24/06/2017 BBC Weekend News

34 buildings around the country have failed fire safety tests,

following the Grenfell Tower fire, with hundreds more

The Government says every sample of cladding from tower blocks

tested in Manchester, Plymouth, Portsmouth and London has

A London council defends its decision to evacuate four tower

blocks that failed the tests, as the Government insists it

will hep meet the huge costs councils are facing.

we will work with them to make sure they have the resources they need

Iraqi forces say they'll defeat the last IS fighters within days.

This is the old city area, it's the heart of the battle.

And when you look around here you get a real sense of how

And there's no dream start for the British

and Irish Lion's Down Under, as a dominant New Zealand

34 high-rise buildings in England have failed fire safety tests

on their exterior cladding, the Government has

The buildings, in Manchester, Portsmouth, Plymouth

and four London boroughs, are the first to undergo

urgent checks following the Grenfell Tower disaster.

Around 600 buildings are due to undergo the checks,

with local authorities working urgently to indentify

One more silent reflective assembly of mourners and neighbours.

As these people pause, elsewhere, the now relentless checking of

hundreds of tower blocks was continuing. The Government asked

councils to send samples from buildings there were most concerned

about. It has become clear only 34 tests on cladding have been carried

out involving 17 councils. With everyone failing. The councils

include Manchester, Camden, Plymouth, Hounslow, bonnet and

Brent. Many send the Government must help

pay for any changes they make like sprinklers.

Retrofitting of sprinklers should be one of our responses. When you're

Chief Fire Officer tells you that, you need to listen. We have looked

at the figures, it is ?31 million. As well as cladding, fire

authorities are examining exposed pipes, cable ducts, escape routes

and fire doors. A huge undertaking. Not just

residential blocks. Inspections are taking place in NHS buildings like

Hull Royal infirmary. So is the Government saying it will

pay for every safety defect? If they need financial support, we

will work with them to make sure they have the resources to do this

necessary work. They will not be put at risk. At

Glastonbury, the music also gave way to talk of safety in tower blocks.

Jeremy Corbyn demanding the Government in his words get a grip.

The Prime Minister needs to come to Parliament again to describe what is

going on, and needs an emergency approach including the use of Cobra

to put the resources together now. Back at the scene of the disaster,

there was no dwindling in numbers coming to absorb the scale of the

horror and pay their respects. What's all this means is in the ten

days since the Grunfeld tower disaster, the lives of thousands of

people have been affected. With more testing on fire doors and other

buildings still to come, those numbers will almost certainly

increase. Tonight, as the Government called

for more planning samples to be submitted, it seems even now no one

knows just how big the consequences of the men felt tower file will be.

-- Hundreds of people who were evacuated from tower blocks

in Camden in north London are spending a second night

Some spoke of panic and confusion as they were ordered to leave

the Chalcots Estate last night, when fire chiefs decided

Our correspondent Richard Lister has spent the day in Camden.

The Chalcots Estate tower blocks seemed to offer a safe home

for thousands of people for many years.

Why were we all ordered to evacuate at 8:30pm at night?

Tempers were running high today, the leader of Camden Council took

the brunt of frustration from people evacuated overnight.

I'm being told they can't rehouse me because I've got a dog.

A hotel place was found for this woman and her dog.

There are thousands of others, people and pets, facing

The four blocks affected have cladding similar to that

on Grenfell Tower but the residents were told other issues like gas

Our gas pipes are hidden behind this old metal door way so we can't

I'm not sure what the issue really is.

They all seem in place, the doors are there.

That is one of the other issues, reasons we have been given

Peter Bertram who is 94 had to leave the flat he has live

I feel sorry for people who are a lot worse than me,

There are at least 80 flats where residents

The council officials came to the door, banging on the door.

The chap around the hallway said, no, she's not going.

She's getting on for 80, she can't go anywhere, she's got a cat.

Many residents have been asking why they had to leave

The council says the Fire Service gave them no choice.

They said there was nothing we could do to guarantee

In that situation, given the circumstances we are in,

Work is under way to fix the faults but it will take weeks to complete.

The residents of this tower block feel themselves to be in limbo,

unsure of how dangerous this building is, and how long they might

As they are finding out, there are thousands of people

across the country facing exactly the same questions.

For some in Camden, another night on air beds in the leisure centre.

Most have accepted they won't be home for a while.

But the council is warning those refusing to leave it may

have to force them out for their own safety.

Our political correspondent Eleanor Garnier is here.

both our reports very clear on the social cost, the financial cost

escalating. The latest update, an increasing

number of these tests are failing the fire safety tests.

100% failure rate. Just 34 of the 600 tower blocks which have

initially been identified have only been tested.

Clearly there is a long way to go. Sajid Javid has said cladding itself

is not dangerous and just because a building may have failed the test it

does not mean it will have to be evacuated.

He has said public safety is priceless. The question asked is

what does that mean? In Camden, people are spending a second night

away from their homes. The council has put aside ?600,000 so far.

Birmingham, the council leader is putting aside ?31 million to fit

sprinklers to their 200 tower blocks. He is calling on the

Government to stump up the cash. Labour and the Lib Dems calling on

the Government to put a special fund to support people being evacuated.

In the last few minutes, a source sent has said it is a fast moving

situation -- from number ten. And it was working with Camden and

others. A cyber attack on the Houses

Of Parliament has targeted the email accounts of some MPs and members

of the House Of Lords. Officials have called it a sustained

and determined operation and said they had disabled remote access

to emails in order to Trading standards officers

are investigating claims that the car hire company

Europcar has deliberately overcharged some

customers for repairs. The offices of the firm in Leicester

were raided yesterday after a number Hundreds of civilians have been

freed from the old city in Mosul, The country's Prime Minister says

Mosul will be liberated within days, as his military has surrounded

around 400 IS fighters. Our correspondent Orla Guerin,

along with her team Nicholas Hameon and Firle Davies, have been

to the front line Their report contains images

you may find distressing. A journey to the front line,

our windscreen a reminder Our escort from Iraq's elite

counter-terrorism force. Snaking forward towards an enemy

that is still inflicting casualties. Like this wounded soldier

being rushed away as we arrived. And families fleeing, too, on foot,

escaping hunger and fear, This is the old city area, it is

really the heart of the battle. And when you look around

here you get a real sense of how The damage is immense

in every direction. The narrow streets, a tight squeeze

as troops close in on the last We were told the militants

were just 300 metres away. Some on the receiving end

of an Iraqi missile strike. Our history is here, he says,

and we have to get it back. We have been fighting house

to house, and room to room, against snipers and foreign

fighters, including Chechens. Nearby, troops relax within sight

of the bodies of IS militants. In the streets, they

ruled with terror. The extremists are now facing defeat

here, but it has taken three And immense damage has been done

to the fabric of Mosul Orla Guerin, BBC News,

in the old city of Mosul. In China, more than 120 people

are missing after a massive landslide in the far west

of the country. It happened in a village in Sichuan

province after the side of a mountain collapsed

following days of heavy rain. 15 bodies have been pulled

from the rubble so far. President Xi has urged rescue

workers to spare no effort With all the sport,

here's Katherine Downes The British and Irish Lions lost

the first Test of their tour There were flashes of

brilliance from the tourists, but the World Champions won easily,

30 points to 15. They're a team carrying the hopes

of four nations on their shoulders. The Lions may be guests

in New Zealand but they don't intend Recent results have given these fans

genuine hope but no one thinks it's going to be easy,

and many here will remember the 2005 series in New Zealand,

a whitewash the Lions Once again, this was a tale

of underdogs, unfancied by almost everyone at the start of the tour,

taking on a fearsome machine. The Lions made a ferocious

start but they faced Well, this is New Zealand

and this is total rugby. They stood firm and then wriggled

from the All Blacks' grasp. Liam Williams, too fast and too

good. One of the great Lions Test tries,

finished by Sean O'Brien 13-8 at half-time,

but the All Blacks, with Rieko Ioane, ran

through the tourists' The Lions forced to admire

New Zealand's best at their best. The 20-year-old wasn't

even born the last time The All Blacks haven't played

champagne rugby, throwing In fairness to them,

they were very direct up front. We have got to be better

in those areas in terms Although, right now,

rugby union's north-south divide Scotland finished their summer tour

with defeat to Fiji. They were beaten 27-22,

while Ireland completed a series whitewash of Japan,

winning 35-13. England's women suffered a shock

defeat in their opening match They were beaten by 35 runs

by India, and now need to do better The need Derby's great canopy, the

World Cup began. The most difficult stock can be the big step forwards.

But consider these circumstances. Professional women's cricketers,

proper prize money, and the hose is bobbed around by a 20-year-old,

Smriti Mandhana. She did the business in the middle. There she

goes again. 90 from 72 balls on her debut. She had seized the moment.

India celebrating at lunchtime, why wouldn't they? Scoring 281. To beat

that, England would have to score like never before.

They were batting. They had never chased a total that big to win. Who

would stay in? 42-2. Heather Knight on 46 had to push it. Oh, no, run

out. Fran Wilson in her first World Cup match played the best innings of

her career. The last ten overs, England needed 76 but those runouts

kept coming. Wilson gone 81. England since all

out for 246. England's big day, the opportunity was grabbed by India.

Lewis Hamilton earned his 66th pole position today,

just two behind Michael Schumacher in the all-time list.

Hamilton beat his Mercedes team-mate Valterri Bottas

Championship leader Sebastian Vettel will start in fourth.

And Marin Cilic and Feliciano Lopez will contest the final

at the Aegon Championships at Queen's tomorrow.

Meanwhile, Petra Kvitova will play in her first final

since she was injured in a knife attack six months ago.

The former Wimbledon champion went through at the Aegon Classic

in Birmingham when her opponent Lucie Safarova had to retire.

Kvitova will play Ashleigh Barty of Australia in the final.

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