here a major incident has been declared after a massive fire engulfed a building in east london, partly used as a block of flats. more than 100 people were evacuated from the building in the early hours. these are drone pictures of the scene. about 225 firefighters are there. two people have been taken to hospital. let's speak to our correspondent helena wilkinson in dagenham. bring helena wilkinson in dagenham. us up—to—date witi been bring us up—to—date with what has been happening. we

bring us up-to-date with what has been happening-— bring us up-to-date with what has been happening. we are expecting an u date been happening. we are expecting an update from — been happening. we are expecting an update from the _ been happening. we are expecting an update from the london _ been happening. we are expecting an update from the london fire - been happening. we are expecting an update from the london fire brigade i update from the london fire brigade potentially and the next hour but the call to them when ten at 2:44am, the call to them when ten at 2:44am, the majority of people you would assume we are asleep at the time. the pictures that have emerged of the fire engulfing the flats, six floors, we understand that our ten flats on each floor, it would have been no doubt terrifying for them. in terms of what is happening in the latest is at a still a major incident that has been declared and also the latest line from the fire brigade is that a significant search and rescue operation is still under way. what we do not know is whether everyone end of the block of flats has been accounted for. there have

been very large ladders which have firefighters at the top pouring water onto the building, a huge amount of smoke billowing out. in terms of residence more than 100 people taken to a nearby leisure centre, they cannot go back clearly to the flats because it is still a huge amount of activity here. let's hear from the assistant commissioner. we we re called we were called up 2:44am to a commercial building. the whole building — commercial building. the whole building has been affected by fire including scaffolding surrounding the property. the first london fire brigade _ the property. the first london fire brigade crews arrived within five minutes — brigade crews arrived within five minutes and the second crew arrived within— minutes and the second crew arrived within six _

minutes and the second crew arrived within six. aerial appliance was also _ within six. aerial appliance was also ordered and arrived within six minutes — also ordered and arrived within six minutes in— also ordered and arrived within six minutes. in total 45 engines and other_ minutes. in total 45 engines and other owned 200 firefighters are at the scene — other owned 200 firefighters are at the scene. to allow us to focus on the scene. to allow us to focus on the incident — the scene. to allow us to focus on the incident we have declared a major— the incident we have declared a major incident. the building has a number_ major incident. the building has a number of— major incident. the building has a number of fire safety issues known to the _ number of fire safety issues known to the london fire begin. a full simultaneous evacuation of the building — simultaneous evacuation of the building was immediately carried out with significant search and rescue operations— with significant search and rescue operations still under way. at this stage _ operations still under way. at this stage to _ operations still under way. at this stage to people have been taken to hospital— stage to people have been taken to hospital by the london ambulance service _ hospital by the london ambulance service. the london fire brigade have _ service. the london fire brigade have taken— service. the london fire brigade have taken 16 calls for this fire including — have taken 16 calls for this fire including successfully giving vital fire survival guidance to a number of people — fire survival guidance to a number of people using file survival gains

up. of people using file survival gains un it— of people using file survival gains up. it allows information to be exchanged between control and the ground _ exchanged between control and the ground in— exchanged between control and the ground in a timely and accurate manner — ground in a timely and accurate manner. we also used a new technology to support us including drones. _ technology to support us including drones, 64 metre turntable ladder. this provides the command team with advantage _ this provides the command team with advantage point for the scene and allows— advantage point for the scene and allows us— advantage point for the scene and allows us highly firefighting using what i _ allows us highly firefighting using what i was. the brigade has stood up that futi— what i was. the brigade has stood up that full strategic response and intimates to deal with the incident and a _ intimates to deal with the incident and a rest — intimates to deal with the incident and a rest centre has been set up at and a rest centre has been set up at a leisure _ and a rest centre has been set up at a leisure centre. london fire brigade _ a leisure centre. london fire brigade officers with our partners and stationed at the rest centre to support— and stationed at the rest centre to support residents. the fire as producing _ support residents. the fire as producing heavy smoke, we are asking local residents to keep windows and doors _ local residents to keep windows and doors closed and freshwater road is closed _ doors closed and freshwater road is closed to _ doors closed and freshwater road is closed to traffic. we are asking

people — closed to traffic. we are asking people to — closed to traffic. we are asking people to avoid the area where possible — people to avoid the area where possible. because of the and pleasant is unknown but a full and thorough — pleasant is unknown but a full and thorough investigation and cause will take — thorough investigation and cause will take place in due course. we will take place in due course. we will provide with further updates as the incident progresses. that will provide with further updates as the incident progresses.— the incident progresses. that was the incident progresses. that was the assistant _ the incident progresses. that was the assistant commissioner - the incident progresses. that was - the assistant commissioner speaking in the last hour, the latest update, the smoke he mentioned is still billowing out of the top of the building, a huge amount of smoke. in terms of the fire we do not know whether it has been completely contained or not but still trying to contained or not but still trying to contain the smoke from the building. in terms of the residents i spoke to a woman who is six months pregnant, she lives on the sixth floor and the flats and she described her shock,

she first smelled smoke and was a week at the time, she looked out the window and described seeing the fire and told us how everyone was running down the stairs and the smoke was getting heavier lower to the ground. everyone was coughing and she told us she did not hear a fire alarm golf, there was no warning at all. for residents clearly a terrifying ordeal in the early hours, the majority would have been asleep at the time. , , ., ., the time. there is scaffolding and own the building, _ the time. there is scaffolding and own the building, what _ the time. there is scaffolding and own the building, what was - the time. there is scaffolding and own the building, what was under the time. there is scaffolding and - own the building, what was under way to remove noncompliant cladding, do you know about that. that to remove noncompliant cladding, do you know about that.— you know about that. that is right, that's what — you know about that. that is right, that's what the _ you know about that. that is right, that's what the pregnant _ you know about that. that is right, that's what the pregnant lady - you know about that. that is right, that's what the pregnant lady who | that's what the pregnant lady who bespoke to told us, she said she understood scaffolding has been up for a while and the cladding was

removed, whether it has been yet or not to be do not know. the london fire begin also separately saying the right known fire concerns to the london fire begin. at this stage in terms of the cause that has not been released by the london fire brigade but still a major incident where there are a number of ambulances on standby. the scale of this as we heard, 40 fire engines and 225 firefighters have been dealing with this huge fire that has engulfed the block of flats behind us, the focus still on making sure all residents who live and those block of flats have been accounted for, we do not know whether they have at this stage but we are expecting an update

potentially only next. we but we are expecting an update potentially only next.— but we are expecting an update potentially only next. we heard from the fire brigade _ potentially only next. we heard from the fire brigade earlier, _ potentially only next. we heard from the fire brigade earlier, about - potentially only next. we heard from the fire brigade earlier, about the i the fire brigade earlier, about the implications to the surrounding area, for people who do not know the area, for people who do not know the area, commended can you describe what is happening when you are. looking around, there are a number of ambulances parked around here, firefighters everywhere you look. just behind us you can probably make out the cordon so no one has been a load onto the other side of the court and unless you can see some police coming through but that is intense activity just police coming through but that is intense activityjust behind us and the smoke coming out of the top of the smoke coming out of the top of the building, it is a residential area, lots of flats and shops nearby, residents have been told to

keep windows shut. we cannot but i have not been able to smell the smoke but it is clearly coming out still of the top of the building and residents told if they can to keep windows shut. to avoid smoke inhalation but we are expecting an update shortly and hopefully at that stage they might be able to tell us whether they have accounted for all the residents and the block of flats in the early hours when the fire took hold. we know so far. we know so far to peeple _ took hold. we know so far. we know so far to people to _ took hold. we know so far. we know so far to people to contrast - took hold. we know so far. we know so far to people to contrast or - took hold. we know so far. we know so far to people to contrast or an - so far to people to contrast or an 100 residents evacuated, part of the building as a residential, is that any indication how many people potentially on the up when the fire broke out. ., potentially on the up when the fire broke out. . ., ., ,, ., broke out. that we do not know. the

fiaure at broke out. that we do not know. the figure at this — broke out. that we do not know. the figure at this stage, _ broke out. that we do not know. the figure at this stage, the _ broke out. that we do not know. the figure at this stage, the lady - broke out. that we do not know. the figure at this stage, the lady who - broke out. that we do not know. the figure at this stage, the lady who i l figure at this stage, the lady who i mentioned who bespoke to who lived on the sixth floor of the flats said there are ten flats on each floors, be no more than 100 residents who were evacuated have been taken to a nearby leisure centre when they are being looked after by officials, clearly they would have run out of the building probably with very little with them and so they are at the leisure centre and being looked after whilst this investigation and attempt to try to dampen the smoke continues. an update shortly from the london fire brigade but the latest as we know as 40 fire engines dealing with vest, 225 firefighters and more than 100 residents evacuated and two people have been taken to hospital, we do not know

yet what kind of injuries they may have but the adding treated in hospital. have but the adding treated in hosital. ., ~ have but the adding treated in hosital. . ,, , ., you can scan the qr code if you want to follow what is happening and you can see the pictures we are seeing, all the very latest as we get it. more than 200 firefighters dealing with that. in ukraine, where russia has carried out a massive aerial attack on the country. dozens of drones and cruise missiles were launched, and all of the country was under air raid alert. i want to show you these pictures which are from the capital kyiv

where hundreds of people headed to the subway to shelter.. after alerts were sounded. explosions were heard in several cities, from lutsk in the west to dnipro in the east. at least three people have been killed. earlier our corresponent in kyiv abdujalil aburasulov gave us this update. the russian drones and missiles targeted areas in the east, in the west, in the south, and the capital city kyiv as well. according to the prime minister, russia launched not airfields and other facilities from where those bombers and missiles take off and attacked ukrainian cities.

we do not know the exact scale of the damage and so far we only had about three people who got killed during the attack but clearly this number could rise lit up. what is interesting as the attack happened early in the morning when people were still getting up, still at home and some of them driving to work so people caught off—guard when the attack happened and not everyone was able to get to the shelter. even though the warning came early, some people simply had no time to get to the shelter. such aerial attacks have been happening frequently, it is not the first time russia launched such a massive attack targeting different cities in ukraine and the timing of this is happening shortly after ukraine

encouraging international and some observers are linking this attack to those events but such attacks have been happening before so it is hard to see where it is linked directly to see where it is linked directly to those events but russia have been targeting the energy infrastructure of ukraine and other areas in the country a lot and just yesterday they hit a hotel in eastern ukraine will several journalists were injured including a british security adviser who was part of the reuters team who was killed in the attack. back to our top story, showing these pictures from dagenham where a major

incident has been declared by the london fire brigade after a fire engulfed the building, we still see firefighters working to try to bring the blaze under control, dampening down the building. you can follow all the updates on the bbc news website. to the middle east next. the united states says it's working to prevent the conflict between israel and the iranian—backed lebanese group, his brother, from escalating into a regional war — after sunday's heavy bombardments. the un secretary—general, antonio guterres, has called for an immediate end to hostilities from both sides.in a televised address, hezbollah's secretary—general, hassan nasrallah, said that the delay in the retaliatory attack for the assassination of its military commander last month, was to keep israel on edge. he also said they still have to assess the impact

of its barrage, and did not rule out another strike. from tel aviv, benjamin netanyahu said that israel's air strikes were �*not the end of the story�* and added they had destroyed thousands of hezbollah's short—range rockets. and there's been no progress on the gaza ceasefire talks in cairo. hamas, which has now left the egyptian capital, said it rejected new israeli conditions and accused them of backtracking on promises. israel denies changing its demands since a last round of talks in earlyjuly. 0ur correspondent yolande knell is injerusalem. she gave me her assessment of the mood in the middle east... to some degree, there is a sense of relief among people on both sides that this major exchange of fire is over for now, without signs that it has really, as many people feared, gone into an all—out war between israel and hezbollah.

but there is still a sense of unfinished business. certainly some of the commentary in the israeli media this morning, pointing out that although israel says that something like two thirds of the drones and missiles that hezbollah was preparing to launch early yesterday morning were destroyed still on the ground by what they are saying was a pre—emptive strike involving about 100 warplanes, they had received intelligence, some of that coming from the us, according to different officials. still, the situation in the north remains. you have tens of thousands of israeli citizens who have been displaced by the day—to—day fighting that has gone on since the start of the war in gaza, across israel's northern border, with hezbollah. and of course there is a similar number of people who have been displaced by the fighting on the lebanese side. so, hassan nasrallah, the head of hezbollah,

said that it was time to take a breath, talking to people in lebanon. i think that is happening, there is a lot of reflection going on about exactly what occurred yesterday. but still, this is a place that is very much on edge. we have had the israeli military saying that there was a suspicious drone that was shot down close to the sea of galilee this morning. with some reports suggesting that may have been launched from syria. we also had yesterday a longer range rocket fired by hamas from the gaza strip towards tel aviv, without any casualties being reported as a result of that. but the israeli military saying that as part of the ongoing fighting in the gaza strip it has now attacked what it says was the launch site for that rocket, close to khan younis in the south. and it remains still extremely panicked in parts of the gaza strip, with people, patients and also displaced

people, fleeing from the area of the al—aqsa martyrs hospital in deir al—balah this morning. that is because of israeli military evacuation orders that have been issued and ongoing israeli military activity in the centre of the gaza strip. fadi nicholas nassar is director of the lebanon programme at the middle east institute. he told me whether we're likely to see further retaliation from hezbollah.

as your host this was a consequence of what was a large response. meanwhile they signalled that he was satisfied with the alleged targeting of israeli military intelligence sites against the backdrop of these competing narratives some have suggested that hezbollah has chosen to deeply order ties restoring deterrence in order to avoid taking a more robust response that could trigger a full—scale conflict. to be cleared both israel and hezbollah are keeping the door open for a future response.— are keeping the door open for a future response. explain for our viewers, future response. explain for our viewers. who — future response. explain for our viewers, who are _ future response. explain for our viewers, who are hezbollah - future response. explain for our viewers, who are hezbollah andj future response. explain for our - viewers, who are hezbollah and how much power do they have in lebanon. that is an excellent question and one the regional experts continue to ask, hezbollah is a organisation that continues to evolve, it was established with the support of iran

after the 1982 invasion of lebanon by israel and it has gradually evolved into being the tip of iran's speed against israel and the clone jewel and the iranians laid axis of resistance. to date through poetical violence and destruction it has the power broker in lebanon as evidenced by the fact it not the lebanese government is determining if and when lebanon goes toward.

the german chancellor, 0laf scholz, says irregular immigration must be reduced, following the stabbing deaths of three people. mr scholz has visited the scene in the western city of solingen to commemorate the victims of friday's attack. police say a 26—year—old syrian man has confessed to the killings. they say he is a member of the islamic state group. the legislation we have decided on the state and federal government we have the possibility to deport these individuals. let have the possibility to deport these individuals. , ,, ., ., individuals. let stock to our correspondence _ individuals. let stock to our correspondence and - individuals. let stock to our correspondence and belen, | individuals. let stock to our. correspondence and belen, the chancellor saying it was terrorism but he also addressed the issue of illegal migration. he but he also addressed the issue of illegal migration.— illegal migration. he said illegal or irregular— illegal migration. he said illegal or irregular migration _ illegal migration. he said illegal or irregular migration has - illegal migration. he said illegal or irregular migration has to - illegal migration. he said illegal l or irregular migration has to come

down but the question is how. i think what is interesting about what she said earlier was that he would ensure those who do not have a right to stay in germany would be deported, the question is how do you do that and i think what a lot of experts have been seeing today as the legal mechanism is already there but what he saw in solingen was a just a court feeling from the digital government which did not manage to find the suspect when he was due to be deported. there are lots of big questions, humanitarian and legal about how you deport someone whose application for asylum has been rejected by the authorities. in this particular case he had travelled from bulgaria and come to germany as a syrian, most syrians get their application for asylum accepted in germany, and has case it was rejected because he had already registered in bulgaria. a few cannot find the person which is

the case here then it is difficult to deport them. if he was going to be deported back to syria, at the moment that would not be possible from germany because that is no agreement to do that, syria is seen as not a safe place. the other proposal from conservative politicians is sending people back to afghanistan because that is a a lot of people who have come to germany from afghanistan and some of those do not get their applications for asylum accepted but that is also not possible logistically because there is no agreement with the taliban, berlin does not want to talk with the taliban about sending people back to my you have to negotiate with the government and thatis negotiate with the government and that is not something bill lunde wants to do. on the one hand you can have strong ones, on the other effort is not legally possible from a humanitarian point of view on logistically it will be difficult to enforce and that is something the

chancellor has been under pressure forfour chancellor has been under pressure for four months, saying chancellor has been under pressure forfour months, saying people chancellor has been under pressure for four months, saying people will be deported but critics would see it is still not happened so i think we will have that pressure building on the government even more. hello again. today is not going to be as wet or as windy as it was yesterday, and it will be a bit warmer. and in fact, as we go through this week, what you will notice is it's going to turn warmer for a time. the peak will probably be on wednesday. it will dip, then pick up at the weekend. there'll be some sunshine, but there'll also be spells of rain. if we look at the air mass chart, you can see how on wednesday we see

the amber colours return, then we've got the cooler yellows, but as we head back into the weekend, the amber colours start to return, showing that increase in temperature. today, though, we still do have areas of cloud floating around. there will be sunny intervals as well. the early morning rain really breaking up across northern england, southern scotland and northern ireland, where we could catch the odd shower through the day. but temperatures, 14 to about 23 degrees north to south. but later, the cloud is going to thicken out towards the west, the wind will strengthen and we'll start to see some rain arrive. and this rain across western scotland will be particularly heavy, 40 millimetres quite possible by the end of the night, falling on already very saturated ground. 0vernight lows between 10 and about 16 degrees. we start tomorrow, then, on a dry note for england and for wales, but our band of heavy rain continues to push slowly southeastwards. the sunshine will turn hazy ahead of it and behind it we see a return to bright spells, sunshine and also a few showers, more especially in the northwest.

but despite that, temperatures up. looking at 16 in stornoway, 19 in newcastle, to a high of 25 or 26 in the southeast. tuesday into wednesday, the weather front continues to sink south but it could develop a wave, so it might take the rain on it a little bit further north for a time. but as this front tries to push eastwards during the course of wednesday, it's running into an area of high pressure, so it will be a fairly weak affair. some drier conditions behind it, but heavy, potentially thundery, showers coming in across western scotland and northern ireland. but this is when we are expecting the highest temperatures, up to 27, maybe higher than that in the southeast. that weather front eventually pushes away, thursday and friday, and we've got this ridge of high pressure building in behind it.

so what we're looking at as we head on into thursday once again is a fair bit of dry weather, some showers in the north. it'll be fresher for all but warming up into the weekend.

don't blame the messenger — telegram says its billionaire founder is not responsible for illegal content on the app, after he was detained by french police. prejudice premium — are african nations paying more than they should to borrow money? we hear from the boss

of the africa finance corporation. plus, plastic pollution — the un holds talks on curbing the 23 million tonnes of it dumped into oceans and rivers every day. welcome to business today. we start with tech because the telegram messaging app has condemned the arrest in france of its billionaire founder, pavel durov. telegram has insisted that it abides by eu law and said it's "absurd" to hold its russian—born owner responsible for abuses of the platform. telegram has been accused of not cooperating with investigations into drug trafficking, child sex abuse images and fraud. mr durov was arrested when his privatejet landed at an airport on the outskirts of paris on saturday. let's speak to chris stokel—walker,

who covers the technology industry. he's in newcastle.