it's been a national day of mourning in russia risk crowds 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 have been held for victims who been identified. but it remains to be worked out whether it was a duty knew you could you post still need to do that. you could be doing if we get . another news the u.k. releases a new national security strategy placing moscow alongside islamic terrorism on its list of threats. and in other news wiki leaks founder julian assange has these internet access and visitation rights suspended by the ecuadorian embassy in london

which has warned of further measures if necessary. thanks for joining us my name's neil harvey this is our international. wednesday was a nationwide day of mourning here in russia commemorating victims of a fire at a shopping center in the siberian city of camera the blaze started on the top floor it was a cinema 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 have now been taking place hundreds of mourners gathered to bid their farewells to the victims of the winter cherry mall tragedy with many victims from small villages entire communities have been left grief stricken. you know my niece just three.

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said there are large 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 many people here who are concerned that some may get away vladimir putin promised the investigation will be as transparent as possible and no one will be able to use their social status to escape the punishment or 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 with 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. and the future of the levy. family involved here nothing was done for me. because i'm not going to look. at that very average man who committed the crime and what the american people. if you want. to at least twenty three victims have been identified. 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 or thora he is in the city of camera were confronted by angry crowds of victims' relatives and locals they were demanding how the catastrophe could have possibly happened. already. massive force to get.

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number of victims could have been even higher how did not being 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 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 ten of their seventeen year old team up below him 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 like 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 to terrify crying. and the boy told the boys to grab my belt and hold it tight and two of the girls by the collar and carried them out of 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 while 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 staff 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 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 and people across the globe have been joining russia to mourn the victims of this deadly blaze vigils have been held in more than thirty countries. let. let let. us let you to. see what is still out of. the

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once assume a shot to. your name on your put it to become a structural part of the bridge across the board if the shot. the blazing camera is one of the deadliest in russia in living memory it took firefighters over 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 relating to the aftermath of the tragedy in southern siberia and just to remind you this has been a national day of mourning for the sixty four lives so far lost in a shopping center blaze most of the deceased were children.

in other news the u.k. just released a new national security strategy it outlines major challenges perceived to the country the doctrine focuses on further strengthening defense and the armed forces as well as using 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. churkin has more. but sir 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 we roll to review our security we have to review every country in this 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. well why is there a cyber war being waged by russia look how many 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 of tension between the two countries has been escalating for weeks now following the poisoning of double agent. and his daughter in the british city of salzburg the latest aim of british investigators says that the highest concentrations of the suspected nerve agent are believed to be found at the front

door of the script piles home investigation focuses on key locations the park bench where seventy and his daughter were found unconscious their b.m.w. car the place where they ate that day and the 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 though over spying for the u.k. and jailed for espionage before being released forty say screw pal and his daughter were poisoned by a nerve agent as they called it of a type produced in the soviet union moscow denies any involvement in the poisoning and accuses learned of a campaign to blame russia now a power point slides have been revealed which form the basis on which the u.s. and half the you back britain's expulsion of russian diplomats the six flights focus on accusations against moscow describing the nerve agent allegedly used

russia for the attack although 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 others' elections and what the presentation called the occupation of crimea russia's foreign ministry has described claims speculation and branded than the product of an organized political campaign. without any evidence and not even presenting any concrete snorri of what happened london accused russia of poisoning its own citizens speculated about a chemical substance never used in russia and organized an extensive political and media campaign it inspired the baseless expulsion of russian diplomats from a number of countries and international organizations announced a range of other sanctions are lawful request to provide some pulls of the substance use there were ignored to come to john white says the slide shows based on presumptions rather than solid evidence and the evidence in this dodgy dossier

to point 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. north of this evidence is then with regard 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. we can expand the julian assange has had contact with the outside world restricted by ecuador's london embassy to bring you details after this break. thanks.

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fill the streets in the capital of the protesting the expansion of defense cooperation with the united states. i. knew that a deal was approved by the press the nine hour coup for those government last week it includes a twenty million dollar investment from the u.s. in equipment and training for the gun a an army joint exercises with ghana and right to use the nation's radio frequencies and runways the equipment been heavily criticized by the opposition they say this infringes gone a sovereignty. has gone millions to. demonstrate this decision by our presidents to. decide and i commented government to bring. the country. i mean this. is my country to be so.

i decided to forfeit mine looks just to be president is what. i can discuss the story now we all for an historian gerald horne joins me on the line gerald began an official say this is business as usual there's a decades long standing relationship between garner and the u.s. protesters say that the country's giving up sovereignty how do you perceive the situation. i think the protesters have the better of this argument they may recall that it was in february one nine hundred sixty six that the united states and the u.s. central intelligence agency helped to overthrow the founding father of ghana speaking of kwame. there is lingering resentment and got to this very day because of this gross interference in canadian internal affairs no doubt the protesters feel that this military agreement may auger more of the same secondly keep in mind that god has one of the largest populations of expansionary of african-americans

other than south africa and i dare say that many of these african-americans were found in the streets during this protest because many of them have lingering resentment against united states because of the racism of white supremacy to which they have been suggested. to which they have been subjected thirdly keep in mind that with a military agreement united states has the opportunity to forge closer ties with god on those military and in the path that has all the possibility of a military coup against a government an across the united states objects to so there was a very good reason for these demonstrators to take to the streets the u.s. has been rapidly expanding its military presence in africa for what a decade assad now what's the motivation. well first of all there is considerable hysteria about the role of china and africa united states is not able to compete in

africa with china financially economically however united states feels that it has an advantage because of its huge military budget and therefore it can put its thumb on the scales in africa with regard to spending on the military you may know that there is a sizable u.s. military presence on the african continent the so-called africa command there are thousands of u.s. troops in djibouti in the horn of africa there are u.s. soldiers who were just killed in these year just north east of gaza in recent months and weeks there has been a joint friends u.s. military intervention in mali just north of gaza so there is considerable reason for protesters to take to the streets because this pact with the guinea and military does not bode well. joe depreciate you tom enough to wrap it up but thanks

for joining us author of story in general told my guest. the. founder of wiki leaks is that his internet cut off and his not being allowed visits at the ecuadorian embassy in london the response there been online calls for a song supporters to protest outside the embassy the hash tag reconnect julian has been trending online in a statement the ecuadorian embassy says all means of communication for a song have been suspended since monday and that it took the measure after julian assange failed to warn an agreement not to comment on quote alleged interference concerning other states the embassy says such actions by the whistleblower potentially damage ecuador's ties with the nations he says it's also considering further measures against the wiki leaks founder the decision came not long after julian the signage posted this tweet which he criticised britain's handling of the script power case noting its quote circumstantial evidence and the lack of independent confirmation from the organization of the probation of chemical weapons

sparked a swift reaction to in the u.k. parliament. because of great regret the jewel in the 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. now strong words from the m.p. there but they didn't go unanswered responded it is 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 sneak. julian assange is the founder of the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks which exposed millions of confidential documents over the years he sought refuge in the ecuadorian embassy in

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