{"id":300978,"date":"2025-12-02T18:04:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T18:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/hong-kong-fire-who-is-to-blame\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T18:04:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T18:04:53","slug":"hong-kong-fire-who-is-to-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/hong-kong-fire-who-is-to-blame\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong fire: who is to blame?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/KivBaHZBbHo\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Hong Kong fire: who is to blame?\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KivBaHZBbHo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>The blaze that engulfed seven high-rise residential buildings in Hong Kong\u2019s Tai Po district was the deadliest the city has seen in over 70 years. At least 156 people have died, 30 are still missing, while 15 have been arrested for alleged manslaughter.<\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<\/p>\n<p>Grief has overwhelmed the city and fuelled an uncontrollable anger towards those in power.<\/p>\n<p>Today &#8211; almost a week after the fire &#8211; we ask how the tragedy unfolded, why Hong Kong is still enraged and what it tells us about the city that once prided itself on transparency and democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Joining Matt Frei from Hong Kong are Tom Grundy, founder and editor of the local media Hong Kong Free Press, and Selina Cheng, chair of the Hong Kong Journalists Association.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Get more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blaze that engulfed seven high-rise residential buildings in Hong Kong\u2019s Tai Po district was the deadliest the city has seen in over 70 years. At least 156 people have died, 30 are still missing, while 15 have been arrested for alleged manslaughter. [Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe] Grief has overwhelmed the city and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":300979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128813],"tags":[132746,133670,129251],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-300978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-channel-4-news","tag-blaze","tag-engulfed","tag-that"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hong Kong fire: who is to blame? | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Hong Kong fire: who is to blame? for free, here on News ISC. 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