it's ophelia the war party is again in charge. of huge fire and gulf the shopping center in the russian city of camera sixty four people including many children are confirmed dead. if you use the deeds it. would be released to student. if you would you can see each group of students will be believed four people have been arrested in connection with the tragedy russian investigative committee says the building's emergency exits were blocked and the fire alarms were turned off. in other news a wave of russian diplomatic expulsions are announced by the u.s. and more than a dozen that european countries in a show of support to britain which accuses russia of poisoning

a double agent and his daughter. alone welcome you're watching r.t. international with me becky erin well we begin with the tragedy in the central russian city of camera sixty four people including many children are now known to have died in a huge fire at a shopping and entertainment complex the local authorities say ten people are still missing and that the number of fatal ities may rise further our video agency ruptly has obtained c.c.t.v. footage from inside the mall showing the flames spreading and thick smoke rapidly filling the fourth floor it's been reported that the blaze began in the children's play area images show the panic that ensued have also been emerging online.

just close to that. it's a mutual goal is to move. this what you did was going to was or should do more good with us good to watch that we've got. to do do not cooperate. i knew you couldn't quite see but you said many people were unable to escape from the building some was seen jumping from windows four people have been detained and questioned in connection with the incident however it's still not clear what caused the fire and word of warning you may find some of the following images extremely upsetting. it was horrific the mall was packed with people we could hear the fire alarm.

the smoke filled the cinema a grabbed my system would run down the stairs it was a terrible crush and zero visibility my hands are still trembling when i imagine what could have some. one man began to battle he said we should jump on the roof because it would soon collapse we shelter from the roof to rescue but no one came for forty minutes. which for no good spirits used to do. you had to go into the sick doubles or if. they were. just going to pull it the solution to. the which of the syllable it must have been more than to what it must look this is not normal for mr to do because no most new each of those pieces of wreckage should

look at the new motion that would be stupid to because it was not. misused to use minors the porch to look at the wrist on the porch is to good to get the good with the snow if we don't do it. i was sure john would burn him and we could only stand there and watch. here's what we know about the winter cherry rates how complex it opened five years ago in the city center and a building that had previously been a confectionery factory in addition to a children's play area it also had to cinemas and a petting zoo around two hundred on them. also killed in the disaster and the aftermath of the fire the city has canceled all entertainment and cultural events as a mark of respect for those who've lost their lives the region has declared three days of mourning people also bringing flowers candles and perhaps most poignantly toys.

for us. the latest in this story is 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. earth shed some lights on the cave. have a very good broke out after the fire 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 severe injuries during that as to what caused the fire is not clear yet we do know that it apparently started at the children's playground there are two main versions one is somebody apparently apparently troubled teens the form pitch in the trampoline area a blaze deliberately another one in the electrical circuit malfunction but whatever whatever it is the all of that all of that inferno could have been avoided if the prevention system actually works now and behind me is a self improvised vigil and it seems that every single. person in town over come here and you leave flowers growing toys and light candles every single person here is taking you take you on a very deep personal level they've lost dozens of loved ones each and every one of them just overnight now the investigation of course continues now this this

shopping mall used to be a confectionery and in fact it conducted fire drills just last week we saw a lot of a lot of very grave and outrages flaws in those drills and so all the investigation is looking into that looking into how this horror became possible how this. crushing tragedy could have been avoided many people in camera 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. ok we're taking you live now to london to listen to the british prime minister to raise them a lesson as it was reelection and in my discussions with president micron and

chancellor merkel as well as other leaders we agreed on the importance of sending a strong european message in response to russia's actions not just out of solidarity with the u.k. but recognizing the threat posed to the national security of all e.u. countries so the council agreed immediate actions including withdrawing withdrawing the e.u.'s ambassador from moscow and today eighteen countries have announced their intention to expel more than one hundred russian intelligence officers from you know. this includes fifteen e.u. member states as well as the united states canada and the ukraine. and this is the largest collective expulsion of russian intelligence officers in history. i have found great solidarity from our friends and partners in the e.u. north america and nato and beyond over the past three weeks as we have confronted the aftermath of the salzburg incident and together we have sent

a message that we will not tolerate russia's continued attempts to flout international law and undermine our values european nations will also act to strengthen their resilience to chemical biological radiological and nuclear related risks as well as bolstering their capabilities to deal with hybrid threats we also agreed that we would review progress in june with foreign ministers being tasked to report back ahead of the next council mr speaker the challenge of russia is one that will enjoy for years to come as i've made clear before we have no disagreement with the russian people who have achieved so much through their country's greatest story indeed our thoughts are with them today in the aftermath of the awful shopping center fire in kemah road in siberia but president putin's regime is carrying out acts of aggression against our shared values and interests within our continent and beyond and as a sovereign european democracy the united kingdom will stand shoulder to shoulder with the e.u. and with nato to face down these threats together. turning to the united states

decision to impose import tariffs on steel and on the minium the council was clear that these measures cannot be justified on national security grounds and that sector wide protection in the us is an inappropriate remedy for the real problems of overcapacity my right on befriend the secretary of state for international trade travel to washington last week to argue for an e.u. wide exemption so we welcome the temporary exemption that has been now been given to the european union but we must work hard to ensure this becomes permanent at the same time we will continue to support preparations in the e.u. to defend our industry in a proportionate manner in compliance with w t o rules. turning to break sit. last week the secretary of state for exit in the european union reached agreement with the european commission negotiating team on large parts of the draft withdrawal agreement this includes the reciprocal agreement on citizens' rights the financial settlement aspects of issues relating to northern ireland such as the common travel area and crucially the details terms of

a time limited implementation period running to the end of december twenty twenty i am today placing copies of the draft agreement in the house libraries and i want to thank the secretary of state and our negotiating team for all their work in getting us to this point. the council welcomes the agreement reached including the time that the implementation period will provide for governments businesses and citizens on both sides to prepare for the new relationship we want to build as i set out in my speech in florence it is not in our national interest to ask businesses to undertake two sets of changes so it follows that during the inventor nation period they should continue to trade on current turns whilst i recognise that not everyone will welcome continuation of current trading terms for another twenty one months such an implementation period has been widely welcomed by british business because it is necessary if we are to minimize uncertainty and deliver a smooth and successful breck's it for all of us the most important issue must be focusing on negotiating the right future relationship that will endure for years to

come and we are determined to use the implementation period to prepare properly for that future relationship which is why it is essential that we have clarity about the terms of that relationship when we ask the house to agree the implementation period and the rest of the with all agreement in the autumn mr speaker there are of course some key questions that remain to be resolved on the withdrawal agreement including the governance of the agreement and how our commitments to avoid a hard border between our land and northern ireland should be turned into legal text as i have made clear we remain committed to the agreement we reached in december in its entirety this includes a commitment to agree operational legal text for the backstop options set out in the joint report. although it remains my firm belief that we can and will find the best solutions for northern ireland as part of the overall future relationship between the u.k. and the e.u. i have explained the specific european commission proposals for that backstop were unacceptable because they were not in line with the belfast agreement and thresh

and the breakup of the u.k.'s internal market and as such they were not a fair reflection of the joint report but there are many issues on which we can agree with the commission and we are committed to working intensively to resolve those which remain outstanding so i welcome that we are beginning a dedicated set of talks today with the european commission and where appropriate the irish government so that we can work together to agree the best way to fulfill the commitments we have made we have also been working closely with the government of gibraltar to ensure that broader is covered by our e.u. negotiations on withdraw the implementation period and future relationship i'm pleased that the draft agreement published joint in the last week correctly applies to gibraltar but we will continue to engage closely with the government of gibraltar and our european partners to resolve the particular challenges our e.u. withdrawal poses for gibraltar and for spain. mr speaker following my speeches in munich and at the mansion house setting out the future security and economic partnerships we want to develop the council also agreed guidelines for the next

stage of the negotiations on this future relationship which must rightly now be our focus while there are of course some clear differences between our initial positions the guidelines are useful starting point for the negotiations that will now get underway and i welcome the council restating the e.u.'s determination to have as close as possible a partnership with the u.k. and its desire for a balanced ambitious and wide ranging free trade agreement for i believe there is now an opportunity to create a new dynamic in these negotiations the agreements our negotiations have reached on the withdrawal agreement and to the implementation period our proof that with political will and with the spirit of cooperation and a spirit of all. but unity for the future we can find answers to difficult issues together and we must continue to do so for where the people voted leave will remain many are frankly tired of the old arguments and the attempts to refight the referendum over the past. with a year to go people are coming back together and looking forward they want to us to

get on with it and that's what we're going to do and i commend this statement. saying he was the speaker. i think the prime minister of the you know carriage been listening live in to the british prime minister addressing parliament there on the latest steps taking against russia since the poisoning of former double agents like a script and his daughter in the u.k. she said that the eighteen countries had. taken steps against russia and agreed to. their russian diplomats she called it the largest collective expulsion of russian intelligence officers that was a quote there let's get more from our correspondents now both sides of the atlantic correspondents america in washington d.c. and in nations that the in berlin let's go first to samir in washington where the most extensive measures are being taken as the mirror what's the trump administration saying and is there any russian reaction where you are. well the

u.s. will be expelling the most russian diplomats out of all the countries that have decided to do so and the white house said that they'll be expelled sixty eight diplomats twelve of which are un staff members and they'll have approximately seventeen days to leave now the white house released a statement explaining its decision saying 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 but according to the russian ambassador who was summoned to the state department where the move was announced moscow has vowed to respond which will likely be a mere response blaming washington for deteriorating relations between the two countries the ambassador also reiterated that there's been no proof to support the claim that russia was responsible for the posting and in addition the consulate in seattle will be shut down on march thirtieth on the other hand there are some voices who are opposed to this a cold war rhetoric and have spoken out against it let's take

a quick look. we do know why don't you cold war. we do not want to be dragged into a new form church. with this latest decision u.s. russia relations are at an all time low so we're just going to have to wait and see how russia responds america in washington thank you well let's go and get europe's response now from the nations that the nation want all european leaders say. well across the opinion we've seen a wave of expulsions of russian diplomats in response to the poisoning of sergei scruple and his daughter yulia now this is despite the ongoing investigation and despite the kremlin denying any involvement and president of the european council donald tusk has given their statements on the joint response from the member states so let's take a listen for that. forward to the full team in the member states have decided

to expose russian diplomats. additional measures including for exposure shows within the government your framework. to be excluded coming days and weeks. so i can tell you that germany pounds to expel for russian diplomats they've been given one week to leave german soil and germany has said that these four officials are to be expelled out of solidarity with the u.k. but the foreign minister has said that they did not take the decision lightly and let's take a look at the other e.u. member states that have taken measures as well and france and poland also expelling four russian officials lithuania and the czech republic expelling three denmark and the netherlands and italy expelling two and is still yet romania and latvia finland expelling one and ukraine are also expelling thirteen russian diplomats now it must

be remembered though that there are other voices to be heard speaking at the e.u. summit president of the european commission stressed the importance of communication let's take a listen to what he had to say everyone was also. reading this. as far as russia is concerned. we need to open china to discuss for sure all of them do not question. so when it's that that's an open dialogue is necessary and the minister of foreign affairs in russia has the ministry of foreign affairs and russia rather house released a statement on their website saying that they express strong protest in this decision taken by a number of members and it doesn't help in the said for the paper traitors of the incident and that they will respond soon but a reminder that chemical weapons body who are conducting the investigation said it will take another two to three weeks to finalize the analysis and now they we've seen a wave of expulsion following the u.k.

prime minister's visit to brussels but we will bring you more official statements since we have them. thank you to both all correspondents but we have had a reaction from russia's foreign ministry with a statement protesting the expulsion of the diplomat saying the accusations against russia are unfounded. the u.k. defacto took a prejudiced biased and hypocritical stance producing indiscriminate accusations against the russian federation in the absence of explanations of what happened and refusing to engage in substandard cooperation. let's return to our top story now the tragedy in a siberian city of camera where at least sixty four people died after a fire tore through a shopping center on sunday thirteen others remain in hospital the most seriously injured is a boy who leapt from an upper floor window he was the only member of his family to survive again you may find some of the scenes we're about to show you distressing.

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condition has slightly in its. boost. 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 apart and take for example this this group of eight kids classmates. who work out on a school trip to camera off to the big city these are rural kids so this was for the enemy but 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 to pull 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 do what you need to be teach to these people

a little bit. committee or clear enough is the new look because if you pull it you would be an immediate problem they didn't want to read it so if you speak. you can't instead of confessing to the killers inside the killers to not that is it is an evening out music mean nothing to live a movie million and you can move on which feature would you conclude that if you actually put up with it what is behind it to clear up the pickle. if. you could see it in the children the children you. come here with look if. you don't understand. these kids these are 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 third people realized something was wrong and it was in many cases to nate and some of these kids cooling their relatives mothers fathers friends begging them for help somebody to come to help to rescue them others post. the 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 camera of right now waiting to identify the the bodies of the three girls five and eleven years old the father brought them enjoying 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 do the 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 way 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 thick 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 in and death now the boy is now in a coma from what you've heard and another person has broke his spine but is a life you. i lost some friends that was part of the group managed to escape but i lost contact with the rest of this 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 couldn't contain that anger. is good enough that was you know was actually was you know we're much much. much much you last week that was what was going to be upset with me so you're going to it was yes that's what i remember. actually my god

was for you i mean it's really magic rafael posh believes the situation on site is extremely difficult to manage. in a murder 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. and 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 situation at hand it seemed that 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 george 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. are among those to have expressed their star the president of the european council donald tusk even made a statement in russian. just that. this is what. we'll be continuing to follow the tragedy over the coming hours but just to remind you sixty four people have been confirmed dead a number of others remain missing recovery teams are continuing to work at the burned out shopping center in camera. i was.

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