this is bbc news. the headlines at 5: the leader of of kensington and chelsea borough council insists the local authority is helping victims of the grenfell fire. councillor nick paget—brown said there was now "a coordinated relief effort on the ground". by the time i got there just after 3.30am on wednesday morning it was quite clear that no one local authority in london would be able to cope with the enormous challenges which are now facing a large number of displaced residents and people who've been affected by this. i'm told the council is all disorganised, it's never in evidence, that was not my perception this morning. mayor of london sadiq khan questions whether the council has done enough to help the victims of the fire. i spent this morning at a church to help the victims of the fire. service speaking to many residents, many families of the bereaved, many survivors and their experience is a million miles away from the experience of the leader of the council. the chancellor, philip hammond, has said leaving the eu without a deal

would be a "very, very bad outcome" for britain. -- the chancellor, philip hammond, has said leaving the eu without a deal would be a "very, very bad outcome" for britain. at least 62 people are killed in a forest fire in central portugal. three days of mourning have been declared. and french people are voting in the final round of parliamentary elections, with president macron‘s new party heading for a big majority. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the leader of kensington and chelsea council has told the bbc his officials are working round the clock following the grenfell tower fire. there's been criticism of the local authority which has been accused that it isn't doing enough to help those affected. many residents have said they've received little or no assistance, although the authority has insisted it's committed to supporting anyone affected.

church services have been held today to remember the victims of the blaze, as simon jones reports. voiceover: after the shock and the grief, today, a moment of reflection, church services to mark those lives lost and the many missing presumed dead, but the anger remains palpable. the difficulties people are now finding out who has died, and that is going to be enormous grief as well as enormous anger. you will see a different atmosphere, because the deaths are how atmosphere, because the deaths are now real. many churches opened their doors in the hours after the tragedy, offering shelter and donations, but why do they need to step in, where was the government, the local council, why didn't they do more? one conservative councillor from kensington and chelsea borough council admits things have gone badly wrong. from what i can see, we have been caught off guard. on the ground, people were very quick to organise themselves. it has been

kind of a disgrace, a slow limp, if ican kind of a disgrace, a slow limp, if i can put it like that. the prime minister accents that in the hours after the disaster, the support for families was not good enough. now, extra government staff are being drafted in to work with the council. it follows a meeting between the local people and theresa may in which they were keen to have their voices heard. things are finally moving forward and the government and the council are being proactive. i think sadly it took a long time to get them up and running and if it wasn't for other centres, none of this would have been done. we are lucky we have so many bright, important, smart people in the area. the home office is making arrangements for the family of one of those who died, mohammad alhajali, to travel from syria to the uk for his funeral. he was killed when he was separated from his brother. his life, one of many remembered today. i think there will be a special sense of grieving, sadness, in the churches today, as people remember what has happened and people are still homeless as well, but i think also there will be a note of hope.

the painstaking investigation is continuing, but the warning from police is there will be no quick answers. studio: the leader of kensington and chelsea borough council has been defending the way his local authority has handled the grenfell tower tragedy. councillor nick paget—brown told me a short time ago there was now "an effective, coordinated relief effort on the ground" but admitted that wasn't initially the case in the aftermath of the fire. we were quite aware that this was a huge enormity. by the time i got there just after 3:30am on wednesday it was clear that no one local authority in london would be able to cope with the enormous challenges facing a huge number of displaced residents. we have spoken to the department for communities and local government

and that help as been offered, there has been a gold structure team working on the needs people have and those needs change. as time goes by, people need different kinds of support. i have been out this morning at the westway sports centre, i am told the council is never in evidence, that was not my perception this morning. why is that the perception of residents? it has been a completely traumatic week and i do understand that. it does take time in any situation to get emergency lines, contact points up and running and there is a huge community sector doing wonderful work at the moment, but we need to bring that together and we need to think long—term about the people affected, particularly their housing needs. one of the things the prime minister was proposing was there should be people in high visibility so people could see who they are and we see today that there were some people visibly from the local authorities

close to the methodist church. had you held back from doing that perhaps because of the concern that your staff may become a target if they advertise their presence? no. council officers have been on the site, we had three emergency services set up on wednesday morning which were providing... why did people think that was not the case? possibly because officials are not identifiable. what i want is experts on the ground, people who can help traumatised residents, traumatised children, people who have lost relatives and whether they are wearing a high visibility jacket, from a community group is not important. officials have been working around the clock and i have come on air

to support the work they have been doing. i am sure there are challenges, but to say the local authority is not present and not working together with others is inaccurate. you heard the interviewjust before we spoke to you, concerns about the role of the tenant management organisation, the tmo. people understand this is a kind of, kensington and chelsea handing over responsibility, but obviously still has residual responsibility for the welfare of its residents. do you think the tmo has behaved in the correct way and do you understand calls for people to step aside from it? i understand the enormous concerns and anger about the events leading up to this fire. i share that anger, the council is wanting to know why that fire started, why it spread so quickly. my immediate concern is to ensure

the right support services for some very vulnerable people are on the ground. i have been there to check they are, but this is a long—term requirement. the operation of the tmo, the way blocks are refurbished, and managed, those are proper questions but they are not questions for this afternoon, they are for the enquiry. this has been an awful tragedy for kensington and chelsea and its residents but it raises a number of issues about towers and the way housing has been designed over the last 50 or 60 years. studio: nick paget—brown, leader of

kensington and chelsea borough council. our correspondent mark lobel is at notting hill methodist church in west london where one of the services was held earlier. a very moving service earlier today, one of many taking place to commemorate those who were injured and who died in the fire. that is right, we heard from people coming out of the service, incredibly emotional moment, trying to come to terms with what happened and why. all day long it seems we have had conflicting views across this story, if you like, about how relief effo rts if you like, about how relief efforts have gone, ever since the fire broke out behind me. we were discussing high visibilityjackets earlier, we heard the interview with the leader of the council, and of course i saw eight or so people from westminster council here, also the leader of ealing council, cross borough efforts seem to have been stepped up in terms of helping to deal with this. how can we make sense of it? we thought we would ask a fire sense of it? we thought we would ask afire and sense of it? we thought we would ask a fire and emergency planning expert

steven mackinnon see, you have been around here since wednesday, monitoring things. first of all, how do you think the national relief effort has compared to the local one? i think what we have seen is, the local community has taken up a lot of the capacity, to the point that local aid stations are now overwhelmed and have stopped taking in clothing and foodstuffs. there are other ways for the community to help. the deployment of the british red cross, with local agency teams, we have not seen massive coverage within the local authority provisions, that is quite surprised. because of the stash of revisions under the civil contingencies act, every local authority must have contingency plans, and emergency response plans. what i think is, there is some lessons to be learned here, and for us to develop from this tragic incident and how we

approach these natural disasters. very good responses from the tri— emergency services, there may be a gap between that and the softer rehousing of the families. the pastoral care of them, and the persons coming down to the site. especially in this very hot weather. i think especially in this very hot weather. ithink i'm especially in this very hot weather. i think i'm going to take this back to the planning site, in london, and speak with local authorities and central government and try to make professional recommendations. this was an extraordinary disaster on an epic scale, what plan could a local borough have had? under the civil contingencies act, the local planners must consider all eventualities. we planners must consider all eve ntualities. we have planners must consider all eventualities. we have seen, with a large canadian forest fire, a whole town had to be evacuated, we are now starting to see movement from the cabinet office to the development of the city resilience british standard, to allow us to deal with that. unfortunately, that will not be published until after the event.

it should being deluded in any subsequent public enquiry, not only the fire incident, and the tragic lead up to the five that allergies, within the fire, but also the softer response. “— within the fire, but also the softer response. —— it should be included. and how we can improve on that. —— and the tragic lead up to fire fatalities. inaudible question emergency aid response, they are saying, do not take any more down, we cannot take any more donations, there is a number of charitable sites if you want to contribute, of local aid stations appear to be overwhelmed, and perhaps there should be contact from the british red cross that can mobilise all the local authorities and central government to look at how we can have a full public service to manage these kind of disasters. your work

is about looking ahead, one thing that may come out of this, that may be more positive than what we are experiencing now, is avoidance of this happening in future tower blocks, what are the key lessons to be learned? the key lessons are very well documented, we have had a numberof similarfires. well documented, we have had a number of similar fires. there was actually a public enquiry to the house of commons in 2005, following the 1999 tower block fire in scotland, which said, although we think the buildings are safe, we should make them safer for there is a multiple or significant fire loss to ensure risks are reduced to.“ warnings have been reduced, and a lot of people have said there were reports in the past, fiercely not in time, things were not changed in time, things were not changed in time, so what needs to happen now? it suggests we need to look at existing premises within residential homes, and large tower blocks and multistorey premises, looking at

british standards, ask the tests of british standards, ask the tests of british building standards and fire safety legislation. we have a national conference next week, let's have government, an adviser, attend the conference, and encapsulate every expert in the country that is going to attend. that is where we start it. i have petitioned the co nfe re nce start it. i have petitioned the conference organisers to campus all the delegates for the five key priorities that government should be looking at, and will take that to the house of commons. thank you. another call for urgent action to ta ke another call for urgent action to take place as of next week. earlier i spoke to the mayor of london, sadiq khan. i asked him if he accepted councillor nick paget—brown's assertion that there have been people from the local authority on the ground helping in the emergency effort in west london. i spent this morning at a church service speaking to many residents,

many families of the bereaved, many survivors and their experience is a million miles away from the experience of the leader of the council. it is clear to me, and i have spoken to many residents, that there has been a vacuum. the council has failed to go to residents, failed to do the outreach work and has assumed that grieving families, that neighbouring residents will travel to the westway sports centre to receive the help. i have been to the sports centre, there is fantastic facilities being offered there, victim support, family liaison officers, british red cross, charities, but it is not acceptable to assume that grieving families, people who are struggling to cope are able to find where that help is and that is why yesterday, at the task force meeting that the prime minister chaired, i said it was crucial that we have staff in the community wearing high visibility tops going out to find those who need the help. i am pleased my views

were taken aboard yesterday. i accept it is three days too late, in the meantime, people have suffered. we now have to make sure every single resident, every family, every person who needs help is gone to to be offered that help rather than assuming they will go to the council. the chancellor, philip hammond, said fire experts say it is not always necessary to retrofit sprinklers. what is your view on that? i look at the evidence and there was a fire in 2009, there was a coroner's inquest in 2013 and a prosecution against southwark council, and recommendations were made to firstly make sure there are sprinklers retrofitted

in those tower blocks which are at risk. secondly, to make sure that the regulations are reviewed in relation to the cladding, and thirdly, to make sure tenants and residents have the right advice, to make sure that they know what to do if, god forbid, there is a fire. all we know so far from speaking to the survivors of grenfell tower is it appears those lessons were not learned and those recommendations were not followed. it is crucial there is a transparent enquiry, we need to make sure residents have legal representation, we need to make sure the terms of reference are as wide as possible. we cannot afford to wait years. there must be an interim report published this summer and it is crucial in the meantime those who live in tower blocks across the country are told whether the block has been checked, whether it is safe, whether any changes will be made to make them safe as soon as possible. the headlines on bbc news:

the leader of kensington and chelsea borough council insists the local authority is helping victims of the grenfell fire. councillor nick paget—brown said there was now "a coordinated relief effort on the ground". mayor of london sadiq khan questions whether the council has done enough to help the victims of the fire. the chancellor, philip hammond, has said leaving the eu without a deal would be a "very, very bad outcome" for britain. the chancellor has been speaking about the forthcoming brexit negotiations. he was speaking on the andrew marr show. he's insisted the government wants a seamless brexit so the uk can leave the eu and the customs union without what he called "cliff edges". the prime minister, theresa may,

has always said that no deal is better than a bad deal with brussels. he also said he wanted to see a brexit which supports jobs and investment. —— the andrew marr show. when i talk about a brexit that supports britishjobs, british investment, british business, i mean a brexit that avoids cliff edges, that ensures we segue seamlessly to a new arrangement in the future that will continue to allow british goods to flow notjust without tariffs, it is without delays and bureaucracy. it is the delay and bureaucracy interfering with supply chains, with the flow of fresh produce. we have to make sure our border continues to work seamlessly and that is the number one challenge for business. the shadow brexit secretary, sir keir starmer, says membership of the customs union shouldd be one of the options considered by the government's negotiating team. sir keir criticised the prime minister for leading the uk into the worst possible

situation ahead of brexit talks. i think the prime minister has got us into a complete mess. she has got no mandate here and she has no authority abroad and the negotiations start tomorrow. things have to change. her approach so far has alienated our allies in europe, it has weakened our position in the eu and got us to the worst possible starting position. well our political correspondent susana mendonca has been following today's political developments and earlier i asked her what this meant for the brexit secretrary david davis, as he heads off to meet eu negotiators. i think what it shows is that the government is not singing from the same hymn sheet, theresa may has said time and again that no deal is better than a bad steel, now the chancellor, philip hammond, says that no deal would be a very bad outcome. —— "no deal is better than

a bad deal." he is clearly of a different opinion, he says there needs to be a transitional structure, a slope rather than a cliff edge as we have heard a lot about. philip hammond is someone who had the election gone the other way, he might not still be the chancellor of the exchequer. but he is still in the cabinet, and effectively become somewhat emboldened, during that election campaign, we did not see much of philip hammond on the campaign trail. today we have discovered he was not happy about being sidelined and he felt that actually, if the election campaign had focused more on the economy and the positives around the economy, perhaps the conservatives would have had a better result will stop the labour party, keir starmer, have been talking about these "brexit" negotiations that will start tomorrow. —— a better result. he says that theresa may has got the country into a complete mess and those negotiations will be starting on the back foot. a forest fire in central

portugal is believed to have killed at least 62 people. the blaze has spread through the centre of the country, during an intense heatwave. around half of those who died were trapped in their cars. portugal has declared three days of mourning. alison roberts has more. voiceover: people flee as the flames move in. the fires that have swept across this mountainous part of portugal have devastated everything in their way. dozens of fire started yesterday amid hot, dry conditions, but it is this fire here in pedrogao grande that has claimed so many lives. translation: we were inside the house, the fire was all around us. the firefighters came to get us out because we could hardly breathe anymore. as for whether the house burned or not, it must have burned, for sure. seven hundred firefighters battling this blaze, hundreds more fighting elsewhere. at least 30 of the deaths came as people tried to flee in their cars. other deaths and injuries occurred along or near the highway in this

heavily forested area. officials were visibly shaken by the deaths. portugal's prime minister said it was the worst ever such tragedy in terms of lives lost. translation: the victims all died in the same fire at the same place. the criminal investigation department and the forensic teams are at work to try to identify the victims. several firefighters are among those seriously injured or missing. france and spain sent aircraft to back up portugal's own efforts, but with temperatures expected to remain high, firefighters face another difficult day. alison roberts, bbc news, lisbon. studio: france is voting in the second and final round of the country's parliamentary elections today. president emmanuel macron's new centrist party is expected to win a big majority.

turnout is reported to be low compared with the last parliamentary election in 2012. let's get more now from our paris correspondent hugh schofield. news of the turnout. yes, forget brenda from bristol, how about berenice from bordeaux(!) two rounds of presidential, second round of legislative, and every time, turnout falls, particularly when there is an election just after the presidential, people feel the big vote was the presidential and therefore there is a kind of inevitability surrounding the election of people supporting emmanuel macron, other people —— people who would usually be opposed to him, people from the working class who voted maybe far right or far left who have not bothered, plus a sense that, among many voters, we voted him in, let's give the tools

to do thejob. voted him in, let's give the tools to do the job. all that works in voted him in, let's give the tools to do thejob. all that works in his favour. the low turnout does mean his opponents will be able to say, hang ona his opponents will be able to say, hang on a sec, there was no great enthusiasm behind the vote, therefore it is slightly delegitimised, i suspect we will hear a lot about in the coming weeks and months. this is democracy, it is the way that this democracy works, i don't think it is an argument that holds up. he ran for the presidency, won it, ran for this, almost certain to wina won it, ran for this, almost certain to win a big majority for his party. his mandate is ready to start, the auspices could not be better for the reforms he wanted to put in place. some commentators have said that this is the biggest change in french domestic politics since charles de gaulle became president at the end of the 1950s, how different in your judgment will this national assembly look and feel compared to all those that had gone before, in the fifth

republic? easy to answer that question in a sense, it will be com pletely question in a sense, it will be completely new, hundreds of new faces in there, also very female, given that manual mare boss is set to win a70 seats, half of them are women, that means we will probably have a national assembly that is ao% women. “— have a national assembly that is ao% women. —— given that emmanuel macron's party is set to win a70 seats. many people who have no knowledge of how to conduct parliament to be frank, there will be people who have to take lessons, they will have to give courses in how to do it. people say, there is a lwa ys how to do it. people say, there is always newcomers coming in who need to learn the ropes. on this scale, such a big intake with no understanding of politics at all even at a local level, that is a big change. on one side you can say to doosra threshing, new ideas, on another side,

doosra threshing, new ideas, on anotherside, opponents, doosra threshing, new ideas, on another side, opponents, people suspicious of emmanuel macron will say, this makes people even more dependent upon emmanuel macron, not independent, people who have come in in his wake and oh everything to him. are they going to be the critical monitors of public life, which we expect parliamentarians to be? the bodies of a number of sailors missing after a us navy destroyer collided with a container vessel off the coast of japan have been found. an investigation is under way to establish how the collision occurred with the philippine vessel in the middle of the night. an 18—year—old woman who was murdered in a country park near wigan has been named. ellen higginbottom was found in orrell water park yesterday, after she had been reported missing by family members on friday. police say that she suffered a brutal attack and are appealing for anyone with information to come forward. now, with humble beginnings in a shropshire garden, it has bloomed into one of the bbc‘s

most iconic programmes, with an audience of up to two—and—a—half—million a week. so, as gardeners' world turns 50, kay alexander has been digging through the decades to investigate how a show, rooted in plants and personalities, has experienced such enduring success. voiceover: fifty years ago, the advent of colour television enabled the bbc to make a new horticultural programme and gardeners' world was born. it was presented by the legendary percy thrower from his garden near shrewsbury, the magnolias. good evening. september. the sun still shining. in my family, everything stopped dead for gardeners' world. my mother was a keen gardener and so was this little girl. i am still a big fan of the programme. peter seabrook was one of the presenters in the 1970s and is still a big influence in gardening today. percy thrower was god, and everybody watched every

friday without question. and if percy showed a plant on his programme, then by ioam the next day, they would be sold out across the country. the effect was remarkable. in 50 years, there are a number of personalities who have made their name on gardeners' world, including geoff hamilton, whose garden, barnsdale, was one of the eight gardens used over the years. after geoff hamilton died in 1996, alan titchmarsh became the next main presenter. if this doesn't make you drool, nothing will. i think i am proud of having had a hand in gardeners' world and having been a part of its colourful history. my mission in life is to impress upon people the pleasure to be gained from growing things and the importance of keeping our planet green. it is the sharp end of looking after the planet, gardening. since the programme debuted in 1967, it has gone through all sorts of fashions and trends and styles. is there a magic ingredient that keeps it fresh and exciting? one of the magical things about gardeners' world is the fact

you canjoin the head gardener in their garden every friday. it is a value of being able to look over the garden gate to see what they are doing, but at the same time, gardeners' world has always been about plants, passionate plants people and the places in which those plants grow. lumbering outside broadcast vehicles of the past have been replaced by the latest technology. but what about the future of the programme? every gardener knows that every season is different and new and exciting, and if you can just capture that excitement, you will not have to worry about the future. just go with it. no worries there, then. so happy golden birthday, gardeners' world. and here's to the next 50 years! all: happy birthday! studio: and so say all of us, even

those of us who do not have a garden. warmest day of the year so far, quite a lot of places over 30 degrees, quite a lot of sunshine, cloud across north—eastern scotland, north—western scotland, outbreaks of rain as well, some of the cloud fringing in, the cloud associated with a weather front which has been sitting in about the same place, all weekend long, and will continue to sit in the same place for tonight. further south, dry with clear spells, low cloud for western coasts, temperature dropping no lower than 19, 20 degrees in some of the big town and city centres. into tomorrow, the weather front still in the same place across northern and north—western scotland, for southern scotland, england and wales, lots of sunshine, maybe an afternoon thunderstorm through the midlands. pretty hot, dirty two, 30 three degrees, cooler and fresher, the cooler weschler will spread further south, as we head on into tuesday

and wednesday. —— the cooler weather will spread further south. hello. this is bbc news. the headlines at 5.33. the leader of kensington and chelsea borough council has defended the way the authority handled the grenfell tower fire. councillor nick paget—brown insists there is "a coordinated relief effort on the ground". church services have been taking place across the country today, to remember those affected by the blaze. the chancellor, philip hammond, has said leaving the eu without a deal would be a "very, very bad outcome" for britain. more than 60 are killed in a forest fire in central portugal. three days of mourning have been declared. and france is voting in the final round of parliamentary elections, with president macron's new party heading for a big majority. but first, the sport. lets get the news of the champions

trophy final with arlene foster. we have had an upset at the oval. pakistan have won the icc champions trophy foe the first time. they stunned the defending champions india in the final at the oval. they lost the toss and batted first. their openers then piled on the runs, a century stand between azhar ali and fakhar zaman, who made iia, although he had a slice of luck when he was out to a no—ball on 3. mohammed hafeez made a barnstorming unbeaten 57 off a7 deliveries to see pakistan reach 338—a off their 50 overs. india were struggling from the off, losing rohit sharma in the first over, and captain virat kohli went in the third. they were two of three wickets for mohammed amir. india had a glimmer of hope when hardik pandya made a half century, but he was run out on 76. his was the last sembalnce of indian resistance.

their last three wickets went forjust six runs, hasan ali also finishing with three wickets, and pakistan winning by a crushing 180 runs. this is the final scorecard. a real wake—up call for india against theirfierce a real wake—up call for india against their fierce rivals. video highlights are on the bbc sport website, and full highlights are on bbc two from 11.15pm tonight. check your local listings for variations. britain'sjohanna konta is playing in the nottingham open final. the world number eight is facing croatia's donna vekic. it's been ao years since a british woman won a major grass court tournament on home soil — that was virginia wade at wimbledon — and konta has started well, breaking twice in the opening set, she's just taken that by 6—2.

but she had a big wobble in the second and lost out on a tie—break. she's been broken as well at the start of the third, so she's got it all to do. they break down against the croatian. hull fc have won their challenge cup quarterfinal against super league leaders castleford at the kcom stadium. it was all square with 20 minutes to play but the reigning champions champions won by 32—2a. feeling the heat in the crowds? imagine being on the pitch. and it may just have affected imagine being on the pitch. and it mayjust have affected castleford early on. commentator: hull have a chance to go the distance. what about that? it was a gift. hull capitalised on that early lack of concentration, as their dream start continued. a 12

point lead opened up in eight minutes. not even the management tea m minutes. not even the management team saw that coming. castleford still hadn't settled in, but when they did, they showed why they were they did, they showed why they were the league leaders. two tries in four minutes. commentator: the precision of that kick cannot be overstated. zac hardacre finished it off. and they took it further after the break. ben roberts got their third. in the heat at home, hull blossomed. commentator: he just finishes off with a step in the runnings. a try! another burst of tries, two in two minutes this time. closing the gap, but not enough. the defending champions into the last four. a perfect father's day for some. great feeling to get the win in. i

don't think i've played in a quicker game. we had to dig deep. castleford are top of the league for a reason. we were outstanding, and we got there in the end. in the last five orten minutes, we there in the end. in the last five or ten minutes, we were very similar to how we played the last time. they we re to how we played the last time. they were chasing the game. nobodyjumped out the box. everybody stayed shoulder to shoulder. and the draw for the challenge cup semi—finals has been made. hull's reward for winning today is a home game against leeds rhinos. and wigan warriors will host salford red devils. those semi—finals will be played in the last weekend ofjuly. the final round of the us open is under way in wisconsin. england's tommy fleetwood is one off the lead. he goes out in the penultimate pairing at around 8:a5 tonight. a lot of players are well within reach of the leader brian harman who's on 12 under. 26—year—old fleetwoood,

who's from southport, has only played one us open before but the course at erin hills appears well suited to his game. this is my first time in contention in a major, so whatever happens, i'll be doing my best and seeing how well i can finish and that's that really. that's all you can do. but it will be a pleasure to go out on a sunday trying to win a major. proud of the way i hung in there today, after a really good start. that was nice. i struck it well. i had a couple of putts that could have gone a bit, but i hit a bunch of greens. you have to play well round here. cristiano ronaldo is in russia captaining portugal in their confederations cup match against mexico this afternoon. it's his first match since those rumours emerged that he wants

to leave real madrid. the world player of the year had a hand in the opening goal of the game, setting up ricardo quaresma to score. another former manchester united player, javier hernandez, got the equaliserjust before half time. the score in kazan is still 1—1. england were thrashed 6a—17 by new zealand in the final of rugby union's world under—20 championship in tbilisi. the baby blacks completely overawed the young england side and asafo amua scored three of their ten tries, including this interception. scotland took fifth place with a 2a—17 victory over australia. wales beat italy 25—2a to finish seventh, while ireland beat hosts georgia 2a—18 for ninth. warren gatland has named his team

to face the chiefs on tuesday. he's included all six of his controversial welsh and scottish reinforcements as replacements. ireland hooker rory best captains the side, the bulk of the squad that beat the maori all blacks yesterday aren't playing — so they can prepare for the first test against the all blacks next saturday. for gatland, it will mean a return to hamilton, the place he was born. if you cut me open, i would probably bleed red, yellow and black. i'm proud of my roots. a great place to grow up. the people are incredibly loyal. the amount of support i've had personally has been amazing. experienced that in the world cup in

2011, with the number of people who supported us, supported wales when we played fiji. it was incredible. nice to be back and catch up with some friends. porsche have won the le mans 2a hours race for a third year in a row. the trio of german timo bernhard and new zealanders brendon hartley and earl bamber were driving porsche's number two car, and had been last yesterday. but the number one porsche retired overnight when in the lead, and two of the toyota entries also failed to finish. great britain have won five medals at the rowing world cup in poland today. the british crew of jack beaumont, jonathan walton, john collins and peter lambert picked up gold in the in the men's quadruple sculls, while the men's four picked up silver and the men's eight bronze. the women's teams picked up two silvers. they came in the eight and vicky thornley — who won silver in rio with dame catherine grainger — came second in the single sculls.

that's all sport for now. you can keep up to date with all those stories on the bbc sport website. a lot of reaction to pakistan beating india, and keep across johanna konta's progress at the nottingham open. more feel a bit later from the bbc sports centre. thank you very much. let me bring you up with the headlines on bbc news. the leader of of kensington and chelsea borough council insists the local authority is helping victims of the grenfell fire. councillor nick paget—brown said there was now "a coordinated relief effort on the ground". mayor of london sadiq khan questioned whether the council has done enough to help the victims of the fire. the chancellor has insisted the government wants a seamless brexit so the uk can leave the eu single market and the customs union without

what he called "cliff edges". more on all those stories at the top of the hour. now on bbc news, the film review. hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases, as ever, is mark kermode. welcome. what do you have for us, mark? a very diverse week. we have churchill, with a powerhouse performance by brian cox. we have gifted, which is not what it looks like it's going to be. and whitney: can i be me, the new documentary by nick broomfield. churchill, i do like brian cox. he gives some fantastic performances. he plays winston churchill,

which is a very big role. it is the run—up to d—day. effectively, he is played not as a bulldog but as a kind of wounded bear. somebody who has been sidelined. you know, the military bosses are off doing their thing, he is somebody who is seen much more as a figurehead. he is convinced, in the film, that the d—day landings, the operation is very, very flawed and very, very dangerous and is going to end possibly in tragic loss of life, which recalls a previous conflict. he is sort of flashing back to world war i. we see him at the beginning, he's walking on the beach, and the sea is lapping and the sea starts to turn red and he is having visions of previous tragedies. and so the film is basically about him in the days leading up to d—day, attempting to convince everybody that this is not a good idea. here's a clip. this will be the greatest campaign yet mounted by our allied forces. operation overlord will require 200,000 vehicles, a fleet of 7,000

ships, swarms of planes, most essentially a quarter of a million men. all this will be focused in one place, taking the german army head on. that's right. no, gentlemen, no. this plan may be admirable in its bravery, but in its risks it is foolhardy. jesus christ. our own casualty estimates predict that anything up to 160,000 french civilians will be killed. if overlord fails — which it all too easily could — we will lose at one strike most of our war material along with tens of thousands of our own men. who then will defend england? is it fair to say, not a straight biopic because this is looking at a very, very specific period?

very specific period of time. and i have to say i think the film is carried shoulder high by brian cox. he brings an awful lot of king lear to this role. i mean, a number of people have pointed that out, including brian cox himself. he plays winston churchill as this kind of slightly wounded figure, somebody who is a man out of time, somebody who is no longer in the position of power that they think they ought to be, and somebody who is also deeply conflicted, who is haunted by the ghost of gallipoli, who is absolutely convinced that what's going to happen is that they are walking towards tragedy. there are very few people to whom he listens — one is the king and the other is miranda richardson, as clemmie. her performance is terrific. actually performing alongside brian cox, who is doing such a great role — all eyes are on brian cox — it is a real tribute to miranda richardson that she holds the screen as well as she does, which is no surprise because she is a fantastic actor. there are a couple of weak points. there is a subplot about a secretary, a new secretary who is brought in, through whose eyes we originally meet

winston churchill. she then has a relationship with the man also involved in the campaign, and all this weaves through the drama in a way which feels much too much like melodramatic contrivance. it also feels like it doesn't really need it because the story itself is interesting enough. i know that the particular take on history has ruffled some people's feathers but for me it felt like a fairly solid if occasionally somewhat ordinary and somewhat televisual drama but lifted high by that performance. it is a shakespearean performance. there is a moment where he is praying for rain, praying for bad weather... it's the storm scene... it absolutely is. i think he is aware that it is and we all are as well. he and miranda richardson are the main reasons for seeing this. 0k. gifted. i have only seen the trailer for gifted. the subject matter struck me as really interesting. this has potential to be interesting. how far does it go? and the poster i have to say looked very cheesy. from the director of 500 days of summer.

the poster looked like it was going to be a particular kind of drama and i went in not expecting very much. i really liked it. the story is a single man who is raising a precociously intelligent young child. he wants her to go to a normal school. the school saying she is a genius and she needs to go to a special academy. he says, no i want her to have as a normal life. what i like about this film was, particularly since i hadn't expected that much of it, it is very, very sharply written by tom flynn. it is a film in which...it‘s a lot funnier than you expect it is going to be. i have this thing that something has to get six laughs in order to be a proper comedy. this passed that. the performances are all really welljudged. not least lindsay duncan, who plays a character that could easily tip over into caricature — the controlling grandmother who wants the child to fully explore all her intellectual potential. in another drama, it could have been somewhat demonised but linsay duncan does a brilliantjob. i was rally surprised. i was really touched.

it was funny, it was sensitive. i thought it was welljudged, great performances all the way round and i came out feeling joyous, feeling uplifted with a real smile on my face. i was very, very surprised by how much it did what it set out to achieve. fantastic. your third choice today is a documentary, the new nick broomfield, a man with quite a track record, massive track record in documentaries. whitney: can i be me. he has made things in the past like kurt and courtney, and has had a very particular kind of documentary style. originally he put himself into the documentaries a lot. the figure who walks around with a boom mic, wandering into shot. he has very much taken a back seat here. you hear his voice a couple of times, but that's all. he's using footage from a tour that was going to be turned into a fly—on—the—wall documentary but never did. this is never—before—seen footage. it essentially traces her story from her home life, her mother, who was a very powerful singer, and how she was then picked up

by a record company, marketed as a pop singer, rather that as a gospel and r&b, which is where she came from. found herself in a difficult position in which she did not know who she was meant to be, and her relationship with people like, for example, robyn crawford and, of course, bobby brown. here's a clip. he loved her as herself. she could come off the stage and not have to be the person that everybody in the world expected her to be or who they thought she was. he understood that part of her, he understood the pressures because he was bobby brown, you know. he understood her pressures and he understood her pain. what do i think that bobby and whitney gave each other? acce pta nce, love. she absolutely loved him. they loved each other. and there was acceptance.

you can see from the clip, the film is more forgiving, more affectionate than some of nick broomfield's previous work. i went into this not being a big whitney houston fan, i did not know that much about her music — i'd seen her in movies, obviously — and the most important thing is i came out with a new—found respect for what she did, for the way she sang, for the way in which her music was important, because i really didn't have a handle on it. stunning talent. absolutely and you do get that. and that is important that a film like this does tell you that. obviously the comparison to be made is with amy, the asif kapadia film. and it's also worth saying, straight off the bat, this is not as good as amy. what amy did was give you the sense of being intimately involved in that story, sometimes in a way that was deeply uncomfortable, but because of the way he used the lyrics, which seemed to tell the story almost like a diary, it really gave you what felt like a proper insight. this feels much more like watching something from a distance and that is inevitable. it is to do with the way that the film came together. it's also...there is a fairly

familiar story of somebody who has a lot of talent, suddenly finding themselves involved in fame and fortune, and finding it very difficult to deal with that and feeling insecure. the film investigates the relationship with the people around her, whether they helped her or not. there's an interview with her bodyguard who says that at one point he wrote down very clearly, all this stuff is happening and this is bad and this is not going to end well. he says he was then rewarded by being told "ok, we no longer require your services." what i came out of it with was, as i said, primarily a sense of an extraordinary talent having made some really brilliant records which i really had not thought of like that before and a great waste. a public waste shown with amy as well. as a piece of filmmaking it is not in the same league as amy. amy really is an extraordinary and remarkable and very, very painfulfilm. yes. and i think as a piece of film—making, it is the better piece, there's no question.

best out? my cousin rachel, which is an adaptation of the daphne du maurier, from the 1951, which was filmed in 1952 with olivia de havilland. now we have rachel weisz playing this fantastically mysterious character. is she the femme fatale or is she somebody who is being completely misread by everybody around her? what the film manages to do is to keep that ambiguity. it starts off as a "did she or didn't she?" — who is to blame. and it is very clever because the film all the way through keeps you guessing as to its character's motives. rachel weisz said that what she did was she read the script, she decided for herself whether her character was "guilty" and she said to roger michell, the director, "i have decided," he said "don't tell me, i don't want to know, you keep it as a secret." the film manages to keep that secret. and i thought it was very fine. i love what you have chosen as a dvd. perhaps a little too understated, loving, but fascinating. that was the criticism levelled against it. this is basically ruth negga — terrific performance. she is fantastic, isn't she. she's brilliant. it's a story about a couple fighting racist laws to get married, and the understatement is actually

the thing that makes it work. the key thing about the couple is they do not want to be in the public eye. they do not want to be people who are fighting a really important case. they don't want to be the figureheads. they just want to be left alone to get on with what htey‘re doing. but they are very strong. they're characters that you absolutely believe in. i love the understatement of it but i know that that'sexactly the thing that had made some people think there's no huge grandstanding moment — no, that's the point. it all happened at a much more controlled level, and i just think that just adds to its power. that's the joy of it. it is. it is a remarkable piece, i have to say. maybe i'll come down more on your side, to be fair. not for the first time. thanks very much. a reminder that you can find all film news and reviews from across the bbc online. and all the previous programs are on the bbc iplayer, of course. that is it for this week.

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half of weather‘ of weather front two hear , rain from the a particularly hot day in north. a particularly hot day in southern and eastern areas on thursday, but all of us will turn fresher by next weekend. this is bbc news. the headlines at 6: the leader of of kensington and chelsea borough council —— its.

to say that the local authority is not present and that we're not working together with other councils is inaccurate. the mayor of london sadiq khan says the council's effo rts sadiq khan says the council's efforts have not been felt on the ground. i spent this morning at a church service speaking to many residents, many families of the bereaved, many survivors and their experience is a million miles away from the experience of the leader