worldwide news and live from moscow this is r.t. a major crackdown on terror is in full swing in the north caucasus where security forces say they've killed over forty militants in august alone the home village of the leader of russia's chechen republic has become the latest target of gunman fierce fighting left five police officers dead artie's oxana has more on this. a large group of terrorists attacked the home village of the chechen president runs on credit of early morning on sunday militants set some houses on fire they were attacking the locals the chechen president there are one himself in the village and he had a terrorist operation twelve militants have been killed five security has offices were also killed and many wounded authorities reports that some locals have also been injured in the operation ok question authorities say that the militants that

were attacking the village with their arms that have been killed there were also militants who were trying to steal the operation from behind and people are the ones who got out and are trying to escape in the mountains we've talked with some locals while here in crosby and they say the situation is calm of the moment people are trying to understand what has happened and the locals think that the terrorists chose this particular village all only because it was the home of the chechen president so for them it was attack on their president personally they have been attacks are just a couple of days ago in taga stand in coverage in about caria and several days ago the new tourism both in must in mind behind the most who bore me and have been killed the. twin blasts in moscow left forty people dead and many more injured more problems are in marriage because when some terrorists killed all the supply and

take their places don't go on margin in the tourist chechen militant is the top one to in russia and he is the one who remains and to be found. over reporting from the capital of russia's chechen republic. well a fire at a nursing home in central russia has killed nine and left two seriously injured but the emergencies ministry says the blaze may have been started by one of its own residents investigators have found evidence suggesting that a man had committed suicide by setting himself alight stacey berens is following developments for us in the region. eighty six year old man who was a world war two veteran and a resident of this nursing home is being blamed for setting the blaze that killed people including to. him as he did it investigators believe in order to commit suicide now why the man wanted to kill himself he wanted to do it in such

a way nobody knows for sure early reports indicated that the man was upset because he was waiting for government housing but a social service worker associated with the home says that isn't true but she says the man was a person of what she called a difficult character she says this may explain why in the four years he lived here . he was not in contact with anybody from his family she says despite his character despite how different he was to get along with the she surprised that he would do something like this if you take a look behind me you'll see that the fire was started on the third floor of this seven story building and the flames were contained to that apartment so the three people who lived inside including the arsonist were burned. six people who lived in adjoining apartments died from smoke inhalation and now we spoke to some witnesses who survived this fire and here's what they told us. i was asleep

suddenly i found the smell of burning i wanted to turn on the lights but couldn't see anything. and it was almost impossible. question what if we woke up and heard somebody screaming a burning fire at first wouldn't even believe it but then i saw smoke coming into our room i started to cough i opened the door to the corridor but because of the smoke i couldn't see anything there. learning that everyone was so frightened the staff was providing first aid when the ambulance came doctors immediately did their job now we just spoke with investigators and they tell our. according to witnesses it could have been.

even more. serious. so you have. made the difference here investigators because.

they were. live from moscow this is r.t. and coming up for you later in the program minority report despite facing similar problems two ethnic groups struggling to get along find out why the streets of new york are seeing a spate of racially motivated attacks. and driving force the russian prime minister took time out during his road trip of russia's far east to discuss foreign policy. police in central russia have detained nine people suspected of leading an attack on a rock festival they say the brawl could have started after a local café you argued with a member of the audience up to one hundred young men started beating up the crowd with clubs other tornado festival in the region some eyewitnesses said they even heard gunshots more than ten people were injured two are still in hospital local

authorities say for security at the event could be to blame earlier reports suggested that members of a nationalist a gang these claims have since been denied some three thousand people were at the festival during the attack now where security forces have reportedly identified where three kidnapped russian pilots are now being held they were abducted by armed men in the volatile darfur region local authorities believe they know who is behind it the three russians were employees of a sudanese airline this incident is the latest in a wave of kidnappings targeting four. 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 people from their neighborhoods laura mr reports now on

how frustrations aborting i've. 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 helio. 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 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 make the bottom shelf beautiful we have more in common than we don't have that 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 behind he she a lot of mix of the working middle class working here this is the main thoroughfare of this neighborhood it's 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. this. is this is. when i was he was cool i was really getting picked on because i was mexican 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 and they commit crimes here as an argument being made from this talk to a 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 wild always has some kind of difficult to go through is the tension among races simply evolving to a new era like the ones you something that was a period now is that black is the thing to do more secure and has america always been a melting pot where someone's getting burned we live. lorie

lyster our teeth new york. you can always check out our website for many more stories anytime you choose here's what's waiting for you online right now. immigrants are in germany told to stay there welcome but they're afraid of what awaits them back home because of. spectacle of speed i'm luxury the world's latest cars attracts thousands to an international motor show in russian come about and much much more all to the. u.s. president barack obama seems sincere in his desire to improve relations with moscow but u.s. policies could be telling the opposite that's the view of russia's prime minister vladimir putin who gave an interview to the newspaper in unusual circumstances he was driving at the time in the country's far east for more. a

very interesting interview these time around is that it's extremely rare these days for journalists to get a chance to chaffetz vladimir putin one of why and this interview was very unusual not only in a way to was conducted with but if we'd been sitting at the wheel of a car driving through russia's far east but also in the questions in the questions that he was asked now i'm to collapse think of commish sonthe reporter who was sitting at a passenger seat is known for his sort of tongue in cheek style and many of the questions he asked were posed in his joking way but at the same time they were very very serious very example he asked his logic which evolves by their own not he believed in be used in time since to reset relations with russia and he said that personally he would very much like to believe but he also sad that the actions of the current administration were inconsistent with some of its declarations imagine

for example years continues africa to arm georgia and the regime of me feels that this really shows assad that if the united states wasn't sounding robin to georgia they were a bit south as to chair in two thousand and eight it would have happened he also mentioned use continues to have plans see that it's missile defense system in europe as another store in the system so to speak at moscow's side but at the same time he mansion that personally speaking if you thought that brock obama's. first sincere ingenue but at the same time keep these said that the white house was not doing what it preaches for many years political parties and political opposition in russia have been accusing largely or putin off stifling political freedoms and denying about the right to gather peacefully both in moscow and in hotter russian

c.d.'s but to me it wouldn't brushed off these criticisms saying. everybody is free to i gather as long as they have sanctions from the local authorities he did sidestep the fact that it was extremely difficult for political opposition to gather any sort of authority station from local authorities just and he defended having handed police actions to disperse these protesters in fact he said that. as long as they have permission it was a kid but if they go out without permission they'll take the bait and do they have a very straightforward isn't it and i was speaking about one of the most prominent opposition figures in russian mikail for close to his current place santa is still serving his sentence on tax evasion charges he sat. personally if i didn't put in. had nothing against what are called schemes that he was surprised to hear that

prosecutors opened second case against him that many critics say you opened on the very same charges that he was already serving his standard song but he did say that as soon as. we feel sort of closed he said his problems with the lawyer he will be able to work as a free man. looks on a boycott the reporting from moscow and you can find out more for vladimir putin had to say by looking on to our website dot com well afghan president hamid karzai has renewed his criticism of coalition forces he said the counter terror operation in the region was ineffective and only caused civilian deaths although the military analyst believes the afghan leader is trying to block u.s. efforts to beat corruption and drug production you know a standoff between design and general betray us. president has scored again. in his incipient battle against the

american anti-corruption efforts first time i scored. when he completely blocked and stalled the investigation. from national security council. and the second time just recently when he can sell it they did he has momentum again the american anti-corruption drive in afghanistan and keep 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 afghans corrupt officials instead he fired one of the senior prosecutors in afghanistan demonstrating to afghans to 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 open up an opportunity to brush off an old idea aired 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 again a 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 and this telescope 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. it's now just turning twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital this is r.t. in a few moments yulia will be here with the latest from the business world but for the meantime let's get to some other news making headlines around the world and a gunman has opened a random fire in the streets of slovakia's capital bratislava killing at least six people and injuring dozens including a three year old child after the attack the man committed suicide reports say he began shooting outside a children's hospital in a suburb of the city other new sources claim he's a drug addict who is only fifteen years old. in chile thirty three miners have been trapped in a collapsed shaft for over three weeks had their first telephone contact with

relatives reported to have boosted their spirits on the ground one of them in particular who decided to marry his long term girlfriend the latest phase of the rescue effort is expected to take months and you could begin shortly the plan is to drill a hole why enough to pull the trapped miners to the. more u.s. troops are preparing to leave iraq despite a recent wave of violence around three american soldiers are almost at the end of their combat mission after seven years of fighting however about fifty thousand will remain in iraq to provide training and support for local security forces president obama will give a speech on tuesday that will highlight what administration officials say is his fulfillment of a promise to withdraw the country's forces from iraq. pakistani emergency officials say water levels in pakistan are beginning to recede but the danger of further flooding remains high. over the weekend submerged

a number of towns but most residents only in time the worst flooding in the country has affected about seventeen million people i mean left more than sixteen hundred dead and we'll have more on this in about ten minutes time in our interview with the u.s. deputy envoy to pakistan kilian kleinschmidt. first though let's give it over to you who has the latest business news. hello and a very warm welcome to the business program russian finance minister alex accouterments says there is no meat for russia's central bank to take action to control inflation at the moment he says prize rises are being driven by the poor harvest caused by the drought and changing monetary policy won't help instead he says if public spending is kept under control the economy will gradually come back into balance the government has now warning that inflation is likely to hit seven point five

percent this year higher than previously forecast. russia is the world's biggest producer of oil bought despite having the resources it doesn't organize the market nor does it possesses a grade of well consider it to be a global bank shmuck michael investigates how it was 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 producers 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 corn itself to the specific so for a finding of this or that crude and also to the demand in the so that region where this coke 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. but with the north sea oil fields reaching the end of their life and with it the grandstand a new a blends such as rushes your old blend well the e.s.p.n. pipeline blends 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 stand with its own international trading platform rather than leaving it to the u.s. the u.k. and singapore yes there are many if we had our own stock exchange where we could trade or oil or i think the first we could trade not only in u.s. dollars but also in rubles especially c.i.s. countries amount of notice and i mean we are talking about the rest of the becoming a major trading currency or even a reserve currency or with this can only be done if the ruble is fixed to serious material resources such as gold oil and gas. the urals blame 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 more from the oil trading heavyweights in london and new york before attempting to shift

the balance of trading power in oil market business. that have a look at how the equity markets are shaping up the u.s. markets open tomorrow after a slower than expected growth and personal incomes that it trickles down to the economic rebound is slightly and european shaz are on the up on monday given a lift by new moves from the bank of japan to add liquidity for its economy that follows comments from chairman ben bernanke he is set to get central bankers ready to take further steps to stimulate growth and after shop rising current crisis late on friday energy companies are gaining six close to her bank holiday in the u.k. . and here in moscow the russian markets are gaining on monday with the r.t.s. in the half a percent so far banks are out before me on my six quest burbank is up one percent and also making gains what is to stop

a form gaining almost one percent. paul machines company russia's biggest power engineering manufacturer has posted vast top profits of eighty nine million dollars the company's profit rose eighty four percent year on year whether revenue changed marginally to seven hundred twenty one million dollars . and the siberian co energy company or through a password tends to profit in the facts top of the twenty two. russia's largest producer of fuel for power stations said that income was one hundred fifty five million dollars compared with a loss of six million in the early am so that credited stronger demand and prices for the improved performance. and prime minister vladimir putin says the standoff between nichols two main shareholders and they did the pasta and let him at the time is damaging for the company but his stress that the government only has

a limited capacity to resolve the conflict meanwhile the rules committee c.e.o. . is more concerned about the company's future performance he revealed some of the company's plans to business r.t. . that 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 industrial yeah although the final decision will be taken in september. under consideration but of course the honeymoon well which is the largest deposit and requires a complex approach will not be offered for sale we'll use it for further development and capitalization of the company. and so from the world of business but you can always get more business news from our web site r.t. dot com slash business.

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