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who just joined us this is the r t news channel is just after eleven pm here now i'm kevin zero in with the top stories this friday night and in the last five days the area affected by wildfires here in russia has been reduced by two thirds power of the situation remains critical in some parts of the country still this friday evening two planes delivered firefighting equipment from the united states to moscow another few planes with a similar cargo are expected to arrive in the capital during the weekend more than ten other european countries and neighboring states have provided assistance to russia probably right meantime the record breaking heat that's been aggravating the fires in the moscow region is finally starting to ease authorities are now bracing themselves for heavy storms that are expected to strike the area this weekend running out of story tonight with the latest wave now artie's nataly in overcover.

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 washing 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 who are here right now rushing to helping farman to tackle the blazes the 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 small bit 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 also saying that immune systems of many people have gone down the during this period of fires of course those with lung diseases and heart disease that have suffered the most meanwhile the weather forecasts are not very optimistic even though we saw heavy rainfall early morning on friday it seemed that for the shower it was very isolated and just as we left so 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. okies nataly never cover reporting from the moscow region and the fires have claimed another life the body of a volunteer who'd been helping to put out the blazes has been found in the republic of more dog in central russia this is hundreds of people have joined firefighters in the army in the continuing battle against the wildfires is the situation still remains critical in some areas of his exam went to see what residents in the moscow region are doing themselves to try to tame the flames. do you want some water. meet alexander the driving cinema manager of my night there's open fire over there see that about if i find to by day one of the many russian volunteers who are trying to say forests villages and people. in the morning 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 alexandria his friends spread the word while in tears 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 fire steeped in kilometers away and this is where we're going and half an hour later the real job begins for volunteers to 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 covered 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. out this guys here helicopters are a good thing they're dropping water but here on the ground there's guys face to 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 lerner refuses to go under cation and follows her husband on his forests even mission some of your with you for

a lot of help for foreign call my husband hicks english is that with a shovel or drops water when we're moving from place to place helping with the carrying. the teams to use in the forest until dawn but while most of them rested home alexander 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. r t russia says it will launch iran's first nuclear power plant later this week the russian state nuclear corporation which is building the bush plan announced that the reactor will be loaded with nuclear fuel on august twenty first. 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 a first nuclear power plant and bush air will indeed launch on august twenty first of course it's been a long way 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 or stopped them in the update thanks to 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 according 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 the nuclear agency that sought them they say that the sanctions currently enforced against iran by the united nations security council do not actually the effect of the pushchair power plant project they did that the bush era power but is not included in those sanctions of course moscow backed the last bout

of sanctions against the islamic republic of iran that has dampened relations somewhat between moscow and tehran but the russian the nuclear state to see if the agency says that it is working very closely with the iranian 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 a new nuclear power plant in your head that they support military. you give bob land just the right the degrees c. . is true there are. we call the double double purpose these rich will spend your money but well this is a memory so we can. renew responsibility because we are going to supply with

nuclear fuel sure nuclear bob once for all the life down go figure spent fuel back to the process of the russian area so a lot of controls in force but still the media's eye is definitely going to be on around come august twenty first catherine reserves are a correspondent their thoughts too on the story from vladimir so because he's a political analyst for the industry and world economy and international relations he told us that the opening of the nuclear plant demonstrates the ties between russia and iran are still strong right now. in the recent boss. emotional state months on behalf of iranian leader president ahmadinejad the both of the state of iranian russian relations but i think that the nucleic embarrassed . industry is not the fact that by the statements on but 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 be all with their own way on the project will be completed. this is r.t. from moscow on the way most would say playing the stock market is a gamble at the best of times but money to these fortune tellers find out why they say they can make you rich simply by looking into your coffee. first two russian military commanders are facing the axe for failing to stop a massive brawl among soldiers fast enough the instant how that an army base in the moscow region and it has prompted public outcry after footage of the fight was posted on the internet and he's in this and now he's got the details. it was a brutal brawl that lasted for about half an hour some twenty or so japanese 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 fined for not being able to stop

or prevent a fight like this to go to court and the facts 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 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 of this and it's something he's been very strongly for. the pentagon fears that classified documents to to be released by wiki leaks may be even more damaging than those that had been previously published the u.s. military says it knows the nature of the additional fifteen thousand documents that the website has no pledge to disclose last month you may recall it published more than ninety thousand documents creating a real stir both with the public and u.s. defense officials manson is an american investigative journalist life of government

programs also now if you contributed let's catch up with a way to evening to you the of wiki leaks founder says that he's releasing these new secret documents for the public good he says he's a transparency activist doesn't he is this a man on a worthy mission do you think or is that more to it than meets the eye at the end of the day. well there is something about wiki leaks that doesn't seem to pass sort of smell test we have this sort of kabuki theater back and forth between juliana's songe and the department of defense and you would think the department of defense would have other things to worry about you know a couple of wars going on but they take time to respond to him now a sign says he and his people are going through this latest batch of classified documents to make sure that you know the taliban can't use the information to target anyone for assassination but that's not their training these guys were hacking into computer systems the u.s.

government computer systems and corporate computer systems back and eighty's and ninety's and now they're supposed to be intelligence analysts. sanitizing classified intelligence documents the whole thing just seems to be incredibly bizarre i guess you think is well why wouldn't you that the source or sources of such a massive amount of material like this would be higher up the ranks than one lone soldier if that point. yeah i mean the thing is with this bradley manning it was under arrest as one of the potential leakers of this information. would he have access to all this information and you know there's some questions about how much access and what systems he had access to to compile this amount of information and i think the last leaks also the leaks were tough on the taliban tough one pakistan and the i.s.i. the intelligence service a nation and tough on iran indicating that iran was providing shoulder launched

heat seeking missiles to the taliban when in fact iran is a sworn enemy of the taliban so none of this seems to make much sense. in the greater scheme of things and i think things and i haven't seen this kind of back and forth between the pentagon and wiki leaks it didn't even happen during the height of the cold war between the pentagon and the soviet k.g.b. in the russian ministry of state i've been to the chinese ministry of state security we never saw this kind of response going on between the pentagon and those intelligence agency as you saying there were in several countries the government agencies were hit by the wiki leaks revelations what could we read into the timing of those revelations and indeed what came from. well let's look at the iraq video supposedly that we u.s. helicopter killed some journalists in baghdad now we have iraqi. military sources saying look if the u.s. pulls out now we'll have an increase in sectarian violence and and we have some

u.s. general saying well maybe we can't pull out in july of two thousand and eleven so that seems to play into a certain factor and also why is it that wiki leaks didn't release anything in afghanistan on the role of hammad karzai is half brother in the heroin trade and is so we didn't see anything there that these leaks seem to only benefit a realignment of us. both iraq and afghanistan at a time when there's calls to pull out of both countries and i think we should pull out of iraq and afghanistan in spite of wiki leaks not because of wiki leaks just briefly thinking about the wiki leaks stuff we sold that insurance policy didn't we only website published a week or two ago nokia has yet to open it but if you were running wiki leaks yourself would you worry for your own personal safety. no i think i think it will get signed just showing up at news conferences in london the australians are saying

that they're not going to seek any arrest of him a stance of lee's an australian national so we see a lot of governments britain and australia not wanting to take any action against them and you've got to wonder is the pentagon really serious when they're saying we want these leaks to stop maybe it's part of a psychological warfare campaign and we've seen the pentagon waged those successfully in the past they had many people come into iraq had weapons of mass destruction and they never did. a mention of. the songes said he's a transparency activist is he a transparency activist or is it you think more of a personal pay are activist what is the ultimate goal to wiki leaks at the end the day as you see it. well i find it interesting that one organization the knight foundation which is a press foundation turned his organization down for a grant they said he you know it they were very uncomfortable with giving him any money we now have reporters without borders criticizing wiki leaks so now there

seems to be a lot more criticism of this group because i think a lot of people are getting very suspicious about the motivations it's a bit of p.r. but also i think there may be a little bit of playing into the hands of those who want the united states not to pull out of iraq or afghanistan but to remain in both countries where madsen investigative journalist in washington d.c. thanks for your thoughts on the program. next playing the stock market so it's been a guessing game but since the global recession people are turning to cash hungry clairvoyance it seems there's a bushel there has indeed been a sharp rise in business among fortune telling. 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

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a second round of flooding now is the indus river swells to dangerous highs presidents adare visited the worst hit regions on thursday after criticism that he was abroad during the country's worst natural catastrophe roads and crops have been destroyed survivors are under threat now from hunger and disease but there's asked as claimed more than sixteen hundred lives so far over fourteen million people have been affected. at least four people have been killed and dozens injured after security forces opened fire into a thousand strong crowd in indian administered kashmir the protesters have been throwing rocks and stones at police the rally was in response to the government re imposing a curfew would have lifted at the start of the down after separatist group to hold marches two months of violent clashes against indian rule of left at least fifty five. you are looking at a great old school you will admit is great there it is quite of scottish whisky that was trapped in and arctic ice for more than a century it's finally been opened

a new zealand it was found earlier this year beneath the floor of a hut built by explorers who are only shackleton during his nineteen late expedition eleven bottles of mckinley's whisky were wrapped in paper and straw for protection seemed to work however they were to drown won't be tasted it is being preserved for posterity. later this hour people of elena's guessing cross-talk discuss war crimes prosecutions they try to find out whether they really do serve justice interesting debate ahead first though let's check the latest business news this friday night created many cans here next. hello and welcome to our business program good to have you with me world grain stocks are likely to be kept up through u.s. supplies after a drop expected due to russia's export ban the u.s. department of agriculture says an increase in deliveries from china the european union and australia are also likely the agency estimates that grain export from russia this year will amount to three million tons in line with the forecast from

russia's ministry of agriculture that is asian to hold shipments abroad was made after a drought hit the agricultural sector this season grain production is to decline by fifteen million tonnes globally half of which results from russia's reduction harvesting grain and color star are expected to fall between two point five and three million tonnes of the european union the drop could be over four million tonnes and first deputy prime minister viktor zubkov has officially stated that the government will not entertain any changes to the upcoming temporary ban on great exports. as a player but even though the temporary ban on green exports has been approved and will be affected 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 of the reasons the decision has been made in order for the domestic market to return to regular levels business but as drought is also pushing up flour prices on

the other side of the globe we now cost twenty percent more in mexico which gets half of its supplies from abroad the head of the country's national chamber of bread production says he expects prices to rise by another twenty percent during august as russia's grain export ban comes into force. milk prices in russia may grow by up to fifteen percent this year the price hike is driven by an unprecedented drought and increased demand for dairy products that's according to the co owner of wimbledon one of russia's biggest area producers to we should we can cull. the pricing increase mathematically fifty percent of the pretty said milk is comprised of the cost of raw materials has increased by sixty percent which means prices could screw thirty percent from this factor we have to monitor the situation because consumption is the mean indicator for once it starts falling nothing will help now is why we have to be very careful and the government should help those of course we will see price hikes of ten to fifteen percent but we will

try to have it under control and hold on to our turnover at the sky was not a particularly exciting day for the russian markets the markets and by describing the red all the blue chips were down between a quarter or half a percent on full force is bucking the trend on the r.t.s. there was no finished off point two percent on the. telecom. and head of. again explains why the stock market's trading in the right this week as usual russian markets for having a correlated to the international markets this week and the main use came from the . federal reserve are. the rate unchanged didn't show up to me and to market saying that economic environment from the. very challenging that's why in the last remaining panic. the. markets.

of the old economy. triggered so invest. as a share so. that's why it's all rushing markets during this week in a rather. air flight has increased its profits by sixteen point eight percent of the first half of the year which is flagship carrier earned one hundred twenty eight billion dollars from january to july op 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. and russia second largest natural gas producer nava tag has doubled its net profit in the first half of two thousand and ten year on year the company reports its made around six hundred million dollars these results are in line with expectations and you cannot exult will soon open in russia some are region due to the area struggling car industry this will help employ over

thirty thousand former workers of the country's largest auto manufacturer after vas there's own well produced car components using the 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 improve infrastructure and lower business costs are being promised prime minister putin has already signed a decree to get the ball rolling pressured to act has also called for foreign carmakers operating in russia as new rules mean they have to significantly localize their production. that's all the business news for now but do log on to our website r.t. dot com slash business for more stories there.