these barrels have been retrieved from the river and that the situation is under control now we know. obviously that the situation is closed due to the flooding in china it's the worst that china is seen decades and this caused seven thousand barrels to be swept from a chemical plug into the song over which is of surgery of the movie of which runs into russia's far east and currently now only around three thousand of those. chemical substances and the other four thousand are reportedly. the cleanup operation is underway they've actually put. in place as a preventative measure to stop any of this reaching the ago if it was to reach them it would take around. just so you know before today that's not going to happen now for the kids it must be relations to be maintained between everest and china as the situations unfolded and the both sides obviously monitoring the situation of very

closely and ensuring that this doesn't have any environmental in types which is what everyone was concerned about in the immediate aftermath we can hear now from the emergencies ministry about the situation. real madrid are not going to be under the chinese side confirms the accident and said i don't like taking all necessary measures several teams are connecting the barrels along with our hard rebar well for the monitoring environment in the region so far no changes in the want to have been detected when you do it at the same time russian specialists have registered new changes in the water quality for the past several days in the two nearest regions reason additional round the clock which is quality monitoring of the. present but there is no health risk for the people living in the area and only accident is under the control of the regional and local centers of the emergency ministry. also as we have just heard there is a twenty four hour water quality monitoring there but in the worst case scenario if

the chemicals do leak out how dangerous will there be. but we've heard that this is posing the immediate risk to people's lives or health scientists have warned that these chemical substances in some of the barrels it's potentially dangerous we've heard about one of the substances which is a clear. substance which when it comes into contact with human or animal skin would cause of it burning and as we said this is the cleanup operations underway and people mother showing the situation very closely in the thirty's really trying to ensure that people are reassured that this situation won't have any impact on the nerves the millions and millions of people living along the song who are river and all of them would be quite concerned this isn't the first time a situation like this it's happened in two thousand and five there was a chemical spill and in that case around three point eight million chinese residents were left without water for five days so we saw in the immediate

aftermath of the situation panic buying of water in china but that's now been under control also the chinese authorities because of the water immediately after with this not evident at the moment whether. that was just to do with maintenance or whether it was a reaction to the barrels going into the river so we've also heard that these barrels reportedly leaked very safely that would prevent any of these chemicals making into the woods but as we said a base that's machine situation very closely as you know they should be ok if there are things in march indeed for bringing us the latest on the situation. watching our stories now germany's national conscience is wrestling with the idea of keeping potential re offenders under lock and key even after their sentences are up so-called preventive detention as drawn rast from a european human rights watchdog this means potentially dangerous individuals could soon be back in the community bargain reports. shifty glances

a nervous stares that's all we managed to see walter h. a murderer and sex offender now living in the german city of sabriel can he's got it all day every day by the least four policeman but he's escaped from his mind as before and locals are worried he'll do it again i think it's very dangerous for the people here in day out because i don't know that such people insist. such. that you. can buy them and. video. player feel

. mr rate should still be in prison under germany's policy of preventive detention designed to keep offenders like him behind bars even after a sentence was served because they were still deemed a danger to the public but it was a policy that fell foul of the european court of human rights which ruled the practice unlawful the german government argued it worked and defended it to the end it's get pushed into felony of course there's a danger that to convict could stay in preventive detention for the rest of his life but to avoid the situation we have frequent specialist checks to assess their condition and he paid a fall campaign a thomas brookman opposes preventive detention that's because he wants longer sentences in the first place. last year another sex offender not given preventive detention was released back into his community a move that still causes angry protests today now these fears of being replicated across germany. i did the op

a few of these criminals will repeat such crimes again that's the worst thing that could happen and it probably will happen because they weren't put away others also think the new arrangements are less than satisfactory it costs far more to keep offenders under guard in the community than behind bars the german newspaper billed put the figure at twelve thousand euros a day compared to one hundred a day in prison a large price to pay when lawyers argue it hardly provides the freedoms of daily life. if he goes into a shop and there's always two people following him if he goes to adopt two people next to him and that's that's impossible to have a normal michael rayburn is now fighting for greater freedoms mr h. the criminals writes little worry to most germans about the safety of their own families people who are concerned about this man in their midst but it's estimated there could be at least some of the two hundred twenty dangerous criminals released

soon across germany. might ease consciences in strasburg doesn't ease anyone's nerves here. germany and coming up this hour here in our teeth counting the costs of the oil spill in the gulf of mexico may have their oil and b.p.'s finances but damage to the environment is being exaggerated according to some. i russian investigation has concluded that a south korean warship which sunk in march wasn't hit by a north korean torpedo that is according to south korean newspaper the new report not yet confirmed by moscow suggest the vessel hit a see mine an international probe had accused a north korean submarine of firing on a vessel something nice on some cough the west coast of the korean peninsula march the twenty sixth killing forty six sailors and foreign policy analyst stephen cohen says the results of the international reports raise doubts even within south korea

. the 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 south. it's also suspicious that the south korean government's report was released on the eve of gubernatorial and local elections there is also the case that. the idea that the north korean submarine could have been operating in the shallow waters in which the cio and sank is incredible but one could make the argument that the entire point of this and an incident in the blaming of it on north korea was to provide a pretext to escalate tensions we should also recognize that while the south korean government was behind the joint civilian military report that blamed for the

sinking of the cio then. that there is a large opposition within south korea to the idea that in fact north korea is responsible for the sinking of the ship and the opposition parties in south korea and many of the newspapers have been calling into question the south korean report 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 i was foreign policy analyst even though it's there for you this hour here in our team the right to kill our team delves into the revolution that ripped apart care to stand. why do citizens with. its own. selves.

when they go. to be killed. so stay with us and watch the full report in twenty minutes time here on our team. the impact of the b.p. oil spill in the gulf of mexico has been as has disastrous to the firm's finances as it has to the environment the crisis has forced b.p. c.e.o. to step down brought eleven billion pounds in losses already and force the sale of assets to pay for the cleanup and compensation claims there is now some debate over just how bad the environmental impact will be some scientists believe the effects will be felt for decades while there's some evidence that the leak has been clearing from the surface of the water much faster than expected time magazine's michael grunwald things exaggerating the damage is a way for some to promote their individual chanda's. just about everybody has

called this the worst environmental disaster u.s. has ever faced and i went down to louisiana last week. assuming that they were right there just doesn't seem to be a lot of evidence for that one of the scientists i talked to said this is like a sunburn on a cancer patient so we don't know what we don't know and the long term new paths are certainly impossible to know right now but there's not much evidence the environmental catastrophes you know the media has an obvious interest in kind of i think these things to drive ratings and certain politicians are using you to attack obama some politicians were using it to do. to try to promote the idea that we need to get away from fossil fuels but nobody really has you know that much of an incentive to say well hey you know the data doesn't really seem to show that this is quite as much as it's been cracked up to being what's important is looking looking at the data you know i'm getting i'm getting a lot of heat

a lot of backlash people are saying like a this is crazy how can you make these premature judgments we have no idea what the future is going to hold we have no idea what the impacts going to be my response is oh now you tell us the last three months you've been telling us this is the biggest environmental disaster in history and now you're saying we have no idea what's going to happen so i guess i'm trying to put a little bit of a lid on some of the hype. now that was michael grunwald to your correspondent time magazine joining us from miami. our web site has a lot more to offer you whatever you want and here's some of what's online right now at. russian police detained a man attempting to hijack a plane at a moscow airport and he was reportedly demanding the media was the country's leadership. immigrants in arizona celebrated as a federal judge blocked parts of

a controversial new law aiming to stamp out unions more. than some of the stories from around the world in the u.s. to fan secretary has cold in the f.b.i. to help find out how secret documents on the war in afghanistan were leaked they were published by the wiki leaks site on sunday giving classified details of the war robert gates says it has endangered american troops and allies and an aggressive investigation will be carried out the disclosure has increased calls to the war and manny countries including the u.k. . and france a woman has admitted killing eight of her newborn babies over a period of seventeen years but domini contrasts husband has been freed without any charge after she said he had no idea what had happened police were alerted after the new owners of a house the couple had lived in found bones buried and wrapped in plastic in the garden. at least one hundred people have been killed after widespread

flooding in pakistan and thousands of others have been left stranded most of the dead were killed as houses collapsed more drowned to overflowing streams rivers burst their banks and streets were washed away in the northwest of the country. and now we continue to bring you closer to different parts of russia in our close up series. just a short ride southwest of moscow lives a fruitful way of region and hector's of fields makes for great farming in agriculture however grasslands are often unused and left for decades without receding that's why few years ago authorities decided exporting was fields are now where the hell the american cattle breeders the region hopes to supply the whole country with stakes are just got rid of her job at the pioneers of b.

. for tourists you are needing to escape the crowd and wander off the beaten track a big ol ogre region could be just the ticket well it's close to the capital only eighty kilometers south of there is planted to see here first of all it's a fantastic natural setting to may reverse this not and that cops provide beautiful sane respectfully in the summer and an alternative route for tourists well it's only as this sixteenth century was the main commercial santa acting as a port as a link between east and mosco but then the city exporters wouldn't products known far beyond the provence and today as well the timber industry and agriculture remain the main sources of income for the region and as we followed out it's not only the local animals at home and the environment but some of the oversea brothers too. sparkling possed. bright future

from exploring space to feeding the whole nation with meat guides show to respond. the rocket teat but few know of the region's reach and root cultural heritage. as great because we have a very very big on for an area of land to work with i mean need a lot a lot ahead hours per cows to make sure they have enough. grazing area in space jamie says to better understand the needs of your congress she may june she's one of them and there's nowhere she would rather be than become the region in up some enough rain and enough snow to keep the grass growing jaymes originally from dakota in america two years ago she and her husband eric moved to russia to help local farmers produce the best beef in the world in america there's already been many families have formed who have raised cattle and their children understand how to do

it since their little it's been a difficult challenge at first we do not have the infrastructure that america does in russia right now but it is improving the first real cowboy in the history of erika's out of the whole day looking up to cows and teaching locals such know how has multiplied genetics you're going to get over two hundred steaks out of this cow standing behind me but here rags could produce even more about four hundred embryos in a year which means a whole new form one russian businessman decided not to sell meat but to sell the potential the palm raises aberdeen angus beef which will ultimately end up on the table at stake but to feed such a country as russia the farm has to first multiplies talk to many thousands per russia right now imports one million. of meat a year and high quality beef is just an unbelievable deficit because the primary

source to be utilized in the in the food chain here is the very very cattle that are no longer used for milking they go to the meat plants it is not high quality meat. the farm turned from importing live cattle to importing frozen embryos multiplying these quicker and cheaper the first generation of the. halfords is about to appear soon but as the from there's one problem still to solve the language barrier was our biggest fear for called the i was in the local grocery store and i was just trying to buy some chicken and i read the package to see where it was and the lady at the counter thirded flapping and making chicken noises. about chicken and the labeling of the beef ground and promised to be in several languages before i was not convinced that a russian produced beef will be the finest export cruelty well the language barrier

is indeed a problem but in organ areas not if you find yourself in the region's capital and to find out why it's to respond this city is so appealing i'm now joined by local guides. thank you very much for joining gottlieb so what sells best in your city where what shall i say look around the scenery is beautiful and for those people who like rush and me with a brush and driving if you like on. fishing or you're hiking we can find a lot of places we travel why not use for those purposes then there are a lot of holy places in our town that i lot of churches in our town the town is interesting because it's one of the samples of the classical russian. a lot of museums and one of them is the museum of space exploration after. would you say needs to be done to attract more people to the region both for work employees i'm

afraid that i will say a commonplace thing was well let's hope that money comes to the region embellishment pays off thank you very much for that inside of a local guide from the city off color before russia closed up. getting a job there well that brings us up to date for now and we're turning to the world of business child us here. good morning to charlotte well another high. day here in moscow and this heat wave we've been having in russia is having severe effect on farming so i i gather you have more of this hello that's right yes the wheat harvest in particular is suffering badly officials say that we do exports they have this year because of the drought and lower yields we'll have the details later in the program but first this hour they say all secrets come to light russia's president dmitri many feared if assigned a law preventing insider trading the new law clarifies define such concepts as insider information markets move relation and others insider trading is an offense

in most financial centers bus until now the law has never passed the first hearing in russia and it won't take effect immediately the rules come into effect six months time after publication. the government says it 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 privatisation will help build a competitive economy but that would. be fairly big companies you banks partially our companies from the fuel and energy sector privatization will be a means not an easy trap to many into the budget which is. also weighed influencing the structure of the economy currently the government has an excessive growth in some sectors of the government shares might be interested encouraging constitutional rights in the private sector. which will be smaller companies may

prove attractive to individual investors but some analysts believe the government will have to work hard to calm their fears of renationalisation. in some sense it doesn't come across as a true privatization it's only partial however government has indicated that there are over five thousand companies that they're willing to sell now most of these companies own much smaller oday and not of strategic importance or limited strategic importance and i believe in most of these cases the feet will be full prototypes ation 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 to regularly three to four steve foreign investors out and indeed there is these 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 are largely roomies politically dependent or will probably side with the state so the fear of own nationalization is there and the state has to take some steps to provide guarantees that it will not have. time to take a look at how the markets are doing asian stocks are mostly lower and friday on wall street's weakness in the previous session even strong gains for sony able to prop up the total market hong kong shared sliding lower profit taking pressure mounted person after the market rose in the previous eight straight session. it was the third to put you here in moscow on thursday both yes and you markets finished

higher climbing more than one and a half percent each energy names and bonds lead against the gas calmly replied jones. to torment. good news for russia's bond market the finance ministry is placing five year bonds the longest since october the total issue of both five and three year bonds is valued at just under a billion dollars investors appetite improved after russia's economic growth accelerated in the second quarter to five point four percent. the russian internet firm and facebook investor digital sky technologies to sell a stake of up to twenty five percent i p o is scheduled to take place in london next year. sevastopol has taken a controlling stake in canada's crude gold corp up to forty percent although it acquired a number of foreign steel companies before the crisis seven styles gold subsidiary has been one of the best performers obviously. has

significantly reduced some of their cap ex plans it's a reaction to the crisis and it's very much our business or because there was a bit. and interestingly enough we have contributed being a fairly small part of the business in terms of the size of the assets which contributed both twenty five percent of. the night to do overall service delivery so in the difficult parts of the cycle business has you know has performed as a hitch towards the adverse economic conditions. russian and we do exports may fall by almost half this year after a drought has plagued the country's harvest according to the institute for agricultural market studies outbound shipments may decline from eighteen million metric tons to nine point five million the national wheat harvest in russia could plummet twenty four percent when compared to last year just forty seven million tons and this is pushing prices up there heading for the biggest monthly gain since

nine hundred seventy three a crop damaging drowned in russia and parts of europe to curb exports lifting demand for u.s. supplies. leisure update for now but you can always buy more stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business. the

state has provided citizens with. heights of goods to sell to fly quite odd stuff and possibly to chat but i'll tell you how the public doesn't like . when the government since tiger. mom might land. right hog. up out of the kill an everybody. rushes would be so much brighter if you knew about song from funds to oppression some. nice for instance on t.v. dot com. culture is that so much about the taxpayers' money and it is interesting

because my people at various ways get out of a good part of the world is experiencing a crippling feat is this a trend or simply freaky weather one. back here with a look at the top stories thousands of barrels of hazardous chemical swept into chinese river by recent floods are headed towards russia birds are on the way to recover them but moscow is concerned about the possible consequences should the toxic material cross the border. germany is debating whether potential re offenders should be kept under lock and key even after their sentences are over the practice of the so-called preventive detention has drawn criticism from sheen's human rights

watchdog. at a russian probe has concluded that a south korean warship in march was a hit by a north korean torpedo that's according to south korean newspaper consistently denied claims in an international report that it was to play. mostly allies here back at the top of the hour in the meantime are to remembers the bloody events the true kyrgyzstan in april costing hundreds of lives. russia has long been kurdistan's national color one point two words and rather even members same. on the national flag symbolizes the courage. to build in some.