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Theyvejustjumped on the netting. Prison officers are running up the stairs to try to get them down. The Television Presenterjeremy Kyle defends his treatment of a man who died days after appearing on his show. The government says its unacceptable they are sterile homes covered and potentially dangerous cladding seven years after the Grenfell Tower fire. Cladding seven years after the Grenfell Towerfire. The cladding seven years after the Grenfell Tower fire. The former brexit negotiators appointed Prime Minister of france. Hello, im lucy grey. We start tonight with the severe overcrowding in prisons. From next week, thousands of offenders whove served 40 of their Prison Terms will be eligible for early release. The government says its necessary to free Up Space in jails. Tonight, the Ministry Ofjustice told us there are fewer than 500 spaces left in mens prisons in england and wales a crisis made even worse by the convictions of hundreds of people involved in riots last month. Our senior Uk Correspondent Sima Kotecha was given full access to Hmp Pentonville In London here is what she found. Siren blares. Chaos in Hmp Pentonville. Shouting. Were the only broadcast journalists given access. Its a Code Red. To one of britains most dangerous jails since the current crisis. 0k, come on, folks. And some Prison Officers are so frightened of being targeted on the outside that weve had to blur theirfaces. Hmp Pentonville Staff are overstretched. Another alarm here. And on the verge of breaking point. You worry about, you know, opening the door in the morning and making sure that theyre alive. Anything could happen. Theres been deaths in prison. All right, what have we got coming this afternoon, then . Each day more Bus Loads arrive, making this jail one of the most crowded in the country. Can you stand in the middle of the black and Yellow Box for me . They undergo body checks. So this scanner will show whether theyre hiding anything inside their body . Yeah. Any drugs, any weapons . Yeah. Just there, theres a Gap That will be the entrance of his anus, basically. Gosh, you would think that would hurt. As of tonight, there are just nine spare beds. Most of the inmates are on remand, so theyre waiting for their trial or sentencing. Others are doing time for crimes such as murder, robbery and rape. And anything can happen. Alarm blares. Theres an alarm going off. Yeah, were going to see. Its a Code Red, so. A Code Red alarm involves blood or burns. An inmate has Self Harmed. A moment of apprehension as they assess the situation. Can you talk me through whats happened . Yeah, so weve Got A prisoner Whos Self harmed, yeah. Hes made superficial cuts to his arm. We were told hed carved the Words Mum and dad onto his skin with a sharp object. Staff say overcrowding is leading to an increase in Self Harm and violence. Banging. Because of Inmates Frustration with being locked up for longer. Across the wing, michaels inside for drug offences. There are some people who simply dont care about prisoners. Theyre like, they broke the law they should be locked up. Shouldnt be a hotel. Mm hm. But you are supposed to be rehabilitated inside. Do you think prison is providing a rehabilitation . No. Its a punishment. Its not a rehabilitation. Its hard to rehabilitate yourself in a place where youve got gang violence, postcode wars, drug violence, money wars. If youve got beef there, violence there, drugs there, people collapsing here, the staff, they are outstretched, theyre trying to do this, this, this and this. But now you want help as well. Moments later, another alarm. The fifth of the day. Yesterday there were more than 30. So theyve just jumped on the netting. Prison officers are running up the stairs to try and get them down. What the staff are saying is that it can turn really quickly. A quiet moment can become chaotic within a matter of seconds. As one Prison Officer said, its like the flick of a switch. Staff do what they can to calm things down. You told me about it yesterday and ive told you. I said, Washing Up Liquid and a form for the pen. And very quickly theyre back on normal duties. There have been some hairy moments. They kind of. They all kind of blur into one because its not like, oh, once in a blue Moon Something happens. Its like day in, day out, you kind of are dealing with incidents from Self Harm to violence to kind of. People with severe Mental Health issues. Ive had damp in here for three weeks. And then there are complaints about the cells. It doesnt smell good in here. Whats that . The toilets have been leaking. Look at the toilet. Look, ill show you. Come have a look at this one. Oh, my word. Ive been telling them about that for three weeks. Gang violence is an ongoing threat at pentonville and has had some serious consequences for staff. Shouting. This Prison Officer broke both her wrists while separating two gang members during a fight. Its probably the biggest thing In London. Like, the gang affiliation, gang issues are the biggest reasons why we have so many, probably, people injail, so it ends up us trying to stop them. Were just trying to stop the fight. Thats how i broke both my wrists, just trying to stop it. That wasnt even. Yeah, itjust gets really messy sometimes. And theyre quite small space. Stressful . Stressful, yeah. Stressful. Yeah. Show me your. Mark is waiting to be sentenced and has been here for nine months now. When they come into here, you dont know whos on this wing. Every other wing has Got Allocated for every gang member. Whats the worst case scenario, in your mind . Fights, killings. All sorts could happen. You dont know. Like, when theyre in such close proximity then it does blow up. Lets look at the governments plans to address Prison Overcrowding our political correspondent Helen Catt is at westminster. Helen how are ministers hoping to address the problem . The government is saying that early release is the answer. Thea;r the government is saying that early release is the answer. Release is the answer. They are. So this Problem Release is the answer. They are. So this problem of release is the answer. They are. So this problem of their release is the answer. They are. So this problem of their not release is the answer. They are. So this problem of their not being this problem of their not being enough space, running out of space in the Prison System has been one thats been around for quite some months, some years now. And the last government had taken some steps, for example, releasing prisoners a couple of months before theyd otherwise wouldve been as a then temporary measure. When the new government caning, one of the first things they did it, thejustice secretary, was to announce that this government was going to have to introduce this early Release Scheme because she said at the time they were in a position where they couldve been running out of space in prisons by The End of the month. In fact, there was a point a couple of weeks ago where we were told there were fewer than 100 spaces left in the mens prison estate, so what they have introduced takes effect next weekend it is the release of prisoners who have served 40 of their sentence. They will be P 40 of their sentence. They will be up for automatic release. We are told that doesnt apply to sexual or violent offenders, serious violent offenders. Those who are released are unlicensed, they will be monitored, that takes effect from next week, and that means there will be about five and half thousand prisoners being released between Over September and october. It was something that the last government had been discussing but adopted not to do, there were differences of opinion within government certainly around the timing of the election to do with this. This government has said they need to do it, this is the option they are taking, a short Term Measure to free Up Space in the immediate term. The longer Term Issue for the potential of Prison Building remains. Issue for the potential of Prison Building remains. Thanks very much for now. The Presenterjeremy Kyle has denied humiliating a guest on his Itv Show who died of a fatal overdose days after the recording in 2019. Steve dymond is believed to have taken his own life. He was accused of cheating on his partner. Today the inquest into his death was shown previously unseen footage from the show, in which Mr Dymond became visibly upset. Jeremy kyle insisted his Presenting Style had been direct but empathetic. From winchester coroners court, heres duncan kennedy. At the start of your relationship with jane, have you passionately kissed Anyone Else . She said no. Why did she say no, steve . Because i was telling the truth. Test says youre a liar, pal. This was theJeremy Kyle show that was never broadcast. Clips from it were played at the inquest today. In them, Steve Dymond can be seen in a highly distressed state after he failed a Lie Detector Test taken to prove he hadnt cheated on his partner. Oh, my god, i was never unfaithful. Booing. Jane callaghan is also distraught. But Steve Dymond, who the inquest heard had a long history of serious Mental Health problems, continues to insist he had not cheated on her. The audience thought you were telling the truth. I wouldnt. I wouldnt trust you with a chocolate button, mate. Honestly, you are. I dont think you even know what the truth is. Youve done it. Everything, steve everything earlier, the inquest was shown Steve Dymond preparing to take the Lie Detector Test. He asks how accurate it is. Theyre 99. 9 . No, no, no, thats dna testing. 0h. In his evidence today, Jeremy Kyle told the inquest that his was an Entertainment Show that abided by strict rules. When asked whether he felt hed humiliated Mr Dymond on the show, Mr Kyle replied. Steve dymonds Family Lawyer later read out Mr Dymonds last Whatsapp Message a day before he died. It reads. In response, Mr Kyle told the inquest. Jeremy kyle also explained that his show had a team of producers and Specialist Aftercare workers to help people like Steve Dymond and other guests. He called them his double security blanket. Seven days after his appearance on the show, Steve Dymond died of an Overdose And Heart problems. The inquest is due to conclude next week. Duncan kennedy, bbc news, in winchester. In a rare interview a cladding company boss, strongly criticised by yesterdays Grenfell Tower inquiry report, has denied playing a part in the disaster. Claude wehrle from the cladding manufacturer arconic, told the bbc that the deaths of 72 people at grenfell were a tragedy. But he said he was not The One Making Decisions about the sales of the flammable material. Heres tom symonds. We now know why 72 people lost their lives. But what happened here could have happened anywhere dangerous materials were used on high rises. That fact triggered a rush to make buildings safe, so now theres a new question when will it end . Have you Got A timeline . I havent Got A definitive timeline yet, but. It became far more dangerous in a fire. Yet in 2010, he E Mailed Colleagues that this should be kept very confidential. While they continue to insist its cladding can be used safely commit as a concealed safety information. All of this is why Grenfell Tower happened and in turn there was a building safety crisis. The government is now under pressure to resolve it quickly. Resolve it quickly. Have you Got A timeline . I resolve it quickly. Have you Got A timeline . I havent resolve it quickly. Have you Got A timeline . I havent got resolve it quickly. Have you Got A timeline . I havent Got A resolve it quickly. Have you Got A l timeline . I havent Got A definitive timeline . I havent Got A definitive timeline yet the deputy Prime Minister had to admit that this morning in a tour of the studios. But the pressures now on to get rid of the scaffolding and get thejob done. She says the money, £5 billion, is there, but. Sometimes theres very complex structures to these buildings, some are owned offshore, and im looking at that now, on how we can continue to really hold these Building Owners to account to make sure that they do the work. Theres no excuse. Therell be a new plan in the autumn, she said. Foretold the work has started but not yet finished. So whats the scale of the challenge . Well, more than 4,600 blocks above 11m, about six storeys, have so far been found to be unsafe. But only 1,350 have had work completed. That is about 29 . And this has been going on for years now. All the time people are being told about new problems. This is Rachael Loftus in leeds. We should be compensated for that that. Its disrupting our ally. The government that. Its disrupting our ally. The government may have to beef up the law to keep things moving. And ministers are under pressure also to quickly deliver of the recommendations of yesterdays report as the consequences of the disaster continue to unfold. Lets look at whats making the front pages of fridays newspapers. The guardian leads on the Grenfell Report for a second day with the words of a former Chief Prosecutor who predicts there will be no justice for the 72 people who died � until the next decade the is main story is an exclusive suggesting brexit checks due to be introduced on Fruit And Veg coming from the European Union have been delayed yet again the financial times goes with the Surprise Announcement of the eus former Brexit Negotiator Michel barnier as frances new Prime Minister. Meanwhile the daily telegraph reports on a proposal to ease Prison Overcrowding by sending some inmates to estonia. The Daily Mail reports on the aborted plan to send Asylum Seekers to rwanda which it says is now being considered by the german government the Daily Express has a plea to the Prime Minister to support a Compromise Deal on Winter Fuel payments for pensioners and the metro reports on the inquest we mentioned earlier into the death of a participant on itv� s Jeremy Kyle show in 2019. A member of the Royal Navy has died after a Military Helicopter ditched in the English Channel last night. The Merlin Helicopter was training with the Hms Queen Elizabeth Aircraft Carrier near dorset. Two other Crew Members were rescued and taken to hospital but had no serious injuries. The navy said the family of the man who died has been informed and an investigation has begun. A court in france has heard shocking testimony from a woman whose husband is accused of enlisting dozens of strangers to rape her after having her drugged. The abuse is said to have gone on for over a decade with the Husband Filming what happened. Today, Gisele Pelicot who has waived her right to anonymity told the court of her horror at discovering what had been done to her. 0ur Paris Correspondent Andrew Harding has the story, and his report contains distressing detail. In a courthouse In The City of avignon, one Womans Voice shook france to the core today. This is Gisele Pelicot, walking tall, choosing to face the cameras as she came to tell her bone chilling story. 0n Trial here are these 51 frenchmen, all accused of Raping Pelicot as she lay unconscious in her own bed, drugged by her own husband. In the courtroom, facing that husband, pictured standing here, pelicot described the moment her happy marriage collapsed, when a french policeman showed her pictures from her husbands laptop, pictures of strangers raping her. Her testimony, spoken here by translator. Translation it was hard to recognise myself. Then the officer showed me a second photo and a third. I asked him to stop. It was unbearable. I was lifeless in my bed, and a man was raping me. My world fell apart. Im speaking now not for myself, but for all the women who are drugged and abused. After giving evidence, pelicot kept her composure in front of the media. Translation i think ive said everything i could. I its not easy. Theres a lot of pressure. Were going to have to fight to The End. This trial� s going to last four months. Pelicot� s husband dominique has already confessed to everything, to repeatedly drugging his wife over the course of more than a decade. But many of the other men also on trial for raping her have told police that either they didnt realise she was unconscious or they assumed her Husbands Consent was enough. But that kind of argument has provoked fury. Today, the Husbands Lawyer said other accused might argue it was sex, not rape, but when the videos themselves are shown in court, there will be no doubt what really happened. Pelicot� s own daughter attended the trial this morning. Shes campaigned for the issue of drugging and raping to be taken far more seriously across france. And outside court, activists called for the courage shown by one woman to lead to wider changes in laws and attitudes. Andrew harding, bbc news, france. Michel barnier the former European Commissioner who negotiated brexit for the eu has been named as the new Mr Barnier, a conservative, was appointed by president Emmanuel Macron following two months of political deadlock in the country after Snap Elections ended in a hung parliament. 0ur Europe Editor Katya Adler has more. Michel barnier. A Household Name across the uk. Michel barnier, the eus former chief brexit negotiator, has walked into our studio In London. Michel barnier, welcome to hardtalk. Mr barnier. Im sorry but i dont want to answer questions now. Im sorry, we are late to work. Let me work, please. Not something french politicians can normally boast unless they are the president. But Mr Barnier was the Point Man for the eu during the years and years of painful brexit negotiations. Charged with keeping Eu Member states united and the uk in check. It is quite ironic that the man who became nicknamed triple b, barnier, the brexit man in brussels, is pretty much better known in the uk and in eu circles then here in france. Ive come to valenciennes, a town in northern france, to ask what people know of their new Prime Minister. Excusez moi. Michel barnier is the new Prime Minister. No. You dont know him . Merci. Do you know Mr Barnier, Michel Barnier . No. Hes your new Prime Minister. Ah, 0k. No, sorry. Thank you, bye bye. But Mr Barnier is no newbie to politics. Ahead of the last french president ial election, he tried and failed to get nominated as a centre right candidate. So he is known here by people who follow politics closely. But his manner is more officious than personable, as we in the uk may remember. And he is viewed as president macrons Prime Minister of last resort. A predictable pair of hands hoping to calm even momentarily the political Chaos And Street protests since the snap parliamentary vote in july. But tonight in paris, the word on the street is if Michel Barnier remains by minister beyond christmas, Uk Prosecutors have dropped a sexual Assault Case rebecca died in hospital after suffering horrific burns. The doctors say the burns covered more than 70 of her body, she had recently competed in the Paris 0lympics where she represented uganda. Police have released a picture of a teenager suspected of shooting dead for people at a school in the us state of georgia. Colt gray, 1a years old, rested on campus and will be prosecuted as an adult. Police are trying to determine how he obtained the Assault Rifle he used in the shooting. Hed been interviewed by police last year for making online threats about school shooting. 214 Year Old pupils and two teachers at the school In The City were killed, nine others including another teacher and eight students were taken to hospital. 0asis fans are being asked to share their experiences of trying to buy tickets for the reunion tour, as part of an investigation into ticketmaster. The inquiry will include a look at how so called Dynamic Pricing might have been used, where a business adjusts its prices according to changing market conditions, including high demand. They are looking at whether Consumer Protection laws were breached and asking fans to submit evidence from their experience of purchasing or attempting to purchase tickets. The winner of the prestigious Mercury Prize has been revealed at a Cermony At Abbey Road Studios In London. Indie band English Teacher from leeds have been recognised the winner of the 2024 Mercury Prize is English Teacher for their album. Indie band English Teacher from leeds have been recognised for their Debut Album this could be texas. They beat competition from the likes of Charli X C x, irish Singer Cmat Star cat burns and indie group the last dinner party. The judges said the Winners Album stood out for its Originality And Character and displayed a fresh approach to the traditional guitar band format. Lets take a listen I Isit i sit here quietly i sit here quietly No One looks down at the ground, No One ever notices me. I wish i were the Girl Next door. 0ur Music Correspodent Mark Savage has been speaking to English Teacher about their win has it sunk in yet . No. Will it sink in . Itll take a while, wont it . A while. People keep saying it to us, and then i keep remembering that its happened. Yeah, its quite strange. Can you just show us youve got both the trophy there, but also the card that was read out with your name on it. This has to be in pristine condition. Show it forever. Were gonna frame that and put it in the practice room. By The End of the night, somebody will have sat on it in the back of a taxi. You know that . Yeah, absolutely. Im staying well away. So for people who dont know, tell us a little bit about this record thats been named the best album of the last 12 months. Jesus christ. What can we say . I mean. Thanks for listening to it. Yeah. And we worked really hard on it. We worked really hard on it. We gave ourselves a really hard time writing, actually, ithink. I think we definitely held ourselves to a really high standard, whether thats a good thing or not. It was a it wasnt necessarily the smoothest processed process. And i think that was maybe, maybe a good thing. We definitely pushed ourselves. Yeah. And its a record thats kind of steeped in your upbringing in particular. What is it about writing those kind of geographically specific lyrics that were so important to you . Its weird because i didnt go into all of these songs wanting them all to kind of be about the same thing, but, um, it ended up that, and i think that it makes sense that they would all be about similar thing, because i guess i needed to write about something that i was feeling and what i was feeling, i guess, is nostalgia, and emotion based on my hometown and leaving my hometown and the different places that ive lived around it as well. It is a place that it brought me up as a musician, singing at Open Mic nights when i was like 13 and 14. There was a lot of, you know, racism. But then a lot of beautiful surroundings, like sublime landscapes. And i think its a really inspiring place. And theres a lot of that in the uk that you dont really it never really gets focussed on. Its really nice to have that. Not good for them. Now, good for them. Now time for the weather with ben rich. Hello. The weather across the uk is certainly pretty varied right now. Looking back at thursday, some places got to see Blue Skies and sunshine. Gorgeous scenes there in the highlands. Compare that with the heavy downpours that affected not only kent, but many southern counties of england, the southern half of wales as well. Its all because the low pressure is swirling to the south of us. Instead of this area of low pressure moving through and clearing away, it willjust continue to churn around, and that means further outbreaks of rain across southern counties of england, pushing up into the south of wales and the south midlands. Further north, though, yes, some areas of low cloud, mist and fog, which may linger for some northern and eastern coasts. But further north and west, we see a good deal of sunshine, whereas these showers and thunderstorms will continue down towards the south right through into the late afternoon. Just to the north of that band of rain, 25 26 degrees. We could also get to 26 in western scotland, and it is going to feel quite humid. Now through friday night, this band of showers and perhaps still the odd thunderstorm drifting a little bit further northwards. But many spots will be dry with some Mist And Murk, again, some areas of fog. Its going to be another pretty warm and humid night. A humid start to saturday with our area of low pressure still churning to the south. That means there is the chance that well see further outbreaks of rain pushing up from the south across the Channel Islands into southern counties of england as we go through the day. Spots further north after early Mist And Murk clears should see, once again, some spells of warm sunshine, although i think it will stay quite grey for some of these eastern coasts. Again in the sunny spots with that humid air, temperatures could get to around 23 24 degrees. By sunday, it looks like our area of low pressure will start to move northwards. That will introduce outbreaks of rain, particularly across england and wales. Could see some of that into Southern Scotland later on. Some hefty thundery downpours following on into the south. Still quite a warm feel for the time being. That is set to change because as we head into next week, we change the wind direction, we bring the winds down