retrieved from the river and that the situation is under control we know that obviously the situation is closed due to the flooding in china it's the worst china sea really a decade and this close to seventy thousand barrels to be swept from a chemical plug into the cylinder with which the subsidiary of the a move river in russia's far east apparently right now only around three thousand a day is biased towards contains a chemical substances and the other four thousand reportedly say the cleanup operation is underway they've actually put a barrier in place as a preventative measure to stop any of this reaching the of the if it was to reach them it would take around two weeks but the both sides obviously monitoring the situation of very closely and ensuring that this doesn't have any severe environmental impact which is what everyone was concerned about in the immediate aftermath of. the chinese side confirms the accident and said that the authorities

are taking all necessary measures several teams are connecting the barrels along with the who are rebar they're also monitoring and vironment in the region so from no changes in the wood to quanta have been detected at the same time russian specialists have registered no changes in the water quality for the past several days in the two nearest regions rizza dition around the clock would have quality monitoring of there are more regular and at present there is no health risk for the people living in the area the accident is under the control of the regional and local centers of the emergency ministry where we've heard this is posing no immediate risk to people's lives or health scientists have warned that these chemical substances and some of the barrels is potentially dangerous we've heard about one of the substances which is a clear flammable substance which when it comes into contact with human or animal skin would cause of the burning and now the cleanup operations underway and people monitoring the situation very closely enough. he's really trying to ensure the

people of the 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 is the first time a situation like this is happening 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 the five days so we saw in the immediate aftermath of the situation panic buying of water in china we've also heard that these barrels are reportedly leaked so hopefully that would prevent any of these chemicals making into the. situation very closely as the cleanup operation continues so for reporting there are 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 has drawn rast from a european human rights watchdog this means potentially dangerous individuals could

soon be back in the community. and 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 guarded all day every day by at least four policemen but he's escaped from his mind as before and locals are worried he'll do it again i think it's a dangerous for the people to see if they are because i don't know that such people december. third such. as. you can buy them in. video. player fees

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 fairly of course there's a danger that a 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 are being replicated

across germany caught in the. if you face criminal history repeat such crimes again that's the worst thing that could happen and it probably will happen because they were put away all those also think the new arrangements are less than satisfactory it costs far more to keep offenders and the 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 a doctor two people next to him and that's that impossible to have a normal life michael rayburn is now fighting for greater freedoms mr h. the criminals right serve little worry to most germans and chris 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. that might ease consciences in strasburg doesn't ease anyone's nerves here tom barton r.t. germany coming up this hour here in our counting the cost the oil spill in the gulf of mexico may have ruined b.p.'s finances but the damage to the environment is being exaggerated according to some. and shortly read the pioneers of russian beef or said to make a killing in our close of series. a russian investigation has concluded that a south korean warship which sunk in march was ahead by north korean torpedo that is according to a south korean newspaper the new report not yet confirmed by moscow suggest a vessel here to see mine and international probe had accused a north korean submarine of firing on the vessel something peering down denies the

channel and sank off the west coast of the korean peninsula on march the twenty six killing forty six sailors and foreign policy analyst stephen godwin says the results of the international report raise doubts even was in 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 cheering and sank is incredible but one could make the argument that the entire point of the cio in 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 on the ng for the sinking of the cio and 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 sinking and that was foreign policy analyst even going to the air. moscow is sweltering in the hottest weather since records began of one hundred thirty years ago temperatures reaching almost forty degrees celsius have dried up crops and cost fires around the capitol later peter lvalues gas discussed whether global warming has anything to do with it. and i was warm you want to say oh this

is climate and we need to do we need to cut diet industry we need to cut the hopes of millions of people in the developing world take away their or their hope for fossil future and. future. hundreds of millions of people in the developing world to a pre-industrial. existence which means. increasing child mortality and short british don't you made your point morris wants to reply and we want to go ahead mark go ahead and jump in. well it was just to make the point we're talking about averaging out weather here so rather than looking different to reflect something of a tone you have to look at longer term changes and there's less and less cold events for this more and more hot events and that shows that the baseline is changing and the reason for this is basic physics. and crossed exotic just over an hour here on our team now the impact of the b.p.

oil spill in the gulf of mexico has been as 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's now some debate over just how bad the environmental impact will be some scientists believe the effects will be felt for decades while there is some evidence that the leak has been clearing from the surface of the water much faster than expected time magazine's michael grunwald thanks saturating the damage is a way for some to promote their individual agendas. just about everybody has called this the worst environmental disaster the 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 this is like a sunburn on a cancer patient so we don't know what we don't know and the long term impacts are

certainly impossible to know right now but there's not much evidence that an environmental catastrophes you know the media has an obvious interest in kind of hyping these things to drive ratings and certain politicians are using it to attack obama some politicians were using it to you know to try to promote the idea that we need to get away from fossil fuel but nobody really has the you know that much of the incentive to say well hey you know the data doesn't really seem to show that this is played. as much as it's been cracked up to be 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 because 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 lid on some of the hype that was michael cromwell senior

correspondent at time magazine joining us from miami. and our web site has a lot more to offer whatever you want and here's some of what's online right now at r.t. dot com. russian police detain a man attempting to hijack a plane at a moscow airport he was reportedly demanding a meeting with the country's leadership. immigrants in arizona celebrated as a federal judge blocks parts of a controversial new law aiming to stamp out. more had to r.t. dot com. something to look at some other stories from around the world and the u.s. defense secretary has called in the f.b.i. to help find out how secret documents on the war in afghanistan were leaked they were published by the we could leak side on sunday giving classified details of the war robert gates says it has endangered american troops and allies and quote

unquote aggressive investigation will be carried out the disclosure has increased closer and the war in many countries including the u.k. . france a woman has admitted killing eight of her newborn babies over a period of seventeen years domini contreras 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. more than two hundred sixty people have been killed during widespread flooding in pakistan over the last three days thousands of others are stranded after rivers polluted washed away streets in the northwest of the country most of the dead were killed. where they were drowned overflowing streams. a top mexican drug trafficker has been killed in a raid by security forces in the western city of. curl was one of four

man main leaders of the cartel and he was known as the king of course. for his control over the production and smuggling of drugs to the u.s. it is the first major triumph this year in the mexican president's ongoing war against drug cartels. you're watching our team now we continue to bring you closer to different parts of russia in our close up here. and just a short drive southwest of moscow why the fruitful lands of the region hector's a field make for great farming and agriculture however grasslands are often used and left for decades without receding that's why a few years ago so already decided exporting meat was the answer now with the help of american cattle breeder's the region hopes to supply of the whole country with stakes parties got rid of her children at the pioneers of be. put to rest so you

are going to escape the crowd and wander off the beaten track because a little girl 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 fun town stick natural sighting to may reverse this not and that cop provide beautiful scenery especially in the summer and an alternative route for tourists well it's only as the sixteenth century was the main commercial sun to 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 follow it out it's not only the local animals that's home and the environment but some of the oversea brothers to. live sparkling postie. bright future

from exploring space to feeding the whole nation with meat guides. oh tourists places where the inventor of the rocket leaped but few know of the region's reach and with cultural heritage mcqueary isn't as great because we have a very very big open area of land to work with i mean a lot a lot ahead hours per cows to make sure they have enough grazing area and space jamie says to better understand the needs of here cause she may june she's one of them and there's nowhere she would rather be then become a 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 there are 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 college erika's out of the whole day looking up to cars 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 bone raises other d.n.a. and his beef which will ultimately end up on the table and steak 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. meat a year and high quality beef is just an unbelievable deficit because the primary

source of 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 live cattle to importing frozen embryos multiplying these quick and cheap but the first generation of russian born half of those is about to appear soon but as the farm 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 sound check and then i read the pack and to see where it was and the lady at the counter thirded like flapping and making chicken noises like a bad chicken leaving all of the beef granted and dramas to be in several languages the film was not convinced that a russian produced beef will be all the finest export kulu to. our tea

from the region and if you want to soak up some history of the tour of the nation towns of russia's gold ring is exactly what he needs john back to the eleventh century with martin andrews and in just a minute. the magnificent gold something cathedral was built in eleven fifty seven it was the principal place where the princes of ancient russia were crowned and as a sign of political and religious hour it can be seen from kilometers away. russia's gold ring is coming up in ten minutes before charlotte is here. and how

they've got news that this heat wave in russia could cause we'd experts to have a low. that's right the way harvest is suffering badly because of the drought officials say we're looking at a twenty four percent fall in neal to forty seven million tons which is pushing prices up we'll have the details later in the program but first this hour they say all secrets come to light russia's president has signed a law preventing insider trading the new law clarifies and define such concepts as insider information market manipulation and of its insider trading is an offense in most financial centers but until now the law has never passed the first hearing in russia and it won't take effect immediately the rules come into force 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 the next year the economic development minister said privatization will help build a competitive economy. which these will be fairly big companies possibly banks partially our companies from the fuel and energy tractor privatization will be means not to need to attract many into the budget which is very important but it's also wave influencing the structure of the economy currently the government has an excessive growth in some of the saxes where the government share is quite big we interested encouraging more competition in the private sector. 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 are willing to sell now most of these companies own much smaller oh they're not of strategic importance or limited

strategic importance and i believe in most of these cases the fleet will be full privatized renationalisation fear is probably one of the big east obstacles for foreign investors into venturing russia there is the fear of them well the government feels more confident that they really resort to so-called crippling nationalization when they used to regularly to reveal asia's to force the foreign investors out and indeed there is these danger to the government needs to provide to investment protection to make this deforming investors are a bit wary that if they invest and if they have a conflict with the state and they decide to take the case to court the court the judicial system which would largely really need to be 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 have. time or else take a look at how the markets are doing in the r.t.s. index as they've been here in moscow the news fall in early trade down zero point four percent that follows a day of gains on thursday the decline so far being led. from the seventh style. and over in asia stocks and mostly lower on wall street's weakness in the previous session even stronger than for sony in this town are able to prop up the take a market hong kong shares a sliding lower as profit taking pressure mounts now solve the market rose in the previous eight straight session some. good news for russia's bond. the finance ministry has placed 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 after times 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 plans to sell a stake of up to twenty five percent the i.p.o. is scheduled to take place in london next year sevastopol has taken a controlling stake in calendars crew go corp up from forty percent although it acquired a number of foreign still companies before the crisis so to solve gold subsidiary has been one of the best performers obviously the serious and large has significantly reduced some of that cap explains that it's a reaction to the crisis and it's very natural our business or because there was a bit contras cyclical 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 in two thousand and nine to the overall silverstone provisions so in the difficult parts of a cycle business has you know has performed as

a hitch towards the adverse economic conditions russian we exports may fall by almost a half this year after a drought to plague the country's harvest according to institute for agricultural market studies outbound shipments may decline from eighteen million metric tons to nine point five million a national we told this in russia could plummet twenty four percent when compared to last year to 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 damage and drabs of russian parts of europe with coke exports lifting demand for us. and that's your update for now but you can always find more of our stories on your website r.t. dot com slash business. close-up

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. sums from plans to. start on t.v. don't. talk about your weather t. here's a look at the top stories thousands of barrels of hazardous chemical swept into chinese river by recent floods are headed towards russia efforts are underway to recover them but moscow is concerned about the possible consequences should the toxic material cross the border. germany is debating whether potentially 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 a european human rights watchdog. and a russian probe has concluded that

a south korean warship which sunk a march was ahead by a north korean torpedo that's according to a south korean newspaper pyongyang has consistently denied claims in international report that it was to blame. i take a journey back in time as we unlock the secrets of ancient. hello our welcome to vladimir i'm classless the capital of the ancient rules here lies the source of russia it's always there and it's cause i was as it's one of the closest golden ring.