and 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 the north korean submarine could have been operating in the shallow waters in which the cheering and sank is incredible that 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 that us foreign policy. is that i also spoke to razvan from the diplomats who don't have to be of the russian foreign ministry and he believes that despite the high tensions on the korean peninsula there's little chance and numbed conflict could break out. both north and south korean perspective 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 and its orders are either nuclear or not. you know there's plenty. of later in the hour our report on arizona's controversial immigration law. between

state and federal lawmakers heats up after the governor announces plans to appeal a court decision to strike down parts of the legislation. president obama has signed into law a fifty nine billion dollars war spending bill for the latest i'm going troop surge such as three billion will pay for an additional thirty thousand troops the rest will go on record struction and aid for veterans the bill did meet some resistance in congress when over one hundred democrats withdrew their support rather and this comes in the same week that wiki leaks released documents detailing civilian deaths at the hands of nato personnel the disclosure has increased calls to end the war in many countries including the u.k. . met a former british soldier whose refusal to fight cost him his freedom. this is the soldier who said no to the speaking out against the conflict while he called it illegal and unjustifiable his advice to the government so i was just simply.

people in the morning with. you know the call of will fall off the wagon which was the message which confusion the store so i 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 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 up to his charges to desertion which carries a ten year prison sentence joe's modest. that exposes the hypocrisy of the conflict bringing democracy we've got freedom of speech we're fighting to introduce it just going to stand in the middle of some deep speaking of. the most i'm going to page

a price for his outspokenness in the notorious military jail the glass house he thinks this weekend it wasn't long ago 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 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 underlies a time she was fantastic so you know the only time i think a fellow along for the first night when the. officer that i was correcting was so much more trying to do is become the poster boy for the stop the war coalition with the hero's welcome following his release from prison someone they considered 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 disaster it's closing tax defeat 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 ok 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 is just sense inside the armed forces something the government could have a hard time ignoring nor emmett's artsy london. coming your way is our report only danger is over record breaking temperatures over this summer and russia he has all the tips from the experts and how to stay cool when it's to home. are resigned as governor plans to appeal against a federal ruling that's come up to the state's controversial new immigration law

the decision to revoke. just hours before it came into force samone this is. from. the moment what we were seeing just a few hours ago were a lot of protesters on the streets there were a lot of police 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 yesterday was the judge ruled that certain controversial provisions in ballot law would not be enacted 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 illegally they say that it would lead to racial profiling and they're saying they don't want their state their state of arizona to become

a nazi state so what you saw was it was banners with swastikas on there too to have people realize that they feel that if this were to be enacted in its entirety that it would lead to a nazi state here in arizona and perhaps all across the country the legal troubles of this are not over this is a long road ahead you're going to see it go to the ninth district court and most likely if the supreme court but that's not stopping the protesters here on the street we had word that there are about thirteen buses coming from from los angeles from the ebay area all over california here in arizona people want to protest here and say that they don't want anything like this and acted in. they're states because let's not forget at least twenty other states are considering similar legislation that can be very interesting to see what happens and just moments ago we had six individuals blocking the office of the quote unquote top the 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 protest against some of the 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 time city what sort of serve for those people captured after today after july twenty ninth when the law is actually going into action here. from arizona for us i've got plenty more to keep you occupied on our website just go and hunt for extras on the stories we're covering and put into the shows that i want to know regular program and here's a quick taste i'm. right. in this some other point out some most of all i said getting creative about coding time. that's been the subject of films and books

but will you please find is sold one hundred year old mystery just the water to a doomed russian expedition to the ocean. several thousand barrels of highly dangerous chemicals are heading towards russia of to being washed into a river by floods in northeastern china officials say they could reach the border within a week oh she's in a town in. an eight. year old happened in a chinese province on the north east of a country. 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 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 munda the assessments of potential 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 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 there are 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 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 us and come 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 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 more tiger for example eat as for the chemicals themselves there are two kinds of chemicals that we know of that there are there first line 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 cars 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 he that is used to increase more true 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 than of course there was going to be a big threat for russia and the nature of the russians and the nature in the region . has now turned in north dakota reporting that journalists dmitri babich from russia profile magazine told us he chinese industrial. incidents rather like this one are affecting the country's relations with russia. but obviously there is a lot of discontent in russia and the russian government. environmental disasters to their 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 broad bill with information that china is a garment is very unwilling to share information with its own citizens and with russian authorities all soul let's hope that the problem will be resolved on the chinese government will share with our small improper information the same thing

happened three years ago all again it was a rework oxic waste that was spilled into a river and russia has enormous problems with that due to the nature of a new state that cannot be changed in a few years. and now for some other stories making headlines around the world eighty people have been found dead in the democratic republic of congo after a boat capsized they 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 a loaded with cargo passengers in a french mother has been charged with killing eight of her newborn babies and has admitted to the crime dominick treasures husband has been freed without charge police were alerted after the new owners of a house the couple had lived and found bones buried in the garden the borders of influence wrapped in plastic were eventually discovered at the couple's current home. the month long heat wave that scorching parts of russia has sparked hundreds

of forest fires across central russia the fire has destroyed almost a thousand homes and villages in the path of the flames that are being fined by strong winds have been evacuated authorities say over six hundred patterns of forest caught fire this week alone with the number rising every hour his ministry has deployed eleven specialist aircraft to tackle the wildfires that have now spread to five russian regions. fires that spread well across moscow region and scores of firefighters are being sent to fight these blazes every day but their efforts are being. a hot and dry weather and we've been told that the amount of fires this year has already. 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 and pete fires especially which are really

tricky because they can go on for more and deep underground interpreter's region eight hundred degrees celsius and then when it's hot and dry enough on the surface they can emerge and firefighters see that because the. we 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 in it 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 pipes 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 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 the open sun because this sun is also dangerous for the house for the skin and it increases the body temperature and smoke of course itself is also of interest but there's also for the products for the fire onboard because one of one of the side than other types of products so sure there were open spaces people living in the areas affected by the small and 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 only 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. and have brings you out today this hour up next archies point to slee it talks to former agent all day israeli secret service mossad about his days hunting nazi war criminals and he also shared his opinion on what president obama needs to do about iran and how israel can settle its differences with palestinians that's coming up shortly. with me i have roughly

a ton of 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. failed from the very beginning. by dialogue let's say iran is he able to. win a dialogue i say no they are running him out of cheating him all the time now we's facing again and understanding iran is pushing their war pushing with. pushing their war with. pushing their oil in iraq.

this shia in iraq is in practice today a tool in the end of the iranian i would say that we are facing. when the americans will leave iraq we are facing that 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. the turkish we dominate there no than the 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

iran you will hold an israeli operation to take out the 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 regime given five years ago was completely different because iran from the very beginning developed a 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 this was done. and he knows iraq twenty years ago twenty five years ago. is no

valid today. and the the only way is the. first political way and second sanction 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 don't sufficiently well enough with the problem of terror particularly in the years after the interview and 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 a time that was the possibility to also capture the auschwitz doctor dr joseph mengele but you personally in the child against hearing 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 at the same time when then at the end then we risk the first operation what if they capture i mean for the state of israel you see the holocaust survivors the right to israel they did talk and when i summoned trial. i 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 were involved. look. their ability for agents to communicate with their. headquarters is much much better today today you could. by e-mail 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 raffia ten thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. thank you. culture

is that so much about the taxpayers' money mentoring is a chemise maybe even a lot of people at various ways to get around a good part of the world is experiencing a crippling feat which is this a trend or simply freaky weather one. state has provided citizens with. rights a bit. of self before i could lock up a little chat i'll tell you i had a problem like. when the government since trying to. kill someone might land. right. out of the killing and dramatic. something has been to the casio region of the wilderness in the great outdoors

a form of adventure. now watty goes to central russia where the car industry is rapidly developing where history finds a new life in its paintings and where american citizens can find a new. welcome to the. russian close up. to. wealthy british style. sometimes the title of. the. markets why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cars. the no holds barred look at the global financial headlines.

come out again a quick check of the headlines from all see a russian investigation into the sinking of a south korean warship the knowledge crew it was a u.s. led investigation that blames the communist north that's according to a south korean newspaper. president obama signs all fifty nine billion dollars more for the latest troop surge in afghanistan this comes as they stop there will coalition the u.k. claim recently leaked documents on the ongoing mall could mold the beginning of the

end of the campaign. the sun thousands of barrels of dangerous chemicals could reach the russian border within a week after being washed into everybody floods in northeastern china. the six month old and scorching temperatures the mercury reaches a second record high in a week but in the relief is expected over the weekend with rainfall costs. come back and set of minutes with an update headlines but the fall that we have all seen is debate. balun his guests and to the climate change debate to discuss whether the all time high temperatures in moscow all just freak weather or a sign of global warming.