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. 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 and 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 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 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 skip the small choking 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 delete 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 of temperatures and a change of wind in the next few days but unfortunately that's not enough while burning forests and the boks are feeding the capital smog there's no imminent end

in sight to the apocalyptic scenes. or to moscow. you are watching on t.v. it's good to have your company today and still ahead for you last second chance while women prisoners in the state of california have seen their hopes of freedom 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 london to talk more about the fears of the international community. she won rights campaigners are outraged by a new e.u. project which would lead to the monitoring of everything f passengers do in flight it's a preventing terrorism but some believe it is a further erosion of the democratic right to privacy. all 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 i just couldn't write private personally when i don't know this i mean 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. or 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 behaved 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 flyer 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 and or solution of course that 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 it as not big brother watching big brother looking after you not everyone sees it that way campaigners say previous is

one of the litmus tests for democracy and mass surveillance erodes it enormously treats every one of us. completely complex maintenance democratic of all news and it's going to. continue surveillance 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 the terrorist isn't course at the airports they say by the time the planes thirty thousand feet up is it is already too late nor and this r.t. london. the international atomic energy agency has so that iran has started the next stage towards building a nuclear bomb the i.a.e.a. 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 in fairly rich to around ninety five percent uranium can be used in building an atomic bomb iran insists its nuclear activities are for peaceful purposes only so there is a tear on base professor of political science says the international community has no grounds for concern over iran's nuclear developments. twenty percent your new in richmond which the war hearing about is not anything new iran announced back that it needs twenty percent enriched uranium for its experimental reactor of its products are. radioactive medicine for for cancer is patients and for agricultural products iran actually was always provided to get twenty percent enriched uranium for these particular reactor

by international atomic agency because of the sanctions. because of the dispute between between iran and five plus one iran has not been given. twenty percent enriched uranium so iranian air the i.a.e.a. air that i there you provide us with the twenty percent enriched uranium or else we have no other alternative but to enrich uranium into iran more aware of the sanctions are actually hitting the iranian people rather than the iranian government although many people in the vessel and in united states talk about intelligent sanction but there is no such a thing as as intelligent or a smart sanction. all right to talk more about the concerns over iran's move i'm now joined by mark fitzpatrick

a senior fellow for nonproliferation the international institute for strategic studies hello mr fitzpatrick the i.a.e.a. used to provide iran with twenty percent enriched uranium for experimental purposes when the nuts once reactor was built by america they believe back then this level is a long way off the ninety five percent required for a bomb so what is the big what is the big deal now about iran having twenty percent enriched uranium why now well let me just say that it's not that the i provided the fuel for the research reactor it was provided by argentina specifically a commercial firm in argentina i think argentina might have been ready to provide it had not any iranian intelligence operative been identified as a person involved in the bombing of a jewish center in iran and then that same operative then being named the defense minister so i think if iran really wanted the twenty percent fuel they would have found a way to patch up relations with tehran but they don't seem to care so much about

that secondly they can always obtain the isotopes the medical isotopes that are produced by the tehran research reactor from the international marketplace like most other countries do they don't need to produce it themselves thirdly in answer directly to your question the international community is very concerned most countries are concerned because twenty percent enriched uranium is very close to being able to be usable in nuclear weapons and right now iran cannot do anything with this twenty percent enriched uranium it is pretty producing except stockpile it for weapons purposes because it cannot actually produce the fuel for the tehran research reactor there are so many contradictions in iran's explanations that make observers very concerned indeed about its intentions so let's talk about the issue of sanctions here the security council the u.s.

and the european union imposed a new round of sanctions on iran despite terrans agreement to get back to negotiations why. well iran did not exactly agreed to go back to negotiations iran entered into an agreement with brazil and turkey two countries that had never been involved in negotiations before and on paper it looked like they had achieved something but you know iran is very experienced at negotiations and it agreed only to enter into discussions on subjects. of mutual agreement did never agreed to enter into negotiations about its nuclear program in fact iran has been saying for the past year it will not negotiate on its own nuclear program it will talk about arms control global security and other matters so you have to read the have to read the fine print in these agreements and i'm afraid that turkey and brazil not being very experienced in negotiating with

iran got taken for a ride in that agreement or it's all on the issue of sanctions the obvious fact is because there are some that say that sanctions only hurt the ordinary people. well we just don't know whether they will be effective or not i mean i don't think i'm not optimistic that they will persuade iran to change its pursuit of technologies that can be used in nuclear weapons but i think they can perhaps the effective in persuading iran to come back to the negotiating table you mentioned earlier in your question that it looked like iran might be ready to talk again it might be but it's not clear now the the more sanctions that have been imposed in the past few weeks the more likely it seems that iran is willing to talk the whole purpose of the sanctions is to persuade the iranian government and the people that there are two paths forward a path of international integration and a path of isolation so far iran has chosen the past the path of isolation by

pursuing these weapons technologies they have dual civilian purposes but their weapons purposes this is what has everyone concerned they don't have to pursue those technologies they could agree with the mandate of the international. the u.n. security council and suspend the enrichment negotiations are underway to for a long term solution to this crisis and if i may jump in very briefly here one of the question is that there are certainly many people asking is who decides who has nuclear power anyway nobody talks about israel's nuclear capability or america's or england but iran everyone seems to be worried about doesn't iran have a right to defend itself perhaps. well it's important to distinguish between nuclear power which iran has every right to produce nuclear energy for its civilian economy but the question is who has the right to nuclear weapons that's your

question and in fact the nuclear nonproliferation treaty which was negotiated in in the late one nine hundred sixty s. . it closed the door to those countries that already had nuclear weapons were allowed under this treaty to maintain them but to negotiate in good faith toward the abolition of those weapons all the other countries that signed the treaty agreed to forego any pursuit of the nuclear weapons iran is one of the hundred and eighty plus countries that agreed in treaty to forego the pursuit of nuclear weapons technology and it has been violating that agreement by pursuing enrichment in secret by not cooperating fully with the by not agreeing to disclose facilities until they become revealed to the world and so forth. all right mark fitzpatrick a senior fellow for proliferation international institute for strategic studies

thank you. all the military trial of the youngest detainee at guantanamo bay prison is underway in cuba twenty three year old canadian born omar was fifteen when he was captured on the battlefield in afghanistan that is accused of throwing a grenade which killed an american soldier in two thousand and two during a pretrial hearing on monday he pleaded not guilty to all charges including murder conspiracy spying and assisting al-qaeda he claims he was tortured while detained a u.s. military base in afghanistan before being moved to guantanamo the alleged violations of human rights have been discussed by the u.n. if convicted he faces a maximum of life sentence. 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 governments

rights campaigners claim even the most deserving inmates are rejected freedom because of the desire for political game. 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 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 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 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 schwarzenegger 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 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 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. and time now for the business update with corinne. hello and welcome to business here and our take it have you with us russia's losses to the forest fires still raging across the country could reach fifteen billion dollars according to early estimates the record temperatures this summer may cost at least one percent 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 a federal statistics services report on july's industrial production the long term impact is unlikely to be known until the end of the year some experts already

claiming the impact will not be significant. all of the direct costs like the expense 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 the federal budget is trillions of rubles so these expenses are just a drop in the oceans. after a lot of the economic impact of the fires and drought we can now hear from our correspondents and with. all this is traditionally a very difficult month for russia's economy and this year it seems would not be an exception which is why years and drought that's has a way to slashed grain harvest by twenty five percent and the situation continues to be very volatile with the domestic green prices continue to rise despite the export ban however prime minister vladimir putin tried to calm down the situation is that the problem is not based here but the coming years. we polish was

a cruel 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 will has. what's the big problem is that you know. because of the heat lifting the. the heat and just killing crops is also forcing production halted some factories on the estate could shape a little growth baugus but is it expected to have a major impact on your 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

mostly just 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 hundred six billion. since the beginning of two thousand and eight so the international investors have taken a break from the industry interruption from the situation. and other the impact of the fires and drought 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 take 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. one thousand consecutive hit records

have been sent so far this summer in moscow long of us calls 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 france have jumped six fold ok missionaries have also experienced price hikes and overall the increased use of electric appliances in moscow has seen a nine percent trial in energy consumption in july. serbia and bulgaria have agreed to all the route for the new south stream gas pipeline without involving gas problem according to commerce and daily to have decided the pipe will cross the border near the serbian town of demeter get up gazprom is against the plan because it would mean a longer pipe making the russian funded project more expensive the south stream route so serbia is yet to be finalized but moscow and belgrade had agreed to enter

at the television our child but serbia has now opted for the need to get out because the route will cross the entire country not just the south which would mean missing out of a key location. and let's have a look at the markets now european shares are losing ground on tuesday miners are under pressure from weak metals prices shares were also pressured by data showing chinese imports growth has to lower expectations in july exporters are weak in europe with siemens shares down more than one percent. and here in moscow the markets are both chatting over two to one and a half percent respectively energy majors are dragging on the indices gospel men ross they're all losing over two percent bt b. has raised the gains made in the previous session more than two percent. that's all for now a back with another update in about thirty minutes from it. the

for. the book. the it. is now past the hour here in the russian capital with auntie your headlines fighting flames some of russia's wildfires are now under control but although it's

all still spreading claiming lives on homes. and the killer mist many muscovites are fleeing the capital to get away from the toxic small that's in danger and back home. plus big brother is watching you the european union's plans to. install surveillance systems on airplanes and the british human rights campaign is full of violating privacy. rights that's the main news stories for this hour now artie's interview program spotlight is up next and i'll going off speaks to nobel peace prize winning bangladeshi banker and economist mohammad yunus he championed through his banker scheme to give loans to people too poor to qualify for traditional lending.

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