a school bell is rung in beslan as the country commemorates the victims of a mill tent attack 15 years ago when almost 1000 people were taken hostage we talked to survivors of the deadliest terror attack and russia's modern history as they revisit the site of the massacre. people are going to apply just for the blue. applies to quit at the plight of a wish for supper soldiers to revolt or shoot. them speeding.

also this hour tens of thousands take to the streets across the u.k. as prime minister boris johnson's decision to suspend parliament and head of the deadline divides the nation further. and the russian military claims the us carried out an air strike in syria's province without giving notice thereby violating established agreements. welcome to the weekly here on r t international where we bring you the latest headline news on the top stories from the past week. sunday marks the 15th anniversary of the deadliest terrorist attack in modern russian history that happened at a school in the north sent in town of beslan in russia's north caucasus region more than a 1000 people were taken hostage 334 people were a bunch of killed many of them were children.

the victims are being commemorated and beslan today people are laying flowers and lighting candles near the school which has become in monument to those events words of condolences have been coming in from around the world for beslan the 1st days of september each year has become a time for grief and mourning and warning you may find some of the following images upsetting.

that survivors are expected to meet with their rescuers in the old school today our correspondent anna hawkins reports from their. for nearly 3 days most hostages were kept in this building the sports hall the terrorists lined the room with explosives hanging bombs from the basketball hoops on the ceiling is thought one of these that ations on the 3rd day triggered a gunfight between the hostage takers and security forces the bullet holes on the walls the charred remains of the ceiling which caught fire better estimate to what happened after. a small just under 40000 people it's hard to find

a family here that wasn't either directly affected or knows somebody who was. the room was full of people who perhaps were involved in the scene medics who ran towards the fire to turn to the wounded parents and teachers who decided to stay with the children and police officers who tried to save those who they could. every year we come here to the grave site in fact we visit the cemetery every month people were very understanding they were coming from all over russia and nearby countries i would not want events like this to unite people but it does. i think it's impossible to forget something like this 334 people died and so many children among them is it possible to forget it. is very important for all of the memory and remember the event in order for this horrible tragedy to never happen again i came here today my daughter she asked me herself to bring her here but obviously i did

it only when she was mature enough people come here to leave wreath of flowers soft toys but interestingly bottles of drinks. there is a tragic story behind that to. take has denied the victims any food or water for 3 whole days when people had a chance to escape many of them were to be hydrated and weak to even be able to move. even people who've left the town come. every year. i mean to find all this was a clearer picture of what actually happened most coming to our poor their grief to get some closure and most importantly what the sign says above the entrance door remember that this must never happen again. we've been talking to some of those who were held hostage and to those who took part in the security operation they went back to the school and share their memories for a new r t documentary. this is trust but the c.r.

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will do as you seem to be what you believe it is that it's a studio actually of course in the personal care to be vocal or should stop their spin. suppressed sure. you can watch that documentary in full on our website r t a dot com we'll be bringing you more from the commemorations throughout the day. u.k. is more divided than ever over brock said saturday tens of thousands take to the streets in cities across the country after prime minister boris johnson an ounce he suspend parliament ahead of the e.u. divorce deadline a decision means m.p.'s will have less time to debate and therefore influence the way the u.k. leaves the e.u. well some see it as the only way to get it over the line others say it's undemocratic. taylor reports. 4th johnson is being well boris he's being

bold as brass and he wants to come what may rather. what do you want parliament what paypal you suspend it he needed how much permission to do that which he thought we don't get a week into october the 31st before getting all 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 the 14th and we've got to move ahead with a new program but why can't the lawmakers a quick refresher if you've been avoiding the news because you just can't take the b. word anymore for a number 1010 and to resume a who's carney getting away from it all hiking in the swiss alps spent 3 years trying to deliver bracks it off to the referendum something we are definitely clear on bricks it means bricks it bricks it needs frets it bricks

it means bricks it and where you're going to make a success of it but parliament had other ideas patchy shouting have doubt even what have heard a key point how to reach for how water then she found that brussels wasn't very happy about how to pitch to old blighty wouldn't budge on key points like the irish backstop to maintain a seamless border on the emerald isle. well they managed to thrash out a deal though and may tried 3 times to push it through parliament no luck so she shut tail 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 ardent bricks a tear and leave can't think ahead johnson promised to take the u.k. out of the european union by how do we do you don't know and that's really riled so where are we now well just 2 months from b.

day and with parliament due to be suspended before it's even got going and p.s. will only have 2 weeks to try to block a no deal bracks 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 has been bypassed and. not democratic it's a catastrophe so anybody who tried to bring it in would be. a well the people voted for i think it's a constitutional outrage he wants to see. you know winston churchill said you know it's self important little man you know blame any problems on others and he will be patted on the back for delivering bricks and when an election that's what he sees boris johnson should do everything he can. to get back for it 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 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 a convention and it has been 3 years already just about every hour for new explored every negotiation tactic used every amendment can sit so maybe just maybe bush is going to get his way bill does britain away from brussels altie london. the russian military says the u.s. carried out an air strike in syria's live province without 1st giving notice thereby violating quote all agreements my colleague andrew farmer discussed what

happened with gusta. why is russia so angry over this because on the face of it you could argue look america is targeted and you have a training camp what's wrong with that we're just a little bit of background had been a bitter battleground for many months now the syrian army against rebels jihad the syrian army coming out on top taking a number of strategic towns but throughout all of these months the united states europe had been demanding calling for a cease fire yesterday at 6 o'clock in the morning 31st of august a cease fire was unilaterally called by syria its forces stopped everywhere no more offensive maneuvers its air force was grounded unilateral cease fire backed by russia backed by turkey a few hours after the cease fire took place 2 cold the united states carried out a wave of air strikes on where it says it was targeting an al qaeda training

camp russian intelligence russian the russian military on the other hand says what they hit was a number of settlements populated areas and left a lot of casualties there are multiple victims within populated areas that were targeted by the u.s. air strike it was carried out in violation of all agreements as washington failed to inform russia or turkey about its intentions united states was saying it was targeting. members who were threats to u.s. citizens to allies and to innocent civilians but that there's this aside from the fact that you know the basically undermine the ceasefire because the jihad is became confused they started shooting at the syrian army the syrian army didn't shoot back the russians but aside from that there was this also the fact that this was the russians say very unprofessional because there's a procedure in place whatever you carry out in their strike in syria you warn turkey russia the united states whoever this is. to avoid unnecessary escalations

risks in the air the united states knew that there was a ceasefire taking hold just a few hours before and it didn't inform the russia. that it was going to carry out these strikes which leaves both countries with a lot of questions meanwhile the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has said both moscow and grout will stick to the arrangements regarding the deescalation zone despite the u.s. strike we've asked the u.s. department of defense to comment on the matter but no answer yet political analysts he said am thinks washington ought to have notified russia and turkey. at a time when the regime had hoped to deescalate and call for a unilateral ceasefire which was greatly welcomed by turkey and russia this type of attack does cause concern could have been carried out at a more ideal time it could have been carried out in cooperation with the russians and the turks which would have probably made the attack even more successful and

more acceptable on behalf of all parties keep it a secret when it serves everybody's interests that still remains a question to me but yes it definitely does cause concern when there is all this talk of a cease fire in the region to see drums of bombs dropping back out of the sky again in civilians obviously concerned in causing more migration north. following a night of clashes with police hong kong protesters resumed their rally on sunday. earlier protesters gathered at hong kong international airport setting up barricades to block roads leading to the terminal trains linking the city to the airport were suspended along with some bus services and the train station was also vandalized by protesters demonstrations were initially sparked in juneau by a proposed bill that would allow extradition to mainland china. to the middle

east now where israel has targeted settlements in southern lebanon claiming to have more than $100.00 shells along with battle helicopters and the tweets the israeli defense forces claim the strikes were in retaliation to earlier anti-tank missiles fired from lebanon positions were said to have been hit in the attacks although no cash to use for reported responding to the incident the israeli president warned that his country was ready and willing to defend its citizens last weekend lebanon's president like an israeli drone strikes to a declaration of war amid the rising tensions between has and israel. still to come commemorations for the 80th anniversary of the beginning of world war 2 are taking place in slovenia that story and more after the break.

what politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to. have to do right. this is what the. 3 of you get. interested always in the water use it. when it comes down to it look 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 only good there are absolutely things that the west needs to be doing and what i would like to see is much much less totally counterproductive rhetorical struggles we see against russia that it's you know it's it's become an easy way of getting some of the audiences to approach you is to come up with cheap russian bashing that helps

move. them back earlier this week a judge in oklahoma ruled that the drug maker johnson and johnson as responsible for driving the state's opiate crisis and ordered it to pay a $572000000.00 fine he said the pharmaceutical giant had run a false and dangerous marketing campaign which downplayed the risk of addiction and directly contributed to the death johnson and johnson has said it will appeal the decision another pharmaceutical company purdue pharma has also come under fire this week and recently unsealed court documents it was revealed the company funded advocacy organizations which served as front groups screenshots of e-mail correspondence published in a multi district opiate lawsuit have led to accusations the giant corporation calls america's biggest drug epidemic we reached out to purdue pharma for a comment and will bring you any response nevertheless the company itself admits

people affected should seek help as soon as possible. well burgess farmer is prepared to defend itself vigorously in the woods a geisha the company has made clear that it sees little good coming from years of wasteful it's a geisha and appeals to people and communities affected by the opiate crisis need help now in the late 1990 s. prescriptions for painkillers were made readily available as pharmaceutical companies assured doctors that their patients would not become addicted but it quickly became clear that many people were becoming dependent with deaths from opiate overdoses reaching a record high of 42000 in 2016 the following year the government declared a public health emergency currently an estimated 130 americans die every day as a result of opiate abused the health crisis is also placing a huge strain on the u.s. economy and reportedly encouraging higher rates of heroin use addiction specialist

and told us that both the pharmaceutical industry and doctors have failed in their duties to customers and patients. well doctors certainly there are some responsibility for the opiate epidemic but i think to really understand how this happened in the united states it's necessary to realize that a whole generation of physicians was educated to believe that opioids are not addictive as long as you're giving them to a patient in pain and this was a message that was eagerly adopted by produced by johnson and johnson by janssen by t.v. by many other opioid manufacturers why because it helped their bottom line to sell more opioids so certainly doctors have to be reeducated as they are now they have to withhold opioids they have to stop prescribing opioids for ankle sprains for chronic pain conditions we would not want the pendulum to swing in the opposite direction and for people who really need opioids not to be able to get them so

finding some kind of middle ground is going to be essential. commemorations to mark the 80th anniversary of the start of world war 2 began this week and slovenia an internal flame was let out a memorial built in honor of soviet and libyan soldiers the torturous was brought all the way from russia and with itself lit from the eternal flame at the tomb of the unknown soldier next to the kremlin representatives from the russian embassy as well as russian and slovenian veterans were among those attending the ceremony here's a reminder of slovenia's plight under nazi occupation. oh you mean .

the ceremony in slovenia is meant to serve as a reminder of the soviet union's role in the liberation of europe from nazi germany and the price both nations paid some of the veterans who attended the event share their memories of the war with us. i joined the liberation front in 1942 and fought for it till the end of the war our battalion carried out the greatest number of attacks against the nazis at the age of 17 i was the commander

of the italian i still remember how we fought against the italians we took a position on a hill just minutes before they came we had to fight back with grenades it was hard to shoot there a battalion managed to break down their resistance and won the battle we were very brave back then what happened in those days should never again be repeated in the history of humanity was slow me russia slovenia yugoslavia all of the fraternal nations were fighting against the nazis back then i was a partisan i still remember how we were recapturing weapons in provisions from our enemy just to keep the resistance alive i'm sure that what happened during the times of war will never be repeated with passing this horrible experience from generation to generation to our children and grandchildren. the 14th international max airshow wraps up today just outside of moscow some of the world's best pilots have been putting their skills to the test performing some

breathtaking maneuvers along with aerobatic displays it's a chance to see some of the next generation aircraft take to the skies showcases the latest in aerospace and defense technology with an $800.00 companies are taking part from countries including belgium germany the u.k. brazil israel and the rest more than 400000 people have visited the airshow in the past 5 days. that's a recap of just some of the stories that helped shape the world these last 7 days and that's after me as well today but my colleague will be here at the top the hour with your likeness up ticked.

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