the smog is terrible i can't breathe it makes my eyes each and nothing helps no matter what you do whether we wear masks were quite crude things go with the windows unable to cope with the heat and toxic smog many are now fleeing the capital. taking her whole family on an unplanned vacation on a hunt for groups of fresh air feeling. we'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 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 russian who is heat stroke and dehydration so-called smart centers have been set up distributing water and masks what i lack of air conditioners more than the initiative there may be no smoke inside but the heat is unbearable lives like you who cannot there is stash engineer who makes my heart start and his view is

dreadful. people shouldn't work in such conditions the government must send them. and air force have become a mecca for tens of thousands hope to skip 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 are going in all directions even topical countries which seem more comfortable compared to this heat wave 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 while burning forests 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. russia's. deadly wildfires the smog filled cities and poor harvest are being seen

by some environmentalists as signs of a 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 shining but it has nothing to do with man and 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 helping when he passes 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. earth lunar magnetic state 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 hundred thirty two years ago so these things are. sold out to fit in the moon has nothing to do with mankind and those who say that are just trying to make money. still to come your way this hour legal battle in the united states the women behind bars who were told by the parole board free to leave only to see the decision overturned by the state governor we 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. 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 could be quite private personal 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 if you surveilled here there's a more 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 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 cab in an erratic way and repeated visits to the toilet talk to 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 acting nervously anxiously 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 come to places. 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. and that completely contradicts the main. democratic which is that everyone is innocent and to. continue surveillance of mass surveillance video communications whatever the many ways that seem to just be creeping completely goes against that we all 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 our dot com you can log on for the top rated videos quizzes or just follow us on twitter and here's what's waiting for you online 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 video section for that on our website. and the world famous parasailing donkey who was rescued by a british tabloid might actually be an imposter the twists and turns of a donkey's life available for you twenty four seven at r.t. dot com. 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 freeze are found out the system can hurt those most deserving of a second chance. made normal 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 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 our 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 with 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 or. i don't care or the number we. know we're 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 of tom hartman says people have been treated as disposable in the united states 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 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 all 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 states the vote will take place on october the tenth in april a popular uprising ousted the country's president and an interim government was established a referendum in june in support of the constitution changes that would make critical stand a parliamentary democracy but the other mother model who is the former head of the country's security council and presidential candidate believes the interim

government has failed to win people support you can watch the full interview in about an hour's time right here on r.t. . it's obvious that the people were just so color lectured you have divided it into two groups having pursued it because there is a small portion of the killer people who support the government and an absolute majority of those who don't recognize the prison authorities either legally or socially. we are coming to you live from the russian capital let's let's get some other stories now from around the world as you watch our un says the number of civilians killed or wounded in afghanistan rose by thirty one percent in the first half of. the increasing toll the military effort in afghanistan has had on civilian lives twelve hundred afghans lost their lives and nearly two thousand were injured the

report blames antigovernment forces for over three quarters of those casualties. the number of dead after landslides in china has jumped to over seven hundred rescue workers are racing to find survivors who have been trapped under rubble for two days heavy rains triggered the deluge of rocks and crushing at least three villages and more heavy rain and a typhoon forecast for the gansu province this week. iran has reportedly launched a second cycle of uranium enrichment which if true would breach of u.n. resolution inspectors say they saw signs of a more efficient method being used during that latest visit in july in february iranian leader mahmoud ahmadinejad said his country had enriched nuclear fuel to twenty percent and could do more for 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 flood hit pakistan

banking moon is to issue an emergency plan and appeal for seven 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 shows little sign of abating. well coming up we look at a north of seven years a nature reserve it's renowned for its wildlife but is even more celebrated affords ancient architectural landmarks then we're starting our special report just a little bit later. discoveries. communicate with the wind. and become. see what nature can give you.

a career now joins me with the latest from the world. so you know i know with that with the health risks frost people here in the russian capital it's it's potentially dangerous with the smog and the what can you tell us about the effects on the economy the wildfires of well the cost of these very high rory in fact early estimates put losses at up to fifteen million dollars and record temperatures this someone may cost at least one percent of g.d.p. growth now that and more after a short break. for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. i

want to welcome to business good to have you with us russia's losses to the forest and p five still raging across the country could reach fifteen billion dollars according to early estimates there are record temperatures this someone may cost at least one percent of g.d.p. growth most of the money will be spent on restoring houses and compensation first official figures are expected next week as a part of the federal statistics service report on july's investment production the long term impact is unlikely to be known until the end of this here but some experts are already claiming impact on not insignificant. little small because of all of the direct costs like the expense of extinguish the fires because the emergency ministry has concerns costs you're likely this figure will be no more

than several tens of billions of rubles a little bit but if you keep in mind just those that are all budgets trillions of years goes so clearly these expenses are just a drop in the lessons. have a more and economic impact of the fires and drought we can now hear from our correspondent and i have a video. all this is traditionally a very difficult month for russia's economy and this year it seems would not be an exception with wires and dow that's has a way just last great hall of us by twenty five. percent and the situation continues to be very volatile 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 based here but the coming years when polish was occurring even with the harvested hand we will cover our domestic needs in foolish 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 over this year we

will review our decision to ban grain imports only in line with what harvest will have the what the problem is that we are not able to seed when to crops because of the heat so lifting the ban won't happen soon. the heat which is killing crops is also forcing production halted some factories on the estate could shape a little of growth baugus but isn't expected to have a major impact on annual g.d.p. figures they can have a 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 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 while developing countries prove rule receive three point six billion recruit some since the beginning of two thousand and eight so the

international investors have taken a break from investing into russia monitoring the situation. and other the impact of the why is 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 flows straight through to bread and a number of other food staples but also will have an impact on the feed for livestock and that will lead us to higher prices on the day we add meats products closer to winter and might be next spring. one thousand consecutive heat records have been set so far this summer in moscow alone this cost another wave of records as prices for fans and air conditioners have soared and now the anti-monopoly

service wants to find out why the watchdog will launch an investigation into whether companies artificially created supply shortages for these items prices for fans have jumped six fold econd have also experienced price hikes zero. for all the increased use of electric appliances in moscow has seen a nine percent jump in energy consumption in july. and two other stories serbian bulgaria have agreed the route for the new cells stream gas pipeline without involving gas problems according to commerce newspaper the two have decided the pipe will cross the border in the serbian town of god god's promise against the plan because it would mean a longer pipe making the russian funded project more expensive let's all stream route through serbia is yet to be finalized but moscow and belgrade had agreed the pope would enter at the town of charge but serbia has now has now opted for leave because the route will cross the entire country not just the cells which would mean missing other key locations. and let's have

a look at the markets are safe enough the european shares are down on tuesday miners are dragging on lower metal prices following negative import data from china raising concerns about the strength of domestic demand exporters were also we can europe with siemens shares down more than one percent. here in moscow the markets are both shutting over one and a half percent banks are dragging on the mines it has raised the gains made in the previous session down more than two percent this hour and energy names are also suffering there. and that's all the business updates for now but i'll be back with another one in less than one hour.

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on r g. it is. here in moscow you with your headlines and despite being partially under

control raging wildfires continue to destroy homes across russia the places are being caused by an extraordinary heat wave which experts now say is the worst in a thousand years. in the grip of smog with a toxic back after a short break on monday fleeing the city out of fear for their health with a number of deaths now the daily. news developing in-flight surveillance systems for a new e.u. project aimed at tackling terrorism but many worry it will erode a country that's already the most watched in the world. well now it's time for the kaiser report and this time take a look at so-called robot trader software programs that are executing thousands of trades outside of business hours that's next right here on our.

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 that this is 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 he's not a partner to wall street firm he's an untouchable in america's society he's an underling is 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 that'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 keep.