In the third test in perth. Massive win. Good morning. Its monday 18th december. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. A review into building regulations following the Grenfell Tower fire says there should be a culture change to ensure that safety is prioritised over cost. Dame Judith Hackitt, who is carrying the review for the government, makes a series of recommendations to simplify the rules and change the way they are overseen. In her first report out this morning, she also says regulations are confusing and open to interpretation. The interim report tells us that what we have in place today is a system which has evolved over a number of years. It is overly complex and that complexity does not lead to it being as effective as it needs to be. What sort of things specifically are we talking about . Were talking about a system where there is too much prescription, where there is a very heavily layered system of guidance currently, which is not helpful in terms of leading pe
A mysterious death in manhattan. The body of a woman found in the doorway of an apartment building. Now witnesses reveal new details about this grizzly discovery, and who police are looking for tonight. First, an active search underway at the side of a deadly gas explosion. A woman missing since the blast, and her family desperate for answers, as authorities identify the first victim of that explosion. Good evening, everyone, im sandra bookman. And im joe torres. There are k9 units at the scene to help police in the search through the rubble. Authorities are searching for francisca figueroa. Identify the woman found in the building stairwell as lehi abuero. Lucy lang is in borough park tonight. Reporter it is still a is very active investigation with multiple agencies on site. The latest word is at least two buildings will have to be demolished, but before that, investigators need to go through all the debris very carefully to find the cause of this gas explosion and to find the second
The government is advancing regulations to close the network's Israel branch, a move journalists and free press defenders decry as baseless and dangerous
The government is advancing regulations to close the network's Israel branch, a move journalists and free press defenders decry as baseless and dangerous.