country with that in mind daniel prepares for action he says he's ready to go to the airport the moment he receives word his help is welcome. retired from the. source he are still feel the burning desire to help people rush hour in particular because of the problem with. people from all around the world offering to join the fight against the force of nature volunteers from fellow reduced spoke area and france are among more than one hundred sixty thousand people now estimated to be battling the blazes daniel started his career in rural fire fighting and says that's prepared him well petaca the type of blazes sweeping through russia. career often going to seven zero sorry farmers wish a lot of muscle cars but a lot of foreigners in rural areas including foreign military rangers and in terms of the foreigners are occurring in russia. in the world. we would spend

money here we are some of times and hope someone to be with exact same type of four of the one that we would have dealt with in the woods to do it for a break and of words dig a trench down below the pain to stop for spreading underneath the ground even though daniel retired two years ago he says in his mind he's still on the front line no matter where you are in the world before for his son there to help save lives for. russia and russia. point to store the person who. you simply. and then allow the people the. paramedics the four forces to to come in and do their job daniel clearly is packed and ready to go the only thing stopping him flying to russia is red tape colia says if russia

temporarily suspended the visa regime for emergency workers he and hundreds like him would flood to russia to quash the flames you are at it essex and dr fred goldberg a climate analyst from the royal institute of technology in stockholm believes there is nothing abnormal about the high temperatures in russia of the summer. no longer going to have the high pressure locates itself in various positions. in two thousand and three it happened off the coast of france and is heavy a high pressure pushed up a lot of hot air from the so horrid the creating of the loss of many lives in france and central europe you know it's not the change of climate is the weather phenomenon so my point is that this year you had this heavy high pressure over central asia bring enough air from the tropics to your area beyond this all stars

all the time to read the entire of television fifty years ago so we never thought about that then the same way we are hearing about it today. russia's unprecedented heat hasn't just brought misery it's bearing fruit as well literally in the central russian city of a far the locals are enjoying an unprecedented harvest of tropical fruits staff in the city's greenhouses say it's the first time banana trees have actually produced crops in this part of the world locals were used to potatoes and tomatoes are picking figs and lemons right from the tree. while russia is more stable crops have suffered badly in the heat wave drought and fires but other countries are also having their own issues with the food supply. in filming bird houses such as this would fix roofs the green is seed but when green a store template it would be like this with just a plastic cover to keep out the rain it can last only one year. and we report on

why thousands of tons of grain are left to rot in india instead of being distributed to the hungry. while the youngest detainee at guantanamo bay prison in cuba is facing military trial canadian born of maher carter was fifteen when he was captured on a battlefield in afghanistan in two thousand and two he's accused of throwing a grenade which killed an american soldier carter deny these killed at a pretrial hearing on monday claiming he was tortured while detained at a u.s. military base in afghanistan before being moved to guantanamo feel edged violations of carter's human rights have been discussed by the united nations and if convicted he faces a maximum life sentence or eric montalvo says the whole trial is a breach of american law. well i would just label the whole process is a travesty you know you know we've got a juvenile who by our own signing we've agreed not to prosecute juvenile

offenders so we're breaking our own law and i don't even think that this court has proper jurisdiction over the case we've got a child who by law we're saying is not culpable of doing the things that we we're prosecuting him for and yet we're spending all of our resources and he's the first one in the tube to go not to mention that you have the fact that he doesn't he's gained such a jaded distrust of anything associated with this he can't even make appropriate counsel choice and so he's not even represented in these proceedings. you're watching live from moscow for more stories you can always log on to our website and also you can check out the latest videos and top stories let's now take a look at what's available for you there today. in see some spectacular action is drivers of the russian leg of the european truck racing championship were battling on a brand new track created by a famous formula one designer. and

a curious business is georgette aims to become a serious player in the crocodile and frog market snap out of the details at r.t. dot com. the number of civilian casualties in afghanistan rose by almost a third in the first half of twenty tam compared to the same period last year and the report by the un also shows a fifty five percent increase in the deaths of children among the twelve hundred afghans killed during this period it comes as u.s. led forces are increasing their presence in the country and now reports it's often civilians who suffer. the amount of afghan civilian children that are dying as a result of this war has increased fifty five percent and according to the united

nations the taliban and other militants are responsible for three quarters of the civilian deaths that have taken place in the past six months but tied to that you know an official say that the taliban and other militants have stepped up their game in terms of using i.e. d.s. suicide suicide attacks and being involved in this us nation attempts and that is a result of more foreign troops coming into their country so one has provoked the other and or foreign troops more attacks by the taliban or the militants and at the end it is the afghan civilians according to this report women and children who are actually paying the price of this war it's basically understood according to this u.n. report that once foreign troops move into an area that had the taliban and militants will move in and violence will ensue and subsequent deaths will take place so at this point the afghan civilians you know understandably are intimidated are living

in. a war torn area for decades and are not so quick to align with the foreign troops in their country that are are both to blame for the taliban and militants attacking the civilians and the surrounding areas where people are as a result of an occupation in the country. now reporting there in our military analysts are getting her show of believes the actual number of casualties in afghanistan is much higher because the u.n. failed to take into account one of the main causes of deaths you nama your. mission in recent reports. was touted as the wake up call for the u.n. mission in afghanistan however for different reasons it should be more fair we allocate a check for the u.s. mission in afghanistan i would like to draw your attention to a couple of things but first i would strongly recommend you nama to expand it

metrics of civilian casualties in afghanistan beyond the country and to include two most important numbers of civilian death that is civilian skill in afghanistan and beyond by drugs in fact if you include the opium fields and cannabis fields they keel over rolled more than all other civilian casualties taken together within the whole nine years of conflict and the second most important metric that has to be incorporated in the next report by the united nations should include the civilians killed outside of gannet stand by the main export from afghanistan over all the narcotics in afghanistan already in slaved more than two millions of afghans within the country and they're probably keel even more than thirty thousand russians who have been in the aisle aided by the afghan

heroin annually plus you have to add up more than five million pakistani direct addicks the overall result of the us led mission is that it kills more civilians by afghan brock's under the connivance of the u.s. political leadership then any other military hostilities whether from the u.s. side all from their military opponents from pakistan and within afghanistan that i hope you nama officials will take into consideration and we'll incorporate into the next sam my annual afghan civilian casualties a report. now british veteran journalist john pilger who thinks america is tricking the world by saying it's pulling out of wars in iraq and afghanistan the full version of this interview is coming up in about an hour. this announcement by obama

. would be the end of the combat mission next year is nonsense and that's another example of the of the media simply taking a face value something that told by authorities in fact there's going to be something like ninety four bases left and sixty thousand troops and so called that is an increase in the number of most of them raise they call them contractors so far from getting out there was a great expression by a great irish investigative journalist called claude coburn never believe anything until it's officially denied we should apply that to all statements like that. and for many countries the summer's extreme weather of floods and droughts has led to poor harvest and

a grain shortage but in india millions of people are going hungry for different reason artist carne singh investigates. india is home to work quarter of the world's starving people and one third of its malnourished children here in the village of dollars poured in eastern india had nothing to give us for days yes a very limited not hungry child cries all the time there is no food to feed here how can you survive like this to give the child quite a just me to drink water yet the government has recorded mounds of surplus stocks fifty nine million tons of wheat and rice it does have a huge public distribution system that provides free food to families below the poverty line but corruption and complex bureaucracy means the poorest of the poor often don't make it on the list most of us are actually i'm not much we are poor people desperate for food to eat our children go to sleep hungry the names are not on the government's poverty list and we didn't get any food growing from the

government can we do ultimately we would have no choice but to commit suicide. with people starving the recent images of piles of wheat rotting at a storage facility erupted into a major political issue in the state of punjab it was discovered forty nine thousand tons of food green had perished despite if they are taking precautions there is every likelihood as we have in the household there right now where your porting your cup of tea from a curtain because likelihood. can spin on the table. and if you see a pun but only next year reserve is the degree in which we handle. losses. abundance i'm standing in one of the largest food storage depos in the capital new delhi impermanent where houses such as this would fix roofs the grain is safe but when grain a stored temporary like this with just a plastic cover to keep out the rain it can last only one year and with the

government keeping seventeen million tons of wheat and rice stored like this because it simply doesn't have enough permanent warehouses you can see. the scale of the problem experts see about ten million tonnes enough to feed hundred forty million people for a month has been through at least one monsoon and is at risk of rotting if this green wood released instead it could help those most in need but distributing it will cost one billion dollars and the government cannot afford to add to its food subsidy that doesn't come as good news for his family who depend on the handouts. we cannot afford to buy rice for our family whatever food grain the government has is allowing to run its warehouses the ration cards the issue don't reach the actual poor whatever race is distributed to the local dealer for us is instead sold by him in the open market. with global wheat prices rising due to the drought in russia if india loses its wheat stocks the poor storage this good fuel the price surge and

that would hit the poor they need india the hardest got in seeing are to the new delhi and let's now take a look at some other stories from around the world and having downpours may bring fresh misery as a tropical storm is approaching the part of northwest china hit by a massive landslide chinese authorities have confirmed sastre in the gansu province has already taken over seven hundred lives soldiers and rescuers are still fighting to find survivors trapped beneath the rubble and marred for three days heavy rains triggered the delusion of rocks and earth crushing at least three villages. the presidents of colombia and venezuela have agreed to restore diplomatic ties relations were cut off a month ago over allegations that venezuela was sheltering colombian rebels and you elect a colombian president juan manuel santos and which obvious have expressed optimism that their first meeting won't produce positive results. and at

least fifteen people have been killed in a bus crash in believing another twenty were injured as a vehicle ran into a rock on a mountain road onlookers sad that the bus started gaining speed and lost control on a curve it follows a similar accident on the same road recently when a truck plunged off a cliff killing eighteen people. here today gone tomorrow in a special report coming up later today will look at how some mountains are literally being wiped off the face of the earth. first free removal called. second explosives are used plastic for the. earth the remains are removed by machinery. finally on board so. that we feel.

we are on a. and time now for a business of days with stephanie. hello and welcome to the business bulletin the prices of meat poultry and dairy products in russia could rise sharply due to the drought spiralling grain prices the world bank is urging nations not to follow russia's lead with an export ban saying there's unlikely to be a global rerun of the two thousand and eight food crisis seen as in the threat of. global green markets factory being drowned in fires in russia with heavy rain to push we price is as high as eight dollars sixty the bushel as moved to implement a green expert on the move to protect domestic consumers first is one that the world bank other nations not to follow. could you when you would cry sousse

despite these economists see that the run of the food prices gear which was as high as thirteen dollars in two thousand and eight is unlikely it was demand and supply factors different now in two thousand and seven two thousand and eight across all the range of commodities stocks were very low and we also had very different global demand conditions the global economy largely because of emerging markets were incredibly buoyant so we had very low supply very strong demand and that gave you that combination of rising commodity prices across the whole range of foodstuffs this time around supply is much better and obviously given the financial crisis globally demand is a lot weaker so we haven't got the imbalance between demand and supply that we had over the period in two thousand and seven. even with a better supply demand balance globally the two thousand and eight experience which so bright african asia has governments verio of the role speculation plays in

global prices and very sensitive about the need to protect their customers in russia the government is likely to look for market solutions unlike two thousand and eight where price freeze on specific items had been used to defect. i don't dismiss the possibility off the top limit for prices on crucial food items like bread butter milk the effect of this measure is very limited that's why there will be no limit for the wide range of goods due to the fact that two years ago those goods disappeared from shelves and if you and once prices were frozen they rebounded full price inflation is also a key driver of what are inflationary expectations and russia has just proven a long term record low inflation rate of five point five percent in july the governor will be keen to avoid seeing rising food prices play in part resurrecting the long term economic issue however the market backdrop for the short term means

it will need to avoid it scaring market signals producers and investors as well as consumers well setting apart russia's long term agriculture potential didn't mean to do business r.t. . russia's losses due to the forest fire still raging across the country could reach fifteen billion dollars according to early estimates the record temperatures this summer may cost at least a one percent of g.d.p. growth most of the money will be spent on restoring houses and compensation the first official figures are expected next week as part of the federal statistics service report on july's industrial production the long term effect is unlikely to be the end of the here. let's have a quick look i have the stock market is shaping up on what it's day in tokyo the nikkei has shed more than two and a half percent japanese stocks a bit helped by strength in the yen versus the dollar that follows the u.s. . reserve's announcement overnight plans to boost flagging u.s. economy by reinvesting money from mortgage bonds into government debt this is the

fed's first attempt to bolster be economy in over a year asian stocks are also suffering on news that japanese machinery orders increased in less than expected in june fueling fears of economic slowdown in the region. russian markets are down in early trade here in moscow following those downward trend seen in asian stocks banks are underperforming on the my sex would be unfair by bush adding more than one percent of gas from russia left drac in this hour. russian banks are continuing to cut deposit rates for individuals the central bank says the maximum interest rate for deposits in roubles this month is less than one percent that's close to pre-crisis levels the rates have decreased by around six percentage points in a year however the banks are still attracting more cash from individuals and central banks as deposits grew by around two and a half percent in july. resells has filed a claim against interest through the london court of international arbitration the

companies are running over control of neural cynical resources the outcome of juneau board election breaks the two thousand and eight agreement between it into us not to take control of the risk and to maintain equal representation election so restock at three board seats with interest getting for both nickel have a twenty five percent stake in the company. not so that this is used for now but i'll be back with more updates for you in about an hour's time and of course you can always find more stories on our website that's r t dot com slash this.

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welcome back you're watching our t.v. and here's a look at the top stories a breath of fresh air at the torturers toxic small finally a lift from across moscow but the record heat wave doesn't ease fueling hundreds of wildfires still burning in western and central russia. hundreds of volunteers from

russia and abroad risked their lives to quell the flames and others help people who lost everything in the fires by gathering in delivering essential supplies. civilian casualties rose by a third in afghanistan of the first have twenty ten according to un report a total of twelve hundred afghans were killed during this period of time which coincided with the u.s. troop surge. well those are the headlines here in our back at the top of the hour the meantime peter lavelle discusses hot issues of the day in crossed up that's coming right up. and you can. still.

follow and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle hard realities or convenient lines the world will be watching closely the u.s. senate as it debates new climate change laws are these laws based on real science or hyped up myths and if scientists can't agree what are the rest of us to think. you can. see. to discuss the political climate of global warming i'm joined by lord christopher monckton in london he's a writer and former policy advisor to british prime minister margaret thatcher in washington we have jason kowalski a policy coordinator at one sky campaign and also in washington we have young miller a senior policy associate at the environmental and energy study institute and another member of our crosstalk team on the hunger large christopher monckton if i could go to you first. going from copenhagen last year to today or

approximate what's going to be happening in the u.s. senate about climate change laws what progress is the world made and the progress of the discourse on climate change is a gotten better or worse more intense thinner how would you describe it. i think what's happening is that climate change is rapidly fading from the headlines in most western countries certainly simply because it's become blindingly obvious after the third very cold winter in a row that global warming simply isn't happening there hasn't really been any in any six against it in any statistically significant sense for the last fifteen years or so and what's more it's now becoming increasingly apparent that there's not going to be very much i attended a conference in washington washington it's all in chicago just literally two days ago at which eight hundred scientists from all around the world attended virtually none of whom believe.