times this smog is very toxic and poisonous to greece we have registered deaths 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 smog many are now fleeing the capital. not taking her whole family on an unplanned vacation on a hunt for groups of fresh air. 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 of stories 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 i 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 that 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 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 forest and the box are feeding the capital smog there's no imminent end in sight to the apocalyptic scenes it's going off or to moscow. to speed up the process of fire fighting across central russia prime minister vladimir putin has. behind the controls of an amphibious plane as soon as put in

a rived in one of the country's worst affected areas he swapped his own personal plane for an emergency one where he acted as a copilot premia help to take water from one of the country's rivers the car and drop it into the burning forests two fires were extinguished thanks to the joint efforts or put in and emergency rescue is. what you are watching r.t. and still ahead for you to come a last second show why women prisoners in the state of california are seeing their hopes of freedom because of political power plays. in the international nuclear watchdog says iran has taken the next step towards building a bomb we talked to an expert from tehran about the country's intentions and hear about the fears over the global community from an expert in london. human rights campaigners are outraged by a new e.u.

project which would lead to the monitoring of everything at passengers do in flight it is aimed at preventing terrorism but some believe it's a further erosion of the democratic right of 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 are divided yelling as bad this kid is like a private person no you wouldn't 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. it's expected you watch t.v. you watch t.v. you'll be surveilled and be surveilled and here is a more image but nothing to hide so we don'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 airports 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 there will 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 we do that is to look very carefully at the types of cues that we detect so for example someone may be acting nervously were anxiously

sweating in our solution because it doesn't say anything it could be just as floyd but it could be a terrorist but we only know that when we combine this information with other sources of information that come. place 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 every one of us us. and that completely contradicts the main tenants 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 creeping forward 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 nor and that r.t. london. is just turning ten minutes past the hour here in moscow you're with r.t. and the military trial of the youngest detainee at guantanamo bay is currently underway in cuba twenty three year old canadian born was fifteen when he was captured on a battlefield in afghanistan how 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 at a u.s. military base in afghanistan before being moved to guantanamo the alleged violations of human rights have been discussed by the united nations if convicted he faces a maximum of life sentence. women prisoners in the us who have

killed their abusive husbands can see their chance of liberty snatched away many of those who have been granted parole have had the decision overturned by state governors rights campaigners claim even the most deserving inmates are rejected freedom because of the desire for political gain. 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 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 governor swartz 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 crime or the number we heard there on the way 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 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 the u.s. has a long history of mistreating its people and focusing on punishment rather than we have but it's ation in the united states for really up until the last maybe four or five decades we had so much space so much potential for growth that people were many people were considered disposable and we had slaves that were largely viewed as disposable europe at a very different experience europe has been densely populated for centuries for

thousands for millennia and so in europe the problem of problem people has been you know we're going to have to have these people back in our culture and their relatives and friends will about how can we fix them in america it was to string them up their disposable people and so we went from the wild west notion hanging to the modern notion of the death penalty and you know all through that was the threat of crime punishment vengeance and nowhere did we ever have the need or the perceived need to get into a conversation about rehabilitation. we are coming to you live from the russian capital this is r.t. and the international atomic energy agency has said 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 if it 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. iran announced few wants back that it needs twenty percent enriched uranium for its 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 iran has not been given. that twenty percent enriched uranium so iranian air it said the i.a.e.a. that i there you provide us with the twenty percent enriched uranium or else we have no other alternative but to enrich uranium in tehran they can

always tain 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 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. very concerned indeed about its intentions this sanctions are actually hitting the iranian people rather than the iranian government although many people in the wrist and in united states talk about intelligence sanctions but

there is no such a thing as as intelligent or a small sanction well we just don't know whether they will be effective or not i mean i don't think i'm not up to me. dick that they will persuade iran to change its pursuit of technologies that can be used in nuclear weapons but i think they can perhaps be effective in persuading iran to come back to the negotiating table you mentioned earlier in your question that it looked like he was on the way these are ready to talk again it might be but it's not clear now the more sanctions that have been imposed in the past few weeks the more likely it seems that iran is willing to talk we are approaching the twenty minute mark of the hour now here in the russian capital let's take a look at some other stories now making headlines all around the world and rescue workers are racing to pull survivors from the rubble after some of china's deadliest landslides at least seven hundred bodies have been retrieved from the mud and debris and over one thousand people are still missing exceptionally heavy rains

set off the deluge of rocks and on saturday crushed at least three villages in the country's northern region more heavy rain and a typhoon are forecast for gansu province this week which may well hamper rescue efforts. the death toll from floods in indian administered kashmir has risen to one hundred sixty five some two hundred still missing the floods triggered landslides and washed away roads foreign tourists have begun to help rescuers in the isolated and mountainous region remove debris and search through the rubble. a suicide bombing in the afghan capital kabul has killed two drivers from a private security firm the assailant shot their way into the compound before detonating their devices this follows a new u.n. report saying the number of civilians killed or wounded in afghanistan rose by almost a third in the first half of two thousand and ten and government forces are responsible

for most of the casualties while the number of deaths from nato actions has drawn to. that joint training exercise between the u.s. kind of and russia is underway in the pacific to test how well they coordinate their response to a hijacked plane a drill that involves the simulated seizure of a plane that crosses their shared airspace border while fighter jets from the three countries take turns changing it the plane first flew from the states to russia on sunday and will return to alaska on tuesday. while trading robots and kilo wall street drones find out what that's all about in the kaiser report that's coming up here next hour here on r.t. but here's just a short preview. we like drones when they send the drones into afghanistan or some other country they just kill people without any regard to what they're doing they're just blindly killing people wall street has these robotic trading robots that are executing trades that are designed to steal money they don't care who they

steal the money from even from themselves. and of the businesses next with kareena. how do i welcome to our business program here in our thanks for joining me russia's ministry of agriculture has cut its grain harvest forecast for this year to between sixty and sixty five million tons that's around thirty percent lower than in two thousand and nine and according to prime minister that he would put in the ban on grain export won't be lifted anytime soon. even with the harvested we will cover our domestic needs you know this year the question is what the country will have next two years we don't know what the harvest will be and we don't know what we will carry out this year we will review our decision to ban

grain imports only in line with what the what's the problem is that we're not able to seed winter crops because of the heat lifting the more unhappy. for more and the effects the drought and forest fires in russia will have on global food prices where now drawing live from london karen award chief global economist at h.s.b.c. hello to karen thanks for joining now we see the price of barley which is used for feed it's already doubled in the past six weeks could the cost of meat and poultry go up globally to. where the market is a very concerned about that possibility because obviously in two thousand and seven two thousand and eight we saw a commodity price spike across the whole range of foodstuffs had a huge impact on global inflation and actually in some emerging markets led to quite considerable social unrest we do however think things are different this year and therefore we're more relaxed about what the current problems in the wheat

market means for commodities across the food chain quite simply the difference is this time around that actually we had good harvests last year and therefore stockpiles across a whole range of commodities are in much better shape than they were a few years ago so we shouldn't see this we issue translate into other problems in either livestock or in oil and therefore has been not for global inflation either and still how is the current situation different from that in two thousand and seven or two thousand and eight you were just mentioning. it is largely the stockpiles in two thousand and seven two thousand and eight across all the range of commodities stocks were very low and we also had the. three different global demand conditions the global economy largely because of emerging markets were incredibly buoyant so we had very low supply very strong jamal and and that gave you that combination of rising commodity prices across the whole range of food stuffs this

time around supply is much better and obviously given the financial crisis globally demand is a little weak so we haven't got the imbalance between demand and supply that we had over the period in two thousand and seven or talking about barley do you think the beer market will be affected this time. we haven't i'm afraid looked into quite as much detail of that but if we look across the different commodities is certainly clear that the closest substitutes barleycorn soybeans they use are the commodities that are being most affected and therefore we're probably likely to see are some upward price movement on those commodities but really livestock in oil the ones that we would perhaps get them more concerned about we're not expecting price moves they're. still what's the outlook from your experience for future harvests and prices both short term and long term. well i think one of the things we also look to paul was just even though in the short term we think we're advising that we don't panic about commodity price spike this time in the longer term climate change

the weather disruptions that we're seeing globally obviously you've got problems with drought in russia and in canada is the opposite where essentially severe rain that's killing off there we harvest. we think because of climate change the weather patterns that we're seeing long term this is an issue for global food supply and therefore we do think food prices are going to be on an upward trend over the very long term care of the food and financial markets are intertwined with capital flowing into the food market now is the growth likely to come down or the price growth will continue. well i think that is one of the dangers so as we've said we are when you look at it from a stock's percent spec to when you look at it from a fundamentals perspective we should see this we issue pulse without too much contagion to other commodity prices the danger is that given we've been through two thousand and seven two thousand and eight and we saw prices precede rises in other

prices of commodities the danger is that financial markets start to anticipate price growth in other commodities and that's actually what causes a more general food price spike it's certainly something we're vigilant of we'll be watching the commodity markets over the next few for the next few weeks i think the other danger isn't just the financial markets reacting in such a way as that governments also remember the problems that were occurred in two thousand and seven two thousand and eight and they start to perhaps stockpiled and they start to protect their own domestic interests in their own domestic food supply and again that leads to excess demand in the food markets which person push up a whole range of commodity prices so the fundamentals don't point to rapid price gains across all of these different markets so anything there are some risks that we need to be vigilant of thank you thank you karen for the look on this very difficult situation karen awarded to global economist at h.s.b.c.

speaking to us from london. and now now let's have a look at how they would the markets are shaping up u.s. stocks are falling as investors grow more cautious before the present policy meeting in reports showed you can only growth slowing in the u.s. and china the dow jones is down over one percent and nasdaq is losing almost one and a half for set now she has a new opel losing ground on tuesday mine is under pressure from weak metals prices were also pressured by data showing chinese growth is below expectations exporters a week in europe would seem down more than one and a half percent. and here in moscow the markets evolve shouting over one and a half percent actually of two percent only r.t.s. energy majors are dragging all the indices. are all down to be has raised games made in the previous session and it's down more than two percent at the moment. so we have time for this edition of business r.t.l.

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belongs to you. for the full story we've got it for us the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. here in the russian capital you know with all its heat the headlines now fighting the flames some of russia's wildfires are now under control but others are still

spreading claiming lives and homes. and killer missed many muscovites are fleeing the capital to get away from toxic smog. health. plus big brother is watching you the european union's plans to install surveillance systems on airplanes anger british human rights companions for violating privacy. while following months of political and ethnic turmoil interim government has set a date for the parliamentary election. with other. who used to head the country's security council under ousted president back 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 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 happened 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. little's of which 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 the least first steps taken by the interim government to lecture that is rather plaster it's obvious that the caregivers 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 support the government and an absolute

majority of those who don't recognize the president's authority use either legally or socially that's at least at the recent opposition rallies that were dispersed by a riot police officials have called them an attempt to physically over take power do you agree with this opinion some thought bubble. 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 appear to the people and does not have the trust of this power this fragile in this respect that 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 right now in such an attempt has been many people we see how the situation are very pro six them seven has repeated itself and at the same time their authority is were also saying that they had everything under control there was in the case and now the interim government and their dresser say that they have the people support the don'ts.