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this is bbc news. the headlines at 11pm: 34 buildings around the country have failed fire safety tests following the grenfell tower disaster, with hundreds more still to be assessed. a london council defends its decision to evacuate four tower blocks deemed unsafe as the government insists it will help meet the huge costs councils are facing. if they need financial support we will work with them to make sure they have the resources they need to do this necessary work. also in the next hour: a cyber attack on the houses of parliament. e—mail accounts of some mps and members of the house of lords are targetted. officials have called it a sustained and determined operation. the final battle for mosul. iraqi forces say they'll defeat the city's beseiged this is the old city area, the heart of the battle. when you look around here, you can get a sense of how fierce the fighting has been. and there's no dream start for the british and irish lion's down under as the all blacks deliver another crushing victory. and we'll be taking a look at tomorrow's front pages including the sunday mail's interview with prince harry in which he confesses he wanted to give up his royal role.
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3a high rise buildings in england have failed fire safety tests on their exterior cladding, the government has confirmed tonight. the buildings are the first to undergo urgent checks following the g re nfell tower undergo urgent checks following the grenfell tower disaster. around 600 buildings are due to undergo the tests, with local authorities working urgently to identify the buildings at risk. duncan kennedy reports. in the subdued streets of west london, one more silent, reflective assembly, mourners and neighbours. as these people paused, elsewhere, the now relentless checking of hundreds of tower blocks was continuing. the government asked councils to send in examples of
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cladding from buildings they were most concerned about that it's become clear tonight that only 3a tests on cloning had so far been carried out, involving 17 councils, and everyone had failed. the council ‘s involvement instead, camden, plymouth, hounslow, barnetta and brent, with many saying the government must now pay for any changes they make, like sprinklers. retrofitting of sprinklers should be one of our retrofitting of sprinklers should be one of oui’ responses retrofitting of sprinklers should be one of our responses here. and when the chief fire officer of your region tells you that, clearly you've got to start listening to that, so we started to look at the figures, and it comes out at around £31 million. as well as the cladding, the fire authorities are having to examining supposed pipes, fired at, dry rises and fire doors. it's a huge undertaking, and it's not just residential it's a huge undertaking, and it's notjust residential blocks. inspections are also taking place in schools and nhs buildings like hull royal infirmary. so is the
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government saying it will pave every safety defects that sound? government saying it will pave every safety defects that sound ?m government saying it will pave every safety defects that sound? if they need financial support, and not eve ryo ne need financial support, and not everyone of them will need it, but if they do, we will make sure they have the resources they need to do this necessary work, absolutely. that will not be put at risk. at glastonbury today, the music also gave way to talk of safety in tower blocks, with jeremy gave way to talk of safety in tower blocks, withjeremy corbyn demanding the government, in his words, get a grip. the prime minister needs to come to parliament again and describe what's going on, and it needs an emergency approach by government, including the use of cobra if necessary. it's important there are resources together now. back at the scene of the disaster, there was no dwindling of the numbers coming to absorb the scale of the horror and pay their respects. and what all this means is that, in the ten days since grenfell tower, the lives of thousands and thousands of people have been affected, and with more testing
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cladding, fire doors, pipes and other buildings still to come, those numbers will almost certainly increase. tonight, as the government called for more cladding samples to be submitted, it seems even now know one knows just how big the consequences of grenfell tower will be. hundreds of people who were evacuated from four tower blocks in camden in north london are spending a second night away from home. some spoke of panic and confusion as they were ordered to leave the chalcots estate yesterday, when the council decided it was too the tower blocks seemed to offer a safe home for thousands of people for many years, until last night. why was we all ordered to be evacuated at 8:30 pm. 7 why was we all ordered to be evacuated at 8:30 p.m.? tempers why was we all ordered to be evacuated at 8:30 p.m. ? tempers were running high today. the leader of
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camden council took the brunt of the frustration from people evacuated overnight. i'm being told they can't rehouse me because i've got a dog. hotel place was found for this woman and her dog, that there are thousands of others, people and pets, facing weeks of uncertainty. the gas pipes are hidden behind that sort of metal doorway, so you can't have access to them, so i'm not sure what the issue really is. the fire exits, they all seem in place, but that was one of the other issues, the reasons we were given for making us the reasons we were given for making us evacuate. peter bertram, who is 94, had to leave the flat he has had for almost 50 years. i felt sorry for people who are a lot worse than me, especially with children. they have to carry on. but there are at least 80 flats where residents are refusing to leave. i really cried last night.
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the council officials came to the door, banging on the door, get out, get out, but the chap round the hallway said, no, she's not going, she is getting on for 80. she can't go anywhere, she's got a cat. this has been a stressful process. many residents have been asking why they had to leave in the middle of they had to leave in the middle of the night. the council says the fire service gave them no choice. they said there was nothing we could do to guarantee resident safety that night, and, in that situation, given the circumstances we are in, i thought we had to act swiftly. work is under way to fix the faults but it will take weeks to complete. the residents of this tower block feel themselves to be in limbo, unsure of just how dangerous this building is and how long they might be excluded from their homes. as they are finding out, there are thousands of people across the
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country facing exactly the same questions. for some in camden, it's another night in air beds in the leisure centre. most have accepted they won't be home for a while, but they won't be home for a while, but the council has warned those refusing to leave it may have the force them out for their own safety. our political correspondence is here. this is widening and widening, with hundreds more buildings to be checked and intentionally thousands more affected? that's right. the latest is that we have more failed tests this evening and 3a out of the 600 high tower blocks that have so far been identified have been tested, so clearly hundreds more will need to be tested. one of the things that's being estimated is that they were asking local authorities to prioritise those buildings that they had most concerns about, so in a way, perhaps, the first samples they tested were in buildings where the
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samples were the highest, so it might not be the case that all 600 might not be the case that all 600 mightfail might not be the case that all 600 might fail because we've had a 100% failure rate at the moment. the community secretary has this afternoon said that cladding in itself is not necessarily dangerous and just because a building fails safety test does not mean it have to be evacuated, but clearly the increased numbers of failures will mean an increased costs for local authorities, and we are hearing from camden council, where we know flats are being evacuated — they've put £600,000 aside, and they've said they will be calling on the government to help cover some of that cost, although they said that's a matter for another day. in birmingham, for example, they said £31 million has been put aside to fit sprinklers to a number of tower blocks, and they are also calling on the government to help them meet those costs, so clearly costs are going to mount, and as we've seen, only 3a out of 600 of these
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concerned buildings have so far been tested. thank you. parliament has been hit by a cyber—security attack. officials have described it as a sustained and determined operation and say it now looks like it's been contained. i spoke to cyber security specialist professor alan woodward and i asked him whether using stronger passwords could prevent attacks like this. in essence, yes. however, the best password is the one you can't remember, certainly in my case, and i don't know about anyone else, but i have dozens of accounts so i can't remember them all, and if you asked me the passwords to those, i couldn't tell you, so a user password manager where i only have to remember the one password, and it's very complicated, and that lets me into my password manager, which i have iphone, my ipad, whatever, and that generates strong passwords for me. also it's the case that in some of these systems, and the one that
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mps use definitely has this capability, you use a thing called two stage verification, and we've all probably used it. its wearer as well as using a username and password, it probably texts you a code that is only valid for, say, a minute, and you have to put that in as well, and that does make it a lot more difficult for the hackers, so i would encourage people to use the password and turn on two factor authentication is where you can. and how likely is it they will find the culprits? there's the rub. the problem is these days, there are a number of different networks where they can obfuscate who they are and where they are. they might appear to know where it's coming from that they probably won't find them. i suspect they way they will find them all be if they make a mistake, so they will leave themselves exposed in some way, although they are hidden behind one of these so—called anonymous networks, they may have made a mistake. they may have left
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their fingerprints made a mistake. they may have left theirfingerprints in made a mistake. they may have left their fingerprints in some ways, but believe me, they will be trying, and when you try something like this, with something like the national cyber security centre after you come you don't want that. i wouldn't want that at all! how will authorities at the parliamentary estate be trying to bolster the system and try and make it protected over and above making the individuals take the steps that you've mentioned? in someway ‘s, this is a bit of a success story. we've heard about the nhs and how that was hit very hard, and in some ways this is a success story because they caught it. we don't know whether anyone was compromised but it looks like they caught it early on, which is good news. it shows they're monitoring systems work. other readers simplest things they will try to do is to turn on two factor identification, but it's interesting that the official advice from the cyber security centre has changed recently. so rather than forcing
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people to change passwords regularly, for example my own systems — we use the force people to change passwords every month. it turns out that is counter—productive. not only can we not run around password, we can't remember the next one either. we make it simpler and simpler. advice is now taking into account the human loop, and it's stopping some of these things now, and that's actually helping. it sounds a bit counterintuitive but it's starting to help make these things more secure. hundreds of civilians have been free from the old city in mosul according to iraqi forces. the prime minister says mosul will be liberated in days as they have surrounded fighters there. this report contains images you may find distressing. a journey to the front line, a
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windscreen, the reminder of the dangers ahead. our escort from iraqi's elite counterterrorism force. snaking forwards towards an enemy that still inflicting casualties. like this wounded soldier, being rushed away as we arrived. and families fleeing to, on foot. escaping hunger and fear, and of 11 city robbed of life. no food, no water. most are dead. this is the old city area. it is really the heart of the battle. when you look around here, you get a real sense of how fierce the fighting has been. the damage is immense in every
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direction. the narrow streets, a tight squeeze as troops close in on the last pockets of is is instance. we were told the militants were just 300 metres away. some on the receiving end of an iraqi missile strike. our history is here, says this major, and we have to get it back. we have been fighting house—to—house and room to room against snipers and foreign fighters, including chechens. nearby chronic troops relax within sight of the bodies of is militants. they lie where they fell in the streets they ruled with terror. the extremists are now facing defeat here, but it has taken three years to get this far. and immense damage has been done to the fabric of mosul and the unity of iraqi.
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the headlines on bbc news: 3a high—rise blocks of flats have failed fire safety tests — with hundreds more to be assessed. camden council have evacuated four buildings to carry out urgent safety works. a cyber attack at westminster. the house of commons authorities as they are investigating a thames to hack mps accounts. —— attempts. the final battle for mosul. iraqi forces say they'll defeat the city's beseiged is fighters within days. sport now and a full round up, from the bbc sport centre. in rugby union, the all blacks continued their 23—year unbeaten run at eden park after overpowering the british and irish lions in the first test. 30 points to 15 the score, and katie gornall was watching. the lions arrived here with momentum
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but that positivity had all but evaporated at the full—time whistle with the all blacks showing just how dangerous they are from every position. theirfirst dangerous they are from every position. their first try was scored bya position. their first try was scored by a forward charging down and then they added another two tries in the second half through a 20—year—old player who was not even born the last time the all blacks lost year at eden park. the way things are going, that record may never change. as for the lions, the match was not as one—sided as the scoreline suggests. they scored a wonderful in the first half and warren gatlin said afterwards that he is confident they can i announce some mistakes and make this a closely fought series. they nail to make now travel to wellington knowing they need to remain both remaining tests if they are to award a series defeat and i think the all blacks demonstrated here at at eden park, how difficult
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they are to defeat on home turf. scotland and ireland have wrapped up theirsummertours — gregor townsend suffered his first defeat in charge of scotland as they lost 27—22 to fiji. but ireland completed a series whitewash overjapan with a 35—13 win in tokyo. lewis hamilton has now passed ayrton senna's career haul of 65 pole positions as he edged out his mercedes team—mate valtteri bottas to secure top spot in the azerbaijan grand prix. hamilton banished memories of a poor qualifying session in baku last year to take pole. he'll be joined on the front row by bottas. championship leader sebastian vettel qualified fourth behind his team—mate kim raikkonen in third. hosts england were stunned on the opening day of the women's world cup, losing by 35 runs to india. they were set a world record run chase for a women's 50 over game of 282, but came up short, asjoe wilson reports. maybe every world cup needs to begin with a shock. it is a good way to
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gain interest in the tournament. if this world cup is about trying to unlock the critic and potential for women in india then here is something for that country to latch onto. the start of play, everything was in the favour for england. cloudy skies, we won the toss and unleashed two experienced fast bowlers. the reaction of india was getting onto the back foot and smacking the ball to the boundary. her balls were scintillating play. and other contributions throughout the top order has enabled india to set a stiff target. england needed to achieve their highest ever run chase to win the match. they wanted 282. never got off to a flying start. they pegged back by fine fielding in terms of runouts and then we saw dropped catches from both teams to direct hits from india we re both teams to direct hits from india were there. still, fran wilson
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claimed the most significant innings of her career, england were still in with a chance. they only needed 72 from the last ten overs, but again ran out and then the rest followed. england all—out for 246. nobody is out at the moment, there is a round—robin stage at the start, but in terms of generating interest, there is nothing like a shock and we had one year in derby. —— won here in derby. marin cilic beat gilles muller by two sets to one to reach the final at queen's in london. with wimbledon now just nine days away, the croatian fought to a 6—3 5—7 6—4 victory over his opponent. the former us open champions has only had his serve broken once in the tournament so far. he will play feliciano lopez in the next match. petra kvitova's form is improving dramatically, on her return to tennis. she's reached the final of the aegon classic in birmingham — only her second tournament
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since her playing hand was badly injured in a knife attack six months ago. she went through when her opponent, lucie safarova, was forced to retire. kvitova will play ashleigh barty of australia in the final. the tin man won the diamond jubilee stakes at royal ascot for trainer james fa nshawe and jockey tom oueally. meanwhile, there was no royal winner in the hardwicke stakes as the queen's horse dartmouth was beaten by the aidan o'brien trained 9—2 shot idaho. the queen stays on 23 wins at ascot. but the win ensures aiden o'brien finishes as champion trainer at royal ascot week — for the eighth time. that's all the sport for now. i apologise for the coughing fit i have had throughout that. a valiant effort. thank you for persevering.
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they should bring you a glass of water. they are so mean. if you only knew what gallery crews could be like. but first let's have a quick look at some of the front pages. the observer leads with fire safety in schools — saying proposals to relax standards are to be dropped by ministers. prince harry dominates the frontpage of the mail of sunday, saying he considered quitting his royal role, but stayed for the queen. the sunday telegraph headlines ‘blackmail fears after mps hit by cyber attack‘ the cyber attack is also the main story on the sunday times — who report there was fury at the time it took for the incident to be revealed. and the express leads with an image ofjeremy corbyn, saying he ignored armed forces day invitations to appear at glastonbury. funerals in absentia have been taking place in london for some of the victims of the grenfell fire. at the al manaar mosque near to the tower block —
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hundreds gathered to say farewell to some in the community feared to have lost their lives in the tragedy. they also joined in a peaceful march to remember all the victims of the grenfell fire. the bbc asian network's shabnam mahmood was there. a distraught husband, a grieving father. he led a silent march of peace towards g re nfell tower, stopping only at the school where his daughters studied. earlier, the grief stricken father with his wife, posted a harrowing video on social media while the fire engulfed the tower, he led prayers. his wife was a volunteer who always brought us a home—made sweets. she was at the
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mosque with her two daughters and her husband is a member of the staff so for us it was almost like we were grieving with our own family. hundreds gathered to pay their respects. they are the kind of people we cannot find the right way to describe her. generous, kind, lova ble. to describe her. generous, kind, lovable. she is to help everyone. they remember heras lovable. she is to help everyone. they remember her as a mother and a wife, as a part of the community, as a person that, you know, left an imprint on the community and ijust think that the crowd and everyone coming out is a representation of what she has done for the community. as muslims get ready to mark the end of ramadan this week, celebrations will inevitably be overshadowed by the events of grenfell tower. more families are coming to terms with
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holding funeral prayers in censure for their loved ones as emergency services continued search of the building. —— in absentia. to gun salute marked the official start of national armed forces day in liverpool. across the city, the parade of serving land sea and air military personnel began its journey past thousands of supporters. personnel began its journey past thousands of supporterslj personnel began its journey past thousands of supporters. i thought it was absolutely marvellous. the turnout to support the troops is what they need. absolutely excellent. we are so proud of our
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forces. - veterans were excellent. we are so proud of our forces. . cadets. ns w! are 222.3595?— é—“ee‘j— éhggz‘tf—ffgéé “lzrzf'w' '— 7 —— — our out of our side but they should never be out of mind and it is very important that we continue to thank them. —— out of our sight. important that we continue to thank them. -- out of our sight. the earl important that we continue to thank them. -- cg} the r sight: the earti important that we continue to thank them. -- cg} the prime ;' the earti of wessex and the prime minister among those taking the salute. the vetera ns among those taking the salute. the veterans appreciated the public support. it was an honour to walk through a city like that and to have everybody applaud. it was amazing. it was brilliant. what we have been through, and for everyone to turn out, it was amazing. the now they give you is fabulous. we should not forget about them. the reception we received was brilliant because as soon as we began, the people were
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applauding and applauding until we finished. a battle of britain memorialflight was finished. a battle of britain memorial flight was another highlight. more than 100,000 people have watched a speech byjeremy corbyn at the glastonbury music festival. the labour leader took to the main stage to speak about the need for a new politics based on equality. he told the crowd he'd been inspired by the number of young people who got involved in politics for the first time during the general election. time for a look at the weather forecast. we are back to normal now with low pressure in charge of the weather. the centre of the lowest the north of the uk and that is whether strong as the wind and heaviest showers are overnight tonight. another of cloud and rain drifting to the western side of wales. by which stage temperatures will be 14, 15 degrees for london and cardiff. the blustery
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day across scotland with sunny spells and showers, northern ireland is mostly dry, bright and breezy as is mostly dry,~bright—and breezyas is mostly dry,~bright—and breesyas the is mostly dry,~oright—ano oreesyas the of is mostly dry,~oright—ano oreesyas the - of england. the is the north of england. the southern half will be cloudy with rain through the morning, not much in the afternoon that there will be some. 23 degrees in london, 15 or 16 towards glasgow and belfast. looking ahead to the coming week and it looks like it will be fairly u nsettled looks like it will be fairly unsettled with spells of rain which can be heavy at times. to go without a noticeable breeze. not a lot of sunshine in the forecast that a lot of cloud to go with the wind and rain. hello. this is bbc news. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment. first, the headlines. the government says cladding on 34 high—rise blocks of flats have failed fire safety tests. that since 17 local authority areas.
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four buildings on the chalcots estate near swiss cottage in london were evacuated last night by authorities for urgent fire safety works. some residents spent the night in hotels or on airbeds in a leisure centre. around 80 households have refused to leave. the general advice is to get outm evacuate, but until circumstances change, i intend to stay put.l final battle for mosul. iraqi forces say they will
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