there around the world. abuse that she told me is the battle to unite to help each other to fight the fires together schools that is beyond help families who have been left homeless but there is help those who are in need well for more on the ongoing fires and there are facts our correspondent states events and maria fanaa have the latest. firefighters have had some success but seven thousand hot spots continue to burn as wildfires sweep through russia and this is all going on while the central region bakes in excessive heat and choked on excessively polluted air now the major problem for firefighters is the weather we're experiencing an extremely dry season you mix that in with the heat that we're experiencing that sparks a fire and the wind carry that spark on to other locations so firefighters successfully battle one blaze and then have to raise to to battle another one that just flared

up and the temperatures we're expecting to see them go up and down a bit but they're going to multiply marilee stay in the mid thirty's so we're going to be experiencing warm weather for quite a while and firefighters are going to be having a tough time for a while smoke continues to blanket the russian capital and multiplied by this heat over thirty five degrees so this is it makes life here in the city just unbearable just challenging people say they're struggling they're now surviving more than a week old ready for the smoke from the massive forest and people fires in the central russia my colleague states has just been talking about has been covering mosco and all the central russian cities it's been in the war as an area in the morning when visibility was just three meters is but anyway we can still clearly feel that strong smell of burning and stale it's very hard to breathe the reason feeling like there is a lack of all to join in basic and how facts praise saying that i have pollution is

a very high sometimes in some parts of the city it is ten times higher than normal safety limits doctor is a sign that concentration of kabul and and all the dangerous substances based so hard that prevent these airhead in most is equivalent to smoking to three packs of cigarettes in just a few are was with. why is frightening cross russia panic is forming is among people and the fear is a rising power over the impact it's going to have own people's condition and people's health we have been able to speak to some people here on the streets of moscow just now listen to what they have to say about that how are they concerned about it but it was the last two weeks of being extremely difficult in moscow it's hard people don't feel like working it's hard to breathe when you wake up in the morning i feel some discomfort in my chest the sun makes my head hot so it's impossible to work do business or whatever it's hot soon it will be like it is in

the tropics bananas will grow on the birch trees instead of potatoes people will plant pineapples this record breaking heat wave in russia and fire spreading across the country have already turned into a national catastrophe here in russia prime minister vladimir putin has over his travel to the country's most kids regions and has personally spoken to people there those who've lost their hands during these fires and during an emergency mission here in moscow today his discourse the situation with russia's minister of emergency said again and finance minister and health minister and minister of internal affairs they've mostly been discussing how to organize the work of people who have been mobilized to battle the fires in the country among them soldiers volunteers five fighters and emergences crashes how to make their poor more

effective and how to use human resources more effectively at the same time how to protect these people from cases and also they've been discussing financial aid the sources are already from the same bad about five billion rubles which is about one hundred fifty million dollars that will be released to help those hit during these fires to rebuild their homes and to rebuild their lives. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says his country will take part in the united nations investigation into the storming of a gossip about. the u.n. secretary general ban ki moon announced the probe into the raid in may where nine turkish activists were killed by israeli soldiers outrage over the morning mounting rather international pressure on the jewish state archies paul the slayer has. what we hearing is that in principle israel will agree to a united nations probe into the photo 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 for an international probe that the state's a dangerous precedent and you need to remember of course that previous investigations have never had any kind of israel participation previous international investigations and this is because israel believes that primarily the united nations and other international bodies prejudge it 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 way beers at the moment in new york that is what in principle will agree to handing over papers and putting forward its argument in what happened in this gaza flotilla grade it seems that international pressure has played its part the diplomatic fallout was unprecedented you had demonstrations a monstrous throughout the world you had countries pointing israeli ambassadors for some kind of explanation as to how they maybe had behaved in this process that and

here in this well you also had many governments considering in fact some going as far as to do so to actually report their ambassadors from most israelis still believe that this was a deliberate provocation they do not believe that the gaza flotilla was a humanitarian aid if they believe that they were a significant number of militants on board especially on board the ship they do also think that there was an attempt to try and smuggle weapons into gaza having said that 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 me internal israeli military probe it questioned and it actually put forth the suggestion that there had not been sufficient intelligence gathering and also that there were question marks over what are 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 lifted nine people dead but they haven't actually criticized the fact as to whether or not the to tell it was legitimate most israelis believing that it

was and i want to go also add on that point that there is a small voice within israel a voice that does support the international community school for the lifting of the blockade which some israelis holding demonstrations and some israelis say that in fact this for to the wasn't humanitarian effort and it should have been allowed to pass through into gaza. rocco palmo says his country strategy for iraq has not changed and troops will start pulling out by the end of august the u.s. president was speaking at the national convention of disabled american veterans he also hinted that a u.s. presence would remain in iraq for the foreseeable future while to talk more on this joining me live from washington d.c. is former cia agent philip giraldi thank you very much for joining us mr draw i'd like to begin with the military objective many would say it has not yet been achieved by the u.s. team steadfast in its decision to pull out do you think it's the right decision and the right time for that matter. well i think it very definitely is the right and

the right decision in that the united states continued presence in iraq is not really a stabilizing force i believe that the united states so withdrawal in fact is overdue . now the plans of course are to cut troop numbers from one thousand four hundred forty four thousand one hundred rather forty four thousand to fifty thousand the situation of course on the ground very difficult there do you think the remaining troops will be in even more danger. well i think currently the troops are are generally just backing up iraqi security forces and as such are playing a secondary role the big question is to what extent is an american military presence something that props up the government in the sense of of enabling a government to be created as you well know iraq has not had a government now for over five months and also july was the worst month in two

years for civilian casualties so the situation is definitely not stable but the big question becomes to what extent is a continued american presence a good force i i'm not convinced that that's the case and i think what obama is trying to do is declare victory and get out. now of course after years of war what did this and do you think iraq will be in for the citizens of the country you spoke a little bit about it because you give us more detail about your opinion of what will actually happen on the ground when the u.s. leaves. well of course that's that's the big question the question is to what extent the united states withdraw all will support some kind of political solution for the iraqi people themselves the iraqi people have definitely not really benefited from very much from the last seven years of activity the unemployment rates remain high there are there are millions of people who have been displaced

from their homes electricity is shorter than it was under saddam hussein water supplies are bad so this has not been an unmitigated blessing in any sense for the iraqi people and my mind it's probably time for the united states to get out and let the iraqi people work out a solution for themselves all right former cia agent philip giraldi thank you very much for your analysis there. well the online whistleblower wiki leaks has followed up its publishing of classified afghan war documents with an encrypted file it's about one hundred times bigger than most of the other recently posted files no one has been able to decipher it so far r.t. is laura m. it tries to shut some light on the mystery. we know 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 was. an encrypted file. on the website so obviously we're not meant to be able to. experts all the experts in the business is saying that is that one file like this when one feels under threat in some way what they think will happen is that if any harm comes to do their national ourselves or any of his he will possibly even the website itself then the key will be sent out posted on the website 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 and 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 in the fighting forces want to keep secrets he may feel under threat

because of that and in some way we should examine the possibility that this is a publicist the start and if you just look at the timing it's monday 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 just as it is dying away he placed a file on his website called insurance and by it's in another news cycle it starts on monday this week it's got a lot of people talking about it 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 sneaks in u.s. military history and that is. but 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 that they were all of a sudden the public to me 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 that 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 were being killed either by just playing down the numbers or by making calling civilians in. reporting. really detailed accounts of the price you know over the last six years and that it's noticeable and it's. chinese authorities say they've managed to retrieve almost all the barrels which were sweeping down a flooded river towards russia but the fear is that several drums are thought to have already leaked dangerous chemicals into the water. has more from russia. although chinese authorities do say that they've managed to extract all seven thousand barrels which have been washed into the sun one report days ago and he claims to have cleaned up the chemicals which have leaked out of some of them since

three thousand barrels containing the acids which may be harmful to be environment here in russia's far east are still very concerned about the situation since first of all the. river which you can see behind me over there and that is a major source of fresh water in russia's far east in general and especially in the city of karbala which is located just several dozen kilometers away from the russian chinese border and secondly the locals here on fortune we are not new to the mood being booed as a result of chemical spills in china just last winter the local saw a huge oil spill right on the morgue and could only drink water using special filters and the cleanup operation was quite expensive as well now russian authorities say that if some chemicals are still left in the san juan river it should take them around a week to reach the russian chinese border and another week to reach and we are already planning to distribute fresh water to the local population in case of

contamination does occur and are monitoring the quality of the water in the by taking samples at least twice a day in the russian emergencies ministry says that they are planning to increase the number of monitoring stations in around a week but thankfully so for none of them have reported any abnormalities in the ecology. that's going to twenty minutes past the hour let's take a look at some world news for you and rescuers in pakistan are battling to reach twenty seven thousand. people still stranded by the country's worst floods in eighty years at least eleven hundred people have died and one and a half million desperately need help amid fears disease will spread among the homeless with water and food in short supply pakistan's army has committed thirty thousand troops to the rescue effort but estimates rebuilding the damaged areas could take six months. and a roadside bomb in baghdad apparently targeting a police patrol missed and killed three civilians travelling in

a car bystanders were also injured by the bomb which had been planted near a government office violence has increased while politicians argue over the formation of the country's next government. i'll be back with the headlines in just about ten minutes but first let's cross over to target for the latest business news . hungry for the we've got. the biggest issues good voice to face with the news makers. every month we give you the future we hope you understand how we'll get there and what. the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world. join our technology update on our g.

hello and welcome to the business program hey on r.t. the real cynical is announces appointing a new president under a cliche as this comes as russian tycoon pasch is offered to buy rival that he may have portended of the mining giants also accusing him of bad management. says he could make the walls largest producer significantly more profitable through good leadership. into roles currently own a blocking stakes in the cash rich mind please show us who worked at the time those into roles for more than a decade but if you see that position. the u.k. is warning that russia's drought could cause a double digit rise in food prices before christmas russia is a major food exporter of record temperatures this summer expected to exports there are also fears the government could start. to protect

a mystic supplies some experts say the inflation of goods like wheat day and meat is quote scary and could push the country into another recession. but the head of russia's grain you believe the price is already. fundamental factors do not support current grain prices last week we reached two hundred forty dollars per tonne but this price is quite groundless according to the latest forecast of the global grain council green reserves will reach one hundred ninety two million tons this year compared to last year's record volume of one hundred ninety seven million tonnes is that really such a big difference if the decrease is just five million tonnes but the average price has jumped from one hundred eighty dollars to two hundred forty. b.p. has denied reports it may sell its german affiliate which owns the biggest petrol station chain in the country but says these downstream us it

a crucially important for the company are all estimated at two point six billion euro owns two and a half thousand stations to germany possible buyers reportedly include the russian oil producer roles now after b.p. is looking to raise up to thirty billion dollars to build up its cash reserves after heavy losses in the gulf of mexico oil spill. russian money fracturing is growing at is false to pay since april two thousand and eight figures out on monday show the sector's purchasing managers' index rose to fifty two point seven last month driven by a rise in prices but some experts doubt this is the sign of a broad based economic recovery. this index is not really an indicator of actual economic activity actually just to be boarding the mode it's the sentiments on by the purchases made manager of sort of the m.b. industry sorry does not really indicate there will be any actual changes in the actual production activity there for we cannot really really developments in the

p.m.i. indicators to be actually time for t.v. . and of course this is only a manufacturer a certain g.d.p. . time out check out the stock markets here in moscow very forced to finish monday's session more than two percent in the black all not money factoring these energy majors were wrong the main gain is a price of like three tell near eighty dollars a barrel gas from rolls north closed up three percent in the r.t.s. . but it's a similar picture a very new representing sector is being lifted by strong results age as we see u.k.'s biggest banks so pretax profits right eleven point one billion dollars the first six months of two thousand and ten more than double its profits the same time last year and this is also good news for the emerging economies like russia is aging the sea is that. global investor with ninety billion dollars of assets in the country. and u.s. stocks are kicking off the new month to pay for gains off the strong economic and

earnings reports of the seas a money factory day you added to the climb industry group the u.s. money for growth in july two so it's slowest pace this year the figure out wasn't as bad as expected today investors will be waiting for other data to be released later this week. but will you notice the use of this work of a lot of the art on the job market softness the son of one of the very. unemployment that's also very important to the creation of a new drug i think it was a small. course because the other because it's very important in general the legal market in the u.s. works very weak. the many questions about it so if it's not the one who came on strong i think we'll see you. in this area but we experience the. car giant after the send is a ploy as on holiday saying it's too hot to work stuff

a toyota factory will lay down tools all this week after temperatures are predicted to top forty five degrees celcius the closure comes with a blow to the company which is up to production in recent months after a rebound in sales. russian spending abroad this year expected to exceed pre-crisis levels that's according to citibank international credit card spending is set to be more than eighteen percent one percent higher than last year and the most popular purchases include jewelry car rentals and medical services russian shoppers have already increased their spending on clothes and shoes by more than three percent spending slowed or remained unchanged in countries where credit cards are most popular namely the usa u.k. france and italy. that's the update for this hour we can always find more stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business.

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disaster. vowing to crash of the israeli prime minister is expected to greet to an international investigation into his country's templin storming of a gaza bound aid flotilla. and the online whistleblower wiki leaks hosts a mass encrypted file in what some say is a p.r. stunt and follows its disclosure all sounds more coverups. now after a short break peter lavelle talks to his guests about reality t.v. and if it has any social value beyond entertainment crosstalk is coming up. fixed.

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