a huge fire engulfed the shopping center in the russian city of camera for sixty four people including many children a confirmed dead. wood we will use to students who you see if you do. is it easy to be good you can see it it's good to see he says but he believes we can report tonight four have been arrested in connection with the tragedy russia's investigative committee says the building's emergency exits were blocked and the fire alarms were turned off. the other big news story tonight a wave of russian diplomatic expulsions are announced by the u.s. and more than a dozen european countries too in

a show of support to britain which accuses russia of poisoning a double agent and his daughter. eight o'clock monday night here in moscow hello welcome to the program my name's kevin zero in this is r.t. international indeed a lot to cover in this bulletin tonight starting with the weekend tragedy in central russia in the city of camera of sixty four people including many children and now known to have died in that huge fire at a shopping and entertainment complex local authorities say ten people are still missing tonight and that the number of fake teletubbies may rise further video agency ruptly is obtained c.c.t.v. footage from inside that mile 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 showing the panic that ensued have also been emerging online.

just first of that. i still didn't ask you could tell the almost two thirds of you will only do so why did not at this point you can do much. to his or to do more good with us because they take lost more weight than. we do do not cooperate. on you want to cross even you send many were able to escape that building some were seeing jumping from windows for people who have been detained and questioned in connection with the incident whether it's still not exactly clear what caused the fire would have warning next 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 i grabbed my someone ran 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. which no good spirits you to keep. you had to go into the sick doubles the way. they were. just let me pull it explicitly to see. the witch of the show what it most of them might include what it must because there's no formal from the city took us not to most news. yes but you see the been

emotional void you can see to it it is not. this year's the news not just the courts took a look at the stars to court just to get it over with this no we don't we store. our children were very mean and we could only stand there and watch. here's what we know so far about the winter cherry retail complex it opened in two thousand and thirteen in the city center in the building a fact 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 animals were killed also in the disaster in the aftermath of the fire the city has now canceled all into tame and cultural events as a mark of respect for those who lost their lives the region's declared three days of mourning people are also bringing flowers candles and perhaps most poignantly toys and to that shopping center a correspondent down office in camera of

a foursome sent back 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 the one of the security guards apparently disabled the fire prevention system before the blaze broke out this should some lights on the caves send 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 to do and moreover the according to the russia's investigative committee fire escape exits were blocked they will look to so people had to literally break down duis and jump out of the windows so many of the survivors scared severe injuries during that as to what caused the fire it 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 trying apparently troubled teens said the form pitched in the trampoline area a blaze deliberately another one is the electrical circuit malfunction but whatever whatever it is the all of that so all of that inferno could have been avoided if the fire prevention system actually works now and behind me is a self improvised vigil and it seems that every single person in town ever come you know to lay flowers bring toys and light candles every single person to be a stay can you take me 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. he a confectionery and in fact it conducted fire drills just last week so a lot of a lot of very grave and outrages floors missed in those drills and so the investigation is looking into that looking into how this horror became possible how this absolutely soul crushing tragedy could have been avoided. goshdarn off reporting we spoke to a man who was at that shopping center with his family when it all started he says exits weren't clearly marked and it was very difficult to find a way o. . goodness when i found out about the fire my first thought was to try to find my wife and child luckily though i somehow bumped into them in the crowd and we got out there were no fire alarms nothing i just noticed the smell and then a man told me to leave finding a way around the shopping center is how you don't know where the stairs lead away to go there are no directions to access it's like some sort of labyrinth you won't

get far as you're in a panic. many people and camera which is about three thousand six hundred kilometers east of moscow of being cured now tonight blood all day for the victims fifty people were injured in the far as well ten of them were taken to hospital including several children. one of the most seriously injured as 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 coming up here distressing. but didn't give him yeah he's needs it you see when you go which is it would seem

huge could pretty good within you but you can't sit. here and i didn't see you want to and we will be school students. stupid you woman that i do wish. you could see it it's good to see certain times when. people have serious injuries and now need an artificial lung transplant but his condition has slightly improved this morning boston. 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 it 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 clearly kaminski what units it is the e.p. keep that these people a little bit. committee or clear enough is the new look because if you pull it you would be if you come in they didn't want to believe. you can't instead of confessing to the killers into the killers to not that is it is an evening out musically nothing to live to move it in until you move on with you when you concluded. with what is behind you clear the pickle if you could.

you could see the joke you know. because if. you don't understand. these kids these adults they were trapped fire spreads like you wouldn't believe in a smoke it it isn't just 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 some. thing was wrong and it was in many cases too late and some of these kids mccool in 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 the manger in the day yesterday. 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 this invisible shock i was told by my boyfriend at the time of the incident that he and his friend tried to drag the children away from the file because of the thick smog they were prevented from staying there any longer my 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. being here it was so scary i saw how people jumped out of the windows one person jumped instant death not a boy is now in a coma from what you've heard and another person has broke his spine that is a life i lost some friends. 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. or so many sad stories such a tragedy expert opinion from bob park in the news a fire safety consultant and former firefighter hey thanks for your time and all these cases a different course every way there's no hard and fast rule but there are basics of course in public places that should be adhered to i.e. fire alarms going off doors for the safety doors opening we still don't know for sure if that's the case or not but we're hearing some people reporting that that wasn't the case they didn't go off doors couldn't be opened the investigation will go into that but how could there be so much loss of life here what went so badly wrong you think. it's this small pyramids it's a small stops people seeing how to get out if you are in a room. got a fire imagine if the room was full of it's very black fog and you really cannot see a thing and the only way you would have any chance of surviving would be to get

down on the floor and get your get your nose mouth and your face as near to the floor as possible because if there is any air in the space then and that's the only place it's going to be if you are stood up then the chances are your head is going to be in that small because you won't be able to see to go down stairs or that sort of thing get out find doors if there was a lot and obviously you can't get in there. and this goes almost this could all happen literally to you within less than a minute or two. exactly yes at this mall the smoke soon gets very very dense very thick within within a you know two minutes three minutes and obviously if there's no fire alarm going off people are expecting that the first they would know of the fire would be this melt smoke see smoke at the full shouting screaming that sort of thing and then everyone and i believe this was so i don't look with well so everyone is trying to

to get down stack i see. people at the front might get down the stairs people at the back of bush in trying to get out people be falling on the steps was in jewish cause in building in iraq buildings especially when it was trying to get down and all this is not high right but it's the same principle and people can't see this as the feel there are on the. action fighting the train for you know we're sorry all gold all buildings are different look at the c.c.t.v. footage we saw it seem to be the smoke rapidly develop within seconds in places could it be so to do with the ventilation system in a building like this push it through or is it designed not to do that though no how does that work. well i can only comment on. what happens in that sort of build in in the u.k. and if you look at the the biggest shopping malls you will find that they have

small ventilation systems which are these dying to extract the smoke from the fire and keep the level a small book above the head just see people so that people can see clearly and breathe and get to the fire exits without panicking. all the like she had time for a consultant and a former firefighter the ballpark is. after the families of the victims met with the city officials in a nearby school explain to them the grim procedure for identifying the dead now. fishman your particular course assumes that it was just slightly more. on the surface it was look at us than it says it when you put their lives that's what you know it's just going to. look good you're just that deceitful to what you do if you look at it with look you do come production from one hundred just you

know something we're basically mostly not what you think of the biggest you're going to be good looking to listen with every little shook up with the 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. were among those who expressed their sorrow the president of the european council donald tusk gave made a statement in russian. may you have an update scott of games and yes he is a c. thirty just go out though they came out of was up but they should be to. see if it's. not of course we'll continue to follow the trying to do in the coming hours and more details come in the fire in that shopping center claimed the lives of sixty four people now confirmed dead a number of others are still missing recovery teams speak is still continuing to work at that shopping center in camera i was.

up late for many plebs over the years so i know the game and so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the super money just to spend spend the two to twenty million why. it's an experience like nothing else on it because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful game but great so will bowl chance with. six point eight. fundamentally the united states and russia are have been for decades two scorpions in a bottle each capable of destroying the other but all the at the price of being destroyed

itself. putin said well these weapons were overcome u.s. missile defenses u.s. missile defenses were totally ineffective against russian forces already so there will be more effective against russian forces. again thanks using out international with me kevin tonight just ten twenty minutes past eight in the evening here in moscow of course the big story tonight the ongoing fallout from the sergei scriptural case and the latest big news on that today is that more than a dozen european countries as well as the united states and canada have announced a wave of expulsion of russian diplomats it's a show support for britain which blames moscow over the poisoning of the former double agent and his daughter earlier this month let's get the details from both sides of the atlantic talk to our correspondents polly boyd curran london medina

coach over in moscow hope to get the view from washington d.c. as well but we'll start with london polly what's happening there bring us up to speed today. well donald turkey's the president of the european council he announced this collective response to russia a little bit earlier on saying that the e.u. agrees with the u.k.'s assessment that it was quote highly likely that the poisoning that moscow's behind the poisoning of sergei script and his daughter yulia and well over a dozen states e.u. states have pledged their support to the british prime minister and expelled scores of russian diplomats from capitals across the e.u. to resume a spoke in parliament here in the u.k. she said that the u.k. means no harm to the russian people but the u.k. will stand with the e.u. and nato to face down the russian threat together and she was clearly rather pleased with the support she's received from brussels and the u.s.

and canada and ukraine for that matter take a listen to what to resume a had to say about it. grates on the geraghty from our friends and partners in the e.u. north america nato and beyond over the past three weeks and today eighteen countries have announced their intention to expel more than one hundred russian intelligence officers from. this includes fifteen e.u. member states as well as the united states canada and the ukraine or moscow denies the allegation that it was behind the poisoning that hasn't stopped the expulsions though russian diplomats are going to be departing from france germany poland the netherlands italy estonia so plenty of e.u. countries though but not all of them have signed up to expelling russian diplomats austria has announced that it is not expelling anyone so has ball garia and also at

that e.u. summit last week where to resume a so successfully argued for this collective e.u. response that we've seen now there was. a he's the president of the european commission and he was advocating a rather different approach to moscow take a listen. everyone will show all screw. loose. the structure. we need to know to discuss for sure all of them complete not sure so a collective response we're being told but at the same time not all e.u. states on the same page as to the degree of that response and also not all e.u. figureheads agreed on the degree to which to punish morse code or how to sort of continue relations nevertheless we've got something that's being hailed as sort of the largest expulsion of russian diplomats largest collective expulsion of russian

diplomats in history and just to remind you this is all the while while the police investigation into how script came to be poisoned with that nerve agent and sold very is still ongoing but the mood here in the u.k. especially is very much against moscow at the moment in parliament politicians are debating national security in relation to russia a lot of politicians are asking the prime minister about what further measures can be taken against moscow also talking about bolstering defense spending and investing in cyber security just to remind you the independent probe into what happened is the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons they started an independent investigation last week but we won't have the first results from that for at least two weeks. that's the view from the u.k. let's get the view from washington d.c. the u.s.

view and again a huge expulsion there as well so we are can bring us up to speed. 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 says that they'll be expelling sixty diplomats twelve of which are un staff members and they'll have approximately seven days to leave and 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 oh it 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 poisoning 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 cold war rhetoric and have spoken out against it let's take a quick look. we do know what the new cold war. we do not want to be dragged into a new form choice. 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 so we're going to marry and we did a coach of. the kremlin a furious response. well we just heard from the russian foreign ministry spokesperson who said that reciprocal measures will be taken against each country that decided to expel russian diplomats and we're talking about overall a dozen countries that supported this move now she also added that average that was staking will be met by

a mere own measure and response including the shutdown of the russian consulate and the u.s. now shortly after shortly after this news broke that a number of countries are expelling russian diplomats the russian foreign ministry released a statement and in this statement moscow expressed its protest at these expulsions calling them an unfriendly acts and also saying that this will not help find answers and the crippled case now the statement also goes on to say that the expulsions are being seen as a provocation meanwhile russia has been calling for cooperation in the case of poisoning of x. double agents it is cripple and his daughter and now it says that despite repeated requests to london it still has no objective information concerning the case and now this current hostile move on part of this group of nations this group of countries will not go answer now we've heard a number of reactions coming from differing high level officials in the russian

diplomatic society and until enough russian ambassador to the u.s. has protested against what he called a wrongful move by the u.s. to expel russian diplomats. about the expulsions are expressed strong opposition to the move i pointed out today there's not been a single shred of evidence of russia's involvement in this tragedy the most productive way to address this case would be a calm and professional investigation by the. russian ambassador to france also said that he is deeply disappointed and called this move a provocation. well we believe the usedn't fall for this group just broke all the talk about to use solidarity is lawful as there can only be solidarity in the fight against real threats but not in support of insinuations overall many high level officials here in russia are expressing disappointment and even disbelief to

this recent move by the us and number of other european countries to expel russian diplomats a police samir a thanks for the various news from around the world. thank you for watching us as well this is our international all our stories and all the latest development in a terrible fire the fall from this ongoing script diplomacy issue. for stories twenty four seven cover them from those phone thanks for watching.

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