And the fire broke out in the early hours of this morning between 12 and one oclock. The first call to the Metropolitan Police was at 1 15am. The blaze, you can see now there are no flames this stage, just smoke, and you can see the damage done to the building. Lets give you a sense from the images last night from the early hours of the morning. You can get a real sense of the scale of the blaze that was engulfing the building. Lets tell you about who is tackling the fire at the moment. Around 200 firefighters, a0 fire engines, and of course London Ambulance has sent a number of vehicles and medical staff to the scene. 0ur Correspondent is at the scene this morning. Tell us what you can see. Well, you can see the block is still alight. You can see some flames there. You can see the Fire Brigade Hosing down the lower reaches of the building. But the fire service said that this was a blaze reaching from the second floor right up to the 27th floor. Its been a blaze for five hours now. We
To take on the all blacks. Coming up on sports day on bbc news, well look ahead to the womens cricket world cup. Hosts england start things off tomorrow against india in derby, looking to reclaim the trophy they last won eight years ago. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. The cladding and insulation on Grenfell Tower has failed initial fire safety tests, according to the police. They say they are now looking at criminal offences, including manslaughter, and documents and materials have been seized from a number of organisations. At least 79 people are known to be dead or missing after the blaze at the tower block last week. The nationwide hunt for high rise buildings with Flammable Cladding continues. The government says 1a buildings across nine local authorities in england have the potentially dangerous cladding, none in wales or scotland, one building is being checked in Northern Ireland. Tom symonds reports. In the first horrifying minutes of the disaster, a resident o
Of a war that has been raging in yemen for two years. Yemen is split by a fierce civil war between the internationally recognised government, backed by a saudi led coalition, and houthi rebels, allied with iran. Yemen has become a Breeding Ground for disease. Cholera has swept the country, with nearly 2000 deaths since the outbreak began in april. Access for International Journalists is very rare, but our middle east correspondent 0rla guerin, with her producer Nicola Careem and cameraman nico hameon, have got in. Theyve sent this report from aden and a warning there are distressing images throughout. We cross the red sea to reach yemen, past the sunken wreckage of a hidden war. This was the only way to the port city of aden. The saudi led coalition, bombing the country, grounded the un plane due to fly us in. This is the kind of suffering they dont want the world to see. Rassam is 11. He is one of many children wasting away across the country. Since the war, Malnutrition Rates have so
Of a war that has been raging in yemen for two years. Yemen is split by a fierce civil war between the internationally recognised government, backed by a saudi led coalition, and houthi rebels, allied with iran. Yemen has become a Breeding Ground for disease. Cholera has swept the country, with nearly 2000 deaths since the outbreak began in april. Access for International Journalists is very rare, but our middle east correspondent 0rla guerin, with her producer Nicola Careem and cameraman nico hameon, have got in. Theyve sent this report from aden and a warning there are distressing images throughout. We cross the red sea to reach yemen, past the sunken wreckage of a hidden war. This was the only way to the port city of aden. The saudi led coalition, bombing the country, grounded the un plane due to fly us in. This is the kind of suffering they dont want the world to see. Rassam is 11. He is one of many children wasting away across the country. Since the war, Malnutrition Rates have so
Of a war that has been raging in yemen for two years. Yemen is split by a fierce civil war between the internationally recognised government, backed by a saudi led coalition, and houthi rebels, allied with iran. Yemen has become a Breeding Ground for disease. Cholera has swept the country, with nearly 2000 deaths since the outbreak began in april. Access for International Journalists is very rare, but our middle east correspondent 0rla guerin, with her producer Nicola Careem and cameraman nico hameon, have got in. Theyve sent this report from aden and a warning there are distressing images throughout. We cross the red sea to reach yemen, past the sunken wreckage of a hidden war. This was the only way to the port city of aden. The saudi led coalition, bombing the country, grounded the un plane due to fly us in. This is the kind of suffering they dont want the world to see. Rassam is 11. He is one of many children wasting away across the country. Since the war, Malnutrition Rates have so