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:00:00. > :00:08.Tonight at ten, a deal is done, the DUP agrees to support

:00:09. > :00:14.Theresa May's government, but it comes at a cost.

:00:15. > :00:17.It's taken 18 days for the parties to agree as the Prime Minister

:00:18. > :00:22.agrees an extra ?1 billion of investment for the province.

:00:23. > :00:25.Today we have reached an outcome that is good for the United Kingdom,

:00:26. > :00:29.good for Northern Ireland and allows our nation

:00:30. > :00:35.to move forward to tackle the challenges ahead.

:00:36. > :00:37.But critics say it hinders the search for a power-sharing deal

:00:38. > :00:40.at Stormont where the executive was suspended six months ago.

:00:41. > :00:43.And there's been strong criticism from the first ministers of Scotland

:00:44. > :00:46.and Wales who say it's a case of cash for votes.

:00:47. > :00:53.The number of high-rise buildings failing fire

:00:54. > :00:55.safety tests rises to 75, and in Camden there are

:00:56. > :01:01.Victory for President Trump as the US Supreme Court allow parts

:01:02. > :01:06.of his travel ban against six mainly Muslim countries.

:01:07. > :01:09.An inquest has heard how five friends drowned during a trip

:01:10. > :01:14.to Camber Sands in East Sussex despite being competent swimmers.

:01:15. > :01:17.And a report on the secrets of sleep and how too little leaves

:01:18. > :01:25.And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News...

:01:26. > :01:27.Heather Watson wows at Eastbourne as she beats the world number

:01:28. > :01:50.nine, Dominika Cibulkova, to reach round three.

:01:51. > :01:56.The Democratic Unionist Party has agreed the terms of a deal

:01:57. > :02:00.to support the minority Conservative government.

:02:01. > :02:02.The deal involves more than a billion pounds of extra

:02:03. > :02:04.spending in Northern Ireland, on health, education

:02:05. > :02:16.The first ministers of Scotland and Wales have condemned the deal

:02:17. > :02:18.in the strongest terms, calling it "cash for votes".

:02:19. > :02:21.Theresa May has also been accused of undermining the search for stable

:02:22. > :02:23.government in Northern Ireland, as our political editor,

:02:24. > :02:27.18 days since the election, nearly three weeks of waiting,

:02:28. > :02:30.a political lifetime for the Prime Minister.

:02:31. > :02:40.But the DUP, power on their side, have been taking their time.

:02:41. > :02:45.Not just friends but this a snap of a political family now.

:02:46. > :02:50.A deal agreed at the Cabinet table no less.

:02:51. > :02:54.We also share the desire to ensure a strong government that is able

:02:55. > :03:03.The Northern Irish party promising their votes in parliament

:03:04. > :03:14.Following our discussions, the Conservative Party has

:03:15. > :03:18.recognised the case for higher funding in Northern Ireland,

:03:19. > :03:20.given our unique history and the circumstances

:03:21. > :03:28.Today we have reached an outcome that is good for the United Kingdom.

:03:29. > :03:31.The Tories have promised the DUP an extra ?1 billion of taxpayers'

:03:32. > :03:34.cash for Northern Ireland over the next two years to spend

:03:35. > :03:38.on infrastructure, health or education projects.

:03:39. > :03:40.And the Tories have had to drop the idea of means testing

:03:41. > :03:44.Winter Fuel Payments for the elderly and making changes to pensions.

:03:45. > :03:48.But in return the ten DUP MPs will back the Tories on big votes

:03:49. > :03:56.like the Queen's speech or the Budget.

:03:57. > :04:00.The election threw the Tory majority away.

:04:01. > :04:04.As you see on her face, Theresa May would never have

:04:05. > :04:10.But they have signed on the dotted line so they have

:04:11. > :04:12.something to count on, knowing full well other parts

:04:13. > :04:22.In two years' time the DUP will come back and ask for even more money.

:04:23. > :04:25.What has happened here is that the taxpayers in England

:04:26. > :04:29.and Wales and Scotland will continue to suffer austerity

:04:30. > :04:35.This is not Northern Irish control of parliament.

:04:36. > :04:38.It's about being able to make Westminster work at all.

:04:39. > :04:41.Ministers knew this criticism would come - are they prepared?

:04:42. > :04:44.I'm not against investment in Northern Ireland,

:04:45. > :04:46.I welcome investment in infrastructure and public

:04:47. > :04:47.services but there ought to be fairness.

:04:48. > :04:49.If there's investment coming to Northern Ireland, Scotland should

:04:50. > :04:54.You're paying ?100 million to the DUP for every

:04:55. > :05:00.People in all parts of the country are benefiting from the fact

:05:01. > :05:04.that we have a strong enough economy that we can afford to spend

:05:05. > :05:08.We placed 8 billion on health around the country.

:05:09. > :05:11.If you're cancelling austerity in Northern Ireland,

:05:12. > :05:14.you're not cancelling it anywhere else and people in Scotland, Wales,

:05:15. > :05:17.the North of England, haven't they got every right to feel

:05:18. > :05:20.Well, people in Scotland, Wales and different parts of England

:05:21. > :05:23.are getting money but this is separate from that.

:05:24. > :05:25.This is the Northern Ireland block grant which, as I say,

:05:26. > :05:28.has already existed so this is not unprecedented.

:05:29. > :05:31.The extra cash might help resurrect joint rule in Northern Ireland

:05:32. > :05:34.but it just would not have happened if they hadn't agreed

:05:35. > :05:40.This small group might not be familiar faces yet but they are now

:05:41. > :05:42.part of the power behind a shaky throne.

:05:43. > :05:47.Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Westminster.

:05:48. > :05:49.As we've heard, the deal could have a significant impact

:05:50. > :05:52.on the future of devolved government in Northern Ireland.

:05:53. > :05:55.Sinn Fein has repeatedly said that in doing the deal the UK government

:05:56. > :05:58.has abandoned its duty to remain impartial under the terms of

:05:59. > :06:05.The latest deadline to restore the power-sharing executive

:06:06. > :06:15.Our Ireland correspondent, Chris Page, has the latest.

:06:16. > :06:22.Belfast is a much changed city. The conflict is receding into history,

:06:23. > :06:26.thousands were heading to a concert thinking mainly of music and not

:06:27. > :06:30.money is that they did talk about the deal in London which is bringing

:06:31. > :06:34.more cash to this part of the UK. I think in terms of the economy it

:06:35. > :06:38.will get us on a map. It is a fantastic deal for the people of

:06:39. > :06:42.Northern Ireland, no question. How it goes down elsewhere we will see.

:06:43. > :06:46.I think it is a waste, you need to get the executive working before we

:06:47. > :06:52.get more money, it will be wasted. So where will the ?1 billion of new

:06:53. > :06:56.money go? ?350 million is likely to be spent on health and education,

:06:57. > :07:02.400 million will go to infrastructure, four example roads

:07:03. > :07:06.and public buildings. 150 million is in marked for improving broadband

:07:07. > :07:10.and a further ?100 million going towards deprived communities but the

:07:11. > :07:14.stalemate here at Stormont is not about a cash crisis. The main

:07:15. > :07:19.differences between the DUP and Sinn Fein are not over budgets, they are

:07:20. > :07:21.about issues like legal recognition for the Irish language, whether

:07:22. > :07:26.same-sex marriage should be introduced here and how to deal with

:07:27. > :07:30.unsolved killings from the troubles. Sinn Fein had expressed concern

:07:31. > :07:36.about the prospect is the main Unionist party having such a close

:07:37. > :07:38.relationship with the government. But today they suggested the deal

:07:39. > :07:45.could have some up sides. As always with these deal is the devil is in

:07:46. > :07:51.the detail but any money coming in are given the history of austerity

:07:52. > :07:54.and Tory cuts which hopes to offset the effect on public services is a

:07:55. > :07:59.good thing. There are still big gaps to close in Northern Ireland is to

:08:00. > :08:03.get a fresh agreement. The current breakdown in relations is the most

:08:04. > :08:11.serious since the DUP and Sinn Fein went into power sharing ten years

:08:12. > :08:14.ago. The Northern Ireland Secretary who brokered that breakthrough is

:08:15. > :08:19.worried about the new arrangement in Westminster. The government can no

:08:20. > :08:23.longer be seen as an evenhanded negotiator in the Northern Ireland

:08:24. > :08:28.peace process. That is a very high price to pay to cling onto power

:08:29. > :08:33.regardless. The government insists will remain impartial in the

:08:34. > :08:38.Stormont talks. The power-sharing negotiations are going on into the

:08:39. > :08:41.night, the pace is picking up with three days left to save devolution.

:08:42. > :08:42.Chris Page, BBC News, Belfast. Live to Westminster now and our

:08:43. > :08:52.political editor, Laura Kuenssberg. How much security is this deal going

:08:53. > :08:57.to give Theresa May? I think her cultivation was in this case that

:08:58. > :09:01.perhaps a bad deal was better than no deal -- her calculation. Despite

:09:02. > :09:05.the obvious downsides, the activations that she has put forward

:09:06. > :09:09.a straight bribe which has been put forward by the opposition parties, a

:09:10. > :09:12.sense of unfairness we have already seen felt in other parts of the

:09:13. > :09:18.devolved nations and I'm sure in other parts of England as well. And

:09:19. > :09:21.the potential imprecations for the Good Friday Agreement and getting

:09:22. > :09:26.power-sharing back on the table -- implications. There are significant

:09:27. > :09:31.downsides, no question, but there is one very important upside and this

:09:32. > :09:36.is what the calculation was about. Without this deal Theresa May simply

:09:37. > :09:42.did not have a majority over there. This allows her at least to cover

:09:43. > :09:46.the basics for now. Without it she would have been vulnerable in the

:09:47. > :09:50.Commons every day it sat, every hour, always at risk from a big vote

:09:51. > :09:53.that could have been sprung on her with her opponents ganging up on

:09:54. > :10:00.each other. At least this way she can be sure she is able to get the

:10:01. > :10:03.big pieces of business, the Queen 's speech, Finance bills, those things

:10:04. > :10:07.through the House of Commons because without those that are government

:10:08. > :10:12.has no confidence from parliament and without that they just can't get

:10:13. > :10:17.anything done. But no mistake, this is a veneer of stability rather than

:10:18. > :10:22.anything with deep foundations. It secures the position of Theresa May

:10:23. > :10:25.for now but it does not restore her authority. Laura, thank you, Laura

:10:26. > :10:27.Kuenssberg with the latest from Westminster.

:10:28. > :10:29.In their latest statement on the aftermath of the fire

:10:30. > :10:32.at Grenfell Tower in west London, ministers say that 75 high-rise

:10:33. > :10:37.buildings in 26 local authority areas have failed fire safety tests.

:10:38. > :10:40.The company which makes the cladding that's thought to have been used

:10:41. > :10:43.on Grenfell Tower has now withdrawn the product from worldwide sale.

:10:44. > :10:45.And Camden Council in north London has evacuated several tower blocks

:10:46. > :10:47.after firefighters said they could not guarantee safety,

:10:48. > :10:50.partly because of concerns over fire doors, as our correspondent

:10:51. > :11:09.This growing fire safety crisis in social housing has been, until now,

:11:10. > :11:13.about cladding, the sheet of aluminium that councils have been

:11:14. > :11:16.fitting to tower blocks to improve their look and installation that it

:11:17. > :11:19.has become apparent recently here in Camden that one of the reasons the

:11:20. > :11:24.occupants of five tower blocks have been evacuated is not just to do

:11:25. > :11:29.with cladding but also to do with a lack of fire doors.

:11:30. > :11:35.This is the fire door leading to the fire exit. Roger Evans is staying

:11:36. > :11:40.put in his Camden flat despite the mass evacuation of his neighbours.

:11:41. > :11:45.But today he was told this... Apparently all the doors need

:11:46. > :11:48.replacing. Because last week Camden Council realised these towers were

:11:49. > :11:53.covered with aluminium panels capable of burning in a fire and

:11:54. > :11:57.with that in mind the advice from fire safety experts was that every

:11:58. > :12:01.door needs to be a fire door. What you think the fact you are behind a

:12:02. > :12:04.door that is not a fire door? Is I'd never thought about it, I assumed

:12:05. > :12:07.everything was safe, it is a council property, meant to be well

:12:08. > :12:14.maintained but evidently we have been living in a potential death

:12:15. > :12:17.trap. The Communities Secretary told the Commons it was one of a number

:12:18. > :12:19.of safety issues with the blocks. Most astonishingly there were

:12:20. > :12:25.hundreds, literally hundreds of fire doors missing. The estimate by

:12:26. > :12:29.Camden Council itself is that they need at least 1000 fire doors

:12:30. > :12:33.because they were missing from those five blocks. The council leader has

:12:34. > :12:38.been in the job a month. My understanding is that we are told

:12:39. > :12:41.the council make a cost that by removing the fire doors from the

:12:42. > :12:45.specification. You are new in the job but what does that make you

:12:46. > :12:50.think about how the council has been run? Following Grenfell we need to

:12:51. > :12:55.take a look, nationally, at our building regulations and fire safety

:12:56. > :12:58.measures. We have seen across the country people availing these tests,

:12:59. > :13:02.we acted swiftly in Camden to get the information right now and my

:13:03. > :13:05.priority is the residents who need somewhere to sleep and I'm trying to

:13:06. > :13:09.make sure they are safe and secure and following that I will be asking

:13:10. > :13:13.those questions. I have the same questions and I will be on it but I

:13:14. > :13:20.have to prioritise getting my residents back safely into their

:13:21. > :13:22.blocks. Camden is worst affected but around the country councils are

:13:23. > :13:26.removing the aluminium panels from their towers and sending them for

:13:27. > :13:32.fire safety testing. The tests are happening so far in secret at this

:13:33. > :13:37.research Centre. Samples from 75 towers have been sent, every single

:13:38. > :13:40.one has failed. The building regulations are complex but they

:13:41. > :13:44.start from a basic principle, the external walls of the building shall

:13:45. > :13:48.adequately resist the spread of fire. The question is, how to meet

:13:49. > :13:53.that requirement. There is another document, something called approved

:13:54. > :13:58.document B which is a section which does not even mention cladding said

:13:59. > :14:02.materials used should be of limited combustibility meaning they burn

:14:03. > :14:05.slowly. Even that is not straightforward because designers

:14:06. > :14:10.can instead turn to 2-mac or more documents which are set out other

:14:11. > :14:15.ways to balance such as fire barriers can be added to cladding

:14:16. > :14:20.which does burn to reduce a fire, including using a desktop study to

:14:21. > :14:24.prove it is safe. It may well be the case that the regulations and the

:14:25. > :14:28.related guidance need to be updated to take account of a change in

:14:29. > :14:32.technology in the building industry but secondly we are concerned that

:14:33. > :14:36.the current regulations and guidance are not being applied and enforced

:14:37. > :14:42.strictly enough. The inquests into four more of the victims opens today

:14:43. > :14:44.will stop a corner, the police and the public enquiry will eventually

:14:45. > :14:47.consider why they died and what has gone wrong with fire safety. Tom

:14:48. > :14:49.Symons, BBC News. Sabah Abdullah lost his wife

:14:50. > :14:52.in the Grenfell Tower disaster, since when he's had to move

:14:53. > :14:55.to different accommodation three times, and he's found it

:14:56. > :14:57.extremely difficult to access His wife's body is due to be

:14:58. > :15:01.flown back to Morocco He's been describing his

:15:02. > :15:25.experience to our special Sabah Abdullah escaped the fire in

:15:26. > :15:31.this dressing gown. He made it out from the 17th floor but his wife,

:15:32. > :15:39.Khadija Khalloufi, didn't. Her hand slipping from his in the rush to get

:15:40. > :15:44.out. From the 16th, went to the 15th... I looked behind me, she

:15:45. > :15:53.wasn't there. I said to myself, God, what's happening? I looked here and

:15:54. > :16:00.there. The retired lecturer sits in his hotel room, his third home since

:16:01. > :16:05.the fire. Today his wife's body was prepared for burial. Tomorrow she is

:16:06. > :16:11.being flown back to Morocco but he cannot go with her. His British

:16:12. > :16:19.passport is in ashes. I've got no passport, my passport burned. I've

:16:20. > :16:26.got no driving licence, it also burned. Everything I can think of is

:16:27. > :16:34.gone, burned. I'm nobody. So you can't go to Morocco with your wife's

:16:35. > :16:45.coffin? How can I do that? Of course it's my wife. It is part of me, it

:16:46. > :16:51.is there. She should be never alone without me. I'm sorry to ask you

:16:52. > :17:04.this but how do you feel that you can't accompany your wife back home?

:17:05. > :17:10.This is really... I feel really very down. I feel I am nobody at all. As

:17:11. > :17:14.soon as we interviewed Sabah Abdullah late this afternoon, we

:17:15. > :17:18.called the Home Office to ask why he couldn't get a replacement passport.

:17:19. > :17:21.They asked us to tell him that if he could get to the passport office

:17:22. > :17:26.within an hour they would try to help him but it is just a sign of

:17:27. > :17:31.how the Grenfell survivors don't know who to turn to and they are

:17:32. > :17:40.left feeling helpless. And tonight, despite being originally told it

:17:41. > :17:45.would take a week, Sabah Abdullah got his passport. I'm relieved, at

:17:46. > :17:50.least I know I'm going to fulfil the wish of my late wife. The Home

:17:51. > :17:54.Office said it had been doing all it could to help him. Now he can be

:17:55. > :17:58.with his wife of 28 years as she makes her final journey home.

:17:59. > :18:01.Theresa May has said that EU nationals living in the UK

:18:02. > :18:04.will have the right to stay after Brexit and will be able

:18:05. > :18:07.But Michel Barnier, the EU's chief Brexit negotiator,

:18:08. > :18:12.says the Prime Minister's plans lack clarity.

:18:13. > :18:16.Mrs May told MPs she wanted to end the anxiety for the 3.2 million EU

:18:17. > :18:18.nationals in the UK, and said those who had been

:18:19. > :18:21.here for five years would be granted 'settled status',

:18:22. > :18:25.giving them rights to benefits, pensions and the NHS.

:18:26. > :18:29.Our political correspondent, Vicki Young, reports.

:18:30. > :18:33.Theresa May says she's giving reassurance and certainty.

:18:34. > :18:37.Is your offer to EU nationals good enough, Prime Minister?

:18:38. > :18:40.Allaying their anxieties is a priority according

:18:41. > :18:43.to the Prime Minister and she told MPs she had a serious

:18:44. > :18:51.Under these plans, no EU citizen currently in the UK lawfully will be

:18:52. > :18:54.asked to leave at the point the UK leaves the EU.

:18:55. > :18:57.So EU citizens will be able to apply for something

:18:58. > :19:00.called settled status - that is the right to live

:19:01. > :19:01.in the UK permanently, accessing public services

:19:02. > :19:08.Applicants will have to have lived in Britain for at least five

:19:09. > :19:11.continuous years and will need to have come here before

:19:12. > :19:20.a certain cut-off date which is yet to be agreed.

:19:21. > :19:22.In Brussels last week, Mrs May said that could

:19:23. > :19:27.be as early as March this

:19:28. > :19:30.year, when she triggered the formal Brexit negotiations, but EU leaders

:19:31. > :19:32.say the deadline should be the date the UK leaves,

:19:33. > :19:35.The Prime Minister's offer is conditional on EU

:19:36. > :19:37.countries offering British citizens similar rights.

:19:38. > :19:39.The Labour leader said all this should have been

:19:40. > :19:43.The Prime Minister has dragged the issue of citizens and families

:19:44. > :19:48.deep into the complex and delicate negotiations of our future trade

:19:49. > :19:51.relations with the European Union, which she herself has been willing

:19:52. > :20:00.This is confirmation the government is prepared to use people

:20:01. > :20:08.And another row is brewing over who sorts out any legal disputes

:20:09. > :20:13.Would my right honourable friend give due assurance that any pressure

:20:14. > :20:19.to allow the European Court of Justice any role in immigration

:20:20. > :20:21.or future ILR status of EU citizens within this country

:20:22. > :20:31.I believe that in terms of assuring the rights of EU citizens living

:20:32. > :20:34.here in the United Kingdom, we believe that should be

:20:35. > :20:35.done through our courts, and not through the

:20:36. > :20:41.Theresa May is promising a smooth and streamlined process to make it

:20:42. > :20:46.as easy as possible for EU citizens to secure their rights after Brexit.

:20:47. > :20:49.The Home Office will have to set up a whole new system,

:20:50. > :20:52.potentially dealing with millions of applications.

:20:53. > :20:55.It's a huge challenge, and officials hope it will be up

:20:56. > :20:59.But before that, there will be tough talks.

:21:00. > :21:02.The EU's Brexit negotiator has already called for more ambition,

:21:03. > :21:14.As we heard, there are 3.2 million EU nationals living in the UK

:21:15. > :21:16.and around a million British nationals living elsewhere

:21:17. > :21:21.Our correspondent Jeremy Cooke has been finding out how some

:21:22. > :21:26.of them have reacted to today's announcement.

:21:27. > :21:33.In a quiet corner of London, German voices raised in song.

:21:34. > :21:36.Many of these singers have been here for decades.

:21:37. > :21:41.The government's announcement today is meant to offer them reassurance.

:21:42. > :21:43.It could just change any time, that's my feeling,

:21:44. > :21:50.What's slightly uncomfortable certainly is the fact

:21:51. > :21:53.I'm still the eternal optimist and I hope that, ultimately,

:21:54. > :22:02.The choirmaster is Barbara, a professional singer,

:22:03. > :22:07.shaken by the Brexit vote and its consequences.

:22:08. > :22:11.I just don't see why suddenly because of issues of, the NHS,

:22:12. > :22:14.we want money for the NHS, or issues of, we don't like

:22:15. > :22:18.foreigners, suddenly we are treated like second-class citizens.

:22:19. > :22:29.What Theresa May and David Davis would say

:22:30. > :22:32.is that the evidence of today will be that they want

:22:33. > :22:35.you to stay, that you will be given settled citizen status.

:22:36. > :22:45.Over in Berlin, the Brits in full voice.

:22:46. > :22:51.Most here are confident they can stay after the UK leaves the EU.

:22:52. > :22:54.As someone who kind of personifies free movement having come here 20

:22:55. > :22:58.years ago and reaped all the benefits, I'm very concerned

:22:59. > :22:59.that a whole generation and generations after that

:23:00. > :23:04.At the moment I don't have to choose between British and German,

:23:05. > :23:06.and I think that would have been very hard.

:23:07. > :23:09.Since the Brexit vote and what you hear about that

:23:10. > :23:12.happening in the UK at the moment, actually it would make it easier

:23:13. > :23:18.for me to become a German and give up my British citizenship.

:23:19. > :23:23.The choirmaster here is Andrew Simms, who moved to Berlin in 1988.

:23:24. > :23:27.Maybe when people see the real costs of Brexit,

:23:28. > :23:30.of leaving what I believe is the greatest peace project

:23:31. > :23:33.in the history of humanity, which has given us peace in Europe

:23:34. > :23:39.for the last 70 years, I hope people will reflect.

:23:40. > :23:42.Theresa May is determined to deliver on the Brexit vote,

:23:43. > :23:47.and also to reassure those most directly impacted.

:23:48. > :23:50.It is proving a difficult balance to strike.

:23:51. > :24:03.A brief look at some of the day's other other news stories...

:24:04. > :24:06.There's been a minute's silence for victims of the terror attack

:24:07. > :24:08.on Muslim worshippers in Finsbury Park

:24:09. > :24:14.A man's been charged with terrorism related murder

:24:15. > :24:20.The former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey has

:24:21. > :24:23.resigned from his last remaining formal role in the church.

:24:24. > :24:27.Lord Carey was criticised in an independent review

:24:28. > :24:30.of the Church's handling of abuse carried out by Bishop Peter Ball.

:24:31. > :24:37.Ball was jailed in 2015 for historic offences against young men.

:24:38. > :24:38.The Royal Navy has a new aircraft carrier,

:24:39. > :24:42.the first since the Ark Royal was decommissioned six years ago.

:24:43. > :24:46.HMS Queen Elizabeth has set sail on sea trials.

:24:47. > :24:48.The vessel cost ?3 billion and is the size

:24:49. > :24:59.In Washington, the US Supreme Court has approved parts

:25:00. > :25:01.of the controversial travel ban signed by President Trump while it

:25:02. > :25:07.considers whether the policy should be fully upheld or struck down.

:25:08. > :25:11.The measure bans entry to travellers from six mainly Muslim countries

:25:12. > :25:14.for 90 days and suspends the US refugee programme for 120 days.

:25:15. > :25:21.Our North America editor Jon Sopel is at the Supreme Court.

:25:22. > :25:29.We have talked a lot about this embattled president but how much of

:25:30. > :25:33.a victory is this one for him? It is not maybe the complete slam dunk

:25:34. > :25:39.Donald Trump would have hoped for but it is a partial and significant

:25:40. > :25:42.victory nonetheless. If you think about where we were, the ban had

:25:43. > :25:46.been struck down completely by the lower courts until it could be

:25:47. > :25:49.considered by the Supreme Court. Now they have decided that from now on

:25:50. > :25:54.people will no longer be allowed to come to the US from those six

:25:55. > :25:59.countries unless they have a bona fides relationship with a person or

:26:00. > :26:05.entity in the United States. That's interesting but there are completely

:26:06. > :26:08.difficult questions about their implementation. Who will decide

:26:09. > :26:16.this? Will it be the customs officer who will decide on the day? But

:26:17. > :26:21.there is an irony in all of this. This is the revised travel ban we

:26:22. > :26:24.are talking about. Donald Trump only earlier this month derided it as

:26:25. > :26:29.being politically correct and watered down. Now he's saying it is

:26:30. > :26:34.a clear victory for our national security at an important -- and an

:26:35. > :26:39.important tool for protecting the nation. It may be watered down, it

:26:40. > :26:44.may be revised but it has given Donald Trump of victory. Thank you.

:26:45. > :26:48.In Hastings an inquest has opened into the deaths of five friends

:26:49. > :26:50.who drowned on a trip to Camber Sands in East

:26:51. > :26:54.The men aged between 18 and 27 all lived in the London area

:26:55. > :26:57.The circumstances surrounding the deaths of two other swimmers

:26:58. > :27:01.at the same beach a month earlier are also being taken into account,

:27:02. > :27:03.as our correspondent Duncan Kennedy reports.

:27:04. > :27:07.This was Camber Sands this afternoon.

:27:08. > :27:09.Its stunning beach drawing thousands of people.

:27:10. > :27:15.No sign of what one lawyer today called its hidden dangers.

:27:16. > :27:17.But last summer, this was the same beach shortly

:27:18. > :27:25.Today the men's families, some of who escaped the Civil War

:27:26. > :27:29.in Sri Lanka, came to their inquest hoping others won't

:27:30. > :27:35.We're just hoping to learn that at least there will be more safe...

:27:36. > :27:39.secure and safe, you know, lifeguards and how do you say

:27:40. > :27:46.What have the last ten months been like for you and your family?

:27:47. > :27:51.Tragic is the word because it's been helpless.

:27:52. > :27:55.Nitharsan Ravi was one of the five men to drown.

:27:56. > :27:58.The others were Kobi Saththiyanathan, his brother

:27:59. > :28:06.Kenugen, Inthushan Sriskantharasa, and Guru Srithavarajah.

:28:07. > :28:10.The inquest heard they were all fit and all of them could swim,

:28:11. > :28:13.but one month earlier Mohit Dupar and Gustavo Silva Da Cruz also

:28:14. > :28:24.The fact that seven men drowned here in the space of one month has

:28:25. > :28:27.made this double inquest not just about personal tragedy

:28:28. > :28:32.The coroner in this case said today that he wanted to make sure that it

:28:33. > :28:38.At the time of both incidents, there were no permanent

:28:39. > :28:47.The families of the men who died said they want lessons learned so no

:28:48. > :28:49.one else has to suffer this appalling tragedy.

:28:50. > :28:55.Duncan Kennedy, BBC News, on Camber Sands.

:28:56. > :28:59.In Canada a team of scientists is embarking on what's set to become

:29:00. > :29:01.the world's most comprehensive study into the effects of lack

:29:02. > :29:07.They want hundreds of thousands of people worldwide to take part

:29:08. > :29:10.in tests online to see how much the amount of sleep affects

:29:11. > :29:18.Our medical correspondent Fergus Walsh has the story.

:29:19. > :29:21.We spend nearly a third of our lives asleep.

:29:22. > :29:25.It is vital for our physical and mental health.

:29:26. > :29:28.But we're getting less sleep than ever before.

:29:29. > :29:31.His visual cortex, his eyes are open but there's actually

:29:32. > :29:35.British neuroscientist Adrian Owen, based in Ontario, Canada,

:29:36. > :29:37.believes sleep deprivation may be having a serious effect

:29:38. > :29:42.Every day we make hundreds of decisions, we remember

:29:43. > :29:47.We make difficult decisions like should I buy a house

:29:48. > :29:53.But we also have to remember many simple things like where I parked

:29:54. > :29:56.the car or what I intended to buy on the way home from work.

:29:57. > :30:01.All of these things can be affected by lack of sleep.

:30:02. > :30:04.You go to sleep for four hours, and then I am going to personally

:30:05. > :30:10.He's begun a major study of the effects of lack

:30:11. > :30:15.So I joined volunteers at Western University Ontario,

:30:16. > :30:20.trying out his test, which anyone can sign up for online.

:30:21. > :30:23.They're designed to reveal how our brains are functioning -

:30:24. > :30:29.reasoning, memory, and decision-making.

:30:30. > :30:32.To demonstrate how tiredness may affect that, we stayed up until 4am,

:30:33. > :30:52.We were about to repeat the brain tests we'd done the previous night.

:30:53. > :31:06.Most of our scores went down compared to the night before.

:31:07. > :31:15.Oh, kisses for your sister, that's really nice.

:31:16. > :31:18.But Sylvie, whose daughters wake her several times a night,

:31:19. > :31:25.Maybe I've just gotten used to functioning on very little sleep.

:31:26. > :31:27.I have to be on as soon as my kids wake up.

:31:28. > :31:34.I finished and I've done quite badly!

:31:35. > :31:37.I also did the tests while having my brain scanned.

:31:38. > :31:41.After a normal night's sleep, my brain was functioning well.

:31:42. > :31:47.The bright orange blobs are areas of increased activity.

:31:48. > :31:51.And this is the scan done after four hours' sleep.

:31:52. > :31:56.It's pretty clear there is much less activity in these areas of the brain

:31:57. > :31:58.that we know are crucial for things like decision-making,

:31:59. > :32:07.So, our 24-hour culture could be having a serious impact on society.

:32:08. > :32:10.Those signing up to the world's biggest sleep study will help show

:32:11. > :32:13.the extent of the problem and reveal how much sleep we need

:32:14. > :32:25.Fergus Walsh, BBC News, Ontario, Canada.

:32:26. > :32:38.Tonight after Grenfell we reveal the failures at the heart of the system

:32:39. > :32:43.which is meant to keep our homes safe from fire. But to a former

:32:44. > :32:43.housing minister. Join me now on BBC Two.

:32:44. > :32:46.Here on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.