other kitchen paraphernalia like kitchen utensils and various other things so this was somebody whose home people lived there people accumulated their possessions and they lost all of it in a matter of hours one of the local residents here didn't want to go on camera but he showed us mobile phone footage of when the fire started it was literally just a wall of fire as tall as the trees it was terrifying and they said that it all happened in almost a matter of seconds there was 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 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. now let's go to the heart of the russian capital where we're now joined live by you got a piece going off not far from ready. and hello to you of course so it does look a little bit like there's been a slight lessening of the smoke where you are but i know this morning it was absolutely appalling just how bad is the situation for people in moscow do you think is there any improvement to be expected. while at the moment it does seem like the situation is improving just a little bit the wind is picking up just a little bit the compared to just a few hours ago when it was impossible almost to see the kremlin which is just right there are several hundred meters away and as you just said in the very heart of the capital which is one of the main tool is to tractions the miners in the square and people usually take photos of the kremlin so this was hardly possible just a few hours ago but i can tell you it's still very hard to believe that without

a gas mask i have my own one here but despite the mask my ory eyes are still aging and still watering and this heat is not making it any easier the environmentalist are saying that currently the air in moscow is so polluted that breathing it just for a few hours is equal to small king two packs of cigarettes they strongly advise people to stay inside to shut the windows to drink as much water as possible because these conditions are especially difficult for the elderly and for people with heart and lung problems and in fact doctors are seeing that the death toll in at hospitals across the city has now doubled and they see that that's because of the pollution authorities have organized several so-called small centers across the capital where water and gas masks are being distributed but in fact there are also reports that pharmacies and many form a season across the city are sold out of medical masks but what i would like to

tell our viewers who are in moscow. now is that i've been told these medical masks are really of no use in these conditions what you need is a mask like this one which has an opening equipped with a filter that may be useful and that kind of makes it a little bit easier to withstand these conditions but lots of people are trying to flee the capital going to wherever is wherever place without the smog and without the small and without this pollution and of course those four in the capital at the moment are very concerned about the situation let's listen to what some of them had to say. the smoggiest terrible icon grief it makes my eyes each and nothing helps no matter what we do with it where masks were put went through things we did when dues. which were people shouldn't work in such conditions the government must send them. these like you who come to their

establishment here it makes my throat sore and his view is dreadful. you know until you make sure the situation is so bad that i've just been speaking to some of the people here on the line years now and i've been given this advice to would send this sheet by while laying down the refrigerator opening it up and then you may be able to get some sleep in the seat i don't know whether this was a joke or not but at the moment it looks it looks really like a good idea and in these conditions of weather forecasts to predict a change in winds perhaps on tuesday or on wednesday and a little bit of cooling in temperatures perhaps even a little bit of rain because moscow is currently praying for a change in weather so perhaps moscow winds will get a little bit of an easy from these conditions but the forecast also say that this

small is expected to return by the end of the week certainly the. mental conditions here in the russian capital are bad but let's talk about the moscow region itself what's the situation like in other cities and where can people travel to to just get away from this war. while the situation in moscow region is almost as bad as in the capital itself but environmentalists say that in large cities it's even more so because this the small is mixed with the fumes and that it is even more all form for for the environment and for for health seventeen regions in russia have been effected by the fires so basically you have to choose where you need to go there are reports that it is a little bit better but not not call sort of them three hundred kilometers to the north of moscow you force them to seem petersburg should be all right but apparently it's also been affected by the small for one or two days during the weekends and now apparently it's

a little bit better i've been to the far east last week that's over a thousand kilometers away from moscow there's no small there so that's a good place to go but it is a very very long trip and every expensive trip to take so i would advise people to just really examine the places where they should go and see in petersburg i guess is one of the best locations at the moment means it is also a good location but probably the best place to go is just to some resorts somewhere on a small island in the ocean. that sounds like a good plan you've got i tell you i have spoken to some people who told me that their neighborhoods are mostly empty at the moment as people are fleeing this awful smoke and smoke in the russian capital. is going to reporting from the center of moscow thank you. later this hour we've got more on the russian blazes wildlife and wildfire you look at how animal lovers in the moscow region try to save their vulnerable ones from the approaching flames.

he has been commemorating the victims of the atomic bomb dropped by the us sixty five years ago it was the second nuclear attack against civilians just three days after the first target was devastated as a result more than two hundred thousand people died either in the. radiation poisoning representatives from more than thirty countries gathered with survivors to highlight their message to the world that humans. cannot co-exist. the city of nagasaki is smaller than the city of hiroshima and so the ceremony was smaller and much more intimate as well but no less important that the time of the bombing about two hundred seventy thousand people live here in the city seventy thousand of those people died at the moment of the bombing let me give you a little bit of history he wasn't officially the primary target in fact. the city

of kokura japan was supposed to be the target but when scouts realized that there were clouds covering the city they couldn't see the target they moved onto nagasaki which was home of a munitions plant at the time there were clouds over nagasaki as well. there was a break in the clouds they were given the go ahead to drop the bomb and at that time eleven o two the bomb exploded in japan that moment was marked here today with air raid sirens and bells and a moment of reflection and inward prayer as people stood for a minute in silence and then followed by a declaration of peace one of the main messages that people wanted to get out here today was their hopes that nagasaki is the last city that will ever have to endure a nuclear attack we also heard from the prime minister of japan as well as the governor of the nagasaki prefecture as well as survivors of the atomic bomb explosion in nagasaki at the time we had the opportunity to speak to two of those survivors this is their story. sixty five years ago.

he 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 die that it was important to go on living. at first 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. and my left arm and shoulder all my skin was dripping and i had severe burns. eleven year old yoshi he was at home with his twin brother just two kilometers from the blast center on that fateful morning. at eleven o two i saw the lights 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 life that means sixty five. so that it true that. radiation is affecting human bodies for sixty five years.

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 a psychological damage of the event. the atomic bomb was extremely cruel america should never having dropped the bombs on human beings on the tests 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. people use the wood deterrent but i do not believe that human beings can co-exist with nuclear weapons

a reason why the a bombs survivors of hiroshima and nagasaki are pushing for peace and complete global nuclear disarmament sean thomas r.t. nagasaki japan. attempts to break down the cost system in india being resisted from many in higher costs while discrimination is illegal changing an ingrained mindset is more difficult than simply changing the law one school is experiencing this struggle as altie is counselling explains. it's a problem that's been simmering but now so only 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 doll it or untouchable in traditional hindu society only upper caste cooks. community minos and even now in some upper class children don't want to eat food

made by me their parents consider the food polluted by my touch what can i do i'm here to make lunch in the school and 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 that hard to swallow. the media a meal can entice poor parents to send their children to school because 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 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. after caste we believe strongly in the cost system we cannot eat food made touched by somebody from a lower caste that's why we moved our child from this government school and picked him into party activist said this kind of reaction demonstrates the difficulty in eradicating the caste system discrimination on the basis. of caste is illegal in india but the practice is still entrenched in rural areas where the kind of work you do and who you can eat with is largely divided along lines. can get a much larger really low 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 to surround mainland and never rise that. the government says legal

action will be taken against villagers who are poor cooks in schools the earlier this is done the better after all this attempt to get children of all castes to eat together irrespective of who's made the food is a small but important step in the country's journey to bridge social divisions god and seeing r.t. but. now let's get to some other news now making headlines all around the world and israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu defended his country's actions at an internal inquiry into the guards a flotilla incident he also criticized turkey saying it had been seeking a confrontation the inquiry was looking at the lead up to the storming by commandos of the gaza bound aid ship netanyahu said he was in the us at the time which is why the defense minister ehud barak was in charge of the operation. rescue workers are looking for over one thousand three hundred left missing after flooding in northwestern china the floods destroyed buildings and have left entire villages in

gansu province underwater chinese premier when job joined rescue efforts to save families still trapped under the rubble landslides triggered by the heavy rain have killed at least one hundred and twenty seven. let's get back to our top story wildfires across a large swathe of russia threaten to destroy everything in their path but saving those who can help themselves to a special community effort as artie's to move found out. a race against time but i thought everyone from the animal shelter who can help is helping do anything possible to keep the wolf or in this case the fire from the door because behind it live a 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 called us one hundred fifty meters and that of course the dancing flames were only stopped by this ditch quickly dug by a tractor and workers from the animal shelter are and 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 a shoes will no 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 still 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 five trucks a 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 that 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 archie mosco region. and in just a few minutes you can watch our interview with an expert on south asian affairs who says that a repeat of atomic aggression like voting like a sucky is impossible do stay with us for the first though here's the business update with kareena. my.

fellow i welcome to the program good to have you with us at this hour internet advertising in russia has increased thirty three percent of the first half of two thousand and ten year on year that's the forecast growth among all the sectors of the country's advertising industry the market as a whole group ten percent with growth picking up pace in the second quarter experts say if the dynamics keep up annual growth of the russian advertising market could be higher than earlier focused. and microsoft is expanding its supporting program for russian startup companies each company will get several million dollars earlier microsoft announced its plans to invest more than three hundred thirty million dollars in russia over the next three years for the first time the corporation is ready to invest into start up companies directly before it just supplied them with free software. and russia's car giant after vos resume production on monday the

company suspended production for a week in august due to of normal heat in the summer region after vos has seen a sixty percent boost in sales for july year on year as the car giant continues to benefit from the state sponsored cash for clunkers program and continues economic recovery. russia's first low cost airlines sky express is facing the prospect of having its license revoked because of financial problems and a lack of reliability it was supposed to be a pioneer the new world of low cost have trouble in russia so will it ever be possible to fly cheaply in russia template called a find. 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 regular air carriers so even the messick 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 a front for it russians first low cost airlines sky express was meant to be like that however it and that 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 off ryan there is a jet wuornos deal which neither of war 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 steeds constantine says russia offers few opportunities for a carrier to strip out expenses at 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 equally difficult for foreign low cost carriers to operate here mainly because of legislation it's were strictly regulated system or by a lateral agreements between russia and all european and all other countries which limits. the number of carriers number of just a nation of. frequencies of flies number of seats in there. all across. this limitation is. an airline actually mas and a lot of her friends marty. course care is. doing their best to avoid spraying to. try or approach resources water rushes aviation rules were

created in soviet times when some airports serve just a couple of planes a day and that is to say the government should reform the airspace code if it wants to develop cost effective air travel for the general public this could preview we've agreed to competition and be industry and make flying in russia less awful much room for the few. business r.t. . let's look at the markets now the russian markets are gaining on monday energy majors are leading with the top performing group with all the while six close nickel is getting involved and the r.t.s. up to a half percent banks are also higher would be t.v.n.z. very bad more than one percent in the black and shares in europe are also higher mid day trading with mining for arms and oil and gas producers leaving a broad based advance all giant b.p. again two percent after the cement procedures on the leaking well in the gulf of mexico have been successful now siemens is leading is

a leading gator on the dax up two point seven percent and two is up four percent on the footy. and news from the tourism industry have the hotel rooms in moscow are empty and it's not just because of the heat and small according to a survey by wheel estate company knight frank the average annual occupancy of moscow is in moscow is slightly more than fifty eight percent the sector did grow three percent this summer but the figure is much lower than in most european countries average hotel prices are among the highest one night in a typical moscow hotel will cost you up to three hundred dollars while in paris you would pay just two hundred thirty. that's all the business update for now but you can always find more stories if you log on to a website that's r.t. dot com.

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on the afternoon. this. car this. new. rochelle rage on the charred ruins there is no end in sight to. the wildfires ravaging russia and destroyed by. smoke from the fire strangling moscow driving residents out of the capital doubling the normal daily death rate. plus the survivors sixty five years since the us dropped an atomic bomb on those who are lives a calling on the world to ensure no other place suffers the same fate as this city . and india's so-called untouchables are reigniting

a debate over discrimination where those of a higher cost refuse to give up age old tradition despite government prohibition. the two nuclear strikes on japan are the only examples of atomic weapons being used to attack an expert on south asian affairs. says the only possible use of such today is self defense in an interview with. he explained why he believes the north korean threat is blown out of proportion. david i could hear but that's not going to you said it was prepared to give the minutes are responsible with the south korean and u.s. naval exercises in the yellow sea why do you think the reaction was some aggressive . this falls into the line of be a viewer that is generally considered as aggressive

a general aggressive stance north korea has 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 has become subjects for jokes remember the late one nine hundred fifty s. jokes about the one thousand two hundred fifteen serious changes warning so they issued warnings but nothing followed i think they could not have kept silent in their current position and they could not have approved of the maneuvers they had to say something now we're going to say they threaten but nothing specific happened there's been no new bill is ation in north korea their armed forces remain in their current position i think is just natural for north korea to take the stance of a military that's how would it know without the u.s. impose new sanctions against north korea at the same time it seems that north korea was nearly ready to go back to the six party talks do you think that you.