but post-soviet russia lacks a coordinated polic in simple carelessness is not the only cause. fire clears the land for builders while speculators grab the timber. >> this man has been on patrol south of moscow. fires have been burning here for weeks, but now things are calm. too calm. there are not even birds singing. it is like the aftermath of a bomb attack. >> i have known the forests since i was a boy. we come here to relax and pick mushrooms and berries. ig also work here as a ranger. seeing the forest like this breaks my heart. >> 100,000 had acres of forest, an area three times the size of malta. 260 people used to work here. three years ago, the fire prevention budget was cut, as was the work force. >> we now have 50 people in charge of this. 50 people are fighting the fires. >> experts say the russian government cut back on forest fire prevention for financial reasons and claims the people responsible for forest protection are the ones intent on profiting from the situation. northwest of moscow, the smoke and stench from the forest fires has been blown as far as this

and soviet russia could have destroyed the world many times over on the u.s.s.r. researched atomic weapons from the early nine hundred forty but it had lagged behind the us and that became frighteningly clear after hiroshima and nagasaki with the us and the u.s.s.r. becoming ever more hostile the soviets felt they had to catch up with american technology at all costs. mercury was needed for nuclear experiments and the states gathered all the mercury it had for for years afterwards not a single new thermometer was made in the soviet union at once scientists were assembled at a secret town in southern russia new greater towards after they told me to morrow go to the airport when that stand by the statue of stalin our people will put you on an airplane i said hold on i haven't had the chance to pack my bags they said it doesn't matter what you must be there. despite every effort at the help from researchers who developed the american a bomb to complete the soviet nuclear project many were communist sympathizers and passed vital information that a soviet era serious o

there were hundreds of bottles from factories from all over russia and from soviet russia production you'll be surprised how diverse such a simple thing as of. now. my favorite parts of the tasting. were. and yes of course thomas just wants to have before. moving on from the book a museum take on this is from we're in deep russian countryside. it's a refreshing change from museums a cathedral and here at this location they have a popular school cool. as a russian peasant some of the. curious part of the sun and a somewhat different day. you. come here for various activities that amounts to classes on how to cook life eyes in the study and how to look after various farm animals all my journals would be proud. just so provided with books from hats and jackets a little hope for the weather in some of the house to keep your clothes from getting dirty. time to feed a fairy friend and that we have a happy rabbit. was it a. developed or special program for i guess it's called and museum offer great one course the cello this race about farm courses how they can help people and share what fac

child that's impossible in a genuinely free society you can do that however in nazi germany and soviet russia because they're the people who are solver and sit in the kremlin or at their right but here are the people who are sovereign our whole at home in their own backyards and you have to persuade them and sometimes you will not succeed ok you have to live with that ok jacob lew we take that approach they're fine we can have a very libertarian society and i think all in principle all of us agree with that but we have still have the problem of obesity in the united states and it was pointed on this program and it's beginning to be a problem in the developing world as well so what do we do without the government on our back well i think that you know you're defining it as a social problem something that the government has to do something about in the outset i think that's a mistake if we go back to this argument you mentioned about the health care costs in fact it's not clear that obesity results in higher health care costs in the long run some of the research indicates that in fact it reduce

the travelling to not simply years since the cutting massacre of twenty thousand poles by the soviets in russia's smolinski can cut in the seen as a major historical stumbling block but april's crash appeared to begin to kind of healing process as the two nations mourned together and political analyst anton despond of says there are many other areas of common interest beyond the difficulty street. my personal feeling is that the small and crush will be a topic discussed for years to come especially if it's not and if the investigations attended by the end of this year but there are surely more global issues and this is first of all the economy because the economy is the area where both sides have most for their mutual benefit and of course the different debates over history which has been discussed recently and will continue to be poland's grievances toward russia too deep to be swept aside within months so surely it will have we'll see a lot of incidents very unpleasant for both sides. britain's first coalition government since nine hundred forty five is marking one hundred days in office since

in russia but people started saying that katrina was the result of russian geophysical weapon tests and that nothing would have happened if it wasn't for the evil empire which meant to the former soviet union and wouldn't a russia this year since europe russia pakistan and china to a degree been affected by disasters this incision hungry whistleblowers came up with a different theory and they're saying these disasters are results of retaliation from the u.s. that perhaps the u.s. wanted to strike pakistan and accidently hit russia and europe. in any case my answer to your question is no it was not caused by geophysical weapons with them i say this because so far there is no evidence in open media sources or licensed scientific magazines that mankind is capable of using nature in such a way the amount of energy. the exact is far too small to affect energy streams in the atmosphere and the oceans so as to use those streams as a weapon that i have no scientific evidence that the disasters could have been caused by climate weapon or geophysical weapon with the shasta but it is true that countries are working towards somehow controlling or affecting the weather isn't that what scientists

cup aeration would have been the reason to bring the entire production chain back to russia like it was in the soviet times. of course we should increase russia's share in the production of equipment but since we consider the world market we should coppery it with the world's leading components with manufacturers or with an i see it is our strategy of vector with to my mind or russia possesses a lot of skills like you'll software development the high intellectual resource of the engineer personnel the manse russian industry and so forth with these could be much more in the industries are emerging as well and all of that makes it possible to increase the sheriff russian made in future planes a little. bit the does this international cooperation have a matthew elements to it let me explain what i mean will come with mr from bank of the make of the new russian super com rusia once came to the studio and was sitting where you're sitting right now he said he had been told to his told breaks made by bosch and all the foreign made components in which case had been promised there would be no problem certific

their trek across europe monday is short for moscow automobiling road institute one of the soviet union and now russia's top technical universities with a history of nearly eighty years and five years of experience in formula students like their colleagues from across town in mommy they too have been hard at work all academic year on their two thousand and ten nicknamed indigo from their first design adaptation since september two thousand and nine they were several months to the drawing boards before the frames started coming together in december then it was measurements assembly in reassembly on repeat until everything checked out their car may be unique for its use of a yamaha p.c. fifty snowmobile engine perhaps an innovation from the depths of an unusually cold winter even by russians stan. some help along the way from a venerated muddy old hand long time so good in russian racer. in his nearly half century long racing career and for decades in monday's laboratory of high speed automobiles he spent most of his time behind the wheel or under the hood of many cars famously adapting several in this se

reaction of detonations and catastrophe occurs tragedy remains the worst naval disaster in russia post soviet history. the e.u. is facing flak for a new scheme which could see every day passengers monitored on commercial flights it's designed to detect irregular behavior patterns that might unmasked potential terrorists but civil liberties campaigners have denounced the idea as a violation of the democratic right to privacy or amid reports. off for a week in the sun but if the european union project goes ahead these people could have conversations and movements monitored while they're flying the plan has a law on civil liberties campaigners who fear further growth in the surveillance state but at passengers a divided yelling as this because it's like a private personal you wouldn't i don't know this is a lie you keep pushing and pushing it with like the regulations and i think it's so prevalent already. with this expected you watch t.v. you watch t.v. you'll be surveilled. here there's a more in me but nothing to hide so i wouldn't worry me personally. the e.u. project is aimed at tackling te

boats launchers leading to a chain reaction of detonations remains the worst naval tragedy in russia's post soviet history. all the way tonight's why air travel might not leave you feeling is free as a bird find out why liberty is say passengers airplane privia sea is a risk with plans for in-flight c.c.t. . before the united states says it's sticking to its target to end all combat operations in iraq by the end of august and we draw almost all troops by the end of next year right now there are more than sixty thousand u.s. troops in iraq but that number is expected to drop to fifty thousand in the next few weeks however iraq's top military officials warn that the presence of american troops might be needed for up to a decade more until the country's security forces are ready to fully take over veteran investigative journalist john pilger told r.t. that america will not pull out of iraq that. this announcement by obama. the combat mission next year is nonsense and that's another example of the of them. simply taking a face for something they're told by authority in fact there's going to be somethi