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the battle against russia's rampant wildfires makes headway as officials say they've reduced the area of burning forests by two thirds over the last five day. russia announces the launch date or next week for iran's first nuclear power station bashir saying un sanctions won't affect the joint project. two commanders will be given the marching orders after a massive brawl of a military base in the moscow region. midnight early saturday morning here in moscow welcome review watching r.t. around the world this hour i'm kevin zero in with the top stories and in five days

the last five days the area affected by wildfires in russia has been reduced by two thirds we're hearing now but the situation remains critical in some parts of the country still this friday evening two planes delivered firefighting equipment from the u.s. to moscow more aircraft with 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 in combating the blazes meanwhile the record breaking heat is but i drove it in the fires in the moscow region is finally starting to ease authorities now though bracing for heavy storms expected to strike the area this weekend as that season italian overcover 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 wide now we are some two hundred kilometers away from moscow and this is the area that one of the areas that have suffered the most from the far is right now behind me you can probably see the completely burned down forests here right now russian military is helping farming to tackle the blazes a very important task of the russian government right now is to protect the countries such as military bases and nuclear plants and all foreigners in those regions contaminated by the nine hundred eighty six chernobyl nuclear disaster have been extinguished by now as they have been concerns that they could spread greater acts of 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 diseases 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 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. of reporting of the mosque of richard the fires have claimed another life to the body of a volunteer helping to put out the blazes has been found in the republic of moldova

here in central russia this is hundreds of people have joined firefighters in the army in the battle against the wildfires what is examiner. want to see what residents are the most coverage of doing to try to tame the flames themselves. do you want. meet alexander the driving cinema manager by night there's open fire over there see about five fighter by day one of the many russian volunteers who are trying to say forests they ledges and people. running i have two toddlers 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 and his friends spread the word bull interior 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 to forest becomes a war zone i'm going to 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 doing. today the fires not so bad but yesterday volunteers braved the worst they put out using anything to hand we're going to do without this guys here 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 learner refuses to go under and for those who has burned on his forests even mission. i look for fire and call my husband hicks think wishes that were the shovel or drops water when we're moving from place to place helping with the carrying. the team stays 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 them in two years who will again to lance went to save the forests. r t russia says.

first nuclear power plant later next week the russian state nuclear corporation which is building the bush air plan announced that the react to what we loaded with nuclear fuel on august twenty first out is katrina's out of a report. 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 wait getting there the plant the bridge and only the construction of the plant originally began in the ninety's seventy's they were performed by a german construction crew that person after the iranian revolution construction was halted that was later picked up by the russian state nuclear agency to stop them in the from 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 us of the this is the final launch date of august the twenty fourth iran's first nuclear power plant will begin producing peaceful nuclear energy the cording to the officials that we've spoken to at the russian state nuclear agency at our stop them they say that the sanctions currently enforced against iran by the united nations security council do not actually the fact 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 a rainy inside 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 not only throw these nuclear both in your head but they told me that there. you give bob. just the right that if you see. these through there are. we call the double double over this research move to amend. both the sentiments you can. hold. in your responsibility because the supply with nuclear fuel should be a ball for all the life time 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. all the way tonight stopping secret funded why washington

is more desperate than before to put a stop to the latest disclosure of thousands of classified documents on the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks. to russian military commanders are facing the axe for failing to stop a massive brawl among soldiers fast enough the incident happened at an army base in the moscow region and it has prompted a public outcry after footage of the fight was posted on the internet in this in no way the story it was a brutal brawl that lasted for about a 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 fined for not being able to stop or prevent a fight like this three draftees 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 that 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. this is now reporting from moscow on the way most would say playing the stock markets a bit of a gamble at the best of times not a problem but find out how they say they could make you rich simply by looking into your coffee cup a story that. the pentagon fears that classified documents due to be released by wiki leaks may be even more damaging than those that had been published before the u.s. military says it knows the nature of the additional fifty thousand documents the julian assange the money runs the website has pledged to disclose last month and published more than ninety thousand documents creating a stir both with the public and us to friends i spoke to wayne madsen is an

american investment journalist and. he told me he believes these massive legs could even be straighted by the u.s. government. scientists showing up at news conferences in london the australians are saying that they're not going to seek any arrest of him stand simply as an australian national so you see a lot of governments britain and australia not wanting to take any action against him and you've got to wonder is that 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 waste those successfully in the past they had many people convince iraq had weapons of mass destruction and they never did these leaks seem to only benefit a realignment of u.s. strategy in both iraq and afghanistan 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. john young and some thoughts about this as well he's a former wiki leaks advisory board member i spoke to him earlier too he says the website is not fulfilling its core purpose. wiki leaks is a master at publicist and they've done a great job of publicising what they do including exaggerating the importance of what they do nonetheless it's an important step in diminishing the amount of secrecy around the world because it set out to in fact release documents that should go to the public but it's turned into something of a bombshell producing machine right now and it's neglected it's regulars producing a lot of interesting documents that the public needs to see and i think that right now they joined up with the department of defense to act to divert attention from more important matters particularly the recent series on secrecy put out by the

washington post and so it's gotten into the publicity game for too much. pakistan's preparing for a second round of flooding is really rivers flows 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 there survivors now under threat from hunger and disease that disasters so far claimed more than sixteen hundred lives well over fourteen million have been affected was using brief you this morning at least four people have been killed dozens of after security forces opened fire into a thousand strong crowd in india administered kashmir the protesters have been throwing rocks and stones at the police at the time the rally was in response to the government re imposing a curfew would have lifted for the start of ramadan after separatist groups threaten to hold marches two months of violent clashes against indian rule of left at least fifty five people dead. a crate of scottish whisky that was trapped in the arctic ice for more than

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hello good to see you again and welcome to you said to be the power of the golden ring cities located two hundred and fifty kilometers to the northeast of moscow it was founded in the year ten ten ireland is one of the oldest cities in russia.

the volga river it's featured in countless poems stories and songs. but here is the main transport link that stretches all the way down to the caspian sea. the longest river in europe pastas through many major russian cities such as kazanci modest and volgograd. preceded by viking settlements in the april ninth centuries the city is said to have been founded in the year and ten as an outpost the principality over stuff veliki centuries later. the second largest city and for a time during the polish invasion of russia in six hundred twelve it was the unofficial capital of russia. today the city has a population of over six hundred thousand it's an important heritage site and off to moscow and st petersburg it's one of the main tourist destinations we come from the u.s. where something. one hundred years old is considered all and here we've been able

to see magnificent frescoes that are up to a thousand years old so it's been an incredible experience you can see why popular . during history in b.c. it also has a fast and direct train route from the famous express also in the city. monument prince. the first fortress on the volga river built one thousand years ago legend has it for ferocious sacred back story is displayed here ever since the bear has been associated with the area and is now the city's emblem. this site is extremely important to the cultural life it's where the first was built in the country in seventy fifty after a fire destroyed the original wooden building it was replaced by the shallow certain structure you see today. it's said to be the starting point of russian

state's craft before anyone. came along. and many areas in time for the one thousand. with this amazing. good. all in good time i suppose. now if you think that this next monument is familiar you'd be correct take a look here. it's out of. one thousand. it has a value of around thirty dollars and it's one of the most popular and use banknotes long gone is the face of. various historical sites and. this one here. this morning when it was unveiled in one thousand nine hundred seven was built on the local civilians led by million. went all the way from moscow to feed the cows. the monument celebrate the success.

without taking the inside the spiritual and cultural of the city. founded in the twentieth century the place where. it's often mistaken the. kremlin . so want to tourists. in the united states. america. train for magic but it's more visible in moscow and. here we feel like we're returning to the old and it is absolutely spectacular to see that we're in a place that boring back to the century grander the onion dome so we're very fortunate that we've spent three days here it's something that i think a lot of americans don't know about. an opportunity part of the world.

every. century. represents. time today we can hear the sounds of how ms i'm drills dozens of men are working round the clock to renovate the ministry in time for the anniversary celebrations it's wonderful to hear the most of the city's main sites will be returned to the. the ministry bear proved very popular with visitors found in a forest as a cub a mother being killed barely alive and suffering from exhaustion and starvation she was rescued by the us of a museum and preserve her she lives to this day this is master here she's been living in cibachrome for twenty years and hibernate for a staggering three to five months each year she's completely friendly a lot by everyone here in the city she's cared for by egotism who say that she's smarter than

a dog i think she's absolutely adorable and. very . so what else is there to see and to do here the arsenal state museum architecture and art reserve is a large museum complex in the city including several buildings and hundreds of thousands of items in its collections became a say museum in one hundred twenty four when collections of several private museums in the region we lighted into one precious important items from various churches and most trees were brought here this main collections are now on display at the ministry in the city. one of its highlights is a manuscript titles love of equal level of meaning the song of ideas while fact which is the major epic piece of ancient russian literature. you also must have missed the church of st john the baptist along with the monument

it's depicted in one of the thousand with the bank notes build between six hundred seventy one and six hundred eighty seven on the bank of the cultural river it's now one of the world heritage sites the area was one of the wealthiest parts of the town at that time this residence was the built the most amazing church in the us level it's pretty cool so decorated with glazed tiles on the structures distinctive feature are it's amazing fifteen onion domes assembled in three groups. and finally party. popular book is a large entertainment complex on the peaceful environment of the volga river including many areas there are restaurants out terraces my clubs and so. if loved by the city's well to do the best are organized is an impressive rice drinks in the east and some of the best also see here we not.

have not yet. now moving to our next location this is a private museum funded by one of the residents this hall is called a museum time featuring various musical instruments and clocks now the island is obsessed with bells it's the right of his private collection almost a one thousand is displayed here inside the museum. where your islam is a beautiful syria and museums are wonderful this is a very special museum of course because it reflects the interests of its founder so much isabelle's and and these photographs. through is a joy to visit this museum and to hear the bells and the photographs and as well as become a kind of person. like many museums around the world where you have glass cabinets we do not touch signs at this museum you can see much many of the items on display

such as this wonderful nineteenth century gramophone. the clocks are all set at different times to chimes to go off at once good idea and if you want to be crazy by the taking you can always listen to the strange sound of the music box. sounds like it's being played backwards to me. finally a fool this side saying i'm kind of hungry i recommended restaurants check the.