30/06/2017 Victoria Derbyshire

Hello, it's Friday, it's 9 o'clock, I'm Joanna Gosling,

Documents seen by BBC News suggest the cladding recently fitted

on Grenfell Tower was nearly ?300,000 cheaper

This latest development in the fire's aftermath comes

as a council meeting last night descended into chaos.

An absolute fiasco, this is why I'm calling for your resignation,

not because of what happened with the fire, but the sheer

and ongoing incompetence that this council has shown ever

We'll bring you the latest from the scene in west London.

The end of a long and desperate journey.

The parents of ten-month-old Charlie Gard - who lost their fight

to take him to America for experimental treatment -

say his life support will be switched off today.

It's going to be the worst day of our lives.

We know what day our son is going to die and we don't even get a say

We'll look back at the enormous effort they went

to, to keep him alive.

Donald Trump's travel ban takes effect after months of controversy.

People from six mainly Muslim countries and all refugees will now

face a tougher time getting into the US.

The president says it's designed to stop terrorism.

Hello, welcome to the programme, we're live until 11am.

After a fall in knife crime, levels are now

Four people killed in four days this week.

We are talking to a mum whose son was stabbed and killed and also

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Our top story today - cladding fitted to Grenfell Tower

during its refurbishment was changed to a version which cost nearly

?300,000 less than the original version chosen, a document seen

At least 80 people were killed when the tower block in west London

A council meeting to discuss the tragedy was called off last

night within minutes of starting after a row broke out over

the attendance of members of the public and press.

He wants answers, and the rest of us...

A meeting of councillors ending in chaos.

Another sign of a council creaking under pressure.

Having failed to properly respond to the disaster, last night,

Kensington and Chelsea failed in a bid to ban reporters

A High Court judge had to remind senior councillors their discussions

are supposed to be open so the top team walked out.

The leader of the council's Labour group is demanding changes

I want the senior leadership of the council and the cabinet to resign.

I want a new organisation in the council who can finally get

to grips with the situation and make sure that my residents are properly

Ten days after this disaster, and I'll remind you,

we are only two or three miles away from Parliament, we're not

in the middle of a third world country, ten days

after the disaster, my people are still not being housed properly.

They are still not getting the access to the money

Before last night's meeting, the council leader accepted

the criticism but said he was not going.

The scale of this was absolutely enormous, unprecedented.

I think any council would have found it difficult to have

This was a very big challenge for a relatively small London

borough and I'm sure we could have done better and we will look

at what we could have done differently or quicker or better

and that will be one of the lessons that we learn from this tragedy.

The panels stuck on the building are a key area for the investigation.

The BBC has been told that during refurbishment,

zinc cladding was rejected in favour of an aluminium alternative,

not as fire retardant, although it has the same official rating.

It was chosen because it was cheaper.

The council saved more than ?290,000.

How costly that decision could have been is one of many

A man has been charged with fraud after allegedly claiming

he lost family members in the Grenfell Tower fire.

Anh Nhu Nguyen, who's 52 and of no fixed address,

We will speak to the chairman of the Local Government Association shortly

for his reaction to everything that is going on after the Grenfell Tower

fire. First, Annita is in the BBC

Newsroom with a summary The parents of ten-month-old Charlie

Gard, who fought an unsuccessful legal battle to take him to America

for experimental treatment, say he will stop receiving life-support

today. Charlie has a rare genetic condition and brain damage. Doctors

at Great Ormond Street Hospital said the US treatment would not help him.

We should be over the road, sitting next to our son,

Charlie Gard's bed, spending the last precious

But we just thought we would take five minutes out to come

It's a video no one should ever have to make.

In a heart-breaking YouTube post, ten-month-old Charlie Gard's parents

say they're being denied their last hope for their baby boy.

We promised our little boy every single day

that we would take him home, because that is a promise

We want to give him a bath at home, we want to sit on the sofa with him,

we want to sleep in the bed with him, we want to put him

in a cot that he's never slept in, but we are now being denied that.

Charlie was born with a rare genetic condition and is

Connie Yates and Chris Gard have been fighting to

keep his life support switched on since March,

despite doctors saying there's no hope for improvement.

They took their fight all the way to the European Court of Human Rights.

But this week, they lost, as judges agreed with the British

courts it was most likely Charlie was being exposed to continued pain.

Today, his life support will be switched off.

His parents say they're being rushed at the most difficult

The 4th of August 2016 was the best day of our life,

But 30th June, 2017, is going to be the worst

Great Ormond Street Hospital say they won't comment on specific

details of patient care, but this is a very distressing

situation for Charlie's parents and all of the staff involved

The German parliament has voted to legalise same-sex marriage.

The bill will grant gay and lesbian couples full marital rights

Let's get more from Berlin correspondent, Jenny Hill. Good

morning. The Chancellor herself voted against this bill but she gave

MPs a free vote, didn't she? Yes come Angela Merkel will, I suppose,

go down in history as the Chancellor who in effect made same-sex marriage

possible in Germany. This all happened in a very last minute and

dramatic fashion. Earlier this week, Mrs Merkel gave an interview during

which she appeared to drop her long-standing opposition to same-sex

marriage and said that she would give MPs a free vote on the subject.

That allowed her left-wing political opposition to effectively jumped at

the chance to push through a bill they have been trying to get into

Parliament for many years. They managed to do it right at the last

minute. Parliament goes on summer holidays tomorrow. Mrs Merkel,

because she had allowed MPs a free vote, effectively Dave Parliamentary

approval. It meant there was enough support across Parliament to pass

the legislation, even though she herself then voted against the

measure. In a way, I suspect she was trying to appeal to the more

conservative elements of her own party whilst in effect allowing this

to go ahead. Bear in mind, Mrs Merkel has an election later this

year and she might have to go into coalition with parties who would

have demanded same-sex marriage legislation as part of a coalition

agreement. So a lot of politics going on behind-the-scenes but

certainly in Germany, I think it is a decision which is very welcome.

The majority of Germans, a poll suggests, are in favour of same-sex

marriage. It is one of the very last, I suppose, Western liberal

democracy to bring in this legislation. It is likely to face

some challenges at the Constitutional Court but if all goes

according to plan, it should come into force by the end of the year.

Thank you for joining us. Jenny Hill in Berlin.

Parts of President Trump's controversial travel ban have

On Monday, a Supreme Court ruling upheld the temporary ban,

which covers visitors from six mainly Muslim countries

and means people without "close" family or business relationships

in the US could be denied visas and barred entry.

But the measures have already been brought back to court

An investigation by chemical weapons inspectors has concluded

that the banned nerve agent sarin was used in an attack

on a rebel-held town in northern Syria in April.

More than 80 people were killed.

The attack prompted the United States to launch a cruise

missile strike on a Syrian government air base.

The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said he had no doubt

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad's forces were involved

Funerals for two of the Manchester bombing victims will

22 people were killed when suicide bomber Salman Abedi detonated

a device as crowds left an Ariana Grande concert.

A service will be held for 29-year-old Martyn Hett

at Stockport Town Hall, which will also be screened

onto the street outside for members of the public.

Another funeral will take place for 15-year-old

The American tennis player Venus Williams,

who is due to play at Wimbledon next week, has been involved in a car

crash which led to the death of a 78-year-old man.

A police spokesman told the BBC they were investigating

the incident in Florida, which happened earlier this month.

Williams' lawyer said the tennis star "expresses her deepest

More than a quarter of women who are overdue for

a cervical cancer test don't know screening is available,

The charity found there was a particular lack

of awareness among women who spoke English as a second language.

Around 3,000 new cases are diagnosed every year and the charity says more

needs to be done to reach women who are missing tests.

That's a summary of the latest BBC News.

Let us know your thoughts on knife crime. The number of knife crime

attacks in London has gone up quite dramatically this year. We are going

to be talking about why and what can be done to try to reverse the trend.

Use the hashtag Victoria live and If you text, you will be charged

Just days away from the start of Wimbledon, Johanna Konta is looking

in good form? Yes, it seems to be going pretty

well for her ahead of this year's Wimbledon. We know already she's not

the greatest grass court player and it is not her favourite surface

she's only of a won one match at Wimbledon which is something she

definitely going to be looking to improve this year. She won two

matches yesterday in the warm up tournament in Eastbourne. Firstly,

she came past French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko in three sets

before her quarterfinal against the world number one Angelique Kerber.

Johanna Konta took the first set 6-3, playing very well. But she fell

heavily on match point in the second set and the match was delayed for

about ten minutes as she had treatment. But she recovered and

eventually took her fourth match point and the second set 6- for some

good day at the British number one. -- 6-4. And Heather Watson is also

into the last four in Eastbourne with a win over Barbora Strycova.

She will take on former world number one Caroline Wozniacki later.

Johanna Konta faces birdseed Karolina Pliskova. Lots to look

forward to later. Good news for both of them but not so much for Andy

Murray because his sore hip means he pulled out of his final warm up

match, resting instead yesterday, and he said he is unlikely to be

able to practise today which is not ideal preparation for the number one

seed and the world number one. How about the world number 855? If you

don't know who he is, his name is Alex Ward, the only Briton to come

through singles qualifying for Wimbledon, doing it by coming from a

set down to beat Teymuraz Gabashvili in four sets in Roehampton. He will

be one of 12 British players in the main draw which is made in around an

hour. We will have news on that a bit later. It is made even more

amazing for Alex Ward as he was given a wild card just to get into

qualifying having lost his previous seven matches before this week. It

is a great result for him. So much for British tennis fans to look

forward to in the next couple of weeks. Johanna Konta and Heather --

and Heather Watson's semifinals will be on BBC Two straight after this

programme. And we love an underdog is Alex Ward

will have lots of support! Huge match in rugby union this weekend

but it is the team selection for the Lions that has got everyone talking.

We spoke about the pressure the Lions are under yesterday. Warren

Gatland made some changes which have prompted raised eyebrows, former

Welsh international Jonathan Davies telling the BBC that Warren Gatland

had his last of the dice by putting Johnny Sexton and Owen Farrell in

the back line together. Former player Jeremy Guscott has called the

decision ambitious but said it could come at a cost, calling it a gamble.

The Lions must win the second Test against New Zealand in Wellington at

around this time tomorrow morning or they will hand the all Blacks the

series win. It is about character this week for us. It is about

manning up and putting everything on the line. It is that situation,

isn't it? It is do or die for us. Indeed it is, a big game tomorrow

morning, lots to look forward to. More sport later.

Documents obtained by BBC News show that the cladding originally due

to be installed on Grenfell Tower was changed to a version

The cladding was fitted as part of a refurbishment

and is thought to have contributed to the rapid spread of the blaze

that consumed the 24-storey block two weeks ago.

It comes as a meeting of senior councillors at Kensington

and Chelsea town hall last night, which was linked to

the Grenfell Tower tragedy, descended into chaos

when it was scrapped as journalists entered the room.

The media has been barred until a court order gave them permission to

attend. The leader of the council was confronted by opposition

councillors. This is a private meeting of the cabinet... Why are

the press here then? To which councillors have been invited. I've

agreed the meeting be held in private given the threats of

assaults. Are there journalists here. I'm advised if there are

others present we cannot have an open discussion. You have got

journal I haves in the room. I understand we can't have an open

discussion. You can't organise a cabinet meeting. We can't have an

unprejudiced meeting if journalists are recording and writing our

comments. Clearly they are, who let them in? You have spent a day

talking about the security of the meeting and five minutes before it

starts, the press are here. Now you're telling us we can't have a

proper meeting. The press are here as a result of legal representation,

that means we can't have the discussion we were intending to

have. That will prejudice the inquiry. That is the legal advice I

have received and I have to declare the meeting closed. You have used

this as an opportunity for you to make a statement and no one gets to

say anything. You could have issued that statement and you should have

issued that statement eight days ago. That statement has just been

issued. I would like to have a conversation, but I'm advised we

can't do that. An absolute fiasco, because of the incompetence this

council has shown since this happened. Thank you, my advice I we

can't continue. You telling us you're taking advice, you're taking

the wrong advice. You're not facing up even to your own councillors. Why

don't you come and talk to people? You saw Robert

Well you saw Robert Atkinson there, a labour councillor whose ward

includes Grenfell Tower, criticising the the way

He's been speaking to our reporter Dan Johnson

We went with the idea that we would be briefed as to

what the council is proposing to do in the longer term for the residents

to take care of the housing needs, not just of the victims but the

people of the surrounding area, so we had a whole series

of questions and wished to have a genuine debate.

The Leader of the Council read a statement,

ten days ago, and then once he became aware

he sought to change the meeting, which of course...

To close the meeting, which, of course, we

then challenged him and tried to ask our questions.

Would you rather the meeting had gone ahead without the

Well, initially, we were told that it

would be a private meeting and that we could be

frank with each other, but we ended up with the worst of

The residents have a right to meet with the leaders of

The leaders of the council have been hiding from the

residents for the last week, and they should

have had the courage to

meet with people and answer questions.

The least that we could do is to face the residents

face-to-face, and they are not prepared to do it.

I think they're frightened and they're in a panic, and they wish

to give the impression that they are in control.

And they're clearly not, as the entire nation saw last night.

They can't even organise a meeting in the basement of their own Town

What do you think should happen next?

I think that the leadership of the council and the

I think that the TMO organisation, which has

completely collapsed and failed to do anything in the last ten days,

They need to grasp hold of the housing and care needs of

their residents and they need to do something.

So, I'm now appealing to Tory backbenchers, who have now seen

for themselves the way that their Cabinet is not

coping, to get a grip and organise themselves.

Wouldn't a wholesale change of leadership at

the top of the council just cause more problems right now?

Well, that's one reason why we waited - we

did think that there might be more chaos,

but actually, we're now in a

situation where the other local authorities who have been supporting

us want to pull out, but they are not able

to pass responsibility, particularly not for the housing

needs, back to the council, because the council is not

functioning, which is why, at the end of the day

yesterday, I urged the Government to send

It's not often that a councillor calls for the abolition

of his own council, but at the end of the day, as everybody so,

You're saying Kensington and Chelsea just

isn't up to this and it needs to be a higher power that takes over?

Yes, it took the Government till last week to

get rid of the chief executive of the council.

The council couldn't even sack its own chief executive.

Now I'm saying to the Government, the council itself can't function,

so the Government needs to step in and appoint commissioners.

Members of press sought and acquired an injunction that was served on the

council. Members of press joined the meeting after it started. The

cabinet received legal advice that in order not to prejudice the public

inquiry the meeting could not proceed as it would not be possible

to restrict the discussion without straying into areas that would fall

into the remit of public inquiry. We will explore opportunity for open

discussions that don't prejudice the public inquiry.

So far, all of the 137 tests on cladding of high rise buildings

across the country have failed safety tests.

But the chair of the London Government Association Lord Porter

is now questioning the value of those tests.

That meeting, what a farce, what did you think seeing the pictures of

what happened? Seeing that didn't paint local government in the best

light. If I was running that council I would hope I would have the

ability to run it in a slightly different way than it happened last

night. You have to be careful how you organise meetings, particularly

around a sensitive issue and the public must be able to know what is

going on, so must the press. Should the meeting have gone on. I don't

know the things they know about the thing ts they were going to talk

about. If they thought it could prejudice the public inquiry, maybe

their advice was right. I can't imagine for myself that with

something so sensitive we would have dealt with it that way. It is not

like it is not being talked about elsewhere, we have the documents on

the cladding, these things are out there being talked about, the

residents are talking, it is hard to imagine what might have come up in

the meeting, but we don't know. To people looking on it just looks like

an attempt to try to shut down debate. But this subject is so large

and so wide and so far-fetched in terms of its impact that this debate

will not be able to be shut down. If anybody thinks there would be a

closed door cover up, they will be mistaken. It is not just Kensington

and Chelsea, you had a number of tower blocks, we have 17 councils,

27 social landlords and in the private checks, 12 tower blocks that

are owned privately have failed the test in and there is something wrong

the testing. It is not the panel, it is the way the experts have adviced

the Government to test the panel. The Government have been told by the

pecks erts, read -- by Tex perpts they should -- experts they should

test the core of the panel, not the whole panel. We need to do proper

fire checks on the insulation behind the panels. Again that is something

I want to come back to I still want to focus on Kensington and Chelsea,

because the Labour councillor Robert Atkinson, said it is time for the

senior leadership of the council to go and the cabinet, because they

can't command faith in the way they're handling the aftermath of

Grenfell Tower. Would you agree? It is not me for to agree or disagree,

as I said, I would hope if I was tested this way I wouldn't be

running the council meetings like that. It is not just about the

running of the meeting, but the way the residents are being treated,

they don't feel they're being heard and they're not being housed

properly, are they best placed to be handling this, are they doing a good

job? I don't know on the ground the exact job they're doing. I know from

what I have seen on the media that the people we should be focussing on

don't appear to be focussed on the way they should be. The people who

need the help do not feel they're getting it, therefore is it a pretty

obvious conclusion that the people who should be giving the house are

not doing a good job and it is time for someone else to take over? That

is for the members of Kensington or the Government to take care of. The

Local Government Association does haven't the ability to determine who

runs a council. You must are a view when you look at it and see what is

happening and there are calls for Nick Paget-Brown to go and others to

go, who could make them go? Can anybody make them go? The

councillors can do that if they call an emergency motion they can call a

motion of no confidence. Or the government can decide it is so bad

we are going to put a team of outside people in. And we would help

them do that. This is two week on, there are people who are struggling

and very unhappy and it doesn't take much thought to work out why. They

have lost everything. So two week on, is it time to say, you have had

your chance and you have not done what is required. It is time for the

member of Kenning sing -- Kensington and Chelsea to decide. I have only

seen snippets on the media. I can't offer a reasoned view, it would be

unreasonable for me to do and unkind for the victims to offer opinions

about who is best placed to run them. The victims are desperate for

people in authority to champion what they, how they feel, what they need.

We should all be doing that. All the councillors at Kensington and

Chelsea and around the country, I don't believe anybody's walking

through their normal lives at the moment. My own organisation has had

25 member of staff working on this because of the scale of the national

issue. I can't just concentrate on one council. I can't put into words

how I feel about the victims and how they have been treated now, I can't

do that. I would turn into an angry man shouting at the TV. At the

moment the biggest issue we are facing as a country, is everyone of

the tests has failed. It is not one or two people who has got it wrong,

it is everybody according to the people who have done the testing.

There are so many, there are so many elements to this, as you point out,

because of decision that have been made, councils are caught up in

this, people are caught up in this, they're in blocks and fear they're

not safe. The people who need help are those who are lost their loved

ones and lost everything that they held dear to them. They have got

nothing and you said you... You said you turned into an angry man several

times shouting at the TV, what has it been that has made you shout at

the TV. I can't say, I can't use the language I use when I'm shouting at

the TV. What is it that moves you to that? It is the whole thing, it is

the... Sadness, the anger, the fear, it is all of it. I have never in all

the time I have been in local government I have never experienced

the level of emotions that this is taking from people. And the way it

has affected everyone. I have seen grown people crying over things they

couldn't do and had no power to fix. This is biting into the personal

feelings of everybody who sees what is going on.

What will put it right for these people? Two weeks on, they don't

know where they are going to end up. They don't know if they will get to

stay in the local area. They should be able to stay in the accommodation

that is available. The trouble is, I don't know what the number of

available properties is in Kensington and Chelsea. Because I'm

not on the ground, I don't know what stock they have got available to

use. I can't answer those questions. Could this, I know that you don't

want a kind of say that people in the council have to go but it is

hard to imagine why it is taking so long, two weeks. Would other people

have done it differently? You have said you would handle the council

meeting differently. It is surely not beyond the wit of people to have

got together and it is a relatively small group of people, to have just

made sure that they were held close, championed, and that they weren't in

this position now. I don't disagree with you. So is it time for some to

take responsibility for the back that did not happen? The people on

the ground need to hold their own people to account. I can't do that.

Either the government or the local councillors need to determine who is

the right group of people to be running that situation. I'm not that

close to it to be able to make that call. I can't do it. The point to me

is that we have not said anything in the media at all as an organisation

until today because we have been trying to gather the facts across

the whole country. This isn't just a few people. It is not coming you

know, one borough. We have got 17 councils across the country, 27

registered social landlords and at least, at the moment, 12 Private

tower blocks where the cladding has failed its tests. I am concerned

that the test is not the appropriate test to determine the safety of

those buildings. So on that, are you saying that you are concerned that

actually, some of the cladding is potentially OK and it does not have

to be taken off? Because obviously, this is an enormously expensive and

disruptive business. On the basis of the tests being carried out, I don't

think it is safe to say the cladding has failed. That cladding has a

safety certificate to say it is a safe and appropriate building

product. It has a good fire rating. If that is not the case, we have to

establish that but we can't do it just by drilling a small sample of

the core of the panel. We need to test the whole panel. We also need

to test the way the panels are fixed to the walls and we also need to

test the insulation that is the cavity fill sitting behind it. That

sounds so obvious and yet you are saying that is not the way it is

being tested? They are testing the call which is flammable. That is

another mess, isn't it? Who is responsible for it being done that

way? I'm not an expert and as far as I can see, it is the experts' fault.

The government have been advised by experts to do the test this way. I

think it is wrong. I think we need to do the tests properly but I'm not

an expert. Just on the choice of cladding for Grenfell Tower, it has

emerged, according to documents, that the original cladding that was

picked which was a think cladding was subsequently rejected and an

aluminium cladding was picked instead which saved ?300,000. -- a

zinc cladding was subsequently rejected. Was it penny-pinching and

if so, can you understand that in the context of a council that was

sitting on a cash pile of ?300 million? Erm, look, without going

into the complicated argument of the separation of how council finances

have do happen and how housing accounts have to be kept separate

from the general, normal fund account, the balance is available to

them were not ?300 million but they were large. I don't know if the

rationale behind the change was one of Finance or for athletics or

whatever but if it was changing one product that was suitable for

another product that was suitable, that should be the issue. Was the

product they put on fit for purpose? That is what we need to establish.

Were the panels on that tower fit for purpose and if they are, that

means we have a different problem. For the safety of everybody, we need

to work out what the problem is, not just jump on one thing, doing

inappropriate test and then blame it. We need to look at everything,

the insulation that is the cavity fill behind the panels and then we

need to look at the panels as a total panel. We need to be able to

get somebody basically to put the panel on top of fire and count how

long it takes for it burn. Just before we let you go, you have said

it is for local people to decide whether those running the council

should go, it is not for you to force anyone to go. But obviously,

people don't have to be forced out. They can decide to go themselves if

they don't feel they have been doing a good job. Presumably people will

be reflecting on whether they can actually feel they themselves have

done everything that they could. Would you urge people to reflect on

whether they have done everything they could? Everybody involved in

this, members, officers, they all need to look at themselves in the

mirror and say, "Did I do what I thought was right and could I have

done it any better?" I can't answer for them. Lord Porter, thank you

very much indeed for joining us. Annita is in the BBC

Newsroom with a summary Cladding fitted to Grenfell Tower

during its refurbishment was changed to a version which cost nearly

?300,000 less. Documents seen by the BBC have revealed this. At least 80

people were killed when a tower block in West London was destroyed

by fire two weeks ago. The documents show officials originally chose a

zinc cladding but then decided upon a less fire retardant aluminium

version. Kensington and Chelsea Council says safety would not have

been compromised to manage budgets. A council meeting to discuss the

tragedy was called off last night within minutes of starting after a

row broke out over the attendance of members of the public and the press.

The council halted the meeting, claiming it would prejudice the

forthcoming public inquiry but London mayor Sadiq Khan said the

council's decision beggars belief. Meanwhile, a man has been charged

with fraud after allegedly claiming he lost family members

in the Grenfell Tower fire. Anh Nhu Nguyen, who's 52

and of no fixed address, Some news just in, British consumers

have suffered the longest decline in their spending power since the

1970s, official data has just shown. Household disposable income,

adjusted for inflation, fell for the third quarter in a row, the Office

for National Statistics said. The parents of ten-month-old Charlie

Gard, who fought an unsuccessful legal battle to take him to America

for experimental treatment, say he will stop receiving

life-support today. Charlie has a rare genetic

condition and brain damage. Doctors at Great Ormond

Street Hospital said Chris Gard and Connie Yates say

they've now been told they will not be able to take their son

home to die. The German parliament has voted to

legalise same-sex marriage. The bill will grant gay and lesbian couples

full marital rights, including child adoption. It had been backed by most

of Germany's political parties although it was opposed by

conservative allies of Chancellor Merkel. She changed her mind to

allow the free vote. That is a summary of the latest news. More at

10am. Time for a sports update.

In around half an hour, we will see the draw for the first round of

Wimbledon taking place ahead of next week's tournament. Johanna Konta and

Heather Watson are tuning up nicely, both into the semifinals at the

Aegon Championships in Eastbourne. Johanna Konta with two wins

yesterday and survived a late injury scare to beat world number one

Angelique Kerber. She will play Karolina Pliskova later after

Watson's semifinal against Caroline Wozniacki. Men's number one seed

Andy Murray's preparations are not going well. He pulled out of his

final warm up match at hurling with a sore hip and could not train

yesterday. He says it is unlikely and he will be resting again today.

British and Irish Lions coach Andy Farrell says it's do or die ahead of

the second test against New Zealand tomorrow morning. Defeating

Wellington would mean the all Blacks take the series. After signing

Jermain Defoe yesterday, Paul Baysse for Bournemouth, they have this --

they have signed defender Nathan Ake from Chelsea for a reported 20 -- a

reported ?20 million which would be a club record fee. The Dutch

international spent half of last season on loan at the vitality

stadium. More sport in half an hour, including the Wimbledon draw just

after 10am. Next, just three weeks

after Jeremy Corbyn's general election success, you may have

thought things would have settled But last night, three of his top

team were sacked after defying orders during the Queen's Speech

amendment votes and backing a call for the UK to stay in the single

market after Brexit. Shadow ministers Andy Slaughter,

Catherine West and Ruth Cadbury had supported the challenge made

by another Labour MP Chuka Umunna. Staying in the single market is not

Labour policy and the party's MPs Our political correspondent

is Alex Forsyth. What does this say about what is

going on within the Labour Party and within Parliament on the whole issue

of Brexit and what gets through? I think this lays bare the divisions

in the Labour Party over its approach to Brexit. We have long

known the Tories are divided over the EU which is usually what we talk

about but now we are seeing the differences in Labour and they are

subtle. As you say, this amendment was about staying in the single

market whereas Labour's official position is about having all the

benefits of the single market. Subtle but important. As you say, a

number of MPs voted against Jeremy Corbyn's instructions and backed the

amendment and we had those sackings and one resignation as a

consequence. What is interesting is how Jeremy Corbyn has handled it

because we know he has been used to dissenting voices among his own MPs

ever since he took over as Labour leader, really. Lots of the

parliamentarians in the Labour Party don't necessarily agree with all his

views and for a long time they did not support him as leader although

now many are falling into line behind him. But what Jeremy Corbyn

has done on this occasion is sack people and asserted his authority in

a way that he did not really do before the election. I think he

feels he has been emboldened by the election result and now has a

mandate. What that does not solve is Labour's position on Brexit. Thank

you for joining us. The life support system

for terminally-ill baby Charlie Gard will be switched off today,

after judges at the European Court of Human Rights rejected his

parents' plea for them to intervene. Connie Yates and Chris Gard

yesterday lost their final legal bid to take their son

to the US for treatment. Charlie is thought to be one of 16

children in the world to have mitochondrial depletion syndrome,

which causes progressive muscle And the court agreed

with Great Ormond Street Hospital, saying further treatment

would cause him significant harm. After that ruling came in,

Connie and Chris took a little time away from their baby's bedside

yesterday, to record a message, released on YouTube,

for those who've supported them We've been talking

with Great Ormond Street since November last year,

when they first started talking about court,

about what palliative care meant, One option was to let

Charlie go in hospital. The other option was to let

Charlie go to a hospice. And the third option

was to let Charlie go home to So we chose to take

Charlie home to die. And we have said this for months,

that that is what we want, that is our last wish, if it

went this way, the way it's gone. And we've promised our little boy

every single day that we will take him home, because that is a promise

we thought we could keep. We want to give him a bath at home.

We want to sit on the sofa with him. We want to put him in a cot

he's never slept in. You know, we had a meeting yesterday

where we were told we were going to discuss our options,

and you know, we said we'd If that's not possible,

can we take him to a hospice? They said no to both,

he has to die in They said they couldn't

get transport to take us home, so we've offered

to pay for that privately, with a private team,

and they said that's not an option. You know, I'm sure you read

in the media that they've come out and said there's no rush,

no rush to do all this. We're working closely

with the family to arrange We've literally begged them

to give us this weekend. Some of our family

and friends can't come. The last time they saw

Charlie will be the last And he's still so stable -

that's what's so hard. As you probably see on our T-shirts,

if he's still fighting, And he's still fighting over there,

believe me, he's still fighting. He's a little fighter,

a little trooper and a soldier. And he's still fighting,

but we're not allowed Our parental rights have

been stripped away. We can't even take our

own son home to die. Do you not think we've

been put through enough? Our final wish, if it all went

against us, and we've had this conversation many times, if we lose,

can we take our little boy home to The 4th of August 2016 was the best

day of our lives, the The 30th of June 2017

is going to be the We know what day our

son's going to die. We don't even get a say

in what happens to him. Charlie will die in Great Ormond

Street Hospital tomorrow. Thank you, everyone

for all your support. A month ago, Connie

and Chris were here with us on Victoria Derbyshire to talk

about their fight for Charlie. Victoria began by asking them

what the chance of taking him to America for treatment would mean

to them. It's literally life

or death, isn't it? So, if we don't get this

opportunity, he's going to die. So, he hasn't got

anything to lose, and we know that, even if it doesn't work,

which I think it will, we know that we've done everything

that we can for him. Like, we don't want to

live with that what if. They could have tried

the treatment here. And you know, we've had

to stomach the fact that they OK, we don't agree with that,

but we have to accept that. But the fact that they

are blocking us from taking him to another hospital

in the world with one of the leading I still to this day cannot

get my head around. They don't want to do

the treatment, but there is somewhere around there that does,

and they basically just kept him a prisoner there,

and our parental rights have been completely stripped,

the minute we took him in there, in hindsight,

we lost him, because, They've got complete

responsibility for him. When we got the appeal papers,

it says Connie Yates and Chris Gard versus Great Ormond

Street Hospital and Charlie Gard, It broke my heart when I

saw that, because how We are the ones that sit

there with him, day in, day out, we are staying 24

hours at the moment. We love him with all our hearts,

and we can't take him to somewhere that may save

and improve his life. And we will fight to the bitter end

for him, and you know, whatever we have to go

through to get the chance that he needs, we are more

than willing to do, because They talk about their parental

rights having been stripped, why did they not have the right to do what

they thought was best for their son. It is a very sad case and people ask

why don't they have the right to do twla they want with their child and

decide what they think is in his interests. The law is clear the

rights of child take precedence over the rights of adult and after the

court has determined and a succession of courts have determined

what the best interests are for Charlie Gard, then those rights take

priority. The courts have decided it is in his best interest to have

palliative care and he could be exposed to suffering and be in

distress, although we can't tell because of his condition, because he

is being artificially kept alive. The courts are arguing on his behalf

against the parents. So what happens now, the life support will be

switched off today. Great Ormond Street after the European court

declined to take the case, because they backed the British court,

because they would not rush to change charm's care, but --

Charlie's care, but they have been saying it is in his best interest to

allow him to die with dignity. While not pushing the parents into making

the decision with undue speed they have been saying it's time to

consider this and to do it and it seems Charlie's parents have

accepted this will happen today. You said there have been court rulings

on cases where there has been a conflict over what is the in the

child's best interest, does this case push any new boundaries in

terms of where the rights lie? No, but it underlines clearly that where

the courts are concerned that there is a difference between what the

parents think is in the best interest and what the courts decide

ultimately the courts will prevail. Great Ormond Street say, as with all

patients, they are not able to discuss the specific details, they

say it is a distressing situation for Charlie's parents and the staff

and their focus remains with them. Thank you. The number of women

having a cervical smear test are falling. We will talk about that.

Let us know your thoughts, have you ever deliberately not gone for a

smear test. Because you were worried about what it might be like. Do let

us know your thoughts on that. Knife crime is returning

to the levels of six years ago - signalling the end to a long,

slow fall that had been In London, the picture is shocking -

with four people killed Ten teenagers have been stabbed

to death in the capital this year. And in other parts of

the country is no less bleak. In the West Midlands, for example,

the number of knife crimes has more So why's it happening

and what can be done about it? With me in the studio

is Aaron Douglas-Letts, whose younger brother was murdered

last April, Noel Williams who mentors young people

looking to leave gang life, Chief Superintendant John Sutherland

from the Met Police and in our studio in Londonderry

is Michelle McPhillips, whose son JJ was stabbed

and killed earlier this year. If I can come to you Aaron, your

older brother was stabbed and killed this year. So you have had obviously

been touched in the worst possible way by this. What are your thoughts

on what is going on? Well, knife crime right now, it's always been

around, but now it is at an all time high and it is becoming ridiculous

why these young people are dying. My brother lost his life just over a

year ago. He was not in a gang. He was a young guy coming to the

transition of what he wanted to do with his life A trainee electrician

and he lost his life. The way he lost his life was, it was very grim,

it was in the afternoon, in broad daylight, not far from a school and

you know not far from where the London mayor, Siddique Khan was

living, he lost his life there and even until today we are trying to

find answers, why is this thing happening in the way it is. We have

a picture of your brother there. You told us a bit about him. Tell us a

bit more. Lewis, he was a normal child, his dad passed away, his mum

was a hard-working, she worked for the borough and he grew up in a nice

home, he loved animals, he wanted to do something with his life and he

got caught up in this knife crime, because he was at the wrong place at

the wrong time and he was innocents and he lost his life. Michelle, your

son was stabbed to death this year, our condolences go to you for your

loss, tell us what happened to your son and what your thoughts are on

kids carrying knives. My son Jonathan was standing on the steps

of town hall, he had gone out for the first time in two years for a

night out with his cousins and he approached a car where some six

people had surrounded a car with knives and were giving chase to

people. He obviously felt safe enough to go forward to give help

and they stabbed him straight in the heart. Knife crime is on the rise

again and it had been falling, I mean, is it an issue that you're

looking at in the broader sense as a result of what happened to your

family, or do you just kind of sort of obviously have to deal with it in

a personal way, do you have thoughts on the broader issues? The broader

issue is I'm now on the streets in the borough where I live trying to

get knife awareness, until my son got stabbed, I wasn't involved in

this, people look at it like it was another gang member, my son wasn't

in a gang and the more of the parents that I speak to, they're not

gang-related, they have just got caught up in something. My son was

where he was always, in upper Street where we have lived for 45 years.

The people in the wrong place at the wrong time doing wrong were the

people that turned up with the knives. What is the answer? I don't

know what the answer is. I think it is a very long slow process to get

an answer. I think stop and search needs to come back in and has to be

done in the hotspot areas and it has to be taken and done to the people

that are highlights the fact they're carrying knives and stop glamorising

it and put knives in a specialist shop if you want to buy a knife of a

certain size, you have to go with ID and show it. At the moment, where

are the knives coming from? Where on earth do you get a zombie knife and

why would you carry one to walk around the street. Noel, Michelle

and Aaron both saying their loved ones were not in gangs, you have

experience of gang life and work with youths in terms of youth

justice to try to change things, what is it about, what is going on?

Obviously, this thing of people getting caught up in a situation

where people have knives, why are they carrying them? It is a

difficult thing to sorts of get your mind around. I don't think we can

put one thing on it. You hear young people say they're scared and a lot

of people are already involved in this activity through their parents,

brothers, cousins, so it is generational. People are carrying

knives. To be frank when they're carrying the knives, as the woman

has just alluded to, a lot of people are committing crime with these

knives and I'm sure when that car was surrounded, they did to maybe

take the car or harm people in the car. We are not condoning that, what

I feel is for young people if you get caught with with a knife, we

have a law and you go to prison and you come out. To curb this epidemic,

we need to work with business, innovation and create skills and

opportunities for people not to be sitting idle in the same place and

lack of a cliche, not to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. We

need to put them in different places and teach them different skims so

they don't -- skills so they don't feel like walking around glamor

wising it, I think the media have a role, young people killed somebody

again, I know John will have his word, talk to a man like John and

even he feels it is time to maybe do some different approaches. John,

what do you think could be done? I think... I'm not just a policeman,

I'm a resident of this city and a dad. There must be a short and a

long-term approach. From a police point of view, the greatest

responsibility that a police officer has, and the greatest privilege a

police officer has is to save lives. That is what we have going to be

doing in the short-term n partnership with youth workers and

stop and search is important. My experience in nearly 25 years, stop

and search used properly saves lives. But we are kidding ourselves

if we think that is the whole answer. It is a short-term means of

stopping young people stabbing young people. In the longer term we have

got to understand the reasons why young people are picking up knives

and using them in the first place. We have got to be prepared as a

whole society to adopt a long-term approach. The London mayor says ?22

million has been cut from youth groups since 2011 and 30 youth

centres have closed. Is that feeding into it. Yes austerity is key on all

fronts, as well as the police losing 20,000 people. These are things that

have an effect on how things will go forward. Lewis was a lovely young

man and I worked with him and he reaped the benefits of a charity we

had that was closed down and a year and a half later from that I'm sure

you can allude to it more, but young people have to come to family

members to try and further their skills in whatever career they

wanted to, because we don't have the places to help people. What do you

think? The summer holidays are coming up and young people need

something to do. These schemes are not reaching the young people, even

if you have events in place or plans to do for the summer, they're not

seeing it. They are not aware it will happen, so we need to reach out

to young people and make them aware by using social media, not just the

young people are not reading newspaper and they're on web-sites

and looking for way out, but nay need too see -- they need to see

what is available via social media. Thank you all very much for joining

us and sharing your thoughts on that. If you have any thoughts get

in touch. Now the weather. The weather is improving as we head

to the course of the weekend but for today, a mixed picture out there. We

can see that in the Weather Watchers pictures coming in, contrasting Kent

to cloudier, damp conditions in North Wales. We are seeing quite a

lot of cloud with drizzly outbreaks of rain across Scotland, northern

England, down across Wales and the south-west, quite blustery year. In

the south-east, sunnier spells but also the chance of a few scattered,

heavy showers. Temperature is about 14-16 in the north and west. Into

the south-east, 23 degrees or so but some isolated showers that could be

quite heavy. Showers will ease for most of us into this evening, a bit

of rain for Central and eastern England but tomorrow, rain clearing

away quickly and we are back to drier weather and spells of

sunshine, turning breezy and damp again for Scotland and Northern

Ireland later in the afternoon but with sunnier spells, highs of around

24. Sunday, foremost, looks like another dry bright day. -- for most

of us. Hello, it's Friday, it's 10 o'clock,

I'm Joanna Gosling. Documents seen by BBC News suggest

the cladding recently fitted on Grenfell Tower was

nearly ?300,000 cheaper This latest development

in the fire's aftermath comes as a council meeting last night

descended into chaos. An absolute fiasco, this is why I'm

calling for your resignation, not because of what happened

with the fire, but the sheer and ongoing incompetence that this

council has shown ever There is anger this morning here in

North Kensington with this apparent confirmation that money was saved

during the refurbishment of this building. People here want to know

why. The number of women having a smear

test to screen for cervical A leading cancer charity says more

than a quarter of those due one are not even aware they can be

tested for the disease. Donald Trump's travel ban takes

effect after months of controversy. People from six mainly Muslim

countries and all refugees will now face a tougher time getting

into the US. The president says it's

designed to stop terrorism. Also as the President is criticised

for another personal attack on an American newsreader,

we'll discuss the reaction Annita is in the BBC

Newsroom with a summary Cladding fitted to Grenfell Tower

during its refurbishment was changed to a version which cost nearly

?300,000 less, documents seen At least 80 people were

killed when the tower block in West London was destroyed

by fire two weeks ago. The documents show officials

originally chose a zinc cladding but then decided

upon a less fire retardant aluminium Kensington and Chelsea Council says

safety would not have The chairman of the Local Government

Association said more needs to be done to identify the root cause of

problems. I don't know whether the rationale behind the change was one

for finance or ascetics or whatever but if it was changing one product

that was suitable for another product that was suitable, that

should be the issue. Was the product they put on fit for purpose? That is

what we need to establish. Are the panels on that tower fit for

purpose? If they are, that means we have a different problem and for the

safety of everybody, we need to work out what that problem is, not just

jump on one thing, do an inappropriate test and then blame

it. We need to look at everything, the installation that is the cavity

fill behind the panels, and we need to look at the panels as a total

panel. We need to be able to get someone basically to put the panel

on top of fire and see how long it takes for to burn.

A council meeting to discuss the tragedy was called off last

night within minutes of starting after a row broke out over

the attendance of members of the public and the press.

The council halted the meeting, claiming it would prejudice

the forthcoming public inquiry but London mayor Sadiq Khan

said the council's decision beggars belief.

Meanwhile, a man has been charged with fraud after allegedly claiming

he lost family members in the Grenfell Tower fire.

Anh Nhu Nguyen, who's 52 and of no fixed address,

The parents of ten-month-old Charlie Gard, who fought an unsuccessful

legal battle to take him to America for experimental treatment, say he

will stop receiving life support today.

Charlie has a rare genetic condition and brain damage.

Doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital said

Chris Gard and Connie Yates say they've now been told they will not

be able to take their son home to die.

The German parliament has voted to legalise same-sex marriage.

The bill will grant gay and lesbian couples

full marital rights, including child adoption.

It had been backed by most of Germany's political parties

although it was opposed by conservative allies of Chancellor

She changed her mind to allow a free vote.

Our Berlin correspondent Jenny Hill Thomas Moore. This all happened in a

very last minute and dramatic fashion. Earlier this week, Mrs

Merkel gave an interview during which she appeared to drop her

long-standing opposition to same-sex marriage and said that she would

give her MPs a free vote on the subject. That allowed her left-wing,

the political left here, opposition to effectively jump at the chance to

push through a bill they have been trying to get into Parliament for

many years. They managed to do it right at the last minute. Parliament

goes on its summer holidays tomorrow. Mrs Merkel, because she

had allowed her MPs a free vote, effectively gave Parliamentary

approval. Jenny Hill, there. Let's get a sports update.

Good morning again, we're patiently awaiting the draw for the first

round of Wimbledon, things just getting underway at the All-England

Club and we will have details for you later but there are high hopes

for British players next week, Johanna Konta's grass court form is

steadily improving as she reached the semifinals of the Aegon

Championships in Eastbourne yesterday, getting past the French

Open champion, Jelena Ostapenko in three sets before a quarterfinal

against the world number one Angelique Kerber. Johanna Konta took

the first set 6-3, playing very well. She fell heavily on match

point in the second set. The match was delayed for ten minutes as she

was treated. But she recovered to eventually take her fourth match

point and the second set, 6-4. A good win for her. Heather Watson is

also doing very well, also into the last four having beaten Barbora

Strycova. She will take on former world number one Caroline Wozniacki

later. Johanna Konta will face third seed Karolina Pliskova.

Andy Murray should have been playing an exhibition match in London today

but has pulled out with a sore hip. He is due to start a practice

session this morning at Wimbledon but his coach Ivan Lendl told our

correspondent David Ornstein today that Andy Murray was doing great so

we will keep our fingers crossed for the defending Wimbledon champion and

world number one. Alex Ward, the world number 855, is

the only Briton to come through singles qualifying for Wimbledon,

coming from a set down to beat Russia's Teymuraz Gabashvili in four

set at Roehampton. He was given a wild card to play in qualifying and

had lost his last seven straight matches before this week so a great

result for him. You can watch you Hannah quanta and Heather Watson in

Eastbourne action on BBC Two this morning from 11am. In rugby union, a

crucial game coming up for the British and Irish Lions and Warren

Gatland's selection for the second Test against New Zealand has been

somewhat criticised. Former Wales international Jonathan Davies things

Gatland is using the last role of the dice by putting Johnny Sexton

and Owen Farrell together. Former Lions player Jeremy Guscott think

the decision is ambitious, calling it a gamble. The Lions must win

tomorrow morning in Wellington or they will hand the all Blacks this

series win. It is about character this week for us. It is about

manning up and putting everything on the line because it is that

situation, isn't it? It is do or die for us. There is nothing a mother

wouldn't do for their son, even if you are a grown man playing in a

professional golf tournament. China's Lee Hao-tong Li his putter

into the water at the 11th at the French Open after a bit of a tantrum

and about 20 minutes later, his mum waded into needy water to find it.

She attracted a bit of attention from the other players on the course

as they watched. She found the putter, but realised it had been

broken into macro, her efforts sending some of the players into

fits of laughter as they watched her efforts. Listen, if I dropped my

life savings into the bottom of the pond, I think my mum would be

getting in there, I don't think. She deserves a medal for her efforts.

News just in, Andy Murray will face either a qualifier or a lucky loser

in the first round of Wimbledon. More on that draw later in the hour.

Fresh controversy this morning in the Grenfell Tower aftermath, it

seems the cladding due to be originally installed on the high

rise was changed to a version which cost nearly ?300,000 less. The

cladding is thought to have contributed to the rapid spread of

the fire that consumed the 24 story block two weeks ago. Nick Beake is

in west London for us. So, a lot has been emerging about the choices that

were made and what happened at the tower block. What is the reaction to

the latest report that the cladding was changed and nearly ?300,000 was

saved as a result? People are extremely angry you. Remember, the

refurbishment cost ?10 million and as part of it, the cladding was put

on the side of the building. We at the reason for that was to improve

insulation but also to the appearance of the building.

Crucially, though, residents were told the cladding would-be zinc. But

the BBC has seen the documents from 2014 that show quite clearly the

list of potential savings was put forward and within that, the

decision was taken, it would appear, not to go with zinc cladding, which

had a fire retardant CORBA to go with aluminium cladding instead.

That -- a fire retardant for but to go with aluminium cladding which

would have saved almost ?300,000, the documents suggest. It is not in

any way suggested that fire safety regulations were diminished or that

this was done to reduce fire safety by the BBC has been told a key

consideration in this was to save money and so it appears this

decision was taken. It is worth pointing out that the material that

went up is in the same kind of bracket as other materials the

company which was responsible for installing the cladding could put

on. It was the same kind of European standard but as we know, the police

have subsequently said the cladding that went up on Grenfell Tower

failed a safety test. It is still unclear as to whether that cladding

was legal or not for a tower block like that. They're just does not

seem to be a definitive answer. -- they're just does not. Know, and for

lots of people living in North Kensington, there is confusion

because on the one hand, we hear that as I mentioned, the kind of

material that was going up during the refurbishment was at the

appropriate European safety level. But subsequently, the police have

said it has failed a fire safety test and we have seen countless

other blocks across the country where that has been deemed to be the

case. Obviously, a criminal investigation is going on and the

public inquiry to come, where these questions will be looked at in

detail but for people here who remain angry, many out of a home,

and dealing with the huge tragedy of what is going on, grieving, this

adds to the confusion but also today, with this confirmation that

potentially ?300,000 was saved, it underlines and maybe reinforces

suspicions people had that there was a possibility of saving money during

this refurbishment. Thank you for joining us.

Dr Ahmed Kazmi is a GP at a surgery close to Grenfell Tower,

He's spent the last fortnight supporting his patients

who have lost loved ones, been left homeless or coming

to terms with witnessing the horrors of the fire,

and is also working with the police who are trying

Thank you for joining us. I think at least ten of your patients died in

the tower, is that right? We are still awaiting confirmation but we

think that will be the number from the surgery. So tell us more about

what you have done since the fire. On the morning of the fire, it was

quite an interesting day and if you will allow me, I wanted to share my

experience of being at the rescue centre. I know there has been a lot

of talk recently about some of the more controversial aspects of the

Grenfell Tower fire but I actually had quite a profoundly moving

experience in the rescue centre. You know, I went in there not sure what

to expect or what state I would find people in but the unity and the

solidarity that I felt there, and the way everyone was so dignified

and coming together, the local residents as well as the local

population and people from further afield, it was really quite

beautiful to witness. I certainly hadn't ever felt as proud to be a

member of that area as I was that day and I think that is a real

credit to the residents and the people. I wanted to share that. I

think everyone has taken heart from how people have come together on the

ground. Definitely. It is always a good thing to see. But in terms of

what your patients need now, are they coming to the surgery as a

point of contact? What are they coming about? Their main needs are

twofold. On the one hand, practical issues like housing and clothing and

money and passports, appointments, medication. You have got all of

those kind of things that you require when you are starting from

scratch again. On the other side of that also is the emotional support,

the psychological support that comes from the consequences of having had

a catastrophic event occur. What has been again quite heartening to see

is that I have had lots of patients coming who have had positive

experiences of help Sith Grenfell Tower -- since Grenfell Tower. I

spoke to a lady who used to be resident in the tower and I asked

what she was doing for clothes and money and whether she was OK and she

was proud to say, she pointed to her dress and said she had had donations

and now she had received money and she could go shopping. Another lady,

I asked if the paperwork was OK and she had documents and she said she

was happy because she'd gone to the Westway Centre and in one day, they

turned around and gave her a passport. I think it is important to

mention as well because sometimes we just talk about the things that have

not worked. On mental health, we have heard

people speaking, clearly traumatised, they need support, are

you the first point of contact, are you able to get quick referrals,

because you know in the normal scheme of things a referral takes a

long time. You're right and under usual circumstances, people often

wait. The primary mental health team have done a lovely job and there is

a 24 hour telephone line, you can see the GP and there is a single

point of entry access to mental health care. That support is on

hand. I would again want to share with people that I think there is a

risk to make pathological what is actually normal sometimes. So when

you're faced with this degree of catastrophe, to have bad dreams, in

the short-term, for the immediate weeks after it to have a sense of

panic to grieve, all these are normal emotions to have in relation

to that event. I would encourage people to speak to their GP and the

mental health care, for most people the initial involvement will be what

we call watchful waiting, you offer support and witness their grief, but

a large number of these will resolve by themselves. It is more

individuals at high risk of post-traumatic stress disorder, if

you had a preexisting mental health condition or have had experience of

tragedy, they are at risk of having an unusual or prolonged response to

this. So we try to involve specialists early on. You're

involved in helping to identify the bodies, what are you doing in that

context? That is a bit of a difficult question to answer, I'm

not sure how much I'm allowed to say, because of the nature of the

disaster, sometimes identifying it difficult. There were so many

children involved and may not have seen a dentist and there is no

dentist records. So we will try and get a blood test. So it is trying to

marry the information that the primary care team has that may use

to the police to identify people. Do you have, based on the conversations

that you have had of you on what the final death toll might be, that is,

there is so much frustration around this? No, I think most people who

live and work in the area, myself included, do believe that the death

toll will continue to rise. I understand the logistics of trying

to get that number is complicated and difficult. So I don't know will

have to happen to get a count. But we are expecting to see it rise. If

it is OK I want to give a couple of practical tips for the dispossessed.

One problem that GPs have faced in is in contacting their patients.

Many people change their telephone number and don't update wit the GP.

We go to ring them and the number is out of service and we can't write to

them. If I urge anyone dispossessed if you were a resident at Gren,

contact your GP and let them know you have been dispossessed. And give

them details. A lot of vulnerable people lived in the blocks and they

have been moved and some didn't have immediate next of kin. Contacting

them is really difficult for GPs. So if anyone is aware if you have a

friend or relative who has been moved, give their GP a call. Are you

worried about these people who have gone off the radar? Yes, 100%, that

is one of biggest obstacles we have faced is first working out who is

deceased and who is alive and who is alive how we contact them. We came

up with a list of people resident in the tower and we rang them to do

comfort calls. A man had changed his number, we can't write to him, we

have to wait for them to come into the surgery and we with mark them

safe. But we have a raft of support to share, for Social Services and

housing and mental health line, to give that to patients, we need to be

able to contact them. . One obstacle has been in getting that

information. So maybe if we could work together. How many former

residents have you been able to speak to and help? At the moment,

I'm seeing about ten regularly either by telephone or a lot as

well, the patients were in a deprived area of London, the tower

resident were quite deprived and they have already a higher burden of

psychological and physical problems and their access of help, there is

more obstacles. On a good day they may not engage with the GP as much,

now they have had a tragedy and they have been displaced, we are trying

to b flexible and offer telephone consultations and a lot of GPs in

the area, we are aware sometimes getting a GP appointment can be

difficult, we have adviced is another tip is that most GPs in the

area will offer a walk in service if you're a dispossessed patient. You

need to make sure you mention that. If they say they're booked, mention

I'm a patient that had to move home and you will almost certainly be

seen on the same day. This must have tested you like nothing you have

encountered? Yes it has been difficult. My training, I have been

a doctor almost ten years, I have never been exposed to this kind of

catastrophe, it doesn't come with a text book so, it about testing and

the human element, everyone feels it, you feel such empathy for these

people to have such a thing happen, one thing we learn as a doctor is

how your professional empathy is different to how you may feel if

somebody were your sibling. You can show come passion, but that still a

allow yos tow function and -- allow yos s you to work and I have been

able to offer people a service and help them in the situation. I know

that, obviously, the work you do does take you down the difficult

path and you have sort of, channel in a different drebs to try to --

direction. I know the chat has been serious and I have come across as

earnest. But I'm a comedian as well and I took to comedy, because I

found my job was intense and stressful and I needed a outlet. My

London debut is tonight. I didn't know whether it was appropriate, I

discussed it with the practice and my family and we decided dark times

need some happiness too. I will do the show tonight and I will give

100% of the profits to the fund and also I have offered some free

tickets to anyone who has had hardship or done well or volunteered

and I contacted the ambulance and fire service. If anybody knows

somebody who will benefit, contact me through social media and I will

extend a free ticket. Do you draw on your work for material? Yes. It is

about... Dark humour? It is light-hearted about the funny side

of bag doctor, but I don't breach any confidentiality and it is about

common things people do. Like? Like you know, men over exposing them to

show their doctor their bits. Little kids crying. Just fun things. Good

luck with that. Thank you for coming? In.

Still to come - President Trump gets his way, sort of -

a modified ban on travellers from six mainly Muslim

nations finally comes into forceand his

The uptake for cervical screening in the UK is falling year on year.

A study by Cancer Research UK suggests that more than a quarter

of women who are overdue a smear test are unaware there

About half of those due a test said they were putting it off.

Yet those women most at risk of cervical cancer

Now let's speak to Beckii Mallett who's 26 and ignored

She's joining us from Boston in Lincolnshire.

We can also speak to Lucy Maxwell whose mother died of cervical

Thank you both very much. Lucy, your mother dying when you were just nine

of cervical cancer will have made you aware of the importance of

testing, what is your view of that? Well, I'm often asked did she miss

her smears, the answer is he didn't live long enough for me to ask. I

assume she did, by the time her cancer was found it was very

advanced. Your smear is not to find cancer, but to look for early signs,

the precancer cells that can be treated effectively and we can stop

the cancer in its tracks. My mother's death resulted in my father

setting up a cancer trust, which I'm on the board and so I'm a trustee

and we do work trying to keep people informed as to why it is important

to show up when you're invited, what the experience will be like, try and

put people at ease. If everybody took up testing, are you saying

nobody need die of kerveical cancer -- cervical cancer. We we can't

that, but we know we can prevent the cancer. It is preventing the cancer

before it reaches that stage. But we know that screening prevents

thousands of deaths a year. There is research to show that. Becky, you're

26 and you're joining us from a hospital car park, because you're

there for a test, having discovered that I you did have about normal

cells. You found that out having not gone for screening for some time.

Tell us what your situation has been. Yes, so a few years ago I did

suffer from a lot of pelvic pains, which I did go for a cervical

screening, which the test came back clear. That was procedure for me was

quite uncomfortable, quite painful. So I sort of... Tried to put off the

other cervical screening, when I got a letter, I ignored the letters. I

must have ignored about 15 to 20 letters. For me, because I found the

last procedure quite uncomfortable for me. But I just decided to go

and, yes, they found low grade about normal cells and the HPV infection.

I have come to go for another cervical screening to make sure how

serious it is. You say obviously that you ignored the letters, having

done that, and then gone and then discovered you have the about normal

cells, how tufl about the -- do you feel about the fact you waited so

long? When I got the letter to say that they had found about normal

cells, to be fair I did break down in tears. I think I was just, quite

quite mad at myself for leaving it too long. But I was also grateful

that I had been, because I would have shuddered to think what

situation I would have put myself in if I ignored it for another two

years or so. So I'm pleased. Is it sort of the early stage of abnormal

cells, we were hearing Lucy saying it is treatable if xaugt early on.

-- caught early on. Yes the letter explained it was low grade about

normal cells, and when they find the low grade abnormal cells that is

whoo enthink test for the PPV infection. They find you have the

HPV they transfer you to the gynaecologist at the hospital and

here where I'm just about to go now, they will have just another look to

see how serious it is and then if they find that I have abnormal

cells, they will then... Do a little laider treatment to get -- laser

treatment and they should be able to treat it today if they find it is

serious though. Let's hope it all goes well for you.

Is that a typical story, people don't concern about concerns about

how uncomfortable it might be, how painful the processes? Absolutely,

we put it off all the time, I put it off because I was embarrassed, I

thought it would be painful. We always try and say, you know,

absolutely it is not the most pleasant thing in the world but it

takes five minutes and it could honestly save your life. We see

women come through the charity, brilliant women who have survived

cervical cancer who say there is no question they would be dead if they

had not shown up for that smear test at that time. Timing is crucial. So

please go if you are invited. It is so important as we have just heard,

particularly because it can be caught at the critical, early-stage

and dealt with very effectively. Thank you for joining us. We wish

you the best with what happens at the hospital today, thank you.

The latest attempts to restore the power sharing executive

We look at what obstacles are in the path preventing

Sexism in the dance music industry. The ten richest DJs are named and

none of them are women so why are there so few females at the top? We

speak to two women working in the business.

Annita is in the BBC Newsroom with a summary

Cladding fitted to Grenfell Tower during its refurbishment was changed

to a version which cost nearly ?300,000 less, documents seen

At least 80 people were killed when the tower

block in west London was destroyed by fire two weeks ago.

The documents show officials originally chose a

zinc cladding but then decided upon a less fire

Kensington and Chelsea Council says safety would not have

A council meeting to discuss the tragedy was called off last

night within minutes of starting after a row broke out over

the attendance of members of the public and the press.

The council halted the meeting, claiming it would prejudice

the forthcoming public inquiry but London mayor Sadiq Khan

said the council's decision beggars belief.

The parents of ten-month-old Charlie Gard, who fought an unsuccessful

legal battle to take him to America for experimental treatment, say he

will stop receiving life support today.

Charlie has a rare genetic condition and brain damage.

Doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital said

Chris Gard and Connie Yates say they've now been told they will not

be able to take their son home to die.

An investigation by chemical weapons inspectors has concluded

that the banned nerve agent sarin was used in an attack

on a rebel-held town in northern Syria in April.

More than 80 people were killed.

The attack prompted the United States to launch a cruise

missile strike on a Syrian government air base.

The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said he had no doubt

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad's forces were involved

The German parliament has voted to legalise same-sex marriage.

The bill will grant gay and lesbian couples

full marital rights, including child adoption.

It had been backed by most of Germany's political parties

although it was opposed by conservative allies of Chancellor

She changed her mind to allow a free vote.

Time for a sports update. Breaking news and good news for

cricket fans, the BBC has secured free to air digital and radio rights

packages from the ECB which means live cricket will return to the BBC

for the first time in 21 years. We will show highlights of all England

matches as well as two T20 games in full. We will have ten live matches

from the new T20 club competition as well. And there will be up to nine

live women's fixtures but England Test match cricket will stay on paid

subscription services in the 2020-2024 period. Number one seed

Andy Murray will face a qualifier Lucky loser in the first round of

Wimbledon. He has been drawn in the same half as French Open champion

Rafa Nadal which means they could meet in the semifinals this year.

Johanna Konta beat the world number one Angelique Kerber yesterday

despite taking a heavy fall during the match. She will play Karolina

Pliskova in the semifinal at Eastbourne later and fellow Briton

Heather Watson is also through to the last four and will face Caroline

Wozniacki at 11am. The British and Irish Lions coach Andy Farrell says

it is do or die ahead of the second Test against New Zealand tomorrow

morning. Defeat in Wellington would mean the All Blacks will take this

varies. More in user life after 11 o'clock. -- take the series.

Parts of President Trump's ban on travellers from six mainly Muslim

The restriction, which began at 1am this morning,

means that refugees and people from six named countries

without close family or business relationships in the US

could be denied visas and barred entry.

Grandparents, aunts, uncles, nephews and nieces

are not considered to be "bona fide" relations.

The rules apply to people in Iran, Libya, Syria,

I spoke to a political commentator and a broadcaster and Republican

activist earlier. It's already being

challenged by Hawaii. What are your thoughts

on this ban now? Well, the Supreme Court has

actually ruled a partial... That Donald Trump can actually

implement part of the ban, and so they are actually moving

full steam ahead. And this is pretty amazing

because when you think about it, there have been a number of courts

that have already shot this down. So I'm sure the thinking

was that the Supreme Court, if they actually decided to take

this up, would actually No one actually thought

that they would actually allow Donald Trump to actually implement

parts of the ban until they decide to take it up, and they won't take

it up until the next session of the Supreme Court,

which is in the fall, So the president is actually moving

full steam ahead with this, and I think it's only going to be

that much more troubling because it could take us back to a place

where you see the United States' standing in the world diminish,

much like what took place during the Iraq war,

where much of the world had a very diminished

view of the United States because, for many, the United States has

always been that beacon, a place where the voiceless,

the helpless can come. And now it looks as though

we are turning people away for no And I think that's something

that's deeply troubling, Charlie Wolf, the president says

that the reason for this ban I think he has the right

as commander-in-chief to make that decision,

and that's what I'm I think there's a couple

of things here. First off, I think the lower courts

were wrong and they were judging him on personality and, for instance,

one of the judges based it on comments he made

on the campaign trail. And the other thing that's

important, more so than our standing in the world, which I think

is still safe, is there's always been sort of an elasticity between

the three branches of government. And it's important not just

for Mr Trump but for future presidents that he has that power,

that it's not taken away, when it He is the commander-in-chief,

and when we have judges diminishing that power,

that sets a very This is a bar on people

entering the US on the basis of where they are from

and what their religion is. I don't think it's based

on their religion. When he said, for instance,

after San Bernardino, when he said, I think it was,

Muslim countries, if I had been advising him on communications

I would have said from specific And also, let's not forget,

these are not countries These were classified by the Obama

administration and the simple fact Eric Ham, what about the point

that these are countries that are being targeted under this ban

that were identified We do know that President Obama

did have a temporary ban in place for Iraq,

and it did not expand to the countries that Donald Trump

has actually laid out These are countries that

are actually decided upon by the Trump administration,

that he implemented. And what was so striking

about the ban is there were some countries,

particularly Saudi Arabia, Because when you look at where

the 9/11 attackers came from, We know that Saudi Arabia

is the biggest exporter of Wahhabiism, which is seen

as an extreme version of Islam. That's a country that has

not added to the ban, and I think many people look at this

ban in particular and say these are countries where

the president does not have I just want to move

on to something else that emerged from Donald Trump,

and it's a personal attack And it's not the first time he's

made personal comments It's a host called Mika Brzezinski,

on Twitter he described her What do you each think about these