thirty seven people are confirmed dead and dozens of children are missing after a fire engulfed a shopping mall in siberia. with. the facebook boss it takes a full page ads in british and american newspapers to apologize for a massive data breach and. activists clashed with police in barcelona at a rally in support of the law president. who has been arrested in germany.

are broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is r t international glad to have you with us now we start with breaking news this hour thirty seven fatalities have been confirmed after a massive fire at a shopping mall in the russian city of america that the number is expected to rise with seventy people unaccounted for including dozens of children.

the austrian chancellor and the turkish foreign ministry have expressed their condolences to the families of those killed in the fire earlier my colleague kevin irwin was joined here in the studio by my colleague dan hawkins to discuss the tragic events. it's been evening of course for the friends and families of those particularly still unaccounted for this fire began on the fourth all of the top floor of a shopping center in that south central city of came over we understand thirty seven people have been confirmed dead services many more in hospital many of them

in a critical condition of course sixty nine are still unaccounted for tragically the majority forty of those are children aged between two and thirteen they're believed to be in a cinema at the time of the fire now we've had some very very harrowing eyewitness accounts of what went on inside black smoke billowing through the corridors through the windows people trying to escape jumping out of the windows as well just to give you an idea of the sheer panic and terror that must have been going through as people's minds we do have some eyewitness accounts of the panic that ensued as that fire spread through the building let's take a listen to some of those eyewitness accounts. yes first of that. it's unusual for this to do. this when you. do things or to do. thank you.

when you didn't ask but. i knew why didn't i see that you sent is a big place such an intense fire by the looks of it you can see the toxic smoke and at the top down and people trying to make as you see every time what the heck's happening around them interesting i'm not hearing fire alarms there and that's done for the investigators isn't it to talk about eventually when they try to recover the bodies here the fire began in the early afternoon and raged for for many hours it took a while to get an under control we understand that firefighters couldn't actually reach the top level because of the sheer temperature of their schooling temperatures walls and floors melting so now it's very much a recovery operation to try to find anybody still trapped under collapsed the collapsed roof there. we we we do know also that the cause has been speculated upon two theories prominent right now although it's preemptive to say for certain you know one of the causes being fought electrical wiring the other one being some sort of mis up with

a light or perhaps an accident there and flammable worth twelve years of course in publix places here in russia smoking would be not one word child of someone that was in the limelight. don't know what's happened here is going to be a lot of questions that are certainly being asked here why the farms didn't go off why fire exits were clearly marked why there was such a planet to get out very difficult of course for the families and friends of those children still tragically unaccounted for it's going to be a long life and obviously we can just hope that as many as possible of those are accounted for perhaps in hospitals up small charts but i asked phil far the live. and i will of course of the updates for you as that investigation carries on into exactly what happened when the fire broke out and more than six hundred emergency workers were called in for the firefighting and rescue operation people who were at the scene described what they saw. lead you to look out instead of the towers inches of chose not to use it she designed it meow mix between the soon to leave

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thousands of catalans have rallied in barcelona in support of their former president who has been arrested in germany sunday's gathering led to clashes with police. coote was. be i was. i. was i. officers in riot gear moved in to break up the crowd up to eighty nine people were reportedly injured and four were arrested and the protesters were demanding that spanish government and its crackdown on the key figures behind the cattle and independence movement.

we decided to send the president vice president and other high ranking officials in the council on government. reform or travel on later karla's put him on to was detained while crossing from denmark into germany where he is now in custody he fled spain after last october's referendum which madrid ruled was illegal and he just said thing has more on his arrest the full mcafee president colace push him on has been detained in germany

he's wanted in spain on charges of sedition and rebellion and was held after crossing the border from denmark on his way to belgium now jim in place have. his arrest and he said to be in a local police station awaiting his legal team since thursday pushing on his being on a visit to house sinking of a s.t. in finland to give a lecture that on his way back to belgium jim authorities arrested him off to spain reissued his arrest warrant but his lawyer tweeted that he was returning to belgium to be of course at the disposal of the justice system there has been living in self-imposed exile in belgium that after leading the pro independence referendum last year which was deemed illegal by the spanish authorities this was a fight that cause tensions across the region with accusations of police violence as well now tensions have still been riding 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 colors to could face up to thirty years in prison in spain

and the spanish courts have already signed documents for patients extradition. the spanish historian told us pushing wants extradition or battle is likely to drag on for several months well he was probably going to be in reply three bunol in. supreme court and to the chances to get. a very high sentence and to be most efficient and rebellion why he actually wants to brussels was really because there's no suggesting this is a rebellion. in the. legislation allows up to three months. in an exhibition so if. it. looks going to be the case then the german authorities would have to remount sudan to take on the expedition case so it may take

a long time. france was hit by an act of terrorism this week gunmen hijacked a car and took hostages at a supermarket in a small southern town. friday three people died that day while a fourth succumbed to his injuries on saturday. 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. for years. 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 over at 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 without blood to know the terrorist menace. among those who died was police officer are no thrum who swapped places with a female hostage he left a cell phone switched on so the special forces outside could monitor the situation

he died in the hospital on saturday morning of gunshot and stab wounds and his being hailed now as a national hero now over the past year there have been several terrorist incidents and. it's in february two thousand and seventeen a man attempted to enter the louve museum in paris with a machete and an attacker was stopped at orly airport one month later a police officer was shot and killed last april on the show and last october two young women were stabbed to death at a train station and say a former british intelligence officer an emotional and says the fact that the government was under police surveillance exposes wider failures. is 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. rates. 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 were being followed around. and they're allowed to get more radicalized in carry out these are pulling teeth it's hard to see what will france can do i mean they had a state of emergency declared after massive kind attacks all the palace is still there in france it just changed the name they changed the terminology and yet all those powers are still preventing and the security agencies and police who protect french citizens so i feel see how much more they can do. the turkish president is vowing to extend a military offensive against kurdish militias in northern syria. remember i told you they will flee we will chase the work and with our friend the p. k. k. went we'll go there to operations that have become. president says turkish forces will soon move from afrin to take control of the kurdish stronghold of it. which is

in syria's aleppo province this is where civilians as well as kurdish militia fighters fled after turkey seized the afrin and of the turkish advance against kurdish forces will not stop their president at once as his army will go. after the kurds in the region of iraq says it is targeting the kurdish y p g and p k k which it considers to be terrorist organizations and turkey's operation olive branch was launched at the end of january with turkish forces entering syria's afrin region and despite fierce resistance from the kurdish militants turkish forces seized the city of afrin in mid march president everyone says more than thirty seven hundred terrorists have been killed during the operation the crackdown has forced one hundred seventy thousand civilians to flee the city according to the u.n. a turkish affairs analyst told us the army is trying to cut kurdish groups off from each other do they actually going to push the border just by even cooperation like

. you can from the turkish perspective why p.g. from the point. i'm actually. thinking of taking people p k k y p g and so you can the combination of two by p.j. from. neighborhood and also. close forces on the east. diplomatic standoff between the u.k. and russia escalated this week with twenty three diplomats from each country expelled is followed the poisoning of former double agent and his daughter in england three weeks ago and the recitation is still under way but british officials have repeatedly pointed the finger at the russian government and on thursday the prime minister asked the e.u. to back her up. it was highly likely that russia was responsible this list for one thing that the current analysis is already very well grounded and nobody questions that everyone was also indicate didn't do willingness to develop as far as

russia is concerned. about the relations we have different positions different. interests political landscape in europe russia and this is why it's not so easy to keep that. twenty eight. group. together the kremlin has rejected all claims of involvement calling the poisoning an act of terrorism russia has also offered to cooperate with the u.k. in the investigation the u.k. foreign secretary boris johnson has been among russia's harshest critics even agreeing with nazi comparisons of a parliamentary hearing. because the roads like to go. the way. you see. here so i think the comparison with maggie these exist

is right moscow considers this kind of statements made under the level of the foreign secretary in any way unacceptable and totally irresponsible. the british government just free to make a decision about its dissipation in the world cup but nobody has the right to insult the russian people who defeated naziism 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 veterans including those of the arctic cold voice which share this opinion after that condemnation from the russian ambassador of the russian embassy in the u.k. posted this photo it shows the england football team giving the nazi salute before a friendly match with germany in one nine hundred thirty eight. the anti russia

campaign is even making its way into british schools as artie's an associate regular reports 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 satori the schools use around schools 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 talk to putin on mission to poison west ouch and among questions to discuss is putin europe's most dangerous leader since hitler was this guff. to help students out topics like the ongoing five scandals where an investigation is still underway are broken down despite this incriminating evidence of

international outrage to release monks 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 you know but 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 as plotting the downfall of western democracy also laid out as food for thought a you decide section let students consider the following questions is 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 as i say churkin our party wanted. the kremlin spokes person dmitri peskov told a russian t.v. channel that britain's campaign against russia is unparalleled. in your the new what we're seeing now is unprecedented affront or even think there's never been a case where a country's being accused of something which the accusers cannot even articulate themselves and they're not even trying to articulate it all 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 these provocations 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 absolutely. facebook founder mark zuckerberg has taken out a series of ads in sunday newspapers 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 but his job on volga has. 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 sucker berg 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 is record 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 it just. it it was it was conceived it sudar both to see. money this this fading that oh do you think they use the information against their i do you kidding me facebook apple everything that we do is basically sucking up every bit of information we have now despite the two major firms at the center of the data scandal having roots in america and the u.k. a c.n.n. report has tied the story to russia parties but i've got the of comments. imagine

being a liberal a democrat and being stuck in a trump presidency for a year is it must be horrible waking up every day guessing that what russia is songe boats or hackers have cooked up today cambridge analytic i had powerful connections to candidate trump including one time top advisor steve bannon and billionaire donor robert mercer so presidential son in law jared cushion or and consultant brad parr scale brought in the company which is now accused of utilizing data from fifty million facebook users without permission facebook was how donald trump was going to win wait a sec something's wrong where's the bad guy who do we blame this on than there it is questions are also swirling about a possible link to russian metal cambridge c.e.o.

reached out to julian a songs of wiki leaks seeking access to e-mails from hillary clinton's private server there's no evidence ricky leaks had such information but wiki leaks was releasing e-mails from the computers of other democrats which authorities say were hacked by russians and another trump advisor roger stone great innings i actually communicated with this what how do you even make the connection what's your logic if someone speaks to a songe their russian agent there is zero connection here other than the word russia being in every other sentence there is only one explanation cnn's report must have been put together by a random generator literally this explanation makes more sense than cnn's report as savage the dia and see oil trump the russians cambridge had because we've got the key words just fill this. basis with whatever

he also directly message to russian hacker he says he did nothing wrong and despite another claim that cambridge had ties to a russian oil company the campaign insists there were never any links to russia are you comfortable that the trunk campaign through their cameras analytic had a connection to wiki leaks. he did have a connection working weeks let me demonstrate if you are of average height and your birthday is in july you are closely tied to a sound see how easy it is let's do this again if you like snow and the russians like snow you are aligned with russia or if you want lots of money and all the gods have lots of money you are susceptible to russian

influence it's all nonsense but who cares it's about getting the key words out there about confusing and confounding not explaining or investigating he would speak bull keywords the russians everywhere all right i'll be back with more of the weekly in about thirty one minutes you're watching the international. fundamentally the united states and russia are have been for decades two scorpions in a bottle each capable of destroying the other but only at the price of being destroyed itself. said well these weapons will overcome u.s. missile defenses u.s.

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