at least three people are dead and seventy nine unaccounted for after an apartment block collapses following a gas explosion in the russian city of mike need to call. britain and france to step up joint patrols in the english channel after a spike in the number of illegal immigrants trying to get to the u.k. over the past two weeks. as you russian children held in an iraqi prison with allegedly i still think parents are now back home we were there when they returned to russia. and the french newspaper apologizes after people compare its latest front cover to images from the nazi era.

a very warm welcome to you you're watching r.t. international with me caring for our top story this hour at least three people have been killed after a part of a residential building collapsed due to a gas explosion in mike need to go to a russian industrial city which is located around one thousand six hundred kilometers east of moscow authours who say the fate of seventy nine people is still unknown a resident who was evacuated from the building described the scene. it was almost as i was woken up by the sound of the explosion and the shattered glass the windows in my living room were blown out i ran to the kitchen the windows there were also shattered i could smell smoke you know my neighbors were yelling the window was blown out and it was blocking our door and then i thought there would be steps but we left the corridor and there was just trouble. well she's

a costar of joins me now in the studio with the latest eagle this is a developing situation so far we know three people have been confirmed dead and it's new year's eve i mean timing wise it couldn't be any worse could it really no it really couldn't because people are off they are preparing for the big thing the new year because like in the west it's christmas here in russia it's the new year is the new year's is the big deal that's when kids get presents and so on and so forth so it's a bank holiday basically so people were having rest before and preparing basically themselves for a night of celebration and so that's when the tragedy struck and also adding to the tragedy is the fact that it was around seven am so it was early early morning when the whole thing happened so whoever could be at home they were they were likely in their beds or just just waking up so the blast struck at the worst possible moment the seventy nine more than seventy people who are unaccounted for and that's that

that's that was thought isn't it is a holiday people were looking forward to celebrating and because it's a holiday people weren't going to what a majority of people would have been at home and this takes the nation occurred we still not sure how this happened ali no we don't know the official version there's only one official version so far and that's a gas explosion first floor of the building so basically the whole central block of this really really long apartment building is so in the whole central section of it just collapsed just fell down and so more than one hundred people are supposed to have been seeing they're supposed to be habits in this section of the building and so most of them apparently were at home or a believed to have been at home and so also what's handwringing rescue efforts right now is that it is minus twenty one celsius over there so if people are under

the rubble. trapped under the rubble even if they're in a sign in some safe space if there is like a cavity or something that where they managed to crawl or just found themselves in this freezing temperature is the biggest danger for their health this is the difference basically this is what could make the difference whether they will make it or not time is of essence like you say minus twenty one degrees celsius and i understand that local people also joining in the rescue efforts to try and get these people out before us massive both official and volunteer response to this to ministers russia's health minister and emergency minister are on their way to magnitogorsk or they flown out of moscow glad i'm a putin has been briefed on the tragedy lot of rescue crews also working on the scene ambulances and everybody because again time is of the essence of really those few a few minutes could separate a person from life or death in this situation so

a lot of the big volunteer response is well as you've said because locals they are showing up at the scene and they are hoping clear out the rubble as well also. two adjacent compartments of the building have been evacuated as well and in total around three hundred people are supposed to be left homeless by the tragedy and so the authorities are now kind of weighing the options of how and where they will be spending the new year's holidays really right now they've been accommodated in the nearest school and this is sort of like an emergency an emergency thing an emergency shelter for them so that's where they are right now the whole apartment building has been evacuated this is a matter of fact but like it's those those sections that are adjacent to the epicenter of the blast that basically leaving people homeless of i think something of a miracle in that all of these people who are still missing are retrieved safely

and indeed we understand that you are going out by yourself so keep us up to speed on the developments out day thank you very much legal. during other news the britain and france say they're to increase joint patrols in an effort to games illegal immigration into the u.k. that's after an unexpected rise in migrants arriving in britain via the english channel over the past two weeks artie's anisha sethi picks up the story. deeply concerning the u.k. immigration minister is sounding the alarm made for a recent sage and migrant crossings over the english channel what do you do in a crisis pick up the phone well the u.k. him secretary and the french interior minister at least spoke to each other but is this really enough to combat channel crossings from the u.k. and france is a partnership all too familiar when it comes to border protection but having spent millions already to set up and then move refugee camps one of the biggest

flashpoints of the migrant crisis the port in kobe which made headlines almost daily. from cal a today for the poor to seen a spike in the number of adults some children arriving at the kents coast sporadic crossings was seen at the start of the refugee crisis but more recently over two hundred twenty men women and children have attempted to make their way if in the last fifty days all say. even we're.

increasing pressure has meant the u.k. him secretary has had to cut his holiday short he's been y. day accused of having a failed strategy he has still to explain exactly how the government plans to handle the small screen in the operations. they have not got a grip on it what we've got is unsatisfactory and somebody has to do something ultimately the buck stops with the home secretary for now such a javits plan is to keep the number of specialist border force send a review but he admits there's no easy answer as for defense britain's armed forces are at the ready if need be we have not heard any requests to zero but the home office is in need of armed forces support the no navy air force an. answer amid all the mounting pressure there's also the problem of cracking down on people smugglers

the problem is that the more one a house patrol craft out there the more it can be regarded as a pull factor because people these guys know that if they get halfway across the channel they're going to be picked up so it is a very fine dilemma. for the home secretary to consider is the u.k. home secretary weighs up his options on the issue time is ticking for a concrete solution for the latest in the latest developments six more rainy and men were found on a beach near dover on sunday morning professor of international history at london school of economics alan scared says that up to now the u.k. government's efforts to tackle the crisis have been on satisfactory. the administration has been at fault we only have five patrol boats in the triangle sort of unified the troll boys for the board of fools only one of these is actually in the do it was straight in the channel that is not always. the government seems

to. done nothing to supply more birds parties because in past years they've been very few attempts to cross the channel but since christmas there have been no one hundred attempts this year partly because there's a great one spread happening so much more difficult to cross the bridge. as he russian children who had been held in a prison in the iraqi capital baghdad have now been allowed to return home they were jailed with that allegedly ice the links mothers who went to iraq and syria we did a cartoon of our ports. the little. children have returned to russia this evening from iraq right on a plane organized by russia from baghdad the children are in quite

a bad shape it is sad that almost all of them are in need of urgent medical assistance this return home has been no easy task officials say that they have been gathering documents an average of two for months to prove that these children are russians who did d.n.a. tests the specialists went to iraq to take some lives is that in the material went from the identification process then i will not the necessary documents and so as for the children's values. the previous flight of this kind to happened over a year ago meantime the situation for two fifteen have been in prison. in the iraqi capital with their mothers almost all of them had to leave their mothers behind now dozens of russian women remain in prison in baghdad most of them facing charges for joining terror groups and some have already been convicted all

of these children were born in russia and taken by their parents who fled to the rug allegedly to join terrorist brinks on arriving back here in moscow the children have been receiving hospital treatment and general rehabilitation and of course they have already been reunited with their relatives who have been looking for them for months. she says a lot he started to bring them home campaign last year in attempts to reunite children who were kept in a rocky orphanage with their relatives in russia at least eleven children were overturned by our campaign and dozens more by other states you can follow their stories on our website r.t. . french newspaper le monde has dedicated its latest cover for its cover to anti-government yellow vest protesters it made a call large of pictures of president mccrone of the demonstrations but unfortunately it reminded some people of another iconic image.

and. the cover dated saturday december the twenty ninth has provoked critical reactions from some of our readers with poet joyce to those who have been shocked by graphic design elements used were referring to russian constructivists from the early twentieth century which used black and red this is the way he looks with his face turned to the right it's quiet and expressive he looks a bit like a dictator and the shams that is around his vest it gives him but the image. was

lunatics we saw the apology from the joiner it is true that when you look at the front page you immediately think of nazi germany as i understand it they regret it now because it went too far in a way there is nothing about nazis in here only suggestion but if you look at this it is a bit shocking. i think it's more important to grabbing things that made us start making climates that will drive us know when. and where some poll suggests that the majority of americans are against genetic engineering if it leads to so-called designer babies but many also see the benefits if they could ever advocate disease the findings reveal that seventy percent. of

u.s. citizens surveyed would approve of gene editing to defeat incurable diseases that children inherit such as cystic fibrosis and around two thirds would also give their backing to engineering that would prevent non-fatal conditions like blindness however most americans oppose genetic modification to choose i color height and intelligence levels. well the poll in america comes a month after groundbreaking claims from china that technique while still extremely controversial was used on twins lulu and nona in an attempt to make them resistant to hiv infection. and last was just a single. this soldiery was the law we threw it. into to you fact people. a few days later before returning. to.

check whole the surgery when. the result. was. as you handed ethical concerns over embryo gene editing in china has seen the scientists put under guard he remains in a university guest house in the city of shenzhen and has defended his actions but some scientists say it's a step too far. when i heard that there were wives or children from what i thought oh my gosh i'm just trying to herd american microbiologist brian hamley thinks it's hard for people to accept such technologies as most don't understand the process. being able to deliver this to arabs which is a march which is in most ways only harder. harder adults can concerned about as one of the young ticklish uses that clearly an embryo can't consent

however i think it is unlikely as long as we're not causing damage to a child. a child who's going to object to being born. who are more strength than usual with more in durance to grow longer lifespan usually or with. better mental capacity. most of the public doesn't really understand the technology very well the or the work you should so i think it's. this perception of change you heard from. a march by a women's group in california has been counseled by organizes i have a concerns that it's going to be too white. up to this point the participants have been overwhelmingly white lacking representation from several perspectives in our community instead of pushing forward with crucial voices absent the organizing tea will take time for more outreach some members clearly weren't satisfied with the

cancellation pointing out that i have a seventy percent of the population in the area are white this say the organizers failed to encourage diversity. there were means march which has been held every year since twenty seventeen has been accused of lacking voices from minority groups and of anti semitism cynic a college professor and author of on jemison believes the organizers were right to look for diversity they seem to be reasonable but i guess we need to be careful that this doesn't become a kind of hollywood casting call for a few token women in sales white women especially. white women in the middle and upper classes can pretend to be the case of women i don't see why women other races and from the lower classes can also speak for all women definitely if women

from all different backgrounds are not present don't really need to find a way to get the material when a brand new year is just around the corner but let us take you back to the event some people that shapes twenty eighteen after this very. when lawmakers manufacture consensus to the public well. when the ruling classes protect themselves. in the final merry go round listen to the one percent. nor middle of the room sick.

you know world of big partisan movies a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. welcome back now with the last hours of twenty eighteen taking away it's time to look back on the events that have shaped to sit back and enjoy our twenty eighteen years crews.

well north korea dominated headlines throughout much of the year president trump and kim jong un the exchange threats and then the two met and apparently mellowed any of strength i got the chance to visit the new. we were told to leave most of our belongings and all our mobile devices behind and now they're taking us somewhere. so we're here in this just to keep our men one photographer and myself following a lot of state in. this area is completely deserted and it looks like we're in circling something that appears to be the palace. if only someone told me where exactly we are right now but we are being told to fold. the groups. i don't really know what exactly this place this

but it looks to be area where it came john will be. and the reason why i think so is because just through this door i saw came john wayne sr and she was having some sort of conversation with the guards but nobody speaks english here hello. and as far as i understand this is. i believe this is a bit of a historic moment. sergey

lavrov and kim jong moon are talking behind this small we were asked to wait in this room so let's just have a walk around and take a look at what they have to offer a. dark north korean chocolate like a. well you got a taste just like any other dark chocolate anywhere around the world. so this is how suddenly you get treated to cranberry juice looms residents. i can barely remember being given such. locations around the world we were just told. the president which is just outside the doors. of the. city. and given the fact that we're inside the residence of the north korean leader kim jong il and again i'm just going to say i'm absolutely shocked.

and. it is really disappointing that we won't be able to find out exactly what's being said behind these stories but just a few hours before mr kim and mr lavrov met the russian foreign minister said making the korean peninsula free of nuclear weapons is a very delicate issue maintains that the interests of all sides must be respected. so that said it all ended with. inviting russia so let's see whether the north korean leader will accept the invitation for now we're heading back to the airport in the russian foreign minister's motorcade to try and go right from inside john residence. well a step back from the world of politics now back in november we caught up with

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good to get. this at the surface feel to them once or go missing. them. well back with more of your world headlines in just over half an hour to see that. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to be ultra rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five

hundred trade per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember in one one business shows you can't afford to miss the one and only boom bust. you know world big partisan movies a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks.

time after time you know what you're going on the ground while we're away for christmas we're screening some of your favorite episodes of this season coming up in this show we speak to sheffield demand majid about the u.k. government hostile foreign policy and hostile environment from libya and yemen all grieve and as the trades union congress celebrates its one hundred fiftieth anniversary today we go to the site of the battle of all green where ten thousand of office goggles and u.n. miners were attacked by thousands of police following the lord mayor's appeal to

home secretary sajid javid we speak to the general secretary of the new m. and a minor arrested on that day. that's all coming up in ten days edition of going underground well i mean the lord mayor of sheffield's office and with me is the lord mayor of sheffield who would bet thanks so much for letting all you know well i'm going to start asking you how come you are here and there are pictures of the first lord mayor sheffield william jeff gold. run a mining company yeah are you. and you know why is honestly me being lowered my is such a celebration of so many of the.