Cornwall. A muggy night across the board. Temperatures for many in the teens. The south east, high teens. Temperatures rise under sunny conditions for the morning commute. Patchy rain and drizzle. Cloud in the west. Very little rain into the afternoon. Sunshine comes out. As it goes away, a drop in temperatures. A fresh day by and large. After the morning rain, sunshine around from mid morning onwards. Sunshine returning anglia and the south east. Temperatures peaking at 25. 2i Returning Anglia and the south east. Temperatures peaking at 25. 21 22 by this stage. Four oclock in the afternoon, showers returned to Northern England after a sunny start in the first part of the afternoon. Northern ina in a while. Temperatures once in a while. Temperatures normal. Showers continuing through the evening. A fresh night in the friday morning. Temperatures in double figures for many. Friday. Starting with sunshine. Clouding overin starting with sunshine. Clouding over in the west. Patchy drizzle in Northern Ireland spreading western scotland. Becoming persistent but not very heavy. Breaks in the cloud. High 20s. Temperatures further south in england and wales, more Sunshine Similarto in england and wales, more sunshine similar to thursday. High pressure on the weekend from the south. Hit in england and wales. 28 degrees. 22 to the east of scotland. Sunday, things could get more hot. The first 30 degrees day of the year so far. Hello. This is bbc news with reeta chakra barti. Well be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment. First, the headlines at least 12 people have died in a huge fire which engulfed a tower block in west london, and the number of fatalities is expected to rise. Up to 600 people may have been in the flats when the blaze broke out in the early hours of the morning. You need to ring the dedicated 999 eyewitnesses say they saw people trapped in their flats shouting from their windows trying to throw their children to safety. There was smoke literally everywhere. There were people downstairs. Things were falling down. Screaming. People were screaming. The London Fire Brigade desperately struggled to reach the upper floors but were repelled by the heat and falling debris. Residents have been taking shelter in nearby community centres. Some are still looking for missing relatives. She said we cant do it. Smoke is killing us, it is coming. It is coming from the doors. That was the last time i heard from her. Theres no word yet on the cause of the blaze. Residents say they had raised concerns about fire safety in the block. Around 70 people are being treated in six london hospitals. 18 of them are in a critical condition. The block had recently been refurbished. Ministers have ordered urgent checks on buildings where similar work has been carried out. Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are the writer and broadcaster, mihir bose, and the former pensions minister, baroness altmann. Good evening to you both. Good evening. Tomorrows front pages, starting with this. Theres only one story on tomorrows front pages. The telegraph carries a haunting photograph of the Grenfell Tower fire. The express reports people throwing their children out of windows to save them from the blaze. The i describes the tragedy as avoidable, saying that residents had repeatedly raised concerns about fire safety. The metro warns that dozens of people are feared dead. The guardian focuses on the warnings from residents it says were ignored. The times reports that the blaze spread through the building in a mere 15 minutes. And the mirror carries a photograph of the burning building with a single world. Deathtrap. So, we will begin. So much to talk about. This story rightly dominates every single front page. The mail. It has that terrifying image of every single front page. The mail. It has i really, ifying image of every single front page. The mail. It has i really, as ng image of an inferno, asking tower, really, as an inferno, asking how the hell could it happen, a sober pun, because it does look like hell. It must have felt like hell. This is such a tragedy. The first thing is to talk about the people who have suffered, g families {eee eee e fieiee eee iezueeeee; we 57 72 71 27 7 {eee eee e fieiee eee iezueeeee; we dont§ {eee eee e fieiee eee iezueeeee; we dont 5 what fig heart goes out to them. Tiara affixes 17 r how could this happen in britain . The indication is this is clearly a tragedy that could have and should have been avoided. We need to know why it wasnt and who is responsible and what steps were not taken that should have been taken . In a country like ours, one of the most advanced and developed, with our resources to make and health and safety regulations. Yes. A Fire Destroys a whole tower block . That is what this is suggesting. Sheer disbelief we can see this in london. In day oui mi vnci eii and age and in our country, with all the effort of rules and regulations, fire safety has been a strong point in all of the health and safety regulations, and every tower block has to have a fire safety inspection. It all has to pass. The residents seemed to have been told it did and there was no fire risk. This is a dickensian past. It should have happened decades ago, not in 2017. The i. It spells out a little bit more on the front page what you we re bit more on the front page what you were saying about the concerns raised. Tragic, horrific, avoidable. It has gone on to detail in the other pages about concerns raised a long time ago in 2009. There was a fire back then. Six people died. 20 people were injured. At that time, the fire spread very quickly and there were questions spread about how that happened. It seems nothing has moved on from there. In 2013, there was an all party fire and rescue review. Questions need to be answered. The residents themselves a elam eethatising done has not Aveided Thisrkind cf and that is the real disaster. And that is the real sadness of all of this. You know . People have spent a lot of time and a lot of money on assessing fire. They had a policy for fire. Clearly it is not sufficient. It takes Something Like this for us to learn that. The residents where indeed warning it would take a catastrophe, a catastrophic event, as the put it, before someone would take them seriously. Questions were raised about the Cladding Acting like chimney, encouraging the fire to spread, going between the cladding and the walls. It was meant to keep safe. Were. ; to safe. M g to stay people safe. They were told to stay put in their flat and they would be rescued. That advice sounds almost lethal, an invitation to death. In fa ct, lethal, an invitation to death. In fact, those who ignored the advice save themselves. That is where you got the headline deathtrap. Actually, the Stay Put Advice would be ok if they came and put the fire out. But if you were staying put, and you were thinking you should get out, you could not, because the smoke and flames engulfed everything. Yes. How could this advice you given when the fire safety precautions were not there to make the advice mean anything . What makes it more sad is the London Fire Brigade apparently warned about this cladding. There are already concerns about it. We have to stress that we dont know if this is because. We dont know if this is because. We dont know. The cause. There was also talk about recent gas pipes and works, some new also talk about recent gas pipes and woiks, some new ones also talk about recent gas pipes and works, some new ones put in the stairwell with boilers and so on. There may be other reasons, but we dont know. And this building is 3040 50 dont know. And this building is 30 40 50 years old. Dont know. And this building is 3040 50 years old. People living in Similar Properties will be worried today. We dont know much about it except that it moved very fast in a matter of minutes. The fa ct fast in a matter of minutes. The fact you can talk about so many potential reasons, these have all come out during the day, mostly from residents. I just come out during the day, mostly from residents. Ijust feel come out during the day, mostly from residents. I just feel sorry for those residents who have been going along and saying this is a risk, this is a risk, and have been told, no, its fine. Obviously, no one wants to be proven right in these circumstances. We have to make sure we understand what because he is. The cause is. The government will be looking at buildings with similar cladding. I hope they put in place rescue plans in case this happens. If you have Safety Standards and they dont work, what do they mean . It destroys confidence the whole thing is based in confidence. There are fire Safety Standards and i believe when a fire comes i will be safe. If they dont work, there is no way to feel secure. All of the flats had these expensive fire doors put in. A lot of money was spent trying to do this. Clearly, something has been going wrong. Something has gone dreadfully wrong. Yes. We spent some time talking about how it happened and concerns raised. Let us talk now about the people. The times. A picture of one of the people waving from their window. I cannot imagine how desperate they may have been inside. Help, help a story of trapped parents throwing their children. One was caught, apparently. That is an amazing story. Extraordinary. Wonderful. The fact they had to do Something Like this this echoes of what happened in 9 11. Yes. That was a totally different thing. This, the causes of this, they should have been avoided. We dont know if the pa rents of been avoided. We dont know if the parents of the baby survived. They we re parents of the baby survived. They were thrown out of the ninth or tenth floor. We dont know how many have died. The news at the moment is 12. We know roughly 600 people were in the block, dont we . We only know about a certain number of deaths and people in hospital. Stories of people in hospital. Stories of people calling loved ones. One had four children. When she got down. Six when she was up and four when she was down. Another, her i2 year old daughter, got separated somehow. They dont know where she is. That they had a stable policy because they only had a single staircase. If all of the residents we re staircase. If all of the residents were trying to get out while The Fire Brigade were trying to get in, then the fire could not be extinguished. Stapleton is a widespread policy. The fire brigade has to be able to get in to put any fire out. With one stairwell, it is coitiitioii fire out. With one stairwell, it is common to stay tell people to stay in theirflat if common to stay tell people to stay in their flat if their flat is not oii in their flat if their flat is not on fire, to allow Emergency Services to work. Clearly that was not the right advice here. The fire doors clearly did not work. The blaze spread so quickly. That is the thing. That the blaze spread quickly. They may have withstood the fire but they were overcome by smoke, we do not know. Continuing on to the metro. Every front page has this terrible, terrible photograph on it. The metro has in the foreground one of the many brave firefighters. The heroes. They are the ones, really, we should acknowledge. They do what they do all their time and that picture sums it up. There he is, fighting the fire but you can feel the strain. Understandable he should be feeling strain but is still doing this job in trying to rescue people. Some firefighters say this is the worst thing they have ever seen. There have been in the service for decades and they have not seen anything quite like this. We have not seen anything like this. This is a towering inferno, movies like that. What you think is may believe that this is a real life tragedy. What you think is may believe that this is a reallife tragedy. They do an amazing job day in and day out. Unfortunately, recently, they have had a lot to cope with. Notjust the firefighters, of course. They have all stepped up to the mark and done what they are supposed to do and we rely on them that they really did come through and they have been there to helpjust come through and they have been there to help just as we would want them to. We do not often acknowledged that, we do not highlight what happened with borough market, how quickly Rescue Services we re market, how quickly Rescue Services were there. The point has been made with firefighters in particular is that while everyone else is fleeing danger, they are going into it and it must have been terrifying. They we re it must have been terrifying. They were going up the floors and searching all the flats. They got to the 19th or of the 24 building. 24 floor building. They are trained and they are professional, they are dedicated and they are there for us. Ican dedicated and they are there for us. I can not pay enough tribute to them, they really do the most magnificent work. The unsung heroes, really. It is comforting that one sector of our society does work and work well stop at moments like this its good to know that the rescue Services Work and that is some comfort in the tragedy. There will be stories coming out highlighting that. And they will have saved many people. It is terrible for those they did not save that they will have saved a large number of people by being there and guiding them to safety. We speak about people crawling around in the dark because they could not see and when they we re they could not see and when they were trying to reach the stairs and the Emergency Services were guiding them through. Lets mention the Community Coming together and donating loads of things. You had the priest talking about it earlier. That shows humanity. That is something that we should be proud of. Britain does pull together in an emergency. We have always pulled together and supported each other in difficult times. People are still turning up with blankets and food and. Offers of accommodation, whatever it is, british people really do have that great spirit of wanting to help when people are in trouble. One more front page on this story, the guardian. It has a different angle on that image that equally stark. It talks, amongst other things, about the families who are still searching for people who are still searching for people who are missing. We touched on that slightly but it talks about some individuals, particularly, a i2 year old girl, a family with three children, an 82 year old man. Yes stop yes. The 82 year old man who could not quite walked out of the lights and said he would stay where he was stop they dont know where he was stop they dont know where he was stop they dont know where he is now. One cannot imagine the panic and the fear that must have been going through. At the time. Those people who got out, some of them did get out with elderly relatives. They must feel so grateful that they managed to escape. Others may have stayed behind to look after people. They did not want to leave a relative who was disabled, whatever. Who could not manage the stairs. One was in the lifts. I think the 82 year old had gone down one for the lift and was told to get out because, obviously, the lift will not be saved in this situation. Says in this situation, but he could not handle the stairs. They do not know what happened to him. The agony will go on. We dont know for how long, before they find their loved ones. Lets hope there are some happy and good stories that some people will turn up, some of the missing. It does happen that somebody runs away from a tragedy like this and then you find that they are actually ok, but maybe they did not take their mobile with them which is why they are not answering. Let us hope we hear some of that. Turning now to work couple of other stories, one of which in other times would have been much bigger news and that is the resignation of the liberal them a great leader kim farren. What do you make of this story . Were you surprised . Tim farron. It was clearly hoping to create a third way. Although their seats increased, it is not much of a wave, it is hardly a Ripple In The Pond full doc the reason he gave is that you cannot be a man of faith and lead a party. I find that extraordinary. Were you convinced by that reasoning . No. Now i was not stop he can say that he personally would not believe in gay marriage but i will support anybody, i will not have a law that makes gay marriage illegal. Soa law that makes gay marriage illegal. So a distinction between personal faith and political leanings. He seemed to think there is a contradiction in that, suggested that the media made a contradiction when, actually, he should have resolve the contradiction himself. He should have said these are the personal beliefs, these are the party beliefs and i will always support the party policy. More sympathetic . I feel very sad that this is somebody who really does have strong faith and felt that he could not marry the face, if you excuse could not marry the face, if you excuse the expression, with being a political leader. He came under enormous pressure and unfairly so at the beginning of the campaign when everybody was forcing him to talk about what he thinks of gay marriage. I agree with you. He probably did not handle that as well as he could have but it was relentless pressure that took away from really important issues of policy and what this party stood for. This party does support gay marriage. He was the leader of the party, as you say, this personal believes may be different but he would not have imposed those beliefs oii would not have imposed those beliefs on other people. What he was asked was this own personal belief. They ke pt was this own personal belief. They kept on and on asking him. He did not make the distinction very clear. He shied away from it but i think that was the issue. He shied away from saying that he has a personal belief and a party policy and there is no contradiction because i have come out in politics to do certain things and i am part of a party that will support these policies, fine. I will support these policies, fine. I will carry them out. He did not do that well enough. All he said was that well enough. All he said was that it does not want to talk about it. Because he was being criticised for this personal belief. That is what was happening. When he was being interviewed he was being criticised for being, if you like, all, for himself, not willing to countenance the idea that he would Acce Pt Countenance the idea that he would accept a gay marriage. That was the problem. Ina accept a gay marriage. That was the problem. In a way, the line of questioning, instead of him trying to ride above it are the other leaders may have done and they sorry, that is not relevant, i am here as leader of the Liberal Democrats and these are policies, this is what we stand for. This own beliefs are this own issues, enough. That is depressing if a man or a woman of aids cannot become a political leader because the political leader because the Political Party has views contrary to that persons religious views. We have come to a very depressing stage. Thats what he was saying in this speech today and that is why i have see with him because he clearly felt that. He may be a bit more sceptical and i may be a bit naive but i think he really did feel that he could not come any longer, be in a position. If they had gotten 50 seats he would not have resigned. Thank you both very much. That is if the papers tonight. You can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website, all there for you seven days a week. If you mist the programme any evening you can watch it later ron on the bbc iplayer a full thank you very watch it later ron on the bbc much will stop it has been a warm and sunny day for many of us today and sunny day for many of us today and it leads us into a warm and muqqy and it leads us into a warm and muggy night, i must say. We have been drawing warm and humid air up from the continent. But which are once again reached 40 degrees. Got 27 at heathrow but things will change tomorrow. The front its self brings some cloud and outbreaks of rain across Northern Ireland and western scotland. Some showery range into the western fringes of england and wales and ahead of that front we are ina and wales and ahead of that front we are in a warm and muggy air so perhaps a little uncomfortable for sleeping with a minimum temperature in them centre of london may be around 16 or 17 degrees. Where we begin muggy and we get sunshine it will be warm tomorrow morning but then the Weather Front at this stage band of cloud and showery rain, will move its waste group and we will get into cool and fresh conditions. There will still be a fair amount of sunshine. This is four oclock tomorrow afternoon. The South West Of England these sunny skies. The south east and east anglia, he is still some warmth is clinging on. Five through the midlands and wales and we encounter showers across Northern England. For Northern Ireland scotland there will be cloudy periods and outbreaks of showery rain but sunny breaks in between. Temperature here around 15 17 degrees. We are all in fresh air tomorrow night so i think it will be a little more comfortable. Capture in belfast heading down to 12 degrees, 13 in cardiff and london and cooler than that at the countryside. Friday getting to a fresh start, a bright style of sunshine but then things begin to change. More cloud and outbreaks of patchy rain and, once again, the temperatures begins to climb. That sets us up for the weekend. This little warm front here brings showery rain across the north but also brings the return of warm air from the south. Notice an area of high pressure. Not only will saturday be warm across england and wales, it will be sunny for the most part. 28 degrees is likely across the south east, more of a breeze towards the north west. Any Rain On Sunday is confined to the far north west. A good deal of sunshine elsewhere and it will turn a hot. 30, possibly 31 degrees across the south east. We lose the warm for while the returns as we head into the weekend. That is all from me for now. This is bbc world news. Im babita sharma. Our top story at least 12 people are known to have died after a huge fire swept through a west london tower block, but many people are still missing. Eyewitnesses say the flames engulfed the 24 storey building within 30 minutes, with people desperately trying to escape. They need to ring 999 theres a dedicated line for this incident 0k . It was so dark and so much smoke was there. There were people running down the stairs, some with luggage. So much confusion. Firefighters are still at the scene after battling for 21 hours to contain the fire. Around 70 people are being treated in six london hospitals. 20 people are in a critical condition