russia marks ten years since the beslan school siege in which over three hundred people were killed most of them children we'll bring you the personal accounts of survivor this. is a triumphant after pushing the ukrainian. from embattled regions as part of their operation to protect the local civilian population. decaying infrastructure and cheating personnel race phase of america's billion dollar nuclear arsenal is heading for the scrap heap.

you're watching international coming to you live from moscow it's good to have you with us on this day ten years ago the world was horrified by one of the most inhumane terrorist attacks on a school in the south of russia the school 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 now 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 twenty six people in all. to the use of force to free the hostages had initially been

ruled out but on the third day events took a different turn and around one pm some of the terrorists explosives went off killing many hostages and partially destroying one of the school walls this prompted that 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 then by six pm the fighting was over and he one terrorist was taken alive all the others had been killed many have been used hostages as human shields most of the hostages were freed but the number of casualties was high with three hundred thirty four people killed and more than eight hundred enjoy it when lottie's much reza is in beslan international and joins us now. what is planned to mark the day that here in beslan . paul there are many many commemorative events planned for today and things have changed dramatically since we last talked an hour ago the crowds have

started to gather and what you see behind me only a small fraction of the many hundreds of people who have gathered here in this central area of what used to be the baseline school number one to commemorate the horrific attack that happened ten years ago you can see the people behind me gathered in front of this memorial chapel that they're collecting money to complete and now we can see as we walk along this way this is the path that the mourners are taking as they enter the school building and enter the gym where most of the victims had gathered and were gathered during that day the school behind me the building mainly just rusted out hunk hope of what it used to be paint chips scattered across the ground the bullet holes still scarring the walls there and then you can see one by one people holding flowers walking down. this path toward what was the gym the gym was the main focus of this is salt because that's

where the terrorists these chechen militants had gathered more than a thousand children parents and school staff in order to corral them and keep them under control during this horrific siege now when you go inside the floors are still scarred from where the explosives had been set off the walls still pockmarked with the bullet holes and now covered with the photographs of the victims and as the day has gone on as the morning has progressed the mourners have been walking down that path into the gym in order to pay their respects to the victims many of whom they knew personally as i'm standing here you can hear the cries of people inside the gym as they wail looking at the photographs of the children that they buried of the adults that they knew who lost their lives in the attack scenes of raw emotion as people inside let go and continue to. evoke the memories of what happened ten years ago starting this day and going for the next

three days there were as we had mentioned here on our t.v. more than three hundred people who lost their lives in this attack but many people also survived we spoke with two of them. they survived against all law and a lead us about it and her two daughters lived through that base long school siege 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. to the show right. now if you will given that it was at the. i think i said it's a. terrorist took the hostages to the gym a little later her mother voluntarily entered the building to be with her daughters . compared to that one no excluded to vote with nasty two way. because our

muslim youth don has grown to not must not see him up to come you. don't want them to call them we have them. when you cover news knowledge she got. yes do you demand she. just because i do see up in my goal of this moment to moment . they stayed in that gym with her father school principal tara can sit down through most of the fifty two hour ordeal to read even the key cheat lie cheat so most of them i didn't keep them standpoint you. and you could. just be used to them simpler what is the point of. 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 we did the brochure. 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 mattress r.t. best. well we'll have more coverage of the ceremonial events today in beslan and around twenty five minutes time otty brings you a special reports about the terrorist who lived through that day. i are. i think the was. going across your face when susan was still with.

her in other news anti-government forces in a still new crane a gradually driving back here after months of both moments of cities all over the dawn yet new guns great regions local fighters and now carrying out a military operation to protect civilians in several towns the army is encircled for example and in a vice quest several hundred you crying in troops are trapped with eighty soldiers surrendering at some of them to kiev fighters. the sound of victory after a week of deadly battles in a vise is back in the hands of the anti-government fighters ill advised is now completely under our 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 and the other one of sorts of pieces there left 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 but before they did the resistance wrong the result is that the suffering 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 has been destroyed who want to fight us off this. the thirty four year old commander hasn't had a day off since fighting began five months ago we won that 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 move all of the ukrainian army sending thousands to the streets of kirkuk to demonstrate against the generals who they say abandoned and betrayed their own main simple 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. well ukrainian soldier whose picture was taken by missing russian photographer i understand and has written a letter to his mother now this image from to kiev to accuse stand in of assisting terrorism by taking a photo of a dead soldier but in fact the fighter is alive as shown by this picture taken just a few minutes later in his letter the soldier writes that he's sorry for what's happened in the state and wasn't doing anything wrong the photographer disappeared almost a month ago in eastern ukraine he's been working for various international media

outlets in the past including reuters and a pay. in other news for years the united states 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 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 or in charge of some over there says that at least weapons the air force removed the entire chain of command at the base where it happened while investigating those missiles personal cell phones is part of the drug investigation o.s.i. agents found test material on them investigations of drug possession by missile

officers also made headlines 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 although 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 three lead based missile sites in the u.s. they found aging infrastructure and revealed that the man a woman who oversee some of the world's deadliest weapons have trouble hearing what is being said on their phones. they're awful. what is great about them

is that. the hearing or is it that you can't 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 will cost the country about. 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 safe in washington i'm going to check out our team. coming up the u.s. raises the a lot of americans joining islamic states jihad later on we look at why more westerners are choosing to fight alongside the extremists in iraq and syria. plus domestic. watch out because your high powered vacuum cleaner is about to be outlawed by a new brussels directives all the details coming up. differently here in syria. many of the members of congress to vote. on syria in recent months. which is diddy's

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want you to see and we told the. story. i marinate join me on earth into impartial and ended. very concerning and much. only on past and. prominent bahraini human rights activist my own alcohol has been arrested shortly after arriving at the country's airport she was flying in from denmark to check on her father also a campaigner he recently went on a hunger strike in protest of his own detention we got the thoughts of

a key figure in the bahraini opposition movement not build a job himself spent two years in jail he says the courts are the beckon call of the government you would expect to see the judges who are going to fight going to she fears that he's got a member of ruling family so you are in a country that does not respect human rights the judiciary system does not meet with international standards i don't of criticism by international human rights group and they are different like crack united states and what they do they don't care so far they were going and taking a lot of what are different going to court and using the court using the judicial system as a tool to attack the human rights activist at that photograph or to attack journalists to attack people activists in the social media so we are in the more sort of place of redeem now we are ready now we are willing to hold the rifle for the idea for the who is in his hunger strike we are worried about this woman take it into consideration many women will torture 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 joined the jihad that's along with the two thousand or so europeans who of swell the ranks of the extremists among them are up to seven hundred french nationals and more than five hundred british citizens analyst eric munro 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 the people who would be coming back from the front lines are also would have a need for us purpose to do here at home our foreign policy it's not only shortsighted but it's always has history to taking an extremist movements not only islamic but also in life in america and other places which happen to serve you know political interests in common interest too sure unfortunately in many other cases like it was before and there's definitely blowback and it's is what's really

happening with in syria and iraq right now it's a perfect example of this. and we've got plenty more stories for you online including why day to day jobs can be more dangerous than war facts a report from the u.n. international labor organization finds that more laborers die in factories than soldiers on the wild battlefields the full story at all it's a dot com. also there i felt kind of corruption in pop in a guinea forces people to flee their homes on planes to change their routes we've got all the details on the best pictures for you online. right to see. first street. and i would think that you're. on a reporter's twitter. instagram. or

being. on. consumers in the e.u. have been on a buying spree after brussels pulled the plug on high powered vacuum cleaners and you initiative aimed at tackling climate change and rising energy costs as our lord some appliances now that means that people in europe will only be able to buy machines with motors no bigger than sixteen hundred watts it automatically outlaws all vacuums they could arguably save energy by cleaning faster critics say the freedom to clean your home has fallen victim to brussels nanny state attitude in one way they're paying a tone meant to the cream underneath 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 of 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 nanny 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 power brussels news new borrowings in terms of where it wants to interfere in people's lives hearts or will they go when it comes to the process of capitals hairdryers normal and mean it is 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 in other news poachers around the world to make millions of dollars by illegally slaughtering wild animals but those who stand up to the criminals often fear for their own lives an online web site called wild leaks aims to change that by shedding light on the bloody business r.t. 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 it's amazing is that it's anonymous so you remain completely anonymous throughout the process. to some other news making headlines around the world now in israel has laid claim to a huge tract of land in the west bank paving the way for further settlement construction the move comes despite international calls to hold further expansion into palestinian territory one of the king 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 in six people dead in a paris suburb one of the victims was an eight year old girl twelve or the survivors remain severely injured rescue teams are still sifting through the rubble in search of five missing residents officials say the blast was probably caused by a gas leak. but. 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 almost fifteen hundred deaths have been recorded in the epidemic which has spread across west africa. and in libya islamist militants have taken over a part of the u.s. embassy which was evacuated a month ago staff were pulled out due to increasing lawlessness in the country with rampaging warlords and their militias seizing control of the country plunge into lawlessness. the former leader moammar gadhafi was ousted by the free flow of

various militant groups to seize power we asked the editor of the pan-african news why why 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 pulled out his 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 some type of military force to get in and set up a beachhead in libya but this of course will only spark more animosity and more fighting a possible grow war about those who are opposed to the u.s. backed militias inside that country. now back to our top story because these are live pictures from the memorial ceremony at the school in south russia ten years

ago it was attacked by terrorists who took more than a thousand people hostage hundreds were killed many more injured if you can see that people are laying flowers in memory of the victims is a ceremony taking place day to day. international is that the very very latest ten years to the day over three hundred people were killed in the terror attack in south russia many of the victims. were coming up on r.t. international as promised it's all reports about the only terrorist who survived that school siege if you are in the u.k. if you're watching it safe and so i think i stay with us.

in dunedin florida a young boy named t.j. guerrero is learning how to become an american man the old school way by selling cool drinks at a lemonade stand we hear a lot of lame examples of american exceptionalism from blowhard politicians but the idea of kid tropper nurse ship and the iconic norman rockwell esque lemonade stand is something very exceptional and has certainly been good for the nation but for all of his hard work what does t.j. get in return one of his neighbors is trying to shut down his quote illegal business that neighbor says the lemonade stand causes too. traffic noise trash illegal parking which all harms as property values cry me a river we all wonder where does support for the police state come from won't come from people like this

will character who need the government to deal with a twelve year old trying to earn yes earn money you know there are some guys who work on cars on the street outside my window and yeah they get loud sometimes but i'm never going to call the cops on them because i'm just happy that some gunmen are still interested in working with their hands in moscow you see a lot of lads at short shorts with chihuahuas it's up to all of us to give each other a break sometimes and not tattle to the state about every little problem but that's just my opinion.

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