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but if you go to grenfell tower, if you can pull yourselves from your tennis games and your perfect dinners? if you go there while the black skeleton of that living tower? still stands unreal in the air, a warning for similar towers to fear,? you will breathe the air thick with grief? with women spontaneously weeping? and children wandering around stunned? and men secretly wiping a tear from the eye? and people unbelieving staring at this sinister form in the sky? you will see the trees with their leaves green and clean and will inhale the incense meant? to cleanse the air of unhappiness? you will see banks of flowers? and white paper walls sobbing with words? and candles burning for the blessing of the dead you will see the true meaning of community?

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this is bbc news scathing criticism in the final report on the grenfell tower fire more than seven years ago — a chain of failures by government, the authorities and dishonest companies. 72 people lost their lives — 18 of them were children — in one of britain's worst ever residentialfires. now their families want justice. we are traumatised. we are empty inside now. seven years. justice delayed is justjustice denied. also tonight, a 14—year—old boy is charged with the murder of 80—year—old bim kohli who was attacked on sunday while out walking his dog.

the grenfell tower has stood shrouded for 7 years now since the devastating fire broke out just after midnight on june 14th 2017. the flames were so fierce it took firefighters more than 2a hours to get the blaze under control. 72 people died—dozens more were injured. since then survivors and victims families have endured a long wait to understand what today's report calls a "path to disaster" which stretched back decades. today they finally got answers. it says the people killed in the fire were badly failed at almost every level by successive governments, companies and the authorities — through incompetence, dishonesty and greed. all of the deaths were avoidable. now the families of those who died wantjustice. ourfirst report tonight is from tom symonds — a warning it includes images of grenfell tower on fire.

there have been seven years of mornings over grenfell with no definitive answers to the question — why did this happen? today was different. but this is how it all began. a fridge caught fire. the owner called 999, then got out, then turned on his camera. 31 minutes later, flames reached the roof, then unstoppable. buildings are designed to prevent fires spreading. as these pictures show, this one totally failed. nick burton was among the few rescued, guided to safety. i don't actually remember coming out into the light. i don't remember, like, being handed over. i don't remember when i took my first real breath. i know that i thought i was going to die and melt at some stage... he coughs. ..in the tower. they call that the grenfell cough. but he lost his wife, pilar, after the fire. she was the last of its 72 victims.

and this was the final conclusion of the chairman of the seven—year public inquiry. the simple truth is that the deaths that occurred were all avoidable, and those who lived in the tower were badly failed over a number of years and in a number of different ways, by those who were responsible for ensuring the safety of the building and its occupants. the largest group representing victims of the fire have always said exactly that. human life was never a priority, and we lost friends, neighbours and loved ones in the most horrific way through greed, corruption, incompetence and negligence. if you're looking for the one person or company that might have been to blame for the deaths of 72 people at grenfell, you won't find it in this massive seven—volume report, because this was a failure of the system at all levels

across the board, and it started at the top with governments labour and conservative. they were warned. fires involving flammable cladding over 18 years. six died at lakanal house in south london, but ministers and civil servants didn't change the regulations governing building materials. in 2010, david cameron and nick clegg's government wanted "a bonfire of regulations" to help businesses. in the run—up to grenfell, the inquiry says matters of safety were ignored, delayed or disregarded. in 2016, the ageing west london block was refurbished with new cladding to make it look good next to a newly constructed school. but look at the design — sheets of aluminium and plastic shaped into square boxes. a multinational, arconic, made the sheets. it didn't come up with the design, but it knew the box shape was extremely dangerous, according to the inquiry.

it had commissioned tests and found the boxes collected molten plastic. yet this was deliberately concealed from the construction market, and arconic must take responsibility for the use of cladding at grenfell, the report says. a host of contractors were involved in the work itself, including an architect, studio e, a cladding installer, harley facades, and a project manager, rydon. they were incompetent, the inquiry found, and passed the buck when it came to safety. that night, firefighters had to improvise a plan to evacuate grenfell when the fire got out of control. no—one, the inquiry said, appeared to have thought they needed to be trained. the london fire brigade said today that's changed and hundreds of lives have been saved. in the commons, this was the prime minister's response. i want to start with an apology on behalf of the british state to each and every one of you, and indeed to all of the families affected by this tragedy. it should never have happened.

the prime minister visited grenfell two weeks ago without any publicity, leaving a wreath. today, he said it was imperative there was a swift police investigation. and he went further. so i can tell the house today that this government will write to all companies found by the inquiry to be part of these horrific failings, as the first step to stopping them being awarded government contracts. and we will, of course, support the metropolitan police and the prosecutors as they complete their investigations. no charges are expected until the end of 2026 at the earliest, nearly ten years after grenfell. tom symonds, bbc news. the families of those who died finally know what led to the disaster. and now they want justice. what they don't know is whether anyone will be held to account and face criminal prosecution. seven years on, the families are still trying to come to terms with what happened.

our special correspondent, lucy manning, has spent the day with some of them. sakina afrasehabi. fatemeh afrasiabi. 72 names, and one of them, khadija khalloufi, is theirs. khadija khalloufi. ..their daughter, sister and aunt. rabeya begum. khadija was a joyful person. my sister is always smiling. she always have a positive attitude. how does it feel to hear that your sister and the other deaths were avoidable? when you are hearing that, everything was avoidable, you hurt also because of their dishonesty.

you have anger inside you. you say, what are they waiting for, to make charges, to make criminal prosecution manslaughter, to give us justice? and this is what we want. 1,700 pages that amplify injustice, grief and fury. we are traumatised. we are empty inside now. seven years. justice delayed is justjustice denied. and we were robbed of our right for thisjustice. it's thought 52—year—old khadija went to check on another family as she tried to escape. she never made it out of the building. we want to speak about khadija as a good memory. but we speak all the time, khadija was burnt, khadija died in that circumstances, so we are hurting ourself. hello, we're in grenfell tower, yes. what flat are you in? 183.

we're trying to get out. marcio and andreia gomes and their two children were trapped on the 21st floor. this was their 999 call. they survived, but andreia was seven months pregnant, and baby logan was stillborn. we knew exactly what our truth was. it's great to see it now in black and white, written down, but you can see there from the fraudulence, the greed, the dishonesty that was going on. does it give you the answers about how and why your little baby died? no, i don't think it gives me the answers of how logan died, or how anybody died. i mean, we can see there, it could have been all avoidable. it's good to hear, which i already knew, that logan died peacefully... sorry.

it's ok. yeah, and i knew that from the doctors' reports, but there's something about hearing it in the inquiry as well. but it could have been all avoided. grenfell could have been avoided in its entirety, so i'm glad he wrote that down. grenfell was notjust a building, but a community. the babies, children, parents and grandparents died here, the report is clear, due to dishonesty, disregard and incompetence. lucy manning, bbc news. a chain of failures across government and the private sector led to grenfell tower becoming a death trap.today speaking in the house of commons, the prime minister spoke directly to bereaved families and survivors,

and apologised on behalf of the british state. 0ur political correspondent helen catt is in westminster. a significant moment for the prime minister. it a significant moment for the prime minister. . , . ,, . minister. it was, and keir starmer did a capple _ minister. it was, and keir starmer did a capple of— minister. it was, and keir starmer did a couple of things _ minister. it was, and keir starmer did a couple of things really - minister. it was, and keir starmer did a couple of things really in - did a couple of things really in this speech, an apology and a promise. so it is always a significant moment when the prime minister stands in parliament and makes an apology on behalf of the state. and it's clear sir keir starmer made it clear that that is what he was doing. he told the victims, the families of the victims that they had been let down so badly he said that it never should have happened and you heard their apology a little bit earlier. and he recognised what they said was their year wait forjustice. he talked a bit more about making that a private visit to grenfell. he said he felt a sense of anger that has risen throughout the building. his apology

was also reiterated, by rishi sent who sent his deepest apologies to the families and victims, the state let you down and must never do so again. which is really a reminder that this spanned successive governments. it spanned several levels of government from national to local, you know, this was a failing of the system in effect. coming back to that promise that keir starmer made, he said that he would bring about a generational shift the memory of grenfell, we will change our country. ending on a promise that things will change. hagar promise that things will change. how challen . in: promise that things will change. how challenging will it be to keep that promise? i challenging will it be to keep that romise? ~ , , promise? i think it will be. this isn't the first _ promise? i think it will be. this isn't the first time _ promise? i think it will be. this isn't the first time in _ promise? i think it will be. this isn't the first time in recent - isn't the first time in recent months that we have seen something coming before parliament in this way. coming into the public consciousness again in this way which was a failure of the state and

a failure over successive governments, so, for example, if you think about the post office horizon scandal, where sub—postmasters were wrongly convicted over faulty it system, if you think about the infected blood scandal, these are all things which have happened across a number of years come across different governments, it tends to erode trust in our public institutions and how they function. so there is a realjob here for keir starmer and his government to show that something can be done, something can come of this and things will change. that is a real challenge, i think, things will change. that is a real challenge, ithink, in things will change. that is a real challenge, i think, in trying to restore that public faith in public institutions. it also poses a practical challenge for one of labour's key policies, they have promised that they are going to build one and half million new homes over the next five years. they say that housing is desperately needed. and so they will be doing that they

are going into that against the backdrop of this and the need to make sure that corners aren't cut, that things are delivered well we need all these new homes but there are still hundreds of thousands of people stuck in flats in towers that still have cladding, unable to sell them and unable to move on. thursday's first editions are dominated by the public inquiry into the grenfell tower fire with, just to warn you, many of the front pages showing the block ablaze. the financial times has that devestating image of the burning tower on the morning of the tragedy on the 1lithjune 2017. thursday's first editions are dominated by the public inquiry into the grenfell tower fire with, just to warn you, many of the front pages showing the block ablaze.

the financial times has that devestating image of the burning tower on the morning of the tragedy on the 1lithjune 2017. "seventy—two killed by: dishonesty, indifference, complacency" says the daily express with a similar picture of the tower engulfed in flames. 0n the daily mirror, a collage of photos of all the victims with the headline "now get them justice." a disaster caused by dishonesty and greed, says the guardian, which also places the victim's images front and centre. the i has the same collage — saying "everybody failed them" — decades of failures by successive governments, the dishonesty of the housing companies and cladding manufactureres and the lack of strategy from the fire service. the daily mail shows the family members who lost their loved ones and asks "will they ever gerjustice?" the daily telegaph says grenfell crooks and killers will not face justice until 2026, a reference to the criminal investigation. and the metro reflects on the ignored warnings signs saying there was a 26—year countdown to this disaster. the morning paper is very much focusing on grenfell. we do have much more on our website as well. let's bring you up—to—date on today's other news.

water company bosses could face potentially face prison time under new government plan's tackle pollution. the proposed laws, which apply to england and wales, could give increased powers to regulators to tackle companies who pollute and make it easier for them to be fined with a prison sentence of up to two years for executives who fail to cooperate or obstruct investigators. in the last few hours a 14—year—old boy has been charged, with the murder of an 80—year—old grandfather, who was attacked while walking his dog in leicestershire on sunday. bim kohli's family say their "hearts have been completely broken." mr kohli, who was known locally, was attacked in the braunstone town area of the city, and died later in hospital. helen astle reports from leicester. flowers and messages lined the entrance to franklin park influenced in town where brim kohli was assaulted on sunday evening. he had been out walking his dog. a postmortem examination revealed he died as a result of a neck injury. today, in a statement released through leicestershire police,

his family have paid tribute to him, describing him as a loving husband, dad and grandad. a caring person whose life was centred on his family. it is now three days since the attack and the community here is still in shock. mr kohli was a lovely, kind of a gentle his family and his allotment. you can't get closure on this. it is something that scores the whole of your life. i feel numb and frightened. some residents say there have been problems with anti—social behaviour. throwing stones, picking up one of the rocks on the front and throwing it, and general abuse with people. i am a grandparent myself and ijust think, my elderly mother lives around the corner. we should be able to walk through the park without

restraint and worry. leicestershire police say neighbourhood teams are in the area and regular patrols are being carried out. mr kohli's family say he was well known within the community. the family have lived in the same house for the last a0 years. they finish their tribute by saying, our hearts have been completely broken. helen astle, bbc news, leicestershire. in the us four people have died in a school shooting in georgia. nine others have been injured. two students and two teachers were killed. a11i—year—old student has been charged with murder. it happened at the apalachee high school in the town of winder, 50 miles northeast of atlanta. officials say the site was secured within an hour, and president biden has again called on congress to pass tougher gun controls. the priority right now for us within this investigation is to gather all the facts and make sure that we are accurate with it because this is a murder investigation. he is a 14—year—old student here at the high school.

again, he has been taken into custody. he will be charged with murder, and he will be tried as an adult, handled as an adult. ukraine's president zelensky, has once again called on western allies, to supply his country with more air defence systems. it comes after parts of western ukraine came under heavy russian attack last night. at least seven people were killed in the city of lviv, which is less than 50 miles from the border with poland. earlier this week a missile strike on the city of pol—tava in central ukraine, killing 53 people, and injuring close to 300. nick beake's report, contains details, some viewers may find distressing. smashed by moscow's latest attack, the historic centre of lviv and a family of five destroyed. mum and all three daughters killed in their own home. dad, yaroslav, the only

survivor looking on as they carried his girls away. russia said it successfully targeted sites in ukraine's defence industry. in the central city of poltava, the aftermath of yesterday's missile strike at the military academy that killed more than 50, including cadets. there's been grief across ukraine as russia intensifies its attacks, targeting towns and cities like this one far from the front line. but after two and a half years of this, ukrainians know that the russian onslaught can come to them at any time and with hardly any warning. with 300 injured at the military academy, they queued to give blood, a gesture of solidarity many wanted to make. among them oleksandr, who survived being shot in the neck on the front line last year.

i don't know how to explain this. i'm burning inside. i can only give other people my blood, my support. i can talk with them and try to understand, because i passed through this. this all feels like retribution for the incursion into russia last month. putin's revenge, ukraine's pain. nick beake, bbc news, poltava. more people have been trying to cross the channel from france, despite the deaths of 12 people yesterday. that was the single deadliest attempted channel crossing of the year so far. andrew harding reports. early this morning, and the smugglers are back in business. a bbc team filmed this crowded boat

heading up the french coast. an hour later, a boat — possibly the same one — is spotted as it veers back towards the french shore. it's already overloaded, but see how the smugglers are stopping to pick up even more passengers, like an overcrowded bus. there's a brief chase as french police try to intercept them, but it's a huge beach and the police don't get there in time. all this happening just one day after 12 died off the same stretch of coastline, six children among the dead. this afternoon, we find several french fishermen who'd pulled bodies from the sea. "the less we talk about that, the less we have to think about it," says bruno. as the french investigation continues, local police chose today to break up the makeshift migrant camp where many of those who died yesterday had been staying. like many on that boat,

these people are from the troubled african nation of eritrea. how do you feel about what happened to the eritreans on that boat? i'm stressed. this happens all the time. yeah, all the time, it's happened. people drowning, people getting in trouble. yeah, yeah, yeah, every time. the french authorities insist they are making progress in disrupting the smuggling gangs, particularly by intercepting engines and boats long before they even make it to these beaches. but the smugglers are responding by taking ever greater risks — or, rather, by putting their passengers at greater risk, cramming more of them into ever flimsier boats, with predictable and devastating consequences. andrew harding, bbc news, in northern france. scotland's first minister, john swinney, has promised? significant reform of public services, in an effort to eradicate child poverty. at holyrood he set out his plans for the year ahead, just 2a hours after his administration announced half a billion pounds in spending cuts. the scottish government has also had

to ditch an unfulfilled commitment to expand free school meals to all primary school pupils. opposition parties say the snp, has run out of ideas. tennis now, and jack draper has secured place in his first grand slam semi—final with brilliant display. the 22 year old briton beat 10th seed alex de minaur 6—3 7—5 6—2 in us open quarter—finals. nestor mcgregor has the details. our reporter stephen murphy is in the newsroom with more a big deal. absolutely. a breakthrough _ a big deal. absolutely. a breakthrough win - a big deal. absolutely. a breakthrough win for - a big deal. absolutely. a| breakthrough win forjack a big deal. absolutely. a - breakthrough win forjack draper. there's no doubt about it. you think thatjust there's no doubt about it. you think that just a year there's no doubt about it. you think thatjust a year ago he was ranked outside the world's top 100. now he showed that he belongs on the world's biggest stages, beating his opponent in straight sets and in the

final game hits a blistering winner, showed no signs of nerves whatsoever. he will take real confidence from this. he said in a post—match interview that it is a dream come true for him, and he will believe now that maybe he can go all the way. he's the first british man since andy murray to reach the last four of the us open. that was back in 2012. he spoken about how he has mist andy murray on the tour, but he will believe that he can maybe pick up will believe that he can maybe pick up where murray left off and potentially go on to win a grand slam. this will have echoes of amaretto condo's incredible run just amaretto condo's incredible run just a few years ago, yet she had to come from qualifying to get through to the final, but draper will believe that he is playing such good tennis that he is playing such good tennis that he is playing such good tennis that he mightjust get there. of course, it is a grand slam. the matches don't get any easier. in the semifinal he will play either the world number one, or the world numberfive, both of world number one, or the world number five, both of them form a grand slam champions, but draper has played so brilliantly today that he

will take confidence thatjust maybe he can go all the way in new york. oh, i bet. stephen murphy again, when i was thinking about andy murray there. stephen murphy, thank you very, very much. and congratulations to jack. oasis have hit out at ticketmaster's so—called "dynamic pricing", which saw fans pay significantly more than they were expecting for tickets to their shows. a row erupted over the weekend after many fans were asked to pay as much as £350 per ticket, around £200 more than had been advertised, due to demand. in a statement to pa media, the band said they had "at no time had any awareness that dynamic pricing was going to be used". the statement came as the band announced two further live shows at wembley stadium on the 27th and 28th of september 2025. much more news at the top of the hour. but tonight we'll leave you with some of the key voices reflecting on the grenfell tragedy, and the report which chronicles what led to this. goodnight.