the week's top stories on. tragedy in the russian. shopping center killed sixty four people including forty one children last sunday protests over what happened. during his resignation today. as the diplomatic rift over the. closed. expelled u.s. and russian diplomats. prominent intellectuals activists at the ecuadorian embassy and its communications blackout imposed on wiki leaks founder julian assange since the start of this week.

welcome to the program thank you for sharing your sunday with all of us here at this channel we have the top stories of the day the week. the russian president has now accepted the resignation of the governor of the region over last sunday's mall tragedy the blaze killed sixty four people forty one of them children here is a day. thank you why didn't i see the new. year's eve. of the kids was a music mulcher you go to signal reserves to achieve. our

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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 by the thick stench in their nose this shopping mall used to be a confectionery and in fact it conducted fire drills just last week so a lot of very. the grave and outrages flaws in those drills and so the investigation is looking into how this horror became possible latimer 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 lost son of. the internet if you remember to check if you would for pleasure and was there in you with him if you would. pick it with permission to let you know. what his picture

looks a little bit of that i would be for the president there's some 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 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 india 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 of a group of eleven year old girls from a village near kind of travel to the regional capital whether to try to celebrate the beginning of the spring holidays and watch a film when the fire broke out a they all found themselves locked inside. at 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 villagers and they were such a good girl squad car choice they started really well it is such a tragedy for everyone doesn't you know this is their own has no children of this age left in our village there aren't many children here only our granddaughters

scene that is alive she didn't know and also three boys when no one else their age is left in the village ones 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. however in the russian city of kemah has been running high shortly after the tragedy authorities in the city were confronted by crowds of victims' relatives on locals from the officials the rumors circulating that the death toll could be as high as three hundred these claims were rejected by the investigation committee and later by the protesters as well i was. completely. sick or severely. oh. i.

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meanwhile the investigation into what caused the fire is progressing the two main functions are the malfunction of the fire safety system but also. five people arrested so far among the two directors at the shopping center the maker of the fire safety system. the number of the victims could about chile being much higher i did not mean for the coverage of people nearby some lost their lives trying to get children out of the burning building jacqueline veruca tells 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 the miranda back inside. i saw nothing there were thick black smoke everywhere her children crying and shouting and that's how i found out where there are three children was sitting in the corner of the room terrified trying. and the boy that's all the boys grabbed my bow to hold it tight and took the girls by the collar 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 it was full of people they started helping people to get out of there we have a vacuum at the end of. people to come to us so there were dizzy. our guys lived there and we were cheers and help them to go down. stairs everything

went black clouds of smoke surrounding this i don't know what would have happened to me not them we don't consider ourselves rescuers will ordinary people if you were in our place you would have done the same we heard that lots of men were burned to death then they are here and there are no doubt other unsung heroes in the city strangers without whom even more people both young and old would have perished. the players and come out of as one of the deadliest and rusher in decades it took firefighters over seventeen hours to extinguish it all the sixty four people who died almost two thirds were children as the school holidays had just begun. was. was was. you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international 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 at the ecuadorian embassy in london where of course he's been holed up there for now for

almost six years sources close to the whistleblower have told r.t. why ecuador and officials took those decisions from outside the embassy he is an associate churkin of reports according to sources close to wiki leaks we have learned that the ecuadorian government had police teluk tronic jammers inside the ecuadorian embassy right behind me where julian assange has been holed up for over 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 dorrian press about julian assange just tweets concerning the catalan issues specifically the detention of cattle on independence leader of carlist which demands in germany earlier this week courting to this source close to wiki 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 them on 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 the ecuadorian 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 the judean 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 seoul three it's about time that this miserable little word 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 solve a visit to 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 weasel war hero he exposed america war crimes they want to be concrete and you know this is just my friend and he's really and i'm a fashion just. see him quite regularly and support him 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 whistleblower be allowed to exercise his freedom of speech a song that took refuge inside the embassy in twenty twelve after being accused of rape in sweden a case later put on hold by stock there was a blow of fear as leaving the assembly excuse me and then being extradited to the u.s. where he faces charges of espionage the australian journalist john pilger says a lot more than that is currently at stake. this is about a war on freedom of speech this man is speaking to the most basic rights freedom of speech it's part of why this why the war is against no one and russia is one of them trying to reduce the number but at the moon the proper damn this is about the public's right to know and that's the public's right to know.

that during the second this war is about. to get the whole idea of trade war we've got the prospect of a real war and to list those propaganda all for the attack on him and wiki service years is so important because it does what journalists should be doing. holding great power took out. the weekly were tons and just about. yes scotland yard did not look for the perpetrators they were covering their tracks you know so much about their skeered beers here they were free didn't russia will find out who did it and personal i think it was ukraine who did that. because the

ukrainian ones were russia to clash with the rest of the world. like when you have no clean water no health care no infrastructure those are all symptoms of a greater problem in haiti and that greater problem is imperialism that problem is debt dependency and domination that haiti has had to deal with since it became the first. free republic whom. people say it's for.

good if you join us on this sunday deadly violence gripped the gaza border throughout saturday a large scale protest there sore seventeen palestinians killed and hundreds wounded after israeli soldiers deployed live bullets and tear gas. the. palestinians are holding their annual march of return demonstration denouncing what they call the israeli occupation of their territory as thousands have pitched tents across five locations where they're expected to stay for six weeks israeli and palestinian officials blame each other for the latest flare up in violence the

israeli army says it only use force against protesters who try to violate the border the u.n. has called for an independent investigation into the deaths at the gaza border. the diplomatic spat over the script case rages on a russian staff of left the seattle consulate while american diplomatic workers have been seen leaving the u.s. mission in some petersburg ahead of its official closure on sunday it comes after moscow's announcement on thursday to expel sixty u.s. envoys and shut down the diplomatic compound a reciprocal response as what i guess the explains. retaliatory measures include the school shooting of the same number of u.s. diplomats and with rule of a consent for the us consulate in some petersburg this will result the states are concerned we will always give a mirror response for every russian diplomats kicked out from the two dozen or so

countries one of their diplomats will be kicked out of russia almost one of those countries by the way i the nato members hopeful's the united states though may have to charter a jet sixty and its diplomats have been ordered to leave russia the same kicked. by washington you know where the u.s. consulate in st petersburg is being closed down in response to the closure of russia's consulate in seattle and mirror spawns no more no less and again moscow has called on the united states to stop it is proposed to us all forty s. inciting in fueling this merican pain against our country to rethink incurred their reckless actions destroying bilateral relations with russia which 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 the substance with which the former russian double agent and his daughter were poisoned but their best the geisha will be technical. experts of arrived in london to analyze the substance used in the alleged poisoning of sergei and eunice grupo this will only allow them to distinguish the chemical formula of the substance at the o p c w technical secretariat doesn't have the mandate to verify as the u.k.'s allegations as well as the way the investigation into the case is due to the u.k. and its allies insist that russia was behind this russia then eyes any such thing and says that this entire earth air is politically motivated there's been no investigation no trial no evidence only accusations which have taken

a turn for the literary it's rather like the beginning of crime and punishment in many crime. in the year. old man he was a tree full of hours at this point. where all confident about the identity of the culprit the only question is whether he will first confess or be called specially for boris johnson the dusty esky quote translated in english from a hundred tributes you can not make a horse one hundred suspicions don't make it prove boris johnson went on to cement his case they make no which. we make light states one is a hideous weapon specifically designed for assassination the other is a new clothes of the theatrical prep with a mysterious buzz they would know anybody opinion is divided on what exactly boris 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 hundred u states abstain from taking action against moscow austria was among them with vienna saying 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. is now said to be awake and this should hopefully provide clues to the poisoning investigation which of course is still ongoing meanwhile russia's foreign ministry has called on the u.k. to respond to fourteen key questions.

a presentation that sums up the basis for why the u.s. and. britain. was leaked earlier this week with all six slides focusing on accusations against. describe the nerve agent allegedly used while blaming russia for the attack the so-called evidence includes claims of. such as for example the cyber attacks. in various elections as well and what the presentation. of crimea the british embassy in russia was quick to respond

to the leak. raising awareness about the case adding that the full version is now available online the russian foreign ministry spokeswoman expressed surprise. response. yes i tell the guys that from stop us into laughter we drew their attention to the publication of this presentation materials in the media and the british foreign office thanked us on their twitter account imagine that they've ignored for diplomatic knows who sounds them think they haven't informed us on the state of the russian nations are in doing yet they have given us no information and they say that they feel there is no reason to duck to russia does this saying to us and to meet our months 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 are we in a new cold war or not this is extremely dangerous that 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 us and thanks for sharing a sunday with us here we're not seeing international the weekly does return every spring. with gold make this manufacture consent to stick to the public will. when the

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