World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-10-22
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[0:00] with Shirley
[0:01] >> on your life. Get wired or you might
[0:04] just get left behind.
[0:13] From ABC News World Headquarters in New
[0:16] York, this is World News Tonight with
[0:19] Peter Jennings. Sitting in tonight, Jack
[0:22] Bour.
[0:23] >> Good evening. Before we get to our
[0:25] special look at the internet, a look at
[0:26] today's news. First to Russia, the
[0:28] bloodshed in Cheschna and the Kremlin's
[0:30] credibility problem. Russian officials
[0:32] have been all over the map defending
[0:34] last night's rocket attack on Cheschna's
[0:36] capital and denying they had anything to
[0:38] do with it. The attack may have killed
[0:40] 143 people and wounded more than 400.
[0:43] Chetchins say that many of the victims
[0:45] were civilians. Here's ABC's Klay Scott.
[0:49] This was the carnage in the Chetchin
[0:51] capital. And just as Russia's prime
[0:53] minister was saying his army was not
[0:55] responsible, a Russian military
[0:57] spokesman was saying, "Yes, we did
[0:59] attack the market. We were justified,"
[1:01] he said, "because it was a well-known
[1:03] arms market."
[1:05] >> Chetchin said, "Nonsense. No weapons are
[1:08] sold here, only fruits and vegetables.
[1:09] They killed women and children." It's
[1:12] hard to believe anything Russia is
[1:14] saying. The government said it would not
[1:15] attack Gnney. It has. The army promised
[1:18] precision bombs, but hundreds of
[1:20] civilians have been killed. Above all,
[1:23] Russia said it would never be drawn into
[1:25] another war in Cheschny. And now that is
[1:27] exactly what is happening with tanks
[1:29] moving toward Groy and what appears to
[1:32] be a massacre in a marketplace. Clay
[1:34] Scott, ABC News, Moscow.
[1:37] Convicted war criminal Maurice Papo