the blazes has left moscow suffocating under a blanket of heavy smog that's crossed our t's natalia novack of our who is in the center of the capital and peter oliver who joins us and he's been looking into a fire at a military air base that's going to you first peter what can you tell us about this fire and how serious was it. well initially we were hearing reports that this air base in the moscow region that fallen victim to the flames in this two hundred aircraft costing around twenty billion rubles it being destroyed though we have heard from the military and they've confirmed that there was a fire however saying that this fire took place not with the. equipment was with so much money where these airplanes were but in a place where decommissioned hardware in vehicles were being stored over the stands at the moment no journalists being able to get in to actually to see water has been destroyed by those fires around russia many places that people just can't go to try and find out what is happening because the the by is also severe also in central russia in the region there's an ongoing m

that sparked the blazes has left moscow suffocating under a blanket of having small parties nataly novack over there is in the heart of the capital for us tonight and pedro all of his been looking into the fire at a military base. we have heard from the military and they've confirmed that there was a fire however saying that this fire took place not with the. equipment was worth so much money where these airplanes were but in a place where hardware in vehicles were being stored however as it stands at the moment no genesee been able to get in to actually to see what has been destroyed by those fires all around russia many places that people just can't go to try and find out what is happening because the by is are so severe also in central russia in the south of region there's an ongoing military firefighting operation to try and make sure that the flames don't get too close to a major nuclear facility in that area both a state of emergency has been called in seven russian regions we've seen over forty people killed so far in these and these fires across the country more than three hundred

a correspondent in central moscow there natalia novack of all those raging blazes have reached the federal nuclear center in the central russian city of site of that of the country's atomic regulatory body says all explosive and radioactive substances have been removed from the side so you can encode says the facility is absolutely safe. the situation is complex but it is completely under control the fire is inside the federal security zone but it doesn't pose any threat to nuclear facilities in the center itself have you quit minton human resources including the army have been mobilized to fight the blazes. taking some of the news now iran is denying president was the target of an assassination attempt reports claimed a grenade was thrown at his convoy in the west of the country now those claims come at a time of increasing pressure on iran just days ago top u.s. military officials said washington's ready to launch a military strike against the country if needed. the sanctions already in place by expanding the blacklist of rain in groups and companies suspected of having terrorist links r

novack of our reporting from the mosque a region where volunteers have joined a hundred and sixty thousand firefighters to help put out the wildfires is the situation remains critical in some regions autism zama. went to see what ordinary residents in the mosque a region and doing to tame the flames. meet alexander drive in cinema manager by night. there's open fire over there and see that about the firefighter by day one of the many russian volunteers who are trying to save forests villages and. morning i have two toddlers when you wake up and the whole city is choking with the smog the kids a coughing and you really want to get rid of the small but how we understand that we ourselves have to do something one identify it and spectacular forests into wasteland alexander and his friend spread the word volunteer and people do. we take food so that people won't be hungry we've got food rations from the emergencies ministry it tastes good volunteers usually have no gloves from where they are needed as the fire is everywhere and you can easily get hurt. almost every day team of twenty from diff