hello, it's nine o'clock, i'm joanna gosling, welcome to the programme. the dead and the missing and now the search for answers as police warned they may never be able to identify all the victims of the groenefeld fire. iam mark fire. i am mark lowen outside groenefeld tower, where it is —— weather continued attempts to identify those inside and there are fears that the number who have died may rise to 60. mohammed alhajali was the first person who died in the blaze on wednesday to be named — he was a 23—year—old syrian refugee who had fled the war for a better life here. we are going to be talking to his brother, hashem, and abdulaziz almashi, his best friend. we will bring you all the latest updates from the scene of the fire throughout the programme. nurse pauline cafferkey contracted ebola in sierra leone while working as a volunteer during the epidemic. she's returned to the country to see how the people are coping today. most of the aid agencies have pulled

out. it's like it's almost forgotten, but it's not. these people are still living through this and living with the aftermath. hello. welcome to the programme. we're live until 11 this morning. do get in touch on all the stories we're talking about this morning — use the hashtag #victorialive, and if you text, you will be charged at the standard network rate. our top story today — police have warned that they may never be able to identify all those who died in the fire that engulfed grenfell tower in west london in the early hours of wednesday morning. the emergency services will spend a third day searching the block for bodies. 17 people are known to have died, but dozens remain unaccounted for, including entire families. andy moore reports. the first victim of the fire to be officially named is mohammed alhajali,

a syrian refugee who came to britain for a better life. his brother was led to safety by firefighters, but, in the chaos and confusion, mohammed got left behind. i called and we said, where are you? he said, i'm in the flat. i said, why didn't you come? they got us outside. he said, no one got me outside. i thought they took him outside with me! but they didn't. some of those trapped in the blaze did survive. we now know this man is elpidio bonifacio, a partially blind grandfather in his 70s. his family say he is in intensive care, suffering from serious smoke inhalation. they have thanked the bravery of the firefighters who risked their lives to get him out. elpidio was finally rescued 11 hours after the blaze started. there is anger in the community, directed at almost anyone in authority. the london mayor sadiq khan saw it for himself when he went to visit. how many children died

and what are you going to do about it? police say they have now started a criminal investigation. that's not to say there was a crime committed, but they will investigate to establish if there's any evidence of one. the list of the dead and missing grows all the time. police have voiced the hope that the final number of casualties will be below 100. they admit that some victims may never be identified. the leader of the local council said they did think about installing sprinkler system in grenfell tower when it was renovated last year, but he said there was no collective view among residents in favour of it. losing the suit is a firefighter and trade union official at the fire brigades union london branch. see she describes the distressing scenes witnessed by colleagues. one

colleague said he was going in literally having to choose who to save to leave and died because you only have two hands, can only take out so many people. my colleagues went in, took people out, went in, two people off again. the red watch chelsea were meant to finish at 9:30am and they did not get back to the station until 5pm, they would have stayed longer if they had been allowed. that is a tribute to the brave men and women who attended this incident. the scenes they would have encountered in the early hours of tuesday morning, it is absolutely unimaginable. mark lowen is in west london and following the latest developments for us. what is the latest? 17 people are known to have been killed in this fire. several more are still in hospital and police say they fear that the number of known fatalities could rise above 60. there are

effo rts could rise above 60. there are efforts to try to get insight groenefeld tower to try to identify the remains of victims but they have not been able to get to the top floor, the upper floors. not been able to get to the top floor, the upperfloors. sniffer dogs have been sent in, it is too u nsta ble dogs have been sent in, it is too unstable for people to go in. they're using dental records, dna samples and finger prints to try to identify the victims but they say the total number of known fatalities may never be known because it is too difficult to piece together the remains of the bodies inside. meanwhile, on the investigation, the finger of suspicion points to the cladding. a report in the times today that the company that installed the cladding was told that in the us that kind of cheap plastic cladding which is not flame reta rda nt cladding which is not flame retardant is not used on high buildings, there is still suspicion of what was responsible here but as yet the investigation is in the early stages as to what caused this

horrific inferno. we saw some of the anger of those who live around there, some of the residents, what is the mood? there is anger, there is the mood? there is anger, there isa is the mood? there is anger, there is a demand for accountability and a demand for heads to roll, we have heard from some people. there is a demand for greater political engagement from the government. you saw yesterday theresa may making a private visit to the grenfell tower, jeremy corbyn and sadiq khan met the victims. that was seen by critics as a lack of empathy on the part of the prime minister. there is a real feeling that this must not be allowed to happen again and a fear that in the thousands of other towers sprinkled across this country, this city, that they should not meet the same fate. fear about fire regulations, a fear about the state put policy, buildings where the rizwan staircase and a lack of such —— a lack of sprinklers and central alarms. these fears are

reverberating from the of grenfell tower. let's go to our political correspondent chris mason. there are demands for action to be taken quickly, an investigation is under way. what sense is there about what politicians can and should do? politicians at westminster are acutely aware of the scale of what has happened and that there is a huge number of questions coming their way, not just huge number of questions coming their way, notjust in the direction of national politicians but local ones as well. i think there is also an awareness that this is a new and an awareness that this is a new and a fragile government that is having to respond to tragedy in a way that is seen to be financially astute and logistically and, yes, emotionally. the government yesterday announced a full independent public inquiry led bya full independent public inquiry led by a judge, we don't yet know who that will be or the exact terms of

reference or timescale. certainly there is a demand from some that while there is a recognition that public inquiries can be very useful in establishing exactly where there may have been deficiencies in policies in the past, notjust from the current government good previous ones, they tend to take time and some mps want to see an interim report sooner rather than later. there is a chance for politicians of all political stripes to visit the area themselves. we saw the prime minister yesterday, criticism from labourfigures minister yesterday, criticism from labour figures that she did not meet local people. communities secretary sajid javid has spent the morning giving interviews about the government response, heading there today and likely to meet people on the ground. the government is well aware of the scale and volume of the questions coming and understandably the intense anger. thank you, chris. annita mcveigh is in the bbc newsroom with a summary of the rest of the day's news. good morning. a second soldier has died after being wounded in an incident

involving a tank at an army firing range in pembrokeshire. two other soldiers were injured at castlemartin ranges on wednesday. tomos morgan reports. the flags are at half mast at pembrokeshire, after the tragic events of wednesday afternoon, which resulted in the deaths of two servicemen. it is still unclear exactly what happened, but the bbc understands that four members from the royal tank regiment were gravely injured in an incident involving the ammunition and another challenger 2 tank. three soldiers were taken to hospital in south wales, with one being taken directly to the queen elizabeth hospital in birmingham, which has a dedicated wing for treating injured service personnel. yesterday afternoon, the ministry of defence announced that one soldier had died in hospital and late last night the minister of defence, people and veterans confirmed the death of a second member of the team. the range was opened by the war

office in 1938. it is one of the two ranges in the uk where armed units can carry out direct fire training. the mod, police and the health and safety executive are investigating and a temporary ban on tanklike firing has been put in place. the archbishop of canterbury will speak at a service of hope at southwark cathedral today, in honour of first—responders, families and survivors of the london bridge attack. eight people were killed when three attackers drove a van into pedestrians on london bridge, and then launched a knife attack at borough market just under two weeks ago. president trump is expected to announce a change in policy towards cuba during a visit to miami today, tightening trade and travel restrictions that had been relaxed by president 0bama. americans will still be allowed to travel to the communist island, but mainly as part of organised groups. mr trump is also expected to prohibit doing business

with the commercial and tourism wings of the cuban military. doctors treating the american student who was released from a north korean prison in a coma say he has suffered a severe brain injury. 0tto warmbier was freed on tuesday and is back home in cincinnati. it's not clear how he sustained brain damage. he was given a long prison sentence in march last year for trying to steal a propaganda banner. the labour mpjo cox is being remembered across the country on the first anniversary of her murder. the mother of two was killed as she arrived for a constituency surgery in birstall in west yorkshire. more than 110,000 events are being held today and over the weekend as part of the great get together. that's a summary of the latest bbc news — more at 9:30am. thank you very much. let's get some sport now with katherine downes.

some low scores after the first round rubber us open? yes, conditions in wisconsin looked pretty perfect, a bit of rain softened the fairways and made the greens a bit more forgiving, that all of the top six golfers in the world a re over all of the top six golfers in the world are over par. let's see who is going well, rickie fowler leads the way, shooting an opening round of 67, seven under par, equalling the record of the lowest first round score at the us open. paul casey of england is just behind score at the us open. paul casey of england isjust behind him on six under, very chuffed with his round, chipping in for under, very chuffed with his round, chipping inforan under, very chuffed with his round, chipping in for an eagle. tommy fleetwood, another englishman in the mix, he is five and tied for fourth. he missed the cut in six of his previous seven major appearances. he would have to have a disaster to do that again. rory mcilroy is really struggling, missing here. he

defended how thick the wrath of arran hills is by saying if you cannot hit the fairways at a big tournament like this you might as well pack your bags and go home, but he only hit five in the whole of his round, so not doing as well as he should have. a stunning performance from middle—distance runnerjake wightman last night? jake wightman knocked a second off his personal best to win his first diamond league. let's look at how he did it. he has been in great form this summer so he has been in great form this summer so far, he has been in great form this summerso far, a he has been in great form this summer so far, a recent personal best did not suggest he would pull this out of the bag. he beat the 2015 world silver medallist from kenya into second. he beat a really quality line—up, really convincing asa quality line—up, really convincing as a victory. he took to twitter yesterday to say he was in utter shock, i cannot believe i havejust w011 shock, i cannot believe i havejust won a diamond league. always nice to see dreams coming true on the track! thank you very much. hundreds of people have been left

homeless following the grenfell tower blaze on wednesday. the extraordinary community effort has seen people donate clothes, food and even open up their homes to give those in need somewhere to stay. the first named victim of the fire is mohammed alhajali. the 23—year—old had only been in the uk for three years, having fled war—torn syria with his brothers 0mar and hashem, and had settled into a new life here as a refugee. he tried to call family to say goodbye, but couldn't get through. mohammed became separated from his brother, 0mar, during the evacuation of the tower. 0mar ended up in a local hospital, but his brother never made it out of the building. the fire was very close. and then they came. they said the fire was in the next room. the smoke was coming inside. they said, "come, come." and they were pushing us. i couldn't see anything. they opened the door and the smoke came inside, i had fire around me.

and they were pushing, pushing us. i thought they were pushing all of us. i couldn't talk, i couldn't look around, i couldn't see anything. even my fingers, nothing. i went outside. i called him, isaid, "where are you?" he said, "i am in the flat." i said, "why didn't you come? they brought us outside, i thought you were with us." he said, "no one brought me outside." another of mohammed's brothers, hashem, joins me now. along with some of his friends — randa, who spoke to mohammad the night before he died — and abdulaziz almashi, who is the co—founder of the syria solidarity campaign, which promotes freedom, peace and democracy in syria. thank you all forjoining us. our condolences, hashim. how are you

coping? you can say everything has collapsed. we were doing well. we we re collapsed. we were doing well. we were settling down in the uk. suddenly everything just collapsed. i don't think we can cope as we did before. you are just 20. we heard from your brother, 0mar, who was in the building and survived. 0bviously traumatised, as we can see in the interview. you had already been through a lot. you left syria hoping for a better life. how is 0mar now? 0mar is really not good. he is not good. he couldn't, grow today. he just sits down and he sees the whole thing moving in front of his eyes every time. he isjust thing moving in front of his eyes every time. he is just staring. thing moving in front of his eyes every time. he isjust staring. he can see the whole movie, you can say. every time hejust

can see the whole movie, you can say. every time he just sits and talked us through the story and he just cries. yeah, he is not good. what support are you getting? nothing. the only support will be offered by my family. i don't think anyone else can help. where is omar? he is homeless now, as some in er. they took him to accommodation. you wa nt they took him to accommodation. you want your parents to be able to come for the funeral. they are still in syria. is it fun to be possible? we are not sure. we want this to happen. my mum has cried lots of tea rs happen. my mum has cried lots of tears when she heard. she said she had been waiting to see him for four yea rs had been waiting to see him for four years but then he died and she couldn't see him. at least i can see his grave, i can see his body before

they bury him. i want to kiss him. i wa nt to they bury him. i want to kiss him. i want to stand where they bury him. i wa nt to want to stand where they bury him. i want to see everything belongs to muhammad. it's devastating. i don't know what to say. when did you last speak to him? i spoke to him in the last month. —— in the last moments. i spoke to him when he was in the tower. that must have been so hard? this is obviously so difficult for all of the friends and loved ones of muhammad. you spoke to him, when?” spoke to him around ten days ago. we are planning an event tomorrow in memory ofjo cox. the syrian communities, refugees. he was set to come to the event, to participate in the event. but unfortunately, he

will be rest. when you look at this tragedy, there are loads of questions come cross my mind. i mean, he came here to seek safety, to establish a good life. i once asked him why he was studying civil engineering, and he said because he wanted to go back to syria and help to rebuild syria. and yes, he is a big loss for his family, for us as friends and the community in london. and definitely, he is a big loss for syria as well. you have just given us syria as well. you have just given usa syria as well. you have just given us a little glimpse into muhammed. what sort of person was the? he was a lovely person. he was caring, intelligent, charitable. he has passion for his family, for his country. an amazing individual. i

literally can't mention one negative thing about his character. he has been absolutely brilliant. tell us more about your brother? my brother was his friend. —— my friend. he was very humble with all his friends as well. although there was a gap in the age is between me and him, we we re the age is between me and him, we were like friends in the same age. he would never annoy anyone. he was nice to every person. he was kind, he was intelligent. he would learn things quickly. he would run for his life. you are a friend as well. when did you last speak to muhammad?” saw him recently, shortly before he passed away. really shocking just to hear of passed away. really shocking just to hearof him on passed away. really shocking just to hear of him on the news, without having had a chance to speak to him

before. how will you remember him? somebody who was always smiling, always happy, always happy to see his friends. you never got any negative vibe from him. obviously it isa time negative vibe from him. obviously it is a time of trauma and total shock. is their anger? there is, of course. there is anger because more hamid hassan always tried to bring his family. when he was talking to me over the phone, he said, tell my mum and dad to forgive me. he asked me ifi and dad to forgive me. he asked me if i forgive him. i said, why do i need to forgive you? you have been an amazing person, my brother and everything. why do i need to forgive you? he said, pleasejust say everything. why do i need to forgive you? he said, please just say it. everything. why do i need to forgive you? he said, pleasejust say it. i said, iforgive you. everybody forgives you. everybody loves you. all of those affected so deeply by

this, how do you move forward? all of those affected so deeply by this, how do you move forward7m all of those affected so deeply by this, how do you move forward? it is really tough. for someone who came from a war zone to seek safety, for example, and then he ends up in such a tragic event is really shocking. it is unbelievable. i can't oh —— i can't imagine how 0mar will get over it. he didn't just can't imagine how 0mar will get over it. he didn'tjust love —— lose his brother. but he lived the whole experience. i have been watching what has been going on in my country for the last six years. they show many pictures of bombing in aleppo and the outskirts of damascus. i literally haven't seen one single building engulfed with fire like this, and that's in a war zone. this strikes me. we are in london, 2017, and you see a huge building like this engulfed with fire in half an hour. where you think you are safe.

someone must have responsibility for those who lost their lives. i was literally watching it live. i tried to call 0mar. i couldn't get through. i tried to call his cousin. i couldn't get through. i knew they lived in that building. but i never anticipated someone would die there. it isjust incredible. the management organisations, the local council, why didn't they listen to the people who raised problems and concerns about safety measures in the building? had you ever been aware, hashem, about any concerns being raised by your brother ‘s? yes, the gas was leaking in the building. it was not working in the flat. it was not working for a year. then the gas company came and they

fixed new gas pipes. these gas pipes we re fixed new gas pipes. these gas pipes were fitted on the outside of the wall, not the inside. they were exposed. the residents complained. they were sending messages through the post for everybody to complain. it is not right. it was very dangerous. there were no smoke alarms. just three days before the incident, they came and fitted smoke alarms in the flat. i was in the flat that day. the man at the door said, we need to check for fire alarms. we said we didn't have any. so he fixed one. there was one in your flat? there wasn't any and then they put one. there was nothing. there were no safety precautions for fire. nothing at all. ijust want to add something. i want to say to the

politicians of this country, please meet us. these people want to bring their families here. their family is ina warzone. their families here. their family is in a war zone. they are concerned about the fate of their families. they live in syria. and now their family are concerned about their safety in london. please help them to be reunited with their family. maybe that will help 0mar, that will help hashem over what they have been through. they really need their families. we would love to help as a committee here. iwould never compensate for their mum, their sisters, their dad. i urge the leader of the opposition, the prime minister, everyone, please meet the people and help them to get their family over. one heart-warming aspect of this has been how people

have come together. there has been amazing support within the community. what have you seen happen? obviously people have gathered to help all of the victims, including mohammed's family. but no family, no friend, no relative, no memberof the family, no friend, no relative, no member of the public, could fill the place that mohammed's mum and dad and his immediate family could fill. his sisters back in syria as well. to find out about his death through social media is difficult enough. and then having to watch also possibly the funeral on tv, social media, i mean, it's something that i don't think anybody deserves to go through. is that how your family found out in syria? they foundered because mohammed was with his friend. omar was with his friend he came down. mohammed was talking to

him over the phone. mohammed was crying and he said, please put me onto my mum, i want to speak to. then he was praying. he couldn't put him through to my mum. i don't know why. and then hejust him through to my mum. i don't know why. and then he just sent a why. and then hejust sent a message on what's upsetting, goodbye mum, i love you. yeah. i am so sorry. what will you do know? i don't know. i wouldn't do anything without my family. when we came here, we knew we could do something for my family. i knew i could improve my life. but the main thing was that i could do something in the future for my family. now after mohammed has died, and 100% sure i can't do anything without my family. they are the only people who can support me and support omar. and support themselves as well if they come here. thank you all very much for coming

still to come, nurse pauline cafferkey returns to sierra leone, where she contracted ebola, to see how the country is coping with the aftermath of the epidemic. we will also be talking more about the aftermath of that horrific fire. one man who was a hero of the borough market attack lose a stone's throw from grenfell tower, and he is still searching for friends. we will talk to him. here's annita mcveigh in the bbc newsroom with a summary of today's news. thank you. police are warning they may never be able to identify some of those who died in the fire at g re nfell tower of those who died in the fire at grenfell tower in west london. 17 bodies have been found so far but the number of fatalities is expected to rise significantly. the prime minister, theresa may, has ordered a full public enquiry into the fire. lucy massoud is a firefighter and trade union official at the fire

brigades union london branch. she has been describing what some of her collea g u es has been describing what some of her colleagues witnessed. the conversations i have had, one colleague said he was going in there and literally having to choose who to save and who to leave and die. you only have two hands, you can only take out so many people. my collea g u es only take out so many people. my colleagues who went in, took the lead, went in again, they were meant to finish work at 9:30am on wednesday morning, they didn't get back on to the station until five o'clock in the afternoon. they would have stayed longer at the incident if they were allowed to. that is an absolute tribute to the brave men and women who attended this incident. but yeah, the scenes they would have encountered in the early hours of tuesday morning, it is unimaginable. the communities secretary, sajid javid, is due to visit the scene this morning. a littler earlier, he said he wanted to reassure people living in similar tower blocks across the country. the process has already started. this is being done in a matter of days. i think those people need to be given reassurance within days. it has to be led by the experts.

the first point is obviously to identify these buildings. there are about 4000 high—rise buildings in the country but not all of them have been re—cladded but also, let's notjust make the assumption it's all about cladding. we need to be led by the experts. as soon as we have more information from the experts, which we expect either later today or certainly over the weekend, then that is what i think should be used to do these emergency inspections. a second soldier has died after being wounded in an incident involving a tank at an army firing range in pembrokeshire. he was serving with the royal tank regiment. two other soldiers were injured at castlemartin ranges on wednesday. the archbishop of canterbury will speak at a service of hope at southwark cathedral today, in honour of first—responders, families and survivors of the london bridge attack. eight people were killed when three attackers drove a van into pedestrians on london bridge, and then launched a knife attack at borough market just under two weeks ago. president trump is expected

to announce a change in policy towards cuba during a visit to miami today, tightening trade and travel restrictions that had been relaxed by president 0bama. americans will still be allowed to travel to the communist island, but mainly as part of organised groups. mr trump is also expected to prohibit doing business with the commercial and tourism wings of the cuban military. doctors treating the american student who was released from a north korean prison in a coma say he has suffered a severe brain injury. otto warmbier was freed on tuesday and is back home in cincinnati. it's not clear how he sustained brain damage. he was given a long prison sentence in march last year for trying to steal a propaganda banner. british security officials they believe hackers in north korea were behind the cyber attack that crippled parts of the nhs last month. the hackers are thought to have been attempting to make money but did not predict the extent

to which the computer virus would spread. here's our security correspondent gordon corera. the cyber attack spread around the world, with the nhs badly hit. computers were locked, with hackers demanding a ransom be paid for them to be made usable again. britain's national cyber security centre led the investigation and security sources have told the bbc that the centre believes in north korean—based hacking group known as lazarus launched the attack. the same group is believed to have targeted sony pictures after it planned to release a film involving the north korean leader and was also thought to have been behind the theft of more than $80 million from bangladesh's central bank last year. the ransomware last month did not target britain or the nhs specifically and may well have been a money making scheme that got out of control, especially since the hackers have not yet retrieved any of the ransom money that's been paid into the accounts. the labour mpjo cox is being remembered across the country

on the first anniversary of her murder. the mother of two was killed as she arrived for a constituency surgery in birstall in west yorkshire. more than 110,000 events are being held today and over the weekend as part of the great get together. more from me at 10am. back to you, joanna. catherine downes has the sport. we will start with the goal. paul caseyis we will start with the goal. paul casey is breathing down the neck of rickie fowler. all of the world's top six players struggled and ended up over par — but casey says he loves the course, and is just one shot off the lead at erin hills. wales have beaten tonga in the first test of their summer tour. wing alex cuthbert went over early here and wales later scored a penalty try before running out 211—6 winners.

next up for them is samoa next week. everton have madejordan pickford, the most expensive british goalkeeper in history. he's joined the club on a deal that could be worth £30 million. it was a big spending day for everton, who also paid over £23 million for ajax captain, davy klaassen. and britain's jake wightman knocked over a second off his personal best, as he beat a high—quality field, in the 1500 metres at the oslo diamond league meeting last night. the 22—year—old scot follows in the footsteps of seb coe, steve ovett and steve cram who have all won the race. he said he could not quite believe that he had won a diamond league! the outbreak of ebola in sierra leone during 2014 killed 4,000 people. pauline cafferkey was one of the british nurses who volunteered to travel there during the epidemic and help the sick. but she caught the disease herself and has had a long and difficult recovery. now she's returned to visit children orphaned by the disease, some of whom are living

in extreme poverty. mario cacciottolo reports from sierra leone. pauline cafferkey is back in sierra leone. she was last here in the country's ebola epidemic in 2015. as a volunteer nurse. it was when caring for the sick and dying that pauline caught ebola herself. now she has returned to this west african country with the charity street child to meet those whose lives were affected by the disease. did you have a brother?

yes. at the border. and your mum? my mum, i haven't seen. it is lovely to meet one of the survivors, she is 17, she has got so much ahead of her, so much inspiration that she wants to fulfill. pauline also visited the site of the now demolished ebola treatment centre in kerry town where she and her colleagues cared for the sick and dying. this is where she became infected with the disease herself. a hospital is now being built on the site. at times it seemed quite sombre, certainly not a place of happiness. the only real happiness was when the survivors were coming out. the nursing staff would do a sort of happy dance for them. the care that we were giving

to patients was just basic, basic care but that is what they really needed at that time. the priority was to keep them hydrated, in comfort and to keep them clean. it was a continuous process. it is a place that has not got good memories for very many people. it is progress, it is good for the community that it has been destroyed. it was nice it was not as emotional as i thought it would be because for me, without a doubt, that is the place where i must‘ve contracted ebola. severe travel restrictions were enforced around sierra leone the last time that pauline was here. now the country is ebola free and she travels halfway across it to meet marianna, an orphan that lives in the town of makeni.

the 12—year—old lost both her parents and her uncle in one week to ebola. and she and her seven siblings are now being cared for by her grandmother. when school is finished do you want to be, a doctor, a nurse, a teacher, what do you want to do? really? for the next part of her trip pauline travels deep into the lush countryside to a remote village in the port loko district to meet 18—year—old mbinte. they want to go to school but they can't go to school because they don't have anything. she has a baby and is also caring for her three siblings after her mother died from ebola and her father left. do you enjoy being alone?

—— being a mother? being a mum, do you like? is it hard? but now? do you like now? i feel frustrated that the western world has moved on and the media has pulled out, most of the aid agencies have pulled out. it is like it is almost forgotten but it is not, there are people still living through this and living with the aftermath. we have a lot of families and a lot of orphans. we have in our database, we have over 1015 orphans registered.

and we are still discovering more. the effects of that is that we now have lots of children on the streets. most of them sleep on the streets, most of them do menialjobs in order to maintain a livelihood. and we have so many children are assuming the household responsibility because you have child—headed households. houses that are run by children themselves because of the loss of both parents. 4000 people died in sierra leone because of ebola. in the countryside around the town of lunsa, there are villages with many empty houses whose owners died in their homes. although these buildings remain usable, locals know what happened there.

and are too afraid to live in them. despite ebola leaving her with a weak leg and sorejoints, pauline is to enter street child's annual race, running ten kilometres in what is known as the world's craziest marathon. today, at the race, the atmosphere was fantastic. it was a very early start, we were up at 4am. we left by six. we started our 10k at seven. it was a great atmosphere during it. we were running through the community of makenia. and everyone was out, cheering us along, the children were running along with us.

there were high—fives and whatnot. it was great fun. great atmosphere. it was probably the highlight of the trip, i would say. after returning to sierra leone this time, i do feel that i have a bit of a connection with the country which i didn't really have last time. last time, i was just here, looking after patients and i'm left with the intention that i was going to rest and then come back again. the outbreak was still ongoing. unfortunately, i fell ill. it was really good that i did get this opportunity to come back. i think lots of people said that when big things happen in your life, it does change you as a person. i don't really feel that whatever has happened has changed me. it certainly hasn't changed my outlook

in life. i had a horrible virus that with the help of the nhs, i got better. since i was a wee girl, i always wanted to be a nurse and come out to africa. it is good to come back here because this is the place that it all started. i am not cutting all ties with sierra leone by any means but i am going to close the chapter on that part of my life now. i am not too sure what the future is going to hold, i am pretty positive it is going to be something good. i do not know what direction to take it in yet. it is going to be something positive. i am due something good to happen in my life. just got to wait for that. ebola survivor pauline cafferkey on

her return to sierra leone. on the 3rd ofjune, under a fortnight ago, ozzie gandaa was working as a bouncer in borough market, london, when he witnessed three terrorists stabbing passersby and heading for the pub where he was working. he was a hero that night, throwing chairs and glasses at the attackers. fast forward to this tuesday night, and he became involved in another tragic event at grenfell tower. he lives a stone's throw from the block of flats, where several of his friends live. some are still unaccounted for. let's talk to ozzie now. he's here with carniel francis levy, another local resident near grenfell tower, and together they‘ re helping with the community aid effort there. thank you both for coming in. ozzie, that's extraordinary. these are events that have shaken us all but you have been so close to both? yes, it's a lot to mentally taken. too many tragedies happening at one time. just pulling together and

doing the best we can do for our community and seeing what we can do to help out. you live very close to g re nfell tower. to help out. you live very close to grenfell tower. how close? i can see it from my garden. i could actually smell the fire. when you first know about the fire? probably around just after 11 o'clock. then i got a phone call from my younger brother saying there was a fire at grenfell tower. just cold friends to see if everybody was safe. to see what we could do to help out. we initially went down there just to help out victims that had left the building and to help evacuate the area as well. this was the morning after? no, this was the night it happened. you sort of saw... i saw the flames,

i saw everything burning. friends of mine said they could hear people screaming from the blocks. it was just... you have friends who live on the block who are still not accounted for? we're not sure they are ok. i am hoping for the best. maybe they haven't been able to contact anybody. at the moment we are preparing for the worst but hoping for the best. what is the process as people try to find out if their loved ones are ok where they might be? it's not easy, is it, trying to find out? just having to wait until the coroner says, this is the person that has passed away, this is yourfriend, this is a family member. it is a very, very ha rd family member. it is a very, very hard situation. it is playing a waiting game on people's lives, basically. this happened not long

after borough market. tell us where you were when that was unfolding and what you did? i was basically right there when the terrorists attacked. i saw them stab people, work collea g u es i saw them stab people, work colleagues and friends. i initially ran away because i saw they had a suicide vest on. but made the decision afterwards to return and see what i could do for the local market staff and for customers, to see if there was something that me and my other security members could do to help. we ended up throwing chairs, bottles, whatever we could find, to keep them at bay and stop them attacking anybody else, until them attacking anybody else, until the police came. so yes. your actions have been praised as heroic. how do you feel about what you did? hgppy how do you feel about what you did? happy that i done it. i wish i had acted a little bit sooner. but at the same time, for most people the

instinct is to run. but i'm so happy icame instinct is to run. but i'm so happy i came back. i have had people thank me saying that i personally saved their lives. i didn't feel anything like that. it makes me feel really proud of myself to know that i was capable of saving people's lives. you have them back to work? has that been? yeah, i went back on wednesday. i was extremely paranoid. ididn't wednesday. i was extremely paranoid. i didn't know if i really wanted to be in that situation. but i have got a team there. i have got people that are basically family. i wanted to be there for them as well, to show them that no matter what happens, we are a family. we are borough market and we are going to support each other. we're not going to let that stop us. you obviously resilient. you went through that and then the grenfell tower fire through that and then the grenfell towerfire happening through that and then the grenfell tower fire happening so close to where you are, that would knock anybody, coming that close to things like that? i am mentally and very

physically strong as well. i've got a little boy. i have to stay focused. yeah, it's hard. some days i feel it is a lot mentally. but my only other option is to get through it. and yeah, the community that we are in, we have pulled together so much for the immunity of ladbroke grove. people who didn't like each other before, they've alljust pulled together and done whatever they can. if it is volunteering, bringing food or comforting people, we have all gelled together. it has proved what we can actually do as a community in severe situations, and what we can do as a team and a community to unify us and help out. you are part of that effort as well aren't you? doing a big cook of this weekend. any support is good support. there are probably a lot of

people who don't know what they should do. butjust being there is support. there are loads of different people going through loads of different emotions right now. for me, just being there helps. luckily, we have got a catering company, so we have got a catering company, so we are going to serve food to workers, victims, animal and that needs it. just an extra pair of hands. there is anger as well because of what has happened. how do you feel the mood is? because of what has happened. how do you feelthe mood is? you know, right now there are loads of stories, conspiracy theories of what has happened. something may not be right. but for me, that is not my issue. my issue is to look after the people that our victims. and help out after. something may come of it, something may not. but right now, it is not the point. it isjust to support. just like ozzie said,

everybody is coming together. ijust wa nt everybody is coming together. ijust want more people to come, more people to give and show how strong londoners. i mean, compared to everything that has happened, the support that has been happening from the servicemen to the general public is amazing. there is still a lot more to come. you know... seen people, good together in the way that they are, does it give you strength? yeah, it does. most definitely. for both instances. going back to borough market, i had people from manchester who had never been to borough market before, they just want to come down to show their support in london and in borough market, and for people to stick together. the same with what has happened in grenfell tower. just seen happened in grenfell tower. just seen the community and seen the m essa 9 es seen the community and seen the messages i am seeing on facebook, what people have been sending me, what people have been sending me, what family members have been doing, what family members have been doing, what close friends have been doing,

there is so much. it makes me proud to be from the area as well. proud to be from the area as well. proud to be from the area as well. proud to bea to be from the area as well. proud to be a part of it. the efforts of helping, the help that is required, will go on long after this has gone out of the headlines. that's the thing. ijust out of the headlines. that's the thing. i just want to out of the headlines. that's the thing. ijust want to make sure out of the headlines. that's the thing. i just want to make sure that any viewers watching understand that it's good that you help out today and tomorrow, but there is so much more that need to be done. overnight, 3000 people have been displaced. notjust grenfell tower. lots around. apparently at the moment they are storing bodies in one state. people are being evacuated. they have nowhere else to go. i have got friends staying at my mum's house. mum —— friends staying on coaches. we're going to be doing another fundraising event. we on coaches. we're going to be doing anotherfundraising event. we have anotherfundraising event. we have another thing in fulham which we will be doing as well by the fulham library this friday. there will be a

dj. we will be hosting a free event, fundraiser. whoever wants to come, there are more than welcome. it will help the community. so much... it is ha rd help the community. so much... it is hard even thinking about those families, those people i have known for years, they haven't got nothing. possessions are nothing. it is not about household possessions that i gone missing. they arejust about household possessions that i gone missing. they are just on the streets. their life. they have lost everything. we are going to be talking a bit more about that with two people who lived in a flat and lost everything. they weren't actually in the building on the night. but like so many, they have lost everything. thank you very much for coming in. you are getting in touch on the interview with hashem, the brother of mohammed who died in the brother of mohammed who died in the fire. one text says an extremely moving interview. my heart goes out

to the family and the whole committee. denise e—mails, heartbreaking to hear from committee. denise e—mails, heartbreaking to hearfrom mohammed bus brother and friends. what a loss to this country. so sorry we didn't keep them safe. mohamed salah is like a wonderful person, son, brother and friend. people have been trying to help those affected by the g re nfell tower trying to help those affected by the grenfell tower tragedy anywhere they can. last night people gathered at a charity event for those who lived in the tower. the grime artist saskia, who performed, joins me now. why did you take part? i took part because the government is not doing anything. i took part because the people are supporting the people right now. and we have had enough of this rubbish. that is why i took part. it wasn't nothing to do with popularity or trying to milk a situation. it was genuinely trying to raise some money and to do something for this people. where is

the government right now? please, can suddenly tell me where the government is? what you want to sing the government doing? first and foremost, i want to see the government do a fair investigation. somebody has to be held accountable. you cannot have an inferno where a fireman came to the event last night, he told me over 200 bodies, this is not in the media. this is mass murder. if the government isn't doing something, theresa may, you area doing something, theresa may, you are a coward. you doing something, theresa may, you are a coward. you are doing something, theresa may, you are a coward. you are hiding while the people are dying.” are a coward. you are hiding while the people are dying. ijust want to come in. obviously the numbers that have been discussed and numbers that some are talking about, but in terms of the official number who have died at this stage, the numbers are much lower and we do not know what the final death toll will be because it is very difficult for the emergency

services to properly get into that building. that's fine and dandy. a fire man who was there, present, any saw the bodies. he told me first—hand. this is no secondary information. i just first—hand. this is no secondary information. ijust want first—hand. this is no secondary information. i just want to talk a bit more about the concert last night. and people coming together. what is your sense of that level of community support? that was one of the greatest, greatest feelings. people from the tragedy came down to just take their mind off it. be with artists and be around a family unit. people just looking after each other. there was so much love in that room. if theresa may, boris johnson would have witnessed that, they would have known what they are not doing right now. because right now it is the people looking after the people. it is power to the people. that is what it is right now. thank

you very much forjoining us. obviously lots and lots of ways, things are being done to raise money and to give support to those who have lost so much in that terrible tragedy. coming up, . .. revolutionary breast cancer drug kadcyla will continute to be available to patients in england. we'll be talking to a breast cancer patient who's been campaigning for this. let's get the latest weather update with sarah keith lucas. thanks. it is a fresh start to the day compared to recent days. not quite as hot and muggy. things will warm up quite as hot and muggy. things will warm up as we quite as hot and muggy. things will warm up as we head through today. this is how things are looking in co nwy this is how things are looking in conwy in north wales. cloudy skies. elsewhere we have got more sunshine. the east coast of england. this is norfolk. plenty of blue sky. as we

move through today, things would be warming up. they will be spelt of sunshine but fairly cloudy conditions across some parts of the country, particularly the further north and west you are. a bit of drizzly rain working its way northwards and eastwards as well. we could see splashes of rain to the north—west of england. certainly west of scotland as well. it is an east— west split across scotland. rain in the west at times. east it is dryer. things will brighten up in northern ireland later in the day. we will see some sunshine break through. some sunshine to the east of the pennines. further south, across england and wales, things are looking to write with some sunshine coming through. you do see that sunshine, you have high uv levels. also high levels of pollen. you will certainly noticed that. into this evening and overnight with will lose

most of that wet weather for the west of scotland. it is dry across many parts of the country. clear skies, light breeze. and it will feel muggy and humid. once again, quite an uncomfortable night. for some, temperatures falling no lower than 16 or 17 degrees. the temperature continues to rise into the weekend. further south across europe, 44 degrees in southern spain. that heat and humidity pushing northwards across france into the uk, where our temperatures could top 30 degrees or more. saturday, breezy conditions in the far north—west of scotland for the ——. forthe far north—west of scotland for the ——. for the rest, far north—west of scotland for the ——. forthe rest, lots far north—west of scotland for the ——. for the rest, lots of sunshine. temperatures between 20 and 28 degrees. a warm day certainly. things turn even hotter through sunday. again there could be rain in the far north—west. we are likely to see those temperatures at 30, 301 degrees. a small chance we could see some thunderstorms later in the day. the heat holds on into monday. still

30 degrees. ince will turn fresh on into tuesday. a full weekly forecast online. and joanna gosling, welcome back. as hundreds are left homeless following the tower block fire there are fears police may never identify all the victims. the first identified as mohammed alhajali. we heard from his brother earlier. mohammed was crying and said "please put me through to my mum." then he was praying and asking to be put through to his mum, but we couldn't put him through to my mum. i don't know why. then he sent her a voice recording saying "goodbye, mum, i love you." we will speak to two people who lived in the block and lost all their belongings in the fire. the government says it's prepared to do whatever is necessary to ensure that high rise tower blocks across the country are safe following the fire at grenfell tower.

there are 4000 of them in the country. we will do whatever it ta kes, ta ke country. we will do whatever it takes, take the expert advice, do whatever it takes, to make those buildings safe or make those people safe, whatever it takes. we will continue to bring you the latest developments. also the breast cancer drug kadcyla will continue to be available to patients on the nhs in england. we will speak to a campaigner with breast cancer. here's annita in the bbc newsroom with a summary of today's news. thank you. safety checks are to be carried out on cladding fixed to high rise blocks of flats following the grenfell tower fire in west london. 17 people are known to have died — six of them have been identified, but police are warning that they may never be able to identify all those who were killed. many people remain unaccounted for, as andy moore reports. the first victim of the fire to be officially named

is mohammed alhajali, a syrian refugee who came to britain for a better life. his brother was led to safety by firefighters, but, in the chaos and confusion, mohammed got left behind. i called and we said, where are you? he said, i'm in the flat. i said, why didn't you come? they got us outside. he said, no one got me outside. i thought they took him outside with me! but they didn't. some of those trapped in the blaze did survive. we now know this man is elpidio bonifacio, a partially blind grandfather in his 70s. his family say he is in intensive care, suffering from serious smoke inhalation. they have thanked the bravery of the firefighters who risked their lives to get him out. elpidio was finally rescued 11 hours after the blaze started. there is anger in the community, directed at almost anyone in authority. the london mayor sadiq khan saw it

for himself when he went to visit. how many children died and what are you going to do about it? police say they have now started a criminal investigation. that's not to say there was a crime committed, but they will investigate to establish if there's any evidence of one. the list of the dead and missing grows all the time. police have voiced the hope that the final number of casualties will be below 100. they admit that some victims may never be identified. the leader of the local council said they did think about installing sprinkler system in grenfell tower when it was renovated last year, but he said there was no collective view among residents in favour of it. the communities secretary, sajid javid, is due to visit the scene this morning. a littler earlier, he said he wanted to reassure people living in similar tower blocks across the country. the process has already started. this is being done in a matter of days. i think those people need to be given reassurance

within days. it has to be led by the experts. the first point is obviously to identify these buildings. there are about 4000 high—rise buildings in the country but not all of them have been re—cladded but also, let's notjust make the assumption it's all about cladding. we need to be led by the experts. as soon as we have more information from the experts, which we expect either later today or certainly over the weekend, then that is what i think should be used to do these emergency inspections. a second soldier has died after being wounded in an incident involving a tank at an army firing range in pembrokeshire. he was serving with the royal tank regiment. two other soldiers were injured at castlemartin ranges on wednesday. the archbishop of canterbury will speak at a service of hope at southwark cathedral today, in honour of first—responders, families and survivors of the london bridge attack. eight people were killed when three attackers drove a van into pedestrians on london bridge, and then launched a knife attack

at borough market just under two weeks ago. president trump is expected to announce a change in policy towards cuba during a visit to miami today, tightening trade and travel restrictions that had been relaxed by president 0bama. americans will still be allowed to travel to the communist island, but mainly as part of organised groups. mr trump is also expected to prohibit doing business with the commercial and tourism wings of the cuban military. british security officials they believe hackers in north korea were behind the cyber attack that crippled parts of it led to delays in treatment and operations for patients. it is thought the hackers did not realise how far the virus would spread. the labour mpjo cox is being remembered across the country on the first anniversary of her murder. the mother of two was killed as she arrived for a constituency surgery in birstall in west yorkshire.

more than 110,000 events are being held today and over the weekend as part of the great get together. that's a summary of the latest bbc news — more at 10:30am. thank you. do get in touch with us throughout the morning — use the hashtag #victorialive. all the usual ways of getting in touch apply. here's some sport now with katherine downes. the us open, golf‘s second major of the year is under way in wisconsin. many of the worlds top players have struggled in their opening round. the early leader is america's rickie fowler who shot a seven—under—par 65. that put him clear of the chasing pack. that includes englishmen tommy fleetwood who is two shots behind. but the pick of the british challengers is paul casey, he is just one shot off the lead after day one at erin hills. it's bittersweet, i love watching great rounds of golf like that, especially at something like the

u.s. open. such fantastical. then you think about have half as good around as rickie i would have been happy, to start with an eagle, have benign conditions and chase him a little bit feels great. really happy to get off to a wonderful start to what we know will be a tough week as it pans out. wales have beaten tonga in the first test of their summer tour. wing alex cuthbert went over early here and wales later scored a penalty try before running out 24—6 winners. next up for them is samoa next week. they have never previously won at eden park, losing all three of their tests at new zealand and losing out to france in the 2011 world cup. owen farrell's injury has overshadowed the build—up to the british and irish lions‘ biggest match of the tour so far against the mou we all blacks. he might miss the first test against the all blacks a

week on saturday and johnny sexton is likely to fill in. katy gordon delays in new zealand. two wins and two defeat the alliance, and now they face the maori all blacks, really in need of a win, notjust to give them momentum ahead of the first test but also for a much—needed boost in morale. it will not be easy against the maori all blacks, traditionally seen as the maori all blacks, traditionally seen as the fourth test, which is ominous for the lions, who have already found the going tough. the site is packed with experience, they have nine all blacks in the team but the backline is really eye—catching. the likes of damian mckenzie is included. the lions will be without fly— half included. the lions will be without fly—half owen farrell, he was named on the bench but has a thigh injury and faces a race against time to be fit for the first test. that puts pressure onjohnny sexton, he will

wear the number ten shirt. a big game for sean o‘brien, he has a chance to nail down the number seven shirt with tour captain sam warburton on the bench. all the ingredients for a really exciting game and for the lions, it could define their tour. it looks lovely over there. everton have madejordan pickford the most expensive british goalkeeper in history. he‘s joined the club on a deal that could be worth £30 million. hejoins from he joins from sunderland, hejoins from sunderland, who he joins from sunderland, who were relegated from the premier league last season. he will play in the under 21 european championship for england this summer, yet to make his senior international debut. it was a big spending day for everton, who also paid over £23 million for ajax captain, davy klaassen. fans will hope for a better season next season! back to you, joanna. we have had an update on those injured in the tower block fire. mark lowen has that update. we have

just heard from the nhs updated figures on those in hospital, 24 people are being treated, 12 of them are ina people are being treated, 12 of them are in a critical condition. they are in a critical condition. they are spread are in a critical condition. they are spread across are in a critical condition. they are spread across four hospitals, king‘s college hospital, chelsea and westminster, the royal free king‘s college hospital, chelsea and westminster, the royalfree and st mary ‘s. 24 still in hospital, 12 in a critical state, that is in addition to the 17 people who are known who have died at grenfell tower, but the fear is there are still dozens of people missing, the fears are that the number of known fatalities could rise above 60. police are inside trying to get higher up police are inside trying to get higherup in the police are inside trying to get higher up in the building but it is extremely unstable, they are using sniffer dogs to try to get to the higherfloors, using sniffer dogs to try to get to the higher floors, using dental sniffer dogs to try to get to the higherfloors, using dental records, dna samples, fingerprints, but really the true number, the true scale of this tragedy, may never

really be known. obviously you are describing the painstaking work going on. it is easy to see looking at that building why it is so difficult to get into every flat and workouts what the number who have died there is. we have heard from people who lived there who are deeply frustrated, we just spoke to a grime artist who was at a concert there last night talking about a death toll is much higher, saying he has spoken to firefighters who had seen has spoken to firefighters who had seen lots of bodies. there is so much frustration. it is hard to understand when you are emotionally caught up in something why the a nswe rs a re caught up in something why the answers are not coming more quickly. i wandered down the road to the memorial hall that she will have seen memorial hall that she will have seen pictures of the last couple of days, people writing messages on the makeshift people are gathered there who either had friends and families in sight groenefeld but also in surrounding towers. there was a

mixture of anger, frustration, the slowness of the response in terms of people being able to get inside buildings, also a huge amount of anger that the fire regulations seem to have been inadequate, the fear was raised by the residents association years ago and in the neighbouring towers there is a huge fear of what might happen to them. one girl! fear of what might happen to them. one girl i spoke to has lived in a neighbouring towerfor one girl i spoke to has lived in a neighbouring tower for 11 years on the 20th floor, she says that also has one staircase, no sprinklers, no central alarm, she was in tears talking to me and said everybody around here now feels they are in a potential death trap. it is notjust the many people inside grenfell tower but many people in high—rise tower was right across the country that are fearing they could be next. thank you. for those that managed to escape the fire in grenfell tower, most of them have lost everything they own. from clothes to furniture to photographs. we‘ve been talking to people who‘ve lost everything in a horrific fire, to find out what life

is like after. we haven‘t been told anything, apart from sending us to the temporary accommodation. they haven‘t told us in the long term what is going to happen, so i don‘t know. i don‘t know. so i‘m just literally living day to day, yeah. whatever people have donated, i‘ve been trying to pick my sizes. the other day, i picked some tops and jeans, but when i went home, when i went to my friend‘s place, it didn‘t fit, so today, again, i have started again, afresh, checked on what i could pick and maybe what could fit. so it‘sjust a gamble, yeah, a gamble. and i don‘t know what the future is any more, either. i just want assurance. i just want assurance that, you know, they are going to take care of us, and they are going to make sure that each person at least has temporary accommodation, or, you know, organising for more permanent accommodation because this is just temporary. so we need just assurance that things are going to be

ok, you know, somehow, because we‘ve lost everything. we are starting afresh. lilian there, who lived on the tenth floor of the tower block, isn‘t alone in saying there has been little input from the authorities. and prime minister teresa may has also been criticised for not speaking to residents during her visit yesterday. we spoke to the royal borough of kensington and chelsea council last night, and they said they have given help to all residents of grenfell tower who have got in contact with them. we have put up in hotel accommodation. we have made sure they have all their meals pay for on our account. officers from the housing department have been visiting all of those affected households giving them cash to make sure they can get on with the very basics of life. telling them what

they can expect over the coming days and weeks, and potentially months. offering them all the advice that has been made available, whether it is grief counselling, we have got social workers there. we can to the residents of grenfell tower who have made contact with the council so far. we‘re trying to understand what their plan is. we effectively break it down into three phrases. —— faces. there is the immediate now. so far! faces. there is the immediate now. so far i think we have managed to find hotel rooms close enough within the borough. boroughs, by and large.

we have booked all of those rooms at least until tuesday. of course, we have gone to hotels who have other bookings, you know, so we will have to be juggling these hotel rooms. the next stage we need to do is to find as soon as possible suitable temporary accommodation, proper, you know, flats or houses for these families to move into and out of the hotels. and again, that is a challenge in itself. london has a huge temporary accommodation and homelessness challenge, which this borough and all others have been working very hard to try to sort out but it is really difficult. and some of that temporary accommodation is likely to be in other boroughs as well as this one. but that is while we wait. what we are committed to doing is making sure that every household from grenfell tower can find a permanent new home in the local area. is itfair

is it fair that for those people who have lost everything it could take up have lost everything it could take up to two years to be permanently rehoused? i'm afraid it could take, for those final difficult families to find accommodation, it could be that long. we will find them suitable proper homes in the meantime, and give them all the assistance we can to make sure those new homes, those temporary homes, have all the white goods, all the furnishings, all the things that make it a home. let‘s talk to two residents who lived on the 21st floor of grenfell tower — lee stewart and his boyfriend julian ng. thank you for coming in. amazingly you weren‘t in the building, which possibly saved your lives. your flat is on the 21st floor. yes. i was a wafer four days for work. i was

staying in a hotel in crawley. as it was lee's birthday on wednesday, he came over to stay with me on tuesday night in the hotel. i'm just so grateful that he did. we don't know what would have happened otherwise. when did you first know about the fire? so my phone started ringing about 3:30am. it woke us up. didn‘t think anything of it is to begin with. then we got up. it was our landlord that was calling us. i called him back in the sand of distressed and said he was so grateful to hear our voices. he asked where we were. i said we were ata asked where we were. i said we were at a hotel. he said, lee, grenfell tower is on fire. i was asking him some questions about it. we just didn‘t know anything. julian started

to look at up on his phone. i saw his face drop in horror. the entire building had been completely ablaze. presumably at that point you knew that your flat was not going to be... we had hoped for a little while that may be they would put out the fire before it reached the entirety of the building. we thought they would get everybody out of the building. maybe not all flats would be completely destroyed. but as the night went on and we saw the police —— the night went on and we saw the police — — the blaze night went on and we saw the police —— the blaze continuing into the morning, we lost all hopes around that and we pretty much knew we had lost our home and everything in there. we just hoped people could get out. you had only been there for less tha n get out. you had only been there for less than two weeks? yes. had you had much contact with the neighbours? only a little bit. when we we re neighbours? only a little bit. when we were moving in, we had a lot of

belongings. we had to spend a lot of time in the hallway moving things up and down the left. we ran into a few people. they were very friendly. they told us a little bit about the area. it seemed like a really tight—knit community. but we just didn‘t have very much time to get to know anyone properly. they would have been in your minds as you were looking at your home, knowing that some of those people were potentially trapped ? some of those people were potentially trapped? my last morning, the tuesday morning on my way to work, i took the lift down at about five to nine. there were about four or five kids about five to nine. there were about four orfive kids on about five to nine. there were about four or five kids on their way to the school just outside four or five kids on their way to the schooljust outside the building. they have just been on my mind ever since. there were so many kids in that building. and wejust have no idea about any of them. we

don‘t know who they were, we don‘t know if they‘re 0k. don‘t know who they were, we don‘t know if they‘re ok. we don‘t know how many will be affected. it plays on your mind constantly. you have lost everything. have you had much help from the council? what help of you had in terms of trying to find somewhere else to live? nothing. we reported ourselves as safe on the day, on the 14th, by calling the helpline was provided. i give my details. they said they would be in touch. they said there was nothing they could say at that point in time because the building was still burning. since then, we haven‘t heard anything. we have been getting all of our news from the news. and all of our news from the news. and all of our support from friends, families, some strangers that have beenin families, some strangers that have been in touch. but from the council, the local authority, nothing. strangers have been in touch? yes. it ranges from on the morning we had

to buy some essentials, because we only had our clothes that we were wearing. silly little things like i was in one of the shops and we have to explain to the cashier, can we keep the hang—outs? she said, no. we explained what happened. she just said, take all the hang—outs. explained what happened. she just said, take allthe hang—outs. she gave us said, take allthe hang—outs. she gave us some extra. said, take allthe hang—outs. she gave us some extra. even something like that almost brought me to tears. two of our friends said up some crowdfunding pages for us. the response has been immense. overwhelming. from friends, families and strangers, who just overwhelming. from friends, families and strangers, whojust heard her story, read the page and donated. it is really, really touching. have you been to the building since the fire? we went yesterday and some are great for the first time. we went for the

purpose of volunteering to help with the donations. we spent a couple of hours there just helping out in any way we could. before we went round to do that, we just stood and looked at the building. we couldn't believe it. it isjust really surreal. you just feel like you want to be able to go inside to see if anything, by any chance survived. if anything remained. just what it looks like in your home. but there is no indication. you could just black. your home. but there is no indication. you could just blackm breaks my heart, the entire building may collapse. what will happen to the surrounding area? there is absolutely no hope. let‘s talk to helen white—knight, whose flat was burned down during the london riots. helen, thank you forjoining us.

obviously seen this will have brought things back. what did you learn from your experience? what was your experience? it's heartbreaking to hear people who have also been where we were in 2011. it brings it all back. it sounds very familiar, having no contact with the authorities. our council put us in a travel lodge. but when you have nothing to prove who you are, it is very difficult. you can't process what has happened and deal with the admin that comes with that. i remember that feeling of being hopeless and not knowing what to do. they doesn't seem to be any process to deal with major incidents like this in london. you have written a letter, i know, because you are

extending your hand and those of others to those who need help and support of this time. would you mind reading us that letter? to the residents of grenfell tower, let's start by saying we don't know what you're going through but we remember the fear and the powerlessness of our own experiences and the lasting effects after the world moved on and left us still dealing with it. we lost everything we owned the fire, but most of us were lucky that we and our loved ones escaped with our lives. many of you did not. and for that, we are forever sorry. whilst you begin to process this horrific tragedy, we wanted to reach out and offer you some advice that we learned the hard way in an effort to show solidarity and do our bid to help you cope with what has happened. like you, we know what it is like to lose every single hard and belonging. expensive things like laptops and cv that spike tvs, essential things like clothes and

furniture, and sentimental things like photos and letters, that final one is the hardest one to come to terms with. in a fire you also lose every piece of paper proving who you are. how do you access your bank account when you do not have a bank ca rd account when you do not have a bank card or id? our advice is to get the practicalities sorted as soon as possible, give yourself space to agree. you will be asked to list your possessions. mentally walk through the flat. try and remember everything you had and write it down sure everything you had and write it down sure you are everything you had and write it down sure you are not short—changed when replacing things. it seems trivial now but it will help in the long run. you're probably still in shock. getting on with these kind of things can be a good distraction and can help with your insurance claim. what got us through those desperate times was the love and support of people around us, family, friends, colleagues, neighbours and the local councils. find someone to help you through and keep you strong when you are vulnerable. all of us last our belongings, one of us lost a loved

one. we believe life will return to some sort of normality. don't worry if you had not had an instant emotional reaction. it will come. our hearts go out to all of you. cry, shed, let it out, be strong. we support you. —— shed. incredibly thoughtful, helen. just picking up on what you said about, don‘t worry if you have not had an instant emotional response, it will come. why did you say that? i think primarily seeing interviews with people who had managed to escape, but the shock really does affect you. and that goes on for weeks. you go up and down. it is like a roller—coaster of emotions. sometimes you really do feel empty. i emotions. sometimes you really do feelempty. i remember emotions. sometimes you really do feel empty. i remember standing outside the front of our building looking at what was going on and thinking none of it was real. it took awhile for that to kick in.

even now, years later, it's still kind of comes in waves and you still process it. even after everyone else has forgotten about happened, you need to talk about it, you need to think about it, because you will have triggers that will bring it all back to. lee and julian, does that resonate? completely. sometimes you feel fine, relatively normal. sometimes you are on the verge of tears are in tears. you're completely void. you just can't process it. we have had so much support from friends and family and everyone else, it is helping of us to deal with it. you're standing there, you're doing something. it reminds you, it was this, it was that. helen says, a sentimental thing, it hurts when you have lost memories. giles peaker is a solicitor

who specialises in housing problems. people will need emotional support and support on every level, but practical support. what is the first thing someone can do when they have lost their home, have lost everything? the first thing for the people from grenfell tower is that kensington and chelsea will owe them a home, they had to find them accommodation. it might be emergency in the very short, but from there they need to find them temporary accommodation, eventually permanent accommodation. this is an absolute duty on kensington and chelsea, they can‘t avoid it. it will hopefully be in the area. there has been a commitment from the housing minister that people will be rehoused in the area. we are trying to find out exactly what level of detail that means in terms of whether that is temporary accommodation and then permanent accommodation later on, but clearly when people have been to

such a devastating event the last thing they need is to also be moved some distance away from friends, family, support structure. when you say there is an absolute duty on the council to give temporary and then permanent accommodation, you have not been given it? you have accommodation through your employer. what response did you get from the council? i think lee mentioned earlier, although we have reported ourselves as safe and these are our details and this is where we lived, the flat we were out, we have had no response even though on the phone the incident response caller said we will be in touch once things have settled down, we have had no response. fortunately, like i said, my employers put us up in a hotel for now. we have no end of richard support of accommodation from friends and family all over the place, which has been overwhelmingly grateful. thank you and we really wish you all the best. thank you very much forjoining us. and thank

you to helen and to you as well, thank you. get in touch and all the usual ways if you want to join the conversation this morning if you are affected by any of the issues we are talking about. also coming up... revolutionary breast cancer drug kadcyla will continue to be available to patients in england. shortly we‘ll be talking to a breast cancer patient who‘s been campaigning for this. we will speak to a labour mp about the government‘s handing of the g re nfell tower the government‘s handing of the grenfell tower tragedy and what more could and should be done. that‘s joan annita mcveigh could and should be done. that‘sjoan annita mcveigh for a news summary. —— letsjoin news summary. —— lets join annita news summary. —— letsjoin annita mcveigh. police warned they may never be able to identify some of those who died in the fire at grenfell tower in west london. 17 bodies have been found so far but the number of is expected to rise significantly. prime minister

theresa may has ordered a full public inquiry into the fire. lucy masoud is a firefighter and trade union official at the fire brigades union london branch. she described some of what her colleagues witnessed. the conversations i‘ve had, you know, one colleague said he was going in there and literally having to choose who to save and who to leave because, you know, you only have two hands and you can only take out so many people. my colleagues who went in, took people out, went in again, took people out again. you know, the red watch at chelsea were meant to finish work at 9:30am on wednesday. they didn‘t get back to the station until 5pm. they would have stayed longer at the incident if they had been allowed to. you know, again, that isjust an absolute tribute to the brave men and women who attended this incident but yeah, you know, the scenes that they would have encountered in the early hours of tuesday morning, it is absolutely unimaginable. the government has said it will do whatever is necessary following the g re nfell tower

whatever is necessary following the grenfell tower fire to make sure that high—rise blocks of flats are safe. the flames were seen to spread quickly through cladding fixed to the outside of the structure. the government says all similar buildings will be inspected and action taken if required. a second soldier has died after being wounded in an incident involving a tank at an army firing range in pembrokeshire. he was serving with the royal tank regiment. two other soldiers were injured at castlemartin ranges on wednesday. the archbishop of canterbury will speak at a service of hope at southwark cathedral today, in honour of first—responders, families and survivors of the london bridge attack. eight people were killed when three attackers drove a van into pedestrians on london bridge, and then launched a knife attack at borough market just under two weeks ago. the chancellor, philip hammond, says the priority in the forthcoming brexit talk should be to protect jobs and growth. he was speaking in luxembourg before a meeting of eu finance ministers. as we go into that negotiation, my clear view,

and i believe the view of the majority of people in britain, is that we should prioritise protecting jobs, protecting economic growth and protecting prosperity as we enter those negotiations and take them forward. security officials believe north korean attackers were behind the cyber attack that had—macro the nhs of usman. it is thought the hackers had not realised how widely the virus, which rocked systems until money was paid, would spread. the attack led to delays in operations and treatment for patients. join me on bbc newsroom live at 11am. here‘s some sport now with katherine downes. we will start with some live rugby. wales have beaten tonga in the first test of their summer tour. wing alex cuthbert went over early here and wales later scored a penalty try before running out 24—6 winners. next up for them is samoa next week. they have never previously won at

eden park, losing all three of their tests at new zealand and losing out to france in the 2011 world cup. and the all blacks‘ warm up for the first lions test a week tomorrow is going pretty well — they‘re thrashing samoa 66—0 at eden park. a reminder ofjust what a test the lions face. england‘s paul casey is breathing down the neck of the first round leader, american rickie fowler at the us open. casey says he loves the course, and is just one shot off the lead at erin hills. and britain‘s jake wightman knocked over a second off his personal best, as he beat a high—quality field, in the 1500 metres at the, oslo diamond league meeting last night. the 22—year—old scot follows in the footsteps of seb coe, steve ovett and steve cram who have all won the race. he is pretty chuffed, he said he never dreams he would win a diamond league race, but he has. thank you. we‘ve talked a lot

on the programme about the breast cancer drug, kadcyla. it‘s been called revolutionary, due to its ability to significantly extend the lives of patients suffering from a particularly aggressive form of breast cancer, known as her—2. the drug has been available on the cancer drugs fund since 2014, but late last year, nice, the body responsible for deciding which treatments are cost—effective for the nhs, published an initial decision that kadcyla will no longer be available to nhs patients. at an estimated £90,000 per year, it was considered to be just too expensive. campaigners petitioned against the decision, appearing on this programme, and they‘ve had a breakthrough. earlier this year, the drug was made available to nhs patients in scotland, and yesterday, simon stevens — the head of the nhs in england — said that the initial decision not to fund kadcyla will be overturned, and that it will continute to be available to patients in england as well. it is expected that wales and northern ireland will follow suit. during our investigation earlier this year, we spoke to gill smith, who had stage 4 breast cancer. it had already metastasised

at the time it was discovered, to my liver, my bones, my lungs and my lymph nodes, which means that it is stage four and inoperable and incurable. the two drugs that i was on and am still on are herceptin and matuzamab. they are effective for about 18 months but they had to be kicked off with chemotherapy. and what was that like, the chemotherapy? brutal, it was absolutely brutal. losing my hair after two weeks was just the least part of it. that was really not a problem at all. so you had been advised that kadcyla would be available for you when you needed it and it now looks as though it may well not be? absolutely right. so that is devastating because it means that the amount of good quality time that i thought i would have, and my family expected to have with me,

has effectively been cut in half now. it is, it is pretty grim, being told that you only probably have about two years, give or take, to live, and then the first eight months of that has been severely compromised by the chemotherapy and now, if i don‘t have kadcyla and the herceptin and matuzamab stop working, chances are that means that this was my last christmas. and that is absolutely devastating. it is not what we were expecting. my daughter keeps saying how unfair she thinks it is and it does feel rather like that because it was such a fantastic drug. having cancer is hard enough. the drugs that are available have been proved so hugely that it is quite possible to live

with cancer, rather than feel that you are dying from cancer. so you can have a very good quality of life for quite a long time. to have half of that taken away would be awful. my oncologist now says that she is seeing about nine months of effectiveness of kadcyla, really good quality of life without the side effects. and although that may not sound like very long, if you have only got two years, nine months is a significant part of that. it is hugely important. my older daughter, she is 25, and i probably won‘t see her get married. i probably won‘t see grandchildren. my younger daughter still lives at home with us. she isjust beginning to get established in life. that is what i worry about most, really, how

she will manage without me. gill joins gilljoins us in the studio. let‘s talk to dr anne rigg, consultant oncologist at guys and st thomas. alsojoining us, baroness delyth morgan, chief executive of breast cancer now. i mentioned gill. gill smith is a breast cancer patient and campaigner, who is due to receive kadcyla and was planning to move to scotland to get access to the drug. also bonnie fox, another breast cancer patient due to receive kadcyla. thank you all very much forjoining us. we will start with you, gill, everything you say is so pertinent and easy to understand, when you talk about it is hard enough having breast cancer and dealing with that and then when you think a drug could make things better and you might not get it, how you cope with that. how do you feel now you have had this

news? absolutely delighted, it is a great burden that has lifted off our shoulders. we do have to not worry about that any more. the drugs i am on at the moment are continuing to hold, they are still working, at some point they will stop and then i know i will be able to go on to kadcyla and have another few months or even longer. quite a lot of people live significantly longer on this drug. it is very good news indeed. you were thinking you might end up having to go to scotland to get it? nhs scotland had approved it so get it? nhs scotland had approved it soi get it? nhs scotland had approved it so i was happy to hear that because it would have been technically possible to move to scotland and get it, move all of my cancer treatment up it, move all of my cancer treatment up to edinburgh or somewhere. bonnie, you have been involved in the campaign to get kadcyla properly available on the nhs? how much of a relief is it? enormous. a huge

relief. it feels like a huge weight off our shoulders to know it is in place and available to us for whenever we need it. i can't tell you how great that is. it feels like such a big victory as well. yeah, a huge weight off our shoulders. bring is up to date, we spoke to you on the programme before, the same as with gill, what is your situation, where are you at and what difference could kadcyla make? fortunately i am still stable on my current drug, herceptin, it will be two years next month that i have been on them. still feeling really well and stable. i have another scan in a few months so we will see then. kadcyla would be my next drug, so i don't know when i will need it but i know it will be my next drug. so just knowing it is there and has been approved, you feel like you can almost breathe a little knowing that the next step is in place for you.

yeah, a huge relief. you're a co nsulta nt yeah, a huge relief. you're a consultant oncologist, explain more about what kadcyla does and why it is the drug that kicks in at a later stage for patients? bonnie and gill have a particular subtype of breast cancer known as her-2, that is subtype of breast cancer known as her—2, that is because if you looked at the cancer cells they have a chemical on the surface called her-2. what is chemical on the surface called her—2. what is so amazing about this particular drug is that the herceptin molecule, which is part of kadcyla, travels around the bloodstream and will look for that her-2 bloodstream and will look for that her—2 chemical. you don't have it on pretty much all adult normal tissues but you do on the breast cancer cells, it is a targeted treatment that will try to find it. what is particularly cunning about kadcyla is not only do you have the hat —— have the herceptin but it has a chemotherapy drug linked onto it.

the herceptin delivers the chemotherapyjust the herceptin delivers the chemotherapy just to the the herceptin delivers the chemotherapyjust to the cells that needed. a very special drug. in the oncology community we are hugely relieved about this decision. how much extra quality life panis give? the official estimates are lower than what people are finding. the results in the clinical trials show there was a six—month increase in how long the patients live. all of us who practice breast cancer have many patients living well beyond that, such as bonnie and jill. bonnie bus experience of two years is what i see with a number of women i am looking after. these are women i am looking after. these are women who are not lying in a hospital bed feeling dreadful. these are women who are out there getting on with their lives, working, being

mothers, having hobbies, being normal functioning members of society. that is what is so critical. that is what is so important about kadcyla. it enables you to carry on and be normal. that is what we so desperately want. we wa nt to is what we so desperately want. we want to carry on with our lives as normally as we can for as long as possible. kadcyla enables you to do that. you can carry on being a mum, you can carry on the —— working. it has low side effects. that is what is so critical about the drug. that is so critical about the drug. that is why it is so valuable to us. £90,000 a year as the cost of this drug. that was looked at originally and it was decided it was too much. a deal was struck. we don‘t know what the cost is. the estimates are probably around £50,000 a year. whenever life prolonging treatment i looked at in terms of the cost, it just feels very uncomfortable, when you weighed against real people and

the impact on their lives? it does. for the nhs it is absolutely vital for all nhs patients that we see a really good deal struck for cancer patients by nhs england,, and that the companies come to the table with kadcyla. this campaign to get kadcyla. this campaign to get kadcyla available, the petitioning, the patient to have spoken out so bravely, the clinicians who have thought about the evidence and how to make the arguments, it has been really hard. we can't carry on fighting around these issues, drug by drug. we need to have a better syste m by drug. we need to have a better system where these new innovative treatments can be made available much quickly —— much more quickly on the nhs, so the deals comey. more effectively, so the clinicians can have the tools to do theirjob and we can help people to live longer,

without symptoms, and contribute to society. so what i want to see is a much better system that takes into account the contribution the pharma industry make to this country. they are a vital part of our life sciences industry. we need the job to succeed. we need the government and the nhs to put them together, to get the industry and the nhs, to sit down with industry and come up with a good deal for a patients so we don't have to fight like this, one drug ata don't have to fight like this, one drug at a time, to get the innovative treatments the nhs really can afford if deals are done in the right way. are you worried about another drug? we are. there are a lot of innovations for cancer patients down the track which should offer great hope. for example, patients who have her—2 positive breast cancer, the first two treatments, the first one is still

available on the cancer drugs fund. that is coming up for assessment. they are being looked at. other real questions around that? there will be questions around that? there will be questions about that. there are questions about that. there are questions about that. there are questions about important prostate cancer medicines. this is a really, really good piece of news today, and it is really good for 1200 breast cancer patient who could be needing this drug, kadcyla, in the next time period. but we have to get the bigger system worked out. we can't carry on fighting like this and everything. how frustrating is it as a consultant, the fact your hands might be tied? it is very frustrating. i appreciate seeing women coming to my clinic, how difficult it is to talk about the cancer and the applications for that. there is a drug that is out there, but i can't access it for

you, isa there, but i can't access it for you, is a conversation you don't wa nt you, is a conversation you don't want to be having. it adds to the burden for the person. how do you feel about having had to fight the system as well as the illness? it's very exhausting, to be honest. really what we want to be doing is enjoying our lives. just going about whatever we want to do without the worry and the burden of this fight, really. i think there is a bigger issue, which is about allocation of resources. we are the fifth largest economy in the world. the money is there. we shouldn't be thinking about whether bonnie bus life is worth £50,000 a year for mac may be a little bit more, a little bit less. we want to be a world leader in life sciences and for that to happen we need to learn from these innovative, really effective drugs. they need to be available to us so

the drug companies and everybody else can learn from our use of them and develop new drugs in the future. ourcancer is incurable. and develop new drugs in the future. our cancer is incurable. but in future, it might be curable if new drugs are developed. and we need to be able to access them. the money is there. if it'sjust priorities. thank you very much indeed. let‘s go back to our main news. police have launched a criminal investigation into the fire that engulfed grenfell tower in west london on wednesday morning. 17 people are known to have died but doesn‘t remain unaccounted for, including entire families. prime minister theresa may has ordered a full public enquiry, but she faced criticism for not meeting survivors yesterday. joining us now from the cordon near grenfell towers is dawn butler, labour mp for brent central. thank you forjoining us. what have

you been doing there this morning? good morning. i havejust been released big into people. it‘s a very, very sad time. this is a national tragedy. and i‘m just so shocked this could even happen in 2017. when you look at the building behind, it isjust 2017. when you look at the building behind, it is just totally unbelievable. i welcome the public enquiry that theresa may has said up but i think there have to be a few things around that, in the residence‘ voices must be foremost. they have a public forum where they have raised concerns over the years. they must be at the front of this. it must also be a speedy enquiry. we setup a result the summer and there should be a commitment to act on the findings. theresa may doesn‘t have to wait to act. she can act straightaway. there is a coroner ‘s

report from 2013. she can act on those recommendations. this should never have happened. my condolences go out to everybody that is affected. and those people who are still waiting to hear about their loved ones, it is unthinkable. the pain. jeremy corbyn has said that empty homes owned by investors in kensington and chelsea should be requisitioned to house those who have the left homeless by the fire. do you agree with that? is it a viable suggestion? of course it is. why should we have empty homes when people are living on the floors of community centres, of the churches, and there are homes that are empty? we area and there are homes that are empty? we are a civilised society. this should never have happened. i am pleased the police are looking at this as a criminal investigation. there was a lot of money spent on these flats quite recently. and what

was that money for if not for the safety of the residents? that has to be the priority of any new—build. so yes, if there is an empty property, it should be filled with people who made homeless by this national devastating tragedy. theresa may has been criticised for going but not meeting residents. you have already said it is important that the voices of the resident‘ —— residents‘ are heard. how would you assess the anger? they have a right to be angry. they have a phenomenal right to be angry. and i don‘t blame them for being angry about everything that has happened. the fact they have lost their loved ones. they have lost their loved ones. they have a right to be looked —— angry. how theresa may conducts herself as prime minister is her way of doing things. i think that the emergency

services have been phenomenal. and the way that the fire service and the way that the fire service and the police service work together was absolutely phenomenal. i also think that the fire brigades union needs to have a say in this enquiry, because they have been raising concerns for many years. they need to sit around the table. i can‘t comment on how theresa may acts as prime minister. i think she was right to meet the emergency services and to talk to them and thank them. i think she needs to meet with the residents. she needs to make sure that they are forefront of any investigation. thank you very much, dawn butler. we just want to bring you one more story. the bbc has learned that a controversial pledge in the conservative manifesto, to change the funding of social care, was not shown to the relevant ministers until the final 24 hours before it was published.

the health secretary, jeremy hunt, and the communities secretary, sajid javid, were told about the so—called dementia tax in separate conversations. it comes as the prime minister theresa may faces accusations from her colleagues that she relied too heavily on a narrow circle of advisers during her election campaign. let‘s talk to correspondent nick watt, who has more on this. we were aware this was something that was drawn up by a tight group of people. but the fact the relevant ministers didn‘t know until 24—hours before is news? it does rather illustrate that point. i‘ve done an investigation for newsnight into the general election and howard went wrong. the defining moment was that ma nifesto wrong. the defining moment was that manifesto launch and that pledge on social care, and within four days theresa may had to embark on a hasty retreat. there has been a lot of talk about how nick timothy, her formerjoint chief of staff, it was his idea. it turns out it was to dreamt up by ben gummer in the cabinet office. he was co—author of

the manifesto. in the budget the chapter announced there would be a green paper on social care later in the year. what that meant was that the year. what that meant was that the relevant ministers, jeremy hunt and sajid javid, were informed rather than consulted. and that absolutely illustrated the point that theresa may was governing before this election and during the campaign, witha before this election and during the campaign, with a very tiny circle of advisers. thank you very much. there will be more on that on bbc news channel later. bbc newsroom live is coming up next. thank you for your company today. ijust want i just want to bring you ijust want to bring you some of your comments. you have been getting in touch with your thoughts on the big story that has been dominating for several days, that terrible fire at grenfell tower. justin has tweeted to say the residents of g re nfell tower tweeted to say the residents of grenfell tower will need all the help that can be given to them. we we re help that can be given to them. we were talking earlier to to people

who have lost nearly everything. just two of so many who have lost everything. and besiktas many people have lost their lives. we still don‘t have a final number. but many remain missing. also,: has e—mailed. he was watching this morning. it is a terrible tragedy, he says. all of the country have been shocked. thank you for your company today. have a good day. bye— bye. good morning. it is going to turn very warm over the next few days. in fa ct, very warm over the next few days. in fact, pretty very warm over the next few days. in fa ct, pretty hot very warm over the next few days. in fact, pretty hot for some of us across the uk. through today we have had some sunny spells all body. this was the scene in suffolk. as we go through the rest of the afternoon we continue with that scene. it is not sunny everywhere. we have got more clout across scotland and northern ireland. outbreaks of rain affecting

western scotland. cloudy skies in north—west england. to the east of the pennines, some sunny spells. temperatures getting up to 23 degrees. through this evening it will stay cloudy and damp in the north—west of scotland. elsewhere, clear spells to take us into saturday. a sunny start the weekend. all that sunshine across england and wales, ramping up on saturday. mid to high 20s. in the north—west corner of scotland, a little bit cooler. it will stay quite cloudy in the north—west into sunday. for most on sunday, lots of sunshine. temperatures even higher. 29 or 30 degrees in the south—east. this is bbc news live in west london

where moving tributes to the grenfell tower fire victims where imagine the queen has come to visit people who are mourning those who have died in the grenfell tower. we can see the pictures here compared to where reeta is standing. the royals, generally, have had so many terrible events to respond to in the last month or so. here we have another, the queen obviously wanting to add apersonal touch to this? we're used to the queen as head of state in a constitutional role. we