the governor of russia's hand out of the region resigns 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 on a suspected migrant and drug traffickers. and as the diplomatic spat over the script case intensifies both the u.s. and russia closed one of the others consulates while moscow expelled american diplomats in a reciprocal move. are broadcasting live direct from moscow recapping the week's top stories with our

weekly program this is r t international. the governor of russia's region has resigned over last sunday's deadly fire at a shopping center and it comes after investigators found a series of violations and safety procedures which left more than sixty people dead most of whom were children here's a recap of that tragic day. but . nine years why didn't i see the new. years you know. like a good son was and if you recall chicken you go. to if she knew.

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fire exits blocked people inside this shopping mall were left on their own to find out about the beginning inferno by the thick 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 and 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 trick you that's good for the show and was very nice we couldn't do it. because with permission from you know with this particular exclusive interview that i would be for political. reasons 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 find safety they found themselves the doors that were shut also on the staff of the mall that reportedly was untrained how to handle an emergency like this. almost two thirds of those who perished in the blaze were children some parents lost all of their kids now the fire. also took the lives of nearly an entire class of eleven year olds from a village near the city they have travelled to the regional capital to watch

a film with their teacher but their big day turned to tragedy for them and for their entire community as well. they were such a good girl squire i truly feel they started really well it is such a tragedy for everyone. has their own most no children of this age left in our village there aren't many children here only our granddaughter zena is alive she didn't go and also three boys when no one else their age is left in the village. where the number of victims could have been much higher had it not been for the courage of some people nearby even lost their lives trying to get the children out of the burning building while others were lucky to survive volga tells 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 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 team apollo him 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 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 that's all the boys grabbed by about the whole the tight end 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 so there were disease people to our guys lifted their wheelchairs and helped them to go downstairs and 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 risk you as we'll 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. from the u.k. fenland 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 the camera itself anger has been running high shortly after the tragedy authorities in the city were

confronted by crowds of locals and victims' relatives demonstrators were demanding the truth from officials with rumors circulating that the death toll could be as high as three hundred first claim so your objective by the investigation with. your families was her secure believe her. i. thank. you. please. let me. look up the sleeve music to let her mother look you. please look. good

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it was. i mean while 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 producer of the fire safety said to the system itself a blaze is one of the deadliest in russia in recent memory it took firefighters around twenty four hours to put it out the victims were mostly children celebrating

the start of the school holidays. and the fallout over the alleged poisoning of former spy sergei screwball and his daughter has seen mass expulsions of diplomatic staff over the week both russian and american diplomats have been ordered to pack their bags and leave for home now russia's seattle consulate was closed with moscow announcing on thursday it would retaliate for washington's decision sixty u.s. diplomats were told to leave russia in a mirror to the u.s. move the americans were also ordered to shut down their mission in st petersburg. back in washington russia's ambassador to the u.s. and tolly on tons of of his expelled colleagues as they got on a plane bound for russia on sunday the plane carrying all sixty russian diplomats

arrived in moscow the effected u.s. diplomats are also expected to depart russia soon here's how russia's foreign ministry minister sergei lavrov outlined the steps taken so far we have the guts to tell it's a remote use include the expulsion of the same number of u.s. diplomats and withdrawal of our consent for the us consulate in st 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 i the nato members hopefuls the united states though may have to charter a jet sixty evidence diplomats have been ordered to leave russia the same kicked out by washington though what the u.s. consulate in st petersburg is being closed down in response to the closure of russia's consulate in seattle and mirrors spots 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 a geisha will be technical. o.p.c. w. explosive arrived in london to analyze the substance used in the alleged poisoning of surrogate and you'll a script 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 earth air 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 he was a tree full of hours sport. where all the cold food is about the identity of the culprit the only question is whether he will first confess couped specially for boris johnson the dusty ascii quote translated in english from

a hundred tributes you can not make a horse one hundred suspicions don't make it proof boris johnson went on to cement his case they make. we make lights. one is a hideous weapons specifically designed for assassination the other is a plausible theatrical prep with a mysterious buzz they would normally be opinion is divided on what exactly boris johnson meant or how exactly he hoped this would help his case. are right word now not everybody seems so sold on russia bashing for example nine states chose not to take punitive action austria is among them though vienna says london did try to pressure them to go along. 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 earlier this week with

all six slides focusing on accusations against moscow it begins with a description of the nerve agent allegedly used in the salisbury assassination attempt with the blame being placed squarely on russia the so-called evidence includes allegations of previous maligned activity by moscow among them are cyber attacks alleged interference in elections and what the presentation calls the occupation of crimea. numerous countries chiefly in the western hemisphere have backed london's allegations that russia wasn't behind the poisoning of sergei screen paul and his daughter and have joined punitive measures against moscow and though that sentiment wasn't shared by every nation even in europe some british and american politicians were quick to equate their allies with the entire world but the world is saying today is that this pattern of behavior has become an acceptable and what we're seeing in this huge diplomatic expulsion is

a desire to correct that and to say right russia enough is enough to won't patients is wrong wearing saying with president putin and his actions we stand with our british allies and the rest of the civilized world it has become clear that russia is behind this effort to kill innocent civilians with the banned nerve agent. rasmussen executive vice president of the eurasia center says the current standoff may deepen already existing divisions in europe. i think it kind of centers on the whole perspective that. certain countries have thinking that the world their world balls around them but there's no justification whatsoever there's no evidence of coming out we're not following international monica think primarily it's to try to be in the public in promoting a we're the leaders of the world we're in really really being led by the u.s. in the u.k. in some ways i think the steps that are occurring may backfire creating more

divisiveness within the within europe europe is already upset with the existing sanctions that are that are occurring effects on the business side that they're losing billions of euros a year hundreds of billions but really that's that's where it is most of the world is not behind this and even the people of european countries i think for the most part realize that this is really kind of a there's no justification whatsoever i mean who did it who knows but it clearly does not look like it was rough. trade confirmation or confrontation rather is heating up between beijing and washington china has slapped a three billion dollars in tax on one hundred twenty products imported from the u.s. including pork wine and fruit the move follows several weeks of chinese officials warnings over the escalating dispute between the two countries last thursday president donald trump announced sixty billion in tariffs on chinese goods due to beijing's repeated violations of u.s. intellectual property rights and at the beginning of march the u.s.

imposed a new tariffs on aluminum and steel as well which also hit chinese imports but while trump has clashed with china on trade he has also called it a friend in dealing with north korea. again what's been allowed to go on for decades is disgraceful it's disgraceful and when it comes to a time when our country can't make aluminum and steel. and somebody said it before and i will tell you you almost don't have much of a country i view them as a friend i have tremendous respect for president xi they have a great relationship they helping us a lot in north korea and that's china earlier we heard from geoffrey albert tucker editorial director of the american institute for economic research and dr rasmussen professor of political economy at st mary's college they think a trade war won't bring anything good for either country. trump said he wanted to

trade war and he tweeted that he wanted a trade war which is something that no economist in the world wants to hear and now he's getting it nobody wants a trade war everybody loses china loses america consumers are going to pay the price of american business is going to pay the price this is this is a bad deal all around every american and her daily life is using products assembled built and shaped formulated manufactured in china originating from ideas and concepts and marketing that originate from the united states we have a beautiful cooperative relationship with the united states wants from china first and foremost is to increase its imports to china of services and particularly financial services it wants to try to trade further the chinese banking system that's number one number two has to do with what's called intellectual property but

part of that is really next generation technology software i don't see a trade war coming out of this a lot of it hasn't there with the us that u.s. politics you know it's this nationalist appeal before the november elections and also i believe it has something to do. you know the trump of mobilizing is based on anticipation for indictment and findings right and no our organization will be the investigations. there we lost some sound of there but moving on to another story italy is crying invasion and even threatening to expel french diplomats over a dramatic across the border migrant raid roam some of the french ambassador after french border police entered an italian train station forcing

a suspected drug trafficking refugee take a drug test now prosecutors have now opened an investigation into the incident and while the foreign ministry in rome has kept a civilized tone sometimes politicians didn't hold back the behavior of french agents in better than a case very serious matter will remind micron that no foreign agent can come here and i so there are thirty 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 that had no rights no rights this would be the first and the last time i'm very angry about what's happened. for paris claims of bilateral deals them to cross a tie and borders in such cases however italian police insist that the deal says france must notify them of its plans and it failed to do so authorities and that the room inside the bottleneck rail station was

a migrant center and off limits moreover migrant center officials are outraged calling the raid interference and adding that french officers intimidated the doctor and lawyers there however france says that it asked permission to enter the facility and that migrant agreed to take the urine test a political science lecturer and so. asco who is in bottleneck told us that french police are in the wrong. the ngo which is running the migrant center in the neck up by the way i'm a few hundred metres from there i am a bit of an anchor right now at the. end declared 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 of kind of violation of sovereignty on italian soil what has been said very clearly by italian

authorities is that. italian police was not in for by by french customs agent. about your peroration which is against the provisions of the binational agreements. well 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 to mia. 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 sponsored a group of people who were walking in snow there we saw that it 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.

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. if the situation repeated itself tomorrow i would act in the same way i did the right thing. right a time journalist mona chalo for and told us that many in his country are appalled by france's behavior over the refugee situation france is one of the toughest countries that they don't they don't cooperate i'm told they have to think that the police force for every boy this was a thirty and very very aggressive rejecting every year every time they find some of the migrants that are trying to go to france and the situation that they it's becoming greedy critical for italy because italy cannot keep hold of these

thousands and thousands of migrants. now does it for me and my colleague nic here and will be here in about thirty minutes time with a full picture news watch march international stay with us. when else chose seemed wrong. when all along just don't call. me. yet to ship out this thing comes atika. and it gets really equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. about your sudden passing i've only just learned you worry yourself and taken your last wrong turn. you're out to cut up to you as we all knew it would i tell you i'm

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