1.   Hundreds of armed riot police are surrounding the Russian parliament building and pro-Communist rebels inside have been given twenty-four hours to surrender.

2.   At the house, the police met resistance from Tupac Amaru rebels inside.

3.   But talks with the rebels inside Zaire, who control most of the border area, were inconclusive.

4.   Russian military officials had hoped to trap the rebels inside Grozny to prevent them from continuing their guerrilla war from the mountains.

5.   The rebels inside the compound had opened fire at the security forces.

6.   Those figures did not include the Interior Ministry troops, which have had the main responsibility for finding and destroying the rebels inside Grozny and other Chechen towns.

7.   Peruvian television station Panamericana reported all the rebels inside the residence were killed in the attack.

8.   A Tupac Amaru rebel inside the compound also repeated rebel demands that their jailed comrades be freed.

9.   Federal troops maintained a tight cordon around the hospital in Budyonnovsk in a tense standoff with the dozens of heavily armed rebels inside.