rochelle rage on the charred ruins. the sight to the uphill battle against the wildfires ravaging russia destroy homes. and the number of deaths has doubled in moscow well many people are trying to leave the city which is still covered by a giant. small. sixty five years. those who are with a corner on the shore. the same fate. worldwide news live from moscow this is r.t. widespread forest fires are still raging in russia leaving many cities suffocating under a thick blanket of smog forecasters say the unprecedented heat wave that's fueling the blazes is unlikely to ease this week the fires claimed fifty lives at this point and have left thousands homeless more than one hundred fifty thousand people are battling the flames including the russian military extra vehicles and equipment have been sent from other countries. as out of a is in the moscow region where entire villages have been destroyed. where one at one of a so-called country of villages just outside moscow where people have their summer homes evidently used to

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>> went to new rochelle high school. a lot of washingtonians have been to new rochelle high school, gloria borger and andrea mitchell and larry small and lots of us went to the same high school. >> what did you do there that furthered your interest? >> i sang and sang and sang. i wanted to be an opera singer. i was very serious about that. and i was a really good high school singer and not a very good singer for past high school. but i did a lot of singing and also studying of science and math. >> college came, brandeis university, why did you pick that? >> i went to four undergraduate schools. i had a very checkered career. i started mit, then decided i wanted to be a singer and went to new york's conservatory of music, my voice teacher left, so i left, then i ended up at brandeis, but went to tufts for summer school and it was a hodgepodge of an undergraduate education, but ended graduating with my class at brandeis. the reason i went to brandeis was because i could study both economics and music, which were the two bi

on the show is metropolitan polarity june twelfth as one of the main dates in the history of new rochelle three from the colorist to it almost twenty years after the collapse of the soviet union the russians are still looking for the new identity is the changing world and one of the main goals here to the russian orthodox church what exactly is the church doing today to help the russians change their country and is it changing itself tolson these and other questions my guest on the show is the chairman of the external relations department in the russian orthodox church. metropolitan hilarion he's one of the most high profile figures in the modern russian orthodox church he started serving in masses when he was fifteen and later left musical college to become a monk metropolitan hilarion has a ph d. from oxford university and lectures at top theological colleges but despite being progressive politics hilarion respects the traditions of the russian orthodox church he believes they provide continue to people's identity a theme of the new russia is craving so how can the russian orthodox chur

on loan from spartak moscow helping rochelle get the win and put pressure on the competition for points now separated the fifth place last fall and third place rubin with sparse standing between them in for. more full coming out on saturday with twelfth place anji hosts in fourteenth place and. sixth place like a machine meanwhile travel to some mara to take on second from bottom green yes so that's all the railway men have already been registering at three nil home win in march. now let's stay with football and move to europe's top club competition the champions league russian premier league table toppers zinny have been drawn against french side as they're in the next layer frowned on the splits his side face trinkets i guess that scene that finished third in the french league last season meanwhile in other draws european giants. and berger bremen have a crunch tie with some door efforts at a while to. face and beer and darby against portugal's braga and so on and make their champions league debut against young boys and their boss from turkey the first legs of these guys who played on

this used to be somebody's car and this was once a very nice meal but the forest fires in central rochelle rage on leaving only charred ruins in their path. there is still no went inside to the uphill battle against the wildfires ravaging russia as they destroy homes and lives. and the number of deaths has doubled in moscow while many people are trying to leave the capital which is still covered by giant top six small. plus survivors plea sixty five years since the u.s. dropped an atomic bomb on nagasaki those who escaped with their lives call on the world to ensure no other place suffers the same fate as their city. and india's so-called untouchables are reigniting a debate over discrimination where those of a higher caste refused to give up age old traditions despite government. two am here in moscow thanks for being with us here on r t our top story widespread forest and peat bog fires are still raging in russia leaving many cities suffocating under a thick blanket of smog forecasters say the unprecedented he wave that's fueling the blazes is unlikely to ease this week the fires have cl

hello and welcome to our business program good to have you with us rochelle also is due to the force and still ranging across the country could reach fifteen billion dollars and got into early estimates that record temperatures this summer may cost at least one percent of g.d.p. growth most of the money will be spent on restoring houses and compensation the first official figures are expected next week as a part of the federal statistics have a says report on july's industrial production the long term effect is unlikely to be known until the end of it here but some experts already claiming the impact will not be significant. in little small because of all of the direct costs like the expensive extinguish the fires the cost the emergency ministry has insurance costs and i think this figure will be no more than several tens of billions of rubles but if we keep in mind that real budget is trillions of was goes to these expenses are just a drop in the oceans. and as far as devastating the country russia is experiencing its worst drought in centuries due to high temperatures officials are

rochelle rage on the charred ruins there is no end in sight to. the wildfires ravaging russia and destroyed by. smoke from the fire strangling moscow driving residents out of the capital doubling the normal daily death rate. plus the survivors sixty five years since the us dropped an atomic bomb on those who are lives a calling on the world to ensure no other place suffers the same fate as this city . and india's so-called untouchables are reigniting a debate over discrimination where those of a higher cost refuse to give up age old tradition despite government prohibition. the two nuclear strikes on japan are the only examples of atomic weapons being used to attack an expert on south asian affairs. says the only possible use of such today is self defense in an interview with. he explained why he believes the north korean threat is blown out of proportion. david i could hear but that's not going to you said it was prepared to give the minutes are responsible with the south korean and u.s. naval exercises in the yellow sea why do you think the reac

this used to be somebody's car and this was once a very nice view of the forest fires in central rochelle rage on the charred ruins . the crisis sparked by wildfires raging across russia shows little signs of easing with forecasters promising no change of wind or falling temperatures this week. and people are fleeing the toxic smoke cover of moscow where the number of deaths in russian capital doubling since the record heat and smog seize the city. plus no nukes sixty five years after the us dropped a second atomic bomb this time on the japanese city of mecca saki survivors call for complete global nuclear disarmament. it watching r.t. coming to live from moscow i'm marina joshie welcome to the program millions of russians living under a suffocating blanket of smog are hoping for a change in weather conditions but forecasters say it's unlikely to come this week for days a sick layer of haze caused by forest and peat fires has been hey over manny cities in moscow the death rate is double the average for this time of year and hundreds of blazes are still burning nationwide with other countr

to be somebody's car and this was once a very nice course rochelle rage on the charred ruins. there's no end in sight to be uphill battle against the wall. as they destroy lives and homes. and the number of deaths has doubled in moscow well many people are trying to leave the city which is still covered by a giant quelled a small. plus the. sixty five years since the u.s. dropped the ball and. those who. know the place has the same fights as the. from a studios here in central moscow this is the widespread forest and peat bogs follows a still raging in russia leaving many cities suffocating under a thick blanket of smog forecasters say the president and heat wave that's fueling the blazes is unlikely to ease this week the followers of playing fifty lives and left spells homeless more than one hundred fifty thousand people are battling the flames including the russian military extra vehicles and equipment have been sent from of the countries. in the region where villages were destroyed by fire. where one at one of the so-called country of villages just outside moscow where peop

and speaking of police rochelle's law enforcers could be about to get their historic name back currently known as the lead sia. they were called police now president medvedev has suggested that they return to the old name the term the lead singer was adopted after the revolution of the one nine hundred seventy and it was supposed to reflect the popular nature of law enforcement and officers close ties to the people the president made his suggestion at a meeting with top security officials where one forstmann reform was being discussed russia's police has come under fire recently after several high profile cases of murder or option by high ranking officers. now it's time for the latest business new news rather with charlotte i'm sorry they stay with us. hello and welcome to the business program here on our take is the hottest driest somewhat in recorded history wildfires are raging across the country in the capital has a blanket of thick choking small giving the impression of widespread disaster has been a terrible human cost because of the abnormal weather with lives and homes lost it's

>> new rochelle high school. a lot of washingtonians have been there, gloria borger, andrea mitchell. . i did ascesis on white of her company should share productions, which they were not doing at the time. i did the deepest which said it made economic sense. -- i did a thesis on why it made economic sense. there was not anything you could say i want to start here in move my way up, because it was a career people fell into rather than the planned for. i did not start immediately in arts management. i started in the business world. >> compares the kind of the arts we have available to us today that we have available to usdo we have more or less? >> much, much more. over the last 50 years, there's been a very strong growth in the regional arts movement, that is regional opera companies, symphonies, ballet companies, theater companies. we have so many more now than we did in the 1950s. it's a wonderful, wonderful thing that people can live the arts and participate in the arts. >> jumping all the way from and i know

>> i lived in new rochelle, new york, about a 25, 30 minute drive from new york city, and once a year, my parents took the three children to the broadway theater, and i was hooked. that was it. >> what followed that in your involvement in the arts? >> i was very will bey. my grandfather was a member of the new york philharmonic, and i was able to go with my grandmother to many dress rehearsals, and i got to hear the great music by a great symphony, so i had a very strong grounding in classical music, and my parents were big theater-goers and big museum-goers, so i got to enjoy theater and museums and visual arts. and dance came much later in my life, but those were the