a little bit easier in the next few days we do even when even get some rain and a cooling in temperatures and a change of wind but they do see that the smaller is very likely to come back by the end of the week nearly the whole of russia's a central and western florida is. on fire now and over one hundred fifty thousand people including firefighters volunteers and even the army are battling these fires but we've heard that to despite the efforts of those the small that is still moving and arriving to new and new cities just for example seen petersburg is now also affected by the small and just a couple of days ago it was thought to be a good place to for a refuge from the city this small and russia's president dmitry medvedev has been monitoring the situation for a few weeks now personally and he says that we are trying to get the situation on to get under control but despite the government's efforts whether it is still very

unpredictable which is still to come through in general we've got the situation with the flash in the country under control but the weather is a normal we can forecast wind directions how the fires might spread so certainly too soon to relax the fires and the small are definitely a big problem for all of the people living in the affected areas especially the elderly and specially those with hard and long problems but one of the other devastating course of this whole disaster in this whole emergencies that several thousand people have lost their property basically just in a couple of seconds their homes were burnt to the ground by the fires and artie's catching us our boat went to see for yourself what devastation these fires could bring where one at one of a so-called country of villages just outside moscow where people have their summer homes it evidently used to be a really nice area there was a forest and people how. there holmes looking out into that forest used to be

obviously quite a nice place to be right now it looks like an inferno there is no more forest is just charred land and felled trees and here this is actually this used to be someone's home what's left of it is pretty on recognizable because it's been charred to a cinder this is somebody's back this is probably where the bathroom used to be all of this house as you can see most of it is just charred remains and from where the firefighters were fighting the blaze and so everything is just strewn around this is part of a car there is a completely burned out car in the garage this is obviously a part of it we don't quite know how it got there and why just a little bit over there with probably the bedroom because we can see the charred remains of the bed lying down there and this was evidently the kitchen there's the remains of us and some 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 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 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 the 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. well russia's deadly wildfires the smaug filled cities and

poor harvest to being seen by some environmentalists signs of man made climate change but little earlier i spoke to piers colvin of the weather action foundation who says the heat wave is down to climate cycles. climate has always been china but it has nothing to do with man and we predicted that there would be extreme heat in east europe and russia this summer and it's caused by a circulation pattern c o two does not cause circulation patterns what causes those is a combination of solar activity and the state of the phases of the moon healthy i mean excuse me just a minute you say this isn't caused by man how come the reporting this heat wave is recognize the worst in the thousand years of recorded history in russia and. has got something to do with this has really not nothing to do with only the only connection is man is here at the same time as the sun and the moon are doing things

you see a very similar situation happened about one hundred thirty two years ago where there was the size. of lunar magnetic state and there was he was in russia and there was so floods in pakistan. and in the previous few years there was also floods illegal summers also hundred thirty two years ago so these things are. physically in the moon so nothing to do with mankind and those who say they are to just trying to make money i would put but are we not ready there's a lot i'll we're not going to see this again next year the year on i mean it's only quite recently that a lot of very interesting question these things do come in bursts and we're working on that very question those forecasts we did say there would be a series of what summers in england for example which we had now will be a series of these very hot hot summers in russia we don't know we have to work on that but i assure you it's nothing to do with carbon dioxide and if you stop stop

driving around moscow it won't affect the next one. well later this hour here in r.t. we've got more on the russian places wildlife wildfires and we look at how animal lovers in the moscow region try to save the. approaching light. of the news the japanese city of 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 of the bomb as more than two hundred thousand people in the. radiation poisoning representatives from the thirty countries that would survive is to message to the world that humans and. for 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 lived 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 nagasaki 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 about eleven zero one that 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 that moment was marked here today with the air raid sirens and bells and a moment of reflection an 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. 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 piecing sound i thought i had been killed but i encourage 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. on my left arm and shoulder all my skin was dripping off 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 years. so that it true that. radiation is affecting human bodies for sixty five years so we 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. we wasn't as severely injured initially. as an adult he has endured liver disease and two types of cancer attributed to the mom as well as the psychological damage of the event but the atomic bomb was extremely cruel america should never have dropped the bombs and 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 that would 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 thomas r.t. nagasaki japan. and tony lloyd a labor m.p. and chair of the all party group on global security and nonproliferation says there's still a threat of nuclear strikes around the world and it should be taken very seriously . if you look at the the history of the pope's nuclear age the reality really is this is that the world has been lucky that we've not mourn you can explode is not. gifted by the great foresight and intelligence of our collective politicians nuclear accident could take place even in this this stage now because we know

there's so much for sale material so it's only it's only point in time we couldn't be certain i couldn't say place and cause the problem perforation not simply to new states we know the concern of the moment for example about your brown or north korea something i think shared across the globe actually may be just as real as the capacity for the terrorist to get hold of nuclear materials and construct but terrorist nuclear weapon know those to make a world where you could put and take very seriously the danger of nuclear weapons in the. commits the only thing that will stop the proliferation or the states or to service which is by getting rid of nuclear weapons and it can be done not overnight but it can be done if this generation has the political will this is r.t. going to live in the russian capital let's have a look at some other world news in brief now israel's prime minister benjamin

netanyahu defended his country's actions at an internal inquiry into the gaza flotilla incident he also criticised turkey saying you've been seeking a confrontation this inquiry is looking at the lead up to them storming by commandos of the gaza bound should let me are you said he was in the us at the time which is why the defense minister of iraq was in charge of the operation is expected to testify at the inquiry on tuesday. searching for eleven hundred people missing off the flooding in northwestern china buildings have been destroyed an entire village is that from the water in constant presence from the. joint rescue efforts to save families still trapped under the rubble. in the region triggered by the heavy rain have killed at least three hundred thirty seven. and pakistan flooding has affected both he's thirteen million people official say the number exceeds the combined total of those affected by the two thousand and four indian ocean tsunami the kashmir earthquake. and this year's quake in haiti

pakistan's northwest province is the hardest hit thousands are being evacuated and you hated this. back to our top story this hour in our t.v. as wildfire spread across a large swathe of russia threatening to destroy everything in the policy the need to save those who can't help themselves has prompted a special community effort is all artes to have a cross you found out a race against time. 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 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 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 in that forest the dancing flames were only stopped by this ditch quickly dug by 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 a burning to it so hot us shoes will melt 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 to find trucks of 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 archie mosco region. bring up to date for the moment her party now is the large hadron collider a really dangerous well peter lavelle's guest on cross talk share some quite up elliptic theories and you can watch the discussion show in the full in full i should say in the next hour here on r.t. but in the meantime here's a quick preview for me. it's sometimes dangerous to fight with nature and sometimes

nature is fighting back and my experience here is good this is such a complicated situation it has happened that problems have been overlooked which means that this is a truly unhorsed it's experiment everybody is happy to have it but unfortunately it might mean the end of of the planet. if. crosstalk come your way in the next hour here on r.t. next to the business update with kareena that's after a short break. and great for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get a human voice ceased to face with the news maker. hello

welcome to our business program because i have you with us russia's agriculture ministry has cut its forecast of grain harvest for this year to sixty sixty five million tons that's all thirty percent lower than a two thousand and nine and as prime minister i've put in says the battle for russia's grain exports won't be lifted any time so. full of shows of even with the harvest apparently we will cover our domestic needs in food this year just about no

question is what the country will have next year still a she said we don't know what the harvest will be and we don't know what we will carry out over this year we will review our decision to ban grain imports into the only in line with what hobbs it will be the what's addition the problem is that we are not able to seed winter crops because of the heat so lifting the more unhappy. russian markets finished the day in the black with the r.t.s. game point seven percent of them isaac gaining slightly over the sands hydro probably tipping over the top performers on the rise extending over one of the how sad well known as they kill off the top line on the all tests over that. russia's first low cost airline 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 in the new world of low cost. travel in russia so will it ever be possible to fly cheap in russia that's not because 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 regular air carriers so even domestic 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 a crack of twenty euros from front for russia's first low cost airlines sky express was meant to be like that however it's and evaporating 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 models of fry and there is a jet wuornos deal which neither a war it's only possible to make a quasi low cost airline was just a budgetary or will have one or two but he won't be able to have such extreme

tariffs as in europe or the speeds constantine says russia offers few opportunities for a carrier to strip out expenses at twenty percent temperate 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 worry strictly regulated system of bio ware traill agreements between russia and all european and all other countries which limits. the number of carriers number. just in nations of the frequencies of wired's number of seats in their drive to overcome this is iraq or c.

and these limitations. any airline actually marse found a lot of air france minor. care is. doing their best to avoid spreading tomorrow. or for resources whatever russia's 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 and travel for the general public this good preview we feel greeted competition in the industry and make flying in russia less awful much of the few the business r.t. . from aviation to automobile sales of new cars in russia have grown nine percent in the first seven months of the year compared to the same period in two thousand and nine this o.c. asian of european businesses says ny of the ten best selling cars in the country

are some bold in russia solar's is number one among russian based producers with sales up to thirty four percent after hours has boosted sales by twenty percent took second place gas group comes third however analysts expect a decline in the growth of sales in august and september due to holidays and many russian plans. nineteen consecutive heat records have been set so far this summer in moscow this in turn cause another wave of records prices for fans and air conditioners have soared and this has prompted the anti monopoly service to launch an investigation to find out why the watchdog will examine whether or not companies artificially created supply shortages for. prices the fans jumped sixfold air conditioners have also experienced price hikes overall the increased use of electric appliances in moscow has seen a nine percent jump in energy consumption in july. now internet advertising in russia has increased thirty three percent in the first half of two thousand and ten

year on year that's the fastest growing 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 only have forecast. for the business use but you can always find most stories on our website that's r t dot com slash this.

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the russian capital this is good to have you with us. there's no end in sight to the uphill battle against the wall. as they destroy. the residents of the capital doubling the normal daily death rate. plus the survivors police. no other place suffers the same fate as the city. in the fifteen minutes from. the only examples of atomic weapons being used to attack and.

says the only possible use of such today is self-defense in an interview with. explained why he believes the north korean threat is blown out of proportion. david i could not going you said it was prepared to give a military response when the south korean and u.s. naval exercises in the yellow sea why do you think the reaction was so aggressive that. this falls into the line of behavior that is generally described as aggressive the general aggressive stance has been threatening to have blog destroying imperius and their marionettes for several decades i wouldn't overestimate the actual threat if we look at it from a historical perspective it has become a subject for jokes remember the late fifty's joke about the one thousand two hundred fifteen serious chinese warning so they've issued warnings but nothing followed i think they could not have kept silent in their current position and they

couldn't have approved of the maneuvers they had to say something now what do they say they threaten nothing specific happened there's been no mobilization in north korea the armed forces remain at their current positions i think it's just natural for north korea to take the stance. here so how would it not always sound 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 the u.s. is getting fuel to the flames. i don't think the u.s. is interested in any kind of intentional exacerbation of the situation by going into extremes taking into account the fact that they have problems in iraq as well as in afghanistan therefore starting up something new is unlikely at the same time it naturally has some concerns just like everyone else just like us china like japan like south korea everyone has concerns and does not want to get hold of nuclear weapons therefore all the countries who don't want this to happen are using their own methods russia.