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spread of wildfires with temps devastated landscapes and blanketed the capital in poisonous mobs. marking the day out disaster sixty five years on nagasaki remembers over eighty thousand victims of the nuclear bomb blast. us women who served time for killing their abusive partners have their hopes of freedom cost at the expense of politicians trying to advance their own careers. and cast discrimination at work r.t. looks at efforts to bridge age old social divisions in india. welcome to the weekly here in our team this sunday on many so now with the latest and a look back at the week's top stories first firefighters in russia say they've turned

a corner in their battle against hundreds of wildfires that have been raging across the country there is a blaze are steadily shrinking after weeks of endeavor against the ferocious flames triggered by a record heat wave in the country's central regions the blazes 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 although the city has been clear for the past few days the smell of burning still lurks in the air because the 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 farms 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 exports until the end 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 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

finest while the death rate in other small 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 addis 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 it will yes they can be planted but it will take time for them to grow it will take several decades to make up for this loss we've lost the lungs of the moscow region i mean the woods contributing to air purification and oxygen production which is a considerable blow against the environment of the metropolis. what took decades to grow has been obliterated in one long hot summer now russians are wondering whether

the unusually high temperatures are just a freak of nature or if the herald a time when most won't be just known for its freezing winters but for its scorching summer is this while you sit in the church of r r t. well images of russia in flames people sweltering in record breaking temperatures in the capital's been smog have been seized upon by environmentalists as a sign of mad main manmade rather climate change but piers corbyn 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 has nothing to do with man and we predicted that there would be extreme heat in used europe and russia this summer and it's caused by a. pattern c o two does not cause circulation patterns what causes those is a combination of solar activity and the state of the phases of the moon help it 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 sure a lot of it also man has got something to do with this has really not nothing to do with only the only connection is man is here at design 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 it was the size. of lunar magnetic state there was he was in by shia on the wall so floods in pakistan. and in the previous few years there was also flood to leverage some of also on them thirty two years ago so these things are dictated by solar activity in the moon and nothing to do with mankind and those who say they are to just go on about money. their authority live from moscow on the way this sunday chasing liberty or in california where women convicted for defending

themselves are fairly falling victim to political ambitions also. never believe that until it's officially done i. could america's promise to paul out of iraq being just an attempt to deceive the public that's coming up. this week the japanese city have not got saki has been commemorating the victims of the atomic bomb dropped by the us sixty five years ago. representatives from more than thirty countries gather with so my verse to highlight their message to the world but humans and nuclear arsenals should not co-exist the attack on nagasaki was the second against civilians just three days after the first target here ashima 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 artie's son 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 heard an e.p. sing sound i thought i had been killed but i encourage myself not to die that it was important to go on living. at first terror 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 right up there. on my left arm and shoulder my skin was dripping off and i had severe burns on my buddy. eleven year old yoshi kawi was at home with his twin brother just two kilometers from the blast center on that fateful morning . at eleven o two i saw the lights and dip to the floor to cover my hand eyes and ears there

was a wave 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 years.

so that it true that the. radiation is affecting human bodies for sixty five years sumi tara taniguchi 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 to drop the bombs and human be 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. people use the wood deterrent but i

do not believe that human beings can co-exist with nuclear weapons a reason why the survivors of hiroshima and nagasaki are pushing for peace and complete global nuclear disarmament thomas nagasaki japan. well this week memorial services were held on thursday at russia's naval bases to mark a decade since the course nuclear submarine tragedy fleet commanders and victims' families took part in one ceremony throwing breezed into the barents sea where the disaster happened the nuclear submarine saying during a naval exercise the official investigation concluded that an onboard explosion led to the country's biggest post soviet naval disaster international rescue efforts failed to save any of the hundred eighteen crew members most of whom are under thirty. in the u.s. says it's planning to conclude combat operations in iraq by the end of august and withdrawal by the end of the year but iraq's top commander has claimed local forces

won't be ready to take responsibility for the country's security for at least another decade u.s. officials say insurgent violence could increase due to a power vacuum and political instability currently more than sixty thousand soldiers are stationed in the country to advise iraqi troops while veteran journalist john pilger says america is fully in the world by claiming it's pulling out. this announcement by obama. the be the end of the combat mission next two years norms. and that's another example of the media simply taking a face for something that 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 most enemies 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 the thing until it's officially denied we should apply that to all statements like that . 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 increased of almost a third of in civilian casualties in afghanistan in the first half of twenty ten compared with the same period last year the death toll among children has soared by more than a half the u.s. military commander in the country general petraeus says this shows the need to redouble efforts in the fight against the taliban over critics say it's another reason to begin withdrawing troops. that women prisoners prisoners in the u.s. who have been convicted of killing their abusive husbands are seeing their chances of liberty snatched away forever many of those who are granted parole have the

decision overturned by state governors christine for south speaks to rights campaigners who argue even women who only hit out in fear for their own lives are being denied a 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 in a 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 down the road the university of southern california law school has taken up the cause of many of these women in a program called the post conviction justice project professor michael brennan is one of the founders are clients for the most part have committed a single serious crime in their life and that's a crime that they're serving their sentence for they are represented by law students like andy martin i'm representing their assault 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 with 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 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 i don't quite remember we. are on the way for him to be on the board. end of the line for many is here. in prison for life despite their sentence you can't turn parole boy if sentences into. what we call l.-wop sentences life without possibility of parole simply because. victims rights groups or others think that if you've been convicted of murder you should never be paroled a broken system chance is given then taken away here and still hope the system will change for campian that she'll be reunited with her son it will work

out in the end if if you really truly love somebody like the way that i love him i want him to be the best like even if i have to stay here forever i just want him to be. the best in los angeles christine for south r.t. . if you missed any of our stories on the air you can always find them at our team dot com here's what's on mind right now to tell lucky survival read about a newborn baby girl that was abandoned on a roadside by her parents in fifty degrees heat. and by 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 our team dot com. the rest is that on friday it will launch iran's first nuclear power plant next week the russian nuclear agency which is building the facility in bushehr announced

that engineers will start loading the reactor with fuel on august the twenty first after several delays the ceremony will be held under strict controls of the u.n. nuclear watchdog the plant's event be fully operational in a few weeks russia will supply the fuel and take away the fuel ways as well as help run the station iran is currently under un sanctions aimed at 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 are groundless. you cannot and you go use nuclear power in your hypothetical anything. you give bob. is just to tell you right the degrees. is true that there are. people that double double. reshma spends your. wealth they send them in so you can.

bring your responsibility because back in the supply but you shouldn't be above one for all the life of them goes to get spent fuel back to the process of the russian area. attempts to break down the count system in india are coming up against long held prejudices in many areas of life caste discrimination is illegal in the country yet as current thing reports traditional mindsets often prevail even where eating is concerned. it's a problem that's been simmering but now it's only davey sees it's fast reaching boiling point she's a newly appointed cook in this primary school and johnny board here to prepare the government funded midday meal but despite sony's best intentions some of the students turned their noses up many creations because she's a doll it or untouchable in traditional hindu society only upper caste cooks a lot of community means that even now in 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 hard to swallow. the media a meal can entice poor parents to send their children to school because look forward to it but there are some parents who don't want their children to eat food made by low cost people have removed their children from here and also threaten us as well. meet the same family a member of the upper caste raj would community they refused to allow their ten

year old son to continue studying in a school which they felt didn't respect their customs and pulled him out immediately and look after caste who believe strongly in the cost system we cannot eat food made touched by somebody from a lower caste that's why we're not child from this government school and take him into a party activist said this kind of reaction demonstrates the difficulty in eradicating the caste system of discrimination on the basis. of cost is illegal in india but the practice is still entrenched in areas where the kind of work you do you can meet with is largely divided along. tend to play much past people are treated like at the upper castes or just about they tell us stay on one side wash the utensils that anything to humiliate they want just to remain alone and never rise that. the government says legal action will be taken against religious who are

poor in schools the earlier this is done the better after all this attempt to get children of all costs to eat together it is a spectacle who's made the food is a small but important step in the country's journey to bridge social divisions got and seeing are to. twenty two minutes past the hour of let's take a look at some of the latest stories dominating world news this sunday the u.n. secretary general ban ki moon has survived in pakistan urging the international community to do more to help the country after its worst flooding in eighty years he wants to speed up aid deliveries after the u.n. 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 and villages as there is a shortage of food and drinking water also at least one case of colorado has been confirmed the tragedy has left an estimated sixteen 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 while 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. and staying in the us in california at least eight people have been killed and twelve others injured when a car plowed into spectators during an off road race officials say the driver lost control of the vehicle at the very beginning of the rally the crash took place during the california two hundred desert night race. now islamophobia was quick to rise after the nine eleven attacks in the u.s. but 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 harford is also known as the resident as new yorkers whether islam poses a real threat to american values. islamophobia is it the new anti-communism this week let's talk about that i suppose there are some parallels to 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 it's scary and it's just it's just bombarded every single day it's like i almost actually i quit like listening to the news it's 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 where you're scared out over

a small percentage of resources. that's tainted for the rest because i'm sure the very good people so we all know this right 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 well 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 that why do people do that so many people they blame the whole group when a small amount to it i don't know maybe that's the nature i don't know get a little bit scared of one thing and then you get to the rest if kicks you use horses so it doesn't help when you've got a couple of bad seeds that obviously expose the worst thing 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 taking the city think will do the same and twenty years from now everyone a look back 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 if they did they that at least first start islamophobia is very. well coming up on our scene later today big brother is watching stocks of us say the world's most watched country doesn't need any more c.c.t.v. especially when flying out on holiday upon the way next hour here on our team. on a few minutes we'll be discussing the chinese economic phenomenon but before that

i'll be back with a recap of our top stories after a short break. to the. wealthy british style except it's not on the president's right.