the pressure of the fire now if you take a look around this house well they just that she rubble strewn everywhere and even here there is a tree from this running woodland that was on fire ablaze and led to this house is demise just to my right there is that woodland that has pretty much been completely destroyed all the trees are now. pretty much destroyed and what's left is a smoldering smoldering ground now only just about an hour ago firefighters you've been working hard to try to suppress this smoldering grounds to keep it under control one such area actually became a blaze again and three fire three fire trucks had to rush over to try to suppress that they have for now but they're still on standby just in case that it reignites now as you can probably see around me there is this choking smoke it's really got a lot worse over the last two hours as the days go on now this is just an example of what's going on around russia as a whole at the moment eight hundred forty such wise going on around russia that's

actually risen overnight by three hundred twenty five and that's a pass and that we've seen emerging over the past couple of days a wednesday four hundred new fires emerge and achieved a similar story three hundred fresh fires and experts are saying that this person will not change until the drought like conditions improve that the bonus temperatures as you said earlier of around thirty nine forty degrees celsius until this of bruce then the vegetation will still be very susceptible to fire now there is perhaps some more welcoming news for those in the nizhni novgorod region there was a lot of bells ringing about a fire that surrounding a nuclear power plant there now that has. authorities there have said that all the nuclear material from that power plant has now been moved so there is no threats of radiation or any sort of explosions and contamination back to moscow now thousands have been displaced by these fires my colleague maria. visited one such village

that's been left stated by the fires. rushes in flames. the hottest summer on record has also become one of the most destructive message forest fires have already burned about the thousands of hectares of land in here more than forty and that's more than fifty thousand homeless with the wind speed of twenty meters per second it's moving through fourth as you can see behind me it's approaching now leaving behind at 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 and 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 forever. twelve

perished in the inferno some in her refined circumstances panic has been sprayed in among people as fast as the flames have been in gulf in their homes five people an old couple and mother and a son and another woman decided to hide in a basement at their place of refuge became their tomb temperatures inside became too hot to survive. most people in the village managed to flee alina was one of those that escaped and a day later she's bag hoping to find something tagged but it's all in vain. sure the flames were spreading up high even about that tall tower and the black smoke filled all the space below i felt really scared when i saw red fire glow and black smoke you know i've seen houses and bands of burning 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 and 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. we've already got about seven thousand dollars in compensation each pensioners and jobless a bit more but what we are really especially waiting for that the new home they've promised it for every family within the next three months and we're ready to wait. when the houses are rebuilt the victims of this unstoppable and merciless force who try to rebuild their lives and consign these ghost village to the past or here would rather forget. the mosque or region. well that's just one story of one village within moscow region seven regions still

remain in a state of emergency and seventeen regions being threatened by these fires and as promised. the situation is still very dangerous ok i take up and that's all turned to the center of the capital and stacey give us an update as to how. it's doing at the moment the city experienced the worst of the forum wednesday just news so the situation farag any better this morning. good morning to you alex and jay and what a difference twenty four hours makes visibility has improved greatly in the capital and you can see the kremlin in the distance behind me now is in a haze but the point is you can see it and just just today from this vantage point the view what a bit possible while the side effects of the fires the smoke have a lightened a bit in that in the capital the side effects have it you still have the fact the

laws of the burning eyes all around this conference i mean if i can discover for you it's like you snorted and you're gargling on gravel it doesn't feel good and people are wondering just when will this torment come to when now doctors are urging people to if you are elderly or if your have any kind of breathing problems to stay inside because the pollution is six times what is deemed as normal so if you don't have to be out in this stay inside and that the health ministry is also suggesting that maybe they should delay the first day of school it starts september first but because of the extraordinary heat and the awful breathing conditions i think they maybe we should just keep the kids inside for a while until things clear up a bit and now you have the weather that that started that helped start these fires and continues to stoke the. and so you help people have people wondering just how

long will it take you to burn because there's no rain in the forecast any time soon we're going to continue to see record heat and all the prognosis that people what i've been to have i think all right for now many thanks. reporting from the center of the capital and jake aggrieved speaking to us from the region moving on now a group of former cia and military officials have written to president obama to say they believe israel is preparing to attack iran this month the experts explain israel wants to launch a war. and make it politically untenable for obama to do anything other than offer full u.s. military support but michael from the canadian center for research on globalization thinks that in reality israel would need washington's backing for. senator is a. 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 in fact has indicated rather as a possible target and that the war plans which have been ongoing since two thousand and four in fact in the wake of the. bombing an invasion of iraq have been a joint program u.s. they tow and israel so that in fact that 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 so 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 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. as stone as again holding a second well it will minute she commemoration which critics argue all things that the brits know won't see collaboration it's a competition held annually which reenacts the work of a close call to nine hundred forty one the event is named after the unit of the stadium volunteers who spot light behind the red army as they fought the nazis it's

been health and sometimes you know before but most case that tends to glorify a stain in collaboration with his germany but full of worse is the european parliament member glynn ford things only a small minority of people support. what concerns me about this it appears how some support from if you only officials were near 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's clearly both offensive and bizarre that while there is a new enthusiasm for stream sports you basing it around a nazi collaborating organization. second world war out assault 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 there be bridge

or to support for this kind of event for many people in ford speaking to us from brussels that. well the european union has been expanding in the past few years but it seems some former soviet states you joined recently can be an obstacle to corporation artie's ceviche other nazi 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 do would be either directly and that's how it started for no other reason than the reasons of geography the two have to have a relationship and it's better of course for both sides of this place where it is based on cooperation and not based on hostility now the problem is that the the process of integration with india. even those who have been you know from the very beginning are most integrated those who are just

a joint are less than those who have a 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 moscow years is certainly present and it is at least for for now a bit of an obstacle. if you catch more insight into how you are as the doubting to its evolving identity in around fifteen minutes time here on. our let's check on some other international news headlines at this hour b.p. claims it has reached a significant milestone in the gulf of mexico washington says almost three quarters of the oil spill has been either moptop or naturally dispersed president obama added that the battles that contain the massive oil spill is finally coming to finally close to coming to an end on wednesday b.p.

managed to block the ruptured well by pumping in a special type of not. a federal court in california. has overturned the state's ban of showing sex marriage the job says that proposition eight violates the american constitution it could now be up to the supreme court to decide californians narraway approve the balance you years ago and what was the most expensive social political campaign in u.s. history critics of gay marriage say the latest decision is ignoring the electorate . the vote count is underway in kenya after its constitutional referendum early results showed that over sixty percent voted for laws to limit the president's powers it also includes emotional challenge changes to abortion rules land rights and muslim family courts for the first time in the country the vote was held without incident that's a march change in intense violence of the two thousand and eight presidential election where more than one thousand dives. the wall street journal reports that

top u.s. investors are bracing for a painful period of japanese style. the warri is the economy will freeze as people wait for price cuts before buying anything coins are explains the u.s. has dropped itself into a deep financial pit the financial system is broke in its coal lapsed and it died so it's a walking zombie they call the japan the zombie economy they call japanese banks zombie banks now in america designed the economies up with dead zombie banks citi group is a zombie bank the stock is just uses a whipping post a whipping boy for enshrines to manipulate up and down twenty five cents one day and down twenty five cents the next day pure inside information pure market manipulation going or bernanke and the head of citigroup unveil they're involved in a wholesale market operation every single day the lord nobody doubts that.

just a very now it's time on t. now of all the places you'd expect to find american style diners or glossy provocative magazines an arab state in the heart of the middle east might not be your first guest spot jordan is fast becoming one of the most westernized countries in the region on his policy it looks into why the younger generation are shelling tradition and policy. 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 it's a modern the dead a different way of thinking a lot of them have studied abroad dismissed abroad they work abroad and they take these little. mind sets with them and they come back here and they applied to the way of life and money is one of the most westernized 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 tune into each day. 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 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 a it's a wanting you know and essentially when somebody when there's a demand you get. sorry could do or 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 to 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 far more accepting the fact that you know you're not limited to marrying an arab very jordanian and we although like a lot of us go study abroad and abroad you get so many different cultures and so many different people but shauna's the feel some of the influence also comes from

the government she's the first to admit that the fashion their classes 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 side 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 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 a better job after all the king's mother is english policia r.t. among. and of course we're also online view twenty four hours

a day with plenty more stories for you to explore here's just some of what's so online at auntie dot com to you at the moment india's economic powerhouse faces a future breast with a generation growing up in poverty stricken children schools have jobs to feed their best. families. and the parasailing don't he's getting it for her trouble with some star treatment follow and not care if she checks into the kremlin stables it's all. ok good morning she. says business news for a slum area big global look move will cost of we roll the has seen its biggest monthly increase in only forty years why well i hope we won't see the shortage of bread but that's right out of the hike is caused by the severe drought here in russia and the view from the commodities markets is similar to the retailers jag the 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 they're 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 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. time to check the markets now eighteen she has a make this hour making is that for over a percent while unconscious to negative japanese automakers are on the rise in tokyo up for to go to posted positive portland cells to deliver a bullish outlook here in russia yes it started thursday striding session in the

black hole and spare bank showing a downturn the markets rebounded late on wednesday raising previous losses across we have several times where banks were among the main gainers with a spare by putting on top of m i six. because section 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 and twenty twelve. we're here. in the baltic sea where the construction of the noise pipeline is taking place and that what you see behind my back to pipelines the first one was pulled out of the water and reached the russian soil just a week ago owned july the twenty eighth and what happened just a couple of hours ago is that the second pipeline reached the russian shore and many here say that this was a milestone for the whole construction of the noice pipeline project now what you

see also is that those pipelines are lining the special strange this train will be back filled up to the initial seabed level when the construction of the pipeline is over but now this trench of protonix both pipelines to from any external impacts including ice waves current this vessel is called gusto say now it is situated around 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 there the part of dover is this point of the north stream pipeline through the baltic sea and then of the pipeline will be connected to the gas transportation system of russia and i'm sure will prime klein and in the meantime the construction of this prime plane is only progressing where the gas

will and to blend hania the finish bore down and will reach a european customer the northern coast of germany delivering over fifty five billion cubic meters of gas annually a. new chief executive has held talks with deputy prime minister igor session in moscow robert dudley discussions included possible asset sales to cover the cost of the gulf of mexico oil spill b.p. saying its interests in russia are not on the table instead the asses may be in south america or central europe. joined by tony hayward the going to be for b.p. who will take up a non-executive role on the board of russian joint venture tank a b p and in separate news for the company it says it's 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. but just federal antitrust service says there's a billion dollars worth of direct foreign investment on its way ahead of the agency eager at a t.v. if all flight 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 can most gold will gain control over to three teacher cold and sober fields in the north of russia in a deal worth more than three hundred million dollars. the annual rate of inflation in moscow fell to its lowest level in july at five and a half percent month on month consumer prices rose point four percent the same pace as a jew the figures were in line with the analysts forecast and it was buckwheat chicken and orange prices which rose the most the cost of rice bananas and cabbage went down. that's all we have for you for this hour i'll be back with more and less than two minutes from.

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. forest and pete still raging across launch areas of central russia with at least forty eight people dead and hundreds of homes destroyed then crits like the. sky was less intense today residents say it's. a group of cia and military officials claims that israel is set to launch a surprise it's around the small the expos believe the jewish state is looking to make it impossible for washington truth to use giving its full minute. came. and belongs to us now convenes in english deejays and finding in all likelihood in the halls of the middle east jordan's younger muslims say they're looking west as they're snowed by in the open culture and a belief that learning english here jobs. now

is the european union expands so you two does its personality is that these new nations each with their own way of wanting to do business for the former soviet state sounds proving to be an occasional thorn in the sunlight as we hear next now from a man who's been keeping a close eye on psychology. professor while the rest grabovski thank you very much for being with us today and thank you so in your own words how would you define these european identity the emerging new identity will have probably the same nature as our canadian identity here in canada our canadian identity means the charter of rights and the policy of multiculturalism.