and felt compelled to offer his help so he wrote to prime minister putin. i want to offer to volunteer and so assisting fire fighting operations and you win the russian federation and i'm available on request as a personal offer to your country with that in mind daniel prepares for accidents he says he's ready to go to the airport the moment he receives word his help is welcome. retired from the oil shortage some thirty years are still feel that burning desire to help people rush hour in particular because of the problem they've got the moment with the wall for those people from all around the world offering to join the fight against the force of nature volunteers from bellary 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 for tackling the type of blazes sweeping through russia start my career off in ninety seven zero eight sorry farmers wish

a lot domestic oil a lot of oil is in rural areas including forests military rain gauge and in terms of the fires are occurring in russia environment in the world. we would spend money here we hear some of times and hope some of today with exactly the same type of fall of the one that we would have dealt with in those days was to dig for a break in of words dig a trench down below the pay to stop we have to pay 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 for far it's a sign they're there to help save lives for. russia and russia has to do point to store the present. use of.

the. parable of the four points has to come. down your collie is packed and ready to go the only thing stopping him flying to russia is red tape coleus says if russia temporarily suspended the visa regime for emergency workers he and hundreds like him would floods to russia to quash the flames you were at. 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. a high pressure located in various positions. in two thousand and three it happened off the coast of france. how the pressure pushed up a lot of hot air from the so horrid such a creating the loss of many lives in france and central europe no it's not

a change of climate as a world or phenomenon so my point is that this year you have this heavy high pressure over central asia bringing up there from the tropics to your area. really into of television fifty years ago so we never heard about that in 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 and the central russian city of a father 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 and locals more used to potatoes and tomatoes are picking figs and lemons right from the tree. well russia's 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 burma good hopes and such as this would fix roofs the green you see when green a store to be like this with just a plastic covered to keep out the rain it can last only one year. and we reported weiss thousands of tons of grain are left to rot india instead of being distributed to the hungry. the youngest detainee at guantanamo bay prison in cuba is facing military trial canadian born a marketer 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 card night his guilt 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 the alleged violations of carter's human rights have been discussed by the united nations and if convicted he faces a maximum wife sentence more 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 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 for more stories log onto our website to check the latest videos and top stories let's see what's waiting for you here today. you can see some spectacular action as drivers

at the russian leg of the european truck championship were battling on a brand new track raided by a famous formula one designer. and a curious business as georgia aims to become a serious player in the crocodile and frog markets 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 at 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 as a marine aboard 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. . 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 more foreign troops more attacks by the taliban or the militants and that the 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 out 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 a decade and are not so quick to align with the foreign troops in their country that are 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 are now reporting there our military analyst who 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 you know again and stand recent reports. was touted as a wake up call for the u.n. mission in afghanistan however for different reasons it should be more here 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 nominate to expand it metrics of civilian casualties in afghanistan beyond the country and to include two most important numbers all the way to this civilian skill in afghanistan and beyond by going to drugs in fact if you include the opium fields and candidate fields they keel all rolled more than all other civilian casualties taken together within the whole nine years 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 overall then our contacts in afghanistan already in slaved more than two millions

of afghans within the country and they're probably keil even more than thirty thousand russians who have been in the aisle aided by the afghan heroin and was you have to add up more than five million pakistani direct addicks the overall result of the u.s. led mission is that it kills more civilians by afghan groks onto the connivance of the you ass 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. and r t you spoke to british veteran journalist john pilger who thinks

america is tricking the world by saying it's pulling out of wars in iraq and afghanistan a full version of this interview is coming up in around fifteen minutes time here in r.t. . this announcement by obama. would be the end of the combat mission next year is norm sense and that's another example of the of the media simply taking a face for something that told by authorities in fact there's going to be something like ninety four bases left and sixty thousand troops and so cold 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 cope and never believe anything until it's officially denied we should apply that to all statements like

that. after many countries this summer's extreme weather of floods and droughts has led to poor harvests and a grain shortage bought in india millions of people are going hungry for different reasons are just current saying 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 four days yes of unlimited hungry child cries all the time there is no food to feed him how can we 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. 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 don't get any food going from the government can we do ultimately we will 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're taking precautions there is every likelihood as we have in our household there are no where your boarding or cup or it is likelihood. can spin on the table. and if you see a pun but only next year result was that the green between her and the. loss is more. abundant 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 green a store 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 this. 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 were 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

port 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 to poor storage this could fuel the price surge and that would hit the poor i mean via the hardest cotton seeing r t. well as now take a look at some other stories from around the world in heavy downpours may bring fresh misery as a tropical storm is approaching the part of northwest of china hit by a massive ones like chinese authorities have confirmed that the disaster and the gun soon province has already taken over seven hundred lives soldiers and rescuers are still fighting to find survivors trapped beneath the rubble and most for three days heavy rains triggered the delusion of rocks and earth crushing at least three villages. the presence 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 the

newly elected colombian president juan manuel santos and which obvious have expressed optimism that their first meeting will produce positive results. at least fifteen people have been killed in a bus crash in believe another twenty were injured as the vehicle ran into a rock on a mountain road onlookers said that the bus started gaining speed and lost control on a curve follows a similar accident on the same road recently was a truck plunged off a cliff killing eighteen people. here today gone tomorrow in a special report coming up in just over an hour we look at how some mountains are literally being wiped off the face of the earth. first three remove all clogged clear cut. cases are used to

greet. her remains every time the street. signs at least i'm going to join. in valley fever. and it's time now for the business of day seven is here with us in the studio and the news that you asked fast food chains are breaking into the russian market that's right marina expect to see wendy's and all because restaurants soon they're planning to open one hundred eighty outlets over the next ten years i'll have more a bit later but first the prices of meat poultry and dairy products in russia could rush up to the drought and spiralling grain prices the world bank is urging nations not to follow russian's lead with an export ban saying that's unlikely to be a global rerun of the two thousand and eight food crisis. global

grain markets factored in drowned in fires in russia with heavy rains in europe to push week bryce's as high as eight dollars sixty eight a bushel. to move to implement a green expert van the move to protect domestic consumers first is one that the world bank other nations not to follow it could do new mobile food crises despite these economists say that the run of the food crisis gear which pushed as high as thirty thousand 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. credibly buoyant so we had very low supply very strong tomorrow and and that gave you that combination of rising commodity prices across the whole range of food stuff 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 the better supply demand balance globally the two thousand and eight experience which still drives in africa and asia as governments very 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 commuted effect. i don't dismiss the possibility off the top limit for prices on crucial food items like bread butter and 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 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 important resurrecting the long term economic issue however the market backdrop for the short term means it will need to avoid its scaring market signals for agricultural producers and investors as well as consumers well setting a port to russia's long term agricultural potential when you do business r.t. . russia's losses due to the forest and peat fires still raging across the country could reach fifteen billion dollars according to early estimates the record temperatures this summer may cost at least 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 the industrial production the long term effect is unlikely to be known until the end of the year. now it's time to have

a quick look at how the stock markets are shaping up on one state european shares are sliding per second session following the federal reserve comments that the pace of economic recovery is slowing the fed plans to boost a flagging u.s. economy by reinvesting money from mortgage bonds it's a government debt it's the fed's first attempt to bolster the economy in over a year. and asian stocks have dropped to a two week low in tokyo the nikkei has shed more than two and a half percent japanese shares have been hurt by strength in the yen versus the dollar asian markets are also suffering on news that japanese machinery orders increased less than expected in june fueling fears of economic slowdown in the region. and russian markets are down in trade here in moscow following down with trends in asian and european markets banks are under performing on the my sex. boat shutting around two percent gas problem last left are also tracking. 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 the central bank says deposits grew by around two and a half percent in july. fast food chains at wendy's and arby's coming to russia they signed an agreement with a local company affiliated to food service capital and plan to open one hundred eighty restaurants over the next ten years food service capital is. by restaurant and it's kind of bad mood off the president of metals for you g m k the owners plan to invest one hundred million dollars into the project forty million of which will be spent in the first five years they plan to use shareholder money before later trying to find credit. and that's what the business use for now but i'll be back with more updates for you in about an hour's time and you can was fine with stories on our website that's r t dot com slash business.

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flames others help people who lost everything in the fires are gathering in delivering essential supplies. civilian casualties rose by a third of gaddafi and in the first half of twenty ten according to a un report a total of twelve hundred afghans were killed during this period of time which coincided with the u.s. troop surge. that weather bomb in technology it often seems society is making huge leaps forward but some are concerned that the imperial age whether it's fight for resources and influence is coming back archie's lore and it spoke to veteran journalist john put pilger who shared his views on the past and present. today i'm in london speaking to joan poll just veteran journalist documentary writer who started his career cheering the vietnam war john paul just thanks very much for talking to me now let's talk about more media in general first if you

don't mind recently the website wiki leaks published tens of thousands of documents relating to the afghanistan war what do you think that is the biggest impacts that modern technology has had owned journalism well i think the wiki leaks exposed is. look like they might change journalism altogether if not change your wake it up. because what we think leaks has done is what journalists should have done. you know here here is this dreadful litany of years of of disaster and killing in afghanistan done in a wrong. and i don't think we've gotten a sense they've got a sense of the disaster but i don't think we've got a sense of the real. the the political disaster the the behind the the human disaster in afghanistan that's what we call leaks is has

given us. i think it says to journalists. separate us separate you so from the word of authority and stop becoming independent it's an extraordinary moment and what about the internet in general do you think in terms of names that subclassing more traditional means you like newspapers and document chains yes i do and i mean it shouldn't subvert them but it is and is doing that which it really should compliment them. because you know into my own journalistic habits change radically i used to get up in the morning and read all the newspapers now i go to my computer and log on. because that's where the that's where this truth telling that kind of journalism.