fresh five star fish they choose day three hundred fresh started and really experts saying that situations like this will not change until the drought like in addition go for russia change and unfortunately that's not looking likely. to. be around forty degrees celsius so there's no real change in the weather conditions . speaking yes they said that this is a very grave serious and dangerous situation still. a lot of thousands have been displaced. there are stated by these my colleagues. she went to one such village that has been left down. rushes in flames. the hottest summer on record has also become one of the names destructive massive forest fires have already burned about thousands of areas of

land. more than forty in the thousands with twenty metres per second. leaving behind a trail of devastation. this used to be a small picture is clear naslund beautiful pine forest some one hundred fifty kilometers south of the russian capital and paradise to the three hundred people would leave there with a kindergarten. and a community home. 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 sun in her refined circumstances panic has been spread among people as fast as the flames have been engulfed in their homes five people an

old couple and modern the 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 elaine it was one of those that escaped a day later she's bag hoping to find something tagged but it's all in vain all of lames was riding up high even a mother told how that year and the old days below i felt really scary when i saw red and black smoke which you know i've seen houses and lands but. the entire village burned down completely that was really horrifying and yet the dormitory of a local college has become a new home for dozens of homeless its staff in smoky its corridors in rooms but it's the only shelter they have now. we want to say thanks 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 long or ditch that this is we've already got about seven thousand dollars in compensation each pensioners and jobless a bit more but what we're really especially waiting for the new home they've promised it to 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 religion to the past all here would rather forget. 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 and

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 sand 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 has suggested 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 smoke here and so it's even though moscow is not it on fire like some of these towns that we've seen

we spoken about today the effects are still felt here. and so if you've been friends for pushing that. a group of former cia and minute change shells of person to president obama say they believe israel is preparing to attack iran this month the experts explain as well ones to moan to me and make it politically untenable for moment to do anything else than further support to offer full u.s. military support to michael achieve the dusk even the canadian center for essential things that in reality israel would need washington's backing fast. saying if there is a lot of very. serious. people 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 the war plans which have been ongoing since two thousand and four in fact in the wake of the bombing of the invasion of iraq have been a joint program was us they total and israel so that in fact 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 still to speak iran has ten percent of the global oil and gas was five times those of the united states it's

a it has tremendous wealth ultimately war in that region is the battle for oil and natural gas the threat of of that war. its real. implications are far reaching if there were launched. within the next few months a whole region with flare up from the eastern mediterranean right through to the chinese border a staying in as again a holding a second world war minutes from commemoration which critics all say celebrate nazi collaboration it's a composition held honey only which we interact with for constant scalds in one hundred forty one event is named on to the end of story and volunteers in spite behind lead on the lines of thankful for the scenes it's been hell to launch ninety four but most cases they're in attempts to glorify it sting operation with its germany but a former british and european parliament again for things only

a small minority of people support the offense what concerns me about this it appears how some support from if you only officials within the a stunning government and that's what's much more concerning because that indicates if you want to have a political operation with the people organizing this event it is clearly both offensive and bizarre that while there is a new enthusiasm for sport for the basing it around a nazi collaborating organization. for all from list second world war out of sort the 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 support for this kind of event. for example was speaking to c.n.n. from brussels that. the european union has been expanding in the past few years but

it seems some former soviet states who joined recently can be an obstacle to cooperation. a fisherman else he talks to a man who's 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 deal with the e.u. directly and that's how it started for nor the reason that the reasons of geography the two have to have a relationship and it's better of course for both sides at this place where it is based on corporation and not based on hostility now the problem is that the process of integration within the e.u. even those who have been you know from the very beginning are most integrated dose which is the joint are less and those who have because have joined to 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 is certainly

present and it is at least for now a bit of an obstacle. a more insight into how europe's adapting to its evolving identity and just save and how its time here on. the u.s. a senate has put off its vote 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 them on deal with signed by president's been dead in a bomb in a pool and is designed to reduce both countries' nuclear arsenals by a buzz current come into full look into its ratified by the two nations and say fall he has done that mosque a says it's ready to put the deal into effect that it wants it will take its ratification with washington former u.s. senator chuck hagel believes there's no one just financial 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 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 conformists themselves charge cable. news this hour and b.p.

claims that it has reached a significant milestone in the gulf of mexico washington says almost three quarters of the oil spilled has been either more or naturally dispersed president obama added that the fattal to contain the massive oil spill is finally close to coming to an end on wednesday b.p. managed to block the ruptured well by pumping in the special type of mud. a federal court in california has a return the states found on same sex marriage the judge says the top position is vile age the american constitution kid now the supreme court to decide california. two years ago in what was the most expensive social political campaign in u.s. history critics of gay marriage say the laces decision is ignoring the electorate. the vote count is underway in kenya after its constitutional referendum early

results showed that eva sixty percent voted to limit the president's powers it also includes emotional challenge changes to abortion rules the land rights and muslim family courts for the first time in the culture of the vote was held without incident change from the intense violence of the two thousand and eight presidential election when more than a holes in the hearings. severe rainfall has now hit parts of the north and east of pakistan as the country in jewel's its worst flooding in eighty years the raging waters are now threatening to engulf areas in the south and rescue workers the trying to reach the villages left without any food and water about fifteen hundred a fit and three million affected by the disaster so fall for call say more heavy rains are expected over the next few days. of all the places you'd expect to find american star diners or glossy provocative magazines and arab states in the heart

of the middle east might not be your first guest but jordan is fast becoming one of the most westernized countries in the region paula steer looks into why the younger generation is showing tradition and telling 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 find it in like rural areas a lot of our readers. they have a modern way of thinking well and so modern the dead a different way of thinking a lot of them have studied abroad is a list abroad they work abroad and they take these little mindsets 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 you . also have it and you know you are martin be one of the top three english major 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 the 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 oh it's a want it right and essentially when somebody when there's a demand you get it. 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 in american culture and says she choose western music in movies of a traditional am. any day a lot of us have come from like culturally diverse societies that either your mom or dad might be for and you know this is a new trend in joining it's far more accepting the fact that you know you're not limited to marrying an arab or a jordanian and although like a lot of us go study abroad and abroad you get so many different cultures and so many different people but surely it's the feel some of the influence also comes from the government she's the first to admit that the fashion that blossoms the pages of her magazine 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 typically the more modern part of the city that is kind of going to develop in westernized honestly i

would say it's probably a lot of influence from the government level you get a lot of support need 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 spoke at 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 you a better job after all the king's mother is english. tea among. today of course with plenty more stories for you to explore here's just some of what you'll find right now at dot com india's economic powerhouse spaces future risk with a generation growing up illiterate stricken children's hope schools have jobs to feed that desperate families. and the power saving don't keep he's getting

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hello and welcome to the program good to have you with us a global cost of wheat has recorded its biggest mall playing crease for nearly forty years that's two to this beer drought here in russia and the view from the commodities market is similar to the retailers john c.e.o. of the index futures group says the large grain reserves in russia and the u.s. 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 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 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 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. check the markets now asian shares a mix this hour and over a percent walking kong flat to negative japanese automakers on the rise in tokyo after a two year old up hold for quarterly results and they were of polish outlook plus in stocks we bounded late on wednesday raising previous losses the markets will prove it by a report in the u. west showing the country out of the workplace in july and was forecast well snapped never thought for a month from a gain in his words we have bank putting on four percent on the license. and two other stories 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 reached the russian shore and many here say that this was a milestone for the whole construction of a noice pipeline project now what you see all says that's those pipelines in the special train this train will be back filled up to the initial seabed level when the construction of the pipeline is over but now this trench a pro-tax 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 the overbet is the starting point of the nord stream prime flying 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 prime plan is only progressing where the gas will and to blend him near the finish board will reach european customers to the north and coast of germany delivering over fifty five billion cubic meters of gas annually. a chief executive has held talks with deputy prime minister session in moscow rubber dudley's discussions included possible asset sales to cover the cost of b.p.'s gulf of mexico oil spill b.p. saying its interest in russia is not on the table instead the assets may be in

south america or central europe dudley's joined by tony hayward going chief of b.p. who 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 the static kill of its leaking well in the gulf of mexico and that oil is no longer leaking into the sea. now russia's federal antitrust service says there's a billion dollars worth of direct foreign investment on its way ahead of the agency eager artemia of outlined a raft of new deals approved by the government on wednesday the agreements cover such things as transport infrastructure food and mining in particular the canadian company will gain control over two strategic gold and sober fields in the north of russia in a deal worth more than three hundred million dollars. the audio rate of inflation in russia fell to its lowest level in july at five and

a half percent. consumer prices rose point four percent the same pace as in june figures were in line with analysts forecasts and it was quick chicken and orange prices which rose the most the coast of rice but not as capital when doubt. that's what we have time for i'll be back with more in fifteen minutes.

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this is a forest and she is also still raging across the lawn which areas of central russia with unused pool she eight thousand hundreds of homes destroyed the acrid smoke it's blown a hole small schools and that's intense today have to change residence the second day it's. a group of almost cia and military officials they claim israel is set to launch is the point that some call a round of small the experts believe the jewish state is making to make it impossible for washington to refuse giving its full minute. i don't see us magazines in english deejay's of finding an unlikely haven the middle east jordan's younger muslims say they're looking west of estonia new goodby

a more open culture and a belief that learning english was a kid. afghanistan's a drugs at trade shows little sign of letting go and it's russia this trying to hold back the tide of heroin that's destroying millions of lives. now his son the man in charge of making that happen. for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. eh.