the north from where i am about one hundred kilometers south of the city the brilliant north into mosco itself and causing terrible problems with smoke there from all that we can now hear across to natalia nova scotia who's in the center of the city there have been quite a few strong flows a wind storming through mosco today and everyone hoped that they would bring rain but they only brought more smoke smoke from outside the city now the nights are the worst by about meat day part of the smoke over mosco dissolves but the more in the mornings the visibility in the cities a very close to zero but this problem is of course twofold first of all is the fresh air right now air in moscow is very heavy it's very and the smoke is so thick that sometimes it actually burns your eyes and ecologists are saying that there a level of air pollution in moscow right now is seven the times of its usual figure and also doctors are saying if you take a walk around moscow for just a couple of hours it will be equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes some people prefer to wear masks to protect themselve

will now put it in his calls from next year but the key focus is luxury mosco ready has more luxury cars than anywhere else and jaguar hopes a new almost jag will trickle vocals fine say i remember two years ago the head of b.m.w. here showing me a brand new bullet proof beam on this follows in that tradition there's also world slike the new landrover the most powerful ever porsche nine one one. the show was counseled last year as the months but i says today the same balls but there was two years ago i don't feel sales in russia call sales have jumped almost fifty percent last month on july two thousand and nine the company with one of the most ambitious strategies these guys is trying to revamp its entire range russia's number two called make a says the sales back on the rise between all of them to be here told to go sales sales would be around seventy five dollars i think we can finish roughly twenty five percent higher in sales for this year versus last year and if that keeps with more important thing for all us production we're going to be up fifty percent european call john poser ci

the capital mosco is quite literally smoking policy for more than a week old readies the smoke from massive forests and people fires in the central russia has been blanketing the capital and all the central russian cities and now they all lie on day very big bale of smoke as you can see behind me visibilities wide law and thus far is russian ministry your majesties is now reporting at least very mormon dozens of blasi zala continue to outrage in the area surrounding most k. and daily about two hundred have to bernie but also they smoke has badly polluted and specially say that today pollution is ten times higher than normal level and with a situation so war as one of the big war raises the impact is going to have people felt not right now i can feel quite clearly these rather strong smell of burning in the air and is rather hard to breathe here and doctors recommend to use while what mast and address at the time when the officials are saying that there are no statistics on small related dives especially say that concentrations present ration health problem. and all the dangerous sub

sounds of a look at the stock markets here are mosco they fell further in the last hour of trade top producer rose neff shed some two percent as the price of light sweet slipped near a seventy two dollars a barrel. of the second largest food retailer magnate reported an eleven point three percent increase in first half profits to one hundred thirty one million dollars the company adds capital spending for this year may reach one point three billion as it opens thirty hypermarkets and some six hundred fifty convenience stores. poland's biggest fourth co-produce the stock spirits is looking to buy a seventy five percent stake in ukrainian distil in the mirror of according to commerce daily the polish company has gained exclusive rights to acquire the shares and will make a final decision in a month the mirror of the system it is to be worth three hundred seventy million dollars there is another possible buy for the fake russian standard which previously expressed interest in the us it says it's still considering a bid. russia's biggest modern orals nickel is currently the subject of a

meat day part of the smoke over mosco dissolves but the more in the mornings the visibility in the cities a very close to zero but this problem is of course twofold first of all is the fresh air right now erin moscow is very heavy it's and the smoke is so thick that sometimes it actually burns your eyes and ecologists are saying that bit of level of air pollution in moscow right now is seven the times of its usual figure and also doctors are saying if you take a walk around mosco for just a couple of hours it will be equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes some people prefer to wear a mask to protect themselves from this poison a small there's also problems with buying ery conditioners in the city because there's a huge shortage of them and if you can buy one then you will probably be the double or even the triple amount of money for it because some people who sell them is simply trying to make money on other people's misery and doctors are recommending to stay inside stay indoors to spend as little time as possible outside especially close to those places so the other side of this

women who were blowing up themselves in mosco subway were the widows of the. terrorist activists killed in the northern caucasus so. it's not very easy that's who wanted the case of the russian arms dealer detained in thailand now the u.s. has ordered his extradition and moscow says that this act this decision has is a result of external pressure from the us it's illegal and that it's politically motivated so do you think this in your thorn is it a big enough issue. actually i'm not sure i understand the issue since americans have not provided any effectual data so i really don't know what we're talking about. by four. there is a lot of noise about it on all sides but very few factual data so i just don't know of course it is there is an american pressure says the extradition request was sent from the united states it is clear that there were some political pressure on the government of thailand. since there was a decision of the court of. viktor would should not be extradited but this is the core changes decision which was definitely under political pressure

mosco is covered in smoke with hundreds of wildfires still wreaking havoc across russia emergency services stepped up their efforts working round the clock. mixed emotions and the republic marks two years since the georgian assault on the country rebuilds and moves on some people are still scarred by memories of the war . and goodbye militia hello police present proposes a major change for russia's law enforcement as part of a major overhaul aimed at eliminating corruption. good to have you with us live from moscow this is r.t. with you twenty four hours a day russia was struggling to extinguish almost nine hundred wildfires raging around the country dozens of flights have been grounded in moscow all diverted to a dense layer a fitting small people on the street somewhere in mosques trying to protect themselves from the pollution which is the worst on record. as in the moscow region with more. moscow is covered with a thick blanket of toxic acrid small going to this very small village just outside the city caught fire a few days ago and its residents as well as some three hundred others in

your own forty minutes ago we heard the base in mosco region had been victim to the fire as you say an area over around one hundred hector is completely wiped out in just ten minutes as the blaze swept through destroying two hundred aircraft around twenty billion dollars worth of hard with no base much needed at the moment the military very heavily involved in the operation to try and put out fires around russia not just here in the most go region but in the last of the college without equipment is the waits to be seen just how much of an effect that will have a polish but what is interesting is we are hearing from the minute she did they deny that this is actually happened that they get. to say this.

should in international markets but we want to just a minute before the end of the match so says scott mosco a clearly the stronger team in this so i. admits that as well into what. was the toughest side we have played against as i said in moscow this is a team that deserves to be in the champions league however i don't know if those who didn't allow to display their full potential today as we try to control the ball throughout the match and try to always play in the attack. as much as we want to focus on the game here and play with a serious added to do i think the score in the first leg affected the quality of our play the players energy increased only after we conceded a goal but europe will know their group stage opponents on friday when the draw will be held in switzerland but for now the team is leaving cyprus to prepare for their next premier league match against a law called for an artsy cyprus. it was a busy night of action champions league qualifying with five teams picking their group stage berths on tuesday serbia as partisan they are into the big time following us. bio never giv

gone down so that we will see significant increase in the cold in flu cases over the upcoming also mosco thirty's are saying that the death rate in the city have doubled during this period over fifty people have died in the flames russian authorities are doing everything they can of course to decrease the number of fires. fears however spread among russians many are afraid for their lives how many are simply in unstable emotional states however there are also those who are not giving up and volunteering to help firemen to tackle the blazes and one of the regions that was affected the most by the far is is the region around the city of resign from where my colleague any sonali now reports. for some of the destruction is already being swept away. for others it's sweeping towards them this is how it all starts with a small flame that can quickly engulf the entire forest making this a very fierce battle for emergencies workers and volunteers it has been sergei's job to protect this forest for years but this summer has become his worst nightmare . the most dangerous is one of the treetops are

hundred hectares is still caught up in places where we are right now is a park on the outskirts of mosco deeper into the park we're not allowed in because one hundred two hundred metres away from me there is still blazes inside the park so it does look like the blazes are slowly crawling into the city as well and the tally of how bad is the continuing situation with wildfires around moscow and indeed in other regions. almost two thirds are saying russian authorities rather are saying that the number of fires is decreasing throughout the country however this still about six hundred of them and they cover it and there ia over ninety thousand hectares more than fifty people have already died and volunteers are joining in to help fight the fires the area that has suffered the most from the blazes is the area around the city overdesign which is not far away from moscow from where my colleague any sonali now reports. for some the destruction is already being swept away. for others it's sweeping towards them this is how it all starts with a small flame that can quickly and golf the entire fores

special forces reportedly killed one of the men suspected of orchestrating launches deadly mosco metro bombings is one of five in the special come to terms of. controversial make the classic going to. be driven out in favor of bigger more eco friendly cars stop production of the crown victoria model the next year to cloning profits and put them on a fuel efficiency. fifty. sports news with kate. hello welcome to the sports news here for martin moscow thank you for joining me on these the top stories making up ground vallet in the next three goals in six minutes and spartak moscow beat towards fourteen in the russian premier league. while six of the best chelsea and also win their game six knelt with theo walcott also grabbing a hat trick on a saturday goal fest in the english premier league. and yet another hat trick russian journalist victoria commons that claims to want gold medal is at least an implicit in singapore. and let's start with the russian premier league where last year's top scorer of ballots in has not stopped the second hat trick in two games to help spartak moscow beat

place on the day the station has started to worsen all other airports and since then all the flies to mosco have been directed to all the russian cities to st petersburg no roads and other cities and that's how the city is abdul it's have been operating for several hours on friday. notion of reporting from moscow's domodedovo airport. russian president has unveiled the latest stage of his top to bottom overhaul the country's police force at a meeting of security officials dmitri medvedev surprised everyone by proposing to even drop the name. he sure so. ever since the bullshit revolution or long tortures have been known as the militias this emphasize their popular or proletarian nature i mean they were volunteers in uniform today we need professionals honest and will coordinated people are good at their job this is why i think it's time we gave our law enforcers back their original name in started calling them the police. medvedev has asked top officials have lawmakers to consider his plan the forces currently undergoing deep reforms with a new law to regulate the body in the making the pre

people died in the fires while the death rate in other small crowded regions has doubled it is hard to mosco 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 now. only if 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 a 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 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 most won't be just known for its freezing winters but for

well early morning on friday we saw a heavy rain to fall mosco it felt like you blease of course it's pure in the air a little bit so and hopefully helps to fight the fires around moscow however it did seem that the showers were very isolated as we were heading to this life point of the left small school of the rains have stopped there are still plenty of areas like this one surrounding the capital so we're still think small can the fires still haven't been fought so the experts are saying that the small quiet return to the capital over the weekend and the heats will continue for the next couple of days however weather information services are saying that. as soon as early next week the heat's will be replaced by low temperatures rains and storms and maybe for now it may seem like bliss but some are saying that. may not be ready for a heavy rains and heavy storms ok italian overcoat for now thank you for that. well the relentless heat wave and drought has destroyed a quarter of russia's grain crops as a result the government is pledging to spend more than a billion dollars to help pro

by a third however it won't come into force until about the five by both sides and so far neither mosco says it's ready to put the deal into effect but wants to do so at the same time as washington former u.s. senator and acting chairman of the atlantic council think tank chuck hagel told me there's more than just bilateral play at stake here. if in fact we we the civilized world especially the nuclear powers and as we know russia the united states but there's about ninety percent of all the nuclear weapons in the world if we were to reduce those or if we were to influence our. or nations to try not to come on line to be a nuclear weapons power or to start reducing their powers then we must lead the way so this is also i think an issue of some optics of some credibility of some leadership because if we don't pass this what credibility does the united states have with the rest of the world or russia to say to any other nuclear country or country that wants to possess these weapons no don't do that so there's an awful lot here that goes beyond just the specifics of the treaty. that was ch

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place on the day the station has started to worsen all other airports and since then all the flies to mosco have been directed to all the russian cities to st petersburg and all roads and all the cities and that's how the cities abdul it's happening operating for several hours on friday. or if a notion of reporting from moscow airport. it's been a day of remembrance in japan for the victims of the deadliest bomb blast in human history the american atomic weapon dropped on hiroshima sixty five years ago during the second world war claimed the lives of one hundred forty thousand people for the first time ever washington sent an official to the i knew will ceremony in the city as artie's sean thomas reports of ground zero is still not free from the fallout. but here she mouthpiece memorial ceremony was a significant and important event with thousands in attendance including foreign and international dignitaries from japan there was a presentation of a register of the names of the people who passed away when the obama exploded but there were also speeches from dignitaries including the now took

this means more of the water can now be used for more peaceful purposes timothy cross or archie mosco region. everyone is up to date here on r.t. for more you can always log on to our website r t dot com stephanie will be here with all the latest business news in just a few moments don't go away. i'm great for the we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice ceased to face with the news makers. hello and welcome to the business bulletin russia's first low cost airlines sky express is facing the prospect of having its license revoked because of financial problems how did a lack of a reliability that was supposed to be a pioneer in the new world of low cost of travel in russia so would it ever be possible to fly cheaply in russia tachyon you put it finds out. this airplane costs about ten dollars for now unfortunately this is the closest trust funds can get to a low cost airline in this country regular air carriers so even domestic flights at the price of many of pickles monthly salary and russians are craving for the discount as so popular abroad eight pounds from liverpool to a cra

three years ago when this crash test did on precedented damage to its best selling amulets but at the mosco motor show the company showcasing its new small call hope this eleven which is this will be perfect for european roads. what we are focusing on is proof of the proof that connotate have a truly improve the product among. so this is a war type of thing and also we were focusing on that. for europe to market the would move but that's not a lot of models these are just the model i come to love and it's me and a small model like that and the love that we have the support for the culture among . the stock markets here in moscow trade is very quiet as investors enjoyed the last week of the summer holiday gained over a percent on both forces as the price of light sweet crude cost seventy three dollars a barrel. a week again pushed up exporters all the nikkei take joins canon and panasonic puts on one and a half percent over in tokyo property stocks outweighed files for china life insurance which are lower than expected results. and frank swung into the positive corporate news no real posted

this means more of the water could now be used for more peaceful purposes timothy crosser archie mosco region. and seventy nine joins me for the business of dave good morning stephanie now we know global equity markets finished in the red last week so how are they looking now yes i mean it well stocks fell on friday off to data showed a larger than expected drop in july payrolls suggesting a slowdown in economic recovery and then knock on effect has been seen on the asian markets on monday i'll have more market news in just a moment but first roussel has filed a request for russian mind no real cynical to hold a new general shareholder meeting the adam union giant which owns about twenty five percent of neurosurgical is not happy with the results of the miners' annual general meeting that took place on the twenty eighth of june at the meeting resells board representation fell from four people to three this has resulted in a battle for control of neurosurgical with russian conglomerate interests group which also owns a twenty five percent stake or so wants to sell assets including u.s.

mosco and other russian cities and now they law a very thick blanket of smoke visibility is extremely low in a normal day when the skies are clear maybe my cameraman will i show you behind me would be able to see the kremlin and the procedural not always you can see you can see yourself a sole bald slight outlines and i would do for size that we have now is tendon in the very center in the very heart of most so the station in the most you saw gerbs and in known central districts is a win wars ministry of emergencies is not saying that. about two hundred a half days of burning every day and of these very moment dozens of forest fires are outraging in there is surrounded moscow but at the same time moreover frustration is also continue to spread across russia over the phrase while the officials are saying that there are no statistics of small good related deaths of medics war and that's really nice is as dangerous as smoke and forty cigarettes is equivalent to smoking four to cigarettes in a few hours so i want to tell you that the reason now a very strong smell of burning. yeah i did i

this means more of the water can now be used for more peaceful purposes timothy crosser archie mosco region. attempts to break down the caste system in india are being resisted by many while discrimination is illegal changing an ingrained mindset is more difficult than simply changing the law one school is experiencing the struggle as artie's charan singh reports. it's a problem that's been simmering but now slowly davey sees its 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 are allowed to go community minos. now and some upper caste children don't want to eat food made by me their parents consider the food polluted by my touch 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

on whether to land on north is taken by commanders on that flight and since then all the flies to mosco have been directed to all the russian cities to st petersburg in overtime to other cities and that's how the city's abdul's have been operating for several hours on friday night some career what are you hearing about what's being done to help those affected passengers well those of forty flies have been delayed so far we can understand the dozen so maybe even hundreds of passengers who are now gathering at the city's airport and to station is rather difficult there as well because it's so stuffy and smoky even inside the airport and people are getting nervous but we're hearing that they've been provided with free water and food and we have been able to speak some people there and they say that it's not that bad now as. the airports are now getting back to normal and their store she says well. that very soon all the passengers of all the delayed flights will be able to depart to their destinations and use some right now live from moscow still no doubt of the airport area for national.

you are so into my opinion i repeat it's a kind of response to the new political life of the line of mosco. ok always him political analyst from the carnegie endowment for international peace thanks very much indeed for your analysis. watching r.t. coming to live from moscow still ahead for you this hour well the report goes first in. find out what the russian prime minister thought of the roads and russia's far east all the details coming up later in the program. a string of violent attacks and hispanic immigrants in new york has prompted fears of a new wave of racial hatred the victims say they have been targeted by african-americans who want to clear mexican immigrants from their neighborhoods are lauren list to reports on how frustrations are boiling over in the big apple. the united states has always been a country of immigrants but they're not always welcome we've seen mexicans targeted in the western state of arizona which passed a tough law targeting undocumented immigrants there's many many people are coming to this country and they go through the proper channels to do the proper

this means more of the water could now be used for more peaceful purposes timothy crosser r t mosco region. briggs's have today here on r.t. for more there is our web site r t dot com remember that and we'll take a look at what's happening in business with stephanie don't go away. hello welcome to the business bulletin russia's first low cost airline sky express is facing the prospect of having its license revoked because of financial problems and the lack of her life it was supposed to be a pioneer in the new world of low cost travel in russia so will it ever be possible to fly cheaply in russia china put it finds out. this airplane costs about ten dollars an hour unfortunately this is the closest trust funds can get to a low cost airline in this country of regular air carriers so even the last six flights at the price of many people's monthly salary and russians are craving for the discounters so popular abroad eight pounds from liverpool to crack of twenty euros from all sorts of front for russia's first low cost airlines sky express was meant to be like that however and are praising pr

right now is seven the times of its usual figure and also doctors are saying if you take a walk around mosco for just a couple of hours it will be equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes some people prefer to wear masks to protect themselves from this poisonous small there's also problems with buying ery conditioners in the city because there's a huge shortage of them and if you can buy one then you will probably be the double or even the triple amount of money for it because some people who sell them is simply trying to make money on other people's misery and doctors are recommending to stay inside stay indoors to spend as little time as possible outside especially close to those places so the other side of this problem is that those who are staying inside and trying to breathe fresh air for air conditioning so that the key in the number of cases of cold moscow is have been frayed praying for a heavy rain to fall down on the city but we've been promised so far only short rains in some parts of it have seen noun so far however the weather forecast saying that the temperature you must d

security in the region sent its troops to protect both focuses republics until the conflict was subdued mosco recognized the process and independence a move that was soon followed by have been is nicaragua and the small republic of no we're now up to the turmoil of recent years because it is beginning to build new international relations. a young diplomat spent months and let in america meeting with local politicians and signing cooperation treaties it was the platform for his diplomatic career no maxine has been appointed a posse as foreign minister and on the home front these years were also marked by good news he's now raising three sons to twins again. new friends and all countries in the world in particular in latin america the region. which are very much like to be there because we almost the same language. i don't mean spanish but i mean people. much easier in countries that conduct really independent polls just like the minister himself the core of the opposition diplomatic think tank our people in their twenty's they are setting new goals for the republic's foreign policy hoping that

this means more of the water can now be used for more peaceful purposes timothy crosser archie mosco region. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world and controversial muslim cleric on the cover shooter has been arrested in indonesia for his alleged ties to recently discovered terrorist groups police believe the group was planning numerous attacks including the assassination of the country's president the clerk is considered by some as a spiritual leader of another group jemaah islamiah which is behind the deadly bali bombings eight years ago. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says the country's military did not violate international law by storming the gaza bound aid flotilla in may the comments were made during his testimony given to the panel investigating the deadly raid the internal inquiry into the highly controversial attack which left nine turkish activists dad was set up under considerable international pressure the defense minister and the army chief are also to give evidence later this week. and time now for business of beef with stephanie