what do you know right. a huge fire engulfed a shopping center in the russian city of camera and sixty four people including many children are confirmed dead. in the. city. five 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. in other news a wave of russian diplomatic expulsions are announced by the u.s. and more than a dozen european countries in show of support. to britain which accuses russia of

poisoning a double agent and his daughter moscow says that it will respond. broadcasting live direct our studios in moscow this is our two international i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us and we start with a tragedy in the city of a camera in central russia sixty four people including many children are now known to have died in a huge fire at a shopping and entertainment complex it is now eleven am in the camera and hundreds of people have gathered at the regional administration. these are live pictures of a rally that is happening there people are demanding that those responsible for the lack of fire safety at the shopping center be punished more people are expected to drive and the crowd has been chanting truth truth right now these are the latest

pictures from that incident the deputy. governor of the commander of the region has spoken to the crowd. and president putin has arrived in canada he laid flowers at the shopping center where people created a makeshift memorial to pay his respects to those that died in the tragedy earlier he offered his condolences to the families of the victims. meanwhile local authorities say people are still missing and that the number of fatalities may rise even further our video agency ruptly has obtained c.c.t.v. footage from inside the mall showing the flames spreading and fix smoke rapidly filling the fourth floor has been reported that the blaze began in the children's play or images showing the panic that ensued have also been emerging online.

just west of that. while many people were unable to escape from the building some were seen even jumping from windows five people have been detained and questioned in connection with the incident however it is still not clear what caused the fire now ward of warning for you might find some of the following images upsetting. it was horrific the mall was packed with people we could hear the fire alarm. 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 on the roof because it would soon collapse we sheltered from the roof to be rescued but no one came for forty minutes. which could just sit it seats. you had to go into the sick double some noise. so it's. just going to pull it explicitly stated. that the witches but to show it what it must have been might include what it must because there's no formal from the city took us not to the most news each of those who stood by keep ship the ship when the most of the people would be stupid to because it was not. there she used to use manage the porch to look at the of his daughters the portraits a good look at the good with the snow we don't read the story. i was children were very neat and we could only stand there and watch.

here's what we know about the winter cherry retail complex it opened in two thousand and thirteen in the city center in a four story building that had previously been a confectionery factory in addition to a children's play area and also had to cinemas and a petting zoo 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 region has acquired three days of mourning and people are also bringing flowers candles and perhaps most poignantly toys to the shopping center is in the camera for us and sent us this report. it seems that every single person in this town have come to this cell phone providers to vigil just outside the shopping mall to lay flowers bring toys in

light the candles for many holding back the tears is simply too much of a task there are no bystanders here. there was no alarm no siren no sprinklers the whole fire prevention system was off fire exits blocked people in flight this shopping mall were left on their own to find out about the beginning inferno but if extension there knows this shopping mall used to be a confectionery and in fact it conducted fire drills just last week so a lot of a lot of very grave and outrages flaws missed in those drills and so the investigation is looking into that looking into how this horror became possible. there were no fire alarms nothing i just notice 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 or where 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 it's been hours since sundown but there's no sign of the crowd getting any smaller in fact you people keep pouring in and in terms of atmosphere here just grief there's no dispute ration here is something very different it's almost like the whole. the city has become one big family which did lose many many loved ones over night but the week of this or if it tragedy is standing shoulder to shoulder strong. many people in camera which is three thousand six hundred kilometers east of moscow have been queuing to donate blood for the victims people were injured in the fire thirteen of them were taken to the hospital including several youngsters. and turns out an entire class of

schoolchildren died in the blaze they were in the cinema watching a new cartoon or two is what our guys the now looks at the stories of some of those who perished and again you may find some of the scenes you're about to see highly distressing for rural youngsters a visit to the big city is always an adventure the twelve year old classmates went to town and they went bowling ice skating to the cinema it would be their last adventure to leave. this. monument. we didn't use it. dozens and dozens dead but they aren't just numbers they all had names lives all the compensation in the world won't cover their family's loss especially

given that so many of the victims were children masha was there with her grandmother and she only turned ten last week and posted this photo in line exactly a decade is all she got in this world both she and her grandmother perished. tiana an english teacher she was there with her daughter who survived that yana got out of the building before hearing that others was still trapped she went to help rescue who she could strangers but she never came back out you were the best teacher in the world right her former students you didn't deserve this we will all remember you stood up to its annual list of. what you did. little rats aboard pictured here with his mom and dad

she wasn't with them but imagine her paid when she had to identify the bodies of her child and husband or even surviving is easy. some say he jumped others that his father threw him out of the window in a desperate effort to save his little boy before succumbing to the smoke him self we won't know until say gave weeks up from his coma alone his parents and little sister. there are too many to mention here but the point is made a list of names is one thing but it's only when you get to know them just a little that the depth of this tragedy really hits you re spoke to several experts about the tragedy they believe failures on every level from

construction to the lack of safety measures contributed to the loss of life. this is just the 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 have alarms here are if they did have alarms they weren't working. but it is just shocking and here we had we have blocked exits. i mean i'm sure that well i want you to trust the authorities at some point i consider that as a national disaster for a most well read that was a problem he did building call was floated it was a quote problem be good material that they have used over there and for put secretly the areas that the kids out there we need to have a special repercussion and special assistant and fire exit and dad because kids are not operating like us this is

a systems well you could have break your nation on the books but they did come city enforcement regulation a compromise with good regulation this is where the disparity happens. the families of the victims met with city officials in a nearby school who explained to them the grim procedure for identifying the debt. limit your levels of the it is. just a little. more but you're still in the service of. the of the. year of the. money and so there's a lot of what a lot of the you're just. this is still to you what you do if you were with your fuck you do come to government one hundred dollars i'm done with this one and gotten enough money from you the bill is going to be different in the flexible available. for the support. 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 who have expressed their sorrow the president of the european council donald tusk even made a statement in russian. you have up a. state of emergency if he is a. just the. good that came out of was up at least to be to. see if it. will be continuing to follow the tragedy over the coming hours the fire in that shopping center claimed the lives of sixty four people now confirmed dead a number of others are still missing the recovery teams are continuing to work at the burnt out shopping center in kenya of. my. mom. all right switching gears now australia will expel two russian diplomats

joining over twenty countries from across europe as well as the u.s. and canada it is being done in solidarity with britain which blames moscow for the poisoning of former double agent surrogate screwball and his daughter earlier this month marks a point boy who reports now 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 yulia script how to resume a spoke in parliament and she was clearly rather pleased with the support from brussels and from the us 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 and even their morse code denies the allegation

that it was behind the attack in souls breathe a 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 all straight notably has announced that the russian diplomats can remain and also garia has said that it won't be expelling any russian diplomats that a currently stationed there also at the e.u. summit last week that each summit went to reason may so successfully argued for this collective european response. called 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. reading this.

group is for sure she is concerned. about the relationship we need to open china to discuss who for sure all of them do not question. 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 about police investigation and also the independent o.p.c. w one they are still ongoing. all right it seems that that the almost complete unity of voices in europe was heard from across the atlantic. the president spoke with many foreign leaders. our european allies and others and

encouraged them to join the united states in this. in this announcement as you've just heard the u.s. was the driving force behind these expulsions with trump encouraging others to take similar measures now the u.s. will be expelling the most number of russian diplomats out of all the countries that have decided to do so the white house will be calling 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 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 un us headquarters agreement. you can you can look at our tree section and read section thirteen b. for yourself and evaluate it for yourself story fun 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 un and russia i've said what i can say at this stage but at the same time a white house spokesperson says that the u.s. is ready to cooperate with russia a message that clearly contradicts washington's actions the president still remains open to working with the russians on areas of mutual concern counterterrorism for example and others now with this latest decision in relations between the two

countries are out an all time low so we'll just have to wait and see what happens. among the sixty russian diplomats washington will expel twelve are credited to the united nations bacilli. russia's un representative spoke earlier condemning the u.s. action suit your list of those looked at it so it blows the united states has abused its privileges as u.n. host the u.s. said they hoped for and count on the continuation of cooperation with russia but what the american side has done is at the very least a very strange invitation for cooperation that this international solidarity against russia is based on a very vague case and the further it goes the vaguer it gets it is causing a lot of suspicion and raises many questions personally i have a question did this solves barry incident really cause the expulsion of diplomats or was the decision to expel russian diplomats taken before the solsbury incident

russia's foreign ministry has also blasted the expulsions and says that they will not remain unanswered for a long as artie's been a cauldron of reports now 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 at 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 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 who fit in for months on learning about the expulsions are expressed a strong 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. and not only the russian ambassador to the u.s. has expressed his outrage to the move a number of has of other russian diplomatic missions in different countries lashed

out at the use of recent expulsions. we think this is an unreasonable decision and that undermines russian german relations. and a regrettable that they won't give us any evidence and we just hear that it's highly likely that russia is responsible for this tragic incident we believe the you shouldn't fall for this dirty british broke ation 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 us a number of other european countries to expel russian diplomats jim johnson is former u.s. diplomat believes that there is more to these moves than meets the eye. this is a coordinated political warfare against russia it's global in scale it really has

nothing to do with solsbury this is a political pretext just like the cut like the kind of accusations we've seen against syria on chemical weapons to ratchet up the pressure on moscow to discredit the recent russian election and also i think it's aimed at the world cup this summer theresa may a failed prime minister who had suffered a humiliating re-election recently somehow has pulled a rabbit out of the had it is trying to present herself as some kind of churchillian world leader by by whole helping to pull the world down into this this morass that i look i don't think we go under and underestimate the degree of danger we're talking about here this is not just tit for tat this is just not the are we in a new cold war or not this is extremely dangerous that with the crisis that is brewing internally within the e.u. i think there was the necessity to to somehow shift the terms of the debate to say it's not about what's wrong with brussels what's wrong with the e.u.

it's what's wrong with the russians and i think this will it simply increase the pressure on countries like bulgaria like austria who don't don't want to go along with this. one man's act of kindness in the french alps has landed him in trouble after he helped a heavily pregnant migrant woman reach an hospital. when watch do cole who is a member of a volunteer migrant patrol group spotted the woman and her family which included two small children near dangerous pass high in the mountains nineteen managed to get them down to a car where they then drove them to a hospital and were stopped by french police was told that he had broken the law by aiding undocumented migrants and to cause an awaiting trial and if found guilty under french law he could be jailed for up to five years and get a third thirty thousand euro fine he says that he had a humanitarian duty to do what he did.

while on patrol we spotted a group of people walking through the snow we saw there was a family with two young children and a pregnant woman we did what we always do we gave them food and drinks and dry clothes we saw that the mother was not well it's all we learned she was a half months pregnant so we decided to act quickly we understood she wasn't feeling well she was about to give birth we had to immediately take it's a hospital. for you and you would still not salute when we arrived to the bottom of the valley we were arrested by border police we were not able to convince them that the situation was serious and the woman was about to give birth to border policeman only told me that i was not able to judge whether the situation was serious or not at that point the family was separated the mother was taken to the hospital and we were brought to the police station with the children and the two accompanying people i was said immediately they asked my documents from a catalog my personal belongings they notify me of a hearing on wednesday and release me at midnight.

the lawyer assisted me with interrogation and developed a strategy to follow for the hearing i've insisted that i was doing my humanitarian g.t. chairing the mission at the moment my file is in the hands of the prosecutor he will be the one to decide what will have to happen if the situation repeated itself tomorrow i would not be able to act differently he was a totally acceptable thing to do. all around a hundred people protested over the incident outside a police station in a town in the french italian border they came claiming policy against migrants has been shown to be illegal and inhumane european history expert. says that the rescue team did the right thing by breaking the law to save lives. and i think it's just one of the rare happens with. someone acting against the law so someone else in this case my grounds of so. issue.

and i think of i think it should also be released because humanity and love. rule baby moon born to be superior should be. the state the opposite of what we should abort one migrant. so there they just lost respect because they are human beings so they must we tweet them like human beings. let's go back to our top story now the tragedy in the city came out or over in siberia now sixty four people including many children are now known to have died in a huge fire at a shopping and entertainment complex and president putin is in canada he has laid flowers at the shopping center where people created a makeshift memorial to pay his respects to those that died in the tragedy putting blame to carelessness and criminal negligence for the tragedy hundreds of people

are now rallying outside the regional administration headquarters demanding justice for the victims were of course we'll keep you updated on all of the latest developments. you're watching r t international. about your sudden passing i've only just learned you worry yourself and taken your last wrong turn. your out caught up to us we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry but only i could so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each breath. but then my feelings started to change you talked about war like it was a cave still some are fond of you those that didn't like to question our ark and i

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