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