tonight at ten — the catastrophic breaches in fire safety that led to the deaths of 72 people in grenfell tower. the official inquiry is told about the origins of the fire and hears the first 999 call made from the tower on that night. i have to get the address, 0k? the inquiry is told that dangerous cladding and unsuitable fire doors were all factors in the fire spreading so rapidly. the fundamental question which lies at the heart of our work is how, in london, in 2017, a domestic fire developed so quickly and so catastrophically. and the advice to residents to stay in their flats until help arrived was deficient from an early stage. we'll have the details. also tonight... a teenager is found guilty of plotting a terror attack in london as part of britain's first all—female cell

of the islamic state group. rail passengers still facing disruption caused by the new timetables — now the government orders an inquiry. at least 62 people have now died following the eruption of a volcano in guatemala. and a journey around england in search of englishness and the words that matter. and coming up on sportsday on bbc news, doctors have revealed liverpool keeper loris karius was concussed during the champions league final in which he made two errors to help real madrid claim the trophy. good evening. the fire at grenfell tower — which happened lastjune — spread through the entire building because of catastrophic failures

in fire safety standards. dangerous cladding and unsuitable fire doors were key factors in the fire, which caused the deaths of 72 people. the findings were included in expert evidence presented to the inquiry. this report by our special correspondent lucy manning contains distressing images from the night of the fire which were shown at the inquiry today. asleep in the safety of their homes, but this building was a death trap, a majorfire hazard. devastating details revealed to the inquiry, how grenfell tower was covered in material that would burn easily, that was not properly tested and how, once covered in flames, the fire brigade‘s strategy telling residents to stay in theirflats failed. the burnt—out kitchen of flat 16 on the fourth floor where the fire started and then spread. the 999 call from the resident who escaped from here heard for the first time.

videos played to the inquiry showed just how quickly the fire spread up and across. at first, it was just on the fourth floor. 20 minutes after the 999 call, it was at the side of the building. that is my yard. half an hour after it started, it reached the top of the tower. when the inquiry experts said the fire brigade‘s "stay put" advice failed. the fundamental question which lies at the heart of our work is how, in london, in 2017, a domestic fire developed so quickly and so catastrophically

that an entire high—rise block was engulfed. the inquiry‘s experts found the main cause of the fire spreading was the cladding, which was flammable and had not been properly tested. new windows had been installed, made of material that material also made of material burnt easily and new fire doors were put in that were not fire compliant. the bereaved have told the inquiry many more would have survived if the fire brigade had not told families to stay in their flats for so long. the inquiry report said this stay put advice effectively failed at 1:26 in the morning, but it continued, even though a major incident was declared at 2:06. the advice to stay put was eventually dropped nearly two hours into the fire. it's clear to see that at 1:14am that the building was done, it is clearly spreading fast,

the fire is uncontrollable people need to get out. we have to ask the tough question, why was it that the stay put policy was not changed? 71 people did not make it out and the inquiry says it would need to examine whether the failure to change that advice made all the difference between life and death. in a statement to the inquiry today, london fire brigade‘s commissioner dany cotton said she'd never witnessed anything like the grenfell fire. the tower itself had only been refurbished a year before. 0ur correspondent tom symonds looks at the factors which led to the fire spreading so quickly. the original grenfell tower, built in the 19705 from reinforced concrete, which doesn't burn. after all, buildings like this were designed to stop fires spreading.

take one flat, this is black 16, whether grenfell fire started. it was like a concrete box which should have contained any small fire, but then the building was refurbished. the windows were changed, with new, deeper plastic frames and insulation around them, both flammable. the inquiry‘s main theory is that this provided an escape route for flames to the outside, where cladding had been added, containing more plastic. this, too, but rapidly, turning a kitchen fire into an inferno. there was a catastrophic failure of the main screen cladding in terms of its ability to resist the fire spread gci’oss ability to resist the fire spread across the walls of the building. all of the relevant expert5 across the walls of the building. all of the relevant experts are clear that the consequence wa5 all of the relevant experts are clear that the consequence was a fire that affected multiple storie5 and multiple compartments. fire that affected multiple storie5 and multiple compartmentsm

fire that affected multiple storie5 and multiple compartments. it shot up and multiple compartments. it shot up the tower‘s pillar5, entirely covered with cladding, and along the crown of the building, al5o cladding. the 5tay crown of the building, al5o cladding. the stay put policy is used when buildings are designed to contain a fire. it is rare for other re5ident5 contain a fire. it is rare for other residents to be at risk and evacuation can hamper the firefighting, but this building had been changed and one inquiry expert, dr barbara lane, said, "i have found no evidence that no member of the de5ign no evidence that no member of the design team or the construction team a5certained the fire performance of the rain screen cladding system materials." the inquiry revealed along, deadly li5t grenfell‘s defects today. new flat fire doors hadn't been installed properly, the once to the stairs were nearly 50 yea r5 once to the stairs were nearly 50 years old. the ventilation system couldn't be used to clear 5moke, years old. the ventilation system couldn't be used to clear smoke, the water supply was too weak to supply ho5e5 higher up in the building. all this in one day of evidence. in coming weeks, the fire service will explain its response, expert5 their

findings. the residents will tell their stories up that night. a search for answers, it will take months. tom symonds, bbc news. let's talk a little more about today's events at the inquiry, lucy manning i5 today's events at the inquiry, lucy manning is with me. a mass of material expert5 presented, what have we learned? we learned about a concrete building, home5 have we learned? we learned about a concrete building, homes to hundred5, which could at any moment being engulfed in flames because of the refurbishment that was made and thati5 the refurbishment that was made and that is exactly what happened last year. that night, the fire brigade had a very difficult and very dangerousjob had a very difficult and very dangerous job because of the problems with the cladding, the fire doors, the windows. the flames and the smoke wa5 doors, the windows. the flames and the smoke was greater than they had ever experienced, it was an unprecedented fire, the inquiry heard, but their decision—making, their training, their equipment, their training, their equipment, their policy—making and the strategy of staying put, that will be thoroughly examined by the inquiry. 187 people made it out of the

building before they finally changed the policy that everyone should get out and after that, unfortunately, only 36 managed to escape. there was al5o today a warning from the inquiry to the companies involved in g re nfell inquiry to the companies involved in grenfell but they need to be, in essence, more open grenfell but they need to be, in e55ence, more open with the inquiry. the inquiry has asked for more witness statements and said to them that they should re5ist witness statements and said to them that they should resist the temptation of the merry—go—round of the buckpa55ing and tell the inquiry about the events as they knew them and so it's as like the inquiry is on getting the sort of cooperation that they want from everyone involved in grenfell. lucy, thank you very much. a teenagerfrom london, who became the youngest female in the country to be charged with terror offences relating to the islamic state group, has been convicted at the old bailey of planning an attack in the uk. safaa boular, now 18, wa516 when she was first investigated by the police. she is part of an all—female family terror cell which planned two separate attacks, as our home affairs correspondentjune kelly reports. shots fired

this was when armed officers moved in on the uk's first all—female terror cell. firing cs gas cani5ter5 into a flat in north—west london. in the mayhem, one of the women, rizlaine boular, was shot by police. she'd been hours away from causing carnage on the streets of london. al5o detained was her mother, mina dich. her younger sister safaa had already been arrested for planning her own separate attack. we believe that they were going to attack members of the public at random u5ing knives, with a view to inflicting injury or certainly killing individuals, so we intervened at an early stage with a view to frustrating that terrorist plot. mina dich with her daughters when they were growing up, rizlaine at the back, safaa at the front. all three went on to embrace violent extremism and, by the age of 16, safaa boular was trying to marry

an is fighter in syria. she had never met navid hu55ain. theirs was an online relationship. when he was killed, she was distraught. the couple had talked about how safaa boular could carry out an attack here in the area around the british museum in central london. they di5cussed an ambush involving guns or grenades and using a car and a knife. safaa boular was arrested, but she then encouraged her sister to carry out her own attack. in court, safaa boular wore we5tern clothing and during her trial, she said she now rejected islamist extremism. the jury heard a recording of a phone call she made from prison to her sister, who was on the outside. during that conversation, her sister rizlaine spoke of her plans to hold a "mad hatter‘s tea party", which the prosecution said was code for a terror attack. safaa boular disappointed

that she couldn'tjoin in. the following evening, rizlaine was being driven around westminster by their mother scouting targets. mother and daughter then went on a shopping trip to sain5bury‘5 to buy knives for their attack. they paid for them with the rest of their shopping. it was the daughter rizlaine that was going to be the killer. the women were arrested the next day. zak tye was at school with rizlaine boular. rizlaine was a very outgoing person, she was very lovely to talk to, always smiling, very, you know, very intelligent, i would say and all—round just a regular teenager. it isjust strange to hear that in her adulthood, she became such a monster,

i guess. she and her mother mina dich had already pleaded guilty to terrorism charges. today, her sister safaa, the youngest member of this family terror cell, was convicted by a jury. all three women will be sentenced later. june kelly, bbc news. the conviction today of safaa boular, the conviction today of safaa boular came as the government launched its new counter—terrorism 5trategy. there'll be a wider sharing of intelligence by the security services. and private companies will be better able to alert authorities to suspicious activity. 0ur security correspondent frank gardner is outside mis‘s headquarters in central london. frank, what difference will be strategy make in your view?|j frank, what difference will be strategy make in your view? i think it will make quite a lot of difference, because it comes on the back of a massive operational review into how the police and m15 tried to track suspects and that of course follows la5t yea r‘s track suspects and that of course follows last year's di5astrou5 year

of terrorist attacks here in britain. but behind me, m15, the security service, are going to declassify quite a lot of their secret intelligence held on a list of well over 100 5u5pects, part of a li5t of well over 100 5u5pects, part of a list of several thousand, and share it more widely, right down to local government level. the idea being that more people will have an idea what suspects are up to. it is controversial, though, because some people are saying, hang on, we local government, we are not the police or mi5, government, we are not the police or m15, why should we do theirjob for them? today, m15, why should we do theirjob for them ? today, i m15, why should we do theirjob for them? today, i blunted to mak5el, them? today, i blunted to mak5el, the government's independent review of terrorist legislation and he gave it the thumbs up —— i bumped into max hill. frank gardner at m15 headquarters. the transport secretary chris grayling has ordered an independent inquiry into the chaotic introduction of new rail timetables which has disrupted part5 of the network. he blamed network rail and the rail companies involved, but labour said he bore ultimate

responsibility and should re5ign. govia thame5link and northern have implemented temporary schedule5 today, removing hundreds of trains from the timetable as our political editor laura kuen55berg reports. cancelled. quite diabolical. stuck on platforms for hours. just disaster. waiting for train5 that never come. wa5 supposed to start work at half seven but i don't think i'm going to get there until eight now. traveller5 wondering what's going on and who to blame. a new timetable sent services around the country haywire. northern, great northern, southern and thame5link. tonight, network rail owned up. i'm saying it's our fault. i'm recognising network rail'5 position in that, which is that we are to blame and actually we have to fix it for everybody. 0rder, statement, the secretary of state for transport. but that is not how more

and more mp5 see it. the transport secretary promised an enquiry and some form of compensation today. mr speaker, i would like to be able to tell the house that there is an easy solution or that the department could simply step in and make the problems passengers are facing go away. if there was a way to do so, i would do that without hesitation or a moment. but ultimately this solution can only be delivered by the rail industry. these problems can only be fixed by network rail and the train operator5 methodically working through the timetable. there is one person who is ultimately responsible. that is the right honourable gentleman, the member for epsom and ewell, the secretary of state for transport. then he was roasted by the backbencher5 on both sides. aren't my constituents entitled to think that this is just an utterly pointle55 transport secretary, because nothing ever changes under his watch? i have constituents who today are standing in sweltering heat for five hours, some of them fasting for ramadan, if they can get a train at all. it is a disgrace and what is she going to do to make it right today? 20 years ago i was using this line.

it was rubbish then and it's rubbish now. people's private lives are being destroyed and this whole thing is an absolute di5aster and must be put right. some of those angry mp5 were able to see the transport secretary individually tonight after, you guessed it, some delays and cancellations to those meetings. this is notjust political frustration now but real life stress and strain. the thame5link journey that vikki 0rvice takes to and from work and for chemotherapy has been a 5hamble5. one of my limitations is that i can't physically stand for very long. so i was then worrying about getting a seat on the train because one train an hourcoming in is then absolutely rammed. i would have had to physically 5tand for an hour and a half on that train last wednesday. number ten says the situation is an acceptable. is unacceptable.

ministers are vowing to sort out the mess. but what meaning has a political promise which has no guarantee of getting from a to b? laura i5 laura is live in westminster. chris grayling the transport secretary is not only dealing with problems on the railways, there's also the highly controversial matter of a possible third runway at heathrow, which the cabinet is considering tomorrow. there are some big ideas on the table to try and untangle the stress and prevent this thing happening in the future. but one of those meetings he was open to the idea potentially, breaking up northern, the huge franchise in the north—west that has had huge trouble and chaos for passengers in recent. however chris grayling tries to look determined today to fix this, there i5 determined today to fix this, there is this belief in westminster, ju5t a5 is this belief in westminster, ju5t as there is pop art is around the country at just how

as there is pop art is around the country atju5t how bad this has been. and how it was allowed to happen when there was so much preparation in advance, how did that billy mcbryde the department for transport allow the train companie5 to go ahead if this kind of mess wa5 ju5t to go ahead if this kind of mess wa5 just around the corner. but he has plenty to do and plenty in his in trade and early tomorrow morning at 8:30am he will have to move on to another subject, when a cabinet committee is poised to rubber—stamp the government's plans for that controversial runway at heathrow airport. this has been politically hot for years, and years but i am told mini5ter5 hot for years, and years but i am told ministers are expected to give the equivalent of outline planning permission to the project. they have three weeks to get it through the house of commons, another bumpy journey for government who is fighting on plenty of fronts. thank you, laura. the prime minister has told president trump

that us tariffs impo5ed on eu steel and aluminium are "unjustified and deeply disappointing." the remarks were made in a phone call today, when the two leaders agreed to discuss the issue at the g7 summit in canada this week. at least 62 people have died following a volcano eruption in guatemala. the country's di5aster agency say5 more than two million people, roughly a tenth of the country's population, have been affected. 0ur correspondent aleem maqbool is outside guatemala city, a short distance from the fuego volcano, with the latest. three days of mourning have been declared for those who have been killed. tho5e whose bodie5 declared for those who have been killed. tho5e whose bodies have been recovered and for those who have yet to be found. all the time there is this sense of fear there is more to come. there has been 5ub5equent explosion5 come. there has been 5ub5equent explosions and there has been an earthquake ju5t explosions and there has been an earthquake just got a marla in

recent hours and people are still reeling from the huge, major corruption. a5 spectacular and dramatic as it was destructive and deadly. in its most violent eruption in decades, the volcan de fuego or volcano of fire, exploded in a massive shower of molten rock and ash. the plumes ro5e 5everal miles into the air. in one village, fascination with what was going on quickly turned to terror as hot a5h shot towards onlookers. fast—moving rivers of burning mud and debris 5pread chao5. in the panic, family members were split up, children 5eparated from their parents and many are still missing. translation: i only managed to find two children alive last night. my two daughters, grandson and my son are missing, together with my entire family. and entire villages were blanketed in a suffocating layer of hot a5h. it's clear many 5tood little chance of getting away.

those who did have been left shell—shocked, next to bodie5 of people who died in the village of el rodeo, an elderly man 5it5. look at the state i'm in, he says. recovery workers continue to look for survivors or for more bodies, but they do that in the shadow of a volcano that could erupt again at any time. translation: the challenge we faced is the volcano has been active and the difficulty of working with this kind of material, which is extremely hot. many re5cuers reported their shoes melted into the ground as they worked. this was always known to be an active volcano, but an eruption as big as this that has claimed so many lives, was beyond living memory. now a new generation knows the horrors of what volcano of fire can bring. aleem maqbool, bbc news, in guatemala.

at least seven people have been killed in a bomb attack in the afghan capital kabul. a suicide attacker targeted a large gathering of muslim clerics from across afghanistan who were meeting to voice their opposition to the ongoing violence. the islamic state group has said it carried out the attack. the government is to consider direct investment to build a new multi—billion pound nuclear power station at wylfa on anglesey. the business secretary greg clark said this would be alongside the japanese government and the japanese company hitachi. the original wylfa nuclear power station closed in 2015 after more than a0 years of service. trade union membership among the under 305 has fallen to its lowest level in over 15 years partly because of the growth in the so—called gig economy and zero hours contracts. the tuc, which has released the figures admits that unions have to earn the right to represent younger generations or risk becoming irrelevant. 0ur economics editor kamal ahmed has the story.

the new and old world of work. tyneside, modern buildings and traditional factories, the face of change. but memories of a different world for those who started work more than 50 years ago when every acre was covered in factories operating date and night. in the early 605 there were 10,000 people working here. everyone in the companies i've worked in the in a union. if you weren't in a union you wouldn't have a job. and i think employers quite like the fact they had organised labour. they might not like times of conflict, but certainly most of the time, there was cohesion, working together. sam is 24. for him, a different experience. i left school and i went to work in a chippy. put myself through college, i put myself through college and i went roofing. i didn't even know the union existed. it wasn't spoken of,

it's something probably 97% of people didn't know about at that age. the tuc first met in victorian splendour in manchester in 1868 at the mechanics institute, still standing today. it was a simple idea, workers who organised had a stronger voice. the big question is this, is that rather simple idea beginning to break down? young people today, whatever the pressures of the new world of work, are only half as likely to be a member of a trade union than they were 20 years ago. those pressures are pretty clear, insecurejobs, more lower paid and lower skilled work. people worrying they can't make ends meet. i asked the head of the tuc why the young weren'tjoining up. the problem is that many of their employers, especially in the private sector, make it hard for us to organise them. so if you think about where young people are working on temporary

and 0—hours contracts, often in franchise organisations that are hard to organise. the model we have isn't working for them, so we've got to fix it. we can use 215t—century tools like digital to organise young people in new ways that suit them. if you don't, in 20 or 30 years, you could be over, couldn't you? of course. we've got to earn our right to represent. that is the challenge — a 150—year—old organisation catching up with the new world of work. kamal ahmed, bbc news. football and doctors in the the us say the liverpool goalkeeper, loris karius, suffered concussion during the club's champions‘ league defeat to real madrid in the final. karius was criticised for making two crucial errors in the game. doctors in massachusetts examined the goalkeeper and concluded his performance could have been affected by the concussion. liverpool football club have made no comment. the people of yorkshire believe they live in god's 0wn country. in lancashire, they're proud

of their red rose county. kent boasts that it is the garden of england. but which county in england has the strongest identity? for the first time, bbc news has tried to map the local and regional loyalties across england. our home editor mark easton has been exploring people's sense of belonging and local identity. beneath the veneer of national identity, england is a rich tapestry of ancient allegiances and rivalries. support your county! show your colours! in yorkshire, the medieval emblem of the white rose is still glorified as a symbol of county pride. as the tour de yorkshire cycle race speeds across the east riding, local schoolchildren are taught what it means to hail from yorkshire. there are lessons in welly wanging, pudding races and tug—of—war. the amount of children that have said "what's welly wanging? what's the tug—of—war?" well, acctually, it's tradition in yorkshire,

so it's just to show them that and have a fantastic day. yorkshire, with its own unofficial anthem, has the strongest county identity in england. locals refer to yorkshireness — straight—talking, ha rd—working, friendly and supportive. the yorkshire identity is rich with the values of resilience and community. we all stick together and have each other‘s back. we're nice, kind people. we get on with anybody. good sense of humour. good sense of humour, that's a big part of it. are you proud to be a yorkshireman? yeah. i'd sooner be yorkshire than english. england's urban identities, forged in the industrial revolution, are felt equally strongly, none more so than in newcastle. iron bridges and brown ale, industry and solidarity. i'm proud to be a geordie.

it means so much to me. i bask in wor uniqueness. here's a grand old place to be. we are a separate entity, neither englishman nor scot. there is no place i'd rather be. newcastle has the lot. we were invaded by the vikings... the strongest identities tend to be those laced with struggle and grievance. we're bonded by hard work and humour in hard times, and i think that brings the community together. identity has been created by hardship, absolute hardship. the newcastle identity‘s not just about who you are, it's about who you're not. nowhere in england feels a rival more intensely than newcastle, and the place that comes second — well, that's a cityjust ten miles south down the coast... sunderland. i think it's always been there, even more so at the minute, in a funny kind of way, because they've obviously just been relegated!

not that anyone's taking any pleasure from that! no, not at all! in parts of england, the roots of identity drink from the waters of the ancient. in somerset, the mendip morris men dance on the land of the summer people... a dominion of apple blossom that predates england itself, where cider and cheese, dragons and the magical orchard wassail are all part of the story. you bless the trees by making a lot of noise to scare the evil spirits away, and then you sing a chant. of course you do. and that will ensure a good crop for next year. and it works? yes, so far, so good! with the rebirth of the wassails, to some extent, people are kicking