And a romcom with a diference boy meets girl, and girl falls into a coma in the big sick. Well get film critic james kings thoughts on this and the other releases in the film review. Good evening. In the past few minutes, the government has announced that an independent review will be carried out into Building Regulations and fire safety, because of the Grenfell Tower fire. The fire in west london, which killed 80 people, raised serious questions about about the fire safety of high rise buildings and led to the widespread testing of cladding, like that used on Grenfell Tower, on other buildings across the country. Also in the past few minutes it has been confirmed that 82 buildings have failed those new fire tests for cladding. That includes these in salford. 47 of them are in local Authority Control run by housing associations. All the details of the findings of those particular tests have only just been released, just in the last few minutes. So our correspondents arejust reading few
In charge of Guantanamo Bay he let president obama know his views on that. He seems to have an excellent opinion amongst the army and much of the armed forces. The president respects much of what he has to say. He is an outspoken man and one that President Donald Trump seems to greatly respect. At the moment, anyway. Thank you very much. Time now for newsnight. To be deemed safe, cladding systems are meant to survive a ao minute fire test. Today, we learned grenfells lasted just nine. 82 other buildings use a design thats similar enough to be troubling. Also tonight, were used to being on the wing to europe in our millions, but when we leave the eu, will we be forced to go into reverse, or even be grounded . If we do not have a transitional arrangement and if we are not a member of the eu as part of that transitional arrangement, then we have chaos. And ahead of tomorrows first ever relaxed prom for people with Learning Difficulties and sensory impairments, well have a live preview. Go
Its 7am in singapore and midnight in london. There is new hope today for thousands of families who live with the prospect of passing on inherited diseases to future generations. For the first time, scientists in the us, along with experts from china and south korea, have successfully repaired a faulty gene in Human Embryos. But critics are warning that the technique could, ultimately, be used to create so called designer babies. Our medical correspondent fergus walsh reports. The goal could not be more ambitious to eradicate inherited diseases. These scientists have taken an impressive first step on a long road, editing dna in Human Embryos. So how is it done . Inside the nucleus of each of ourselves is our genome, billions of pieces of dna. Its the Instruction Manual for life. The scientists were targeting a faulty gene that causes a serious Heart Condition. They fertilised a healthy egg with sperm from a man carrying the faulty gene. They then injected the Gene Editing System known a
Its 7am in singapore and midnight in london. There is new hope today for thousands of families who live with the prospect of passing on inherited diseases to future generations. For the first time, scientists in the us, along with experts from china and south korea, have successfully repaired a faulty gene in Human Embryos. But critics are warning that the technique could, ultimately, be used to create so called designer babies. Our medical correspondent fergus walsh reports. The goal could not be more ambitious to eradicate inherited diseases. These scientists have taken an impressive first step on a long road, editing dna in Human Embryos. So how is it done . Inside the nucleus of each of ourselves is our genome, billions of pieces of dna. Its the Instruction Manual for life. The scientists were targeting a faulty gene that causes a serious Heart Condition. They fertilised a healthy egg with sperm from a man carrying the faulty gene. They then injected the Gene Editing System known a
Im katty kay in washington, Christian Fraser is in london. President trump in the last hour has been speaking to members of the Us Armed Forces in tampa, florida. This is his first addressed to troops as their Commander In Chief and he has been speaking in particular about nato. We have your back, every hour of every day, now and always. That also means getting our allies to pay theirfairshare, means getting our allies to pay theirfair share, they are means getting our allies to pay their fair share, they are very unfairto us. Their fair share, they are very unfair to us. They strongly support nato. We only ask that all of the nato. We only ask that all of the nato members make theirfull and properfinancial nato members make theirfull and proper financial contributions to the nato alliance, which many of them have not been doing. 0ur north america correspondent, nick bryant, is here. You were sitting with me in the studio, there is President Trump making what seems like a recommitment