this year and every kenyan talk about it and reach anyone have a conversation about it then. we're in trouble. ready is wrong and beslan school is russia commemorates the victims of the militant siege 15 years ago when over 1000 people were taken hostage we talked to survivors of the deadliest terror attack at the country's modern history as they revisit the site of the massacre. people who died who applies to the strategy to get our each applies to quit at the shop i wish most of the brochures to be broken or should. have been speeded. suppressed should. tens of thousands take to the streets across the u.k. as prime minister bars johnson's decision just to spend parliament ahead of the

brics that deadline divides the nation further. as 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 words on a low could thank you for joining us. some day marks the 50th anniversary of the deadliest terrorist attack in modern russian history it happened at a school in the north a setian 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 i.

think tim's work commemorated invests long on sunday people were laying flowers near the school which has become a monument to those events words of condolence came in from around the world from the 1st days of september each year has become a time for grief and mourning a warning that you may find some of the following images disturbing.

meanwhile a 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. the easy as a small town 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. and would use 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 but he does. still to cause 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 interesting really 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. come here to find answers clearer picture of what actually happened but most come here to outpour their grief to get some closure and most importantly what the sign says above the entrance door remember that this must never happen again. well we've been talking

to those who were held hostage and for those who took part in the security operation they went back to school and share their memories for a new r t documentary. this is trust but the yarra is the last couple of job us type of clients give us a number like that to get us on our financial gritty way to you know details start to come to me a little of just as the last nicholas got a wish for a new new syria man ranch back in camera. on your members it's. just. due to occur to me for sure producers are. to be able to share. or to talk to you so it appears from our it's a bonus for c.b.s. from the previous leader was addition to use of the world style opposed. to would not cut this a bit i'll say. it was a bit in the choice to buy. implosion

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it was quite a long. time i know what you mean but the mistake was there were. supportive of the for them to have to spew to all through this interview but you believe it is that it's a studio actually of course in a personal cause to be vocal pushing us to stop their spin. suppressed she. well you can watch the documentary in full on our website dot com. now we turn to more news from the week the u.k. is more divided than ever over breck's it saturday saw tens of thousands take to the streets in cities across the country after prime minister boris johnson

announced to 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. well some see it as the only way to get breaks and over the line others say it's undemocratic as our. reports. course johnson is being well boris he's being bold as brass and he wants breakfast come what may rather. so what you do when parliament won't 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 all 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 ok but 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 threats at all 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. 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 shed 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. leave can't figure head 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 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 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 builders.

away from brussels r.t. london. to the middle east now where israel has targeted a hezbollah military squad in southern lebanon i.d.f. forces claim to have used more than 100 artillery artillery shells along with battle helicopters more details now from tel aviv based journalist lauren i say. 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 very soon after that there wasn't even

a scratch on any of those soldiers but an i.d.f. an 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 against all this will trigger the. regular bollywood to go live. to city where it is. clearly. positions i think. you see much

of the problem. but you do so google you 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 its pay a $572.00. 1000000 dollar 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 a lot of pharmaceutical company per do pharma has also come under fire this week in 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 we reached out to purdue pharma for comment

and will bring you any response nevertheless 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 archaeologist's a geisha the company has made clear that it sees little good coming from years to waste food to geisha and pills the people and communities affected by the opiate crisis need help now. in the late 1990 s. prescriptions for painkillers were made readily available 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 4202016 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 told us that both the pharmaceutical industry and doctors have failed in their duties to customers and patients doctors certainly there are some responsibility for the opioid 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 massacre that was eagerly adopted by produced by johnson and johnson by janssen by cheever 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 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 agency said the operation was an accurate and targeted response to terror groups who've been planning attacks my colleague and your former discuss what happened with artie's murder of. 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 and 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. but aside from that there's also the fact that this was a 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 it 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 or misuse of things washington or to have notified russia or in 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 that he 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 protests is one had 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 along with some bus services at the train station was also vandalized by protesters. sunday's clashes came often violent protests on saturday as people took to the streets despite a planned protest being banned the authorities had warned anyone taking part in saturday's action could face prosecution u.s. presence all 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. song john would be a much bigger job and 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 in

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 protesters on friday to mow protest leaders were arrested on suspicion of organizing and also rise to rallies but were released on bail one of them jobs to a war was pictured earlier this month meeting a u.s. consular official which reignited suspicions that western governments are meddling in hong kong. a professor at the shanghai international banking and finance institute benjamin chowk is convinced the on mess in hong kong is supported by external actors. the violent protesters. increased their volleys in order to compensate for the decrease in the number of the peaceful protesters for quickly turning their backs on the most violent ones after they learned to truly true of the most violent towards some of which are seen very professional engaged or supported by external entity you can clearly you're quite traces of the

report russian or choreographed scripts and responses in which i'm sure interviews with the western press the choice of wording on his wrist was we're really used by any holding teenagers they are very professional so physically. commemorations to mark the 80th anniversary of the start on the 2nd world war began this week in slovenia an eternal flame was lifted a memorial built in honor of soviet and slovenian soldiers the torch used was brought all the way from russia was 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 slovenia veterans were among those attending the ceremony here's a reminder sabinus plight under nazi occupation. you're. all or.

the ceremony in slovenia is meant to serve as a reminder of the save it unions role in the liberation of europe from nazi germany

and the price both nations paid some of the veterans who attended the event shed their memories of the war with us. well me i joined the liberation front in 1942 and fortress 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 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 and 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

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hello and welcome to cross talk for all things are considered i'm peter lavelle continuing brags that saga is boris johnson a friend or foe of democracy and another saga russia gate is the way to treat peered justice system one for the protected and one for the rest of us.

cross talking some real news i'm joined by my guest glenn deeson he is a professor at the higher school be cannot mix as well as author of the decay of west. in civilization and resurgence of russia we also have dimitri bobbitt she's a political analyst and editor and you know so many internet media project and in london we crossed it marcus papadopoulos he's the editor of politics 1st magazine our gentleman cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let me go to london 1st here let's talk about boris johnson i asked in my intro is he a friend or foe of democracy because some people are making very strong arguments on both sides of that proposition go ahead marcus well they still have exceptional for instance the likes of which the city has not experienced since the 2nd world war and great since which is a coup d. and not claim to scale so to british prime minister david cameron and the reason and there is no reason that's why i could not end up claiming the scalp of always johnson.