mark easton, bbc news, north kensington.atest witch hunt in political history, that's what donald trump has called the controversy surrounding his son after he released e—mails revealing that he met a russian lawyer last year who was said to have information from the kremlin which would help his father's election campaign. today the president said his son had been open and transparent and was innocent. our chief correspondent gavin hewitt is at the white house tonight, gavin. tonight, we have donald trumer... donald trump's son out defending himself after revelations from e—mails that last year he met a russian lawyer who he believed would offer him incriminating information and hillary clinton. in retrospect, i probably would have done things a little differently. again, this is before the russia mania, this is before they were building it up in the press. for me, this was opposition research... in his interview, donald trumer said he hadn't referred the meeting to his father. it was such a nothing, there was nothing to tel

our home editor mark easton joins our home editor mark eastonjoins me now.l so many u na nswered now. a month on and still so many unanswered questions? yes, four weeks on. today we had a political debate on grenfell in the commons and the talk was all about cladding, fire safety regulations, and who would pay for improvements like sprinklers, local or central government? but we also had ten more inquests of those who have been formally identified, from their dna oi’ formally identified, from their dna or dental records. two things are happening right now. one is about safety, and the other is about people, and i think the unsettling fa ct people, and i think the unsettling fact that one month on we still don't know who and how many people exactly died in that fire... for government ministers i think there are difficult questions about whitehall‘s responsibilities on the safety side, but also the responsibility of all politicians to do more, to listen to people who live in places like grenfell. let the legacy of this awful tragedy be that we resolve never to

mark easton, bbc news. laura's in westminster for us tonight.mpact is sirjohn‘s intervention likely to have? i don't think it settled the old arguments, the views held passionately on either side. tony blair has rejected the suggestions he was somehow pursuing his own version of the truth. perhaps the real impact, i think, that is likely, that to erpart of government, politicians, eve ryo ne erpart of government, politicians, everyone weather in the ministry of defence, downing street, the foreign 0ffice defence, downing street, the foreign office or the intelligence service, it's a heavy reminder that their responsibilities to all of us as and when the political wind moves to a potential war is extremely great and they must, in his view, never make they must, in his view, never make the same kinds of mistakes again. now sirjohn was absolutely clear, he thinks there have already been some changes in the 12 months since he report was published but i think if anything he hopes that the legacy of that inquiry, that remember took longer than the con

mark easton, bbc news, north kensington.litical history — that's what donald trump has called the controversy surrounding his son after it emerged he met a russian lawyer last year who was said to have information from the kremlin which would help his father's election campaign. today, the president said his son had been open and transparent and was innocent. 0ur chief correspondent gavin hewitt reports. there is said to be frustration in the white house over the publication of these e—mails on russia. groups official trying to come up with a strategy to manage the crisis. the risk is that this administration is seen to be paralysed by this, so today, president trump was tweeting, saying that his administration was functioning in his words perfectly. tonight, we have donald trumer... donald trump's son out defending himself after revelations from e—mails that last year he met a russian lawyer who he believed would offer him incriminating information and hillary clinton. in retrospect, i probably would have done things a litt

mark easton, thank you.ed genetic tests within five years to help create more effective, bespoke treatments — that's according to england's chief medical officer. professor dame sally davies is calling for a national network of genome testing. she says six out of ten cancer patients who get gene tested receive better care as a result and she wants it to become standard practice across cancer care, as well as some other areas of medicine, including rare diseases and infections. here's our medical correspondent, fergus walsh. inside nearly every cell in our body is our genome, the dna instructions for life. errors in the code can trigger cancer or other diseases. cancer runs in kobe's family. both his parents died from it and he was diagnosed with: cancer four years ago. now he is one of 31,000 patients who have had their entire genome mapped by the nhs. i am very excited about it. for me, hopefully, if my cancer decides to come back, it will benefit me. more importantly, it will benefit a lot of other people

the aftermath of g re nfell tower and another report on the aftermath of grenfell tower came from mark eastonwednesday's news at ten. it began like this. a black nail hammered into london's conscience. g re nfell tower hammered into london's conscience. grenfell tower demands your attention. in its shadow the faces of the missing are everywhere. on trees and walls and bus shelters, unblinking it is hard to whole of the accuser tory gaze. several reviews posted their responses on twitter. one viewer wrote... and one viewer made the same point on camera. , bbc this is a serious news item, why did i have to have dramatic build—up music more akin to a drama such as silent witness or hollywood movie? this is the bbc is not fox news, it was unnecessary trivialises a serious news item. on wednesday mps debated the abuse and intimidation of parliamentary candidate after a cross—party report said the sergeant, racism and bigotry was on the rise. politicians such as diane abbott described the repeated online abuse they had been subjected to. theresa may has ordered an enquiry into the subject. william

our home editor mark easton has been getting the views of residents and politicians. unanswered questions. the community in its shadow seeks answers, but many say they don't have confidence in the man the prime minister has appointed to head the public inquiry. sir martin moore—bick, cambridge educated and called to the bar in 1969, is a formerjudge. but his professional and establishment credentials don't impress the area's local labour mp, who says he should quit now. we don't have anybody we can trust there, and some of the groups are refusing to co—operate with the inquiry, and what kind of inquiry is that? there is no inquiry at all if people refuse to co—operate with them. and i understand that. these people have been totally let down and betrayed. sir martin moore—bick hasn't even started his inquiry, and yet chris, a local charity worker who lost a close friend in the fire, reflects the views of many here. if we can't get someone that can empathise or understand the feeling of the people they are representing, and the people they are going to interview, becaus

mark easton reports now on how the community has reacted.nscience. g re nfell tower hammered into london's conscience. grenfell tower demands your attention. in its shadow, the faces of the missing are everywhere. 0n trees and walls and bus shelters, unblinking, it's hard to hold their accusatory gaze. more than 250 escaped the tower that fateful night, but around 80 people are missing or confirmed dead. floor by floor, the names and faces of all those we know didn't make it out. they arrived at grenfell from all over the world, more than 20 countries represented among the missing. families with small children who'd recently moved in, pensioners who lived in the block for over a0 years. and then, perhaps, there are others. the unknown. the fact that we still don't know exactly who and how many died in this fire a month later tells us something, i think, about society's relationship with the people who lived in grenfell. some were perhaps happy to be anonymous, but others were simply marginalised, isolated and ignored. only the most vulnerabl

our home editor mark easton has been getting the views of residents and politicians alike. 6 re nfell and unanswered questions. the community in its shadow seeks a nswe rs community in its shadow seeks answers but many say they don't have confidence in the man the prime minister has appointed to head the public inquiry. sir martin moore—bick, cambridge educated and called to the bar in 1969, is a formerjudge but his professional credentials don't impress the area's local labour mp who says he should quit now. we don't have anyone we can trust and some of the groups are refusing to cooperate with the inquiry, and what kind of inquiry is that? there is no inquiry at all if people refuse to cooperate and i understand that, these people have been betrayed. close to the tower i met chris, a local charity worker who lost a close friend in the fire. his views reflect those of many here. if we can get someone who can empathise or understands the feeling of the people they are representing and the people they will interview, because he's going to interview witnesses, he needs to knows where th

our home editor, mark easton, has been getting the views of residents and politicians alike.nd unanswered questions, the community in its shadow seeks answers, but many say they don't have confidence in the man the prime minister has appointed to head the public inquiry. sir martin moore—bick, cambridge—educated and called to the bar in 1969, is a formerjudge. but his professional and establishment credentials don't impress the area's local labour mp, who says he should quit now. we don't have anybody we can trust there, and some of the groups are refusing to cooperate with the inquiry, and what kind of inquiry is that? there is no inquiry at all if people refuse to cooperate with it. i understand that. these people have been totally let down and betrayed. sir martin moore—bick hasn't even started his inquiry, and yet chris, a local charity worker who lost a close friend in the fire, reflects the views of many here. if we can't get someone that can empathise or understand the feeling of the people they are representing, and the people they are going to interview, because he i

actually independent research and analysis by the bbc‘s own correspondent, mark easton, shows that actuallyecause many pubs started to serve food, so actually there were over a000 increased licenses to serve alcohol which included restaurants as well as pubs. i think that is really crucial, basically pubs didn't die, they evolved and the carried on evolving. a lot of closed though in that time frame. you'd think it could have contributed to the? but in the year after the legislation. there has been a closure of pubs and some did close, yes, but the overall trend was an increase. and people... that he has key on the health question, your organisation is concerned about the impact of e—cigarettes, is it the case that really a lot of smokers, they haven't given up their habits, asa they haven't given up their habits, as a result of measures that the smoking ban they have simply gone to an alternative way of getting that craving satisfied and therefore actually these sorts of bands only deal with a relatively small number of people, those who can be persuaded or kind of pushed into giving up? w

our home editor mark easton is here. crucially, let's start with the numbers.ny years now the british economy has come to rely on large numbers of trained and educated, international migrant workers and the net migration figure for eu migration, the number of war who arrived in leith, the latest figure on that is 130 3000. actually, that's down a quarter from a year before, i actually think that figure will fall further because the uk is not particularly attractive to eu migrant workers right now because the pound is low, and because of the uncertainties of brexit. if we see how that fits into the overall net migration figure that is now 240,000, that is still well above the government's target of getting down to the tens of thousands, less than 100,000. we down to the tens of thousands, less than100,000. we are down to the tens of thousands, less than 100,000. we are talking about how britain can adapt to become a low migration economy, seeing it reduced very substantially will present some real challenges to the british economy, and what companies are saying

mark. so when temperatures fall to around 70 degrees, we are getting some fog and low hanging clouds this morning. this is in eastony long. just for a little bit of our morning hours and then thin out as we see our temperatures warming up. just a heads up, some areas through parts of the suburbs specifically into mercer county are seeing fog this morning. camera view, looking over penn's landing, ferris wheel, nice shot, you see a little breeze picking up some of the flags and the wind. otherwise, nice conditions out there today in philadelphia. and surrounding areas. radar and satellite shows us why. scattered clouds over our zone. we look farther west, no rain, no storms in the forecast. instead, today, we'll be dry. right now, temperatures are hitting at 73 in philadelphia. 66 in the suburbs. low 70s new jersey, delaware, upper 60s in the lehigh valley. winds light now as well. to your forecast, highs today, looks close to 90 degree at 91 in delaware. upper 80s lehigh valley. 90s suburbs. 91 in philadelphia and new jersey. mostly sunny. you can get outdoors, especially if you have the pool time ahead of you, gre