in moscow is thick with smoke as far as approach the capital from the south our correspondent ivan bennett reports from just outside the small smothered capital. all morning on the early hours of this afternoon just in the woods behind me there was a fire raging and the firefighters were struggling to control it but in the last couple of hours they have managed to put it out for the time being because the conditions here simply just so dry the fires a spreading a very very quickly and unpredictably earlier we had a look at the fire it didn't seem too troublesome from where we saw it at the flames are just coming up to about knee height but suddenly out of nowhere they flared up to well over two meters and that's the sort of challenge these firefighters the facing as they put out one part then another part springs up very very quickly we did actually have to move the position we were broadcasting from because we were very close to the woods and the fire we're off the road as you can see the small here and the smoke is very very thick the air is very very heavy and you can take the smoke her

the news anyone across the country was wanting to wake up to is it ok for now ivan many thanks but i was artie's i'm a bennett reporting from the most the region for us. we've gone now the u.s. is imposing more sanctions on iran during up a new expanded blacklist of groups suspected of terrorist well it's always recent comments by america's top military officer that they're refusing to rule out using force if iran doesn't stop its uranium enrichment to round lashed out in response saying military action would lead to the u.s. suffering in defeat worse than those in iraq and afghanistan in a poor ny has more from new york. well the united states treasury department did i now it's sanctions against twenty one iranian entities entities that u.s. officials say and accuse of aiding groups such as hezbollah hamas and the taliban now these us ancients are targeting iranian companies in the banking insurance investment mining and engineering sector americans or u.s. companies are now in a bit from doing any business from from those entities that are now being sanctioned by the u.s. treasury department. and all of thi