governor of russia's care of a region resigns over last sunday shopping center fire which killed sixty four people including forty one children. it is he cries invasion and some as the french ambassador after a dramatic cross border raid by french police on a suspected migrant drug trafficker. as the diplomatic spat over the script case intensifies the u.s. and russia each close one of their consulates or moscow expels american diplomats in a reciprocal move. great to have you with us my name is neil harvey watching the weekly here on r.t.

international. the governor of russia's kemmer of a 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 over sixty people dead most of whom were children is a recap of that tragic day. but . what can i see that you see. in years and. they could get some. mulch if you go on a signal deserves what she knew.

out was. first of that. whole. if you look at it. try to take it that it is a visual. medium you usually. like to ship them to the. first step. there was no 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 why they think stench 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. very grave and outrages flaws 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 last one of. them alive tonight if you remember to check if you would with pleasure and with a renewed in view of. the picket with permission let you know with this picture looks a little bit of a i thought i would be for the president bush 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 more reportedly was untrained how to handle an emergency like this almost two thirds of those who perished in the blaze were children some 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 traveled to the regional capital to watch a film with the teacher but the big day turned to tragedy for the entire community

they came from. they were such good girls quiet calm choice will be studied really well it is such a tragedy for everyone your star has their own as no 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 to know when they'll see their age is left in the village. and the number of victims going to be much higher had it not been 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 jacqueline booga tell 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 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 town 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 beamer ran 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. 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 this tour of. 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 ash i don't know what would have happened to me not them we don't consider ourselves risky was will people if you were in our place you would have done the same we had the loss of men to death then 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. from the u.k. to finland 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 in remembrance. but in kemmer of itself anger has been running high shortly after the tragedy authorities in the city were confronted by crowds of locals and victims' relatives the demonstrators were demanding the truth from officials with remus having circulated the death toll

might be as high as three hundred these claims though were rejected by the investigating committee and later by the protesters to themselves. was. i i. i i. i i i i. you know look i was. i was i was like yeah i was i was.

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i was. meanwhile the investigation into what caused the fire is progressing the two main theories 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 one of the deadliest in russia in decades took firefighters around twenty four hours to extinguish it victims were mostly children who'd been celebrating the start of the school

holidays. italy's crying invasion and even threatening to expel french diplomats over a dramatic cross border migrant raid romas some of the french ambassador after a french border police swooped on an italian railway station to make a suspected drug trafficking refugee take a drugs test tell him prosecutors have now opened an investigation and while the foreign ministry in rome has kept a civilized tone some italian politicians didn't hold back the behavior of french agents in better than a very serious matter will remind macron that now foreign agent can come here and assert their authority we as sovereign country not a province of france we are not micron's toilet on top of expelling russian

diplomats we should expel french ones that had no rights no rights this would be the first and the last time i'm very angry about what's happened paris claims a bilateral deal allows them to cross italian borders in such cases but italian police insist that the deal says france must notify them of its plans first and that it failed to do so authorities are the room inside the bar the nature of rail station was a migrant center therefore off limits or over migrant center officials are outraged calling the raid interference and adding that french officers intimidated the doctor the mediators and lawyers but france claims that it did ask permission to enter the facility and that the migrants agreed to take the your interest political science lecturer renzo previous goes in by the next year told us in his opinion the french police are in the wrong. eat angio which is running the migrant center in better than a cab by the way and 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. what has been said very clearly by the time you know for it is that. italian police was not informed by by french customs agent. about your peroration which is against the provisions of the binational agreements. so this is just the latest migrant related scandal on the french italian border comes just weeks after a volunteer was summoned by french police for saving heavily pregnant migrants in the alps. well we were doing an ordinary patrolling tour as we have regularly done since the

beginning of winter to bring aid to people who pass the pass in difficult conditions during this patrol we spotted a group of people who were walking in snow there we saw that there was a family was 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 on the us they are asked for my documents and they catalogued my personal belongings they notified me of a hearing on wednesday and released me at midnight. to astronomers look at the situation repeated itself tomorrow i would act in the same way i did the right thing. telling journalists marcelo pfoa told us that many in his country are appalled by france's behavior over the situation. france is one of the toughest colonies and they don't they don't cooperate and told the.

police force on every boat this was a thirty and very very aggressive rejecting every every time they find some of the migrants that tried fronts and the situation that these becoming greedy cruising for eternity because i could not keep hold of these two thousands and thousands of migrants. deteriorating relations between russia and the west have led to come to this closing schools are diplomats being forced to return home within the full story after the show. like when you have no clean water no health care no infrastructure those are all since in this of a greater problem in haiti and that greater problem is imperialism that greatest problem is debt the pendency in domination that haiti has had to deal with since it

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welcome back to the fallout over the script cases seen mass expulsions of diplomatic staff over the week with both russian and american diplomats have to pack their bags and leave for home russia seattle consulate was closed one of the americans were ordered to shutter their mission in st petersburg moscow it announced on thursday it would retaliate to washington's move expelling sixty u.s. and shutting down the diplomatic compound in washington russia's ambassador to the u.s. on a tele and torn off saw off his expelled colleagues as they got on a plane bound for russia on sunday the plane carrying 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 on moscow's response here's how russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov outlined the steps taken so far. we have built. include the expulsion of the number of u.s. diplomats and withdrawal of our consent for the us consulate in st petersburg as

far as other 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 where the u.s. consulate in scene petersburg is being closed down in response to the closure of russia's consulate in seattle and nearest 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 the nies

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 surrogate and your list 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 on the story and 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 he made me cry. only. way to treat this break. we're 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 they make not which. we make notes 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. 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 the london put pressure on vienna to comply and presentation of sums up the basis for why the u.s. and harvard the you backed britain's expulsion of russian diplomats was linked this week all six slides focused on accusations against moscow began with the description of the nerve agent allegedly used in the soulsby assassination attempt with the blame being placed squarely on russia the so-called evidence includes allegations of previous malign activity by moscow and then so i britax alleged interference in elections and what the presentation calls the occupation of crimea

former u.s. diplomat jim believes that the russia cards been 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 fired water cannon tear gas at people protesting the expulsion of environmental squatters in the french city of nanda on saturday they sell a dubious keeps on the print. run. run run. run right justin is almost done 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 china for 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 police they've been some small skinny she says and this is zero zero zero but no change on

the month undesigned you see right they've made this place this time this was a place of land that was game up for. 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 scientists on a case by case basis from this land as you can see behind me now the police are having to come back the protests just pushing them on for mistreating not they came late to protest against expulsion or the people are satisfied largely don't do that and we have to move quickly now because the police we've got things are being run out on the police who have been using cheap gas is well trying to get the protests is the way in trying to coordinate and done just certain factions but what we seeing now here's some of the protests is coming out from the streets and you can see the police are also trying to blockade other protests were joining them splitting them up in or around as you see

a small clashes now between the police and the protesters here all over that site that. well he might say i did not you don't glance oh yes we're getting some of the effects of the cheer gas that's being put up by the sea or ice is your job or you were just making it a little bit difficult to breathe so we're going to just move right now as you can see that the police in trying to prove that street from the protesters from coming out they had to protest against the expulsion of the people from the sad site but not to go 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 . follow this hour tensions a flood in the disputed indian controlled part of kashmir as thousands took to the streets to protest new delhi's rule that one of the most brutal crackdowns in years but. at least twelve militants were killed

on sunday in a counterinsurgency operation launched by the indian government along. just single day death toll since two thousand and eleven many kashmiris openly support the rebels and tried to help them by engaging in clashes with military forces during the crackdowns in malaya in territories disputed by hindu majority india and muslim majority by christan and a supper decades of vicious conflict. ok that's all from a for the serious but a pleasure to have your company do stick around a collection thomas will be right at the date of the top of the hour. it's the cradle of jazz. the america is still very good we are in the field knows does jazz feel. a city of climatic contrast trophies

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still some are fond of you those that didn't like to question our archives and i secretly promised to never again like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters the mind gets consumed with death this one quite different i speak to you now because there are no other takers. to claim that mainstream media has met its maker. hello and 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 the

circumstantial evidence in this case the russians did it before they will do it again that's the essence of the u.k. allegations against russia but doesn't london itself have capability in thailand and motive for this kind of national character assassination well to discuss that i'm now joined by the father of the exact delivery man walter that fenian. to expunge this mysterious thing by thank you very much for a time you for coming to our program the only this is going to be if you break the difficult conversation probably so i'm sorry i apologize in advance if some of my questions might seem insensitive as far as i know treasonous in the days of your son you will with him at the hospital he basically died in your hands but i will post in your arms and that right after that you publicly blamed russia for his death for the who or what made you change your opinion on this issue.

i kept on i was in this situation i kept thinking again and again and eventually i came to a conclusion you know nothing can change my opinion and would never do anything like that. to put it right was and i'm sorry for interrupting with your go but i so we know that your son or blamed accused putting up with the there were some serious accusations he said that pussy was behind the russian apartment bombings. behind the nine eleven attacks in the united states these are serious accusations why do you think that russian intelligence services you or maybe politicians could not have. done something like that. you know perhaps some in the russian leadership would want to do any such thing but we have one person in charge of everything and that's the way it has always been and it's the same these days there.