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UK releases report on 2017 Grenfell Tower fire

The World

PRX

News, Lethaldissent

4.6884 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

A new report finds that Incompetence, dishonesty and greed led to the deaths of 72 people in the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire in the UK. It also says the deaths were avoidable and blames several manufacturers and successive British governments. Also, the Pope is on a trip across Southeast Asia. And, the head of Lebanon's central bank has been arrested after more than a year of damning revelations of alleged financial crimes. Plus, a group of people in the Canary Islands is embracing a centuries-old language used to communicate across long distances: whistling.

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0:00.0

It was one of London's worst disasters in decades.

0:08.7

Human life was never a priority and we lost friends neighbors and loved ones in the most horrific way.

0:17.0

The damning conclusions of an official inquiry into the 2017 Grenfell Tower Fire.

0:22.0

I'm Marker Werman. And I'm Carolyn Beeler. Also Pope

0:25.1

Francis is in Indonesia part of a four-nation tour for the 87-year-old head of the

0:30.9

Catholic Church. This is his seventh visit to Asia so he's he is year old

0:35.0

school,

0:38.0

school gets shuttered, but becomes a community center on the weekends.

0:40.0

And in rural Japan, an old school gets shuttered, but becomes a community center on the weekends.

0:42.0

I don't know.

0:44.0

This local says we get to meet people of all ages who we'd never otherwise meet.

0:51.0

All those stories are more coming up today on the world.

0:54.0

This is the world.

0:59.0

This is the world.

1:00.0

I'm Marco Werman.

1:01.0

And I'm Carolyn Beeler.

1:02.0

Thanks for tuning in today. In competence, dishonesty, and

1:06.0

greed. That's what led to the deaths of 72 people in the Grenfell Tower Fire in London.

1:12.7

The conclusions of a long-awaited report on that 2017 disaster came out today, and the

1:17.9

bottom line in the government inquiry is that the fire never should have happened.

1:22.6

The blame here is shared by several manufacturing firms, successive British governments, and

1:27.3

the London Fire Brigade for their respective roles in the high-rise fire in the North Kensington

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