2004, for the national convention, tom brokaw was in new york reporting from the convention. and on the third night of the convention, the big news of the night, was supposed to be that president bush just accepted his party s nomination to run for a second term. and that that night, dick cheney was going to address the crowd in new york. that was supposed to be the big news. but, instead, the breaking lead story on nightly news and around the world, came from russia, came from a school in russia. 00 people, including at least a hundred children, are being held hos tang in a southern province right on the border of check knee ya, the islamic area in a long-running war with moscow. reporter: all day, parents watched, wept and waited. it was the day when militants stormed the building.
Convention. and on the third night of the convention, the big news of the night, was supposed to be that president bush just accepted his party s nomination to run for a second term. and that that night, dick cheney was going to address the crowd in new york. that was supposed to be the big news. but, instead, the breaking lead story on nightly news and around the world, came from russia, came from a school in russia. 400 people, including at least a hundred children, are being held hos tang in a southern province right on the border of check knee ya, the islamic area in a long-running war with moscow. reporter: all day, parents watched, wept and waited. it was the day when militants stormed the building. a managed to escape as russian police and troops circled the building. inside, more than a dozen
And on the third night of the convention, the big news of the night, was supposed to be that president bush just accepted his party s nomination to run for a second term. and that that night, dick cheney was going to address the crowd in new york. that was supposed to be the big news. but, instead, the breaking lead story on nightly news and around the world, came from russia, came from a school in russia. 400 people, including at least a hundred children, are being held hostage in a southern province right on the border of check knee ya, the islamic area in a long-running war with moscow. all day, parents watched, wept and waited. it was the morning of the first day when militants stormed the building. a few managed to escape as russian police and troops circled the building. inside, more than a dozen
Control the situation. these comments today are absolutely the strongest yet. ukraine has been very reticent, because as a lot of world leaders has come out to say nobody wants a war with moscow. world leaders are expected to meet this week. they are meeting this evening to address a situation. it s very tense, very fluid. also the demonstrators out marching today in moscow, about 5,000 of them, we heard earlier reports about 10,000. they are basically very upset because there s a big propaganda machine out of moscow basically showing television footage showing russians in crimea and also eastern ukraine are going to face personal attacks by the government in kiev. they are calling the government in kiev fascist. a lot of people in moscow are very upset because they say that is not the case. ukraine has not had a chance to install its own government and try to get control of their own
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