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welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name's duncan golestani. our top stories: angry protests in london as residents demand justice for the victims of the grenfell tower fire and support for the survivors left homeless. we are sent from hospital to hospital, to shelters, why is there no community help for family members? why? why do we have to go there and actively look for them? theresa may is jeered as she visits displaced residents. she's promised a £5 million relief fund. government is making money available, we will ensure we get to the bottom of what happened, we will ensure people are rehoused but we need to make sure that actually happens. a us navy destroyer is seriously damaged in a collision off the coast of japan — at least seven crew members are missing. consternation in cuba. as an
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assessor will not be forced into making political changes despite president trump announcing tougher policies towards it. keith palmer — the policeman who died confronting the westminster attacker in march — has been awarded a posthumous medal for his bravery. hello and welcome to the programme: protests have taken place in london to demand justice for the victims of the grenfell tower fire and support for survivors who've been left homeless. the number of people known to have died has risen to at least 30 — but the bbc believes the total could be at least 70. anger boiled over at a demonstration at the headquarters of kensington and chelsea council, which owns grenfell tower. protesters tried to force their way in. there were also demonstrations in central london.
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ourfirst report is from jeremy cooke. crowd chants: we want justice! this is what happens when grief turns to anger. the target is kensington town hall, the officers of the council which owns grenfell tower. they are demanding answers. we need to be heard! we all have things to say! we are in pain! i understand that the response we get from the council is not satisfactory. they want to hear from the local authority officials who they hold responsible. justice! how could this tragedy have happened on this scale in this city in 2017? the whole procedure is chaos. we are sent from hospital
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to hospital, to shelters. why is there not a community house for family members? why? why do we have to go out there and look actively for them, and then be told misled information? we told there is to call, asking us to call family members, and that u nless we to call family members, and that unless we know somebody, we cannot somebody on their behalf. it does not make sense! but today, again, in the shadow of grenfell tower, a different kind of response. sorry! it is an overwhelming community tragedy with an overwhelming community response. if we get all the missing people on the same window... a continuing grassroots mobilisation, doing all they can. and visited today by royalty. a time to reflect and to thank. you guys did a brilliantjob in unprecedented circumstances.
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but the queen and prince william left in no doubt of the agony and the grief here. royal protocol meets raw emotion. william, harry, come on here, please! could you tell us who they are in the picture? families, friends, 0k? then my children, my family's friends. they don't necessarily have to be my children, all of them died today. the queen turning up and everybody came now. sure the queen you a nice, sorry to the policeman, sorry to the fireman, but you are not doing the rightjob. the rescue crews are still making their way through the building. it's hard to imagine a more challenging task. dangerous and slow work, it is why the official death toll remains so much lower than what the people here expect, and what they fear.
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the building itself is in a very hazardous state. it is going to take a period of time for our specialists, both from the police and the london fire brigade, to fully search that building to make sure we locate and recover everybody that has sadly perished in that fire. we will be doing that as swiftly as we can. with all of that comes frustration and the sense that more needs to be i completely understand the need for those who have lost loved ones, that as quick as we can we can confirm that. tonight, the government announced what it calls a comprehensive package of support for the victims. for the people here, it cannot come soon enough. anger, frustration, disappointment. there are people here looking for their family and friends. there was no one you to organise anything at all. i
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had friends who died in the but nobody is telling us. we had friends who died in there. you get what i'm telling? they need to tell the truth and get real. theresa may steps down here and does not come to see any of us. here and does not come to see any of us. with the manchester thing and everything else, she was all about the place. no truth. investigations, inquests and enquiries will take months, perhaps years to complete. but the people who believe they already have a fundamental understanding of the tragedy, that the fire swept through the building at breathtaking pace and that so many people from this neighbourhood have lost their lives. where are the children and! the general belief here tonight, the hardest of troops, is that the dozens of missing are among the dead. and so, three days later, the firies out, london rumbles on. and grenfell tower, 127
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homes, stands monument to the lives, to the families who have been lost. politicians from all parties — the prime minister in particular — are facing a barrage of criticism over their response. here's deputy political editor, john pienaar. all but hidden from view, the crowd of police protection told me this was theresa may. she had been meeting people from the neighbourhood, meeting volunteers inside this local church. she was ushered into her car afterwards and rage boiled over in the street outside as she left. the government failed. her coming over here trying to speak to who? who do you want to speak to? you had your chance. now everyone is going to be angry and go crazy. it's a pr stunt. i'm surprised the church let her in. it's a shame it came to this. more residents would have
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come out if they knew she was there, to protest. it's about what are you doing? where's the care? very cold not to meet with any victims. early today, unlike yesterday, the prime minister met casualties, people touched by the disaster. yesterday, she only met members of the emergency services, and that went down badly in the area. she promised help. the government is making £5 million available for those emergency funds for people, who need just to get money to buy the normal things of everyday life. this morning, i was in one of the hospitals meeting some of the victims there, and one of the women said to me, basically, she ran out of this grenfell tower, basically, with a t—shirt and a pair of knickers. she has nothing. that is why the government is putting that funding in. there are other things we will do as well to provide support for people to ensure they are rehoused within three weeks. you misread the anger people feel about this.
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they shouted "coward" at you this afternoon. we have made sure the emergency services have the support they need in order to do the job they were doing in the aftermath. but making this kind of laws, this kind of horror, the last of its kind, means thousands of blocks must now be inspected, millions of pounds in work, who knows how many moved to safety. today, the government pledged action. we will do whatever it takes, take the expert advice, to make those building safe and make those people safe. whatever it takes, we have to be led by the experts, but there can be no short cuts to this. donations of clothing have been pouring in today. london's mayor demanded help, answers and justice for those hit by the tragedy. it's really important that we are not left waiting for two, three, four years before we get answers. we need answers how.
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what i'm asking for is an interim response to the enquiry this summer. tonight, anti—government protesters took up the issue and took to the streets. more anger on the streets tonight, hundreds of demonstrators marching past downing street and into central london. the chant: may must go. the prime minister's authority was weakened by the general election, and now she is facing another defining test and it's come far sooner than theresa may could have imagined. expect more of this — demonstrations and this disruption. this tragedy has become a cause, and another reason for the government's enemies to turn up the volume. for more information on this story you can head to our website: bbc.com/news for all the latest developments. aus
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a us navy destroyer has collided with a philippine containerships to make ship off the east coast of japan. the navy says the ship is now heading to a nearby port under its own power. the japanese coastguard is also at the scene. there are reports of some injuries. no details have been released about the container ship will stop this as our report. it sustained significant damage to its starboard side. in the middle of the night it somehow collided with a container ship in the approach to tokyo bay. us navy has confirmed that seven crew members are missing. up that seven crew members are missing. up to three compartments are flooded the ship not in danger of sinking. the incident happened at 2:30 a.m. local time on saturday. 56 nautical miles south—west of aid busy commercial waterway. the warship has
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a crew of over 300 sailors will top the number of injured are still unknown but the ship's commanding officer was heard and airlifted to hospital. there is major damage to the ship and any time you hear a ship is taking on water that means, of course, that the whole has been breached. this was notjust dumping, this was a serious collision we will need to wait to see why it and why the ships did not see each other nor communicate clearly, or if there was something else around. the fitzgerald is a guided missile destroyer. in february $21 million upgrade and repair was completed. its role is to support security and stability in the asia—pacific region. with the help of the coastguard, the warship is now slowly and headed back to port under its own power. this kind of incidents aria but just its own power. this kind of incidents aria butjust how to warship, with one of the most advanced naval radar systems, hit a huge container ship in open water?
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stay with us on bbc world news, still to come. a big honourfor the big yin — comedian billy connolly is made a knight in the queen's birthdays honours there was a bomb in the city centre. a code word known to be one used by the ira was given. army bomb experts were examining a suspect van when there was a huge explosion. the south african parliament has destroyed the foundation of apartheid by abolishing the population registration act, which for a0 years forcibly classified each citizen according to race. germany's parliament, the bundestag, has voted by a narrow majority to move the seat of government from bonn to berlin. berliners celebrated into the night but the decision was greeted with shock in bonn. just a day old and the royal baby is tonight sleeping in his cot at home. early this evening, the new prince was taken by his mother and father to their apartments in kensington palace. the real focus today
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was valentina tereshkova, the world's first woman cosmonaut. what do you think of the russian woman in space? i think it's a wonderful achievement and i think we might be able to persuade the wife it would be a good idea if i could to get her to go up there for a little while. given mr trump's words were powerful against the cuban government. he co nsta ntly against the cuban government. he constantly refer to how communism is failing its people and the dissidents were being jailed. he was the sifter is against the leadership. i think they really felt they needed to respond to that in kind. any attempt to change the political system in cuba would be
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destined to fail. what about the reactions from ordinary cubans? i imagine they are starting to all these decks of this? and they are in a sense, if you work in any area directly directed towards tourism or kettering to visitors from abroad, the idea of it being curtailed by white house policy is cause for some concerns and more than anything most cu ba ns we re concerns and more than anything most cubans were daring to believe to hope that the days of fire ring rhetoric against the government in cuba might be behind them. firing. a lot of people are very tired and to find that in fact those days are not a high—end but they may be looking down the barrel of another four is the cause of some dismay. one of the
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things that seems to have irritated president trump is linked to the military. how does that work? there are two military. how does that work? there a re two key military. how does that work? there are two key parts to the cuban military in terms of the commercial and tourism wing but indeed the cuban military and tourism wing but indeed the cu ban military have and tourism wing but indeed the cuban military have schools in different companies and the suggestion is that the us entities will now be banned from working directly with those commercial and tourism brings the problem is that they are so important to the cuban economy and involved in so many sectors of the — aspartame and, import—export, food production. the military a key to their production and running of the cuban economy. —— transportation. but that is one of
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the key criticism levelled at this new policy, that they do not understand how cuba works. thank you very much. president trump appears to have acknowledged that he's under investigation as part of the inquiry into alleged russian interference in last year's american election. in a tweet, mr trump repeated his accusation that the examination being carried out by a special prosecutor was a witch hunt. turkey's foreign minister has visited saudi arabia to try to resolve the qatar crisis. qatar has accused its neighbours of imposing a siege on the emirate. airlines have been blocked, ambassadors withdrawn and borders closed leading to food shortages in the country. so why is it happening? the small oil and gas rich qatar has been cut off and isolated by sunni arab nations — among them saudi arabia, united arab emirates, bahrain and egypt. they have all accused it of supporting shia led iran — along with islamist extremists. they are also unhappy with tv news coverage by the doha—based aljazeera network
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qatar strongly denies supporting terrorist groups but saudi arabia's rulers, encouraged by president trump's recent visit to riyadh think qatar is not taking a tough enough stance against terror groups and shia—lead iran. saudi arabia says if qatar wants normal relations with them, then qatar must act in their words a normal way towards them. saudi arabia, together with the uae and two other states last weeked imposed unprecedented sancitons qatar over its alleged support for terrorist groups. it has led to the worst crisis in the gulf region for decades. 0ur chief internional correspondent lyse dounce spoke to saudi arabia's foreign minister adel al—jubeir and asked him if pressuring qatar financially to get them to do what saudi arabia wants, amounted to bullying. they are one of the richest
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countries in the world. we want to send a powerful message is that if they want to have normal relations with as they must act in a normal way towards us. we do want to harm their people at we also made clear that we will not deal with them so long as these policies continue. it is our sovereign right to overlook our territory. cutting diplomatic relations is a sovereign right. there is a ten point least that could include measures like shutting down the aljazeera network. what are you asking them to do?m down the aljazeera network. what are you asking them to do? it may be speculation. we are working with egypt and by rain and the list of
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grievances and what qatar has to do. stopping the incitement and interference in other countries. this is what we expect from all our neighbours and this is what we expect all our neighbours to expect from us. many have asked why you are putting pressure on qatar. what about saudi arabia and the funding of schools and mosques propagating extremist forms of islam? this is to do with history and legacy full we have taken do with history and legacy full we have ta ken steps over do with history and legacy full we have taken steps over the past 15— 18 years. we have cut down on the financing of terrorism. more than any country in the world. we have
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laws that criminalise funding extremism and terrorism. we have people put on trial and in jail. extremism and terrorism. we have people put on trial and injail. we are adapting a policy of zero tolerance. some say this is about iran, your chief rival. and that qatar is willing to open the door for a dialogue with iran. not really. 0ther for a dialogue with iran. not really. other people have a dialogue with iran. people have argued is this because of qatar independence policy but no, every country has a right to have whatever policy it wa nts right to have whatever policy it wants but this is about stopping policies of that endanger our safety. naming funding extremists and terrorists. the policeman who died confronting the westminster attacker in march,
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pc keith palmer, has been awarded a posthumous medalfor his bravery. he was one of a handful of officials acknowledged in the queen's civilian gallantry list — released this year alongside her birthday honours — as lizo mzimba reports. i am going on record to say why it is there no algebra? i have no intention of ever going there! billy connolly, actor, musician and stand—up comedian, has received a knighthood. something sure to lead to a strong response from fans. some of them will say high time and others will say, what the hell's that all about? i don't know what to prepare for! i'm a little embarrassed, but deep within me i'm very pleased to have it. it is wonderful to know people have
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been good enough to appreciate what i have done. in the world of music, 19605 i have done. in the world of music, 1960s eurovision winner sandy shaw becomes an mbe. charttopping singer ed sheeran is also made an mbe. several people are being recognised the bravery, including pc keith palmer killed in the westminster at tack. greg nichols and jonathan wright, who arrested the man who killed mp jo cox wright, who arrested the man who killed mpjo cox have been given the queen ‘s gallantry medal. bernard kennedy who was with the mp when she was attacked and received the george medal. he saw was attacked and received the george medal. he sanoe was attacked and received the george medal. he saw joe and tried to savour and we can't save her enough. and the two boys, similarly, they
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went in knowing he was armed but not a thought, just when the end. we are absolutely delighted. true we rose. just a few of more than a thousand people being honoured. a reminder of the top story— angry demonstrations in london calling the justice for the victims of the g re nfell tower justice for the victims of the grenfell tower fire. the number of big dams has risen to 30 but it is expected the total will rise. —— victims. do stay with us. hello there. we have got some very warm weather indeed coming up over the next few days, with the high—pressure firmly in charge of our weather. that's going to bring very warm, if not hot, weather to most of the british isles.
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it will turn increasingly humid as we go on through the weekend, but it is going to be mainly sunny for most of us. the reason for this warm or hot weather is a jetstream has built this area of high pressure and the high tends to concentrate hot air near the earth's surface. these are the kinds of temperatures that you might see across western europe as we go on through the next couple of days. perhaps as high as 46 degrees across parts of iberia, unpleasantly hot weather here. well into the 30s for france and even here in the uk we should see temperatures peaking at 30 degrees or so as we head into the weekend. the hottest weather we have seen so far this year. it's going to be a warm start to the day. these are the kinds of temperatures you might see as you are heading outside first thing in the morning. there will be plenty of sunshine, but i think quite a bit of cloud to start he day across the hills of wales and northern england. it should be quite thin so should clear quite quickly and then the sunshine will come out. weather fronts across far north—west of scotland will continue to bring some thicker cloud here.
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and it's here where we will have the coolest weather with outbreaks of rain on and off. just 15 degrees in stornoway. a brisk south—westerly wind. not the warmest of weather. away from that north—west corner, the rest of scotland enjoying some sunshine. northern ireland looking fine, with temperatures heading into the mid—20s. but it's across england and wales that we'll see temperatures fairly widely getting up well into the 20s. 28 degrees or so in london and the south—east. pushing into the 80s in terms of fahrenheit. but, as well as those relatively clear skies, a bit of fairweather cloud bubbling up. there will be some very high levels of uv. so it's one of those days you might want to take the sun cream if you're out and about for any length of time. through saturday evening and overnight, after such a hot day, temperatures will be slow to fall. quite an uncomfortable night for sleeping once again. 0vernight lows no lower than 19 degrees in the centre of town. there could be a few fog patches staring to develop around the irish sea coast. here's a picture then through sunday, a repeat for many of us although perhaps a little bit more in the way of cloud moving into the north—west. the best of the sunshine, again, england and wales,
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eastern parts of northern ireland and eastern parts of scotland. if anything those temperatures will get a little bit higher with temperatures peaking at 30 degrees celsius, making it the hottest day of the year so far. the heat is still with us on into monday as well. temperatures could reach 32 degrees early in the new week. it starts to get a little bit cooler across north—western areas as we get into tuesday. along with those cooler conditions, it will turn cloudier. this is bbc news. the headlines: there've been angry demonstrations in london calling for justice for the victims of the grenfell tower fire with some protestors demanding the resignation of the prime minister. the number of people known to have died in the fire has risen to at least 30 but it's expected the final total will be higher. theresa may, says she's been deeply affected by the tragedy of the fire in west london. she's setting up a £5 million emergency fund for victims of the blaze. she made herfirst visit to meet survivors, after being criticised for failing to see local people on thursday. the japanese coastguard says seven
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