London’s traffic cameras are under attack. Police say hundreds of license plate-reading cameras have been damaged, disconnected or stolen by opponents of an anti-pollution charge on older vehicles that came into force across the metropolis on Tuesday.
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00:00 Protesters against enlarging London's ultra-low emission zone, known as ULES, gathered in
00:07 the UK's capital to oppose the move as it came into effect this week.
00:15 Despite the opposition, much of it on grounds of cost, London's Mayor Sadiq Khan is pressing
00:20 ahead with the politically charged extension of the toll across Greater London.
00:24 You've got people here today, they've got elderly parents, they are carers, they have
00:32 got children that they need to get to school, they just need to get to work.
00:36 They are going to be affected by this tax.
00:39 It's unfair.
00:40 We have clean enough air in Greater London as it is.
00:43 It is quite clean.
00:46 There is no case for expanding ULES to the outer London.
00:52 ULES is already in operation in central London but now the expansion to the suburbs means
00:57 it becomes the largest pollution charging scheme in the world.
01:00 Mayor Khan says it's not about raising revenues.
01:04 Look at those with illnesses in London linked with air pollution.
01:08 More than two thirds live in, guess where?
01:10 Outer London.
01:11 They've not seen the benefits of ULES.
01:13 After today, they will.
01:16 The contentious move has its political implications.
01:19 ULES has been blamed for costing Khan's main opposition Labour Party victory in a by-election
01:24 last month.
01:25 Labour's opponents see it as a weapon against a socialist surge in opinion polls.
01:30 (shouting)