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🗓️ 4 September 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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The report into one of Britain's worst ever residential fires at Grenfell Tower in 2017, says 72 people died unnecessarily in the cladding-fuelled blaze. It blamed dishonest companies and indifferent authorities. Also on the programme, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been under considerable pressure this week to agree to a ceasefire with Hamas, following the killing of six hostages in Gaza at the weekend -- we hear from Ron Dermer, Minister of Strategic Affairs and member of Israel's war cabinet; and, how botanical gardens and eBay are teaming up to combat plant smuggling.
(Photo: Smoke billows from a fire that has engulfed the 24-storey Grenfell Tower in west London. 14/07/2017. Victoria Jones/PA Wire)
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0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Celia Hatton. |
0:04.7 | Welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service coming to you live from London. |
0:10.4 | And this is right where we begin the program today. |
0:13.6 | In the UK's capital, more than seven years after a fire in a high-rise apartment building, |
0:19.4 | Grenfell Tower in West London, killed 72 people. It was the worst residential fire in Britain |
0:26.9 | since World War II. An inquiry into the fire has just come out with its final |
0:32.4 | report which includes some scathing |
0:34.8 | criticisms directed at a number of companies and levels of the UK government. |
0:40.4 | But first, a reminder of what happened that night in June 2017. |
0:47.0 | Many people are feared to have died after a fire engulfed a tar block in West London. |
0:53.0 | Twelve people are known to have been killed, |
0:55.0 | but police expect that figure to rise. |
0:58.0 | The blaze broke out at one o'clock in the morning |
1:01.0 | in the Rossio spoke about that phone call with the BBC and be aware this clip contains details you might find distressing |
1:19.4 | She's pregnant and that's magichmatic. pregnant and astmatic. |
1:23.0 | Oh, shit. |
1:24.0 | The five is here, five here. |
1:26.0 | That's the moment where the decision is made. |
1:28.0 | We can't stay here. |
1:29.0 | You need to get your family outside. |
1:31.0 | We're doing it now. |
1:32.0 | Hold hands hands go. |
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