wednesday is declared a national day of mourning in russia as crowds across the country commemorate the victims of sunday shopping center fire in the siberian city of command over sixty four people lost their lives including forty one children. the city's residents are grieving but are also angry locals confronted the authorities with relatives of victims demanding to know how the tragedy was allowed to happen. i. mean the u.s. expelled sixty russian diplomats over the script poisoning saying it has full faith in the u.k.'s 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 have not personally seen their. father welcome you watching r.t. international where it's just gone two o'clock in the afternoon here in moscow now it is a nationwide day of mourning in russia commemorating the victims of a fire at a shopping center in the siberian city of command over 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 emergency services say that there are no more missing people funerals and act taking place and with many of the victims coming from small villages whole communities have been left grief stricken. you know only she was my sister's godmother russian cost her her grandchildren how can you live through that when you

realize passing by the children's beds that they will never return that no one will play with their tour i cannot comprehend how someone can just lock the doors to a cinema just to stop people from sneaking in and then just thrown off to save their own skin. the grandmother went to the cinema her grandchildren were ten and eight they were buried in a closed coffin and it's horrible so horrible but. pushing harder for see you have a very good family very good children eighth graders of course the parents are grief stricken it's so sad this deep grief will stay with everyone forever which what do you feel while we go she is in connecticut for us where people continue to bring flowers and toys to the site of the tragedy. 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 pain and anger they stood for eleven hours demanding the authorities do not withhold any information from the public they are 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 there's more protests today so we'll be standing by for that and bringing you all the latest on the tragedy has shaken not only the siberian city

but the whole country people have been bringing flowers and toys to improvise memorials across russia and vigils had taken place in many towns and cities before the national day of mourning was officially declared.

well one of the many tragic stories is that of a group of eleven year old girls from a village near a camera that traveled to the city with a teacher to celebrate the beginning of the spring holidays by watching a movie when the fire broke out there 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 none of them survived the one cost that visited their village and spoke to local shocked by what's happened. we are in the village of. 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 a school that only has about eighty students so huge loss for them and despite the fact that their bodies are yet to be identified local residents have already gone to bring flowers and candles and teddy bears to this makeshift memorial one class in the school had lost more than half of its students we spoke to an employee. they were such a good girl quiet calm truthful they started really well it is such a tragedy for everyone still can't believe it happened in every home and so everyone can talk about nobody can sleep or eat emotions are running high with people seeking immediate answers even those whose loved ones survived are struggling to process what happened to the well 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 a lot of people died everyone will try 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 palpable of just six hundred residents listed as has lost six children. cause there for poaching now well the number of the victims could have been higher had it not been for the courage of people made by in fact some ros the law. i was trying to get children out of the burning building. tell us their stories 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 saga 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 india 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 a room terrify crying. and the boy told the boys to grab my belt and hold it tight

and took the girls by the collar and carried them out of 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 read 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. 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 well the situation in come out of today is for now at least calm of the day before when tensions did flare shortly after the tragedy authorities there were confronted by angry crowds of victims' relatives and also local groups they demanded to know how the situation was allowed to happen. if you cut. the taxes for six years. i. believe.

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not from the feeling of seeing that i mean you can never get a tax cut you have to look at this point the bill of divorcement it's not up. to me you know if. i. was going to live. to get stupid. well five people have been detained in connection with the inferno including

a fire safety official it does appear to that a series of mistakes did lead to this tragedy the fire prevention system in the four storey complex didn't work as intended emergency exits were locked leaving people with no alternative but to try and escape from upper story windows staff at the shopping center were not trained properly either and the building of the mall was converted was a converted factory reportedly in violation of safety regulations the blaze in kemet is one of the deadliest in russia in living memory it took firefighters over seventeen hours to extinguish it in one section of the shopping complex was completely gutted a large sections of the roof collapsed of course will be continuing to follow the developments relating to the aftermath of the tragedy into remind you it is a national day of mourning for the sixty four lives lost in the shopping center blaze most of them were children.

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merry go round be that one percent. we can all middle of the room six. million or you leave. welcome back here with r.t. now the u.s. state department says it takes the u.k.'s work at the russia was responsible for the poisoning of double agents. in britain during the briefing journalists did see evidence of russian questions went largely announce it 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 know been seeing their their evidence their proof i

have not personally heard there were if 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 that deal with it as. well the state department's comments that do come after the u.s. ordered sixty russian diplomats to leave the country over the poisoning. was that 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 the u.n. i don't you have to provide evidence to the u.n. and i think i just answered that 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 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 well 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. arms and how to do the right way to quit of aids and likeness and if you just think that just one of the bees 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 of volved 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's suppose that nefarious activities and the british responses so clearly the document contains 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 so

america well the incident russia is implicated in happened on march the fourth when i former russian intelligence agent and british spy together with his daughter found unconscious in a park bench u.k. city of so it was great if they were see suspects again and use poisoned by nerve agent of the type in the soviet union to sit in a kind. moscow denies any involvement in the poisoning and accuses london of a campaign to get russia blamed for a number of other countries have expelled russian diplomats to solidarity with the u.k. germany france and canada and poland are among those that blame russia for the poisoning the british prime minister said the show of solidarity strengthened security. welcome the international support that we have that we have garnered in this although 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 however not everybody joined the u.k. austria portugal and switzerland for example decided not to expel russian diplomats from their embassies we spoke to. the vice president of the eurasia center think tank and he believes that the u.k. has used this trip our 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 the country i think there's a greater deal of 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 would be open to the w investigation there's nothing with that but there is no direct correlation to russia there they're very broad in their statement that i think you have you know we're we're jumping completely we're jumping to conclusions taking punitive action indeed during diplomatic relation

prior to any completely 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. that more than one hundred twenty eight thousand people have fled the syrian region of eastern in the past month according to the russian ministry of defense the exodus was made possible by humanitarian pauses and corydoras established by syria and russia but the u.s. ambassador is the united nations nikki haley lambasted moscow for how it's handled the syrian cease fire negotiations the u.n. russia will stop at nothing to use its permanent seat on this council to shield itself the charlotte side 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 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 paused he also described 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. move so that 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. and reporting by you watching on t.v. to national thanks for company this afternoon will be back with the headlines for you in just over half. the time.

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ratings and sell you. on june twelfth two thousand and sixteen zero marma teen walked in the pulse nightclub in orlando florida and he opened fire in the yeah he was killed by local police but not before taking the lives of forty nine people were moving fifty eight others today in orlando florida his widow or 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 overall has been 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 with teens 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 nor

solomon 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 father said dyckman team 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 solomons 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

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