as a personal offer to your 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. sun so as heroes 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 bellerive 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 marked her career off in more than two seven zero shari farmer wish. a lot of domestic oil a lot of foreigners in rural areas including foreign military range and

in terms of the foreigners are occurring in russia a moment in the world. we would spend money here we are some of times and hope some of dealing with exactly the same type of foyer of the one the way that we would have dealt with it in those days was to do it for a break and of words dig a trench down below the pay to stop the action 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 lawyers for. the ship and russia has to do 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 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 it essex. well dr goldberg climate analyst from the royal institute of technology in stockholm believes there's nothing of normal about the high temperatures in russia this summer. now on the very heavy high pressure located in various positions. in two thousand and three it happened off the coast of france and this had been a high pressure pushed up a lot of hot air from the so horrid creating the loss of many lives in france and central europe no it's not a change of climate is a weather phenomenon so my point is that this year you have this heavy high pressure in over central asia bringing up very hot air from the tropics to your

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

why thousands of tons of grain are left to rot in india instead of being distributed to the hungry. police in the georgian capital tbilisi forcing hundreds of refugees from abkhazia to leave the building base been squatting in for years the families are being literally thrown out into the street with all of their belongings. is in the georgian capital for us. around four hundred families are being moved out of the building in which they have lived for several years in the center of the e.c. this unfortunately is becoming aside all too familiar in the georgian capital as of late all of the families that are being forced to move out today immediately obvious ski from up because it would be a puzzling war the civil war that ravaged in the region in the early ninety's and ninety's all of them are georgian a but a lot of them say that they do not feel like citizens of this country and in fact to some in midst of emotion are actually saying that they're willing to go back to

oppose it and guess in the present citizenship if that's what it takes for them to feel human. as human cause i don't want to stay in tbilisi i know once again i'm alone all my relatives are in so she i'm going to move to russia i don't want to be a citizen of this country the georgian authorities have been forcing me to move with the refugees and internally displaced people from the places they have been occupying for the last seventeen years unfortunately there are hundreds of thousands of these people all over the city and most of them have absolutely no place to go and even though the georgian government does say that they're giving them an option to move somewhere closer to where they used to live unfortunately all of those are rural areas they're far removed from tbilisi they have absolutely no communications there's no infrastructure some of them don't even have schools much less and the opportunities for work so that is the main reason why a lot of refugees feel that they want to stay in the police see

a lot of them have jobs here their kids go to schools here unfortunately at the same time you have presidents like the steely restraint that you want georgia to united and all georgians have to unite in the face of a common adversary of course by the can one adversary can use russia he gets the refugees feel like they are not being treated as human beings a lot of them are saying that they will not move out of these buildings but they're all out on the street right now and no place to go and their future is unfortunately uncertain at the moment. well for more stories you can log on to our web site latest video the top stories and let's see what's waiting for you right now. you can see some spectacular action as drivers at the russian leg of the european championships are battling on a brand new track created by a famous formula one designer. and curious business to become a serious player in the. market slap up the details dot com.

well the number of civilian casualties in afghanistan rose by almost a third in the first half of two thousand and ten compared to the same period last year the report by the u.n. 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. reports it's often the civilians who suffer the most. 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

want to fishel say that the taliban and other militants have stepped up their game in terms of using i 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 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 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 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 civilians and the surrounding areas where people are as a result of an occupation in the country. will also use military analyst you're going to believe 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 death you nama you and mission you know again and stand recent reports. it was touted as a 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 candidate fields they keel all rolled more than all other civilian casualties taken together in the whole nine years of these 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 of ghana stand over all the narcotics in afghanistan already in slaved more than two millions of afghans within the country and they probably keel even more than thirty thousand russians who have been in the day going to heroin annually plus you have to add up more than five million pakistani direct addicks

the overall result of the u.s. led mission ease 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 sam i n u o afghan civilian casualties a report. well r.t. spoke to british veteran journalist john pilger who thinks america is tricking the world by saying it's pulling out of the wars in iraq and afghanistan you can watch the full version of this interview in an hour's time right here on r.t. . this announcement by obama. but.

be the end of the combat mission next year is nonsense and that's another example of the of the media simply taking up 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 of surgery so call 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 to all statements like that. for many countries this summer's extreme weather of floods and droughts has led to a poor harvest sanda grain shortage in india millions of people are going hungry for a different reason artie's can't sing 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 darnell poured in eastern india had nothing to give us four days yes advantage to not a hungry child cries all the time there is no food to feed here how can we survive like this to give the child quite a just me to drink water yet the government has record amounts 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 names are not on the government's poverty list and we didn't get any food going to 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 you're taking precautions there is every likelihood as we have in the household there right now where your boarding or cup or from a curtain because likelihood. can spin on the table. and if you see it come but only next year 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 green 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. 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 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 they need india the hardest seeing r t. all right let's

get to some other news making headlines around the world now and heavy 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 that the disaster in the gansu province has already taken over seven hundred lives soldiers and rescuers are still fighting to find survivors trapped beneath the rubble for three days heavy rains triggered the deluge of rocks and crashing over rather 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 the newly elected colombian president juan manuel some to. express their optimism that the first meeting will produce positive results. at least fifteen people have been

killed in a bus crash in bolivia another twenty were injured as the vehicle ran into a rock on a mountain road onlookers said the 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 our special report coming up we look at how some mountains are literally being wiped off the face of the earth. urged the removal.

joins me with the latest business update and news the result has followed the claim against into rolls through the london court of international operation will soon will start all over how do you worry well the companies are rolling over control of north nickel and the outcome of normal june board elections we'll bring you more of that in a problem but first the main story. bridges losses due to the force and p. fire still raging across the country could reach fifteen billion dollars earlier business r.t. spoke to natalee at a lot of her bank who give us more on the impact of the ecological conditions on the economy furthermore she pointed out that the russian government is also losing opportunities in controlling prices with its policy of grain interventions. well this was initial seen as a very powerful instrument which russian government might use how is a recent liberalist see a very different figure symptoms of size of the these reserves because in july in number fishel exercise we're talking about twenty or twenty bloss million points in

the reserves of the most recent an independent as soon as give us just mind million tons so i would say the gap is an imaging and also not a garment and then to distribute bought it was part of this fund directly to the old russian regions so this will definitely read and possibility to intervene on the local market and to control prices then in whatever if we turn out to inflation what you forecast for this year inflation this is definitely the kinda key to which probably will be visible very soon and we have raised all inflation forecast of the level of some point five percent versus our initial view of seven percent around months ago and just respond the initial responding to the global grain market grain price rather how is the now as we see that the conditions in russia continue to deteriorate definitely we can expect with inflation might even critique see this seven point five percent level and as far as i can see the market consensus is now

shifting to even higher figures. and 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 nine percent now that's close to pre-crisis levels the rates have to crease 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 roll to a half percent in july. let's have a look at how the markets are doing european shares a sliding for a second session following the federal reserve commitments comments that the pace of economic recovery is slowing the fed's plans to boost the flying u.s. economy by reinvesting money from mortgage bonds into government debt if the fed's first attempt to bolster the economy over here and here in russia markets are sliding as well banks are underperforming on the. shedding two and a half percent spread bank down two percent gazprom is also dragging the two

percent. roussel has a claim against through the london court of international arbitration companies are rolling over control of norilsk nickel says the outcome of normal june board elections breaks the two thousand. between and into ross not to take control of and to maintain board representation the elections get three board seats into roles getting for both interests have a twenty five percent stake in the company. and sevastopol has but most of its north american steel making assets up for sale its u.s. branches vast potential bit is to respond with offers by friday the company over steel operations in warren ohio spouse point those are the. pits for steel corporation one package. french g f sways the third

and final go. same participant has paid eight hundred million euros for a nine percent stake in the project the company has bought the share from a german shareholders group gus and when and when to show each of them has decreased their share from twenty to fifty to half percent controlling stake in north stream the first eight of which will be launched next year is owned by gas bomb got to pass has another nine percent. fast food chains wendy and all bees 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 a restaurant's me. and is can their must be president of metals from a from the u. 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 all for now i'll get back with another update in about forty five that. culture is that so much of the same you're going to make a lot of people carrying a burger aren't reality it's

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here in the russian capital you're with your headlines now and a breath of fresh air. from across the record heat wave doesn't ease fueling hundreds of wildfires still burning in western russia. hundreds of volunteers from russia and abroad risked their lives to quell the

flames help people who lost everything in the fire. essential supplies. civilian casualties rose or by a third in afghanistan 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 us troops. well historic he did in russia devastating floods in eastern europe landslides in the far east. takes on the issue of climate change crosstalk. 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. critically. 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 a senior policy associate at the environmental and energy study institute and another member of our crosstalk team on the hunger lord 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 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.