we are strong. and there's no help from the state and from the army for these guys . the german army wakes up to the problems of post-traumatic stress within its ranks soldiers say that this is being overlooked once they're back from the front line. and italy's oracles economists at their own game we look at how people are turning to fortune tellers to make this fortune on the stock market. you know it's one pm here in the russian capital you're watching r.t. our top story now moscow is once again the slowly bringing gulf by suffocating smaug after a few days reprieve far far to say they're having some success in tackling the forest blazes that have been blowing dense smoke across the region then beyond

however the situation in some regions in central russia remains serious meteorologists warned that the application could again worsen as a record heatwave clings to the capital of thailand over on the outskirts of moscow ferrante. the burning area has shrunk by thousands of hectares throughout the country in the past twenty four hours and states of emergencies have been lifted in several regions in russia however the overall situation is of course still devastating as many villages have been burnt down completely and thousands of people have been left without homes over fifty people have been killed in the blazes right now we are some two hundred kilometers away from moscow and this is the area that one of the areas that have suffered the most from the far is behind me you can probably see the completely burned down for us here right now russian helping farming to tackle the blaze of course another very important task of the russian government. right now is to protect the country's strategic objects such as

military bases and nuclear plants and all far is in those regions contaminated by the nine hundred eighty six your 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 radio active level in those regions is normal meanwhile in regions like this one there still burning the smoggy is still very very thick it's very difficult to breathe here and doctors are saying that standing here in this forest which is one of our aid we're going to smoke two packs of cigarettes those are saying that immune systems of many people have gone down that during this period of fires of course those with lung disease are harder to have suffered the most meanwhile the weather forecasts are not very optimistic even though where i thought heavy rainfall early morning on friday it seemed that for the shower it was very isolated and just as we left the capital on

our way here the showers have stopped they did clear the air in moscow however but they didn't help to fight the fires outside the city experts are saying that the smoke is likely to return to moscow 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 might bring heavy rains and storms in the city. that's how you know like over there what us far far to struggle to cope with the blazes that have now destroyed tens of thousands of hectares across central russia hundreds of volunteers are joining in to help jesus honor the culture of hollywood one of the groups on duty. meet alexander drive in cinema manager by night. to go to this open fire and see if you do wish that it would be fine flying to by day one of the many russian. and to use what trying to say forests villages

and. mining i have two toddlers when you wake up and the whole city is choking with the smog the kids a coughing and you really want to get rid of the small but how you know we understand that we ourselves have to do something one identify it and spectacular forced into wasteland alexander and his friend spread the word volunteer and people do we don't see if we take food so that people won't be hungry we've got food rations from the emergencies ministry it tastes good volunteers usually have no gloves with them where they are needed as the fire is everywhere and you can easily get hurt that is almost every day team of twenty from different backgrounds meets at this square to see what the group is almost ready but just found out the fire speak didn't kilometers away and he says where we're going and half an hour later the real job begins the volunteers the forest becomes a war zone i'm going but the. fire got close to the solid line or it can move

over it and into the forest at any minute our task is to hold back the fire cover it with sand so it won't get into the village the team may be small but they're punching above their weight also and. today the floor is not so bad but yesterday volunteers braved the worst they put out using anything to hand. disguise here helical or surge good thing they're dropping water but here on the ground there's a very phased the for close up and work of the for the new. guys we need to be here over there the fire is moving up the tree we need to try to stop but the eagerness of the volunteers is infectious.

it's hard tough work a real challenge lynn refuses to go on vacation and calls her husband has forged even a mission. some of you with you know it's just my brother so i would prefer and called my husband extinguishes the shovel or drops water when we're moving from place to place and helping with the carrying. the team stays in the forest until dawn but while most of the rest at home alexandra burke his regular shoot at the drive in cinema and the following morning he will give the movement to use who will again toil and sweat to save for. example archy. while the relentless heat wave and drought has destroyed a quarter of russia's growing 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 wheat exports to avoid a surge in domestic grain prices though international trade is expected to resume in october there still going a spike in global wheat prices president medvedev has told key ministers and

governors that coding food costs remains a key responsibility for the government and the regional authorities meanwhile financial analyst chris mayer says it's too early to predict if we're facing a global food crisis but says the shop price rises are likely. where a very precarious time in and one 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 nora. africa egypt for example is a big importer of food and some of the poorer countries like africa 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 and a half 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 fruit to potatoes all kinds of things so we're going to see food prices rise in general cross the border i would expect. financial analyst chris mad that now that's what we're also covering on live at r.t. dot com russian police are on the money they busted again which printed fifty million rubles in counterfeit currency every month see 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 are harming the child says of the asylum seekers more head to watty dot com. to germany now where the army is trying to catch up with

hundreds of suspected cases of ex 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 afghan province of can do is ati's 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 soldiers and draftsmen served germany for twenty four years and afghanistan had its fair share of their experiences i was fighting against the taliban around about five four walls in one minute i had suicide attacks. all the things who are normal for more and i did my job but even with his experience the stress of things he'd seen began to eat wait until a doctor told me ok you are not longer

a soldier you have to go you have to be. in front of your own reeling to do this job that you are not able to do that you are. in armies the world over post-traumatic stress disorder to affect between five and ten percent soldiers the german army 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 you are very 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 true also to 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 those settings somebody in front of pew in that pretty moment this really experiencing all the horror and excels 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 empathy as well becomes otherwise it 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 really began

the first about war and the second world war two and zero three ninety yes it was opinion 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 bundeswehr says 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 germans 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'll look into the future i'll

share dealing as we meet the psychic stock brokers who've been cashing in when the credit crunch that's saying. something to fill in the military because i thought that it was my duty that it was something that i do to help my country. my government that is necessary for america you know. there was a lot of drug abuse there was a lot of murder of american officers by american soldiers there were a lot of. me. to go out. before the war i always thought i wanted to win a lot of medals and they have a lot of desperation. but afterwards i realize that they don't mean anything.

that importance. i don't i don't i never tell the medal. now playing the stock market has always been a guessing game but since the global recession knocked investor confidence and predictive abilities some are now turning to cash hungry clairvoyance and in it to the it's big business as daniel bushell reports. madame christina sees the future from the stains in her cool feet she promises to make you money on the stock markets invest in coke she says it's the real thing a safe haven shows from current economic turbulence symbolized by these raindrops in russia bank these fish jumping through an open circle guarantee success. we'll check how she does at the end of this report for them christine is that voice

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voyant are cheap no better than bankers and now madame christine is jus selection of thousand dollars invested in her tubes. one hundred fifty dollars to pull the average of the stock markets where they trade jewels defied all knots she says the public's leaving linda's and coming to her for financial advice after 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. bushel r.t. . for those who don't want to rely on paranormal predictions for the stock market or we'll give you a more conventional assessment and business bulletin in a few minutes time. the german city of nuremberg was the scene of the most famous trial in history the court condemned nazi war criminals for their actions in the second world war in crosstalk people of elena's guests discuss whether the

tribunals set an important precedent 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 so i think that 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. cross examine him. running a quarter. of course we have to draw inferences for mass graves we have to use we do have the wealth of evidence that was one of the reasons why you were

succeeded. yes and you can see crosstalk throughout the day here in r.t. pakistans of sinful vince is preparing for a second wave of severe flooding fears that this river is again to burst its banks earlier president zardari paid his first visit to the worst affected areas after facing criticism that he went on a european tour during the crisis and also talked to victims promising to rebuild all houses that have been destroyed the disaster has claimed more than sixteen hundred lives while over fourteen million have been affected. hundreds of people in brazil have been forced to follow which grew out of control as it took hold of dozens of sawmills no deaths have been reported but the local hospital says it's trying to cope with the influx of patients suffering from burns and breathing difficulties at least one hundred homes and other buildings were destroyed.

c.c.t.v. footage has been released showing a powerful blast in the colombian capital bogota a car bomb exploded outside the studios of a major radio station leaving at least nine people injured comes just days after the president on the run well sometimes took office trying to continue his predecessor's fight against leftist guerrillas and cocaine traffickers. for those with a taste for luxury sometimes rather than earning money they simply. borrow it but debts can quickly turn to regret for those who can't pay them off to dream of a better life often ends with dismal consequences. are blind. is all you. until they come visit you. do you think the property you bought on credit really belongs to you.

you can watch their reports about ten minutes here r.t. with all that it's the business update stephanie and some good news we have for russia some our region has carried the area has struggled with an ailing car industry but now a new economic zone is being created in the region i'll have more details for you in just a moment but. world grain stocks are likely to be kept up through u.s. supplies that's after the drop that's expected as a result of the russian drought export 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 agricultural industries forecast the decision to halt shipments abroad was made after a drought hit the agricultural sector this season grain production is predicted to decline by fifteen million tons of globally half of which results from russia's

reduction in ukraine in kazakhstan are expected to decline between two point five and three million tons in the european union the drop could be over four million tons. and russia's drought is pushing up flour prices on the other side of the globe we now cost twenty percent more in mexico which has to get half that supply from abroad the head 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. rushed. in regions that have been hit with record temperatures and smog also seeing price hikes for fans and 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. but. the current state of affairs is outside and 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 market in these conditions some of those rules already exist in russia is true 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 has to be created in russia some are region because of the area struggling car industry it will help employ over thirty thousand employees of the country's largest auto manufacturer afterwards the zone will 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's side improved infrastructure and lower business costs are being promised. it's already signed a decree to get the ball rolling presses to act has also come from foreign carmakers operating in russia as you mean they have to significantly localize the production. of european stock markets are high on friday after stronger than expected g.d.p. data from germany and france the commodity sector is in the lead here ups largest economy so g.d.p. growth two point two percent in the second quarter facing forecast by a hefty margin and showing the fastest pace of growth for germany since reunification. and russian markets are mixed here in moscow on friday for the r.t.s. was put on about a third of a percent but then my sex has just slipped into the red in the last hour having been the worst performing sector of the bisects in the previous session banks are now the main game as though with folks like m.p.t. be up about three quarters of a percent sound. american fast food chains at wendy's an obvious

a coming to russia they signed an agreement with a local company affiliated a food service capital about 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 that teddy had reports. fast food for thought 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 still very strong on the developed compared to the u.s. the possible second and of course as we talk about all. if you just come from a fetus in russia the restaurant turnover you know overall for the total noise. less than five percent in the u.s.

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 by the data at places like this high cost. of quality at a high price is the strategy of roadside business. and 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 me as part of our development plan to open restaurants railway station. on the highway from

a savings man stand on restaurant to what was before the other churches it's 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 not going to come up business r.t. moscow. i'm not so from the business scene for now but i'll be about as the updates for you next hour and in the meantime can always follow stories on our website that's our com slash business.

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