*** A brief background on current events in Moscow: Thirteen days ago, President Boris Yeltsin disbanded congress and called for elections in December. Congress refused to disband and declared that vice-president Alexander Rutskoi was the new president. Congress is staffed by mostly old communist hardliners who refused to hold elections, and they are occupying the Russian Parliament building know as the russian whitehouse. In what CBS describes as the worst fighting in Moscow since 1917, reporting an unconfirmed 24 dead, police were routed by 10,000 anti-Yeltsin protestors marching into Moscow. There was violence in the streets; shots were fired around the White House and the TV center. The Ostankino TV center was captured by pro-Rutskoi forces, who also attempted to take over the ITAR-TASS newswire agency. The TV center was later recovered by Army forces. Pro-Yeltsin forces have defended the TV and Newswire buildings, and Yeltsin has given the armed forces the instruction to use whatever force is needed to defend Moscow from the pro-Rutskoi "rebels". Tanks and armored personnel carriers, led by Yeltsin's Minister for Defense, are moving into Moscow from several directions. Troops will fire if they are fired on. A state of emergency was declared by Yeltsin from Oct. 3 to 10.