it's morning this guy is quietly quiet but suddenly i hear a sweet maladie coming from the farm. is singing i think a bird's eye view of the people below is fascinating now they have turned on the light in one of the houses and three barefooted boys have emerged from another one i didn't hear a barking dog and crowing rooster sounds have filled the silence as for myself i keep flying in the sky i'm a cloud. a twelve year old girl by the name of emma is dedicated these lines to her home town of beslan which is situated a thousand miles south of moscow. videotaped she signs this recording with the simple word hello. today we're going to interview and

cap. how are you. fine. what about your family it's. also ok right. emma loves her cat she likes to film it on video and she has a dream but after we finish school my friends and i would like to go to moscow and study high fashion. emma adores her best friend it's. my gina and. they spend practically all of their time together. finishing and one to says so boards to our viewers. emma she wants to say i wish our viewers happiness and help. these shots date back to the summer of two thousand and four. the four best friends no longer live in best.

there is called the town of angels a cemetery. one hundred eighty six children are buried here and they all died on the same day september third two thousand. as.

let's go. so slimed says we wait for news is that right. so slow in the be so or ten years old they're twins. at the time of the best one school siege they were only four. but they still remember every minute of the distant events of september two thousand and six. there was a shallow very small the day or two so when this room isn't conmen one of the terrorists was here and we lived there for just fired it signifies.

on the first of september two thousand and four so slow in the military so were to young to start school. but in a small town like beslan at the beginning of a new school year is a great occasion slung in the research for a moment children to the sound of the festivities. we were told that all of the girls should wear school uniforms on september first that's a brown dress and a white apron. if they decided that on that occasion they wouldn't invite their mothers to take part in the history of it as she asked me if i had to go to school to recover emma santa who wouldn't want you around we're adults already.

but i touched my lips with my fingers. as if sendin a kiss to my daughter. i thought when she returned home i would cover it with the cases which with. the that was the last one the sweetest case of all. over with friends to share stories from the summer holidays but that festive atmosphere was quite sure. it's. not first i thought it was the sound of bursting balloons or something. but then i go really scared when i saw people smashing windows. and running away as fast as they.

backed away trying to spot along and holding me on the my baby in my hands suddenly i fall flat on my back i see a thousand people rushing towards me i thought flashes through my mind i'm going to be killed in the stampede. it's a really nice lower crowded into the gym as if we were cattle man for the slaughter house was sacked wherever we could some on the floor others on the benches senior proles were told to suspend trip wires from the ceiling only then did i realize what was going on. the decline arms were in that ring. there was one in the

middle and smaller ones on each side. hostages were instructed to stay on the ground more than a thousand people sat on the floor of the chimney with bombs suspended over their heads the terrorists demanded complete silence the hostages were not to shout cry or talk. still a kid started crying we were told the heart of our and this is where we're worth than made believe or a hard thing they came to see who was helping and who wasn't there seven machine guns were always at the ready but that had no effect the kids were crying as loudly as before. we're going to say that all the men were going out of the room i took one sweetie and they never came back. the men were taken to a room on the second floor. and there they were shot and thrown from the window.

but they are not easy to get on girls out of the gym and rapes them i mean these were very young girls what would possess someone to do something that while. you much one of the boys came up to a terrorist and gave him five roubles i gave you money and you let my mother go with you said john the terrorist responded of them we've got loads of money go back to your place. the terrorists spoke to each other in the chechen language on the first day they made no demands. of my daughter no said to my son to morrow do you take that jacket off it's too stuffy here soon as we get out of here are by you several jackets tomorrow said no it's a present from my mom. the terrorists announced their demands only towards evening of the second day. they said in

a note to russian troops must leave the church and the public which was then and still is part of the russian federation. there as. i hope somebody would turn the clock back. with somebody who would kill the terrorists and set us free. but time was at a standstill for the fathers and mothers of the children they never left the scene hoping they'd soon see their kids again. for two days and nights their children had been bullied and humiliated they'd been deprived of food and deprived of water. that was on the first day we thought we'd be able to leave the place soon but then we'd go to a shop to buy some soft drinks and as soon as we got home we would remarks in the

letters. when your first entered the school building after the terrorist attack i had a bottle of water with me i always keep a bottle of water on my bedside table and i keep the light turned on because i cannot sleep in the dark. children it's flowers they brought for their teachers to mark the start of a new school year they drank urine to quench their thirst though that made them even thirsty or. the only available source of water was trickling out of a tap in the toilets some of the children were occasionally allowed to go there. sponge themselves don was toys soaked in water thirst was too much of a torture for some of the children this sucked water of toys and clothes. people still bring bottles filled with water to the gym they do it every day they always

leave the bottles open to make it easier for the young angels to drink. the mass of people they gathered outside broke down on the third day. they expected our kids to believe minds that they would be harmed the thought that they could be harmed would never entered our heads. i was pretty scared when i heard the sound of an explosion overhead but at the moment i could breathe more freely the blast had ripped open the roof. blowing some air into the gym besides many of the people that stop breathing. indiscriminate gunfire panic stricken.

she is a. blood stained children wearing nothing but underwear rushing out of the gym. some of them were shot in the back. they go down two or three bottles of water could one searched. when i opened my eyes off to the blast i saw the girl sitting next to me but my son wasn't anywhere near me i started looking for him all over the place good god i thought could he be dead. comment about the first thing i saw after the blast one was a lightbulb hanging on the ceiling. everything a runway had turned black i just went to look for my mother.

i approached a boy lying on the floor blood was losing out of his had ordered so he looked very much like my son and i couldn't bring myself to come closer and said to a woman who was near me. is it my comic so fortunately for natalia the dead boy's name was not to my lawn and i tell you son had survived the blast and so had her two daughters. hear him on stylist go on christina. natalia is unable to walk her left arm is almost motionless she was injured before the main blast by a fragment from a grenade that exploded in the hands of one of the terrorists that fragment remains stuck in her head for two days as she sat in the gym trying to comfort her three children doctors say natalia still has a chance of recovering from her injuries but it requires a long rehabilitation process and much money she's only thirty five years old. my dream is to be in my special forces it was such officers that saved us.

i want to get revenge on. the tweens london lotteries escaped death due to their mother's heroism she threw them out of the window right after the gym blast she also saved several other children and thankfully managed to survive the ordeal herself. this is me and my dad. the second world war been avoided what role did opposing ideologies play for individuals in states to blame. hungary for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers.

the children of beslan may have had some sense of foreboding before the terrorist attack after the tragedy parents found odd looking drawings startling verses and morose entries and diaries among the items of their dead children. these pictures were made by allah but tug of his son to morrow he hoped to become an artist though most of his painting showed landscapes for some inexplicable reason he made an about turn in the summer of two thousand and four. i would bet

though. this picture shortly before the tragedy it shows an explosion and as you can see one of the school children was going to wards the building they didn't but while the other one was thrown up into the air he would. it was our it's a boy drew this picture. it shows a school a gym helicopters a fire a crowd of people on the island says and five fighters the wait was at that school . i was down and when i first saw it. this is zero destroyed why did a loving year old boy draw a picture of a school in this context we will never know if a seller died in the terrorist attack. the most horrific part of it all came when the fire had been extinguished and the terrorists have been killed. parents

millions searching for their children. i went through a terrible experience each time i saw an ambulance pulling up in front of the school. i never even looked at the first down below and says they were heading to the more. as soon as that answer one of the wards our neighbor demetre shouts to me i've seen the car i say to she where is she to me or i come to find her to wish she says i saw her in the jam. there were keys to our apartment in his pockets and they compared them with my own

case it became clear that the boy is to more. i still keep the case under the pillow and i go to bed. one in three hostages died in that fire i spent three days looking for my don't to him on those dead bodies before i found hers. many others spend several months there. so when i went out of the house i saw the coffin and i was so glad that i had found her. i put my arms around the coffin as if embracing it as if trying to help other

as i've been in here. i'm not sure i can accurately describe my emotions but i think i was glad and by the fact that they had found her. time has not healed many wounds for these people the simple fact is over the years these ascensions have learned to live with their pain. children are no longer afraid of going to school and adults have reconciled themselves with the thought that letting them go to school is not dangerous. should remain mellow voids generous. today he prefers playing music to playing sports. he lost his best friend in the terrorist attack of two thousand and four

and since then he's made nobody they can replace him. oh miss lee and now i take things easier. i would say. that six percent of what happened six years ago has evaporated from my mind. much is left a mere ninety four years. this year i mean it is second daughter media will start school. and the time of the terrorist attack she was just a year old and one point the terrorists allowed mothers and their babies to leave the gym. and you take a meld with million in her arms. her

older daughter along had to stay behind not long after she was killed. memories of my little here it's over there. and. each sunday and year ten million visit the ruins of the school to them the place is like a church they come here to pray. we thought all people would be like saints after what happened things they would all understand that everything was perishable. they would realize there was only one thing worth living for and taking care of. but that never

happened. million and knows exactly what she's supposed to do in the gym. she picks up empty bottles lights candles and puts flowers in order seem to it that her mother doesn't cry. but there's harry's white now but she's traumas to it when they're go to school for the first time ever the my first is certain there will be three reasons to celebrate mother with their hair at my birthday and now will start school. to last her only daughter in the attack the past years have not helped ease her pain you know prefers to put her thoughts on paper rather than speaking aloud. of moments and nothing but defiance thing i knew what i'm designed for it's flower was the first and most treasured flower what that helped me understand my thing as

parished. doesn't keep a diary she often spends time reading those of her job her daughter emma emma had hoped to work in the fashion business she's left behind many lyrical verses and funny stories will never know whether the world lost a great writer or dancer. without so good when we get together at the cemetery we share our collections have our kids . sometimes women laugh. pesters by must think it odd that people laugh over the graves of their children and indeed sometimes with

phil rather uncomfortable you're worth. but we can't help recalling some funny episodes from their lives. today many see the town of angels cemetery as a holy place. these graves are kept ideally the more will always look spic and span the photos never fade. there's not a single dry flower in the ribbons on the graves mean that particular boy or girl would have finished school this year. my god there is a sense we live in an entirely different world. what happened then was like having your head in the cats and now the situation is quite different and life is different. now have a brother and

a sister their mother and father have decided they must have many children the more the merrier so aslan has decided that he'll be a policeman when he grows up larissa is still in two minds about what she hopes to do when she's older. the terrorist attack on beslan school number one claimed three hundred thirty five lives including one hundred eighty six children. all of their photos are shown here. they could have artists musicians economists or doctors or just simply mothers and fathers of a new generation. in a recent survey people in beslan were asked whether they wanted to have the ruins of the school left as they were or twenty gallon altogether. was assumed they found looking at the land market in human every day a traumatic experience. and yet it was decided not to tear down the school instead

it will stand as a reminder of the atrocity and not just for the citizens of business. it will be forever a reminder to the whole world that should never forget what happened on that day. saying to wish evil people as for good people i wish there would be it that way. and there was this world too busy to fall as a lot and even more beautiful. and

then pick competition the battle to create the best skulls for the two thousand and fourteen winter games in russia kicks off with a nationwide contest. you have met all responsibility. now. it's time to turn the page. president obama praises the sacrifice of u.s. soldiers in iraq and seem to shift the focus to reviving america's back to the economy. and tears of sorrow russia remembers the deadly school bus six years ago which left more than three hundred people dead most. though you're watching live from moscow welcome to the program russian.