covered the capital it really is quite unreal some of the scenes on the streets of moscow something from some kind of film as are going on 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 has come to moscow has increased the carbon monoxide concentration in the air by several times this smog is very toxic and poisonous to agree we have registered the deaths increase in comparison 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. the smallness terrible i can't breathe it makes my eyes each and nothing helps no matter what

whether we wear masks were put went through things 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 groups 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 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 margin the initiative there may be no smoke inside but the heat is unbearable just like you cannot carry stash engineer it makes my town so on and it feels dreadful but of course people shouldn't. in such conditions the

government must send him. into airports have become a mecca for tens of thousands hope to ski the small city here orchard of boards of 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 which seem more comfortable compared to this heat 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 off 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 going off or to moscow. russia's deadly wildfires the smog filled cities and poor harvest are being seen by some environmentalist as signs of manmade climate change but others disagree my

colleague bill dodd spoke to piers corbyn of the weather action foundation to set us all down to climate cycles climate has always been china but it has nothing to do with man in fact we predicted that there would be extreme heat in east europe and russia this summer and it's caused by a circulation 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 is here at design 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 there was the side. of magnetic state there was he was in russia

and there was 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. right to fit in the moon has nothing to do with mankind and those who say that are just trying to make money. and still coming our way here in our legal battle in the u.s. the weather behind bars we're told by the parole board they're free to leave only to see the decision overturned by the state governor look at the calls for 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 are these lower amateur 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 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 to 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 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 of information 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 it. continues. 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 course at the airport they say by the time a plane's thirty thousand feet up is it is already too late. as our there's lots more on our website. just follow us on twitter on line for

you today. sable aerobatics car. crashes and. ariel sharon stone cold horrible wrong. in. parasailing donkey was rescued by a british tabloid might actually be a fake twists and turns of life are available at. and 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 as christine for south found out the system can heard those most deserving of a second chance. meet norma kuhn p.-n.

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 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 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 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'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 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 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 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. following months of political turmoil a killer santa date has been set for the parliamentary and presidential elections in the central asian states the vote will take place on october the tams and they brought a popular uprising oust of the country's president and an interim government was established a referendum in june the support of the constitution changes that would make kurdistan a parliamentary democracy but i thought of mother maher is the former head of the country's security council presidential candidate believes that the government has failed to win people support was going to raise coming your way in just over an hour's time here in our. it was. obvious that the people were just so color lectured you have divided into two groups having opposite

opinions because there is a small portion of the kyrgyz people who support the government and an absolute majority of those who don't recognize the present authorities either legally or socially lation it was. a quick look now at some other stories making headlines around the world at the u.n. says the number of civilians killed the one that rose by thirty one percent the first half of this year and the report highlights i think chris we're told there are military officers down to stamp his hat in civilian lives over twelve hundred afghans lost their lives and nearly. two thousand were injured the report blames anti-government forces for over three quarters of those casualties. iran has reportedly launched a second cycle of uranium enrichment which if true would breach a un resolution inspector say they saw signs of a more efficient mass of being used during their latest visit in july in february

rayon leader who would have put it in jobs said he's country had a rich nuclear fuel twenty percent could do more weapons grade levels usually around eighty percent but anything about twenty percent is considered highly enriched. the u.n. chief has called on the international community to support flood hit pakistan bonking was to issue an emergency plan and appeal for several hundred million dollars in aid x. day an estimate over fourteen million people have been affected by the worst floods in eighty years and for now when soon rains show little sign of abating. just a fan secretary robert gates has proposed shifting resources and cutting spending in the country's massive military budget by reducing outside contractors am a 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 had become top heavy and too costly after nine eleven. coming

up a look at north a city is nature reserve and its renowned for its while alive but it's even more celebrated for its ancient architectural landmarks don't miss dad and i was special report in just ten minutes time. discovery. communicate with you want to. become free. see what nature can give you. and we're up to day's time now for the business news with stephanie. hello and welcome to the. five still raging across the country could

reach fifteen. according to. a cost at least one percent. but that is just direct losses and short term effects most of the money will be spent on the strong houses i'm compensation the first official figures are expected next week as part of the federal statistics report. production. on for more on the economic impact of the five i'm drought we can now hear from our correspondent. all this is traditionally a very difficult economy and this year it seems would not be an exception. and that's has a way to slashed grain harvest by twenty five percent and the situation continues to be. with the domestic grain prices continue to rise despite the export ban however prime minister vladimir putin tried to calm down the situation is the

problem this year but the coming years. even with the harvest it has come down domestic needs in food. 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. the problem is that we are not able to seed winter crops because of the heat so lifting the ban. the heat will just killing crops is also forcing production call to. say good shape a little growth. but is expected to have a major impact on the annual g.d.p. figures in ministries keeping 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 market in the first week of august we've seen an income of seventeen million all developing countries grew received three point six billion. since the beginning of two thousand and eight so the international investors have taken a break from investing into russia from the situation. in other impact of the wires and will certainly be reconstruction of building an infrastructure in central russia and support for agriculture that will add to government outlays and is likely to have something impact on the budget deficit but probably the biggest concern at the moment is the potential for grain prices rises to flow through into food price inflation the devastation fires in central russia might not just grain prices which flow straight 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. and nineteen consecutive sets so far this summer in moscow this caused another wave of record since prices for fans and second decisions have soared and the service wants to find out why the watchdog will launch an investigation into whether companies ought to fish he created supply shortages for these items prices for finance 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. salvia in bulgaria have agreed to root for the new south stream gas pipeline without involving gas problem according to com the sun newspaper. the two have decided the pipe will cross the border to the serbian town of dimitrov grabbed gas from is against the plan because it would mean a longer pipe making the russian funded project more expensive the south stream route

through serbia has yet to be finalized but moscow and belgrade had agreed the pipe would enter the town of st charles but serbia has now opted for dimitrov grab because the route will cross the entire country not just the south which would mean missing out other key locations. now let's have a quick look at how the asian stock markets finished on tuesday in tokyo the nikkei finished in the red despite growth in exports as u.s. stocks rose slightly overnight on talk that the federal reserve will soon signal new steps to boost a sluggish economic recovery and in hong kong shares are also down as trade data for july showed imports than expected european shares are down on tuesday miners are dragging on lower metals prices following that negative import data from china raising concerns about the strength of domestic demand exporters were also weak in europe with siemens shares down and more than one and a half percent. and here in moscow the markets ago shutting around one and

a half percent banks are dragging on the my sex the t.v. has a raise gains made in the previous session down more than one percent this hour energy names are also suffering. and that's all the business news for now but i'll be back with more updates for you in about an hour's time and of course you can always follow stories on our website that's our team slash business.

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the control. that. with a number of deaths now doubled the average. briton is developing inside surveillance systems for a new project aimed at tackling terrorism but many worry it will rogue privacy in a country that's already the most watched and the world. doesn't have eyes here in r t next which travel to the caucasus to explore the beauty of the north the city and national nature reserve our special report coming right up. among the snowy peaks gorges rocks english years of the greater caucasian mountain

range the republic of north the said. high in the mountains where men rarely venture wild nature lives on untouched. the habitat of the caucasian gold and other animals is guarded closely here. from the top of the mountains the rivers rushing to hundreds of streams which turn into endless waterfalls. this principle landscape attracts many rock climbers they can make their own route among the rocks canyons and mountain tops up to four thousand meters. in spring time the weather here can change several times in

a day just. is slowly coming to life. first. is the reserves. used to get to the. nature reserve staff. existence by chance. for ten years. they said sheep being sheltered in the. first came here we did see tracks left by sheep yes that's right i remember the first time.