russia's officially step twenty nineteen with the clock struck midnight in all eleven of russia's time zones we'll bring you the festivities live from central moscow. but the celebrations this early morning in moscow and the problem focusing on the russian city of mecca need to go least seven people have been killed there thirty five left on account of collapsed yesterday devastating gas explosion people still working for them. and other news britain france had 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.

hello good morning well i am here in moscow start a brand new year this choose day the first of january this is our international was make heaven and a very happy new year to you i know we go there with our first full news program of the year tinge with sadness and celebration has to be said so the new year twenty nineteen arrived just over an hour ago in the russian capital huge holiday for russians in the city century huge draw for people out celebrating there were fireworks earlier on just after midnight when we heard the chinese will. ring in the new year send out in the new year president vladimir putin spoke to the nation as well his annual address as expected as people gather around the t.v. set in russia every year to do and raise a glass look at a cheer not too cold at night not snowing it for it's very festive. in red square right now don where they put you really quite where the people are they're a bit behind televisions kind of may look a bit smaller but if you do look beyond you can see is loads of people are saying since the advent of early delighting in. over the last five ten years the place is

just like a fairytale isness beautiful. yeah absolutely kevin the clock just stroke struck twelve about an hour ago here in moscow to bring in the new year and now at this hour across all eleven of russia's time zones the new year twenty nine hundred has arrived and like you said yeah in my immediate vicinity it doesn't look like there are too many people but off screen and past a police barricade over there there are big crowds of people people from not only moscow not only russia but from all over the world who have come to celebrate new year's on red square and now people were enjoying the the the lighting on red square the decorations the festivities the attractions and especially the annual lights the annual fireworks show above the moscow river now people had already been celebrating all over other places in the world even before that in

australia in the middle east in japan. but and even in other time zones and in russia which president putin congratulated those citizens there before his formal address here in moscow but this new year's is actually an unusual one for russia because of that tragedy that occurred in the euro mountain city of magnitogorsk where part of a residential building collapsed leaving several dead and more missing and injured but president vladimir putin visited there visited with hospital with rescue workers and at the hospital and even residents of that town decided to open up their houses to invite those affected and those victims for a new year's dinner to celebrate new year's eve and drink champagne with them and everything so it was certainly a heartwarming story yes so many people lost everything and again you know the guys who work in a bit of cold as well as twenty seven up on the world tonight. through the night

through the new year to try and bring help as best they can they still looking for people and there's a worry that there could be more collapses as well don back to later take care of a cup of tea it is bit chilly out there i can say happy new year to you so then a somber new year in the central russian city of mud need to go that attempts to try to come to terms with the tragic collapse of that apartment block on monday morning the federal emergency ministry now says at least seven people died at least thirty five and left in accounted for they think that number will go up of the building came down after a big gas explosion over a thousand people have been evacuated from their homes following that blast because of the risk of further collapse one of the eyewitnesses described the scene to us. sister crabapples reef knot at six in the morning heard an explosion and ran to the kitchen window with her purple smoke and the building started collapsing the shockwave was so strong that our bed was shaking when i heard a woman shouting loudly for help i don't know what happened to her so i can tell is a change of scene for correspondence during the reporting from early the morning is

going to turn off he's on his way to murder me to goals he will bring you fully up to speed with this story as it continues throughout the coming days. the blast affected the total of forty eight apartments and potentially more than a hundred people but rescuers say that the total number of people unaccounted for as a result of the tragedy is thirty five this is the number of people that still have not made contact with the rescuers or with their relatives but we heard from a witness and to one of the residents of that apartment building and they told us about the tragedy also. 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 i thought there would be a stance but we left the corridor and there was just trouble. there was a blast as first with that there was an earthquake as we rushed to the balcony and

safire in that house on the second floor no windows were left in our flat they were all blown out now there fishel response to the tragedy has been truly been massive the two ministers the emergency minister and the health minister have been here all pretty much all day working on site the governor of the region has been here and of course the russian president vladimir putin came here and he visited one of the hospitals the treated the wounded in the tragedy here is what the russian president had to say 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 of the necessary equipment and all the necessary personnel we are now clearing the debris the risk of collapse still remains. now it is still not clear as to how many people how many residents of that apartment building will be able to come back to their homes after all it is

a serious gas explosion a whole section of the building collapse so experts will have. evaluate is this building still habitable for those who are left homeless by this blast the authorities the local authorities have already promised to buy new flats and new apartments but so far the main operation is the search and rescue operation that officials are saying that it is set to last for at least the next forty eight hours we are currently and ruge to the city of magnitogorsk and i will be keeping you up to date with all the latest. there for official russia's emergencies ministry's praised the response to local authorities and the rapid deployment of the rescue teams. the biggest of them will be little 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 rescuers and the backup team a well trained and qualified to carry out rescue operations. in twenty eighteen

dozens of people died as a result of gas explosions in apartment blocks here in russia other tragedies linked to building collapses have claimed more than one hundred lives here over the last fifteen years. so at this new year so tenuous sadness in russia because of the events in magnitogorsk will keep you posted all developments overnight and tomorrow as the rescue recovery operation continues in the bitter cold there in the urals region of

russia.

the morning this new year's day here in moscow thanks for watching r.t. international says he said goodbye to twenty eight seeing let's take a look back now at some of the events that helped shape. a bigger list north korea dominated headlines throughout much of the year didn't it with fears maybe of even a nuclear conflict with the u.s. president trump and kim jong un exchanged a series of threats but then the two eventually met things thought a bit the pair even seemed for a while to bond in may 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 and now they're taking us somewhere. so we're here in this van and 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 powers. that be 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 feel area where it came john will be. 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 moon are talking behind a 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 all. dark 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 rooms residents. i can barely remember being given such. a location is 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 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 one 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 so let's see whether the north korean leader will accept the invitation for now we're heading back to the airport and the russian foreign minister's motorcade. right. now. who's defied the oldest become.

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britain france say they do 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 isha sesay has got the story for you this morning. deeply concerning the u.k. immigration minister is sounding the alarm made for a recent sage and migrant crossings over the english channel what to 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 of the poor to seen a spike in the number of adults some children arriving at the cannes 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. the even we.

will the 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 these mass criminal operations in british waters. they have not got a grip on what we've got isn't satisfactory and somebody has to do something old tamale the buck stops with the home secretary for now such a job it's plan is to keep the number of specialist border force sender if you 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 and army. and amidst 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 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 on the issue time is taking for a concrete solution. the latest developments read this group of suspected migrants or rest on monday morning after landing on a beach in kent and six iranian men were also found on a beach the dover on sunday morning international history professor alan scared says that will know the u.k. government's efforts to try to tackle the crisis of another satisfactory. the current administration has been at fault we only have five patrol boats in the channel sorry 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 and it's not always. the government seems to have been done nothing to supply more boats parties because in past years they've been very few attempts to cross the channel but since christmas there have been over a hundred attempts assia partly because there's a great fear that one spread happens the be much more difficult to cross the bridge . of the year is a bit a ranking the decision by the u.s. and israel now to leave the un's cultural heritage organization came into force monday washington announced his intention to boycott you nasco in october accusing the agency of anti israel bias. on the twelfth of october two thousand and seventeen the department of state notified unesco directed general it mean a bulk of the u.s. decision to withdraw from their goodness nation and to seek to establish a permanent observer mission to unesco this decision was not taken lightly and

reflects his concerns with the mounting of. the need for fundamental reform and they're going to zation and containing anti israel liason. now at this point that we can review that in twenty seventeen there was outcry from the united states and israel when unesco designated a hebron the city in the west bank designated as a world historical site now there is a contested area in the center of that city to muslims it's the ibrahimi mosque to jews it's the cave of patriarchs and at that point we saw some loud outcry from the united states and from israel now it's important to note that this isn't the first time that we've heard accusations of a pro palestinian bias from the usa and from israel and twenty eleven when the nasco body officially recognized a state of palestine at that point the usa and israel both stopped paying dues to unesco they were then stripped of their voting rights in two thousand and thirteen

after having not paid their dues so at this point we see the united states carrying out a policy that its long carried out which is when it doesn't like certain international accords and agreements or international bodies it simply withdraw let's review the united states we withdraw from the optional protocol in dispute resolution to the vienna convention on diplomatic relations the united states is officially withdrawing from the un human rights council we will not cooperate with the i.c.c. we will provide no assistance to the i.c.c. baseless politicize claims are brought against us hypocritical bodies and institution unjust prosecution by this illegitimate court the council ceases to be . are they have its name we will commence a review of all international agreements that may still expose the united states to purported binding jurisdiction dispute resolution in the international court of justice so the united states continues to withdraw from international bodies and

international agreements in response to decisions it does not approve of. a correspondent in new york city the meantime peter galbraith a film us some busta to croatia told me earlier he believes america's withdrawal from international agreements and organizations will eventually be. so this is entirely political step you know he would has pointed out that we already have that is that so many of these institutions the united nations the international court of justice were ones that were created a human rights created by the united states the united states to leave. and now we withdraw but also this constant from a very. ministration or very extreme one one i have to point out that lost the election by three million votes and based on the midterm results is not likely to be around it after twenty twenty so very likely these decisions will then be

reversed so my advice to the rest of the world is take a deep breath and america will be back. russian children who'd been held in a prison in the iraqi capital of returned home they were jailed with are allegedly i see a link mothers who went off to a rock in syria watching the return medina cochon of the reporting. of the movement . of 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 and it is sad that almost all of them are in need urgent medical assistance this return home has been no easy task officials say that they have been gathering documents an abbot and two for a month to prove that these children are russians and we did d.n.a.

tests specialists went to take samples that's in the material learned from the i didn't. cation process then we will not the necessary documents and search for the children smelly 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 some have already been convicted 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 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. or two started to bring them over company last year in an attempt to reunite children would be living in the rocky for the jews with the relatives back in musher again at least eleven youngsters were returned as a result of a campaign dozens more by other efforts as well if you follow all the stories on our site dot com it's now one twenty seven of moscow there are some sites and some of the sounds of the it just reported by us it's kevin zero in with the rest of the team working through this new year but finnish actually we want to teach you a great new year all the very best for twenty nine t. other of course thanks for watching all of the international through the rest of the morning. you know world of big. lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up

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you everyone's really happy that you're here looking for your tour and i'm looking for a little chat so i'm going to start from there turn a question because you've been pushing the boundaries of music forever. at the same time the lyrics that you write are always very powerful so the question is what is more powerful the words or the music. well the way the way they. have equal importance i mean the trick with with. songs i'm never quite sure work comes from but it has to do with who way the feelings that are in the lyrics of the songs are the ideas that are in the lyrics of the song somehow get kicked into a more accessible place by having to.