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Hello it's Tuesday, it's 9 o'clock, I'm Joanna Gosling in for Victoria. | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
Hundreds of people attended a vigil last night close to the north London | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
mosque where a van was driven into a crowd of Muslim worshippers. | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
But will it take more than shows of unity to bring people together | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
And how do we prevent further violence? | :00:25. | :00:31. | |
Everyone is still shocked by what happened. There is a little bit of | :00:32. | :00:39. | |
fear, but at the same time, no-one's staying away or hiding because of | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
what happened, everyone is still coming out to pray. | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
A week since the devastating fire at Grenfell Tower, | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
we speak to a family who lived on the 15th floor, and who escaped | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
with nothing but their lives, about where they have been staying | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
And with more and more high-profile sportswomen taking time | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
out to have children, UK cyclist Dame Sarah Storey, | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
has been finding out what is being done to keep | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
Hello, welcome to the programme, we're live until 11 this morning. | :01:05. | :01:24. | |
We'll bring you the developing news on Barclays bank. Four individuals | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
are facing fraud conspiracy charges including the former Chief | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
Executive. It's a complex story and our correspondent will be here to | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
explain. Get in touch on everything we are talking about this morning. | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
The family of a man arrested after a terror attack | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
near a London mosque say they are shocked and devastated. | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
Father-of-four Darren Osborne was held on suspicion of attempted | :01:51. | :01:52. | |
murder and terror offences after a van hit Muslim | :01:53. | :01:54. | |
Last night a vigil took place near the scene of the attack. | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
A demonstration that nothing has changed, | :02:01. | :02:23. | |
Everyone is still feeling shocked about what happened, | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
there is a little bit of fear but at the same time, like, | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
noone's staying away or hiding because of what happened. | :02:32. | :02:33. | |
Everyone is still coming out to pray. | :02:34. | :02:35. | |
Of course we are coming, it's a mosque, you have to pray. | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
It is after midnight and it was about this time last | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
People have come from other parts of London to pray here at the mosque | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
tonight in a show of solidarity, they've been embracing | :02:48. | :02:49. | |
in the streets but the leaders here have told me despite being one | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
of the busiest times within Ramadan it has been quieter tonight, | :02:54. | :02:55. | |
Earlier the community held a vigil attended by the Commissioner | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
of the Metropolitan Police Cressida Dick. | :03:01. | :03:02. | |
And the Mayor of London who spoke of communities fighting division. | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
What you've seen over the last 24 hours is Muslims, | :03:06. | :03:07. | |
Jews, Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, those members | :03:08. | :03:09. | |
of an organised faith and those that aren't, | :03:10. | :03:11. | |
rich, poor, old, young, coming together and saying, | :03:12. | :03:13. | |
Officers are continuing to hold a man arrested under terror laws | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
who the BBC understands to be 47-year-old Darren | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
His family said they were in shock and disbelief. | :03:22. | :03:29. | |
Our Correspondent Simon Clemison is in Finsbury Park. | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
Simon, we were hearing in your report about the vigil, talk of | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
unity. We can see the hashtag behind you, Uniteded against all terror. | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
What is the mood there now? Hi, very good morning, Joanna. Well, | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
this really was what we saw overnight, what I onced, was a | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
demonstration of strength by a community doing little more than | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
what they would normally do. They came to prayers in just the same way | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
had this not attack taken place. I was in the mosques early hours, | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
headed up the stairs, there was a bit of food as they broke their | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
fast. It was packed and outside it was quieter, the feeling was that it | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
was slightly quieter. One of the leaders suggesting to me that people | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
were anxious and they did stay away. It may have been of course that | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
they'd just gone to worship in another part of London not realising | :04:28. | :04:37. | |
that the mosque was open. It's a message of unity there, a lot of | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
these flowers don't come from the Muslim community, remember, they | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
come from people outside as they come together to get their message | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
across. I can see on the building over there an arsenal flag, that | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
really is all the divide they want in this community, between two North | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
London clubs, Arsenal and Spurs. But there is a lot of underlying tension | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
here, not least to do with the language used by the media. That's | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
something someone was very keen to talk to me last night about, when | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
the media focuses on religion and when it highlights Islam and when it | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
doesn't. He was absolutely furious with the way some of the media are | :05:18. | :05:28. | |
using the words they use, so a tension still that needs resolving. | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
Our Correspondent, Tomos Morgan is in Cardiff for us. | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
The driver of the van named as father of four Darren Osborne. What | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
is emerging about him, Tomos? Police have been carrying out a raid in the | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
house they believe he owned or possibly lived at here in Cardiff. | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
It's in the north-east area of Cardiff. They arrived here around | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
mid afternoon yesterday and they've been here overnight and there's | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
still a police presence here this morning. That van that was hired by | :06:00. | :06:07. | |
the potential suspect was actually from a village to the north-west of | :06:08. | :06:15. | |
Cardiff about 50 miles away in Pontyclun. South Wales police are | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
passing on any information they get to the Metropolitan Police. I've | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
been speaking to people in this community and they've been telling | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
me that really the overwhelming feeling is that of shock really that | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
if this turns out to be true, there's someone in the community | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
that could have carried out such an horrific incident. We heard in | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
Simon's piece, there was a family statement. The family saying they | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
are truly shocked. Unbelievable they've called it and they're | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
devastated for the families that have been injured. They say Darren | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
Osborne himself had never expressed any racist views. South Wales police | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
continuing their investigations here in Cardiff and passing on all the | :07:02. | :07:03. | |
details to the police in London. Annita is in the BBC | :07:04. | :07:18. | |
Newsroom with a summary The Serious Fraud Office has charged | :07:19. | :07:20. | |
Barclays and four former executives including its chief executive, | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
John Varley with fraud over the bank's dealings | :07:26. | :07:27. | |
with Qatar at the height Barclays raised emergency funding | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
from Qatar in 2008 to avoid We can speak to our | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
Business Editor Simon Jack. I understand these are the first | :07:34. | :07:43. | |
senior manages to face criminal charges over alleged activities | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
during the financial crisis? Yes, it's been a long time coming, | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
nearly a decade. Five years of a Serious Fraud Office investigation's | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
finally brought charges against four former executives there and Barclays | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
Plc itself. It comes around events surrounding an emergency | :08:04. | :08:05. | |
fund-raising from Middle Eastern investors who put ?7 billion into | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
the bank back in 2008. Two charges - one is that Barclays lent those | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
investors some of the money which they used the buy the shares, so in | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
effect lending to itself which is a big no-no, as far as regulators are | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
concerned and also they didn't disloads the fees they were paying | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
for advisory services to Qatar Holding who was the investor. These | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
were advisory fees that had no real value, that is the allegation. The | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
holding company of Barclays, not the actual bank itself - that is quite | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
important because if a bank which operates all around the world | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
actually is convicted of criminal charges, it finds it very difficult | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
indeed to operate in those markets soit's the holding company, the bit | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
that owns Barclays Bank that's been charged. John Varley, the former | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
Chief Executive and Roger Jenkins, head of the Middle East operation, | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
are the two executives. We have heard from Roger Jenkin this is | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
morning, he said he's going to vigorously defend the action. | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
Different calculations for the individuals and for the bank to | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
make. If Barclays feels the holding company has to plead guilty, it gets | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
away with a fine in the low hundreds of millions and can get on with its | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
life, it might consider doing that. Jenkins says he'll vigorously defend | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
the charges because it can have immications on their directorships. | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
An important moment, some will say the SFO in a way have gone after the | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
wrong target here because you will remember RBS Lloyds and others went | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
to the Government, you could argue that Barclays made efforts to avoid | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
taxpayer money that had got it into this trouble, so some will say the | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
SFO may eventually get their man, some may say it's the t wrong person | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
they're after. An American student, | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
who was freed last week by North Korea after spending 15 | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
months in prison, has died. Otto Warmbier , who was 22, | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
was in a coma when he was His family has accused | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
North Korea of torturing him after he was arrested for stealing | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
a propaganda sign. President Trump spoke | :10:09. | :10:10. | |
shortly after his death. I just wanted to pass on word that | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
Otto Warmbier has just passed away. He spent a year and a | :10:16. | :10:29. | |
half in North Korea. But at least we got him home | :10:30. | :10:31. | |
to be with his parents where they were so happy to see him, | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
even though he was in He just passed away | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
half an hour ago. It is a brutal regime | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
and we will be able to handle it. Our correspondent | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
Steve Evans is in Seoul. Steve, a huge number of questions | :10:51. | :11:02. | |
that the Warmbier family and the US authorities will want answers to of | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
course. What are the chances they're going to get any response from North | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
Korea? I say pretty slim really. The whole | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
thing reeks with suspicion. You will remember this is a lad, 22-year-old | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
student, went to North Korea and he made the very, very foolish mistake | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
of trying to steal a poster from a hotel. He was arrested on his way | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
out, he was sentenced to 15 years hard labour for that, he took it | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
very badly. In his trial which didn't last any time at all, he can | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
be seen whaling and weeping at he his fate. That's the last we saw of | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
him. Then it emerged a month ago that, according to North Korea, he'd | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
fallen into a coma. North Korea said he'd got ill with botch lift and | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
gone into a coma, never recovered but they hadn't told anybody, hadn't | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
told the US authorities, hadn't told his parents until a month ago. What | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
then happened is the US diplomat plus two doctors flew out to | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
Pyongyang, discovered he really was in a very serious state indeed. | :12:11. | :12:18. | |
North Korea seems to have panicked because an American citizen was | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
about to die in one of its cells and that, it seems on the face of it, is | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
why they called in the Americans. The Americans took him back in an | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
Air Ambulance and he died promptly. So the obvious question is, when did | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
he fall into a coma and why did he fall into a coma? Those answers I | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
don't think we are going to get. The Government here in South Korea is | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
saying it wants to know the condition of the nine remaining | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
South Korean citizens and US citizens being held by North Korea. | :12:54. | :12:55. | |
It's got no response. Philip Hammond has demanded a Brexit | :12:56. | :13:12. | |
deal that manages and not shuts down migration. He said the future of the | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
economy was inexorably linked to reaching the right agreement with | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
the EU. A recent poll showed that 90% of | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
respondents believe free trade is positive for our economy regardless | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
of how they voted in last year's referendum. We are not about to turn | :13:31. | :13:37. | |
inward. But we do want to ensure that the arrangements we have in | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
place work for our economy. Just as the British people understand the | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
benefits of trade, so too they understand how important it is to | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
business to be able to access global talent and to move individuals | :13:51. | :13:58. | |
around their organisations. More than ?200,000 has been handed out to | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
180 families affected by the Grenfell Tower fire in West London. | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
The payments were recorded by the Government's newly formed Grenfell | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
Response Team. It said 78 families had been rehoused either locally or | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
in neighbouring boroughs and that 126 hotel places had been secured. | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
A van driver has been killed after migrants put tree trunks on to the | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
motorway to stop traffic near Calais. The incident happened in the | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
early hours on the A16 after the van registered in Poland hit a lorry | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
which had been blocked by the tree trunks. Nine Eritrean migrants were | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
found in one of the lorries. A teenage boy's drowned in a reservoir | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
in Rochdale in Greater Manchester. He was reportedly swimming with | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
friends at the Greenboth reservoir at 6 o'clock yesterday evening. A | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
spokesman said there were not thought to be any suspicious | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
circumstances and his family has been informed. Scientists have begun | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
human trials of a cholesterol lowering vaccine to help prevent | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
heart disease. The injection is designed to stop fatty deposits | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
clogging the arteries. It would offer patients an alternative to | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
taking daily pills to cut risks of stroke, angina and heart attacks. | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
The number of tests carried out in England to identify if people | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
have issues such as sleep apnoea, has doubled in the last nine years. | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
It's believed one and a half million people across the UK | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
have the condition, which can cause sufferers to stop breathing | :15:29. | :15:30. | |
That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 9.30. | :15:31. | :15:41. | |
Shortly we will be talking to the head of the Finbsury Park | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
mosque about how his congregation and the wider community have reacted | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
And what more must be done to tackle far-right extremism. | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
Do get in touch with us throughout the morning - | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
use the hashtag Victoria LIVE and if you text, you will be charged | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
Let's get some sport now and Hugh Ferris is at the BBC | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
We're going to start with rugby because the Lions | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
are playing their final warm-up match right now ahead of Saturday's | :16:12. | :16:13. | |
Yes, they are. Good morning. Traditionally it's the game that | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
nobody really wants to be involved in if you play today with the first | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
test against the All Blacks just four days away in Auckland, it's | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
unlikely you'll play in that one. The game is in Hamilton. It's under | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
way. It's against the Chiefs. The stadium had extra seating employed. | :16:33. | :16:39. | |
It means there is some 30,000. The two previous defeats have come from | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
this midweek team if you like so. A lot to prove for them and Warren | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
Gatland the coach of the Lions insist they can still prove that | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
they are capable of taking their place either on president bench or | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
in the starting 15 even for that first test. So who has been | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
impressing? Let's look at the best of the action so far. Somebody who | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
hasn't been, that's the England prop, barging off the ball into the | :17:03. | :17:09. | |
Chiefs prop and so he has seen ten minute in the sin-bin. A couple of | :17:10. | :17:17. | |
penalties exchanged through Bigger. An opportunist try in the 25th | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
minute to give the Lions what is with about five minutes until | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
half-time, a 13-3 lead over the Chiefs. | :17:28. | :17:29. | |
Onto tennis and Andy Murray begins the defence of his | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
That's right. He won it five times, trying to win it for a sixth time. | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
The five times that he has won it so far is a record for the Queen's | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
tournament. Including of those 5-1 in each of the years that he has | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
gone on to win Wimbledon. So clearly, it's an important part of | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
his process in warming up for the home Grand Slam. The world number | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
one said he played some of his best ten us at Queen's. Vital preparation | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
for him, but it's not the only reason that he loves Queen's. | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
It was where I won my first professional match. So I have a lot | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
of great memories over the years. I've played, it has been my most | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
successful tournament. I love the courts here. I like the conditions. | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
It's very close to where I live. So I get to stay at home. | :18:15. | :18:21. | |
It is always important to not to have too much of a commute. He plays | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
this afternoon, another Brit, Kyle Edmund lost in his first round | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
match. Also in Birmingham, this week, the women have another one of | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
those pre-Wimbledon tournaments. Naomi Brodie is through to the last | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
16 there. She managed to beat the world number 39. In the end it was | :18:42. | :18:50. | |
7-6, 6-0 two contrasting sets. Heather Watson lost. Johanna Konta | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
who is seeded number four for the Birmingham classic, she will take to | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
the court to start her campaign. She's playing a Ukrainian. You can | :19:00. | :19:06. | |
follow that on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra. They have commentary | :19:07. | :19:07. | |
from 1pm. In a proudly multicultural area | :19:08. | :19:15. | |
of London, where the biggest rivalry is normally if you support Arsenal | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
or Spurs, the UK endured its fourth A group of Muslim worshippers | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
were hit when a van mounted the pavement and drove into them | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
in Finsbury Park. The attack happened during Ramadan, | :19:27. | :19:28. | |
Muslim's holy month, after midnight, when many people | :19:29. | :19:30. | |
were there attending The Metropolitan Police Commissioner | :19:31. | :19:32. | |
Cressida Dick said the Finsbury Park incident was "quite clearly | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
an attack on Muslims". With the final days of Ramadan | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
being particularly significant and Eid celebrations planned | :19:43. | :19:44. | |
for early next week, does the attack play | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
into the hands of extremists and does the community | :19:49. | :19:49. | |
here feel safe? Just to practice our religion, | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
we have to look behind our backs. We're living in fear. | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
We shouldn't have to live like this. Like my daughter, who is working, | :20:01. | :20:09. | |
they couldn't, this That's the last thing you need, | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
like, it feels like, you know, As a Muslim how do I keep my son and | :20:15. | :20:39. | |
I safe? Because we don't feel safe at the moment. I didn't want to send | :20:40. | :20:41. | |
him to school. Well, first of all, I'm a Muslim, | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
I have children, I know many members of the community across Britain that | :20:46. | :20:52. | |
have expressed a very similar They hear all of these things | :20:53. | :20:54. | |
happening in London, as a Muslim, Those who try to divide us | :20:55. | :21:05. | |
and who aim to spread fear, hatred She prays most nights | :21:06. | :21:31. | |
at Finsbury Park Mosque and says the attack isn't | :21:32. | :21:45. | |
going to stop her from going back to pray, despite her | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
family being afraid. Ruqaiya Haris has seen a rise | :21:49. | :21:50. | |
in Islamaphobic attacks online since the attacks in Manchester | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
and London took place. Also joining us is Ishmerai | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
Muhammad, a bouncer who helped to save people during the Borough | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
market attack a few weeks ago. He says as the attackers | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
raised their knives and shouted "this is for Allah," he stepped out | :22:07. | :22:08. | |
to save people as he believed they weren't acting | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
in the name of his faith. We hope to speak to Mohammed Kozber, | :22:12. | :22:22. | |
Chairman of Finsbury Park Mosque. Tell us how you are feeling in the | :22:23. | :22:30. | |
aftermath of this attack. First of all, hello. I can't say that I'm | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
particularly shocked. We live in a climate right now where there is | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
such a high rise in Islamophobia, you know, visibly Muslim people are | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
being attacked verbally and physically on our streets every | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
single day. So I'm not going to sit here and say that, you know, people | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
weren't fearing for their lives. I mean we didn't expect to be as | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
horrific as we have seen. But I mean I'm trying not to let it, you know, | :23:00. | :23:06. | |
deter me from going about my normal life and you know going to the | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
mosque. So what sort of things have you experienced? I mean, I don't | :23:11. | :23:17. | |
feel like, I feel like every visibly Muslim person has experienced some | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
form of Islamophobia. I've had close friends of mine... Sorry, have you | :23:21. | :23:28. | |
directly? Yeah, I mean, I've experienced a lot of Islamophobia, | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
but it has not been as horrific as so many things that my close friends | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
have experienced, but I don't think, it's not necessary... What have you | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
experienced specifically and what have your friends experienced | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
specifically that you say is worse than snuff You don't feel safe | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
walking on the street. You feel like you're blamed. You feel because of | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
the type of messages that are going on in the media, no one looks at you | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
and thinks she is just a normal member of society. Sorry to keep | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
interrupting, but I'm wondering why you think that is how people are | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
seeing you? Why I think it's happening to people like me because | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
I'm visibly Muslim? Why do you have that prospective that people are | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
looking at you in that way? Because I look Muslim. Because of the type | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
of messages that the media are perpetuating, silly headlines that | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
one in five Muslim sympathise with radicalism. Things that are not | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
true. How do you think it makes us feel that some people in the UK are | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
sitting at home, have never met a Muslim person and never inat the | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
acted with a Muslim person and they are listening to these headlines, | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
they are going to slowly internalise this message that all Muslims are a | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
threat. I have had friends that had their hijaabs ripped off and their | :24:55. | :25:01. | |
niqabs ripped off in the street. I wouldn't say we live like we feel, | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
you know, free in our streets which is such a sad feeling, but it's, the | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
reality is Islamophobia is a reality. You also say that you've | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
experienced increased Islamophobia. Tell us what your experiences have | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
been? Every time there is an attack, there is a big spike in | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
Islamophobia, that's kind of reported statistically. I've | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
experienced that online countless times. I think any Muslim person who | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
is actually remotely in the kind of public eye talks about these kinds | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
of issues. Braces themselves for, you know, a kind of onslaught of | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
abusive messages. Targeted at them solely for being Muslim really and | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
even, you know, I've said before actually that even when I sent | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
condolence to say victims after a terror attack or talk about how | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
Muslims have actually condemned these kinds of things and what | :25:59. | :26:01. | |
Muslim communities have done to deter extremism, I still get | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
Islamophobic abuse which kind of shows me, it doesn't really matter | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
who somebody says, it is not about somebody being extreme, it is just | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
the fact that they are a Muslim. Do you feel that your experiences are | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
taken seriously? Not particularly, but then you know I do understand | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
that in the kind of online sort of realm, it's very difficult for, I | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
think, social media platforms to actually track every single kind of | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
instance of abuse especially when it is such a huge amount... Has your | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
experience been online rather than face-to-face? Online. But what is | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
quite terrifying, you have friends that you've heard these kind of | :26:44. | :26:46. | |
stories and when I'm seeing these kind of abusive messages online, of | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
course, most people are empowered by that anonymity, but it doesn't mean | :26:53. | :26:55. | |
thaw don't feel threatened when you go out and about. Just because | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
something violent or abusive kind of hasn't happened to me yet in person, | :27:01. | :27:03. | |
just the fact that I get that online, makes me think that it could | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
very well happen. Obviously, as you say, online trolling is people do it | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
behind the mask of anonymity. People behaving actually face-to-face is a | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
different thing. Do you, you know, when you are out and about, you say | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
that you have this perception because of what you're experiencing | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
on line, but the day-to-day reality do you feel that there is | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
integration and how do you feel that you are seen? It depends really | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
where I am. It depends what time of day I'm travelling. I've said | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
actually before that in most areas of London, especially in Central | :27:42. | :27:44. | |
London I do feel quite safe. There is a sizeable Muslim population in | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
London. So I think people are quite used to our presence here. It might | :27:49. | :27:51. | |
be very different in the rest of the UK and from what I've heard it is | :27:52. | :27:56. | |
and there is different statistics of attacks and things like that, but | :27:57. | :27:58. | |
then, you know, at the same time when I travel late at night, and you | :27:59. | :28:02. | |
know, I'm on the Tube and people are very drunk and there is a kind of | :28:03. | :28:05. | |
hostility that you can feel like people can make comments or they can | :28:06. | :28:08. | |
just give you horrible looks and you know what it is, you know. Are you | :28:09. | :28:14. | |
reassured now that the Metropolitan Police Commissioner has said this | :28:15. | :28:18. | |
incident in Finsbury Park was clearly an attack on Muslims and the | :28:19. | :28:22. | |
community will now see more police including armed officers in the area | :28:23. | :28:25. | |
particularly around religious establishments. Has what has | :28:26. | :28:31. | |
happened here kind of changed, sort of brought this effectively out into | :28:32. | :28:34. | |
the open in a way that's being discussed and looked at more | :28:35. | :28:38. | |
closely? I mean, I think, it's really promising and it's good that | :28:39. | :28:42. | |
it's actually being referred to as a terrorist incident number one. I | :28:43. | :28:44. | |
think that's really important and it has helped a lot of Muslims be able | :28:45. | :28:49. | |
to deal with the reality of it knowing that people do see it as | :28:50. | :28:52. | |
terrorism, but unfortunately, it's not really enough and we have to | :28:53. | :28:55. | |
look at how are these kind of opinions really coming out? What | :28:56. | :29:00. | |
are, you know, we see this kind of Islamophobia being reproduced this | :29:01. | :29:03. | |
the press time and time again. We have to ask how these people, | :29:04. | :29:06. | |
because it's not just this terror attack, this might have been the | :29:07. | :29:11. | |
most serious one against Muslims in a while, but you know the same year | :29:12. | :29:16. | |
that Lee Rigby was murdered we had a 75-year-old man in Birmingham who | :29:17. | :29:20. | |
was walking home from the mosque, he was stabbed and killed. It is not | :29:21. | :29:24. | |
really a new thing for the Muslims, but it might be a new thing for | :29:25. | :29:29. | |
wider society to recognise, but women have their scarfs pulled off | :29:30. | :29:32. | |
in the day and are spat on. These kind of things keep happening and we | :29:33. | :29:36. | |
have to look at Hamas opinions, what kind of opinions are actually e-Six | :29:37. | :29:41. | |
Nationsly radicalising you know the people that are responsible for this | :29:42. | :29:44. | |
kind of Islamophobic abuse and violent attacks. You wanted to come | :29:45. | :29:52. | |
in... Yeah, I felt like, it's almost become like a nOlal thing. It's | :29:53. | :29:56. | |
normalised. It's almost become like, you know, like the norm for Muslim | :29:57. | :30:01. | |
women to walk up the street and expect to have their hijabs pulled | :30:02. | :30:04. | |
off and to expect comments being made and I do feel like, it is | :30:05. | :30:10. | |
important and it is, you know reassuring that we have an increased | :30:11. | :30:14. | |
presence of police especially around mosques and other places of worship, | :30:15. | :30:18. | |
but I do feel as people we need it start asking questions. We need to | :30:19. | :30:24. | |
start addressing the underlying issue of Islamophobia and hate crime | :30:25. | :30:27. | |
and why they happen in the first place and how we as a society can | :30:28. | :30:34. | |
tackle it? You were at Borough Market, you were working in security | :30:35. | :30:38. | |
in Borough Market when that happened and you also went to Finsbury Park | :30:39. | :30:43. | |
as well. What's your view on the kind of way, the responses to these | :30:44. | :30:45. | |
different attacks? Do you mean from the community or | :30:46. | :30:51. | |
the media? The media and the community? For the most part, when | :30:52. | :30:56. | |
you look at the incidents that take place, the route of it is you are | :30:57. | :31:03. | |
dealing with a lot of people who're misinformed and uneducated. What | :31:04. | :31:08. | |
I've seen from the community is quite a promising response. People | :31:09. | :31:13. | |
are very clear that there is a distinction between that of those | :31:14. | :31:17. | |
who carry out extremist attacks if the name of religion and those | :31:18. | :31:21. | |
who're sincere believes in a religion like myself. There were | :31:22. | :31:25. | |
many who did not know that I was a Muslim, so when these men came | :31:26. | :31:28. | |
towards us with the knife saying, this is for Allah, my first thought | :31:29. | :31:34. | |
was, not the Allah I serve, because that's so far-fetched from where we | :31:35. | :31:38. | |
are guided to by the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him. We just | :31:39. | :31:43. | |
don't condone that. We don't stand for that at all. I want to bring in | :31:44. | :31:48. | |
the head of Finsbury Park mosque on the phone. Thank you very much for | :31:49. | :31:53. | |
joining us. Four terror attacks now in the UK in three months but the | :31:54. | :31:58. | |
first that has specifically targeted Muslims. What is your reaction to | :31:59. | :32:06. | |
that? Well, it's shocking. We have been shocked by the incident | :32:07. | :32:11. | |
yesterday or the day before. As we have been shocked by the terrorist | :32:12. | :32:16. | |
attack which happened in Manchester, Westminster and London Bridge. | :32:17. | :32:22. | |
Terrorists have no religion. We are all united against the terrorist | :32:23. | :32:27. | |
attacks. These extremists, wherever they come from, or whatever | :32:28. | :32:30. | |
background they come from, their aim is to divide us, to create fear, | :32:31. | :32:37. | |
division and hatred. We'll not let them do that. Yesterday in Finsbury | :32:38. | :32:42. | |
Park, we showed how we can get together as communities. We have | :32:43. | :32:47. | |
hundreds of people come to a vigil yesterday outside the mosque. Faith | :32:48. | :32:51. | |
leaders, community leaders, politicians, media - all got | :32:52. | :32:56. | |
together to send a strong message to the extremists that they'll not win | :32:57. | :33:01. | |
over us and we are all united against their hatred and their | :33:02. | :33:07. | |
attack on our communities. Yesterday we had the Prime Minister, Theresa | :33:08. | :33:12. | |
May, she come to visit the mosque and listened to the concerns of the | :33:13. | :33:16. | |
community, the faith leaders, who spoke with her about the rise of | :33:17. | :33:20. | |
Islamophobia and how much thissish use is making a big problem to, not | :33:21. | :33:25. | |
just the Muslim community, but to the wider side. There is a woman | :33:26. | :33:35. | |
saying she can't go to the station at night alone any more. We are in | :33:36. | :33:42. | |
Britain's 21st century and we'll never should let these things happen | :33:43. | :33:48. | |
in our country. We are all united against extremists and mosques like | :33:49. | :33:53. | |
Finsbury Park mosque doing whatever they can to prevent extremists from | :33:54. | :33:59. | |
being in our mosque and community centres. We are doing whatever we | :34:00. | :34:05. | |
can as mosques to make sure that we engage positively with the community | :34:06. | :34:10. | |
and this proved yesterday when even Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Leader who | :34:11. | :34:15. | |
came and addressed the community as well at Finsbury Park mosque, the | :34:16. | :34:18. | |
Police Commissioner as well. This is the spirit we want, we want the | :34:19. | :34:23. | |
spirit of unity against those that have tried to divide us. Thank you | :34:24. | :34:28. | |
very much. Thank you also to my other guests. | :34:29. | :34:32. | |
Still to come,we speak to a family who lived on the 15th floor | :34:33. | :34:38. | |
and managed to escape the Grenfell Tower blaze. | :34:39. | :34:48. | |
We'll talk to them about where they've been staying since that | :34:49. | :34:53. | |
night. Returning to elite sport after having a child, Sarah Sterey | :34:54. | :34:59. | |
and successful British female paralympian has been finding out | :35:00. | :35:03. | |
what is being done to keep mums in sport. | :35:04. | :35:10. | |
The Serious Fraud Office has charged Barclays | :35:11. | :35:14. | |
and four former executives - including its chief | :35:15. | :35:17. | |
executive, John Varley - with fraud over the bank's dealings | :35:18. | :35:21. | |
with Qatar at the height of the financial crisis. | :35:22. | :35:24. | |
Barclays raised emergency funding from Qatar in 2008 to avoid | :35:25. | :35:27. | |
Our correspondent Simon Gompertz is here. | :35:28. | :35:33. | |
Explain what the charges are about, Simon? This goes back to 2008, the | :35:34. | :35:40. | |
financial crisis. If you remember, the taxpayer was called in to rescue | :35:41. | :35:46. | |
two major banks, Lloyds and RBS, but they weren't the only ones who faced | :35:47. | :35:50. | |
financial challenges. Barclays was one of those. Rather than calling on | :35:51. | :35:58. | |
the taxpayer, it went to Arab oil-rich investors to raise money on | :35:59. | :36:04. | |
its own account and in 2008, in two trans.s, it raised ?12 billion in | :36:05. | :36:09. | |
order to keep the bank going. So at the time, it was seen as the bank | :36:10. | :36:13. | |
that managed to rescue itself. But then questions immediately started | :36:14. | :36:16. | |
being asked about how that money had been raised. That is what these | :36:17. | :36:22. | |
charges relate to. So, as you say, the bank itself, Barclays Plc faces | :36:23. | :36:27. | |
fraud charges, but also John Varley, the Chief Executive and Roger | :36:28. | :36:32. | |
Jenkins who was a major figure in arranging that financing, Thomas | :36:33. | :36:37. | |
Colarres, a former Chief Executive and Richard Both, high up in the | :36:38. | :36:42. | |
bank at the time. They all face high charges, some in relation to the | :36:43. | :36:47. | |
first money-raising in June 2008 and two of them, Mr Varley and Mr | :36:48. | :36:55. | |
Jenkins were later fund-raising in the same year. What are the | :36:56. | :36:59. | |
questions around how the money was raised? One is that there were | :37:00. | :37:04. | |
advisory fees of obvious ?300 million paid to the Qataris and | :37:05. | :37:10. | |
there's questions over the status and transparency of the fees. The | :37:11. | :37:15. | |
other question is over a loan of over ?2 billion that was made by | :37:16. | :37:21. | |
Barclays to the Qataris and there's a suggestion that some of that money | :37:22. | :37:25. | |
might have been used then to help them financially when they were | :37:26. | :37:28. | |
buying shares in Barclays to shore up the company. So both of those | :37:29. | :37:38. | |
things at the Serious Fraud Office's attention. Nine years ago, these | :37:39. | :37:42. | |
investigations have been going on for five years, this is the first | :37:43. | :37:47. | |
time that a British bank Chief Executive has faced criminal fraud | :37:48. | :37:51. | |
charges over events that happened during the financial crisis. Thank | :37:52. | :37:57. | |
you very much. Now let us catch up with all the news with Annita in the | :37:58. | :38:00. | |
newsroom. The family of a man arrested | :38:01. | :38:03. | |
after a terror attack near a London mosque say they are "shocked" | :38:04. | :38:06. | |
and "devastated". Father-of-four Darren Osborne, | :38:07. | :38:09. | |
was held on suspicion of attempted murder and terror offences | :38:10. | :38:11. | |
after a van hit Muslim Last night, the Mayor of London, | :38:12. | :38:14. | |
Sadiq Khan, addressed a vigil Make sure we remember | :38:15. | :38:18. | |
that these terrorists, whatever their inspiration, | :38:19. | :38:25. | |
do not speak for the vast, vast majority of people, | :38:26. | :38:29. | |
and what they want to do is attack our values, | :38:30. | :38:31. | |
our freedoms and the respect we have for each other, | :38:32. | :38:35. | |
and we are not going The Serious Fraud Office has charged | :38:36. | :38:38. | |
Barclays and four former executives including its former chief | :38:39. | :38:45. | |
executive, John Varley with fraud. The charges relate to emergency | :38:46. | :38:48. | |
funding the bank raised from Qatar and Abu Dhabi in 2008 to avoid | :38:49. | :38:54. | |
a bail out. The payments were recorded | :38:55. | :39:23. | |
by the Government's newly formed It said 78 families had been | :39:24. | :39:25. | |
rehoused either locally or in neighbouring boroughs and that | :39:26. | :39:30. | |
126 hotel places had been secured. It's the final chance | :39:31. | :39:41. | |
for the Lions players to impress They're playing their last warm up | :39:42. | :39:44. | |
game before Saturday's first test Jack Nowell has scored the only try | :39:45. | :39:47. | |
of the match so far, Other than that, two penalties | :39:48. | :39:55. | |
apiece and at half time, A crucial victory for | :39:56. | :39:59. | |
the England under 21s Nathan Redmond scores the winner | :40:00. | :40:02. | |
as they come from behind They're top of their group | :40:03. | :40:06. | |
and will qualify for the semi Andy Murray plays a Brit on Centre | :40:07. | :40:19. | |
Court this afternoon, saying another successful week in London will be a | :40:20. | :40:23. | |
big boost to his Wimbledon preparations. And that is all the | :40:24. | :40:28. | |
sport for you for now. Much more after 10. | :40:29. | :40:31. | |
Around 80 of the families who lost everything in the Grenfell tower | :40:32. | :40:34. | |
fire are being rehoused this week, as the slow process of recovery | :40:35. | :40:37. | |
The initial ?5 million fund allocated to support them has begun | :40:38. | :40:44. | |
to be distributed; around 180 families have received ?5,000. | :40:45. | :40:49. | |
But the greatest cost of the tragedy was in human lives. | :40:50. | :40:52. | |
It is understood that at least 79 people died and there's been anger | :40:53. | :40:56. | |
at the official response and what some call the chaos | :40:57. | :40:58. | |
The government and the Kensington council have come in for | :40:59. | :41:03. | |
The government has now written to local authorities | :41:04. | :41:08. | |
across the country, asking them to check if tower blocks have been | :41:09. | :41:11. | |
cladded using similar materials to those at the Grenfell site. | :41:12. | :41:13. | |
Jim Reed is here with the latest on that part of the investigation. | :41:14. | :41:17. | |
There are now a series of investigations going | :41:18. | :41:20. | |
And they'll look at the materials used in the construction. | :41:21. | :41:26. | |
If we look at the outside of Grenfell Tower. | :41:27. | :41:29. | |
There's a number of reports that the fire started | :41:30. | :41:35. | |
The first call to the fire service at five to midnight. | :41:36. | :41:47. | |
By 01.15 there were reports it had reached the 17th floor. | :41:48. | :41:55. | |
That's had fire safety experts very worried, it simply | :41:56. | :42:00. | |
This is footage first aired on the BBC's Panorama programme last | :42:01. | :42:07. | |
night of Firefighters on the way to the blaze. | :42:08. | :42:11. | |
So that shows just how out of the ordinary this was? | :42:12. | :43:03. | |
Yes so the question is how did the fire spread so quickly? | :43:04. | :43:07. | |
But a lot of attention still on the cladding | :43:08. | :43:18. | |
Last year there was a ?10 million project to improve the block. | :43:19. | :43:28. | |
Covered the building in something called ACM, stands | :43:29. | :43:31. | |
It's two sheets of metal with a filler inside. The brand is called | :43:32. | :43:54. | |
Reynerbond. That is the brand that was used. There are three different | :43:55. | :43:59. | |
types of that material with different levels of protection. From | :44:00. | :44:03. | |
speaking to the supplier, we think they used the most flammable | :44:04. | :44:07. | |
version, the least fire retardant, the one with a so-called plastic | :44:08. | :44:11. | |
core. That version is banned in much of the US and Europe to buildings of | :44:12. | :44:14. | |
this height. So why are these panels | :44:15. | :44:22. | |
allowed in the UK? Well the government says says, | :44:23. | :44:27. | |
in fact, they are not. And using them above 18m | :44:28. | :44:29. | |
would breach building regulations. This was the chancellor | :44:30. | :44:32. | |
speaking over the weekend. My understanding is that the | :44:33. | :44:38. | |
cladding in question, this flammable cladding which is banned in Europe | :44:39. | :44:42. | |
and the US, is also banned here. That is my understanding. So why did | :44:43. | :44:46. | |
it go up? So there are two separate questions, one is, are our | :44:47. | :44:50. | |
regulations correct, do they permit the right kind of materials and ban | :44:51. | :44:55. | |
the wrong kind of materials? Second question is, were they correctly | :44:56. | :44:57. | |
complied? The company which supplied | :44:58. | :44:59. | |
the panels told us that And in fact they would not be | :45:00. | :45:11. | |
banned at all in the UK. There appears to be confusion. One | :45:12. | :45:24. | |
person I spoke to describes them as clear as mud so presumably it's | :45:25. | :45:27. | |
something the Government will be looking at. They have now written to | :45:28. | :45:30. | |
every council in the country saying, if you use panels like this, you | :45:31. | :45:35. | |
need to send samples as quickly as possible so that they can be tested | :45:36. | :45:40. | |
to see how fire retardant they are. I should mention the main contractor | :45:41. | :45:44. | |
said it did meet all required building regulations and the company | :45:45. | :45:47. | |
which installed the panels said it was not aware of any link between | :45:48. | :45:52. | |
the fire and the exterior cladding to this tower. | :45:53. | :45:59. | |
As those investigations continue, stories of how people survived | :46:00. | :46:02. | |
Let's talk to Sid-Ali Atmani and his wife Rashida Ali who lived | :46:03. | :46:08. | |
Thank you for joining us. I was watching you both while we were | :46:09. | :46:18. | |
looking at those pictures. I mean they are distressing for anyone to | :46:19. | :46:22. | |
look at, but that was your home. Yes. How are you coping a week on? | :46:23. | :46:29. | |
It's hard. It's like I see everyone I know in the building and I keep | :46:30. | :46:38. | |
remembering, my eyes I'm getting, their faces, every second. I'm | :46:39. | :46:43. | |
remembering every few hours someone. I forget that person. I didn't know | :46:44. | :46:47. | |
if he's safe. If that person. And most of the people I used to know, | :46:48. | :46:54. | |
they lived on the top floors and I have been looking for them for two | :46:55. | :47:02. | |
days after, I stayed and came back and I looked everywhere to see if | :47:03. | :47:08. | |
they survived, but no one. All the familiar faces, no one survived. On | :47:09. | :47:13. | |
every single level what you are coping with right now is obviously | :47:14. | :47:19. | |
just incredibly difficult... We're feeling like we're still there. | :47:20. | :47:24. | |
That's what we feel. We feel like it's a dream. It's not true. It's | :47:25. | :47:28. | |
not happening. It's like, even now I'm sitting down here and I'm | :47:29. | :47:34. | |
watching the building, nobody can believe that what happened. What | :47:35. | :47:41. | |
help have you had? At the beginning, we wasn't happy. We were unhappy | :47:42. | :47:49. | |
because I think the council, they haven't set up properly a programme | :47:50. | :47:52. | |
like bringing groups to deal with it. For example one of the families | :47:53. | :48:01. | |
have a victim and while we are based in hotel, there is old ladies, their | :48:02. | :48:05. | |
condition is very bad. They should have sent the first priority, they | :48:06. | :48:10. | |
have to prioritise and send the doctors to the hotels and send | :48:11. | :48:14. | |
counsellors to the hotels, not asking people to go to the doctors | :48:15. | :48:17. | |
or if you need help. They should have done it. They should... So | :48:18. | :48:23. | |
immediately after it had happened and you got had got out with your | :48:24. | :48:27. | |
lives, although with nothing else, where did you go? Where did you | :48:28. | :48:32. | |
stay? We stayed the first night I was in hospital. From He was in | :48:33. | :48:38. | |
hospital. My wife, she stayed with her mum. I took my daughter to my | :48:39. | :48:46. | |
mum, first to my friend and I came back, I stayed awake, going through | :48:47. | :48:52. | |
all the centres, going, I was standing with the ambulance all | :48:53. | :48:55. | |
night to see if my friend made it, if anyone came out, if the children | :48:56. | :49:01. | |
we used to go to school every morning together, are they all | :49:02. | :49:04. | |
saved. I didn't recognise anyone. There was a lot of people in the | :49:05. | :49:10. | |
building and my neighbour is called Steve, he didn't make it. Yeah, | :49:11. | :49:15. | |
Steve. He was a friendly guy. He has four dogs. We used to chat every | :49:16. | :49:20. | |
morning, every day. He was a great man. I just felt like I left hill | :49:21. | :49:27. | |
behind. Because I didn't recognise there is a fire. I just went down | :49:28. | :49:32. | |
just to see maybe I will come back again. And I just left. I took my | :49:33. | :49:38. | |
daughter and I left. I didn't knock on my neighbours and that's | :49:39. | :49:41. | |
really... These things are obviously playing over and over. Why I didn't | :49:42. | :49:49. | |
do that, why Save someone next to me or anyone. It is completely | :49:50. | :49:54. | |
understandable that will be causing you concern going forward. I was | :49:55. | :49:59. | |
sleeping to be honest with you. My wife, she smelt and she came to me | :50:00. | :50:04. | |
and said, "I smell smoke." I was very ill. I wasn't, I couldn't even | :50:05. | :50:13. | |
stand. She had to help me to go to use the toilet or to wash. I | :50:14. | :50:17. | |
couldn't eat. I zbt eat for three days. He had a high temperature the | :50:18. | :50:21. | |
night before and I was giving him medication. She was about to tell me | :50:22. | :50:25. | |
we go to hospital, we go in the ambulance. I told him, I will carry | :50:26. | :50:30. | |
you. I don't think it's a big deal. I think it's a small fire. Just go | :50:31. | :50:34. | |
down and you will come back. As soon as I left the building with my | :50:35. | :50:38. | |
daughter and I turn and I saw half of the building burning. You just | :50:39. | :50:42. | |
left my daughter with a stranger and I ran back inside. I went to the | :50:43. | :50:45. | |
second floor and then I was stopped and I told them my husband, he can't | :50:46. | :50:51. | |
walk, can you bring him? I give the key and no one could reach him | :50:52. | :50:57. | |
really in that time. I thought I lost him. I didn't want to turn back | :50:58. | :51:02. | |
after 20 minute to say my daughter and say to her, "I don't think your | :51:03. | :51:07. | |
dad's coming out. I don't think he can make it." He came after I lost | :51:08. | :51:12. | |
hope. He came out like drowsy, didn't know where he is. I heard a | :51:13. | :51:20. | |
sound. It was a very strange sound, the window, because I was sleeping | :51:21. | :51:26. | |
in my daughter's room. I didn't want to be ill. I stayed in the other | :51:27. | :51:30. | |
room and I heard some things like, even though I was sick and I can't | :51:31. | :51:38. | |
describe that sound. And when I opened the window I saw fire. I saw | :51:39. | :51:44. | |
fire in the window going up. I said my god, my wife she is all right, | :51:45. | :51:49. | |
that's what is going on. Are you both getting support in terms of | :51:50. | :51:52. | |
being able to actually talk to people about this? Because, you | :51:53. | :51:56. | |
know, obviously there is a lot of discussion around the practical | :51:57. | :52:01. | |
assistance, the fund. Firstly have you had money from the fund? | :52:02. | :52:06. | |
Yesterday. Yesterday we had. On Fridayle we had ?500 from the | :52:07. | :52:13. | |
council. Then yesterday we went back to Portobello Post Office and they | :52:14. | :52:18. | |
were giving ?500 to adults. We had ?1,000. Yeah. So that's something to | :52:19. | :52:25. | |
help you start, but I asked also about, you know, the other support | :52:26. | :52:30. | |
just the sort of human support. What are you... There is a lot of, we did | :52:31. | :52:38. | |
yesterday. There is a lot of donations, Muslim, British people, | :52:39. | :52:41. | |
they come from everywhere. Everywhere. That's why I wasn't | :52:42. | :52:46. | |
happy because they organised very fast, it was very fast, more faster | :52:47. | :52:53. | |
than the counselling they did. Talk us through them. You say at the | :52:54. | :52:56. | |
beginning you were in hospital, you went to your mum's and then have you | :52:57. | :53:01. | |
been staying in hotels subsequently? I have been, we went to the hospital | :53:02. | :53:07. | |
for one night and then we have been told that we are in Hammersmith and | :53:08. | :53:14. | |
then I went back Friday to the rugby club because we were meeting there | :53:15. | :53:21. | |
with other people who survived. And I didn't know everyone is going to | :53:22. | :53:26. | |
westway, I was in the rugby club most of the time. I waited until the | :53:27. | :53:35. | |
evening to be told where to go and around 6.30pm... Who told you? It | :53:36. | :53:43. | |
was the council. The officers, they were calling me and social worker | :53:44. | :53:49. | |
and people was like, keep calling and telling me did you get | :53:50. | :53:52. | |
somewhere? I said no, I'm still waiting. In the end, through the | :53:53. | :53:59. | |
evening, they told me to go to where we are now, Kensington high street, | :54:00. | :54:03. | |
the Tower Hotel. When I went there, my name wasn't on the list and the | :54:04. | :54:08. | |
receptionist couldn't find my name and anything and I was so lucky, | :54:09. | :54:15. | |
there was two ladies, a social worker just arrived and they were | :54:16. | :54:19. | |
arguing with them until they took my name and wrote it down and then they | :54:20. | :54:23. | |
gave me a single room with my daughter and I told them, we are | :54:24. | :54:28. | |
three persons and my husband is coming. I want a suitable, they | :54:29. | :54:35. | |
say... That's only because they are following the procedures. That's all | :54:36. | :54:39. | |
we have available. In the night again we saw the manager and we told | :54:40. | :54:43. | |
him the situation and the manager offered us another single room. He | :54:44. | :54:48. | |
said don't worry I will give you this. It's a very busy hotel. Two | :54:49. | :54:54. | |
single rooms. Is that where you have been staying? My wife is away from | :54:55. | :55:04. | |
me about two rooms. Two doors away. How long is this going to go on? I | :55:05. | :55:09. | |
received a call yesterday from the council. Someone, a volunteer in | :55:10. | :55:19. | |
westway, it was a guy, he was doing a job there. He saw me and he knew I | :55:20. | :55:26. | |
was frustrated. The guy from the council gave a call and he started, | :55:27. | :55:31. | |
he said to them, "Look, because this family, they are traumatised and." | :55:32. | :55:36. | |
My daughter isn't sleeping. She doesn't sleep. My wife doesn't sleep | :55:37. | :55:44. | |
because it is the ninth floor. We can't look out the windows. So I | :55:45. | :55:51. | |
received a call from the council yesterday and she tried to provide, | :55:52. | :55:59. | |
to find another location. She said I can't do it now because it is no way | :56:00. | :56:07. | |
to do it. There is many people. ." I said to her why are people on high | :56:08. | :56:12. | |
floors? She said, we know about the deaf stags, we tried to get the | :56:13. | :56:16. | |
ground floor, for everyone, but we couldn't. Have you had any word on | :56:17. | :56:22. | |
when you might get accommodation that you can actually move into? No, | :56:23. | :56:28. | |
nothing. Today, I'm expecting a call today from the council. She will | :56:29. | :56:33. | |
give me a call today regarding... So what do you need? And what do you | :56:34. | :56:40. | |
want right now? We want, we're hoping, we're hoping, the council, | :56:41. | :56:48. | |
mistakes happen. They panicked luke we're panicked. We're not blaming | :56:49. | :56:53. | |
the council. We're blaming no one. We understand the situation. We | :56:54. | :56:58. | |
understand what we are, what's going to happen. We understand that, but | :56:59. | :57:08. | |
we need support, physically, to come to us, mentally. They need to come | :57:09. | :57:12. | |
to the hotels. They need to speak to us and keep us updated. There is | :57:13. | :57:19. | |
nothing happening. And we heard recently the council has put their | :57:20. | :57:28. | |
hand up and they gave all the process to different councillors. | :57:29. | :57:35. | |
The victims are scared, they start to think negatively and they say... | :57:36. | :57:39. | |
If you have to move away? From the borough, from where we used to live. | :57:40. | :57:44. | |
Where we had all our family. We were hoping our council... Health issues, | :57:45. | :57:51. | |
everything. We're willing to help them to support the council. You | :57:52. | :57:57. | |
want to stay in the area... Wet can't. We know nothing. We don't | :57:58. | :58:02. | |
know nothing. If they come to speak to us and tell us we're here. To | :58:03. | :58:12. | |
give us peaceful. Mama is an old lady. She is lives in the second | :58:13. | :58:17. | |
floorment her condition is very bad. She can't take that. There is | :58:18. | :58:21. | |
another Syrian, as well, she is a lovely lady. She is disabled as | :58:22. | :58:26. | |
well. You know the Syrian who escaped with his... With his | :58:27. | :58:30. | |
brother. The one wearing the glasses, the Syrian. They escaped, | :58:31. | :58:34. | |
but she is with us in hotel. She is terrified. She is hugging all the | :58:35. | :58:40. | |
time and she is terrified. We are all terrified. I just want to say I | :58:41. | :58:53. | |
really have a lot of anger to the organisation, TMO, the TMO failed | :58:54. | :58:59. | |
everyone living in the area. They were ignoring everything. They were | :59:00. | :59:03. | |
ignoring people... You have been going back, concerns of residents... | :59:04. | :59:08. | |
Yes. Was it something that you had raised? Yeah. We have been going in | :59:09. | :59:14. | |
meetings since we moved to the building. What time was that? We | :59:15. | :59:20. | |
moved two years ago. Everything was still like going on in the building. | :59:21. | :59:25. | |
They were changing and fixing the building at that time. I saw all the | :59:26. | :59:32. | |
neighbours, they were angry. They were complaining complaining. They | :59:33. | :59:35. | |
were having meetings with the council. There was that big | :59:36. | :59:40. | |
refurbishment. Nearly ?10 million was spent. The inside didn't look | :59:41. | :59:46. | |
good. It doesn't look good. They didn't do anything inside. They | :59:47. | :59:51. | |
changed a boiler and they did the boiler next to the door, the flat | :59:52. | :59:56. | |
door. The entrance of the main flat. I used to sleep if this boiler blows | :59:57. | :00:02. | |
up how am I going to leave the flat? We told him... We refused and they | :00:03. | :00:11. | |
did it. They did it. They said, "Don't worry, this system is safe. | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
Everything is safe." People used to come every Saturday knock on the | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
door to want to fit a new gas pipe in the front of the door. That's | :00:21. | :00:28. | |
recently. It was a few months now. They only come Saturday. One of the | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
neighbours says, "I will take your picture and I will make sure if this | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
is right." They left. They say, "No, we will come back again." They ran | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
out. It's like there was something going on. | :00:42. | :00:53. | |
We used to stay half an hour. The lift was broken. How is your | :00:54. | :01:01. | |
daughter, your ten-year-old, you said she's really struggling? She | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
didn't want to go out or go to school and she was telling me, I | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
can't sleep because I don't want to wake up again and the same thing | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
happen, I don't want to see fire again. It took her two to three | :01:15. | :01:22. | |
nights to just feel, you know, calmer. When I went out and opened | :01:23. | :01:31. | |
the main door and saw the smoke, it was everywhere. I couldn't see | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
anything through the smoke and oh, my God, I closed the door, it's the | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
first action, that's what I reacted to, I closed the door. I thought I | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
lost him. Yes. I'm just so sorry to hear what you've been through. I was | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
so glad when I seen him came out, I was glad, happy, everything. | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
Everything was mixed and I felt like I can breathe now. We wish you the | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
best with rebuilding your lives, it's leerily not going to be -- | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
clearly not going to be easy but we hope you get all the support. We are | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
very sorry for our friends who passed away, we are very sorry for | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
them. Our hearts, all of us, we are with their family because their | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
family they can't come. Thank you, thank you very much, thank you. | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
Let's catch up with the weather now. Thank you very much. Yesterday was | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
the hottest day of the year so far. We got to 32.5. For many today, it's | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
going to stay hot. There will be one or two subtle changes. The hottest | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
of the weather today will be across the west and south-west of England. | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
Look at this cold front moving south, introducing fresher | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
conditions, more cloud and a breeze towards the north-east and eastern | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
England. Temperatures will be about 17 there, about ten lower than | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
yesterday. Towards the south and south-west, up to 30-32. | :03:09. | :03:28. | |
For England and Wales, a hotter day on Wednesday. Temperatures | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
potentially about 34 in the south-east. That hotter air moving | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
back further north into the north-east. | :03:39. | :03:54. | |
Last night, hundreds attended a vigil in Finsbury Park to show | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
solidarity with the Muslim community after yesterday where a van | :04:00. | :04:01. | |
was driven into a crowd of Muslim worshippers. | :04:02. | :04:10. | |
It's almost the norm for women to have their hijabs being ripped off | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
and to have comments being made. Is enough being done to tackle it? We | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
speak to someone who used to be part of the violent far right group | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
Combat 18 who now helps to deradicalise others. The family tell | :04:27. | :04:34. | |
us of the guilt and trauma of surviving. I remember every few | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
hours, I forget that person's face, I didn't know if he was safe, if it | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
was that person and the people I used to know, they lived on the top | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
floors, all the familiar faces, no-one survived. | :04:51. | :05:01. | |
Are tower blocks still appropriate places to live? | :05:02. | :05:03. | |
We'll be discussing that and finding out what more can and should be done | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
where gay men have reportedly been taken and tortured. | :05:10. | :05:25. | |
Good Morning, here's Annita in the BBC Newsroom | :05:26. | :05:27. | |
The family of a man arrested after a terror attack near a London | :05:28. | :05:38. | |
mosque say they are "shocked" and "devastated". | :05:39. | :05:40. | |
Father-of-four Darren Osborne, was held on suspicion of attempted | :05:41. | :05:42. | |
murder and terror offences after a van hit Muslim | :05:43. | :05:44. | |
Last night, the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, addressed a vigil | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
The Serious Fraud Office has charged Barclays and four former executives | :05:49. | :05:56. | |
including its former chief executive, John Varley with fraud. | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
The charges relate to emergency funding the bank raised from Qatar | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
and Abu Dhabi in 2008 to avoid a bail out. | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
More than ?200,000 has now been handed out to 180 families affected | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
by the Grenfell Tower fire in west London. | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
The payments were recorded by the government's newly formed | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
It said 78 families had been rehoused either locally | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
or in neighbouring boroughs, and that 126 hotel places | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
A couple who lived on the 15th floor with their daughter said they had | :06:30. | :06:47. | |
been temporarily housed on the ninth floor of a hotel. My daughter | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
doesn't sleep, my wife doesn't sleep because it's on their mind. It's the | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
ninth floor. We can't look out of the windows. I receive a call from | :06:58. | :07:07. | |
the council yesterday and she tried to provide and to find another | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
location. Yes. She said, I can't do it now because there is no way to do | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
it. There's many people. Many people have been trying. I said to her, why | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
people live on high floors and she said, we know about this | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
devastation, we tried to get a ground floor for everyone and we | :07:29. | :07:30. | |
couldn't. An American student, | :07:31. | :07:31. | |
who was freed last week by North Korea after spending 15 | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
months in prison, has died. Otto Warmbier , who was 22, | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
was in a coma when he was His family has accused | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
North Korea of torturing him after he was arrested for stealing | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
a propaganda sign. The pound has fallen | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
sharply against the dollar after the Governor of the Bank | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
of England said he was against raising interest | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
rates any time soon. Speaking at the Mansion House | :07:53. | :07:54. | |
earlier this morning, Mark Carney said Brexit negotiations | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
meant it wasn't the time to increase the cost of borrowing | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
from its historic low From my perspective, given the mixed | :08:01. | :08:13. | |
signals on consumer spending and investment, and given the subdued | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
inflationary pressures, in particular anaemic wage growth, now | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
is not yet the time to begin that adjustment. In the coming months, I | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
would like to see the extent to which weaker consumption growth is | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
offset by other components of demand, where the wages begin to | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
firm and more generally, how the economy reacts to the tighter | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
financial conditions and the reality of Brexit negotiations. | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
A van driver has been killed after migrants put tree trunks | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
onto the motorway to stop traffic near the French port of Calais. | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
The incident happened in the early hours of the morning on the A16 | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
motorway after the van, registered in Poland, | :08:54. | :08:55. | |
hit a lorry which had been blocked by the tree trunks. | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
Nine Eritrean migrants were found in one of the lorries. | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
A teenage boy has drowned in a reservoir in Rochdale | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
He was reportedly swimming with friends at the Greenbooth Reservoir | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
A police spokesman said there are not thought to be any | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
suspicious circumstances surrounding his death | :09:17. | :09:18. | |
Scientists have begun human trials of a cholesterol-lowering vaccine | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
The injection is designed to stop fatty deposits | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
It would offer patients an alternative to taking daily pills | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
to cut their risk of stroke, angina and heart attacks. | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
The number of tests carried out in England to identify if people | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
have issues such as sleep apnoea, has doubled in the last nine years. | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
It's believed one and a half million people across the UK | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
have the condition, which can cause sufferers to stop breathing | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 10.30. | :09:52. | :10:15. | |
Coming up, we'll hear from Philip Hammond. Get in touch with us if | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
your thoughts. Now the sport. The Lions are in | :10:22. | :10:37. | |
action. Warren Gatland says there are still places for the side. Jack | :10:38. | :10:45. | |
Nowell with the first try of the half, the winger scampering over the | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
line. Ian Henderson was attempting to drive over, but the referee | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
decided to award a second penalty try. In a sliingtly more expansive | :10:55. | :11:01. | |
move, Jack Nowell again finding space for his second try. It's | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
turning into a very comfortable victory. The latest score with about | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
ten minutes to go in Hamilton, the Lions leading 34-6. Andy Murray says | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
winning at Queens would be a big boost to his Wimbledon preparations. | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
He's going for a sixth title in London and a third in a row and | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
claims he's played some of his best tennis in the tournament. He takes | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
on another Brit on Centre Court this afternoon. It was where I won my | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
first professional match so I have a lot of great memories over the years | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
I've played. It's been by far my most successful tournament. I love | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
the courts here, I like the conditions, it's very close to where | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
I live so I get to stay at home. The surprise loser on the first day at | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
Queens yesterday was beaten in three sets by his opponent. In Birmingham, | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
Naomi Brody reached the last 16 with a straight sets win over world | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
number 39. In Birmingham yesterday, Heather Watson lost. Later on, Johan | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
that Konta starts her campaign against her opponent. What about | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
this for a hero's welcome. This is the Pakistan captain arriving back | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
in Karachi after they beat India to win the ICC Champions Trophy at The | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
Oval on Saturday. He is in that car, I promise you! Ever even after the | :12:22. | :12:29. | |
special convoy from the airport, it took then the skipper nearly half an | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
hour to get from his vehicle to his house, he was surrounded by his | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
adoring fans, many of whom waited through the night to welcome home | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
their hero which led their country to that win against their rivals and | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
the odds too. Just before I go, time to tell you that Frankie Dettori | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
will miss the whole of Royal Ascot which starts today after a fall at | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
Great Yarmouth last week. He has an arm injury and will miss out on a | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
number of well-fancied rides. That's it for now. | :12:58. | :13:08. | |
Let's talk more about the mosque attack in London. The impact is | :13:09. | :13:16. | |
still very raw for those caught up in the attack. Raqia's husband was | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
injured and we can talk to her now. Thank you very much for joining us. | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
Tell us how your husband is first of all? My husband's doing a lot better | :13:28. | :13:35. | |
than yesterday. He's great and he's got of course a broken ankle and a | :13:36. | :13:45. | |
muscle problem, bruised muscles which is really bad at the moment, | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
but he's really good. I've been at the hospital all yesterday with him | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
and I've seen others who've got hurt and we have been very lucky that | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
east not in -- he's not in bad shape. We feel very sad for what | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
happened with the rest of the community on Monday night. Where was | :14:06. | :14:13. | |
he when the van drove into people? What was he doing and where was he? | :14:14. | :14:26. | |
He was on his way coming home and he saw this elderly man and he tried to | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
help him along with other men. There was a circle around him before they | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
know the white van hit them. The next thing he knew was that he was | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
on the near and he couldn't get up and he couldn't feel his legs. | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
Nevertheless, he tried to get up and members of the community were asking | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
him, you must stay calm. And so the numbness on his feet, and he was | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
worried and shocked. So he was helping the man on the ground who it | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
seems had had a heart attack and subsequently died, it's not clear at | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
this stage whether he died of the heart oi tack or having been hit by | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
the van, but did your husband not see the van even approaching because | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
he was helping that man? No, he was actually one of the first persons to | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
attend to help and as the men shouted for help, you know, in the | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
late hour, seeing somebody fall on to the near, it was quite dangerous, | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
an elderly man as well. So the last thing at that time you would think | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
about is actually a terrorist attack or any attack, particularly when it | :15:37. | :15:44. | |
is the holy month of Ramadan and the atmosphere in Finsbury Park is one | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
of the greatest places to be during the month of Ramadan. Everybody is | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
peaceful, loving and has been going there over 20 years, we never, ever | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
experienced such a thing. That's the last thing on your mind. | :15:58. | :16:06. | |
Thank you very much for joining us and we hope your husband gets better | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
soon, thank you. The issue of extremism | :16:10. | :16:22. | |
and radicalisation in the UK is most often associated in the media | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
with the threat of Islamist terror attacks, but one in four | :16:26. | :16:27. | |
of the people reported to the government's deradicalisation | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
programme are far right extremists. While the exact motivation behind | :16:31. | :16:32. | |
Sunday night's attack near a north London mosque are not yet known, | :16:33. | :16:34. | |
eye witnesses reported that after the attack he shouted, | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
"I want to kill Muslims". The attacker, who has been named | :16:38. | :16:39. | |
as Darren Osborne from Cardiff, was not known to the security | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
services in terms of So is the UK doing enough to tackle | :16:43. | :16:44. | |
far right extremism? And could this attack | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
have been prevented? We can now speak to Nigel Bromage, | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
who was formerly a far-right extremist including | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
with the violent group Combat 18. He's now reformed and works to help | :16:57. | :16:58. | |
deradicalise others. Sabby Dhalu is from the group | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
Stand Up To Racism. Sean Arbuthnot who has spent years | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
working in the government's deradicalisation programme, | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
Prevent. And Phillip Ingram, | :17:09. | :17:09. | |
a former senior intelligence Thank you very much for joining us. | :17:10. | :17:27. | |
Thank you. As I mentioned Nigel, one in four reports to Prevent are for | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
far-right radicals. Those figures have come out from the reviewer, for | :17:33. | :17:40. | |
the Government of the programme. He has said that far-right extremism is | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
as murderous as its Islamist equivalent. Do you think we have had | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
our eyes closed to this? I don't we have had our eyes closed, but | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
happened professional, schoolteachers etcetera have become | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
minister aware. So I think they have been able to highlight | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
recommendations. So they have used the channel process to challenge | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
extremist ideas. Are you surprised that one in four reports to Prevent | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
are about far-right extremism? I am surprised, but it doesn't shock me. | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
I think as time has been going on, more people have got angry. I think | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
they have decided to take action. When you say more people have got | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
angry, what is it, what's going on here? I just think people have | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
misread headlines and used emotion and took their emotion and not | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
really understood the facts. You think people have built on that and | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
then decided that for their point of view, you know, they need to step | :18:35. | :18:43. | |
up. Sean, you worked with Prevent. Has the threat been under estimated? | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
Has it been allowed to grow without people actually clocking perhaps | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
what was going on so much? To be perfectly honest with I think that | :18:55. | :18:56. | |
the threat may have been misunderstood by the wider public, | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
but certainly within Prevent we have been dealing with far-right | :19:01. | :19:02. | |
extremism for sometime. You mentioned that at the moment about | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
one in four referrals relates to the far-right. But when I was a Prevent | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
officer working in the police, 40% of my case load related to the | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
far-right and there are some parts of the country where there is almost | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
a 50/50 split between far-right extremism and Islamism extremism | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
being reported to Prevent. It's something that's been on our radar | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
for a long time and we're doing our best to get to the bottom of the | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
problem and solve it. So where is there a 50/50 split I believe Wales | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
and South Yorkshire have a very close split between Islamist and | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
far-right referrals. I think it's sitting at 30% in the East Midlands. | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
So basically, throughout the UK, we're getting these even handed | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
referrals sent to Prevent and in many cases the vulnerabilities that | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
are exhibited by these individuals who are referred to Prevent are very | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
similar. You know, they are two sides of the same coin in many | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
respects. They may feel isolated, angry, have low self esteem, | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
suffered bereavement and become politicised and extremist groups, | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
whether they are far-right or Islamist, they prey on those | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
vulnerabilities and give people easy answers to complex questions, they | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
make people feel valued and give them a sense of belonging so we try | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
and put in place supportive measures to safeguard people against those. | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
Are you surprised as many people will be to hear that there is as | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
much far-right extremism being reported to Prevent in some areas as | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
Islamist extremism? Do you think that that has been clear to people | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
in the wider communities? I'm not surprised, but I could understand | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
why yourself and others might be surprised looking at those figures | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
because I think that there is a bit of a double standard in the way we | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
treat terrorism. I think it's perceived in the public as Islamic | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
only problem and not really in relation to the far-right. I don't | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
think there is this narrative that it is a consistent problem and that | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
there is a problem of violence and terrorism on the far-right as much | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
as it is clear of a consistent and problem and a pattern with sort of | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
Isis-type extremism and that's clear in the public because you have just | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
to give you a few examples. So you had in 2013, an elderly man was | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
murdered by far-right terrorist and then he went on to actually bomb | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
mosques in the Midlands, in the West Midlands. He was known as the Tipton | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
Bomber and so that was in 2013 and then you had this Finsbury Park | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
terrorist attack yesterday. Yu you've also had the violent murder | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
of Jo Cox on the streets and you've also had a rise in violent | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
anti-Muslim hate crime with lots of women, I saw earlier on your | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
programme, saying that you know women wearing a hijab are targeted, | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
that you have had a rise in anti-Muslim hate crime over a period | :22:07. | :22:14. | |
of years and you've had far-right fascist groups targeting mosques on | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
a regular basis and they still do. They target mosques. There is a big | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
problem of far-right extremism and it needs to be tackled and treated | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
and there is a link with terrorism now and I think we need to take that | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
as seriously as we do Isis-type extremism. Philip Ingram, you are a | :22:34. | :22:41. | |
former senior intelligence officer. In terms of police resources in the | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
reassurance sense of things and resources deployed on the ground, | :22:48. | :22:54. | |
has this been reflected? You might think that if there had been a | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
nightly gathering of large numbers of people in other communities there | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
would have been a higher profile police presence around than there | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
was in Finsbury Park? I don't think we can criticise the police presence | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
because the police were on the ground within a minute of the | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
incident happening and they declared it as a terrorist incident. I'm | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
talking in terms of a deterrent and making communities feel safe in | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
difficult times. Police on the ground is one way of keeping the | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
community safe and it's educating the communities as to what the | :23:26. | :23:27. | |
threat is that's out there and I think one of the things that we have | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
to be careful of here is giving a voice to groups that are not | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
necessarily directly linked to atrocities and that will do is | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
stimulate more support for those groups whether they be Islamist | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
extremist or right-wing extremist and we have to be careful about how | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
we're doing things. The right-wing extremism has been around for a lot | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
longerment it was there when the terrorism was caused by Irish | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
terrorism. Terrorism has moved on to Islamist extremism terrorism. In 20 | :23:58. | :24:00. | |
years' time, it might be a different flavour of terrorism, but the police | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
have got a good handle on the right-wing because most is to do | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
with public order offences. It is when national security comes in that | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
the intelligence services get involved in it. Have things changed? | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
What we have seen here is a similar attack to the ones carried out by | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
Islamist extremists using a vehicle to go into a crowd of people? Well, | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
there is, it's how people carry out attacks and there is two things that | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
the police and intelligence services and the national intelligence | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
services will be looking for. One is capability. Does someone have the | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
capability to carry out an attack? When an attack is carried out with | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
weapons and explosives, that was difficult for people to deal with. | :24:41. | :24:43. | |
Now they have been carried out in vehicles, it is finding out the | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
second bit which is the intent, who intends to do it? And individuals | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
who self radicalise, who motivate themselves on an afternoon to go and | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
do something that evening, it's very difficult for the police or the | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
Security Services and no matter how many you've got on the ground to be | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
able to pick that up and deal with it. Nigel, when we talk about | :25:02. | :25:08. | |
Islamist, extremism in the wake of an attack, there is talk of how | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
somebody was radicalised, how joined up, not necessarily always the case | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
when something happened with a far-right attack. What is the | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
evidence in terms of how joined up it is, what happens with recruiting | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
and radicalising people in the far-right? Recruitment on both sides | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
is very, very similar, you know, you take an emotion, you put a little | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
bit of facts in and all of a sudden if you can buy into a person's | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
vulnerabilities and offer them a vision all of a sudden they feel | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
valued. Maybe they are going through issues at home and they are part of | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
a normalisation, and these people are manipulated. You have to | :25:48. | :25:50. | |
understand what these people are going through is grooming, they are | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
being groomed for a political purpose. Thank you all, we are out | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
of time for this discussion. I'm sure it is great to have you all on | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
and I'm sure something we will be talking about more again. Thank you | :26:01. | :26:03. | |
very much. Let us know your thoughts on that as | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
well. The usual ways of getting in touch. | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
Formal talks between Britain and EU to discuss Brexit began yesterday. | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
And today EU ministers meet in Luxembourg to discuss the first | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
After the vote to leave the EU a year ago, a sometimes | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
bitter debate has raged about what exactly our future | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
relationship with the European Union should be with some senior | :26:24. | :26:26. | |
politicians calling for continued membership of the EU's single | :26:27. | :26:28. | |
market and customs union, and others advocating a so-called | :26:29. | :26:35. | |
"hard" or "clean" Brexit, that would see the UK entirely | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
A short time ago the Chancellor, Phillip Hammond, said Britain | :26:39. | :26:46. | |
would fight for the best possible deal but that he was confident | :26:47. | :26:48. | |
that it is possible for Britain and the EU to reach | :26:49. | :26:51. | |
The future of our economy is inexorably linked to the kind | :26:52. | :27:00. | |
of Brexit deal that we reach with the EU over the next 20 odd | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
months, and I'm confident we can do a Brexit deal that puts jobs | :27:07. | :27:09. | |
and prosperity first, that reassures employers | :27:10. | :27:10. | |
that they will still be able to access the talent they need, | :27:11. | :27:13. | |
that keeps our market for goods and services and capital open. | :27:14. | :27:23. | |
Let's get some analysis on this story now. | :27:24. | :27:26. | |
With me in the studio are three people with distinct views on how | :27:27. | :27:29. | |
the UK should proceed in its negotiations. | :27:30. | :27:31. | |
Chuka Umunna is a Labour MP who campaigned to remain in the EU. | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
He voted for Article 50 in parliament, but thinks | :27:36. | :27:42. | |
Britain should seek a "soft" Brexit settlement. | :27:43. | :27:44. | |
Suella Fernandes, a Conservative MP who campaigned to leave the EU | :27:45. | :27:47. | |
and Johnathan Isaby, the editor of Brexit Central, | :27:48. | :27:49. | |
He thinks we should leave the single market and the customs union. | :27:50. | :27:52. | |
Chuka Umunna first of all, do we actually have a real choice at this | :27:53. | :27:59. | |
stage? Philip Hammond says we are leaving the EU. We will be leaving | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
the single market, we will leave the customs union, the negotiations are | :28:04. | :28:06. | |
beginning? Well, I don't think you need to take the best option off the | :28:07. | :28:10. | |
table at the start of negotiations which is to remain a member of the | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
single market and to remain a member of the customs union all it with us | :28:15. | :28:17. | |
being outside of the European Union. To put it in context for your | :28:18. | :28:21. | |
viewers, Turkey is part of the customs union, but not part of the | :28:22. | :28:25. | |
European Union. Norway is part of the single market, but not part of | :28:26. | :28:28. | |
the European Union. Why does this matter? It matters for people's | :28:29. | :28:32. | |
jobs, we know that single market delivers lots of jobs, but also, if | :28:33. | :28:37. | |
we want to end seven years of damaging austerity, we need the | :28:38. | :28:40. | |
revenue coming into the exchequer to help make that happen. So for me, I | :28:41. | :28:44. | |
don't think the Chancellor should be taking the best economic options off | :28:45. | :28:49. | |
the table abouts You he has, hasn't he? Well, he doesn't have to do. | :28:50. | :28:53. | |
Let's not forget the role of Parliament. The arithmetic in this | :28:54. | :28:58. | |
new Parliament is final balanced and this Government is going to have | :28:59. | :29:01. | |
could come back to Parliament and get its deal approved. So that, the | :29:02. | :29:05. | |
idea that this is all decided by Number Ten, by Philip Hammond, and | :29:06. | :29:08. | |
ministers, is for the birds. It's going to be decided by Parliament in | :29:09. | :29:13. | |
a way it wasn't before. Sue, that's a good point, isn't it? Has the | :29:14. | :29:17. | |
election changed everything actually? Prior to the election, the | :29:18. | :29:22. | |
Government line was no deal is better than a bad deal. But talk now | :29:23. | :29:28. | |
of a hard Brexit, has been mitigated by what we have seen happen with the | :29:29. | :29:31. | |
election and where the Parliamentary balance lies? Well, over 80% of | :29:32. | :29:37. | |
people during the election voted for Brexit supporting parties. Parties | :29:38. | :29:40. | |
that made clear in their manifesto that they accept the result of the | :29:41. | :29:44. | |
referendum and that we're going to leave the European Union. Was it | :29:45. | :29:49. | |
clear what was meant by that Brexit? It wasn't really that well discussed | :29:50. | :29:54. | |
during the election campaign. People knew what they were voting or and as | :29:55. | :29:59. | |
the Chancellor made clear today and over the weekend, to get the best | :30:00. | :30:04. | |
economic benefits, to have a jobs-led pro prosperity Brexit which | :30:05. | :30:08. | |
is what I'm in favour of, we need to really happen into the potential of | :30:09. | :30:10. | |
this great opportunity that our country faces. Striking strayed | :30:11. | :30:13. | |
deals with the rest of the world which we can't do as long as we're | :30:14. | :30:17. | |
part of the customs union. Getting back control of our immigration | :30:18. | :30:21. | |
policy. And taking back control over our laws so coming out of the | :30:22. | :30:24. | |
jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice. All of those things are | :30:25. | :30:27. | |
what people voted and without those Brexit doesn't mean anything. | :30:28. | :30:31. | |
Jonathan, do you think there will be no negative impact as a result of | :30:32. | :30:34. | |
coming out of the single market and the customs union? | :30:35. | :30:40. | |
It's clearly going to be an interesting few years... | :30:41. | :30:44. | |
Economically difficult or interesting? There are going to be | :30:45. | :30:53. | |
Issues that will have to be addressed. Awe politicians should | :30:54. | :30:57. | |
get behind securing the best deal for the UK, accepting that the | :30:58. | :31:02. | |
Labour and Tory manifestos both accepted the... How would the best | :31:03. | :31:07. | |
deal work for you? And what would it be? We want to see as close to | :31:08. | :31:12. | |
tariff free trade between the European Union and the United | :31:13. | :31:16. | |
Kingdom going forward. But also the ability to force those trade deals | :31:17. | :31:21. | |
with other countries around the world. We still want a close | :31:22. | :31:26. | |
relationship with neighbours. The Government have been extremely | :31:27. | :31:30. | |
positive in their tone, there are all kinds of issues, not least | :31:31. | :31:33. | |
security and terrorism which we need to continue to... The Government | :31:34. | :31:37. | |
hasn't been positive in its tone. During the general election, Theresa | :31:38. | :31:41. | |
May just after she went to see the Queen put that lectern outside | :31:42. | :31:44. | |
Number Ten and threatened to walk off without a deal. Her tone has | :31:45. | :31:49. | |
been absolutely appalling, not condusive to creating a good deal. | :31:50. | :31:54. | |
On economics, let's be clear, if you are part of the customs union, you | :31:55. | :31:58. | |
are part of a block of a dozen people who negotiate. The European | :31:59. | :32:03. | |
Union currently has 56 of those and just going back to the single | :32:04. | :32:07. | |
market. It's not just about, by the way, tariff free access and the | :32:08. | :32:12. | |
tariffs on goods, it's also about non-tariff barriers, being part of | :32:13. | :32:16. | |
this engine for social justice that sets a floor for employment rights, | :32:17. | :32:21. | |
consumer rights and environmental protections and it makes sense for | :32:22. | :32:25. | |
us to... Do you accept freedom of movement then? Membership of the | :32:26. | :32:30. | |
internal market necessarily means... Freedom of movement. Let me answer | :32:31. | :32:34. | |
your question. Freedom of movement at the moment is not unconditional | :32:35. | :32:40. | |
so at the moment... We have freedom of movement and control over | :32:41. | :32:43. | |
immigration policy because of our membership. That is not true. Let me | :32:44. | :32:51. | |
finish the answer. The EU can provide for people whoa don't have | :32:52. | :32:55. | |
the prospect of getting a job, after three months we can require them to | :32:56. | :32:57. | |
leave. We don't do that at the moment. If we did so, we could move | :32:58. | :33:04. | |
towards free movement of labour, as opposed to free movement of people. | :33:05. | :33:09. | |
Lift accident Stein is not in the European Union -- Lichtenstein is | :33:10. | :33:16. | |
not in the European Union but it's in the customs union. You said there | :33:17. | :33:23. | |
for the benefit of viewers, sort of understanding what the different | :33:24. | :33:27. | |
options are, viewers might be watching thinking, crikey, a year | :33:28. | :33:30. | |
ago we voted to leave, these negotiations that have begun, there | :33:31. | :33:35. | |
is no unifying position, no absolute clarity in terms of what is being | :33:36. | :33:38. | |
done. Isn't that the worst position to be in? Clearly we have to move on | :33:39. | :33:45. | |
from the referendum. You don't accept the result. I do, but there | :33:46. | :33:53. | |
are different ways of doing this. Theresa May said, my way or the | :33:54. | :34:00. | |
highway. The way she was proposing to do it was a job-destroying way. | :34:01. | :34:05. | |
Do you wish your party had been more explicit in the election about what | :34:06. | :34:11. | |
the vision was? The Labour Party set out a number of principles. Keir | :34:12. | :34:18. | |
Starmer said he could see Britain staying part of the customs union. | :34:19. | :34:21. | |
Harriet Harman said we have to leave. They are all over the place. | :34:22. | :34:25. | |
Contrast that with the Conservatives. Philip Hammond has | :34:26. | :34:27. | |
said we are leaving the customs union. That's really important for | :34:28. | :34:31. | |
trade and the economy for jobs and prices. Being part of the customs | :34:32. | :34:39. | |
union is a protectionist racket which puts prices up and stops us | :34:40. | :34:43. | |
dealing with the US and China. We have a trade deficit with the EU, a | :34:44. | :34:47. | |
trade surplus with the rest of the world. We need to help develop | :34:48. | :34:51. | |
countries, being more sustainable with trade. The customs union | :34:52. | :34:54. | |
punishing developing countries who want to trade into the EU customs. | :34:55. | :34:58. | |
How much trade do you believe there is? We are buying more than we sell | :34:59. | :35:13. | |
from the EU and have a deficit of ?71 billion. Contrast that with the | :35:14. | :35:16. | |
rest of the world where we are selling more than we buy. The | :35:17. | :35:21. | |
potential market for Britain for our manufacturers, financial services, | :35:22. | :35:25. | |
it's with the rest of the world... Joanna, the answer to your question | :35:26. | :35:30. | |
is this - the EU is our biggest customer so all the new economies, | :35:31. | :35:35. | |
merging economies we want to get on to, we want to sell more into them, | :35:36. | :35:39. | |
but they do not compare to the amount of trade we do with the | :35:40. | :35:42. | |
people in the single market. They are our biggest customer. Any | :35:43. | :35:49. | |
businessman will tell you you don't dump on your existing clients to | :35:50. | :35:53. | |
pursue new ones, you seek to retain your existing ones and seek to get | :35:54. | :35:58. | |
new ones. Still sell goods to the European Union after Brexit. You are | :35:59. | :36:01. | |
saying we buy goods, we buy more from the EU than we sell, but if | :36:02. | :36:08. | |
those trade agreements go and greater tariffs are put on the | :36:09. | :36:13. | |
imports, then life is going to get more expensive isn't it? Well, no, | :36:14. | :36:17. | |
because World Trade Organisation rules kick in. I'm not scared of no | :36:18. | :36:22. | |
deal. But are you certain that life will not get more expensive in We | :36:23. | :36:29. | |
use the trade organisation rules already, they protect us from | :36:30. | :36:34. | |
punitive tariffs. We only use those WTO rules at the moment as part of | :36:35. | :36:41. | |
the European Union. To act individually in the World Trade | :36:42. | :36:45. | |
Organisation, we need to... We can only do that by leaving the customs | :36:46. | :36:50. | |
union. Are the three of you... Negotiating with the EU members | :36:51. | :36:54. | |
who're part of that organisation. People talk about us... Yon than | :36:55. | :36:58. | |
just a quick final question - are you confident this country is | :36:59. | :37:03. | |
completely set up to carry out the best negotiations that we can, that | :37:04. | :37:08. | |
the best people are in position and that we are as well prepared for | :37:09. | :37:11. | |
this as the EU negotiators? Absolutely. That's the reason the | :37:12. | :37:15. | |
Government's spent the last year preparing the negotiations. There | :37:16. | :37:20. | |
are some who say we should have got on with the talks immediately after | :37:21. | :37:24. | |
Article 50. A clear structure for the talks, a sequencing in terms of | :37:25. | :37:27. | |
what gets talked about when, we don't seem to have had it from our | :37:28. | :37:33. | |
Government here, have we? Yesterday, David Davis and militia Elle Barnier | :37:34. | :37:41. | |
agreed the talks and those will happen over the coming months -- | :37:42. | :37:49. | |
Michel Barnier. Chuka is still in denial of the vote. Please don't say | :37:50. | :37:54. | |
that, I accepted the will of the people. They voted to leave the | :37:55. | :37:58. | |
European Union. They did not vote for... But They did not vote for a | :37:59. | :38:05. | |
particular way of doing that. They made an argument for ?350 million a | :38:06. | :38:09. | |
week extra to go into the NHS and they've seen precious little of | :38:10. | :38:13. | |
that. That was the number one part of the vote leave manifesto that | :38:14. | :38:17. | |
both these individuals supported and it hasn't been delivered on yet. | :38:18. | :38:22. | |
Where's the ?350 million? We haven't left the EU yet. We'll pick up with | :38:23. | :38:27. | |
you guys again because this is going to keep going, obvious, will but | :38:28. | :38:31. | |
thank you very much for now. Now the sport. | :38:32. | :38:44. | |
The Lions have warmed up for the first test | :38:45. | :38:47. | |
against the All Blacks with their most emphatic | :38:48. | :38:49. | |
They beat the Chiefs 34 points to 6 in Hamilton with four tries... | :38:50. | :38:54. | |
Two coming from England wing Jack Nowell. | :38:55. | :38:56. | |
Coach Warren Gatland insists places are still up for grabs for that | :38:57. | :38:59. | |
A crucial victory for the England under 21s | :39:00. | :39:02. | |
Nathan Redmond scores the winner as they come from behind | :39:03. | :39:07. | |
Andy Murray begins his campaign to win a sixth | :39:08. | :39:11. | |
He plays another Brit - Aljaz Bedene - this | :39:12. | :39:15. | |
Saying another successful week in London will be a 'big boost' | :39:16. | :39:19. | |
to his Wimbledon preparations Frankie Dettori will miss | :39:20. | :39:21. | |
After a fall at Great Yarmouth last week. | :39:22. | :39:26. | |
He has an arm injury AND will miss out on a number | :39:27. | :39:28. | |
Almost a week on since the fire and many residents are still | :39:29. | :39:44. | |
complaining of a lack of support from the authorities, | :39:45. | :39:46. | |
a lack of clarity on temporary and long term housing, | :39:47. | :39:48. | |
and by far the biggest cause for tension is conflicting numbers | :39:49. | :39:51. | |
on just how many died in the tragedy. | :39:52. | :39:53. | |
Our reporter Michael Cowan met up with Amanda Fernandez a local | :39:54. | :39:56. | |
resident who whilst being evacuated from a neighbouring block herself | :39:57. | :39:59. | |
has been volunteering day and night for almost a week. | :40:00. | :40:02. | |
As a resident you can count the floors and know how many people | :40:03. | :40:07. | |
lived on that floor and you know people. So between us, my friends, | :40:08. | :40:11. | |
my mum and my family, the people that we know, we've got more than | :40:12. | :40:21. | |
130 people that are missing. That is the Portuguese, Colombian, Spanish, | :40:22. | :40:24. | |
Moroccan side of things. What about the rest of the people? There are | :40:25. | :40:28. | |
other people that know people who're missing. My half's just 130. So you | :40:29. | :40:32. | |
are saying you personally know 130 people who were in that building? | :40:33. | :40:38. | |
Yes, minimum. And sometimes, God forgive me, but sometimes I speak to | :40:39. | :40:41. | |
someone and they are like, oh, we haven't spoken to that person and | :40:42. | :40:44. | |
gosh I didn't think about that person. You forget and you think, | :40:45. | :40:51. | |
gosh I thought they lived in another block but they lived here. 130 to | :40:52. | :40:58. | |
us, that's a lot. That's a lot. The numbers coming out in the media is | :40:59. | :41:03. | |
wrong, that's what hurts you. You are releasing small numbers of | :41:04. | :41:06. | |
people not really understand the crisis of it. Fiasco, crisis, chaos, | :41:07. | :41:12. | |
it's, you know, it's something that you can't kind of programme and | :41:13. | :41:16. | |
there's no answers, no structure, you can't process anything. And you | :41:17. | :41:21. | |
are saying six days on from the fire, you are still having to find | :41:22. | :41:26. | |
accommodation for people, you are still having to, you personally as a | :41:27. | :41:29. | |
volunteer, are having to book transport for people to their | :41:30. | :41:33. | |
hotels? No-one is being given information still? No, you have just | :41:34. | :41:39. | |
caught me. My friend was booking a taxi for one of our friend's mums | :41:40. | :41:45. | |
who's just been put in a hotel nearby and you just heard one of my | :41:46. | :41:50. | |
neighbours saying we have been housed too far away. That's the | :41:51. | :41:53. | |
situation now and it's the sixth day. There's no hot water no, gas. | :41:54. | :41:59. | |
We are still ving having to come to sports centre or friend's houses to | :42:00. | :42:03. | |
have a shower, you can't watch your clothes. So even in the blocks they | :42:04. | :42:07. | |
have let people back into, there's no hot water, no gas? No. We are | :42:08. | :42:13. | |
being told two to four weeks. I understand it's not their fault, but | :42:14. | :42:17. | |
the information relayed doesn't make sense. There is a lot of | :42:18. | :42:21. | |
organisations going around saying, we can help you, but there's no kind | :42:22. | :42:25. | |
of main body saying come here and we'll give you the help, come here | :42:26. | :42:34. | |
and this is where you can come. We are doing that now but it's way too | :42:35. | :42:40. | |
late. When the fire was all over the news, 1 o'clock the next day, by now | :42:41. | :42:47. | |
they should have made so many arrangements for the evacuees, | :42:48. | :42:54. | |
survivors, get them in and start them putting in places, get the army | :42:55. | :42:58. | |
in, I'm not even joking. So many people were thinking, the army isn't | :42:59. | :43:00. | |
here and this was massive. Thousands of people have signed a | :43:01. | :43:16. | |
petition saying a public inquiry should be carried out. | :43:17. | :43:21. | |
A civil liberties lawyer who worked on the Hillsborough Independent | :43:22. | :43:23. | |
Panel joins me now. Thank you very much for coming in. Tell us how an | :43:24. | :43:29. | |
inquest and a public inquiry would differ? An inquest has a very | :43:30. | :43:35. | |
specific statutory purpose, it's to determine who died, where and when | :43:36. | :43:39. | |
the death occurred and how the deceased came by his death. It is | :43:40. | :43:49. | |
necessarily by law deferred pending any criminal investigation and so | :43:50. | :43:52. | |
here the current police investigation has to be concluded | :43:53. | :43:56. | |
first. Any prosecution emerging from it has to be concluded before an | :43:57. | :44:01. | |
inquest takes place and even then it will be within the narrow | :44:02. | :44:08. | |
parameters. In contrast, a public inquiry has wide-ranging powers of | :44:09. | :44:13. | |
much broader scope and should have greater resources to address a whole | :44:14. | :44:17. | |
range of questions that will emerge here. Do the same conditions not | :44:18. | :44:23. | |
apply for having to... That's the second difference. The public | :44:24. | :44:28. | |
inquiry need not await the criminal sheingtion, it can be implemented | :44:29. | :44:33. | |
and instituted immediately and that has happened before -- criminal | :44:34. | :44:38. | |
investigation. In the Ladbroke Grove fire disaster, for example, an | :44:39. | :44:41. | |
inquiry was set up within days, it reported within weeks and the point | :44:42. | :44:49. | |
is, urgent, imperative, not just for the families but the public at | :44:50. | :44:53. | |
large, the important thing is to find out what went wrong and put it | :44:54. | :44:57. | |
right. That cannot wait for years, that has to be addressed | :44:58. | :45:04. | |
immediately. The public inquiry can address that immediately without | :45:05. | :45:08. | |
excluding any of the survivors, any of the families, any of the other | :45:09. | :45:13. | |
civil society groups. It's mistaken and simply incorrect to say first of | :45:14. | :45:19. | |
all that it's either/or, it's not, you can have both an inquest and a | :45:20. | :45:23. | |
public inquiry where an inquest can follow in due course. Secondly, the | :45:24. | :45:29. | |
bereaved family's survivors and the public at large can participate | :45:30. | :45:32. | |
fully, including the questions of witnesses. Of course this is | :45:33. | :45:36. | |
dependent upon the resources being made available to the inquiry and | :45:37. | :45:42. | |
3-3 things that are prerequisites, funding for all participants so that | :45:43. | :45:45. | |
there is an even playing field, consultation on the chair of the | :45:46. | :45:49. | |
inquiry and consultation on the terms of reference of the inquiry. | :45:50. | :45:53. | |
Thank you very much. It's absolutely undeniable that people do want quick | :45:54. | :45:59. | |
answers. Mayor of London has said the fire was caused by mistakes and | :46:00. | :46:04. | |
neglect and has criticised the local council's response. The authorities | :46:05. | :46:07. | |
in Ken sing tonne and Chelsea say they have been working | :46:08. | :46:10. | |
around-the-clock to help survivors of the fire which killed at least 58 | :46:11. | :46:15. | |
people. What more can we learn about the fire safety inside blocks like | :46:16. | :46:18. | |
Grenfell Tower where the blocks are still appropriate places for people | :46:19. | :46:22. | |
to live and what should be done in the aftermath of this event? | :46:23. | :46:26. | |
We can speak now to Andy Slaughter, the Shadow Minister for Housing, | :46:27. | :46:29. | |
Arnold Tarling, a fire saftety expert, Andrew Boff, | :46:30. | :46:32. | |
the Conservatives lead on housing in the London Assembly, | :46:33. | :46:34. | |
and Becka Hudson, from the Radical Housing Network. | :46:35. | :46:39. | |
First of all, you're a chartered surveyor and fire safety expert. The | :46:40. | :46:45. | |
Chancellor, Philip Hammond, said that the cladding was used on this | :46:46. | :46:51. | |
building is illegal? I disagree. It is not completely clear, is it? The | :46:52. | :46:55. | |
building regulations are a complete mess. They give a drawing called | :46:56. | :47:00. | |
diagram 40 which says the material has to be class O. You then have to | :47:01. | :47:06. | |
look at the back section E for a definition. Section E sends you to | :47:07. | :47:14. | |
appendix A and appendix A in two places states categorically that if | :47:15. | :47:19. | |
you have got two sheets of material that do not burn around the material | :47:20. | :47:27. | |
that will burn it complies. Now, there is false news coming out from | :47:28. | :47:35. | |
Government on the basis of a clause called 12.7. The point that you're | :47:36. | :47:40. | |
McIng is, it's really unclear, isn't it? It's perfectly clear because the | :47:41. | :47:45. | |
clause about insulation is not referring to metal cladding and | :47:46. | :47:50. | |
anyway, it refers you directly back to appendix A which tells you if you | :47:51. | :47:54. | |
have two sheets of metal you can put anything between it. Andy Slaughter, | :47:55. | :48:00. | |
is it clear enough? Do the building regulations need to be looked at? | :48:01. | :48:03. | |
What you just heard should persuade you that this does need urgent | :48:04. | :48:09. | |
attention. You just dealt with what are the two key issues. One is to | :48:10. | :48:13. | |
establish from those hundreds of thousands of people who live in high | :48:14. | :48:16. | |
rise blocks that they are safe in their homes and the second is, I'm | :48:17. | :48:21. | |
glad we had clarity on the public inquiry point, we need a public | :48:22. | :48:25. | |
inquiry set-up, we need the terms of reference, I don't know why we | :48:26. | :48:28. | |
haven't got them yet which give victims and their families the right | :48:29. | :48:33. | |
to audience and full representation so that people can get justice. I | :48:34. | :48:37. | |
thought those would be the two issues, they would be the two main | :48:38. | :48:40. | |
issues we are talking about now. It's shock that we're still talking | :48:41. | :48:46. | |
about disaster relief a week on. I have been down there every day and I | :48:47. | :48:50. | |
spoke to the MP for Kensington and she was there yesterday and there | :48:51. | :48:55. | |
were still people, as your interviews show are in severe need. | :48:56. | :48:59. | |
In terms of establishing whether people in high rise homes are safe, | :49:00. | :49:05. | |
how much progress has been made and how reassured can anyone living in a | :49:06. | :49:13. | |
high rise home in London be now? The maintenance of tower blocks is a | :49:14. | :49:18. | |
complex issue. I been pushing for many years now for us to effectively | :49:19. | :49:22. | |
stop building these things and not just on the basis of their | :49:23. | :49:26. | |
maintenance, the difficulties in maintaining them, but the social | :49:27. | :49:30. | |
outcomes from tower blocks are pretty poor. Every survey reveals | :49:31. | :49:35. | |
that. They don't really provide... They are not going to disappear | :49:36. | :49:41. | |
overnight. Many people are calling for the existing 500 in London to | :49:42. | :49:44. | |
have a programme of getting rid of them and building proper low rise | :49:45. | :49:52. | |
homes. But also, more urgently, we have a London plan in front of us. | :49:53. | :49:57. | |
Which needs to be amended to take into account of the fact that people | :49:58. | :50:02. | |
don't want to live in these places. There are 263 in the pipeline at the | :50:03. | :50:08. | |
moment to be built this London. So Becca, right here, right now, what | :50:09. | :50:13. | |
do peel want, people living in those blocks? Well, I think firstly, it | :50:14. | :50:20. | |
would be a huge mistake to place the blame on tower blocks and on council | :50:21. | :50:24. | |
housing and on council tenants, that will continue. The process that we | :50:25. | :50:28. | |
have seen for the past 30 years where council housing is disinvested | :50:29. | :50:34. | |
and council tenants are not listened to, the Grenfell Action Group who | :50:35. | :50:38. | |
fore warned of this disaster, they joined because they weren't being | :50:39. | :50:41. | |
listened to on safety, on maintenance, it's not clear for them | :50:42. | :50:47. | |
who to go to prior to this, to look at safety in the building and that's | :50:48. | :50:52. | |
partly because of privatisation. It's because council services have | :50:53. | :50:55. | |
been subcontracted out and the council is then able to total crisis | :50:56. | :50:59. | |
abdicate responsibility for council tenants and it seems that has | :51:00. | :51:03. | |
continued post the disaster in the rev lef effort. Whether this | :51:04. | :51:09. | |
cladding was legal or not to be used in that way in this country, that | :51:10. | :51:14. | |
block went up in flames in a way that simply shouldn't have happened. | :51:15. | :51:21. | |
Is it possible to make all tower blocks completely the safe places | :51:22. | :51:23. | |
that we would have expected and hoped that they are? Well, these | :51:24. | :51:28. | |
tower blocks, this one in particular was built under the old London | :51:29. | :51:32. | |
building Act and it complied, it would never have behaved like this. | :51:33. | :51:36. | |
We have never have had a disast near section 20 building. It is the | :51:37. | :51:40. | |
changes in regulations that have led to this and the old ones worked. The | :51:41. | :51:44. | |
old ones came out of years and years after the great fire of London. We | :51:45. | :51:49. | |
built them up. The reason London survived the Blitz without turning | :51:50. | :51:54. | |
into a huge fireball was because of the London building Act and we have | :51:55. | :51:58. | |
completely forgotten that and we now have these DIS asters, we have had | :51:59. | :52:04. | |
Lakanal, we have had this, we have had timber framed disasters in | :52:05. | :52:07. | |
London, it would never have happened if we had not got rid of the London | :52:08. | :52:09. | |
building Act. Thank you very much. Rounded up, tortured | :52:10. | :52:14. | |
and kept in secret prisons - the way authorities in Chechnya have | :52:15. | :52:18. | |
been accused of treating gay people The alleged "anti-gay | :52:19. | :52:21. | |
purge" has been condemned by Human Rights organisations | :52:22. | :52:31. | |
and German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke out urging Russian President | :52:32. | :52:33. | |
Vladimir Putin to help protect the rights of gay | :52:34. | :52:36. | |
people in Chechnya. The allegations have been dismissed | :52:37. | :52:37. | |
by the country's leader. Vice News has been given | :52:38. | :52:40. | |
exclusive access to a prison where it's claimed the gay men | :52:41. | :52:42. | |
have been taken. This is the Ministry for affairs. He | :52:43. | :53:16. | |
is the warden of the town's prison. They allegedly took part in | :53:17. | :53:21. | |
torturing 100 gay men as part of a crackdown ordered by officials. | :53:22. | :53:24. | |
Victims claim they were locked up and attacked in the police facility | :53:25. | :53:29. | |
and other locations in Chechnya. As soon as we arrived, we were met by | :53:30. | :53:34. | |
police officers and we're being escorted by six cars who are taking | :53:35. | :53:37. | |
us to one of the locations where it is alleged the victims were held. As | :53:38. | :53:42. | |
far as we're aware, we're the first foreign journalists that have been | :53:43. | :53:43. | |
taken here. We met several Chechen gay men had | :53:44. | :54:26. | |
had fled to Moscow after they feared their lives were at risk. Sometimes | :54:27. | :54:29. | |
from their own family membersment they asked for their identities to | :54:30. | :54:33. | |
be concealed to protect their safety. Can you tell me what it's | :54:34. | :54:35. | |
like to be a gay man in Chechnya? What's it been like having to leave | :54:36. | :54:57. | |
your family and your friends and your life behind? | :54:58. | :55:20. | |
Let's speak now to Hind Hassan who you saw in that report. | :55:21. | :55:24. | |
This was a chaperoned visit. Do you feel you saw the true picture? Well, | :55:25. | :55:32. | |
we were, of course, very cautious about going into Chechnya from the | :55:33. | :55:36. | |
beginning because not many foreign journalist have gone there and we | :55:37. | :55:39. | |
were warned by Human Rights organisations not to try and talk to | :55:40. | :55:43. | |
local chet chance because it could be a danger to their lives. So we | :55:44. | :55:46. | |
knew when we went in there things could be controlled. We would only | :55:47. | :55:50. | |
be able to speak to high level officials or the officials | :55:51. | :55:52. | |
authorised by them so what was important for us that we got beyond, | :55:53. | :55:57. | |
you know, the sur vas, we continued to ask them questions that would | :55:58. | :56:02. | |
push this particular issue and expose some things. For example the | :56:03. | :56:06. | |
guy thaw saw at the top of that report there, he is a man who is the | :56:07. | :56:12. | |
warden of a prison which is the location where it is alleged that | :56:13. | :56:16. | |
these tortures and the attacks against gay Chechen men began. We | :56:17. | :56:23. | |
spoke to him and you know he very quickly exposed his disdain to | :56:24. | :56:27. | |
homosexuality by saying, "Do you think my men would even touch gay | :56:28. | :56:31. | |
people if they existed let alone torture them?" We took the footage | :56:32. | :56:35. | |
and showed it to victims who say they were held at this prison who | :56:36. | :56:40. | |
said that they were 200% certain that he brought them to their knees | :56:41. | :56:45. | |
and beat them. In terms of specifically seeing | :56:46. | :56:48. | |
evidence of torture, did you see anything? Well, we were obviously | :56:49. | :56:53. | |
very aware that by the time we went in there, any potential evidence | :56:54. | :56:56. | |
would have been removed, but what was interesting is when they took us | :56:57. | :57:00. | |
to this abandoned prison facility that had been named in the Human | :57:01. | :57:03. | |
Rights organisation's report, we didn't know what to expect. We | :57:04. | :57:10. | |
didn't know what we would see. We were taken into a room that used to | :57:11. | :57:14. | |
be a kitchen and we saw wires hanging from the ceiling and doors | :57:15. | :57:18. | |
that had been ripped out and debris and large pieces of wood and | :57:19. | :57:23. | |
shattered glass. So it was a very strange place to be taken into. A | :57:24. | :57:27. | |
second room had a corridor that ran through it on and either side there | :57:28. | :57:30. | |
were lots of small rooms and once again, lots of debris. And it looked | :57:31. | :57:36. | |
like a sort of secluded place. Somewhere, I mean, it's speculation | :57:37. | :57:39. | |
that potentially you could hold people, but we were surprised that | :57:40. | :57:44. | |
they would want to take us to a facility that looked like this. The | :57:45. | :57:48. | |
spotlight has been shone. You were invited in all be with it a | :57:49. | :57:52. | |
controlled visit. Do you think anything will change? Well, Human | :57:53. | :57:57. | |
Rights organisations says because of the international pressure, because | :57:58. | :58:00. | |
of this consolidated international pressure the focus as you mentioned | :58:01. | :58:04. | |
international, you know, leaders, heads of states have been coming out | :58:05. | :58:07. | |
and condemning what has been happening. Russia has put pressure | :58:08. | :58:13. | |
on the Chechen Government to respond to this and as a result, at the | :58:14. | :58:17. | |
moment, it seems as though the attacks against gay men have | :58:18. | :58:21. | |
stopped. Thank you very much, Hind. Thank you for your company. I will | :58:22. | :58:25. | |
you at the same time tomorrow. Have a lovely afternoon. Bye-bye. | :58:26. | :58:45. | |
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