Hello and welcoMe to Bbc Hello and welcoMe to bbc news. Hello and welcoMe to bbc news. You oin us in Central London you join us in Central London outside the building where for more than six years the public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower Fire has been taking place. More than seven years on from the Grenfell Tower Disaster which claiMed 72 lives. Theirfamily their family and friends are hoping for answers from this report. SoMe of them did not want this public inquiry to coMe first. They wanted a Police Investigation to coMe first because they want accountability and want answers. They are looking for a path towards potential prosecutions as a result of what happened on that night. We will have lots of reports through the day and will bring you up to the moMent when the second report is published at 11 and we expect to hear from the chair of the inquiry. There will be reaction from the groups, the community groups that forMed in the aftermath of the fire. We expect a stateMent from th
On the west coast of maui. Firefighters are continuing to battle wildfires with officials saying they are 80 contained. This report from our North America correspondent sean daly. A community in smouldering ruins. Many homes here burned to charge rex. The church and the harbour among the Historic Site wiped out by the flames that tore indiscriminately through the former picturesque tourist town. The us marines and National Guard among the Emergency Workers on the ground. The us President Joe Biden has declared the situation as a major disaster. We situation as a maor disaster. We are situation as a maor disaster. We seeing situation as a major disaster. Are seeing loss of life here. As you know, the number has been rising and we will continue to see loss of life but we have extraordinary professionals working on this job. We also have seen many hundreds of homes destroyed. And that is going to take a great deal of time to recover from. To take a great deal of time to recover from. ,. ,
hello and thank you forjoining us. of more than a0 degrees celsius have been recorded for the very first time. the heatwave has caused widespread disruption and a major incident has been declared in london, where the mayor sadiq khan said fire crews were struggling to cope. the un s climate chief has warned heatwaves like the one gripping western europe are becoming more frequent. our first report is from our climate editorjustin rowlatt. with today s searing heat came fires, and lots of them. huge plumes of smoke rose above london as grassfires engulfed homes on the outskirts of the capital. the london fire brigade declared a major incident. a number of the calls that we ve been dealing with today have been wildfires or grassfires, where the ground has been tinder box dry result of the weather over the last week, but in particular, the last two days. temperature records were tumbling before midday today. the 39.1 degrees recorded at charlwood near gatwick airport was a warni