18/06/2017 BBC News at Ten

Tonight at 10: Police release the first pictures

from inside Grenfell Tower, after the devastating fire,

that's feared to have killed more than 58 people.

The charred remains of one flat where everyone escaped,

is testament to the ferocity of the blaze.

Today the Mayor of London, said it was an avoidable tragedy.

Remember those who lost their lives in a preventable accident that

didn't need to happen, and the tragedy we are seeing

is because of the consequence of mistakes and neglect

of politicians from the council and from the government.

Services have been held to remember the victims,

as the local council leader defends his handling of the crisis.

The council has been incredibly active since the early hours of

I was here at 330 on Wednesday morning, I have

Tonight the first payments from a ?5 million Government fund,

have been made to survivors of the fire.

All eyes are on Brussels, as Britain prepares for the opening

President Macron looks set to win a huge majority

COMMENTATOR: That is in the air, it is all over!

And Pakistan thrash their fierce rival, and title holders India,

in the Champions Trophy final, at the Oval.

The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan says the Grenfell Tower fire disaster,

in which more than 58 people are feared to have died,

was the consequence of years of neglect by successive governments

He says the tragedy was totally preventable.

He was speaking as the leader of the local council

in Kensington and Chelsea said he was doing everything

he could to provide help to those affected.

Tonight, the police have released pictures from inside the tower,

showing the devastating aftermath of the fire, as our

The people who lived in these flats are all accounted for.

They agreed police could release these images tonight to show just

how much damage has been done, to show the conditions recovery teams

are now faced with as they search Grenfell Tower.

Father, we pray for those who are suffering loss, while

we pray for those who are waiting with hope, in the end fear.

Beneath the tower, people of all faiths are

It continues to be a time of anxiety,

Some of the dead and missing are known in this

congregation, and even in moments of peace,

Heaven knows what the next few weeks...

If the death toll rises, I am deadly serious, what is going to happen,

because the anger, I have never seen anything like it.

The community is terrible, and they are mad about everything.

At a nearby mosque, more donations for the bereaved

The community response remains overwhelming.

But five days on, some feel they are still having to do

what the authorities should be doing.

Are you from the Home Office? No, I live up the road.

No one knows that they are here, they are sitting

But there are signs of progress, the main rescue centre is now being

run by a neighbouring council after all the criticism

And the extra foot patrols promised by the Prime Minister are now here,

brought in from other parts of London to provide

But politicians from all sides know that

Angry not simply at the poor response in the days afterwards from

the council and the government, but the years of neglect from the

Tonight, the Prime Minister has announced that every household

affected is to get ?500 cash immediately with at least ?5000 more

to follow, and that there will be additional money available to pay

for funerals and mental health services.

It is a good gesture, I guess, in a way.

But Patricia, who lives nearby, told me money is only

I'm a mother and a grandmother, and no amount of money

The leader of Kensington and Chelsea visited the scene today.

He said he understood all the criticism, but he

The council has been incredibly active since the early hours

I was here at 330 on Wednesday morning, I've been here

There are still so many questions about the way

the tower was built, the way it was

And despite the desperate need for answers, people

Gratitude tonight for the firefighters searching through the

wreckage, months of gruelling work lie ahead.

While politicians talk of the legacy and of lessons learned,

One a day like this, they say, it is impossible

The families of some of those still missing,

remain hopeful their relatives may be alive, but they're

also realistic that the chances are slim.

Our reporter Sima Kotecha has been speaking to two brothers,

searching for six members of their family.

This is Nadia's children, Mirna Choucair, Fatima Choucair

Two brothers, desperately searching for their family,

Today, they came to the tower to be close to where their family once

lived, to hope for their return and to pray for all

We'll keep coming here and keep hoping to see them again.

They describe themselves as bereft and say they have received no help

Ministers say they are doing all they can to assist those

I feel the community have come together better than the government

When the casualty bureau number came out, I actually rang it and it

To hear that message, that was just like a knife in the chest,

The tall tower looms large here, its shadow dominates the area.

I'd like to see reform to all high-rise buildings within London.

I want the removal, I'd like to see the government remove any

future plans of cladding within high-rise buildings.

We need to act, we need to learn from our mistakes.

The sunshine blazed down on London today but the mood

For many, the pain is too great and too raw.

Even though they were on the 22nd floor at the time of

We have seen grief and sadness turned to rage against the

authorities, some up the feelings of the community now? I think some of

the theory that we saw in the first few days has dissipated slightly

today. -- some of that period. There is an acknowledgement that things

are beginning to get on track and there is a sense of willingness to

try to make it work, to get behind it and help this community and help

those helping this community, but you walk around the streets this

evening and there are so many people who will tell you of their

frustration and suspicion and I don't understand why there can't be

more accurate figures about the numbers of missing and dead, they

have some questions about the cladding and the insulation. They

have heard so many theories but there is a growing realisation and

acceptance that it could be a long time before they get answers to

those questions and I think tonight, having seen those pictures from

inside the block which showed how intense the blaze was, I think there

is also a growing realisation that some of the families like those we

have heard waiting for news, that some of them might never know what

happened to their loved ones in there. Thanks for joining us.

The Chancellor Philip Hammond, says Brexit talks must safeguard

the British economy, and that reaching no deal,

He was speaking ahead of the start of negotiations,

with the European Commission, due to begin tomorrow.

Here's our political correspondent Alex Forsyth.

It was a key reason for calling the election.

Every vote for the Conservatives will make me stronger

when I negotiate for Britain with the Prime Ministers,

Presidents and Chancellors of the European Union.

On the campaign trail a repeated plea.

Strengthen my hand in those Brexit negotiations.

Instead, by losing her majority, negotiations look tougher.

On Brexit the Prime Minister faces pressure from all sides.

Some think the Chancellor who backed Remain is one of those pushing

Today he upped the stakes on the need to get

No deal would be a very bad bad outcome from Britain.

But there is a possible worse outcome that is a deal

that is deliberately structured to punish us.

To suck the lifeblood out of our economy.

He said the UK would leave the single market and the customs

union but there couldn't be a cliff edge.

There would have to be transitional arrangements to keep trade flowing,

He even attacked the Tory election campaign for not making more of it.

It's true that my role in the election campaign was not

I met lots of very interesting people and I heard lots

I would have liked to have made much more of our economic record.

Whatever the reason for the election result, this is the outcome.

Anger from some, but lacking enough MPs on their own,

the Tories have turned to Northern Ireland's

Democratic Unionist Party, and their views on Brexit will now

Theresa May is facing tough battles here, there's a whole raft of laws

relating to Brexit that need to be passed.

The Parliamentary session has been extended to two years.

The Tories alone are divided about what Brexit should mean.

And that's without the views of political opponents.

Labour could flex its muscles, suggesting today the UK could stay

in the customs union which allows tariff-free trade within the EU.

Well, I think that should be left on the table.

So we could stay inside the customs union?

There's also this notion of no deal being a viable deal

which Theresa May and the government have repeatedly said.

No deal is what happens if you get to the end of the two years

and you haven't been able to reach agreement.

Extracting the UK from the EU isn't going to be easy,

and there's still no real clarity from anyone about what Brexit

should or will look like, but it's clear that here

as well as in Brussels, the Prime Minister is

It's almost a year since the UK voted to leave the European Union,

and it's two months since the formal Brexit process was triggered,

under Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty governing

That means Brexit will take place in March 2019.

So, what will the negotiations in Brussels tomorrow involve?

Our Europe correspondent Damian Grammaticas explains.

Monday morning 11 o'clock Brussels time, at the seventh floor of EU

headquarters, the talks that will decide the UK's future finally

began, so who are the key players for the UK? David Davis the Brexit

secretary takes the lead and for the EU Michel Barnier is the chief

negotiator. A former French Foreign Minister has spent months preparing.

Meeting Prime Ministers and chancellors across Europe, and also

tweeting, he's not averse to self-promotion, and those who know

him say he is level-headed but South, and on holiday he said there

is a long road ahead. Michel Barnier is a realist, he is calm, I hope the

Conservatives will also be calm because that is the best way for

negotiations. The EU has laid out its plan and will expect UK to

follow it, and the first phase will deal with exit terms, and only if it

is satisfied with move to the second phase, the UK's future relationship

with the EU. UK wanted trade talks on the start so that the issues are

to be focus on first include citizens rights, the rights of EU

citizens in the UK and UK citizens in the EU, and financial

obligations, how they will be calculating and the Irish border,

how to avoid one between North and South. Some in the EU say one thing

Michel Barnier will make clear is that the UK's expectation that it

can get as good a deal outside the block as inside is not realistic.

What is the wishful thinking that you are hearing that you think he

will bring down-to-earth? I give you an example. Great Britain decides to

get out of the single market and of the customs union, but decides to be

in again. I mean, you are out. You are out. Or you are in, you are in.

The talks have to be wrapped up by late next year and the timetable is

very tight, the issue is very complex. The concern, a logjam in

any one area could scupper the whole thing. BBC news, Brussels.

Portugal has declared three days of mourning,

as the emergency services battle to contain a forest fire which has

The blaze took hold in a densely forested region,

of the district of Pedrogao Grande, in central Portugal.

Many of those who died were trying to escape the flames in their cars.

A desperate, sometimes hopeless, battle against nature.

Searing heat, strong winds and low humidity -

Large areas of central Portugal now ablaze.

This mountainous area is no stranger to forest fires, but these are some

The speed and ferocity of the flames catching people

As the fire rages on several fronts, entire villages have been evacuated.

Officials still not sure what remains.

TRANSLATION: We were inside the house, the fire was all around us.

The firefighters came to get us out because we could

As to whether the house burned or not, it must

Almost instantly, we saw the fire on the right hand side of the car,

and within 15 seconds at the most, the wind that the fire created

leapt across to the other side, and within 30 seconds,

it was to the right, to the left, to the back of the car.

You had no option but to keep driving into the fire.

At times, the response has seemed chaotic.

Hundreds of firefighters working furiously since yesterday.

But some people say they have been left to fend for themselves

Thick low-lying clouds of smoke are making it hard for firefighting

France and Spain have sent their aircraft to help.

As the death toll mounts, the goverment has declared three

With no signs of a break in the weather, this battle isn't over.

Exit polls in France suggest President Macron's centrist party

has won a clear parliamentary majority in the election there.

The far-right leader Marine Le Pen has won a parliamentary

Projected results say his La Republique En Marche party

and allies secured 62% of the 577 seats in the lower house.

The Conservative Les Republicains allies 22%.

And Marine Le Pen's Front National 1% of the seats.

Two months ago, this result would have stunned France, more than 60%

of Parliament won by a party that year ago did not even insist. The

only surprise today that they didn't win more. Proof of how much Mr

Macron and his party have reshaped French politics. TRANSLATION: Today

you have given a clear majority to the president and his majority will

have the mission to act for France, the majority of French people have

preferred to choose hope over anger over optimism over pessimism. And

trust over fear. The Front National won just a handful of seats, one of

them going to their lead at Marine Le Pen. She will enter the national

parliament for the first time. TRANSLATION: In the face of this

party and in the face of this beast of the system, we are the only force

of resistance to the dilation of France of its social model and its

identity -- dilutions. Never before has a French political party won

such a stunning majority from scratch, big enough for Mr Macron to

push forward with his bold and controversial Labour reforms, big

enough even for him to whether the inexperience and diversity of his

new MPs. And with around 200 seats shared amongst a divided opposition,

some are asking where real political pressure will come from. We must put

something on the table and for the moment we have nothing to put on the

table but to say, you are going to work more. And you are going to be

paid less. If he will succeed, he will have to cope with us and it

will be a fight. Who wins, I don't know. We will see. Emmanuel Macron's

sweeping victory hides a more complex national mood, the turnout

was just 43% today, the lowest for decades, and many voters wanted

change but most did not pick Emmanuel Macron as their first

choice for president. And not everyone agrees with his plans for

economic reform. His new elected army has been drafted quickly, most

have never served before. Having swept away the old political order,

will they deliver something new? Lucy Williamson, BBC News, Paris.

Pakistan have thrashed the title-holders and their fierce

rivals India, by a staggering 180 runs, to win the Champions

Pakistan racked up 338-4, before wiping out India for just 158.

Here's our Sports Correspondent, Joe Wilson.

South London - neutral territory for a rivalry, a relationship.

This match, the sporting event of the year.

It cost me ?1,000 for a flight, I'm returning tonight,

People are selling it for ridiculous prices.

Even online it's going for ?1,000, ?500.

Pakistan's journey was a surprising one.

Foot over the line, no ball, not out.

Fakhar Zaman was the reprieved batsman.

For a while, the only place he was being caught was in the crowd.

His 114 was a foundation for Pakistan.

Play until he's 100, you might never match that feeling.

Now, these two countries don't tour each other at the moment,

thanks to the political climate, so this final was like

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Remember the fast bowler, Mohammad Amir?

He stopped India before they could start.

Three rapid wickets, including the captain Virat Kohli.

MS Dhoni, India's former captain, experienced, powerful - out.

Hardik Pandya had walloped sixes and he was making Pakistan worried.

Pakistan, world cricket's unpredictable, improbable champions.