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 at the assessment so potential environmental consequences of this from the from china china is promising that there will be no natural catastrophe but in the past twenty four hours after the barrels were washed into the water only four hundred over 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 they are either four thousand to work completely harmless however this is not the first time that russia might have to do with the consequences of a natural disaster caused by china back in two thousand and five one hundred songs

of benzene froome from china through the same waltzers passing by some major russian far east in c.t.'s such as how bought us some what's going on with the chemicals in the barrels of very toxic if they're not taking out of the water and if they're easy linkage they will be dangerous for both the nature of humans and the wildlife because the area of the region there around there are more river is surrounded by many reservations where a very rare animal such as the onward so i go for example leave as for the chemicals themselves there are two kinds of chemicals that we know of that there is there first kind 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 because 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. increased water called 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 is going to be a big threat for russia and the nature of the russians and the nature in the region . novack of a reporting burn a little later on i'll be joined by dimitri babbitt from the russia profile magazine to discuss the implications of this incident for the international community to other news now a south korean newspaper is claiming russian investigators have found north korea did not stupid one of the south warships with a report sure russia has yet to confirm says the vessel hit a mine with the cheer them on the korean peninsula in march with the loss of forty six sailors and then a u.s. bank international investigation found on younger sponsible but russia sent its own

team of investigators to the region last month north korea maintains that have nothing to do with the incident investigative journalist way mounts and says the whole incident could potentially turn very ugly. the international investigators of course came from countries that are very close to the u.s. 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 well that was investigated jenison aussie contribution to weigh in that. vin from the diplomats how to me if the russian foreign ministry believes despite the high tension that's health is of an actual war on them or saves. both north and south korea perspective of a war as mutually assured destruction if a conflict were to run the korean peninsula would be economically devastated besides neighboring china has no interest in a war on its borders either nuclear or not. well let's cross back to our top story now and to discuss the implications of this potential environmental crisis of course we're talking about the several thousand barrels of highly dangerous chemicals that are heading to china after being washed into a river by floods in northeastern china i'm now joined by journeys to get back to the russian profile magazine i mismanaged many things the joining of the how

dangerous is the situation for both china and thing. well it's not the first such a cure and so we've had similar situations before and every time there was a brawl bill with information they're trying years ago a month is very unwilling to share information with its own citizens and with the russian authorities all saw so basically we would see a real test to my mind for russia chinese relations that is difficult to gauge really was going on to a lack of information but how effective would you say our chinese officials in tackling this problem and what could russia do to help them and. where would some very delicate diplomatic matter because all that is there there are a lot of forces in the walled primarily of the u.s. who are interested in seoul and russia chinese relations it's no secret that basically a russia wants chinese american relations to do so and the united states wants

russian chinese relations. basically russia will be very cautious in any diplomatic moves on this issue. what chinese authorities are sort of to for russian diplomats and officials but obviously there is a lot of discontent in russia and the russian government. environmental disasters to their spiel into russian territory from china and this is just one more such a guru and let's hope that the problem will be resolved and the chinese government will share with our small brokerage informational dimitri let's talk about the fact that. this is not the first time that this is happening does this an industrial incidence of this kind in china causing environmental problems for its neighbors seem to be something that happens fairly frequently why is it not learning from its problems mistakes in mending its way. well because unfortunately china is not

a very democratic country everyone knows there are usually a loft when i read the new york times for example that it's preferable to deal with china not with russia because china is somehow. better than russia russia is a more democratic country when something happens in russia usually information is more just it's more accessible than the information from chinese authorities just it has been this way for a long time and obviously there are a lot of environmental disasters koeppen in china the same thing happened two years ago again it was a rebirth. ways to was spilled into a river and russia had enormous problems with that. obviously or we're not learning from the past because it's the nature of chinese state so that cannot be changed in a few years well let's move away from the politics of all this and focus on the environmental side china is facing undue usually massive floods at the moment and

central russia is struck by almost precedented he way do you think that this proves climate change is happening. i'm not sure because climate change is a it's not a lean year affair there is no decline steady decline or steady increase in temperatures. it's always. changes from year to year these winter was very cold as you may remember but the summer is exceptionally warm so basically i don't think there is any scientific proof that we can predict down bridges increasing in the near future what we can do is just to see what happens and try to prepare for the wast in the winter and in the summer came to me too many thanks feel for song that was being babiche a journalist in the russian profile magazine joining us. activists are claiming the massive leak of u.s.

military documents on afghanistan is an unlock the beginning of the end of international intervention in the water country the files posted online by wiki leaks suggest the situation on the ground is far from the official picture the panels and pages details the video in death at the hands of nato troops as well as concerns pakistani intelligence could be helping the taliban call to end the war and growing louder in many countries including the u.k. auntie's lore and its better former british soldier whose refusal to fight cost him his freedom. this is the soldier who said no to the to boo speaking out against the conflict while he called it illegal and unjustifiable his advice to the government so i would say listen to the people it's a simple as that. people want to know the morning with. these conflicts. you know the call of will to fall off the wagon which was the message which spin so i can fusion the story so i 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 which he claims he was bullied when he heard he was being sent back to afghanistan gone 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 mother says that exposes the hypocrisy of the conflict bring them democracy we've got freedom of speech we're fighting to introduce you to afghanistan the lock somebody up speaking of. the lenten paid a price for his outspokenness in the notorious military jail the glass house he thinks the reason it wasn't long go was to avoid it. public 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 taken 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 was fantastic so you know the only time i think of for a long for the first night when the trust and also that. correction are so much more the. jews become the poster boy for the stop the war coalition thank you is 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 time strophe for the people involved going to start a more and more young british men and women are being sent out to risk their lives for a war that only the politicians support and even in private they know it's a disaster joe blanton story is k because it comes straight from the front line as

do the ninety thousand documents released this week showing the van as troops 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. london. president a heat wave sweeping russia continues unabated with july already the hottest month on record as a result of the heat. choking infix mark to go to come off reports from the heart of the problem. fires have spread well across the 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. fires especially which are really tricky because they can go on for months in 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 firefighters see that the consul even see new sources of 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 it would 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 say that the temperatures make cool down a little bit during the weekend we me even see a little bit of rain but they say also that dry weather is going to return next week of course with this the heat meaning plus the smoke and especially the fumes in big cities create really difficult and dangerous living conditions were sure there were that open sun because this sun is a little sort of dangerous for the homes for the skin and it increases the body temperature and smoke of course itself is there are so dangerous but there's also for the products. cardboard look i'm going to call it the mother talks a product so sure there would open spaces people living in the areas affected by the smoke and the huge trying to do anything to cope with these conditions drinking a lot of water there are actually month long queues for air conditioning only in

moscow many people try 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 for the moscow region now is the governor says she was against a federal ruling to restrict sections of the state's controversial immigration bill the decision to revoke parts of the legislation came just hours before it was due to come into force the court blocked the sections of insisted immigration papers when to give our time and that allow police to question people over their status it came out of the u.s. government's or the legislation desert federal authorities or critics claim that will lead to racial profiling. a french mother has been charged with murder leads home the bodies of a newborn baby on her property she's admitted to the crime dominick up close is the

husband has been freed without charge police were alerted to the new owners of the house the couple. found bones a bird in the gulf the bodies of infants wrapped in plastic were eventually discovered there in the couple's current home. in pakistan at least nineteen people have been killed the worst flooding in decades rivers a burst their banks during monsoon rains washing away in streets and putting severe strain on a dam in the northwest of the country hundreds of thousands were left stranded as a rescuer struggled to reach far flung. time now to explore some of the many treasures of russia as we take a tour around the country bringing you a snapshot of this very sad trysting places.

where they start which also the luger region founded in the mid fourteenth century is just two hundred kilometers away from moscow famous for its space exploration and scientific research is a sponsible for a number of high second pulses of engineering and electronics in recent years google has also become one of the centers of the russian with native industry attracting a number of major foreign companies companies make about silverware to meet some ex-pats to find out just why the region such a good place for business. we are not to me 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 to work of the full tree and were among the first expanse to settle down and color. the only brazilian in cold water everywhere i go and i say i'm from brazil you. of course they get

this cheery 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 specially if we are talking as a foreigner here move or not a herald certainly turned hats locally when they drove the german car john's first russian made vehicle of the production line russians proud of russia being russian at the same time we see. a reserve asia in towards products made in russia so we work on that and everybody what we do has the same quality as we used to form germany from czechia become twenty was an early bird to place its bets on the region bets worth one billion dollars on seven hundred ten as it built a whole industrial park something which would be unlikely closer to jus to higher

costs are to come makers will halt on their tail lights today it 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 local life ation it is no longer just the car assembly as it was four years ago these parts parts are built with russian hands and ultimately will be built what the russians do you. unlike we're not and harold well desegregate was born in cali but in a way he also stands out from his three thousand chorley he was recruited from a local orphanage frequently out of work sylvia 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 ultimate. the manager i see perspectives from reference to more and

more companies are opening up in the region. if it were not he was behind the idea to employ orphans to set up a women's club in ca luger which among other projects too 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 about 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. r t. ok that is the way the news is if our hair ass here but i go away steffy say with all the latest this is the fourth.

hello and welcome to the business bulletin here on r.t. the government will offload shares in state companies even if the budget doesn't need the money it's announced it will sell eight major companies which is fewer than expected and the earliest date for a cell will be next year the economic development minister said privatization will help build a competitive economy but that would get us started. these would be fairly big companies possibly banks partially our companies from the fuel and energy sector privatization will be a means not to need to track too 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. smaller companies may prove attractive to individual investors have the government will have to work hard to allay their fears of renationalisation according to lick of

i.h.s. global insight. in some sense it doesn't come across as a true privatization it's only partial however the government has indicated that there are over five thousand companies that they're willing to sell now most of these companies own much smaller and they're not of strategic importance or limited strategic importance and i believe in most of these cases if the fleet will be full privatizing renationalisation fear is probably one of the big east obstacles for foreign investors into venturing gratia there is the fear of their wells the government feels more confident but they really resort to so-called crippling nationalization when they used to regularly jury to force steve foreign investors out and indeed there is these danger so the government needs to provide better investment protection mechanism to form your best years are

a bit wary that if they invest and if they have a conflict with the state and they decide to take the case to court the court the judicial system which largely remains politically dependent or will probably side with the state so the fear of nationalization is there and the state has to take some steps to provide guarantees that it will not happen even with two companies the romanov mortgage agency dropped from the privatization program will be the biggest such initiatives since the early one nine hundred ninety s. as you know i didn't read it for 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 districts 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 there from the 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 the in the general south because usually 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 while government convention to increase flu flood of the state run 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 to talk about the large states like cross nafta. probably of course going to be a more. realistic so it's. some effort on the government

of a serious effort for. 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 really see the government has a choice it can sell weak 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. thankee actually markets finished high here in moscow on thursday climbing mood. when one hawk assigned to each and she names and facts lead to games with gas from. all outperforming. russian internet and facebook investor digital sky technologies plans to sell a stake of up to twenty five percent the i.p.o. is scheduled to take place in london next year. and that's often the business team

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since tanks. on the right left. right. to kill an entry. for the full story we've got it for us the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. russia is also. alert after chinese floods washed thousands of barrels of highly explosive chemicals into a river officials say they could be across the russian border within a week. reports from south korea claim a russian investigation has exonerated the normal from blame over the sinking of

the southern warship with this cancer's findings by u.s. inquiry which concluded a north korean torpedo sunk the ship. fictitious sounds embarrassing british peace activist slammed the afghan strategy following the massive leak of u.s. military secrets they claim the revelations of mistakes and cover ups will feel the end of the. nose so my love again last go is record breaking temperatures he stopped by capitol sparking fires and covering the city in a shroud of smaug july has become the hottest month on record. ok that we more world news than a little under thirty minutes time with my colleague bill dolled. up next we've got a report on the swap at the top of battles b.p. is coming under scrutiny a former broker max kinds of us up next to go away.