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announces next week's new york state four rounds first nuclear power station and shall always twenty years on to take over the completion of the plonks. german troops are back from afghanistan for me to support his record numbers of diagnosed with mental illness brought on by the trauma of. a very warm welcome gee this is all to line for the russian capital with me and i said it well the area engulfed by wildfires in russia has been reduced by a face over the last day the record breaking heat that's been aggravating the fires in the moscow region is now easing fault full cost as they haul reckons could strike moscow a this weekend as. reports. the burning area has shrunk by
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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 there is that have suffered the most from the far as. you can probably see the completely burned down here right now russian military is helping firemen 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 fires 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
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acts of particles further and russian authorities right now are saying that the radio active level in those regions is the normal meanwhile in regions like this one but they're still burning the small bit still very very thick it's very difficult to breathe here and doctors a 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
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replaced with lowering temperatures which might bring heavy rains and storms in the city. porting from the mosque. or volunteers of the joint a hundred and sixty thousand firefighters to help the wildfires is the situation remains critical in some regions. when to see what barry weathered and the mosque doing to tame the flames. meet alexander drive in cinema manager by night. there's open fire over there and see that about the firefighter by day one of the many russian volunteers who are 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 but how we understand that
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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 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 the square where the group is almost ready we're just found out the fire speak don't go meters away and this is where we're going and half an hour later the real job begins the volunteers the forest becomes a war zone are going but the. fire got close to the solid line it can move over its and into the forest at any minute our task is to hold back the fire covered with sand so it won't get into the village the team may be small but they're punching above their weight or three. but not today the four is not so bad
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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 guys phase them for close up work. before you guys we need stand here over there the fire is moving up the tree we need to try to stop but the ignorance of the volunteers is infectious. it's hard tough work a real challenge lehner refuses to go on vacation and follows her husband on his force even mission. some of you with your eyes just a lot of help for fire and cold my husband hicks think wishes that with a shovel or drops of water when we're moving from place to place and helping with
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the carrying. the team stays in the forest until dawn but while most of them rest at home alexander will work his regular shoot at the drive in cinema and the following morning he will gather more volunteers who will again toil and sweat to save the forest. oxana archy. well russia says it will launch iran's first nuclear power plant next week the washington state corporation which is building the bouchet plant announced the reactance a would be loaded with new. goods the twenty first welcome one is now from. the opening of the new clear up what will be a big day for runway to the event that's been delayed sir for all times now so have russia and around settled the issues over the palms. alice it does seem that all the details have been hammered out of course the start date of the bush air power
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plant iran's first nuclear power plant has already been delayed a number of times the construction originally began in one nine hundred seventy s. it was under done by the german side but after the rainy and revolution construction was halted and then picked up by russia in the one nine hundred ninety s. originally the launch date was planned for around the year two thousand and seven but iran ran into a few financial difficulties not being able to pay its bills in full and therefore the launch date was delayed of course now russian nuclear agency is saying that the date of the launch is to be august twenty first that's just in a matter of days and it is causing a lot of media attention of course as iran is under a lot of sanctions from the united nations at the moment however both the nuclear watchdog the international nuclear watchdog the international atomic energy agency and the russian nuclear just say that every step of the process will be very closely monitored and to talk a little bit more about the process and the implications of what this means for
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iran for russia for the international community i'm joined live by the official spokesperson of russia's a state nuclear agency it all saw the mississippi mr know the thank you so much for being here now iran is. currently under a lot of sanctions from the united nations but we were led to understand that we share is no. actually included in the sanctions how does this work. i think it is a very strong signal that the international society supports such peaceful projects as we share because everybody on the sounds that you can not an eco use nuclear power plant in your people hypothetical military or. nuclear power plant is just within your right than you do since there is true there there are two elements there which we recall that the double double purpose it is rich moon and spencer mantra but well this is an immense begin our goals are in your
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responsibility because we are going to supply a better nuclear feel assured nuclear power plants for all their lifetime and them go to get spent fuel back your process of the russian area now i understand the air national guard tomic energy agency is also working with you on monitoring this how do you how how do they balance in big us where the iranian side there ever a fanboy have been so sure sad is stepping on the controller and safeguards for five years for example maher fresh fuel is sealed by so or on trains or for us to respect their stroke they will sue us our way we will. take our the fuel and samples from transport dinners and all these fresh fields the so much cereal in the reactor union the man step from this moment we'll consider and go buy suffices to fight these plans as nuclear energy story is sure where these damn well
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symbolize that period of space time is over and the stage of physical start up has begun and do you think that the fact that the world mostly iranian will see the rise as a peaceful nuclear energy will somehow help establish its most arabs as they say they do all they want is for you to do for. so i thought it depends not on the sub the russian side the fence. bringing back what we are doing everything. under the control if i am a. very people the other. since my it's not been well to be stalled right now is everything save them but i'm going to. be. watching launching the pushchair power plant mr leavitt the thank you so much for being there to see alice twenty first is officially the launch date for the bush air power plant i'm sure the media as i was asleep on iran on that day i'm sure as
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well all right allah has got that in us out of our understanding and not the gulf that the spokes person of the rushes the state of nuclear cooperation at all saw so many times. on the way most i would say playing the stock market is accountable but no says least fortune tellers find out how they say to make the rub you can make a fortune simply by looking into your coffee cup. in germany the only is facing a spike in cases of mental health problems among soldiers who fought in afghanistan this comes as a war weariness continues to grow with as many as seventy percent of germans wanting that chimps to return hang on as aussies tombaugh often reports many former soldiers say they've not been getting the help they need. these men were once soldiers and draftsmen served germany for twenty four years and you know to me
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colonel afghanistan he had his fair share of their experiences i was fighting against the taliban the wrong about five i was in one minute i had suicide attacks so. it's all the things were normal for so we're doing 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 are in front of your own willing 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 blunders for has only recently woken up to the damage it does and dress ses he and many others were
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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 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 those settings and that in front of you that in that pretty momentous we experiencing all the horror and excels in and that he experienced during the war and they need
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a lot of empathy to help people. but you have to you have to try to control the us war becomes 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 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 countries while the political debates rage on the battle with traumatic stress is being fought out in lumps 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
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suffered without help the bundeswehr says some five hundred soldiers have come home from afghanistan with psychological wounds this year alone healing the moral choir 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. we're also online few twenty four hours a day at. home with plenty more stories that well that's it just a quick look now at what else is online few minutes i'll find out how colorless is made one million dollars by extracting money from owners of the street clothes. and a curious new business from george as it in aims to become a serious player in the crocodile and. kids exposed to get supporters to hear it will snap all the details all of the dot com.
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playing the stock market has always been a guessing game but since the global recession more people on a timing it's a cash hungry clairvoyance and is that a bushel report says a shop prize in business among fortune tellers. madame christina sees the future from the stains in her coffin 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 will check how she does at the end of this report whether in
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christina's advice has already changed lives if only the today that 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 tarot card expert as people also want answers in their private life. still in love. with some problem. the second card. you approach the problem. of reason the astonishing rise in psychic fortunes is fueling a massive public counterattack prefers opponents ceo's dedicated his life to prove
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clear voyant are cheats no better than bankers and now madame christine is jus selection of thousand dollars invested in hope to would have earned two hundred fifty dollars to pull the average of the stock markets where they trade just deflated 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. that your bushel otty. over there is you don't want to rely power no more predictions for the stock market where like giving us a more conventional assessment in our business than listen in just a few minutes time. well pakistan is preparing for a second round of flooding is in disarray river swells to dangerous highs growth of the dari visited the worst hit regions on thursday all to criticism that was
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a broad during the country's worst natural catastrophe roads and crops have been destroyed survivors are under threat from hunger and disease with the disaster has claimed more than sixteen hundred lives while over fourteen million have been affected. now as the date of its first general election in twenty years the vote is to be held on november seventh however critics are skeptical about the legitimacy of the election as key your position figures are barred from standing the national democracy league won the last poll in one nine hundred ninety by a landslide they weren't allowed into office by the minute you john to which is ruled the country since the early sixty's the party says it plans to boycott the coming election. a crate of scottish whisky that was trapped in the atlantic on ice for more than a century has finally been opened in new zealand it was found earlier this year
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beneath the floor of a hard to build by exploring the shackleton during his nineteen zero weight expedition eleven of bottles of killie's whisky were wrapped in paper and straw for protection however the heritage drama won't be tasted as it's been preserved for posterity. later shows us the highlights of an ancient city one of the many which encircled moscow now you may find we may have seen rather some of the other sights already on russian banks. look here. it's featured on the korea's one thousand rouble note it has a value of around thirty dollars and it's one of the most popular and used banknotes long ago and is the face of lead in from any russian build so instead they feature very stark all sights and statues like this one here.
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join us for that journey just ten minutes time here on the first full that's come up with all the nation's business deals with. twenty one past four pm here in moscow hello and welcome to our business program world grain stocks are likely to be kept up through u.s. supplies out to the drop that's expected due to the russian drought the export ban the us department of agriculture also says an increase in deliveries from china and the european union and all straight there are likely the agency estimates that grain exports from russia this year will amount to three million tons in line with the russian agricultural ministries forecast the decision to hold shipments of
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broad 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 harvests in ukraine and cuts are expected to decline between two point five and three million tonnes in the european union the drop could be over four million tonnes. the first deputy prime minister viktor zubkov has officially stated that the government will not entertain any changes to the upcoming temporary ban on grain next. it's. you know the temporary ban on grain exports has been approved and will be effective from the fifteenth of august until the thirty first of december this year there will be absolutely no changes not in the length of the ban for any other reasons the decision has been made in order for the domestic market to return to regular levels of business. russian regions that have been hit with record
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temperatures and small are also seeing price hikes for fans and air conditioners the cost of buying them has tripled as temperatures pushed towards forty celsius is a highly competitive market but the federal antimonopoly service is looking at new measures to get consumer prices to call down. there to talk about. the current state of affairs is outside anti monopoly legislation revealing that is political when there is a dominating player 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 the government will take measures to create the rules to market 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 a similar formula could be applied to what is going on now we are preparing material for these issues to be discussed. now prices and russia may grow by up to fifteen
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percent this year driven by an precedented drought and increased among their own dairy products that's according to the co owner of one build on one of russia's biggest dairy producers. we can calculate the price increase mathematically fifty percent of the precinct milk is comprised of the cost of raw materials that is increased by sixty percent which means pretty crude grew thirty percent from a structure we have to monitor the situation because consumption is the mean indicator for once it starts falling nothing will help that's why we have to be very careful and the government should help because of course we will see price hikes of ten to fifteen percent but we will try to have it under control. or turn over. looking at the markets now european stock markets and margin trading in the red the stock falls and retailers games in the minors delhaize slipping off to the
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supermarket group two thousand and ten but that resource is also losing five percent on the four c. and here in russia markets are edging lower in mid session in moscow my six is now sitting point four percent all the blue chips are in the red with only ross telecom point two percent. air force has increased its profits 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 main reason for the improved performance was an increase in passenger traffic which is up by a third year on here today. and you cannot exult has to be created in russia some are region because of the area struggling car industry it will help import over thirty thousand employees of the country's largest automatic. there's almost pressure lies in producing car components using the affected work as existing
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skills womens' 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 improve infrastructure and lower business costs are being promised prime minister putin has already signed a decree to get the ball rolling pressure to act has also called for foreign carmakers operating in russia as new rules mean they have to significantly localize production. and russia's drought is pushing up flow prices on the other side of the globe we now cost twenty percent more in mexico which has to get half of its supplies from abroad the head of the country's national chamber of bread production says he expects prices to rise by the twenty percent during august as russian grain export ban comes into. and that will keep you up that for now i'll be back with more in about fifteen.
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