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:00:00. > :00:00.the heat but by Tuesday, things turning just a little fresher. We

:00:00. > :00:07.keep the cloud into the far north-west.

:00:08. > :00:15.Frustration and anger following the tower block

:00:16. > :00:23.fire in west London - as crowds gathered to add their

:00:24. > :00:26.The British Prime Minister - already criticised for her

:00:27. > :00:28.response - visits some of the injured in hospital.

:00:29. > :00:31.She's announced a six million dollar fund to help the victims.

:00:32. > :00:34.What we need to do is to ensure that immediately people have the support

:00:35. > :00:37.that they need in order to deal with what is an horrific

:00:38. > :00:47.and terrible circumstance that people are in.

:00:48. > :00:48.Also ahead - "Terrible and misguided."

:00:49. > :00:50.President Trump's view on the previous

:00:51. > :00:53.He's signed an order to revoke the agreement set

:00:54. > :01:05.Effective immediately, I am cancelling the last administration

:01:06. > :01:08.completely one-sided deal with Cuba. And he's one of the political giants

:01:09. > :01:16.of modern European history. Germany's longest-serving

:01:17. > :01:17.Chancellor, Helmut Kohl, Could Ronaldo be

:01:18. > :01:22.getting rid of Real? The BBC learns he's so upset

:01:23. > :01:25.at being accused of tax fraud, Hello and welcome

:01:26. > :01:40.to World News Today. Police say that at least 30 people

:01:41. > :01:44.are now confirmed to have died in the fire that engulfed

:01:45. > :01:46.Grenfell Tower in west London. The BBC understands that the TOTAL

:01:47. > :01:54.number of people who are dead But the BBC understands that many

:01:55. > :01:57.more people are missing. There is growing anger at the way

:01:58. > :02:00.the authorities have dealt with the aftermath of the fire -

:02:01. > :02:02.earlier around 500 protestors Some protestors then moved

:02:03. > :02:06.to the centre of London, and staged a sit-in at Oxford Circus,

:02:07. > :02:09.in the heart of London's West End, and just a few hundred

:02:10. > :02:12.metres from this building. With the story of a day that people

:02:13. > :02:15.in West London who were affected by the tower block fire began

:02:16. > :02:18.to express their anger, A crowd storms Kensington Town Hall,

:02:19. > :02:28.demanding action. I understand that the response

:02:29. > :02:52.we get from the council They want to hear from the local

:02:53. > :03:11.authority officials How could this tragedy have

:03:12. > :03:14.happened on this scale, We are sent from

:03:15. > :03:18.hospital to hospital. Why is there not community

:03:19. > :03:35.help for family members? Why do we have to look for

:03:36. > :03:38.information? Today, again, in the shadow

:03:39. > :03:40.of Grenfell Tower, It is an overwhelming community

:03:41. > :03:44.tragedy with an overwhelming We get all the missing

:03:45. > :03:47.people on the same window. A continuing grassroots

:03:48. > :03:48.mobilisation, doing But the Queen and Prince William

:03:49. > :04:05.left in no doubt of the agony Rescue crews are still making

:04:06. > :04:35.their way through the building. It is hard to imagine

:04:36. > :04:37.a more challenging task. It is why the official death toll

:04:38. > :04:41.remains so much lower than what the people here expect,

:04:42. > :04:44.and what they fear. The building itself

:04:45. > :04:47.is in a very hazardous state. It is going to take a period of time

:04:48. > :04:50.for our specialists, both from the police

:04:51. > :04:52.and the London Fire Brigade, to fully search the building,

:04:53. > :04:56.to make sure we locate and recover everybody that has sadly

:04:57. > :04:59.perished in that fire. We will be doing that as swiftly

:05:00. > :05:06.as we can, absolutely. With all of that comes frustration

:05:07. > :05:08.and the sense among many that more help is needed

:05:09. > :05:13.at the official level. There is a woman on the train who

:05:14. > :05:16.goes past and she sees body bags. OK, even if you can't

:05:17. > :05:23.identify them, don't lie. Say, we have this many

:05:24. > :05:26.bodies unidentified. Because there are people

:05:27. > :05:28.out here looking for The investigations, inquests

:05:29. > :05:38.and enquiries will take months, perhaps years to complete

:05:39. > :05:40.but the people here believe they already have a fundamental

:05:41. > :05:42.understanding of this tragedy, that the fire swept

:05:43. > :05:44.through the building at breathtaking pace,

:05:45. > :05:46.and that so many people from this Away from the crowds,

:05:47. > :05:53.it is now three days on. The fire is out and

:05:54. > :05:57.London rumbles on. Grenfell Tower, 127 homes,

:05:58. > :06:00.stands monument now to the lives, Jeremy Cooke, BBC News,

:06:01. > :06:21.North Kensington. The British Prime Minister Theresa

:06:22. > :06:24.May has offered a ?5 million relief A short while ago she spoke

:06:25. > :06:28.to my colleague Emily Maitliss and insisted the government

:06:29. > :06:41.was doing everything it could. We are committed to rehousing

:06:42. > :06:46.people. Some people may want to go to another borough where they have

:06:47. > :06:49.support. But we went to make sure that within three weeks were people

:06:50. > :06:57.will be rehoused and they have a home to goes to. Do you except that

:06:58. > :07:01.you misread the mood, the anger, you didn't meet residents are resented

:07:02. > :07:05.that? This was a terrible tragedy that took place. People have lost

:07:06. > :07:11.their lives and others have lost everything. All their possessions,

:07:12. > :07:14.their home, and everything. What we are doing is putting in place the

:07:15. > :07:19.support that would help them. That it is a

:07:20. > :07:26.-- terrible tragedy. I have heard reports from the fire brigade, the

:07:27. > :07:30.police and the victims in the tower themselves. But also from other

:07:31. > :07:34.residents, some of them have not been able to go back to their homes

:07:35. > :07:40.either. What was the response? What I am now absolutely focused on is

:07:41. > :07:43.ensuring they get that support on the ground. The government is making

:07:44. > :07:48.money available, we are ensuring we will get to the bottom of what has

:07:49. > :07:49.happened. We will ensure people are rehoused, but we need to make sure

:07:50. > :08:15.that that actually happens. My colleague Ian Watson joins us

:08:16. > :08:18.from London. What did Theresa May say? She didn't answer that

:08:19. > :08:21.directly, she talked about the practical thing she was doing. She

:08:22. > :08:26.did say in the interview that this was a terrible tragedy and we all

:08:27. > :08:30.affected but people weren't just for practical messages, they were

:08:31. > :08:33.looking for empathy. She said the priority was to meet the emergency

:08:34. > :08:39.services as she did yesterday in a private meeting, nonetheless he did

:08:40. > :08:41.not meet the residents directly, that I think aloud a gap for her

:08:42. > :08:44.opponents to suggest she was lacking in sympathy for some of the

:08:45. > :08:50.resident. She was not listening to the concerns. And by the time she

:08:51. > :08:56.did meet the residents outside the church where she met some victims

:08:57. > :09:00.and the victims two families, she was met with cries of coward and

:09:01. > :09:06.shame on you. For a Prime Minister have just come out of a election

:09:07. > :09:09.with a reduced number of MPs in Parliament, would a week in hand, if

:09:10. > :09:17.you like, it wasn't desperately helpful to have the past 24 hours

:09:18. > :09:21.focusing on her again her character, her ability to keep in step with the

:09:22. > :09:27.mood of the country, not necessarily the inability to deal quickly with a

:09:28. > :09:35.totally. We have -- with a tragedy. We have seen the anger of people we

:09:36. > :09:39.-- who want answers. It will be such a difficult process in getting the

:09:40. > :09:45.information they need? Dart things here. What Mrs May was trying to do

:09:46. > :09:49.was trying to start the process of finding the truth. There will be a

:09:50. > :09:53.public enquiry led by the judiciary, an independent enquiry into what

:09:54. > :09:57.happened. In terms of references for that enquiry, not yet drawn up, can

:09:58. > :10:02.be interest to limit the influence by the tenants and residents of the

:10:03. > :10:08.area affected so they can have a say over what the enquiry should look

:10:09. > :10:13.at. But they want answers now about their last relatives, feared dead.

:10:14. > :10:16.They want how many people have died, answers on how quickly and where

:10:17. > :10:21.there might be rehoused. She suggested the local area, they were

:10:22. > :10:25.worried they might be moved out of the area and the community. Those

:10:26. > :10:29.are pressing questions, they say they have not been answered. There

:10:30. > :10:33.is a great deal of anger and frustration spilling over, this is

:10:34. > :10:40.getting a bit wider now. There are demonstrations going past ten

:10:41. > :10:45.Downing St, to Oxford Street, the main shopping street of London, the

:10:46. > :10:47.headquarters of the BBC. There's a feeling that something that had

:10:48. > :10:52.started as a desperate tragedy, there are now bigger questions about

:10:53. > :10:55.how people are treated in this country, the gap between rich and

:10:56. > :10:59.poor, a bigger political time is not just for the Prime Minister that all

:11:00. > :11:03.political parties in Britain. Ian Watson, thank you for the time

:11:04. > :11:11.being. That protest has now moved on. We'll have much more coverage of

:11:12. > :11:12.the West London tower block fire from 9:30pm local time, the viewers

:11:13. > :11:17.in the UK. President Trump has announced that

:11:18. > :11:19.he's cancelling what he's called his predecessor's one-sided

:11:20. > :11:21.deal with Cuba. At a ceremony with the

:11:22. > :11:23.Cuban-American community in Miami, he signed what he described

:11:24. > :11:25.as a commitment to strengthen the policy

:11:26. > :11:28.of the United States towards Cuba. He said that easing restrictions

:11:29. > :11:30.on travel and trade only enriched the Cuban regime and did not

:11:31. > :11:44.help the Cuban people. The profits from investment and

:11:45. > :11:51.tourism flow directly to the military. The regime takes the money

:11:52. > :11:56.and owns the industry. The outcome of last administration's executive

:11:57. > :12:03.action has been owned the more profession and a move -- more

:12:04. > :12:06.repression and a move to crush the peaceful democratic movement. So

:12:07. > :12:09.effective immediately, I am cancelling the last administration's

:12:10. > :12:22.completely one-sided deal with Cuba. President from speaking to some of

:12:23. > :12:35.the Cuban-American community in Miami. We spoke to will grant in

:12:36. > :12:39.Havana. That is what stood out to me, we knew he would break with the

:12:40. > :12:43.Obama policy, reimposing restrictions that have been eased by

:12:44. > :12:49.his predecessor. But it was just the degree to which he ramped up the

:12:50. > :12:55.rhetoric that stood out to us in Cuba. This was speaking about the

:12:56. > :13:00.government as a dictatorship, attacking the military as milking

:13:01. > :13:05.the tourism dollars that were coming into Cuba, it was heavy on human

:13:06. > :13:09.rights, he challenged keeper to lay out as he put it, a better deal.

:13:10. > :13:14.Despite all the noise, if you look at exactly what was said, he has not

:13:15. > :13:20.rolled back completely on the Obama era policies. Thus on certain

:13:21. > :13:24.elements. Specifically, to do with travel, and trade so that US

:13:25. > :13:29.companies can't work with the commercial wing of the Cuban

:13:30. > :13:34.military. But things still will continue as they were in terms of,

:13:35. > :13:39.for example, direct flights to Cuba from the United States. Don't go

:13:40. > :13:45.away, we will go to Washington now and Barbara Joyce us. We were

:13:46. > :13:51.expecting this but as we'll was saying, a stronger rhetoric than

:13:52. > :13:55.perhaps we have anticipated? President Trump had promised a

:13:56. > :13:59.certain constituency, Cuban-American hardliners in Miami, that he would

:14:00. > :14:04.do this. They are the minority, actually, in that community now,

:14:05. > :14:07.over time there has been much greater openness to a did

:14:08. > :14:19.it was to them he was speaking. He spoke to them in Miami. These are

:14:20. > :14:24.their views about the Castro regime. He was influenced by hardline

:14:25. > :14:31.Cuban-American lawmakers, especially Senator Marco Rubio. He went with

:14:32. > :14:34.that rhetoric, painting the regime and very black colours, making this

:14:35. > :14:40.very much a human rights issue, saying that the regime was

:14:41. > :14:48.oppressing people, destabilising the region, and that it was benefiting

:14:49. > :14:52.from the results of President Obama 's's detente and that they would

:14:53. > :14:56.change it in that way but we'll is right, the actual changes were not

:14:57. > :15:02.so much a rollback but tightening some of the money to the commercial

:15:03. > :15:08.element of the military. I think what we will be looking for is that

:15:09. > :15:12.tone that he has set, that line, how that will affect the relationship

:15:13. > :15:16.with the government, I think it probably signals a return to a much

:15:17. > :15:22.more adversarial type of relationship and that is going to

:15:23. > :15:25.distress a lot of people here, the business and tourism community, and

:15:26. > :15:27.lawmakers as well. Not just about that those on the Republican side of

:15:28. > :15:43.the who are pressing for this let's point those two will. From

:15:44. > :15:46.those who want a transparent process, political parties to be

:15:47. > :15:51.allowed, voting and free elections, that won't happen Willett? Not

:15:52. > :15:55.through these means, no. I don't think the Cuban government has ever

:15:56. > :16:02.responded well to those demands from Washington and it won't start now.

:16:03. > :16:06.He almost suggested the fact that President Raul Castro is stepping

:16:07. > :16:10.down next year was somehow related to this harder stance. But Mr Castro

:16:11. > :16:17.has made it clear he intended to step down for quite some time. In

:16:18. > :16:20.fact, if anything, human rights organisations are advising against

:16:21. > :16:23.taking this type of harder stance because they fear that it might

:16:24. > :16:27.strengthen the hand of hardliners within the Cuban Communist Party. So

:16:28. > :16:32.there is a lot of people pointing out some of the inconsistencies in

:16:33. > :16:36.this policy. For example, obliging US citizens to come to Cuba in

:16:37. > :16:40.organised groups. That means the chances are they would stay within

:16:41. > :16:44.state run hotels and not the private Centre, exactly the part of the

:16:45. > :16:48.economy that the Trump administration is trying to empower.

:16:49. > :16:55.There are a lot of people suggesting this is misguided but the

:16:56. > :16:58.administration is clear that the previous of nurses and midweek,

:16:59. > :17:05.rolled over for the Castro government, and that they will take

:17:06. > :17:09.a harder stance. -- the previous Administration was weak. We will

:17:10. > :17:14.keep the focus on Donald Trump because the president has once again

:17:15. > :17:16.taken to twitter. The president has taken to Twitter

:17:17. > :17:19.to confirm he's being investigated for obstruction of justice

:17:20. > :17:21.in connection with the firing He said: "I am being investigated

:17:22. > :17:25.for firing the FBI Director by the man who told me

:17:26. > :17:27.to fire the FBI Director!" Once again he called

:17:28. > :17:29.it a "Witch Hunt". He also insisted that "After seven

:17:30. > :17:31.months of investigations and committee hearings

:17:32. > :17:33.about my alleged collusion with the Russians, nobody has been

:17:34. > :17:39.able to show any proof." As a result, sources close to the US

:17:40. > :17:43.Deputy Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein, say he may have

:17:44. > :17:46.to recuse himself from the inquiry as he may now be

:17:47. > :17:48.a potential witness. Our correspondent in Washington,

:17:49. > :18:04.Rajini Vaidyanathan James Comey the former FBI director,

:18:05. > :18:08.testified before the Senate last week and remember, he was fired by

:18:09. > :18:11.President club at the beginning of May. He testified before the Senate

:18:12. > :18:16.but President Trump was not the subject of the investigation is into

:18:17. > :18:20.whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians. But of course, he

:18:21. > :18:26.only knew what was going on while he was in post. But then James Kelly

:18:27. > :18:32.was fired, and someone called Robert Mallo was taken over -- takeover of

:18:33. > :18:39.the investigation as special council. Now that Mr Muller has

:18:40. > :18:42.taken over. He has broadened the scope of the enquiry and is now

:18:43. > :18:52.investigating President Trump. But whether he is -- for whether he

:18:53. > :18:53.obstructed justice. He is now being investigated for his role in firing

:18:54. > :19:02.James Comey. Stay with us on BBC World News for

:19:03. > :19:04.lots to come, including sports News, the latest from the second round of

:19:05. > :19:27.the US open. There was a bomb in the city centre

:19:28. > :19:35.and AI Oblak codewords -- IRA codeword. Thus South African

:19:36. > :19:39.government has abolished the force registration act, which forcibly

:19:40. > :19:44.classified citizens according to race. Germany's parliament has voted

:19:45. > :19:48.by no majority to move this seat of government from Bonn to Berlin. It

:19:49. > :19:59.was greeted by a shot in Bonn. Just a day old and the Royal baby is now

:20:00. > :20:09.sleeping in his cot. He was taken to apartment to Kensington palace. The

:20:10. > :20:22.first Russian cosmonaut. -- woman cosmonaut.

:20:23. > :20:26.The former Chancellor of Germany, Helmut Kohl, who presided over

:20:27. > :20:28.the reunification of the west with the former communist

:20:29. > :20:34.The current Chancellor, Angela Merkel, has led the tributes,

:20:35. > :20:37.describng him as 'a great German and a great European.' From Berlin,

:20:38. > :20:53.His name rang out at a turning point in history.

:20:54. > :21:01.East Germans hailed him as a saver from communism, the Cold War was

:21:02. > :21:05.over. As a child, Helmut Kohl saw his country destroyed by World War

:21:06. > :21:10.II. It inspired or a lifelong ambition to unify Germany and

:21:11. > :21:14.Europe, and put an end to war. His Christian Democrat principles and

:21:15. > :21:21.his giant physique proved unstoppable. First he was the leader

:21:22. > :21:27.of Rhineland then leader of opposition in West Germany. And when

:21:28. > :21:34.Schmidt's government collapsed, the Cold War. He was mocked for his

:21:35. > :21:38.appetite and accent. His time might have run out were it not for a

:21:39. > :21:41.political earthquake. The fall of the Berlin Wall. Now Helmut Kohl

:21:42. > :21:45.with the history man, the reassuring with the history man, the reassuring

:21:46. > :21:51.figure who convinced the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to reunite

:21:52. > :21:56.Germany which would pose no threat. On the day of reunification, Helmut

:21:57. > :21:59.Kohl with the father of the nation. But in eastern Germany, the economy

:22:00. > :22:04.failed and brilliance lost their jobs. Helmut Kohl felt dearly. He

:22:05. > :22:12.had ignored the costs of unity and Germany paid the price. Helmut Kohl

:22:13. > :22:17.turned to his other big idea, reuniting Europe with the French

:22:18. > :22:25.president. Tap-in became the architect of the new European union,

:22:26. > :22:31.with its own currency. At the end, Kohl's ruthless attempts to cling to

:22:32. > :22:34.power led to his downfall. Then a corruption scandal. He admitted he

:22:35. > :22:38.flouted the law for years, taking secret donations which he said he

:22:39. > :22:44.passed on political friends, but the courts letting go three. His

:22:45. > :22:55.reputation never really recovered but his legacy is filled. In 2010,

:22:56. > :22:57.he joined the celebrations to mark 20 years of German reunification.

:22:58. > :23:00.The West and east are back together, and Helmut Kohl will always be

:23:01. > :23:05.remembered as the Chancellor of German unity.

:23:06. > :23:13.That did all the sports news. BBC sport understands that Christiano

:23:14. > :23:16.Ronaldo wants to leave Spain. After being accused of tax fraud. The

:23:17. > :23:20.contract is signed last year keeping him at Real Madrid for five years,

:23:21. > :23:25.includes a 1 billion year wrote release clause. The former rail

:23:26. > :23:31.Madrid president called a run, agrees he could make a shock exit.

:23:32. > :23:37.In that sense, I don't think it's going to be easy to change. He is a

:23:38. > :23:44.strong minded and gets what he wants. When I signed him, he was

:23:45. > :23:48.going to come the year before, he didn't because he committed to

:23:49. > :23:53.Manchester United. When he did for Real Madrid, he didn't change his

:23:54. > :23:58.mind. Despite that Barcelona were offering more. It's true. Let's hope

:23:59. > :24:07.that he's not so clear leaving Real Madrid. Let's get the latest on the

:24:08. > :24:10.second round of the US open goal. The American Rickie Fowler, leader

:24:11. > :24:22.after round one has picked up the shot, he is now eight under, one

:24:23. > :24:29.behind books his countrymen. -- copter, his countryman. There was a

:24:30. > :24:34.trouble but fixing the treble bogey earlier today. The world number two

:24:35. > :24:39.and three will miss the cut, Rory McIlroy and Jason Day finished six

:24:40. > :24:45.and ten over par respectively. To recap, Brooks Koepka now nine under

:24:46. > :24:53.par, a shot in front of Ricky Fowler. Andy Murray is trying to

:24:54. > :24:59.defend his title next week before aiming at his personal -- third

:25:00. > :25:02.Wimbledon title next month. Murray told BBC sport that his time at the

:25:03. > :25:07.top could soon be over. I know some of the players have been doing

:25:08. > :25:13.really well into the 30s recently, but that might not be the case with

:25:14. > :25:18.me. Maybe the next couple of years, the last few well I have the chance

:25:19. > :25:21.to compete for the majors and the biggest tournament. I want to make

:25:22. > :25:31.the most of them. Staying with tennis, Feliciano Lopez upset third

:25:32. > :25:34.seed Tomas Berdych. Top seeds Federal and dimmer jobs were knocked

:25:35. > :25:41.out in the second round and it took the Spaniards two hours and seven

:25:42. > :25:47.minutes to get to the number six seed, Mischa Zverev. No problems for

:25:48. > :25:48.the fourth seed, he beat the Kohlschreiber in three sets. That's

:25:49. > :25:59.all the sports are now, back to you. Thank you, all the sports news

:26:00. > :26:03.there. We have a special programme focusing on the Grenfell Tower Fire

:26:04. > :26:10.next, so do stay with us next for that.