but they‘re tmo worked through that with the tenants. of the tmo over a period of time. when you are in the business of managing people‘s housing you at the rubbing edge of things which cause disruption, uncertainty, unhappiness, but london‘s housing stock is getting old, it needs to be refurbished or replace, that is what the council is committed to, we need to work with the tmo bring about. this awful tragedy has overwritten everything else and has underlined how important it is to get renovation, refurbishment, regeneration right across london. this has been an awful tragedy for kensington and chelsea but it raises a number of issues about towers and the way housing has been designed in the way housing has been designed in the last 50 or 60 years. those questions will involve notjust you as an individual borough that councils around london, the mayor, local government, local authorities all over the country. it must be very difficult for people to get a good night‘s sleep this week if they live in a loving of that kind and what they h

another example of the incompetence of this tmo. which you say you hope the worst mistakes could be systematically torn down as a result of the terrible events of one full tower. how quickly will it be possible to do that? for three days i have been saying to the prime minister we need to know which tower blocks have been checked, which are safe to the standards we have got, which ones need further checks so we have that transparency. if it is the case that some tower blocks are a death trap we need to know which ones they are an action needs to be taken to provide housing for those communities in their same areas, investigate those tower blocks in a safe way. sadiq khan, mayor of london, thank you for being with us this lunchtime. the chancellor has been speaking about the forthcoming brexit negotiations. he's insisted the government wants a seamless brexit so the uk can leave the eu and the customs union without what he called "cliff edges". the prime minister, theresa may, has always said that no deal is better than a bad deal wi

the operation of the tmo, the way blocks are refurbished, and managed, those are proper questions butquestions for this afternoon, they are for the enquiry. this has been an awful tragedy for kensington and chelsea and its residents but it raises a number of issues about towers and the way housing has been designed over the last 50 or 60 years. nick paget—brown, leader of kensington and borough council. in the last few moments, downing street has outlined a statement —— released a statement outlining how the emergency fund will be distributed. every household whose house has been destroyed will receive a guaranteed £5,500, £500 in cash, £5,000 in addition will be delivered by the department for work and pensions into bank accounts, or other arrangements will be made for those who do not have bank accounts, a single payment into a bank account oi’ a single payment into a bank account or some other method. —— number ten has just released a statement outlining how the five million pound emergency fund will be distributed. people need the £500 now, they can get the council from —— they ca

no one has come out from the council or from the tmo.ay and asked them for storage space for the items we have been given. they wouldn't offer it and they wouldn't give me a reason why they wouldn't give me a reason why they couldn't give me the community hall that they went out every single day for profit. right now, the leader of the council is up there in his office and they will not give us answers. how his office and they will not give us answers. how many his office and they will not give us answers. how many people have died? why are people being rehoused outside of london even know there was a meeting in parliament the other is a promising us that wouldn't happen? we need answers now. the authorities would say that confirming the identities of those who have died is an important process which will take time. that's true, but we know how many flaws they wearing that building. they got to the 12th floor at five o'clock in the morning. they couldn't get any higher. there are more than 100 people dead. that's 50 children at least. yo

the operation of the tmo, the way blocks are refurbished, and managed, those are proper questions butnot questions for this afternoon, they are for the enquiry. this has been an awful tragedy for kensington and chelsea and its residents but it raises a number of issues about towers and the way housing has been designed over the last 50 or 60 years. studio: nick paget—brown, leader of kensington and chelsea borough council. our correspondent mark lobel is at notting hill methodist church in west london where one of the services was held earlier. a very moving service earlier today, one of many taking place to commemorate those who were injured and who died in the fire. that is right, we heard from people coming out of the service, incredibly emotional moment, trying to come to terms with what happened and why. all day long it seems we have had conflicting views across this story, if you like, about how relief effo rts if you like, about how relief efforts have gone, ever since the fire broke out behind me. we were discussing high visibilityjackets earlier, we heard the interview with t

yeah, to be quite honest, tmo, they do not ca re be quite honest, tmo, they do not care about their tenants... you can ask him, and then come back. we have been let down by the council. the tenant management organisation, where are they? everyone is pulling together, it is the community, i have not seen anyone! i have not seen any support... i live directly opposite. saw i it... support... i live directly opposite. sawlit... i support... i live directly opposite. saw i it... i smell the fire, 12:30am, icame saw i it... i smell the fire, 12:30am, i came out, and i can literally see people in the windows, banging, children screaming. i have heard grown men literally on fire, banging at the windows until the windows were full of smoke. standing there, i cannot do anything. even until now, i have not seen any kind of support will stop everyone is trying to get a story and understand what is going on, but people feel let down. we don't seem to have that support. we don't seem to get any feedback from the council, where are they? for what it's worth, for what it's worth, i saw the council leader,

my understanding is their concerns were looked at and officers in the tmo or the council made enquiriese were, umm, we had done what was necessary. the government has now ordered a check on the fire safety of all similar block. the official death toll is now 12. nobody expects it to stay there. the fire brigade say they rescued 65 people from grenfell tower, which is thought to be home to up to 600 residents. crews have reached, but not searched, every floor of the 2a—storey building. newsnight‘s katie rassall reports. he said! he said i am in the building and cannot leave because of the smoke. we are not leaving. that is what he said. the waiting is torture. this man's mother—in—law lives with three children in the building. he spoke to the relatives as the fire was spreading. we phoned, but the phone kept ringing. no one answered the phone. there was no answer. his phone. there was no answer. his phone was ringing. to be stuck in that situation, it has got to be difficult. just a family in one flat, in one place, is difficult. they will have to make life changing decisions. i am they

the council, the tmo have been putting fear in their tenants in terms of making sure that they don'tommunity and if they do so, they will lose priority in terms of housing. i have had celebrities. i have had radio station members, i have had millionaires who are trying to offer me personally and for my family a place of accommodation. if i had of taken place of accommodation. if i had of ta ken those steps place of accommodation. if i had of taken those steps up, if i had of taken those steps up, if i had of taken that opportunity, not only would i have left behind all those that are missing and all those that are affected, but i have lost my rights and it is a doubty of care that the council has to look after me. if you accept help from someone else, the council can say you have got that help. you're not in the queue anymore. it isjust the charity and the churches and the mosques give you £3,000 % charity and the churches and the don't have to charity and the churches and the mosques give 3 don't have to answer= £3,000. .. you don't have to answer this because £3,000... you don't ha

the operation of the tmo, the way blocks should be refurbished and managed, those are proper questionswill surely be set up to investigate the fire. awful tragedy for kensington and chelsea and its residents but this is, it raises a number of issues about towers and the way that housing has been designed over the la st 50 housing has been designed over the last 50 or 60 years. some form of apology that relief efforts were not as co—ordinated as they could have been. they are called native if people are not seeing it that way. one person who has been very critical of the council and the government, who was visiting the area earlier today, visiting a church, london now, sadiq khan, this is what he had to say. i spent this morning at a church service speaking to many residents, many families of the bereaved, many survivors and their experience is a million miles away from the experience of the leader of the council. it is clear to me, and i have spoken to many residents, that there has been a vacuum. the council has failed to go to residents, failed to do the outreach work and has assumed

they've invited the chief executive of the tmo, the leader of the council.lready invited them and they declined to come to an earlier meeting. have you had a response from them for this meeting? not. the leader of the council's comments on newsnight, i can only assume he was badly briefed. he said a p pa re ntly assume he was badly briefed. he said apparently there was no sprinkler system included in the refurbishment because the residents opposed it. i attended all but one and i have no recognise legges of sprinklers ever being mentioned. this on the face of it looks like victim blaming. i'm form amy asking him to withdraw that statement or prove it. i don't think he can. if he and other members of council and of the arms length body managing grenfell tower of, if they do appear at this meeting, what do you want to hear from them?l do appear at this meeting, what do you want to hear from them? a range of commitments. a lot of the practicalities of the people displaced are not being sorted out. they can't go back into flats to collect belongses. this is peop

he would send e—mails to the tmo, and most of the time, they would receive it but we felt our voicesng in the shadow of what was your former home, yourformer shadow of what was your former home, your former estate. you seem shadow of what was your former home, yourformer estate. you seem lucid and articulate about what has happened, but you must be in a state of shock. i was more in a state of shock while it was happening. while i was watching it. because i was there from the beginning and i was picking up on small things because i knew that maybe this could get out of hand, i try to pick up as many details as i possibly could just in case we could help with the investigation. yeah, because i know a lot of people don't remember exactly what happened because there we re exactly what happened because there were other things going through their mind. at that time, my family was safe, so i was seeing if i could help by remembering as much as i possibly could. very very good to talk to you. each person we speak to has many questions for the authorities, and more questions have been put to

i just want to say i really have a lot of anger to the organisation, tmo, the tmo failed everyone livingve been going back, concerns of residents... yes. was it something that you had raised? yeah. we have been going in meetings since we moved to the building. what time was that? we moved building. what time was that? we m ove d two building. what time was that? we moved two years ago. everything was still like going on in the building. they were changing and fixing the building at that time. i saw all the neighbours, they were angry. they we re neighbours, they were angry. they were complaining complaining. they we re were complaining complaining. they were having meetings with the council. there was that big refurbishment. nearly £10 million was spent. the inside didn't look good. it doesn't look good. they didn't do anything inside. they changed a boiler and they did the boiler next to the door, the flat door. the entrance of the main flat. i used to sleep if this boiler blows up i used to sleep if this boiler blows up how am i going to leave the flat? we told him... we refused and th

the leadership of the council and the cabinet needs to resign, the tmo organisation, which is completely the housing and care needs of the residents and they need to do something. i am residents and they need to do something. iam now residents and they need to do something. i am now appealing to tory backbenchers who have seen themselves the way their cabinet is not coping, to get a grip and organise themselves. wouldn't a wholesale change of leadership at the top of the council caused more problems? we thought that there might be more chaos but we are now ina might be more chaos but we are now in a situation where the other local authorities who have been supporting us authorities who have been supporting us want to pull out, but they are not able to pass responsibility, particularly not for the housing needs back to the council, because the council is not functioning. that is why, at the end of the day, yesterday, i urged the government to sendin yesterday, i urged the government to send in commission is to run it for us. send in commission is to run it for us. it is not often that a c

this is from the same organisation as tmo. they should have put things in place. as simple as that.s up to scratch. no more lives taken at this time. in terms of your search for khadija and information about her, i know a lot of people are in that situation. how are you going to go about that? talking to us, talking to people on the media? keeping in contact with the media? keeping in contact with the friends that we share, basically keeping in contact. instagram and facebook. if anyone has any news, let them know, show awareness of who is where and are they alive. it is more about surging. at the moment, i can't go in the building to go and search. the only thing i can do is help the community with clothes, putting clothes into vans and things like that. at the moment, it's all i can do. you're doing great work trying to find your friend. i know it is an incredibly distressing time for you and many others so thank you very much for your time injoining us. you're welcome. thanks. there is an emergency number set up for anybody who has concern about loved ones, missing friends or rel

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i think that the tmo organisation, which has completely collapsed and failed to do anything in the lasts and they need to do something. so, i'm now appealing to tory backbenchers, who have now seen for themselves the way that their cabinet is not coping, to get a grip and organise themselves. wouldn't a wholesale change of leadership at the top of the counciljust cause more problems right now? well, that's one reason why we waited — we did think that there might be more chaos, but actually, we're now ina situation where the other local authorities who have been supporting us want to pull out, but they are not able to pass responsibility, particularly not for the housing needs, back to the council, because the council is not functioning, which is why, at the end of the day yesterday, i urged the government to send in commissioners to run it for us. that's what you think should happen? it's not often that a councillor calls for the abolition of his own council, but at the end of the day, as everybody so, something needs to be done. you're saying kensington and chelsea just isn't up to thi

if i listen to the advice given to me by the fire brigade and by the tmo management team, we could bee got family on the 18th floor, and you spoke to them last night? what were they saying? smoke. they couldn't get out because of the smoke. i asked... i don't know what i would do ifi asked... i don't know what i would do if i was him. hejust stayed in the room, hoping the fire brigade would get up there. that is what they were told? yeah, they stayed in there to follow the instructions. not much you could do from the 80th floor and they cannot fly. —— 18th. he was like an older brother, always looking after me. what is the latest? apparently it has been confirmed that he has passed, due to the chemicals from the building, in the chemicals from the building, in the hospital... ijust... i don't know what to think. the moment that building went up, how, why? there area building went up, how, why? there are a lot of questions to be asked. the voices of those affected by the tower block fire in the early hours of the morning. i noticed as soon as icame to of the morning. i noticed as soon

they tried to get in touch with the tmo and council about moving the boilers and council about moving really aware that there would be a problem with the flammability of the cladding, but we knew they were all of these historical fire safety problems. the power surges, fire safety equipment not being checked regularly and they complained about that for a long period of time and had no response. they were very worried about that. we do know, and i can still see you are very we do know, and i can still see you are very emotional about it, we know there will be this public enquiry and they will be looking at so many things with regard to what happened, how it happened and the rest of it. are you optimistic that this will bring answers and change?” are you optimistic that this will bring answers and change? i don't feel very optimistic. what is really shocking is that theresa may spoke to the media about the public enquiry yesterday before she even reply to the tenants. the tenants e—mailto the reply to the tenants. the tenants e—mail to the day before yesterday —— e—mailed her the e—mail

one of the things that we have to complain about the council as we believe the council and the tmo havere people who have been prophesying some catastrophe like this for some time. what we have two stress is that we simply do not know, nobody knows, the fire brigade does not know what happened here. you see that their fire took hold very quickly, you saw it. countless witnesses have reported that. the entire thing went up reported that. the entire thing went up way too quickly for a block that has 500 people in it. 500 people, as you say. thank you. we hope that everybody you know businesses &. there is a just giving website, look for grenfell tower, they are looking to raise £500,000,130 for grenfell tower, they are looking to raise £500,000, 130 households, if they haven't lost their lives, they have lost literally everything. the immediate needs are met at the moment in the various centres. i don't think they need anything right now but they have asked people to keep an eye on social media because there are 500 people who will need somewhere to stay tonight and there is lots to do, n