i mean. russia remembers the fixin's the beslan school siege 15 years ago the deadliest terror attack in the country's modern history we talked to survivors just a revisit the site of the massacre. of this a bit also got punished him in the trusted your bar and was a picardy i was there with a daughter. also this sense of thousands across the u.k. a protest against the suspension column by boris johnson the head of the brakes a deadline and among stories that shaped the week a frenchman. after losing his battle to protect people in his village from pesticides we get reaction from locals. i think the government isn't doing its job

they're the 1st to see that there should be no pesticides but they do nothing we breed the in the past the sites we did during testing the amount of best the sex with found was alarmingly high. morning welcome you watching the weekly here in r.t. the latest news and look back to what's been happening over the last 7. sunday marks the 15th anniversary of a deadly terror attack on a school in the north of town of beslan in russia's north caucasus region on the 1st day of term terrorists took over 1100 hostages and held them for 3 days 334 people died during the siege the majority of them were children just the deadliest terror attack in russia's morton. string or lest we cross live now best

down hawkins is their 1st stand commemorations taking place throughout the day what's happening. around the 16 years ago little was known about the town of beslan north of sets that all changed on the 1st of september 2004 when it became as you say synonymous with russia's worst and most tragic terrorist attack in modern history as kids were preparing to start that brought here behind me in this yard at tara sees there were thousands hostages and brought them into the hall behind me $700.00 of them were children after 3 days of a tense standoff with police and security forces the worst possible slaughter house on a gunfight a chaotic gunfight with those security forces resulting in over 300 deaths more than half of those being children.

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15 years later those 3 days are still etched into the town's memory is a small cell less than 40000 people and it's hard to find a family here that wasn't affected or that doesn't know somebody who was affected many who have since left the region and come back here every year to take part in those commemorations people behind me lighting candles laying flowers laying wreaths also on usually putting down water bottles the reason behind that was that the terrorists over those 3 days denied those hostages the those children any food or water when they finally had a chance to escape many were to dehydration too weak to even move locals bring water and drinks here they say for their children soldiers to give them at least in death what they lacked in the. final moments of those lives. now the people

here you can see behind me many of them were directly affected you can see the families who lost friends relatives and loved ones medics here who ran into the line of fire to reach the wounded police and soldiers who tried to save who they could many also here of course too young to remember what happened but the memories are passed down to them a lot of emotion lot of tears hearing the stories of those survivors and what happened on the 1st of september 2004. 15 years ago many who were caught up in those events also have their own families their own children many come here seeking some sort of answers to find out a clearer picture of what exactly happened most people local come here to get some sort of closure to outpour their grief and ensure that this terrible event never happens again. ok thanks dan that was dan hawkins there for us in beslan will r.t. also talk to those who were held hostage that day and to those 2 who took part in

the rescue they went back to the school and shared their memories for a new documentary. the distressed but the young as the last couple jobs stopped at all of us number one that's got us on our news of a pretty way to you know to destruct until we have bluffs this or sneak off get a wish for a new new syria man ranch back in camera and some human busts. due to occur to me for sure producers are. to be able to pull. or to talk to you so if you're more it's a bonus for c.b.s. from the previous leader was the dishes you were the world style opposed. to would not cut this a bit i'll say. he was a bit in the trusted by. implosion

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along. the $200.00 some of which would mean that the minister was aware. it's a good arsenal for them to hurt your spirit bill richardson to be where you believe it is that it's a studio actually of course a personal curse to revoke or should stop them speeding. sportster sure. you can watch the documentary off of this bulletin and on our website to at r.t. dot com looking now at live pictures from as i will bring you more from the commemorations that is they take place to write.

my protests were held across the u.k. on saturday with tens of thousands rally against boris johnson's decision to shut down parliament ahead of the brics deadline his critics say the move undemocratic. for instance is particularly disregarded by the men in 5 he said project up see that's made people say process i don't even call it when it is a desperate state for any problem i'm so not think it's safe to say. i'm very very dangerously you kerry i think he's not doing the best he can to try and get not to a deal that would be the best for the country i mean he's just the side of believing and i call people the chills out probably some just going to not give anybody the option well as a result of parliament being suspended and pays when i have less time to debate or influence the way the u.k. leaves the. reports. boris johnson is being well boris he's being bold as brass and he wants come what may rather. what you do when parliament

won't play ball you suspend it he needed her majesty's permission to do that which he thought we don't get a week into october the 31st before getting on with our plans to take this country forward we are going to have a queen's speech and we're going to do it all october 14th and we've got to move ahead with a new program but why don't the lawmakers a quick refresher if you've been avoiding the news because you just can't take the b. word anymore for number 10 talent to resume a husqvarna getting away from it all hiking in the swiss alps spent 3 years trying to deliver to the referendum something we are definitely clear of bricks it means bricks it bricks it needs threats it wrecks it means bricks it and we're going to make a success of it but parliament had other ideas patchy shouting had out even might have heard a key points had her reaching for the water then she found that brussels wasn't

very happy about how to bit to old blighty and wouldn't budge on key points like the irish backstop to maintain a seamless border on the emerald isle they managed to thrash out a deal though and may tried 3 times to push it through parliament no luck so she shared a tear and left i do so with no ill will but with enormous and enduring gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the country i love. and to boris johnson's. here and leave can't think it had johnson promised to take the u.k. out of the european union by how do we deal. with it and that's really riled so where are we now well just 2 months from b j and with parliament due to be suspended before it's. got going and p.s. will only have 2 weeks to try to block a new deal brant said everyone's crying foul saying it's a constitutional crisis others though have just had enough he's gone on for so long

now we just need to get on with it because it's just causing more trouble whole process is discussed in. parliament is being bypassed and. not democratic it's a catastrophe so anybody who tried to bring it in would be called to disaster anyway we should get what the people voted for i think it's a constitutional outrage he wants to see. you know when. it's self important to you know blame any problems on others and he will be patted on the back for delivering bricks and win an election that's what he sees boris johnson should do everything he could. to get back to if you can't get it through he's out although where is cynics point out that what's really on democratic our m.p.'s in westminster spending 3 years in piles of taxpayers' money by dithering over to leg breck said ok perhaps it was

a little rogue ish to disrupt the queen's summer holiday in scotland and maybe suspending parliament was quite drastic for what's supposed to be a parliamentary democracy that's apparently taking back control but then this is boris johnson who's never been one for the convention and it has been 3 years already just about every hour for new explored every negotiation tactic used every amendment can sit it so maybe just maybe it's going to get his way and bill does britain away from brussels. r.t. london. ok let's go back now. live pictures from there it is 15 years to the day since a terrorist attack took place there a solemn moment is about to happen because the school bell. we run that mock in the time when the school day was supposed to begin but instead. of taking children hostage people laying flowers there for the 334 people who were killed.

were children. also expects people light candles to front to photos of those who died bringing. water bottles that mocking the terrorists didn't let the children drink. during the 3 day see these live pictures then from that tragedy happened 15. signifying the school should have started 15 years ago before the massacre happened and the terror attacks started many people lost their lives 334 the majority of

them children of course we'll be keeping you up to date cool commemorations throughout the day. with manufacture consent to stay well. when the ruling classes protect themselves. when the crime larry go around the sun with one person. in all middle of the room say. you really are. when it comes down to it it is not actually that i think one can say oh well the

russians are all bad this certainly is not the case that the west is all good there are absolutely things that the west needs to be doing and what i would like to see is much much less of each hopefully counter-productive rhetorical struggles we see against russia that it's you know it's it's become an easy way of getting certain the audiences to applaud you is to come up with cheap russian bashing that helps. welcome back the weekly now a frenchman lost his fight to protect people in his village from pesticides this week although he banned their use a court then overruled him and he's now appealing the decision however his case has inspired other mayors across france to take similar action shot at the pinsky explains. this tiny breton village of language has found

itself at the center of controversy in the battle over the pesticides in may the local mag to court some saw as being a bold decision to ban the use of pesticides within $150.00 metre cordon over the village farming unions were furious on the matter and did up in court now the man daniel coeff had his ban overturned but the debacle is now shining a light on the deep political contradictions so rounding pesticides in france well president might call and praised his intentions for tackling phosphates a burning issue over health concerns he said the solution was not to issue a decree that doesn't comply with the law so macko if that's a double standard. i don't understand what is happening in my craw and the ecology minister said that i am right and doing a good thing to protect my people but in the meantime i'm facing court for

a decision to keep pesticides at a distance of 150 metres i don't understand politics now it seems the decision by the court to take his ban all pesticides was illegal has also earned good residence in this usually sleepy village. 2 children wit. the fields around long where and it's important health matter for us especially for children we breed the in the press the sites we did during testing the amount of best the sites we found was alarmingly high even though we eat organic and we grow some of our own food that is also organic. i think the government isn't doing its job and they're the 1st to say that there should be no past decides they did nothing and it was in the junior queue paul says we are in a small village that is close to a farming area we need to protect people too we never know what kind of health issues could be created by pet. so i think the decision by the mayor was

intelligent and he needed to make a decision to protect the people but now he has difficulties with the justice system the world health organization has said gleich phosphate often used to weed killer probably causes cancer while gov phosphate has hit the headlines over health concerns much corn had promised to ban the use of phosphate by 2021 that provoked an outcry by farmers in unions who said they needed an alternative mark and then pushed the ban back to the following year when the current license will expire now across france the ban imposed by mcewan has gained traction he may have lost the 1st battling court but now around 20 other matters have followed his lead banning the use of pesticides close to homes of farmers on the juris decry these bans as being politically motivated saying they are getting on the environmental bandwagon ahead of my own elections. mayors are already thinking of the

next election environmentalists are wreaking havoc on our agriculture and our only factories floundering unless these mayors are outstanding scientists they are taking advantage of people's fear to make this kind of decision which is good for their image is protectors of the environment and the population but it seems the government has been backed into a corner there must be a minimum distance between residential areas and pesticides brain i will advise in the coming days farming unions and the companies that produce pesticides are sure to have something to say about that but so too does make us who believes that these things all the only way to protect people who live in their farms which use pesticides otherwise he says their health is screwed schalit even ski

artie lange go it in pretty. of the tech industry has often been touted by some as being at the forefront of tomorrow's world and also as leading the way in equality and diversity but it seems one european web developers conference which said that in germany didn't get the memo because despite promising a rich and diverse lineup it canceled not tobar event after a number of the delegates objected to the fact no women speakers were taking part in this year's conference seems to have gone with the white males only conference lineup shame is 2019 we can do better there were numerous speakers with 2 sessions myself included workshop in the search but no women at all i'm not comfortable that . well the organizers say that only one woman submitted a session proposal critics say though that those behind the event should have reached out to more women while we asked our guests for their thoughts on the story . the fact is that women are still half the population i think we're just

marginally over the half and the people organizing it seem to be a group of men it was their duty their requirement to ensure that they had a wide range of people to speak about the issues that they wanted a debate when you want to be diverse you know on some occasions will be more willing speakers on some occasions we don't more bad speakers but he's also the also the child to say if you're going to have people in and effectively racially or sexually profiled i just say we're not interested what your speech is going to date we're not interested your level of talent we're not interested in the relevancy all were interesting is the color of your skin or your gender that is a joke the point is not about qualifications the point is about a culture which i'm sorry to say you seem to represent which is which is about

accusing women of daring to be in your workplaces that would be a further comment if the women had applied local who got pushed out what it would apply there was basically no candidates now how will the earth is that the fault of men it's very unlikely in the real world. that somebody would just not want somebody to speak on the grounds of their gender i don't think that's very realistic i don't think that's something that's really going to happen i don't just don't think it's it's factually accurate it does happen i'm sorry to say i don't i'm sorry to say it does happen i'm glad to say it's not absolutely widespread but you may be in your little. haven in which everything is right and rosy but for lots of women though lots of ways in which women are excluded however competent they are i'm sorry that still happening i wish it wasn't but unless it's get spoken about i don't think much will change. we had hit anyone out say that's it that's how the

week he's looking back with more in just over half. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to. have to try to be for us it's like them before 3 of them or 10 people that. i'm interested in always in the waters of the towels. or should.

i why a paradise with some all year round turned into a round the experimentation field but agricultural chemicals we know that these chemicals have consequences they are major irritants there's no question otherwise why would that the chemical company workers themselves be geared up that suited up locals attempt to combat the on regulated experiments but often in day you have many of these people one foot into the biotech pharma and the other foot in the government regulatory bodies this kind of collusion is reprehensible while the battle goes on the chemicals continue to poison hawaii and its people so one has to ask the question whether there is a form of environmental racism going on in hawaii whether these companies feel they can get away with this because the people have less political power.

hello and welcome to worlds apart a week from now russians will cast their votes in more than 5000 regional ballots but the chances are that all western audiences will hear about the obvious scandalous moscow elections and the reach and take from the candidates i'm not allowed to run this is a jew thousands of protesters to the streets of moscow who were mad to be happier and more than the usual police force what does this disturbance in the capital mean for the future of russia's political system to discuss that i'm now joined by mark

a professor at the university college london and the problem in an expert on russia mark it's always a pleasure talking to you thank you very much for coming over that you've been heralding the putin is for quite some time do you did protestan moscow and a pretty have a hand that response to them qualify as the signs of the system's imminent collapse no no imminent collapse i mean no i'm talking about the sort of the slow systemic death really all the particular way of running the country and although it's tempting to look at what's happening in moscow and see it as some kind of sign of dramatic change it's not it's a symptom it's a symptom of a process is a symptom of a combination of how the opposition is beginning to act but also i would suggest that the state running out of ideas as to how to deal with them the russian political system is in many ways a narcissist construct that the us put together on the go to respond to accurate child. just and frankly i don't think it was ever intended to last if it was indeed

to change from a system of santeria the round one man to something more broad based one can be deferred to welcome it especially given how much you person to talk about him being tired and bored with his duties well yes i think if he could be sure that his legacy his personal security in any way he has his sense over direction could be preserved absolutely agree because i think that. the personalization of this regime has been in many ways accidental the there are some who believe that some grand plan for power and so forth i don't believe so i think actually this is been much more responses as you say to the moments and changes and individual circumstances but absolutely we now have a system which is basically built around the shape of one man and it's very hard to see all my friends build around the shape of one man i think there's some truth in that there's a lot of mythology all systems have

a lot of mythology about them i mean at the moment both sides in the u.k. trying to mobilize their sort of particular image of how they think the british system ought to work well likewise in russia yes there is absolutely this personalization but i think it is actually true that this is a system which has come to depend on the central a c. of one man not least as the sort of final arbiter of kinds of different disputes within the athlete the countrywide voting that i mentioned in the beginning of the program it is coming on september 8th and it's going to involve all 84 regions of russia not just moscow and those regions have huge disparities in terms of social economic political development i know that you've been planning a lot about the moscow developments and we will talk about them in a moment but i'm just curious as an expert on russia have you looked at all into what's happening election wise beyond moscow like all pundits and i'd like to say we're talking grand terms but no i mean i think seriously if you look at it long.