it's 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 hundreds of mourners have gathered in to bid their farewell as funerals take place for the victims of the tragedy. which is that if you wish to be able to know what the british adichie knew you could you just still need to do what she knew to do you could ask you if you knew we could. try and also this hour the u.s. state department blames russia for the poisoning of former double agent. and his daughter in the u.k. at the same time admitting it hasn't received any proof. when the u.k. tells you know russia was responsible we have every reason to believe. you know

that scene there are evidence there i've not noticed all these there were of. good afternoon welcome you watching r.t. international is just gone for 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 quetta 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 the emergency services say that there are no more missing papal we're showing you now live pictures from the national square in the center of moscow well wishes laying flowers there lighting candles and bringing toys and honors of the victims of the command of a fire most of whom were children. live pictures now from just outside the kremlin

in central moscow. and funerals are also taking place hundreds of mourners have gathered to bid their farewell to the victims of the winter cherry more tragedy and with many victims from small villages whole communities have been left grief stricken. today i did go to slow my niece just three. motion kristie did you feel if you got the situation if you do shit that had to be rationed you look at what the dish editor knew you could you just don't need to the question if. you're going to be doing if we could maybe just go to commercial so could reach it was so cute it. here could wish that we did it don't you wish we had visibility was if we keep score says we're using to use it it's. worth it to reshoot a machine if you feel pushed you know pulled. it

look at the little bit don't put in the usual option one that. causes you goes down obvious in kemet over 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 the various ceremonies should hold throughout the day you know this comes a day after thousands of people gathered in front of the city council to vent their pain and anger these 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 their 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 the fire prevention system in the four story complex didn't work as intended if the water 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 upper story windows staff at the shopping center were also not properly trained and the building of the mall was a converted factory and reportedly in violation of fire safety regulations well in total five people have been detained in connection with the incident so far among them a fire safety official the director off the shopping center and also the security guard who allegedly failed to turn on the fire alarm although he says that the alarm system broke almost

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well one of many tragic stories is that of a group of eleven year old girls from a village near came out of they travelled to the regional capital with their teacher to celebrate the beginning of the spring holidays and watch a film on the fire broke out though they all found themselves locked inside the cinema this reportedly was a company policy to prevent people from sneaking into the auditorium trapped inside the girls tried to call their families and posted messages on social media survived r.t. spoke to the villages. they were such good girls quiet calm truthful they started really well it is such a tragedy for everyone i still can't believe it happened in every home it's all everyone can talk about nobody can sleep or eat so i still don't know my neighbour's son was pulled from the fire by her friend or he couldn't save his daughter so the whole village will support the parents in this situation we are not mourning just for our village lot of people died everyone will try to help as best

they can. us dollars there are almost no children of this siege left in their village they made up an entire year group there aren't many children here only our granddaughter is seen that is a life she didn't go and also three voice the no one there was their age is left in the village well the number of victims could have been higher had it not been for the courage of people nearby some lost their lives trying to get to children in the building. reports now on 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 and 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 been ten 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 thick 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 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 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 see a photographer who worked at the shopping center managed to gather dozens of children before leading them out he was reluctant. 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 blaze in the city is one of the deadliest in russia in living memory it took firefighters i was seventeen hours to extinguish it and one section of the shopping complex was

completely gutted while large sections of the roof also collapsed of course we'll continue to follow developments relating to the off the mouth of the tragedy there in southern siberia to remind you that today is a national day of mourning for the sixty four lives lost in that shopping center blaze most of those killed were children was. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when one of the first injured. himself want to it's. actually going to be worse this is what. three of the four people. interested in the walk.

there should. i would call make this manufacture consent to the public well. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous merry go round be the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. really. really. welcome back to the u.s. state department says it takes the u.k.'s word that russia was responsible for the poisoning of double agent so basically a pile in britain during the briefing journalists or whatever dence of russian

guilt although questions went largely a month that 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. greater than seeing their their evidence their proof i have not personally seen 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 deal with it as well the state department's comments that you come after the u.s. ordered sixteen 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 rush to the crime and if the expelled diplomats were really spies how do you know these specific sixty people were that would you know that would be an intimate 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 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. arm santana demonstrate where that quote is like this and if you just want the beast from the deep sea but let's get back to evidence while 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 it 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. american now let's get the thoughts now of john white political commentator and journalist and has been following the story very closely to you john good afternoon she from our report there it does appear doesn't it that the evidence u.k. show in other countries is not concrete proof of russia's guilt so why do you think the u.s. and half of europe has decided to stand behind britain on this. oh

ok look we've got a problem i think. the question again john from that report there it looks like the evidence that the u.k. was showing other countries is not concrete proof of russia's deal so why do you think half of europe and the u.s. has decided to stand behind britain on this. obviously we have got a communication problem there with john we're trying get back soon in a few minutes if we have time we'll come back soon surely if we can we do apologize . now in the meantime the british m.p. just announced union sanchez a miserable little after the wiki leaks chief tweeted criticisms of the u.k.'s handling of this crippled poisoning in the tweet a sign said it was reasonable to suspect russia though the evidence. and they did

independent confirmation from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons well here's how that went down in the british parliament because because of great regret the julian assange remains in the ecuador embassy it is of even deeper regret that even last night he was tweeted against her majesty's government for their conduct in replying to the attack in salzburg it's about time that this miserable little word walked out of the embassy and gave himself up to british justice. while the m.p.'s comments didn't go unanswered with the sand responding on twitter as a political prisoner detained without charge for eight years in violation of two un rulings i suppose i must be miserable yet nothing wrong with being a little person although i'm rather tall and better a worm a healthy creature that invigorates the soil the snake. well genius armchair is the founder of the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks which has exposed millions of

confidential documents over the years he sought refuge inside the ecuadorian embassy in london in two thousand and twelve and after being accused of rape in sweden a case meanwhile dropped by stockholm authorities says he is leaving the embassy and being extradited to the u.s. where he faces charges of espionage and executive editor of the news website twenty first century gave us his reaction to the developments. it can only be described as the sort of atmosphere in parliament is descended into a sort of a public school lunchroom rather than this sort of the decorum that you would expect from elected representatives when you're talking about serious matters of state julia saunders only highlighting some of the the discrepancies the hypocrisy is the unanswered questions of this very serious case and the statements coming from this member of parliament really you should read into that is that the state

doesn't want people with dissenting views to have platforms and be able to express those if they're in opposition to whatever the official party line is. now in other news today more than one hundred twenty eight thousand people have fled the syrian region of eastern guta in the past month but the code into the russian ministry of defense the exodus was made possible by humanitarian pauses and corey to was established by syria and russia but the us ambassador to the united nations nikki haley lambasted moscow for how it's handled syrian cease fire negotiations the u.n. brusha 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 confer

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 or 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

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. move so that the business most 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 kind. freeze and placing blame when so many civilians are in danger and do need the real assistance and attention of the security council kind of mark and with that report for you you're watching r t thanks for the company today we're going to have more news in the headlines and thirty five minutes. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. global war hawks sell you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the

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i'm after a time here we're going underground for the last time this season as nato nations on the edge of a full scale trade war with beijing escalated diplomatic war against moscow over the poisoning of two russians in england coming up in the show as today the u.n. security council debates world peace just who exactly is donald trump's new national security adviser on the record for calling russia china and gong yang lie as we investigate john bolton and whether he has the ear of the president just started world war three and there's germany detains the democratically elected leader of catalonia we ask united nations independent expert alfred the zionists about the end of the mall grocery in the european union boss on this week's news of you with myself in action will be looking at the russian spy poisoning story turning into a bit of

a way for diplomats worldwide all the civil coming up in our last show of the season but first today the fourth plinth in london's trafalgar square rumored to be saved for queen elizabeth the second after her death sees a new statue unveiled called the invisible enemy should not exist it's by iraqi american artist michael wreck of it when i was asked by the city of london to submit a proposal i looked at the blueprints on the fourth plan and it was fourteen feet long and at that time i've been researching the law that stood at the entrance of the nergal gate in nineveh which had been destroyed in the previous year and that was fourteen feet long and so immediately i saw it as being almost made for it and so this one stands outside looking back towards and then of an ancient iraqi middle of a two hundred twenty miles north of baghdad is in modern day mosul and all this to the. day one year ago it was the usa again killing civilians near the site of

ancient nineveh has conjectured even by you media and this morning those accusations of the airstrikes may have killed hundreds of iraqi civilians in mosul if confirmed this could be one of the deadliest instances of unintended civilian deaths since the war began when the u.s. became involved in iraq yes some of the deadliest nato backed killings in the bush led war that killed wounded or displaced tens of millions just one year ago as for that catastrophic walk of the of the british labor party here is donald trump's new nominated national security adviser because of iraq e w m d it could fabricate a nuclear weapon within one year. it has rebuild its civilian chemical infrastructure and renewed production of chemical warfare agents probably including mustard sarin and v.x. it actively maintains key aspects of its offensive biological weapons program and in terms of its support for terrorism we have established that iraq has permitted al qaida to operate within its territory but of course there was no al qaida saddam

hussein sworn enemy in iraq just as there was no nuclear program no biological weapons program and no chemical warfare program no v.x. nerve gas even the w m d soldiers down by the usa was no longer extent in iraq which means bolton may find it hard to persuade u.s. allies of the necessity to start new wars against north korea iran china and russia while the world waits for an arguably more muscular response from moscow for monday's tit for tat diplomatic spose it may be amazing just the bolton didn't use novacek w m d as an argument for war against iraq in twenty zero three the war that arguably his new boss poses they lie ok he said there were weapons of mass destruction there was none and.