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 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 audi'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 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 operation the chechen authorities say that all of 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 these are 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 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 in must in mind behind the most who bore means have been killed the. twin blasts in more school left forty people dead and many more injured more problems are because when some terrorists killed others to pop 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 oxana are 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 artie's lauren lyster reports now on health 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 breaking along 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 ruhi leo 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 my friends are in the back of my head it's too true 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 the education is strong and bring the bottom the blacks and hispanics to the bottom shelf vehicle 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 a lot of mixed if you're working you know let's work 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. this is. when i was in high school i was really getting picked on because it was mexican 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 hear legally. they commit crimes here as 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 wild always has about a difficult people is 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 you and has america always been a melting pot where someone's getting burned. lauren lyster r.t. new york. will come out later in the program for driving force the russian prime minister for his road trip of russia's far east to discuss foreign policy. the first police in central russia detained nine people suspected of leading an attack on a rock festival they say the brawl could have started off for

a local cafe owner with a member of the audience up to a hundred young men started beating up the crowd with clubs at the tornado festival in each area been screeching some eyewitnesses said they even heard gunshots more than ten people were injured two remain in hospital local authorities say poor security events could be to blame early reports suggested the mobile members of a nationalist gang but these claims have since been tonight some three thousand people at the festival attack. 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 a combat mission off the seventy is the fighting of about fifty thousand will remain in iraq to provide training and support for local security forces president obama will give a speech and choose day that will highlight what administration officials say is his fulfillment of a promise to withdraw the country's forces from iraq and for more on this i'm joined in washington by brian becker he's a director of the antiwar protest group good to see you thanks very much indeed for

joining us no combat troops are leaving the country so surely this does mean an end to the war doesn't it well we see a rebranding of the occupation if you leave fifty thousand heavily armed soldiers backed by all sorts of aircraft the latest high tech aircraft of course all of the naval destroyers the submarines the aircraft carriers that are all throughout the region that have cruise missiles and all sorts of means by which to intervene in iraq we see not the end of an occupation but a certain diminishing of the occupation in terms of some of the troop numbers but a rebranding of the occupation so that instead of calling it combat troops they call it rise of the troops they still have guns they still shoot those guns when they're shot at in their head they die it won't be sufficient to tell iraqis on september first or second or american families who have g.i.'s and loved ones there who may perish after the so-called end of the war that their loved ones indeed are not dead because the war has been officially ended but i'm a little bit just

a patient of iraq will go on for many years or at that we just weren't taught that people are perishing right now we've seen a big wave in the sectarian violence and of course the parliament is in political deadlock at the moment surely you need to have those troops remaining those fifty thousand troops to support the military officials there in iraq. well i think there's no evidence to say that the american troops sense the beginning since they entered iraq illegally and march twentieth two thousand and three have been a force of unified unification or a diminishing of violence it was precisely the american policy that created ethnic strife to create different pockets so that the iraqis played against each other finally the so-called surge in two thousand and seven the americans actually put on the payroll ninety thousand to one hundred thousand armed insurgents paying them three hundred dollars a month in u.s. dollars so that they wouldn't shoot at the americans but now they're leaving and all of these people who have been employed by one means or another by the occupation forces of course are continuing to struggle for what what amounts to

a piece of a divided but that became divided because of the american intervention you can't say then that now that you are but that the american government can say that they then are needed as a force of stability but it's all very well looking back at what's happened what's happened has actually happened you can't change that you need to look ahead do you really think then that even those fifty thousand support troops should go. yes absolutely they should go yesterday another words there they are illegally the american government has no right and has no ability to be the broker the arbiter the policeman for the already people have been a self determining people so what happens to afghans to iraq when that happens always a lot of those troops will go to afghanistan whatever happens but what happens to iraq if there is no support even as i said earlier the iraqi military is saying we need some help from the americans because actually we're seeing a surge involvements and this still political deadlock so the country is heading to more instability isn't it. it could very well be heading to more instability what

my point is is that the american forces have no capacity to resolve the crisis that they themselves have created iraq was a unified country the american policy was to create ethnic strife to divide and conquer a country that had been unified and whose resistance was unified as of two thousand and five two thousand and six it's no possible way for that same occupation force which has its own imperial interests in this very strategically important and resource rich part of the world to pretend as if it can be an impartial arbiter between the different factions and around what happens next then from your point of view there is definitely a troop withdrawal yes if those support troops will stay on but how do you see the future of the country. when we see there's an official end to this conflict as they say. well there there is no end to the conflict the conflict will go on the

occupation will go on and the embassy in baghdad the u.s. embassy will be the largest in the world there will be many thousands of u.s. troops and great growing numbers of by the way of u.s. mercenaries private contractors who are flooding into the country right now we don't know precisely what will happen this this this country this proud wonderful country has been broken apart right now five months after the election there is no national government the american forces cannot put this back together again they broke iraq they ruined iraq and they have their own interests and not the iraqi interests at heart there will be ultimately i believe some sort of resolution by one means or another of the internal strife in iraq and ultimately when the americans leave and they must eventually iraq will return to an independent sovereign and i believe largely anti u.s. position within the middle east as was its historic role after its revolution in one nine hundred fifty eight it's very interesting as always to hear what you have to say. your points of view had directed the antiwar protest group there in

washington d.c. thanks for your time. well remember you can check out our web site for more stories any time you want here's a taste of what's online for you right now it don't come roma immigrants in germany are told they state their welcome but they're afraid of what awaits them back in kosovo. and expect to go to speed in luxury the world's latest kill is attracted to an international motor show in the russian capital that and more ability don't come. u.s. president barack obama seems in seeing in his desire to improve relations with moscow but u.s. policies could be tending 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 his son a boy. 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 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 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 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 stepped it 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 retail sectors 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 and eight it would have happened he also mentioned hughes continues to have plans. sad at its 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.b.s. but to me it wouldn't brushed off these criticism saying that. everybody is free to

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 disperse 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 trail for close to his current place santa is still serving his sentence on tax evasion charges he's sad that he's 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 favorite

opened on the very same charges that he was already serving his time and 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 but he's oakes on the border reporting from moscow and you can find more of what vladimir putin had to say by looking into a website that's don't call him a farmer to a nursing home in central russia has killed nine people in the two injured it's thought the blaze was started by an elderly resident who committed suicide by setting himself a lunge emergency crews managed to evacuate almost five hundred people from the home. reports now from the to be at the gym. early morning panic strikes the central russian nursing home as firing golfs a third floor apartment killing nine and sending hundreds more on a dash to safety question ok we woke up and heard somebody screaming fire at first we didn'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. i followed the smell of smoke it was spreading down the corridor and i heard the residents groan i opened the door and saw the whole room on fire i was instantly surrounded by smoke a man was lying on the floor all charred and he was burning like a torch i attempted to grab him but there was nothing to get hold of he was burning all over the alleged arsonist was nicole i didn't and eighty six year old world war two veteran and a resident of the home it's believed that he was trying to set themselves on fire in an attempt to commit suicide if that was his aim he succeeded he died in the blaze but so too did two of his physically disabled roommates the flames were confined to the apartment but the toxic fumes were not six others died due to smoke inhalation the motivation behind didn't the parent actions are not known for

initial reports indicated anger over having to wait for government housing may have affected him but a social worker affiliated with the home says dieudonne had no plans to move described as a man of difficult character didn't call this third floor apartment home for four years however during that time it's reported that he made no friends and was a stranger his family still despite his social struggles monday's death and destruction come as a surprise. is to deny the medical nurse on duty made the round of all the wards and everything was normal if someone heard anything amiss he would have been given additional attention for us it's unexpected. russia has had several high profile nursing home fires in recent years and march two thousand and seven more than sixty elderly residents died when they could not escape the flames and the smoke in a facility with a record of substandard safety procedures and more than twenty people were killed by a fire in january of last year and a home in the country's northwest the common denominator and both ends events with

poor fire safety planning and slow emergency response last year's deaths pushed president medvedev to call for sweeping reforms and for the firing of all regional nursing home officers the difference between then and the now was in preparation and response that's according to fire investigators this home past a march safety inspection and firefighters arrived to the scene three minutes after they got the call rescuing four hundred eighty people officials believe the handling of this incident shows signs of visible progress compared to previous cases even so investigators will continue to see if yet more improvements are needed stacy didn't r.t. . news in brief this hour a gunman is open random far in the streets of slovakia's capital in the 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 believe six of the victims were members of

one family. thirty three miners have been trapped in the collapse for over three weeks of their 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 of his for use of the rescue effort is expected to take months and is due to begin shortly the plan is to drill a hole why did nothing to pull trapped miners to the surface. like you study emergency officials say water levels there are beginning to recede but the danger of further flooding remains high drenching rains over the weekend submerge a number of towns but most residents managed to flee in time the biggest ever flooding in the country's affected about seventeen million people and more than one thousand six hundred. ten minutes now from now i should say peter the bowl in his guests will be discussing the burka in their debate program cross talk but before that though let's get the latest from the world of business with you via.

a very warm welcome time for the business news russia is planning to increase their import tariffs on foreign made cars the texas currently at thirty percent 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 flying car makers invest in production in russia and the decision how weather could prove to be another 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 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 a half percent this year higher than previously forecast. russia is the world's biggest producer of oil botched despite having the resources it doesn't market nor does it possess a grade of oil consider it to be a close. michael christian investigates illustrated 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 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 commanding a premium over others who have different discounts and premium soft 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 a finding of this or 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 brain standard new of blends such as russia 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 may be a there if we had our own stock exchange where we can trade or oil or i think that we can 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 oil and gas. the euro is blamed 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 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 mite since gained more than a third of a percent by the close but most damaging measures shed or truck thing with to have met placing more than seventy percent. power machines company of russia's biggest power engineering benefactress 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. credited stronger demand and prices for the 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. we are planning to sell our non core assets first of all including our goal in the war and so-called none sulfite us us law for both mines and processing facilities of course 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

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this is good to have you with us top stories now the security forces have claimed a number of victories in russia's troubled north caucuses getting up to forty minutes since an organist alone in the home village of the leader of the chechen republic has become the latest target in. a series of attacks on hispanic immigrants so it's raised racial fiz in new york the victims say they've been targeted by african-americans. a foreign central russian nursing homes killed nine people and. injured investigators say could have been started by a man who set himself to commit suicide. with more stories in less than.