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with the top stories of today. the russian president has accepted the resignation of the. blaze killed sixty four people forty one of them children. but. why didn't my c.v. send. in years and. like a good suit was an evasion mulcher if you go. to a chain your. why

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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 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. very grave and outrages floors 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 lost son of. the right to life he said i'm going to check in with you because with pleasure and was there in you we can do it. quicker with permission but you know what just push a little bit of that i would be for the president that he said 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 for 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 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 of 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 movie when the fire broke out of they all found themselves locked inside the cinema this reportedly 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 not one of them survived. spoke to some of those who knew the girls. they were such a good girl sqlite truthful they started really well it is such a tragedy for everyone. their own must know children of this age left in our village there aren't many children here only our granddaughters zina is alive she

didn't go and also three boys when no one there was their age is left in the village 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 with people bringing candles and toys but in the russian city of came out of anger has been running high shortly after the tragedy authorities in the city were confronted by crowds of victims' relatives and locals the demonstrators were demanding the truth from the officials with the rumors circulating the death toll could be as high as three hundred these claims though were rejected by the investigation committee and later by the protesters as well. you. want to.

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meanwhile the investigation into what caused the fire is progressing the two main versions are the malfunction of the fire safety system but also awesome five people arrested so far among them two directors at the shopping center and the maker of the fire safety system the number of the victims could have actually been higher had to not been for the courage of people nearby in fact some of them lost their lives trying to get children out of the burning building jacqueline has some of the stories. on sunday a tragedy and i said berry and city turn teachers shop workers students and scores of others and heroes for some cost in their lives like to tell of their sala 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 dream up a look in 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 india moran 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 to her girls and the boy as 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 escalator it was full of people they started helping people to get out of there we have a back door at the end of the storage room still it's calling people to come to us there were dizzy people to our guys lifted their wheelchairs and helped them to go

downstairs everything went black with clouds of smoke surrounding us i don't know what would have happened to me not them we don't consider ourselves risk us will ordinary people if you were in our place you would have done the same we had lots of men to death then. there are no doubt other unsung heroes in the city strangers without whom even more people both young and old would have perished. the blaze in kemah is one of the deadliest in russia in decades it took firefighters over seventeen hours to extinguish of the sixty four people who died almost two thirds were children it's the school holidays had just begun. could you join us on this sunday wiki leaks founder julian assange has been cut off from the internet since the start of this week he also isn't being allowed visitors at the ecuadorian embassy in london where he remains he's been holed up there now

for almost six years sources close to the whistleblower have told r.t. why ecuador and officials took those decisions and from outside the embassy yachties and i see a choke in our 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 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 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 weekly says 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 comparison was 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 the 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 worms because of great regret that jude innocent remains in the ecuador embassy it is people even deeper regret that even last night he was teaching against her majesty's government for their conduct in replying to the attack in seoul three 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 british fashion designer vivienne westwood is a friend of us she told us why it's important that he gets back online. we're very concerned about the fact that she consol visit the moment and it's really important that he's got access to the world by all the exposure the t.v. manages to do he's a recent 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 on the cold leave you. see i'm quite regularly and a supporter whenever i come

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 or song took refuge inside the embassy and twenty twelve after being accused of rape in sweden a case later put on hold by a stalker there were fears leaving the embassy and being extradited to america where he faces charges of espionage australian journalist john pilger says a lot more than that is at stake. this is about a war on trade i'm a speech this man is not the most basic rights freedom of speech it's part of a wider the wider war is against you know an enemy 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 that's the public's right to know it won't make

government so during the second part of this war it's about a real rethink at the whole idea of trite war we've got the prospect of a real blow out on the list this propaganda all these scenes for the attack on him a wiki service years is so important because it does what journalists should be doing and back to his holding great power talk count. still to come here on the weekly one often international the script case taking a new twist with russian diplomats leaving a number of countries in europe and the hugh asked i details off the break. what politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. some want to press.

you to going to the press this is like in the four three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested in the watching the. question. when you have no clean water no health care no infrastructure those are all symptoms of a greater problem in haiti and the problem is imperialism problem is debt dependency and domination that haiti has had to deal with since it became the first . free republic ruled by black people since eighteen zero four.

but if you join us on this sunday a protest is being held in russia as a moscow region against the foul and allegedly toxic stench coming from a nearby landfill residents of the town demanding the site be closed off to local children were hospitalized having fallen sick it's thought due to poisonous fumes from the massive rubbish tip. hawkins who's at the demonstration for us and what is the situation there now the people clearly seem pretty angry. yeah there is a certainly a mood of anger here in the early small town outside of moscow but the square behind me is packed with hundreds of protesters dozens more unable to get in because this little room. shut down around the square here today referring of course to ya the landfill sites near the town it's been there for quite

a number of years but it's only recently over the past weeks and months that the situation has deteriorated rapidly to such as. chlorine have been choking in this town make you know it impossible. to breathe and to admit there's a problem they do say the gas is next. levels residents those say that's only half the truth they say that the gas levels are dozens of times in excess of an acceptable levels now the situation has become so critical that authorities here have declared a heightened alert over the past weeks they've issued responds responses and mosques to people living near the landfill to protect them from those gases that level of alertness is likely to be increased over the coming days the governor has pledged that they're doing all they can to deal with the issue of the dump will be closed the. spring early summer locals say that's long soon enough they claim over

two hundred children and one hundred adults have sought medical attention at local hospitals for symptoms of nausea breathing difficulties because of these gases the classes in local schools have been postponed many children are tending to school here because of the levels of gases in the head of the regime is going to give a little force recently actually chased away from hospital by angry residents he says been fired from his post a local here asking why no official present to answer their questions and really demanding more messias of actions from. claiming that the situation is with. i apologize we just lost our signal there with artie's down your hawkins live in the moscow region an issue to do with gas use fumes coming from a local landfill site making the locals there the residents there falling ill details to come here on r.t. international we'll move on to other stories now. the diplomatic fallout over the scripts case has been intensifying with expelled russian and american diplomats

leaving their missions russian staff have quit 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. in washington at the russian ambassador to the u.s. and i told you on top of so off is expelled colleagues as they boarded a plane back to russia and we can show you some of the latest pictures of russian diplomats arriving in moscow on sunday all sixty who were kicked out are now back in russia u.s. diplomats are also expected to leave russia soon in what moscow describes as a reciprocal measure our correspondent but our gas d.f. explains. return to remain as yours include the expulsion of the 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 seen petersburg is being closed down in response to the closure of russia's consulate in seattle and nearest spots no more no less and again moscow has called in. united states to stop it is proposed to us south already s. inciting in fueling this merican pain against our country to rethink 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 the substance with which the former russian double agent and his daughter were poisoned but their best the geisha will be technical. o.p.c. w. experts have arrived in london to analyze the substance used in the alleged poisoning of ambulance 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 fair 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 really crime. i see why it is a tree full of hours at this point. where all the confidence 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 hundred suspicions don't make it proof boris johnson went on to cement his case they make novacek. we make light states one is a hideous weapon specifically designed for assassination the other is a implausible theatrical prep with a mysterious buzz it would normally work 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 london had been applying pressure. and i have a presentation that sums up the basis for why the u.s. and half of the e.u. back to britain's expulsion of russian diplomats was leaked earlier this week with all six slides focusing on accusations against moscow that describe the nerve agent allegedly used while blaming russia for the attack the so-called evidence includes claims of previous malign activity by moscow such as cyber attacks and alleged interference in elections as well but also what the presentation kohls the occupation of crimea now the british embassy in russia was quick to respond to the league by thanking moscow for raising awareness about the case adding that the full version is now available online but the russian foreign ministry spokeswoman

expressed surprise at that response. the actual the facts from stop was the laughter we drew the attention to the publication of this presentation materials in the media the british foreign office thanked us on their twitter account imagine that they've ignored for diplomatic notice we send them they haven't informed us on the state of the russian nations are in they have given us no information they say that they feel there is no reason to duck to russia but they saying to us on twitter that this is a coordinated political warfare against russia it's global in scale and 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 there's 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 bulgaria like austria who don't don't want to go along with this thank you for sharing your sunday with us here at the international more of your weekly at the top of the hour. then walk by wagon that he will go back to watch. for you boys will pull you out of a. good obit and good math and they would have it and i didn't do it will always be good is it also. or noble to house

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cup in russia meet the special one come all sorts of cliches needs to just leave the reader theology teams latest edition to make up as we go so i need to look. for. a. clone of welcome to all the part of the british authorities explicitly side the poisoning of the former half as b agent alexander litvinenko in london as a circumstantial evidence in this case the russians did it before they will do it again that's the absence of the u.k. allegations against russia but doesn't london itself have capability in tampa.