as for action he says he's ready to go to the airport the moment he receives word his help is welcome. retired from the. same source he hears are still feel the burning desire to help people rush hour in particular because of the problems the moment with. people from all around the world are 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. career often more than two hundred seventy i sorry farmer wish a lot to mr cause a lot of noise in rural areas including forests military range and in terms of the fires are occurring in russia. in the world. we would spend money

here we are some of times and hope some of to do with exactly the same type of four of the one that we would have dealt with in the woods to do it for a brewery and of words dig a trench down below the pay to shop for spring 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 show you the order of. the ship and rush rush to the point to store the person. you simply. and then allow the people that. the parent or 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 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 were abit 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 the summer. now on the very heavy high pressure locates itself in various positions. in two thousand and three it happened off the coast of france and it's heavy with high pressure pushed up a lot of hot air from. creating the loss of many lives in france and central europe. not the change of climate is a 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.

of television fifty years ago so we never heard about it 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 in the central russian city of fog 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 and locals more used to potatoes and tomatoes are picking figs and lemons right from the tree. while 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 the bird hopes and such as this would fix roofs the green you see when green a store to be like this with just a plastic cover to keep it going last only one year. we reported why sawzall just tons of grain are left to rot in india instead of being distributed to the hungry.

are coming to later in the program first though 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 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 the alleged violations of carter's human rights have been discussed by the united nations and if convicted he faces a maximum life sentence lawyer erik montage of 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 and watching aren't you going to last from moscow and remember that for more stories you can always log on to our web site and you can check out the latest videos the top stories there let's now take a look at what's available for you to. see some spectacular action as drivers and the russian leg of the european trog racing championship battling on a brand new track created by famous formula one designer. and a curious business as georgia aims to become a serious player in the crocodile and from

a market snap up the details that are. the number of civilian casualties in afghanistan rose by almost a third of the first half of twenty tam compared to the same period last year they were poor by the u.n. also shows a fifty five percent increase in the deaths of children among twelve hundred afghans killed during this period it comes as u.s. led forces are increasing their presence in the country as are reports often civilians who suffer. the amount of afghan civilian children that are dying as a result of this war has increased fifty five percent 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

want officials 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 talbot of 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 un 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 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 that was a response there and our military analyst again 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. recent reports. was touted as a wakeup call for the u.n. mission in afghanistan however for different reasons it should be more and 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 deaths that is civilian skill in afghanistan and beyond by afghan drugs in fact if you include the opium fields and cannabis fields they keel over all more than all other civilian casualties taken together within the whole nine years off these conflicts and the second most important metrics that has to be incorporated in the next report by the united nations should include the civilians killed outside of ghana 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 probably kill even more than thirty sow's and russians who have been in the aisle aided by a day afghan heroin and you plus 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 brock's under the connivance of the us 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 semiannual afghan civilian casualties report. and actually spoke to a british veteran journalist john pilger who thinks america is tricking the world by saying it's pulling out of wars in iraq and afghanistan and you can watch the full version of this interview in just over an hour's time here in r.t. . this announcement by obama.

would be the end of the combat mission next two years norm since and that's another example of the of the media simply taking at 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 mercenaries 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. now for many countries this summer's extreme weather of flogs and drought has led to poor harvest and grain shortage but in india millions of people are going hungry for a different reason archies 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 daraa poured in eastern india had nothing to give us for days yes the value of a generator 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 for all 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 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 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 you are boarding your cup of tea from a curtain because likelihood to schools can spin on the table. if you see a pun but only next year a result was a 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 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 say 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 they 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 who are storage this could fuel the price surge and that would hit the. hardest car and seeing our t.

. let's not take a look at some other stories from around the world and heavy downpours may bring fresh misery as a tropical storm is approaching the part of northwest of china hit by a massive landslide chinese authorities have confirmed that the disaster in the gun super robins has already taken over seven hundred lives soldiers and rescuers are still fighting to find survivors trapped beneath the rubble and mud for three days have you rains trigger the illusion 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 his way was sheltering colombian rebels the newly elected colombian president santos and of us have expressed optimism that their first meeting will produce positive results. at least fifteen people have been killed in a bus crash in believe yet another twenty were injured as

a vehicle ran into a rock on a mountain road onlooker said that the bus started gaining speed and lost control on a curve it follows a similar accident on the same road recently what a truck plunged off a cliff killing eighteen people. here today gone tomorrow in a special report coming up in the around ten minutes we look at how some mountains are literally being wiped off the face of the earth. first three remove all clause clear cut. second place or are used to be in the period. your remains every time the street. sign a lease on the mortgage is invalid. and

stephanie is here with us of the studio with a business update and there's a new investor in the north stream pipeline broaddrick tells more about the right way to french energy company suez has taken a nine percent stake in the pipeline project i'll have more details on that in just a moment but first the prices of meat poultry and dairy products in russia could rise shopping due 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. has more. global grain markets factory being drowned in fires in russia with heavy rains in to push we price is as high as eight dollars sixty eight a bushel as to move to implement a green expert dan the move to protect domestic consumers first is one that the world bank other nations not to follow. could you when you local food crises

despite these economists say that the run of the food prices gear which pushed week as high as thirteen dollars in two thousand and eight isn't likely 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 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 balance 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 we just thought would brighten africa 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 like 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 and once prices were frozen they rebounded full price inflation is also a key driver of 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 for agriculture producers and

investors as well as consumers well setting apart russia's long term recall choke potential. when you do business r.t. . russia's losses due to the forests 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's industrial production the long term effect is unlikely to be known until the end of the year. french suez the fifth and final nord stream participant is paid eight hundred million euros for a nine percent stake in the project the company has bought the share from german shareholders. each of them has decreased their share from twenty to fifteen and a half percent the controlling stake in world stream the first stage of which will be launched next year is owned by caspar dutch gas uni has another night.

now it's time to have a quick look at how those stock markets are shaping up on wednesday european shares are slated for a second session following the federal reserve's 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 into government debt it's the fed's first attempt to pulse of the economy in over a year. russian markets are down in the trade here in moscow following those downward trend in european stocks banks are underperforming on the my sex with the t.v. and spare bank goes shopping around two percent gas from under us after dragging this out but is bucking the trend on my sex almost a one and a half percent. 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 the 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. fast food chains at wendy's and arby's are coming to russia they've 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 owned by restauranteurs because men and it's kind of the president of metals for you g m k in his 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. that's all the business use 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 most stories on our web site that's r.t. dot com slash business.

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lives to quell the flames others help people who lost everything in the fires by gathering and delivering supplies. civilian casualties rose by third and get a stand in the first half of two thousand and 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. and coming up next we look at how mountaintop removal mining has affected local communities and became one of the greatest environmental catastrophes in american history. on the day of this interview the small creek less than one mile from their home flows black and i it's not normal that's coming from an abandoned home on drugs come from sorry pot. and i don't know. what to expect in our part. maybe a few more years ma. and my health this went down tremendously.

and i don't ever let the bait healthwise i don't ever look to the side not bankers in vain if i can do to help me. that are only thing i want now i want a good moral i want them to quit the pump and are quitting jade and whatever they're doing i want them to quit that. and. it's all mob to me better. for the last twenty years. it's been hard. you can't make it without good water. from the moody. blues. currently there are over one hundred forty billion gallons of coal slurry contained in more than one hundred pound mints in west virginia alone the total quantity of coal slurry in

the rest of southern appalachians is not. on december twenty second two thousand and eight acall ash impoundment at the tennessee valley authorities kingston fossil plant failed when an earthen dike broke spilling over one point one billion gallons of coal ash sludge over three hundred acres. coal ash sludge has waste created from the burning of coal at the kingston coal plant it is believed to contain toxic compounds including arsenic and mercury. the tennessee valley authority estimates the cost of the cleanup job or eight hundred twenty five million dollars this spill is ten times larger than the exxon valdez spill in alaska and is believed to be america's largest environmental disaster to date with throwing away the next generation's most valuable resource.