is these dynamic, creative industries that attract students from all over the world. we are probably the biggest pipeline of supplier, if you like, of creative graduates into those industries. a lot of this is about jobs in industry and economy, but also a social renovation as well. what is the future of creative industries in london? it is about partnership, it is about understanding what the big social issues of the day are, working with the communities you sit into to solve it for them. and then transporting those ideas and those models internationally. the world's top two art and design universities are in london. ual is one of them. they are investing nearly three quarters of $1 billion over the next seven years,

enticing more talent from around the globe. london has more history, more galleries, more arts going on. and also you can meet a lot of people from different countries as well. yes, exactly. the first day. i'd never even had an international student in my secondary school or anything. and now one of your good mates is from japan. yeah, or from lithuania. from... yeah, but i grew up in northern ireland. 0h, 0k. london is home to the world's top galleries and museums, with more live comedy than any city on the planet. it is these attractions that help bring people to the capital, boosting the creative industries even more. there is a but to all of this. london may be good at producing and attracting talent, but can it keep it?

one of those challenges is real estate. what we are finding as creators are moving into cheaper areas, and playing quite a role in the areas they are generating —— regenerating and becoming great neighbourhoods but then they get really expensive and the creatives and the artists get forced out. we are interested in how we can hard—wire creative industries into london. it is hoped the city's six new creative enterprise zones will help flat, spaces that are affordable and secure. there are a lot of graduates, which is great, but i am way down the line, and just kind of like thinking, what is there? what is there for us? there are an awful lot of studios that don't have windows. you are kind of renting and then you just think, it's a bit of a cupboard, isn't it? you've given me a cupboard for quite a lot of money. so that, when you actually feel that you deserve something, that makes a difference to your work as well. as the fastest growing sector of the economy, creative industries are here to stay.

historically, london has always been green. chunks of land once owned by the monarchy now protected for the public. i was born in london but walking through a royal park like st james's, getting a glimpse of buckingham palace in the background, is something i will never tire of. but in recent years, london has taken a step to become even greener. this is the queen elizabeth park in east london. it was the biggest new park in europe when it opened for the olympics in 2012. so, give us an idea of what this looked like before. so, not far from here was the largest fridge mountain in europe. the canal, which was down there, and the river, actually had cars and broken tires and so on in it. and it has now been created into a flood plain which protects 5000 homes down the river. what is the impact on people who live nearby? so, previously this is a place where children wouldn't have come.

even their parents wouldn't have come here. but actually parks are egalitarian spaces. people can create a sense of community. it gives them something that they feel really proud of. turning wasteland into green space has been happening on a much smaller scale, too. this is hackney. typical london high street. congested, built—up, but there is always another side to this city. follow me. secret magical pockets of green space. this is a forest in the making. these are all pioneer trees. because we have planted them on very, very little soil, over a lot of fridges and freezers and illegal dumping that happened over the last 50 years. so, we knew they had to be very resilient. so, this space is terribly important for any of the families that live

in the high rise on the other side of the street because if you are a five—year—old, you can't access the royal parks, it is way too far away. but you can walk across the street with your mum or your grandma and come to a place like this. london is becoming greener. but for some, it is not happening fast enough. i think i want more. i want more clean air, more clean water, more people out walking and cycling and playing outdoors. this is the man who led a grassroots campaign to make london the first national park city in the world. it involves tipping the city's green spaces from 47% to more than 50%. what can we as londoners do to make the city greener?

whether you've got a tiny balcony, whether you've got a small patio garden, or whether you've got a bigger garden, or whether you want to go out on the street, what we have worked out is that if every londoner was to make one square metre of the city green or blue on average, that is turning it into a mini meadow, or making a mini pond, it would make the majority of the city green and blue, which would be great for wildlife, it would make the city more resilient to things like flooding, it would make the city more beautiful and vibra nt, too. and wouldn't everyone like to see more butterflies? london's air pollution is falling but toxic levels still affect two million people here. this is all about making london greener. i am in the heart of soho and this is where people say london's food revolution began. restaurants line the streets here. we've got a michelin—starred restaurant next to a ramen restaurant. opposite a vietnamese. across the road here, we've got belgian mussels next to german sausages. we've got a thai next to a french space. the list goes on.

calories are getting quirkier. there is always something every single day.

the result, cafe is getting quirkier. we are drinking our coffee at a urinal. yes. most people don't notice straightaway because it is not that clear but once they look at it, they think, oh, that's different. the capital is so rich from everything from the community, the people, the food, everything happening around it. there is always something every single day. community has always been our number one vision. everything we do, whether it comes to creating menus, sourcing coffee, delivering the service we do, it is all around the community. borough market, the oldest in the world, at more than 1,000 years. it's also one of the most famous. this cheese, for example, was the winner of the world cheese awards. borough market is known throughout the uk and even throughout the world so being here makes a huge difference to customers. they feel like that is a seal of approval, and it is in many ways because the management and borough market are very selective in who they allowed to trade at borough market. they sampled our cheeses, they knew we were award winners,

and they were pleased to have us here. let's take you on a bit of a jamaican experience. we'll start you off mild and then we'll work you up. just go for it. red pepper jelly. you're fine. i'm not on fire yet. ok, let's change that. this is a great taste award winner. what would i eat this with? in jamaica and most of the caribbean, with pork. you're right, when it touches the front, it gets really hot. that is going to last. british food has notoriously had a terrible reputation but not any more. the ordinary, like the conventional afternoon tea, for example, has become the extraordinary. people are coming for the tradition but also expecting something more modern or unique. so, forthe moment, this is a very unique style, and that is why i think it is a success. people are coming to see something different. i've got to ask you, london or paris for food? eight years ago, i would have said paris. but i must say, living in london now, i'm not disappointed at all. i think london for me now. bonjour. .. 300 languages are spoken in london. more than any other city in the world. and this cultural richness

is directly replicated in the capital's food. that is the beauty as well of london. i could have never thought ten years ago or 15 years ago, or 20 years ago when i first started cheffing, that i would be in the position i am in today. i'm indian, and i'm cooking peruvian food. is it fair to say that if you want the best food in the world, this is where you come? without a shadow of a doubt. i've never even eaten peruvian food, let alone cooked it. this is my chance. the main ingredient obviously is fresh yellowtail tuna. i am going to take some of that on my bowl. and i'll take some in mine. yes, you can do that as well. now, you half squeeze the limes. that is it. beautiful. add some sesame seeds, spring onions. i chopped some of these earlier.

london may not be number one for michelin—starred restaurants but if you want vibrancy and diversity, this is the place. mm, that's really delicious. my lords and ladies, from the far—flung corners of the several kingdoms, welcome to king standing. but it is notjust about what you eat any more, people want more than just these days. and when it comes to immersive dining, london is where it is at. she is going to try and pin this on me, ok? sorry? nothing. it smells to me like dinner is coming. dinner is coming. only funny for game of thrones fans. but nights like these are popping up all over the capital. my two greatest joys of life, game of thrones and food, put together.

what can go wrong? only murder! poison. exactly. and it is this energy that sets london apart. the energy to transform, to adapt. little is known how the city will change with brexit but one thing for sure is that london is contemporary, innovative, and sets trends for others to catch on to. you've been watching a special edition of leading cities of london with me tamasin ford. we've been finding out how this dynamic city is forever changing to suit the way people want to live.

some of us have seen quite a bit of something to this week but if you ladies have seen a lot of cloud from northern england and the midlands. part of these weather fronts lingering around the uk for the last couple of days. high pressure building into north and we st of pressure building into north and west of the country will settle things down tonight as we head to tomorrow and tuesday. clear skies for northern scotland and northern ireland pushing into england shop cold and frosty with mist and fog patches. we will hold onto cloud on the eastern side of england. less cold as a result. this area high pressure will bring us a fine sunny oi'i pressure will bring us a fine sunny on monday. this weather system will slowly be pushing to western areas as we slowly be pushing to western areas as we head into. this low—pressure syste m as we head into. this low—pressure system on the near continent will flirt with the south—east corner of england. through the morning it will be quite breezy and cloudy with showers fit into the afternoon these should retreat away so increasing amounts of sunshine. elsewhere i dry and sunny and cold day. where any

mist and fog lingo is could stay quite chilly, otherwise temperature is generally 7 degrees to 10 degrees. on monday night, thanks to high pressure it will be one of the coldest nights of the week so tuesday morning starts off cold and frosty. mist and fog around will tend to clear in the afternoon and more of a breeze will pick up areas. this weather front will address that cloud to northern ireland western wales but for most it is another cold and sunny day. temperatures 5 degrees to 9 degrees. tuesday night will start to see this weather front push further eastwards. for northern ireland and parts of wales and the south—west temperatures here extending to tea above freezing wire central and northern areas and other pulled one with may be mist and fog too. low—pressure encroaching into the west and isobar causing together. higher pressure holds on for the least. looks like it will

stay quite breezy particularly across western areas. this is where we are across western areas. this is where we are likely to see thicker cloud without mix of rain. low—pressure to the west continues to mean we will see whence attempt just keeping the west continues to mean we will see whence attemptjust keeping up as we see whence attemptjust keeping up as we head should the beak returning to the seasonal non—. —— winds. —— we to the seasonal non—. —— winds. —— we should see temperatures returning to the seasonal norm.

the brighter weather for the north and east. this is bbc news, i'm rebecca jones. the headlines at three: prince andrew categorically denies having sex with an american women who says she was forced to sleep with him when she was just 17.

i can absolutely, categorically, tell you that it never happened. the duke of york said he does not regret his friendship with the convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein. in the election — the conservatives promise all migrants will be treated equally after brexit, regardless of where they come from. the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, refuses to confirm whether or not free movement of people from the eu will be included in their general election manifesto. and, terry o'neill — the photographer whose iconic works include this picture of his former wife, faye dunaway,