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Hello, this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt in West London.

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The desperate search continues to find the missing

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Over 24 hours on from the blaze, 12 people are known to have died.

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Dozens more are still unaccounted for.

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We don't know if they are alive or dead or if they are in hospital or

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not. The Prime Minister promises a full

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investigation onto the causes On the ground there's anger that

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warnings may have been ignored. There will have been people trapped

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in that tower knowing that the people who were supposed to look

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after them didn't care about them. Many spend the night in emergency

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shelters as the community pull together to support people left

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without homes and basic needs. On Breakfast today: We'll bring

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you the latest on the fire and we'll be asking how such a tragedy

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could have struck in the heart Reports in the US that the man

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investigating Russia's involvement in the American presidential

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election is looking at whether President Trump attempted

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to obstruct justice. The days of coming home to a big

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mobile bill after a European holiday From today roaming charges

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are being dropped across the EU. In sport, England's hopes of winning

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the Champions Trophy are over. Eoin Morgan's men were favourites

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to win the tournament but they were thrashed by Pakistan

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in their semi-final in Cardiff After eight muggy start it will be

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fresh with a mix of sunshine and showers. I will have a full forecast

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in about 15 minutes. I'm in West London where almost 30

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hours after fire swept through the Grenfell

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Tower behind me. It is shocking, the devastation. In

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the front part you can see some of the smoke emerging. You might have

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seen images last night, it was clear that there were still claims in the

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building. This morning the search

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continues for the scores Many questions remain

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but this is what we do know. Let's take you through some of the

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details. Police have confirmed

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12 people dead so far, but that figure is expected

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to rise significantly. 34 patients remain in hospital

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and 18 are in critical care. Around the area, many people have

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tried to help out, giving those caught up in this accommodation and

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shelter and food and we will have more on that later this morning.

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The official death toll is expected to rise at even so it is outstripped

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by the number of the missing. These are some of their faces. Whole

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families are unaccounted for. Many of them lived on the top floors.

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This woman was searching local hospitals for her friend and three

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children. I don't know if they are alive or dead or if they are in

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hospital or not. Just waiting and hoping. As dusk fell nearly 18 hours

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after the blaze started there were still pockets of fire in the tower

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block. The Prime Minister has promised a full enquiry into why so

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many lives were lost. Of course, once the scene is secure, once the

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recovery is complete, then investigation will take place into

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the cause of the fire and if there are any lessons to be learned.

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Witnesses say the fire spread rapidly, apparently through the new

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cladding on the outside of the block installed only last year. This fire

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expert showed how the foam insulation used in some cladding can

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catch fire. The actual rigid board installation that I believe is most

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likely to have been used is made from the same material,

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polyurethanes. I am now setting fire to this and this is the rate at

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which it earns. That is very, very rapid and this is a typical material

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used for insulating external buildings. The firm that carried out

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the refurbishment said it had met all building control fire regulation

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and health and safety standards. A later statement removed the section

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about making fire regulations. The government is sufficiently worried

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to order checks on any tower blocks that have gone through a similar

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refurbishment. Some residents of Grenfell Tower had to resort to

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ropes made of blankets and sheets to escape the burning building. There

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are many questions to be answered - why was there system? Did the fire

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alarms work? Is the policy the right advice? There are 4000 tower blocks

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in the UK. This terrible fire will cause a fundamental rethink about

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the safety of high-rise living. We will address those safety

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concerns through the programme this morning and try to answer the

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questions many people have. One of the features of what happened is how

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quickly the local community and people from further afield

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volunteered to help. When something as horrific as this

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happens you either feel despair and hopelessness or you rise above with

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optimism and a sense of community to come together and support each

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other. That has been personified here by the community. They have

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really come out for each other not just by donating what they have in

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their homes in terms of food and clothing but also being here for the

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community to provide the moral and spiritual support. We are here to

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provide aid, tackling food security and providing help with provisions.

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Blankets and essential resources to support communities - they soon

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desperately need the support. Me and my son went through the whole house,

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clothes, trainers, shoes, pyjamas, anything I could find that I don't

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need that sits there I have packed up and brought down.

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Those people arriving during the early hours of the morning. And I

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can tell you arriving here today there are -- is so much equipment,

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supplies and blankets and as we arrived people told me that there

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were truckloads arriving in the early hours of the morning and they

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are kept in storage to help the people who need it most. One of the

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places where people are getting assistance is the Westway sports

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centre. We can go now to our

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correspondent Andy Moore. Yes, this is one of three reception

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centres set up last night. It is a giant sports hall and you can see

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Red Cross staff. It is a giant sports hall and mattresses have been

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laid out on the floor to accommodate some people perhaps from Grenfell

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Tower block itself but also those people -30 or 40 homes - around the

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area who were evacuated for fear of the building collapsing or simply

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because it is too close to Grenfell Tower. We have seen that huge

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outpouring of generosity from people and just look at the gifts that have

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been accumulating here in this sports centre. Just down here you

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can see toothpaste, there are piles of water, there are clothes, and

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people have been coming from all over the country to donate gifts

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like this. And also you saw in my report about the missing people.

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Look at this. This was left on a car overnight. This is someone searching

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for Marion last seen on the 19th floor with her mother. Somebody very

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concerned about this missing lady. Some of these people may have been

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traced by now. There is still a lot of concern about a lot of people,

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perhaps dozens of people still missing.

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Thank you very much. We will be investigating those issues around

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safety concerns. And later on we will speak with the Fire Service to

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try to get you the latest in connection with the fatalities and

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casualties. It is so shocking. Look at the smouldering remains. There is

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still smoke emerging from the building itself. It really is

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shocking when you see it so close, as we are this morning. We will

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speak with a fire expert later on to address some of the worries people

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have about the cladding and other issues. For the moment it is back to

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the studio. The Met Police has set up

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an emergency number for anyone Theresa May will meet political

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parties from Northern Ireland today She'll discuss plans to restore

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power-sharing at Stormont, and try to ally growing concerns

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about her attempt to secure the backing of Democratic Unionist

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MPs in parliament. Chris Mason is our

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political correspondent. Good morning. This news was put on

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the backburner yesterday, rightly so, because of events in west

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London. The question now is about the talks, how tricky they might be.

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Good morning. Yes, there was sent at Westminster that the focus rightly

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shouldn't be here yesterday. Nonetheless there are big question

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is, firstly about the devolved government in Northern Ireland, then

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of course the broader context, that was a big issue already, the broader

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context, the deal struck between the Conservatives and the Democratic

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Unionist Party, which has secured tenancies at Westminster in the

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general election last week. The question that is being asked by

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sceptics of the deal, which is yet to be signed off, is can a

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conservative government with the support of the Democratic Unionist

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Party remain entirely impartial in matters of Northern Ireland given it

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will be hooked up with one particular party? Today the Prime

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Minister is inviting five different parties from Northern Ireland into

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Downing Street to discuss the restoration of devolved government

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with some of them making the argument that they are sceptical

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about that connection with the Democratic Unionist Party.

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Discussions with the DUP as far as matters at Westminster are concerned

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continue. We are yet to find out what the deal amounts to. It could

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be a little while before we do. Indeed. Something else that was

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timed quite peculiarly was the announcement by Tim Farron that he

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is stepping down as leader of the Lib Dems and now the question is was

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he pushed or did he jump? It is a good question because they're as

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being pressure on Tim Farron with questions during the general

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election campaign which effectively boiled down to how he squared with

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being a practising Christian with leading the party with the word

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liberal in the title, so there were lots of questions about whether or

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not he thought gay sex was a scene. In the end after repeated

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questioning in which he ducked giving a straight answer he said no

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it wasn't. In his resignation yesterday he said he found it

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impossible to square being a political leader with his religious

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convictions. As far as the timing is concerned, just a couple of hours

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before a senior party official, Lord Patek, said he did not want to

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continue as home affairs spokesman for the Lib Dems because of concerns

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he had over what Tim Farron had said during the campaign -- Lord Paddock.

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I remember speaking with a senior Lib Dem after Tim Farron was

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appointed two years ago who feared that there could be a problem for

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Tim Farron growing his religious beliefs with party politics and

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leadership. In the end that fear then has borne out a couple of years

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later. There will be a leadership race for the Liberal Democrats over

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the summer. We will speak with a Lib Dem MP later on on that subject.

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Thank you for the moment. President Trump is being

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investigated for possible obstruction of justice,

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according to the Washington Post. If confirmed, the move

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by Special Counsel Robert Mueller would mark a turning point

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in the FBI investigation into Russian interference in last

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year's presidential election. Mr Trump's lawyer has called

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the leak of information outrageous, Our North America correspondent

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David Willis sent this report. These latest allegations centre on

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testimony from the former FBI director James Comey, the man Donald

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Trump unceremoniously sacked just a month ago. He gave evidence to

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Congress saying that while he was director of the FBI Mr Trump

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attempted to persuade him to drop the investigation into his former

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National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, a man who was forced to

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resign after it was revealed that he hadn't been wholly truthful about

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the extent of his contact with the Russian Ambassador. Well, Donald

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Trump's lawyer has gone on the attack. He said in a statement the

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FBI leak of information regarding the President is outrageous,

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inexcusable and illegal. But the very suggestion that the president

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of the United States could now be under a criminal enquiry is a

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significant development in this long-running saga.

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The Ministry of Defence says it's investigating an accident involving

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a tank on the Castlemartin firing range in South Pembrokeshire.

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Officials believe a number of people have been injured.

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Castlemartin is the only UK Army range normally available

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The British government needs to do more to improve the well-being

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The international charity has produced a report examining

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whether the world's richest countries are meeting

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internationally-agreed goals for young people.

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It found that while the UK has made progress dealing with teenage

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pregnancy and underage drinking, concerns remain over the number

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of children with poor mental health.

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The days of coming home from a European holiday

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to a whopping great big mobile phone bill are over.

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Good morning. Good morning. This is good news for those who like to go

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abroad to Europe and don't want to pay massive bills for your phone. I

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turn roaming off so I talk to nobody during it. They are being scrapped

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for today. Whatever the package deal is in the UK, you will get that

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whichever EU country you are in. Sorry, a dodgy cold. It means while

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you in those countries, you will not be charged more than at home. But if

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you go for data or text-limiting, you will be charged. It will be the

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same as at home. People are saying, can I get a cheap Spanish provider

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and use it in the UK? They have a way around that. It has to be the

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country you use it in most. It is a home deal. UK news use it abroad and

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not face extra costs. You are talking to a boss later on. What

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about them asking for free EU roaming in packages? You have to be

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more wary of ads. Yes, we could see tariffs go up to account for them.

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Yes. We will talk to you about that later on the end now for the sport.

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England are having to get used to not being part of the party.

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The England cricket captain denied there was any complacency

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from his side, after they were heavily beaten by Pakistan

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They went into the match undefeated and as heavy favourites,

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but were comprehensively outplayed by Pakistan who won

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They will play either Bangladesh or India in Sunday's final.

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Southampton have sacked manager Claude Puel.

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That's despite the Frenchman leading them to the League Cup final

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and securing a respectable eighth place finish in the Premier League.

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Puel only joined the Saints a year ago.

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Manchester United have confirmed the signing of Swedish defender

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Victor Lindelof from Benfica on a four-year deal.

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The fee for the 22-year-old is thought to be around ?30 million.

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And it's been confirmed that the former boxing world

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champion at five different weights, Floyd Mayweather, will take

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on the Ulitmate fighting lightweight champion,

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They'll meet in a bout under normal boxing rules in Las Vegas

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So, McGregor will have to rein it in. In ultimate fighting they can do

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anything. This is boxing. The weather. It has been glorious so

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far this week. Will it continue? We have more summer sunshine in the

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forecast. A muggy night. Through the day, it will turn more fresh.

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Sunshine and scattered showers in some parts of the country as well.

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Today, a cold front working in from the west. A fairly weak front moving

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east but introducing more fresh air coming in off the Atlantic. That

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front brings a band of cloud and drizzly rain in Scotland and Wales

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and down towards the south-west of Wales first thing edging east across

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the country for today. Any country will have a peter off towards the

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south-east. Scattered showers in the north-west. Remaining dry for

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Cornwall, Devon as well. Not as warm as yesterday. 17-18. Pleasant.

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Temperatures in eastern England, 24. It will feel more fresh during the

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afternoon when the front moves through. Northern England. One or

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two showers breaking through the afternoon. Still some sunshine.

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Scotland, the afternoon, scattered showers. Some could be quite sharp

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and heavy with gusting winds at times as well. Northern Ireland,

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blustery showers this afternoon. Temperatures in the mid- and

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possibly high teens. In Wales, lots to come through. One or two showers

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towards the north. Not a bad day to come. Showers in northern areas fade

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away through the evening. Largely dry this evening and overnight for

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many parts of the country. And with that fresh air around, it will be

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more comfortable. This coming night, lows of around 12-13. Five degrees

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cooler than it is this morning. Tomorrow, cloud and outbreaks of

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rain across parts of western Scotland in particular. Elsewhere,

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dry weather coming through the day to borrow. Warming up the

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temperatures on a key upward trend. The weekend. High pressure moves in

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from the south. We will see warm air coming through Saturday. Rain for

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the west and north-west of Scotland. Elsewhere, a dry day to come. Light

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winds. Temperatures on Saturday likely to reach 28 degrees in sunny

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spots. Even warmer by Sunday. There will still be rain in the final

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plots of Scotland. Elsewhere, dry. We are likely to see 30 degrees by

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Sunday. For now, it is back to Charlie.

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Welcome back. We are in the shadow of the devastating fire at this

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tower. There is still smoke rising against the blue sky behind it. A

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shocking scene this morning. What is amazing is all of the people coming

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down the offer assistance. You can see people bringing water and food.

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There are huge piles of duvets and blankets people have brought in

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overnight for those left homeless. Graham Satchell spend some time with

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those keen to help. On the street, people reliving

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the stuff of nightmares, the horror of seeing people jump,

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seeing them trapped at windows. It was terrible because I saw people

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at the top floor moving around, screaming for help and before

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you knew it the fire just Some of those missing

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have now been identified including 12-year-old Jessica

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who lived on the 20th floor. We met Sophie, 11, one

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of her school friends. It is horrible for me to hear

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that they are missing or dead The grief is very

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public as some received But with the grief, a truly

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heartwarming response. Everyone seemed to be carrying

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bags and boxes of water, Churches, mosques and community

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centres inundated with We just got stuck in and it

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has been fantastic. This was a spontaneous response

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but as the day wore on, a sense of anger that the local

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authority was nowhere It is just the community

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doing it by themselves. There is growing anger

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as well about the fire, anger that poor people

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in a council-owned block could have perished and anger that

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warnings were ignored. There is no way that that fire

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should spread that quickly We went with residents and said that

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someone needs to look at it. David Collins says concerns

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he raised about fire safety People trapped in a tower knowing

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that the people who were supposed to look after them did

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not care about them. Debris is everywhere on the ground

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here as questions hang in the air. How could this fire have spread

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so quickly and why did so many die? Those are the questions so many

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people in the area are asking. Graham Fieldhouse is a fire-safety

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expert, and joins me now. Good morning. First of all, many

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people are asking the same question. The speed of the fire took off. What

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are your experts telling you about that? It is unusual. We haven't seen

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a fire takes hold of the external part of a building. When we think

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about fires, we look at the internal not the external. One of the issues

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that came out of Lakmal was some of the external assisting the fire.

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Enquiries were made into that and reports were done. We have another

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enquiry. We want one that will put things forward that are helpful for

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the future so we don't have to go through interviews like this again.

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We need a full enquiry to determine what people knew about the product

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put in. What specification was for the product? What about the people

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looking at the certification? What was specified to be put in the

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property? And the fire doors! One of the interviews yesterday said the

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corridors were very quickly smoke-locked. Can I just tell the

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viewers, but there is a lot of debris around. It is really flaky

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and charred. It is probably the clagging. It will be interesting to

:26:52.:27:04.

find out. This clearly burned in the ferocious fire. It is worth saying

:27:05.:27:10.

even as we are standing here there is a fine layer of dust. You cannot

:27:11.:27:13.

see I'm in West London, where more

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than 24 hours after fire swept through the Grenfell Tower

:30:37.:30:54.

behind me, you can still see smoke And it is interesting, you can see a

:30:55.:31:08.

little more smoke emerging from this side of the building but it is

:31:09.:31:12.

really shocking to see the remains of the 27 story building behind me.

:31:13.:31:18.

Let's take you through the details of what's happening this morning.

:31:19.:31:20.

Police have confirmed 12 people dead so far,

:31:21.:31:22.

but that figure is expected to rise significantly.

:31:23.:31:29.

In terms of those getting at tension and care:

:31:30.:31:31.

34 patients remain in hospital and 18 are in critical care.

:31:32.:31:44.

Many families from the Grenfell Tower

:31:45.:31:46.

and surrounding buildings have spent the night in emergency accommodation

:31:47.:31:48.

When something as horrific as this happens, you either feel despair at

:31:49.:31:59.

and hopelessness or you rise above with optimism and positivity to

:32:00.:32:03.

support each other. That has been personified

:32:04.:32:08.

here by the community. They have really come out for each

:32:09.:32:10.

other not just by donating what they have in their homes

:32:11.:32:13.

in terms of food and clothing but also being here for

:32:14.:32:16.

the community to provide the moral We are here to provide aid,

:32:17.:32:20.

tackling food security and providing help with provisions,

:32:21.:32:25.

blankets and essential resources to support communities that

:32:26.:32:29.

so desperately need the support. Me and my son went through the whole

:32:30.:32:31.

house, clothes, trainers, shoes, pyjamas, anything

:32:32.:32:34.

I could find that I don't need that sits there I have bagged

:32:35.:32:39.

up and brought down. This is a tightly packed residential

:32:40.:32:49.

area and wherever you go people have left signs saying help yourself,

:32:50.:32:53.

there is water and other supplies as well. Alongside the very real anger

:32:54.:33:01.

is emerging more and more. Many people have come along to help those

:33:02.:33:05.

families who are without a home temporarily. Andy Moore is at the

:33:06.:33:10.

Westway Sport Centre just a short distance from where we are now,

:33:11.:33:14.

where some of those people are being helped. Yes, hello, we are

:33:15.:33:22.

underneath the Westway, the road above us, and we are at this

:33:23.:33:26.

basketball court, together with donations, these bags given to

:33:27.:33:29.

people who have lost everything, they are just here and they are

:33:30.:33:32.

being sorted out into various piles that might be useful for the various

:33:33.:33:38.

people. So, we can see over the back some girls clothes, then it would

:33:39.:33:41.

come around over here there are children's toys, over the far side,

:33:42.:33:46.

and then you can see all of these shoes, this is just an example of

:33:47.:33:49.

the generosity that people are bringing along, these gifts for

:33:50.:33:57.

people who have lost their homes and everything in them. Some of those

:33:58.:34:01.

people have stayed in the sports centre over the back, a huge sports

:34:02.:34:05.

hall where mattresses were laid out on the floor and we understand quite

:34:06.:34:10.

a few people were saying their overnight. Some of them were from

:34:11.:34:15.

the tower block itself, others were from the homes around that had been

:34:16.:34:20.

evacuated because of the danger, because they were too close to

:34:21.:34:24.

Grenfell Tower and there are three emergency centres we understand that

:34:25.:34:29.

have been set up. I talked earlier on about people who are missing. We

:34:30.:34:34.

have seen notices posted up with photos of various people put on

:34:35.:34:42.

cars. A lot of people posting these notices trying to find loved ones

:34:43.:34:45.

and it seems dozens are missing and unaccounted for. Thanks very much

:34:46.:34:52.

for that. We will be spending more time with volunteers and those

:34:53.:34:56.

involved in the process. So many people coming down. We were told

:34:57.:35:01.

there were people arriving in the early hours of the morning with

:35:02.:35:04.

truckloads of materials to try to help people. More of that later and

:35:05.:35:08.

we have the latest updates from the Fire Service about the casualties

:35:09.:35:12.

and exactly what the situation is with the building itself as we can

:35:13.:35:15.

see. This morning there is still smoke emerging and late last night

:35:16.:35:22.

in the darkness you could still see the flames and we will have an

:35:23.:35:26.

update a little later on but for the moment it is back to the studio.

:35:27.:35:28.

Thank you. The Met Police has set up

:35:29.:35:31.

an emergency number for anyone Theresa May will meet political

:35:32.:35:34.

parties from Northern Ireland today She'll discuss plans to restore

:35:35.:35:51.

power-sharing at Stormont, and try to allay growing concerns

:35:52.:35:54.

about her attempt to secure the backing of Democratic Unionist

:35:55.:35:57.

MPs in parliament. Meanwhile, Tim Farron says he is

:35:58.:36:08.

stepping down as leader of the Liberal Democrats because he feels

:36:09.:36:11.

torn between his Christian faith and his political duties.

:36:12.:36:14.

During the campaign he was repeatedly asked

:36:15.:36:16.

Mr Farron will stay on as leader until Parliament goes

:36:17.:36:20.

President Trump is being investigated for possible

:36:21.:36:23.

obstruction of justice, according to the Washington Post.

:36:24.:36:25.

If confirmed, the move by Special Counsel Robert Mueller

:36:26.:36:28.

would mark a turning point in the FBI investigation

:36:29.:36:30.

into Russian interference in last year's presidential election.

:36:31.:36:32.

Mr Trump's lawyer has called the leak of information outrageous,

:36:33.:36:35.

Those are the top stories for you and we will keep you up-to-date with

:36:36.:36:50.

the fire at Grenfell Tower in West London through the morning. It is

:36:51.:36:55.

time to turn to the sport with Mike, and not a great result to begin

:36:56.:36:59.

with. Congratulations to Pakistani. Great result for Pakistan. And it

:37:00.:37:06.

could be Pakistan- India a game. They could play in the final --

:37:07.:37:15.

again. A lot of head scratching for England as they have been building

:37:16.:37:18.

up to the tournament for two years, strong favourites to get to the

:37:19.:37:23.

final at least. What happened? In cricket, there is a fine line

:37:24.:37:27.

between success and failure. It can take just a couple of overs and the

:37:28.:37:31.

momentum changes. And the batsmen didn't perform too. Were they

:37:32.:37:34.

complacent? England's cricketers are out

:37:35.:37:36.

of the Champions Trophy, after a crushing defeat to Pakistan

:37:37.:37:40.

in their semi-final. Eoin Morgan's side had been

:37:41.:37:42.

the favourite for the tournament, but struggled on a slow

:37:43.:37:45.

pitch in Cardiff. Jonny Bairstow, who came

:37:46.:37:49.

into the side, hit 43, but wickets tumbled quickly,

:37:50.:37:52.

including Ben Stokes, who went for 34, without

:37:53.:37:54.

hitting a single boundary. England made just 211,

:37:55.:37:58.

which Pakistan knocked off They play either India or Bangladesh

:37:59.:38:00.

in Sunday's final at The Oval. Morgan denied his team

:38:01.:38:06.

had been complacent. We played against some really good

:38:07.:38:19.

sides the recently and we have managed to beat them. That hasn't

:38:20.:38:23.

gone into our heads at all. In today's gang, going in knowing we

:38:24.:38:32.

would play on a used cricket brought Pakistan's gang closer to home --

:38:33.:38:34.

game. Southampton are looking

:38:35.:38:35.

for a new manager, after sacking The Frenchman had

:38:36.:38:38.

spent just one season at St Mary's, but during that

:38:39.:38:42.

time guided the Saints to the League Cup Final,

:38:43.:38:45.

where they were narrowly beaten by Manchester United,

:38:46.:38:48.

and he helped them to finish a respectable eighth

:38:49.:38:50.

in the Premier League. It's been confirmed that the former

:38:51.:38:52.

boxing world champion at five different weights, Floyd Mayweather,

:38:53.:38:55.

will fight the Ultimate Fighting They will meet in a bout

:38:56.:38:58.

in Las Vegas on the 26th of August. 40-year-old Mayweather retired

:38:59.:39:03.

undefeated after winning his 49th straight bout in September 2015,

:39:04.:39:05.

while the 29-year-old Irishman McGregor is the first

:39:06.:39:07.

fighter in the UFC to have held two belts but has never

:39:08.:39:10.

boxed professionally. The contest will take place under

:39:11.:39:12.

normal boxing rules so Mcgregor will have to limit himself

:39:13.:39:15.

to the noble art of just punching. No kicking all getting on the floor,

:39:16.:39:31.

he will just have to stick to punching.

:39:32.:39:36.

Warren Gatland has named Lions team for Saturday's warm-up game and says

:39:37.:39:39.

he's going to keep the All Blacks guessing ahead of their first

:39:40.:39:43.

Johnny Sexton has been preferred to Owen Farrell at fly half

:39:44.:39:46.

for the Lions' clash with the Maori All Blacks in Rotorua.

:39:47.:39:59.

The US Open golf gets under way in Wisconsin this afternoon.

:40:00.:40:02.

Much of the pre-tournament talk has been about the punishing rough,

:40:03.:40:05.

with long grass surrounding many of the fairways.

:40:06.:40:11.

Organisers took the unusual step of cutting some of it back,

:40:12.:40:14.

We have 60 yards from left alone to write line - you have got 156

:40:15.:40:28.

players of the best in the world, if we can't hit it in that avenue we

:40:29.:40:33.

may as well pack our bags and go home -- right. At no, the US Open,

:40:34.:40:38.

supposed to be a tough test and guy Leigh can't play within a 50 yard

:40:39.:40:42.

zone, I don't think they have much to complain about.

:40:43.:40:45.

For most players are ruffled, up to their knees but for me I would

:40:46.:40:50.

struggle to see over the top. It would be over our shoulders,

:40:51.:40:54.

wouldn't it? And the longest course in US Open history. It will be fun

:40:55.:41:04.

to watch. I think so. You. Sarah will bring you up-to-date with the

:41:05.:41:06.

weather for the week ahead shortly. We now know that at least 12 people

:41:07.:41:08.

have died as a result of the fire The cause remains unknown

:41:09.:41:12.

but questions are already being asked about how this

:41:13.:41:15.

could have happened. In 2009 three women and three

:41:16.:41:18.

children were killed in a fire Southwark Council pleaded guilty

:41:19.:41:21.

to four charges relating to safety breaches and lessons were supposed

:41:22.:41:26.

to have been learnt. Professor Kurt Barling

:41:27.:41:28.

is a journalist who investigated the Southwark fire

:41:29.:41:39.

almost eight years ago, and joins me from our

:41:40.:41:41.

London studio. Thank you for joining us. Can you

:41:42.:41:50.

remind us what happened the Lakanal House fire in 2009? It was a

:41:51.:41:55.

terrible incident at Lakanal House, as you said. Six people died. It was

:41:56.:42:00.

a fire which took over effectively a whole block in south London. Of

:42:01.:42:05.

course, there were many lessons at the time that were said to be

:42:06.:42:08.

learnt. Let me run you through a list of what the inquest into the

:42:09.:42:13.

fire said in 2013 in terms of the main questions that needed to be

:42:14.:42:17.

addressed. Why the fire spread so quickly, should there have been

:42:18.:42:20.

alarmed and sprinklers, did renovation affect safety, was the

:42:21.:42:27.

advice to stay put right and what were the implications for other

:42:28.:42:32.

buildings? What is tragic today is that exactly the same questions are

:42:33.:42:35.

being asked about this fire yesterday. Frankly, it can be

:42:36.:42:41.

described as nothing short of a national scandal that this has been

:42:42.:42:45.

allowed to happen again. After an inquest which looked at so much

:42:46.:42:50.

evidence over 11 weeks in 2013 in Lakanal House, nothing short of a

:42:51.:42:54.

public enquiry will get to the problem of what the problem is with

:42:55.:42:59.

these tower blocks and keeping people safe. There has been a report

:43:00.:43:04.

in plan in government to look at the safety issues, to look at where the

:43:05.:43:09.

sprinklers should be put in place, to look at how when a fire takes

:43:10.:43:14.

place, it should be contained. Why hasn't this moved on, why haven't we

:43:15.:43:17.

seen developments? There are lots of people in the fire safety business

:43:18.:43:22.

who say that the department of communities and the government have

:43:23.:43:26.

dragged their feet. It has to be said, four years on from a really

:43:27.:43:32.

important inquest into a really tragic fire in which six people lost

:43:33.:43:37.

their lives, the same questions being asked - people are right to

:43:38.:43:43.

ask why nothing has been done substantially to prevent this

:43:44.:43:47.

happening again. You see, we have all seen, pictures of the fire

:43:48.:43:51.

yesterday. We have seen how quickly the fire spread. On the 10pm news

:43:52.:43:56.

last night you could still see the glowing fire. That is 22 hours after

:43:57.:44:02.

the fire started. You have to ask yourself the question, the public

:44:03.:44:05.

authorities have a principal responsibility to protect life, to

:44:06.:44:10.

protect the citizen. Clearly this building has failed and the systems

:44:11.:44:15.

put in place to prevent fire in tower blocks has failed too. The

:44:16.:44:21.

evidence is there for all of us to see. The time for talking is over.

:44:22.:44:26.

The time for action has started. Thank you very much for joining us

:44:27.:44:31.

this morning on Breakfast. The time now is coming up to 6:45am and of

:44:32.:44:37.

course the Grenfell Tower fire is the top story this morning and the

:44:38.:44:40.

search continues for dozens of missing people after the London

:44:41.:44:44.

tower block fire which has so far claimed 12 lives. And anger is

:44:45.:44:49.

growing over whether safety concerns were ignored. The Prime Minister has

:44:50.:44:53.

promised a full investigation into why the blaze spread so quickly.

:44:54.:45:04.

We are in West London keeping you up-to-date on that all day. Bye for

:45:05.:45:23.

now, the weather. Is the warm weather going to last? Yes. It will

:45:24.:45:33.

turn hot. For today, after the muggy start, more fresh. A respite in heat

:45:34.:45:39.

and humidity. A fresh feel developing with sunshine and

:45:40.:45:43.

scattered showers. Fresh weather will be drawn in by this weather

:45:44.:45:47.

front heading in from the west. That is introducing that Atlantic in it.

:45:48.:45:56.

Scattered showers. This band of cloud is going east across much of

:45:57.:46:01.

the country. Rainfall disappearing by the time it gets to eastern

:46:02.:46:06.

England. By this afternoon, sunshine and some of us will see scattered

:46:07.:46:12.

showers. Remaining dry across the south-west of England. Not as warm

:46:13.:46:17.

as yesterday. A pleasant day. 17-18. Temperatures around 24 in East

:46:18.:46:24.

Anglia and the south-east. More fresh and less humid during the

:46:25.:46:28.

afternoon with sunshine. Scattered showers developing in parts of

:46:29.:46:30.

northern England, especially the north-west. Scotland as well.

:46:31.:46:35.

Frequent showers by this afternoon. Sunshine in between. The odd sharp

:46:36.:46:42.

shower and thunder around. Show Northern Ireland will be heavy at

:46:43.:46:45.

times and blustery as well with gusty winds. Equally, dry weather.

:46:46.:46:52.

Wales. Showers in the north. Much of Wales a king dry and bright. --

:46:53.:46:58.

looking. Showers easing the way for a time to be showery rain continuing

:46:59.:47:03.

in the far north-west overnight. More dry and comfortable for

:47:04.:47:07.

sleeping. Overnight, temperatures down to 12 - 14. Five degrees lower

:47:08.:47:14.

than this morning first thing. The next morning, dry and settled.

:47:15.:47:19.

Outbreaks of rain in Northern Ireland initially entered the

:47:20.:47:23.

Scotland as well. Elsewhere, dry and fine. 23- 24. High pressure holding

:47:24.:47:31.

on through Friday night and the weekend. That sets the scene for a

:47:32.:47:39.

warm and largely dry weekend. Blustery winds in the north.

:47:40.:47:43.

Elsewhere, warm and dry up 28 degrees on Saturday. Sunday, wet

:47:44.:47:49.

weather in the far north-west. Elsewhere, dry and pretty hot. By

:47:50.:47:54.

the time it hits Sunday, it could be dirty degrees. Those are colossal

:47:55.:47:58.

temperatures! -- 30 degrees. The days of bringing back a massive

:47:59.:48:04.

mobile bill from a European holiday From today roaming charges

:48:05.:48:08.

are being dropped across the EU. This is good news for anyone who

:48:09.:48:19.

wants to use their phone abroad but is worried about costs in the EU.

:48:20.:48:21.

New rules come into force today which mean if you travel to an EU

:48:22.:48:25.

country and use your mobile phone you'll be charged the same

:48:26.:48:28.

And you won't be hit with extra charges for making calls,

:48:29.:48:34.

sending texts, or using data on-line, as long as it's

:48:35.:48:36.

These new rules have been a long time in the making,

:48:37.:48:41.

after years of complaints that customers have been getting ripped

:48:42.:48:44.

Dave Dysone is the Chief Executive of the mobile network,

:48:45.:48:48.

Good morning to you. Good morning. What are the caveats? Today is a big

:48:49.:48:59.

day for everyone, including mobile operators. They have been told they

:49:00.:49:05.

are not allowed to charge anything extra when customers travel to the

:49:06.:49:11.

EU and destinations within it. It is as simple as that. There are

:49:12.:49:16.

questions being raised in terms of the surrounding area, like Norway.

:49:17.:49:20.

There is a little bit of confusion in terms of what is included and

:49:21.:49:29.

what not. Broadly speaking, it is good for consumers. It allows them

:49:30.:49:35.

to use their phone as if it is in the UK. Many people have it as the

:49:36.:49:40.

first thing they look at in the morning in the last thing before

:49:41.:49:47.

bed. And this is something you brought in. You abolished extra

:49:48.:49:52.

roaming charges in several countries several years ago. Have you had to

:49:53.:49:57.

increase tariffs? You have lost revenue. We have not. We have

:49:58.:50:04.

offered this for a long time. The approach to this has been first of

:50:05.:50:08.

all research where customers travel overseas the most. We talked to

:50:09.:50:14.

overseas operators whose networks customers go to. We negotiate prices

:50:15.:50:19.

and pass those on to customers. Right now, we have 60 destinations

:50:20.:50:24.

that are included including Europe and countries outside of it, popular

:50:25.:50:30.

destinations like the USA, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand.

:50:31.:50:39.

That means we don't have to put prices up. You did put prices up by

:50:40.:50:46.

2.6% in May. That is in line with the RPI measure of inflation. That

:50:47.:50:52.

measure of inflation has been discredited recently with people

:50:53.:50:58.

saying the CPI is better. That is lower, 1.8%. Why did you use the

:50:59.:51:04.

higher one? It is referenced in the terms and conditions. We stuck with

:51:05.:51:14.

what people were being charged. We were set for the previous five-year

:51:15.:51:18.

period. It was effectively applying what we said we would do. Otherwise

:51:19.:51:23.

it would be more confusing for customers. Security as well. Your

:51:24.:51:28.

network has experienced problems with cyber security. A couple of

:51:29.:51:35.

months ago, there was a fresh data breach. People going on the accounts

:51:36.:51:39.

had call histories and names of strangers. This is an issue for

:51:40.:51:53.

everyone We are investing a lot of time and effort to make sure we

:51:54.:51:57.

protect customers' information the way they want. It is a complex

:51:58.:52:05.

issue. But one that is increasingly important. I understand that from

:52:06.:52:11.

talking to other CEOs. Everyone is investing the right time and

:52:12.:52:15.

attention to making sure we keep them safe. Thank you for your time.

:52:16.:52:22.

The CEO of Three. Over the last few months on BBC

:52:23.:52:24.

Breakfast we've had to report some harrowing news, including

:52:25.:52:27.

yesterday's fire at Grenfell Tower Of course, we will continue

:52:28.:52:29.

coverage of that. But we also wanted to bring

:52:30.:52:33.

you something else this morning. It's a story that might bring

:52:34.:52:36.

a smile to your face. As part of the BBC's Music Day,

:52:37.:52:39.

we wanted to show you one project that's making a difference

:52:40.:52:42.

to hospital patients and the medical Our entertainment correspondent,

:52:43.:52:45.

Colin Paterson, has been This is not how a hospital high

:52:46.:53:01.

dependency unit normally sounds. But at the Manchester Royal Infirmary,

:53:02.:53:14.

it is becoming a regular event. Since last July, professional

:53:15.:53:19.

musicians have been brought into play for patients. And it is easy to

:53:20.:53:31.

see the sheer joy it brings. I found myself in an intensive care unit,

:53:32.:53:36.

and I found that experience quite traumatising. It was the idea of

:53:37.:53:43.

Helen especially Taylor. She had only a TV set. I felt alive again.

:53:44.:53:52.

It was transformative. I did not think about my condition, I did not

:53:53.:53:57.

feel any pain. It was quite incredible how they helped me. It

:53:58.:54:01.

was all I could talk about when I left the hospital. Already a

:54:02.:54:04.

volunteer for music in hospitals, she decided to set up ICUHere, to

:54:05.:54:11.

take music into intensive care units. It has proven a big hit. It

:54:12.:54:21.

is soothing. It is good for you. It is making a difference. I don't want

:54:22.:54:31.

to stereotype you, but you are a motorcycle rider and you have

:54:32.:54:38.

tattoos, do you like hard rock? No. And the staff approved of the

:54:39.:54:48.

musical companies. It is relaxing and helps. The day after terror

:54:49.:54:59.

attacks, she helped out in the way she could, by playing in intensive

:55:00.:55:07.

care. I know this can be quite settling for the staff. Sometimes

:55:08.:55:12.

they come it is they need. I come in if it is appropriate. One of the

:55:13.:55:16.

nurses said it was a horrible week and it is just what they needed. And

:55:17.:55:24.

one patient Jacqueline, told me having music played by her bedside

:55:25.:55:31.

and make her holds a better. To me, music is really good for healing. --

:55:32.:55:43.

her whole day better. How powerful is music? It can move mountains and

:55:44.:55:50.

change hearts. And it can do wonders. Colin Paterson, BBC News,

:55:51.:55:59.

Manchester Royal Infirmary. Colin there, hearing about the power

:56:00.:56:00.

of music as part of BBC Music Day. You can find out more about events

:56:01.:56:04.

that are happening where you live 12 people are known to have

:56:05.:56:08.

died, but the death toll Dozens of families have spent

:56:09.:56:32.

the night sleeping in temporary accommodation or shelters-

:56:33.:56:40.

some who were evacuated That is for those affected

:56:41.:56:42.

by the Grenfell Tower fire. Hello, this is Breakfast,

:56:43.:59:39.

with Charlie Stayt in West London. The desperate search

:59:40.:00:15.

continues to find the missing Over 24 hours on from the blaze,

:00:16.:00:18.

12 people are known to have died. Scores more are still

:00:19.:00:27.

unaccounted for. We don't know if they are alive

:00:28.:00:32.

or dead or if they are in The Prime Minister promises a full

:00:33.:00:36.

investigation onto the causes On the ground there's anger that

:00:37.:00:39.

warnings may have been ignored. There will have been people trapped

:00:40.:00:43.

in that tower knowing that the people who were supposed

:00:44.:00:47.

to look after them didn't Many spend the night

:00:48.:00:49.

in emergency shelters, as the community pull together

:00:50.:00:54.

to support people left without homes On Breakfast today: We'll bring

:00:55.:00:57.

you the latest on the fire and we'll be asking how a tragedy like this

:00:58.:01:20.

could have struck in the heart Also this morning: Liberal Democrat

:01:21.:01:24.

leader Tim Farron steps down from the post saying he's "torn"

:01:25.:01:29.

between his Christian faith We'll speak to one

:01:30.:01:32.

of his colleagues. The days of coming home to a big

:01:33.:01:41.

mobile bill after a European holiday From today, roaming charges

:01:42.:01:45.

are being dropped across the EU. In sport, England's hopes of winning

:01:46.:01:49.

the Champions Trophy are over. Eoin Morgan's men were favourites

:01:50.:01:54.

to win the tournament but they were thrashed by Pakistan

:01:55.:01:56.

in their semi-final in Cardiff It will be fresh with a mix

:01:57.:01:59.

of sunshine and showers. I will have a full forecast

:02:00.:02:14.

in about 15 minutes. I'm in West London where

:02:15.:02:17.

30 hours after fire swept through the Grenfell Tower

:02:18.:02:24.

behind me, you can still see smoke rising from the building

:02:25.:02:27.

and the fire services at work And there is no escaping how

:02:28.:02:40.

shocking the image is of the charred remains of the 24 story building and

:02:41.:02:46.

let me take you through the latest information we have in terms of the

:02:47.:02:48.

fatalities and casualties. Police have confirmed

:02:49.:02:50.

12 people dead so far, but that figure is expected

:02:51.:02:52.

to rise significantly. 34 patients remain in hospital

:02:53.:02:55.

and 18 are in critical care. Now, what we know locally is so many

:02:56.:03:08.

people have gathered around to bring help and offer accommodation and

:03:09.:03:12.

shelter to those who have been caught up in this. Andy Moore has

:03:13.:03:14.

the latest. The official death toll

:03:15.:03:17.

is expected to rise, but even so it;s outstripped

:03:18.:03:20.

by the number of the missing. Many of them lived

:03:21.:03:23.

on the top floors. This woman was searching local

:03:24.:03:30.

hospitals for her friend I don't know if they're alive

:03:31.:03:33.

or dead or if they're As dusk fell nearly 18 hours

:03:34.:03:41.

after the blaze started, there were still pockets of fire

:03:42.:03:50.

inside the tower block. The Prime Minister has promised

:03:51.:03:54.

there would be a full enquiry Of course, once the scene is secure,

:03:55.:03:57.

once the recovery is complete, then an investigation will take

:03:58.:04:02.

place into the cause of the fire and if there are any

:04:03.:04:05.

lessons to be learned. Witnesses say the fire

:04:06.:04:10.

spread rapidly, apparently through the new cladding

:04:11.:04:14.

on the outside of the block This fire expert showed how the foam

:04:15.:04:16.

insulation used in some cladding The actual rigid-board installation

:04:17.:04:20.

that I believe is most likely to have been used is made

:04:21.:04:27.

from the same material, I'm now setting fire to this

:04:28.:04:29.

and this is the rate That is very, very rapid and this

:04:30.:04:35.

is a typical material used The firm that carried out

:04:36.:04:39.

the refurbishment said it had met all building control fire regulation

:04:40.:04:51.

and health and safety standards. A later statement removed

:04:52.:04:54.

the section about meeting fire The government is sufficiently

:04:55.:04:56.

worried to order checks on any tower blocks that have gone

:04:57.:05:01.

through a similar refurbishment. Some residents of Grenfell Tower had

:05:02.:05:03.

to resort to ropes made of blankets and sheets to escape

:05:04.:05:07.

the burning building. There are many questions to be

:05:08.:05:18.

answered: Why wasn't Is the statehood policy

:05:19.:05:21.

the right advice? There are 4000 tower

:05:22.:05:25.

blocks in the UK. This terrible fire will cause

:05:26.:05:27.

a fundamental rethink about the safety

:05:28.:05:30.

of high-rise living. Later on, we will be discussing some

:05:31.:05:43.

of those questions that have been asked and it is definitely true that

:05:44.:05:47.

there is a growing sense of anger locally about how this building was

:05:48.:05:50.

built and we will be addressing some of those issues later on but walking

:05:51.:05:55.

around here, as you walk around the busy buildup area, everywhere you

:05:56.:06:00.

walk you see little signs on walls offering people assistance, bottles

:06:01.:06:03.

of water, please yourself. Just around the corner from where we are

:06:04.:06:08.

is the Westway Sport Centre, that is where many families are being helped

:06:09.:06:15.

and Andy is here for us now. Yes, good morning, Charlie. I am

:06:16.:06:18.

actually on a basketball court that has been turned into a clearing

:06:19.:06:23.

space for some of the donations. Just look over my shoulder. Lots of

:06:24.:06:27.

clothing, women's clothing has been piled up and sorted out, and on the

:06:28.:06:31.

other side of defence you can see hundreds of water bottles that have

:06:32.:06:37.

been provided. -- defence. A huge outpouring of generosity. One of

:06:38.:06:44.

them is this man from the Sikh welfare - what have you been able to

:06:45.:06:50.

do? We came here early in the day yesterday, we brought a van full of

:06:51.:06:55.

water, clothing, food, and other essentials that we thought we needed

:06:56.:07:00.

here, so we were here yesterday with volunteers. What made you come down?

:07:01.:07:06.

It is on our doorstep and when something like this happens, you

:07:07.:07:11.

want to see if you can do anything. When we came, there was mayhem,

:07:12.:07:16.

people running around trying to get anything they can to find out - you

:07:17.:07:20.

know, they are putting up people's names that they have lost, has

:07:21.:07:26.

anyone seen them, so if we could help one person it is a different.

:07:27.:07:30.

As we look around we can see piles of donations - what is needed now,

:07:31.:07:36.

is more still needed? I don't think we need more clothing, I think we

:07:37.:07:39.

need more essentials. I think first of all we need to try to rehouse

:07:40.:07:44.

these people. There are empty houses in London. There must be somewhere

:07:45.:07:49.

to rehouse these people. Once all of this razzmatazz is finished, that is

:07:50.:07:53.

when the work will start. Where are people going to go after this? They

:07:54.:07:58.

have lost people, people have died, so they need to start trying to

:07:59.:08:01.

rebuild this life that they have lost. Thank you very much. The

:08:02.:08:07.

message perhaps an off donations, cash donations might be more useful

:08:08.:08:13.

now. Charlie. Thank you very much. So, we will

:08:14.:08:17.

pick up on some of those issues many locally are raising, the safety

:08:18.:08:21.

issues on the cladding and about how the fire spread, we will speak with

:08:22.:08:27.

a chartered surveyor, someone who knows the building well. And we will

:08:28.:08:31.

speak with the Fire Service to update everyone on the situation,

:08:32.:08:36.

including the fire officers who were involved in the heroics as they

:08:37.:08:40.

tried to get people out of the blaze. For the moment, though, from

:08:41.:08:43.

here it is back to the studio. Thank you.

:08:44.:08:45.

The Met Police has set up an emergency number for anyone

:08:46.:08:48.

Let's get some reaction from Westminster on the tragic

:08:49.:08:59.

Our political correspondent Chris Mason joins us.

:09:00.:09:09.

Unsurprisingly, there are questions about safety now being asked. Labour

:09:10.:09:17.

is asking the questions, we are asking these questions. What is the

:09:18.:09:21.

governments reaction to this? The striking things politically about

:09:22.:09:25.

this is that yet again politics had to pause yesterday, yet again

:09:26.:09:30.

politicians have been reflecting on the incredible work of the emergency

:09:31.:09:35.

services. And then of course the question to come in the direction of

:09:36.:09:38.

Westminster and political leaders about what they have done up until

:09:39.:09:43.

now and what they can do in the future. So there was agreement as

:09:44.:09:47.

you would expect from politicians about the scale of the horror and

:09:48.:09:53.

how horrendous that was, and also the work of the emergency services.

:09:54.:09:59.

And then Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader, pressing specifically on

:10:00.:10:01.

funding for local government, and whether cutbacks in funding may have

:10:02.:10:08.

had... May have been a contributing factor. The other question on the

:10:09.:10:12.

specifics relates to a review of regulations into fire safety that

:10:13.:10:17.

was promised by the government, in fact, promised by the man who is now

:10:18.:10:22.

the chief of staff to the Prime Minister, Gavin Barwell, a former

:10:23.:10:26.

Housing Minister. There have been suggestions from somebody doesn't

:10:27.:10:29.

come along because the government was keen on cutting back on

:10:30.:10:33.

regulations and red tape rather than adding to them. The line from the

:10:34.:10:39.

government department responsible, the Department for Communities and

:10:40.:10:42.

Local Government, is they are still looking at the review of existing

:10:43.:10:47.

regulations. There has been no attempt to prevent them from being

:10:48.:10:51.

published. Those questions remain and we will talk about that later on

:10:52.:10:55.

as well on Breakfast. There is politics going on as well. There is

:10:56.:11:00.

a government to be formed by Theresa May in terms of a majority

:11:01.:11:03.

government. And there has been a resignation? Yes, so, plenty of

:11:04.:11:10.

politics, something of a pause button for obvious reasons

:11:11.:11:13.

yesterday, though not entirely, given what went on last week in the

:11:14.:11:18.

general election. What is happening today is the Prime Minister is

:11:19.:11:22.

inviting in five political parties from Northern Ireland, all of this

:11:23.:11:28.

trying to ensure that devolved government can return to Northern

:11:29.:11:31.

Ireland after the collapse of that earlier this year. That is a big

:11:32.:11:35.

deal of itself but it is complicated by the fact that the Conservatives

:11:36.:11:39.

are also talking to Northern Ireland's UUP about a deal to ensure

:11:40.:11:45.

Theresa May can be propped up in Downing Street -- DUP. And some feel

:11:46.:11:51.

that deal cannot mean the government can be impartial about matters

:11:52.:11:55.

relating to Northern Ireland. And Tim Farron, leader of the Lib Dems,

:11:56.:11:59.

is resigning. He says he doesn't feel that he can combine his

:12:00.:12:03.

committed Christianity with leading the Liberal Democrats. Lots of

:12:04.:12:08.

difficult questions for him on that during the campaign and the Liberal

:12:09.:12:11.

Democrats didn't make a vast amount of progress in the general election

:12:12.:12:15.

either. He will stand down in month and there will be a leadership race

:12:16.:12:20.

over the summer. Thank you very much for the moment.

:12:21.:12:22.

President Trump is being investigated for possible

:12:23.:12:24.

obstruction of justice, according to the Washington Post.

:12:25.:12:26.

If confirmed, the move by Special Counsel Robert Mueller

:12:27.:12:28.

would mark a turning point in the FBI investigation

:12:29.:12:31.

into Russian interference in last year's presidential election.

:12:32.:12:33.

Mr Trump's lawyer has called the leak of information "outrageous,

:12:34.:12:36.

The Ministry of Defence says it's investigating an accident involving

:12:37.:12:44.

a tank on the Castlemartin firing range in South Pembrokeshire.

:12:45.:12:47.

Officials believe a number of people have been injured.

:12:48.:12:49.

Castlemartin is the only UK Army range normally available

:12:50.:12:52.

There's good news for mobile phone users,

:12:53.:13:04.

-- the Bank of England is deciding today on whether to raise interest

:13:05.:13:09.

rates. Will it follow the footsteps in the US? We have been talking for

:13:10.:13:14.

years about how low interest rates have been and so what you have is a

:13:15.:13:18.

group of economists from Monetary Policy Committee who will meet

:13:19.:13:21.

monthly and look at what's going on in the economy and work out whether

:13:22.:13:25.

they need to increase or decrease the bank base rate in order to

:13:26.:13:29.

change how much we pay for when we borrow money and when we save money.

:13:30.:13:36.

For a long time now it has been at 0.25% since last year but for a long

:13:37.:13:40.

time you're looking at least eight years that it has been historically

:13:41.:13:46.

low, whereas if you compare that to America they have put up interest

:13:47.:13:49.

rates and that is because they feel quite confident about how the

:13:50.:13:53.

economy is going. They think things are picking up so they should

:13:54.:14:00.

increase interest rates. It is the rate that they have at the moment

:14:01.:14:07.

that is between 1% and 1.25%. This is the second time they have done

:14:08.:14:11.

that recently and they expect to do it before Christmas, so people are

:14:12.:14:14.

wondering if we will do it too? It is unlikely because our economy,

:14:15.:14:23.

economists feel, it isn't as strong. It is an interesting point because

:14:24.:14:27.

we often look to America to look what difference it will make for us.

:14:28.:14:31.

Interesting that the economies are so diverging in some sense. Thank

:14:32.:14:33.

you. -- diverted. There's good news for

:14:34.:14:35.

mobile phone users, a European Union law to abolish

:14:36.:14:40.

roaming charges for people using mobile phones abroad

:14:41.:14:42.

comes into force today. The new rules mean that citizens

:14:43.:14:44.

travelling within the EU will be able to call,

:14:45.:14:47.

text and browse the internet on mobile devices at the same

:14:48.:14:50.

price they pay at home. But consumer group "Which?"

:14:51.:14:53.

warns phone users could face if they exceed their

:14:54.:14:55.

plan allowances. Questions are being asked about how

:14:56.:15:18.

the Grenfell Tower fire became so devastating so quickly. We have been

:15:19.:15:24.

told it broke out on the fourth floor but we don't know the cause.

:15:25.:15:29.

People were told it should be contained and it did not. It raises

:15:30.:15:33.

the question, how did it spread so quickly? Some have pointed to the

:15:34.:15:38.

cladding on the outside of the building, but the fire protection

:15:39.:15:41.

agency says when it is properly fitted, it had actually resist fire.

:15:42.:15:50.

There are also questions about how it was fitted. It did not have a

:15:51.:15:55.

sprinkler system as it was built in 1974. There are no legal requirement

:15:56.:16:04.

for them. So, was the advice to stay put correct? Biosafety specialists

:16:05.:16:11.

have told us you need to keep escape routes free of smoke. However, it

:16:12.:16:17.

spread quickly into the escape routes. How have other buildings

:16:18.:16:23.

been affected? It is not the first. In 2009, six people died and

:16:24.:16:33.

apartment block caught fire in Southwark. We can talk to the chair

:16:34.:16:45.

of a fire safety rescue group. Thank you for joining me this morning.

:16:46.:16:48.

What do you think went wrong with yellow this is the most terrible

:16:49.:16:53.

tragedy. My heart goes out to those affected. It is the wrong time for

:16:54.:16:58.

me to point the finger of blame. But our committee was wise before, not

:16:59.:17:09.

after, the event, and have argued time after time sprinklers need to

:17:10.:17:13.

be installed. There should never have happened. The coroner in 2013

:17:14.:17:18.

said after the Lakanal disaster, sprinklers should be fitted

:17:19.:17:22.

retrospectively. Also, we have waited 11 years for these

:17:23.:17:27.

regulations. The Housing Minister at the time, Gavin Barwell, now Theresa

:17:28.:17:34.

May's Chief of Staff, he was in charge. Have you heard anything from

:17:35.:17:39.

him? These changes did not happen under his watch. Well, it is too

:17:40.:17:47.

early to say precisely what has gone on year. You have only got to look

:17:48.:17:57.

to see we have made countless speeches that sprinklers should be

:17:58.:18:02.

fitted. It is absolutely madness that it is not mandatory. It is

:18:03.:18:11.

impossible to put any amount of money on someone's life. It isn't

:18:12.:18:15.

just this minister or the one before him. It has been very frustrating

:18:16.:18:21.

for our committee. It has taken a tragedy like this to get some

:18:22.:18:24.

attention on the whole issue of sprinklers. I am delighted there

:18:25.:18:30.

will be a proper audit of the 4000 tower blocks. Local authorities and

:18:31.:18:33.

housing associations must immediately make sure all tower

:18:34.:18:39.

blocks have proper safety precautions in place. You have to be

:18:40.:18:42.

delighted after something like this has had to happen and something like

:18:43.:18:46.

this has happened under a Conservative government which you

:18:47.:18:50.

are saying has not committed to the recommendations, safety

:18:51.:18:52.

recommendations, of the people of this country. Well, these

:18:53.:19:02.

recommendations go back to not this government, not the one before, but

:19:03.:19:07.

the one before that. But it is your government that has not reacted to a

:19:08.:19:11.

report in 2013. I apologise for interrupting. It is well to look

:19:12.:19:16.

back, but you have been in charge since 2010. This happened in 2017 in

:19:17.:19:23.

a city dwelling after a report four years ago has not been put in place.

:19:24.:19:30.

Time after time having meetings with officials I think they have been

:19:31.:19:34.

drawn on the fact that the number of deaths have dramatically declined as

:19:35.:19:38.

a result of fires. We warned them something like this would happen. I

:19:39.:19:41.

simply don't understand why no action was taken. I think in time we

:19:42.:19:47.

will get a proper explanation exactly why the decision was taken

:19:48.:19:53.

so long ago not to immediately make sure that local authorities were

:19:54.:19:59.

given the option of retrospectively fitting sprinklers. But I think at

:20:00.:20:05.

the moment I don't want to make matters worse as far as families are

:20:06.:20:11.

concerned. I think we have to wait until there is a full investigation

:20:12.:20:15.

and we do all we possibly can to support the families who are now in

:20:16.:20:19.

absolute despair and still looking for their loved ones. One can only

:20:20.:20:23.

imagine for those families, yes, the situation cannot be made worse

:20:24.:20:27.

because they have lost loved ones, homes, everything. Why are our

:20:28.:20:32.

question is not being made to the former Housing Minister, Gavin

:20:33.:20:36.

Barwell, the Chief of Staff, who has the ear of Theresa May. Why has he

:20:37.:20:41.

not said anything? Have you talked to him? Why has he had such in

:20:42.:20:45.

action? Of course, Parliament has not got together yet. We don't even

:20:46.:20:51.

have a government at the moment. Mr Speaker announced to the House

:20:52.:20:57.

yesterday that the new minister, Nick Heard, was available to discuss

:20:58.:21:04.

the problem with colleagues. She made the immediate announcement she

:21:05.:21:07.

would do everything she can to help the families. I am of no doubt at

:21:08.:21:12.

all that as a matter of urgency, the end her team are trying to get to

:21:13.:21:21.

the bottom of what has happened. -- the Prime Minister and her team. But

:21:22.:21:25.

I don't want to point the finger at anyone. I want to say this is awful

:21:26.:21:29.

and has taken a tragedy to get attention on this issue, that

:21:30.:21:34.

sprinklers save lives and you cannot put any price on someone's life.

:21:35.:21:45.

Thank you. Chairman of the Fire Safety Group.

:21:46.:21:47.

And now for the weather. Quite a warm and muggy start to the day.

:21:48.:21:59.

Through the day, some respite from the heat and humidity. Feeling quite

:22:00.:22:02.

fresh, especially in the west. Sunshine and showers today. The

:22:03.:22:07.

fresh feel is down to the fact we have a cold front working eased

:22:08.:22:12.

through the day allowing fresh air from the Atlantic. That front is

:22:13.:22:16.

bringing a band of cloud with drizzly rain going east. Much of it

:22:17.:22:23.

disappearing by East Anglia and the south-east late in the day. Sunny

:22:24.:22:27.

spells for many of us to be showers in the north-west of the country.

:22:28.:22:31.

Remaining dry. Sunshine for the south-west of England and the south

:22:32.:22:36.

coast. Temperature is not as warm as they were yesterday. 17-18 the

:22:37.:22:43.

south-west. Heading our way further north, more cloud in the Midlands

:22:44.:22:48.

and northern England, the chance of the odd shower developing in the

:22:49.:22:52.

afternoon. More showers in Scotland. Some in the heavy side. The odd

:22:53.:22:57.

rumble of thunder mixed in. Sunshine between those blustery showers.

:22:58.:23:02.

Gusty winds for a time across Northern Ireland. Feeling fresh.

:23:03.:23:07.

Sunny spells and scattered showers. Some showers in the north of Wales.

:23:08.:23:12.

Much of Wales, a dry picture in the afternoon. This evening. Showers in

:23:13.:23:17.

the north go away. Largely dry overnight. Not as hot and muggy as

:23:18.:23:24.

recent nights. First thing tomorrow, temperatures, 12-13. Five degrees

:23:25.:23:29.

more cool than the date. Through tomorrow, largely dry through the

:23:30.:23:35.

country. Cloudy in the north-west. Moving to Scotland through the day.

:23:36.:23:41.

England and Wales in that sunshine, feeling quite pleasant. Temperatures

:23:42.:23:46.

up to 23 degrees or so. The weekend. High pressure keeping hold of the

:23:47.:23:50.

weather, moving in from the south. Weather fronts in the north-west.

:23:51.:23:54.

Rain on Saturday in the north and west of Scotland. Elsewhere, dry,

:23:55.:23:59.

warm, 28 degrees or so to be warming up even more. 30 degrees by Sunday.

:24:00.:24:10.

Back to Charlie in West London now. We are in the shower of Grenfell

:24:11.:24:14.

Tower. You can see it over my shoulder. Interesting to hear about

:24:15.:24:20.

moment ago. In London, there are something like 700 tower blocks

:24:21.:24:25.

above 11 storeys. Many people are asking questions about safety. We

:24:26.:24:31.

are talking about how people are being looked after.

:24:32.:24:35.

The Reverend Mark O'Donoghue is the area dean of Kensington

:24:36.:24:38.

and has been organising volunteers helping some of those who escaped

:24:39.:24:40.

the fire who are taking shelter at St Celment's church.

:24:41.:24:43.

And Sophie Duncan is a local resident who lives close by who had

:24:44.:24:47.

As soon as you step into this area it is obvious the lengths people are

:24:48.:24:54.

going to help one another. In a terrible situation, there is

:24:55.:24:57.

something to cling on to. Since 330 yesterday morning, churches were

:24:58.:24:58.

opening doors all around. They were doing

:24:59.:25:08.

what Jesus Christ would do, opening doors and giving people some want to

:25:09.:25:14.

talk to and pray with, providing food and water and shelter and just

:25:15.:25:17.

providing somewhere to go into away from the chaos. In these desperate

:25:18.:25:33.

hours with the missing, with those not certain what has happened to

:25:34.:25:37.

loved ones, what can you offer them? Christ-like compassion. Someone to

:25:38.:25:41.

listen to their story. I met a chap, he spent the entire day going centre

:25:42.:25:49.

to centre looking for his family. He had been so busy he did not stop all

:25:50.:25:55.

day. I asked if it would help if I prayed with him. He was grateful for

:25:56.:26:01.

that. Has been resolved? We have not yet heard. I hope he finds his two

:26:02.:26:09.

friends. I hope they are safe and well. But he is still looking. In

:26:10.:26:15.

among the compassion, a lot of anger as well. That is focusing on

:26:16.:26:19.

specific decisions about the building we can see still

:26:20.:26:24.

smouldering behind us, the cladding, the reason why it spread so quickly.

:26:25.:26:31.

What can you tell us? Earlier on today we saw stuff everywhere. This

:26:32.:26:38.

is quite likely to be from the external cladding of the building.

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They will have to be an enquiry to look at it quite candid camera look

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down on the street to my right? -- Can the. What is that? This is

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probably the installation from behind the cladding. The BRE, the

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British Research Establishment, will look into this to see if it was of

:27:12.:27:15.

suitable quality for fires. Was it the correct thing specified? And was

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it what should have gone into the house? And many people are talking

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about the advice for those caught up in the crisis. Those upper floors,

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whether they had to stay or leave. There is some advice given that

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tends to be given. Evacuate, properties that are alarmed, ones

:27:38.:27:52.

not purpose-built. But in a purpose-built block like this, they

:27:53.:27:55.

are told to stay put. But, the true advice is to stay put unless you are

:27:56.:27:59.

affected by fire and smoke. They were. They should have been

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evacuated. There needs to be clarification to say stay put simply

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means a small fire on a flatter the 10th floor does not mean all 12 - 20

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- 30 floors have to be evacuated. Thank you for your time and thank

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you for spending time with us this morning. We will be following up on

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the fire service a little later on. They will give us the latest

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information they have. It is worth saying, we were talking about the

:28:32.:28:35.

compassion of the local area, there is a remembrance wall being started.

:28:36.:28:41.

It is very moving. Some personal messages on

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Welcome back to West London. We are in the shadow of the Grenfell Tower.

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It is a sobering moment to see it in broad daylight. You get a sense of

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the scale of the damage done by that devastating fire. If you look

:32:32.:32:35.

closely this morning we can see the smoke which is still coming from the

:32:36.:32:41.

fourth or fifth floor. You could see late last night the flames were

:32:42.:32:44.

clearly visible and this morning we can see some smoke emerging from the

:32:45.:32:49.

building. The charred remains really are very shocking. Of course the

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questions this morning are over finding the people who are still

:32:55.:32:58.

missing and unaccounted for. Let me take you through the basic

:32:59.:33:00.

information at this point: Police have confirmed

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12 people dead so far, but that figure is expected

:33:04.:33:05.

to rise significantly. In terms of those getting

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injured: 34 patients remain in hospital and 18

:33:16.:33:17.

are in critical care. Lots of people who live in the

:33:18.:33:26.

Grenfell Tower have been looked after locally. In terms of the

:33:27.:33:32.

issues raised, many people here have an increasing sense of anger as

:33:33.:33:35.

people have shown, compassion to those who need help, but also a

:33:36.:33:38.

sense of anger about why this happened with many questions asked

:33:39.:33:41.

about the fire and safety precautions that were or were not in

:33:42.:33:45.

place and earlier on the programme we spoke with Sir David Amis, chair

:33:46.:33:49.

of the all party and Andreev fire safety rescue group, who said the

:33:50.:33:54.

focus now is on those families. At the moment I don't want to make

:33:55.:33:58.

matters worse as far as the families are concerned. I think we have to

:33:59.:34:03.

wait until there is a full investigation and do all that we

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possibly can to support the families who are now in absolute despair and

:34:08.:34:12.

still looking for their loved ones. Yes, and on the issue of help for

:34:13.:34:17.

those who are here, when we arrived in the morning many people were in

:34:18.:34:23.

the area telling us that lots of water, food, bedding and clothing

:34:24.:34:26.

has been dropped off locally during the night. So much that there are

:34:27.:34:31.

piles waiting to be distributed. As you walk around this busy

:34:32.:34:35.

residential area you can see signs on the wall that said, please, help

:34:36.:34:40.

yourself, there is water if needed. It has been a real feature that has

:34:41.:34:44.

been growing over the last 34 hours of people who have come to help out.

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Let's hear what people have had to say.

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When something as horrific as this happens, you either feel despair

:34:53.:34:55.

and hopelessness or you rise above with optimism and a sense

:34:56.:34:58.

of community to come together and support each other.

:34:59.:35:00.

That has been personified here by the community.

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They have really come out for each other not just by donating

:35:03.:35:06.

what they have in their homes in terms of food and clothing

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but also being here for the community to provide the moral

:35:10.:35:12.

We are here to provide aid, tackling food security and providing

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help with provisions, blankets and essential resources

:35:17.:35:18.

to support communities that so desperately need the support.

:35:19.:35:20.

Me and my son went through the whole house, clothes, trainers,

:35:21.:35:23.

shoes, pyjamas, anything I could find that I don't need that

:35:24.:35:26.

sits there I have bagged up and brought down.

:35:27.:35:37.

In terms of the ongoing operation in the building itself, we know from

:35:38.:35:44.

fire officers last night that they were still operating late into the

:35:45.:35:47.

night last night trying to search the building. They did say at that

:35:48.:35:51.

point they had searched most of the building. We will get an update from

:35:52.:35:55.

the Fire Service in the next half an hour. That is coming up. Right now I

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will hand you back to the studio. Thank you very much. And as the

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update comes through, we will keep you updated.

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The Met Police has set up an emergency number for anyone

:36:08.:36:10.

There is other news to bring you: Theresa May will meet political

:36:11.:36:20.

parties from Northern Ireland today at Downing Street.

:36:21.:36:22.

She'll discuss plans to restore power-sharing at Stormont,

:36:23.:36:24.

and try to allay growing concerns about her attempt to secure

:36:25.:36:32.

The backing of the democratic Unionist MPs in parliament.

:36:33.:36:36.

President Trump is being investigated for possible

:36:37.:36:38.

obstruction of justice, according to the Washington Post.

:36:39.:36:41.

If confirmed, the move by Special Counsel Robert Mueller

:36:42.:36:43.

would mark a turning point in the FBI investigation

:36:44.:36:45.

into Russian interference in last year's presidential election.

:36:46.:36:47.

Mr Trump's lawyer has called the leak of information outrageous,

:36:48.:36:50.

The British government needs to do more to improve the well-being

:36:51.:37:02.

The international charity has produced a report examining

:37:03.:37:05.

whether the world's richest countries are meeting

:37:06.:37:07.

internationally-agreed goals for young people.

:37:08.:37:08.

It found that while the UK has made progress dealing with teenage

:37:09.:37:11.

pregnancy and underage drinking, concerns remain over the number

:37:12.:37:14.

We will have the weather in around ten minutes but first it is time to

:37:15.:37:29.

talk about sport and where there are losers, we are feeling the pinch,

:37:30.:37:33.

there are losers - and it wasn't interesting final.

:37:34.:37:37.

It could be Pakistan- India for the second time but England were meant

:37:38.:37:44.

to be there. It was all scripted, apparently. What happened? A lot of

:37:45.:37:47.

head scratching, that's for sure. England's cricketers are out

:37:48.:37:50.

of the Champions Trophy, after a crushing defeat to Pakistan

:37:51.:37:52.

in their semi-final. Eoin Morgan's side had been

:37:53.:37:55.

the favourite for the tournament, but struggled on a slow

:37:56.:37:57.

pitch in Cardiff. Jonny Bairstow, who came

:37:58.:38:00.

into the side, hit 43, but wickets tumbled quickly,

:38:01.:38:02.

including Ben Stokes, who went for 34, without

:38:03.:38:04.

hitting a single boundary. England made just 211,

:38:05.:38:06.

which Pakistan knocked off in less They play either India or Bangladesh

:38:07.:38:09.

in Sunday's final at The Oval. We played against some really good

:38:10.:38:14.

sides recently and we have managed That hasn't gone

:38:15.:38:18.

into our heads at all. In today's game, going in knowing

:38:19.:38:21.

we would play on a used cricket brought Pakistan's game

:38:22.:38:24.

closer to their home. It was a big challenge and one

:38:25.:38:29.

that was too far for us. Southampton are looking

:38:30.:38:32.

for a new manager, after sacking The Frenchman had spent just one

:38:33.:38:35.

season at St Mary's, but during that time guided

:38:36.:38:39.

the Saints to the League Cup Final, where they were narrowly beaten

:38:40.:38:42.

by Manchester United, and he helped them to finish

:38:43.:38:44.

a respectable eighth in the Premier It's been confirmed that the former

:38:45.:38:47.

boxing world champion at five different weights, Floyd Mayweather,

:38:48.:38:50.

will fight the Ultimate Fighting They will meet in a bout

:38:51.:38:53.

in Las Vegas on the 26th of August. 40-year-old Mayweather retired

:38:54.:38:58.

undefeated after winning his 49th straight bout in September 2015,

:38:59.:39:00.

while the 29-year-old Irishman McGregor is the first

:39:01.:39:02.

fighter in the UFC to have held two belts but has never

:39:03.:39:06.

boxed professionally. The contest will take place under

:39:07.:39:07.

normal boxing rules so Mcgregor will have to limit himself

:39:08.:39:10.

to the noble art of just punching. The US Open golf gets under way

:39:11.:39:20.

in Wisconsin this afternoon. Much of the pre-tournament talk has

:39:21.:39:23.

been about the punishing rough, with long grass surrounding

:39:24.:39:26.

many of the fairways. Organisers took the unusual step

:39:27.:39:28.

of cutting some of it back, And this was Lee Westwood on one

:39:29.:39:31.

of his practice rounds retrieving his ball

:39:32.:39:39.

from that rough. Just off the edge of the fairway...

:39:40.:39:53.

I found it! LAUGHTER demonstrating in his own way how long the rough is

:39:54.:39:58.

but Rory McIlroy said that if the players can't keep it on the fairway

:39:59.:40:02.

then they are not good enough to be there. The length of the grass

:40:03.:40:05.

doesn't matter. And when you see them hit the ball and what they are

:40:06.:40:10.

training to do - hitting straight? Could you hit the ball at a grass

:40:11.:40:17.

that high? Could I? You would just take the shot. I would get lost in

:40:18.:40:21.

the grass. We couldn't see over it! Thank you.

:40:22.:40:22.

Tim Farron announced he would be stepping down less than a week

:40:23.:40:25.

There has been criticism of Tim Farron's inability to appeal to

:40:26.:40:38.

white voters. The share of the vote fell.

:40:39.:40:39.

In a statement, he said continued scrutiny of his religious beliefs

:40:40.:40:42.

had been a distraction, obscuring his party's message.

:40:43.:40:50.

There are Christians in politics who take the view that they should

:40:51.:40:56.

impose the tenets of their faith on society. I have not taken that

:40:57.:41:00.

approach because I fundamentally disagree with it. It is not liberal

:41:01.:41:04.

and, actually, counter-productive when it comes to advancing the

:41:05.:41:10.

gospel. Even so I seem to have been the subject of suspicion because of

:41:11.:41:14.

what I believe and who my faith is in. In this case we are kidding

:41:15.:41:19.

ourselves if we think we yet live in a tolerant, liberal society. And

:41:20.:41:23.

that is why I have chosen to step down as leader of the Liberal

:41:24.:41:25.

Democrats. Alistair Carmichael is a Lib Dem MP

:41:26.:41:25.

and former Secretary of State Thank you very much for joining us

:41:26.:41:36.

on BBC Breakfast this morning. Good morning. Did he make the right

:41:37.:41:40.

decision in stepping down? I think he did. If you are not a comfortable

:41:41.:41:45.

in doing the job, if you feel that you are being somehow distracted

:41:46.:41:49.

from doing it, as a modern party leader I think you just can't really

:41:50.:41:54.

allow that. Let's not distract attention away from the fact that in

:41:55.:41:58.

less than two years Tim Farron presided over a quite remarkable

:41:59.:42:02.

revival in the party's fortunes. We have doubled the party membership,

:42:03.:42:06.

we have increased the number of MPs at the general election by 50%, and

:42:07.:42:12.

he has taken us from the political margin again write to the centre of

:42:13.:42:16.

political debate and he has given us political relevance. Yet it has cast

:42:17.:42:20.

doubt on his appointment as leader in the first place. When picking a

:42:21.:42:24.

leader of a political party, how much consideration should be given

:42:25.:42:28.

to his faith? He has said it has clashed and distracted from his

:42:29.:42:34.

political job. I think there are legitimate questions for us all to

:42:35.:42:39.

be asking not just in the Lib Dems about the way in which his faith has

:42:40.:42:43.

been treated in this general election campaign. I have campaign

:42:44.:42:46.

in every general election since 1979. I can never remember questions

:42:47.:42:50.

of theology acquiring this prominence. When we are electing

:42:51.:42:54.

people to parliament, parliament decides what is legal. The general

:42:55.:43:02.

assembly, the Synod of the Church of England will decide what is in full,

:43:03.:43:05.

and that is a distinction we would do well to remember. -- sinful. It

:43:06.:43:11.

is acceptable for a leader to personally believe something is

:43:12.:43:14.

sinful and then extol that it is not sinful in front of the electorate in

:43:15.:43:19.

order to gain votes? Tim Farron's record on equality issues is

:43:20.:43:23.

absolutely impeccable. There is nothing in his voting record in

:43:24.:43:27.

parliament or indeed in his wider conduct in public life which would

:43:28.:43:33.

contradict that. He has never demonstrated bigotry in any way,

:43:34.:43:37.

shape or form. As a Member of Parliament and public figure, that

:43:38.:43:42.

should be enough. It is quite remarkable that he faced these

:43:43.:43:45.

questions time after time after time while others in public life who also

:43:46.:43:49.

claimed to be Christians did not have to face these questions. I

:43:50.:43:54.

think there are some serious questions for the way that the media

:43:55.:44:00.

in particular have treated Tim Farron and his religious beliefs.

:44:01.:44:03.

Let me give you a couple of example is of comments we have had from

:44:04.:44:07.

viewers this morning on social media. Jay said funny how we thought

:44:08.:44:11.

lying to attract votes was OK and even more interesting how he is

:44:12.:44:15.

doing this now rather than before the election result. Jerome Cousin

:44:16.:44:19.

is as a gay man I couldn't vote Lib Dem because it was obvious Tim

:44:20.:44:22.

Farron was completed. Politics and religion need to be separate.

:44:23.:44:26.

Picking up on the point, the timing of the announcement has been in some

:44:27.:44:31.

ways quite peculiar. Was he pushed? No, he wasn't. I was at the meeting

:44:32.:44:35.

of the parliamentary party yesterday afternoon when he made the

:44:36.:44:41.

announcement I think while all Lib Dem colleagues were in at the time

:44:42.:44:47.

and we were all surprised. He caught us cold but there was nothing but

:44:48.:44:51.

support for him in the room. There are ten Lib Dem MPs. Know, 11 of us.

:44:52.:45:03.

12, including yourself. Who should be the next leader in your opinion?

:45:04.:45:08.

Joe Swinson served as deputy leader, Sir Vince Cable, the voice of

:45:09.:45:12.

experience, Ed Davey, Norman Lamb, who are you going for? I will have

:45:13.:45:17.

that conversation with my colleagues in the next couple of days, but you

:45:18.:45:21.

are right to highlight that although we are very small as a parliamentary

:45:22.:45:25.

party, we have some of the biggest hitters in parliament amongst the 12

:45:26.:45:29.

and we are exceptionally fortunate that the richness of the trees that

:45:30.:45:34.

we have. That is something for which the party should take into Regiment

:45:35.:45:38.

in future. Thank you very much for your time this morning.

:45:39.:45:49.

The weather. Good morning. A monkey and warm start to the day for many

:45:50.:46:03.

of us. -- muggy. Through the day, things will feel more fresh. Plenty

:46:04.:46:10.

of sunshine. A few showers as well. Through the day, a cold front will

:46:11.:46:17.

go west to east, opening the door for the fresh air to come in from

:46:18.:46:22.

the west. This cloud and drizzly rain will fizzle out as it goes east

:46:23.:46:27.

towards East Anglia. The south-west later on. Showers in Scotland and

:46:28.:46:33.

Northern Ireland. Further south across the country, dry through the

:46:34.:46:38.

day. The south-west of England, not as hot. 17-18. The south-east, warm

:46:39.:46:45.

and muggy for the first part of the day. 24 degrees. Fresh during the

:46:46.:46:50.

afternoon when the front goes east. Cloudy in the Midlands and northern

:46:51.:46:55.

England. Spells of sunshine. Isolated showers. More showers in

:46:56.:47:00.

Scotland. Equally, dry and bright weather in between. If you catch one

:47:01.:47:05.

of those showers, quite sharp and heavy. The odd rumble of thunder.

:47:06.:47:09.

Windy with showers in Northern Ireland that the temperatures there

:47:10.:47:15.

in the mid-to-high teens. Sunshine and a few showers in the north of

:47:16.:47:19.

Wales in north-west England. Showers to the north tends to fade away

:47:20.:47:22.

through the overnight period. The early hours Friday. Most places will

:47:23.:47:31.

dry. Crash. 12- 30 degrees. -- Fresh. Five degrees cooler than

:47:32.:47:38.

today. Cloud in the west of the country. Rain for Northern Ireland

:47:39.:47:42.

pushing the Scotland. Further south, dry once again. In the sunshine, a

:47:43.:47:48.

pleasant day. Temperatures between 15 in Glasgow to 17 in London. High

:47:49.:47:55.

pressure will stick around into the weekend. It will keep weather fronts

:47:56.:48:00.

at bay. A weather front of the north-west. Saturday, wet and windy

:48:01.:48:04.

weather across the far north west of Scotland. For the rest of the

:48:05.:48:09.

country, a dry and warm day. 28 degrees towards the south-east. It

:48:10.:48:13.

will feel quite hot. Sunday. Warming up even more. By Sunday afternoon,

:48:14.:48:22.

temperatures up to 30 degrees. Slightly cooler with outbreaks of

:48:23.:48:25.

rain in the far north-west of Scotland. Looking like a hot weekend

:48:26.:48:28.

to come. Temperatures will rise into the new week. Back to you, Charlie.

:48:29.:48:34.

This is West London. Those blue skies contrasting to the image

:48:35.:48:45.

behind me. A shocking image. Broad daylight. Some smoke still emerging

:48:46.:48:49.

from what looks like the lower floors. The charred remains of the

:48:50.:48:53.

tower block itself. Several things emerging this morning. One is the

:48:54.:48:58.

help and compassion of people. So many people rallying around to help

:48:59.:49:04.

out those caught in this crisis. The other thing emerging is those

:49:05.:49:10.

messages. It is those missing and unaccounted for at the moment in

:49:11.:49:15.

that desperate situation people are in at the moment as people try to

:49:16.:49:19.

locate loved ones. You can see the tribute wall, a remembrance wall,

:49:20.:49:25.

just around the corner. Messages for individuals who people know have

:49:26.:49:29.

been killed. There are other messages of support. It is moving

:49:30.:49:35.

standing there and people are adding messages this morning. Now for the

:49:36.:49:48.

practical matters. This is a chartered surveyor. Good morning.

:49:49.:49:51.

Good morning. First of all, there are so many questions to do with how

:49:52.:49:56.

the fire spread so quickly. Can you give us initial thoughts? First of

:49:57.:50:02.

all, you think about the people and then the reasons behind it. How and

:50:03.:50:08.

why did it start? How did it spread so quickly? What was the influence

:50:09.:50:15.

of the refurbishment? More importantly, what can we learn from

:50:16.:50:19.

it and how quickly can we do it? Already on the programme this

:50:20.:50:22.

morning, many people are asking questions about accidents like this

:50:23.:50:29.

that have happened before to be I called it an accident, but people

:50:30.:50:37.

have said it is avoidable. People said that recommendations after

:50:38.:50:44.

Southwark in 2009 were not implemented. The reason is because

:50:45.:50:51.

things like this don't happen often. It is not something to be

:50:52.:50:57.

celebrated. Was it the combination of circumstances that led to this?

:50:58.:51:01.

We need to find a quickly. Anyone who knows this area well, you look

:51:02.:51:04.

around and have the charred remains of a tower block. Move the camera

:51:05.:51:10.

around to our right. You can see that building is replicated. There

:51:11.:51:15.

are two in shot. In many centres in the UK, there are tower blocks

:51:16.:51:21.

similar to this. How can anyone in those buildings have confidence in

:51:22.:51:26.

the building they are living in bearing in mind what has happened

:51:27.:51:29.

here? Sadly, when something like this happens, people look up

:51:30.:51:33.

procedures affecting their Rome buildings. They can be more modest.

:51:34.:51:39.

-- their own. They can think about what would happen if, tragically,

:51:40.:51:46.

similar circumstances arose. That is a good thing in a way. We look at

:51:47.:51:50.

those things differently than we did before and try to learn quickly from

:51:51.:51:54.

those mistakes. In terms of being official, we know groups living here

:51:55.:52:00.

had raised fears over a long period of time and say they were not

:52:01.:52:07.

listened to. Do you think this time around that issues will be addressed

:52:08.:52:11.

properly? Because the concern is when a report comes out, people will

:52:12.:52:20.

read it but nothing will change. The idea of a fire in buildings like

:52:21.:52:25.

this is if it starts in one building, it should stay that, and

:52:26.:52:30.

it should be that it does not spread elsewhere so fatalities are kept to

:52:31.:52:38.

a minimum. That is the first point. Of course, the balding work has been

:52:39.:52:42.

done in the design of the building and whether it is appropriate given

:52:43.:52:47.

what has happened in the future. -- building. Thank you very much. We

:52:48.:52:51.

will be back you through the morning. It is worth saying just

:52:52.:52:55.

after eight o'clock we will speak to the fire service for any updates

:52:56.:52:58.

they have captured his and the situation with the building itself.

:52:59.:53:09.

-- they have on this and the situation.

:53:10.:53:09.

The days of bringing back a massive mobile bill from a European holiday

:53:10.:53:12.

From today roaming charges are being dropped across the EU.

:53:13.:53:16.

New rules come into force today which mean

:53:17.:53:19.

if you travel to an EU country and use your mobile phone you'll be

:53:20.:53:23.

charged the same as if you were here in the UK.

:53:24.:53:26.

So you won't be hit with extra charges for making calls,

:53:27.:53:29.

sending texts or using data on line as long as it's in your plan.

:53:30.:53:33.

These new rules have been a long time in the making,

:53:34.:53:36.

after years of complaints that customers have been getting ripped

:53:37.:53:39.

Hannah Maundrell is the editor in chief of the comparison website,

:53:40.:53:43.

She is with us now. Good morning. This is great news for people using

:53:44.:53:49.

mobiles abroad. It is such a pain when you get back and realise you

:53:50.:53:53.

have been charged for so many things he did not realise were going to be

:53:54.:53:57.

added to your bill. What are the caveats? This is good for people

:53:58.:54:02.

going to the EU this summer that the we have seen costs spiral everywhere

:54:03.:54:09.

else. It means you will not be charged extra in the EU, Iceland,

:54:10.:54:16.

Norway, etc. But you do need to remember that it is not free calls.

:54:17.:54:22.

It is the same usage you get back home. If you go over the allowance

:54:23.:54:26.

in your contract, you will be charged more. If you are on an

:54:27.:54:33.

unlimited data deal, it could be tapped overseas. If you are on a

:54:34.:54:45.

cheap deal that is less than ?3 a gig, it could be different. It only

:54:46.:54:48.

applies to 28 EU countries and a few others. Look at Turkey, a Rocca, the

:54:49.:54:55.

USA, anywhere else, first, because you could be stung by bills that are

:54:56.:55:03.

not included. -- Morocco. People are asking what will happen if we leave

:55:04.:55:09.

the EU? Without a crystal ball, we do not know. It will be up for

:55:10.:55:14.

discussion. It will not be top of the negotiation table. It is

:55:15.:55:18.

possible a new arrangement could be agreed. We don't know at this stage.

:55:19.:55:23.

What we do know is that they will apply until we leave the EU. If you

:55:24.:55:30.

are holidaying in the EU, you can enjoy it. Could it mean you can get

:55:31.:55:37.

a deal with a Spanish provider if they are cheaper and use it here

:55:38.:55:41.

like a normal phone? If only that was the case. You need to use your

:55:42.:55:47.

phone in your home country. If you use it more here, then that is the

:55:48.:55:57.

network. If you use it more overseas, the network would find

:55:58.:56:01.

out. They will monitor it. You need to keep an eye on it that be the

:56:02.:56:06.

same said if you are travelling for a longer period. -- on it. You need

:56:07.:56:16.

to keep a look at that. Thank you very much. That is it for me for

:56:17.:56:24.

now. We will keep you updated on the events following the tragic fire in

:56:25.:56:29.

West London at Grenfell Tower. Charlie is bringing you the latest.

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Hello, this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt in West London.

:59:51.:59:58.

The desperate search continues to find the missing

:59:59.:00:00.

Over 24 hours on from the blaze, 12 people are known to have died.

:00:01.:00:07.

Scores more are still unaccounted for.

:00:08.:00:12.

We don't know if they're alive or dead,

:00:13.:00:17.

or if they're in hospital or not, we have not any clues.

:00:18.:00:20.

The Prime Minister promises a full investigation

:00:21.:00:21.

On the ground, there's anger that warnings may have been ignored.

:00:22.:00:28.

People trapped in that tower, knowing that the people

:00:29.:00:31.

that were supposed to look after them didn't care about them.

:00:32.:00:34.

Many spent the night in emergency shelters,

:00:35.:00:36.

to support people left without homes and basic needs.

:00:37.:00:59.

Good morning, it's Thursday 15th June.

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On Breakfast today, we'll bring you the latest on the fire,

:01:02.:01:04.

and we'll be asking how a tragedy like this

:01:05.:01:06.

could have struck in the heart of the capital.

:01:07.:01:10.

Also this morning, Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron steps down

:01:11.:01:12.

from the post saying he's torn between his Christian faith

:01:13.:01:15.

The days of coming home to a big mobile bill

:01:16.:01:20.

after a European holiday should now be over.

:01:21.:01:22.

From today, roaming charges are being dropped across the EU.

:01:23.:01:25.

In sport, England's hopes of winning the Champions Trophy are over.

:01:26.:01:31.

Eoin Morgan's men were favourites to win the tournament,

:01:32.:01:33.

in their semifinal in Cardiff by eight wickets.

:01:34.:01:38.

Good morning, a muddy start, but things will feel fresh and through

:01:39.:01:50.

the day, a mix of sunshine and showers, all the details for you in

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about 15 minutes. Good morning, I'm in West London,

:01:52.:01:56.

more than 24 hours after fire swept through the Grenfell Tower

:01:57.:02:00.

behind me, you can still see and the Fire Services at work

:02:01.:02:02.

around the remains. Late last night, you may have seen

:02:03.:02:17.

the images against the dark night sky, you could see flames inside.

:02:18.:02:22.

But it really is a devastating, sobering sight this morning, the

:02:23.:02:26.

smouldering carcass of the building itself. Let's bring you up to date

:02:27.:02:31.

with the latest we have in terms of information on fatalities and

:02:32.:02:38.

casualties. Police have confirmed that 12 people are dead, but they

:02:39.:02:44.

have also said that figure is expected to rise significantly. 34

:02:45.:02:48.

patients, in all, remain in hospital. Of those, 18 are in

:02:49.:02:52.

critical care. We will be speaking to the Fire Service in the next ten

:02:53.:02:57.

minutes or so here on Breakfast to get the very latest information for

:02:58.:03:02.

you. Locally, hundreds of families are without homes because of the

:03:03.:03:05.

building fire, and many people have been helping out, bringing produce,

:03:06.:03:10.

bringing water and blankets for those in need. Let's get the very

:03:11.:03:12.

latest now from Andy Moore. The official death toll

:03:13.:03:16.

is expected to rise, but even so it is outstripped

:03:17.:03:19.

by the number of the missing. These are some of their faces -

:03:20.:03:22.

whole families are unaccounted for, many of them lived

:03:23.:03:27.

on the top floors. This woman was searching

:03:28.:03:31.

local hospitals for her friend

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and three children. We don't know if there are alive

:03:33.:03:34.

or dead, or if they're in hospital or not, we have not any clues,

:03:35.:03:38.

just waiting and hoping. As dusk fell, nearly 18 hours

:03:39.:03:40.

after the blaze started, there were still pockets of fire

:03:41.:03:43.

inside the tower block. The Prime Minister promised

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there would be a full inquiry Of course, once the scene is secure,

:03:49.:03:50.

once the recovery is complete, then an investigation will take

:03:51.:03:58.

place into the cause of the fire and if there are any

:03:59.:04:02.

lessons to be learned. Witnesses say the fire

:04:03.:04:04.

spread rapidly, apparently through the new cladding

:04:05.:04:08.

on the outside of the block, how the foam insulation used

:04:09.:04:11.

in some cladding can catch fire. The actual rigid-board insulation

:04:12.:04:23.

that I believe is most likely to have been used is made from

:04:24.:04:27.

the same material, polyurethane. and this is the rate

:04:28.:04:30.

at which it burns. and this is a typical material used

:04:31.:04:33.

for insulating external buildings. The firm that carried out

:04:34.:04:43.

the refurbishment said it had met all building control,

:04:44.:04:45.

fire regulation, A later statement removed a section

:04:46.:04:47.

about meeting fire regulations. The Government is sufficiently

:04:48.:04:56.

worried to order checks on any tower blocks that have

:04:57.:04:58.

undergone a similar refurbishment. Some residents of Grenfell Tower

:04:59.:05:03.

had to resort to ropes made of blankets and sheets

:05:04.:05:07.

to escape the burning building. There are many questions

:05:08.:05:10.

to be answered. Why was there no sprinkler system?

:05:11.:05:13.

Did the alarms work? Is the stay-put policy

:05:14.:05:17.

the right advice? There are 4000 tower

:05:18.:05:20.

blocks in the UK. This terrible fire will cause

:05:21.:05:22.

a fundamental rethink about Andy is with me now, you have spent

:05:23.:05:46.

30 hours here, in your hand, and I made reference to this, there are

:05:47.:05:50.

lots of these pieces, it is like charcoal, isn't it? Yes, you saw in

:05:51.:05:54.

my report what happens when the lightweight insulating foam is

:05:55.:05:58.

satellite, you apply some heat, and then it does burn, and this is that

:05:59.:06:05.

lightweight insulating foam. It has blown on the wind from the tower

:06:06.:06:08.

behind us, this is the cladding that is being blamed for the spread of

:06:09.:06:13.

the fire. And that is just flaking away. It looks quite solid, but it

:06:14.:06:19.

just breaks up, doesn't it? This is lightweight insulating material. The

:06:20.:06:23.

problem is, this cladding material may be fire resistant, but it is

:06:24.:06:27.

charred all the way through, it does catch light, and this is the sort of

:06:28.:06:32.

material that is on dozens of high-rises here in the UK, hundreds

:06:33.:06:36.

if not thousands around the world, and we have seen how it can burn,

:06:37.:06:39.

how it can transmit the fire. What is going to happen to this foam now

:06:40.:06:45.

on these buildings? Is it going to have to be removed? Are those

:06:46.:06:49.

buildings safe to live in? We had a wake-up call with the Lakmal house

:06:50.:06:55.

fire some years ago, 2009 in South London, when cladding like this was

:06:56.:06:59.

blamed for the spread of the fire. -- Lakanal House. Six people died,

:07:00.:07:03.

it seemed that we did not learn the lesson. But we claim this will be a

:07:04.:07:08.

sea change in our attitude to this sort of cladding, this insulating

:07:09.:07:13.

foam. Of two sides to this story, the practicalities that you were

:07:14.:07:17.

talking about, the people here and the desperate search for those who

:07:18.:07:21.

are unaccounted for. I know you have been spending time with some of the

:07:22.:07:24.

families were homeless because of the fire. That is right, and the

:07:25.:07:29.

search for the missing goes on. Only this morning I saw a poster placed

:07:30.:07:36.

on the windscreen of a car, an appeal for information about a

:07:37.:07:38.

19-year-old girl that was missing. Lots of people are searching

:07:39.:07:43.

hospitals for information about loved ones. We do not know the

:07:44.:07:49.

numbers, but it seems perhaps dozens of people are missing, whole

:07:50.:07:52.

families, as I said in my report, families of six, families of five,

:07:53.:07:57.

three generations of the same family, all missing, unaccounted

:07:58.:08:03.

for. Many of them, sadly, were on the top floors of the building. The

:08:04.:08:07.

firefighters are in there, trying to search through the building, but we

:08:08.:08:11.

have heard it will be a very long and complicated process. As Andy was

:08:12.:08:15.

saying, we are getting some updates from the Fire Service, saying they

:08:16.:08:19.

thought they had searched most of the building. It is worth saying, in

:08:20.:08:24.

a round about five minutes also, we will be speaking live to the Fire

:08:25.:08:28.

Service to get the very latest update on the situation. For the

:08:29.:08:31.

moment, from West London, back to the studio.

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Let's get some reaction from Westminster

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Morning, Chris. Earlier we spoke to Chris Mason joins us.

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Morning, Chris. Earlier we spoke to the chairman of the all-party fire

:08:48.:08:50.

rescue group, he said meetings would be taking place to look into the

:08:51.:08:54.

safety aspects of this, and this is why Labour is calling for an urgent

:08:55.:08:57.

look at the safety precautions and Whitemoor was not done.

:08:58.:09:02.

Yes, he made it very clear that his view is that the Government ought to

:09:03.:09:07.

have done more in the past. The current government, the previous one

:09:08.:09:17.

as well, particularly with the installation of sprinklers in older

:09:18.:09:20.

buildings, where they were not put in when it was built. There are

:09:21.:09:23.

searching questions for the Government coming from that

:09:24.:09:27.

committee and elsewhere, from former senior fire officer is, for

:09:28.:09:30.

instance, saying that the desire to cut back on regulation, in their

:09:31.:09:35.

view, has perhaps stood in the way of refreshing the necessary rules

:09:36.:09:41.

around fire safety in tower blocks. Particular questions coming the way

:09:42.:09:45.

of Gavin Barwell. He was a housing minister until just last week, then

:09:46.:09:49.

he lost his seat, and within hours he was appointed as the Prime

:09:50.:09:54.

Minister's chief of staff. There are questions as to whether a review

:09:55.:09:58.

that the Government promised in fire safety regulations has been anyway

:09:59.:10:03.

repressed all sat on by the Government. It insists it has not,

:10:04.:10:08.

that the work to do with those regulations is ongoing, but you can

:10:09.:10:11.

imagine those questions will continue now, given what happened

:10:12.:10:14.

yesterday. Of course, our thoughts are with the fire, but politics

:10:15.:10:20.

continues - after maybe a brief pause because of recent tragic

:10:21.:10:24.

events, we had Theresa May negotiating with the DUP, and I

:10:25.:10:29.

wonder how surprisingly resignation is. Yes, very striking, isn't it,

:10:30.:10:35.

that fought the third time in just a few weeks, politics causing almost

:10:36.:10:42.

yesterday because of the tower block fire? Politicians yet again

:10:43.:10:46.

reflecting on the incredible work of the emergency services. A couple of

:10:47.:10:50.

big things still going on politically, the Government trying

:10:51.:10:55.

to stitch together a with the Democratic Unionist Party, to try to

:10:56.:10:59.

ensure they have a majority of the Conservatives plus the DUP, and the

:11:00.:11:03.

Prime Minister inviting in five political parties from Northern

:11:04.:11:06.

Ireland, one after another today, all part of the attempt to restore

:11:07.:11:11.

devolved government to Northern Ireland. Some are concerned with

:11:12.:11:15.

this idea of the Conservatives and the DUP working together, suggesting

:11:16.:11:19.

that the Government in Westminster would not be able to be impartial as

:11:20.:11:22.

far as Northern Ireland is concerned. And the Tim Farron,

:11:23.:11:27.

leader of the Liberal Democrats, is resigning, stepping down in about a

:11:28.:11:31.

month's time. You remember he got all those awkward questions during

:11:32.:11:35.

the election campaign about how he squared his Christianity with

:11:36.:11:37.

leading a party with the word liberal in the title, questions

:11:38.:11:42.

about gay sex and whether he thought it was a sin. The Liberal Democrats

:11:43.:11:45.

made some progress at the general election in terms of seats, but not

:11:46.:11:50.

a vast amount, and he has decided he cannot square leadership with these

:11:51.:11:53.

religious convictions, so we will step down in the summer, and there

:11:54.:11:57.

will be a leadership race. OK, Chris, thank you very much for the

:11:58.:12:00.

moment. Chris Mason there. President Trump

:12:01.:12:04.

is being investigated for possible obstruction of justice,

:12:05.:12:05.

according to the Washington Post. If confirmed, the move

:12:06.:12:07.

by Special Counsel Robert Mueller would mark a turning point

:12:08.:12:10.

in the FBI investigation into Russian interference in last

:12:11.:12:12.

year's presidential election. Mr Trump's lawyer

:12:13.:12:15.

has called the leak of information "outrageous, inexcusable

:12:16.:12:18.

and illegal." There's good news

:12:19.:12:24.

for mobile phone users. A European Union law to abolish

:12:25.:12:26.

roaming charges for people using mobile phones abroad

:12:27.:12:28.

comes into force today. The new rules mean that citizens

:12:29.:12:31.

travelling within the EU will be able to call,

:12:32.:12:33.

text and browse the internet on mobile devices at

:12:34.:12:36.

the same price they pay at home. But consumer group Which warns phone

:12:37.:12:38.

users could face unexpected charges if they exceed

:12:39.:12:41.

their plan allowances. The new rules mean citizens

:12:42.:12:48.

travelling within the EU will be able to call, text and browse the

:12:49.:12:53.

internet at the same price they do at home.

:12:54.:12:55.

It is a big day for all consumers across Europe, and mobile operators

:12:56.:13:01.

as well. Essentially, in simple terms, the mobile operators have

:13:02.:13:04.

been told they are not allowed to charge any extra when their

:13:05.:13:09.

customers travel to EU destinations. There is a little bit of confusion

:13:10.:13:16.

in terms of what is included. The time now is 30 minutes past eight,

:13:17.:13:22.

that brings you date with the main news, but our main focus is the

:13:23.:13:26.

aftermath of the tragic fire at Grenfell Tower in west London which

:13:27.:13:30.

has already claimed 12 lives, many people critically ill in hospital,

:13:31.:13:35.

and still many people missing as well. Charlie is in west London for

:13:36.:13:40.

us, outside the tower, taking stock, as questions are now asked about

:13:41.:13:42.

safety. Charlie. It is very sobering in the bright

:13:43.:13:51.

sunshine of a Thursday morning, looking at the wrecked carcass of

:13:52.:13:54.

the building here. I think if you look at some of the images we are

:13:55.:13:59.

seeing this morning, what has become apparent today is that there is

:14:00.:14:03.

still some smoke emerging from the building. It would appear to be from

:14:04.:14:09.

the lower levels of the building. And you can see the black and

:14:10.:14:14.

carcass of the building itself, this morning very much the focus is on

:14:15.:14:17.

those missing and still unaccounted for. So many people we have spoken

:14:18.:14:23.

to on the ground have been coming up to us, talking about those people

:14:24.:14:25.

who have yet to be accounted for. We know the police have confirmed that

:14:26.:14:30.

12 people have died so far, but it is also clear, they have made a very

:14:31.:14:35.

clear, that they expect that number to rise. We are going to get the

:14:36.:14:39.

latest from the Fire Service now, we can speak to Dany Cotton, the

:14:40.:14:42.

commissioner of the London Fire Brigade, thank you for your time at

:14:43.:14:47.

this busy time, can you update us with the latest information you

:14:48.:14:48.

have? Still some smoke coming from the

:14:49.:14:57.

building as you can see behind me, due to the fact that on the upper

:14:58.:15:01.

floors, some very small pockets of fire remaining. Due to the nature of

:15:02.:15:06.

the building at the moment, we are not sending firefighters in there

:15:07.:15:09.

because it is not structurally, you know, safe for them to go to the

:15:10.:15:14.

edges of the building. While we have been doing over night watching

:15:15.:15:17.

briefs and firefighting from inside the central part of the building, we

:15:18.:15:21.

do not want to put any firefighters at risk. There will still be some

:15:22.:15:26.

smoke coming from the building. The plan going forward for today is,

:15:27.:15:30.

along with structural layers and the local authority, I have my urban

:15:31.:15:34.

search and rescue team coming down to make an assessment of the

:15:35.:15:39.

building. To look at ways that we can shore up the building, to enable

:15:40.:15:46.

us, and the police and DVI to continue the search. 24 residential

:15:47.:15:50.

floors, how many of those have your office has been able to search so

:15:51.:15:56.

far? We have been able to do a very brief search of all floors, we have

:15:57.:16:03.

been up as far as the 24th floor. That has not extended up to the

:16:04.:16:06.

wider area of all the floors, due to the severity of the fire and all the

:16:07.:16:10.

fire debris spread across the floors, it will be a difficult and

:16:11.:16:14.

painstaking process to search through systematically. There is

:16:15.:16:17.

still a number of flaws which will require a thorough search for us to

:16:18.:16:21.

be able to make sure there are no further people involved in this

:16:22.:16:26.

fire. -- a number of flaws. But we anticipate there may be people

:16:27.:16:31.

involved in the upper floors. -- a number of floors. Tell us a little

:16:32.:16:36.

more about that, many people still so concerned about those missing and

:16:37.:16:39.

unaccounted for, what information you getting from offices inside the

:16:40.:16:45.

building? Inside the building obviously, terribly difficult, it is

:16:46.:16:49.

very difficult for people to comprehend, when they look at a

:16:50.:16:53.

building, while we cannot go in there and see it. Obviously, due to

:16:54.:16:58.

the severity of the fire and what happens in those circumstances,

:16:59.:17:00.

everything inside all of those rooms basically ends up on the floor, in

:17:01.:17:05.

large amounts of volume of staff. Combined with the amount of water in

:17:06.:17:08.

there, it becomes very difficult for officers to get in there, in order

:17:09.:17:12.

to do a systematic and proper search we need to make it safe so that a

:17:13.:17:15.

number of officers can go in there and go through it. We are aware

:17:16.:17:20.

there are people unaccounted for, obviously family and friends who are

:17:21.:17:23.

very distressed and need to know the whereabouts of their loved ones. We

:17:24.:17:28.

are doing everything we can to work as hard as we can with police and

:17:29.:17:30.

other colleagues to make that happen. Can you tell us a little

:17:31.:17:37.

more about the immediate aftermath, when officers first arrived, what

:17:38.:17:40.

were they able to do at that stage, which levels were they able to

:17:41.:17:48.

reach? Very early on in the fire, my firefighters, battled through

:17:49.:17:51.

intense heat, to reach some of the very high floors, I spoke with the

:17:52.:17:56.

crew last night, the 20th floor, they had got that far, looking for

:17:57.:18:00.

people. We specifically targeted flats where we were getting calls

:18:01.:18:03.

where we knew where people work. As the commission of the London Fire

:18:04.:18:07.

Brigade, I have to say it was a stressful and difficult time, I was

:18:08.:18:10.

looking at a building engulfed in fire, I knew that members of the

:18:11.:18:14.

public were still trapped, I was committing hundreds of firefighters

:18:15.:18:17.

into a building that to a lot of people looked terribly unsafe. My

:18:18.:18:22.

firefighters were desperate to get in there and desperate to rescue

:18:23.:18:25.

people and we committed crew after crew into a very dangerous, very hot

:18:26.:18:30.

and dangerous situation, as we have a passion to do as much as we could

:18:31.:18:35.

to rescue people in there. Very challenging, difficult and traumatic

:18:36.:18:38.

event for everyone involved. Have any of your officers been injured?

:18:39.:18:43.

We had minor injuries yesterday, up to nine of my firefighters suffered

:18:44.:18:50.

minor burns, heat exhaustion, due to the intensity in the building, and

:18:51.:18:55.

the hard work, and some slips and trips. There was debris falling

:18:56.:18:59.

everywhere. I'm more concerned longer term about the mental impact

:19:00.:19:05.

on a lot of people who were here, because this event was unprecedented

:19:06.:19:08.

and people saw and heard things on a scale they had never seen before.

:19:09.:19:13.

Going forward, one of my main concerns for firefighters is about

:19:14.:19:16.

mental well-being and doing trauma care and counselling for them. I

:19:17.:19:21.

understand the point you made about the difficult circumstances the

:19:22.:19:24.

officers are working in. The figure of those confirmed dead, the police

:19:25.:19:29.

figure, so far, 12 confirmed dead, they have warned they expect that

:19:30.:19:33.

figure to rise significantly. What more can you add to that?

:19:34.:19:40.

Unfortunately, this is the awful thing for the people involved, we

:19:41.:19:43.

are unaware of how may people are in the building, as you can appreciate,

:19:44.:19:47.

this is a very large building with a large number of people in there.

:19:48.:19:50.

Some people may have lived alone, we are not sure if they are in there

:19:51.:19:55.

way with friends and family. People who were reported missing who

:19:56.:19:58.

subsequently may have been with rest centres and hospitals. We are

:19:59.:20:02.

completely unaware of, we can only work with numbers in the local

:20:03.:20:05.

authority and police who seem to be missing. As soon as we can, we will

:20:06.:20:10.

go into the building and do the painstaking fingertip search in

:20:11.:20:13.

conjunction with the police and the TVI. -- DVI. Investigations will be

:20:14.:20:20.

ongoing but locally, we are speaking with so many people who are asking

:20:21.:20:24.

questions about why the fire spread so quickly, what can you tell us so

:20:25.:20:32.

far, from what you have seen? What I can tell you in my professional

:20:33.:20:35.

capacity is that I have never seen a fire like this in my career, the

:20:36.:20:40.

fire spread very quickly, you will appreciate, far too early to

:20:41.:20:45.

speculate about the cause of that. There will be a thorough

:20:46.:20:47.

investigation which the fire brigade will take part in and we will give

:20:48.:20:51.

professional advice too. At this moment in time, I do not want to

:20:52.:20:55.

speculate. We are still in the rescue phase of the operation,

:20:56.:21:00.

trying to identify who's missing, and trying to make sure this

:21:01.:21:03.

building is safe. That is the priority. Thank you very much for

:21:04.:21:08.

joining us today, London Fire Brigade Commissioner, giving us the

:21:09.:21:15.

latest, Dany Cotton. Talking about the building and the work of her

:21:16.:21:18.

officers. We will be here in West London throughout the remainder of

:21:19.:21:23.

the programme. Take a break from events here, we will look at the

:21:24.:21:24.

weather. Warm humid start to the day for many

:21:25.:21:32.

of us but as we had through the day, things turning fresher, a day of

:21:33.:21:36.

sunny spells and scattered showers. The fresher air is drawn in behind a

:21:37.:21:41.

cold front working in from the Atlantic. Very weak frontal system.

:21:42.:21:49.

Ringing cloud and drizzle across many parts of the country. Midlands,

:21:50.:21:54.

further south, rain petering out, a band of cloud heading east, find

:21:55.:21:59.

that, from the West, fresher air moving in, bringing showers,

:22:00.:22:02.

particularly from Northern Ireland and Scotland, much of England and

:22:03.:22:06.

Wales stays dry through into the afternoon. Plenty of sunshine across

:22:07.:22:12.

Evan and Cornwall, temperatures 17, 18 degrees. Across the south-east of

:22:13.:22:18.

England and East Anglia, 23, 20 4 degrees, early on, before things

:22:19.:22:22.

turn fresher, after the cold front through the afternoon. Patchy cloud

:22:23.:22:25.

through the Midlands, if you showers cropping up, more in the way of

:22:26.:22:29.

showers across parts of Scotland. Some sunshine in between the showers

:22:30.:22:34.

but if you catch one, could be heavy, potentially the odd rumble of

:22:35.:22:38.

thunder mixed in as well. Some is sharp showers across Northern

:22:39.:22:42.

Ireland, sharp wind in and around the shower, and the odd shower

:22:43.:22:46.

across Wales, but much of it stays dry, and in the sunshine a pleasant

:22:47.:22:50.

enough day. Through the course of the evening and overnight, most

:22:51.:22:55.

showers ease away in the north, largely dry, cloudy, drizzly rain.

:22:56.:22:59.

Temperatures will be lower than they were last night, 12 to 13 degrees,

:23:00.:23:04.

quite sticky and quite muddy overnight. Through the day tomorrow,

:23:05.:23:08.

outbreaks of rain initially for Northern Ireland, creeping in across

:23:09.:23:11.

parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland, for the rest of the UK, a

:23:12.:23:17.

dry day. More cloud than there has been, but in the sunshine, towards

:23:18.:23:21.

the south, 23, 20 4 degrees. High pressure really drives the weather

:23:22.:23:25.

as we move through Friday night, on into the weekend as well. Weather

:23:26.:23:30.

front lingering in the far north-west, high-pressure stopping

:23:31.:23:32.

them progressing across the country. A bit of rain, a bit breezy, in the

:23:33.:23:37.

far north-west, elsewhere, a dry day on Saturday, light wind, 28 degrees.

:23:38.:23:47.

-- 23, 24 degrees. Hot weather developing over the weekend, as high

:23:48.:23:52.

as 30 degrees, and a little rain in the north-west.

:23:53.:23:59.

Welcome back to west London, in the shadow of what remains of Grenfell

:24:00.:24:04.

Tower and it is worth taking a moment this morning to look at the

:24:05.:24:08.

images, as you look at it now, you can see there is still some smoke

:24:09.:24:12.

emerging from what looks like the lower floors, since the time we have

:24:13.:24:16.

been here, if anything, you would think there is a little more smoke.

:24:17.:24:20.

Images late last night in the darkness, you could see fires raging

:24:21.:24:26.

in some parts of the building. But it is a blackened structure now.

:24:27.:24:30.

Just hearing from the Fire Service about the operation ongoing, very

:24:31.:24:34.

difficult circumstances for the officers to work in, clearly, and

:24:35.:24:38.

for local people and for those in the building, desperate situation

:24:39.:24:44.

now, trying to find those missing and unaccounted for. With me now, a

:24:45.:24:47.

man who lived very close. Piers Thompson lives close

:24:48.:24:51.

by and is helping his friend I know that sometimes it sounds

:24:52.:25:01.

cliched but there is a real spirit, it is remarkable how people have

:25:02.:25:05.

rallied around. This has always been a strong community, but up against

:25:06.:25:12.

the railway and the motorway, recently the council have unveiled

:25:13.:25:15.

plans to demolish this whole area. So what was already a strong

:25:16.:25:19.

community has come together even more with big public meetings,

:25:20.:25:23.

talking to each other... Discussing the issues. I have just been

:25:24.:25:27.

speaking with one or two people, almost everyone has a connection

:25:28.:25:30.

with someone who lived in the building, I know that you have

:25:31.:25:33.

people who lived in the building. I would like to thank Fire Brigade, on

:25:34.:25:38.

the floor, yesterday, they say the friend of -- the life of my friend,

:25:39.:25:44.

he was stumbling around in the dark. -- they saved the life of my friend.

:25:45.:25:49.

One family lives over there, their mum lives there in the tower. The

:25:50.:25:54.

way the town will work, people were in and out of people's flats the

:25:55.:25:58.

whole time, that is one of the problems that people have had, they

:25:59.:26:00.

do not quite know where people were, in the building. But it is a strong

:26:01.:26:07.

community, and we keep having external pressures bringing us

:26:08.:26:11.

together. This is the last straw. One of the things I have noticed, in

:26:12.:26:15.

among the awful things happening, does not seem like much but so much

:26:16.:26:19.

debris, around, in your garden near, I noticed it, pieces of charcoal,

:26:20.:26:24.

which experts are telling us are bits of the cladding. They have

:26:25.:26:29.

fallen from the building. That is the insulation. Looks like a fake

:26:30.:26:34.

volcano erupted and there is policy director love everywhere. That is

:26:35.:26:39.

obviously terrible. -- and there is polystyrene lava everywhere. We will

:26:40.:26:45.

have a tragic roll of the people, people who did not make it out of

:26:46.:26:50.

the building. -- tragic roll call. This community is going to be

:26:51.:26:54.

devastated. We will leave it there. The search for the missing and

:26:55.:26:58.

unaccounted for continues. We will have more coverage from here in West

:26:59.:27:02.

London a little bit later. Now, the news, travel and

:27:03.:30:35.

Welcome back to West London, if we show you the images against the

:30:36.:30:40.

bright blue skies this morning, Grenfell Tower, the scene of the

:30:41.:30:43.

dreadful fire in which it has been confirmed that 12 people died, and

:30:44.:30:47.

you can see this morning as we look at the tower, there is still some

:30:48.:30:51.

smoke emerging from what looks like the lower floors of the building. In

:30:52.:30:56.

terms of the numbers, we know that the police are saying there are

:30:57.:31:01.

likely to be many more fatalities in the fire itself,

:31:02.:31:14.

65 people rescued by the Fire Service, we had an update in the

:31:15.:31:17.

last few minutes from Dany Cotton, the Commissioner of the London Fire

:31:18.:31:19.

Brigade. Many people so concerned about those missing and as yet

:31:20.:31:20.

unaccounted for. We have been able to do a very brief

:31:21.:31:25.

search of all fours, we have been up to the 24th floor but that has not

:31:26.:31:29.

extended out across all floors and due to the severity of the fire and

:31:30.:31:32.

the amount of fire debris spread across those flaws, it will be a

:31:33.:31:36.

very difficult and painstaking process to search through

:31:37.:31:39.

systematically, so there are still a number of flaws that will require a

:31:40.:31:43.

thorough search for us to be able to make sure there are no further

:31:44.:31:45.

people involved in this buyer. Those searches on going, that is

:31:46.:31:53.

Dany Cotton, the commission of the fire brigade. We asked if she could

:31:54.:31:58.

shed any more light on whether there may be more fatalities and she said

:31:59.:32:01.

that, in these awful circumstances, they were not able to do that

:32:02.:32:06.

because of the conditions that officers are working in, so the

:32:07.:32:09.

figures we have at the moment remain the same while their work goes on.

:32:10.:32:15.

Andy Moore, our correspondent, is with me. You have been here since

:32:16.:32:20.

the beginning, London Fire Brigade talking about the circumstances they

:32:21.:32:24.

are working in, how hard it has been to work both initially and now

:32:25.:32:29.

within the building? Yes, I was here from about 2am

:32:30.:32:34.

yesterday morning when the block was completely ablaze, and we now know

:32:35.:32:39.

that, even at that stage, firefighters were inside that

:32:40.:32:42.

building. I couldn't conceive of anybody being alive inside the

:32:43.:32:47.

building at any stage but we know that firefighters with breathing

:32:48.:32:50.

apparatus were going inside, trying to rescue people, and they have been

:32:51.:32:54.

doing that all along. They are in there now trying to get, they

:32:55.:32:58.

managed to get even to the top floor, they say they have managed to

:32:59.:33:01.

get to the top floor but have not been able to thoroughly searched the

:33:02.:33:10.

entire building to find all the casualties, they said that will be a

:33:11.:33:12.

very long, complex process. There were fears yesterday night the

:33:13.:33:15.

building would collapse, we all saw the images of the towers collapsing

:33:16.:33:18.

at 9/11, I saw the building alight and I certainly thought it might

:33:19.:33:23.

collapse at any stage, now we know there were firefighters in there

:33:24.:33:26.

trying to rescue people. Indeed, Dany Cotton saying a small

:33:27.:33:31.

number of them did need medical assistants, presumably because of

:33:32.:33:34.

smoke inhalation and other issues. You have been spending time here

:33:35.:33:38.

talking to people this morning, in amongst these dreadful situations,

:33:39.:33:42.

the search for the missing and those unaccounted for,

:33:43.:33:53.

continues. The way this community has reacted is extraordinary, you

:33:54.:33:56.

can see just over that, as you look around, piles of things that people

:33:57.:33:59.

have left on walls outside houses with notes said, please help

:34:00.:34:01.

yourself. It is a real feature of what has happened here.

:34:02.:34:03.

Yes, I have been at the basketball court a few hundred yards away and

:34:04.:34:06.

it is full of donations, bags that have not been opened yet, people are

:34:07.:34:10.

trying to go through it, sorting out children's clothes, there are dozens

:34:11.:34:14.

of pairs of shoes, gallons of water that has been donated. People have

:34:15.:34:18.

been incredibly generous, but I think the message this morning is,

:34:19.:34:22.

you have done a fantastic job, thank you very much for what you have

:34:23.:34:26.

given us, I know Breakfast viewers have been calling insane, what can

:34:27.:34:30.

we do, where can we take donations? I think the message this morning is,

:34:31.:34:35.

we have got enough, thank you very much, perhaps consider helping in

:34:36.:34:38.

some other way, perhaps a cash donation would be useful.

:34:39.:34:42.

Worth mentioning in amongst the compassion shown by some people

:34:43.:34:46.

there is a real sense of anger about those outstanding questions, about

:34:47.:34:50.

why the fire spread so quickly, why people were given advice to stay

:34:51.:34:54.

when possibly they should have tried to get out themselves?

:34:55.:35:00.

Yes, certainly, the BBC was standing here yesterday lunchtime conducting

:35:01.:35:03.

an interview with the head of the local council and after that

:35:04.:35:05.

interview was finished some people were shouting, there is blood on

:35:06.:35:09.

your hands. Certainly a lot of people are blaming the local council

:35:10.:35:13.

who, in the end, are the owners of the building, and the management

:35:14.:35:17.

company that run it, there were a lot of complaints over the years,

:35:18.:35:22.

people very angry, especially about this cladding, this insulating

:35:23.:35:26.

material that seems to have caused so many problems in this building.

:35:27.:35:29.

We know it has been used in hundreds,

:35:30.:35:49.

maybe thousands of buildings around the world, people now I think will

:35:50.:35:51.

have to reconsider what we do with that cladding.

:35:52.:35:53.

It may be fire resistant but if sufficient heat is applied then it

:35:54.:35:56.

does go up in flames. You and I have both noticed everywhere you walk

:35:57.:35:58.

around here there are little bits. These are the bits, it is like

:35:59.:36:01.

charcoal, really flimsy, it just breaks away when you touch it.

:36:02.:36:03.

It is almost the consistency of polystyrene ceiling tiles, and this

:36:04.:36:06.

is the insulating material that may be between boards, fire resistant

:36:07.:36:08.

boards, you can see it is black throughout, it has burned

:36:09.:36:10.

throughout, floated down from the building. This is the kind of

:36:11.:36:14.

material that is being blamed for spreading the fire so quickly. The

:36:15.:36:21.

company that did the work, they say it was in compliance with all the

:36:22.:36:26.

regulations and standards, and the company that carried out the work on

:36:27.:36:30.

the panels, they said there is no evidence at the moment, no

:36:31.:36:36.

convincing evidence, that the panels were to blame for the fire

:36:37.:36:39.

spreading, but certainly that is what a lot of people who live there

:36:40.:36:44.

believe this sort of stuff was to blame for the fire spreading so

:36:45.:36:45.

quickly. Thank you very much, for the time

:36:46.:36:48.

being. That is all from us for the moment,

:36:49.:36:52.

we have been here at the scene of the fire throughout the morning and

:36:53.:36:55.

the images remain, every time you look at it, they still stop you in

:36:56.:36:59.

your tracks, many people just passing by, stopping, looking for a

:37:00.:37:03.

moment and thinking of those missing and, as yet, for.

:37:04.:37:06.

Charlie, thanks very much. There have been questions about

:37:07.:37:14.

safety, how the blaze managed to spread so quickly.

:37:15.:37:17.

The Prime Minister has promised a "proper investigation"

:37:18.:37:24.

into the fire which engulfed Grenfell Tower.

:37:25.:37:30.

Earlier we spoke to the Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Fire

:37:31.:37:33.

Safety rescue Group and Conservative MP Sir David Amess.

:37:34.:37:34.

We have made countless speeches saying that Brinker should be

:37:35.:37:39.

fitted. It is absolute madness that it is mandatory for sprinklers to

:37:40.:37:44.

automatically be fitted in all new school buildings and it is

:37:45.:37:47.

impossible to put any amount of money on someone's life, so it isn't

:37:48.:37:52.

just this minister or the minister before, it has been very, very

:37:53.:37:57.

frustrating and it has taken a tragedy like this now to get some

:37:58.:37:59.

attention. John Healey is the shadow Housing

:38:00.:38:07.

Minister and joins us from Westminster. We spoke to said David

:38:08.:38:12.

Namath earlier in his role as a child the committee and an MP and

:38:13.:38:15.

what he made a point of saying is that these problems, the lack of

:38:16.:38:21.

changes to regulations, installation of sprinklers, etc, this has gone

:38:22.:38:24.

back years and years and years. Labour needs to take as much

:38:25.:38:28.

responsibility for in action as much as the Conservatives. I don't accept

:38:29.:38:35.

that, but as we consider these wider questions we have to bear in mind it

:38:36.:38:39.

is still desperately difficult down there at Grenfell Tower, many people

:38:40.:38:42.

are still missing, there are still flames in parts of the building and

:38:43.:38:45.

the firefighters still have not reached all part of that building so

:38:46.:38:49.

we have to bear that in mind. As far as our record as a Labour Government

:38:50.:38:54.

goes, we brought in regulations requiring all new tower blocks to

:38:55.:38:58.

have sprinkler systems fitted, we overhauled the guidance for

:38:59.:39:03.

assessing the risk and when we had a similar fire in Camberwell we had a

:39:04.:39:07.

review done within a month of that fire reporting back to ministers and

:39:08.:39:11.

published, so it is a good thing that Theresa May has ordered this

:39:12.:39:16.

review. It needs to be done without delay and report for the summer but

:39:17.:39:22.

most important, like others have said, they can start to act now on

:39:23.:39:25.

the recommendations that were there in the cauldron of support that they

:39:26.:39:28.

have had for over four years so they can start by installing sprinklers

:39:29.:39:33.

in the high risk blocks, the highest rise blocks. They can overhaul the

:39:34.:39:37.

building regulations as they promised to do four years ago and

:39:38.:39:42.

they can make sure people do have clear advice and information when

:39:43.:39:45.

they live in high-rise blocks like this about what to do when there is

:39:46.:39:52.

a fire. You brought up the tragic fire which killed six people in

:39:53.:39:54.

Camberwell in September 2000 and nine. Shortly after that there were

:39:55.:40:03.

reassurances asked for from the Labour Government that changes be

:40:04.:40:07.

made. You said you put in regulation for the new tower blocks, that still

:40:08.:40:12.

left tower blocks like Grenfell Tower, which was built in 1974,

:40:13.:40:16.

without those safety measures. Why were they not considered as

:40:17.:40:21.

important. We brought in those regulations in 2006, the coroner's

:40:22.:40:25.

report after Lakanal House in Camberwell, the terrible fire that

:40:26.:40:30.

claimed six lives, came in the spring of 2013, it was then the

:40:31.:40:34.

Government said first of all that they would overhaul the building

:40:35.:40:36.

regulations, and we are still waiting. Secondly they rejected out

:40:37.:40:41.

of hand even encouraging the retrofitting of these sprinkler

:40:42.:40:56.

systems in other high-rise blocks. They should act on those

:40:57.:40:59.

recommendations, it has been on the table for four years, they should

:41:00.:41:01.

start now in those high-rise blocks which are highest risk, there is no

:41:02.:41:04.

reason now not to start installing those sprinkler systems and starting

:41:05.:41:06.

the job of overhauling peace building regulations. This is the

:41:07.:41:08.

Bible the industry, designers, constructors, people who maintain,

:41:09.:41:10.

landlords, all views were looking after these sorts of properties.

:41:11.:41:13.

John Healy, thank you very much for joining us.

:41:14.:41:21.

The Metropolitan Police have said about emergency number for anyone

:41:22.:41:24.

concerned about friends or family at Grenfell Tower. The number is 0800

:41:25.:41:28.

0961 233. Theresa May will meet political

:41:29.:41:37.

parties from Northern Ireland She'll discuss plans to restore

:41:38.:41:39.

power-sharing at Stormont, and try to allay growing concerns

:41:40.:41:43.

about her attempt to secure the backing of Democratic Unionist

:41:44.:41:46.

MPs in parliament. President Trump is being

:41:47.:41:49.

investigated for possible obstruction of justice,

:41:50.:41:56.

according to the Washington Post. If confirmed, the move

:41:57.:42:00.

by Special Counsel Robert Mueller would mark a turning point

:42:01.:42:03.

in the FBI investigation into Russian interference in last

:42:04.:42:05.

year's presidential election. Mr Trump's lawyer has called

:42:06.:42:07.

the leak of information "outrageous, The days of coming home

:42:08.:42:09.

from a European holiday to a huge mobile

:42:10.:42:23.

phone bill are over. These are changes to the rules when

:42:24.:42:31.

it comes to using your mobile abroad, from today roaming charges

:42:32.:42:33.

will be scrapped so whatever deal you are on in the UK is what you

:42:34.:42:37.

will get when you are travelling around the EU member states. In

:42:38.:42:41.

other words, you should not get that message saying you will be charged

:42:42.:42:44.

40p per text or whatever, it will be exactly the same as in the UK. There

:42:45.:42:50.

are some caveats, as always. If you are on an unlimited data plan it

:42:51.:42:51.

might be that your mobile provider. Also if you

:42:52.:43:07.

travel and spend a lot of time in the EU, if you spend more time in

:43:08.:43:10.

other countries than the UK, you need to be careful with that because

:43:11.:43:14.

what the mobile providers are saying is your predominant tone has to be

:43:15.:43:17.

the UK, you have to use it more in the UK if you with a UK provider

:43:18.:43:23.

than any of other countries. It is definitely better than what

:43:24.:43:26.

was and on the whole it will mean you shouldn't come back, like Mike

:43:27.:43:31.

did, when he got back from his holiday, with a ?750 bill.

:43:32.:43:37.

2011 in Tenerife, I let my daughters go on social media sites... I was

:43:38.:43:43.

naive and financially inept! And your data roaming has been

:43:44.:43:49.

permanently turned off! Questions needed to be answered!

:43:50.:43:53.

Steph, thank you very much. You will answer the questions about what is

:43:54.:43:59.

going on in the cricket? Not what England had planned, they

:44:00.:44:02.

were the favourites to win the champions Trophy but they are out,

:44:03.:44:04.

so questions are being asked. The England cricket captain has

:44:05.:44:12.

denied there was any complacency from his side

:44:13.:44:15.

after they were heavily beaten by Pakistan,

:44:16.:44:16.

in the Champions Trophy semi-final. They went into the match undefeated

:44:17.:44:18.

and as strong favourites, but Eoin Morgan's side

:44:19.:44:21.

were comprehensively outplayed by Pakistan,

:44:22.:44:23.

who won by eight wickets. They will play either Bangladesh

:44:24.:44:24.

or India in Sunday's final. We played against some really good

:44:25.:44:30.

sides recently and we've That hasn't gone

:44:31.:44:33.

to our heads at all. In today's game, going in knowing

:44:34.:44:38.

we would play on a used wicket potentially brought Pakistan's game

:44:39.:44:44.

closer to their home. Southampton are looking

:44:45.:44:48.

for a new manager, after sacking The Frenchman had spent just one

:44:49.:44:50.

season at St Mary's, but during that time guided

:44:51.:44:55.

the Saints to the League Cup Final, where they were narrowly beaten

:44:56.:44:58.

by Manchester United, and he helped them to finish

:44:59.:45:01.

a respectable eighth The US Open golf, gets under way

:45:02.:45:03.

in Wisconsin, this afternoon. Much of the pre-tournament talk,

:45:04.:45:12.

has been about the punishing rough, with long grass surrounding

:45:13.:45:16.

many of the fairways. Organisers took the unusual step

:45:17.:45:18.

of cutting some of it back. Look at that grass, come up to my

:45:19.:45:22.

waist, I would have thought. 3,000 athletes from over 200 nations

:45:23.:45:29.

are descending on London this summer It will be the last chance,

:45:30.:45:33.

to see stars of the track Usain Bolt and Mo Farah,

:45:34.:45:37.

run competitively - on the track, at least,

:45:38.:45:42.

they will be hanging Let's take a look at some

:45:43.:45:44.

of the highlights. Usain Bolt! He's done it! Semenuk's

:45:45.:46:00.

the champion! It's a new British record! It's a mammoth jump! New

:46:01.:46:06.

world record! Raina Sophie Hitchen, what an effort! It is huge! A new

:46:07.:46:17.

British record! She is going to win the world title! A beautiful jump!

:46:18.:46:26.

Laura Muir now, she has smashed the British record! Mo Farah wins the

:46:27.:46:33.

gold! It gives you goose bumps, so does this position, it is a bit

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lumpy on the sofa. I can't remember a time we have had so many football

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world champions and record holders on the sofa.

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We are joined in the studio by three former track and field world

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champions and record holders, Colin Jackson, Sally Gunnell

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Identity now we have is enough time to talk to you! Lovat crack on then,

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I suppose will stop Sally, what has been the impact and the legacy of Mo

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Farah and Usain Bolt in particular at this difficult time for the sport

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as a whole, have they saved it, even? I think it is enormous, to

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have two massive personalities and with Bolt, his last ever race will

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be at the World Championships and the sport will miss him. But at the

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same time, he's unique at what he has done. He is an amazing character

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and what he has brought to the sport. Yes, he will stay within the

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sport, but we will probably never find somebody like him. We shouldn't

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be trying to replace him, he is a one-off. I have never known all the

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years I have been involved in athletics a character like him, and

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hopefully with mower, we might not see on the track but we will see him

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on the road, so yes, the sport will miss him. How much from all of your

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experiences from retiring as great athletes, how much will they missed

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the sport? I think hugely. Usain himself loves entertaining, so he

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will try to fill that void doing something else. He is highly

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talented, I'll be honest. I have seen him do Semenuk things from

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acting the musical stuff as well, so he will find his outlet somewhere. I

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will certainly misses performances on the track but we won't see the

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last of him. I think he is probably ready to retire, the pressure of

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being at the top since 2008 when he burst on the scene at Beijing, his

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body I think is falling apart. I do think he is a Big Train. LAUGHTER

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I don't think he will miss all those hard sessions with Coach mills, as

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he calls him, but he is an entertainer, and he happens to be a

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very fast athlete. I think he is ready to retire and move onto the

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next age of whatever life holds forth Usain Bolt. Probably not

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Manchester United though. LAUGHTER I can vouch for the fact he can

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dance. You gave him that move? If I helped him, before he was known at

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all. So let's look at London, a fitting place to say goodbye and

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what an important time, given all the terrible things that have

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happened, for London to be staging this and rolling back the memories

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of 2012. And that is what we are all hoping for, I'm sure we will. Today

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we have another 60,000 tickets going on sale. That is a demand, the

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tickets for the World Championships have almost sold out, so that is why

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they are releasing another lot. The Paras, there are still tickets to

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get hold of but that has already been the most successful ticket

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sales for any World Championships. That is key and important. That is

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what we want to do. Where we have so many great performers coming

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forward, there is a new generation, and we want to feel that real buzz

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of a family coming together and enjoying that track every night. You

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say a new generation yet you said that when the one as great as Usain

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Bolt, that's not very fair, is it? You will still see great

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performances, that is the key. As an athletics fan I am looking forward

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to seeing some great athletic performances. I don't think we

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should really look for another Usain, personally, because he is

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outstanding in any sport, weather track and field or football or

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anything, he is an outstanding character. I think this

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Championships is important for UK Athletics was that there are

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problems behind the scene, talks about public credibility, changing

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the world records perhaps, so I think the London 2017, it has a

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really important part to play in the element of athletics. Without

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question he will struggle without Usain Bolt, he has carried the sport

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on his shoulders. Great athletics, great new stars is really important

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for the next age of the element of the sport. I know Sebastian Coe who

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is here from the IAAF will say exactly the same. If you look back

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to Rio last year, it wasn't brilliant for athletics, the stadium

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was in full, so London 2017 has a really important part to play in the

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sport's developer in. How much does it feel different winning a World

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Championships to an Olympic gold? It is different. Once every four years

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as opposed to once every two years makes a big difference, and Dylan

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picks does have that cachet. But nonetheless, the atmosphere for 2017

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will be incredible, without any question. Recognise this? Oh yes. I

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remember watching this performance in a cafe, I actually wasn't in the

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stadium. If you said to me, in your career what was the exciting moment,

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it would be this, not winning the Olympics. Although the pressure on

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the Olympics, it is so great. I think mine was the Olympics, I think

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it is because you dream about it from a very young girl and everyone

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knows the Olympics, whereas the worlds doesn't have that history

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behind it. It is every two years. Jonathan Briggs the world record, I

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broke the world record, to me at a store that Olympic title. And Colin

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broke world record in the World Championships as well. I remember

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this race as well, I remember how poorly you the night before. Sally

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was in a bad state in the cafe, I remember we were sitting and

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chatting away about it, her eyes were streaming and everything, I was

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like, you'll be all right tomorrow, and you were! Still in shock, I

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probably learned more about my self in that race, it's amazing. I think

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it is just the excitement that we are here in London, and it is

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summer, we are going to hold a World Championships. Thank you so much

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coming in. Can't wait for it all to start. Let's hope it is more popular

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than the last set of Olympics. The ticket sales are great both of the

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World Championships and the power athletics as well. We have been for

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the anniversary game is quite a view time since 2012 and they have all

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been really good. Thank you the joining us. It is 852. Do you want

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to do this bit? The weather with Sarah? Let's have a look. It was a

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warm humid night last night and for many of us quite a murky start to

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the Davis Cup as we have through the day, things will stop to feel a bit

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-- a muggy start to the day. It is this cold front that will be

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introducing the fresh air, moving in from the Atlantic. As that slowly

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shifts its way from West to East, we will draw in that westerly breeze.

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On the front, not much rain, a few spots for Northern Ireland out of

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the Midlands, mainly a band of cloud as it shifts across southern England

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into East Anglia too. From the north-west, plenty of showers moving

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in on that westerly breeze, whereas further south we are expecting

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things to stay largely dry. This is 4pm. Across the south-west of Inler

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income 17, 18 degrees, a little cooler than recent days, slightly

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fresher too across the south-east, but quite warm and muggy for the

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first part of the day before that cold front shifts is Woods. A bit

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more patchy cloud through the Midlands and northern England, where

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we are likely to see the odd shower. More frequent showers across parts

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of Scotland. Sunny intervals between but if you catch some of the showers

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as they push eastwards across Scotland, could be the odd rumble of

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thunder. Some sharp showers across Northern Ireland with some gusty

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winds and temperatures in the mid to high teens. You can catch one or two

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passing showers across the far north of Wales but for much of Wales, it

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stays dry in that sunshine. Through the evening hours for many of us, a

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dry bright into the day. Overnight, the showers in the north Kent is

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away a time, a bit more cloud and patchy rain into Northern Ireland

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through the early hours of Friday. First thing tomorrow morning, the

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average is around 12 or 13 typically. Certainly more

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comfortable for sleeping, not quite as muggy as it was first thing this

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morning. Through the day tomorrow, quite a lot of cloud across Northern

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Ireland and Scotland with some patchy rain moving north-eastwards.

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Elsewhere across the country, another dry day to come, and it will

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feel quite worn once again. In the sunnier spells, 23 or 24 degrees.

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That warming trend stays with us into the weekend too. High-pressure

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moving in from the south, that is keeping weather fronts at bay, just

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a front sitting at the far north-west there. A bit of wet

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weather and quite breezy for the north-west of Scotland but for the

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rest of the country it is dry, sunny spells. Look at those temper just

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come out to around 28 on Saturday, moving up as we're heading into

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Sunday. Temptress topping at 30 degrees or so. A bit of rain to come

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across the far north-west. For now, back to Charlie in London.

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You can see the carcass of Grenfell Tower. We are spending emojis

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looking at the building itself. -- we are spending a few minutes

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looking at the building. Still some smoke emerging from what looks like

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the lower floors. We have watched that during the morning. The images

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from last night where against the dark skies you could see fire still

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raging from within. But it is sobering to look at it as many

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people pass by this morning and they take a moment and just look at what

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happened. The story this morning is of those missing and those as yet

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unaccounted for. We were speaking to Danny Cotan from the Fire Service a

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little earlier on. She was saying that even though fire officers have

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been able to go throughout the tower itself, they are unable to give

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people any numbers, in terms of the casualties. We now police have said

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12 people confirmed dead, but everyone is expecting that number to

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rise significantly. Many people locally have been trying to help out

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those who have been caught up in this crisis. Graham Satchell has

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been having a look at those stories for us now.

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It burned all day, the smoke visible for miles.

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On the street, people reliving what is the stuff of nightmares -

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the horror of seeing people jump, seeing people trapped at windows.

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It was terrible because I saw people, like the top floor,

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waving their hands, "Help," screaming for help and before

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we knew it the fire just engulfed that part, and you can

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Some of those who are missing have now been identified,

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including 12-year-old Jessica Urbano, who lived

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We met Sophie, who's 11, one of her school friends.

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She's still missing, she was on the news,

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and it's horrible for me to hear that they're missing or they're dead

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The grief very public, as some received terrible news.

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But with the grief, a truly heart-warming response.

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Everyone seemed to be carrying bags and boxes

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Churches, mosques, community centres inundated

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Everybody here is a volunteer, none of us know each other,

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we've just got stuck in and it's been fantastic,

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the community spirit has been really good.

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This a spontaneous response but, as the day wore on, a sense of anger

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that the local authority was nowhere to be seen.

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There's no-one out here, it's really just the community

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It's just really members of the community coordinating

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There is also growing anger about the fire -

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anger that it's poor people in a council-owned block

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I don't care what anyone says, there's no way that that fire

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should spread that quickly on a newly-refurbished building.

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We went as residents and said, "Look, someone

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needs to look at this, because there are

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David Collins says concerns he raised about fire

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safety at the tower block were brushed aside.

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There will have been people trapped in that tower knowing

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that the people that were supposed to look after them

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Debris from the fire is everywhere on the ground here,

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How could this fire have spread so quickly, and why did so many die?

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Graham Satchell, BBC News, West London. So many of those questions

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resonating with local people here. We should just give you the

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statements that have come from the various organisations involved.

:59:27.:59:33.

Kensington and Chelsea Management organisation who run the building

:59:34.:59:37.

say, the fire is devastating, reports of injury and loss of life

:59:38.:59:41.

are heartbreaking, we want to pay tribute to the bravery of the

:59:42.:59:46.

emergency services, members of the public to continue to selflessly do

:59:47.:59:49.

all they can. The events of last night and early this morning are a

:59:50.:59:52.

tragedy and we are doing everything we can to assist the residents of

:59:53.:59:57.

Grenfell Tower, those affected by the tragedy, that will be our

:59:58.:00:01.

immediate concern. Also from Kensington and Chelsea

:00:02.:00:04.

council, they say, we are providing emergency accommodation for those

:00:05.:00:08.

affected by the fire, our immediate priority is to accommodate the

:00:09.:00:11.

residents of Grenfell Tower and their families.

:00:12.:00:15.

Very much their focus at this stage is the families affected. Let's

:00:16.:00:19.

speak more about this now with two people closely involved in this

:00:20.:00:23.

area. The right reverend and Bishop of Kensington, who has spent the

:00:24.:00:29.

last 30 hours was also helping people locally, and Pilgrim Tucker,

:00:30.:00:34.

who was the housing officer at Grenfell Tower in 2015. There is a

:00:35.:00:39.

lot of anger in the community at the moment relating to what wasn't done

:00:40.:00:44.

as people here are seeing it. It was obvious at the time, I worked here

:00:45.:00:49.

in 2015, that the tenants were very aware of multiple problems with the

:00:50.:00:53.

building, including potential fire safety problems. I worked with that

:00:54.:00:59.

community, the tenant management just didn't listen to them, the

:01:00.:01:03.

contract it just didn't listen to the tenants' concerned, and it took

:01:04.:01:08.

some of the tenants being brave enough to protest and refuse access

:01:09.:01:12.

to the contractors into their flats to eventually get some of their

:01:13.:01:19.

problems addressed, but only for those tenants who were brave enough

:01:20.:01:23.

and able to protest. Some people we have spoken to this morning suggest

:01:24.:01:27.

it was almost like that awful line that now is not the time to be

:01:28.:01:30.

addressing those things but that is not what is protected by people who

:01:31.:01:35.

have been caught up in this? Know, the community, the people who have

:01:36.:01:38.

been directly affected are in terrible shock, but there is anger

:01:39.:01:41.

waiting to happen, they have been angry for a number of years about

:01:42.:01:49.

what was going on, their lives have just been devastated, and this was

:01:50.:01:52.

all entirely preventable. They have been warning about this for years.

:01:53.:01:56.

Bishop, you have joined us to talk about the compassion alongside that

:01:57.:02:00.

anger, sometimes it sounds very cliched but you have been talking

:02:01.:02:04.

directly to people who know people who are still unaccounted for in the

:02:05.:02:08.

building? Yes, yesterday was extraordinary in many ways, just the

:02:09.:02:12.

outpouring of compassion from so many people in the community here

:02:13.:02:16.

but your heart just goes out to people, I was speaking yesterday to

:02:17.:02:19.

a number of people gathering in one of our churches nearby, Saint

:02:20.:02:23.

Clements just around the corner from the travel, people anxious about

:02:24.:02:27.

family members, friends, wondering where they were, also a bit of news

:02:28.:02:38.

comes through that perhaps they are OK, hospital somewhere, just not

:02:39.:02:41.

knowing, we are in that phase at the moment, just not knowing where

:02:42.:02:43.

people are and that is the real anxiety for many people. Pilgrim,

:02:44.:02:46.

people who know this area well, you can see the devastation behind us

:02:47.:02:49.

but you only have to look closely and you can see a lot of other

:02:50.:02:53.

buildings here, replicated in cities across the UK, these questions are

:02:54.:02:57.

being asked about these tower block -- this tower block and relevant

:02:58.:03:01.

elsewhere. Yes, and they go right to the top, to the heart of this

:03:02.:03:05.

Government, Theresa May's chief of staff was responsible, consecutive

:03:06.:03:11.

housing ministers have ignored reports about fire safety and not

:03:12.:03:16.

implemented much-needed regulation. Those same politicians voted

:03:17.:03:20.

against, just last year, they voted against a clause in the bill which

:03:21.:03:24.

would have made homes safe for human habitation. Theresa May has said

:03:25.:03:29.

there will be a full investigation, I know that will be greeted with

:03:30.:03:34.

some scepticism by a lot of people. Bishop, if I could give you the last

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thought, we have seen the wall of remembrance which is just behind us

:03:39.:03:41.

there. It is sobering reading the messages there, some people

:03:42.:03:46.

obviously directly know those who have been caught up. That is right,

:03:47.:03:53.

today one of the thoughts is for those people who may get bad news

:03:54.:03:56.

today, we all know the death count will probably rise, people will get

:03:57.:04:00.

bad and so our focus as a church and those of us looking to convert

:04:01.:04:03.

people is to bring some of that comfort today as people get news.

:04:04.:04:07.

Worth bearing in mind the emergency services who spent much of

:04:08.:04:13.

yesterday, Fire Services, ambulance crews, people who have the job of

:04:14.:04:16.

going into the building and recovering bodies, many people the

:04:17.:04:22.

same who have dealt with the Manchester attacks and London Bridge

:04:23.:04:26.

attacks, three once-in-a-lifetime events in one month, our heart and

:04:27.:04:29.

thoughts go out to them as well. Thank you very much for your time,

:04:30.:04:34.

Bishop and Pilgrim. We heard earlier from the

:04:35.:04:38.

commission, the Fire Commissioner, saying that some of those fire

:04:39.:04:43.

officers who are involved in the initial rescue operation were indeed

:04:44.:04:47.

themselves needing medical assistance. We will have more from

:04:48.:04:50.

here a little later on in the morning. Now, a break for some news,

:04:51.:04:52.

travel and weather where you are. I'll be back at 1.30pm

:04:53.:06:29.

with the lunchtime news - Over the last few months on BBC

:06:30.:06:31.

Breakfast we've had to report some harrowing news,

:06:32.:06:42.

including yesterday's fire but we also wanted to bring

:06:43.:06:44.

you something else this morning. As part of the BBC's Music Day,

:06:45.:06:53.

we wanted to show you how the power of music is being used to make

:06:54.:06:57.

a difference to patients at a hospital in Manchester,

:06:58.:07:03.

and to the medical staff Our entertainment correspondent,

:07:04.:07:05.

Colin Paterson, has This is not how a hospital high

:07:06.:07:21.

dependency unit normally sounds. But at the Manchester Royal Infirmary it

:07:22.:07:22.

is becoming a regular event. Since last July, professional

:07:23.:07:38.

musicians have been brought into play for patients. And it is easy to

:07:39.:07:51.

see the sheer joy it brings. I found myself in an intensive care unit and

:07:52.:07:54.

found that experience quite traumatising. It was the high idea

:07:55.:07:59.

of Helen Ashley Taylor. Her hospital stay was transformed by a snatch of

:08:00.:08:06.

music on the TV set. That moment I felt alive again, it was

:08:07.:08:10.

transformative. I didn't feel isolated any more, I didn't think

:08:11.:08:13.

about my condition, I didn't think about pain, I didn't feel any pain,

:08:14.:08:17.

it was just quite incredible, it was lovely and it was all I could talk

:08:18.:08:21.

about when I left the hospital. Already a volunteer for music in

:08:22.:08:30.

hospitals, she decided to set up ICU Hear to take music into intensive

:08:31.:08:33.

care units, and it has proved to be a big hit. It is soothing. Music is

:08:34.:08:40.

good for you. It is making a difference. I don't want to

:08:41.:08:45.

stereotype you but you were in a motorcycle crash and you have some

:08:46.:08:49.

rather big tattoo. Are you a fan of the hard Rock? These are from a few

:08:50.:08:58.

years ago when I had a lot of her! And the staff approve of the musical

:08:59.:09:03.

accompaniment. It is quite a nice moment when the music is playing and

:09:04.:09:07.

the patient can be calm, because it is quite stressful. And to show how

:09:08.:09:11.

much music has become part of the hospital, the day after the

:09:12.:09:15.

Manchester bomb clarinettist Rachel Philpott, a regular here, helped out

:09:16.:09:19.

in the way she could, by playing in intensive care. I know that this can

:09:20.:09:26.

be quite settling for the stuff, I often have feedback saying this is

:09:27.:09:30.

what they needed, so I offered to come in if it was appropriate. One

:09:31.:09:33.

of the nurses said, this has been a horrible week and this is what we

:09:34.:09:40.

needed today. And one patient, Jacqueline, told me that having

:09:41.:09:45.

music played by her bedside could make her a whole day better. It's

:09:46.:09:49.

wonderful, it's lovely music. To me, music is really good for healing.

:09:50.:09:55.

The power of music. Just how powerful can music be? It can move

:09:56.:10:04.

mountains, can't it? And it can move people's hearts. Don't start me

:10:05.:10:13.

crying. It can do wonders. Colin Paterson, BBC News, Manchester Royal

:10:14.:10:14.

Infirmary. Wonderful hearing about the power of

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music as part of BBC Music Day. Let's take you back to West London,

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where Charlie is. We're in the shadow of Grenfell

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Tower year, you can see over my shoulder there the building, what

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remains of it, we have seen smoke emerging from some of the lower

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floors this morning, a very sobering sight, many people passing by just

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stopping and looking and taking in what has happened. We know Theresa

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May is due to visit the site later this morning, there has been an

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announcement this morning. People gathering with me for some final

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thoughts this morning. You have been helping those who have

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been turning up here. First of all our thoughts and grace to those

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affected in this tragic incident. Yes, it has been a big operation

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yesterday, we have been inundated with volunteers, we heard up with

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Humanity first, a community charity, and have had volunteers since

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yesterday morning helping with British Red Cross, with the council,

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liaising with all of the respite centres around the town. The spirit

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in the community is amazing. People are coming here for donations from

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as far away from Hampshire, we had volunteers throughout the night

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working with the authorities and local charities. If I could ask, and

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some of the practical questions a lot of people are asking this

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morning about how the fire spread so quickly, why would the instructions

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to stay in place? These are big issues about which people locally

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are very angry. Definitely, what came across yesterday and today is

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not just that anger but also the community spirit, as we have said.

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But also the question is, why did it happen, how did it happen, why did

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it spread so quickly, what can we learn from what happened and what

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are the implications for elsewhere? We need to find out very quickly and

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independent report, not overreact but learn very fast. We know there

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will be a full investigation which may be met with scepticism by people

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like you, this is your home. If you had seen that building go up, like I

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saw it from my back window, you will know that building was not fit for

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purpose. Somewhere along the line someone made a catastrophic error.

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At the moment we are breathing but there is a bubbling anger underneath

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and we do want to see someone held accountable for this. We want to see

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justice for those victims, because that was unavoidable tragedy. Thank

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you so much for your time this morning, that completes our coverage

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from West London this morning. Coverage will continue on the BBC

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News Channel. From everyone here, goodbye.

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For the first time, the Science Museum is opening its doors

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so you can vote for Britain's greatest invention.

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MUSIC: Da Funk, by Daft Punk

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