i. the week's top stories. tragedy in the. shopping center killed sixty four people including forty one children. since the start of this week. thanks for sharing your sunday with us here at the international your just in time for the weekly with the top stories of the week today. the russian president has accepted the resignation of the gulf. region over last sunday's mole tragedy at the blaze killed sixty four people forty one of them children here's

a recap of that day. but. why didn't i see the music. in years and. the kids from other music mulch if you could put bozo to signal deserves what she knew. our. first of that.

whole. if you don't look at it it's pretty good as it is if. you. want to ship their. stuff. there was no alarm no siren no sprinklers the whole fire prevention system was off fire exits blocked people inside this shopping mall were left on their own to find out about the beginning inferno but if extension there are no this shopping mall used to be a confectionery and in fact it conducted fire drills just last week so

a lot of. a grave and outrageous flaws and missed in those drills and so the investigation is looking into how this horror became possible lattimer putin who landed here in camera in the morning and he has already laid flowers at the vigil and talked to some of the citizens to comfort them over their last one of. them about your life if you remember to check if you could for pleasure and was there in you we can do it. quicker with permission to let you know what his future looks a little bit of that i would be for the president that you see 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 burial ceremonies as the nation mourns the victims the investigation is working to hold those to blame for the catastrophe accountable 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 morgue reportedly was untrained how to handle an emergency like this 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. one of the many tragic stories is that have a group of eleven year old girls from a village near come out of their travel to the regional capital with their teacher

to celebrate the beginning of the spring holidays and watch a film when the fire broke out they all found themselves locked inside the cinema this reportedly is company policy to prevent people from sneaking into the auditorium trapped inside the girls tried to call their families and posted messages on social media none of them survived and we spoke to some of the villages . they were such good girls' school i truly feel we started really well it is such a tragedy for everyone. has their own was no children of this age left in our village there aren't many children here only our greg and also three boys no one else is left in the village people across the globe have been joining russia to mourn the victims of the deadly blaze vigils have been held in more than thirty countries with people bringing candles and toys. but in the russian city of chemical anger has been running high shortly after the tragedy authorities in the

city were confronted by crowds of victims' relatives on locals the demonstrators were demanding the truth from the officials with a room oh so relating the death toll could be as high as three hundred these claims they were rejected by the. committee and later by the protesters as well. you're. right. somebody opposed to the such.

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to them was still. meanwhile the investigation into what caused the fire is progressing the two main versions are the malfunction of the fire safety system but also austin five people have been arrested among them two directors at the shopping center and the make up of the fire safety system the number of the victims could have actually been much higher had it not been for the courage of people nearby some lost their lives

trying to get children out of the burning building jacqueline berger has some of 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 there 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 dimmer ran back inside. i saw nothing there was thick 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 terrified trying. and the boy that's all the boys grabbed my bow to hold it tight and took the girls by the color and carried them out stuff at the winter cherry center risked their lives trying to get as many youngsters out of the building as they could. because it already when we looked at the escalator it was full of people they started helping people to get out of there we have a vacuum at the end of this tour of europe still it's calling people to come to us so there were disease people to our guys lifted their wheelchairs and help them to go downstairs everything went black clouds of smoke surrounding us i don't know what would have happened to me not them we don't consider ourselves risk you as will people if you were in our place you would have done the same. to death then. there are no doubt other unsung heroes in the city strangers without whom even more people both young and old at least in russia in decades it took firefighters of

a seventeen hours to extinguish it all the sixty four people who died almost two children the school holidays had just begun. was. was. in other news from the week wiki leaks founder julian assange has been cut off from the internet since the start of this week you're also isn't being allowed visitors of the ecuadorian embassy in london where he's been holed up now for almost six years sources close to the whistleblower have told you why ecuador and officials took those decisions and from outside the embassy artie's anastasio truckin to reports according to sources close to wiki leaks we have learned that the ecuadorian government had police tell it trying to gamblers inside the ecuadorian embassy right behind me where julian assange has been holed up for five and a half years now and the idea of this was to block him from being able to tweet as

well as communicate with the outside world hold telephone conversations or have access to the internet generally speaking and apparently all of this comes following a publication in the equipe dorian press about julian assange just tweets concerning the catalan issue specifically the detention of cattle on independence leader of carlist which demands in germany earlier this week courting to this source close to weaken leaks is that julian assange and his team have been informed of having to delete a certain tweet that he had posted among others in one nine hundred forty the elected president of catalonia louis compan a swiss captured by the gestapo at the request of spain delivered to them and executed today german police have arrested the elected president of catalonia karla's put to much at the request of spain to be extradited julian assange did not delete this tweet according to these sources that are close to julian assange government has informed him and his team about their discomfort with his expressing

his opinions and curiously all of this comes following a statement from a top official here in the u.k. describing julian assange as quote a miserable little worm speakers of great regret. juden a silent remains in the ecuador embassy it is people even deeper regret that even last night he was preaching 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 earlier we know that claims were made by the ecuadorian government who said that julian assange had signed some kind of agreement saying that he wouldn't weed or say anything about politics of ecuador as well as other countries but again according to this source close to wiki leaks those claims have been false the british fashion designer vivienne westwood is a friend of our songs she told us why it's important that he gets back on line we're very concerned about the fact that she can sell visitors the moment and it's

really important that he's got i access to the world by all the expose the t.v. manages to do he's a he's a war hero he exposed america war crimes they want to be concrete and you know this is just brenda nice really and i'm a fashion that brenda nice really and i'm a fashion just. seemed quite regularly and supportive whenever i can a petition calling for the communications blackout to be lifted has already been supported by over thirty thousand people it opens with a letter signed by a group of prominent intellectuals artists and activists demanding the worst be allowed to exercise his freedom of speech a song she did of course take refuge inside the embassy in twenty twelve after being accused of rape in sweden that's a case that was dropped by officials in stockholm it was about our fears leaving

the embassy and being extradited to to america where he does face charges of espionage we spoke to australian journalist john pilger he says a lot more than is currently at stake. this is about a war on freedom of speech this man has. the most basic rights freedom of speech it's part of why is why the war is against no one and russia is one of them china is another but at the mood inside the propaganda stage this is about the public's right to know and it's the public's right to know what big government so during the second part of this war is about a real. get the whole idea of trade war we've got the prospect of a real war and to list those propaganda all these things for the attack on him and wiki leaks server years is so important because it does what journalists should

be doing going back to his holding great power talk count. still to come here on the weekly on r.t. international the script case takes a new twist with the russian diplomats leaving a number of countries in europe and america more on that after a very quick break. a

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moscow's announcement on thursday to expel sixty u.s. envoys and shut down the diplomatic compound a reciprocal response as well against the explains. brittle it's a remote include the expulsion of the same number of u.s. diplomats and withdrawal of our consent for the us consulate in some petersburg as far as other states are concerned we will always give amir a response for every russian diplomat kicked out from the two dozen or so countries one of their diplomats will be kicked out of russia almost all of those countries by the way either nato members or hopefuls the united states though may have to charter a jet sixty evidence diplomats have been ordered to leave russia the same number kicked out by washington you know what the u.s. consulate in st petersburg is being closed down in response to the closure of russia's consulate in seattle and mirrors spawn's no more no less and again

moscow has called on the united states to stop it is proposed to us south or ities inciting in fueling this merican pain against our country to think incurred their reckless actions destroying bilateral relations with russia which remotely denies any role in this poisoning says never before have we witness such mockery of international law it is also convened a special meeting of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons would be c.w. has sent technical experts to examine this. substance with which the former russian double agent and his daughter were poisoned but their best the geisha will be technical. so p c w explosive arrived in london to analyze the substance used in the alleged poisoning of surrogate and your list group this will only allow them to distinguish the chemical formula of the substance the o.p.c. w.

technical secretariat doesn't have the mandate to verify the u.k.'s allegations by the way the investigation into the case is still ongoing the u.k. and its allies insist that russia was behind this russia then eyes any such thing and says that this entire third is politically motivated there's been no investigation no trial no evidence only accusations which have taken a turn for the literary rather like the beginning of crime and punishment really a crime. lord man he was to treat all of ours at this point. where all the confidence about the identity of the culprit the only question is whether he will first confess because it specially for boys specifically designed for assassination the others are

implausible theatrical prep with a mysterious buzz me wouldn't anybody opinion is divided on what exactly boyish johnson meant or how exactly he hoped this would help his case but not everyone is jumping on the bandwagon and condemning russia for example nine e.u. states abstained from taking action against moscow austria was among them with vienna saying that london had been applying pressure. when the situation gets tough you have to keep channels open the u.k. ambassador to austria issued a demolished on wednesday in order to encourage us to take specific measures on saturday they demolish was repeated on monday while i was in kosovo the chancellor and i spoke over the phone about our position which is now public it's our tradition to bring people together especially in difficult situations. another development is that script is now said to be awake and talking this should

hopefully provide clues to the poisoning investigation which of course is ongoing meanwhile russia's foreign ministry has called on the u.k. to respond to fourteen key unanswered questions. a presentation that sums up the basis for why the us and a half of the e.u. backed britain's expulsion of russian diplomats was leaked earlier this week with all six slides focusing on accusations against moscow they describe the nerve agent allegedly used while blaming russia for the attack the so-called evidence includes claims of previous malign activity by moscow for example the cyber attacks alleged

into ferentz in various elections and what the presentation calls the occupation of crimea now the british embassy in russia was quick to respond to the leak by thanking moscow for raising awareness about the case adding that the full version is now available online the russian foreign ministry spokeswoman expressed surprise at that response. yet although. after we drew the attention to the publication of this presentation materials in the media the british foreign office thanked us on their twitter account but imagine that they've ignored for diplomatic notice with them they haven't informed us on the state of the russian nation. they have given us no information they say that they feel there is no reason to duck to russia saying to us on the. that this is a coordinated political warfare against russia it's global in scale it really has

nothing to do with solsbury this is a political pretext just like the cut like the kind of accusations we've seen against syria on chemical weapons to ratchet up the pressure on moscow to discredit the recent russian election and also i think it's aimed at the world cup this summer look i don't think we go under and underestimate the degree of danger we're talking about here this is not just tit for tat this is just not the cold war a cold war and with the crisis that is brewing internally within the e.u. i think there was the necessity to to somehow shift the terms of the debate to say it's not about what's wrong with brussels what's wrong with the e.u. it's what's wrong with the russians and i think this will simply increase the pressure on countries like bill garia like austria who don't don't want to go along with this so good of you to join us here on the sunday with the international and the weekly program we have more to offer in about half an hour.

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top. job. teaching. that a kid. with six hundred. populated neighborhood it's only arabian seas coast which is why smugglers a constantly plying their trade here. in the early two thousand a gang broke out and larry battles were fought in the streets and even the police avoided the area. being what about this ash. i don't. want to give you a nickel to get me out again that cinema to be able to send me would. get you out of pocket it would you know. everyone

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