A 4 our annual press conference covering a multitude of domestic and international topics. And in other news u. S. Tech giants are being sued for allegedly abetting in the deaths of children in cobalt mines in the democratic republic of congo parents of those killed say the companies had all the means to prevent. Giving thanks for joining us this is r. T. International and we start with breaking news from central moscow numerous shots have been fired in the immediate vicinity of the federal Security Service building one person has been confirmed that this video now reportedly shows the shooter at the moment of the attack the gunman is thought to be not thing alone his identity has not yet been confirmed the area around the scene has been cordoned off and the following is footage of the moment of the sheet. Yes hes a thug but he said i was sitting with my friends at a bar when the shooting began and it was the sound of a kalashnikov Assault Rifle i know what it sounds like my friends were like oh it must be firecrackers yes but i told them no way its not firecrackers and then we saw people running down the street it was scary because 1st we saw people running and then a swat team armed with Assault Rifles came running in the opposite direction and then we heard a massive government fire we dont know what exactly happened there offices all systems stay away from the windows and they let us leave the bar after a few hours. But i was rooting for the when we heard 3 sounds that we needed to realize that we should hide then we heard someone in the street shouting go back go back since i dont know who was screaming because i didnt see anything it felt like the shooting last that for bear a long time it seemed to me that it was about 15 minutes but maybe it just felt like that some random shots were heard for the whole all until 7 pm. So i cuss every post from the same of the attack. The area behind me is a cordoned off thats where that attack took place of course this is the iconic russias f. S. B. A building which was also home to the k. G. B. During our saga times and said this is where that taxi place now this is the only area thats blocked off at the moment right after the attack took place this entire place was blocked for both for traffic for pedestrians and the entrances to the metro stations workloads as well but at the moment as you can see traffic the transportation is setbacks normal metro stations are open people something has to be said about where that sack took place this is the heart of the russian capital the heart of russia if you will to the right of me is said joyce store one of the oldest the oldest toy store in the rush of the biggest one as well the kremlin is still only about 5600 meters away russias state duma russia more of it is also just the most broke away russias president ial Administration Building is also right over there there are plenty all fo boutiques and restaurants here and other stores sue the famous set records street which was very popular during the feed a world cup in the summer of 2018th is also right here so a very busy area indeed so had the assailants been a successful in his endeavors there would have been a lot more casualties but as we do know right now one f. S. B. Officer had been killed as a result of that attack and Russian Health ministry reported thats a lot of people are being treated with the very same injuries in the moscow hospitals until one f. S. B. Officer is currently on the operating table and medics. Trying to save his life russias. Police russias National Guard and even trying police were all instrumental in making sure that said there were no more casualties and they cleared the streets and made sure that nobody else had got hurt of course we spoke spoke to some of the people that were the nischelle i witnessed this in this incident and this is what they told us and what im with them and he was sitting in a basement were watching now when a guy came man who just going outside and he told us there was a shooting out im also an injured pos and he told us the intricacy had been dropped into a cafe well we dont know the details we were busy walk an obvious 20 iraq to united which we do yeah it was scary to be flying without him up there were shots being fired and people came running down the street i was at work at the time soon all the area was cordoned off and some people say they saw people running across the street from the cafe still it was frightening really even the bomb disposal teams were deployed so we were afraid to leave. Russian an Investigative Committee have launched a criminal inquiry into what happened here in the center of moscow and of course and they investigations a maze are still working here at the scene. A little earlier i spoke with our correspondent on whole consumers following the story from the beginning. Sorts of incidents of course and thats always a case of slowly building some sort of topline some sort of picture of exactly what happened as we know as weve seen over the last few hours a lot of contradictory information coming in from media reports from eyewitness accounts understandable of course given that the panic that happened what we can say for sure is that there was one attacker involved unconfirmed reports officially that hes been neutralized but certainly doesnt seem like an active. Anymore we know that this attack and attempted to enter the headquarters of the f. S. B. Thats the Russian FederalSecurity Service or its a building very much in central moscow its within a stones throw from the bolshoi theater red square. The Big Shopping Center at rush hour this would have been packed with people very busy people leaving work to go home and go about their evening activities this happened about 10 past 6 in the evening now Security Forces and police were very quick to respond that attacker was quickly reports say he was quickly shot but not before sadly he managed to kill and injure at least 5 people we cant say exactly what their condition is we know that one f. S. B. Officer was tragically killed another one was in a Critical Condition the other 3 people we dont have any information from the Health Ministry as of yet we know theyve been taken to local hospitals we know he was carrying an automatic Assault Rifle which for moscow for a city you which as we discussed earlier has suffered its fair share of terrorist attacks of bombings that cetera is quite a rare sight and seeing these streets are deserted of after this certainly is is quite surreal that certainly wasnt the case that and politics in the evening we do have some more witness video shot on smartphones which we can show you which which shows the moment of panic when police began screaming at people to run to hide to get out the way of this assailant far we can bring it out again. Could you actually i didnt see it at a minute or 2 past 6 i was leaving work you know i dont like staying at work late so i left work met up with my girlfriend and when they heard some dull sounds in the distance i thought at 1st it was fireworks or some firecrackers yet as the sound continued we realized something was wrong and Traffic Police who were on the connecticut bridge as usual began evacuating people because she apparently caught on to what was going on people started running we heard the gunfire so i had to decide it would look better to leave that area in case it was a terrorist attack and school must. Also know that the mom wasnt shooting randomly and i think we heard him shout out something but we didnt manage to make out what he was shouting all i saw was a dont see who it was the shooter was hiding behind the opposite the f. S. B. Car park and there were people behind the cars its hard to say whether he was shooting at those people all the cars 1st we heard the gunfire and then we saw a Traffic Police officer lying next to the barrier and he was laying there for quite some time. Past more videos have come in this is another video we can we can show you now and this allegedly shows the moment that the attacker was targeted by police or by Security Forces that we have and its in the video too to the most graphic cards and this is i confirmed its quite grainy shaky for it is unbelievable how close these people filming how have managed to get to the attacker really at risk of their life it does show though the attacker wearing some sort of cut off large some sort of dark clothing his face his head is covered hes wearing some sort of backpack that may well have been the case which it was speculated earlier in the evening was left in the lobby of the building which Security Office as well. May have been. Sort of some sort of explosive device those reports of course im confirming we dont know whats happened since Security Forces are doing a sweep of the building are believed to be in short there is no further danger to the public from any device like we said video unconfirmed but it does show what appears to be a shootout with police and Security Forces as i say the on edited version of the video video will try and show you a longer version obviously what weve blurred out the most graphic parts of the show Security Forces on the left hand side shooting across the screen towards the assailants thats the latest update new york obviously we are still waiting for official confirmation this is being treated as a terrorist incident and i we can speculate of course we want at this stage given the target of the attack the f. S. B. Given the timing of the attack the speech by president putin today both his conversation with journalists and in the kremlin as well given tomorrow of course russia celebrating Security Services day until that is officially confirmed thats all we can bring our viewers and this is a fragment of the speech by police and given a little earlier today. If you would use to me we need to be more a. Dream is a very. Compromising lisa pretty provocations. That seems to drool visually you. Radical activity with it is good but i mean weve covered tragically so many stories in the suit on the ground the bicycle an attack the meat attack London Bridge 2 attacks etc this is an event which is becoming more frequent lone wolf attacks are hard to prevent whatever tactics they use whether thats suicide bombers left those knives robbing attacks shooting they always cause designed to cause mass panic fear and of course ultimately a debate which takes place after such attacks about the balance of the say which one protecting rights liberties and privacy of people and the public safe that is a debate that is going to be had again. After this attack and a debate thats to be taken very seriously and well suspect charles she British Security analyst former British Army Officer who gave his appraisal of the situation and told us where things could go from here. Well the police and Security Services will be looking really to establish 2 aspects of this is an absolute priority the 1st of course is the identity of this person and they may well already know that and of course will give a very good and a very strong indication i think of what their motivation in this case was what it was political or personal or indeed some other aspect that was driving the motivation here and 2nd of course even though theyve said its from according to reports that nobody else was involved in this attack they will want to be sure that nobody else was actually involved in any planning aspects or in terms of assisting the government and that may take some time for example the examination of mobile phone records of any c. C. T. V. Records and of course any. Emails communications and so on that might be held on the suspects computers and elsewhere and of course that would require house searches and so on and so its going to be some time i think some hours until theres a definitive picture emerges of course until we know the full picture its speculation hopefully informed speculation but nonetheless we still need a lot more information. So i think its possible to say but i think even from the footage that we see we can say complacently that this was a little too much weapon it is a complex issue as many overlapping factors and the facts will differ in each individual case and we can until we know more about this individual case its difficult to say what the motivation is a lot of factors that might lie behind it but the fact is i think that even if you were going to have the most benign government most benign state in any country what you will get some people who will react violently to the policies of that or perhaps just react violently because of policy because of instance or background or the circumstances of their own personal lives. Now earlier in the day the russian president daniel q. And a session wrapped up at the Moscow World Trade Center its bound to well over 4 hours this putin fielding questions on both domestic and International Issues the latest doping. And then the impeachment proceedings against donald trump among topics race hes trying to cover things for us. Quite a surprise to hear about potential amendments to the russian constitution that something president putin doesnt talk about quite often well this time he did and he even said that it could be a good idea to make changes to the russian constitution to make sure that it allows only 2 president ial terms well why is that a big deal this was a long a reason for public debate in russia actually since the year 2012 when Vladimir Putin was reelected for his 3rd term after a break when the president of russia was Dmitri Medvedev and heres what mr putin said about that in particular. What could be done is to cancel the 2 in a room and didnt we have 2 terms in a row ules truly civil 2 terms of the resigned and had the constitution to return to the presidency because it was not to to lose in a row them humans when confuses some of the political scientists and public figures that if we could. Shoot a lot of our putin was even asked who he believes could become his successor and a few years well we didnt get any answer to that although mr putin did hint that he believes that a woman could become the president of russia at some point most of the reporters in that massive hall war are from russias regions which explains why a lot of questions were on domestic issues from the pension reform in russia to issues with medicine and so on and so forth but let me move on to something thats probably more interesting for an International Audience that is the impeachment proceedings in the u. S. Well a lot of our pope did say that he believes attempts to knock down donald trump wont succeed and. Also went on to say that he believes that the reasons for all these impeachment proceedings were actually invented it is just a continuation of political infighting one party that lost the elections the Democratic Party is working for results through other methods accusing trump of collusion with russia then its discovered that there was no collusion that could be the basis for impeachment now theyve come up with pressure on ukraine i dont know whats there your representatives have a better idea. The russian president did get a question from the b. B. C. And it was well you saw about russias alleged attempts to interfere in elections and politics altogether and other countries well heres what mr putin said regarding interference or not interference many times officials and their representatives from various countries including the u. K. Made assessments about whats happening in russia mr putin believes that this doesnt count as interference and said that russia reserves the right to do the same in the opposite direction and other part of the very same question from the british media was Prime MinisterBoris Johnson personally whole was sad some very harsh words to say about mr putin well this was the russian president s response this time look asserts it was. As for statements from certain people various political figures about russia about me as the head of the country ive been used to treating this accordingly but i know what the interests of my country own and that it doesnt matter at all what anyone else says there is absolutely no value in comparing what they say with the fundamentalists which russia is interested in solving congratulations to Boris Johnson nevertheless he turned out to be the winner he understood the mood of the british People Better than his police. Because opponents. Move it on to the latest tensions between berlin and moscow that have to do with the murder of a Georgian National and germany with a terrorist background while germanys believes that russia is somehow involved in it even led to 2 Russian Diplomats being expelled from berlin while of lot of my putin denied any involvement and also went on to remind the audience again of the terrorist bag round and all the brutal things that this man was previously involved in though not just going to into it upset in the can he was a criminal and a killer in one attack alone in the caucuses he killed 98 people in other countries they hold mourning ceremonies where there are less victims and this is far from the full list of his evil actions and we raised this question that multiple times in syria we see what is going on in the coming and jail as well i still find being killed people from central asia and russia and 2nd place but there are also many people from western europe from from from germany we see that these people terrorists move freely into european capitals we also heard questions about pressure on the Russian Media and European Countries in particular in a stone age where there are some real issues where the Russian Sputnik News Agency the Staff Members of that news agency said that they were being pressured into leaving this particular outlet if they want to continue working in that country which a lot of our program in response referred to as a real disgrace. Minal going to shoot and what you do a lot all sorts of attempts to still pure activity can go unnoticed im very surprised because russia is always accused of all evils including pressure on independent media. And they do the same that they accuse us of this is cynical Us Government measures such as restrictions cant work because you will hold those who want to spank discord between our countries we cant allow it you must try to work in those countries that are scared of your information another grand Vladimir Putins press conference is done and dusted for more of what he had to say you can also check out our website and social media pages. For us tech giants among them Apple Microsoft and google are facing a lawsuit from you cango lease parents and children human Rights Groups accuse the companies of being complicit in the death of children who are working cobalt mines in the Company Supply chain scope was in high demand is widely used in batteries for devices like smart phones it is some of the testimonies from children who for legal reasons have all been given the same name and a warning you may find some of the upcoming photographs upsetting 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 cobbled transport truck and his leg was amputated after 2 weeks of working john doe whenever they were severely injured he was 14 years old when he was crashed into a mine and the familys uninjured 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 on the Saskia Taylor has 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 on soon in court as part of a lot of legal case thats off to a Human Rights Organization allege that complicit in the injury and deaths of hundreds if not thousands of children in the democratic republic of congo all to feed the wild insatiable appetite for the very nature gadgets defendants ample google will microsoft tesla are knowingly benefiting from and 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 whom 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 full still 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 or 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 though coble 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 had 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 cobalt miners then you have reports like the one by Amnesty International packed in 2016 which documented how child cobalt miners 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 you 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 programs and d r c to create the false impression that they have acted to prevent the known horrors of kobold mining in the deer sea by children but when you are raking in hundreds of billions every year what are a couple of lives over 9000 miles away from you though of course theyll have you believe they really do care people should have value. 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 dedicated to free flow of information was founded right here in the us as an American Company we cherish the values and freedoms that have 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 too. We asked 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 we heard from a journalist in the d. L. C. He claims that the Companies Know exactly what theyre doing in norville world that this system is not good enough and they are taking profits from this of course they nor. The most of demining their mind coming from the d r c cobol its 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 in the mine on 100 percent i think 80 percent of those minerals are coming from illegal way and in a very difficult area we cant even call it the Blood Minerals and they have a direct responsibility on those blood minute was because they are due on the buying and they were 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. Appreciate you staying with relatives or national throughout the evening to stick around if you can my colleagues on the local who have updates for you but half an hour. All of us will hoops that have been absolutely knew were babies but so is a behavior that appears even in deaf and blind babies even if youve never heard of seen love to you will love if your tickles by your parents. And then we learn how to use this in a more complex way im one of the things that we learn is to how to join in with love to contagiously to love when somebody else loves even if you dont know why theyre laughing. This is this is a sticker from the water bottle phone in the stomach of a fish the brand is part of the Cocacola Company which sells millions of bottles of soda every day the idea was that lets tell consumers there are the bad ones there the litter bugs are throwing this away industry should be blamed for all this waste to company has long promised to reuse the plastic. Thats. Their plastic. Special projects funded. On the disease. But for now the mountains of moist only grow higher. I am max kaiser this is the kaiser report max and stacey are on board as there is argentina i love it this country is phantasmagorical the people are extraordinary the government and the central bank maybe not so much particularly the central bank but lets get into this a little bit more detail stacy it doesnt matter if they have a central bank the fact is they are under the control of i. M. F. And the u. S. Dollar so it doesnt matter or regardless the individual however could always have their sovereignty that is something that why were here were going to europe why in a few days and were going to speak at a big conference between is pretty huge here and just to remind people we are in argentina