mr paget—brown claims no council could have coped with this.ommunity for its response, the emergency services, other london boroughs, but not the government. his deputy and his housing chiefs have also gone. investigations by the bbc and the times newspaper into the decisions made when the council refurbished grenfell tower added to the pressure. the big change was the addition of aluminium cladding panels to improve the look of the building. documents passed to the bbc revealed that zinc panels were originally proposed for grenfell. in 2012, the architects‘ designs showed this clearly. residents were told it would be zinc. but there was pressure from the council on contractors to reduce costs. by 2015, they had been given amendments to the original tender and told to fit aluminium cladding instead of zinc. it's cheaper. the saving — more than £293,000. so did the change make a difference to fire safety? well, this panel is similar to the ones that were eventually used. it's an aluminium sandwich with a plastic filling, which is not fire resist

mr paget—brown claims no council could have coped with this.munity for its response, the emergency services, other london boroughs, but not the government. his deputy and his housing chiefs have also gone. investigations by the bbc and the times newspaper into the decisions made when the council refurbished grenfell tower added to the pressure. the big change was the addition of aluminium cladding panels to improve the look of the building. documents passed to the bbc revealed that zinc panels were originally proposed for grenfell. in 2012, the architects' designs showed this clearly. residents were told it would be zinc. but there was pressure from the council on contractors to reduce costs. by 2015, they had been given amendments to the original tender and told to fit aluminium cladding instead of zinc. it's cheaper. the saving — more than £293,000. so did the change make a difference to fire safety? well, this panel is similar to the ones that were eventually used. it's an aluminium sandwich with a plastic filling, which is not fire resistan

studio: nick paget—brown, leader of kensington and chelsea borough council.ondent 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 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

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almost immediately after paget—brown stepped down, the deputy leader of the council also resigned andf the kensington and chelsea tenant management association, announced he was stepping aside from his role in order to help the public inquiry. pilgrim tucker is a community organiser who is working with grenfell residents. quite a lot of activity today but what difference will this make to residents? hopefully, now that mr paget—brown has gone and the deputy leader has gone, we can replace them with people who are competent and care about the residents. it is the case that sadiq khan is denied saying that the council should be set aside and new commissioners should be put in by the government, would the residents support that? i think trust in the cabinet has gone, trust in the console and they were not confident in them years ago. they were complaining and trying to raise these this year's they were complaining and trying to raise these issues and the aftermath has been disastrous, as we can see, and new people need to be put in place. in terms of on the ground, a council workers augm

nicholas paget brown who will resign from kensington council.our reaction to their decisions to stand down at this point? i suspected that something like this was going to happen but i just something like this was going to happen but ijust see it as yet another cynical move. if they really felt genuine remorse they would have resigned as councillors and triggered by elections in their respective wards. what to say to the argument that they should stay and oversee what is being sorted out?” think that given there is an ongoing investigation and the enquiry is about to start, i think it is a mistake for them to remain in place because there could be a clear conflict of interest. the deputy leader was responsible for overseeing housing. i don't think he should have internal documents to call upon when the residents cannot even call upon services from the council that they desperately require. the mayor of london has called on theresa may to appoint independent commissioners to come in and appoint the council for quite some time. how helpful would t

nick paget—brown, leader of kensington and borough council. 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 can get the payment from the westway sports centre, which is where the council is working basically full—time. some criticism, not least from the mayor of london, that lots of people cannot get to the west west into. those that cannot will be able to access the £500 cash payment from tomorrow at the post office on portobe

nick paget-brown, leader of the london borough of kensington and chelsea.r of london, sadiq khan, who joins us from the olympic park. i should ask you first perhaps to respond to what nick paget—brown was saying because you have made reference to this, to what you call the poor response of the council in the poor response of the council in the days after the terrible fire at g re nfell tower. the days after the terrible fire at grenfell tower. he says there were people on the ground, they were working very hard. do you accept that now? i spent this morning speaking to many residents, many families of the bereaved, many survivors and their experience is i million miles away from the experience of the leader of the council. it is clear to me and i have been their most days since the fire happened and spoken to many residents that there has been a vacuum. the council has failed to go to residents, to do the art reach work and is assuming that grieving families, neighbouring residents well travelled to the westway sports centre to receive help. i have been ther

nicholas paget—brown‘s council was criticised for its response.ny legalises same—sex unions — bringing it in line with most other european countries — although angela merkel voted against it. she changed the lives of women in france — simone weil, the holocaust survivor who became a politician has died. we'll have a tribute. hello and welcome to world news today. we start the programme with some breaking news coming in from the states. reports of a shooting incident inside a hospital inside the bronx in new york. unarmed man, said to be dressed as a doctor, opened fire at the bronx lebanon on hospital, according to reports. this hit is a 972 bed hospital, at least three people are believed to have been shot, although there are reports of multiple shootings and some reports describe this as an ongoing situation. messages on social media speaking of doctors and nurses having barricaded themselves inside the building and also some reports of a fire in the building. none of this is 100% confirmed. new york forrest has been briefed on the situation and

he had been calling for nicholas paget—brown to go because, he said, just in the last few minutes tod the aftermath of the tragedy. and the aftermath of the tragedy. and the fact that so many people are now of course living in temporary accommodation, lots of them not in the borough itself, and even those living in that area are still very badly affected, on top of those who used to live in grenfell tower itself. nicholas paget—brown saying that one borough alone would never have had sufficient resources to deal with this tragedy because such was its scale, but he does apologise and he stands down, as soon as a successor is in place. he described it as successor is in place. he described itasa successor is in place. he described it as a huge human tragedy for so many families. that news just in it as a huge human tragedy for so many families. that newsjust in in the last few moments, and we will bring your reaction as soon as that comes. it is 20 minutes past five. let's turn to the aftermath of the manchester arena bombing. stars from coronation street were among hundreds of people

councillor nick paget—brown in5isted there was now "a coordinated relief effort on the ground".ents say they are unsatisfied with the council's reponse. church services are taking place across the country today, to remember those affected by the blaze. the queen's speech to parliament next year is to be cancelled — to allow mp5 more time to scrutinise brexit legislation. it's been described as an unusual move. a rapidly—spreading forest fire in central portugal has killed at least 62 people and injured dozens more. many of the victims burned to death in their cars as they tried to flee the flames. the portuguese government has declared three days of mourning. now on bbc news it's time for talking business. kazakhstan, central asia's largest economy, blessed with natural resources like coal, oil and uranium, but when global oil prices fell, this country's fortune5 fell, too. now, it's looking to renewable energy for its next phase of growth, but how is that going to happen? welcome to talking business, and welcome to the a5tana expo in kazakhstan. this expo is all about 5howca5in

paget—brown, a decent man, for 27 years or more.se i think we have got to the point where it is no longer possible to delude yourself that you can exercise the leadership of this council in these circumstances, with this traumatised community. and what robert atkinson, the leader of the labour group, said last night, and he is also, which you may not know, one of the councillors elected for the area where grenfell tower stood, and what robert said last night is extremely difficult to argue with. as an expression of what is, so to speak, an objective reality. not a political point, not point scoring, but just the objective political point, not point scoring, butjust the objective reality. political point, not point scoring, butjust the objective realitym political point, not point scoring, butjust the objective reality. if a relative of those who died is watching you now, or somebody who is now ina watching you now, or somebody who is now in a hotel because they have lost everything, they could argue, thatis lost everything, they cou

nicholas paget—brown said he had to accept responsibility for his role in the response to the fire, andn particular for the decision to ban the public and press from a council meeting last night. the bbc has also obtained documents that show that cheaper, less fire—resistant cladding was chosen for the tower block. 80 people are believed to have died in the fire, and there is no suggestion a deliberate decision was made to cut fire safety. kensington and chelsea council says safety would not have been compromised in order to manage budgets. our home affairs correspondent tom symonds has more. where you pressured by number 10 to resign? the pressure simply got too great. the leader of the council, criticised for failing to cope with the crisis in his backyard, couldn't hold on. last week, his council offices were invaded. last night he couldn't even hold a council meeting. it was the last straw. in particular my decision to accept legal advice but i should not compromise the public enquiry by having an open discussion in public yesterday, has itself become a political story. it cannot be

councillor nick paget—brown said there was now a coordinated relief effort on the ground.ble to cope with the enormous challenges facing a huge number of displaced residents. iam huge number of displaced residents. i am told the council is never in evidence, that was not my perception this morning. but the mayor of london, sadiq khan, says more needs to be done to help the community. they are showing a community coming together to grieve, but also a community frustrated and angry, not simply at the poor response in the days afterwards from the council and

nick paget—brown, speaking to bbc london's political editor, tim donovan, a little earlier, said he doesn'tant to be drawn on whether he should stay on as leader. that's not a matterfor today, that's something that we will look at in due course. myjob at the moment is to make sure that the council has a head that can be recognised, a public face of the council, and i need to be seen to be making sure the proper response to people's lives that have been so devastated by this tragedy is in place. would you expect to be the leader in six months‘ time? place. would you expect to be the leader in six months' time? that's not a matter i am able to express now and not a matter for me. would you be the person leading the council, the conservatives into the election next year for the control of the council? i understand you wa nt to of the council? i understand you want to go down that road. i think at the moment it would actually demean the lives that have been lost by getting too much into the political future of either me or anybody else. the leader of the council there, speaking to tim donovan.

nicholas paget—brown, from kensington and chelsea, said the scale of the tragedy inevitably meant thei have to accept my share of responsibility for these perceived failings. documents obtained by the bbc suggest cladding fitted to grenfell tower during its refurbishment was changed to a cheaper version. meanwhile, the labour leader jeremy corbyn puts pressure on the prime minister to speed up the public inquiry into the tragedy and to clarify its remit. also tonight. a coroner says the presence of lifeguards on camber sands might not have prevented the deaths of seven men last summer. several people, including doctors, are reportedly shot this evening

but councillor paget—brown read that statement, finished it and did not even deviate from what he hadefore saying it was a private meeting when it clearly wasn't. then he left the room. there will no doubt be more to discuss after that. susana mendonca, at kensington town hall. belfast‘s court of appeal has ruled it is not up to the courts to decide on abortion law in northern ireland, but up to the stormont assembly. in 2015, the high court ruled the law in northern ireland breached the european convention on human rights. and in westminster, mps have backed a call for women from northern ireland to get abortions in england forfree — currently, they have to pay. in 2013, sarah ewart travelled to england for a termination after doctors said her unborn child had no chance of survival outside the womb. such a diagnosis, known as fatal foetal abnormality, is not grounds for a legal abortion in northern ireland. she's been giving her reaction. well, it's unfortunate that women find themselves in this position of carrying a pregnancy where there is a foetal abnormality. but it's a good thi

let us talk note to my guess, nick paget—brown, from the local council.ear jim fitzpatrick there but there was a degree of anger in his voice, saying, how does this happen in this day and age? let me first see the enormous sympathy that everybody in this community has with those who have lost relatives and cannot find other members of their family at the moment. yes, we need to have a thorough investigation as to why this fire started, and why it appeared to spread so quickly. i cannot give you any answers. i am the leader of the council but we will want answers as to what it was that made the fire spread so rapidly after it started in the early hours of this morning. and we need that investigation and we don't yet know, but you will be aware, a lot of local people have been talking to us about it, there was a lot of concern when the refurbishment work going on, people expressed concern, talk in internet groups, people saying they were concerned about fire safety, 2a storeys high, was that dealt with at the time? what are your thoughts? there are always c

add after knowing nick paget—brown, a decent man, for 27 years or more, and if the leadership had stoodt to the point where it's no longer possible to delude yourself that you can exercise the leadership of this council in these circumstances, with this traumatised community. and what robert atkinson, the leader of the labour group, said last night, and he is also one of the councillors who represents the area, he is elected for the area, where grenfell tower stands for stud, and what robert said last night is extremely difficult to argue with. as an expression of what is, so to speak, an objective reality, not a political point. just the objective reality. if a relative of those who died is watching you now, or somebody now in a hotel because they have lost their home, they have lost everything, they could argue that it is absolutely typical, we have to deal with this sort of crisis in our lives and those who were charged with looking after us, put it no stronger than that, when the going gets tough, they just that, when the going gets tough, theyjust quit? yeah. and i have heard that

councillor nick paget—brown said there was now "a coordinated relief effort on the ground".nesday morning it was quite clear that no one local authority in london would be able to cope with the enormous challenges which are now facing a large number of displaced residents and people who've been affected by this. i'm told the council is all disorganised, it's never in evidence, that was not my perception this morning. mayor of london sadiq khan questions whether the council has done enough to help the victims of the fire. i spent this morning at a church to help the victims of the fire. service speaking to many residents, many families of the bereaved, many survivors and their experience is a million miles away

nick paget brown is the leader of the council. you have been here since three o'clock this morning.rrifying. it isa has happened. truly horrifying. it is a terrible day in the history of kensington. i have never seen a fire like this. my thoughts go out to all those who have lost relatives, cannot find their friends and relatives or who have been rendered homeless. clearly it is the most terrible tragedy. i'm very grateful to the local community for the support they have given to people who've lost their homes. and for the emergency services for the wonderful work they have done and support from neighbouring authorities, housing associations and others offering accommodation to people tonight. what has shocked people was the speed with which the blaze spread. one eyewitness said within half an hour of it catching fire the whole tower was like. i think that is right, when i arrived the flames we re right, when i arrived the flames were already engulfing several stories and it was moving very quickly. so there needs to be a investigation into why the fire started and why it spread so

nicholas paget brown has announced he is resigning over the grenfell tower disaster.we will hear how president trump has been accused by two tv presenters of lying and trying to blackmail them on twitter. and we will have a look at the papers. that is 1045 pm. that is ahead on bbc news. now it is time for sportsday. good evening, i'm olly foster, here's what's coming up on sportsday tonight. the wimbledon draw has been made, but will andy murray be fit to defend his title? johanna konta's also a doubt for the all—england club. she had to pull out of her eastbourne semifinal with a back problem. how wounded are the lions ahead of tomorrow's second test? our correspondent katie gornall will have the latest from new zealand. coming up, we are here in wellington, new zealand where the pressure is on the british and irish lions. they have to beat the all blacks here if they are to keep the series alive. also coming up in the programme. howzat! live cricket is coming back to bbc tv. we'll be showing international and domestic twenty20s from 2020. and the tour de france star

the council's leader, nicholas paget—brown, said it was with "regret" that he'd accepted his resignationr work displayed at tate britain. the silkscreen print by khadija saye is being shown in the gallery's memorial space. it's been dedicated to the memory of all of those who lost their lives in the blaze last week. two people are still in a critical condition in hospitalfour days after the terrorist attack on muslim worshippers in north london. a 51—year—old man died after a van drove into a group of people giving him first aid in finsbury park. the cause of his death isn't yet known. nine others were taken to hospital. a 47—year—old man is still in custody. the bbc has learnt there has been an increase in the number of drug dealers from the capital targeting vulnerable people in other parts of the country. it is called cuckooing, and it is where criminals from outside of the area use people's homes to cell drugs. nearly 200 gang members from london, liverpool and other cities have been convicted of the crime in the south of the country since 2015. the tube is mostly running well, apart

the leader of the council nicholas paget—brown also appeared to distance himself from the dismissal.t unclear who actually sought mr holgate‘s resignation. tom burridge reports. how was this possible? will people be held to account? and why, as the prime minister herself has now admitted, was the response following the fire inadequate? the support on the ground for families in the initial hours following the fire was not good enough. people were left without belongings, without roofs over their heads, without even basic information about what had happened and what they should do and where they could seek help. that was a failure of the state, local and national, to help people when they needed it most. as prime minister, i apologise for that failure. that apology after so much anger in the days following the fire. some of it directed at the government, some at the local council. now the chief executive of kensington and chelsea council says the government has forced him to resign. in a statement, nicholas holgate said despite wanting to stay in the job in very challenging circumstanc

speaking before that decision the leader of the council, nick paget—brown, told bbc london's politicalonovan, that he didn't want want to be drawn on whether he should stay on as leader. that is not a matter for today, that is not a matterfor today, that is something we will look at in due course. myjob at the moment is to make sure the council has a head that can be recognised and i need to be seen to me making sure that there isa be seen to me making sure that there is a proper response to people's lives that have been so devastated by this tragedy is in place. would you accept to be the leader in six months‘ time. you accept to be the leader in six months' time. that is not not a matter i will discuss now. will you be the person leading the council or the conservatives leading the council into the election next year? i understand you want to go down that road, at the moment it would demean the lives that have been lost by getting too much into the political future of either me or anybody else. the leader of kensington council. 0ne anybody else. the leader of kensington council. one

nicholas paget brown was criticized for walking out of the meeting on the place because present.ts were he admitted that things have dealing with the aftermath of the fire. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. dealing with the aftermath♪ julia: live from bloomberg's world headquarters in new york, i am julia chatterley. scarlet: i'm scarlet fu. joe: and i'm joe weisenthal. we're 30 minutes from the close of trading. julia: we have the countdown to the july 4 holiday. joe: but the question is "what'd you miss?" scarlet: republicans struggled to find support for their helpful. meanwhile, president trump gearing up for meeting with chinese president xi jumping -- inping next week. back, buttheir jobs what happens when wall street sees declines across the board? at the dows look major averages. the final close of the first of of the year. abigail doolittle is standing by. >> thanks so much. let's break it down in a number of ways. on the day, we're seeing gains on the major averages,

to go and others to 90, nick paget—brown to go and others to go, who could make them go?no confidence. 0r an emergency motion they can call a motion of no confidence. or the government can decide it is so bad we are going to put a team of outside people in. and we would help them do that. this is two week on, there are people who are struggling and very unhappy and it doesn't take much thought to work out why. they have lost everything. so two week on, is it time to say, you have had your chance and you have not done what is required. it is time for the member of kenning sing —— kensington and chelsea to decide. i have only seen and chelsea to decide. i have only seen snippets on the media. i can't offer a reasoned view, it would be unreasonable for me to do and unkind for the victims to offer opinions about who is best placed to run them. the victims are desperate for people in authority to champion what they, how they feel, what they need. we should all be doing that. all the councillors at kensington and chelsea and around the country, i don't believe anybody‘s walking

which has emerged from among the media present, including an exchange between council leader nick paget—brownr councillor robert atkinson. we can't have an unprejudiced discussion in this room with the public inquiry that's about to take place with journalists recording and writing our comments. clearly they are. who let them in? you've spent a day talking about the security of this meeting, and then five minutes before it starts, the press are here. and now you're telling us we can't have a proper meeting. i'm told the press are here because of the result of legal intervention, and that therefore means that we cannot have a discussion as we were intending to have, because that will prejudice the public inquiry. what are you so afraid of? that is the legal advice i've received, and i therefore have to declare the meeting closed. so what you've done is you've actually used this as an opportunity for you to make a statement, and nobody else gets to say anything at all. you could have issued a statement, in fact you should have issued that statement eight days ago. clapping. i would like to have

lots of residents have said, councillor paget brown, that they had made complaints about the renovationd those complaints and whether you had those complaints and whether you were acting on those? thank you, i think that's going to have to be looked at in even more detail during the investigation behind that, but it is perfectly true that grenfell tower underwent a major refurbishment programme starting about two and a half years ago to improve the hot water system, to improve the hot water system, to improve their heating, to improve ventilation, put in new windows, new external cladding, to improve the quality of life for people who were living there. clearly when you do that, there are difficulties problems, complaints, logistics to resolve and it is undoubtedly the case that the council received some complaints about the way the work was being conducted. but we will need to look much more closely at how much of that corresponds to the cause of today's fire. is it true that there had been problems with power surges? i think, that there had been problems with power surges? ithink, ifi

because a lot of people have died on the watch of leader nick paget brown and the deputy leader.o be clear about that. the council leader has been here, we have been talking to him soon after it started. one final point, we have seen a it started. one final point, we have seen a lot of anger, and from you as well, but we have seen a lot of amazing generosity and capacity in this borough. yes, above and beyond. i have been at a number of the i was saint clementsjust no i have been at a number of the i was saint clements just no mac. i have been at a number of the i was saint clementsjust no mac. i have been to the christian centre and westway centre. —— just now. the flooding in of goods is unbelievable but once again there is no one quarter needing it, it is being done by us as citizens and not our rulers. thank you very much for joining us. earlier i spoke to hashem al—haj — who's brother is missing from the fire. he was trying to escape down a staircase with friends. letters from him. we went to the building yesterday. let us here from him. there were places for people to sit.

i have spoke to nick paget—brown of the council, and counsellors, they have refused to investigate itns we we re door. that was the conditions we were dealing with. they does not listen to our concerns. let me read you a statement from the company in relation to the tower block. there is a lot of talk and anger about the refurbishment of

councillor nick paget—brown said there was now a coordinated relief effort on the ground.y by the time i got there just after 3:30am on wednesday it was clear that no one local authority in london would be able to cope with the enormous challenges facing a huge number of displaced residents. iam huge number of displaced residents. i am told the council is never in evidence, that was not my perception this morning. but the mayor of london, sadiq khan, says more needs to be done to help the community. they are showing a community coming together to grieve, but also a community frustrated and angry, not simply at the poor response in the days afterwards from the council and the government, but they years of neglect from the council and successive governments. no queen's speech to parliament next year — to allow mps more time to scrutinise brexit legislation. at least 62 people are killed in a forest fire in central portugal. three days of mourning have been declared. french people are voting in the final round of parliamentary elections, with president macron‘s new party head