live from the center of 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. as more. 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 could do one himself in the village and he had a terrorist operation twelve militants have been killed five security his offices were also killed and many moving to authorities reports that some locals have also been injured in the operate ok attention afforded to say that to me were towns that

were attacking the village with their arms that have been killed there were also militants who were trying to derail the operation from behind you the ones who got out and are trying to escape 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 to locals think that the terrorists chose this particular village always because it was the home village 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 competition about caria and several days ago the new tourism i'm going to leave a goddess in must to mind behind the most who bore me and has been killed between boston more school left forty people dead and many more injured more problems are

emerged because when some terrorists killed others to pop and take their places don't go on market in the tourist chechen militant is the top wanted in russia and he is the one who remains and are to be found. that's all t's office on a list of of reporting from the capital of russia's chechen republic while 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 lauren lyster reports now on how frustrations are boarding up. 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. that. there has been a string of a dozen attacks on hispanic residents in recent months victims like were 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 the minorities sharing this poor area of new york despite this when you go through these statistics you want education and throwing hoovering at

the bottom the blacks and hispanics from the bottom shelf beautiful we have more in common than 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 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. is this is forty. years. when i was in high school 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 deny here legally. they commit crimes here is 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 it was a period now is that lies you can be more secure and has america always been a melting pot where someone's getting burned we live. lauren lyster our teeth new york. coming up a little bit later on the program here on our 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 detained

nine people suspected of leading a rock festival they say the brawl could have started off to a local cafe argued with a member of the audience up to a hundred young men started beating up the crowd with clubs and the tornado festival in the region some eyewitnesses said they even heard gunshots called and ten people were injured true last still in hospital local authorities say for security at the event could be to blame the reports suggested that members of a nationalist gun but these claims have since been denied some three thousand people were at the festival during the attack. now to sudan where security forces have reportedly identified where three kidnapped russian pilots are 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 and this incident is the latest in

a wave of kidnappings targeting foreigners. a fire at a nursing home in central russia has killed nine people and left two severely injured but the emergencies ministry's says the blaze may have been started by one of its residents investigators have found evidence suggesting that a man there had committed suicide by setting himself alight stay safe havens is following developments for us in that's a very cheap. 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 two who share an apartment with him and he did it investigators believe in order to commit suicide now why the man wanted to kill himself why he wanted to do it. 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 and she says this may explain why for years he lived here. and he was not in contact with anybody from his family she says despite his character despite how different he was to go along with that 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 the seven story building and the flames were contained to that apartment so the three people who lived inside including. six people who lived apart 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 or did

we woke up and heard somebody screaming 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. again is that everyone was so frightened the stuff 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. avoided even.

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in germany. welcome. them. back home. to. thousands to an international here 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 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 on one and this interview was very unusual

not only in a way too was conducted with body knew putin sitting at the wheel of a car driving through russia as far as but also in the questions in the questions that he was asked now i'm jake kolesnik of commish sons 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 in a box by their own not he believed in be used in time chanst 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 and he mentioned for example years continues africa to arm georgia the regime of me feels like this really shows assad that if the united

states wasn't sounding bobbins to georgia they were a bit south as to chair in two thousand they would have happened he also mentioned use continues to have plans. sad at its missile defense system in europe as another store in this so to speak at moscow's side but at the same time he mansion that personally speaking if you thought that barack obama's in time sions were 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 cities but to me putting brushed off these criticisms saying. everybody is free to i gather is long as they have sanctions from the local

authorities he deep sidestep the fact that it was extremely difficult for political opposition to gather any sort of thirty 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 their mission it was a kid but if they go to the doctor mission they will 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 federal policy for his current place. is still serving his sentence on tax evasion charges he said. personally if i didn't put in . had nothing against what are called schemes that he was surprised to hear that prosecutors opened the second case against him that many critics say you opened on the very same charges that he was already serving his sentence on but he did say

that as soon as. we feel sort of closed he said he's problems with the lawyer he will be able to work as a free man also use on a boycott of the reporting from moscow and you can find out more of what vladimir putin had to say by simply looking on to our website but as. 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 cause 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 stand between. and general betray us. president has scored again. in his incipient battle against the american anti-corruption efforts first time got

his eyes scored when he completely blocked and stalled the investigation. from national security council. and the second time just recently when he can sell if they did he has momentum again the american anti-corruption drive in afghanistan and not only the boy did the american pressure but in the way he did 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 that 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 and then. 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 palace coup 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 evidence and side and totally

and completely discredit any notion of democracy. just turning twenty minutes past the hour now here in moscow you are with let's get to some other news now making headlines around the world 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 news sources claim he was a drug addict who was only fifteen years old. in chile thirty three miners who have been trapped in a collapsed shaft for over three weeks have had their first telephone contact with relatives it's reported to have boosted the spirits of the men underground one of them even deciding to marry his longtime girlfriend the latest phase of the rescue effort is expected to take months and it should begin shortly the plan is to drill

a hole wide enough to pull the trapped miners to the surface. more u.s. troops are preparing to leave iraq despite a recent wave of violence in the country american soldiers are almost at the end of the 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 forces from iraq. pakistani emergency officials say water levels in pakistan are beginning to recede but the danger of further flooding remains high. rains over the weekend submerged a number of towns but most residents running for really in time the worst ever flooding in the country has affected about seventeen million people and left more than sixteen hundred dead. oh ten minutes from now peter lavelle and his guests

discuss the burka that's coming up in cross talk before that though let's get the latest business news with the union that's coming your way in just a moment. hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. every month we give you the future we help you understand get there and want to bring the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world. join us for technology update on our g. hello and a very warm welcome to the business program russia is planning to increase the

import tariffs on foreign late cots the texas currently at said its better percent one of the highest in the world and it's not clear how much it will be raised prime minister vladimir putin said the decision would encourage foreign carmakers to invest in production and russia a decision weather could prove to be another stumbling block and russia to join the w t o said it expects russia to decrease the tariff to fifteen percent within seven years of a session. russian finance minister alexei quadrants us there is no need for russia central bank to take action to control inflation at the moment he says price 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 is now warning that inflation is likely to hit seven hundred percent this year higher than previous before cuts. russia is the world's biggest producer of oil but despite having the

resources it doesn't organize the market nor does it possesses a grade of well considered to be a global benchmark michael christian could investigate somehow or illustrated and why russia is fun to get difficult to establish its own market oil is usually priced in barrels the measurement still originates from the eight hundred sixty s. when the pennsylvania oil field producers were forced to store oil in barrels usually meant to be able to move into. 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 their with certain blends commanding a premium over others who have different discounts and premium self one grant to another that really depends upon multiples of factors starting their cost of

transportation quality of corn itself to their specific so for a finding of this or that current and also to the demand in the so that region where the school crowd 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 grandstanded new of lens such as rushes year old blend or 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 or oil i think the firstly we could trade not only in u.s. dollars but also in rubles especially c.i.s. countries among others i mean we are talking about the possibility of them 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 cheap 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. business.

let's take a look at the russian markets both on the minus is gained more than a third of a cent by the close most sensitive measures shares were dropping with losing more than seven percent. paul machines company of russia's biggest power engineering benefactress has posted fast top profits of ninety eight million dollars company's profits rose eighty four percent year on year how weather revenue changed marginally to seven hundred twenty one million dollars. the siberian co energy company or somewhere has returned to profit in the facts top of twenty ten russia's largest producer of fuel power stations said net income was one hundred fifty five million dollars compared with a loss of six million a year so that creditors form a demand and prices for the improved performance. prime minister dr putin says the standoff between the royals chemicals two main shareholders selected

a pasta and ultimate baton and is damaging for the company but he stressed that the government only has a limited capacity to resolve the conflict meanwhile c. . is more concerned about the company's future performance he revealed some of the company's plans to business. we are planning to sell our non core assets first of all including our gold in the warm and so called numskull find ourselves the law for both mines and processing facilities off you costs and probably the black swan in australia although the final decision will be taken in september the rest is still under consideration but of course the honeymoon well which is the largest deposit and why is a complex approach and not to be offered for sale will use it for further development and capitalization of the company. well the latest from the world of business who can always get more stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business.

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