rubble strewn everywhere and even here there is a tree from this running woodland that was on fire a blaze 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 ground 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 it reignites now as you can probably see around me there is this choking small but 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 there are eight hundred forty such flies going on around russia that's actually risen over night by three hundred twenty fires and that's

a pass and that we've seen emerging over the past couple of days are 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 to forty degrees celsius until this improves then the vegetation will still be some very susceptible to fire now there is perhaps a more welcoming news for those in the nizhni novgorod region there was a lone bells ring about a fire that surrounding a nuclear power plant there now that has. authorities there have said that all of 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 phenomena she visited one such village that's been left devastated. 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 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. 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 for over twelve

perished in the inferno some in hurry find 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 their place of refuge became their tomb temperatures inside became too hot to survive. most people in the village managed to flee galina was one of those that escaped and a later she's bag hoping to find something tagged but it's all in vain sure of lames was spreading up high even of other tall tower and the black smoke filled all the space below i felt really scared when i saw a red fire glow and black smoke you know i've seen houses and vans burning but here the entire village burned down completely this was really horrifying yet the dormitory of a local college has become a new home for dozens of homeless its staff in smoky in 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 house is a rebuilt the victims of this unstoppable and merciless force who try to rebuild their lives and consign these ghost village to the past all here would rather forget. reef notion off the most creature. possibility has improved greatly in the capitol and you can see the privilege in the distance behind me now

was in a haze but the point is you can see it and just just today from this vantage point of view what a bit of possible flow while the side effects of the fires the smoke have a lightened a bit in that in the capital the side of sets have it we still have the facts the laws of the burning eyes and 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 an end now doctors are urging people to if you ever 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 the health ministry is also suggesting that maybe they should delay the first day of school and sars september first but because of the extraordinary heat the awful breathing

conditions i think that maybe we should just keep the kids and side for a while until things clear up a bit and now you have the weather that's that started that help started these fires and continues to stoke them and so you help people have people wondering just how long will russia continue to burn because there's no rain in the forecast any time soon and we're going to continue to see record heat. even one jacob groups were pushing. to other news 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 suddenly and to make it politically untenable for a bomber to do anything other than offer full do u.s. military support but the michael jackson dog ski from the canadian center for research on globalization thinks that in reality israel would be washington's backing first. so your stories of them are 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 of the us 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 though 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. a stone near is again holding a second world war military commemoration which critics also celebrates nazi collaboration it's a competition held annually which will reenact the work of a course called the nine hundred forty one the event is

a named art and the universe of the stain volunteers who spied behind red army lines as they fought the nazis it's been hell since ninety ninety four but most cases there are an attempt to glorify a stone in collaboration with hitler's germany but for courses that european parliament member going forward things only a small minority of people so. what concerns me about this it appears have some support from if you all the officials were near stony 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 extreme sports or basing it around a nazi collaborating organization. for 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 i can't imagine that anywhere would you support for this kind of event. in food speaking to us from brussels that. the european union has been expanding in the past few years but it seems that some former soviet states who joined recently can be an obstacle to cooperation later on the ship announcing the tools to a man has delved deep into european identity to 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 no other reason than 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 cooperation and not based on facility now the problem is that the process

of integration with you even those who have been doing you know from the very beginning are most integrated dose which is the joint are less than those who have because your 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 certainly present and it is at least for for now it would have an obstacle. do you catch more insights into how your is adapting to it's a bold thing identity in just a few hours time or i should quick check now on world news this hour and b.p. claims that it reached a significant milestone in the gulf of mexico washington says almost three quarters of the oil spill has been either mopped up or naturally dispersed president obama says that the battle to contain the massive oil spill is finally be close to coming

to an end on wednesday b.p. managed to block the ruptured well by pumping in a special type of mobs. a federal court in california has overturned the state's ban on same sex marriage the judge says that proposition eight violates the american constitution it could now be up to the supreme court to decide californians that now really approved the ban to years ago when what was the most expensive social political campaign in u.s. history critics of the gay marriage say the new. his decision is ignoring the electorate. the vote counts on the way in kenya after its constitutional referendum early results show that over sixty percent voted for laws to limit the president's paolo's it also includes the mostly charge changes to abortion rules the land rights and muslim family courts for the first time in the country the vote

was held without incident of a march change from the intense violence of the two thousand and eight presidential election when more than a little than dives. were scissors supermodel naomi campbell has arrived at the hague to testify in the trial of former liberian president charles taylor prosecutors say campbell accepted a blood diamond from tape after a dinner hosted by nelson mandela thirteen years ago taylor is accused of selling the gems deigns to finance a brutal civil war in sierra leone he's being challenged to levon counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity both campbell and taylor deny the charges. and the wall street journal reports that top u.s. investors are bracing themselves for a painful period of japanese style the flay sion the worry is that the economy will freeze as people wait for price cuts before buying anything or later most kaiser explains the u.s.

has dropped itself into a deep financial pit the financial system is broke in its coal lapsed died so it's a walking zombie they call the japan the zombie economy because japanese banks zombie banks now in america designed the economies of dead zombie banks citi group is a zombie bank the start was just used as 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. they're involved in a wholesale market operation every single day the lord nobody doubts that. max and stacey are here in just fifteen minutes. now of all the places that you'd expect to find american style 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 there are shelling tradition and turning 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 flying that 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. mind sets with them and they come back here and they apply to the way of life a man 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 their only civilization will. 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 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. pizza restaurants and people people want now it's a wanting you know and essentially when somebody when there's

a demand you get it. 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 in american culture and says she choose of western music in movies of a traditional air. one is any day a lot of us have come from like culturally diverse societies like either your mom or dad might be foreign 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 we also 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 a joke feel some of the influence also comes from the government she's the first to admit that the fashion there plus is 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 you need in the us 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 to a better job after all the king's mother is english policy arty among. and of course also on line few twenty four hours a day with plenty more and all the stories we're covering and more else for you to explore here's a some of what's online is on the move in india's economic powerhouse faces future risk with a generation growing up a little sure it is poverty stricken children stop school for joy so feed their

desperate families. and the parasailing don't think he's getting a. five star treatment follow and not care if she checks into the kremlin stables it's all that all too you don't call. ok out there if you got the business update with. hello and welcome to the program it's good to have you with us the global cost of wheat has extended games to the highest price and twenty three months due to the worst drought in russia nearly forty years the view from the commodities markets is similar to retailers jack ruby on the c.e.o. of the index futures group says the large grain reserves in russia and the u.s. will help medicaid prices. 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 u.s. 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 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 on the markets now asian stocks and make this hour the nikkei is that what a half percent and sang it's losing point three percent and japan's benchmark is to gain for the losses the day before after the dollar we bounded from an eight month low against the yen the automotive climbed more than three percent at one point after reporting its best operating profit in two years now here in russia the markets are trading make stand morning session the r.t.s. was reversed to negative track by energy majors the mind six has opened on the

upside shares of oakland well snapped in the red on the r.t.s. so it's enormous to make you. think now 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 project will provide gas to millions of european homes when it's completed in two thousand and twelve by the coach and i have the details. where he and. the baltic sea where the construction of the noise pipeline is taking place and now what you see behind my back to pipelines the first one was pulled out of the water and reached the russian so we'll just do we could go all in july the twenty eighth and what happened just a couple of hours ago is that the second pipeline that 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 also is that those pipelines are lining 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 of protonix both pipelines to from any external impacts including waves current this massless 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 end the russian territory over the vessel will go back to finland and resume its work over there the part of dover bay is this point of the north theme 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 prime plan is only progressing where the gas will and to the plan here near the finish bore down and will reach european customers to the northern coast of germany delivering over fifty five billion cubic

meters of gas annually. the new chief executive has held talks with deputy prime minister in moscow were dudley's discussions included possible also sales to cover the cost of the gulf of mexico oil spill b.p.'s saying its interests of russia are not on the table and assets may be unself america or central europe. dudley's joined by tony hayward the outgoing chief of b.p. who will take up a non-executive role on the board of russian joint venture take a b.p. and in separate news for 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. russia's federal antitrust service says there's billions of dollars worth of direct foreign investment on its way ahead of the agency even as a team is outlined a raft of new deals approved by the government on wednesday the agreements that

cover such things as transport infrastructure of food and mining in particular the canadian company most gold will gain control over two strategic gold and silver fields in the north of russia in a deal worth more than three hundred million dollars. the annual rate of inflation in russia sells 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 in june the figures were in line with analysts forecast it was buckwheat chicken and orange prices which rose the most because the price bananas and cabbage went down. and that's your update for this hour but you can always buy most stars on our website if you logon to our t dot com flashback.

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she jumps. home for now it's time to fast mask and stay see her but look at how americans find out she is a dragging the u.s. into a zombie economy. don once again for the kaiser report i'm max kaiser and the wall street journal confirmed what we've been saying on this show for months that the flavor is the bogeyman. credit collapse and money supply is throwing the world into a deflationary spiral and now the question is what's next but let's talk a little bit more about some zombies and some vampire.