ten years since the school see in which over three hundred people were killed most of them children we bring you the personal accounts. is a triumph of pushing the ukrainian army the south. as part of their operation to protect the local civilian population. infrastructure and personnel with. that america's billion dollar. is heading for the.

you're watching international we're coming to you live from moscow where it's now eight am in the russian capital it's good to have you with us. now on this day ten years ago the world was horrified by one of the most inhumane terrorist attacks a school in the south of russia was captured by a group of chechen militants who took more than a thousand civilians most of them children and their parents hostage now it all started early morning when people gathered to celebrate the beginning of the academic year the terrorists stormed the building killing eighteen people in the process they placed explosives all around the school threatening to kill everyone if there was an attempt to free the hostages on the second day the authorities managed to convince the attackers to release mothers with babies that was twenty six people in all the use of force to free the hostages had been initially ruled

out but on the third day events took a different and around one pm some of the terrorists explosives went off killing many hostages and partially destroying one of the school walls now this prompted many of the hostages to try and escape the terrorists opened fire on them killing women and children a few minutes later russian special forces deemed it necessary to move in and by six pm the fighting was over i mean one terrorist was taken alive while the others had been killed many having used hostages as human shields most of the hostages were freed the number of casualties was high with three hundred thirty four people killed and more than eight hundred injured lottie's much as it is now in beslan and joins me live mat it's good to see that events planned today and what can we expect . good morning paul the commemoration ceremonies are going to start in

several hours time right now i'm going to give you a sense of the lay of the land so in order to acquaint our viewers would how things looking then and how they look right now now behind me covered in this metal sheet now with this flower design on it is the gym itself the gym where the main. attack happened where all the hundred thousands really of youngsters adults and parents were all gathered when this terrorist attack started and is now covered in this memorial sheet but inside the building remains essential unchanged the floors are still damaged with the scarring from the attack the walls still coated with bullets and of course the photographs lining the walls of the victim's faces from that terrible day walking along this way you can see the rest of the school building that has not been given the same kind of memorial treatment as the gym has been it is still we got a chance to walk through it last night and it is still a very eerie place essentially untouched since that terror attack the floors are

covered in the dust and shipped paint from the walls the walls still have many of the bullet holes from that first day in fact some of them actually are done in a way where you can see the direction that the bullets were fired from during the attack and if we continue around this way you can see all the dignitaries beginning to arrive down there is one of the security entrances to security entrances into this area heavily guarded there is a heavy security presence in this area in fact we are told that we should be walking around with our press passes at all times just so that we can identify ourselves as members of the press of course as we were driving over here we were being passed by many police vehicles coming here to provide additional security to these commemoration services and of course on the here behind me you can see this memorial chapel that is being constructed it is still under construction but they are collecting funds for it and they are going to be the final piece of this memorial space that is now going to be

a place to commemorate the victims of this terrible attack that happened ten years ago many people as you have said were killed in the attack but many people also survived here's the story of two of them. they survived against all laws a lead us about it and her two daughters live through that basic law school see. age they were among more than a thousand children staff and parents held hostage by heavily armed chechen extremists when a leader and her daughter ameena returned for this special commemoration the memories came flooding back and if you go back to the show right. now if you will give notice that the died. that charitable cause. i think i know it's a. terrorist took the hostages to the gym a little later her mother voluntarily entered the building to be with her daughters can plan for that one to go excluded to vote with napster to weigh up what your

logic is because not all muslim youth adopt to that must not see him up to come you . don't want them to cloud then we have the big lie about when you cover news knowledge she got to. eat. yes do you do when she. just because i do see up in my goal of some of the moment. they stayed in that gym with her father school principal tara can sit down of through most of the fifty two hour ordeal thirty one the key cheat lie cheat so most of them i didn't keep them stand which would be to put them still in the style and you could. just be used to them simplified as the new mom suddenly snuggle up we point is that you've lost our cans about of i mean his grandfather didn't survive or you see the oh it's all black you did the it was good rochelle who did the. years later the blood is gone but the pain remains while the baseline school gym has been cleaned up and turned

into a memorial for the victims the school hallways remain virtually untouched since that terrible attack ten years ago the walls still bear the scars of the bullet holes that run from the floor up to the ceiling. a leader even prayed for their own deaths to end their suffering but she and her daughters made it through and haven't lost their faith in the future i mean it says the nightmare inspired her to help others and she's studying to become a doctor très r.t. . and we'll have more coverage of the ceremonial events today in beslan plus expert opinions and analysis through out now analysis throughout the day here on r.t. stay with us. i'm to government forces in eastern ukraine a gradually driving back here is army after months of bombardment of cities all over the don't yet the new ganske regions local fighters and now carrying out a military operation to protect civilians in several towns the army is encircled

for example in and if you ask west several hundred ukrainian troops are trapped with eighty soldiers surrendering and that some of the fight is. this sound of victory after a week of deadly battles in a vise is back in the hands of the anti government fighters. is now completely under control there will be no mercy i will never forgive them for destroying our cities. the smell of death still hangs over the battlefield. two bodies one is burnt in the other one of sorts of pieces of them on the field nobody is asking for them prompted by an offer from russian president vladimir putin more than two hundred trapped ukrainian soldiers were given a choice abandon your weapons or leave they were driving and shooting at people while they were pulling out they ordered a woman to step out of her apartment building and they shot her dead the spoils of

victory made it out we put down their weapons before they did their resistance wrong the result is that they suffered to come on to give it is in high spirits at headquarters he congratulates his men. about four thousand eight hundred soldiers attacked us this month not more than two hundred of them survived all of their combats quitman people being destroyed and who want to fight us of this regime the thirty four year old commander hasn't had a day off since fighting began five months ago we won the fight we stood up for our city even when we had lost twenty percent of the city in four days we took it back . and in the process squashed the marone of the ukrainian army sending thousands to the streets of kirkuk to demonstrate against the generals who they say abandoned and betrayed their own men and at the end of a hard day of fighting this is where the soldiers come to hang up their guns to renew their energy and to warn the mothers of ukrainian soldiers what their sons

are up against colas fear r t l advice eastern ukraine. ok have assault on the rest of the region continues with every day bringing more attacks and destruction the russian president says locals are defending themselves by fighting back vladimir putin sheds some light on the behind the scenes diplomacy over ukraine in an interview with the russians e the. how can anyone say it's ok to open fire with artillery and multiple rocket launchers on cities do you really expect people to do nothing and wait for their own deaths so what's happening now is a natural reaction by the people who live there and who are defending their rights and one day who took up weapons first of. all speaking about the crisis raging in eastern ukraine the russian leader says he and the ukrainian president have agreed on how to end the conflict peacefully he also says there has to be substantial talks on the status of the region who can stress that the primary reason for the

current conflict is february's coup in kiev and that now is the time for the sides to stop fighting as winter is on its way or human rights watch has again called on kiev to provide information on russian photojournalist andre stannin who's been missing in ukraine since the start of august here vince's it has no information on andre's whereabouts watchdog's deputy director for europe and central asia says the rights of media workers are being violated in ukraine by both militia groups and the army it added that the authorities have a track record of detaining russian journalists. for years the u.s. has been spending hundreds of billions of dollars on its nuclear arsenal but with nearly five thousand warheads the country struggling to maintain the hazardous stockpile if you can explains. in

a field where there is no room for error a series of scandals is haunting the management of land based nuclear missiles earlier this year ninety one officers were implicated in a test cheating scandal it's twenty percent of all officers story charges some of their says deadliest weapons the air force removed the entire chain of command at the base where it happened while investigating those missile his personal cell phone says part of the drug investigation o.s.i. agents found test material on them investigations of drug possession by missile officers also made head lice and there was more this week the air force says the entire wing failed a safety and security inspection u.s. led based missile facilities failed safety and security inspections several times in recent years and you both know the air force does not reveal specifics of the failures and insists that the weapons are safe but not everyone is it iis as reports about security breach continue to come in it was one year ago that two

nuclear officers were actually breaking security rules because they left an underground command center blast door open that's where you get in actually set off the nukes one of the officers actually fell asleep when c.b.s. crew traveled to one of the story length based missile sites in the u.s. they found aging infrastructure here and revealed that the man a woman who oversee some of the world's deadliest weapons have trouble you hearing what is being said on their phones. their awful. what is great about them is it. the hearing or is it that you can connect when you make a call. i mean you can hear in the other person on the other end line sometimes you can't dial out which makes it very difficult if you're trying to do your job the obama administration's plans for the u.s. nuclear weapons complex including modernization of bombs and delivery systems would cost the country about. three hundred and fifty five billion dollars over the next

decade but there's something about this story that's important which is that every time the u.s. is about to begin a new cycle introducing a new generation of nuclear weapons there's always complaints about misconduct faulty weaponry the fact that the united states is legging behind isn't keeping up with world standards and that usually is used as a pretext to accelerate another stage of what was used what used to be called the arms race of course some of the complaints will help the government raise money to modernize its nuclear complex but the scandals also show what a challenge it is just to keep the weapons. in washington i'm going to check out our team. coming up on r.t. international the u.s. raises the americans joining me is the comic states. we look at why ever more western is choosing to fight alongside be extremists in iraq and syria. plus the e.u. is cleaned out of high powered vacuum cleaner. by brussels. as

the media leave us so we need to be. part of the bush and see your. mother your party there's a bill. for shoes that no one is there with to get that you deserve answers from. politics. they did indeed with these economic ups and downs in the final months they belong to the deal sang i and the rest because i don't need a cute little baby every week on all things.

there we go again we're told the islamic state terrorist group is the worst the worst and has global ambitions the public is being taught slowly but surely to fear the islamic state they would appear washington continues to attempt to shape in reshape the middle east. on there and in the financial world. goldman cannot stop exit only taking the credit. and life there are. even bizarre to see it more than the stromberg in the cold hard it is these days because certain russia today program just words like to be enough like i don't think analyze this data is just ridiculous non answer to my question. john is not. part of their safety and sometimes their lives all over the world to bring

people stories none the problem down the channels don't want to see and we told her some. steam. consumers in the have been on a buying spree after brussels pulled the plug on high powered vacuum cleaners a new initiative aimed at tackling climate change and energy issues has outlawed some appliances the means the people in europe will only be able to buy machines with motors no bigger than sixteen hundred watts it automatically outlaws all vacuums the could arguably save energy by cleaning faster critics say the right to clean your home has fallen victim to brussels nanny state how to change in one way they're paying atonement to the crees to and indeed flawed concept of global warming and another they're obviously worried about the fact that actually europe doesn't have enough energy to sustain itself and it's currently having a large argument with russia but really deep down what this goes down to is the belief amongst the liberal elite in brussels that they know better what the people

should be doing and therefore the freedom to clean your home does not become a victim of the whole process of brussels is now in the state trying to run the whole of europe according to a ridiculous flawed dictum of economic decay this is typical of the object insanity that gets going within the european commission and also within particularly the political halls of party brussels news new borrowings in terms of where it wants to interfere in people's lives quite far will they go when it comes to the process of capitals hairdryers normal and mean it things that are seen as being perfectly reasonable facets of western society oh they know no bounds they will keep going until the point in time when the public says no. well we've got plenty more stories for you online including why day to day jobs could be more dangerous than warfare a report from the un international labor organization finds that more labor is dying factories than soldiers on the world's battlefields the full story is that

r.t. dot com. also there a volcanic eruption in papua new guinea forces people to flee their homes and planes to change their route sweep all the details on. best pictures for you online . right now so. search trish. and i would think that you're. on a recon plane. and can still. be in the. prominent bahraini human rights activist my alcohol has been arrested shortly after arriving at the country's airport she is flying in from denmark to check on her

father also a campaigner who recently went on hunger strike in protest at his own detention we got the thoughts of a key figure in the bahraini opposition movement and i believe a jap who himself spent two years in jail he says the courts are at the beck and call of the government you would expect to see the judge of all going to file a one issue phrase that he's got a member of ruling family so you are in a country that does not respect human rights there judiciary system does not meet with international standards i don't of criticism by international human rights group and they are different and like crack united states and but they do it they don't care so far they were going and. taking a lot of what i defended it to court and using the court using the judicial system as a tool to attack human rights activists to attack photograph or to attack journalists to attack people activists in the social media so we are in the more sort of passivity jim now we are ready now we are wanted to hold the rifle for our ability to project who is in his aid and down going to strike we are worried about this

woman taken into consideration many women were tortured many men would go to. washington has raised the alarm of americans fighting alongside islamic state militants according to the latest reports around three hundred u.s. citizens have already join the jihad as along with the two thousand or so european citizens who have also swell the ranks of the extremists among them are up to seven hundred french nationals and more than five hundred british citizens and they stared monroy believes this is the fallout of western policies in the middle east there's definitely lot of war has been hyped up in the media that people who would be coming back from frontlines are also who would have a need for us purpose to do here at home our foreign policy is not only shortsighted but it's always has history to extremist movements not only islamic but also life in america in other places which happen to serve you know political interests and economic interest too sure unfortunately in many other cases like it was before and there's definitely blowback and this is what's really happening with

in syria and iraq right now it's a perfect example of this. and other news poaches around the world are making millions of dollars by illegally slaughtering wild animals but those who stand up to the criminals often fear for their own lives an online website called wild leaks aims to change that by shedding light on the bloody business spoke to those behind the international project. wildlife crimes are serious crimes and in many countries there are organized crime networks that are orchestrating these crimes and there's key individuals involved who are very powerful and very influential have a lot of money and they're being protected by. corrupt government officials by politicians or even by corrupt law enforcement officials so for anyone who has information about these types of crimes it's incredibly dangerous to just speak out about it and that's why we've created wild leaks it's anonymous and it's safe so

it's very safe and easy but the main thing is that it's anonymous so you remain completely anonymous throughout the process. all the headlines around the world now in israel has laid claim to a huge trying to land in the west bank paving the way for further settlement construction move comes despite international calls to hold further expansion into palestinian territory which is one of the key disputes holding back the peace process the latest takeover spawning one thousand acres is the largest in thirty years. in france an apartment building explosion has left at least six people dead in a paris suburb one of the victims was an eight year old girl twelve of the survivors remain severely injured rescue teams are still stifling through the rubble in search of five missing residents officials say the blast and probably caused by a gas leak. swedish media is reporting a possible case of ebola being treated at a stockholm hospital a man who recently travelled to a high risk area is in isolation last week the first case of the deadly virus was

confirmed in senegal and was fifteen hundred deaths have been recorded in the epidemic which is spread across the west africa. and in libya is the most militants have taken over a part of the u.s. embassy which is evacuated a month ago stuff was pulled out due to increasing rule is next in the country with rampaging warlords and their militants militias seizing control of the country plunged into lawlessness after fulminated market duffy was ousted when a free flow of arms allowed various militant groups to seize power we asked the editor of the pan african newswire what he thinks the situation could be heading. the security situation in libya is becoming even more precarious the united states anticipating that this would happen in doubt pulled out its personnel and drove them to tunisia well i think the united states is trying to figure out which road to take they have a lot at stake. their attempts to remake libya in their own image they may

decide to get allies are some type of military force to get into that sort of a beach here in libya because of course we'll only spark more animosity and more fighting in a possible role war about those who are opposed to the u.s. backed militias in south that country. now on the way on our teens are national sophie shevardnadze and sophie cuz if you're in the u.k. if you're watching afshin rattansi we'll tell you on the ground stay with us. world for. science technology innovation all the ways developments from around russia we've got the future covered. i think that.

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a former drug addict today we'll talk to somebody who says he's an example of one heroin user who after kicking the habit banged up at her rehab clinic helping numerous people including the likes of russell brand and boy george is what he says is a simple method total abstinence chip somers is our guest today. the war on drugs has raged for decades but addiction is still a horrifying reality. are drug users criminals just waiting to be locked away or rather the people who need help getting their real this is abstinence a cure for addiction and can one ever be cured completely. chip somers a former heroin addict who now runs a clinic helping drug abusers kick the habit welcome it's great to have you on our show today thank you so obviously i want to start with your personal story how did drug addiction get you it got me when i was about seventeen.

just starting over lessons and i started coming across drugs in london and the thing that attracted me most of all was that they made me feel very good i think. people often forget that drugs do make you feel very good i mean if that's the argument that most of the drug users use that makes you feel so good that you know what to do or think about anything else but that's why it's so hard to forget about it and and the kick it off but what happened that made you change your life i think i've had a very difficult childhood i think i had. sexually abused and i had various things that were problematic so by the time i was seventeen i was not really a very. kind of complete individual and my drugs gave me that extra dimension that allowed me to kind of communicate with the world and how long how long did it last to hold drugs. i was an addict for eighteen years.