People were shot on an interstate highway. Up to six people are reported shot, but no fatalities have been reported. And its the final day of the Paris Paralympics with M Gold medals up for grabs before the Closing Ceremony later today. China is top of the Medal Table followed by Great Britain im luxmy gopal. Great ormond Street Hospital says it is carrying out an investigation after concerns were raised about 721 cases carried out by one of their former surgeons. 3 2 1 carried out by one of their former surgeons. 721 patients are being former surgeons. 721 patients are being contacted former surgeons. 721 patients are being contacted about former surgeons. 721 Patients L are being contacted about their contact with the surgeon who know no longer lives a great ormond street. They have so far been 39 cases looked into where levels of harm identified and 13 patients have come to some severe harm, we dont have any details on that and nine have suffered low or moderate harm and 15 patients have come to no harm and awaiting peer review. We are still waiting outcomes and quite shocking numbers and the hospital says it is doing what it is told and referred to itself to the Royal College Of Surgeons who have looked into the case and made certain recommendations which the hospital says it will now put into place and take very seriously. It has apologised to any of those affected and said it has contacted patients and their families that have been affected so they know who they are up and apologise for any Concern And Distress caused. Thank you for bringing us the latest on that story now our top story, in his first major interview since becoming prime Minister Keir Starmer has told the bbc his government is going to have to be unpopular and has been speaking on sunday with laura and defences Policies Kuenssberg and his responses to the riots over the summer. You know, as you walk in the door, as i walked for the first time, as you know, i walked up downing street. Lots of people there, friends, supporters, People Id known a long time. Then stood with vic at the door. The door opens and you walk in. And that is the moment that i think i really took it in that, you know, weve got the chance to change the country, we own all the problems, of course, but actually, the hard work was about to start then. What you couldnt know on the morning that you walked through is that, for days through the summer, there was a series of riots in 20 towns and cities across our country. On friday, a man called thomas birley, who was part of a group that attacked a Hotel Housing Asylum seekers, who was described as having a white supremacist mindset, was given the longest sentence so far over 1,000 people have been arrested over this. You said the riots showed there was a societal Black Hole. What did you mean by that . What i meant by that was that the riots, i think, were symbolic of a broken society. Now, im not going to justify for one minute the violence in those riots. They are not capable of justification. They were not protest. They were far right in the main. But underneath that, i think there was a societal Black Hole, a breaking of our society, which we need to mend. The immediate problem was to regain control of the situation, to make sure we had enough police across the country to police on the front line, to make sure we had prosecutors and courts able to process the cases and get people sentenced very quickly. I was really clear that we needed to ensure that if somebody was throwing a rock, a plank, or trying to set fire to a hotel on a saturday or a sunday night, within a week, they ought to be starting a prison sentence. And by and large, difficult though that was, we managed to achieve that, which i think played a big part in bringing order to what was a very dangerous situation. That attempt to set fire to a hotel in rotherham with People Inside was particularly chilling. But do you think the rioters were racists . I think the far right. I think there was racism there. I think it featured differently across the country. I went over to belfast, for example, to talk to the Police Service of Northern Ireland who had Petrol Bombs thrown at them. And theres No Doubt there was racism there. So, there was racism, far right, but it was totally illegitimate. It is not acceptable in any society. And, yes, i accept that across the country people have strong views about things like immigration. I accept that, but im not prepared to tolerate that sort of disorder under any circumstances. Nor will i change Government Policy one bit as a result of that sort of violence. Do you think were a racist country . I dont think were a racist country. I think were a country of decent people, tolerant people. The Real Britain was the people who came out the day after. In southport, it was incredible. People came out with their trowels, with their brooms. They cleaned up, they rebuilt. Theyre the real face of britain. And thats the britain that i think is essential to reuniting and bringing this country back together. But do you think that leaders in this country. Perhaps also if you look at what weve seen in germany, also look at whats happened in france, do you think that leaders have been complacent about the rise of the far right . I am worried about the rise of the far right. I mean, we can see whats happening in germany with the recent elections, see whats happening in france and other countries. And im worried about the far right because its the sort of Snake Oil of the easy answer. Im convinced that the answer to it is delivery in government. So, the best argument against the far right, the best argument against the easy answer is to deliver, to bring about the change that we promised wed bring about. And that change was to improve living standards, so people are better off, to make sure that weve got properly functioning public services, particularly the nhs, and to deal with issues like immigration and crime and sewage. We have to deliver on that. And thats why im utterly focussed on ensuring we can bring about that change in the period that weve got in government. Talking, though, about people feeling great discontent with the state of this country, many of our viewers will have been appalled notjust by seeing the publication of the report into the Grenfell Fire this week, but also very distressed that, years later, there are still people living in unsafe buildings, many of whom might be watching this morning. Can you tell people who cannot right now sleep easy in their beds when they will have their homes made safe . First, i accept its my duty, duty of this Government And Everybody in a position of responsibility, to make sure they are safe in their home. We will accelerate the programme im frustrated that its going as slowly as it is to deal with the cladding. A lot of that is to find sort of true responsibility and to hold people to account for getting on with the job. The money is there. The intention is there. We need to move more quickly on it. So, by when will people who are watching this, who are living in blocks that are unsafe, will they be able to sleep easy in their beds without the fear of a Cladding Fire . Were speeding up the process. I want to get this done as quickly as possible. Each block will be on a different timetable. Im not able to give you an end date, but i can tell you i meant what i said when i responded to the report. I said, this has to be a turning point. It does, and we need to speed that up and get on with it. Forgive me, Prime Minister. During the election campaign, you made great play of how ready you were, how much preparation you had done, how much you were going to walk in this building and get things done. And then today you cant give us a date, a deadline, which is what people want to know. When will they be able to sleep easy in their beds . It is years since the Grenfell Fire. It is years that you had in opposition. Everybody knew this was coming. You cannot be surprised by what this report has come outwith. And this is about people who are, as of this moment, not safe in their own homes. Well, let me acknowledge that this has taken far too long. Seven years. This is not unique. Weve had no end of injustices that have taken very many years to come to any sort of outcome. And this is not the final outcome. But you are in charge now. Why cant you give people a date . I accept that, and what comes with being in charge is responsibility. The responsibility to make sure this happens as soon as possible. The first thing that therefore needs to happen, and the deputy Prime Minister is doing this, is going through the books, going through the buildings, identifying where work has been done, where work hasnt been done, whos responsible, and putting in a place to make sure that we can accelerate that as quickly as possible. That work is ongoing. You cant do that in opposition because you simply dont have access to the material. But were on it, were working at pace, and we will bring the same mindset to this as i brought to the disorder, which is get people around the table, make the ask of them. Well, with the disorder, you said you wanted everybody in court within a week. You know, you are the Prime Minister now. Some people would want you to hear. To hear you say, you know what . In a year, everybody will be safe. In two years, everybody will be safe. Whats your ambition on this . Because for years, people, victims of grenfell, their families and people who are in unsafe blocks have heard politicians, for years, promise that they were going to speed it up, promise that they were going to accelerate it. Its exactly the kind of frustration that you yourself say youve heard and you understand. And yet here you are today unable to give them a firm promise. Well, im not going to give a false promise. I think there have been too many of those in the last 1a years where people have given numbers and dates which theyve plucked from the sky, which are not meaningful. Im not going to do that. I know that the work is going on to identify what blocks Need Work on, how we accelerate it. The money has been allocated. A lot of this now is identifying and pushing those who are really responsible to do this to do the work that they are required to do. If we need more powers to do that, well pass those powers. Would you like to see people in jail because of what happened at grenfell . The last thing i want to do is to prejudice any possible cases. Of course, i want the police to complete their investigations and well give them all the support that they need, and appropriate cases should go through to court. But the worst thing i could do, or anybody could do, for the families, of the bereaved, the survivors, the community, the worst thing we could do is to say or do anything which would prejudice the outcome of any proceedings, including criminal proceedings. Its been a very eventful few months already. One of the decisions also that has attracted huge amount of attention and has very much upset some of our viewers is your decision to remove Winter Fuel Allowance from the majority of pensioners. As you know, our viewers like to give us questions for politicians. And ray, who voted for you, wrote in to say, i thought i might regret my vote within a year. I certainly didnt think i would regret it by the first decision made by the new government to attack the pensioners, those in this country Who Cannot Go On to strike to show our disgust. What do you say to ray, who voted for you and feels terribly let down by this decision . What i say to ray, and to many people who will have concerns who are watching this and listening to this, is that we were voted in to office to bring about change, to make sure we improve living standards, make people feel better off, to improve public services. Nobody thought they were voting for you to take away their Winter Fuel Allowance. To deal with crime, deal with immigration and issues like that. I am absolutely clear in my own mind that we cant bring about that change if we dont fix the fundamentals and stabilise our economy. Im absolutely clear, in the same way, laura, as i was four, five years ago when you were interviewing me, and i said, in order for labour to win an election, we have to change the labour party. Equally clear in my mind, in order to deliver the change, which we will deliver, we have to fix the foundations now, and thats tough decisions. The first thing we did, the first thing the chancellor did when she walked through the door next door, was to audit the books. What she found was a 22 Billion Black Hole this year. Now, she had a choice. Pretend it isnt there, walk past it, or deal with it. Now i just want to. We said we were going to deal with it. I just want to stop you there. So we have to take tough decisions. I just want to stop you there. On that 22 Billion, i want everybody watching this to know and understand that nearly half of that 22 Billion 9 billion comes from decisions that your government has made to give many public sector workers pay rises above inflation, including Junior Doctors getting 22 of an increase over two years. So, again, when it comes to Winter Fuel Allowance, that was a choice. It was a political decision, for the reasons that you say, you want to sort out the economy, but how can you justify it to viewers who feel like it is an attack on some people whove worked hard all their lives . Theyre not wealthy, they dont have money to spare. And this year, if its cold, theyre going to be looking at the thermostat and wondering if they can pay their bills. Let me take that head on because its a really important point. The last government set up the Pay Review mechanism, as every government does every year, and they set the framework for that. And they knew that the Pay Review recommendations would come back. What they didnt do was allocate any money at all to the outcome. Now, that is not a good way to approach pay settlements. Of course, there was a number allocated. Theyjust didnt put it on the books. Can i deal with the second point . Because i think it is important, on winterfuel allowance, this is really tough and i do get that its tough. Its not easy, and no Prime Minister wants to take a decision like this. But the Winter Fuel payments are now to be targeted. They were untargeted before, and i think everybody thought that wasnt a particularly good system, so it needed to be targeted. 0bviously those most in need will continue to get the payment. All of those on Pension Credit will get the payment, and we want to get as many people onto Pension Credit as we can. We want to align Housing Benefit with Pension Credit, something that wasnt done by the last government, which will improve the situation. And of course, this is really important, by ensuring were fixing the foundations, by ensuring weve got economic stability, something thats been missing for the last few years, we can absolutely commit, and we do, to the triple lock. And what that means, laura, which is really important, is that the increase in the State Pension will outstrip any loss for pensioners of the Winter Fuel payment. Pensioners like everybody else have been living with inflation. But weve still got other things to talk about. But i just want to briefly ask. But laura, i mean, what you say there is really important because talking to many pensioners in the last two or 3 years, the things that have hit them most and hardest are inflation, because it got out of control in the last government, energy bills, because the steps that were needed to be taken years ago werent taken, and the cost of living. Im determined that no pensioner will ever be put through that before. Thats why were fixing the foundations now, tough though that may be. And for some of your mps the decision is too tough. Some of them are deeply worried about it. If a Labour Mp votes against you this week when Winter Fuel is debated in the house of commons, will you suspend them or kick them out of the party . Well, that will be a matter for the Chief Whip and well assess that. You must have a view. Were going into a vote. Im glad were having a vote, because i think its very important for parliament to speak on this. But every Labour Mp was elected in on the same mandate as i was, which would deliver the change that we need for the country over the time weve got in office. I am absolutely convinced that we will only deliver that change, im absolutely determined we will, if we do the difficult things now. I know theyre unpopular, i know theyre difficult, of course theyre tough choices. But its a bit like, i dont know, building a house. If you know your foundations are rotten, if you know youve got damp or cracks, you can paint over it and pretend that youve got a beautiful new house, and within six months it all falls apart. Or you can say, were going to strip it down, were going to fix the foundations. And what then will happen . This is where the hope is there. What then happens is youve got a much better house at The End of the exercise, a country built to last. And thats what im determined were going to bring about in the time that weve got in office. Keir starmer speaking to Laura Kuenssberg there. Thousands of prisoners will be eligible for early release next week. There are fewer than 500 spaces left in mens prisons in england and wales, a crisis made worse by convictions of hundreds of people in riots last month. Lets speak to the Chief Executive Officer of a charity that helps young men find a way out of the justice system. It the early release of this many prisoners are cause for concern . Prisoners are cause for concern . ~.. concern . We know that everyday Risoners Concern . We know that everyday prisoners are concern . We know that everyday prisoners are released concern . We know that everyday prisoners are released and concern . We know that everyday prisoners are released and so prisoners are released and so in that nothing is changing. The significant fact is are being released early so to actually say 10 early for some people that means a week earlier than otherwise released but other people may be up to a year but the key concern is about what happens on the lease and on release from pri