----- Original Message ----- From: Newsnight To: leighcmeyers at yahoo.com Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 9:20 AM Subject: In tonight's programme ============================================================ NEWSNIGHT - FRIDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 22:30 BST - BBC TWO ============================================================ <snip> A different story tonight amidst the horror and chaos of the Beslan siege.
An award winning Russian journalist claims that while she was flying from Moscow to north Ossetia to cover the story she was poisoned by the Russian Secret Service.
Anna Politkovskaya, has for several years now written stories detailing Russian atrocities in Chechnya, and was called in by the hostage takers at the Moscow theatre as a negotiator.
She claims the FSB poisoned her tea on the plane, and that she ended up in hospital.
In her first broadcast interview she talks about her allegations, how the situation at the school was reported - and how it wasn't - and about the freedom of the press in Russia. <snip> ======================