in the homes approximately of being destroyed by the fire now we can the smog the smoke which coming off the side of these fires is causing a lot of problems you have to see behind me it's very very thick it makes breathing incredibly difficult and it's very very sore on your eyes but they still winds around in the moscow region of blowing the smoke further up to the note to the north from where i am about one hundred kilometers south of the city blowing it north into moscow itself and causing terrible problems with smoke there from on that we can now hear across live to tell you nobody who's in the center of the city . and for you we in fact have lost natasha so let's continue with you of course you were talking about some of the rubble behind you what are you hearing about want to foreigners are doing to help close of course who have lost their homes and everything. well yes that's right there is no there is plenty being done by the government actually the house just behind me i was talking to some locals it actually caught fire all thursday and it's just the ground all around me is still

smoldering it's still very very hot a pro apparently the police were telling me that the peach fires that are here have gone ten meters underground still burning there well for those people that have lost their homes and and vast amount of cases all of their belongings and everything. in the prime minister has pledged one hundred thousand dollars to each of those people who've been there who had had that happen to them and they are expecting to see that money next week now also there's been a lot of shelters temper shelters need to be said for people who have lost their homes they've also lost many of them a lot of their belongings and this being aid put forward to make sure that people have clothes water the basic needs of life for those that have suffered at this judas tragedy president yet if is also praised the response of the the new quarter of a million people in russia who have been trying to put these fires out but not only here in russia he's also thanked the international community and russia's neighbors

who've also chipped in with help from try and tackle these places across the country. of course with thankful for all the aid our partners have both food we appreciate these especially taking into account the difficult situation we currently in. prison made yet if the king rushes neighbors for their help as you try to put out these fires that are raging across russia so far claimed over forty lives and of course the big question is when will this heat wave and forecasters saying not for some time which is going to make this all more difficult for now peter all of our live from moscow thank you. now the wildfires raging across russia are at the forefront of the minds of the country's leadership as we just heard but in the black sea resort of sochi the president met with the head of the country's emergency ministry to meet visited the fire station to inspect the state of the

appliances along with recently purchased equipment but despite the pressing flaws he still can't escape the interests of journalists about his future the president said he didn't want to compete with prime minister putin and he did not want quote a battle between friendly forces although he didn't rule out running for reelection he said it might be putin it might be him or it might be someone else entirely well political analyst korean news agency dmitri bobbit says the president hasn't really told us anything we don't already know. political experts believe they have to gentlemen very different serious competition for the pair of politicians that we have know in russia will have pretty limited electorates basically video for just repeated what the legislation so the presidential election so it was a nice way to avoid given the direct response but it's a large change from what we have been hearing during the last two years in the last

two years. where basically mostly talking about themselves was the person to hear indeed then all come for them what is important is to have a predictable president sound who would normally buy. nice wards that we hear from the west or from the east and who would be realistic about that i must tell you without almost all russian politicians not very realistic sometimes they're just. back to our top story the raging wildfires across central russia russia rather let's check in with our team to tell you a novel cover who's in central moscow of course where the city is covered in smog what is the situation as we speak. well and he says there have been quite use jong flows. storming through moscow today and everyone told that they would bring rain but they only brought more small small from outside the city now the nights are the worst by meat day part of the smoke over moscow dissolves but the more in the

mornings the visibility in the cities are very close to zero but this problem is of course two fold first of all is the fresh air right now air in moscow is very heavy and the smoke is so thick that sometimes it actually burns your eyes and ecologists are saying that the level of air pollution in moscow right now is seven the times of its usual figure and also doctors are saying if you take a walk around for just a couple of hours it will be equivalent to smoking. back so if cigarettes some people prefer to wear masks to protect themselves from this poison a small so. there's also problems with buying area conditioners in the city because there's a huge shortage of them and if you can buy one then you will probably be the double or even the triple amount of money for it because some people who sell them is simply trying to make money on other people's misery and doctors are recommending

to stay inside stay indoors to spend as little time as possible outside especially close to those blazes so the other side of this problem is that those who are staying inside and trying to breathe fresh air for air conditioning is the key in the number of cases of colds and the morning i have significantly increased over the past weeks so for some it's either you get poisoned by the smog or get of pneumonia what are you hearing of talking about when this heat wave could possibly break what our forecasts are saying. first must go i have been praying for a heavy rain to fall down on the city but we've been promised so far only short rains in some parts of it have seen down so far however to weather forecasts saying that the temperature a mostly he's going to increase even the further and reach a point of over forty degrees so if you are in moscow right now here it feels like you've been put into a novel where soundman has just burned a pizza and tell you know how to live in moscow for us thanks for that.

no israeli arabs have long said they're treated as second class citizens in their own country but now civil rights groups claim the current government of the jewish state is increasingly passing racist laws they say new legislation doesn't just discriminate against palestinians but all minorities within the country. they're just back from two in the states with a protest music found sympathetic ears among jews and arabs they go by the name of damn 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. they want to take the i was out for the loud and people elected them so it's not the government. but i mean this is the face of the people like what started first i don't know but this

is the situation ever since like the elected gangsters and so whites 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 with russians. and eastern jew i believe that israel is the greatest cultural history of its bills disaster for the state of israel already at least twenty one bills that arab citizens isa school just screamin eight against them have been passed the most recent perspective 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

search same kind of move the first victims of this this legislative drive will be the palestinian parliament members who argues one of them she's one of thirteen i would want to maintain 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 the first part. it is to keep the position in the coalition government is like this if we have all. this rule against the us this government has the whole vision not just float pieces of the c.e.o.'s this shit but also has little 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. a jewish israeli millionaire who's joined hands with shockey cut to the former mayor of the largest arab city in israel nazareth go up both along with the arabs are not

participating in industry they have stayed in the profession we want to bring arabs into the circle of industry a my vision is that five years from now there will be twenty twenty five production factories here but that regime is being tested because although parliamentarians still need to vote on the proposed amendments to the citizenship law another ball that has already been passed includes threatening to cut off funding to institutions that support the palestinian version of the one nine hundred forty eight war and now the ball criminalizes and denying israel's right to be called a jewish state which is why they'll be no shortage of lyrics any time soon and the music will repost policy on t.v. israel. taliban insurgents have attacked nato largest base in southern afghanistan however officials say the facilities defenses weren't breached and the ground assault u.s. and british forces have cleared several taliban strongholds in the south and center of the country over the last few days but russian m.p.'s some young buck that sort

of says the u.s. the fight against the taliban and the search for their most wanted man osama bin laden is only a means to justify their presence in the country. because you cite a girl who is in laws and he's a person who knows a lot closely work together with the cia with saudi arabian intelligence he was acquainted with the head of saudi arabian intelligence that said he has great knowledge of many contacts because stone into agency intelligence closely what's with the u.s. intelligence he might be so that somebody is interested in his presence in this place americans say they fight against al qaeda in pakistan and afghanistan but the u.n. reports that in afghanistan there are less than three hundred al qaeda members in comparison with the one hundred fifty four thousand u.s. personnel and according to our information they are no more than one hundred people perhaps even less you understand what this means when there are one hundred three hundred terrorists against the one hundred fifty four thousand all making sure the

symbol should remain otherwise there is a question and they doing that. he wants that full interview next hour at six thirty pm moscow time right here on r.t. . u.s. combat troops are withdrawing from iraq as promised but 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 james denselow a writer on mideast politics 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 us troops out of iraq to continue the same amount of support for his war in afghanistan where last month 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 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 certainty 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 both significantly compromised. now gravely ill children in russia's regions like the chechen republic have been why fly after local facilities were upgraded previously receiving treatment for serious conditions such as kidney disease meant travelling to moscow something many families can't afford now though no equipment means vital medical care is within reach. it's been a year since he adopted

a baby girl died but lady said she still mourning she's always looking at the pictures of her girl when she was in hospital the only memory she has now that she was. she was in hospital but we think about all the time my mom is still crying. a little hard to get. seven months old marshall was brought to this hospital with acute kidney failure the doctors did dave best to save the goal but without 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 in 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 say 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 in the water i don't think it matters that these machines are not being used right now what really matters is that they're ready to accept patients and help them at least a little bit but you know. 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 whole kids they had a kidney problem and in the past their only chance for treatment was probably to go to law school that's providing their relatives had enough money but the russian government determination to decentralize specially care this unit is on their doorstep. they either visit or are seen in grozny. some world news in brief for you this hour a wave of violence in pakistan's largest city caracas to have left forty five dead

and almost one hundred injured fighting broke out after a government official and his bodyguard were shot dead inside a mosque in response wires torched dozens of sops and vehicles gunfire was also reported in the city it comes amid a spate of murders targeting political and religious activists as rival parties vying for power in the region. two lebanese soldiers have been shot dead in an exchange of fire with those really soldiers along the border a journalist was also killed in the clash shortly after the incident an israeli tank fire the shell which hit a house in a border village it's not clear if there were any casualties the rare clash occurred in a relatively peaceful area really troops trying to remove a tree from the lebanese side of the border. iran's main flexing its military muscles state t.v. show footage of fighter jets hitting targets during special drills becomes as the u.s. refuses to rule out a military strike to force

a wrong suspected nuclear weapons program iran claims its only pursuing peaceful nuclear energy. two men have been convicted of plotting to blow up fuel tanks at new york's j.f.k. airport. former. deer were convicted of multiple conspiracy charges the plotters were arrested in two thousand and seven after an informant infiltrated the plot and ordered them discussing it they could face life behind bars when sentenced in december. and severe storms have struck australia's east coast causing extensive damage to homes and businesses winds reaching up to one hundred kilometers an hour brought down power lines and trees across the region and tore the roof off a house in sydney was disrupted to over seventeen thousand homes and flights had to be rerouted while while there is forecast to ease over the next few days. charlotte now joins us with the latest from the world of business and good news out today

what can you tell us about the latest employment figures oh yes well unemployment in russia has fallen twenty one percent the first five months of this year which means the country has now reached pre-crisis levels and if the details later in the program but the russian government says it won't. nickel settle it but it's a shareholder dispute. i know like jerry pascoe is bidding to why i've already made proton in accusing him of bad management of the. town and on monday appointed an ally as president suggesting he's go nowhere a spokesman for the president to date it says he won't step in but does want a third party to follow the world's top nickel mines and end the crisis. russian real estate prices are on the rebound even though the global economy has yet to emerge from the financial crisis but do you know of course you never looks at the reasons behind the 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 their time. is about three times higher than it was two thousand in two thousand and nine. so we could say that's on the basis that of the growing. demand on the market could declare most of the developers could declare that the price up there rises soon in every single sector from economy parliaments to luxury homes here in this area for the school is where the city's most expensive apartment cases the skeleton price of just one square meter tops thirty thousand dollars but this is not the upper limb it's 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 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 might in the course not business r.t. wheat prices remain near their twenty two month highs as russia's drought continues to devastate fields prices soared by a fifth last week alone affecting global exports but the head of the russian grain union says prices aren't just five. from the four fundamental factors do not

support current grain prices last week we reached two hundred forty dollars per ton 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 so it's. time now see how the markets are before me and it's a mixed bag here in moscow with the r.t.s. just holding in the black for us telecom is among the main loses down over one percent as an els is testing of a new high speed network the call maker after a full sixty percent last month with almost top of the cash for clunkers program its share. in european shares are also retreating pulling back after a strong start to weaken money although earnings from b.m.w.

and deutsche post have held true with a forward to see it slipping zero point three percent in the red this hour. they were both slipped below the psychological benchmark of thirty dollars as the old price continues its shot rise this sting washes energex four to the ruble hit twenty nine point nine seven in cheese day trade after light sweet broke out of the seventy to eighty dollars bracket of the past three months to settle a eighty two dollars a barrel experts credit an unexpected increase in the u.s. oil supplies for the growth. chinese carmaker has completed its purchase of this really revolver from ford the deal which was announced earlier this year is estimated to be worth one point eight billion dollars the new owners plan to design a new range of premium car models to rival both a b.m.w. a mercedes benz. unemployment in russia dropped twenty one percent in the first

five months of this year compared to the same period in two thousand and nine the countries to to stick spiro overall start says the jobless drop means the country has now reached pre-crisis levels. and finally i phone maker apple is the world's most valuable brand according to a report by forbes magazine to give everything trademark is worth one trillion dollars beating rival was into second place a third of the list of fifty other tech 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 of that. and that's your update for now but you can always buy more stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business. wealthy

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