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well the common tragedy has united people in their fight for relief from the devastation those compelled to help of organized aid centers bringing vital necessities and generously donating their time for the benefit of the victims. sites but it's becoming all too familiar for russians the wildfires of ravaged the country showing no signs of letting up in their wake leave 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. you know 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 to get what the people brought today
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all of that is valuable aid we only got one small bag of things that we couldn't use we already have enough scenes where 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 if the kindness of others as part of 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 and owing to the location of many of the devastated regions is proving to be a challenging task force is not done with pushing these people really need help and
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it's no easy matter even to organise meals for such a large number it's hard to organise everything in small villages where there are safety people we have to send because with water fusion fire extinguishing equipment people from neighboring villages volunteer they simply do not have the resources and love thy neighbor is a sentiment not lost on those giving their time and belongings to help people in need but even those who don't believe can. take some solace but people like alex and a marina to look out for them. talk to fred goldberg a climate analyst from the roll institute of technology in stockholm thinks there is nothing abnormal in the high temperatures in russia this summer which can be explained by the laws of nature. on the. high pressure located in various positions not to change our climate as a weather phenomenon. my point is that this year you had this heavy high pressure
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over central asia bringing up from the tropics to your area to be in the floods. all the time but to really into of television fifty years ago so we never heard about it in the same way we are hearing about it today the climate is controlled by some activity and ocean currents right now we have the same conditions as we had in the early one nine hundred forty s. which were very cold winters predicted that this last cold winter in may last year and i'm predicting another even maybe even colder winter next year coming in the winter. and also predicted a warm summer which seems to be correct. here with much more coming your way later this including nuclear brinkmanship and you can watch as 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 from an expert in london.
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but first we've been 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 have 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. 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 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
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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 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 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
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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 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
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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. yeah. ok those are the number we heard earlier where if you're 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
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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 zero r.t. . 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 the battlefield in afghanistan countries accused of throwing a grenade which killed in the 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 the into
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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 doesn't show you from the up because the group human rights first says even if it did kill a 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
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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 and in the military commissions that marketers 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 this 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
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a violation of the laws of war to kill a soldier that's simply war human rights campaigners are outraged by the new e.u. project which would lead to the monitoring of everything the passengers do influence it's aimed at preventing terrorism but some believe it's a further erosion of the democratic right to privacy. all through 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 mean is a line and you keep pushing and pushing it with like the regulations and i think it's so prevalent already. with this expected you watch t.v. you watch t.v. or you'll be surveilled and to be surveilled here there's a more in me but nothing to hide so i wouldn't worry me personally. the e.u.
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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 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 fly is now one way to do that is to look very carefully at the types of
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cues that we take so for example someone may be acting nervously we're 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 to close. a lot to think of it as not big brother watching 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 truths and one of the suspects. completely contradicts the main tenets of democratic. innocence and to. continuing surveillance of mass surveillance video communications. that seem to just be creeping forward completely goes against that we.
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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 in rich to around ninety five percent uranium can be used to build an atomic bomb iran says it's because activities are for peaceful purposes only artie's been listen to both sides of the. iran announced a few months back that it needs twenty percent enriched uranium for its radioactive medicine for four cancers patients and for agriculture products
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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. that 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 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
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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. observers very concerned indeed about its intentions this sanctions are actually hitting the iranian people rather than the iranian government although many people in the verse and in united states talk about intelligent sanctions but there is no such a thing as as intelligent or a small tsang action 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
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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 already been prepared for u.s. troops that followed 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 buried during the war between the neighborhoods. and let's have a quick look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world at this stage of the day in the czech republic a fourth person has now been confirmed to the weekend splash clouds the extreme weather caused extensive damage throughout the country destroying bridges roads and buildings some nine hundred homes remain without power and several railway lines are still unusable hundreds of soldiers have been sent to the affected areas to
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help with the cleanup effort. and to portugal where the forces of nature of causing problems there to the military has been deployed to help firefighters who are struggling to contain fires raging in the north of the country the war far started on friday with the civil defense service registering a record number for this year and that is the services are trying to avoid a repeat of the deadly blazes that devastated the country in two thousand and three killing nine. a tourist has been shot down in france san francisco after being caught in crossfire between two rival teenage gangs the german woman was walking with her husband in the popular union square part of the city when she was killed two other people were also wounded and eighteen year old has been arrested on suspicion of murder five others were also detained. well following months of political turmoil interim government has set a date for the parliamentary elections take place on october the tenth and a popular uprising of the country's president coming back. and referendum the
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constitution change that would make a parliamentary democracy and significantly presidential palace. 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 of the country well coming up very shortly he shares his views on the prospects for the future of the central asian state.
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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 does this happen 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 love is hopeless levels of riches well the question is solid jerram of the present government is and whether their actions comply with the constitutional norms as it was said initially that the constitutional framework should not be wily that according to our constitution no one has the right to disperse the parliament and the constitutional court it appears that old a 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 into two groups having opposite opinions because there is
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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 be a stand party to have traveled across more than sixty percent of our republic being special attention to the are still all about and but human regions people there deny this government completely and i deny to pursue the referendum they've carried out completely all the more so because of the staggering figure of the one you want to percent of those who 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 mature to make a healthy political choice that the belittle with as 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
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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 queue to get legislation there live by their own laws and that's how they tell the kid gives 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 cheated us 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 that it gives government is not pursuing a new policy i can see a new foreign policy no sign of it there's only one area their relations with the
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european union the aspects of working with the u.s. 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 on effect it gets done as a sovereign state as a member of the as c.e.o. and this yes t.-o. 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 lovely image of political will 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
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corruption and 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 a very harsh man perhaps you would look just what could be done to reconcile the country's progress and respect. elation 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 glares are the problem i would call those people political profiteers i think the problem will be solved once the government try to stop and approve the solid document on the policy and starts promoting it without looking back at those who might not like it this document will have to be very clear and appeal to every ethnic group and could just on that would
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solve the problem. so. thank you so much for a time. wealthy british soil some time to. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cancer for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds of reports . every month we give you the future we help you understand how to get there and what to bring the best in science and technology from across russia and
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around the world to join us it's knowledge you update on our jeep. line. would be soon which brightened if you knew in advance sung from the finest impressions. starts on t.v. dot com. comes in from the russian capital time to update you on our main news stories the sounds of fighting flames some of russia's wildfires are now under control but others are still spreading claiming lives and homes. confession
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extortion guantanamo bay's youngest prisoner detained in just fifteen is facing military trial for crimes 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. last big brother is watching you the european union's plans for a stall surveillance systems on airplanes angers british human rights campaigners for violating privacy. freedom denied us prisoners who've been granted parole the same the decision overturned falling victim to political ambition. continues in less than half an hour with treasure in the meantime is the report this time a look at the so-called robot traders unfortunate software programs that are executing thousands of trades outside of business hours that's coming your way next stay with us for that.
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imax guys are welcome to the kaiser report markets finance and scandals and robot trainers care rising wall street and the american and global economy let's bring in stacy herbert stacy herbert tell us more max kaiser well it is summer and summer is often the time of sequels so this brings me to the first headline deflationary blackhole the sequel who will wall street send to congress to extort fifteen trillion dollars this time yes they're back but before i start the whole that story i want to set the scene yes that this is unhappy robber gunmen calls
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a restaurant to gripe so this is a restaurant in atlanta georgia and a man who robbed a wendy's at gunpoint last week apparently was so upset with his haul that he called twice to the restaurant to complain afterward he said quote next time there better be more than five hundred eighty six dollars poses a brilliant i see we're going with this is brilliant because if the man were hank paulson and he was in front of congress they would have given him seven hundred billion you see because he's not a partner to wall street firm he's an untouchable and america's society is an underling is a part of the sort of class yes but as we also see the set up for a second heist of the american population it's a trickle down mood that they can get away with it like this guy obviously feels that it's ok and it's acceptable to just call and complain about how little you got the first time we only got seven hundred billion the first time we want a trillion or two trillion i think that's a good point the wall street bankers.
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