well first of all it old happened in a chinese province on the north east of the country. in the river which is a subsidiary to the river which connects russia and china and right now those barrels are heading to russia very quickly according to the estimations they could reach russian waters by the fourth of august which is less which is in less than a week russian emergency services however a saying that there is no information yet about whether there has been any leakage of chemicals out of those barrels but russian authorities have already do monday the assessments of potential environmental consequences of this from the from china from the tonneau what is china doing to sell this mess. well of first of all china is promising that there will be no natural catastrophe but in the past twenty four hours after this the barrels were washed into the water only four

hundred of them out of seven thousand were taken out of the water but the chinese are saying that only three thousand over them contains chemicals and the other four thousand were completely harmless but however this is not the first time that russia might have to deal with the consequences of a natural disaster caused caused by this way from in china back in two thousand and five one hundred tons of benzene swarm froome from china to moscow through the same waters passing by some major russian far east in c.t.'s such as how bought a scan the come someone is going on with an attendant how about the situation being if the barrels do actually reach russia's i'm would refer. of course to the chemicals in the barrels a very toxic if they're not taking out of the water and if they're easy they will be dangerous for both nature. humans and the wildlife because the area of the

region there around the river is surrounded by many reservations where a very rare animal such as that so i go for example leaf as for the chemicals themselves there are two kinds of chemicals that we know of that there is their first line is the liquid substance that is see through that is looks completely bura but has a very toxic smell and boils in very low temperatures and does can cause small if kept in humid conditions and see deer burns for people or animals and the second kind is a substance that is that is used to increase what's her cold and temperature resistance for other substances so they're both quite toxic and if it is indeed the case that the barrels reach russian waters and there is leakage then of course there was going to be a big threat for russia and the nature of the russians and the nature in the region

you know so i mean maybe. that's that was all to tell and overcome. the chinese embassy in moscow. still to come on the program our report on the dangers of the heat wave that's taking over the whole of the. states. how to deal with what's become the country's says mom. now a south korean newspaper is claiming russian investigators that found north korea did not to repeat a one of the south ship well the report which russia has not confirmed says the vessel hit a mine he signed off the korean peninsula in march with forty six saying that i merely a u.s. bank international investigation found pyongyang responsible but russia sends its own team of investigators to the region off monday with career maintained that have nothing steve with the incident invested jadis that way mouth and the whole incident could potentially turn very ugly. the international investigators of

course came from countries that are very close to the u.s. the united nations 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 you know secretary of state hillary clinton over there rattling the sabers against north korea recently the people who have a vested interest or 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. way to. british antiwar activists are claiming the massive leak of u.s.

military documents on afghanistan is an omen the beginning of the end of international intervention in the water one country but files posted online by wiki leaks suggest the situation on the ground is far from the official picture the nine hundred thousand pages detail civilian death of the hands of nato troops as well as concerns pakistani intelligence could help you that's how i found calls to end the war now growing louder in many countries including. more and it's a former soldier who's refusal to fight his freedom. this is the soldier who said no to the to speaking out against the conflict one he calls illegal and unjustifiable his advice to the government i was i was i listen to 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 song 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 introduce you to afghanistan the lock somebody up 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 was to avoid public a. outcry which could have brought on an examination of the war he served his time

along with other soldiers who he says will with him all the way on the stand he'd taken the gods around the train was unbelievable i was so much support from from my fellow prisoners it was fantastic so much mildness one point when it was going to under those who died she was fantastic so you know the only time i think of how long for the first night when the show to get off so that i was correct was so much for the. jews become the poster boy for the stop the war coalition. hero's welcome following his release from prison for someone they consider brave and principled well i mean should have been 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 they 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 unvarnished truth 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 and it's r.t. london. still to come on the program the latest in our series we'll tell you the things you can do get me a musket and find out what drives some next to their. president as he wastes weeping russia continues unabated july already the hottest month. as a result of the heat. is now choking in thick smog. pools in the heart of the problem. 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 exceeded 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 and peat 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 sources of fire new sources of smoke as they are fighting their current ways as their efforts are also being hampered by the water shortages which is a myth which have been also caused by this heat and the dry weather many lakes and

many springs have simply evaporated and thirty's have 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 say that the temperatures make cool down a little bit during the weekend we need even see a little bit of rain but they say also that dry weather is going to return next week of course with this that heat meaning plus the smoke and especially the fumes in big cities create really difficult and dangerous living conditions were sure there were the open side because this sun is also the interest for the homes for the skin and it increases the body temperature and smoke of course itself is also of interest but there's a lot of for the products. cardboard look i'm going to point to the other types of

products so sure there were open spaces people living in the areas affected by the small and the huge trying to do anything to cope with these conditions drinking a lot of water there are actually months long queues for air conditioning only in moscow many people are trying to leave the city thinking that the conditions in the outdoors may be a little bit better but as you can see around me and around ninety kilometers away from moscow the conditions here in the situation here is not that much better. it's going off reporting there from the mosque in pakistan has declared a day of national for the victims of the country's worst playing a crash an air blue passenger jet smashed in the hills outside the capital islamabad on wednesday killing all one hundred fifty two men and the cause of the disaster is not yet known but it occurred during bad weather in the monsoons listen . greek police have used tear gas to break up protesting fuel truck

drivers on the government issued an emergency order forcing them to work a crippling three day strike has left the most petrol station is a dry demonstrators that whose parents liberalize they were just part of major reforms required to kill vital new bailout loans for the country drivers have until the end of fancy to return to work only to face over. a french mother has been charged with murder after police found the bodies of eight newborn babies on her property and mission report said dominick up close is a husband was also charged with concealing the remains but he has now been freed without charges police were alerted after the new owners of a house the couple had lived and found bones buried in the garden the bodies of infants wrapped in plastic were eventually discovered 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 counterpart in sing to discuss india's role in afghanistan and reducing trade barriers to singh's also expected to voice concerns about the u.k.'s efforts to limit indian immigration as to how one has already met the local businessmen leaders in an attempt to cool new projects to aid britain's economic recovery. time now to explore some of the many treasures of russia as we take a tour around the country bringing us not sure of its most interesting places. well this time we travel to the region founded in the mid fourteenth century is just two hundred kilometers away from moscow famous for space exploration of scientific research and the school board for

a number of they take advances in engineering and that in recent years has also become one of the center of the russian also rates of industry attracting a number of major foreign companies having the about went to meet some expense to find out just why the region such a good place for business. for a long time carlo has been primarily associated with comes back to the maverick scientists from the end of the last century will finally out of work on rockets the region was dropped. for nordics 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 today kolo green is one of russia's hot spots for foreign investment we met some will be ex parts managers working here to find out how they do their business and cope with their everyday lives here. renate may be afraid of horses but she's

not afraid of horse power every day she handles one hundred forty and her husband harold drives just as many the two work of the full tree and were among the first expanse to settle down and. the only brazilian called 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 moscow you are just one more in a crowd and here you stand out especially as a foreigner and we are talking as a foreigner here we're not sure how old certainly turned hats locally when they drove the german car john's first fully russian made vehicle the production law. fine russians are proud of russia being russian at the same time we. reserve a share in towards products made in russia so we work on that

everybody. has the same quality as we used to form what it's for germany from. the company was an early bird to place its bets on the region that's worth one billion dollars on seven hundred ten as a built a whole industrial park something which would be unlikely closer to moscow juta higher costs are to come a cause were haughton their taillights today is home to bobo peugeot citroen and renault just recently is still stamping factory was open and now it caters for all folks magnets car parts this is not just the biggest german investment in russia but also an example of the life they should it is no longer chapstick car assembly as it was four years ago these car parts are built with russian hands and ultimately they'll be built what the russians steve. and like are

not and harold well desegregate was born in ca luger 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 because 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 what. renate was behind the idea to employ all friends to set up a women's club in which among other projects to patronage of local orphanage is government does a lot and also private. 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

does learning german in the hope that one day he will land his dream job eager to work and give something back to those that gave him a hand when he most needed it to do with their children r t. that is the way the news is this hour here on r.t. or of course on our website and your comments on the lake as i go away with all that is there for things on the way now. and how the equity markets looking at the moment well pretty upbeat are a strong corporate results are lending support to the footsie in london and here in moscow both the bosses are making decent ground i'll have more market news in just a moment but first the government will go ahead with the privatisation of state companies even if the budget doesn't need the money the economic development minister said privatization is not just a money raising exercise but a way to restructure the economy. these will be fairly big companies possibly banks partially our companies from the fuel and energy sector

privatization will be a means not only of the track to many into the budget which is very important but it's also wave influencing the structure of the economy currently the government has an excessive growth in some of the sectors where the government share is quite big we interested encouraging more competition in the private sector. and 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 operator and mortgage agency from the list eleven companies are being prepared for sell with the aim of raising at least thirty two billion dollars to help plug the budget deficit xenos of nevada 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 wires to government targets therefore we're talking about. really the

minority and this is much different from what we have seen in russia taking place in mind this or prove it is asian in. general so usual when we're talking about truth zation with salespersons for strategic investors so i think that in russia's case now we're really talking wild government convention to increase flu flood of the state around companies 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 or talk about the large states like ross nafs. probably of course want to be on a more. realistic so it's. some effort from the government

of a serious effort or. from the companies making 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 really 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 b.p. may sell it stakes in three venezuelan projects through its russian joint venture to and. in fact affects the book to peace executive director confirmed that british petroleum has raised the matter in a letter to a venezuelan state run oil company with which it jointly owns the assets the value has not been confirmed but the times newspaper puts it at one billion dollars the all giant plans to sell up to thirty billion dollars worth of assets across the

world after suffering heavy losses in the gulf of mexico disaster. the head of a which represents russian shareholders has denied to media reports that former head of b.p. tony hayward will help to offload b.p. assets in his new role as a director. the correct and substantiate that in fact. if you look at the core assets from b.p. the directives from b.p. have to recuse themselves from deliberation discussion of the transaction because they are conflicted and would not be able to hold as a board contemplates who recommend that we may or may not get from to management to acquire us so that's stalling krug but i think he could be very helpful in thinking about passes that could acquire from other companies. now let's have a closer look at how those actually markets are shaping up the european markets are still advancing as investors all welcome results from some of the region's biggest

companies on a busy day for corporate news and a swedish pharmaceutical company astra zeneca is the dolphin form on the foot sea coming five percent off a second would not that's right and it increased it shot by back. and here in moscow both the bosses are making ground around two percent each energy stocks are leading we have faults with gazprom ruston after congress hydro making healthy gains at the south. by good news from russia's bond market the finance ministry has placed a five year bonds the longest since october to take the issue of both five and three year bonds is valued at just under a billion dollars investors appetite improved after russia's economic growth accelerated in the second quarter to five point four percent. russia make a cameras 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 a report by german called make a dime or says come out as last thirty million euros in the period from january to

june the second quarter is assume profit for the first time in the year the russian company benefited from cost cutting and rising sales dive a fifteen percent stake in cats. i'm not so from the business team for now but of course i'll be back with more updates for you next hour and you can always find more stories on our website that's the dot com slash.

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goes to central russia where the car industry is rapidly developing where history finds a new life in its paintings an american citizen is confined. to the. russian close up. a very warm welcome home. he rushes on top of the chinese plants wash things of barrels of space of chemicals into a major officials say they could be across the russian border within a week. reports from south korea claim

a russian investigation has exonerated from blame over the sinking of the soul of the bullshit his account his findings by u.s. back to included a north korean torpedo sunk the ship. and embarrassing british. strategy following the massive leak of u.s. military secrets they claim the revelations of mistakes and cover ups will steal the end of. negs someone living in moscow is rattled breaking temperatures he's held accountable fires and covering the city in a shroud of small july house become the hosses. with news updates in just. time but first well i'll go to north explores claims that scientists. russian geno with us and spotlight up next.