the. bell is rung invests 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. applies to a priest with james show who told. applies to quit at the supplier wish person the person to revoke or should. stop him speeding. expressed should. tens of thousands take to the streets across the u.k. it's prime minister boris johnson's decision to suspend column and ahead of the

press a deadline divine summation. and tensions escalate between israel and lebanon after an exchange of missile strikes across the border. you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international i'm was on the lockwood thank you for joining us. sunday marks the 15th anniversary of the deadliest terrorist attack in modern russian history it happened at a school in the north the city and town of beslan in russia's north caucuses region where more than a 1000 people were taken hostage 334 what eventually killed many of them were children.

the victims 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 for beslan the 1st days of september each here has become a time for grief and mourning and just a warning you may find some of the following images to stepping.

out march. meanwhile in beslan school candles have been lit 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 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 estimates to what happened after was 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. be every year we come here and to the grave sites 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. is very important to 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 so 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 was. even people who've left the town come back here every year. i mean 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 why 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 said their memories for a new arty documentary. this is trust but the yarra is a lost cause job to stop that give us no more of that to get us on our news all gritty way to you know to destruct until we have full of justice or cynical forget a wish for a new new syria man ranch back in camera. some human busts. due to occur to me at portrush for you to. go to school. or to school to do so if your remarks are going to perceive you from the precious leader was to shift your worries of the world style opposed to going to music osnos to would not like this a bit i'll say. here but there's a bit in the choice to buy. implosion

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the streets in cities across the country to prime minister boris johnson and johnson suspend parliament ahead of the e.u. divorce 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 over the line others say it's on democratic as are 2 saskia taylor reports. boris johnson is being well boris he's being bold as brass and he wants breakfast come what may rather tired about what you do when parliament play ball you suspend it he needed how much distance 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 the 14th and we've got to move ahead with a new 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 treks it off to the referendum something we are definitely clear on bricks it means bricks it bricks it needs frets it wrecks it means bricks it and where are you going to make a success of it but parliament had other ideas patchy shouting had out even what have you boys had to reach for how water then she found that brussels wasn't very happy about how to bit to old blighty and wouldn't budge. key points like the irish back stop 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 ardent bricks a tear and leave cancer 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 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 is. not democratic it's a catastrophe so anybody who tried to bring it in would be courting disaster anyway we should care what the people voted for i think it's still a constitutional outrage he wants to see. you know winston churchill you know.

self-important little man 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 can. to get back to 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 declaring over to leg breck said ok perhaps it was a little rogue to disrupt the queen's summer holiday in scotland and maybe says. benton 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 it so maybe just maybe it's

going to get his way and bulldoze britain away from brussels r.t. london. to the middle east now where israel has targeted a hezbollah military school to the southern lebanon 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 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 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 cuba 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 sort of. its operations. or operations are going sooner or this will trigger the. regular boiler to liberty. to city where it is. clearly. positions i think. to see much

of the problem. but gold flick the deuce of a group know. earlier 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 $572.00. $1000000.00 fine the judge said the pharmaceutical giant had run 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 and another pharmaceutical company purdie pharma has also come under fire this week it 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 opioid lawsuit have led to accusations the giant corporation caused america's biggest drug epidemic when we reached out to 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 burgess 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 to waste food to geisha and pills 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 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 and reportedly encouraging higher rates of heroin use addiction specialist told us that both the pharmaceutical industry and doctors have failed in their duty is 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. the russian military says the u.s. carried out an air strike in syria's province without 1st giving notice there by violating quote all agreements the u.s. state department is reported to have told russian news agencies the operation was an accurate targeted response to terror groups had been planning attacks my colleague andrew farmer discussed what happened with artie's murder gusti if. why is russia so angry over this because on the face of it you could argue look america is targeted and you have the training camp what's wrong with that we're just a little bit of background had been a bitter battle ground 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 because this is aside from the fact that you know the basically undermine the ceasefire because the judges became confused they started shooting at the syrian army the syrian army didn't shoot back the russians say 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 whenever you carry out an airstrike 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 the didn't inform either russia would turkey 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 ankara will stick to the arrangements regarding the deescalation

zone despite the u.s. strike political analysts use of air and things washington ought to have notified russia and turkey. at a time when the syrian regime had hoped to deescalate and called for a unilateral ceasefire which was greatly welcomed by turkey and russia this type of attack definitely 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 of why 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 about bombs dropping back out of the sky again in civilians obviously concerned in causing more migration north. following sunday's clashes in hong kong the day ended with

a heavy police presence on the streets protesters had gathered the hong kong international airport said to get barricades to block the place leading to the terminal trains linking the city to the airport was suspended along with some bus services and the train station was also vandalized by protest as. well sunday's clashes came after a violent protests on saturday as people took to the streets despite a planned protest being banned feel florentines had warned anyone taking part in saturday's action could face prosecution u.s. president don't 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. young john would be a much bigger trouble i think it would have been much more violent i really believe john wants 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. handle it is a humane fashion however trump's words did not go down well with the chinese

foreign ministry saying he'd shown empathy with what it calls radicalized protest is. on friday 2 more protest leaders were arrested on suspicion of organizing unauthorized rallies but were released on bail one of them joshua one was pictured earlier this month meeting a u.s. consular official which reignited suspicions that western governments are meddling in hong kong with a professor at the shanghai international banking and finance is cheap benjamin chow is convinced the unrest in hong kong is supported by external actors. the violent protesters. increased the volleys you know to compensate for the decrease in the number of peaceful protesters for quickly toting the bags on the most violent ones out there they learn 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 it's all very professional choreographed scripts

and responses in which i was with the rest and press the choice of wordings and his wrist was we're really used by any whole teenagers the a very professional so physically. commemorations to mark the 80th anniversary of the start of the 2nd world war begin this week and slipping in an eternal flame was lit as a memorial built in on a soviet and slovenian soldier has the torch hughes was brought all the way from russia and was a self 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 has reminded us living his plight of the nazi occupation.

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 to

share their memories of the war with us. i joined the liberation front in 1942 and fortress till the end of the war our battalion carried after 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 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 partisan 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 we're passing this horrible experience from generation to generation to our children and grandchildren. that's the weekly i'm

rosa lockwood and i have more the biggest stories from the past 7 days in about a half an hour's time. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you there. 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 only good

there are absolutely things that the west needs to be doing and what i would like to see is much much less. 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 applaud you is to come up with cheap russian bashing that helps move. so. even a new girl. so didn't. want to teach me what. it was more.

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