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tonight the battle against russia's rampant wildfires makes headway as officials say they've now reduced the area of burning follow a spike two thirds in the last five days. pressure announces a launch date of next week for iran's first nuclear power station and bush is saying u.n. sanctions won't affect the joint project. and two commanders are to be given their marching orders after a massive brawl at a military base in the moscow region. i want to have really sort of

a morning here in moscow welcome review watching r t i'm kevin zero in with the top stories for you and in five days the area affected by wildfires in russia has been reduced by two thirds now but the situation remains critical in some parts of the country this friday evening two planes delivered firefighting equipment from the u.s. to moscow more aircraft of similar cargo are expected to arrive in the capital during the weekend more than ten other european countries neighboring states have provided assistance to russia in combating the blazes meantime the record breaking heat that's been aggravating the fires in moscow region finally starting to ease authorities now though bracing themselves for heavy storms that are expected to strike the area this weekend as artie's natalia overcovered reports now. 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 wide 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 is right now behind me you can probably see the completely burned down for us here right now russian military is helping farman 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 noble nuclear disaster had 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 radioactive level in those regions is the normal meanwhile in regions like this one that they're 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 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 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 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 a lowering temperatures which might bring heavy rains and storms in the city. but essentially novikov reporting from the moscow region there and the fires of claimed the life to some the body of a volunteer who'd been helping to put out the blazes has been found in the republic

of more than over here in central russia this is hundreds of people have joined firefighters and the army in the battle against the wife wildfires that is examine literature of i went to see what residents in the moscow region a doing to tame the flames themselves. do you want some water. meet alexander a driving cinema manager by night there's open fire over there see about a five fighter by day one of the many russian volunteers who are trying to say forests villages 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 tim speak to kill a forest into wasteland alexander and his friends spread the word while in tear 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 to go up 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 covered with sand so it won't get into the village the team 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 lunar refuses to go under and for those who has been 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 were the shovel or drops water when we're moving from place to place helping with the caring. the teams tease and deforest 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 gather in tears who will again toil and sweat to save the forests.

r t russia says it will launch a first nuclear power plant later next week the russian state nuclear corporation is building the bush plan announced that the reactor will be loaded with nuclear fuel on august twenty first marty's 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 and bush air will indeed launch on august twenty first of course it's been a long way getting there the plant the bridge in the way the construction of the plant originally began in the one nine hundred seventy s. they were ordered 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 it will stop them in the uk they are using 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 according 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 effect of the pushchair power plant project they did that the bush era power but it's not been rooted 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 testing nuclear agency says that it is working very closely with the arabian side it is the work 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 your nuclear power plant in your head that they support ministers. you get bogged down just because you're right that you do see. these through their eyes. we call the double double over this issue. but both this elements. are in your responsibility because we are going to supply it with nuclear fuel sure nuclear power plants all the life down gold diggers spent fuel back to the process of the russian army so a lot of controls in force but still the media's eye is definitely going to be on around come august twenty first because when i was over our correspondent coming up

on the way the secret is out find out why washington is more desperate than before to put a stop to the disclosure of thousands of classified documents the whistleblower web site wiki leaks. invest based on fortune telling well who hopes to get rich simply by gazing into a coffee cup too good to be true we try to find. two russian military commanders are facing the axe for failing to stop a massive brawl among soldiers fast enough the instant the army base in the moscow region and it has prompted a public outcry after footage of the fight was posted on the internet he's innocent now he's got the story. it was a brutal brawl that lasted for about half an hour some twenty or so japanese were training to 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 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 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 office and it's something he's been pushing very strongly for. the pentagon fears more classified documents stude be released by the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks may cause greater harm than those already published the u.s. military says it knows the nature of fifteen thousand classified records that wiki leaks editor in chief julian assange pledged to release last month aside published seventy thousand documents creating a media storm attracted criticism but investigative journalist r.t.

contributor wayne madsen told me he believes these huge league screwed have even been orchestrated by the government itself. it's scientists showing up at news conferences in london the australians are saying that they're not going to seek any arrest of him stan sibley's an australian national so we 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 come into iraq had weapons of mass destruction and they never did these leaks seem to only benefit a realignment of us 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 we also spoke to john young he's a co-founder of wiki leaks before leaving the organization he told us he believes the site's become far too interested in publicists in this neglecting it's cool. wiki leaks is a master of publisher to you and they've done a great job of publicising what they do including exaggerating the importance of what they do not that it's an important and diminishing the amount of secrecy around the world because it's too in fact documents that should go to the public but it's turned into something go away producing machine right now and it's neglected its regular producing of a lot of interesting documents that the public needs to see and i think that right now they've 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. will

do some brave pakistan's proposal for a second round of flooding as the indus river swells to dangerous highs prisons adare visited the worst hit regions on thursday after criticism when he was abroad during the country's worst natural catastrophe roads and crops have been destroyed survivors run the threat from hunger and disease disasters claimed more than sixteen hundred lives while over fourteen million 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 protesters have been throwing rocks and stones at police rally was in response to the government reimposing a curfew was lifted at the start of ramadan after separatist groups threatened to hold marches two months of violent clashes against indian rule of left at least fifty five people. a crate of scottish whisky which was trapped in antarctic ice for more than a century is finally been open in new zealand it was found early this year but the

thing floor of a bill by explorers ernest shackleton during is not in a way that edition there it is eleven bottles of mckinley's whiskey were wrapped in paper in store for protection so it worked however the harrods tasted is being preserved for posterity. playing stock markets always been a guessing game at the best of times but since the global recession says more and more people are now turning to cash hungry clairvoyance there's artie's daniel bushell found out there indeed 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 will check how she does at the end of this report more than

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hello good to see you again and welcome to you said to be the pulse of the golden ring cities located two hundred and fifty kilometers to the north east of moscow it was founded in the attempt islands as one of the oldest cities in russia.

the volga river it's featured in countless poems stories and songs. and 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 khazan somalia and volgograd. preceded by viking settlements in the april ninth centuries the city is said to have been founded in the tent and as an outpost the principle is the overall story veliki centuries later. the second largest city a first time during the polish invasion of russia in sixteen twelve it was the unofficial capital of russia. today the city has a population of over six hundred thousand it's an important heretic. site and off to moscow and st petersburg it's one of the main tourist destinations we come from

the us where something that one hundred years old is considered all and here we've been able to see magnificent those that are up to a thousand years old so it's been just 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 stops in the city. to monument prince. the first fortress on the volga river built one thousand years ago legend has it the force of a ferocious sacred back story is displayed here ever since the bear has been associated with the area and is now the city's emblem. the site is extremely important to the cultural life it's where the first piece was built in the country in seventy fifty after a fire destroyed the original wooden building it was replaced by

a shallow certain structure you see today. it's said to be the starting point of russian stage craft before anyone. came along. and many areas in time for the one thousand. with this amazing feel good lick of paint 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 featured on the one thousand. 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 monument was unveiled.

without taking the spiritual and. the place where. it's often mistakenly. so want to tourists. in the united states. but it's more. here we feel like we're returning. and it is absolutely spectacular. doring back to. where. we've spent here it's something that i think

a lot of americans don't know about. an opportunity. every. time today we can hear the sounds of how 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 will be returned to the. the ministry bear proved very popular with vista is 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 the she lives to this day this is master here she's been living inside the kremlin for twenty years and hibernates 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 my face is absolutely adorable and. very . so what else is there to see and to do here they are still 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 to be here is a 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. 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 move of banknotes built 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. of lavaca is a large entertainment complex on the peaceful environment of the volga river including many areas there are restaurants out of terraces my clubs and so. if loved by the city's well to do the best or organize this impressive right dishes and drinks and eat and some of the best r.c.c. teaches here we know.

not yet. now moving to our next location this is a private museum funded by one of the residents this hall is called music and time featuring various musical instruments and clocks now the owner is from sess 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 city and everything is museums are wonderful this is a very special museum of course because it reflects the interests of its founder so much these bells and and these photographs. through is a joy to visit this museum and to hear the the bells and the photographs and as well as become acquainted with personalities. 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 the gramophone. the cultural center at different times to chimes to go off at once good idea 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 by could see me. finally a fool this side saying i'm kind of hungry.