there's no words to describe this destruction that we're seeing here today absolutely right in saying this destruction kind of speaks for itself but what's happening in the russian capital today in moscow the breathing conditions there any better. well on monday there was a window where people thought ok maybe this is it for weeks we haven't been able to breathe but today we can see the sky it seems like we're breathing a little better but that is not the case this morning again a blanket of toxic smoke covered the capital people are doing the best they can to live through it but they really want to know when this is going to end and no one can really say that the scene on the streets of moscow are really unreal almost something like out of a film. has more. 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 do you wish mark would just

come to moscow has increased the carbon monoxide concentration in the air by several times this smog is very toxic and the boys in the story we have registered a death increasingly appears and with the usual summary. 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 boys and i stare at the smog is terrible i can't breathe it makes my eyes each and nothing helps no matter what we do whether we wear masks were put with curtains over the windows unable to cope with the heat and toxic smog many are now fleeing the capital. staking her whole family on an unplanned vacation on a hunt for gulps of fresh air. 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 but it's

a. doctor 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 small centers have been set up distributing water and masks what a lack of air conditioners more the initiative there may be no smoke in sight but the heat is unbearable just like you can option there is stash engineer it makes my town so on and his view is dreadful for people shouldn't work in such conditions the government must send them home and air force have become a mecca for tens of thousands hope to use keep the small children in the see here orchard. these are free countries now the number one choice because it's possible to leave ride the next day but besides that people are going in all directions even topical countries we seem more comfortable compared to this heat but this small deal lead for months turning many airports into suffocating traps for stranded

passengers rena is now as highly sought after as snow at christmas weather forecasts do you 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 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. and russia's deadly wildfires the smog filled cities and poor harvest are being seen by some environmentalists the signs of manmade climate change but others disagree my colleague bill dodd spoke to piers corbyn of the weather action foundation who says it's all down to climate cycles climate has always been but it has nothing to do with man and we predicted there would be extreme heat in used 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 me not nothing to do with the only connection is man is here the same time as 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 state there was in russia and there was so floods in pakistan. and in the previous few years there was also flood to leverage some of or so hundred thirty two years ago so these things are. physically in the moon has nothing to do with mankind and those who say that are just trying to make money. still coming your way here in r t this hour a legal battle in the u.s.

the woman behind bars are told by the parole board they're free to leave only to see the decision overturned by the state governor will look out the calls for change. and human rights campaigners in britain are alarmed over plans to install surveillance cameras on planes in 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 are lower and it reports. all 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 long civil liberties campaigners who fear further growth in the surveillance state but at passengers are divided yelling as bad because it's like a private person or you wouldn't 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 to be surveilled is annoying 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 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 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 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 that come to places. a lot 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.

to just be creeping completely. apart from the civil rights issues many question the efficacy of an on board system if a terrorist isn't course at the airports they say by the time a plane's thirty thousand feet up is it is already too late. as ever there is lots more on our website our common law. twitter here's what's online for you today. is fatal aerobatics caught on video a helicopter crashes in a ball of flames as an aerial show horribly wrong go to the top. and the world famous he was rescued by a british tabloid might actually be a fake twists and turns of his life.

in some us states the governor has the power to overturn parole decisions it means many prisoners ready to restart their lives often see their liberty snatched from before their eyes and as christine found out the system can hurt those most deserving of a second chance. meet norma 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'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 mary saw 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'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 though there were the number we. heard there on the way about 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 here 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. american radio host tom harkin 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 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. following months of political turmoil in kyrgyzstan a date has been set for the parliamentary election in the central asian states the vote will take place on october the town and they grow

a popular uprising to the country's president and the interim government was established a referendum in june support of a constitution change that would make kurdistan a parliamentary democracy but not a current model bar it was the former head of the country security council believes that interim government is not supported by the majority of the population a full interviews coming up next hour here in our towards the. little's of which according to our constitution no one has the right to disperse to parliament and the constitutional authority to do appears to hold the mouse resulted from d.c. first steps taken by the interim government of them which is obvious to the people of divided into two groups which are the premiums because there is a small portions of the people who support the government and an absolute majority who don't recognise the present the word either legally or socially.

and a quick look now at some of the stories making headlines around the world iran has reported where you launched a second cycle of uranium enrichment which if true would breach a u.n. resolution inspectors say they saw signs of a more efficient method being used during their latest visit in july a fabulous. but it job said his country hadn't breached nuclear fuel to twenty percent and could do more the weapons grade was usually around eighty percent but anything above twenty percent is considered highly enriched. the u.n. chief has called on the international community to support flood hit pakistan move us to issue an emergency plan to appeal for several hundred million dollars in aid stan estimates over fourteen million people have been affected by the worst floods in eighty years and for now. moments and rains show little sign of abating. 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 frontline troops and save about one hundred billion dollars over five years secretary said the u.s. military has become top heavy and too costly after nine eleven. that brings us up to date here and business news is next with stephanie. hello and welcome to the business bulletin russia's losses due to the forests and peat fires still raging across the country could reach fifteen billion dollars according to early estimates the record temperatures the summit may cost at least one percent of g.d.p. growth but that's just direct losses and short term effects most of the money will be spent on restoring houses and compensation the first official figures are expected next week as part of the federal statistics services for port underlies industrial production the long term impact is unlikely to be known until the end of

the year. and nineteen consecutive hit records have been set so far this summer in moscow alone this caused another wave of records as prices for fans and a conditions have soared and now the antimonopoly service wants to find out why the watchdog will launch an investigation into whether companies aren't officially created supply shortages for these items prices for fans have jumped sixfold a conditions have also experienced price hikes over all the increased use of electrical appliances in moscow i've seen a nine percent jump in energy consumption in july. russia's agricultural ministry has cut its grain harvest forecasts for this year to between sixty and sixty five million tonnes that's around thirty percent lower than in two thousand and nine and according to prime minister vladimir putin the ban on grain export won't be lifted anytime soon. even with the harvest apparently we will cover our domestic needs you

know this year that is the question and 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 over this year we will review our decision to ban grain imports into only in line with what harvest it will have the words of the problem is that we are not able to seed winter crops because of the heat so lifting the word happy. now it's have a quick look at having nation. the shaping up on tuesday in tokyo the nikkei finished in the red despite growth that maxwell to its u.s. stocks rose slightly overnight on talk of the federal reserve. steps to boost a sluggish economic recovery and in hong kong shares were also weak as investors remain wary ahead of data in the china market those are awaiting results from some major companies and here in moscow markets are lower in early trade for my six machette hoffa sentiments for us dollar funks are dropping would be to be has no great gains made in the previous session down nearly one percent and if you names

are also suffering. more than one hundred thousand people fled moscow by plane on sunday due to heat and smoke blanketing the city most airlines sold extra tickets for the weekend but what's new weather conditions have led to flight delays in moscow airports. it's horrible to see the small good climatic conditions we're experiencing them and does it have a huge impact on 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. those as royal. 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 russian transport to develop into the next five years to the point is being made in many markets is low cost airlines that really draw you had traffic to modern drug 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 the plus points but you also very importantly i think lubricate i can only grow 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 will become much more important the next five years. and from aviation to automobile sales of new cars in russia have grown a 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 here in russia so this is number one amongst russian based producers were sales up thirty four percent after a 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 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 you can always find most stories on our

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a look at the top stories. being partially under. control raging 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 sounds in years. and moscow remains in the grip of smog with a toxic cloud back after a short break on monday many are now fleeing the city out of fear for their health whether the 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 maddie worry it will grow privacy in a country that's already the most watched in the book. those who have lines of at the top of the hour right now it's time for the kaiser report this time max takes a look at the wall street bankers will blame the economic collapse on small time borers that's next here on our team.

i max kaiser welcome to the kaiser report markets finance and scandals and robot trainers terrorizing wall street and the american and global economy let's bring in stacy herbert stacy herbert tell us more max kaiser well it is summer and summer is often the time of sequels so this brings me to the first headline deflationary blackhole the sequel who will wall street send to congress to extort fifteen trillion dollars this time yes they're back but before i start the whole that story i want to set the scene yes at this unhappy robber gunmen calls a restaurant to gripe so this is a restaurant in atlanta georgia and a man who robbed a wendy's at gunpoint last week apparently was so upset with his haul that he called twice to the restaurant to complain afterward he said quote next time there

better be more than five hundred eighty six dollars poses a brilliant i see we're going with this is brilliant because if the man were hank paulson and he was in front of congress they would have given him seven hundred billion you see because there's not a partner to wall street firm he's an untouchable and america's society is an underling is a part of the sort of class yes but as we also see the set up for a second heist of the american population it's a trickle down mood that they can get away with it like this guy obviously feels that it's ok and it's acceptable to just call and complain about how little you got the first time we only got seven hundred billion the first time we want a trillion or two trillion i think it's a good point the wall street bankers are setting the moral agenda and the american landscape and there's no leadership in white house to counter that with any kind of moral leadership whatsoever they outsource their morality to wall street.