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watching international. 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 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 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 possibly 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 in by six pm the fighting was over only one terrorist was taken alive or the others had been killed many having used hostages as human shields most of the hostages were freed but the number of casualties was still high with three hundred thirty four people killed and more than eight hundred injured artie's much reza reports now from beslan. while the crowds and the people may come and go from this tragic site the names will always remain of more than three hundred innocents who lost their lives during the tragic school siege in baseline those three hundred people a small fraction of more than a thousand people who were trapped inside the school gym during that three day long

attack now the gym itself is she in this metal coating this area is now enshrined a memorial to the victims that a group of architects has been commissioned to sanctify the interior remains essential unchanged from what it was ten years ago that the horrific attack happened in the baseline school number one for example the floor where mourners have been laying carnations still has the damage from the attack on the walls still bear the pockmarks from the bullet holes where the machine guns fired their rounds into the walls several things have changed here in the gym for example to cross this altar that has been set up in the center and look at many many hundreds of flowers that have been laid here by the mourners during the horrific attack the militants said that everybody needed to undergo a fast they were denied food and water to the children many of whom stripped down to their underwear because the heat was so sweltering it was the only way to stay

cool here mourners are bringing bottles of water in order to give them comfort be on the great we spoke with several people who survived the tragedy here's the story of two of them they survived against all law and 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 returned for this special commemoration the memories came flooding back. to the right. if you will given that. at the. charitable cause. i think i know it's a lot of. terrorists took the hostages to the gym a little later her mother voluntarily entered the building to be with her daughter's content so that when you know excluded to vote you have states away you

got ideologically scuzzy all muslim youth to don let's go to that must not see i'm up to the income. of to mark them to me other than. when you cover news knowledge she got. in stupid them and she. just because i do see up in my goal of us from the moment. they stayed in that gym with her father school principal tara can sit down all of you know through most of the fifty two hour ordeal there is even a key cheat lie cheat so most of them i didn't keep them standpoint she beat but i'm still no style and you could have the key to doing this just b.c. i'm simplifying is the point if i'm suddenly snuggle up we point is that you've lost our cans about of me just grandfather didn't survive i see the oh it's all black you did there's good fresh food to new. 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 and you can watch not report later today. if you will be over the watch with an piece from. egypt to see that it has some goodies a little school loosely to be. mostly

will be pleased to see a little school and being thrown in the mirrors in the. in other news anti-government forces in eastern ukraine and gradually driving back here as army after the barman's of cities all over the don't yet can you ganske regions for months local fighters are now carrying out a military operation to protect civilians now they say this area is currently under their control the army is encircled in several locations and the faces battle was in the town of el of the square several hundred ukrainian troops became trapped following a request from president vladimir putin antigovernment fighters provided a humanitarian corridor to allow the soldiers to exit unarmed he 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 abandon them without any reinforcements paula slater reports. 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 brute and the other one a sword to 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 group 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 combat is quicker than 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. where russia's foreign minister has addressed western concerns about russia's alleged involvement in ukraine so i was speaking to aspiring diplomats in the

moscow state university of international relations things are really good was listening in arena what exactly did lover of have to say then well a lot of what he actually mentioned had to deal with ukraine as being obviously one of the most pressing issues on the international agenda and he also tries to pounce on the most intriguing at times aspects of russia's possible involvement in the 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 find their full support. a lot of what the foreign minister said actually echoed what was already mentioned by russia's president in an interview to the russian news channel on sunday first and foremost said. is that talks are on this. must be carried out as soon as possible he also mentioned the fact that he

has spoken to ukraine's president poroshenko these two seem to be agreeing on some sort of a peace plan to be proceeding with but never put in also said that now is the time to end the fighting as well when terror is coming nobody is going to win from that country. and. everybody involved and they all of the parties in the complex it finally sit down to table and. find a peaceful resolution to the bloody conflict. arena thank you very much your english for reporting. there's been a development in the story of missing russian photojournalist andre stone in ukrainian soldier whose picture he took in eastern ukraine has written a letter to the reporters mother now this image from kiev to accuse standing of assisting terrorism by taking a photo of a dead soldier but in fact the soldier is alive as is shown by this picture which

was taken just a few minutes later in his letter the soldier writes that he's sorry for what's happened and the stern wasn't doing anything wrong the real news agency photographer disappeared almost a month ago in eastern ukraine the country's officials insist they have no information on his whereabouts to stand it has also been working through 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 story charges some of

them there says they had leased weapons the air force removed the entire chain of command at the base where it happened while investigating those missile as personal cell phones as part of a 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 and you 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 noose one of the officers actually fell asleep when c.b.s.

crew traveled to one of three legged based missile sites in the u.s. they found aging infrastructure and revealed that the man or woman who oversee some of the world's deadliest weapons have trouble you hearing what is being said on their phones. what is great about them is it what hearing or is it that you can connect when you make a. i mean you can't hear the other person on the other end 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 three hundred 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 of 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 later on r t international the most militant group in libya seizes control of the u.s. embassy in tripoli. plus. because you're. about to be out. stay with us. we think of the way we think. beaches.

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play. dramas that trying to be ignored. stories others who refuse to notice. the food since changing the world lights never. on full picture of today's leaves not known to us from around the globe. look to. the. in libya islam is militants have taken over the us embassy in tripoli and its residential compound which is evacuated

a month ago stuff was pulled out due to increasing role of snakes in the country with rampaging warlords and their militias seizing control of the country plunged into chaos after formally to market duffy was ousted when a free flow of alms allowed 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 in doubt 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 sort of 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 the country well islamic fighters have also taken control of

huge areas in iraq in syria people of crustal 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 other news in the e.u. a new initiative aimed at tackling climate change and rising energy costs has outlawed certain household appliances now the new rules introduced by brussels have

pulled the plug on high powered vacuum cleaners starting from monday well vacuums with motors bigger than sixteen hundred watts will become illegal even though they could arguably save energy by cleaning fastow and it doesn't end there in the future brussels also plans to ban some hairdryer as normal as an even kettles now the new sparked a wave of panic buying among consumers in the e.u. on twitter people wrote about perching dozens of vacuum cleaners some tweeted about their doubts of how effective the initiative will be critics say the move is a symptom of the nanny state. in one way they're paying atonement to the koreans to under 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 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 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 the poor from the u.n. international labor organization finds that more labor is dying factories and soldiers on the world's battlefields awful stories that our website ality dot com.

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light on the illegal trade of wild animals he 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 other news making headlines now in pakistan more than three thousand demonstrators have marched from government buildings in islamabad protesters stormed the state run t.v. station forcing it off the air they clashed with soldiers who have since regained control of the channel protesters also made closer to the prime minister's

residence demanding he step down the pakistani capital has been in the grip of anti-government demonstrations for the last two weeks. israel has laid claim to a huge tracts of land in the west bank paving the way for further settlement construction move comes despite international calls to hold further expansion into palestinian territory one of the key disputes holding back the peace process the latest takeover spawning one thousand acres is the largest in thirty years. in. an explosion has left at least six people dead in a power saw one of the victims was an eight year old girl twelve of the survivors remain severely injured rescue change is still sifting through the rubble in such a five missing residents official said at last was probably caused by a gas leak. media is reporting a possible case of a ball of being treated at a stockholm hospital amount he recently traveled to high risk areas in isolation

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hello welcome to use of sophie shevardnadze a star such as thing as a former drug addict today we'll talk to somebody who is an example of one heroin user who after kicking the habit of end up at her rehab clinic helping numerous people including the likes of russell brand and boy george they use what he says is a simple method total abstinence chip somers as 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 name 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 out of 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 made it 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 the kick it off but what happened that made you change your life.