2024-09-04
32 分钟This is the global news podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Nick Miles and at 13 hours GMT on Wednesday the 4 September these are our main stories.
A long awaited report into one of Britain's worst ever residential fires has blamed decades of failure and dishonesty.
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We start this podcast with the results of a long awaited report into one of Britain's worst ever residential fires that killed 72 people back in 2017.
The team conducting the inquiry was firm in blaming dishonest companies and indifferent authorities for the disaster.
The chair of it, Martin Moore Bick, listed those behind the failings, including successive governments, building companies, the local council and the London Fire Brigade.
The simple truth is that the deaths that occurred were all avoidable and those who lived in the tower were badly failed over a number of years and in a number of different ways, by those who were responsible for ensuring the safety of the building and its occupants.
Not all of them bear the same degree of responsibility for the eventual disaster, but, as our reports show, all contributed to it in one way or another, in most cases through incompetence, but in some cases through dishonesty and greed.
Shortly afterwards, Natasha Elcock from Grenfell United, which represents the families of those who died in the fire, gave her reaction to the report.
This country has been failed by governments of all political persuasions.
Our expectation is your government will break old habits and implement all the recommendations made by Sir Martin Morbeck's report.
Because the time to address this is already three decades too late for the report to be worth anything, it must bring systematic change.