acted to continue let's cross my mountain maria for notion of who is in the heart of moscow for us hi there maria so just how bad is the smog out there. well in a small continues to blanket the russian capital in multiplied by this heat over thirty five senses degrees says this it makes life here in the city just unbearable just challenging people say they're struggling they're not surviving for more than a week old ready for the smoke from the massive forest and paedophiles in the central russia my colleague states has just been talking about has been covering most going down the central russian cities and now as i hope you can see behind me it is under a veil of smoke it's been in the war a city area in the morning when visibility was just three meters has now changed mostly due to strong wind blowing from that part over the most original where there are no black blazes from the north and from the west while the south and that

is mostly hit by you know wildfires but anyway we can still clearly feel that strong smile of burning and still it's very hard to breathe the reason feeling like there is a lack of all to join in this here and how facts praise. the same god so pollution is a very high sometimes in some parts of the city it is ten times higher than normal safety limits at the same time distortion is odd given no statistics over a small related dusts a doctor is a saying that concentration of colborne and all the dangerous substances is so hard that britain these airhead in most is equivalent to smoking two old three packs of cigarettes in just a few are ways so as you can see with fire spread macross russia canada is folding is among people and the fear is a rising. over the impact is going to have. on peoples condition and people's

health we have been able to speak to some people here on the streets of moscow this now listen to what they have to say about that how are they concerned about their. business in the last two weeks has been extremely difficult in moscow it's hard people don't feel like working here it's hard to breathe when you wake up in the morning i feel some discomfort in my chest but the sun makes my head cold. whatever that i will that it's the last little border soon it will be like it is in the tropics bananas were on the birch trees instead of potatoes i'm not going to fall plant behind us. during than they snatch in wide panic the head of russian also looks good patriotic career who has called on all the people in russia to pray for rain and special masses have been conducting most of the country's chosen procedurals and this is all the believers here in russia are now doing praying for rain and you sir of course in the meantime

authorities are battling those blazes but what do hearing about what they're doing to help those who have already been affected by the fire. well yes indeed this record breaking heat wave in russia and fire fire spread across the country have already turned into a national catastrophe here in russia and the whole titian's all the highest level level been unfolding battling they stay saucer here in the country russia's prime minister vladimir putin has already traveled to the country's most kids regions in central russia has spoken personally to people who know over who left homeless urge you to follows in these regions and his now you are holding an emergency meeting with russia's ministry of emergencies said a geisha grew an internal minister on how the minister and finance minister and the government a governess over all other regions which have been mostly

a hit by fire was in russia and they've been mostly discussing how to organize their work over. more than a quarter of a million people who are who have been mobilized to tackle the fires to battle them how to organize their work to make it first to effective but at the same time to save people's houses to protect them from these kids and old so they've been discussing financial aid other sources have already promised to release a five. billion rubles which is about one hundred thirty million dollar a sane governmental aid to help hold those to. board a plane a fast deteriorating business also end up parts of it has already been released i'd also every family of course is very soon going to receive a compensation to try to rebuild their lives and to rebuild their homes in

a sense right tracking the wildfires in the smog situation here in moscow why for us refinishing. now israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is likely to agree to an international investigation of his country's storming of an a chip in may the controversy caused by the gaza aid flotilla killings has put international pressure on the jewish state parties post leader has more from tel aviv. what we're hearing is that in principle israel will agree to a united nations probe into the to the raid back in may now this is unprecedented it's also significant because on the ninth of june the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is on record as saying that he will never allow an international probe that this states a dangerous precedent and you need to remember of course that previous investigations have never had any kind of participation previous international investigations and this is because israel believes that primarily the united nations and other international bodies. before actually coming here but what we're

hearing now is that the israeli prime minister has tossed his defense minister. to tell the american officials where the is at the moment in new york that is well in principle will agree to handing over papers and putting forward its augment in what happened in this gaza flotilla raid it seems that international pressure has played its part the diplomatic fallout was unprecedented you had demonstrations in mosques was throughout the world you had countries calling israeli ambassadors for some kind of explanation as to how they maybe had behaved in this gaza flotilla and here in this well you also had many governments considering in fact some going as far as to do so to actually record their ambassadors from most israelis still believe that this was a deliberate provocation they do not believe that the gaza tender was a humanitarian aid that they believe that they were a significant number of militants on board especially on board the ship and they do also think that there was an attempt to try and smuggle weapons into gaza having

said that though they risk criticism and a lot of debate here among the israeli public as to how the navy conducted itself with questions being raised and some of these questions in fact were raised by an internal israeli military probe it questioned and it actually put forward the suggestion that there had not been sufficient intelligence gathering and also that there were question marks over what over the way the army handled itself so these are the questions israelis have as to why the navy in fact had to behave in such a way that it missed nine people dead but they. i haven't actually criticized the fact as to whether or not the if this was just a myth most israelis believing that it was and i want to know was to add on that point that there is a small voice within israel a voice that does support the international community's call for the lifting of the blockade with some israelis holding demonstrations and some israelis say that in fact this photo was a humanitarian effort and it should have been allowed to pass through into gaza. the u.s. military chief says a strike on iran is still possible if diplomacy fails to stop tehran's nuclear

ambitions and its t.v. interview the head of the joint chiefs of staff mike mullen was asked what was worse iran with a nuclear bomb or the consequences of a u.s. military strike on the state moment declined to answer directly but did say u.s. attack would have a serious impact on the middle east their military options are a bit on the table and remain on the table and certainly very guarded it's one of the options that the president you know i hope we don't get to that but it's an important option and it's one that's well understood well out of tehran news conference iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad said he was ready for a face to face dialogue with barack obama but only in front of the world's media the provocative proposal comes as iran faces new international sanctions driven by washington over the islamic republic's nuclear program well he also criticized israel's occupation of gaza and said military confrontation was not something iran was considering has crossed live now to tehran where we're joined by sayed mohammad

marandi from the university of tehran thank you for joining us what's the reaction in iran to admiral mike mullen statement that the u.s. has an attack planned if needed. i think most people were very much outrage in fact just a few moments before i came into the studio. a gentleman here was talking about the comments it is ironic that the united states and the israelis and the western media constantly accuse iran of threatening israel when fact iran has never done such a thing yet when direct threats are made against the iranian people by american officials the western media is completely silent in fact a few couple of months ago few months ago when obama revealed. the nuclear doctrine. that stated basically that iran can be attacked with

a nuclear weapon. as a first strike. the iranians back then were outraged as well and they were also amazed that the western media was completely silent so again i think this only makes the situation worse than it shows that the united states is really. not mature enough to deal with the iranian people reasonably in the eyes of iranians what our president after my dinners and inviting president obama to debate with him on pressing global issues live in front of an international media how likely do you think that really is. well i don't think that such a thing is going to happen this isn't the first time he's actually made the offer but i think it's more symbolic what he's basically saying is that we are willing to compare our russian rationality and our reasoning with the american reasoning in

american logic in front of a global audience and what he's basically saying is that the americans are behaving unreasonably irrationally and dangerously whereas the iranians are looking for a way for solutions for example with the with regards to the iranian nuclear program the tehran declaration was a major step forward that the united states forced a resolution in the u.n. security council basically to destroy any opportunity for resolving the issue and unfortunately russia and china appears the americans and went along with it and at the same time the iranians their position with regard to the united states is that to the two sides should resolve their issues peacefully at the united states and tenuously and constantly makes threats against the iranians and what about international sanctions against iran of course pushed by washington how do they affect every day life for the iranian people. well i don't think so

far there hasn't been much of an effect the previous sanctions have had some effect in fact people have died because hospital equipment has have has often been held by european countries in the name of sanctioned dual use technology and therefore some hospitals have had problems when people have died of as a result. of the sanctions are not smart sanctions sure you buy with the americans and europeans say. they are directed at the iranian people the fact that the european union for example pressed ahead with further sanctions against the iranian oil and gas industry shows that they what they mean to do is hurt ordinary iranians but i don't think it's going to have a major effect and i think ironically in the long term the damage really is going to be the americans and the europeans are going to feel the damage because the iranians are going to turn further to the east towards asia the far east and all other alternative sources of trade and the less trade that europe in the united

states has with iran basically the less leverage they have over the country. doctor say and mohammad marandi of the university of tehran thank you very much for your input thanks to our well the online whistleblower wiki leaks has followed up its publishing of classified afghan war documents with an encrypted file that's about one hundred times bigger than most of the other recently posted files no one has been able to decipher it so far or am it trying to shed some light on the mystery. we knew very little about this file we do know it's one point four gigabytes which is quite a large file and as you say big and the over the documents much bigger than any of the documents the eighty thousand documents that wiki leaks posted last week it's name insurance and i mean it's not known why why they would have called it that but we can speculate some of what could be going on here it's an encrypted file.

on the website so obviously we're not meant to be able to and what experts all the experts in the business is saying that is that one file like this when one feels under threat in some way so what they think will happen is that if any harm comes to do to national or any of his team or possibly even the website itself then the key will be sent out posted on the web site and everybody will be able to open it and it will reveal some sort of huge secret now as to why wiki leaks mice have done this he may have made some enemies last week of course he made this posting of eighty thousand documents which revealed secrets about the afghan war that the u.s. authorities and the fighting forces wanted to keep secrets he may feel under threat because of that from them in some way but we should also examine the possibility that this is a publicist the start and if you just look at the timing it's monday morning here

in london and this information has been released this week there was a lot of news about wishy leaks because of the release of baseballs that is just starting to die down now just as it is dying away he placed a file on his website called insurance and ballots in another news cycle that starts on monday this week also it's got a lot of people talking about it and because the file is encrypted and we can't see what's in it it's got a lot of people talking without him even having to post any kind of new information this last week's leak of the eighty thousand files was one of the biggest leaks in u.s. military history and that. is. there were thousands of files incident reports things that happened on the grounds that the u.s. military during the normal course of things doesn't want really want people to know it and that they were all of a sudden in the public domain and of course it is shocking to see that information to get a percentage for everybody to see but yes there has been some i'm told that there wasn't really anything new in it we didn't know that civilians were dying we did

know that the soldiers on the ground were covering up the rate at which civilians are being killed either by just playing down the numbers or by making calling civilians in. reports. that were in these really detailed accounts or to try to over the last six years and that is notable in itself. well the blue berets of russia's paratroopers are flooding the country's streets as they mark the eightieth anniversary of their unit and in the capital about five thousand servicemen are gathering for celebrations in the times in the wake of a is with them and joins us now in the time just so it's a big day for the russian pair us are there celebrations in full swing yet. well indeed celebrations are in full swing very festive spirit here in moscow as thousands of paratroopers gathering on the streets cheering each other they're singing songs shaking hands meeting each other gathering in groups walking in parks we are right now outside of one of those parks which is the traditional place for

those kinds of celebrations usually on this day most schools and russians fountains turn into swimming pools because this is part of the tradition for paratroopers of celebrating this day that they jump into fountains usually it's frowned upon but this year because of this abnormal heat russian authorities have officially allowed them to jump in those fountains easy to recognize them as well of course because they're wearing distinctive features of their uniforms that liberates and the striped the t. shirts are the classic classic uniforms there moto is no one but so they're also on high alert even though they're celebrating today we saw a group of paratroopers that helped to stop a fire from spreading from one car that started burning to others by moving them away so they are still remembering their duties and they are considered to be the most elite units of the russian army the most mobile units. the red army was actually the first one to implemented them during the cold war of the soviet union

had the largest airborne units in the world russian paratroopers chords in the guidance that they phone during both. campaigns in chechnya and did during georgia's assaults own self said here and the unit was that was in the 1930's today they're celebrating that do you believe eighty thousand verse three and says he wasn't. well paratroopers jumped out of the plane. during the war games eighty years ago. all right let's go live with the blueberries thanks for back up next hour that joins us with the latest business news so stay with us for that. hello and welcome to the business program hey on oxy russian tycoon. to buy rival vladimir proton in out of mining giant nickel off to accusing him of bad management

says he could make the world's largest nickel produces significantly more profitable through good leadership because of the proton is into roles currently stakes in the culture which mining the. u.k. is warning that russia's drought could cause a double digit rise in food prices before christmas rush is a major food extolled to the record temperatures just some are expected to haul exports there are also fears the government could still export to protect domestic supply it's some experts say the inflation of goods like wheat dairy and meat is quote scary and could push the country into another recession. but the president of the russian grain union of ski believes the exports will not suffer much under the current conditions and says there is hope that siberian crops will help improve the total output. so. the most pessimistic export forecast is eleven million tonnes

no one has a more pessimistic outlook but we think that exports will be in the region of fourteen to fifteen million tonnes however it will depend on the level of reserves we have we estimate the total output levels to be around seventy five to seventy six million times on average the european region of russia has already lost all of camp but this number could increase if we have favorable weather conditions in siberia. in other news b.p. has denied reports it may sell its german affiliates are all which owns the biggest petrol station chain in the country but oil giant says these downstream us at a crucially important for the company are all estimated at two point six billion euro zone's doing a hoffa fell's in stations throughout germany possible buyers reportedly including russian oil producer rolls left the french oil giant total and a rival gas station chain a via b.p. is looking to raise up to thirty billion dollars to build up its cash reserves after incurring heavy costs in the gulf of mexico oil. russian money fracturing is

growing at his fastest pace since april two thousand and eight figures out on monday show sectors purchasing managers index rose to fifty two point seven last month driven by rising commodity prices but some experts skeptical about take it as a sign of a completed economic recovery. this index is not really an indicator of actual economic activity actually just to be deported or not it's the sentiments on by the purchasers may measure a sort of in the industry sorry does not really indicate of the any actual changes in the actual production activity therefore we cannot really relate developments in the p.m.i. indicators to the actual economic activity. and of course this is only a manufacturing sector not the g.d.p. . also over a decade of debating russia has signed a law clamping down on insider trading new legislation power fison defines concepts such as insider information market manipulation among others business r.t.

talked to the head of the federal financial markets service to find out what will change. you know i think at this moment alone reflects the current level of development of the market the understanding of the need for tougher regulations of this market and the experience has been accumulated by the regulatory bodies and market participants the law is absolutely balanced i don't think it's going to be softened and as for the introduction of stricter measures i do think we have to make the law tough it's more likely that the practice of law enforcement will be perfect it's just the luck of the trading law was the last obstacle for russia to adopt the memorandum of international organization of securities commissions what will change now. we've taken account of remarks made to us by the international organization of securities commission and we've practically removed all points of criticism we've extended time for storing

documents subject to control and supervision we've imposed strict regulations for using confidential information we've introduced the right of access to banking secrets both of physical persons and legal entities and we already have the right broker accounts that's why i think we have removed all obstacles we expect the international organization of securities commissions will carry out in a good sense of the word with regards to this law or its wording and its practical application and we hope that by the end of the year we'll be able to finish all the necessary formalities and procedures for joining the i also go memoranda. check out the stock market. forces of gaming around the fentanyl trade after the strong while fracturing energy majors are all for the price of light sweet home eighty dollars a barrel the country's top offer to several of their trade. and this isn't

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headlines battling blazes wildfires spreading through central russia leaves over thirty people dead destroying crops and houses as well as something cold in cities

with smog. bowing to pressure the israeli prime minister is expected to agree to an international investigation into his country's death and storming a gaza bound aid flotilla what you need. and the online whistleblower wiki leaks post a massive encrypted file in what some say is a p.r. stunt and follows its disclosure all got more cover ups. next up for you here in order to you we meet an american computer programmer who claims he got a high level request to ensure vote fraud swonk the two thousand and four election in george w. bush's favor don't miss it. mr curtis if you would come forward. and ask the court reporter to swear the witness.

mr curtis would you please state your full name for the record name is clinton eugene curtis and what is your profession i'm a computer programmer mr curtis are there programs that can be used to secretly fix elections yes how do you know that the be the case because in october of two thousand i wrote a prototype for president congressman tom feeney at the company i work for you know vito florida did just that it would really going to watch and it would flip the vote fifty one forty nine whoever you wanted to go to and whichever ray she wanted to went to who ever you wanted to win. on november second two thousand for george bush was more popular even middle of an unpopular war i was watching the.