after a short breather all small does expect. as wildflowers on the this heat wave continue their grip on central russia. nationwide memorials decades since the forced submarine tragedy the families of the one hundred eighty eight to say they still struggle with. a fractured face off with a political twist german activists are close to expose a rival seen as a fraction of nazis. well news and much more this is the welcome moscow is bracing itself for another uncomfortable cloud of smaug experts warn that

a new wave of smokers lucky to engulf the city after a burst of rain gave the capital a couple of days' rest but wildfires continue to burn there the capital and the heat shows no sign of abating teasin tightened on the covers in moscow's outskirts . but here in moscow we have had a chance to breathe fresh air for the past two days as the rain fell on the capital it has been a bliss it has been a break for most whites however doctors are saying that during this time of fires people's unused systems went down very low and that we should expect significant increase in cases of flu and cold and other infections during the autumn during this autumn moskos or jesus saying that the death rate in the city has doubled from feed hundred sixty three hundred eighty people at the eighty seven hundred people many countries to suggesting there is citizens not to be during this time which you can hardly blame them for of course because the area around moscow of two hundred hectares is still caught up and blazes where we are right now is

a park on the outskirts of mosco deeper into the park we're not allowed in because one hundred two hundred metres away from me there is still blazes inside the park so it does look like the blazes are slowly crawling into the city as well the russian authorities are saying that the number of fires is decreasing throughout the country however there are still about six hundred of them and they cover an area ninety thousand hectares more than fifty people have already died and volunteers are joining in to help fight the fires the area that has suffered the most from the blazes is the area around the city overdesigned which is not far away from moscow from where my colleague and he said now in our reports. for some the destruction is already being swept away. for others it's sweeping towards them this is how it all starts with a small flame that can quickly and go all the entire forest making this

a very fierce battle for emergencies workers and volunteers has been sergei's job to protect this forest for years but this summer has become his worst nightmare for the most dangerous is one of the. treetops are burning and the flames move at an incredibly fast pace thousands of volunteers have joined in to help fight the flames why don't fire breaks between damage to not harm trees and dampen the smoking earth. has to be said the work we have been doing here helps the effort tremendously the battle has been going on for weeks with over fifty dead hundreds injured and thousands homeless while the struggle to contain the flames below continues hundreds of tons of water are dropped by the emergency services a day by helicopters and specially adapted aircraft. but sergei who will be here once the flames are finally put out is scared there

might not be much left to protect. and some time to syria will be just complete heaps of cheese. and he said now a r t central russia. despite the fact. gulp of fresh air after a burst of rain the facts of the poisonous been washed away completely well it's what we talked to meteorologist who explains why the consequences are so dire. if the doctors are saying and in one hour out on the street breathing this moment is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes. all those poisonous lead emissions were of such a scale that in pollution was at times eight times higher than acceptable gothard. even with the small gone we must give it says and many others have lost our lungs is the trees around us that used to purify the. down. but the

worst part of it is that a lot of those are hard carbon monoxide emissions and are stuck and yet the severe problem when they mix with steam in the atmosphere they create carbonic acid which then turns into consideration because of the temperature at normality as you can continue for several years. and you can see the full interview with meteorologist chain calls next hour here on r.t. . well the prolonged to join spell is making russian wheat much harder to come by the season the harvest is expected to reach around sixty five million tons which is just enough to meet domestic demand government is not great experience for next month's but it could be up before they resume russia is the world's third largest wheat exporter and the announcement that supplies are being cut forced prices to rise the un's through the agriculture organization said the russian government's moves understandable. i sincerely hope that it is still not

a case where we will have a grain shortage but there is certainly a very severe situation in terms of supply and the drought has been extremely severe and the production shortfalls are far more far more dissipated as early as three weeks ago therefore it is understandable that the restrictions of. on exports is a one way to compact domestic food inflation especially the price of bread wheat mostly is useful and i think this is what the government at the end decided to do i'm not sure that they were dead many adoptions perhaps they could have also considered taxing exports or perhaps do a good deal in knowing gradual terms but you know in situations like this as the year is the you know governments tend to go for the most secure of the measures which is the total ban there had been a very extraordinary action to the ban in russia and the prices. rose very sharply if you're glad that they have calmed down

a little bit the market is actually taking into consideration amount of inventors that are available in other countries in particular in north america so that even invents results and we believe globally this year's global supply and demand for wheat although a bit tighter than we had anticipated it still is very much manageable. and you can even take care of the disastrous emergencies currently under currently in pakistan so the inventors are not the i mean russia is drawing down on inventor is it will be some more here and but just in general terms we are in much better situation than for example in two thousand and seven and eighty should be chief you'll recall we had a global food crisis and i think that the russian solution given the situation not just with the grains but also be defiant and all the uncertainty surrounding it really left a government of doubt much other choice and it is understandable. murrell services are being held on thursday at one of russia's naval bases to mark

a decade since the course tragedy the nuclear submarines sunk killing board most of the crew of the thirty. six park. the coolest submarine russia's biggest post soviet naval tragedy to date on august twelfth two thousand the nuclear submarine sank in the barents sea. international rescue efforts failed to save anyone on board one hundred eighteen sailors died trapped in a watery grave waiting in vain for. a cup of sugar it's been ten years but it feels like yesterday when i think of the pain he felt it's me i would do anything give my life to take away his pain anything for my boy you must. leave us twenty four year old son andy was a lieutenant on the sub she and her younger sons and grandsons visit under his

grave all the time his memory is something they're not prepared to ever let go. i'm a teacher not a military expert so i don't know whether the tragedy could be avoided but i do know it would be should have been seized or will be have received them. according to some experts if rescue operations had begun immediately instead of some days later lives could have been saved official investigation results show that the explosion the tore apart the door pito section of the sub took place here afterwards oxygen levels in the remaining sectors where survivors huddled dropped dramatically by aug fourteenth navy official stated that the chances of getting the sailors our allies were minimal week later when divers entered the sub one hundred eighteen people are dead there have been many different versions. what happened to the sub some people believe it may have collided with an american submarine that

was in the same waters others that it could have struck a mine left over from the world war two days but regardless of the theories floating about the human tragedy of cannot be denied were ever forgotten castro's are the r.t.e. moscow. well coming up a little later a new trial that you're in but this time it's it's about to clothing companies with agenda items and not the four hundred styles. not suits. observe nature and discover its beauty. these. communicate with the wild and. test yourself and become free to. see what nature can give you on the

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more than sixty years after the nuremberg trials the city has a once again played host to a landmark case but this time it was a clothing malefactor at the center of the controversy a fashion label associated with neo nazis accused and left wing group of defamation claiming its brand had been spoofed. never ports on a vehicle battle that's about more than just clones. and industrial dispute between two close manufacturers is an unlikely headline grabber but it served heated debate

in germany. and it makes casual wear inspired by nordic mythology closely linked with the ideology of the third reich founded just eight years ago its line has already become very good for germany or nazis but last year the youth wing of the left leaning social democratic party decided to strike out against nazi chic we wanted to do something about this. they used the younger people with the with fashion with contemporary music outdoor activities because it's not like the old fashioned everybody news with the new uniform and a baseball bat or the new label start an obvious spot on their original prominently features a power hungry stall obsessed with nordic mythology and its plan to rule the world of fashion store style or fail to see the funny side and sued for damages brand

choosing to filed a lawsuit at the court in nuremberg. the judge has rejected the claim saying stall climber is allowed to engage in sad but style of protest that they do not deserve to be parity as peddlers of new nazi although they had to change their logo because it resembled a swastika they now say they do not carry any notes the symbols which are banned in germany on nor do they cater to a specific market i have people here who buy clothing for about children i have people here who could be my parents and i have people in my age or younger too. and i say their critics are oversensitive and have no respect for people's right to choose what they want to wear their clothes have already been banned in many official buildings it's a launch to be the good ones in terms of the. want

to see the school and what despair so they're called opponents say that they will not be happy until total steiner is no more it's very difficult to ban it in for a whole country for example but everybody or most germans know torched i know is is a sign of. activists and we don't want this kind. of activity these kind of people as of now the top style of storefronts in berlin have been defaced in numerous nighttime attacks and there are few customers the threat of the company's expansion seems to have been laid to rest for the moment despite what many here want it's business as usual at this store in central berlin but what the controversy over the court case and the company itself proves is that there is nothing the german establishment fears quite as much as its own history. artsy belin. the u.s.

says it plans to end combat operations in iraq by the end of the month and to withdraw american troops by the end of next year more than sixty thousand soldiers are currently stationed in the country by zero says but some officials say a power vacuum and instability there is creating the conditions may come back to us back to the this is trying to. move in turn to insurgency. but it is growing because of america's extended presence in the region. the coalition forces of failed to realize what's making al qaeda grow al qaeda is growing because of of continued presence u.s. and nato forces in the middle east i mean we have completely surrounded the middle east in bases in united arab emirates and saudi arabia in iraq in afghanistan in kuwait and as a result of our bases being there the greater islamic world sees that and they see

either their environment being taken over by what they see as occupiers now i don't personally i don't necessarily think that the united states wants to conquer and control all of the middle east but i think that we definitely want to demonstrate power there so we put in military bases there the big problem is that this hasn't appropriately assess the threat the threat is five to seven thousand militants and every day that we stay inside the middle east those militants have fuel to grow. now to some other international news this hour the u.n. is appealing for more than four hundred million dollars in emergency aid for the flood victims of pakistan and desperation is growing is evidence of people for shelters the water being damaged by severe grain homes farmland and infrastructure destroyed that are struggling to get through more than sixteen hundred people have died so. that for instance.

meanwhile being you know. there's a result of extreme weather northern china stands at seven hundred over six hundred others are still missing thousands of rescuers to clean up roads that will blocked . all cost the same old downs as are expected over the next few days. a bus which overturned and plunged into a ravine in peru has killed at least twenty four people injured several others four children are among the dead rescue efforts were delayed because it happened in a mobile phone black spots difficult to help crashes like this happen frequently in prison because of poor grades or substandard trying to make it work. well as extreme weather breaks records around the world the c.f. cards are and stacy herbert say economists should take into account.

dear tara capital that's a good phrase i like that in other words this is what the economy is trying to deal with now because nobody costs to the true cost of air water soil the things that were just taken for granted for hundreds of years suddenly they're running out there is a little known bank on wall street called forest made sure it's mother nature's bank and it's calling in the loans billions trillions hundreds of trillions in loans and the earth can't pay those loans and the result is catastrophic eco failure in this case ecological failure. as the kaiser portishead throughout the day on our t.v. well ten minutes from now we discuss the dangers faced by reports using regions where uncovering the truth is not of life and death before the business news is

stephanie if you know it's. hungry for the full stop we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. every month we give you the future we'll do you understand how we'll get there and what tomorrow brings the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world. join us our technology update on our g. hello welcome to the business bulletin normally high temperatures drought and forest fires have triggered a rise in consumer prices in russia inflation the country has risen point two percent in a week that's the fastest pace in several months say the five to six service also

revealed g.d.p. figures are says economy grew five point two percent in the second quarter of two thousand and ten slightly worse than expected russia's ministry of economic development has estimated g.d.p. at five point four percent. and those high inflation figures are likely to leak into the banking sphere with the refinancing rate and therefore the lending rate appreciating the rise in the reports. russia's inflation rate has been sliding lower from fifteen percent two years ago to well under six percent advantage of the first half of these here but those days are gone i'm a city with the economic grip bounden drought death of food prices meaning the road ahead is the. water multiplied below six the sound thought they may or may and it's true that russia. doesn't have enough time to allow its. full benefit

of this favorable month for conditions because right now. with excel or at inflationary pressure it would therefore we'll see some upward pressure on frustrate which in a way will have to the fall of the inflation the drop in inflation has give the central bank room to slash their refinancing read fourteen consecutive times to seven point seven five percent in the last year and a half to rescue this should have enabled retail banks to slash their lending rates in loans to the real economy many banks certainly have done so but the boost to lending has been sluggish at best an industry says corporate rates are still higher than they should be on the visit do this week president been video became aware of one being still charging eighteen percent and he wasn't impressed almost the distrust between banks and industry still exists to refinancing rate is low at an all time historical lows and credit rates are high but i'm unpleasantly surprised by eighteen percent this information needs checking eighteen percent is an

intolerable rate with the current refinancing rate that means the profit is huge more than one hundred percent i wish. the rates on their loans reflect the risks they need to take as well as the costs they see the higher rates reflect more risk domestic borrowing costs will rise when the central bank leafs are great but it is still undeveloped financial system makes capital even more expensive for end users acting as a brake on the economy you need to do your business r.t. . now it's the acting marketed shaping up asian stocks to shop the. heavy losses they provide. a sliding more than one of the percent of the gang has risen sharply against the dollar and hong kong shares are also declining with resources and financials including its p.c. losing ground. and the us markets were next hour here in moscow they finished in the red on wednesday banks were the worst performers on. the to be answer to

a. percent and as you age is also traded in the red with gazprom losing two point four percent on the my sex and new cool i'm just after shopping at one and a half percent into the clothes. wilson nicole has called an extraordinary general meeting for the twenty first of october but the move comes after twenty five percent shareholder to sell disputed the outcome of the annual general meeting in june and push for arbitration involving it rival shareholder interests in the london courts and the club has more. an aerial general meeting of norilsk nickel at the end of june has provided a new source of conflict. it's all into ross with a twenty five percent stake in normal game for seats on the board but do so which also has twenty five percent gain only three seats who still claims the voting process was flawed just suggesting the risk management which controls about eight

percent of its shares through subsidiaries voted with interest russell says that the new rules board is controlled by an unhealthy alliance of interest in or nickel and is demanding an extraordinary shareholders' meeting and new elections i think russo wasn't quite prepared for the previous a.g.m. and no i believe the company did homework. this time around there during the war the interest because they are more prepared and they will just get more of their rector's the. work or their minority shareholders and i believe significant share of minorities could support. this time of recent weeks have seen result proposed buying out the interest stake only to be met with interest and no risk management proposed buying out for some analysts say a board change is now the only chance for stall to restore its position in. interest has freed up six point thirty five percent of new rules she is from pledge

d.v.d. bank a move that is seen as preparation for a buy back if that happens result could be left out of the game in the running of norilsk right in general in number of scenarios i mean but then surely they can sell a stake but i understand they're not willing to do it right now another option that or sell would be willing to do is to match the company's most almost mean kill but this is not in the interest of interop. itself. so right now i see it as a bit of a deadlock so. i think the most constructive way right now is for the shareholders just to sit down and talk to each other the warring shareholders of no rules have previously put aside their differences at the height of the global financial crisis with an agreement not to try and take control of nergal's and with parity on the board now that the parity has been broken and with both sides saying they want to

sell observers say a new round of negotiations is the only way forward for business r.t. and that's all from the business world for now but i'll be back with more for you next hour and you can always find stories on our website that's all t dot com slash business.

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