at least seven people are killed and thirty five left unaccounted for after an apartment block collapses following a devastating gas explosion in the russian city of much need to go to. 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. thirty russian children who had been held in an iraqi prison with their allegedly isolating to parents are now back home we were there when they returned to russia. and the world welcomes two thousand nine hundred that with the clock having already struck midnight in over half the globe we'll show you some of the highlights of the festivities.

are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our chief international i'm john thomas by the having with us right now a somber new year in the central russian city of magnitude as it attempts to come to terms with the tragic collapse of an apartment block on monday morning the federal emergency ministry now says at least seven people have died and that at least thirty five have been left in accounted for after the building came down the following a gas explosion more than a thousand people have been evacuated from their homes following the explosion because of the risk of further collapse one of the eyewitnesses described the scene to us. at six in the morning had an explosion and ran to the kitchen window we saw 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 how i don't know what happened to her. correspondent he goes on i was on his way to make need to go to school and he brings us to details.

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 there was an earthquake who 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 as to how

is this building still habitable for those who are left homeless by this blast the authorities the local authorities have already promised to buy a new flats and new apartments but so far the main operation is the search and rescue operation officials are saying that it is set to last for at least the next forty eight hours we are currently and routes to the city of magnitogorsk and so i will be keeping you up to date with all the latest. and a former official at russia's emergency ministry has praised the response of local authorities and the rapid deployment of rescue teams. useable going to the 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 back a team of well trained and qualified to carry out rescue operations. now in two

thousand and eighteen thousands of people 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. now we will keep you posted on developments through the night and tomorrow as the rescue operation continues in the bitterly cold urals region of russia.

all right britain and france say that they are 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 or days and he throws out the as more. deeply concerning the u.k. migration 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 or

mistakenly. 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. even to.

well 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 ultimately the buck stops with the home secretary for now such a job its plan is to keep the number of specialist border force but 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 asea bit of the home office is in need of force to support the no navy air force an. 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 a k. home secretary weighs up his options on the time is ticking for a concrete solution. among the latest developments a group of suspected migrants were arrested on monday morning after landing on a beach in can't succeed iranian men were also found on a beach near dover on sunday morning international history professor alan scad says that up until now the u.k. government's efforts to tackle the crisis have been satisfactory. live to ministration is spin at fault we only have five patrol boats in the triangle sort of unified patrol boats for the board of fools only one of these is actually in the

do it was straight in the channel it is not always. the government. i've done nothing to supply more boats potties because in past years i've been very few attempts to cross the channel but since christmas hundreds of temps. because there's a great one specs happen much more difficult to cross the border. are just a few hours before midnight in the u.k. a man stabbed three people including a police officer and manchester's victoria railway station this is spectate attacker was arrested at the scene and police officers used a taser and pepper spray to subdue the man the suspect is reportedly in his sixty's according to british media some witnesses heard him shouting the words. authorities have not confirmed whether the incident is connected to terrorism victim's injuries are considered serious but not life threatening. well after

years of bitter wrangling of the decision by the u.s. and israel to leave the un's culture and heritage organization came into force this monday washington announced its intention to boycott unesco 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 book 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 mountaineer be in the need for fundamental reform in their going is ation and continuing anti israel liason. now at this point 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 there are critical bodies in the institution and just prosecution by this illegitimate court the council ceases to be. of 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. peter galbraith a former us ambassador to croatia believes america's withdrawal from international agreements and organizations will eventually be reversed. so this this is entirely political step you know i did has we wait it 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 were created by the united states the united states to leave. and now we withdraw or not but also this concept from a very good sized ministration are 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 five and 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. thirty russian children who had been held in a prison in the iraqi capital have returned home they were jailed with their allegedly ice a link to mothers who went to iraq and syria or jews medina conscionable report. looking a little bit. of

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 sad that almost all of them are in urgent medical assistance this return home has been no easy task officials say that they have been gathering documents and abbott ends to for a month to prove that these children are russians and we did d.n.a. tests to see specialists when teamed up to take samples that's inside and the material learned from the identification process and then life will not be necessary documents and search for the children smell exceeds. the previous flight of this kind to happened. 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 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 a month. or two you started to bring them home campaign last year and that was timed to reunite children who had been living in iraq in one of those majors with their relatives back in russia at least eleven youngsters were returned as a result of our campaign and dozens more by other efforts we can follow their stories on our t.v. dot com. so the versions are sweeping across the globe as cities around the world

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get to shape out just to come get educated and in gain strength because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. welcome back this is our to international now people around the world are welcoming the new year in it is in this specially cherished holiday for russians here and the city center is always a huge draw for people out celebrating aren't used on quarter was on red square for the big moment. well the clock has just struck twelve here in moscow on red square

where people from not just moscow not just russia but all over the world have come to celebrate new year's and bring in twenty nineteen into their lives now as you can see behind me there's plenty of people beautiful lights people came to see the also the beautiful firework display over the moscow river and that actually came after already many times owns in russia had already celebrated their new year but we actually talked to some people on the streets here who were in high spirits to see how they were feeling on new year's day they would meet here all across the ocean for of united states of america and this is grand this is really shows that the russian people are kind of cardboard with feelings for the whole world and we hope that relations will get somewhat better goodloe given the cold weather they will get you know warmed up. but it's absolutely gorgeous here i probably i've been to a lot of places and planning this is one of the beautiful is places i've seen during

the winner has so many lights and so many people it's very heart warming. for the next two years i would like to wish everyone who's watching your channel good house happiness and you luck in everything and watched you. always peace and happiness to everyone. as you can see the people we spoke to here on the right. square were really into the holiday spirit looking forwards towards the new year and had nothing but optimism for the future. well unfortunately the night was not all smiles a wooden bridge in moscow's gorky park or collapsed due to being overloaded at least thirteen people were injured but thankfully there were no. law all across the globe spectacular fireworks and festivities marked the arrival of two thousand and nineteen in london more than a hundred thousand people viewed an impressive fire with display and another european capitals there were similarly colorful displays to be seen in asia even

indonesians have found a momentary cause for celebration despite a recent tsunami and earthquake left hundreds of victims there that is near and dear to my heart is that's where i was born here is a look at how other cities around the globe soft thousand eighty. s. we say goodbye to two thousand eight hundred let's take a look back at some of the events that have shaped the.

last president trump and kim jong un exchanged a series of threats but when the two eventually met things thawed and the pair even seemed to form a bond and may go 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 savings. 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.

i don't really know what exactly this place this but it looks to be the area where it came john will be greeting certainly loughborough 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. i believe this is a bit of a historic moment. sergey

lavrov and kim jong un 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. dark 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. i can barely remember being given such. locations around the world we were just. at the present which is just outside the doors. and given the fact that we're inside the residence of the north korean leader kim

again i'm just going to say it absolutely shocked. and. it is really disappointing that we won't be able to find out exactly what's being said. but just a few hours before mr kim met minister 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. the 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.

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