being the size it is about. 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 care met over sixty four people lost their lives including forty one children. hundreds of mourners have gathered in the cities have made their farewell as funerals take place for the victims of the tragedy and. to put it to the race to be able to know what to do editing you know you could you just don't you don't wish. you could be doing it we found the u.k. releases a new national security strategy accusing russia of hybrid warfare and placing moscow alongside islamic terror on its list of threats.

i welcome you with r.t. international it's just gone six pm here in the russian capital 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 came out of the blaze started on the top floor where there was a cinema and a children's play area sixty four people have been come for the emergency services say there are no more missing people where these are live pictures now from a square in the center of moscow well wishers there are laying flowers and lighting candles and bringing toys and honors of the victims of that fire most of whom were sure from these live pictures now in the center of moscow just outside the crypt.

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 the. sims from small villages whole communities have been left grief stricken. tonight to close in on my niece just three. motion pushed you would you feel like you got to school to get it but at the english do we look at what the jewish adichie knew you could request which don't need to. be done if we could maybe just go to great things. here to wish that we did to them you wish to be believed if we keep score says we're using to use against. him or we're here to reshoot. mushiness should be a push and pull. look at the middle of the company. option one of. our visit in kemmerer 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 and today's also when the relatives of the first fifteen victims are paying their last respects with burial ceremony as should you all throughout the day know this comes a day after thousands of people gathered in front of the city council to vent their pain and anger of the stude for eleven hours demanding the authorities do not withhold any information from the public 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 or soon 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 and there's more protests today so we'll be standing by for that and bring you all the latest of the fire prevention system in the four story complex didn't work as intended it is thought to guard turned off the alarm presumably because he thought it was a false alert and the agency exits were locked and leaving people with no alternative but to try and escape from windows stuff at the shopping center also not properly trained and the building of the mall was a converted factory and reportedly in violation of fire safety regulations or five people have been detained so far in connection with the incident and 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. absolutely if you believe

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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 traveled to the regional capital with their teacher to celebrate the beginning of the spring holidays and watch a film too 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 tried to call their families and posted messages on social media no one survived r.t. spoke to the villages. they were such good girls why the car choice will be 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 was my neighbor's son was pulled from the fire why friend oh 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. 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 gullet and also three voice but no one there was there age is left in the village or 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 shouting booga tell us their stories. 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 to tell of their sala 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 the 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 crying. and the boy that's all the boys grabbed 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 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. 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. well 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

and large sections of the roof also collapse of course we'll be following developments relating to the aftermath of the tragedy in southern siberia just to remind you though it is a national day of mourning for the sixty four lives lost in the shopping center blaze most of the deceased were children. was. that the u.k. has just released a new national security strategy naming russia as a threat and accusing it of hybrid warfare so let's get more now from our u.k. correspondent and secure he joins us from london good afternoon she nastia so again russia appears to be in the firing line. well uh definitely andrew what we have is this fifty two page national security capabilities review which the u.k. is now basing off a so-called fusion doctrine which is going to be combining all sorts of measures from economic to defense to diplomatic to cyber to communications to try to tackle

whatever it perceives as threats and among those russia in this national strategic . national security capabilities review is named thirteen times the word russian is used nine times so certainly not left behind there now among the threats that the report talks about is one the resurgence of state based threats and the undermining of international rules based order mom others and when it comes to russia specifically it says that the indiscriminate and reckless use of a military grave grave nerve agent was an unlawful use of force by russia it says that there's been a well established pattern of russian state aggression that there's been a south sustained campaign of cyber espionage and disruption including meddling in elections russia's put in the same list as north korea and iran and along the acute so-called acute threats as the report puts it it puts north korea nuclear weapons

russian and a reunion belligerence islamist terrorism human trafficking piracy crime instability and other. different problems and the issue there is one of the approaches that the case planning to take is stemmed from so-called soft power they're going to be now investing two hundred ninety one million pounds until twenty twenty into the b.b.c. world service to increase access to trusted news and information and it's interesting that this strategy also says that the use of power is going to project britain britain's values and advance u.k. interests and it's interesting that one of my personal favorite lines in the strategy is how the u.k. is perceived matters. ok thanks for the update that was there and see if you're clear there in london thank you. well meanwhile the part the power point slides

have been revealed which form the basis on which the u.s. and half of the e.u. backed britain's expulsion of russian diplomats the six pages of slides focused on accusations against russia without providing any proof of guilt so-called evidence includes accusations of previous men i like to vittie by moscow such as cyber attacks alleged interference in international lections and what the presentation calls the occupation of crimea russia's foreign ministry has described the claim to speculation and branded it an organized political campaign without any evidence and not even presenting any concrete snorri of what's happened london accused russia of poisoning its own citizens speculated about a chemical substance never used in russia and organize an extensive political and media campaign it inspired the expulsion of russian diplomats from a number of countries and international organizations and a range of other sanctions are lawful requests to provide samples of the substance

use there were ignored we discussed the situation around the exposed dossier with political commentator and journalist john white. well just as we were presented in the u.k. with the door to door see to meet the case for the war in iraq in two thousand and three which everybody know nor was based on nothing more than the lines we now have a doggie door see a dog door see two point zero if you go being presented to try and cut a public support for a cold war with russia in two thousand and eighteen and the evidence in this dodgy dossier two point zero is over that it would not be sufficient to convict a man of stealing a loaf of bread out of a supermarket it is based on nothing more than speculation and supposition and indeed it is so thin that moved beyond the realms of questionable evidence into the

realms of m. bias and biasing evidence or purported evidence the government in the u.k. knows that this evidence is thin with regards to its claim that russia was a sponsible for the poisoning of said case cripple and his daughter yulia this is why it's included in this dorsey a catalogue of alleged other infractions committed by the russian state you want to know if they still had the salad burley in approves a major russian gas pipeline just days after condemning moscow over the case will have a look at the details just off the. same wrong. why don't we all just don't call. me. yet to see how this thing comes out. and it gets rid equals betrayal.

when something find themselves worlds apart we just a look for common ground. manufactured . public wealth. when the ruling classes project themselves. in all middle of the room. now as we've just been reporting germany was one of the countries siding with britain and expelling russian diplomats a with

a script pal case yet just days after that decision early in has fully approved a massive russian gas pipeline to europe. is a twin pipeline that will carry gas along the baltic sea to the you it will be a key connector between russia's vast energy reserves and markets in europe so let's get some reaction to all of this one hundred mil or an m.p. party to see for the alternative for germany parliamentary group and he joins us and good afternoon. some people might be confused by this and what's happened over the last few days just a couple of days ago germany expelled russian diplomats and yet today signing a big gas project. the gas project has not been signed yet it also only the approval by the dreamer team committee that it can be built on the treatment sold in the baltic sea but they're still edging their approval of fresh i think they're sent out to get it but still the approval of denmark and sweden i hope. as

being a driver citizen interested in reliable industry supply that denmark and sweden won't bend down to to pressure from the european union from the united states really to to build the pipeline because the time window is closing know because there's more much more pressure exerting on dream and government and if it had not been signed now and he should won't be signed by denmark or sweden during the next weeks i think it won't be possible anymore to build the small stream to. what's the likelihood that happening. i mean just give us your assessment what the feeling is like in germany at the moment given the script case and how people are looking at russia at the moment. i think there's a quite a significant difference between how people a local russia and how we're first or most media look in russia. people who

acquired to comolli. some really wish were suspect that we see in russia or. the media and in the west the impression is is completely different. more moralists more and more people in germany ordinary people. are dull tingo that they scruple case hasn't been proved good they're sold in principle into pro real which meets indulge for the accused has been done all the spiceworks russia has to prove they detest not always in business critical which is really ridiculous because this proof can be given to its i think the organ in people feel that not everything is right what is transmitted over so much media . given what you just said their hands why do you think the us and half of europe is standing behind britain and expelling russian diplomats with the script.

i don't i don't think that i have to see him go or express some opinion i read a book many years ago that the grand chessboard a written by zbigniew brzezinski. he drawled. also i think was published twenty years ago. there was a clear strategic drawn out that it's in the interest of the united states of america in order not to lose their will power to. expel russia from from europe and this must be done by by things which are happening in total crane and also by cutting all for russia from the european market. with the economic agenda. they're disappearing clearly expressed by the united states they want to replace truman ensured gas by american liquid gas so it's

a real obvious economic struggle that is going on and poisoning somebody or el actually poisoning somebody so valuable element in this game for the ones who are interested in it what would you expect the sanctions and against russia and east proposed sanctions against russia from this point. knowing quite well our government i expect nothing more than their ring more or more the core of door for good relations with russia all when i look back at for example where the worst was interested in and sanctions the time of some plain folks. from sky when it was necessary so when i were worse than polio politicians want to do something that i always find a reason and in this context unfortunately i do not expect any relief i do not

expect any going forward. german or european russian relations but unfortunately i am expecting the officers. hand you're going to tell chief sorry end on that note we ran out of time but that was a hundred. party with of the parliamentary. party champagnes to manage human son just a miserable little word that after the wiki leaks changed twenty criticisms of the case handling of the script poisoning in the tweet a songe said it was reasonable to suspect russia although the evidence was circumstantial and they did independent confirmation from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons here's how that went down though in the british parliament it was because of great regret the julian assange remains in the ecuador embassy it is even deeper regret that even last night he was treated against her

majesty's government for their conduct in replying to the attack in salzburg it's about time that this miserable little worm walked out of the embassy and gave himself up to british justice but the m.p.'s comments they didn't go unanswered with the sound 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. she's the founder of the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks which has exposed millions of confidential documents over the a's. refuge inside the ecuadorian embassy in london in two thousand and twelve after being accused of rape in sweden a case meanwhile dropped by stock i'm authorities son says he phase leaving the embassy and being extradited to the u.s. way facing charges of espionage the executive editor of the news website twenty

first century why i gave us his reaction to the developments. is the sort of atmosphere in parliament has descended into a sort of a public school lunch room rather than the 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. 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 it's just coming up to you at six thirty pm here in moscow that's the news update for this hour we'll have more in thirty five.

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