your running friend and where you are getting in touch from. we will share them throughout the morning. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. hello, good morning from bbc london, i'm victoria cook. the mayor of london has arranged an urgent meeting with the head of the met police after a row about the force's handling of pro—palestinian marches. it comes after an officer ordered gideon falter to move, telling him he might provoke a reaction from demonstrators because he was "openlyjewish". a spokesperson for sadiq khan described the incident as "concerning". the force has apologised. today marks four weeks until a landmark report into what's described as the worst treatment disaster in nhs history. the infected—blood scandal saw thousands of patients during the 19705 and �*80s given products contaminated with viruses. mark was among them. he was a school boy when he found out he'd contracted hiv, with doctors saying he might not
place within the hour and that a weekly meetings between the met now and thejewish community through the londonjewish forum, which is an excellent initiative from the jewish community and which is already having positive impact. he should carry on doing more of this. what do you make of the full video? i know that sort of short clips of this interaction between gideon falter and the police officer have been clipped up and broadcast very widely. there is a long sort of 15 minute version available. what do you make of the video and what does it tell us about the issues on the streets at the moment betweenjewish people and between these marches, these marches which are happening every couple of weeks? well, it tells me what i already knew, which is mr falter turned up to protest. he wasn't walked on the street. he was at the protest. they came with his security, came with his media operation, and he came to protest.
and that's all the sport for now. from me and a team that is all the sport for now. welcome back to bbc news. the metropolitan police commissioner will meet london mayor sadiq khan today — following a row over his force's handling of demonstrations. sir mark rowley has faced calls to resign — after an anti—semitism campaigner was threatened with arrest, at a pro—palestine protest. rishi sunak said he had confidence in rowley, but he needed to rebuild "confidence and trust" with the jewish community. louisa pilbeam reports. thank you very much. it's an incident that's prompted not one, but two apologies from the metropolitan police. jewish anti—semitic campaigner gideon falter wanted to cross the road through a pro—palestinian
at a pro—palestine protest. louisa pilbeam has the story. it's an incident that's prompted not one, but two apologies from the metropolitan police. jewish anti—semitic campaigner gideon falter wanted to cross the road through a pro—palestinian march, but was stopped by officers. when mr falter disagrees, the officer threatens to arrest him, caught on camera by the anti—semitism charity he works for. i was being treated like a criminal for being jewish, and after we'd been stopped by police, people started shouting abuse at us and the police surrounded us and not them. they told us we were threatened with arrest, not them. there were people crossing the road left, right and centre in any direction they wanted to.
the head of the campaign against anti—semitism as "openly jewish" when he was at a pro—palestinian protest, saying his presence was "antagonising" demonstrators. jewish groups have been meeting the metropolitian police commissioner today. our correspondent lucy manning explains the background to this incident. this was a video that surfaced over the last few days from one of the pro—palestinian demonstrations that have been held fairly frequently in the centre of london, and the chief executive of a campaign group, the campaign against anti—semitism, a man called gideon falter was seen with a kippah, ajewish head covering, being stopped by the police crossing the road. and in some of that video, he's told by the police, "you can't cross because you are overtlyjewish." and there is some more footage where the officer does offer to escort him to a safer place, but then also does say to him,
from the jewish meet with senior representatives from thejewish community, including from thejewish community, including from thejewish community, including from the londonjewish forum and community security trust. this is after the met police already apologised twice about this incident involving gideon. they have now announced a number of measures to try and address that criticism. more on bbc website if you want to look at the statement as well as the context of the criticism. clearly this is in response to pressure that they met as feeling right now. let's bring you more on the london marathon, where more than 50,000 people have been taking part in this year's event — setting a new record. our sports reporter matt graveling was there cheering on the runners made it over the finish line. half a million people applied for a place in the london marathon this year, that is a record and as a result more than 50,000 will cross the line by many, many running for fantastic charities and raising lots
of its policeman, what the policeman said was that the appearance of gideon falter, who is the chief executive of the campaign against anti—semitism and that his appearance was obviouslyjewish, that was meant to say that his presence there could be provocative, he said, to other people who were attending the protest. mr falter has been speaking about that today and said the police were discriminating againstjewish people, that he had every right to be there. other people have been coming out today to voice their opinions. the environment secretary has been speaking today as well. i personally would not go that far because i have not had the conversations with him, i do not understand yet what he will say to the home secretary. those conversations need to take place but i think it is important we stand by the jewish community and other communities as well saying this is not something we will stand by.
)our correspondent aruna iyengar has more on the calls for the met police chief to resign. the campaign for anti—semitism, of which the man who was being interviewed there is the chief executive have called for the metropolitan police commissioner sir mark rowley to resign, and those comments have been echoed by the former home secretary suella braverman who has been writing today in the sunday telegraph newspaper saying she also feels that the metropolitan police commissioner has not handled these pro—palestinian protests well over the last six months and that he should now resign. this is the latest complaint in a series of complaints over policing in the last six months. this comes after hamas attacked israel on the 7th of october last year. as a result, there has been pro—palestinian protests weekly in london and across cities in the uk, it is the policing of that that is the issue here. in that clip that we saw there, gideon falter was told by police to remove himself from that area
former home secretary suella braverman who has been writing today in the sunday telegraph newspaper saying she also feels that the metropolitan police commissioner has not handled these pro—palestinian protests well over the last six months and that he should now resign. this is the latest complaint in a series of complaints over policing in the last six months. this comes after hamas attacked israel on the 7th of october last year. as a result there has been pro—palestinian protests weekly in london and across cities in the uk, it is the policing of that that is theissue it is the policing of that that is the issue here. in that clip that we saw there, gideon falter was told by police to remove himself from that area because it was felt that his presence there, and he was told that he was openlyjewish, it was felt that his presence there could lead to a breach of the peace. the police have apologised twice for the handling of this event. the first
for some of the dead. the uk prime minister's office says rishi sunak is appalled by the way the metropolitan police treated a jewish man during a pro—palestinian march in london last weekend. an officer told gideon falter he might provoke a reaction from the demonstrators, because he was "openlyjewish." there have been calls for the met police commissioner, mark rowley, to resign. he is due to meet the london mayor tomorrow and the home secretary during the week to discuss the incident. well, the met police has issued a statement outlining the steps they are taking a adress the situation. it says...