breaking news this. fire rips through a shopping center in the russian city of camera forty eight people are so far confirmed dead dozens of children among the. top of. the new york. chilling messages of despair or hope of pure and social media from children who are trapped in the deadly place. among the dead where mother and daughter. and the father. when he came up to date he had health issues with his heart when he got the news about his family.

your welcome to our international where he ate this monday morning here in moscow and midday in the siberian city of camera which is where we begin with her breaking news forty eight people have become firm dead in the russian city of camera shy including many children in a tragic fire at a shopping center the number of fatalities is expected to rise with over a dozen people still unaccounted for word of warning you may find some of the images extremely upsetting. it was horrific the mall was packed with people we could hear the fire alarm.

the smoke filled the cinema i grabbed my system will run down the stairs it was a terrible crush and zero visibility my hands are still trembling when i imagine what could have happened to us. one man began to panic he said we should jump on the roof because it would soon collapse we sheltered from the roof to be rescued but no one came for forty minutes. let your tutor joins me live in the studio tonight for more on this the images are just. appalling distressing and. perhaps among the most the worst thing about this is it's a normal sunday afternoon people do they go to the cinema they come home they have

lunch and they get ready for school the next day what do we know at this stage what less than twenty four hours on from the terrible tragedy yeah you know as you just mentioned of course you know it's just like a family day out going about your business it is a tragic ongoing city situation at the moment was saying in come our of the fire happened in a shopping mall in the city broke out on sunday afternoon and it was contained twelve hours later so you can imagine how it had spread in the proximately sixteen hundred square kilometers. sorry for huge which is absolutely huge in the building was severely damaged so parts of the roof and the floors. collapsed. so far what we know is forty eight people have been confirmed dead forty five people were injured in the blaze as far as we know so far thirty seven of those who are seriously ill in the hospital and we've just had news in that sixteen people

are still missing obviously those figures might change throughout the course of the day we had reports because of the social media from people who were in the midst of that blaze there were descriptions of panic descriptions of no loudspeakers or fire alarms going off as a warning and some people said that they'd had to make their way up to the top floor and user interface with the floor you know. and smoke and some parents said that they had tried the children to wander around the shopping mall and go about and have some fun as you would. let's listen to a couple of accounts from those people who were in the midst of that life. when you need. to do. what we.

do not cooperate. and you want to see you sanjay. just people not knowing where their loved ones are running around because we're reading what we've got some people have been left in the park area as well some kids have been in the actual cinema themselves who knows where their kids are after out stage absolutely i mean there were several hundred people in the mall when this happened yeah it's a big mall and one of the worst aspects of the story and for anyone out there who's got children who haven't got children but there were children obviously in the mall and apparently an entire class of primary school children might have perished couldn't place where they were on a school trip or in fact the teacher had led them to a cartoon show those eight of them. and and you know she obviously must have gone off and then some shot as you would you know and they were from outside the city it

would have been an exciting event for them. and what we've had is witnesses explaining a bit about the kids who were trapped inside that cinema just. be investigation what do we know at this stage why it happened as any grown been made or not as yet no ground has been made on that yet the russian events figure given here well at the moment there is someone being questioned the russian investigate investigative committee have got someone in for questioning but we can hear is a few of those the witnesses about the children in the us and. you know. we didn't have a. you know what's even or more awful about this particular one some children were texting messages and they were saying things like i can't get

out i can't breathe tell mom i love her even said. this is the end so that is the situation that we've got so far absolutely tragic the investigation is ongoing so of course we'll bring you more details as they unfold but they have got one person and the question a lot of speculation but we don't want to dwell on the too much until we know a little bit more about why this tragic event actually occurred for them to richard thank you for that. yeah lots of as you're seeing there social media coming up some communications from the inside we spoke to a witness of the fire here's what she told us about those caught up in the tragedy . it was very early in the morning my mother went to identify the dead girl she was just five or six years old i showed my mother photo that was released with the missing persons list she said the girl was among them this whole situation of not

know when and just wait in line no one slept the whole night we are all going to work now everybody's she can in tears unable to eat or drink we don't know what to believe everything that sort of who sits on the internet would go through it just madness in munda dad who are a modern daughter forty five hundred twelve years old and the father yesterday he was another and he got a call that there was a fire in the shopping mall he spoke to his wife a few hours earlier and he knew that they had gone there when he came all the earlier today he had health issues was his heart when he got the news about his family. you know details are emerging and another woman who escaped the blaze of the fire alarm sounded in the shopping mall during the police. did you can't instead of complicit with his i was into the shows but not the sheep is that it meow he's the queen that seem to live. in the new clues from which it would be

possible that it is actually possible that she was going to clear up the pickle pretty. much all. the much if you kill even if it was a movie didn't you say. yeah that is something we have been hearing from other witnesses as well according to the latest figures we have right now sixteen people remain missing the families of the victims met with city officials in a nearby school as you could expect they could not hold back their anger. this. was quickly much less. costly coming in. because it wasn't going to. sleep that's not what i was. thinking my god. the source you want me the

tragedy in camera is not an isolated incident to other deadly fires have left the people in russia devastated in the past decade. well in terms of reaction to this

a number of countries have expressed their condolences to the families of those killed in the fire messages of support have come from austria and turkey we will be closely following the tragedy in siberia throughout the day to recap for the moment forty eight people are confirmed dead sixteen remain missing rescuers continue to search the burned out shopping center in camera odd. was. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure most of them want to be rich so . that's a going to be for us this is what before three in the morning can't be good that

i'm interested always in the was in the house. yes sure. 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. missile defenses were totally ineffective against russian forces already so they'll be more effective against russian forces.

ok two more global news this hour facebook founder mark zuckerberg has taken out a series of newspapers in the u.s. and britain apologizing for his failure to protect users data he say's the company will not do its best so it doesn't happen again a recent poll in the u.s. suggests that facebook is the most trusted major american tech company only forty one percent of those asked said they had faith in the social media platform following the recent scandal well several i t specialist claim that facebook isn't only storing data about you uploaded to the platform but also your contact lists call logs and even text messages some say that data is being collected for years we discussed the breach with internet law experts yeah your calling. trey's book is clearly in the wrong here because it was facebook has done is it is given access to a third party to

a vast amount of data or facebook uses we doubt those users consent and permission quite often facebook will extract information from say you're mobile telephone devices played with my extract information about your contacts people you've been e-mailing to people you've been speaking to in all that date that is now being accessed by cambridge analytic out in use without those third parties permission once apologizing for the breach of date. mr zuckerberg also made a lot of efforts to believe it to be attention into political issues so what's really big was saying we apologize for allowing facebook data to be used for the purpose of manipulating our political complaining now this is not

really they should what he really needs to apologize is not for. taking steps and looking steps that could possibly put the election what it needs to apologize for the breach of data full stop and he hasn't done that yet story well within its editor joining a sunday night spoken critic of facebook has tweeted a simple guy to check if your personal data has been collected by the social media site for teens and checking for takes a look at how despite certain similarities a song find themselves on opposite sides of the law. the theft of the personal data of around fifty million facebook members came as a shock to many but not for wiki leaks founder julian assange who pointed out on twitter that if you're not paying for a product you are the product of sanchez never had an account on facebook and calls the platform a giant intelligence database something that he also told us back in an interview in two thousand and eleven facebook in particular. is the most appalling spying

machine that is it being invented here we have the world's most comprehensive database about people their relationships their names their interests is all sitting within the united states. accessible to u.s. intelligence and the sons hasn't missed the irony involved when it comes to the treatment he's received for publishing information on wiki leaks versus the virtual hero worship mark zuckerberg has enjoyed over the years now to be fair zucker berg was called the person of the year back in two thousand and ten long before it came out that he effectively sold user information to third parties but the comparison isn't without merit zuckerberg has been hailed as a visionary leader taking us into the modern world with rumors even circulating that he could be a challenger to donald trump in two thousand and twenty and yet his company has been caught time and again serving up users personal information despite soccer birds promises to take privacy seriously you know in most other services the

privacy is an important thing but on facebook privacy is central i mean we take our role really seriously i think it's my job and our job to protect everyone who uses facebook and all the information that they share with us but actions speak louder than words right back in two thousand and eleven the platform settled with the federal trade commission over charges that third party apps were able to access nearly all of a user's personal data unbeknownst to them and facebook promised to fix the problem sound familiar just a couple of years later a bug was found on the site that exposed the email addresses and phone numbers of six million facebook users and as a part of a legal battle running since two thousand and fifteen belgian courts order the social media giant in february of this year to stop collecting the private information of belgian users on third party sites a decision that facebook is not accepting and continues to appeal and that brings us to today and to this rather amusing me julian assange has been living in the london embassy for over five years has had his life threatened by politicians and

has been called a traitor for his work as a whistleblower and wants like a bird may not exactly be sitting pretty at the moment what with the hit his company stocks have taken and the requests from both the u.s. and the u.k. to testify on the situation i highly doubt the guy will be facing life threatening consequences if any at all but only time will tell. flashes continued in spain between police and proconsul on separatists in barcelona overnight. god. god god. god god. god protesters are demanding that the spanish authorities end their crackdown on

politicians supporting the council on independence movement clashes full of the detention of former president carlos push the man in germany which the mob was stopped while crossing the danish border into germany where he is now in custody he's wanted in spain for his role in the catalonia independence for a cluster tobar and could not face charges for rebellion and sedition madrid issued a european wide arrest warrant is pushing for his extradition back to spain. one act of kindness in the alps london him in trouble with authorities after he helped the heavily pregnant migrant woman reach a hospital in france ben what do you call a member of a volunteer migrant patrol group spotted the woman and her family which included two small children near a dangerous pass in the mountains the team managed to get them down to a car and were driving them to hospital when they were stopped by french police to

go was told he had broken the law by aiding documented migrants mr duke or is now awaiting trial under french law if guilty could receive five years in jail as well as a thirty thousand euro fine you say it was his humanitarian jussi to do what he did . older while on patrol we spotted a group of people walking through the snow we saw there was a family with two young children and a pregnant woman we did what we always do we gave them food and drinks and dry clothes we saw that the mother was not well at all we learned she was eight and a half months pregnant so we decided to act quickly we understood she wasn't feeling well she was about to give birth we had to immediately take it asked her to . review and you would usual napsylate when we arrived to the bottom of the valley we were arrested by border police we were not able to convince them that the situation was serious and the woman was about to give birth to border policeman

only told me that i was not able to judge whether the situation was serious or not at that point a family was separated the mother was taken to the hospital and we were brought to the police station with a dad the children and the two accompany people i was said immediately they are smart documents and they catalogue my personal belongings they notify me of a hearing on wednesday and released near midnight. going across to you. the lawyer assisted me with interrogation and developed a strategy to follow for the hearing i've insisted that i was doing my humanitarian g.t.e. cheering the mission at the moment my file is in the hands of the prosecutor he will be the one to decide what will have to happen if the situation repeated itself tomorrow i would not be able to act differently he was a totally acceptable thing to do. around a hundred people rallied over the incident at a police station in a town in the french italian border they claim the policy against migrants has been shown to be quote illegal. polo bernardine an expert in european history saints the

rescue team did the right thing when they broke the law to save people's lives. the act that way and i think it's just one of the rare happens with. someone acting against the law. or someone else in this case my grounds of soul is just an. issue. and. i think it should also be released because of. the love of the love. baby moon born in the superior should be above the law also the state the opposite of what we should of bought one mike. their. masters back because they are human beings so they must we like human beings. the e.u. is set to announce its position on russia over the poisoning of former double agent

circus and his daughter julia in britain russia strongly denies any connection to the case earlier u.k. prime minister treason may push the states for a unified response against possible. the stretch from russia is one that respects no borders i think it is clear that russia is challenging the values we share with europeans and it is right that we are standing to get together in defense of those values if the u.k. prime minister wanted joint declaration of support from the european allies over the controversial scribal case she kind of got it at least in the highly likely parts of the equation. the european council agrees with the united kingdom government's assessment that there's highly likely that the russian federation is responsible and that there is no plausible alternative explanation although the investigation is still ongoing and despite moscow insisting it has nothing to do with the poisoning it hasn't stopped hasty accusations against russia from leaders it's an act of aggression against the security in the sovereignty of an allied

country who want to coordinate our reactions and we both germany and france agree that those reactions will be necessary and they could come as soon as monday heris some of the suggested punishments. the members i'm willing whether it's a copy of u.k. and expel russian officials they're not all think that's the most effective route everyone was also indicating the willingness to defer to as far as russia is concerned. dr relations we need to know from china to discuss you for sure all of them come to not question. poland suggests reconsidering the expansion of the north stream pipeline any multi billion dollar projects to ship russian gas across the baltic sea to germany the bare land has long been reluctant to mix politics with what it calls a profitable economic can. there are calls to boycott this summer's world cup

in russia. the one with the mountain thirty six. years i think the comparison with nine hundred thirty six is is only right well their football fans are crying foul angry at attempts to make sport with politics the world cup is not a put in a play or politics and leaf will fans to enjoy their sports sick of the cools to boycott russia will come we're going to try to win the cup politics has no place in sport let's focus on sport and leave the political garbage at home that's not spoil the fun the football world cup has up to two billion for was fifa world cup twenty eight in russia the most important sports event in the world therefore no boycott let's play the game in peace and for peace. and last but not least slapping a new bunch of sanctions against moscow is always at best leave i don't get the

feeling that. by the end of this week there is a big appetite for additional economic sanctions on russia so there may be a variety of options any united e.u. case friends but there are still complications perhaps we have different positions different. interests it's also about different traditions. political landscape in europe russia and this is why it's not so easy to keep. twenty eight. groups. together and despite the frenzy of being seen to take action there are still those questioning theresa may swear it's in the absence of solid proof. there is the need to carry out an expert level investigation to stablish a full picture of events before voicing any accusations which of course requires

patience but they are just that with you has deployed some experts. and they will collect some samples which will be sent to our basic needs labs and then i was this may take another two to three weeks in the meantime this appears to be a breather from praxis it seems the trigger happy one finding something tonight european countries that is highly likely that something is russia. ok that is all our stories for i do join me again in just over half an hour's time or we will have the latest updates on that deadly fire in i say period city off camera for the shopping center there for next one of the four most mines all nuclear weapons join sophie shevardnadze to talk about the potential of a new arms race stay with r.t. international.

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