it is about. the governor of russia's kember of the region resigned so over last sunday's shopping center fire which killed sixty four people including forty one children. italy cries invasion and summons the french ambassador after a dramatic cross border raid by french police from a suspected migrant drug trafficking. bus as the diplomatic spat over the script case intensifies the u.s. and russia each close one of the consulates in moscow expelled u.s. diplomats in a reciprocal me. thanks

for joining us this money was neil harvey this is the weekly on r.t. international. the governor of russia's kemmer of the region has resigned over last sunday's deadly fire at a shopping center comes after investigators found a series of violations in safety procedures which left more than sixty people dead most of whom were children is a recap of that tragic day. in the spotlight. you want to see but you sound. like a kids who doesn't if you should mulch if you go. through it she knew. i

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there was no alarm no siren no sprinklers the whole fire prevention system was off fire exits blocked deep. full inflight this shopping mall were left on their own 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 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 last one of. them the right to life he said i'm going to check if you would with a mission and was there in you we can do it. quicker 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 stuff of the mall reportedly was untrained how to handle an emergency like this . almost two thirds of those who perished in the blaze which children and families lost all of their kids the fire also took the lives of almost an entire class of

eleven year olds from a village near the city they travelled to the regional capital to watch a film with that teacher but the big day turned to tragedy for them and for the entire community they came from. so they were such a good girl why. they started really well it is such a tragedy for everyone. their own most no children of this age left in their village there aren't many children here only our granddaughters zina is alive she didn't go and also three boys the no one else their age is left in the village. the number of victims could have been much higher had it not being for the courage of people nearby some even lost their lives trying to get children out of the burning building while others were lucky to survive checkley tells 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 it cost them their lives like to tell of their saga 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 on able to find her children she pointed towards the fire and dreamer 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 was sitting in the corner of a room terrified trying. and the boy that's all the boys grabbed my belt and hold it tight and took the girls by the color and carried them out stuff in the winter cherry center risked their lives trying to get as many youngsters out of the building as they could. all our coworkers had already when we looked at the

escalator it was full of people they started helping you get out of there safely have a back door at the end of this during those it's calling people to come to us so there were dizzy. 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 rescuers we are ordinary people if you were in our place you would have done the same we heard that lots of men were burnt to death there they are here and there are no doubt other unsung heroes in the city strangers without whom even more people both young and old but have perished. from the u.k. to finland people across the globe been joining russia to mourn the victims of the deadly blaze vigils being held in more than thirty countries with people bringing candles and toys in remembrance. but i think care of itself anger

has been running high shortly after the tragedy of thirties in the city were confronted by crowds of locals and victim's relatives the demonstrators were demanding the truth from the officials and agreements circulating at the time that the death toll could be as high as three hundred these claims though were rejected by the investigating committee and later by the protesters themselves. complete. list of. course you can believe. i. believe. the british took over the sleep. some. look.

it was. like yeah i was sitting here i'm not even serious. oh look i was i like me i get my gun here and there are enough or if i can damage done to me come any time you come for your first film i was here but i shall be up for sale and you say are you going to give her your marriage was a typical. american still it was interesting to see you were going to see her and to see what was easier for you you sick to even if you come from the feeling of seeing that i became a political such i. was going to do it through.

i i. mean while the investigation into what's caused the fire progress is the two main theories at this point are malfunction of the fire safety system and arson five people have been arrested in connection with the tragedy among them two directors at the shopping center and the maker of the fire safety system the blaze is self is

one of the deadliest in russia for decades took firefighters around twenty four hours to extinguish it the victims were mostly children who were celebrating the start of the school holidays. italy is crying invasion and even threatening to expel french diplomats over a dramatic cross border migrant rate rome has summoned the french ambassador to french border police swooped on an italian rail station to make a suspected drug trafficking refugee to take a drugs test tell him prosecutors have now opened an investigation into the incident and while the foreign ministry in rome has kept a civilized so i'm italian politicians haven't held back. the behavior of french agents in better than a very serious matter will remind macron that no foreign agent can come here and

assert their authority we are a sovereign country not a province of france we are not micron's toilet on top of expelling russian diplomats we should expel french ones the had no rights no rights this will be the first and the last time i'm very angry about what's happened in paris claims that the bilateral deals allows them to cross italian borders in such cases the italian police insist that the deal says france must notify them of its plans and that it failed to do so thirty's that the room inside the barge in a rail station was a migrant center in off limits moreover migrant center officials are outraged they're calling the raid interference and adding that french officers intimidated the doctor there mediators and lawyers for france claims that it had asked permission to enter the facility and that the migrant agreed to take the urine test political science lecturer lorenzo brigadier sco is in by the neck you're told as

in his opinion the french police are in the wrong. the ngo which is running the migrant center in but of the nature by the way in a few hundred meters from there i am in but i'm making right now at the. end declared to the french authorities where you know way acting in an intimidating manner and so this act has been seen by many flirtations and i would say by a large portion of the time in public opinion as an act of defiance a kind of violation of sovereignty any time in soil what has been said very clearly by the time you know florida is that. italian police with an option for by by a french customs agent. about your peroration which is against the provisions of the binational agreements. but this is just the latest migrant related scandal on the french italian border it comes just weeks after a volunteer was summoned by french police for saving

a heavily pregnant migrant in the alps. well we were doing an ordinary patrolling to as we have regularly done since the beginning of winter to bring aid to people who passed the pass in difficult conditions during this patrol we spotted a group of people who were walking in snow there we saw that it was a family with two young children and pregnant women we gave them food and drinks and dry clothes i took my car to take it to the hospital. in tunisia in the house and they all asked for my documents and they catalogued my personal belongings they notified me of a hearing on wednesday and released me at midnight. a situation of this what if the situation repeated itself tomorrow i would act in the same way i did the right thing. telling journalists much l.-a photos that many

in his country are appalled by friends his behavior over the refugee situation france is one of the toughest countries are they don't don't cooperate i thought they were putting the police force on everybody. and they're very very aggressive rejecting every every time they find some the migrants that are tried first and this is said to show that this is becoming really critical. because italy cannot keep all these thousands and thousands of migrants. relations between russia and the west deteriorate sharply over the scripts case with dozens of diplomats expelled to bring the full story after this break. and. yes scotland yard did not look for the perpetrators they were covering

up their tracks. dear dearest dear dear therefore he didn't find out who did it and . it was you who did. what you want russia to clash with the rest of the world. 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 the 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 eighty four.

welcome back tensions have fled in the disputed indian controlled part of kashmir as thousands took to the streets to protest new delhi's rule amid one of the most brutal crackdowns in use. at least twelve militants were killed on sunday in a counterinsurgency operation launched by the indian government the largest so. day death toll since two thousand and eleven and the kashmiris openly support the rebels and tried to help them by engaging in clashes with military forces during the crackdowns himalayan territories disputed by hindu majority india and muslim majority pakistan and has suffered decades of vicious conflict.

fallout over the script and cases seen mass expulsions of diplomatic staff over the week with both russian and u.s. diplomats having to pack their bags and. stuff addresses seattle consulate had to vacate the premises there while american diplomats were ordered to leave the u.s. mission in st petersburg comes after moscow announced thursday that it would retaliate to washington's move in kind spelling sixty u.s. envoys and shutting down the diplomatic compound. in washington russia's ambassador to the u.s. anatolian torn off sore off his expelled colleagues as they got on board a plane bound for russia on sunday the plane carrying the russian diplomats arrived in moscow all sixty ordered to leave america have now come back u.s. diplomats are also expected to leave russia soon following moscow's mirror response is a russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov outlined the steps taken today. we have a built. in clude the expulsion of the number of u.s.

diplomats and withdrawal of our consent for the us consulate in st petersburg as for result the states is 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 a whip. 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 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. explosive arrived in london to analyze the substance used in the alleged poisoning of. 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 rather like the beginning of crime and punishment in really crime. lord man of the ways to treat the world at this point. where all the confidence 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 they make not which. we make knights

this one is a hideous weapons specifically designed for assassination the others are an implausible theatrical prep with a mysterious buyers that we would normally what opinion is divided on what exactly boris johnson meant or how exactly he hoped this would help his case but not everybody seems so sold on russia bashing for example nine e.u. states chose not to take punitive action austria among them it says that london put pressure on vienna to comply a presentation that sums up the basis for why the us and half of the you backed britain's expulsion of russian diplomats was leaked earlier this week with all six lies focusing on accusations against moscow it begins with a description of the nerve agent allegedly used in the salzburg assassination attempt with the blame being placed squarely on russia the so-called evidence that includes allegations of previous malign activity by moscow among them cyber attacks

or those interference in elections or what the presentation calls the occupation of crimea we u.s. diplomat jim generous believes the russian card is being played to divert attention from internal issues in the west. 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 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. police to find water cannon and to gas against protesters letting off less than a demonstration of the expulsion of environmental squatters in the french city of nonce on saturday edition the da vinci was at the protest. run run. run run right stands on its own right now is now running we've got the police running behind us the way the middle of this where you can see the police are trying to kind of chinaberry justice into one particular spot trying to move them down the streets we have already seen t.v.'s being funny that the protest is in the precise is throwing things out of the

present in some small skinny she says and this is zero zero zero but no change on the month undesigned these sites they've made this place they're fine with this was that places. land that was a market for a possible airport the french government decided early this year that he would not be building that airport but it has said that it wants to expel all of the saddest on a case by case basis from this land you can see behind me now the police are having to come back the protests just pushing along from mistreating aren't they came here to protest against the expulsion of the people who started a selection on the land we're going to have to move quickly now because the police we've got things are being run out and the police have been using che gas is well trying to get the protest is out of the way and join the cordon them down into certain factions but what we're seeing now here is some of the protests is coming out from the street and you can see the police are also trying to block

a way to other protesters who are joining them splitting them up in around three seeing small clashes now between the police and the protesters here all over that site that damn well he might say i did not you don't glance oh yes we're getting some of the effects of the changes that's being put out by the c.r.a. says your governor you were just making it a little bit difficult to breathe so we're going to just move right as you can see that the police in trying to prove gaydar street some protesters from coming out they had to protest against the expulsion of the people from the south site but not true don't do lunch they say they will do whatever they can within their means to protect that site because it is now their home challenge even ski or to you know. appreciate you company this evening stay with us if you can latest updates coming your way in half an hour.

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felt you know session on the water doing what we want to do. and no doubt we made more money doing this than we would personally. deterrable the head for all the want. dervish and what had been unfair. jersey boys know tomorrow you know this beautiful day when up the shore here five miles and do the thing again to morrow up there but then get up to your peace wife and. you would sum up what they're all saying is not to tone here bro but to get away from the nets away from the don't have be hand-fed get out in the wild again nice or turn into beds there's a mismatch between the information that we hearing about the quantities of these beastly and what we're seeing on a daily basis out because something strikes just going on and in the last couple years the guys here tell me that they have say more peace here in the last couple

years than. i try to avoid being there when these large species are killed i much rather observe them in the natural habitat. because i think it's an endangered species and it needs a break from fishing has been fished hard in the past. this is where it's now.