01/07/2017 BBC Weekend News

The government says it has no plans at present to send independent

commissioners into Kensington and Chelsea council,

following criticism of the way it handled the Grenfell Tower fire.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan had urged the government

to appoint commissioners, following the resignation yesterday

Instead, ministers have promised to keep a 'close

As the tributes continue to arrive and the missing posters line many of

the streets, the anger towards the council here is clear.

It was the break down of this, the first Cabinet meeting at the council

since the fire at Grenfell Tower that led to the resignation of its

leader, Nicholas Paget-Brown. As the council leader I must accept

my share of the responsibility... Pressure had been mounting at the

Kensington and Chelsea council after the intense criticism at the way

that the disaster had been handled. Sadiq Khan urged the Prime Minister

to appoint commissioners to run the borough. Saying... But the

Government said it is keeping options open.

Nothing is off the table in ensuring that the local residents, victims,

family, friends, that they get the support that they need. Clearly

there is a role for council, and for Government and many others but

nothing should be off the table. The council now needs a new leader, that

person will have to be elected by the council itself, not by the

people. Some residents here say they're not happy with that. They

want a bigger say on who is going to be making those key decisions.

And some are sceptical of whoever is put in charge.

They cannot just impose their old boy network and their friends and

family scheme, that they seem to operate elsewhere. There must be a

proper process for the selection of those commissioners and that has to

be community-led, they cannot do that on their own. We're not going

to be imposed on at state level again.

It's understood that is new council leader will be elected next week in

the hope of rebuilding trust with those whose lives have been torn

Iraqi forces say they've taken control of the main base

of the so-called Islamic State group in the city of Mosul,

The militants have been driven from a hospital compound,

where several senior IS leaders were thought to have been hiding.

Fighting continues in the Old City area, but commanders say they're

confident a final victory is in sight.

Our correspondent Orla Guerin reports from Mosul.

A symbol of victory, planted this morning

in what was the main base of IS in Mosul.

Troops weary after driving the militants from this vast medical

complex but verying to hunt down everlast one of them.

TRANSLATION: We will keep chasing them and those who support them.

Commanders say they have removed a cancer here but one

TRANSLATION: Our message is Daesh is not only an Iraqi problem -

He was interrupted by a booby trap bomb, the militants may have gone

from here but they left plenty of threats behind.

...And plenty of wreckage in Iraq's second largest city.

This is what victory looks like in Mosul after more

The remaining IS militants have been driven from here

This hospital complex which was a place of healing now

lies in ruins, like many other parts of Mosul.

The city may be regaining its freedom but there will be

This territory has now been reclaimed but not before some Iraqi

Commanders admit that even when it is, there's a real

Thousands of people have been protesting in central London calling

The Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell told the demonstrators austerity

Labour failed this week in a vote in the Commons,

to force an end to the government's public sector pay cap.

The Sinn Fein President, Gerry Adams, says he does not expect

a deal to restore power-sharing within the Northern Ireland Assembly

The controversy over a green energy scheme that left the devolved

administration almost half a billion pounds overspent, led

to the collapse of the Assembly almost six months ago.

In rugby, the British and Irish Lions have recorded one

of their greatest victories, beating New Zealand in Wellington,

They won by 24 points to 21, the first time in eight years

All eyes now will be on next week's final, deciding test.

From Wellington here's Katie Gornall.

Weather in rugby can be a great leveller and when you're up against

Defeat here and any dreams of the Lines making history,

and the dreams would be over, for once the rain was

Well, 12 years New Zealand has waited for the returns

and these fans know their team is going to have to

produce the game of their careers in the wind and the rain at Wellington,

They just need to gel us from four nations into one team.

This is a brand that has to live and they're

Up against the most fearsome winning machine in sport, the Lions had been

set up for a bruising encounter but it takes

more than brute force to

knock the All Blacks off their stride, Bowden-Barrett rarely fought

The conditions made even the basics a challenge but if there was

tension, it certainly wasn't in the mind of Owen Farrell who

finished this, as if he was playing in the park.

In such a cauldron, cool heads were needed, not this.

Sonny Bull-Williams becoming the first All Black to be sent off

Often much of what Toby Faletau does goes unnoticed,

Any lion will tell you it's better to be the

hunter than the hunted and with their tails up,

and with the scores level in the final minute,

the Lions needed something, a final kick, a final roar, a

I didn't even celebrate when the final whistle went.

I just thought we are evens now, they win the first

half, we won the second half we got one more half of rugby.

This will be a victory that lives long in the memory, the Lions have

The film critic and journalist Barry Norman has died, he was 83.

For more than 25 years he hosted a film show for the BBC,

which was regarded by many movie buffs as essential viewing.

David Sillito looks back at his life.

Good evening... Tonight the assassination of Trotsky... It began

in 1972, a slightly stiff and nervous TV presenter, Barry Norman.

Who then went on to 26 years of the film programme. His father was the

producer and the director, Lesley Norman, and his relaxed style,

shrewd opinions and comfy jumpers were the perfect situation for the

Night Show. Is this going to change your style

at all? No, I've had my change of life! I just have to go out and

spend $65. Good evening from downtown Los

Angeles. Barry Norman's here! This is it, BBC! He came over on the

screen, rightly, as a man who really new his subject, an expert, who knew

what he was talking about. And somebody to this very day, a very

serious man but no, not when you were with him. He liked people. He

was gregarious, he loved a laugh. Oh, boy, I miss him! He even had the

honour of a Spitting Image puppet but the alleged catchphrase "and why

not?" Was the creation of the impressionists. By 1988 he left the

BBC but his place in TV history was already assured, he was for more

than a quarter of a century, TV's face of film.

Barry Norman who's died, at the age of 83.

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