are now. i did the smog situation remains very intense i woke up at about four am and like you said on monday the it seemed like we were getting a little bit of relief but when i woke up this morning very early to calm here i realize that it was another false set of hope that this perhaps was coming to an end that of course is the scariest part no one can really say when the situation will get better when muscovites will be able to breathe free again people are dealing with the situation as best they can many people have left the city if they're able to but some people have to say because of work but the scenes on the streets of moscow are unreal it's almost like something out of a bizarre film as are reports. this is not a scene from a science fiction movie with a post-apocalyptic plot this is moscow with every other person wearing a mask the city now looks like the center of a dangerous epidemic and like such a scenario people's health is at great risk to do this to you the smog which has

come to moscow has increased the carbon monoxide concentration in the air by several times this smog is very toxic and poisonous to breathe we have registered a death increase in comparison with the usual summertime. drowned in a smoky haze desperate people have tried everything from dampening cloth and putting it on the windows to using vacuum cleaners to suck in. the small these terrible i can breathe it makes my eyes and nothing helps no matter what we have and we're masks were true things we do when doom's unable to cope with the heat and toxic small and many are now fleeing the capital. taking her whole family on an unplanned vacation on a hunt for groups of fresh air. i think there isn't one person who only moscow right now if they had an opportunity i feel sorry for the elderly most of

them really. dr here. dr see the number of deaths has doubled because of the pollution authorities are trying to ease people suffering which includes heat stroke and dehydration so-called smart centers have been set up distributing water and masks but a lack of air conditioners more being issued it there may be no smoke in sight but the heat is unbearable lives like you who cannot bury stache engineer it makes my town sore and it feels dreadful but of course people shouldn't work in such conditions the government must send them. and airports have become a mecca for tens of thousands who hope to skip the small choking the city here to orchard for the reason free countries are the number one choice because it's possible to leave ride the next day but besides that people go in in all directions even topical countries who seem more comfortable compared to this heat wave but the thick smoke deal lead flights turning many airports into suffocating traps for

stranded passengers rain is now as highly sought after as snow at christmas weather forecasts do say there will be a small decrease of temperatures and a change of wind in the next few days but unfortunately that's not enough while burning forest and the box are feeding the capital smog there's no imminent end in sight to the apocalyptic scenes you've got this going off or to moscow. of russia's deadly wildfires the smog filled cities and poor harvest are being seen by some environmentalists as signs of manmade climate change but others disagree my colleague bill dodd spoke to piers corbyn of the weather action foundation says it's all down to climate cycles. climate has always been china but it has nothing to do with man and we predicted that there would be extreme heat used to europe and russia this summer and it's caused by a. pattern c o two does not cause circulation patterns what causes those is

a combination of solar activity and the state of the phases of the moon. excuse me just a minute you say this isn't caused by man how come the reporting this heat wave is recognize the worst in a thousand years of recorded history in russia and. has got something to do with this has really not nothing to do with only the only connection is man here is the sun and the moon are doing things you see a very similar situation happened about one hundred thirty two years ago where it was the size. of magnetic states and there was he was in russia on the road so floods in pakistan. and in the previous few years there was also floods in the summers also hundred thirty two years ago so these things are. physically in the moon so nothing to do with mankind and those who study are to just go on about money and still coming your way this hour here in r.t.l.

legal battle in the us the women behind bars were told by the parole board they are free to leave only to see the decision overturned by the state governor on the lookout the calls for change. human rights human rights campaigners in britain are alarmed over e.u. plans to install surveillance cameras on planes and the project is aimed at preventing terrorism but some believe more cameras will lead to even more of a big brother society in a country that's already the most watched in the world artie's lauren at reports. off for a week in the sun but if the european union project goes ahead these people could have their conversations and movements monitored while they're flying the plan has a law on civil liberties campaigners who fear further growth in the surveillance state but at passengers a divided yelling as this kid is like private personally when i don't know this i think is a line and you keep pushing and pushing it with like the regulations and i think

it's so prevalent already. with this expected you watch t.v. you watch t.v. you'll be surveilled. here there's a more in me but nothing to hide so i wouldn't worry me personally. the e.u. project is aimed at tackling terrorism by analyzing the way passengers behave in a bid to isolate potential bombers or hijackers when they're already on board at the moment surveillance on planes is mainly limited to a c.c.t.v. camera near the cockpit britons are the most watched people in the world with more c.c.t.v. cameras per capita than any other nation there are cameras almost always in train stations and in at ports and it's here at the university of reading that the new in-flight surveillance system is being developed it won't just include cameras they'll also be microphones and special systems for monitoring unusual behavior behavior the system will eventually be able to pick up include sweating moving

around the cabin in an erratic way and repeated visits to the toilet dr james ferryman insists it will distinguish between potential terrorists a nervous fly is now one way to do that is to look very carefully at the types of cues that we detect so for example someone may be nervously anxious lee sweating in a solution because it doesn't say anything it could be just. but it could be a terrorist but we only know that when we combine this information with other sources and come to places. i like to think of it as not big brother watching but. not everyone sees it that way campaigners say previous is one of the litmus tests for democracy and mass surveillance erodes it enormously. and it. continues.

completely. apart from the civil rights issues many question the efficacy of an on board system if a terrorist isn't cool at the airport they say by the time a plane's thirty thousand feet up isn't already too late. as ever there is lots more on our website our. top rated video. on twitter on line for you today. horribly wrong. and the world famous parasailing donkey who was rescued by a british tabloid actually because they.

in some u.s. states the governor has the power to overturn parole decisions means manny prisoners ready to restart their wives often see their liberty snatched from before the your eyes and as christine found out the system can heard those most deserving a second chance. made normal. when i first came here my son wasn't even a year old and i think that he. kind of sees me and the other women that he's met here at the visiting room he kind of sees like women that have. gone through a lot and ended up you know still standing on our feet now forty years old she's been behind bars since one thousand nine hundred ninety two people convicted of

killing her abusive boyfriend during a violent attack one of many in their relationship this is somebody who doesn't belong behind bars somebody who made a terrible mistake and readily admits that she made a terrible mistake by picking up a gun in the first place in two thousand and nine she was found to be suitable for parole by the california parole board that decision was overturned by california governor arnold schwarzenegger a reality shared by many women here at the california institution for women in los angeles most have long histories of abuse from the person for whom they are convicted of killing a down the road the university of southern california law school has taken up the cause of many of these women in a program called the post conviction justice project professor michael brennan is one of the founders our clients for the most part have committed a single serious crime in their life and that's a crime that they're serving their sentence for they are represented by law students like andy martin i'm representing maris or garcia who was at the age of

thirteen trafficked into the united states and sold to a man who for six years physically emotionally and sexually abused her garcia was forced at gunpoint to help that man drag and bury the body of the man he had shot then convicted of aiding and abetting so far she has served seventeen years in march she too was deemed suitable for parole the parole process is really the beginning of a long legal battle for the convicted it's not the end of the. story it turns out it's not even the end of this chapter parole for both garcia and could be in was just reversed by california governor arnold schwarzenegger of the four thousand cases that go before the board each year just about seventeen percent are found suitable for parole and of those governor's fortune egger has overturned more than sixty percent previous governors reversed ninety percent so why why this

obsession with incarceration because most governors in california certainly at some point in their career feel that they may have. possibility of running for president they're concerned about granting parole to inmates who might go out and commit a serious crime but many of these women's records show they would not be a danger to society that they were young and scared for their lives or for the lives of their children. ok the crime or the number we. heard there on the way to be on the one. end of the line for many is here. in prison for life despite their sentence you can't turn parole boy if sentences into.

what we call l.-wop sentences life without possibility of parole simply because. victims rights groups or others think that if you've been convicted of murder you should never be paroled a broken system chance is given then taken away and still hope the system will change for campian that she'll be reunited with her son it will work out in the end if if you really truly love somebody like the way that i love him i want him to be the best like even if i have to stay here forever i just want him to be. the best in los angeles christine for south r.t. an american radio host tom hartman says people have been treated as disposable in the u.s. for centuries in the united states for really up until the last maybe four or five decades we had so much space so much potential for growth that people

were many people were considered disposable and we had slaves that were largely viewed as disposable europe at a very different experience europe has been densely populated for centuries for for millennia and so in europe the problem of problem people has been you know we're going to have to have these people back in our culture and their relatives and friends will about how can we fix them in america it was to string them up their disposable people and so we went from the wild west notion of hanging to the modern notion of the death penalty and you know all through that was the threat of crime punishment vengeance and nowhere did we ever have the need or the perceived need to get into a conversation about rehabilitation. kyrgyzstan has denied us media reports that the u.s. is going ahead with plans to build a new military base in the country the washington post reported that the

construction of a ten million dollar facility was going had spiked recent violence and care to stand there were claims a base was first proposed under former president kurmanbek bakiev after he was ousted following an uprising in april talks continue with the interim president. washington has been using the manassas air base in kyrgyzstan for a number of years and much of our of his former head of the country's security council believes the u.s. isn't number one foreign policy to do list will bring you a little later in the program. it was a few switches there is a good thing neighbor is better than a distant relative could be stalin is in the area of interest from a new powers to cuba gives government in part in the settlement of several problems such as iran issue when the situations introduced on and afghanistan can i speak clearly and cast away the diplomatic sort of thing. that will matter in the region

erdos or brochure because of strong not to mention the rest of central leadership and of course china. and a full interview will be coming your way later in the program and now a quick look at some of the stories making headlines around the world and u.s. defense secretary robert gates has proposed shifting resources and cutting spending in the country's massive military budget by reducing outside contractors and the number of generals and admirals he hopes to free up spending for front line troops and save about one hundred billion dollars over five years the secretary said the u.s. military has become top heavy and too costly after nine eleven. he has deposited three billion dollars into really fun to assist those affected by the oil spill in the gulf of mexico that amount is just the first installment of planned twenty billion dollars compensation fund the leak was stopped on july the fifteenth and some eighty seven days after the well burst open in april. and mexico's former

president has called for the legalization of drugs claiming prohibition clearly isn't working some twenty eight thousand people in the country have been killed in drug related violence since two thousand and seven percent a fox believes legalization may help well drug related crime and corruption the current leader of flipper calderon has called for a debate on the issue but remains personally opposed to the idea. coming out who look at north a city as nature reserve and its renowned for its wild live but is even more celebrated for its ancient architectural landmarks so don't miss that in our special report later in the program.

and become. one of your staff and so you've got a business update and of course i everyone has been affected by the situation by the weather conditions in moscow and the question is how is it affecting the business world well unsurprising marina a lot of people have been leaving the city in fact sunday saw an exodus of one hundred thousand people but some businesses have been benefiting prices of funds have jumped six fold i'll have more on that in just a bit later but first russia's our cultural ministry has cut its grain harvest forecast for this year to between sixty and sixty five million tons that's around a thirty percent lower than in two thousand and nine and according to prime minister vladimir putin a ban on grain exports won't be lifted anytime soon. even with the harvest if

we will cover our domestic needs in food this year the question is what the country will have next two years we don't know what the harvest will be and we don't know what we will carry out this year we will review our decision to ban grain imports only in line with what the what the problem is that we are not able to seed winter crops because of the heat so lifting the word happy. let's have a quick look at how the asian stock markets the shaping up on tuesday in tokyo the nikkei has turned negative in the last hour despite growth in exports u.s. stocks rose slightly overnight on top of the federal reserve will soon signal new steps to boost economic recovery and in hong kong shares are also weak as investors remain a wary ahead of data due out in china market players are waiting first off results from some major companies the russian markets finished monday's session in the black hair in moscow the r.t.s. put on more than half a percent on the my six gained over one percent and nicole was the top performing

blue chip on the r.t.s. up over three percent a close wild west hydro gas pump. all out performed on my sex gain i thought one and a half percent. more than one hundred thousand people fled moscow on sunday due to heat and smoke blanketing the city and sold extra tickets for the weekend but worsening weather conditions have led to flight delays in moscow airports. it's horrible to see the small good and the climatic conditions we're experiencing them and does it have a huge impact on the business and may encourage people to leave the city and fly to the beaches in the south so i think i'll sell and destinations are doing very well in terms of the operation i mean it has had some some small impact on operations to date what are your company's extension plans we're aiming to put phase down at the same level as the royal road problem i'll trademark has been five hundred roubles

they are bhatkal two hundred fifty rubles one way so the key way of motivating people to fly is of course. but you've got a couple that we've safety and reliability and safety is a key issue for us as well you have combat areas on the russian market do you think russian market of low cost company is a way for low cost airlines i think will be the big driver of russian transport to develop into the next five years to the point has been made in many markets it's low cost airlines that really draw you had traffic to mom and drive traffic growth i think from a national perspective. the growth of low cost airlines is very important it. liberating people to be able to travel by air very cheaply you improve national identity you improve social cohesion you increase social mobility these are all plus points but you also very importantly i think lubricate economic growth because for small businesses in particular local aviation is very important and encourages

into a city called mostly into into city business and finally last but not least you. think we can give a big boost to domestic terrorism and we can encourage russians to stay at home and have holidays inside russia very cheaply. trouble to to egypt told tokyo markets so socially economically politically i think a local site is already important for russia but it will become much more important the next five years. from aviation to automobile sales of new cars in russia have grown at nine percent in the first seven months of the year compared to the same period in two thousand and nine this is usually of european businesses says nine of the ten best selling cars in the country are assembled in russia solar's is number one amongst russian based producers with sales up thirty four percent after us took second place with a twenty eight percent boost in sales came in third place however this expects a decline in the growth of cells in august and september due to holidays in many

russian plants nineteen consecutive heat records have been set so far this summer in moscow this caused another wave of records as prices for fans and ecan dishes have soared and now the service wants to find out why the watchdog will launch an investigation into whether companies artificially created supply shortages for these items prices for founds have jumped six fold ecan dishes have also experienced price hikes overrule the increased use of electrical appliances in moscow has seen a nine percent jump in energy consumption in july. internet advertising in russia has increased by a third in the first half of two thousand and ten year on year that's the fastest growth amongst all the sectors of the country's appetising industry the market as a whole group ten percent with growth picking up pace in the second quarter experts say if the dynamics keep up the new growth for the russian advertising market could be higher than earlier forecast. and that's all the business use for now but i'll be back with more updates for you in about an hour's time and of course you can

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more coming to live from moscow here's a look at the top stories despite being partially under control raging wildfires continue to the story landed homes across russia blazes are being caused by an extraordinary feed wave which experts now say is the worst for a thousand years. moscow remains in the grave and smog was a toxic while back after a short break on monday many are now fleeing the city out of fear of their health with a number of deaths all the average. briton is developing in flight surveillance systems for a new e.u. project aimed at tackling terrorism but many worry it will road privacy in a country that's already the most watched in the world. next hour to talk to the former security council had of kyrgyzstan and presidential candidate. they discuss domestic and foreign policy issues in the central asian state recovering from a recent bloody uprising and clashes.

the curtis interim government has announced a date of presidential elections one of the candidates and leader of the party of the united kurdistan has agreed to talk to r.t. to explain his vision for the future of the central asian state mr with a lot of thank you so much for finding the time to talk to us the last three months in kurdistan have been very tense and there's been a lot of violence why it has this happened because if the people were unhappy with president bakiev it would appear that it would be logical for the tensions to die down after he was ousted. little's of which well the question is solid jerram of the present government is and whether their actions comply with the constitutional norms you said it was said initially that the constitutional framework should not be laterally that was according to our constitution no one has the right to disperse the parliament and the constitutional court it appears that old amounts

resulted from these first steps taken by the interim government to lecture to his rather placer it's obvious that the people who are the so-called elected have divided into two groups having opposite opinions because there is a small portion of the caregivers people who support the government and an absolute majority of those who don't recognise the president as the word he used either legally or socially that's at least the last of the recent opposition rallies that were dispersed by riot police officials have called them an attempt to physically over take power do you agree with this opinion some thought the. color which happened on april seventh dish year shows that the situation will continue to be like that because of a new power not just this power does not appear to the people and does not have their choice in this power is fragile in this respect but there was certainly a peer group of people who would like to come to power in the same way as to.