it's complicated we're dealing with a half metre tick layer of pine drawee needles that have accumulated over several years both a state of emergency has been called in seven russian regions we've seen over forty people killed so far in these in these fires across the country more than three hundred injured and two thousand homes approximately of being destroyed by the fire is plenty being done by the government actually the house just behind me i was talking to some locals it actually caught fire on thursday and 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 of gone ten meters underground are still burning that well for those people that have lost their homes and and vast amount of cases all of their belongings and everything flooded me approaching the prime minister has pledged one hundred thousand dollars to each of those people who tonight who had died who had that happen to them and they are expecting to see that money next week now also there's

been a lot of shelters temperature does need to be sent up for people who've 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 made yet if is also praised the response of the the me a quarter of a million people in russia who've been trying to put these fires out but not only here in russia he's also saying to the international community rushes neighbors we've also chipped in with help to try and tackle these places across the country. of course with thankful for all the aid our partners have all food we appreciate this especially taking into account which of course situation we currently in. the smoke which coming off the east 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 saw on your eyes but this three wins

a round 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 they're blowing it north into moscow itself and causing terrible problems with smoke there from all that we can now hear across to natalia nova scotia who's in the center of the city there have been quite a few strong flows a wind storm in through moscow today and everyone hoped that they would bring rain but they only brought more smoke smoke from outside the city now the nights are the worst by about meat day part of the smoke over most go disowns but the more in the mornings the visibility in the cities a very close to zero but this problem is of course twofold first of all is the fresh air right now air in moscow is very heavy it's very and the smoke is so thick that sometimes it actually burns your eyes and ecologists are saying that they 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 small school for just a couple of hours it will be equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes some people prefer to wear masks to protect themselves from this poison a small there's also problems with buying ery 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 visit the key in the number of cases of cold moscow it's have been freed 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 non so far. however and weather forecast saying

that the temperature a musket is going to increase even further and reach a point over forty degrees so if you are in moscow right now here it feels like you've been put into a novel where stellman has just burned a pizza exquisitely put. over there in the center of the russian capital. from the moscow reachable those wildfires raging across russia are making headlines around the world and the handling of the disaster is of prime concern for the country's leaders but that. wasn't on the minds of journalists when they were allowed to cruise to retrieve inventive they're more interested in what set to happen in the presidential elections in twenty twelve. story. even though sochi is a nice place for spending summer vacations as you can see there is no small here like in the russian capital and luckily there are no forest fires but it seems that for president made it if it's more of a work trip apart from reading books from i pad planning fishing trips and doing yoga exercises he's keeping himself busy as usual he's holding

a series of meetings here visiting the limbic venues and he's made several important political announcements and to many admit it gives words came as a surprise when he's shared with journalists his thoughts on the upcoming presidential election in two thousand and twelve although he said he wouldn't do like to see a clash between powerful figures with similar aims he said he doesn't know who will run here's the quote it may be may divert if it may be putin it may be somebody else and words commenting on his relations with putin and medvedev said that on one hand nothing's changed between them but on the other hand there are serious changes he added that the presidency transformed him and a now these relations evolved into the relations of the current president with the former president unquote know both very different what the near putin are expected to work and spend their holidays here in sochi throughout all ghost also the even go fishing together of course if forest fires in central russia should be contained in the coming weeks but in any

case we may expect some new developments when it comes to politics and the upcoming election and we will certainly keep you updated. say well and thoughts about that from political analysts from the ria novosti news agency to me to babbitt who spoke to us he said various comments about the presidential election come as no surprise . a lot of political experts believe their. video called free serious competition from the pair of politicians that we have now in russia will have pretty limited electorates basically. just repeated what the legislation said about presidential elections so it was a nice way to avoid given a direct response but it's a slight change from what we have been hearing during the last two years because in the last two years was putin and medvedev were basically mostly talking about themselves with the person that are not important here indeed they are not

important what is important is to have a predictable president sound one who would not buy into your 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 now are very realistic sometimes they are too realistic to be true babbage there and had this our new hopes for the church and parents. children are brought here if they had a kidney problem and in the past their chance for treatment before we could get to a mosque if that's right in their relatives had enough money r t visits a much needed facility for treating children with kidney problems in the north caucuses. before that israeli arabs have long said they treated as second class citizens in their own country but now civil rights groups claim the current government of the jewish state's 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 dan 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 money saying. they want to take the out of them for their loud and people elected them so it's not the government there but i mean this 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. proposals for laws 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 history and continues its bills disaster for the state of israel already at least twenty one bills that arab citizens insist just combinator against them have been passed the most recent prospective citizens now have to swear allegiance to a jewish and democratic state but changing the whole discourse in israel now into one in which the sumption 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 arab 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 part. it is to keep the

position in the coalition government if this is the how. is this real idea that this government has lost this year that's just not pieces of business so that this shit but also has this 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 vet a jewish israeli millionaire who's joined hands with shockey 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 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 anytime soon and the music will wrap on policy r.t. israel. the us has imposed more new sanctions on iran americans are now banned from doing business with a blacklist of individuals and companies suspected of supporting terrorism russia says it's hoping to see progress in negotiations with why the brazilian president lula da silva stated that sanctions are not the right solution for the nuclear issue america's top military officer at the weekend refused to rule out the use of armed forces around doesn't stop with the rain even richmond program to run has dismissed the comments many times saying any such military action is doomed to fail i spoke to on painkillers from the british american security information council.

he told me this is just another ploy to build up pressure on the islamic republic. i think the whole point of what i've. said over the weekend was to tell the iranians that actually the americans mean business otherwise i think if you look at the timeline we're not talking about any kind of military action any time soon i mean you have to look at how long is it going to take it around to actually get to the threshold of having a deliverable nuclear weapon and we're actually talking anything between three to five years so the talk of the military action i think is really aimed at taking up the pressure on the iranians to come to the negotiating table there's a time when the americans are really tightening the screws with sanctions on around the american military and this source of resources. clearly his his strategy has always been to to shift the.

pressure from. iraq to to afghanistan over time. doing. we've got more comments about the controversy over iran's nuclear program coming up soon in our interview with an influential russian politician that's fifty minutes time of the program. look some. protesters in poland have saved a temporary cross to the late president from being moved from outside warsaw's presidential palace the wooden cross was placed there after the small and plane crash that killed the kaczynski and ninety five others president elect. said that he didn't want a religious symbol outside a government building but palace officials eventually relented saying the cross shouldn't become part of a political game. and israeli army officer three lebanese soldiers and a journalist had been killed in an exchange of fire between troops on the israeli lebanon border the clash appears to have been sparked when israeli soldiers tried

to cut down a tree along the frontier fence gunfire then escalated into israeli tank helicopter and artillery strikes the united nations urged both sides to show restraint to avoid a repeat of the bloody war of two thousand and six hezbollah threatened to get involved if israeli troops attacked lebanese forces again to iraq. another surge of violence this time a car bomb has ripped through an outdoor market in the southern city of cook killing at least fifty and wounding sixty in the capital suspected al qaeda militants who shot dead five iraqi soldiers at the checkpoint in the west of baghdad and an iraqi soldier and a policeman were also killed in separate attacks elsewhere in the city. thousands of protesters in indian administered kashmir of ignored police warnings they'd be shot if they continue to defy around the clock curfew as a result two people have been killed and one rooted in tuesday's demonstrations against indian rule news of the casualties brought more activists are going to the

streets pelting police vehicles and officers with rocks over forty people died in the civil unrest updating on the floods in pakistan the nerve surging into the country's heartland together stating after devastating the mountainous west region hundreds have been left homeless and she shouted and they were just going with police to get food handouts they know how to control the crowd. greet some people with sticks the floods have claimed at least fifteen hundred lives and one hundred thousand at risk of disease. gravely ill children in russia's regions like the chechen republic of being thrown a lifeline after local facilities have been upgraded previously receiving treatment for serious conditions like kidney disease meant travelling all the way to moscow and that was something that many families just couldn't afford now though new equipment needs vital medical care is within reach it's been a year since her adopted baby girl died but lady sick is still mourning she's

always looking at the pictures of her girl when she was in hospital all in then russia has now she was my only child she was in one charm and that's what we think about her all the time my mom still crying. certainly hard to forget such a challenge seven months old marshall was brought to this hospital with acute kidney failure the doctors did their best to save the girl 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 due suffering from green or failure until the moment they'll be able to find a donor kidney the last patient was treated here for two months before going to

more school for transplant and there was i don't think it matters that these machines are not being used right now what really matters is that they really do accept 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 all south look 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. about one of our top stories tension over iran's nuclear program the u.s. has imposed new sanctions are for a weekend warning that military force remains an option against iran if to round

doesn't stop with the red even richmond program and russia for its part says its important dialogue continues between iran and the west influential russian m.p. somebody gave us his views on r.t. not in turmoil as i previously you can hear that right now on this channel channel news.

thank you very much simone for your time but what a good day thanks for inviting me the you and your ass adopted new sound so let's roll sanctions targeting iran's foreign trade banks and insurance companies and an interceptor is russia has expressed as strong a position what moved you think. could satisfy russia of the first lady to support the list of sanctions approved by the un and secondly for iran to have a more transparent nuclear program of course russia definitely doesn't want to wrong to have nuclear weapons objective lee there isn't enough transparency in many aspects on their part of this was one of the reasons that russia supported un sanctions but they expanded the sanctions prohibiting supplies of fuels and lubricants to iran i believe it was a wrong move in relation to our country great britain and us say within a year they'll start withdrawing their troops from afghanistan despite almost there are reports of attacks there an increasing number of victims and this country how

do you think is government able to control the situation without foreign inching support or. it's obvious that cause i's administration is a puppet government managed by. occupation forces this administration is corrupted and isn't supported by the local population as for the withdrawal two dates were set july twenty levon and the end of twenty fourteen initially those dates were determined after president obama's so-called afghan strategic policy was announced it included several points such as increasing the presence of u.s. armed forces and that allies such as the u.k. in afghanistan implementing programs for winning members of taliban over to their side and building up afghan forces we see today however that these programs aren't working how does the situation in afghanistan in fact stability in which and in central asia. there are two factors which strongly affect the situation in the

region drug trafficking in terrorism in october two thousand and nine the united nation states in a very professional and comprehensive report absolutely clearly that at the time u.s. troops went to afghanistan no drugs were cultivated in the taliban controlled areas and absolute record in this respect eight thousand two hundred tons was set in two thousand and seven after the u.s. troops had rived in afghanistan no comment here terrorism well before the u.s. troops came to afghanistan we had absolutely no trustworthy information about the taliban participation in raids in the territories of central asian states nic august than in one thousand nine hundred nine and in spec is start in two thousand in july and august on another central asian country was hit by massive ethnic clashes with hundred stat is there any danger that we could could see a repeat. of the british not you know back in april i warned about this kind of

scenario for southern coast to start first of all the situation in southern kyrgyzstan had been intensively destabilized second into ethnic tensions are also high in that region the southern regions of kurdistan are open to that part of. which borders on afghanistan and that poor. is also open so those who want to stage provocations and heat up the situation can easily attract militants of all hues so they will all preconditions for the outbreak of violence but the world community was pretty much passive now we're talking about a death toll of two thousand and huge number of injured simply percent of all sharon says have been destroyed the worst is that the preconditions for further tension remain does days ago thousands of secret pentagon documents were leaked to the public why it happened to think. obviously there are political groups who raise the question of the ineffectiveness of u.s. troops intelligence and other services in afghanistan and right now they

deliberately dwelling on the war in afghanistan in detail to explain that it's useless they've spent over four hundred billion dollars one american soldier costs one million dollars a year so they spend one hundred billion dollars directly on soldiers apart from other expenses which are high as well and the result is actually nothing that probably us secretary says. about us if so why hasn't he been captured or killed. bin laden he's a person who knows a lot he closely worked together with the cia with saudi arabian intelligence he was acquainted with the head of saudi arabian intelligence that cetera he might be so that somebody is interested in his presence in a certain place americans say that 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 armed u.s. personnel and according to our information they are no more than one hundred people perhaps even less if you understand what this means when there are one hundred or three hundred terrorists against the one hundred fifty thousand army but the symbol . should remain otherwise there's a question what are they doing that. let's now turn to another part of the planet north korea which can go into science between the u.s. and south korean mentor forces and has threatened to respond how do you think how dangerous is the situation on the korean peninsula so you have a. north korea would have been destroyed long ago if they did not have ten or twelve warheads nobody knows whether they have them or not for sure but it's enough for military containment for by south korea and america that's why they're holding the exercise that i know little about the north korean regime but i definitely know that it's very archaic and dangerous it's sort of

a mixture of the middle ages with a pseudo marxist slogans this regime is dangerous for the entire world in my opinion that's the regime we should take all kinds of sanctions against the wall the qana mean slowly recovering in a state due to the economic growth in asia and especially in china how big do you think is the jeans role politics today the third of the work i want to go to china is said to be the locomotive for the world economy this is why there are a lot of things that depend on china politically i think the chinese are aimed at strengthening their economic might they're pursuing a very aggressive economic policy everywhere we say that china is our strategic partner and it is one but in relation to that we should also have powerful armed forces of our own with a powerful economy and be ready for a show of strength to thank you very much simone for talking to us.

one of the key elements of democracy which is so uncomfortable for me i thought. who pays for the news. how dependent is this in the. in the media. and who is behind the t.v. story. george media fiction and reality on august. twelfth the british style stock. market. has come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with my stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to cause

a report. if . soon which brightened. soon from funds to christians. from stocks on t.v. dot com. this is a good of a reversal good to have it with a small set headline up at meetings or. first off the a five story on the front lawn the emergency services joining forces with the military battling the advancing forest fires in central russia and sending people to press the can as the searing

heat wave shows no sign of abating. jewish homeland israel's government stands accused of blatant racism and passing discriminatory laws. and cranking up the pressure of the us is impose new sanctions against a rationale for. the weekend warning that military force remains an option if to doesn't stop or to break even richmond program russia says it's hoping to see progress in negotiations. this is r.t. from moscow next financial experts mix kaiser and stacy her to delve into box office manipulation in china and wonder where nine billion dollars missing in iraq has vanished to the latest edition of the cards report the team with you just about . hungry for the. we've gone to. the biggest issues get the cuban voice ceased to face with the news makers.

kaiser and this is of course the kaiser report markets finance and scandals and the collapse of the global economy we've been reporting on it now for a number of months as the global deflationary spiral takes its toll stacey herbert what else have you got max there is a story we've been following for quite a while and that is box office the futures now you alleged that the reason why they shouldn't happen is that one of the reasons is that producers and studios could manipulate box office results well in my headline from china fang gang shoots down rumors of false box office for aftershock this is the translation from the chinese have been you're seeing there despite the film's critical and commercial success there.