01/07/2017

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:00:20. > :00:25.The government says it has no plans at present to send independent

:00:26. > :00:26.commissioners into Kensington and Chelsea council,

:00:27. > :00:30.following criticism of the way it handled the Grenfell Tower fire.

:00:31. > :00:32.London Mayor Sadiq Khan had urged the government

:00:33. > :00:35.to appoint commissioners, following the resignation yesterday

:00:36. > :00:42.Instead, ministers have promised to keep a 'close

:00:43. > :00:56.As the tributes continue to arrive and the missing posters line many of

:00:57. > :01:01.the streets, the anger towards the council here is clear.

:01:02. > :01:06.It was the break down of this, the first Cabinet meeting at the council

:01:07. > :01:11.since the fire at Grenfell Tower that led to the resignation of its

:01:12. > :01:17.leader, Nicholas Paget-Brown. As the council leader I must accept

:01:18. > :01:21.my share of the responsibility... Pressure had been mounting at the

:01:22. > :01:28.Kensington and Chelsea council after the intense criticism at the way

:01:29. > :01:34.that the disaster had been handled. Sadiq Khan urged the Prime Minister

:01:35. > :01:43.to appoint commissioners to run the borough. Saying... But the

:01:44. > :01:48.Government said it is keeping options open.

:01:49. > :01:51.Nothing is off the table in ensuring that the local residents, victims,

:01:52. > :01:56.family, friends, that they get the support that they need. Clearly

:01:57. > :02:00.there is a role for council, and for Government and many others but

:02:01. > :02:05.nothing should be off the table. The council now needs a new leader, that

:02:06. > :02:09.person will have to be elected by the council itself, not by the

:02:10. > :02:14.people. Some residents here say they're not happy with that. They

:02:15. > :02:18.want a bigger say on who is going to be making those key decisions.

:02:19. > :02:24.And some are sceptical of whoever is put in charge.

:02:25. > :02:30.They cannot just impose their old boy network and their friends and

:02:31. > :02:34.family scheme, that they seem to operate elsewhere. There must be a

:02:35. > :02:38.proper process for the selection of those commissioners and that has to

:02:39. > :02:42.be community-led, they cannot do that on their own. We're not going

:02:43. > :02:46.to be imposed on at state level again.

:02:47. > :02:52.It's understood that is new council leader will be elected next week in

:02:53. > :02:54.the hope of rebuilding trust with those whose lives have been torn

:02:55. > :02:57.Iraqi forces say they've taken control of the main base

:02:58. > :03:00.of the so-called Islamic State group in the city of Mosul,

:03:01. > :03:04.The militants have been driven from a hospital compound,

:03:05. > :03:06.where several senior IS leaders were thought to have been hiding.

:03:07. > :03:11.Fighting continues in the Old City area, but commanders say they're

:03:12. > :03:14.confident a final victory is in sight.

:03:15. > :03:19.Our correspondent Orla Guerin reports from Mosul.

:03:20. > :03:22.A symbol of victory, planted this morning

:03:23. > :03:32.in what was the main base of IS in Mosul.

:03:33. > :03:34.Troops weary after driving the militants from this vast medical

:03:35. > :03:37.complex but verying to hunt down everlast one of them.

:03:38. > :03:43.TRANSLATION: We will keep chasing them and those who support them.

:03:44. > :04:02.Commanders say they have removed a cancer here but one

:04:03. > :04:07.TRANSLATION: Our message is Daesh is not only an Iraqi problem -

:04:08. > :04:19.He was interrupted by a booby trap bomb, the militants may have gone

:04:20. > :04:29.from here but they left plenty of threats behind.

:04:30. > :04:32....And plenty of wreckage in Iraq's second largest city.

:04:33. > :04:34.This is what victory looks like in Mosul after more

:04:35. > :04:43.The remaining IS militants have been driven from here

:04:44. > :04:47.This hospital complex which was a place of healing now

:04:48. > :04:49.lies in ruins, like many other parts of Mosul.

:04:50. > :04:51.The city may be regaining its freedom but there will be

:04:52. > :04:57.This territory has now been reclaimed but not before some Iraqi

:04:58. > :05:06.Commanders admit that even when it is, there's a real

:05:07. > :05:20.Thousands of people have been protesting in central London calling

:05:21. > :05:26.The Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell told the demonstrators austerity

:05:27. > :05:33.Labour failed this week in a vote in the Commons,

:05:34. > :05:37.to force an end to the government's public sector pay cap.

:05:38. > :05:39.The Sinn Fein President, Gerry Adams, says he does not expect

:05:40. > :05:42.a deal to restore power-sharing within the Northern Ireland Assembly

:05:43. > :05:49.The controversy over a green energy scheme that left the devolved

:05:50. > :05:50.administration almost half a billion pounds overspent, led

:05:51. > :05:55.to the collapse of the Assembly almost six months ago.

:05:56. > :05:57.In rugby, the British and Irish Lions have recorded one

:05:58. > :06:03.of their greatest victories, beating New Zealand in Wellington,

:06:04. > :06:13.They won by 24 points to 21, the first time in eight years

:06:14. > :06:18.All eyes now will be on next week's final, deciding test.

:06:19. > :06:19.From Wellington here's Katie Gornall.

:06:20. > :06:22.Weather in rugby can be a great leveller and when you're up against

:06:23. > :06:26.Defeat here and any dreams of the Lines making history,

:06:27. > :06:29.and the dreams would be over, for once the rain was

:06:30. > :06:33.Well, 12 years New Zealand has waited for the returns

:06:34. > :06:37.and these fans know their team is going to have to

:06:38. > :06:40.produce the game of their careers in the wind and the rain at Wellington,

:06:41. > :06:45.They just need to gel us from four nations into one team.

:06:46. > :06:47.This is a brand that has to live and they're

:06:48. > :06:51.Up against the most fearsome winning machine in sport, the Lions had been

:06:52. > :06:54.set up for a bruising encounter but it takes

:06:55. > :06:55.more than brute force to

:06:56. > :06:57.knock the All Blacks off their stride, Bowden-Barrett rarely fought

:06:58. > :07:02.The conditions made even the basics a challenge but if there was

:07:03. > :07:04.tension, it certainly wasn't in the mind of Owen Farrell who

:07:05. > :07:09.finished this, as if he was playing in the park.

:07:10. > :07:12.In such a cauldron, cool heads were needed, not this.

:07:13. > :07:14.Sonny Bull-Williams becoming the first All Black to be sent off

:07:15. > :07:20.Often much of what Toby Faletau does goes unnoticed,

:07:21. > :07:24.Any lion will tell you it's better to be the

:07:25. > :07:26.hunter than the hunted and with their tails up,

:07:27. > :07:30.and with the scores level in the final minute,

:07:31. > :07:32.the Lions needed something, a final kick, a final roar, a

:07:33. > :07:40.I didn't even celebrate when the final whistle went.

:07:41. > :07:43.I just thought we are evens now, they win the first

:07:44. > :07:47.half, we won the second half we got one more half of rugby.

:07:48. > :07:50.This will be a victory that lives long in the memory, the Lions have

:07:51. > :07:59.The film critic and journalist Barry Norman has died, he was 83.

:08:00. > :08:04.For more than 25 years he hosted a film show for the BBC,

:08:05. > :08:07.which was regarded by many movie buffs as essential viewing.

:08:08. > :08:20.David Sillito looks back at his life.

:08:21. > :08:30.Good evening... Tonight the assassination of Trotsky... It began

:08:31. > :08:37.in 1972, a slightly stiff and nervous TV presenter, Barry Norman.

:08:38. > :08:43.Who then went on to 26 years of the film programme. His father was the

:08:44. > :08:49.producer and the director, Lesley Norman, and his relaxed style,

:08:50. > :08:53.shrewd opinions and comfy jumpers were the perfect situation for the

:08:54. > :08:58.Night Show. Is this going to change your style

:08:59. > :09:07.at all? No, I've had my change of life! I just have to go out and

:09:08. > :09:11.spend $65. Good evening from downtown Los

:09:12. > :09:19.Angeles. Barry Norman's here! This is it, BBC! He came over on the

:09:20. > :09:24.screen, rightly, as a man who really new his subject, an expert, who knew

:09:25. > :09:28.what he was talking about. And somebody to this very day, a very

:09:29. > :09:34.serious man but no, not when you were with him. He liked people. He

:09:35. > :09:43.was gregarious, he loved a laugh. Oh, boy, I miss him! He even had the

:09:44. > :09:48.honour of a Spitting Image puppet but the alleged catchphrase "and why

:09:49. > :09:59.not?" Was the creation of the impressionists. By 1988 he left the

:10:00. > :10:04.BBC but his place in TV history was already assured, he was for more

:10:05. > :10:05.than a quarter of a century, TV's face of film.

:10:06. > :10:09.Barry Norman who's died, at the age of 83.

:10:10. > :10:12.There's more throughout the evening on the BBC News Channel,