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moscow is once again shrouded in small despite firefighters winning back almost

three quarters of the it is a plus russia previously engulfed by wildfires. japan marks the sixty fifth anniversary of america's atomic bombing of the japanese city of nagasaki with the impact still being felt today by its victims. spies in the skies and the european union considers a new controversial surveillance system monitoring airline passenger behavior during flights as an anti terror measure but critics say it breaches the fundamental right to privacy. and it is a two o'clock in the morning in moscow where we broadcast live this is our t.v. let's take a look at your top stories now firefighters have further cut the area affected by

wildfires in russia but six smaug has returned to the capital blazes are now covering only a little more than a quarter of the territories that they did a week ago but the relentless flames have a devoured entire villages and towns in their path leaving more than three thousand people homeless record heat wave in central areas that triggered blazes across more than twenty regions while firefighters have been enjoying recent successes they're still battling in the resign and blood regions neighboring moscow wildfires there have called for the smog to return to the capital after a few days of clear skies get cut you know examines the consequences. of these summer's wildfires stiefel from those in previous years the disaster was not only a widespread but highly visible especially in the capital a blanket of smoke. 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 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 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 food 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 the cost it. over fifty people died in the

fires while the death rate in other small crowded 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 ah this want to be known for years when you have forest fires not only do you have the smog but you've also got carbon monoxide and you've got small particles which are in just a dent alarms and cause problems breathing the country's ecological lungs are badly damaged to eight hundred thousand hectares of forest fire in an area the size of cypress 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 the lungs of the moscow region i mean the woods contributing to air purification and oxygen production which is ago. suitable 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 one be just known for its freezing winter but for its school chain some misses while you sit in the crush of our t.v. . more than one hundred sixty thousand firefighters army personnel and volunteers are trying to defeat russia's wildfires but not all of them are fighting on the ground artes and he said now he 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 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 have invited our two to come along for

a ride on bit ill seventy six. the planes and the water and they take on. the day. how many want to have it dropped over the past. over there but like mine are the same time down the law workers and volunteers trying to keep the flames ready and they also cited the mining i know my. writing. is. as you can see helicopters are also working to put out these flames it was quite a ride we took of my guys said one of the worst rage as that's in fact why prime

minister vladimir putin chose to come here to fly on one of those planes we just know want to 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 now a r t there's on region. later this hour we'll look at whether the u.s. can really stick to its deadline to get out of iraq analysts say the promise is more to appease people at home rather than a fair assessment of whether iraq's ready to go it alone. and look at why so few female murder convicts get the governor's parole in california despite being cleared for early release by prison board. japan has marked the sixty fifth anniversary of the america's atomic bombing of nagasaki

a tragedy which left around one hundred forty thousand people dead and shocked the world last week i had a chance to travel to japan and talk to some of those who survived the disaster. 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 do it 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. there. on 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 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. 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 medical

effect is continuing. cutting her life that means sixty five years sixty five years 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. 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 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. that people use that would deterrent but i do not believe that human beings can co-exist with nuclear a reason why survivors of hiroshima and nagasaki are pushing for peace and complete global nuclear disarmament nagasaki and hiroshima are the only two cities in the world ever to have been attacked by nuclear weapons now sixty five years later they embrace a message of peace their citizens determined that their cities will be the last ever to experience such horror ten years ago saw the sinking of one of the russian navy's most advanced nuclear submarines the curse with the loss of all one hundred eighteen lives on board memorial services have been held throughout russia families of the crew who perished and the fleet commanders three days into the barents sea where the vessel went down during a naval war exercises in fishel investigation concluded that fuel did from

a torpedo sparked an explosion leading to a chain reaction of detonations and catastrophe occurs the tragedy remains the worst unable to sastre in russia's post soviet history. the e.u. is facing flak for a new scheme which could see every day passengers monitored on commercial flights it's designed to detect irregular behavior patterns that might unmasked potential terrorists but liberty campaigners have denounced the idea as a violation of the democratic right to privacy or i mean reports. 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 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 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 take so for example someone may be acting nervously anxiously sweating in our solution because it doesn't say anything it could be just 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 play it's. 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 previously is one of the litmus tests for democracy and mass surveillance erodes it enormously troops. and completely contradicts the main tenants of democratic. innocence to.

continue surveillance of mass surveillance. communications. that seem to just be creeping fall completely goes against that we. apart from the civil rights issues many question the efficacy of an on board system if a terrorist isn't course at the airports they say by the time a plane's thirty thousand feet up isn't it already too late nor and that r.t. london. and you can join the debate on that burning issue online at our t.v. dot com let's take a look now at what else is alive on the side right now. belt tightening at stamford bridge find out why only roman abramovich isn't giving his the chelsea players the blues by keeping bonuses on the bench. and following the oscar winning director of titanic and avatar james cameron as he visits russia to take the plunge

in the world's deepest freshwater lake that and plenty more online right now at our t.v. dot com. russia has announced that it's getting ready to launch iran's first nuclear power plant next week the russian nuclear agency building the bush era facility will start loading the reactor with eighty two tons of nuclear fuel on august the twenty first the plant's likely to go fully online a few weeks later under strict monitoring by the united nations nuclear watchdog russia will help on the station supply fuel and removes the waste for reprocessing un recently imposed strict sanctions against iran to make it abandon its uranium enrichment program but russia says western fears that the plant can help tehran make a nuclear bomb are groundless. you can not and you use nuclear power in your

head but they tell me that. you give bob please just because you write that you see it. is still there i am. sure we call the double double over these issues and speak to him and. that's the sentiments i became our souls are in your responsibility because back in the city. if you are a nuclear bomb one for all the life i am down go to get springfield back through the process of the russian area. the united states says it's sticking to its target to end all combat operations in iraq by the end of august and it would draw almost all troops by the end of next year currently there are over sixty thousand u.s. troops in iraq but that's expected to drop to fifty thousand in the next few weeks however iraq's top military officials warn that american troops could be needed

there 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 media aren't asking enough questions about this proposed withdraw. this announcement by obama. would be the end of the combat mission next two years nonsense and that's another example of the of the media simply taking at face value something that told by authority in fact there's going to be something like ninety four bases left and sixty thousand troops and of 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 to all statements like that. meanwhile in afghanistan the new coalition commander has admitted president obama's two thousand and eleven target date to start withdrawing troops may not be possible u.s. general david petraeus says forces will be pulled out only if as he put it conditions permit the security situation continues to deteriorate despite the heavy military presence for american troops july was the deadliest month since their campaign began almost nine years ago what's more a united nations report says civilian casualties rose by twenty five percent in the first half of two thousand and ten compared to the same period last year the number of children killed soared by more than a half the white house says that thirty thousand more soldiers will be deployed by the end of august. american women who have been jailed for murdering their abusive partners are apparently being denied parole because of political ambitions rather

than serving justice campaigners argue the prisoners killed only through fearing for their own lives but as christine explains state governors are keeping them under lock and key to secure 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 up still standing on our feet now forty years old she's been behind bars since one thousand nine hundred ninety two people convicted of killing her abusive boyfriend during a violent attack one of many in their relationship this is somebody who doesn't belong behind bars somebody who made a terrible mistake and readily admits that she made a terrible mistake by picking up a gun in the first place in two thousand and nine she was found to be suitable for parole by the california parole board that decision was overturned by california

governor arnold schwarzenegger's a reality shared by many women here at the california institution for women in los angeles most have long histories of abuse from the person for whom they are convicted of killing 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 there 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 governor schwarzenegger has overturned more than sixty percent previous governors reversed ninety percent so why why this obsession with incarceration because most governors in california certainly at some point in their career feel that they may have. possibility of running for president they're concerned about granting parole to inmates who might

go out and commit a serious crime but many of these women's records show they would not be a danger to society that they were young and scared for their lives or for the lives of their children. ok the car or the number we. heard there on the way for him 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 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. . in our next hour we look at efforts to bridge age old social divisions in india. last discrimination is banned but it's not stopping parents from pulling kids from schools where food is prepared by people seemed to be from a lower social order. now let's run through some other global headlines during a visit to the flood ravaged pakistan the united nations secretary-general ban ki moon has called for an unprecedented response from the world at least fifteen hundred have been killed in the country's worst ever natural disaster survivors

face starvation and illness as emergency crews struggle to reach the worst affected areas at least one case of cholera has been confirmed spreading fears of a wider outbreak pakistan's prime minister said twenty million people are currently home. flags were at half mast across china on sunday as the country declared a day of national mourning for the twelve hundred victims of last weekend's landslides five hundred are still missing after a massive avalanche of mud and rocks all public entertainment was suspended emergency services are working to help those still trapped under the debris and trying to prevent further flooding. eight people have died of going off road truck plowed into spectators at a popular night rally in southern california twelve others were injured with some airlifted to hospital the driver had to flee the crash site after he was chased by an angry crowd it's thought he lost control of his vehicle after timing

a jump at the start of the race the annual california two hundred invent attracts thousands to watch giant. cars tackle different obstacles. plans to build a mosque near the nine eleven terror attacks have been provoking strong debate in the u.s. as president obama defends muslims rights to religious freedom in backing the move online talk show host laurie harshness asks if islamophobia in america is the new anti-communism. islamophobia is it the new anti-communism this week let's talk about that i suppose there are some parallels of 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 their 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 resources. that's tainted for the rest because i'm sure the very good people so we all know this right but still a lot of people are very fearful of the religion in general why do you think that it is because the impact you know it's the way your approach what religious background are you christian in so 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 what i could understand why they were doing that why did

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 whole sticks you use horses so it doesn't help when you've got a couple of bad seeds that obviously expose the worst so 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 know everyone to 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 safe to say that at least first islamophobia is very.