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 gunman ati's north caucasus correspondent the whichever has more. during the operation twelve militants were killed because they were of himself headed their own to terrorist operation actually his kids were asleep in a house just a couple of blocks from the street where the operation was going on and this is how could there himself describes what happened and how it happened if he did gunman came in to do is joining tonight who led the men to reza group because this was the most convenient place to destroy them was surrounded them and shot at them and then with you hand grenades here's where it all ended we had been expected to lose our officers but it was inevitable but no syrians were injured titular sources have already promised around so to stall than dollars in compensations for the family is

that lost their relatives too in the counterterrorist operation five offices are were killed and many more injured actually of terrorists a couple of houses on fire and they burned down several cars and runs on cars they're also promised that these will be arranged tourist no the situation in chechnya is calm and stable all the chechen president runs on producer of things bad militants will continue their attempts their terror attacks and this is the reason why the government's desire broods their people like bin laden they want to destabilize the situation in russia that's one of them keep sending them here keep shooting and blowing things up and you could destroy them and preventing them from achieving their goals this is not the first recent and a terrorist operation in the north caucuses just a couple of days ago ten militants were killed and i just on n.p.r.

but if you have a harder overall war to militants were eliminated in the north caucuses it's just an organist and a russian federal sources say but no they have proof that the killed militants have links with al qaida and they must mind behind them or school board. these smarts got me as i. was also killed in one of these operations during the moscow metro bombings wanted people were killed and many more into these with a blast carried out by suicide former. works on a mixture of a reporting from the capital of russia's chechen republic. a string of violence attacks on hispanic immigrants in new york has prompted fears of a new wave of racial hatred the victims say they are being talked to by african-americans who want to clear mexican people from their neighborhoods. to reports now on health frustrations a 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 that come 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 like ruhi leo the number nine infidel you can literally find them simply walking through the neighborhood and the suspects unfortunately most of the most recent in the acts against mixed according to these victims they were targeted by teens while minding their own

business it was right here in the back of my head. and then they hit my arm which broke into place and for no other reason than being mexican they were peers to be a divide between the minorities sharing this poor area of new york despite this when you go through these statistics you. one education is trying to bring at the bottom of the blacks and hispanics many to be a full one common and we don't have that here the rift appears to be growing but the influx of hispanic immigrants city blocks that used to be vacant are now flourishing appearing to leave behind you see a lot of mix if you're 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 what was he says.

he's up to forty. three years. when i was in high school i was really getting think so 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 too and i hear 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 reading it and the latest and why we always has a difficult to go through is the tension among races simply evolving to a new era like the ones you something that was a period now is that wise you can be more secure and has america always been a melting pot where someone's getting burned we leave. we can. lorin lyster our t.

new york. will come up later in the program here analyse driving force the prime minister during his road trip of russia's far east to discuss foreign policy. first though more u.s. troops are preparing to leave iraq despite a recent wave of. elements in the country american soldiers are almost at the end of a combat mission off the seventy as a function of or about fifty thousand remain in iraq to provide training and support for local security forces and the president obama highlighted as fulfilling his promise but some antiwar activists aren't convinced this troop withdrawal means an end to the war. 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 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 now the end of an occupation by

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 advisory 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 i believe the occupation of iraq will go on for many years of can president hamid karzai has renewed his criticism of coalition forces he said the counter terror operation in the region was ineffective and then equal civilian deaths. on its believes the afghan leader is trying to block u.s. efforts to be corruption and drug production in this standoff between. 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 the investigation or his chief of national security council. and the second time just recently when he consolidated 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 could go to afghanistan then 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 it's coming to a head again it's open up an opportunity to brush off an old idea aired 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 a stand so he could introduce the martial law and to disband the presidential institution in a van and 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 the pellets coup and to appoint himself as a governor general this is the only way to rest the runaway flagrant corruption that threatens to implode the whole social fabric of ghana stand corruption and

drug production in afghanistan actually of the two parts of a binary weapon that threatens to implode the evan society and totally and completely discredit any notion of democracy in afghanistan. by the way you can check out our website for more stories any time you want here's a taste of what's online for me right now at. home immigrants in germany are told they've stayed their welcome but they're afraid of what awaits them back home in kosovo but also on all websites a spectacle of speed of luxury the world's latest cars attract thousands to an international motor show in the russian capital that incredible features and stories of r.t. dot com online all the time. 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 he gave an interview to the newspaper in unusual circumstances he was driving at the time in the country's far east well 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 god you need to wonder why and this interview was very unusual not only in a way to was conducted with vladimir putin sitting at the wheel of a car driving through russia stories but also in the questions and the questions that he was asked now i j classic of commish sons reporter who was sitting at a passenger seat is known for his sort of tongue in cheek style as many of the questions he asked her 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 said that personally he would very much like to believe but he also sad that the actions of the current administration were inconsistent with some of its declarations imagine for example years continues africa to arm georgia and the regime of me feels that this really shows assad that if the united states wasn't sounding robin to georgia there were a bit south us to chair in two thousand a day would have happened he also mentioned that use continues to have plans to see dad at its missile defense system in europe as another store in the south so to speak at moscow's side but at the same time he mansion that personally speaking he thought that the rock obama's. first sincere ingenue but at the same time he

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 it wouldn't brushed of this criticism saying that. everybody e's three t. i gather as long as they have the best sanctions from the local authorities the 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 action to good disperse the protesters in fact he said that. as long as they have her mission it was a kid but if they go out without permission they'll take the bait and do they have a very straightforward isn't it and i was speaking about one of the most prominent

opposition figures in russia mikail federal policy 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 put in. had nothing against what are called speak 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. mikhail khodorkovsky acetyl his problems with the lawyer he will be able to work as a free man. of his works in a book or reporting from moscow and you can find more of what vladimir putin had to say by looking into a website it's all t. don't comb. the phone it's a nursing home in central russia has killed nine people enough to injure it's thought the blaze was started by an elderly resident who committed suicide by setting himself a large emergency crews managed to evacuate almost five hundred people from the

home. reports now from the to vienna region. 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 but you know if we woke up and heard somebody screaming burning fire at first wouldn't even believe it but when 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 nicholai due to an eighty six year old world war

two veteran and a resident of the home it's believed that he was trying to set himself 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 at 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 strange from 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 incidents 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. r.t. . some of the news in brief. thanks at least seven people have died with fifty more injured after a gunman went on the rampage in the slovakian capital buses lava a three year old child was among the victims a fifty year old man to talk of in committed suicide as he was surrounded by police . country's interior minister says at least five of the victims were members of one roma family who lived in the apartment where the man started shooting. to chile where thirty three miners have been trapped in a collapsed shop for over three weeks have had their first telephone contact with relatives and spirits have been so uplifted even propose marriage to his longtime girlfriend benedict has also said special prayers for the trapped men rescue effort due to begin shortly could take up to four months a hole wide enough to pull the men to the surface will be drilled for the miners

themselves needing to clear tons of rock created during the rescue. the eleven year old boy has been killed while twenty two people have been hurt in demonstrations against indian rule in kashmir as news of the child's death spread thousands of protesters from the town of and were joined by others from neighboring areas and government troops to retreat more than sixty people have died in continue on rest since june protesters want an end to indian rule and part of the kashmir region with the other part controlled by pakistan. to bring us up to take them back to remind you of our top stories in ten minutes from now first we talked to. a political scientist and president of the moscow based foundation governmental research and political consulting organization and he gives his assessment of a russian built nuclear plant that's coming your way next after a short break stay with us here.

today we are joined by a mr vyacheslav nikonov he is a political scientist and he's also the founder and president of the polity foundation thank you very much for joining us. now the first question i'd like to ask is iran has now launched its first nuclear program it's a first in the middle east and russian engineers are a big part of that now what is the implication on russia and relationships and how

can russia be sure that they're really pursuing this for peaceful purposes. rick two of us seem to americans who are supposed to provide to north korea to prevent them from having nuclear weapons this is a light water reactor which is not capable of providing. weapons grade uranium. and all the. will be provided by russia. will be taken away. so it is. safe facility which is very important which is the first nuclear power station in their part of the world which i think is extremely important. and as you may know russia was the first to build a nuclear power station which is the first to build nuclear power station in in the middle east which i think is so important. if you follow the

reactions of the major countries on bushehr opening. we should by the way is not yet their station will produce electricity only. december the reaction is quite neutral or even positive the only country which reacted negatively was israel but interacts negatively to whatever happens in relations with iran any other country since they are for isolating iran i don't think russia is on the position of. the russian government saying. with iran diplomacy. still can work so all the controversy with that we've been hearing in the past few months with major western europe reacting to iran sat. wanting to build nuclear power stations all this is unfounded if you're saying that

technically speaking it will not be possible to produce nuclear weapons not the station isn't capable of producing weapons grade uranium the iranian nuclear program which war is americans and most europeans and russians is not about to share it's about some other facilities which iran. like to stress the russian being very critical of iran north korea leaf falling all the procedures of international atomic agency still does not agree on whatever is in washington the london or paris or berlin as far as iran is concerned because russia has its own agenda with iran which is somewhat sometimes different and sometimes not related to nuclear energy at all russia and iran. difficult history of relationship.

at the same time they have quite a while agenda. economic agenda including. the development of the riches of the caspian sea. we have some common strategic interests since for as international terrorism is concerned in iran is very. the us is. certain aspects of. fighting terrorism so we have some interests in common we of course in russia north supportive of your rainy and nuclear military program at the same time there are also though it's whether iran is really up to

a bomb. or just a capability which of course is a big difference. say germany or japan countries with nuclear weapons capabilities they just do not have any bombs and that is their choice so as far as i read this situation iran is not in a suicidal mood and i don't think they really want to bomb they want to keep ability and a capability is harmless the capability is harmless if the government is responsible. it depends on whether these government really. wants to. keep peace with the neighbors or has some aggressive inks things for we are not quite sure about the things of the iranian leadership so we should be cautious of course

but at the same time iran is an important country it's a country with great history it's a civilization itself persian civilization. with self-esteem which with a growing economy. and they or russia's partner for quite a few issues moscow has said that it will ensure that iran does not pursue. peaceful means how those russia intend to do that in terms of will share there is no way it can be perceived for non peaceful means in terms of general policies over on the russian proposal is quote clear we are not against iran developing peaceful nuclear program it's their right including their rights in the nonproliferation treaty to reach their member. of course it is very

important to. make sure that iranian program is peaceful one of the ways to do it is to go ahead with. quite well known russian and french proposals to provide. low enriched uranium to iran or even higher enrich the uranium to iran for their research purposes but. all this. should be under control and should be returned to the countries france russia so there could be a proposal which could really engage those two purposes let iran develop their nuclear program and to make it peaceful.

their childhood was already shadowed by this tragedy. these two feel the fear they faced. and remember every second of this nightmare. it will remain in their memories and hearts forever. and as you saw. innocent victims. of little angel one or two.

could have you with us is still to come july from the russian cup of twenty four hours a day top stories now in the security forces a claim for the successes in russia's troubled north caucasus killing over forty minutes and in just a moment the home village of the president of the chechen republic has become the latest target of government and the scene of a fierce gun battle. 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 . far to central russia nursing homes killed nine people and the two severely injured just to get a say could have been started by a man who set himself on want to commit suicide. while the news continues next and often i would like to get a shot of in the meantime.