russian president vladimir putin has to cleared a day of nationae mourning for tilled in a fire that tore through a shopping mall in siberia on saturday. while visiting the scene today, mr. putin promised harsh punishment for those responsible. the bbc's paul adams reports. paul: grief turning to fury on the streets of this siberian mining town. two days after the fire, people are angry. redesign, resigned, -- redesign resign," they shout.e local officials mbarded with questions. how many people really died? were children locked inside? why were the firinalarms not wo the crowd smells corruption. the sign above the mayor's assistant reads, "how much are your closed eyes worth?" >> my whole family has died, my younger sister, my wife, my three children. my wife just wanted to say goodbye to me. paul: inside what is left of the shopping complex, a sce of utter devastation. this place was packed on sunday. when the fire broke out, it swept through the building with appalling speed. on one of the upper floors, a cinema, where most of the children died. the man investigation said those re

days after he fired secretary of ate rex tillerson, there is strong speculation that nationae rity adviser h.r. mcmaster couldbl also be on thk. white house press secretary sarah sanders tried to play down the rumors. sarah: i spoke to a number of staff this morning, reassuring them that there were personnel changes -- no immediate personnel chges at this time, and that people shouldn't be concerned. we should do exactly what we do every day, come to work and do the best job we can, and that is exactly what we are doing, that is exactly what we're focused jane: validity or --focused on. jane: little earlier my spoke to douglas ollivant,r for national security council official with a the nrica foundation. regardless of whether h.r.mc ster keeps his job or not, what is this doing to america's national security? douglas: it is important to have a unified team, s d i think it en very clear that there has not been a unified team. w particularh former edcretary of state -- it is clear that he diffith the president on several issues -- north korea, iran, turkey. it is important to unify the govem

. >>> a moment of sheer delight captured by a photographer at the nationa national portrait g, theres two-year-old parker curry staring up at the official portrait of michelle obama. here's what she said when ce asked her who she saw. >> a queen. >> a queen? >> yes. >> do you know her name? >> michelle obama! >> michelle obama! so you do know who the queen is. >> yes. >> trevor: oh, wrong! beyonce is the queen! now go run a mile in the rain! ( laughter ) ( applause ) oh, man, i can't wait until kids go to the national portrait dwal gallery and see trump's portrait. they will be, like, do you know who that is? an assistant manager at men's wearhouse? ( laughter ) look at a picture of melania -- and who's that? a hostage? ( laughter ) speaking of the trump administration, today, there was yet another resignation. i know, shocking, shocking. chief economic advisor gary cohen quit today. so i think at this point the white house staff is just john kelly and a fax machine jared isn't allowed to use. ( laughter ) the white house has lost so many people, every week somebody is leaving. forge

. >>> pending home sales fl to a three-year low, primarily because of a lack of supply, which the nationa association of realtors says is at crisis levels. the report sent shares of some popular hold builder etfs muc lower today, and it comes on the cusp of the important spring lling season. ire is diana olick. >> reporter: whethwas a newly built home or an existing home, buyers purchased fewer of them in january. a clear sign that while demand is still high, more and more people ain unable to f a home they can afford. sales of existing homes fell sharply in january, and index measuring signs contracts, meaning buyers out shopping and making deals ding the month, dropped close to 5% compared to december and about 4% compared to a year ago. realtors blame a critical supply shortage, especially on the d eaper end of the market where so much of the dem. there is pnty of supply in the new home market. but builders today are focused on the move-up and luxury sectors, not on the entry level. new homes in neral come at a price premium, and that may be why those sales fell in january as well. jan

it goes without saying that she icis a nationa, and what she did was so important for so many millionspeople even if they don't know it. reporter: and so it was taketo pieces, loaded into a container, shipped across the atlantic to home in berl in germany. when in 1955 rosa parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in alabama to a white man, she became a heroien of the civil rights movement. yet she was persecuted for it. jobless and penniless, sheeft the segregated south and headed north to detroit, like so many african-americans before her. her family said the house symbolizes her struggles. >> the house represents that you may not have but five dollars, t you can still be ethical. you can still be honest. you can still do things for your fellow man.li reporter: in b with a little help from his son, he rebuilt the house in his front yard. and finally, the house got some attention. hundreds of people came to see it, from schoolchildren to the deputy prime minister. >> i thi it is the perfect moment for america to come to terms with the fact that this citor, in it's under so is enormo

appealing to a nationa that thel party is possible for candidates to run and to have the public presence to be able to separate themselves out that this kind of a magic certain degree. the demographics are such in the next few years texas is going to be the democratic state. in the final in deadline is past it took a while to figure this out but i want you to follow it as a higher percentage of jewish and african-american. thereby i conclude texas is a smaller percentage of whites in the national average in the rad credit state. with 50% of the latino vote in his first election he did so by running a television ad. his mother-in-law said nice things about him. the latinos looked at it and said wait a minute has mother-in-law is one of us. he's married to us and he's so great she could get his mother-in-law to say nice things. [laughter] the majority of the ticket wasn't white man, they were the minority. we are all in this together. our state speaks not merely to one group or another but to all of texas. we will be alrigh all right andp hearing this. they don't even have a full ticket st

what can nationas like the uk and france and parts of europe that have been in the sights of russia,omething which russia will feel? the most concrete thing is increased sanctions. you have to understand, so far, the sanctions that have been are rather weak. some limited debt equity restrictions on financial institutions. we have gone after upstream energy production and defence firms but we haven't applied the sanctions we have as we have in the case of iran in north korea, called full blocking sanctions. sanctions that prevent a financial institution or bank from doing any business at all. if we did that to two or three of the top ten russian banks, it would have an immediate impact. moscow would notice. one of the things russia can do straightaway is restrict gas flow to countries in eastern europe. winter is not quite gone yet. if you poke the bear, the bear will fight back. in terms of gas flows, it's a 2—way street. russia depends on gas revenue from western europe. we've seen them threaten ukraine, it has been able to reroute deliveries through other western european countries

can you give me the assurances that many of us need to continue our strong support sive nationa lab and that you understand it and you will support it going forward. >> senator, the thing i have been most proud of in the year that i spent as a second tereta energy is being able to go to these. i never met any committed individuals as those who are working at our national lab. the support of them from congress is very powerful. it will continue and i know that. . to address with specificity of what you brought up in a beautiful observation about this country, the dollars that you all are going to appropriate, the dollar that we asked for will make the biggest impact for all of that type of research that you are making reference to and the innovation that's going to come out of labs. it is going to be expedited substantially by the commitment at the super computing capacity that we have at those and our commit is very deep and broad in that arena. >> mr. secretary, i look forward to working with you on that funding as well as a number of other areas to make sure that we are continuing to

it is nationa puppy day.nd we hosted a litter of pups here in the studios and who knee they enjoy baseball predictions. a's or giants here is the pick. ♪ ♪ >> that is a bold prediction indeed. keep in mind roxy made the pick before bumgarner got hurt. she is not a psychic but available for adoption. the link is on your screen. we certainly wish you will consider that an a tough night for giants fans. a lot of bars full tonight. >> that is a bummer. >> tough. >> bummer. >> join us tonight at 9:00 on kofi. new hope for silicon vley and the start-up that became worth more than $10 billion today. that is at 9:00. >>> and on the news at 11:00, new video of that incident at travis air force base on wednesday night. this as we learn more about the bay area man who was driving this car. >>> well finally tonight, a few thoughts about what matters. around the bay area and the country tens of thousands will take part in the so-called march for our lives. demonstrations in towns and cities all across the nation to delive

different political powers should not be run by some group interests, not by clan interests, but nationaerests. >> yang: many russians celebrated putin's w13 igher than his 2012 re- election. >> ( translated ): people confirmed that they trust the president and his policies. >> yang: russian election authorities are investigating a variety of reported violations, including employers pressuring workers to vote, and, as seen in this security camera footage, widespread ballot stuffing in at leasfive districts. but even russians who did not support putin said there was no question that he would win. >> ( translated ): i think i to be honest, there was no one else to vote for. i think it was all predictable. >> yang: international election observere agreed. >> a chothout real competition as we have seen in this election is not a real choice. >> yang: putin's main challenger, opposition leader navalny, was barred fro running, because of what he saya are poliy motivated corruption charges after he called for a national boycott. tvalny applauded those russians who stayed home fr polls. ated ): i

farrell returns to fly half for england as eddiejonesd names a much changed side for their final six nationa in grenfell tower showed the door held back fire for only half as long as it was designed to. the housing secretary sajid javid told the commons that the government has ordered further tests — but stressed there was no evidence it's a systemic issue, and the risk to public safety is low. 71 people died and dozens were injured in the fire lets speak to our home affairs correspondent tom symonds. presumably these doors are still in existent is in other tower blocks as well as some of the cladding that was involved? this was a sample of a door taken from grenfell tower, one which was not damaged in the fire, and it was submitted to a test which sees how well it resists fire, there is a heat behind the door, how well it stands up. they should have lasted 30 minutes but it lasted 15 minutes and so the police have said that raised concerns for them and they needed to tell the government. the government has put out its own statement which is to the effect that there are no wider safety conce

the nationa national security cl statement issued on march 15 related to yemen indicated there are still over 22 million people in need of humanitarian assistance. this is the world's largest humanitarian disaster. the risk of famine persists for millions of yemenis. the saudi-led coalition continues, unfortunately, to impose unacceptable delays on ships carrying food and fuel into yes, ma'am eny ports. according to the u.n.,ed saudi-led coalition caused 5.9 days of additional delay in the month of february on ships going to the major ports of hudaydah and salif. those delays continue this month. why does this matter? well, this matters, of course, because we don't want people to suffer. it's inconsistent with our basic human values. it's inconsistent with what we americans believe. but when people suffer, it also exacerbates a national security crisis. it facilitates radicalization. in fact, last week i chaired a foreign relations committee subcommittee on this very topic, on the connection between foo fd and security specifically and instability or radicalization of those who are food-