thousands demand justice for the victims of a huge shopping center fire in the russian city of camera which left sixty four people dead on sunday. that. if you look at the. president putin visits the cities of pay his respects to the victims promising that those responsible will face justice. the eleven year old boy who jumped from the fourth floor of the burning shopping mall has regained consciousness the hunt beat in an induced coma since sunday his mother father and little sister all died in the fire. and in other news moscow's as it won't tolerate borish nurse and will respond as two dozen countries

worldwide expelled russian diplomats in a show of solidarity with britain which claims moscow for the poisoning of a former aide. to. a warm welcome you are watching r.t. international with me. our top story anger is mounting in a siberian city of camera for where thousands of protesters have been calling for the resignation of the regional government sixty four people including many children were killed in an inferno in a shopping center there on sunday demonstrators say the local authorities response to the fire was not good enough they're demanding answers and justice for the victims of the tragedy people have been rallying right throughout the day repeatedly chanting the word truth some claim the number of deaths is being downplayed and that eighty five p. . people are still missing thirty eight victims have not yet been identified

president putin flew out to siberia earlier he laid flowers at a makeshift memorial outside the shopping complex he also met survivors in hospital and gave his personal thoughts on the disaster. when you hear for the first time how many people died the children died but we don't just want to cry to look at you want to scream but after you hear what's happening here frankly you feel very different because the region is governor in particular has been facing harsh criticism for failing to address the protesters he reportedly apologized for the tragedy in a call to the president however his deputy asked the crowd for forgiveness you don't you think you get more than the obvious when you go to the. yard go to i

don't know if you're going to get yes yes yes. yes sure especially when the british. come over the force but god reveals. the fear that. people have been are protesting on camera of the main square for ten hours so far this tuesday because dan of is in the city for us he's been talking to locals about what happened here's his latest report. the city is a royal dub the. 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. because i was in the mothership to sleep

this is not the logic of. this is that if. you felt that it was a virtual fence at the foot it was a. time on your full health and i'm out here for the fed you'll have a very rough couple with some of the fun stuff was going to tell us what was the muslim clearly the emotion here the emotion level is borderline hysterical people want to know why why the five prevention system didn't work why people had to break through fire exits the very bad student were supposed to lead people to safety were locked so people had to jump to the windows for their lives running for their lives they wanted to know why the person know all the shopping mall use not trained how to behave how to help people he said june such an emergency show the state of helping they actually hampered the rescue efforts easier to get it out i

ran upstairs cinema stuff didn't let me suit they pushed me my daughter asked me why no one was saving her i asked the firemen to do something but he just stared. around two third floor firemen stood there doing nothing in front of the door my daughter told me that she loved me and that she was suffocating i told it 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 mentorship. how long we stand here no matter how loud we shout no one will hear us. 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 guards actually often warn people about the beginning fire instead of a fire alarm and we've heard some stories of security guards heroically hurrying

children out of the blaze now another very important thing people want to know hey it's 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 the authorities are trying to shoot down so to speak now of course it isn't a stand of all the 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 tragedies feeling this tragedy on a deeply personal level just to give you an idea some people went to the morgues to see for 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 the authorities claim that sixty four bodies were found and a few are missing some numbers are not that high but 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 lucky i was at the morgue on volgograd street there are six to seven bodies there sixty four of them from the shopping center burnt bodies three others are not really. did to that incident there are a lot of children that 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 number is it's not sixty four it's three hundred so it creates a chain everyone shares it on 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 blood i'm uprooting who landed here and camera virtually in the morning and he has already laid flowers at the vigil and talked to some of the citizens to comfort them over their loss he promised the investigation to be tried as transparent as possible his words were by the deputy governor also promised for everything to be out there in the open the russian investigative committee is in its turn putting under arrest five people who they had earlier detained in connection with the blaze now among those people is the owner of the shopping mall the fire safety chief and one of the security guards the investigators believe that it was the security guard who actually switched off of the fire prevention system and that's why it didn't work so right now it looks that

everything is being done to bring all those responsible to justice. the blaze in camera is one of the deadliest in russia in living memory it took firefighters over seventeen hours to extinguish it here's a closer look at how the catastrophe and for that. the new devices. but you see. the body. you complicity in the church chill.

out. the first two that you. use you. know which is sort of what it. is a lot about this now with me is alexander starr austin a former rescuer who worked for russia's emergencies ministry will be using

a translator so do bear with us on this i missed our austin thank you for joining us now the fire along in the shopping mall were either switched off all broken it seems how is that possible when systems like this are meant to be checked and double checked. well let's go. first and foremost while you're alive to express my condolences to the families of the bereaved it is a real tragedy only according to the information we have so far. according to the information we have a spur of the investigation after. the information went off one of the technicians one of the security officers switched it off the reasons are still unknown and has been detained has been questioned at the moment. because it is quite often so that i'm so certain buildings alarmists. give

was enough for about twenty years of force. operation. sometimes to have been switched in order to prevent any further false working in this case it led to very tragic consequences indeed no instruction that includes any kind of thing prepared for that kind of moment in this case how much valuable evacuation time do you think would have been lost if customers and staff didn't hear any alarm. i will be judging by the analysis and data we have. in terms of the recreational. three minutes at the very first moment later on you tube the lack of.

any announcements of the complex throughout the mall information about the fire was spreading from person to person or the employees who were trying to warn people it's impeded really impeded the evacuation process. reports we've heard also suggest that the doors into the cinema were closed and that this practice has happened before why might that have been surely the exits in modern public buildings like this are designed to open easily in a case like an emergency. this . we have two oceans two scenarios are possible still the this to go. to get to the root of it but the first series the alarm was switched off.

that is why there was no response. no information come into the control system that is why the doors were not blocked automatically as it should be done according to the very idea of these emergency systems and the second theory is that the doors were locked i don't know i do. extra logs which were installed voluntary by the organize a should. provide services for the mall or someone else. i don't know in order to prevent any unauthorized access of some people or preventing some possible for aft. and that blocked the exits. unfortunately. we've been seeing a lot of cases like that. let's understand austin former russian emergencies ministry employee thank you for sharing your insight on this story.

wednesday has been declared a national day of mourning in russia dozens of cities across the country have announced remembrance service is for tuesday evening and people across the world have also been laying flowers outside russian embassies we've managed to obtain drona first pitch capturing the scale of the devastation caused by the fire the images show that huge sections of the building's roof have collapsed the surrounding streets have been closed off and emergency teams are still working in the guest said shopping complex mark as we have now has more on the grief and growing fury in the siberian city. these people tired of those mincing their words of understating of keeping information back this is what these protests in care of a good were about people demanding action people demanding information to be kept

in the new york to be 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 loved ones it makes you so sad you want to cry it's devastating and then talking to officials you 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. for the for the first time tonight . richard which is good for the ship do you. think you can with permission. with just a little. bit of the he said this is a huge tragedy i mean this is

a small city and down to the sea many people will know someone who had lost a child a son or 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 said someone. lighted 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 wrong the fire exits were locked they were

blocking the fire 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 have to press a button and everybody would be aware that there was something wrong evacuating 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 the doors with. so all the people inside were trapped usually you have someone on the door demanding checks tickets lets people in they shut

these doors and the door man left once a door began in the room began filling up with smoke and you had cartoons running in them many of the many of the people in there with kids they can't get on the gravity of this this tragedy but to view is may find some of what we are 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. if this. is the new look we can. 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 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 writer for my students you didn't deserve this we will all remember you did ask if you could go to its annual list to do. what you did. little rats aboard pictured here

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 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 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 have an update on the boy who jumped from a four story window to escape escape the flames he was put into a medically induced coma due to the severity of his injuries but is now conscious again however he doesn't yet know that he lost both of his parents and his little

sister in the fire so now we are getting a fresh reports of another fire at the winter cherry shopping mall has breaking news for you but a few details of the moment but we will update you on that as soon as we learn them we are of course keeping across all developments in the aftermath of the tragedy in southern siberia to remind you sixty four lives are known to have been lost in the blaze at the shopping center many of the dead were children and recovery teams are continuing to work in the burned out complex meanwhile angry grief stricken locals are rallying for answers from the or thora to u.s. president putin has visited the area and promises that everyone responsible for the child today will be brought to justice. was. was.

anyone else chose seemed wrong. why don't we all just don't call. me. yet to ship out just didn't come out again and in detroit it was betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. what politicians do you suppose to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president injured. or something wanted. to go right to the press this is what. real people are. interested in the why. they should.

welcome back now two dozen western governments are sending home between them over one hundred russian diplomats they expose some thought to show solidarity with the u.k. which accuses mosco of all constraints in the poisoning of a former spy and his daughter earlier this month the british foreign secretary has thanked his country's allies for what he called a robust response i've had a number of discussions with card courts across the e.u. the us and elsewhere which has helped on precedented. international response to this reckless russian. let's go live to our correspondent here aneesh assess they now have he can you talk us through boris johnson statements and some of those strong words he used that. yes so we've just heard the u.k.

foreign secretary boris johnson appearing before and peace at westminster following the news of the mass expulsions of russian diplomats now he concluded that the u.k. had numerous talks with the us which helped with this international response and he said that it was a considerable gesture from the twenty three countries that have made this decision now it's a very similar response in fact to the u.k. prime minister trees in may he said that the u.k. stand shoulder to shoulder with the e.u. and nato now the russian foreign minister has responded to this wave of expulsions saying russia will not tolerate these measures let's take a listen to what sigil as well have to say would. reply. no one would be willing since all rights is. not either. now on monday more than one hundred russian diplomats were expelled from twenty three countries it's the largest collective response of the expulsion of russian diplomats in history and

that all countries though that have said that they have no intention of further action and no intention of expelling russian diplomats these even member states are austria greece portugal it's a list of eleven countries that want to keep an open dialogue with russia it's something that the president of the european commission stressed at the e.u. summit last week but new zealand though has come forth after running a few background checks on that russian diplomats the people who bring expeller of being undeclared by large undeclared intelligence offices we've done a cheek a new zealand we don't have russian and declared intelligence officers here if we did we would expel them. looking stateside to paris that the u.s. is escalating this conflict with moscow and spearheading the process the u.s. government's expelling sixty russian diplomats it's the largest amount of all countries taking action let's take

a listen to what washington had to say 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 now it appears to be a coordinated measure donald trump was discussing these measures beforehand with other leaders the white house press really said that trump called the canadian prime minister this has to discuss their actions together and looking at the response though it seems that the u.s. wants to appease that stay message critics. places that they thank you for those dates house will be back at the top of the hour with the latest headlines we'll see you that.

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 will talk hotels with the word for it the president and founder of stroll 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 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 park when 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 alec shakhtar would never walk into school with his brother ryan scott beagle would never joke around with cameron at camp helen or ems he would never hang out after school with max genome ontology that would never wave to her friend william at lunch watching all of her would never play basketball with sam or doing well enough that he would never karoli grimwood never chris haixun would never do coir would never march into k.-i we are no would never hear. language never this nagas would never jamie gothenburg would never have met okalik would never. pretty powerful stuff marchers demanded a ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines as well as closing the gun show loophole on background checks meanwhile after dick's sporting goods recently

announced an end to sales of assault rifles in its stores they posted a weak sales report some gun rights advocates rejoice however analysts say dick's bad news said more to do with excess inventory and price pressures from competitors then gun policy change will have more on that and keep an eye on the story on the.