local. you. balance 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. should be good to be able to do to keep this economy stupid. president putin visits the city to pay his respects promising that those responsible will face justice. all people got a cross russia to commemorate those who lost their lives as authorities declare wednesday

a day of national mourning. and in other news moscow says it won't tolerate borish no sound will respond past two dozen countries worldwide expelled russian diplomats in a show of solidarity with britain which blames mosco for the poisoning of a former double agent. as well welcome you're watching r.t. international with me making ara on. a wednesday has been a declared a national day of mourning in russia dozens of cities across the country have announced commemorative gatherings for choose day evening and we're showing you live pictures now from one of those vigils being held in central moscow at pushkin square as you can see huge crowds of people some holding white balloons. many

people looking very solemn even some in tears as people come together in solidarity to remember those sixty four people who lost their lives yes in sunday's mall fire . people in israel hungry a stonier ukraine and many other countries have also been laying flowers outside russian embassies flowers were also laid in the former soviet republics of kyrgyzstan and to g q stan. well anger has been mounting in the central russian 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 there was traitors 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 rallied right throughout the day repeatedly

chanting the word truth claim a number of deaths is being downplayed and people are still missing. president putin flew out to siberia earlier he laid flowers at a makeshift memorial outside the shopping complex also met survivors in hospital and gave his personal thoughts on the disaster. when you hear for the first time how many people die children die so you don't just want to cry you want to scream. that after you hear what's happening frankly if you're 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 crowds for forgiveness. you don't you do the boy you know because when you're going to be

a good. student ya go out those good know if you're going to get your kid out those given them never the thank you all the guys that yeah sure especially christian it means a mixed up well but of course but we're young i know you under your feet did you hear the music did you feel differently afterwards. and you know. people were out protesting on camera as main square the twelve hours on tuesday he goes down off his in the fifty four as he's been talking to locals about what happened. their emotional and. his and probably the perfect metaphor to sum up one question on everybody's mind in one way or another or another is that this kid. should be pushed from the edge of the mothership to sleep this is not the issue in the tub.

this is. nothing. legal they are closer to a fence at the foot let's leave it at that time and you have one hell of a cause and i'm out here for the federal civil liberties messed up or was something the democrats and such towards the political system so it is not just what course has come up clearly you mention 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 law soon people had to leave home due to windows you know like one in for their lives they wanted to know why the person know all the shopping for years old trained how to behave how you treat people in a situation such an imagine. to show the state of helping they actually hampered

here the rescue efforts easier there are i ran upstairs cinema stuff didn't let me see through the pushed me my daughter asked me why no one was saving her as if i meant to do something but he just stared. around two third floor firemen stood there 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 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 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 fine and we've heard some stories of security guards heroically carrying children out of the blaze now another very important thing people want to know hayes is 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 some people went to the morgue 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 so numbers are not that high but no one believes that. 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. i was at the morgue on volgograd street there are

sixty seven bodies there sixty four of them from the shopping center burned bodies these three others are not related to that incident there are a lot of children that. landed here in camera in the morning and he has already laid flowers at the vigil and talked to some of the citizens to comfort them over their lost son of the phone lines like he said i'm going to check in with you because with a mission from missing you would enjoy. looking forward to missions like you know you know with this particular situation that i would be fucking the president bush and then he said his words were code 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 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 right now it looks that everything is being done to bring all those responsible to justice the blaze in the siberian city is one of the deadliest in russia in living memory it took firefighters have a seventeen hours to extinguish it the shopping complex was completely gutted by the. huge sections of the roof collapsed here's a closer look at how the catastrophe and unfolded. i'm the. kind you would if i see you soon. here's a visual musician if. you get it wasn't us you can desire to figure. out

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from. 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 so the cinema it would be their last adventure. if you teach them this little bit. 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 right her former students you didn't deserve this we will all remember you. you could tell it to you in this to do. this when 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 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 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. the has been an update on the boy who jumped from the four story window through 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. ok that can cause life well correspondent david koch never

hears that a commemorative gathering in central moscow now met dana what's happening where you are. well as you can see you are in the center of the campus well where hundreds of people came to the downtown moscow to commemorate the victims so deadly blaze in the city of cairo and as you can see crowds of people keep coming in and the square is not even enough to fit everybody who wants to be a part of this event you know many people came here bringing flowers some brought why do balloons that was just released into the sky all that pain last respects to the victims now we see different people here many came with the children there are lots of young people here many students and this is just one of the two events that test taking place in moscow now earlier there was another event by the walls of the kremlin and people there as well bringing flowers and lighting candles by the photos of those who died in the fire at the shopping mall on sunday now events are

happening across the country we know there is an other commemorative service now taking place in the city of st peter's work as this evening now lying around some of the alleged marks here in the capital will be turned off people in israel hungriest on ukraine and other countries have also been laying flowers outside the russian embassy as it is a very difficult moments especially for the nation as this horrible tragic event shocks so many not only in russia but across the world thanks michelle you know it's always extraordinary and. to see so many people coming together like this matilda question of from central moscow thank you for joining us now from jerusalem is fine a fine to air and paula mr paul it gives you joy good at thank you for joining us on the program now it seems in this case the fire alarms were either switched off or broken in this shopping mall how is not possible when systems like this are

meant to be checked and double checked. thank you guys for having me part of the show. first of all i'm not quite aware of exactly what might have happened into this particular event. they should not be turned off these fire systems are meant to be working twenty four seventh's at all times so there's no reason as to why they wouldn't have worked or they would have been shut off. one of the fathers who lost children in the blaze at the shopping mall said that it took three minutes for the rescue teams to push on their protective mosques is that normal how quickly should teams be getting ready to go into a fire for us and israeli fire department that is not normal where outside the station within a minute and already on scene with under three minutes ready to go we arrive on

scene with our masks and our equipment ready to enter the scene and help the people that are needed help. but i cannot contact i cannot tell you guys or to what russia did wrong or to what happened this particular event because i was not there. but there were two cinemas inside of the shopping mall where that the fire occurred and a lot of children were inside the cinema watching a cartoon at the time of the fire and reports suggesting that the doors into the cinema were actually locked and that this is not the first time this is happens this is happened before why might that have been why would exits be blocked in multan public buildings like this. again for us that's not ok and as a firefighter myself that's that's definitely not ok that exits are blocked they should always be open and available for the occupants of a building to be able to exit quickly and in

a calmly fashion. i cannot comment as to why these exits were blocked because again for us it's not ok they're never blocked exits should always be open. and finally what lessons do you think could be learned to avoid this happening again do you think what do you think needs to be improved to make sure that we don't lose so many people are getting such a. i definitely think in this kind of tragedy we need to learn that fire safety is key and prevention is the number one fight against a tragedy which means that the fire safety that exits the sprinklers fire extinguishers alarms they should always be working and we should be able to alert the public in a tragedy or a crisis like this one as soon as possible so they can exit the building and there should be casualties to this amount of people. by five to aaron pollack thank you

for your time. we'll be back after this short break. join me every thursday on the elec so i'm i'm sure i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics for this i'm sure business i'll see you that. what holds if you should. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected.

so when you want to trust. something i want to. get it right. this is what. real people. interested always in the water. there should. welcome back the two dozen western governments are sending home between them over one hundred russian diplomats they expulsions are to show solidarity with the u.k. which accuses moscow of orchestrating the poisoning of a former spy and his daughter earlier this month britain's prime minister to resign may has praised the coordinated response you see i welcome the international

support that we have that we have gone into this a little as i said in the house yesterday this isn't just a matter of the u.k.'s position and working with you case i think in the national security interests of the individual countries concerned. my correspondent said they had they should talk us through this statement some strong words there were. so theresa may has appeared in front of the parliamentary liaison committee following the mass expose expulsion of russian diplomats now she commended the rising number of countries that have expelled stepped about this commending this unified response from the countries she says it's not just in the interest of the u.k. but internationally as well now in the past a reason has also reiterated that more needs to be done in response to russia's alleged to have aggression on say his door to you via she said the u.k. stands shoulder to shoulder with the e.u. and nato for nato we've really been haring mixed messages from the secretary

general let's take a listen. we do not want a new cold war. today drawing that i could tell you. seven stoff the russian mission to nato. the pending i could it request for three others so the secretary general has decided to reduce its russian mission to nato by a third. it really begs the question of how nato is going to prevent a cold war because this expulsion is anything but friendly the russian foreign minister has also responded to the wave of expulsion saying that russia won't tolerate these measures but that it will replied. no one would be willing to tolerate such person is not either. on monday over one hundred

russian diplomats were expelled from a number of countries and it's the largest collective expulsion of russian diplomats in history now there have been a number of countries that have said they have no intentions of expelling any russian diplomats among these e.u. member states we have austria greece portugal with such a list of eleven countries that perhaps want to keep an open dialogue with russia is something that the presidents of the e.u. commission stated in the e.u. summit last week but new zealand have come forth after running a few background checks on that russian diplomats this is what they have to say on the matter. the people who are being exposed being undeclared by large undeclared intelligence offices we've done a cheek a new zealand we don't have russian undeclared intelligence officers here if we did we would expel them looking stateside though it seems that the u.s. is escalating the conflict with moscow and spearheading this process or the u.s.

government expelling sixty russian diplomats now that's the largest number of all the countries taking action there let's listen to washington's response now. 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. so we've heard that the white house is effectively admitted that donald trump was behind these expulsions a coordinated response perhaps the attack that happens on u.k. soil. thank you for the update that's our. russia's ambassador to the e.u. vladimir change of joins me to give his view on the script case. it all started with the british government. blaming russia for this tragic incident not only before the investigation was completed but

before it even started. i don't know whether they showed any evidence because if they had david ins of the should of for according to the their obligations under the. convention on probation of chemical weapons the first show we to the russian federation which they didn't european commission president as uncle john guy says europe needs to have an open channel of communication with moscow but if they're expelling dozens of diplomats who are they going to talk to the expulsions that you mentioned they were all they can national level by individual member states of the european union and some other countries and they will add here that i don't think the british government. is. should be satisfied with this because they are now saying that.

of the fake that so many countries have shown solidarity of with britain by through the expulsion of russian diplomats. if you look at the picture actually they have been. they have managed to split the european union in a way that russia never could old never intended to because half of member states did not support that view of the u.k. and did not follow with similar measures white house spokesperson said it was donald trump who effectively spurred countries into action against russia where all of the driving seat is i believe the most comfort to. seat for the u.s. . diplomacy to be in it doesn't always managed to be there and to act in

a diplomatic way unfortunately i would say that this latest the russian hysteria over the other souls brains didn't. is certainly serves as a tool to prop up. the position of individual e.u. member states in favor of continuing this iran years sanctions policy towards russia. thanks for choosing our c.n.n. national poll the latest headlines michael a kevin i when will be with you at the top of the hour. oh good for the love love love oh. oh oh oh it's going to go to the focus that. both of. you.

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ranch there is every reason to believe these same people will translate their hostility into even military action the war cabinet is mobilizing. greetings and salutations spring is here hark watchers as we grow into some. or you can feel a great energy charge in the air you saw in action over the weekend as roughly eight hundred thousand protesters took to the streets of washington d.c. demanding an end to the uniquely u.s. nightmare school shootings and gun related violence but as the old saying goes the more things change the more things stay the same you see as these kids teenagers parents and teachers applauded the powerful speeches demanding an end to violence their elected officials both democrat and republican went about business as usual

and guaranteed over seven hundred billion dollars worth of violence worldwide i present to you the great one point three trillion dollar omnibus spending bill ladies and gentlemen a good place to see where your congressman and president's moral values truly lie seven hundred billion more than half for the war department including sixty five point two billion specifically set aside for the o.c. o. the overseas contingency operations the actual budget specifically for waging war and while the defense contractors bankrolls boom in their c e o's portfolios quadruple platinum that what joyce prizes await us behind door number one what do what do we get out of all this well besides incineration and what wounds how about a good old helping of warfare and do starvation.