that as best they can but right now the crisis is just raging on monday there was a window of where people thought perhaps this was it we thought blue sky us not so fresh air or at least relatively fresh air after weeks or so of this month but again this morning a blanket of toxic smoke covered the capitol it really is quite unreal some of the scenes on the streets of moscow something from some kind of feel 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 just 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 summary shrouded 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 poisonous air unable to cope with the heat and toxic small but many are now fleeing the capital. not taking 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 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 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 and airports have become a mecca for tens of thousands hope to keep the small. see 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 delete 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 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. you are watching on t.v. it's good to have your company today still ahead for you a last second chance. why women prisoners in the state of california are seeing their hopes of freedom damaged because of political power plays. and the

international nuclear watchdog says iran has taken the next step towards building a bomb we'll have an expert from toronto to talk more about the country's intentions. human rights campaigners are alfred buy a new e.u. project which would lead to the monitoring and recording of everything passengers do in flight it's and aimed at preventing terrorism but some believe it is further erosion of the democratic right to privacy. 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 kid is right 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. 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 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 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. 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 treats. and completely complex maintenance democratic which is that everyone is innocent into proven to be guilty continuing surveillance of mass surveillance video

communications whatever the many ways that seem to just be creepy completely goes against that. 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 a plane thirty thousand feet up isn't it's already too late nor and it's london. women prisoners in the united states who have killed their abusive husbands can see their chance of liberty snatched away many of those who have been granted parole have the decision overturned by state governors rights campaigners claim even the most deserving inmates are rejected freedom because of the desire for political gain. meet norma kuhn 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 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 governors force 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 the program that i'm sure we. are on the way for them 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. american radio host tom hoffman says the u.s.

has a long history of mistreating its people and focusing on punishment rather than rehabilitation 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 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. well the military trial of the youngest detainee at guantanamo bay prison is now underway in cuba twenty three year old canadian born obama was fifteen when he was captured on a battlefield in afghanistan there is accused of throwing a grenade which killed an american soldier in two thousand and two he's pleaded not guilty to all charges including murder conspiracy spying and assisting al-qaeda the judge ruled there was confessions can be heard at trial dismissing arguments that been extracted under duress alleged violations of human rights during his eight years in prison have been discussed by the un and activists if convicted he faces a maximum of life life in prison. while the international atomic energy agency has said that iran has started the next stage towards building a nuclear bomb. says the islamic state has developed

a second set of centrifuges which can enrich uranium to the twenty percent threshold which experts fear can be turned into weapons grade material if enrich to around ninety five percent uranium could be used in building an atomic bomb iran insists its nuclear activities are for peaceful purposes only to do talk more about this iran's move i'm now joined by. a professor of political science at the university of tehran so the i.a.e.a. and the u.n. security council view the development of these centrifuges as an act of defiance of their concerns justified and no one knows the true nature of your strategy here. i don't think anyone should be alarmed. by latest iranian. drive towards your in your enrichment because twenty percent uranium enrichment which the war please a hearing about is not anything new iran announced

a few rounds back that it needs twenty percent enriched uranium for its experimental reactor which by the way it was actually built by the american about forty years ago and it uses twenty percent enriched uranium it's product of. radioactive medicine for four cancers patients and for agricultural products iran actually was always provided that the twenty percent enriched uranium for this particular reactor by the international atomic agency but because of the sanctions and because of the dispute between between iran and five plus one iran has not been given. the twenty percent enriched uranium so iranian eritrea the i.a.e.a. that are there you provide us with the twenty percent enriched uranium or else we

have no other alternative but to enrich uranium in order so if i find that they are sorry if you don't usually jump in here just for a moment you were talking about the sanctions it was the security council the u.s. and european union earlier today they just imposed another round of sanctions tell me are they fair. no i to be honest with you i don't think that they are fair because all the reports for by you as various. so rarely unscrewed the us research group and the other very similar bodies they have all said that iran is many many years away from developing a nuclear battle make here after me wrong more aware that this sanctions are actually hitting the iranian people rather than the iranian government although many people in the west and in united states talk about intelligence and sanction

but there is no such a thing as as intelligent or a smart sirish or if we assign it to the side talk to me about the endgame here do you think there are still any grounds for a compromise in the situation on thing there is there is a civil ground for for compromise unfortunately the difficulty really is the contradiction between washington and tehran which has been going on for for the past three decades that is there is stumbling block on fortunately so let's talk about the general mentality of the of the people of iran is there still is fear inside the country of a military attack by america all the people believe oh it's never going to happen. well. many many many iranians are wanted that that actually there might eventually be a military strike against iran either by the united states or by its allies.

israelis and united to say various the us president they have never said that that the military option is off the table they always have maintained it including the current president obama that their military military option is always is there . a professor of political science at the university of tehran thank you well kareena is here now with the latest from the world of the business news so. gary i have agreed on the route for the new south stream pipeline without involving gas from kareena can you tell us any reaction from from gasper on this. well well rory guess from is against the plan because it would mean along a pipe and that in turn will make the russian fun project more expensive details coming up in a moment but first. russia's loss is due to the forest and p.

five still raging across the country could reach fifteen billion dollars according to early estimates the record temperatures this summer and cost at least one percent of g.d.p. growth 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 the production the long term impact is unlikely to be known until the end of it here at some experts are already claiming the impact will not be significant. all of the direct costs like the expense of extinguishing fires because the emergency ministry has i'm sure i think this figure will be no more than several tens of billions of rubles but if you keep in mind that a real budget trillions of these expenses are just a drop in the oceans. and from our they cannot make impact of the fires and drought we can now hear from our correspondents and i didn't think about. all this is

traditionally a very difficult month for russia's economy and this year it seems would not be an exception with flyers 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 this year but the coming years. even with the harvest apparently we will come down domestic needs in food this 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 when we will carry out this year we will review our decision to ban grain imports into only in line with what. the problem. is that we're not able to seed winter crops because of the heat so lifting the ban more unhappy. the heat and just killing crops is also forcing production halted some factories some notice

a good shape a little of growth august 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 investment and global investors keeping an eye on russia's developments with bonds into russia posing over the last week or so mostly just if we were 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 recruits since the beginning of two thousand and eight so the international investors have taken a break from investing into russia monitoring the situation. another 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 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 prices which slow 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 meat products closer to we into and might be next spring. and one thousand consecutive hit records have been set so far this summer in moscow alone this cost another wave of records as prices for fans on air conditioners have soared and now the anti-monopoly service wants to find out why the watchdog will launch an investigation into whether the company's artificially created. supply shortages for these items prices for fans of top six forward air conditioners have also experienced price hikes and overall the increased use of electric appliances in moscow has seen a nine percent jump in energy consumption in july. and two of the stories

serbian bulgari have agreed on the route for the new solve stream gas pipeline without involving gas problems according to commerce and daily to have decided the pipe will cross the border near the serbian town of the meter of god now is against the plan because it would mean a longer pipe making the russian funded project more expensive the south three routes of the through syria is yet to be finalized by moscow about great had agreed the pipe would enter the town not right charge but serbia has now opted for god because the route will cross the entire country not just the south which means which would mean missing out of the key locations. and let's have a look at the markets now european shares are down on tuesday miners are dragging on lower metals prices following negative imports data from china raising concerns about the strength of domestic demand exporters were also weaken europe with

siemens shares down more than one hundred percent and here in moscow the markets are both shedding over one and a half percent energy majors are dragging on the indices local gas from an ros now after all losing over two percent on the r.t.s. read me as a raise gains made in the previous session down more than two percent. that's all the latest we have for you know business program but you can always find more stories if you log on to our website or t dot com slash this.

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russia's wildfires are now under control but others are still spreading claiming lives and homes. many fleeing the capital to get away from the toxic small. plus big brother is watching you the european union's plans to install surveillance systems on airplanes and british human rights campaigners for violating privacy. following months of political and ethnic turmoil stans interim government has set a date for the parliamentary election. caught up with. who used to head the country's security council under ousted president bakiev he's now the leader of a political party quickly gaining momentum in the south he shares his views on the prospects for the future of the central asian state. mr 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 does this happen because if the people were unhappy with president bakiev would appear that it would be logical for the tensions to die down after he was ousted. those levels of richard well the question is solid jerram of the present government is and whether their actions comply with the constitutional norms that it was said initially that the constitutional framework should not be while weighted with according to our constitution no one has the right to disperse the parliament and the constitutional court it appears that all the mass resulted from these first steps taken by the interim government to lecture to his rather placer it's obvious that the kerry people who are the so-called election have divided into two groups having opposite opinions because there is a small portion of the caregivers people who support the government and an absolute majority of those who don't recognise the president as the word used either legally

or socially that's at least the last of 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 a color 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 appear to the people and does not have their trust this power is fragile in this respect but there will certainly appear a group of people who would like to come to power in the same way as today's interim government at this but now with such an attempt has been made we see how the situation a repro six them seven has repeated itself at the same time in their thirty's well saying that they had everything under control there was in the case and now the interim government and their addresses say that they have the people support the don't start the situation.