critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. at least four people are killed and dozens still unaccounted for after apartment block collapses following a devastating gas explosion in the russian city folk like me to president putin has arrived at the scene and his meeting rescue workers. britain and france are to step up joint patrols in the english channel of the spike in the number of illegal immigrants trying to get to the u.k. over the past two weeks. thirty russian children who'd been held in an iraqi prison with allegedly parents are now back home with that when they return to russia. the french newspaper apologizes after people compare its latest from page to images from the nazi era.

for me in the team here at r.t. h.q. in moscow as twenty nine thousand makes its way slowly around the world the holidays have got off to a tragic start here in russia rescue teams are scrambling to find survivors in the rubble of a collapsed apartment block in central russia at least four people have died and at least thirty five others are missing after the building in the city of magnitogorsk came down following a gas explosion president putin is there and is currently meeting and the agency coordinators. we should think of those who lost their lives and who were injured but now let's start to work with us we have all the necessary equipment and all the necessary person now we are now clearing the debris the risk of collapse still remains over a thousand people have been evacuated from their homes nearby following that explosion one of the buildings residents described the scene to us. it was. 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 my neighbors were yelling the main door was blown out and it was blocking our door and then as i thought there would be stance but we left the corridor and there was just trouble this or to say that a period of mourning will be announced after the end of the rescue and recovery operations there richard was across developments for us. 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 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 an earthquake who rushed to a balcony and so fire in that house on the second floor no windows were left in else that they were all blown out. if we look at how the emergency services

responded they respond within ten minutes and there are literally hundreds and hundreds of rescue workers now helping to try and retrieve others in the rubble of this to be don't know whether they're survivors or whether they've fatalities additional. psychiatry's have been deployed there 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 there are freezing it's minus seventeen at the moment so time is of the sense that this rescue operation it's predicted that it might go to my is twenty saturday at nightfall so they're really worried about that as with all types of things like this the communities tend to work together to try and help people and that's exactly what's happening that at the moment they're pulling together helping those who've lost their homes family members and friends. and obviously they're still waiting to see how bad the fatalities and the injuries are. a former official of

russia's emergencies ministry's praise the response of local authorities and the rapid deployment of rescue teams will be useable but we look for you local authorities acted in the right way and their response was determined by the possible number of victims local rescue teams started working as soon as they were able to both the local rescues and the packet seem a well trained and qualified to carry out rescue operations. dozens of people have died as a result of gas explosions in a part of 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 they're to increase joint patrols in an effort against illegal immigration into the u.k. after an unexpected rise in refugees arriving in britain across the english channel over the past two weeks and he says that he has 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 and 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 it's a partnership all too familiar when it comes to border protection but having spent millions already to sat 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 of 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 also.

increasing pressure has meant the you 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 job its plan is to keep the number of specialist border force boats under 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 as yet but of the home office is in need of armed forces support than our navy air force and army is stand ready to assist and amidst all the mounting pressure there's also the problem of cracking

down on people smugglers but 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. for the home secretary to consider is the u.k. home secretary weighs up his options are time is ticking for a concrete solution among the latest developments a group of suspected migrant were arrested on monday morning after landing on a beach in kent six a rainy and men were also found on a beach near dover on sunday morning international history professor alan scaled says that up until now the u.k. government's efforts to tackle the crisis have been unsatisfactory. to ministration 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 straits in the channel that is not all that. the government. done nothing to supply more boats parties because in past years of being very few attempts to cross the channel but since christmas have been over a hundred attempts this year partly because there's a group one spread happens much more difficult to cross that which. may not happen over the words of the u.k.'s international trade secretary the probe liam fox is owed in britain to get behind prime minister to resign may or face the unknown reality of a no deal when the country is due to leave the in march the british house of commons is due to vote on the p.m.'s deal in mid january downing. it says to reason may have been in close contact with european leaders over the holidays to seek assurances that after facing a serious challenge to her leadership over the past couple of months already and

until the deal has a day or has been ratified it is the responsible position of government and it is it would be the responsible position of any government to put in place contingency arrangements for no deal no do y'all would read his ass to for our country and no responsible government would have allowing yes i know it's christmas i know he's not to be stocking down the chimney and not christmas tree he still hasn't found. it's the prime minister who is supposed to be undertaking a negotiation. for prime minister the trial to bring an acceptable deal back why didn't the prime minister stop the pretense and stop wasting four billion pounds in a cynical attempt to drive her deeply damaging deal through their house. is the right honorable gentleman doesn't want to see money being spent on no deal he's got an easy on so for this to.

cry well less discuss where bracks it goes next let's bring in john white political commentator and journalist good to see you again john what are things going to happen in january that is going to survive the vote. now i don't think so but i think the idea that there will be no bricks or is on the table no i see it as not being in the last two years of these torturous negotiations since you two twenty sixteen you know if you're in the result. so what we have knows a crisis is mature to the point where to get a consensual counts no domini the issue which is those who have a kid. and those who are pushing for the second referendum the so-called people's will but you need music in the country is to use a lease deal this is washable world it doesn't satisfy anyone actually in eighty eight if you want to be. says' of the issues in opposition to her and but she's trying to use time warner say reno that taim is running out march twenty ninth is the date earmarked for its assertion that the e.u.

article fifty though that can advance it will be extended if the e.u. approaches that request but she tried to weaponize tank quite cleverly quite cynically i have to say you know in order to leverage more pressure on the tory tory howard actually two years and i've been she's but i don't think even with that that this deal will pass what are those hard bricks it is hoped to achieve if they keep pushing for a no deal because by any measure any economist you talk to any bank any company will say no deal bracks it is going to cause harm. yes but these people are so ideologically ideologically weighty to hard to accept that they are not mainly to listen to any of those side in voices indeed those own voices and actually having a counter effect because the more that these voices come over the people from the discredited establishment the business leaders the banks and so forth the more that people are digging their heels in and this is

a problem that the establishment has you see because they have presided over a mochi crises in the economy and equality social economic injustice raising rates all over thier stereotype that this is no become that yes double and there sees those who are opposed to the establishment and pseudonym for any rational thinking or reason thought is very very narrow at this stage so i don't think that any of these economists you know they you know they're economists and the economy is not an exact science and economics is is is a is a sort of very much a subjective profession so people have different views on how the economy will break out some of the heartbreak to tears think that that will go off and be able to shake all these bilateral trade deals that will actually increase the country's prosperity going forward so i do think that with rick needs to point out to eric assailable counts as i see her form their own decision which is lucia are pushing for a second referendum in the hope that they'll come back to say should leave for remember

change don't and those who are the key heartbreaks that come want me intended wait . what about to resume aid prospects then she saw off that leadership challenge last month comfortably let's be honest she got one more vote and she didn't for the original leadership election and twenty thinks they know how reliant on getting this deal through parliament in order to keep her own job. well at this stage i think the reason music seems like she could who don't come come what me again no pun intended because she has faced these mounting crises one after the other you would think after a hard terrible performance of the twenty seven thousand general election when she managed to lose it to a majority in parliament be the signal for her to go but the thing that's keeping hundred as i've said many times your core is the establishment's dread feed off of a carbon government that is the only thing that is keeping me in a job and as a one thing i don't wish tories regardless of their position on thinks it will unite jenny corbin poses

a threat to this operation of such as it has not faced from any legally duck in generations and on the level of foreign policy especially up and so i think this is what is keeping her in office and i think she's actually become levity for all the criticisms she's becoming petty is too because she's had so much over these last few months and so though she's a woman who feels that she can go on as long as she likes and obviously with a fixed ten parliaments even if she was replaced as the leader of the tory party and this prime minister then the tories will hang on i don't think there will be a nearly general election is corban and his supporters hope i think the tories will manage to hold on until the end of this term in twenty twenty if a plug of public record is robust how would you expect the youth respond to the. well that's what the e.u. want this is the best of all worlds for brussels there you know and on an unassailable position because they see the internet increases that has been

unleashed and there's no there's no evidence it would be resolved anytime soon it's clearly brussel to a third option and those these noises of the meat from glasnost by closure on a closure euchred specially that the brics it can be divest at any time so they're hoping that enough people in britain will see that this is leading us to a cliff age they will be frightened off to be frightened of the prospect of brick set and livid elect to to me instead and of course the other option for brussels if they can get britain to go back breaks it and remain in e.u. is to make it such a messy and tortures affair that no other e.u. member states will be made to to embark on a same course one fault what are the chances of having that people vote then despite all the protestations from the conservative benches and from number ten i think there's a very last chance i think it's no probably the most likely outcome of this for our group i think reason me to these and these deal will not pass through parliament in january and the second referendum will be coach the pressure on her to do so will

be so overwhelming that she will not be able to withstand that at least but i am but for those on the sale of a second rule i would caution that when it comes to the error that assumption and that will result in a different result from last thing i think that they may get a shock for a second time and it will come back to accept again but even if it did come back i mean it would not come back to say sadly enough to satisfy the needs of democracy and indeed we don't leave the country even more and poor eyes than it has already i think you create more problems than it would solve and i know it's a period of uncertainty as you head into twenty nine where you are happy to hear all the same john why thanks for joining us if you. and eating french newspapers backpedaling off its front page compared to some of the more sinister images it's about our next story after the break and.

i've been saying the numbers mean something they don't matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes have been each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you longs to be rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three 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 is one one business shows you can't afford to miss the one and only boom but. welcome back thirty russian children who'd been held in a prison in the iraqi capital have now been allowed to return home they were jailed with allegedly ice a link mothers who went to iraq and syria but in a culture of the reports. the little. league. the children have returned to russia this evening from iraq brought 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 who did d.n.a. tests specialists went to iraq to take some lives in the material one from the identification process and then we will know if the necessary documents and search for the children smell exceeds. the previous flight of this kind to happen over a year ago meantime these 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 on the 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. to stall to a bring them home campaign last year in an attempt to preview night children who'd been living in iraq you all for me to use their relatives back in russia at least eleven children were returned as a result of all campaign and dozens more by other records you can follow their stories on our t. dot com. one of france's biggest newspapers has dedicated a front page to the anti-government yellow best protest. of pictures of president and the demonstrations unfortunately though we are reminded some readers of another image.

in 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 developments used were referring to russian constructivists from the early twentieth century which used black and red in 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 lunatics i saw their policy from the join up it is true that when

you look at the front page 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 suggestion but if you look at this it is a bit shocking. i think it's more important to grow up in things that move to meet us instead of making climates that will drive us nowhere. as we say goodbye to twenty eighteen it's time to look back on some of the events that have shaped. 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 thought of the pair even seemed to form something of a bond. got the chance to look around the north korean leaders 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 and now they're taking us somewhere. so we're here in this fandom just to keep our men one photographer and myself rolling a lot of savings. in this area is completely deserted and it looks like we're in circling something that appears to be the powers. that be if only someone told me where exactly we are right now but we are being told to fold us mad.

groups. i don't really know what exactly this place this but it looks to be a area where it came john will be greeting. and the reason why i think so is because just through the store i saw came john in 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. i believe this is a bit of a historic moment. sergey

lavrov and kim john thune 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. to offer a. dark north korean chocolate i can tell you that it tastes just like any other dark chocolate 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. other 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 one hundred foreign minister said and 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 came john to 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. franco right side. residence in pyongyang you see we get you into places other channels that's how it

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