around the clock around the world this is r.t. here in moscow good to have you with us a major crackdown on terror is in full swing in the north caucuses 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 there left five police officers dead north caucuses correspondent has more. a large group of terrorists attacked the home village of the chechen president runs on their own early morning on sunday militants set some houses on fire they were attacking the locals the chechen president of 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 wounded authorities reports that some locals have also been injured in the operating attention authorities say that the militants that

were attacking the bailiffs with their arms that have been killed there were also militants who were trying to steal the operation from behind and these 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 only 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 into august in coverage in about caria and several days ago the new tourism both the mustin mind behind the more school board meetings have been killed in the twin blasts in moscow 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 marvin the taurus chechen militant is the top one two in russia and he is the one who remains and to be found. artie's oksana literature over reporting from the capital of russia's chechen republic a string of violence of tax 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 ortiz lauren lister reports now on how frustrations are boiling over. 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 broken 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 it was rendered 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 rolling over in the

bottom that blacks and hispanics believe that the if we have one common then we don't have a problem 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 michigan where he lets 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. oh. this is. the years. 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 that blacks feel slighted they feel mexican and share in the blame too and i here legally and 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 nothing really new and the latest a wild always has about a difficult people go through the tension among races simply evolving to a new era like the winds you think it was a period now is that was the thing that they were superior to and has america always been a melting pot where someone's getting burned. lauren lyster r.t.e. new york. well coming up later in the program here in the driving force the russian foreign minister took time out during his road trip of russia's farm to discuss foreign policy. but first police in central russia have detained nine people

suspected of leading an attack on a rock festival they say the brawl could have started off for a local cafe and argued with a member of the audience of two hundred young men started beating up the crowd with clubs that festival in the region some said they even heard gunshots more than ten people injured two remain in hospital i can afford to say poor security event could be to blame. i think suggested the members of a nationalist but these claims have since been denied some three thousand people were at the festival. that's true mind you can always check out our website for more stories anytime you want and here's it's. most of what's online right now. dot com. roman immigrants in germany are told they state their welcome but they're afraid of what awaits them back home in. the spectacle of speed and luxury the world's latest cars attract to an international motor show in the russian capital that are more online at r.t.

dot com. u.s. president barack obama seems sincere in his desire to improve relations with moscow but u.s. policies could be telling the opposite view of russia's prime minister vladimir putin who gave an interview to be a newspaper in unusual circumstances he was driving at the time in the country's far east and for more here's. a very interesting interview these time around if they had six truly rare these days for journalists to get a chance to chaffetz vladimir putin one of one and this interview was very unusual not only in a way too was conducted with vladimir putin 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 jake kolesnikov commish son's 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 posed in a joking way but at the same time they were very very serious for example he asked

not to be put in a box 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 and he mentioned 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 soundings up and to georgia there were a bit south a stitch here in two thousand and eight it would have happened he also mentioned use continues to have plans. that its missile defense system in europe are 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 the rocket bomb was in town sions were sincere ingenue but at the same time keep these said that the white house was not

doing what it preaches but many years political parties and political opposition in russia have been accusing largely or put it 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 over these criticisms saying that. everybody is free to 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 just burst these protesters in fact he said that. as long as they have permission it was ok 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 russia me that are posted for his current case santa is still serving his sentence on tax evasion charges he's sad that he's personally if i didn't wouldn't. have nothing against what are called that he was surprised to hear that prosecutors opened the second case against him that many critics favor. on the very same charges that he was already serving his standard song but he did say that as soon as. mikhail khodorkovsky settles his problems with the lawyer he will be able to work as a free man. in a book or reporting from moscow and you can find more of what's going to be putin had to say by logging on to a website that's auntie dot com. 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 not all of these military analysts believe the afghan leader is trying to block u.s. efforts to beat corruption and drug production you know a standoff between. general betray us. president has scored again. in his incipient battle against the american anti-corruption efforts first time comes i scored when he completely blocked and stalled they investigation of his chief of the 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 he not only if voided the american pressure but in a way he should go to the americans in afghanistan and instead of reversing his decision against the effort handed out against corrupt officials instead

he fired one of the senior prosecutors in afghanistan demonstrating to afghans to americans and to the whole world that he is in charge not only of 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 momentum fighting the corruption in afghanistan general petraeus has to be appointed as a governor general again and stand. so he could introduce the martial law and to disband the presidential institution in again to 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 this palace coup

and to appoint himself as a governor general this is the only way to rest the runaway playground corruption that threatens to implode 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 of society and totally and completely discredit any notion of democracy in afghanistan. a fire at a nursing home in central russia has killed nine people and left two severely injured the emergencies ministry 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 a light. 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 nine people including two invalids who share an apartment with him as he did it investigators believe in order to commit suicide now why the man wanted to kill himself and why he wanted to do it in such a horrific 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 made no friends and he was not in contact with anybody from his family she says despite his character despite how difficult 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 the 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 few now we spoke to some witnesses who survived this fire and here's what they told us shortly after shooting 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 to prevent. oppression or if 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 don't shoot it learned that it was 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. they found evidence of how this man started the fire. we found

a canister with flammable liquids on the device which looked like a torch according to witnesses it could have been an act of suicide car safety standards were satisfactory all the automatic fire prevention systems function the alarm was raised quickly we avoided even more tragic consequences. to victims and the survivors are in the hospital and they're listed in serious condition now we've had a couple of very high profile fire nursing homes in russia in two thousand and seven more than sixty people died in such fires and in january two thousand and twenty three people lost their homes and the contributing factors in all of these fires was standards safety standards and a slow emergency response and so after that two thousand and nine incident that. we can reform and for the removal of all of the leaders of nursing homes in order to get better safety guidelines established so you have that difference and that

made the difference here investigators because everything was in working order and also what was a contributing factor a difference between then and now is their response three minutes after the. emergency call it they were on the scene putting out the fire and bringing four hundred eighty people to safety. including a three year old child off of the attack that committed suicide reports. children's hospital and. other news sources claim he was a drug to was only fifteen years old. to chile now where thirty three miners have been trapped in a collapsed shaft for over three weeks of first telephone contact with relatives it's reported to have boosted the spirits of the men on the ground one of them even decided to marry his long term girlfriend the latest phase of the rescue effort is

expected to take months and is due to 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 their combat mission after seven years of fighting and over 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. study emergency officials say water levels there are beginning to recede but that the danger of further flooding does remain high drenching rains over the weekend submerge a number of towns but most residents managed to flee in time the worst ever felt in a country that's affected about seventeen million people and more than one thousand six hundred. and by the way we'll have more on this in about two minutes from now in our interview with the u.s.

deputy envoy to pakistan. to bring us up to date before that we have the business news we used to stay with us for that. a very warm welcome time for the business news russia is pledging to increase the import tariffs on foreign made cars the texas currently a professor of dissent one of the highest in the world it's not clear how much it will be raised prime minister vladimir putin said the decision would encourage. invest in production in russia the decision whether that could prove to be enough a stumbling block in russia's bid to join the world trade organization which said it expects russia to decrease the tariff to fifteen percent within seven years of accession. russian finance minister says there is no need for russia's central bank to take action to control inflation at the moment he says price rises up being driven by the poor harvest caused by the drought and changing monetary

policy won't help instead he says the 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 and a half a cent this year higher than previous before cost. russia is the world's biggest producer of oil botched despite having the resources it doesn't market nor does it possess a greater we'll consider it to be a close. michael crofton could investigate or illustrate it 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 at the cost of transportation quality of course itself to the specific so for refining of this or that crude and also to the demand in the so that region where this call 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 of lens such as rushes you will blend all the e.s.p.n.

pipeline blends are increasingly becoming the standard by which others adjudged russia's 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. if we had our own stock exchange where we can trade or oil or i think that we could trade not only in u.s. dollars but also in rubles especially c.i.s. countries amount of us and i mean we are talking about the possibility 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 or oil and gas. the euro is blamed currently trades at a two dollar distilled to brant yet many believe this is an unfounded discount one which could be raised through the establishment oil exchange but for now russia is

still happy to trade through the existing channels analysts agree that both the market regulators and industry players here still need to learn from the oil trading heavyweights in london and new york for attempting to shift the balance of trading power in. the business. let's take a look at the russian markets both the r.t.s. and the mite since gained more than a third of a percent by the close but most damaging measures shares were trucking with to have met placing more than seventy percent. machines company russia's biggest power engineering benefactress has posted first top profits of ninety eight million dollars the company's profit growth eighty four percent year on here whether revenue changed marginally to seven hundred twenty eight million dollars. to siberia and co energy company has returned to profit in the facts top of twenty ten russia's largest producer of fuel for power stations said net income was one

hundred fifty five million dollars compared with a loss of six million a year so a credit is stronger demand and prices will improve performance. prime minister vladimir putin says the standoff between two main shareholders elected him and let him at the time and is damaging for the company but he stressed that the government only has a limited capacity to resolve the conflict meanwhile neurochemicals. ski is more concerned about the company's future performance he revealed some of the company's plans to business ati. but you know that we are planning to sell our non core assets first of all including our goal in the war and so-called none sulfide assets will offer both mines and processing facilities of costs and probably the black swan in australia although the final decision will be taken in september and the rest is still 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. ok that's the latest from the world of business but you can always find more stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business.

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