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Gail Downey: Europe Correspondent on the blaze at the Grand Karla hotel in Bolo, Turkey · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Joining me now is Gail Downey, our UK and Europe
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  Speaker 1: correspondent and Gaale. Just a horrible story coming out of Turkey.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely sixty six people are known to have died in
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  Speaker 2: a fire and it's at a hotel at a ski resort,
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  Speaker 2: very popular ski resort in Turkey. Two people also died
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  Speaker 2: trying to jump to safety. The fire broke out in
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  Speaker 2: the early hours of the morning and took twelve hours
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  Speaker 2: to put out. The fire service was about an hour
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  Speaker 2: away because of the distance from the resort to the
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  Speaker 2: nearest town, and although it's only twenty five kilometers, of course,
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  Speaker 2: the freezing weather conditions. Being a ski resort hampered in
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  Speaker 2: terms of the time it takes the crews to get there.
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  Speaker 2: The fire was believed to have been started in the
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  Speaker 2: restaurant on the fourth floor spread to the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the building. Footage being circulated in Turkey shows people using
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  Speaker 2: linen possibly bedsheets I guess, hanging from windows to escape
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  Speaker 2: from the burning building. Four people have been arrested, including
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  Speaker 2: the owner of the hotel, Gail.
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  Speaker 1: The UK Prime Minister has announced a public inquiry into
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  Speaker 1: the horrible killing of three young girls at a dance class.
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  Speaker 1: What's going on? Here.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, he actually made the announcement this morning live on
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  Speaker 2: TV and radio. And what he said is the concern
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  Speaker 2: that has arisen from Alex Ruder Cabana, who's eighteen years old,
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  Speaker 2: who pleaded guilty yesterday to murdering the three girls and
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  Speaker 2: the attempted murder of ten others plus two terror related charges. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the terror related charges couldn't be revealed before the case
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  Speaker 2: because that might have harmed in terms of you know,
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  Speaker 2: whether someone was incident or guilty. But because he pleaded
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  Speaker 2: guilty at the very last minute at the case, these
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  Speaker 2: have now started to come out. He also admitted producing
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  Speaker 2: the biological toxin ricin and a charge under the Terrorism
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  Speaker 2: Act related to possessing an Al Qaeda training manual and Sirkir.
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  Speaker 2: Starmer's concern is that he says the UK faces a
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  Speaker 2: new threat and that terrorism has changed. He said the
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  Speaker 2: threat now comes from extreme violence carried out by loner's
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  Speaker 2: misfits and young men in their bedrooms accessing dangerous material online.
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  Speaker 2: And the Home Secretary today told MP's in the Housard
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  Speaker 2: Commonsy At Cooper said it was a disgrace that Axel
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  Speaker 2: Ruder Cabana had also been able to buy a knife
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  Speaker 2: from Amazon when he was just seventeen years old, even
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  Speaker 2: though he had a previous conviction for violence.
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  Speaker 1: Gail, thank you so much for the updates. Appreciate that
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  Speaker 1: that was UK and Europe correspondent to Gail Downey for
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