and new footage of the moments after the fire broke out and tore up the building. 5th good evening. angry protests are being held in london as residents demand support for those affected by the grenfell tower fire. people have stormed kensington and chelsea town hall and marched through central london. earlier theresa may made herfirst visit to the area to meet survivors and she announced a £5 million emergency fund to help the victims. police say at least 30 people are now confirmed to have died in the blaze. the bbc understands the total number of people who are dead or missing so far is around 70. our first report tonight on the latest on the tower block fire is from our correspondent jeremy cooke. this is what happens when grief turned to anger. the target is kensington town hall, the offices of the council that owns grenfell tower. they are demanding answers. we need to be heard! we need to be heard! we all have things to say. we are in pain. i understand that the response we got from the council is not satisfactory. they want to hear from the local authority officials whom they hold responsible. how could this tragedy have happened on this scale in this city in 2017? the whole procedure is chaos. we are sent from hospital to hospital, to shelters. why is there not a community house for family members? why? why do we have to go out there and look actively for them, and then be told misled information? they make us call family members, and every someone else telling us, no, that is not made by themselves, but by someone on their behalf. it is the modern world. why is it carried out like this? it doesn't make sense. but today, again, in the shadow of grenfell tower, a different kind of response. sorry. it is an overwhelming community tragedy with an overwhelming community response. if we get all the missing people on the same window... a continuing grassroots mobilisation, doing all they can. and visited today by royalty. a time to reflect and to thank. you guys did a brilliantjob in unprecedented circumstances. but the queen and prince william left in no doubt of the agony and the grief here. royal protocol meets raw emotion. william, harry, come on here, please. could you tell us who they are? family, friends. it is my family's friends. all of them that died in their are my families and friends and children. when the queen turned up, everyone and children. when the queen turned up, everyone came. and children. when the queen turned up, everyone came. go to the media, show the queen you are nice. sorry to the police man and the fire man, but you are not doing the rightjob. the rescue crews are still making their way through the building. it's hard to imagine a more challenging task. dangerous and slow work, it is why the official death toll remains so much lower than what the people here expect, and what they fear. the building itself is in a very hazardous state. it is going to take a period of time for our specialists, both from the police and the london fire brigade, to fully search that building to make sure we locate and recover everybody that has sadly perished in that fire. we will be doing that as swiftly as we can. i completely understand the need for those who have lost loved ones, that as quick as we can, we are able to announce that. there are people here looking for theirfamily there are people here looking for their family and their friends. there is no one here to organise anything at all. i have friends who died in there, but no one is telling us. do you know what i am saying? what do you think it is? they are not bringing out the truth. they need to talk the truth and get real. theresa may doesn't come to see none of us. in the manchester thing, she was all about the place. you know, no truth. the investigations and the inquests, the enquiries, will take months, perhaps years, to complete, but the people here believe they already have a fundamental understanding of this tragedy, that the fire swept through the building at breathtaking pace, and that so many people from this neighbourhood have lost their lives. where are the children? the general belief here tonight, the hardest of truths, is that the dozens missing are among the dead. three days later, the fire is out, london rumbles on, and grenfell tower, 127 homes, stands monument to the lives, to the families who had been lost. jeremy cooke, bbc news, north kensington. politicians from all parties, the prime minister in particular, are facing a barrage of criticism from local people over how they've responded to the fire. many feel their voices have been ignored for years. today, the local government secretary sajid javid promised that whatever recommendations are made by safety experts, including rehousing people living in other tower blocks, they will be done. our deputy political editor john pienaar reports on the political questions that need to be answered. all but hidden from view, the crowd of police protection told you this was theresa may. she had been meeting people from the neighbourhood, meeting volunteers inside this local church. as she was ushered into her car afterwards, rage boiled over in the street outside as she left. the government failed. her coming over here, trying to speak to... to whom? who do you wa nt to to speak to... to whom? who do you want to speak to? you had your chance. everyone is angry. it is a pr stunt and it is a shame it has come to this. more residents would have come if she knew she was there to protest. it is very cold not to meet with any victims. early today, unlike yesterday, the prime minister met casualties, people touched by the disaster. yesterday, she only met members of the emergency services, which went down badly in the area. the government is making £5 million available for people who need just to get money to buy the normal things of everyday life. this morning, i was in one of the hospitals meeting some of the victims there, and one of the women said to me, basically, she ran out of this grenfell tower, basically, with a t—shirt and a pair of knickers. she has nothing. that is why the government is putting that funding in. there are other things we will do to provide support to ensure they are rehoused within three weeks. the people shouted coward that you this afternoon. we have made sure the public have the support they need in order to do —— the emergency services have the support they need in order to do the job they need to do in the aftermath. thousands of blocks must now be inspected, millions of pounds in work, who knows how many moved to safety. today, the government pledged action. we will do whatever it takes, take the expert advice, make those building safe and make those people safe. whatever it takes, we have to be led by the experts, but there can be no short cuts to this. donations of clothing had been pouring in today. london's mayor demanded help, answers and justice for those hit by the tragedy. it is really important that we are not tragedy. it is really important that we a re not left tragedy. it is really important that we are not left waiting for years before we get answers. we need a nswe i’s before we get answers. we need answers now. i'm asking for an interim response to the enquiry this summer. tonight, anti-government protesters took up the issue and took to the streets. more anger on the streets tonight, hundreds of demonstrators marching past downing street sent into central london. the chant: theresa may must go. the prime minister's authority was weakened by the general election, and now she is facing another defining test that has come much sooner than theresa may could have imagined. expect more of these demonstrations and this disruption. this tragedy has become a cause, and another reason for the government's enemies to turn up the volume. john pienaar is in westminster for us now. theresa may has been weakened by the general election and this test, some of her opponents are saying she is failing. theresa may has been running to catch up. i was in the area myself earlier on and was struck by the sight of hundreds of people of all communities and classes coming together to help, to offer more donations than volunteers on the ground could cope with. everyone i spoke to spoke of the need for a nswe i’s spoke to spoke of the need for answers and help in the future. they wa nted answers and help in the future. they wanted justice. it would be wrong to suggest that the seeds of this were planted on theresa may's watch. it stretches back to labour's time in office, but the buck. with the prime minister in number ten, the serving leader. john, what are the likely consequences of what is happening here, not just consequences of what is happening here, notjust for consequences of what is happening here, not just for the government but in terms of the divisions in society it has exposed? in the past, we have seen occasions where terrible advances have led to advancesin where terrible advances have led to advances in standards of safety and improved regulation and the like, and the hope must be that that will follow from this awful tragedy. time will tell, but be enquiry could turn out to be a very significant event. in some ways, you could argue that it will put on trial the balance between profit and safety in the provision of housing, the treatment of less advantaged people could be put to the test in that enquiry, and for theresa may, a severe political testis for theresa may, a severe political test is underway. her colleagues are deeply disappointed. they will be watching her performance very carefully a nd watching her performance very carefully and critically indeed. her enemies and political opponents will be watching like hawks for evidence of vulnerability and weakness. john pienaar at westminster, thank you. you can see more of that interview with theresa may on newsnight this evening at 10:30pm. theresa may has pledged to rehouse all those affect i —— affected by the grenfell tower tragedy within three weeks. kensington has a substantial housing waiting list and the highest rates of people living in temporary accommodation in london. clive mhairi looks at what happens next to the residents of g re nfell tower. it dominates the horizon, a blackened tomb in the sky. the shell thatis blackened tomb in the sky. the shell that is grenfell tower has raised uncomfortable questions about our society, about poverty and helplessness. the housing around here is very poor. shoddy work, inferior materials, building materials. that is what it's about. i think people are just fed up with the situation. they want to know what happened, they want an answer. especially those who have lost everything. what now for them beyond the nightmares? sabha abdullah lost his wife in the fire. holmes, the council put him up in a hotel and then inexplicably moved into this old people's home, farfrom the life he knew. we have found you a good flat, so you don't need to stay in the hotel. i said, flat, so you don't need to stay in the hotel. isaid, i'm happy flat, so you don't need to stay in the hotel. i said, i'm happy here, happy in the hotel. they said, no, this is a good one. you might lose it. this is for elderly people. what on earth am i doing here? in fact, he is the only resident from g re nfell tower he is the only resident from grenfell tower living here. most of the places here are empty. and it is half empty? that doesn't make sense, does it? you tell me. summer there is confusion in the council's attempts to deal with the aftermath of the tragedy. but the long—standing shortage of social housing in the area is making matters worse. kensington and chelsea is wealthy, with stunning homes and handsome facade is. some argue empty terraces should be requisitioned for the homeless of g re nfell tower requisitioned for the homeless of grenfell tower is, because of years of neglect in building council housing. this borough has one of the highest levels of households living in temporary accommodation, yet it is one of the richest in london. last year, more than 2700 people we re last year, more than 2700 people were on the social housing waiting list. meanwhile, more than 1800 people are living in temporary accommodation. that's more than a much poorer borough like lewisham. today, theresa may made a commitment, that those who lost their homes in the fire would be rehoused in three weeks, and as close as possible to grenfell tower. the local mp says that as a pipe dream. how much of a problem is social housing in what is probably one of the richest boroughs in the country? yeah, it's chronic. i have been a councillor for 11 years, country? yeah, it's chronic. i have been a councillorfor 11 years, and some of the cases i have seen over that time have just been horrific. she agrees, empty luxury apartments should be taken over. the idea that there are empty flats there and people sleeping on church floors i find obscene. in a statement, the council said... this man is now living in a hotel. he says the council has no option but to follow through. if the councils don't rehouse people, there would be a riot, there would be a genuine riot. if you think, that would make everybody unite more than they have and stand up and stand together. and as dusk began to fall, we could feel the tension rise in a determined community. police said today there was nothing to suggest that the fire, which broke out in the early hours of wednesday morning, was started deliberately. investigators are still trying to piece together what happened and how the blaze spread so quickly throughout the building. there are now three inquiries — by the police, by the fire brigade, and the full public inquiry. our home affairs correspondent tom symonds now, on the questions the public inquiry will have to consider. it is the first obvious question. and it will be for the fire brigade to answer. the accounts of the residents will be important. this video was shot 20 minutes or so after a fridge caught light on the fourth floor. the guy's fridge was by his kitchen window. the fire had already gone on the outside, and the wind has helped it, and then all of a sudden, the cladding has fallen. he said the cladding court. and that leads to question number two. it shouldn't have. the building was retard with aluminium panels in 2016. the work was signed off by the council. so far there is no evidence standards were breached, but... the minimum safety standards which is expected for a building to keep it reasonably safe. if you're using materials, or in a circumstance which you know are more dangerous, then you have to mitigate that, make a risk assessment and engineer out at risk. in this test, the fire is contained by flameproof walls. experts say good fire safety results from good design. was the redesigned g re nfell tower safe ? from good design. was the redesigned grenfell tower safe? and were there other factors? after the work was completed, has pipes were moved to public areas in the tower. residents we re public areas in the tower. residents were furious. thejob public areas in the tower. residents were furious. the job of finding out who might be to blame has now been taken over who might be to blame has now been ta ken over by who might be to blame has now been taken over by the police. we will get to the answer of what has happened and why. that's why the police are taking the lead for the investigation. and if criminal offences have been committed, it is who will investigate that. examining the wreckage will just who will investigate that. examining the wreckage willjust be the start. they will have to look at the role of the council, building managers, contractors, subcontractors — a huge job. but are tell blocks safe? the government is now identifying similar blocks for extra checks, a string of councils are doing their own assessments to reassure residents. at fatalfires own assessments to reassure residents. at fatal fires in tower blocks are incredibly rare. this week sheila is unprecedented. this is something the public inquiry is likely to consider. there have been plenty of warnings in the past. in another fire plenty of warnings in the past. in anotherfire in plenty of warnings in the past. in another fire in southwark in 2009, harding was also a factor. a coroner demanded a review of fire safety in towers, suggesting more sprinters systems might be the answer. but introducing them widely might mean a new approach to fire safety. g re nfell tower's new approach to fire safety. grenfell tower's design should have contained the fire — so—called passive safety. could all blocks have active measures to prevent fire? 0ne have active measures to prevent fire? one of these modern developments will have fire detection systems and sprinklers, and bringing those older blocks up to this sort of standard would not be cheap, and it would certainly best be disruptive for the residents. but what price should we put on a life, especially on the lives of those living in towers, often the poorest in society? this disaster has triggered a national debate which could last year's. just some of the issues there thrown up just some of the issues there thrown up by just some of the issues there thrown up by the terrible loss of life in the building behind me. here, the streets are crowded, there are protests taking place but there is also married in front you soup kitchen which has sprung up very close to me now, where dozens and dozens close to me now, where dozens and d oze ns of close to me now, where dozens and dozens of people are being fed here in the street. we'll bring you more from west london later in the programme, but for now, back to jane in the studio. a brief look at some of the day's other other news. the chancellor, philip hammond, has said that protecting jobs, growth and prosperity should be the priority in the talks with the european union, which begin on monday. speaking before a meeting in luxembourg, mr hammond said the government would take a pragmatic approach. his comments appeared to strike a different tone to the prime minister, who has argued that no deal is better than a bad deal. a man has been arrested outside the houses of parliament on suspicion of possessing a knife. 0fficers used a taser when they detained him — there were no injuries. the incident happened by the main carriage gates entrance — close to where constable keith palmer was stabbed and killed during the terrorist attack in march. the two soldiers who died in an incident involving a tank at an army firing range in pembrokeshire have been named. corporal matthew hatfield and corporal darren neilson served with the royal tank regiment. two others were injured at the castlemartin range on wednesday. live tank firing exercises have been suspended while an inquiry continues. british airways cabin crew are to stage a two—week strike in a long—running dispute about pay and travel concessions. members of the unite union will walk out between saturday 1st july and sunday 16th july — during the peak holiday season. ba said the proposed action is "extreme, and completely unnecessary". us president donald trump appears to have acknowledged that he is personally under investigation as part of the inquiry into alleged russian interference in the 2016 american election. in an early morning tweet, the president said he's now being examined in connection with the sacking of the fbi chief, james comey. 0ur north america editor, jon sopel, is at the white house for us now. jon. what is so extraordinary is that with every public utterance, with every tweet, with every interview, donald trump is seeming to make life much, much more complicated for himself. if you cast your mind back, this started as an investigation by the fbi into the trump campaign's relations with russia. it was all quite straightforward. and then it got more complicated when the fbi director was fired as in the reasons given by the white house, and by the attorney—general and deputy attorney—general, were directly contradicted by donald trump, who said it was the washer thing. and a p pa re ntly said it was the washer thing. and apparently when he met sergei lavrov, he said, i was under huge pressure over russia, that has been relieved now... as a direct consequence of that, the president it seems is being investigated for lunar possible obstruction of justice, and he seems to confirm as much this morning, with a tweet saying, iam much this morning, with a tweet saying, i am being much this morning, with a tweet saying, iam being investigated much this morning, with a tweet saying, i am being investigated for firing the fbi director. of course, this is all draining away attention from the subjects that the president wa nts to from the subjects that the president wants to talk about. the focus this week was meant to be all aboutjobs. well, the only big growth area in jobsis well, the only big growth area in jobs is for lawyers to represent the people around donald trump in connection with the russia inquiry. the vice president has taken on counsel, and even donald trump's own lawyer has taken on a lawyer. the former german chancellor helmut kohl, who presided over german re—unification at the end of the cold war, has died. he was 87. helmut kohl led the country for 16 years and was a driving force behind european integration. 0ur correspondent paul adams looks back at his life. as the cold war ended, helmut kohl seemed to tower quite literally over eve ryo ne seemed to tower quite literally over everyone and everything around him. asa everyone and everything around him. as a child, he had witnessed the destruction of his country, the second world war inspiring his lifelong desire to unify germany — and europe. he rose through the ra nks and europe. he rose through the ra n ks of and europe. he rose through the ranks of the christian democratic union, becoming chancellor in 1982. his provincial manners were frequently mocked. he was tough and he knew how to wield power. and when history came calling, he was ready. the fall of the berlin wall, the moment of euphoria, and for helmut kth moment of euphoria, and for helmut kohl, a chance to put his fractured country back together. but unity didn't stop there, with france's president francois metre run, he pursued is the big idea, the new european union, with its own currency, the euro. did not always agree with his political protege, and his career ended in scandal. but today, she says his legacy is not in doubt. translation: we can all be grateful for what helmut kohl did for us and our country in the long yea rs for us and our country in the long years he was in office. and he will live on in our memory as the great european and chancellor of unity. i bow down in his remembrance. european and chancellor of unity. i bow down in his remembrancem brussels tonight, a gesture of respect the headquarters of the european union. 0ne respect the headquarters of the european union. one of its founders and champions is dead. the eu may not be as confident as it once was, but helmut kohl's of a cherished union, germany, is strongerthan ever. helmut kohl, who has died at the age of 87. the online retailer amazon is making its biggest push so far into high—street shopping by attempting to buy a whole foods grocery chain. the deal worth £11 billion is expected to be completed later in the year. investors called the deal game changing for the industry, sending shares in rival grocers plunging. tennis world number one sir andy murray has admitted that at 30 years old, he may have only two more years at the top, and plans to savour every moment. next month, he'll aim to emulate fred perry and win wimbledon for a third time. he's been speaking exclusively to our sports editor, dan roan. he's world number one and wimbledon champion. no wonder sir andy murray's now seen as a true sporting superhero. i'm certainly not that strong, unfortunately, but... looks good. the tennis star telling me how he feels about being portrayed in comic book form as part of a new billboard campaign. it's the first time i've seen it. one for the kitchen wall? ha—ha! i don't know about that! i'm not sure my wife would let me away with having something like that up in the house. erm, but yeah, it's good fun. murray's preparing to defend his wimbledon title, but having turned 30 this year, he's determined to savour every moment. maybe these next couple of years are the last few where i'll have a chance to compete for the majors, and the biggest tournaments, so i do want to make most of them. i wish i'd enjoyed my career more when i was younger. i certainly wasn't prepared for the attention that came with, you know, becoming a professional athlete or a top tennis player. and if you do the business to win it for a third time, you'd match what fred perry achieved — just how remarkable an achievement would that be? it would be amazing. i never expected to win it once, never mind twice. so, i'll prepare as best i can, and if i play well, then i definitely have a chance of winning. after recent events, wimbledon is preparing for the biggest security crackdown in its history. so, how does murray feel about the safety of sports events? walking around the grounds, and there's huge amounts of people. but we do also see the security that goes into the events. it's been fine throughout my career, but it's something that is a concern from time to time. having recently recovered form and fitness, murray starts his grass court season here at queen's club next week, where he's enjoyed much success. but it's wimbledon where britain's top sports star will be expected to deliver. now back to fiona in west london. well, as we've been hearing, dozens of people are still missing. many families are searching for information, trying to find out what happened to their loved ones. 2a people remain in hospital? 12 of them are critically ill. 0ur health editor, hugh pym, reports now on the victims, and speaks to the nhs staff who have been helping them. pictures which tell their own tragic stories. those who have lost their lives or who are feared to have died. it was confirmed today that khadija saye, who was 2a, was one of those who perished. she was a promising young artist, and former collea g u es promising young artist, and former colleagues feared the worst after reading herfinal colleagues feared the worst after reading her final tweets from the