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Cladding is generally used as wrapping around a building to improve the appearance and provide thermal insulation. Couple planning to sell their house told it's worth 'zero'  |  Photo Credit: Twitter Matt Browne and Lizzie Barnett, a couple from Birmingham, had definite plans of starting a family by selling their current home in order to fund a bigger one. But now, they have been told their flat in Birmingham is worth zero because of Grenfell-style cladding. Before we get into more details, we should know what the cladding and the Grenfell cladding scandal are. Cladd...

>> reporter: utterly drained, joe broke down at the end of our interview. disappeared off into a corner and sat facing a blank wall. anguish personified. just a day before the grenfell fire, the royal academy exhibition opened in london. an annual tradition for art lovers. even here, art resonated. a screen howl for our times. and this artist calling it unborn. and this piece never again. north london, monday, june 19th. shortly after midnight. and a man is pinned to the ground. this was the driver of the van.

Tragic fire? >> reporter: well, keir, that's certainly something that all these participants are trying to do. they're trying to sort of claim kinship between the grenfell fire and the austerity policies. that's basically what we would know as reduced pay by the government and less taxes. it's a normal conservative platform. but while there's no real smoking gun connecting the actual fire in grenfell tower with the austerity policies of the past decade, it did contribute to what a lot of people in this rally, and there were thousands there today, consider to be a lot of additional inequality w...

End. teams are preparing to install explosives today on what's left of it department block in miami to control its demolition. the decision was taken to demolish the building following fears of an approaching tropical storm that could endanger the lives of rescue teams. 120 people are still missing. the government wants to give people living in flats with flammable cladding and other fire safety defects up to 15 years to sue developers for their poor construction. it's the ministry of housing's latest attempt to solve the cladding crisis in the wake of the grenfell fire. the proposal is in bui...