30/06/2017

:00:00. > :00:00.Hello, this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Naga

:00:00. > :00:09.New questions over the Grenfell Tower disaster,

:00:10. > :00:14.as pressure grows on Kensington Council.

:00:15. > :00:16.Last night the first full council meeting,

:00:17. > :00:19.since the fire, ended in chaos, after a row over

:00:20. > :00:26.This morning it emerges that the cladding, originally due

:00:27. > :00:28.to be used on the tower, was downgraded in order

:00:29. > :00:53.The parents of 10-month-old Charlie Gard - who lost their legal

:00:54. > :00:56.battle to take him to America for experimental treatment -

:00:57. > :01:09.say his life support will be switched off today.

:01:10. > :01:17.2017, the next few days will be the worst ever life. We know he is going

:01:18. > :01:20.to go. We don't even get a say on what will happen.

:01:21. > :01:22.So-called Islamic State under siege in Syria.

:01:23. > :01:23.American-led forces surround IS fighters in Raqqa.

:01:24. > :01:28.There's no need for men to wear a tie in the House of Commons

:01:29. > :01:32.from now on says the speaker of the House - so this morning I'll

:01:33. > :01:35.be seeing if formal dress codes at work are on their way out.

:01:36. > :01:38.In sport - three days before Wimbledon, the British number one

:01:39. > :01:41.Johanna Konta, recovers from a heavy fall at Eastbourne,

:01:42. > :01:43.to beat the world number one, Angelique Kerber.

:01:44. > :01:46.And we'll hear the tale of Menai the tropical sea turtle found washed

:01:47. > :01:49.up on a North Wales beach earlier this year, thousands

:01:50. > :01:53.We'll hear how she's edging closer to a return to the wild.

:01:54. > :02:02.Good morning. A cloudy day with drizzle in the north and west.

:02:03. > :02:05.Sunshine and showers towards the south-east. Details in 15 minutes.

:02:06. > :02:10.There are fresh calls for the leader of Kensington Council to resign

:02:11. > :02:12.in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster.

:02:13. > :02:15.A council meeting to discuss the tragedy was called off last

:02:16. > :02:19.night within minutes of starting after a row broke out over

:02:20. > :02:22.the attendance of members of the public and press.

:02:23. > :02:25.A document seen by the BBC has also revealed more details

:02:26. > :02:26.about the cladding used on the tower.

:02:27. > :02:29.Our correspondent, Dan Johnson, is in West London for

:02:30. > :02:33.Dan, just start by telling us about some of those angry scenes

:02:34. > :02:48.Bit by bit we are finding out more about this disaster, about this fire

:02:49. > :02:53.and about the materials that may have caused it to spread. Over two

:02:54. > :02:58.weeks since the disaster, there are still people who need help, who need

:02:59. > :03:01.somewhere to properly move to to live and there are people in

:03:02. > :03:05.authority, figures from the local council, who should be in charge but

:03:06. > :03:14.appeared to be struggling with coping with this disaster. A meeting

:03:15. > :03:21.of councillors ending in chaos. Another sign of the Council creaking

:03:22. > :03:24.under pressure. That is the reality. Having failed to properly respond to

:03:25. > :03:31.the disaster, last night Kensington and Chelsea failed in a bid to ban

:03:32. > :03:38.reporters from this meeting. Our reputation absolutely (BLEEP) it. A

:03:39. > :03:41.High Court judge had to remind senior councillors their discussions

:03:42. > :03:47.are supposed to be open. So the top team walked out. The leader of the

:03:48. > :03:52.council's Labour group to man's changes, not just at the top. I

:03:53. > :03:55.would say that not only does the leader the council need to go and

:03:56. > :04:01.certainly the tenant management organisation, who is a supposedly

:04:02. > :04:05.providing housing policy, they need to go but at this stage the entire

:04:06. > :04:08.cabinet needs to go. If they are incapable of sorting themselves out

:04:09. > :04:13.then I would agree that the government needs to send in

:04:14. > :04:17.commissioners. Before the meeting last night, the council leader

:04:18. > :04:22.accepted the criticism but said he was not going. The scale of this was

:04:23. > :04:26.absolutely enormous, unprecedented. I think any council would have found

:04:27. > :04:31.it difficult to have everything in place at once. Was a big challenge

:04:32. > :04:35.for a relatively small London Borough and I am sure we could have

:04:36. > :04:39.done better and we will look what we could have done quicker or better

:04:40. > :04:43.and that will be one of the we learn from this tragedy. The panels, on

:04:44. > :04:48.the building, are a key area for investigation. The BBC has been told

:04:49. > :04:53.during refurbishment zinc cladding was rejected in favour of an hour

:04:54. > :04:56.many alternative, not as fire retardant, but it has the same

:04:57. > :05:04.official rating. It was chosen because it is cheaper. The council

:05:05. > :05:05.saved more than ?290,000. How costly that decision could have been is one

:05:06. > :05:14.of many questions for the enquiry. And London's mayor said last night

:05:15. > :05:18.the decision to cancel that meeting beggared to leave. He said the

:05:19. > :05:24.council needed to be transparent, needed to try and give answers to

:05:25. > :05:27.the residence here. The council itself has said that it increased

:05:28. > :05:31.the budget during the refurbishment of this tower. It said that it

:05:32. > :05:34.committed to putting more money in at different stages and it says it

:05:35. > :05:39.is committed to working with the enquiries that are now under way.

:05:40. > :05:43.But, certainly, blocking the public and the media from that meeting has

:05:44. > :05:47.not done anything to help faith in the process that now involves all

:05:48. > :05:51.the different authorities who were involved in this building. In the

:05:52. > :05:54.last few days we have also had a reminder of the situation that

:05:55. > :05:57.survivors of this fire have been left in, struggling to find

:05:58. > :06:03.somewhere to live that are suitable for them. It is a nightmare. I

:06:04. > :06:11.cannot sleep. I sleep and I wake up. I slid four hours a day -- sleep

:06:12. > :06:18.four hours a day. We just want to get out. Many tough questions, not

:06:19. > :06:23.just for Kensington and Chelsea Council but also for all the

:06:24. > :06:27.authorities who had involved. Everybody is waiting to see exactly

:06:28. > :06:30.when the public enquiry will actually get going and whether that

:06:31. > :06:32.can command the confidence of all the people who have been touched by

:06:33. > :06:34.this disaster. The parents of 10-month

:06:35. > :06:36.old Charlie Gard - who fought an unsuccessful legal

:06:37. > :06:42.battle to take him to America for experimental treatment -

:06:43. > :06:44.say he will stop Charlie has a rare genetic

:06:45. > :06:47.condition and brain damage. Doctors at Great Ormond Street

:06:48. > :07:07.Hospital say the US treatment We should be over the road, sitting

:07:08. > :07:12.next to our son's bed, spending the last few precious hours with him. We

:07:13. > :07:17.just thought we would take five minutes out to tell you where we

:07:18. > :07:23.are. It is a video no-one should ever have to make. In a

:07:24. > :07:27.heartbreaking U-tube post, 10-month-old Charlie's parents say

:07:28. > :07:31.they are being denied their last hope for their baby boy. We promised

:07:32. > :07:35.our boiler will make everyday we would take him home. That is the

:07:36. > :07:42.promise we thought we could. -- we promised our boy every day. We want

:07:43. > :07:46.to sit on a sofa with him, we want to sleep in a bed with him. We have

:07:47. > :07:51.a cot that he has never slept in. Are now being denied that. Charlie

:07:52. > :07:56.was born with a rare genetic condition and severe brain damage.

:07:57. > :08:00.His parents have been fighting to keep his life-support switched on

:08:01. > :08:05.since March, despite doctors saying there is no hope for improvement.

:08:06. > :08:09.They took that fight all the way to the European Court of Human Rights.

:08:10. > :08:13.But this week they lost, as judges agreed with the British courts it

:08:14. > :08:17.was most likely Charlie was being exposed to continued pain. Today,

:08:18. > :08:22.his life-support will be switched off. His parents say they are being

:08:23. > :08:28.rushed the difficult time of their lives. We begged them today to give

:08:29. > :08:32.us this weekend. Some of our family and friends can come. They can come

:08:33. > :08:38.before tomorrow so the last time they saw Charlie will be the last

:08:39. > :08:42.time they ever see him. Great Ormond Street Hospital so they will not

:08:43. > :08:46.comment on specific details of patient care, but this is very

:08:47. > :08:54.distressing situation for Charlie's parents and all the staff involved

:08:55. > :08:58.and focus remains with them. After six years of war, fighters of the

:08:59. > :09:07.so-called Islamic State group are heavily under siege in the Syrian

:09:08. > :09:10.state of Raqqa. As a coalition progresses, they are already

:09:11. > :09:20.preparing for life after the defeat of IS. Our correspondence sent this

:09:21. > :09:21.report from its pre- airbase. -- correspondent sent this report from

:09:22. > :09:30.a temporary airbase. If and when Racal falls, it will be

:09:31. > :09:37.a large part thanks to the American presidency. If you look at the

:09:38. > :09:41.record today, we have now, coalition backed operations in Iraq and Syria

:09:42. > :09:45.have cleared out a 60,000 square kilometre area of territory and we

:09:46. > :09:51.have liberated over 4 million people. As the coalition advances

:09:52. > :09:54.into Raqqa, families are fleeing. Many end up in this camp. All lived

:09:55. > :10:00.under the harsh rule of Islamic State. Not all against their will.

:10:01. > :10:10.One corner of the camp is reserved for the wives and children of IS

:10:11. > :10:15.fighters. This woman left 11 on for Raqqa a few years ago to join her

:10:16. > :10:20.husband. After he was killed she married eight and is in and she

:10:21. > :10:24.joined the ranks of a privileged group, the wives of foreign

:10:25. > :10:27.fighters. American troops in Syria number in the hundreds, they won't

:10:28. > :10:32.say exactly how many as special forces are involved in the fighting

:10:33. > :10:37.on the ground, their planes bomb Raqqa from the air. Isis is

:10:38. > :10:41.certainly not defeated. When Mosul is liberated when Iraq is liberated

:10:42. > :10:46.there is a lot of hard work left. I asked the General as he knew the

:10:47. > :10:51.whereabouts of the self-declared leader of the caliphate? Man, I was

:10:52. > :11:04.hoping you would know. If you know, please tell me and we will kill him

:11:05. > :11:07.for -- forthwith. Capturing the city itself, despite being surrounded,

:11:08. > :11:10.will prove to be a long and hard fight.

:11:11. > :11:12.The American tennis player, Venus Williams -

:11:13. > :11:14.who is due to play Wimbledon next week -

:11:15. > :11:18.has been involved in a car crash, which led to the death

:11:19. > :11:22.A police spokesman told the BBC they were investigating the incident

:11:23. > :11:24.in Florida, which happened earlier this month.

:11:25. > :11:26.Williams's lawyer said the tennis star "expresses her deepest

:11:27. > :11:33.Taxi drivers, who went to the aid of people caught up

:11:34. > :11:36.in the Manchester Arena attack, were seen sashaying down the catwalk

:11:37. > :11:39.last night, to mark the opening of the Manchester International

:11:40. > :11:41.The event also included other Mancunians -

:11:42. > :11:44.in place of professional models - to create what organisers described

:11:45. > :11:48.as a living "self-portrait of the city".

:11:49. > :11:51.A rare sea turtle found washed-up on a beach in Anglesey has been

:11:52. > :11:54.taken to Gran Canaria ahead of her expected release.

:11:55. > :11:58.Menai - named after the section of water, which separates Anglesey

:11:59. > :12:02.from mainland Wales - is an Olive Ridley turtle.

:12:03. > :12:05.The species would normally be found in warmer waters close

:12:06. > :12:07.to the equator - as our Wales correspondent,

:12:08. > :12:24.Taking a step was to home. Menai's arrival at this turtle sanctuary

:12:25. > :12:27.marks a new chapter in her remarkable story. She has defied the

:12:28. > :12:32.odds on getting this far and will spend the next four weeks here. By

:12:33. > :12:38.her side, marine biologist Frankie who has helped nurse back to health.

:12:39. > :12:42.Here it is sunny and we saw the second day she was here she was

:12:43. > :12:46.basking quite happily, floating on the surface, relishing the sunlight

:12:47. > :12:50.on her shell. It is thought Menai was swept off course, away from the

:12:51. > :12:53.south-western breeding grounds of Africa, pass the east coast of

:12:54. > :12:58.America and back across the Atlantic, all the way to the UK in

:12:59. > :13:03.the Gulf stream. When she was found last November she was just minutes

:13:04. > :13:08.away from the Anglesey zoo. The team there had to overcome hyperthermia,

:13:09. > :13:12.buoyancy problems and got her feeding again. Really, what we want

:13:13. > :13:16.to do was take a further south-west and the laity and release in

:13:17. > :13:20.slightly warmer waters where she is north of the breeding grounds and

:13:21. > :13:23.let her find her own way there. If that happens, Menai will be back

:13:24. > :13:28.where she belongs where experts hope she will breed and play a part in

:13:29. > :13:30.helping secure the future of this endangered species.

:13:31. > :13:43.She will be happy in the Canary Islands. Mike might have a total fat

:13:44. > :13:54.for us. Do you? Just lying on a each tower. She just wants to get out

:13:55. > :14:02.into the water again. I call her love. Like my grandma. Did she look

:14:03. > :14:11.like a turtle? I asked I didn't say it. I am a bit worried now, this

:14:12. > :14:18.weekend. Medical staff will be busy. Johanna Konta had a fall and Andy

:14:19. > :14:23.Murray has a sore hip. He won't play today, will not play again properly

:14:24. > :14:26.until Wimbledon. You just worry about them both, whether they will

:14:27. > :14:30.be fully fit. Hopefully they will be. Hopefully they can recover over

:14:31. > :14:31.the weekend. Johanna Konta, underlined her

:14:32. > :14:33.Wimbledon credentials, with a dramatic win,

:14:34. > :14:35.over world number one Konta was already a set up,

:14:36. > :14:39.when she suffered a heavy fall, But after treatment,

:14:40. > :14:44.the British number one, took the second set

:14:45. > :14:47.to reach the semi-finals. She'll play Czech third seed

:14:48. > :14:50.Karolina Pliskova later today. Reigning champion Andy Murray,

:14:51. > :14:53.finds out later, who he'll play But there are concerns

:14:54. > :14:56.about his fitness. The world number one,

:14:57. > :14:59.was due to play an exhibition match today, but has pulled out

:15:00. > :15:04.because of a sore hip. 16 years, after he made his name

:15:05. > :15:07.there as a teenager, England striker Jermain Defoe has

:15:08. > :15:09.re-joined Bournemouth A clause in his Sunderland contract

:15:10. > :15:13.meant the 34-year-old could leave for free, following their relegation

:15:14. > :15:15.from the Premier League. And French police, have been unable

:15:16. > :15:18.to trace the driver, accused of crashing into,

:15:19. > :15:21.the three-time Tour de France winner, Chris Froome,

:15:22. > :15:23.while on a training ride in May. The Briton, who rides

:15:24. > :15:44.for Team Sky, starts the defence In the papers in a moment, a hole in

:15:45. > :15:48.one at the golf course. I will explain later. Thank you! The

:15:49. > :15:53.front pages. Starting with the Telegraph. Actually, we are going to

:15:54. > :15:58.go to the weather. Blame me.

:15:59. > :16:03.I was leading you down the garden path.

:16:04. > :16:07.We were told and I said, no, we're doing the papers.

:16:08. > :16:10.It is almost like we have a voice in my ear telling me what to do, which

:16:11. > :16:14.is not the case! I worry when a voice as he might yet

:16:15. > :16:18.happen when I'm not in the studio. That's another story! I am sure

:16:19. > :16:24.Sarah is levelheaded and have it altogether! Good morning. Very

:16:25. > :16:27.serene looking morning. This is captured by one of our Weather

:16:28. > :16:32.Watchers in Norfolk. A bit of mist on us, but not that quiet

:16:33. > :16:41.everywhere. More rain on the cards through today. For the last day of

:16:42. > :16:46.June let's have a look at last week. We had the record-breaking heat.

:16:47. > :16:50.This time the rain is in focus. Parts of Scotland, Edinburgh, broke

:16:51. > :16:56.the record. 178 millimetres falling in Edinburgh, the wettest June on

:16:57. > :17:00.record. The bit of a topsy-turvy month. Through the course of today

:17:01. > :17:05.we have some rain. This is the radar picture, showing we have had wet

:17:06. > :17:09.weather in Wales, south-west of England as well in recent hours. In

:17:10. > :17:12.northern and western parts we will continue to see that drizzly rain

:17:13. > :17:15.through this morning. Eight o'clock in the morning, wet weather and

:17:16. > :17:20.windy weather for the likes of Pembrokeshire and Cornwall. It turns

:17:21. > :17:23.left windy and dry up as we move across the Midlands and south-east

:17:24. > :17:28.of England. A mild and relatively bright start for the likes of Kent

:17:29. > :17:30.and towards Norfolk. More cloud heading further north into northern

:17:31. > :17:36.England, Northern Ireland and some patchy drizzle. It won't be raining

:17:37. > :17:41.all the time in parts of Scotland, but there will be patchy outbreaks

:17:42. > :17:44.at times and it will feel windy the northern and western parts. Further

:17:45. > :17:48.towards the south-east we should have sunshine breaking through into

:17:49. > :17:52.the afternoon, but without sunshine also the chance of a couple of heavy

:17:53. > :17:58.showers and if you catch one there could be hail and possibly thunder

:17:59. > :18:03.and heavy rain around. But as in the north and west, 14- 16, but in the

:18:04. > :18:07.south-east we are likely to see a 23 degrees, so feeling pretty warm.

:18:08. > :18:11.Into this evening and other area of rain moves down east coast of

:18:12. > :18:15.England, east Anglia and the south-east, but elsewhere it is dry

:18:16. > :18:18.and it is an improving picture as we look ahead to the weekend. We have

:18:19. > :18:22.this ridge of high-pressure moving on. There will be low pressure again

:18:23. > :18:26.approaching from the Atlantic, not for many other cities are dry and

:18:27. > :18:30.bright picture and all parts should see sunshine at least one day of the

:18:31. > :18:35.weekend. On Saturday any early rain clears from the south-east. Lots of

:18:36. > :18:38.dry and sunny weather install, for more cloud and drizzly rain moves

:18:39. > :18:44.across Scotland and Northern Ireland late in the afternoon. Temperatures

:18:45. > :18:48.about 24. Mostly dry again on Sunday, but showers look into the

:18:49. > :18:51.south-east and perhaps the few blustery showers in the north-west.

:18:52. > :18:58.But it is looking like a brighter and drier weekend. Thanks very much!

:18:59. > :19:09.Now we will do the papers. Good idea. Good morning! Good morning.

:19:10. > :19:15.The Guardian front-page. We will discuss this in a few minutes with

:19:16. > :19:18.our political correspondent, Alex, about the events yesterday. People

:19:19. > :19:23.say this is the new kind of parliament we will have, with these

:19:24. > :19:26.concessions we had in the last few minutes and these tight votes.

:19:27. > :19:33.The front page of the Daily Telegraph: The picture is of Prince

:19:34. > :19:40.Charles, the Prince of Wales, donning silver snow goggles in the

:19:41. > :19:45.Northern Territory in Canada... I'm loving the names!

:19:46. > :19:50.I'm not sure if I am doing them justice.

:19:51. > :19:57.The headline is that more than 50,000 patients with metal hips are

:19:58. > :20:00.being told they must undergo blood tests after they have been found to

:20:01. > :20:02.be more toxic than originally thought.

:20:03. > :20:07.The Times focuses on Grenfell Tower and issues around the cladding,

:20:08. > :20:12.suggesting the council was cutting costs, keeping the cost of the

:20:13. > :20:17.cladding down. We will talk more about that story on the front of the

:20:18. > :20:20.Times and the Telegraph, but a couple of stories in the business

:20:21. > :20:27.pages of the Telegraph. More eyes watching the city watchdog, looking

:20:28. > :20:32.at car finance deals. Are they bringing back control in the UK? And

:20:33. > :20:35.this one from Sony. Getting back into the vinyl business, beginning

:20:36. > :20:37.to press their own records, the first time in decades they've done

:20:38. > :20:40.that. I didn't realise they were that

:20:41. > :20:44.popular! When the money starts flowing into it you know they are

:20:45. > :20:49.popular. This time tomorrow, the Lions are

:20:50. > :20:54.building up to their second test. Sam Warburton is captaining this

:20:55. > :20:57.weekend and he says it is the biggest game of his life. Some are

:20:58. > :21:02.even saying if they lose this one and lose the series 3-0 it could be

:21:03. > :21:08.the end of the Lions as we know them, but I think that exaggerating.

:21:09. > :21:15.And of course, look at this, the cliff collapse. This is in West

:21:16. > :21:21.Dorset, on the 15th hole. They fenced it off and played on. Thank

:21:22. > :21:23.goodness no one was hurt on this occasion because it was very

:21:24. > :21:28.dramatic. So there is a path going across

:21:29. > :21:31.there? Literally yards from the bunker and

:21:32. > :21:39.it just caved in. Ground under repair!

:21:40. > :21:45.Thank you very much. We will have Alex Forsyth at Westminster. This is

:21:46. > :21:49.looking at Jeremy Corbyn axing three shadow ministers. That was over the

:21:50. > :21:56.rebellion over the Brexit vote. Let's go to Alex. This is the kind

:21:57. > :22:01.of... We are getting a glimpse now really just what this new style of

:22:02. > :22:04.Parliament will feel like on a day-to-day business sense, aren't

:22:05. > :22:08.we? I think that's right. The realities of a hung parliament,

:22:09. > :22:14.where every single vote counts and so backbench MPs and some on the

:22:15. > :22:18.front bench are calling it brave. Some Labour MPs went against the

:22:19. > :22:22.leadership yesterday because they backed an amendment which called for

:22:23. > :22:26.the UK to stay in the single market when it leaves the EU. Labour's

:22:27. > :22:30.official position is that it should retain the benefits of the single

:22:31. > :22:33.market. The Micawber and sacked three frontbenchers and another one

:22:34. > :22:38.resigned. He is asserting his authority, if you like, after the

:22:39. > :22:41.result. On the conservative side the government had to make concessions

:22:42. > :22:44.to stop some of its backbenchers rebelling because there were

:22:45. > :22:47.suggestions there might support a Labour amendment to ensure free

:22:48. > :22:52.access to abortions in England for women from Northern Ireland. The

:22:53. > :22:55.government has agreed to fund them to stop its Tory backbenchers

:22:56. > :23:00.causing trouble, so this is very much the new reality now. Boulder

:23:01. > :23:03.backbench MPs, which can cause a problem for party leaders. Thank you

:23:04. > :23:13.very much. Fewer people are taking their own

:23:14. > :23:16.lives on the railways. The reduction in this number is thought to be due

:23:17. > :23:22.to groundbreaking partnerships between the charity Samaritans and

:23:23. > :23:26.Network Rail. People have been trained on what to

:23:27. > :23:28.do if they spot someone looking vulnerable. There's been an 18%

:23:29. > :23:34.reduction in such deaths since the programme started last year.

:23:35. > :23:41.Every year more than 200 people take their own life on the railways.

:23:42. > :23:49.People of all ages, from all backgrounds. The initial shock after

:23:50. > :23:56.Oscar died... You're just numb and then in the weeks and is numb -- and

:23:57. > :24:01.months afterwards you get hit with a tsunami of grief. Oscar was just 16

:24:02. > :24:05.when he took his own life in 2015. He was smart, fun, popular at

:24:06. > :24:12.school. There was no clue as to how he was really feeling. You feel like

:24:13. > :24:15.your heart has been turned into glass, shattered. You are so

:24:16. > :24:21.vulnerable yourself and at that point you could take your own life.

:24:22. > :24:25.Carmel is now starting a charity in Oscar's name, going into schools,

:24:26. > :24:29.encouraging children to speak out about their feelings. What we do

:24:30. > :24:34.know is that many people who are suicidal, one of the things they are

:24:35. > :24:38.feeling... You can learn how to prevent suicide. In recent years

:24:39. > :24:42.nearly 15,000 rail staff and Transport Police have been on this

:24:43. > :24:47.groundbreaking Samaritans course, showing them what to do if someone

:24:48. > :24:51.looks vulnerable. Andy admits he was cynical before the lesson, but he is

:24:52. > :24:57.soon -- he soon relied on it to help a man in real trouble. I sat down, I

:24:58. > :25:01.spoke to him, asked him if I could help asked him if he wanted to talk.

:25:02. > :25:08.He said to me he was a coward and that he wanted to die. So I ask him

:25:09. > :25:12.if he would come and sit in the van and let me talk to him. At the time

:25:13. > :25:17.it was the only safe place I could think to get him. He says one thing

:25:18. > :25:23.in particular came back to him. I can remember the instructor actually

:25:24. > :25:27.saying, don't say "I know how you feel". That's always stuck in my

:25:28. > :25:32.mind because it is the type of thing I probably would have said, so

:25:33. > :25:37.that's in your mind, not to say it. Rail staff stepped into talk to a

:25:38. > :25:41.vulnerable person on average -- an average of four times a day last

:25:42. > :25:47.year and the number of rail suicide is now going down. If it was you

:25:48. > :25:50.that was stood there, in a vulnerable position, how would you

:25:51. > :25:54.feel if someone didn't come up and talk to you and you were allowed to

:25:55. > :25:59.go and take your own life? It's horrific, isn't it? You would want

:26:00. > :26:01.someone... You would want to be able to thank someone one day.

:26:02. > :26:09.That was Carmel, speaking to our transport correspondent. For details

:26:10. > :26:16.about organisations which offer advice and support, visit the BBC

:26:17. > :26:23.website above: Or call any time for free to get information.

:26:24. > :29:46.And there's plenty more news, travel and weather on our website

:29:47. > :29:48.at the usual address or on our radio station,

:29:49. > :29:56.Hello, this is Breakfast with Charlie Stayt and Naga

:29:57. > :29:59.We'll bring you all the latest news and sport in a moment,

:30:00. > :30:03.It's the simple test that saves lives -

:30:04. > :30:06.but new research suggests many women still aren't aware of the need

:30:07. > :30:17.We'll look at what's being done to change that.

:30:18. > :30:22.Where a tyre. It seems quite irrelevant in some ways. -- wearing

:30:23. > :30:23.a neck tie? Appropriate uniform

:30:24. > :30:25.or irrelevant tradition? Sean will be looking

:30:26. > :30:27.at whether dress codes in the workplace have

:30:28. > :30:29.gone out of fashion. From climbing the career ladder,

:30:30. > :30:32.to scaling new heights. After 8:30, we'll be joined

:30:33. > :30:34.by the American free-climber widely But now a summary of this

:30:35. > :30:39.morning's main news. There are fresh calls for the leader

:30:40. > :30:43.of Kensington Council to resign in the wake of the

:30:44. > :30:45.Grenfell Tower disaster. A council meeting to discuss

:30:46. > :30:48.the tragedy was called off last night within minutes of starting

:30:49. > :30:51.after a row broke out over the attendance of members

:30:52. > :30:53.of the public and press. A document seen by the BBC has also

:30:54. > :30:56.revealed more details about the cladding

:30:57. > :30:58.used on the tower. Our correspondent,

:30:59. > :31:05.Dan Johnson has more. A meeting of councillors

:31:06. > :31:07.ending in chaos. Another sign of the Council

:31:08. > :31:14.creaking under pressure. Having failed to properly

:31:15. > :31:17.respond to the disaster, last night Kensington and Chelsea

:31:18. > :31:20.failed in a bid to ban A High Court judge had to remind

:31:21. > :31:35.senior councillors their discussions The leader of the council's

:31:36. > :31:40.labour group demands I would say that not only does

:31:41. > :31:48.the leader of the council need to go and certainly the tenant

:31:49. > :31:50.management organisation, who is a supposedly providing

:31:51. > :31:53.housing policy, they need to go but at this stage the entire

:31:54. > :31:56.cabinet needs to go. If they are incapable

:31:57. > :31:59.of sorting themselves out then I would agree that

:32:00. > :32:01.the government needs Before the meeting last

:32:02. > :32:07.night, the council leader accepted the criticism

:32:08. > :32:11.but said he was not going. The scale of this was absolutely

:32:12. > :32:14.enormous, unprecedented. I think any council would have found

:32:15. > :32:18.it difficult to have everything It was a big challenge

:32:19. > :32:21.for a relatively small London borough and I am sure we could have

:32:22. > :32:27.done better and we will look at what we could have

:32:28. > :32:29.done quicker or better and that will be one of the things

:32:30. > :32:33.we learn from this tragedy. The panels stuck on the building,

:32:34. > :32:36.are a key area for The BBC has been told

:32:37. > :32:40.during refurbishment zinc cladding was rejected in favour

:32:41. > :32:44.of an aluminium alternative, not as fire retardant,

:32:45. > :32:47.but it has the same The council saved

:32:48. > :32:54.more than ?290,000. How costly that decision

:32:55. > :32:56.could have been is one In around ten minutes'

:32:57. > :33:06.time, we'll be speaking to the Labour Councillor,

:33:07. > :33:09.Robert Atkinson - who challenged the Kensington Council leader

:33:10. > :33:23.at the meeting last night. Parents of 10-month-old Charlie who

:33:24. > :33:27.fought an unsuccessful legal battle to take him to America for treatment

:33:28. > :33:33.to say he will be taken off life support today. Charlie has a rare

:33:34. > :33:36.genetic condition. Doctors say that the US treatment would not have

:33:37. > :33:40.helped him. Chris and Connie say they have now been told they will

:33:41. > :33:41.not be able to take their son home to die.

:33:42. > :33:43.Nurseries in England are warning local councils are failing

:33:44. > :33:46.to provide enough money to fund more free childcare

:33:47. > :33:50.From September children will be eligible for 30 hours free nursery

:33:51. > :33:54.education a week - if both parents are in work.

:33:55. > :33:57.However the National Day Nurseries Association say most won't be able

:33:58. > :34:02.to afford to provide the extra hours.

:34:03. > :34:05.More than a quarter of women who are overdue for a cervical

:34:06. > :34:08.cancer test don't know screening is available,

:34:09. > :34:12.The charity found there was a particular lack of awareness

:34:13. > :34:14.among women who spoke English as a second language.

:34:15. > :34:17.Around 3,000 new cases are diagnosed every year and the charity says more

:34:18. > :34:24.needs to be done to reach women who are missing tests.

:34:25. > :34:31.We were very surprised to find that some were completely unaware of the

:34:32. > :34:34.programme and that tended to be women from black, minority and

:34:35. > :34:40.ethnic groups and those who did not have English as a first language.

:34:41. > :34:44.That's just that although all women in the country who are age eligible

:34:45. > :34:48.for screening are sent to an invalid patient inviting them to take part,

:34:49. > :34:49.for some women that is not a good way to reach them.

:34:50. > :34:51.The American tennis player, Venus Williams -

:34:52. > :34:54.who is due to play at Wimbledon next week -

:34:55. > :34:57.has been involved in a car crash, which led to the death

:34:58. > :35:01.A police spokesman told the BBC they were investigating the incident

:35:02. > :35:03.in Florida, which happened earlier this month.

:35:04. > :35:06.Williams's lawyer said the tennis star "expresses her deepest

:35:07. > :35:10.Taxi drivers, who went to the aid of people caught up

:35:11. > :35:13.in the Manchester Arena attack, were seen sashaying down the catwalk

:35:14. > :35:16.last night, to mark the opening of the Manchester International

:35:17. > :35:18.The event also included other Mancunians -

:35:19. > :35:21.in place of professional models - to create what organisers described

:35:22. > :35:34.as a living "self-portrait of the city".

:35:35. > :35:41.Time now this sport. Yes and we are nervously waiting for news of the

:35:42. > :35:46.condition of our top tennis players. You know, in spore, when you have a

:35:47. > :35:50.fall and adrenaline keeps you going. The day after that the pain will

:35:51. > :35:55.kick in so we have that Johanna Konta is OK because she is doing so

:35:56. > :35:57.well Wimbledon next week. Johanna Konta is, for the moment, through to

:35:58. > :36:00.the semifinals at Eastbourne but her victory over

:36:01. > :36:03.Angelique Kerber came at a price. Konta was already a set up

:36:04. > :36:06.when she suffered a heavy fall late Following a lengthy stoppage

:36:07. > :36:09.while she received treatment, the British number one eventually

:36:10. > :36:12.took one of several match points to win the second set

:36:13. > :36:14.and booked her place She'll play Czech third seed

:36:15. > :36:27.Karolina Pliskova later today. well... I slipped and I hit my head

:36:28. > :36:33.so my head is a little sore right but we will see. It has been a easy

:36:34. > :36:37.afternoon so... Not just for myself but for many players. We played a

:36:38. > :36:39.lot of tennis today so definitely looking forward to recovering the

:36:40. > :36:40.best I can and playing again. Heather Watson is also

:36:41. > :36:43.into the last four at Eastbourne, she'll play Caroline

:36:44. > :36:44.Wozniacki today. You can see that match

:36:45. > :36:48.on BBC Two from 11 o clock. In the men's draw,

:36:49. > :36:50.Novak Djokovic kept his Wimbledon preparations on course,

:36:51. > :36:52.after beating American Donald Young The Serbian, won the first set

:36:53. > :36:56.easily, but had to survive, two set points in the second before,

:36:57. > :37:00.winning it in the tiebreak. Djokovic, who's seeded

:37:01. > :37:02.second for Wimbledon, plays Daniel Medvedev,

:37:03. > :37:05.in his semi final today. Meanwhile Andy Murray,

:37:06. > :37:07.has withdrawn from an exhibition event in London today

:37:08. > :37:10.with a sore hip, denting his Murray is the reigning champion

:37:11. > :37:15.and top seed for the tournament at the All England club,

:37:16. > :37:18.but has pulled out of two And the world number 855 Alex Ward,

:37:19. > :37:23.will be in this morning's main Wimbledon draw, he's

:37:24. > :37:25.the only British player, to come through the singles

:37:26. > :37:32.qualifying event. He beat Russia's

:37:33. > :37:33.Teymuraz Gabashvili. Ward had lost his previous seven

:37:34. > :37:44.matches, before this week. Simon Grayson says he wants to give

:37:45. > :37:48.Sunderland fans 18 they can be proud of after he was appointed as their

:37:49. > :37:52.new manager. He signed a three-year deal with the club. He replaces

:37:53. > :37:56.David Moyes who resigned in May and joins after four years with fellow

:37:57. > :38:01.championship club Preston. Also signing a three-year deal is England

:38:02. > :38:05.striker Jermaine Defoe who is making a return to Bournemouth. He had a

:38:06. > :38:08.clause in his contract allowing him to leave for free following

:38:09. > :38:14.Sunderland's relegation from the Premier League. He is leaving

:38:15. > :38:19.Sunderland. He scored 15 goals last season. In one year before the World

:38:20. > :38:22.Cup, the reigning champions are frightening form. Their reserves

:38:23. > :38:28.side cruised into the final of the confederations cup. They scored

:38:29. > :38:33.twice early on. How about this goal for Mexico? Look at the distance! It

:38:34. > :38:39.was a only a consolation but worth seeing again. Germany will play

:38:40. > :38:44.Chile in the final on Sunday in Saint Petersburg. In rugby league,

:38:45. > :38:49.leaves edged a thrilling match. They are up to second now in the Super

:38:50. > :38:56.League table. The rhinos ran in four tries. They survived a late fight

:38:57. > :39:00.back to dent the hopes of Saint Helen 's finishing in the top four.

:39:01. > :39:06.There is nothing a mother will not do for a fun, is there? Even if you

:39:07. > :39:11.are grown man playing in a professional tournament, a Chinese

:39:12. > :39:16.player through his part into the water at the 11th. Something my

:39:17. > :39:21.would never do. A tantrum going on. 20 minutes later, that is his mother

:39:22. > :39:26.wading into the water to find it. Attracting attention from the other

:39:27. > :39:32.players. She found it, possibly for posterity. She realises it is broken

:39:33. > :39:36.and throws it back in. Her efforts that some of the other players into

:39:37. > :39:41.fits of laughter as they looked on in amazement at the effort she had

:39:42. > :39:48.gone to. And all in vain. What a lovely mother. If my mother saw me

:39:49. > :39:58.through my part in the water... Have you done that? No. If she saw me

:39:59. > :40:02.throwing my putter in the water, she would then threw me on. That water

:40:03. > :40:08.does look manky as well. Thank you very much, Mike. We will have the

:40:09. > :40:13.weather a little later but first, let's return to our main story. A

:40:14. > :40:18.chaotic meeting at Kensington council last night. Aborted soon

:40:19. > :40:21.after it began. Robert Atkinson was there who criticise the leaders

:40:22. > :40:25.saying that the reputation of the Council is in the gutter. Thank you

:40:26. > :40:30.for joining us this morning on a councillor. Can you describe, furs,

:40:31. > :40:34.described the atmosphere and what happened last night in that meeting

:40:35. > :40:41.which effectively was brought to a premature conclusion. We went to the

:40:42. > :40:47.meeting to find out what the council was proposing to do, to find a way

:40:48. > :40:52.forward to look after our residents. The leader of the council then read

:40:53. > :40:56.out a statement, statement he should have made ten days ago, and then

:40:57. > :41:00.when he became aware that the press were present he then summarily ended

:41:01. > :41:04.the meeting. It turned into chaos with none of our questions answered.

:41:05. > :41:10.That led me to call for the suspension of the Council and the

:41:11. > :41:15.appointment of commissioners. Simply because the council, even after ten

:41:16. > :41:18.days, is failing to get to grips with the situation. The council is

:41:19. > :41:22.saying that they were following legal advice, that they could not

:41:23. > :41:30.proceed with the meeting with the press there. If that is not true?

:41:31. > :41:34.They are changing their story. What I was subsequently told was that

:41:35. > :41:38.they did not want to intrude on two areas of sub judice which I find

:41:39. > :41:43.very offensive to backbench councillors. We know where the legal

:41:44. > :41:47.limits are and were prepared to stay within them. We are not asking, we

:41:48. > :41:51.were not seeking about needing to ask questions about the origin of

:41:52. > :42:00.the fire. We were looking to comment upon and to contribute to the things

:42:01. > :42:03.that have happened since the fire, the abysmal failure of the council

:42:04. > :42:07.to provide services for my residence. We were clear as to what

:42:08. > :42:11.we could and could not talk about. And, anyway, there were legal

:42:12. > :42:15.officers present and they could have guided us and we strayed onto

:42:16. > :42:18.territory that should not have been discussed. They simply did not wish

:42:19. > :42:21.to speak to either the public or the breast or the Rome backbench

:42:22. > :42:30.councillors. Can you be clear forest now, what is it you want to see

:42:31. > :42:34.happen? -- for us now? I want the PMO to be done away with. I want the

:42:35. > :42:39.senior leadership of the council and the Cabinet to resign. I want a new

:42:40. > :42:44.organisation in the council who can finally get to grips with the

:42:45. > :42:49.situation and make sure that my residence are properly housed and

:42:50. > :42:53.looked after. Ten days after this disaster, and I remind you, we are

:42:54. > :42:58.only a few miles away from Parliament, we are not in a third

:42:59. > :43:02.World country, ten days after this disaster my people are still not

:43:03. > :43:05.housed properly, still not being listened to and still not getting

:43:06. > :43:10.access to the money they have been promised. Why do you think, given

:43:11. > :43:15.what you have outlined their, why do you think the council is still in

:43:16. > :43:20.place? Are they... Are they blind to the problems, the ongoing problems

:43:21. > :43:24.that people, the conditions that people are living in and, if you

:43:25. > :43:30.like, how they are compounding the problems? Yes. They do not seem to

:43:31. > :43:34.have the capacity to grasp the scale of the problem. The organisations

:43:35. > :43:38.and other councils that have come in to help us have done a magnificent

:43:39. > :43:43.job and I am not criticising the junior officers of the council. The

:43:44. > :43:47.officers of the council 's in very difficult circumstances are trying

:43:48. > :43:50.to get back to normal and to provide additional services to those who

:43:51. > :43:54.have suffered. But there is no leadership. They are running around

:43:55. > :43:59.like headless chickens and they are trying to pretend that they are in

:44:00. > :44:03.control of the situation when they cannot even organise a meeting in

:44:04. > :44:06.their own to make town Hall. It demonstrates to the entire nation

:44:07. > :44:09.that they do not know what they are doing. Thank you very much for your

:44:10. > :44:16.time this morning. We appreciate that. He is a Labour councillor for

:44:17. > :44:20.the Kensington and Chelsea Council. Let's talk to Sarah now and find out

:44:21. > :44:27.what is happening with the weather. You will get better for us?

:44:28. > :44:33.That's right, we have brighter and drier weather on the cards by the

:44:34. > :44:37.time we get to the weekend. It has been unsettled. The whole month of

:44:38. > :44:40.June has been rather topsy-turvy. We've had high temperatures. Last

:44:41. > :44:45.week we had the record-breaking heat and this week we've had the heavy

:44:46. > :44:54.rain. In fact, 178 millimetres of rain has fallen Edinburgh, the

:44:55. > :44:58.wettest June on record. We've beaten some records. This was the scene

:44:59. > :45:02.taken in Edinburgh yesterday by one of our Weather Watchers. Here is the

:45:03. > :45:06.recent radar picture. The heaviest rain is in parts of Wales and the

:45:07. > :45:13.south-west of England, also drizzle further north. If you are heading

:45:14. > :45:16.out for the morning rush-hour there is heavy rain towards Cornwall and

:45:17. > :45:22.Pembrokeshire, combined with a risk wind. So not very nice conditions.

:45:23. > :45:26.Quieter towards the Midlands and the south of England. There will be a

:45:27. > :45:29.bit of sunshine breaking through as well. Heading our way northwards

:45:30. > :45:34.there's low cloud and drizzle for the north of Wales. Although it

:45:35. > :45:37.should improve here late in the day. Across Scotland it's a rather grey

:45:38. > :45:41.picture. There will be some outbreaks of light and patchy rain,

:45:42. > :45:45.but most of the rain should ease through the day. Quite windy in

:45:46. > :45:49.parts of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales and the south-west of

:45:50. > :45:52.England. With sunny spells developing in the south-east we

:45:53. > :45:57.could have a few heavy showers, especially in Kent, Sussex. If you

:45:58. > :46:02.catch one that could be heavy rain around here. Temperatures towards

:46:03. > :46:05.the west about 14- 17 degrees. For central and south-eastern parts of

:46:06. > :46:09.the highs are up into the low 20s. This evening and tonight we will see

:46:10. > :46:14.wet weather moving down across parts of eastern and central England, but

:46:15. > :46:19.most other places become dry. The winds for light and we have this

:46:20. > :46:26.high pressure building on. That's what will bring us a better weekend.

:46:27. > :46:31.It will be drier and brighter than we have seen over the past few days.

:46:32. > :46:35.During Saturday any early rain clears from the south-east and very

:46:36. > :46:38.sunny and dry weather for much of the country. Into the afternoon more

:46:39. > :46:42.cloud and outbreaks of rain in parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland.

:46:43. > :46:46.Ahead of that we could see temperatures up to 24 degrees. A

:46:47. > :46:50.pleasant day. Still a chance of wet weather. On Sunday, perhaps during

:46:51. > :46:56.the morning, in southern England, but most other areas having a dry

:46:57. > :47:01.day and temperatures up to 22 degrees. Thanks very much!

:47:02. > :47:08.We are going to talk about appropriate closing hour,

:47:09. > :47:17.specifically these ties. The ongoing debate about when should a man wear

:47:18. > :47:20.a tie and when should he not? It is a bit of a minefield at the

:47:21. > :47:22.moment. The --

:47:23. > :47:26.The speaker of the House of Commons has told male MPs they no longer

:47:27. > :47:30.have to wear a tie, so are workplace dress codes going out of fashion?

:47:31. > :47:35.you've got a little picture alongside you. You seem to be

:47:36. > :47:39.getting smaller, which is confusing. And you are levitating! But on the

:47:40. > :47:46.left you seem eager, but you are more formally dressed. Yes, taller.

:47:47. > :47:50.Are you wearing red trousers? Yes, that can get controversial. If you

:47:51. > :47:54.are in London these days you will hardly see a normal pair of

:47:55. > :47:58.trousers. They are all bright and fluorescent. Is that crossing the

:47:59. > :48:03.line? There's so much you need to consider. Businesslike attire. But

:48:04. > :48:07.they were saying in the House of Commons yesterday. It is the last

:48:08. > :48:09.bastions of formal dress in the House of Commons. But times are

:48:10. > :48:14.changing. The Speaker of the House

:48:15. > :48:17.allowing men not to wear a tie, saying "business-like attire"

:48:18. > :48:19.is all that's required instead. We've already got business casual

:48:20. > :48:23.and smart casual to deal with. We asked some workers if they'd

:48:24. > :48:31.want to give up the humble tie. Where I work, in the office I work,

:48:32. > :48:35.I make sure people I work with all who work for me where a tie. In some

:48:36. > :48:39.professions it is appropriate to where attire. Banking, even

:48:40. > :48:43.accountancy, added is appropriate. If I am going to a meeting or

:48:44. > :48:47.viewing I would probably put on attire, not just in the office, no.

:48:48. > :48:52.I've personally always found a button up shirt actually looks much

:48:53. > :48:53.more clean and tidy than a Thai, which seems like an irrelevant piece

:48:54. > :48:56.of cloth -- tie. An irrelevant piece of cloth, I like

:48:57. > :49:04.that! Lyn Bromley is Managing

:49:05. > :49:14.Director of First Impressions Are we seeing this across

:49:15. > :49:18.businesses, but formal wear is going up the window? We are. For about the

:49:19. > :49:22.last 20 years things have been changing and dress codes have become

:49:23. > :49:26.more relaxed. I would say it varies depending on industry you are in and

:49:27. > :49:30.there are some quite traditional organisations that still do request

:49:31. > :49:34.them to wear ties and suits, but it has definitely changed over the past

:49:35. > :49:38.couple of decades. If we look at these, you've got a suit with no

:49:39. > :49:47.tyre. Where do you start drawing the line about what is smart wear in the

:49:48. > :49:50.office? What is businesslike attire? It really depends on the

:49:51. > :49:55.organisation. I would also say it depends on the kind of clients you

:49:56. > :49:58.work with. In organisations where they are little bit more informal,

:49:59. > :50:01.such as technology companies and we've seen a massive change in at

:50:02. > :50:06.over the years with the increasing digitisation, so it is much more

:50:07. > :50:11.appropriate to be dressed as you are on the right hand side. Whereas on

:50:12. > :50:14.the left it is really more formal organisations, perhaps like law

:50:15. > :50:19.firms, accountants, management consultants. Even for those

:50:20. > :50:23.industries it has been and therefore wearing the our feed without a tie

:50:24. > :50:31.is considered to be perfectly OK. -- the outfit. I always quite like

:50:32. > :50:35.sleeves rolled up in the office. Is that suitable? Again, depends on the

:50:36. > :50:40.organisation and the kind of work. Would it be considered smart? It's

:50:41. > :50:43.not as smart as the sleeves down, but actually gives much more

:50:44. > :50:48.preferable than having a short-sleeved shirt on in business,

:50:49. > :50:52.which isn't seen as quite as professional. I feel quite sorry for

:50:53. > :50:57.men in the summer, like last week when we seem to have had our summer.

:50:58. > :51:02.The guys are really warm in the office when they are still having to

:51:03. > :51:07.wear shirts and ties. So being able to roll sleeves up is unacceptable

:51:08. > :51:10.look, but again it really depends on the organisation. It is all about

:51:11. > :51:15.appropriateness for the industry you are in. Thank you very much. There

:51:16. > :51:17.you go. I think I just about pass, depending on who I am working for.

:51:18. > :51:21.You would always pass! It's 80 years since the 999

:51:22. > :51:23.emergency call system Ini 1937 it involved just 24 staff

:51:24. > :51:34.based at Scotland Yard, world's away from the vast

:51:35. > :51:36.operation that exists Breakfast's Tim Muffett

:51:37. > :51:39.is at the headquarters of the London Ambulance Service

:51:40. > :51:42.for us this morning. He can tell us more about how it

:51:43. > :51:50.works. Good morning. Good morning. The London Ambulance

:51:51. > :51:53.Service welcoming us this morning, very nice of them to do that,

:51:54. > :52:01.because it's a busy place. On the 30th of June, the first 999 calls

:52:02. > :52:06.were made and in that year around 5000 calls were made for the

:52:07. > :52:10.Metropolitan police. Compared that today and the ambulance service in

:52:11. > :52:17.alone in London deals with 1.8 million calls, 10 billion 999 calls

:52:18. > :52:20.around the country. What's it like doing this job, receiving the calls

:52:21. > :52:24.here and not knowing what's going to happen? It is really rewarding.

:52:25. > :52:28.Obviously it's a really fast moving job, so we always have to be

:52:29. > :52:34.switched on the whole time. Enqueue. You never quite know what's going to

:52:35. > :52:38.happen. -- thank you. You are from south-east ambulance service. Tell

:52:39. > :52:42.us about an extraordinary call you took recently. The three roles, the

:52:43. > :52:48.mom was unconscious, she called herself, no help, just on her own.

:52:49. > :52:52.Let's have a listen to what happened. And extort recall made by

:52:53. > :53:39.a three-year-old -- extraordinary call. Ambulance service.

:53:40. > :53:48.I had no idea that she even knew how to call the ambulance, the number to

:53:49. > :53:54.call, so we were really proud of her and she has been a little superstar.

:53:55. > :54:01.I was panicking, that you were on the floor. But everything was OK,

:54:02. > :54:03.wasn't it? Yeah, it was all right. Everything was fine, because you are

:54:04. > :54:11.such a big, brave girl. Yeah. Lovely to hear that it was a happy

:54:12. > :54:17.ending. What was that like? It definitely throws you. Especially

:54:18. > :54:21.when they are that age, three years old and they don't necessarily know

:54:22. > :54:26.the process of what happens when you call 999, but she did amazingly

:54:27. > :54:29.well. The professionalism and the armpit debility, I guess that's what

:54:30. > :54:36.you need to demonstrate all the time? -- unpredictability. Yes, you

:54:37. > :54:43.can't stick to a script, you have to go with the process. Well done for

:54:44. > :54:47.handling it so well. 999 calls in London are first received here. This

:54:48. > :54:52.is where ambulances are dispatched from. Of course it isn't just

:54:53. > :54:58.ambulances, you might need a policeman, a fire brigade. Joanne is

:54:59. > :55:04.senior operating manager from London fire brigade. 999 calls just change

:55:05. > :55:08.everything so much. What is it like and how have they changed over the

:55:09. > :55:11.years? They really have changed over the years and they have been a

:55:12. > :55:16.platform for establishing the emergency control rooms, the one we

:55:17. > :55:19.are now, where you can bring 999 still for free and get through to an

:55:20. > :55:24.operator who can give you life-saving advice, take the details

:55:25. > :55:28.of your emergency and get the fire engines or the ambulances, police

:55:29. > :55:32.cars there, immediately. With a disaster such as the one that

:55:33. > :55:37.happened at Grenfell Tower, it shows the chaotic situation which you need

:55:38. > :55:41.to manage so well. What kind of a challenge is that? It is a challenge

:55:42. > :55:44.and at times the control room can be very intense. But our operators are

:55:45. > :55:49.trained to deal with that pressure, to treat all callers calmly, to talk

:55:50. > :55:53.to them, gathered information they need and we laid out to the

:55:54. > :55:57.responding officers on the scene. Thanks very much. We will talk more

:55:58. > :56:12.later. One quick test and I am often asked, why Acra one? -- 999? 000 was

:56:13. > :56:14.an option but it confused the operator, 111 created a technical

:56:15. > :56:19.fault, so they decided on 999. Thank you very much. People may

:56:20. > :56:23.remember that, that phone call made by the little girl, every time you

:56:24. > :56:24.hear it it is so compelling. And heart wrenching. What a smart

:56:25. > :59:46.little girl! Time to get but they will

:59:47. > :59:48.clear the sunny spells There's more from us in half

:59:49. > :59:57.an hour, here at BBC London News. Hello, this is Breakfast,

:59:58. > :59:59.with Charlie Stayt and Naga New questions over

:00:00. > :00:02.the Grenfell Tower disaster, as pressure grows

:00:03. > :00:03.on Kensington Council. Last night the first

:00:04. > :00:05.full council meeting, since the fire, ended in chaos,

:00:06. > :00:08.after a row over whether residents This morning it emerges

:00:09. > :00:13.that the cladding, originally due to be used on the tower,

:00:14. > :00:15.was downgraded in order The parents of 10-month-old

:00:16. > :00:36.Charlie Gard - who lost their legal battle to take him to America

:00:37. > :00:39.for experimental treatment - say his life support

:00:40. > :01:00.will be switched off today. Today will be the worst day of our

:01:01. > :01:02.lives. We know today our son will die and we don't even get to say

:01:03. > :01:03.what happens to him. Scams involving consumers

:01:04. > :01:05.being duped into buying "phantom goods" that never materialise

:01:06. > :01:07.are on the increase. That's according to the consumer

:01:08. > :01:10.body Citizens Advice. I'll be finding out how

:01:11. > :01:12.to avoid being caught In sport - three days before

:01:13. > :01:16.Wimbledon, the British number one Johanna Konta, recovers

:01:17. > :01:18.from a heavy fall at Eastbourne, to beat the world number

:01:19. > :01:20.one, Angelique Kerber. And we'll hear the tale of Menai

:01:21. > :01:23.the tropical sea turtle, found washed up on a North Wales

:01:24. > :01:26.beach earlier this year thousands We'll find out how she's edging

:01:27. > :01:38.closer to a return to the wild. Good morning. Some drizzle still

:01:39. > :01:42.today in the north and west where it will be windy at times. Toward the

:01:43. > :01:44.south-east, sunny spells and scattered showers. A full forecast

:01:45. > :01:45.in about 15 minutes. There are fresh calls for the leader

:01:46. > :01:50.of Kensington Council to resign in the wake of the

:01:51. > :01:52.Grenfell Tower disaster. A council meeting to discuss

:01:53. > :01:55.the tragedy was called off last night within minutes of starting

:01:56. > :01:58.after a row broke out over the attendance of members

:01:59. > :02:01.of the public and press. A document seen by the BBC has also

:02:02. > :02:04.revealed more details about the cladding

:02:05. > :02:05.used on the tower. Our correspondent, Dan Johnson,

:02:06. > :02:08.is in West London for Dan, just start by telling us

:02:09. > :02:24.about some of those angry scenes There have been other developments?

:02:25. > :02:30.Indeed, yes. As each day goes on, bit by bit we are learning more

:02:31. > :02:32.about this disaster, about the fire and the implications and the

:02:33. > :02:38.materials that may have contributed to the way that it spread so

:02:39. > :02:42.quickly. Over two weeks on now we are still hearing about survivors

:02:43. > :02:46.who need help and we need somewhere properly to be re- homed. It is

:02:47. > :02:50.becoming clear that some of the people who are in authority, the

:02:51. > :02:54.figures who should be in charge, do not appear to be able to cope.

:02:55. > :02:56.A meeting of councillors ending in chaos.

:02:57. > :02:59.Another sign of a council creaking under pressure.

:03:00. > :03:04.Having failed to properly respond to the disaster,

:03:05. > :03:07.last night Kensington and Chelsea failed in a bid to ban

:03:08. > :03:19.A High Court judge had to remind senior councillors their discussions

:03:20. > :03:32.The leader of the council's labour group demands

:03:33. > :03:48.I want a new organisation in the council who can finally get to grips

:03:49. > :03:53.with the situation. And make sure that my residents are properly

:03:54. > :03:58.housed and looked after. Ten days after this disaster, I remind you,

:03:59. > :04:02.we are only a few miles away from Parliament, we are not in a third

:04:03. > :04:05.World country, ten days after the disaster my people are still not

:04:06. > :04:10.being housed properly, they are not being listened to, they are not

:04:11. > :04:13.getting access to the money they have been promised. Before the

:04:14. > :04:15.meeting last night, the council leader accepted the criticism but

:04:16. > :04:17.said he was not going. The scale of this was absolutely

:04:18. > :04:20.enormous, unprecedented. I think any council would have found

:04:21. > :04:23.it difficult to have everything It was a big challenge

:04:24. > :04:27.for a relatively small London borough and I am sure we could have

:04:28. > :04:30.done better and we will look at what we could have

:04:31. > :04:33.done quicker or better and that will be one of the things

:04:34. > :04:37.we learn from this tragedy. The panels stuck on the building,

:04:38. > :04:40.are a key area for The BBC has been told

:04:41. > :04:42.during refurbishment, zinc cladding was rejected in favour

:04:43. > :04:45.of an aluminium alternative, not as fire retardant,

:04:46. > :04:47.but it has the same The council saved

:04:48. > :04:57.more than ?290,000. How costly that decision

:04:58. > :05:13.could have been is one London's mayor criticised the

:05:14. > :05:18.decision to council that meeting last night that he said it needed

:05:19. > :05:23.belief that the council had tried to shut out the press and public and

:05:24. > :05:27.then that they had not gone ahead with the meeting. He said that

:05:28. > :05:31.democracy needed to be open, that the council should be accountable

:05:32. > :05:35.and should be able to provide ounces. Certainly, there are many

:05:36. > :05:39.people demanding those answers. The council said it was in the interest

:05:40. > :05:42.of not prejudicing the enquiry, it could not have the discussions

:05:43. > :05:47.amongst its senior leadership in the open last night. It reiterates that

:05:48. > :05:51.any decisions made during the refurbishment of this building were

:05:52. > :05:54.not about fire safety were about trying to keep costs down and that

:05:55. > :05:56.twice during the refurbishment of the was pushed up. The council says

:05:57. > :05:58.it will co-operate with all enquiry. Jeremy Corbyn has sacked three

:05:59. > :06:00.shadow cabinet ministers It's after 50 Labour MPs defied

:06:01. > :06:05.the party to back calls for the UK to remain in the single

:06:06. > :06:07.market following Brexit. Meanwhile, the Government narrowly

:06:08. > :06:10.avoided its own rebellion over the Queen's Speech -

:06:11. > :06:14.by offering a last-minute concession on abortion funding for women

:06:15. > :06:16.in Northern Ireland. Our political correspondent,

:06:17. > :06:31.Alex Forsyth joins us now. We have last-minute sackings and

:06:32. > :06:36.deals done in the final moments. Is this the new style parliament that

:06:37. > :06:40.we have? It is. The new style Parliament. A hung parliament which

:06:41. > :06:46.means every vote counts and therefore every MP matters. As you

:06:47. > :06:49.say, we saw a number of Labour MPs last night defied the leadership,

:06:50. > :06:53.and vote for an amendment which says they want the UK to stay in the

:06:54. > :06:57.single market when we leave the European Union. The official

:06:58. > :07:00.position of Labour is that we should retain the benefits of the single

:07:01. > :07:05.market. A subtle difference at an important one. Jeremy Corbyn sacked

:07:06. > :07:10.three frontbenchers and another quick. He is asserting the authority

:07:11. > :07:14.he feels he has won since the election. On the conservative side,

:07:15. > :07:17.however, they have had to make concessions to stop their

:07:18. > :07:22.backbenchers from rebelling. Some suggested they may back a Labour

:07:23. > :07:25.idea which was to fund free abortion services in England for women from

:07:26. > :07:31.Northern Ireland. Before that vote could happen, the government said we

:07:32. > :07:34.will find those services to stop them being any trouble from their

:07:35. > :07:39.backbenchers. This is now parliament looks like. Boulder backbenchers who

:07:40. > :07:44.will push their party leaders and on the labour side we are seeing them

:07:45. > :07:48.deal with that by being more authoritative. Theresa May is having

:07:49. > :07:50.to compromise. The parents of 10-month

:07:51. > :07:53.old Charlie Gard - who fought an unsuccessful legal

:07:54. > :07:56.battle to take him to America for experimental

:07:57. > :07:57.treatment - say he . will stop receiving

:07:58. > :07:59.life support today. Charlie has a rare genetic

:08:00. > :08:02.condition and brain damage. Doctors at Great Ormond Street

:08:03. > :08:04.Hospital say the US treatment We should be over the road,

:08:05. > :08:10.sitting next to our son's bed, spending the last few

:08:11. > :08:15.precious hours with him. We just thought we would take

:08:16. > :08:22.five minutes out to tell It is a video no-one

:08:23. > :08:27.should ever have to make. In a heartbreaking YouTube post,

:08:28. > :08:32.10-month-old Charlie's parents say they are being denied their last

:08:33. > :08:39.hope for their baby boy. We promised our little

:08:40. > :08:41.boy every day that we That is a promise we

:08:42. > :08:54.thought we could keep. We want to give him a bath,

:08:55. > :08:58.we want to sit on a sofa with him, we want

:08:59. > :09:00.to sleep in a bed with him. We have a cot that he

:09:01. > :09:03.has never slept in. Charlie was born with a rare genetic

:09:04. > :09:08.condition and severe brain damage. His parents have been fighting

:09:09. > :09:11.to keep his life-support switched on since March,

:09:12. > :09:12.despite doctors saying They took that fight all the way

:09:13. > :09:17.to the European Court of Human But this week they lost,

:09:18. > :09:21.as judges agreed with the British courts it was most

:09:22. > :09:23.likely Charlie was being Today, his life-support

:09:24. > :09:26.will be switched off. His parents say they are being

:09:27. > :09:45.rushed at the difficult time Today the tally was born was the

:09:46. > :09:49.best day of our lives. But today it will be the worst day of our lives.

:09:50. > :09:51.Great Ormond Street Hospital say they will not

:09:52. > :09:54.comment on specific details of patient care, but this is very

:09:55. > :09:56.distressing situation for Charlie's parents and all the staff involved

:09:57. > :10:09.The American tennis player, Venus Williams -

:10:10. > :10:12.who is due to play at Wimbledon next week -

:10:13. > :10:15.has been involved in a car crash, which led to the death

:10:16. > :10:20.A police spokesman told the BBC they were investigating the incident

:10:21. > :10:21.in Florida, which happened earlier this month.

:10:22. > :10:24.Williams's lawyer said the tennis star "expresses her deepest

:10:25. > :10:33.President Trump has been widely criticised for launching a personal

:10:34. > :10:41.attack against a prominent female journalist on Twitter. Mr Trump

:10:42. > :10:46.called her a low IQ crazy Meaker in response to disparaging remarks

:10:47. > :10:50.about him on her MSNBC show. He also referred to her bleeding badly from

:10:51. > :11:03.the -- a facelift. A turtle found washed up in Wales is

:11:04. > :11:17.one step closer to being released. Menai's arrival at this turtle

:11:18. > :11:23.sanctuary in Gran Canaria marks a new chapter

:11:24. > :11:26.in her remarkable story. She has defied the odds in getting

:11:27. > :11:29.this far and will spend the next By her side, marine

:11:30. > :11:32.biologist Frankie Hobra who has helped nurse

:11:33. > :11:35.her back to health. Here it is sunny and we saw

:11:36. > :11:38.the second day she was here she was basking quite

:11:39. > :11:40.happily, floating on the surface, relishing

:11:41. > :11:42.the sunlight on her shell. It is thought Menai was swept off

:11:43. > :11:47.course, away from the south-western breeding grounds of Africa,

:11:48. > :11:49.past the east coast of America and back across the Atlantic,

:11:50. > :11:52.all the way to the UK When she was found last November,

:11:53. > :11:57.she was just minutes The team there had to

:11:58. > :12:02.overcome hyperthermia, buoyancy problems and

:12:03. > :12:06.got her feeding again. Really, what we want to do

:12:07. > :12:09.was take her further south-west and release in slightly warmer

:12:10. > :12:12.waters where she is north of the breeding grounds

:12:13. > :12:16.and let her find her own way there. If that happens, Menai will be

:12:17. > :12:19.back where she belongs, she will breed and play a part

:12:20. > :12:39.in helping secure the future Your weekend weather is coming up in

:12:40. > :12:44.five minutes time. Returning now to our top story. Renewed calls this

:12:45. > :12:47.morning for the leadership team at Kensington and Chelsea Council to

:12:48. > :12:50.resign, following big rental tower disaster. Much anger remains within

:12:51. > :12:54.the community with residents displaced across the city as they

:12:55. > :12:56.struggle to find answers from those in power. We have been speaking to

:12:57. > :13:04.one family affected by the tragedy. This man lived on the ninth floor of

:13:05. > :13:10.Grenfell Tower with his wife and two children. Now, all four of them with

:13:11. > :13:15.a few miles away in a hotel. What is it like living in this room? It is

:13:16. > :13:20.small, you have a double bed and two single beds for your children. It is

:13:21. > :13:27.crowded. It is a nightmare, I tell you. It is a nightmare. I cannot

:13:28. > :13:32.sleep. I sleep and I wake up... Maybe four hours a day, a night, and

:13:33. > :13:37.one room with two children who just want to get out, they want to get

:13:38. > :13:42.out. His family escaped from Grenfell Tower with seconds to

:13:43. > :13:49.spare. Safe on the ground, his wife called her brother who lived on the

:13:50. > :13:58.21st floor. He, his wife and their three children, a 15-year-old, 21

:13:59. > :14:09.21-year-old and an eight-year-old are all missing, presumed dead. A

:14:10. > :14:12.devastating reality that Salaheddine's children are

:14:13. > :14:25.struggling to cope with. They are angry. My daughter is traumatised as

:14:26. > :14:29.well. If you are skirted paint something, she will paint the tower

:14:30. > :14:35.on fire and people jumping. Seeing your daughter to draw something like

:14:36. > :14:39.how does it feel? It is crazy. It is not yet clear when the family will

:14:40. > :14:43.be able to leave this room and moved to their new home. They hope to stay

:14:44. > :14:44.in this area and at some point go on a family holiday.

:14:45. > :14:55.We will be talking later on about some of the problems faced by the

:14:56. > :14:59.people affected by this tower. Time now to talk to Sarah and have a look

:15:00. > :15:04.at the weather this morning. Sarah, usually I give you guys a hard time

:15:05. > :15:08.when it rains when it is this time of year... I don't mind so much

:15:09. > :15:17.because you always know better weather is around the corner. It has

:15:18. > :15:22.been a pretty rollercoaster sort of month. If we take a look back, we

:15:23. > :15:27.had that record-breaking warmth, the warmest June day in 40 years. This

:15:28. > :15:33.week it has been all about the rain. In fact, we broke records in

:15:34. > :15:39.Scotland and in Edinburgh with scene 178 millimetres in June, the wettest

:15:40. > :15:43.June on record. This is how things looked yesterday, captured by one of

:15:44. > :15:48.our Weather Watchers. Quieter today. The rain isn't as heavy. This is the

:15:49. > :15:52.radar picture, throwing wet -- showing wet weather in Wales and the

:15:53. > :15:56.south-west of England. Drizzly rain in Northern Ireland and Scotland.

:15:57. > :16:00.Some strong winds blowing down across Pembrokeshire, Cornwall as

:16:01. > :16:04.well, so combined with a wet weather not a very pleasant morning. Further

:16:05. > :16:08.east it isn't as Wendy and is drive-throughs Midlands, towards

:16:09. > :16:12.east Anglia and the south-east. Sunshine is breaking through the

:16:13. > :16:16.cloud. Thicker cloud for the north of Wales and northern England, with

:16:17. > :16:20.a bit of drizzle here and fair. That drizzle continues in Scotland and

:16:21. > :16:29.Northern Ireland. Billy Gray and windy, with the breeze coming from

:16:30. > :16:32.the north, Dominic -- the north. Still blustery Inner west. There

:16:33. > :16:37.could be heavy showers by mid- morning and mid afternoon.

:16:38. > :16:43.Especially in parts of Kent, Sussex and London. They will be hit and

:16:44. > :16:47.miss. Averages 14- 17 under the cloud in the north and west. Further

:16:48. > :16:51.towards the south-east we are likely to have highs of 23 degrees or so in

:16:52. > :16:56.London. This evening and overnight there will be a bit of rain sinking

:16:57. > :17:00.south across central and eastern parts of England, but elsewhere

:17:01. > :17:04.becomes largely dry and then what we are going to see is this high

:17:05. > :17:08.pressure but being in the bring us an improved weekend. It won't be dry

:17:09. > :17:12.everywhere, but compared to the last few days the weekend is looking

:17:13. > :17:16.brighter and there should be sunshine around. Any early rain

:17:17. > :17:20.clears from the far south-east and then a return to sunnier conditions,

:17:21. > :17:24.perhaps rain in Northern Ireland and Scotland late in the day.

:17:25. > :17:29.Temperatures up to about 24 degrees. A largely dry day. They, perhaps a

:17:30. > :17:36.few showers in the far south-east and far north-west. We should all

:17:37. > :17:39.see at least one day of sunshine. Thank you.

:17:40. > :17:47.Going back to one of our main stories. The response after a

:17:48. > :17:51.meeting between Kensington and Chelsea council, in light of the

:17:52. > :18:00.Grenfell Tower tragedy. We can talk to someone from a Justice for

:18:01. > :18:04.Grenfell action group. They differ joining us. We will talk about the

:18:05. > :18:08.council meeting yesterday, where there was much discussion about

:18:09. > :18:12.whether journalists and members of the public should attend, but you

:18:13. > :18:16.went to a different meeting with survivors and residents of the

:18:17. > :18:25.tower? Yes, that's correct. Can I just say my name is Caro. I went to

:18:26. > :18:29.a meeting that Diane Abbott posted yesterday at the House of Commons.

:18:30. > :18:36.What happened at that meeting? And the survivors were there. Well, the

:18:37. > :18:42.survivors told her the reality of their experience, as opposed to what

:18:43. > :18:46.the government has been saying has been going on. For example, Diane

:18:47. > :18:52.Abbott told the meeting of survivors and other people concerned that they

:18:53. > :18:55.had been told by the Prime Minister that everyone had been allocated a

:18:56. > :18:59.social worker. So she asked the people in the room to put their

:19:00. > :19:03.hands up if they had been allocated social worker and just Jew people

:19:04. > :19:10.put their hands up. We heard another story about one of the survivors, a

:19:11. > :19:13.teenage child, who tried to kill herself and was admitted to hospital

:19:14. > :19:19.yesterday, having taken an overdose of tablets. We heard about survivors

:19:20. > :19:25.being put in hotel rooms with no windows. I mean the stories go on

:19:26. > :19:28.and on. The trauma these people have experienced and the way they are

:19:29. > :19:31.being treated is quite frankly disgraceful and all of these

:19:32. > :19:34.assurances that have been made by the government in Parliament, the

:19:35. > :19:40.reality on the ground is totally different. This lack of care, or

:19:41. > :19:47.this level of care that seems to be lacking amongst those who need it,

:19:48. > :19:53.who do you think needs to be assigned the task of making sure

:19:54. > :19:58.that people are looked after? Well, given that the council has

:19:59. > :20:01.completely failed in every respect as far as this disaster is

:20:02. > :20:05.concerned, failing to put their emergency plans into action, failing

:20:06. > :20:10.to engage with people who have been involved, then obviously it has to

:20:11. > :20:14.be the government and the government has stepped into a certain extent,

:20:15. > :20:18.but actually all they've done is restricted their to one centre down

:20:19. > :20:23.here and there are lots of survivors all spread out all over the place

:20:24. > :20:27.and there is no co-ordination. We don't even have a list of who has

:20:28. > :20:32.survived and I think that in itself is very telling. And very

:20:33. > :20:35.distressing I imagine for people there. You have said the council has

:20:36. > :20:41.failed to put an emergency into action. Do you think it is time for

:20:42. > :20:45.the council leader to go, or do you think this person needs to stay in

:20:46. > :20:53.the job to make sure that there is some process at work? Some

:20:54. > :20:58.continuity? There is no continuity provided by Kensington and Chelsea

:20:59. > :21:05.Council. He is doing nothing as far as I can see. The overwhelming

:21:06. > :21:09.feeling in the whole area, both in the better off parts of the borough

:21:10. > :21:16.and here, is that he should go. He and his deputy should step down.

:21:17. > :21:20.Ultimately, face criminal investigation into their

:21:21. > :21:25.responsibilities. Thank you very much for your time this morning.

:21:26. > :21:29.Let's get the latest business news now from Sean.

:21:30. > :21:36.A lot of people are thinking about going on holiday and British Airways

:21:37. > :21:40.has got a strike coming up? They've put plans in place, so hopefully not

:21:41. > :21:43.too much disruption for people. Good morning.

:21:44. > :21:46.A two week strike by British Airways cabin crew is due

:21:47. > :21:50.It's part of a long-running dispute over pay and travel concessions.

:21:51. > :21:57.Yesterday the boss Willie Walsh said Qatar Airways planes and crew

:21:58. > :22:00.will be used to fly all BA's passengers to their destinations

:22:01. > :22:12.An increasing number of people are being caught out by called phantom

:22:13. > :22:18.goods, where people are bought online but never delivered.

:22:19. > :22:25.Consumers are involved in deals concerning everything from flights

:22:26. > :22:29.and gadgets. We will have more about that later. And it seems times are

:22:30. > :22:36.changing. The Speaker of the House of Commons is allowing them not to

:22:37. > :22:39.wear a tie in the House of Commons, saying businesslike attire is all

:22:40. > :22:46.that's required. Men would normally have to wear jackets and ties in

:22:47. > :22:52.chamber, now ties aren't necessary. We will talk about this later. So

:22:53. > :23:00.you could turn up for an interview with the slip on shoes, no socks!

:23:01. > :23:02.Where did you draw the line? We will talk more about that later. In about

:23:03. > :23:05.15 minutes we will have the sport. Fewer people are taking their own

:23:06. > :23:07.life on the railways. The reduction is thought to be due

:23:08. > :23:11.to a ground-breaking partnership between the charity

:23:12. > :23:12.Samaritans and Network Rail. One in six rail staff

:23:13. > :23:15.and Transport Police have been trained on what to do if they spot

:23:16. > :23:18.someone looking vulnerable. There has been an 18% reduction

:23:19. > :23:21.in the number of such deaths since the programme

:23:22. > :23:23.started last year. Our transport correspondent,

:23:24. > :23:27.Richard Westcott, reports. Every year more than 200 people

:23:28. > :23:31.take their own life on the railways. People of all ages,

:23:32. > :23:34.from all backgrounds. The initial shock

:23:35. > :23:38.after Oscar died... You're just numb and then

:23:39. > :23:44.in the weeks and months afterwards Carmel's son Oscar was just 16

:23:45. > :23:56.when he took his own life, in 2015. He was smart, fun,

:23:57. > :23:58.popular at school. There was no clue as to how

:23:59. > :24:03.he was really feeling. You feel like your heart has been

:24:04. > :24:07.turned into glass, shattered. You're so vulnerable

:24:08. > :24:09.yourself and at that point Carmel's now starting

:24:10. > :24:15.a charity in Oscar's name, going into schools, encouraging

:24:16. > :24:17.children to speak out What we do know is that many

:24:18. > :24:23.people who are suicidal, one of the things

:24:24. > :24:25.they are feeling... You can learn how

:24:26. > :24:29.to prevent suicide. In recent years, nearly 15,000 rail

:24:30. > :24:33.staff and Transport Police have been on this groundbreaking Samaritans

:24:34. > :24:36.course, showing them what to do Andy admits he was cynical before

:24:37. > :24:43.the lesson, but he soon relied on it I sat down, I spoke to him,

:24:44. > :24:50.asked him if I could help, He said to me he was a coward

:24:51. > :24:59.and that he wanted to die. So I asked him if he would come

:25:00. > :25:03.and sit in the van and let me At the time it was the only safe

:25:04. > :25:08.place I could think to get him. He says one thing in

:25:09. > :25:10.particular came back to him. I can remember the instructor

:25:11. > :25:14.actually saying, don't say "I know That's always stuck in my mind

:25:15. > :25:17.because it's the type of thing I probably would have said,

:25:18. > :25:20.so that's in your mind, Rail staff stepped in to talk

:25:21. > :25:29.to a vulnerable person an average of four times a day last year

:25:30. > :25:33.and the number of rail suicides If it was you that was stood there,

:25:34. > :25:41.in a vulnerable position, how would you feel if someone

:25:42. > :25:44.didn't come up and talk to you and you were allowed to go

:25:45. > :25:49.and take your own life? You would want to be able

:25:50. > :25:55.to thank someone one day. That was Carmel Giansante, speaking

:25:56. > :25:58.to our transport correspondent, For details of organisations

:25:59. > :26:02.which offer advice and support, or call for free, at any time,

:26:03. > :26:07.to hear recorded information Still to come: We're looking back

:26:08. > :26:21.at 80 years of 999 calls. Tim is with the ambulance service

:26:22. > :26:34.in London for us this morning. Good morning. Due the 30th, 1937, is

:26:35. > :26:40.when the emergency calls were first launched. Fast forward 80 years, we

:26:41. > :26:46.are the headquarters of the London Ambulance Service. We take about 1.8

:26:47. > :26:49.million calls every year. A huge logistical operation. People working

:26:50. > :26:53.under pressure, they never know what will happen next. We will find out

:26:54. > :26:54.how it works and talk to some of the people making those calls.

:26:55. > :30:13.Time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are.

:30:14. > :30:26.Hello, this is Breakfast with Charlie Stayt and Naga Munchetty.

:30:27. > :30:29.There are fresh calls for the leader of Kensington Council to resign

:30:30. > :30:33.in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster.

:30:34. > :30:36.A council meeting to discuss the tragedy was called off last

:30:37. > :30:39.night within minutes of starting after a row broke out over

:30:40. > :30:41.the attendance of members of the public and press.

:30:42. > :30:45.A document seen by the BBC has also revealed more details

:30:46. > :30:50.about the cladding used on the tower.

:30:51. > :30:59.The leader of the council has said that it will learn from what has

:31:00. > :31:02.happened. The scale of this was enormous, unprecedented. I think any

:31:03. > :31:06.council would have found it difficult to have everything in

:31:07. > :31:10.place. It was a very big challenge for a relatively small London and I

:31:11. > :31:14.am sure we could have done better and we will look at what we could

:31:15. > :31:16.have done differently, quicker or better and that will be one of the

:31:17. > :31:17.lessons we learn from this tragedy. The parents of 10-month

:31:18. > :31:20.old Charlie Gard - who fought an unsuccessful legal

:31:21. > :31:23.battle to take him to America for experimental treatment -

:31:24. > :31:25.say he will stop Charlie has a rare genetic

:31:26. > :31:28.condition and brain damage. Doctors at Great Ormond Street

:31:29. > :31:31.Hospital say the US treatment Chris Gard and Connie Yates say

:31:32. > :31:36.they've now been told they will not be able to take their

:31:37. > :31:45.son home to die. We promised our little boy every

:31:46. > :31:50.single day that we would take him home, that is a promise we thought

:31:51. > :31:55.we could keep. We want to give him a bath at home we want to sit on the

:31:56. > :32:00.sofa with him. We want to sleep in the bed with him. We want to put him

:32:01. > :32:01.in a court that he has never slept in fourth we are now being denied

:32:02. > :32:02.that. Nurseries in England are warning

:32:03. > :32:05.that local councils are failing to provide enough money

:32:06. > :32:07.to fund more free childcare From September children will be

:32:08. > :32:11.eligible for 30 hours free nursery education a week -

:32:12. > :32:14.if both parents are in work. However the National Day Nurseries

:32:15. > :32:17.Association say most won't be able to afford to provide

:32:18. > :32:21.the extra hours. More than a quarter of women -

:32:22. > :32:24.who are overdue for a cervical cancer test - don't know

:32:25. > :32:26.screening is available, The charity found there

:32:27. > :32:31.was a particular lack of awareness among women who spoke English

:32:32. > :32:33.as a second language. Around 3,000 new cases are diagnosed

:32:34. > :32:37.every year and the charity says more needs to be done to reach women

:32:38. > :32:41.who are missing tests. We were very surprised to find that

:32:42. > :32:46.some were completely unaware of the programme

:32:47. > :32:56.and that tended to be women from black, minority

:32:57. > :32:58.and ethnic groups, women from deprived backgrounds and those

:32:59. > :33:01.who did not have English That's although all women

:33:02. > :33:05.in the country who are age eligible for screening are sent an invitation

:33:06. > :33:08.and information inviting them for some women that is not

:33:09. > :33:12.a good way to reach them. The American tennis

:33:13. > :33:14.player, Venus Williams - who is due to play at

:33:15. > :33:16.Wimbledon next week - has been involved in a car crash,

:33:17. > :33:20.which led to the death A police spokesman told the BBC

:33:21. > :33:24.they were investigating the incident in Florida, which happened

:33:25. > :33:26.earlier this month. Williams's lawyer said the tennis

:33:27. > :33:28.star "expresses her deepest condolences to the

:33:29. > :33:30.family" affected. President Trump has been widely

:33:31. > :33:33.criticised for launching a personal attack against a prominent female

:33:34. > :33:35.journalist on Twitter. "low IQ crazy Mika" in response

:33:36. > :33:39.to disparaging remarks about him He also referred to her "bleeding

:33:40. > :33:43.badly from a facelift". Senior US Republicans were among

:33:44. > :34:03.those to denounce the comments. Still to come on the programme we

:34:04. > :34:08.will have the weather but it is time to talk tennis now. Injury worries

:34:09. > :34:13.us well for both our big brute players. Andy Murray has a sore hip

:34:14. > :34:18.and Johanna Konta banged her head yesterday. We will find out if she

:34:19. > :34:22.is affected when she plays again. She fell over on Court in her

:34:23. > :34:26.career-best win. She got over the injury and defeated the world number

:34:27. > :34:28.one. But sometimes it will take a couple of days before you feel the

:34:29. > :34:30.effect of the fall like that. Johanna Konta is, for the moment,

:34:31. > :34:33.through to the semifinals at Eastbourne but her victory over

:34:34. > :34:36.Angelique Kerber came at a price. Konta was already a set up

:34:37. > :34:40.when she suffered a heavy fall late Following a lengthy stoppage

:34:41. > :34:43.while she received treatment, the British number one eventually

:34:44. > :34:46.took one of several match points to win the second set

:34:47. > :34:49.and booked her place She'll play Czech third seed

:34:50. > :34:52.Karolina Pliskova later today. I slipped and I hit my head

:34:53. > :34:56.so my head is a little sore right Not just for myself

:34:57. > :35:07.but for many players. We played a lot of tennis

:35:08. > :35:09.today so definitely looking forward to recovering

:35:10. > :35:12.the best I can and playing again. Heather Watson is also

:35:13. > :35:15.into the last four at Eastbourne, she'll play Caroline

:35:16. > :35:16.Wozniacki today. You can see that match

:35:17. > :35:19.on BBC Two from 11 o clock. In the men's draw,

:35:20. > :35:22.Novak Djokovic kept his Wimbledon preparations on course,

:35:23. > :35:24.after beating American Donald Young The Serbian, won the first set

:35:25. > :35:28.easily, but had to survive, two set points in the second before,

:35:29. > :35:31.winning it in the tiebreak. Djokovic, who's seeded

:35:32. > :35:33.second for Wimbledon, plays Daniel Medvedev,

:35:34. > :35:38.in his semi final today. Meanwhile Andy Murray,

:35:39. > :35:40.has withdrawn from an exhibition event in London today

:35:41. > :35:43.with a sore hip, denting his Murray is the reigning champion

:35:44. > :35:47.and top seed for the tournament at the All England club,

:35:48. > :35:50.but has pulled out of two And the world number 855 Alex Ward,

:35:51. > :35:57.will be in this morning's main Wimbledon draw, he's

:35:58. > :35:58.the only British player, to come through the singles

:35:59. > :36:00.qualifying event. He beat Russia's

:36:01. > :36:02.Teymuraz Gabashvili. Ward had lost his previous seven

:36:03. > :36:12.matches, before this week. Simon Grayson says he wants to give

:36:13. > :36:15.Sunderland fans a team they can be proud of after he was appointed

:36:16. > :36:18.as their new manager. He signed a three-year

:36:19. > :36:20.deal with the club. He replaces David Moyes who resigned

:36:21. > :36:24.in May and joins after four years with fellow championship

:36:25. > :36:27.club Preston. Also signing a three-year deal

:36:28. > :36:30.is England striker Jermaine Defoe who is making a return

:36:31. > :36:35.to Bournemouth. He had a clause in his contract

:36:36. > :36:38.allowing him to leave for free following Sunderland's relegation

:36:39. > :36:40.from the Premier League. One year before the World Cup,

:36:41. > :36:47.the reigning champions Germany Their reserves side

:36:48. > :36:52.cruised into the final of the Confederations Cup,

:36:53. > :36:54.thrashing Mexico 4-1. It was a only a consolation

:36:55. > :37:07.but worth seeing again. Germany will play Chile in the final

:37:08. > :37:20.on Sunday in Saint Petersburg. Rangers won their first European

:37:21. > :37:28.fixture in six years with a 1-0 victory. Defeats Saint Johnstone,

:37:29. > :37:33.however who lost 2-1 against their lives Iranian opponents. Full

:37:34. > :37:35.details of qualifying results on the BBC sport website.

:37:36. > :37:38.Chris Froome begins the defence of his Tour de

:37:39. > :37:41.The three week race starts in Dusseldorf with Froome seeking

:37:42. > :38:02.I'm as nervous as ever, given I have as much to skate for as they ever

:38:03. > :38:06.did before. This is my fourth this attempt. The challenge is bigger

:38:07. > :38:15.this year and the level of my rivals is bigger, on a difficult course as

:38:16. > :38:19.well. So I am here with... With all the motivation I have had

:38:20. > :38:24.previously, if not even more. Finally, there is nothing a mother

:38:25. > :38:27.will not do for her son. Even if you are a grown man, playing a

:38:28. > :38:39.professional golf tournament. This Chinese player through his putter

:38:40. > :38:45.into the water. A bit of a tantrum. 20 minutes later, this is his

:38:46. > :38:49.mother, knee deep in the water looking for the putter, attracting

:38:50. > :38:55.attention from other players. She found it but realised it was broken.

:38:56. > :39:01.Her effort sent the players into fits of laughter. Look, she wades

:39:02. > :39:10.out, realises how broken it is. Throws it back in. She had to take

:39:11. > :39:15.it out a few more step and she could have handed it in. But is in the

:39:16. > :39:22.water for someone else to discover. If that had been a Christmas

:39:23. > :39:26.present... I would have made him play with a broken putter by having

:39:27. > :39:27.a temper tantrum like that. You need to respect your clubs.

:39:28. > :39:31.When your children sit down to watch kids TV you can be safe

:39:32. > :39:34.in the knowledge they won't be bombarded with adverts for fizzy

:39:35. > :39:38.Yet these days, young people often go online to access their favourite

:39:39. > :39:41.shows - where the same rules don't apply.

:39:42. > :39:43.Well that's all about to change, because from this weekend

:39:44. > :39:46.all children's media will have to abide by the same regulations.

:39:47. > :39:52.Joining us now is Shahriar Coupal from the Committee of

:39:53. > :39:55.Advertising Practice and nutritionist Kawther Hashem,

:39:56. > :40:07.Thank you very much for joining us this morning. Can you tell us

:40:08. > :40:11.exactly what will change from this morning and it does it include

:40:12. > :40:17.programmes that have been on previously that had advertised in

:40:18. > :40:21.surrounding them? Well, the rules that we are introducing come through

:40:22. > :40:27.a background of concern over the rising cost of obesity in terms of

:40:28. > :40:32.society and media landscape. Children are now watching, spending

:40:33. > :40:36.more time online than they do watching TV so against that concern

:40:37. > :40:41.we are now putting into place rules that will ban ads for products that

:40:42. > :40:46.are high in fat, salt or sugar in all media. So this is not just a ban

:40:47. > :40:52.on all Swedes and all food, it has to be deemed to be very high in fat

:40:53. > :40:55.and sugar. Yes. And that is according to a department of health

:40:56. > :41:00.nutrient profile which looks at certain factors like saturated fat

:41:01. > :41:06.and salt and total sugar and looks on the other side of the equation at

:41:07. > :41:10.things like fruit and vegetables and fibre content and judges them to be

:41:11. > :41:15.either high in fat salt and sugar or not. What difference does Obama this

:41:16. > :41:19.make? I think it will make some difference. A step in the right

:41:20. > :41:26.direction. I don't think it is enough because at the moment it has

:41:27. > :41:29.to be media that is consumed by the majority of children. If, for

:41:30. > :41:34.example, it has a population less than 25% of the audience that could

:41:35. > :41:39.be children, they will be exposed to it. Some like social media, many

:41:40. > :41:43.companies advertise their product on social media and we know a lot of

:41:44. > :41:48.children have access to that and are signed up. I think within that space

:41:49. > :41:52.there will not be any recommendations. Do you see, just on

:41:53. > :41:55.the issue of how people are affected by advertising, children in

:41:56. > :41:59.particular, you see a direct link between a child sitting in front of

:42:00. > :42:04.whatever it may be, possibly television, but now their computer,

:42:05. > :42:08.a direct link between what they see and what they eat? There are many

:42:09. > :42:14.different reports of evidence from World Health Organization and even

:42:15. > :42:19.from Public Health England about how exposure to junk food advertise

:42:20. > :42:24.meant does influence the preferences of children and changes their food

:42:25. > :42:28.habits. Yes, there is a direct link between looking at an advert and

:42:29. > :42:33.obesity but there isn't link of influence on eating habits. You want

:42:34. > :42:37.to respond on social media? We are very concerned to get the right

:42:38. > :42:40.level of protection in place for children but not at the expense of

:42:41. > :42:45.heavy-handed regulation that has adverse consequences. How can

:42:46. > :42:50.heavy-handed regulation her children as they are not being exposed to

:42:51. > :42:53.high fat or high sugar foods was to mark how is that heavy-handed? Isn't

:42:54. > :42:57.it sensible? It takes money away from broadcasters, money that

:42:58. > :43:03.broadcasters put into children content and that is a detriment that

:43:04. > :43:07.we need to take into account. We want to put in the right level of

:43:08. > :43:11.regulation and we think we have the balance right and that balance is a

:43:12. > :43:17.ban on foods that are high in fat salt or sugar that is a drastic

:43:18. > :43:22.restriction in exposure to those products but, also, where children

:43:23. > :43:28.do see these ads, we have in place some very strict content rules that

:43:29. > :43:36.prevent ads from encouraging pester power, but not on social media? And

:43:37. > :43:42.on social media. Our sister or organisation has been regulating ads

:43:43. > :43:47.for over 20 years. Last year over half of the ads we banned were from

:43:48. > :43:54.the Internet so we have a good track record of tackling ads. Do people

:43:55. > :43:58.get fined? We don't find them. You just doesn't take them down? Is that

:43:59. > :44:03.what happens? We tell them to take the ads down but we also call

:44:04. > :44:06.resources into our training and advice services to make sure that

:44:07. > :44:11.advertisers understand both the letter and of the law. There are no

:44:12. > :44:16.examples for companies to be able to see what is an ad that did not work.

:44:17. > :44:22.So, for example, your colleagues have not been able to produce any

:44:23. > :44:25.examples of websites that would not fall within this band, this remit of

:44:26. > :44:29.regulation. We need to leave it there for now. Thank you very much

:44:30. > :44:32.for your time. I'm sure this is something that parents will be

:44:33. > :44:38.discussing this morning. Time now for more about the weather.

:44:39. > :44:46.Good morning. Bit of weather through the weekend. If we look back at this

:44:47. > :44:50.month, it has been a month of rollercoaster weather. We had the

:44:51. > :44:55.extreme heat last week and this week it has been all about the rain. It's

:44:56. > :45:02.been the wettest June on record it and -- in Edinburgh. This was the

:45:03. > :45:06.scene captured yesterday by one of our Weather Watchers. Still some

:45:07. > :45:09.rain today, as it is more quiet. This image has just come in from one

:45:10. > :45:12.of our Weather Watchers in Warwickshire. If we look at the

:45:13. > :45:18.satellite image, although most places are cloudy there is some cold

:45:19. > :45:23.in the cloud. Through the Midlands, east Anglia and the south-east with

:45:24. > :45:27.got decent spells of sunshine. A lot of cloud elsewhere and drizzly rain,

:45:28. > :45:34.heavy in the south-west of England and south Wales. That will ease

:45:35. > :45:37.later. Windy in the west. Some cloud and rain affecting parts of Scotland

:45:38. > :45:41.and the far north of England. A mixed picture through the course of

:45:42. > :45:45.the day. This afternoon we still have a few showers across Wales and

:45:46. > :45:49.the south-west, with a northerly breeze around. Less windy and dryer

:45:50. > :45:52.towards the south-east, but we have got the chance of some heavy showers

:45:53. > :45:58.from mid-morning until mid-afternoon will stop it could cause some

:45:59. > :46:02.localised surface flooding. More cloud in Wales, northern England,

:46:03. > :46:07.where we have patchy rain. Most of it will ease into the afternoon.

:46:08. > :46:12.Northern Ireland mainly dry and Scotland too things will dry out in

:46:13. > :46:16.the day. Into the evening for many it is looking dry, but there will be

:46:17. > :46:20.patchy rain sinking south across central and eastern parts of England

:46:21. > :46:25.through the night at becoming largely dry elsewhere. Temperatures

:46:26. > :46:28.about 13- 14 degrees. Into the weekend things will improve because

:46:29. > :46:32.we've got this ridge of high pressure building in. Moving into

:46:33. > :46:36.Saturday any early rain in the south-east should clear away. It is

:46:37. > :46:41.looking dry and brighter. There will be some rain heading into the

:46:42. > :46:45.north-west later in the day, so the breeze picking up later the Northern

:46:46. > :46:50.Ireland and Scotland. But for much of the country it is largely dry,

:46:51. > :46:55.and it will feel a little bit warmer, up to about 24 degrees.

:46:56. > :46:59.Similar on Sunday. Again the chance of a few showers in the far

:47:00. > :47:03.south-east and in the far north-west, but for most parts of

:47:04. > :47:05.the country not a bad day. Lighter winds, warmer and with the sunshine

:47:06. > :47:19.around a to about 22 degrees. What have we got? Phantom goods.

:47:20. > :47:21.Things you think you are buying and when it gets to the delivery they

:47:22. > :47:23.don't turn up. This is a new area that the consumer

:47:24. > :47:28.world has identified as a problem. A lot of us are buying more things

:47:29. > :47:31.through social media like Facebook and online marketplaces

:47:32. > :47:36.like Gumtree and eBay. There's been a a 20% increase

:47:37. > :47:39.in the number of people falling It's exactly what happened

:47:40. > :47:50.to Michael from Swindon. I saw a car advertised, which I'd

:47:51. > :47:55.always wanted to get, really lovely. Got through to the guide, very

:47:56. > :48:03.pleasant. Yes, we can deliver the car on such and such a date, we need

:48:04. > :48:08.a 50% deposit and a ?200 handling fee. It never turned up and in the

:48:09. > :48:15.end it was a scam. I felt that small, I really did. I was disgusted

:48:16. > :48:19.with myself that I let myself. We all think we are savvy, but this

:48:20. > :48:22.time it didn't work out. Luckily Michael did get his money back. But

:48:23. > :48:24.that's not always the case. Let's talk to Tom MacInness,

:48:25. > :48:33.he's from Citizens Advice. How does that work? What happens is

:48:34. > :48:38.online, often on social media, you see a deal or a bargain that looks

:48:39. > :48:43.like a really great offer and it happens across a range of things.

:48:44. > :48:47.We've had calls about jewellery, cameras, airline flights, the lot.

:48:48. > :48:52.What happens is once you've paid for the goods they don't turn up and fed

:48:53. > :48:56.the seller just disappears. So it ends up that you've basically been

:48:57. > :49:00.scammed for the money. What can you possibly do? When you are looking at

:49:01. > :49:04.the listings, there's not much difference on the listings that will

:49:05. > :49:08.tell you if it's a phantom good or not. That's part of the problem

:49:09. > :49:14.because they do look genuine and often they copy reputable brands or

:49:15. > :49:17.organisations. If you pay the something of a website you should

:49:18. > :49:22.check that there is an address and an actual physical location for that

:49:23. > :49:29.company. You can also check the URL to make sure the website address is

:49:30. > :49:33.attached to a real company. The third thing is if you are paying for

:49:34. > :49:36.something on my initial cheque for the padlock to make sure the payment

:49:37. > :49:40.is secure. The biggest piece of advice is if it looks to good to be

:49:41. > :49:48.true that should set alarm bells ringing. In terms of those companies

:49:49. > :49:53.we mentioned, eBay, Gumtree, Facebook, should they be doing more?

:49:54. > :49:56.They make a lot of money out of us using their websites to buy things.

:49:57. > :49:59.Should they be doing more to figure out whether these goods are for

:50:00. > :50:04.real? Because these websites look authentic and genuine, it can be

:50:05. > :50:09.difficult to take that kind of approach. Given that people spend so

:50:10. > :50:14.much time online, it's a big part of everyone's life, and consumers

:50:15. > :50:19.themselves maybe have to take... Be a bit more cautious when they are

:50:20. > :50:24.spending that money and making those purchases. Thanks very much for

:50:25. > :50:27.that. It can be a bit of an issue and it has been growing, but

:50:28. > :50:30.hopefully if you follow that advice you would get caught out.

:50:31. > :50:32.Certainly something that resonates with all of our viewers all the

:50:33. > :50:37.time. We've been getting a

:50:38. > :50:39.behind-the-scenes look this morning at the 999 service.

:50:40. > :50:41.It's been 80 years since the 999 emergency call system

:50:42. > :50:45.Back in 1937, it involved just 24 staff based at Scotland Yard,

:50:46. > :50:48.world's away from the vast operation that exists

:50:49. > :50:56.Tim has backstage access at the headquarters.

:50:57. > :51:03.It is fascinating being here at the headquarters of the London Ambulance

:51:04. > :51:06.Service. We've been hearing operators speak to people who have

:51:07. > :51:11.been undergoing dramatic circumstances. Childbirth, cardiac

:51:12. > :51:17.arrest, a lot of pressure. Before 1937 if you faced an emergency

:51:18. > :51:22.situation you would dial zero and then be put through to the correct

:51:23. > :51:25.service. 80 years ago the 999 service was introduced. You are the

:51:26. > :51:30.director of operations. How have things changed recently? We've got

:51:31. > :51:37.an incredibly busy. We are answering double the amount of 999 calls than

:51:38. > :51:44.ten years ago. So colleagues here in the operation centre are answering

:51:45. > :51:48.about 5500 calls every day. If you call 999 and you need an ambulance

:51:49. > :51:51.you will be put through to this place here. What happens then?

:51:52. > :51:55.Essentially the minute the call is connected to our control room one of

:51:56. > :51:59.our operators will first of all identify the exact location, where

:52:00. > :52:05.they are and what is the problem. What is it like dealing with this

:52:06. > :52:09.chaotic situations? When we have our most intense calls, our adrenaline

:52:10. > :52:13.is running at we don't really have the time to realise how it is maybe

:52:14. > :52:17.impacting us until after the call has happened, when we get a chance

:52:18. > :52:20.to really connect how we are feeling and put the dots together. You are

:52:21. > :52:26.effectively having to triage the situation? We triage the call. A lot

:52:27. > :52:29.of the time we stay on the line with the caller and provide help until

:52:30. > :52:33.the ability can get there. I will let you carry on. Technology has

:52:34. > :52:38.changed things a lot. This is footage from 1957. This is how

:52:39. > :52:41.Scotland Yard's also be changed and introduced new technology.

:52:42. > :52:51.Scotland Yard has a brand-new information room. The centre of the

:52:52. > :52:58.999 system. It is to take ten minutes for the police car to be

:52:59. > :53:02.sent out. Now it takes less than a minute. I said, don't touch

:53:03. > :53:10.anything, we will get someone along! All right. The report speeds on its

:53:11. > :53:16.way. A squad car has already been selected from an electric indicator

:53:17. > :53:21.and the orders go out. The person has hardly put the phone down before

:53:22. > :53:27.the car is ready to give chase. About 140,000 calls come through the

:53:28. > :53:31.Scotland Yard room and the chance of the criminal escaping get slimmer

:53:32. > :53:36.all the time. It has all changed a bit since then. Joanne, you are from

:53:37. > :53:39.the London fire brigade. It is different for you when it comes to

:53:40. > :53:43.the information you need from an emergency call? Yes. A key

:53:44. > :53:47.information for us is finding out where the address of the emergency

:53:48. > :53:51.is. If the callers can give us that in a calm way than we can send our

:53:52. > :53:54.fire engines to that incident and stay on the call with a caller,

:53:55. > :54:01.gathering additional information that will help keep them safe and

:54:02. > :54:09.help as. Because a fire engine or Adlers can be dispatched while the

:54:10. > :54:13.call is ongoing? Often callers panic because they think that we are

:54:14. > :54:17.taking too long, but actually to reassure everyone, we can respond

:54:18. > :54:22.immediately, as soon as we get the key pieces of information, the

:54:23. > :54:27.location and what type of emergency it is, and then while we are on the

:54:28. > :54:32.phone to them we can send someone there. As with all emergency

:54:33. > :54:38.services, the key thing is the only call 999 if it is an emergency? Yes,

:54:39. > :54:42.it is still an issue. While hoax calls have reduced in recent years,

:54:43. > :54:50.through campaigning and a name and shame campaign, we are still able to

:54:51. > :54:53.receive those... INAUDIBLE... Stockdale operators dealing with

:54:54. > :54:58.those real emergencies. Thanks ever so much. It has been very

:54:59. > :55:03.interesting. As I say, this is the area from which the ambulances are

:55:04. > :55:08.dispatched. This morning we had lots of information. A quick look down

:55:09. > :55:12.here again. When you talk to the people here who are busy at work and

:55:13. > :55:16.find out from them what kind of situations they are dealing with,

:55:17. > :55:21.you get a sense of the training which they have to undergo. And it

:55:22. > :55:25.is all about being calm in those actual situations. So it has been

:55:26. > :55:31.interesting having an insight. If I could have a quick chat with you

:55:32. > :55:34.again. How can the service be improved, maybe in regards to

:55:35. > :55:39.response times? We want to use different kinds of technology. We

:55:40. > :55:43.know that a lot of people are accessing us through their smart

:55:44. > :55:46.phones, so we want to build on that technology, to see if we can get

:55:47. > :55:50.that information in a quick fashion. Not just through the telephone. And

:55:51. > :55:54.clearly our systems are being upgraded to get the help to people

:55:55. > :55:57.that they need as quickly as possible and we continue to work on

:55:58. > :56:04.improving our response times. Rest of luck with that. As for having us

:56:05. > :56:06.this morning. We have been overhearing some very distressing

:56:07. > :56:10.conversations and the staff have been dealing with them calmly. It

:56:11. > :56:13.clearly must have an impact on them but they are saying how well looked

:56:14. > :56:17.after they are with the regular breaks, counselling if they need it

:56:18. > :56:25.as well. It has been a real insight. It really has been. Thanks very

:56:26. > :56:28.much. We will talk to Tim again later. I am sure people have

:56:29. > :56:33.questions about how emergencies are dealt with and the training. You can

:56:34. > :56:35.get it at with us in the usual way and of course we are in social

:56:36. > :59:56.media, Twitter and Facebook. Hello, this is Breakfast, with

:59:57. > :00:01.Charlie Stayt and Naga Munchetty. New questions over

:00:02. > :00:04.the Grenfell Tower disaster, as pressure grows on Kensington

:00:05. > :00:09.Council. Last night, the first full council

:00:10. > :00:12.meeting since the fire ended in chaos after a row over

:00:13. > :00:15.whether residents and This morning, it emerges

:00:16. > :00:21.that the cladding, originally due to be used on the tower,

:00:22. > :00:23.was downgraded in The parents of 10-month-old

:00:24. > :00:46.Charlie Gard, who lost their legal battle to take him to America

:00:47. > :00:51.for experimental treatment, say his life support will be

:00:52. > :00:53.switched off today. It will be the worst

:00:54. > :00:57.day of our lives. We know what day our son

:00:58. > :01:00.is going to die and we don't even There's no need for men

:01:01. > :01:07.to wear a tie in the House of Commons from now on,

:01:08. > :01:09.says the Speaker of the House. So this morning, I'll be seeing

:01:10. > :01:12.if formal dress codes at work In sport, three days before

:01:13. > :01:16.Wimbledon, the British No 1 fall at Eastbourne to beat the world

:01:17. > :01:23.No 1 Angelique Kerber. And we're looking back at 80

:01:24. > :01:43.years of 999 this morning we will be at one of the UK's

:01:44. > :01:47.biggest emergency call centres, finding out about life on the front

:01:48. > :01:52.nine. And Sarah had the weather. -- on the front line.

:01:53. > :01:56.A bit of sunshine for most today but most places fairly cloudy with

:01:57. > :01:58.drizzly rain in the north and west but the weekend promises some

:01:59. > :02:03.brighter weather. All the details in about 15 minutes.

:02:04. > :02:07.There are fresh calls for the leader of Kensington Council

:02:08. > :02:09.to resign in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster.

:02:10. > :02:12.A council meeting to discuss the tragedy was called off last

:02:13. > :02:14.night within minutes of starting after a row broke out over

:02:15. > :02:17.the attendance of members of the public and press.

:02:18. > :02:19.A document seen by the BBC has also revealed more details

:02:20. > :02:23.about the cladding used on the tower.

:02:24. > :02:31.Our correspondent Dan Johnson is in west London for us this morning.

:02:32. > :02:38.Good morning. Really angry scenes at the council meeting last night.

:02:39. > :02:43.Yes, another occasion when frustrations have boiled over and

:02:44. > :02:47.the focus is on Kensington and Chelsea Council and the way that it

:02:48. > :02:51.has responded to this disaster but as the days have gone on, we have

:02:52. > :02:55.also learned more about this fire and about the materials that may

:02:56. > :02:58.have contributed to the way that it spread but certainly, there is a

:02:59. > :03:03.growing impression that the leaders of the local authority year can't

:03:04. > :03:05.cope with the aftermath of the fire. -- authority here.

:03:06. > :03:07.He wants answers, and the rest of us...

:03:08. > :03:09.A meeting of councillors ending in chaos.

:03:10. > :03:11.Another sign of a council creaking under pressure.

:03:12. > :03:17.Having failed to properly respond to the disaster, last night,

:03:18. > :03:20.Kensington and Chelsea failed in a bid to ban reporters

:03:21. > :03:33.A High Court judge had to remind senior councillors their discussions

:03:34. > :03:38.are supposed to be open so the top team walked out.

:03:39. > :03:40.The leader of the council's Labour group is demanding changes

:03:41. > :03:46.I want the senior leadership of the council and the cabinet to resign.

:03:47. > :03:52.I want a new organisation in the council who can finally get

:03:53. > :03:55.to grips with the situation and make sure that my residents are properly

:03:56. > :04:01.Ten days after this disaster, and I'll remind you,

:04:02. > :04:04.we are only two or three miles away from Parliament, we're not

:04:05. > :04:07.in the middle of a third world country, ten days

:04:08. > :04:12.after the disaster, my people are still not been housed properly.

:04:13. > :04:14.after the disaster, my people are still not being housed properly.

:04:15. > :04:18.They are still not getting the access to the money

:04:19. > :04:25.Before last night's meeting, the council leader accepted

:04:26. > :04:27.the criticism but said he was not going.

:04:28. > :04:29.The scale of this was absolutely enormous, unprecedented.

:04:30. > :04:32.I think any council would have found it difficult to have

:04:33. > :04:36.This was a very big challenge for a relatively small London

:04:37. > :04:39.borough and I'm sure we could have done better and we will look

:04:40. > :04:42.at what we could have done differently or quicker or better

:04:43. > :04:45.and that will be one of the lessons that we learn from this tragedy.

:04:46. > :04:48.The panels stuck on the building are a key area for the investigation.

:04:49. > :04:51.The BBC has been told that during refurbishment,

:04:52. > :04:56.zinc cladding was rejected in favour of an aluminium alternative,

:04:57. > :05:00.not as fire retardant, although it has the same official rating.

:05:01. > :05:03.It was chosen because it was cheaper.

:05:04. > :05:09.The council saved more than ?290,000.

:05:10. > :05:12.How costly that decision could have been is one of many

:05:13. > :05:24.In a statement, Kensington and Chelsea Borough Council has said

:05:25. > :05:28.safety would not have been compromised to manage budgets and

:05:29. > :05:32.they have reiterated that during refurbishment, the budget actually

:05:33. > :05:36.increased by ?1 million and then another ?1 million. They say that

:05:37. > :05:40.any cost-cutting was just to try to deliver value for money, not to

:05:41. > :05:44.deliberately downgrade fire safety. But we have also had a reminder of

:05:45. > :05:47.the fact that there are survivors of this fire is still struggling, two

:05:48. > :05:51.weeks on, still without anywhere proper to live. It is a very

:05:52. > :05:58.difficult time still for those people affected by the fire. It is a

:05:59. > :06:04.nightmare. I can't sleep. I sleep and I wake up. I sleep may be four

:06:05. > :06:10.hours a night. And to stay in one room with two children, they are

:06:11. > :06:16.just trying to get out. London's mayor said the decision last night

:06:17. > :06:21.to cancel the council meeting was madness. He said the council needed

:06:22. > :06:24.to be open and needed to give answers and that is certainly what

:06:25. > :06:26.people are still eager for. They want to know they can have

:06:27. > :06:33.confidence in these enquiries and they want to know exactly what went

:06:34. > :06:37.on. In the build-up to the fire and why the response hasn't been better.

:06:38. > :06:38.Thank you for joining us. Dan Johnson in west London.

:06:39. > :06:40.Jeremy Corbyn has sacked three Shadow Cabinet ministers

:06:41. > :06:45.It's after 50 Labour MPs defied the party to back calls for the UK

:06:46. > :06:47.to remain in the single market following Brexit.

:06:48. > :06:50.Meanwhile, the Government narrowly avoided its own rebellion over

:06:51. > :06:52.the Queen's Speech by offering a last-minute concession

:06:53. > :06:56.on abortion funding for women in Northern Ireland.

:06:57. > :07:04.Our political correspondent Alex Forsyth joins us now.

:07:05. > :07:06.Last-minute deals and sackings - we're getting a sense

:07:07. > :07:12.of the new reality for British politics?

:07:13. > :07:16.I think we probably are getting used to this as the new style of

:07:17. > :07:20.Parliament. This is a hung parliament so the vote and views of

:07:21. > :07:24.every single of the matter and MPs know that say they have become maybe

:07:25. > :07:28.a little bit bolder. As you say, a number of Labour MPs defied the

:07:29. > :07:34.leadership, went against it, and supported the amendment saying the

:07:35. > :07:38.UK should stay in the single market when it leaves the EU, Jeremy Corbyn

:07:39. > :07:40.sacked three frontbenchers and another one quit, I think he's

:07:41. > :07:46.asserting the authority he has now he's done better than many people

:07:47. > :07:50.expected in the general election. On the other side, Theresa May, because

:07:51. > :07:53.she has no overall majority, has to make compromises and concessions

:07:54. > :07:57.with her backbenchers. The government has now pledged to fund

:07:58. > :08:00.abortions for women from Northern Ireland to come to England because

:08:01. > :08:03.they didn't want their Tory backbenchers to defeat them over

:08:04. > :08:08.that. This is what a hung parliament looks like, bolder MPs, prepared to

:08:09. > :08:11.cause some trouble for the party leaders and it is going to continue

:08:12. > :08:13.with big battles in Parliament for some time. Alex, thank you for the

:08:14. > :08:16.moment. The parents of 10-month-old

:08:17. > :08:18.Charlie Gard, who fought an unsuccessful legal battle

:08:19. > :08:21.to take him to America for experimental treatment,

:08:22. > :08:23.say he will stop receiving Charlie has a rare genetic

:08:24. > :08:26.condition and brain damage. Doctors at Great Ormond

:08:27. > :08:28.Street Hospital say the US We should be over the road,

:08:29. > :08:39.sitting next to our son, Charlie Gard's bed, spending

:08:40. > :08:42.the last precious But we just thought we would take

:08:43. > :08:49.five minutes out to come It's a video no one

:08:50. > :08:54.should ever have to make. In a heart-breaking YouTube post,

:08:55. > :08:59.ten-month-old Charlie Gard's parents say they're being denied their last

:09:00. > :09:02.hope for their baby boy. We promised our little

:09:03. > :09:05.boy every single day that we would take him home,

:09:06. > :09:07.because that is the promise We want to give him a bath at home,

:09:08. > :09:15.we want to sit on the sofa with him, we want to sleep in the bed

:09:16. > :09:19.with him, we want to put him in a cot that he's never slept in,

:09:20. > :09:22.but we are now being denied that. Charlie was born with a rare

:09:23. > :09:26.genetic condition and is Connie Yates and Chris Gard

:09:27. > :09:31.have been fighting to keep his life support

:09:32. > :09:33.switched on since March, despite doctors saying there's no

:09:34. > :09:36.hope for improvement. They took their fight all the way to

:09:37. > :09:42.the European Court of Human Rights. But this week, they lost,

:09:43. > :09:45.as judges agreed with the British courts it was most likely Charlie

:09:46. > :09:48.was being exposed to continued pain. Today, his life support

:09:49. > :09:53.will be switched off. His parents say they're being rushed

:09:54. > :09:55.at the most difficult Fourth August 2016 was

:09:56. > :10:06.the best day of our life, But 30th Jone, 2017,

:10:07. > :10:15.is going to be the worst Great Ormond Street Hospital said

:10:16. > :10:19.they won't comment on specific details of patient care,

:10:20. > :10:21.but this is a very distressing situation for Charlie's parents

:10:22. > :10:23.and all of the staff involved After six years of war,

:10:24. > :10:29.fighters of the so-called Islamic State group are under siege

:10:30. > :10:33.in Raqqa, one of its last US-backed forces say they have fully

:10:34. > :10:38.surrounded the city. Our correspondent Gabriel

:10:39. > :10:45.Gatehouse sent this report. If and when Raqqa falls,

:10:46. > :11:01.it will be in large part thanks to the American military

:11:02. > :11:09.and allies including Britain The American presence has been

:11:10. > :11:12.going. We have cleared out 60,000 square kilometres of territory and

:11:13. > :11:20.liberated over 4 million people. As the coalition advances into always,

:11:21. > :11:26.many offering. Many live in this town. Under the harsh rule of the

:11:27. > :11:28.group that causes of exam expect, not all against their will. One

:11:29. > :11:35.corner of the camp is reserved for the wives and children of IS

:11:36. > :11:40.fighters. This woman left Lebanon on for Raqqa two years ago to join her

:11:41. > :11:43.husband, a jihadis. When he was killed, she married a Tunisian and

:11:44. > :11:49.so joined the ranks of a relatively privileged group, the wives of

:11:50. > :11:53.foreign fighters. American troops in Syria number in the hundreds. They

:11:54. > :11:57.won't say exactly how many. Their special forces are involved in the

:11:58. > :12:04.fighting on the ground, their planes are bombing Raqqa from the air. Isis

:12:05. > :12:07.is certainly not defeated. When Mosul is liberated, or Raqqa is

:12:08. > :12:13.liberated, there's a lot of hard work left to do. I asked the general

:12:14. > :12:17.if he knew the whereabouts of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-declared

:12:18. > :12:20.leader of the caliphate. Man, I was hoping you knew! If you know, please

:12:21. > :12:26.tell me and we will kill him forthright. Reports from the front

:12:27. > :12:30.line today suggest US backed forces have Raqqa surrounded but as we

:12:31. > :12:35.learned in Mosul, capturing the city itself will likely prove a long,

:12:36. > :12:38.hard fight. A brill gatehouse, BBC News, northern Syria. -- Gabriel

:12:39. > :12:41.Gatehouse. The American tennis player

:12:42. > :12:44.Venus Williams, who is due to play at Wimbledon next week,

:12:45. > :12:46.has been involved in a car crash, which led to the death

:12:47. > :12:48.of a 78-year-old man. A police spokesman told the BBC

:12:49. > :12:51.they were investigating the incident in Florida,

:12:52. > :12:53.which happened earlier this month. Williams' lawyer said the tennis

:12:54. > :12:55.star "expresses her deepest Those are the main street. All the

:12:56. > :13:06.sport coming up a bit later. If you knew a simple test

:13:07. > :13:08.could help save your life, you'd think most people

:13:09. > :13:10.would take it. But when it comes to cervical cancer

:13:11. > :13:12.screening, many women are delaying check-ups or simply

:13:13. > :13:14.missing them altogether. Around 3,200 women are diagnosed

:13:15. > :13:18.with cervical cancer each year. Early detection and treatment

:13:19. > :13:22.through screening can prevent up to 75% of cervical

:13:23. > :13:26.cancers from developing. And yet a Cancer Research UK survey

:13:27. > :13:29.found that 15% of women who were overdue a test had decided

:13:30. > :13:34.never to go for one. We're joined by Suzette McQuie,

:13:35. > :13:38.who was diagnosed with the disease in 2012, after delaying her smear

:13:39. > :13:41.test for 15 years. Jessica Kirby from Cancer Research

:13:42. > :13:55.UK also joins us from London. Thank you for joining us. What we

:13:56. > :13:58.said there was that some women who are overdue a test, so who perhaps

:13:59. > :14:03.have had a test or were scheduled one, it is every three years, every

:14:04. > :14:09.five years, decided they just didn't want one and you can relate to that,

:14:10. > :14:14.can't you? Absolutely. You had a test in Australia first of all. Yes,

:14:15. > :14:17.so I had a test when I was around 30 and I let it go for 15 years before

:14:18. > :14:24.I had another one purely out of fear. I had built it up in my head

:14:25. > :14:28.that it was, you know, mentally uncomfortable and so out of absolute

:14:29. > :14:34.fear, I did not go for another one for 15 years. And what persuaded you

:14:35. > :14:39.to have the next test? I lost a bet! It is a bet that I'm glad I lost

:14:40. > :14:45.because it absolutely saved my life. Just explain that. How did that

:14:46. > :14:47.work? What was the bet? I bet a friend that he wouldn't go for a

:14:48. > :14:56.dental checkup because he was afraid of going to the dentist and my

:14:57. > :14:59.friend reminded me that I had not been for a smear test for a similar

:15:00. > :15:02.reason. So I said if he went for a dental checkup, then I would go for

:15:03. > :15:06.a smear test. I was pretty confident he would not go. But he sent me the

:15:07. > :15:11.bill. I kept my end of the bargain. So you did have the test what

:15:12. > :15:16.happened subsequently? I was diagnosed with cervical cancer and

:15:17. > :15:22.treated very swiftly the NHS. I had my cervix removed. I had three quite

:15:23. > :15:27.painful surgeries. I temporarily lost the use of minor leg and for

:15:28. > :15:32.somebody who thought they were perfectly healthy, it really

:15:33. > :15:33.illustrates why the test is so important. I had no symptoms

:15:34. > :15:47.whatsoever. How are you now? I'm fine. I'm five

:15:48. > :15:52.years cancer-free. If you were told if you had the test the outcome may

:15:53. > :15:59.have been different? There is a lot of information available about the

:16:00. > :16:09.tests and I ignored all of it, even with my own mother having had

:16:10. > :16:18.cancer. I felt so normal, that once I was diagnosed I ran the Manchester

:16:19. > :16:23.10K to prove how fine I felt. This story is one told with experience

:16:24. > :16:27.she had had a bad experience but the research shows that women aren't

:16:28. > :16:31.aware of how important this test is, regardless of whether they have had

:16:32. > :16:37.it in the past, some are avoiding ever doing it. Yes and one of the

:16:38. > :16:41.main findings of the study was that a third of these women who were

:16:42. > :16:47.overdue with their tests had never even heard of the test. Which is

:16:48. > :16:51.quite surprising, considering in the UK women should be invited every

:16:52. > :16:57.three years with a letter to their home, with all the information. I

:16:58. > :17:02.think what that really shows is there is room for more tailored

:17:03. > :17:06.approaches to raising awareness and to providing information that is in

:17:07. > :17:13.a format which people can engage with and which people understand. So

:17:14. > :17:18.shouldn't women be sent a notification that they're due a test

:17:19. > :17:22.any way? Yes, if women are registered with a GP and within the

:17:23. > :17:27.screening age, every three years they should be sent an invitation

:17:28. > :17:35.with a leaflet explaining the process and what the results might

:17:36. > :17:40.be. Anecdotally are you still meeting people who are like you were

:17:41. > :17:48.there and are in denial about this? Yes. And you know what I would say

:17:49. > :17:55.to them is to just do it, because it can save you so much more trauma of

:17:56. > :17:59.surgeries or chemotherapy or radiotherapy, what you could face if

:18:00. > :18:07.you don't do the test is so much worse. There is talk about home

:18:08. > :18:13.testing kits, particularly bearing that some women say the experience

:18:14. > :18:21.is just so unpleasant it might be a better alternative. There is a lot

:18:22. > :18:29.of research going on for home sampling kits. At the moment that is

:18:30. > :18:33.not at an advanced stage as the tests that are used for cervical

:18:34. > :18:38.screening, it is not available on the NHS at the moment, but it is

:18:39. > :18:44.being investigated as an option for women who can't or don't want to go

:18:45. > :18:49.and get a sample taken at the GP's surgery or the family planning

:18:50. > :18:53.clinic. It is not as effective as having the sample taken by a proeggs

:18:54. > :18:58.fl. But it -- professional but it could be an option for women who

:18:59. > :19:03.don't want to go. My last question to you, I asked this slightly

:19:04. > :19:09.cautiously, what role do you think men have in the business of women

:19:10. > :19:18.going for tests? You know, you mentioned you had a bet with a man,

:19:19. > :19:25.is that right, about going to dentist. It could be anyone. If you

:19:26. > :19:30.have a male partner who can lend you support to go to appointment, that

:19:31. > :19:34.could be a great thing. Men are cautious about saying, you know,

:19:35. > :19:37.have you... Get involved. Have you had the test. You should because of

:19:38. > :19:42.the things you talked about, because it is difficult and it not. People

:19:43. > :19:46.should feel free to talk about it with anyone really. But particularly

:19:47. > :19:52.somebody who is close to them like a partner. But they can also research

:19:53. > :19:56.on their own through cancer research UK's site, there is a lot of

:19:57. > :19:59.information available. But partner support is important. Thank you very

:20:00. > :20:04.much. You're watching

:20:05. > :20:05.Breakfast from BBC News. It's emerged that the cladding

:20:06. > :20:09.originally due to be used on Grenfell Tower,

:20:10. > :20:10.was downgraded in The cladding is thought to have

:20:11. > :20:14.contributed to the rapid The parents of Charlie Gard -

:20:15. > :20:20.who fought an unsuccessful legal battle to take him to America

:20:21. > :20:22.for experimental treatment - say his life support will be

:20:23. > :20:30.switched off today. Here's Sarah with a look

:20:31. > :20:40.at this morning's weather. Some sunshine on the way this

:20:41. > :20:44.weekend? Yes it is an improving picture. It has been an unsettled

:20:45. > :20:48.week and it is the last week of June, it has been a months of

:20:49. > :20:52.extremes. Last week we had the hottest June day in 40 years. This

:20:53. > :20:59.week our attention has turned to the rain. And in parts of Scotland we

:21:00. > :21:03.have broken records. In Edinburgh the wettest June there on record.

:21:04. > :21:07.This was how things looked yesterday in Edinburgh. But it is a drier

:21:08. > :21:15.picture for most of us today. There is some rain, but you can see blue

:21:16. > :21:19.skies and sunshine captured by a weather watcher in Warwickshire. You

:21:20. > :21:23.can see there are some holes in the cloud, showing the sunshine in the

:21:24. > :21:28.Midlands and south-east England. But a lot of cloud elsewhere and some

:21:29. > :21:33.rain. Particularly for parts of western Wales, south-west England,

:21:34. > :21:38.where you have rain and brisk northerly winds. Further north some

:21:39. > :21:45.rain in Northern Ireland and Scotland and northern England. In

:21:46. > :21:50.the south-east some heavy showers. So 4 in the afternoon, still breezy

:21:51. > :21:56.and damp in Pembrokeshire down to Devon and Cornwall. Brighter skies

:21:57. > :22:02.in central and south-east England, but there could be some isolated but

:22:03. > :22:07.heavy showers. It should feel pleasant in the brighter spells. But

:22:08. > :22:12.a grey afternoon in northern England and Northern Ireland and in Scotland

:22:13. > :22:19.the rain will ease, but we could keep some drizzle into the

:22:20. > :22:22.afternoon. This evening the rain pushes across central and southern

:22:23. > :22:29.East Anglia earn. It should get out of the way quickly on Saturday

:22:30. > :22:35.morning. Leaving most of us with temperatures in the mid teens. It

:22:36. > :22:39.will improve, we have this ridge of high pressure building in. There is

:22:40. > :22:43.low pressure approaching, so it won't be dry across the board. But

:22:44. > :22:48.compared to the past few days the weekend is looking drier and a

:22:49. > :22:52.little warmer. Any early rain clears on Saturday from the south-east and

:22:53. > :22:56.then a return to sunnier drier weather. Some cloud and rain in

:22:57. > :23:03.Northern Ireland and Scotland during the afternoon. But ahead of that we

:23:04. > :23:10.could see highs of 24 degrees. Sunday again largely dry. A few

:23:11. > :23:18.showers in the south-east. But they should clear away. Temperatures

:23:19. > :23:23.around 15 to 22 degree. I would like to say you look lovely today as

:23:24. > :23:28.usual. We are talking about clothing. The Speaker of House of

:23:29. > :23:35.Commons said MPs don't need to wear ties all the time. What do you think

:23:36. > :23:46.is the best dressed male presenter today? I couldn't choose between our

:23:47. > :23:51.three well dressed presenter. Sean has been playing with his tie and

:23:52. > :23:56.experimenting with knots. Hold on, it is easy to say at least one

:23:57. > :24:03.person. Just say it. What that it's you. It's not that hard. Maybe

:24:04. > :24:11.because he knows it is not you. You can give me that ?10 note later.

:24:12. > :24:16.That is the apps. Tell -- that is the answer. This is from the House

:24:17. > :24:20.of Commons. Yes, it is one of the smartest places in the count which

:24:21. > :24:24.are wigs and robes, but yesterday, the Speaker, one MP turned up

:24:25. > :24:29.without a tie and the speaker said, that is all right. Nobody has to

:24:30. > :24:36.wear a tie. But is that representative of changes that are

:24:37. > :24:40.going on in the work place? It has sparked discussions about how you

:24:41. > :24:46.tie your tie. Yes. Whether you wear one. We have been getting grief for

:24:47. > :24:54.socks, type of shoe. Can you roll up. What issure favourite. -- What

:24:55. > :24:59.is your favourite. I like rolling sleeves up. You would be of the four

:25:00. > :25:05.Seans you would be the Sean on the far right. Yes looking at it now,

:25:06. > :25:08.possibly with smarter shoes. We asked a few workers in London

:25:09. > :25:14.whether they would get rid of their tie. Where I work in the office, I

:25:15. > :25:18.make sure the people I work with wear a tie. There are some

:25:19. > :25:24.professions that it is appropriate to wear a tie, the legal and banking

:25:25. > :25:29.profession and accountancy. I think it is appropriate. If I'm going to a

:25:30. > :25:35.meeting I will put on a tie. In the office, I don't see the point. I

:25:36. > :25:39.found like a button up shirt looks much more clean and tidy than a

:25:40. > :25:49.tieshgs which seems an irrelevant piece of cloth. Julie said she is a

:25:50. > :25:54.fan of ties, but they shouldn't be compulsory in hot weather. Carl said

:25:55. > :26:01.it doesn't make you do your job better. Without one it is more

:26:02. > :26:06.relaxing. William, have a look at him, where is he? He said, he is

:26:07. > :26:12.dressed like this for 42 years of his working life and being very

:26:13. > :26:18.successful. He says, I'm a character and I would never do business a man

:26:19. > :26:23.not wearing a tie. He has got the waste coat and everything. That is a

:26:24. > :26:28.lot of effort every morning. But he has been successful. Do you think

:26:29. > :26:38.the day will come where we don't, or men don't have to wear ties on the

:26:39. > :26:46.sofa? It is not for me, for me I think, I sort of feel like it's

:26:47. > :26:51.appropriate and business-like. You didn't wear one chatting to Steve.

:26:52. > :26:54.Look at you being observant. Andy Murray. Everyone is watching. Thank

:26:55. > :30:25.Bye for now. you Sean. Tell us what you think.

:30:26. > :30:31.Hello, this is Breakfast with Charlie Stayt and Naga Munchetty.

:30:32. > :30:34.There are fresh calls for the leader of Kensington Council

:30:35. > :30:37.to resign in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster.

:30:38. > :30:40.A council meeting to discuss the tragedy was called off last

:30:41. > :30:42.night within minutes of starting, after a row broke out over

:30:43. > :30:44.the attendance of members of the public and press.

:30:45. > :30:47.A document seen by the BBC has also revealed more details

:30:48. > :30:56.about the cladding used on the tower.

:30:57. > :31:00.Earlier on Breakfast, one Labour cancer called for the leadership

:31:01. > :31:07.team to stand aside. I want the senior leadership and the Cabinet to

:31:08. > :31:12.resign. I want a new organisation in the council who can get to grips

:31:13. > :31:16.with the situation. And make sure that my residents are properly

:31:17. > :31:22.housed and looked after. Ten days after this disaster, and we are only

:31:23. > :31:26.a few miles from Parliament not in the middle of a third World country,

:31:27. > :31:29.ten days after the disaster my people are still not been housed

:31:30. > :31:32.properly, they are not being listened to, they are not getting

:31:33. > :31:37.the access to the money they have been promised.

:31:38. > :31:39.The scale of this was absolutely enormous, unprecedented. I think any

:31:40. > :31:44.council would have found it difficult to have everything in

:31:45. > :31:47.place. This was a very big challenge for a relatively small London

:31:48. > :31:50.borough. I'm sure we could have done better and we will look at what we

:31:51. > :31:52.could have done differently and that will be one of the lessons we learn

:31:53. > :31:53.from this tragedy. The parents of 10-month-old

:31:54. > :31:55.Charlie Gard, who fought an unsuccessful legal

:31:56. > :31:57.battle to take him to America for experimental treatment,

:31:58. > :31:59.say he will stop receiving Charlie has a rare genetic

:32:00. > :32:04.condition and brain damage. Doctors at Great Ormond Street

:32:05. > :32:07.Hospital say the US treatment Chris Gard and Connie Yates say

:32:08. > :32:12.they've now been told they will not be able to take their

:32:13. > :32:23.son home to die. We promised our little boy every

:32:24. > :32:29.single day that we would taking home. That is a promise we thought

:32:30. > :32:34.we could keep. We want to give him a bath at home. We want to sit on the

:32:35. > :32:38.sofa with him. We want to sleep in the bed with him. We want to put him

:32:39. > :32:41.in a cot he has never slept in but we are being denied that.

:32:42. > :32:44.More than a quarter of women who are overdue for a cervical

:32:45. > :32:46.cancer test, don't know screening is available, according

:32:47. > :32:49.The charity found there was a particular lack of awareness

:32:50. > :32:51.among women who spoke English as a second language.

:32:52. > :32:53.Around 3,000 new cases are diagnosed every year,

:32:54. > :32:56.and the charity says more needs to be done to reach women

:32:57. > :33:00.We were very surprised to find that some were completely unaware

:33:01. > :33:03.of the programme, and that tended to be

:33:04. > :33:05.women from black, minority and ethnic groups and those

:33:06. > :33:08.who did not have English as a first language.

:33:09. > :33:12.That's although all women in the country who are age eligible

:33:13. > :33:15.for screening, are sent an invitation inviting

:33:16. > :33:20.For some women that is not a good way to reach them.

:33:21. > :33:23.The American tennis player, Venus Williams, who is due to play

:33:24. > :33:26.at Wimbledon next week, has been involved in a car crash,

:33:27. > :33:29.which led to the death of a 78-year-old man.

:33:30. > :33:32.A police spokesman told the BBC they were investigating

:33:33. > :33:34.the incident in Florida, which happened earlier this month.

:33:35. > :33:36.Williams' lawyer said the tennis star "expresses her deepest

:33:37. > :33:41.condolences to the family" affected.

:33:42. > :33:44.President Trump has been widely criticised for launching a personal

:33:45. > :33:49.attack against a prominent female journalist on Twitter.

:33:50. > :33:54.Mr Trump called Mika Brzezinski "low IQ crazy Mika" in response

:33:55. > :33:59.to disparaging remarks about him on her MSNBC show.

:34:00. > :34:02.He also referred to her "bleeding badly from a face-lift".

:34:03. > :34:13.Senior US Republicans were among those to denounce the comments.

:34:14. > :34:15.And coming up here on Breakfast this morning...

:34:16. > :34:17.It's where children learn the ABC and 123 -

:34:18. > :34:19.but do the numbers add up when it comes to the funding

:34:20. > :34:24.Barack Obama said his feats remind us that anything is possible.

:34:25. > :34:27.The American free climber Tommy Caldwell will be here to talk

:34:28. > :34:32.about breaking records on the rock face.

:34:33. > :34:35.And we'll be joined by a double Oscar-winning film director to find

:34:36. > :34:38.out about her latest project looking at the partition of

:34:39. > :34:52.Let's talk sport. Let's talk tennis and injuries.

:34:53. > :34:58.A bit of a worry. We have such high hopes for Andy Murray. When else

:34:59. > :35:04.have we had a women's player in the top ten as well? Johanna Konta. Both

:35:05. > :35:07.have injury doubts. Konta's injury you wouldn't

:35:08. > :35:08.associate with a tennis court. It was a head injury.

:35:09. > :35:10.Yes. Johanna Konta is through to the semi

:35:11. > :35:12.finals at Eastbourne - but her victory over

:35:13. > :35:14.Angelique Kerber came at a price. Let's hope it doesn't affect her

:35:15. > :35:16.today. Konta was already a set up,

:35:17. > :35:19.when she suffered a heavy fall Following a lengthy stoppage

:35:20. > :35:22.while she received treatment, the British number one eventually

:35:23. > :35:26.took one of several match points to win the second set

:35:27. > :35:28.and book her place She'll play Czech third seed

:35:29. > :35:38.Karolina Pliskova later today. I slipped and I hit my head, so my

:35:39. > :35:42.head is a little sore right now, It hasn't been a busy

:35:43. > :35:48.afternoon, so... Not just for myself

:35:49. > :35:50.but for many players. We played a lot of tennis

:35:51. > :35:52.today, so definitely looking forward to recovering

:35:53. > :35:57.the best I can and playing again. Heather Watson is also

:35:58. > :36:01.into the last four at Eastbourne. She'll play

:36:02. > :36:02.Caroline Wozniacki today. You can see that match

:36:03. > :36:05.on BBC Two from 11 o' clock. In the men's draw,

:36:06. > :36:07.Novak Djokovic kept his Wimbledon preparations on course,

:36:08. > :36:09.after beating American Donald The Serbian won the first set

:36:10. > :36:14.easily, but had to survive two set points in the second before

:36:15. > :36:19.winning it in the tie-break. Djokovic, who's seeded

:36:20. > :36:21.second for Wimbledon, plays Daniil Medvedev,

:36:22. > :36:30.in his semi final today. And the world number 855, Alex Ward,

:36:31. > :36:34.will be in this morning's He's the only British

:36:35. > :36:36.player to come through He beat Russia's

:36:37. > :36:39.Teymuraz Gabashvili. Ward had lost his previous seven

:36:40. > :36:46.matches before this week. Meanwhile, Andy Murray,

:36:47. > :36:48.has withdrawn from an exhibition event in London today,

:36:49. > :36:50.with a sore hip, denting his Murray is the reigning champion

:36:51. > :36:55.and top seed for the tournament at the All England Club,

:36:56. > :36:58.but has pulled out of There may be concerns about Murray's

:36:59. > :37:03.hip, but he didn't put any pressure on that

:37:04. > :37:05.when he took part in our You can

:37:06. > :37:09.watch his attempt in 30 seconds on our Facebook and Twitter pages

:37:10. > :37:11.throughout Wimbledon. We will show you which other sports

:37:12. > :37:14.stars are challenging Murray for top spot, on our Game Set

:37:15. > :37:28.and Mug leaderboard. Murray has set the bar really high.

:37:29. > :37:36.We had nothing to do with his injury problems Zverev can you not give us

:37:37. > :37:40.a hint, Charlie? What was lovely about that, we

:37:41. > :37:44.hadn't planned it. He did the challenge. I was doing the

:37:45. > :37:51.stopwatch. As soon as we finished, he said to me, have you had a go? I

:37:52. > :37:54.said, no. He said, give me the stopwatch.

:37:55. > :38:02.Do you think he wanted a good laugh?! I can't talk. I bet you beat

:38:03. > :38:05.me. Have you had a go? Not an official

:38:06. > :38:08.go. Simon Grayson says he wants

:38:09. > :38:11.to give Sunderland fans a team they can be proud of,

:38:12. > :38:13.after he was appointed He's signed a three year

:38:14. > :38:16.deal with the club. He replaces David Moyes,

:38:17. > :38:18.who resigned in May, and joins after four years

:38:19. > :38:20.with fellow Championship Also signing a three year

:38:21. > :38:24.deal is England striker Jermain Defoe, who's making

:38:25. > :38:26.a return to Bournemouth. The 34-year-old had

:38:27. > :38:28.a clause in his contract allowing him to leave for free,

:38:29. > :38:30.following Sunderland's relegation from the Premier League.

:38:31. > :38:35.Defoe scored 15 goals last season. And a year before the World Cup,

:38:36. > :38:37.reigning champions Germany What was effectively their reserve

:38:38. > :38:41.side reached the final of the Confederations Cup,

:38:42. > :38:45.thrashing Mexico 4-1. Schalke's Leon Goretzka,

:38:46. > :38:50.scored twice early on. An impressive Marco Fabian goal

:38:51. > :38:52.for Mexico was little Germany will play Chile in Sunday's

:38:53. > :39:00.final in St Petersburg. Rangers won their first European

:39:01. > :39:03.fixture in six years, with a 1-0 win over Progres Niederkorn

:39:04. > :39:06.from Luxembourg in the first leg Defeat for St Johnstone

:39:07. > :39:11.though - they lost 2-1 Full details of all

:39:12. > :39:14.the qualifying results In rugby league, Leeds edged

:39:15. > :39:21.a thrilling match against St Helens, 24-22, to move up to second

:39:22. > :39:26.in the Super League table. The Rhinos ran in four

:39:27. > :39:29.tries at Headingley, Ryan Hall claiming the final one,

:39:30. > :39:32.for his seventh of the season. They survived a late fightback

:39:33. > :39:35.to dent St Helens hopes Now, there's nothing a mother

:39:36. > :39:42.won't do for her son, is there? Even if you're a grown man playing

:39:43. > :39:45.in a professional golf tournament. China's Hao-tong Lee

:39:46. > :39:46.threw his putter into the water at the 11th at Le Golf

:39:47. > :39:49.National in France Around 20 minutes later,

:39:50. > :39:56.his mum waded knee-deep into the water to find it,

:39:57. > :39:59.attracting a bit of attention from She did find the putter,

:40:00. > :40:06.and it had been broken in two. Her efforts sent some of the other

:40:07. > :40:09.players into fits of laughter as they looked on in amazement

:40:10. > :40:20.at the effort she had gone to! She wades out and realises it is so

:40:21. > :40:25.broken it is not worth keeping. She dumped it back in the pond.

:40:26. > :40:29.There is no limit to a mother's love.

:40:30. > :40:35.Not a great advert. You don't throw your putter away.

:40:36. > :40:40.I am sorry for taking the Mickey out of you.

:40:41. > :40:43.I think it is fair to say that Charlie didn't beat Andy Murray.

:40:44. > :40:46.I am saying nothing. Thank you.

:40:47. > :40:48.Nurseries in England are warning that local councils are failing

:40:49. > :40:50.to provide enough money to fund more free childcare

:40:51. > :40:57.From September, children will be eligible for 30 hours free

:40:58. > :40:59.nursery education a week if both parents are in work.

:41:00. > :41:01.But the National Day Nurseries Association say

:41:02. > :41:08.Purnima Tanuku is from the organisation.

:41:09. > :41:16.Good morning. You put some freedom of information request into local

:41:17. > :41:22.authorities to find out how much councils were going to give

:41:23. > :41:25.nurseries, because the government says that they are providing extra

:41:26. > :41:32.money and that should take the hourly rate paid to ?4 94. 97p more

:41:33. > :41:37.than the current rate. Your research found the hourly rate is much less.

:41:38. > :41:40.How can you explain that? The government passes on the funding to

:41:41. > :41:45.local authorities and local authorities distribute the money to

:41:46. > :41:48.nurseries. The government promised 30 hours free childcare to working

:41:49. > :41:53.parents at the last election. What they haven't done is do their sums

:41:54. > :41:58.properly and invested the right amount of money. If the government

:41:59. > :42:01.has announced the money, done its calculations, but the local

:42:02. > :42:06.authorities are the ones keeping the money back. Is that not fair to say?

:42:07. > :42:11.It is, previously. But local authorities are now allowed only to

:42:12. > :42:15.retain seven to 8% of the funding. The majority of the local

:42:16. > :42:20.authorities are actually passing it on to nurseries. The fundamental

:42:21. > :42:24.problem we have is this is a chronic underfunding issue. For the last ten

:42:25. > :42:29.years, the government hasn't kept up with inflation when it comes to

:42:30. > :42:35.nursery funding. Business rates have gone up 100 to 150%. Costs have

:42:36. > :42:40.increased. There is no adequate funding. They cannot actually...

:42:41. > :42:46.They call it free childcare but actually it is not free. We are

:42:47. > :42:49.talking about September, when a lot of people will be thinking, my child

:42:50. > :42:54.will be going in, I want to take advantage of these 30 hours. Will

:42:55. > :42:58.they get the free care, given the maths you are talking about, the

:42:59. > :43:04.nurseries are struggling? Will they get that free nursery space? They

:43:05. > :43:09.may not in some areas. When we did our research, 44% of nurseries

:43:10. > :43:12.across the country said they weren't sure if they could afford to deliver

:43:13. > :43:20.this so-called free childcare because they were already making

:43:21. > :43:23.losses of ?1000 a child a year on 15 hours. When it is doubled in

:43:24. > :43:28.September, there is no way a nursery can afford to run this at a loss.

:43:29. > :43:33.That means 50,000 children, which is actually the population, the

:43:34. > :43:38.children's population of Manchester, may miss out on this so-called free

:43:39. > :43:43.childcare. I am trying to ascertain where the blame lies, who parents

:43:44. > :43:47.should be annoyed with. If some local authorities can organise

:43:48. > :43:53.budgets and provide childcare that is affordable, why can some others

:43:54. > :43:57.not? I think it is the funding formula. The money distributed to

:43:58. > :44:00.local authorities, some can give a little bit more than others. The

:44:01. > :44:05.fundamental problem is there is not enough money in the pot. Will

:44:06. > :44:10.parents have to pay for meals and provide extra money themselves? Just

:44:11. > :44:14.to give you an example, in Wales the government have just announced that

:44:15. > :44:19.nurseries can charge ?7 50 for meals and snacks. In England, the

:44:20. > :44:25.government says yes, they can charge, but parents can pay, at

:44:26. > :44:28.least voluntarily. You cannot run a business on the goodwill of parents

:44:29. > :44:29.to be able to pay for additional extras like meals and snacks.

:44:30. > :44:43.Thank you. It is time to look at the weather.

:44:44. > :44:50.Sarah has been dressed the best -- voted the best dressed weather

:44:51. > :44:53.presenter on Breakfast this morning. Good morning. We will look at the

:44:54. > :44:57.month of June, we are in the last day of the month and it has been a

:44:58. > :45:01.roller-coaster. We have had extreme weather, the heat last week, the

:45:02. > :45:05.hottest June day in 40 years, this week the rain has made the

:45:06. > :45:09.headlines. We have broken some records in Scotland. In Edinburgh we

:45:10. > :45:14.have seen 178 millimetres of rain during the month of June, making it

:45:15. > :45:33.the wettest June on record. This is the scene taken by one Weather

:45:34. > :45:36.Watcher yesterday. Not all of us will see rain today. There is

:45:37. > :45:39.sunshine, here are blue skies captured by one of the Weather

:45:40. > :45:40.Watchers in Warwickshire a couple of hours ago. Some sunshine breaking

:45:41. > :45:43.through but the satellite image shows that much of the country sits

:45:44. > :45:45.underneath that cloud with some drizzly outbreaks of rain,

:45:46. > :45:46.particularly heavy rain across Pembrokeshire down towards Cornwall,

:45:47. > :45:48.quite windy conditions across the West of the British Isles. Further

:45:49. > :45:51.east, less windy, drier weather towards the south-east but you can

:45:52. > :45:55.see some isolated heavy showers around Kent and Sussex. At 4pm,

:45:56. > :45:59.still some drizzly rain in the south-west of England and across

:46:00. > :46:04.Wales, a gloomy, grey and windy pictures with temperatures 14 to 17.

:46:05. > :46:07.Warmer in the sunnier spells in the south-east but you have a chance

:46:08. > :46:12.around the middle of the day of catching a fewer sharp rain showers.

:46:13. > :46:15.Thicker cloud for the North of Wales and northern England, spots of

:46:16. > :46:27.drizzle. Northern Ireland looks like it should dry out into the

:46:28. > :46:29.afternoon, staying cool and breezy, a grey afternoon in Scotland but the

:46:30. > :46:32.rain easing. This evening and overnight, there will be an area of

:46:33. > :46:34.rain pushing south across Central and south-eastern England, some rain

:46:35. > :46:36.overnight but most of that should get out of the way fairly quickly on

:46:37. > :46:40.Saturday with temperatures holding into the mid-teens for most of us. A

:46:41. > :46:44.fresh start for Northern Ireland and Scotland. The improving weather

:46:45. > :46:47.through the weekend is down to a ridge of high pressure building

:46:48. > :46:51.ahead of the next area of low pressure. The weekend will bring

:46:52. > :46:55.some drier and brighter weather, it will not stay dry everywhere. After

:46:56. > :46:59.early rain cleared from the south-east on Saturday we are back

:47:00. > :47:04.to drier conditions with sunshine before more cloud into Northern

:47:05. > :47:07.Ireland and Scotland later in the afternoon. Most parts of the country

:47:08. > :47:12.having a decent day with temperatures at 19 to 24 degrees

:47:13. > :47:16.foremost. One or two shudders around on Sunday in the far south-east and

:47:17. > :47:21.far north-west, but many places having a fairly fine and dry day,

:47:22. > :47:29.lighter winds, temperatures into the low 20s. Back to you both.

:47:30. > :47:31.Thank you, Sarah. We will see you soon.

:47:32. > :47:33.Fewer people are taking their own life on the railways.

:47:34. > :47:36.The reduction is thought to be due to a ground-breaking partnership

:47:37. > :47:38.between the charity Samaritans and Network Rail.

:47:39. > :47:40.One in six rail staff and transport police have been trained

:47:41. > :47:43.on what to do if they spot someone looking vulnerable.

:47:44. > :47:45.There has been an 18% reduction in the number of such

:47:46. > :47:47.deaths since the programme started last year.

:47:48. > :47:51.Our transport correspondent Richard Westcott reports.

:47:52. > :47:56.Every year more than 200 people take their own life on the railways.

:47:57. > :48:00.People of all ages, from all backgrounds.

:48:01. > :48:03.The initial shock after Oscar died...

:48:04. > :48:07.You're just numb and then in the weeks and months

:48:08. > :48:13.after you get hit with a tsunami of grief.

:48:14. > :48:18.Carmel's son Oscar was just 16 when he took his life, in 2015.

:48:19. > :48:20.He was smart, fun, popular at school.

:48:21. > :48:24.There was no clue as to how he was really feeling.

:48:25. > :48:29.You feel like your heart has been turned into glass, shattered.

:48:30. > :48:31.You're so vulnerable yourself and at that point

:48:32. > :48:37.Carmel's now starting a charity in Oscar's name,

:48:38. > :48:39.going into schools, encouraging children to speak out

:48:40. > :48:49.What we do know is that many people who are suicidal,

:48:50. > :48:50.one of the things they are feeling...

:48:51. > :48:52.You can learn how to help prevent suicide.

:48:53. > :48:55.In recent years, nearly 15,000 rail staff and Transport Police have been

:48:56. > :48:57.on this ground-breaking Samaritans course, showing them what to do

:48:58. > :49:06.Andy admits he was cynical before the lesson, but he soon relied on it

:49:07. > :49:13.I sat down, I spoke to him, asked him if I could help,

:49:14. > :49:21.He said to me he was a coward and that he wanted to die.

:49:22. > :49:25.So I asked him if he would come and sit in the van and let me

:49:26. > :49:30.At the time it was the only safe place I could think to get him.

:49:31. > :49:33.He says one thing in particular came back to him.

:49:34. > :49:36.I can remember the instructor actually saying, don't say "I know

:49:37. > :49:42.That's always stuck in my mind because it's the type of thing

:49:43. > :49:45.I probably would have said, so that's in your mind,

:49:46. > :49:52.Rail staff stepped in to talk to a vulnerable person an average

:49:53. > :49:55.of four times a day last year and the number of rail suicides

:49:56. > :50:04.If it was you that was stood there, in that vulnerable position,

:50:05. > :50:06.how would you feel if someone didn't come up and talk

:50:07. > :50:11.to you and you were allowed to go and take your own life?

:50:12. > :50:18.You would want to be able to thank someone one day.

:50:19. > :50:20.That was Carmel Giansante speaking to our transport

:50:21. > :50:25.For details of organisations which offer advice and support,

:50:26. > :50:32.Or call for free at any time to hear recorded

:50:33. > :50:53.We sometimes introduce you to people who had an extraordinary things, and

:50:54. > :50:55.he fits in pretty well with that. At 3000 feet tall, the Dawn Wall

:50:56. > :50:58.is an intimidating, sheer precipice in California's Yosemite National

:50:59. > :50:59.Park. Looming higher than the world's

:51:00. > :51:02.tallest building, it's deemed to be one of most difficult climbs

:51:03. > :51:04.in the world. But in 2015, the American free

:51:05. > :51:06.climber Tommy Caldwell achieved He managed to haul himself up

:51:07. > :51:12.the granite rock face - The feat won him praise

:51:13. > :51:16.from around the world, including the then US President,

:51:17. > :51:19.Barack Obama. Tommy has now written

:51:20. > :51:30.a book about his passion, Good morning. You have written a

:51:31. > :51:36.book about your experiences and your climbing life. A climate's tools are

:51:37. > :51:42.his hands, basically, could we get a close-up of these? These are your

:51:43. > :51:48.tools that you use, hold them up for us. They are quite small. You

:51:49. > :51:51.clearly have very strong hands, but they will straightway notice that

:51:52. > :51:56.you have a fingertip missing. That does not seem it would necessarily

:51:57. > :52:07.help? It is a bad thing for a climber. That was not a climbing

:52:08. > :52:11.accident? No, it was a table saw, a mishap in carpentry. In fortunate

:52:12. > :52:16.for a climate that I made it work. Incidents like that, setbacks along

:52:17. > :52:20.the way, be they personal or physically related to climbing, that

:52:21. > :52:25.is interesting about your story. You are honest about how you reacted to

:52:26. > :52:29.that emotionally. It was interesting that your first thoughts, most

:52:30. > :52:33.people would go, oh, my finger is on the floor, I need to get its own

:52:34. > :52:42.back, but you were thinking my climbing career, my passion for

:52:43. > :52:44.climbing, what will happen at?! Innocence, that is what people are

:52:45. > :52:47.most interested in. I have had pretty dramatic things in my past

:52:48. > :52:50.which seem like they could have shut me down from climbing things like

:52:51. > :52:53.the Dawn Wall but I worked out a way to make it happen.

:52:54. > :52:58.This is the Dawn Wall, for those people unfamiliar with it, it is a

:52:59. > :53:04.sheer face of rock, effectively, this is you clinging on. You go up

:53:05. > :53:11.that wall, free climbing. It is extraordinary, you are literally

:53:12. > :53:16.holding on by your fingertips. It is very daunting, it looks improbable

:53:17. > :53:20.from afar. The fact we can climb it is hugely fascinating to climbers.

:53:21. > :53:24.The rest of the world did not know a whole lot about that until the

:53:25. > :53:28.whatever reason the Dawn Wall caught the news of a lot of people. How

:53:29. > :53:32.long did it take? It was a seven-year process trying to work it

:53:33. > :53:37.out, figuring out how the client went, then a 19 day process and the

:53:38. > :53:44.push at the end, starting at the bottom and climbing to the top. Why

:53:45. > :53:49.do you climb at night? Why don't you sleep in the little tent at night?

:53:50. > :53:53.It was an evolution. We started climbing in the fall months, in the

:53:54. > :53:58.daytime, it was too hot. It is a big solar face which is very hot. Over

:53:59. > :54:02.the years we figured out it needed to be very cold, it came down to

:54:03. > :54:07.things like the durability of our skin, which lasted longer when it

:54:08. > :54:16.was cold. The clarity of our shoe rubber. Tiny, tiny little edges on

:54:17. > :54:19.the rock. I can't even imagine having the strength in my fingers to

:54:20. > :54:26.do that. I was reading in my Boukary Drame maintain your skin and the

:54:27. > :54:30.damage. It is all in the mini Uche of the detail, it is incredible to

:54:31. > :54:33.look at how your cells are recovering and you judge all of

:54:34. > :54:39.that, as well as glueing and taping your fingers and all of that? You

:54:40. > :54:43.think of bit like an Olympic sport, at the high end you really had to

:54:44. > :54:49.bring in science. Climbing is now getting to that point. We are trying

:54:50. > :54:53.to break these barriers in terms of knowing what actually makes or

:54:54. > :54:58.allows for the highest level of performance, I guess. The story you

:54:59. > :55:01.tell in the book is partly the practice of climbing and the feeds

:55:02. > :55:05.themselves, but there is a very personal story. Lots of people are

:55:06. > :55:11.wondering about the... I was going to call their responsibility, but

:55:12. > :55:17.you have family? Two small children. One of them was two when you did

:55:18. > :55:22.this crime. This is a very dangerous business. How does that play, the

:55:23. > :55:26.responsibility... How did that change things and did it make you

:55:27. > :55:29.question at all whether you are doing the right thing? That is a lot

:55:30. > :55:34.of the reason why I wrote the book, I needed to sort it out myself,

:55:35. > :55:43.honestly. Have you? No. A little bit. Climbing on Al Kapitan is like

:55:44. > :55:47.the sweet spot for me, the wall is sheer, the rope so strong, it feels

:55:48. > :55:52.adventurous but it is kind of safe, really. Climbing in big mountains

:55:53. > :55:56.like the Himalayas, in Patagonia, I do some of that type of climbing but

:55:57. > :56:01.I have decided that is maybe a bit much, that is too dangerous when

:56:02. > :56:05.there are big rocks and big ice. Can come down and knock you off the

:56:06. > :56:09.mountain. It is almost like it goes full circle, the book starts with

:56:10. > :56:15.you as a young boy learning to climb from your father, who is very, shall

:56:16. > :56:20.we say, pushy and encouraging and keen for you to be the best you

:56:21. > :56:24.possibly can be. That is accurate. Is that fair? And also have now you

:56:25. > :56:29.take those emotions that you felt, or the pressure you felt from your

:56:30. > :56:33.father, and how you encourage your children to climb. Your wife has

:56:34. > :56:37.also climbed. How do you balance that? Adventure parenting, everybody

:56:38. > :56:50.is worried about helicopter parents and how our world is too

:56:51. > :56:57.well-coiffed. Climbing can change that. This is you meeting your wife.

:56:58. > :57:01.She gets it. She is very supportive. It can fulfil you in the adventure

:57:02. > :57:04.side of it. I think a lot of people are wired to want to have this

:57:05. > :57:09.battle in their lives. You were going to get a call when you reach

:57:10. > :57:14.the top from President Obama, as he was then. The call could not get

:57:15. > :57:21.through? I stared at the screen of my phone for an hour expecting it.

:57:22. > :57:28.He left you hanging! He left me hanging. Is it were. Did you ever

:57:29. > :57:32.get the call again? He tweeted about us, that was a consolation prize, I

:57:33. > :57:33.suppose. Lovely to see you, thank you very much.

:57:34. > :57:38.It's been 80 years since the 999 emergency call system

:57:39. > :57:43.Back in 1937, it involved just 24 staff based at Scotland Yard -

:57:44. > :57:45.worlds away from the vast operation that exists across

:57:46. > :57:54.We are lucky to get a behind-the-scenes look at the

:57:55. > :57:59.headquarters of the London Ambulance Service. They take the call Zanatta

:58:00. > :58:00.they come through the 909. Tim is there for us. What an interesting

:58:01. > :58:11.place. It is very good of them others.

:58:12. > :58:17.Before June 30, 1937, if you faced an emergency you called 999, 999 was

:58:18. > :58:20.introduced 90 years ago and has transformed how we deal with

:58:21. > :58:26.emergencies. They deal with 1.8 million calls a year, the London

:58:27. > :58:29.Ambulance Service. Nationally, ambulance about 10 million calls, a

:58:30. > :58:34.similar number for the police service, it is a huge volume being

:58:35. > :58:38.dealt with. Paul Woodrow is the director of operations, how have

:58:39. > :58:41.things changed? We have got more sophisticated and we have got

:58:42. > :58:47.incredibly busy, we have doubled the number of 999 calls we take in the

:58:48. > :58:51.last ten years, we have about 100 staff working at emergency

:58:52. > :58:55.operations centres. Lets chat to some of those staff, it is being

:58:56. > :59:00.calm and dealing with traumatic situations, very often. Sam, you

:59:01. > :59:01.were working on the night of the London Bridge attacks? What was it

:59:02. > :59:13.like? It was horrible. We only take one

:59:14. > :59:17.call at a time. It was after we had the influx of calls we could

:59:18. > :59:23.understand the bigger picture. It didn't hit us until after the cold

:59:24. > :59:29.as to what an enormous event it was. What goes through your mind when you

:59:30. > :59:32.were dealing with that? To be honest, I try to keep my mind as

:59:33. > :59:38.clear as possible because you don't know what is coming in. When you

:59:39. > :59:45.start to gather the details, be it someone has fallen, they have been

:59:46. > :59:48.stabbed, they have had an elaborate -- an epileptic fit, I try to keep

:59:49. > :59:52.my mind as clear as possible. So I can give the best advice to the

:59:53. > :59:57.caller or might be patient. Thank you. It is not always terrible

:59:58. > :00:01.situations. Sometimes there can be more positive outcomes. If you deal

:00:02. > :00:10.with a childbirth you get a special badge. You have got one. It is a

:00:11. > :00:13.stork badge. What happened? I helped a lady deliver a baby over the

:00:14. > :00:17.phone, giving her the clinical advice of how to deliver the baby.

:00:18. > :00:25.It was actually her husband who I was giving advice to. Yeah, great

:00:26. > :00:29.feeling. Just before the ambulance got there, I was actually giving the

:00:30. > :00:35.advice of how to help deliver her baby. You heard the baby cry and it

:00:36. > :00:40.worked out well? It did, yeah. Lump in the throat moment. It was very

:00:41. > :00:48.nice. You never know what kind of call you are going to take. Then,

:00:49. > :00:52.what happened to you? I took a call from a three-year-old home alone.

:00:53. > :00:54.Mum was unconscious. Let's listen to that call and to how you dealt with

:00:55. > :01:39.it. I had no idea that she even knew how

:01:40. > :01:43.to call the ambulance, the number to call,

:01:44. > :01:47.so we were really proud of her and she has been

:01:48. > :01:51.a little superstar. I was panicking,

:01:52. > :01:56.you were on the floor. Everything was fine,

:01:57. > :02:15.because you are such Another lump in the throat moment.

:02:16. > :02:20.You are so calm during that conversation. What was going through

:02:21. > :02:25.your mind? With a child call it is about being composed, calm and

:02:26. > :02:29.listen. Try not to scare them because you don't want to put them

:02:30. > :02:38.off. You can dispatch while the call is going on, can't you? Yes. By

:02:39. > :02:40.speaking to us, we do ask questions. We rule out anything

:02:41. > :02:44.life-threatening, to get the most appropriate response. It doesn't

:02:45. > :02:47.delay anything whilst we are taking the call. There are other people who

:02:48. > :02:55.are despatching ambulances and sorting things out. Thank you. Let's

:02:56. > :03:00.talk to Joe from the London Fire Brigade. The rental tower disaster

:03:01. > :03:06.was unprecedented. When did it become clear you were dealing with a

:03:07. > :03:09.situation not like any other? It became apparent this was an

:03:10. > :03:14.unprecedented incident London Fire Brigade and four of the staff on

:03:15. > :03:20.duty. It is those staff who need help afterwards? Yes, we received a

:03:21. > :03:25.huge volume of calls within the first couple of hours, mainly from

:03:26. > :03:31.residents. Our control officers stayed on the phone with them, gave

:03:32. > :03:35.life-saving advice, calm them down. Not only was it unprecedented in the

:03:36. > :03:38.number of calls, but with regard to the number of fire engines we

:03:39. > :03:43.mobilised, the officers and the specialist equipment we sent.

:03:44. > :03:47.Logistically it was a huge challenge. Appreciate you talking to

:03:48. > :03:56.us. It has changed somewhat over the 80 years. Computerised, dispatch

:03:57. > :03:59.times quicker. 80 years old, the 999 service. It has transformed how we

:04:00. > :04:03.deal with emergencies. Thank you. We have heard some

:04:04. > :04:07.fascinating stories. Really interesting and full of

:04:08. > :04:13.respect for those people who are on those phones, making those decisions

:04:14. > :04:15.under such pressure. In a moment, we will have a double

:04:16. > :04:17.Oscar winner on the sofa. But first let's take a last,

:04:18. > :06:00.brief look at the headlines Almost 70 years ago the world

:06:01. > :06:03.witnessed what was then the biggest The partition of India -

:06:04. > :06:07.and creation of Pakistan - Many faced huge uncertainty

:06:08. > :06:11.and endured dangerous journeys Some of their stories are now

:06:12. > :06:18.being told in an exhibition by the double Oscar-winning

:06:19. > :06:20.film-maker, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. We'll speak to her in a moment,

:06:21. > :06:30.but let's first take a look. Good morning. So people get a sense

:06:31. > :06:33.of these stories, let's look at one of the films you have made about one

:06:34. > :06:35.woman's experience of partition. My dear, I received your really

:06:36. > :06:43.interesting letter yesterday, You are wrong when you say

:06:44. > :06:49.I have forgotten you. But such circumstances arose that it

:06:50. > :06:59.was impossible for me to write. I don't think that you

:07:00. > :07:04.would recognise me now. When I left my home,

:07:05. > :07:10.I was 17 years old. It was painful for me

:07:11. > :07:13.to leave a friend of mine. She was a very, very

:07:14. > :07:21.good friend of mine. The exhibition has been created

:07:22. > :07:37.by two-time Oscar winner That film makes so clear how lives

:07:38. > :07:41.were torn apart. It was more than just displacement. Friends leaving

:07:42. > :07:49.friends, families being displaced. And history being moved. We always

:07:50. > :07:52.think about the partition of India, the creation of Pakistan, as an

:07:53. > :07:58.historical event that we read about in textbooks or the political

:07:59. > :08:02.commentators talk about, especially when the 70th anniversary comes

:08:03. > :08:06.about. We forget the individual stories. The friendships that can no

:08:07. > :08:13.longer carry on, the cities that people saw for the last time, the

:08:14. > :08:17.rooms, the corridors, that -- they then became part of what was

:08:18. > :08:24.considered an enemy country. Most of those people I've never gone back.

:08:25. > :08:30.Home is a feeling, home is a place, but imagine you grew up somewhere

:08:31. > :08:36.and then you can't ever go back. That is a very powerful thing. Not

:08:37. > :08:39.to be able to go back. A lot of film-makers and historians at this

:08:40. > :08:43.moment in time are embracing the fact these are living stories,

:08:44. > :08:48.because there are people still alive. It is 70 years ago. Members

:08:49. > :08:52.of your family, too. It is a moment in time. People can still tell their

:08:53. > :08:59.personal stories, which makes such a difference? Yes. I the time we roll

:09:00. > :09:04.out the 80th anniversary, those people won't be alive. We have some

:09:05. > :09:07.of the last vestiges of the generation that actually made the

:09:08. > :09:11.migration happened. It is supposed to be one of the largest migrations

:09:12. > :09:17.the world has ever seen, yet there is no monument in either India,

:09:18. > :09:22.Pakistan or the United Kingdom, that is dedicated to the refugees of

:09:23. > :09:27.1947. I think are their stories are particularly poignant because when

:09:28. > :09:32.you cross the border in 1947 and you went to a new country, whether you

:09:33. > :09:34.went from Pakistan into what is considered India, the one thing you

:09:35. > :09:40.could never go back to was the home that you left. That is what Home1947

:09:41. > :09:48.is about. It is about the personal story. You saw one here. We have

:09:49. > :09:52.countless stories like that. How freely do people speak about it? You

:09:53. > :09:56.mentioned your grandparents. Your grandfather said it was too painful

:09:57. > :10:02.to talk about. Do people sweep it under the carpet? Was it a case of,

:10:03. > :10:07.we have moved, that's it, we get on with their lives and bring up the

:10:08. > :10:12.next generations? Are they keen to make sure the next generation

:10:13. > :10:15.understands what happens? All of us grew up in homes for our

:10:16. > :10:19.grandparents talked about the migration, talked about the homes,

:10:20. > :10:22.the friendships, mango trees, the smell of jasmine, the things they

:10:23. > :10:27.left behind. But they would never talk about the violence, they never

:10:28. > :10:32.talk about the heartache. It is almost as if that is a suitcase of

:10:33. > :10:36.memories they have shut and don't want to talk about. It must have

:10:37. > :10:41.been very painful when you probed this? Many of those people I'd never

:10:42. > :10:46.even talked about it. One gentleman lost his mother. At the end of the

:10:47. > :10:49.conversation he touched his head and said, you know what I missed most

:10:50. > :11:01.about my mother? The way she touched my head. He is close to 80 years old

:11:02. > :11:05.but that painful memory stays. In 2007, my association with partition

:11:06. > :11:08.goes a long way back because I realised that actually we had never

:11:09. > :11:15.spoken to these survivors, whether it was in India or Pakistan. I

:11:16. > :11:23.started an oral history archive that has collected more than 2500 oral

:11:24. > :11:27.histories for the past ten years. I pride from underneath people's beds

:11:28. > :11:31.suitcases they took with them, photographs, some of which you will

:11:32. > :11:37.see at the Manchester International Festival as part of Home1947. Are

:11:38. > :11:42.there are echoes of some of the themes you are talking about in

:11:43. > :11:46.events currently happening now? We are seeing the refugee crisis from

:11:47. > :11:49.part of the Middle East. Are there are resonances around some of these

:11:50. > :11:55.stories that are not just about that time and that place? Anybody that

:11:56. > :11:59.has ever had to leave their home forcibly, anybody that has never

:12:00. > :12:03.been able to go back home, will find resonance in Home1947. They will

:12:04. > :12:09.find resonance in the fact that their relationships, they will never

:12:10. > :12:13.be able to go back to them. The homes, the windows, the places you

:12:14. > :12:17.remember, the sounds, the sites, they will find a connection to it.

:12:18. > :12:24.One of the things about this exhibition we try to do is, there is

:12:25. > :12:27.no blame. There is no, this one did this to this one. This is how it

:12:28. > :12:31.was, and this is what we experienced. Anybody that has left

:12:32. > :12:38.home will be able to find a connection to it. One particular

:12:39. > :12:42.area of the exhibit that I find, the moment people will exhale, will be a

:12:43. > :12:45.room we have created that has projections of the buildings and the

:12:46. > :12:52.place is exactly as they were in 1947. With a smell machine that is

:12:53. > :12:56.evoking the smells people talk about, the smell of the Earth, this

:12:57. > :13:01.mad jasmine, this manner the flowers they left behind.

:13:02. > :13:03.Fascinating. It is one of the senses that is underrated. Thank you.

:13:04. > :13:05.Home 1947 opens on July first as part of the Manchester

:13:06. > :13:19.That is it for us today. Breakfast back tomorrow morning at 6am.

:13:20. > :13:24.Coverage of the New Zealand and Lions game in the sport. See you

:13:25. > :13:38.tomorrow morning. Have a lovely day. Bye-bye.

:13:39. > :13:42.What makes you two different from each other?

:13:43. > :13:49.His favourite food is apples, my favourite food is cucumber.