it was very tragic weekend here in russia in siberia there was a fire at a mental hospital nine people died two hundred fifteen managed to escape that blaze and it was just twenty four hours after a blaze that took place actually in moscow and in that place forty five people lost their lives that was at a drug treatment facility most of those people died of smoke inhalation one hundred fifty did escape but the incident this incident the gross violations were safety violations they were locked exits and barred windows so a lot of times in the ensuing investigations after these these tragic events it's found that there while there are laws to deal with fire regulation many of these facilities aren't following those or maybe one person violated them at the time of the tragedy so it's possible we're seeing a maybe a bout of negligence here it is possible you know all right so with those numbers they're going to thirty three use of i was right now and there's a psychiatric hospital for sixty klicks outside of moscow all these are lives in france thank you. well the e.u. anti terrorist chief

again in a mental health hospital in siberia but two hundred patients and fifteen staff were in the building at the time nine people killed so you can see again a vast majority were able to escape on that occasion but prior to the twenty four hours before hand of the drug treatment hospital in moscow forty five people were killed and again they were suffocated suffered from smoke inhalation and the suggestion was that there were grills on the windows and. preventing people to escape and on that occasion hundred fifty people did escape but gross safety violations were blamed for the vast death toll which is echoing what we're hearing from from the fire this morning. there's definitely a huge problem despite they keep talking about beefing up all the fire safety regulations so definitely this problem has to be addressed ok paula thank you very much indeed for bringing us up to date thank you. about the aftermath of that fire in the moscow region and you can also find all the updates online as arcee dot com. u.s. officials claim to have intelligence pointing to the small scale use of c

they will work on economic partnerships too in russia's far east and eastern siberia. >> translator: japan is an important partner for russia. we have been building our relationships based on trust. we hope to further our ties in many different fields, including the energy sector. >> they grep agreed that foreign ministry should meet once a year. >>> 10,000 u.s. servicemen and up to 200,000 south korean soldiers participated in exercises dubbed full eagle. u.s. military leaders say the exercises are designed to prove the troops readiness to defend south korea. security analysts said north korean forces were preparing to launch a ballistic missile. a statement was issued stating their previous assertions that the drills were training and not provocative. they remain on high alert. >> translator: we consider north korea's provocation imminent. we will continue to monitor its moves. >> they dismissed reports that authorities have stopped preparing for military action. kim said signals could be turned on and off. he said north korean commanders could be acting deceptively ahead of launch

on june the thirtieth one thousand nine hundred eight the sky over siberia was pierced by a shining fear as it approached the exploded with disastrous results. as a matter of fact its trajectory was about the same and the blast wave was huge in that instance a lot of trees were flattened over thousands of years while in this case the only things damaged were windows this means that the explosive force was different maybe that altitude. but both. are not the only objects to hit the in the last hundred years. to be mostly when there were a few more big objects that hit the planet one was in the south of russia in one thousand nine hundred twenty two and was part of the side of your meteorite that's the powerful stone meteorite was found only sixty years later another was the secret meteorite which was also large but it did not hit a populated area it was iron and it broke into small fragments meaning it was quite fragile. one of the large fragments of the meteoroid fell into lake. ninety kilometers from chile abbott's. the first to call the police was a local fisherman. he said that someth

seeing some rain and a risk of hail and thunderstorms for sardinia, sicily and the southeastern tip of siberia peninsula today. we're expecting dry weather and warmer than average temperatures -- look at this in paris, your high on wednesday could be 21 degrees. that could go up to 24 on thursday. in vienna, 26 and friday, 27 in bucharest. warmer weather is ahead of you. here's the extended forecast. that's all for this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. do stay with us. we'll be back with updates at the to of the hour.

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about in december two thousand and six there was a very tragic weekend here in russia actually in siberia on december ninth there was a fire at a mental hospital and nine people died in that blaze two hundred fifteen escaped now just twenty four hours prior to this fire there was a loss of life to the tune of about forty five people who died in a drug treatment facility in moscow and they were gross safety violations in that case many of them dying from smoke inhalation many of the windows were barred and the exits were blocked or locked so unfortunately in some of these cases there are gross safety violations but when you're dealing with the medical facilities some of these patients are sedated at night so in order to get them out there need to be huge amounts of first responders to get them out of the building so of course as this investigation proceeds in this this latest fire we're talking about today will we'll see if the medication had anything to do with it or if they were gross safety violations. that we've got accounts from doctors lower and foreign offices on the eye witnesses a

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thousand and six and what happened there was that we had a fire that broke out in a mental hospital in siberia so what happened there was nine people died out of two hundred and fifteen but what's important here is that this actually followed another incident in moscow a drug rehabilitation facility and there the death toll was much higher in fact forty five people were killed and most of them naturally died from smoke inhalation but again the here we have gross safety violations which were to blame but the mailing of years without one that comes through medical centers in particular staff members also have to deal with the fact that certain patients are heavily sedated so that's one that makes it really difficult in terms of the rescue efforts right and actually right now we can listen to one of the officials have to say. cheery was going to announce it but so we couldn't play at that time but now we can . you heard that. it would have been impossible for the nurse to organize an evacuation of patients in facilities like deuce only two or three people are left overnight to ever see them and t

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instance i could have been much worse but still it was a shocking number of people to lose that in siberia in two thousand and six a very tragic weekend here in russia right then a fire broke out at a mental hospital nine people died out of two hundred and fifteen there some video of that incident right there and this followed an even bigger disaster just twenty four hours earlier in moscow the incident. where forty five people were actually killed most of them died from smoke inhalation from being trapped inside of this blaze one hundred fifty people managed to escape but the rest one is lucky because of locked exits and and barred windows gross safety violations were responsible for the for the deaths in this situation so when it comes to a lot of these medical facilities drug treatment centers the problem is that some of the patients are heavily sedated they take sleeping medications and so it's very difficult when a fire like this breaks out for rescuers when they show up in small numbers at first with the first responders to actually go in and get all of these people out especially if

light in december two thousand and six following a tragic weekend you know what happened there was in siberia with know that at a mental hospital there were nine people who died out of two hundred fifteen as bad as the situation looked that day twenty four hours prowar prior to that we had even higher death toll in moscow at a drug treatment facility there in fact we know about more than one hundred fifty or one hundred fifty are moving a bit ahead of myself here we know that forty five people were killed but again this raise concerns and raised alarms about the nature of firefight and its rescue efforts when it comes to medical sensors because i asked home he would mention himself what experts are saying is for example how do you rescue patients who might be medicated because of course we know that and they're going to be a nurse for every single patient that is in the hospital or an old people's home to take care of them so this is something that is definite up what about all the fires not just in russia elsewhere. around the world that claim a lot of people's lives just talking about possi