but 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 with. 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 air the smoggiest terrible i can't breathe it makes my eyes each and nothing helps no matter what whether we wear masks were what 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 felt sad for the elderly 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 smart 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 this is like you who cannot very stash engineer makes my house so hard 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 hope to use keep the small chalking the sea here 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 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 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 the smog filled cities and pull harvest are being seen by some environmentalists as signs of manmade climate change but others disagree my colleague bill dog spoke to piers corbett 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 we predicted 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 helping i mean 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. then has got something to do with this has really not nothing to do with only the only connection is man is here at 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 there was the side. of lunar magnetic state and there was he was in russia and there was so floods in pakistan as now and in the previous few years there was also flood to leverage summers also under thirty two years ago so these things are

. getting in there and nothing to do with mankind and those who say that are just trying to make money. while still coming your way this hour here on r.t. legal battle in the us the women behind bars who were told by the parole board they're free to leave only to see the decision overturned by the state governor if you look at the calls for change. human rights campaigners in britain are alarmed over e.q. 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 artie's lorimer 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 it's good it's like private personal you wouldn't i don't know this i think is a lie 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. or you'll be surveilled to be surveilled tism or amy 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 and or solution of course 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. it's a lot to think of it as not big brother watching but big brother looking after you not everyone sees it that way campaigners say prissy is one of the litmus tests for democracy and mass surveillance erodes it enormously.

complex the main. democratic one which is that everyone is innocent and to. continue surveillance of mass surveillance video communications whatever the many ways that seem to just be creepy completely goes against that and. democracy 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 the planes thirty thousand feet up is it is already too late. london. there's lots more on our website that is r.t. dot com you can log on for top rated videos quizzes or just follow us on twitter and here's what's online for you right now fatal aerobatics caught on video a helicopter crashes in

a ball of flames as an aerial show stunt goes horribly wrong go to the top of the video section for that on r.t. dot com. and the world famous parasailing donkey who was rescued by a british tabloid might actually be an impostor the twists and turns of a donkey's life are available for you at r.t. dot com. in some u.s. states the governor has the power to overturn poor old decisions it means many prisoners ready to restart their lives often see their liberty snatched from before their eyes and as artie's christine found out the system can hurt those most deserving of a second chance. meet norma khun 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 says like women that have. gone through a lot and ended up in a 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 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 governors fourteen egger 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 or. ok the crime or the number we hear on the way from 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 but wife sentences in two. 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 now 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 paid 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 including a stern date has been set for the parliamentary and presidential election in the central asian state the vote will take place on october the tenth in april popular uprising ousted the country's president and an interim government was established a referendum in june supported a constitutional change that would make critical stand the parliamentary democracy but. who's the former head of the country's security council and presidential candidate believes the interim government has failed to win the people support and you can watch the full interview in around ten minutes time right here on. that as they have it was a good list of the five years that the people were just so color lectured divided into two groups. is there is

a small portion of the kyrgyz people support the government and an absolute majority of those who don't recognize the prison authorities either legally or socially. or you know without approaching the twenty minute mark of the hour it's good to have your company today let's check out some other stories now making headlines all around the u.n. says the number of civilians killed or wounded in afghanistan rose by thirty one percent in the first half of this. highlights the increasing toll the military effort in afghanistan has had on civilian lives over twelve hundred afghans have lost their lives and nearly two thousand injured the report blames antigovernment forces for over three quarters of those casualties. iran has reportedly launched a second cycle of uranium enrichment which if true would breach the u.n. resolution inspectors say they saw signs of a more efficient method being used during their latest visit in july in february

iranian leader mahmoud ahmadinejad said that his country had enrich nuclear fuel to twenty percent and could do more weapons grade level is usually around eighty percent but anything above twenty is considered highly enriched. the u.n. chief has called on the international community to support flood hit pakistan franky moon is to issue an emergency plan an appeal for several hundred million dollars in aid pakistan estimates over fourteen million people have been affected by the worst floods in a t.v. years and for now monsoon rains showed little sign of abating. u.s. defense secretary robert gates has proposed a shifting resources and cutting spending in the country's massive military budget by reducing outside contractors the number of generals and admirals he hopes to free up spending for front line troops and save about one hundred billion dollars over the course of five years the secretary said the u.s.

military had become top heavy and too costly after nine eleven. well coming up soon we look at north of seti as a nature reserve it's renowned for its wildlife but it is even more celebrated for its ancient architectural landmarks that we start in our special report coming up a little bit later. discovery. communicate with you want to. test yourself and become free. see what nature can give you. ok so stuff you know joins me from the world of business and stephanie wildfires small we know about the health risks of being in this environment of the moment here in the russian capital but what can you tell us about the economic impact of

the fires from russia well i'm surprisingly worried the cost could be very high in fact any estimates put losses up to fifteen billion dollars michael temperatures this summit may cost at least one percent of g.d.p. class but that is just direct losses and short effects most of the money will be spent on restoring houses on compensation the first official figures are expected next week as part of the federal statistics services report on july's industrial production and long term impact is unlikely to be known until the end of the year but some experts are already climbing the impact will not be significant. proportion of small positive appall of the direct cause like the experience of extinguishing fires because the emergency ministry has insurance costs i think this figure will be no more than several tens of billions of rubles but if you keep in mind that real budget is trillions of these expenses are just a drop in the oceans. and for more on the economic impact of the fires and droughts

we can now hear from our correspondents in a document that. all of us is traditionally a very difficult month for russia's economy and this year it seems would not be an exception with pliers and drought that's has a way to slashed grain harvest by twenty five percent and the situation continues to be variable. all 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 this year but the coming years when polish was accruing even with the harvested hand we will come down domestic needs in foolish years 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 what's the problem is that we are not able to seed winter crops because of the heat so lifting the ban and happen. the heat which is killing crops is also forcing

production halted some factories some notice a good shape a little of growth baugus but is expected to have a major impact on annual g.d.p. figures taken on the developing 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 an investment and global investors keeping an eye on russia's developments with bonds into russia posing over the last week or so . to speak in the e.p. if we're talking about the fund markets in the first week of august we've seen an income of seventeen million of all developing countries over rule receive 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 want to turn the situation. another why is and will certainly be written struction of building an infrastructure in central russia

and support for agriculture that will add to the 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 prior. that would 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 your prizes on the day we add meats products closer to winter and might be next spring. and nineteen consecutive heat records have been set so far this summer in moscow alone this caused another wave of records as prices for france and akon dishes have soared and now the service wants to find out why the watchdog will launch an investigation into why the company's artificially created supply shortages for these items prices for funds have jumped six fold acquisitions have also experienced price hikes overall the increased use

of electric appliances in moscow has seen a nine percent jump in energy consumption in germany. bulgaria have agreed the route for the new south stream gas pipeline without involving gas problem according to com a sun newspaper the two have decided the pipe will cross the border to the serbian town of dimitrov grant 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 great have agreed the pipe would enter the town of st charles but serbia has now opted for dimitrov grat because the route will cross the entire country not just the south which would mean missing out of a key locations. let's have a look at how the acting markets are shaping up european shares are down on tuesday miners are dragging on lower metals prices following in negative import data from china raising concerns about the strength of domestic demand exporters are also weak in europe with. one of the hot percent. here in moscow the market's very

shelling around one another half percent as our banks are dragging on the my sex has a raised gains made in the previous session down more than two percent now energy names are also suffering. and that's all the business news for now but of course you can always find most stories on our website that's r.t. dot com slash. you.

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and despite being partially under control raging wildfires continue to destroy the homes across russia. caused by an extraordinary heat wave which experts now say is the worst. in the grip of small with a toxic cloud on. many and fleeing the city out of fear for their health with the number of deaths double the daily average. developing inflight surveillance systems for a new e.u. project aimed at tackling terrorism but many will erode privacy in a country that's already the most watched in the world. next to. talks to a former security council head of critical stunned presidential candidates. they discuss domestic and foreign policy issues in a central asian state recovering from a recent bloody uprising and ethnic clashes that's next stay with us.

the kurds interim government has announced a date and presidential elections one of the candidates and leader of the party of united kurdistan has agreed to talk to r.t. to explain his vision for the future of the central asian state this with a lot of thank you so much for finding the time to talk to us the last few months in kurdistan have been very tense and there's been a lot of violence why it does this happen 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. those levels of rich 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 leaderless according to our constitution no one has the right to

disperse to parliament and a constitutional order it appears that the mass resulted from the least first steps taken by the interim government to lecture that is rather plaster it's obvious that the kerry people were the so-called election that you have divided into two groups having opposite opinions because there is a small portion of the caregivers people who support the government issue and an absolute majority of those who don't recognize the president the word used either legally or socially that's it lest 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 that was. over 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 appeal to the people and does not have the choice of this power is fragile in this respect that there will certainly appear

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