has been any leakage of chemicals out of those barrels which russian authorities have already do monday the assessments of potential environmental consequences of this 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 them out of several thousands 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 do with the consequences of a natural disaster caused by china that can 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 a very toxic if they're not taking out of the water and if they're easy leakage they will be dangerous for both the nature of humans and the wildlife because the

area of the region they're around they are more river is surrounded by many reservations where a very rare animal such as they were tied to for example leaf as for the chemicals themselves there are two kinds of chemicals that we know of that there is their first line is the liquid substance that is see through that is looks completely bura but has a very toxic smell and boils in very low temperatures and does can cause small if kept in humid conditions and see deer burns for people or animals and the second kind is a substance that is that is used to increase water 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

. that's. reporting that south korean newspaper is claiming russian investigators have found north korea did not talk of the south so warships the report which russia has not confirmed says the vessel hit a mine and sank off the korean peninsula launch for the most of forty six soldiers sailors i should say and the u.s. backed international investigation found pyongyang responsible north korea maintains it had nothing to do with the incident and russia sent its own team of investigators to the region last month foreign policy and the stephen gallons told me earlier that the results of the international report don't feel. 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 south. 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 a north korean submarine could have been operating in the shallow waters in which the cheering and sank 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 sinking. well that was foreign policy analyst stephen gallons . president heat wave sweeping russia continues unabated with july already the hottest month on record as

a result of the heat fires mean moscow's now choking in thick smog. reports now 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 deep underground in temperatures reaching eight hundred degrees celsius and then when it's hot and dry enough on the surface they can emerge and firefighter see that the consul even see new sources of fire new sources of smoke as they are fighting their current ways or their efforts are also being hampered by the water shortages which

is that 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 need even see a little bit of rain but they say also that dry weather is going to return next week of course with this heat meaning the small and especially the rooms in big cities really difficult and dangerous living conditions we're sure they're worried that open sun because this sun is also the injuries for the homes for the spirit

that it increases the body temperature and smoke of course itself is there are so dangerous but these are also for products for. prior. to one of the other types of products 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 as you can see around me and i am now around ninety kilometers away from the conditions here in the situation here is not 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 rescuers this is searching for dozens who are still missing officials say the boat was overloaded with cargo and passengers. in. a french mother has been charged with

killing eight of a newborn babies she's admitted to the crime husband has been freed without charge police were alerted after the new owners of a house the couple had lived in spirit in the garden the bodies of infants wrapped in plastic were eventually discovered there at the couple's current home. british antiwar activists are claiming the massive leak of u.s. military documents in afghanistan is an omen 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 one thousand pages details civilian deaths of the hands of nato troops as well as concerns that pakistani intelligence could be helping the taliban of course to end the war now growing louder in many countries including the u.k. parties nor emmitt smith a former british soldier whose refusal to fight it cost him his. power base is this

soldier who said no to the speaking out against the conflict one he called it illegal and unjustifiable his advice to the government so i would say listen some people just simply. people in the morning with. these conflicts. you know fall off the wagon which was the message which spin cycle fusion the song so it's time 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 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 charges to desertion which carries a ten year prison sentence. that exposes the hypocrisy of the conflict bringing

democracy we've got freedom of speech we're fighting to introduce understanding the lock somebody up speaking and. so lenten 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. my support from from my fellow prisoners it was fantastic and so much mildness one point when i was going to under those who died it was fantastic so i think a fellow along with the first. jews become the poster boy for this stop the war coalition thank you is welcome

following his release from prison 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 a. tax trophy 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 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 ignoring nor and that r.t. . arizona's governor says he'll 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 is due

to come into force a little later we crossing live. in arizona to talk more about that development. well now let's return to our story concerning afghanistan and the wiki leaks and we're going to be talking about this with neil's annan he's joining us from washington he's a senior fellow at the german marshall fund and i believe he is there with us now no he's not so we'll come to him a little later in the program sorry about this we're getting a few communication problems here but we hope to have a couple of guests from the states in the next few minutes here on r.t. one now time to explore some of the many treasures of russia as we take a tour around the country bringing you a snapshot of its most interesting places. well

this time we travel to the kaluga region founded in the fourteenth century and it's 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 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 countries and companies i should say what is country to coach over went to meet some ex-pats to find out just why the region's such a good place for business. we're not in maybe afraid of horses but she's not afraid of horse power every day she handles one hundred forty and has been her own drives just as many the to work up the full tree and were among the first expanse to settle down in ca logan the only brazilian calder everywhere i go and i say i'm from brazil of course i get this cheery people talk about football and paling so it's always positive maybe in such

a big city like moscow you are just one more in a crowd and here you stand out specially as a foreigner and we are talking as a foreigner here but we're not a herald certainly turned hats locally when they drove the german car johns first russian made vehicle the production line russians are proud of russia of being russian at the same time we see this reserve. towards products made in russia so we work on that everybody that what we do here is the same quality. we use to form it's from germany from chiquita the company was an early bird to place its bets on the region. bads worth one billion dollars on seven hundred ten as a build a whole industrial park something which would be unlikely closer to moscow juta higher costs are to come makers 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 folks margins car parts this is not just the biggest german investment in russia but also an example of what a life asian 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 we're not and harold well desegregate was born in color but in a way he also stands out from his thousand chorley 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 was. not who was behind the idea to employ orphans to set up

a women's club in which among other projects to patronage of local orphanage is government does a lot and also private. but after eighteen years old they are on the streets and what can we do so if we give clothes one day it's worn out so we thought that. beginning a project that 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 r.t. column good. well as we were reporting. a federal ruling to restrict sections of the state's controversial new immigration.

legislation just before is due to come into force we can. she is in arizona. at the moment what we were seeing a few hours ago were a lot. on the streets there a lot of what they were doing was practicing something called civil disobedience where they were basically getting arrested on purpose in order to get their message heard now what happened was the judge ruled that certain controversial provisions in law would not today so it was just a small victory for the hispanic community but they said that they have a long fight ahead of them now critics of the law say that those provisions which basically say about police officers can stop anyone that they suspect is in this country they say that. profiling and they're saying they don't want their state

their state of arizona. so what you saw was. people realize that they feel that is. in its entirety that. state here in arizona and perhaps all across the country. the governor of arizona says she's going to appear. to be. oh yeah i mean the legal troubles of this are not over this is a long road ahead you're going to see it go to the court and most likely the supreme court but that's not stopping the protesters here on the street. that they're about thirteen coming from. a area all over california. here in arizona people want to protest here and say that they don't want anything like this and act in their states because let's not forget twenty other states are considering similar legislation that can be very interesting to see what happens

and just moments ago we had six individuals locking the office of the quote unquote top to sheriff in america sheriff arpaio is a very controversial figure here in arizona he is definitely a villain to some and a hero to others so you had six people they were blocking his office as a show of both solidarity and also protests against him and things he's doing now just a week ago mark the seventeenth anniversary of something called the tent city which is basically an extension of the maricopa county jail and the sheriff sort of boasted that with a lot of pride that this would be the extension of the city what sort of serve for those people captured after today after july twenty ninth when the law is actually going into action or i do know we'll leave it there for the moment reporting live from arizona thanks very much indeed for that update. well that brings

you up to date for the moment. with a look at our main stories in about ten minutes from now in the meantime we talked to a former agent of israeli intelligence telling us about his days hunting nazi war criminals he also share. his opinion on what president obama needs to do about iran and how israel can circle its differences with the palestinians that's a special interview coming up next on the stands.

with me i have rough year time a former agent of the israeli secret service the mossad and the chairman of the national council for jewish restitution misstate and thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. earlier this year you said that in principle when there is a war on terror you conducted without principles you simply fighters in light of this how do you assess the current defense strategy of the american president barack obama well obama failed from the very beginning. by dialogue let's say iran is he able to. wean iran by dialogue i think you know they are writing in a cheat the game all the time now we's facing in and understanding iran

is pushing their war pushing with hizbullah pushing there or with hamas pushing fail in iraq the shia in iraq is the breakfast today. in the end of the iranian i would say that we are facing. when the americans will leave iraq we are facing the iran through the shia of iraq will win maybe i will dominate at least part of iraq some people say that today there is some. agreement between iran and turkey that the turkish will dominate there no than part of iraq including the colds and the

iranian the south part of iraq included back that what do you think should be done with the van he went both an israeli operation to take nothing iraqi nuclear reactor in one thousand nine hundred one do you think that a similar operation is feasible in iran today the situation today and this is regime even five years ago was completely different because iran from the very beginning developed few sites let's say more or less fifteen or twenty sites and not one side and from the very beginning they defended themselves in a way the one strike it's not enough so in practice the their way that was done. he knows

iraq twenty years ago twenty five years ago. is no valid today and the the only way either. first political way and second sanctions way sanction way if it's done correctly if everybody is taking part including russia i stress including russia including china if that's will happen iran will give up one of the former israeli prime ministers menachem begin appointed you as a top adviser on counterterrorism team think that is well sufficiently well enough with the problem of terror particularly in the years after the into find look we had there been any failures let's start from this we had many failures but we had also success today. look today. the

hamas from gaza in practice stopped most of the divinity a jew then some maria. our security is strong and therefore no tel or activity in practice on the bottom line we won can these measures continue indefinitely no no impossible we have to find a practical solution and to my opinion the. the palestinian authority of today is not able to sign. a real agreement they are not able because of the hamas and because of the pushing of the iranian we must to my opinion. to go to

some one sided solution to go we did one sided solution to go to the americans to agree with the american the borders of the one sided solution. to try to coordinate it with the palestinian authority but to move and to do it you let the team that captured alpha when what was the most difficult part of this operation well it was not difficult it was easy of perforation. it's a fact of life. i have done much more complicated or variations at the time that was the possibility to also capture the outfits doctor dr joseph mengele but you personally the child against doing this is this now a decision you request no i don't regret because that was the. operational

consideration i thought that we had a man in our hands and if we are going to do another. project in the same time when then at the end then we risk the first operation wanted to capture i mean for the state of israel you see the whole cast survivors. arrived to israel they did talk and when i smile and trial. it was on the air and every every evening you have from the news what happened in the trial and the news there were full of stories so the heart was open and they started talking they started how could they. as they say them saying leave again

recently the mossad was back in the headlines with allegations of falsifying passports and by do you think that the organization is still the same organization it was when you went volved. look. their ability for agents to communicate with their. headquarters is much much better today today you could. buy a major say in the anywhere in the world in very quick time and if you do it wisely nobody could know about it so times technology changing mr rafi a ton thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. thank you.

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a southern warship is qantas followed by us back to korea which concluded a north korean torpedo sunk the vessel. uncovering change british peace campaigners say the afghan war could taking u. turn off the exposure of u.s. military secrets detaining mistakes and coverups they claim the leak proves the reasoning behind the war was fictitious and embarrassing. well those are the headlines i'll be back with more news for in less than half an hour from now in the meantime technology update delves into the world of three d. and how it could soon be in all living rooms coming your way in just a moment stay with us. alone welcome to technology update three d. no need to worry about the glasses for this program as part of our.