Tech giants are being sued for allegedly abetting in the deaths of children and cobalt lines in the democratic republic of congo parents of those killed say the companies had all the means to prevent the deaths. Hello there you are watching R T International im rosana loquitur thank you for joining us. Now our top story this hour numerous shots were fired by a gunman in the vicinity of the federal Security Service building in moscow Security Forces returned fire and one person has been confirmed dead the gun battle happened in the very center of the russian capital only about a kilometer from the kremlin this video reportedly shows the shooter at the moment of the attack he is thought of been acting alone and his identity has not yet been confirmed the area around the scene was cordoned off hours the following is footage of the moment shots rang out. Yes hes a thug but he said i was sitting with my friends about 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 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 their offices all systems stay away from the windows and they let us leave the bar after a few hours. But the most recent if 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 a very 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. Well artys roman culture of has been following developments at the same for us. 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 this is where that tax in place now this is the only area thats blocked off at the moment right after the attack took place this entire place was a blog for both for traffic for pedestrians and the entrances to the metro stations were close 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 their attack took place this is the heart of the russian capital the heart of russia if you will like to the right of me it is said choice for one of the oldest the oldest toy store in russia the biggest one as well the kremlin is cell only about 5600 meters away russias state duma russias parliament is also just a stones throw away russias president ial Administration Building is also right over there there are plenty all fo boutiques and restaurants here and the other store sue the famous new quote street which was very popular during the people world cup in the summer of 28 seed is also right here solar very busy area indeed seldom had the assailants been a successful into 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 now 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 mishal eye witnesses in this incident and this is a what they told us and what im with them and he was sitting in a basement were watching now when a guy came man whod just been outside and he told us there was a shooting out and also an injured possum he told us the injured party had been dropped into a cafe well we dont know the details we were busy walk an obvious 20 iraq to you know which to do it yeah it was scary to be fine without him that 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 some people say they saw people running across the street from the caffeine it was frightening really even the bomb disposal teams were deployed so we were afraid to leave the russian an Investigative Committee have launched a criminal inquiry into what happened here in the center of moscow and of course and a investigations a maze are still working here at the scene alone and my colleague neil harvey spoke with our correspondent Daniel Hawkins hes also been following the story from the beginning and he gave us some more details. In these sorts of incidents of course neal its 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 in 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 thats happened about 10 past 6 in the evening now Security Forces and police are very quick to respond. 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 weve discussed earlier has suffered its fair share of terrorist attacks of bombings that set for 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 posix 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. Now. At 5 or 10 minutes past 6 the gunfire began and it was not just a few shots it came in bursts we saw officers taking cover behind the cars and you will surely not i didnt see it at a minute or 2 best 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 we heard some dull sounds in the distance which i thought at 1st it was fireworks or some firecrackers yet as the sound continued we realized something was wrong Traffic Police who were on the connecticut bridge as usual began evacuating people shit barely caught on to what was going on people started running we heard the gunfire so i too decided to it would be better to leave that area in case it was a terrorist attack us. Signals and thats when the man 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 to it the pillars 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. And as more videos of 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 and white Security Forces obvious that we have edited the video to. The most graphic parts and this is unconfirmed its quite grainy shake you footage unbelievable how close these people filming how have managed to get to the attacker really at risk to their life it does show the attacker wearing some sort of come off large some sort of dark clothing his face his head is covered hes wearing some sort of backpack but 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 Officers world war read may have been some sort of a bomb some sort of explosive device those reports of course unconfirmed we dont know whats happened since Security Forces are doing a sweep of the building are believed to ensure there is no further danger to the public from any device like we said that video unconfirmed but it does show what appears to be a shootout between police and Security Forces i say the an edited version of the video will try and show you a longer version obviously what weve blurred out the most graphic parts does show Security Forces on the left hand side shooting across the screen towards the assailants thats the latest update neal 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 putin given a little earlier today. We need to be more active in countering extremism. On compromising lisa bloom. Provocation. That seems to drool people is officially you into the social radical activity that is good but i mean weve covered tragically so many stories in the suit on the ground the bicycle and attack the meat attack London Bridge to 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. As knives robbing attacks shooting may 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 between protecting the rights liberties and privacy of people and Public Safety it is a debate that is going to be heard again. After this attack and a debate thats to be taken very seriously well earlier we spoke to charles she where shes a security analyst and former British Army Officer and he gave us his appraisal of the situation and told us where he thinks things might 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. Email 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 proximity to say but i think even from the footage that we see we can say conclusively that this was a an automatic weapon it is a complex issue as many overlapping factors in 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 or what the factors that might lie behind it but the fact is i think that even if you were going to have the most benign government the most benign state in any country the world you will get some people who will react violently to the policies of that or perhaps just a vanity because of policy because of instance or background or the circumstances of their own personal lives. Well earlier in the day in moscow the russian president s annual q. And a session wrapped up at the World Trade Center spawning well over 4 hours this year that imputing fielded questions on both domestic and International Issues with the latest doping scandal and the impeachment proceedings against all trump among the topics raised. Has more. 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. Will be doing 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 then resigned and had the constitution to return to the presidency because it was not to to lose in a row humans when confuses some of all political scientists and public figures so we could be counted on what shes going to 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 from russias regions which explains why a lot of questions were on domestic issues from 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 my 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. These were actually invented it is just a continuation of political infighting each one party that lost the election of the Democratic Party is working for result through other methods accusing trump of collusion with russia when its discovered that there was no inclusion that could be the basis for impeachment and i see now theyve come up with pressure on ukraine if i dont know whats there your representatives have a better idea what 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 at all or part of the very same question from the british media was Prime MinisterBoris Johnson personally hole 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 political opponents but if you can move it on to the latest tensions between berlin and moscow that have to do with the. 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 you didnt like any involvement and also went on to remind the audience again of the terrorist bag and all the brutal things that this man who was previously involved though not just going to. Get 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 meanings there are many and where there are less victims and this is far from the full list of actions and we raised this question but most of the solutions in syria we see what is going on in the jail it was well i still find this most being killed people from central asia and russia and 2nd place but there are also many people from western europe from france from germany we see that these people terrorists move freely in 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. 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 are put in response referred to as a real disgrace. Going to should 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 government measures such as restrictions cant work because you will hold. Those who want to spoke to school between our countries we cant allow it you must try to work in those countries that are scared of your information another grand Vladimir Putin 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. And other news this hour u. S. Tech giant among them Apple Microsoft and google facing a lawsuit from numerous congolese parents and children human Rights Groups accuse the companies of being complicit in the death of children who work in cobalt mines in the Company Supply chains cobalt is in high demand as is widely used in batteries for devices such as smart phones here are some of the testimonies from children who for legal reasons have all been given the same name and a warning that there are some images coming up you might find distressing 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 will never was severely injured he was 14 years old when he was rushed in the mine the families and injured children are seeking compensation for forced labor negligence and Emotional Distress some also claim they suffered serious injuries while crawling through tunnels or carrying heavy loads r. T. Saskia taylor has more on this 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 in court as part of the Landmark 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 in democratic republic of congo to mine 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 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 are 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 small 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 wages 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 youre all the good guy indeed taking a major peach from the corporate cover of god 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 it was of our life and our Eyesight Technology but how could we know it was costing lives too when we did ask the companies in question to comment on this they said reports of misconduct are always investigated with appropriate action taken and they also told us that they are committed to being responsible when sourcing materials but we also heard from a journalist in the d. L. C. Who claims the Companies Know exactly what they are doing. This system is not good in and they are taking profit from this of course they nor the world are the most of demining the mind coming from the cobalt or 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 in a very difficult area we cant even call it the bloods minerals and they have a direct responsibility on those Blood Minerals because they do want to buy and they were using it they know we do which could be sure those mining what mine is extracted from the us that is the place where we are talking about these people directly from the big copper. Well that is your news update for now and thats it for me Andrew Farmer will be here at the top of the hour with more news from around the world and see that. Martyr means being in some ways similar. To. The traditional to loose weight of acting so in other words if my dear and it is above the urban mobile occupation the flexible physically for studious articulate and so on then jews were the 1st modern schools that was their specialisation. During the Great Depression which im old mr remember there was and most of my family were unemployed working. There wasnt it was bed you know much worse objective listen to day but there was an expectation of the things were going to get better. There was a real sense of hopefulness there isnt today todays america was shaped by the turn principles of concentration of wealth and power. Reduced democracy attack solo down engineer elections manufacture consent and other principle holds according to no im chomsky one set of rules for the rich opposite set rules for. Thats what happens when you put her into the hands of a narrow sector of will switch will is dedicated to increasing power for chills just as youd expect