rounds and bar fights is the still actually here on standby this. is watered down the far as trying to put them out and then lost them by case things kicked off again now this is just an example of some is going across the bosco region and also across russia. five hundred twenty five still blazing across russia and just the highlights how on serious the situation is it is just yesterday four hundred fresh the fire started the day for that's when she stayed three hundred fresh fire started and re experts saying that situations like this will not change until the drought like in dish and seven go for russia change and unfortunately that's not looking likely the temperatures are expected to again sorts of be around forty degrees celsius so there's no real change in the weather conditions cos it's promised by the hoots and speaking yes they said that this is a very grave serious and dangerous situation still. and

i mean just a load of thousands have to be being displaced and there is stated by these fires and my colleague. she went to one such village that has been left but down. in flames. the hottest summer on record has also become one of the navy's destructive massive forest fires have already burned about thousands of hectares of land. use more than forty and that's more than thirty thousand homeless with speed twenty metres per second it's moving through fox as you can see behind me it's approaching now leaving behind a trail of devastation. this used to be a small picturesque village naslund in beautiful pine forest some one hundred fifty kilometers south of the russian capital more scope and paradise to the three hundred people that lived there with a kindergarten a church and

a community whole it will never be the same again it to dismiss for a frightening display of mother nature's fool force to change it for river. twelve perished in the in through the sun in her refined circumstances panic has been sprayed in on people as fast as the flames have been in gulf in their homes five people an old couple and mother into son and another woman decided to hide in a basement their place of refuge became their tomb temperatures inside became too hot to survive. most people in the village managed to flee elena was one of those that escaped a day later she's bag hoping to find something tacked but it's all in vain. flames were really high even above that salzhauer ashleigh and look black smoke filled all the screens below i feel really scared when i saw the red glow of the

fire and the black smoke you know i've seen houses and barns were heading but here the entire village burned down completely this was really horrifying. the dormitory of a local college has become a new home for dozens of homeless its staff in smoky kodos in rooms but it's the only shelter they have now. we won't see things for all this care they feed us here very well they talk to us and we have a corner to sleep. but they hope this take here will not be alone or that this isn't already got about seven thousand dollars in compensation each engine isn't jobless a big moment but that's what we're really especially waiting for at the new home they promised it for every family within the next three months and we're ready to wait. when the house is a rebuilt the victims of this unstoppable and merciless force who try to rebuild

their lives and consign these ghosts really to the past all here would rather forget. refinishing r t mostly region. well there you have it that's just one example of a warm village in the moscow region this probably doesn't go for russia and still seven districts remain in a state of emergency so a great a very great problem indeed i can get into plans about let's now turn to the center of the capital stacey standing by for us there moscow experience who was small so far on wednesday didn't and so is the situation back to this morning. right well visibility has improved greatly you can see the kremlin behind me it's in a haze but you can see it and that's the point yesterday from this vantage point you would have been able to see it and it was literally like walking through a snow globe and while the effects of the smoke aren't as apparent today because it

isn't as hazy the possible dangers are still in the air so what does that mean this means that the air pollution is about six times what it what is deemed as normal so when you're outside for only a just a few minutes a matter how healthy you are your eyes start to water a little bit and it feels like if i can just describe it to you like you've been snorting say and gargling on the gravel it's that uncomfortable if you're out here for too long of a period of time and so that's why health officials are saying if you're in an elderly person who's ill or if you have a if you have a chronic illness or matter what your age is stay indoors if you can and if you can please wear a medical mask because the the facts are that dangerous i mean i was walking around yesterday and got light headed and i'm a healthy person so this is that this is a very serious time and also one of the health ministers as they just said that maybe delaying the first day of school school usually starts in rush on september first but the thinking about delaying it because of the effects of the snow here in

the u.s. so it's even though moscow is not it on fire like some of these towns that we've just we spoken about today. yes facts are still felt here situation across the country still so this is more like a aussies are taking preschools into the mosque a region on stacy vivian's there in the center of the capital many. a group of former cia and military officials are working to present a bomb says they they believe israel is preparing to attack and around this month the experts explain israel wants to launch a war make it politically untenable for obama to do anything other than awful for u.s. military support but michael to ski from the canadian center for research on globalization things that in reality israel would need washington's backing for us. senator is a lot of very. serious. people and of course this message should

be taken very seriously it is technically from a military standpoint impossible for israel to actually launch a war on iran without the green light from the united states we have to understand that this this is not strictly an israeli military project the united states since the mid ninety's. has indicated the run as a possible target and that the war plans which had been ongoing since two thousand and four in fact in the wake of the bombing an invasion of iraq. have been joint programs u.s. they total and israel so the impact of these war plans are already ongoing it may be convenient for washington to let israel unleash the attack and in fact dick cheney back in back in two thousand and four intimated that israel might do

the work for us though to speak the iran has ten percent of the global oil and gas was five times those of the united states it's the it's a it has tremendous wealth and ultimately war in that region is the battle for oil and natural gas the threat of war is real. the implications are far reaching if that war were launched. within the next few months the whole region with player up from the eastern mediterranean right through to the chinese border. and stain is again holding a second world war military commemoration which critics argue all things that operates nazi collaboration it's a conversation held annually which when acts the way for class and squads in one hundred forty one event is named after and now you heads of state volunteers who spied behind red army knives as they fall from our seats it's been

a healthy mind for but most case says there is attempt to glorify a state his collaboration with germany but for british and european parliament member clean for things only a small minority of people support the evidence. what concerns me about this it appears how some support from if you only officials would be a stone in government and that's what's much more concerning because that indicates if you want to a political collaboration with the people organizing this event it is clearly both offensive and bizarre that while there is a new enthusiasm for stream sport or are you basing it around a nazi collaborating organization. from list second world war out assault 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 i can't imagine that anywhere would support for this kind of event. for many people in food speaking to us from brussels. the european

union has been expanding in the past few years but it seems some formal soviet states you joined recently can be an obstacle to corporation later if you have not say talks to a man has delved deep into european identity to hear what challenges this creates in relations with moscow. it is probably accepted in moscow that. it is probably a good idea to do with the e.u. directly and that's how it started for nor the reason that the reasons of geography that you have to have a relationship and it's better of course for both sides of the space where it is based on call peroration and not based on hostility now the problem is that the process of integration within the e.u. and even those who have been you know from the very beginning are most integrated dose which is joint are less and those who have have joint recently have

a few problems with russia right because these are the former soviet bloc countries and of course their impact on the policies of the views of moscow is certainly present and it is at least for for now a bit of an obstacle. let's catch more insights into how europe's adapting to its evolving identity in around twenty minutes time. the u.s. senate has put off its foes on the latest nuclear reduction treaty with russia until mid september the head of the foreign relations committee says republicans need more time to decide on whether they'll support well the landmark deal with signed by president's been better than a comma in april and is designed to achieve both country's nuclear arsenals fire but it can't come into force and it's ratified by the two nations and say far

neither is done nods says it's ready to support the deal into effect but once it will take its ratification with washington for us then is a chuck hagel believes there's more than just bilateral power play at stake. if in fact we we the civilized world especially the nuclear powers and as we know russia in the united states but as about ninety percent of all the nuclear weapons in the world if we are to reduce those if we are to influence other nations to try not to come on line to be a nuclear weapons power or to start reducing their 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. well that was the

chairman of the atlantic council think tank and former senator chuck hagel. claims that it's reached a significant milestone in the gulf of mexico washington says almost three quarters of the oil spill has been i the mop top or not surely dispersed president of all the battle to contain the massive oil spill is a finally close to coming to an end on wednesday b.p. to block the ruptured well by pumping in a special type of mud. a federal court in california has overturned the state's ban on same sex marriage the judge says that the proposition eight violates the american constitution it could now be out of the supreme court decides californians a narrative through the bonnet two years ago when what was the most expensive social preschool campaign in u.s. history critics of the gay marriage say the latest decision is ignoring the

electrons. the vote counts on the way in kenya to its constitutional referendum early results show that sixty percent voted for the president how is it also includes emotionally charged changes to abortion rules land rights and muslim family courts for the first time in the country the vote was held without incident and some are changed for the intense violence the two thousand and eight presidential election when more than a dime's. superior rainfall has now hit upon the north and east of pakistan is the country and use its worst flooding in eighty years the raging waters the now threatening to engulf areas of the south rescue workers are trying to reach to the villages left without any food and water of all fifty one hundred fifty dead and three million affected by the disaster so far for

call say more heavy rains are expect. the next day. and all the places you'd expect to find american style diners or glossy provocative magazines and arab states in the heart of the middle east why not your first guest but jordan is a fast becoming one of the most westernized countries in the region he's paula still looks into why the younger generation there are showing tradition and turning cosmopolitan. a men's magazine that shows off female flourish and leaves little to the imagination a cover like this would not raise eyebrows in europe but in the middle east in a country like jordan where ninety five percent of the population is muslim it can go on sale only in the capital city editor cyrus side says her aim is to shock and that she does by filling in a gap in the market touching on issues that are pretty much to blue in the arab world like talking about relationships and sex they're not saying that unlike the

other areas a lot of our readers. they have a modern way of thinking well it's a modern the dead a different way of thinking a lot of them have studied abroad there's a list abroad they work abroad and they take these little. mind sets with them and they come back here and they apply to the way of life a man is one of the most western i cities in the middle east and is often called the new beirut among the ever increasing number of skyscrapers are american well known brands and chains so it comes as no surprise that more and more youngsters are choosing a british accent to choose to each day their only civilization is that it will. also. martin be one of the top three english radio stations in the country and in the seven years he's worked in the region he's seen english radio's almost three fold it's about wanting to consume and it's about westerners and i mean if you look at a fast food restaurant for example you know you've got restaurants on your doorstep

burger chains and pizza restaurants and people people want now it's i want it right and essentially when somebody when there's a demand you get. sorry could do is typical of the new generation that finds it easy to move between cultures she's lived in jordan lebanon and saudi arabia and speaks fluent english and arabic she grew up on american culture and says she choose western music in movies of a traditional arabic ones any day a lot of us have come from like culturally diverse societies like you there your mom your dad my before and you know this is a new trend enjoying it's foreigner accepting the fact that you know you're not limited to marrying an arab or a jordanian and we also like a lot of us go study abroad and abroad you get so many different cultures and so many different people but shauna's feel some of the influence also comes from the government she's the first to admit that the fashion that glosses the pages of her magazines no one would ever wear on the streets it's almost like there's

a contradiction in society you have that sect of society that is holding on to traditional values and traditional ideas and then you have that sect typically the more modern part of the city that is kind of going to develop in western eyes and honestly i would say it's probably a lot of influence from the government love to get a lot of support in the u.s. and it's an influence that's hard to miss especially when it's backed up by western advertising and money a mini stroke that on the streets i would be easiest spoken a mixture of arabic and english for teenagers it's a way to impress the opposite sex and it is true that speaking english will probably get to a better job after all the king's mother is english policia arty among. also online twenty four hours a day with plenty more stories feature explore here's just some of what you'll find right now at our dot com india's economic powerhouse face its future rests with

a generation growing up in literature stricken children schools to the desperately it's. under power saving don't even is getting a very well with some five star treatment follow an outpatient checks in the kremlin stables it's all. about how the needs. of the business that standing by your opting for us. and we have a global cause the. biggest monthly increase federally forty year that's right and that's due to the severe drought here in russia concerns that higher prices could push up the cost of food and therefore and place now but according to a leading retailer x. five russia's substantial grain reserve should limit the problem.

it is true to due to the low holders this year and the. signs are pointing to an increase in prices by suppliers simply because there will be a shortage of some goods but own calculations with the government support or should reserve the green reserves created in previous years it will allow us to get through this tough period and should there be any price increases they will be controlled and not significant. but you have a view from the commodities market is similar to the retailers. of the index futures group says the large grain reserves in l.-u. west will help mitigate the crisis. 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 they quite frankly i think good 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 this specially 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 pretty much over and i think that we could 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. and time to check out the stock markets asian chazz and makes this hour in the case not only for a percent while hong kong is plus the negative japanese automakers and the drive in tokyo have to take note of posting positive quarterly results that tend to limit the polish outlook here in russia stocks rebounded late on wednesday raising the previous losses to markets close to five reported the new west showing the country out of work in july it was forty. seven style and they're back on the main gainers with their banks putting on office and on my six. the construction of the north stream gas pipeline has reached an important milestone with the second branch of the pipe finally coming ashore in russia the project will provide gas to millions

of european homes when it's completed which is two and twenty twelve. where he. bang the baltic sea where the construction of the noise pipeline is taking place and now what you see behind my back my two pipelines the first one was pulled out of the water and that russian soil just a week ago owned july the twenty eighth and what happened just a couple of hours ago is that the second plane a plane up reached the russian shore and many here say that this was a milestone for the whole construction of the noise pipeline project now what you see all says that's those pipelines along in a special strange this train will be back filled up to the initial seabed level went up the construction of the pipeline is over but now this trench of protons to both pipelines to from any external impacts including waves

currents this vessel is called gusto say now it is situated to iran's one kilometer away from the shore this vessel has already laid around two hundred kilometers of the pipeline in the waters of finland and sweden and after the war it can on the russian territory over the vessel will go back to finland and resume its work over that part of dover a bay is the starting point of the north steam pipeline through the baltic sea and then of the pipeline will be connected to the gas transportation system of russia and i'm sure prime klein and in the meantime the construction of this pipeline is only progressing where the gas will and to blend him near the finish board will reach the european customers to the north and coast of germany delivering over fifty five billion cubic meters of gas annually. the new chief executive has held talks with deputy prime minister intersection in moscow robert dudley discussions included possible sales to cover the cost of the gulf of mexico oil spill although

b.p. is saying its interests in russia are not on the table instead maybe in america or central you. dudley's joined by more. people b.p. will take up a non-executive role on the board of russian joint venture. and separate news from the company it says it has succeeded in this static kill and its leaking well in the gulf of mexico and that oil is no longer leaking into the sea. the annual rate of inflation in russia fell to its lowest level in july at five and a half percent consumer prices rose zero point four percent and a sense from philip version were in line with forecasts and it was buckwheat chicken at orange prices rose the most the cost of rice bananas and cabbage went out. and that's your update for this hour but you can always find most stories on our website r.t. dot com. wealthy

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it's still a remote state this is on scene forest and peace prize are still waging a false knowledge areas of central russia with these forty eight people dead and hundreds of homes destroyed the acrid smoke good some blowing across moscow was less intense today all read the separate day it's. a group of full most cia and military officials caves this red is set to launch a city like the time on or around this month the experts believe that you are stages looking to make it impossible for washington to refuse giving its full military back a. glossy u.s. magazines in english deejay's a fine day in the unlikelihood when the hawks in the mideast jordan's a younger muslims say that victory in the west is that slowly good viable road put

in culture and they believe that that englishness here future jobs. has the european union expands so to dolls characters that gradually segue south new nations each with their own way of wanting to do business for the former soviet states out is proving to sometimes be a thorn in the side as we head next from a man who's been keeping a close eye on psychology. professor while the brusque robots to thank you very much for being with us today and thank you so in your own words how would you define the european identity the emerging european identity will have probably the same nature as well.