russia lifts the final state of emergency after rains help the wildfires out of the ravaged much of the country the flames driven by a record heat wave playing fifty four wives and hundreds of millions of dollars and . the turkish community in germany may soon be policed by officers from their homeland as lawmakers try to curb violence in the country's largest ethnic minority . and archie talks exclusively to nicaraguan president daniel ortega in our interview he calls on life in america to night against the u.s. policy of aggression and intervention in the region.

two am in moscow thanks for joining us here on r t our top story the final state of emergency imposed due to russia's drought and wildfires has been lifted the cost of the damage caused by the record breaking heat wave is approaching four hundred million dollars our he's covering those are about has the latest update on the fire situation across russia. it seems that the emergencies ministry did report that all most of the country's fires have been played out specifically in the moscow region as you can see the weather is completely different to what we've gotten used to over the past few weeks it's actually quite cold people are wearing jumpers sweaters and the recent wind and rain according to the emergencies ministry helped a lot in extinguishing the fires and neutralizing a localizing all the existing fires in the moscow region but the fires in other parts of the country are still ravaging the nation in central russia and the most

affected regions like the region overdesigned for example there forest fires are still ravaging the countryside thousands have already lost their homes the government has been paying compensation and has promised to rebuild all of the homes that have been destroyed by the fire but now with the warm weather coming to an end many people are already worrying about whether they'll be able to actually welcome in the cold and the winter and your home or whether they'll be still facing building construction processes when it comes down to the brush a winter which as everybody knows is no mean feat the of families of all those who lost loved ones in the fires were paid over a million roubles in compensation you know they are hundred million rubles has already been paid out to those who were affected by the forest fires the russian prime minister's monitoring. practically personally monitoring the construction processes in some part of the country web cameras have been set up in order for the

government and those responsible to be able to monitor the construction process a lot is being done but of course the situation is nowhere near over despite the fact that the forest fires have lessened and the murders these ministry is doing a better job of controlling them the situation is nowhere near an end. the choking smog that smothered moscow and parts of central russia raise serious concerns about the possible impact on the country's ecology campaign director of greenpeace russia yvonne block of says the long term effects are extremely dangerous. that's right in moscow during that period of the probe was growing up to four times the ban on different estimates and we can definitely talk about several sols and people who died because of the way the world suffered from the influence of the so much serious that some previous to that was because of the some of their contra i'm one of them also what's being true is that there is the problem is even the system

become face consequences of such democrats the coming few months and yeah unfolds in a while and that will be the. latin america needs to consolidate to be able to challenge the united states which treats the region as its backyard so says nicaraguan president daniel ortega who spoke exclusively to r.t. . the world is changing the us isn't this isn't a problem just for latin america but rather for their entire world this country has military in the comic now and at the same time it's not changing its expansionary and imperialist policy whenever i speak to presidents of latin american countries no matter how conservative they are private they condemned the united states and added to the words of them hungry for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. his controversial

opinion coming later this hour here on r t. on the way people are turning to spiritual powers instead of science this hour of how a sacred spot on the bank of siberia is laid by paul is home for god knows what strong are to with the ability plus. snow here the snow the look it's not the snow geese not be easier find out why and outspoken reality star is a modern day icon capturing the american public's affection. but first foreign militants have been killed in a special operation in the russian republic of. the gang opened fire after being stopped at a police checkpoint one of the insurgents killed during the operation was a gardyn of the leader of a local terrorist cell he suspected of carrying out a series of car bomb attacks in the caucasus the operation comes only a few days after special forces killed. believed to have been directly involved in

the moscow metro bombings in march. turkish police could soon be seen but trolling the streets of germany that's part of a new plan to bring increasingly volatile immigrant communities in the country under control but as artie's tom barnes been fighting out critics say it's just another example of discrimination crystal time feels like a stranger in her room country daily she enjoys the sum appox life here in this cologne soap of when not looking as a doctor but she feels totally outnumbered. but it all happened very solid sleep without anyone noticing much the population will do we take children to schools and suddenly there are only talks here. there are around two million turkish citizens living in germany with many more having adopted german citizenship special worker recruitment agreements from the one nine hundred sixty s. made germany the destination of choice for turkish economic migrants don't you know

our immigrant. was there when you did the work or now we have interview with mcdonald's on the make. and you rate them all. but as well as being the largest ethnic minority some believe they're also the worst at fitting into their new society if there was probably it's a big problem that the turks of the last generation haven't integrated would have developed further away we have fifteen to twenty year olds who have moved further away from german culture than old immigrants this is a big effect on their behavior. procol lone is a small group and although many germans think multiculturalism isn't working many also think turks should be allowed religious cultural freedom was. always the ordinary were. they behaved. when we went to some of these areas many turks themselves denied there were problems. with trying to

live together and i understand there are some problems but it's not true that turks can't integrate that we all get along there are many turks russians germans and arabs here on t.v. in the media they talk about people shooting each other and fighting but that's not the case here. but not all where are we going to feel that. way. as well as a cultural divide there's also the more serious problem of crime unemployment among young turks in germany is high but the resulting boredom leading to delinquency crystal has seen it all passion betty said in violence that's what the young ones do in mice themselves drugs vodka tonics don't drink as we know it but they do fight each other. and they don't just face off with fellow turks

the new plan police from turkey will help their german counterparts patrol troublesome neighborhoods those behind it don't want segregation but rather a more sympathetic approach to policing turkish communities of them so they thought of course the german police can handle the situation but there have been lots of recent reports about attacks and violence against police officers who try to enforce the law in such problematic regions with a high violence potential so we had to think about what we could do better. but the plot is getting a lot of criticism some saying it's clear evidence that police don't know how to do is to communities and crystal is one of the who thinks it's discrimination against to. i don't mind this plan the russian police minorities downtown police it's not fast for the turkeys to have them you have to police other people don't respond german police. this is the main turkish street in the old german city of cologne in streets like this that these new police officers are intended for and

it's on streets like this where people will decide whether this plan is an example of police and or of a failure to engage with germany's immigrant population tom bottom. jimmy turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe a hostage crisis in the philippines is now over after a hijacked bus was stormed by police of those held captive by the lone gunman official say at least eight are dead another eight were wounded while a gunman was also killed the hostage taker a little bit of a police officer demanding to be reinstated following his sacking in two thousand and eight children were among the hostages believed to be mostly tourists from hong kong. triple suicide bomb attacks in pakistan's volatile tribal belt along the afghan border have killed at least thirty six people the deadliest at a mosque which left twenty six dead earlier a bomb exploded during a meeting with tribal elders killing seven and a third bomb blast killed the leader of an anti taliban militia along with two

aides on the outskirts of peshawar no one's claimed responsibility for the attacks but the thinker of blame is pointing towards the taliban. northern poland's been a lashed by fierce storms that knocked out power and brought down trees and power lines despite only lasting ten minutes it was so intense that roads were blocked as hundreds of trees were felled by the powerful winds and rain emergency services were called out to more than seven hundred times and in the town of red another freak storm brought tennis ball sized hail stones that damaged cars. in siberia along the shores of lake baikal lies a sacred place where locals and childless couples come it's but it's a believed to be the home to a for a tell any goddess that helps even infertile women have children artie's xan thomas met some of the lucky parents. many seeker wisdom but she never utters a word hundreds come to be blessed with children but she doesn't work in any clinic

yet here near the shores of lake by call lies the sacred place that's home to the powers of the goddess yun jima and it's not just the local people who are drawn in . i was here last year and i always keep remembering the god day this year i came to pray with my sister and a girlfriend this place is special you could say it's closer to the cosmos. image is said to be found in these rocks many come here to pay homage but it is said that each has a unique perspective. she's always seen differently some she's dancing to others playing a guitar some see her in a car or on a horse some see a tiger which is a keeper of buddhism some don't see her immediately this means they have to walk more circles around the mountain the more the better then they'll see her though the spot is said to be sacred in general those who come here say that this area has one very special and specific power or choke or even here to create and jim is a very strong god is he she helps people and children she helps this women to have

children in fact has influence is said to be behind a kind of population surge so that the birth rates going out yes we need to have kindergartens opened again but they've all been closed now we need them again and the people who live in biography and say that the power of these rocks is so real that women who have been medically declared infertile are able to have children once they've experienced the miracle here natalia solomon's gaya was an accomplished professional athlete but what she wanted more than anything was to have a child be my just professional sport is not good for your health because it's just full training marathons and that since my body was exhausted in one thousand nine hundred seventy i was diagnosed with it you might have to keep new moved i told the doctor i wanted another child he did everything possible for me to have more children but it wasn't a possibility while. visiting her parents neighbors suggested she paid a visit to young jima and though skeptical natalia made the journey. so i just

walked over and silently asked i have everything in my life all i'm asking for is a child they didn't even care whether it would be a boy or girl in a week we returned to my parents' home and went to that place again and just one week later i got pregnant while in her mid forty's natalia gave birth and is now the proud mother of a healthy four year old daughter today she directs other would be mothers dhamma same path on your own you projecting another woman who in their great chance was made twice and had no kids she is a wealthy business woman she's looked for help everywhere but she had a baby at forty one but i hadn't visited that grace there are many examples so it's true that she hopes to have children. doctors of course will have other ideas but in the absence of a better baby boom explanation as mountain will bring mothers to be in search of a family sean thomas r.t. siberia. and last but at least she's america's latest sweetheart thirty countries

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take me for a drink right absolutely why. she's ever is just like me we make you popular cast member snooki of that hit reality show has been arrested with a reported salary of thirty thousand dollars per episode this reality show star has made it so he's a national appeal may be debatable but her international reach i don't know about the jersey shore is currently broadcasting in more than thirty countries around the globe and foreigners are turning to the learn about america that might not be the most famous u.s. ambassador and that has some americans believing snooki might be worth what the world thinks of the usa i don't associate myself with i just don't think that she's adding anything to to our cultural experience to love her or hate her i think snooki is a new and different kind of symbol what. needs to be in america. our

new york everybody gets their fifteen minutes well now it's time for our exclusive interview with nicaraguan president daniel ortega he speaks to our team about washington's policies and how they're affecting latin america stay with us.

commandante thank you for joining us today regarding the code to time hunt do you read. as an isolated incident could such situations possibly. look at him was a blow for all latin american countries which just a few weeks prior to that had a meeting with president obama in china died in two boggo a letter proclaimed the beginning of new relations with latin america that kuhlman to fight against intentions expressed in china the time to bother about not just against the latin american people what against the policy proclaimed by the president obama as well if the u.s. forces of reaction are capable of organizing condone such a openly in front of their president we cannot even talk about what would happen in the future these forces are trying to establish their power in spite of suggestions on obligations taken by president obama in relations to latin american and caribbean countries you mentioned changes in the u.s.

policy regarding latin america how would you define that. and how would you assess a u.s. role in the politics of latin american countries and china got into lago president obama said he wanted our relations to be based on mutual respect and so on about how can anyone explain u.s. involvement in the cohen him during. just a few months later and how can we explain the fact that the us was fighting to recognize the government of the only thing we see is that the us hasn't changed in its essence the world is changing the us isn't this isn't a problem just for latin america but rather for the entire world this country has military and economic power and at the same time it's not changing its expansionary and imperialist policy of. if you talked about basing your relations with the us and mutual respect is there any progress in this matter has anything changed in this regard. what has changed so far is the method at present them

have any means for organizing nicaragua or for instance if they had they would have tried doing it they cannot start a war against women as well or against. ecuador or nicaragua they do have the means within the us but the situation in latin america wouldn't let it happen even though the us is always keeping it in their plans doesn't mean the risk is always that love and the threat is always there guess about what could have been done to find a way out of the situation for them is a law that's necessary to strengthen the unity and mutual integration of latin american countries of course the more we are united and integrated the more will be respected it's logical i think the main thing you was polish you did was to divide us to rule us we are really integrated and united as the partners be nucor agua.

nor bolivia work awkward or the partner will be latin america and the caribbean countries such a partner will be more authoritative and have the opportunity to look for ways to reach an agreement where respecting each other and feeling equal. what can different latin american countries do to continue fighting for the implementing . of that policy what can they do to reach an alliance while there are fundamental points of dispute like between venezuela and colombia. look at the you know i think that there is a principle which we all share taking into consideration the processes in different countries and their own peculiarities which we all have to respect to are always be issues which we view differently but there will be issues which we view in a similar way especially in relations between the people of latin america governments and their international community that all of us condemn any kind of

military aggression on the part of the united states when all condemned plots against latin american governments and takeovers which for example were organized in venezuela and one duras we all support lifting the embargo on cuba a country where fidel has turned into a doubtless leader who protects their years which are shared by all latin america in other words there's a number of issues which we all view when a similar way all of us supported the new format of relations with the united states whenever i speak to presidents of latin american countries no matter how conservative they are going up and private they condemn the united states attitudes towards them they are against the fact that the he was a government attributes points to them in their own class if occasionally what government can support the idea of the west acting like a greek church which gives you the points for democracy and human rights and fighting against drug trafficking and your own country who in turn will judge the u.s. of course it gives way to emotions speak about the economy about the protectionist

policy of the u.s. and european countries well nobody agrees with that this thing is that we have not learned so far to organize or latin american area to consolidate our able latin american people which will enable us to negotiate with europe and the us and with developed countries reason and. noble terms. but let me make it clear that you find a stand you can record you said that all presidents without exception chad this viewpoint seem. to get the nail yes at least in my experience of talking to them in private or heard all of them criticizing the american policy that are not agree with it of course at the moment i cannot say for older latin american presidents but i am sure that they cannot agree with a policy which contradicts the interest of their people countries and economic and . political decision to make

a rag here is recognition of the independence of the caucasian republics of a pause and south the said here was also disputable many people died did that there was any sense in a twenty. something included an exotic step what lay behind your decision. within our principles our national identity our year for struggle of independence of other nations the respect of all how small they may be and the respect which every nation even the smallest ones deserve here in latin america we continue waging a struggle for their independence of puerto rico whose people are fighting because the united states is occupying its territory in the twenty first century what we continue fighting to force the british empire or what's left to it to be more precise to leave them out of venus' ireland it's a tiny territory but there's a reason for us to stop fighting for it and give it up no this territory belongs to the argentine people and should therefore go back to them the same asu of the

guantanamo territory and cuba in this case we're talking about independence of two small nations who have their own national identity and history and who have risen to fight for their independence many times therefore within has a t. to recognize the independence of those. tunisians do you think that your decision to recognize the independence of a posse in south a setting was right every day i'm becoming more convinced that the decision we made was right of course it was great in what it is about to have russia can stay neutral when the events occurred in those two republics because it came under direct attack from the georgian troops in this connection many time particular august position is an expression of solidarity with russia what can you say about that south africa. yes it is necessary to take into account. and russia had developed their relations long before the events in south and

applies here historically we still have very warm relations with the former soviet union and those relations developed intensively between one nine hundred seventy nine and one thousand nine hundred i would describe those relations as extremely fair an example of what relations between developed and developing countries should look like in those days we applied principles which is so much talked about today the principles of honest shade exchanges and mutually complementary relations this is the principle that was applied so in the cases of chrysler and south their seats here which is the only country that could protect those peoples who were attacked and the fan the popular will there's contacts were embarking on the same path of relations with russia where we storing historical relations with russian people under new conditions i think the west. prosthetic do you see at this new stage of

relations i can indeed there was a period of howling in nicaragua as relations with russia give us that they were out of that what then and what isn't you know we're ready see the results we think about digging a canal we and the carotid were cannot imagine doing it without russia this canal should be built with assistance from. russia but if i don't know doctored lead the world community about russia's participation as a priority i mean as well as fully agreed to participate in the construction of the canal the will run through the karada one territory the canards construction has been on the agenda and the conditions of this construction have always been nicaragua i mean since. because it always been sinful in the eyes of the united states the nicaragua wants to control every movement by the central american region i feel that relations with russia are progressing in all directions. thank you very

much for being with us today thank you very much. these are the images.