strong born mood. and there's no hope anymore promise freedom from the army for these guys doctors in germany deal out treatment to ease the post-traumatic stress of the country's soldiers but their complaints the army and government are failing in their duty of care. and the psychic stock market in italy we explore how clairvoyants are banking on people's financial fears by predicting where their investment fortunes die. you're watching r.t. good to have you with us today let's go straight to our top story now moscow continues to enjoy a break from the poisonous smog that ingolf the city for several days firefighters say they're having some success in tackling the forest places that have been blowing dense smoke across the region and beyond meteorologists though warn that

the air pollution could return as a record heatwave clings to the capital or to ease the timing of the cobras outside moscow for us. the burning areas throughout russia has shrunk down by thousand hectors and stayed over mergence he has been lifted in several regions throughout the country however the overall picture is still quite devastating as several villages have been burnt down completely and thousands have been left with no homes and over fifty people have been killed in the far is where we are right now some two hundred kilometers away from moscow is one of the places that have that has suffered the most of the far east right now here the russian military are helping firemen to fight the blazes in the forests behind me you can probably see there are . reports that they lead from a local river to the forests in the flames. and of course one of the main tasks of

the russian authorities right now is not only to protect its people but also to protect. the country such as military bases and nuclear plants and bars in those regions contaminated by the nine hundred eighty six noble nuclear disaster have been extinguished by now as they have been concerns that they could spread greater acts of particles further and russian authorities right now are saying that the radioactive level in those regions is normal meanwhile here in this region the small guy still very very sick it's physically difficult to breathe see it makes you want to sneeze and cough and there's a saying that the smoke has seriously affected people's health as sending here right now is equivalent to for just about an hour is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes the mortality rate throughout the country has significantly increased and most cruel own it doubled during the spirit of fires. so the situation remains quite difficult and of course those with lung diseases and heart

diseases are suffering the most the forecasts are not very optimistic at this point even though early morning on friday with the heavy rains to fall almost two. which purified the air a little bit and hopefully for our help to fight fires around the city but as we were heading here to this position two hundred kilometers away from moscow just as we left the city the rain stopped so it seemed to be very isolated. many areas like this one are still covered in far as and small good experts are saying that the smoke is likely to return to more school over the weekend and also they are saying that this heat that will last for the next couple of days will then be slowly replaced with lowering temperatures which might bring new disasters such as heavy rains and storms in the city. well the relentless heat wave and drought has destroyed a quarter of russia's grain crops as a result of the government is pledging to spend more than

a billion dollars to help producers it's also imposed a ban on we take sports to avoid a surge in domestic grain prices although international trade is expected to resume in october steuben a spike in global wheat prices presently has told key ministers and governors that curbing food costs remains accused sponsibility for the government and regional authorities financial analyst chris mayer says it's too early to predict if we're facing a global food crisis or says that price rises on likely. going to very precarious timing and we'll know more about that in next few weeks because we're at a very important point where the farmers have to get their crop in this drought persists and russia for example will start to affect next year's harvest the worst hit will be the big food importers and mostly there in the middle east north africa egypt for example is a big importer of food and some of the poorer countries like india and pakistan

were already there seeing big surges in prices for food so there will certainly be the most food companies have a couple of choices to make be either absorb the price increase. as themselves and they pass it along so it's been interesting to listen to some of the c.e.o.'s and companies talk about what they're going to do i think you will see higher prices for food bread items for even for things like beer price of barley and doubled in the last month in there and it's really a trickle effect it's not only weak although that's the big headline grabber it's affecting everything from tomatoes to fruits to taito all kinds of things so we're going to see food prices rise in general cross the border i would expect. yes there was a financial analyst chris mayer there. to germany now where the army's trying to catch up with hundreds of suspected cases of x. soldiers suffering from mental health problems this comes as the country's forces attempt to step up their efforts in tackling the growing insurgency in the northern

province of could do as. tom barton examines the allegations that even one of the world's most developed countries is failing to look after its former soldiers. these men were once soldiers and draftsmen served germany for twenty four years and then up left a colonel in afghanistan he had his fair share of hairy experiences i was fighting against the taliban around about five i was in one minute i had suicide attacks i had. made all the things who are now almost four so were joined more and i did my job but even with his experience the stress of things he'd seen began to eat away at him until a doctor told me ok you are not longer a soldier you have to go you have to be aware in front of your own availing to do this job that you are not able to do that you are.

in armies the world over post-traumatic stress disorder is thought to affect between five and ten percent of soldiers the german army the blunders for has only recently woken up to the damage it does and dress ses he and many others were ignored that's not fair that we are treating the soldiers who was serving for their own country who risked. their own lives and came back to germany and the strong war note. and there's no help anymore from the state and from the army for these guys the windows were told us they're trying to find out how many unreported cases there are amongst former soldiers orica schmidt and her team are working to try and discover the molecular basis of such stress in the brain tree also treat soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder trying to slowly face the flashbacks that prevent living normal lives but

she says the treatment is sometimes frightening times sitting somebody in front of you that in that pretty moment this really experiencing. well the whole romantic salzman that he experienced during the. you need a lot of empathy to help people. but you have to you have to try to control the empathy as well because otherwise that will overwhelm us therapist in germany it's not just tsongas who is stressed with the war criticism of involvement in afghanistan is widespread the polls according to at least seventy percent of germans oppose it and history weighs heavily on the debate. about war and the second world war two and the ninety's it was. in the majority of traveling people invest in part of germany said never again should we.

take as a country as well the political debates rage on the battle with traumatic stress is being fought out in labs and psychiatric wards with attention now focused from the army it's hoped they may be able to treat former soldiers who have until now suffered without health blunders worse say some five hundred soldiers have come home from afghanistan with psychological wounds this year alone healing them all quiet a lot of time and patience and a lot of work in labs like this but as far as german's attitude to their countries presence in afghanistan goes time and patience are in short supply barton r.t. munich germany well coming up soon on the program we look into the future of shading the psychic stockbrokers cashing in on the credit crunch that's on the way .

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mountain top removal on offer to. a failed state this is not a good warm. day for it and should step before you showed us a pretty tree they have no idea about the hardships the you face. one it's. two minutes and for any army the life of the usaf is the most precious thing in the world. is of self-sacrifice and heroism of those who understand it fully but you have to live a. real life stories from world war two because. the true nineteen forty five dot com. playing the stock market has always been a guessing game since then there were a session locked investors' confidence in it own predicting abilities some are now

turning to cash hungry clairvoyance and in italy it's big business as daniel bushell reports. madame christina sees the future from the stains in her coffee she promises to make you money on the stock market invest in coke she says is the real thing a safe haven the umbrella shows from current economic turbulence symbolized by these raindrops in russia gophers burbank this fish jumping through an open circle guarantee success we'll check how she does at the end of this report more than christina's advice has already changed lives only to have a she's given me confidence to get a better paid job my my own house and me to partner. fortune telling has become a staggering eight billion dollar industry in italy alone as people don't bankers who fail to call the credit crunch one crystal ball gazer says her clients include

rich businessmen and big politicians the world's top terror card expert people also want answers in their private life. still in love. with some problem. the second card. and you approach the problem. of reason the astonishing rise in psychic fortunes is fueling a massive public counterattack prefers opponents fear as dedicated his life to prove clear voyant are cheats no better than bankers and now madame christine is june selection of thousand dollars invested in her tubes would have earned you one hundred fifty dollars to pull the average of the stock markets where they trade just defied all north she says the public's leaving linda's and coming to her for

financial advice after this spectacular failure to see the economic crisis banks are losing customers some say fortune tellers couldn't do any worse i may even shed light in these difficult times. your bushel otty. paranoia predictions for the stock market i will give you a more conventional assessment of our business bulletin if a minutes time. now show you some of what we're also covering online trotty dot com russian police are on the money they've busted a gang which printed fifty million rubles and counterfeit currency every month so if you can tell the difference on our website. and the u.s. looks into one of the country's biggest immigration fraud schemes which made criminals millions of dollars one harming the chances of getting me to sign seekers for more head to r.t. dot com. pakistan's leader has paid his

first visit to the area by the country's worst ever floods of the criticism that he went to a european tour disaster took hold presence are going to talk to victims in this district of sindh province pledging to rebuild all the homes are being destroyed u.s. navy has sent a in the thousand marines to help with the relief efforts the tragedy has claimed more than sixteen hundred lives or over fourteen million remain affected by the floods. hundreds of people in brazil have been forced to flee a fire which grew out of control as it took hold of dozens of small meals no deaths have been reported but the local hospital says it's struggling to cope with the influx of patients suffering from burns and breathing difficulties at least one hundred homes and other buildings were destroyed. we in mara's to hold its first general election for two decades it's believed the

ruling military junta text in the vendor seven ballot as a political party of the leadership of the current prime minister the national league for democracy on the last poll by a landslide of one nine hundred ninety four wasn't allowed into office party jeter and he says it will boycott an upcoming vote. c.c.t.v. footage has been released showing a powerful blast in the colombian camp. itll bogota a car bomb exploded outside the studios of a major radio station leaving at least nine people injured it comes just days after a new president on one of our son toss took office to continue his precesses fight against leftist guerrillas and cocaine traffickers. the german city of newburgh was the scene of arguably the most famous trial in history the court condemned nazi war criminals for their actions in the second world war so they too in crosstalk people averted his guess discuss whether the tribunals set an

important precedent whether it was simply a case of justice for the victors. it was very important that historians also got a chance to study what it was like inside a fallen dictatorship work really look at the mechanisms how that system work and of course that was a important step in its own right the problem with many of the dictatorships we see now we don't really get inside them anymore we don't really get the truth or it takes forever to come out ok so i just you know we only got i only got the truth we only got the truth the prosecutor said because of the teutonic habit of writing everything down. signatures on the night and degrees and could cross-examine to be part of the nuremberg legacy in running a court in sierra leone where of course we have to draw inferences for mass graves we have to use informers we do have the wealth of evidence that was one of the

reasons why nuremberg succeeded. and cross-talk is here in r.t. in about ten minutes time before because of that stephanie has you stephanie and i have this need for russia similar regions that right there is carried the area has struggled with an ailing car industry but now a new economic saying is being created in the region. i'll have more details in just a moment but fast most of the grain that russia will not provide to the global market this year due to the drought will be substituted with supplies from the u.s. an increase of deliveries from china the european union and australia is also expected says the u.s. department of agriculture the agency estimates that grain exports from russia this year will amount to three million tons in line with the russian agriculture ministries for cost the country has exported one point six million tonnes already i could ship another point seven million before an export ban comes into effect on

the fifteenth of august the decision to halt exports was made after a drought hit the agricultural sector at this season russian president dmitri medvedev has also called for changes in insurance registration to avoid climate risks and to provide farmers with additional support. and russia's drought is pushing up flour prices on the other side of the globe weeks now cost twenty percent more in mexico which has to get half of its supplies from the board ahead of the country's national chain before bread production says he expects prices to rise by another twenty percent during august as the russian grain export ban comes into effect. russian regions that have been hit with record temperatures and small also seeing price hikes for fans and air conditioners the cost of buying them has tripled as temperatures pushed towards forty celsius it's a highly competitive market but the federal antimonopoly service is looking at new measures to get consumer prices to cool down. but the. current state

of affairs is outside anti monopoly legislation that is applicable when there is a dominating play on the market or when several players reach a price fix up deal with the now what we see is more of a moral and ethical question with retailers cashing in on extraordinary situations with the government will take measures to create the rules for markets in these conditions some of those rules already exist in russia's trade law the government can freeze prices for a fixed period if the cost of certain goods exceeds thirty percent over three months or a similar formula could be applied to what is going on now we are preparing material for these issues to be discussed. a new economic zone has to be created in russia some are region because of the area's struggling car industry it will help employee over thirty thousand x. employees of the country's largest auto manufacturer after buyouts the general specialize in producing car components using the affected workers' existing skills

agreements have already been reached with potential investors who say they've got over one point three billion dollars ready to invest on the government side improved infrastructure and low business costs of being promised prime minister putin's already signed a decree to get the ball rolling pressure to act has also come from foreign carmakers operating in russia as new rules mean they have to significantly localize their production. asian markets have seen sharp moves this week on global growth fears they are edging high in a choppy session on friday to call back some of the week's heavy losses lacking automobile shares are hampering gains on the nikkei the that follows will street overnight decline stocks extended losses there after the release of weekly jobless claims data which was at the highest level since february and europe's industrial output saw an unexpected fall fueling growth concerns. the russian markets are high in early trading friday here in moscow the r.t.s. has climbed more than one percent so far the real cynical is among the top getting

the chips there and having been the worst performing sector on the my sex on the first day of functionality in the blue chips high with m p t beat up more than one percent this hour. american fast food chains a 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 the russian restaurant market has huge upside as it's still one of the least penetrated to tell you how kind of reports. fast food for thought. the financial crisis is changing the menu of russian diners many casual and fine diners have come to the restaurant budgets. but i still haven't turned away from eating out there are currently about a dozen large fast food chains in russia and analysts say this still a lot of room for growth the second still very strong on the dual compared to the us while the hostile sentiment of course has

a way to wear off. and if we just come from fingers in russia the rest are on turnover you know we're all for that i told her noise less than five percent in the us it makes up to forty percent just basically it's a huge money about six hard billion dollars a year most fast food outlets are concentrated in big cities but these markets will soon be close to saturation in order to attract more customers fast food chains have to expand into the regions opening roadside cafes is also a way to develop right now russian highways are filled with independent standalone establishment but this reply was pay as much as for double cheeseburger but you never know what's inside i doubt it at places like this i see it cost me where i bought it at a high price in the strategy of roadside business. as fast food sales in the u.s. and e.u. are in decline the wendy's alby's group says they've chosen the right time to

conquer new horizons and they've also picked up the right me as part of our development plan to open restaurants railway station on the highway filling stations and san juan restaurants as well as for the average check is very similar to what is new was based on our research sixty dollars the owners say they will invest one hundred million dollars into the project and hope to have a lot of surprises for the russian fast food diana that a couple of the business r.t. moscow. and that's all visitors for now but i'll be back with more for you next hour and you can always find more stories on our website that's r t dot com slash s. . the

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