this is news coming to you live from russia. and warns of a horror. more than twenty western countries united. russian diplomats. protest the poisoning of. the scale of the tragedy in the.

mall and becomes clear sixty four people died in the blaze most of them children. criminal negligence we go live to the scene. germany hosts brazil. for a world cup. it will be their first. thanks for joining us. to respond harshly to the mass expulsion of russian diplomats by the u.s. and other western allies in a coordinated action washington and many member states including germany are kicking out a total of one hundred thirty russian diplomatic staff the move is a show of solidarity with the u.k. after the poisoning of

a former russian spy on british soil but the kremlin insists there's been a rush to judgment. behind the closed curtains for diplomats are clearing their desks but out in front of the russian embassy in berlin the ambassador remained defiant. we still haven't heard any evidence we keep hearing the words great probability which of course does not convince us at all. we are of course very disappointed by this decision and we are obviously not happy that our partners are taking part in this provocation by the english authorities. and burn lin says it's responding not just to the attack on former russian double agents sake i strip out in the u.k. but also to a major cyber attack on the german government's computer network. british

investigators believe that x. intelligence officer script pile and his daughter yulia were poisoned with novacek a soviet era nerve agent the two were found unconscious on a park bench in the southern english city of soulsby on march the fourth they remain critically ill in hospital. that's an e.u. summit in brussels last week all twenty eight member states condemned the attack the expulsion of russian diplomats by fourteen a u. countries was a coordinated action they say all evidence points to russia and this is the largest collective expulsion of russian intelligence offices in history. i have found great solidarity from our friends and partners in the e.u. north america and beyond over the past three weeks as we have confronted the aftermath of the soulsby incident. continues to maintain its innocence it is vowed to retaliate in kind and warned western governments that the expulsion of russian

diplomats was a mistake. for more on this developing story let's bring in hunter out of mind he's a specialist in russian and european affairs and a non resident fellow at the university of kele's institute for security policy thank you so much for being with us this morning and d.-w. news russia has threatened a harsh response to these expulsions what should western powers be bracing for well i don't think that there is bond is going to be all that. i think it's just going to be the usual a tit for tat so they will be expelling diplomats from the united states and from european countries canada and australia and i think it is should be pretty much the end of it give us an overview of where things stand right now in relations between russia and the west because on the face of it it looks pretty bad how bad is it well it is really more tense situation than it has been for quite some time in

some ways more tense than during the cold war even though at the time at present it's more at the rhetorical level of but nevertheless and i think the root causes of that can be found in fundamental shift of policy put in embarked upon when he was elected for the third time. it was the office of a president because he took a fundamental decision to actually conduct a much more strident aggressive actually policy towards the west based on the nationalist. foundations and this is the affair the state of affairs that we are living in now and this is still continuing at this time of policy. were you surprised that washington decided to expel sixty diplomats a significant number given how donald trump has phased out a mere putin in the in the past well hazari praised him but the his not sitting in critical about him that's true in fact went as far as the congratulating him

despite the advice from the security advisor into from also the. four ministers from regulating on his recent actions ok so you have to that is that it isn't a surprise but it is even more surprising that as far as i know he actually took the lead to actually call european leaders to urge them to adopt strong measures that that actually is a big surprise when the u.s. was explaining why it was expelling the sixty diplomats it linked it only in part to what happened with the poisoning and the u.k. it also mentioned that there are other aspects from its point of view that it finds problematic is the u.s. and is washington or washington or more moscow on a confrontational course now well at the rhetorical level as i said yes i don't think that is going to spill over in any way into the military sphere but i think

this very important what david is saying i think that these measures both by the united states and also by european countries are not to be understood simply as a reaction to the poisoning but it's a much broader context in which these measures and also the rhetoric has been the proceeding and thinking of that we saw it with the statement by the german government that it was based not just on the the measures not just based on the poisoning him but also on the cyber attack against the internet facilities for the german government but even beyond that i think it's there is. runs against this is strident interest and policy conducted by putin does that since two thousand and twelve so there's a lot more at play here than we're just the poisoning of a former russian spy now i understand it either is also considering further measures against russia what options does that even have first of all it's

difficult to say whether it went to ask said it whether he was really the only you because it takes a unanimous decision for sanctions ones to be taken so i think he was thinking more in terms of those european countries that have not adopted any measures that they may be following suit i don't think that the quality of these measures is going to be increased honest out of might specialise in russian and european affairs in a nonresident fellow at kiel university's institute security policy thanks so much for talking to us this morning on the knowingness for staying with russia the number of people who died in a massive fire at a shopping center in siberia now stands at sixty four including forty one children russian president vladimir putin visited the scene today an. excuse me declared a national day of mourning to morrow he said criminal negligence was to blame for

the high death toll the blaze broke out on the fourth floor of the complex in the coal mining city of kemah robel on sunday. let's bring in correspondent nick out. who is at the scene in kemah siberia how are people there coping with this tragedy. today people here were protesting on the main square of the camera camera where we are actually standing right now they demand the resignation of the governor or that camera will have the camera region and that transparent investigation of the tragedy so they're calling for the resignation there we know that many people are very very angry there why what exactly are they angry about what are they

most angry. they are angry because according to the official there are sixty four victims of the fire in the shopping mall cold. people don't believe in such statistic some someone say of that there are more than two hundred people dead in that far in the shopping mall so locals are encouraged because of the absence of any dialogue between relatives of the victims and their representatives so it sounds like the people there in the city don't believe what authorities are telling them if i understand you correctly what do we know at this point for sure about the cause of the fire and why so many people died. the coast or the far in the shopping mall according to officials could be that defect that

poverty greets but people here do not believe in this version of what happened on the internet there is a video where the man is walking through this shopping mall with the burning items and some people think that it could be that terrorist attack a terrorist attack but so far the authorities have said nothing to lend credibility to that or have they. actually now there is no. reaction from from the local authorities by the president and federation law the more putin has already visited the camera region he announced that the nation the more to morrow and he actually called officials to prosecute all the people who made these happen. thank you so much for talking with us for bringing us up to date. ski there are d.w. correspondent in. siberia. so you look at

some of the other stories making headlines today christopher widely at the whistleblower the heart of the facebook privacy scandal does appear before british parliamentary committee. investigating whether work done by the london based political consulting firm cambridge analytical may have influenced the breaks that vote there are allegations that the company harvested facebook to target voters in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. presidential election. came joel own is rumored to have visited beijing portably traveling in those trains sources in the chinese capital confirmed a senior north korean official had been in town but did not know who would be kim's first visit since coming to power in two thousand and eleven and comes ahead of meetings with south korea and the u.s. . then a german court has ordered catalan separatist leader khalid pushed him off to wait

in jail as it decides whether he'll be extradited was detained in northern germany on sunday while on route to belgium where he's been in self-imposed exile he's wanted by madrid for his role in catalonia unauthorized independence but. germany's world cup preparations crank up a notch on tuesday with a hotly anticipated friendly against brazil here in berlin a win for hosts germany would mean a record equalling twenty three games in a row without defeat but brazil are hoping to erase memories of a seven one thrashing by germany in the twenty fourteen world cup let's take a look at the prospect of a record equalling result hasn't persuaded you walking love to play it safe in stark contrast to the full strength squad he chose for friday's clash against spain the germany coach will test a string of second tier players in the capital. a win or

a draw against brazil will see the world champions much their unbeaten run of twenty three games set under you in one nine hundred eighty. germany will start with several key players among them our country. music two zero one thomas miller. but one stalwart was desperate to start the game. berliner boyd saying. it was only something very special for me as a child i dreamt of playing in the olympic stadium against brazil. even though it's just a friendly match it still means a lot to me because it's here in my hometown i'm delighted to be playing the game. despite that experimental lineup germany will be confident they could make history against the brazil site were missing superstar forward neymar on to a painful memories of the two sites last meeting still fresh in their minds. you're watching the news still to come the garment industry is booming in bangladesh but

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