russia since the school siege in which over three hundred people were killed most of them children we bring you the personal accounts of survivors. is a triumphant pushing the ukrainian army from the south from the embattled regions as part of the operation to protect the local civilian population. infrastructure. that america's billion dollar. is facing a security crisis.

you're watching international it's midday in moscow and it's good to have you with us. on this day ten years ago the world was horrified by a terrorist attack on a school in the south of russia the school was captured by a group of chechen militants who took more than one 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 and your thirty's managed to convince the attackers to release mothers with babies that's twenty six people in all the use of force to free the hostages had initially been ruled out but on the third day events took

a different turn around one pm some of the terrorists explosives went off killing many hostages and partially destroying one of the school walls 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 then by six pm the fighting was over only 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 and the number of casualties was high with three hundred and thirty four people killed and more than eight hundred injured a lot is now in beslan and joins me live modest good to see there what is the atmosphere like where you are today. paula the atmosphere today in beslan as the day first day of commemoration events the tenth anniversary went on the atmosphere was oppressive the atmosphere was solemn and it

was somber as people walked the path behind me to the beslan school gym now shiva in its metal that is meant to enshrine the memories of the more than three hundred who were. killed there are in the more than a thousand who are trapped inside that actually it seems like a rather large building but it is rather small in size. the hundreds of people who are gathered here walked inside and there they lit candles and they laid down flowers throughout the space there which as i said is much smaller than you think to accommodate that many people as they did during those terrifying three days the flowers red carnations covering the ground in a circular pattern arrived a central altar made up of a simple cross and to do scott says bearing candles to memorialize the victims on the walls the walls are still covered with the pictures the photographs of the many hundreds of children the men and women adults who were there with them both

school staff members and the children's parents who volunteered to go inside in some cases and to be with their children in what they knew could be a life or death situation and many of them did not make it out alive the walls are still scarred with the bullet holes and the walls are also scrawled with the messages to the dead we remember you we mourn you. also on the floor there laying out tokens and keepsakes for the children stuffed animals bottles of juice bottles of water in many cases in fact throughout the entire siege the terrorists refused any food or drink to the victims to their hostages and so now the people going inside lay down bottles of water bottles of juice stuffed animals in order to in a way comfort the children from beyond the grave of such a thing as possible we talked with some of the people who survived the terrible days or. they survived against all laws

a lead us about of 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 returns. this special commemoration the memories came flooding back. to bush right. i animal knew you. were going to get us at the by we charted a coffin you sure will no good morning to eat i think i said it's a lot of tea to. terrorists took the hostages to the gym a little later her mother voluntarily entered the building to be with her daughters complain that under no excluded to vote nasty two way. because our muslim youth the doc was provoked to not must not see him up to the intercom he would come to them to dummy up with the bizarre. when you cover news knowledge she got to.

eat. yes there you go to the moon 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 of through most of the fifty two hour ordeal to read even the key cheat lie cheat it's almost a mile you can keep them stone which would be to put those i knew each other that she did not going to miss just because soon i'm simplifying is the point if i am suddenly snuggle up we point is that you've lost our cans about of i mean his grandfather didn't survive you see the oh it's all black you did the it was good rochelle you did you. 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 treasure archie. well we'll have more coverage of the memorial events today in beslan also spoke with the only terrorist who survived you can watch that report later today. will be one of the walton pieces from. egypt to see that it has some little goodies little school loosely to be. used to move the poems to this film school and being thrown them years in the.

in other news anti government forces in eastern ukraine and gradually driving back after the bombardment of cities all over the don't yet going to ganske regions for months local fighters are now carrying out a military operation to protect civilians they say that this area is currently under their control the army is encircled in several locations the faces battle was in the town of in a vise square several hundred ukrainian troops became trapped following a request from president vladimir putin antigovernment fighters provided a humanitarian corridor or to allow the soldiers to exit if unarmed he have said its troops would not surrender but fight their way out instead yet two hundred chose to lay down their arms they say they suffered serious losses because army commanders abandoned them without any reinforcements are reports.

this sound of victory after weeks of deadly battles 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 brewed in the other one of sorts of pieces of them on the field nobody is asking for the spoils of victory made it out we put down their weapons before they did the resistance wrong the result is that they suffered command 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 quicken has been destroyed who want to fight us after 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 morale of the ukrainian army sending thousands to the streets of kiev to demonstrate against the generals who they say abandoned and betrayed their own men 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 russia's foreign minister has addressed western concerns about russia's alleged involvement in ukraine so gay lover of was speaking to aspiring diplomats the moscow state university of international relations a lot easier in english was listening him and joins us now rena what exactly did have to say all humans in

a number of races of course most of them how i wasn't actually had to deal with ukraine obviously this being the pressing topic at the moment but one of the most particularly interesting moments was when foreign minister mentioned the accusers or missions about russia's involvement in the ukrainian crisis. there will be no military intervention russia insists on a peaceful solution to this crisis this tragedy everything we do is aimed at a political approach but unfortunately our western partners have been blindsided. says and does finds their full support. there a fact that echoes of what russian president putin has said in an interview to russian media that was aired just on sunday russian president also went on to say that. while to inflict heavy artillery fire residential areas in southeastern ukraine the west stays silent but otherwise

russian president has indicated that there could be some progress made when it comes to talks with president poroshenko who. is a man who could be talked with and of course he also mentioned that. you also mentioned that more consultations about the nature and the state and the status of the southeastern region of ukraine should be held before any concrete steps of course could be made towards resolving the crisis in southeastern ukraine. arena thank you very much you're in a political reporting for r.t. international. there's been a development in the story of missing russian photojournalist andre stan in ukrainian soldier whose picture he took in eastern ukraine has written a letter to the reporters mother this image from the care of the accused him of assisting terrorism by taking a photo of a dead soldier but in fact the fighter is alive as shown by the following picture taken just a few minutes later in his letter the soldier writes that he's sorry for what's

happened in the stand and wasn't doing anything wrong ria novosti news agency photographer disappeared almost a month ago in eastern ukraine country's officials insist they have no information on his whereabouts stan and has also been working for various international media outlets including reuters and a.p. . for years the united states has been spending hundreds of billions of dollars on its nuclear arsenal but with a spate of scandals surrounding the units responsible for the thousands of warheads and an aging infrastructure questions are being asked over the security of the world's deadliest weapons 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 who are in charge of

some of america's 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 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 at ease 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 noose 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. what is great about them is that. the hearing or is it that you can't connect when you make your posts i mean you can hear in the other person in the other and line sometimes you can 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. 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. coming up. the most militant group in libya seized control of the u.s. embassy compound in tripoli. plus domestic. because your high powered vacuum cleaner was about to be outlawed by brussels directives stay with us. we think if we want to rethink.

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jerking poetry keep count norrish. we post only what really matters i don't see your facebook you speak. in libya is the most militants have taken over the us embassy in tripoli and its presidential compound which was evacuated a month the guy stuff was pulled out due to increasing role listeners in the country with rampaging warlords and their militias seizing control of the country funds going to chaos off to formulate a market duffy was ousted and the free flow of arms allowed various militant groups to seize power we asked the editor of the pan-african news wire what he thinks the situation could be adding. the security situation in libya is becoming even more precarious the united states anticipating that this what happened 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 some type of military force to get in and set up a p.c.'s 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 the country. well islamist fighters have also taken control of huge areas in iraq and syria people of crosstalk panel discuss whether this could make america once again intervene in the middle east well clearly that has been a failed strategy when it comes to syria and iraq how much is obama under pressure to do something as they always say something must be done you look at poll numbers from you know polls taken throughout the country overwhelmingly not in favor of

intervention in syria don't want to send troops back to iraq maybe air strikes because they think airstrikes are relatively antiseptic at least to the people in the airplanes out on the ground the choices are all bad you'll go away any take out the islamic state in syria you're helping us. in the new initiative aimed at tackling climate change and rising energy costs as i would certain household appliances now the new rules introduced by brussels have pulled the plug on high powered vacuum cleaners starting from monday over hakim's with might is bigger than sixteen hundred watts will become illegal even though they could arguably save energy by cleaning faster but it doesn't there because in the future brussels also plan to buy some hair dryer as normal as and even kettles the new spots a wave of panic buying among consumers in the vacuum cleaner sales actually saw the head of the buy it also triggered debate on twitter twitter over how effective the

initiative will be critics say the move is a symptom of a nanny state. in one way they're paying a tone to the creators dundon deed 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 what this goes down to is the belief amongst the liberal elite in brussels 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 part or will they go when it comes to the process of capitals hairdryers normal immediate things that are seen as being perfectly

reasonable facets of western society oh they knew no bones 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 can be more dangerous than warfare a report from the u.n. international labor organization finds that more laborers die in factories and soldiers on the world's battlefields the full story is about a dog called. cold so that whole kind of corruption in papua new guinea forces people to flee their homes and planes to change their routes we've got all the details on the best pictures for you online. search. and i think.

the world famous website wiki leaks has given people a safe platform to expose the secrets of government and big business but it's not only whistleblowers who need to stay anonymous activists against poaching who often threatened with violence have created their own website called wild lakes to shed light on the illegal trade of wild animals auti 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 of the headlines now from around the world and in pakistan more than three thousand demonstrators marched on government buildings in islamabad protesters stormed the state run t.v. station forcing it. may clash with soldiers who have since regained control of the channel has also moved closer to the prime minister's residence demanding that he step down the pakistani capital has been in the grip of anti-government demonstrations the last two weeks. israel has laid claim claim to a huge trying to 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 is left to be 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 sifting through the rubble in search of five missing residence officials say the blast was probably caused by a gas leak. and swedish media is reporting a possible case of treated other stockholm hospital recently traveled to a high risk area is in isolation for the first case of the deadly virus has been sent to go where. fifteen hundred deaths have been recorded in the above that the demick which is spread across west africa. without. coming up announcing international as promised is a report on the only terrorists to have survived the beslan school siege 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 trumper nerd 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 traffic noise trash illegal parking which all harms his property values cry me a river we all wonder where to support for the police to 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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