to reach there now what we're hearing is that the chinese authorities are saying that that's unlikely to happen the browser on likely to reach the m o and they've actually printed eight bear is 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 that's the worst flooding that china has seen a few nearly a decade and this close around seventy thousand barrels of the water from the chemical storage facility into the still river and around four thousand of the we've heard. of at three thousand containing this chemical substance the clean up operation now well underway concerns on both sides of this day 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 not particular don't have the chinese side confirms the accident and said i don't like taking all necessary measures several teams are connecting the barrels along with some who are rebar they're also monitoring the

environment in the region so far no changes in the water going to have been detected 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 water quality monitoring of their moreover under the present there is no health risk for the people living in the area accident is under the control of the regional and local centers of the emergency ministry but we've heard that it 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 has said that the barrels that are in the water all leak proof so it's certainly hope that the. when 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 cut off from their water supply you know when this incident happened there was some panic amongst chinese people buying up was concerned that that would happen again and in fact the authorities. thought briefly in china it's not certain whether that was the maintenance or whether that was a response to the incident happened he said the cleanup operation now underway and everyone just watching that happening hoping hoping oversee that no further damage is caused from the situation. if you surf well you're going to schwartz from the russian branch for the worldwide fund for nature if any of the barrel spring a leak the environmental impact will be massive. a lot depends on how soon they manage to retrieve the parents from the river we still don't know how much of the hazardous material is still in the river even if only

a few of the barrels leaked toxic chemicals into the water no matter where this happens the effects on the river's biological resources will be huge and extremely negative and the few of these chemicals come into contact with the person's skin and they should immediately see a doctor as urgent measures taken by your thirty's because of the incident the situation looks much better than five years ago when a similar incident occurred the chinese authorities quickly provided the necessary information and some high ranking officials are present on the scene but russia and china should definitely work move closer to prevent the high risks posed by the fast growth of china's economy which results in incidents like this. the month long heat wave being experienced in russia has caused destructive forest fires that have burned down hundreds of homes in central parts of the country but have been reports of casualties as well in several regions prime minister vladimir putin and the head

of the emergencies ministry sort of. are in the region of nizhny novgorod to one of the worst hit areas specialist aircraft have been deployed there to battle wildfires the strong winds have been fanning the flames forcing villagers summer camps and hospitals to be evacuated over six hundred hectares of forestry have caught on fire across the country this week and that looks likely to increase. or later people of l. and his guests discuss whether global warming has anything to do with the sweltering heat spreading disaster across russia. that's 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 of our fossil future and. future. hundreds of millions of people in the developing world to pre-industrial. existence which means. increasing child mortality and short british labor it only you made your point ok but i mean

morris wants to reply and we want to go ahead mark go ahead and jump in. well it was just to make the point actually that we're talking about averaging out weather here so rather looking different events and saying the least reflect something or they don't you have to look at longer term changes and there's less and less cold events and there's more and more hot events and that shows that the baseline is changing and the reason for this is basic physics. and you can watch crosstalk here on r.t. in just over an hour's time. well 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 preventative detention has drawn wrath from european human rights watchdog this means that potentially dangerous individuals can soon be back in the community ati's top bottom reports. shifty glances a nervous status that's all we managed to see walter h.

a mugger a sex offender now living in the german city of sabriel can he's got it all day every day by least four policemen but he's escaped from his mind as before and locals are worried he'll do it again and seeing it is very dangerous for the people . in the area because they don't know that such people. such people as this close to them believe that security security. environment is a big good. has probably only. been from the prison normally if you work in this building there's no police but since he is there we hear this all the day police all the people in town are talking about. and now all the people don't want him to be here because there is a school next door and there's a kindergarten. mr rate should still be in prison and the germans policy of preventive detention is 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 failing of course there's a danger to convict could stay in preventive detention for the rest of his life but to avoid the situation we have frequent specialists to assess their condition and paedophile camp. 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 move it still causes angry protests today now these fears are 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 were 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 the 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 are next to him and that's that's impossible to have a normal life michael raper is now fighting for greater freedoms mr h. criminals rights little worry to most germans anxious about the safety of their own families people here 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 was that might ease conscience's in strasburg doesn't ease

anyone's nerves here martin r.t. germany. and coming up this hour right here on ars on the governor against to a controversial immigration bill which is still driving protesters out onto the streets. the pioneers of russian to make a killing coming up in our posts. all the impact of the b.p. oil spill in the gulf of mexico has been as damaging to the finances as it has to the environment the crisis has forced. to step down seventeen billion dollars 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 there is some evidence 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 own 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 say to you this is like a sunburn on a cancer patient so we don't know what we don't know and the long term you know that there are certainly impossible to know right now that there's no which evidence the environmental catastrophes you know the media has an obvious interest in kind of hyping these things to drive ratings and certain politicians really need to attack obama some politicians are 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 village said to say well hey you know the data doesn't really seem to show that this is 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 hey 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 grunwald senior correspondent at time magazine he was joining us from. all our zone as governor is appealing a federal ruling that skirt the state's controversial new immigration law parts of the legislation such as forcing immigrants to carry papers at all times were revoked just hours before they came into force but didn't stop protesters from venting their anger. she has more on this. 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 nice district court and most

likely 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 their states because let's not forget at least twenty other states are considering similar legislation it can be very interesting to see what happens. reporting from arizona well our website dot com has a lot more to offer you whenever you want and here's some of what's online for you right now at r.t. dot com russian police detained a man attempting to hijack a plane at a moscow airport he was reportedly demonic a meeting with the country's leadership. and on the heels of another russian. sponsor a media frenzy in the u.s. she's charged with smuggling weapons just weeks after a highly publicized spy saga follow the story.

and now to some other international news 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 wiki leaks site on sunday giving classified details of the war robert gates says it has endangered american troops. and an aggressive investigations will be carried out disclosure of those increased calls to end the war in many countries including the u.k. . there's been clashes between police and protesters in indian controlled kashmir and the violence started after paramilitary troops fired on demonstrators injuring two and leaving one in critical condition police say they fired on rock throwing protesters but locals claim the two men who were shot weren't even involved in the demo. 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 houses collapsed or they drowned in overflowing streams. well now as we continue to bring you closer to different parts of russia our close . well just a short ride southwest of moscow lie the fruitful lands of the region fields make for great farming. however grasslands are often unused for decades without receding that's why a few years ago authorities decided exporting meat was the answer now with the help of american cattle breeders the region hopes to supply the country the whole country with stakes. over pioneers of beef. for tourists

you are going to escape the crowd and wander off the beaten track the little girl region could be just the ticket was close to the capital only eighty kilometers south of moscow and there is blinded to see here first of all it's a fantastic natural setting to may reverse the not and back up provide beautiful scenery especially in the summer and an alternative route for tourists well as early as the sixteenth century was the main commercial center acting as a port as a link between east and mosco but then the city exported 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 brothers too. sparkling past. bright future from exploring space to feeding the whole nation with meat guides show to respond leases where they invented the rocky

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 and space jimmy says to understand the needs if you can use she may june she's one of them and there's nowhere she would rather be. then the congo region in up some enough rain and enough snow to keep the grass growing jamie's originally from mount 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 they're 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 color erika's out of the whole day looking up to cars and teaching locals such know how has multiplied genetics we'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 bomb raises other d.n. 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 be 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 these 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 with our. biggest difficult the i was in the local grocery store and i was just trying to. check in and i couldn't read the package to see where it was and the lady at the counter thirty flapping in making chicken noises. about chicken leaving of the beef bread and dramas to be in several languages but farmers are convinced the russian produced beef will be of the finest export quality. our tea from the region. or of course all is now here with the latest from the

world of business and charlotte this heat wave is just a killer and it's just plaguing the country as we harvest here in russia i hear that officials are predicting the exports might even the heart of what if you got for us oh that's right the jobs of the countries the very damaged crop so there's been low yields and this is increasing demand for u.s. supplies we'll have the details later in the program but first this hour they say all secrets come to light russia's president dmitri medvedev has signed a new law preventing insider trading the law clarifies and define such concepts as insider information market manipulation 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 after publication. the government says they will offload shares in state companies even if the budget doesn't need the money isn't there also

a 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 privatization will help build a competitive economy. which these will be fairly big companies possibly banks partially our companies from the fuel and energy sector privatization will be a 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 encouraging more competition with the private sector. which smaller companies may prove attracted to reinvigorate individual investors but some analysts believe the government will have to work hard to calm the fears of renationalisation. in 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 months malo do not of strategic importance or limited strategic importance and i believe in most of these cases the feet will be full pro taxation renationalisation fear is probably one of the big east obstacles for foreign investors into venturing russia there is the fear that wells the government feels more confident that they really resort to so-called crippling nationalization when they used to regularly three to force the foreign investors out and indeed there is these danger to the government needs to provide to investment protection to make this the formula best as arabic and larry that if the best 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 and 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 help. the markets of doing it here in moscow post-divorce is a warning echoing the global trends on the markets nicholas relieving the decline so many are to guess shedding almost three percent this hour. and over in europe markets are also sliding into the red earnings related gains from several companies have helped steady losses investors are anxious for more clues about the health of the u.s. economy and the u.s. g.d.p. second quarter results are expected later on friday. good news for russia's bond market the finance minister has placed five year bonds the longest since october when the. 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 plans to sell a stake of up to twenty five percent the i.p.o. is scheduled to take place in london next year. russian wheate 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 well compared to last year to just forty seven million tonnes and this is pushing prices up they're heading for the biggest monthly gain since one thousand nine hundred seventy three a crop damaging drought in russia and parts of europe will curb exports lifting demand for u.s. supplies. russia may raise its share on the european gas markets to between thirty and thirty five percent that's the prediction of the european commissioner

for energy. he expects europe to decreases domestic gas production and provide a place for russia produces at the moment they cover a quarter of the european gas supply ukraine and belarus as transit system will retain very important position even with the launch of the north and south stream project. server started taking a controlling stake in calendars crew gold corp up from forty percent although it acquired a number of foreign still companies before the crisis so oversells gold's of surgery has been one of the best performers. obviously. has significantly reduced some of the cap ex plans it's a reaction to the crisis and it's very natural our business obviously was a bit quicker 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 it was twenty five percent of it would be done in two thousand and nine

to the overall severstal of provisions so in the difficult parts of a cycle business has you know has performed as a hitch towards the adverse economic conditions i'm not sure of they for now my colleague stephanie monday we hit next hour to take you through the business the rest of the day we can always find more of our stories on our website.

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