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we have. wednesday morning. it is a nationwide day of mourning in russia commemorating the victims of a shopping center. at the. top floor where there was a children's play at least sixty four people. including forty one children.

the city's 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 with 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 morrow 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 the burial ceremonies showed you will just throughout the day you know 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 these 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 to just 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 disabling of the the fire just five 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 the situation in the city today is for now at least the day before when tensions flare as shortly after the tragedy authours he's in the city of chemical were confronted by angry crowds of victims' relatives and locals they demanded to know how the situation was allowed to happen if. you believe her you. see right here at least. i thought i.

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commemorations of also taken place here in the russian capital as well drawing some of the biggest crowds within a culture that were forced to. wear 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 event now 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. as each of five being made up of name

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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 and not only in the country but around the world the number of the victims could have been a higher paying for the courage of people nearby some actually lost their lives trying to get children out of the burning building. tells some of us tours. on sunday a tragedy and i say berry and city turn teachers shop workers students and scores of others and heroes for some it cost them their lives like the talent arsala 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 and demon ran back inside. i saw nothing there was thick black smoke everywhere her children crying and shouting and that's found out where there are three children were sitting in the corner of the room crying. and the boy told the boy to grab my belt and hold it tight until the girls by the collar and carried them out complete strangers working together to reunite families separated in the chaos constantine kolob a hall of 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 kid's dream next to it is like a 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 well. for 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 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 five people have been detained in connection with the inferno including a fire safety official it appears that a series of mistakes led to this tragedy the fire prevention system in the four

story complex did not work as intended it's thought a guard 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 up a story windows a staff 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 and one former rescuer who worked for russia's emergencies ministry and red cross says that a lot of valuable evacuation time was lost but more on that will be a good deal a bit in terms of the nation alarm is around three minutes at the very first moment turns later on you tube the lack of any announcements through all of the complex throughout the mall the information in the file was spreading from person to person or the employees who were trying to warn people it's impeded really

impeded the evacuation process the blaze in come out of it with one of the deadliest in living memory in russia it took firefighters over 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 relating to the aftermath of the tragedy in southern siberia and just to remind you it is a national day of mourning for the sixty four lives lost in the shopping center blaze but most of the deceased were children. was. was. when lawmakers manufactured consensus instead of public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. when the final

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good to have you with us today for the program at the u.s. state department says it takes the ukase word that russia was responsible for the poisoning of double agents in britain the u.s. ordered sixty russian diplomats to leave the country over the incident and here's what the state department spokesperson had to say. 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 so 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. after the you know been seeing their their evidence their proof i have not personally seen their leader of that would not come over to the state department that would most likely go to another building so i refer you to any of those other intelligence department said you know what i mean. america and so the reason the state department briefing on the expulsion of russian diplomats. the 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 you and i don't you have to provide 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 speak happy to provide while answering now or basically admitted that washington hasn't seen any proof but somehow they've 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 will continue to have an interest in our elections but also many other nations elections as well. santayana describe what it

quoted like this and if you just think that this was a 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 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 instead and russia is implicated in happened on march the fourth when a former russian intelligence agent turned british spy and together with his

daughter were found unconscious on a park bench in the u.k. city of souls both already you suspect sort of going to pile were poisoned by i know of agent of a type produced in the soviet union moscow denies any involvement in the poisoning and it continues to ask for some polls and a joint investigation or number of other countries have expelled russian diplomats in solidarity with the u.k. germany france kind of and poland are among those that blame russia for the poisoning the british prime minister has said the show of solidarity strengthened security. 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. but not everyone joined the u.k. austria portugal and switzerland decided not to expel russian diplomats from their embassies and we spoke to earlier as we've seen the vice president of the eurasia

center a think tank he believes that the u.k. has used the script case as a pretext whether it's to increase defense budget whether it's to. increase political posturing or popularity or whether it's in an attempt to control of the country 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 statement that made with you know regarding with the o.p.c. w. investigation there's nothing specific 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 relation prior to any completion of events to get him prior to any factual evidence actually being presented that it's an embarrassment and definitely not a diplomatic way to solve

a problem i don't know if they really want to solve the problem but it appears. more than one hundred twenty eight thousand people have fled the syrian region of eastern in the past month that's according to the russian ministry of defense and the exodus was made possible by a possible by a humanitarian pause on corridor was established by both syria and russia the u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley lambasted moscow for how it's handled syrian cease fire negotiations at the u.n. 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 when

the fifteen member body that leaves the united nations convened we heard from a u.s. ambassador to nikki haley she excuse 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 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 and he pointed to the solid achievements of the russian sponsored humanitarian pause also describe the fact that russia is providing food and medicine to those who've been forced to flee the area and help from there and he went on to be quite critical of how the u.n. 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 present posted some members of the u.n. security council prefer to spend time on passionate speeches and allowed to smoke and shake it claims to wards russian that's broadwood to cover the ruach tends to do anything good for the implementation of resolution one which is daunting to believe that some external. interest in supporting people from the region switch and pulling on the syrian government control gets any 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 well the region of eastern

ghouta which once had a population of four hundred thousand has been discussed at the un security council the enclave near damascus so here's damascus here on the map we're talking about the eastern side of the capital here it also mostly came on the militant control in twenty twelve from 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 some militants have been given passage to rebel controlled pockets in the north and civilians who have fled up be provided with humanitarian help but.

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hostility into even military action the war cabinet is mobilizing. readings and sell you. on june twelfth two thousand and sixteen zero marmont teen walked in the polls and nightclub in orlando florida and he opened fire in the end he was killed by local police but not before taking the lives of forty nine people and wounding fifty eight others today in orlando florida his widow nor solomon with her future hanging in the balance awaits a jury's decision on whether she obstructed justice and was an accomplice to your husband's heinous crimes as the prosecution alleges or just another living victim of her husband's savagery as the defense has argued with omar long dead the public is thirsty for revenge somebody needs to pay for the tragedy the state has offered

up nineteen is wife and widow but new evidence revealed during the trial now call into question the f.b.i.'s role and motives and not just the persecution of laura saltman but the nonexistent prosecution of all marma team despite investigating him on two different occasions in the years and months leading up to the attack. on sunday it was revealed that all marma teams bothers to dignity you remember the one you saw on c.n.n. after the shooting was actually an f.b.i. informant for more than ten years and according to the intercept may have influenced the f.b.i.'s decision not to investigate his son prior to the shooting the intercepts trevor aaronson observes that the f.b.i. files provided the saddam's defense lawyers suggest that agents consulted with seems father in his capacity as an informant during the first assessment raising questions about whether saddam mateen helped persuade f.b.i. agents to close out an inquiry that could have prevented the deadly terrorist

attack so it appears that once again the f.b.i. may have clearly dropped the ball on preventing tragedy like they did recently with park with shooter nicholas cruz charleston shirt shooter dylan roof boston bomber talents are enough we want to go back to that you know it. makes me wonder is i we know that every sing a trend here let's find out you start watching the hawks. you know that i got.