Browse content similar to 19/06/2017. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!
Line | From | To | |
---|---|---|---|
A van has been driven into a crowd of Muslim worshippers | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
near a mosque in north London - killing one person and | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
Police say they're treating the incident near Finsbury Park | :00:13. | :00:22. | |
When he was on the ground, I asked him, "Why did you do that - why? | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
And he goes, "I want to kill Muslims." | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
Theresa May has described last night's attack as an act of hatred | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
as sickening" as other recent terrorist incidents. | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
Today we come together as we have done before to condemn this act and | :00:46. | :00:54. | |
to state once again that hatred and evil of this kind will never | :00:55. | :00:55. | |
succeed. Police say at least 79 people have | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
died in the Grenfell Tower fire - a minute's silence for those | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
who lost their lives has been A year on from the Brexit vote, | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
and talks finally begin to settle the terms of the UK's withdrawal | :01:07. | :01:19. | |
from the European Union. And Portugal declares three days | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
of mourning as hundreds of firefighters still tackle | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
a forest fire which has killed And in the sport on BBC News, | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
golf has another new Major champion. Brooks Koepka shot a record | :01:29. | :01:38. | |
equalling 16 under par Good afternoon and welcome | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
to the BBC News at One. Police have said they are treating | :01:41. | :02:10. | |
the attack on a crowd of Muslims near the Finsbury Park mosque | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
in north London as a terrorist act. One man died and ten people | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
were injured when a hired white van was driven into people | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
who were tending to a man Bystanders tackled the driver, | :02:28. | :02:29. | |
holding him until police Theresa May said the attack was a | :02:30. | :02:47. | |
sickening attempt to divide people which would not succeed. | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
It's shortly after midnight and worshippers who have just left | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
the Finsbury Park mosque in London have come under attack. | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
Hit by a van which ploughed into the crowd, leaving many casualties. | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
He basically drove on the pavement, coming straight towards | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
all the Muslims and he, as he was coming to them, | :03:07. | :03:08. | |
He was shouting, saying he wanted to Gil all Muslims. He said that. Word | :03:09. | :03:26. | |
for word. I am sure this is a terrorist attack. Whether he is a | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
Muslim or Christian. This is a terrorist attack. Those who had not | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
been hurt ran after the van driver, pinning him down before he could | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
escape. The man in the striped T-shirt was amongst those who helped | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
detain him he also started asking him questions. When he was on the | :03:51. | :03:58. | |
ground, I asked him why did he do that? Innocent people. He said, I | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
want to Gil Muslims. And Gil me. Why did you do that? He would not answer | :04:05. | :04:14. | |
me back. These pictures appeared to show the suspect being detained by | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
the police. A 48-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
attempted murder. The counterterrorism command is | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
investigating. This was an attack on London and all lenders that we | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
should all stand together against extremists, whatever the cause. | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
After leaving the mosque, many walked towards the Muslim welfare | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
house. It was then the van and drove up a bus lane and swerved into a | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
side road from hitting a crowd who were helping an elderly man who had | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
been taken ill. It is a reminder that terrorism, extremism and hatred | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
take many forms. Our determination to tackle them must be the same | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
whoever is responsible. The attack took place in the constituency of | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, who visited the area earlier today. | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
The stress levels from people last night and this morning were just | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
frightening. They were frightened that something might this happened | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
again. We need efficient and effective policing and an attitude | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
in our society. Or for each other. The only way to deal with this kind | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
of issue is communities coming together. The area remains sealed | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
off as the police investigation continues that there are plans to | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
increase security around all of London's mosques, but it clear | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. More and more worshippers | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
go to the mosque ridiculously in the evening. We don't want anybody to | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
think they cannot go about their lives because they are feeling | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
vulnerable and scared. The Muslim community was already fearful. | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
Incidents of Islamophobia have been on the rise following a series of | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
attacks in Britain by Islamist extremists. What has happened here | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
in Finsbury Park is by far the worst attack the Muslim community has | :06:22. | :06:22. | |
suffered. And our Home Affairs Correspondent | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
Daniel Sandford joins me now. What is emerging about the attacker? | :06:30. | :06:42. | |
The man believed to have been driving the van was detained thereby | :06:43. | :06:50. | |
people involved in the incident. A 48-year-old man is in custody. The | :06:51. | :06:59. | |
question is, is he an extremist right wing ideology or part of a | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
right-wing group? At this stage investigators are seeing someone who | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
clearly has racist views and some issues with mental health in the | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
past. They have not so far seen any extreme right-wing activity in an | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
organised way. Is it any clearer what happened? It is pretty clear | :07:19. | :07:25. | |
this man, driving his hired van from Wales, drove at high speeds up the | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
road, turning sharp left on the third row down on the right into a | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
cul-de-sac where people were waiting between the two prayers of Ramadan. | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
They were sitting, chatting, having sued. He has driven into this group | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
of people who, by chance, worth treating someone who had a heart | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
attack or other health problems. It was the person being treated for a | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
heart attack ended up dying. What is not clear is whether he died as | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
result of being run into by the higher van or whether he was dying | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
anyway. Ten people who were injured were hurt by this incident, driving | :08:07. | :08:15. | |
into this group of worshippers. Theresa May has praised the bravery | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
of local people who pinned down the attacker. She chaired a meeting of | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
Cobra, the emergency committee. Our assistant political editor, | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
Norman Smith, is in Downing Street. Yet another meeting of Cobra and the | :08:33. | :08:43. | |
Government's emergency committee. Such a difficult time. Some pressure | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
on the Prime Minister today in the wake of some of the criticism she | :08:47. | :08:54. | |
has faced in response to Grenfell Tower. That is her response. It was | :08:55. | :09:03. | |
striking today that when she came out in Downing Street, she said | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
Strait of it was a terrorist attack. There was no doubt about it. She is | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
visiting the Finsbury Park mosque, in contrast to response after | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
Grenfell Tower. Interesting as well that Mrs May presented this not as | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
an attack on worshippers just at Finsbury Park but as an attack on | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
all of us, on the common bonds binding as together, a belief in | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
freedom and freedom of speech and freedom of religion. She went out | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
her way to praise London. She described it as an extraordinary | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
city of extraordinary people, diverse, compassionate and | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
determined, going through such difficult times. That reference not | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
just to the three recent terrorist attacks in London but also to | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
Grenfell Tower. By her words and her visit this lunchtime, Mrs May not | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
just asking for solid, reassurance and comfort in the wake of this | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
terrorist attack but perhaps seeking to make amends following the | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
criticism she received after Grenfell Tower. Thank you very much | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
indeed. There has been understandable anger | :10:16. | :10:23. | |
here in the community. Reassurance from Sadiq Khan that there will be | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
extra police patrols in London to protect the Muslim community. Many | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
Muslims have been calling for increased police patrols because | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
what they called a rise in Islamophobia, especially hate crimes | :10:38. | :10:39. | |
since the London Bridge attack. Prayers on the streets outside | :10:40. | :10:50. | |
Finsbury Park mosque. Just a couple of hours after the attack. A public | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
practice of faith from a community feeling vulnerable. During the | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
morning, the mosque was surrounded by police and others here to | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
reassure. But there is deep frustration and some fear. We cannot | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
go to the mosque without looking behind our backs. We have to look | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
behind our backs to practice religion. We are living in fear. | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
Many share that sentiment from across all communities that there is | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
a general sense of insecurity. That feeling is hard to shake off. People | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
have a question about safety in London after all of these attacks. | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
We want to assure them they are safe. We want to welcome the police | :11:37. | :11:43. | |
at the moment. Every London borough has increased policing today. Leave | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
has been cancelled in many areas. They are visible and they are there | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
to help and support full it is a time when every emergency services | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
under enormous pressure. Londoners have been hit with a series of | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
attacks and have been nothing short of heroic. We will always make sure | :12:04. | :12:10. | |
everybody is protected. We have a places of worship fund which we | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
announced last summer which is there to protect bases of worship like | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
mosques. We will do all we can to reduce these attacks. The incident | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
last night was directed at one community. A mosque and Muslim men | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
and women during Ramadan. Some believe the violence of the attack | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
will expose the increased targeting of Muslims. The rise in hate crime | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
against Muslims have been underreported, under understood and | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
not dealt with in the same way as bigotry impunity. Hopefully this | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
will mean that action will be taken to tackle hate crime and the rise in | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
hate crime against Muslims which has been taking place over recent years | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
and has reached a really worrying situation yesterday. As with all | :12:59. | :13:06. | |
shocking attacks of this kind, the community response is a mix of anger | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
and upset, alongside unity and defiance. What everyone now wants is | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
reassurance and a feeling of safety during these are very difficult | :13:16. | :13:16. | |
times. Close to Finsbury Park mosque we had | :13:17. | :13:29. | |
leaders coming to denounce the attack. Let's speak to Martin | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
Bashir. What has the religious community been saying? Several | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
leaders have been here and issued statements. The Chief Rabbi has | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
condemned the attack was there have been several rabbis coming by. The | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
Archbishop of Canterbury has said this is an attack on God and on | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
humanity. Virtually every grouping of religious leader has condemned | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
it. Many within the Muslim community are extremely angry. I think it was | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
on June six when something like 20 Islamophobia attacks were referred | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
to the police, the average around this time of year is about 3.5 a | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
day. That was more than was reported after the murder of Lee Rigby in | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
2013 and the Paris attacks in 2015. Among many Muslims around here, the | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
feeling is, as soon as there is an act of terror there is an immediate | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
association with Islam but where Muslims are the victims of this, | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
there appears to be a reluctance to announce this and as an act of | :14:36. | :14:44. | |
terror. They accused the BBC, and other news organisations, as being | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
slow in making that point. Thank you. Just to bring you up to date | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
with what we know, police are treating this as an act of terror. | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
One man is dead and ten other people have been injured here. Two of them | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
are in a serious condition. They are being treated in three separate | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
hospitals. That is the latest. Back to the studio. | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
A minute's silence has been held across Britain to remember | :15:11. | :15:12. | |
the victims of last week's Grenfell Tower fire. | :15:13. | :15:14. | |
Police say they now believe 79 people lost their | :15:15. | :15:16. | |
Investigators warn that due to the complex nature | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
of the recovery operation this figure is likely to change. | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
Our correspondent Richard Lister reports. | :15:24. | :15:30. | |
As they assembled this morning in the shadow of Grenfell Tower, | :15:31. | :15:32. | |
there was gratitude alongside the grief | :15:33. | :15:47. | |
And then for these teams and others, the work began again, | :15:48. | :16:16. | |
to help those who survived and recover the bodies | :16:17. | :16:18. | |
This morning I know there are 79 people that are either confirmed | :16:19. | :16:29. | |
dead and have been identified or are missing and sadly I have | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
I do think there may be some change to that number. | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
The work we are doing is about trying to find those people | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
to see if they are safe and well and thankfully, over the last few | :16:42. | :16:57. | |
and I am so grateful that they actually are safe and well. | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
I have investigated major fires over most of my career but nothing | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
prepared me for what I saw in there. The residents in here got out in | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
time but there are more than 500 flats like this one. This man lived | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
in one of them, on the fifth floor with his wife, brother and mother. | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
On the night of the fire, he was away on a training course and | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
returned to find his home in flames. His family managed to escape. How | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
are you doing? But so many of his neighbours did not. I didn't know | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
she was dead. He feels badly let down by the authorities. Why are you | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
not hear? I have absolutely no trust in the government, in the Royal | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. And in the housing system. There are | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
now more signs of official involvement. The government says | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
every surviving family will receive a ?500 in cash and 5000 paid into | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
the bank, but the help has been slow in coming. The authorities, like | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
everyone else, taken by surprise. How is that possible? This video has | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
emerged of fire crews racing to the scene last week in disbelief. Their | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
work continues. Red watch your back on duty today and they were on duty | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
when the incident happened. Although they have seen horrific scenes and | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
they are devastated, they are all heartbroken but ready for duty | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
today. The police have promised an exhaustive criminal investigation to | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
ensure those responsible for this are to justice. | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
A van has been driven into a crowd of Muslim worshippers | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
near a mosque in north London - killing one person and | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
Police say at least 79 people have died in the Grenfell Tower fire - | :18:42. | :18:52. | |
a minute's silence for those who lost their lives has been | :18:53. | :18:54. | |
In sport, it's Queens week and Andy Murray begins his bid for a record | :18:55. | :19:04. | |
fifth title tomorrow. Today, the British number two is in action. | :19:05. | :19:17. | |
It's been nearly a year since the EU referendum vote and today | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
the formal Brexit negotiations which could define the UK's | :19:21. | :19:22. | |
political and economic future have finally begun. | :19:23. | :19:24. | |
They are taking place between the Brexit Secretary, | :19:25. | :19:26. | |
David Davis and the EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier. | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
Mr Davis acknowledged there would be challenging times ahead but said | :19:32. | :19:33. | |
he was "determined to build a strong and special partnership". | :19:34. | :19:42. | |
Our Europe Correspondent Damian Grammaticas reports from Brussels. | :19:43. | :19:44. | |
Starting today, history being made and unmade. | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
Are you ready to make history, Mr Davis? | :19:50. | :20:00. | |
David Davis' mission in Brussels, to unstitch a relationship 44 | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
years old, with the UK heading for future outside the EU | :20:06. | :20:07. | |
It is almost exactly a year since the referendum and David Davis | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
says that with these talks, he is going to end up with a deal | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
The EU side are waiting to see what it is he wants. | :20:16. | :20:26. | |
The Conservative Party does not yet have a united view on Brexit | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
but Article 50 has been triggered, and negotiations have | :20:30. | :20:31. | |
to begin between Mr Davis and his opposite number, | :20:32. | :20:33. | |
A small test of strength perhaps before the real tests ahead. | :20:34. | :20:42. | |
We will do all we can to ensure that we deliver a deal that works | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
in the best interests of all citizens. | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
To that end, we are starting this negotiation in a positive | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
and constructive tone, determined to build a strong | :20:53. | :20:54. | |
and special partnership between ourselves and our European | :20:55. | :20:56. | |
We must first tackle the uncertainties caused by Brexit. | :20:57. | :21:14. | |
First, for citizens, but also for the beneficiaries | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
of the EU policies, and for the impact on borders, | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
Well, the former French minister spent months preparing. | :21:25. | :21:39. | |
He told the European Parliament a few months ago he won't be | :21:40. | :21:41. | |
seeking to punish the UK, but it must pay its bills. | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
Let me be clear, when a country leaves the union, | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
He served as an EU commissioner working alongside Vivian Reading. | :21:52. | :22:03. | |
He is a tough negotiator and good to be so. | :22:04. | :22:12. | |
So we are very happy to have him as a chief negotiator | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
The tough stuff is not being discussed today. | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
Damian Grammaticas, BBC News, Brussels. | :22:20. | :22:27. | |
Tell us more about the focus of the talks and the timetable. | :22:28. | :22:39. | |
Yes, this morning we have had a brief introductory session between | :22:40. | :22:48. | |
the two main negotiators. Mr Barnier and Mr Davis. What interesting is | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
that they have only met once since the referendum. They had experience | :22:54. | :22:55. | |
in the past when they were both Europe ministers. They know each | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
other a little. Today, there will simply be this one day of | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
preparatory talks, where there will be discussions about how the | :23:05. | :23:07. | |
negotiations will go forward and we expect that will be one week of | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
talks every four weeks or every month through the summer and that is | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
what they will be agreeing, that structure. The EU side is insisting | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
that the UK must deal with the exit issues, those things that Michel | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
Barnier was talking about there, and that they will review that, possibly | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
in the autumn, to see if they will move on to trade talks and the | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
future relationship, but for many people here it is still unclear | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
exactly what David Davis is seeking in that future relationship, so they | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
will wait to hear. Thank you very much. So much to discuss between now | :23:40. | :23:41. | |
and the end of March. Between now and the end of March | :23:42. | :23:50. | |
2019 when negotiations Our reality check correspondent | :23:51. | :23:52. | |
Chris Morris has been looking at the complexity of some of the key | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
issues. The most complex negotiations the UK | :23:56. | :23:57. | |
has faced in decades are going Because the UK is due to leave | :23:58. | :24:00. | |
the EU in March 2019, and both sides reckon they'll need | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
up to six months before that to get So time is short, they | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
want to get on with it. And initially, the EU negotiating | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
team has a mandate to start talking A financial | :24:13. | :24:14. | |
settlement - how much Money that it has | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
already agreed to spend. The EU is seeking up | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
to 60 billion euros. Then a guarantee of future rights | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
for EU citizens here and UK citizens Everyone wants to get this sorted, | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
but the legal details The EU wants the European Court | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
of Justice involved, the UK doesn't. Could some new form of legal | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
oversight be part of a compromise? And then there's the future | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
status of the border between Northern Ireland | :24:44. | :24:45. | |
and the Republic - which after Brexit will also be | :24:46. | :24:47. | |
a land border between the EU How do you keep the border | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
as open as it is now, but have some sort of customs | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
checks carried out? The hope is that enough | :24:55. | :24:56. | |
progress will have been made on these issues | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
by about October, to start talking then about the future | :25:04. | :25:11. | |
economic relationship with the UK. The government's position is still - | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
we leave the single market, we leave the customs union, | :25:15. | :25:16. | |
and we end free movement But has the election | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
changed the calculation? The general election result was not | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
what I or any Conservative would have wanted. But during the course | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
of the general election, with the Conservatives and Labour, we argued | :25:30. | :25:32. | |
that we should leave the European Union and no longer be subject to | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
what is called the single market, effectively the jurisdiction of the | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
European court of human justice. So let's remember what we are talking | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
about here. Being a member of the single | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
market means you have no tariffs or quotas on trade, | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
and you have a set of common standards and rules on everything | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
from food packaging But you also have to allow the free | :25:55. | :25:56. | |
movement of goods, services, capital and people - | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
so it's harder to Being in the Customs Union means | :26:01. | :26:01. | |
that once goods have passed through customs in one country, | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
they can then be shipped around the union without | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
any further tariffs - But if you're in the Customs Union | :26:09. | :26:09. | |
you don't negotiate your own trade So working out any new economic | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
relationship is going to be complex, and there will need to be | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
a significant transition period - probably several years - | :26:22. | :26:24. | |
to avoid any sudden shocks. For now, though, the EU | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
is still waiting to find out exactly what it is that the UK wants, | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
and it's wondering how stable the new government | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
is really going to be. Getting through the next few months | :26:37. | :26:38. | |
without the entire negotiation running into serious trouble | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
would be a good start. Portugal has declared | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
three days of mourning, as hundreds of firefighters | :26:46. | :26:47. | |
are still tackling a forest fire which has killed | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
more than 60 people. The blaze took hold | :26:53. | :26:53. | |
in a densely forested region in the Pedrogao Grande area | :26:54. | :26:55. | |
in central Portugal. Emergency services are being | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
hampered by strong winds and daytime temperatures | :27:00. | :27:01. | |
of about 40 degrees celsius. Throughout the night the fire | :27:02. | :27:14. | |
continued devouring the forests, spreading its horror. A desperate | :27:15. | :27:22. | |
fight to put out the flames now involves more than 1000 | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
firefighters. The fire is thought to have begun on Saturday after a | :27:26. | :27:27. | |
lightning strike in Europe's heatwave. Eyewitnesses could not | :27:28. | :27:34. | |
believe how quickly it spread. One survivor said it felt like the end | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
of the world. TRANSLATION: The flames came from down there, and | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
then over there. Smoke came from that way and this was like hell, | :27:45. | :27:50. | |
like hell. The scale of the disaster has shaken Portugal. Many of the | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
dead were trapped in their cars as they tried to escape and the | :27:55. | :27:56. | |
emergency services have found more bodies next to the road, killed, it | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
is presumed, while trying to run from vehicles that had caught fire. | :28:02. | :28:07. | |
TRANSLATION: Our pain at this moment has no bounds. Death under these | :28:08. | :28:12. | |
circumstances is always a tragedy. This is a tragedy never seen before | :28:13. | :28:18. | |
in Portugal's democracy. The authorities say the emergency | :28:19. | :28:21. | |
services moved as fast as they could but the fire had burned through | :28:22. | :28:24. | |
phone lines and communication towers in remote areas, making it hard to | :28:25. | :28:30. | |
raise the alarm. Local people have been doing what they can themselves | :28:31. | :28:36. | |
to save their homes and livelihoods. TRANSLATION: We should let this all | :28:37. | :28:40. | |
go up in flames, is that it? No, we will try to put it out. It has | :28:41. | :28:45. | |
emerged that 12 people survived the raging flames, hiding for hours in a | :28:46. | :28:50. | |
water tank. Among those killed in the deadliest fire in Portugal's | :28:51. | :28:54. | |
modern history, several children. The death toll expected to rise. | :28:55. | :28:58. | |
Lawyers for the parents of Charlie Gard - the ten month | :28:59. | :29:01. | |
old baby suffering from a rare genetic condition - | :29:02. | :29:05. | |
are preparing a final appeal to allow him to be taken | :29:06. | :29:07. | |
to the United States for experimental treatment. | :29:08. | :29:10. | |
The European Court of Human Rights has ordered that the 10-month-old | :29:11. | :29:14. | |
remains on life support until midnight tonight to give time | :29:15. | :29:16. | |
Our Medical Correspondent Fergus Walsh joins me now. | :29:17. | :29:26. | |
Remind us more about the background to this very sad case. | :29:27. | :29:28. | |
Charlie Gard is terminally ill. He cannot move, he cannot breathe | :29:29. | :29:36. | |
unaided. Crucially, he has very serious brain damage. The doctors | :29:37. | :29:43. | |
caring for him at Great Ormond Street Hospital wants to withdraw | :29:44. | :29:46. | |
the mechanical ventilator that keeps him alive because they feel that he | :29:47. | :29:49. | |
should be allowed to die with dignity. The parents, his devoted | :29:50. | :29:56. | |
parents, dispute that, and wants to take him to the United States for | :29:57. | :30:00. | |
experimental treatment. But in the three court cases that have been | :30:01. | :30:04. | |
heard in the UK, all of the experts have agreed that treatment would be | :30:05. | :30:09. | |
futile and might just extend his suffering. So all the UK courts have | :30:10. | :30:14. | |
said that's Charlie should be allowed to die but now the European | :30:15. | :30:17. | |
Court of Human Rights has today looked at the case and they say that | :30:18. | :30:24. | |
they will decide whether or not to ask the UK to extend that critical | :30:25. | :30:29. | |
care, that life support, beyond midnight tonight. I think it is | :30:30. | :30:32. | |
probably likely that they will ask for that but in a separate hearing | :30:33. | :30:38. | |
in London, the UK Supreme Court is considering how long that should be | :30:39. | :30:42. | |
allowed to go on for. Charlie Gard's parents, to give you an idea of how | :30:43. | :30:47. | |
fraught this whole thing is, has said that if Great Ormond Street | :30:48. | :30:51. | |
Hospital withdraws critical care, they will report to the hospital for | :30:52. | :30:56. | |
manslaughter. So there are very entrenched positions here and at the | :30:57. | :30:58. | |
centre of it all, this poor baby Mahut is tragically, -- who is | :30:59. | :31:07. | |
tragically terminally ill. We know what the outcome will be but it is | :31:08. | :31:10. | |
about who decides what should happen to Charlie in the meantime. Thank | :31:11. | :31:15. | |
you very much indeed. Finally, President Macron's party has won a | :31:16. | :31:18. | |
large majority in the French parliament with projections that it | :31:19. | :31:26. | |
could take up to 370 of the seats. Marine Le Pen has won a seat for the | :31:27. | :31:30. | |
first time while the Socialists are forecast to lose around 200 MPs. | :31:31. | :31:40. | |
Time for a look at the weather. How are you? It is looking hot and sunny | :31:41. | :31:44. | |
out there across many parts of the country. Some glorious summer | :31:45. | :31:48. | |
weather around. This was the scene captured by one of our weather | :31:49. | :31:51. | |
Watchers earlier in the day. That is how it is looking across many parts | :31:52. | :31:55. | |
of the country. We have got that warm sunshine around. Not quite | :31:56. | :31:59. | |
everywhere. More cloud across some parts of the country but this is the | :32:00. | :32:04. | |
current average. London is 30 degrees, in the high 20s. Slightly | :32:05. | :32:05. | |
fresher across parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland. We have a | :32:06. | :32:23. | |
little bit more cloud syncing south on a weak weather front. Perhaps one | :32:24. | :32:26. | |
or two showers across parts of southern Scotland and Northern | :32:27. | :32:28. | |
Ireland but for the bulk of England and Wales, we are looking at warm | :32:29. | :32:30. | |
sunshine continuing into the afternoon. There is a chance of one | :32:31. | :32:33. | |
or two showers bubbling up across the east of Wales, through the | :32:34. | :32:35. | |
Midlands and East Anglia, and if you catch one, it could be heavy and | :32:36. | :32:38. | |
sundry. Most places will avoid any showery rain and temperatures will | :32:39. | :32:41. | |
likely be up to 29 or 30 degrees. We could see 32 or 30 in some spots. | :32:42. | :32:44. | |
Heading north, lots of sunshine in southern England and Scotland with | :32:45. | :32:46. | |
just the chance of showers in southern Scotland. A slightly | :32:47. | :32:50. | |
fresher feel across northern parts of Northern Ireland into the North. | :32:51. | :32:56. | |
Pressure conditions working south through this evening and overnight. | :32:57. | :33:00. | |
Isolated showers fading away. It is going to be another hot, sticky | :33:01. | :33:06. | |
night in the south. Overnight temperatures of 20 or 21. Further | :33:07. | :33:10. | |
north, temperatures falling to a roundabout 10-14. But the hot and | :33:11. | :33:15. | |
sticky conditions continue across southern parts of England, and South | :33:16. | :33:19. | |
Wales, through the day tomorrow, with hot air in place. Lots of | :33:20. | :33:23. | |
sunshine, and it will be slightly fresher, not as hot as today. We | :33:24. | :33:28. | |
could see 29 or 30 and even a little higher than that across southern | :33:29. | :33:32. | |
parts. Further north, between 60 and 25 degrees. -- between 16. High | :33:33. | :33:39. | |
levels of UV for some of us. With the heat and humidity we could start | :33:40. | :33:43. | |
to see thunderstorms piling into across Northern Ireland, Scotland | :33:44. | :33:45. | |
and North West England. Thunderstorms in the North but the | :33:46. | :33:50. | |
south staying predominantly dry. We could see 30 degrees or so. That | :33:51. | :33:53. | |
heat and the sunshine staying with us through the course of Thursday. | :33:54. | :33:57. | |
But as we had through towards the end of the week, things will start | :33:58. | :34:01. | |
to turn fresher, with more cloud through the course of the weekend | :34:02. | :34:05. | |
and perhaps some outbreaks of rain. But for now it is looking like | :34:06. | :34:09. | |
another very hot day. Thank you very much indeed. | :34:10. | :34:12. |