ascites that's becoming all too familiar for russians the wildfires have ravaged the country showing no signs of letting up in their wake they've left thousands displaced and only ruins where communities once stood. and it's firefighters continue to tackle the blazes people in russia's capital have become pitching in to bring relief to those who need it the most and xander turned up this morning off the hiring t.v. report spurred him into action. this is the first time i'm actually going out to search for them just to sort of reconnaissance mission for me they're loaded my car up with everything they could i'm going to seek out families in need and unload the seed wherever i find them and he's not alone these women are at the heart of this aid relief center packing up by to be sent to needy families i know don't get what the people brought today but all of that is valuable aid he only got one is my dad the things that we couldn't use nobody had enough clean food we need now medicines

water and can meet. this may not seem like much to look at but for those who have lost almost everything in these wildfires inside these boxes of vital reminders of their past lives the toys for kids who no longer have any cooking equipment for those who lost it in the flames it's the kind of survivors that's fighting hope to many in their darkest moments. they are called for help is only growing stronger as the fires continue to rage the moscow region has been one of the worst affected areas and it's thrust charity workers into the pivotal role of the living body to aid where it's needed most owing to the location of many of the devastated regions is proving to be a challenging task not just because these people really need health systems though it's no easy matter even to organize meals for such a large number it's hard to organize everything small villages where there are sixty people we have to send because with more fire extinguishing equipment it

people from neighboring villages volunteer they simply don't have the resources to put a little love thy neighbor is a sentiment not lost on those giving their time and belongings to help people in need. even those who don't believe can perhaps take some solace but people like alexander a merino of there to look out for them jake agrees. to speed up the process of fighting across central russia prime minister vladimir putin has got behind the controls of an amphibious plane as soon as putin arrived in one of the country's worst affected areas he swapped his own personal plane for an emergency one where he acted as copilot. helped take water from one of the country's rivers and drop it onto the burning forests too fast were extinguished thanks to the joint efforts of putin and he's restless. here with r.t. from the russian capital much more coming your way later this hour including nuclear brinkmanship international nuclear watchdog says iran is taking the next

step towards building a bomb we talk to an expert from tehran about the country's intentions and hear about the fears of the global community and experts in london. but first human rights campaigners are outraged by a new e.u. project which would lead to the monitoring of everything their passengers do in flight is aimed at preventing terrorism but somebody if it's 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 as bad just because it's like a 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.

or you'll be surveilled to be 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 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 detect so 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 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. and it seems to. continue surveillance.

seem to just be creepy. 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's thirty thousand feet up is it is already too late. the international atomic energy agency has said that iran has started the next stage towards building a nuclear bomb. and he says the islamic state has developed a second set of centrifuges which can enrich uranium to the twenty percent threshold experts fear could be turned into weapons grade material. around ninety five percent uranium can be used to build an atomic bomb tehran insists its nuclear activities of peaceful purposes. has been listening to both sides of the argument.

iran announced a few months 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 these particular reactor by the international atomic agency but because of the sanctions iran has not been given. the twenty percent enriched uranium so iran air its that 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 into iran 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 on 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 intelligence 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. 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 negotiating table you mentioned earlier in your question that it looked like he was on the way 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 speculation of a possible u.s. military attack against iran has pushed iran to take a rather unexpected to move a former iranian revolutionary guard commander has said that masquerades have really been dug for u.s. troops following comments by america's top military man last week that there was a contingency plan to attack the islamic republic the graves are in the southwest of the country where iraqi soldiers were parroting the war between. women prisoners in the u.s. have killed their abusive husbands can see their chance of liberty snatched away

many of those who've been granted parole of had the decision overturned by state governments rights campaigners claim even the most deserving inmates are rejected freedom because of the desire for political gain. 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 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 their soul 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 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 governors force and agger 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. i. remember we. were there on the way for him 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 tom hartman says the u.s. has a long history of mistreating its people in 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 i mean 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 more 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. the military trial of the youngest detainees at guantanamo bay prison is underway in cuba twenty three year old canadian born was fifteen when he was captured on a battlefield in afghanistan he's 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 life sentence. would not have a quick look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world 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 modern day one thousand people still missing exceptional be heavy rain set off to. earth on saturday rushing at least three villages in the country and more heavy rain in the typhoon a forecast for gansu province this week which may hamper rescue. the suicide bombing in the afghan capital kabul has killed two drivers from a private security firm is said and shot the way into the compound before detonating the devices is one of the new u.n. report saying the number of civilians killed or wounded you're going to see. a first in the first half of twenty turns and the government forces are responsible for most of the casualties while the number of deaths from nato actions has dropped

. so much the. u.n. is to call on its members to help pakistan's relief efforts after the country's worst flooding in over eighty years and the officials say the disaster has now affected million people eclipsing the scale of the two thousand and four tsunami and this year's haiti earthquake combined sixty eight hundred people are known to died so far and hundreds of thousands of homes have been destroyed the floodwaters have devastated the northwest are now moving south of cultural heartland. the country. had a joint training exercise between us kind of the rush was underway in the pacific to test how well they coordinate their response to a hijacked plane did involves the simulated siege of a plane that crosses the space border while flying to jets from the three countries take turns chasing the plane first free from the states to russia on sunday and return to alaska on tuesday. well that brings up to date for the moment i'll be back with a look of stories in about eight minutes from now next it's kareena with the

business news. hello and welcome to our business program good to have you with us russia losses due to the force and pit fire still raging across the country could reach fifteen billion dollars according to early estimates that record temperatures this summer may 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 services report on july's industrial production the long term effect is unlikely to be known until the end of the here but some experts are already claiming the impact will not be significant. because of all of the direct costs like the expensive extinguish the fires because the emergency ministry has insurance costs i think this figure will be no more than tens of billions of rubles but if you keep in mind

that real budget is trillions of these experiences are just a drop in the oceans. and it's not just devastating the country russia is experiencing its worst drought in centuries due to high temperatures officials are expecting to harvest only two thirds of last year's amount of grain barley used by farmers as animal feed has already doubled in price care ward senior global economist at h.s.b.c. says the cost of meat and poultry globally could go up as well. well in the markets a very concerned about but possibility because obviously in two thousand and seven two thousand and eight we saw a commodity price spike of course a whole range of foodstuffs had a huge impact on global inflation and actually in some emerging markets it 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 live still korean or in oil and therefore hopefully not for global inflation either. the world bank has those countries not to follow russia's example and limiting world grain supplies that's according to reuters citing the bank's managing director now last week drought had rushed to impose a temporary ban on grain exports causing the shop spike in global prices meanwhile the world's number six wheat export or ukraine is facing delays after the new system of customs control came into force floods in india pakistan and china also fueling concerns over food supply the world bank says the new and bongos of the wheat supplies could cause a global food crisis with poor countries. to stop. motion

markets finished in the red on tuesday with the r.c.s. shutting one point eight percent of the mines it's losing over one and a half percent energy majors were a drag on both the bourses rosneft was the biggest loser on the buy six down over two percent said one point nine percent of the r.t.s. . more than one hundred thousand people fled moscow by plane on sunday due to heat and small blanketing the city most airlines sold extra tickets for the weekend but worsening weather conditions have led to flight delays in moscow airports now for more our team has talked to c.e.o. of the russian discounter nova and replying. it's horrible to see the small good climatic conditions we're experiencing them and does it have a huge impact on business and my encourage people to leave the city and fly to the beaches in the south so i think i'll sell and destinations are doing very well in terms of the operation i mean it has had some small impact to date what are your

company's expansion plans with a meeting at the. same level as royal. i'll trade because. five hundred roubles they are bhatkal two hundred fifty rubles one boy so the key where you motivated people to fly is a cold. but you got a couple that we've safety and reliability and safety is a key issue for us as well you have combat areas on the russian market do you think russian market at low cost company is a way for a low cost airlines i think will be the big driver of russian transport to develop into the next five years so the point is being made in many markets is local stylize that really. had profit to mom and drug traffic i think from a national perspective. the growth of low cost airlines is very important. liberating people to be able to travel by every cheaply you improve national

identity you improve social cohesion you increase social mobility these are plus points but you also very importantly i think lubricate i can only because for small businesses in particular aviation is very important and encourages into city into into city business and finally last but not least you. think we can give a big boost to domestic terrorism we could encourage russians to stay at home and have holidays inside russia very cheaply. trouble to to egypt. so socially economically politically i think the local site is already important for russia but it will become much more important much like the. and that's all for now what you can always find most always on our website that's our t dot com slash business.

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please. please. please. come tonight from the russian capital twenty four hours a day this is our two top stories now this hour fighting flames some of russia's walled under control but others are still spreading claiming lives and homes.

plus big brother is watching you the european union's plans to install surveillance systems on airplanes british human rights campaigners the body to privacy. and freedom denied us prisoners have been granted parole a single decision overturned victim to political ambition. following months of political and ethnic turmoil kurdistan's interim government and set a date for the parliamentary election. was caught up with a con man to model who used to head the country's security council under the else to president but he's now the leader of a political party quickly gaining momentum in the south of the country you know 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 has this happened because if the people were unhappy with president bakiev it would appear that it would be logical for the tensions to die down after he was ousted. those levels of mitchell 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 wire laid with according to our constitution no one has the right to disperse to parliament and the constitutional court it appears that all the mass resulted from these first steps taken by the interim government to lecture that is rather plaster it's obvious that the caregivers people were the so-called election of divided into two groups having opposite opinions because there's a small portion of the caregivers people who support the government issue and an absolute majority of those who don't recognize the president as the word used

either legally or socially that's at least at 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 will still take 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 despite our does not to the people and does not have their trust this power is 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 the scene but now with such an attempt has been made we see how the situation are very pro six m. seven has repeated itself at the same time their authority is we're also saying that they had everything under control there was in the case and now the interim government in their addresses say that they have the people support the don't start the situation is the opposite is the leader of.