breaking news on r t a hostage crisis at a moscow school more than twenty teenagers are currently being held by a gunman who is thought to be a people's father. you're watching r.t. international will go straight to our breaking news story and tell you what we know of it at the moment the crisis has emerged within the past few minutes unarmed a man this holding about twenty teenagers hostage in a school in moscow our correspondent is across the relevance for us and she brings us all the latest it and what do we know at this moment in time well at this point

we know that at least two of the police who have who are at the scene are wounded we do know that the man is reportedly one of the one of the students father but this is where the details start to get murky let me just get you down let me just get down to the timeline of the events as they're being reported right now. man with a rifle has apparently approached a school building he was led into the building by the security guard because the guard was threatened but the security guard actually had time to press the panic button while the. shooter actually walked into the school when he saw that the guard has pressed the panic button he allegedly shot the guard some reports say that he was killed others say that he wasn't. the shooter then proceeded into one of the classrooms. where do about twenty two to twenty four students were in he

took them hostage the rest of the school however is being evacuated i believe at this point we can say that the students and the rest of the teacher. staff have actually left the premises which have been cordoned off by the police of course. after the pressure the belly button was pressed of course the police have descended upon the school building the however the shooter started shooting at them to. at least two of the police have also been wounded so this suspect whoever is in the building is extremely dangerous he's obviously shooting a left and right however according to the principal of the school the man has improved forth any demands and why he's holding the students hostage and what exactly he wants what is the reason for all of this is not yet clear so of course we're keeping our hand on the pulse of the situation of course we'll bring you the latest as we get it that in the latest on the moscow hostage crisis thank you very much now of course return to the

moscow school hostage crisis as soon as we get more details on that it's now over one hundred thousand protesters have rallied in paris and a q surprised the government of what they call family phobia they want to scrap the bills legalizing gay marriage and procedures to help same sex couples have children it's seen as another blow to france's embattled leadership spitter all over and now reports. the latest wave of discontent sweep across france as we saw thousands upon thousands of people come out onto the streets to vent their anger at what they see as the erosion of traditional family values in the country is being particular to load suggestions that fronts could legalize homosexual marriage also that it could be brought in that would see bigots and lesbian couples

either adopt well conceived children to i.d.f. treatment they say that isn't what the traditional family is about and that's why they've been coming out here and telling me that they want to get the french government in particular fronts war on the president to hear their anger their government is very firm. i mean they don't want to go but there are many many people who just want to. just don't care about cheese he says even more. along to his personal popularity well. and where and on our program because word gets signal live footage from the scene where the hostage crisis is taking place just to remind you what happened this is in northeast moscow where the father of a people appears to have entered the school. does that over a dozen tenth graders hostage we know that he shot a policeman who was a guard in me entrance also will know that one of them the panic button went off or

it seems are currently on their way with some already been seen at least twenty children and one teacher to be held hostage parliamentary report suggests that want a policeman is that and that and others may be and we will of course be bringing you all the latest information as soon as that and we're just at the moment you're watching live footage from that school which is a northeast of moscow two six three these are helicopter the salic ops or foot surge. you are watching right now details are emerging every minute you know about the man who was apparently armed with a shotgun. and when you buy that almost pretty device and once again this is breaking news here on our c hostage crisis. in the northeast news just in we're getting reports that the man has been stalled in fact and we'll

get the latest the latest as we get it these war children tenth graders in fact there were the graduating class and of course the man who is said to be responsible for all this is the father of one of the people's again moscow hostage crisis that appears to have ended in the north east of moscow. moving on brussels and washington are putting together a significant short term assistance for ukraine which as gripped by mass protests and the standoff between the governments and the opposition e.u. foreign policy chief catherine ashton said the package is supposed to help the country through a transition period now the money will be the pendants on the new ukrainian government a proven political and economic reforms the west's aid plan comes after all position leaders calls for greater involvement and more than just vocal support to the problem in the ukraine with the assistance may be more than just cash with the

help for investment also on the cards waiting in the wings are the energy giants who are keen to explore why it's the country's shale gas potential and that scott locals warry as spotlessly are now explains. western ukraine a beleaguered battleground for me we can all jains two months ago keep saying we went with chevron to use this area for fracking. flammable tap water toxic chemicals pumped into the earth contaminated environments just some of the risks that have sparked protests against fracking in the united states and europe. yes. now it's ukrainian farmers not by men who are left in the cold swallows time are lakes and rivers will get dirty sporadic protests have fallen on deaf ears unable

to match the might of the fuel lobby for america comes to ukraine we can lose our position and america will control ukrainian money and business meanwhile countries like france switzerland and the netherlands of what we do now to them to technology the ten billion dollar deal to operate in the country for fifty years it has the right to sell the gas it up. quotas to have a countries so all claims that ukraine will make a lot of money are in fact nonsense and in a place where unemployment is white kids promise of thousands of new jobs is enough pay for people next ingenue forty four years old and employed and trying to care for his sick mother of all of the yoke i hope will get a job people in ukraine are not scared of work we must just learn what to do for carriage for kids is energy independence and cheap fuel for a country struggling to pay the bills even though russia dropped the cost of its

gas by almost a third to calculate the shale spoils industry experts look at precedents in neighboring poland with companies promised the earth only two significant be scaled back which is very high risk. because after the five years of exploration process for use we decided to stop their activities because they find some places where it will be possibility to produce gas pressure on peer to keep these firms out is growing but not fast enough it seems to quell the government's desire to have its own gas whatever the cost or concerns of the people of course the our team have live coverage of western ukraine. and original to chevron and shell ukrainian authorities say the firms will help the country achieve self-sufficiency and even and they will its own energy exports the oil and gas giants and says fracking is safe but american environmentalists who are strong

gangs begs to differ. the process it is you cannot for millions of gallons of liquid laced with sand and chemicals under super high pressures down into all these drill holes without having a consequence this whole fracking. madness is spreading all over the planet they want to frack as many countries as fast and so more people are getting aware of it and i'm getting people here will agree you're north america africa to come here to see for themselves the signs here from the gas companies because the gas company will admit to no problems everything is hunky dory everything is covered all the bases are covered we have nothing to worry about folks we know what we are doing. and we go back to developments in the moscow shooting now police say the man who was holding teenagers hostage in one of moscow's schools has been neutralized spots

there are no details on exactly what that means let's get more now from. what is the latest well apparently police have actually taken the shooter in custody and all of the students there is twenty nine of them who he was killing hostage have been freed this is according to the police this is the latest that we are getting however this is apparently this hasn't gone down without a loss of life we're talking about at least two dead and one of them is a police officer another is a teacher of geography at this particular school know what it why the man allegedly is one of the students at this school one of the older students in the school why exactly he has got in this shooting spree what has led to the dredging is not yet known he has not put forth any demands but what it comes down to the timeline of the events we know this that he just a less than an hour ago he has apparently approached the school in the northwest of moscow threatened the guard with a rifle the guard let him in and then press the panic button the student then went

off to a classroom where he took. more than twenty students hostage along with the teacher the police have arrived and that's when the shooter started firing at them from the window he has wounded at least two police officers we know that apparently one of them is now reportedly dead however again we too of course to wait just a little bit to find out more details about this the police apparently have apprehended the shooter apparently took them just less than fifteen minutes to do that but still of course the details are still rather confusing we do know that all of the other students have been evacuated from the school along with the staff of course the parents are at the school which has been cordoned off by the police there actually panic stricken so these are the details at this point so we do know that at least the shooter seems to be neutralized but exactly what has happened there and what led to these events we do not yet know i mean that in a college professor very much for that of dates. and of course do stay with artsy

international we have more stories for you were reports on the viral video about scott's out the cops and. being charged with assaulting a police officer obstructed and resisting arrest i could have been six months in prison and that would have completely. changed my life a student tells us how a video on the proves that the police took it too far with an unfair arrest that's next. economic down in the final. day the. night and the rest because i.

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some other world news stories for you the iraqi army has stepped up its bombardments all from the reports of the ahead of a full on ground offensive. oh. the city was seized by militants connected to al qaida in early january and has been under intense shelling for days the government's been holding off from sending in troops to give local tribesmen time to oust the insurgents security in iraq has been getting worse with almost eight thousand people killed in sectarian violence last year. explosions at the cinema in pakistan have killed at least forty people eyewitnesses claim a man sitting in the back row of the auditorium threw grenades dozens of people were hurt some critically during the incidents in peshawar. clashes in kenya have seen two people killed after police opened fire and the malls in the

city of mumbai it's after youths wield a daggers when some worshipers raise the flag of the jihad this group police say they wanted to thwart the meets in a recruiting extremists and say they've made over one hundred everest's. the u.s. will continue in forcing existence sanctions on the wrong if talks on the permanent nuclear deal fail that was made clear between the country's top diplomats at a closed door meeting in munich meanwhile former secretary of state hillary clinton wants congress to refrain from new restrictions saying it's time to give diplomacy a chance to work now iran and six global powers are due for fresh talks in mid february that are hoped to bring a solution to the nuclear standoff. deal initially no when the as the joint plan of action free says iran's nuclear work for six months and exchange for seven

billion dollars in sanctions really a former advisor to iran's negotiation seems says washington's words do more harm. then good. news to carry pressure tactics which is part of these two prong. of diplomacy the other prying be rising military threats and it's very dangerous. threat that we saw in prison obama's state of the union address is really come to put duct and poison is the environment for the coming talks they brought iran to the table by pressure and they need to escape that pressure to gain maximum concessions and secretary kerry has been referring to this man telling us speaks there really a nuclear program which is contrary to the content of the geneva agreement and flatly rejected by d.n.a. and for a minute is the. one that's your word against a major british police force so you need some mighty strong evidence on your side

something student ashok kumar knows all too well when an officer around it on him at a rally has arsole or has his story i was being charged with assaulting a police officer obstruction arrest i could have been six months in prison and that would have completely irrevocably changed my life and devastated actually i couldn't make a shock more had intended to attend a talk by the education minister in june two thousand and eleven and found himself in a crowd of protesting students and just outside this university who was later arrested and the police officer said that a shop had pushed him twice before running away. the story of. this video appeared on you tube we're shocked its leader seen it offers a different version of events. thanks to this video the charges were dropped scotland yard agreed to pay

a shock twenty thousand pounds in damages after he launched legal action for wrongful arrest as a result of video evidence. as part of a civil claim against the metropolitan police office three offices are the subjects of the i.p.c.c. supervised investigation but such outcomes may not always be so easy to come by it's very often the case. people have been wrongly accused by police often committed an offense but the evidence of the off strip court is given more credence to notch off the accused individual they just have to well to try and give its best the current as they can to gather as much evidence as they possibly can and once again the conduct of the police is put firmly under the spotlight in the twenty eleven two thousand and twelve period at the independent police complaints commission saw a decrease in complaints but an increase in appeals made about the handling of complaints by police compared to the year before where it's found that offices are

full of the below the expected stand behavior the public would want to see and then of accountability the police misconduct show itself like specific to be individuals . for someone who's been on the receiving end of this misconduct shock says there's something he'll now keep in mind we need to videotape the police whenever we can because it's their word against ours the only way we're going to win is if we actually prove to a court without a shadow over doubt that they were lying. to us or syria r.t. london. and other news if you want to see what happens when you mix a skyscraper over the ton of explosives that take a look at this. the frankfurt skyline is now

a little clearer after this huge block was raised in seconds and one of the largest ever controlled building explosions in europe it's captured on camera on arts dot com. also why new york's swans are about cigarettes and the next and last call is planned over claims that these elegant creatures are a danger to people and passenger jets. serious leadership is vowing to retract face to face talks with the opposition when the geneva peace conference for it starts that's our last american secretary of state john kerry apologizes for same president assad has no future and syria political activists and marwar coffee told artie's cavanagh and that such talk could hijack the next round of negotiations the us congress is due to you agree. to arm the rebels there is

a lot to answer for in around from the language really really don't seem to be you know have essentially mandated what about the threat from washington that would use force if syria failed to get rid of its chemical stockpiles by the summer there are some pretty cool reasons why this is happening you know i knew from friends and family that whoever travels along that route between damascus and the will who are so good there are certain segments of the really have to drive closer to like a hundred miles an hour or under sixty can orders an hour because of you know sniper fire power sniper shots from what little position so if you want to move military grade equipment in vehicles or through the they have to be moved you know a much slower than. they would be vulgar to especially carry you know chemical. warfare material language that was used also questions the commitment and the you know the american position whether they went into this agreement in good faith or because they might seem to be using this agreement to punish is use rather than

using this agreement to get rid of the chemical. twenty fourteen marks a tragic since january for one of mankind's worst catastrophes the start of the first world war today's crosstalk looks at the global order as it is now and it's the billet see across the century. we've seen the world shift instead of the various major capitals powers vying with each other they've been pulled together as a united front under the leadership germany of the united states first to do war against the socialist bloc countries but now to sort of ring colonize those countries that have become independent so the nature of the conflict has shifted fundamentally since world war one which doesn't mean it's a stable world the chinese would say they are being encircled ok and they're borrowing money. money to the united states through the american suits are around their country militarily it's interesting scenario there's also seem to be any real

evidence that the chinese are really interested in becoming one of the great powers in the in the sense of the a colonial power of dominating the countries or other continents i think the parallel between. imperial germany and the united states i think is much more apparent. return to developments in the moscow school shooting one policeman and one teacher are dead that's after students entered the building armed with a gun and sick over twenty teenagers hostage he opened fire at police who arrived at the scene the hostages have been released and police say that the shooter is now in custody we'll bring you more details as they emerge. twenty four hour news live from moscow with artsy ensor national do stay with us up

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market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with my next concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on. the nine hundred fourteen the scenario is a political today because the united states is insistent on becoming the dominant force on every continent but brian when it when we look about the calculations in strategy i have to go back to iraq afghanistan libya and in that's all recklessness in my opinion about you know the u.s. policy resembles those what the caricature of those western movies where they put the drunken cowboys coming to town and shoot the place up just because they can.

the be. above. the law but. hello welcome to sophie and co i'm sophie shevardnadze an heir to a fortune turned mercenary boss erik prince founded blackwater the world's biggest private military company scoring billions in government contracts in iraq and afghanistan but

a public backlash that followed news of atrocities committed by forcing out of the business are mercenaries bonds to cross lines can they be controlled and suffering inevitable when people are given a license to kill well we'll ask the man himself in our program today. blackwater the world's most powerful drug. the u.s. government they made a killing plugging holes in america's war on terror as soon as it is until. washington is accused of paid fighters to draw. really go out of control in the war zone were they just through the bus by the white house or did they get what was coming to. the biggest u.s. private military contractor blackwater welcome to the program it's great to have you with us so i'm going to start from the very beginning q created blackwater to train u.s. navy still so how did it become one of the biggest security contractors in the

world. well you know i i guess i was an accidental tourist i got out of the navy out of the seal teams because my father died my wife was sick with cancer so i built a facility to stay connected to the seal teams seal team special operations units in america had been using private the series really since the one nine hundred seventy s. and no one had ever done it on an industrial scale and so i did i was you know we had sold my father's business i took some of the money from that and i built the syllabi and then you know one thing led to another there is a terrible tragic shooting in colorado called the columbine shootings and then the u.s.s. cole was blown up in yemen in two thousand. and then of course after nine eleven. you know we kept we kept saying yes when the u.s. government called the need our help for training or logistics support aviation support security one thing led to another and and we grew very quickly so yes we got in numerable a number of government contracts how do you explain your success there because the

military wasn't able to their job properly. our success was based on you know we had primarily former special operations people in our management team many of whom had gone on to business school and worked in in regular industry and combining the best of industry knowledge with kind of the seal team special operations can do attitude it worked and you know look the u.s. military is very large very capable very good at conventional operations but when you stop a massive conventional operation and now have to to read task and become a counterinsurgency force there create some gaps you know you can't take that air defense missile guy and make him into a policeman or to a bodyguard that quickly so by our skill set was taking existing pools of talent guys that has served before giving them the right training the right equipment the right of. capabilities to go out and do a job.