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people were injured when a magnitude 6.4 and 6.3 earthquakes hit saturday near iran's border with armenia. iran is prone to earthquakes. magnitude 6.6 quake killed 26,000 people in 2003. >>> in election news this morning, mitt romney and his new running mate congressman paul ryan will be campaigning separately today. romney will head up a bus tour in florida and ohio while ryan is scheduled to travel to iowa. they have been making joint appearances since romney announced ryan. president obama is leaving his hometown of chicago to campaign in iowa for the next three days. the first event is in council bluffs. president attended five fundraisers yesterday. he hopes to raise up to $4 million for his reelection campaign. >>> developing news out of lake county now. our top story this morning wild fire burning thousands of acres forcing people out of their homes. that fire has burned 3,000 acres it's near the intersection of highway 20 and 53. ktvu channel 2 reporter alex savidge is up there this morning where cal fire is organizing the fire fighting efforts. and we hear it's pretty tough up th

pick champion roman blastoff winning gold in greco-roman seventy four kilogram category beating armenia's arson on points to add to his world title and before that russian minion semyonov took bronze in the fifty five kilogram section so not a bad day on the mat overall russian now have four gold medals it might not sound like an awful lot with just a week to go but russian olympic chiefs remain calm and confident. everything is going according to our medal plan at the same stage in beijing we had five gold and twenty three medals overall so the results are pretty much the same four years ago we had twenty three gold medals by the end of the games so our aim is to gain at least as many again while russia did come within touching distance of another gold medal weight lifted tatiana. own world record in the snatch to lead the women's over seventy five kilogram competition but china is losing then setting a limpid record in the clean and jerk to claim the gold by a single kilogram. but elsewhere the bronze medals were floating in tatiana patro he came third in the women's marathon maria pesc

arabia is promising economic assistance in exchange for months cooperation but it could backfire armenia. if there is regime change in syria and the extremists come to power and this will make problems for jordan where we have our own extremists far more flexible. and so now jordan faces the backlash of a conflict which some in the country have helped escalate meanwhile more than one hundred fifty thousand refugees remain stuck on its borders and what's supposed to be a safe enclave but we food is hard to come by toilets case and not enough tends to go around leaving some to the mercy of harsh desert conditions this is. the atmosphere here is so. mysterious you die quickly but here we are dying a slow death i wish now i never left to come here. jordan narrowly escaped a wave of uprisings that swept the arab world it says it's getting reforms in place bash caught between both sides it might not be enough to stop the serious shockwave however that conflict in. zante refugee camp on the jordanian syrian border. we are coming to you live from the heart of moscow are still ahead for you in th

was nabbed by the way is planning on moving into armenia expanding its business there and so far we're seeing a pop. that of market reaction over tech is also off and draws telecom is one of the biggest gainers on the my six despite reporting pretty disappointing orderly results it's apparently not enough to upset investors this monday afternoon and moving on to the currency market at the moment the euro is trading higher to the u.s. dollar the rubble of russian ruble is mixed it's easing to the dollar but is a strange ending to the euro and the dollar is as i said is gaining that seems to be a trend over the past year. gave around seven percent of that's compared to a nine percent a loss for the european currency and crude is also showing some strain this monday afternoon a u.s. benchmark futures recovered from their losses on friday and they are trading at around ninety three and a half dollars a barrel brant is hovering at around one hundred and fourteen dollars financial troubles across the globe don't seem to be dampening the olympics certainly not this year the governments of par

is up on news that it could be expanding into armenia now and over second ross telecom were some of the biggest gainers among among blue chips and will never take not really a blue chip more of a second tier stock but nevertheless we've seen some have the gains despite the fact that in the second quarter both companies posted losses of thirty and fifty percent in net profits but it came in better than expected apparently now in currencies the euro is still up against the dollar we've seen the opposite picture in the previous couple of sessions so that's kind of normal and the russian ruble once again against a basket of currencies but a loss all these gains as soon as the oil at the end of the session started slipping into negative territory. now despite the ongoing financial turmoil medalists just coming back from london their mood will probably not be hampered because the millions of dollars have been spent by governments in order to support those who can go faster high and stronger for their country building reports. the olympics is now over for the winners they have a permanent remi

include an oil major rosneft let's see the movers there it's reportedly considering expanding to armenia gas producer nov attack is trading higher its second quarter net profit fell by a third though and ross telecom profits plunged by half for the second quarter of the year that's according to the russian accounting standards but the stock is gaining on the last asian shares of failing to rebound hovering just below the line mainly on disappointing g.d.p. figures from japan let's see how asia is trading this hour its economy grew zero point three percent in the second quarter slower than expected with exports and consumer spending showing a lot of weakness it's traditional festival week in japan so volumes are pretty thin until keogh in hong kong the hang saying is trading down around the quarter percent as you can see there are traders still digesting friday. groovy chinese trade figures wall street and the friday higher on pretty thin value stretching his gains to a fifth straight week over the past thirty days the dow and the nasdaq have added more than four percent each counting the

the my six were companies like will major ross nafta which is reportedly considering expanding to armenia gas producing nova and a roster and a common feeling better than the rest of the market up more than two percent to companies released second quarter profits they actually declined by of and by fifty percent respectively in the second quarter but this was better than expected and therefore we were seeing buying in these yes let's move over to currencies is it yes that's right the euro is continuing to strengthen versus the dollar in this session but the russian ruble was gaining against the basket of currencies wow ever ended a losing value against both the dollar and the here. now despite the financial turmoil the moods of a limb pick medalists who came back home from london basically and is not hampered because many governments are spending money to provide financial stimulus to those who can go faster stronger and higher up for their country artie's pilbeam reports . the olympics is now over for the winners they have a permanent reminder of their victories a big shiny medal but wha

the sex that we're watching of this hour include rosneft it's reportedly considering expanding to armeniagas producer nov attacker's also off puts second quarter net profit by a third and a robust telecoms actually one of the biggest gainers almost two and a half percent. profit plunged by about half in the second quarter of the year that's according to the accounting standards moving on to the p. and equities if there is a foot sea like in asia value at the moment just an option it's definitely feeling the pinch from that latest data from japan as g.d.p. growth numbers came in much lower than expected and that really disappointed investors japan's economy grew zero point three percent of the second quarter about slower than expected with exports and consumer spending showing some weakness u.s. futures are also down pointing to a little we're opening on wall street the euro this hour let's see the currency markets there they are the euro this hour is getting to the u.s. dollar after a the greenback showed some strength in the previous four sessions and the russian ruble is showing some st

in armenia, we had killer, and leaders are nothing without -- why are we following these malignant leaders? this goes along with a vote story. so in rwanda you have this crisis situation, in malignant leader, an incident where the plane of the president was shot down and then you had a radio station that had been around for a middle while. it was the hip station that played the best music and told the funniest jokes and had political commentary and once the plane came down it became more and more vicious targeting one particular group for annihilation. and particularly for shooting down the plane of the president, painting them as -- soiling the land and the worst part of it that really gets people to kill the other is that if you don't kill them first they are going to kill you. and so when the message was coming through, the radio station in rwanda, it was one message not countered by other mass media. rwanda is not a heavy reading society as much as it listens to a lot of radio so people got these messages over and over again along with their hit messages of jokes and great songs. they

after that i find myself in the ethnic cleansing dispute in the caucuses in the war between armenia andzerbaijani and a negotiator for the united states government in the caucasus and international rivers. i came home from these travels the flaming patriot for the rule of law and the due process and freedom of press and not ideological legislation. i have already won cases in american courts and a lot in the colorado legislature can even have a weekly newspaper column. i ran for high office and organized citizens lobby and introduced sunshine and some such concepts of legislation and lead experiences firsthand and i thought i knew it and came home from these years of foreign experience convinced the difference between u.s. politics and the politics of asia or russia as wide as the grand canyon. conclusions that i see every day coming in part from the contrast between the current futile culture in the soviet union post soviet union and latin america and political experiment we initiated on this continent in 1776. through most of history wealth and power go together. as well grows its own