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And a session as wrapped up in moscow spanning more than 4 hours. Of intense joining us here on r. T. To nashville where we start with breaking news from central moscow because numerous shots have been fired in the immediate vicinity of the federal Security Service building or thought hes the shooter has been neutralized his identity that has yet to be confirmed here is video of the moment of the shooting. Ok lets get an update from our correspondents who are on location in central moscow now remind. For us not far from where the shooting occurred 1st. No i like where you are. Hello to you from the center of russias capital as you can see the citys ready for christmas and new years celebrations is beautiful and lies everywhere but today the most the central moscow has become a scene of a deadly attack we receive different reports on exactly what happened and the information changes all the time as they say its an ongoing story so let me be your rise on the ground and describe it what i can see right now behind me that huge building is russias federal Security Service hat quarters and according to some on very 5 reports this is exactly inside that building where the shooting 1st happened but according to others other reports the shooting started on that street right next to this building you can see there are many cars police cars and many buses on that were on the cordoned off that street and now the streets. Near a building known as a look than cut and we right now i know that we hear that the operation security operation is over but again these reports are not very fight either right here or this huge eliminated building a swathe of most cases oldest and biggest key store at the time or suit in iran 6 pm it was very crowded and people are coming back from work and there are many many tourists here and russias capital as well as well so it was a very dangerous moment for any shooting of course as you understand what i mean right now it is close and has been closed for it already one hour for security purposes i get as you can see not all the streets have been cordoned off traffic is ok right here and people i mean there is a can a call for us there was a mall. Caddick initially one gunshots were heard here in central moscow but right now its rather all cache and over there there is a crowd of journalists with cameras and microphones they are reporting of course from the scene again who received different information exactly what happened so well keep you updated as soon as we receive official information back to you ok many thanks me from washington on location also out in the streets of central moscow for a sister mine called whereabouts a year im ana will sustain the. Im also standing right here in the center of moscow a very close to the Main Building of russias federal Security Service and we are receiving up to date information at the moment according to the federal Security Service there saying that there were 3 assailants who ran into the building into the wrists where they were sure the reception was they opened boyer and federal security sources are saying that all of those assailants have now been killed theyre trying to. Identify them at the moment trying to find out who they are and possibly the later we will find out their motives as well meanwhile were also getting information that 2 federal Security Officers have been sent to the hospital with their in serious condition at the moment and were also getting information this needs to be confirmed by the way that one of the federal Security Officers has been killed right now the initial the one that sac took place this whole area was cordoned off but the right now you can see that the traffic is now moving and the metro stations have been opened and everything is back to full normal if you will in terms of the traffic in terms of foot people moving around the area near the building is. Still cordoned off he cannot. Walk or close to there the there are people working trying to discover whether there are any explosive devices or anything of that sort we this is a developing story once again and we are getting official information one once we get all the crucial information will of course will bring it to you but at the moment Russian Investigative Committee have already launched a criminal case according to preliminary from asia theyre going to qualify this as a terrorist act many thanks sir in course of there alongside them or if an option to bring is the latest information from the scene. Ok lets turn briefly to some other news now because u. S. Tech giants among them Apple Microsoft and google are facing a lawsuit from numerous congolese parents and children human Rights Groups accuse the companies of being complicit in the death of children who were working in cobalt mines in the Company Supply chains cobol is in high demand as is widely used in batteries for devices such as smart phones here are some of the testimonies from children in for legal reasons for being given the same name and a warning you may find some of the coming photographs a disturbing. The chamber ceiling collapsed on people in a coal mine john doe 5 was one of only 2 survivors john doe 3 was living in the mine area on his motorbike loaded with 3 bags of cobbled he was hit by a large Global Transport truck and his leg was amputated after 2 weeks of working john doe well never was severely injured he was 14 years old when he was crashed in the mine. The families and injured children are seeking compensation for forced labor negligence and Emotional Distress some also claim that they suffered serious injuries while crawling through tunnels or carrying heavy loads. More on the story. How far would you go to make your fortune hire a child a child kill a child these are the questions the worlds most famous tech giants will be in court as part of a lot of legal case thats off to a Human Rights Organization that complicit in the injury and deaths of hundreds if not thousands of children in the democratic republic of congo all to feed the wallets insatiable appetite for the very nativist gadgets defendants ample google bill microsoft tesla are knowingly benefiting from aiding and abetting the cruel and brutal use of Young Children and democratic republic of congo to mind called the Young Children are not merely being forced to work full time extremely dangerous mining jobs at the expense of their educations and futures theyre being regularly mean been killed by tunnel collapses and other known hazards common to call gold mining in the d. R. See the case has been brought forward on behalf of 14 congolese families 6 of who have lost children walking and mines the document makes 5 harrowing ranting with stories of broken spines paralysis and people buried alive and collapsed tunnels children as young as 6 forced to walk up to 24 hour shifts using tools the Human Rights Group brandts as from the stone age many of these children while also trafficked. And while the latest i phone retells around 1000. 00 these children were being paid as little as 2 for that troubles if they survive the watching day ive never encountered documented more severe a similar. In the elocution of income between the top of the supply chain and the bottom its dad disconnect that makes this perhaps the worst injustice of slavery and Child Exploitation that ive seen in my 2 decades of research what could be watch these lives through cobol apparently a metal that is essential to those in lithium batteries found in every smart phone every laptop every electric car and as the tech boom continues to monta has sought the d. L. C. As one of the poorest countries in the world but also a mineral gold mine has been only too willing to power at this for a shift market it produces around 60 percent of the wallets coble supply mining the thought of it by hand now some of those giant corporations which signed a contract with these Mining Companies say they have no idea what was going on those people in Silicon Valley cant be big readers than because this has been news before further the horrors of the plight of these children has been widely reported in the media defendants all have knowledge of the forced labor dangerous conditions and extremely low p. Provided to child coble minors then you have reports like the one by Amnesty International back in 2016 which documented how child cobalt minors were over exposed to hazardous chemicals while walking with no protective gear and basic hand tools apples promise a year later its not use mines that didnt provide professional quit meant must have gotten lost in translation even worse than just standing idly by though pretending the good guy indeed taking a major peach from the corporate cover of guard defendants apple alphabet dell and microsoft have joined in support of modal Mining Program cindy or seek to create the false impression that they have acted to prevent the known horrors of kobold mining in the dear sea by children but when you were raking in hundreds of billions every year what are a couple of lives over 9000 miles away from you the course of though have you. I believe they really do care people should have values. Companies are nothing more than a collection of people and so by extension all companies should have values you know apple has always been at the core about changing the world its no coincidence that a company did it catered to free flow of information was founded right here in the us as an American Company we cherish the values and freedoms that are allowed us to grow and serve so many users we always knew that we were losing our money now was of our life and our Eyesight Technology but how could we know it was costing lives to. Now we have the companies in question to comment on this they said reports of misconduct are always investigated with appropriate action taken they also told us that they are committed to being responsible when sourcing materials who also heard from a journalist in the d. R. See who claims the Companies Know exactly what theyre doing. This system is not good enough and they are taking profits from this of course they nor. Do most of the mining there mind coming from the. All gold or any kind of minerals from the instant they nor the government is less territory or tribute directly to the death of 100 millions of people walking illegally kids walking illegally d in the mine on 100 percent i think 80 percent of those minerals are coming from illegal way in a very difficult area we cant even call it the Blood Minerals and they have a direct responsibility on those blood because they do want to buy and they want using it by knowing it which could be sure those mining mine is extracted from the us that is the place where we are talking about these people directly from the big companies. Ok lets return to our breaking news story at this hour from central moscow where numerous shots have been fired in the immediate vicinity of the federal Security Service building the authorities have added that the shooter in question has been neutralized at will Security Services described the incident now as a act of terrorism one of their offices has been confirmed killed here is video of the moment of the shooting. Ok and hes done a whole concern to me in the studio with more information that seems to be the Biggest Development now daniel that this is being confirmed as an act of terrorism you know indeed the investigators at the scene earlier have already launched a criminal case saying into an assault on a Police Officer with intent to kill attempted murder of a Police Officer and now it looks like the incident has officially been declared as a terror attack what we do know for sure that one attacker armed with an automatic weapon attempted to enter the f. S. B. Building at least one f. S. B. The federal russian Security Service officer was killed in that attack the attacker then left the scene he ran out of the street where another Police Officer was killed the traffic Police Officer before the attacker was finally neutralized his identity still being established now this situation is no longer an active shooter situation there is no danger to the public from the perpetrator of this attack but forces at the scene are still looking for a package some sort of package or suitcase which the attacker a may have left in the building so bomb squad will be on scene to see if that poses any danger now this of course took place in central moscow where the headquarters is just 1015 minutes walk from the bolshoi theater just a bit more from red square from the Shopping Center is a thursday night 6 37 pm very much evening rush hour people leaving their offices to head home and go out their evening business so you can imagine the panic but the place where this shooting began our crews in correspondence at the scene managed to get some eyewitness accounts of what happened when the gunfire began and this is what one witness saw in those opening minutes. 6 pm i was leaving a story bridge and then those sounds began at 1st people thought it was a firework but the road police who always stand there started shouting not to stand and watch but to wonder why the understood the situation immediately they were not 12 or 3 shots there were lots of them so many that i cant even count. And say this was a big day at the very beginning anyway because is the time when president putin makes his will address to the media so all eyes are on him in central moscow anyway then the things are taken quite the doctor indeed youre all eyes on central moscow laws and putin and as jackie was saying our colleague earlier in the studio there is an especially high number of journalists this year close to 2000 journalists have been in moscow in attendance of this press conference conference and of course the president putins movements are very closely kept under wraps by the ever so of the president ial Security Service but we can reveal he went to the kremlin after this press conference where he attended an evening at vienna concert dedicated to members of the Security Service that day youre celebrating their service will take place tomorrow but the dinner was today and thats where putin gave a speech just over the last 2 hours highlighting me portions of addressing and tackling terrorism and extremism in russia this was part of the speech. Do you want to look at the reduce the extreme we need to be more active in countering extremism if necessary. Compromising lisa precede provocations call from violence that seems to drool people is officially you into. Radical activity but i mean that because it is too early to say if the attack was planned for this particular day for that or the press conference was planned for put in a speech and for his attendance that will be covered in the course of the investigation what we can say for sure is that this is that this is an event thats highly unusual for moscow moscow has of course had its fair share of of terrorist attacks as has. Well the russian cities you and i covered the petersburg troubling just 18 months 2 years or so ago this sort of attack though where somebody has targeted a building in central moscow a security building with an automatic weapon is very much rare moscow is normally quite a safe city very much a safe city in fact so one can imagine the panic that those people went through when they were leaving their offices in the area packed with bars shops and restaurants when they were suddenly scream out to get down and run after hearing automatic gunfire these are videos we captured to work captured rather at the scene of the attack. Like you. We can hear just the sheer number of bullets being fired automatic gunfire scenes and sounds youd expect to hear you know in a in a war zone in some sort of major terrorist attack here very much shocking to see this in central moscow and we can confirm the Security Services have said to his work critically injured taken to hospital one of them has succumbed to his injuries that is the latest news coming in as well of course as that traffic Police Officer who was killed outside as the attacker ran away one f. S. B. One federal Security Service officer remains in Critical Condition and things tragic as that is of course things could have been far worse people in the area the crowds in the street at the time certainly the actions of police at the scene clearing people away saved many more lives tonight still news coming in obviously on that suspect package on their density of the attack and thats all going to be revealed in due course still very much an active live i should say see no cordoned off lot of Emergency Services there in central moscow and well bring you the latest updates and any more news on that timeline as they come in yes. The deflation because it changes minute by minute with it with a breaking news story like this you keep across that the news was mobiles as accurate a picture as we can in the meantime lets go to a correspondent who was out and about in central moscow if i was asleep is pretty close to the f. S. B. Building where they said time to place them on top of that for as bring as an update place or not. We just received confirmation that there was indeed just still want to sail into and thats according to the Russian Federal Security Service and he has been they killed and dans already mentioned the latest news thats one federal Security Officer has been killed and 2 critically injured and the doctors are now were working to save their lives now in terms of where we are at the moment we are indeed in the center of moscow right behind me this is a main federal Security Service building the crim than it is the about the 500 meters that way to the a right of me is russias central joy store but once again this is a thursday evening new year the holidays are just around the corner so a lot of people are shopping and so once again this is a toy store so a lot of people are here with their kids so there could have been a lot more serious injuries and even face to face how is he spots now thankfully the assailant cell was killed and a lot of lives were probably saved at the moment the traffic is. He is back to normal once the the shooting occurred the whole area was cordoned off all the metro stations have been closed but now everything is back to normal in terms of transportation. Now on the scene you can see theres a lot of police that russias National Guard are also on the scene rushes in. Comedian have a look have launched a criminal investigation and they have qualified this as its terrorist act you can still hear sirens on the street more Law Enforcement officers are coming there is there are there are ambulances here as well and i dont know if you showed the footage off how when the shooting happened initially and there were people. Wounded on the street and you could see that people were helping to take care of people on to the ambulance and delivered them to the ambulance tents and they were that delivered them to the hospital probably it was one of those 2 federal Security Offices who the medics are working on at the moment and now once again rush is that all secure service have just confirmed that there was indeed just now want to see ellen said but and he never made it inside the federal Security Service building and he was pushed away by the federal Security Officers and later liquidated now once again this is a developing story can see theres still a lot of police here we should be getting a lot more official information very soon were still waiting to find out what the motive was behind this terrorist act solo more to come as soon as because available to us. Just while weve got you on the line ramana just ask you one more thing if you will whenever we talk about terrorism acts around the world its used in the public being tugged in like you said if that was the case here to take innocent lives members of the public it would have been very easy to do a must when it was so many people out and about at this particular time rush hour lots of people shopping its a very busy area it suggests that the thing that this was targeted more against the f. S. B. Building in those people inside. Or and maybe also that the authorities acted very quickly to neutralize the attack it. Absolutely there were very quick to neutralize this assailant not just him but also not just federal Security Officers but also the police the National Guard even though yes i understand Traffic Police were quick to announce to the people they were screaming to to the people to the people to start hiding soup clear to streets to to make sure that no one gets hurt and as you can see from the footage all thought i would misses who are in multitude here in a sense are all bosco the streets were cleared very fast and that probably also helped to void that more faith out at sea so thankfully the civilians though were not hurt but unfortunately the one federal Security Officer has been they killed once again that well find out more assent as we get it. Because of my caution for a report of a very close to the scene of the attack just a couple of hours ago many thanks. Sound we can bring you footage of the moment of the shooting in the panic that and see to it. And its disturbing just to watch the video when you understand what it is thats going on in the background on your whole concerns in the studio with me the 1st i want to say down is the. When terrorist attacks happen its very easy to. Fall victim to erode misinformation because so many reports come in from very critical News Agencies from eyewitness reports and why would i would this is dont always fully understand what it is theyre seeing hence you get. A lot of information coming in thats not always entirely accurate hence why we hear of originally possibly 3 attackers possibly 3 killed and it takes a lot of time to sort of find some clarity and all of that information thats coming of course you and i witness is at the scene going about their daily business or suddenly screamed up to run who hear the sounds of gunfire who are panicking can be forgiven obviously for providing the wrong information and media at the scene for taking that information initially as we said just an hour ago we thought there were 3 attackers we thought some of them maybe dressed in police or security uniforms turns out though that was not the case there was one attacker thats been officially confirmed and perhaps some of the confusion stemmed from that panic as to exactly how many there were and what they were dressed in the ministry of health of russia has not come out with a statement saying theyre treating 5 people for injuries as a result of this incident whether that includes those 2 Security Officers or not we dont know. There are more than 2 injuries though those so far only 2 casualties the f. S. B. Officer and the Police Traffic Police Officer who was killed outside as well as always the perpetrator himself Police Obviously still working to establish the identity its also too early probably to speculate on the timing of this attack or no media. What describing earlier we spoke about earlier as well the fact this is the day that putin gives his annual address the fact he headed over to the criminal afterwards for this dinner celebrating the service of security personnel thats to take place tomorrow in russia whether that has anything to do with timing or not we just cant say at this stage but what we can say this is a very unusual formosa good news usually a safe city although as we said before has had its fair share of violence and terrorist attacks in the past this is unusual though if you compare this to some other countries where perhaps automatic weapons are more widely available where shootings tragically do took place more often certainly for moscow this is highly unusual indeed. When youre talking about on the an attack. In central moscow i would argue this is absolutely the last place i would have ever expected to see some that when you walk around lubyanka very near to the 1st the building i mean its probably kind of an idea you just have in your own head this kind of the subconscious thing that you think well this must be one of the safest places in the country because you know the national Security Service the intelligence agencies are right there on your doorstep and subconsciously think ok theres never going to be any trouble around here it seems absolutely unthinkable that Something Like this could happen and it makes me think surely that was deliberate for it to be brought on the doorstep exactly as you quite rightly said lubyanka is the headquarters of the Russian Federal Security Service is that russia is the f. B. I. If you will it is heavily guarded and security in russian public areas is normally pretty good i mean we often moaning about the queues of metal detectors of scanners you know at the airport at train stations in shopping malls it is therefore for Public Safety though in this particular area as you mention is that about 10 minutes walk from the bolshoi theater and iconic site 1015 minutes walk from revolution square the kremlin the Shopping Center just around the corner lots of bars lots of restaurants around there many. People both expats tourists locals would spend their evenings there towards the end of the week so this was an area that had an increased security presence that security presence would perhaps have been even higher due to the events taking place in moscow today putins press conference and his attendance home there so it interrupt me i just want to say that you know maybe. That is the one Silver Lining to come from all this because of where it happened i mean it is incredible that were talking about maybe one person killed that would explain why there was such a Fast Response because the location that was picked thats the worst place you want to want to get if you want to get a Fast Response youre going to get a Fast Response from the authorities indeed perhaps an indication one and the Security Forces have not confirmed they are treating this as a terrorist incident i mean comparing this to other attacks we have seen in the european cities from the battle plan to London Bridge shoe though youve all used different types of weapons different tactics but in all of those cases the attackers are either expected to die and be killed or wanted to die and be killed perceived obviously as martyrs for for doing this now this has been confirmed as a terror attack if its confirmed as a islamist attack the attack. Expected to be met with force expected those who targeted to be armed and likely expected not to leave this area alive and as you