:00:00. > 3:59:59in the community here and there is a vigil here this evening in about an
:00:00. > :00:10.hour to reflect on the events. Sniffer dogs have been sent
:00:11. > :00:14.into Grenfell Tower with the grim At the moment we know 17 people
:00:15. > :00:23.were killed in the blaze - As the last of the fires
:00:24. > :00:25.are dampened down, specialist teams are now working inside the tower
:00:26. > :00:38.to secure parts of the building. We know there will be more. It is
:00:39. > :00:41.the upper floors that will be more challenging and need additional
:00:42. > :00:45.shoring to get in there. The size of this building, it could take weeks.
:00:46. > :00:45.I want to be realistic, it is a very long process.
:00:46. > :00:49.Where did the fire start, how did it spread so quickly?
:00:50. > :00:51.The Prime Minister, who visited the scene today,
:00:52. > :00:56.This is the view right now of what remains of the tower -
:00:57. > :00:58.we'll be live in West London for the latest.
:00:59. > :01:12.Also, Congressman Steve Scalise remains in critical condition
:01:13. > :01:14.He was shot at a baseball practice yesterday.
:01:15. > :01:16.But tonight his colleagues, both Republicans and Democrats
:01:17. > :01:17.will go ahead with their annual game.
:01:18. > :01:22.Less unified, President Trump hits back at reports
:01:23. > :01:24.he is under investigation for obstruction of justice.
:01:25. > :01:37.He calls it the biggest witch hunt in history.
:01:38. > :01:39.And the Australian prime minister pokes fun at
:01:40. > :01:50.We'll let you judge the impersonation.
:01:51. > :01:56.I am Christian Fraser in London, Katty Kay is in Washington.
:01:57. > :02:02.We still don't know how many people died in the Grenfell Tower blaze
:02:03. > :02:05.Police say it will be more than the current death toll, which stands at
:02:06. > :02:06.17. And such is the destruction
:02:07. > :02:09.inside the building it could take firefighters weeks to
:02:10. > :02:10.recover the remains. Today sniffer dogs, much
:02:11. > :02:12.lighter than people, and specially trained to locate
:02:13. > :02:14.bodies, have been sent into the building to
:02:15. > :02:16.help with the search. 37 people remain in hospital,
:02:17. > :02:20.17 are in critical care. Our home affairs editor
:02:21. > :02:23.Mark Easton has this report. Slowly, inch by painstaking inch,
:02:24. > :02:25.fire officers continue their grim Amid the soot-blackened shell
:02:26. > :02:33.of what was once home to hundreds Exactly how many, we do not know,
:02:34. > :02:41.but the emergency services are warning the scale of this
:02:42. > :02:46.tragedy is yet to become clear. Sadly, I can confirm the number
:02:47. > :02:51.of people who have died is now 17. We do believe that number
:02:52. > :02:56.will sadly increase. There are 37 people receiving
:02:57. > :02:58.treatment, of which 17 The agony of a wounded neighbourhood
:02:59. > :03:06.is written on a wall, the desperation of people searching
:03:07. > :03:09.for family and friends. Prayers and solace
:03:10. > :03:12.from near and far. For the past two days,
:03:13. > :03:16.Jason Garcia has been searching for his 12-year-old
:03:17. > :03:21.cousin Jessica Urbano. We are hoping that,
:03:22. > :03:26.by putting up posters, sharing her image on social media,
:03:27. > :03:28.and talking to people like yourself, that maybe someone
:03:29. > :03:35.with information will get in touch. Syrian refugee Mohammed Alhajali,
:03:36. > :03:37.an engineering student seeking a better life in Britain,
:03:38. > :03:40.was named by his family today People crave answers,
:03:41. > :03:50.but complain of delays and evasion. At the moment we are grieving,
:03:51. > :03:53.but there is a bubbling anger underneath and we want to see
:03:54. > :03:59.somebody held accountable for this. The love and generosity that has
:04:00. > :04:01.poured into North Kensington in the last couple of days cannot
:04:02. > :04:04.make up for the numbing The Prime Minister made a private
:04:05. > :04:10.visit to the scene today, speaking to emergency workers before
:04:11. > :04:12.announcing there will be a full When I spoke to the emergency
:04:13. > :04:18.services, they told me the way this fire progressed and how it took hold
:04:19. > :04:21.of the building was rapid, We have to get to
:04:22. > :04:28.the bottom of this. The truth has got to
:04:29. > :04:31.come out, and it will. The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn also
:04:32. > :04:33.went to North Kensington, insisting he would speak up
:04:34. > :04:36.for the community. Shock and grief are being joined
:04:37. > :04:41.by outrage and anger. The questions are raining down,
:04:42. > :04:45.rather like the charred lumps of cladding which locals are holding
:04:46. > :04:48.up as possible evidence that people were housed
:04:49. > :04:53.in a preventable death trap. This tower block fire looks just
:04:54. > :04:56.like North Kensington. They came in and said, "Get out,
:04:57. > :04:59.get out, evacuate now." But it was three years ago
:05:00. > :05:02.in Melbourne, Australia. And the similarities
:05:03. > :05:07.do not stop there. Those of us who have been around
:05:08. > :05:11.for 30 years or more have never seen In my 29 years in the London Fire
:05:12. > :05:15.Brigade, I have never seen a fire of this nature,
:05:16. > :05:18.and I have seen many We never expected to see a high-rise
:05:19. > :05:22.fire that would spread so quickly from the eighth floor
:05:23. > :05:24.to the 21st floor. In London, the fire raged
:05:25. > :05:27.from the ground to the 24th floor Attention in Australia focused
:05:28. > :05:33.on the building's aluminium cladding, an inquiry blaming cheaper
:05:34. > :05:36.plastic fibre backed cladding rather The same distinction is being made
:05:37. > :05:41.about Grenfell Tower, although the authorities insist
:05:42. > :05:48.building regulations were followed. London Mayor Sadiq Khan was heckled
:05:49. > :05:50.by a small group of people Understandably, the residents
:05:51. > :06:03.are very angry and concerned and have genuine questions that
:06:04. > :06:06.demand answers and so whereas... Someone needs to be
:06:07. > :06:09.held accountable. These deaths could
:06:10. > :06:12.have been prevented! The concerns are not just
:06:13. > :06:14.about what went wrong in North Kensington,
:06:15. > :06:16.they are also about what could go wrong in thousands of tower
:06:17. > :06:19.blocks across Britain. Residents at Trellick Tower,
:06:20. > :06:23.who can see Grenfell Tower from their balconies,
:06:24. > :06:25.now have a constant and disturbing reminder of the risks
:06:26. > :06:32.of high-rise living. Our colleague Ben Brown has been
:06:33. > :06:44.in West London today. It has been an agonising two days
:06:45. > :06:47.for the families of the missing, going from hospitals, to care
:06:48. > :06:53.centres, looking for information. For some of them, there is no news?
:06:54. > :06:57.That's right. It is a terrible period of uncertainty that could
:06:58. > :07:01.last for days, Christian. People walking around the streets with
:07:02. > :07:07.pictures and photographs of loved ones, begging for information.
:07:08. > :07:11.People still, almost two days on, in floods of tears, very distressing
:07:12. > :07:14.indeed. As you saw in that report, there is some raw anger really
:07:15. > :07:20.bubbling up. People demanding answers. Anybody in authority,
:07:21. > :07:25.almost, is being challenged. We know that the death toll is 17 at the
:07:26. > :07:30.moment. It is expected to rise. The number of people in hospital is 30,
:07:31. > :07:34.with 15 in critical care. As well as the physical injuries, there are
:07:35. > :07:37.mental injuries, people that escaped from Grenfell Tower, but who will be
:07:38. > :07:41.traumatised for a long time. We are going to talk about that with Doctor
:07:42. > :07:46.Alistair Bailey, a clinical psychologist, based very nearby. You
:07:47. > :07:51.are going to be dealing with some of these issues of trauma. What
:07:52. > :07:57.services can you offer to people that may escaped from Grenfell Tower
:07:58. > :08:01.and got to live with the awful things that they heard and saw that
:08:02. > :08:06.night? Yes, we have an initial response on the ground. We have been
:08:07. > :08:09.here since yesterday morning, coordinating a response with
:08:10. > :08:13.partners in the community to offer advice and support to people that
:08:14. > :08:16.have been affected. Pointing them in the direction of areas where they
:08:17. > :08:20.can get further advice and support. We anticipate that, for some people,
:08:21. > :08:27.their difficulties, the distress they feel, symptoms such as fear,
:08:28. > :08:29.anxiety, terror, flashbacks and nightmares will continue. For those
:08:30. > :08:35.people, we are planning a response for the next few weeks where they
:08:36. > :08:40.can get trauma focus therapy or therapy for bereavement. Sometimes,
:08:41. > :08:44.that kind of post traumatic stress can last for months or years?
:08:45. > :08:48.Correct. We know that for some people the reactions to traumatic
:08:49. > :08:51.events, such as flashbacks and nightmares, subside over the first
:08:52. > :08:56.few weeks and months. For some people, they persist. For those
:08:57. > :08:59.people, we know that unless they get good quality, effective therapy,
:09:00. > :09:03.symptoms are likely to persist for a number of years. That is why we are
:09:04. > :09:07.really keen for people to access help through our services. Survivor
:09:08. > :09:11.guilt is very common, isn't it? People that made it out of there,
:09:12. > :09:16.they know they are lucky to be alive but they almost feel guilty that
:09:17. > :09:19.they are? Correct. A lot of people will feel guilty that they have
:09:20. > :09:23.survived and others haven't. There may also feel guilty about things
:09:24. > :09:28.they did or didn't do, within the dramatic event. -- traumatic event.
:09:29. > :09:33.For those people, it may be a difficult road to recovery and we
:09:34. > :09:37.would like to help them. You have experience of this from previous
:09:38. > :09:41.terror attacks in London? Yes, myself personally and our services,
:09:42. > :09:44.we experienced the 7th of July bombings and the Paddington rail
:09:45. > :09:48.crash. We have experience of working with people that have been subject
:09:49. > :09:51.to terrible events such as this. There is also the distress I was
:09:52. > :09:59.talking about, people that don't know what has happened to their
:10:00. > :10:06.loved ones. You go up to them in the streets, they are looking for family
:10:07. > :10:12.and friends, sobbing uncontrollably? For those people, it is attending to
:10:13. > :10:16.very basic needs around housing and safety. There are so much
:10:17. > :10:19.uncertainty that might not be resolved for a considerable time,
:10:20. > :10:22.about what has happened to their loved ones? That is very, very
:10:23. > :10:26.difficult for those affected. That is why it is important to get the
:10:27. > :10:30.right answers and messages to those people as quickly as possible. Good
:10:31. > :10:36.luck, I know you are offering a lot of help to people in distress, he
:10:37. > :10:42.was traumatised. That is Dr Alistair Bailey, a clinical psychologist at
:10:43. > :10:43.nearby Sir Charles hospital. If you have concerns, there is a casualty
:10:44. > :10:46.bureau number. The Casualty Bureau can be
:10:47. > :10:59.reached 0800 0961 233. From the scene of the disaster, for
:11:00. > :11:12.now, back to the studio. You look at those pictures, we are
:11:13. > :11:15.sadly used to seeing huge blazes like that in poorer, developing
:11:16. > :11:17.countries. We are not used to seeing them in one of the richest
:11:18. > :11:21.neighbourhoods, in one of the richest cities, in one of the
:11:22. > :11:24.richest countries in the world. I heard the Home Office minister, Nick
:11:25. > :11:28.Hurd, saying it is a national tragedy, it is also a national
:11:29. > :11:33.shame. It is a real national shame that this has happened in such a
:11:34. > :11:37.wealthy area of the world. I think you are absolutely right. It is a
:11:38. > :11:40.stain on the authorities that are supposed to be looking after people.
:11:41. > :11:43.Many people in the city would say it is a stain on our collective
:11:44. > :11:47.conscious. This is part of the city where people take out their
:11:48. > :11:50.basements to build cinemas and what shrooms, and they spend hundreds of
:11:51. > :11:54.thousands of pounds on properties. And yet here you have a housing
:11:55. > :11:58.block where people have been complaining for years that pipes
:11:59. > :12:02.were exposed, there was not proper access for emergency vehicles,
:12:03. > :12:08.emergency lighting didn't work, there were no fire doors, no
:12:09. > :12:12.sprinklers, electric wire problems, and that is before we talk about the
:12:13. > :12:15.cladding that seems to have funnelled the fire from top to
:12:16. > :12:18.bottom in less than half an hour. Well, we will see where the inquiry
:12:19. > :12:20.leads to. In a few hours time a baseball game
:12:21. > :12:24.will start a couple of miles It'll be played by members
:12:25. > :12:30.of Congress - and after a man opened fire on the Republican's practice
:12:31. > :12:32.session yesterday, an ordinary match Steve Scalise - the Majority Whip in
:12:33. > :12:39.the the House of Representatives - who was shot at the practice
:12:40. > :12:42.is still said to be President Trump visited him
:12:43. > :12:47.last night in hospital. We do now have video
:12:48. > :12:49.of the attack, from a bystander. We are going to play
:12:50. > :13:26.you a clip to underline just We hear those sounds went on for ten
:13:27. > :13:32.minutes. The attack was named as James Hodgkinson, and he died from
:13:33. > :13:36.injuries sustained with the shoot out with the police. Joining me is
:13:37. > :13:39.Ron Christie, a former adviser to George double U-boats. He worked as
:13:40. > :13:42.a congressional staffer, you live near this neighbourhood. We live in
:13:43. > :13:46.a country where we don't expect members of Congress to have to worry
:13:47. > :13:51.about their lives. Perhaps we have to start doing so? I am stunned and
:13:52. > :13:58.shocked. This is less than a mile from my house. I went to practice
:13:59. > :14:02.for this very baseball game. It brings it home how vulnerable you
:14:03. > :14:07.are, how vulnerable you can be in an open setting. We heard a tribute
:14:08. > :14:09.from those that were hurt in the attack last night. He spoke from the
:14:10. > :14:12.White House. We may have our differences,
:14:13. > :14:15.but we do well, in times like these, to remember that everyone
:14:16. > :14:17.who serves in our nation's capital is here because,
:14:18. > :14:36.above all, they love our country. The President talking about the kind
:14:37. > :14:39.of unity that Americans have all been talking about since that
:14:40. > :14:42.attack. But here he was a few hours later, coming out on Twitter and
:14:43. > :14:56.talking about the investigation into his administration.
:14:57. > :15:02.I want to pick up with you, it is striking that the President got the
:15:03. > :15:06.tone right, he talked about unity, he talked about Democrats and
:15:07. > :15:11.Republicans coming together when he spoke from the Oval Office. Within
:15:12. > :15:14.hours, what happened to the unity? He reverted back to form, this is
:15:15. > :15:20.Donald Trump being Donald Trump. He can't get it out of his mind, I
:15:21. > :15:23.should put the Twitter down, I should not comment on an ongoing
:15:24. > :15:27.investigation at this moment. On Capitol Hill, people are still very
:15:28. > :15:31.rattled. Members of Congress that I spoke to, they are still very much
:15:32. > :15:34.affected by this. You would think the President would be more
:15:35. > :15:38.introspective than to put out a tweet like that. Introspection and
:15:39. > :15:44.as President, I don't think it is something we will see very often? I
:15:45. > :15:49.don't think it is unique to the United States. We had the same
:15:50. > :15:54.debate after Jo Cox was stabbed. That we needed more gentle politics.
:15:55. > :15:58.We reverted to type quite quickly. I was listening to another Republican
:15:59. > :16:03.congressman who was there, he said he received a tweet from somebody
:16:04. > :16:09.who said to him, I wish you had been shot and I wish the President had
:16:10. > :16:14.been shot. Suddenly, he is fearful for his safety in his own district.
:16:15. > :16:18.That is how some MPs feel in the UK. There is no question about it. I
:16:19. > :16:22.have spoken to a couple of members of Congress this morning who say
:16:23. > :16:24.they have a concealed carry permit to carry a weapon in their home
:16:25. > :16:30.district and they want to bring them to Washington, DC now. I think, my
:16:31. > :16:34.goodness, have our politics devolves to this level that members feel they
:16:35. > :16:37.cannot be safe in their districts or in the United States Capitol without
:16:38. > :16:44.bringing arms to protect themselves? I can tell you more about his tweet.
:16:45. > :16:47.here that Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating
:16:48. > :16:49.Russia's role in the 2016 election, is expanding his inquiry to examine
:16:50. > :16:51.whether President Trump attempted to obstruct justice.
:16:52. > :16:53.This moves the investigation beyond the narrow issue
:16:54. > :16:55.of whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia
:16:56. > :16:57.to affect the election - and into the realm of
:16:58. > :17:00.whether Mr Trump fired the former FBI director James Comey in order
:17:01. > :17:09.Here's Mr Trump in an interview on NBC news.
:17:10. > :17:11.Regardless of recommendation, I was going to fire Comey,
:17:12. > :17:14.knowing there was no good time to do it.
:17:15. > :17:17.And, in fact, when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said,
:17:18. > :17:21."You know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made up
:17:22. > :17:36.When James Komi gave his testimony, he was asked why he had been fired.
:17:37. > :17:38.There's no doubt that it's a fair judgment,
:17:39. > :17:41.it's my judgment, that I was fired because of the Russian
:17:42. > :17:46.I was fired, in some way, to change - or the endeavour was to change -
:17:47. > :17:47.the way the Russia investigation was being conducted.
:17:48. > :18:13.This issue of expanding the reports that we get, that Bob Senedd Robert
:18:14. > :18:19.Mueller is expanding this to obstruction of justice, how credible
:18:20. > :18:23.is that the President? To obstruct justice, you not only have to do it
:18:24. > :18:27.knowledgeably, you have to do it correctly. Saying that I hope you
:18:28. > :18:31.can let this slide, that does not meet the legal test. Yes, it was
:18:32. > :18:36.leaked this morning and people were saying that the investigation was
:18:37. > :18:40.expanded. As a lawyer, I say there is not enough evidence to warrant an
:18:41. > :18:44.obstruction of justice charge at this point. If the White House
:18:45. > :18:50.Donald Trump had been looking at the possibility of getting rid of Robert
:18:51. > :18:55.Mueller, does the fact the President himself is now under investigation
:18:56. > :18:58.may cut harder? Absolutely. In optics, it would be political
:18:59. > :19:02.suicide. There would be a cloud over the White House and people would say
:19:03. > :19:06.he has to be hiding something if he fired Mueller. I think he has backed
:19:07. > :19:11.himself into a corner that he doesn't want to be in. And where
:19:12. > :19:14.does he always go to? Twitter. You said it doesn't meet the test at the
:19:15. > :19:17.moment, there are stories doing the rounds about the new director of
:19:18. > :19:23.intelligence that he had a similar James Comey experience, he had been
:19:24. > :19:27.in the oval office, others were asked to leave, and he was asked to
:19:28. > :19:31.put pressure on James Comey get the rush investigation dropped. If that
:19:32. > :19:34.comes out as part of a wider investigation, with that meet the
:19:35. > :19:40.test? It would look as if he had asked several people to stop the
:19:41. > :19:44.investigation. The President, being the head of the executive branch of
:19:45. > :19:48.government, it is within his sole discretion. He can fire people for
:19:49. > :19:54.any reason or no reason at all. From a legal perspective, I don't believe
:19:55. > :20:01.his having a conversation with the director of National intelligence,
:20:02. > :20:06.or Robert Mueller, anybody else, say you have to let this go, I don't
:20:07. > :20:08.think admits that has to just yet. But the investigation is expanding
:20:09. > :20:14.and I think there is more we will find out in the days ahead. If
:20:15. > :20:21.If he was to fire Robert Mueller, it would put investigation to bed,
:20:22. > :20:23.would it? It would from a legal perspective. From a political
:20:24. > :20:28.perspective, everything would change. It would open up
:20:29. > :20:33.congressional inquiries in the house or Senate. Why would the President
:20:34. > :20:39.dismissed a special counsel appointed by his own Justice
:20:40. > :20:43.Department? I think it would bring the President more problems. I think
:20:44. > :20:48.he ought to take serious council not to fire this individual and let him
:20:49. > :20:52.do his investigation. Thank you very much. I'm going to pick up on
:20:53. > :20:56.something he was saying, I have spoken to some people from around
:20:57. > :20:59.the world, particularly in Europe and the UK, they keep asking me if
:21:00. > :21:03.the President is about to be impeached. We are a long, long way
:21:04. > :21:07.from that. The standard is incredibly high, legally. Don't
:21:08. > :21:10.forget, we have Republicans of the House of Representatives and Senate,
:21:11. > :21:14.and they would have to start proceedings. For the moment,
:21:15. > :21:19.Republicans, at least congressmen and women, they feel Donald Trump is
:21:20. > :21:27.their guy. Why would I want to start processes to get rid of him? Just
:21:28. > :21:32.quickly, the media focused so much on this investigation and it bubbles
:21:33. > :21:37.on. There is this a view that it is maybe at the expense of his
:21:38. > :21:39.legislative programme, but at least he is pushing things in the
:21:40. > :21:42.background that are very conservative, which the left-wing
:21:43. > :21:46.media might have picked up? His supporters like that, and so things
:21:47. > :21:47.are happening under the presidency, they are just not getting much
:21:48. > :21:50.attention for it. At least seven people have died
:21:51. > :21:52.and more than 50 injured in an explosion outside the gates
:21:53. > :21:55.of a kindergarten in the Chinese The blast happened just as parents
:21:56. > :21:59.were picking up their kids Photos on state media show children
:22:00. > :22:03.and adults lying on the ground, Unconfirmed media reports suggest
:22:04. > :22:06.that the blast could have been caused by a canister of cooking gas
:22:07. > :22:14.at a nearby food stall. The jury in Bill Cosby's sexual
:22:15. > :22:20.assault trial say it's deadlocked, 79-year-old Cosby is accused
:22:21. > :22:24.of drugging and molesting a woman at his home
:22:25. > :22:26.in Philadelphia in 2004. The jurors have been deliberating
:22:27. > :22:28.for more than 30 hours, and the judge is urging them
:22:29. > :22:34.to continue doing so. President Putin has held his annual
:22:35. > :22:36.televised phone-in, fielding questions and a good many complaints
:22:37. > :22:39.from Russians for four hours. Mostly it was about domestic
:22:40. > :22:42.matters, but he also dealt with questions over claims
:22:43. > :22:44.of Russian meddling in last year's Our Moscow correspondent, Steve
:22:45. > :22:50.Rosenberg, followed the broadcast. Well, Vladimir Putin
:22:51. > :22:52.sat here for four hours This is the 15th time he's done this
:22:53. > :23:00.marathon TV phone in, which is designed to
:23:01. > :23:02.portray him as father And he was swamped with questions
:23:03. > :23:06.by Russians, because, in a country like Russia,
:23:07. > :23:13.where all key decisions are taken by one man, Vladimir Putin,
:23:14. > :23:16.many Russians believe he is the only person in the country who can
:23:17. > :23:18.solve their problems. So, what did Russians
:23:19. > :23:19.ask their President? Well, they asked him why wages
:23:20. > :23:22.were so low in Russia. One woman whose house had burned
:23:23. > :23:26.down asked him for a new house. Residents of one town asked him
:23:27. > :23:29.to get rid of a giant rubbish They also raised the issue
:23:30. > :23:32.of US-Russian relations, which allowed President Putin
:23:33. > :23:35.to joke he was ready to offer the former FBI chief
:23:36. > :23:39.James Comey political asylum. TRANSLATION: When the chief
:23:40. > :23:45.of the Special Service records a conversation
:23:46. > :23:47.with the Commander-in-Chief, and then passes it to mass
:23:48. > :23:50.media via his friend, what is the difference
:23:51. > :23:52.between the FBI director Isn't he the chief of the special
:23:53. > :23:59.service at that point? He becomes a human rights defender,
:24:00. > :24:02.he is defending a certain position. By the way, if any pursuit
:24:03. > :24:04.is applied to him in connection to this, we are also ready
:24:05. > :24:07.to provide political Afterwards, I asked
:24:08. > :24:13.President Putin about the recent On Monday, protesters were shouting,
:24:14. > :24:18."Russia without Putin", and "One, two, three -
:24:19. > :24:20.Putin it's time to leave." When you hear that, do you find
:24:21. > :24:26.the street protest threatening? TRANSLATION: When I hear this,
:24:27. > :24:29.I look at what is happening We all know how political
:24:30. > :24:33.processes work there. We know of several cases
:24:34. > :24:35.of political longevity. In principle, this is quite normal,
:24:36. > :24:38.provided it is within the bounds of democratic procedures and it's
:24:39. > :24:43.within the law. No-one has so far broken
:24:44. > :24:45.the law in Russia for This is always a highly
:24:46. > :24:50.choreographed event. But what was interesting about this
:24:51. > :24:53.year's phone in were the comments and questions that popped up
:24:54. > :24:55.on screen that were critical One comment read like this,
:24:56. > :25:04.the whole of Russia thinks you've That suggests to me that the Kremlin
:25:05. > :25:09.has come to the conclusion that it is counter-productive
:25:10. > :25:11.to pretend the whole of Russia I think his performance today
:25:12. > :25:15.will have satisfied his supporters, but I don't think it will have won
:25:16. > :25:28.over his critics. Kudos to Steve for getting a
:25:29. > :25:29.question into Vladimir Putin. I'm not sure many journalists did that.
:25:30. > :25:31.You're watching 100 Days Plus from BBC News.
:25:32. > :25:36.Still to come for viewers on BBC World News and
:25:37. > :25:39.the BBC News Channel - more on the London tower block fire,
:25:40. > :25:40.we follow two families searching for relatives.
:25:41. > :25:42.And President Trump wasn't especially complimentary
:25:43. > :25:44.of Qatar the other week, so why is he selling
:25:45. > :26:10.That's still to come on 100 Days Plus, from BBC News.
:26:11. > :26:15.Good evening. Subtle changes with the weather story through the course
:26:16. > :26:17.of the Day today, courtesy of a cold front that moved through, not
:26:18. > :26:25.producing much in a way of rain. Ahead of it, hot and humid for a
:26:26. > :26:28.time. 26 degrees in Kent. Behind it, fresher conditions, 12 degrees and a
:26:29. > :26:31.rash of showers across Northern Ireland, in particular central and
:26:32. > :26:37.western areas of Scotland, even with the odd rumble of thunder. For the
:26:38. > :26:40.next few hours, those showers should ease in intensity. We keep a fair
:26:41. > :26:43.amount of low cloud and some drizzle into the far north-west. Clear skies
:26:44. > :26:49.further south. A comfortable night for sleeping. 12 or 14, not as humid
:26:50. > :26:52.as it has been. The best of the sun shine through central and southern
:26:53. > :26:56.areas for Friday morning. A little bit of fair weather cloud further
:26:57. > :26:59.north, and all the time that south-westerly breeze across the
:27:00. > :27:06.west coast of Scotland driving in a fair amount of low cloud. Some
:27:07. > :27:10.outbreaks of drizzly rain. In eastern areas, some brightness and
:27:11. > :27:15.temperatures will respond. Sunshine and Northern Ireland, 20 degrees
:27:16. > :27:18.will be pleasant enough. A scattering of isolated showers
:27:19. > :27:21.across the lake district, maybe. For England and North Wales, the cloud
:27:22. > :27:27.should remain fairly well broken and pleasant enough. We could see 22 or
:27:28. > :27:31.23. Not as hot or humid as it has been. Nevertheless, for much of
:27:32. > :27:35.England and South Wales, it will be dry and sunny. Through Friday night,
:27:36. > :27:39.it stays pretty quiet across England and Wales. We keep that low cloud,
:27:40. > :27:44.we keep that drizzle into the far north-west. Again, there's
:27:45. > :27:49.temperatures likely to settle in the mid teens. We start Saturday morning
:27:50. > :27:52.on a promising note. For many of us there could be a good deal of dry
:27:53. > :27:56.weather for the weekend, with high pressure still in the driving seat.
:27:57. > :28:00.Across the top, the high pressure allows the frontal systems to push
:28:01. > :28:04.into the north-west. Here, always a little bit more on the breezy side,
:28:05. > :28:09.with showery outbreaks of rain. Further south, some sunshine and
:28:10. > :28:13.temperatures responding. 28 degrees is 82 Fahrenheit. As we move into
:28:14. > :28:17.Sunday, the potential, across England and Wales, most likely to be
:28:18. > :28:23.in the south-east, a high of 30 degrees. If that is too hot and you
:28:24. > :28:26.want to head to the coast, paddle with the kids, these are the sea
:28:27. > :30:58.temperatures, 1114 degrees. Take care. -- 11 or 14 degrees.
:30:59. > :31:02.It seems almost impossible the number of dead will not rise
:31:03. > :31:05.considerably. Lucy Manning reports on two families search for
:31:06. > :31:14.relatives. A warning that you might find the details distressing.
:31:15. > :31:16.Mohammed Hakim fears he's lost everyone -
:31:17. > :31:17.his mother, father, two brothers and sister.
:31:18. > :31:19.All his extended family supporting him now rushed
:31:20. > :31:22.to the fire when the calls of panic came.
:31:23. > :31:26.I spoke to her and the last few words she said to me was,
:31:27. > :31:29.please forgive me if I've said anything to upset you or hurt you.
:31:30. > :31:32.I don't think we're going to make it out of the building.
:31:33. > :31:37.They were supposed to be celebrating next month.
:31:38. > :31:39.His sister, Huwna, was getting married, but the entire family
:31:40. > :31:48.And they were reciting from the Koran.
:31:49. > :31:54.And it was just heartbreaking, and then it just cut out.
:31:55. > :31:58.She was, like, we're not going to make it, we can't make it,
:31:59. > :32:06.I kept saying, try and put things under the door to stop the smoke
:32:07. > :32:09.coming in and get as low as you can come and open the windows.
:32:10. > :32:12.Someone's going to come, call the Fire Brigade, do something.
:32:13. > :32:16.All I could hear was this crackling noise in the background,
:32:17. > :32:21.because the phone was still on, but she wasn't saying anything.
:32:22. > :32:26.I really need to find out where they are.
:32:27. > :32:31.The family stood helpless outside, unable to rescue them.
:32:32. > :32:37.This is the worst thing I remember in my life.
:32:38. > :32:42.He kept shouting, "Please, help us, get us out."
:32:43. > :32:44.He was saying Allah's name, and all this.
:32:45. > :33:06.Mohammed, it must be extremely difficult, just not knowing?
:33:07. > :33:09.Not losing one member of my family, but losing all five,
:33:10. > :33:14.I don't have my parents any more and you only get one set
:33:15. > :33:23.They are all gone, in the space of a couple of hours,
:33:24. > :33:25.after leaving their house, they are all gone.
:33:26. > :33:28.And no-one wants to give us any information about their whereabouts,
:33:29. > :33:31.if they are still within the building, or not.
:33:32. > :33:33.They still have hope, but feel bereft of help.
:33:34. > :33:36.Adel Chaoui is another relative deep in grief and frustration.
:33:37. > :33:38.Baby Leena Belkadi, just six months old,
:33:39. > :33:41.is missing, along with her mum, Farah, and her dad, Omar.
:33:42. > :33:45.They eventually found two of the baby's sisters in hospital.
:33:46. > :33:49.We found one of the children there, the younger.
:33:50. > :33:52.My brother is looking around, and he is staring at another bed.
:33:53. > :33:58.And asks Farah's older sister to have a look.
:33:59. > :34:00.Farah's older sister says, "That's the other child,
:34:01. > :34:07.They were beds apart and nobody in authority was making any
:34:08. > :34:14.So many families here are looking, hoping,
:34:15. > :34:38.Two family still looking for the children and there are so many
:34:39. > :34:41.others who do not know where they have lost.
:34:42. > :34:44.The American university student who was sent home Tuesday
:34:45. > :34:47.from a prison in North Korea, has a severe neurological injury.
:34:48. > :34:50.Otto Warmbier was detained for 17 months by the regime and it's not
:34:51. > :34:53.clear how he got the brain damage that has left him in
:34:54. > :34:57.But the family only learned about that a week ago.
:34:58. > :34:59.At a press conference his father spoke about their shock
:35:00. > :35:02.Mr Warmbier said Otto was "brutalized" by
:35:03. > :35:05.The 22-year-old student had been sentenced to 15 years
:35:06. > :35:07.hard labour for vandalising a North Korean propaganda poster.
:35:08. > :35:10.There's no excuse for the way the North Koreans treated our son.
:35:11. > :35:14.And no excuse for the way they've treated many others.
:35:15. > :35:19.I call on them to release the other Americans being held.
:35:20. > :35:22.No other family should endure what the Warmbiers have.
:35:23. > :35:26.And joining us now is our state department
:35:27. > :35:38.So many confusing elements to this story. What is the State Department
:35:39. > :35:44.saying about what happened to toe and when they found out? They
:35:45. > :35:49.haven't given many reasons when they found out and why he is in this
:35:50. > :35:55.state. In February, according to the White House timeline, the president
:35:56. > :36:02.told Rex Tillerson to do whatever he could to get the prisoners released.
:36:03. > :36:11.Shortly after, the State Department North Korea envoy joys is young had
:36:12. > :36:13.meetings. Otto had not been seen with anyone until he was imprisoned.
:36:14. > :36:24.In June, there was an emergency meeting. They
:36:25. > :36:34.tell him about the coma that Otto is in. Then they took a plane to North
:36:35. > :36:40.Korea and brought our toe back. In terms of why he is in this and why
:36:41. > :36:44.the North Koreans were so slow in giving this information, the state
:36:45. > :36:50.department has not been say much about that. There was some criticism
:36:51. > :36:57.of the Obama Administration who had asked the family not to campaign
:36:58. > :37:03.publicly and I'm not sure the family are happy about that. There was some
:37:04. > :37:08.reporting that he had botulism or something like that shortly after
:37:09. > :37:13.that emotional scenes at of him being sentenced. How did it unfold?
:37:14. > :37:18.The North Koreans have said he contracted botulism and was given a
:37:19. > :37:23.sleeping pill and went into a coma. In effect, fell asleep and never
:37:24. > :37:28.woke up. His family say that they don't believe it. They say he has a
:37:29. > :37:33.severe neurological injury that suggests violence. There are
:37:34. > :37:40.speculations that he was subjected to severe beatings. That is unusual,
:37:41. > :37:46.previous prisoners have been made to work hard and suffered verbal abuse
:37:47. > :37:51.but physical abuse has been unusual because they don't want somebody to
:37:52. > :37:54.die on their watch because they see them as bargaining chips. That has
:37:55. > :38:00.led people to conclude that it might have been an accident but it is an
:38:01. > :38:04.unusual outcome of an American prisoner taking in North Korea. We
:38:05. > :38:14.wish him well. Well Otto Warmbier's
:38:15. > :38:25.release coincided with The former NBA star
:38:26. > :38:28.is a semi-regular visitor to North Korea - but US officials
:38:29. > :38:31.say Rodman's trip had nothing to do It's an especially
:38:32. > :38:41.sensitive time for Qatar - it's at odds with its Gulf
:38:42. > :38:43.neighbours who've cut off diplomatic ties,
:38:44. > :38:45.accusing Qatar of funding jihadist And last week Donald Trump added
:38:46. > :38:50.to Qatar's isolation saying it had been "a funder of terrorism
:38:51. > :38:58.at a very high level". So this might news is surprising -
:38:59. > :39:01.the US is selling 12-billion dollars The Defence Secretary, Jim Mattis,
:39:02. > :39:13.signed the deal on Wednesday. The Qatari Defence minister
:39:14. > :39:16.said the purchase of 36, F-15 fighter jets will enable Qatar
:39:17. > :39:18.to increase its own security and also support the US
:39:19. > :39:30.in operations against violent It's interesting that Qatar have
:39:31. > :39:35.been hitting back pretty hard against isolation. Saying that they
:39:36. > :39:41.were the ones to allow the Americans to keep a base there after Saudi
:39:42. > :39:45.Arabia kicked to the Americans out. Actually, the cat ambassador said
:39:46. > :39:52.that the attackers from 911, none of them were from Qatar. The actual
:39:53. > :39:57.arms deal was in place during the Obama Administration. This is not a
:39:58. > :40:02.trump innovation but he has not blocked it. One week, he says it is
:40:03. > :40:08.a country that funds terrorism and the next week they announced a huge
:40:09. > :40:12.arms deal. There appears to be some confusion in the administration
:40:13. > :40:20.about how to treat Qatar at the moment. We've had a lot of tragic
:40:21. > :40:32.stories. We wanted to bring you something else.
:40:33. > :40:34.Well, I've seen some impressive Trump impersonators
:40:35. > :40:36.on Saturday Night Live, Christian, but I'm not sure
:40:37. > :40:38.I was expecting the Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull
:40:39. > :40:42.to try his hand at it - and frankly, I don't think the PM
:40:43. > :40:44.was expecting anyone else but his intended audience to see it.
:40:45. > :40:46.Katty, a recording of Mr Turnbull's 'off-the-record'
:40:47. > :40:48.performance at a ball was leaked by the Australian network,
:40:49. > :40:52.Mr Turnbull was recorded mimicking Trump at an off the record
:40:53. > :40:54.speech during a ball, the footage was leaked
:40:55. > :41:03.The pair had famously not got off to the best start
:41:04. > :41:07.Malcolm Turnbull has since claimed it was a good humoured roast
:41:08. > :41:09.that was affectionately light-hearted and that the butt
:41:10. > :41:45.To be a fly on the wall for the next America Australia conversation.
:41:46. > :41:49.President Trump doesn't forget things. He didn't forget what
:41:50. > :41:53.Siddique Khan said about him during the course of the campaign. They had
:41:54. > :41:59.a bad conversation when Mr Trump first got into office. It seems that
:42:00. > :42:04.Mr Turnbull hasn't quite forgotten. I wonder how many other leaders
:42:05. > :42:08.around the world are having incidents like that. A manual Macron
:42:09. > :42:14.last week at Nato, do you remember that? They were all leaning over
:42:15. > :42:21.each other and sniggering behind their hands. There is a point, it is
:42:22. > :42:25.principally German by Democrats but they are saying the world is
:42:26. > :42:31.laughing at us. Maybe they are. -- driven. It will be interesting to
:42:32. > :42:40.see whether President Trump tweets about this in the early hours of the
:42:41. > :42:42.morning. Behind-the-scenes, I suspect Mr Turnbull would have liked
:42:43. > :42:44.that too stay behind-the-scenes. That is One Hundred Days
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