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Speaker 1: The UK. We go and Gavin greg Good morning to

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Speaker 1: you either Andrew. Terrible fire in the nightclub in North Macedonia.

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Speaker 1: People killed and people arrested for courting it.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's right, I'm afraid really groomed death toll on

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Speaker 2: the rise. It's at least fifty nine people with ages

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Speaker 2: so far between fourteen and twenty four years old in

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Speaker 2: a nightclub, one hundred and fifty five injured, eighteen said

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Speaker 2: to be critical condition with burns. What we believe happened

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Speaker 2: is one five hundred people packed into and around the

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Speaker 2: Pulse nightclub in a town roughly one hundred kilometers east

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Speaker 2: of the capital of North Macedonia, towards the sort of

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Speaker 2: towards the border with Bulgaria, and they were there to

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Speaker 2: see a hip hop duo called d NK. Now, the

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Speaker 2: problem is it appears that during the concert there was

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Speaker 2: a pyrotechnic device. Sparks from that hit the ceiling, and

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Speaker 2: the ceiling was made of highly flammable material and it

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Speaker 2: just went up incredibly quickly, say our witnesses, and of

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Speaker 2: course there was a stampede for the exit, so it

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Speaker 2: really really awful. We believe the government is set to

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Speaker 2: declare seven days in national mourning and now demand urgent

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Speaker 2: inspections of all nightclubs and restaurants used to host large gatherings.

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Speaker 2: And yes, we do believe that four arrest warrants have

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Speaker 2: been issued and one person so far has been arrested.

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Speaker 1: It just reminds me of a story out of America.

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Speaker 1: And this is like twenty years ago Ben called Great

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Speaker 1: White were playing, They had pyrotechnics and a one hundred

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Speaker 1: people died. More than one hundred people died. You just

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Speaker 1: don't do pirate technics indoors, particularly in the smaller venues.

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Speaker 2: But there we go.

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Speaker 1: So apparently the United Kingdom is now into an operational

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Speaker 1: phase in Ukraine.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so there was that phone call, wasn't there a

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Speaker 2: virtual call between hosted by the British Prime Minister, but

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Speaker 2: involving New Zealand, Australia, Canada, members of the Comnwealth, but

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Speaker 2: also nearly two dozen European countries too, with Japan as

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Speaker 2: well apparently set to offer assistance for what's being called

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Speaker 2: the Coalition of the Willing. What we mean, we mean

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Speaker 2: that if and when there is a cease far between

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Speaker 2: Ukraine and Russia, that the Coalition of the Willing really

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Speaker 2: does think there needs to be some kind of a

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Speaker 2: peacekeeping force on site. America says it's not convinced, but

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Speaker 2: plenty of people who simply do not trust Vladimir Putin

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Speaker 2: to stay out of Ukraine even after that cease far.

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Speaker 2: So we're going to, I think, get more details on Thursday.

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Speaker 2: We're due to have a meeting of military leaders to

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Speaker 2: put what are being called strong and robust plans in place. However,

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Speaker 2: I have to be honest Andrew, some of the details

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Speaker 2: on this are really sketchy. It all sounds promising, but

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Speaker 2: until there is actually this agreement, and then until the

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Speaker 2: coalition has got its act together with exactly what it's

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Speaker 2: going to offer, we won't really know how effective. It is.

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Speaker 1: Kevin Gray out of the UK.

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