eastern territory and it will take on two weeks of these spirals to reach the now what we're hearing is that the chinese authorities are saying that that's unlikely to happen the battles are unlikely to reach the end though and they've actually pitted eight barriers as a preventative measure to stop them crossing into russian territory now this is close happen with the flooding that's happening in china and the worst flooding that china has seen nearly a decade and the schools around seven thousand barrels from the chemical storage facility into the song. and around four thousand of the we've heard reports. of at three thousand containing this chemical substance the clean up operation now well underway but oversee the still some concerns that diplomatic relations between russia and china have been good since the incident occurred concerns on both sides of us the about the potential environmental impact where any of these chemical substances leaked into the water say both sides monitoring this cleanup operation

a very closely indeed we can hear now from the russian emergencies ministry about this. not particularly the chinese side confirms the accident and said that those soldiers are taking all necessary measures several teams are connecting the barrels along with some who are rebar now with a monitoring environment in the region so far no changes in the which we're going 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 risen additional around the clock which is quality monitoring of the. president 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. but as we just heard taro water is being monitored there are twenty four hours around the clock basically so but if the chemicals do week out how dangerous will that be. well we've heard that is posing no immediate threat

to people's lives or health sciences have warned that the substances that are contained in some of these barrels of potentially potentially dangerous chemical substances and we've heard one of these substances is a clear flammable substance that if it comes into contact with human or animal skin would cause but so obviously there are concerns about those leaking now the chinese authorities again have said that the barrels that are in the water all leak so it's certainly hope that that won't happen it's not the first time a situation like this is occurred in two thousand and five a chemical spill saw millions of people in china close off from the water supply you know when this incident happened there was some panic amongst chinese people buying up was a concern that that would happen again and in fact the authorities did cut the place briefly in china it's not certain whether that was the maintenance or whether that was a response to the incident happening but that situation has now been resolved as

you said the cleanup operation now underway and everyone just watching that happening hoping i think obviously that no further damage is cool's from the situation. ok sara thanks for bringing us the latest there sara first you were going to live from moscow on germany's national conscience is wrestling with the idea of keeping potential re offenders under lock and key even after their sentences are off so-called preventive detention has drawn graph from a european human rights watchdog this means potentially dangerous individuals could soon be back in the community are 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 for policeman but he's escaped from his mind as before and locals are worried he'll do it again and even say doing here is for the people to see if they are because i don't know that such people is just

a number of. such if there. is a very few if you can buy them and. figure out. where fi mr rate should still be in prison under germany's policy of preventive detention was 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

. 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 of being replicated across germany. 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 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 the doctor two people next to him and that's that's 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 just 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 another two hundred twenty dangerous criminals released soon across germany. might ease conscience's in strasburg doesn't ease anyone's nerves here. germany and coming up this hour here in our teeth counting the cost of 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.

coming up shortly we the pioneers some russian beef or a set to make a killing and our close of series. our 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 a south korean newspaper the new report not yet confirmed by moscow suggests the vessel hit a c. mine and international pro had accused a north korean submarine of firing on a vessel something pyongyang denies and sank off the west coast of the korean peninsula on march twenty sixth killing forty six sailors and foreign policy analyst stephen godwin says the results of the international report 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's also the case of. 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 and then. 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 it was foreign policy analysts even dollars the air now moscow is sweltering in the hottest weather since records began one hundred thirty years ago the temperatures reaching almost forty degrees celsius have dried up crops and cause fires around the capitol later people about he's gassed discuss whether global warming has anything to do with it. and i want to warm you want to say oh this is climate and we need to do we need to cut out industry we need to cut the hopes of millions of people in the developing world take away their or their hope for fossil future. a future condemn hundreds of millions of people in the developing world to a pre-industrial. you know existence which means. increasing child mortality and short british don't you made your point i mean morris wants to reply and we want to know you know 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 from that shows to the baseline is changing and the reason for this is basic physics. across in just fifteen minutes time here on our. before that the impact of the b.p. oil spill in the gulf of mexico has been as disastrous to the firm's finances as a has been to the environment the crisis has forced b.p. c.e.o. to step down broad eleven billion pounds in losses already and force the sale of assets to pay for the cleanup and compensation claims and 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 is some evidence that the leak has been clearing from the surface of the water much faster than expected and time

magazine's michael grunwald thinks exaggerating the damage is a way for some to promote their individual janda. 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 so this is like a sunburn on a cancer patient so we don't know what we don't know and the long term are certainly impossible to know right now but there's not much evidence of 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 you 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 fuels but nobody really knows you know that much of the 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 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 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. i was michael grunwald senior correspondent time magazine joining us from miami now our web site has a lot more to offer you whenever you want and here's some of what's on the line right now at r.t. dot com. russian police detained a man attempting to hijack a plane at a moscow airport and he was reportedly demanding a meeting with the country's leadership. and immigrants in arizona celebrate as a federal judge blocks parts of

a controversial new law aiming to stamp out illegal aliens the more you can always have to come. and i was to go get some other stories from around the world and the u.s. to fan secretary has told 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 can leak 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 coals to and the war in many 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 tresses husband has been freed without any charge after she said he had no idea what 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 three hundred people have been killed during widespread flooding in pakistan over the last three days thousands of others are stranded after rivers

burst their banks and washed away streets in the northwest of the country most of the dead were killed as how this collapsed or drowned in overflowing streams. top magic and drug trafficker has been killed in a raid by security forces in the western city of guadalajara. colonel was one of four main leaders of the scene oil cartel he was known as the king of crystal for his control over the production and smuggling of drugs to the u.s. . it's the first major triumph this year in the mexican president's ongoing war against drug cartels. and now we continue to bring you closer to different parts of russia in our close up series. and just a short drive southwest of moscow why the fruitful lands of the kaluga region packed hours of fields make for great farming and agriculture however grasslands

are often used and left for decades without receding that's why a few years ago authorities decided exporting meat was the answer now whether how the american cattle breeders region hopes to supply a whole country was steaks got to being a child at the pioneers of beef. for tourists you are going 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 such thing too may reverse not and that ca provide beautiful same respectfully in the summer and an alternative route for tourists well as early as this sixteenth century was the main commercial santa acting as a port as a link between leave the area and most go but then the city exporters wouldn't products known far beyond the programs 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 brothers to. the sparkling past. bright future from exploring space to feeding the whole nation with meat guides show to respond as where they invented the rocket but few know of the region's reach and with cultural heritage the quiver isn't as great because we have a barrier very big on for an area of land to work with i mean need a lot a lot ahead there's perth how to make sure they have enough grazing area and 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 a region in up some enough rain and enough snow to keep the grass growing jamie's originally from america two years today she and her husband eric moved to russia to

help local farmers produce the best beef in the world then america there's already been many families formed who have raised. their children understand how to do it since their little it's been a difficult challenge for. we do not have the infrastructure that america does in russia right now but it is improving the first real cold war in the history of erika's out of the whole day looking up to cars and teaching locals such knowhow as multiplied genetics you're going to get over two hundred steaks out of these cows 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 sow the potential the palm raises other d.n.a. angus 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 him live cattle to importing frozen embryos multiplying is quicker and cheaper the first generation of russian born happens is about to appear soon but as the farm grows there's one problem still to solve the language barrier was our biggest therefore called the i was in the local grocery store and i was just trying to buy some chicken and i currently have the pack and that's the way it was in the lady at the counter thirty blabbering and making

chicken noises. that second the leaving of the beef bread and he's promised to be in several languages the farmers are convinced their russian produced beef will be of the finest x. board quality exceed immigration of r r. from the kaluga region just ten minutes time crosstalk looks at whether moscow sweltering heat is down to climate change but before that particular what's happening in the world of business hello again charlotte so whatever what have you got for us this hour russian is still a mining company has moved its attention to gold service sellers bought a controlling stake in current as crude gold corp up from forty percent that's after its gold subsidiary company outperformed this year we'll have the details later in the program but first this hour they say all secrets come to light russia's present image revered ever signed a law preventing insider trading the new law clarifies define such concepts as

insider information markets manipulation and others 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 serves it will offload shares in state companies even if the budget doesn't need the money it's announced it will sell eight to major companies which is fewer than expected and the earliest date for a sale be next year the economic development minister said privatization will help competitive economy. these will be fairly big companies banks partially our companies from the fuel and energy sector privatization will be means not only 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 sectors where the government share is quite big we

interested in 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. some says 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 a day and not of strategic importance or limited strategic importance and i believe in most of these cases the feet will be full privatizing renationalisation fear is probably one of the big east obstacles for foreign investors into venturing gratia there is the fear of them well the government feels more confident but they really resort to so-called crippling nationalization when they used to regularly three leisure's 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 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 largely remains politically dependent or will probably side with the state so the fear of nationalization is there and the state has to take some steps to provide guarantees that it will not happen. tom else take a look at how the markets are doing in here in moscow both before the forming in early trade follows a day of gains on thursday little is leading the decline on the office yes shedding more than one percent this hour and over in asia stocks are mostly low on the streets of weakness in the previous session even stronger gains with sony in this aren't even with

a profit to take in markets hong kong shares are sliding lower as profit taking pressure mounts herself the market raised in previous eight straight session. good news for russia's bond market the finance ministry has placed a five year bond the longest. it's october the total issue of both five 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 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. severstal has taken a controlling stake in calenders crew gold corp up to forty percent although it acquired a number of foreign still companies before the crisis service tells 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 obviously was a bit counter cyclical and interestingly enough we have contributed being a fairly small part of the business in terms of the size of the assets we could contribute to both twenty five percent to be done in two thousand and nine to do overall severstal provisions so in the difficult parts of a cycle business has you know has performed as a hitch towards the adverse economic conditions. russian wheat exports may fall but almost a half this year after a drought has plagued the country's harvest according to the institute for agriculture market studies outbound shipments may decline from eighteen million metric tons to nine point five million the national weed harvest in russia could plummet twenty four percent when compared to last year just forty seven million tonnes and this is pushing prices up there heading for the biggest monthly gain

since nine hundred seventy three damaging drought in russia parts of europe with her exports lifting demand for you were supplies. not sure update for now we can always find more stories on our website altie dot com slash business.

culture is that so much about the taxpayers' money materialization if it means a lot of people at various ways to get around a good part of the world is experiencing a crippling heat wave is this a trend or simply freaking weather one. something has been to the casio region or the wilderness of the great outdoors a form of adventure. now wattie 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. every month we give you the future we help you understand how we'll get there and what tomorrow brings the best in science and technology from across russia and

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little little little. slow to load. the. whole welcome back to join us here watching our live from moscow these are the top stories thousands of barrels of houser discountable swept into chinese river by recent floods are headed towards russia efforts are underway to recover them but moscow was concerned about the possible consequences should the toxic material cross the border. and germany is debating whether potentially offenders should be kept under a walking team 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 in march wasn't hit by a north korean torpedo and that's according to a south korean newspaper young as consistently. denied claims in an international report that it was too wide. as we had lines now we'll look at whether there is any truth to claim the global warming is the cause of the record breaking heat in russia and beyond the summer it's time for cross stop don't go away. and. if you want to. blow him away.