wrong in beslan school as russia commemorates the victims of the militant siege that 15 years ago when almost 1000 people were taken hostage to survivors of the deadliest terror attack in the country's modern history as they revisit the site of the massacre. applies to quit at the. first person to be wrong or should. stop them speeding. tens of thousands take to the streets across the u.k.'s prime minister boris johnson's decision to suspend

parliament ahead of the brags that deadline defied the nation further. tensions escalate between israel and lebanon following an exchange of missile strikes across the border. joining us watching the weekly here on r.t. . sunday marks the 15th anniversary of the deadliest terrorist attack in modern russian history it happened at a school in the north a city and town of beslan in russia's north caucasus region where more than a 1000 people were taken hostage 334 were eventually killed many of them children.

victims of being commemorated in beslan today people have been laying flowers near the school which has become among many monuments to those events words of condolence came in from all around the world for beslan the 1st days of september each year have become a time for grief and mourning may find some of the images coming up now disturbing .

meanwhile the school candles have been let to commemorate the victims correspondent daniel hawkins reports from the scene. 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 it's thought one of these detonations on the 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 estimates to what happened after. the. thief. was a small town just under 40000 people it's hard to find

a family here that wasn't directly affected or knows somebody who was. the room was full of people who perhaps were involved in the siege medics who ran towards the fire to tend 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 and to the grave. in fact we visit the cemetery every month . people were very understanding they were coming from russia and nearby countries and i would not want events like these to unite people when he 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. it's very important for one of the memory and remember the events in order for this horrible tragedy to never happen again i came here today with my daughter she asked me herself to bring her here i think it's

important to remember people come here to leave wreath of flowers soft toys and 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 with 2 d. hydrated and weak to even be able to move. quick ride. even people who've left the town come back here every year. come here to find answers clearer picture of what actually happened but most come here to help or their grief to get some closure and most importantly like the sign says above the entrance door remember that this must never happen again. we've been talking to

those who were held hostage and to those who took part in the security operation they went back to the school and shared their memories for a new arty documentary. this is trust but the yarra as a lost puppy god must not get a part of our number like that to get us on our news of a gritty way to you know to destruct i'm going to we have full of just as the last nick of get a wish for a new new syria man ranch back in camera in your member states comes to. you to occur to me at portrush for you today. to be able to share. or to go to the source of your remarks or bonus for save you from the precious leader was the dishes you were the world style opposed. to would not cut this a bit i'll serve. you but there's

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take to the streets in cities across the country after prime minister boris johnson announced that he'd suspend parliament ahead of the e.u. divorce deadline decision made them pays will have less time to debate and influence the way the u.k. leaves the e.u. also see it as the only way to get briggs over the finish line others say it's simply undemocratic to siskiyou taylor records. boris johnson is being well boris he's being bold as brass and he wants breakfast come what may rather tired so what do you do when parliament white paper you suspend it he needed how much permission to do that which he thought we're not going to wait until october the 31st before getting on with our plans to take this country forward we're 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 legislative program but why not count 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 husqvarna getting away from it all hiking in the swiss alps spent 3 years trying to deliver correct said after the referendum something we are definitely clear of bricks it means bricks it bricks it needs frex it wrecks it means bricks it and we're going to make a success of it but parliament had other ideas apache shouting had out even what have her key points had her reaching for how water then she found that brussels wasn't very happy about how to bit the old blighty and wouldn't budge on key points like the i. backstop to maintain a seamless border on the emerald isle they managed to thrash out a deal and may tried 3 times to push it through parliament no luck so she shut 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 camp figurehead 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 only have 2 weeks to try 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 what the people voted for i think it's a constitutional outrage he wants to think he's in you know winston churchill you

know it's self-important to 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 can. to get drugs for 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. 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 it so maybe just maybe birch

is going to get his way and bulldoze britain away from brussels r.t. london. to the police now where israel has targeted a hezbollah military squad in southern lebanon idea forces have used more than $100.00 to lose shells along with battle helicopters more details now from to live his base journalist laura nicer. well the whole event really started and ended with on just 2 hours at around $415.00 local time a few anti to take projectiles were fired toward northern israel from lebanon by hezbollah they soon admitting that they were the ones that fired the projectiles the i.d.f. almost immediately said there were no casualties in that launch but they did respond with more than 100 of their own projectiles into lebanon both airstrikes as well as artillery those airstrikes coming from attack helicopters netanyahu said in a statement very soon after that there wasn't even

a scratch on any of those soldiers but an i.d.f. ambulance that was hit in a position near the northern keep a military position right beside that keyboard which is right on the israel lebanon border now that initial projectile from a from hezbollah in lebanon was in response to an attack in syria last week by israel that killed 2 hezbollah operatives operating from syria so they immediately said that this event was in response to those soldiers dying last week a group is always says that things go to. its operations. or operations against sunni or well this will trigger the. regular by looting the liberty. to city where it is. clearly. positions i think. you see much

of the problem. will go. no. commercials for the eighty's on the 1st story of the beginning of world war 2 you have been taking place since the details after the break. when it comes down to it no 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 say is much much less of the totally counterproductive 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 approach you is to come out with cheap russian bashing that helps.

you know world of big part of the law and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. welcome back earlier this week a judge in oklahoma ruled the drug maker johnson and johnson is responsible for driving the state's opioid crisis and ordered it to pay a $570000000.00 fine he said the pharmaceutical giant has drawn

a false and dangerous marketing campaign which downplayed the risk of addiction and directly contributed to deaths johnson and johnson has said it will appeal the decision another pharmaceutical company to do pharma came in the fall this weekend recently unsealed court documents it was revealed. the company funded advocacy organizations which served as front groups screenshots of email correspondence published in a multi district opioid lawsuit let's work his ations the giant corporation caused america's biggest drug epidemic we reached out to purdue pharma for comment we await their response on the less the company itself admits people affected should seek help as soon as possible while bird you farmer is prepared to defend itself vigorously in the r.p.i. it's a geisha in the company has made clear that it sees little good coming from years to waste food to geisha in appeals the 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 many people were in fact becoming dependent with deaths from opioid overdoses reaching a record high 42000 in 26 thing the following year the government declared a public health emergency currently an estimated 130 americans die every single day as a result of opioid medicine abuse crisis is also placing a huge strain on the u.s. economy and reportedly encouraging high rates of heroin use diction specialist on a lengthy told us both 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. following sunday's clashes in hong kong 3 day ended with a heavy police presence on the streets protesters earlier gathered at hong kong international airport setting up barricades to block roads leading to the terminal trains linking the city to the airport was suspended too long with some bus

services the train station was also vandalized by protesters. was on those clashes came after violent protests on saturday as people took to the streets despite are planned protests being banned authorities have warned that they want taking part on saturday could face prosecution u.s. president on term weighed in on the situation so in the anti beijing protests should be handled in a humane fashion. i think it will work for the trade. would be a much bigger drop i think it would have been but for violet i really believe john what's the big deal and they know it puts us in a very bad position if there's a way of handling the problems and i'd let them know that. you may very. well the terms words didn't go down well with the chinese foreign ministry saying empathy with what it calls radicalized protesters on friday 2 more protest leaders were arrested on suspicion of organizing unauthorized rallies they

were later released on bail one of them joshua warren was pictured earlier this month meeting a u.s. consular official and that reignited suspicions that western governments were meddling in hong kong. professor at the shanghai international banking and finance institute benjamin cho is convinced the unrest in hong kong is supported by external actors. the violent protesters. increased violence in order to compensate for the decrease in the number of plot a peaceful point it is for quickly turning their back on most violent ones after they learn to truly true of the most violent ones some of which are seem very professional engaged or supported by external entity you can clearly hear quite trains as all the reporter should know choreographed scripts and responses in a just war interview it was with the western press the choice of wording and his response we're really used by any holcombe teenagers the very professional so

physical. commemorations to mark the 810 of us through of the start of the 2nd world war began this week in slovenia and eternal flame was lit is a memorial built in honor of soviet and slovenian soldiers to choose was put all the way from russia and was itself lit from the eternal flame at the tomb of the unknown soldier next to the. tremlett presented this from the russian embassy as well as russians living in veterans were among those in attendance at the ceremony is a reminder of slovenia's plight under nazi occupation. appreciate

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hello and welcome to worlds apart of a week from now russian votes and more than 5000 regional administers ballots but the chances are that all western audiences will hear about the obvious scandalous elections and the reach and take from the candidates i'm not allowed to run the decision drew thousands of protesters to the streets of moscow who were mad 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 margot a professor at the university college london and the prominent expert and russia markets 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 heavy handed 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 all concept it was put together on the go to respond to challenges and frankly i don't think it was ever intended to last if it was indeed to change from a system centered around 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 his his sense over russia's 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 responsive 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 of the of one man not least as the sort of final arbiter of kinds of different disputes within the athlete the country wide 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 applying a lot about the developments and we will talk about them in a moment but i. i'm just curious as an expert on russia have you looked at all into what's happening election wise beyond moscow i call pundits and i like to say we're talking grand terms but no i mean i think seriously if you look at local elections are very much about local issues woman thing else and it's quite interesting that we have a situation in which you the way the old the old identifiers of quite what united

russia stood for beginning to break down. and therefore i think that most of these elections really are going to be in some ways referendum on just how well the local administration is is seen as dealing with what is sometimes serious crises sometimes not and it doesn't necessarily mean that where we're trying to hold people will be voting against the regime but i think this is this is why it's important and this is why in some ways the the whole issue of the protests in moscow absolutely very important but they're also a distraction from what local elections are meant to be about which is precisely it's about local issues the reason i'm asking this is because in several of your interviews are heard you say that russian elections i'm not real elections and admittedly there is still fraud and manipulation going on some of it being caught on camera is installed at the expense of the state but there also i would say some pas.