a nationwide day of mourning in russia. the country commemorate the victims. which killed at least sixty four people including forty one children. thousands of people including relatives. calling for the resignation of the regional government. and the u.s. . saying it has full faith.

in the u.k. tells us that they have proof that they know russia was responsible we have every reason to believe. they're. not only. mourning here at this. welcome to the program. it is a nationwide day of mourning here in russia commemorating the victims of a fire shopping center. at the blaze started on the top floor where there was a cinema and a children's play area at least sixty four people have been confirmed dead including forty one children. by. the people in the the city. with this tragedy. well

rory the three days on since the first of blaze since the inferno in the shopping mall right beside me the city is still reeling from the shock really twenty seven bodies have been identified so far and the process is slow because the bodies of the victims are so so so horribly mutilated that in many cases they identify the identification process is only possible through a d.n.a. test and on the at the vigil side behind me you can see how many people still come and still stand here and bring flowers and pay their respects to everyone who perished in the inferno in the moore despite this being a work day really and two days also when the when the relatives of the first fifteen victims of the blaze are paying their last respects with burial ceremonies show jeweled throughout the day now this comes

a day after thousands of people flock in front folks flocked to the square in front of the city council to vent their anger pain and fear at the authorities they stood for eleven hours with a few very clear messages to the authorities they called on them to not withhold any information from the public as to how the investigation is going and for everyone they want everyone responsible for this for this horror to be brought to justice to be punished and also they wanted answers as to how this was possible this is what they wanted from the authorities and they in turn have promised to keep the investigation as transparent as possible latimer puton also visited the town yesterday and he promised he made the made a vow as well that he said that at least a thousand investigators are working here and that everyone that no one no one who is to blame for the blaze will. will be able to just you just get get away with

a get out of jail free card so to speak so investigators so far have arrested five people in connection with the blaze among them is the owner of the mall and the fire chief and a security guard who suspected of disabling the the fire the fire prevention system before the blaze also more protests. are expected today to wear on standby for this and we'll be bringing you the latest on that throughout the day. right out easier down off thank you. now people across russia had already been gathering for vigils up before the nationwide day of mourning was officially declared. move.

were my. mom. who knew. the. commemorations of also taken place here in the russian capital as well drawing some of the biggest crowds medina cochon of our reporters

were here in the center of moscow as you can see here hundreds of people came to commemorate the victims of the deadly blaze and the city of camera now this square seems not to be enough to feed everyone complaints to be a part of this advance you know many people came here with their children a lot of people brought flowers some came here was the wide balloons that had been released into the sky paying respects to the victims of that horrible tragedy now we managed to speak to some people who came to the downtown of the capital this tuesday. of each of five being made up of name a couple a new coach a socialist mcadams cousins. when you reach out a book you use go of we you know me and the polka dot com look to not said yep it's come aboard ship being certain yes i did you see you're not but the polka. what she is the other piece d.c.

is go up to my vehicle you know who's will tell you probably a metal to professional thumb if. you give of the ship but have the bees up officers just don't know if it is a bomb got to get down the to the ideas that. what if still there were a lot of people here but then in a couple of hours the atmosphere here at this event started to change and became distinctly political now there was a group of people that started to shout different slogans they were protesting against the current russian government they were also calling for the governor of the canada frege and this is where the treasure to place to step down earlier and other events took place by the walls of the kremlin where as well a lot of people came there bringing flowers and lighting candles it is a very difficult moment for the whole country as this horrible tragedy has shaken everyone here not only in the country but around the world shortly after the tragedy authorities in the city of chemical were confronted by great crowds of

victims' relatives on locals and they demanded to know how the situation was allowed to happen. i've. got. this massive massive gathering. together to find. out how to. push. something a. month but i'm just like you. i knew it was. going to say i want to see what they are nineteen

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the target shooter was going to let go of the. now the number of victims could have been higher had not been for the coverage of people nearby actually lost their lives trying to get children out of the burning building his jaclyn virga. on sunday a tragedy and i said berry and city turn teachers shop workers students and scores of others and heroes for some it cost them their lives like to tell of their sala an english teacher and mother who was out with her fourteen year old daughter when

the fire broke out she managed to get her child safety before selflessly running back into the burning building to try and help others trapped inside. many survivors have spoken of how they would never have made it out alive if there weren't people like top down of their seventeen year old team of pollution is a student at an emergency services college with smoke filling the air he made it to the exit but heard a woman crying for help on able to find her children she pointed towards the fire indeed moran back inside. i saw nothing there was black smoke everywhere her children crying and shouting and that's how i found out where there are three children were sitting in the corner of the room crying. and the boy i told the boys to grab my bowels and hold it tight until the girls by the color and carried them out complete strangers working together to reunite families separated in the chaos constantine colaba hove fun a toddler in a play area who was in shock and couldn't move but constantine and

a female employee managed to get the boy to safety there was a small child not more than three years old sitting in the play area all the other kids run out and he was left completely alone there you've used to come up to me the girl who worked there is selling tickets and they walked out together with him i grabbed the child and around from there stuff at the winter cherry center risked their lives trying to get as many youngsters out of the building as they could i was in one of the play areas and there was another kids remakes to it it's like you kind of labyrinth in the labyrinth for kids to tell you the truth if i went in there i wouldn't found a way out especially with the smoke i was calling for the kids all i could and got them out of there as many as i could see a photographer who worked at the shopping center managed to gather dozens of children. leaving them out he was reluctant to share his story guys please don't write about me as if i am some kind of hero it don't say my last name please i just don't want it there are no doubt other unsung heroes in the city strangers without

whom even more people both young and old would have perished now five people have been detained in connection with the inferno including a fire safety official it appears that a series of mistakes led to the tragedy the fire prevention system in the four story complex didn't work as intended it's thought a god turned off the alarm presumably because he thought it was a false alert emergency exits were locked leaving people with no alternative but to try and escape from a post story windows stuff at the shopping center were not trained properly either the building of the mall was a converted factory and reportedly in violation of fire safety regulations for rescue who work for russia's emergencies ministry and the red cross says that a lot of valuable evacuation time was lost. on that believe it de lay in terms of the nation is around three minutes at the very first moment and later on you tube the lack of any announcements through all of the complex for

all of them all the information in the file was spreading from person to person or the employees who were trying to warn people it's impeded it really impeded the evacuation process the blaze in camera is one of the deadliest and rusher in living memory it took five years of a seventeen hours to extinguish it and one section of the shopping complex was completely gutted and large sections of the roof collapsed here on r.t. will continue to follow developments of relating to the aftermath of this tragedy in southern siberia just to remind you it is a national day of mourning for the sixty four lives lost in the blaze and most of the deceased children. i was was. was was.

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here in moscow thanks for joining us sixty russian diplomats have been ordered to leave the u.s. in response to russia's alleged involvement in the poisoning of double agent sort of. in the u.k. it's part of a coordinated series of expulsions by western countries at the u.s. state department says it takes the u.k.'s word that russia was responsible for the attack. certainly know that russia is responsible for that attack that is something that is not in question that something that the brits and many other countries have said as well but we stand strongly with our ally with the u.k. and when the u.k. tells us that they have proof that they know russia was responsible we have every reason to believe them and. have been seeing their their evidence their proof i have not personally heard in their roof that would not come over to the state

department that would most likely go to another building so i would refer you to any of those other intelligence department said you know what i mean. so american was at the recent state department briefing on the expulsion of russian diplomats the main topic of discussion was washington's expulsion of russian diplomats the most out of all countries to do so over the alleged poisoning of a former double agent and his daughter on british soil a spokeswoman now it was bombarded with questions regarding evidence or lack thereof and most boil down to whether the u.s. possesses any concrete evidence linking rushed to the crime and if the expelled diplomats were really spies how do you know these specific sixty people were that would be and how that would be spent i mean can you give us any kind of example of what these people were doing that made them not real diplomats i don't have access to that kind of information were they jumping the subway turnstile to show me that they were not actually used again if you're being funny it's different

with the u.n. i don't you have to provide the evidence to the u.n. and i think i just answered that but i don't know the answer to that if i can get an answer for you i would be happy to provide them while answering now or basically admitted that washington hasn't seen any proof but somehow they have still decided to take london's claims as gospel now i have the rare opportunity to ask a question and i mentioned that the o.p.c. w. or the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons hasn't released the results of the investigation as yet and she said that russia wasn't cooperating we look forward to the o.p.c. of you completing its investigation we also hope at the same time that russia will return to the un security council and will agree to some sort of a mechanism like the joint investigative mechanism that they had stood in the way of and in fact defeated numerous times while now or blatantly ignore the fact that russia has been saying it's ready to cooperate with british authorities since the day of the assassination attempt so it seems that washington doesn't believe in its

own philosophy that one is innocent until proven guilty russia has long arms russia has lots of tentacles we imagine that they were. continue to have an interest in our elections but also many other nations elections this fall back arms and how to do the right way to quit it seems like as if you just want the beast from the deep sea it's part of a much bigger scenario that's taking place you know some people refer to it as a new cold war but in some ways it's more dangerous than the old cold war but you know there's a certain hypocrisy involved. you think of how serious this is and the response to this compared to how serious it was when the united states and britain and the others invaded iraq did all these european countries stand up and expel american diplomats for an invasion of iraq that was far more serious of course not you know it's this is part of a cold war positioning with the west standing up against russia and russia responding but i think that if we're going to take such strong action we need firm

proof and we need to begin presenting some of this evidence to the public the incident rushers and because it didn't happen on the march the fourth when a former russian intelligence agent british spy together with his daughter were found on conscious and bench in the u.k. city of salzburg the authorities of suspect sort of going to probable poisoned by a nerve agent of a type produced in the soviet union or sco denies any involvement in the poisoning and says its attempts to cooperate with london on the mount continue to be ignored now a number of other countries have expelled russian diplomats in solidarity with the u.k. germany france kind of their own poland are among those to blame russia for the poisoning and the british prime minister welcome to the international support to see i'm welcome the international support that we 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 the u.k.

it's i think in the national security interests of the individual countries concerned. well not everyone joined the u.k. western allies like austria portugal and switzerland refused to expel russian diplomats from their embassies and we spoke to earlier rasmussen the vice president of the eurasia center think tank he believes that the u.k. has used the script pollak case as a pretext whether it's to increase defense budget whether it's new. increased political posturing or popularity or whether it's. in an attempt to. control other countries i think there's a greater geo political objective here you know if you look at some of the court documents of some of their biological scientists the statements. that made with you know regarding with the o.p.c. w. investigation there's. they're buried there's nothing with depict there's no

direct correlation to russia there they're very broad in their statement and i think you know we're we're jumping completely we're jumping to conclusions taking punitive action indeed during diplomatic really prior to any completely to get in prior to any actual evidence actually being presented and it's an embarrassment. and definitely not a. diplomatic way to solve a problem i don't know if they really want to throw the problem but it appears. united states ambassador to the united nations nikki haley has also asked to moscow about how it handled syrian cease fire negotiations at the u.n. . and reports when the fifteen member body that leads the united nations convened we heard from a u.s. ambassador nikki haley now as she often does she began to make accusations against russia she accused russia of deception hypocrisy and brutality but from

there her remarks took a rather interesting turn she went off on kind of a tangent in her remarks referring to what she said was diplomats leaving the room to call the syrian regime and if you watched closely during the negotiations we could see our russian friends constantly leaving the room to confirm with their syrian counterparts. the possibilities for what was going on are only two. either russia was informing their syrian colleagues about the content of the negotiations or russia was taking directions from the syrian colleagues about the content of the negotiations now the russian ambassador to the united nations and in benghazi he took to the floor and responded to the accusations from nikki haley with some rather clear facts about what's taking place on the ground in eastern guta he pointed to the solid achievements of the russian sponsored humanitarian

pause he pointed out that one hundred twenty one thousand civilians have been able to leave of their own free will and get out of the areas where the fighting is taking place he also described the fact that russia is providing food and medicine to those who've been forced to flee the area and out from there he went on to be quite critical of how the un security council meetings are being conducted and what does essentially a blame game being used by certain countries at the council this isn't a bad. move so that the proposed so members of the u.n. security council prefer to spend time on passionate speeches and allowed to make and shaky claims towards russia and that's broadly to come up with their own ruach tends to do anything good for the implementation of resolution one to pull over one who is starting to believe that some external donors are losing interest in supporting people from the region switch and pulling on the syrian government control we're getting signals from some capitals there's a need to help the opposition and. it's unclear what will happen next but it it's

pretty clear that the position of russia is that the united states should be using these meetings for the purpose of trying to actually help the civilians who are in harm's way not for making unproven and shaky accusations against different countries and placing blame when so many civilians are in danger and do need the real assistance and attention of the security council the region of eastern guta which once had a population of four hundred thousand has been discussed at the u.n. so. here to counsel the enclave knew about the militant controlled and twenty twelve in the syrian army has been trying to recapture it ever since the fighting intensified last month and the government now holds between seventy and eighty percent of the territory under a cease fire deal militants have been given passage to rebel controlled pockets in the north civilians who have fled being provided with humanitarian.

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