i just flares up or any instant and i can probably see behind me the air is very very thick with smoke as i'm talking to very difficult not to cough in fact it's so thick i can taste the smoke it's next burning my eyes and it's actually so thick that i can even look into the sun for a number of seconds directly there aren't any clouds the smoke was in here to be blue sky but it's that big it's very very gray and you can and is forming a sort of veil over the sun the can actually stand straight into the sun this is one of seventeen regions across the country where far as a last ill raging in total this is gesture is from satellite imagery this morning there and there are eight hundred fires still raging across the country the emergency ministry has got a hundred and fifty thousand workers trying their best to put out these flames and trying to contain the fires there are troops from ministry of defense and the interior ministry as well as firefighters and even volunteers they yesterday that they did succeed in preventing further flames reaching three hundred villages and

towns across the country but in some cases the fires are in fact just out of control they just flare up so quickly they're impossible to contain and that's meant that in the last seven days forty eight people have died as a result of these fires and also two thousand or so homes have been destroyed and people have lost all their belongings and for more on that because i want to report on my colleague in a fake last year. when darkness dawns hours ahead of schedule. although it's already been five days since fires incinerated this village ash clouds are still so thick they block out the sun. firemen continue to keep patrol as yet more flames break out but for a good in their efforts don't matter anymore those put it all through the give my daughter ran up and said a bus is waiting and everyone's being evacuated we already had our bags packed my wife walked around the capital with a religious icon asking for protection but even the bombs have vanished from

a wall of flames up to three hundred meters wide was more than the firemen could handle all but a few of the one hundred houses were totally destroyed. everything even had built up and thirty years living here the family home their daughter's house their cattle even their dogs all lost to the flames but amidst the scenes of utter destruction a glimpse of hope and honor. for. just fifteen kilometers away another village lays in the path of the flames its people are worried the same fate awaits them we speak yes but only for certain for you. the men have to get it should be tracked has spent years everywhere we don't know where to expect a fire from neighbors informing those about anything but for those whose battle

with the fires ended in defeat temporary shelters are being found part of the evacuated were taken here and an old school building they say is received as often as four times a day although that's still not enough for the most basic things are much needed and there were pillows to warm clothes back in moscow volunteers assemble what help they can they see there's enough supplies the problem is delivering it's a huge problem says transportation because we don't have cars of our own but we've flames already appearing on the highway how we to the villages finding and car could prove a lot easier than actually getting there two or three across a party central russia early this morning is visibility was down to around fifty meters even looking up at the tall buildings which even on the top of it well the city's you couldn't even see the tops and the smoke was really that big but it often went from bad to worse driving out here one hundred kilometers south of the city really to get even as the day went on the sun rose up and still even

got darker almost because of driving on with the headlines visibility was that poor actually and you have no idea it was actually just past midday here is that dark and claiming here is more like our school early dawn is very very strange and it seems that it could be going from bad to worse as well this weekend because in the situation in the areas worst hit high high temperatures around forty degree celsius are forecast this weekend so it doesn't seem to be any let up on the wildfires because they forecast the emergency. minister sergei she says they could potentially have far more wildfires this weekend as well and muscovites are being warned by health experts to wear takes of mosques across their nose and mouth to prevent them breathing in the smoke because you can actually taste it is that bacon is a horrible acrid smell and taste and it's very very bad few the pollution in moscow health experts say seven times seven times higher than normal so it's very very bad

people and if you spend more than one or two hours outside of the time it is the equivalent of smoking two packs of cigarettes and just being outside here talking to you the last five minutes my voice has become very very hoarse from all the smoke in the air. iran is denying reports that an attempts been made on president ahmadinejad's life and news website have reported that a hand grenade was detonated as his convoy was travelling to the hama province which is a couple of hundred kilometers west of tehran the online story said ahmadinejad wasn't injured and that the blast happened one hundred meters from the president's car but state t.v. is saying no such attack took place with confusion being caused by an exploding fire we are you more details as we get them meanwhile iran is facing more u.s. sanctions with a blacklist of groups being linked to terrorism earlier america's top military officer said armed force isn't being ruled out if you're wrong doesn't and you raney an enrichment are more important i has more from new york. well the united

states treasury department did announce additional sanctions against twenty one iranian entities entities that u.s. officials say and accuse of aiding groups such as hezbollah hamas and the taliban now these u.s. sanctions are targeting iranian companies in the banking insurance investment mining and engineering sector americans or u.s. companies are now in a bid from doing any business from from those entities that are now being sanctioned by the u.s. treasury department and all of this is coming just a few days after the u.s. joint chiefs of staff michael mullen said that the option to strike iran a plan to strike iran is still on the table and it's an option that's ultimately up to u.s. president barack obama that subject to come up at the united nations when i ambassador vitaly churkin the russian representative to the united nations held

a press conference as russia assumes the presidency of the security council now why the issue of a potential strike did come up were discussing iran in the mounting sanctions that have been placed on iran by the international community ambassador churkin also noted that all of the u.n. resolutions that include sanctions against iran do not include any text that allows the use of force to be used against iran under any circumstances let's take a listen when we discuss iranian nuclear issue and even the resolutions that on this matter as you remember we have very clear language in there that is illusion and in the last resolution even clearer than the previous resolutions. for it has nothing to do with any possibility. the use of force against a brazilian president lula da silva. was among the first world leaders to react to

u.s. sanctions against iran saying that they will not help but possibly hurt from engaging iran in bringing iran back to the negotiating table specifically what it cost to do with the nuclear fuel swap program that was proposed by turkey and brazil program that is gaining support among the international community and it is something that the president of brazil says that the u.s. could be deterring with these amalgamating sanctions that are being done unilaterally outside of the united nations. the israeli prime minister's plan to relocate west bank palestinians to jordan is not surprisingly finding few supporters in the neighboring arab state later we hear from a leading jordanian lawmaker about why the move could destabilize the region already fragile peace. is really a very negative development and we completely reject this decision

and oppose it you cannot definitively uproot people from their land and throw them anywhere else in the world and expect to have peace with them or their representatives this just doesn't happen. we would like all of these you know the steps to stop immediately because they are very dangerous to the peace. and they will definitely repeat the efforts. and you can catch the rest of our to his interview with dr knot in twenty minutes time now india is one of the world's fastest growing and most powerful economies but the workforce of tomorrow could prove to be an achilles heel millions of children are growing up a little rich there's compulsory free education but as cotton sing explains going to class can also mean going without food. when he does not go to school his

parents simply cannot afford to send him he is one of a million children in india facing the same predicament even though the government has made education free and compulsory for children under fourteen the family cannot lose the income he makes as a rag picker all of the second act have we have no money to teach our children the government doesn't give us a livelihood so the children have to help our family support itself we spend the day trying to get food to eat how can we educate our children. even if money got access to education this is what mike will greet him not a classroom in sight in rural india government schools often exist only on paper they may be registered but there may be no buildings or teachers. who have no books here the children have no books to write on there are no pencil. you can see the

state of the board it's very difficult teaching this way. this means many who are dense barely able to read and write for instance. the recite the alphabet. after. b. e r. t and and and to be fair. seven out of ten children in delhi drop out by the time they turn fourteen when many schools. too i mean especially municipal schools because i had the answers on the board so there's no question of anybody feeling it doesn't matter if you understand all the understand so the tell us to read classics and we took me on able to cope to go into this started a group to provide educational support in underprivileged areas project y.

helps seven hundred students from delhi slums who are looking to supplement their government provided education thirteen year old girl who likes mathematics and wants to be a banker when she grows up. i learn more here than in my school first of all there the kids make a lot of noise so you can't hear anything and also the school teacher doesn't explain things clear i can ask my tutor many things but in school before the teacher can explain the class is over and the teacher vanishes. and india is one of the youngest countries in the world with over half its population under twenty five while this may provide a workforce with an edge over countries with aging populations access to education will be needed for all indian children for the country to continue its economic growth story got and seeing r.t. new delhi. had online for more of what we're covering here let's take a look at what else you'll find online right now at r.t.

dot com the death penalty debate bang. in the american spotlight the first woman in five years places. and a lifeline for sick children opened. a new kidney center means patients from brussels caucuses will no longer have to make an expensive trip to moscow now one treatment get the details plus much more at. the white house is playing down comments from pakistan's president that u.s. led forces have a regular loss to the taliban because they failed to win over the afghan people are his military analysts to get a clue shelve says it's washington's obsession with pakistan and its intelligence agency that's now spreading violence in neighboring afghanistan according to a conventional wisdom the main reason for u.s. casualties in afghanistan are the improvised explosive devices reach over old kill

more than seventy percent of the u.s. forces in afghanistan but when you do believe will further you realize that actually the main culprit is not the taliban or any insurgents weaponry conventional or otherwise it is american policy in pakistan it's due to american addiction to pakistan especially a cia covert cooperation. that curried both instability and violence in pakistan itself and in afghanistan the cia hidden agenda which is driven by political expediency creates their whole style environment and kills american soldiers and marines ghana's their. that's there from our military analyst. now it's coming up to eighteen minutes past the hour

this took a look at some other international news b.p. says that latest attempt to plug the leaking oil well in the gulf of mexico has been successful the static kill process uses freshly formulated mud to push the oil back down into the reservoir b.p. hopes it's a permanent fix but won't know until the relief well is drilled later this month five million barrels of oil are thought to have escaped so far. two lebanese soldiers and one israeli army officer have been killed following a brief but deadly firefight tensions remain high following the worst border incidents since the two countries were at war in two thousand and six lebanon claimed its troops opened fire after israeli soldiers illegally entered its territory but u.n. peacekeepers have confirmed that israel's troops were on their own side of the border removing a tree. and all across the kenya people are taking to the polls to vote on a new constitution the changes would put long awaited limits on presidential powers and would introduce new laws on demand ownership current president is calling the

referendum defining moment for his country it's the first nationwide voting since december two thousand and seven when over a thousand people were killed in violence following disputed election results. now the donkey about was sent parasailing above a russian beach in a cruel p.r. stunt is ready for her new life and now got worldwide sympathy for her ordeal and is now undergoing some high level rehab she's now at the kremlin school of riding near moscow from where tom barton reports. arrived at best to describe it probably a horse equivalent of a five star hotel so she was let inside and she seemed very happy and calm and she's now going to have a moment of massive luxury she's going to have. a special oils is going up especially her pale. diet plan to help build up a strength and regular exercise all provided for by the staff here at the kremlin

riding school she's going to have a very very pump a time indeed it was last month middle of last month when a group of guys on a beach in the south of russia decided they'd try to p.r. stunt they decided that they would attach a donkey and up to the parachute and went in that because sailed up into the air with very distressed braze the people on the beach called local media the people responsible now are under investigation there's been a huge amounts of international attention by animal rights groups and also for example the actor actress brigitte bardot contacted supposedly the president himself to be there to ask the donkey was better cared for another rumor is that the coach of tottenham hotspur football club in britain harry redknapp is supposed to be very very interested in buying another car and bringing her to

a new animal site true that he wants to build in britain we've talked to one of the people who helped organize not because moved here from the sun newspaper in britain has been building up use russian donkeys story which crossed all borders and we felt we had to commotion and do something so we travelled to southern russia and we were able to purchase and up to the top and bring her here to moscow and we're going to take from people here at the school most part would be in and out of his best interests they are the experts we take their advice and guidance on the situation so whatever is in store for an up to after that month for the moment this month she can just rest at ease. now ten minutes time here in r t the tiny arab state playing a big. role in the delicate peace process first the business news with danielle stay with us.

welcome to business the ruble is enjoying a resurgence against the dollar on the back of the rising oil price which is trading at a three month high the russian currency is now holding below the psychologically important level of thirty to the dollar of the general weakness of the us currency is having a negative impact on the equity markets particularly in japan where the yen has risen to a fifteen year high let's take a look at numbers. like cathay pacific says first off profit rose eight fold make a toyota troop back into the black for the april to june quarter despite those problems with product recalls but tokyo shares slumped in the final few hours of trade there as the yen soared against the dollar. exchanges are continuing to slip in the off the little negative world sentiment all the blue chips are down lead by gazprom over one percent lower on the r.t.s. there's also profit taking going on as investors cash in recent games. europe's on the slide as well after some weak reports from lenders allied irish is down more

than five percent of the first twelve losses widen to one point seven billion euro standard chartered issued a cautious forecast sending its shares sliding in london but lloyd's is off almost two percent after announcing pretax profit of two and a half billion dollars for the first half. and local economic news russia's central bank increased sales of forms to a record thirty four billion dollars that's a five fold from a year ago state uses the bombs to remove rubles from the market and control the exchange rate policy help curb inflation to a twelve year low of five point eight percent in june. and record temperatures of services sector to its lowest growth since february orders for industries like banking and transport fell for the first time in four months in july businesses reported workers have become. less productive and blame the heat to two more and more going on with russia's economy i'm joined here in the studio by vitaly by can

of dog work up to markets your vitaly the hobby is going to be severely damaging in the worst drought for a century to see this feeding through into high food prices and inflation. well we haven't seen the high temperatures. the effect of high temperatures. filtering into into inflation at. the last date which we have. to point to weekly inflation of point one percent which is similar to what we've seen in previous weeks. but at the same time i think that a certain exploration is likely in coming months in coming weeks so when interest rates is on the cards. probably i would say it's so hard it's so far difficult to say whether we are going to see a significant acceleration in inflation i think there will be other factors for

example it may be bad for some crops like grain but it may be at the same time good for other crops like corn and it may be contra balanced the heat wave is predicted to continue for the next week at least what are the economic consequences do you see if it continues. and there may be some consequences like people will do less shopping or it may affect industrial production as well i think it will be minor it will it will not be a significant rubles holding below thirty to the dollar as we've heard do you see the greenbacks weakness is creating problems for russian companies yeah in some in some way we should expect these to be a negative impact for. industrial production of four manufacturers but at the same time it will be good for. the companies which rely on domestic demand like consumer companies retailers and you retail experts much of russia's recovery

is supposed to be consumer driven always seeing that happening do we see the economies being driven by consumers and retail or is it still the old oil and gas sector as well we. in the beginning of the of the recovery we we've seen that. the recovery was driving driven mainly by by external factors and now it's turning out to be more and more of domestic demand driven economy one a big day for the economy of italy by can from a dollar work up to markets europe thank you. billionaire visitor of a proton in could turn the tables on knowledge their past came out of mining joy norilsk nickel yesterday we reported how their past could be good for patani blocking stake in the world's top nickel producer accusing him of bad management

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sheraton hotel. collection. the main. ship. question are to you live from moscow where it's two thirty pm our top stories raging forest and peat fires continue to sweep in central russia as the park's landscape drying out in the record breaking heat wave as fire crews struggle to contain the blaze this thick smoke is still spreading across the capital causing breathing difficulties for many. iran through nine reports of an assassination

attempt on president ahmadinejad a local news website have reported that a hand grenade was detonated a hundred meters from the leader's car meanwhile to obama's facing further u.s. sanctions as terror linked groups are blacklisted. and india could be compromising its future development as one of the world's fastest growing economies despite the contras compulsory free education and many poverty stricken children forced to skip school to make ends meet. jordan may be geographically small but its role in the ever shifting and fragile struggle for middle east peace is vital the slayer has been asking a leading jordanian lawmaker why any moves the country makes can cause bigger waves elsewhere. let me i have. the jordanian government spokesperson also the minister for media

affairs and communication dr thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. you're most welcome jordan was criticized last year by reporters without borders for closing down two satellite stations in our region is there a fear that iranian influence could destabilize the kingdom first of all let me. correct the premise of the question but we did not close down any. stations what happened actually was that the correspondent. correspondents of these stations. were working without proper permits. and. we. asked them to apply and. of course i think. one of the matter is did not apply there of course conditions in order to be able to do.