at least four people were killed and dozens on accounted for after an apartment block lapses following a gas explosion in the russian city of magnitogorsk. britain and france are 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. but the russian children who've been held in an iraqi prison with that allegedly by selling parents are now back home and we were there when they return to russia. and the french newspaper apologizes after people compare its latest from page to images from the nazi era.

for me the team here asked ality h.q. it's now four pm here in moscow and the new year holiday getting off to a tragic start here at least four people have been killed after a gas explosion tore through a block of flats in the central russian city of magnitogorsk causing part of the building to collapse the emergencies ministry says thirty five people are missing but local authorities a day earlier put the number at sixty eight one resident who was evacuated from the building described the scene. if. 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 and the windows there were also shot that i could smell smoke you know my name brands were yelling the main door was blown out and it was blocking our door and then i thought there would be but we left the corridor and there was just trouble. the russian president vladimir putin has just arrived in my need to. all

skin is on his way to the site of the explosion the authorities say that a period of mourning will be announced after the end of the rescue and recovery operations in the dealer today is across developments for. it's an absolutely tragic incident this especially as it's new year's eve national holiday people will be preparing for the big celebrations tomorrow really really sad story this it happened the location is actually the southern part of the ural mountains quite a remote area happened around six am local time in the early hours so you can as you can imagine most people would have been sleeping certainly in their flats there it was caused by a gas explosion in the center of this building this multi-unit building in the section just collapse the two adjacent sides we've been told by the emergency ministry the being the real worries that those two sides would collapse as well hence over a thousand people were evacuated there what we know about the building itself it consists of forty eight flats there was one hundred twenty people registered to be

living there four people we know so far have died tragically five people have been hospitalized one of those a child and five people were retrieved from the rubble so we do have is one eyewitness account from a lady who tells us what happened. there was a blast at first there was a nurse who rushed to fire in that house on the second floor no windows were left to nelson that they were all blown out. if we look at how the emergency services responded they responded within ten minutes and there are. hundreds of rescue workers now helping to try and retrieve others in the rubble obviously we don't know whether this survived or whether they've fatalities additional teams psychiatry's. i've been deployed the emergency minister is on the scene as well and

the emergency services have said that they will deploy people if required what they're most worried about i mean the temperatures that are freezing it's minus seventeen that limits the time is of the sense for this rescue operation it's predicted that it might go to minus twenty seven at nightfall so they're really worried about that as with all charges he's like this the communities tend to work together to try to help people and that's exactly what's happening that at the moment that pulling together helping those who've lost their homes family members and friends. and obviously the still waiting to see how bad the fatalities and the injuries are. going to to to their well this year dozens of people have died as a result of gas explosions in apartment blocks in russia other tragedies linked to building collapses have claimed more than one hundred lives here over the last fifteen years.

britain and france say that to increase joint patrols in an effort against an eagle immigration to the u.k. after an unexpected rise of refugees arriving in britain across the english channel over the past two weeks and the society has the story. deeply concerning became a gratian minister is sounding the alarm made for a recent sage in migrant crossings over the english channel what do you do in a crisis pick up the phone while 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 were 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 i in the last fifty days will say.

when we. will they are 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 the operations in british ruled 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 one secretary for now such a job its plan is to keep the number of specialist border force but sunder

a few 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 asea bit of the home office is in need of force to support the no navy air force and dreaded to assist and amidst all the mounting pressure there's also the problem of cracking down on people smikle is the problem is that the more one house patrol craft out there the more it can be regarded as a pull factor because people at these gangs know that if they get halfway across the channel they're going to be picked up so it is a very fine dilemma to for the home secretary to consider is he ok home secretary weighs up his options on the time is ticking for a concrete solution. on in the latest development six more iranian men were found on a beach near dover on sunday morning international history professor alan scared says that up until now the u.k. government's efforts to tackle the crisis have been unsatisfactory live only two

minutes traditionally has been at fault we only have five patrol boats in the channel so we only have five patrol boats for the border force only one of these is actually in the do it was straight in the channel that is not always. the government seems to have been done nothing to supply more boats parties because in past years have been very few attempts to cross the channel but since christmas have been over a hundred attempts this year partly because there's a group that one spread happens the be much more difficult to cross the bridge. thirty russian children who had been held in a prison in the iraqi capital have now been allowed to return home jailed with their allegedly i still link mothers who went to iraq and syria but in a cotton of the reports. it was you know.

the children have returned to russia this evening from iraq rod on a plane organized by russia from baghdad the children are in quite a bad shape it is 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. to for months to prove that these children are russians we did d.n.a. tests specialists went to europe to take lives and the material went through the identification process and then we will not have the necessary documents and search for the children smell exceeds. the previous flight of this kind to happened over a year ago meantime children aged four to 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 as all of these children were born in russia and taken by their parents who fled to syria and iraq allegedly to join terrorist rinks no riving 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. welty started to bring them home campaign last year in an attempt to reunite children who'd been living in iraqi orphanages their relatives back in russia or at least eleven children rober said as a result of our campaign dozens more oil the records you can follow their stories on military dot com. well how to deal with the families of islamic state fighters

was a much discussed topic this year not just in russia and europe as well as we recap the past twelve months here's a panel of guests what they had to say about britain's approach back in july their hospitalist approach it has to be a balance of using the judicial system for people who have committed a crime by joining prescribed organization and a rehabilitation program and i think michael recognizes that and his review of the terrorism strategy is bringing holistic piece together our counter radicalization and i counter terrorist has been absolutely a joke we have had the government listen to that is what we're seeing is extremely . positive but it is that he was not really well so he was also the story i'll finish doing my bit so we have a situation we've got british kids in syria being radicalized now we don't know who's committed what crimes now i do we bring them back home all we are going to take them out with. asteroids which about twenty percent accurate or drone strikes

which ten years of use in afghanistan or pakistan show up out there for six or seven percent accurate indeed no drones are two percent accurate about ten twenty percent accurate you're lucky you're you're going wrong and they are not really a drone or. i'm going to get analysis from doing alternative facts and we are really french are using our justice system to the usa because usa has a death penalty but the reality is that we are using our sovereignty and telling the world that britain is not competent enough to really. sort of put through criminals through the criminal justice system they are british citizens we need to deal with our rubbish we've got to bring them home if they are capable of being de radicalized and we can deal with them like they do in some of the nordic countries or some the scandinavian countries and we integrate them into british society great how do you go in and arrest these people and bring them back in a nice little police car to be put in a call. to them go through a judicial system they're in a conflict zone they're

a threat to this country saluja to military targets we do not recorded we do not count civilian casualties we do not count collateral damage if there is believed to be very rare vulnerability they respond no no no no no no no no no on the first series in parliament it was absolutely clear the m.p.'s came forward said we have no record we have no evidence and the reason is we do not count them. a new 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 we could eradicate disease the findings revealed that seventy percent of us citizens of age would approve of gene editing to defeat incurable diseases the children inherit so to cystic fibrosis around two thirds would also give their backing to engineering prevent non-fatal conditions like blindness however most americans oppose genetic

modification to choose things like eye color height and intelligence levels. in the u.s. poll comes a month after groundbreaking claims from china the technique with extremely controversial was used on twins lou and nona in an attempt to make them resistant to hiv infection. when little and large was just a single. this soldiery was that. through each edge of the enter so you fact people. a few days later before returning. to greece. we checked how old that you saw to be when the whole genome sequence did result in. this surgery. and i think all concerns over embryo gene editing in china has seen that scientists put on the guard he remains in a university guesthouse 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 born children from it i thought oh my

gosh it just jumped ahead american microbiologist brian hanley thinks it's hard for people to accept such technologies because most don't understand the process. being able to deliver this to adults which is a much which is in most ways are a harder. harder adults can consent and that is one of the young girl issues is that clearly an embryo camp consents however i think it is unlikely as long as we're not causing damage to which i don't know that a child is going to object to being born. with more strength than usual with more and durrance than usual over a longer life span than usual or with zero or. better mental capacity than most of the public doesn't really understand the technology very well or what or

what your shoes are i think. that with this perception will change over time. and eating french newspapers backpedaling off its front pages compared to some controversial sinister imaging it's all next story after the break. but politicians do something to. put themselves on the line they get accepted over checked. so if you want to be president. or somehow want to be honest. it's a joy to be press as a likable korea boy can't be that. interested always in the.

question. welcome back one of france's biggest newspapers has dedicated its latest front page to the anti-government yellow vest protesters the monks made her color pictures of president on the demonstrations but unfortunately it reminded some readers of another notorious image. in.

the cover dated saturday december the twenty ninth has provoked critical reactions from some of our readers we're polar gys to those who have been shocked by graphic design developments used were referring to russian constructivists from the early twentieth century which used black and red 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

a bad image of the lunatics we saw there policy from the join up it is true that when you look at the front page he immediately think of nazi germany as i understand it they regret it now because they went too far in a way there is nothing about nazis in here only so. ingestion but if you look at this it is a bit shocking. and i think it's more important to work on things that need to be dressed instead of making climates that will drive us no way. in. march by a women's group in california has been counseled by organizers over 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 more than seventy percent of the population in the area happens to be white others say the organizers failed to encourage diversity women to moderate it without world wide since twenty seventeen has been accused of lacking voices from minority groups advantaged semitism feminist authorship or jamison believes the organizers were right to look for diversity. and they seem to be being reasonable but i guess we need to be careful that this doesn't become into a kind of hollywood white women especially white women and the middle and upper classes and pretend to be the all women i don't see why women in other races and from the lower classes can also speak for all women definitely if women from all different backgrounds are not present but we need to find

a way to get in the table. as we say goodbye to twenty eighteen it's time to look back on some of the events that have shaped. well north korea dominated headlines throughout much of the year with fears of a nuclear conflict with the united states president trump and kim jong un exchanged a series of vicious threats but when the two eventually met things thoughts on the passing to form a bond. i got the chance to look around the north korean leader's palace ahead of a visit by russia's foreign minister. we were told to leave most of our belongings and all our mobile devices behind they're taking the subway. so we're here in this just to carry one photographer and myself following a lot of savings. this 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 a small. group. i don't really know what exactly this place this but it looks to be area where it came john. and the reason why i think so is because just through this door i saw came john sister 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 circular.

i believe this is a bit of a historic moment. and talking behind this small we were asked to wait in this room so let's just have a walk around to take a look at what they have to offer. north korean chocolate i can tell you that it tastes just like any other. anywhere around the world. so this is how suddenly you get treated to cranberry juice at the rooms residence.

i can barely remember being given such access at other locations around the world we were just told to see the president which is just outside the doors. and given the fact that we're inside the residence of the north korean leader kim jong un 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. russia. 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 kim jong il's residence in pyongyang. right that's it for me and the team for now we'll update you we're going to just have wherever you're watching have a safe and happy new year.

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