bell is wrong and long school as russia commemorates the victims of a militant siege 15 years ago when over 1000 people were taken hostage we talked to survivors of the deadliest terror attack in the country's modern history as they revisit the site of the massacre. just what. we've. lost to quit at the. course of the revoke. and speed of. tens of thousands take to the streets across the u.k. as prime minister boris johnson's decision to suspend parliament ahead of the

pricks it deadline defines the nation further. and tensions escalate between israel and lebanon after an exchange of missile strikes across the border. you're watching the weak link here on r.t. international i'm mars on a low quick thank you for joining us. now sunday marks the 15th anniversary of the deadliest terrorist attack in modern russian history it will happen to the school in an office setting in town of beslan in russia's north caucuses region where more than a 1000 people were taken hostage 334 were eventually killed and many of them were children.

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

meanwhile in school candles have been that to commemorate the victims our 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 easy as 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 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 site in fact we visit the cemetery every month. people were very understanding they were coming from all over 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. the hostage takers 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. i. even people who've left the town come back here every year. come here to find answers clear picture of what actually happened but most come here to help or 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 those who were held hostage and for those who took part in the security operation they went back to the school and shared their memories for a new r.t. documentary. this is trust but the yarra as a lost cause job must not give us a number like that to get us on our news of a pretty way to you know to to talk to him come to me a little of just this or cynical forget a wish for a new new syria man ranch back in camera in your member states comes to. you to occur to me for sure for you today. to be able to share. or to do so with your own words are going to perceive you from the precious leader was the dishes you were the world style opposed to grant's music gosh knows to would not like this a bit else. he wrote this of it in the choice to buy.

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streets in cities across the country after prime minister boris johnson and ousted suspend paul a month ahead of the e.u. to force deadline that decision means m.p.'s will have less time to debate and influence the way the u.k. leaves the e.u. while some see it as the only way to get breaks it over the line others say it's undemocratic as artie's saskia taylor reports. for strengths in his big well boris he's being bold as brass and he wants breakfast come what may rather. what you do when parliament what play ball you suspend it he needed how much distance permission to do that which he thought we're 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 can't the lawmakers a quick refresher if you've been avoiding the news because you just can't take the

b. word anymore full a number 1010 and to resume a husqvarna getting away from it all hiking in the swiss alps spent 3 years trying to deliver treks it off to the referendum something we are definitely clear on bricks it means bricks it bricks it needs frex it wrecks it means bricks it and where you're going to make a success of it but parliament had other ideas patchy 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 to old blighty and wouldn't budge on keep cool. points like the irish back stop 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. and leave can't think it had 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 peace will only have 2 weeks to try to block a new 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 is being bypassed and. not democratic it's a catastrophe so anybody who tried to bring it in would be to. 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 when an election that's what he sees over and boris johnson should do everything he could. to get back for it if you can't get it through then he's out although where is cynics point out that what's really on democratic ah m.p.'s in westminster spending 3 years and 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 the convention and it has been 3 years already just about every hour for new explored every negotiation tactic used every amendment consider it so maybe just maybe birch is going to get his way and

builders. away from brussels. r.t. london. to the middle east now where israel has targeted a hezbollah military scored in southern lebanon and i.d.f. forces claim to have used more than 100 artillery shells along with battle helicopters more details now from tel aviv based journalist lauren. 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 through and 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 it's 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 kiba 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 groupies are always says that things sort of. its operations. or operations are going sooner or this will trigger the. liberty. to city where it is. clearly. positions i think.

the problem. will go through so google you know. commemorations for the 80th anniversary if the beginning of world war 2 a taking place in slovenia we'll cover this and other stories off to this break. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to be preached. to the right person this is what the 3 of the people. interested always in the waters of the.

week. welcome back this week a judge in oklahoma ruled that the drug maker johnson and johnson is responsible for driving the state's opioid crisis and ordered it to pay

a $572000000.00 fine the judge said the pharmacy school john had run a false and dangerous marketing campaign which downplayed the risk of addiction and directly contrary to deaths johnson johnson has said it will appeal the decision and another pharmaceutical company to follow has also come under fire this week in recently unsealed court documents it was or. the company funded advocacy organizations which served as front groups screenshots of e-mail correspondence published in a multi district opioid lawsuit have led to accusations that the giant corporation caused america's biggest drug epidemic we reached out to purdue pharma for comment and we'll bring you any response they give us nevertheless the company itself admits people affected should seek help as soon as possible while birju farmer is prepared to defend itself vigorously in the archaeologist's a geisha the company has made clear that it sees little good coming from years of wasteful it's a geisha and pills that people and communities affected by the opiate crisis need

help now in the late 1990 s. prescriptions for painkillers were made readily available has 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 opioid 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 opioid medicine abuse the health crisis is also placing a huge strain on the u.s. economy reportedly encouraging high rates of heroin use addiction specialist and a limp kay told us that both the pharmaceutical industry and doctors 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. or 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 classes in hong kong the day ended with a heavy police presence on the streets protests it has earlier gathered at home kong international airport setting up barricades to block roads leading to the

terminal and trains linking the city to the airport was suspended along with some bus services a train station was also found allies by protesters. on those clashes come after a violent protest on saturday and people took to the streets despite a planned protest being banned their authority has had warned anyone taking part in saturday's action could face prosecution u.s. president donald trump weighed in on the situation saying the anti beijing protests should be handled in a humane fashion. i think it will work for the great. punk john would be a much bigger job i think it would have been much for violet i really believe john to want to make a deal and they know it puts us in a very bad position if there is not a humane way of handling the problems and i'd let them know that good. handle it is a humane fashion however trump's words did not go down well with the chinese foreign ministry saying kitchen empathy with what it calls radicalized protests is

on friday to more protests lead this way arrested on suspicion of organizing and also wise trolleys but were released on bail one of them chose what was pictured earlier this month meeting a u.s. consular official which originally to suspicions the western governments are meddling in hong kong and professor at the shanghai international banking and finance is cheap benjamin shower is convinced the unrest in hong kong is supported by external act is. the violent protesters. increased the volleys you know to compensate for the decrease in the number of peaceful protesters for quickly turning their backs on the most violent ones not that they learned the true nature of their most violent towards some of which seem very professional engaged or supported by external and it you can clearly you're quite trains as all very professional choreographed scripts and responses in which i was with the rest and press the choice of wordings and his wrists was we're really used by any whole

teenagers the a very professional so physical. commemorations to mark the 80th anniversary of the start of the 2nd world war began this week and living in a tunnel flame was let's at a memorial built in honor of say hits and slovenian soldier is the torch used was brought all the way from russia and was a cell flip 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 is remind us living his plight under nazi occupation oh. lord.

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 prize both nations paid some of the veterans who attended the event shared their memories of the war with us. i joined the liberation front in 1942 and 4th for it till the end of the war our battalion were carried after

greatest number of attacks against the nazis at the age of 17 i was the commander of the italian so 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 their battalion managed to break down their resistance and won the battle we were very brave back then or 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 part of them i still remember how we were recapturing weapons and 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. that's the way clay will be back here in just over 30 minutes time with another round of the biggest

stories from the past 7 days see that. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. dramatic development the only move really. will be successful. if you sit down and talk. so james tries to. disregard the british and the bill of. goods.

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them or 14th 2006 i was substituting for a 5th grade class all of sudden that's kids come bursting in a library really agitated and one of the boys to the health and on the way he collapsed the next morning syngenta was denied denied not we were not spraying anything but the teacher had actually gone out and taken pictures with all this chaos was going on at the school and students were being and they were spraying right in the feels right adjacent to. a follow up study was done on that 32 page study the last 4 pages are the chemicals that they have found i mean i can your middle school we have shown an association between organophosphate exposure as measured by those metabolites. in the mother's urine during pregnancy and shorten just ation abnormal neonatal reflexes decreased mental development in the children

at 2 years of age decreased i.q. at age 7 and 10 years of age pervasive developmental disorder which is like or to some symptoms. attention problems in schooling poor executive functioning in pre-adolescents and we have also shown that there are some populations of people that might be more affected than others i virtue of their genetics. protecting our kids from chemicals is a common sense thing that everybody can get behind leave points to examples in recent years of students getting sick from pesticides used by farmers near schools this is really great and several incidents in 2008 in why man koichi where dozens of students got sick after a pesticide was applied on a nearby seed corn plot we've seen example after example where we've had to rush

children from a public school to an e.r. like the ones i work in across the state for severe area long problems we know that these chemicals have consequences they are major irritants there's no question otherwise why would that a chemical company workers themselves be geared up and suited up what happened with why i'm a middle school was particularly egregious the state of hawaii department of agriculture does not do its job with respect to investigating complaints about pesticide drift and for years this is been the case it doesn't monitor the air it doesn't monitor the water it doesn't monitor the soil to make sure that pesticides are not leaving the fields and going into where people live and play and work. as a mom i think about what would i do. if i had to send my child to school every day

alongside a field where i knew they were spraying pesticides but i didn't know when and i didn't know what. we require our kids to go to school why don't we require these companies to at least inform the parents or the school administrators what they're spraying when and where so we started to ask questions like well what chemicals are they spray how do we manage runoff send an email to gary who is or asking him about it what we can do what we could start a bill to get these chemical companies regulated so we can put a stop to it at least find out what's going on this was a group of people and they were saying gary can't you do something about this issue gary started meeting with representatives of the seed company as they deny the use of that which was a very potent herbicide that's quest.