in which 79 people are believed to have died. camden council in north london is removing external cladding from five tower blocks on the chalcots estate. it said the panels were not of the standard it had commissioned. bbc london's karl mercer reports. all of this cladding will come down soon. so far, just a few panels on the estate in camden have been sent away for testing. the results have prompted the council to get rid of them all. this estate was refurbished a decade ago. it has now emerged that the cladding contains similar chemicals to those in the cladding at grenfell tower.l similar chemicals to those in the cladding at grenfell tower. a lot of residents are a bit worried about it. a lot of sprinklers and fire alarms which we don't have enough. one step is to come down, no fire alarms, no sprinklers. people are calling for fire extinction is as well. locals were sent a letter this morning explaining what is happening. one thing we are always asked about his fire safety. fire

safety, fire safety and fire safety. we asked for fire alarms, we asked for sprinklers, we asked for all those things to actually have really active fire safety systems. but we ended up with nothing. we ended up with a building that was clad that was supposed to be more safe than what we had before and we were told that it was more safe. there are key differences. the insulation is different. the council leader has appeared before the media today. they are checking and running fire warden patrols and checking electrical goods in all the plots. she says the council is also seeking legal advice saying the cladding was not will be ordered. why would your inspectors to have picked that up thenif inspectors to have picked that up then if it was not the specification that you asked for? look, i don't think that we would have had any reason to need to take these panels down to an independent test centre and see if they burn. we thought we we re and see if they burn. we thought we were working with reputable companies and we thought what we had was what was specified and we feel let down that that is not the case.

but those are great questions and we need to investigate every part of this. there will be questions but the council themselves in terms of how you have managed the situation when you are spending a lot of money off we cladding buildings. yes, and we need to investigate every part of that process and work out what happened. the mayor today asked other councils to step up their checks on tower blocks. ivies began to councils across london and the government has agreed to accelerate the checks and tower blocks across london. the message to landlords is to use the service at their disposal. the fire brigade are doing these checks. we must make sure that every tower block is a say. if this cladding has been used, we make them safe. more money has been promised by government to remove dangerous cladding. camden is holding meetings with local residents to assure them that their houses are safe. theresa may has said she's ready to set out plans to protect the rights of eu and british citizens during brexit. her comments came as she attends herfirst european union summit since she lost her commons majority. the german chancellor, angela merkel, has said that shaping the future of the other 27 nations would take priority

over talks with britain. let's get the latest from our brussels reporter adam fleming. adam, are we any clearer what this offer is going to be? good evening, the detail... well, i see the detail, the opposite. the gist of this offer will be delivered to eu leaders at the end of the dinner that they are having right now by british prime minister theresa may. she will say few words about what the principles behind the uk's plan for the rights that they eu citizens based in the uk, what they actually are and she will give them an update on what of the uk general election result means for the brexit process. basically, the opposite of detail. we will have to wait until monday when she will make a statement in the house of commons when she bought deliver a paper to mps which will have a lot more detail about its full tonight it is the principles. the brexit thing at this summit is

actually a minor issue. there is not going to be a discussion about it with theresa may at the dinner tonight. after she has spoken, she will be ushered out on the 27 other readers will have a quick chat about the criteria they will use for deciding where to relocate two eu agencies currently based in london, where they will go after brexit. the rest of the summit today and tomorrow is basically about things like defence, terrorism, world affairs, the economy, jobs and trade, absolutely not brexit. well, that argument over where these agencies go, relocate after britain leaves the eu, could presumably become quite nasty because i can remember being in singapore a few yea rs remember being in singapore a few years ago for the olympics announcement when the paris bid was com pletely announcement when the paris bid was completely overshadowed, much to the benefit of london in the end by jacques chirac getting into a rout over the quality of food in some other countries. it may have been norway or something who were trying to get european food agency to be

located there rather than in france. just to be clear, it is a much less exciting, less glamorous process thenit exciting, less glamorous process then it deciding where the olympics are going to be held. this is the fate of the european medicines agency and the european banking authority, two eu regulatory bodies based in london at the moment but which will have to be found new homes elsewhere in europe after brexit. what the leaders are discussing tonight and they are going to agree on is the criteria that will be used for the competition, so the things that countries will have to prove they can offer if they want to win the competition and the rights to host these agencies. they will then have at the end ofjuly to apply to enter the competition and then a series of rounds of voting will take place with very complicated aulas eurovision —esque scoring systems where there will be resolved. so far so good except that some countries are not too keen on the criteria that are being used. lots of rumours around here that a couple of big countries have already done a deal with each other to get these

agencies, so it could prove to be one of those great to euro battles about what happens to these two effectively office buildings. but what's interesting about it is that the eu wants to look like they are very united at the moment. is this perhaps the first little chink that they are not all on the same page? adam fleming with the skulduggery to come in brussels. thank you very much. an independent review has found that senior figures in the church of england colluded with a former bishop who was convicted for abusing young men. peter ball, who's now 85, was jailed in 2015 for historical sex offences against 18 teenagers and young men. earlier our correspondent, helena lee spoke to bishop peter hancock about his reaction to the report. it's an extremely harrowing, a very disturbing report. it's been very clear, not only in speaking about the nature of the abuse but the effect, the fact that the church failed to respond adequately, appropriately and effectively when this abuse was brought before them and they knew of this and therefore

today, i offer those who are the victims and survivors and their families of this abuse my wholehearted and sincere apology. what happened was inexcusable. the effect on their lives has been devastating it is my responsibility as the lead bishop for safeguarding the church of england to make sure that going forward, we'd take the recommendations that have been given in this report and that they are swiftly a nd in this report and that they are swiftly and decisively and effectively taken forward. clearly, all of the recommendations are important but is there any one particular one that stands out for you to stop this from happening ain? you to stop this from happening again? the second recommendation is about listening and caring for those who are the survivors and that is why the church needs to start. we recognise mistakes and those who have suffered and that suffering was compounded by the church's in action. to listen to that, were overnight, reflect on that to ensure that doesn't happen again and then the first recommendation is asking the first recommendation is asking

the bishops to take more decisive responsibility and authority on these matters to ensure that in their dioceses and right across the parishes of the church, our policies and procedures are as robust and as effective as they can be. peter saunders, founder of the national association for people abused in childhood joins us from kent via webcam. peter, thank you for being with us. first of all, what do you make of the report? good evening. i haven't read the report in detail. what i have read is obviously very disturbing, the idea that the church, senior officials in the church, senior officials in the church colluded to protect a child abuser. i can't think of anything worse in fact. if you can't trust an institution like the church on such an important issue, then what can you trust it to do? i'm mindful of the fact that peter ball, the

convicted abuser, is now a free man. he was released some months ago and the people who suffered, the victims of these crimes, live with the consequences for the rest of their days, so it was interesting to hear the bishop then just days, so it was interesting to hear the bishop thenjust mentioning about care and support for the victims. we have seen very little of that. certainly, our charity hasn't had any kind of financial support from the church and indeed from any of the churches but we pick up the pieces on a daily basis for the daily tweet mag devastation caused by criminal acts the report that there was collusion to the very top, it turns my stomach, it really does. coalition based on a perception which turned out to be wrong since the end peter ball has admitted and apologise for the things he made these young men do. it seems to be based on their belief that he wasn't

guilty, that he couldn't have done these things and that seems to have been driving a lot of the reaction of figures in the church. do you think it is possible that in the light of the terrible cases we have seen light of the terrible cases we have seen of which this is one of sadly too many, those sort of attitude those presumptions that it is more likely to be the victim lying about the abuser are beginning to disappear? well, i hope that that is the case. i am fortunate to be married to a very hard—working social worker and people in her profession, when there is a hint of anything that is untoward, let alone of the severity of these kinds of crimes, people are instantly suspended, investigated and then if they are proven, not only are they handed over to the police but obviously they are dismissed from the service. in a situation we are discussing and as you and i have discussed before, the church is particularly an institution that has

a reluctance to accept that people within their ranks commit these crimes and i find that again absolutely astonishing and i speak asa absolutely astonishing and i speak as a christian. they should know from their bible that is the one group of people that jesus condemned when he was in his ministry on earth 2000 years ago, the only people he ever can were people who abuse children. and the fact that these man—made institutions now are protecting people, ithink man—made institutions now are protecting people, i think that says an awful lot about the institution and my heart goes out not only to the victims here, many of whom have been incredibly brave and strong to give their evidence and to come forward and speak their truth, but to survivors everywhere who are coming forward and once again, credits to the media for keeping the spotlight on this because if we are going to protect other children in the future, one of the things we have to do is shiny spotlight on this murky cancer of abuse that still persists everywhere and i hope

and pray that the national inquiry, the independent inquiry currently being undertaken here in london, will also look very closely at these institutions and make recommendations such that they cannot wriggle out of responsibility for what they have done because setting up their own internal procedures and setting up their own internal watchdogs, freckly isn't good enough. we know now that these institutions cannot be trusted. therefore we have to impose upon them restrictions and policies and protocols that they have no choice about following. including, i have to say, the introduction before long of mandatory reporting. that has got to bea of mandatory reporting. that has got to be a no—brainer. of mandatory reporting. that has got to be a no-brainer. peter, briefly, you think the role that the bishop is playing as safeguarding bishop, you think that it's pointless now? you think that even though these events happened more than 20 years ago the fact that they happened to

me is the church and other institutions cannot be trusted to police themselves? in a word, i don't believe they can be trusted to police themselves and if they were genuine, they should be approaching organisations like our charity and some other organisations that work with survivors. we are the biggest and they haven't come to us and they really should come should come to us with humility because we would meet them with humility and discuss this issue, but we also need resources because every day we struggle to survive and that really shouldn't be the case, particularly when some institutions have vast resources at their disposal and when, on those occasions and i have been very involved with the catholic church again as you know, they seem to have endless resources to defend the indefensible but... peter, forgive me for interrupting. becky very much for being with us. —— thank you very much. time for a look at the weather with ben rich. what a difference a day makes.

compared to the recent heatwave, today has been much cooler and fresher for many. plenty of cloud around as well. this picture from a weather watcher in shetland and things are going to continue to change because we have a band of rain moving across northern ireland, scotland, down into northern england as we go through this evening and overnight turning quite blustery up to the north—west as well. a dry night the further south and east you are but for all of us, cooler and fresher. 12—15 celsius. tomorrow then, our band will sink southwards across northern ireland and then into northern england, wales and maybe the midlands where it will hang around for most of the day. heaviest burst of rain for hills in the west. largely dry to the north for the afternoon and staying largely dry in the south. 16 in glasgow, 2a in london and it stays fresher and breezy through the next few days. rain at times, still some spells of sunshine. more details on our website. this is bbc news.

the headlines at eight: 600 high rises across england are being checked after the grenfell disaster. flammable cladding has already been found in seven buildings. one london borough has started to remove it. here's what the residents think: just scared, really, scared. every night, i'm awake, just thinking about it. i do know, ijust feel like i don't want to live here any more. theresa may's first eu summit since the election — she has an offer on the rights of eu citizens in britain. donald trump says he does not have any secret recordings of his conversations with sacked fbi directorjames comey. an inquiry finds that senior figures in the church of england colluded with disgraced former bishop peter ball, who abused young men. tributes are paid to makram ali, named as the man who died in the finsbury park terror attack.