as there was almost literally nothing people could do the fire spread from the trees to the houses burning them down in seconds people losing everything that they've been accumulating for their entire lives and now they don't know what to do how to start over again and this of course is just one of the villages in russia where such a thing such a terrible thing has happened all across the country with the fires ravaging central russia for over a month thousands of people have been left homeless over five hundred injured and over fifty people have already lost their lives because of this terrible fire ravaging central russia and you could rants very devastating situation there for a lot of people well and also muscovites are no exception as you know for the last few days breezing conditions have been here so how are people coping with that. it's very hard to cope with that marina i've been born and bred in moscow and i've never seen anything like this of course the people do tend to flare up every summer

especially towards the end of the summer and on some occasions you could feel the smell but nothing as apocalyptic and as terrifying as this summer has been and of course the city especially in the city it's almost impossible to breathe with a level of talks talks like elements in the air above the a lot of the allowed limit quite significantly higher than the allotted limit and people of course have been finding it very difficult to breathe they are trying to use masks but those masks that are widely available to the public and pharmacies are mostly used to prevent people from passing on their respiratory illnesses and flu like viruses so they work at preventing the air spreading the air that you exhale but the air that you inhale they're not actually very good at filtering there's not a good enough filter there so the only way they do work is if you wet them but even then that works for only ten to twenty minutes so it's been very hard on the

citizens of moscow. and the small these terrible i can breathe it makes me itch and nothing helps no matter what you do you even when masks crudeness we did we induce them which would change with. these conditions the government. very stache engineer in my town and his view was dreadful. so this is what been affecting russians for the last month it's very difficult course breathing is almost impossible people try to do everything they can to avoid being outside to avoid breathing in this toxic air and there has already been help from the international community many countries sending their firefighting equipment and their fire meant to help battle this situation but right now without any rain or

without any change in the winds the situation doesn't look to get better any time soon all right catherine thanks for bringing us some of us of days from the moscow region caterina's are reporting there. and later this hour here in our team animal rescue. it seems like the fire was playing a game of cat and mouse with their more shoulder spring water from different sides but it seemed like the game was almost lost just a couple days ago when the fire was as close as one hundred fifty meters in the forest. find out how i am all rights activists managed to prevent a tragedy ten minutes here an hour to. the japanese city of not a soggy has remembered those killed by the second atomic bomb dropped by the u.s. nine hundred forty five a minute of silence was observed at eleven o two am local time the moment when sixty five years ago the bomb nicknamed fat man wiped out most of the city tens of thousands of people were incinerated instantly

with man more dying from disease linked to radiation ever since and those who survived a terrifying attack say was an unreasonably cruel and want to universal ban on these weapons are to sean thomas as more from nagasaki. sixty five years ago sumi taro taniguchi was enjoying a simple morning bicycle ride when in a tragic instant his life was changed forever. i was thrown to the ground and i heard an e.p. sing sound i thought i had been killed but i encouraged myself not to do it that it was important to go on living. at first sumi taro noticed his bicycle had been twisted and bent out of shape but as he started to move he began to realize the severity of his own condition one of. my left arm and shoulder all my skin was dripping off and i had severe burns on my buddy. eleven year old yoshi

kawi was at home with his twin brother just two kilometers from the blast center on that fateful morning. that's eleven o two i saw the flights and give to the floor to cover my hand eyes and ears there was a wave in our entire house crashed over us. go and his brothers crawled from the rubble and went into the city to look for their father who worked at the mitsubishi munitions plant close to the heart of the explosion on their way they found countless charred bodies and a terrifying scene you had. while crossing the river we were drawn to a woman who was walking with what looked like a wide belt or cloth trailing behind her but when we took a closer look it was her intestines coming out of her stomach there was nothing we could do. this is the hyper center of the bomb which means sixty five years ago it exploded five hundred meters above this exact spot and the people who suffered that horrific event well their stories are truly amazing but what they didn't know back

then and just as disturbing is the long term effects of that radiation the effect is continuing. cutting her. that means sixty five years is so that it true that. radiation is affecting human bodies for sixty five years see me tara taniguchi has had continuous surgeries throughout his life to remove tumors on his back caused by the radiation now he declares that the war did not end in one thousand nine hundred five but rather the effects continue to this day and even though. he wasn't as severely injured initially as an adult he has endured liver disease and two types of cancer attributed to the bomb as well as the psychological damage of the event. the atomic bomb was extremely cruel america should never have dropped the bombs and human beings on the test in new mexico should have been the end of nuclear weapons once the power of these weapons was

known. but having experienced the wrath of the world's most devastating weapon these two survivors have one shared message sit ins like. people use the wood deterrent but i do not believe that human beings can co-exist with nuclear sims a reason why the a bomb survivors of hiroshima and nagasaki are pushing for peace and complete global nuclear disarmament sean thomas r.t. nagasaki japan and the us launched atomic bombing of the two japanese cities triggered a nuclear race changing history in the process the saudi king and which will become america's cold war rival realize it had to have its own a bomb as a deterrent to stop a repeat of hiroshima and nagasaki are enough reports. and then there were two. on august twenty ninth nine hundred forty nine the soviet

union successfully launched first lie i think it's. taking the cold war new level. you're not having a bomb or the world had changed the nuclear research stored within years the arsenals of the u.s. and soviet russia could have destroyed the world many times over on the u.s.s.r. researched atomic weapons from the early nine hundred forty but it had lagged behind the us and that became frighteningly clear after hiroshima and nagasaki with the us and the u.s.s.r. becoming ever more hostile the soviets felt they had to catch up with american technology at all costs. mercury was needed for nuclear experiments and the states gathered all the mercury it had for for years afterwards not a single new thermometer was made in the soviet union at once scientists were assembled at a secret town in southern russia new greater towards after they told me to morrow go to the airport when that stand by the statue of stalin our people will put you

on an airplane i said hold on i haven't had the chance to pack my bags they said it doesn't matter what you must be there. despite every effort at the help from researchers who developed the american a bomb to complete the soviet nuclear project many were communist sympathizers and passed vital information that a soviet era serious on their bomb it's no secret that the first soviet bomb was a copycat of the one dropped on hiroshima by the americans are you. two years later the saudis tested their own design nuclear well. there it was a change. in the decades until the collapse of the soviet union the peaceful resolve of both sides was tested on several occasions the world was on the edge. well the nuclear annihilation debate still right joe on whether nuclear parity was a deterrent that prevented an all out war between the united states under solving

the union or the nuclear weapons was something that consigned the two nations to more than four decades of mistrust and miti either way during the cold war washington and moscow never came into direct conflict and at least in part this is that the nuclear parity. of moscow well it's unlikely that nuclear weapons will ever be used these days despite fears in the west that countries like north korea could resort to strike and asked of you have been an expert on south asian affairs in moscow and the full interview is coming up next hour and here's some of what he has to say. korea's been threatening to spill shoes of blood and destroy imperialists and their marionettes for several decades i would not overestimate the actual threat if you look at it from a historical perspective it has become subjects for jokes i think they could not have kept silent in their current position to say something now what are they going to see they threaten but nothing specific company sure there's been the bill is

asian in north korea the armed forces are mean to their current positions. to india now where attempts to break down the traditional caste system are being met with resistance discrimination based on the system is now illegal but changing mindsets is proving a lot more difficult than simply changing the law our current saying visited a school in eastern india to see how the problem affects people there. it's a problem that's been simmering but now so many davey sees it's fast reaching boiling point she's a newly appointed cook in this primary school and johnny board here to prepare the government funded midday meal but despite sony's best intentions some of the students turn their noses up at many creations because she's a ballot or untouchable in traditional hindu society only upper caste cooks

a lot of community minos but even now in some upper caste children don't want to trued me by me their parents consider the food polluted by my time each what can i do i'm here to make lunch in the school i treat the children here just like my own kids one hundred twenty million children across india receive a meet every working day in the largest school lunch program in the world but when the education ministry decided to send it cooks to get schools where the majority of pupils are upper caste hindus many found it hard to swallow. the media a meal can entice poor parents to send their children to school the kids look forward to it but there are some parents who don't want their children to eat food made by low caste people and have removed their children from here and also threaten us as well. meet the same family a member of the upper caste raj board community they refused to allow their ten

year old son to continue studying in a school which they felt didn't respect their customs and pulled him out immediately and look we are opera cost we believe strongly in the cost system we cannot eat food made touched by somebody from a lower caste that's why we're moved to child from this government school and take him into private activist said this kind of reaction demonstrates the difficulty in eradicating the caste system discrimination on the basis. of cost is illegal in india but the practice is still entrenched in. with the kind of work you do who you could meet with is largely divided along. then became much we know caste people are treated like at the upper castes or just about they tell us stay on one side wash the utensils that anything to humiliate test they want just remain low and never

rise that. the government says legal action will be taken against religious who are poor in schools the earlier this is done the better after all this attempt to get children of all costs to eat together the specter of the food is a small but important step in the country's journey to bridge social divisions got unseeing are to but. let's now take a look at some other stories from around the world then venezuelan president hugo chavez has urged colombian rebels to give up their hostages saying it would help pave the way for improved relations between the two countries china this is a public statement at a weekend meeting between the country's foreign ministers have made a meeting with the newly inaugurated colombian president possible and that's to take place on tuesday fallacious between the two neighbors soured last month when colombia's former president accused venezuela of giving anti-government colombian rebels a safe haven which led to severing of diplomatic ties. can

a state run news channel says at least one hundred twenty seven people have been killed in landslides triggered by heavy rain in the west of the country and the chinese premier has arrived in the gansu province visiting rescue or searching for the several thousand residents still missing after floodwaters tore through the area and it's the latest disaster to have the country this summer which has seen the worst seasonal flooding in a decade. for a federal police commanders in northern mexico have been suspended over alleged links to drug cartels and it follows the arrest of one of the for example. point on suspicion of involvement in murder and kidnapping over twenty eight thousand people have died since president felipe calderon on order to crack down on cartels in two thousand and six. well coming up here in archie we'll look at north a serious nature reserve and its renowned for its wildlife but is even more celebrated for its ancient architectural landmarks don't miss that in our special report on the way in about ten minutes time.

discoveries. communicate with. test yourself and become free. nature can give you. and returning to our top story now about the wildfires raging across russia as flames are destroying vast forests animal activists are desperately trying to save some of the creatures affected. reports from an animal shelter outside moscow a race against time. everyone from the animal shelter who can help is helping do anything possible to keep the wolf we're in this case the fire from the door because behind it live with thousand different animals with no escape.

each has its own story this monkey was no longer wanted because he has diabetes each day he needs two shots of medication and gives back a little thank you for the care. however his and his friend's new home is in jeopardy oh flames are threatening to overrun the shelter it seems like the fire was playing a game of cat and mouse with animal shelter and spring on it from different sides and it seemed like the game was almost lost just a couple days ago when the fire was as close as one hundred fifty meters and that of course the dancing flames were almost doubled as quickly dug by a tractor and workers from the animal shelter armed of buckets shovels and fire hoses their efforts pushed the flames back by kilometer but the danger remains. right now the fire is coming from that direction we put out the ground five of the treetops of burning to it so hot on issues will metal saying for almost

a week employees from the animal shelter how flawed the flames around the clock we have thirty workers and most of them are here just a few are taking care of the animals evacuating around a thousand animals is very difficult almost impossible and you cannot do it quickly special equipment is needed for some species like bears so they've had little other choice than to fight nature's full fury themselves but with little help from the authorities. when we tried calling the firemen they told us that fire trucks have busy and we have to extinguish the fire sounds like you can put in and manpower the firemen say there's only so much they can do it we're working double shifts additional shifts people shouldn't be insulted by have to fire trucks and provide help where it's needed there is no threat now for the villages animal shelter or anyone else the fires are under control. this means more of the water could now be used for more peaceful purposes timothy crosser r t mosco region.

briggs's have today here on r.t. for more there is our web site r t dot com remember that and we'll take a look at what's happening in business with stephanie don't go away. hello welcome to the business bulletin russia's first low cost airline sky express is facing the prospect of having its license revoked because of financial problems and the lack of her life it was supposed to be a pioneer in the new world of low cost travel in russia so will it ever be possible to fly cheaply in russia china put it finds out. this airplane costs about ten dollars an hour unfortunately this is the closest trust funds can get to a low cost airline in this country of regular air carriers so even the last six flights at the price of many people's monthly salary and russians are craving for

the discounters so popular abroad eight pounds from liverpool to crack of twenty euros from all sorts of front for russia's first low cost airlines sky express was meant to be like that however and are praising prices to match the network airlines but without the reliability or in-flight service constantin to tear down the head of charter airlines redwing says flying low cost is very expensive in russia and the experience of express proves it is impossible to repeat the business model of ryan there or is a jet wuornos do it. it's only possible to make a quasi low cost airline was just a budgetary or we will have one or two but we won't be able to have such extremely low tariffs as in europe or the states constantine says russia offer a few opportunities for a carrier to strip out expenses twenty percent temporary juta on planes and monopolize asked services contribute equally to all russian carriers and the cost

is high then most cities just don't have second half was which are widely used by discount as in other countries and it's really difficult for foreign low cost carriers to operate here mainly because of legislation. it's a very strictly regulated system of bilateral agreements between russia and all european and actually all the countries which limits their number of carriers number of just in nations the frequencies of slides number of seats in their drive to overcome the is there of course a and these limitations. any airline actually marse found a lot of air france minor. during the. spring

to mark trial or approach to resources what oh russia's aviation rules were created in soviet times when some airports serve just a couple of planes a day and the government should reform the airspace code if it wants to develop cost effective and travel for the general public this could prove the way for greater competition in the industry and make flying in russia less free if you. business r.t. . let's have a quick look at how the markets are doing japanese stocks are low of monday's trading session with export names once again leading the decline of continued strength in the cabinet shop one hundred people showed up holding one and a half percent weakness in asian stocks follows a worse than expected u.s. employment data out on friday suggesting economic recovery is not using traction. with global trends the russian markets finished last week in the prices declined and that disappointing jobs report from the u.s.

concern that economic growth is slowing. was among the main losers sipping two percent. russian markets will start trading next hour here in moscow amongst other things investors will be closely watching oil and wheat prices alexei's about kim head of investment strategy of capital tells us what to expect. this week we will be watching for the market's reaction to the. u.s. economic data the labor markets for july came on the low end over the expectations and the market already sold off a bit on friday on these new. fall through falls. the second big factor is the exchange rate dynamics we. appreciate that we pull over the past couple weeks or the expectation that the center. the bank will allow greater courtesy appreciation to counter inflation risks building up as

a result of the deficit of grain following the heat and fires the draft and we got this for the exchange rate appreciation is something the market is extended spitting and would like to have the six patients voted. washes car giant after this to resume production on monday the company suspended production for a week and will go to abnormal heat in the somare region after us has seen a sixty percent boost in sales for july year over year as a carjacking continues to benefit the state sponsored cash for clunkers program and continued economic recovery. and that's all the business you saw now but i'll be back with more updates for you in about an hour's time and you can always find the stories on our website that's r t dot com slash.

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me watching are to going to live from moscow look at the top stories the crisis sparked by wildfires raging across russia shows little sign of easing over fifty people have already died and hundreds of thousands of hectares of forest have burned down. meanwhile people are fleeing the toxic smoke covered russian capital unable to reach both in their homes and outside those they can get help at special air conditioned smog relief centers. and sixty five years since the u.s. dropped a second atomic bomb on japan survivors of the deadly blast in the city of night a sock they're calling for complete global nuclear disarmament. this way outlines i'll be back to top the hour and meantime though we travel to the caucasus to explore the beauty of the north korean national nature reserve and our special

report that's coming right up. among the snowy peaks. of the greater. the republic of north. touched. closely here. from the top of the rivers rushing to hundreds of strings which. they can make their own among the rocks and mountain tops up to four thousand.

in spring time. is slowly coming to life. the first flowers to welcome the. grass. is the reserves may. only just beginning to flood. in early spring people used to get to the rocky range. nature reserve staff. existence by chance when.