the uk and lot of sunshine across the uk and fairly similar weather. and the good news that weekend is looking relatively settled as well. have a good evening. shops and. the hearing was told that behailu kebede had been terrified about giving evidence and had lived in fear of reprisals. but his lawyer said when the blaze broke out in the kitchen, he did everything right from start to finish, calling 999 and alerting his neighbours. it was accidental, and mr kebede bears no responsibility — directly or indirectly — for the fire, its spread, or the dreadful consequences that followed. we'll have the latest from the inquiry. also tonight... are you bungling brexit, prime minister? under pressure over brexit — cabinet divisions as the government prepares to set out its plans to avoid a hard border in northern ireland. targeted by hackers — the boss of tsb admits that more than a thousand customers lost money due to fraud after the bank's computer meltdown in april. and with just over a week to go

before the start of the world cup, the england manager says the team has a plan to deal with racist abuse. and coming up on bbc news, maria sharapova is out of the french open, beaten by 2016 champion garbine muguruza. and will rafael nadal make it through? we'll have all the latest. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the public inquiry into the grenfell tower fire has heard from the man who lived in the fourth—floor flat where the fire started in june last year. behailu kebede had lived in the tower block for 25 years. his lawyer told the inquiry that mr kebede did the right thing from start to finish after the fire broke out,

calling 999 and alerting his neighbours as soon as he saw smoke. the hearing was also told that mr kebede had been made a scapegoat by parts of the media and had been left terrified by threats of reprisals. our correspondent tom symonds reports. it's nearly a year now. the tower is slowly being covered up. but there is an unwavering determination to remember those who called it home, with these words appearing today. one of those residents was behailu kebede. his kitchen was where the fire started. this is him making the first 999 call. his lawyer said he fled barefoot, phone in hand, using it to film the first flames. but press reports, including this prominent article in the london review of books, reported that he had packed suitcase first. elsewhere, it was suggested

that his fridge had exploded because it was faulty. garbage, said his barrister. he had been scapegoated. he is a good man. he did nothing wrong. on the contrary, he did the right thing from start to finish. now he wants privacy for himself and his family. kensington and chelsea council has also been blamed and invaded by protesters. we want justice! for commissioning the fatal refurbishment of grenfell tower. today we heard the council's early defence. without seeking to prejudge the evidence, i venture to suggest that you will find that there was nothing unique about the royal borough of kensington and chelsea which meant that the fire was destined to take place within its boundaries rather than somewhere else. but the refurbishment was overseen by the independent tenant management organisation,

which looked after council housing in the borough. so while tmo is a specialist in the management of social housing stock, it is not a specialist design or construction company and had no in—house expertise in these areas. so it contacted out to a string of companies, including these four. victims' lawyers say this is developing into a carousel of blame passed between all the bodies and companies involved. barrister michael mansfield wanted the inquiry to take a short cut to draft immediate recommendations to improve safety for social housing tenants. this man lived on floor 15. right now, people are at risk in towers. they are at risk even in houses. it's not about grenfell tower any more, it's about the uk. the families of those lost

at grenfell and the survivors have been placed at the heart of this process, but they face a long wait for this inquiry‘s considered answers to their many questions. and we are getting bits of new information, the inquiry was told today that it was the architects, studio e, which identified the cladding to be used, that the council was shown samples of the cladding several times in 2014, and that a fire says a lot that samples of the cladding and warned it needed attention. all of that is going to be closely scrutinised in the months to come. the brexit secretary, david davis, today issued a stark warning to the eu not to punish the uk over brexit, saying that if britain was harmed, europe would be harmed too. it comes as the prime minister

is facing a showdown with some senior ministersover the government's proposals for a new customs relationship with the eu after brexit. the row is over the official back—up plan on how to avoid a hard border between northern ireland and ireland. the government's latest proposals will be published tomorrow. here's our political editor, laura kuenssberg. where is the plan? a question that has been asked often enough around here. there is no sign of the government's next brexit blueprint, promised by the end of the month. forget degale, though, one plain message to the eu today from the man in charge of the process. the commission's position seems to be shooting itself in the footjust to prove the gun works. so those who think or say that the uk must be seen to be damaged by brexit should think again, because the truth is, if you harm britain, you harm all of europe. a public telling off for the european union, but there is trouble

in private too. number ten will tomorrow publish the temporary customs arrangement, a fix in case other solutions can't be found to the long—running problem, but there are big reservations in other parts of government about that whole proposal. as ever, the government was having a hard time agreeing with itself before persuading the rest of the eu. have you personally signed off all the details of the backstop proposal we expect to be published tomorrow, and if it comes out without your explicit approval, can you stay in yourjob? that say question, i think, for the prime minister, to be honest, the second one! the detail, the detail of this is being discussed at the moment. it's been through one cabinet committee, it is going to another one, and it would be improper of me to pre—empt the negotiation. # rule britannia... he is not the only one who was grumpy, though. the

document has no specific time limit for close ties to the eu. one source says it is like hotel california — you check out of the european union but you never leave. what would be troubling for me and others who supported the leave campaign is the idea of being locked into some single markets type arrangement for an indefinite period. they are queueing up to tell theresa may what to do. the prime minister must lead, she must sort out the divisions in the cabinet, the british people are fed up with this. tory rebels at the downing street gates... very supportive of the prime minister. how can the prime minister pacify them all? i trust i will be able to convert too! are you bungling brexit, prime minister? week after week, pressure at prime esters questions. when it comes to brexit, this government has delivered more delays and cancellations than

northern rail! it is this government thatis northern rail! it is this government that is delivering on the vote of the british people! and of course, none of the shenanigans go unnoticed in the european union. have there been any new proposals from the uk and brexit this week? discussing it, yes, not in the same way. soon david davis and then the prime minister will be back in brussels — will be government still be finger—pointing 01’ government still be finger—pointing or playing nice as friends? we can talk to laura now, the back—up plan will be published tomorrow, do we know what it will say? you and viewers will know that sorting out customs arrangements after brexit is one of the trickiest things in the negotiation, and the row over at westminster has been going on for many months now, so tomorrow we will see the black and white of what is being called the temporary customs arrangements, which would kick in the longer term fixes using technology, the more ambitious ideas that the government has, cannot be made to work. so it is being known

as the backstop arrangement. it is not the government's preferred option, we should be clear, but essentially we would carry on and on and potentially on and on with something that is pretty much like oui’ something that is pretty much like our existing customs arrangements. we still have to pay attention to the rulings of the european court, although we would in theory be able to negotiate free—trade deals while in that new arrangement, which obviously we can't do now. but the other thing that is perplexing about all of this is, as i understand it, number ten is getting ready to send this to brussels tonight, and to put it into the public domain tomorrow morning. but when we heard the brexit secretary there, david davis, talk about, he said there were still negotiations going on in cabinet, there would be a meeting tomorrow when it would be discussed. that might sound very technical and very much a process, why does it matter? but it matters because it suggests that at the very top of government, the man in charge of the brexit department has a slightly different

understanding of what is going on than his next—door neighbour in number ten downing street, and at a critical moment in the whole brexit process , critical moment in the whole brexit process, that certainly does matter. unity is meant to be strength, after all, and when different bits of government are saying different things, the risk is that makes it look weak. laura, thank you. a huge fire has broken out at a luxury hotel in central london just a week after major renovations had been completed. almost 100 firefighters tackled the flames at the mandarin oriental hotel in knightsbridge, which has just undergone the most extensive restoration in its 115—year history. the huge plumes of smoke could be seen for miles around. the cause of the fire is not yet known. the future of the discount retailer poundworld is in the balance after the main contender to buy the chain pulled out of talks. alteri investors was understood to be negotiating with poundworld's owner, tpg. like many retailers, poundworld, which employs over 5,000 people, has been hit by falling consumer confidence, rising overheads, the weaker pound,

and the growth of online shopping. the boss of tsb has admitted that fraudsters targeted thousands of people's bank accounts in the aftermath of an it meltdown in april. appearing before mps, paul pester said the bank had been overwhelmed by what he called an "unprecedented attack by organised crime" after a botched systems upgrade. it resulted in money being taken illegally out of 1300 accounts. the computer problems led to almost million customers being unable to access the bank's online services. simon gompertz reports. the sorry saga of the systems upgrade which left tsb on its knees started six weeks ago, yet customers like photographer paul clark say they're still suffering. the effect has been enormous, a huge amount of mental stress, night and day. not only was paul shut out of his account,

it was then raided by fraudsters, exploiting the confusion, who took more than £10,000. then three days hanging on the phone, getting tsb to pay the money back. i have no confidence in their ability either to answer phones or to get my account back into a secure position, so i've had to make the very difficult choice to move to another bank. in charge, amidst customers leaving and the fraud attacks, paul pester, the chief executive. the volume of attacks went to approximately 70 times, seven—zero times, the normal level of attacks we would see... he told mps he had set up a fraud line for customers after tsb was overwhelmed by an unprecedented attack of organised crime. we're not willing to have customers sit there, and see their savings being taken from their bank, see their life savings in some instances being taken from them.

we have to resolve this. a new page has now been opened by the regulator, andrew bailey, who has launched a major investigation and said there have been 10,000 fraud alerts at tsb. they're in a hole, and they've got to get themselves out of that hole, so that is not the issue for me. i mean, the obvious issue is how on earth did you get in here, and how are you protecting the interests of customers? the fca's investigation into tsb will look at why the board approved the ill—fated upgrade, why it was so chaotic afterwards, and why there was no plan b. and the fca has a big stick — it can impose unlimited fines on banks, it can fine individuals and ban them from working in the business. the investigation could take more than a year, so it'll be a while before the full story is told of what went wrong at what mps today called the totally shambolic bank. simon gompertz, bbc news. our top story this evening.

the grenfell tower inquiry is told that the man who lived in the flat where the fire started lastjune had been too frightened to give evidence — even though he'd nothing wrong. and still to come... the unsung heroine being celebrated by welsh national opera. coming up on sportsday on bbc news, speaking for the first time since the ball—tampering scandal, australia are on english soil for the one—day series with a reputation to rebuild and a point to prove. this week across bbc news, we've been considering national identity within the uk — using exclusive research to look at questions of belonging, tradition and expectations. well, tonight, we take in the story from wales and scotland. our special correspondent allan little has this report on how the two nations see themselves, their relationship with the rest of britain,

and their optimism for the future. so come on then, do little bit! stuart fry is teaching me to repair a dry stone wall in snowdonia that was built, he thinks, 1000 years ago. good sedimentary rock. ask people in wales what gives them a sense of belonging to where they live, and four out of five say this, the landscape, more than language or accent, more than history, more than poetry, music, culture or heritage. there is something in me that desires to be here. it is the people of the land, you know, the old inhabitants. it is locked up in them. and i think also it is the toil that it represents, to live in this landscape was hard, and so there is that almost sentimentality of our ancestors who grafted, you know. and we need to honour them merely by honouring the landscape. but british identity is robust in wales.

79% say they feel strongly british. that is more than the 62% who say they feel strongly welsh. britishness is least strong among the young, in the generation born after the collapse of the great british industries that were once so strong in wales. coal linked south wales to yorkshire and nottinghamshire, fife and ayrshire, but the memory of that shared british enterprise is slipping away. now only 39% of the welsh say the jobs people do give them a sense of belonging. asked about political power, 84% of the welsh said they have little or no influence on the uk government. 73% say the same of the welsh government. lydia king has spent much of her adult life running projects to improve her hometown. this bowls club near ebbw vale is on land reclaimed from an old industrial site. what is there here for the children

as they are growing up? oh, there is love. and that's about it. there were a fewjobs here in the valley but these days, nothing for kids. they have to travel. all that's here is a heart and it does keep it going. but it works. it works. in scotland, there is a similar disaffection with politics, not least in dundee, but this is a city reinventing itself. the industrial dereliction that once scarred its waterfront is being swept away in a £1 billion transformation, with a new design museum, the v&a dundee at its heart. what differentiates england most starkly from scotland and wales is this nostalgic sense of something lost, the idea that the country is not as good as it used to be. that is the prevailing view in england, not so in scotland or wales, where significantly more people believe the country's best years lie ahead of it than behind it. british identity is remarkably less robust in scotland than in wales.

84% said they felt strongly scottish. 59% felt strongly british. that figure falls further among younger people. 53% for those aged 18 to 24, 51% for those aged 25 to 49. isolated heroes is a small fashion design company. it works from a converted jute mill, reflecting the city's post—industrial reinvention. i definitely identify with being scottish. i think there is just such a nice cultural thing with being scottish and a sense of community. no matter where you are in the world, if you are on holiday or you are on a trip, you do seem to find another scottish person and they identify with you. is there any part of you that feels british? i don't know. i don't think there is! i think scotland is completely moving forward and i don't look back in a nostalgic way. scottish identity is strong across all age groups. in wales that is british identity

that holds up better. but neither country shares a wistful longing for the past that seems so prevalent among their neighbours in england. allan little, bbc news. police at britain's airports and ports will be given new powers to stop suspected foreign intelligence agents at the border. the plans are part of the home office's new counter terrorism and border security bill. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford is at the home office now. is this a direct result of the salisbury attack? yes, it absolutely is. in the aftermath of that attack in salisbury, ministers and officials looked that britain's defences against so—called hostile states like russia and decided a new law was needed, very similar to ones used against terrorists. under the proposed new law which still has to be approved by mps, police, customs

and immigration officers would be able to detain someone for up to six hours at a port or border crossing, if they are thought to pose a risk ata if they are thought to pose a risk at a national security. officers would be able to question their detainee. they would be able to examine their property and also strip—searched them if it is thought they are involved in espionage or a threat to the economy or a plan to commitan act threat to the economy or a plan to commit an act of violence or another similar crime. officials think the law would be used only rarely but it is intriguing in the aftermath of the salisbury attack, the threat from countries like russia is being looked at through the same prison as the threat from terrorism. thank you. more than 200 people are still missing in guatemala after the volcanic eruption on sunday. 75 people are now known to have died — with entire families being wiped out. the fuego volcano is continuing to spew out hot ash and lava as rescuers struggle to find survivors. it was the country's worst volcanic eruption for a century. thousands of people have been moved

from their homes and fresh eruptions have been causing panic. there's just one week to go before the start of the world cup in russia — and there are widespread concerns about racism at the tournament. the england player danny rose has revealed that he has told his family not to go to the tournament — because of concerns about racist abuse. today the england manager gareth southgate said the team has a plan to deal with any racism levelled at them — but it was unlikely it would involve walking off the pitch. david ornstein reports. russia is ready, and in little over a week, a world cup which has proved controversial from the moment it was rewarded will kick off. organisers are promising a festival of football. however, the russian game has been blighted by incidents of racism and some harbour serious concerns. among them, the england defender danny rose, who has told his family to stay away. but will

the team leave the field if they experienced abuse during the tournament? i don't think the players want that. they have worked all their lives to get to a world cup, so the idealism we are able to raise the issues, confront issues, but they want to play in the tournament. today, england's 23 man squad, a group low on age and experience, yet high on belief and camaraderie, continued preparations at their st george's park base before travelling north to yorkshire. it is here at the local fa headquarters that england will train in the morning and of their final warm train in the morning and of their finalwarm up game train in the morning and of their final warm up game tomorrow night at elland road. then on tuesday they are off to russia. england ‘s most recent tournament experience ended in embarrassment, knocked out of euro 2016 by iceland,

manager roy hodgson losing his job. it is an outcome gareth southgate and players will be desperate to avoid. an american soldier has been arrested after stealing an armoured military carrier and leading police on a two—hour chase along public highways. footage shows the vehicle being pursued by more than a dozen police cars. the chase was apparently brought to an end when the man drove the vehicle onto a central reservation. he was then tasered by police who later identified him as a soldier. lady rhondda — she was a leading welsh suffragette who was imprisoned after blowing up a post box in her home town of newport. but her story has been largely forgotten. now to mark the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote, the welsh national opera is paying tribute to lady rhondda, this unsung heroine, in a new work which is being premiered tomorrow. sian lloyd reports. # she was a newport suffragette, she led that plucky crew...# celebrating the life of lady rhondda. opera singing

the largely forgotten story of this welsh suffragette and pioneering businesswoman is being brought to life in music hall style by an all—female cast and crew. so many adventurous things, so many wonderful, unbelievable, incredible things that you could hardly even make up, seem to have happened to her in her life, and it was absolutely perfect materialfor an opera. her life was remarkable in many respects. she survived the sinking of the lusitania when it was torpedoed by a german submarine during the first world war. and when herfather, viscount rhondda died, she inherited his title. she campaigned throughout her life and women to be allowed to sit in the house of lords. pictured at rallies with emmeline pankhurst, the leader of the british suffragette movement, her own fame spread when she attempted to blow up a post box in her hometown of newport. # a tiny postal fire, you'll see that we mean business,

# herbert henry asquith esquire...# something like that. i just haven't heard of her at all before which i feel totally ashamed of now, and it is just a wonderful opportunity to bring her to the forefront of this 100 years of suffrage. lady rhondda became a leader in a male dominated world of business, and wrote an influentialjournal of the time. she wanted to rip up the rule book for women. alongside the new production, welsh national opera is holding a conference to discuss the current challenges being faced for equality in the classical music world. on every aspect of this industry we need more women. we are not equally represented yet, but we're going to be, because this wonderful ball that she got rolling, lady rhondda, it has gathered speed like nobody's business. the opera rhondda rips it up premieres in newport tomorrow night. sian lloyd, bbc news.

time for a look at the weather. here's tomasz schafernaker. hello. a beautiful day today. there is not a lot of change over the next few days. it is set to continue. where we do have the sunshine, it is very strong, as strong as it gets this time of year. today, the uv levels were very high. a fraction lower tomorrow. but such is the strength of the sun you might burn through a very thin t—shirt. it is in the low 20s in the south, for most of us in the teens. temperatures will take a tumble tonight. it was fresh as to think this morning. it is a chilly night on the way. in rural spots it will be colder with a nip in the air

first thing tomorrow morning. across northern parts we have quiet weather. the storms or across western parts of europe and france. maybe one or two showers affecting the far south of the country tomorrow but they are few and far between. most of us tomorrow, a fine day. cool on the north sea coast. london could get up to 24 celsius, it depends on how much fun we get. this window of fine weather is across the uk and scandinavia through the end of the week as well. the chances are, if any cloud does get stuck close to the coastline it might linger through the day. again, cool conditions around the coast. further inland the weather is looking fine and warm and the weekend, little change. that's all from us — and now it's time for the bbc‘s news teams where you are.

this is bbc news. our latest headlines... the grenfell tower inquiry has heard how the man who lived in the flat where the fire began has been vilified by some in the press and left terrified by possible reprisals. whatever the precise cause or origin of the fire in mr kebede's kitchen, it was accidental and mr kebede bears no responsibility, directly or indirectly, for the fire. the bbc understands there's disagreement within the cabinet on a future customs arrangement with the eu, should no formal agreement be agreed with brussels before brexit.