the region in central russia the emergencies ministry says the blaze may have been started by one of the nursing homes residents and as artie's sean thomas has been reporting investigators have found evidence suggesting the demand had committed suicide by setting himself on fire. certainly a tragic situation this morning in the region about two hundred kilometers away from moscow flames erupted early in the morning causing four hundred eighty people to be evacuated from this elderly person's home investigators are saying that early on it looked like possible faulty wiring but that was quickly changed as they had the opportunity to get into the nursing home a building about seven stories high and now on the third floor what they found was a room where there was a gasoline container they believe one man around eighty six year old tried to commit suicide this man was a veteran who was depressed about the government's inaction in getting him an apartment and that he was depressed and at this point was trying to take matters into his home own hands criminal investigation has been launched into the arson

also emergency ministry has come in and they have started their investigation as well this is what they had to say about the entire situation it was five o five am the local fire department was informed of a blaze in the nascent aim fire engines arrived at the site within three minutes and the fire had been put out by five thirty am several possibilities as to what caused the fire are now being considered one of them is that the fire was started by one of the residents award fashion he may have set himself on fire and it took the chilean const it was found in his dream three years ago in the rust on don region there was an incident where more than sixty people were killed after a fire broke out in an elderly person's home response was very slow conditions the fire conditions of more poor in that. specific facility and they say that the fire wasn't reported to thirty minutes after it started and once firefighters did arrive to the scene they set up their defenses too far away to be able to save anyone in that specific instance and then again in january two thousand and nine in before me

reaching more than twenty people killed the bear. again for fire conditions in bad health facility also slow response time claims to those more than twenty doubts about facility at the end of that. president they did of actually ask you all to leave homes make sure that they were up to. the standards and practices were in that period also that the regional directors of the homes around the country for. that specific instance taking a look at today's fire it is not believed that poor conditions contributed to the to. the last time that this specific facility was inspected was in march it did pass it is believed that this specific facility in the region was up to code r t has a crew on their way at the scene right now and will be making sure that we bring you the latest on this investigation on this as it becomes available. thomas that

now a terrorism crackdown is in full swing in russia's north caucasus where security forces say they've killed over forty linked militants in august two police officers were shot dead by militants in the russian republic of dagestan just hours ago on sunday twelve militants were killed during a special operation in the chechen republic. is there for us. very early in the morning a group of from fifteen up to thirty militants attacked the village they set some houses of the locals on fire and this is actually home village of the chechen president runs on their own so no wonder he himself had to be a counter terrorist operation to find lasted about a couple of hours and as a result the militants killed it. can't just say that they were those who were trying to film the operation from this time some militants and these were the ones

who escaped in the mountains but the others were killed in five offices of security offices have been killed many more wounded and also several locals are reported to be wounded in the operation to stick awful off days ago and a tourist a militant. who use the march to mind behind the moscow metro bombings boys killed and so as a result progress by the russian authorities cracking down on militants. who is the most wanted terrorist in russia remains on the russian wanted list but most militants are tracked down and killed the situation is actually hard because when some militants are eliminated they are family members like wives and sisters become black widows and others pop to take the fight so it's very important that the operations here in russia succeed and therefore it is they're doing their best to

achieve this. reporting from the capital of russia's chechen republic well still ahead for you this hour here on our t.v. have let me put it goes up for a spin find out what the russian prime minister told the roads in russia's far east all the details coming up just a little bit later in the program. but a string of violent attacks on hispanic immigrants in new york has prompted fears of a new wave of racial hatred the victims say they've been targeted by african-americans who want to clear mexican immigrants from the neighborhoods lauren lyster reports on how frustrations are borning over in the big guy. the united states has always been a country of immigrants but they're not always welcome we've seen mexicans targeted in the western state of arizona which passed a tough law targeting undocumented immigrants there's many many people are coming to this country and they go through the proper channels to do the proper thing and

and the people that don't do that they're breaking the law despite a backlash. now we're seeing more signs this sentiment is making ripples across the country far from the mexican border in one area of new york city. where. there has been a string of a dozen attacks on hispanic residents in recent months victims like were helio and victim number nine infidel you can literally find them simply walking through the neighborhood and the suspects unfortunately most of the attacks most recently been by blacks against mexicans according to these victims they were targeted by teens while minding their own business. in the back of my head. and then they hit my our entry point for no other reason than being mexican they were appears to be a divide between the minorities sharing this poor area of new york despite this

when you go through these statistics you want education in frying hoovering at the bottom the blacks and hispanics from the bottom shelf beautiful we have one common then we don't have in common but here the rift appears to be growing with the influx of hispanic immigrants city blocks that used to be vacant are now flourishing appearing to leave some behind he she lot of mexican working in the last working here this is the main thoroughfare of this neighborhood where many of the mexican shops and markets like this one have popped up it's also where many of the anti mexican attacks have occurred now the police presence across the street as a result is new but residents say the issues are not. see this. he says. when i was in high school i was really getting picked on because it was mexicans some argue now blacks are unfairly targeted by all the attention the blacks feel slighted they feel mexican share in the blame to

here legally. they commit crimes here is an argument being made from this talk to way new york town to the streets in arizona so in a country of immigrants does this point to a pecking order that has always been it's not really new and the latest a while those has a pretty difficult to go through is the tension among races simply evolving to a new era play do why do you something it was a period now is that wise thing to do more secure and has america always been a melting pot where someone's getting burned we live. lauren lyster are to new york it's just now it's only ten minutes past the hour here in the russian capital you all with odds he and the police are questioning suspected ringleader of a mass brawl that took place at a rock concert in russia's your rules region according to reports the man became

enraged and retaliated off the local teenagers have been goading him when he says say up to one hundred people in the top of the crowd with clubs at the tornado festival in the philippines region. suggest a fourteen year old girl was killed yet to confirm this eleven people have been taken to hospital now eyewitnesses claim the man even beat up the police gunshots were heard some three thousand people were at the festival during the attack. well security forces in sudan searching for three russian pilots that have been kidnapped in the country and they were abducted by armed men in the volatile darfur region the three russians were employed by a sudanese airline incident is the latest in a wave of kidnappings targeting foreigners. well we are here for you live twenty four seven but for even more news and videos just go to our website that's on t.v. dot com here's a taste of what's waiting for you online right now i must go is witnessing

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little angel. live from moscow this is ati now a senior government prosecutor in afghanistan says that he's been forced to retire for aggressively promoting corruption investigations some of the people under suspicion was top officials of one one of president hamid karzai as aides he is a military analyst says the afghan leader is doing everything in his power to block u.s. efforts to beat corruption and drug production in this standoff between us i and general betray us ad going to president has scored again in

his incipient battle against the american anti-corruption efforts first time as i scored. when he completely blocked and stalled they investigation. chief national security council. and the second time just recently when he can so if they did he has the momentum again the american anti-corruption drive in afghanistan and not only if boy did the american pressure but in the way he should go to the americans in afghanistan and instead of reversing his decision against the extra handed afghan corrupt officials instead he fired one of the senior prosecutors in afghanistan demonstrating to afghans americans and to the whole world he is in charge not only drug production but corruption as well right now this standoff is coming to the hands again it's opened up an opportunity to

brush off an old idea which i erred one year ago that is to regain the initiative and the momentum in fighting their corruption in afghanistan general petraeus has to be appointed as a governor general stand. so he could introduce the martial law and to disband their presidential institution in again a stand once and for all and to call for the loya jirga to postpone the constitution and to disband the presidential institution altogether so he could exit q would tell its school and to appoint himself as a governor general this is the only way to address the runaway playground corruption that threatens to employ old the whole social fabric of afghanistan corruption and drug production in afghanistan actually of the two parts of

a binary weapon that threatens to implode the afghan society and totally and completely discredit any notion of democracy. ok let's go to some other news now making headlines around the world and thirty three miners who have been trapped underground in chile for more than three weeks. telephone contact with their families many of the men have severe skin irritations from the hot and wet conditions but they say they're doing much better since receiving food engineers due to begin drilling in a shell which is expected to take at least three months to complete are also considering expanding an existing bore hole which could speed up the rescue. in ecuador run off a highway and overturned killed at least thirty seven people seriously injured a dozen others children are among the dead it's believed the driver who's also died

in the accident may have fallen asleep at the wheel police say he had been at the wheel for at least seven hours before the crash the bus was traveling through ecuador's highlands towards the country's capital of quito. floods have submerged another town in southern pakistan. infrastructure and buildings have been badly damaged and most residents have fled the area the floodwaters are also threatening the nearby city of kief staging protests for relief workers pakistan is struggling to deal with the floods that have affected more than seventeen million people and claimed hundreds of lives. a senior rabbi or from a party within israel's coalition government has called for palestinian leader mahmoud abbas to vanish from our world spiritual leader spoke out as director middle east peace talks are poised to begin in washington this week the united states has condemned the remarks as quote deeply offensive israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has distanced himself from the comments saying he just wants

peace with the palestinians. well russian prime minister vladimir putin has sampled driving conditions on the country's roads during his trip to the far east he talked about the need to improve road safety giving an exclusive interview to the program my planet on the t.v. channel rossiya twenty four shots are going to go to we have discussed things with truck drivers they say it's a new community the motorway has been built and it appears good along this stretch but it still lacks service points imagine if a tire bursts when the temperature is fifty below zero it would simply endanger life and no communication up with the tools this is very serious it means we have simply fails to take care of this in our time and it needs to be fixed immediately you'll see this now as we move on the production is planned to be related to time to move that we are building a new chinese posters to you with several major proposed locations along the way

will be about italy without doubt it will grow to become generators for this region or space but oh. well after driving three hundred fifty kilometers an hour russian law that. putin said he was pleasantly surprised with the vehicle the prime minister is on a work trip when the country is far east and plans to travel two thousand kilometers through the region. or news now we're just getting in we're getting reports that a gunman has opened fire on a street in bratislava the capital of slovakia killing at least six and injuring over a dozen we'll bring you more about as we get it a little later we talk to the un's deputy envoy to pakistan to find out what's being done to help the country deal with the raging floods that's coming up at around ten minutes from now first though we turn to stephanie business desk. and we hear that russia has become the world's biggest oil exporter but still doesn't have its own international trading platform tell me how does that work well i'll explain

that to you in just a minute basically as the world's biggest producer of oil many think it's time that russia established its own market more a bit later on in the bulletin but fast prime minister vladimir putin says the standoff between the wrists nichols to main shareholders that of pasta and vladimir patani end is damaging for the company but he stressed that the government only has a limited capacity to resolve the conflict meanwhile the real cynical see radamisto little kosky is more concerned about the company's future performance he revealed some of the company's plans to business r.t. . we are planning to sell our non core assets first of all including our goal and so-called none shall find out. the law for both mines and processing facilities of course and probably the black swan in australia a little final decision will be taken in september. under consideration of god but of course the honeymoon well which is the largest deposit and requires a complex approach will not be offered for sale i will use it for further

development and capitalization of the company. and that's really how the equity markets are shaping up european shows are on the up on monday tracking games in asia and the us they're also being given the lift by comments from the fed chairman ben bernanke he who said the u.s. central bank was ready to take further steps to boost economic recovery and after a sharp rise in crude prices late on friday energy companies are gaming the footsie is closed up for a bank holiday in the case. here in moscow the russian markets are gaining on monday with the r.t.s. on my six more than a third of a percent higher so far finds alpha forming on the my sex west bank is up one percent and he wages are also making gains fops ross telecom is the star performer eight percent this hour. power machines company russia's biggest power engineering manufacturer has posted first half profits of ninety eight million dollars the company's profit rose eighty four percent year on year however revenue remained

unchanged at seven hundred ten million dollars. a leading russian pharmaceutical manufacturers since bez is planning an initial public offering to raise sixteen million dollars the company will place thirty percent of the shares on moscow's might six stock exchange it hopes to use the cash to fund the company's investment program which includes a new factory to pieces but international expansion the i.p.o. is expected to be completed in the event of. russia is the worlds. biggest producer of oil but despite having the resources it does not organize the market nor does it possess a grade of oil considered to be a global benchmark by crushing the investigates how oil is traded and why russia is finding it difficult to establish its own market. oil is usually priced in barrels the measurement itself originates from the eight hundred sixty s. when the early pennsylvania oil field produces were forced to store oil in barrels

usually meant for b. or turpentine. the cost of a barrel which is equal to one hundred fifty nine liters is dependent on a number of factors supply and demand and speculation but it's also determined by the quality of the air with certain blends commanding a premium over others who have different discounts and premium self one brand to another that really depends upon multiples of factors starting we in their cost of transportation quality of course itself to the specific so for a finding of this or that current and also to the demand in the so that region where the school crude can go most oil traded usually uses two main benchmarks west texas intermediate and brant blend both of which are considered among the sweetest crudes this is despite the fact that there are more than two hundred blends in the world many of these however have high sulfur content making them salad blends and

therefore harder to refine. over the north sea oil fields reaching the end of their life and with the grandstanded new of lens such as russia's euros blend well the e.s.p.n. pipeline blend are increasingly becoming the standard by which others adjudged russia has become the world's biggest oil exporter and many believe the time has come for the country to establish its own international trading platform rather than leaving it to the u.s. the u.k. and singapore yes. if we had our own stock exchange where we could trade oil i think the firstly we could trade not only in u.s. dollars but also in rubles especially the c.i.s. countries amount of houses and i mean we are talking about the of the becoming a major trading currency or even a reserve currency and with this can only be done if the ruble is fixed to serious material resources such as gold oil and gas. the urals blend currently trades at a two dollar discount to brant yet many believe this is an unfounded discount one which

could be raised through the establishment all the local oil exchange but for now russia is still happy to trade through the existing channels analysts agree that both the market regulators and oil industry players here still need to learn from the oil trading heavyweights in london and new york before attempting to shift the balance of trading power in oil markets of genco business. that's all the business is going out of my colleagues really a book of it will be had with more in about an hour's time and you can always find the stories on a website that's called flash with. there

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it's now half past two in the afternoon on monday here in the russian capital with auti headlines now at least nine people have been killed and two seriously injured after a fire i don't know seeing a home in central russia hundreds of forced to flee investigators say there's evidence to suggest one of the residents committed suicide by setting himself on fire in the flames spread through the rooms. reigning in terror russia's stepped up efforts to win the war against militants that claim you know serious of successful and terror operations in the north caucasus security forces say they've killed over forty militants in august alone. and an ethnic divide.