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Speaker 1: Kevin Gray are UK correspondent with US given Good Evening, HI,

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Speaker 1: that now tell us about this nightclub fire in North Macedonia,

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Speaker 1: that many people have died.

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Speaker 2: Ran it's a terrible, terrible incident and at least fifty

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Speaker 2: nine have died, Eighteen people are in hospital critical and

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Speaker 2: many others were left injured. It was thought that nearly

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Speaker 2: five hundred people gathered for a concert by a group

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Speaker 2: called DNK. They're a popular hip hop dura in the country.

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Speaker 2: And during this fire in the North Macedonian club, which

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Speaker 2: was roughly a couple of one hundred kilometers east of

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Speaker 2: the capitol, they set off some pyrotechnics during the concert.

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Speaker 2: The pyrotechnics produced sparks. One of them hit the ceiling

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Speaker 2: and it turned out the ceiling was made of a

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Speaker 2: highly flammable substance and it spread really really quickly, and

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Speaker 2: many of those crushed trying to get out. And it

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Speaker 2: now appears that we've had up to fifteen people detained overnight.

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Speaker 2: And this is all about the fact that there are

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Speaker 2: some suspicions the venue did not have a legal license

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Speaker 2: to operate, that it only had one sort of exit

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Speaker 2: for people to get out of the venue's back door

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Speaker 2: was locked and could not be used. It was described

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Speaker 2: as an improvised nightclub, having previously been a carpet warehouse.

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Speaker 2: So lots of things now being revealed about, quite simply

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Speaker 2: the lack of facilities that are being alleged at this

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Speaker 2: place and the lack of safety standards that were in place,

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Speaker 2: and that's led to huge question marks now for the

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Speaker 2: government about how many of these entertainment areas in North

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Speaker 2: Macedonia are being used that simply aren't suitable for large gathering.

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Speaker 2: So questions being asked, arrests being made, and plenty of

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Speaker 2: people grieving the loss of their loved ones. Incidently, the

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Speaker 2: age range of those who died is fourteen to twenty four.

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Speaker 1: That's terrible, Kevin, that's really terrible. Thank you for updating

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Speaker 1: us on that. Let's go to the UK. Some asylum seekers,

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Speaker 1: in fact tens of thousands of them, they've had their

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Speaker 1: initial claims rejected, but now they're going back for more.

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Speaker 1: Is that right?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? And the people who have had their asylum claims

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Speaker 2: refused are appealing, and it's the number of appealance or

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Speaker 2: appellance I guess who are those that we're talking about?

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Speaker 2: And it's gone to forty two thousand, with almost forty

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Speaker 2: thousand housed in hotels waiting, and of course that hotel

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Speaker 2: bill is massive, and people that aren't able to get

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Speaker 2: a home or on a waiting list for a home

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Speaker 2: aren't furious. As you can understand that this is happening.

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Speaker 2: The Refugee Council says the number now is a fivefold

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Speaker 2: increase in the last two years, and they say the

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Speaker 2: government simply risks moving the asylum crisis from one part

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Speaker 2: of the system to another. In other words, this government

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Speaker 2: has pledged to hear the cases sooner and then determine

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Speaker 2: whether somebody can stay and then repatriate them if they can't.

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Speaker 2: But what's happening is they aren't quickening up the system

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Speaker 2: for those appeal hearings, so we're stuck in this system

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Speaker 2: where millions of pounds a day is being spent. It

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Speaker 2: was estimated, incidentally, the cost of hotels could be roughly

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Speaker 2: three and a half billion New Zealand dollars this year

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Speaker 2: for housing assylum seekers. And as you can imagine, that

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Speaker 2: is a bill at the moment where many people are

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Speaker 2: struggling to put food on the table and heat their homes.

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Speaker 1: That is not good figure, absolutely not. Now the puts

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Speaker 1: Harry business that all of US files, as immigration files,

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Speaker 1: are we going to get just to have a little

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Speaker 1: peak of those.

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Speaker 2: Well, we're going to have a look, I think at

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Speaker 2: redacted versions. So all this relates to the fact that

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Speaker 2: in America, if you apply for citizenship or for basically

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Speaker 2: living there, you have to answer a series of questions,

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Speaker 2: and some of them relate to drug taking, and in

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Speaker 2: the past people have been barred from entering if they've

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Speaker 2: taken drugs. Well, in his book Spare, Prince Harry said

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Speaker 2: that he quote, cocaine didn't do anything for me. Marijuana

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Speaker 2: is different. That actually really did help me. So a

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Speaker 2: group which is a conservative US think tank called the

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Speaker 2: Heritage Foundation said that they thought this should mean, if

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Speaker 2: it's true in the book, that he was disqualified from

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Speaker 2: obtaining a US visa, and they have won the latest

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Speaker 2: round in ordering the release of the application form. But

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Speaker 2: as I said, I think what we'll see is quite

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Speaker 2: heavily redacted. That this could be bad news for Prince Harry.

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Speaker 2: In the past, various judges have said no, it's of

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Speaker 2: no public interest at all, so we're not going to

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Speaker 2: release it. But Finally they found a judge that said, yes,

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Speaker 2: actually this is important and we do need it to

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Speaker 2: be a level playing field for those that come to

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Speaker 2: live in this country. And so, although President Trump ruled

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Speaker 2: out deporting Harry from the US back in February, he

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Speaker 2: actually said to the New York Post, I'll leaving Malone.

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Speaker 2: He's got enough problem with his wife. She's terrible. We

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Speaker 2: will wait to see what happens next.

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Speaker 1: Goodness make one must be careful when speaking one's truth.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Kevin. Kevin Gray are UK correspondent.

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