the crisis is just raging water speed up the process of firefighting across central russia prime minister putin has got behind the controls of an amphibious playing since he arrived in one of the country's worst affected areas he swapped his own plane for an emergency one where he acted as copilot the premier helped to take water from one of the country's rivers the orca and dropped it into the forests too far as were extinguished thanks to the joint efforts and rescuers. well as russia battles with the immediate problem of putting out the far as the long term effects of the disaster are unclear but the call from russia's main weather forecast center says this summer's blazes will affect the country's ecology for years to come. but the threat and the consequences are really disastrous because many roads are burned down that will take a lot of time to make up for it which can be planted within one season if enough time and money and other cases yes they can be planted but it will take time for them to grow it will take several decades to make up for this loss but we've lost

the longs of the moscow region with i mean the woods contributing to air purification oxygen production we've lost these long which is a considerable blow against the environment of a metropolis and of the whole of the european part of russia another point is that quite a number of heavy particles have been added to the atmosphere i mean carbon monoxide it's combination with atmospheric vapor needs to carbon acid formation resulting in acid rains later on which can inflict even greater damage on the woods by destroying foliage and trees. so. this is our live from moscow much more coming your way later this hour including the brinkmanship international nuclear watchdog says iran is taking the next step towards building a bomb we'll talk to an expert from tehran about the country's intentions and hear about the fears of the global community from an expert in. the first women prisoners in the u.s. who killed their abusive husbands can see their chance of liberty snatched away many of those who've been granted parole of how 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 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 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 their 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. i. remember we. were promised 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 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 zero r.t. . the military trial of the youngest detainees at guantanamo bay prison is underway in cuba twenty three year old canadian born omar khadr it was fifteen when he was captured on the 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 the 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. but joining me now from washington d.c.

to discuss this case is devon chafey from the advocacy group human rights first thanks very much indeed for joining us here now. claim there's no chance he'll get a fair trial what do you think. well certainly military commissions are fraught with problems they have been since they were first conceived of in two thousand and one we are now on approximately the third version of the military commissions and they clearly fall short of what at least in the united states we would consider to be standard due process requirements that they continue to allow for some coerced evidence and they don't have the same kind of due process protections that we would normally expect and. this is one of the first cases to be heard since the tribunals created by george w. bush they were last year by the obama administration and the whole point was they're supposed to give greater rights to defendants surely that's good news isn't it. well certainly there were improvements that have been made sense obama took

office there are have been improvements made to a number of aspects of commissions including the fact that the defendants now have greater access to counsel but there are still many problems with the commission system and in this case in particular one of the main concerns is the fact that omar potter was a juvenile when he was taken into u.s. custody and when he allegedly committed the offense is that he's being accused now under international law the united states has an obligation to treat what is essentially a child soldier differently from adult soldiers. in what way should soldier be treated differently if somebody is suspected of killing an american soldier surely they should be tried no matter how old they are. well there is there's two questions whether or not the individual should be tried and how the united states is obligated to treat child soldiers child soldiers who are often cold worst into being engaged in an armed conflict and we have special obligation under

international law to those individuals and quoting an obligation to we have billets hate and to help reintegrate those individuals also under other international obligations there are obligations that the united states has to treat children who are accused of crimes differently than adults who are accused of crimes in the united states we have an entirely different juvenile justice system for children who are accused of crimes understanding that there are special considerations that much must be given. but certainly it would be possible and in a normal civilian court that that. charges could be brought in regular u.s. courts inside the united states within our standard procedures for dealing with individuals who are juveniles when they allegedly committed the conduct but a military commission is no place for a child and certainly no place for an alleged child soldier i believe that the u.n.

special envoy for child soldiers this morning criticized the united states recognizing that this would be the first known trial of a child soldier in a military commission since world war two and i think it's really unfortunate that the obama administration has decided to to pursue this case as its first case in the military commissions act or isn't the only issue here. confessions in two thousand and two were made on the torture threats of rape what do you. well clearly the. defendant marketer's counsel have introduced significant evidence that does suggest that a number of the statements that were made were in fact coerced that he was in fact threatened and that and statements that he made were due to some of that pressure now clearly the military commissions judge found differently in allowing evidence to be introduced but there are serious concerns about some of these statements were obtained there are also other problems with the charges against omar kotter and

quoting the fact that one of the main charges against him that he killed a u.s. soldier is in fact not normally considered to be a violation of the laws of war it could be a violation of regular criminal law indicating that a trial before a regular criminal court would be appropriate however isn't normally considered to be a violation of the laws of war to kill a soldier that's simply war not necessarily and not traditionally considered to be a war crime so there are lots of concerns with the fact that these commissions are trying crimes that really weren't considered to be war crimes at the time that the conduct of our alleged conduct was committed just a follow up question for the obama administration has actually stalled on the closure of guantanamo bay prison why do you think it's taken so long and do you think it eventually will be closed down just briefly. well certainly the administration continues to assert that it is committed to closing the facility and they continue to make

a serious efforts especially and that cases there are currently one hundred seventy six detainee's in guantanamo most of whom the administration never plans to try and so the administration continues to try to repatriate and resettle those detainees that it does not intend to try for any crime and there are certain obstacles to closing the facility there's been a lot of political pushback to moving detainees into the united states even further for being tried in regular civilian courts but sir. only under current law the administration still has the ability to continue to transfer detainees the courts are now holding the u.s. courts are holding that some of ordering that detainees must be released because they're being unlawfully held ok and so we certainly are still hopeful that the administration will follow through on its promise to close the guantanamo and to move beyond what was a really disappointing time and a us national security policy if you will leave it there thanks very much indeed

for joining us live in washington d.c. thank you thank you. human rights campaigners are outraged by a new e.u. project which would lead to the monitoring of everything passengers do in flight it's aimed at preventing terrorism but some believe 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 are divided yelling as bad this kid is like a private person or 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 and be surveilled here there's a more in me 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 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 so for example someone may be acting nervously anxious lee sweating in a solution because it doesn't say anything it could be just his fly but it could be a terrorist but we only know that when we combine this information with other sources of information that come to close. 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 previously is one of the litmus tests for democracy and mass surveillance erodes it enormously treats one of the suspects and that completely contradicts the main tenants of democratic. innocence and to. continue surveillance of mass surveillance. communications. over the many ways that seem to just be creeping fall completely goes against that we. 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 isn't it already too late nor am it r t london. 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 experts fear could be turned into weapons grade material if enrich to around ninety five percent uranium could be used to build an atomic bomb. iran insists its nuclear activities are for peaceful purposes only or to listen to both sides of the argument. iran announced feel once back that it needs twenty percent enriched uranium for its radioactive medicine for four cancerous patients and for agriculture 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 and its that 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 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 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 explanation . 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 intelligent 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 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 be effective in persuading iran to come back to the negotiating table it looks 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. but to brings up today for the moment. back with a look at all my new stories about seven minutes from now in the meantime krynn is next with the business after a short break. i'm great for the. we've got. the biggest issues getting voice things to face with the news maker.

hello and welcome to our business program good to have you with us rochelle also is due to the force and still ranging across the country could reach fifteen billion dollars and got into 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 a part of the federal statistics have a says report on july's industrial production the long term effect is unlikely to be known until the end of it here but some experts already claiming the impact will not be significant. in little small because of all of the direct costs like the expensive extinguish the fires the cost the emergency ministry has insurance costs and i think this figure will be no more than several tens of billions of rubles but if we keep in mind that real budget is trillions of was goes to these expenses are just

a drop in the oceans. and as far as 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 award senior global economist at h.s.b.c. says the cost of meat and poultry globally could go up as well when the market is a very concerned about that possibility because i've seen two thousand and seven two thousand and eight we saw a commodity price spike of course a whole range of stuff 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 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. now the world bank has those countries not to follow russia's example and limits in world grain supplies that's according to reuters citing the bank's managing director now last week drought hit russia impose a temporary ban on grain exports causing a 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 un bar goes on wheat supplies could cause a global food crisis with poor countries for us to stop. russian 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

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. 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 for more r.t. has talked to c.e.o. of the russian discounter nova and rapine. it's horrible to see the small good climatic conditions we're experiencing them and does it have a huge impact on the business of my people to leave the city and fly to the beaches in the south so i think i'll sell and destinations that to grow wealth in terms of the operation i mean it has had some some small impact on oil prices to date what are your company's extension plans we're aiming at to put. those

royal. i'll trade has been five hundred roubles they are bhatkal two hundred fifty rubles one boy so the key way of motivating people to fly is a cold. but you've 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 of low cost company is a way for low cost airlines i think will be the big driver russian transport to develop into the next five years so the point has been made in many markets it's local stylize that really draw you had traffic to mom and drug traffic growth i think from a national perspective. the growth of low cost airlines is very important by liberating people to be able to travel by every cheaply you improve national identity you improve social cohesion you increase social mobility these are the

plus points but you also very importantly i think lubricates i can only because for small businesses in particular local aviation is very important and encourages into a city called mostly into into city business and finally last but not least you. think we can give a big boost to domestic terrorism and we can encourage russians to stay at home and have holidays inside russia very cheaply rather than trouble to to egypt told to markets so socially economically politically i think it is already important for russia but it will become much more important the next five years. and that's all for now what you can always find most always on our website that's r t dot com slash business. every month we give you the future. and. the best in

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british human rights campaign. and freedom to u.s. prisoners who've been granted parole the single decision overturned. in less than fifteen minutes. political and ethnic turmoil interim government to set a date for the parliamentary election. caught up with. who used to head the country's security council president but he's now the leader of a political party quickly gaining momentum in the south he now 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 three 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 baccy of what appears that it would be logical for the tensions to die down after he was ousted. those levels of which 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 leaders 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 the least first steps taken by the interim government to lecture to his rather placer it's obvious that the caregivers people or 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 issue and an absolute majority of those who don't recognise the president 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 was. over which happened on april seventh dish 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 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 there that announced it was such an attempt has been me to see how the situation are repro six them seven just 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 and their addresses say that they have the people support the don't start the situation is the opposite is the leader of the you.