richest nation on earth waiting for another tragedy joining me now is labor leader of the kids in chelsea council at mason beth thanks for coming back on to your county the leader of the opposition do you know the residents have trust in in kensington and chelsea as to how the government along the council have responded to the grand catastrophe no i mean globally no they've done a few things but i mean we still have the government. haven't properly responded to the toll to the judith hackett recommendations and she said in her review over well over a year ago that the. building and fire regulation system was completely unfit for purpose it was a recipe for the builders making up as to go along basically but we have this argument about still this infantile argument about how many people have been housed how many people have not been housed in front of you were given jail or smith says a 100 for the m.p.'s wouldn't go do we try to get over this or says 128 who's right well of course you can tell a smith is not. looking at the people who are what they call. homeless people who are homeless but are s

council even though they had. you know a nick and elmo the kids in chelsea tends management organization responsible for that but at the end of the day it was the council's responsibility they made the decision to save money and put a cheaper cladding on. they made a whole range of decisions that actually meant that grenfell was a death trap. there is an international dimension here what was your reaction when the tories on the council they've appointed a company called e-com or a call. the company that previously got 830000000 pounds for iraqi army contracts after tony blair's war in iraq they will be checking on soil contamination around the grain fill area from from now on or from a little before from now on the the subsidiary was done for price fixing in u.s. nuclear facility what do you make of this company checking on whether the soil around granville is currently polluted or no well again it raises concerns for the community in terms of trust we've. done our homework we also don't know the facts that you've just explained and you know we are concerned as a community that actually the government is prepared t

kensington and chelsea council says its staff have never stopped caring and never stopped working tohange. the fragility of some of the people who come to me is really exceptional. and that needs to be understood. and if you don't even start off by treating people as equals you will never understand that. free breakfast will be offered to primary school children in hammersmith and fulham. the council thinks it could save families £380 per year per child. it will be paid for using money from local property developers. it is thought it is the first area in england to do it. a 2—way cycle lane connecting south—east london has been approved. work will begin on cycle super highway four work will begin on cycle super highwayfour in work will begin on cycle super highway four in the autumn. it is expected to open by the end of next year. pollution is a growing issue for the capital and now four areas are going to get some cash from the mayor ‘s office to try to tackle the problem. hackney, dagenham, southwark and camden will show 6 billion —— £6 million. let us take a look at the travel. on

meanwhile, according to the kensington and chelsea council, 184 households have moved into a home ofl waiting to move into permanent accommodation. we'll hear from some of those who were there on the night in a moment, but first let's remind ourselves of the tragic events of that night. and a warning, some of the content may be distressing. within 15 minutes, the whole building caught fire. i thought i lost him. i don't think he can make it. i can see smoke and we are seeing the fire going up the building. over a single hour, on 1athjune 2017, a small kitchen fire turned into the worst disaster of its type in living memory. at 12:50 in the morning, miriam adam was sleeping on the fourth floor of grenfell tower. she was woken by her next—door neighbour. then came the first of more than 100 calls to the london fire brigade. this is the first from behailu kebede, who lived in flat 16 where the fire started. the first trucks were dispatched from north kensington, hammersmith and paddington. they were on the site in five minutes. by 1:30 in the morning, the fire was starting to spread qui