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A retired Appeal Court judge is appointed to lead the public inquiry | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
Sir Martin Moore-Bick met residents this morning and promised to get | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
But his appointment has already been criticised by some survivors. | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
As the deadline for a deal looms, the Northern Ireland Secretary says | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
restoring power-sharing remains "possible and achievable". | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
A senior member of the Vatican, Cardinal George Pell, | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
is charged with sexual abuse offences in his home | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
MPs are due to vote on the Queen's Speech with | :00:36. | :00:44. | |
Labour seeking amendments on public spending and Brexit. | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
And the Cornish village whose chapel is being saved by the Emir of Dubai. | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
And coming up in the sport on BBC News: Sam Warburton, | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
Jonny Sexton and Maro Itoje all come into the starting 15 for the British | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
and Irish Lions' second test against New Zealand. | :00:58. | :01:23. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
Theresa May has confirmed that a retired High Court judge, | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
Sir Martin Moore-Bick, has been chosen to lead | :01:29. | :01:30. | |
the public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire. | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
Sir Martin this morning promised a "vigorous inquiry that gets | :01:34. | :01:35. | |
to the truth" and said he understood the "desire of local | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
The Prime Minister told MPs that she expects he will produce | :01:39. | :01:46. | |
an interim report as early as possible into the tragedy, | :01:47. | :01:48. | |
in which 80 people are now presumed to have died. | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
Sir Martin Moore-Bick spent 20 years as a judge and is said | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
to be highly respected, but his appointment has | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
Here's our correspondent Richard Lister. | :01:56. | :02:03. | |
The family and friends of Tony dissident gathered for his funeral | :02:04. | :02:14. | |
today, a short distance from Grenfell Tower where he died. With | :02:15. | :02:16. | |
an estimated 80 dead, there will be many more such funerals. Looming | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
over them, questions about why they died, who was to blame, how can | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
others be protected. And this is the man now appointed to find the | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
answers, Sir Martin Moore-Bick. A judge for 20 years before he died | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
from the Court of appeals, a focused on complex technical cases in the | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
commercial courts. He's promised to consult Grenfell survives about how | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
to proceed. In a statement after his appointment, he said: | :02:46. | :02:58. | |
We need and demand to be part of every single decision made in that | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
public inquiry... But those who escaped Grenfell Tower | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
that might have demanded more input into shaping this process. They | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
appear not to have been consulted about this appointment. I understand | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
this has to be fair and impartial but I believe the victims of this, | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
you know the Tower victims first, evacuees second and local residents | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
Birtley should be the ones leading this and deciding what direction | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
this inquiry takes and what readmit it has. And a decision by Sir Martin | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
Moore-Bick involving Westminster City Council is also causing | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
Grenfell survivors concern. He backed the decision to move a single | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
mother of five to social housing 50 miles away. If I was speaking to | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
families, I would be saying that on its own to -- tells you nothing. The | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
problem is we don't know what the broader record is. Setting up the | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
public inquiry was always going to be a delicate process. Grenfell | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
survivors are being asked to work with the establishment they feel let | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
them down the decades. The aim is for an interim report this summer. | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
Our legal Correspondent Clive Coleman joins me now. | :04:12. | :04:13. | |
How would you assess this appointment? | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
Sir Martin Moore-Bick has the classic CB of a highly successful | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
Court of Appeal judge. His intellect is beyond question and his | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
experience both as a lawyer, mainly in shipping but also his experience | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
as a judge in the commercial court, and gives him experience of heavy | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
engineering technical issues, and having to get on top of those nobody | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
doubts his ability to do that. But in addition to that, to chair | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
something as big, where passions are running so high in an inquiry such | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
as this, you need emotional intelligence on the high level of | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
communication skills. We have seen that already this morning. If you | :04:54. | :05:00. | |
take for example the 7/7 inquiry, the chair of that was given plaudits | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
for communicating with the families and continuing to command their | :05:06. | :05:16. | |
confidence. This morning we have heard from Joe Delaney, one of the | :05:17. | :05:17. | |
residence, that he wasn't clear about the focus of the inquiry and | :05:18. | :05:17. | |
it should, he said, be more criminally focused. Whoever runs the | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
inquiry has to explain there is a criminal investigation that is | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
running alongside it. Just a little indication I think of how the | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
chairman of this inquiry has to really think hard about how he | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
communicates the purpose of the inquiry, the way it will be run, and | :05:34. | :05:43. | |
how he continues to command the confidence of the people at the | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
heart of it, the families. Let's go over to Norman Smith in Westminster, | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
and how is this appointment and be inquiry itself going down with | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
people in Westminster? I think there is a desire on all sides of | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
Westminster for this inquiry to succeed. Everybody wants it to get | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
answers and get them quickly, maybe even with an interim report by this | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
summer. But I think everyone also knows it cannot succeed without the | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
backing of the families and the reason for that is the experience of | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
the child abuse inquiry, another very high-profile inquiry, again set | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
up by Theresa May but which has been beset by difficulties. We have seen | :06:25. | :06:26. | |
the resignations of three successive chairmen. Why? Because it lacked the | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
confidence and support of victims groups, and the real fear I guess is | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
of history repeating itself with already some residents saying they | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
weren't consulted about Saint Martin's appointment, and others | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
saying they want to focus on the criminal aspects of the | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
investigation, also questioning why Kensington council had been given a | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
say in the readmit of this inquiry. The residents so far are not saying | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
we won't work with Sir Martin, but you do get the sense there is only a | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
relatively narrow window of opportunity for Sir Martin to win | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
the confidence of those families of this inquiry is to get up and | :07:11. | :07:25. | |
running and to be a success. Norman, many thanks. Norman Smith there. | :07:26. | :07:27. | |
137 high-rise buildings have now failed safety tests on cladding | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
in 41 local authority areas, according to the latest | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
Four of those tower blocks are in the London borough of Camden, | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
where residents from 700 flats have been told to leave | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
Our correspondent Tom Burridge has been meeting some of the people | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
still living in the Chalcots estate, despite being told | :07:43. | :07:44. | |
Michelle's family are facing a difficult dilemma. | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
They've been told to leave their flat in North London. | :07:48. | :07:49. | |
Because their tower block has suspect cladding | :07:50. | :07:51. | |
and after the fire at Grenfell, failed an inspection | :07:52. | :07:53. | |
But Camden Council has still not found Michelle suitable alternative | :07:54. | :08:01. | |
accommodation and so she has reluctantly been | :08:02. | :08:03. | |
I mean, last night, my husband refused to stay in it. | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
And at two o'clock I woke up having a panic attack | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
I thought, I know they're starting works. | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
There are people still here trying to find somewhere to stay. | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
I can't tell you the emotional impact it's having on everyone, | :08:24. | :08:25. | |
I've never been in this terrible state like this before. | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
Michelle, like others we met, doesn't blame the council. | :08:32. | :08:39. | |
It says it is doing all it can to rehouse the most vulnerable | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
people first in appropriate accommodation as close | :08:43. | :08:44. | |
But Sean Henry was offered a flat with nothing in it and that simply | :08:45. | :08:51. | |
Well, at this point I don't have an option. | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
I need to make sure my family is safe. | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
And until I get the appropriate or suitable accommodation, | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
Because right now this is the safest place. | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
Even though it has been deemed unsafe. | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
This man has a four-year-old daughter with a serious blood | :09:12. | :09:13. | |
disease and a seven-year-old son with severe autism. | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
The hotel they were in wasn't appropriate for his children. | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
Looking for somewhere to cook, clean, you know, clean | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
So, like others, he spent the day at the local leisure centre. | :09:26. | :09:35. | |
Well, it's roughly five hours since we met him earlier, | :09:36. | :09:37. | |
and he's been inside chatting to council officials and it | :09:38. | :09:39. | |
still seems they haven't been able to find him and his family anywhere | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
Later, though, he was told that they had been | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
I can bring his PlayStation, his toys. | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
So, it's a struggle for a semblance of normal life, when you're suddenly | :09:55. | :10:02. | |
told your home is not safe, amidst a national scandal | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
about how so many buildings in Britain have been built. | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
As politicians in Stormont continue talks to restore power-sharing | :10:11. | :10:18. | |
the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland says | :10:19. | :10:20. | |
Speaking in the last hour James Brokenshire said significance | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
progress has been made but several issues remain outstanding. | :10:27. | :10:36. | |
Sinn Fein said there is still no agreement over nationalist demands | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
Our Ireland Correspondent Chris Buckler is in Stormont. | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
The Democratic Unionist Party have made it clear they are prepared to | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
go back into government, the power -- problem with power-sharing is | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
unique parties who are prepared to share power and Sinn Fein have said | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
they are not willing to go back into power-sharing with the DUP. Whilst | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
political negotiations are sometimes treated as fun and games, despite | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
appearances things have got serious. The DUP and Sinn Fein have spent | :11:06. | :11:14. | |
months clashing, and now the negotiations to try to get | :11:15. | :11:16. | |
power-sharing back up and running are set to come to a shuddering halt | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
and an uncomfortable stalemate. The future of devolved government in | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
Ireland now hangs in the balance, to the frustration of many at this | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
funfair in Belfast. I just think they need now to put their | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
differences aside. We have voted for them, we put them in, it is now time | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
for them to do their jobs. The DUP's deal to prop up the Conservatives at | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
Westminster has brought the promise of ?1 billion from Northern Ireland | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
and much of that money will be used to help an economy that has suffered | :11:48. | :11:56. | |
badly since the days long ago when shipbuilding was a major industry in | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
Belfast, but will there be a government to spend the cash? I | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
believe the resolution will be found and I am urging the parties to | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
continue focusing all of their efforts on achieving this. The last | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
few days have seen intensive negotiations take place at Stormont | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
Castle to try to find a deal that will resolve a whole range of | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
disagreements, but so far the DUP are refusing to give in to Sinn | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
Fein's demands for an Irish language act. We want these institutions back | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
up and running again but it has to be on the basis of equality and | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
respect at their core and institutions that command public | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
confidence sale in our view it is make up your mind time for the DUP. | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
Neither unionists nor Republicans want to be seen as losers in this | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
negotiation, and the demands for legislation to give official status | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
to the Irish language have proved particularly divisive. Sinn Fein | :12:52. | :13:07. | |
wants too much. They treat it as a joke, the DUP. But there's a danger | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
no one walks away from these talks with anything and that is very risky | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
for the parties politics here. There is a stripped four o'clock deadline | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
for an agreement, if not it could be the case Westminster has to step in | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
and take over some of the responsibilities of Northern | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
Ireland. As it is, the DUP are just coming out to speak to the cameras. | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
We might get a sense of whether the deadline might be met or | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
alternatively running into another deepening crisis. | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
Labour will try to get elements of its general election manifesto | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
into the government's programme when MPs vote on the Queen's | :13:44. | :13:45. | |
They'll call on the government to end austerity in public services, | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
and to negotiate a Brexit deal that "delivers the exact same benefits" | :13:50. | :13:51. | |
as membership of the single market and the customs union. | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
Let's go over to our Political Correspondent Alex Forsyth, | :13:56. | :13:57. | |
who's in the Palace of Westminster for us now. | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
A piece of parchment setting out the government's policy plans. | :14:01. | :14:02. | |
Written by ministers, read by the Queen at the formal | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
My ministers are committed to working with Parliament, | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
the devolved administrations, business and others, | :14:12. | :14:13. | |
to build the widest possible consensus on the country's future | :14:14. | :14:15. | |
But now there's a hung parliament that consensus | :14:16. | :14:26. | |
will be hard to achieve, not just on Brexit, | :14:27. | :14:28. | |
The one vote the government is confident of winning, today's, | :14:29. | :14:35. | |
when MPs will be asked to approve the Queen's Speech. | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
We set out a programme in the national interest, | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
delivering on Brexit and other important domestic matters | :14:44. | :14:45. | |
and I think that is important to deliver that said the government | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
can get on governing as the people of Britain would expect us to do. | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
Yesterday the government saw off the challenge by Labour. | :14:53. | :15:01. | |
They tried to amend the Queen's Speech, to get more | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
investment in public services and the scrapping of the cap | :15:05. | :15:06. | |
But whilst some Tories hinted at their concerns over austerity... | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
It's time for us to think again about the impact | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
None were willing to undermine the Prime Minister | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
Today, Labour will try again with another amendment. | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
We are putting forward fundamentally what was in our | :15:28. | :15:29. | |
A Brexit that guarantees trade relations with Europe. | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
A government that ends the public sector pay cap. | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
And a government that invests in the education future | :15:39. | :15:40. | |
of all of our children from nursery through to university. | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
Despite Labour's efforts to tease open any divisions | :15:46. | :15:47. | |
within the Conservative Party over austerity, it's highly likely that | :15:48. | :15:49. | |
Theresa May's Queen's Speech will get through the Commons today. | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
Tory MPs won't risk challenging her authority on this. | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
And she has the support of ten Democratic Unionist MPs | :16:00. | :16:01. | |
with whom she did a deal to get their backing on key votes. | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
But even with that, the prime minister's majority is slim | :16:08. | :16:09. | |
and Labour will seek to exploit that at every opportunity. | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
Parliament's likely to see some brutal battles over | :16:16. | :16:17. | |
Backbenchers will be emboldened, every vote will count | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
in getting anything through, and it won't be plain sailing. | :16:22. | :16:33. | |
Today we had some indication of the power backbenchers wheeled, there | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
were suggestions some Tory MPs had sympathy for another Labour | :16:41. | :16:42. | |
amendment to the Queen's speech, this one calling for free access to | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
abortion services in England for women from Northern Ireland, where | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
abortion rules are strict. I understand the Government is looking | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
at putting together a package of measures so that women across the UK | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
can access abortion services, in part it seems to stave off potential | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
rebellion from its own backbenchers. What we are seeing now is that | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
without a majority of her own, Theresa May will have to cajole and | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
make concessions and some compromises in order to get things | :17:11. | :17:17. | |
done. Even in these very early days of this new parliament. | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
One of the Pope's closest advisors, Cardinal George Pell, | :17:22. | :17:23. | |
has been charged in his native Australia with historical sexual | :17:24. | :17:25. | |
At a press conference this morning the Cardinal insisted | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
he was innocent of the charges, and said he looked forward | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
Our correspondent James Reynolds reports from Rome. | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
This morning St Peter's Square, the cardinals of the Catholic Church | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
turned out for a celebration led by the Pope, but one | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
Cardinal George Pell appeared instead in a Vatican press room | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
to respond to the charges made the Australian police. | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
The whole idea of sexual abuse is abhorrent to me. | :17:56. | :18:06. | |
So I'm very grateful to the Holy Father for | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
giving me this leave to return to Australia. | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
Today, Victoria police have charged Cardinal George... | :18:17. | :18:18. | |
Earlier in Australia, the police outlined the charges | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
Cardinal Pell is facing multiple charges in respect | :18:22. | :18:30. | |
of historic sexual offences, and there are multiple complainants | :18:31. | :18:32. | |
For more than 40 years, George Pell worked as a priest, then | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
In 2014, Pope Francis called him to work in Rome. | :18:39. | :18:45. | |
In February last year the cardinal testified via video link | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
to an Australian commission investigating official | :18:50. | :18:51. | |
Victims flew in to watch his testimony. | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
Now the Cardinal will have to defend himself in court. | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
The charges leave the Church and the Pope in an uncomfortable position. | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
After his election, Francis created a commission to deal | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
with allegations of sexual abuse by clerics. | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
Now he finds that one of his closest advisers faces charges of his own. | :19:13. | :19:22. | |
The Pope will now face questions about his ally. | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
George Pell will appear in court in Australia next month. | :19:26. | :19:27. | |
Sir Martin Moore-Bick is appointed to lead the public inquiry | :19:28. | :19:40. | |
He met residents this morning and promised to get to the truth | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
And still to come: It's all in the name. | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
How the Emir who owns the world's most famous stables helped a Cornish | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
Coming up in sport: Can Novak Djokovic turn | :19:52. | :19:58. | |
around his form this season on grass? | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
He's warming up for next week's Wimbledon with a third round match | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
against American Donald Young at the Aegon Classic in Eastbourne. | :20:05. | :20:14. | |
It's three years since the self-proclaimed Islamic State | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
declared the creation of a caliphate. | :20:18. | :20:19. | |
Now, under extreme attack from a US-led international | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
coalition, they are clinging on to their last major strongholds | :20:25. | :20:26. | |
Britain has carried out the second largest number of air strikes | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
Now, for the first time, RAF crews have been talking | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
to the BBC about the challenges they face in avoiding | :20:36. | :20:37. | |
Our defence correspondent Jonathan Beale reports. | :20:38. | :20:45. | |
The RAF prepares for another bombing mission against the group calling | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
They've been flying these sorties from their base | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
in Cyprus round the clock, in what's become another long war. | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
What you're looking at a densely packed urban area with buildings | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
For the first time the RAF's allowed their crews to talk | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
They want to show the care they take to protect civilian life. | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
The priority is to make sure our missile hits... | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
Dave - not his real name - operates a Reaper remotely piloted drone. | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
He shows me video of one targeting an IS, or Daesh, mortar position, | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
Can you honestly say to me you can guarantee you won't cause | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
What we can demonstrate through rigour and the use of these | :21:32. | :21:40. | |
videos is we do absolutely everything within our power. | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
Every member of the crew wants to go home with a battle damage assessment | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
The RAF has been carrying out these bombing missions | :21:47. | :21:54. | |
against IS for coming up to three years now. | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
And in that time they've carried out more than 1000 air strikes, | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
dropping more than 3000 bombs and missiles. | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
And yet, they say, they've seen no evidence so far that | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
they've been responsible for any civilian casualties. | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
What I can say right now is that the evidence that we have | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
It's human activity and we're not perfect, and even with our best | :22:21. | :22:28. | |
efforts I cannot hand on heart say that wouldn't happen. | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
But there are those who already believe Britain's paying | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
a price for this war, with some linking this kind | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
of military intervention to the recent terrorist attacks | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
I do struggle a bit to link that to modern foreign policy. | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
We have an opponent who just hates us and everything we stand | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
for and all of our values, and we have to deal with that. | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
We have to defeat them militarily and that's why we're here. | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
They're fighting a brutal enemy that unlike them isn't worried | :22:59. | :23:07. | |
Jonathan Beale, BBC News, RAF Akrotiri. | :23:08. | :23:24. | |
The Chinese President Xi Jinping has promised to maintain the one country | :23:25. | :23:32. | |
two Systems system ends Hong Kong. He's in Hong Kong for the 20th | :23:33. | :23:45. | |
anniversary of the hand-out. A large security operation is under way, as | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
protests are planned throughout the visit. Yesterday, democracy | :23:50. | :23:51. | |
activists were arrested after chaining themselves to a monument to | :23:52. | :23:52. | |
symbolise the handover. The Culture Secretary, | :23:53. | :23:54. | |
Karen Bradley, says she is "minded" to refer Rupert Murdoch's 21st | :23:55. | :23:56. | |
Century Fox bid to take control of Ms Bradley pointed to concerns | :23:57. | :23:59. | |
about media plurality - but has yet to make her final | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
decision. Mr Murdoch already owns 39% of Sky | :24:04. | :24:04. | |
and opponents believe the deal would give him too much power | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
in the UK media. Our entertainment correspondent | :24:09. | :24:10. | |
David Sillito reports. It was set up by Rupert Murdoch | :24:11. | :24:11. | |
but he owns only 39% of the shares. However, his media empire also owns | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
The Sun and The Times and produces Should this be a matter | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
for the competition authority? The Culture Secretary | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
asked the watchdog Ofcom It concludes, "The transaction | :24:28. | :24:29. | |
raises public interest concerns as a result of the risk of increased | :24:30. | :24:37. | |
influence by members of the Murdoch family trust over the UK news agenda | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
and the political process. With its unique presence on radio, | :24:41. | :24:42. | |
television and in print and online. We consider that these concerns may | :24:43. | :24:50. | |
justify reference by the Secretary of State to the Competition | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
and Markets Authority". On the basis of Ofcom's report, | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
I confirm that I am minded to refer to a phase two investigation | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
on the grounds of media plurality. Plurality essentially means, | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
does one media owner have too Opponents of the Murdoch empire | :25:09. | :25:10. | |
were today protesting, But they also fear that other | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
concerns about past misdeeds We feel Rupert Murdoch has too much | :25:17. | :25:33. | |
power over our politics. He's a very dangerous man and we need a full | :25:34. | :25:36. | |
investigation of everything to do with the Murdochs, before we hand | :25:37. | :25:38. | |
him any more of media. And so a takeover bid that was first | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
proposed seven years ago But for the Murdoch family, | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
Sky was their creation. It almost bankrupted them | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
in the '90s, before they turned it The battle is still very much | :25:50. | :25:51. | |
on to finally make it theirs. Britain's household energy bills - | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
and carbon emissions - have been kept in check by EU rules | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
on energy efficiency, but a new report warns that both | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
could rise unless ministers implement new policies | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
to save power. The Committee on Climate Change says | :26:10. | :26:11. | |
the UK needs to move quickly towards developing plans | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
to keep emissions down. Ministers say they will come forward | :26:16. | :26:17. | |
with a new policy in the autumn. Here's our environment | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
analyst, Roger Harrabin. We have more and more | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
gadgets all the time. Yet the average home is paying less | :26:26. | :26:27. | |
for energy than we were before, It's because appliances like this | :26:28. | :26:39. | |
are being forced to be ever more That means they do the same amount | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
of work but for less power. It cuts our bills and it | :26:46. | :26:52. | |
reduces carbon emissions. The biggest saving has been thanks | :26:53. | :26:55. | |
to insulation and gas boilers. Gas demand is down 23% | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
since 2008, the report says. It is exciting that we have | :27:02. | :27:08. | |
managed to keep bills down The reason for that, | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
the reason we are spending ?20 a month less on our bills, | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
is because of the tough This government will have to make | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
sure that we replicate those Greater home insulation | :27:22. | :27:29. | |
is the big challenge ahead. The committee says the government | :27:30. | :27:38. | |
has to find some way of persuading people to invest | :27:39. | :27:40. | |
in making their homes warmer. Without that, the UK's target | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
on emissions and affordable Electric vehicles are the other big | :27:45. | :27:47. | |
issue raised in the report. Emissions from transport have been | :27:48. | :27:53. | |
going up, when they should That's bad for local air pollution | :27:54. | :27:57. | |
as well as for the climate. The government will bring forward | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
its own plans for a low carbon, Not an idea most people would have, | :28:03. | :28:05. | |
but it's paid off for the people of Godolphin Cross, | :28:06. | :28:19. | |
near Helston in Cornwall. The village shares its name | :28:20. | :28:21. | |
with one of the most famous stables in the world - | :28:22. | :28:24. | |
owned by the Emir of Dubai. People were so desperate for funds | :28:25. | :28:27. | |
for their local church that one contacted Sheikh Mohammed bin | :28:28. | :28:30. | |
Rashid Al Maktoum for help. Godolphin Cross, a quiet village | :28:31. | :28:34. | |
in Cornwall where the pace of life is gentle and the Methodist Chapel | :28:35. | :28:42. | |
looks set to stand empty forever. The villagers were giving up hope | :28:43. | :28:47. | |
of finding enough funds to buy it, and convert it | :28:48. | :28:49. | |
to a community centre. But a bright spark thought | :28:50. | :28:54. | |
of the ruler of Dubai. Sheikh Mohammed bin | :28:55. | :28:57. | |
Rashid Al Maktoum. Their village shares its name | :28:58. | :29:00. | |
with the world-famous Godolphin Stables in Newmarket | :29:01. | :29:04. | |
which he founded. He's rubbed shoulders with | :29:05. | :29:10. | |
the establishment and the powerful. Residents sent him a letter, | :29:11. | :29:13. | |
more in hope than expectation, and were amazed when he offered | :29:14. | :29:15. | |
help. It's not the only | :29:16. | :29:19. | |
giving that they do. They give to other projects around | :29:20. | :29:26. | |
the world and in the UK, but it was fantastic | :29:27. | :29:29. | |
because as I say we were We were in trouble, | :29:30. | :29:31. | |
we were going to lose our last space So the sheik, who has | :29:32. | :29:35. | |
a passion for horses, has become the village's | :29:36. | :29:47. | |
unlikely knight in shining armour. No one will say how much he's | :29:48. | :29:50. | |
given but it is thought And Godolphin residents say any time | :29:51. | :29:53. | |
he wants to take a break, from his champagne lifestyle, | :29:54. | :29:56. | |
there's a warm welcome awaiting him. If ever he comes down this way, | :29:57. | :29:59. | |
there's a pasty with his name on it, It's been really wet across Scotland | :30:00. | :30:18. | |
so far today. Here's a picture from Edinburgh, huge puddles. The rain | :30:19. | :30:22. | |
stretches down into parts of Wales and the south-west of England as | :30:23. | :30:25. | |
well. It's not all doom and gloom, there is some brighter weather. This | :30:26. | :30:30. | |
is Surrey, sunshine breaking through the cloud. This radar picture | :30:31. | :30:33. | |
confirms it's been wet across Scotland. The rain is more patchy | :30:34. | :30:37. | |
and northern England, Wales and the south-west. The rain is toppling | :30:38. | :30:42. | |
westwards, getting into the western side of Northern Ireland over the | :30:43. | :30:47. | |
next few hours. Not just wet, also really windy. The wind is quite | :30:48. | :30:52. | |
chilly, not very summery. Into the afternoon across the south-west of | :30:53. | :30:54. | |
England there will be some patchy rain around. As temperatures get | :30:55. | :30:59. | |
around 19-20 in the south-east, it might spark off one or two showers, | :31:00. | :31:04. | |
but few and far between. Patchy rain in North Wales and northern England. | :31:05. | :31:09. | |
It spreads westwards across Northern Ireland and the rate will get pretty | :31:10. | :31:15. | |
close to the Western Isles over the next few hours. The temperatures in | :31:16. | :31:19. | |
the wind on the east coast, 11-12, not much better in the Glasgow area. | :31:20. | :31:22. | |
Actually feel the things here. In the evening it stays pretty wet | :31:23. | :31:26. | |
across Scotland. The rain across Western England and where is becomes | :31:27. | :31:29. | |
lighter and more patchy, but it's still there overnight. It should be | :31:30. | :31:34. | |
drier in the south-east. A fair bit of cloud, temperatures about 14 in | :31:35. | :31:38. | |
the south-east and 10 degrees in the north-west. Not a cold night, quite | :31:39. | :31:42. | |
mild for most, but still wet through the morning across Scotland and the | :31:43. | :31:46. | |
western side of England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The rain is | :31:47. | :31:49. | |
gradually slipping southwards and eastwards, getting towards the | :31:50. | :31:55. | |
south-east later on. Temperatures around 22 here, pressure north and | :31:56. | :31:58. | |
west. The rain pushes through the south-east on Friday evening for the | :31:59. | :32:02. | |
start of the weekend we have this range of high pressure that will | :32:03. | :32:04. | |
settle things down for the most part. There's a weak front coming | :32:05. | :32:13. | |
into the Northwest, a bit of a breeze and some rain, but most | :32:14. | :32:18. | |
places dry, bright, a bit of sunshine will stop breezy, but | :32:19. | :32:20. | |
reasonable in most places. Rain will sink South all parts on Saturday | :32:21. | :32:24. | |
night. It's gone on Sunday. Sunday is pretty similar, the Saturday, | :32:25. | :32:30. | |
most places are dry, variable cloud, some sunshine. Temperatures up by a | :32:31. | :32:42. | |
notch or two. In summary it is wet, but the prospects through the | :32:43. | :32:44. | |
weekend are looking that bit better. Drier, brighter, maybe a bit warmer. | :32:45. | :32:47. | |
A reminder of our main story this lunchtime. | :32:48. | :32:52. | |
Sir Martin Moore-Bick is appointed to lead the public enquiry into the | :32:53. | :32:57. | |
Grenfell Tower fire. He met residents this morning and promised | :32:58. | :33:01. | |
to get the truth as as possible. It's goodbye from me and on BBC One | :33:02. | :33:04. | |
we join the BBC's | :33:05. | :33:05. |