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which have devastated mindspace and blanketed the capital in poisonous mobs. marking the day out disaster sixty five years on not assumption of our members over eighty thousand victims of the nuclear bomb blast. us women would serve time for killing their abusive partners have their freedom crossed at the expense of politicians trying to advance their own careers. who are welcome to the weekly here in our team this sunday are many so now way with the latest and a look back at the week's top stories and first firefighters in russia say they've turned a corner in their battles against hundreds of wildfires that have been raging across the country they are as a blaze are suddenly sure. after weeks of been gover against the ferocious flames

triggered by the 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 smog 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 that in a great job 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 most for several weeks so too did it envelops the country's economy to its sure the situation is very severe as about a quarter of all grain fields in the country have dried up as a result of the drought unfortunately many firms are now on the verge of bankruptcy

the government has already agreed to provide financial help to agricultural producers who were faced with hard times the government responded by banning wheat exporter until beyond of the year it sent world grain prices to their highest for two years the danger is that given we've 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 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 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 august want to be known for years when you have forest fires not only do you have the smog but you've also got curved 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 a 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 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. now images of russia in flames people sweltering in record breaking temperatures and a capital city shrouded in smoke have been seized upon by environmentalists as a sign of manmade climate change but piers corbyn of the weather action foundation explained to my colleague bill dog 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 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 the 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 heat waves in russia on the water so floods in pakistan is now and in the previous few years there was also floods in the rich summers also under thirty two years ago so these things are dictated by solar activity in the moon and nothing to do with mankind and those who side are to just one of that money. on the way here in our teach a single liberty square in california where women convicted of defending the selves are falling victim to political ambition also. never believe benefit until it's officially denied. good america's promise to pull out of

iraq be just an attempt to deceive the public that's coming out. 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. representatives from more than thirty countries gathered with survivors to highlight their message to the world that humans and nuclear arsenal should not co-exist the attack on nagasaki was the second against civilians just three days after the first target hiroshima was devastated as a result of the bombings more than two hundred thousand people died either directly in the blast or later due to radiation poisoning are to 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 even 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 taro 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 he got up there. and my left arm and shoulder a 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. 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 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 dropped the bombs and human beings 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. a reason why the a bombs 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 can nuclear submarine tragedy fleet commanders and victims' families took part in one ceremony throwing the reason to the barents sea where the disaster happened the nuclear submarine sank 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 fail to save any of the hundred eighteen crew members most of whom were under thirty. but 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 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 fooling 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 at face value 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 mosul and raise 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 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 with 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 taliban over critics say it's another reason to begin withdrawing troops. on the way for you here in r t big brother is watching british say the most wanted country doesn't need any more c.c.t.v. especially when flying out on holiday. women prisoners in the us who've been convicted of killing their abusive husbands are seeing their chances of liberty snatched away forever many of those who are granted

parole have the decision overturned by state governors christine speaks to rights campaigners who argue even women who only hid out in fear for their own lives are 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 that is still standing on our feet now forty years old she's been behind bars since one thousand nine hundred ninety two and he was 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 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 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 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. a 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 care about the way. the way for me to be on the one. end of the line for many is here. in prison for life despite their sentence you can't turn parole but wife sentences 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 ever miss any of our stories you can always find them online at r.t.e. dot com here's what all what online rather for you right now a tale of lucky survival read about a newborn baby girl who was abandoned at a roadside by the parents in fifty degree heat. and why tells the football players are not so happy now it appears that one of the world's richest people is top on bonuses for his team details our team dot com. russia said on friday it will launch iran's first nuclear power plant next week the

russian nuclear agency which is building the facility in bush air 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 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 uranium enrichment program but the spokesman of the russian corporation in charge of the pushchair project says western fears the plan could help tehran develop a nuclear weapon are groundless. you cannot and you know use nuclear power in your hypothetical anything. you do bob. it's just to your right that if you still. use true that there are. people that double double your. research move spend your money. well this is them and so you

can. bring your responsibility goes back to the supply but you should not be above one for the life of them goes to get spent fuel back here versus in 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 the move is aimed at preventing terrorist attacks but some say it's yet another attempt to curb people's right to privacy not only on my own but also in the air. off for a week in the sun but if the european union project goes ahead these people could have their conversations and movements monitored while they're flying the plan has a law on civil liberties campaigners who fear further growth in the surveillance state but at passengers a divided yelling as this kid is like a private person or 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 to be surveilled there's a more in me but nothing to hide so we don't worry me personally. the e.u. project is aimed at tackling terrorism by analyzing the way passengers behave in a bid to isolate potential bombers or hijackers when they're already on board at the moment surveillance on planes is mainly limited to a c.c.t.v. camera near the cockpit britons are the most watched people in the world with more c.c.t.v. cameras per capita than any other nation there are cameras almost always in train stations and in at ports and it's here at the university of reading that the new in-flight surveillance system is being developed it won't just include cameras they'll also be microphones and special systems for monitoring unusual behavior

behavior the system will eventually be able to pick up include sweating moving around the 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 take 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 you but big brother looking after you not everyone sees it that way campaigners say prissy is one of the litmus tests for democracy and mass surveillance erodes it enormously treats. the main. demographic of all news and is. continuing to very dense mass

surveillance video communications whatever many ways that seem to just be creepy. goes against the. rule of democracy apart from the civil rights issues many question the efficacy of the board system if a terrorist isn't cool at the airport they say by the time the planes thirty thousand feet up is it is already too late. london. let's take a look at some other world news this sunday and the un secretary general ban ki moon has arrived in pakistan urging the international community to do more to help the country after its worst flooding in eight years he wants to speed up a jewel of research after 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 in 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 the national day of mourning being held across china after last weekend's landslides left more than twelve hundred people dead about six hundred others are still missing after the massive avalanches of lard and 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. in the u.s.

state of 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 all the injured were airlifted to hospital. 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 last near ground zero with president obama backing the decision online show host laurie harmfulness also known as the resident as new yorkers whether islam poses a real threat to american values. islamophobia is at 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 watch annette and what are you going to look for things when you're scared out of our 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 the way you're approach what religious background are you christian in that if there is some christians that are going around bombing

people how would you feel about it but i wouldn't mind 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. 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're a couple of bad seeds that obviously expose the worst so do 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 citibank will do the same and twenty years from now everyone to look back to back and say why were 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 does they that at least for a start islamophobia is very. well if they have to what's coming up here in our team or bring new in a war will make winning film rather on the continuing the facts of one of america's worst environmental disaster of the first a short break and i'll be back with a look at our top stories. in the world.