one of his most disturbing discoveries was that police had directed intimacy believing the coastal highway behind the town would act as a fire break. and they had diverted traffic to the smaller streets which again in an effect blocked and created the gridlock so even the people who tried to evacuate from the smallest things. and other people who had absolutely nothing to do with my going live there they were actually diverted into harm's way that made up to me no sense. even more surprising but the actions of the coast guard it not only failed to send rescue boats in time for hours it allowed to rest ferries to continue arriving the coast guard did not stop ferries old coming in the port of a few notes very close which was again horrible mistake because ferries unload

a lot of cars that is odd to the traffic load you do not have that moment you do not want to have more cars from the road you want to have in of the roads open us open as possible because you want to move traffic away where is the government not of this i mean the number one responsibility of crimean government is protecting its citizens this is the number one responsibility everything else comes second and here. government failed completely. the. wrong careless three layers. weeks on the survivors a demand in the government pay for what happened if you like he live with the mission of meet him in this regional middle ground up for the night. i think she died. by this was actually meant to be a night of celebrations here at the parliament because this is the official end of

the day here by laos it's mips to be a milestone symbolizing a new beginning for grace but the many the by is the real symbol of what greece has become up to date he's been focused also different on. the monks of greece's long economic crisis or ext into the streets of athens. during the month you should rule. hough a million people from a population of eleven million have moved abroad in search of jobs. they've left behind a nation crippled by debt now running up one hundred eighty percent of g.d.p. . you almost a thought as was economics minister in the leftwing sirus

a government that swept to power three years ago. how much has society being hood by those ideas of enforced austerity i think it will be here more than the other side. with the exception of world wars that there is. a lot of there's regard shall refer to the big twenty five but sir. that's a huge through the actual times of this we had forty percent decline in the amount of junk i was weighed the salary of bank shows so the cost was huge you know. emergency services have been hit as hard as any firefight as it had wages steadily cut they even have to buy their own uniforms. this unit is based in

a complex that was the pride of the two thousand and four athens olympics they were called out until nine pm long after the fire had destroyed the town. demitra stuff hopeless is a senior fire officer and president of the firefighters union he says ten of the station's fifteen trucks are out of actual. was. also hired out of nothing on the market. obviously to me but i love it got us where watching one of us off more of a company that's a got your own in there doesn't do us gallon of a cup and that circuit or when you get off one of those when i come out on bend over against us in the year of your team there. at the corner us the. visibility is i won't talk to a human up out of. their skin i think you have to view them as this and i don't

know what you're mixing up here. he says the national fire fighting budget has been cut by twenty percent since two thousand and ten. or from me on unfair or except yours was my support from you on the the bottom and up of those we're going to get out of this was. the blame game started even before marty stopped smoldering the heads of the. national police and fire brigade was sacked the minister for public goal to resign and some claim that's not enough the politicians and a u.s. officials have blood on their hands. zuma constant talk pool it was serious a speaker of parliament and a close ally of prime minister alexis tsipras until they split over austerity cuts i think it's very very clear that austerity measures imposed upon our country

have led not just to misery and suffering but also to deaths when you remove solvent from account tree when you demand rads. and illegal debt is repaid. by the blood. of the people because this is what has been happening we've been paying with our own blood for a debt that they created and when i say they i'm talking about the governments the greek governments but also the european governments that the creditors governments and the german and french banks which were those responsible for the larger part of greece's so-called current debt whether there would come to be a better outcome. if. you know under different circumstances.

with without your stay with you. it's hard to say. defense is you know lucky since it's cutbacks would no excuse for the lack of planning all coordination. he believes they had enough water bombing a craft to slow the blaze they just didn't send them in. i think certainly if we had been and what my research shows is that if we caught fire fighting. operational. without delay the spread of the fire by you least an hour an hour and a half some of those you can say to an hour would have been enough to cut in your tuition to help save the world if. it wasn't just the failings on the day that killed so many it was government policy stretching back decades. of

all the terrible side see this unremarkable property that's now sealed off is the most powerful because a crowd of people came running through here trying to get to the say blinded by smoke they found themselves trapped the edge with no escape twenty six people including parents and their young children died and. each other's arms. allegations would later emerge that the property and fence should not have been there like many waterfront homes it was built without permission on public land this is a unique phenomenon in southern europe where a lot of beets areas were short of. the value of that in the sixty's and the seventy's with. once the houses are built and differences of their member government comes in and builds and builds are going to reverse unfortunately they're on their own way of going about. illegal construction was tolerated in part

because the builders paid heavy fines and taxes income desperately needed in the financial crisis this government which is trying to blame it on those illegal houses was the government who photo and in two thousand and seventeen a law to miga lines all illegal constructions. the first demolitions of fire damaged houses many were riddled with as best as a state as a media event. the government now says it will demolish more than three thousand homes built of legally on beach fronts and in forests. a buffer against big government. first world corporate workable or scorpio. with none of the normal seems to be the only problem there and procures over three

or four groups greece's infrastructure minister christos spirits is concedes austerity has affected fire ready this but he argues this fire was serving no amount of technology could have stopped it. in the fundraiser for queen phenomenon a then there are going to be how man is one of the from the street in the middle over cynical remember the one on the grease and then if you off if it doesn't look like you have to leave the source of it's christmas because your struggles and i make it worse wonderful remember us and i'm never going to go look at who people are. it's pain and humiliation for a country that prides itself on being a cradle of civilization. greece didn't just give the world to buck receive in mythology its cults brought forth by.

murals in the academy of athens tell the legend of per be theists who defied zeus to get the lights of fire and learning to the people it was for gives permissions hercules go see my friends here from the mountain but i don't think in this particular case zeus is going to forgive the people who are responsible for what happened. like everyone in this tight knit community helios covered up on the skis trying to come to terms with the loss. of form a d.j. he was famous for his parties and his homemade sound system. and music is my life i mean this guy has to look like at this club to look like

a clown. but ten of his friends died in the flames music has become his salvation. they were listening to music i was. very calm but. yes i think. i am one. and i would feel that they would be with us but the memories would have to forget we have to leave i mean the monster love. making songs. i was. in the back yard of the fun and i'm dressed to me tree is home there's a shrine to his wife margarita and the sun i had to get named.

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on the phone about that and. if i'm a performer you know performer and bring them on. or not got the pre-modern i thought farmers a monarch if the problem of us and his number crumble. to determine this great tragedy will never happen again. as migrants seek sanctuary on it shows the e.u. missed choose rescue over to turns. eighteen and immigration government has allied with the libyan coast guard in an operation often at loggerheads with n.g.o.s trying to save lives and. people in power is on

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the ways into someone not just looking. we have given the recordings to saudi arabia to the americans to the british to the germans to everyone. turkey's president releases tapes linked to the murder.

and the amman saudi arabia reveal what happened to the journalist body. this is. also coming up the u.s. agrees to stop refueling saudi jets says pressure mounts on america to stop aiding the saudi led coalition in yemen also. world leaders gather in paris for the one hundredth anniversary of the end of world war one donald trump and emanuel mccrone try to settle their differences plus you're fearful that your house will burn yes. yeah. very. from paradise to hell tens of thousands left homeless and at least nine people killed as wild fire spread in california.

turkey's president has up the pressure on saudi arabia over the murder of. russia. made his latest comments as he left for france ways joining world leaders force and commemorations marking the end of world war one o one said turkey had shared ordeal recordings linked to the killing with saudi arabia the u.s. and european countries he is demanding riyadh come clean on exactly what happened in its consulate in istanbul. computer we have shared the recordings with saudi arabia the americans the british the germans with everyone they've listened to the conversations on those recordings they know what's been said there's no point in distorting this fact among the fifteen suspects they know who the murderer is all murderers are and sunday arabia can bring all this to light by making those

fifteen suspects speak of french president emanuel macross says he and u.s. president donald trump agree that saudi arabia must provide more details on the case its former spy chief said the kingdom will never allow an international investigation into the murder prince turki f.s.r. said he expects riyadh will fully investigate the death and denies any cover up or demand a sale is following this story for a say he joins us now live from istanbul so. what are we to what is everyone hoping to achieve by sharing these recordings with others and why now. well the president has always said that his country will not sell out for a coverup and every time the it's would appear that maybe there was an attempt to decrease the pressure on riyadh in the saudis or maybe to forget about what

happened. chosen to either release. details new information about the case or have made statements this latest one is no difference in the strategy adopted by ankara from the very beginning of this case president. has made it's impossible now for western powers to claim proves a bull deniability to say that they didn't know what's happened he says that he has shared this information with them so that's the first point that it's essentially forcing these countries that claim to want to uphold human rights as well as international law that they are very much aware of what's took place the second is possibly an attempt maybe to. pull not allow anybody to pull the rug from under the carpet so it's because it starts there was a lot of people wondering you know would they release this. or visual whatever recordings that they have was this something that's would actually be detrimental

to turkey if it was secured through some sort of clandestine or espionage way the fact that it's hard to say that they've actually shared this and it's the president's recess they were sure this would mean that maybe either they don't care how they got it or indeed that it was achieved through other ways so it's very significant indeed as you mentioned it comes on the eve of the meetings that are expected between the presidents the u.s. counter his u.s. counterparts and several others we'll see how they respond. for the moment jim attaché live for us there in istanbul. i somehow bought a is in paris for us let's go live to him now so. as we are saying they're on his way to paris for four star stand simply for those world war one quote commemorations but it's also a chance for him to meet with a number of leaders there and bring up the case.

indeed has him president. has arrived a while ago i'm standing outside the museum that's where would leaders should be starting to arrive in a time soon for the dinner by president eman well micron it's quite interesting how the case of the house somehow shaped the some of the meetings as a particular between presidents micron and trump has said basically that they were hoping saudi arabia would deliver more details about the killing of hostility but the same time they said they were concerned that the repercussions from the case could further destabilize the region and they said also that one of their hopes is that the fallout from the murder of hostages you could pave the way for a peaceful way out of the. conflict in yemen. and he's hoping either tonight on the sidelines of the dinner or two more. on the sidelines of the lunch to be able to meet with president the tramp and he wants to press ahead for more international pressure against saudi arabia turkey has been saying that he has been waiting for

the saudis to come fully corporative when it comes to who gave the order to kill the metal housekeeper that were. frustrated the saudis were trying it's time to stall the case now has a problem. with meet with trump against a backdrop of strained relations between the two countries and trump as far as we're going to see in this report will have to face a mammoth task of stepping us. forgetting most of those differences between the two countries for them to be able to move forward it's been more than a month since he was killed but. case has turned into a political crisis threatening to further strain relations between saudi arabia and turkey. which is keeping up the pressure on the saudis to prosecute those who carried out the murder and find out who ordered it turkey hopes

a meeting between presidents donald trump and rosie diane will pave the way for walk or pray ssion mr trump's house on this case you still cloudy you know he's still seems not to be able to you know choose his side despite all these holiday evidences i think will be their first challenge that mr advani is going to attempt to persuade in person of their to take can't just to take a stance with many also for those who create and you know very near to the point where you are off justice but winning trumps trust won't be easy the u.s. and turkey are divided over many issues america has stepped up its military support for the kurdish y p g a group it considers an ally in the fight against isis in syria but turkey sees the y p g as an extension of the outlawed kurdistan workers'

party the p.k. k. . the u.s. state department has offered rewards for information about the location of three senior members of the party in a move aimed at easing tensions. but turkey says the u.s. has to sever all ties with the wire p.g. and this warning of a major offensive against kurdish militias in northeastern syria would stick around countries that support their y.p. genius to question their fight against terrorism because any support of the white b.g. directly or indirectly is given to their terrorist organization trump. said recently they were hoping to set aside their differences and start a new chapter in relations between the two countries but they have a number of issues to resolve including the war in syria sanctions on iran the gulf

cooperation council crisis and the hot shots the killing the murder of jamal khashoggi could undermine chances to improve turkish american relations the government here is concerned president tran might ultimately use his leverage to shield the saudi crown prince from further scrutiny and international pressure despite turkey's insistence the case won't and until the saudis say who gave the order to kill the journalist. as the pressure builds on the u.s. over its links with saudi arabia washington has announced it will stop refueling aircraft from the saudi led coalition battling the rebels in the war in yemen and this comes amid a mounting civilian death toll defense secretary james mattis says the decision was made in riyadh after he was consulted and it comes before a potentially divisive vote on the issue in the u.s. congress set for next week saudi amorality coalition now says it can refuel by

itself but there is increasing international pressure to end the war it created the world's worst humanitarian crisis the holts in u.s. refueling is unlikely to have much impact on the ground as mohammed out o. tells us from djibouti. the agreement between the united states and so there is still the u.s. refueling all. seems to be a coordinated agreement with so did have us saying it now haaz the capacity to refuel its own involved in the aerial bombardments that have been carted out on positions inside yemen and now many people say however that this is just. the united states government so that it be a by extension of congress which has been really critical of u.s. involvement and support for the so the morality correlation but other aspects of

the support the u.s. has been giving the sodium without equal nations such as selling them and also giving them vital intelligence particularly on food the physicians in various parts of the country will continue which means it will be business as usual on that front meanwhile heavy fighting is going on on the outskirts of the port city of the day that pro-government fighters are continuing their all small on three different. lines trying to retake the city of data from the fighters today they claim that they have taken a hospital outside the city and u.n. workers are calling for a cease fire saying that and the little disruption to the vital services of the port of data could you know yemen right. as i came to remember fallen soldiers from a century ago for american and french leaders it was also a chance.