saying that that's unlikely to happen the vows are on likely to reach the in the 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 that's the worst flooding that china has seen a nearly a decade and this course around seven thousand barrels to be washed from the chemical storage facility into the soul river 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 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. the chinese side confirms the accident and said that the taking all necessary measures several teams are connecting the barrels along with or who are riba they're also monitoring the environment in the region so far no

changes in the route to quote to 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 resubmission around the clock would have quality monitoring of their more river 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 who 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 has said that the barrels that are in the water all leak proof so it's certainly hope that that won't happen it's not the first time a situation like this is. because 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 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 that he said the cleanup operation now underway and everyone just watching that happening hoping hoping obviously that no further damage is caused from the situation. so you sort of now you're going to schwartz from the russian branch of the world wide fund for nature who says if any of the barrel spring a leak the environmental impact will be massive. feels like. a lot depends on how soon they manage chartres the barrels from the river we still don't know how much of the hazardous material is still on the river even if only a few of the film cameras leak toxic chemicals into the wall no matter where this

happens the effects on the rivers biological resources will be human and extremely negative and if you have these chemicals come into contact with a person's skin they should immediately see a doctor as for urgent measures taken by the authorities 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. coming to you live from moscow this is r.t. and the month long heat wave being experienced in russia has just caused destructive forest fires that have buttoned down hundreds of homes in central parts of the country have been reports of casualties in several regions as well prime minister vladimir putin and the head of the emergencies ministry is sort of

a showing in the region of the. one of the worst hit areas specialist aircraft have been deployed there to battle the wildfires strong winds have been fanning the flames forcing villagers summer camps and hospitals to be evacuated over six hundred hectares of forest fire across the country this week and that is likely to increase. well look at later people of l. and his guests discuss whether global warming has anything to do with the sweltering heat that is spreading disaster across russia. oh this is climate and we need to do what 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. a future condemned. hundreds of millions of people in the developing world to a pre-industrial. existence which means. increasing child mortality and short british you made your point i mean morris wants to reply and we

want to know go ahead mark go ahead and jump in. what it was was just to make the point actually that we're talking about averaging out weather here so rather looking at 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 could watch course talking about twenty minutes time right here on r.t. or 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 a european human rights watchdog this means potentially dangerous individuals could soon be back in the community artie's told barton has the story. shifty glances a nervous status that's all we managed to see walter h

a moderate and sex offender now living in the german city of sabriel can he's got it 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 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 the security and security of the. environment is a big good. has probably only. from the prison normally if you work in this building and there's no police but there's since he's living here there's 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's a school next door and there's a kindergarten movie mr rate should still be in prison under germany's policy a 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 there 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 paedophile campaigner 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 has got to be a few. if these criminals we 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 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 are next to him and that's that's impossible to have a normal life michael ray burger is now fighting for greater freedoms mr h. the criminals rights are of little worry to most germans and chris 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. it's ten minutes past the hour here in the russian capital you are with r.t. and still to come for you this hour arizona's governor appeals against curbs to a controversial immigration law which is still driving protesters out onto the streets. and meet the pioneers of russian beef who are set to make a killing in our close up series. of the impact of the b.p. oil spill in the gulf of mexico has been as damaging to the firm's finances as it has to the environment the crisis has forced b.p.'s c.e.o. to step down brought 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. for decades while there was some evidence but the leak has been clearing from the surface of the water much faster than expected time magazine's

michael grunwald thinks exaggerating the damage is a way for some to promote individual agendas. just about everybody has called this the worst environmental disaster that 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 a type two so 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 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 or 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 has you know that much of a of an incentive 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 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 at time magazine he was joining us from. is appealing a federal ruling the state's controversial new immigration law. legislation such as forcing immigrants to carry papers at all times were revoked just hours before they came into force didn't stop protesters from venting their anger. reports a lot of protesters on the street there were

a lot of police what they were doing this 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 a word that there are about thirteen buses coming from from los angeles from the mbaye 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. they reporting from arizona well our website has a lot more to offer you whenever you want it and here's some of what is online for you right now c.n.n. dot com police the man who was attempting to hijack a plane at a moscow airport he was reportedly demanding a meeting with the country's leadership. and on the heels of anna chapman another russian firm sparks a media frenzy in the u.s. he's charged with smuggling weapons and just weeks after

a highly publicized spy saga follow the story at your own time dot com. now let's get to some other international news now u.s. defense secretary has called in the f.b.i. to find out how secret documents on the war in afghanistan 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 aggressive investigation will be carried out the disclosure has increased calls to end the war in many countries including the u.k. . there's been some clashes between police and protesters in controlled kashmir the violence started after paramilitary troops fired on anti india demonstrators injured two leaving one in critical condition police say they fired on a rock throwing protesters but locals claim the two men who were shot won't even involved in the demos. 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 the overflowing streams. well now we continue to bring you closer to different parts of russia in our close up series. just a short ride southwest of moscow lie their food for lands of the kaluga region factors of fields make for great farming and agriculture however grasslands are often on used 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 whole country with stakes are two separate that in a culture of pioneers is that. for tourists you are going to escape the crowd and

wander off the beaten track they got a little girl region could be just the ticket well it's close to the capital only eighty kilometers south of moscow and there is planted to see here first of all it's a fantastic natural setting to maine rivers this not and that ca provide beautiful sane respectfully in the summer and an alternative route for tourists well it's only as the sixteenth century was the main commercial center 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 to. the sparkling past. bright future

from exploring space to feeding the whole nation with neat guides show to raise splices where they invented the rocky but few know of the region's reach and with cultural heritage mcqueary isn't as great because we have a very very big. area of land to work with i mean need a lot a lot ahead hours per couch to make sure they have enough grazing area and space jamie says to better understand the needs of congress she may gins she's one of them and there's nowhere she would rather be then because of the region enough some enough rain and enough snow to keep the grass growing jamie's originally from mt dakota in america two years ago she and her husband eric moved to russia to help local farmers produce the best beef in the won't 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 cold war in the history of color 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 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 aberdeen 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. of 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 to live cattle. importing frozen embryos multiplying is quicker and cheaper the first generation of russian born happens is about to appear soon but as the form 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 write a check and i currently have a pack and they were it was a. lady at the counter thirty flapping and making chicken noises. that second the labeling of the beef bread and brown has to be in several languages the farmers are convinced their russian produced beef will be of the finest export quality. r t from the kaluga region. well in just ten minutes

time now looks at whether russia's sweltering heat is dance or climate change but first let's go over the other business with stephanie so how are the equity markets doing at the moment henri we're seeing falls in european markets and that echoes overnight weakness on wall street and asia commodity assets are leading the decline so i'll have more market news in just a moment but first they say all secrets come to light russia's president dmitri medvedev has signed a law preventing insider trading the new law clarifies and defines concepts such as insider information and market manipulation amongst others insider trading is an offense in most financial centers but until now the law has never passed its first hearing in russia and it won't take effect immediately the rules come into force six months after publication. the government says it will offload shares in state companies even if the budget doesn't need the money so far the finance ministry proposes selling up to eleven major companies like ross enough to spare bank to

name a few the earliest date for a sale will be next year the economic development minister said privatization will help build a competitive economy. these would be fairly big companies you. partially our companies from the fuel and energy sector privatization will be a means not an easy track to many into the budget which is very little also weighed influencing the structure of the economy currently the government has an excessive growth in some of the factors you threw into government shares might be interested in competition in the private sector. which lot of 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 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 and they are not of strategic importance or limited strategic importance and i believe in most of these cases it 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 their wells the government feels more confident but they really resort to so-called crippling nationalization when they used to regularly to rebuild to force the foreign investors out and indeed there is these danger so the government needs to provide their investment protection in making this the formula best there's a bit and wary 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 what probably signed with the state so the fear of the nationalization is there and the state has to

take some steps to provide guarantees that it will not happen. let's have a closer look at how the markets are shaping up here in moscow both the boss is a falling echoing global trends banks are leading the declines on the my sex with the t.v. on spare buying clothes shopping two and a half percent this hour and in europe markets are also sliding into the red earnings related gains from several companies have helped study losses but investors are anxious for more clues about the health of the u.s. economy u.s. g.d.p. second quarter results are expected for later on friday. 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. seven star has taken a controlling stake in canada's crew gold corp up from forty percent although it acquired a number of foreign still companies before the crisis so it does gold subsidiary

has been among the best performance but obviously this. has significantly reduced some of their cap ex plans as a reaction to the crisis and it's very natural our business abuse there was a bit contra 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 in two thousand and nine to do overall severstal appropriations 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 by almost half this year after a drought has plagued the country's harvest according to the institute for agriculture and market studies out shipments may decline from eighteen million metric tons to nine and a half million the national wheat harvest in russia could plummet twenty four

percent when compared to last year to just forty seven million tonnes and this is pushing prices higher they're heading for the biggest monthly gain since one nine hundred seventy three a crop damaging drought in russia and parts of europe will curb exports lifting demand for u.s. supplies. russia raise that share on the european gas market to between thirty and thirty five percent that's a prediction of the european commission for energy herman. he expects europe to decrease its domestic gas production and provide a place for russian producers at the moment they cover a quarter of the european gas supply ukraine and belarus is transit system will retain their important position even with the launch of the nord stream and south stream projects. and that's often the business team for now but of course i'll be back with more stories for you next hour and you can always find more information on our website that r.t. to com slash with us.

the big . issue is that so much in a moment taxpayers' money mandating it is a misdemeanor a lot of people are sweating it out on the big part of the world is experiencing a crippling heat wave is this a trend or simply freaking weather one. has been to the casio the wilderness and the great out it's a form of. now while tea goes to central russia where the car industry is rapidly developing where history finds

a new life in its place. an american citizen can find a new. welcome to the. club so. it's about now here in the russian capital you're with let's get to our headlines now thousands of containing dangerous chemicals that were swept into a chinese river by a flood and are heading towards russia recovery efforts are underway but if the toxic materials get into the water the effects could be disastrous. and germany is debating what the human rights of convicted criminals should be sacrificed for the protection of citizens so called preventative detention drew criticism from a european for human rights watch. and the governor has appealed

a federal ruling which a controversial new immigration law will address parts of the legislation such as forcing immigrants to carry papers at all times just hours before they came into force. and i would look at whether there's any truth to the claims that global warming is the cause of the record breaking heat in russia. it's time for crosstalk stay with us. hungry for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. in a welcome to cross talk i'm curious about sweating it out a good part of the world is experiencing a crippling heatwave is this a trend or simply for.