you know review of the we call naughty russia is winning a slow victory against the devastating wildfires which have burnt down villages in the country's central regions of the capital in home from small. japan has been remembering over eighty thousand victims of a nuclear bomb blast in a pill tonight assaulting sixty five years ago. no chance of ever going free in the us inmates killed their abusive partners see both sides as politicians own agendas first. broadcasting live from moscow this is our tease the weekly news review and the latest developments thought 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 are steadily shrinking after weeks of endeavor against the ferocious flames triggered by the record heat wave in the country's central region bases have killed more than fifty people and destroyed in time of villages the thousands displaced in the moscow region has been one of the worst hit with choking smoke from the fires shrouded in the capital the city has been clear for the past few days the smell of burning still lurks in the. long term consequences of a disaster. from choking on toxic fumes to breathing normally once again. this summer as wildfires differ from those in previous years the disaster was not only widespread but highly visible especially in the capital a blanket of smoke covered for several weeks so too did it envelop the country's economy. the situation is very severe as about a quarter of all grain fields in the country have dried up because the results 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 are 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 have been through two thousand and seven two thousand and eight and we saw where 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 thinner their wallets have become this summer the long term effects of the catastrophe us two 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 were dying each day the long term effect on the health of ah this 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 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 along 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 summers as well you can sit on the couch of r r t. or the unprecedented wildfires have led to an unprecedented response to try to bring them under control all of russia's emergency services together with the military and volunteers having working to tackle nature's devastating force ati's and 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 like. the same turn down below our first. flight. ready and it's like 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 why. r.t. resign region. or images of russia in flames people sweltering in record breaking temperatures and the capital city shrouded in smog have been seized upon by environmentalists as a sign of manmade climate change but pearce corbin of the weather action foundation explained to my colleague bill dodd where he but he's there's nothing manmade about it climate has always been china but it has nothing to do with man and we predicted

there would be extreme heat in east europe and russia this summer and it's caused by a circulation 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 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 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 in the moon and 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 he was in russia and they're also floods in pakistan now and in the previous few years there was also flood to leverage summers also hundred thirty two years ago so these things

are. physically intimate and nothing to do with mankind and those who side are to just trying to make money. on the way head on r.t.e. chasing liberty in california women can get to for defending themselves in picton to political ambitions also. never believe anything until it's officially denied could america's promise to put out of iraq just an attempt to deceive the public that's coming up. this week the japanese city of mecca saki 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 that asahi was the second against civilians just three days

after the first target machine was devastated as a result of the bombings more than two hundred thousand people died either directly in the blasts or they turned into radiation poisoning auntie's 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 didn't eat piecing sound i thought i had been killed but i encouraged myself not to die 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 there. on my left arm and shoulder in my skin was dripping off and i 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 give to the floor to cover 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 have. 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 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 be. 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 the a bomb survivors of hiroshima and nagasaki are pushing for peace and complete global nuclear disarmament charge thomas r. t. nagasaki japan but turning lloyd british labor m.p. and chair of the all party group on a 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 a nuclear accident could take place even in 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 can 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 and those things that ought to make the world wake up and take very seriously the dangers of nuclear weapons in this area and commit the only thing that will stop the proliferation to all the states or to service 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 or to russia's naval bases to mark a decade since the course nuclear submarine tragedy for the commanders in victims' families took part in one ceremony. in the barents sea the disaster and the nuclear submarine this. size official investigation concluded that an explosion wrecked his biggest disaster international rescue efforts fail to save any of the one hundred

nineteen crew members to 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 has claimed local forces will be ready to take responsibility for the country's security for at least another decade u.s. officials say insurgent violence could eat crease into a power vacuum and political instability currently more than sixty thousand soldiers are stationed in the country to advise iraqi troops veteran journalist john pilger says america is food in the world by claiming it's pulling out. this announcement by a bomb. of the combat mission next two years norms. and that's another example of 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 in a thing until it's officially denied we should apply that to all statements like. another u.s. led campaign a pace to be almost as dangerous for civilians as it is for the military a new report by the u.n. shows an increase of almost a third in civilian casualties in afghanistan the first half of two thousand and ten compared to the same period last year the death toll among children swamped by moving off the u.s. military commander in the country general petraeus shows that to double the efforts

of part against the taliban who are critics saying it's another reason to begin withdrawing troops. on the way for you are not a big brother is watching british activists eight volts most watched country doesn't need any more c.c.t.v. especially when going out on holiday. when that prison is in the us who've been convicted of killing their abusive husbands seeing their chances of liberty snatched away forever and yet those who have granted parole the decision overturned by state governments lottie's christine speak to rights campaigners even women who fear. being denied a chance of freedom. meet norma 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 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's our 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 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 governors force a nigger has overturned more than sixty percent previous governor 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 those are the number we. heard there on the way for him 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. life without possibility of parole simply because. victims 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 here you can find them at r.t.

dot com here's what's on the line right now a tale of lucky survival read about to born baby girl was abandoned. by parents fifty three. and why chelsea football player so happy now it appears that one of the world's richest people is tough on bonuses for his team tells us all to dot com. russia said on friday when we don't see iran's first nuclear power plant next week the russian nuclear agency which is building the facility for shear announced that engineers will start loading the reactor with fuel on almost the twenty first to seventy days the ceremony will be held on the strict controls of the viewing nuclear watchdog. to then be fully operational a few weeks russia will supply the fuel and take away the fuel waste as well as help run the station. in this country under un sanctions and pressuring it to abandon its uranium enrichment program the spokesman of the russian corporation in

charge of the bashir project says western fears the plant could help tehran develop a nuclear weapon or groundless. you cannot and you can. use nuclear power in your hypothetical. nuclear bomb plant is just getting ready to see it. is true that there are two. issues we call the double double purpose is ritual spent fuel man but was this sentiments taken out of. any responsibility because we are going to supply it with nuclear feel sure nuclear power plants all the lifetime down go big dishpan few are back to the process of the russian area. human rights activists are calling for a halt 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 but some say it's yet

another attempt to curb people's right to privacy not only on the lens 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 are divided yelling as this kid is like private personal you wouldn't 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. you'll be surveilled to be surveilled there's a more in me but nothing to hide so it wouldn'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 valence 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 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 flyer is now one way to do that is to look very carefully at the types of cues that we detect so for example someone may be nervously anxious lee sweating in our solution because 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 and come to places. a lot to think of it as not big brother watching 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. the main. news. continues for very little mass surveillance video. seems to just be creepy completely goes against the. democracy apart from the civil rights issues many question the efficacy of the board system if a terrorist isn't course at the airports they say by the time a plane thirty thousand feet up is it is already too late.

pakistan now says about twenty million people have been affected by severe flooding across the country all the independence day celebrations were cancelled due to the country's worst ever disaster rescue teams are struggling to victims in villages as a shortage of food and drinking water. one case of clear it was confirmed by the un natural disaster has so far left an estimated sixteen hundred. u.s. president barack obama has urged to visit florida to help revive the state's economy in the wake of the gulf of mexico oil spill also beaches they're open for business his words were backed by action as he arrived on holiday with his family in the sunshine state obama says oil is no longer flowing into the gulf but the work will continue to see with the king well for good. at least five

suspected drug gang members have been arrested over the killings of two policeman it happened in the mexican border city of juarez last week one of the officers was to death those detained was a man suspected of involvement in a car bomb attack that killed three people the suspects are believed to work for one of the major drug cartels in the country. the national day of mourning is being held across china last weekend landslides and more than twelve hundred people dead about six hundred others are still missing and massive launches of them out. all public forms of entertainment have been suspended rescuers are working to call. on the debris and prevent something. while later and cost discrimination in the workplace. to bridge age old social traditions in india which could be.