come into force today, affecting refugees and visitors from six mainly muslim countries. the german parliament has voted to legalise same sex marriage, granting gay and lesbian couples full marital rights including child adoption. also the welsh turtle who is now having fun in the sun. a rare sea turtle called menai who washed up on an anglesey beach is taken to gran canaria to an anglesey beach is taken to gran ca naria to be an anglesey beach is taken to gran canaria to be released. and british world number one tennis player andy murray will begin the defence of his wimbledon title against a qualifier or a lucky loser on monday. good morning. it s friday the 30th ofjune. i m annita mcveigh. welcome to bbc newsroom live. cladding fitted to grenfell tower during its refurbishment was changed to a version which cost nearly £300,000 less, a document seen by the bbc has revealed. at least 80 people were killed when the tower block in west london was destroyed by fire two weeks
between demonstrators. the singer adele cancels her two concerts this weekend at wembley stadium the singer says she is heartbroken but has damaged her vocal cords. in rugby, a late penalty from owen farrell secures the british and irish lions victory in new zealand, levelling the three test series. cardiff is one of the uk s fastest growing cities but is the welsh capital expanding too fast? cardiff s growing pains is on at 1:30pm on bbc news. good afternoon. the government has indicated it won t bring in external commissioners to run kensington and chelsea council following the grenfell tower fire disaster. the local government secretary, sajid javid, said it would monitor the process to elect a new leader of the authority following the resignation of nicholas paget brown yesterday, and it would take further action, if it was needed. frankie mccamley reports. it was the breakdown of this, the first cabinet meeting at the council since the fire at grenfell tower, that le
grip on the territory has been degraded in iraq and syria. in the last nine months it has been targeted in mosul by the iraqi army, backed by us and coalition airstrikes. victory has come at a cost with an estimated eight thousand civilians driven from home and stop what was once a beautiful old city is now mostly rubble. every building deeply scarred or destroyed by months of war. we joined the search and rescue teams looking for survivors. but more often, they are just recovering bodies. with the heat, there is also the strong smell of decay. ali is hoping against hope that his brother and his family are still alive. their house was hit in an air strike just a few weeks ago. it was being used by islamic state fighters. ali says that he spoke to his brother on this phone while he was trapped somewhere under the rubble. and then, he stopped answering. all they find here is decaying corpses. it s a similar story everywhere they go. while that was happening, the iraqi prime min
a reminder that he has the complete power to pardon. boots has said it is truly sorry for its response to calls to cut the cost of one its morning after pills. the company faced criticism after saying it wanted to avoid incentivising inappropriate use of the pills. airline pilots have welcomed government plans to introduce a registration system for privately owned drones. it follows growing concern about the risk they pose to aircraft. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are rosamund urwin, columnist with the london evening standard and martin lipton, head of sport at the sun. tomorrow s front pages: we start with the observer which leads with claims that the brexit secretary, david davis, is the preferred choice among tory members to replace prime minister theresa. the sunday express features a family photograph of prince harry and his mother, diana the princess of wales, with the headline our last words with mummy
it s 8am in singapore and 1am in london. there is new hope 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. it s 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