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 a certain way you may run our iron the men have to get to. we don't know where to expect a fire from that nobody 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 for the most basic things are much needed underwear to pillows to warm clothes back in moscow volunteers assemble what healthy 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 with flames already appearing on the highway how sweet to the villages finding

a car could prove a lot easier than actually getting there to a fair cross party central russia. to be true advent of a sax a string of senior navy officers for failing to prevent wildfires from reaching a military base in the moscow region the president said they were guilty of criminal negligence in the failure of judy in the telling of a cover followed his meeting with government officials here in moscow. president came from his summer residence to hold a serious of emergency meetings in kremlin regarding the problem before he was doing both get as many structures in this far fighting is as possible course during the meeting that you just got to how to help people who lost their homes or their lives in this in these stories as well as how to stop the forest around moscow and in washington all right now and of course how to prevent those fires from spreading onto street deja politics in russia such as the military bases or nuclear plants for example you smothered a little but it would look mean you still. have orders in ministry of defense to

fight the fires but the ministry can't always even protect itself a large fire is broken out in the most cool regions with heavy consequences which someone was asleep on the job the fire that was spreading slowly was not contained and the heads of the local military bases were nowhere to be found i'm sacking five high ranking officers and ordering the ministry to fire more if anything of this sort of takes place again and i will take the same steps without any risk. 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. locations 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 i 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. italian overcover reporting from central moscow in the thick smoke suffocating moscow's main descent into the capital metro to millions of passengers use the service every day having a for. active temperatures down they had a record high wednesday of thirty four degrees celsius so it's uncanny hide from the heat wave underground. the iranian authorities are denying that the country's president mahmoud ahmadinejad who is the target of an assassination attempt clearly report states that a grenade was thrown at his convoy in the west of the country now those claims come at a time of increasing pressure on iran just days ago the top u.s. military official said that washington had not ruled out a military strike if the country does not stop enriching uranium the u.s. treasury department also tighten sanctions by expanding

a blacklist of reigning in groups suspected of terrorist links to rand's call for dialogue when tired which it says should be based on justice and mutual respect the group of american intelligence experts also written to president obama to say they believe israel may launch a surprise attack on iran in the next month one of them was ray mcgovern who told r.t. why he suspects this could happen. well there are a host of reasons they're mostly circumstantial but the most important one has to do is what impression prime minister netanyahu got of our president when he was here three weeks ago. our president didn't dare to mention any of the contentious issues between the two countries like our objection to the illegal settlements of the west bank or the killing of a u.s. citizen on board the mavi marmara and instead it was very much a kind of a love fest with our president pretty much forming all over netanyahu now who is

a pretty clever guy and we go home to tell it even sure he he told his colleagues that you know these americans are just like we always thought of them they're easily moved eighty percent of the american supported us this is bizarre so that's the most that's the key factor if he thinks that obama would not have the courage to oppose a military strike on iran and then you look around for the time to do it well it's very clear that israel has a policy to get rid of any hostile regimes with any power in the middle east worked pretty well with iraq didn't it be removed saddam hussein in their basic document a clean break. securing the realm back in one thousand nine hundred six when nasser you know where is first strike part minister it was stated explicitly that iran would be right on that list if they can get rid of. it in the mullahs and that

would be creating a what they consider to be a super safe region there and most people get confused by the persian or very argument that israel is. stanch a threat from reading nuclear bombs who didn't have any nuclear bombs if they go on or to israel is two hundred three hundred so that stretches the imagination what they want is machine change. more thought from the right she's a retired u.s. army colonel she thinks the u.s. state one that is not rooting out the action against iran's misjudged and provocative. that type of action military action against iran is inappropriate the united states of america has tremendous military capability but why do you have to go pushing it in the face of a hammering one that we could do this we could take military action well we know that but all it is as is a part of the statement that makes those in iran feel very uneasy that they are

truly being targeted again by the united states and by israel and the increased sanctions that we see that the united states is putting on is another layer of occasion in their mind that they are the target we are warning president obama to be very very careful about anything that comes out of israel as far as the they are assessment that military force needs to be used on iran that was retired u.s. army colonel turned peace activist and right. still to come on the program a report on what's in store next for the parasailing don't kishi settles into five star luxury in the kremlin stable to help to get nightmare or deal. duction treaty known as start has been stopped for now at least the u.s. senate pushed a vote to ratify the deal back to september the treaty signed by presidents to be two advent of barack obama in april would see each country's nuclear arsenals

gradually slashed by a third whenever it won't come into force until ratified by both sides and so far neither moscow says it's ready to put the deal into effect but wants to do so at the same time as washington former u.s. senator and acting chairman of the atlantic council think tank chuck hagel told me as well just bilateral power play at stake. if in fact we we the civilized world especially the nuclear powers and as we know russia the united states but just about ninety percent of all the nuclear weapons in the world if we were to reduce those or if we were to influence other nations to try not to come on line to be a nuclear weapons power or to start reduce. there are powers that we must lead the way so this is also i think it is you of some optics of some credibility of some leadership because if we don't pass this what credibility does the united states have with the rest of the world or russia to say to any other nuclear country or country that wants to possess these weapons no don't do that so there's an awful

lot here that goes beyond just the specifics of the treaty. the erna raid annual international military exercises begun in a stony a it commemorates a reconnaissance group the work with german military intelligence in world war two moscow believes that the exercise is an attempt to glorify stoney's club aeration the nazi germany be any unit was a finnish army formation of a stone in volunteers but spied behind behind army red lines the games have been held since nine hundred ninety four with teams from around the world taking part but former member of the european parliament lean forward believes that only a small minority of european support events that glorify the nazi past. what concerns me about this it appears have some support from if you all the officials within a stone in government and that's what's much more concerning because that indicates if you want a political collaboration with the people organizing this event it's clearly both offensive and bizarre that while there is

a new enthusiasm for extreme sport for basing it around a nazi collaborating organization. from least second world war out of sort that generally across the european union the vast majority of people will be horrified about what's going on there always are a small minority of people who actually sympathize with the nazis but they are extremely small these days and i can't imagine that anywhere would be support for this kind of event if you take through some international news in brief the b.p. story b.p. saying it's reached a significant milestone now for apparently controlling the oil leak in the gulf of mexico with its latest effort. new operation uses thick mud to push the oil back down into the pipe the u.s. government says seventy five percent of the spill has now been cleaned up or been broken down by nature around seven hundred million liters of oil gushed into the sea since b.p.'s rig exploded in april causing what's branded america's worst environmental disaster. the pakistan are facing

a life threatening flood crisis now amid the food crisis rather 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 the disasters also claimed more than a thousand lives and left nearly a million people homeless forecasters say more heavy rainfall is expected in the coming days. a relative calm has returned to lebanon's border with israel as the un peacekeepers have increased their patrols along the divide and it comes a day after a fierce firefight between both countries armies left four people dead lebanon claimed its troops opened 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 is the deadliest bloodiest incidents between the two since the war in two thousand and six. votes are being counted in kenya after a referendum was held on a new constitution that seeks to limit the president's powers and enforce

a bill of rights president michael bacchis supporting the changes security has been stepped up across the country but more than a thousand people died in clashes after two thousand and seven is disputed election polls show the constitution is likely to be passed. the donkey that was sent parasailing above a russian beach cruel p.r. stunt a few weeks ago is these days enjoying the trappings of a new celebrity lifestyle and was swamped 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 school of riding near moscow from where. reports. the donkey has learned it russia's notorious four legged fly is finally able to breathe easy and up to the donkey arrived in moscow after days on the road from southern russia because he's not complaining is very sweet and everyone fell in love for her and we don't want to

give you know and i've been up a strange journey started with her now infamous flight up above a beach on a power sail pulled by a boat a publicity trick by a local water sports company when police found out the owner run away and was only found later. sitting on the beach parachute go i couldn't quite figure it out myself or legs nor of my own eyes 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 create a demand you know for animals to be treated better the culprit presented a vet certificate showing the animal was not physically 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 message with medical point once i get a little bit of the meat if 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 from where you might expect the manager of england's top in 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. nice to see a story with a happy ending is no dot com tonight so we got there for you we have the story of the russian football stars uniform which made it into the top five best selling

list of england clue for you don't know who you think it might be seven begins with a. moscow's teenagers risking their lives for this dangerous new hobby although police are hot on their heels with no more r. t. dot com. also a russian blogger angry about the management of wildfires raging across the country gets no misreads a reply from prime minister putin wanted putin have to say find out. thanks for being with us tonight our programs continue in r.t. israeli palestinian peace talks are expected to resume later this month after a two year freeze and in just a moment speaks to a leading jordanian lawmaker to find out how the conflict and jordan's neighbors affect his country.

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 quite. science lost by reporters without borders for closing down two satellite stations of iranian army gen is there a fear that iranian influence could destabilize the kingdom first of all let me.

correct the premise of the question we did not close down. stations what happened actually was that the correspondent. correspondents of these stations. were working without proper permit 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 their four and. work for of media establishment and i think. there were

problems with the permits so the stations themselves were not the issue they should was the people working for the stations as far as living up to the requirements of the permit conditions is there a fear that iranian influence could destabilize the kingdom no actually you know we don't have the feel to this. as far as this issue is concerned at all we feel quite confident as to the stability and security of our country we feel that we have of course a very secure borders because jordan really enjoys good relations with almost all countries in the world but we are vigilant of course we are quite careful but. we do not feel that we have to be panicky about this so the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu recently said that he planned to deport some seventy thousand

palestinians from the west bank to jordan what is your response to that is really a very negative development and we completely reject this decision and oppose it you cannot definitely 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 these you know steps to stop immediately because they are very dangerous to the peace. and they will definitely torpedo any efforts to move the peace forward as the un h d r's budget continues to decline obvious plans to allow iraqi refugees in this country greater freedom to work. iraqi guests in jordan are working with all the freedom that is there.

first of all we don't definitively call them refugees they are our brothers. are suffering. very difficult situation. to our help in jordan as brothers and in our arab culture you give your brother you share with him you are a loaf of bread you split it in half and give to your brothers so out of this tradition out of their long history binds us with our iraqi brothers we decided to host them here temporarily until the situation in their country improves and then they can go back to their country. but while you're here of course jordan as you know. it's not a rich country then it's not

a rich country and especially this year we are really living through difficult economic situation we have to face it in the budget. or there is a strain in our on our economy from the front and girls but nonetheless we're our iraqi guests are still among us and they're enduring everything his majesty king abdullah was very gracious in permitting all iraqi children to enjoy education just like their jordanian counterparts to enjoy healthcare for all iraqis enjoy healthcare. just like jordanians. and education for all iraqi children is free in jordan so. but there is a limit as to what jordan can give as far as this issue is concerned and we do call upon the international community to continue helping to even boost its

assistance to jordan in order to enable it to better serve their iraqi guests because of the situation in iraq and the palestinian question is it likely that they will be great influences from outside jordan affecting what people are thinking and doing internally that could ultimately lead to a destabilization of the kingdom we do not think really that there is cause for worry for the stability and security of jordan is a concern. around us of course are known to everybody but we we are confident that people who are living in jordan. with the palestinian refugees who are forced to leave. outside the country because of the occupation or iraqi guests who are again forced to live outside their country because of the conditions there they definitely appreciate the security and stability they find

here and the fact that they are able to live quite normally and they they will be with us in trying to prove to maintain the security and stability because it's definitely in the interest of all of us living together and this country dr nabil thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. you're most welcome my pleasure. culture is that so much about the taxpayers' money materialization it's because a lot of people at area reality t.v. wonderfully popular in commercially lucrative but just how realistic are these programs are they be ultimate. one of the key elements of democracy which is so uncomfortable for me

a forty years. who pays for the news. how dependent is this independent media. and who is behind the t.v. stories. georgian media fiction and reality on our t.v. . would be soon which brightened if you knew about song from phones to christianize. whose phone starts on t.v. dot com.

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this is r t from moscow these are all top stories relentless fires across russia have claimed at least forty eight lives as temperatures continue to break records a state of emergency has been declared in seven regions entire villages have been wiped out and thousands of. russian emergency crews have stepped up their efforts to put out the fires neighboring countries have joined the operation sending aircraft to help in the most devastated regions presently vetted has fired five high ranking officials for their lack of action in dealing with the crisis. and in other news tightening their grip on terror on washington imposes new sanctions severing ties with the iranian groups 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. just ahead tonight our interview show crosstalk

on this edition people of our asses guess why reality t.v. is so popular and whether or not it's got any social value beyond entertainment it's here on our team from moscow. every month we give you the future we help you understand how we'll get there and what tomorrow brings the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world join us acknowledging update on our jeep. and you can. start.

a low and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle reality t.v. wonderfully popular in commercially lucrative but just how realistic are these programs are they are the ultimate form of spontaneous expression or are they merely evidence of how modern values are centered on the most banal common denominators. you can. discuss modern t.v. i'm joined by stephen reese and columbus he's the executive director of the world society of motivation scientists and professionals in glasgow we go to brian mcknight our he's a professor of journalism and communication at the university of strathclyde and we go to london to study malique she's a lecturer of media and communications of burnell university and another member of our crosstalk team on the hunger all right folks cross talk rules in effect but first i'd like to make

a few comments about some of the research i did making this program because i am i do not actually watch reality t.v. programs quote this is what i found some my research reality t.v. makes us feel dirty and cheap and if we didn't we probably wouldn't bother turning turn tuning into it never have so many watch t.v. with so little good to say about it and also critics call it gutter t.v. and humiliation t.v. reflects a culture that worships vanity and wealth rather than virtue and humility so if i go to you brian why do people watch reality t.v. programs. i think reality t.v. gives people an unsafe in to us as banal as ordinary but what it does is shared a lay on the ordinary and it makes the ordinary somewhat extraordinary we all we all live ordinary waifs. we really get an opportunity on mainstream t.v. to watch interpersonal dynamics personalities developing all of it done in

a relatively spontaneous manner and i think it is genuinely fast.