Cobalt winds in the democratic republic of congo parents of those killed say the companies had all the means to prevent the deaths. Hello here watching R T International im Rosana Lockwood thank you for joining us. Top story this hour numerous shots were fired by gunmen in the vicinity of the federal Security Service building in moscow Security Forces returned fire and one person has been confirmed that the gun battle happened in the very center of the russian capital only about a kilometer from the kremlin and this video reportedly shows the shooter at the moment of the attack his stores have been acting alone and his identity has not yet been confirmed the area around the scene has been cordoned off the following is footage of the moments shots rang out. 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 and 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 this 1st missile people running and then a swat team armed with Assault Rifles came running in the opposite direction and then we heard a massive go on fire we dont know what exactly happened there are offices all sisters stay away from the windows and they let us leave the bar after a few hours is it but i was recently moved 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 so i dont know who was screaming because i didnt see anything it felt like the shooting last that for a pair 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. Aunties a roman culture of has been following details the scene 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 as soviet times and 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 a blog 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 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 still only about 5600 meters away russias state duma russias parliament is also just as the last throw away russias president ial Administration Building is also right over there there are plenty all for a boutique sands at a restaurant here and other store sue the famous new quotes 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 being a successful into his endeavors there would have been a lot more casualties but as we do know right now one f. Is b. Officer had been killed as a result of that attack and Russian Health ministry reported that 75. 00 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 that 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 who just going outside and he told us there was a shooting out im also an injured pos and he told us the engine 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 caffie so 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 emails are still working here at the scene well ali and my colleague neil hall they spoke in our correspondent daniel holkins has also been following the story and gave us some more details. In these sorts of incidents of course neal its always a case of slowly building some sort of tar and 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 act of. Any more we know that this attack an 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. 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 at about 10 past 6 in the evening now Security Forces and police are 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 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 and 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 she is 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 i thought at 1st it was fireworks or some firecrackers but as the sound continued we realized something was wrong Traffic Police who were on the connecticut bridge as usual began evacuating people barely got 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. The signals and youll see where 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 who 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. More videos have come in this is another video we can we can show you now and this allegedly shows the moment that the attack was targeted by police and Security Forces obviously we have it in the video to. The most graphic cards and this is unconfirmed its quite grainy shaky footage unbelievable how close these people filming how have managed to get to the attacker really a risk of their life does 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 that may well have been the case which it was speculated earlier in the evening was left in the lobby of the building with Security Officers well. May have been some 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 i say the on edited version of the 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 neil 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 of 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. We need to be more active in countering extremism. Uncompromisingly soup. Provocations violence that seems to drool people is officially you. The social radical activist but i mean weve covered tragically so many stories in the suit on the ground the attack the nice 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 violence and to say which one protecting rights liberties and privacy of people and Public Safety it is a debate that is going to be heard again. After this attack and thats to be taken very seriously when we spoke to charles shewbread hes a security analyst and former British Army Officer and he gave us his appraisal of the situation and told us where 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 very strong indication i think of what they were to vacation 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 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 had wrapped up at the World Trade Center spanning well over 4 hours this year rather made putin fielded questions on both domestic and International Issues with the latest dating scandal and the impeachment proceedings against donald trump among the topics raised. 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 our political scientists and public figures so we could be counseled. 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 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. Is work actually inventive when its just a continuation of political infighting one party that lost the election of the Democratic Party is working for exult through other methods accusing trump of collusion with russia then its discovered that there was no collusion that cant be the basis for impeachment and 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 in 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 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 political opponents but if you can move it on to the latest tensions between berlin and moscow that have to do with the. Murder of a Georgia National and germany with a terrorist background while germany believes that russia is somehow involved in it even led to 2 Russian Diplomats being expelled from berlin while of lot of my putin did night 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 get upset in the can he was a criminal and a killer in one attack alone in the caucasus 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 evil actions and we raised this question but mostly in syria we see what is going on in the coming jail as well i still fighters being killed people from central asia and russia and 2nd place but there are also m