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stopping the spread of wildfires which have devastated landscapes and blanketed the capital in poisonous small. marking the day of disaster sixty five years on like a song he remembers over eighteen thousand victims of nuclear bomb blast. us women who served time for killing their abusive partners their hopes of freedom crushed the expense of politicians trying to advance their careers. they're broadcasting live from moscow you're watching artie's weekly news with you far far as in russia say they've turned the corner in their battle against hundreds of wildfires that have been raging across the country the air is ablaze austin the shrinking after weeks of endeavor against the ferocious flames. heatwave the

country's central regions places have killed more than fifty people and destroyed entire villages leaving thousands displaced the moscow region has been one of the worst hit with choking smoke from the fires shrouding the capital of the city has been clear for the past few days the smell of burning still lurks in the eps that's when the trover assesses the long term consequences of the 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 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 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'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 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 foods and while customers can already feel how much thinner their wallets have become this summer the long term effects of the catastrophe us due to the 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 today and 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

summers as while you sit in the church of r.t.e. . or young precedented wildfires are there to an unprecedented response to try to bring them under control or rushes emergency services together with the military and volunteers have been working to tackle nature's devastating force parties and also know a joint one of the teams operating in moscow. this is how it all starts with a small flame that can quickly and gulf the entire forest making this a very fierce battle for emergencies workers and volunteers. in. 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. these

. are the longer time they've gone and that's something that is only if you want to drive over the past week. emergency services like mine are on the same turn down below our first volunteer slides keep the flames ready and they're also fighting the funny. part. is. news. as you can see helicopters are also working to put out these flames it was quite a ride we talked to my guys that this is one of the world's kate major incidents 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't help gathering whatever items they can food water clothes to help those who have lost everything and were terribly hoping that this crisis will soon come to an end and he said now way our teeth. resign reed or meanwhile images of russia in flames people sweltering in record breaking temperatures and the capital city shrouded in smoke have been seized upon by environmentalists as a sign of manmade climate change pearce corbin of the weather action foundation explained to my colleague bill dodd why he believes there's nothing manmade about it climate has always been china but it is 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 a thousand years of recorded history in russia and man has got something to do with this has really not nothing to do with only the only connection is man is here at the same 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 size. of lunar 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 there and nothing to do with mankind and those who side are to just trying to make money. on the way ahead on r.t.e.

at chasing liberty we're in california where women convicted for defending themselves off on victims to political ambitions and. never believe anything until it's officially denied could america's promise to pull out of iraq just an attempt to deceive the public that's coming up. 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 that message to the world of humans under nuclear arsenals should not co-exist the attack on nagasaki was a second against civilians just three days after the first thought it was seen i was devastated as a result of the bombings more than two hundred thousand people died either directly in the blasts or later due to radiation poisoning ortiz 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 if using 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 right up there. on my left 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. it's eleven o two i saw the flush of flights and give to the floor to cover my hand eyes and

ears there was a wave in our entire house crashed over us yoshiko 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 medical effects is continuing. cutting hurrell. that means sixty five

sixty five is so that it true that the. radiation is affecting human bodies for sixty five years so we teratoma good she 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 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. and tony annoyed the british labor m.p. here chair of the all party group on global security and nonproliferation says there still are threats 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 see 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 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 and now those are things that ought to make the world wake up and take very seriously the danger of nuclear weapons in this area and commits 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. well more oil services were held on thursday at russia's naval bases to mark a decade since the coolest nuclear submarine tragedy fleet commanders and victims' families took part in one ceremony wreaths in the barents sea and disaster and the nuclear submarine sank to a naval exercise fishel investigation for you to get on board explosion at the country's biggest post saving naval disaster international rescue efforts failed to save any of the one hundred eighteen crew members arrested one hundred thirty.

the u.s. says it's planning to conclude combat operations in iraq by the end of august and with joy 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 this official say surge of violence to increase due to a power vacuum and political instability but currently more than sixty thousand soldiers are stationed in the country to advise ago troops veteran journalist john pilger says america is fooling the world by claiming it's pulling out. this announcement by obama. the b.b. end of the combat mission next year is nonsense and that's another example of the of the media simply taking at face value something they're told by authorities 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 reply to all statements like that. and 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 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 tide about whether critics say it's a bubble and to begin withdrawing troops. along the way few or not

a big brother is watching this activists wells most watched country doesn't need any more c.c.t.v. especially when flying out on holiday. women prisoners in the u.s. who have been convicted of killing their abusive husbands or seeing their chances of liberty snatched away forever many of those who are granted parole how the decision overturned by state governments ati's christine for south speaks to the rights campaigners who even women who are only hit out in fear 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's 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 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 mary 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 coombe ian 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 schwarzenegger 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. ok though the number we. heard 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 board of 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 r.t. dot com here's what's on the right now for you the tale of lucky survival read about a newborn baby girl who was abandoned that's her bedside parents and fifty degree

didn't. know what chelsea football players are now so happy here is that one of the world's richest people is tough for me but this is for his team details dot com. rush said on friday to a launch iran's first nuclear power plant next week the washington nuclear agency which is building the facility in the ship's ounce that engineers will start loading reacts with fuel on august the twenty first of the 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 iran is currently under un sanctions aimed at pressuring it to abandon its reign in which program the spokesman of the russian corporation in charge of the ship project says western fears that plant could turn nuclear weapon

a groundless. you cannot any use nuclear power plant your type of digital media to. keep your bob bland it's just the right that you do see. is true that there are. people that double double purpose is rich will spend your money but well this is a limited set to give our all or any responsibility because we are going to supply with nuclear fuel sure a nuclear bomb once for all the lifetime of them go big response you are back to the process of the russian area. he will 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 and some say it's yet another attempt to curb people's right to privacy for only on land but also in the air. all for

a week in the sun but if the european union project goes ahead these people could have their conversations and movements monitored while left flying the plan has a long civil liberties campaigners who fear further growth in the surveillance state but at passengers a divided yelling as bad as could be quite private personal you wouldn't i don't know this i mean 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 online to be surveilled here there's a more in me but nothing to hide so i 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 surveillance on planes is mainly limited to a c.c.t.v. camera near the cockpit persons 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 cab in an erratic way and repeated visits to the toilet talk to 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 detect so for example someone may be acting nervously anxious lee sweating in a solution because it doesn't say anything it could be just like in a nervous flyer but it could be a terrorist but we only know that when we combine this information with other sources of information that come to places. 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 previous is one of the litmus tests for democracy and mass surveillance erodes it enormously treats every one of us. and that completely contradicts what the main tenants or democratic. innocent who. continue to the very limits of mass surveillance video communication. whatever the many ways that seem to just be creepy completely goes against that we were all a democracy 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 thirty thousand feet up is it is already too late. r.t. london. pakistan now says about twenty million people have been affected by this is

going to cost the country the year of the independence day celebrations were cancelled due to the country's worst ever disaster rescue teams are struggling to reach victims in villages there's a shortage of food and drinking water or so at least one case of cholera was confirmed by the un natural disaster has so far left an estimated sixty injured people dead. 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 there are 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 seal the leaking well for good . at least five suspected drug gang members have been arrested over the killings of two policemen which happened in the mexican border city of juarez last week one of

the officers was hacked to death among those detained was a man suspected of involvement in an earlier car bomb attack that killed three people the suspects are believed to work for one of the major drug cartels in the country. and a national day of mourning is being held across china after last weekend's landslides left more than twelve hundred people dead about six hundred others two missing after a massive avalanches of mud rocks all public forms of entertainment have been suspended rescuers are working around the clock trying to help those trapped under the debris and prevent more flooding. right to our cost discrimination in the workplace we look at efforts bridge age old social divisions in india which could be leaving school children. in the next hour. in a few minutes you can discover russia's natural beauty is.