the governor of rushes came out of a region resigns over last sunday shopping center fire which killed sixty four people including forty one children. also to come as the diplomatic rift over the scripps howard case intensifies flags lowered at consulates in some petersburg and seattle which are now closed as more expelled diplomats return home and get back online artist and activist a man the ecuadorian embassy restores internet access for a week leaks founder julian assange has been cut off in nearly a week. hello welcome the latest developments and a look back at what's been happening over the last seven days to you watching the weekly here on r.t.

international now the russian president has accepted the resignation of the governor of the region over last sunday shopping center tragedy the blaze killed sixty four people forty one of them children is a recap of that. but for. nine years why didn't i see the new. years you know visualisation of the kids from other music culture you could call it was obvious you can observe through watching you.

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find out about the beginning inferno why they think strange in there knows 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 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 over. the internet if you remember to check if it was a pleasure and was there in you with him if you would. pick it with permission but you know with this particular exclusive interview i thought i would be fucking the president there 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. hugo she died of there was among the many tragic stories is that of a group of eleven year old girls from a village near the city that traveled to the regional capital with their teacher to celebrate the beginning of the spring holidays and also watch a movie when the fire broke out they all reportedly found themselves locked inside the cinema the girls tried to call their families and posted messages on social media none of them survived well r.t. spoke to some of those who knew them. they were such good gross quiet calm truthful they started really well it is such a tragedy for every one. of their own most no children of this age left in our village there aren't many children here only our granddaughters xena is alive she didn't know and also three boys when no one else their age is left in the village. the 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 or so toys but in the russian city of quetta anger has been running high shortly after the tragedy in the city were confronted by crowds of victims' relatives and locals the demonstrators were demanding the truth from the officials with rumors circulating that the death toll could be as high as three hundred these claims were rejected by the investigation investigation committee and by protesters took. it was. more seriously. i. i. i i i i i i.

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fire safety system the number of the victims could have been a lot higher but it not been for the courage of people made by some lost their lives trying to get children to the burning building. to tell us 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 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 unable to find her children she pointed towards the fire

and the moran 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 were 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. workers that 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 this during those people to come to us so there were disease . our guys leave town there and we were traitors and help them to go downstairs. everything went black clouds of smoke surrounding it i don't know what would have happened to me not them we don't consider ourselves rescuers we are ordinary people if you were in our place you would have done the same we heard that lots of men

were burned to death there 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 while the blaze is one of the deadliest in russia in decades it took firefighters over seventeen hours to put it out of the sixty four people who died almost two thirds were children as the school holidays had just begun. was. was was. now wiki leaks founder julian assange just being cut off from the internet since the start of this week and he's also barred from having visitors at the ecuadorian embassy in london where he's been holed up for almost six years sources close to the whistleblower have told r.t. why ecuadorian officials took those decisions from outside the embassy and the situ reports according to sources close to wiki leaks we have learned that the

ecuadorian government had police tell it trying to jam or is 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 dorrian press about julian assange just tweets concerning the catalan issue specifically the detention of catalan independence leader a 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 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. to munch 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 worms because of great regret the judean a silent. good or embassy it is even deeper regret that even last night he was against her majesty's government for their conduct in replying to the attack in seoul it's about this miserable little work 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 agreements 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 while the british fashion designer vivienne westwood is a friend of a sanch and she told us why it's important that he gets back on line we're very concerned about the fact that she can't have visitors the moment and it's really important that he's got access to the world by all the exposure that he manages to do he's a weasel war hero he exposed american war crimes they want to be concrete and you know is it is just my friend a nice brilliant arma fashion just. seem quite regularly and a supporter whenever i can well 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 that the whistleblower be allowed to exercise his freedom of speech stanch took refuge

inside the embassy in twenty twelve after being accused of rape in sweden a case later put on hold by stockholm the whistleblower if is leaving the embassy and being extradited to the u.s. where he faces charges of espionage australian journalist john pilger says though there is a lot more at stake than that. this is about a war on freedom of speech this man is being to not the most basic rights freedom of speech it's part of a widening it's a wider war is against known enemies russia is one of them china is another but at the moment and sad the propaganda stage this is about the public's right to know and it's the public's right to know what the governments are doing the second part of this war is about a real or you think get the whole idea of trade war we've got the prospect of a real war and less this propaganda war you're seeing through the attack on him and

wiki leaks earth years is so important because it does what journalists should be doing going back to his holding great power took count. still to come on the weekly the script alec case has taken a new to end with russian diplomats leaving a number of countries in europe and the us will have a look at that in detail just off the brighton. 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 greater problem is dead dependency and domination that haiti has had to deal with since it became the first. free republic and the rule by black people since eighteen zero four.

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a landfill site residents of the town of follicle are demanding the site be closed after local children were hospitalized having fallen sick it's the poisonous fumes from the masses massive rubbish tip well let's go to dan hawkins now he's at the demonstration for us dan good afternoon i'm just describing the situation there at the moment. is a fairly small town just outside moscow about twenty thousand people but for most of the morning the square behind me was packed with hundreds of protesters many unable to get in because of lack of space shut down shame where the power here with the shards echoing through the square referring of course to the yard or landfill site near the town that's been there for quite a number of years but it's only recently that the situation has deteriorated very rapidly noxious gases chlorine sulfide have been thrown up by the land full of hope that i made it very difficult for residents to breathe causing medical

problems for many of them as well so now the authorities do admit there's a problem they say gases are in excess of normal levels residents say that's only half the truth they say that these fumes are dozens of times higher than the acceptable norm the situation is so critical little thought he declared a heightened level of alert in the town they've issued masks and responders to people to help them to breathe the governor said they're doing all they can to clear up the site and they hope to make it safe why spring or early summer residents say that's not soon enough according to sources about two hundred children over one hundred adults have sought medical help with low cost bottles for breathing difficulties for more so. the situation is so difficult in fact that crosses and local schools. in many cases.

this is photo should. take if you. wish. for. this you never support. it. it's just less if you believe that it. should but your choice. well let's just put it. one point i should say for head of the reason you gave the government off was actually chased away from hospital by locals he's since been fired from his post but doesn't seem enough though for the protesters here they want more decisive action they want more resignations and immediate steps to stop this threat they view as something very critical to public health and a very very much these people view as having escalated beyond the control of local authorities. ok thanks dan dan hawkins there with the update.

the diplomatic fallout over the script power case has been intensifying with expelled russian and american diplomats leaving their missions russian staff of quit the seattle consulate while american diplomatic have been seen leaving the u.s. mission in sindh 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 well in washington the russian ambassador to the u.s. anatoly antonov saw off his expelled colleagues as they boarded a plane back to russia and these are pictures of the plane carrying russian diplomats after it touched down in moscow on sunday all sixty who were kicked out now back in russia u.s. diplomats are also expected to leave russia soon what moscow describes as a reciprocal measure. expects. to remain include the fall shoe of the number of u.s. diplomats and withdrawal of our consent for the us consulate petersburg result the

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 the nato members hopefuls the united states though may have to charter a jet sixty seven. diplomats have been ordered to leave russia the same number kicked out by washington though when the us consulate in st petersburg is being closed down in response to the closure of russia's consulate in seattle and mirror 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 rethink incurred their reckless actions destroying bilateral relations with russia which remain clear 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 o.p.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 a geisha will be technical. o.p.c. w explosive 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 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 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. mean if he was truthful about this bridge. where all confident about the identity of the culprit the only question is whether he will first confess. it specially for boris johnson the dusty esky quote translated in english from a hundred tributes you can not make it horace one hundred suspicions don't make it proof boris johnson went on to cement his case which. we make notes this one is a hideous weapons pacifically designed for assassination the opposite. of the theatrical

prep with a mysterious bias that we would normally what opinion is divided on what exactly boris johnson meant or how exactly he hoped this would help his case well not everybody 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 fiennes saying london had been applying pressure. a presentation that sums up the basis for why the us and half of the e.u. backed britain's expulsion of russian diplomats was leaked early this week with all six slides focusing on accusations against moscow they describe the nerve agent allegedly used while blaming russia also for the attack or the so-called evidence includes claims of previous malign activity by moscow such as cyber attacks alleged interference in elections and also what the presentation calls the occupation of crimea where the british embassy in russia was quick to respond to that leak by

thanking moscow for raising awareness about the case adding that the full version is now available online the russian foreign ministry spokesperson expressed surprise though that response. yes all the bugs from supposes the laughter we drew their 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 we send them they haven't informed us on the state of the russian nations are in doing yet they have given us no information they say that they feel there is no reason to talk to russia and that they sing 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 look at 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 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. now the russian defense ministry has said it has completed its operation to clear a series of minutes since moving forty one thousand rebel fighters on their families have left the enclave in a damascus as part of a ceasefire deal brokered by russia under the agreement one hundred fifty thousand civilians were also evacuated from the area east and goosey was taken by rebels in

twenty twelve syrian army recently we gained near full control. if you watch the weekly here on r.t. international will have more news feed headlines to you and hoffa. her. with lawmakers manufacture consent instinctive public wealth. when the ruling classes project themselves. with the primary go around lifts only the one person told. us to ignore middle of the room sick. dilute the real news. about your sudden passing i've only just learnt you worry yourself in taking your

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