as you said i'm in moscow region a village in moscow region and i'm actually standing by an example yes another example of just the devastation and destruction that's been brought upon local communities here we have. if you can recognize it what was the garridge and inside is a car that's being burnt out now if the farm musos farce that residence he didn't have time to move the car out there was just engulfed and i was a similar story there's rubble strewn everywhere and there's also the surrounding houses were completely burnt down as well as a similar story for the forest surrounding these houses the what's been left is smoldering ground and that's been causing far fighters a lot of problems they've been having to watch that quite rigorously and in fact only just about ten minutes ago to my left there was a smaller smaller piece of ground that actually reignited firefighters had to come across and dampen the flames and put them out that's a problem that's persisting that's why there's so many firefighters still here. now

there in the heat as long as the heat continues at such high degrees people are saying experts are saying that this sort of is going to keep on occurring and this this problem is not going to go away now the. number of fires about she increased to from five hundred that's the total it was yesterday to over eight hundred firefighters have been talking to them in the early hours of the morning and that they've managed to put out two hundred fifty fires unfortunately there has been an increase in the numbers killed by these wildfires that's going up to fifty people one of who in central russia was found amidst the rubble another who later died in hospital after sustaining substantial injuries now there is some more positive news for those in. the region there were worries and alarm bells ringing about surrounding a nuclear energy plant there now they. authorities there have said that energy

nuclear energy material has been removed from upright so there is no danger of a radioactive spill or any explosions taking place. back to. moscow region there have been thousands of people displaced here and the really has been a lot of course and my colleague maria phenomena she went to see one village it's really been left in the show since these forests. rushes in flames. the hottest summer on record has also become one of the most destructive mess in forest fires have already burned about thousands of actors of land in. more than forty in the morning thousands homeless with the wind speed of twenty meters per second it's moving on you can see behind me it's approaching 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 a paradise to the three hundred people that lived there with a kindergarten and too much and a community home it will never be the same again it to dismiss for a frightening display of mother nature's fu force to change it for river. twelve perished indian through some in her refined circumstances panic has been sprayed in on people as fast as the flames have been engulfed in their homes five people an old couple and modern to saw on and another woman decided to hide in the basement of 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 south it intact but it's all in vain sure

of lames was riding up high even a mother told tower and the smoke filled all the space below i felt really scared when i saw the red glow and black smoke which you know i've seen houses and vans burned here 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 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 caller to sleep. but they hope this tape here will not be long or 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 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 ghosts religion to the past all here would rather forget. mosca region. well this is just one example in one village in moscow region this problem has engulfed russia as a whole seven regions have been declared a state of emergency seventeen regions in total have been affected by these flaws indeed prime minister vladimir putin he said the situation is still very dangerous ok a final thought update as to what's happening in the wider moscow region jacobs will cross over to stacey he's right in the center of the capital for us so he most scary experience the worst of the small so far on wednesday really was horrendous is it any better this morning. hello to you alison jake oh well it is and what

a difference twenty four hours make clear skies in russia's capital now you have a clear picture of the family behind me this is the polar opposite situation that we had yesterday what you would have seen from this vantage point is a wall of white just take smog in fact it was difficult to see even fifty meters in front of you it really was like living in a snow globe but just because the affects of the fires aren't as strong today it doesn't mean that the side effects aren't i mean you people still are experiencing nausea runny eyes and all around discomfort if you're out in this for too long because the air pollution is so high six times what is deemed as normal you feel like you snorted a day on or you gargle the odds on gravel it's a really uncomfortable feeling and muscovites are a little bit impatient and they're a little frustrated because the heat has been going on for so long you couple that with the unbearable smog and how difficult it makes it to breathe and people just

want it to end now obviously and it's gotten to the point where doctors are urging the elderly and people who have breathing problems just to stay home if you don't have to be outside if you can work from home to. that because it's just not worth it and also the health ministry is suggesting that maybe russia should hold off on the first day of school it's got to for september first but because of the conditions right now they're thinking that maybe it's best to hold to postpone on the first day of school not mention the frustration that many months provides of having because there doesn't really seem to be in this site jake mentioned the flare ups with the fires that seem to be more firefighters make in advance of the more fires come about and so you have the weather that are that stoking and has started these fires and we don't know when the end is going to calm because the drought is still here there's no rain in the forecast and there's more projections

for high temperatures now and it's really not a prediction the big wide open border they wake up this morning in moscow and indeed across all russia all right now many thanks to you both that was also stacy bivins reports from the center for capital for us and. grieves in the mosque a region. but it was so focused now on the situation around that nuclear power station in the town of sod off which jacob mentioned and with me now is said again another call from. the russian state said g company which operates the facility and the local what's been done to secure the site all facilities so that there is no risk to the plods. part well first of all let me tell you about the situation we took over. for peace more in for example according to general plots through poor. brother because the frog from client before was due either the local parsimony far far of this. nuclear science or simpler so there are

fights and human rights locally and one morpheme robots from them are quite common sure on the station c.n.n. so really important because. they can fight the flames in places we shot on accessible for people. one of the most important themes. and i think we have now. let's say very good weather conditions because we do not have strong wind there. and to prevent all sprayed in flames. firebreak space we have why don't. they exists in rolled on the industrial side. to make this fire break space larger to prevent spread flames four hundred meter is and. recalls

are working on this from yesterday and as you security i mentioned to us that the during security council meets and all the explosives were removed from facility this week could be. near their line of fire so it means that we have no three good people to. fight status or several from you clear first or sent them out at the same notify me if these follow is there are very rare events home may when designing facilities such as the one you've been describing in the tunnels not all but these kinds of natural disasters take into account. well actually several for nuclear sound as well as the second fatal nucleus center and other nuclear facilities designed sixty years ago and.

they were secure at that in the middle of nowhere and it was one of their advantages of that decisions because. one of the conditions was to play. neighbor country was to place them. on the forests. around the place them in the. region such as for example your role. where the quantity of sunny days is the lowest. in our country and. the target was to protect from air intelligence so that was the strategy but now as far as we see climate change is probably it is not the last summer we have now we have to protect our facilities frank these kind of theories such as

wildfire so i think one of the decisions which will be taken it will be to why them this firebreak. space mere physical protection barrier so facilities and industrial sites i came to know because many thanks they still sell those that can overcome the spokes person for russia's new clear agency of author thank you. again let's move on to some often use 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 while the experts explain israel wants to launch a war something and make it politically untenable for paul much do anything other than offer a full u.s. military support but michael tilson dorothy from the canadian center for research i made my vacation things that in reality israel would be washington's backing for us . 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 wall. 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 the run as a possible target and the war plans which have been ongoing since two thousand and four in fact in the wake of the bombing and 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 intimating that israel might do the work for us still to speak iran has ten percent of the global oil and gas is 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 flair up from the eastern mediterranean right through to the chinese border. now check on some other world news this british supermodel naomi campbell is facing questioning in the hague over the trial of former liberian president charles taylor or campbell admits to being given what she describes as

new dirty looking stones by taylor after a dinner hosted by nelson mandela thirteen years ago but she gave to charity just a few hours later telling is accused of selling the gemstones to finance a group the social war in sierra leone where he's been charged on eleven pounds of war crimes and crimes against humanity which he denies. a federal court in california has a return the state's ban on same sex marriage the judges says that proposition eight violates the american constitution it could now be up to the supreme court to decide californians narron approved about two years ago what was the most expensive social political campaign in u.s. history critics of gay marriage say the latest decision is ignoring the electorate . now of all the places that you'd expect to find american style diners all glossy provocative magazines and arab states in the heart of the middle east why not be your first guest but jordan is fast becoming one of the most westernized

countries in the region. looks into why the younger generation the shelling tradition and telling all 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 would 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 there's a list 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 a man is one of the most western niceties in the middle east and is often called the new beirut among the ever increasing number of skyscrapers 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 they're only the same for seven s. a little more crazy enjoyable and also the only way to enjoy hearing martin the host 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 there are people people want now it's oh it's i 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 mix between cultures and she's lived in jordan lebanon and saudi arabia and

speaks fluent in 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 like you there your mom your dad my before 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 we all go like a lot of us go study abroad and abroad you get so many different cultures and so many different people but sean is so shocked feel some of the influence also comes from the government he'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 side typically the more modern part of the city that is kind of wanting to develop in western eyes and

honestly i would say it's probably a lot of influence from the government level you get a lot of support 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 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 policy r t m and. that is the way the new census our hair almost see after a short break we'll have a business update we go way. for the. we've got. the biggest. voice ceased to face with the news maker.

and i welcome to our business program and it's good to have you with us this hour the global cost of wind has extended gains to the highest price in twenty three months due to the west drought in russia in the only forty years the view from the commodities markets is similar to the retailers jet blue c.e.o. of the index futures group says the large grain reserve than russia and the us 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 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 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. trying to track on the markets now asian stocks and make the sirens and making is that one a half percent i'm saying is losing point one point fifteen percent benchmark has been gained from losses the day before that's a dollar rebound from an eight month low against the yen to your low to climb more than three percent after reporting its best operating profit in two years and here in russia the markets are trading in the red dishonorable the r.t.s. and. less than half a percent yes has been for us too negative energy majors shares of oil and well

snap that's down on the r.t.s. so it's known as. 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 many ends of european homes when it's completed in two thousand and twelve and i think a question of a half a tease. where he. banged 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 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 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 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 a pro-tax both pipelines to from any external impacts including ice waves all 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 there the part of dover is the starting point of the nord stream prime flying through the baltic sea and then of the pump land 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 hair the gas will and to blend him near the finish bore down and will reach the european customers to the

north and coast of germany delivering over fifty five billion cubic meters of gas annually. stay with energy b.p.'s new chief executive has held talks with deputy prime minister intersection in moscow robert dudley these discussions included possible asset sales to cover the cost of gulf of mexico oil spill b.p. saying its interests in russia are not on the table instead of the past of maybe in south america or central europe. dudley's joined by tony hayward outgoing chief of b.p. who will take up a non-executive role on the board a russian joint venture taking a b.p. and then 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. precious federal antitrust service says there's billions of dollars worth of direct foreign investment on its way the head of the agency. outlined a raft of new deals approved by the government a wednesday the agreements cover such things as transport infrastructure food and

mining in particular the canadian company. 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. the annual rate of inflation in russia fell to its lowest level in july at five and a half percent month on month consumer prices rose point four percent the same page as in june the figures were in line with those forecasts and it was chicken and orange prices which rose the most and the cost of rice bananas and cabbage went down and found to finance russian infrastructure projects has been drafted by the country's economy ministry it will initially be worth around six hundred seventy million dollars but that investment should double and three years now according to the head of misty capital may become the key investor with a pond aimed at buying shares in energy transport and utility companies russia last twelve points of the global economy come competitiveness rankings in the past year

and it's now in the lowest place among the bric countries with declining infrastructure being one of the key factors. that's all for now headlines are next to stay with r.t. . one

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it's all falls down here in moscow this is all see a forest and the fall is all still raging across language areas in central russia with a needs to forty eight people dead and hundreds of homes destroyed and chris smoke kids living at home small school is less intensive they often chose to let the to several days. before was cia and military officials claim is set to launch a surprise attack on or around this month the experts believe the jewish state is looking to make it impossible for washington's regimes giving its full minute to pack a. and b. all cus magazines in india d j a fine day and i'm likely home in the halls of the middle east georgians a younger muslims say than the west says that slowly you knew a good quiet moral culture and to believe that learning english will secure a future jobs. now is the european union expounds so

too does its past analyse is it gradually so new nations each with their own way of wanting to do business for the former soviet states out proving to be an occasional fool in the side as we hear next from a man who's been keeping a close sawi 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 these european identity the emerging you would be an identity will have probably the same nature as our canadian identity here in canada our canadian identity means the charter of rights

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