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moscow to the world this is r t international my names you not only will welcome to the program our top story russia is mourning the victims of the deadly blaze in the siberian city of camera sixty four people including many children lost their lives in a huge fire that broke out at a shopping entertainment complex on sunday president putin who's in the city says criminal negligence was to blame for the blaze. but. we watch is happening this is not war. people came to relax children came to relax we are talking about demographics we are losing so many people. because of criminal negligence and carelessness. before the president putin laid flowers on a makeshift memorial at the shopping center he also offered his condolences to the

families of the victims and visited the injured in a local hospital. ok for more on the situation in care of i'm joined in the suit by steve wright we're just seeing there are pictures i suppose of a public united in despair and anger we also know the president has been meeting local officials to talk us through what we know will putin was very direct talking about criminal negligence and carelessness the cause of this tragedy he says that the actions of every single official involved the related to what happened in the shopping center will be evaluated he also said that you know it is a dig corruption that unless you give money a bribe you won't get a permit to operate this shopping center but if you give money they'll give you a permit for everything without taking anything so perhaps you know a message

a signal that this is this will be used as an excuse to stamp down further on corruption but as for the brief that putin got well according to investigators this is early days yet but they say the fire began in the room in the arcade room where all the machines are all the attractions he said he was told that it was either malfunction with electronics or wiring perhaps a short circuit somewhere or it was an open fire meaning it was set by someone with a lighter with matches somebody said set the fire that then spread once the fire began everything vesta gaiters went wrong the fire alarm had been disabled for more than a week since the nineteenth and nobody had fixed that the security had a button they had a button they could have pressed which would have sounded an alarm across the

building they didn't press that button we don't know why maybe the security guy right away maybe he wasn't there but they didn't bring. that button so the unit warning people had is when they saw smoke rushing at them and the smoke it spreads very very quickly and make no mistake then there was the fact that the doors to the screening rooms themselves the cinema the big rooms where the people watching movies those were shut to prevent people without tickets from going in and watching watching a movie without buying a ticket usually what happens is you have someone on the door and they sit there and they wait. for the generation of the movie soon nobody goes in but in this case they shut the doors they trapped all those people in there and they left it that's extraordinary for people to hear that thought would happen though and nobody came back you would have thought that you know that come back and open the doors at least but nobody came back and you had kids calling their parents saying we're

trapped in this room where dying was suffocated so you know understandable why it came of this is in rage where the people there are so angry but the other problem is of course that the adults parents guardians they left their children in the cinema in the arcade room and they they went shopping or they went about their business and left the kids so when their kids are calling them and saying that you know we're we're dying they come rushing back and it's too late then. five people so far have been arrested as part of this investigation more arrests are expected and doubtlessly there will be more arrest because cameras enraged you have hundreds if not thousands of people now protesting across the city there demanding the truth they believe that the true number of casualties the people that died is being artificially low that is you know being understated by authorities they're

angry at the fire service for not reacting quickly enough and doing enough they're enraged to the authorities. vade thing the public trying to you know trying to shed responsibility for this they demand the answers and this is this is a real hot spot you have people who are there people who saw what was happening people saying that the reaction from authorities was entirely and completely inadequate and given how many people have died given how many of them with kids you can understand why this is a city on the edge and earlier on i put together a package you may find our viewers may find some of what we should disturbing but that it should give you a feeling as to the loss of this experience or. 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 them on. this. committee on this monument. if you. 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'll need 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 the cello got out of the building before hearing that. others were 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 or former students you didn't deserve this we will all remember you. you could tell it to you. when you did. little rad tibor pictured here with his mom and dad she wasn't with them but imagine her pain when she had to identify the bodies of her child and husband 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 himself 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. against the will the blaze in camera has been called one of the deadliest in russia in the past one hundred years here's a look at how the tragedy unfolded on sunday. i'm . going to ask bob. good to see.

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residence of cameras have organized a vigil to commemorate the victims of the tragedy this is a lie from the rally sizable cry it's there during the day one o'clock local time there a lot of people are listening to local authorities and also people who have lost loved ones as well have been speaking their people have been paying their respects at the memorial right through the night we'll go back to those pictures little bit later when they improve our team down off is in this city for us let's now listen to is. it seems that every single person in this town have come

to this cell phone providers 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 flying this shopping mall were left on their own to find out about the beginning inferno 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 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 your way around the shopping center is how you don't know where the stairs lead a way to go there are no directions to x. is it's like some. it was a 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 new people keep pouring in and in terms of atmosphere not just grief there's no dispute ration here it's something very different it's almost like the whole city has become one big family which did lose many many loved ones over night but in the wake of this really tragedy is standing shoulder to shoulder strong. you've done a hearty. steady stream of people right throughout the night in camera we also discussed the situation with a civil engineering expert at the building in question he sees the care of

a blaze shows systematic problems with fire safety in shopping centers. there doesn't. most well read that was a problem he did building call. it was a problem with that material that they have used over there and for particulary the areas that the kids out there really need to have this special repercussion and special system and fire exit turned down because kids are not operating like us this is a systems well you could have regulation on the books but let it comes to the enforcement regulation my comp lines will get regulation this is where the disparity happens. well as we hear more from the city from local officials from people who have been detained any information from the tragedy in camera we will be bringing it to you here on r.t. international over the coming hours just a reminder the fire in the shopping center claimed the lives of sixty four people

many children among them six people we believe at this stage are still missing and recovery teams they are continuing to work out the burned complex in the siberian city the third day there are no. our odds. chose seemed wrong in the old rules just don't hold. the belief to shape our lives just because to add to it and in the game because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground the.

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a string is now to expel two russian diplomats joining over twenty countries from across europe as well as the u.s. and canada in making similar and more extensive moves it's being done in solidarity with britain which blames moscow for the poisoning of serbia script his daughter earlier this month with the details. 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 is great for the diocese from our friends and partners in the e.u. north america and nato and beyond we think this is an unreasonable decision and

this undermines russian german relations we find a regrettable that they won't give us any evidence and we just hear that it's highly likely the russian is responsible for this tragic incident we believe the you shouldn't fall for the british broke all the talk about to use solidarity is laughable as the can only be solidarity in the fight against real threats but not in support of insinuations and even though morse code denies the allegation that it was behind the attack in salisbury 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 there 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 summit where to resume a so successfully argued for this collective european response well sean called younker the president of the european commission he advocated a rather different approach to moscow. everyone will stroll so you can do really. a structural shift from so much. legal issues we need to move to discuss for sure although it is a 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. there are those seeing the washington rather than london taking the initiative against russia the spike the poisoning case being in britain the u.s. even claimed it wasn't sending diplomats packing in a press briefing rather spies. 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 what would you put on for months on learning about the explosions are expressed our strong opposition

to the move i pointed out to date 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 o.p.c. w a un representative was grilled about this whether this move will violate an agreement that was made between the u.s. and the u.n. 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 the 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 b. at this stage bear with me because it as long as the united states need to provide evidence of this espionage to the un russia i've said what i can say at this stage. well among the sixty russian diplomats washington will expel a dozen are accredited to the united nations russia's u.n. representative spoke earlier condemning america's move city a list of those that it's what the united states has abused its privileges as u.n. host the u.s. said they hope for and count on the continuation of cooperation with russia what the american side has done is at the very least a very strange invitation for cooperation 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 the sols barry incident really cause the expulsion of diplomats or was the decision to expel russian diplomats taken before the solsbury incident. ok i want to return to our top story now is to the siberian city of camera which witnessed on sunday a deadly blaze and an entertainment. complex there in the center of the city now what we're seeing here is a rally going there it's a. twenty past one in the afternoon it's been going on for many hours there are people gathering together to express not just their grief but indeed their anger and what they see the majority as a litany of mistakes being made that led to the death of sixty four people including children in the city and president putin is in the city he spoke earlier

very direct language saying that it was negligence on carelessness that led to the tragedy we know there's a run five people in custody being detained being questioned over what looks like a lot of mistakes that led to this lock doors in the entertainment complex. we're not exactly sure i need to stress about because all of the blame is what these people are hoping they will be hearing from later in the day so there you have hundreds if not thousands of people are in the center of the city right now and making their presence making their anger felt we also know that the russian president has said that all those responsible for the tragic fire in the shopping mall will be punished these people of course some of them will of lost loved ones and we've heard some tragic stories about primary school class going on

a trip and every one of those children dying in this fire. many people more are going to be joining this rally the crowd has been repeatedly chanting the word truth as well so that is a story we are going to be keeping up very close to. throughout the day from camera from outside beery and city which is a morning it third day of mourning seeing sixty four people dead in the deadly blaze. ok more world news with me including the very latest developments from siberia and iran hof and iris time stay with us now we're watching the hawks in just a moment. they

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