reports 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 to get what the people brought today all of that is valuable aid we only got one small bag of things that we couldn't use we already have enough cleans what we need now are medicines water milk and canned meat. this may not seem like much to look at but for those who've 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. they are called for help is only growing stronger as

a 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 force is not done with 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 safety people we have to send because with water food and fire extinguishing equipment people from neighboring villages volunteer they simply do not have the resources to 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 perhaps take some solace but people are going to extend a marina there to look out for them jake agrees to see. telep speed up the process of fire fighting across central russia even prime minister vladimir putin

got behind the controls of an 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 and drop it into the burning forest two fires were extinguished thanks to the joint efforts of the rescuers. and as russia battles with the immediate problem of putting out the flames the long term effects of the disaster are unclear but. from russia's main weather forecast center says this summer's blazes will affect the country's ecology for years to come but it's just at this that i think the consequences are really disastrous because many woods are burned down and it will take a lot of time to make up for it all which can be planted within one season if enough time and money the 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 we've lost the lungs 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 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. stay with us here on our t.v. got lots more headed your way including nuclear brinksmanship the international nuclear watchdog agency says iran has taken 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. first though female prisoners in the u.s. in jail for killing abusive husbands could see their chance of liberty snatched away many of those who've been granted parole have had the decision overturned by state governors rights campaigners claim even the most deserving inmates are

rejected freedom because of their 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 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 our 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 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 running for president they're concerned about granting parole to inmates who might go out and commit a serious crime but many of these women's records show they would not be a danger to society that they were young and scared for their lives or for the

lives of their children. ok the crime or the number we. 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 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. . the military trial of the youngest detainee a detainee at guantanamo bay prison is underway in cuba twenty three year old canadian born omar potter was fifteen when he was captured on a battlefield in afghanistan cotter's accused of throwing a grenade that killed an american soldier in two thousand and two during a pretrial hearing on monday he pleaded not guilty to all charges including murder 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 carter's human rights have been discussed by the united nations if convicted he faces a maximum life sentence law professor and author of the book the one time effect floral fletcher says military commissions are president obama's best chance to prosecute alleged terrorists. president obama well he pledged to close

guantanamo and hasn't been able to do that. never said that there were no be no military or trials or prosecutions of guantanamo detainee so i think we need to see those two separate issues own deal first with the issue of the trials themselves president obama well he was campaigning had pledged not to continue with military commissions and now we see that military commissions are indeed going to happen president obama was able to amend the military commissions act that the law that governs these trials that he had inherited from the bush administration second he did a complete review of all of the remaining detainees in guantanamo to determine the outcome of those cases i really think that we can understand omar condors case as

a check best case for what will happen to the high value detainees and their prosecution it remains to be seen whether any of the high value detainees will be brought into the united states or federal to. trial at this point that looks unlikely there for the military commission seems to be president obama's best option to prosecute the a legit mastermind of the nine eleven attacks human rights campaigners are at raged by the new e.u. project which would lead to the monitoring of it everything air passengers do in flight it's aimed at preventing terrorism but some believe it's a further roshon of the democratic right of 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 to 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 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 flyer 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 were anxiously sweating in our solution because it doesn't say anything it could be just like a nervous flyer 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 you but 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 contradicts

the main tenants of the democratic moment she's the one who's an instant into. continuing surveillance of mass surveillance video communications whatever the many ways that seem to just be creeping forward completely goes against that we who are a 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 thirty thousand feet up is it is already too late nor and it's r t london. the international atomic energy agency has said that iran has started the next step 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 up to twenty percent threshold that 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 peaceful purposes only are to you listen 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 cancerous patients and for agriculture products iran actually was always provided the twenty percent enriched uranium for these particular reactor by 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 do 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 a ten. in 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 explanations that make observers very concerned indeed about its intentions this sanctions on actually hitting the iranian people rather than the iranian government although many people in the us 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 it looked 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. speculation of a possible u.s. military strike against iran has pushed iran to take a rather unexpected move a former iranian revolutionary guard commander has said that not mass graves have already been prepared for u.s. troops this follows 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 south west

of the country where iraqi soldiers were buried during the war between the neighbors. turn now to some other stories making headlines across the globe in the czech republic a fourth person has now been confirmed dead after the weekend's flash flooding 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 help with the cleanup effort. two people are still missing after the collapse of a building in the argentinian capital buenos aires that left one person dead rescue workers appalled at least eight people to safety the city's mayor is blaming negligence at a nearby construction site for the accident in the past fifteen months at least six buildings have come down in the capital. a tourist has been shot dead in san francisco after being caught in the 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 an eighteen year old has been arrested on suspicion of the murder five others were also detained. following months of political turmoil kyrgyzstan's interim government has set a date for the parliamentary election the vote will take place on october tenth in april a popular uprising ousted the country's president kurmanbek bakiyev our friend i'm in june support of the constitution change that would make sure to stand up parliamentary democracy and significantly reduce presidential power. next artie's catarina caught up with attic act. model we used to head the country security council under ousted president by kiev he's now the leader of a political party quickly gaining momentum in the south just ahead he shares his views on the prospects for the future of the central asian state stay with us.

that's 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 does this happen 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. as levels of mitchell well the question is solid jerram of the present government is and whether their actions comply with the constitutional

norms it was said initially that the constitutional framework should not be while later according to our constitution no one has the right to disperse to parliament on the constitutional court it appears that all the mass resulted from these first steps taken by the interim government church is rather plaster it's obvious that the caregivers people were the so-called electorate have divided 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 recognize the present authorities either legally or socially as the leader of the united could get stoned party and have traveled across more than sixty percent of our republic being special attention to the law about and but human regions people there deny this government completely and i deny that. 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 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 as i have said before if people have a chance to make a choice they're ready to do so a so whether atom by atom 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 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 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. . 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 mythical it but he can live with 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 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 know 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 again soars 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 trying to stop and approves a 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 get that would solve the problem. so thank you so much trying times. simple. the nature and discover its beauty. to be communicate with the wild.

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hello hello hello hello. is. two thirty am here in moscow thanks for being with us on our t.v. easier headlines fighting flames some of russia's wildfires are now under control but others are still spreading claiming the lives and homes. confession

extortion guantanamo bay's youngest prisoner detained at 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. big brother is watching you with the european union's plans to install surveillance systems on airplanes anger british human rights campaigners for violating privacy. and freedom denied us prisoners who've been granted parole or seen the decision overturned falling victim to political ambition according to predict. we travel to the caucasus to explore the beauty of the north the seti and national nature reserve that's coming your way in our special report here on our. among the snowy peaks. of the greater. the republic of north.

touched. closely here. the rivers rushing to hundreds of streams which. they can make their own roof among the rocks and tops up to four. in springtime. is slowly coming

to life. first flowers to welcome the. grass. the. river is the reserves may. only just beginning to flood. in early spring people used to get to the rocky range. chance. when you're not here we have not been aware of its existence for ten years when locals told us about it they said she putting once being sheltered in the caves first tunnel when we first came here we did see tracks left by sheep yes that's right i remember the first time i came here we did see tracks left by sheep .