saying u.n. sanctions are going to affect the joint project. to commanders or to be given the marching orders of the passive role of a military base in the moscow region and. prices in russia could grow by as much as fifteen percent this year the price hike is given by unprecedented drought and increased demand for dairy products that and more coming to you in our business program. this is r t from moscow welcome if you just joined us just after nine pm in the capital it's kevin owen here with the top stories this friday evening and the air in goal for wildfires in russia has been reduced by a fifth over the past twenty four hours the record breaking heat that's been aggravating with places in the moscow region is finally starting to ease authorities are now bracing for heavy storms expected to strike the area this

weekend as artie's the tell you no reports. 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 there is that have suffered the most from the far as. you can probably see the completely burned down or is here right now rushing to helping farman 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 rage or 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 that they're 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 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 you 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. nataly novikov reporting there from the moscow region connected news tonight the body of a volunteer who'd been helping put out fires has been found in the republic of moldova in central russia this is hundreds of people joining firefighters in the army in the battle against the blazes as the situation still remains critical in some areas examiner went to see what residents in the moscow region are doing to tame the flames. do you want some water. meet alexander the driving senior management night there's open fire over there and see to washington about what a fine fighter by day one of the many russian volunteers who are trying to say forests villages and people. running i have two toddlers when you

wake up the whole city is choking with smog the kids a coughing and you really want to get rid of the smog but how we understand that we ourselves have to do something mari did fire to speak to kill a forest into wasteland alexander to his friends 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 they are needed as the fire is everywhere and you can easily get hurt but. almost every day a team of twenty from different backgrounds meets at the square the group is almost ready we're just found out the fires fifteen kilometers away and this is where we're going and half an hour later the real job begins for volunteers the forest becomes a war zone i'm going but the. fire got close to the solid line 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 but he may be small but they punching above their weight of three. today the four is not so bad but yesterday volunteers braved the worst they put out using anything to hand of canada without this guys here and helicopters are a good thing they're dropping water but here on the ground there's guys phase the for close up shop work for you guys we need sand here. over there the fire is moving up the tree we need to try to stop it. it's hard tough work a real challenge linda refuses to go under question and follows her husband on his forests even mission some of you with your eyes you find

a lot of help for fire and call my husband hicks think wishes that with a shovel or drops water when we're moving from place to place helping with the caring. the teams to use in the forest until dawn but while most of them rested home and xander will work his regular shift at the drive in cinema and the following morning he will get the move all in tears who will again to lance went to save the forests. acts on the r t russia says it will launch iran's first nuclear power plant later next week the russian state nuclear corporation which is building the bush air plant and that is that the reactor will be loaded with nuclear fuel on august the twenty first parties catarina reports. all signs seems to point to the fact that yes all issues have been settled all the details have been hammered out and iran's of first nuclear power plant in bushehr will indeed launch on august twenty first of course it's been a long wait getting there the plant a bridge in the way the construction of the plant originally began in the one nine

hundred seventy s. they were performed by a german construction crew the first after the iranian revolution construction was halted that was later picked up by the russian state nuclear agency to stop them in the uk the ninety's of original launch date was originally set for two thousand and seven but that iran had some financial difficulties failing to pay some parts of the bill that assad presented it with so the date had to be bought as a party to officials here at the south the this is the final launch date of august the twenty fourth iran's first nuclear power plant will begin producing peaceful nuclear energy according to the officials that we've spoken to at the russian state nuclear agency at our sought them they say that the sanctions currently enforced against iran by the united nations security council do not actually the effect the pushchair power plant project they did that the bush era power that is not included

in those sanctions of course moscow backed the last bout of sanctions against the islamic republic of iran and that has dampened relations somewhat between moscow and tehran but the russian the nuclear state has taken the agency says that it is working very closely with the arabian side it is working very closely with the international nuclear watchdog the international atomic energy agency to make sure that every step of the way of the process every step of the functioning of this power plant is strictly controlled not only by russia but by the i.a.e.a. as well you can open you know these nuclear power plants in your head but they told me that there were. you get bogged down it's just with the right that you do see. is true there are two. we call the double double doubles richelieu spent fuel but both them and so we can.

renew responsibility because we are going to supply it with nuclear fuel should a nuclear bomb once all the lifetime of them go to get spent fuel back versus the russian area so a lot of controls in force but still the media's eye is definitely going to be on iran come august twenty first. for a correspondent their thoughts too on the story from rodimus summit coffee's a political analyst from the institute of world economy and international relations he told us the opening of the nuclear plant demonstrates the ties between russia and iran is still strong. in the recent past. emotional state months on behalf of iranian leader president ahmadinejad about the the state of iranian russian relations but i think that their nuclear commercial. industry is not the fact that by their statements and i think that the trade relations between the russian federation the republic of iran are still good and these special

project is showing us that. they are actually going to their own way on the project will be completed ready so. all the way tonight's most would say playing the stock market is a gamble at the best times but not it's easy fortune teller and find out how they say they can make you rich simply by looking into your profit. two russian military commanders are facing the acts of failing to stop a massive brawl among soldiers fast enough the instant hounds of miami base in the moscow region and it's from to the public outcry after footage of the fight was posted on the internet that is in this in no way as the details. it was a brutal brawl that lasted for about half an hour some twenty or so draftees were training to do their mandatory year in the russian army just going out if you can see this brutal video which was posted on you tube and of course why officials are

so outraged two of the commanders are being forced to resign for not being able to stop or prevent a fight like this three dropsies go to court and in fact face trial for being the ones to instigate this fight they were known to be the most violent during the fight and so we don't know what's going to happen to them this investigation probably would have taken the place whether or not this video was posted on you tube as we know russia has been launching tremendous army reforms over the past couple of years it was one of the first decrees in fact that president medvedev made when he stepped into all facing is something he's been pushing very strongly for. and this is now in their reporting from moscow in germany the army is facing a spike in cases of mental health problems among those who fought in afghanistan and many former soldiers say they're not getting the help that they say than me now this comes as war weariness continues to grow with as many as seventy percent of russians wanting the troops to return home. the story. these men were

once soldiers and draftsmen served germany for twenty four years and you know left unturned in afghanistan he had his fair share of experiences i was fighting against the taliban around about five i was in one minute i had suicide attacks i had 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. strong war note. and there's no help anymore from the state and from the army for these guys the windows bird 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 informed opinion that in that pretty momentous we explain. in seeing all the horror

and learned that he experienced during the. day need a lot of empathy to help people. but you have to hear to try to control them. becomes otherwise that will overwhelm us and therapist in germany it's not just some jews who are stressed with the war criticism of involvement in afghanistan is widespread the polls recording it 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 opinion in the majority of traveling people invest in part of germany said never again should we. take as a country 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 suffered without. the bullet is worse say some five hundred soldiers have come home from afghanistan with psychological wounds this year alone hating them a 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 let's take a look see what's on my mind and home page r t dot com running twenty four seven for you tonight find out how con artists make one million dollars by targeting the owners of luxury cars and tapping into their phone calls whole story seems. rather curious new business for george or is it a become a serious player in the rocket and for me market exporting it from europe snap up the details and page eighteen.

playing the stock markets has been a guessing game of the best attire percents the global recession seems more and more people are now turning to cash hungry clairvoyance and as artie's daniel bushell reports next there is a sharp rise in business among fortune tellers right now. 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

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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 jewels defied all north's she says the public's leaving linda's and coming to her own 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 otty. my paranoia predictions on the stock market not your bag i can tell you we've got a much more conventional business update coming your way with kareena just a couple of minutes time you're on our team tonight all right let me take to some world news in brief pakistan is preparing for a second round of flooding as the indus river swells to dangerous high presence adare mean tons visit the worst hit regions thursday after criticism that he was

abroad during the country's worst natural catastrophe roads and crops are being destroyed survivors are under threat from hunger and disease that disasters claimed more than sixteen hundred lives so far while over fourteen million have been affected. me on mars announced the date of its first general election in twenty years the votes to be held on november the seventh but critics are skeptical about the legitimacy of the election is key opposition figures are barred from standing the national democracy league won the last poll in one thousand nine hundred get they weren't allowed into office by the military jointed. it's ruled the country since the early sixty's the party says it plans to boycott the coming election. for the four people that he killed and dozens injured the security forces opened fire in two thousand strong crowd in indian administered kashmir the protesters have been throwing rocks and stones at police rally was in response to the government reimposing new curfew added lifting the start of ramadan after sept and it is

threaten to hold marches two months of violent clashes against indian rule of left at least fifty five people. you're looking at a crate of scottish whisky that was what you will bear it is trapped in the antarctic ice for more than a century and it's funny when i opened this evening it was found earlier this year beneath the floor of a hut that was built by explorers ronan shackleton during his nineteen zero eight expedition stay with me eleven bottles of beer kidneys whisky wrapped in paper and straw for protection seems to work for the heritage to be tasted it's being preserved of course for posterity. borrow money from the bank is easy pay your back off or not in ten minutes time tonight we report on what can happen to those who find themselves just drowning in debt first the crema see the latest business update tonight. hungry for the full stop we've got. the biggest issues get

a human voice face to face with the news makers. every month we give you the future we help you understand how we'll get there and what tomorrow brings the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world. join our technology update on our g. hello and welcome to business grain prices of more than doubled since the start of the drought and the hikes have been further supported by over docs in the global harvest forecast but despite the temporary ban on grain export local producers are seeking to retain their presence in the international market that a video reports. for the record drought has seen the russian government reduced

estimates of the two thousand and ten greenhouse wished to sixty sixty five million tonnes it denounced the temporary ban and green experts from august fifteenth to december first to shoot domestic consumers from price hikes but then cost global grain prices just search to more than eight dollars per bushel despite analysts saying there is no grain to go around the danger is that given we've been through two thousand and seven two thousand and eight and we saw prices precede rises in other prices of commodities the danger is that financial markets start to anticipate price growth in other commodities and that's actually what causes a more general food price spike so whilst the fundamentals don't point to rapid price gains across all of these different markets i say anything there are some risks that we need to be vigilant of. prices gain more support when the u.s. agriculture. and reduced its global wood harvest forecast by two point three percent but it noted that global supplies were more than they were during the two

thousand and seven two thousand a growing crisis the russian green expert band has local producers looking to shore up their position in the global market over the longer term. the competition on the international food market is extremely high and food issues more sensible on the international market there are resources in the world and he will be supplied by somebody with a range of countries like bangladesh egypt they need grain anyway we need to continue talks with those countries we need to think about next year if we will have good harvest and we will return to the international market how we will manage the return of competitive prices. russia has already stated its position as the world's third largest grain exporter for the royal producers such as the us france and is traded for it to keep its allies with domestic prices rising despite the ben russian grain producers who they can retain their position in an increasingly global marketplace he led me to a business r.t.

. prices in russia i grew up to fifteen percent this year driven by the drought and increased amount for dairy products that's according to the cowen of one of russia's biggest danny produces. we can calculate the price increase mathematically fifty percent of the price of milk is comprised of the cost of raw materials that has increased by sixty percent which means prices could grow thirty percent from a factor we have to monitor the situation because consumption is the mean indicator for us but once it starts falling nothing will help that's why we have to be very careful and the government should help us of course we will see price hikes of ten to fifteen percent but we will try to have a.