the united states of america is waging war within its own army. no one signs. and human losses are quite significant. is it possible to win the war against sexual assault in the u.s. armed forces. in the army on our. small befalls again on the russian capital as fighters push on with their battle

against the country's wall five. weeks of the main news of the sixty fifth anniversary of america's atomic of the capital city and i'm just happy to be a bomb some legacy still bites me. and justice campaign is claiming women convicted of killing their violent causes in california helping the poor old hopes dashed by the political ambitions of state governments. well kevin oh it's ten pm now here in moscow straight to our top story then this hour in 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 the path even more than three thousand people without homes the record heat wave in

central areas triggered blazes across more than twenty regions from the still high level of alert in moscow's neighboring. regions wildfires that have caused noxious smallmouth to return to the capital after just a few days of clear skies he's a country a good show looks at the consequences of this 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 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 films 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 we took

sports 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 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 thinner their wallets have become this summer the long term effects of the catastrophe us to be caused it. over fifty people died in the fires while the death rate in other small shrouded regions has double what it is high 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 of forest fire in an area the size of cyprus. 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 but which is a considerable blow against the environment of the metropolis. what took decades to grow has been obliterated in one long hot summer now russians are wondering whether the unusually high temperatures are just a freak of nature or if the herald a time when moscow 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. the man drafted in to

defeat russia's wildfires is a menace with more than one hundred sixty thousand firefighters army personnel and volunteers is innocent oh i joined one of the emergency teams operating in the skies above one of the worst affected regions in the week. 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 plouff. 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 two to come along for a ride on this ill seventy six. the . water line they.

want to drop over the past. service life. at the same time down below our first. flight. ready and they're also fighting the fire. 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 world's major and that'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 said now way our teeth design reach and. whether the u.s. can really see. it's deadline to get out of iraq analysts say the problem is since most of the home rather than a fair assessment of whether the right 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 the 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 five the explosion happened three days after the united states devastated another japanese city where the world's first nuclear bomb strike but as our t. sean thomas found out the effects of the trying to be a 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 stood in 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 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 so right up there. on my left arm and shoulder all 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 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 and just as disturbing is the long term effects of that radiation the 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 so we 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 dropped the bombs and human beings on the tests in new mexico should have. in 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 sean thomas r. t. nagasaki japan. thursday marked a decade since the nuclear submarine tragedy in which one hundred eighteen people were killed more will services were held throughout russia families of the crew members and three commanders through bringing this into the barren sea which is where the disaster happened during naval war exercises the official investigation concluded that a torpedo exploded inside the boat launch is leading to a chain reaction of defamations it remains the worst naval tragedy in russia's post soviet history. united states says it 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 for them and is expected to drop to fifty thousand of the next few

weeks however iraq's top military officials warn 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. combat mission next year is nonsense and that's another example of the of the media simply taking at face value something they're told by authority in fact there's going to be something like ninety four bases left and sixty. a thousand troops and a surge so-called that is an increase in the number of mercenaries they call them contractors so far from getting out there was a great expression by a great irish investigative journalist called claude coburn never believe anything

until it's officially denied we should apply that all statements like that. meanwhile in afghanistan the new commander of the coalition forces there's admitted that the twenty eleven target date to start withdrawing troops is not binding us general david petraeus says the troops will only be pulled out if as you put it conditions permit the security situation continues to deteriorate there despite the heavy military presence for u.s. troops july it 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 sold by more than a half the united states says it will deploy another thirty thousand soldiers by the end of the year. here in r.t. in a few minutes why india has bad india's bad structure proving hard to cast off first parents told children in schools where food is prepared by people seem to be from

a low order. before that moscow's announced that it will launch iran's first nuclear power plant next week the russian nuclear agency that's building a pushchair facility will start loading the reactor fuel on august 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 he when recently post strict sanctions against iran to make it abandon its uranium enrichment program but russia says western fears that the plant could help to make a nuclear bomb a groundless. you cannot any use nuclear power plant in your hypothetical if. you give bob plant just would you rate that increase it. is true there are. we call that double double is reached will spend what was this elements became

our. responsibility because we are going to supply it with nuclear fuel should nuclear bob once all the lifetime and down go to get spent fuel back to the process of the russian area. american women who've been jailed for murdering their abusive partners are apparently being denied parole because of political ambitions rather than serving justice come painters argue the prisoners killed only through fear of their own lives but as christine for example found out state governors are keeping them under lock and key to secure a future votes. 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 that is 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 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'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 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 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 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. i. remember 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 but wife sentences in two.

what we call l.-wop sentences life without possibility of parole simply because. the 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 r.t. the stories on our website and i doubt if you got some to say about it it's touching anyway there's no other stories of course online tonight always plenty there while billionaire belt tightening it seems a stunt for bridge find while roman abramovich is giving his chelsea players the

blues right now by keeping bonuses backbend. follow the oscar winning director titanic and avatar as he comes to russia to take the deepest freshwater lake find out how we get online on our website our home page or tweet dot com. the terms to bring equality to india by eliminating the centuries old hindu cost system of proving tough to enforce discrimination through the hereditary social class structure has been banned for more than fifty years results he's karen saying explains 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 john import 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 only upper caste cooks. community minos. now and 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 cooks to get it schools where the majority of pupils are in those 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 but him on 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 caste 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 private activist said 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. and i much not really low caste people are treated like at the upper castes or just about they tell us stay on one side watch the tents that anything to humiliate us 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 god and seeing r.t. . the top world view stories in brief you u.n. secretary general ban ki moon called for international aid to be stepped up here in his visit to flood ravaged pakistan is the country's worst natural disaster with an estimated sixteen hundred dead survivors face starvation illnesses emergency crews

struggle to reach the worst affected areas at least one case of cholera has been confirmed the catastrophes left around twenty million people homeless. flags would have massed across china on sunday on a day of national mourning for the twelve hundred victims of last weekend's landslides more than five hundred 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 debris and to try to prevent further flooding. on off road trucks plowed into spectators of 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 mistiming a jump at the start of the race the annual california two hundred event attracts thousands to watch june style cars in different obstacles. plans to build a mosque near ground zero in new york we're never going to get

a universal welcome and online talk show host laurie half an asst now asked 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. 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 is 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 watching it and what are you going to look for things when you're scared out of

a small percentage of beers or that's tainting it 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 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 about 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 you know scared of the rest if you use horses so it doesn't help when you're 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. it is even more scary than that you know that when you probably are in the moment because looking back you wonder how could these people actually be taking the city think will do the same and twenty years from now not everyone will look back back and say why are we scared no matter how you feel personally the bottom line is that with all the anti islam events as of late it's believed is there that at least the first star islamophobia is very real. in the next hour the program the european union project aimed at tackling terrorism that's growing human rights activists in the u.k. they say a plan to monitor airline passengers on board planes is another step closer to a surveillance state leaving them no previous even as they try to relax for the holidays. before that though in just

a few moments we look at how china's rapid growth is a source of success and suspicions coming up shortly tonight here on our team from moscow. wealthy british style. guys.