fighting squads with high tech equipment that we only recently began introducing for use by fire fighters aircraft have proven to be efficient and we will continue using them but the situation is complicated we are dealing with a half meter tick layer of pine drawee needles that have accumulated over several years as state of emergency has been called in seven russian regions we've seen over forty people killed so far in these and these fires across the country more than three hundred injured and two thousand homes so approximately have been 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 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 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 blood in 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 temper shelters need to be set up 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 they say to this tragedy president made yet if is also praised the response of the the me a 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 saying to the international community of russia's 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 because of course situation we currently in. the smoke which coming off the sphere of these fuzz 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 of wind storming 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 midday part of the smoke over mosco 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 a mask 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 pay 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 those are the key in the number of cases that are called must go. it's now been

training praying for 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 now and so far however and weather forecasts saying that the temperature in moscow is going to increase even 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 salman has just burned a pizza. he's not on a novikov and the russian capital and peter all of the reporting from the moscow region they want fires are raging through russia have been making global headlines that president dmitry medvedev found journalists and grilling him on a completely different issue to me saying insults they were more interested in the twenty twelve presidential election and if that we all prime minister vladimir putin oboist who'll be running for the top job that is a little scary hostile. 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 medvedev it's more of a work trip apart from reading books from i pads planning fishing trips and doing yoga exercises he's keeping himself busy as usual he's holding a series of meetings here visiting olympic venues and he's made several important political announcements to many of the debate of his 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 commenting on his relations with putin the dative said that on one hand nothing's changed between them but on the other hand there are serious changes he added to the presidency transformed him and now these relations evolved into the relations of the current. resident former president unquote. very different are

expected to work and spend their holidays here in sochi throughout august 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 in the upcoming election and we will certainly keep you updated. and political analyst bob it says made various comments about the presidential election come as no surprise. a lot of political experts believe there were gentlemen very different called for a serious competition from the pericope politicians that we have now in russia will craft pretty limited electorates basically. just repeated what the legislation said about presidential elections so it was a nice way to avoid given the direct response but it's a slight change from what we have been hearing during the last two years of course

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're not important what is important is to have a predictable president sound one who would normally buy into 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 there are reduced. civil rights groups in israel are accusing the country's government of blatant racial discrimination they claim new laws specifically target arabs and ethnic minorities turning people's lives into a daily struggle assays politically in other words. they're just back from two in the states with a purchased music found sympathetic ears among jews and arabs they go by the name of dan or blood and they're the first i would be a 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 out of them for their 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 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 side two hundred ninety six instances of 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 and if this trend 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 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 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 the first priority is to keep their position in the coalition government is that this is the how. weak this will be in the us this government has no vision that's just not pieces of us being us and the dish it but. also how. these will it so she says but in its defense the same

israeli cabinet approved the largest economic development plan for arabs this industrial park is the brainchild of stiff the vet a jewish israeli millionaire who's joined hands with sharkey the former mayor of the largest arab city in israel nazareth. at the moment the arabs are not participating in industry. 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 of the 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 the other ball criminalizes 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 wrap on. our t.v. israel. let's now take a look at some other stories from around the world protesters and others have saved that temporary cost of the late president from being moved from outside of also the presidential palace the wooden cross was plays there following this millennium plane crash that killed. ninety five others president elect bernie slip komorowski had said he didn't want to really just symbol outside a government building but palace officials eventually relented saying the cross shouldn't become part of a political game. and it's really army officer three lebanese soldiers and a journalist have been killed and the 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 escalated into israeli tank helicopter and artillery strikes the united nations has urged both sides to show my. maximum

restraint to avoid a repeat of the bloody ball two thousand and six hezbollah has threatened to get involved if israeli troops attack lebanese forces again. there's been a surge of violence in iraq a car bomb has ripped through an outdoor market in the southern mainly shiite city of crude killing at least fifteen and wounding sixty in the capital suspected al-qaeda militants have shot dead five iraqi soldiers at a checkpoint in the west of baghdad and iraq a soldier and the policemen were also killed in a separate time in the city. thousands of protesters in indian administered kashmir have ignored police warnings they would be shot if they continue to defy iran because curfew as a result two people have been killed and one whom did in tuesday's demonstrations against indian rule news will be casualties brought more activists out into the streets pelting police vehicles and officers with well over eighty who have died in

weeks on the rest. in pakistan flood waters continue to deluge the country after devastating mountainous regions in the northwest hundreds leftovers and tired of trying to start a joslyn with police to get food handouts and when efforts to control the desperate crowd offices beat some people away with sticks the floods have claimed at least fifteen hundred lives and one hundred thousand people are a trace of disease. gravely ill children in russia's regions like the chancellor republic have been thrown a lifeline now to local facilities were upgraded previously receiving treatment for serious conditions such as kidney disease months travelling to something many families couldn't afford now though new equipment means vital medical care is within reach. it's been a year since he adopted a baby girl died but lisa is still mourning she's always looking at the pictures of her girl when she was in hospital the only memory she has know she was my only

child she was an angel we think about her all the time. my mama still crying. little student 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 goal but without the special equipment to purify the blood 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 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 beige and soon to help them at least a little bit. the children's hospital in the center of the church and 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 their only chance for treatment was probably 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. a very bizarre scene in grozny. the u.s. has imposed more new sanctions on iran americans than are banned from doing business with individuals and companies suspected of supporting terrorism on a new blacklist this comes after america's top military officer said that we can

refuse to allow the use of force if iran doesn't stop its uranium enrichment program tehran has dismissed the comment saying any such military action is doomed to fail moscow sounds it's hoping to see progress in negotiations with tehran russia's. bonsa to be divine sadly organizations resolutions exclude the said force against iran. we have again some experience from what happened in the context of iraq. when we're discussing iranian nuclear issue and even adopt sanctions resolutions on this matter as you remember we have very clear language in evident as aleutian and in the last resolution even clearer than in three previous resolutions on the fact that it has nothing to do with out any possibility even remotely of use of force against it out. from the british american security information council things the threat of war is by the u.s. military 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 ratcheting up the pressure on the iranians to to come to the negotiating table at a time when the americans are really tightening the screws with sanctions on iran the american military is not a. source of resources. clearly his his strategy has always been to to shift. the pressure from.

iraq to to afghanistan over time runs out it's now doing. and from all the controversy over iran's nuclear program we talked to influential russian n.p.c. brown but he does not know that just about.

thank you very much simone for your time but what a good day thanks for inviting me when you and your ass adopted new south so you know let's roll sanctions targeting iran's foreign trade banks and insurance companies and an intercept as russia has expressed its stronger position what move do you think. could satisfy russia idea of the goal firstly to support the list of sanctions approved by the u.n. and secondly for iran to have a more transparent nuclear program of course russia definitely doesn't want to run 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 u.n. 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 then 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 in this country how do you think it's because the eyes government able to control the situation without foreign support or it's because of the prose the couple of. 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. 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 their 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 afghanistan in fact stability in which and in

central asia are used. throughout 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 headed 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 nick august done in one thousand nine hundred nine and in his start in two thousand in july 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 of the southern regions of kurdistan are open to that part of. which borders on afghanistan and that border is also open so those who want to stage provocations and heat up the situation can easily attract militants of all hues so there were 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. 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 or 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 the secretary says. 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 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 four thousand army but the symbol should remain otherwise there is a question of what are they doing that for them let's now turn to another part of the planet north korea which can go into science between u.s. and south korean military 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 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 world economy slowly recovering in the economic growth in asia and especially china how big do you think is the genes for all politics today the third of the work i went to china 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 with a powerful economy and be ready for a show of strength to thank you very much simone for talking to us.

for bush. always by one vote for kerry but for kerry so the people that are going to be validating this machine can stand there all day long and vote for somebody and it will be right every time but the guy can walk up here and if he hits the right buttons. they can flip the vote that.

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and insight. and a split nation the civil rights groups accuse the israeli government of the day to discrimination saying you know was this specifically targeted our of ethnic minorities turning their lives into a daily struggle for survival. and cranking up the pressure the glass has a prize new sanctions against iran after a weekend warning that. it's remains an option if iran doesn't stop its uranium enrichment program but russia says currently through our sanctions and resolutions on iran don't know what i'm trained. up next vote rigging scandal in the two hours that turned into a magic mistry that's our special report right now here on scene. in fact in the states that had electronic voting the numbers didn't match at all with the exit polling but in states where they had paper do you know exit polls and the

final results were almost perfect and i have no doubt john kerry won the election in ohio ok now john kerry won the election in ohio john kerry would we be as a certain decided that those exit polls were so far off. just didn't happen something else happened so the yang folks. harassing maybe are getting d.o.t. to harass maybe a plant is fired at ten in the morning i'm tired at like two to thirty that afternoon and senators investigating this company instead of putting a putting the brakes on what's going on they're actually writing letters of recommendation for that company wrecked yang correct and saying that you're removed correct tom finis fingerprints are all over this now yes literal fingerprints literal fingerprints i mean read the public record read the public record i don't want anyone to take my word for anything brad get the documents and read the record

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