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 e

on a special wall by protesters the rival sides of resorting to new tactics to get their way than holkins takes a closer look. for months hong kong has been embroiled in massive protests each passing week his sea mistrust confrontation and violence on the 2 sides of the barricades escalate for many on the streets this has become a war of attrition with an implacable enemy both sides pick new tactics to get one over their opponents in an apparent deadlock. many protesters feel this conflict is unwinnable wars are a powerful ally and western political intervention to tip the scales in their favor peace. and your health are paddling. upon. by potentially passing this act the us risks the revocation of hong kong special status crushing the region's economy but this seems a secondary concern when there are bigger battles to fight. while pitched battles are fought in the streets conflict has also spilled over online docs in the intentional spreading of private details in order to harass intimidate or coerce is the new favorite weapon and both sides are guilty it's a tactic that's illegal yet hu

thanks for joining us and holkins here with me tonight i'll begin this hour with breaking news coming in out of washington where democratic house speaker nancy pelosi said formal impeachment inquiry against president trump without further ado let's cross the live for us correspondent to guess more details caleb this has been talked about for some time as that big move by the house democrats what can you tell us. indeed now nancy pelosi the representative from california and long time speaker of the u.s. house of representatives stepped forward and announced a formal impeachment inquiry from the u.s. house of representatives that's one of the bodies of the u.s. congress now in her declaration she alleged that donald trump quote seriously violated the u.s. constitution and this refers to donald trump threatening to withhold $400000000.00 in aid from ukraine military aid from ukraine and urging the ukrainian president to investigate joe biden and his financial dealings in ukraine and the financial dealings of his son hunter biden this is the announcement that we heard from nancy pelosi t

the miller investigation when the probe was launched into the now debunked trump russian collusion holkins discussed impeachment efforts with the american scottie nell use an investigative journalist dave lindorff that is the. president trying to saying he's going to release the actual transcript or now release the audio tracks or whatever he has regarding this phone call in question if it turns out this call turned out to be everything above board completely legit and even showing what caused this phone call in the 1st possible and wrongdoing by the by to campaign this could turn out to be a very big problem the democrats are going to have seen yet here in america those that supported trump are already declaring that that thank you mr pelosi you just got president trumpery elected well you know this could go a lot of different ways and for one thing trump can fall into a trap because if he thinks that. nobody's going to get the transcript and he submitted a incomplete transcript of the phone call that's where nixon got tripped you know if you if you have a bris and you think i've got this

our correspondent daniel holkins reports from the school where the atrocity took place most hostages were kept in this room the sports hall beslan is a small town a close knit community. you'd be hard pressed to find anyone in this room that had lost someone or knew someone who had. would be every year we come here to the school and the cemetery to the cemetery every month even my sister in law is buried there with her 2 kids and it's always sad when vigils unite people in mourning what happened here is hard to forget but life goes on. what's left of the whole unites everybody here police and soldiers who tried to save who they could medics who ran into the fire to evacuate the wounded parents and teachers who stayed with their kids and pupils and the hostages. the walls here were lined with flowers soft toys of course the photographs of those who died also bottles of drink symbolic as the terrorists had denied any food or water to the hostages for the 3 days of the siege but the time they had a chance to escape many were to the hydrated and weak to move hearing the experiences of th

some closure all are united in one fact this can never be forgotten and can never be repeated i know holkins r.t. . well the memorial cemetery where victims of the attack are buried is known as the city of angels we talk to people there who are paying their respects. to those who share or a drunk will losing most nerds which in our muscles watch store sort of. workers are all can. do so either old connections or cultures are still kurdish and of course also asked ourselves to me an appearance of a proposal for a few schools which are intercourse and i will choose this ritual for. our stores are similar. to with my world which order. in which and over a. year of rumor is true so. much sooner. is ridiculous if. the government is just. and let's get to the small bit of the food this is. the most hold mccloy i mean if you are a slip of a doubt she. would have been the slowest. swimmer to preserve her or you could put her book was running into the newsroom so soon your superiors or reduce or name call for what you call. a meeting for 3 jurors who vote in this with you in their say last with us ar

would trump allegedly pressured his ukrainian counterpart over biden with more of the story than you holkins this morning. everyone loves a good election meddling story but what does a country in eastern europe russia have to do with the 2020 us presidential election turns out quite a lot ukraine could be more worried about who will be in the white house next year than americans themselves out of they get into this situation well take president trump and leading to. hopeful joe biden. blower some corruption allegations in you have a great scandal involved biden's son a well paid position other top prosecutor being fired but no evidence of joe's wrongdoing was found a low trump's office sees things differently but that's just half the story the democrats have their own demands for answers also featuring ukraine they say trump pressured the ukrainian president vladimir selenski into finding dirt on biden and that means impeachment we are seeing a real shift here on capitol hill when it comes to the question of impeachment some democrats trying to ramp up talk it includes maintain pietschmann w

live from moscow news it's to you what you are the international diana holkins with you tonight's welcome to the program. the u.n. general assembly in new york is underway but not everyone got their ringside seats russia's foreign ministry said that 10 members of its delegation were not granted u.s. visas ahead of the session the kremlin called the move a provocation which warrants a tough response or if a national joined in the studio with the details. oh moscow's absolutely furious because if you think about it that's a huge thing. constant in russia's prominent politician and diplomacy they term and all of the foreign affairs committee of the upper term for the russian parliament said he's not going to attend the un general assembly that is open these days in new york because of visa issues and he wasn't actually denied american visa but what basically happened as far as we understand is that his application didn't go through and he was not to fight about that very very last moment and he failed to protect american visa on time it doesn't sound like anything criminal he can still reapp

north korea he also adopted a tough stance to iran and backed the scrapping of the nuclear deal done holkins takes a closer look at his record. scandals resignations and dismissals are part and parcel of trump's presidency a few policy disagreements a swift tweet from the presidents and another administration official bites the dust it was clear from the outset that trump and his national security advisor would have their disagreements i'm the one that tempers him but that's ok i have different sides i mean i have john bolton and have other people that are a little more dovish than him and ultimately i make that decision we can speculate on which exact what will lead to bolton's exit the failed talks on afghanistan the question of rush hour or perhaps a run but it seems the animosity lasted until his final day in office i offered to resign last night and president trump said let's talk about it tomorrow i informed john bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the white house i disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions as did others in the administration of views hims