storm starting to pull something on. this is news coming to you live from berlin. as the scale of the tragedy in a siberian shopping mall inferno becomes clearer hundreds of protesters take to the streets. demanding some sort of order say sixty four people died in the blaze most of them reportedly children president putin blames criminal negligence also on the

program russia condemns the mass expulsion of its diplomats by the u.s. and other western countries and warns of a harsh response to calm more political fallout from a spy poison attack london blames almost. all sort of in this half hour brazil gets a chance to heal the wounds of a footballing trauma against germany the two sides meet tonight in a world cup warm up match the first full strength encounter since two thousand and fourteen when germany destroyed brazil seven one in the biggest football upset of all time in brazil a race the painful memory. hello i'm terry march and welcome to the program. in russia the number of people who died in a massive fire at a shopping center in siberia now stands at sixty four. today russian media has

reported that number that number includes forty one children russian president vladimir putin visited the scene today and clair a national day of mourning on wednesday he said criminal negligence was to blame for the high death toll the blaze broke on the fourth floor of the complex in the coal mining city of come on sunday. let's bring in correspondent. who is at the scene in siberia how are people there coping with this tragedy today people here who are protesting on the main square of the camera. where we are actually standing right now they demand the resignation of the governor over that camera over the camera region and 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 veasna people don't believe in such statistic some someone say of that there are more than two hundred people dead in the far in the shopping mall so locals are encouraged because of the absence of any dialogue between relatives of the victims and their representatives. thank you so much for talking with us for bringing us up to date. there are d.w. correspondent in. siberia. stay with russia

moscow was 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 e.u. member states including germany announced they would kick out close to one hundred forty russian diplomatic staff on monday 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 remained defiant. we still haven't heard any evidence we keep hearing the words great probability which of course does not convince us that all. we are of course very disappointed by this decision and we obviously not happy that our partners the taking part in this provocation by the english authorities. and.

lynn says it's responding not just to the attack on former russian double agents saikai script 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 and his daughter junia 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 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 honey out of mind he's a specialist in russian and european affairs and a resident fellow at the university of kele's institute for security policy thank you so much for being with us this morning on the news russia has threatened a harsh response to these expulsions what should western powers be bracing for well i don't think that their response 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 a d. a 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 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 it 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 they his not as it is in a critical about him that's true in fact he who went as far as congratulating him despite the advise from the security advisor and to from also the. foreign ministers on regulating on his recent actions that's right yeah 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 and more moscow on a confrontation of 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 they were just 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 you know 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. bonce against this is strident and western 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 that either is also considering further measures against russia what options does the even have first of all it's difficult to say whether when tusk 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. now as to his mother stories

making headlines around the world kim jong un is rumored to have this did beijing reportedly traveling in this train sources in the chinese capital confirmed a senior north korean official had been in town but did not know who it would be kim's first visit since coming to power in two thousand and eleven comes ahead of meetings with south korea and the u.s. . facebook boss mark zuckerberg has turned down a request to appear before a british parliamentary committee that lawmakers want to question sort of burke over how millions of users data details got into the hands of the london based political consultancy cambridge analytic. and in france two people have been charged with the murder of an elderly french jewish holocaust survivor eighty five year old mary out of control was repeatedly stabbed and her body satellite in her apartment last week

a judicial source says the crime is being treated as and he semitic. a german court has ordered spain's most wanted fugitive to wait in jail as it decides whether he'll be extradited catalan separatist leader collars pushed him out was detained in northern germany on sunday while in route to belgium where he's been in self-imposed exile is wanted by madrid for his role in catalonia son authorised independence boat and his arrest threatens to once again deepen spain's political divide. detention has ignited anger and catalonia support is of the form of lead up truck traffic to a standstill in the other regions with the rest of spain. despite the protests metric this isn't backing down in the pursuit of its most wanted man. but should knock it down but if it's not a good time. i've said it many times. you know those people

currently on trial and those in prison and i'm not being punished for their ideas. but for not obeying the law. mission. station a possible strike to protest the arrest of independence leader chanting for freedom . freedom extradition push to months attention in germany has put doesn't in a tele key position and prosecutors say not to expect any immediate decision this is kind of. this is not a question of hours but something that needs to be examined very thoroughly and accurately a decision should not be expected before easter. the german version of coach will now have to decide whether the charges against bush to mount in germany. some are calling it the bus ride out of hell thousands of syrians have been leaving

eastern rebel territory outside of damascus it's been all but destroyed in a weeks long meant by government forces backed by russia observers say more than sixteen hundred civilians have been killed in the siege evacuation deals have allowed buses loaded with fighters and civilians to head north and seek what scarce is available there. leaving their homes behind for more uncertainty as people desperate for change are on the move in syria. but what lies ahead for these families said to be from eastern guta is anything but clear. these are some of the buses said to be carrying people out of the destroyed damascus suburb and north to rebel held territories around it live province. the regime has displaced us following shelling siege and starvation. for seven years we've lived through conditions that no one knows except gold. my

family had been sitting inside a basement for two months with no water no food where living an impossible life we left by a miracle and thank god for everything. the number of evacuees differs considerably between sources but syrian state media aid organizations and rebel groups report several hundred of his sick hungry and war torn residents have been bussed north and then you know a convoy arrived today from rural damascus from. there were twenty two people in critical condition and they were sent to specialist hospitals. so we classify the passengers women and children in one tent wounded elsewhere and those with nutritional needs in another we have three mobile clinics. was where these people will land next and how they will survive elsewhere remains a mystery. the month long government bombardment of

left the once thriving community a wasteland the daily pauses and fighting are allowing the exodus of thousands. but with an estimated population of around four hundred thousand there's no sign the severity of the humanitarian crisis there will improve. well here in germany there are more troubles at the top of one of the country's banking giants you're talking about to dodge that bank terry and that very bank is looking for a new boss that's according to a report by the british newspaper the times which says that doj as chief executive john cried is about to be ousted due to dodges miserable financial results the fifty seven year old took the helm of the lender in twenty fifteen after a failed co c.e.o. of arrangement in recent months he experienced many setbacks in efforts to rehabilitate the bank his profit warning in january dashed all hopes that germany's

largest financial institution was on the mend after two years of crisis. and for the very latest let's cross over to our man of the frankfurt stock exchange davia corp so daniel else that cryan story going down in doggy bags home turf frankfurt. well many here on the trading floor are giving this latest rumors quite some credibility and also that is reflected on the share price of daughter buying today to be fair enough it has been in general a very successful trading day here so far after quite some losses yesterday the dax is up with about two hundred points shares of the larger bank are also up not that much right now only with about zero point five percent that's at least something when you look at the development of their share price this year it has tumbled went down almost thirty percent and investor told me that of course everybody is blaming

crying at the moment he must be going through some very tough days at the moment he is not this shiny see old compared to some of his previous sensors he was hired to reform the bank to cut drops to make difficult. decisions is successful or not somebody who was who hired for big reforms is never really popular a difficult time certainly for john cry but also for germany's biggest lender which i understand has trouble finding a successor. yet according to the times the chairman of the supervisory board power lighter is already looking for somebody to replace current both had quite some argument as what we are learning how to bring the bank back into the winning zone that's certainly going to be the biggest task for the current or the next c. all daughter bank has reported three years of losses but who could be the next one all of this of course has not been confirmed by georgia but it seems that our talk

to the vice chairman of goldman sachs richard kanada and also to the c.e.o.'s of good credit and the british lenders standard charges what they all seem not to be interested why we don't know the job is certainly not going to be easy at all or identical in frankfurt thank you so much folks is facing a major consumer class action in england and wales over the emissions scandal which already cost the carmaker billions of europe's meanwhile impending diesel bans here in german cities could shift the problem of epa newsham to eastern european countries as diesel owners seek to sell their vehicles rather than scrap them. smog in poland it's not just the cold heating that sends large amounts of microscopic pollution particles into the atmosphere many cars in eastern europe are older diesels in germany on the other hand there are strict emissions limits it's possible that soon only new diesel cars will be allowed in german cities many car

owners are selling their old the diesel is now to secondhand dealers they're not willing to let cars that still hold a significant resale value get scrapped their then sold on through partners in eastern europe. the number of exported used diesels climbed from around one hundred ninety seven thousand in twenty sixteen to two hundred thirty three thousand and twenty seventeen that's an eighteen percent rise exports to eastern europe grew particularly strongly the export of sixteen thousand older diesels to ukraine in twenty seventeen was more than double the tally for the previous year sales to albania kosovo romania the czech republic and poland also rose well western european countries are going to be introducing even stricter emissions levels in the coming years most countries to the east changing their laws environmental groups are now running below. we have no pollution tax for cars which makes romania

a haven for old and polluting cars authorities do not encourage or support healthy alternatives and the government doesn't actually fight air pollution so more and more older diesels are ending up in for example the rumanian capital book arist the diesel air pollution problem is being profitably shifted beyond germany's borders. believe it or not but when isn't the only capital struggling with getting its airport up and running the new mexico city airport could also run into difficulties that if leading presidential candidate andrus locus all but or wins the election in july that he wants to abandon the thirteen billion dollar project the airport c o o however warns that the cancellation would cost more than half the time out. it's the biggest public construction project in the country but the face of the thirteen

billion dollar airport being built here depends on the outcome of mexico's upcoming election its biggest opponent this man andrus manual lopez obrador and leftists who's currently leading opinion polls he's called the deal behind the project corrupt and has threatened to scrap construction if elected he's since softened his stance calling for a review first but his outlook has left the company responsible for building the airport on the defensive. armor plated against corruption it's being built abiding by the law it's all public transparent it's a glass box through which any citizen can see what's happening in real time with a very much. the stakes couldn't be much higher counseling because six billion dollars and tens of thousands of jobs making public trust an invaluable asset. well business coming up in the next hour i want to tarry now and

a highly anticipated football match. well sports now and there's a flurry of international football action tonight as countries seek to pile allies there world cup squads ahead of the summer's tournaments in russia my colleague mark meadows indeed obvious sports is here with us to talk about all that in just a moment but first the pick of the bunch has to be germany against brazil pitting the reigning world champions against the team they defeated seven one in the two thousand and fourteen world cup semifinal win for the hosts would mean a record equalling twenty three games in a row without heat but coach who are nervous and is trying out a wide range of players says the performances more important than the result. of course mark this is not just about squad selection is it you know obviously brazil what revenge they want revenge for that home not seven one defeat and they

won't revenge here on german soil. but it's also important for them because this is the last friendly before the will cup squads need to be announced and have to say brazil are probably very very shocked at their playing this game now against germany where they can try and exercise these demons and not giving up against them saying no that will be final when they say from one school and suddenly racism to the seven one must still be in their minds though let's remind ourselves just how hard that seven one humbling hit brazil. july eighth two thousand and fourteen my. nation weeps. i. dream of a home will title don't. you know i'm actually happy that we have this game because i don't want to take the ghost of a seven month defeat to the world cup. they keep it for. it's.

replacing coach louis philippe scolari with carlos don't go after the debacle didn't change things for the next which in two thousand and sixteen did following the appointment of teacher brazil have won fourteen games out of eighteen losing just once with joy and passion. he knows what he's doing receive the knots why brazil won their qualifying group convincingly and have developed as a team. that's why i think he can give this team a clear identity. the trauma of two thousand and fourteen is a mortal eyes nick up about the beach. but so too are the hopes of the street artists a world cup win in russia will go some way to raising that seven months goal line from the brazilian collective memory. did every

sports is still with us so obviously mark this game is extremely important for brazil but it's also important for germany who wants to defend his world cup title what is german coach you're going to nerve planning well i think tonight is going to rotate the squad quite a lot you played a full full strength team against spain on friday but now he wants to basically try out is squad players to see who he's got before he has to name the final squad on may the fifteenth so i think we might see him platon how the spell left back playing from last in will sandra wagner. get a look in i think not both of those players can go to the world cup so it's maybe a straight fight between the two of them so they'll be looking for some goals and i think the left hand side he's the only one with a realistic chance of breaking into that first eleven given union jacks that hasn't been playing much this season will go on then give us a quick prediction for that result germany game and maybe some of the other friendlies tonight given germany going to be playing a second inside and given how much it means to brazil you've got to say brazil

would win but maybe only by a goal we've also got in that it's really a home so they've probably got the edge there spain against argentina what a juicy clash that is i'm looking for a high scoring draw i think and then we'll keep post russia playing france france really need to win because they lost their last friendly wow a lot to look forward to tonight marc madison d.w. sports thanks so much. and just for we go a reminder of the top story we're following for you here today on g.w. news hundreds of protesters have expressed their outrage in the aftermath of a siberian fire that killed sixty four people russian media have reported forty one children were among those who died in the place president putin has claimed criminal negligence in declared a national day of mourning on wednesday. we have another bulletin for you at the top of the next hour and of course all our stories online all the time talk call thanks for.

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