to stay put how to effectively feel the dumbing assessment comes as part of a public inquiry into the tragedy in which seventy two people were killed last year with an update on monday's hearing here senator richard the purpose of the inquiry is to obviously look at the circumstances surrounding the night of the tragedy to see if it could have been prevented and the emergency services were looked at as well as the cladding now if you look at the emergency services it says that there should have been forty six minutes between the first phone call to nine nine nine and a response that didn't happen in fact they said that there was a total failure of the state put policy they also looked at the cutting and this was really interesting actually when they talked about certain materials that we use during refurbishment a material called polythene which is a highly combustible polymer was used and apparently it melts when exposed to fire and it acts as a fuel when it comes to fire mr mallett millet who was leading the inquiry said

that this was the worst loss of domestic life by fire since world war two and we all know what happened that night. following this tragic night the government obviously promised to has all those who lost their homes but in fact what's happened in practice is only sixty two out of two hundred nine have been house since this. has caused widespread protests to cars

across the country over the year and people have been demanding answers but this inquiry it's not a quick fix i have to warn you of that they gave the whole timeline as to how long it was going to take it's going to be months they have one hundred thirty five witness statements alone to look at so yes you know the public want arthurs but they are going to have to wait until they get all the answers and further action taken. now it seems the american president appears to believe he's in invincible position within the white house just a few hours ago doll trump tweeted that among the powers that his the supposed always want to even pardon himself while his lawyer former new york mayor rudy giuliani went on record explaining that trump would need to be impeached before facing any legal action for whatever reason do you in the present attorneys believe the president has the power to pardon himself. he's not but he probably does. he

has no intention of poured himself but he probably doesn't get all the comments come after the u.s. president pardoned a filmmaker a political commentator who trump thought was unfairly prosecuted by the previous administration the move cause consternation in the american media and among many of the country's politicians picking up the story this hour. donald trump is once again drawing outrage from the democrats this time for pardoning right wing political commentator dinesh d'souza now d'souza pled guilty in two thousand and fourteen to making illegal campaign contributions trump is being blasted now from some quarters because they allege that essentially he's letting a political ally off the hook president from seemingly passing out pardons to heroes of the far right almost as eagerly as oprah once gifted pontiacs to suburban moms there are questions about his judgment and intent the president reminding

people my dad he can pardon you os has this power and i'm going to. but if you look over the history of presidential pardons and sentence commutations they've always kind of been handed out this way back in april donald trump gave a full pardon to scooter libby a former member of the bush administration scooter libby had been involved in outing the identity of a cia agent and then obstructing justice in order to cover it up george w. bush had already communities set back in two thousand and seven scooter libby decision was a sort of fair and balanced says don't forget about the biggest case of tax evasion in all of us history marc rich was convicted of defrauding the u.s. government of roughly forty eight million dollars rich was going to face three hundred years in prison until bill clinton stepped in to give him a second chance now it also happens that marc rich was a big contributor and supporter of bill clinton's presidential campaigns marc rich

was on the f.b.i.'s ten most wanted list bill clinton on his last day in office pardons him a lot of people were shocked and surprised including his political allies even after marc rich died money from his estate continued flowing into hillary clinton's foundation and then there was an investigation that determined there was no foul play between marc rich and the clintons richard nixon stepped down after it was revealed that he had spied on his political. parliaments and then obstructed justice in an attempt to cover it up now gerald ford who were placed in the oval office decided to let bygones be bygones he said it was an act of mercy all right our lord. president of the united states granted and by these presidents to grant a free and absolute pardon under richard nixon the first presidential pardon in u.s. history was handed down by george washington the leaders of a rebellion that had taken place at the time the man dubbed the father of america

hope that this act of forgiveness would help bring a new country together but roll on two hundred years and it seems that presidential pardons and sentence commutations are little last about honor and healing and a little more about you scratch my back and i'll scratch yours over centuries now there's been a process of volved where you have something called the office of the pardon attorney people meticulously review the cases and decide which one should make it to the president's desk dinesh d'souza he was railroaded under the obama administration he was aggressively prosecuted for an offense that is generally not prosecuted to the level this one was and his life was virtually ruined root in this country we have a crisis because the mainstream media the corporate owned media refuses to accept the idea that donald trump is a legitimate president united states entitle to wield the legitimate powers that every united states president has wield the while in office that's their core problem until they get over that they're going to be writing

a lot of fake. i hate all of his first foreign trip since his reelection love him or putin has been giving an interview to an austrian t.v. channel in the russian capital and it was far from a casual sit done with a number of topics being discussed building up into arguments between putin and the host ortiz medina caution of a joins us now with the details hi there maginnis. certainties of things all the other way to what was discussed tell us well just as you mentioned you and i had of the president's visit to austria lattimer put in answering some questions from austria so our after television channel news presenter armin wolf and the interview first started in the rather typical manner when it comes to interviews with the russian president vladimir putin was asked to once again about russia's alleged madly in other countries elections about internet troll factories and how all this connects with mr precaution who is

a restaurant owner in st petersburg who vladimir putin knows personally. because you have just said that mr precaution is referred to as putin's chef indeed he runs a restaurant business it is his job if he is a restaurant owner instant pizzas but now let me ask you do you really think that a person who is in the restaurant business even if this person has some hacking opportunities and owns a private firm in this field would sway elections in the united states or european country we could it be that the media and political standards in western countries have reached such a low level with the russian restaurant can sway voters in a european country with all the united states isn't it ridiculous. once again. russia is not interested in interfering in other country's elections and rather quickly after that the conversation changed its course when armand wolf practically started firing questions at the russian president without stopping much to listen

to the answers and that of course caught the president by surprise. because if you were to tricia's ticklish going to refute it it was because. you do . you do you miss because it's conservative there's a bit of the president a little. bit with us you just put them home. just. because you. used. to do it. while by the end of the interview it actually turned into a full scale debates when vladimir putin i started asking questions himself on the cause of independence and the wall street movement and many other international issues and armand wolf refused to answer those questions so it really seems that

the russian president enjoyed himself and actually came out of this with a smile all right interesting stuff about interview ahead of the republicans visit to austria reporting from moscow thank you. now it is ten days amazingly enough and counting until football's biggest event kicks off in russia so what better time to catch up with former brazil defender a two time world cup winner and food he give us some insight into how his nation may perform at this summer's tournament. expectations are really high not only concern in the world cup in russia but also concerning the world cup in general especially regarding the brazilian team pressure is high you are fighting for a world cup with the brazilian team there are more than two hundred twenty million brazilians that's hundreds and twenty million football coaches two hundred and twenty million football fans so there is additional pressure on players to have a great world cup when we come to the world cup we come to when no one plays at the

world cup just to say that it's late we come to ween of course sometimes it doesn't happen the way you wanted to but you can be sure that the b. and the lack of commitment and brazil is going to have a great world cup talking of focused squads team our team is fired up and ready to go with our special coverage of fifa world cup twenty eight in russia's first.

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