00:00good morning good to be here so i've come to see somebody who knows where it is
00:04who knows what i'm looking for who knows what we're looking for um you're looking for the
00:12okay so what does this do who knows what this does while visiting a primary school in south
00:22london the mayor of london sir sadiq khan announced filters would be introduced and at least 200
00:31schools across the capital city hall has said around 70 schools have already received such
00:38filters with the rest due to follow over the course of the next few weeks the program first
00:46announced ahead of was first announced ahead of the 2024 mayoral election but had been delayed
00:52while different types of filters were tested to determine the most effective city hall research
00:58found classrooms with filters recorded up to two-thirds lower levels of a pollutant known as pm
01:062.5 which is linked to heart disease and asthma compared with those without it's a particular
01:14pollutant all these things are things that make us unwell so this stuff makes a humming noise but it's
01:20getting rid of the bad stuff so hopefully we'll see an improvement well i think people who are coming
01:25towards the end of their career talk about legacies i'm still in the beginning of my political career
01:29as the mayor but you know when i first ran to be mayor experts said it will take us 200 years
01:34to bring the area london within legal limits we've did it in nine by the way smaller cities with fewer
01:38cars manchester liverpool birmingham still haven't done we've managed to achieve but also we're ambitious
01:45for our uh city where to continue making progress reducing violent crime reducing homicides we're
01:50going to carry on building record numbers of council uh homes we want to make sure more and more
01:55londoners can walk cycle use public uh transport i'm really pleased and proud of the elizabeth line
02:00down the road you see the benefits of the northern line extension i'm hoping next year londoners and
02:06those from across the globe see the benefits of oxford street being a pedestrian rise so we've done a lot
02:11there's still a lot more to do while on his visit to the school in south london the mayor also
02:17commented on the decision on whether to grant china permission to build a so-called mega embassy
02:26in central london being delayed to december
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