could be getting better but again this morning a blanket of toxic smoke covered the capital the scenes on the streets are really unreal it's almost like something out of a bizarre film as a group is going off now 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 just come to moscow has increased the carbon monoxide concentration in the air by several times this smog is very toxic and poisonous to greece we have registered a death increase in comparison with the usual summertime. shrouded 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 boys and us air the smog these terrible i can't breathe it makes my eyes each and nothing helps no

matter what do you whether we wear masks were true things go with the windows unable to cope with the heat and toxic smog many are now fleeing the capital. is taking her whole family on an unplanned vacation on a hunt for gulps of fresh air you know. you're not sure but i think there isn't one person who only moscow right now if they had an opportunity i feel sad for the elderly but most of them are really stuck here with. dr c. the number of deaths has doubled because of the pollution of tories 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 marge being issued it there may be no smoke inside but the heat is unbearable lives like you can option there is stash engineer it makes my house so on and it's feels dreadful but of course people shouldn't work in such

conditions the government must send them home and airports have become a mecca for tens of thousands hope to skip the small choking the sea here orchard. riza 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 but the thick smoke deleted flights turning many airports into suffocating traps for stranded passengers rain is now as highly sought after as snow at christmas weather forecast to see there will be a small decrease of temperatures and a change of wind in the next few days but unfortunately that's not enough burning forest and the boks 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. russia's deadly wildfires a small cities and poor harvest are being seen by some environmentalists as signs

of manmade climate change but others disagree by calling bill dodd spoke to piers corbyn of the weather action foundation who says it's all down to climate cycles. club it 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 the 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 is here is the sun in the moon or doing things you see very similar situation happened about one hundred thirty two years ago where was the side. of magnetic state there was he why didn't bush on the war

so floods in pakistan. and in the previous few years there was also flood to leverage some of also under him thirty two years ago so these things are. sold out to fit in the moon has nothing to do with mankind those who started are to just go on about money. coming your way here on r t a legal battle in the us the women behind bars were told by the parole board the afraid of these only to see the decision overturned by the state governor we'll look at the calls for a change. human rights campaigners in britain are alarmed over plans to install surveillance cameras on planes 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 is laura am it 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 a private person or you wouldn't i don't know this i mean 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 to be surveilled there's a more in me but nothing to hide so we don'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 on motorways 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 flyer is now one way to do that is to look very carefully at the types of cues that we take so for example someone may be nervously anxious lee sweating in our 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 of information to close. a lot to think of. 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. apart from the civil rights issues many question the efficacy of the 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. on

twitter but here's what's online for you today sail aerobatics caught on video helicopter crashes in a ball of flames. wrong. parasailing donkey. might actually be a fake. well in some u.s. states the governor has the power to overturn parole decisions means manning prisoners ready to restart their lives often see their liberty snatched from before the your eyes and as christine frisell found out of the system kim heard those most deserving of a second chance. meet norma kuhn pm 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 standing on our feet now forty years old she's been behind bars since one thousand nine hundred ninety two 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 the 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's 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 and 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 schwarzenegger has overturned more than sixty percent previous governor 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 those

are the number we. heard there on the way for him 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 thousands 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 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 of washington is going to have with plans to build a new military base there the washington post reported that the construction of a ten million dollar facility was on course despite recent violence in kyrgyzstan that is paper claims the base was first proposed under former president kurmanbek bakiev after he was ousted following an uprising in april talks continued with the interim president. washington has been using them in the last year base in kyrgyzstan to supply its troops in afghanistan for some time out of cotton mather maher is a former head of the country's security council believes the us is the number one foreign policy to do list and the full interview is coming up in an hour but here's a quick preview. it was a few switches there is a good. neighbor is better than

a distant relative could be stolen is in the area of interest from a new powers who could give the government has taken part in the settlement of several problems such as iran issue within the situations in which you sit on and afghanistan can i speak clearly and cast away diplomatic sort of thing. that will matter in the region erdos or brochure. not to mention the arrest of some cheerleaders and of course china. and now a quick look at some other stories making headlines around the world yes to fans 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 channels and admirals he hopes to free up spending for frontline troops and save about one hundred billion dollars over five years the secretary said the u.s. military had become top heavy and too costly after nine eleven. has the

positive three billion dollars into relief fund to assist those affected by the oil spill in the gulf of mexico that amount is just the first installment into plans twenty billion dollars compensation fund the leak was stopped in july the fifteenth and some eighty seven days after the well burst open in april. 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 chandy fox believes legalization of well the drug related crime and corruption the current leader felipe calderon is told for debate on the issue of remains personally opposed to the idea. watching our team coming up well look at north a city its nature reserve its renowned for its wild live but is even more celebrated for its ancient architectural landmarks don't miss that in our special

report player. discovery to. communicate with you want to. test yourself and become free. see what nature can give you. and as a short break it's a business update with stephanie so don't go away hungry for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers. every month we give you the future we help you understand how we'll get there and

what tomorrow brings the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world. join us for technology update on r g. welcome to the business but its in russia's our culture ministry has cut its green harvest for costs for this year to between sixty and sixty five million tonnes that's around thirty percent lower than in two thousand and nine how to quoting to prime minister vladimir putin the ban on grain exports being lifted any time soon. even with the harvest of. domestic needs in food this year the question is what the country will have next year 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 harvest will have the problem is that we are not

able to seed winter crops because of the heat lifting the. let's have a quick look at how the asian stock markets are shaping up on tuesday in tokyo the nikkei has turned negative despite great direct u.s. stocks rose slightly overnight on top of the federal reserve new steps to a sluggish economic recovery and in hong kong shares are also weak as investors remain aware of data due out in china market players are waiting from some major companies. on the russian market for trade in the next hour here in moscow they finished monday's session in the us put on more than half a percent on the i six. the top performing on the r.t.s. up over three percent close. all up before the my sex gaining over one and a half percent. well then one hundred thousand people fled moscow on sunday due to heat on small getting the city most airlines sold extra tickets for the weekend but

was saying weather conditions have led to flight delays in moscow. it's horrible to see the small good climatic conditions we're experiencing them and does it have a huge impact on business and my car for people to leave the city and fly to the beaches in the south so i think i'll sell in destinations are doing very well in terms of the operation i mean it has had some some small impact on our operations to date what are your company's extension plans we're aiming at to put the same level as royal royal 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 a cold. 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 so the point is being made in many markets it's a 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 by liberating people to be able to travel by every 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 rather than trouble to to egypt told tokyo

markets so socially economically politically i think a local site is already important for russia but will become much more important the next five years. from aviation to automobile sales of new cars in russia have grown nine percent in the first seven months of the year compared to the same period in two thousand and nine the association of european businesses says nine of the ten best selling cars in the country are assembled in russia so this is number one among russia based producers with sales up thirty four percent after the us is second with a twenty eight percent boost in sales gas group came in third place however analysts expect 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 and this caused another wave of record as prices for finance and sword now the answer may not be service wants to find out why the watchdog will launch an investigation into whether companies artificially created supply shortages for

these items prices for france have jumped six fold. experience price hikes overall the increased use of electrical appliances in moscow has seen a nine percent jump in energy consumption in july. into that advertising in russia has increased by a bird 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 grew ten percent with growth picking up pace in the second quarter experts say if the dynamics keep up the new growth in the russian advertising market could be higher than your forecast. and that's why the business news for you for now but i'll be back with more updates in about an hour's time and of course you can always find the stories on our website that's r.t. dot com slash business.

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you're watching are you going to live from moscow these are the headlines despite being partially under control where you can wildfires continue to destroy land and homes across russia the voices are being caused by an extraordinary heat wave which experts now say is the worst for thousands of years. and moscow remains in the grip of smog was a toxic cloud back after a short break on monday many are now fleeing the city out of fear for their health with a number of deaths now double the average. briton is developing in flight surveillance systems for a new e.u. project aimed at tackling terrorism but many worry it will erode privacy in a country that's already the most watched in the world. as your update with main news stories this hour next artie's interview program spot why. speaks to nobel peace prize winner a bangladeshi banker and economist muhammad yunus he championed his bank a scheme to give loans to people too poor to qualify for traditional lending.

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