are killed as talibandren fighters attack a school. this is al jazeera live from london. also coming up, what will take to halt the shied in russia's currency. police say they have broken up a network recruiting women for the islamic state. >> and oh brother, why jeb bush thinks the u.s.a. knees another member of the family in the white house.

that's the military's shocking assessment in the northwest. the gunman entered the school, so far we know at least 142 people have been killed, and of those victims 132 were children. along with all seven attackers. >> for launching a military campaign against it. no one thought the target would be a school.

>> the fighting started suddenly. there were six or seven attackers and they are entering the classrooms and shooting students one by one. more than 130 children are dead, in one of the worst attacks in pakistan for years. some of the students were on the floor lying under their desks terrified listening to the gunfire around them. the students says he was in the school hall when the firing started. he saw some children shot dead, and says his teacher was also shot, and her body set on fire. outside the hospital, parents checked lists to see if their children were this. the taliban says it carried out the adabbing in response to the army's operation. a spokesman for the group has released this statement. they burn t our homes and we were force to put our homes on fire.

we have advised our comrades that if there is a underage child, even if he is a pakistani army chief, he should be given a way out, there is a primary section, and there's another section we hit, we know there are no underage children there. the north offensive against the taliban started six months ago. the military says it has killed more than 1800 fighters and destroyed camps and weapon stores. this operation will banish until we banish this from our country. >> eight hours after it started the siege was over. all nine taliban gunman were killed. but the group has proves it's point, if anyone thought the taliban was on the back foot, here is the reminder of what it can do. the real challenge is preventing it from doing it again.

nicole johnston, al jazeera. the u.n. secretary general has joined other world leaders in condemning the attack. no cause can justify such a brutality. know criminals can excuse such a horror. and the pakistani activist, the youngest ever has released this video taken in response to the attacks. she was shot by the taliban after campaigning the ever the right of females to an education. my family and i are heart broken. and we stand with all those families and all those children who are injured right now and suffering think this big trauma, and now it is time that we unite, and i call upon the

international community, and everyone that we should stand up together and fight against terrorism, we should make sure that every child gets safe and quality education. >> so the afghan taliban condemning this attack it appears this attack has crossed the line in the view of many people. drastic attempts by the central bank to prop up the ruble has had limited success. reports from moscow. >> the russians central bank huge overnight interest rate hike is a

savage attempt to solve a savage problem 70% is the rate for banks that need their profit, for the final it will be about 22%. at this rate, it stops for postmark places except a few very big industries. before tuesday morning was even over, it continues it's tumble. there's not much that individual russians can do about this, so this website advocate as little calm, watch the ruble fall, along with the oil price in real time to a relaxing sound track.

before a ruble sinks beneath the waves. >> i dropped a ruble down there, let me down further, i can't see the bottom. but despite the humor, this is no laughing matter. this is a rare display of public anger the college lynn will be watching closely to make sure this doesn't spread. >> they will take my flat, i have to pay $2,828 every month. it is unbearable how much it costs now. also i have to pay insurance on these mortgages which is also in dollars and the dollar grows so quickly, my mom and daughter will end up on the streets soon.

they can assure you that russia would not only survive but come out stronger. we have been in much worse situations and now history, and every time we were getting out of this fixes much stronger. >> in the meantime, the united states is discussing more sanctions. joining us now from washington, d.c., do we know how far these other sanctions will go? well, what we know are a couple of things. when this is likely to be signed into law. this is legislation that was put forward in the u.s. congress, and saturday evening it was passed almost unanimously, with the voice vote. as well as the u.s. senate, which is something that is pretty rare right now, but there was question about

whether or not the president would sign it into law. now we hear that despite some miss givings and perhaps the fear that it could escalate that the president is likely to sign it. what includes are sanctions is basically would target the arms deal basically the view is by those who rope this legislation, is that it is largely responsible in syria it allows president obama to provide both he that will as well as nonhe that will assistance. what this means it can provide -- roughly $350 million available over two years. echos by the white house, that in fact, it is the view of the united states

that ukraine's territory should be restored and any actions to the contrary, by vladimir putin, will be met by the united states with very stiff and serious consequences. >> okay, thank you very much indeed questions are now being asked about how the man behind the attack was able to carry it out. >> if 16 hours it has been the scene of a siege. on tuesday morning it became the back drop to an impromptu memorial to the two that died. tori johnson was the manager of a coffee shop targeted. his picture was posted on the shop's facebook page, the other victim was katrina a barester and mother of three, this was published be i the daily mail. >> i think it's been a very sad day for sidney.

personally i am the same age as katrina so it is very difficult. >> people started to lay flowers early on tuesday morning and kept coming all day. demand was so high, flower shops began to run out. as the tributes increased so did the questions. could this siege that ended in such dramatic and fatal way have been prevented? the hostage taker killed when police moved in was well known to authorities he had been convicted of sending hate mail. his final appeal against that verdict failed last friday. there was serious outstanding charges against him too. he was out on bail of allegations he had been an accessory to his ex-wife's murder, and separately over alleged sexual assaults. and though he said his attack was politically motivated he was careful

to avoided suggesting it was islamic terrorism. except that he was consistently weird, now, i don't think anyone, anyone, would want to emulate that. floral tributes had become a carpet of flowers. >> people started to lay flowers here, first day on tuesday morning, you can see how it has quickly become a carpet that covers the center of this square. this isn't just about those that died there is a real sense that sidney changed over the course of this siege. the city's innocence was lost. andrew thomas, al jazeera. where a palestinian man has been shot death by soldiers carrying out an arrest. it seems that latin is

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the afghan taliban has condemned an attack on the school, which left 132 children dead. the attack which took place is the worst since 2007 hush sha's currency has continued to fall despite it's collapse by raising interest rates.

in afternoon trading the ruble crashed to record lows. two hostages were killed along with the gunmen. >> they are taking the bodies to the residents where they are preparing for the burials to recall morning. of course, as you heard, the military finally coming out with a statement so there will be many questions as far as security preparedness is concerned. this is after all a city

that has been hit hard, even in the past, the checks that you see behind me has received many such victims. but this is for the first time that the school has been targeted. and people are morning tonight, with this news that they have been watching all day today seven suspected members of a network that they say was trying to recruit women. the two suspected heads of the group were based in the town in morocco. four women were arrested in the spanish enclaved. in total seven people were detained. now according to a statement issues the two were arrested and more

people were arrested and according to the statement, their role was to recruit women, that would go to join isil in syria or indeed to carry out suicide attacks oen the front line there now this is not the first time that such sales are dismantled especially in the towns those are spanish enclaves, some people refer to those areas as really europe, land border with africa. the people that live there have spanish passports. it is easy for them to cross the strait, travel, go to turkey, and then

into syria. there's an estimated 500 to 2,000 fighter whose have joined the battlefield and the majority are thought to be from those two towns. alongside heavy weapons and tanks. the on serve story says 100 government soldiers and 80 offing is fighters were killed in the battle for the bases. am al jazeera continues to demand the release of it's three journalists. they were jailed over false allegations that they helped the outlawed muslim brotherhood.

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have what we understand is they were there in order to make an arrest. that say while they were there, some sort of explosive device was thrown in their direction, and that's when they opened fire. they also say they opened fire as part of crowd disburse sal means. we urgent that a 21-year-old palestinian man was shot in the head, when forces opened fire he was declared dead at a nearby hospital we also understand that another palestinian man has been taken into custody. we understand that he too is suffers from a gunshot wound. >> the violence cam as day before the president is due to submit a resolution to the united nations security council that will give israel two

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