it was. was. a national day of mourning has seen crowds across russia honor the victims of last sunday's kemmer of a fire which killed sixty four people including forty one children while the first funerals have also been held. but if we wish to be looked on with little to do to you you could wish to steer you to the question if you do you could be doing if we could. the u.k. releases a new national security strategy placing mosco alongside islamic terror on its list of threats. and wiki leaks founder julian assange has had his internet access and visiting rights suspended by the ecuadorian embassy in london which has threatened further measures.

i'm kate partridge and you're watching the latest headlines here at r.t. international thank you for joining us. 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 the emergency services say no more people are missing funerals have now started to take place hundreds of mourners gathered to pay tribute to the victims and with many of them from small villages whole communities have been left grief stricken. to deny due to closely only just. to cuba. the situation is that if we racially look at what the dish adichie knew

you could you. don't need to. keep going if we could. reach you. if we keep score says we're used to musicals. mushiness should be a. key. component. on office in camera where people continue to bring flowers and toys to the site 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 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 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 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 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. in the field of the levy. family involved here nothing was until. it was i'm not. going to come out. of that period with them who. are probably more than me or 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 fire can reverse also it is working fronted by angry crowds of victims' relatives and local people they demanded to know how the catastrophe had been allowed to happen. massive force to get. things.

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a tax cut is like. going to do it through my dislike of. your. clothes you know i was a little bit. well 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 jacqueline who got 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 to tell of 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 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 back inside. i saw nothing there was black smoke everywhere her children crying and shouting and that's how i found out where the three children were sitting in

the corner of a room crying for three girls and a boy that's all the boys grabbed my belt and hold it tight and two of the girls by the color in character three of the models are 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 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 and 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 people across the globe have been joining russia and mourning the victims that have been held in wilson says he contras. listen. to what is the order of. the speech. at least lucky.

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what you assume a shock to. your name on your part or to become a structural part of the march across the board if the shot. well a blazing camera 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 gus's 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. our on the phone was. in other news the u.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 defenses and 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 as threats and accused of hybrid warfare he's an associate. 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 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 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 they want to. there is a cyber war being waged by russia. just cleaves what relieves the evidence is 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 well tension between the two countries has been escalating for weeks following the poisoning of double agent set against great power and his daughter yulia in the english city of salzburg british investigators now say the highest concentrations of the suspected nerve agent not a child are believed to have been found on the script hours front door the investigation is focusing on key locations as well the park bench where sergei and 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

was like a script out is a former russian intelligence agent he was stripped of his rank after spying for the u.k. and jailed for espionage before being released as artists a 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 now powerpoint slides have been revealed which formed the basis on which the us and half the you supported britain's expulsion of russian diplomats the six slides that focus on accusations against moscow they describe the nerve agent allegedly used and blamed russia for the attack without providing any proof the so-called evidence includes claims of previous malicious activity by moscow these include cyber attacks alleged election interference and what the presentation calls the occupation of crimea where russia's foreign ministry

describes the claims as 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 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 or political commentator john white says the slide show is based on presumptions rather than proof. and the evidence in this dodgy dossier two point zero is over tapes soften 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 uki north that 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 door see it cut a war go over waged other infractions committed by the russians the. now wiki leaks founder 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 for us and his supporters to protest outside the building while the hash tag reconnect julian is now trending online one of the statements the ecuadorian embassy says all his means of communication have been suspended since monday it took the measure after assad failed to honor an agreement not to comment on alleged interference concerning other states well the embassy says such actions by the whistleblower could damage ecuador's ties with other nations when i should or says it's also considering further measures against

a sovereign the decision came not long after he posted this tweet he criticized britain's handling of the scrip our case it's circumstantial evidence and the lack of independent confirmation from the organization for the prohibit of chemical weapons well the tweet sparked a swift reaction in the british parliament. this is because of great regret that julian assange remains in the ecuador embassy it is people 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 walked out of the embassy and gave himself up to british justice. well the m.p.'s comments didn't go on oncet with the song 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 nothing wrong with being a little person although i'm rather tall and better

a worm healthy creature that invigorates the soil than a snake. what you need massage is the founder of the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks which is expose millions of confidential documents for over a decade in twenty two hours he sought refuge in the ecuadorian embassy in london after being accused of rape in sweden a case which has since been dropped by stockholm's also it is. joining me live now to discuss this latest chapter in the asylum saga is investigative journalist dave lindorff dave thank you for joining us well this is a case of ecuador under pressure from the u.k. and the u.s. . by day to little me how dave can hear me yeah you're correct and i can ok day let me just repeat the question just in case you didn't hear i mean talking of genocide i mean is this a case of ecuador finally buckling under pressure from the u.k.

and the u.s. . yeah that's what it looks like i mean all of this is coming from the u.s. i think this kind of pressure but i'm not sure how successful it can be just because sanjay now as a citizen of ecuador what looking at what's actually happening in terms of timing then given that could they speak significant given that the british minister alan duncan as we had that he called the song a miserable little worm in parliament is that significant. i'm not sure how significant that is i mean you know there the international rules that protect him in ecuador in the ecuadorian embassy are are inviolate really be and so it's really up to the ecuadorian government whether they would cave under that pressure and while they may do what they've done and have done before by the way cutting off his internet to punish him i'm not sure how far they would be willing to go because there's a great deal of pride in latin american countries in not caving in especially

overtly to the pressure from the great united states you know l north a. which has this long history of controlling their countries so it would be it would be very surprising for ecuador to buckle wholly and and put sunday out there at the mercy of the united states but they have done that as a bonus that they could have possible the measures against him i mean what can those could be well they may restrict is this it or that would be pretty horrible for him yes little enough contact with the outside world as it is i tried to talk to him once and it was impossible to get past the guard so. you know they have a lot of controls over him and they can tighten them or loosen them at will. i mean and all site let's look at this a long time ramifications he's been there such

a long time now i mean what legal options are still i've been saying to him at this point to be able to leave the embassy as a free man. not too many unless the you know with the current government in england which is. you know funding puppet of the united states it is unlikely that he'll get out. absent some kind of a ruling by the british high court to declare his wrist warrant invent elliott at this point for jumping bail in his british do you know extradition case it's ludicrous right now for them to be holding a because the reason they were holding him was as an indictment not being prepared in sweden which never happened and now that case in sweden is gone and so there is no excuse for the british to be holding him and it's going to be to see what

happens in the next stage of the saga dave lindorff founder of news site this can't be happening dot com thank you very much. now members of the jewish community in france are sounding the alarm over their eyes and on to so much as i'm in the country it follows last week's brutal killing of an elderly whole course of either several jewish organizations have called for a fully transparent investigation into the case which is the latest in a string of violent incidents in protests what's being described as a silent march is now underway in paris. but there are lots of reasons one being hate anti-semitism another being the rise of islamic fundamentalists who create growing hatred and ill feeling we give the impression that the state can't cope and . it's why i'm here without that this was not an ordinary crime at all it was inspired by anti-semitism and that we are attacked children and people this is starting to make a movie list here she was jewish this issue is really serious. what's important is

that this message goes to the most remote villages and france 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 gauche only mellow show wasn't the only politician to join the march as national front leader marine le pen arrived scuffles broke out for summer saying she and her car she would welcome a national from. and has been associated with racism in the past with accusations of holocaust denial and hate speech however lappin house trying to change the situation. from l.a. noire was an eighty five year old holocaust survivor she narrowly escaped a nazi ordered roundup of jews in the french capital in one nine hundred forty two and 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 a religious motive has been cited by all surratt is now son daniel has been left

completely stunned by the crime it's. unbelievable. it's so hard. to hold a woman. before you walk and soon she can move she has no more me. war you kill. all you can do the. tough ones. the recent figures show a large increase in anti semitic violence in france reported incidents jumped 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 around forty thousand jews are estimated to have left the country since two thousand and six with many blaming a growing hostility jewish community advisor alleviate a bitch believes the situation is critical. again and again the community of course is marching in the streets of paris again and again the government and the

institutions of course trained to and to assist the jewish community as they are not capable really to provide. security to women two main two kids you cannot you cannot put a policeman be an every 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 of been killed in the last years. thousands of people have filled the streets of ghana's capital accra protesting against the expansion of defense cooperation with the united states. oh. that was.

the new mr dale was approved by the president not a coup fell i doze government last week there was a twenty million dollar investment from the us in equipment and training for the gun iommi. joint exercises with ghana and the right to use the nation's radio frequencies and wrong ways the greenland has been have any criticized by the opposition you say it's an f'ing she's gonna steal from speak. up to the house gunmen citizens to demonstrate against the decision by our president so i can be decided i meant for the us government to bring down the drain on the country's. biggest. dog this isn't good for my country to be so good as i decided to call fritz monday just to be president indeed it was very serious. when we spoke with also historian gerald horne and african affairs analyst lawrence freeman they said gonna have good reasons to be furious with the tail but the question is the

canadian military be allowed to use united states radio frequencies the united states of america the answer would be flatly no go this is a one sided deal a one sided arrangement keep in mind as well that us oil giants have been exploring all show or from gaza and reportedly have discovered many fines in terms of petroleum and i dare say that these u.s. oil giants are also concerned about protecting their investments in west africa and therefore they would also demand and desire enhanced and increased u.s. military role. but washington really is shrunk from its responsibilities in the world. instead of helping african countries develop their economic powers by investing in infrastructure and rio development

roads the energy ports united states has increasingly relied on military kinetic warfare to fight terrorists and this doesn't work because the reason these terrorists are able to recruit is because of the poor economic conditions at virtually drive the young people into the hands of a terrorist or a small amount of money. well for more on these and plenty of other stories that go to our website r.t. telkom otherwise op about for the latest headlines at the top of the hour.