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The Grenfell Tower fire - the BBC understands the total | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
of people dead or missing now is around 70 - and anger about why | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
Protestors storm Kensington Town Hall, crowds are demonstrating | :00:16. | :00:25. | |
in central London and on the streets around the tower block. | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
Protestors storm Kensington Town hall, crowds are demonstrating | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
We are sent from hospital to hospital, to shelters. | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
Why is there not a community house for family | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
Why do we have to go out there and actively look for them? | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
Theresa May is jeered as she visits displaced residents and promises | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
Government is making money available. | :00:50. | :01:00. | |
We are ensuring we get to the bottom of what happened, | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
we will ensure people are rehoused, but we need to make sure | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
The Queen and Prince William visit one of the relief centres to talk | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
And new footage of the moments after the fire broke out | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
Angry protests are being held in London as residents demand | :01:16. | :01:55. | |
support for those affected by the Grenfell Tower fire. | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
People have stormed Kensington and Chelsea Town Hall and marched | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
Earlier Theresa May made her first visit to the area to meet survivors | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
and she announced a ?5 million emergency fund to help the victims. | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
Police say at least 30 people are now confirmed | :02:08. | :02:09. | |
The BBC understands the total number of people who are dead or missing | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
Our first report tonight on the latest on the tower block | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
fire is from our correspondent Jeremy Cooke. | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
This is what happens when grief turned to anger. The target is | :02:25. | :02:41. | |
Kensington Town Hall, the offices of the Council that owns Grenfell | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
Tower. They are demanding answers. We need to be heard! We need to be | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
heard! We all have things to say. We are in pain. I understand that the | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
response we got from the council is not satisfactory. They want to hear | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
from the local authority officials whom they hold responsible. | :03:07. | :03:14. | |
How could this tragedy have happened on this scale | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
We are sent from hospital to hospital, to shelters. | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
Why is there not a community house for family members? | :03:23. | :03:24. | |
Why do we have to go out there and look | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
actively for them, and then be told misled information? | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
They make us call family members, and every someone else telling us, | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
no, that is not made by themselves, but by someone on their behalf. It | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
is the modern world. Why is it carried out like this? It doesn't | :03:45. | :03:45. | |
make sense. It is an overwhelming | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
community tragedy with an If we get all the | :03:50. | :03:57. | |
missing people on the A continuing grassroots | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
mobilisation, doing all You guys did a brilliant job | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
in unprecedented circumstances. But the Queen and Prince | :04:07. | :04:22. | |
William left in no doubt of the agony | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
and the grief here. William, Harry, come on | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
here, please. Could you tell us who they are? | :04:27. | :04:47. | |
Family, friends. It is my family's friends. All of them that died in | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
their are my families and friends and children. When the Queen turned | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
up, everyone came. Go to the media, show the Queen you are nice. Sorry | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
to the police man and the fire man, but you are not doing the right job. | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
The rescue crews are still making their way through the | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
It's hard to imagine a more challenging task. | :05:10. | :05:11. | |
Dangerous and slow work, it is why the official | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
death toll remains so much lower than what the people here expect, | :05:15. | :05:16. | |
The building itself is in a very hazardous state. | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
It is going to take a period of time for | :05:23. | :05:24. | |
our specialists, both from the police and the London Fire Brigade, | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
to fully search that building to make sure we locate and recover | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
everybody that has sadly perished in that fire. | :05:33. | :05:34. | |
We will be doing that as swiftly as we can. | :05:35. | :05:44. | |
I completely understand the need for those who have lost loved ones, that | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
as quick as we can, we are able to announce that. | :05:52. | :06:07. | |
There are people here looking for their family and their friends. | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
There is no one here to organise anything at all. I have friends who | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
died in there, but no one is telling us. Do you know what I am saying? | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
What do you think it is? They are not bringing out the truth. They | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
need to talk the truth and get real. Theresa May doesn't come to see none | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
of us. In the Manchester thing, she was all about the place. You know, | :06:36. | :06:36. | |
no truth. The investigations | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
and the inquests, the enquiries, will take months, | :06:41. | :06:42. | |
perhaps years, to complete, but the people here believe | :06:43. | :06:43. | |
they already have a fundamental understanding of this | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
tragedy, that the fire swept through the building at breathtaking pace, | :06:47. | :06:48. | |
and that so many people from this Where are the children? The general | :06:49. | :07:05. | |
belief here tonight, the hardest of truths, is that the dozens missing | :07:06. | :07:13. | |
are among the dead. Three days later, the fire is out, London | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
rumbles on, and Grenfell Tower, 127 homes, stands monument to the lives, | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
to the families who had been lost. Jeremy Cooke, BBC News, North | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
Kensington. Politicians from all parties, | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
the Prime Minister in particular, are facing a barrage of criticism | :07:31. | :07:32. | |
from local people over how they've Many feel their voices have | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
been ignored for years. Today, the Local Government | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
Secretary Sajid Javid promised that whatever recommendations are made | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
by safety experts, including rehousing people living | :07:43. | :07:44. | |
in other tower blocks, Our deputy political editor | :07:45. | :07:45. | |
John Pienaar reports on the political questions that need | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
to be answered. All but hidden from view, the crowd | :07:50. | :08:07. | |
of police protection told you this was Theresa May. She had been | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
meeting people from the neighbourhood, meeting volunteers | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
inside this local church. As she was ushered into her car afterwards, | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
rage boiled over in the street outside as she left. The Government | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
failed. Her coming over here, trying to speak to... To whom? Who do you | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
want to speak to? You had your chance. Everyone is angry. It is a | :08:32. | :08:39. | |
PR stunt and it is a shame it has come to this. More residents would | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
have come if she knew she was there to protest. It is very cold not to | :08:44. | :08:50. | |
meet with any victims. Early today, unlike yesterday, the Prime Minister | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
met casualties, people touched by the disaster. Yesterday, she only | :08:54. | :09:02. | |
met members of the emergency services, which went down badly in | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
the area. The Government is making ?5 million available for people who | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
need just to get money to buy the normal things of everyday life. This | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
morning, I was in one of the hospitals meeting some of the | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
victims there, and one of the women said to me, basically, she ran out | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
of this Grenfell Tower, basically, with a T-shirt and a pair of | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
knickers. She has nothing. That is why the Government is putting that | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
funding in. There are other things we will do to provide support to | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
ensure they are rehoused within three weeks. The people shouted | :09:38. | :09:49. | |
coward that you this afternoon. We have made sure the public have the | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
support they need in order to do -- the emergency services have the | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
support they need in order to do the job they need to do in the | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
aftermath. Thousands of blocks must now be inspected, millions of pounds | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
in work, who knows how many moved to safety. Today, the Government | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
pledged action. We will do whatever it takes, take the expert advice, | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
make those building safe and make those people safe. Whatever it | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
takes, we have to be led by the experts, but there can be no short | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
cuts to this. Donations of clothing had been pouring in today. London's | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
Mayor demanded help, answers and justice for those hit by the | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
tragedy. It is really important that we are not left waiting for years | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
before we get answers. We need answers now. I'm asking for an | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
interim response to the enquiry this summer. Tonight, anti-government | :10:43. | :10:50. | |
protesters took up the issue and took to the streets. More anger on | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
the streets tonight, hundreds of demonstrators marching past Downing | :10:58. | :10:59. | |
Street sent into central London. The chant: Theresa May must go. The | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
Prime Minister's authority was weakened by the general election, | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
and now she is facing another defining test that has come much | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
sooner than Theresa May could have imagined. Expect more of these | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
demonstrations and this disruption. This tragedy has become a cause, and | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
another reason for the Government's enemies to turn up the volume. | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
John Pienaar is in Westminster for us now. | :11:26. | :11:32. | |
Theresa May has been weakened by the general election and this test, some | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
of her opponents are saying she is failing. | :11:38. | :11:46. | |
Theresa May has been running to catch up. I was in the area myself | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
earlier on and was struck by the sight of hundreds of people of all | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
communities and classes coming together to help, to offer more | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
donations than volunteers on the ground could cope with. Everyone I | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
spoke to spoke of the need for answers and help in the future. They | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
wanted justice. It would be wrong to suggest that the seeds of this were | :12:08. | :12:15. | |
planted on Theresa May's watch. It stretches back to Labour's time in | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
office, but the buck. With the Prime Minister in number ten, the serving | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
leader. John, what are the likely | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
consequences of what is happening here, not just for the Government | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
but in terms of the divisions in society it has exposed? | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
In the past, we have seen occasions where terrible advances have led to | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
advances in standards of safety and improved regulation and the like, | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
and the hope must be that that will follow from this awful tragedy. Time | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
will tell, but be enquiry could turn out to be a very significant event. | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
In some ways, you could argue that it will put on trial the balance | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
between profit and safety in the provision of housing, the treatment | :12:57. | :13:03. | |
of less advantaged people could be put to the test in that enquiry, and | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
for Theresa May, a severe political test is underway. Her colleagues are | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
deeply disappointed. They will be watching her performance very | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
carefully and critically indeed. Her enemies and political opponents will | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
be watching like hawks for evidence of vulnerability and weakness. | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
John Pienaar at Westminster, thank you. You can see more of that | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
interview with Theresa May on Newsnight this evening at 10:30pm. | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
Theresa May has pledged to rehouse all those affect I -- affected by | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
the Grenfell Tower tragedy within three weeks. Kensington has a | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
substantial housing waiting list and the highest rates of people living | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
in temporary accommodation in London. Clive Mhairi looks at what | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
happens next to the residents of Grenfell Tower. | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
It dominates the horizon, a blackened tomb in the sky. The shell | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
that is Grenfell Tower has raised uncomfortable questions about our | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
society, about poverty and helplessness. The housing around | :14:14. | :14:23. | |
here is very poor. Shoddy work, inferior materials, building | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
materials. That is what it's about. I think people are just fed up with | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
the situation. They want to know what happened, they want an answer. | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
Especially those who have lost everything. What now for them beyond | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
the nightmares? Sabha Abdullah lost his wife in the fire. Holmes, the | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
council put him up in a hotel and then inexplicably moved into this | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
old people's home, far from the life he knew. We have found you a good | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
flat, so you don't need to stay in the hotel. I said, I'm happy here, | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
happy in the hotel. They said, no, this is a good one. You might lose | :15:03. | :15:10. | |
it. This is for elderly people. What on earth am I doing here? In fact, | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
he is the only resident from Grenfell Tower living here. Most of | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
the places here are empty. And it is half empty? That doesn't make sense, | :15:21. | :15:22. | |
does it? You tell me. Summer there is confusion in the | :15:23. | :15:33. | |
council's attempts to deal with the aftermath of the tragedy. But the | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
long-standing shortage of social housing in the area is making | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
matters worse. Kensington and Chelsea is wealthy, with stunning | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
homes and handsome facade is. Some argue empty terraces should be | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
requisitioned for the homeless of Grenfell Tower is, because of years | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
of neglect in building council housing. This borough has one of the | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
highest levels of households living in temporary accommodation, yet it | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
is one of the richest in London. Last year, more than 2700 people | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
were on the social housing waiting list. Meanwhile, more than 1800 | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
people are living in temporary accommodation. That's more than a | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
much poorer borough like Lewisham. Today, Theresa May made a | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
commitment, that those who lost their homes in the fire would be | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
rehoused in three weeks, and as close as possible to Grenfell Tower. | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
The local MP says that as a pipe dream. How much of a problem is | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
social housing in what is probably one of the richest boroughs in the | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
country? Yeah, it's chronic. I have been a councillor for 11 years, and | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
some of the cases I have seen over that time have just been horrific. | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
She agrees, empty luxury apartments should be taken over. The idea that | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
there are empty flats there and people sleeping on church floors I | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
find obscene. In a statement, the council said... | :16:57. | :17:16. | |
This man is now living in a hotel. He says the council has no option | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
but to follow through. If the councils don't rehouse people, there | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
would be a riot, there would be a genuine riot. If you think, that | :17:28. | :17:34. | |
would make everybody unite more than they have and stand up and stand | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
together. And as dusk began to fall, we could feel the tension rise in a | :17:41. | :17:42. | |
determined community. Police said today there was nothing | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
to suggest that the fire, which broke out in the early hours | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
of Wednesday morning, Investigators are still trying | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
to piece together what happened and how the blaze spread so quickly | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
throughout the building. There are now three inquiries - | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
by the police, by the fire brigade, Our home affairs correspondent | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
Tom Symonds now, on the questions the public inquiry will have | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
to consider. It is the first obvious question. | :18:11. | :18:24. | |
And it will be for the fire brigade to answer. The accounts of the | :18:25. | :18:32. | |
residents will be important. This video was shot 20 minutes or so | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
after a fridge caught light on the fourth floor. The Guy's fridge was | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
by his kitchen window. The fire had already gone on the outside, and the | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
wind has helped it, and then all of a sudden, the cladding has fallen. | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
He said the cladding court. And that leads to question number two. It | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
shouldn't have. The building was retard with aluminium panels in | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
2016. The work was signed off by the council. So far there is no evidence | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
standards were breached, but... The minimum safety standards which is | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
expected for a building to keep it reasonably safe. If you're using | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
materials, or in a circumstance which you know are more dangerous, | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
then you have to mitigate that, make a risk assessment and engineer out | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
at risk. In this test, the fire is contained by flameproof walls. | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
Experts say good fire safety results from good design. Was the redesigned | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
Grenfell Tower safe? And were there other factors? After the work was | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
completed, has pipes were moved to public areas in the tower. Residents | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
were furious. The job of finding out who might be to blame has now been | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
taken over by the police. We will get to the answer of what has | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
happened and why. That's why the police are taking the lead for the | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
investigation. And if criminal offences have been committed, it is | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
who will investigate that. Examining the wreckage will just be the start. | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
They will have to look at the role of the council, building managers, | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
contractors, subcontractors - a huge job. But are tell blocks safe? The | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
Government is now identifying similar blocks for extra checks, a | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
string of councils are doing their own assessments to reassure | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
residents. At fatal fires in tower blocks are incredibly rare. This | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
week Sheila is unprecedented. This is something the public inquiry is | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
likely to consider. There have been plenty of warnings in the past. In | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
another fire in Southwark in 2009, Harding was also a factor. A coroner | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
demanded a review of fire safety in towers, suggesting more sprinters | :20:47. | :20:48. | |
systems might be the answer. But introducing them widely might mean a | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
new approach to fire safety. Grenfell Tower's design should have | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
contained the fire - so-called passive safety. Could all blocks | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
have active measures to prevent fire? One of these modern | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
developments will have fire detection systems and sprinklers, | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
and bringing those older blocks up to this sort of standard would not | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
be cheap, and it would certainly best be disruptive for the | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
residents. But what price should we put on a life, especially on the | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
lives of those living in towers, often the poorest in society? This | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
disaster has triggered a national debate which could last year's. | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
Just some of the issues there thrown up by the terrible loss of life in | :21:34. | :21:42. | |
the building behind me. Here, the streets are crowded, there are | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
protests taking place but there is also married in front you soup | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
kitchen which has sprung up very close to me now, where dozens and | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
dozens of people are being fed here in the street. | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
We'll bring you more from West London later | :21:57. | :21:58. | |
in the programme, but for now, back to Jane in the studio. | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
A brief look at some of the day's other other news. | :22:02. | :22:03. | |
The Chancellor, Philip Hammond, has said that protecting jobs, | :22:04. | :22:05. | |
growth and prosperity should be the priority in the talks | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
with the European Union, which begin on Monday. | :22:09. | :22:10. | |
Speaking before a meeting in Luxembourg, Mr Hammond said | :22:11. | :22:12. | |
the Government would take a pragmatic approach. | :22:13. | :22:23. | |
His comments appeared to strike a different tone to the Prime | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
Minister, who has argued that no deal is better than a bad deal. | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
A man has been arrested outside the Houses of Parliament | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
Officers used a Taser when they detained him - | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
The incident happened by the main Carriage Gates entrance - | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
close to where Constable Keith Palmer was stabbed and killed during | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
The two soldiers who died in an incident involving a tank | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
at an army firing range in Pembrokeshire have been named. | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
Corporal Matthew Hatfield and Corporal Darren Neilson served | :22:53. | :22:54. | |
Two others were injured at the Castlemartin Range on Wednesday. | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
Live tank firing exercises have been suspended | :22:59. | :23:00. | |
British Airways cabin crew are to stage a two-week strike | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
in a long-running dispute about pay and travel concessions. | :23:08. | :23:09. | |
Members of the Unite union will walk out between Saturday 1st July | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
and Sunday 16th July - during the peak holiday season. | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
BA said the proposed action is "extreme, | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
US president Donald Trump appears to have acknowledged | :23:22. | :23:30. | |
that he is personally under investigation as part | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
of the inquiry into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 | :23:34. | :23:35. | |
In an early morning tweet, the President said he's now | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
being examined in connection with the sacking of the FBI | :23:42. | :23:43. | |
Our North America editor, Jon Sopel, is at the White House for us now. | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
What is so extraordinary is that with every public utterance, with | :23:49. | :24:01. | |
every tweet, with every interview, Donald Trump is seeming to make life | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
much, much more complicated for himself. If you cast your mind back, | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
this started as an investigation by the FBI into the Trump campaign's | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
relations with Russia. It was all quite straightforward. And then it | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
got more complicated when the FBI director was fired as in the reasons | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
given by the White House, and by the Attorney-General and deputy | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
Attorney-General, were directly contradicted by Donald Trump, who | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
said it was the washer thing. And apparently when he met Sergei | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
Lavrov, he said, I was under huge pressure over Russia, that has been | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
relieved now... As a direct consequence of that, the president | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
it seems is being investigated for lunar possible obstruction of | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
justice, and he seems to confirm as much this morning, with a tweet | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
saying, I am being investigated for firing the FBI director. Of course, | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
this is all draining away attention from the subjects that the president | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
wants to talk about. The focus this week was meant to be all about jobs. | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
Well, the only big growth area in jobs is for lawyers to represent the | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
people around Donald Trump in connection with the Russia inquiry. | :25:08. | :25:16. | |
The vice president has taken on counsel, and even Donald Trump's own | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
lawyer ... Has taken on a lawyer. The former German Chancellor Helmut | :25:21. | :25:29. | |
Kohl, who presided over German re-unification at the end | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
of the Cold War, has died. Helmut Kohl led the country for 16 | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
years and was a driving force behind Our correspondent Paul Adams | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
looks back at his life. As the Cold War ended, Helmut Kohl | :25:44. | :25:52. | |
seemed to tower quite literally over everyone and everything around him. | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
As a child, he had witnessed the destruction of his country, the | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
Second World War inspiring his lifelong desire to unify Germany - | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
and Europe. He rose through the ranks of the Christian democratic | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
union, becoming Chancellor in 1982. His provincial manners were | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
frequently mocked. He was tough and he knew how to wield power. And when | :26:15. | :26:21. | |
history came calling, he was ready. The fall of the Berlin Wall, the | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
moment of euphoria, and for Helmut Kohl, a chance to put his fractured | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
country back together. But unity didn't stop there, with France's | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
president Francois metre run, he pursued is the big idea, the new | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
European Union, with its own currency, the euro. Did not always | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
agree with his political protege, and his career ended in scandal. But | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
today, she says his legacy is not in doubt. TRANSLATION: We can all be | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
grateful for what Helmut Kohl did for us and our country in the long | :26:55. | :26:57. | |
years he was in office. And he will live on in our memory as the great | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
European and Chancellor of unity. I bow down in his remembrance. In | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
Brussels tonight, a gesture of respect the headquarters of the | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
European Union. One of its founders and champions is dead. The EU may | :27:11. | :27:17. | |
not be as confident as it once was, but Helmut Kohl's of a cherished | :27:18. | :27:20. | |
union, Germany, is stronger than ever. | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
Helmut Kohl, who has died at the age of 87. | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
The online retailer Amazon is making its biggest push so far into | :27:32. | :27:36. | |
high-street shopping by attempting to buy a whole foods grocery chain. | :27:37. | :27:42. | |
The deal worth ?11 billion is expected to be completed later in | :27:43. | :27:45. | |
the year. Investors called the deal game changing for the industry, | :27:46. | :27:48. | |
sending shares in rival grocers plunging. | :27:49. | :27:51. | |
Tennis world number one Sir Andy Murray has admitted | :27:52. | :27:53. | |
that at 30 years old, he may have only two | :27:54. | :27:56. | |
more years at the top, and plans to savour every moment. | :27:57. | :27:58. | |
Next month, he'll aim to emulate Fred Perry and win | :27:59. | :28:01. | |
He's been speaking exclusively to our sports editor, Dan Roan. | :28:02. | :28:10. | |
He's world number one and Wimbledon champion. | :28:11. | :28:12. | |
No wonder Sir Andy Murray's now seen as a true sporting superhero. | :28:13. | :28:17. | |
I'm certainly not that strong, unfortunately, but... | :28:18. | :28:24. | |
The tennis star telling me how he feels about being portrayed | :28:25. | :28:28. | |
in comic book form as part of a new billboard campaign. | :28:29. | :28:31. | |
It's the first time I've seen it. One for the kitchen wall? | :28:32. | :28:34. | |
Ha-ha! I don't know about that! | :28:35. | :28:36. | |
I'm not sure my wife would let me away with having something | :28:37. | :28:39. | |
Murray's preparing to defend his Wimbledon title, | :28:40. | :28:44. | |
but having turned 30 this year, he's determined to | :28:45. | :28:46. | |
Maybe these next couple of years are the last few where I'll | :28:47. | :28:51. | |
have a chance to compete for the Majors, and the biggest | :28:52. | :28:54. | |
tournaments, so I do want to make most of them. | :28:55. | :28:58. | |
I wish I'd enjoyed my career more when I was younger. | :28:59. | :29:04. | |
I certainly wasn't prepared for the attention that came with, | :29:05. | :29:07. | |
you know, becoming a professional athlete or a top tennis player. | :29:08. | :29:10. | |
And if you do the business to win it for a third time, | :29:11. | :29:13. | |
you'd match what Fred Perry achieved - just how remarkable | :29:14. | :29:16. | |
I never expected to win it once, never mind twice. | :29:17. | :29:20. | |
So, I'll prepare as best I can, and if I play | :29:21. | :29:24. | |
well, then I definitely have a chance of winning. | :29:25. | :29:27. | |
After recent events, Wimbledon is preparing | :29:28. | :29:28. | |
for the biggest security crackdown in its history. | :29:29. | :29:31. | |
So, how does Murray feel about the safety of sports events? | :29:32. | :29:35. | |
Walking around the grounds, and there's huge amounts of people. | :29:36. | :29:39. | |
But we do also see the security that goes into the events. | :29:40. | :29:43. | |
It's been fine throughout my career, but it's something that is | :29:44. | :29:49. | |
Having recently recovered form and fitness, Murray starts his grass | :29:50. | :29:52. | |
court season here at Queen's Club next week, where he's | :29:53. | :29:55. | |
But it's Wimbledon where Britain's top sports star will be | :29:56. | :29:58. | |
Well, as we've been hearing, dozens of people are still missing. | :29:59. | :30:20. | |
Many families are searching for information, trying to find out | :30:21. | :30:22. | |
24 people remain in hospital ? 12 of them are critically ill. | :30:23. | :30:28. | |
Our health editor, Hugh Pym, reports now on the victims, | :30:29. | :30:30. | |
and speaks to the NHS staff who have been helping them. | :30:31. | :30:37. | |
Pictures which tell their own tragic stories. Those who have lost their | :30:38. | :30:45. | |
lives or who are feared to have died. It was confirmed today that | :30:46. | :30:52. | |
Khadija Saye, who was 24, was one of those who perished. She was a | :30:53. | :30:55. | |
promising young artist, and former colleagues feared the worst after | :30:56. | :30:58. | |
reading her final tweets from the tower. Khadija was the whole | :30:59. | :31:04. | |
package, she was a beautiful soul, a kind person, she was always | :31:05. | :31:08. | |
volunteering, always looking out for young people, birdieing young | :31:09. | :31:13. | |
people, very passionate about her own community and a hugely talented, | :31:14. | :31:17. | |
creative artist Kirkuk for family and friends of those who are | :31:18. | :31:20. | |
missing, the agonising wait gets longer. Spending much of today | :31:21. | :31:30. | |
putting up edges of his uncle was Mo Khalil. We don't know. It is a | :31:31. | :31:37. | |
pretty empty sort of feeling that we've all got. We've got no answers. | :31:38. | :31:43. | |
All just looking at each other, just kind of hoping that we find him, | :31:44. | :31:52. | |
really. Or find something. Those who made it to hospital on Wednesday are | :31:53. | :31:55. | |
in good hands. This doctor was one of those at King's College hospital | :31:56. | :32:02. | |
who had to work fast to clear the air waves of victims of smoke | :32:03. | :32:06. | |
inhalation, and then their lungs. I found lots and lots of soot which | :32:07. | :32:10. | |
was lining the lungs, and some of that was obviously quite hot when it | :32:11. | :32:15. | |
got into the lungs, and so there were some burns underneath. And we | :32:16. | :32:20. | |
washed out as much of that sucked as we possibly could to remove it. The | :32:21. | :32:25. | |
emotion at the end of a punishing week is raw. -- as much of that | :32:26. | :32:36. | |
soot. It's... Sorry. On a professional level, I feel immensely | :32:37. | :32:45. | |
proud. But there is something so enormous about what's happened that | :32:46. | :32:49. | |
it's impossible to comprehend. For most staff at the hospital, there | :32:50. | :32:54. | |
was a need to care for families in distress as well as the patients | :32:55. | :32:57. | |
themselves. Added you feel at the end of your shift? Erm, it's really | :32:58. | :33:01. | |
tough. When you're working, you just power through a little bit, and it's | :33:02. | :33:05. | |
only when you step back at the end of the day that you realise how | :33:06. | :33:11. | |
upsetting it can be, sorry, dealing with so these things. It's really | :33:12. | :33:20. | |
tough. Tonight, local churches organised the service of remembrance | :33:21. | :33:25. | |
for those who died. The Bishop of Kensington reflecting the mood of | :33:26. | :33:29. | |
the community. He said there was now a cry for justice and real, lasting | :33:30. | :33:31. | |
change. That is all from us here on the BBC | :33:32. | :33:45. | |
News at ten, by the skeleton of Grenfell Tower. As we all tried to | :33:46. | :33:50. | |
take in the immensity and horror of what has happened, we will leave you | :33:51. | :33:54. | |
with some of the messages written on a wall near the tower, including | :33:55. | :33:58. | |
tributes to those who never made it out. | :33:59. | :34:04. | |
The children, the families, the mothers. | :34:05. | :34:10. | |
Everybody wants answers, because everybody's | :34:11. | :34:21. | |
I will keep going on anger and adrenaline for as long as I can. | :34:22. | :34:43. | |
Because frankly, I'd rather not sit down and actually contemplate what's | :34:44. | :34:48. |