and it is about. the headlines on. national day of mourning in russia. the country commemorate the victims of sunday shopping center. which killed at least sixty four people including forty one children. the people of. great locals confronted with relatives of victims demanding to know how the tragedy . of the u.s. expelled sixty russian diplomats over the script saying it has full faith in the assessment that russia is responsible. when the u.k.

tells us that they have proof that they know russia was responsible we have every reason to believe. i've. been seeing their evidence their proof i have i've not noticed their. welcome to the program here on r t international and thank you for sharing your wednesday with us. it is a nationwide day of mourning in russia commemorating the victims of a shopping center in the siberian city of kemah at the blaze started on the top floor where there was a cinema and a children's play area sixty four people have been confirmed dead including forty one children emotions the services say there are no more missing people. reports. three days on since the tragedy the town is still reeling from the shock people

keep coming to this makeshift vigil to commemorate those who perished in sunday's inferno today's also the relatives of the first fifteen victims are paying their last respects with burial ceremonies should throughout the day no this comes a day after thousands of people gathered in front of the city council to vent their fear pain and anger they stood for eleven hours demanding the authorities do not withhold any information from the public they're saying everyone who is to blame for the fire should be brought to justice and local authorities in turn promised to keep the investigation as transparent as possible and if lattimer putin who visited the town yesterday also made a vow that no one will escape the punishment so far five people have been arrested in connection with the tragedy including the fire safety chief and one of the security guards who is suspected of deliberately shooting off shutting down

disabling the fire alarm system disabling the hold fire prevention system before the blaze you know there's more protests today so we'll be standing by for that and bringing you all the latest the tragedy has shaken not only the siberians here but the whole country people have been bringing flowers and toys to improvise memorials all across russia and vigils have taken place in many cities and towns before the national day of mourning was officially declared.

one of the many tragic stories is that of a group of eleven year old girls from a village near camera they had travelled to the city with a teacher to celebrate the beginning of the spring holidays by watching a movie when the fire broke out they all found themselves locked inside the cinema this reportedly was company policy to prevent people from sneaking into the auditorium trapped inside the girls try to call their families and posted messages

on social media we understand that none of them survived. culture efforts at the village and spoke to locals utterly shocked by what's happened. we are in a village. about forty forty five kilometers outside of camera this village right here is reportedly home to at least six of the victims now in this school which they attended high school with only has about eighty students so huge loss for them all and. they were such good girls quiet calm they started really well it is such a tragedy for everyone still can't believe it happened in every home so everyone can talk about nobody can sleep or eat and despite the fact that their bodies are yet to be identified the local residents have already gone to bring flowers and

candles and teddy bears to this makeshift memorial emotions are running high with people seeking immediate answers even those whose loved ones survived are struggling to process what happened to the will my neighbor's son was pulled from the fire my friend he couldn't save his daughter the whole village will support the parents in this situation we're not mourning just for our village lots of people died everyone who tried to help as best they can. their own was no children of this age left in our village they made up an entire year group there aren't many children here only our granddaughters ina is alive she didn't go and also three voice but no one else their age is left in the village the tragedy in siberia has had an effect on the entire country and beyond the grief here is palatable of just six hundred residents listed as has lost six children. meanwhile the situation and

came out of a today is for now at least calmer than the day before when tensions flared shortly after the tragedy all stories in the city have come out of what confronted by angry crowds of victims' relatives on locals they demanded to know how the situation was allowed to happen. please let her see your superior you. talk. i. think. i believe something. like. you know somebody took notice of the sleep acutely my mother look at you.

please look. like oh yeah i was like i was a kid or no i didn't see her and i looked like that i like maybe i get my car here and there are enough for you like you to be outdone to become very demjanjuk on the young turks am i was your first are you going to kill and you say are you going to give your marriage is looking a bit of a gullible enough to tell it because you're going to hear a we're going to see her because she was easier to feel like you're going to be in that young girl from the feeling of being that is i mean you can never get a tax cut like your particular party was going to do it. i knew i. was. lucky to meet.

today i was still. if you. still. live. the number of the victims could have actually been higher had not been for the coverage of people nearby some lost their lives trying to get children out of the burning building. some of the stories on sunday a tragedy and i said barry 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 saw 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 terrified trying to girls and the boy i told the boys to grab my bowels and hold it tight and took 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 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 read next to it is like a kind of a labyrinth in the labyrinth for kids to tell you you that. if i went in there i wouldn't found a way out especially with the smoke i was calling for the kids when 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 before 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 five people have been to taint 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 didn't work as intended though it's thought that a god turned off the presumably because he thought it was a full. emergency exits were locked and leaving people with no alternative but to try and escape from up a story windows stuff at the shopping center were not trained properly either in the building of the mall was actually a converted factory and reportedly in violation of fire safety regulations one for my rescue who worked for russia's emergencies ministry and the red cross says that a lot of valuable evacuation time was lost. it was delayed

by around three minutes due to the lack of emergency announcements over the shopping center speaker system instead news of the fire was communicated only by word of mouth this really hampered the evacuation process the blaze in it is one of the deadliest in russia in living memory it took firefighters of a seventeen hours to extinguish it one section of the shopping complex was completely gutted and large sections of the roof collapsed here on we'll continue to follow developments relating to the off the mouth of the tragedy in southern siberia just to remind you it is a national day of mourning for the sixty four lives lost in the blaze most of the deceased being children.

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right now quarter past the hour here in moscow the u.s. state department says it takes the u.k.'s word that russia was responsible for the poisoning of double agents such a case could in britain i turn that briefing journalists sort evidence of russian guilt but the questions went largely unanswered 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. you haven't seen their their evidence their proof i have not noticed illegally in their roof 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 the state department's comments come off the u.s.

ordered sixty russian diplomats to leave the country over the poisoning incident. samir khan was at the briefing. 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 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 be happy to provide them 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 had 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 ok. arms antonovich is right what it quoted eighty seems like it is and if you just think that just one of 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 sis 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 but let's

get back to evidence well the american ambassador to russia said that britain had a document that showed that russia was involved saying it was pretty comprehensive but was it really well russian media got ahold of that document but it was a six slide presentation the first slide just read incident in salisbury and the other slides had a timeline of events information on the type of gas that was allegedly used and the number of people taken to the hospital now the last slides contained a list of russia suppose that nefarious activities and the british responses so clearly the document contained no actual evidence that russia was behind the poisoning but it somehow considered proof by a western states that are using it to justify expelling russian diplomats the incident in russia was implicated in happened on march the fourth when a former russian intelligence agent on british spy together with his daughter were found unconscious in a park bench in the u.k. city of souls pre authorities suspect sort of gay and eunice could have followed

what poisoned by a nerve agent of a type produced in the soviet union but to austria in a coma and moscow denied. any involvement in the poisoning and accuses london of a campaign to get russia away. now a number of other countries have expelled russian diplomats in solidarity with the u.k. germany france poland are among those the blame russia for the poisoning the british prime minister said the show of solidarity strengthens 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 with the u.k. it's i think in the national security interests of the individual countries concerned. not everyone joining the u.k. austria portugal and switzerland decided not to expel russian diplomats from their embassies and we spoke to earlier as 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 completely investigate 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 thaw the problem but it appears. more

than one hundred twenty eight thousand people have fled the syrian region of eastern guta in the past month that's according to the russian ministry of defense and the exodus was made possible by humanitarian poses on corridor was established by syria and russia but the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley lambasted moscow for how it's handled syrian cease fire negotiations at the u.n. russia will stop at nothing to use its permanent seat on this council to shield itself the charlotte aside from even the faintest criticism this should be a day of shame for every member of this council 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 the u.s. ambassador nikki haley 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 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 also describe the fact that russia is providing food and medicine to those who've been forced to flee the area and now from there 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. sort of the business of some members of the u.n. security council prefer to spend time on passionate speeches and letters making shaky claims towards russia it's probably to cover their own reluctance to do anything good for the implementation of resolution two four zero one we're starting to believe that some external donors are losing interest in supporting people from the regions which have fallen under syrian government control we're getting signals from some capitals that there's a need to help only opposition enclaves 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 thanks for sharing your wednesday with us here on r.t. international more of your worldwide news headlines continuing at the top of the hour. seemed wrong. but also just don't call. any. yet to say power these days comes to educate and indeed for many equals betrayal.

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