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. when the u.k. tells us that they have proof that they know russia was responsible we have every reason to believe. that you really haven't seen their evidence there i've not noticed all these there were of. oh there welcome you watching r.t. international it's just gone five pm in moscow. now it's a nationwide day of mourning in russia commemorating the victims of a fire at a shopping center in the siberian city of kemet of 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 there are no more missing pitches from a nation a square in the center of moscow well wishes there are laying flowers might candles to bring in toys in order of the victims of the fire most of whom were children. the more funerals are taking place to hundreds of mourners have gathered to bid their farewell to the victims of winter cherry more tragedy and with many victims from small villages whole communities have been left grief stricken. grossly only just three. motion you feel the if you took the situation it could be rationed if you look at what the british editor knew you could you. still need to do what she knew. you were going to be doing if we could maybe just do it but you. it was so great it was so cute to. hear it was that we did it don't you

wish we had visibility was if we keep score says for using two musicals. were the issue much of a mushy you should feel pushed and pulled. to look at them with the company watching one of the well r.t.g. goshdarn of his in 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 ceremony should hold 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 the stupid 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 as 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 what the fiber of engine system in the four story complex didn't work as intended it's 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 up the story windows also staff at the shopping center weren't

properly trained and the building of the moore was a converted factory and reportedly in violation of fire safety regulations well so far five people have been detained in connection with the incident among them a fire safety official the director of the shopping center and also the security guard who allegedly failed to turn on the fire alarm however he says the alarm system broke almost a week before the tragedy. in the field in the city of. the muslim of the he was completely. if you understood my mother you would come up with our. mother i'm such a up with such a funny war the public news media. if you also destroys lives or shortly after the tragedy authorities in the city of kemet of us were confronted by angry crowds of victims' relatives and cause they demanded to know how the

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one of the many tragic stories is that of a group of eleven year old girls from a village near the city they had travelled to the regional capital with their teacher to celebrate the beginning of the spring holidays and also watch a film when the fire broke out they all family selves 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 no one survived r.t. spoke to the villages. they were such a good girl squire com truly for 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 why would my neighbour's son was pulled from the fire by a friend or he couldn't save his daughter so 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. as there are almost no children of this age left in our village they made up an entire year group there aren't many children here only our granddaughter is seen that is alive she didn't go in and also three voice but no one there was there age is left in the village while 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 children out of the burning building and checking the reports. 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 people like top town of their seventeen year old dream 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 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 crying 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 on the 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 could have 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 leaving them out he was reluctant. 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. when the blaze is one of the deadliest in russia in living memory it took firefighters over seventeen hours to extinguish it one section of the shopping complex was completely gutted while large sections of the roof also collapsed we'll continue to follow developments relating to the aftermath of the tragedy in southern siberia true mind you though today is a national day of mourning for the sixty four lives that were lost in the shopping center blaze most of the to ceased with children was. the u.s. state department says it takes the ukase word that russia was responsible for the poisoning of double agent so the case could have power in britain during the briefing journalists would evidence of russian guilt but their 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. greater than seeing their their evidence their proof i have not personally seen their roof that would not come over to the state department that would most likely go to another building so i prefer you to any of those other intelligence. the state department's comments that you come after the u.s. ordered sixteen russian diplomats to leave the country over the poisoning incident . 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 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 but i don't know the answer to that if i can get an answer for you i would speak have 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 santayana the same way that quitting aids in place 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 if 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 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 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 well the instant russia has implicated in happened on march the fourth when a former russian intelligence agent turned british spy together with his daughter with found unconscious on a park bench in the u.k. c.c.f. so if there are some suspects again you just kind of pound with poisoned by an agent of a type produce in the soviet union to a still in a coma moscow. denies any involvement in the poisoning and accuses london of a campaign to get russia blamed when meanwhile the u.k. has just released its national strategy doctrine where it does outline major threats coming from russia and iran dubbed belligerent and puts them in the same

line as islamist terrorism the document pledges to use britain's full range of capabilities to tackle the challenges combining intelligence and army efforts against enemies it also describes using soft power and media resources in counter hybrid warfare while moscow has accused of state aggression we discussed the accusations against russia with political commentator and journalist john white. there is no concrete evidence that russia has engaged in any kind of warfare hybrid or otherwise but what it is evidence for is that the west is engaged in warfare against russia economic sanctions all remained you are an instrument of war the two expansion eastward is an act of war and this russia has been unleashed in the mainstream you key establishment media supported by the government. is being gauged and with the objective as i see shaping public opinion to accept

the new cold war with russia so if any country is leading the war. in the last few years it is russia given see the. tapes of the west to expand need to use worked which is a clear and existential threat to russia's security this is despite russia's repeated warnings that this is a threat to its security and those warnings being ignored we modern british m.p. has lashed out at the head of wiki leaks over this case we'll bring you the details on that the stories just after the break. join me every thursday on the alex simon shill and i'll be speaking to us from the

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hello again now according champagne has denounced unisom just a miserable little word that after that we can each chief tweeted criticisms of the u.k.'s handling of the script poisoning in the tweets a son said it was reasonable to suspect russia though the evidence was stunned chill and needed independent confirmation from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons is how that went down though in the british parliament speakers of great regret the julian assange remains in the ecuador embassy it is of even deeper regret that even last night he was teaching 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 well those comments didn't go unanswered but the standard 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 warm healthy creature that invigorates the soil than a snake dinner songes the founder of the whistle blowing web site we can 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 after being accused of rape in sweden a case meanwhile drops by stockholm authorities the son says he fears leaving the embassy and being extradited to the u.s. where he faces charges of espionage the executive editor of the news website twenty first century wire gave us his reaction to the developments it can only be described as the sort of atmosphere in parliaments 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. 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. in other news tonight 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 the exodus was made possible by humanitarian pauses and corridors established by syria and russia but the us ambassador to 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 bashar al assad 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 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 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 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 it was the region of eastern ghouta here which once had a population of four hundred thousand has been discussed at the un security council being cave near damascus came under rebel control and twenty twelve from the syrian army has been trying to recapture it ever since fighting intensified last month and the government now holds between seventy and eighty percent of the territory there under a cease fire deal some militants have been given passage to rebel controlled pockets in the north civilians who have fled are being provided with humanitarian help.

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