still raging. this hotspot as well of seven thousand there going on in russia right now as wildfires so we through the nation and this situation has been deadly and extremely critical for thousands more who are left without a home or anywhere to girl now present medvedev has organized a special program targeting the region that have been hit the most see what your. chieftains to the emergency ministry together with the defense ministry and other security forces is doing everything possible to localize the fire and most importantly save people the heat still here and the forecasts of bleak there for the threat of new fires persists i've signed a decree today announcing the emergency situation in a number of regions of our country which are hardest hit by the fires but much will depend on our actions it's difficult to stay in the city stuffy and very hot people want to escape to the countryside that's where we should be very careful and

cautious but we must remember that one dropped match could result in disaster the government understands its unconditional responsibility our main task today is to help the victims get back to their normal lives as soon as possible as more than two thousand people have been left homeless. there are a lot of children elderly little people among them have given instructions to the governments and to regional authorities to allocate money to each and everyone who has incurred losses this money is already being allocated we must provide housing to everyone who has been left homeless all the should be done before it gets cold i will assign certain contractors who will immediately get down to their work without any tenders the government will live up to its obligations people are already uniting to help those who have lost everything in a single moment that's common practice around the world. now firefighters about one hundred eighty thousand of them are going from scene to

scene trying to put out fires and they're getting help from the military but the problem is the weather not only is it excessively hot we're receiving record temperatures but this heat is also sparking fires and fields and the winds are taking these fires and displacing them around so firefighters go to one feet and put out the blaze and then go to another and have to fight and how long will these fires continue to go we don't know but we do we are hearing from ecologists that the damages to our forest preserves could take decades to recover from and the effects of these fires are even being felt in moscow where there's a thick heavy smog that's blanketing the city my colleague maria finishing us there smoke continues to blanket the russian capital in multiplied by this heat over thirty five degrees so this is where it makes life here in the city just unbearable just challenging people say they're struggling they're now surviving for more than

a week already the smoke from a 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 even worse a area in the morning when visibility was just three meters is but anyway we can still clearly feel that strong smell of burning and it's very hard to brace the reason feeling like there is a lack of all to join in basic and how facts praise saying that and pollution is a very high sometimes in some parts of the city it is ten times higher than normal safety limits doctor is a saying that concentration of colborne and all the dangerous substances based so hard that prevent these airhead in most is equivalent to smoking two three packs of cigarettes in just a few are was with flies fred macross russia panic is. people and the fear is a rising power over the impact it's going to have on people's 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 it how are they concerned about it. the last two weeks have been extremely difficult in moscow it's hot 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 want fortunately this record breaking heat wave has been literally torture in russian its people to me but their worst news is that there is no new sign is going to stop anytime soon and measure all this is saying that it will only intensify within the next few days and they say that the temperature could even reach up to forty one degrees so several temperature records how would have been

registered in russia there is so much maybe more to come and in this situation we have to be stronger and have to protect ourselves as much as possible as it's obvious that this nightmare is far from over. that story of course we're covering on the home page or to dot com you can have your say about if it's affecting you if you're living here in moscow or russia and those of us pictures on there as well that you sent in to us israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says his country will take part in the united nations investigation into the storming of a garza bound aid flotilla the un secretary general ban ki moon announced the probe into the raid where nine turkish activists were killed by israeli soldiers outrage over the deaths led to mounting international pressure on the jewish state. has got the story tonight. 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 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 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 american officials waive the years at the moment in new york that is well in principle when they agree to handing over papers and putting forward it's augmenting what happened in this gaza for them to the 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 report their ambassadors from the 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 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 i mean to the 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 of the way over the way the army handled itself so these are the questions israelis have as to why they may be 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 he was legitimate most israelis believing that it was and i want to also add on their 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 for tiller wasn't humanitarian if it and it should have been allowed to pass through into gaza. correspondent and. 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 and no one so far as mobile to decipher it is laura tries to shed some light on this mystery. we knew very little about this file we do know its size 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 we want to hear it's 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 so what they think will happen is that if any harm comes to judy national ourselves or any of his team or 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 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 us authorities in the fighting forces wanted 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. 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 now 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 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 that they were all of a sudden public domain and of course it is shocking to see that information together and 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 so by making calling civilians and in their reports. really detailed accounts or to try to you know over the last six years and that is notable in itself. barack obama says the u.s. is still on track for pulling out combat troops from iraq by the end of august but he also hinted that an american presence would remain in the country for the forseeable future bush saying quote u.s. sacrifice would not end in the war torn country i spoke to james is a writer on mideast politics and security he told me a bomb is trying to rock war is not his business. the u.s. has has always been maturing in iraq as a bomber talked about today he was. unsure of the speeding up of the process of withdrawing from iraq will handover to a more of a combat support than

a combat role in the coming months initially should technically leave the country entirely by the end of next year what's interesting i think is that obama has always distance himself from the iraq war joe biden his vice president has been the emissary to iraq in recent months i think he's using this remind that he's the president to take u.s. troops out of iraq too can be the same amount of support for his war in afghanistan where the u.s. experienced the biggest loss of the war so far it's a sort of irony that barack obama decides to make this announcement as iraq last month enjoyed its worst month of violence for the past two years over five hundred people killed in shootings and bombings across the country so one thing you have at the rock is. and i feel that in terms of the government's ability to make policy and its ability to secure its own people significantly compromised. and barack obama as a potential new confrontation on his hands after iran's president challenged him to a face to face media debate speaking at

a conference in toronto monday mahmoud ahmadinejad also responded to a statement made by the u.s. military chief during a talk show mike mullen said a strike on iran is an option if diplomacy fails to stop the rands nuclear ambitions the iranian president also said military confrontation was not something his country was considering now this all comes around faces new international sanctions driven by washington over the islamic republic's nuclear program son go to monday's founder of the iranian american political action committee he told me the admiral statements intended to show the military might of the us and the reason for the timing of that is because the u.s. is concerned and the obama administration is concerned that as they pursue this sanctions policy that they are perceived to be pursuing an appeasement policy in a way that is going to fail and they feel that the whole sanctions track will be ineffective if they don't do wield a credible military threat there's been some there was some internal deliberations

within the administration and there was some concern that the iranians were not taking the threat of the u.s. military response seriously enough and so these comments are really directed to three different audiences one is towards iran obviously to try to use the carrot and stick approach and continue to use a carrot and stick approach and emphasize that that stake is real to the extent that the iranians may not be taking it as seriously under the obama administration as under the bush administration the second is to the domestic u.s. audience and in the u.s. there is some concern by many people that this this whole track the whole sanctions track is doomed to fail and so for the administration it's important especially with the elections coming up and so on not to be perceived. there's being weak on security and to hold this threat out seriously and finally the third target of course is the israelis and the israelis of course are concerned that this

this whole new sanctions process is just something that will by the iranians more time and so they they want reassurance from the u.s. . the region fertile lands of hungry of long waited and then viewable source for food production the famine is there now say that since joining the european union in two thousand and four they've been losing business. jet skis been hearing about their plight. this is one of the biggest bird farms in hungary more than ten thousand guineas and ducks bring quite a profit for its owner liver and duck eggs are in high demand sas his land is perfect for this kind of business countries in western europe in the us we in hungary keeper birds in open spaces want to claim an environment allows that that's why did the world a world in producing. less than a decade ago had gary and ducks were sold to everywhere across western europe and

the c.i.s. but now the owner of the stock farm has to seek other markets including japan and china it has been very hard for him to sell it on continent he says that ever since his country became a member of the european union he had to reduce his stalk almost two fold that out of the russian market i mean buyer in favor of the market return now that you're apart from france wasn't interested in our products this seriously in fact that the demand and farm owners had to secure their stock because according to new regulations keeping it was too costly before the collapse of the socialist regime and nine hundred ninety hungary was one of europe's breadbaskets its agricultural sector was a strong part of the economy and countries of the post soviet space actually imported hungary and products in two thousand and four the country was accepted into the european union but instead of green a place just e.u. membership promised and care in farming suffered

a serious blow. didn't want to. improve the situation and. wanted to get down get on markets and they have done it they don't need our production they produce. enough meat to fly and they produce everything they want people to buy that production. but it is bad for us it's like a situation if a colony. brussels have a special program to develop regional agriculture and which promise bigger income for farmers but it has brought little result local producers have been losing more than a third of their revenue every year since two thousand and four compared to the nine hundred ninety s. and now even their own market is practically close to them i'm glad foreign supermarkets flooded the hungarian market with cheap goods which are being far better promoted than domestic products and according to e.u. regulations we cannot these supermarkets to sell only our products the only thing

we have managed to do to avoid a complete destruction of the local market is to push through legislation which obliges the shops to have at least thirty percent of domestic production on their shelves hungary has a moratorium on purchases of farmland by foreign as farmers say this is the only thing which keeps their agricultural sector from being completely overrun the van expires in april next year and it's unclear whether the euro commission will allow budapest to extend it. lets us have ski r.t. reporting from hungary. and update now on that developing news story we bring you over the last hour an hour so just to recap if you've not caught the details so far it's been reported that a russian passenger plane has crashed in siberia killing some of the passengers and crew a little earlier on the ceiling details are still sketchy coming through to us but it is said that out of the fifteen on board the plane seven have died rescuers are

still searching for survivors russia's emergency ministry is saying that the antonov propeller plane crashed as it was landing the turn of a girl as you see on the map there that's just north of the arctic circle the ministry added as well the poor weather conditions may have caused the crash in that on board were four crew and eleven passengers including one child more details we're hearing that four crew members have been taken to hospital the plane was on its way from the capital of the new york region it hit the ground that we're hearing about seven hundred meters short of the runway i would this is a saying that they saw the plane swerving from right to left as it tried to land firefighters and rescue is still at the scene of the burning wreckage the last one ton of twenty four plane was manufactured more than thirty years ago as a says developing new story tonight for a very unfortunate one soon as we get more we will bring you more details looking ahead this hour people avails debate show cross talks on surely the business news before that though tonight with charlotte.

hello and welcome to the business program here on r.t. prices of russia real estate you're on the rebound even though the global economy has yet to emerge from the financial crisis i mean our question of course on the reasons behind the property price rise. it seems the slowdown in russia's real estate market may finally be over in the first half of this year alone prices grew by fifteen to twenty percent and it's not only the price level which is growing but also the number of deals signed most of the developers now declare that. about three times higher than it was two thousand. so we're good see that's on the basis of that of the growing. demand on the market could declare somewhat the developers could declare that their bras are growing up there rises soon in every

single sector from economy parliaments to luxury homes here in this area for the school is where this it is the most expensive apartments cases the starting price of just one square meter tops thirty thousand dollars but this is not the upper limit it's the prices are expected to raise the even higher over the next year. after the financial crisis fewer companies started to build new apartment buildings and at the same time the demand for flats continue to grow real estate companies say supply will not keep up with demand and that will push prices even higher. i believe the economic situation has stabilized and it's again become very profitable to invest in real estate i'm sure we'll see further growth in demand as well as in property prices and the other issue is the lack of construction companies active on the global market and they say only an increase in the number of well financed builders committed to producing quality real estate can keep prices stable i do not

question our business r.t. . nickel has announced as appointing a new president. this comes as russian tycoon has offered to buy rival turned out of the mining giant after accusing him of bad management therapist. he could make the world's largest nickel producer significantly more profitable through good leadership very prosperous rafat and paternity into roles currently owned blocking stakes in the couch rich minor cliche ass who has worked with talons into ross for more than a decade will oversee strategy in a position. where prices in russia may rise to three hundred dollars per tonne as the drought has devastated fields and farmers delay sales according to val's group the country's third biggest grain trader prices surged nineteen percent last week climbing fifty cents a day but the head of the russian grain union believes the prices are overheated.

only four 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 and. b.p. has denied reports it may sell its german affiliate our role which owns the biggest petrol station chain in the country the oil giant says these downstream a crucially important for the company are all as debated two point six billion euros owns two and a half thousand stations throughout germany possible boy is reportedly include the russian open to servos 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 manufacturing is growing at its fastest pace since april two thousand and eight figures out on monday show the sectors purchasing managers index rose fifty two point seven last month driven by rising commodity prices but some experts doubt this is a sign of a broad based economic recovery. this index is not really an indicator of actual economic activity actually just to be deported or not it's a sentiment so on by the purchases made note of the sort of in the industry sort of does not really indicate there will be any actual changes in the actual production activity therefore we cannot really relate the developments of the p.m.i. indicators to be actually comforting. and of course this is only a manufacturing sector not the g.d.p. . time now to check out the stock market here in moscow both of course is a finnish monday session more than two percent in the black energy may just have been the main gain is because the price of light sweet help there eighty dollars

a barrel problem that goes up three percent on the r.t.s. . russian spending abroad this year is expected to exceed pre-crisis levels 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 the spending slowed or remain unchanged in countries where credit called the most popular namely the u.s. a u.k. france and this thing. i'm not sure update for this hour but you can always buy most doris' on your website r.t. dot com plus business.

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alone and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle the wages of sin the global economy is far from out of crisis but that cannot be said about gambling it's a growth industry and it's only getting bigger count tightly regulated should it be and does government oversight condone gambling. can. start. to discuss the pros and cons of gambling i'm joined by richard we're going in stamford he's a professor at boston college and the author of the gambling debate and in washington we go to david stewart he's a lawyer at ropes and gray and a key advisor on internet gambling to the american gaming association and another member of our crosstalk team in the hunger all right gentlemen cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want to richard i'd like to go to you've written quite a bit about gambling when i was growing up in the.