a national day of mourning has seen crowds across russia on other victims of last sunday's cover of a fire which killed sixty four people including forty one children of the first funerals have also been held. but if we reach that we will go with. the due to you you could you. don't need to look at here but if. you could if you don't you break. the u.k. releases a new national security strategy placing moscow alongside islamic terror on its list of threats. and wiki leaks founder julian assange just how does internet access a visiting rights suspended from the ecuadorian embassy in london which is threatened further measures.

like you're watching the news headlines here at r.t. international broadcasting live from moscow i'm kate partridge. wednesday was a national day of mourning in russia commemorating the victims of sunday shopping center fire in the siberian city of camera sixty four people have been confirmed dead including forty one children the blaze started on the top floor of the four story building where there was a cinema and a children's play area emergency services say no more people are missing funerals have now also started to take place hundreds of mourners gathered to pay tribute to the victims of the tragedy and with many of them from small villages whole communities have been left the stricken. just three. route you. could. it is but it appears to be

a look at what the british adichie knew you couldn't. keep doing if we could. reach you. if we keep for using you to use against. mushy. company. don off is in terror of her where people continue to bring flowers and toys to the site of the tragedy at the winter cherry mall. three days on since the tragedy the families of the first twenty two victims have said their large goodbyes to their loved ones with burial ceremonies as the nation mourns the victim the investigation is working to hold those to blame

for the catastrophe accountable i made concerns that some people may get away there are 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 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 weren't 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 you curity 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 feel of the levy. family normally hear nothing like it was until. it was i'm not. going to come. out that here we have with them who are going to. be with our family or the reviewer even. if you ask the question. 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. or shortly after the fire camera has also it is were confronted by angry crowds of victims' relatives and local people they don't want to know how the catastrophe had been allowed to happen . four years of. massive force again. i. think. you could be any number.

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because our beauty somebody likes a particular. point of view of my degree of. your . clothes you know i was only a little kid. the number of victims could have been higher if it hadn't been for the courage of people nearby some lost their lives trying to get children out of the burning

building. 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 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 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 a room crying for three girls and the boy told the boys to grab my belt 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 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. 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 and mourning the victims vigils have been held in mills and thirty countries. live. here to. see what is the order of. the speech. least.

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once this initial to. your name on your part to become a structural part of the bridge across the board in the shop. with a blazing camera bow is one of the deadliest since soviet times it took firefighters over seventeen hours to extinguish it one section of the shopping complex was completely gutted and large sections of the roof collapsed and the sixty four people who died almost two thirds were children as the school holidays had just begun. was the only one was. in other news the k. has released a new national security strategy outlining the major challenges to the country and ranking mosco alongside islamic terror on its list of threats the policy focuses on strengthening defense on the armed forces it also emphasizes using the full range of its capabilities including intelligence and economic weapons to counter enemies

while russia has been branded a threat and accused of hybrid warfare honest i see a check you know as 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 the threat is from an islamic state north korea and then she says russia to review our security we have to zero every country mr bush 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 then when it comes untruth. is a cyber war being waged. just cleaves what relieves the evidence if the evidence points clearly to russia and indeed to vladimir putin are be the first to calm them russia and him but we have not seen the evidence well tension between the two countries has been escalating for weeks following the poisoning of double agents that case cripple and his daughter yulia in the english city of salzburg british investigators now say the highest concentrations of the suspected know of agent novacek are believed to be in found on the script hours front door the investigation is also focusing on key locations the park bench where said again his daughter were found unconscious their car where they ate that day and their home address scotland yard detectives also reiterated the probe may take

months well so i guess clip out is a former russian intelligence agent and he was stripped of his rank after spying for the u.k. and jailed for espionage before being released authorities say scrip our and his daughter were poisoned by a nerve agent of a type produced in the soviet union however moscow denies any involvement in the poisoning and accuses london of a campaign to blame russia and now a power point slides have been revealed which form the basis on which the us and half the you supported britain's expulsion of russian diplomats the six lines focus on accusations against moscow they described the nerve agent allegedly used and blame russia for the attack without providing any proof the so-called evidence in good times of previous malicious activity by moscow in these include cyber attacks alleged election interference and what the presentation calls the occupation of

crimea russia's foreign minister describes the claims are speculation and branded them 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 the 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 phone calls of the substance use there were ignored well political commentator john white says the slide show is based on presumptions rather than proof and the evidence in this doj and dorsey two point zero is over tapes or thin 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 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 this dossier a catalogue of alleged other infractions committed by the russian state where he's founder julian assange has had his contact with the outside world restricted by ecuador's london embassy in iran that after the break. what politicians do yourself to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to present. something i want to. get it right to the press this is what the korean people are. interested in the war. they should.

i played for many clubs over the years so i know the game inside out. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the shaper money killian erroneous and spending two hundred twenty million and one player. well it's an experience like nothing else not to because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful game but great so one more chance for. a nice minute. welcome back nasa thousands of people have filled the streets of governance capital across protesting against the expansion off defense cooperation with the united

states. oh. the new military deal was approved by the president none at all for i doze government last week there was a twenty million dollar investment from the u.s. in equipment and training for the county army it also includes joint exercises with ghana and the right to use the nation's gradient frequencies and runways plea agreement has been heavily criticized by the opposition who say it infringes because honest i'm pretty. sure this has got real substance to demonstrate this decision by our presidents talk about foresight and i commented that it was government to bring down the drain on our country is the out in the sky was cigars and my country to be sold that is why i decided to forfeit my lectures just to be present in the works research. or to discuss this issue further i'm now

joined by african affairs analyst lawrence freeman lawrence thank you very much indeed for joining us well let's have a look at some of the the issues then going to officials say the agreement is a continuation of the twenty a us going relationship with the protesters are saying that the country is giving up its sovereignty what do you think. i think the policy the. president trying to ministration is advocating for africa which used to rely on security and military build up is a fundamentally flawed policy and exactness out the problems of doing. terrorist and move around extremists who are involved in the say here or in west africa and i think this policy has not worked in athens not going to work now. but the united states has been rapidly expanding its military presence in africa for the last decade i mean what's washington trying to achieve here. well washington

really is that shrunk from its responsibilities in the world instead of helping african countries develop their economic power. by in investing in infrastructure and rare development roads energy ports united states has increasingly relied on military kinetic warfare to fight terrorism this doesn't work because the reason these terrorists are able to recruit is because of the poor economic conditions that virtually drive the young people into the hands of the terrorists for a small amount of money i was involved directly in when insurgents been fighting the insurgency only child basic by advocating a program to expand late jobs and which is their way or bring economic development to the lake chad basin which is now suffering great poverty in the united states

and if you look at congressman misstatements recently. saying i have to be an investigation of china's role in africa this is really mindless stupidity china is helping africa it is building where others have been on that building port building energy plant this is what africa needs to build up its economic power is reduced and living and that's an effective way of fighting the brown extreme but do you think then there's a chance that these process i make my main ways concerns over u.s. minute change function in the wider international community. well i think people who seem results in this somehow region. to say hair or it is various military programs we have have been in effect it is not to say it is not a rogue food no theory britain has three military escalation of our forces in africa instead of we're not horribly complementary policy or massive economic

development you go to these areas to mali to chart to northern nigeria in they are these places are tremendously underdeveloped theories unbelievable cavity so this is why program it will succeed and this is why they succeeded with mali in the end instead of instead of allowing these economic reason to exist you have to transform the region and this rich china is trying to do and united states is not ok i'm afraid going to have to leave it there lawrence freeman thank you very much and if your thoughts thank you thank you. now we can he started julian assange has had his internet connection cut off and isn't being allowed visits at the ecuadorian embassy in london in response there have been online calls press on his supporters to protest outside the building where the hash tag reconnect julian is that trending online what a statement there could or an embassy says all his means of communication have been suspended since monday and he took the measure after

a silence fell to honor an agreement not to comment on election interference concerning other states the embassy says such actions by the whistleblower could damage ecuador's ties with other nations like it or says it's also considering further measures against a sound decision came not long after he posted this tweet he criticized britain's humbling of the scrip our case it's circumstantial evidence and the lack of independent confirmation from the organization for the preservation of chemical weapons well the tweet sparked a swift reaction in the british parliament. because because of great regret the judean a silent remains in the ecuador embassy it is of 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 word walked out of the embassy and gave himself up to british justice well the m.p.'s comments didn't go unanswered with us owners 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 well joining us orange is the founder of the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks which is expose millions of confidential documents for over a decade in twenty twelve he sought refuge in the ecuadorian embassy in london after being accused of rape in sweden a case which has since been dropped by star r.t. . more news at the top of the. it's the cradle of jazz. this is america is the america we. don't know it's just jazz feeling. a city of climatic contests trophies of alligators on the loose of poverty and crime are used by the least

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greetings and salutation you don't there's one thing the united states knows really well it's drugs and if there's one thing we know even better it's greed so when you put the two together drugs and greed you get big pharma yes those wonderful legalized drug dealers have been at it again mark watchers this time and one of their oldest go to swindles raking old folks over the coals with exorbitant drug prices thanks to the number crunching of u.s. senator claire mccaskill's internals the top ranking democrat on the homeland security and governmental affairs committee has released a new report showing that from two thousand and twelve to twenty seventeen the cost of popular brand name commonly used drugs for senior citizens here in the united states increased at nearly ten times the cost of inflation with the release of the

multi year long investigation macaskill summed up the big pharma price gouging quite beautifully stating can you imagine if you went to an auto dealership and last year's exact model was being sold at a twenty percent markup and then you went back the next year and it happened again that's exactly what's happening in the prescription drug industry where the cost of identical drugs skyrockets a year after year after year the report also highlights that despite big drug companies seeing profits increased by eight point five billion over those five years the actual number of prescriptions during that. time decreased by forty eight million julia johnson a spokeswoman for p. little h r m a r criticized the report telling the media that this is yet another misleading report that ignores the robust negotiation that occurs between medicare part d. plans middlemen and bio pharmaceutical companies.