to camber sands in east sussex despite being competent swimmers. and a report on the secrets of sleep and how too little leaves the brain struggling. and coming up in sportsday on bbc news... heather watson wows at eastbourne as she beats the world number nine, dominika cibulkova, to reach round three. good evening. the democratic unionist party has agreed the terms of a deal to support the minority conservative government. the deal involves more than a billion pounds of extra spending in northern ireland, on health, education and infrastructure. the first ministers of scotland and wales have condemned the deal in the strongest terms, calling it "cash for votes". theresa may has also been accused of undermining the search for stable government in northern ireland, as our political editor, laura kuenssberg, reports. 18 days since the election, nearly three weeks of waiting, a political lifetime for the prime minister. deal or no deal, mrs foster? but the dup, power on their side, have been taking their time. notjust friends but this a snap of a political family now. a deal agreed at the cabinet table no less. we also share the desire to ensure a strong government that is able to put through its programme. a strong government? well, less wobbly perhaps. the northern irish party promising their votes in parliament to prop up theresa may. that gives her, just, a majority. this is what they get in return. following our discussions, the conservative party has recognised the case for higher funding in northern ireland, given our unique history and the circumstances over recent decades. today we have reached an outcome that is good for the united kingdom. the tories have promised the dup an extra £1 billion of taxpayers' cash for northern ireland over the next two years to spend on infrastructure, health or education projects. and the tories have had to drop the idea of means testing winter fuel payments for the elderly and making changes to pensions. but in return the ten dup mps will back the tories on big votes like the queen's speech or the budget. the election threw the tory majority away. as you see on her face, theresa may would never have chosen this scenario. but they have signed on the dotted line so they have something to count on, knowing full well other parts of the uk will be angry, and how. this is cash for votes. it's a bung at the end of the day. in two years' time the dup will come back and ask for even more money. what has happened here is that the taxpayers in england and wales and scotland will continue to suffer austerity and northern ireland won't. this is not northern irish control of parliament. it's about being able to make westminster work at all. ministers knew this criticism would come — are they prepared? i'm not against investment in northern ireland, i welcome investment in infrastructure and public services but there ought to be fairness. if there's investment coming to northern ireland, scotland should be getting its fair share. you're paying £100 million to the dup for every single one of their votes. you've bought them off, haven't you? people in all parts of the country are benefiting from the fact that we have a strong enough economy that we can afford to spend more money on health. we placed 8 billion on health around the country. if you're cancelling austerity in northern ireland, you're not cancelling it anywhere else and people in scotland, wales, the north of england, haven't they got every right to feel quite cross about this? well, people in scotland, wales and different parts of england are getting money but this is separate from that. this is the northern ireland block grant which, as i say, has already existed so this is not unprecedented. the extra cash might help resurrect joint rule in northern ireland but itjust would not have happened if they hadn't agreed to back theresa may. this small group might not be familiar faces yet but they are now part of the power behind a shaky throne. laura kuenssberg, bbc news, westminster. as we've heard, the deal could have a significant impact on the future of devolved government in northern ireland. sinn fein has repeatedly said that in doing the deal the uk government has abandoned its duty to remain impartial under the terms of the good friday agreement of 1998. the latest deadline to restore the power—sharing executive at stormont is this thursday. our ireland correspondent, chris page, has the latest. belfast is a much changed city. the conflict is receding into history, thousands were heading to a concert thinking mainly of music and not money is that they did talk about the deal in london which is bringing more cash to this part of the uk. the deal in london which is bringing more cash to this part of the uki think in terms of the economy it will get us on a map. it is a fantastic deal for the people of northern ireland, no question. how it goes down elsewhere we will see. i think it is a waste, you need to get the executive working before we get the executive working before we get more money, it will be wasted. so where will the £1 billion of new money so where will the £1 billion of new money go? £350 million is likely to be spent on health and education, 400 million will go to infrastructure, four example roads and public buildings. 150 million is in marked for improving broadband and a further £100 million going towards deprived communities but the stalemate here at stormont is not about a cash crisis. the main differences between the dup and sinn fein are not over budgets, they are about issues like legal recognition for the irish language, whether same—sex marriage should be introduced here and how to deal with unsolved killings from the troubles. sinn fein had expressed concern about the prospect is the main unionist party having such a close relationship with the government. but today they suggested the deal could have some up sides. as always with these deal is the devil is in the detail but any money coming in are given the history of austerity and tory cuts which hopes to offset the effect on public services is a good thing. there are still big gaps to close in northern ireland is to get a fresh agreement. the current breakdown in relations is the most serious since the dup and sinn fein went into power sharing ten years ago. the northern ireland secretary who brokered that breakthrough is worried about the new arrangement in westminster. the government can no longer be seen as an evenhanded negotiator in the northern ireland peace process. that is a very high price to pay to cling onto power regardless. the government insists will remain impartial in the stormont talks. the power—sharing negotiations are going on into the night, the pace is picking up with three days left to save devolution. chris page, bbc news, belfast. live to westminster now and our political editor, laura kuenssberg. how much security is this deal going to give theresa may?|j how much security is this deal going to give theresa may? i think her cultivation was in this case that perhaps a bad deal was better than no deal —— her calculation. despite the obvious downsides, the activations that she has put forward activations that she has put forward a straight bribe which has been put forward by the opposition parties, a sense of unfairness we have already seen sense of unfairness we have already seen felt in other parts of the devolved nations and i'm sure in other parts of england as well. and the potential imprecations for the good friday agreement and getting power—sharing back on the table —— implications. there are significant downsides, no question, but there is one very important upside and this is what the calculation was about. without this deal theresa may simply did not have a majority over there. this allows her at least to cover the basics for now. without it she would have been vulnerable in the commons every day it sat, every hour, always at risk from a big vote that could have been sprung on her with her opponents ganging up on each other. at least this way she can be sure she is able to get the big pieces of business, the queen ‘s speech, finance bills, those things through the house of commons because without those that are government has no confidence from parliament and without that they just can't get anything done. but no mistake, this isa anything done. but no mistake, this is a veneer of stability rather than anything with deep foundations. it secures the position of theresa may for now but it does not restore her authority. laura, thank you, laura kuenssberg with the latest from westminster. in their latest statement on the aftermath of the fire at grenfell tower in west london, ministers say that 75 high—rise buildings in 26 local authority areas have failed fire safety tests. the company which makes the cladding that's thought to have been used on grenfell tower has now withdrawn the product from worldwide sale. and camden council in north london has evacuated several tower blocks after firefighters said they could not guarantee safety, partly because of concerns over fire doors, as our correspondent tom symonds reports. this growing fire safety crisis in social housing has been, until now, about cladding, the sheet of aluminium that councils have been fitting to tower blocks to improve their look and installation that it has become apparent recently here in camden that one of the reasons the occu pa nts of camden that one of the reasons the occupants of five tower blocks have been evacuated is notjust to do with cladding but also to do with a lack of fire doors. this is the fire door leading to the fire exit. roger evans is staying put in his camden flat despite the mass evacuation of his neighbours. but today he was told this... a p pa re ntly but today he was told this... apparently all the doors need replacing. because last week camden council realised these towers were covered with aluminium panels capable of burning in a fire and with that in mind the advice from fire safety experts was that every door needs to be a fire door. what you think the fact you are behind a door that is not a fire door? is i'd never thought about it, i assumed everything was safe, it is a council property, meant to be well maintained but evidently we have been living in a potential death trap. the communities secretary told the commons it was one of a number of safety issues with the blocks. most astonishingly there were hundreds, literally hundreds of fire doors missing. the estimate by camden council itself is that they need at least 1000 fire doors because they were missing from those five blocks. the council leader has beenin five blocks. the council leader has been in thejob five blocks. the council leader has been in the job a month. five blocks. the council leader has been in thejob a month. my understanding is that we are told the council make a cost that by removing the fire doors from the specification. you are new in the job but what does that make you think about how the council has been run? following grenfell we need to ta ke run? following grenfell we need to take a look, nationally, at our building regulations and fire safety measures. we have seen across building regulations and fire safety measures. we have seen across the country people availing these tests, we acted swiftly in camden to get the information right now and my priority is the residents who need somewhere to sleep and i'm trying to make sure they are safe and secure and following that i will be asking those questions. i have the same questions and i will be on it but i have to prioritise getting my residents back safely into their blocks. camden is worst affected but around the country councils are removing the aluminium panels from their towers and sending them for fire safety testing. the tests are happening so far in secret at this research centre. samples from 75 towers have been sent, every single one has failed. the building regulations are complex but they start from a basic principle, the external walls of the building shall adequately resist the spread of fire. the question is, how to meet that requirement. there is another document, something called approved document, something called approved document b which is a section which does not even mention cladding said materials used should be of limited combustibility meaning they burn slowly. even that is not straightforward because designers can straightforward because designers ca n i nstea d straightforward because designers can instead turn to 2—mac or more documents which are set out other ways to balance such as fire barriers can be added to cladding which does burn to reduce a fire, including using a desktop study to prove it is safe. it may well be the case that the regulations and the related guidance need to be updated to ta ke related guidance need to be updated to take account of a change in technology in the building industry but secondly we are concerned that the current regulations and guidance are not being applied and enforced strictly enough. the inquests into four more of the victims opens today will stop a corner, the police and the public enquiry will eventually consider why they died and what has gone wrong with fire safety. tom symons, bbc news. sabah abdullah lost his wife in the grenfell tower disaster, since when he's had to move to different accommodation three times, and he's found it extremely difficult to access the help he's needed. his wife's body is due to be flown back to morocco tomorrow for the funeral. he's been describing his experience to our special correspondent, lucy manning. sabah abdullah sa bah abdullah escaped sabah abdullah escaped the fire in this dressing gown. he made it out from the 17th floor but his wife, khadija khalloufi, didn't. her hand slipping from his in the rush to get out. from the 16th, went to the 15th... i looked behind me, she wasn't there. i said to myself, god, what's happening? i looked here and there. the retired lecturer sits in his hotel room, his third home since the fire. today his wife's body was prepared for burial. tomorrow she is being flown back to morocco but he cannot go with her. his british passport is in ashes. i've got no passport, my passport burned. i've got no driving licence, it also burned. everything i can think of is gone, burned. i'm nobody. so you can't go to morocco with your wife's coffin? how can i do that? of course it's my wife. it is part of me, it is there. she should be never alone without me. i'm sorry to ask you this but how do you feel that you can't accompany your wife back home? this is really... ifeel really very down. i feel this is really... ifeel really very down. ifeel i this is really... ifeel really very down. i feel i am this is really... ifeel really very down. ifeel i am nobody this is really... ifeel really very down. i feel i am nobody at all. as soon as down. i feel i am nobody at all. as soon as we down. i feel i am nobody at all. as soon as we interviewed sabah abdullah late this afternoon, we called the home office to ask why he couldn't get a replacement passport. they asked us to tell him that if he could get to the passport office within an hour they would try to help him but it is just a within an hour they would try to help him but it isjust a sign of how the grenfell survivors don't know who to turn to and they are left feeling helpless. and tonight, despite being originally told it would take a week, sabah abdullah got his passport. i'm relieved, at least i know i'm going to fulfil the wish of my late wife. the home 0ffice wish of my late wife. the home office said it had been doing all it could to help him. now he can be with his wife of 28 years as she makes herfinal with his wife of 28 years as she makes her final journey home. theresa may has said that eu nationals living in the uk will have the right to stay after brexit and will be able to bring family members to britain. but michel barnier, the eu's chief brexit negotiator, says the prime minister's plans lack clarity. mrs may told mps she wanted to end the anxiety for the 3.2 million eu nationals in the uk, and said those who had been here for five years would be granted ‘settled status', giving them rights to benefits, pensions and the nhs. 0ur political correspondent, vicki young, reports. theresa may says she's giving reassurance and certainty. is your offer to eu nationals good enough, prime minister? allaying their anxieties is a priority according to the prime minister and she told mps she had a serious and fair offer to make. under these plans, no eu citizen currently in the uk lawfully will be asked to leave at the point the uk leaves the eu. we want you to stay. so eu citizens will be able to apply for something called settled status — that is the right to live in the uk permanently, accessing public services and other benefits. applicants will have to have lived in britain for at least five continuous years and will need to have come here before a certain cut—off date which is yet to be agreed. in brussels last week, mrs may said that could be as early as march this year, when she triggered the formal brexit negotiations, but eu leaders say the deadline should be the date the uk leaves, expected in 2019. the prime minister's offer is conditional on eu countries offering british citizens similar rights. the labour leader said all this should have been sorted out a year ago. the prime minister has dragged the issue of citizens and families deep into the complex and delicate negotiations of our future trade relations with the european union, which she herself has been willing to say may result in failure. this isn't a generous offer. this is confirmation the government is prepared to use people as bargaining chips. and another row is brewing over who sorts out any legal disputes about these citizens‘ rights. would my right honourable friend give due assurance that any pressure to allow the european court ofjustice any role in immigration or future ilr status of eu citizens within this country will be flatly opposed? i believe that in terms of assuring the rights of eu citizens living here in the united kingdom, we believe that should be done through our courts, and not through the european court of justice. theresa may is promising a smooth and streamlined process to make it as easy as possible for eu citizens to secure their rights after brexit. the home office will have to set up a whole new system, potentially dealing with millions of applications. it's a huge challenge, and officials hope it will be up and running by next year. but before that, there will be tough talks. the eu's brexit negotiator has already called for more ambition, clarity and guarantees from the uk. vicki young, bbc news, westminster. as we heard, there are 3.2 million eu nationals living in the uk and around a million british nationals living elsewhere in the european union. 0ur correspondentjeremy cooke has been finding out how some of them have reacted to today's announcement. in a quiet corner of london, german voices raised in song. many of these singers have been here for decades. the government's announcement today is meant to offer them reassurance. it could just change any time, that's my feeling, and there's so much insecurity. what's slightly uncomfortable certainly is the fact that we are a bargaining chip. i'm still the eternal optimist and i hope that, ultimately, politicians will put people first. the choirmaster is barbara, a professional singer, shaken by the brexit vote and its consequences. i just don't see why suddenly because of issues of, the nhs, we want money for the nhs, or issues of, we don't like foreigners, suddenly we are treated like second—class citizens. itjust doesn't make sense to me. does it feel like that to you? very much so. what theresa may and david davis would say is that the evidence of today will be that they want you to stay, that you will be given settled citizen status. it's not how it feels. not at all. over in berlin, the brits in full voice. most here are confident they can stay after the uk leaves the eu. as someone who kind of personifies free movement having come here 20 years ago and reaped all the benefits, i'm very concerned that a whole generation and generations after that are going to miss out. at the moment i don't have to choose between british and german, and i think that would have been very hard. since the brexit vote and what you hear about that happening in the uk at the moment, actually it would make it easier for me to become a german and give up my british citizenship. the choirmaster here is andrew simms, who moved to berlin in 1988. maybe when people see the real costs of brexit, of leaving what i believe is the greatest peace project in the history of humanity, which has given us peace in europe for the last 70 years, i hope people will reflect. theresa may is determined to deliver on the brexit vote, and also to reassure those most directly impacted. it is proving a difficult balance to strike. jeremy cooke, bbc news. a brief look at some of the day's other other news stories... there's been a minute's silence for victims of the terror attack on muslim worshippers in finsbury park in london last week. one person died and 11 were injured. a man's been charged with terrorism related murder and attempted murder. the former archbishop of canterbury lord carey has resigned from his last remaining formal role in the church. lord carey was criticised in an independent review of the church's handling of abuse carried out by bishop peter ball. ball was jailed in 2015 for historic offences against young men. the royal navy has a new aircraft carrier, the first since the ark royal was decommissioned six years ago. hms queen elizabeth has set sail on sea trials. the vessel cost £3 billion and is the size of three football pitches. in washington, the us supreme court has approved parts of the controversial travel ban signed by president trump while it considers whether the policy should be fully upheld or struck down. the measure bans entry to travellers from six mainly muslim countries for 90 days and suspends the us refugee programme for 120 days. 0ur north america editorjon sopel is at the supreme court. we have talked a lot about this embattled president but how much of a victory is this one for him? it is not maybe the complete slam dunk donald trump would have hoped for but it is a partial and significant victory nonetheless. if you think about where we were, the ban had been struck down completely by the lower courts until it could be considered by the supreme court. now they have decided that from now on people will no longer be allowed to come to the us from those six countries unless they have a bona fides relationship with a person or entity in the united states. that's interesting but there are completely difficult questions about their implementation. who will decide this? will it be the customs officer who will decide on the day? but there is an irony in all of this. this is the revised travel ban we are talking about. donald trump only earlier this month derided it as being politically correct and watered down. now he's saying it is a clear victory for our national security at an important —— and an important tool for protecting the nation. it may be watered down, it may be revised but it has given donald trump of victory. thank you. in hastings an inquest has opened into the deaths of five friends who drowned on a trip to camber sands in east sussex last august. the men aged between 18 and 27 all lived in the london area and were of sri lankan origin. the circumstances surrounding the deaths of two other swimmers at the same beach a month earlier are also being taken into account, as our correspondent duncan kennedy reports. this was camber sands this afternoon. its stunning beach drawing thousands of people. no sign of what one lawyer today called its hidden dangers. but last summer, this was the same beach shortly afterfive men drowned here. all friends on a day trip. today the men's families, some of who escaped the civil war in sri lanka, came to their inquest hoping others won't suffer like they have. we're just hoping to learn that at least there will be more safe... secure and safe, you know, lifeguards and how do you say the beach has been protected. that's our only thought. this is what we want. what have the last ten months been like for you and your family? tragic. tragic is the word because it's been helpless. nitharsan ravi was one of the five men to drown. the others were kobi saththiyanathan, his brother kenugen, inthushan sriska ntharasa, and guru srithavarajah. the inquest heard they were all fit and all of them could swim, but one month earlier mohit dupar and gustavo silva da cruz also drowned on the same beach. the fact that seven men drowned here in the space of one month has made this double inquest notjust about personal tragedy but also about beach safety. the coroner in this case said today that he wanted to make sure that it never happened again. at the time of both incidents, there were no permanent lifeguards on the beach. this summer, there are. the families of the men who died said they want lessons learned so no one else has to suffer this appalling tragedy. duncan kennedy, bbc news, on camber sands. in canada a team of scientists is embarking on what's set to become the world's most comprehensive study into the effects of lack of sleep on the brain. they want hundreds of thousands of people worldwide to take part in tests online to see how much the amount of sleep affects the ability to function. 0ur medical correspondent fergus walsh has the story. we spend nearly a third of our lives asleep. it is vital for our physical and mental health. but we're getting less sleep than ever before. his visual cortex, his eyes are open but there's actually not much going on... british neuroscientist adrian 0wen, based in ontario, canada, believes sleep deprivation may be having a serious effect on our brainpower. every day we make hundreds of decisions, we remember hundreds of things. we make difficult decisions like should i buy a house and should i get married. but we also have to remember many simple things like where i parked the car or what i intended to buy on the way home from work. all of these things can be affected by lack of sleep. you go to sleep for four hours, and then i am going to personally wake all of you up. he's begun a major study of the effects of lack of sleep on the brain. so i joined volunteers at western university 0ntario, trying out his test, which anyone can sign up for online. they're designed to reveal how our brains are functioning — reasoning, memory, and decision—making. to demonstrate how tiredness may affect that, we stayed up until 4am, and then had just four hours sleep. but all too soon... good morning, fergus. time to get up! we were about to repeat the brain tests we'd done the previous night. how are you feeling? 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