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and terrible circumstance that people are in. and the queen and prince william visit a relief centre where some of the hundreds left homeless are staying in temporary accommodation. good evening and welcome to bbc news. police say that at least thirty people are now confirmed to have died in the fire that engulfed grenfell tower in west london. the bbc understands that the total number of people who are dead or missing so far is around 70. there is growing anger at the way the authorities have dealt with the aftermath of the fire earlier this afternoon around 500 hundred protestors stormed kensington town hall. the queen and prince william have been visiting a relief centre which has been helping victims of the fire. our first report tonight on the latest on the tower block fire, is from our correspondent jeremy cooke. a crowd storms kensington town hall, demanding action. we wantjustice, we wantjustice. demanding justice. and demanding answers. we need to be heard. we ha ....
the french president is addressing both houses of parliament at the palace of versailles. and andy murray begins the defence of his title after brushing off injury fears. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. a 16 year old girl has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of seven year old katie rough. the little girl died injanuary after being found seriously injured on a playing field in york. she later died in hospital. and we can now ci’oss to our correspondent, phil bodmer, outside leeds crown court. as you say, katie rough died from severe lacerations to her neck and chest on a playing field in the woodthorpe area on the south western outskirts of york in january. woodthorpe area on the south western outskirts of york injanuary. she was attended to by paramedics and taken to hospital, but later died of those injuries. a 15 yard goal was subsequently arrested and charged with murder. today at leeds crown court, the girl who is now 16 and can t be named, pleaded guilt ....
but it s obviously, you know, a big honour and happy with that. nice way to finish or start the new year. at least 28 people are killed in two bomb explosions at a busy market in baghdad. the so called islamic state group say two of its militants were responsible. 40% of councils in england have no procedures in place to prosecute people who misuse disabled parking permits. in half an hour, reporters. we look back at some of this year s best reports, including a painkillers epidemic in america. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. celebrations have begun around the world to welcome in 2017. this is the scene live in hong kong, as thousands of revellers bring in the new year. that is the scene in victoria harbour, as thousands lined the sure there to watch the display. in the past half hour, a rather different take on celebrations in tokyo, as thousands of balloons were released in honour of their biggest holiday. people will go to shrines to praise the good fortune a ....
and pain killers creating a generation of users and killing tens of thousands of people the drug they call the devil has hit hardest in small town america, already ravaged by years of economic decline. we re hearing outgoing fire. the troops are trying to gauge how much resistance is in these villages. we join the kurdish forces on the frontline, as mosul awaits from deliverance from so called islamic state. also before and after the pioneering surgery withoutical pals that cured without scalpels. and a year in the life of the penguin caught on cam ra. victoria gill joins scientists as they track how the birds are apt thatting adapting to climate change. america is in the grip of a heroin and prescription pain killer epidemic. more americans as many as 50,000 a year, are dying from drug overdoses than from car crashes or being shot. increasingly, the victims are young, white and middle class people. they ve become hooked on the deadly drugs. over the past year, ....
ijust helped a guy out when he was in need, and i am glad he got to the line and he s 0k. now on bbc news, it s time for click. this week. how to stare at your phone and change the world. strawberries in a massive box. and, fancy working in an enormous train station? i don t know if you have noticed, but there seems to have been a lot of election talk of late. this week, click is taking a trip to paris, where this weekend the french take to the polls in the first round of their presidential election. and curiously, from a technology point of view, the way we vote seems, if anything, to be going backwards. in the last election, france did allow online voting for those living overseas. but not this time. for both the presidential elections and the legislative elections injune, it is back to pen and paper. and that is due to the fear of cyberattacks, which the french national cybersecurity agency says are an extremely high risk. queues of people, paper voting, surely there ....