28/07/2017 BBC News at Six

82 tower blocks are deemed to have failed a new government fire

safety test following the Grenfell Tower tragedy.

The test looked at both cladding and insulation.

In Salford today, officials began removing materials

I don't care how much money it costs them.

It's not money - it's people's lives, at the end of the day.

I think we are sitting on a tender box.

With an independent review of building regulations announced

tonight, we'll be asking who will foot the bill

The Chancellor says Brexit in 2019 won't bring immediate changes

and it's likely to be 2022 before the full process takes place.

Donald Trump fails again at his attempts to repeal

28 years in prison for the gang that burgled John Terry's home,

The country's women footballers prepare for their Euro Championships

And coming-up on BBC News: There's a dream debut for Toby Roland-Jones

as England's bowlers run riot over South Africa in the third Test.

82 buildings have been judged unsafe by the government's new fire safety

test in which insulation and cladding of the type fitted

to Grenfell Tower were considered together for the first time.

The test is more thorough than previous checks,

47 of the buildings are owned or managed by local authorities

At least 80 people died in the Grenfell Tower fire in June

and the government today announced an independent review into building

Here's our Home Affairs correspondent Tom Symonds.

Inside the burn hole, this is where the tests have been taking place

upon which the fate of dozens of tower blocks hang. So by the

government has refused to release video of the tests, but it involves

setting light to cladding and installation fitted to a nine metre

wall. This afternoon the first results showed the same design as

Grenfell Tower failed to meat safety standards. The test was stopped

after eight minutes and 45 seconds because it had reached the top of

the test rig. The landlord of a buildings, 47 of them social

housing, will now have to take urgent action. In Salford,

anticipating a test failure, the cladding is being taken down. You

are sleeping in bed at night time thinking that is not safe. It is

bad, isn't it? They should take the lot of, I do not care how much it

cost. It is not money, it is people's lives at the end of the

day. The new skill tests are designed to replicate the way

Grenfell Tower was refurbished with a cladding system to improve

insulation and the look of the building. It is the bits that make

up the system that are being tested together. The cladding itself is

basically a sandwich, thin sheet of aluminium with plastic in the

filling. Then there is an air gap designed to improve ventilation, but

did it fuelled the fire? Behind that, thick blocks of foam

insulation. How well did they withstand the flames? The tests

involve using various plans of cladding and insulation to assess

how they perform in a fire. When sections of the cladding were tested

on their own they failed spectacularly. The government has

not allowed us to fill any of those tests, so we obtain a piste of the

same cladding used as Grenfell Tower and asked a company specialising in

plastics to show us how it reacts to fire. When the flame was applied to

the aluminium sides there was no problem. But when the sample is

turned so the flame hits the plastic filling in the aluminium sandwich,

this is what happens. Several tests showed in similar temperatures to

the Grenfell fire it drips burning plastic. If you clad building in it,

you have got a fuel source for a flame to propagate on. If you do a

small-scale fire test, it is not necessarily representative of what

will happen on a full-scale building. Which is why the

government is now doing full-scale tests. But three separate sources

with direct knowledge of the type of cladding used as Grenfell Tower has

told the BBC it has never been subjected to the full-scale test.

Yet it was used on this building after a refurbishment certified as

safe by Kensington and Chelsea's building control. Was the cladding

installed without the test data inspectors rely on? Official advice

says if flammable materials are planned for a tall building, the

design should be fired tested or study provided on test results. We

have arrived at a situation where we have a series of different pieces of

legislation, we have a series of different tests that can be applied

to that legislation. We have created a system of cracks and shadows that

people can either fall into either vertically or hide in the shadows.

Today a new independent review of fire safety was announced to look

You mentioned at the end an independent review. What will that

consist of? It has added another review to the list of enquiries into

this tragedy. It will look at the building regulations, this complex

set of rules that are being scrutinised and that are at the

centre of all concerns about fire safety. How well have there been in

force? How do they fit into international standards? Already

there are implications for landlords. They will potentially

have to borrow large amounts of money to sort out their own fire

safety problems. They are being told as these test results come in that

they have to take urgent action to look at their buildings and possibly

remove cladding. There is a lot going on. There is the police

investigation and we heard yesterday there may be investigation into

corporate manslaughter potentially involving the council and the

landlord of the tower. Finally, the public enquiry. The remix of that

will not be decided until next month and that will take a long time to

and that will take a long time to conclude.

The Chancellor has stated that "many things will look similar" the day

after Britain leaves the EU in March 2019.

Phillip Hammond said there's broad agreement in Cabinet

that there should be a transition period of up to three years

after Brexit to smooth the process, but that it should be finished

before the next general election in 2022.

Let's speak to our Deputy Political Editor John Pienaar

Many believe that Philip Hammond was a candidate for the Sack of Theresa

May and won big in the junior election. Now he is a pivotal figure

and no one has gone further than he has in setting up thinking about

Brexit. We knew ministers wanted free trade after Brexit. But now he

has said there is broad agreement amongst senior ministers, including

hard-line Brexiteers that British borders should remain open to all EU

citizens for years to come. The overriding concern as we leave the

EU, and the job will be done on March, 2019, the overriding job is

to make sure we go through this process in a way that avoids

disrupted cliff edges for business and individual citizens. But it is

not that simple. Nothing about Brexit is. The European Union will

want future trade disputes to be settled by the EU's Court of

Justice. Philip Hammond has floated the idea of a possible new Court.

Some in government say Britain might agree to a limited role to the Court

of European justice in the future, but you will not see ministers

conceding that point now. When it comes to EU trade, beyond trade

outside the EU, they say there could be no agreement until after Brexit

and any transition. Ministers want to get on with it. Whether you love

Brexit or not, absolutely no one believes it will be easy.

In a major blow to President Trump, the US Senate has for a third time

rejected his attempts to overturn his predecessor's

healthcare reforms known as Obamacare.

In a dramatic move, three Republicans defied their party

to vote against the changes with a decisive vote cast

by the veteran senator John McCain, who broke off from brain cancer

Here's our North America Editor Jon Sopel.

The history books will record that before

2am this morning, Donald Trump's promise to repeal and replace

Obamacare that he said would be so easy,

crashed and burned on the floor of the Senate.

Outside, opponents who had been waiting, celebrated.

The coup de grace was delivered by Senator John McCain

To gossips and sharp intakes of breath,

the person the president had hailed as a hero

earlier in the week from

returning from treatment to vote, now the villain of the piece.

It left the Senate leader ruing a humiliating defeat.

This is clearly a disappointing moment, from

skyrocketing costs to the plummeting choices,

and collapsing markets, our

constituents have suffered through an awful lot under Obamacare.

But that wasn't the only drama unfolding.

Here at the White House, the most extraordinary bare knuckle

cage fight has broken out among the three most senior

people in the West Wing who aren't the president.

The new communications director Anthony

Scaramucci talking in abusive and obscene terms about the Chief of

staff, and the chief strategist Steve Bannon.

Anthony Scaramucci has apologised for the language used,

In his conversation with the New Yorker

magazine, Anthony Scaramucci said of the Chief of staff:

And early in the week, Anthony Scaramucci told the

BBC that his style was going to be more direct.

One of the things I cannot stand about this town is the

Where I grew up, we arefront stabbers,

Donald Trump left Washington a short while ago to fly

to long island, New York, to look at efforts to curb into gang rivalry

Japan says North Korea has fired another test missile which has

It's the latest in a series of tests by North Korea amid growing

international tension over its nuclear ambitions.

We can speak to our correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Tokyo.

Actually this test is not unexpected. It has been on the card,

we thought it was going to happen on Thursday, the anniversary of the end

of the Korean War, marked in North Korea as victory day. They like to

do these things on significant anniversaries. We think it was

delayed because of bad weather. But the night the launch has come. The

missile flew for about 45 minutes, longer than previous tests, and it

landed further north, close to a Japanese island, and the Japanese

government is saying it landed inside its exclusive economic zone.

The American, Japanese and South Korean specialists will be

scrambling to do that telemetry, to see how far and how high it flew.

That will give them an indication of what its full range might be. Back

on July the 4th, the previous test showed it could fly about 7500

kilometres, enough to reach the west coast of the United States. This one

perhaps will be able to fly further and that is what they will be

and that is what they will be looking at.

The time is 6:15pm. Our top story this evening:

82 tower blocks are deemed to have failed a new government fire

safety test following the Grenfell Tower tragedy.

A load of rubbish that's causing quite a stink

Manager Mark Sampson plays down the war of words leading up

to England's Euro 2017 quarterfinal match against France on Sunday.

This weekend Europe will mark the centenary of the First World War

The campaign, fought north of Ypres in Belgium,

lasted over three and half months and led to around half

One of those killed was George Baxter Lowson.

He was 30 and came from Tottenham in London.

His story has inspired two Tottenham teenagers who have

learning disabilities to pay their own musical tribute,

Jonathan and Zach from the Vale School in Tottenham

are about to record their tribute to a man they'll never meet,

but a man who's become part of their lives.

We looked up where the grave of George Baxter Lowson was,

Because we've got disabilities, it's very hard, but I feel me doing this

song has made me more confident because I'm not doing it for myself.

This isn't just a tribute - it's an expression of

# All I see is death, death, death, death in those places

# Names, the names, the names with no faces

# Soldiers lost and gone without traces

As Ypres prepared for this weekend's commemorations,

Vale School performed their tribute in a city

Their words and music are a new connection to one man from

I think he would be proud of this music, proud and pleased.

He's not with us, but with this song,

So we just wanted to give him something.

Contractors working on the Crossrail project have been fined more

than ?1 million over the death of a worker,

A joint venture of three companies, Bam, Ferrovial and Kier,

pleaded guilty to offences after being investigated

Rene Takachik died after being crushed by wet concrete in 2014,

while two other men were injured in separate incidents

Barclays bank is setting aside a further ?700 million to cover

payouts for mis-sold Payment Protection Insurance policies.

It brings the total amount set aside by Barclays to over ?9 billion.

PPI policies were mis-sold to cover loan repayments if people fell

More than ?27 billion has now been repaid by the banking industry.

A gang which carried out a series of raids,

including stealing more than ?400,000 worth of designer

goods from footballer John Terry's mansion have been sentenced today.

Let's speak to our correspondent Andy Moore at Kingston Crown Court.

Give us more details of what they did. Well, this court heard today

that John Terry made the mistake of posting to social media the fact

that he was on holiday. Back in February, he told his 3.4 million

followers on Instagram that he was away in the French Alps. He posted a

picture of himself and his wife with a message, "A great few days away

skiing with the family." After that, his mansion in Surrey was targeted

by burglars. They stole designer handbags, one of them alone was

worth ?42,000, ?200,000 worth of jewellery was stolen. About ?18,000

worth of rare first editions of the Harry Potter books signed. John

Terry's master bedroom was ransacked. Not happy with that on

the first day, the group came back on the second night with an angle

grinder to get into the safe. On that occasion, they were heard by

the housekeeper. Today, the gang of four were jailed for a total of 28

years. They had been targeting a number of luxury homes in Surrey.

The judge said Terry's home had been deliberately targeted because he

posted his holiday snaps online. Andy, thank you. Andy Moore, there.

A brief look at some of the day's other news stories:

Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been forced to resign,

after his country's Supreme Court disqualified him from office

for life, and ordered a corruption investigation into his family.

The ruling followed accusations from the Panama Papers two years

ago, which linked three of Mr Sharif's children

One person has been killed and four others injured in a knife attack

Police said a man was arrested after being overpowered by members

of the public and that his motives are so far unclear.

Venezuela is banning protests ahead of this Sunday's

The government has announced that anyone contravening the ban could be

More than 100 people have been killed in anti-government-related

In the last few minutes it has been confirmed that the terminally ill

baby Charlie Gard has died. It is thought he was moved to a hospice

today from Great Ormond Street Hospital where he was being treated.

Fergus Wolf reports. This is Charlie Gard without

breathing or feeding tubes, before his devastating genetic condition

emerged, which causes progressive muscle weakness. By his side

throughout, his parents, Connie Yates and Chris God. They refused to

accept Charlie had suffered catastrophic brain damage, and

raised funds online for experimental treatment in the United States.

Great Ormond Street applied to court to end Charlie's life support, and

every judge backed them. At the UK Supreme Court, with Charlie's

parents sitting behind, the hospital's barrister said his

suffering should end. The reality is that Charlie can't see, he can't

hear, he can't move, he can't cry, he can't swallow. Immensely sadly,

his condition is one that affords him no benefit. An American doctor

offering to treat Charlie with this experimental powder had not seen his

full medical records, and it six months before he came to London to

examine him. Finally, at the High Court, Charlie's parents abandoned

their legal fight, saying that time had run out. Our son is an absolute

warrior, and we could not be proud of him and we will miss him

terribly. His body, heart and soul may soon be gone, but his spirit

will live on for eternity, and he will make a difference to people's

lives for years to come, we will make sure of that. A private family

tragedy was fought out in public. Doctors and nurses at Great Ormond

Street, one of the world's most renowned Children's Hospital is,

received abuse and even death threats, which Charlie's parents

condemned. Pro-life groups adopted the cause, and Charlie's plight

became an international issue when both the Pope and Donald Trump

tweeted offers of help. The judge said it was a pitfall of social

media that people commented without knowing the facts. Charlie would

have been one on August fourth. His parents said they were sorry they

could not save him but would set up a foundation to help other sick

children. Fergus Walsh, BBC News. The last few minutes, this sad news

that the inevitable has happened, this little boy has died. That's

right. Charlie was taken to a hospice earlier today. His parents

had some time with him there, not as long as they wanted. They wanted a

week with him in the hospice, and his life-support was withdrawn. He

was unable to breathe unaided. One sentence from his parents, they

said, "Our beautiful little boy has gone. We are so proud of you,

Charlie." This case underlines that when that relationship of trust

breaks down between doctors and parents, that is the nub of this

case. It meant a judge had to decide what was in Charlie's best

interests. Every judge that looked at this said that, really, Charlie's

life, he was suffering and he needed to be set free, to die with dignity.

And that is what happened this afternoon. Fergus, thank you very

much. Victory for England's women would

believe their first over the French for 40 years, but after three

tournament wins out of three, hopes and expectations are high.

England fans are enjoying their journey through the Netherlands were

other teams have succumbed to pitfalls, their site has sailed

smoothly through. When is our chance going to be better? Confidence has

perhaps never been higher. Last night, despite not being at their

best, England maintained their 100% record in their group to beat

Portugal and progress to the quarterfinals. The only player to

have started every game so far is also England's newest recruit,

23-year-old Millie Bright. For her family, who have travelled to the

Netherlands to see her play in her first major tournament, it was

another proud moment. This is little Millie. She has always been good

this. We have always gone along, because I believe, if a child has a

drink you go along with it as a parent. All of a sudden, we have

come to watch these football matches, but it is not football

matches, it is England. It has been real. We still ourselves. In the

last three years, every level, she just excels. When she first started

at Chelsea, you would expect her to have a few games on the sidelines,

it wasn't. She was straight in from Game one. For women's sport, they

are getting there. The cricket team, their achievement, hopefully for

England's women, it is what women's sport needs. Progress has been made

off the pitch, too. Mark Sampson has prepared the most well funded

women's team yet. A number of big teams have struggled at the

tournament, but England have three wins from three. Next, they face

France, 18 they haven't beaten since 1974. The French have been one of

the pretournament favourites, but only just scraped through their

group. Still, there has been fighting talk between the camp. We

are a team of Street fighter, and when we get prodded, we poke back. I

will not back off from a challenge. We look at history of the team,

getting where they are, nothing has been given to them, nothing has been

easy. Sunday's quarterfinal promises to be a spiky affair, but England

fans aren't ready to home just yet. Time for a look at the weather.

Here's Nick Miller. We are going into the last weekend

of July with more than a hint of Autumn India. In Wales, a wet

afternoon, and soaking rain in the north, sinking South East as we go

through this evening and tonight. Quite windy, and windy in north-west

Scotland where the showers continue overnight. Pepe Reina Northern

Ireland. Turning dry and clear, overnight 10-15. This weekend, for

many, tomorrow is the better day of the weekend. There will be showers,

especially across north-west Scotland. Sunny spells, cloud and

rain coming back into southern England and Wales through the

afternoon. It is breezy again with these showers, especially in

north-west Scotland. A few the southern and eastern parts of

Scotland. Dotted in Northern Ireland, a few for England. Many

will avoid and stay dry, and have pleasant spells of sunshine. It may

be a dry start, but cloud and rain coming back across southern England

into South Wales at this stage of the afternoon. That means after

cloud and rain, the Test match will see outbreaks of rain tomorrow

afternoon, perhaps lasting into the evening. This is the picture

tomorrow evening. Uncertainty about how far north the rain will get.

Still, though, showers across north-west Scotland courtesy of this

area of low pressure. It may start with sunshine on Sunday, but the

showers will gather in the west, heavy and thundery, spreading

eastwards during the day. South-eastern part of England may

avoid showers, until late on, still breezy and cool for the time of

year. While we have been on air, it has

been confirmed that the terminally ill baby Charlie Gard, whose parents

campaigned to get him treatment, making headlines around the world,

has died. That's all from the BBC News at Six.

So it's goodbye from me. And on BBC One, we now join

the BBC's news teams where you are.