spring up just in the last twenty four hours the situation is still very very critical conversation has actually already started to filter through to those who have lost their belongings and there are some of us affected around three and a half of thousand people across the country two thousand homes approximately have been wiped out earlier this off they went to a nearby village here where they did actually manage to fend off the fire without the help of precept professional firefighting crews they managed to keep the flames at bay just twenty meters from the buildings one time very few of them there was a line of fire from the forest it was like a wave traveling with great force i went through water and when i came back it was close lots of black smoke everybody ran to the crops and to the fields the fire was coming closer and closer and then when we realized that we could get bent brackets in spades and tried to put it out later the firemen came with water pipes and mostly we put it out we didn't want to let the fire spread the fires have

been very very quick to spread and caught many villages unexpected and burnt down the whole house is all to the ground and as i say three and a half thousand people have been affected by that two thousand houses have been destroyed by these fires. when darkness falls 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 and. fire me continue to keep patrol as yet more flames break out but for a good read in their efforts don't matter anymore. but it will serve the good while my daughter ran up and said a bus is waiting and everyone's being evacuated we already had our bags packed my wife walks around the capital with a religious icon asking for protection but even the bombs have vanished. 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 in 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 around are. full. up . just fifteen kilometers away another village lays in the path of the flames its people are worried the same fate awaits them and we speak yes but only a certain flamer on our iron the man of took it to chuck to. we don't know where to expect a fire from that neighbor is informing us 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 it is received as

often as four times a day although that's still not enough and most basic things are much needed underwear to pillows to warm clothes back in moscow volunteers assemble what help they can they say 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 sweet to the villages finding and car could prove a lot easier than actually getting there too if they cross party central russia. but meantime is made of has instructed the russian government to draft a new list of facilities which could pose a fire risk the president says officials who aren't doing enough to prevent places from spreading will face punishment on an overcomer followed his meeting with government in moscow. russian president came from his summer residence to hold a serious of emergency meetings in kremlin regarding the problem of far fighting he

wants to involve as many structures in this far fighting is as possible course during the meeting they just got to how to help people who lost their homes or their lives in this in these forests as well as how to stop the forests around moscow and in washington all right now and of course how to prevent those fires from spreading onto strategic objects in russia such as a military bases or nuclear plants for example you smothered in the studio but it would look. i've ordered the ministry of defense to fight the fires but the ministry can't always even protect itself a large fires broken out in the most cool regions with heavy consequences someone was asleep on the job the fire that was spreading slowly was not contained and the heads of the local military base were nowhere to be found i'm sacking five high ranking officers and ordering the ministry to fire more if anything of this sort takes place again i will take the same steps without any rift. so while talking

about how to help people watching the president has also talked about how to punish those who are responsible for some of the lies that could have been saved but didn't several. cases have already been filed against those local authorities working on the spots who according to russian president worked in effectively and who could have prevented some fires but didn't and meanwhile here in moscow the situation it looks like it's getting worse this night has brought a lot more smog in the city and as you can see behind me right now it is very difficult to even see kremlin because of the city's centuries covered in small. reporting there. your authority live from moscow still ahead for you we report on what's in store next for the power selling donkey and she settled into a five star luxury in the kremlin stables to help her forget her nightmare ordeal.

president mahmoud ahmadinejad was the target alpha an assassination attempt earlier reports claimed a grenade was thrown at his convoy in the west of the country the claims comment a time of increasing pressure on iran just days ago a top u.s. military official said washington's ready to launch a military strike against the country if needed also tighten the sanctions already in place by expanding the blacklist of iranian groups and companies suspected of having terrorist links but as our reports these latest restrictions haven't won universal support in the world. while the united states treasury department did i denounce 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 bit from doing any business 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 did come up at the united nations when. the russian representative to the united nations to held a press conference. russia assumes the presidency of the security council now why the issue of a potential strike did come up when discussing iran and the mounting sanctions that have been placed on iran by the international community ambassador churkin also noted that all of the un resolutions that include sanctions against iran do not

include any text that allow 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 on this matter as you remember we have very clear language in there that is aleutian in the last resolution even clearer than in three previous resolutions. it has nothing to do with any possibility. will use a force against them 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 saying sions that are being done unilaterally outside of the united nations. important i ever party mare from new york and still to come for you this hour. isn't easy as it used to be. for some school students in india even resigning the powerful bit tough nut to crack find out why they're not the ones. now the donkey that was sent power selling above a russian beach in a cool p.r. stunt as these days enjoying the trade brings up a new celebrity lifestyle and that was swapped in worldwide sympathy after her ordeal and was rescued by the british tabloid the sun but before heading to

pastures new she's been undergoing some high class rehab at the kremlin's school the riding near moscow from where tom reports. the donkey has learned it rushes notorious four legged fly is finally able to breathe easy not because the donkey arrived in moscow after days on the road from southern russia but not because she's not complaining is very sweet and everyone fell in love with her and we don't want to give no. not because strange journey started with her now infamous flight up above the beach when the power sail pulled by a boat a publicity trick by a local water sports company but police found out the only runaway and the not was only found later. sitting on the beach boys your parachute couldn't quite figure it out myself legs. a donkey the animal's distressed brain also brought simply from around the world celebrities and animal rights activists

were hot to trot with their opinions this animal was suffering was captured on videos and photographs and the way it spread through the media is really amazing and i think what the public has done is created a demand. for animals to be treated better to cope representative that certificate showing the animal was not physically. he harmed so is unlikely to face prosecution nevertheless the outcry means a napco now spend a month the prestigious kremlin riding school drinking filtered water eating a special diet prepared by a nutritionist and being mass arms with medical point mints and i get a little bit if they make it or one of the we have well equipped stables good for her and a team of professional experts who take care of the horses. and what after office to housing up to have flooded in from all over the world and not all through way you might expect the manager of england's top man hotspur football club harry redknapp has said he would happily put an up go up harry has an ambition to open his own animal sanctuary in the hunt sure area of england and he has perhaps could

and could join him at that animal sanctuary and not come here now has her feet planted firmly on the ground so wherever she ends up after this month for the moment she can just relax tom barton party. the millions of children across india are being forced to give up their education to earn a living with widespread poverty many families can't afford to send their kids to school and instead rely on their daily wage to put food on the table because our current thing reports it threatens to harm one of the world's fastest growing economies. when he does not go to school his parents simply cannot afford to send him he is one of eight 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. 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 a day trying to get food to eat how can we educate our children. because 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 serai you can see the state of the board its third difficulty in this way. this means many who are in school. to read and write for instance i ask. to recite the alphabet. after. being. asked.

and and and. seven out of ten children in delhi drop out by the time they turn fourteen when many schools. too are means. who's going to write the answers on the war for there's no question of anybody feeling it doesn't matter if you understand don't understand how the trial used to reach six and he took me on a boat to two. to go to this study group to provide educational support in underprivileged areas project why seven hundred students from there the slums who are looking to supplement their government provided education to the likes mathematics and wants to be a bank open she grows up activities and events and i learn more here than in my school. there the kids make a lot of noise so you can t. anything and also the school teacher doesn't explain things here i can ask my tutor

many things but in school before the teacher can explain the class is over and the teacher vanishes from this man 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 new delhi. let's take a look now at some other stories dominating world news this wednesday b.p. says its recent significant milestone after apparently controlling the oil leak in the gulf of mexico with its latest effort the new operation employs a static kill process which uses having to push the oil back down into the reservoir u.s. government says seventy five percent of the spill has now been cleaned up or broken down by nature around seven hundred million liters of oil gushed into the sea it's

a rig exploded in april causing what's been branded as america's worst environmental disaster. in parts of pakistan are facing a life threatening food crisis amid the worst floods to hit the country in eighty years rescuers are struggling to reach far flung villages that have been left without. supplies disaster has already claimed more than a thousand lives and left nearly a million people homeless forecasters say more heavy rainfall is expected in coming days. and the relative calm has returned to lebanon's border with israel as un peacekeepers have increased their patrols of the boundary it comes a day after a fierce firefight between both countries armies left for dead lebanon claim to open fire after israeli soldiers illegally entered its territory but u.n. peacekeepers have confirmed israel's troops remained on their own side of the border it's the bloodiest incident between the two since their war in two thousand and six. kenyans are voting in a referendum on

a new constitution which seeks to limit the president's powers and force a bill of rights the president is backing the yes vote security has been stepped up across the country where more than a thousand people died in clashes following two thousand and seven disputed election polls show the constitution is likely to be. the remember there's always more on the stories we're covering as well as lots of other extras online but have a look at what else you can find at our team dot com right now find out which russian football stars uniform has made it into the top five best selling list in england. and moscow's teenagers are risking their lives for a dangerous new hobby as police clamp down on fat.

star that is here now with the very latest from the world of business. hello and welcome to the business program hey on r.t. the global cost of wheat has recalled its biggest monthly increase for nearly forty years mostly due to the severe drought here in russia there are concerns the higher prices could push up the cost of food and therefore inflation but according to the leading retailer x five russia's substantial grain reserves should limit the problem. yes it is true that the due to the little hope is this year and the on going out signs are pointing to an increase in prices by suppliers simply because there will be a shortage of some goods but ok sions with the government support should resume of like the green reserve created in previous years will allow us to get through this tough period and should there be any price increases they will be controlled and

significant. and so more about what's happening to grain prices we can cross live to the world's biggest quantities market to chicago and the tile exchange to talk to jack virgin c.e.o. of the index futures group. thank you very much for joining us this hour just how much is the joshing of russia affecting prices. well if you think about it it's really changing the entire dynamic importers are becoming export hers and exporters are becoming importers i think much of this is really going to play out the real the hurt i think is really going to come from the relief agencies those that were looking to help those in pakistan or in africa those that were looking for access grain remember not only is grain now scarce around the world but capital to be able to go out and buy that grain which is now priced a little higher is scarce so they're probably going to be hurting the most out of this entire equation. that both russia and the u.s. have substantial grain was not does the act does this act as

a crisis. absolutely i think that you know you've got a combination of two economies that are very well versed in making sure that their supplies are intact over the course of say the winter months and quite frankly i think the russian economy was prepared for this that the russian government was prepared for this i know of course here in the us we've been preparing for it but remember grain especially wheat is much like a weed it doesn't take more than just a few days of rain to get things going again of course this crop is. much over and i think that we can write it off but we still have a big report coming here in the states in another week and of course south america is going to report over the course of the next few months let's see how it all turns out i can staying with i want to the grain futures tell us is there any indication that there are concerns about next year's crop. it looks as if the grain futures are telling us that the the problem is right now for the near term it looks

as if there's going to be some relief in the spring again i think will probably read more into that as we see some of these reports come out not only domestically here in the states but when we start to see australia south america and some of what they're laying out down there i think but as we see the futures read into the next year it looks as if we're looking at a bit of a bell curve the near term is what we call a can tango type of situation where we're starting to see relief as we go further out on that curve out further in the future and all that any concerns that high and grain prices will feed through into higher consumer prices. well i think that there is a bit of a battle going on yes you would expect that higher grain prices would price the food food being priced higher we probably see grain all across the world of course being priced higher but more importantly what we're doing is you're seeing that battle fight against what seems to be disinflationary pressures especially here in the states with the loss of job creation and so on and so forth so that battle as

it wages might be enough to defer any big price increases in food. now we've seen a strong rally in the oil price over recent days thanks to we could tell and the concern i have a hurricane in the gulf of mexico now how long do you think these prices will last one of the other factors that we need to keep an eye on in the near future. well i think if you are long oil or want to see oil continue to go higher what you really want to pay attention to are two things here in the states in particular that is the health of the housing industry and the health of the job creation market for those two things you need some real policy changes here in the states neither one of which is really being addressed as far as we can tell both of which are going to be problematic not only for the demand created for oil worldwide but also of course because of that this inflation problem that i was just referring to which could be very contagious what we don't want is a situation much like japan had through the ninety's where we have

a very low interest rate environment and this inflationary pressure which could drive or oil down under sixty five dollars a barrel something that we have to watch for. jack to see of the index futures the great from chicago thank you very much for your analysis. let's have a look at the markets now russian stocks are rebounding after a report showed the u.s. added more workers in july than with. seven. or climbing as we near the end of wednesday's session both is up almost one percent this hour. and it's mixed picture in europe after losses and exacts is now trying to. in the last week reports of banks up behind the best concern a lot of irish is down almost seventy percent off its losses and why didn't one point seven billion euro standard chartered issued it for sure it will cost sending its shares almost three and a home down. u.s. stocks are rising modestly after a pool of private employment showed

a modest pickup in hiring payroll company a.d.p. said employers added through two thousand jobs last month and will cost investors are raising a key reading on the set of sector two out late in the wednesday. the construction of the gas pipeline has reached an important milestone with a second branch of the pipe finally coming ashore in russia project to provide gas to millions of european homes when it's completed which is due in two thousand and twelve. here at the broad overbet in the baltic sea the construction of the noise pipeline project is only progressing now which you see behind my back at two pipelines the first one was a pulled out of the water just a week ago in july the twenty eighth and what happened just a couple of hours ago is that the second finally reached the russian soil now you see that both pipelines are lying in a special train that will be back filled up to the initial seabed a level one of the construction is over but no this train to protect the both

pipelines from a different external impacts when in two thousand and eleven one of the first pipeline will start its open ration it will have a capacity over twenty seven billion cubic meters of gas annually and in two thousand and twelve it is planned that bulls will start their operations with a capacity over fifty five billion cubic meters of gas annually the gas will reach him the pipelines hand near the finish border and a van it will be delivered to the european customers to and will reach you were up on the north end coast of germany. update for now but you can always find more stories on our website auti dot com slash business.

culture is that so much about when taxpayers' money meant it is interesting to be a lot of people at your reality t.v. wonderfully popular in commercially lucrative but just how realistic are these protests. are they the ultimate. every month we give you the future we hope you understand how we'll get there and what tomorrow brings the best unsanctioned are going to be from across russia and around the world join.

this is our it's me our top stories this wednesday there's a state of emergency in seven regions across wash up as wildfires range all in with no signs of slowing down at least forty eight people have been killed since the record breaking heat wave began more than two weeks ago entire villages have been wiped out and thousands left homeless. person emergency crews have stepped up their outskirts and point specialist equipment to extinguish the fires neighboring countries have joined the operation something aircraft in the most devastating regions presidents madrid has already fired five high ranking officials for their

lack of action in dealing with the crisis. and in other news washington puts more economic and political pressure on to run tightening sanctions and blocking iranian organizations thought to be aiding terrorists president mahmoud ahmadinejad says he couldn't care less about the new restrictions but warns other countries not to follow suit. the israeli palestinian peace talks are expected to resume later this month after a two year freeze. speaks to a leading jordanian lawmaker to find out what effect the conflict has had on his country and what influence its neighbors have on jordan. i have talked to. the jordanian government spokesperson also the minister for media affairs and communication dr thank you very much for joining us here on ati 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 where we did not close down any news 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 them at least did not apply there of course conditions in order to be able to like any other country in the world there are conditions that should apply to anyone who wants to write for foreign.

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