we start in the uk where the first asylum seekers to be housed on board a barge in dorset are expected to arrive later today. the use of the bibby stockholm to house up to 500 people had been delayed by safety concerns. ministers insist the vessel will help reduce the cost of placing migrants in hotels. dan johnson reports. three weeks after reaching portland, the bibby stockholm looks like it s about to take up its role, as a home for asylum seekers and a display of a tougher approach to immigration. this is part of the government s insistence on reducing hotel bills, currently around £6 million a day, and deterring migrants from crossing the channel. it s controversial. concerns about fire safety saw it labelled a death trap, but it seems everything may now be in place. we have seen a letter sent to asylum seekers, saying they ll be moved here later today. now, that did happen twice last week and then there were delays, but this is the first time a specific date s been men
terrifying. it is a national crisis and what is worrying at the moment is that the government is not treating it like a crisis. it has not have cobra meetings. ed miliband was tweeting earlier that when we have things like foot and mouth, there were cobra meetings and it was coordinated as a national level. there were cobra meetings and it was coordinated as a national levelli wa nt to coordinated as a national levelli want to look at the sunday telegraph, they are saying it is not just about cladding, installation is the real inferno threat. it will have to widen out the scope of the investigation and maybe that will trigger these emergency meetings. the cost of what will have to be doneis the cost of what will have to be done is now having a significant threat to budgets of government, local governor and national government. this seems to be an escalation. and it has to be done. nobody can be a cheapskate is now. in case something else happens. and they were to blame. it is
and stav has the weather. good morning. a bit of a north and south split, most places dry, brighter and cooler in the north, slightly milder in the south. all details and 15 minutes. good morning. first, our main story. fire safety tests on 3a samples of cladding from tower blocks in england have failed, according to new figures released by the government. that means a 100% failure rate so far. in north london, residents have spent a second night in temporary accommodation after camden council evacuated 4 high rise blocks because of fire safety concerns. nick quraishi has the latest. by by night, the pockets of resistance against evacuation are evident. katrina renton is in camden for us. i have a statement from camden council saying, we anticipate these works will be completed in 3 4 weeks but it is hugely inconvenient and stressful for some of the residents? that s right. that s what the council have been trained all along. they are asking and thanking people here for beari
Correspondentjonathan head has the latest. his eldest son is now the new prime minister although he has to go before parliament to have his new government confirmed in the next couple of weeks but that is in your formality as well because the ruling party, which is very much his own vehicle, completely dominates parliament after an election in which the main opposition was actually banned from contesting it. so the new prime minister is a much youngerface, a different younger face, a different generation, youngerface, a different generation, little known relay, has been very prominent in the cambodian army and western educated, unlike his father, who came up through the crucible of a revolution, a very different background, but not tested in politics. as really only been active in politics in the last year also nobody knows what kind of prime minister he is going to be but i think the hope is that this a gradual transition and does not