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it's a national day of mourning in russia risk rounds across the country commemorating the victims of sunday's shopping center fire in the song beer in city of camera sixty four people lost their lives including forty one children the first funerals have been held for victims that have been identified. but it remains to be looked at what the beatles did to you you could you just still need to oversleep it that you're going to be doing if we could. plus the u.k. releases a new national security strategy kucing rusher of hybrid warfare and placing moscow
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alongside islamic terrorism on its list of threats. and in other news wiki leaks founder julian assange has houses internet access and visitation rights suspended by the ecuadorian embassy in london which has warned of further measures if necessary. very good evening to you my name is neil harvey this is r.t. international it is a nationwide day of mourning in russia commemorating the victims of a fire at a shopping center in the siberian city of camera for the blaze started on the top floor this is 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 people. funerals
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are now taking place hundreds of mourners have gathered to bid their farewell to the victims of the winter cherry wall tragedy and with many victims from small villages or communities have been left grief stricken. closely on my niece just three. motion kristie would you feel blue chip cookies which if you just put it in most of you look at what the british editor knew you could request still need to double. we're going to be doing if we need to study that much is so great it was so cute. here to wish that we did it don't you wish she was really thinking if we keep school says we're using two musicals. we'll get to the shoe notion mushiness should be pushed and pulled. bush million. tickets from the public company who should be watching money. r.t.
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correspondent has done of joins me live now from camera vega just take us through how locals have been reacting how they're trying to come to terms with this tragedy . well neal three days on since the tragedy the families of the first twenty two victims have said there are large goodbyes to their loved ones with the burial ceremonies she jeweled throughout taking place throughout the day and any time be the day or night someone is always here at the vigil site the come here not to make any statements but to just stand in solemn silence like being still together with those who perished in the blaze on sunday and as the nation mourns the victim the investigation is working to hold those to blame for the catastrophe accountable and they're looking into concerns that some people may get away there are many people here who are concerned that some may get
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away vladimir putin promised that the investigation will be transparent that the investigation will be as transparent as possible and no one will be able to use their social status to escape the punishment and so far right now investigators are looking into the mixture of factors that led up to the calamity that occurred on sunday now first and foremost the fire safety system the fire prevention system did not work which means the alarm the sirens did not go off when the fire began neither did the water sprinkler as if they were there in the first place and apparently the exits were a lot of the fire the fire exits were locked so people when they followed the designated paths to safety they found themselves the doors that were shut so they had to jump out of windows into high story windows to in a bid to save their lives also the staff of the mall reportedly was untrained how
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to handle an emergency like this and instead of helping people get out of the mall they would often hamper the efforts. instead and the mall itself the investigators are looking into the mall itself because it was converted from a factory and apparently it was done with a multitude of fire safety violations so far five people have been arrested in connection with the tragedy and among them is the owner of the shopping mall the fire safety chief and one of the security guards the investigators suspect him of deliberately shutting down the fire safety system before the fire he himself in his turn is saying that the whole system was out of order whole week before the tragedy . if you will get you to feel it in the city if you are not going there
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for you cannot be here nothing was done for your country. it is it might not be the know you were going to come down to our. american concept here we are there to tell you how differently or the american community going to talk to you if you can see the situation. so far we know that at least twenty three bodies twenty three victims have been identified and it is taking a long time because the bodies are so badly burned that in most cases the identification is only possible through a d.n.a. test and we are being told that it could take at least three weeks to identify every every one of the sixty four people who were killed in the disaster and to morrow thursday is going to be yet another day of mourning here in camera of us so we will be standing by to bring you the latest on the mood here in town as well
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as on the results of the investigation a truly heartbreaking story bringing us the latest from the scene there in camera that us has done off. shortly after this tragedy the authorities in the city of camera there were confronted by angry crowds of victims' relatives and locals they were demanding to know how this situation could have happened. massive forces get. pushed back. the banks the coach of the
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a film 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 nom survived r.t. spoke to the villagers. they were such good girls quiet calm choice for they started really well it is such a tragedy for everyone still can't believe it happened in every home it's all everyone can talk about nobody can sleep or eat so this is the way it was my neighbour's son was pulled from the fire by a friend but 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 a lot of people died everyone will try to help as best they can. as their own as no children of this age left in our village they made up an entire year group there
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aren't many children here only our granddaughter zena is alive she didn't girl and also three voice but no one there was their age is left in the village the number of victims could have been even high added not being for the courage of people nearby some lost their lives trying to get children out of the burning building jacqueline viggo tells 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 the talent arsala 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
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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 two of 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 she refused 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 staff at the winter cherry center risked
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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 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. people across the globe all joining russia to mourn the victims of this deadly blaze vigils have been held in more than thirty countries. or forty. three years to. see what is still out of.
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the speech was. good enough to start it splash national motion chose to watch a lot of it but not enough for the thumbs up by me a lot i know that enough was tossed out for was a little bit but you don't believe. it that would attract a pretty nice tears came up she was emotional but opinions differentiated if you don't really have some my mama is not in a school that you toss the board in a better spot but the brightness was not touched everybody had what's going on in the city it's hell i mean i'm in touch with my keep let me touch my friends and relatives to tell us what's going on they feel like i need to be here i thought for them. faded being told by it's no less it's just the two of you. if you took the shit you needed in the dish. that was not that easy national she
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still needs it's. best to go to the pushy use them that's how you might guess and that's what you saw that. you might. want to sue myself to. any minute for to become a star shopper to much across the board if the shop. blazon camera is one of the deadliest in russia in living memory it took firefighters more than seventeen hours to extinguish it while the section of the shopping complex was completely gutted large sections of the roof collapsed we will continue to bring you the very latest developments in the aftermath of the tragedy in southern siberia just to remind you this is a national day of mourning for the sixty four lives lost in a shopping center blaze most of the deceased with children. was. was was.
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when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. or as. the u.k. has just released the new national security strategy outlining the major challenges to the country the doctrine focuses on further strengthening defense and armed forces as well as using its full range of capabilities including intelligence army and economic weapons to counter enemies russia is also in the firing line branded a threat and accused of hybrid warfare auntie's and theatre can and has details. national security capabilities review that the british government released today of course does not fail to mention russia it's a fifty two page document that talks about all sorts of threats and issues that the
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u.k. is faced with from cyber attacks to terrorism to crime to increasing all of the possible measures they can take to be able to take steps against all of those threats now among some of the means that the u.k. plans to use it when it comes to soft power is quote investing two hundred ninety one million pounds to twenty twenty in the b.b.c. world service to increase access to trusted news and information and they say that the soft power will be. used to project our values and our advance u.k. interests and indeed russia is mentioned in this report thirteen times the word russian is used nine times and it's being listed among threats such as north korea and iran the document goes on to say that the indiscriminate and reckless use of a military grade nerve agent on british soil was an unlawful use of force by the
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russian state they talk about a well established pattern of russian state aggression assess a sustained campaign of cyber espionage and disruption including meddling in elections and of those are listed along with other acute threats as is being described such as islamic terrorism human trafficking piracy crime and instability . all the measures outlined by britain against russia followed the escalation of the bilateral spat after the poisoning of double agent sergei scribble and his daughter in the u.k. the former russian intelligence agent turned british spy together with his daughter were found unconscious on a park bench in the u.k. city of solsbury now he was stripped of his rank over spying for the u.k. and jailed for espionage authorities say that said and delist grip our work poisoned by a nerve agent said to be of a type produced in the soviet union moscow there denies any involvement in the poisoning it accuses london of orchestrating a campaign to get russia blamed now the powerpoint slides have been revealed these
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are the sludge for the basis on which the us and half of the e.u. backed britain's expulsion of russian diplomats so take a look at the six pages focus on accusations against russia number one page of the report shows the timeline of how the script unfolded the second focuses on the nerve agent itself and claims that russia's behind the attack of though without providing any proof of guilt so-called evidence that includes accusations of previous malign activity by moscow such as cyber attacks alleged interference in international elections and what the presentation calls the occupation of crimea russia's foreign ministries describe the claims as speculation and has branded this an organized political campaign without any evidence and not even presenting any concrete scenario of what's happened london accused russia of poisoning its own citizens to develop a chemical substance never used in russia and organize an extensive political and
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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 used there were ignored. we discussed the situation around the exposed to dossier with political commentator and journalist john white and the evidence in this dodgy dossier to point out all is over tapes authentic 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 the government in the u.k. and north at this evidence is thin with regards to its claim that russia was a sponsible for the poisoning of sergei scruple and his daughter yulia this is why it's included in a store see it catalogue of alleged other infractions committed by the russians the . the founder of wiki leaks has had his internet curse off and is not
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being allowed to visit the crew an embassy in london is confirm that it won't be providing further means of communication to julian assange for the time being a response has been online calls for a song supporters to protest outside the embassy or the hash tag reconnect julian is now trending online in a statement the embassy adds that all these means of communication have been suspended since monday and that took the measure after a song failed to honor an agreement not to comment on quote alleged interference concerning of the state's embassy says that such actions by that whistleblower could damage ecuador ties with the nations it's also considering further measures against the wiki leaks founder earlier a british m.p. denounced julian assange as being a quote a miserable little worm after the wiki leaks chief took to twitter to criticize the u.k. sounding of the scriptural case and tweeted it was reasonable to suspect russia though
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the evidence was circumstantial and he says needed independent confirmation from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons is out of that went down in the u.k. parliament. because of great regret the judean a silent remains in the ecuador embassy it is 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 worm walked out of the embassy and gave himself up to british justice. the m.p.'s comment didn't go and answered though a song responded 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 than a snake. and julian assange is the founder of the whistle blowing website wiki leaks which is expose millions of confidential documents over the years he saw
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refuge inside the ecuadorian embassy in london in twenty twelve after he'd been accused of rape in sweden a case meanwhile that was dropped by stockholm or thorough the song says he fears to leave the embassy in case he's extradited to the u.s. where he faces charges of espionage executive editor of the news website twenty first century why gave his reaction to developments. it can only be described as the sort of atmosphere in parliament 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. 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
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those if they're in opposition to whatever the official party line is. members of the jewish community in france the sounding the alarm over the rise of anti semitic sentiment in the country and this is after the brutal killing of an elderly holocaust survivor several jewish organizations of course then last week she was stabbed multiple times before being set on fire in her paris apartment two men have been arrested and charged in connection with the case and religious motive has been cited by the authorities well some had this to say in the wake of the koran. it's unbelievable. to see. the tool hold the woman. eighty five years to consume she can move she has no money. while you kill. her you can do
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this is boom bust broadcasting around the world from right here in washington d.c. i'm part of and coming up today ashley banks takes a look at c.e.o. pay for may talk gold stocks and a little oil with prosperity dot com founder and c.e.o. chris martenson plus we'll get into the full on fuss about facebook and how users personal data has been compromised commentator eric reimer wrote an opinion editorial about the troublesome circumstances and cold joins us to discuss all of that said it's full speed ahead today's business and finance headlines. over has announced that is pulling out of southeast asia on monday the right hailing company said it would trade its operation in the region to competitor grab incorporated of
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