16/06/2017

:00:08. > :00:09.Hello, it's nine o'clock, I'm Joanna Gosling,

:00:10. > :00:21.The dead and the missing and now the search for answers as police warned

:00:22. > :00:27.they may never be able to identify all the victims of the Groenefeld

:00:28. > :00:36.fire. I am Mark Lowen outside Groenefeld

:00:37. > :00:39.Tower, where it is -- weather continued attempts to identify those

:00:40. > :00:42.inside and there are fears that the number who have died may rise to 60.

:00:43. > :00:45.Mohammed Alhajali was the first person who died in the blaze

:00:46. > :00:48.on Wednesday to be named - he was a 23-year-old Syrian refugee

:00:49. > :00:50.who had fled the war for a better life here.

:00:51. > :00:53.We are going to be talking to his brother, Hashem,

:00:54. > :00:54.and Abdulaziz Almashi, his best friend.

:00:55. > :00:57.We will bring you all the latest updates from the scene of the fire

:00:58. > :01:01.Nurse Pauline Cafferkey contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone while working

:01:02. > :01:12.She's returned to the country to see how the people are coping today.

:01:13. > :01:19.Most of the aid agencies have pulled out. It's like it's almost

:01:20. > :01:20.forgotten, but it's not. These people are still living through this

:01:21. > :01:29.and living with the aftermath. Hello.

:01:30. > :01:30.Welcome to the programme. Do get in touch on all the stories

:01:31. > :01:40.we're talking about this morning - use the hashtag #VictoriaLive,

:01:41. > :01:43.and if you text, you will be charged Our top story today -

:01:44. > :01:46.police have warned that they may never be able

:01:47. > :01:49.to identify all those who died in the fire that engulfed

:01:50. > :01:51.Grenfell Tower in West London in the early hours

:01:52. > :01:53.of Wednesday morning. The emergency services will spend

:01:54. > :01:55.a third day searching 17 people are known to have died,

:01:56. > :02:01.but dozens remain unaccounted The first victim of the fire

:02:02. > :02:11.to be officially named is Mohammed Alhajali,

:02:12. > :02:13.a Syrian refugee who came to Britain His brother was led to safety

:02:14. > :02:18.by firefighters, but, in the chaos and confusion,

:02:19. > :02:22.Mohammed got left behind. I thought they took

:02:23. > :02:36.him outside with me! Some of those trapped

:02:37. > :02:41.in the blaze did survive. We now know this man

:02:42. > :02:43.is Elpidio Bonifacio, a partially blind

:02:44. > :02:48.grandfather in his 70s. His family say he is in intensive

:02:49. > :02:50.care, suffering from They have thanked the bravery

:02:51. > :02:55.of the firefighters who risked Elpidio was finally rescued 11 hours

:02:56. > :03:03.after the blaze started. There is anger in the community,

:03:04. > :03:06.directed at almost anyone The London Mayor Sadiq Khan saw it

:03:07. > :03:10.for himself when he went to visit. How many children died

:03:11. > :03:13.and what are you going Police say they have now started

:03:14. > :03:18.a criminal investigation. That's not to say there

:03:19. > :03:20.was a crime committed, but they will investigate

:03:21. > :03:22.to establish if there's any The list of the dead

:03:23. > :03:27.and missing grows all the time. Police have voiced the hope

:03:28. > :03:30.that the final number of casualties They admit that some victims may

:03:31. > :03:43.never be identified. The leader of the local council said

:03:44. > :03:46.they did think about installing sprinkler system in Grenfell Tower

:03:47. > :03:49.when it was renovated last year, but he said there was

:03:50. > :04:02.no collective view Losing the suit is a firefighter and

:04:03. > :04:08.trade union official at the Fire Brigades Union London branch. See

:04:09. > :04:11.she describes the distressing scenes witnessed by colleagues. One

:04:12. > :04:15.colleague said he was going in literally having to choose who to

:04:16. > :04:21.save to leave and died because you only have two hands, can only take

:04:22. > :04:27.out so many people. My colleagues went in, took people out, went in,

:04:28. > :04:31.two people off again. The red watch Chelsea were meant to finish at

:04:32. > :04:35.9:30am and they did not get back to the station until 5pm, they would

:04:36. > :04:40.have stayed longer if they had been allowed. That is a tribute to the

:04:41. > :04:43.brave men and women who attended this incident. The scenes they would

:04:44. > :04:45.have encountered in the early hours of Tuesday morning, it is absolutely

:04:46. > :04:47.unimaginable. Mark Lowen is in West London

:04:48. > :05:00.and following the latest What is the latest? 17 people are

:05:01. > :05:04.known to have been killed in this fire. Several more are still in

:05:05. > :05:09.hospital and police say they fear that the number of known fatalities

:05:10. > :05:13.could rise above 60. There are efforts to try to get insight

:05:14. > :05:16.Groenefeld Tower to try to identify the remains of victims but they have

:05:17. > :05:25.not been able to get to the top floor, the upper floors. Sniffer

:05:26. > :05:29.dogs have been sent in, it is too unstable for people to go in.

:05:30. > :05:33.They're using dental records, DNA samples and finger prints to try to

:05:34. > :05:38.identify the victims but they say the total number of known fatalities

:05:39. > :05:42.may never be known because it is too difficult to piece together the

:05:43. > :05:47.remains of the bodies inside. Meanwhile, on the investigation, the

:05:48. > :05:51.finger of suspicion points to the cladding. A report in The Times

:05:52. > :05:56.today that the company that installed the cladding was told that

:05:57. > :06:00.in the US that kind of cheap plastic cladding which is not flame

:06:01. > :06:05.retardant is not used on high buildings, there is still suspicion

:06:06. > :06:09.of what was responsible here but as yet the investigation is in the

:06:10. > :06:14.early stages as to what caused this horrific inferno. We saw some of the

:06:15. > :06:20.anger of those who live around there, some of the residents, what

:06:21. > :06:24.is the mood? There is anger, there is a demand for accountability and a

:06:25. > :06:28.demand for heads to roll, we have heard from some people. There is a

:06:29. > :06:32.demand for greater political engagement from the Government. You

:06:33. > :06:40.saw yesterday Theresa May making a private visit to the Grenfell Tower,

:06:41. > :06:43.Jeremy Corbyn and Sadiq Khan met the victims. That was seen by critics as

:06:44. > :06:46.a lack of empathy on the part of the Prime Minister. There is a real

:06:47. > :06:50.feeling that this must not be allowed to happen again and a fear

:06:51. > :06:54.that in the thousands of other towers sprinkled across this

:06:55. > :07:00.country, this city, that they should not meet the same fate. Fear about

:07:01. > :07:03.fire regulations, a fear about the state put policy, buildings where

:07:04. > :07:08.the Rizwan staircase and a lack of such -- a lack of sprinklers and

:07:09. > :07:13.central alarms. These fears are reverberating from the of Grenfell

:07:14. > :07:20.Tower. Let's go to our political correspondent Chris Mason.

:07:21. > :07:27.There are demands for action to be taken quickly, an investigation is

:07:28. > :07:31.under way. What sense is there about what politicians can and should do?

:07:32. > :07:35.Politicians at Westminster are acutely aware of the scale of what

:07:36. > :07:39.has happened and that there is a huge number of questions coming

:07:40. > :07:43.their way, not just in the direction of national politicians but local

:07:44. > :07:49.ones as well. I think there is also an awareness that this is a new and

:07:50. > :07:57.a fragile Government that is having to respond to tragedy in a way that

:07:58. > :08:02.is seen to be financially astute and logistically and, yes, emotionally.

:08:03. > :08:05.The Government yesterday announced a full independent public inquiry led

:08:06. > :08:09.by a judge, we don't yet know who that will be or the exact terms of

:08:10. > :08:13.reference or timescale. Certainly there is a demand from some that

:08:14. > :08:17.while there is a recognition that public inquiries can be very useful

:08:18. > :08:21.in establishing exactly where there may have been deficiencies in

:08:22. > :08:26.policies in the past, not just from the current Government good previous

:08:27. > :08:33.ones, they tend to take time and some MPs want to see an interim

:08:34. > :08:36.report sooner rather than later. There is a chance for politicians of

:08:37. > :08:38.all political stripes to visit the area themselves. We saw the Prime

:08:39. > :08:42.Minister yesterday, criticism from Labour figures that she did not meet

:08:43. > :08:46.local people. Communities Secretary Sajid Javid has spent the morning

:08:47. > :08:51.giving interviews about the Government response, heading there

:08:52. > :08:57.today and likely to meet people on the ground. The Government is well

:08:58. > :08:58.aware of the scale and volume of the questions coming and understandably

:08:59. > :09:00.the intense anger. Thank you, Chris. Annita McVeigh is in the BBC

:09:01. > :09:03.Newsroom with a summary A second soldier has died

:09:04. > :09:10.after being wounded in an incident involving a tank at an army firing

:09:11. > :09:12.range in Pembrokeshire. Two other soldiers were injured

:09:13. > :09:15.at Castlemartin Ranges on Wednesday. The flags are at half

:09:16. > :09:21.mast at Pembrokeshire, after the tragic events

:09:22. > :09:23.of Wednesday afternoon, which resulted in the deaths

:09:24. > :09:28.of two servicemen. It is still unclear exactly

:09:29. > :09:31.what happened, but the BBC understands that four members

:09:32. > :09:33.from the Royal Tank Regiment were gravely injured in an incident

:09:34. > :09:36.involving the ammunition and another Three soldiers were taken

:09:37. > :09:43.to hospital in south Wales, with one being taken directly

:09:44. > :09:45.to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, which has a dedicated

:09:46. > :09:47.wing for treating injured Yesterday afternoon,

:09:48. > :09:54.the Ministry of Defence announced that one soldier had died

:09:55. > :09:57.in hospital and late last night the Minister of Defence,

:09:58. > :09:58.People and Veterans confirmed the death of a second

:09:59. > :10:12.member of the team. The range was opened by the War

:10:13. > :10:19.office in 1938. It is one of the two ranges

:10:20. > :10:22.in the UK where armed units The MoD, police and the Health

:10:23. > :10:26.and Safety Executive are investigating and a temporary

:10:27. > :10:28.ban on tanklike firing has been The Archbishop of Canterbury

:10:29. > :10:34.will speak at a service of hope at Southwark Cathedral today,

:10:35. > :10:39.in honour of first-responders, families and survivors

:10:40. > :10:41.of the London Bridge attack. Eight people were killed when three

:10:42. > :10:43.attackers drove a van into pedestrians on London Bridge,

:10:44. > :10:47.and then launched a knife attack at Borough Market just

:10:48. > :10:51.under two weeks ago. President Trump is expected

:10:52. > :10:54.to announce a change in policy towards Cuba during a visit to Miami

:10:55. > :10:57.today, tightening trade and travel restrictions that had been relaxed

:10:58. > :11:03.by President Obama. Americans will still be allowed

:11:04. > :11:06.to travel to the communist island, but mainly as part

:11:07. > :11:08.of organised groups. Mr Trump is also expected

:11:09. > :11:10.to prohibit doing business with the commercial and tourism

:11:11. > :11:16.wings of the Cuban military. Doctors treating the American

:11:17. > :11:17.student who was released from a North Korean prison

:11:18. > :11:20.in a coma say he has suffered Otto Warmbier was freed on Tuesday

:11:21. > :11:27.and is back home in Cincinnati. It's not clear how he

:11:28. > :11:29.sustained brain damage. He was given a long prison sentence

:11:30. > :11:33.in March last year for trying The Labour MP Jo Cox is being

:11:34. > :11:43.remembered across the country on the first anniversary

:11:44. > :11:44.of her murder. The mother of two was killed

:11:45. > :11:47.as she arrived for a constituency surgery in Birstall in West

:11:48. > :11:50.Yorkshire. More than 110,000 events

:11:51. > :11:53.are being held today and over the weekend as part

:11:54. > :11:58.of The Great Get Together. That's a summary of the latest BBC

:11:59. > :12:04.News - more at 9:30am. Let's get some sport now

:12:05. > :12:19.with Katherine Downes. Some low scores after the first

:12:20. > :12:22.round rubber US Open? Yes, conditions in Wisconsin looked

:12:23. > :12:29.pretty perfect, a bit of rain softened the fairways and made the

:12:30. > :12:35.Greens a bit more forgiving, that all of the top six golfers in the

:12:36. > :12:39.world are over par. Let's see who is going well, Rickie Fowler leads the

:12:40. > :12:42.way, shooting an opening round of 67, seven under par, equalling the

:12:43. > :12:48.record of the lowest first round score at the U.S. Open. Paul Casey

:12:49. > :12:53.of England is just behind him on six under, very chuffed with his round,

:12:54. > :12:58.chipping in for an eagle. Tommy Fleetwood, another Englishman in the

:12:59. > :13:02.mix, he is five and tied for fourth. He missed the cut in six of his

:13:03. > :13:07.previous seven major appearances. He would have to have a disaster to do

:13:08. > :13:10.that again. Rory McIlroy is really struggling, missing here. He

:13:11. > :13:14.defended how thick the wrath of Arran Hills is by saying if you

:13:15. > :13:17.cannot hit the fairways at a big tournament like this you might as

:13:18. > :13:22.well pack your bags and go home, but he only hit five in the whole of his

:13:23. > :13:26.round, so not doing as well as he should have. A stunning performance

:13:27. > :13:32.from middle-distance runner Jake Wightman last night? Jake Wightman

:13:33. > :13:37.knocked a second off his personal best to win his first Diamond

:13:38. > :13:40.League. Let's look at how he did it. He has been in great form this

:13:41. > :13:47.summer so far, a recent personal best did not suggest he would pull

:13:48. > :13:50.this out of the bag. He beat the 2015 world silver medallist from

:13:51. > :13:56.Kenya into second. He beat a really quality line-up, really convincing

:13:57. > :14:01.as a victory. He took to Twitter yesterday to say he was in utter

:14:02. > :14:06.shock, I cannot believe I have just won a Diamond League. Always nice to

:14:07. > :14:09.see dreams coming true on the track! Thank you very much.

:14:10. > :14:11.Hundreds of people have been left homeless following the Grenfell

:14:12. > :14:14.The extraordinary community effort has seen people donate clothes,

:14:15. > :14:17.food and even open up their homes to give those in need

:14:18. > :14:22.The first named victim of the fire is Mohammed Alhajali.

:14:23. > :14:25.The 23-year-old had only been in the UK for three years,

:14:26. > :14:27.having fled war-torn Syria with his brothers Omar

:14:28. > :14:31.and Hashem, and had settled into a new life here as a refugee.

:14:32. > :14:37.He tried to call family to say goodbye, but couldn't get through.

:14:38. > :14:38.Mohammed became separated from his brother, Omar,

:14:39. > :14:43.Omar ended up in a local hospital, but his brother never made it

:14:44. > :14:58.They said the fire was in the next room.

:14:59. > :15:12.They opened the door and the smoke came inside,

:15:13. > :15:17.I thought they were pushing all of us.

:15:18. > :15:19.I couldn't talk, I couldn't look around, I couldn't see anything.

:15:20. > :15:30.I called him, I said, "Where are you?"

:15:31. > :15:39.They brought us outside, I thought you were with us."

:15:40. > :15:43.He said, "No one brought me outside."

:15:44. > :15:46.Another of Mohammed's brothers, Hashem, joins me now.

:15:47. > :15:49.Along with some of his friends - Randa, who spoke to Mohammad

:15:50. > :15:51.the night before he died - and Abdulaziz Almashi,

:15:52. > :15:53.who is the co-founder of the Syria Solidarity Campaign,

:15:54. > :16:00.which promotes freedom, peace and democracy in Syria.

:16:01. > :16:14.Thank you all for joining us. Our condolences, Hashim. How are you

:16:15. > :16:19.coping? You can say everything has collapsed. We were doing well. We

:16:20. > :16:25.were settling down in the UK. Suddenly everything just collapsed.

:16:26. > :16:33.I don't think we can cope as we did before. You are just 20. We heard

:16:34. > :16:39.from your brother, Omar, who was in the building and survived. Obviously

:16:40. > :16:46.traumatised, as we can see in the interview. You had already been

:16:47. > :16:54.through a lot. You left Syria hoping for a better life. How is Omar now?

:16:55. > :16:59.Omar is really not good. He is not good. He couldn't, grow today. He

:17:00. > :17:05.just sits down and he sees the whole thing moving in front of his eyes

:17:06. > :17:11.every time. He is just staring. He can see the whole movie, you can

:17:12. > :17:16.say. Every time he just sits and talked us through the story and he

:17:17. > :17:26.just cries. Yeah, he is not good. What support are you getting?

:17:27. > :17:34.Nothing. The only support will be offered by my family. I don't think

:17:35. > :17:42.anyone else can help. Where is Omar? He is homeless now, as some in ER.

:17:43. > :17:48.They took him to accommodation. You want your parents to be able to come

:17:49. > :17:54.for the funeral. They are still in Syria. Is it fun to be possible? We

:17:55. > :17:59.are not sure. We want this to happen. My mum has cried lots of

:18:00. > :18:04.tears when she heard. She said she had been waiting to see him for four

:18:05. > :18:08.years but then he died and she couldn't see him. At least I can see

:18:09. > :18:12.his grave, I can see his body before they bury him. I want to kiss him. I

:18:13. > :18:22.want to stand where they bury him. I want to see everything belongs to

:18:23. > :18:27.Muhammad. It's devastating. I don't know what to say. When did you last

:18:28. > :18:32.speak to him? I spoke to him in the last month. -- in the last moments.

:18:33. > :18:41.I spoke to him when he was in the tower. That must have been so hard?

:18:42. > :18:47.This is obviously so difficult for all of the friends and loved ones of

:18:48. > :18:53.Muhammad. You spoke to him, when? I spoke to him around ten days ago. We

:18:54. > :19:05.are planning an event tomorrow in memory of Jo Cox. The Syrian

:19:06. > :19:09.communities, refugees. He was set to come to the event, to participate in

:19:10. > :19:15.the event. But unfortunately, he will be rest. When you look at this

:19:16. > :19:21.tragedy, there are loads of questions come cross my mind. I

:19:22. > :19:26.mean, he came here to seek safety, to establish a good life. I once

:19:27. > :19:31.asked him why he was studying civil engineering, and he said because he

:19:32. > :19:40.wanted to go back to Syria and help to rebuild Syria. And yes, he is a

:19:41. > :19:44.big loss for his family, for us as friends and the community in London.

:19:45. > :19:50.And definitely, he is a big loss for Syria as well. You have just given

:19:51. > :19:56.us a little glimpse into Muhammed. What sort of person was the? He was

:19:57. > :20:00.a lovely person. He was caring, intelligent, charitable. He has

:20:01. > :20:10.passion for his family, for his country. An amazing individual. I

:20:11. > :20:15.literally can't mention one negative thing about his character. He has

:20:16. > :20:20.been absolutely brilliant. Tell us more about your brother? My brother

:20:21. > :20:26.was his friend. -- my friend. He was very humble with all his friends as

:20:27. > :20:32.well. Although there was a gap in the age is between me and him, we

:20:33. > :20:38.were like friends in the same age. He would never annoy anyone. He was

:20:39. > :20:44.nice to every person. He was kind, he was intelligent. He would learn

:20:45. > :20:57.things quickly. He would run for his life. You are a friend as well. When

:20:58. > :21:05.did you last speak to Muhammad? I saw him recently, shortly before he

:21:06. > :21:10.passed away. Really shocking just to hear of him on the news, without

:21:11. > :21:15.having had a chance to speak to him before. How will you remember him?

:21:16. > :21:22.Somebody who was always smiling, always happy, always happy to see

:21:23. > :21:29.his friends. You never got any negative vibe from him. Obviously it

:21:30. > :21:36.is a time of trauma and total shock. Is their anger? There is, of course.

:21:37. > :21:39.There is anger because more Hamid Hassan always tried to bring his

:21:40. > :21:46.family. When he was talking to me over the phone, he said, tell my mum

:21:47. > :21:51.and dad to forgive me. He asked me if I forgive him. I said, why do I

:21:52. > :21:55.need to forgive you? You have been an amazing person, my brother and

:21:56. > :22:00.everything. Why do I need to forgive you? He said, please just say it. I

:22:01. > :22:08.said, I forgive you. Everybody forgives you. Everybody loves you.

:22:09. > :22:14.All of those affected so deeply by this, how do you move forward? It is

:22:15. > :22:19.really tough. For someone who came from a war zone to seek safety, for

:22:20. > :22:28.example, and then he ends up in such a tragic event is really shocking.

:22:29. > :22:34.It is unbelievable. I can't oh -- I can't imagine how Omar will get over

:22:35. > :22:40.it. He didn't just love -- lose his brother. But he lived the whole

:22:41. > :22:45.experience. I have been watching what has been going on in my country

:22:46. > :22:49.for the last six years. They show many pictures of bombing in Aleppo

:22:50. > :22:54.and the outskirts of Damascus. I literally haven't seen one single

:22:55. > :23:00.building engulfed with fire like this, and that's in a war zone. This

:23:01. > :23:05.strikes me. We are in London, 2017, and you see a huge building like

:23:06. > :23:11.this engulfed with fire in half an hour. Where you think you are safe.

:23:12. > :23:20.Someone must have responsibility for those who lost their lives. I was

:23:21. > :23:23.literally watching it live. I tried to call Omar. I couldn't get

:23:24. > :23:30.through. I tried to call his cousin. I couldn't get through. I knew they

:23:31. > :23:37.lived in that building. But I never anticipated someone would die there.

:23:38. > :23:42.It is just incredible. The management organisations, the local

:23:43. > :23:48.council, why didn't they listen to the people who raised problems and

:23:49. > :23:54.concerns about safety measures in the building? Had you ever been

:23:55. > :24:01.aware, Hashem, about any concerns being raised by your brother 's?

:24:02. > :24:05.Yes, the gas was leaking in the building. It was not working in the

:24:06. > :24:12.flat. It was not working for a year. Then the gas Company came and they

:24:13. > :24:15.fixed new gas pipes. These gas pipes were fitted on the outside of the

:24:16. > :24:21.wall, not the inside. They were exposed. The residents complained.

:24:22. > :24:25.They were sending messages through the post for everybody to complain.

:24:26. > :24:31.It is not right. It was very dangerous. There were no smoke

:24:32. > :24:35.alarms. Just three days before the incident, they came and fitted smoke

:24:36. > :24:41.alarms in the flat. I was in the flat that day. The man at the door

:24:42. > :24:48.said, we need to check for fire alarms. We said we didn't have any.

:24:49. > :24:55.So he fixed one. There was one in your flat? There wasn't any and then

:24:56. > :25:03.they put one. There was nothing. There were no safety precautions for

:25:04. > :25:11.fire. Nothing at all. I just want to add something. I want to say to the

:25:12. > :25:16.politicians of this country, please meet us. These people want to bring

:25:17. > :25:23.their families here. Their family is in a war zone. They are concerned

:25:24. > :25:27.about the fate of their families. They live in Syria. And now their

:25:28. > :25:35.family are concerned about their safety in London. Please help them

:25:36. > :25:43.to be reunited with their family. Maybe that will help Omar, that will

:25:44. > :25:49.help Hashem over what they have been through. They really need their

:25:50. > :25:53.families. We would love to help as a committee here. I would never

:25:54. > :25:56.compensate for their mum, their sisters, their dad. I urge the

:25:57. > :26:02.Leader of the Opposition, the Prime Minister, everyone, please meet the

:26:03. > :26:08.people and help them to get their family over. One heart-warming

:26:09. > :26:12.aspect of this has been how people have come together. There has been

:26:13. > :26:17.amazing support within the community. What have you seen

:26:18. > :26:25.happen? Obviously people have gathered to help all of the victims,

:26:26. > :26:31.including Mohammed's family. But no family, no friend, no relative, no

:26:32. > :26:34.member of the public, could fill the place that Mohammed's mum and dad

:26:35. > :26:40.and his immediate family could fill. His sisters back in Syria as well.

:26:41. > :26:47.To find out about his death through social media is difficult enough.

:26:48. > :26:51.And then having to watch also possibly the funeral on TV, social

:26:52. > :26:56.media, I mean, it's something that I don't think anybody deserves to go

:26:57. > :27:03.through. Is that how your family found out in Syria? They foundered

:27:04. > :27:09.because Mohammed was with his friend. Omar was with his friend he

:27:10. > :27:16.came down. Mohammed was talking to him over the phone. Mohammed was

:27:17. > :27:21.crying and he said, please put me onto my mum, I want to speak to.

:27:22. > :27:29.Then he was praying. He couldn't put him through to my mum. I don't know

:27:30. > :27:35.why. And then he just sent a message on what's upsetting, goodbye mum, I

:27:36. > :27:41.love you. Yeah. I am so sorry. What will you do know? I don't know. I

:27:42. > :27:45.wouldn't do anything without my family. When we came here, we knew

:27:46. > :27:51.we could do something for my family. I knew I could improve my life. But

:27:52. > :27:57.the main thing was that I could do something in the future for my

:27:58. > :28:02.family. Now after Mohammed has died, and 100% sure I can't do anything

:28:03. > :28:05.without my family. They are the only people who can support me and

:28:06. > :28:09.support Omar. And support themselves as well if they come here.

:28:10. > :28:10.Thank you all very much for coming in.

:28:11. > :28:12.Still to come, nurse Pauline Cafferkey returns to Sierra Leone,

:28:13. > :28:15.where she contracted Ebola, to see how the country is coping

:28:16. > :28:30.We will also be talking more about the aftermath of that horrific fire.

:28:31. > :28:36.One man who was a hero of the Borough Market attack lose a stone's

:28:37. > :28:38.throw from Grenfell Tower, and he is still searching for friends. We will

:28:39. > :28:39.talk to him. Here's Annita McVeigh

:28:40. > :28:49.in the BBC Newsroom Thank you. Police are warning they

:28:50. > :28:53.may never be able to identify some of those who died in the fire at

:28:54. > :28:58.Grenfell Tower in west London. 17 bodies have been found so far but

:28:59. > :29:02.the number of fatalities is expected to rise significantly. The Prime

:29:03. > :29:07.Minister, Theresa May, has ordered a full public enquiry into the fire.

:29:08. > :29:10.Lucy Massoud is a firefighter and trade union official at the Fire

:29:11. > :29:15.Brigades Union London branch. She has been describing what some of her

:29:16. > :29:17.colleagues witnessed. The conversations I have had, one

:29:18. > :29:22.colleague said he was going in there and literally having to choose who

:29:23. > :29:27.to save and who to leave and die. You only have two hands, you can

:29:28. > :29:32.only take out so many people. My colleagues who went in, took the

:29:33. > :29:36.lead, went in again, they were meant to finish work at 9:30am on

:29:37. > :29:39.Wednesday morning, they didn't get back on to the station until five

:29:40. > :29:43.o'clock in the afternoon. They would have stayed longer at the incident

:29:44. > :29:46.if they were allowed to. That is an absolute tribute to the brave men

:29:47. > :29:50.and women who attended this incident. But yeah, the scenes they

:29:51. > :29:51.would have encountered in the early hours of Tuesday morning, it is

:29:52. > :29:54.unimaginable. The Communities Secretary,

:29:55. > :29:56.Sajid Javid, is due to visit A littler earlier, he said he wanted

:29:57. > :30:00.to reassure people living in similar This is being done

:30:01. > :30:05.in a matter of days. I think those people need

:30:06. > :30:07.to be given reassurance The first point is obviously

:30:08. > :30:13.to identify these There are about 4000 high-rise

:30:14. > :30:17.buildings in the country but not all of them have been

:30:18. > :30:20.re-cladded but also, let's not just make the assumption it's

:30:21. > :30:24.all about cladding. As soon as we have more information

:30:25. > :30:29.from the experts, which we expect either later today

:30:30. > :30:31.or certainly over the weekend, then that is what I think should be used

:30:32. > :30:38.to do these emergency inspections. A second soldier has died

:30:39. > :30:40.after being wounded in an incident involving a tank at an army firing

:30:41. > :30:48.range in Pembrokeshire. He was serving with the Royal Tank

:30:49. > :30:51.Regiment. Two other soldiers were injured

:30:52. > :30:54.at Castlemartin Ranges on Wednesday. The Archbishop of Canterbury

:30:55. > :30:57.will speak at a service of hope at Southwark Cathedral today,

:30:58. > :30:58.in honour of first-responders, families and survivors

:30:59. > :31:01.of the London Bridge attack. Eight people were killed when three

:31:02. > :31:03.attackers drove a van into pedestrians on London Bridge,

:31:04. > :31:06.and then launched a knife attack at Borough Market just

:31:07. > :31:11.under two weeks ago. President Trump is expected

:31:12. > :31:13.to announce a change in policy towards Cuba during a visit to Miami

:31:14. > :31:17.today, tightening trade and travel restrictions that had been relaxed

:31:18. > :31:21.by President Obama. Americans will still be allowed

:31:22. > :31:24.to travel to the communist island, but mainly as part

:31:25. > :31:29.of organised groups. Mr Trump is also expected

:31:30. > :31:31.to prohibit doing business with the commercial and tourism

:31:32. > :31:35.wings of the Cuban military. Doctors treating the American

:31:36. > :31:37.student who was released from a North Korean prison

:31:38. > :31:40.in a coma say he has suffered Otto Warmbier was freed on Tuesday

:31:41. > :31:46.and is back home in Cincinnati. It's not clear how he

:31:47. > :31:48.sustained brain damage. He was given a long prison sentence

:31:49. > :31:51.in March last year for trying British security officials

:31:52. > :31:59.they believe hackers in North Korea were behind the cyber attack that

:32:00. > :32:01.crippled parts of The hackers are thought to have been

:32:02. > :32:08.attempting to make money but did not predict the extent

:32:09. > :32:11.to which the computer Here's our security

:32:12. > :32:13.correspondent Gordon Corera. The cyber attack spread around

:32:14. > :32:16.the world, with the NHS badly hit. Computers were locked,

:32:17. > :32:22.with hackers demanding a ransom be paid for them to be

:32:23. > :32:26.made usable again. Britain's National Cyber Security

:32:27. > :32:29.Centre led the investigation and security sources have told

:32:30. > :32:32.the BBC that the centre believes in North Korean-based hacking

:32:33. > :32:33.group known as Lazarus The same group is believed to have

:32:34. > :32:41.targeted Sony Pictures after it planned to release a film involving

:32:42. > :32:44.the North Korean leader and was also thought to have been behind

:32:45. > :32:47.the theft of more than $80 million from Bangladesh's

:32:48. > :32:52.central bank last year. The ransomware last month did not

:32:53. > :32:55.target Britain or the NHS specifically and may well have been

:32:56. > :32:58.a money making scheme that got out of control, especially

:32:59. > :33:00.since the hackers have not yet retrieved any of the ransom money

:33:01. > :33:10.that's been paid into the accounts. The Labour MP Jo Cox is being

:33:11. > :33:12.remembered across the country on the first anniversary

:33:13. > :33:15.of her murder. The mother of two was killed

:33:16. > :33:18.as she arrived for a constituency surgery in Birstall in West

:33:19. > :33:23.Yorkshire. More than 110,000 events

:33:24. > :33:25.are being held today and over the weekend as part

:33:26. > :33:34.of The Great Get Together. More from me at 10am. Back to you,

:33:35. > :33:51.Joanna. Catherine Downes has the sport.

:33:52. > :33:52.We will start with the goal. Paul Casey is breathing down the neck of

:33:53. > :33:55.Rickie Fowler. All of the world's top six players

:33:56. > :33:58.struggled and ended up over par - but Casey says he loves the course,

:33:59. > :34:01.and is just one shot off Wales have beaten Tonga in the first

:34:02. > :34:05.Test of their summer tour. Wing Alex Cuthbert went over early

:34:06. > :34:08.here and Wales later scored a penalty try before running

:34:09. > :34:10.out 24-6 winners. Everton have made Jordan Pickford,

:34:11. > :34:14.the most expensive British He's joined the club on a deal that

:34:15. > :34:23.could be worth ?30 million. It was a big spending day

:34:24. > :34:26.for Everton, who also paid over ?23 million for Ajax

:34:27. > :34:29.captain, Davy Klaassen. And Britain's Jake Wightman knocked

:34:30. > :34:34.over a second off his personal best, as he beat a high-quality field,

:34:35. > :34:37.in the 1500 metres at the Oslo Diamond League

:34:38. > :34:39.meeting last night. The 22-year-old Scot follows

:34:40. > :34:41.in the footsteps of Seb Coe, Steve Ovett and Steve Cram who have

:34:42. > :34:48.all won the race. He said he could not quite believe

:34:49. > :34:54.that he had won a Diamond League! The outbreak of Ebola

:34:55. > :34:56.in Sierra Leone during 2014 Pauline Cafferkey was one

:34:57. > :34:59.of the British nurses who volunteered to travel

:35:00. > :35:01.there during the epidemic But she caught the disease

:35:02. > :35:04.herself and has had a long Now she's returned to visit children

:35:05. > :35:09.orphaned by the disease, some of whom are living

:35:10. > :35:11.in extreme poverty. Mario Cacciottolo reports

:35:12. > :35:27.from Sierra Leone. Pauline Cafferkey

:35:28. > :35:31.is back in Sierra Leone. She was last here in

:35:32. > :35:33.the country's Ebola epidemic in It was when caring

:35:34. > :35:40.for the sick and dying Now she has returned to this west

:35:41. > :35:47.African country with the charity Street Child

:35:48. > :35:49.to meet those whose lives were affected

:35:50. > :35:50.by the It is lovely to meet one

:35:51. > :36:19.of the survivors, she is 17, she has got so much ahead

:36:20. > :36:23.of her, so much inspiration Pauline also visited

:36:24. > :37:28.the site of the now demolished Ebola treatment

:37:29. > :37:30.centre in Kerry Town This is where she became

:37:31. > :37:38.infected with the A hospital is now being

:37:39. > :37:46.built on the site. At times it seemed quite

:37:47. > :37:48.sombre, certainly not a The only real happiness

:37:49. > :37:54.was when the survivors The nursing staff would do

:37:55. > :38:00.a sort of happy dance for The care that we were giving

:38:01. > :38:06.to patients was just basic, basic care but that is what they really

:38:07. > :38:11.needed at that time. The priority was to

:38:12. > :38:14.keep them hydrated, in It is a place that has

:38:15. > :38:24.not got good memories It is progress, it is good

:38:25. > :38:32.for the community that it has been It was nice it was not as emotional

:38:33. > :38:37.as I thought it would be because for me, without a doubt,

:38:38. > :38:40.that is the place where I must've Severe travel restrictions

:38:41. > :38:54.were enforced around Sierra Leone the last time

:38:55. > :38:56.that Pauline was here. Now the country is Ebola

:38:57. > :38:59.free and she travels halfway across it to meet Marianna,

:39:00. > :39:02.an orphan that lives in the town The 12-year-old lost

:39:03. > :39:11.both her parents and her uncle in And she and her seven

:39:12. > :39:16.siblings are now being cared to be, a doctor, a nurse, a teacher,

:39:17. > :39:30.what do you want to do? For the next part of her trip

:39:31. > :39:45.Pauline travels deep into the lush countryside to a remote village

:39:46. > :39:48.in the Port Loko district to meet They want to go to school

:39:49. > :39:53.but they can't go to school because they

:39:54. > :39:56.don't have anything. She has a baby and is also caring

:39:57. > :39:59.for her three siblings after her mother died from Ebola

:40:00. > :40:05.and her father left. I feel frustrated that the Western

:40:06. > :40:41.world has moved on and the media has pulled out, most of the aid

:40:42. > :40:50.agencies have pulled out. It is like it is almost

:40:51. > :40:53.forgotten but it is not, there are people still living

:40:54. > :40:56.through this and living with the We have a lot of families

:40:57. > :41:00.and a lot of orphans. We have in our database,

:41:01. > :41:02.we have over 1015 The effects of that is

:41:03. > :41:11.that we now have lots of Most of them sleep

:41:12. > :41:18.on the streets, most of them do menial jobs in order

:41:19. > :41:28.to maintain a livelihood. And we have so many

:41:29. > :41:30.children are assuming the household responsibility because you

:41:31. > :41:34.have child-headed households. Houses that are run

:41:35. > :41:37.by children themselves 4000 people died in Sierra

:41:38. > :41:53.Leone because of Ebola. In the countryside around the town

:41:54. > :41:56.of Lunsa, there are villages with many empty houses whose owners

:41:57. > :41:58.died in their Although these buildings remain

:41:59. > :42:03.usable, locals know what Despite Ebola leaving

:42:04. > :42:21.her with a weak leg and sore joints, Pauline is to enter

:42:22. > :42:27.Street Child's annual race, running ten kilometres in what is known

:42:28. > :42:33.as the world's craziest marathon. Today, at the race,

:42:34. > :42:35.the atmosphere was It was a very early start,

:42:36. > :42:44.we were up at 4am. We were running through

:42:45. > :43:01.the community of Makenia. And everyone was out, cheering us

:43:02. > :43:04.along, the children were running It was probably the highlight

:43:05. > :43:19.of the trip, I would say. After returning to Sierra Leone this

:43:20. > :43:23.time, I do feel that I have a bit of a connection with the country which

:43:24. > :43:28.I didn't really have last time. Last time, I was just

:43:29. > :43:31.here, looking after patients and I'm left

:43:32. > :43:33.with the intention that I was going to rest

:43:34. > :43:39.and then come back again. It was really good that I did get

:43:40. > :43:48.this opportunity to come back. I think lots of people

:43:49. > :43:53.said that when big things happen in your life,

:43:54. > :43:56.it does change you as a person. I don't really feel

:43:57. > :43:58.that whatever has It certainly hasn't

:43:59. > :44:03.changed my outlook I had a horrible virus that

:44:04. > :44:09.with the help of the NHS, I got Since I was a wee girl, I always

:44:10. > :44:17.wanted to be a nurse and come It is good to come back

:44:18. > :44:21.here because this is the place I am not cutting all ties

:44:22. > :44:27.with Sierra Leone by any means but I am going to close

:44:28. > :44:29.the chapter on that I am not too sure what the future

:44:30. > :44:39.is going to hold, I am pretty positive it is going

:44:40. > :44:44.to be something good. I do not know what direction

:44:45. > :44:50.to take it in yet. It is going to be

:44:51. > :44:52.something positive. I am due something good

:44:53. > :44:55.to happen in my life. Ebola survivor Pauline Cafferkey on

:44:56. > :45:13.her return to Sierra Leone. On the 3rd of June,

:45:14. > :45:15.under a fortnight ago, Ozzie Gandaa was working

:45:16. > :45:17.as a bouncer in Borough Market, London, when he witnessed three

:45:18. > :45:19.terrorists stabbing passersby and heading for the pub

:45:20. > :45:21.where he was working. He was a hero that night, throwing

:45:22. > :45:24.chairs and glasses at the attackers. Fast forward to this Tuesday night,

:45:25. > :45:27.and he became involved in another He lives a stone's throw

:45:28. > :45:31.from the block of flats, where several of his friends live.

:45:32. > :45:33.Some are still unaccounted for. He's here with

:45:34. > :45:36.Carniel Francis Levy, another local resident

:45:37. > :45:38.near Grenfell Tower, and together they're helping

:45:39. > :45:49.with the community aid effort there. Thank you both for coming in. Ozzie,

:45:50. > :45:55.that's extraordinary. These are events that have shaken us all but

:45:56. > :45:59.you have been so close to both? Yes, it's a lot to mentally taken. Too

:46:00. > :46:06.many tragedies happening at one time. Just pulling together and

:46:07. > :46:11.doing the best we can do for our community and seeing what we can do

:46:12. > :46:17.to help out. You live very close to Grenfell Tower. How close? I can see

:46:18. > :46:27.it from my garden. I could actually smell the fire. When you first know

:46:28. > :46:30.about the fire? Probably around just after 11 o'clock. Then I got a phone

:46:31. > :46:37.call from my younger brother saying there was a fire at Grenfell Tower.

:46:38. > :46:42.Just cold friends to see if everybody was safe. To see what we

:46:43. > :46:47.could do to help out. We initially went down there just to help out

:46:48. > :46:53.victims that had left the building and to help evacuate the area as

:46:54. > :47:02.well. This was the morning after? No, this was the night it happened.

:47:03. > :47:06.You sort of saw... I saw the flames, I saw everything burning. Friends of

:47:07. > :47:12.mine said they could hear people screaming from the blocks. It was

:47:13. > :47:18.just... You have friends who live on the block who are still not

:47:19. > :47:24.accounted for? We're not sure they are OK. I am hoping for the best.

:47:25. > :47:28.Maybe they haven't been able to contact anybody. At the moment we

:47:29. > :47:33.are preparing for the worst but hoping for the best. What is the

:47:34. > :47:40.process as people try to find out if their loved ones are OK where they

:47:41. > :47:48.might be? It's not easy, is it, trying to find out? Just having to

:47:49. > :47:52.wait until the coroner says, this is the person that has passed away,

:47:53. > :47:56.this is your friend, this is a family member. It is a very, very

:47:57. > :48:02.hard situation. It is playing a waiting game on people's lives,

:48:03. > :48:07.basically. This happened not long after Borough Market. Tell us where

:48:08. > :48:13.you were when that was unfolding and what you did? I was basically right

:48:14. > :48:18.there when the terrorists attacked. I saw them stab people, work

:48:19. > :48:24.colleagues and friends. I initially ran away because I saw they had a

:48:25. > :48:29.suicide vest on. But made the decision afterwards to return and

:48:30. > :48:32.see what I could do for the local market staff and for customers, to

:48:33. > :48:39.see if there was something that me and my other security members could

:48:40. > :48:43.do to help. We ended up throwing chairs, bottles, whatever we could

:48:44. > :48:48.find, to keep them at bay and stop them attacking anybody else, until

:48:49. > :48:53.the police came. So yes. Your actions have been praised as heroic.

:48:54. > :48:58.How do you feel about what you did? Happy that I done it. I wish I had

:48:59. > :49:05.acted a little bit sooner. But at the same time, for most people the

:49:06. > :49:09.instinct is to run. But I'm so happy I came back. I have had people thank

:49:10. > :49:16.me saying that I personally saved their lives. I didn't feel anything

:49:17. > :49:21.like that. It makes me feel really proud of myself to know that I was

:49:22. > :49:26.capable of saving people's lives. You have them back to work? Has that

:49:27. > :49:32.been? Yeah, I went back on Wednesday. I was extremely paranoid.

:49:33. > :49:36.I didn't know if I really wanted to be in that situation. But I have got

:49:37. > :49:40.a team there. I have got people that are basically family. I wanted to be

:49:41. > :49:44.there for them as well, to show them that no matter what happens, we are

:49:45. > :49:49.a family. We are Borough Market and we are going to support each other.

:49:50. > :49:55.We're not going to let that stop us. You obviously resilient. You went

:49:56. > :49:58.through that and then the Grenfell Tower fire happening so close to

:49:59. > :50:04.where you are, that would knock anybody, coming that close to things

:50:05. > :50:07.like that? I am mentally and very physically strong as well. I've got

:50:08. > :50:15.a little boy. I have to stay focused. Yeah, it's hard. Some days

:50:16. > :50:20.I feel it is a lot mentally. But my only other option is to get through

:50:21. > :50:25.it. And yeah, the community that we are in, we have pulled together so

:50:26. > :50:29.much for the immunity of Ladbroke Grove. People who didn't like each

:50:30. > :50:33.other before, they've all just pulled together and done whatever

:50:34. > :50:40.they can. If it is volunteering, bringing food or comforting people,

:50:41. > :50:44.we have all gelled together. It has proved what we can actually do as a

:50:45. > :50:51.community in severe situations, and what we can do as a team and a

:50:52. > :50:56.community to unify us and help out. You are part of that effort as well

:50:57. > :51:03.aren't you? Doing a big Cook of this weekend. Any support is good

:51:04. > :51:07.support. There are probably a lot of people who don't know what they

:51:08. > :51:10.should do. But just being there is support. There are loads of

:51:11. > :51:16.different people going through loads of different emotions right now. For

:51:17. > :51:20.me, just being there helps. Luckily, we have got a catering company, so

:51:21. > :51:24.we are going to serve food to workers, victims, animal and that

:51:25. > :51:30.needs it. Just an extra pair of hands. There is anger as well

:51:31. > :51:38.because of what has happened. How do you feel the mood is? You know,

:51:39. > :51:40.right now there are loads of stories, conspiracy theories of what

:51:41. > :51:47.has happened. Something may not be right. But for me, that is not my

:51:48. > :51:56.issue. My issue is to look after the people that our victims. And help

:51:57. > :52:00.out after. Something may come of it, something may not. But right now, it

:52:01. > :52:05.is not the point. It is just to support. Just like Ozzie said,

:52:06. > :52:09.everybody is coming together. I just want more people to come, more

:52:10. > :52:13.people to give and show how strong Londoners. I mean, compared to

:52:14. > :52:18.everything that has happened, the support that has been happening from

:52:19. > :52:26.the servicemen to the general public is amazing. There is still a lot

:52:27. > :52:29.more to come. You know... Seen people, good together in the way

:52:30. > :52:36.that they are, does it give you strength? Yeah, it does. Most

:52:37. > :52:41.definitely. For both instances. Going back to Borough Market, I had

:52:42. > :52:45.people from Manchester who had never been to Borough Market before, they

:52:46. > :52:49.just want to come down to show their support in London and in Borough

:52:50. > :52:53.Market, and for people to stick together. The same with what has

:52:54. > :52:56.happened in Grenfell Tower. Just seen the community and seen the

:52:57. > :52:59.messages I am seeing on Facebook, what people have been sending me,

:53:00. > :53:04.what family members have been doing, what close friends have been doing,

:53:05. > :53:13.there is so much. It makes me proud to be from the area as well. Proud

:53:14. > :53:17.to be a part of it. The efforts of helping, the help that is required,

:53:18. > :53:21.will go on long after this has gone out of the headlines. That's the

:53:22. > :53:27.thing. I just want to make sure that any viewers watching understand that

:53:28. > :53:31.it's good that you help out today and tomorrow, but there is so much

:53:32. > :53:35.more that need to be done. Overnight, 3000 people have been

:53:36. > :53:40.displaced. Not just Grenfell Tower. Lots around. Apparently at the

:53:41. > :53:44.moment they are storing bodies in one state. People are being

:53:45. > :53:50.evacuated. They have nowhere else to go. I have got friends staying at my

:53:51. > :53:55.mum's house. Mum -- friends staying on coaches. We're going to be doing

:53:56. > :53:58.another fundraising event. We have another thing in Fulham which we

:53:59. > :54:05.will be doing as well by the Fulham library this Friday. There will be a

:54:06. > :54:08.DJ. We will be hosting a free event, fundraiser. Whoever wants to come,

:54:09. > :54:15.there are more than welcome. It will help the community. So much... It is

:54:16. > :54:21.hard even thinking about those families, those people I have known

:54:22. > :54:24.for years, they haven't got nothing. Possessions are nothing. It is not

:54:25. > :54:32.about household possessions that I gone missing. They are just on the

:54:33. > :54:37.streets. Their life. They have lost everything. We are going to be

:54:38. > :54:41.talking a bit more about that with two people who lived in a flat and

:54:42. > :54:46.lost everything. They weren't actually in the building on the

:54:47. > :54:49.night. But like so many, they have lost everything. Thank you very much

:54:50. > :54:54.for coming in. You are getting in touch on the interview with Hashem,

:54:55. > :55:02.the brother of Mohammed who died in the fire. One text says an extremely

:55:03. > :55:06.moving interview. My heart goes out to the family and the whole

:55:07. > :55:10.committee. Denise e-mails, heartbreaking to hear from Mohammed

:55:11. > :55:14.bus brother and friends. What a loss to this country. So sorry we didn't

:55:15. > :55:18.keep them safe. Mohamed Salah is like a wonderful person, son,

:55:19. > :55:22.brother and friend. People have been trying to help those affected by the

:55:23. > :55:26.Grenfell Tower tragedy anywhere they can. Last night people gathered at a

:55:27. > :55:33.charity event for those who lived in the tower. The grime artist Saskia,

:55:34. > :55:41.who performed, joins me now. Why did you take part? I took part because

:55:42. > :55:46.the government is not doing anything. I took part because the

:55:47. > :55:50.people are supporting the people right now. And we have had enough of

:55:51. > :55:56.this rubbish. That is why I took part. It wasn't nothing to do with

:55:57. > :56:00.popularity or trying to milk a situation. It was genuinely trying

:56:01. > :56:05.to raise some money and to do something for this people. Where is

:56:06. > :56:09.the government right now? Please, can suddenly tell me where the

:56:10. > :56:15.government is? What you want to sing the government doing? First and

:56:16. > :56:21.foremost, I want to see the government do a fair investigation.

:56:22. > :56:27.Somebody has to be held accountable. You cannot have an inferno where a

:56:28. > :56:34.fireman came to the event last night, he told me over 200 bodies,

:56:35. > :56:38.this is not in the media. This is mass murder. If the government isn't

:56:39. > :56:43.doing something, Theresa May, you are a coward. You are hiding while

:56:44. > :56:49.the people are dying. I just want to come in. Obviously the numbers that

:56:50. > :56:56.have been discussed and numbers that some are talking about, but in terms

:56:57. > :56:59.of the official number who have died at this stage, the numbers are much

:57:00. > :57:03.lower and we do not know what the final death toll will be because it

:57:04. > :57:12.is very difficult for the emergency services to properly get into that

:57:13. > :57:16.building. That's fine and dandy. A fire man who was there, present, any

:57:17. > :57:22.saw the bodies. He told me first-hand. This is no secondary

:57:23. > :57:29.information. I just want to talk a bit more about the concert last

:57:30. > :57:34.night. And people coming together. What is your sense of that level of

:57:35. > :57:39.community support? That was one of the greatest, greatest feelings.

:57:40. > :57:44.People from the tragedy came down to just take their mind off it. Be with

:57:45. > :57:47.artists and be around a family unit. People just looking after each

:57:48. > :57:52.other. There was so much love in that room. If Theresa May, Boris

:57:53. > :57:56.Johnson would have witnessed that, they would have known what they are

:57:57. > :57:59.not doing right now. Because right now it is the people looking after

:58:00. > :58:02.the people. It is Power to the people.

:58:03. > :58:13.That is what it is right now. Thank you very much for joining us.

:58:14. > :58:16.Obviously lots and lots of ways, things are being done to raise money

:58:17. > :58:20.and to give support to those who have lost so much in that terrible

:58:21. > :58:26.tragedy. Coming up,... Revolutionary breast cancer drug

:58:27. > :58:28.Kadcyla will continute to be We'll be talking to a breast

:58:29. > :58:31.cancer patient who's been Let's get the latest weather update

:58:32. > :58:43.with Sarah Keith Lucas. Thanks. It is a fresh start to the

:58:44. > :58:49.day compared to recent days. Not quite as hot and muggy. Things will

:58:50. > :58:55.warm up as we head through today. This is how things are looking in

:58:56. > :59:00.Conwy in North Wales. Cloudy skies. Elsewhere we have got more sunshine.

:59:01. > :59:06.The east coast of England. This is Norfolk. Plenty of blue sky. As we

:59:07. > :59:09.move through today, things would be warming up. They will be spelt of

:59:10. > :59:13.sunshine but fairly cloudy conditions across some parts of the

:59:14. > :59:19.country, particularly the further north and west you are. A bit of

:59:20. > :59:22.drizzly rain working its way northwards and eastwards as well. We

:59:23. > :59:26.could see splashes of rain to the north-west of England. Certainly

:59:27. > :59:30.west of Scotland as well. It is an East- West split across Scotland.

:59:31. > :59:36.Rain in the West at times. East it is dryer. Things will brighten up in

:59:37. > :59:39.Northern Ireland later in the day. We will see some sunshine break

:59:40. > :59:45.through. Some sunshine to the east of the Pennines. Further south,

:59:46. > :59:49.across England and Wales, things are looking to write with some sunshine

:59:50. > :59:58.coming through. You do see that sunshine, you have high UV levels.

:59:59. > :00:02.Also high levels of pollen. You will certainly noticed that. Into this

:00:03. > :00:05.evening and overnight with will lose most of that wet weather for the

:00:06. > :00:09.West of Scotland. It is dry across many parts of the country. Clear

:00:10. > :00:14.skies, light breeze. And it will feel muggy and humid. Once again,

:00:15. > :00:19.quite an uncomfortable night. For some, temperatures falling no lower

:00:20. > :00:22.than 16 or 17 degrees. The temperature continues to rise into

:00:23. > :00:27.the weekend. Further south across Europe, 44 degrees in southern

:00:28. > :00:31.Spain. That heat and humidity pushing northwards across France

:00:32. > :00:37.into the UK, where our temperatures could top 30 degrees or more.

:00:38. > :00:43.Saturday, breezy conditions in the far north-west of Scotland for the

:00:44. > :00:47.--. For the rest, lots of sunshine. Temperatures between 20 and 28

:00:48. > :00:52.degrees. A warm day certainly. Things turn even hotter through

:00:53. > :00:56.Sunday. Again there could be rain in the far north-west. We are likely to

:00:57. > :01:01.see those temperatures at 30, 30 1 degrees. A small chance we could see

:01:02. > :01:07.some thunderstorms later in the day. The heat holds on into Monday. Still

:01:08. > :01:09.30 degrees. Ince will turn fresh on into Tuesday. A full weekly forecast

:01:10. > :01:21.online. And Joanna Gosling, welcome back. As

:01:22. > :01:24.hundreds are left homeless following the tower block fire there are fears

:01:25. > :01:29.police may never identify all the victims. The first identified as

:01:30. > :01:31.Mohammed Alhajali. We heard from his brother earlier.

:01:32. > :01:34.Mohammed was crying and said "Please put me through to my mum."

:01:35. > :01:38.Then he was praying and asking to be put through to his mum,

:01:39. > :01:43.but we couldn't put him through to my mum.

:01:44. > :01:52.Then he sent her a voice recording saying "Goodbye, Mum, I love you."

:01:53. > :01:55.We will speak to two people who lived in the block and lost all

:01:56. > :01:57.their belongings in the fire. The Government says it's prepared

:01:58. > :01:59.to do whatever is necessary to ensure that high rise tower

:02:00. > :02:02.blocks across the country are safe following the fire

:02:03. > :02:09.at Grenfell Tower. There are 4000 of them in the

:02:10. > :02:13.country. We will do whatever it takes, take the expert advice, do

:02:14. > :02:17.whatever it takes, to make those buildings safe or make those people

:02:18. > :02:23.safe, whatever it takes. We will continue to bring you the

:02:24. > :02:27.latest developments. Also the breast cancer drug Kadcyla will continue to

:02:28. > :02:29.be available to patients on the NHS in England. We will speak to a

:02:30. > :02:35.campaigner with breast cancer. Here's Annita in the BBC Newsroom

:02:36. > :02:40.with a summary of today's news. Safety checks are to be carried out

:02:41. > :02:45.on cladding fixed to high rise blocks of flats

:02:46. > :02:47.following the Grenfell Tower 17 people are known to have died -

:02:48. > :02:54.six of them have been identified, but police are warning that they may

:02:55. > :02:57.never be able to identify Many people remain unaccounted for,

:02:58. > :03:02.as Andy Moore reports. The first victim of the fire

:03:03. > :03:04.to be officially named is Mohammed Alhajali,

:03:05. > :03:07.a Syrian refugee who came to Britain His brother was led to safety

:03:08. > :03:13.by firefighters, but, in the chaos and confusion,

:03:14. > :03:17.Mohammed got left behind. I thought they took

:03:18. > :03:33.him outside with me! Some of those trapped

:03:34. > :03:37.in the blaze did survive. We now know this man

:03:38. > :03:40.is Elpidio Bonifacio, a partially blind

:03:41. > :03:43.grandfather in his 70s. His family say he is in intensive

:03:44. > :03:45.care, suffering from They have thanked the bravery

:03:46. > :03:51.of the firefighters who risked Elpidio was finally rescued 11 hours

:03:52. > :03:58.after the blaze started. There is anger in the community,

:03:59. > :04:01.directed at almost anyone The London Mayor Sadiq Khan saw it

:04:02. > :04:07.for himself when he went to visit. How many children died

:04:08. > :04:09.and what are you going Police say they have now started

:04:10. > :04:13.a criminal investigation. That's not to say there

:04:14. > :04:16.was a crime committed, but they will investigate

:04:17. > :04:18.to establish if there's any The list of the dead

:04:19. > :04:24.and missing grows all the time. Police have voiced the hope

:04:25. > :04:26.that the final number of casualties They admit that some victims may

:04:27. > :04:33.never be identified. The leader of the local council said

:04:34. > :04:36.they did think about installing sprinkler system in Grenfell Tower

:04:37. > :04:40.when it was renovated last year, but he said there was

:04:41. > :04:42.no collective view The Communities Secretary,

:04:43. > :04:52.Sajid Javid, is due to visit A littler earlier, he said he wanted

:04:53. > :04:56.to reassure people living in similar This is being done

:04:57. > :05:02.in a matter of days. I think those people need

:05:03. > :05:04.to be given reassurance The first point is obviously

:05:05. > :05:09.to identify these There are about 4000 high-rise

:05:10. > :05:13.buildings in the country but not all of them have been

:05:14. > :05:17.re-cladded but also, let's not just make the assumption it's

:05:18. > :05:20.all about cladding. As soon as we have more information

:05:21. > :05:24.from the experts, which we expect either later today

:05:25. > :05:27.or certainly over the weekend, then that is what I think should be used

:05:28. > :05:34.to do these emergency inspections. A second soldier has died

:05:35. > :05:37.after being wounded in an incident involving a tank at an army firing

:05:38. > :05:41.range in Pembrokeshire. He was serving with

:05:42. > :05:44.the Royal Tank Regiment. Two other soldiers were injured

:05:45. > :05:51.at Castlemartin Ranges on Wednesday. The Archbishop of Canterbury

:05:52. > :05:53.will speak at a service of hope at Southwark Cathedral today,

:05:54. > :05:55.in honour of first-responders, families and survivors

:05:56. > :05:59.of the London Bridge attack. Eight people were killed when three

:06:00. > :06:01.attackers drove a van into pedestrians on London Bridge,

:06:02. > :06:04.and then launched a knife attack at Borough Market just

:06:05. > :06:08.under two weeks ago. President Trump is expected

:06:09. > :06:11.to announce a change in policy towards Cuba during a visit to Miami

:06:12. > :06:14.today, tightening trade and travel restrictions that had been relaxed

:06:15. > :06:19.by President Obama. Americans will still be allowed

:06:20. > :06:21.to travel to the communist island, but mainly as part

:06:22. > :06:25.of organised groups. Mr Trump is also expected

:06:26. > :06:27.to prohibit doing business with the commercial and tourism

:06:28. > :06:36.wings of the Cuban military. British security officials

:06:37. > :06:38.they believe hackers in North Korea were behind the cyber attack that

:06:39. > :06:50.crippled parts of It led to delays in treatment and

:06:51. > :06:52.operations for patients. It is thought the hackers did not realise

:06:53. > :06:55.how far the virus would spread. The Labour MP Jo Cox is being

:06:56. > :06:57.remembered across the country on the first anniversary

:06:58. > :06:59.of her murder. The mother of two was killed

:07:00. > :07:02.as she arrived for a constituency surgery in Birstall in West

:07:03. > :07:03.Yorkshire. More than 110,000 events

:07:04. > :07:05.are being held today and over the weekend as part

:07:06. > :07:09.of The Great Get Together. That's a summary of the latest BBC

:07:10. > :07:16.News - more at 10:30am. Do get in touch with us

:07:17. > :07:20.throughout the morning - All the usual ways of getting in

:07:21. > :07:27.touch apply. Here's some sport now

:07:28. > :07:29.with Katherine Downes. The US Open, golf's

:07:30. > :07:31.second major of the year Many of the worlds top players have

:07:32. > :07:35.struggled in their opening round. The early leader is America's

:07:36. > :07:38.Rickie Fowler who shot That put him clear

:07:39. > :07:43.of the chasing pack. That includes Englishmen Tommy

:07:44. > :07:45.Fleetwood who is two shots behind. But the pick of the British

:07:46. > :07:48.challengers is Paul Casey, he is just one shot off the lead

:07:49. > :08:01.after day one at Erin Hills. It's bittersweet, I love watching

:08:02. > :08:05.great rounds of golf like that, especially at something like the

:08:06. > :08:10.U.S. Open. Such fantastical. Then you think about have half as good

:08:11. > :08:16.around as Rickie I would have been happy, to start with an eagle, have

:08:17. > :08:20.benign conditions and chase him a little bit feels great. Really happy

:08:21. > :08:22.to get off to a wonderful start to what we know will be a tough week as

:08:23. > :08:24.it pans out. Wales have beaten Tonga in the first

:08:25. > :08:27.Test of their summer tour. Wing Alex Cuthbert went over early

:08:28. > :08:29.here and Wales later scored a penalty try before running

:08:30. > :08:43.out 24-6 winners. They have never previously won at

:08:44. > :08:45.Eden Park, losing all three of their tests at New Zealand and losing out

:08:46. > :08:54.to France in the 2011 World Cup. Owen Farrell's injury has

:08:55. > :08:59.overshadowed the build-up to the British and Irish Lions' biggest

:09:00. > :09:02.match of the tour so far against the MoU we all Blacks. He might miss the

:09:03. > :09:07.first test against the all Blacks a week on Saturday and Johnny Sexton

:09:08. > :09:13.is likely to fill in. Katy Gordon delays in New Zealand.

:09:14. > :09:20.Two wins and two defeat the Alliance, and now they face the

:09:21. > :09:24.Maori all Blacks, really in need of a win, not just to give them

:09:25. > :09:29.momentum ahead of the first test but also for a much-needed boost in

:09:30. > :09:33.morale. It will not be easy against the Maori all Blacks, traditionally

:09:34. > :09:38.seen as the fourth test, which is ominous for the Lions, who have

:09:39. > :09:43.already found the going tough. The site is packed with experience, they

:09:44. > :09:50.have nine All Blacks in the team but the backline is really eye-catching.

:09:51. > :09:54.The likes of Damian McKenzie is included. The Lions will be without

:09:55. > :09:58.fly-half Owen Farrell, he was named on the bench but has a thigh injury

:09:59. > :10:03.and faces a race against time to be fit for the first test. That puts

:10:04. > :10:08.pressure on Johnny Sexton, he will wear the number ten shirt. A big

:10:09. > :10:13.game for Sean O'Brien, he has a chance to nail down the number seven

:10:14. > :10:16.shirt with tour captain Sam Warburton on the bench. All the

:10:17. > :10:20.ingredients for a really exciting game and for the Lions, it could

:10:21. > :10:21.define their tour. It looks lovely over there.

:10:22. > :10:24.Everton have made Jordan Pickford the most expensive British

:10:25. > :10:30.He's joined the club on a deal that could be worth ?30 million.

:10:31. > :10:36.He joins from Sunderland, who were relegated from the Premier League

:10:37. > :10:40.last season. He will play in the under 21 European Championship for

:10:41. > :10:42.England this summer, yet to make his senior international debut.

:10:43. > :10:45.It was a big spending day for Everton, who also paid

:10:46. > :10:49.over ?23 million for Ajax captain, Davy Klaassen.

:10:50. > :10:57.Fans will hope for a better season next season! Back to you, Joanna.

:10:58. > :11:06.We have had an update on those injured in the tower block fire.

:11:07. > :11:10.Mark Lowen has that update. We have just heard from the NHS updated

:11:11. > :11:16.figures on those in hospital, 24 people are being treated, 12 of them

:11:17. > :11:21.are in a critical condition. They are spread across four hospitals,

:11:22. > :11:25.King's College Hospital, Chelsea and Westminster, the Royal free and St

:11:26. > :11:30.Mary 's. 24 still in hospital, 12 in a critical state, that is in

:11:31. > :11:34.addition to the 17 people who are known who have died at Grenfell

:11:35. > :11:40.Tower, but the fear is there are still dozens of people missing, the

:11:41. > :11:46.fears are that the number of known fatalities could rise above 60.

:11:47. > :11:49.Police are inside trying to get higher up in the building but it is

:11:50. > :11:53.extremely unstable, they are using sniffer dogs to try to get to the

:11:54. > :12:01.higher floors, using dental records, DNA samples, fingerprints, but

:12:02. > :12:06.really the true number, the true scale of this tragedy, may never

:12:07. > :12:11.really be known. Obviously you are describing the painstaking work

:12:12. > :12:17.going on. It is easy to see looking at that building why it is so

:12:18. > :12:21.difficult to get into every flat and workouts what the number who have

:12:22. > :12:25.died there is. We have heard from people who lived there who are

:12:26. > :12:29.deeply frustrated, we just spoke to a grime artist who was at a concert

:12:30. > :12:34.there last night talking about a death toll is much higher, saying he

:12:35. > :12:40.has spoken to firefighters who had seen lots of bodies. There is so

:12:41. > :12:43.much frustration. It is hard to understand when you are emotionally

:12:44. > :12:49.caught up in something why the answers are not coming more quickly.

:12:50. > :12:52.I wandered down the road to the Memorial Hall that she will have

:12:53. > :12:56.seen pictures of the last couple of days, people writing messages on the

:12:57. > :13:01.makeshift people are gathered there who either had friends and families

:13:02. > :13:07.in sight Groenefeld but also in surrounding towers. There was a

:13:08. > :13:10.mixture of anger, frustration, the slowness of the response in terms of

:13:11. > :13:16.people being able to get inside buildings, also a huge amount of

:13:17. > :13:19.anger that the fire regulations seem to have been inadequate, the fear

:13:20. > :13:25.was raised by the residents association years ago and in the

:13:26. > :13:29.neighbouring towers there is a huge fear of what might happen to them.

:13:30. > :13:35.One girl I spoke to has lived in a neighbouring tower for 11 years on

:13:36. > :13:39.the 20th floor, she says that also has one staircase, no sprinklers, no

:13:40. > :13:42.central alarm, she was in tears talking to me and said everybody

:13:43. > :13:48.around here now feels they are in a potential death trap. It is not just

:13:49. > :13:51.the many people inside Grenfell Tower but many people in high-rise

:13:52. > :13:53.tower was right across the country that are fearing they could be next.

:13:54. > :13:54.Thank you. For those that managed to escape

:13:55. > :13:57.the fire in Grenfell Tower, most of them have lost

:13:58. > :13:59.everything they own. From clothes to furniture

:14:00. > :14:00.to photographs. We've been talking to people who've

:14:01. > :14:03.lost everything in a horrific fire, to find out what life

:14:04. > :14:06.is like after. We haven't been told anything,

:14:07. > :14:08.apart from sending us They haven't told us

:14:09. > :14:14.in the long term what is going So I'm just literally

:14:15. > :14:21.living day to day, yeah. Whatever people have donated,

:14:22. > :14:25.I've been trying to pick my sizes. The other day, I picked

:14:26. > :14:29.some tops and jeans, but when I went home,

:14:30. > :14:31.when I went to my friend's place, it didn't fit, so today, again,

:14:32. > :14:35.I have started again, afresh, checked on what I could pick

:14:36. > :14:39.and maybe what could fit. So it's just a gamble,

:14:40. > :14:41.yeah, a gamble. And I don't know what the future

:14:42. > :14:43.is any more, either. I just want assurance that,

:14:44. > :14:50.you know, they are going to take care of us, and they are going

:14:51. > :14:53.to make sure that each person at least has

:14:54. > :14:56.temporary accommodation, or, you know, organising for more

:14:57. > :14:58.permanent accommodation So we need just assurance that

:14:59. > :15:06.things are going to be OK, you know, somehow,

:15:07. > :15:08.because we've lost everything. Lilian there, who lived on the tenth

:15:09. > :15:19.floor of the tower block, isn't alone in saying there has been

:15:20. > :15:22.little input from the authorities. And Prime Minister Teresa May has

:15:23. > :15:30.also been criticised for not speaking to residents

:15:31. > :15:31.during her visit yesterday. We spoke to the Royal Borough

:15:32. > :15:34.of Kensington and Chelsea Council last night, and they said they have

:15:35. > :15:37.given help to all residents of Grenfell Tower who have got

:15:38. > :15:48.in contact with them. We have put up in hotel

:15:49. > :15:54.accommodation. We have made sure they have all their meals pay for on

:15:55. > :15:56.our account. Officers from the housing department have been

:15:57. > :16:01.visiting all of those affected households giving them cash to make

:16:02. > :16:06.sure they can get on with the very basics of life. Telling them what

:16:07. > :16:12.they can expect over the coming days and weeks, and potentially months.

:16:13. > :16:16.Offering them all the advice that has been made available, whether it

:16:17. > :16:23.is grief counselling, we have got social workers there. We can to the

:16:24. > :16:25.residents of Grenfell Tower who have made contact with the council so

:16:26. > :16:47.far. We're trying to understand what

:16:48. > :16:53.their plan is. We effectively break it down into three phrases. --

:16:54. > :17:00.faces. There is the immediate now. So far I think we have managed to

:17:01. > :17:09.find hotel rooms close enough within the borough.

:17:10. > :17:13.We have booked all of those rooms at least until Tuesday.

:17:14. > :17:16.Of course, we have gone to hotels who have other bookings, you know,

:17:17. > :17:18.so we will have to be juggling these hotel rooms.

:17:19. > :17:21.The next stage we need to do is to find as soon as possible

:17:22. > :17:24.suitable temporary accommodation, proper, you know, flats or houses

:17:25. > :17:30.for these families to move into and out of the hotels.

:17:31. > :17:32.And again, that is a challenge in itself.

:17:33. > :17:34.London has a huge temporary accommodation and homelessness

:17:35. > :17:38.challenge, which this borough and all others have been working

:17:39. > :17:41.very hard to try to sort out but it is really difficult.

:17:42. > :17:43.And some of that temporary accommodation is likely

:17:44. > :17:51.to be in other boroughs as well as this one.

:17:52. > :17:55.What we are committed to doing is making sure that every household

:17:56. > :17:57.from Grenfell Tower can find a permanent new home

:17:58. > :18:13.Is it fair that for those people who have lost everything it could take

:18:14. > :18:17.up to two years to be permanently rehoused? I'm afraid it could take,

:18:18. > :18:22.for those final difficult families to find accommodation, it could be

:18:23. > :18:26.that long. We will find them suitable proper homes in the

:18:27. > :18:30.meantime, and give them all the assistance we can to make sure those

:18:31. > :18:33.new homes, those temporary homes, have all the white goods, all the

:18:34. > :18:39.furnishings, all the things that make it a home.

:18:40. > :18:41.Let's talk to two residents who lived on the 21st

:18:42. > :18:43.floor of Grenfell Tower - Lee Stewart and his

:18:44. > :18:55.Thank you for coming in. Amazingly you weren't in the building, which

:18:56. > :19:02.possibly saved your lives. Your flat is on the 21st floor. Yes. I was a

:19:03. > :19:10.wafer four days for work. I was staying in a Hotel in Crawley. As it

:19:11. > :19:15.was Lee's birthday on Wednesday, he came over to stay with me on Tuesday

:19:16. > :19:18.night in the hotel. I'm just so grateful that he did. We don't know

:19:19. > :19:24.what would have happened otherwise. When did you first know about the

:19:25. > :19:31.fire? So my phone started ringing about 3:30am. It woke us up. Didn't

:19:32. > :19:39.think anything of it is to begin with. Then we got up. It was our

:19:40. > :19:42.landlord that was calling us. I called him back in the sand of

:19:43. > :19:46.distressed and said he was so grateful to hear our voices. He

:19:47. > :19:56.asked where we were. I said we were at a hotel. He said, Lee, Grenfell

:19:57. > :20:06.Tower is on fire. I was asking him some questions about it. We just

:20:07. > :20:12.didn't know anything. Julian started to look at up on his phone. I saw

:20:13. > :20:17.his face drop in horror. The entire building had been completely ablaze.

:20:18. > :20:21.Presumably at that point you knew that your flat was not going to

:20:22. > :20:25.be... We had hoped for a little while that may be they would put out

:20:26. > :20:29.the fire before it reached the entirety of the building. We thought

:20:30. > :20:34.they would get everybody out of the building. Maybe not all flats would

:20:35. > :20:39.be completely destroyed. But as the night went on and we saw the police

:20:40. > :20:43.-- the blaze continuing into the morning, we lost all hopes around

:20:44. > :20:49.that and we pretty much knew we had lost our home and everything in

:20:50. > :20:54.there. We just hoped people could get out. You had only been there for

:20:55. > :21:00.less than two Weeks? Yes. Had you had much contact with the

:21:01. > :21:05.neighbours? Only a little bit. When we were moving in, we had a lot of

:21:06. > :21:10.belongings. We had to spend a lot of time in the hallway moving things up

:21:11. > :21:15.and down the left. We ran into a few people. They were very friendly.

:21:16. > :21:18.They told us a little bit about the area. It seemed like a really

:21:19. > :21:24.tight-knit community. But we just didn't have very much time to get to

:21:25. > :21:31.know anyone properly. They would have been in your minds as you were

:21:32. > :21:36.looking at your home, knowing that some of those people were

:21:37. > :21:40.potentially trapped? My last morning, the Tuesday morning on my

:21:41. > :21:47.way to work, I took the lift down at about five to nine. There were about

:21:48. > :21:52.four or five kids on their way to the school just outside the

:21:53. > :21:58.building. They have just been on my mind ever since. There were so many

:21:59. > :22:03.kids in that building. And we just have no idea about any of them. We

:22:04. > :22:06.don't know who they were, we don't know if they're OK. We don't know

:22:07. > :22:14.how many will be affected. It plays on your mind constantly. You have

:22:15. > :22:18.lost everything. Have you had much help from the council? What help of

:22:19. > :22:26.you had in terms of trying to find somewhere else to live? Nothing. We

:22:27. > :22:34.reported ourselves as safe on the day, on the 14th, by calling the

:22:35. > :22:37.helpline was provided. I give my details. They said they would be in

:22:38. > :22:40.touch. They said there was nothing they could say at that point in time

:22:41. > :22:45.because the building was still burning. Since then, we haven't

:22:46. > :22:50.heard anything. We have been getting all of our news from the news. And

:22:51. > :22:56.all of our support from friends, families, some strangers that have

:22:57. > :23:01.been in touch. But from the council, the local authority, nothing.

:23:02. > :23:06.Strangers have been in touch? Yes. It ranges from on the morning we had

:23:07. > :23:13.to buy some essentials, because we only had our clothes that we were

:23:14. > :23:19.wearing. Silly little things like I was in one of the shops and we have

:23:20. > :23:25.to explain to the cashier, can we keep the hang-outs? She said, no. We

:23:26. > :23:30.explained what happened. She just said, take all the hang-outs. She

:23:31. > :23:36.gave us some extra. Even something like that almost brought me to

:23:37. > :23:40.tears. Two of our friends said up some crowdfunding pages for us. The

:23:41. > :23:45.response has been immense. Overwhelming. From friends, families

:23:46. > :23:54.and strangers, who just heard her story, read the page and donated. It

:23:55. > :23:59.is really, really touching. Have you been to the building since the fire?

:24:00. > :24:05.We went yesterday and some are great for the first time. We went for the

:24:06. > :24:09.purpose of volunteering to help with the donations. We spent a couple of

:24:10. > :24:15.hours there just helping out in any way we could. Before we went round

:24:16. > :24:23.to do that, we just stood and looked at the building. We couldn't believe

:24:24. > :24:30.it. It is just really surreal. You just feel like you want to be able

:24:31. > :24:36.to go inside to see if anything, by any chance survived. If anything

:24:37. > :24:41.remained. Just what it looks like in your home. But there is no

:24:42. > :24:47.indication. You could just black. It breaks my heart, the entire building

:24:48. > :24:49.may collapse. What will happen to the surrounding area? There is

:24:50. > :24:52.absolutely no hope. Let's talk to Helen White-Knight,

:24:53. > :25:09.whose flat was burned down Helen, thank you for joining us.

:25:10. > :25:13.Obviously seen this will have brought things back. What did you

:25:14. > :25:22.learn from your experience? What was your experience? It's heartbreaking

:25:23. > :25:29.to hear people who have also been where we were in 2011. It brings it

:25:30. > :25:34.all back. It sounds very familiar, having no contact with the

:25:35. > :25:39.authorities. Our council put us in a travel Lodge. But when you have

:25:40. > :25:45.nothing to prove who you are, it is very difficult. You can't process

:25:46. > :25:52.what has happened and deal with the admin that comes with that. I

:25:53. > :25:56.remember that feeling of being hopeless and not knowing what to do.

:25:57. > :26:00.They doesn't seem to be any process to deal with major incidents like

:26:01. > :26:06.this in London. You have written a letter, I know, because you are

:26:07. > :26:10.extending your hand and those of others to those who need help and

:26:11. > :26:17.support of this time. Would you mind reading us that letter? To the

:26:18. > :26:20.residents of Grenfell Tower, let's start by saying we don't know what

:26:21. > :26:25.you're going through but we remember the fear and the powerlessness of

:26:26. > :26:29.our own experiences and the lasting effects after the world moved on and

:26:30. > :26:33.left us still dealing with it. We lost everything we owned the fire,

:26:34. > :26:37.but most of us were lucky that we and our loved ones escaped with our

:26:38. > :26:42.lives. Many of you did not. And for that, we are forever sorry. Whilst

:26:43. > :26:51.you begin to process this horrific tragedy, we wanted to reach out and

:26:52. > :26:55.offer you some advice that we learned the hard way in an effort to

:26:56. > :26:57.show solidarity and do our bid to help you cope with what has

:26:58. > :26:59.happened. Like you, we know what it is like to lose every single hard

:27:00. > :27:02.and belonging. Expensive things like laptops and CV that Spike TVs,

:27:03. > :27:05.essential things like clothes and furniture, and sentimental things

:27:06. > :27:09.like photos and letters, that final one is the hardest one to come to

:27:10. > :27:14.terms with. In a fire you also lose every piece of paper proving who you

:27:15. > :27:20.are. How do you access your bank account when you do not have a bank

:27:21. > :27:23.card or ID? Our advice is to get the practicalities sorted as soon as

:27:24. > :27:28.possible, give yourself space to agree. You will be asked to list

:27:29. > :27:31.your possessions. Mentally walk through the flat. Try and remember

:27:32. > :27:36.everything you had and write it down sure you are not short-changed when

:27:37. > :27:40.replacing things. It seems trivial now but it will help in the long

:27:41. > :27:43.run. You're probably still in shock. Getting on with these kind of things

:27:44. > :27:48.can be a good distraction and can help with your insurance claim. What

:27:49. > :27:52.got us through those desperate times was the love and support of people

:27:53. > :27:55.around us, family, friends, colleagues, neighbours and the local

:27:56. > :28:01.councils. Find someone to help you through and keep you strong when you

:28:02. > :28:05.are vulnerable. All of us last our belongings, one of us lost a loved

:28:06. > :28:09.one. We believe life will return to some sort of normality. Don't worry

:28:10. > :28:14.if you had not had an instant emotional reaction. It will come.

:28:15. > :28:17.Our hearts go out to all of you. Cry, shed, let it out, be strong. We

:28:18. > :28:25.support you. -- shed. Incredibly thoughtful,

:28:26. > :28:31.Helen. Just picking up on what you said about, don't worry if you have

:28:32. > :28:38.not had an instant emotional response, it will come. Why did you

:28:39. > :28:44.say that? I think primarily seeing interviews with people who had

:28:45. > :28:50.managed to escape, but the shock really does affect you. And that

:28:51. > :28:53.goes on for weeks. You go up and down. It is like a roller-coaster of

:28:54. > :28:58.emotions. Sometimes you really do feel empty. I remember standing

:28:59. > :29:01.outside the front of our building looking at what was going on and

:29:02. > :29:06.thinking none of it was real. It took awhile for that to kick in.

:29:07. > :29:10.Even now, years later, it's still kind of comes in waves and you still

:29:11. > :29:15.process it. Even after everyone else has forgotten about happened, you

:29:16. > :29:18.need to talk about it, you need to think about it, because you will

:29:19. > :29:28.have triggers that will bring it all back to. Lee and Julian, does that

:29:29. > :29:32.resonate? Completely. Sometimes you feel fine, relatively normal.

:29:33. > :29:39.Sometimes you are on the verge of tears are in tears. You're

:29:40. > :29:42.completely void. You just can't process it. We have had so much

:29:43. > :29:47.support from friends and family and everyone else, it is helping of us

:29:48. > :29:52.to deal with it. You're standing there, you're doing something. It

:29:53. > :29:59.reminds you, it was this, it was that. Helen says, a sentimental

:30:00. > :30:03.thing, it hurts when you have lost memories.

:30:04. > :30:07.Giles Peaker is a solicitor who specialises in housing problems.

:30:08. > :30:14.People will need emotional support and support on every level, but

:30:15. > :30:18.practical support. What is the first thing someone can do when they have

:30:19. > :30:22.lost their home, have lost everything? The first thing for the

:30:23. > :30:27.people from Grenfell Tower is that Kensington and Chelsea will owe them

:30:28. > :30:32.a home, they had to find them accommodation. It might be emergency

:30:33. > :30:36.in the very short, but from there they need to find them temporary

:30:37. > :30:40.accommodation, eventually permanent accommodation. This is an absolute

:30:41. > :30:45.duty on Kensington and Chelsea, they can't avoid it. It will hopefully be

:30:46. > :30:50.in the area. There has been a commitment from the housing minister

:30:51. > :30:54.that people will be rehoused in the area. We are trying to find out

:30:55. > :30:59.exactly what level of detail that means in terms of whether that is

:31:00. > :31:03.temporary accommodation and then permanent accommodation later on,

:31:04. > :31:07.but clearly when people have been to such a devastating event the last

:31:08. > :31:11.thing they need is to also be moved some distance away from friends,

:31:12. > :31:15.family, support structure. When you say there is an absolute duty on the

:31:16. > :31:19.council to give temporary and then permanent accommodation, you have

:31:20. > :31:23.not been given it? You have accommodation through your employer.

:31:24. > :31:27.What response did you get from the council? I think Lee mentioned

:31:28. > :31:31.earlier, although we have reported ourselves as safe and these are our

:31:32. > :31:35.details and this is where we lived, the flat we were out, we have had no

:31:36. > :31:39.response even though on the phone the incident response caller said we

:31:40. > :31:44.will be in touch once things have settled down, we have had no

:31:45. > :31:50.response. Fortunately, like I said, my employers put us up in a hotel

:31:51. > :31:52.for now. We have no end of Richard support of accommodation from

:31:53. > :31:59.friends and family all over the place, which has been overwhelmingly

:32:00. > :32:04.grateful. Thank you and we really wish you all the best. Thank you

:32:05. > :32:09.very much for joining us. And thank you to Helen and to you as well,

:32:10. > :32:13.thank you. Get in touch and all the usual ways if you want to join the

:32:14. > :32:15.conversation this morning if you are affected by any of the issues we are

:32:16. > :32:20.talking about. Also coming up... Revolutionary breast cancer drug

:32:21. > :32:22.Kadcyla will continue to be Shortly we'll be talking to a breast

:32:23. > :32:36.cancer patient who's been We will speak to a Labour MP about

:32:37. > :32:42.the Government's handing of the Grenfell Tower tragedy and what more

:32:43. > :32:48.could and should be done. That's Joan Annita McVeigh for a

:32:49. > :32:51.news summary. -- lets join Annita McVeigh. Police

:32:52. > :32:55.warned they may never be able to identify some of those who died in

:32:56. > :33:01.the fire at Grenfell Tower in west London. 17 bodies have been found so

:33:02. > :33:04.far but the number of is expected to rise significantly. Prime Minister

:33:05. > :33:06.Theresa May has ordered a full public inquiry into the fire.

:33:07. > :33:09.Lucy Masoud is a firefighter and trade union official at the Fire

:33:10. > :33:14.She described some of what her colleagues witnessed.

:33:15. > :33:16.The conversations I've had, you know, one colleague said

:33:17. > :33:19.he was going in there and literally having to choose who to save

:33:20. > :33:23.and who to leave because, you know, you only have two hands and you can

:33:24. > :33:27.My colleagues who went in, took people out, went in again,

:33:28. > :33:32.You know, the red watch at Chelsea were meant to finish work

:33:33. > :33:36.They didn't get back to the station until 5pm.

:33:37. > :33:38.They would have stayed longer at the incident

:33:39. > :33:42.You know, again, that is just an absolute tribute to the brave men

:33:43. > :33:46.and women who attended this incident but yeah, you know, the scenes

:33:47. > :33:48.that they would have encountered in the early hours of Tuesday

:33:49. > :33:58.morning, it is absolutely unimaginable.

:33:59. > :34:03.The Government has said it will do whatever is necessary following the

:34:04. > :34:07.Grenfell Tower fire to make sure that high-rise blocks of flats are

:34:08. > :34:11.safe. The flames were seen to spread quickly through cladding fixed to

:34:12. > :34:14.the outside of the structure. The Government says all similar

:34:15. > :34:15.buildings will be inspected and action taken if required.

:34:16. > :34:18.A second soldier has died after being wounded in an incident

:34:19. > :34:21.involving a tank at an army firing range in Pembrokeshire.

:34:22. > :34:22.He was serving with the Royal Tank Regiment.

:34:23. > :34:28.Two other soldiers were injured at Castlemartin Ranges on Wednesday.

:34:29. > :34:31.The Archbishop of Canterbury will speak at a service of hope

:34:32. > :34:33.at Southwark Cathedral today, in honour of first-responders,

:34:34. > :34:37.families and survivors of the London Bridge attack.

:34:38. > :34:39.Eight people were killed when three attackers drove a van

:34:40. > :34:42.into pedestrians on London Bridge, and then launched a knife attack

:34:43. > :34:50.at Borough Market just under two weeks ago.

:34:51. > :34:56.The Chancellor, Philip Hammond, says the priority in the forthcoming

:34:57. > :35:00.Brexit talk should be to protect jobs and growth. He was speaking in

:35:01. > :35:02.Luxembourg before a meeting of EU finance ministers.

:35:03. > :35:04.As we go into that negotiation, my clear view,

:35:05. > :35:05.and I believe the view of

:35:06. > :35:08.the majority of people in Britain, is that we should prioritise

:35:09. > :35:10.protecting jobs, protecting economic growth and protecting

:35:11. > :35:24.prosperity as we enter those negotiations and take them forward.

:35:25. > :35:29.Security officials believe North Korean attackers were behind the

:35:30. > :35:32.cyber attack that had-macro the NHS of Usman. It is thought the hackers

:35:33. > :35:37.had not realised how widely the virus, which rocked systems until

:35:38. > :35:38.money was paid, would spread. The attack led to delays in operations

:35:39. > :35:44.and treatment for patients. Join me on Bbc Newsroom Live at

:35:45. > :35:47.11am. Here's some sport now

:35:48. > :35:51.with Katherine Downes. Wales have beaten Tonga in the first

:35:52. > :35:56.Test of their summer tour. Wing Alex Cuthbert went over early

:35:57. > :35:58.here and Wales later scored a penalty try before running

:35:59. > :36:01.out 24-6 winners. They have never previously won at

:36:02. > :36:05.Eden Park, losing all three of their tests at New Zealand and losing out

:36:06. > :36:09.to France in the 2011 World Cup. And the All Blacks' warm up

:36:10. > :36:24.for the first Lions test a week tomorrow is going pretty well -

:36:25. > :36:26.they're thrashing Samoa A reminder of just what

:36:27. > :36:29.a test the Lions face. England's Paul Casey

:36:30. > :36:31.is breathing down the neck of the first round leader,

:36:32. > :36:33.American Rickie Fowler Casey says he loves the course,

:36:34. > :36:37.and is just one shot off And Britain's Jake Wightman knocked

:36:38. > :36:41.over a second off his personal best, as he beat a high-quality field,

:36:42. > :36:44.in the 1500 metres at the, Oslo Diamond League

:36:45. > :36:45.meeting last night. The 22-year-old Scot follows

:36:46. > :36:48.in the footsteps of Seb Coe, Steve Ovett and Steve Cram who have

:36:49. > :36:58.all won the race. He is pretty chuffed, he said he

:36:59. > :36:59.never dreams he would win a Diamond League race, but he has.

:37:00. > :37:03.Thank you. We've talked a lot

:37:04. > :37:05.on the programme about the breast It's been called revolutionary,

:37:06. > :37:09.due to its ability to significantly extend the lives of patients

:37:10. > :37:11.suffering from a particularly aggressive form of breast

:37:12. > :37:14.cancer, known as HER-2. The drug has been available

:37:15. > :37:17.on the Cancer Drugs Fund since 2014, but late last year, Nice,

:37:18. > :37:19.the body responsible for deciding which treatments

:37:20. > :37:21.are cost-effective for the NHS, published an initial decision that

:37:22. > :37:23.Kadcyla will no longer be At an estimated ?90,000 per year,

:37:24. > :37:31.it was considered to be Campaigners petitioned

:37:32. > :37:35.against the decision, appearing on this programme,

:37:36. > :37:39.and they've had a breakthrough. Earlier this year, the drug was made

:37:40. > :37:42.available to NHS patients in Scotland, and yesterday,

:37:43. > :37:45.Simon Stevens - the head of the NHS in England - said that the initial

:37:46. > :37:48.decision not to fund Kadcyla will be overturned, and that it

:37:49. > :37:50.will continute to be available It is expected that Wales and

:37:51. > :37:59.Northern Ireland will follow suit. During our investigation

:38:00. > :38:01.earlier this year, we spoke to Gill Smith, who had

:38:02. > :38:05.Stage 4 breast cancer. It had already metastasised

:38:06. > :38:08.at the time it was discovered, to my liver, my bones,

:38:09. > :38:12.my lungs and my lymph nodes, which means that it is stage four

:38:13. > :38:18.and inoperable and incurable. The two drugs that I was

:38:19. > :38:21.on and am still on are They are effective for about 18

:38:22. > :38:27.months but they had to be kicked And what was that like,

:38:28. > :38:37.the chemotherapy? Losing my hair after two weeks

:38:38. > :38:44.was just the least part of it. That was really not

:38:45. > :38:48.a problem at all. So you had been advised that

:38:49. > :38:51.Kadcyla would be available for you when you needed it and it

:38:52. > :38:53.now looks as though So that is devastating because it

:38:54. > :39:01.means that the amount of good quality time that I thought

:39:02. > :39:07.I would have, and my family expected to have with me,

:39:08. > :39:09.has effectively been cut It is, it is pretty grim,

:39:10. > :39:17.being told that you only probably have about two years,

:39:18. > :39:24.give or take, to live, and then the first eight months

:39:25. > :39:28.of that has been severely compromised by the chemotherapy

:39:29. > :39:31.and now, if I don't have Kadcyla and the Herceptin and Matuzamab stop

:39:32. > :39:37.working, chances are that means My daughter keeps saying how unfair

:39:38. > :39:52.she thinks it is and it does feel rather like that because it was such

:39:53. > :39:57.a fantastic drug. The drugs that are available have

:39:58. > :40:03.been proved so hugely that it is quite possible to live

:40:04. > :40:06.with cancer, rather than feel that So you can have a very good quality

:40:07. > :40:15.of life for quite a long time. To have half of that taken

:40:16. > :40:22.away would be awful. My oncologist now says

:40:23. > :40:26.that she is seeing about nine months of effectiveness of Kadcyla,

:40:27. > :40:29.really good quality of life And although that may not

:40:30. > :40:35.sound like very long, if you have only got two years,

:40:36. > :40:38.nine months is a significant My older daughter, she is 25,

:40:39. > :40:47.and I probably won't My younger daughter still

:40:48. > :40:57.lives at home with us. She is just beginning to get

:40:58. > :41:02.established in life. That is what I worry

:41:03. > :41:07.about most, really, how Let's talk to Dr Anne Rigg,

:41:08. > :41:22.consultant oncologist Also joining us, Baroness Delyth

:41:23. > :41:26.Morgan, Chief Executive Gill Smith is a breast

:41:27. > :41:31.cancer patient and campaigner, who is due

:41:32. > :41:34.to receive Kadcyla and was planning to move to Scotland to get

:41:35. > :41:36.access to the drug. Also Bonnie Fox, another

:41:37. > :41:48.breast cancer patient Thank you all very much for joining

:41:49. > :41:52.us. We will start with you, Gill, everything you say is so pertinent

:41:53. > :41:55.and easy to understand, when you talk about it is hard enough having

:41:56. > :41:59.breast cancer and dealing with that and then when you think a drug could

:42:00. > :42:05.make things better and you might not get it, how you cope with that. How

:42:06. > :42:09.do you feel now you have had this news? Absolutely delighted, it is a

:42:10. > :42:14.great burden that has lifted off our shoulders. We do have to not worry

:42:15. > :42:17.about that any more. The drugs I am on at the moment are continuing to

:42:18. > :42:21.hold, they are still working, at some point they will stop and then I

:42:22. > :42:26.know I will be able to go on to Kadcyla and have another few months

:42:27. > :42:30.or even longer. Quite a lot of people live significantly longer on

:42:31. > :42:35.this drug. It is very good news indeed. You were thinking you might

:42:36. > :42:41.end up having to go to Scotland to get it? NHS Scotland had approved it

:42:42. > :42:45.so I was happy to hear that because it would have been technically

:42:46. > :42:51.possible to move to Scotland and get it, move all of my cancer treatment

:42:52. > :42:57.up to Edinburgh or somewhere. Bonnie, you have been involved in

:42:58. > :43:02.the campaign to get Kadcyla properly available on the NHS? How much of a

:43:03. > :43:08.relief is it? Enormous. A huge relief. It feels like a huge weight

:43:09. > :43:12.off our shoulders to know it is in place and available to us for

:43:13. > :43:18.whenever we need it. I can't tell you how great that is. It feels like

:43:19. > :43:23.such a big victory as well. Yeah, a huge weight off our shoulders. Bring

:43:24. > :43:27.is up to date, we spoke to you on the programme before, the same as

:43:28. > :43:33.with Gill, what is your situation, where are you at and what difference

:43:34. > :43:37.could Kadcyla make? Fortunately I am still stable on my current drug,

:43:38. > :43:42.Herceptin, it will be two years next month that I have been on them.

:43:43. > :43:49.Still feeling really well and stable. I have another scan in a few

:43:50. > :43:53.months so we will see then. Kadcyla would be my next drug, so I don't

:43:54. > :43:57.know when I will need it but I know it will be my next drug. So just

:43:58. > :44:00.knowing it is there and has been approved, you feel like you can

:44:01. > :44:09.almost breathe a little knowing that the next step is in place for you.

:44:10. > :44:13.Yeah, a huge relief. You're a consultant oncologist, explain more

:44:14. > :44:19.about what Kadcyla does and why it is the drug that kicks in at a later

:44:20. > :44:24.stage for patients? Bonnie and Gill have a particular

:44:25. > :44:29.subtype of breast cancer known as HER-2, that is because if you looked

:44:30. > :44:32.at the cancer cells they have a chemical on the surface called

:44:33. > :44:39.HER-2. What is so amazing about this particular drug is that the

:44:40. > :44:42.Herceptin molecule, which is part of Kadcyla, travels around the

:44:43. > :44:48.bloodstream and will look for that HER-2 chemical. You don't have it on

:44:49. > :44:51.pretty much all adult normal tissues but you do on the breast cancer

:44:52. > :44:55.cells, it is a targeted treatment that will try to find it. What is

:44:56. > :45:01.particularly cunning about Kadcyla is not only do you have the hat --

:45:02. > :45:04.have the Herceptin but it has a chemotherapy drug linked onto it.

:45:05. > :45:11.The Herceptin delivers the chemotherapy just to the cells that

:45:12. > :45:17.needed. A very special drug. In the oncology community we are hugely

:45:18. > :45:23.relieved about this decision. How much extra quality life Panis give?

:45:24. > :45:35.The official estimates are lower than what people are finding.

:45:36. > :45:43.The results in the clinical trials show there was a six-month increase

:45:44. > :45:46.in how long the patients live. All of us who practice breast cancer

:45:47. > :45:51.have many patients living well beyond that, such as Bonnie and

:45:52. > :45:56.Jill. Bonnie bus experience of two years is what I see with a number of

:45:57. > :45:59.women I am looking after. These are women who are not lying in a

:46:00. > :46:03.hospital bed feeling dreadful. These are women who are out there getting

:46:04. > :46:07.on with their lives, working, being mothers, having hobbies, being

:46:08. > :46:11.normal functioning members of society. That is what is so

:46:12. > :46:16.critical. That is what is so important about Kadcyla. It enables

:46:17. > :46:21.you to carry on and be normal. That is what we so desperately want. We

:46:22. > :46:24.want to carry on with our lives as normally as we can for as long as

:46:25. > :46:30.possible. Kadcyla enables you to do that. You can carry on being a mum,

:46:31. > :46:33.you can carry on the -- working. It has low side effects. That is what

:46:34. > :46:41.is so critical about the drug. That is why it is so valuable to us.

:46:42. > :46:44.?90,000 a year as the cost of this drug. That was looked at originally

:46:45. > :46:49.and it was decided it was too much. A deal was struck. We don't know

:46:50. > :46:57.what the cost is. The estimates are probably around ?50,000 a year.

:46:58. > :47:00.Whenever life prolonging treatment I looked at in terms of the cost, it

:47:01. > :47:08.just feels very uncomfortable, when you weighed against real people and

:47:09. > :47:15.the impact on their lives? It does. For the NHS it is absolutely vital

:47:16. > :47:24.for all NHS patients that we see a really good deal struck for cancer

:47:25. > :47:29.patients by NHS England,, and that the companies come to the table with

:47:30. > :47:33.Kadcyla. This campaign to get Kadcyla available, the petitioning,

:47:34. > :47:35.the patient to have spoken out so bravely, the clinicians who have

:47:36. > :47:41.thought about the evidence and how to make the arguments, it has been

:47:42. > :47:47.really hard. We can't carry on fighting around these issues, drug

:47:48. > :47:49.by drug. We need to have a better system where these new innovative

:47:50. > :47:56.treatments can be made available much quickly -- much more quickly on

:47:57. > :47:59.the NHS, so the deals Comey. More effectively, so the clinicians can

:48:00. > :48:04.have the tools to do their job and we can help people to live longer,

:48:05. > :48:11.without symptoms, and contribute to society. So what I want to see is a

:48:12. > :48:14.much better system that takes into account the contribution the Pharma

:48:15. > :48:21.industry make to this country. They are a vital part of our life

:48:22. > :48:25.sciences industry. We need the job to succeed. We need the government

:48:26. > :48:30.and the NHS to put them together, to get the industry and the NHS, to sit

:48:31. > :48:34.down with industry and come up with a good deal for a patients so we

:48:35. > :48:38.don't have to fight like this, one drug at a time, to get the

:48:39. > :48:42.innovative treatments the NHS really can afford if deals are done in the

:48:43. > :48:47.right way. Are you worried about another drug? We are. There are a

:48:48. > :48:51.lot of innovations for cancer patients down the track which should

:48:52. > :48:59.offer great hope. For example, patients who have HER-2 positive

:49:00. > :49:06.breast cancer, the first two treatments, the first one is still

:49:07. > :49:14.available on the Cancer Drugs Fund. That is coming up for assessment.

:49:15. > :49:20.They are being looked at. Other real questions around that? There will be

:49:21. > :49:24.questions about that. There are questions about important prostate

:49:25. > :49:28.cancer medicines. This is a really, really good piece of news today, and

:49:29. > :49:34.it is really good for 1200 breast cancer patient who could be needing

:49:35. > :49:37.this drug, Kadcyla, in the next time period. But we have to get the

:49:38. > :49:44.bigger system worked out. We can't carry on fighting like this and

:49:45. > :49:50.everything. How frustrating is it as a consultant, the fact your hands

:49:51. > :49:53.might be tied? It is very frustrating. I appreciate seeing

:49:54. > :49:56.women coming to my clinic, how difficult it is to talk about the

:49:57. > :50:04.cancer and the applications for that. There is a drug that is out

:50:05. > :50:08.there, but I can't access it for you, is a conversation you don't

:50:09. > :50:12.want to be having. It adds to the burden for the person. How do you

:50:13. > :50:17.feel about having had to fight the system as well as the illness? It's

:50:18. > :50:22.very exhausting, to be honest. Really what we want to be doing is

:50:23. > :50:27.enjoying our lives. Just going about whatever we want to do without the

:50:28. > :50:35.worry and the burden of this fight, really. I think there is a bigger

:50:36. > :50:40.issue, which is about allocation of resources. We are the fifth largest

:50:41. > :50:45.economy in the world. The money is there. We shouldn't be thinking

:50:46. > :50:50.about whether Bonnie bus life is worth ?50,000 a year for Mac may be

:50:51. > :50:56.a little bit more, a little bit less. We want to be a world leader

:50:57. > :51:00.in life sciences and for that to happen we need to learn from these

:51:01. > :51:06.innovative, really effective drugs. They need to be available to us so

:51:07. > :51:11.the drug companies and everybody else can learn from our use of them

:51:12. > :51:16.and develop new drugs in the future. Our cancer is incurable. But in

:51:17. > :51:22.future, it might be curable if new drugs are developed. And we need to

:51:23. > :51:28.be able to access them. The money is there. If it's just priorities.

:51:29. > :51:31.Thank you very much indeed. Let's go back to our main news. Police have

:51:32. > :51:35.launched a criminal investigation into the fire that engulfed Grenfell

:51:36. > :51:41.Tower in west London on Wednesday morning. 17 people are known to have

:51:42. > :51:45.died but doesn't remain unaccounted for, including entire families.

:51:46. > :51:50.Prime Minister Theresa May has ordered a full public enquiry, but

:51:51. > :51:55.she faced criticism for not meeting survivors yesterday.

:51:56. > :51:58.Joining us now from the cordon near Grenfell Towers is Dawn Butler,

:51:59. > :52:09.Thank you for joining us. What have you been doing there this morning?

:52:10. > :52:16.Good morning. I have just been released big into people. It's a

:52:17. > :52:23.very, very sad time. This is a national tragedy. And I'm just so

:52:24. > :52:26.shocked this could even happen in 2017. When you look at the building

:52:27. > :52:32.behind, it is just totally unbelievable. I welcome the public

:52:33. > :52:37.enquiry that Theresa May has said up but I think there have to be a few

:52:38. > :52:44.things around that, in the residence' voices must be foremost.

:52:45. > :52:48.They have a public forum where they have raised concerns over the years.

:52:49. > :52:53.They must be at the front of this. It must also be a speedy enquiry. We

:52:54. > :52:59.setup a result the summer and there should be a commitment to act on the

:53:00. > :53:04.findings. Theresa May doesn't have to wait to act. She can act

:53:05. > :53:08.straightaway. There is a coroner 's report from 2013. She can act on

:53:09. > :53:12.those recommendations. This should never have happened. My condolences

:53:13. > :53:16.go out to everybody that is affected. And those people who are

:53:17. > :53:24.still waiting to hear about their loved ones, it is unthinkable. The

:53:25. > :53:29.pain. Jeremy Corbyn has said that empty homes owned by investors in

:53:30. > :53:33.Kensington and Chelsea should be requisitioned to house those who

:53:34. > :53:38.have the left homeless by the fire. Do you agree with that? Is it a

:53:39. > :53:44.viable suggestion? Of course it is. Why should we have empty homes when

:53:45. > :53:51.people are living on the floors of community centres, of the churches,

:53:52. > :53:55.and there are homes that are empty? We are a civilised society. This

:53:56. > :53:58.should never have happened. I am pleased the police are looking at

:53:59. > :54:02.this as a criminal investigation. There was a lot of money spent on

:54:03. > :54:08.these flats quite recently. And what was that money for if not for the

:54:09. > :54:15.safety of the residents? That has to be the priority of any new-build. So

:54:16. > :54:20.yes, if there is an empty property, it should be filled with people who

:54:21. > :54:26.made homeless by this national devastating tragedy. Theresa May has

:54:27. > :54:31.been criticised for going but not meeting residents. You have already

:54:32. > :54:39.said it is important that the voices of the resident' -- residents' are

:54:40. > :54:46.heard. How would you assess the anger? They have a right to be

:54:47. > :54:49.angry. They have a phenomenal right to be angry. And I don't blame them

:54:50. > :54:53.for being angry about everything that has happened. The fact they

:54:54. > :54:58.have lost their loved ones. They have a right to be looked -- angry.

:54:59. > :55:04.How Theresa May conducts herself as Prime Minister is her way of doing

:55:05. > :55:10.things. I think that the emergency services have been phenomenal. And

:55:11. > :55:15.the way that the fire service and the police service work together was

:55:16. > :55:19.absolutely phenomenal. I also think that the Fire Brigades Union needs

:55:20. > :55:22.to have a say in this enquiry, because they have been raising

:55:23. > :55:27.concerns for many years. They need to sit around the table. I can't

:55:28. > :55:30.comment on how Theresa May acts as Prime Minister. I think she was

:55:31. > :55:35.right to meet the emergency services and to talk to them and thank them.

:55:36. > :55:38.I think she needs to meet with the residents. She needs to make sure

:55:39. > :55:44.that they are forefront of any investigation.

:55:45. > :55:45.Thank you very much, Dawn Butler. We just want to bring you one more

:55:46. > :55:54.story. The BBC has learned that

:55:55. > :55:56.a controversial pledge in the Conservative manifesto,

:55:57. > :55:58.to change the funding of social care, was not shown to the relevant

:55:59. > :56:02.ministers until the final 24 hours The Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt,

:56:03. > :56:05.and the Communities Secretary, Sajid Javid, were told

:56:06. > :56:07.about the so-called dementia tax It comes as the Prime Minister

:56:08. > :56:10.Theresa May faces accusations from her colleagues that she relied

:56:11. > :56:13.too heavily on a narrow circle of advisers during her

:56:14. > :56:14.election campaign. Let's talk to correspondent

:56:15. > :56:26.Nick Watt, who has more on this. We were aware this was something

:56:27. > :56:31.that was drawn up by a tight group of people. But the fact the relevant

:56:32. > :56:37.ministers didn't know until 24-hours before is news? It does rather

:56:38. > :56:40.illustrate that point. I've done an investigation for Newsnight into the

:56:41. > :56:45.general election and Howard went wrong. The defining moment was that

:56:46. > :56:49.manifesto launch and that pledge on social care, and within four days

:56:50. > :56:54.Theresa May had to embark on a hasty retreat. There has been a lot of

:56:55. > :56:59.talk about how Nick Timothy, her former joint Chief of Staff, it was

:57:00. > :57:04.his idea. It turns out it was to dreamt up by Ben Gummer in the

:57:05. > :57:07.Cabinet office. He was co-author of the manifesto. In the budget The

:57:08. > :57:13.Chapter announced there would be a Green paper on social care later in

:57:14. > :57:17.the year. What that meant was that the relevant ministers, Jeremy Hunt

:57:18. > :57:22.and Sajid Javid, were informed rather than consulted. And that

:57:23. > :57:26.absolutely illustrated the point that Theresa May was governing

:57:27. > :57:28.before this election and during the campaign, with a very tiny circle of

:57:29. > :57:33.advisers. Thank you very much. There will be

:57:34. > :57:36.more on that on BBC News channel later.

:57:37. > :57:49.I just want to bring you some of your comments. You have been getting

:57:50. > :57:53.in touch with your thoughts on the big story that has been dominating

:57:54. > :57:58.for several days, that terrible fire at Grenfell Tower. Justin has

:57:59. > :58:01.tweeted to say the residents of Grenfell Tower will need all the

:58:02. > :58:05.help that can be given to them. We were talking earlier to to people

:58:06. > :58:09.who have lost nearly everything. Just two of so many who have lost

:58:10. > :58:13.everything. And Besiktas many people have lost their lives. We still

:58:14. > :58:21.don't have a final number. But many remain missing. Also,: has e-mailed.

:58:22. > :58:25.He was watching this morning. It is a terrible tragedy, he says. All of

:58:26. > :58:37.the country have been shocked. Thank you for your company today.

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