people smashing windows. and running away as fast as they. backed away trying to spot a long unfolding man 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 trip.

is a really nice lower crowded into the gym as if we were cattle man for the slaughter house was set to wherever we could some on the floor others on the bench as senior pros were told just as fun trip wires from the sailing 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. the 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 the terrorists demanded complete silence the hostages were not to shout cry or talk . is still the kids started crying we were told how to move on and this is where we were then 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. awareness that all the men were kicking out of the room i twenty 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 come on girls out of the gym and rape them 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 and give him five roubles i give you money and you let my mother go with he 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 tim or do you take

that jacket off it's too stuffy here soon as we get out of here 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 that russian troops must leave the chechen republic 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.

on the first day we felt 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 try locks in the but. sure sure standard to 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 no 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 down with tory's 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 a certain 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. had ripped open the roof lowering some air into the gym besides many of the people had stopped breathing that was. indiscriminate gunfire panic stricken adults. get older so she has a. blood stained children wearing nothing but underwear rushing out of the ship. some of them were shot in the back. they go down two or three bottles of water but couldn't one searched. was it 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. and 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 take a look because it's my comic so much fortunately for natalia the dead boy's name was not to my lawn now tell his son had survived the blast and so had her two daughters my hero 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 which though my dream is to be in a special forces it was such officers that saved us. i want to get revenge on. the tweens us 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 to you this is me and my dad. question was that so much about the taxpayers' money and it is a shame because

a lot of people at area forward to a lot of us up on the eve of the meeting of the asia pacific economic cooperation regional group to what degree is the global economy now. wealthy british style rolls in at the present time to the guys. you know right. now to put their. markets finance scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy in cars or report on r.t. . 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. what did go up on the stage and this picture shortly before the tragedy it shows an explosion 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 he would. it was our to blois drew this picture. it shows a school a gym helicopters a fire a crowd of people on the island says and firefighters the way it was at that school

. 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 below and says they were heading to the more.

as soon as that answer one of the wards are in the butt demetre shouts to me i've seen the guy i say to him where is she to me or i come to find her to wish she says i saw her in the gen. they were keys to our apartment in his pockets when they compared them with my own case it became clear that the boy was to more. i still keep the case under the pillow when i go to bed. one in three hostages died in that fire i spent three days who come from i don't

know him on those dead bodies before i found hers. many others spend several months there. was the word 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 is a bring it 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 now avoids janice. 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 that can replace him. oh miss lee and now i take things easier. i would say. six percent of what happened six years ago it has evaporated from my mind and we would. all much is left

a mere ninety four years. this year and yet his second daughter made in the 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 to came out with million in her arms. her elder daughter in law had to stay behind not long after she was killed. you know memories my little here it's over there in the room. in your russian is. each sunday and your ten million

a 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. and they would all understand that everything was perishable. but 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 strong as to does it when i go to school for the first time it will be my first as soon there will be three reasons to celebrate

mother with their hair and my birthday and now we'll start school. rita 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 thing i knew what i'm designed for its flower was the first and most treasured flower what that helped me understand my fate has perished. and doesn't keep a diary she often spends time reading those of her younger daughter emma emma had hoped to work in the fashion business she's left behind many miracle verses and funny stories will 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 you women laugh so at the best there is by must think it odd that people laugh over the graves of their children and indeed sometimes with phil rather uncomfortable. but we can't help recalling some final episodes from their lives. today many see the town of angel cemetery as a holy place these graves are kept ideally. the marble always looks spic and span the photos never fade. there's not

a single dry flower and the ribbons on the graves mean that particular boy or girl would have finished school this year. but. my god there is a sense we live in an entirely different world. first clap and then it was like having your head in the clouds 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 aslan has decided that he'll be a policeman when he grows up and larissa is still in two minds about what she hopes to do when she's older. to 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. it was assumed they found looking at the landmarks in human flutie 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 or business on. it will be forever a reminder to the whole world that should never forget what happened on that day. i skirted our saying to wish evil people as for good people i wish there would be it that way.

and there weren't this world to busy to fall as a law theirs and even more beautiful.

india and china plans to step up their military exchanges as the west where e as the world's two largest armies unite their efforts to boost employment said the region. the us holds training on the bulk of afghan forces after a spike in deadly insider attacks as nato admits that closure attitudes to the vetting process has led to the group's turning their guns on their mentors. and a new law aiming to protect kids in russia from harmful t.v. content faces criticism for its ambiguous language that threatens to deprive children of programs and cartoons of great cultural value.

and welcome to our team karen it's monday in two o'clock here in moscow while the world's two largest armies are looking to set up joint military interests as india rolled out the red carpet for the chinese defense minister the rare visit from beijing's military chief to the neighboring country is aimed at pushing for greater unity between the emerging superpowers as well as ramping up their influence in the region however ties between the two asian giants are already causing concerns across the pacific as priya sridhar explains. this is a historic trip for india as the chinese defense minister hasn't visited this country in nearly a decade and the top priority for the list of things to discuss on this trip are

strengthening the india china border and promoting a stronger cooperation between the two countries armed forces many people believe that india and china because they have two of the fastest growing economies in the world should be rivals but a lot of analysts i've spoken with have actually said that a partnership between the neighbors actually makes more sense with forty per cent of the world's population and at a time when these two countries' economies are growing while many of the traditional western powers their economies are decreasing many people say that a partnership between india and china could actually be detrimental to a country like the united states the united states actually exports eight point four billion dollars of arms to india every year and india is actually the number one importer in the entire world many people say the united states is interested in india to counterbalance china's growing influence in this region and to have

a strategic ally here when the united states plans to withdraw its troops from afghanistan twenty fourteen so while other countries might have an interest in what kind of relationship india and china has all signs are pointing to stronger military and economic ties between the two countries. the growing of financial clout of asian countries allen global implications that could have his also the focus of peter lavelle's debate with his guests at cross talk that's coming up next hour. on the eve of the meeting of the asia pacific economic cooperation regional group to what degree is the global economy now centers in the east and so are we living in the pacific century and if we are what does it really mean. he drags spike in deadly insider attacks by afghan troops and police on foreign

port personnel has led to the u.s. suspending the training of some local forces this year alone forty five american and nato soldiers were killed by their afghan counterparts it statistic blamed on slack background checks fears are that washington's decision could do grayle the handover of security but robert naaman from just foreign policy told r.t. that's just the tip of the iceberg. what's really striking about this is that nato officials are admitting that they've known for years that there are only varying procedures were not being followed. and that this is contributed to these killings spectacular mission. and the big question of why didn't make these changes or finally the problem grew to such a spectacular stage that they could no longer ignore the attacks of groom

because first of all they've been as they now admit any people to these forces without vetting and secondly because there are just a greater prosperity in third because there is greater stress both stress on the afghans the police should stress on the u.s. forces which helps them behave in ways that broke the afghan soldiers and police and i think the deeper question is you know what can we learn from this about u.s. policy and the credibility of the generals who are always told to defer to the generals the generals ever control until there are some spectacular episode that shows that they don't have a situation to be drawn what should we conclude from that about western in particular u.s. policy i think that is really where the focus of the west should be and you know what are we going to do to change that policy which is so clearly spectacularly

failed. you know right at six minutes past the hour you're watching our team live from moscow still ahead for you we will get why despite relentless violence in syria some people in the country still believe that working the land is the best way to preserve peace. and in business russia is gearing up to welcome the business elite from across the globe at the apec summit in the east of the country but parents take full advantage of its position on the mob as a bridge between europe and asia but exclusive interview also going to have a breakdown of the global equity markets and the happenings going on that about since. the beginning of september holds a somber significance for one of russia's southern regions north the setting is in its third day of mourning commemorating those who also their lives during the best long school siege in two thousand and four terrorists took over eight thousand people hostage in their local.