breaking news here at all to international russian photographer andre standen is dead after being missing in eastern ukraine for a month. islamic state militants released a video apparently showing the execution of another u.s. journalist saying it's in revenge for american astronauts on jihad his forces in iraq. the final day of commemoration ceremonies marking the tenth anniversary of the baseline school massacre. in beslan we'll bring you the recollections of the survivors. now. as the ukrainian army is driven

from the embattled don't yet regionality follows local fighters on their mission. protesters gathering in new poor wilds where security is tight ahead of a two day nato summit we'll look at what's driving the push for more troops in eastern europe and who's likely to pay for it. so you're watching international coming to you live from moscow. breaking news this hour on r.t. international has been confirmed that russian photographer andre stanton is dead he's been missing in eastern ukraine for almost a month let's cross to r.t. correspondent arena galicia for more on this tragic development arena what more can

you tell us. well it does seem that indeed there remains that were found in a burnt out car and in its region two weeks ago do indeed belong belong to andres dylan who has been missing there on assignment since beginning of august we can now bring you this official statement on his dad from the head of there a serious of a news agency for which andre worked. ruffalo gundry's fate and demanded that international organizations freed him we're thankful to everyone in russia and their broad for your activities and for your support. unfortunately when we were trying to do everything possible and even impossible for his freedom and ray was already no longer with us . through all this was long ordeal for everyone

here agrees to what me and for journalists and many other news organizations in russia and world over are you growing inside presence of conflicting information regarding andres where abouts in his state at one point there is intermediaries contacted the news agency suggesting they exchange on juries for ukrainian soldiers in russia now of course those are first words and i did at one point the ukraine officials have been had been making statements that the door would go out and three kids only two refused those treatments days afterwards so really everybody here since we were here has been on edge everybody has been praying along with his mother who is the only surviving member of andris family for his safe return home but unfortunately it does seem that the man who is covered numerous work conflicts in not just in ukraine but in libya in syria and many many others is indeed. arena thank you very much for the update to renegotiate our reporting. while a photo correspondent for the ria novosti news agency state and had been working

outside on yet covering the ongoing conflict in the region he last contacted moscow on august the fifth and hadn't been heard from since a week later in an interview to a lot of u.n. radio station the ukrainian security service said they had him but later backtracked two weeks after his disappearance kiev issued a search warrant and said he was most likely being held by government forces on august twenty second a burnt car with three bodies and camera equipment was found on a road outside don't yet d.n.a. test results now confirm that one of those bodies was that of andre's dead. in other news a second american reporter has apparently been executed by islamic state militants stephen sokoloff was taken captive more than a year ago and was previously seen in the video where another u.s. journalist james foley was beheaded advantage as you can as the story because it's a scenario that we've seen before when another american journalist james foley was

beheaded two weeks ago similar orange jumpsuits a desert setting an executioner with a british accent in both videos and now that westerner threatened to be killed next wednesday when these islamic states your heart is free headed james foley two weeks ago they showed steven in that same video and vowed to kill him unless you are starting your strikes against the isis socialist mother address the isis shortly before he was killed here i ask you to please my child. as a mother a justice is to be merciful and not punishment is sent from matters he has no control over. force kidnapped at the syria turkey border last year he was thirty one years old he had written for the time and foreign policy magazines he reported from syria turkey egypt bahrain after steven sort of the islamic state is threatening to execute david paints a british citizen to david against reportedly had experience with the british

military he did security work for non profit organizations leader now these long state doesn't just working americans in the video they warn other governments against becoming part of quote unquote this evil alliance of america against the islamic state after the killing of james foley president obama made it clear that the executions would not stop the airstrikes some u.s. officials say for anything murders like these could only make america more involved in the fight against the jihad is. well the islamic state has become the richest terrorist group to ever exist with two billion dollars in their war chest now to put that in perspective the taliban's budget is fifty six million with such funds at their disposal the jihadists are able to maintain a well armed and supplied army but where does the money come from well almost half of their cash comes from captured oil fields in syria and iraq robbing banks going to the militants approximately four hundred thirty million dollars money laundering

and smuggling also forms a large part of their budget middle east expert joshua landis told us that the fight against islamic state militants will turn into another afghanistan for the u.s. . it's very difficult in this situation because isis dominates a region the size of great britain in both syria and iraq if you're going to destroy them and kill them. and hit their buildings you have to have somebody else to replace them otherwise they'll just spring up and you'll infuriate this unease that are trapped in between baghdad and damascus so the u.s. has to come up with a strategy somebody has to pay for it and there has to be an exit strategy and obama does not want to get stuck in some swamp the way the u.s. did in iraq originally or in afghanistan without an exit strategy or lottie's oksana boyko discuss the rising jihadist threat and its effect on the west with

british muslim social and political activists and jim chaldron you can watch that on thursday on the international. memorial services in the south russian city of beslan are entering their final day the nation is marking ten years into deadly terrorist attack on a school where chechen militants took over a thousand people hostage for three days the attack took the lives of three hundred thirty four people most of them children and their mother is. reports from baseline . we are in the baseline jim this is the epicenter of the tragedy the place where it all really happened more than a thousand people packed like sardines into this relatively small space as you can see and the whole place has become this very touching memorial i just want to point out some of the things that we've got here aside from the faces of the victims lining the walls including this lady galina sequoyah who we're going to talk about in just a little bit you can see all the different toys for example and of course flowers

lining this entire area especially for today's event and water is a popular vote of offering simply because during the terrible siege they didn't have any water or food in fact the terrorists that were holding them hostage the innocent people didn't have any way of having food or drink and they were denied any of that so now when people come they bring bottles of water and open them and leave them in memory of the victims and the floors solid beams of wood that had been blown apart by explosions and still with these gaping holes like wounds left behind flowers now filling in the space and of course the walls scrawled with messages messages of love messages of sincerity and the bullet holes that were left behind during the attack and the rescue operation that followed later in the afternoon the action is going to move over to the cemetery of what's called the

city of angels cemetery where all of the victims more than three hundred people are buried now while the photos of the dead are lying in the walls here more than three hundred people including. that i mentioned her daughter was actually with her here in the gym. died protecting her her daughter and another friend of hers both survived the attack and iconic photos of them were taken by. todd refers as they were rescued from the school building very small bleeding and frightened but they survived and now ten years later they came back to the school for the first time and they spoke with us about their memories more than three hundred candles shined in the darkness each one a life lost in the baseline see ten years ago angela sequoyah and diana elokobi made it through the terrible attack then only seven years old on the first day of

class their rescue was preserved in photos both gruesome and iconic. you know going to stone i remember i was with my mom and a man came up to me and put me into a car so i was in a car with this picture of a steak and you put them in days to live. and they say that that's a human thing i don't really remember how they brought me out of there i just remember a man took me and carried me through some gardens or something and my face was covered with blood the blood dried out in my eyelashes and i couldn't open my eyes and i remember that i still had to ponytails my mom made to look pretty a decade later they walked the empty halls of school number one for the first time since the tragedy of my dad with a middle aged people say the time heals all wounds that you forget everything eventually but that's not true that's good no we didn't forget anything right you have more memories on the contrary with h e r is getting harder and it's getting

more painful. this is the grave evangelism mother who died protecting her during the attack while angela and diana were spared the fate of many of their classmates on that horrible day they say their childhoods are buried here among the victims. now. our childhood was taken away from us because after this tragedy you remember all those terrible things and this is not a normal childhood once you start remembering those years when you were a child you remember this terror attack very vividly you don't remember anything else. they say the ordeal forced them to accept the harsh realities of life and comprehend things no child should but they add that the memories of the people they lost must live on with the next generation. is now which means in the mind this is important for me somehow i want my children to know about it and never forget maybe when i tell them what happened they will begin to understand certain things and treasure life because it can stop an enema and any day anything may happen to us

that if you choose it it was. a mattress or r.t. baseline. and you can join us throughout wednesday for our coverage of the in final day of memorial events in beslan. now these aerial images show the remains of a village in the dawn region of eastern ukraine devastated by kiev's military campaign at least fifteen hundred people used to live there now as you can see it's empty and houses lie in ruins nearby villages and towns are still being bombed despite government forces pushing the army out. followed the fighters on one of

their missions. with the anti-government fighters in the outskirts of the town of ill advised we're travelling to where they think they might still be ukrainian soldiers fighting walking through the fields well we're following the n.t. government troops now this part of the town is supposed to be meeting of the ukrainian army but they come in just to check that there's nothing no soldiers hiding here no mines on the ground for. this fight right now so we're not going to feel yet. still hear us. right next to us. we're just going to keep going on. missions going down and. oh. ok you heard that explosion. this explosion is going to appear we can. you can hear some of.

the firing coming from behind us and some of. in front of us. since all this these anti-government high schools have actually been winning by most of the things here in eastern ukraine what do you find will never move. we saw an armored vehicle belonging to the ukrainian military entering our territory we did not invite them here if we want to live freely on our own land which. is there is nearer than you could do you could i see in europe there are no russians here and there never were there is only the local population grows up to defend themselves do you see any russians with a chance he's. well on our way back like i say it was a successful mission and it's just a matter of time before not only to be entire town all the advice going to surrounding areas but indeed the whole of eastern ukraine is he may have noticed the hot seat on the outskirts of a device. coming up aaron altie international reaching out for an alternative view

but it's getting a media war responsibly crane launches a new channel to promote his view on international affairs blogs but choose an on air interview as our team tries to learn more about the media outlets. also coming up my quick mind takes it all in the u.k. immigrants pursuing british citizenship are tested with questions that puzzle many britons themselves later in the program watch me attempt to answer one of the questions from the test. on marriage and the financial moral. development cannot stop exuberance only take the credit. in life there.

well. technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered. your friend post a photo from a vacation you can't. call it different. the boss repeats the same old joke of course you like. your ex-girlfriend still paints tear jerking poetry keep count nor write. we post only what really matters i don't see your facebook you street. amid the crisis in eastern ukraine kiev is launching a new english language t.v.

channel aimed at promoting its point of view on the raging conflict in global affairs it's called the ukraine today r.t. house and he said now i reached out to the networks executive producer for more details with a call called all the conversation didn't go exactly as planned joining us in the now is to key on a push to know where the executive producer of ukraine today i just want to share our audience a little taste of your broadcasts here. can we say that when our name is mike you are also responsible for thousand souls and of this in my country and russia today who financed by. a lie about my contacts lie about ukraine and that's why i don't want to communicate with you and they call to my international colleague don't cooperate to visit russia today could you just tell us a little bit more about ok very good ok well and they said later joined cavanagh

in here in the studio to talk about that interview. invited her on and as our audience just saw the invitation to come on and have frank dialogue she had the questions beforehand she could have been well prepared with arguments and we didn't get to that because clearly the goal of coming on was to show this sign of russia today stop lying which we did and unfortunately right now what we're seeing on social media is ukraine today trying to say that we cut them off which is absolutely a lie you're not only wasn't there i went back to it to make sure our audience saw what invitation for dialogue was turned into i think what it comes down to calve and we of course it when assistants were in a media war and this is part of the game we're going to continue to invite these people are not going to stop we're going to continue to make the statement you know if your producers were trying to get yeah we're going to fight it refuse we're not going to give up we want to have all perspectives on our t.v. certainly on in the now it's something we try very hard to do and this is going to

be stuff that happens if we continue to do that but we're not going to stop we're not going to back down let's just take a quick look at some of the. material that. let's listen to that about ukraine today bringing international. into the. ukraine. the whole. extent does that reflect what we see on the broader channel how much more if you see pretty much all we're seeing right now because they don't have presenters they don't have reporters yet they've basically just started for now they have big plans they're portraying themselves are trying to portray themselves as the information channel on a lot of interviews. that town has given to b.b.c.'s al-jazeera she's talked about how they're going to bring in foreign aid they're not going to they're pressed day they're not going to be propaganda not sort of running

a promo talking about how russia is a threat to the entire world could be deemed not propaganda but it's for the viewers to you today. now you can watch niece's full encounter with the executive producer of ukraine today on our you tube channel and on wednesdays in the now and he said will bring you more reaction to the conversation you can watch it at six pm g.m.t. . now you good pub trivia and you dream of becoming a british citizen then you could have a good chance of success at least that's the feeling a u.k. citizenship test is giving immigrants artie's marina cost of a check how well britain's themselves fare in the quiz. hundreds of years of history boiled down to twenty four questions questions that any migrants of working age must get right if they stand a chance of becoming a british citizen. the pass mark is seventy five percent but even brits are having a hard time getting them frights with just under half of those aged between

eighteen to twenty four making the grade and what hope is there when even politicians get it wrong magna carta the literal translation is was what you have mag nine i think again you're testing me. it would be good for you to do this yeah i would do would i aim isn't really to stop people coming in there are other immigration policies for that really it's in order to try and reassure the public something which it fails to do and invoke a sense of civic pride into immigrants as they come to this country something which they also failed to do i didn't test because i was curious i actually thought i would pay for it but i didn't have a very biased towards sports and things which i wouldn't consider relevant to what it means to be living in england i think it would make more sense to all think what's the difference between england great britain the united kingdom because that's the here and now even though the brits are citizenship task has been described as a bad pub quiz and unfit for purpose it was conceived as a way to test the candidates knowledge of british life and signs of the english

this is supposed to ensure a person can answer great and super society but with natives to fail and that's how some feel it's unfair and even able critical of the government so expect foreigners to know more about british values and their story than them i think it's very badly but together so you have the information about how tall the illuminati is and feeds and meter about how old approximately how big ben it's about was common how or six once. you know when you get that one wrong and pack your bags. little become more british than other people i don't know if i became more british and i certainly knew more obscure trivia about the united kingdom so what happens if you fail you have to wait a week fork out another fifty pounds and try. again to pass a test that appears to show you know more about your new homeland than many of the people who were born there. during a cost of our reporting from london for r.t.

. and all day today that produces a testing of british presenters here with r.t. international to see how we do with questions from the test we've got two more coming up now i got two out of two last time so i've got a record to try and defend let's see how we get on with the next question here it is the test the british presented in one thousand and one a new version of the official flag of the united kingdom was created what is it often called i believe that one is union jack see if i get three out of three i hope i do. feeling good feeling good so good so far although i think we've got another question yep which to service is funded by national insurance contributions not taxi service is. the national health service the n.h.s. and it is the state retirement pension see if us four out of four hundred percent

so far doing ok i will be doing this test every hour testing myself and farmer and kevin i went just to see how we do every hour here and altie international. in other news raising money to bolster a military presence in eastern europe in the wake of the cranium crisis that's one of the key issues to be discussed during an upcoming nato summit in the u.k. over the weekend hundreds of peace protesters hit the streets of new paltz in cardiff in wales they want less money spent on war and nuclear weapons so could nato afford to boost defense infrastructure across eastern europe well currently the twenty eight member states spend as much as one trillion dollars a year maintaining what the alliance already has that means the organization alone

gets more military funding than the rest of the world put together washington is currently footing most of the bill i would just over a quarter of nato is budget made up by other members of those in the alliance as opposed to contribute two percent of their g.d.p. each year but not every one does in fact more than eighty five percent of countries on the list are willing or simply not ready to provide that much cash well the nato summit will begin on thursday and r.t. will be closely following the events there now a reminder of our breaking news here nazi international this hour it's been confirmed that russian photographer andre stand in his debt and been missing in eastern ukraine for almost a month russian investigators say stand in his car was shelled by the ukrainian army along with a refugee convoy of photo correspondent for the ria novosti news agency standard

had been working outside don't yet cover me ongoing conflict in the region he was thirty three years old. come out next a nazi international's boom bust but if you're watching in the u.k. . with breaking the set stay with us. for the. science technology innovation called the least developed minutes from around russia we've got the future coverage. if you want people watch movies from. egypt to see that it needs this some full movies little small closely you can see

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