around the clock around the world this is r t with you here in moscow twenty four hours a day 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 government fierce fighting there left five police officers dead artie's north caucasus 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 there are 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 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 seal 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 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 coverage in about caria and several days ago the new tourism both in must in mind behind the most schoolboy means have been killed the. twin blasts in moscow left forty people dead and many more injured more problems are emerged because when some terrorists killed others to prop and take

their places don't go on marvin's the taurus chechen militant is the top wanted in russia and he is the one who remains and to be found. artie's external reporting from the capital of russia's chechen republic. 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 or to your list to reports now and help frustrate sions 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 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 had been by blacks against mexicans according to these victims they were targeted by teens while minding their own business right here 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 vehicle 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 mexicans working you know what's 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. all. these. 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 the blacks feel slighted they feel mexican 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 in the latest royal always has the political people go through the tension among races simply evolving to a new era like the wines used to think that it was a period now is that wise to think. and has america always been a melting pot where someone's getting burned. lauren lyster r.t. new york. well coming up later in the program for you driving force the russian prime minister took time out during his road trip of russia's far east to discuss foreign policy. first police in

central russia to ten people suspected of leading an attack on a rock festival they say the brawl could have started after a local cafe and argued with a member of the audience two hundred young men started beating up the crowd with clubs at the tornado festival in the region some eyewitnesses said they even heard gunshots people were injured two remain in hospital local authorities say poor security at the event could be to blame. for what's suggested members of a nationalist gang but these claims of since being denied some three thousand people at the festival during. in the room you can check out our website for most. any time you want here's a taste of what's online for you right now at r.t. dot com immigrants in germany are told. but they're afraid of what awaits them back in. the website a spectacle of speed and luxury cars attract international in the russian capital.

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 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 and for more on this. 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 that was conducted with but you knew 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 kalashnikov commish son tripp what i 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

a joking way but at the same time they were very very serious for example he asked his logic which in a box by their own not he believed in be used in time since to reset relations with russia and he step 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 after it's to arm georgia and the regime of the kills like us 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 see dad 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 he thought that barack obama's. first sincere

ingenue but at the same time he did say that the white house was not doing what it preaches but many years political parties and political opposition and russia have been accusing largely or putin off stifling political freedoms and denying about the right to gather peacefully both in moscow and in hot the russian cities but to me it wouldn't brushed of this criticism saying that. everybody is free to i gather as 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 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 trails that are close to his current place santa is still serving his sentence on tax evasion charges he's sad that personally if i didn't put in. had nothing against what are called that he was surprised to hear that prosecutors opened the second case against him that many critics favor open on the very same charges that he was already serving his standard song but he did say that as soon as. mchale sort of settles his problems with the lawyer he will be able to work as a free man. salty's accent a book or reporting from moscow and you can find more of what vladimir putin had to say by looking into a website that's on t.v. dot com afghan president hamid karzai had renewed his criticism of coalition forces

and said the counter terror operation in the region was ineffective and then he called civilian deaths of and that 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. and general betray us. president has scored again. in his incipient battle against the american anti-corruption efforts first time scored when he completely blocked and stalled investigation all his chief of the national security council and the second time just recently when he can sell it they did he has the momentum again the american anti-corruption drive in afghanistan and he not only if voided the american pressure but in the way he should go to the americans in afghanistan and instead of reversing his decision against the handed. 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 a hand 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 of ghana stand up so he could introduce the martial law and to disband the 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 be a palace coup and to appoint himself as a governor general this is the only way to arrest the runaway flagrant corruption that threatens to implode the whole social fabric of afghanistan corruption and drug production in afghanistan. two parts off of buying or a weapon that threatens to implode the evidence of society and totally and completely discredit any notion of democracy. of the nursing home in central russia has killed nine people on left to severely injured the emergency ministry says the blaze may have been started by one of its residents investigators have found evidence suggesting that the man had committed suicide by setting himself in line. is following developments for us in the to van in the. 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 and 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 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 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 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 the arsonist were burned. six people who lived in

adjoining apartments died from smoke inhalation and you now we spoke to some witnesses who survived this fire and here's what they told us for you to i was asleep suddenly i found the smell of burning i wanted to turn on the light but couldn't see anything. and it was almost impossible to prevent. fresh nor 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 do shoot and learned spanish 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. we found

a canister with liquids on the device which. according to witnesses could have been an act of suicide. prevention system. was raised quickly we've ordered even more tragic consequences. to. our in the hospital in serious condition. two thousand and sixty. and. all of the. standards and. so after that. nursing homes in order to get better safety guidelines established so you have.

made the difference here investigators say because everything was in working order and also what. a difference between. their response. and emergency call if they were putting out the fire. stacey booms reporting there now to some other world news in brief this hour a government has opened random far in the streets of slovakia's capital bratislava killing at least seven people and injuring dozens including a three year old child after the attack the fifty year old man committed suicide when he was surrounded by police it's believed six of the victims were members of one family only other news sources claim attacker was a drug addict who was only fifteen years old. to chile now where thirty three miners have been trapped in a collapsed shaft for over three weeks have had their first telephone contact with relatives it's reports to the spirits of the men underground one of them even

decided to marry his long term girlfriend at latest phase of the rescue effort is expected to take months and is due to begin shortly the plan is to drill a hole why did not 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 and 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. and pakistani emergency officials say water levels there are beginning to recede but the danger of further flooding does remain high drenching rains over the weekend submerged a number of towns but most residents managed to flee in time the worst ever flooding in the country has affected about seventeen million people and left more than one thousand six hundred. well i'll bring you another update of our main news

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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 wouldn't part call make those investors in production in russia the decision whether it 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 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 hop a cent this year higher than previously for. russia as the world's biggest producer

of oil botched despite having the resources it doesn't market nor does it possess a great of oil consider it to be a close. michael investigates illustrate it and why is 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 be altered in time. 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 c'mon the premium over others who have different discounts and premium soft one brand to another that really depends upon multiples of factors starting we have the cost of transportation quality of course

itself to the specific so for a finding of this so that crude and also to the demand in the so that region where the scope 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 brand standard new of blends 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 there are many if we had our own stock exchange where we could 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 that system i mean we are talking about the possibility of the rule 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 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 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. the business. let's take

a look at the russian markets both the r.t.s. and the might six games of more than a third of a percent by the close but most damaging measures shares were trucking with dad may have played more than seventy percent. power machines company russia's biggest power engineering manufacturer has posted first top profits of ninety eight million dollars the company's profit rose eighty four percent year on hear how whether revenue changed marginally to seven hundred twenty eight million dollars. to siberia and co energy company or 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 prices will improve performance. prime minister vladimir putin says the standoff between two main shareholders elected him

and let him at the time in is damaging for the company but he stressed that the government only has a limited capacity to resolve the conflict meanwhile neurochemicals. is more concerned about the company's future performance he revealed some of the company's plans to business r.t. . but here 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 and not to be offered for sale will use it for further development and capitalization of the company. ok that's the latest from the world of business bought you can always find more stories on our website r.t.

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already twenty four hours a day here in moscow top stories now the security forces have claimed a number of victories in russia's troubled more caucuses getting about forty minutes and august alone the home village of the leader of the chechen republic has become the latest target. a series of attacks on hispanic immigrants has raised fresh racial fears in new york the victims say they've been targeted by african americans. a far the central russia has killed my people and left two severely injured investigators say it could have been started by a man who set himself to commit suicide. well up next we explore the latest and most innovative.