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smaug falls again on the russian capital as firefighters push on with their battle against the country's rampant wildfires. and weeks are the main news on the sixty fifth anniversary of america's atomic attack on the japanese city of nagasaki the a bombs to rethink legacy is still felt by its victims. and just as campaigners claim women convicted of killing their violent partners in california are having their parole hopes dashed by the political ambitions of state governors. welcome i'm kevin owen it's just after nine pm now here in moscow straight to the top story this hour the area affected by wildfires in russia has reduced by two thirds in

a week but the relentless flames have devoured entire villages and towns in their path even more than three thousand people without homes the record heat wave in central areas triggered blazes across more than twenty regions so there's still a high level of alert in moscow's neighboring that as a region's wildfires of course not not just small but to return to the capital after a few days of clear skies at his country and overlooks the consequences of this disaster. this summer's wildfires different from those in previous years the disaster was not only widespread but highly visible especially in the capital a blanket of smoke covered most scale for several weeks so to did it envelop the country's economy. 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 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 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 food and while customers can already feel how much cleaner their wallets have become this summer the long term effects of the catastrophe are still to be caused it. over fifty people died in the finest 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 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 of 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 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 by. for its scorching

summers as while the democrats have r i t. the manpower drafted in to defeat russia's wildfires is a ments with more than one hundred sixty thousand firefighters army personnel and volunteers out isn't this an hour joined 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 gulf the entire forest making this a very fierce battle for emergencies workers and volunteers profile. one of the biggest operations in fighting these fires happened from the air jordan airport in the resign region one of the worst hit by these fires and the emergency services has invited our two to come along for a ride on this ill seventy six. the

. water line they make and. if you want to drop over the past. service life. at the same time down below our first. flight. ready and they're all fighting. hard. as you can see helicopters are also working to put out these flames it was quite a ride we took that my guys said one of the worst case major is that 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 gathering whatever items they can food water clothes to help those who have lost everything and we're terribly hoping that this crisis will soon come to an end and he's in our way our teeth design reach and. soon we'll look at whether the u.s. can really stick to. deadline to get out of iraq handily say the promise of water peace people home rather than a fair assessment of whether 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 and nine hundred forty five the explosion happened three days after the united states devastated another japanese city had ashima with the world's first nuclear bomb strike but as r.t.

shaun thomas reports now the effects of the tragedy is 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 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 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. and my left arm and shoulder all 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. at eleven o two i saw the force of flights and drove to the floor to cover my hand eyes and

ears there was a wave in our entire house crashed over us. go and his brothers crawled from the rubble and went into the city to look for their father who worked at the mitsubishi munitions plant close to the heart of the explosion on their way they found countless charred bodies and a terrifying scene you had. while crossing the river we were drawn to a woman who was walking with what looked like a wide belt or cloth trailing behind her but when we took a closer look it was her intestines coming out of her stomach there was nothing we could do. this is the hyper center of the bomb which means sixty five years ago it exploded five hundred meters above this exact spot and the people who suffered that horrific event well their stories are truly amazing but what they didn't know back then just as disturbing is the long term effects of that radiation the medical effect is continuing. cutting her life that means sixty five

years sixty five years so that it true that. radiation is affecting human bodies for sixty five years sumi territory 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 i'm a car we 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 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 sit ins. people use the word deterrent but i do not

believe that human beings can co-exist with nuclear arsenals a reason why the a bombs survivors of hiroshima and nagasaki are pushing for peace and complete global nuclear disarmament thomas r. t. nagasaki japan. thursday marked a decade since the curse can you clear some brain tragedy in which one hundred eighteen people were killed memorial services were held throughout russia families of the crew members and three commanders through this into the barren sea which is where the disaster happened during naval war exercises the official investigation concluded that a torpedo exploded inside one of the boats launchers leading to a chain reaction of detonations remains the worst naval tragedy in russia's post soviet history. all the way tonight's why air travel might not leave you feeling is free as a bird find out why liberty is say passengers airplane privia sea is a risk with plans for in-flight c.c.t.

. before the united states says it's sticking to its target to end all combat operations in iraq by the end of august and we draw 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 however 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. this announcement by obama. the combat mission next year is nonsense and that's another example of the of them. simply taking a face for something they're told by authority in fact there's going to be something like ninety four bases left and sixty thousand troops and of 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 we were in afghanistan the new commander of the coalition forces there is admitted that the twenty eleven target date to start withdrawing troops is not binding us general david petraeus said troops will only be pulled out if as he put it conditions permit the security situation continues to deteriorate despite the heavy military presence there for u.s. troops july was the deadliest month since the campaign began almost nine years ago what's more a u.n. report says civilian casualties rose by twenty five percent in the first half of twenty ten compared to the same period last year the number of children who were

killed soared by more than half the united states says it will deploy another thirteen thousand soldiers by the end of the year. in a few minutes in the program why india's banned class structure is proving hard to cast off as parents pull children from school where food is prepared by people seem to be from a lower order good report of. liberty campaigners say plans to put security cameras inside aircraft will make passengers feel spied on and not secure the e.u. wants to install them to prevent terrorist attacks but it's angering those who say it's an aerial assault on people's privacy artie's lorimer's got the details. 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 they're flying the plan has a lawman civil liberties campaigners who fear further growth in the surveillance state but at passengers are divided yelling as bad 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 and be surveilled and hear 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 on motorways 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 cabin in an erratic way and repeated visits to the toilet dr james ferryman insists it will distinguish between potential terrorists a nervous flyer 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 were anxiously sweating in oscillation 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 prissy is one of the litmus tests for democracy and mass surveillance erodes it enormously troops and one of the suspects. and that completely contradicts the main tenants of the democratic model which is that

everyone is innocent into. continuing surveillance mass surveillance. communications whatever the many ways that seem to just be creeping forward completely goes against that we who are democracy apart from the civil rights issues many question the efficacy of that on board system if a terrorist isn't course at the airports they say by the time the planes thirty thousand feet up is it is already too late nor and it's r t london. moscow has announced that it will launch a runs first nuclear power plant next week the russian nuclear agency that's building the pushchair facility will start loading the reactor fuel movies 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 from reprocessing un recently impose strict sanctions against are bound to make it

a band which program but russia says western fears that the plant can help to make a nuclear bomb a groundless. you can not any use nuclear power plant in your hypothetical the i. you get bogged down it's just it's great that you see out there it is true there i am it's. really all the double double of this is research and superman but was this immense to give our. new responsibility because the supply with nuclear fuel should nuclear bombs one for life and down the world big dispense to back the process of the russian area. next tonight american women jailed for murdering their abusive partners face life behind bars their parole kept at bay for what appears to be political ends rather

than ensuring justice campaigners argue the prisoners killed only through fearing their own lives but as artie's christine for found out state governors are keeping them under lock and key to secure a 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 standing on our feet now forty years old she's been behind bars since one thousand nine hundred ninety two 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 the 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 maris or 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's fortune egger 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. ok those are the number we. were promised 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 boy if sentences into. what we call l.-wop sentences life without possibility of prof simply because. the rights groups or others think 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're going to feelings about that story want to know about it take a look at our web site r t v dot com it's there next to the discussion button it up but no talk to us tell us what you think about it forgotten thoughts also online tonight at r t dot com but in a belt tightening it seems the stamford bridge find out why all roman abramovich is giving his chelsea players the blues right now why well for keeping promises on the bench and follow the oscar winning director of titanic and avatar as he comes to russia to take the plunge in the world's deepest freshwater lake you can follow his adventures find out how he got along on the home page on t v dot com.

attempts to bring a quality to india by eliminating the centuries old hindu caste system proving tough to enforce this criminal nation through the hereditary social class structure has been banned for more than fifty years because artie's currency explains next deep rooted sentiments still hold fast. it's a problem that's been simmering but now suddenly 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 turn their noses up at many creations because she's a doll it or untouchable in traditional hindu society on the upper caste books.

community means. some upper class 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 the it books to get its schools where the majority of pupils are upper caste hindus many found that too hard to swallow. the media a meal can entice poor parents to send their children to school the kids look forward to it but there are some parents who don't want their children to eat food made by low caste people and have removed their children from here and also threaten us as well. meet the same family a member of the upper caste raj board community they refused to allow their ten

year old son to continue studying in a school which they felt didn't respect their customs and pulled him out immediately and look we are up a cost 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 activists say this kind of reaction demonstrates the difficulty in eradicating the caste system discrimination on the basis. of caste is illegal in india but the practice is still entrenched in rural areas where the kind of work you do who you can eat with is largely divided along class lines how can get a much larger really low caste people are treated like at the upper castes or just about they tell us stay on one side watch the utensils that anything to humiliate they want to surround mainland and never rise that. the government says legal

action will be taken against villagers who are poor cooks in schools the earlier this is done the better after all this attempt to get children of all castes to eat together irrespective of who's made the food is a small but important step in the country's journey to bridge social divisions got and seeing r.t. . we take you some headlines around the world now in brief un secretary-general ban ki moon the right way to be stepped up during his visit to flood ravaged pakistan it's the country's worst natural disaster with an estimated sixteen hundred dead survivors face starvation and illnesses emergency crews struggled to reach the worst affected areas at least one case of cholera has been confirmed the catastrophe has left around twenty million people homeless. flags were at half mast across china on sunday on a day of national mourning for the twelve hundred victims of last weekend's landslides more than five hundred people are still missing after the massive avalanches of mud and rocks or public entertainment was suspended rescuers are

working to help those still trapped under the bridge and to try to prevent further flooding. and off road truckers plowed into spectators at a night rally in southern california killing eight people twelve others were injured and some airlifted to hospital the driver had to flee the crash site when the crowd turned against him thought he lost control of the vehicle after mistiming a jump at the start of the race you only will california two hundred event attracts thousands to watch a few. cars. different obstacles. here on this channel soon the american manmade environmental catastrophe this destroying mountains and flattening communities is on the way in fact in a few moments here on our team live from moscow.