breaking news tonight at least twelve are reported dead and dozens of others are missing after a devastating fires ripped through a shopping complex in central russia. it's unusual to. head to the facebook post takes out full page ads this weekend in british and american sunday newspapers to apologize for the massive data breach the tens of millions of personal accounts exploited. i grow independence protesters

clashed tonight with police in barcelona in support of the former account president . he's been detained by german police dozens are injured. three people have been arrested got latest pictures coming through from their fingers crossed the line go . very good evening this is the week international law roundup of the top stories of the last seven days and indeed the headlines are making the rounds right now with me kevin owen as to say the top stories coming in from central russia tonight's breaking news we're hearing at least twelve people are reported to have died in a huge fire today that swept the shopping center a massive one in the russian city of camera of sixty nine are said to be missing including dozens of children. across this down this is bigger. worse is the oh is

it going on over the fire it looks like is under control the number of dead and the actual picture of what's happened there it's got progressively worse as the obviously late morning early afternoon in the city of cambridge over in southern russia it was a shopping center for floors tall and the fire we understand began on one of those top floors there in what we understand is a children's play area a ball pit a trampoline pit of some sort of flammable material. because it's too early to speculate but the deputy governor said one possible theory was careless use of a lighter or some sort of accident where the line of work for a start was a cause here in russia smoking that kind of things banned in all public places and you never know maybe kids who got hold of something like that but we don't know it's early days and it's early days and obviously firefighters have isolated the fire they've got things under control what they are doing now is obviously taking part in a recovery operation there they've cleared the first two floors they work on the third one they couldn't get to the fourth floor for quite

a while when the stand because of the sheer high temperature there just to give you a picture of what was going on paint a picture of this sort of building it's one of those kind of cinema a bowling alley shopping complex is a big place big shopping center sunday would have been filled with families of many children inside and this is perhaps one of the most tragic things we saw there the casualty figures sixty nine. been declared missing so far we understand from latest information as many as forty of them more than half are children aged two to thirteen very tragically we do have some witness accounts as well let's take a look at some footage taken from inside of that building as the fire raged. just west of that. if you will in this to. this when you. was a task. thank you it's not we don't. want

to see you but you say we should you can't instead of going to the showers into the showers does not. mean nothing to leave. when you put a lid. on the issue with what is good because you pretty. much tell you. how much you think the. movie didn't visit. over a dramatic witness account there and how and footage we saw earlier of thick black smoke billowing from windows people jumping out as we heard to try to escape. that fire escapes may not have been working properly systems may not have been working the woman there saying that the cinema was effectively became death traps people were not given any help to go to the area i want to panic inside work and just

imagine you know the sort of sheer terror that would have been going through is people mind so sixty nine as we say missing hopefully as many as possible those of course will be accounted for safe and sound it's going to be a long night for the relatives and friends of those currently unaccounted for the top floors. thanks for the. well we've just actually to put on top of what we've just literally this moment received reports from russia's tass news agency that the number of fatalities is risen from twelve to thirty seven in the far and can revoke it posted on that. a thousand strong rally in barcelona in support of a former cattle and president who was arrested there in germany's erupted with these clashes are saying over my shoulder i'm paslode not best feet but we'll keep on it for the coming minutes you can see there's been a bit of trouble there tonight. i.

officers in riot gear tried to disperse the crowds using buttons having earlier called for the gathering to be called off some are still discovering the fifty two injured three have been arrested the protesters want madrid to end what they call a crackdown on key figures by the spanish region's push for independence. we decided to sack the president vice president and other high ranking officials in the council on government. i.

the deposed catalan leader was detained on the border with denmark is the latest he's now in custody in germany this is where he's being held in fact he fled his country after last october's referendum which madrid ruled illegal with the latest twists and turns her nisha sethi in more detail. the former president colors pollution man has been detained in germany he's wanted in spain on charges of sedition and rebellion and was held off to crossing the border from denmark on his way to belgium now german police have confirmed his arrest and he said to be in a local police station awaiting his legal team since this day pushing on his being on a visit to helsinki university in finland to give a lecture that on his way back to belgium jim authorities arrested him off to spain

reissued his arrest warrants but his lawyer tweeted that he was returning to belgium to be of course at the disposal of the belgian justice system there he's been living in self-imposed exile in belgium that's after leading the pro independence referendum last year which was deemed illegal by the spanish authorities this was a vote that cools tensions across the region with accusations of police violence as well now tensions have still been running high in the region with rallies taking place from time to time and calls for the release of other political prisoners as well as the return of karla's could face up to thirty years in prison in spain and the spanish courts have already signed documents extradition and told to a revolt from the council in solidarity for independence coalition who told me it won't take months before. i think it is the one no will not give his consent to me externally easily and then we will start the justice process

in germany to decide is about the core of exploitation or not. something about two or three months of. back to go to spain in the case that the. german justice how deeply they investigate on the case he was making these are the grossest against of the bondy of the government and that's why the justice now persecute this and then they instruct the. quantity of issues against team. france who struck by terrorism again on friday when a gunman hijacked a car and took hostages at a supermarket in a small town in the end three people died that day while the four succumbed to his injuries on saturday the attacker had pledged allegiance to islamic state and was eventually shot dead by special forces.

in the movie i went shopping with my wife and sister in law after some time we had an explosion well several. i saw a man lying on the floor and another person who was very agitated with a handgun in one hand and a knife in the other and yelling allahu akbar. after that i took my wife and my sister in law and some customers nearby and we went to look for shelter i put them in a butcher's fridge closed from the inside. because it's peaceful here where you see the like any out there he was very kind very sociable adorable he overheard sweets to the children and he is

a terrorist. the terrorist has been identified he was killed during his so an investigation will have to answer some important questions when and how was he radicalized and how and when did he procure the weapon. we have for several years paid with our blood to know the terrorist menace. among those who died was police officer who fired he swapped places with a female hostage he left a mobile phone switched on for the authorities to listen in when special forces heard gunshots they stormed the place they. had been wounded when they got there he died in hospital on saturday morning and is being hailed a national hero now if you look at the recent history over the last couple of years ago it's sad reading over the past year alone the been repeated terror attacks and for water the thames in france if we started february twenty seventh teen then

a man attempted to enter the louvre museum you may recall in paris with a machete so much panic there was an attack it was stopped at all the airport just a month later then a police officer was shot dead last april machines elisei and last october two young women were stabbed to death at a railway station in must say former british intelligence officer annie masham told us the fact though now that the government was under police surveillance at the time it exposes surely a wider failure. it's part of the passing that we're seeing emerging across europe over the last few years of people carrying out these low tech type of attacks with high victim rates who are of course on the radar of at least the police if not indeed of the intelligence agencies but for some reason they're not being watched carefully enough they're not being monitored carefully enough they're being followed around. and they're allowed to get more radicalized and carry out these are appalling deeds but hard to see what more fronts can do i mean they had a state of emergency declared after massive plan attacks all the powers are still

there in france it just change the name they change the terminology and yet all those powers are still preventing the security agencies and police from protecting their french citizens so i fell see how much more they can do. facebook's mark zuckerberg has taken out a series of ads this weekend of the sunday papers in the u.s. and britain apologizing for failing to protect users data it follows claims that the private information of tens of millions of people was collected without their permission and exploited for political gain jacqueline vogel reports. several u.k. and american newspapers featured full page apologies from facebook boss mark zuckerberg the ad states this was a breach of trust and i'm sorry while promising to do better in the future that's after having written a post online about the changes the company will be making and saying facebook has learned its lesson during a c.n.n. interview we need to make sure that there aren't any other cambridge general

because out there right or folks who have improperly access data you know we need to make sure that we don't make that mistake ever again but not everyone is buying what zuckerberg is selling this cartoonist gave his response is a big thumbs down mocking the statements more than anything it reads i'm sorry that we've been forced to stop ignoring these data breaches and they aren't alone in thinking that facebook has some explaining to do dr burke has been called to testify both in the u.s. and the u.k. on the situation now the whole scandal is centered around the british data gathering firm called cambridge analytic dated they collected was involved in donald trump's presidential campaign and possibly others as well the whole story blew up when it came to light that the company allegedly mined fifty million facebook profiles for its operations while its parent company was reportedly involved in psycho social studies for the u.k. defense ministry cambridge analytical is now under investigation its offices have been raided and its chief executive has been suspended the company denies any and all wrongdoing the scandal has also led to a backlash against the social network facebook's share price plunged to

a four year low and the company is now facing multiple lawsuits from shareholders over on twitter meanwhile the house to delete facebook has been trending with some high profile people joining in as the fear of breach privacy is at the front of everyone's minds the point is being missed here it's not cambridge analytic it's the fact that facebook is a tool a proxy if you will of that government and its. own it it was conceived it sued darpa to see. money this this fame and oh i do think they use the information against their i view. facebook apple everything that we do is basically sucking up everybody the information that we have a lot more to come including news that the turkish president now has a rock in his military sides talking about life right after the break.

first interims hiring and firing practices are still surprising yet the recent appointments of john bolton have left an impression on friends and foes alike what impact will the american politics. of the war tell you on the idea that dropping bombs brings me to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles. that you stopped by to tell you that because of the public eye. i'm telling you pull it out

by. all the hawks that we all. know what. developments to tell you about now than about the turkish president who's bowing to extend the own going military operation against kurdish militias in the syrian city of afferent to other parts of the country as well as to iraq. remember i told you we can they will flee we will chase the work and with our friend the p.k. k. went to singe i will go there to operations there have become. so president everyone says turkish forces will soon move on from hour for him to take control of the kurdish stronghold of tel right fat which is in syria's aleppo province there's

the map to show you through it this is where civilians as well as the kurdish militia fighters fled after turkey seized afferent the turkish military crackdown against kurdish forces apparently isn't going to stop there either says president there one promising to go after kurdish militants in iraq's singe region to ankara says it's targeting the kurdish workers party the p.k. k. which of course turkey considers a terrorist organization turkey's operation olive branch as it's been termed launched at the end of january with turkish forces entering series after in region despite fierce resistance from the kurdish militants turkish forces seized the city of africa in mid march president or one says more than three thousand seven hundred terrorists have been killed during the operation a crackdown led to a civil civilian exodus from the city which has been well documented on this channel which the u.n. estimates at some one hundred seventy thousand let's get the view from ankara same back she's with this international relations professor at the middle east technical university so this is

a big step up her what spurring president dead the one to push further now into syria and also into iraq is a pretty much emboldened by the kind of muted western reaction to what's happened so far for in war what's given this was given this confidence to do it. first of all the only ranch operation is militarily great success turkish forces are not finn and the people from turkey are syrian origin now returning back like it was the case before it left and now the parents are statements from today. indicating that turkey is in turn on kenya to have a parade or interest and the western part of that was in the long run probably on the eastern part of africa turkey wants her to clean up the entire territory was up together with the iraqi forces from this stuff active turkey

aims to telling someone to clean up the area from p.t. here why p.g. . terrorist activity is about the same time. make it make possible that these children refugees in turkey now go back and the number is not less more than one hundred fifty thousand all the theory all of the retards the i.m.f. all of the world the what are the repercussions going to be. i think the syrians in turkey the more they have more free space and have seven they go back to their places from where they came it is also for turkey important to get left syrian refugees in the own country. and send them back to the original places they were in with the syrian government probably it will be understood in the long run that it is much better for them to go back to work as

president statement that turkey is not as an occupying force as much rather a force which tries to keep the area free of terrorist activities and. that the people get their homes back what about what about probably my question is just as finance of the wage. i think it is the turkish perspective of birth from the turkish government but we have the other side of the coin the people who are not there are not happy with this turkish operation of course they also. started to bring to the other countries reactions and probably on the international organizations to more of one example turkey and european union have a summit in bulgaria and definitely syrian issue will be one of the topics between

turkey due to pay union of the refugee. crisis i think there most probably dietrich is governments primary concern will be to fight p.k. as you said in the beginning to your report. t j k is definitely experiencing a military defeat at the moment the turkish army is pushing with the entire force there and being i will say the syrians not only from turkey but also within the syrian territories where the people have been forced to leave their areas now they start order to come back i say i'd expect turkey russia and syria they will make a call for ration order to create further safe havens i just need a twenty second answer from you say was washington's reaction going to pay to this

as some i said incursion by turkey into syria into iraq what's washington is washington going to say briefly. i think washington can not do anything because it is not the decision of washington but rather from i'm going to and i'm going to get the minister move now much more stronger in washington the same bochy from the middle east technical university in ankara thanks to be on the program. for the twists and turns of correlations between the u.k. and russia the diplomatic standoff came to a head this week with twenty three diplomats from each country returning home britain made the first expulsions following the poisoning of former double agent sergei scriptural and his daughter in england three weeks ago even though the investigation is still underway nonetheless british fish oils have repeatedly said that a russian link they think is highly likely and on thursday the prime minister asked the e.u. to back him up in that theory it was highly likely that russia was responsible this

first floor with things that the current analysis is already very well grounded and nobody questions that everyone was also indicating do willingness. to follow russia's concerns dr louche we have different positions different. interests political landscape in europe russia and this is why it starts so easy to keep the. twenty eight. group. together the kremlin has flatly dismissed the claims that it was involved calling the poisoning a terrorist act russia's also expressed willingness to cooperate with british authorities but so far that's going little traction in fact the u.k.'s foreign secretary boris johnson has been among russia's harshest critics even agreeing in the week with nazi comparisons at

a parliamentary hearing. because the roads lead to the. putins the way my thirty six leads here so i think the comparison with mike in thirty six is is right moscow considers this kind of statements made under the level of the foreign secretary in your wee unacceptable and totally irresponsible the british government just free to make a decision about its budget situation in the world cup but nobody has the right to insult the russian people who defeated nazis and lost more than twenty five million people by comparing our country to nazi germany. did he goes beyond the common sense and we do not think british war which are

around us including those of the arctic cold voice which share this opinion on the heels of boris johnson's comments the russian embassy in the u.k. also posted this photo in a controversial moment the english football team was ordered by british authorities to give a nazi salute before friendly match with germany back in one thousand thirty eight but since the day the ratcheting up of animosity towards russia seems to make his way to british schools now to want to see a check and takes a look at an educational project likely to be reinforcing hostility. what's better than helping the young to try to maneuver the ever tricky world of global current affairs. of the day is an online news service that is used by one in three u.k. schools teachers and librarians from subscribing schools user articles and activities across all subjects for lessons homework research. here's one handed to tory and provided by the service to help educate the young and broaden their horizons talks

of putin on mission to poison west ouch and among questions to discuss is putin europe's most dangerous leader since hitler class this gus. can help students out topics like the ongoing five scandal where an investigation is still underway are broken down despite this incriminating evidence of international outrage milly smirks and everything in case there is confusion still there is a dictionary included which explains the meaning of the words marks surely this teaches you to put things into perspective not the chalk and blitzkrieg are also in here a military tactic designed to crush the enemy with overwhelming force a short space of time coincidentally made famous by hitler in world war two just to make it a bit easier to connect the dots brutal assassinations cyber attacks as well of

plotting the downfall of western democracy are also laid out as food for thought you decide section let students consider the following questions it's putin the most dangerous man in the world did the cold war ever end as well as what impression does putin give about what russia is like the day helps students develop information literacy and critical thinking and prepares them for the challenges ahead in the ever changing world critical thinking is key the toxic putin class is dismissed and associate churkin our party wanted. in the way the premise spokes person to me to peskov told a russian t.v. channel the britain's moscow bashing right now is unparalleled. in your new what we're seeing now is unprecedented affront or e there's never been a case where a country is being accused of something which the accusers cannot even articulate themselves and they're not even trying to articulate it or i can say is this whole case is unprecedented it verges on a sort of gangsterism in international affairs as to what's behind this it's either

the ukase internal issues all the problems london may be facing in relation with its allies or maybe something else that's probably none of our business we're focused on how to handle this provocation president putin is keeping a cool head in this situation and unlike his british counterpart isn't going beyond diplomatically appropriate rhetoric putin laid out his position of the very beginning he said our internal affairs are our first and foremost priority and the poisoning incident happened on british soil you have to first get your facts straight at home before firing off accusations. for leave your mind of the breaking news if you see it take on your screens there sadly thirty seven confirmed have been killed in a shopping center blaze the south in central russia scores more injured dozens of missing including young children a fire broke out in a center on the fourth floor of a popular retailer leisure complex in the city of camera over its fear the number of casualties may well rise to in the coming hours we'll keep you updated on it

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