:00:00. > :00:13.That's all from the BBC News at One - so it's goodbye from me -
:00:14. > :00:19.The Prime Minister has urged councils not to delay carrying
:00:20. > :00:24.out fire safety checks following the Grenfell Tower Fire.
:00:25. > :00:27.Today Lewisham Council said cladding is now being removed from two
:00:28. > :00:31.of its high-rise buildings after failing tests.
:00:32. > :00:32.Speaking at Prime Minister's Questions this lunchtime,
:00:33. > :00:37.Theresa May said urgent action was needed.
:00:38. > :00:40.What we're saying to people is this is not a question
:00:41. > :00:43.Don't wait until you've got a sample then you know
:00:44. > :00:48.So far, 100% of the samples that have come in have
:00:49. > :00:50.proved to be combustible, so work on the assumption
:00:51. > :00:55.that you should be doing the fire safety checks now.
:00:56. > :00:59.It's now two weeks since the tragedy at Grenfell unfolded and survivors
:01:00. > :01:04.are still trying to cope with what they experienced.
:01:05. > :01:08.As the fire took hold Olu Talabi was in his flat on the 14th floor
:01:09. > :01:18.floor with others who'd taken refuge there.
:01:19. > :01:33.At first I was out of the window, I was dangling from the window. My
:01:34. > :01:36.daughter would not come, she was so scared, she was thinking what are
:01:37. > :01:44.you doing, she was pushing herself away from the window. When we open
:01:45. > :01:52.the door and we saw the smoke was so thick we shut the door back and we
:01:53. > :01:58.grabbed some towels, putting them by the door, putting some on the floor
:01:59. > :02:07.because smoke was coming through the door now. I was thinking what am I
:02:08. > :02:12.about to run through? There is no way I'm going to make it downstairs
:02:13. > :02:15.to this smoke. I hit my head, for some reason I don't know how I made
:02:16. > :02:21.it through the stairway but I'm not going to lie, I had given up
:02:22. > :02:25.already. Inside of me, I don't know what floor it was because I could
:02:26. > :02:30.not see but I would say about the tenth floor, I gave up already, I
:02:31. > :02:37.have got my daughter, choking, I can feel myself taking my last breath, I
:02:38. > :02:45.am trying to pick my Mrs up off the floor. I pick her up. Trust me, I
:02:46. > :02:51.can't, I don't know, I'm not the holiest of person, I am religious
:02:52. > :03:00.but I am not every Sunday kind of person but I think God took us down
:03:01. > :03:01.stairs. Like I said I give up already. I did not think I was going
:03:02. > :03:04.to make it. Well in the days after the Grenfell
:03:05. > :03:07.tragedy people from across London donated clothes to those who'd
:03:08. > :03:09.lost their homes. Charities and community groups
:03:10. > :03:10.were overwhelmed with donations and now 40,000 boxes
:03:11. > :03:14.of items which couldn't be used at the time,
:03:15. > :03:16.have been moved to this The charity will sell them
:03:17. > :03:24.in its stores in aid "A huge vote of confidence" -
:03:25. > :03:31.that's how a new ?1.5 billion Chinese investment in East London
:03:32. > :03:33.is being described. Construction began today
:03:34. > :03:35.on the new business district at the Royal Albert Dock
:03:36. > :03:46.and Alex Bushill was there. Counting cranes is an odd hobby but
:03:47. > :03:52.if you do you have a sense of how well our economy is doing. It's not
:03:53. > :03:56.100% accurate but then nor are the economists. This so-called crane
:03:57. > :04:00.count suggests investment is still coming into London and new buildings
:04:01. > :04:04.are going up. Nowhere more so than here beside City Airport and the
:04:05. > :04:12.Royal Albert dock with a good and the great mark the first day of
:04:13. > :04:16.construction. A ?1.7 billion Chinese investment in London providing
:04:17. > :04:21.30,000 jobs, something which could easily become the third commercial
:04:22. > :04:28.hub of London. The plans are bold, the model is shining and the signs
:04:29. > :04:32.are encouraging, it will be well connected, but I was here four years
:04:33. > :04:36.ago when this was first announced at City Hall. Then it was all about an
:04:37. > :04:41.Asian gateway into the EU is here in London which is a bit awkward now we
:04:42. > :04:45.are leaving. I put that point to its Chinese backers today when the
:04:46. > :04:50.cameras stopped flashing. TRANSLATION: Compared to the
:04:51. > :04:54.situation four years ago I think we are adding more advantageous stage.
:04:55. > :04:57.Although there is Brexit Britain is more independent and mature and it
:04:58. > :05:01.also shows more confidence in the British economy so there will be
:05:02. > :05:06.more cooperation between China and the UK because of Brexit. What of
:05:07. > :05:11.recent years by the Bank of England no less that our commercial property
:05:12. > :05:16.is too pricey? Are we also in danger of building too many offices and not
:05:17. > :05:20.enough affordable homes? They are trying to attract companies from
:05:21. > :05:25.Asia, so what they are trying to do is create something additional. But
:05:26. > :05:29.given where we are, the price and anything else, this is a fantastic
:05:30. > :05:33.place to come, I am not worried here. I think other people should be
:05:34. > :05:40.worried about the competition coming from East London. He also assured me
:05:41. > :05:43.no golden handshakes were offered. A gilt-edged investment or a risky
:05:44. > :05:45.bet? Either way building is underway.
:05:46. > :05:48.The Victoria and Albert museum has unveiled its new ?55
:05:49. > :05:52.As well as new public spaces and galleries,
:05:53. > :05:54.the facades of the Grade I listed building have been revealed
:05:55. > :06:07.Exhibition road, home to some of the most important tourist attractions
:06:08. > :06:12.in the country and now for the first time visitors can enter the Victoria
:06:13. > :06:15.and Albert Museum from the road through a brand-new entrance. I
:06:16. > :06:19.think women they walk and we will see a lot of jaws dropping because
:06:20. > :06:27.it's an unusual space. It's taken six years to transform the yard and
:06:28. > :06:30.reveal some of the hidden gems. It's the largest building product
:06:31. > :06:36.undertaken at the museum in over a hundred years. A more informal
:06:37. > :06:40.entrance, on Cromwell road you have a traditional almost cathedral like
:06:41. > :06:43.entrants which can be quite forbidding and daunting. We can
:06:44. > :06:49.contrast that with less which will be more welcoming, gentler. The
:06:50. > :06:52.changes don't end above ground, a brand-new gallery has been
:06:53. > :06:57.constructed underneath the courtyard which will host some of the museum
:06:58. > :07:01.'s biggest exhibitions. What I love most about what we have done here is
:07:02. > :07:05.that this is not an extension or a new wing, it's an integral part of
:07:06. > :07:10.the museum, it's a new gallery, new courtyard, but it nets seamlessly
:07:11. > :07:18.into the existing fabric. The work we have done here is so diverse, the
:07:19. > :07:21.heritage work, the work detailing scheduling every single stone so it
:07:22. > :07:26.can be dismantled and carefully rebuilt is fascinating. And this
:07:27. > :07:31.incredible engineering to build the gallery below ground within a metre
:07:32. > :07:34.of existing grade one listed buildings is something quite
:07:35. > :07:35.amazing. The new entrance and gallery will be open to the public
:07:36. > :07:49.on Friday. After a wet night last night and
:07:50. > :07:53.with some outbreaks of rain this morning you can practically see the
:07:54. > :07:57.gardens growing before our eyes. But the rain has now gone, it looks like
:07:58. > :08:01.most of it has disappeared and we are left with a rather cloudy
:08:02. > :08:06.picture as you can see. Quite a grey afternoon but on the whole it will
:08:07. > :08:10.stay dry. You might get one to brighter spells around and that in
:08:11. > :08:16.turn could mean we get a shower or two but most places dry, further
:08:17. > :08:21.north and south you might run into a shower. Maximum temperature 19 maybe
:08:22. > :08:24.20 Celsius depending on the brightness. As we head through this
:08:25. > :08:29.evening it's a great end to the day then overnight again a predominantly
:08:30. > :08:33.dry picture, still a lot of cloud around, the Fat backlight and we
:08:34. > :08:43.could see one or two showers but the minimum temperature down, tomorrow
:08:44. > :08:47.morning drier picture, cloud around, like winds, a chance may be other
:08:48. > :08:52.shower towards the south to the course of the day that moved north
:08:53. > :08:56.through the afternoon, maximum temperature very similar, similar
:08:57. > :09:00.feel at around 20 Celsius. As we head through Friday the rain which
:09:01. > :09:05.has disappeared north today moves back south and that's likely to
:09:06. > :09:07.reach is as we head to Friday afternoon and continuing overnight
:09:08. > :09:10.into Saturday but that is when we start to see an improvement, the
:09:11. > :09:13.rain clearing out for Saturday morning, drier with bright spells
:09:14. > :09:17.for the afternoon and feeling warmer.
:09:18. > :09:21.Riz Lateef will be here with our 6:30pm evening programme.
:09:22. > :09:39.But for now, from us all, a very good afternoon.
:09:40. > :09:41.Brexit means Brexit. We did it!
:09:42. > :09:45.To pretend that it's going to be plain sailing is such
:09:46. > :09:48.knuckle-headed lunacy. Happy days are here.
:09:49. > :09:50.They have said one thing one day, another thing the next day.
:09:51. > :09:54.think during the year that changed British politics?
:09:55. > :10:03.but how has it changed the way we see
:10:04. > :10:12.I don't think we know the scale of the television revolution,
:10:13. > :10:26.What makes you two different from each other?