the governor of russia of a region resigns over last sunday shopping center fire which killed sixty four people including forty one children. as the diplomatic rift. case intensifies flags are lowered at consulates in st petersburg and seattle which are now closed as more expelled diplomats return home and get back online artists and activist demand the ecuadorian embassy restores internet access but we can leaks founder julian assange has been cut off financially a week. hello there the latest developments in a look back at the last seven days to you watching the weekly here on our international. now the russian president has accepted the resignation of the

governor of the commander of the region over last sunday shopping center tragedy the blaze killed sixty four people forty one of them children here's a recap of that day. but. i knew why didn't i see. in years you know your skis each of the kids whether any of you should watch it if you go for service you can observe through it she knew.

it was. the first of that. war. if you don't look at it it's tragic that it is a vision it's. just like to ship them to. death. first. there was no alarm no siren no sprinklers the whole fire prevention system was off fire exits blocked people in wide this shopping mall were left on their. to find out about the beginning inferno but if extension there knows 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 outrageous flaws and missed 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 last one of. them the right to life he said i'm going to check if i could with a mission and with any new we can do it. quicker with permission and you know. with this particular extinguisher that 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 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 right now investigators are looking into the mixture of factors the 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 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 seven but still we are being told that it could take as long as three weeks to identify everyone. well among the many tragic stories is that of

a group of eleven year old girls from a village near the city they had tried media none of them survived r.t. spoke to some of those who knew them. they were such good girl squad car truthful they started really well it is such a tragedy for everyone. there are almost no children of this age left in our village there aren't many children here only our granddaughters zina is alive she didn't know and also three boys when no one else their age is left in the village while 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 also 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 rumors circulating that the death toll could be as

high as three hundred of these claims were rejected by the investigation committee and later by protesters took. to get. out of the. six words you know. i. i i i i think. that. i was just. i think. i was i. was.

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film was still. the best to get into what caused the thaw is progressing the two main versions of the malfunction of the safety systems we heard and also five people have been arrested among them to direct the shopping center and the make of that fire safety system the number of the victims could have been high to you had it not been for the courage of people nearby some lost their lives trying to get children out of the burning building just 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 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 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 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 the room terrified trying. and the boy that's all the boys grabbed my bow to hold it tight then 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 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 tour of those it's calling people to come to us there were dizzy people to our guys leave their wheelchairs and help them to go downstairs ever. the thing went black clouds of smoke surrounding 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 but lots of men were burnt 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 in 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 are just begun. was. was was. now we keep leaks founder julian assange has been cut off from the internet since the start of this week 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 side the embassy his and the situation according to sources close to wiki leaks we have learned that the ecuadorian government had police tell it trying to garner is 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 issue specifically the detention of cattle on independence leader of carlist which demand 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 preached a moment 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 that judas. 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 souls 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 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 or the u.k. fashion designer vivienne westwood is a friend of the son she told us why it is 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 exposures thirty 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 arm a fashion designer called vivienne westwood and i see him quite regularly and a supporter 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 that the whistleblower be allowed to exercise his freedom of speech where songe took refuge inside the embassy back in two thousand and twelve after being accused of rape in sweden a case later put on hold by stockholm the whistleblower earth is leaving the embassy and being extradited to the u.s.

where he faces charges of espionage the strain journalist john pilger says a lot more though and this is at stake. this is about a war on freedom of speech this man is being denied the most basic rights freedom of speech it's part of why the wider 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 governments are doing 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 scenes 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 took count. he watched the weekly

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