hour of. accused shopping center in the russian city of camera verse sixty four people including many children are confirmed dead. in. egypt really good you can see it's good to see. people before have been arrested in connection with the tragedy russia's investigative committee says the building's emergency exits were blocked and that the fire alarms were turned off. the other big story tonight a wave of russian diplomatic expulsions were announced by the u.s. more than a dozen european countries in a show of support to britain which accuses russia of poisoning

a double agent and his daughter moscow says it will respond. hello nine pm monday night here in moscow welcome to the program this is r.t. international with me kevin though in a lot to cover in this bulletin two main stories but starting with the weekend tragedy in central russia in the city of camera of sixty four people it's known now including many children have died in that huge fire at a shopping and entertainment complex at the weekend local authorities say ten people are still missing and that the number of fatalities may rise further video agency ruptly has obtained c.c.t.v. footage from inside the mile showing the flames spreading and thick smoke rapidly filling the fourth floor it's been reported that the blades began in the children's play area images showing the panic that ensued have also been emerging online.

did you just first of that. i sure did ask you could tell the almost thirteen years the only thing to do is still very proud of this one you can do much to through this and doing good with us because they take a loss to the point that. when you do not cooperate. can you not do quests even you said to many people are unable to escape the building so missing jumping from windows tragically to four of being detained now questioned in connection with the incident is still not exactly clear what caused the fire a 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 i grabbed my system one 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 on the roof because it would soon collapse we sheltered from the roof to be rescued but no one came for forty minutes. or to know that it's your duty to do. you had to go into the sick double some noise . so it's. just when you pull it the solution to. the witch of the show is what it most of that might include what it must because there's no formal from the city took us nine months nude beaches there's just like you. the captain emerged of the boy being the

super to because it was night. this is the news knowledge the courage to look at the stars the bridges to get to the good with this no we don't we restore. our children were very mean and we could only stand there and watch. here's what we know about the winter cherry retail complex it opened in twenty thirteen of the city center there it's four story building that had previously been a confectionery factory in addition to a children's play area inside it also had two cinemas and a petting zoo seems around two hundred animals were also killed in the disaster and the aftermath of the fire the city's canceled all entertainment and cultural events as a mark of respect for those who lost their lives the region's declaring three days of mourning now two people have been bringing flowers candles and perhaps most poignantly toys to the shopping center he goes down off his income river forests and sends back this report tonight 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 fires safety violations more moreover the one of the security guards apparently disabled the fire prevention system before the blaze broke out this earth shed some lights on the carousel and a 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 were lot just so people had to literally break down doors and jump out of the windows so many of the survivors get 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 trying apparently troubled teens said the form pits in the trampoline area a blaze 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 virus prevention system actually works now and behind me is a self improvised vigil and it seems that every single person in town of come here to lay flowers bring toys and light candles every single person here a state when you take it 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 be a confectionery and in fact it inducted fire drills just last week so a lot of a lot of very grave and outrages flaws and 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. it goes down our reporting for us now from central russia we spoke to a man who was at the shopping center when he's with his family at the time when the fire started he says exits were not clearly marked and it was very difficult to find a way. 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 a smell and then a man told me to leave finding your way around the shopping center is hell you don't know where the stairs lead or way to go there are no directions to x.

is it's like some sort of labyrinth you won't get far as you're in a panic. many people and camera which is three thousand six hundred kilometers east of moscow been queuing to donate blood for the victims fifty people were injured in the five ten of them were taken to hospital toting several children well the most seriously injured is a boy who leapt from an upper floor window he was the only member of his family to survive we don't actually know his condition it was captured on film his escape from sort of say we're not going to cover all this up for you so if you know anyone might be distressed by this let's look away now but this is what happened anyway.

but the good. news need to be physically abuse you see when you do which is it would see if you've. been you but you. need to be insidious one good movie will screw through nuku nuku stupid human that . you can see. people had serious injuries and now needs and i think the show lung that's great but his condition has slightly in this. post. well it's just overwhelming you hear one story you think it couldn't be worse and then you hear something else that all 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 pleasure huish treat 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 do what you need. you to each of these people a little bit. in the g.o.p. and that is the new look we give you full if you meet them they didn't even if. you can't instead of confessing to the killers in chief the killers nothing is a chicken salad now music means nothing to live if you move it in and you can use

from which to cheer when you concluded. it was given to clear the pickle of the difference. between the. two to say. 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 thai people realized something was wrong and 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 camera 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 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 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 this 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 were out people were smashing windows with their hands and feet because it was impossible to be in there it was so scary i saw how people jumped out of the windows one person jumped instant death now the boy is now in a coma from what you have heard and another person has broke his spine that 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. now is what it was kathy is professor a symbol of our mental engineering university of southern california also an expert on the risks and causes of manmade disasters i think professor for being with us where you start here modern building in theory it had sprinkler systems in theory a fire alarms and theory had emergency doors it seems witnesses say they didn't hear any of those sirens go off it seems that witnesses say they couldn't get out of some of those doors you don't see much water being sprinkled around a lot is obviously going wrong here the investigators will get to the bottom of. how could it have been just a week of. fire drills that this kind of thing could happen. thanks kevin i really was speechless after hearing your your report a really. difficult for me to come and have to be doctor and shrink

stories of survivors and their kids. really. but unfortunately this isn't considered as a national disaster for russia and disk a lot of children are built out you see some of the photos over here don't have been to church but just stories our hearts are as you indices it true example. look probably pretty high can sequence accident back to equality in my business and typically for this type of thing to try to catastrophic disasters an accident there is not one single fact or daughter multitude of causes and as was the case in the case of cho not be alone there accident or major disasters that i investigated this unfortunately was a unfortunate it was a perfect storm their very problems with the very years and controlled make any sense that existed all the way from government their vocal cords and regulations

installation and then operation and inspection that's what i would say that like i did natural disasters national disasters that i've been involved in in these investigation like the people that are your eyes or ours in the case of joe i would suggest that there are at university gay shared using your systematic mit which we call it you know out of business. needs to be used over here again my condolences to rush out today. and. we saw some of the smoke coming out of there particularly black actually some of it put me in mind at all for gravel to outright in the last year in london when a lot of plastic was involved ok that was on the outside internet it was a similar kind of looking clouding stuff on this building but it didn't look like it caught on the outside but this black toxic smoke when you're in the middle of it it can overpower you very quickly i gather i.e. literally within seconds. most well read there was

a problem we did building called muslim and there was a quote problem we did material that they have used over there i heard that it happened at a trampoline and the fire alarm didn't work at the fire suppression system do their work and for pretty clearly the areas that the kids out there we need to have a special repercussion and special system and the fire exit on dad because kids are not operating like us and so that's what i say that this is a systems problem. losses and this is them problem needs to be investigated all the way from governmental event to get to two to do lawyers and that city a found his no as far as you know regarding rove russian safety regulations etc they are pretty much up to scratch with the rest of europe are they are even even down to the plastics they used in buildings it's all pretty high standard is it this year russia safety regulation is as good as other countries is the question as

to enforcement of the regulations and you could have regulation on the books but when it comes to the enforcement regulation i compliance with your regulation this is where the disparity happens so that's a sad sad sad story isn't it thank you for your input into professor cathy from university of southern california for a good night to thank you. if around the world and sending their condolences to the families of the victims the leaders of the u.s. germany china and the u.k. are among those who express their sorrow the president of the european union donald tusk even made a statement in russian to support. games in years. just as they came out of what they should be. going to be continue to follow the tragedy over the coming hours a foreigner shopping centers claimed the lives of sixty four now confirmed that

a number of others are still missing the coverage teams are continuing to work at the shopping center there in kenya. my my. my my. the other big story tonight more than a dozen european countries as well as the united states and canada have announced a wave of expulsions of russian diplomats it's a show of support in for britain which blames moscow over the poisoning of the former double agent sergei scriptural and his daughter this month let's get the latest from both sides of the atlantic a lot of repercussions tonight with our correspondents american and washington d.c. police boys are in london and bettina cochon of moscow good evening she was first off let's get the view from from washington samir a car the most expulsions of. some unexpectedly maybe but it's been a pretty furious response isn't it. yes well like you said the u.s. will be expelling the most russian diplomats out of all the countries that have

decided to do so the white house will be sixty diplomats twelve of which are u.n. staff members and they'll have approximately seven days to leave a u.n. representative was grilled about this whether this move will violate an agreement that was made between the u.s. and the u.n. in the forty's let's take a quick look. does the u.n. believe that this in any way violates the us agreement with the un of nine hundred forty seven the host country agreement given the sensitivity of the matter which is ongoing we will not comment further at this stage u.s. mission says that and i quote our actions are consistent with the united nations headquarters agreement do you agree with the statement we were informed of the u.s. decision to take action under section thirteen b. of the u.n. u.s. headquarters agreement. you can you can look at our tree section and read section thirteen b. for yourself and evaluate it for yourself story for you told us to read thirteen b.

and see whether what we thought it said was like the secretary general think to for the reasons i just explained i wouldn't venture an opinion on that for just out of sheer niceness inconvenience to you i will read to you section thirteen be at the stage bear with me because it is long. does the united states need to provide evidence of this espionage to the u.n. russia i've said what i can say at this stage. 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 but according to the russian ambassador who was summoned to the state department where this move was announced a moscow has vowed to respond which will likely be a mere response blaming washington for a deteriorating relations between the two countries now 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 on the other hand there are some voices who are opposed to this cold war rhetoric and have spoken out against it. we do not want 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 all time low but the white house also said that they're willing to cooperate with russia on fighting terrorists so this is all a bit contradictory so we'll just have to wait and see what happens the view from washington d.c. thanks samir over to london now. take us through what's happened today polly boy europe's joined forces with to resume a big time. yeah a collective response from the e.u.

donald tusk the president of the european council he announced these collective measures saying that the e.u. agrees with the u.k.'s assessment that it was quote highly likely that the kremlin was behind the poisoning of sergei and how so well over a dozen states have pledged their support to the british prime minister and they are expelling scores of russian diplomats from capitals across the e.u. to resume a spoke in parliament earlier and she was clearly rather pleased with the support from brussels and from the u.s. canada and the ukraine for that matter take a listen to what she had to say. great solidarity 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 and even though moscow denies the allegation that it was behind the attack in solsbury the list of expulsions of diplomatic expulsions is extensive among the countries that russian diplomats are going to be departing from france germany poland lithuania denmark the czech republic.