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A van has been driven into a crowd of Muslim worshippers

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near a mosque in north London - killing one person and

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Police say they're treating the incident near Finsbury Park

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When he was on the ground, I asked him, "Why did you do that - why?

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And he goes, "I want to kill Muslims."

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Theresa May has described last night's attack as an act of hatred

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as sickening" as other recent terrorist incidents.

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Today we come together as we have done before to condemn this act and

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to state once again that hatred and evil of this kind will never

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succeed. Police say at least 79 people have

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died in the Grenfell Tower fire - a minute's silence for those

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who lost their lives has been A year on from the Brexit vote,

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and talks finally begin to settle the terms of the UK's withdrawal

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from the European Union. And Portugal declares three days

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of mourning as hundreds of firefighters still tackle

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a forest fire which has killed And in the sport on BBC News,

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golf has another new Major champion. Brooks Koepka shot a record

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equalling 16 under par Good afternoon and welcome

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to the BBC News at One. Police have said they are treating

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the attack on a crowd of Muslims near the Finsbury Park mosque

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in north London as a terrorist act. One man died and ten people

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were injured when a hired white van was driven into people

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who were tending to a man Bystanders tackled the driver,

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holding him until police Theresa May said the attack was a

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sickening attempt to divide people which would not succeed.

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It's shortly after midnight and worshippers who have just left

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the Finsbury Park mosque in London have come under attack.

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Hit by a van which ploughed into the crowd, leaving many casualties.

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He basically drove on the pavement, coming straight towards

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all the Muslims and he, as he was coming to them,

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He was shouting, saying he wanted to Gil all Muslims. He said that. Word

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for word. I am sure this is a terrorist attack. Whether he is a

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Muslim or Christian. This is a terrorist attack. Those who had not

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been hurt ran after the van driver, pinning him down before he could

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escape. The man in the striped T-shirt was amongst those who helped

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detain him he also started asking him questions. When he was on the

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ground, I asked him why did he do that? Innocent people. He said, I

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want to Gil Muslims. And Gil me. Why did you do that? He would not answer

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me back. These pictures appeared to show the suspect being detained by

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the police. A 48-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of

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attempted murder. The counterterrorism command is

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investigating. This was an attack on London and all lenders that we

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should all stand together against extremists, whatever the cause.

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After leaving the mosque, many walked towards the Muslim welfare

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house. It was then the van and drove up a bus lane and swerved into a

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side road from hitting a crowd who were helping an elderly man who had

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been taken ill. It is a reminder that terrorism, extremism and hatred

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take many forms. Our determination to tackle them must be the same

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whoever is responsible. The attack took place in the constituency of

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the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, who visited the area earlier today.

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The stress levels from people last night and this morning were just

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frightening. They were frightened that something might this happened

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again. We need efficient and effective policing and an attitude

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in our society. Or for each other. The only way to deal with this kind

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of issue is communities coming together. The area remains sealed

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off as the police investigation continues that there are plans to

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increase security around all of London's mosques, but it clear

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during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. More and more worshippers

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go to the mosque ridiculously in the evening. We don't want anybody to

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think they cannot go about their lives because they are feeling

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vulnerable and scared. The Muslim community was already fearful.

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Incidents of Islamophobia have been on the rise following a series of

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attacks in Britain by Islamist extremists. What has happened here

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in Finsbury Park is by far the worst attack the Muslim community has

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suffered. And our Home Affairs Correspondent

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Daniel Sandford joins me now. What is emerging about the attacker?

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The man believed to have been driving the van was detained thereby

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people involved in the incident. A 48-year-old man is in custody. The

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question is, is he an extremist right wing ideology or part of a

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right-wing group? At this stage investigators are seeing someone who

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clearly has racist views and some issues with mental health in the

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past. They have not so far seen any extreme right-wing activity in an

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organised way. Is it any clearer what happened? It is pretty clear

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this man, driving his hired van from Wales, drove at high speeds up the

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road, turning sharp left on the third row down on the right into a

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cul-de-sac where people were waiting between the two prayers of Ramadan.

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They were sitting, chatting, having sued. He has driven into this group

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of people who, by chance, worth treating someone who had a heart

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attack or other health problems. It was the person being treated for a

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heart attack ended up dying. What is not clear is whether he died as

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result of being run into by the higher van or whether he was dying

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anyway. Ten people who were injured were hurt by this incident, driving

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into this group of worshippers. Theresa May has praised the bravery

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of local people who pinned down the attacker. She chaired a meeting of

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Cobra, the emergency committee. Our assistant political editor,

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Norman Smith, is in Downing Street. Yet another meeting of Cobra and the

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Government's emergency committee. Such a difficult time. Some pressure

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on the Prime Minister today in the wake of some of the criticism she

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has faced in response to Grenfell Tower. That is her response. It was

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striking today that when she came out in Downing Street, she said

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Strait of it was a terrorist attack. There was no doubt about it. She is

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visiting the Finsbury Park mosque, in contrast to response after

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Grenfell Tower. Interesting as well that Mrs May presented this not as

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an attack on worshippers just at Finsbury Park but as an attack on

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all of us, on the common bonds binding as together, a belief in

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freedom and freedom of speech and freedom of religion. She went out

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her way to praise London. She described it as an extraordinary

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city of extraordinary people, diverse, compassionate and

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determined, going through such difficult times. That reference not

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just to the three recent terrorist attacks in London but also to

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Grenfell Tower. By her words and her visit this lunchtime, Mrs May not

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just asking for solid, reassurance and comfort in the wake of this

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terrorist attack but perhaps seeking to make amends following the

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criticism she received after Grenfell Tower. Thank you very much

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indeed. There has been understandable anger

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here in the community. Reassurance from Sadiq Khan that there will be

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extra police patrols in London to protect the Muslim community. Many

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Muslims have been calling for increased police patrols because

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what they called a rise in Islamophobia, especially hate crimes

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since the London Bridge attack. Prayers on the streets outside

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Finsbury Park mosque. Just a couple of hours after the attack. A public

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practice of faith from a community feeling vulnerable. During the

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morning, the mosque was surrounded by police and others here to

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reassure. But there is deep frustration and some fear. We cannot

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go to the mosque without looking behind our backs. We have to look

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behind our backs to practice religion. We are living in fear.

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Many share that sentiment from across all communities that there is

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a general sense of insecurity. That feeling is hard to shake off. People

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have a question about safety in London after all of these attacks.

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We want to assure them they are safe. We want to welcome the police

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at the moment. Every London borough has increased policing today. Leave

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has been cancelled in many areas. They are visible and they are there

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to help and support full it is a time when every emergency services

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under enormous pressure. Londoners have been hit with a series of

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attacks and have been nothing short of heroic. We will always make sure

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everybody is protected. We have a places of worship fund which we

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announced last summer which is there to protect bases of worship like

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mosques. We will do all we can to reduce these attacks. The incident

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last night was directed at one community. A mosque and Muslim men

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and women during Ramadan. Some believe the violence of the attack

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will expose the increased targeting of Muslims. The rise in hate crime

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against Muslims have been underreported, under understood and

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not dealt with in the same way as bigotry impunity. Hopefully this

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will mean that action will be taken to tackle hate crime and the rise in

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hate crime against Muslims which has been taking place over recent years

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and has reached a really worrying situation yesterday. As with all

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shocking attacks of this kind, the community response is a mix of anger

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and upset, alongside unity and defiance. What everyone now wants is

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reassurance and a feeling of safety during these are very difficult

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times. Close to Finsbury Park mosque we had

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leaders coming to denounce the attack. Let's speak to Martin

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Bashir. What has the religious community been saying? Several

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leaders have been here and issued statements. The Chief Rabbi has

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condemned the attack was there have been several rabbis coming by. The

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Archbishop of Canterbury has said this is an attack on God and on

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humanity. Virtually every grouping of religious leader has condemned

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it. Many within the Muslim community are extremely angry. I think it was

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on June six when something like 20 Islamophobia attacks were referred

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to the police, the average around this time of year is about 3.5 a

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day. That was more than was reported after the murder of Lee Rigby in

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2013 and the Paris attacks in 2015. Among many Muslims around here, the

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feeling is, as soon as there is an act of terror there is an immediate

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association with Islam but where Muslims are the victims of this,

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there appears to be a reluctance to announce this and as an act of

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terror. They accused the BBC, and other news organisations, as being

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slow in making that point. Thank you. Just to bring you up to date

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with what we know, police are treating this as an act of terror.

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One man is dead and ten other people have been injured here. Two of them

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are in a serious condition. They are being treated in three separate

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hospitals. That is the latest. Back to the studio.

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A minute's silence has been held across Britain to remember

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the victims of last week's Grenfell Tower fire.

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Police say they now believe 79 people lost their

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Investigators warn that due to the complex nature

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of the recovery operation this figure is likely to change.

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Our correspondent Richard Lister reports.

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As they assembled this morning in the shadow of Grenfell Tower,

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there was gratitude alongside the grief

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And then for these teams and others, the work began again,

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to help those who survived and recover the bodies

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This morning I know there are 79 people that are either confirmed

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dead and have been identified or are missing and sadly I have

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I do think there may be some change to that number.

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The work we are doing is about trying to find those people

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to see if they are safe and well and thankfully, over the last few

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and I am so grateful that they actually are safe and well.

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I have investigated major fires over most of my career but nothing

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prepared me for what I saw in there. The residents in here got out in

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time but there are more than 500 flats like this one. This man lived

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in one of them, on the fifth floor with his wife, brother and mother.

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On the night of the fire, he was away on a training course and

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returned to find his home in flames. His family managed to escape. How

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are you doing? But so many of his neighbours did not. I didn't know

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she was dead. He feels badly let down by the authorities. Why are you

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not hear? I have absolutely no trust in the government, in the Royal

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Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. And in the housing system. There are

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now more signs of official involvement. The government says

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every surviving family will receive a ?500 in cash and 5000 paid into

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the bank, but the help has been slow in coming. The authorities, like

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everyone else, taken by surprise. How is that possible? This video has

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emerged of fire crews racing to the scene last week in disbelief. Their

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work continues. Red watch your back on duty today and they were on duty

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when the incident happened. Although they have seen horrific scenes and

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they are devastated, they are all heartbroken but ready for duty

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today. The police have promised an exhaustive criminal investigation to

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ensure those responsible for this are to justice.

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A van has been driven into a crowd of Muslim worshippers

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near a mosque in north London - killing one person and

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Police say at least 79 people have died in the Grenfell Tower fire -

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a minute's silence for those who lost their lives has been

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In sport, it's Queens week and Andy Murray begins his bid for a record

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fifth title tomorrow. Today, the British number two is in action.

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It's been nearly a year since the EU referendum vote and today

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the formal Brexit negotiations which could define the UK's

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political and economic future have finally begun.

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They are taking place between the Brexit Secretary,

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David Davis and the EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier.

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Mr Davis acknowledged there would be challenging times ahead but said

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he was "determined to build a strong and special partnership".

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Our Europe Correspondent Damian Grammaticas reports from Brussels.

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Starting today, history being made and unmade.

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Are you ready to make history, Mr Davis?

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David Davis' mission in Brussels, to unstitch a relationship 44

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years old, with the UK heading for future outside the EU

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It is almost exactly a year since the referendum and David Davis

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says that with these talks, he is going to end up with a deal

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The EU side are waiting to see what it is he wants.

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The Conservative Party does not yet have a united view on Brexit

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but Article 50 has been triggered, and negotiations have

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to begin between Mr Davis and his opposite number,

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A small test of strength perhaps before the real tests ahead.

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We will do all we can to ensure that we deliver a deal that works

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in the best interests of all citizens.

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To that end, we are starting this negotiation in a positive

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and constructive tone, determined to build a strong

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and special partnership between ourselves and our European

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We must first tackle the uncertainties caused by Brexit.

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First, for citizens, but also for the beneficiaries

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of the EU policies, and for the impact on borders,

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Well, the former French minister spent months preparing.

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He told the European Parliament a few months ago he won't be

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seeking to punish the UK, but it must pay its bills.

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Let me be clear, when a country leaves the union,

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He served as an EU commissioner working alongside Vivian Reading.

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He is a tough negotiator and good to be so.

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So we are very happy to have him as a chief negotiator

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The tough stuff is not being discussed today.

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Damian Grammaticas, BBC News, Brussels.

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Tell us more about the focus of the talks and the timetable.

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Yes, this morning we have had a brief introductory session between

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the two main negotiators. Mr Barnier and Mr Davis. What interesting is

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that they have only met once since the referendum. They had experience

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in the past when they were both Europe ministers. They know each

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other a little. Today, there will simply be this one day of

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preparatory talks, where there will be discussions about how the

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negotiations will go forward and we expect that will be one week of

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talks every four weeks or every month through the summer and that is

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what they will be agreeing, that structure. The EU side is insisting

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that the UK must deal with the exit issues, those things that Michel

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Barnier was talking about there, and that they will review that, possibly

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in the autumn, to see if they will move on to trade talks and the

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future relationship, but for many people here it is still unclear

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exactly what David Davis is seeking in that future relationship, so they

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will wait to hear. Thank you very much. So much to discuss between now

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and the end of March. Between now and the end of March

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2019 when negotiations Our reality check correspondent

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Chris Morris has been looking at the complexity of some of the key

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issues. The most complex negotiations the UK

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has faced in decades are going Because the UK is due to leave

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the EU in March 2019, and both sides reckon they'll need

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up to six months before that to get So time is short, they

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want to get on with it. And initially, the EU negotiating

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team has a mandate to start talking A financial

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settlement - how much Money that it has

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already agreed to spend. The EU is seeking up

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to 60 billion euros. Then a guarantee of future rights

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for EU citizens here and UK citizens Everyone wants to get this sorted,

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but the legal details The EU wants the European Court

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of Justice involved, the UK doesn't. Could some new form of legal

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oversight be part of a compromise? And then there's the future

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status of the border between Northern Ireland

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and the Republic - which after Brexit will also be

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a land border between the EU How do you keep the border

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as open as it is now, but have some sort of customs

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checks carried out? The hope is that enough

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progress will have been made on these issues

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by about October, to start talking then about the future

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economic relationship with the UK. The government's position is still -

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we leave the single market, we leave the customs union,

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and we end free movement But has the election

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changed the calculation? The general election result was not

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what I or any Conservative would have wanted. But during the course

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of the general election, with the Conservatives and Labour, we argued

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that we should leave the European Union and no longer be subject to

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what is called the single market, effectively the jurisdiction of the

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European court of human justice. So let's remember what we are talking

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about here. Being a member of the single

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market means you have no tariffs or quotas on trade,

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and you have a set of common standards and rules on everything

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from food packaging But you also have to allow the free

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movement of goods, services, capital and people -

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so it's harder to Being in the Customs Union means

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that once goods have passed through customs in one country,

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they can then be shipped around the union without

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any further tariffs - But if you're in the Customs Union

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you don't negotiate your own trade So working out any new economic

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relationship is going to be complex, and there will need to be

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a significant transition period - probably several years -

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to avoid any sudden shocks. For now, though, the EU

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is still waiting to find out exactly what it is that the UK wants,

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and it's wondering how stable the new government

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is really going to be. Getting through the next few months

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without the entire negotiation running into serious trouble

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would be a good start. Portugal has declared

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three days of mourning, as hundreds of firefighters

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are still tackling a forest fire which has killed

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more than 60 people. The blaze took hold

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in a densely forested region in the Pedrogao Grande area

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in central Portugal. Emergency services are being

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hampered by strong winds and daytime temperatures

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of about 40 degrees celsius. Throughout the night the fire

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continued devouring the forests, spreading its horror. A desperate

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fight to put out the flames now involves more than 1000

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firefighters. The fire is thought to have begun on Saturday after a

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lightning strike in Europe's heatwave. Eyewitnesses could not

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believe how quickly it spread. One survivor said it felt like the end

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of the world. TRANSLATION: The flames came from down there, and

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then over there. Smoke came from that way and this was like hell,

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like hell. The scale of the disaster has shaken Portugal. Many of the

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dead were trapped in their cars as they tried to escape and the

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emergency services have found more bodies next to the road, killed, it

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is presumed, while trying to run from vehicles that had caught fire.

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TRANSLATION: Our pain at this moment has no bounds. Death under these

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circumstances is always a tragedy. This is a tragedy never seen before

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in Portugal's democracy. The authorities say the emergency

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services moved as fast as they could but the fire had burned through

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phone lines and communication towers in remote areas, making it hard to

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raise the alarm. Local people have been doing what they can themselves

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to save their homes and livelihoods. TRANSLATION: We should let this all

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go up in flames, is that it? No, we will try to put it out. It has

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emerged that 12 people survived the raging flames, hiding for hours in a

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water tank. Among those killed in the deadliest fire in Portugal's

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modern history, several children. The death toll expected to rise.

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Lawyers for the parents of Charlie Gard - the ten month

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old baby suffering from a rare genetic condition -

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are preparing a final appeal to allow him to be taken

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to the United States for experimental treatment.

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The European Court of Human Rights has ordered that the 10-month-old

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remains on life support until midnight tonight to give time

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Our Medical Correspondent Fergus Walsh joins me now.

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Remind us more about the background to this very sad case.

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Charlie Gard is terminally ill. He cannot move, he cannot breathe

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unaided. Crucially, he has very serious brain damage. The doctors

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caring for him at Great Ormond Street Hospital wants to withdraw

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the mechanical ventilator that keeps him alive because they feel that he

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should be allowed to die with dignity. The parents, his devoted

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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

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heard in the UK, all of the experts have agreed that treatment would be

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futile and might just extend his suffering. So all the UK courts have

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said that's Charlie should be allowed to die but now the European

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Court of Human Rights has today looked at the case and they say that

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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

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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

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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

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about who decides what should happen to Charlie in the meantime. Thank

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you very much indeed. Finally, President Macron's party has won a

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large majority in the French parliament with projections that it

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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

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out there across many parts of the country. Some glorious summer

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weather around. This was the scene captured by one of our weather

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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

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current average. London is 30 degrees, in the high 20s. Slightly

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fresher across parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland. We have a

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little bit more cloud syncing south on a weak weather front. Perhaps one

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or two showers across parts of southern Scotland and Northern

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Ireland but for the bulk of England and Wales, we are looking at warm

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sunshine continuing into the afternoon. There is a chance of one

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or two showers bubbling up across the east of Wales, through the

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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

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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

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just the chance of showers in southern Scotland. A slightly

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fresher feel across northern parts of Northern Ireland into the North.

:32:51.:32:56.

Pressure conditions working south through this evening and overnight.

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Isolated showers fading away. It is going to be another hot, sticky

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night in the south. Overnight temperatures of 20 or 21. Further

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north, temperatures falling to a roundabout 10-14. But the hot and

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sticky conditions continue across southern parts of England, and South

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Wales, through the day tomorrow, with hot air in place. Lots of

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sunshine, and it will be slightly fresher, not as hot as today. We

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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

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south staying predominantly dry. We could see 30 degrees or so. That

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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

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to turn fresher, with more cloud through the course of the weekend

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and perhaps some outbreaks of rain. But for now it is looking like

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another very hot day. Thank you very much indeed.

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