内容摘要：Panama's President José Raúl Mulino has released a statement saying that the canal and the surrounding area belonged to his country - and would remain so.

Panama's President José Raúl Mulino has released a statement saying that the canal and the surrounding area belonged to his country - and would remain so.

"People are saying it was the most successful first week that anybody can remember a president having," he went on.During a 20-minute conversation with journalists, Trump confirmed he had carried out a late-night purge of several independent watchdogs in government agencies.

There was more: the president said he thought the US would "get Greenland" as its own territory; he called on Egypt and Jordan to take in more Palestinians; and he said he had a- even though "he's liberal".It was the kind of impromptu question and answer session that Joe Biden rarely did while in office, and the latest sign that everything has changed in Washington and in US politics in the six days since Trump returned to the presidency.

In the Oval Office, the Diet Coke button - a contraption installed in an ornate wooden box which allows the president to command his beverage of choice at any time of day - is back.So is the bust of Britain's wartime leader Winston Churchill, a rug used by Ronald Reagan and a portrait of the seventh president, Andrew Jackson.

But the changes in Washington go far beyond these trappings of presidential power.

From signing a cascade of executive orders with the stroke of his black Sharpie pen, to holding off-the-cuff meetings with the press in the Oval Office, Trump's return to the White House has nearly erased his predecessor's signature achievements in a matter of days and made it feel to many like he never left.How safety was regarded as, at best, not as a vote-winner; and at worst as an obstruction to the economy. How regulation was viewed as guidance to be bent. An inherent lack of curiosity - a presumption that someone else would check, that something

bad couldn’t happen here.More than 3,000 high- and mid-rise buildings across England are still being monitored because they have unsafe cladding.

The recommendations made next week will attempt to ensure such a disaster can never happen again.As always the government will have no obligation to carry these out. Nor is there a formal process to monitor what they reject or why.