with the. strong. and there's no hope anymore from the street and from the army for these guys the german army wade south to the problems of post-traumatic stress within its ranks the soldiers say their own list is being overlooked ones that for the front line. and israelis oracles beat the economists at their own gate we look at how people are turning to fortune tellers to make their picture on the stock markets. and on the business as we bring you all the latest on russia's grain exports and a new economic zone in the summer a region. in the business but it's in twenty minutes time. a very warm welcome to you this is live from moscow with me. now once again

slowly being engulfed by suffocating small gold a few days or prefer five guys who say they're having some success in tackling the forest blazes that have been blowing dense smoke across the region and beyond however the situation in some regions in central russia remain serious meteorologist. could worsen as the record heat wave clings to the capital italian novel on the outskirts of moscow across. 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 for. and this is the area that one of the areas that have suffered the most

from the far is right now behind me you can probably see the completely burned down forests here right now russian helping farming to tackle the blazes are 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 foreigners 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 radio active level in those regions is normal meanwhile in regions like this one there are still burning the small is still very very thick it's very difficult to breathe here and doctors are saying that standing here in this forest for just one hour is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes they're also saying that immune systems of many people have gone down during this period of fires of course

those with lung diseases and heart disease have suffered the most meanwhile the weather forecasts are not very optimistic even though where they saw 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 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. well as far as his struggle to cope with the blaze that have now destroyed will tens of thousands of hoax has across central russia hundreds of volunteers all joining in to help all to . floyd one of the groups on d.c.

. meet alexander drive in cinema manager by night. there's open fire over there and seeing that about what a firefighter by day one of the many russian volunteers were trying to say forest villages and. morning i have two toddlers when you wake up the whole city is choking with the smog the kids a coughing and you really want to get rid of the small get away but how we understand that we ourselves have to do something one identify it and spectacular forests 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. almost every day team of twenty from different backgrounds meets

at this square if you want to go up it's almost ready but just found out the fire speed in kilometers away and this is where we're going and half an hour later the real child begins the volunteers the forest becomes a war zone i'm going but the. fire got close to the solid line it can move over it's 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 there punching above their weight also we don't think we're going. today the four is not so bad but yesterday volunteers braved the worst they put out using anything to hand. out this guys here helicopters are a good thing they're dropping water but here on the ground there's a guy's face the four close up shop work for the. guys we need to end here over the 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 pulls her husband and his forest even mission. some of you with your eyes you for a lot of help for foreign call my husband hicks english is that with the shovel or drops water when we're moving from place to place helping with the caring. the team stays in the forest until dawn but while most of the rest of whom alexander will work his regular shoot at the drive in cinema and the following morning he will give the movement to use who will again toil and sway to save the forest. sounded like children archy. or the relentless he wave and drought has destroyed a quarter of grain crops as a result the government's pledging to spend more than

a billion dollars to help produces it's also aimed it's also imposed rather a ban or will take force to avoid the surge in domestic grain prices although international trade is expected to resume in october there's still been a spiking global wheat prices president medvedev has told key ministers and governors that curbing food costs will maine's a key responsibility for the government to regional foresees financial analyst chris the mayor says it's too early to predict if we're facing a global food crisis but says the shop price rises are likely. when a very precarious time in and will 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. it will be the big food importers in 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 increases them selves or they pass it along so it's been interesting to listen to some of the c.e.o.'s of 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 it's really a trickle effect it's not only weak although that's the big headline grabber to fixing everything 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. financial analysts christmas speaking to us earlier let's show you now some of what we're also covering online that r.t. dot com dropped the police there on the money they've busted the gang which printed fifty 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 while mommy the chances of legitimate asylum seekers from all head to r.t. dot com. to germany and 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 countries of forces attempt to step up their efforts in tackling the growing insurgency in the northern afghan province of assays tom barton examines the allegations that even one of the world's most developed countries is failing to look up to its former soldiers. these men. well one's soldiers and dress to them serve germany for twenty four years and then up left and 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 techs with one hundred grenades all the things who are now all mode 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 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. very strong war note. and there's no help any more promise fading 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 them living normal lives. but she says the treatment is sometimes frightening times sitting somebody in front of you in that pretty moment this really experiencing all the horror and wind that he experienced during the war and you need a lot of empathy to help people. but you have to you

have to try to control them. becomes otherwise that will overwhelm us a therapist in germany it's not just so much as who is stressed with the war criticism of involvement in afghanistan is widespread with polls recording that at least seventy percent of germans oppose it and history weighs heavily on the debate really big and so for us 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 health bundeswehr says some five hundred soldiers have come home

from afghanistan with psychological wounds this year alone hating them acquire 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. coming up soon on the program we'll look into the future of dealing is the fight to break if you think through seeing it on the credit cards now on the way. wealthy british style.

markets why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max kaiser there are no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kaiser report on r t. now playing at the stock market or the ways better gotten gay but the global recession not investors' confidence in their own predictive ability and now turning to cash hungry clairvoyants and this is me it's big business. 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 it's 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 christine is that voice has already changed lives the quality of a she has 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 experts people also want to own says in their private life. still in love. with some problem. the second card. you approach the problem. with a reason the astonishing rise in psychic fortunes is fueling

a massive public counterattack prefers opponents ceo's dedicated his life to prove clear voyant are cheats no better than bankers and now madame christine is jew 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 justified or not 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. your bushel of tea. for those who don't want her power the predictions for the stock market will give you a more conventional assessment in our business bulletin in just a few minutes time. ok the density 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 they say 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 victim. i think it was very important that historians also got a chance to study what it was like inside a fallen dictatorship work and really look at the mechanisms of how that system worked and of course that was a 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 just you know we only got really got the truth we only got the truth the prosecutor said because of the teutonic habit of writing everything down. signatures on the margin degrees and could cross-examine him being

part of the nuremberg legacy and running a court in sierra leone where of course we have to draw inferences for mass graves we have to use informers we don't have the wealth of evidence that was one of the reasons why nuremberg succeeded. and you can see crosstalk just how is time. tons of. bearing for a second wave of severe flooding with the indus river is again to pass its balance . on the. first of his to the worst affected areas after facing criticism that he went on the european school doing the crisis well he also taught to victims promising to rebuild all houses that have been destroyed the designs to have claimed more than sixteen hundred lives one of a fool in fourteen million rather than the fact that. hundreds of people

in brazil have been forced to flee a fire which grew out of control as it took hold of dozens of coal mills no deaths have been reported but the local hospital says it struggling to cope with the influx of patients suffering from breathing difficulties at least one hundred hives and all the buildings were destroyed. my omar is to hold its first general election for two decades it's believed the ruling a military juncture will contest the november seventh ballot as a political party under the leadership of the current prime minister the national league for democracy won the last poll by a landslide in one thousand nine hundred but wasn't allowed into office by the janitor or the n l d says it will boycott the upcoming vote. 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

a nine people injured it comes just days after a new president juan manuel santos took office fowling to continue his predecessor's fight against leftist funk guerrillas and cocaine traffickers. on the way see that more than the ancient cities which encircled moscow this time martin angie's heads to a place which is a more broad based in people's wallets. like here. it's not featured on the turquoise one thousand rouble note it has a value of around thirty dollars and it's one of the most popular news bank notes long ago and is the face of loan from any recent bill so instead they feature various historical sites and statues like this one here.

or have more from martin in just ten minutes time here on r.t. before the day that schools have to the veterans day i mean by our needs you and our founders of a false feed of the evils and tastes. he needs to american fast food joints are expanding into the russian market with plans for one hundred eighty outlets over the next ten years so good news there more of it later but first world grain stocks are likely to be kept up through u.s. supplies after the drop that expected due to the russian drought 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 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 tonnes globally half of which results from russia's reduction the harvests in ukraine in kazakhstan are expected to decline between two point five and three million tons in the european union at the drop could be over four million tons. russian region sort of been hit with record temperatures and smog 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 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 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'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 are region because of the area struggling car industry it will help employ over thirty thousand x. employees of the country's largest auto manufacturer after the zone was specialized 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 are being promised from a separate into the scientific decree to get the ball rolling i should say it's also come from foreign carmakers operating in russia as new rules mean they have to

significant localized production. european stock markets are flat to mix in a choppy and then trading session on friday stronger than expected g.d.p. data from germany and france has lent some support europe's largest economies saw g.d.p. growth two point two percent in the second quarter beating forecasts by a hefty margin and showing the fastest pace of growth in germany since reunification. and the russian markets are edging lower in the session in moscow the bisectors now shut a quarter percent energy majors attracting that banks have the raised earlier gains now flat spare bike is the. thank into the gratitude. i reflect has increased its profit profit by sixteen point eight percent in the first half of the year russia's flagship carrier and one hundred twenty eight billion dollars from january to july up from one hundred nine billion in the same period in two thousand and nine the main reason for the improved performance was an increase in passenger traffic which

is up by a third year on year to date. american fast food chains wendy's and arby's 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 with the company saying the russian restaurant market has huge upside but tell you how kind of reports. fast food for thought based world the financial crisis is changing the menu of russian diners many casual and fine diners have kept their restaurant budgets but still haven't turned away from. the 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 divel compared to the u.s. the hostile so much of course as we talk. and 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 it's 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 a double cheeseburger but you never know what side. dining at places like this is why i asked her if i was quality at a high price 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 knee as part of our

development plan to open restaurants railway station on the highway through a savings and 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 dyna and then a couple of up business r.t. moscow. that's all the business news for now but you can always find those stories on our website that's called slash business.

the united states of america is waging war within its own army. joe now advantage is our no one sign. and human losses are quite significant. is it possible to win the war against sexual assault in the u.s. armed forces sex in the army on r g. the facts.

lead. is. this.