coming to live from moscow i'm marina joshua welcome to the program would have changed and that's what millions of russians living under a suffocating blanket of smog are praying for for days the sick layer of haze caused by force and p. fires has been hanging over manning cities including the capital of moscow hundreds of blazes are still. burning nationwide with other countries stepping in to how bad all the fires parties caterina's are reports from the mosque a region where one at one of so-called country of villages just outside moscow where people have their summer homes evidently used to be a really nice area there was a forest and people had their homes looking out into that forest it used to be obviously quite a nice place to be right now it looks like an inferno there is no more forest is just charred land and felled trees and here this is actually this used to be someone's home what's left of it is pretty unrecognizable because it's been charred to a cinder this is somebody's bath this is probably where the bathroom used to be all of this house as you can see most of it is ju

it what you are going to live from moscow marina joshua data and our top stories the crisis marked by wildfires raging across russia shows little sign of easing over fifty people have already died and hundreds of thousands of hectares of forest have burned down. meanwhile people are fleeing the toxic smoke covered russian capital with many suffering breathing difficulties both in their homes and outside the number of deaths in moscow has doubled since the record heat and smog since the city. and its sixty five years since the u.s. dropping second atomic bomb on japan survivors of the deadly blast in the city of nagasaki are calling for a complete global leader disarmament. nuclear weapons can't be used to attack these days and can't solve any problems either that's a view of rosalyn an expert in south asian affairs in moscow in an interview with r t's and tell you not go he explained why he believes the north korean threat is blown out of proportion. they did a pretty big north korea had threatened to attack following joint south korean u.s. move as well because the fifth north korea

with me marina joshua reminder of the top stories international sports officials are in russia to assess it as a potential host for the planet's most spectacular football event the world cup the country's bid when twenty eighteen will be the first time the tournament is held in eastern europe. and it's a year since the disaster of russia's biggest hydroelectric plant in siberia seventy five people died when the turbine hall was flooded the investigation into the devastating accident is still ongoing. and washington is divided over the afghan withdrawal deadline set by president obama for mid twenty eleven the new nato troop commander says the date might be too early while the u.s. defense secretary insists it's set in stone. those are the headlines now rapper weikel of johns bid for the presidency of haiti made headlines last week so. i went to meet his fellow u.s. rapper immortal technique to ask if music industry can offer a more than just empty words to haiti. you took the incentive to help raise money for haitian so many hundreds of thousands that are still in need why did you feel t

marina joshua welcome to the program i wende of change that's what millions of russians living undera suffocating blanket of smog are praying for for days the sick layer of haze caused by forest impede fires has been hanging over manning cities including the capital moscow hundreds of blazes are still burning nationwide with other countries stepping in to help battle the fires or we now talk to countrymen to get the latest on the situation in the moscow region good morning to you in a so tell us how bad is just the situation where you are at the moment. marina we're outside of moscow in one of the villages that has been damaged and devastated by the recent forest and peat fires that russia has been suffering for for over a month being here is almost apocalyptic because on the one hand you have huge ira that we used to be a forest and is now just charred land and felled trees on the other hand where we're standing right now this this used to be someone's home what's left of it is just charred remains you can just about barely make out outlines of furniture there's a bathtub there are

live from moscow where it's ninety am i'm marina joshua welcome to the program at least nine people have been killed and one badly injured in a fire at a home for the elderly in the fair region which is in central russia the emergencies ministry says there's evidence suggesting one of the residents committed suicide by setting himself alight and then the flames spread through the building for more we can now cross to our t's sean thomas. first question to you is that why do you think led the authorities to this version of how the fire started. a nightmare situation early this morning flames erupting in and elderly home and it's a very region which is about three hundred kilometers away from moscow now authorities say that within three minutes of the sighting those flames firefighters were on scene and were able to evacuate around four hundred eighty people living in that elderly home however nine people killed and one person severely wounded and taken to the hospital at this point in time now right now we know that the fire is out in early investigation showed that it could have possibly

it is ten am in the russian capital you're watching r t with marina joshua all come to the program now human rights groups are raising the alarm over india turning into a global hotspot for drugs trials they claim hospital patients are being used as guinea pigs for the world's pharmaceutical companies and some cases without consent they also say many of those who sign up don't understand the risks and side gloomy statistics showing drug trial. deaths in the country have been increasing over the last few years the first six months of this year nearly five hundred deaths were down to drug trials more than the combined total for two thousand and seven and two thousand and eight artie's current seeing reports. any india government run hospitals provide low cost treatment to the poor but there are increasing claims that being made guinea pigs in drug trials for western pharma companies without their knowledge here at the. hospital in indoor the north has been taking pills for the last six months on the advice of his doctor he suspects these we experimented upon let me get to me i had a pain

it is ten am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshua welcome to the program now up to thirty people have been injured in a car bomb explosion in russia's southern city of petty wars in the caucasus the explosion struck just outside a cafe in a busy street well let's get now the latest on this from our correspondent who is in passing for us. some it looks like the bomber targeted the place that would potentially have a lot of people and it looks like it was a deliberate terror attack there give us some more details of this. we are right now at the exact street where their car bomb explosion took place and the police officers just five minutes walk from here their post office is in nearby and the local y. house is just across the blog so this tread is and did a very busy and crowded street as a cultural center it's also known as a city of students and base august many more come here as it locates earn all coke asian youth camp so the street is very busy and their white car has been parked in front off a cafe just over there are there was no driver at the moment

marina joshua welcome to the program and at least nine people have been killed and one badly injured in a fire that broke out at a hole for the elderly in the fair region in western russia cross live to r.t. sean thomas for more on this. good morning shine and this certainly is a tragic incident so what exactly happened this morning at the nursery home. well certainly a nightmare situation indeed early this morning flames erupted in and out of the elderly home leaving nine people at least killed and one person severely wounded investigation is under way right now into that situation in fact four hundred eighty people at the time were displaced and have been evacuated now we're told at this point in time that the fire is out in the investigation is underway early investigation looks into possible faulty wiring as the cause but there's also speculation that there could be a suicide attempt in fact all nine of the people who were found dead were in one room and there's a gas canister in that room that people believe that one person used to try and commit suicide but of course that has n

it is eleven am and of the russian capital you're watching r t a marina joshua welcome to the program now this is spec the russian arms baron viktor but will be extradited from thailand to the west a thai appeals court delivered the verdict after a lower court rejected washington's extradition bit the ruling says bush will be sent to american soil within three months and he was arrested two and a half years ago in bangkok and an elaborate operation led by u.s. agents washington wants vote on charges of terrorism and supplying arms to colombian rebels allegations he denies the has more. people on the planet hollywood lord of war there are over five hundred fifty million firearms in the world wide circulation that's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. the only question is. how do we arm the other eleven and his alleged real life prototype russian businessman dictabelt nicknamed the merchant of death denied all accusations of arms selling and laughed off parallels. to play this out a lot for this very silly and i feel pity for. his statement never changed even when he came

and a few moments ago that was my colleague marina joshua speaking with our r.t. correspondents in georgia natalie overcover in south ossetia well coming up later today our special report looks at the role of the media in the georgia or by president mikhail saakashvili. one of the key elements of democracy. which is so uncomfortable for me or for. who pays for the new. how dependent is this independent media. and who is behind the t.v. story. george media. and reality on. hiroshima is marking sixty five years since it was devastated by a us launched nuclear attack it was in the final days of the second world war that the u.s. dropped the bomb more than one hundred forty thousand people died either in the blast or due to radiation poisoning while there was a surprise at this year's i'm sorry but i was but u.s. sent a representative the first time that's ever happened un secretary general ban ki moon was also there to commemorate the anniversary and this trip was his first of the event as well now despite this international attention there is still a group of victim

coming to live from moscow i'm marina joshua's these are the top stories despite being partially out of control raging wildfires continue to destroy land and homes across russia the boys are being caused by extraordinary heat wave which experts now say using forced four thousand years. in moscow remains in the grip of smog with a toxic while back after a short break on monday many are now fleeing the city out of fear of their health with a number of deaths now double the. burden is developing in flies surveillance systems for for a new eden project aimed at tackling terrorism but many worry it will grow privacy to a country that's already the most watched in the war. next because you know as arwa talks the former security council had of kurdistan and presidential candidate a calm much of are they discuss domestic and foreign policy issues in the central asian state recovering from a recent bloody uprising and asked me clashes. the curtis interim government has announced the date of presidential elections one of the candidates and leader of the party of the united kurdistan has agreed

instead of the russian capital you watching r t was marina joshua welcome to the program and after a few hours of relief on monday millions of russians are ghana waking up to six layer of smaug is forced and pete fires continue to rage across the country experts have already called the current record breaking heat wave the worst in us thousand years are just in the snow is in the moscow region for a. whole too many so while the suburbs of the capital are among the worst hit areas so what can you see around you tell us more. well we're in an area which has been directly affected by these fires in fact you can constantly hear the roar of emergency service planes trying to put these fires out we know that there is a fire somewhere back in that forest a couple of kilometers and you can see the smoke coming out and officials say it's moving closer and closer this area has a ready been destroyed we're standing in the ruins of what was once someone's home here you can see this is obviously what used to be the kitchen you can see the remains of a sink and a stove practically the only things

this is already coming to live from moscow i'm marina joshua welcome to the program now iran has started off its first nuclear power plant built by russia in the southern city of will share and engineers from both countries are now loading fuel into the reactor under the strict control of the un's atomic watchdog we now cross to bush era tell correspondents on a boy called. now can the plan be considered operational now. in a sense that it has not yet produced any alex recently but as of now from the moment that the first batch of nuclear. what was placed into the reactor the plant is considered to be fully functioning new clear facility now it's going to take a few weeks for the fuel to be fully placed into the reactor and. the couple of months before they start will be producing electricity but for the iranian side it is it relatively short wave considering to you all more than three decades that the people of iran have been waiting for the set facility to come on stream the construction of these plants initially began back in the seventy's it was spearheaded by the german companies de

the city coming to live from moscow with marina joshua welcome to the program police in moscow are on high alert as authorities fear more terror attacks could follow a car bombing in russia's caucasus a chechen militant with links to al qaida is thought to be behind the blast in the town of pythagoras' which left up to thirty injured four have been brought to moscow for treatment and officials say scores would most likely have died if it hadn't been for a sudden downpour keeping people inside our correspondents on the control is on the scene. we are right now at the exact street where their car bomb explosion took place and the police officers just five minutes walk from here their post office is in nearby and the local white house is just across the blog so this trade is and did a very busy and crowded street their white car has been parked in front off that cafe just over there are there was no driver at the moment of explosion and the car contained up to forty killed. just to paint a picture it's ten times more than was used during the twin blasts in moscow metro this march bad las

it is midday moscow you're watching r t with me marina joshua welcome to the program first a fire that has killed nine in the tear region.

and as a fan of the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshua welcome to the program now the fed blanket of harmful smog caused by raging wildfires shows no sign of lifting from across the russian capital forests and continue to devastate a large swathes of central russia with a record breaking heat wave forecast to go on until at least next week well you know cross to. the mosque a region one of the worst affected areas there good morning to you guy now well behind you i can see smoke tell us what's happening what's the situation there like at the moment. well no more and also any changes to talk about really the same devastating the same catastrophic morning moscow is just covered with a thick blanket of toxic acrid smog this village just outside the city caught fire a few days ago and its residents as well as some three hundred people in the moscow region of lost their homes in the city itself millions are now choking in the smoke which is carry carrying some very harmful gases including carbon monoxide is consistency in the air exceeds the norm by some five times.