look. i think. it's been a national day of mourning here in russia as crowns across the country commemorated victims of sunday's shopping center fire in the siberian city of camera sixty four people lost their lives including forty one children the first funerals of been held for victims who've been identified. but it emerged that we would know what it was it did he knew you could. do you to do what. you can skew doing you. know the news the u.k. releases a new national security strategy placing moscow alongside islamic terrorism on its list of threats. elsewhere wiki leaks founder julian assange says internet access and visitation rights suspended by the ecuadorian embassy in london which has

warned of further measures if necessary. joining us this hour my name is neil harvey this is r.t. international. wednesday was a nationwide day of mourning in russia commemorating the victims of a fire at a shopping center in the siberian city of camera the blaze began on the top floor there was a cinema there and a children's play area sixty four people have been confirmed dead including forty one children emergency services say there are no more missing people. funerals are now started to take place hundreds of mourners gathered to bid their farewell to victims of the winter cherry mall tragedy and with many victims from small villages whole communities have been left grief stricken. tonight it will close in on my

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goodbyes to their loved ones with the burial ceremonies as the nation mourns the victims the investigation is working to hold those to blame for the catastrophe accountable amid concerns that some people may get away there are so many people here who are concerned that some may get away vladimir putin promised that the investigation will be as transparent as possible and no one will be able to use their social status to escape the punishment are right now investigators are looking into the mixture of factors first and foremost 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 the fire exits were locked so people when they followed the designated paths to safety they found themselves the doors that were shut also the staff of the more reportedly was untrained how to handle an emergency like this and

so far five people have been arrested in connection with sunday's tragedy and among them is the head of the mall the fire safety chief and one of the security guards the investigators believe that this security guard actually deliberately switched off of the fire prevention system just before the blaze he himself in turn is saying that the whole system went out of water a whole week before the disaster. if you will of the immediate. problem of the other one it was until. it was i'm not. going to come. out that harry allen who is going to go down without a permit for the new year even. if you want. to at least twenty three victims have been identified. so far out of the total of sixty four it is taking a long time because sometimes the identification is only possible through a d.n.a.

test so badly the bodies are burnt the process is going to empty for servant but still we are being told that it could take as long as three weeks to identify everyone 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 as on the results of the investigation. shortly after the tragedy occurred or thora te's in the city of camera there were confronted by angry crowds of victims' relatives and locals they demanded to know how the catastrophe could possibly have happened. the former is a massive force to get. things

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the number of victims could have been even higher had they not been for the courage of people nearby some of them lost their lives trying to get children out of the burning building jacqueline 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 to tell of their saw 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

indeed moran back inside. i saw nothing there was black smoke everywhere her children crying and shouting and that's found out where the three children were sitting in the corner of the room crying. and the boy told the boy 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 ran 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 three next to it is like you 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 and people across the globe are joining russia to mourn victims of the deadly blaze vigils have been held in more than thirty countries. let's. get you to. see what is still out of.

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at. what you see in the shop to. your name on your part to become a structural part of the march across the board if the shop. the blaze in camera view is one of the deadliest in russia reliving memory he took firefighters there more than seventeen hours to extinguish it on section of the shopping complex was completely gutted large sections of the roof collapsed we will continue to follow developments in the aftermath of the tragedy in servants siberia just to remind you this is been a national day of mourning for the sixty four lives lost in the shopping center blaze most of the deceased were children. in other news the u.k.

has just released a new national security strategy it outlines major challenges perceived to the country the doctrine focuses on further strengthening defense in the armed forces as well as in their full range of capabilities including intelligence and economic weapons to counter enemies russia is also in the firing line it's been branded a threat and accused of hybrid warfare and situ as more. 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 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 this 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 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 in the first place true gemayel prime minister actually in one paragraph she says

to stretch this from islamic state north korea and then she says russia to review our security we have to review every country in this book to travel russia in with north korea. islamic state i think she's out of step with the ordinary man and woman on the streets of the united kingdom and they want to. there is a cyber war being waged by russia look how we are all just please calm down what we need is the evidence if the evidence points clearly to russia and indeed to vladimir putin are be the first to condemn russia and him but we have not seen the evidence the tension between the two countries has been escalating for weeks now following the poisoning of double agent sergei screwball and his daughter in the british city of souls the latest statement from british investigators says the highest concentrations of the suspected nerve agent are believed to be found on

the front door of the script home investigation is focused on kilo cations the park bench says again his daughter were found unconscious at b.m.w. car place where the eight that day and their home address scotland yard detectives also reiterated that the probe may take months so i guess cripple is a former russian intelligence agent he was stripped of his rank over spying for the u.k. and jailed for espionage before being released of a script l. and his daughter were poisoned by a nerve agent said to be of a type produced in the soviet union moscow denies any involvement in the poisoning and is accused london of a campaign to blame russia and now power point slides have been revealed which form the basis on which the us and half of the e.u. have backed britain's expulsion of russian diplomats who comprise of six lies which focus on accusations against moscow they describe the nerve agent allegedly used

and blamed russia for the attack but it should be said without providing any proof of guilt the so-called evidence includes claims of previous malign activity by moscow such as cyber attacks alleged interference in other selections of what the presentation calls the occupation of crimea russia's foreign ministry described those claims as speculation and branded them the product of 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. about the chemical substance never used in russia and organize an extensive political and media campaign it inspired the baseless 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 slide show presented by britain with political commentator and journalist john white and the evidence in this dodgy

dossier two point four 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 there government in the u.k. nor that this evidence is then 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 a catalogue of alleged other infractions committed by the russian state. the founder of wiki leaks has had his internet cut off and is not being allowed visits at the ecuadorian embassy in london in response the banal line calls for a song supporters to protest outside the embassy meanwhile the hash tag reconnect julian is now trending online in a statement the ecuadorian embassy itself says that all his means of communication been suspended since monday and took the measure after julian assange has failed to

water an agreement not to comment on quote alleged interference concerning the state the embassy says so its actions by the whistleblower could potentially damaging ties with other nations he says it's also considering further measures against the we kill its founder the decision came not long after julia signs are posted this tweet which criticised britain's handling of the script noting its quote circumstantial evidence and the lack of independent confirmation from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons and this sparked a swift reaction in the u.k. parliament because because of great regret the judean a silent remains in the ecuador embassy it is even deeper regret that even last night he was tweeting 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 well that i should say minister as well as comments did not go unanswered here is the son's 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 than a snake. julian science is the founder of the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks expose millions of confidential documents over the years he sought refuge in the ecuadorian embassy in london in two thousand and twelve after you've been accused of rape in sweden a case that since been dropped by stocco more authority we spoke to human rights activist peter tatchell for his take on these latest developments. there does appear to be disquiet in ecuador over the fact that julian are signs that a number of tweets about the issue of cattle independence i suspect that the spanish are you know threatening all or. putting some undue pressure on it

good or that has forced us into this position after all journalists was granted political asylum door he was granted citizenship and diplomatic passport and as a citizen of ecuador he is entitled to the same freedom of expression as every other ecuadorian citizen affectively he is now being held in isolation and unjustified and very draconian response to a handful of tweets. from. members of the jewish community in france are sounding the alarm over the rise of anti semitic sentiment in the country this follows the brutal killing of an elderly holocaust survivor last week several jewish organizations a call for a fully transparent investigation into the case which is the latest in a string of violent incidents in protests what's been described as a silent march has been underway in paris. you know there are a lot of reasons one being hate anti-semitism another being the rise of the

slamming fundamentalists who create growing hatred and you feel it gives the impression that the state can't cope and. it's why i'm here with an operation this was not an ordinary criminal it was inspired by anti-semitism and that we are attacked children and people this is trying to make of relist here she was jewish this issue is really serious. but what's important is that this message goes to the most remote villages of braun's all the jewish people should know that they are protected by the national community and the torah law will never run dry. well the last speaker their left wing a million sean wasn't the only politician to join the march as national front leader marine colonel arrived scuffles broke out some saying she and her quality were welcome when asked the front have been associated with racism in the past with accusations of holocaust denial and hate speech over the plan has tried to change

that rep to. the victim or a no was an eighty five year old holocaust survivor she now released scape the nancy ordered roundup of jews in the french capital in one thousand nine hundred forty two the last week she was stabbed multiple times before being set on fire in a paris apartment two men have been arrested and charged in connection with the case a religious motive was cited by or thora these knoll son had this to say in the wake of the crime it's. unbelievable. to hold room. to five years parkinson she can move she has no money. why you kill. her you can do that. no one's. recent figures show a large increase in anti semitic violence in france reported incidents just by

twenty six percent last year alone there's also been a significant surge in the desecration of jewish places of worship and burial sites some forty thousand jews are estimated to have left the country since two thousand and six many blaming growing hostility towards the community jewish community advisor levy a raft of which believes the situation is critical. again and again the community of course is marching in the streets of paris again and again the government runs institutions of schools trained to and to assist the jewish community as they are not capable really to provide present security to women to maine to kids you cannot you cannot put a policeman beyond if the jew in france many jews are asking what will be the future because they cannot continue to march in paris and to get tears and to get flowers. from the government because it's not enough it's not the bringing back to

live. nor the level of the sea the leamy or so many young jews have been killed in the last years. the leaders of north korea in china held talks this week during a secret visit by kim jong un to beijing it was kim's first foreign visit since he took office in twenty eleven speculation began on monday when a mysterious train arrived in china but official confirmation from the two countries media came only after kim left china on march twenty eighth is the first face to face meeting between the leaders it took place just weeks before a summit between the two koreas expected to be followed by kim's meeting with donald trump meanwhile in a tweet trump said that she chimping it informed him that talks went well and that north korea's leader looks forward to meeting with the u.s. president from added that pressure and sanctions on pyongyang should remain

director of lancaster university's china center a new k told us kim needed a public display of friendship with china. i think it he thing that he wanted to get out of the meeting with putin ping is the public display of friendship and closeness between china and north korea the key thing that both in ping and kim jong home mourn on the north korean peninsula is for the u.s. to be out of there from being a lot more confrontational in relation to china with regards to these terrorists i think she did pain. goten fuel on this fire to assert his influence in east asia and not let the u.s. and trump dominate these very very important discussions regarding what happens on the north korean peninsula. thanks staying with this the south opens up today join me for the latest news headlines in half an.

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hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle there is an issue probably the only issue that unites many of the most powerful individuals surrounding donald trump and the issue is hostility directed at iran there is every reason to believe these same people will translate their hostility into action even military action the war cabinet is mobilizing. across talking trumps war cabinet i'm joined by my guest russian mohammad ali in london he is a journalist and documentary maker with press t.v. also in london we have some a humvee he is editor in chief of the international interest as well as a geo political risk consultant and in los angeles we cross to john rainwater he is

executive director of peace action. in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate russia let me go to you first in london we have mr bolton coming in as the national security advisor to donald trump we have pale leaving the cia going into the state department and there are others in the around trumpet have an intense intense hostility towards iran we also know that a. little bit a year ago we had bolton addressing would be. possessors of power after there is forced regime change and by the end of two thousand and nineteen it's very public and we can talk about those people who are what is your are you concerned that there is a concerted planning effort for a significant action against iran including military go ahead rochelle in london it's difficult to say because trump is very very difficult to read in fact i've

stopped trying to read him the.