mark lobel, a colleague of mine, a bbc reporter, he is at borough market. what can you see and where are you? i'm on borough high street, between borough station and london bridge, north of borough tube station and in the last ten minutes police vans have been arriving here, ten police officers got out of the first one and put on helmets and took out shields, a second lot came around five minutes later. i asked if they were armed and they said they had taser is. there's clearly an ongoing police incident in this area closer to london bridge —— tasers. the central aim of the police is to keep the roads clear, to keep all pedestrians and cars off the roads, they are pushing... they are doing it again now. police officers are now running further up this road carrying shields and there's clearly an ongoing incident in front of us. one eyewitness i spoke to around 15 minutes ago said that he saw police officers shooting ata that he saw police officers shooting at a tapas restaurant called vindissi near borough and he was playing the audio from his mobile phone o

our political correspondent mark lobel was there.protesting outside downing street today. and the protest organiser is owenjones, a columnist at the guardian. hejoins us now. owen, you have more faith than you did injeremy corbyn a week ago, but if we put that to one side, you are calling for big change at the moment during a precarious time for british politics. is that not a risky strategy? well, the risky strategy is the government at the moment. we have a coalition of chaos in power, barely, with a government which, at the moment, is trying to rely on the support of some homophobic, anti—choice climate change denier extremists. i don't think they are a great choice for this country and i think a lot of people are worried about them having us over a barrel. i don't think that will form a stable government for this country. this is one of the reasons that people here. there are many reasons. if you look at the government this week, they are going to start brexit negotiations. they are going to have a queens beach. should you not be

as far as we can tell is very much in borough market, where we were hearing from our colleague mark lobelring from our colleague mark lobel, but also this massive police presence and the ever widening cordon on london bridge. we saw a few moments ago a street stream of people walking past a police cordon with their hands on ahead, a dramatic image, and we earlier had reports of people being kept inside pubs and restaurants, reports of people being kept inside pu bs a nd restau ra nts, clearly reports of people being kept inside pubs and restaurants, clearly police locking down the area. those images seem locking down the area. those images seem to indicate that some of those pubs, some of those restaurants potentially letting people out and out of the police cordon. you can see police still keen to move people back. there's been a statement from number 10 downing st saying the prime minister theresa may is in constant contact with the authorities about what's happening, we understand she is on her way to downing street where she will keep across the situation. a witness from the london br

people just want to know they are safe in their homes. 0ur political correspondent mark lobel is heree buildings across the uk now known to be affected — it could be many more. this is growing in scale. it isa it is a growing problem and the question is who is going to pay for this problem? 0n question is who is going to pay for this problem? on 26 other areas including camden. the government said this morning that it is going to help those local authorities and housing associations that need financial help, but if you look at their situation, they have ad budgets severely cut in real terms over the years. we know housing is scarce, that funding has been cut. we pressed the government as to how much they will help. they said they will help on a case by case basis. if you look at relief effort of the type that grenfell tower was, and the government not stepping in and not coping with the demand themselves, then it might not go as well as it could and that could backfire very badly on the government. thank you for that, mark. events are taking place across the country to mark armed forc

mark lobel spoke to him afterwards. i think it was a good meeting. i think it was a good meeting that enabled residents in the local area here to really express their frustrations and their hopes, their anger, their desires, and to put before the prime minister the things they really want to say. i think was a good thing to do and i think residents came away feeling that they had been heard and could say what they wanted to say. how did the meeting come about, and who was able to talk first? can you talk us through how the meeting went? it came about because... i was approached by number 10 on... i can't remember which day it was. yesterday, i think it was. i have been a volunteer the entire week. and the town approached me saying, could we pull together a group of representatives from the local area to have a conversation with the prime minister? and we worked very closely with st clements church, which is very well—connected in the local area, and brought together a group of people who were not representing anybody in particular, but people who wer

our correspondent mark lobel is in west london, outside notting hill methodist church where one of theheld. before we talk about the church service, just to note that the residents here are now telling us that the volunteers are at breaking point. as we heard in the package, there are expected to be government civil servants down here on the ground helping out, whether they are in high vizjackets or whether they are meant to be replacing the volunteers. there has been no sign of them so far. the volunteers here have not noticed a change yet. we are trying to get to the bottom of how the government's efforts that theresa may was talking about yesterday will change things on the ground. a church service is about to start here at notting hill, and in churches across the area. the focus is on remembering the victims. people i've spoken to here say they wa nt to people i've spoken to here say they want to cry and pray. they want a moment to reflect on what has happened. the police say at least 58 people are missing. the first named victim is mohammed alhajali, an engineering student, who wa

mark lobel spoke to him afterwards. i think it was a good meeting. i think it was a good meeting that enabled residents in the local area here to really express their frustrations and their hopes, their anger, their desires, and to put before the prime minister the things they really want to say. i think was a good thing to do and i think residents came away feeling that they had been heard and could say what they wanted to say. how did the meeting come about, and who was able to talk first? can you talk us through how the meeting went? it came about because... i was approached by number 10 on... i can't remember which day it was. yesterday, i think it was. i have been a volunteer the entire week. and the town approached me saying, could we pull together a group of representatives from the local area to have a conversation with the prime minister? and we worked very closely with st clements church, which is very well—connected in the local area, and brought together a group of people who were not representing anybody in particular, but people who wer

bishop of kensington, the right reverend dr graham tomlinson, was also there — and my colleague mark lobeli think it was a good meeting. residents in the local area were able to express their frustrations, their hopes, their anger, their desires, and to put before the prime minister the things they really wanted to say. we sensed that she listened, and therefore, i think it was a good thing to do, and the residents came away, i think, feeling that they had been heard and been able to say what they wanted to say to the prime minister. how did the meeting come about, and who was able to talk first? can you just talk us through how it went? i was approached by number 10 yesterday, i think it was. i have been involved over the whole week, and then number 10 approached me, asking if we could pull together a group of representatives from the local area to have a conversation with the prime minister. we worked closely with st clements church, which is very well—connected in the local area, and we brought together a group of people who were representatives, not representing anyone in particular, b

mark lobel spoke to him afterwards. i think it was a good meeting.nk it was a good meeting that enabled residence in the local area to really express their frustrations and their hopes, their anger, dared desires. —— residents. and to put before the prime minister what they rarely wa nt before the prime minister what they rarely want to say. —— and their desires. i think was a good thing to do andi desires. i think was a good thing to do and i think residents came away feeling that they had been heard and could say what they wanted to say. how did the meeting, pout, and who was able to talk first? can you talk us was able to talk first? can you talk us through how the meeting went? —— how did the meeting come about.” was approached by number ten on yesterday, i think it was. they have been a volunteer the entire week. and the town approached me saying good we pulled together a group of representatives from the local area to have a conversation with the prime minister. and we work very closely with the church, which is very well connected in the local

earlier our correspondent mark lobel asked fire emergency planning expert, stephen mackenzie, about howocal one. i think what we have seen is, the local community has taken up a lot of the capacity, to the point that local aid stations are now overwhelmed and have stopped taking in clothing and foodstuffs. there are other ways for the community to help. the deployment of the british red cross, with local agency teams, we have not seen massive coverage within the local authority provisions, that is quite surprised. because of the stash of revisions under the civil contingencies act, every local authority must have contingency plans, and emergency response plans. —— because of the statute of revisions under the civil contingencies act, every local authority must have contingency plans, and emergency response plans. what i think is, there is some lessons to be learned here, and for us to develop from this tragic incident and how we approach these natural disasters. very good responses from the tri— emergency services, there may be a gap between that and the softer rehousing of the families

our political correspondent mark lobel has more. historically friends, hoping to shape the future working together. without enough conservative mps to form her own government, theresa may has turned to the democratic unionist party. she outlined her intentions straight after the shock election result. to help regain the political balance. we will continue to work with our friends and allies in the democratic unionist party in particular. our two parties have enjoyed a strong relationship over many years. and this gives me the confidence to believe that we will be able to work together in the interest of the whole united kingdom. the dup now has ten seats to use as a powerbroker. to back theresa may on key vote like the budget and queen ‘s speech. but as a full coalition but in a loose agreement. —— not as. that is pumping speculation about what the pro— brexit socially conservative party may want in return. causing concern among some tory mps at a bowl. i don't think we are going to go backwards in terms of social legislation. it is part of our dna and what makes us a great country that w

mark lobel spoke to him afterwards. i think it was a good meeting. i think it was a good meeting that enabled residents in the local area here to really express their frustrations and their hopes, their anger, their desires, and to put before the prime minister the things they really want to say. i think was a good thing to do and i think residents came away feeling that they had been heard and could say what they wanted to say. how did the meeting come about, and who was able to talk first? can you talk us through how the meeting went? it came about because... i was approached by number 10 on... i can't remember which day it was. yesterday, i think it was. i have been a volunteer the entire week. and the town approached me saying, could we pull together a group of representatives from the local area to have a conversation with the prime minister? and we worked very closely with st clements church, which is very well—connected in the local area, and brought together a group of people who were not representing anybody in particular, but people who wer

our political correspondent mark lobel was there.test organiser is owen jones. hejoins us now. i went, you have more faith than you did in jeremy corbyn a week ago, but if we put that aside, you are calling for big change at the moment during a precarious time for british politics. is that not risky? we have a coalition of chaos in power, barely, with a government that is trying to rely on the support of some homophobe climate change and nine at extremist. i don't think that will form a stable government for this country. —— that will form a stable government forthis country. —— deniers. this is one of the reasons that people here. there are many reasons.“ is one of the reasons that people here. there are many reasons. if you look at the government this week, they are going to start brexit negotiations. they are going to have a queens beach. should you not be backing them and pushing your agenda, rather than asking for change? this government is paying us over a cliff. we are an international laughing stock. she hoped to destroy the

let's talk to our political correspondent mark lobel., but we know that his anger there. was an inquiry inevitable? the prime minister has come to the conclusion this is an issue of public concern, perhaps led to this by growing public anger over the past couple of days and pressure from opposition politicians, questions being asked about what happened. she wants to get to the bottom of not just happened. she wants to get to the bottom of notjust what happened in this instance and why the fire spread quickly but also weather warning signs were missed in the past. this covers notjust the te na nts past. this covers notjust the tenants association and the council but questions have also been asked of governments. so she's going through with their government inquiry, go through all the questions, have publicly documented and have any future recommendations from the inquiry to prevent this happening in the future. in the meantime, mps are gathering at westminster for a special statement, tell us more. a minister is chairing this cross—party

a short time ago i spoke to the bbc‘s mark lobel at westminster and i asked him how the mayor had responded to point out that his aim is not to divide communities and suggesting perhaps the president might be doing just that. people here are very clear that. people here are very clear that the us president has taken the london mayor's comments out of context but what upsets them the most is the insensitive timing because it came 2a hours after the brutal killing in london bridge. the prime minister speaking up for sadiq khan saying he has done a good job and anyone who says otherwise — such as donald trump, it is implied— is wrong. a frosty reaction from many politicians, were a state visit from donald trump to take place. some suggesting it should be counselled. donald trump's office saying it was not his intention to attack the mayor. bill de blasio, the new york mayor, wrote to support the london mayor. as i said, sadiq khan underscoring the point that he does not want to divide communities. us secretary of state rex tillerson will meet new zealand's prime minister and the country's fore

nick quraishi, bbc news. 0ur correspondent mark lobel is in west london, outside notting hill methodistre one of the services will be held. as you say, one of those services is under way. it's been going on for about an hour here at the notting hill methodist church. the church is surrounded by flowers, notes and onlookers. people have come to pay their respects in great numbers, and that service should be concluding $0011. that service should be concluding soon. a message that service should be concluding $0011. a message we that service should be concluding soon. a message we are hearing from residents is for a greater expectation of government help here. residents say they haven't seen a greater amount of help. i went to the relief centre, and noticed an enhanced effort by neighbouring council officers, helping to assist people on the ground with health or aid or housing queries, but nothing like the scale which the residents are hoping to see down here. yesterday, residents from here and council leaders went to see the prime minister in downing street for talks. the prime minister r

studio: our correspondent mark lobel is in west london.g hill methodist church, 300 yards from the tower, a candlelit vigil taking place, some emotional scenes there, very sad moments for people, remembering the victims. but if you start talking to them, the first thing that people have spoken to me about is that they are searching for a nswe rs about is that they are searching for answers about why it happened. events like this are helping, people overcoming grief for those in the tower, for those that lived in the tower, for those that lived in the tower, residents, still alive, the government has explained a bit more of what it wants to do with the £5 million discretionary fund for residents today, the prime minister has outlined the costs. taking you through some of them, each household, not person, but each household, not person, but each household should be getting £5,500, that will be done in the following way, £500 in cash, from either the westway sports centre, the refugee centre, orfrom westway sports centre, the refugee centre,

0ur correspondent mark lobel explains why the prime minister might find it difficult to simply "get onb." cast your mind back 26 hours from 110w cast your mind back 26 hours from now and i can't remember the 26 hour period like this in any uk general election. theresa may was calling the selection to strengthen her hand for brexit and she has done the reverse. the domino effect is this minority government that she is now facing, with the dup, as you've discussed. but here is the rub. the dup have strong views on gay marriage, for example. there are other members of her party, especially the leader of the scottish conservatives, herself openly gay, you don't want to see that type of policy influencing any deal. theresa may has lost a lot of authority in terms of brexit negotiations because she has the reverse of what she was aiming to do. some are calling for her now to go within six months. some call her a caretaker leader the moment. soho authority has been undermined not just by this potential partnership with the democratic unionist party but also the general election result. it lea

here's our political correspondent, mark lobel.rically friends, hoping to shape the future working together. without enough conservative mps to form her own government, theresa may has turned to the democratic unionist party. she outlined her intentions straight after the shock election result, to help regain her political balance. we will continue to work with our friends and allies in the democratic unionist party in particular. the dup now has ten seats to use as a powerbroker, to back theresa may on key votes such as the queen's speech and budget. not as a full coalition, but in a looser agreement. that is prompting speculation about what the pro—brexit, socially conservative party may want in return, causing concern among some tory mps, but not all. i don't think we will go backwards in terms of social legislation. i think it is part of our dna now and what makes us the great country we are. i'm sure the dup understand that. but balancing two parties‘ interests could have an effect. i cannot see how the queen's speech can be l

our correspondent mark lobel is at notting hill methodist church in west london where one of the servicesrlier. 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 the leader of the council, and of course i saw eight or so people from westminster council here, also the leader of ealing council, cross borough efforts seem to have been stepped up in terms of helping to deal with this. how can we make sense of it? we thought we would ask a fire sense of it? we thought we would ask afire and sense of it? we thought we would ask a fire and emergency planning expert steven mackinnon see, you have been aroun

police force will make it harder to stop terror attacks in the future. 0ur political correspondent mark lobelly now is under scrutiny. questions for the conservatives about whether the government missed a red flag over the third man involved. the police did the time and place for the investigation but as they said after the manchester attack there will look at their processes. asked if she was sorry for police cuts under her watch, the prime minister didn't apologise, wanting to focus on the task ahead. what governments need to do from friday onwards is to look at how this terror threat is evolving, the way terrorism is breeding terrorism, the increased tempo of attack, we have had three horrific attacks in the uk in the last three months. in response to claims tory cuts have made an impact, the conservatives insist more money has gone into counterterrorism and armed officers but in the capital a warning that continuing to pare back budget unsustainable. under renewed government, as a consequence of unsustainable. under renewed government, as a consequence of the kosovo policing budget, we hav