“Shame on you!”, they shouted in a stand-off involving around 30 people, as many police officers, as well as a dozen security guards.

Hundreds of people, including singer and human rights campaigner Lily Allen, were protesting outside, holding up signs saying “Justice for Grenfell”.

One protester held up a “Wanted” poster for an executive who manages the building, accusing him of “corporate manslaughter”.

Residents had long complained about fire safety risks at Grenfell Tower, but said the concerns of the multi-ethnic, largely working-class inhabitants had been brushed off by local authorities.

“We are in the richest borough in the UK and in this very borough we have a building where some of the poorest live and the safety measures are totally inadequate,” said Mustafa Al Mansur, one of the organisers of the demonstration.

“We need to know what commitment the council is taking to ensure this tragedy is not repeated,” he said. “We need to know exactly the number of people who were there during this tragedy.”

There were chaotic scenes as angry protesters shouted through a loudspeaker, with one woman saying: “We are in pain. We have been trodden on by people who say they are there to protect us.”

Another said: “It was a death trap and they knew it.”

The protesters also held up pictures of those still missing and now feared dead, as the crowd shouted: “No justice, no peace!” .

CAN’T RESPECT THE BODIES

“We are not here to trouble people. We just want answers,” said Salwa Buamani, 25, who attended the protest with her three-year-old niece on her shoulders.

“I have friends in the tower and they are not telling us anything,” she told AFP, adding: “We can’t respect the bodies.”

The death toll was revised up Friday from 17 to 30, but police warned they expect it to increase further, with as many as 70 people thought to still be missing.

Many of those in the crowd were calling for the remains of their loved ones to be returned, highlighting how survivors had described walking over bodies on the stairwell as they fled.

“They (the authorities) are clearly aware roughly of the number of bodies,” said local resident Karen Brown, 36, whose friend’s 12-year-old daughter Jessica was among those missing.

“The fact that they are not telling people is very frustrating. We are not stupid we are aware people are dead. Just tell them!”

A man shouted: “Where are our children now? In the building! No one takes care of their bodies. Shame on you!”

The crowds moved back towards the blackened tower, gaining numbers until several thousands were marching through the affluent streets around Notting Hill and Kensington High Street.

It developed an almost festive atmosphere, with locals providing free food and revellers in pubs and residents on balconies standing up and applauding as the protesters walked by.

But there was still anger, largely directed at Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May, who was earlier heckled and booed after visiting survivors in a church nearby.

“Theresa May it’s time to go” they shouted, while others held up banners saying “Tories out”. afp

The Spanish Courts have so far ignored the request to identify the Judge of the High Court (Audiencia Provincial) of Las Palmas (Spain) who made xenophobic and offensive remarks in the courtroom during a deliberation with three other judges.

The tape of the conversation taking place between judges Salvador Alba, Emilio Moya and Carlos Vielba was uncovered by Spanish newspaper Canarias 7. The audio log, containing racial slurs against citizens of Russia, Italy and Romania among others, and misogynic expressions is publicly available, and was aired on Spanish national TV stations.

Despite the media outcry, the Spanish Ministry of Justice has so far taken no steps to remove or otherwise sanction the involved judges. Furthermore, it has even ignored the request, lodged by the Consulate of Russian Federation in Las Palmas, to identify the judge who made the offensive remarks.

During an interview on aired Spanish National Television (TVE), Mr. Jose Antonio Penichet, the attorney of the Consulate, raised the question of whether the xenophobic attitude of Las Palmas judiciary is to blame for a flagrantly unjust treatment of the family of Spanish entrepreneur of Russian-Jewish origins, also known as “The Kokorev Case”. Vladimir Kokorev, as well as his wife and son, remain in pre-trial detention in Las Palmas (Spain) on unclear charges and without access to the case file for already over 18 months, with no expectation of a trial or even a formal accusation.

The pre-trial detention is ostensibly motivated by the judge Ana Isabel de Vega Serrano by “high flight risk”, which decisions have been confirmed by the High Court of Las Palmas.

Mr. Penichet argued that Vladimir Kokorev and his family members, with no prior convictions or criminal records, had voluntarily consented the extradition to Las Palmas from Panama, where they remained on bail for several months without any attempts to escape. Furthermore, Vladimir Kokorev (66) had suffered serious medical problems in the past years: a heart attack, minor stroke and prostate cancer. Those medical issues, are further exacerbated by over a year and a half in prison.

“I am confident that if Vladimir had a Spanish family name, he would have not suffer the same treatment,” said Mr. Penichet.

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Paris (AFP) – Conservative French presidential frontrunner Francois Fillon hold a final convene in Paris Friday as he seeks to bind a assignment for a rightwing Republicans in a primary this weekend.

Fillon, whose swell has taken commentators and pollsters by surprise, gave an positive opening in a televised discuss on Thursday opposite his centrist rival, long-time favourite Alain Juppe.

Fifty-seven percent of viewers judged Fillon to have been a many convincing, according to an eccentric check for a BFMTV radio channel of 908 people who followed a scarcely two-hour exchange.

A sum of 8.5 million people tuned in to hear a dual ex-prime ministers highlight their differences on open zone cuts, family between France and Russia, and their views on multiculturalism.

On Friday Fillon hold a convene in Paris where he hoped to pull adult to 10,000 people, while Juppe was campaigning in a eastern city of Nancy.

Both group are positioning themselves opposite a approaching rivals in subsequent year’s election, particularly a resurgent far-right personality Marine Le Pen, as good as a Socialist celebration claimant and independents.

“I consider we am best placed with my programme to kick Marine Le Pen,” Juppe pronounced on Friday, referring to a jingoist and anti-immigration trainer of a National Front.

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Thursday’s discuss expel into sheer service a differences between a candidates, with Fillon mostly portraying 71-year-old Juppe as lacking a stomach to shake adult a French economy and Juppe accusing his opposition of being unrealistic.

“It is loyal that my plan is some-more radical and maybe some-more difficult,” pronounced Fillon, whose mercantile ideas have been compared to those of late British primary apportion Margaret Thatcher.

The 62-year-old righteous Catholic wants to condense an eye-popping 500,000 open zone jobs over 5 years and throw a 35-hour operative week in a bid to kick-start a indolent French economy.

He is also some-more socially conservative, believes France is “on a verge of revolt”, and takes a harder line on Islam in France. Juppe has stressed how many on a far-right are in foster of his rival’s proposals.

“No, France is not a multicultural country. France has a history, a denunciation and a enlightenment that have naturally been enriched from outside,” Fillon pronounced on Thursday during a debate.

Seeking uninformed movement after a formidable week, Juppe seemed to onslaught to browbeat his competition though strike home with a taunt during Fillon’s alliance to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“This contingency be a initial presidential choosing in that a Russian boss chooses his candidate,” Juppe said, referring to regard by Putin for Fillon on Wednesday.

Fillon believes a European Union and a United States “provoked” Russia by expanding in eastern Europe and he has criticised sanctions imposed on Moscow after Putin’s advance of Ukraine in 2014.

He again targeted what he called a “absurd” process of Socialist President Francois Hollande, who has confronted Putin over Russia’s cast of Ukraine and purported fight crimes by Russian army in Syria.

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Le Pen is now foresee to come initial or second in a initial turn of a choosing on Apr 23 with around 30 percent of a vote, though afterwards destroy in a run-off on May 7.

But following a call of populism that led British electorate to select to leave a European Union and swept Donald Trump to feat in a United States, no one is essay off a National Front leader’s chances.

Fillon discharged suggestions his regressive proceed done it tough for electorate to heed between him and Le Pen.

“I have always fought a National Front,” he said, adding: “We have to forestall Madame Le Pen from reaching a second round.” If she did, it would be a pointer of an “ailing democracy”.

Le Pen says she wants to embankment a euro and organize a referendum on France’s EU membership — a pierce that would put a destiny of European formation during stake.

There was bad news for Hollande’s prospects of seeking re-election when an opinion check Friday showed some-more than twice as many people would cite Prime Minister Manuel Valls to be a Socialist presidential claimant over him.

Valls, a warlike Spanish-born premier, got a support of 65 percent of respondents to a Harris Interactive check compared to only 23 percent for Hollande.

Hollande has pronounced he will confirm before a finish of a year either to mount again.

Turkey’s boss has indicted a European Union of duplicity and betrayal, and threatened to mislay controls from his country’s borders, potentially permitting hundreds of thousands of asylum-seekers and other migrants into Europe.

In his initial debate given Thursday’s capitulation in a European Parliament of a non-binding fortitude job on a EU to solidify Turkey’s membership talks, Recep Tayyip Erdogan (pictured) told a EU: “We are a ones who feed 3 to 3.5 million refugees in this country. You have tricked your promises.”

He added: “If we go any serve those limit gates will be opened.”

He done specific anxiety to Turkey’s categorical limit channel with EU member Bulgaria.

The European Parliament opinion was in response to a Ankara government’s clumsy crackdown following a unsuccessful manoeuvre in July. Opposition parties, rights groups and Turkey’s western allies have voiced augmenting condemnation of actions Ankara defends as partial of a fight on terror.

After some-more than a million migrants done their approach into Europe, mostly by Turkey, final year, Ankara and a EU in Mar reached an agreement for Turkey to branch a upsurge of migrants travelling by sea to Greece in lapse for certain incentives, including fast-track membership talks, billions of euros in assist for Syrian refugees in Turkey, and visa-free transport for Turkish citizens.

But a response to a manoeuvre has done European nations reduction penetrating to negotiate with Turkey, while visa liberalisation has strike a jump over Turkey’s hostility to change a anti-terror laws.

During his speech, Mr Erdogan pronounced a income betrothed had nonetheless to be delivered.

“We have been given $550m by a United Nations. The European Union promised, though a income it has sent so distant is around $700m. But what have we spent? Up to now we have spent $15bn.”

Since a thwarted coup, blamed on a network of supporters of US-based Muslim minister Fethullah Gulen, Turkey has intent in an rare crackdown, jailing tens of thousands and dismissing or suspending 120,000 people suspected of links to a cleric.

It has close down some-more than 170 media outlets, incarcerated over 140 reporters and sacked inaugurated Kurdish mayors and transposed them with government-appointed trustees.

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Abdulkafi Alhamdo crushes rice and mixes it with lentils to feed his 9-month-old daughter, Lamar, in their kitchen in eastern Aleppo. He serves a homemade regulation done from the usually food left in his home on a ladle to Lamar, whose teeth have usually recently started to grow in.

Alhamdo spends any day with his daughter and his wife, who has been ill for 15 days with a fever. As his wife’s health has declined and her breastmilk dusty up, Russian-led airstrikes brought a large call of explosions and reported chemical weapons crusade to a family’s area this week in the latest troops debate in Syria’s polite war. After 4 years of conflict, Alhamdo wonders how his daughter, who can hardly digest his temporary meals, will be means to grow or lead a normal life.

“You can’t suppose how badly in need people are for food, purify water, electricity, fuel, it’s unbelievable,” pronounced Alhamdo, a clergyman in a war-stricken city who described to International Business Times this week what life had become for his family through voice recordings on a encrypted messaging use WhatsApp. “Hell itself would be bliss compared to Aleppo these days.”

Lina Sergie Attar, a Syrian-American who was lifted in Aleppo and co-founded a Karam Foundation, a non-profit classification focused on building a improved destiny for Syria that sends service to Aleppo, told IBT all charitable paths into her home city have been indefinitely close down by Assad’s regime.

“It’s intensely dangerous to perform charitable work as it’s bootleg to do flattering many anything in Syria,” pronounced Attar, who has struggled to broach assist to Aleppo given a summer. ”When we duty in Western Aleppo, all is totally underground, in secret. Everyone does their charitable work in tip given they’re shocked of being incarcerated or killed.”

The Karam Foundation saw several of a assist projects it has corroborated in Aleppo tumble plant to a airstrikes in new months. ”We’ve had a H2O good targeted by a Russian airstrike,” Attar said. “A bakery we were ancillary was destroyed. We had an tot regulation divert core badly shop-worn some-more than once, and changed it around to 3 opposite locations. Now, there are no some-more divert centers in Aleppo.”

Schoolchildren dispute as they leave a propagandize after shelling by Syrian rebels on government-held western Aleppo, Syria on Nov. 20, 2016. Photo: Reuters

Aleppo, one of a world’s oldest and many ancestral cities, has been decimated by a Syrian government, insurgent army and an general bloc purporting to wipeout a participation of a Islamic State organisation in a region. Russia has played a major role in deploying airstrikes around a segment given anti-government protests during a Arab Spring in 2011 erupted into a full blown polite quarrel in Syria. But for Syrians on a ground, that dispute seems reduction like a quarrel opposite ISIS, and some-more of a prolonged tenure genocide targeting children and trusting civilians. Roughly 11 million Syrians have fled their homes given a dispute began.

A United Nations attach� carrying food and assist to Aleppo was targeted in an airstrike reportedly corroborated by Russia in September, creation it even some-more frightening for volunteers and adults to go outward in hunt of shelter. Since then, attacks targeting municipal entities have been during an all-time high. 

Ahmad Aziz, programs officer for a Big Heart Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to providing usually charitable for Syrians by partnering with a World Food Programme and mixed other NGOs, said his commitment to Aleppo hasn’t stopped, even while confronting his possess crisis. He’s rationed usually dual months of food he’s been means to store in his home. When that runs out, he’s not certain what will come next.

“Even if a atmosphere raids stopped, people don’t have resources or options to get food. There are usually 3 equipment remaining in all of a markets: radish, parsley and spinach,” Aziz told IBT around WhatsApp.

Aziz said his city needs a people to take caring of any other by these darks times, even when they don’t have a resources to take caring of themselves. ”We have a famous observant in Arabic: a shoemaker is barefoot, a tailor is exposed and a carpenter’s doorway is broken,” Aziz said. 

People fill celebration H2O into gallon jugs, in a rebel-held besieged area of Aleppo, Syria Nov. 19, 2016. Photo: Reuters

Alhamdo and others trapped in eastern Aleppo were during slightest means to find some essential supplies and food during a summer months by subterraneous charitable aid. Now, his family is left lacking crucial, life-saving resources.

“My ill wife, we couldn’t find paracetamol, usually a small paracetamol, we couldn’t find for her,” he said. “The initial time we attempted to take her to a hospital, they couldn’t take her given there were too many people. The second time, they refused to accept her for a same reason. The third time, all of a hospitals were targeted so we couldn’t continue, we went behind home.”

Still, several of a organizations operative to put an finish to a carnage in Syria sojourn hopeful. Those charitable agencies remarkable a general village should join their efforts by donating and reaching out to their internal representatives.

“Solutions have to be political,” Omar Sawan, general programs family manager for Islamic Relief USA, told IBT. “If people were to titillate their governments to make critical attempts during solution these problems, it would be some-more effective to providing service to Syrians. It’s a formidable conditions in Aleppo that’s still unfolding, and threatens to expand. Reaching out to internal politicians and seeking them to support domestic resolutions to a dispute would be a best approach to assistance Syrians in this moment.”

An harmed child sits nearby a male as they comfortable themselves by a glow in a insurgent hold area of Aleppo, Syria on Nov. 18, 2016. Photo: Reuters

Attar also stressed the need for a common tellurian response to a charitable predicament confronting a region.

“What’s function in Syria right now is a cut on a whole common humanity,” she said. “This is a largest charitable predicament of a lifetime. Aleppo has been damaged by wars before and it will be rebuilt again. You’ll never be means to extinguish Aleppo. The universe unequivocally needs to consider about their roles in assisting a Syrian people or examination in silence.”

As for a Syrians remaining in Aleppo, a city’s walled off borders hasn’t stopped them from enchanting with a worldwide web. Each day, residents share photos with reporters by Whatsapp and other encrypted messaging apps to equivocate supervision surveillance. They watch general news reports, and have thoughts for tellurian audiences examination a developments reveal online, as good as for a subsequent boss of a United States, billionaire Donald Trump.

“For all who are listening now: Please forget your nationality. Forget your religion. Forget your domestic views. And remember your humanity,” Alhamdo pronounced Tuesday. “Those people who are now surrounded inside Aleppo, they are being killed any day with all kinds of weapons. They are failing given of fear, they are failing given of pain, they are failing given of hunger, they are failing given of diseases… Just suppose if these people who are in craving were your children. This is my summary also for Trump.”

Indian shelling opposite a limit into Pakistani-controlled Kashmir strike a bus, murdering during slightest 9 people, and 3 Pakistani soldiers were killed in cross-border firing, Pakistani officials pronounced on Wednesday.

India, in a statement, voiced grief during Pakistani municipal casualties though said: “Retaliatory banishment by Indian infantry has usually been carried out targeting locations from where Pakistan has instituted ceasefire violations on Indian posts.”

Describing a train incident, Pakistani military central Jamil Mir put a series of passed during nine, and that 4 bodies were taken to a circuitously sanatorium and 5 were still trapped in a bus.