russia is winning a snow victory against the devastating wildfires which have been down for the edges in the country's central regions unveiled the capital and home full small. japan has been remembering over eighteen thousand victims of nuclear bomb blasts were killed in the six o'clock news and. no chance of ever going free in the us in mates who killed their abusive partners c.n.n. rome and saw it as politicians and this first. watching on t.v. the weekly news review and developing stories for our thoughts is in russia say they've turned the corner in their battle against hundreds of wildfires that have been raging across the country the areas ablaze all steadily shrinking two weeks of

endeavor against a ferocious flames because by the record heat wave in the country's central regions the blazes have killed more than fifty people and destroyed entire villages leaving thousands displaced. well the moscow region has been one of the worst hit with choking smoke from the fires shrouding the capital city has been clear for the past few days the smell of burning still lurks in the air you have her in a quick turnover assesses the long term consequences of the disaster. from choking on toxic fumes to breathing normally once again this summer's wildfires different from those in previous years the disaster was not only widespread but highly visible especially in the capital a blanket of smoke covered moscow for several weeks so too did it envelop the country's economy to its sure the situation is very severe as about a quarter of all grain fields in the country have dried up as

a result of the drought unfortunately many firms are now on the verge of bankruptcy the government has already agreed to provide financial help to agricultural producers who were faced with hard times the government responded by banning wheat exporter until beyond of the year it sent word grain prices to their highest for two years 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 very few other commodities and that's actually what causes a more general food price spike the short term the facts of the wildfires have been quickly reflected in the price tags of some essential foods and while customers can already feel how much cleaner their wallets have become this summer the long term effects of the catastrophe are still to be cost it. over fifty people died in the

fires while the death rate in other small crowded regions has doubled it is hard to mosco alone some seven hundred people were dying each day the long term effect on the health of august want to be known for years when you have forest fires now. only if you have the smog but you've also got carbon monoxide and you've got small particles which are in just a dent alarms and cause problems breathing the country's ecological lungs are badly damaged to eight hundred thousand hectares a forest fire in an area the size of cypress morton yes they can be planted but it will take time for them to grow it will take several decades to make up for this loss we've lost the lungs of the moscow region i mean the woods contributing to air purification and oxygen production which is a considerable blow against the environment of the metropolis. what took decades to grow has been obliterated in one long hot summer now russians are wondering whether the unusually high temperatures are just a freak of nature or if the herald

a time when most won't be just known for its freezing winters but for its scorching summer as is while you sit in the pressure of r r t most. of the on precedented wildfires have led to an unprecedented response to try to bring them under control all of russia's emergency services have combined with military volunteers and help who brought to tackle the devastating force. joined one of the teams operating in moscow. this is how it all starts with a small flame that can quickly and golf the entire forest making this a very fierce battle for emergencies workers and volunteers. one of the biggest operations in fighting these fires happened from the air jordan airport in the resign region one of the worst hit by these fires and the emergency

services has invited our two to come along for a ride on this ill seventy six. the . water line they began. today. if you want to drive over the past. service light. at the same time down below our first. flight. ready and they're also fighting the funny. part. is.

as you can see helicopters are also working to put out these flames it was quite a ride we took the mike i said this is one of the world's kate major and so that's in fact why prime minister vladimir putin chose to come here to fly on one of those planes we just flew on and see the process himself of course it's not only authorities and volunteers trying to contain these flames ordinary people citizens are doing what they can to help gathering whatever items they can food water clothes to help those who have lost everything and we're terribly hoping that this crisis will soon come to an end and he said now way art. he resign returned. meanwhile the images of russia in flames people sweltering in a record breaking temperatures and the capital city shrouded in smaug have been seized upon by environmentalists as a sign of manmade climate change but pearce corbin of the weather action foundation and there's nothing manmade about it climate has always been china but it has nothing to do with man we predicted there would be extreme heat in east europe and

russia this summer and it's caused by a. pattern c o two does not cause circulation patterns what causes those is a combination of solar activity and the state of the phases of the moon. excuse me just a minute you say this isn't caused by man how come the reporting this heat wave is recognize the worst in a thousand years of recorded history in russia and. has got something to do with this has really not nothing to do with the only connection is man is here this i'm time as the sun and the moon are doing things you see a very similar situation happened about one hundred thirty two years ago where there was the side. of magnetic state there was. on the wall so floods in pakistan. and in the previous few years there was also flood to leverage summers also hundred thirty two years ago so these things are.

physically in the nothing to do with mankind and those who side are to just trying to make money. on the way chasing liberty where in california women convicted for defending themselves only victim to political ambitions. and cost discrimination at work to fix efforts to bridge age old social divisions in india that's. all this week the japanese city of mecca sarky has been commemorating the victims of the atomic bomb dropped by the u.s. sixty five years ago. representatives from more than thirty countries gathered with survivors to highlight their message to the world that humans and nuclear arsenals should not co-exist the attack on the king was the second against civilians just three days after the first target was

devastated as a result of the bombings more than two hundred thousand people died either directly in the blasts or later going to radiation poisoning sean thomas reports. sixty five years ago sumi taro taniguchi was enjoying a simple morning bicycle ride when in a tragic instant his life was changed forever. i was thrown to the ground and i stood in piecing sound i thought i had been killed but i encouraged myself not to do it that it was important to go on living. at first noticed his bicycle had been twisted and bent out of shape but as he started to move he began to realize the severity of his own condition she got up. on my left arm and shoulder in my skin was dripping off had severe burns on my body. eleven year old yoshi kawi was at home with his twin brother just two kilometers from the blast

center on that fateful morning. at eleven o two i saw the lights and dip to the floor to cover my hand eyes and ears there was a wave when our entire house crashed over us. go and his brothers crawled from the rubble and went into the city to look for their father who worked at the mitsubishi munitions plant close to the heart of the explosion on their way they found countless charred bodies and a terrifying scene you had. while crossing the river we were drawn to a woman who was walking with what looked like a wide belt or cloth trailing behind her but when we took a closer look it was her intestines coming out of her stomach there was nothing we could do. this is the hyper center of the bomb which means sixty five years ago it exploded five hundred meters above this exact spot and the people who suffered that horrific event well their stories are truly amazing but what they didn't know back then just as disturbing is the long term effects of that radiation the effect

is continuing. cutting her. that means sixty five years. so that it true that the. radiation is affecting human bodies for sixty five years . has had continuous surgeries throughout his life to remove tumors on his back caused by the radiation now he declares that the war did not end in one thousand nine hundred five but rather the effects continue to this day and even though. he wasn't as severely injured initially as an adult he has endured liver disease and two types of cancer attributed to the bomb as well as the psychological damage of the event. the atomic bomb was extremely cruel america should never have dropped the bombs and human beings on the tests in new mexico should have. the end of nuclear weapons once the power of these weapons was known. but having experienced

the wrath of the world's most devastating weapon these two survivors have one shared message so you don't go to. people use the word deterrent but i do not believe that human beings came to exist with nuclear. a reason why a bomb survivors of hiroshima and nagasaki are pushing for peace and complete global nuclear disarmament sean thomas r. t. nagasaki japan. well tony in the way the labor m.p. and chair of the all party group on global security and nonproliferation says there's still a threat of nuclear strikes around the world which should be taken very seriously if you look at the the history of the post nuclear age the reality really is this is that the world has been lucky that we've not mourn you can explode is not gifted by the great foresight and intelligence of our collective politicians nuclear accident could take place to even this this stage now because we know the so much

for sale material so it's only at any point in time we couldn't be certain i couldn't say place and cause the problem perforation not simply to new states we know the concern of the moment for example about iran or north korea something i think across the globe actually may be just as real as the capacity for the terrorists to get hold of nuclear materials and construct but terrorist nuclear weapon know those things ought to make the world wake up and take very seriously the danger of nuclear weapons in the. commits the only thing that will stop the proliferation or the states or to terrorists which is by getting rid of nuclear weapons and it can be done not overnight but it can be done if this generation has the political will. morial services were held on thursday at russia's naval bases to mark

a decade since the course nuclear submarine charge the fleet commanders and victims' families took part in one seventy three in the barents sea disaster happened ten years ago. to enable the exercise efficient investigation concluded that an on board explosion that the country's biggest naval disaster the national rescue efforts failed to save any of the one hundred eighteen crew members. under thirty. the u.s. says it's planning to conclude combat operations in iraq by the end of august and withdraw by the end of the year but iraq's top commander has claimed that the forces well ready to take responsibility for the country's security for at least another decade are selfish will say violence chremes due to a power vacuum and political instability currently more than sixty thousand soldiers are stationed in the country to advise the troops that you're

a journalist john pilger says america is food in the world by claiming it's pulling out. this announcement by obama. of the combat mission next two years norm. and that's another example of the of the media simply taking a face for something that told by authority in fact there's going to be something like ninety four bases left and sixty thousand troops and so called that is an increase in the number of mercenaries they call them contractors so far from getting out there was a great expression by a great irish investigative journalist called claude coburn never believe anything until it's officially denied we should apply to all statements like that. another u.s. led campaign appears to be almost as dangerous for civilians as it is for the

military and the report by the u.n. shows an increase of almost a third incident casualties in afghanistan in the first half of two thousand and ten compared to the same period last year the death toll among children has soared by more than half the u.s. military commander in the country general petraeus says this shows the need to redouble efforts in the fight against the taliban however critics say it's another reason to begin withdrawing troops. women prisoners in the u.s. who have been convicted of killing their abusive husbands are seeing their chances of liberty snatched away forever those who are granted parole have a decision overturned by state governors rights campaigners claim that even first time offenders and women who feared for their own lives are denied the chance of freedom. meet norma khun pm when i first came here my son wasn't even a year old and i think that he. kind of sees me and the other women that he's met

here at the visiting room he kind of sees like women that have. gone through a lot and ended up still standing on our feet now forty years old she's been behind bars since one thousand nine hundred ninety two people convicted of killing her abusive boyfriend during a violent attack one of many in their relationship this is somebody who doesn't belong behind bars somebody who made a terrible mistake and readily admits that she made a terrible mistake by picking up a gun in the first place in two thousand and nine she was found to be suitable for parole by the california parole board that decision was overturned by california governor arnold schwarzenegger a reality shared by many women here at the california institution for women in los angeles most have long histories of abuse from the person for whom they are convicted of killing down the road the university of southern california law school has taken up the cause of many of these women in

a program called the post conviction justice project professor michael brennan is one of the founders are clients for the most part have committed a single serious crime in their life and that's a crime that they're serving their sentence for they are represented by law students like andy martin i'm representing their saw garcia who was at the age of thirteen trafficked into the united states and sold to a man who for six years physically emotionally and sexually abused her garcia was forced at gunpoint to help that man drag and bury the body of the man he had shot then convicted of aiding and abetting so far she has served seventeen years in march she too was deemed suitable for parole the parole process is really the beginning of a long legal battle for the convicted it's not the end of the. story it turns out it's not even the end of this chapter parole for both garcia and could be and was

just reversed by california governor arnold schwarzenegger of the four thousand cases that go before the board each year just about seventeen percent are found suitable for parole and of those governor's fortune egger has overturned more than sixty percent previous governors reversed ninety percent so why why this obsession with incarceration because most governors in california certainly at some point in their career feel that they may have. possibility of running for president they're concerned about granting parole to inmates who might go out and commit a serious crime but many of these women's records show they would not be a danger to society that they were young and scared for their lives or for the lives of their children. i. remember we. were there on the way to be on the one.

end of the line for many is here. in prison for life despite their sentence you can't turn parole boy if sentences into. what we call l.-wop sentences life without possibility of parole simply because. victims rights groups or others think that if you've been convicted of murder you should never be paroled a broken system chance is given then taken away here and still hope the system will change for campian that she'll be reunited with her son it will work out in the end if if you really truly love somebody like the way that i love him i want him to be the best like even if i have to stay here forever i just want him to be. the best in los angeles christine for south r.t.

. now if you missed any of our stories you can find them at all t. dot com here's what's online right now a story of lucky survival read about a newborn baby girl who was abandoned roadside parents in fifty degree heat. and an inside job top manager of one of russia's banks managed to solve his unemployment and six million dollars he tells. russia said on friday when the launch iran's first nuclear power plant next week the russian nuclear agency which is building the facility and the ship announced that engineers will start unloading the reactor fuel on august the twenty first after several days the ceremony will be held on the strict controls of the u.n. nuclear watchdog the plant should then be fully operational in about a month rush of war run the plant supply the fuel and take away the fuel waste iran

is currently under u.n. sanctions aimed at pressuring it to abandon its mooring in richmond program spokesman russian state corporation says the ship projects can only set peaceful purposes. you can not use nuclear power. but they will. you give. just because you are a degree so it. is true that there are some. people that double double purpose is spent fuel. well then let me see you can. also bring your responsibility because back in the supply but feel should you be a ball for all the life time go big dishpan fuel back your persistent russian are you. attempts to break down the cost system in india coming up against long held

prejudices in many areas of life costs discrimination is illegal in the country around seeing reports traditional mindsets often prevail even where eating is concerned. it's a problem that's been simmering but now so only davey sees it's fast reaching boiling point she's a newly appointed cook in this primary school and johnny board here to prepare the government funded midday meal but despite sony's best intentions some of the students turn their noses up at the many creations because she's a ballot or untouchable in traditional hindu society only upper caste cooks a lot of community minos but even now in some upper class children don't want to trued me by me their parents consider the food polluted by my time church what can i do i'm here to make lunch in the school and treat the children here just like my own kids one hundred twenty million children across india receive

a meet every working day in the largest school lunch program in the world but when the education ministry decided to send the it cooks to get schools where the majority of pupils are upper caste hindus many found that too hard to swallow. the media a meal can entice poor parents to send their children to school because look forward to it but there are some parents who don't want their children to eat food made by low cost people and have removed their children from here and also threaten us as well i. mean the same family a member of the upper caste raj would community they refused to allow their ten year old son lot of money and to continue studying in a school which they felt didn't respect their customs and pulled him out immediately. we are upper caste we believe strongly in the cost system we cannot eat food made touched by somebody from a lower caste that's why we moved our child from this government school and picked

him into party activists this kind of reaction demonstrates the difficulty in eradicating the caste system discrimination on the basis. of cost is illegal in india but the practice is still entrenched in areas where the kind of work you do you can eat with is largely divided along class lines. a much loved we know caste people are treated like the upper castes or just about they tell us stay on one side wash the utensils that anything to humiliate test they want just remain low and never rise that. the government says legal action will be taken against religious who are poor in schools the earlier this is done the better after all this attempt to get children of all costs to eat together irrespective of who's made the food is a small but important step in the country's journey to bridge social divisions got

unseeing r.t. . pakistan now says about twenty million people have been affected by severe flooding across the country earlier all the independence day celebrations were cancelled the country's worst disaster rescue teams are struggling to reach victims and villages schools are for teacher food and drinking water so at least one case of cholera was confirmed by the un natural disaster so yesterday to sixteen hundred people. u.s. president barack obama has urged two ists to visit florida to help revive the state's economy in the wake of the gulf of mexico oil spill he also added that all beaches for business and his words were backed by action as he arrived on holiday with his family in the sunshine state obama said oil is no longer flowing into the gulf but the work will continue to see a period. at least five suspected drug gang

members were arrested over the killings of two police officers in the mexican border city of juarez last week among those detained was a man suspected of involvement in a car bomb attack. killed three people the body of one of the officers was hacked to death the suspects are believed to be members of the notorious video getting out works for one of the major drug cartels in the country. back over the headlines in a few minutes stay with us. thank. you.