on the north east of a country in a subsidiary river in the river which is a subsidiary to the more 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 to assessment so for ten show 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 told 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 a one hundred tons of benzene swarm froome from china through the same waters passing by some major russian far east in c.t. such as how bought a scan the come someone is going on with the chemicals in the barrels a 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 they are tied to 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 does can cause small be kept in humid conditions at. see beer burns for people or animals and the second

kind is a substance that is he that is used to increase more through cooled 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 . reporting journalist dimitri babich from russia profile magazine told r.t. the chinese industrial incidents like this one are affecting the country's relations with russia. obviously there is a lot of discontent in russia and russian government. environmental disasters that spiel into russian territory from china it's not the first such a cure and so we've had similar situations before and every time that it was a brawl with information chinese government is very unwilling to share information

with its own citizens and with russian authorities also let's hope that the problem will be resolved and the chinese government will share with our small appropriate information the same thing happened three years ago when again it was a river waste that was spilled into russia had enormous problems with that so the nature of chinese state that cannot be changed in a few years. and that was journalist to me babbage from russia magazine speaking a little earlier to. well coming away this hour is all report on the dangers of the heat wave that's taking over the whole of russia. he's got all the tips from the experts on how to deal with what's become the country's hottest month on record. but first a south korean newspaper is claiming russian investigators have found north korea did not know one of the south's warships the report which russia has not confirmed

says the vessel hit a mine the churn sank off the korean peninsula march with the loss of forty six sailors an early u.s. backed international investigation found pyongyang responsible but russia sent its own team of investigators to the region last month north korea maintains it had nothing to do with the incident and investigative journalist wayne madsen 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. 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. 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 we're unfortunately already involved with and that was investigative journalist and contributor to wayne madsen appeal to redskin from the diplomatic academy of the russian foreign ministry believes despite the high tension the chances of an actual war limited. both north and south korea perspective of a war as mutually assured destruction if a conflict were to erupt the korean peninsula would be economically devastated besides neighboring china has no interest in a war in its borders either nuclear or not. and that was appealed to redskin from the diplomatic academy of the russian foreign ministry. british antiwar activists are claiming the massive leak of u.s. military documents on afghanistan is

a moment marks the beginning of the end of international intervention in the country the posted online by wiki leaks suggest the situation on the ground is far from the official picture ninety thousand pages details civilian deaths at the hands of nato troops as well as concerns that pakistani intelligence could be helping the taliban calls to end the war and are growing louder in many countries including. from a former british soldier whose refusal to fight his freedom. this is the soldier who said no speaking out against the conflict one he calls illegal and unjustifiable his advice to the government. to simply. people in the morning with. this conflict. you know the call of will fall off the wagon which was the message which confusion the story. 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 hopes gone dead 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 it to afghanistan and the lock somebody up to speak in. 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 a public outcry which could have brought on an examination of the war he says. time along with other soldiers who he says were with him all the way on the stand he'd

taken. you know i was so much support from from my fellow prisoners it was fantastic and so much mildness one point when i was going to under the time to is fantastic so you know the only time i think of for a long tour the first night when. i was directing are so much for the. jews become a poster boy for the stop the war coalition. 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 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 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 make nor nor emmett's r.t. . well still to come on the program the latest in russia a close up series we'll take you to the city of kaluga near moscow to find out what drives some ex-pats to live. but first the unprecedented heat wave sweeping russia continues unabated with july already the hottest month on record as a result of the heat. moscow is now choking in thick smog. reports now from the heart of 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 the forest fires and pete 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 a myth 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 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 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 sun because this sun is still sort of dangerous for the house for the school that it increases the body temperature and smoke of course itself is there are so dangerous but there's also for the products. the fire onboard were going to one of the side and other types of products so sure there were open spaces

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 there are actually month long queues for air conditioning clearly 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 i'm now around ninety kilometers away from moscow the conditions here in the situation here is not that much better. artie's you got a position of reporting from the moscow region. authorities say one hundred forty people have died in the democratic republic of congo after a boat capsized the tragedy happened on the river in the west of the country rescue workers are searching for dozens who are still missing and officials say the boat was overloaded with cargo and passenger. a french mother has been charged with murder of to police found the bodies of a newborn babies on her property she's admitted to the crime dominique is husband has been freed without charge police were alerted after the new owners of

a house the couple had lived in from bones buried in the garden the bodies of infants wrapped in plastic were eventually discovered there and the couple's current. arizona's governor says she will appeal against a federal ruling to restrict sections of the state's controversial new immigration law the decision to revoke parts of the legislation came just hours before it's due to come into force the court blocked the section that insisted immigration papers would be carried at all times that allow police to question people over their status it came after the u.s. government said the legislation usurped federal authority critics claim to nor will lead to racial profiling. also. in pakistan at least ninety people have been killed during the worst flooding in decades rivers burst their banks during monsoon rains russian elite streets and putting severe strain on a dam in the northwest of the country hundreds of thousands were left stranded as rescuers struggle to reach far flung digits. well time now to explore

some of the many treasures of russia as we take a tour around the country bringing a snapshot of its most interesting places. and this time we travel to the committee the region founded in the 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 high tech advances engineering electronics in recent years because it has also become one of the centers of the russian automotive industry trucked in a number of major foreign companies. went to meet some experts to find out just why the region such a good place to business. for a long time carlo has been primarily associated when it comes back to the maverick scientists find you have to work on rockets the region was dropped big crater

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 today called logan's one of russia's hotspots for foreign investment we met some of the exports managers working here to find out how they do that business and cope with that every day lives here. renate may be afraid of horses but she's not afraid of horse power every day she handles one hundred forty and has been harrowed drives just as many the to work of the full country and were among the first expanse to settle down and. the only brazilian couple good 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 foreigner we are talking as

a foreigner here moving on to harold certainly turned hats locally when they drove the german cars. giants first fully russian made vehicle all the production line russians proud of russia being russian at the same time we see these reserve ation towards products made in russia so we work on that and everybody. has the same quality as we use to form it's from germany from. the company was an early birds to place its bets on the region bats worth one billion dollars on seven hundred tech tears and built a whole industrial park something which would be unlikely closer to moscow juta higher costs are to come a cause were heartened 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 four x. martins car parts this is not just the biggest german investment in russia but also an example of a life asian it is no longer just a car assembly as it was four years ago this is the part parts are built with russian hands and ultimately it will be built what the russians steve. unlike renate and harold welder sergei was born in congress 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 reference to more and more companies are opening up in the region which. we're not who was behind the idea to employ orphans to set up a women's club in kabul which among other projects to patronage of local orphanage

is government does a lot and also private. but. to eighteen years old they are on the streets and what can we do so if we give quotes one day it's worn out so we thought that. beginning your project it's not about giving money or giving things but. for them to grow their 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 our children r t. well i just remind you we're online twenty four hours a day dot com where we have plenty of other stories for you to discover here's a selection of what's on our website right now it's dot com the phantom islamic pales in france hasn't gone unnoticed by extremist groups including al qaida that's

called the move an attack on islam. also on the web site has been the subject of films and books but will new clues finally solve a hundred year old mystery just what happened to a doomed russian expedition to the arctic in one nine hundred twelve. with a look at our main stories in about eight minutes from now in the meantime the business update is next with stephanie. hello and welcome to the business bulletin here on motty 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 sale will be next year the economic development minister said privatization will

help build a competitive economy but the would get. these would be fairly big companies possibly banks partially our companies from the fuel and energy sector privatization will be a means not only of the trucking money into the budget which is very important film 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 live. of i.h.s. global insight. in some says 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 are willing to sell now most of

these companies own much smaller and they are not of strategic importance or limited strategic importance and i believe in most of these cases if it will be full protestation renationalisation fear is probably one of the big east obstacles for foreign investors into venturing russia there is the fear of their wells the government feels more confident but they really resort to so-called crippling nationalization when they used regularly to revisionist to force steve foreign investors out and indeed there is the danger so the government needs to provide better investment protection mechanism for new best years are a bit wary that if they vest 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 what probably sided 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 roman opry and mortgage agency dropped from the privatization program will be the biggest such initiatives since the early one nine hundred ninety s. as you know diverted for reports. if you want some of the russia's blue chips well general snifter of the largest banks bear bank now is the time some call it the biggest privatization since the ninety's but it's not huge clear which by the government targets therefore we're talking. with minorities and this is much different from what we have seen the in russia taking place in mind his or group of disease. in the general tso's because usually when we're talking about truth they should. say or persons for strategic investors so i think that in russia's case now we're really talking wild government convention think with flu

proof lord 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 to provoke about the large stakes for across nafs. probably of course want to be on a more. realistic so it's. some effort from the government for serious efforts or. 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 only 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. basically acting markets finished high here in moscow on thursday climbing more than one half percent each energy names and banks let the games with gas from. all out before make. russian internet and facebook investor digital sky technologies plans to sell a stake of up to twenty five percent of the i.p.o. is scheduled to take place in london next year and that's over the business scene for now but of course you can always find more stories on our website that's r.t. dot com slash.

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a north korean torpedo sunk the vessel. uncovering change british peace campaigners say the afghan war could take a u. turn after the exposure of u.s. military secrets detailing mistakes and coverups they claim the league proves the reasoning behind the war was fictitious and embarrassing. and far from a breath of fresh air here in moscow with temperatures breaking records on a daily basis causing fires and small july's become the hottest month ever. in less than fifteen minutes from now in the meantime a former agent of israeli intelligence has spoken to r.t. about his day's hunting nazi war criminals he also shared with. his opinion on what president obama needs to do about iran and how israel can settle its differences with palestinians our exclusive interview is next on r.t. .