in a subset the river 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 are 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 ofa 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 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 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 waters passing by some major russian far east in c.t.'s such as how bought us and come 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 they were 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 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 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. russians and the nature in the region. reporting a journalist dmitri babich from russia profile magazine total a two year chinese industrial incidents like this one are affecting the country's relations with russia. obviously there is a lot of discontent in russia and the russian government. environmental disaster so 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 there was a brawl with information the 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 improper information the same thing happened three years ago again it was a rework toxic waste was spilled into. enormous problems with that so the nature of chinese state that cannot be changed in a few years. and that was journalist to me to be babich from russia profile magazine speaking to our team. while they're coming your way is a report on the dangers of this summer's scorching heat wave all t's got a few tips from the expense of how to stay cool in blistering heat. first a south korean newspaper is claiming russian investigators have found north korea did not talk paedo one of the south's warships the report which russia has not confirmed says the vessel hit a mine the chin and sank off the korean peninsula in march with the loss of forty

six sailors an early u.s. backed international investigation found pyongyang responsible north korea maintains it had nothing to do with the incident russia sent his own team of investigators to the region last month foreign policy analyst stephen gallons tells me that the results of the international report were don't feel. there is a large opposition within south korea to the idea that north korea is responsible for the sinking of the ship to lead government is not a government that is interested in peaceful coexistence with north korea. is to see the collapse of north korea and its absorption into the so. it's also so. especially as 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 a north korean submarine could have been operating in the shallow waters which is which. is incredible and in fact the former 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 and that was foreign policy analyst steven gallons when we all suspected has been from the diplomatic economy of the russian foreign minister and he believes that despite the high tensions on the korean peninsula there is little chance of conflict could break out. both north and south korean 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 on its borders either nuclear or not. and that was has been from the diplomatic academy of the russian foreign ministry. the 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 nine hundred thousand pages details civilian deaths of the hands of nato troops as well as concerns pakistani intelligence could be helping the taliban calls to end the war now growing louder in many countries including the u.k. . emmitt smith a former soldier a british soldier who's refusal to fight his freedom. this is the soldier who said no to the speaking out against the conflict one he called it illegal and unjustifiable his advice to the government was i would say listen so people it's

a simple as that you know people want to know the morning with. these conflicts. you know the call of will to fall off the wagon as far as the message which spin cycle fusion the song so it's time 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 said 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. charges to does said which. carries a ten year prison sentence martha says that exposes the hypocrisy of the conflict bringing democracy we've got freedom of speech we're fighting when do you should understand in the middle of some deep speaking you. know mr 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 served his time along with other soldiers who he says will with him all the way on the stand he taken. you know so much support from from my fellow prisoners it was fantastic and so much mildness one point i was going to under leisure time was fantastic so you know the only time i think of how long before the first. and also that i still reckon on. juries become a 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 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. tax 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 ok because it comes straight from the front line as do the ninety thousand documents released this week showing the varnas truths of a bloody conflicts and going by clinton's account of the support he received from other soldiers during his time in prison there is this sense 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 r.t. the latest in our series we take you to the city kaluga. go to find out what drives some ex-pats to live there. first the unprecedented heat wave sweeping russia continues unabated with july already the hottest month on record as

a result of the heat fires me 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 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 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 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 the heat meaning the smoke and especially the fumes in big cities create really difficult and dangerous living conditions were sure there were at the open sun because this sun is also the interest for the homes for the skin

and it increases the body temperature and smoke of course itself is also of interest but there's a role for for our products and for. 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 only in moscow many people try to leave the city thinking that the conditions in the outdoors may be a little bit better but you can see around me and around ninety kilometers away from moscow the conditions here in the situation here is not much better. reporting from the moscow region but already 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 officials say the boat was

overloaded with cargo and passengers. a french father has been charged with killing eight of her newborn babies she's admitted to the crime cortez's husband has been freed without charge police were alerted after the new owners of a house the couple had lived in a farm bones buried in the garden the bodies of infants wrapped in plastic were eventually discovered at the couple's current home. 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 blocks the section that insisted immigration papers would be carried at all times and police to question people over their status after the u.s. government said the legislation usurped federal authority could explain the lead to racial profiling. 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 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 in engineering electronics recent years polluters also become one of the centers of the russian automotive industry attracting a number of major foreign companies. or to katrina went to meet some experts to find out just why the region's such a good place for business. for a long time kahlo has been primarily associated with. maverick scientists go on you have to work on rockets the region was dropped big kwaito astronauts 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 colloquies one of russia's hotspots 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. renate may be afraid of horses but she's not afraid of horse power every day she handles one hundred forty and her husband her own drives just as many the two work of the country and where among the first expanse to settle down and. the only brazil getting colder everywhere i go and i say i'm from brazil of course i get this cheery and people talk about football and paling 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 and we are talking as a foreigner here moving on to harold's certainly turned hats locally. when they

drove the german car giant's first fully russian made vehicle the production line russians. proud of russia being russian at the same time. reserve a share in towards products made in russia so we work on that everybody . has the same quality. we use to form germany from chickie 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 jus to higher costs are to come a cause will halt on their tail lights today home to bobo peugeot citroen and renault just recently is still stamping factory was open and now it caters for all full car parts this is not just the biggest german investment in buffalo but also

an example of the life they should it is no longer chaffed the car assembly as it was four years ago these car parts are built with washing hands and ultimately they'll be built what the russians steve. and like are not and harold well desegregate was born in congress but in a way he also stands out from his three thousand chorley he was recruited from a local orphanage frequently out of work service says he's now driven to succeed but i want to stay and work here if they give me a chance to grow i would like to become a foreman and ultimately a manager i see perspectives from my friends to more and more companies are opening up in the region what. renate 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 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 your project there it's not about giving money or giving things but given 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 a virtue over r t. a man has been detained after reports of a hijacking attempt at moscow's domodedovo airport. a passenger on an incoming flight was allegedly to moderate a meeting with russia's leadership not that picky have claimed he had important information on chechnya to disclose he was arrested by special forces who succeeded in entering the aircraft in medical uniforms the plane was on a domestic flight from russia's north caucuses to moscow. just let you know as well

as being on screen twenty four hours a day we're also learning that twenty four hours a day that's on our website dot com where we have plenty of other stories for you to discover here's a sort of selection of what's on our web site right now ice skating or skiing might not be the first summer activity that comes to mind but amazingly the muscovites these days is actually a way they can call their own as the temperatures people rising here. but it's been the subject of films and books but will new clues finally solve a hundred year old mystery just what happened to do the russian expedition to be arctic in one thousand nine hundred twelve. brings up stay for the moment twenty one of the half minutes past the hour in the russian capital but with

a look at the main news in the bout minutes from now business 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 if the would get 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 many 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 lick 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're not of strategic importance or limited strategic importance and i believe in most of these cases it will be for probably 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 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 this danger so the government needs to provide

better investment protection miccolis deforming best is 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 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 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 i didn't read it for reports. if you want some of the rushes blue chips well general sniff to see the largest bank now is the time some call it the biggest privatization since the ninety's but it's not yet clear which players to go and target there for although we're talking about really the minority 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 sounds because usually when we're talking about truth they show some 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 of 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 it would look about the large stakes like for us and they have to. probably of course want to be on the more. very large stake so it's. some effort from the government over serious effort for.

from the companies make them sort of 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 privatisation 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 a cent each energy names and banks let the games with gas from. all out before make . russian internet and facebook invested 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 most stories on our website that's r.t.

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british peace campaigner war could take a new. after the exposure of u.s. military secrets detailing mistakes and cover ups. on next here on the swap of the top of embattled b.p. comes under the scrutiny of former. that's in his cause a report stay with us. so i'm for the kaiser report with me max kaiser and see her tell us some of the stories please well max let's start with this one congratulations to enemies of box office futures cantor fitzgerald has laid off its entire staff who are the enemies identified in the headline by joe wiesenthal at business insider you mad.