everything they can everything in their power to try and put these fires out and bring normality back to people's lives. but the heat still here and the forecasts a bleak there for the threat of new fires persists have signed a decree today announcing the emergency situation in a number of regions of our country which are hardest hit by the fires 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 while nationwide a quarter of a million people are involved in trying to put these fires out and make sure that they don't spread any further how it is right here it's very oppressive with the smoke very thick smoke everywhere very difficult to breathe and very stinging on the eyes as well this situation a moment doesn't look like the ground are all around me still smoldering but it doesn't look like it's going to be clearing up any time soon this tell you how almost the fight feeling and all this is the family is battling begin to approach the capital. breathing in moscow has been quite difficult over the past couple of

days it gets slightly better during the day but overnight stay clear of small cans and covers most of it it is almost impossible to see anything because just are saying that the level of pollution in the city right now is seven times higher than it usually is and doctors are adding that breathing in moscow right now for a couple of hours alone can be equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes that is why some people are choosing to wear face masks in order to reduce the amount of this boys and air that they inhale doctors are recommending those with lung diseases and heart diseases to stay at home and to spend as little time outdoors as possible and peace what all of you all for she's doing to help the fire victims that we've seen in villages across the south in the regions in russia. as prime minister vladimir putin has pledged one hundred thousand dollars for each family of lost homes and they are expected to. save up money next week those that are worst

case and in most need of a financial help to do that have received an additional payment already this week so if the help is already starting to get them to the financial help what we are also hearing though is that people are taking advantage of the situation in this allegedly somebody with was starting fires of their own accord in order to try and claim this compensation money we're also hearing of looting going on in villages that have been destroyed by fire where we are right now is a very very strong police presence offices on the ground the streets making sure that nobody's doing anything untoward to quell this tragedy could cain has had any hope that that he wave is going to lessen soon is there any relief on the way what's the full cost of course muscovites are hoping for a heavy rain to fall in the city to please help its cool it down and clear the air however what weather service is i do not predicting any heavy rain they're only

pretty good short term rains maybe during the day and later in the week and they're also predicting where the heat to go up to over forty degrees has still see these during the day right now the temperature it i think night alone reaches over thirty degrees so it does look like most people going to stay in one big coffin for a while. it was an italian the work of reporting there from moscow and peter all over outside moscow talking about the situation there we're also getting some news just in here in r.t. we're hearing that the air military base has burnt down because of these wildfires we of course we'll keep you up to date and bring you more as we get it. and sticking with russia news a plane crash in the cross new york region in siberia has claimed at least eleven lives fog is believed to be the cause of the tragedy which happened as the aircraft was trying to land various governor has declared wednesday a day of mourning and promised sixty six thousand dollars in compensation to each

victim's family officials have been sent from moscow to assist local authorities with the investigation. and u.s. combat troops are withdrawing from iraq as promised by fifty thousand will stay on to help iraqi forces president obama confirmed america will stick to its deadline of the end of this month but that the sacrifice is not over yet but james denselow a writer on middle east politics rather and security says obama's promise is overshadowed by fresh violence in iraq. they will hand over to a more of a combat support than a combat role in the coming months and mission 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 reminder that he's the president to take u.s. troops out of iraq to continue 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 decided to make this announcement as iraq last month in jordan 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 of the rock is. of uncertainty and i feel that both in terms of the government's ability to make policy and its ability to secure its own people significantly compromised. and there may be another struggle coming president obama's way after iran's leader challenged him to a face to face t.v. debate it follows a statement by a top u.s. military officer that a strike against iran could not be ruled out more importantly it has the details from new york. we should mention that president ahmadinejad has made this offer and presented this offer in the past in the past few years to obama or into his

predecessor george w. bush it is highly unlikely that the president of the united states would sit down for face to face with the president of iran especially with cameras surrounding them for a televised debate but what is so surprising about it is the fact that it continues to make news all the u.s. mainstream media outlets have picked up this story all the very popular blogs on the internet have taken this story it's made headlines and what it really does prove is that the president of iran continues to be something of a mastermind of u.s. media look at the realities that are taking place right now we've seen at the u.n. as you mentioned past four rounds of sanctions against iran the most recent ones to take place in the early june after that the united states and the european union passed unilateral sanctions additional financial sanctions and embargo against iran and iran has not changed its course it is continuing to enrich uranium

which it says it's being done for peaceful purposes when i did sit down with the president of iran he assured me that iran will not halt its nuclear program because he says that it's entitle the country the title to have a program for peaceful purposes and he said it doesn't matter how many sanctions are passed so we see that there have been international sanctions placed against iran one after another after another and iran has not changed its course. founder of the iranian american political action committee says the upcoming u.s. mid-term election is among a number of things causing american rhetoric to get fired up. these comments are really directed to three different audiences one is towards iran obviously and to try to use the carrot and stick approach and continue to use the 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 as 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 buy the iranians more time and so they they want reassurance from the u.s. . well russian m.p.'s i'm young but sorrow of who sits on the international affairs committee believes whatever goal the u.s. is pursuing it's treading a dangerous path we'll hear more in around twenty minutes time but here's some of what he has to say. we've been worried about recent talks on possible attacks on iran or a war with iran this is

a serious problem we can't ignore the fact that they're trying to destabilize the situation not only by economic sanctions but by ethical means as well iran is a multi ethnic seventy million people country destabilization attempt is rather dangerous. arabs living in israel say more and more laws are being brought in which actively discriminate against non jews and human rights campaigners believe the racism extends beyond muslims as artie's poles there are reports one recent bill forces prospective citizens to declare loyalty to a jewish and democratic state. they're just back from touring the states with a protest music found sympathetic ears among jews and arabs they go by the name of dam or blood and they're the first arab israeli hip hop group to rap in arabic hebrew and english their lyrics are bold and demand better treatment for arab

israelis who they say are treated as second class citizens even money saying. he won a victory of the for the loud and people elected them so it's not the government that the government is it is the face of the people like what started first i don't know but this is the situation every series like the elected gangsters and civil rights groups agree they say it's official the current israeli government is the most racist in israel's history. studied them and so. two hundred ninety six instances of all races are not just against arabs there's also a significant rise in racism against other ethnic groups russians ethiopians and eastern jew i believe that israel is a racist country continues its bills disaster for the state of israel already at least twenty one bills that arab citizens isa scheme just combinator against them

have been passed the most recent prospective citizens now have to swear allegiance to a jewish and democratic state changing the whole discourse in israel now into one in which the assumption is that palestinians are not loyal they have should have no rights they have to prove their loyalty and so this is very much part of that whole so same kind of move the first victims of this this legislative drive will be the palestinian parliament members who are because one of them she's one of fourteen our parliamentary members out of one hundred twenty she says it's a daily struggle for arabs to be treated equally even the most liberal israeli parties often struggle to support them in the first priority is to keep their position in the coalition government is that this is really how. this will be in the us this government has no vision that's just sort of pieces of the sea as the dish it but also vision of peace with its own citizens but in its defense the

same israeli cabinet approved the largest economic development plan for arabs this industrial park is the brainchild of stephan their time or a jewish israeli millionaire who has joined hands with sharkey khatib the former mayor of the largest arab city in israel nazareth but at the moment the arabs are not participating in industry in israel they have stayed in the professions we want to bring arabs into the circle of industry and my vision is that five years from now there will be twenty to twenty five production factories here but that vision is being tested because although parliamentarians still need to. vote on the proposed amendments to the citizenship roll another bill but has already been passed includes threatening to cut off funding to institutions that support the palestinian version of the nine hundred forty eight or another bull criminalizes and denying israel's right to be called a jewish state which is why they'll be no shortage of lyrics anytime soon and the

music will repost policy on t.v. israel. you can always of course find much more from us on our website at archie dot com here's a look at some of what might catch your eye today. thousands of russians paratroopers be a heat all celebrating their units eightieth anniversary at moscow's corkey park. and the russian biker rally with premier polling powerhouse prime minister vladimir putin right in. now in paris discover their child is ill will do all in their power to make them well again but in russian regions like the chechen republic getting treatment for serious conditions such as kidney disease meant having to travel to moscow that's

something many families just cannot afford now though new facilities mean vital medical care is within reach. of our house the story it's been a year since her adopted baby girl died but lisa is still mourning she's always looking at the pictures of her girl when she was in hospital a woman russia has no she was more than a child she was an angel we think about her all the time my mom still crying. well certainly hard to forget such a child seven months old marshall was brought to this hospital with acute kidney failure the doctors did their best to save the goal but with the special equipment to purify the plant there was no hope it was a shame to see a child who couldn't help. has been working at the hospital for three years during that time ten children have died from acute kidney disease. this new

equipment was installed four months ago to dock to see it will support do suffering from renal failure until the moment they'll be able to find a donor kidney the last patient was treated here for two months before going into more school for transplant. i don't think it matters that these machines are not being used right now what really matters is that they're really doing so patients and help them at least a little bit. the children's hospital in the center of the chechen capital has eleven departments which makes it one of the biggest in the north caucasus people from all over the region come here for medical care but the center for the treatment of kidney problems makes it special children are born here they had a kidney problem and in the past they're looking forward to go to moscow that's providing their relatives had enough money but the russian government determination to decentralize specially here this unit is on their doorstep. they either visit or

are seen in grozny. it's come up to nineteen minutes past the hour let's check on some of the world's other main news this tuesday violence in southern pakistan has killed around forty people and injured dozens of others riding a rupture in karachi i dare about and other cities in the same province following the assassination of a local politician it comes amid a spate of murderous targeting political and religious activists as why all parties vie for power in the region there has been plagued by ethnic and. tensioned which has seen over a hundred died this year alone. a vicious storm swept through southeastern australia on monday wrecking havoc on the region and its residents more than eight hundred thousand homes in new south wales lost power while fallen trees blocked roads and several sydney bound flights had to be rerouted if problems are expected to continue as more severe weather is forecast. and

a drunken man went on a rampage in northern china after he killed a customer with a shovel loader at the co depot where he worked a chinese government spokesperson said the assailant smashed the loader into cars buses and shops killing eleven and wounding nearly two dozen the police were able to subdue the man after the tractor came to a stop in a field. and we've got some breaking news for you here and i don't see on the fires which are affecting central russia right now a large russian naval base has burnt down in the moscow region destroying billions of dollars worth of military hardware has now crossed our t's peter all of our in the region hi peter what more can you tell us about what happened at this naval base. right well we're hearing that twenty naval planes and planes and helicopters naval aircraft of all being destroyed

a very swift blaze that swept through this destroying them all their own ten minutes in the course you know that you know. well they say this is part of the cost around twenty million rubles worth of equipment that's been swallowed up in this blaze so really we're not seeing any any let up just yes in the in these fires that have been terrorizing the country and we've seen a state of emergency declared in seven regions across the country because tragically the death toll now the number of dead rising both forty today also over three hundred people injured due to the. many thousands of lost their homes but this recent development that this if this naval base in russia with over say twenty aircraft being destroyed in a blaze that swept through that. right now peter all of our live for us breaking news just right here in our t. a military air naval base has been burnt down due to these wildfires we'll continue to track it stay with our now it's over to business with daniel.

i to business the russian government says it won't purchase norilsk nickel to settle its bitter shareholder disputes billionaire all of their pastors bidding to buy out rivals limit patani accusing him of bad management of the firm but bhutan in yesterday appointed now lawyers president suggesting he's going nowhere a spokesman for president medvedev says he won't step in but does want a third party to buy the world's top nickel miner and end the crisis it would have also pointed prosecutor general you're a choker to examine no nichols a.g.m. which provoked the chorale. russian real estate prices are on the rebound even though the global economy has yet to emerge from the financial crisis but in a cautionary look at the reasons behind the rise. it seems this 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. is about three times higher than it was two thousand in two thousand and nine. so we're good see that's on the basis of that of the growing. demand on the market could declare most of the developers could declare the process growing up the rice isn't in every single sector from economy apartments to luxury homes here in this area where the school is where this it is the most expensive the palm and solar cases the starting price of just one square meter tops thirty thousand dollars but this is not the upper limit the prices are expected to raise 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 other issues 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 might seem a question of business r.t. . prices remain near twenty two month highs drought in top exporter russia devastates fields process soared by a fifth last week alone but the head of the russian grain union says that song justified. 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. have a quick look at the stock markets they're holding in the red here in moscow telecom is down over one percent as it announces testing of a new high speed network a car maker after vs sale sold sixty percent last month most awful lot of cash for clunkers program its shares have gained hope is that. europe's having a mixed day with b.m.w. six fold leaping quarter to net making it the top again on the metals joined the meanwhile of a tripling in first half profit shares in healthcare giant sanofi event is the new year lows of reports it could be us genzyme and lenders it down as investors cash

profits following their recent run. pages closed in the black on the back of yesterday's strong bank results across the world mizuki financial group going to one percent in tokyo a week again against the euro also boosted exporters would come or make a kind of a key gain on. the ruble slip below the psychological benchmark of thirty to the dollar as the old price continues its shock rise to think russia's energy exporters who hit twenty nine ninety seven in tuesday trade off the lights we broke out of the seventy to eighty dollars brackets of the past three months certainly eighty two dollars a barrel experts credit an unexpected increase in us all supplies for the growth. chinese carmaker gili has completed its purchase of sweden's valvo from ford the deal which was announced earlier this year is estimated to be worth one point eight billion dollars new owners plan a new range of premium car models to rival those of b.m.w. and mercedes. unemployment in russia dropped twenty one percent in the first five

months of this year compared with the same period in two thousand and nine become true statistics says the jobless drop means the country has now reached pre-crisis levels. and though i phone maker apple is the world's most valuable brand according to a report by forbes magazine the firm's trademark is worth one trillion dollars beating rival microsoft into second place a third of the list of fifty or take businesses with i.b.m. and google putting out the top five no russian companies got on the list brand managers say domestic companies still have a lot to learn. from me my colleague fell in love is funny would be here next hour with more. on.

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here at our t.v. live from moscow we have breaking news a large naval base in moscow has been destroyed by the wildfires which are raging through central russia the flames reportedly took just ten minutes to level the hundreds the syllabi including two hundred planes and helicopters as well as other

military hardware worth some twenty billion dollars. other news this tuesday wednesday will be a day of mourning and russia's cross they are screeching inside. area after the deadly passenger plane crash which killed at least eleven on board fog is suspected as a possible cause of the tragedy which happened as the aircraft was trying to land. and iran's president ahmadinejad is challenging brok obama to a t.v. debate the move comes after the highest ranking u.s. military official admitted there were plans to strike terror on over its nuclear program. for a long time russia's been trying to keep the talking channels open between iran and the west despite their increasingly hostile rhetoric next we hear more about russia's diplomatic efforts on that and other dominating global issues stay with us .

thank you very much simone for your time good day thanks for inviting me the you on your ass adopted new sound so let's roll sanctions targeting iran's foreign trade banks and insurance companies and an intercept russia has expressed as strong a position what moved a good thing. could satisfy russia but give the first lady to support the list of sanctions approved by the u.n. and secondly for iran to have a more transparent a program of course russia definitely doesn't want to wrong to have nuclear weapons or jet to flee there isn't enough transparency in many aspects on their part of this was one of the reasons that russia supported u.n. sanctions but they expanded the sanctions prohibiting so why is it fuels and lubricants to iran i believe it was a wrong move in relation to a country we've been worried about recent talks on possible attacks on iran or a war with the role of before because this is a serious problem.