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 de mon did the assessments ofa ten show environmental consequences of this from that 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 or 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 however this is not the first time that russia might have to deal with the consequences of

a natural disaster caused by china back in two thousand and five a one hundred songs of benzene froome from china through the same waltzers passing by some major russian far east in cities such as how bought a scan the km 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 liquids 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 more tyga for example leaves 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 pure but has a very toxic smell and boils in very low temperatures and does can cause small be 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 more 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. from the world wide from from. the danger posed to russia's far east is being exaggerated. just woke up one of the substances in the barrels is a poison that can cause burns to eyes and skin it's stable and dry form but when it comes into contact with moisture it becomes very dangerous so if it gets into the water it could not be used without purification and more than a million people in russia's far east depend on the water from them but still far there have been no reports of any leaks from the down. or coming your way here on

this our report on the dangers of this summer school ching heatwave he's going to look tips from the experts how to stay cool in the blistering heat. but first a south korean newspaper is claiming russian investigators have found north korea did not talk paedo one of the south's warships they report which russia has not confirmed says the vessel hit a mine. sank off the korean peninsula in march with the loss of forty six sailors and then earlier u.s. backed international investigation found pyongyang responsible north korea maintains it had nothing to do with the incident russia sent its own team of investigators to the region last night and foreign policy analyst stephen go and says the results of the international reports were doubtful. there is a large opposition within south korea to the idea that in fact north korea is responsible for the sinking of the ship the lead government is not a government that is interested in peaceful coexistence with north korea it's

a is to see the collapse of north korea and its absorption into the so. it's also suspicious that the south korean government's report was released on the eve of gubernatorial and local elections the opposition parties have found that to be rather suspicious there's also the case that. the idea that the north korean submarine could have been operating in the shallow waters in which the chief. is incredible that in fact the four. chief of naval staff of south korea in the days immediately following the sinking brought this to the attention of south koreans he said it's impossible to think that a north korean submarine was operating in those waters it's just not the kind of waters in which any submarine can operate so the russian naval report is consistent with what a lot of people in south korea believe which is that north korea hasn't been

responsible for this thinking well that was a foreign policy and a steven gallons talking a bit earlier on that we also spoke to people from the diplomatic academy of the russian foreign ministry he believes that despite the high tensions on the korean peninsula there is little chance an armed conflict could break out. 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 devastating decides neighboring china has no interest in a war on its borders either nuclear or not. and that was given from the diplomatic academy of the russian foreign ministry a british antiwar 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 the files posted online by wiki

leaks suggest the situation on the ground is far from the official picture and ninety thousand pages details civilian deaths at the hands of nato troops as well as concerns pakistani intelligence could be helping the taliban calls to end the war and they are growing louder in many countries including the u.k. emmitt smith a former british soldier who's refusal to fight his freedom. is the soldier who said no to the speaking out against the conflict one he calls illegal and unjustifiable his advice to the government also i would say listen to people as simple as. people want to make the morning with. these conflicts. you know the call of will fall off the wagon as far as the message which spin cycle fusion the story so i want to start listening to a 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 taste charges to desertion which carries a ten year prison sentence joe's mother says that exposes the hypocrisy of the conflict bring in dr said we've got freedom of speech we're fighting to introduce you to afghanistan and then lock somebody up speaking in. benton paid a price for his outspokenness in the notorious military jail the glass house he thinks the reason it was a. longer 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 will with him all the way on the stand he taken some cigars around the train was unbelievable i was so much support from from my fellow prisoners it was fantastic and so much mildness one point when it

was going to under she was fantastic so you know the only time i think a fellow long for the first. and after that i still reckon on so much what i was trying to do is become the poster boy for the stop the war coalition. with a hero's welcome following his release from prison someone they consider brave and principled well i mean shouldn't 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 defeat 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 only the politicians support and even in private they know it's a disaster joe blanton story is because it comes straight from the front line as do the ninety thousand documents released this week showing the unvarnished truth of a bloody complex 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 making nor nor emmett's r.t. . well still to come on the program here in the latest in russia close up series we'll be taking to the city of kanuga its near moscow to find out what drives some ex-pats to live there. but first the president and heat wave sweeping russia continues unabated already the hottest month on record as a result of the heat bog far as meaning that moscow's now choking in thick smog. reports now from 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 exceed last year's fires by two terms 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 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 matter which have been also caused by this heat and the dry weather many lakes and many springs have simply evaporated and stories have told us that they often have to build special type 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 still long as this extremely hot and dry weather continues and forecast you 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 with this heat meeting plus the small and especially the rooms in big cities really difficult and dangerous living conditions were sure there were at the open sun because of this sun is also dangerous for the homeless for this period that it increases the body temperature and smoke of course itself is also religious parties are also for products for. one of the other types of products sure there were. people living in the areas affected by the small hand 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 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. 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 passengers. a french mother has been charged with killing eight of her newborn babies she's admitted to the crime many countries as husband has been freed without charge 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 and at the couple's current home. arizona's governor says she appealed 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 was due to come into force the court blocked the section that insisted immigration papers were to be carried at all times that of the police to question people over their status came after the u.s. government said the legislation usurped federal authority critics claim will lead to racial profiling. well the 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. 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 high tech advances imaging the ring and electronics in recent years

because it has also become one of the centers of the russian automotive industry attracting a number of major foreign companies authors covering the job or went to meet some experts to find out just why the region such a good place for this. for a long time kahlo has been primarily as so it was stated where. the maverick scientists were finding out what on rockets the region was dubbed big crater astronautics but what are the good transportation links to the capital that with a population of just over a million people the region has definitely room to grow today colorways one of russia's hot spots for foreign investment we met some of the exports managers working here to find out holiday do that business and cope with that every day lives here. we're not in maybe afraid of horses but she's not afraid of course paula every day she handles one hundred forty and her husband

harold drives just as many the to work of the full country and were among the first expanse to settle down in ca logan the only brazilian in ca will go everywhere i go and i say i'm from brazil you. of course i 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 as a foreigner we are talking as affordable here mover not a herald certainly turned hats locally when they drove the german car john's first 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 income between everybody.

has the same quality. we used to form germany from czechia the company was an early bird to place its bets on the region bats worth one billion dollars on seven hundred ten as it built a whole industrial park something which would be unlikely closer to moscow juta higher costs are become a cause 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 margins car parts this is not just the biggest german investment in russia but also an example of local life patient it is no longer traffic car assembly as it was four years ago these car parts are built with russian hands and ultimately will be built what the russians do you. unlike renate and harold welder sergei was born in cali but in

a way he also stands out from his we 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. manager i see perspectives from reference to more and more companies are opening up in the regional world. renowned he was behind the idea to include orphans to set up a women's club in kabul which among other projects to patronage of local. 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 to deliver our children r t come good. we're just remind you we're online twenty four hours a day at t.v. dot com where we have plenty of other stories for you to discover there's a selection of what's on our website right now ice skating or skiing might not be the first summer activity that comes to mind but amazingly for muscovites these days it's actually a way they can call their own as the temperatures rise. and it's 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 back in one thousand nine hundred twelve those stories and plenty of other features online at all to dot com.

well that brings up to date format of about with her coming stories in about nine minutes from now in the meantime it's time to have a look at the world of business with stephanie stay with us for that. hello and welcome to the business bulletin here on lofty 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 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 means not only the trucking money 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 a 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 they are not of strategic importance or limited strategic importance and i believe in most of this cases if it will be for pro taxation 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 that they really resort to so-called crippling

nationalization when they used regularly to review measures to force steve foreign investors out and indeed there is the danger so the government needs to provide better investment protection mechanisms for you best as arabic and 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 are largely remains politically dependent of what probably signed 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 help even with two companies the real monopoly on mortgage agency dropped from the privatization program will be the biggest such initiatives since the early one nine hundred ninety s. as you know dimon fatta for reports. if you want some of the rushes blue chips well general sniffed 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 about. minorities and this is much different from what we have seen in russia taking place in the mind is or group of disease. in the general sense because usually when we're talking about truth they sure would seem some sales person supposed to invest this so i think that in russia 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 we're talking about bill large stakes

for across nafs. probably of course going to be a more. realistic so it's. some form of government probably 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 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. likely acting markets finished high here in moscow on thursday climbing more than one percent each energy names and banks lead the games with gas from. all performing. 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 over the business team for now but of course you can always find more stories on our website that's r.t. dot com slash business.

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much. we're here live in moscow twenty four hours a day we are our t.v. time now talk to you in our main news stories this hour russia's on toxic talk to chinese floods washed thousands of barrels of highly explosive chemicals into a major river officials say they could be across the russian border within a week. who's to blame south korean reports suggest that russia could prove pyongyang is not guilty of the sinking of a sudden warship is count as findings by u.s.

backed inquiry which concluded 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 proves the reasoning behind the war was fictitious and embarrassing. far from a breath of fresh air here in moscow with temperatures breaking records on a daily basis causing fires and small has become the hottest months ever. lobbied back with another update of those stories and less than fifteen minutes from now the meantime a former agent of mossad 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 that's our exclusive interview next on r.t. stay with us for that.