meet its export commitments now does kazakhstan have enough opportunities to help russia with export or will russia need additional support. well there are two questions first of all does cause us done have enough resources they themselves have suffered from drought so they have projected that there will be some something between thirty to forty to forty percent drop in their harvest. which means that their export potential will suffer as well this means that they're not really likely to provide large volumes to russia on the other hand russia may not need to cause our wheat because with the current level of harvest projected harvest is quite likely to russia will break even and we grain and the mystic the month will be satisfied. thank you very much for your opinion and that was learned from global insight. the russian markets again ing in the evening session on monday with energy majors leading on both of hydro the top performing blue chip on the my six may kill is gaining on the r.t.s. up three percent banks are also high would be to be more than one percent higher. european share

kazakhstan has also cut its outlook. despite the devastation, russia says it will not cut its exports. this is welcome relief for customers in the middle east. but global wheat prices have risen by 50% in a month. rekindling fears of another food crisis of the type last seen in 2007. the difference this time around is the worldwide wheat stocks are higher, -- have surged higher. we producers like the united states are performing well. food prices have become more volatile since the credit crunch. speculators have poured their money into the agricultural markets. while the droughts are cutting the supply of grain, demand from economic powerhouses like china is racing ahead, is not just weeks. in recent weeks, it is the price of everything -- from rice to raise sense -- that has risen. bbc news. >> stay with us, if you can, on "bbc world news." kenya votes on an new constitution. and the violence of the election two years ago be avoided? -- can the violence of the election two years ago be avoided? >> first though, more vi

the neighboring ukraine and kazakhstan are also suffering big reductions in grain harvests. with another 10 days of scorching heat forecast, seeding for winter crops is also at risk. hardly surprising, the price of wheat has jumped up since june. the big importers have fears that this could cause unrest. the egyptian government is pouring $600 million into subsidies. they're trying to keep bread prices affordable. they say that fears of a return of the food crisis three years ago are not yet justified. there have been two years of record wheat harvests, and production remains strong in other regions, particularly north america, with the u.s. expecting a bumper crop. >>> and number of people confirmed dead at in northwest china, rising to more than 1100, and 627 are missing. hopes of finding survivors are fading as rescuers turned to finding bodies and trying to stop disease. more rain is forecast for the region later this week. >>> the governor of the bank of england it is warning that the u.k. is facing a choppy recovery with slower than expected growth and higher than expe

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and definitely back to stand as well as russia and kazakhstan russia's afghanistan's historical partner and vice versa the u.s. and nato states have never been afghanistan's partners they don't understand the fundamentals of the region the only country that can provide for reproach between iran back to stand pakistan until she can stand as russia this i think is one of the major goals of the sochi summit. you're watching our t.v. certainly glad to have you with us now to take a look at your headlines a deadly cure human rights activists accuse the pharmaceutical giants of using people in india as human guinea pigs as the number who die in drug trials in the country soars. shadowy influences newly declassified documents reveal israel's attempts at shaping the u.s. media agenda and american policy in the middle east. occupation redefined the u.s. withdraws its last combat troops from iraq ahead of president obama's deadline but critics say nothing will change in the country. the true pioneers fifty years since two dogs from the soviet union became the first living creatures to survive spa

million tons globally off of which results from russia's production the harvests in ukraine and kazakhstan are expected to decline between two point five and three million tons in the european union the drop could be over for many homes . and russia's drought is pushing up flour prices on the other side of the globe wheats now cost twenty percent more in mexico which. to get half of it supplies from abroad that of the country's national chamber for bread production says he expects prices to rise by another twenty percent during august as the russian grain export ban comes into effect. russian regions that have been hit with record temperatures and smog are also seeing price hikes for fans and air conditioners the cost of buying them has tripled as temperatures pushed towards forty celsius it's a highly competitive market but the federal anti monopoly service is looking at new measures to get consumer prices to cool down. the current state of affairs is outside the monopoly legislation that is when there is a dominating player on the market or when several players reach a price fix up deal

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group consisting of representatives of academic circles from europe the united states russia and kazakhstan as well as domestic scientists and practical workers they are going to work at a concept of reforming not only the interior ministry but also law enforcement and the judicial system i received relevant orders from the curious president and this concept is going to be ready by september the first twenty ten according. this concept when we're going to reform the entire law enforcement and judicial system the main objective behind this idea is to protect the rights and civil liberties of our citizens under stubber civilian control over law enforcement bodies courts should be just and police should be attentive the concept is going to be built on the basis of this mean idea but prior to that certain structural changes you can liquidating duplicating structures and reshuffling the personnel and working hard to make people feel the difference in the work of the state traffic inspectorate this problem is lying on the surface communicating with lease officers is a source of great concern for

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the country's economy minister pledged changes to the law as it creates a new cost in the union kazakhstan and russia last month for a single cost an area of promise less checks. forty four percent of goods coming into russia held up at the border and inspected in the u.k. that figure is just two percent we want a new bill and customs regulations to come into force in october the first russia is moving closer to creating a new national fertiliser champion is the sector the government is keen to support as it provides the country's third biggest source of export revenues the united midfielder reports. the prime in the consolidation of the sector billionaire suliman and his associates in june it controlling stake in anger chemical giant. now two offshore companies believed to be close to. forty four percent of cillin eat the country's largest but producer. five percent of that company the third piece of the puzzle will be when launches a takeover be unleashed its all in it that expected to happen in the coming days it would create the world's second biggest producer but analysts believe that

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in the country's far east overplays the current arrangements of using the bay said by canoe in kazakhstan the fast mile and flights are expected to takeoff from the new eight hundred million dollars signed by twenty eighteen and space analyst says it's a strategic move in more ways than one. i believe one of the reasons why russia decided to build its launch in the far east is. to contribute to the economic social and technological development of the far eastern region of russia and besides if you look at all the future launch but you will see that it is relatively close to equate the well as close as it could be and the closer the launch but they quit the easier it is to launch payloads into space the less fuel spacecraft will consume to deliver the play along to the orbit if we look at the role that quantum b. will see the increasing q. by the confidence of a satellite communication of different kind of space services and even space tourism is going to be the well being so i believe that in the future of course the demand in space services will only grow. thailand says it's up to moscow

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diplomatic leverage any permanent differences there will matter in the region or those of russia kazakhstan as well not to mention the rest of central asia and of course china also because boy give us a sense of i you mentioned a certain material tendency especially in the growing population and according to some polls over fifty percent of the people believe that corruption is one of the country's biggest problems what do you think could be done to battle it to eradicate it and the image of will lead but if your school board our future leader will need very strong political world wouldn't. you cannot be corrupt such as no one should be influencing your decisions neither is wife nor his children nor his brothers no relatives nor lovers no one should be able to affect them you are the man in charge has to be stern and honestly corruption in our state will be eradicated within three or four months let me say this again the person in charge has to be very clear about what he wants to do some of our ruling only lead to people who run the current you were the region they were for the ministers n

companies from losing money however russian companies are also able it to import grain from neighboring kazakhstan and then sell it to its partners as well as you can see the latest decision to ban grain x. provokes a lot of times discussions and we're bringing you the latest from the white house. thank you minding our correspondent in a question of reporting from the white house there in central moscow. now speaking to business russia's largest insurance company rules call struck says it has more than enough funds to cover the cost of any damage from. we figure eight hundred buildings insured by a company of being hit by the wildfires this amounts to about two hundred million. if we pay out around a billion rubles that's the sum of two hundred million even if it doubles because the finds it difficult to fight is insignificant compared to reserves and payments we make through the year. time now to check out the markets and disappointing us jobs data has sent stocks on the dollar tumbling mounting fears of a slowdown in economic growth u.s. economy shed another one hundred thirty one thousand jobs

the country's far east it will replace the current arrangements of using the base and by canoe in kazakhstan the first manned flights are expected to take off from the new eight hundred million dollars signed by twenty eighteen and space analyst says it's a strategic move in more ways than one. i believe one of the reasons why russia decided to build its launch before is. to contribute to the economic social development of the far eastern region of russia. the future launch but you will see that it is relatively close to equator well as close as it could be because of the launch but with a quick the easier it is to launch by a lot in the space of the less fuel will consume to deliver the law to the orbit if you look at the world economy it will see the increasing queue by the congress oversight the word communication of different kinds of services and. stories and it's going to be the world bank so i believe that in the future of course the demand in space services will only grow. near washington r.t. and still ahead high speed and high cost motoring. public around me looking at some of the

million tonnes globally however which results from russia's production the harvest in ukraine in kazakhstan are expected to fall between two point five and three million tons is the european union the drop could be over four million. as first deputy prime minister viktor zubkov has officially stated that the government will not into tain any changes to the upcoming temporary ban on grain exports. the temporary ban on grain exports has been approved and will be affected from the fifteenth of august until the thirty first of december this year there will be absolutely no changes not in the length of the ban for any other reasons the decision has been made in order for the domestic market to return to regular levels of business. russian regions hit with record temperatures and small girls are saying price hikes for fans on air conditioning is at a cost that has tripled as temperatures pushed towards forty degrees celsius it's a highly competitive market the federal anti monopoly service is looking at new measures to get consumer prices to cool down but above. the current state of affairs is ou

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million tonnes globally half of which results from russia's reduction the harvests in ukraine in kazakhstan are expected to decline between two point five and three million tons in the european union at the drop could be over four million tons. russian region sort of been hit with record temperatures and smog also seeing price hikes for fans and air conditioners the cost of buying them has tripled as temperatures pushed towards forty celsius it's a highly competitive market but the federal service is looking at new measures to get consumer prices to cool down. the current state of affairs is outside the monopoly legislation that is when there is a dominating player on the market or when several players reach a price fix up deal now we see is more of a moral and ethical question with retailers cashing in on extraordinary situations the government will take measures to create the rules for market in these conditions some of those rules already exist in russia's trade laws the government can freeze prices for a fixed period if the cost of certain goods exceeds thirty percent over three months

to get out of the middle east, you're going to be stuck dealing with countries like russia and kazakhstan and nigeria and venezuela, almost a laundry list of countries you don't want your lifeblood of the economy running through. >> so even if, ah, alternative energies only make up, say 2% of our, our overall energy needs, ah, this movement in the direction of alternative energies, what impact will it have on our relationship with, ah, countries, ah, such as saudi arabia and other oil producing countries around the world? >> well, let me just first, i just want to quickly mention that energy transformations occur. they have. we, we went from a wood based economy to a coal based economy to an oil based economy to a natural gas. and every time that that happened, when we went from wood to coal, coal looked small. when we went from coal to oil, oil looked small. when we went from... so i, i think we shouldn't get too hung-up on the 2% notion that, ah, was mentioned by one of the experts. but that said, yeah, i think the, the big issue, and, and i think michael, of course, is the better one o

i tried to get nazirbeyev who agreed to from kazakhstan and we ran out of money.i couldn't afford to go over there. but, you know, how interesting it is. what no one can understand when it comes down to that decision that you're going to potentially blow up the world, so what does that feel like? so that was important to have all those people and to start exploring all over the world where the problem spots are in the former soviet union states so lucy went to georgia, and through a lot of interesting discussions and drinking ended up having an amazing conversation-- >> rose: in prison in georgia say former russian official who was trying to sell-- >> there was actually-- he's a car thief. >> rose: he wasn't a russian official? he was just a russian? >> yeah. and he-- this crazy conversation you end up having with him because he was like a car mechanic and they started talking about cars and really all he wanted to do was buy a ned lamont bor geney and he was stealing uranium a little bit at a time so no one noticed and he went to sell it. there are different stor

. >> ukraine, kazakhstan when they gave up nuclear capability. there is also the later example of libya i suppose. basically were all these countries in a completely different place from iraq in 2003 or could iraq have been part of that if they had wanted to? >> you are right. i did refer and had some sympathy and understanding for the demand for a strategic decision, and i think i alluded to it in january and said that, "look, south africa took a strategic decision, they said, 'come, this is what we will show you if you want to go somewhere else, just tell us. here are the documents. if you want something more. just tell us.'" so that was a strategic decision. the ukraine and the others also came to the same conclusion. "we want to give confidence." iraq came to this in a different way. they extracted a commitment from iraq to declare what they had and to disarm. they did it unwillingly, and then perhaps i should not be so surprised that they are trying to go slowly or even to obstruct, to do as little as they can. so it was a fundamentally diff

. >> ukraine, kazakhstan when they gave up nuclear capability. there is also the later example of libya i suppose. basically were all these countries in a completely different place from iraq in 2003 or could iraq have been part of that if they had wanted to? >> you are right. i did refer and had some sympathy and understanding for the demand for a strategic decision, and i think i alluded to it in january and said that, "look, south africa took a strategic decision, they said, 'come, this is what we will show you if you want to go somewhere else, just tell us. here are the documents. if you want something more. just tell us.'" so that was a strategic decision. the ukraine and the others also came to the same conclusion. "we want to give confidence." iraq came to this in a different way. they extracted a commitment from iraq to declare what they had and to disarm. they did it unwillingly, and then perhaps i should not be so surprised that they are trying to go slowly or even to obstruct, to do as little as they can. so it was a fundamentally diff

in the soviet era about 500 nuclear tests were conducted in kazakhstan affecting about 1.5 million people. >>> u.s. automaker chrysler is showing signs of recovering. the company said it narrowed losses in the second quarter a little after a year after emerging from bankruptcy protection. chrysler says it posted a net loss of $172 million in the april to june period. that's down $25 million from the previous quarter. the automaker trarktsd the improvement to restructuring and other cost-cutting measures as well as solid global auto sales. chrysler has resumed investment in its domestic plants. it also plans to release a compact car developed by fiat later this year. chrysler filed for bankruptcy protection in april last year and started reorganization with financial assistance from the u.s. government. >>> auto sales in china and india are on the rice. china's new car sales have topped the 10 million mark. and india's car market continues to expand reflecting its strong economy. the figures were announced on monday. the china association of automobile manufacturers said that the nation's