from. morning news today violence is once again flared up the film these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada from china cooperation to rule the day. the be. the week's main stories and today's news from smog falls again on the russian

capital as firefighters push on with their battle against the country's rampant wildfires. on the sixty fifth anniversary of the america atomic attack on the japanese city of nagasaki be a bombs horrific legacy is still felt by its victims. and justice campaigners claim women convicted of killing their violent partners in california are having their parole hopes doused by the political ambitions of state governors . are watching the weekly here in our to live from moscow and now with a look back at the top stories from the week and the latest well the area affected by wildfires in russia has reduced by two thirds in a week but the relentless flames have devoured entire villages and villages rather

and towns in their path leaving more than three thousand people without homes the record heat wave in central areas triggered blazes a call for more than twenty regions and there's still a high of level of alert in neighboring presumption and floods in the region's wildfires there are calls noxious smog to return to the capital after a few days of clear skies are genes accompanying the groucho but looks at the consequences of the disaster. 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 skin 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 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 are still to be 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 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 a forest fire in an area the size of cypress. 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

summers as while you sit in the church of r r t. well the manpower drafted to defeat russia's wildfires is immense with more than one hundred sixty thousand firefighters army personnel and volunteers this week i have trials to join one of the emergency teams operating in the skies above one of the worst affected regions . 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 port an airport in the resign region one of the worst hit by these fires and the emergency services has invited our team to come along for a ride and it ill seventy six. the

end of the order and they've gone and done something today. only if you want to drive over the past we. have our service like miners at the sametime down below our first boss to find the plane ready and they also 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 it's in fact why prime minister vladimir putin chose to come here to fly on one of those planes we just flew on and see the process himself of course it's not only

authorities and volunteers trying to contain these flames ordinary people citizens are doing what they can to help gather and 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. the show some of the efforts i witnessed in tackling these wildfires and of course helping those of so. acted by the devastation across russia these past few weeks. also look at whether the u.s. can really stick to its deadline to get out of iraq say that there's more to appease people at home rather than a fair assessment of whether he was ready to go it alone. this week saw the sixty fifth anniversary of america's atomic bombing of the japanese city of nagasaki. over thirty countries attended a ceremony on monday to remember the eighty thousand victims of the attack which

happened in the closing days of world war two in one thousand nine hundred forty five the explosion happened three days after the us devastated another japanese city here ashima but the world's first nuclear bomb strike but as our tears song thomas reports the effects of the tragedy are still being felt today. 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 encourage 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 she got up there. and my left arm and shoulder in my skin was dripping off and i had severe burns on my body. eleven year

old yoshi kawi was at home with his twin brother just two kilometers from the blast center on that fateful morning. it's eleven o two i saw the flash of lights and do have 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 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 effect is continuing. cutting her. that means sixty five sixty five so that it true that the. radiation is affecting human bodies for sixty five years. has had continuous surgeries throughout his life to remove tumors on his back caused by the radiation now he declares that the war did not end in one thousand nine hundred five but rather the effects continue to this day and even though you know she 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 a drop of 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. 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. thursday marks a decade since the course nuclear submarine tragedy in which one hundred eighteen people were killed morial services were held throughout russia families of the crew members and fleet commanders through resistance of the barents sea the site of the disaster which happened during naval war exercises ten years ago the official investigation concluded that a torpedo exploded inside one of the boat's launchers leading to a chain reaction of detonations it remains the worst naval tragedy in russia's post

soviet history. well in a few minutes why india has banned class structure is proving hard to cast off. from schools where food is prepared by people seem to be from a lower order. the united states says it's sticking to its target to end all combat operations in iraq by the end of august and to withdraw almost all troops by the end of next year right now there are more than sixty thousand u.s. troops in iraq but that number is expected to drop to fifty thousand in the next few weeks iraq's top military officials warn that the presence of american troops might be needed for up to a decade more until the country's security forces are ready to fully take over veteran investigative journalist john pilger told r.t. that america will not pull out of iraq that easily. this announcement by obama.

would be the end of the combat mission next two years norms. and that's another example of the of the media simply taking a face for something that told by authority in fact there's going to be something like ninety four bases left and sixty thousand troops and the surge so-called that is an increase in the number of motion agrees 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. in afghanistan despite the efforts by the u.s. and its allies the security situation continues to deteriorate the un report shows that in the first half of two thousand and ten civilian casualties rose by twenty

five percent compared to the same period last year the number of children who were killed soared by more than a half general petraeus the u.s. military commander says this shows the need to intensify the fight against the taliban and in their efforts to protect civilians united states will deploy another thirty thousand soldiers by the end of the year but promises to start withdrawing troops by next july. now moscow's announced that it will launch iran's first nuclear power plant next week the russian nuclear agency that's building the bashir facility will start loading the reactor with fuel on august the twenty first it's likely to go fully online a few weeks later but under strict monitoring by the u.n. nuclear watchdog russia will help run the station supply fuel and remove the waste for reprocessing the u.n. recently impose strict sanctions against iran to make it abandon its uranium enrichment program but russia says western fears that the plants could help tehran make a nuclear bomb are groundless. you cannot and you know use nuclear power plant in

your head that they tell me that. you give bob. it's just it's your right to degree so. it is true that there are. people that double double. and spend your money. well they spend the money so you can. bring your responsibility because back in the supply but if you're sure nuclear bombs once all the life time them built big dishpan fuel back there persisted the russian air. well check out our dot com where our stories of course are updated twenty four hours a day there are some things that might catch your eye online this billionaire belt tightening at stamford bridge find out why ramapo more which is giving his chelsea players the blues by keeping bonuses on the bench. and follow the oscar winning

director of titanic and the abyss as he comes to russia to take the plunge in the world's deepest freshwater lake get the details at our t.v. dot com. american women jailed for murdering their abusive partners face life behind bars their parole kept at bay for what seem to be political ends rather than ensuring justice campaigners argue the prisoners killed only through fearing for their own lives but as christine for zero explained state governors are keeping them under lock and key to secure future votes. meet norma. when i first came here my son wasn't even a year old and i think that he. kind of sees me and the other women that he's met

here at the visiting room he kind of sees like women that have. gone through a lot and ended up 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 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 in was just reversed by california governor arnold schwarzenegger of the four thousand

cases that go before the board each year just about seventeen percent are found suitable for parole and of those governors force a nigger has overturned more than sixty percent previous 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 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 boy if sentences into. what we call 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 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.

. to russian military commanders face getting the sack for failing to quickly or stop a massive brawl among soldiers it happened at an army base in the moscow region and came to light after footage of the fight was posted on the internet this week the violence lasted for about half an hour and was only stopped when officers fired shots into the air three soldiers face prison if they're found guilty of starting the fighting the russian army is currently undergoing an ambitious reform which was called for by president of a diff sort really after he took office. now attempts to bring quality to india by eliminating the centuries old hindu caste system are proving tough to enforce discrimination through the hereditary social class structure has been bad for more than fifty years but his current thing explains deep rooted sentiments still hold fast. it's a problem that's been simmering but now so only davey sees it's fast reaching boiling point she's the 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 at her college many creations because she's a dull it or untouchable in traditional hindu society only upper caste books are allowed to go community means that even now in some children don't want to trued me by me their parents consider the food polluted by my time church 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 midday meal every working day in the largest school lunch program in the world but when the education ministry decided to send the it cooks to get it schools where the majority of pupils are upper caste hindus many found to 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 rochford community they refused to allow their ten year old son of mine and to continue studying in a school which they felt didn't respect their customs and pulled him out immediately. we are after caste we believe strongly in the cost system we cannot eat food made touched by somebody from a lower caste that's why we moved our child from this government school and picked him into party activist said this kind of reaction demonstrates the difficulty in eradicating the caste system 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

and who you can meet with is largely divided along class lines. can get a much loved 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 up. the government says legal action will be taken against religious. groups and schools the earlier this is done the better after all this attempt to get children of all costs to eat together you respect of the food is a small but important step in the country's journey to bridge social divisions got and seeing our. let's take a look at some other stories dominating world headlines today u.n. secretary general ban ki moon called for international aid to be stepped up during his visit to flood ravaged pakistan is the country's worst natural disaster with an estimated sixteen hundred dead survivors face starvation and illness as emergency

crews struggle to reach the worst affected areas at least one case of cholera has been confirmed the catastrophe has left around twenty million people homeless. and flags were at half mast across china on sunday on a day of national mourning for the twelve hundred victims of last week's landslides more than five hundred are still missing after a massive avalanche of mud and wants all public entertainment was suspended rescue rescuers rather are working to help those still trapped under the debris and to try and prevent further flooding. and offer a truck has plowed into spectators at a night rally in southern california killing eight people twelve others were injured with some airlifted to hospital the driver had to flee the crash site when the crowd turned against him it's thought he lost control of the vehicle after miss timing a jump at the start of the race the annual california two hundred event attracts thousands to wants dune buggy style cars leap different obstacles. now plans to

build a mosque near ground zero in new york we're never going to get universal welcome on my talk show host laurie harshness now as people in the city whether it's fueling anti islamic sentiment. islamophobia is that the new anti-communism this week let's talk about that i suppose there are some parallels. 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 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 if the media that's your job they have to have be. the

stories that are going to draw people to watch and then and what are you going to look for things when you're scared out over a small percentage of resume 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 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 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 all nature i don't. get a little bit scared of one thing and then you get of 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 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 looking back you wonder how could these people actually be taking this city think will do the same and twenty years from now everyone a look but 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 saved as they did at least first start islamophobia is very real. in our next hour of the european union project aimed at tackling terrorism that's angering human rights activists u.k. they say a plan to monitor airline past.