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singapore, you re watching bbc world news. it s newsday. good morning. it s 8am in singapore and 1am here in london where the british prime minister theresa may has ordered a public inquiry into the fire that devastated a residential block of flats in west london. 17 people are now known to have died. many residents are missing, with whole families unaccounted for. here s the latest from our home editor, mark easton, and i must warn you, there are some distressing details in his report. slowly, inch by painstaking inch, fire officers continue their grim and dangerous work. amid the soot blackened shell of what was once home to hundreds are some who did not make it out. exactly how many, we don t know, but police today said they hoped the final death toll would not be in three figures. the scale of this tragedy is yet to become clear. sadly, i can confirm the number of people who have died is now 17. we do believe that that number will sadly increase. there are 37 people ....
no wi fi: a team of sailors complete a three year voyage around the world in a polynesian canoe. hello and welcome to bbc news. 58 people are now presumed to have died in the grenfell tower fire in west london. police have warned the death toll is likely to rise. the bbc understands the number of dead or missing could be around 70. the british prime minister, theresa may, has faced criticism over her response to the tragedy. she met with victims and community organisers at downing street. in a statement after, she acknowledged what many local people have been saying for days, that the initial response to the fire on wednesday was not good enough . jeremy cooke reports. in the midsummer heat, grenfell tower casts a long shadow. a new dark reality on the london skyline, with the power to shock, and to move. a sight which stops you in your tracks. too much to take in. it s hard to know what to say, yeah. it s just horrific. we just said that everyone s busy talking, but y ....
of dead or missing could be around 70. the british prime minister, theresa may, has faced criticism over her response to the tragedy. she met with victims and community organisers at downing street. in a statement after, she acknowledged what many local people have been saying for days, that the initial response to the fire on wednesday was not good enough . jeremy cooke reports. in the midsummer heat, grenfell tower casts a long shadow. a new dark reality on the london skyline, with the power to shock, and to move. a sight which stops you in your tracks. too much to take in. it s hard to know what to say, yeah. it s just horrific. we just said that everyone s busy talking, but yet you can just feel a silence. it s really overwhelming. four days on from disaster, and with every official update, more grim news. sadly, at this time, there are 58 people who we were told. we have been told were in grenfell tower on the night that are missing, and therefore sadly i have to ....
happened will be complex and lengthy, but the residents‘ association for grenfell tower and the surrounding blocks is already calling for the council and its management agency to be suspended from their landlords‘ responsibility. andrea newton says the community felt ignored before the tragedy, neglected since, with no access to basic information. where is everyone? what are they getting next, where are they going to move, what do they need? who needs what, and where? these are fundamental questions, and we are days after this disaster. i ve done the angry. i mean, i ve got to get this done. today, the residents brought those frustrations to downing street. it was a robust discussion, there was forceful emotion in the room. people were able to say what they wanted to say and we felt that was listened to and listened to carefully. in a statement, the prime minister said: and analysis which chimes with the volunteers who have been working flat out to help victims in t ....
hello and welcome to bbc news. 58 people are now presumed to have died in the grenfell tower fire in west london. police have warned the death toll is likely to rise. the bbc understands the number of dead or missing could be around 70. the british prime minister, theresa may, has faced criticism over her response to the tragedy. she met with victims and community organisers at downing street. in a statement after, she acknowledged what many local people have been saying for days, that the initial response to the fire on wednesday was not good enough . jeremy cooke reports. in the midsummer heat, grenfell tower casts a long shadow. a new dark reality on the london skyline, with the power to shock, and to move. a sight which stops you in your tracks. too much to take in. it s hard to know what to say, yeah. it s just horrific. we just said that everyone s busy talking, but yet you can just feel a silence. it s really overwhelming. four days on from disaster, and with ev ....