a huge fire engulfed the shopping center in the russian city of camera over sixty four people including many children are confirmed dead. give me a. good excuse to move would you do with. the. sudanese the. four have been arrested in connection with the tragedy russia's investigative committee says the buildings and merchants the exits were blocked and the fire alarms were turned on. in other news a wave of russian diplomatic expulsions are announced by more than a dozen european countries and the united states in

a show of support to britain which accuses russia of poisoning a double agent and his daughter. hello and welcome you're watching r.t. international with me in the air and. we begin with the tragedy in the central russian city of camera for sixty four people including many children are now known to have died in a huge fire at a shopping and entertainment complex local authorities say they are there are people still missing and that the number of fatal artie's may rise further video agency ruptly has obtained c.c.t.v. footage from inside the mall showing the flames spreading and smoke filling the fourth floor is being reported that the blaze began in the children's play area images showing the panic that ensued have also been emerging online.

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the smoke filled the cinema a grab my system when ran down the stairs 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 over the roof because it would soon collapse we sheltered from the roof to be rescued but no one came for forty minutes. which no could just see it's used to do. you had to go into the sick doubles were. torched. just beneath bullet solution to. the witches but the show of what it must have been might include what it must look this is not cool mom used to do took us no most knew that you don't use it for good

shit the company most of the people would be stupid to because it was not. their shoes to use manage the courage to look at these dollars the portraits a good look at the good news no we don't store. our children were burning and we could only stand there and watch. here's what we know about the winter cherry retail complex it opened five years ago in the city center in a building that had previously been a confectionery front tree in addition to a children's play area it also had to cinemas and a petting zoo around two hundred animals were also killed in the disaster in the aftermath of the fire the city has canceled all entertainment and cultural events as a mark of respect for those who lost their lives the region has declared three days of mourning people are also bringing flowers and candles and perhaps most

poignantly toys to the shopping center. of his in camera for us and sent this report. the latest in this stories the preliminary results of the probe by the russian investigative committee and apparently the shopping mall was both built and operated amid some very severe fire safety violations more moreover one of the security guards apparently disabled the fire prevention system before the blaze broke out snow this earth shed some lights on the cave a have a vent that broke out after the five because people were basically trapped inside there was no alarm there was no siren so they didn't get an early warning also sprinklers didn't work so that failed too and moreover the according to the russia's investigative committee fire escape exits were blocked they will lock to so people had to literally break down doors and jump out of the windows so many of

the survivors god severe injuries during that as to what caused the fire is not clear yes we do know that it apparently started at the children's playground and there are two main versions one is that somebody apparently you are trying to apparently troubled teens said the foreman pit in the trampoline area ablaze deliberately another one is the electrical circuit malfunction but whatever whatever it is the all of that all of that inferno could have been avoided if the fire prevention system actually worked now and behind me is a self improvised vigil and it seems that every single person in town of coming here to lay flowers growing toys and light candles every single person here a stake in the stake here on a very deep personal level they've lost dozens of their loved ones each and every

one of them just overnight now the investigation of course continues now this this shopping mall used to. the confectionery and in fact it conducted fire drills just last week saw a lot of a lot of very grave and outrages flaws missed in those drills and so all the investigation is looking into that looking into how this horror became possible how this absolutely saw crushing tragedy could have been avoided many people in camera for which is three thousand six hundred kilometers east of moscow have been queuing to donate blood for the victims fifty people were injured in the fire ten of them were taken to hospital including several children. one of the most seriously injured is the boy who leapt from an upper floor window right now he's the only survivor from his family.

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condition has slightly improved this morning post. well it's just overwhelming you hear one story you think it couldn't be worse and then you hear something else that will but tears your heart that bought and take for example this this group of eight kids classmates who were out on a school trip to camera after the big city these are rural kids so this was for them a place huge street spring holidays they're out there in this shopping center the bowling their ice skating they go to the cinema and fifteen minutes after the film started the fire broke out make no mistake here people try to get in fathers mothers relatives even total strangers try to get in there and help these people get them out but the they helped only so many others never left still if you must feel like you missed. if the e.p. teach to these people a little bit. here look at the new look if you pull it you mean you come in they

didn't use it. can't instead of. the pillars inside the chose not to is it designing our music mean nothing to live. within the new clues from which you cheer when you concluded. with but if you buy new clear of the pickle. you could see the joke. because if. you didn't visit. these kids these adults they were trapped fire spreads like you wouldn't believe in a smoke it it isn't just stooping it's deadly and it feels everything very very quickly but through the fire exits were reportedly blocked the fire alarm was reportedly according to authorities switched off by security at the shopping mall

so by the time people realize something was wrong it was in many cases too late and some of these kids in the cooling their relatives mothers fathers friends begging them for help somebody to come to help to rescue them others posted on their social media profile saying they were they were here that it was bad please somebody please help they called their relatives they called their mothers with the final farewell you know there's one particularly distressing story about a mother and a father who in kember of right now waiting to identify the the bodies of the three girls five and to eleven years old the father brought them in during the day to day. to watch cartoons he took them to the cinema on the fourth floor and then. himself went down to the first floor to do whatever it is that he wanted to do he

gets a call from one of his daughters saying there's a fire and that the door was locked they couldn't get out he runs upstairs and there's smoke everywhere he gets a wet cloth and tries to for jean get to the get to the cinema where he left his girls he couldn't do it he ran outside to find rescuers to get some sort of help by which point of course. it was too late they lost all three girls and this is just this is just two cases that i've mentioned here it is it's truly horrendous nevertheless people did try to help and even those that didn't lose any relatives the invisible shock i was told by my boyfriend at the time of the incident that he and his friend tried to drag children away from the fire because of the think smog they were prevented from staying there any longer by the shopping mall center workers who said all the children got out people were smashing windows

with their hands and feet because it was impossible to be in there it was so scary and i saw how people jumped out of the windows one person jumped to instant death and now the boy is now in a coma from what you've heard and another person has broke his spine but is a life i lost some friends and part of the group managed to escape but i lost contact with the rest stop and have not heard from them for over a day the families of the victims met with city officials in a nearby school and perhaps understandably can contain their anger. was much much. more you. going to be. with. you i mean is there

any magic rafał believes the situation on site is extremely difficult to manage an emergent blaze like this where an entire mall is engulfed in flames and hundreds of people have thousands of people inside. that can be a difficult situation for any emergency service to handle the matter where they are in the world. if it's not done properly it can be it can turn into a very large. even a little bit larger disaster than the one that was already there has to be really dealt with properly and i'm sure the russian services did as best they could with the situation at hand it seemed like was a very difficult situation and one that was. very difficult to control so that took nineteen hours to get the fire under control now the emergency services the medical services in israel the protocols were not allowed to go into a place where there's a fire until the fire department tells us that we can and that it's safe because we

don't want more people getting injured and i'm sure that was the choice and there are people around the world have been sending their condolences to the families of the victims the leaders of the u.s. germany china and the u.k. among those who have expressed their sorrow or the president of the your pain council donald tusk even made a statement in russian. but you have a parade. of games in your city of the city scheme that all the jets are still just thirty just a little. bit of that are the chemical is up at least should be the. least the. hole here at our table be continuing to follow the tragedy in the coming hours just to remind you is sixty four people have been confirmed dead a number of others are still missing recovery teams are continuing to work out the burned out shopping center and camera. was. was. not to our other breaking had lined the side dozens of european

countries and the u.s. simultaneously announced the expulsion of russian diplomats and the round of the poisoning of a former spy and his daughter in burson the details from both sides of the atlantic after this break. when else still seems wrong. why don't we just don't call. me. yet to shape our disdain atika. and in detroit equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes

protect themselves. with the famous merry go round give me the one percent. we can all middle of the room. welcome back well within the past hour more than a dozen european countries as well as the united states and canada have announced a wave of expulsions of russian diplomats over the poisoning of almost double agents. in the u.k. we cannot get the details from both sides of the atlantic with our correspondents amerikana in washington d.c. . says they first has some merit in washington what's the trump administration

saying and is there any reaction from russia at this point. well the u.s. will be expelling the most russian diplomats out of all the countries that have decided to do so with the white house said that they will be expelling sixty diplomats twelve of which are u.n. staff members and they'll have approximately seventeen days to leave now the white house released a statement explaining its decision saying quote the united states takes this action in conjunction with our nato allies and partners around the world in response to russia's use of a military grade chemical weapon on the soil of the united kingdom and according to the russian ambassador who was summoned to the state department where the move was announced a moscow has a vow to respond which will likely be a mere response and he also blamed washington for deteriorate deteriorating relations between the two countries and the ambassador also reiterated that there's been no proof to support the claim that russia was responsible for the poisoning and in addition the consulate in seattle will be shut down on march thirtieth but

with this latest decision the u.s. russia relations are out an all time low so we're just going to have to wait and see how russia response and thank you for those day tells us american in washington let's get europe's response now from our correspondent in nations that day and. what are your opinion leaders saying. well across here opinion a number of russian diplomats are being expelled in a coordinated response to the poisoning of. his daughter despite the ongoing investigation and president of the european council donald tusk has given a statement on this joint response from the member states misplaced of all take a listen to part of donal tough statement. already to the teen member states to decide which to explore russian diplomats. additional measures including exposes. you for a move. to be excluded in the coming days and weeks so that.

so that's fourteen eighteen member states out of twenty eight so far it's been confirmed germany plans to expel four russian diplomats and they've been given exactly one week to leave german soil germany has also said to the four officials of the four officials with intelligence backgrounds to be expelled out of solidarity with the u.k. and the foreign minister has also said they didn't take the decision lightly france and poland also expelling four russian officials they sway near czech republic expelling three denmark netherlands and italy are expelling two and also the stone yet romania latvia and finland are expanding one ukraine is also expelling thirteen diplomats donald tusk aside in the next coming days and weeks and this new measures will take place now this wave of explorer spall sions following the u.k. prime minister's visit to brussels the release a statement which said it was highly likely that there was no plausible alternative

explanation other than russia being to blame the kremlin spokesperson dmitri peskov said that russia will respond to expunge expulsion but i'm reminded that the chemical weapons body who are conducting this investigation said it will take another two to three weeks to finalize the analysis and finalize results the kremlin has denied involvement with the attack this month but we are yet to receive more official statements from european governments ok thank you for giving us. thank you to both of our correspondents those nations that the in berlin. in washington thank you. in other news facebook's mark zuckerberg to cancel a series of newspaper archives in the u.s. and britain on sunday apologizing for his failure to protect users data he says the company will now do its best to ensure it doesn't happen again a poll conducted for reuters in the u.s. last week suggests facebook is the least trusted major american tech company only

forty one percent of respondents said they had faith in the social network following the recent scandal several i.t. specialists claim that facebook doesn't only store data which users have posted on its website or apps but it also gathers contact lists call logs and even text messages some suspects the data has been collected for years here's what internet lore expert yea cohen told us about the scandal. facebook is clearly in the wrong here because what facebook has done is it has given access to a third party to a vast amount of data or facebook uses we doubt those users consent and permission once apologizing for the breach of data mr zuckerberg also made a lot of efforts to believe that the attention into political issues so what drearily mr zuckerberg was saying we'll call it jives full of allowing facebook

data to be used for the purpose of manipulating political complaining now this is not really they should what he really needs to apologize is not for. taking steps so looking steps that could possibly put the election what it needs to hold out just for breach of data for stocks and he hasn't done but yes it was during what he said it said julian a song just an outspoken critic of facebook has tweeted a simple guide to check if your personal data has been collected by the site and songs found himself on the wrong side of the law often making secret u.s. government documents and shock invasion now explains there's pressure from some quarters full zaka beg to be treated in a similar way. 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 sound has 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 being invented here we have the world's most comprehensive daughter plays about people their relationships in the names addresses all sitting in the united states. accessible to u.s. intelligence and the songs 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 crowned 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 sucker berg's 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 the users' 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 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 while it's 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 we'll be back in about thirty minutes with the latest news headlines on the day's on our breaking news stories join us then. with the point of john bolton is the new national security adviser should we expect

more stupid wars of choice from so she wants success but everything associated with the failure of the war party is again a challenge. time after time they were going underground three years to the day the british backed saudi bombers began to drop on yemen leaving thousands of civilians killed and tens of millions of people in need of humanitarian aid in the poorest country in the middle east coming up in the show three years on why is the british on the war in yemen still barely making the headlines we speak to the regional director of unicef middle east north africa here about the burying of the world's worst humanitarian crisis and does the largest ever higher education strike in british history mean no

u.k. graduates in twenty eighteen professor julian style of russia london's renowned court told the institute talk to us about the neo liberal marketisation of education and teaching will ask is outside clubs plus. we speak to the pirate radio d.j. played by philip seymour hoffman in the book the wrong about breaking the law to circumvent multi-billion dollar record company control and state mandated b.b.c. censorship although some more coming up in today's going underground but first one thousand and ninety five days five billion pounds in arms sales and millions of yemenis at risk for three years going underground has been covering what the u.n. has called the world's worst humanitarian crisis but even before the first british made bombs dropped on the poorest country in the middle east the global terror campaign had already begun here is professor noam chomsky talking one month after the saudi war on yemen began. yemen has been the main target.

of the global assassination campaign the most extraordinary global terrorism campaign in history of course it's also a terror generating campaign as is well understood at the highest level when you say attack a village and murder somebody who your image maybe a couple of the people are standing around that and to elicit a call for revenge and it has undoubtedly not not even questionable increased what we call terrorism a few months later the former vice chair of the conservative party and you michel at the time the only british m.p. to go to yemen spoke about the u.k. government's conflicting role in the crisis the blockade of course is an example of the internal contradictions of our approach to yemen and i think that it needs to

be addressed the situation in yemen was described as having achieved in five months the chaos the serious achieved in five years and we are very conscious in britain of the importance of tackling the humanitarian crisis and you haven't and we do want to ensure that the actions taken by others particularly those who are our partners to make that situation even worse well we spoke to a journalist on the ground in yemen hussein al because he about some of the alleged saudi actions that the british government to factor supports that double strike that they were as used to us dyspeptic and they say i guess i'll try the on of the world and afghanistan particularly but they you. know the let's call it as it is use in this against civilians thought to get against home they target civilians then they thought it is secure that they thought you don't know this if you have almost been destroyed by as the like the fittest people going to go that that neighborhoods that don't know this and they do that and i think this is the kind of that i think that the u.k. is given to those.