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 greece 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 boys and air the smog is terrible i can't breathe it makes my eyes each and nothing helps no matter what whether we wear masks we're pretty quick curtains over the windows unable to cope with the heat and toxic smog many are now fleeing the capital. not taking 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. dr see 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 small centers have been set up distributing water and masks what a lack of air conditioners more the initiative there may be no smoke inside but the heat is unbearable just like you who cannot there is stash engineer it makes my heart sorry and it feels dreadful for a people shouldn't work in such conditions the government must send him home and air force have become a mecca for tens of thousands hope to skip the small chalking the sea here orchard for that reason free countries are the number. charles because it's possible to

leave ride the next day but besides that people are going in all directions even topical countries which 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 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 burning forest and the boks are feeding the capital smog there's no imminent end in sight to the apocalyptic scenes is going off or to moscow. and russia's deadly wildfires a small cities in poor harvest are being seen by some of our manolis as signs of manmade climate change but others disagree my colleague bill dodd spoke to piers corben of the weather action foundation who 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 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 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 design time as the sun in the moon or doing things you see a very similar situation happened about one hundred thirty two years ago where there was the side. of magnetic state there was he was in russia on the wall so floods in pakistan. and in the previous few years there was also flood to leverage summers also under thirty two years ago so these things are.

physically in the room so nothing to do with mankind and those who say they are to just trying to make money and watching aren't you also coming your way the sour and legal battle in the us the women behind bars for top of the robe already are free still be on me to see the decision overturned by the state government i will look at the calls for change. and human rights campaigners in britain are alarmed over e.u. plans to install surveillance cameras on planes the project is aimed at preventing terrorism but some believe what cameras will lead to even more of a big brother society in a country that's already the most watched in the world is or 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 yeah i think it's because it's 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 was like the regulations and i think it's so prevalent already. that this expected you watch t.v. you watch t.v. you'll be surveilled. tism or 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 persons 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 take 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. a lot to think of 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. continue. to just be create. a democracy 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 is it is already too late. as ever there is lots more. video. today. of video helicopter crashes and. wrong. for. the.

british tabloid. the twists and turns of his life. in some us states the governor has the power to overturn parole decisions means many prisoners ready to restart their lives often see their liberties snatched from before the your eyes as christine for south found out the system can heard 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 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 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 are 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 their assault 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 swartz a nigger 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 those are the number we. are 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 board of 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. an american radio host tom hartman says people have been treated this disposable in the us 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. following months of political turmoil in

kyrgyzstan a date has been set for the parliamentary and presidential election in the central asian state the vote will take place on the tampa tobar and in april a popular uprising oust of the country's president and an interim government was established a referendum in june supported the constitutional changes that would make kurdistan a parliamentary democracy out of mars if it was a former head of the country's security council and the presidential candidate believes the interim government has failed to win people support for injuries coming up in ten minutes time here in our social world but. it was. obvious that the people who were the so-called election you have to run it into two groups. because there's a small portion of the. support the government and an absolute majority are those who don't recognize the prison authorities either legally or socially lucia was.

a quick look at some other stories making news around the world iran is ready for the on the second cycle of your anyone richmond which if true would breach u.n. resolution inspectors say they saw signs of a more efficient method being used during their latest visit in july and february when the leader who would hide in a job said his country had a rich nuclear fuel to twenty percent and could do more the weapons grade level is 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 what had pakistan issue an emergency plan at appeal for several hundred million dollars in aid pakistan estimates over fourteen million people have been affected by the worst floods in eighty years and for now monsoon rains show little sign of abating. because of found secretary robert gates has proposed shifting resources and cutting spending in the. massive military budget by reducing outside contractors and the number of

generals and admirals he helps to free up spending for frontline 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. coming up a look at north as a u.s. nature reserve and its renowned for its wildlife but is even more celebrated for its ancient architectural landmarks don't miss that now a special report in just an hour's time. discovering. and become. nature can give you.

and that brings us up to date here on r.t. stephanie is next with the business news. i'm great for the. we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. hello and welcome to the business bulletin russians losses due to the forest and peat fires still raging across the country could reach fifteen billion dollars according

to early estimates the record temperatures this summit may cost at least one percent of g.d.p. growth but that is just direct losses and short of facts 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 service report on july's industrial production the long term impact is unlikely to be met until the end of thinking. and for more on the economic impact of the fires on drought we can now hear from our correspondents you know that. all this is traditionally a very difficult month for russia's economy and this year it seems would not be an exception with fires and that's has a way to slashed grain harvest by twenty five percent and the situation continues to be very volatile with the domestic grain prices continue to rise despite the export ban however prime minister vladimir putin tried to calm down the situation and said that the problem is not based here but coming here. we polish even with

the harvest apparently we will come down domestic needs in foolish years the question is what the country will have next to use 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 the what's the problem is that we're not able to seed winter crops because of the heat so lifting the ban weren't happy. the heat was just killing crops is also forcing production halted some factories say could shape a little growth. but is expected to have a major impact on the annual g.d.p. figures taken on the developing ministry skipping their official g.d.p. forecast comparatively low at some two point seven percent despite much higher growth figures four and five percent being floated a key part of that economic growth is investment and global investors keeping an eye on russia's developments with bonds into russia posing over the last week or so

. if we're talking about the fund markets in the first week of august we've seen an income of seventeen million women all developing countries who've rule received three point six billion records since the beginning of two thousand and eight so the international investors have taken a break from investing into russia monitoring the situation. another. will certainly be written struction of building an infrastructure in central russia and support for agriculture that will add to government. plays and is likely to have some impact on the budget deficit but probably the biggest concern at the moment is the potential for grain prices rises to flow through into price inflation the devastation fires in central russia might not just grain prices which flows through to bread and a number of other food staples but also will have an impact on the feed for livestock that will lead us to higher prices on the day we add meats products closer to winter and might be next spring. nineteen consecutive heat records have

been set so far this summer. and this caused another way for prices for funds and conditions have soared and now the service wants to find out why the watchdog were launched an investigation into why the company's artificially created supply shortages for these items prices for families have jumped six fold conditions have also experienced price hikes overall the increased use of electrical appliances in moscow has seen a nine percent jump in energy consumption and. more than one hundred thousand people fled moscow by plane on sunday due to heat and smoke blanketing the city by seven 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 climatic conditions were experienced you know does it have a huge impact on the business of. the city flying to the beaches in the south so i

think the nations are doing well in terms of the operation. some small issues to what are your company's extension plans. because. so the key where you motivate people to fly is of course. but you got a call. safety and reliability and safety is a key issue for us as well you have competitors on the russian market do you think russian market of low cost company is already for low cost airlines i mean will be the big draw a russian transport site to develop into the next five years though the point has been made in many markets it's local stones that really draw you profit drug traffic growth i think from a national perspective. the growth of low cost airlines is very important it.

liberates people to be able to travel very cheaply you improve national identity you prove social cohesion you increase social mobility these are all plus points but you also very importantly also you lubricate economic growth because for small businesses in particular local aviation for the border it encourages into a city into into the city business and finally last but not least you. think we can give a big boost to domestic terrorism we can encourage russians to stay home and have holidays in sort of russia very cheaply. trouble to to egypt. so socially economically politically. is already important but will become much more important in the next five years. let's have a quick look at the extreme shaking up on tuesday in tech hit the nikkei finished in the red despite growth in exports as u.s.

stocks rise. but the federal reserve will soon signal new steps to sluggish economic recovery and in hong kong has also week trade data imports pulled we cut than expected. down on tuesday minus the dragging on lower metals prices following the weak import data from china and raising concerns about the strength of domestic demand x. forces will sink down in europe this seemed to shut down more than one of the sudden spike in a. game. on the docks trading flights opposed to this. here in moscow the markets of both shutting more than one percent banks are dragging on the my sex to be t.v. has a braised games made in the previous session down more than one percent and she names are also suffering. not so with 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 always find more stories on our website. called slash business.

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coming to live from moscow i'm marina joshua's these are the top stories despite being partially out of control raging wildfires continue to destroy land and homes across russia the boys are being caused by extraordinary heat wave which experts now say using forced four thousand years. in moscow remains in the grip of smog with 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 now double the. burden is developing in flies surveillance systems for for a new eden project aimed at tackling terrorism but many worry it will grow privacy to a country that's already the most watched in the war. next because you know as arwa talks the former security council had of kurdistan and presidential candidate a calm much of are they discuss domestic and foreign policy issues in the central asian state recovering from a recent bloody uprising and asked me clashes. the

curtis interim government has announced the 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 and some of the 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 why are laid out a list of according to our constitution no one has the right to disperse the parliament and the constitutional order it appears that old amounts resulted from

these first steps taken by the interim government there lectured his rival placer it's obvious that the biggest people were the so-called electorate you have divided into two groups having opposite opinions because there is a small portion of the caregivers people support the government and an absolute majority of those who don't recognise the president the word is either legally or socially that's it lest the recent opposition rallies that were dispersed by a riot police officials have called them an attempt to physically over take power do you agree with this opinion some thought that was. over which happened on april seventh edition here shows that the situation will continue to be like that because of a new power not just this power does not appeal to the people who can does not have their trust this power is fragile in this respect that there will certainly appear a group of people who would like to come to power in the same way as to.