No one should have died in the Grenfell Tower fire. They did, according to the final Inquiry Report out today, because of failings, incompetence, Dishonesty And Greed at almost every level governments, construction contractors, Cladding And Insulation firms, the local council, the tenant management organisation, the architect and the London Fire brigade. Tonight well talk to survivors and to those who lost Loved Ones and ask What Happens Next . Welcome to newsnight. Tonights programme is about the absolutely scathing conclusions of the final Inquiry Report published today into the Grenfell Tower fire. With us this evening natasha elcock, chair of Grenfell United, which represents some of the families of victims and survivors. Natasha lived in The Tower on the 11th Floor and lost her uncle, steven power. Karim mussilhy is here. Hes the Vice Chair of Grenfell United his Uncle Hesham Rahman died that night. Tiago alves grew up in The Tower he escaped from the 13th Floor with his mum, dad
Without knowing it a nice record. It wasn t an if, it was a when were they going to tell us that she is not coming home? this is not what we was supposed to happen. The note was under her blanket. I saw it sticking out. Their daughter was a runaway. I am frantic, because i did not find her. They called police. They searched, and then a jogger found a ready to and a pool of blood. Here they are, three people at the door. I just started sobbing. They had found her daughter, but not the boy she was with. It was as if he had never existed. We couldn t find anything about lj. Months went by, still no trace of lj, and then an rookie took the case. How did you feel about it that this was going to be your case? i didn t know if i was going to be capable of doing this, i cried for 2 hours. 18 found dead. We still don t have an answer. And mysterious missing suspect she said that lj has killed someone before. And hers to solve. You are learning how to become a detective as you go. This is the ca
to remove her from the key foreign affairs committee. the democrat calling it an act of revenge by republicans. speaker mccarthy is denying any parti partisan tit for tat and new questions into the beats of tyre nichols after the d.a. told me up to 20 hours of footage is yet to be released. i ll talk with the nichols family attorney, ben crump. welcome to our viewers here in the yunited states and around te world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the the situation roo tonight, ukraine s warnings are growing more ominous and putin s forces unleash new attacks targeting ukrainian civilian areas. fred and sam are on the ground for us in ukraine with firsthand reporting on these new russian strikes. first to you, fred. you and your crew had a very, very close call. walk us through what happened and the current fighting unfolding there in the east. firstly, we certainly did have a very close call. essentially what happened, the night before, there had been a big air strike on a bui
d.c. tonight s lead, spring forward right now, the opening polls o the 2024 presidential race are being fired. the two presumed front runners for the republican nomination, both making to the gop s first caucus state, florida governor ron desanti was in iowa on friday, as he hints at the run just ahead, former president trump, who has already announced that he will be in the state tomorrow meanwhile, another possibl candidate, former vice president mike pence has mad one of his strongest criticism yet of trump s actions o january 6th. at a dinner last night, he admitted what most of us hav known all along, that th presidents reckless word endangered his family an everybody on capitol hill that day. we are going to be breakin down all of this tonight o politicsnation plus, a new report from th justice department finds a pattern of aggressive policing against the black community of louisville, kentucky three years after the police shooting of breonna taylor one state over in
sadly caved to the radical leftc of this party. and now, sadly, the people of west virginia, they will pay o the price for him caving literally through higher taxesr and higher inflation and a much longer recession that needed a lower quality of life, all in the name of green renewable . ergy we re going to expose h the shameful hard left turn from the west virginiaa senator . by the way, tonight we have an interesting question. why is mayor muriel bowser, washington, d.c. finally now asking for the national guardrdn and their assistance? we ll give you that answer coming up. all right. but first tonight, our topgh ,story of the day. i wish it was not true, butst after two straight quarters ofh, negative growth, we w are officially in a recession in 2020. this is the very definition of recession. lookdeniti, that according to cc and cnbc and the l.a. times and the new york times and nancy pelosime and prettyst much every notable economist and pretty much everyone else on ea