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a bulk of afghan forces after a spike in deadly inside out times as nato admits negligent us cheese to the vetting process has led to recruits ten that council. under new i mean to protect kids in russia from home for which he called tun faces criticism for its ambiguous language that threatens to deprive children of programs and cartoons of the great country. and up next we'll look back at the tragedy that shook russia eight years ago they siege of a beslan school that's claimed lives of more than three hundred people most of them children. it's morning the sky is quietly quiet but suddenly i hear a sweet melody coming from the farm omar 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 roosters sounds have filled the silence as for myself i keep flying in the sky i'm a cloud. but 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. video today she signs this recording with a simple word hello. today we're going to interview and cap. how are you. fine. what about your family. also ok right.

emma loves her cat she likes to film it on video and she has a dream after we finish school my friends and i would like to go to moscow and study high fashion. emma adores her best friends. my gina and. they spend practically all of their time together. finishing and want to says some words 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. for best friends no longer living 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 and four.

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let's go. so slimed says we wait for this 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 before. but they still remember every minute of the distant events of september two thousand and six. there was a shallow grave that their son went there is tremendous and conmen one of the terrorists was here going there for she fired it signifies. on the first of september two thousand and four so slung in the resoled were too young to start school. but in a small town like this london the beginning of a new school year is a great occasion sloan 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. 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 i'm holding million not 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 low were crowded into the gym as if we were cattle mounts 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 gym with bombs suspended over their heads

. to me and in 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 sit all the men were taken out of the room i took one and they never came back well. the men were taken to a room on the second floor. there they were shot and thrown from the window. but they are not easy to kyung girls out of the gym and reach them a lot i mean these were very young girls what would possess someone to do something that while.

one of the boys came up to a terrorist i'm given five roubles i give 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. to terrorist 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 mark do you take that jacket off it's too stuffy here to be soon as we get out of here are by you several jackets tomorrow said no it's a present from my mum. the terrorists announced their demands only towards evening of the second day. they said in a note to russian troops must leave the church on the public which was then and still is part of the russian federation and. there is still i hope somebody would turn the clock back. but somebody 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 shamil year they've been deprived of food and deprived of water. on the first day we will be able to leave the place soon then we'd go to a shop to buy some soft drinks and as soon as we got home. in 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 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 tory's soaked in water thirst was too much of a torture for some of the children they 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 on the search day.

expected our kids to be released there's no doubt in our minds that they would be home to the school that they could be home with 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 at the blast. i've ripped open the roof lowing some air into the gym besides many of the people who had stopped breathing. discriminate gunfire panic stricken. she has 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 was a lightbulb hanging on the ceiling. everything a wrong way 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 she looked very much like my son and i couldn't bring myself to come closer and said to a woman who was near me. because it might make. fortunately for natalia

the dead boy's name was not to my lawn and tell his son had survived the blast and so had her two daughters. here and mom 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 the special forces it was such officers that saved us. i want to. escape 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. and the mission. i couldn't take a freak occurrence for chargers three arrangement three. three. three. three. video for your media projects. tom.

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 paintings showed landscapes for some inexplicable reason he made an about turn in the summer of two thousand and four. i would get the vote on the stage and this picture shortly before the tragedy it shows an explosion and as you can see one of the schoolchildren was going towards the building they didn't but while the other one was thrown up into the air. south

towards our it's a boy drew this picture. it shows a school a gym helicopters a fire a crowd of people nuances and firefighters the wait was at that school. that i was down and when i first saw it. this is zero destroyed why didn't the eleven year old boy draw a picture of a school in this context we will never know because the 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

dylan 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 guy i say to where is she to me or i come to find her to wish she says i saw her in the jag. they were keys to our apartment in his pockets and they compared them with my own case it became clear that the boy was to more. basic i still keep the case under the pillow and i go to bed. go.

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 it's 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 mean no avoids 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 met nobody they can replace or. oversleep 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 and yet his second daughter media will start school. and the time of the terrorist attack she was just a year old at one point the terrorists allowed mothers and their babies to leave the gym. and you take a melt with million in her arms. her older daughter along had to stay behind not long after she was killed. the memories that we will hear it's over there.

in. each sunday and yet 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. 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 seen to it that her mother doesn't cry. but

there's harry's white now but she's trying this today when i go to school for the first time it will be my first day soon there will be three reasons to celebrate mother will die hair my birthday and now will start school. read a lost 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. yet. moans and nothing but defiance things i knew what i'm designed for it's flown was the first and most treasured flower what the town helped me understand my paint a spanish. doesn't keep a diary she often spends time reading those of her junk her daughter emma emma had

hoped to work in the fashion business she's left behind many miracle verses and funny stories we never know whether the world lost a great writer or dancer. that. we're going out so good when we get together at the cemetery pushchair 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 ill rather uncomfortable you're worth. but we can't help recalling some funny episodes from their lives. today many see the town of angel 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 disuse. my god there is a sense we live in an entirely different world. first what happened then was like having your head in the cats and now the situation is quite different and life is different. so slow in that he said now have a brother and a sister their mother and father have decided they must have many children the more the merrier so islam has decided that he'll be a policeman when he grows up lisa 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 kind of look on 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 torn down on together. was assumed they found looking at the landmarks 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 on. it will be forever a reminder to the whole world that should never forget what happened on that day.

now saying to wish evil people as for good people i wish there would be it that way . and there want this world to be is beautiful as a lot theirs and even more beautiful.