and there's also the surrounding houses were completely burnt down as well this is the former family bar room now all the stones there are the tiles from the rooftops the forests around this area all were being complete destroyed by these wildfires and that's left firefighters with a serious problem there's still smoldering ground beneath them and that sets of all to reigniting into a full scale fire you sort of see behind me this smoke billowing from this smoldering ground that actually just turned back into flames now this isn't just a problem facing moscow region it's one gripping the whole of russia as well yesterday there were over five hundred such fires across russia that rose overnight to over a hundred but firefighters have been doing their best to tackle the brace bought it down by about two hundred fifty flame distinguished about two hundred fifty five's in the process but they still have these impacts and it's just been announced that fifty people have now died from these wildfires this bring the total up from forty

eight and my colleague maria she went to see one village it's really been left in the show since these fires. rushes in flames. the hottest summer on record has also become one of them is destructive mess in forest fires have already burned about thousands of hectares of land here with more than forty and that's more than fifty thousand homeless with the wind speed twenty meters per second it's moving through fourth as you can see behind me the frozen now leaving behind a trail of devastation. this used to be a small picture is clearly each naslund and beautiful pine forest some one hundred fifty kilometers south of the russian capital and paradise to the three hundred people who had lived there with a kindergarten. and a community home. it will never be the same again. to dismiss for

a frightening display of mother nature's fool force to change it forever. twelve perished in the inferno sun in her refined circumstances panic has been spreading 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 and most people in the village managed to flee galina was one of those that escaped 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 above 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 vans 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 it staff in smoky and it's 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'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 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. most region. well the capital may

be scorchingly hot but at least this morning muscovites woke up to a clear sky the smoke from wildfires which it hung heavy in moscow has finally been blown away by winds stacey bevins brings us up to date. what a difference twenty four hours make clear is guys in russia's capital now you have a clear picture of the family behind you 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 thick 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 the facts 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 nazia 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 or you garbled on gravel it's

a really odd couple keep feeling and muscovites are a little bit impatient and they're a little frustrated because the sheet has been going on for so long you couple that with the unbearable smog and the how difficult it makes it to breathe and people just want it to end now 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 come because the drought is still here there's no rain in the forecast and there's more projections for high temperatures. are two states events reporting there from central moscow now police in carriages have used live rounds and tear gas to break up anti-government protesters just outside the capital bishkek riot police who've been on standby opened fire after being attacked with stones our correspondent. is in bishkek with the latest. following a very tense few hours just outside at

a checkpoint by the city of cond where there were just a few dozen meters separating riot police and a few thousand of protesters who demanded their requests be heard and met basically they were calling perot's out the wire the interim president of kurdistan to hear their demands to hear their complaints and take them into account basically after those negotiations didn't seem to go anywhere as the leader of the opposition in the long discussions with the head of police after those discussions failed the crowd started advancing on the barricade of riot police riot police formed basically a live barricade across the road would not let them through at which point the crowd started pushing calling for everybody to gather together some stones started flying towards riot police at which point they opened fire into the air their war force shooting blanks into the air but it still made it to reflect the amount of

noise they were also shooting sound grenades they used tear gas to disperse the crowds the crowd started running with the riot police some members of the army and police force chasing them down the road and they basically pushed them back for around two kilometers detaining some people on the way after a few hours and all the crowds were dispersed on the road has already been opened the roadblocks have been lifted we saw some people being detained in a somewhat unorthodox fashion they were being handcuffed and put into trunks of on marked vehicles we can only assume these are police vehicles but right now everything is very quiet both here in bishkek and at the checkpoint where the violence actually took place so far the authorities the official authorities the ministry of internal affairs is saying that all of the issues that the opposition did have with the government have been resolved apparently some later negotiations took place. despite both sides and they are there will be no more violence or any

rallies taking place either here in the capital or anywhere outside the opposition however is staying quiet for the moment they're not exactly publicizing their intentions or plans or in fact commenting on whether their house been any negotiations between them and them and the government so we are still waiting to hear on what they are planning to do but as for the moment it does seem that call has been restored. and of course today is on the latest in a series of violent incidents that have shaken the country since an uprising toppled president by kiev earlier this year he was forced to flee in april when protests in the north of the country to spread to the capital and turned bloody shortly after an interim government was turned into power to restore order however the relative calm was broken when in june interethnic violence erupted in the south of the country leaving hundreds dead and injured a volatile situation in the country watched closely from abroad as your family home

to my military bases u.s. transit center in minot which help for operations in afghanistan and a russian air base in kong. well political analyst iran stuff. the situation in kyrgyzstan has much broader international significance. there is growing instability in the north. and this is just a few hundred kilometers it way for all this. stuff so it's good just because a non-controlled the territory where there is no real authority and where there is the rule of force. and there are clearly those then of those who are on the on the grass she's not really astonished me i think well we have another place to go and then you will have the wider international consequences and developments be around pleasant developments. those political analyst yvonne there

you're with are to you live from moscow of course for all our top stories features and blogs you can always log on to our website our team dot com on line for you twenty four hours a day you know some of what you'll find there right now that rock legend tom is in the russian capital ready to entertain moscow takes days to prove he's still got it and after almost fifty years of informing. and find out how a new partnership between the cia and google to track the web browsing behavior is making some easy. a group of former intelligence and military officials is demanding immediate action from barack obama to prevent a war in the middle east they claim israel is counting on washington to offer

unconditional support for an attack on iran as early as this month it comes just days after u.s. top brass refused to rule out a strike on the a small mixtape the group which includes former cia agent says a war in iran will ignite a regional conflict which could lead to the end i only israel tehran has repeatedly refused diplomatic relations with television as it maintains the jewish state has no right to exist while michael chesnoff ski from the canadian center for research on globalization think israel won't strike until washington tells the tale. so your stories of. very. serious. people that have caused this but it's should be taken very seriously it is to keep from a military standpoint impossible for israel to actually launch a wall along with the green light for the united states we have to of this is this

is not strictly an israeli military project the united states since the mid ninety's indicated rather as a possible target that the war plans which have been ongoing since two thousand and four have been a joint program with us they throw in israel so that in fact these war plans already been going 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 and ultimately war in that region is the back before. natural gas the threat of war is real but implications of reaching.

all world order just. within the next few months the whole region with player up probably eastern mediterranean right through to the chinese border. parts there from michael just a dog from the canadian center for research on globalization now mordechai kadar from the israeli than israeli think tank with all four scholar that has worked has twenty five years experience rather serving in the israeli military intelligence told r.t. israel believes a regime change in iran is needed but that it can't be a team without a revolution or i'm going. for my assessment there is a will never attack iran by itself first of all it's very far away from us and we have to leave fuel to planes above a hostile states like saudi arabi iraq jordan which we don't elations with so it's very very complicated to do it secondly the israeli air force is rather small in comparison to the weeds of iran and do not list of targets which we should we

should they do with in iran but the goalie is unclear because if we deal with it let's say the nuclear facilities only they don't use can be done within a year so there's no significance to such an air raid if we take let's say personalities or. seem bands again think they can be very easily replaced the sad thing which should be done in iran is the gene change but this says you can get a from below from the from the people in the street or by invasion to iran like what happened in iraq and afghanistan these things isn't it cannot do by its sense . that was more to her from the israelis think tank begins to dot center for strategic studies now in jordan it's fast becoming one of the most westernized countries in the middle east with american style diners replacing traditional schwarm a stance a melting pot of western and arab values is producing

a new generation of so-called arab ease more susceptible to change argues paul this leader takes a look at jordan's ongoing cultural revolution. 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 this 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 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 they are only. able to. martin be one of the top three english media 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. pizza restaurants and people people want now it's a it's a wanting and essentially when somebody when there's a demand you give 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 air. any day a lot of us have come from 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 although that 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 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 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 to get a lot of support you 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 i mean these joke that on the streets i would be easiest spoke at a mixture of arabic and english for teenagers it's a way to praise the opposite six and it is true that speaking english will probably get a better job after all the king's mother is english. tea among. like look at some other stories dominating world news today british supermodel naomi campbell has given testimony at the trial of former liberian president charles taylor in the hague she's alleged to have received diamonds from taylor after a dinner hosted by nelson mandela in one nine hundred ninety seven campbell admitted to receiving what she described as a few dirty looking stones which she later gave to charity tellers accuse of

selling diamonds to finance a civil war in sierra leone he denies the charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. supporters of a new constitution for kenya are celebrating out. the no campaign conceded defeat preliminary results show almost seventy percent voted in favor of the law limiting the president's powers the constitution also includes emotionally charged change just to abortion rules land rights and muslim family courts the voting is said to have passed off peacefully it's a stark contrast to the two thousand and seven presidential election which exploded into violence and left more than a thousand dead. south korea has begun a five day naval exercise in the yellow sea the anti submarine drill has angered north korea which is threatened to retaliate by attacking participating ships the large scale exercises are being held in the location where nearly fifty south korean sailors died in the sinking of a warship some five months ago seoul blames the north for the sinking of its

warship however pyongyang denies any involvement. security forces have fired on protesters after a renewed on breast to rock to indian administered cash indian administered rather kashmir officials say at least four people have been killed becomes after weeks of demonstrations in the region and. around the clock curfew has been in place for the past six days almost fifty people have died over the course of. ten minutes we'll be looking into the transformation the e.u. has gone through within the last decade but first started that joins us with this outreach by their charlotte and news that infrastructure is going to get a boost that's rise of funds of final infrastructure projects being drafted by russia's finance ministry it will be six hundred seventeen million dollars planned on the details later in the program but russia is imposing a temporary ban on grain exports problem is sufficient says the measures necessary

to help farmers in the country and prevent the cost of food rising. no one was with me q due to the abnormally high temperatures and the courage drought i think we should impose a temporary ban on the export of green and its derivatives from russia we do have enough reserves point five million. we need to guard against domestic prescribers is. goes on to say that grain from state reserves will be distributed to the regions to help alleviate any shortages and those further aid for farmers to go home and provide a total of one point two billion dollars in assistance roughly a third of that will be direct aid the rest. where prices on the international community markets are racing to new highs following the decision in moscow russia is the world's largest exporter of wheat but this of a weather has wiped out more than twenty percent of the crop with every hot dry day

that passes expectations the harvest have become more gloomy the grain union is now predicting a week of seventy million tonnes or less the compares with nearly one hundred million tonnes last year the country's domestic consumption is seventy five million tonnes. let's have a look in markets now and us stocks of color on the open after first time claims for jobless benefits rose unexpectedly last week the high unemployment rate in the u.s. remains one of the biggest worries for investors the dow jones is no zero point two percent in the red. and european shares a mix of investors way up with decisions by the european central bank and bank of england to keep interest rates unchanged despite posting strong in its profit results the bank barclays is down two percent investors remain wary because of their reliance on the investment banking operations of progress. and here in russia the markets to fall in with both of course are sliding into read only employment news out from the new west. bank of the main losers for the state own bank shedding

more than one point five percent on the r.t.s. . the russian government is aiming to sell a ten percent stake in the country's second largest bank by the end of the year the share estimated two point seven billion dollars has been offered to a q eighty and investment fund but no agreement has yet been reached the state colony owns eighty five point five percent of the group but plans to decrease its stake two to four point five percent. russia's energy giant was hydro perms to change the security systems all its the food to use in the next moment the company is going to need a new program to monitor its sixty power stations and projects under construction following last month's events at the hydro power station in july six people attacked the station killing two security guards. of forming the turbine. to rebuild the pods expect to take two years and cost the company at least fifty

million dollars. because you chief executive robert dudley has been in moscow for talks with deputy prime minister igor search and topping the agenda was the possible sales of assets to cover the cost of b.p.'s gulf of mexico oil spill but b.p. is saying its interests in russia are not on the table instead the assets may be in south america or central europe is joined by tony hayward the outgoing chief of b.p. who take up a non-executive role on the board of the russian joint venture. the annual rate of inflation in russia fell to its lowest level in july a five point five percent month on month consumer prices rose more point four percent the same pace in june the figures were in line with analyst forecasts and it was buckwheat chicken and orange prices which rose the most the cost of rice bananas and cap it went down. a billion dollars worth of direct foreign investment is on his way to russia according to the country's federal antitrust service head

of the agency it go on outlined a raft of new deals which has been approved by the government these include such things as transport infrastructure food and mining in particular the canadian company came last gold will gain control over two strategic gold and silver fields little of russia in a dual worth more than three hundred million dollars a fund to finance russian infrastructure projects has been drafted by the country's finance ministry it will initially be worth around six hundred seventy million dollars but that investment should double in three years that almost a newspaper says b t v capital may become the key investor the main aim is buying shares in energy transport and utility companies russia has full in competitiveness according to global rankings and is now lowest among the bric countries with declining infrastructure being one of the key factors. and that's your update for this hour we can always find most tori's on our website called sash business.

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watching live from moscow our top stories this hour news authorities arrest opposition members as violence returns to the streets of the capital bishkek around a thousand gathered in front of parliament demanding the government steps down raising fears of the nude on the rest police use force to break up protesters who are said to be plotting violent overthrow. firefighters are on high alert across world as the country battles the biggest heat wave on record sparking hundreds of wildfires and killing at least fifty in moscow the toxic smog has cleared but ecologists say air pollution remains high forecasters predict it could be weeks before temperatures start moving. and taken by surprise former cia officials warn of a planned israeli led attack on the run and demands president obama publicly denounce

the move force use force to join in they claim television will not go through with the campaign in less it has the full military support of the united states. during the last decade twelve countries mostly former members of the eastern bloc have joined the european union and as more nations are becoming members of the club the e.u. is identity is changing political science professor waldemar store bought ski from the university of toronto gave our teams some insights on the process and the challenges it brings. professor while the brusque robots get thank you very much for being with us today thank you so in your own words how would you define these european identity the emerging european identity will have probably the same nature as our key.