bell is wrong in this 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 is they revisit the site of the massacre. or. just what. we. apply to the supplier wish more celebrities will be revoked or should. expect. tens of thousands take to the streets across the u.k. is prime minister boris johnson's decision to suspend parliament ahead of the brics

it deadline divides the nation further. 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 rosana loquitur 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 assessed in town of beslan in russia's north caucuses region where more than a 1000 people were taken hostage $334.00 were eventually killed and many of them were children.

the victims were commemorated in beslan on sunday people laid flowers near the school which has become a monument to those events words of condolence have been coming in from around the world and for beslan the 1st days of september each year have become a time of grief and mourning a warning the may find some of the following images to stopping.

the candles have been lit the site of beslan school to commemorate the victims our correspondent daniel holkins 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 is thought one of these that 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 feel. 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. 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 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 interesting lee bottles of drinks. there is a tragic story behind that too. the hostage takers denied the victims any food or water for 3 whole days when people had the chance to escape many of them with 2 d. hydrated and weak to even be able to move. cry i. even people who've left the town come back here every year or so i mean to find answers clear 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. 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 documentary. this is true but the yarra as the last book job must not get a lot of us no more of that to get us on our news of a gritty way to you know to distort i'm going to be able of just this the last nuke of get a wish for a new new syria man ranch back then i am the. son you member states. do to occur to me at portrush for you today. to go to school. or to school to do so if your own words are going to perceive you from the previous leader was the dishes your worries of the world are still opposed to going to music osnos to would not like this a bit i'll say. here but there's

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in b.c. i was quite a shock. but. i know what you mean that the mistake was they were. to go to arsenal for them to hurt your spirit will your city be where you put it is that it's a studio surely the force of the bushwackers to revoke or should stop him spinning . expressed shock. or you can watch the documentary in full on our website dot com. now we turn to some of the news from the week the u.k. is more divided than ever over the brics it saturday so tens of thousands take to

the streets in cities across the country after prime minister boris johnson announced it suspend holman's 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 it over the line others say it's undemocratic as antisense could say that reports. force johnson is big while boris he's being bold as brass and he wants bracks it come what may rather tired so what do you do when parliament what paypal you suspend it he needed how much it stays permission to do that which he bought we don't get to wait until october the 31st before getting old with opera is 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 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 another 1010 and to resume a who's carney 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 wrecks it wrecks it means bricks it and we're going to make a success of it but parliament had other ideas the patchy shouting had out even what have her key points had her reaching for her water then she found that brussels wasn't very happy about how to bit to old blighty and wouldn't budge on key points like the irish backstop 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 shut a tear and left i do so with no ill will but with enormous and enduring gratitude to have had to the opportunity to serve the country i love.

and to boris johnson. and leave count figureheads johnson promise 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 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 is. not democratic it's a catastrophe so anybody who tried to bring it in would be. able to peter voser i think it's 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 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 then he's out although where is cynics point out that what's really on democratic 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 idea forces claim to have used more than 100 artillery shells along with battle helicopters more details now from tel aviv based journalist lauren isaac. 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. an 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 against all this will trigger the. regular boiler to go live. to city where it is.

believed to be. positions i think. you see much of the problem. but you do so google you know. this week a judge and i quote home ruled that the drugmaker childes and johnson is responsible for driving the state's opioid crisis and ordered it to pay a $500.00. and $72000000.00 fine he said the pharmaceutical giant had run a false and dangerous marketing campaign which downplayed the risk of addiction and directly contributed to deaths johnson and johnson has said it will appeal the decision and another pharmaceutical company purdie 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 a multi district lawsuit have led to accusations that the giant corporation course

america's biggest drug epidemic we reached out to purdue pharma for comment and we'll bring you any response nevertheless the company admits people affected should seek help as soon as possible while burgess farmer is prepared to defend itself vigorously in the obviously it's a geisha and 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 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 and 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 high rates of heroin use addiction specialist and a limp kay 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. 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. 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 so the operation was an accurate and targeted response to terror groups who've been planning attacks my colleague and your farmer discussed what happened with artie's nerd guys t. of. 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 cease fire because the jar just became confused they started shooting at the syrian army the syrian army didn't shoot back the russians. but aside from that there was there's also the fact that this was a 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 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 and quot will stick to the arrangements regarding the deescalation zone despite the u.s. strike political analyst yosef aaron thinks washington ought to have notified russia and turkey. at a time when the syrian 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 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 at home calling international airport setting up barricades to block where it's leading to the terminal and trains linking the city to the airport was suspended along with some bus services a train station was also the lies by protesters. on those clashes came after a violent protests on saturday and people took to the streets despite a planned protest big bang and the authorities had warned anyone taking part in saturday's action could face prosecution u.s. president donald trump weighed in on the situation same beijing process should be handled in a humane fashion. i think it will work for the great. uncle 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 but. handle it in

a humane fashion have a trumps was to not go down well with the chinese foreign ministry saying hitchen empathy with what it calls radicalized protesters on friday to more protests leaders were arrested on suspicion of organizing almost arised rallies but were released on bail one of them joshua one was pictured earlier this month meeting a u.s. consular official was reaganite in suspicions that western governments meddling in hong kong a professor at the shanghai international banking and finance institute benjamin shell is convinced the unrest in hong kong is supported by external actors. to violent protesters. increased of violence in order to compensate for the decrease in the number of plot the peaceful protesters for quickly turning their back on the most violent ones after 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 it's all very question of choreographed scripts and responses in which i'm sure it was with the western press the choice of wordings and his wrist was we're really used by any whole teenagers the are very professional so physical. commemorations to mount the 80th anniversary of the sot of the 2nd world war began this week and slovenia an eternal flame was lit at a memorial built in on a soviet and slovenian soldier is the torch he used was brought all the way from russia and was a cell flip from the eternal flame at the tomb of the on then soldier next to the kremlin representatives from the russian embassy as well as russian and slovenia veterans were among those attending the ceremony has reminded us of its living his plight under nazi occupation.

was. 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 shared their memories of the war with us. i joined the liberation front in 1942 and fought for it till the end of the war 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 that 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 with passing this horrible experience from generation to generation to our children and grandchildren. well that was the weekly and that's it for me andrew farmer will be here with you in just over 30 minutes time with the latest news headlines from around the world stay with us. when i was told small seemed wrong all right old quotes just don't call. me the old yet to shape out just comes to educate and in again training equals to trail all. when so many find themselves worlds apart.

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