who has the latest for us on this that tommy could you tell us more about what happened what all these chemicals and how dangerous really all day. well it all happened in the chinese province of provence of sea where about seven thousand barrels were washed into a river that is a subsidiary to the m river which connects russia and china now the water flow is right now carrying those barrels stuart's russia very quickly and if they're not so well taken out over the water they will reach russian territories by the fourth of august so in less than a week's time the russian emergency services saying that there's no information yet about whether there has been any leakage of chemicals out of those barrels however russian authorities have already demanded so this segment of potential. consequences the environmental consequences over this from the chinese authorities on this one there was the response from chinese officials that there were any of

these barrels can be retrieved before the chemicals dess into the river war says. well the chinese authorities promise no natural catastrophe they are saying they have already started cleaning out the barrels from the waters however. in the past twenty four hours since it happened only four hundred barrels out of seven thousand have been taken out so if the water meanwhile chinese authorities are saying that not all the barrels have had toxic chemicals all in them and only four thousand in fact were filled with chemicals another three thousand war harmless and empty but this is not the first time that russia might have to deal with the consequences of a natural catastrophe caused by the chinese side in such a way that in two thousand and five and the very same river a one hundred tons of benzene a war poor. in the river and have reached russian waters and passed by some major

russian cities such as how bought of skin from someone. but what about rough for them to travel how big is the threat that contamination could reach the mood river . well of course for the area around the river of this is a very big threat is the area contains many preservations with very rare animals such as the tiger for example very unique wildlife and nature there and as for the chemicals that i can see that are contained in those barrels into the report some of them contain a liquids that looks like water and is absolutely pure but contains but has very strong sounds very strong toxic sound it also boils under very low temperatures and it's kept in humans can him it's conditions can cause small and also very severe burns for people or animals so in some of those barrels there is

a chemical that is used to increase what's recalled and temperature resistance for some substances so of course if spilled and if they reached russia the danger for the nature and the people in the area is very big phenomenon in many things that was also used a time in the forest life from moscow. coming your way is our report on the dangers of the heat wave that's taking over the whole of russia. and the experts on how to deal with wants a proving to be the country's since moment to have. a south korean newspapers claiming russian investigators the found north korea did not torpedo one of the sounds were shipped the report which russia has not confirmed says the vessel hit i will be chilling. the korean peninsula and moments

with the loss of some forty six. and earlier us back to the investigation responsible but russia said it's a team of investigators to the north london north korea that had nothing to do with the then investigated genitally mouth and that hole in the tents are very ugly. the international investigators of course came from countries that are very close to the u.s. united nation's military presence and in the korean peninsula so as far as it being a non biased investigation the south korean many south koreans aren't buying it north korea of course didn't buy it we've had the you know secretary of state hillary clinton over there rattling the sabers against north korea recently the people who have a vested interest are those who would like to increase tensions in asia this is very critical because this if there is a smoking gun that this could have been a set up this was some sort of accident made to look like hostile action or it was

some sort of false flag attack this could result in war against a nuclear armed country north korea which is much more important than wars that were unfortunately already involved with. that was the best genesis now seeking to persuade north. personality war activists are claiming the massive leak of u.s. military documents on afghanistan is an omen and marks the beginning of the end of international intervention in the war torn country but files posted online by wiki suggest the situation on the ground is far from the official picture but ninety thousand pages details of million deaths at the hands of nato troops as well as concerns that pakistani intelligence could be helping a telephone call to end the war now growing louder in many countries including the u.k. . soldier who fight cost him his freedom. because

this is the soldier who said no to the to of speaking out against the conflict one he calls illegal and unjustifiable his advice to the government also i would say listen some people just simply. people in the morning with. these conflicts. you know the call of will fall off the wagon which was the message which confusion the store just want to start listening to public clinton joined the army in two thousand and four and fought for seven months in afghanistan he says he came home a changed man suffering symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder for which he claims he was bullied when he heard he was being sent back to afghanistan he did from the army and didn't come back for two years initially his military superiors were understanding but when joe spoke at an antiwar rally in london they upped his charges to desertion which carries a ten year prison sentence joe's mother says that exposes the hypocrisy of the

conflict bringing democracy we've got freedom of speech we're fighting to do understand in the middle option to speak you know. so benton paid a price for his outspokenness in the notorious military jail the glass house he thinks the reason it wasn't longer. it was to avoid a public outcry which could have brought on an examination of the war he served his time along with other soldiers who he says were with him all the way on the stand he'd taken in terms of guards around the train was unbelievable. i was so much support from from my fellow prisoners it was fantastic so much mildness one point i was going to undergo as a dime to is fantastic so you know the only time i think of how long before the first. officer that i was directing was so much for the. jews become a poster boy for the stop the war coalition. with a hero's welcome following his release from prison for someone they consider brave

and principled well i mean should not be punished at all he's saying what everyone believes and everyone knows the war is not just on winnable it's immoral it's a disaster it's causing catastrophic for the people of afghanistan a more and more young british men and women are being sent out to risk their lives for a war that money the politicians support even in private i know it's a disaster joe blanton story is ok because it comes straight from the front line as do the ninety thousand documents released this week showing the armed bandits truths of a bloody conflicts and going by clinton's account of the support he received from other soldiers during his time in prison there is dissent inside the armed forces something the government could have a hard time ignoring nor emmett's r.t. . president has heatwaves three ping russia continues unabated with july already the hottest month on record as

a result of the heat moscow with nell suffering from a chain thick smog caused by. the city can offer ports now from the problem. the fires have spread well across moscow region and scores of firefighters are being sent to fight these blazes every day but their efforts are being hampered by the sixteen the hot and dry weather and we've been told that the amount of fires this year has already exceed last year's fires by two times and the total area of these fires is twelve times bigger than in two thousand and nine and this includes both forest fires n.p.p. fires especially which are really tricky because they can go on for months deep underground in temperatures reaching eight hundred degrees celsius and then when it's hot and dry enough on the surface they can emerge and firefighter see that the consul even see new forces or fire new sources of smoke as they are fighting their

current ways or their efforts are also being hampered by the water shortages which is limited which have been also caused by this heat and the dry weather many lakes and many springs have simply evaporated in forty six told us that they often have to build special pipe systems to do it with water from as far as nine kilometers away to the fire and i can tell you that it's highly unlikely that they're going to be able to extinguish all of these fires so long as this extremely hot and dry weather continues and forecast to do see that the temperatures make cool down a little bit during the weekend we even see a little bit of rain but they say also that dry weather is going to return next week of course is this the heat meaning the smoke and especially the fumes in big cities create really difficult and dangerous living conditions were sure there were at the open sun because this sun is also the interest for the house for the school

that it increases the body temperature and smoke of course itself is also of interest is what is the author for. lots of fire onboard will come out of one of the side and other types of products so sure there were open spaces of people living in the areas affected by the small hand the huge trying to do anything to to cope with these conditions drinking a lot of water of their actually month long queues for air conditioning only in moscow many people are trying to leave the city thinking that the outdoors may be conditions in the outdoors maybe a little bit better but as you can see around me and i'm now around ninety kilometers away from moscow the conditions here in the situation here is not that much better. god has gone off reporting from the mosque and region pakistan has declared a day of national mourning for the victims of the country's worst okaying rush and every passenger jet smashed into hills outside the capital islamabad on wednesday

killing all a hundred fifty two on board the cause of the disaster is not lead but it occurred during bad weather in the monsoon season. greek police have used tear gas to break up protesting fuel truck drivers off the government issued an emergency order forcing them back to work a crippling three day strike has left most petrol stations drawing the demonstrators opponents piled to liberalize they were destroying part of major reforms required to secure vital bailout loans for the country's drivers hard to end the first entry total well face of the. french model has been channels that would emerge after police found the bodies of eight newborn babies on her property dominique a caucus is husband was charged with concealing the remains are not supporting the crime police were alerted after the new owners of a house the couple had lived in found bones buried in the garden the bodies of

infants wrapped in plastic were eventually discovered there at the couple's current home. david cameron has arrived in new delhi on the final day of his visit to india to strengthen relations the british prime minister will hold talks with his counterparts manmohan singh to discuss india's role in afghanistan and reducing trade barriers mr singh's also expected to voice concerns about the u.k.'s efforts to limit indeed immigration mr cameron has already met local business leaders in an attempt to cool new projects to aid britain's economic recovery. time not to explore some of the many treasures of russia as we take a tour around the country bringing you a flock shot of its most interesting places. and

this time we travel to the kaluga region founded in the mid fourteenth century is just two hundred kilometers away from moscow famous for its space exploration and scientific research it's responsible for a number of quite a good solid citizen engineering and that translates in recent years a kaluga has also become one of the servants of the russian intimated industry attracting a number of major foreign companies ati's cover to make about your vote went to meet some ex-pats to find out just why the regions it's a good place for the brits it's. the wrong time carlo has been primarily associated with compared to the maverick scientists from the end of the last sanctuary who financed work on rockets the region was dubbed the cradle of astronautics but what is good transportation links to the capital with a population of just over a million people the region has definitely room to grow to take a low grades one of rochelle's hot spots for foreign investment we met some will be

ex parts managers working here to find out holiday do that business and cope with that every day lives here. renate may be afraid of horses but she's not afraid of course power every day she handles one hundred forty and has been her old drives just as many the to work of the full country and were among the first expanse to settle down and. the only brazilian in cologne everywhere i go and i say i'm from brazil of course i get this cheery and people talk about football and. so it's always positive maybe in such a big city like most call you are just one more in a crowd and here you stand out especially as a form. we're talking as a foreigner here moving now to herald certainly turned hats locally when they drove the german car giants first fully russian made vehicle the production line russians

. proud of russia being russian at the same time we see these reserve asian towards products made in russia so we work on that everybody. has the same quality. we use to form germany from chickie become penny was an early bird to place its bets on the region that's worth one billion dollars on seven hundred ten as it built a whole industrial park something which would be unlikely closer to moscow due to higher costs are becoming a cause for heart on their tail lights today home to bobo peugeot citroen and renault just recently is still stamping factory was open and now it caters for all full car parts this is not just the biggest german investment in russia but also an example of a life patient it is no longer chaffed the car assembly as it was four years ago

these parts are built with russian fans and ultimately will be built what the russians steve. and like are not and harold well desegregate was born in color but in a way he also stands out from his three thousand core leaks he was recruited from a local orphanage frequently out of work so he says he's now driven to succeed but i want to stay and work here if they give me a chance to grow i would like to become a foreman and ultimately a manager i see perspectives from my friends to more and more companies are opening up in the region which was. not who was behind the idea to employ orphans she set up a women's club in kabul which among other projects. two patronage of local orphanage is government does a lot and also private initiatives but after eighteen years old they are on the streets and what can we do so if we give clothes one day it's worn out

so we thought that. beginning a project there it's not a bold giving money or giving things but giving an opportunity for them to grow so dues learning german in the hope that one day he will land his dream job eager to work and give something back to those who gave him a hand when he most needed it to do with their children r t. i hear stephanie joins me now with all the latest what you can see the vastly the eye here is going to give year for russia's biggest truck maker well it's certainly been brought up in last year come out has cut its losses by more than two thirds in the first offer two thousand and ten i'll have more on that a little later in the bulletin but first b.p. may sell it stakes in three venezuelan projects to its russian joint venture to be effective. executive director confirmed that british petroleum has raised the matter in a letter to have been venezuelan state run or company with which jointly owns the

assets value has not been confirmed but the times newspaper puts it at one billion dollars the oil giant plans to sell up to thirty billion dollars worth of assets across the world after suffering heavy losses in the gulf of mexico to zoster. the head of a r has told r.t. he's pleased to see the appointment of robert dudley as b.p.'s chief executive despite the arguments that marred their relationship in the past. we very much welcome the point you know bob dudley is the c.e.o. of b.p. yes we've had some difficulties when he was the c.e.o. of b.p. those difficulties related primarily to governance disagreement between our and b.p. wanted to have an independent c.e.o. not somebody appointed by b.p. who was a very close leslie it would be people who worked extremely well together with bob has made a tremendous contribution to communicate b.p. in the early years of the joint venture after about four years our strategies began to diverge and at that point. it was important for the good of the company to have

an independent c.e.o. bob unfortunate was caught in the middle but we have an excellent relationship with him and he has done a lot of great things for to b.p. and we look forward to working with him and his or capacity. the russian government has reduced the number of candidates and what is set to be the biggest privatization in the country in fifteen years cutting the state railways operates on will get agency from the list and haven't companies are being prepared to sell with the aim of raising at least thirty billion dollars to help plug the budget deficit. reports. if you want some of the russia's blue chips well general snifter say the largest banks bear bank now is the time the government is considering selling minority to stakes in eleven of russia's leading companies some call it the biggest privatization since the ninety's but it's not yet clear which buyers to government target therefore we're talking about. minorities

and this is much different from what we have seen the in russia taking place in mind this or prove it is asian in. general tso's because usually when we're talking about truth zation with some salesperson for strategic investors so i think that in russia's case. all government convention think with blue flood of the state their own company is only months ago some said russia no longer deserved its position as a leading emerging market and you inflow of foreign investment could change that perception but the government has work to do before it can sell some of those companies some state monopoly is known to be unfriendly to individual investors others are simply too big to be easily sold her talk about the large stake for across now it's. probably of course going to be a more. realistic so it's. some effort from the government

for a serious effort for. from the companies make them for investors to sell them at. a fair price the pricing of the assets and the timetable are unclear the government initially suggested thirty billion dollars over three years and we see the government has a choice it can sell quick and cheap but to get the best pricing cover the budget deficit the privatization could stretch over several years they may be a business archie. and now let's have a look at how the acting markets are shaping up in moscow both of course is us. making ground comment around one hundred percent each energy stocks are leading the advance with gazprom russell after. all making healthy gains this hour. there's also gains being made on european markets as investors welcome results from some of the region's biggest companies on a busy day for corporate use angry swedish pharmaceutical company astra zeneca is the stock form on the footsie coming a five percent off to second quarter profits rose and is increased its share

buyback. rushes to make a come as has cut its losses by more than two thirds in the first half of this year compared to the same period of two thousand and nine report by german car maker of dying this has caused a loss to thirteen million euro in the same period from january to june and during the second quarter is a seen profit for the first time in a year russian company benefited from cost cutting and rising sales diamonds a fifteen percent stake in two months. and in other news international passenger air traffic has exceeded pre-crisis levels international air transport association says it grew by almost twelve percent in june passenger volumes are now around two percent above their pre-recession peak in the first quarter of two thousand and eight this is the lines are recovering faster than expected and it's actually an asia which is increasing the most twice as fast as in europe while here in russia passenger traffic has grown thirty one percent in the first half the two thousand

and ten ride to the same period last year the biggest traffic increase was seen in international destinations. i'm not so from the business scene for now but i'll be back with more updates for you next hour and in the meantime you can always find more stories on our web site that's r t dot com slash business.

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