centers bringing vital necessities and generously donating their time for the benefit of the victims. a site's first becoming all too familiar for russians the wildfires of ravaged the country are showing no signs of letting up in their wake they've left thousands displaced and only ruins where communities once stood. and as firefighters continue to tackle the blazes people in russia's capital have begun pitching in to bring relief to those who need it the most alexander turned up this morning after a harrowing t.v. report spurred him into action. this is the first time i'm actually going out to search for them i guess it's a sort of reconnaissance mission for me they 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 his aid relief center packing up bags to be sent to needy families don't get what the people brought today all of that is valuable aid only got one small bag of things that we couldn't

use in already have enough cleans food we need now i medicines water milk and canned meat. 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 all in the flames here it's the kind of survivors that's probably hope to many in their darkest moments. the outcry 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 which was not done just because these people really need help and it's no easy matter even to organize meals for such a large number it's hard to organize everything in small villages where there are

sixty people we have to send because with water food and fire extinguishing equipment it people from neighboring villages volunteer they simply do not have the resources. of 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 alex under a marina of their to look out for them j.q. greece r.t. . to speed up the process of fire fighting across central russia prime minister vladimir putin got behind the controls of an amphibious aircraft as soon as putin 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 take water from one of the country's rivers the and drop it into the burning forests two fires were extinguished thanks to the joint efforts of putin and rescuers.

and as russia battles with the immediate problem of putting out the farmers the long term effects of the disaster are unclear but verdun result of junk from russia's main weather forecast center says this summer's blazes will affect the country's ecology for years to come. it's just that the threat and the consequences are really disastrous because many wards are burned down it will take a lot of time to make up for it which can be planted within one season if enough time and money is allocated 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 we've lost the longs of the moscow region i mean the woods contributing to air purification and oxygen production we've lost these longs which is a considerable blow against the environment of the 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 leads to carbon acid formation resulting in acid rains later on which can inflict even greater damage on the woods by destroying foliage and trees. here with r.t.

and it's probably more coming your way later this hour including nuclear brinkmanship the international watchdog says iran is taking the next step towards building a bomb we talk to an expert to run about the country's intentions and hear about the finances of the global community from an expert in london. but first women prisoners in the u.s. have killed their abusive husbands can see their chance of liberty snatched away many of those have been granted parole about the decision overturned by state governors rights campaigners claim even the most deserving inmates are rejected freedom because of the desire for political gain. meet norma 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 and that decision was overturned by california governor arnold schwarzenegger 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 and they are represented by law students like andy martin i'm representing maris or 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 q.b. 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's fortune egger 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 we're going to. go on the way 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 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. . the military trial of the youngest detainees 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 in 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 to the u.s. military base in afghanistan before being moved to guantanamo is a violation of human rights have been discussed by the united nations if convicted he faces a maximum life sentence. for you from the advocacy group human rights first says even if the u.s. soldier it doesn't make him a war criminal. 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 armed conflict and we have a special obligation under international law to those individuals and quoting an obligation to we have bill a tape and to help reintegrate those individuals also under all their 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 a military commission is no place for a child and certainly no place for an alleged child soldier 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 pursue this case as its first case in the military commissions the 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 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 there are also other problems with the charges against omar kotter and

clued in 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 however isn't normally considered to be a violation of the laws of war to kill a soldier that's simply war. human rights campaigners are outraged by e.u. project which lead to the monitoring of everything passengers do influence is 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 lawman 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. you'll be surveilled and be surveilled and hear 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 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 detect so for example someone may be acting nervously anxiously sweating in oscillation because it doesn't say anything it could be just a nervous flyer but it could be a terrorist but we only know that when we combine this information with other sources of information 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. and that completely conflicts with the main tenants of the democratic one which is that of all those innocent into. continuing

surveillance mass surveillance video communications whatever many ways that seem to just be creeping forward completely goes against that we will. see apart from the civil rights issues many question the efficacy of an on board system if a terrorist isn't course at the airports they say by the time a plane thirty thousand feet up is it is already too late nor and that 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 of peaceful purposes or to has been listening to

both sides of the on. iran announced a few months back that it needs twenty percent enriched uranium for its radioactive medicine for four cancerous patients and for agricultural products iran actually was always provided 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 iranian air it's the 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 they can always tame the isotope. it's 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 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 list i mean 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 that look like iran might be 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. speculation of a possible u.s. military attack against iran has pushed iran to take a rather unexpected counter move a former iranian revolutionary guard commander has said mass graves have already been prepared for u.s. troops to follow comments by america's top military man last week that there was a contingency plan to attack the islamic republic the grazer in the southwest of the country where iraqi soldiers were buried during the war between the neighbors. the following months of political turmoil stands interim government to set a date for the parliamentary election the vote will take place on october the tenth

in april a popular uprising else to the country's president here referendum in june support of a constitution change that made a parliament treat democracy significantly reduce presidential power. of a quarter. of who used to head the country's security council under president bakiev he's now the leader of a political party quickly gaining momentum in the south well coming up very shortly he shares his views on the prospects for the future of the central asian state.

yes the 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 would appear that it would be logical for the tensions to die down after he was ousted. up as 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 later according to our constitution no one has the right to disperse the parliament and the constitutional court it appears that all the mass resulted from these first steps taken by the interim government to lecture it is rather plaster

it's obvious that the caregivers people or the so-called electorate have divided it into two groups having opposite opinions because there is a small portion of the caregivers people who support the government and an absolute majority of those who don't recognise the present authorities either legally or socially as the leader of the united could get down party and have travelled across more than sixty percent of our republic being special attention to the law about and but human regions people they are denied this government completely and i deny that suit a referendum they've carried out completely all the more so. so because of the staggering figure of the one you want to percent of those who are allegedly supported the government which sounds like a joke like a grim joke nowadays what do you think that the people of kurdistan are politically in the chore to make a healthy political choice that there was a bit of a deal with this i have said before if people have a chance to make

a choice they're ready to do so if so whether a tomorrow or enjoys popularity or not in fact we have heard nothing neither social nor economic nor foreign policy nor priority areas of the country's development therefore it's a non entity the present interim government does not comply with the constitution and the kid gets legislation delivered by their own laws and that's how they tell the kids people that one can live outside the law and outside the legal framework i think it's a very bad example. as the temporary government have a foreign policy but it's couples who was should use foreign policy must be said self primarily on relations with such foreign partners and highly respected international organizations as the shanghai cooperation organization the collective security treaty organization and the c.i.s. there should be at least some coordination regarding political issues in these terms the kid gives government is not pursuing a new policy i can see

a new foreign policy no sign of it there is only one area of their relations with the european union the aspects of working with the us are also gaining momentum several state department officials have been here for over a month i would say that of them by about and the whole of the interim government are good students of those coming to kyrgyzstan their science certain tasks for certain period of time and then come back to check and assess what has been done i would say the political short sightedness of the temporary government will want affected just done as a sovereign state as a member of the as c.e.o. and do c.s. cio according to some polls over fifty percent of the people believe that corruption is one of the country's biggest problems what do you think could be done to battle it to eradicate it love a mythical it gives our future leader will need very strong political will he cannot be corrupt no one should be influencing his decisions neither is wife nor

his children nor his brothers no relatives nor lovers corruption in our state can be eradicated within three or four months corruption is not something regular people engage and hardly heaters have to have a strong backbone he has to give up all earthly pleasures to serve their country we need an ascetic man to be put in charge of the very harshman perhaps he would look just what could be done to reconcile the country's progress and respect. operations what could be done to prevent the bloodshed from happening again problem when you see people killed give stories back are not the problem here the political how glorious are the problem i would call those people political profiteers i think the problem will be solved once the government tries to stop and approves a solid document on ethnic policy and starts promoting it without looking back at those who might not like it surely this document will have to be very clear and

appeal to every ethnic group and could just on that would solve the problems leask it would. thank you so much for a time this. simple. observe nature and discover its beauty. the. means. communicate with the wild and. test yourself and become free. and. see what nature can give you an autopsy.

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. coming from last few days here in central moscow twenty four hours a day this is our top stories now the fighting flames some of russia's wild fire and now under control but all this is still spreading claiming lives and homes.

confession extortion guantanamo bay's youngest prisoner detained just fifteen is facing military trial for crimes he says he was tortured into admitting he's the first from the u.s. prison camp in cuba to be tried since barack obama took office. plus big brother is watching you european union's plans for stall surveillance systems on airplanes and british human rights campaigners for violating privacy. rules for the freedom denied us prisoners have been granted parole the decision overturned victim to political and. let me back with more news for us in half an hour from now in the meantime we travel to the caucuses to explore the beauty of the north national nature reserve that's in our special report coming up next on.

among the snowy peaks gorges rocks of the greater caucasian mountain range the republic of north. high in the mountains where venture. lives on untouched. habitat. is closely here. from the top of the rivers rushing to hundreds of streams which turn into endless waterfalls. but attracts many rock climbers they can make their own route among the rocks and mountain tops up to four thousand.

in spring time the weather here can change several times and. is slowly coming to life. the first flowers to welcome the warmth of spring. lurk in last year's grass. the alligator gorge river is the reserves main waterway water is only just beginning to flood its wide. in. the range. is situated tributary. nature reserve staff. shelter.