as this opening with an air filter inside that could do at least something in terms to help coping with the pollution and with the environment the weather forecasts don't really offer much much hope they do say that it may get a little bit easier in the next few days we do even with me even get some rain and a cooling in temperatures and a change of wind but they do see that the smog is very likely to come back by the hands of the week nearly the whole of russia central and western for days 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 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 smog 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 they are trying to get the situation on to get under their control but despite the government's efforts weather is still very unpredictable which is still to come through in general we've got the situation with the forests in the country under control but the weather is a normal we can forecast wind directions and how the fires might spread so it's 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 court and along problems so it's one of the other devastating course of this whole disaster in this whole emergencies that several thousand people have lost their property recently just in a couple of seconds their homes were burned to the ground by the fire. artie's kind

of want to see for yourself what do a species these flyers could bring where one at one of a so-called country of villages just outside moscow where people have their summer homes evidently used to be really nice area there was a forest and people had their homes 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 the. now where such a thing such

a terrible thing has happened all across the country with the fires of 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. russia's deadly wildfires the smoke filled cities and poor harvest are being seen by some environmentalists as signs of manmade climate change earlier r.t. spoke with piers corbyn of the weather action foundation who says the heat wave is down to the 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. 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 helping 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 a 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 side. of magnetic state there was. also floods in pakistan. and in the previous few years there was also flood to leverage summers also under thirty two years ago so these things are. between them and nothing to do with mankind and those who side are to just one of that money i would put but are we not ready there's a lot of oh 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 have now will be a series of these very 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 next on the long shot. you're watching r t still ahead this hour nagasaki atomic legacy. this is the hyper center of the bomb which means sixty five years ago. it exploded at 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 just as disturbing is the long term effects of that radiation. first though attempts to break down the caste system in india are being resisted by many while discrimination is illegal they are a changing and ingrained mindset is more difficult than simply changing the law one

school is experiencing this struggle as artie's charan singh reports. it's a problem that's been simmering but now suddenly davey sees it's fast reaching boiling point she's a newly appointed cook in this primary school and joining 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 on the upper caste cooks. community minos. are now in some upper class children don't want to eat food made by me their parents consider the food polluted by my time 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 me every working day in the largest school lunch program in the world but when

the education ministry decided to send it cooks to get its schools where the majority of pupils asked him lose 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 cost 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 but a monument to continue studying in a school which they felt didn't respect their customs and pulled him out immediately. we are upper caste we believe strongly in the caste 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 take him into private activist said this kind of reaction demonstrates the difficulty in

the caste system discrimination on the basis. cost is illegal in india but the practice is still intrinsic lady is with the kind of work you do and who you could meet with is largely divided along lines are going to play much not passed people are treated like the upper caste so just about they tell us stay on one side wash the utensils that anything to humiliate tests they want to see remain low and never rise that. the government says legal action will be taken against religious who will see in schools the earlier this is done the better after all this attempt to get children of all costs to eat together it a spectacle who's made the food is a small but important step in the country's journey to bridge social divisions got unseeing r.t. but not. turning out to some other news making headlines across the globe the

israeli prime minister has defended his country's actions and storming a gaza bound aid flotilla in may speaking at an internal inquiry benjamin netanyahu said israel had acted under international law the inquiry is looking at the lead us to the raid by commandos that left nine pro palestinian activists dead defense minister who brock is expected to testify in court on tuesday. rescuers are searching for more than eleven hundred people missing after flooding in northwestern china buildings have been destroyed entire villages left underwater in gansu province more than thirteen million people have been affected chinese premier wen jiabao joined the rescue efforts to save families still trapped under the rubble landslides in the region triggered by the heavy rain have killed at least three hundred thirty seven people. in the russian built to share power plant in iran is almost ready to go why officials have announced that it will receive its first shipment of nuclear material within weeks despite supporting u.s. led sanctions against iran last month moscow is fulfilling its obligations

regarding building of the facility which will give iranians the access to peaceful new. there are power some countries fear tehran may use by products from the plant to make atomic weapons and with the reactor nearly up and running there is speculation the u.s. or israel may even launch a military strike against the islamic nation before a new nuclear material gets delivered last week iranian armed forces were called to the plant to evaluate the security of the airspace around it. the japanese city of nagasaki has been commemorating the victims of the atomic bomb dropped by the u.s. sixty five years ago it was a second nuclear attack against civilians just three days after the first target hiroshima was devastated as a result of the world war two bombings more than two hundred thousand people died either in the blast or due to radiation poisoning representatives from more than thirty countries gathered with survivors to highlight their message to the world that humans and nuclear arsenals can co-exist thomas was at the ceremony. 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 or 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 moment was marked here today with the 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 but 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 the survivors this is their story. sixty five years ago. 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 didn't eat piecing sound i thought i had been killed but i encouraged myself not to do 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. there. on my left arm and shoulder all my skin was dripping off and i had severe burns on my body. eleven year old

yoshi kawi 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 flights and drove 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 sixty five years 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 you know she 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. the atomic bomb was extremely cruel america should never have dropped the bombs and human beings the tests in new mexico should have be. 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 you know. people use the word deterrent but i do not believe that human beings can co-exist with nuclear. a reason why a bomb survivors of hiroshima and nagasaki are pushing for peace and complete global nuclear disarmament sean thomas r. t. nagasaki japan. tony lloyd a labor m.p. and chair of the all party group on global security and nonproliferation says our store threat of nuclear strike around the world and it should be taken very seriously if you look at the the history of the post 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.

politicians nuclear accident could take place even in this this stage now because we know the so much for sale material so it's only if it's any 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 iran or north korea something i think across the globe actually may be just as real as the capacity for the terrorist to get hold of nuclear materials and construct a terrorist nuclear weapon those are things that ought to make a world where you could put and take very seriously the danger of nuclear weapons in this area and commit the only thing that will stop the proliferation of 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. two

nuclear strikes on japan are the only examples of atomic weapons being used to attack an expert on south asian affairs appear to arise even says the only possible use of such arms today is self-defense an interview with our he's an italian offical over here explain why he believes the north korean threat is one out of proportion it's coming your way in a few moments here on r t. seven

a pretty a big north korea it was prepared to give a military response over the south korean and u.s. naval exercises in the yellow sea why do you think the reaction was so aggressive. this falls into the line of behavior that is generally described as aggressive a general aggressive stance north korea has been threatening to spill seas of blood destroying imperialist 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 did they say they threaten but nothing specific happened so would the us 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 us is any fuel to the flames. i don't think the us is interested in any kind of intentional exacerbation

of the situation and 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 pyongyang to get hold of nuclear weapons therefore all the countries who don't want this to happen are using their own methods russia and china are taking quite diplomatic action at a confidential level while south korea and japan and the united states traditionally resort to sanctions it's kid glove diplomacy yes what are the chances that north korea will go back to the six party talks now. with. well i can all situations of this kind the chances are dependent on the future course of events we have to take into account the incident with the sinking of the corvette if no specific attention is paid to that because i don't think there is any solid

proof that north korea did in fact sink the ship then peter cave will return to negotiations these talks are important for economies and you know other ways it's hard accusations are made over worldwide media channels the. n.p.r. came michael out of talks but globally north korea is interested in taking part in these negotiations as they can help improve the overall situation and bring back the support of some nations for p.r. k. of course china is a north korea side the talks can help bring the situation at least partly to the level it was when south korea's late president was conducting soft diplomatic negotiations. you mentioned the south korean ship that was sunk and russia along with some other countries is not convinced by the results of the international commission investigation that blames north korea why is that. worth loving in part for her the reason was as far as i know they found no parts are dead three of the torpedo which could definitely show that it had been made in north korea there was just one letter but that wasn't objective proof it's like in court any doubts are interpreted in favor of the accused i personally do not understand

why north korea should have sunk the ship for an example of terrorists including al qaeda we know that every terror act is usually announced worldwide but as we know there were no celebrations in north korea relating to the sinking of the south korean ship on the contrary they deny doing it then why should they have done this so they did not admit to doing this on the one hand and on the other it would not have helped to reduce the number of south korean fleet they have enough ships is there a threat of war i don't think so the ancient roman said think we'll gain from it i can't see how north korea could have gained from it. russia held its own investigation into the case is it going to change the situation somehow. in my opinion the results won't influence the situation much unfortunately or just objectively in the opinion of the u.s. europe and japan both russia and china are countries which are in a way protecting north korea from stricter sanctions so we can draw our conclusions from these results and in other countries they will take note of them but they won't play a big role but what can the results actually lead to even if the security council

gathers again to discuss the issue they will once again accept a resolution that there is no direct and unquestionable evidence of that some will consider pinion the majority of course won't. who could be interested in destabilizing the region. if we leave out the theory of nazi hiding in argentina the nobody i heard a version that the north korean government has the so-called doves and hawks and the hawks feeling weakness of their position purposefully sank the ship without giving notice to kim jung il but that's nonsense. what are the so-called families millions of kimchi there or hear. rumors say that every ruling family has hidden money millions or even billions but it's just words without any tangible proof even the president of the philippines and the iranian shah they ruled for about seventeen to twenty seven years have gathered about one point five to two billion dollars for the entire period in their private accounts by the way that was legal

money. is the but what are the chances of them rising in the country with a new year. a new leader may come only after the old one leaves and there were rumors that kim jung il was sick and that he missed parades and didn't appear often in public liberalisation may begin with a new leader but kim jung il isn't ignorant of these new tendencies in my opinion north korea don't make immediate reforms and privatization give full freedom so pornography on t.v. etc i think they will introduce liberalization step by step so i mean that tell us what do you think north korea he's trying to achieve with this nuclear to. about four years ago it was estimated that they had approximately three or four weapons as powerful as a hiroshima missile which is about twenty killer tons i'll be careful in my estimations they may have two or three or four missiles they may be of twenty or even ten killer tons but actually missiles never help solve universal issues

they're countries without nuclear arms and they are fine nuclear arms or scorpion stinger in my opinion it can only be used in the most critical situation when an enemy occupies your territory and is approaching the capital leaders will soon be killed and the country will be defeated in such a situation the country may resort to killing both the enemy and itself but it's useless as a usual arsenal for starting or leading a war with north korea may his soul simply with artillery but if they discharge a missile and several american soldiers in seoul die they'll soon be a strike back so if north korea really has nuclear arms they should save them for their last strike if north korea decides that imperialists their stooges and other enemies have attacked only then should it shoot back but they won't start a war with nuclear weapons.

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two thirty am here in moscow thanks for being with us here on our team here at headlines no wind in sight to the uphill battle against wildfires ravaging russia as they destroy lives and homes often leaving the charred ruins of entire villages in their wake. up pungent smoke from the fires a strangling moscow driving the residents out of the capital and doubling the normal daily death rate. plus the survivors plea sixty five years since the u.s. drops an atomic bomb on nagasaki those who escaped with their lives calling the world to ensure that no other place suffers the same fate as their city. travel to the caucasus to explore the beauty of the north of national nature reserve our special report coming up right now here on our team.

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in springtime. is slowly coming to life. first. is the reserves may. only just beginning. in early spring people used to get to the rocky range. existence by chance. when you're not here we have not been aware of its existence for ten years when locals told us about it they said she posed once being sheltered in the caves first tunnel yet when we first came here we did see tracks left by.