we can speak now to campaigner moyra samuels, whojoins us from north kensington.nse of the importance of today‘s events for those caught up in what happened. i think this is the time that we remember that horrific night but we also pay tribute and honour the people ‘s lives, those who died, those who lost potential, lost dreams. and we remember the community and especially the survivors who got through that horrible evening. so as a community we come together to one of those we lost. you live quite close to the tower itself. what are your recollections of the night?m tower itself. what are your recollections of the night? it was a hot night. we were probably alerted to the fire at number 16 but none of us to the fire at number 16 but none of us expected the fire to spread so rapidly. and none of us expected the horror of that cladding fire. i think it is traumatised so many of us. think it is traumatised so many of us. i do remember... i do remember the enormous unity and passion of the enormous unity and passion of the local community in trying to help, in trying

over claims its negligence led to the tragedy returns the speech to an activist trying to hold north kensington to account for its alleged role going underground is after this news bulletin but his a preview. we did invite the council of the richest council in britain people to come all the tory council they said no one was available but they said no one would have intentionally put lives at risk and no one foresaw the grenfell tragedy. no one foresaw. i think that indicates a real what we call institutional into friends of the tenants of grenfell tower one housed ultimately by the council 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. now u.s. prosecutors have made a formal request to the u.k. for the extradition of wiki leaks co-founder gina songe that's according to media reports citing officials from both countries the us has indicted him on 17 counts of spying and one of conspiracy to hack the government computer an extradition hearing will be held on friday resigned his father say

reese is a member of the north kensington community has lived in the area his entire life he lost family members and friends in the tower and the fire at the tower he's obviously upset about that because of the lack of support that has been in the area in terms of health and social care and you know just basic structural support for anyone a toll he's feeling rather upset basically unfortunately his anger got the better of him and one point he was jailed for strangling. yeah he basically he had an altercation with a member of staff who manages the ground fall site because the plastic covering that they've put on it keeps coming off despite repeated assurances that they've fixed it now and it didn't matter how strong the winds got that it would stay on this keeps happening and frankly you know it's like ripping a plaster of an open wound it leaves this is along the. after the fire the actual top all ins and so on on the building a full hour comes off all the time it comes off all the time and the only time there is the remote possibility of a pile when it's just seems to peel away now the

mean this is a failure of new liberalism i understand the you're part of a campaign to save north kensington fire station make it 2013 which is part of the austerity cuts and it was cans it didn't work at a fire station crews that were 1st on the scene 2 years ago underwood 1st on the scene and they were on the scene at the lab or in the lab or grove train disaster in 1909. of course close the whole number of fire stations in london boris johnson did that who might be prime minister he cut $45000000.00 of the fire service in london in the long run mean more londoners getting burnt to death why do you think it became so emblematic of near liberal austerity after the after the crash that a lot of the cost of the. on to people down here it was a complete can in a sense i mean we know that in the last 2 years for example it is 10 percent in this country about 14 percent richer you'll need to look at this through the 2 worlds you know the world of the stock market and the banks and the multi global companies who run everything no who have user democracy as it were there is no vision for this coun

and so are a lot of the people around north kensington who feel like they need the support right now.ly the campaign we are involved in, grenfell united, you get so entrenched in absolutely everything it's very difficult to re move everything it's very difficult to remove yourself and deal with your own emotions, your own grief. so that's why i say it's kind of difficult to put into words how it is that i'm feeling. but, at the same time, i think it's important to put that back to make sure other people are safe in their own homes. we don't want anything to happen like what happened at grenfell, to happen to anyone else. such an important point you make and on that theme, do you feel reassured in any way that anything has changed because of what's happened?“ way that anything has changed because of what's happened? if there is any change it's moving extremely slowly. you know, it's been two years and there are still loads of buildings all around the country that still have very similar types of cladding grenfell and some cladding that is in similar which is also flammable but that's a

cladding issues around the country, which are exercising a lot of people in the local area in north kensingtonhey know that if it's not done, or they sense that if it is not done in a timely manner, it is, in a sense, a commentary on how they are being treated... exactly. ..and regarded. and that's one of the reasons why i think there is ongoing frustration in the local area. but i think there are, as abdurahman says, these deeper social issues. i remember at the time of the fire, it wasn't just about fire safety and building regulations. there were all kinds of other social questions being asked at the time. perhaps we've lost sight of some of those, and one of the reasons why i wrote this report was to try to draw attention to some of the bigger deeper social questions that groenefeld raises. like what? like the way we do local democracy. one of the stories i think that came out of grenfell, one of the things that i heard during the conversations that led up to this report was a deep sense of a community that didn't feel listened to or understood. and we haven't quite got right this sense of

the first trucks were dispatched from north kensington, hammersmith and paddington.e minutes. by 1:30 in the morning, the fire was starting to spread quickly. this photo taken from the block opposite shows flames already reaching the top of the building. just a0 minutes later, and the fire had spread round to the north side. at this stage, residents were still being told to stay inside their flats. that advice is standard in tower block fires which can normally be contained and put out quickly. josephjohn escaped from one of the lower floors with his family. there is a dedicated line for this incident, 0k? 2:45 in the morning, and the first public confirmation that something was very wrong. around the same time, that stay—put policy was officially rescinded. residents were told to leave their flats and get out if they could. sid—ali and his wife rashida were higher up, on the 15th floor. he just escaped with his life around 2:15 that morning. by aam, as the sun started to rise over west london, the impact of the fire was becoming very clear. the mayor of london made

those of us not from this wonderful north kensington community will never really be able to fully graspnd help secure justice for your loved ones. i know many of you will never feel that you can truly rest until justice has been served. you are not alone in your struggle, we all stand with you, and we recognise that the best way to truly honour those who perished is not only to find out how this tragedy occurred and to ensure that justice is done, this tragedy occurred and to ensure thatjustice is done, but to make sure it can never ever happen again, and to fix the deep inequality that the grenfell tower fire exposed in our society. thank you. applause well it's clearly a very emotional day for many people, including nabil choucair — who wasn't in the building at the time but lost six members of his family at the time. it's to make sure that they are never forgotten. but it is also to show that we will give our prayers to all of the 72 members, getting the community all together, um, and ensuring that we will stick by each other, year after year until we get the justice and what we are

that means delays between high street, kensington and edgeware road. 0n the roads, this is how it looks on the northt this morning, quite a bit of low cloud, mr and merrick out there, but the news is that it should remain largely dry. i say largely dry, the cloud is big enough to bring us the odd spot of light showers this morning but gradually the cloud starting to thin and breaking in the afternoon. 0vernight tonight we will see some more cloud developing, again we could get a bit of murkiness but it will break up as we head through to dawn tomorrow morning. minimum temperature, not quite as muggy for many of us and a bright and sunny start as the cloud gradually breaks up, and we should see some sunshine in the afternoon, fairly breezy again tomorrow, temperatures staying similar over the next couple of days. for friday we start to see the temperature rising, more sunshine then look at the temperature on saturday, low 30s, barely any cloud, plenty of sunshine. i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half—an—hour. plenty more on our website at the usual address. now it's back to d