overusing across russia gears up for one of the small ways the end of that we. could go wrong it's a decade since the naval tragedy of more than one hundred crude. fashion statements a german left wing is go into battle over bionic fits of choice for don't see it's . russian government begin the second phase of the cash for clunkers program and promise that we can sign up for another three hundred and thirty million dollars for that more you know business program. a very warm welcome to you this is all see life in the russian capital but moskos bracing itself for a new blanket of talks that small expected to descend on the weekend

a burst of rain gave the russian capital a couple of days' rest point from the suffocating smoke a result of wildfires still raging in the country. is in the outskirts of moscow with more. the blazes are slowly crawling into the russian capital in this park just on outskirts of moscow several fires have covered and there are two hundred where meters that have been stopped by now but the smell is still in the air for the past two days however muscovite had a chance to breathe fresh air well as fresh as it can be in the capital of course as the rain fell on the city however experts predict the smog to be back late thursday thursday or friday. as the wind changes they do say however that it will be much less intense doctors are saying that because of this smaug people's immune systems have gone down so that we will see significant increase in cold and flu

cases over the outcoming also moscow thirty's are saying that the death rate in the city have doubled russian authorities are doing everything they can of course to decrease the number of fires. fears however spread among russians many are afraid for their lives how many are simply in unstable emotional states however there are also those who are not giving up and volunteering to help firemen to tackle the blazes and one of the regions that was affected the most by the far is is the region around the city of resign from where my colleague any sonali now 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 engulf the entire forest making this a very fierce battle for emergencies workers and volunteers it has been sergei's

job to protect this forest for years but this summer has become his worst nightmare . the most dangerous is one of the treetops are burning and the flames move it incredibly fast pace thousands of volunteers have joined in. to help fight the flames widen fire breaks between damage to non han trees and damp in the smoking earth. it 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 trees. and it's now way r.t. central russia on the. chin cough told r.t. the point is that a small that blanketed moscow is likely to have a very long term effect. if the few doctors are. out on the street breathing this. is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes. all those poisonous lead emissions were of such a scale the pollution that time of the fifty eight times acceptable god but the worst part of it is that a lot of those carbon monoxide emissions are now stuck in your. limits with steam in the atmosphere they created carbolic acid which then turns into rain because of that temperature. can continue for several years.

do you watch the full interview with your tank off in about twenty minutes time here. now a quarter of russia's grain crops have been destroyed by the unprecedented heat wave the government is planning to spend more than a billion u.s. dollars to help it's also imposed a ban on exports to avoid a surge in the best prices president and to me that we're very told he ministers the governors. taming of food prices remains a key responsibility for the government under way for the export ban which caused a global price spike in october well the un's food agricultural organization says the measures taken by russia where 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 than i anticipated as early as three weeks ago therefore it is on the stand that will 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 am not sure that they were dead many of the options 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 a total ban. morial services are being held all russia's naval bases to mark a decade since the chord scale tragedy for you to come on as the victims' families to reuse into the barren scene the scene of the disaster the nuclear submarines during a naval axons killing all one hundred eighteen on board most of the crew on the

taxi in the us out of its back. the course 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. the chip it's been ten years but it feels like yesterday when i think of the pain he felt it's kills me i would do anything give my life to take away his pain anything for my boy you must. lose twenty four year old son and he 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 they should have been see our boys be happy to see that. 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 that 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 august fourteen. us navy official stated that the chances of getting the sailors our allies were minimal week later when divers entered the sob one hundred one thousand people are dead there have been many different versions of 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. way. over. the. course. states. first. second. or even the third. heard the remains. is in valley feel.

a german a clothing label popular with neo nazis has lost alarm won't. court for steiner accused a left wing political group of defamation after it created a rival satirical brand they claim the line damage the reputation for sign up by spoofing its designs but is. never of course the trial was about

a lot more than just crimes a fashion and industrial dispute between two close manufacturers is a number likely headline grabber but it's third of heated debate in germany dostana makes casual were 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 german there 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 the supplemental. they used to attract the younger people with it with passion with contemporary music or outdoor activities because it's not like the old fashioned see everybody knew with an uniform and a baseball bat or the new label star khiam or an obvious fun and original

prominently features a powerful re 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 file the lawsuit at the court in nuremberg the judge has rejected the claim saying still climber is allowed to engage in satire but style of protest that they do not deserve to be parody 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. i have people here who could be my parents and i have people who are in my age or younger. steiner 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 scoop and what despair so but they're caught 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 toss china is is a sign of. activists and we don't want this kind of. of activities these kind of people as of now the top style of store fronts in berlin have been defaced in numerous nighttime attacks and there are few customers the threat of the company's expansion seems to be 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. for more on the main stories we're covering on that here's what i also find that the maintenance of. the perfect hoist it just like the million dollars foundation does say that if and when the stage with no sign of a great kid and no evidence to the. rush is on precedence of topical he may have brought a small this but it's also a bear and should be in the fall of the west of the year olds be the grown figs lemons.

washington says it's on the targets to end its military operations in iraq by the end of the month the reassurances come out of the country's top army officer wounded iraqi troops won't be ready to take the reins for nothing a decade general about because the body is said native to wouldn't be able to maintain security without american assistance the u.s. . the main threat is out there which is stepped up attacks recent weeks before me u.s. servicemen jake do the best he says and their presence throughout the region is the cool growth supports. 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 in the middle east i mean we have 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 their their environment being taken over by what they see as occupiers no 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 a properly 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. the un is appealing for more than four hundred million dollars in emergency aid for flood victims in pakistan the disaster has affected over fourteen million people survivors are facing massive food and water shortages as rescuers are struggling to get aid to them the floods of the worst the cultural scene and have claimed over fifteen hundred lives. meanwhile in china rescuers are continuing to search for

survivors after an avalanche of modern rocks covered a town in gansu province of the weekend all the thousands of people over six hundred others are still missing some locals blame the government over policies they felt vulnerable to landslides from across the falls are expected for the next two days it's. gone tolerate jury has recommended a fourteen year old sentence for osama bin laden is cook the sudanese chef that last month pleaded guilty says aborting terrorism i conspired with terrorist groups al qaeda he's. only the fourth detainee to be convicted since guantanamo opened in two thousand and two having spent more than eighty years in the camp the court's decision may be overruled by a plea deal that will limit his time in prison. or in just

a few minutes that would have some expert insight into why russia has been taking this summer but first of all it's come top on all the latest business deals with cutting. hello and welcome to our program going to have you with us grain exports from russia this year will be between two and four and a half million tongues the agriculture ministry says the country has exported one point six tons already and could ship out another point seven million before an export ban goes into effect on august the fifteenth now the decision to hold exports was made after a normal drought hit the agricultural sector this session russian president dmitry medvedev has also called for changes and ensures legislation to avoid climate risks and to provide farmers with additional support. the situation is very severe as a bounce a quarter of all grain fields in the country have dried up as a result of the drought unfortunately many firms are now on the verge of bankruptcy

the government has already agreed to provide financial help to agricultural producers who are faced with hard times the two to support amounts to one point one billion dollars in addition suffering foamers will get support from local authorities. russian government has begun the second phase of the cash for clunkers car utilization program thursday prime minister putin signed off another three hundred thirty million dollars toward it and already sixty thousand new cars and customers have been reserved industry and trade minister viktor yuschenko believes this number will increase to two hundred thousand by the end of the year he also said the timing of the programme has helped boost production. and to discuss this in detail i'm now joined live by yvonne bourne here from ernst and young hello t.v. thanks for joining taking part in our program so have the government's program been a success from your point of view. definitely looking back

at the statistics and what has been planted initially in fact the program was initially called an experiment it proved quite successful as certificates were sold ahead of the playing time and this is why actually probably a continuation is currently being implemented. now we see that car sales have steadily grown so far this year and how has the economy benefit and what could be the second phase and what could the second phase bring. and actually what we could expect in the second phase is another success so definitely the two hundred thousand new cars to be sold under this program could happen by the end of the year or also in the next couple of months of two thousand and eleven it's good for the economy because it keeps specially local or we. both

domestic and foreign b.z. and they've been revising their production budgets and forecasts and obviously the ultimate effect on overall registration in sales so currently everyone has been revising their forecast for the russian market on the upside. and and hard the sales of cars that are not included into this program doing. the good thing about the program is that contrary to all turn it is programs in western europe and the u.s. it is targeting only cars that have been produced in russia and obviously this is boosting local production local g.d.p. called the contribution of the ultimate expect there and also changing the structure of the russian car market as a shift from heavy dependence on imports towards. new registrations. locally produced cars. and when we talk about cars why do you

think the car market could return to the pre-crisis levels when we see you know customers really turning to and buying those cars. it will take some time for the market to recover obviously we are not expecting fast growth as it was prior to the financial downturn although as i mentioned we've been revising our forecasts on the upside i would say pre-crisis level would be reaching the next couple of years so hopefully by two thousand and twelve we are back to close to three million cars of new registrations per year thank you very much for taking the program taking part in the program i was even born from and staying on thanks very much. and let's now have a look at how the equity markets are doing it's a choppy day's trade for european stocks footsie has turned positive in the last hour but only just it being boy by strong telecommunications sector miners are also

high on news of rio tinto share buyback but falls in banks are and energy majors have pretty gains. here in moscow russia's markets are also dipping lower gas. underperforming on the my six but look rules hydro are lending some support with gains on. between a quarter and half a percent. and the price of benchmark crude oil has dropped for the third day to seventy seven dollars a barrel i mean growing concerns of a slowdown in economic recovery in the world's biggest energy consuming countries over b.p.'s oil spill could help to keep the prices stable as i was claimed of the disaster will reduce barrel of crude by sixty thousand barrels a day for the rest of two thousand and ten. that's all the business update for now i'll be back with more in less than one.

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