the united states of america is waging war within its own army. and human losses are quite significant. is it possible to win the war against sexual assault in the us armed forces. in the army. you know review of the week. is winning

a victory against the devastating wildfires have burned down villages in the country's central regions of the capital in harmful small. remembering over eighty thousand victims of a nuclear bomb blast killed in that a saki sixty five years ago. no chance of ever going to break in the us female inmates who kill their abusive partners incite politicians. are watching on t.v. the. developing stories. say they've turned the corner in their battle against hundreds of us that have been raging across the country the areas of the steadily

shrinking after weeks of endeavor against a ferocious face. heat wave. the blazes have killed more than fifty people destroyed villages even thousands displaced the moscow engine has been one of the worst hit the 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. says 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 world grain prices to their highest for two years the danger is that given we have 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 the short term the facts of the wildfires have been quickly reflected in the price tags of some essential food 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 caused it. over fifty people died in the fires while the death rate in other smoke shrouded regions has doubled at its

height in moscow alone some seven hundred people. dying each day the long term effect on the health of august want to be known for years when you have forest fires not only do 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 of 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 but 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 church of r r t. well the unprecedented wildfires have led to an unprecedented response to trying to bring them under control the military aircraft and help from abroad combined with russia's emergency services to tackle nature's devastating force parties and also no way 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 we. are serving life. 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 my guys that this is one of the world's major and 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 a fart eason 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. see design return. images of us are in flames people sweltering in record breaking temperatures and the capitol city shrouded in smoke have been seized upon by environmentalist as a sign of the unmade climate change pearce corbin of the weather action foundation explained to my colleague bill dodds why he believes 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 circulation patterns 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 helping i mean 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 the 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 as i am 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 is the side. of magnetic state there was in russia and there was 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 started are to just run about money. on the way. chasing liberty in california women for defending themselves or forming it into its missions also. never believe anything until it's officially denied. america's promise to pull out of iraq just an attempt to trick the public that's coming up. well this week the japanese city of night a 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 the survivors to highlight their message to the world that humans and. not co-exist. was the second against civilians just three days after the first target hiroshima was devastated as

a result of the bombings one hundred thousand people died either directly in the blasts or later due 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 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. on my left arm and shoulder all my skin was dripping off had severe burns on my body. eleven year old yoshi. was at home with his twin brother just two kilometers from the blast center on that

fateful morning. it's eleven o two i saw the flush of flights and drove to the floor to cover. in my hand eyes and ears there was a wave in 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 medical

effect is continuing. that is 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 mom 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 been 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 know. people use the word deterrent but i do not believe that human beings can co-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. meanwhile tony in the way the british labor m.p. here chair of the 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 more you could explode nuclear accident could take place even in this this stage now because we know there's so much for sale material so it's only at any point in time we couldn't be certain i

can say place and cause the problem perforation not simply to new states we know the concern the moment for example about iran or north korea and those are for you to make a world where you could put and take very seriously the danger of nuclear weapons in this. commits the only thing that will stop the proliferation to all 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. memorial services were held on thursday at russia's naval bases to mark a decade since of course nuclear submarine tragedy fleet commanders and victims' families took part in one ceremony throwing wreaths into the bering sea the disaster happened a nuclear submarine sank during a naval exercise the official investigation concluded on board explosion because his biggest post soviet naval disaster international rescue efforts fail to save

any of the one hundred nineteen crew members most of whom were in the 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 local forces will be ready to take responsibility for the country's security for at least another decade this official saying insurgents increase due to a power vacuum and political instability currently more than sixty thousand soldiers are stationed to advise iraq troops veteran journalist john pilger says america is fooling the world by claiming it's pulling out. this announcement by obama. would be the end of the combat mission next two years nonsense and that's another example of the of the media

simply taking at face value 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 reply to all statements like. another u.s. led campaign appears to be almost as dangerous for civilians that it is for the military a new report by the u.n. shows an increase of almost a third in civilian casualties in afghanistan in the first half of two thousand and ten paid in the same period last year death toll among children has scored more than the u.s. military commander in the country general petraeus says this shows the need to be

double efforts in the fight against the taliban ever critics say it's another reason to begin drawing troops. the only way for you on r.t. big brother is watching british activists say the world's most watched country doesn't need any more c.c.t.v. especially when flying out on one of the. women prisoners in the us who've been convicted of killing their abusive husbands are seeing their chances of liberty snatched away forever many of those who were granted parole have a decision overturned by state governments rights campaigners claim that even first time offenders and women who feared for their lives were 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 you know 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 the 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 a 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 our 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 maris or 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 swartz a nigger 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. ok the crime or the number we. heard there on the way for them 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 but wife sentences in two. what we call l.-wop sentences life without possibility of parole simply because. the rights groups or others think if you've been convicted of murder you should never be paroled a broken system chance is given then taken away 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. . if you missed any of our stories you can follow me on t.

dot com here's what's on the line right now a story of lucky survival read about newborn baby girl who was abandoned at a roadside bomb. fifty degree heat. and what chelsea football players are not so happy now as it appears that one of the world's richest people is tough on bonuses for his team. dot com. russia said on a friday it will want to iran's first nuclear power plant next week the russian nuclear agency which is building the facility in bashir announced that engineers will start building the reactor with feel almost a twenty first after several days the ceremony will be held on the streets controls will include one store should then be fully operational in several weeks russia will run the plan to supply the fuel tank a way to waste iran's currently under un sanctions and pressuring it to abandon its

brain which went program spokesman on the russian cooperation challenge of the pushchair project says western fears the plant could help their own development of weapons of groundless. you cannot anyhow use nuclear power plant in your hypothetical military. nuclear power plant just because you write that increase it. is true that there are some. we call that double double purpose is rich will spend your man well this elements to get out of. any responsibility because we are going to supply it with nuclear fear all sure nuclear power plants all the lifetime down go figure spent fuel back per person on russian area. here in rights activists calling for a horse to a new e.u. project which could see every plane over europe fitted with c.c.t.v.

cameras and movies aimed at preventing terrorist attacks some say it's yet another attempt to curb people's right to privacy but only on land but also in the air. off for a week in the sun but if the european union project goes ahead these people could have their conversations and movements monitored while they're flying the plan has a law on civil liberties campaigners who fear further growth in the surveillance state but at passengers a divided yelling as this kid is right private personally when i don't know this i think is a line and you keep pushing and pushing it with like the regulations and i think it's so prevalent already. with this expected you watch t.v. you watch t.v. or you'll be surveilled to be surveilled prism or email but nothing to hide so we don't worry me personally. the e.u. project is aimed at tackling terrorism by analyzing the way passengers behave in a bid to isolate potential bombers or hijackers when they're already on board at

the moment surveillance on planes is mainly limited to a c.c.t.v. camera near the cockpit britons are the most watched people in the world with more c.c.t.v. cameras per capita than any other nation there are cameras almost always in train stations and in at ports and it's here at the university of reading that the new in-flight surveillance system is being developed it won't just include cameras they'll also be microphones and special systems for monitoring unusual behavior behavior the system will eventually be able to pick up include sweating moving around the cabin in an erratic way and repeated visits to the toilet dr james ferryman insists it will distinguish between potential terrorists a nervous fly is now one way to do that is to look very carefully at the types of cues that we take so for example someone may be nervously anxious lee sweating and

or solution of course it doesn't say anything it could be just. but it could be a terrorist but we only know that when we combine this information with other sources of information that come to. it's a lot to think of it as not big brother watching but big brother looking after you not everyone sees it that way campaigners say prissy is one of the litmus tests for democracy and mass surveillance erodes it enormously treats. and completely complex maintenance of democratic. innocence and to. continue surveillance of mass surveillance video communications whatever and then you seem to just be creeping completely goes against that and we. see apart from the civil rights issues many question the efficacy of an on board system if a terrorist isn't course at the airports they say by the time

a plane's thirty thousand feet up isn't it already too late nor and that r.t. london. pakistan now says about twenty million people have been affected by severe flooding across the country all the dependent state celebrations were cancelled due to the country's worst ever disaster rescue teams are struggling to reach victims in villages as there's a shortage of food and drinking water so at least one case of color was confirmed by the un natural disaster has so far left an estimated six hundred people dead. u.s. president barack obama has urged tourists 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 there are open for business his words were backed by action as he arrived on holiday with his family in the sunshine state. or it is no longer flowing into the gulf but the work will continue to seal the weekend well good. at

least five suspected drug gang members have been arrested over the killings of two policemen in the mexican border city of think there are as last week among those detained was a man suspected of involvement in an earlier car bomb attack that killed three people the suspects are believed to be members of the notorious gang who works for one of the major drug cartels in the country. well later on r.t. costs discrimination in the workplace monte looks at efforts to bridge age old social divisions in india which could be even. what's in the next. headlines in a few minutes stay with us.