you know. he didn't present. 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 realized something was wrong it was in many cases too late and some of these kids in the cooling their relatives and mothers fathers friends begging them for help somebody to come to help to rescue them others boost 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 the 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 enjoying 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 children away from the fi because of the think smog they were prevented from staying there and your money by the shopping mall center workers who said oh the children go out people are smashing windows with their hands and feet because it was impossible to be in there and it was so scary when 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 one to her and another person has broke his spine and that is a life i lost some friends and part of the group managed to escape but i lost contact with the rest stop this and have not heard from them for over a day. we spoke to far investigated john and tina he believes the apparent lack of

safety measures was a major factor contributing to the loss of life here this is just a total failure of any fire safety program. in the mall people made their stations as the mall was being constructed and now those decisions are coming home to roost and this is what happens even now the marmots here are they did have alarms they were working. but it's just shocking and here we had we have blocked exits. i mean i'm sure that will show us the authorities at some point why though that is what the families of the mic to victims met with the city officials in a nearby school who explained to them the grim procedure for trying to identify the dead. just look at this is locals a source of that it was just. more political still in the service of course local us the leave the city with you but those of us might be

a little disappointed for the good of the good you just because this is still to you why do you wish it was if it was a video for you to come to just continue monitoring system because you think it is ghostly enough what you fanatical just don't want to be good looking and listening to very little. she does it with. people around the world have been sending their condolences to the families of the victims the leaders of the us germany china and the u.k. are among those so to express this aura today the president of the european union donald tusk eve made the statement in russian. you have a debate started games in years two years ago see. thirty just as they came it was up but they should be the last in the street. and will continue of course to follow the trying to do of the coming hours the fire

in that shopping center that tonight has claimed the lives of sixty four people confirmed dead a number of others still missing and recovery teams are continuing to work at that burned out shopping center in camera. was was was. next full coverage of the other big story today at least eighteen countries have announced a wave of expulsions of russian diplomats were across europe as well as the u.s. and canada it's a show of support for britain which blames moscow over the poisoning of the former double agent sergey scriptural and his daughter earlier this month polly boyko reports first from london. 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 script how so well over a dozen e.u.

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 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 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 morse code denies the allegation that it was behind the attack in seoul's worry 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 the list continues however not all e.u. states have signed up to kicking out russian diplomats austria notably has announced that the russian diplomats can remain and also vogue area has said that it won't be expelling any russian diplomats that are currently stationed there also at the e.u. summit last week that each summit went to resume a so successfully argued for this collective european response well shown crude younger the president of the european commission he advocated a rather different approach to moscow take a listen to what he had to say everyone was sure. didn't really lose. the. need to move to discuss for sure

all of them i'm not sure so not all e.u. states on the same page and not all figureheads agreed to the extent to which to punish moscow or to cooperate with it perhaps instead nevertheless what's happened today is being billed as the biggest collective expulsion of russian diplomats in history all this while the investigations that police investigation and also the independent o.p.c. w one they are still ongoing it seems that the almost complete unity of voices in europe from across the atlantic to. the president spoke with many foreign leaders our european allies and others and encourage them to join the united states in this . in this announcement so let's go live to d.c. so we're a congress there actually correspond. the u.s.

than take him by far and away the biggest steps god is through them yes well as you just heard the u.s. was the driving force behind these expulsions with trump encouraging others to take similar measures but at the same time the spokesperson says that the u.s. is ready to cooperate with russia message that clearly contradicts washington's latest actions let's take a quick look at what the white house spokesperson have to say. the president still remains open to working with the russians on areas of mutual concern counterterrorism for example and others but you know that's that's really up to the russians to decide a u.n. representative was grilled about whether or not this move will violate an agreement that was made between the u.s. and the u.n. in the one nine hundred forty s. and he had some things to say. as the u.n. believe but this in any way violates the u.s. agreement with the u.n. 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 in our tree section and read section thirteen be 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 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. as the united states need to provide evidence of this a spin off to the un 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 with this latest decision relations between the two countries are out an all time low so we'll just have to wait and see what happens so we're a car with a view from washington d.c. this thank you for now so next the rushes reacted angrily to the explosions tonight and says the moves won't remain unanswered for long as medina cochon of reports next from moscow. well we've heard from the russian foreign ministry spokesperson marty is a kind of a who said that reciprocal measures will be taking against each country that decided to expel russian diplomats and overall we're talking about over a dozen countries that supported this move now she also added that adds remember that was taking will be mad mero measure in response including the shutdown of the russian consulate and the u.s.

now shortly after this news that a number of countries are expelling russian diplomats broke the russian foreign ministry released a statement and in this statement. expressed protest these expulsions calling them an unfriendly stab that will not find any answers and these scripts case and the statement also goes on to say that the exposure and are being seen as a provocation adding that such a hostile move on part of this group of countries will not be allowed. and indeed we've heard from a number of high level officials in the russian diplomatic society now an authority on tone of course the russian ambassador to the u.s. has protested against what he called a wrongful decision by the u.s. to expel russian diplomats. told to fit in for a month long learning about the expulsions are expressed ostrom opposition to the

move but 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. will because it is not only the russian ambassador to the u.s. has expressed his outrage to the move but a number of has of other russian diplomatic missions in different countries lashed out at the use of recent expulsions. we believe the you shouldn't fall for this do. the group just provocation all the talk about to use solidarity is laughable as there can only be solidarity in the fight against real threats but not in support of dirty insinuations and over all we've heard from different high level officials here in russia expressing disappointment and even at times this believed to this recent move by the u.s. a number of other european countries to expel russian diplomats has got the

thoughts of much rather smart a macauley on the long long time along the line here a longtime veteran of this program hey there let's talk about the u.s. first of all then we'll talk about what the e.u. used and the reason the white house go for closing the russian consulate in seattle particularly was it was close to a submarine base and boeing the aircraft manufacturer what's that going to do with it for a start if you're dumb thing to do with it in fact that they're reacting that the british the british consulate would not reopen props that give them no idea right then we closed the russian consulate in seattle. and if you like it's a tit for tat. and how likely is this note to long term damage america russia's relations have been the one how we've got from saying most to work with russia but then he's expelled lot of the diplomats of these supposedly saying he wants to work with how does that tally up. it doesn't add up it's

saying one thing and then contradicting it five seconds later and the situation now the top administration came in hooping to improve relations with russia that it could have a working relationship with russia a but because of the democratic campaign against. trump the hacking the accusation of hacking involvement in dirty tricks and so on those situations got worse and worse and the diplomatic temperatures dropped and the now it's blue freezing so therefore the situation in america is comparable to the situation in britain know where basically is no diplomatic relations with russia. people have called this one commentator said this was a declaration of war not as a collision of wars and a declaration.