the growing. anger is running high in the russian city of camera vote where a blaze at a shopping mall killed sixty four people including many children on sunday crowds are gathering at the headquarters of the regional government demanding justice for the victim the deputy governor has already apologized. to the. ladder putin has flown to this liberian city to pay his respects to those killed in the fire he's promised that those responsible will face justice. eleven year old boy who jumped from the fourth floor of the building has regained consciousness had been in an induced coma since sunday his mother father

and little sister all died in the fire. a warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me niki aaron. is running high in the city of camera for where people have gathered at the headquarters of the regional government sixty four people including many children lost their lives in a huge fire that broke out at a shopping and entertainment complex on sunday wednesday has been declared a national day of mourning in russia the protesters are demanding answers and justice for the victims people have been rallying throughout the day and the crowd has been repeatedly chanting the word truth. president putin persist slide official business and flew out to siberia he laid flowers at a makeshift memorial in the shopping center he also visited survivors at a local hospital and said that the tragedy brings mixed emotions.

when you hear for the first time how many people died children died so you don't just want to cry and you want to scream but after you hear what's happening here frankly you feel very differently because. a deputy governor of kemah of a region has been asking where the crowd for forgiveness. you don't you stupid boy you go be sure when you're going to going to get stitches ya go it goes good no if you don't get it yeah get out given the move or the thank you. yes sure especially rushing it means giving up well both of course but rubio no you don't and that is your biggest fear when you have to do that. and you.

are correspondent has been in kemmerer of a forest for the past few days understandably emotions are running high is the general feeling that one of thorough anger. well it's a bit of both i should say the city is a royal dog. they're emotional. and probably the perfect metaphor to sum up one question on everybody's mind in one way or another or another is this kid. should be pushed out from the edge of the mothership to sleep. this evening up to watch him in the office stuff if you want to say that nothing or. you can say this is going to offensive the please let's look at the time i knew what the first month of the year for the federal civil liberty messed up it was some of the drama for such good political system so

that it's not just what goes on as a muslim. so clearly the emotion here the emotion level is borderline hysterical people want to know why why the fire prevention system didn't work why people had to break through fire exits the very. paths to that were supposed to lead people to safety were locked so people had to jump from windows for their lives running for their lives they wanted to know why the person know of the shopping mall was not trained to how to behave how to help people in such a such an emergency so instead of helping they actually put the rescue efforts. carried out i ran upstairs cinema stuff didn't let me suit he pushed me to my daughter asked me why no one was saving her i asked if i meant to do something but he just stared. around to third floor firemen still do nothing in front of the door

my daughter saw me that she loved me and that she was suffocating i told her to get down on the floor and it backs her not to die the children are 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. now this is of course is only a portion of experiences inside that shopping mall talking to people here talking to survivors we know that security guard guards actually often warn people about the beginning fire instead of a fire alarm and we've heard some stories of high of security guards heroically bringing carrying children out of the blaze now another very important thing people want to know haze whether or not the authorities are lowering down the number of

the dead in the blaze because. everyone we've talked to from taxi drivers to bystanders passers by and people who brought flowers to the vigil all seem to believe that the actual number of people who died in the blaze could reach three hundred and five hundred people and that there were these are trying to posh to push it down so to speak. now of course if it isn't to stand above that people are afraid that people are scared that this will repeat again they're scared of losing more of their own because of course every person here is living this tragedy is feeling this tragedy on the deeply personal level just to give you an idea some people went to the morgues to see with their own eyes whether or not the rumor is true and here's here's basically the two different points of view on this have a listen to. the authorities claim that sixty four bodies were found and

a few are missing so numbers are not that high and. no one believes that's why because it was a sunday there were a lot of people it was a school holiday free movie tickets were handed out people arrived on tour buses that is widely known information yet luckily i was at the morgue on the street there are six to seven bodies there sixty four of them from the shopping center that burned bodies three others are not related to that incident there are a lot of children that are out there so i was it is very small so everyone knows someone from the hospital or in the emergency services they may have access to some exclusive list people exchange information and say that you shouldn't believe the numbers it's not sixty four it's three hundred so it creates a chain everyone shares it all social media messages video and screen shots appear but there is a huge possibility that some of the video is not from the shopping center but from

another fire some people are exaggerating it i just couldn't take it anymore i wanted to find out for myself. now of lattimer putin who landed here in camera morning has already laid flowers at the vigil and talked to some of the citizens to comfort over their loss he promised to the investigation to be as as transparent. the deputy governor told his words and the russian investigative committee. has been has filed a warrant has filed an arrest warrant so the russian investigative committee is putting under arrest five people suspected who they had earlier detained in connection with the blaze among them is a security guard a fire safety chief of the mall and the owner of the mall now the vestibule of committee believes that it was the security guard who actually shut down switched off the fire prevention prevention system and that's why it didn't work so clearly

the investigation is ongoing and we'll be bringing you more on this. because don i think thank you for that reporting reporting live from the city of cameras at this incredibly difficult time for the people there thank you for your report. and the brazen camera has been called one of the deadliest in russia in the past one hundred years here's a look at the tragedy how the tragedy unfolded on sunday. you want to see. the body. you can. chill.

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people in hungary ukraine and moldova bringing flowers to their respective russian embassies to commemorate the victims at the camera of a tragedy and most goes that pages berg never sibierski and other russian cities people have organized vigils flowers also laid at the every action embassies and care to stand and to g.q. stand. here are drawing pictures from the scene shows the ferocity of the blaze under scale of the devastation the surrounding streets are still blocked off and we can clearly see the roof has collapsed emergency teams are still working inside the building artie's mike garcia of takes a closer look at the human side of this story. these people tired of those mincing their words of understating of keeping information back this is what these protests. about people demanding action people demanding

information to be kept in the news. kept abreast of the investigation demanding that those accountable be brought to justice and when putin when putin came out he said that you know reading about this talking to people who had lost a loved one it makes you sad you weren't crying it's devastating talking to officials soon get a completely different picture these people presumably trying to cover their own hides trying to protect themselves but putin didn't mince his words and he said that those responsible will be held accountable. but the folks on the line tonight . richard is good with the shoes do. you. think you can with permission. with just a little to get. there he said this is a huge tragedy i mean this is

a small city and the to this league many people will know someone who had lost a child a son a daughter in this horrific fire but the thing with the with the trauma the psychological trauma is that people need an explanation it is part of our psychology we need an explanation we need information we need to to have a picture of what is going on and we need someone to blame when the fire itself began in the arcade room in the play room it began as a result of an energy malfunction or perhaps faulty wiring short circuit it was either that or the second version which is that it was an open fire that it was set someone to. lights and matches the something and bang it all escalated very quickly though that version is less likely say investigators and once the fire began everything that could go wrong went from the fire exits were locked they were blocked far alarm system had either been disabled or was broken malfunctioning

for more than a week since the nineteenth so that was out of service there was a backup alarm system that security had to press a button and everybody would be aware that there was something wrong evacuate that didn't happen for whatever reason security did not activate that system and as a result you had you had people and their first warning that something was wrong as a huge thick wall of smoke rushing towards them and smoke is the real killer it isn't the flames the body shuts down and the smoke but the the other problem is and this is perhaps as a human being this is perhaps the most traumatizing is that the doors in the cinema in the screen rooms that do is wish. you the people inside were trapped usually you have someone on the door demanding checks the people if they shut these doors and

the door man left once again began the room began filling up with smoke and you had cartoons running in them many of the many of the people in there were kids they can't get out because they do it's a shock. and they start calling their mothers their fathers and begin them to come rescue them eventually got to the point where you had kids realize the new rescue was coming and realizing they were going to die in their mothers and loved ones and saying final goodbyes you know i love. you because it was horrific what happened in them earlier put together a report about you know names and means numbers and numbers but when you realize that with these people were just like you and i when you get to know. them just a little bit you understand the gravity of this of this tragedy but the view is may find some of what we're about to show distressing 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. you know. 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 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 writer for my students you didn't deserve this we will all remember you stood up to it to your list of. what you did. little rats aboard 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 or even surviving is easy. some see 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 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. we do have an update on the boy who jumped out of a window at the burning shopping mall he was in an induced coma due to the severity of his injuries but he's now conscious again however he's still unaware that he lost both his parents and his little sister and fire. on me while donations have been flooding in for the victims the russian red cross alone has received fourteen million rubles that's almost a quarter of a million dollars 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 this will greatly think those who have contributed. of course will be following developments and comer of over the coming hours i remind the fire in the winter cherry shopping center that claimed the lives of sixty four people many of them children six people are still missing and recovery teams are continuing to work in the burned out complex in the siberian city as that's happening though people are rallying in the city center demanding answers from all thora sees president putin has flown into the city he's promised that everyone responsible for the tragedy will be brought to justice. was.

what politicians do you should. put themselves on a lot. to get accepted or rejected. so you want to present. something which. to the right. is what. really big. interesting is that. there should. well the truth seems wrong. why don't we just don't all. get to shape our business comes after. and in detroit it was betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

to. welcome back however one hundred russian diplomats are being forced out of more than twenty eight european countries as well as the u.s. and canada and the list is growing is being done in solidarity with britain which blames mosco for the poisoning of an expiring so case for powell and his daughter earlier this month here's how the russian foreign ministers reacted with little reply don't you worry no one would be willing to tolerate such berisha. either. well here's a look at just how extensive the diplomatic expulsions are the countries that russian officials will have to leave are spread all across the world with the us expelling a far more diplomats than any other nation. however not everyone is in agreement

with the masses austria garia for example notably abstained from sending out their russian diplomat sons although the incident occurred in the english city of souls bury some of the testing it's washington rather than london taking the initiative against russia the u.s. even claimed it wasn't diplomats they were deporting but rather spies 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 well among the sixty diplomats washington will expel a dozen are credited to the united nations russia's u.n. representative spoke earlier condemning the americans move so you lose focus look at the debates where the united states has abused its privileges has un host the u.s. said they hoped for and count on the continuation of cooperation with russia but

what the american side has done and is a very least a very strange invitation for cooperation that this international solidarity against russia is based on a very very good case and the further it goes the vaguer it gets it is causing a lot of suspicions and raises many questions. i have a question did this solves bury incident really cause the expulsion of diplomats or was the decision to expel russian diplomats to take it before their souls very incident we've spoken to former u.s. diplomat jim john trusts he believes that london is trying to channel a tension away from other issues. 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 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 there's 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 simply increase the pressure on countries like bulgaria like austria who don't don't want to go along with this. u.s. federal trade commission he has opened an investigation into facebook's now infamous data breach fifty million accounts were reportedly targeted by political consulting firm cambridge analytical and its parent company and links have now in between them and high profile politicians and while family members jacqueline viduka picks up the story. at this point you've likely heard of cambridge analytic

of the company at the center of a media storm who's accused of using massive amounts of stolen facebook users data to influence elections around the world but what about its parent company c l a british behavioral research and strategic communications firm. we use the same techniques as aristotle and hitler we appeal to people on an emotional level to get them to agree on a functional level if you take a look at the key figures that s.c.l. you can't miss the connections between the company's board and britain's political military and even royal establishment first there's their c.e.o. nigel oakes. ochs comes from a military family and is one of the company's founders he made headlines back in the eighty's during his reported courtship of lady helen windsor the daughter of one of the queen's cousins he once said this about his work before his time at

s.c.l. there's lord ivor mountbatten. a direct descendant of queen victoria third cousin of queen elizabeth the second and a member of a sales advisory board according to bloomberg we also have roger dad who's listed as the company's director. a former british special forces officer turned millionaire roger gabbed has donated around seven hundred thousand pounds to the conservative party over the last decade however it is important to note that in the wake of the scandal reports have surfaced that his involvement in s.c.l. and it last year and last but not least there's julian wieland chairman of the s.p.l. group. in fifteen general election we posted a photo of him campaigning with then prime minister david cameron perhaps

unsurprisingly his twitter accounts been unavailable since last week now all of these names are likely to be just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to connections between s.c.l. and the british political establishment and serious concerns on that front have already been raised by the opposition in westminster as well as in the media theresa may called the allegations very concerning and downing street has since disclosed three previous contracts with the s.t.l. group but says there aren't any currently active thank you for choosing r.t. international we'll be back at the top of the hour with the latest headlines. with more make this manufacture consent to stick to the public well. when the ruling class is protect themselves. with the famous merry go round the sun be the one percent. think

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this is boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. i'm bart chilton. and coming up there's been some rapid expansion in the hotel industry both in the u.s. and around the globe we'll talk hotels with the word for it the president and founder of straw mark plus or 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 it 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 after 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 was max do you know montel joe would never wave to her friend william at lunch watching all of our would never play basketball with.