you are very strong. and there's no help anymore from the street and from the army for these guys german army wakes up to the problems of post-traumatic stress within its ranks so this is being overlooked one step back from the front line. and italy's oracles beat the economists game we look at how people are turning to fortune tellers to make their fortune on the stock market. and on the business desk we'll bring you all the latest on russia's grain exports and the new konami being created in the sim our region i have lots more in twenty minutes time. you're watching r.t. i'm carrie johnson welcome to the program. continues to enjoy

a break from the poisonous small getting go to the city for several days far far to say they're having some success in tackling the forest places that have been living dense smoke across the region and beyond. the pollution could return. to the capital. is outside moscow for us. the burning areas throughout russia has shrunk down by two thousand hectares 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 from the far east right now here the russian military are helping firemen to fire. the blazes in

the forests behind me you can probably see there are. reports that they lead from a local river to the forest in the flames. of course one of the main tasks of the russian authorities right now is not only to protect people but also to protect the objects in 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 radio active 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 gas still very very thick it's physically difficult to breathe it makes you want to sneeze and cough and there's a saying that the smoke has seriously affected people's health as standing here like not always equivalent for just about an hour is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes the mortality rate throughout the country has significantly

increased in most cruel loan 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 why do you wish the heavy rains to fall. which purified the air a little bit and hopefully for help to fight fires around the city but as we were heading here this position two hundred kilometers away from moscow just as we left the city the rain stopped so it seemed to be very isolated and many areas like this one are still covered in far as and small going experts are saying that the smoke is likely to return to more school over the weekend and also they're saying that it's this heat that will last for the next couple of days will then be slowly replaced with lowering temperatures which mites bring new disasters such as

heavy rains and storms in the city. lentulus heatwave in drought has destroyed a quarter of russia's grain crops as a result the government is pledging to spend more than a billion dollars to help producers it's also imposed a ban on we take spores to avoid a surge in domestic grain prices international trade is expected to resume in october still been a spike in global wheat prices present a vet of his told key ministers in governance that curbing food costs remains a key responsibility 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 but says that shop price rises are likely. we're in a very precarious time in 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 and this drought persists in russia for example or 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 they either absorb the price increases themselves or they pass it along so it's been interesting to listen to some of the c.e.o.'s in 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 we although that's the big headline grabber it affecting everything from tomatoes to fruit to potatoes off kinds of things so we're going to see food prices rise in general cross the border i would expect. that was financial analyst chris mayer there. to germany where the only is trying to catch up with hundreds of suspected cases of exogenous 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 afghan province of can do this. tom barton examines the allegations that even one of the world's most developed countries is failing to the cove to its former soldiers. these men soldiers and drag them sort of germany for twenty four years and you know the tenant in afghanistan he had his fair share of experiences i was fighting you going through the wrong aboard five i was in one my. normal. for so we're 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 off 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. strong warning that all 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 she also treats 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 tense thoughts sitting somebody in front of you that in that pretty moment this really experiencing all the horror and excels in and that he experienced during the war and they need a lot of empathy to help people. but you have to you have to try to control the. becomes otherwise that will overwhelm us and 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 zero three ninety yes it was. in the

majority of travelling 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 help the borders were safe some five hundred soldiers have come home from afghanistan with psychological wounds this year alone hating them are required a lot of time and patience and a lot of work in labs like this but as far as german's attitude to their country's presence in afghanistan goes time and patience are in short supply tom barton r.t. munich germany. well coming up soon on the program we look into the future of shady for me psychic a stockbroker. cashing in on the credit crunch that's on the way. how's

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dollars invested in her tubes one hundred fifty dollars to pull the average of the stock markets where they trade jewels deflated or not she says the public's leaving linda's and coming to her for financial advice of this spectacular failure to spot 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 r.t. . for those who don't want to rely on paranoia predictions for the stock market i will give you a more conventional assessment business bulletin in just a few minutes time. the german city of course the scene of arguably the most famous trial in history the court condemned the nazi war criminals for their actions in the second world war in cross talk people of l. and his guests discuss whether the tribunals set an important precedent or whether

it was simply a case of justice for the victors. i think it was very important that historians also got a chance to study what it was like inside a fallen dictatorship really look at the mechanisms how that system work and of course that was important step in its own right but 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. you know we've only got only got the truth we only got the truth the prosecutor said because of the teutonic habit. writing everything down. signatures on the. cross exam going to be. running a quarter. for mass graves. using. the wealth. was one of the reasons why succeeded.

and you can see crosstalk throughout the day here naughty. pakistan's leader has paid his first visit to the area swamped by the country's worst ever floods of the criticism that he went on a european tour as a disaster took hold president zardari talked to victims in a circle of district office in present pledging to rebuild all the homes destroyed the u.s. navy has sent a thousand marines to help with the relief effort the tragedy has claimed more than sixteen hundred lives over fourteen million 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 sawmills no deaths have been reported but the local hospital says it struggled to cope with the influx of patients burns and breathing difficulties at least one hundred homes and other

buildings were destroyed. and c.c.t.v. footage has been released showing a powerful blast in the colombian capital of bogota a car bomb exploded outside of a major radio station of the thing at least nine people were injured he comes just days after the preston tunnel sometimes took office to come to his predecessor's fight against leftist government is ok because. well on the way soon more from the ancient cities which encircled moscow this time most of the entries heads to a place which is. in people's wallets. if you look here. it's featured on the one thousand rouble note it has a value of around thirty dollars and it's one of the most popular and used banknotes long gone is the face of loan from any russian bills so instead they feature a very stark call sites and such. like this one here. that's

more from bottom in terms of it's time to buy stuff me joins us now gold latest from the business world and for fans of fast food some tasty news i think possibly carry it to american fast food chains are expanding into the russian market with plans for one hundred eighty outlets over the next ten years i'll have more a bit later but fust world grain stocks are likely to be kept up through u.s. supplies after the drop that's expected as result of the russian export ban the u.s. department of agriculture also says an increase in deliveries from china the european union and australia are likely the agency estimates that grain exports from russia

this year will amount to three million tons in line with the russian agriculture ministry for cost the decision to halt shipments abroad was made after drought hit the agricultural sector this season grain production is predicted to decline by fifteen million tons globally off of which results from russia's production the harvests in ukraine and kazakhstan are expected to decline between two point five and three million tons in the european union the drop could be over for many homes . and russia's drought is pushing up flour prices on the other side of the globe wheats now cost twenty percent more in mexico which. to get half of it supplies from abroad that of the country's national chamber for 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 smog are 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 anti monopoly service is looking at new measures to get consumer prices to cool down. the current state of affairs is outside the monopoly legislation that is when there is a dominating player on the market or when several players reach a price fix up deal now what we see is more of a moral and ethical question with retailers cashing in on extraordinary situations the government will take measures to create the rules for markets in these conditions some of those rules already exist in russia's trade laws the government can freeze prices for a fixed period if the cost of certain goods exceeds thirty percent over three months 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 is to be created in russia some our region because of the area struggling car industry it will help employ over thirty thousand employees of the country's largest auto manufacturer after

bouts the zone will specialize in producing car components using the affected workers existing skills agreements avoided could reach the potential investors who say they've got over one point three billion dollars ready to invest in the government side improved infrastructure and lower business costs are being promised her supporters already signed a decree to get the ball rolling pressure to act has also come from foreign carmakers to russia as moving rules mean they've had to significantly localize their production. european stock markets have opened high on friday after stronger than expected g.d.p. data from germany and france the commodity sector is in the lead europe's largest economy saw g.d.p. growth growth of two point two percent in the second quarter beating forecast by a hefty margin and showing the fastest pace of growth for germany since we've unification. aging markets have seen a sharp move this week of global growth but the nikkei finished higher after

a choppy friday's session gains were modest though on uncertainty as to whether the japanese authorities will act to curb the answer we saw. and strength. also hampered gains that follows will street overnight decline stops extended losses there after the release of claims data which is at the highest level since february . the russian markets are trading high here in moscow on friday the r.t.s. has climbed behalf of the sun so far having been the worst performing sector on the my sex on the first day banks and now leading the blue chips higher by spike and bt be up around one percent this hour. american fast food chains wendy's and arby's a coming to russia they've signed an agreement with a local company affiliated to food service capital one hundred eighty restaurants over the next ten years the russian restaurant market has huge upside is that still one of the least penetrated to tell you how close reports. fast food far forced

based world the financial crisis is changing the menu of russian diners many casual and fine diners have caught their restaurant budgets but still haven't turned away from eating out their country about a dozen large fast food chains in russia and analysts say this still a lot of room for growth the second is still very strong on the developed compared to the u.s. the hostile sentiment of course has a way to wear off. and if we just come from figures in russia the rest are on turnover you know we're all for that i told her noise less than five percent in the u.s. it makes up to forty percent just basically it's a huge money about two car 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 that's why i asked her i thought that she had a high price in the strategy of roadside business. as fast food sales in the us 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. as part of our development plan to open restaurants railway stations on the highway through a savings plan standalone restaurant as well as for the average check is very similar to what is new us 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 diner that had

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