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in the community here and there is a vigil here this evening in about an

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hour to reflect on the events. Sniffer dogs have been sent

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into Grenfell Tower with the grim At the moment we know 17 people

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were killed in the blaze - As the last of the fires

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are dampened down, specialist teams are now working inside the tower

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to secure parts of the building. We know there will be more. It is

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the upper floors that will be more challenging and need additional

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shoring to get in there. The size of this building, it could take weeks.

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I want to be realistic, it is a very long process.

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Where did the fire start, how did it spread so quickly?

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The Prime Minister, who visited the scene today,

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This is the view right now of what remains of the tower -

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we'll be live in West London for the latest.

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Also, Congressman Steve Scalise remains in critical condition

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He was shot at a baseball practice yesterday.

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But tonight his colleagues, both Republicans and Democrats

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will go ahead with their annual game.

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Less unified, President Trump hits back at reports

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he is under investigation for obstruction of justice.

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He calls it the biggest witch hunt in history.

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And the Australian prime minister pokes fun at

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We'll let you judge the impersonation.

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I am Christian Fraser in London, Katty Kay is in Washington.

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We still don't know how many people died in the Grenfell Tower blaze

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Police say it will be more than the current death toll, which stands at

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17. And such is the destruction

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inside the building it could take firefighters weeks to

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recover the remains. Today sniffer dogs, much

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lighter than people, and specially trained to locate

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bodies, have been sent into the building to

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help with the search. 37 people remain in hospital,

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17 are in critical care. Our home affairs editor

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Mark Easton has this report. Slowly, inch by painstaking inch,

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fire officers continue their grim Amid the soot-blackened shell

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of what was once home to hundreds Exactly how many, we do not know,

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but the emergency services are warning the scale of this

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tragedy is yet to become clear. Sadly, I can confirm the number

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of people who have died is now 17. We do believe that number

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will sadly increase. There are 37 people receiving

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treatment, of which 17 The agony of a wounded neighbourhood

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is written on a wall, the desperation of people searching

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for family and friends. Prayers and solace

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from near and far. For the past two days,

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Jason Garcia has been searching for his 12-year-old

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cousin Jessica Urbano. We are hoping that,

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by putting up posters, sharing her image on social media,

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and talking to people like yourself, that maybe someone

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with information will get in touch. Syrian refugee Mohammed Alhajali,

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an engineering student seeking a better life in Britain,

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was named by his family today People crave answers,

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but complain of delays and evasion. At the moment we are grieving,

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but there is a bubbling anger underneath and we want to see

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somebody held accountable for this. The love and generosity that has

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poured into North Kensington in the last couple of days cannot

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make up for the numbing The Prime Minister made a private

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visit to the scene today, speaking to emergency workers before

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announcing there will be a full When I spoke to the emergency

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services, they told me the way this fire progressed and how it took hold

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of the building was rapid, We have to get to

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the bottom of this. The truth has got to

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come out, and it will. The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn also

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went to North Kensington, insisting he would speak up

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for the community. Shock and grief are being joined

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by outrage and anger. The questions are raining down,

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rather like the charred lumps of cladding which locals are holding

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up as possible evidence that people were housed

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in a preventable death trap. This tower block fire looks just

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like North Kensington. They came in and said, "Get out,

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get out, evacuate now." But it was three years ago

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in Melbourne, Australia. And the similarities

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do not stop there. Those of us who have been around

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for 30 years or more have never seen In my 29 years in the London Fire

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Brigade, I have never seen a fire of this nature,

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and I have seen many We never expected to see a high-rise

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fire that would spread so quickly from the eighth floor

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to the 21st floor. In London, the fire raged

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from the ground to the 24th floor Attention in Australia focused

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on the building's aluminium cladding, an inquiry blaming cheaper

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plastic fibre backed cladding rather The same distinction is being made

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about Grenfell Tower, although the authorities insist

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building regulations were followed. London Mayor Sadiq Khan was heckled

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by a small group of people Understandably, the residents

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are very angry and concerned and have genuine questions that

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demand answers and so whereas... Someone needs to be

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held accountable. These deaths could

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have been prevented! The concerns are not just

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about what went wrong in North Kensington,

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they are also about what could go wrong in thousands of tower

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blocks across Britain. Residents at Trellick Tower,

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who can see Grenfell Tower from their balconies,

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now have a constant and disturbing reminder of the risks

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of high-rise living. Our colleague Ben Brown has been

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in West London today. It has been an agonising two days

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for the families of the missing, going from hospitals, to care

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centres, looking for information. For some of them, there is no news?

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That's right. It is a terrible period of uncertainty that could

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last for days, Christian. People walking around the streets with

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pictures and photographs of loved ones, begging for information.

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People still, almost two days on, in floods of tears, very distressing

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indeed. As you saw in that report, there is some raw anger really

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bubbling up. People demanding answers. Anybody in authority,

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almost, is being challenged. We know that the death toll is 17 at the

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moment. It is expected to rise. The number of people in hospital is 30,

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with 15 in critical care. As well as the physical injuries, there are

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mental injuries, people that escaped from Grenfell Tower, but who will be

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traumatised for a long time. We are going to talk about that with Doctor

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Alistair Bailey, a clinical psychologist, based very nearby. You

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are going to be dealing with some of these issues of trauma. What

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services can you offer to people that may escaped from Grenfell Tower

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and got to live with the awful things that they heard and saw that

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night? Yes, we have an initial response on the ground. We have been

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here since yesterday morning, coordinating a response with

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partners in the community to offer advice and support to people that

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have been affected. Pointing them in the direction of areas where they

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can get further advice and support. We anticipate that, for some people,

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their difficulties, the distress they feel, symptoms such as fear,

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anxiety, terror, flashbacks and nightmares will continue. For those

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people, we are planning a response for the next few weeks where they

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can get trauma focus therapy or therapy for bereavement. Sometimes,

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that kind of post traumatic stress can last for months or years?

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Correct. We know that for some people the reactions to traumatic

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events, such as flashbacks and nightmares, subside over the first

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few weeks and months. For some people, they persist. For those

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people, we know that unless they get good quality, effective therapy,

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symptoms are likely to persist for a number of years. That is why we are

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really keen for people to access help through our services. Survivor

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guilt is very common, isn't it? People that made it out of there,

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they know they are lucky to be alive but they almost feel guilty that

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they are? Correct. A lot of people will feel guilty that they have

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survived and others haven't. There may also feel guilty about things

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they did or didn't do, within the dramatic event. -- traumatic event.

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For those people, it may be a difficult road to recovery and we

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would like to help them. You have experience of this from previous

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terror attacks in London? Yes, myself personally and our services,

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we experienced the 7th of July bombings and the Paddington rail

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crash. We have experience of working with people that have been subject

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to terrible events such as this. There is also the distress I was

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talking about, people that don't know what has happened to their

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loved ones. You go up to them in the streets, they are looking for family

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and friends, sobbing uncontrollably? For those people, it is attending to

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very basic needs around housing and safety. There are so much

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uncertainty that might not be resolved for a considerable time,

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about what has happened to their loved ones? That is very, very

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difficult for those affected. That is why it is important to get the

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right answers and messages to those people as quickly as possible. Good

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luck, I know you are offering a lot of help to people in distress, he

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was traumatised. That is Dr Alistair Bailey, a clinical psychologist at

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nearby Sir Charles hospital. If you have concerns, there is a casualty

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bureau number. The Casualty Bureau can be

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reached 0800 0961 233. From the scene of the disaster, for

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now, back to the studio. You look at those pictures, we are

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sadly used to seeing huge blazes like that in poorer, developing

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countries. We are not used to seeing them in one of the richest

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neighbourhoods, in one of the richest cities, in one of the

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richest countries in the world. I heard the Home Office minister, Nick

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Hurd, saying it is a national tragedy, it is also a national

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shame. It is a real national shame that this has happened in such a

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wealthy area of the world. I think you are absolutely right. It is a

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stain on the authorities that are supposed to be looking after people.

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Many people in the city would say it is a stain on our collective

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conscious. This is part of the city where people take out their

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basements to build cinemas and what shrooms, and they spend hundreds of

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thousands of pounds on properties. And yet here you have a housing

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block where people have been complaining for years that pipes

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were exposed, there was not proper access for emergency vehicles,

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emergency lighting didn't work, there were no fire doors, no

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sprinklers, electric wire problems, and that is before we talk about the

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cladding that seems to have funnelled the fire from top to

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bottom in less than half an hour. Well, we will see where the inquiry

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leads to. In a few hours time a baseball game

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will start a couple of miles It'll be played by members

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of Congress - and after a man opened fire on the Republican's practice

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session yesterday, an ordinary match Steve Scalise - the Majority Whip in

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the the House of Representatives - who was shot at the practice

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is still said to be President Trump visited him

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last night in hospital. We do now have video

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of the attack, from a bystander. We are going to play

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you a clip to underline just We hear those sounds went on for ten

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minutes. The attack was named as James Hodgkinson, and he died from

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injuries sustained with the shoot out with the police. Joining me is

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Ron Christie, a former adviser to George double U-boats. He worked as

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a congressional staffer, you live near this neighbourhood. We live in

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a country where we don't expect members of Congress to have to worry

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about their lives. Perhaps we have to start doing so? I am stunned and

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shocked. This is less than a mile from my house. I went to practice

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for this very baseball game. It brings it home how vulnerable you

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are, how vulnerable you can be in an open setting. We heard a tribute

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from those that were hurt in the attack last night. He spoke from the

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White House. We may have our differences,

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but we do well, in times like these, to remember that everyone

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who serves in our nation's capital is here because,

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above all, they love our country. The President talking about the kind

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of unity that Americans have all been talking about since that

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attack. But here he was a few hours later, coming out on Twitter and

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talking about the investigation into his administration.

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I want to pick up with you, it is striking that the President got the

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tone right, he talked about unity, he talked about Democrats and

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Republicans coming together when he spoke from the Oval Office. Within

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hours, what happened to the unity? He reverted back to form, this is

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Donald Trump being Donald Trump. He can't get it out of his mind, I

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should put the Twitter down, I should not comment on an ongoing

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investigation at this moment. On Capitol Hill, people are still very

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rattled. Members of Congress that I spoke to, they are still very much

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affected by this. You would think the President would be more

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introspective than to put out a tweet like that. Introspection and

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as President, I don't think it is something we will see very often? I

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don't think it is unique to the United States. We had the same

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debate after Jo Cox was stabbed. That we needed more gentle politics.

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We reverted to type quite quickly. I was listening to another Republican

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congressman who was there, he said he received a tweet from somebody

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who said to him, I wish you had been shot and I wish the President had

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been shot. Suddenly, he is fearful for his safety in his own district.

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That is how some MPs feel in the UK. There is no question about it. I

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have spoken to a couple of members of Congress this morning who say

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they have a concealed carry permit to carry a weapon in their home

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district and they want to bring them to Washington, DC now. I think, my

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goodness, have our politics devolves to this level that members feel they

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cannot be safe in their districts or in the United States Capitol without

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bringing arms to protect themselves? I can tell you more about his tweet.

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here that Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating

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Russia's role in the 2016 election, is expanding his inquiry to examine

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whether President Trump attempted to obstruct justice.

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This moves the investigation beyond the narrow issue

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of whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia

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to affect the election - and into the realm of

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whether Mr Trump fired the former FBI director James Comey in order

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Here's Mr Trump in an interview on NBC news.

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Regardless of recommendation, I was going to fire Comey,

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knowing there was no good time to do it.

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And, in fact, when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said,

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"You know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made up

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When James Komi gave his testimony, he was asked why he had been fired.

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There's no doubt that it's a fair judgment,

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it's my judgment, that I was fired because of the Russian

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I was fired, in some way, to change - or the endeavour was to change -

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the way the Russia investigation was being conducted.

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This issue of expanding the reports that we get, that Bob Senedd Robert

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Mueller is expanding this to obstruction of justice, how credible

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is that the President? To obstruct justice, you not only have to do it

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knowledgeably, you have to do it correctly. Saying that I hope you

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can let this slide, that does not meet the legal test. Yes, it was

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leaked this morning and people were saying that the investigation was

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expanded. As a lawyer, I say there is not enough evidence to warrant an

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obstruction of justice charge at this point. If the White House

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Donald Trump had been looking at the possibility of getting rid of Robert

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Mueller, does the fact the President himself is now under investigation

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may cut harder? Absolutely. In optics, it would be political

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suicide. There would be a cloud over the White House and people would say

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he has to be hiding something if he fired Mueller. I think he has backed

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himself into a corner that he doesn't want to be in. And where

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does he always go to? Twitter. You said it doesn't meet the test at the

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moment, there are stories doing the rounds about the new director of

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intelligence that he had a similar James Comey experience, he had been

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in the oval office, others were asked to leave, and he was asked to

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put pressure on James Comey get the rush investigation dropped. If that

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comes out as part of a wider investigation, with that meet the

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test? It would look as if he had asked several people to stop the

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investigation. The President, being the head of the executive branch of

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government, it is within his sole discretion. He can fire people for

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any reason or no reason at all. From a legal perspective, I don't believe

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his having a conversation with the director of National intelligence,

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or Robert Mueller, anybody else, say you have to let this go, I don't

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think admits that has to just yet. But the investigation is expanding

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and I think there is more we will find out in the days ahead. If

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If he was to fire Robert Mueller, it would put investigation to bed,

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would it? It would from a legal perspective. From a political

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perspective, everything would change. It would open up

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congressional inquiries in the house or Senate. Why would the President

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dismissed a special counsel appointed by his own Justice

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Department? I think it would bring the President more problems. I think

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he ought to take serious council not to fire this individual and let him

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do his investigation. Thank you very much. I'm going to pick up on

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something he was saying, I have spoken to some people from around

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the world, particularly in Europe and the UK, they keep asking me if

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the President is about to be impeached. We are a long, long way

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from that. The standard is incredibly high, legally. Don't

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forget, we have Republicans of the House of Representatives and Senate,

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and they would have to start proceedings. For the moment,

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Republicans, at least congressmen and women, they feel Donald Trump is

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their guy. Why would I want to start processes to get rid of him? Just

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quickly, the media focused so much on this investigation and it bubbles

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on. There is this a view that it is maybe at the expense of his

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legislative programme, but at least he is pushing things in the

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background that are very conservative, which the left-wing

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media might have picked up? His supporters like that, and so things

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are happening under the presidency, they are just not getting much

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attention for it. At least seven people have died

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and more than 50 injured in an explosion outside the gates

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of a kindergarten in the Chinese The blast happened just as parents

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were picking up their kids Photos on state media show children

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and adults lying on the ground, Unconfirmed media reports suggest

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that the blast could have been caused by a canister of cooking gas

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at a nearby food stall. The jury in Bill Cosby's sexual

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assault trial say it's deadlocked, 79-year-old Cosby is accused

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of drugging and molesting a woman at his home

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in Philadelphia in 2004. The jurors have been deliberating

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for more than 30 hours, and the judge is urging them

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to continue doing so. President Putin has held his annual

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televised phone-in, fielding questions and a good many complaints

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from Russians for four hours. Mostly it was about domestic

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matters, but he also dealt with questions over claims

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of Russian meddling in last year's Our Moscow correspondent, Steve

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Rosenberg, followed the broadcast. Well, Vladimir Putin

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sat here for four hours This is the 15th time he's done this

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marathon TV phone in, which is designed to

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portray him as father And he was swamped with questions

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by Russians, because, in a country like Russia,

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where all key decisions are taken by one man, Vladimir Putin,

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many Russians believe he is the only person in the country who can

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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

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President Putin about the recent On Monday, protesters were shouting,

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"Russia without Putin", and "One, two, three -

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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

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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

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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.

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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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