headline stories this hour anger is running high in the russian city of camera. shopping mall killed sixty four people including many children. crowds are gathering at the headquarters of the regional government demanding justice for the . i ran upstairs. let me through the push my daughter asked why no one even asked the prime minister something but he just. is in the siberian city to pay his respects to those killed in the deadly fire he's promised that those responsible will face justice.

day here in moscow this tuesday march the twenty seventh welcome to our team international my name's o'neill 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 into of a shopping and entertainment complex on sunday president putin who's in the city criminal negligence was to blame for the blaze well langridge running high in the city where people gather the headquarters of the regional government there demanding. justice for the victims more people are expected to rally today on the crowd has been repeatedly chanting a word truth the region has declared three days of mourning. president putin putting aside official business and flew to siberia he laid flowers

on a makeshift memorial on the shopping center also visited survivors of a local hospital and said the trench really brings mixed emotions. when you hear for the first time how many people have died children died so you don't just want to cry you want to scream but after you hear what's happening here frankly you feel very differently because. yes a lot of europe after having taken in the situation there on the ground in siberia rucka's dia of hers joined once again rob has been with me all morning here in moscow just taking to keeping abreast really of the scenes that we're seeing more and more people coming onto the streets rallying after having first held a vigil at morning. it seems is the overwhelming emotion of the day well this is there's anguish there is absolute sadness you know what has happened these people

are traumatized even lives that didn't lose their loved ones but you know the feeling know somebody who has this is a city that is absolutely devastated and yet at the same time furious. and agri people that want responsibility those responsible for this to be held accountable they're out there now in their hundreds from the early hours of the morning front of the city administration monday demanding to be kept in the loop information the truth as they say and vladimir putin has. said he has said straight forward that you know we will we will punish everybody responsible he also added that this isn't a war this really shouldn't have happened.

because of the time. you. know with. president bush and the. message is simple everybody involved in this tragedy and borders on the catastrophe everybody involved. will be punished heads will roll every official that had anything to do with this shopping center their actions will be evaluated to establish what sort of responsibility or more role they have to play everybody will be punished like we are also cited corruption saying that you know if you and if you give a bribe you'll never get a permit them to run a shopping center or business but if you give a bribe they'll give you a permit for anything without checking checking the situation and here we've got to

understand what happened vladimir putin was given a brief which gives us a pretty clear picture of what investigators are thinking or saying so far. the fire itself began as a result of an electronic malfunction or faulty wiring a short circuit perhaps eyes of that or as a result of an open fire somebody must have started the fire with a lighter with matches take them to something the second version those is less likely say investigators once the fire took hold everything that could go wrong went wrong the fire exits the fire exits were blocked they were locked so there was no getting out through them the fire alarm system had broken either broken or been disabled more than a week prior it'd been offline since the nineteenth and it was not functional in this day then there was a backup backup alarm system that security they had to press

a button and everybody would be notified that something's wrong get out but it didn't security for whatever reason they didn't press this button so first morning everybody every anyone had you know something is wrong is that thick wall of smoke rushing towards you and this is smoke judging by the videos you know travels and quick to be quickly the bigger the fire the faster and you can survive in it you have seconds seconds at best before the body shuts down so. there was that the rooms the rooms the cinema the cinema itself the screen rooms were logged so you had cartoons running inside all these children and the other area and hothouse exactly you had all these people in there and usually you have a doorman you have someone in the door they check tickets they let you with you if somebody comes without a ticket they say they turn them around and they sit there what happened this time is they had better things to do obviously they looked everyone in and they left

they left so when the fire starts and suddenly this room this without any sort of ventilation serious ventilation ceiling up with smoke already dark of course everybody runs for the exit and the door won't open the window and you have as a result you have kids cooling their mothers their fathers begin them for rescue begging them for rescue and then you have children children who understand that it's you know they have seconds left to understand that there's no rescue coming who understand that they're going to die children who are in their mothers with a loss for world seeing saying i love you i mean that is that is absolutely horrendous and you can understand why these people are out there in criminal. right now why they're protesting why they're demanding accountability why they're demanding information. as to what the what led to this the other thing of course

is that many of these kids were left there by their parents who went shopping in the shopping center this is on the fourth floor the cinema the arcade room they left the children as was as is sometimes done with all the siblings or whatever they think you are will even they'll watch the movie will come back because i mean here. you have the story of one man he had three daughters five to eleven watching this cartoon he gets a call he's on the first floor you went down he left the show good news in the first two he gets a call from his do to say. the room is filling up with smoke help daddy he runs up stairs and the smoke everywhere he can't breathe somebody gives him a wet rag he tries to leave tries to brave it to get to the cinema and he can't do it he went outside looking to catch firemen but you do there's this one story and there's many of these many of these so many of the kids texted called whatever. telling everyone what was happening in the calls didn't stop for this father for example they they kept coming they kept coming and eventually they stopped when she

they stopped that must have been absolutely. horrendous for them the other thing of course is the nice people demanding answers. it's human psychology it's human psychology when you've suffered trauma like this when there's a tragedy that claim so many lives it is very difficult to move especially when you have a stake in this especially when it's your kids the in that cinema complex it's your kids it's very difficult to tell yourself you know of course stay calm i've got to wait for a facial i want to know what happened there of course you want to answer straight away you want to answers and it is absolutely justifiable as well it is understandable nevertheless that is a huge complex hundreds and hundreds of square meters of collapse eating it will take a while and you know as you mentioned earlier many of these many of the bodies the children and then for lack of a better term job so it will take

a while to identify them to bring the move together. people will have to wait there's there's there's no other way out of this. nevertheless that is the situation now five people have been detained arrested for their role in all of this but given how straightforward the hardline bradley putin has been in this we can expect many move arrests yes just really the situation rocker's there for now thank you very much. actually if we can take a look at drone footage just to give a sense of murat speaking about the size of the building home much damage was done to it and really help us understand the ferocity of the blaze the scale of the devastation the surrounding streets they're also blocked off we can see clearly that the roof has collapsed and inside the building it's completely burned out you're talking about fifteen sixteen hundred square meters and also of course right

throughout the night all throughout the day our emergency teams are working there and has brought sees so many well charred remains and the dead still being lifted earlier give us a sense of the personal of the people who were affected in this very directly let's take a look at that for rural youngsters a visit to the big city is always an adventure these twelve year old classmates went to town and they went bowling ice skating to the cinema it would be their last adventure. this. is the new look. we knew. 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 that 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 a former student you didn't deserve this we will all remember you.

it's me you're in this to do. this what 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 on even surviving is easy. ah 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.

here let's now across live to igor's it down off who is in camera forests igor when we spoke yesterday you said a very interesting thing that instead of there being an overwhelming sense of either sadness or anger which that of course there was what used took away from it was a sense of togetherness from the city coming out in just just joint horror of what was occurring today is not a similar theme. yes this is exactly what is happening the city which has been badly is standing together they're standing shoulder to shoulder i mean for many families it's a personal thing even those who did not lose any of their kin in this horrific tragedy they still they still feel this tragedy on a very personal level because they you know they knew someone they know someone who knows someone so does feel for everyone here like they've lost really

a lot of very close people here so that's why a lot of people decided to show up to this sporadic meeting and what they want is they want anstice in the first place because you know we've talked to many people in the city and from taxi drivers to bystanders and to those who bring flowers to the vigil they all believe that the local authorities are lowering down the you number of actually the actual number of dead in the fire they're saying that the the official number is sixty four but people here we've numbers ranging from three hundred to five hundred people really staggering accusation staggering absolutely outrageous outrageous figures now to the rushes investigative committee be the have no information to corroborate that and be in fact this is what they've been grilling the city mayo here in front of the regional regions office and the mayor

has promised everything is as transparent as it gets he apologized for the tragedy in front of the citizens in front of everybody and even stood on his knees to beg for apology now this is now the we've talked in the previous even if in the past few minutes we talked to one of the one of those who decided to join the demonstrate. gratian here she actually visited one of the moves there are several morgues in this town she visited one of them and she said that she actually saw always sixty four bodies so really she's shy but when she tried to take you stage it sort of an open mike here when she tried delivering getting this message across to the crowd she was. basically driven away driven down driven away from the stage this is not the only thing people as to why people have gathered here they

want justice they want answers as to how this tragedy was even possible how come the fire fire alarm didn't work how come the sprinklers didn't work how come fire exits the very paths that are meant to lead people to safety you were last so people had to break down doors and jump out of the windows and how come that often security guards were not were not trained to provide assistance and do were only hampering efforts were only hampering people from getting out of a listen. here i ran upstairs cinema stuff didn't let me say through they pushed me my daughter asked me why no one was saving her i asked the fireman to do something but he just stared. around two third floor firemen stood there doing nothing in front of the door my daughter saw me that she loved me and that she was suffocating i told him to get down on the floor and back her not to die the

children our dear it isn't a matter of how many are dead now unless we change something hundreds of others could die no matter how long we stand here no matter how loud we shout no one will hear us. twelve lattimer putin landed here in camera early morning the first thing he did he laid flowers at the vigil and then he went to the hospital and much with some of the citizen. comfort them he called what happened on sunday result of criminal negligence and he expressed his personal outrageous to how that was even possible he said it wasn't it's not like he did it's a war zone here it's not like people are meant to or expected to die shopping mall it was it was a sunday and people a lot of families to their kids there and it was a place. that was supposed to be designed to have pathways out she was designed to

get people asked quickly out as possible in case of an emergency but clearly that was not the case as we've seen and lattimer putin has also promised that the investigation will be as transparent as possible that everyone that ever that people will get all the answers as quickly as possible and basically they will be in that they will be the first to know about any developments so people of people it looks like the whole gathering starting to use starting to shrink the mike has been cut off by the by the organizers they've wrapped up the meeting so to speak some people are still staying here some we see some leaving so this is coming to a close were of course us standing by to bring you the latest both on the atmosphere and on any developments in the vest a geisha so far five people have been detained they are being questioned colluding

the owner of a shopping mall and a fire safety chief and also the russian investigative committees questioning one of the security guards is they believe that it was him who actually switched off on purpose the fire prevention system that's why it didn't work. giving us a sense of a city in mourning this hour from camera or shut down off. when the blaze in the siberian city 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 the sunday. in this part. you want to see for yourself. the body are still. people who sit in the church.

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so it's a sort of. a we took the opportunity to discuss what occurred with a civil engineering expert now he is of the belief the camera the belief shows systematic problems with fire safety in shopping malls. oh no you. didn't you did you did. and you. sit there doesn't. most well read it was a problem he did building called muslim and it was a quote problem with that material that they have used over there and for put secretly areas that the kids out there we need to have this special repercussion and special system and fire exit because kids are not operating like us this is a systems well you could have break your nation on the books but but it comes with

the enforcement regulation my comp lines will get regulation this is where the disparity happens. or residence of a carrier of organized a vigil to commemorate the victims of the tragedy this was the scene is right throughout the night people paying their respects at the memorial and doing so right up until now where a rally is ongoing at morocco's diva joins us live again on the program. we just saw in fact have a mistaken picture on the program there what we were showing there in fact was the mayor of camera asking the crowd for forgiveness on his knees now that is indicative of his need of where officials are in the firing line for this there's so much anger there's so much frustration and they're feeling the brunt of it well to be to be honest with you and this is my personal opinion he did this two days

too late two days. well to be honest with you i think that came two days too late he should have done this earlier he should have the should have been his knees for him from the onset because as you know vladimir putin comes comes in b.c. this is high profile as can be says heads will everybody everybody responsible will be punished. but. now suddenly you have all these officials who people blame two people said had kept them in the dark had not given them any information now you have all these local officials sudden you suddenly listening to their constituents it's pleasant to talk about this but there are three factions here there's the locals who are shocked traumatized to agri who are saddened you know who really want to really want to be kept in the loop the truth as they say

then you have local authorities including the security company that run the shopping mall the management company the local officials who handed out the permits suddenly you have them trying to cover their own hides trying to protect themselves given that there's going to be hell to pay for this there is going to be absolute hell to pay. given given how many people died given how many of them children given how agonizing their deaths were how rethink their death. and then you have the central government the central government coming in having to come in to sort of to sort of put these local officials in line to hold them accountable and responsible so certainly we expect many more arrests expect this to balloon in fact that was that was the vice governor not the vary but your point stands that it's local officials there are going to be in the same firing line are exactly and they would there will be as i said arrests and this will be used as

a platform to crack down on. on this negligence as well as that and also of course we we've heard quite a lot about people coming out to help we were showing pictures yesterday of people being injured people queuing up clinics are tight hospitals want to give blood to the injured they're not alone because donations helping flooding in for the victims the russian red cross alone has received fourteen million rubles what a quarter of a million dollars or so so far. yesterday the russian red cross announced a fundraiser to help those affected by the incident people have responded extremely well they are not indifferent to the suffering of others as of today we've raised over fourteen million rubles from all over russia and also from abroad to greatly think those who've contributed. just a reminder of our story of a fire in the winter cherry shopping center has claimed the lives of sixty four

people they are official figures many of them children six people we know remain missing rescue teams are continuing to work in the complex in this siberian city is not is happening though we are seeing people rallying in the city center demanding answers from authorities president putin in camera vice promised that everyone responsible for the tragedy will be brought to justice get more news with me at the top of the. was. global war zone you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to buy the battle. to do so for the tell you that but because of the public record. that has been telling you i'm not ruling out

that by product. of the hawks we. will walk.

this is boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. i'm bart chilton. and coming up there's been some of the rapid expansion in the hotel industry both in the u.s. and around the globe we'll talk hotels with bill reported the president and founder of straw mark plus there's some reaction from china to the trump tariffs we'll have an expert panel of alex mahela bitch and caleb moment give us the latest and sort some of that out all that ahead but first let's get to some headlines the march of our lives took place in cities around the world over the weekend including right here as protesters filled the streets of washington d.c. with young people and allies demanding an end to the epidemic of gun violence in the united states eight hundred thousand people are estimated to have taken part in the d.c. march most prominent among the student leaders were survivors of the shooting at marjorie marjorie stoneman douglas high school the school in parklane florida six

minutes and twenty seconds with an a r fifteen and my friend carmen would never complain to me about piano practice erin fice would never call kiera miss sunshine alex. shakhtar would never walk into school with his brother ryan scott beagle would never joke around with cameron at camp helen or mc would never hang out after school with max genome ontology i would never wave to her friend we lunch watching all of her would never play basketball with sam or doing well in a paddy would never care a lover and would never chris haixun would never look lawyer would never march into chaos we are no would never peter wang would never alyssa how her death would never jamie guttenberg would never meadow polic would never. pretty powerful stuff marchers demanded a ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines as well as closing.