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you know our review of the week on our team see some success in stopping the spread of wildfires which devastated landscapes and bankrupted the capital and poison a small. logging disaster sixty five years old and i just saw members over eighteen thousand victims of a nuclear bomb. us women who served time for killing their abusive partners their hopes of freedom crushed at the expense of politicians trying to advance that careers. and cost discrimination at work on t.v. looks at efforts to bridge a job social divisions in india. well you're watching on t.v. with our weekly news review on developing stories firefighters 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 and ever against the ferocious flames triggered by the record heatwave in the country's central regions blazes have killed more than fifty people and destroyed in villages leaving thousands displaced by the moscow region has been one of the worst hit the choking smoke from the fires shroud in the capital of the city has been clear for the past few days the smell of burning still lurks in the air with rain which over assesses the long term consequences of the disaster. from choking on toxic fumes to breathing normally once again this summer's wildfires stiefel from those in previous years the disaster was not only widespread but highly visible especially in the capital a blanket of smoke covered most. 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 films 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 we took sports 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 when 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 effects of the wildfires have been quickly reflected in the price tags of some essential foods and while customers can already feel how much thinner their wallets have become this summer the long term effects of the catastrophe us to have it cost 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 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 along 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 while you sit in the church of r r t. 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 have it working to tackle nature's devastating force ati's and he saw no way joined one of the teams operating there 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 and that's something that is only if you want to drive over the past we. have our service like. at the same time down below our first and. fly the plane ready and they all fly to 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 kate 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 he's in 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 there's one region. on the way on r.t. chasing liberty where in california women convicted for defending themselves on one victim to political ambitions also. never believe anything until it's officially come out. could america's promise to go down to the dogs just an attempt to deceive the public that's coming out. of this week the japanese city of nagasaki has been

commemorating the victims of the atomic bomb dropped by the u.s. sixty five years ago. from more than thirty countries gathered with survivors to highlight their message to the world that humans and nuclear arsenal should not co-exist they attack on that assault he was the second against civilians just three days off the first target was devastated as a result of the bombings two hundred thousand people died you know directly in the blasts or later into radiation poisoning shot almost 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 has he started to move he began to realize the severity of his own condition and she got up there. on my left arm and shoulder in my skin was dripping off and i had severe burns on my buddy. eleven year old yoshi. 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 flights and drove 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 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 and just as disturbing is the long term effects of that radiation the effect is continuing. cutting her. that means sixty five. so that are true that. 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 you drop the bombs in human beings 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. people use that would deter and but i do not believe that human beings can co-exist with nuclear weapons a reason why the a bombs survivors of hiroshima and nagasaki are pushing for peace and complete global nuclear disarmament thomas nagasaki japan. moral services were held on thursday at russia's naval bases to mark

a decade since of course nuclear submarine tragedy three commanders in victims' families took part in one ceremony throwing wreaths in the barents sea where the disaster happened the nuclear submarine sank to a naval exercise efficient investigation concluded that an on board explosion led to the country's biggest label disaster international rescue efforts failed to save any of the one hundred nineteen crew members most of whom are under thirty. the u.s. says it's planning to conclude combat operations in iraq by the end of august and withdraw the end of the year but iraq's top commander has claimed little forces will be ready to take responsibility for the country's security for at least another decade. which will say violence has increased due to her vacuum and stability currently more than sixty thousand soldiers are stationed in the function to advise the troops veteran journalist john pilger says america is fooling the

world like 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 a face for something they're told by authority in fact there's going to be something like ninety four bases left and sixty thousand troops and the surge 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 that to all statements like that. well another u.s. led campaign appears 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 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 off the u.s. military commander in the country general petraeus says this shows the need to redouble efforts in the fight against the taliban over critics say it's another reason to begin withdrawing troops. women prisoners in the u.s. who've been convicted of killing their abusive husbands are seeing their chances of liberty snatched away forever many of those who are granted parole have a decision overturned by state governors ortiz christine for south speaks to rights campaigners claim that even first time offenders and women who feared for their own lives are being denied a chance of freedom. made normal. 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 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 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 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 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. that i. remember we get there on the way about to be on the on.

the 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. 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. . but if you missed any of our stories you can find them at r.t.

dot com let's look at what's on the line a tale of lucky survival rate about a newborn baby girl who was abandoned at a roadside by have parents in fifty degree heat. and why these chelsea football players are not so happy now it appears that one of the world's richest people is tough on bonuses for his team details dot com. russia said on friday it will launch iran's first nuclear power plant next week the russian nuclear agency which is building facility in bashir announced that engineers will start loading the reactor with fuel on august 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 a few weeks russia will supply the fuel and take away the fuel waste as well as help run the station. currently on the un sanctions aimed at pressuring it to

abandon its uranium enrichment program the spokesman of the russian cooperation in charge of the bashir project says western fears the plans could develop tehran develop a nuclear weapon groundless. you cannot and you use nuclear power your hypothetical media. to give bob. is just right the degree says i is true that there are. some. people that double double europe is. your man but i love this enemy so you can. bring your responsibility because we are the supplier but here feel sure nuclear bomb one for all the life time down go big response your back your persistence in russian are you. the terms to break down the cost system in india are coming up against long held prejudices in many areas of life cost discrimination is illegal

in the country yet as karen seen reports traditional mindsets often prevail even where eating is concerned. it's a problem that's been simmering but now so many davey sees it's fast reaching boiling point she's a newly appointed cook in this primary school and john import here to prepare the government funded midday meal but despite sony's best intentions some of the students turn their noses up at many creations because she's a doll it or untouchable in traditional hindu society only upper caste cooks. community minos. now and some upper caste children don't want to trued me by me their parents consider the food polluted by my time 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 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 the kids look forward to it but there are some parents who don't want their children to eat food made by low caste people and have removed their children from here and also threaten us as well. meet the same family a member of the upper caste raj board community they refused to allow their ten year old son but one 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 caste system we cannot eat food made touched by somebody from a lower caste that's why we moved our child from this government school paid him

into private and activist said this kind of reaction demonstrates the difficulty in eradicating the caste system discrimination on the basis. of caste is illegal in india but the practice is still intrinsic in rural areas where the kind of work you do and who you can eat with is largely divided along class lines. and when much love we no caste people are treated like dirt at the upper castes or just about they tell us stay on one side wash the utensils that anything to humiliate us they want to surround may now and never rise up. the government says legal action will be taken against villagers who are poor the books in schools the earlier this is done the better after all this attempt to get children of all castes 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.

but. the un secretary general ban ki moon has arrived in pakistan urging them to do more to help the country of its worst flooding in eighty years wants to speed up a delivery so the un said billions of dollars will be needed for recovery efforts around twenty million people have been affected by the disaster rescue teams are struggling to reach victims of religious or the shortage of food and drinking water and at least one case of cholera. tragedy has left an estimated sixty. 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 he's backed by actions here right 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 seal the leaking well for good. and at least five

suspected drug gang members have been arrested over the killings of two policemen which happened in the mexican border city. last week and one of the officers to death among those detained was a man suspected of involvement in an earlier car bomb that killed three people the suspects are believed to work for one of the major drug cartels in the country. islamophobia was quick to rise after the nine eleven attacks in the u.s. recently it's emerged again following controversial plans to build a mosque near ground zero with president obama backing the decision online show host laurie half an ist also known as the resident asked new yorkers whether islam poses a real threat to american values. islamophobia is that the new anti-communism this week let's talk about that i suppose there are

some parallels to a sort of hatred of foreigners hatred of others. it's a it's a big complex because communism was sort of a government system and islam is more religion but i think you can kind of make some parallels but i think people get scared of a whole culture i think just because so much is on the news and is scary and it's just it's just bombarded every single day it's like i almost actually i quit listening to the news if the media that's your job they have to have be. the stories that are going to draw people to watching it and what are you going to look for things when you're scared out of a small percentage of resource. that's tainted for the rest because i'm sure the very good people so we all know this but still a lot of people are very fearful of the religion in general why do you think that it is because the impact you know it's the way your approach what religious background are you christian so if there is some christians that are going around

bombing people how would you feel about it but i wouldn't mind kate just the same you know and i wouldn't feel if i got a group. under that banner when i could understand why they were doing bad why do people do that so many people they blame the whole group when a small amount do it i don't know maybe that's the nature i don't know you get a little bit scared of one thing and then you yes go to the rest if paul speaks you use horses so it doesn't help when you've got a couple of bad seeds that obviously expose the worst so you think that was the same case in the fifty's with anti-communism you know it's funny because now if you look back where we are in today. it really is even more scary than you know that when you probably are in the moment because of looking back you wonder how could these people actually be thinking that citibank will do the same and twenty years from now not everyone to look back to back and say why are we scared hopefully no

matter how you feel personally the bottom line is that with all the anti islam events as of late it's they've just did that at least first islamophobia it's very . well coming up on r.t. big brother is watching this activist world's most watched country doesn't need any more c.c.t.v. especially when flying out on holiday it's on the way in the next. few minutes we'll be discussing the chinese economic phenomenon before that i'll be back with a recap of our top stories. thank you.