office says the officials handling of the situation will also be investigated. because forest fires have spread and killed people destroyed and damaged buildings essential investigation committee of the russian prosecutor's office has instructed the heads of local investigation departments to assess the actions or lack of actions of officials which have resulted in such serious consequences upon the results of these inspections decisions will be made according to the russian criminal procedure code and eyewitnesses say that people are fleeing of the flames and those fighting the fires are lacking the proper equipment to do so or. people using tractors whatever vehicles they could to rescue themselves from the fires but i'm not sure everyone has been saved but of hearing the reports we're not getting any help whatsoever would desperately need more equipment we were using axes shovels sols just whatever we could get everyone who could stand to work everyone

who had any equipment brought in. all of the tourists have fled their tents an s.u.v. exploded after woman and children the way. we're now getting new numbers here that up to twenty one people are dead in these our current forest fires here in russia more details to come here on r.t. now emergency workers in china are struggling to recover thousands of barrels of dangerous chemicals from a river in the northeast of the country the containers were washed from factories along the song who are by heavy flooding but if not stopped toxic substances may reach the russian border within two weeks artie's sarah furthur ports from outside the chinese embassy. the chinese media reporting that thousands of these barrels have now been retrieved from the song. thousands more remain in it floating towards towards russia now of course the song was a subsidiary of the a moon river which it joined in russia's far eastern territory and it would take on

two weeks of these barrels to reach and what we're hearing is that the chinese authorities are saying that that's unlikely to happen the barrels run likely to reach the in the and they've actually put in 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 few nearly a decade and this close around seven thousand barrels to be washed from a 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 but concerns on both sides of this the about the potential environmental impact where any of these chemical substances to leak into the water say based sites monitoring this cleanup operation a very closely indeed. several teams are connecting the barrels along the song who are about now also monitoring the environment in the region so far no changes in

the wood to quality 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 riza dishnet around the clock which of quality monitoring of the. president there is no health risk for the people living in the area but 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. so obviously there are concerns about those leaking now the chinese authorities again have said that the barrels that are in the water all the leak. is 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 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 but that situation has now been resolved as he said the cleanup operation now underway and everyone just watching that happening hoping hoping oversee that no further damage is cools from the situation to you sir for us reporting that well you have got to be strong strong worldwide fund for nature told our to you that this industrial incident could potentially have a massive environmental impact. there's. a lot depends on how soon they manage to retrieve the barrels from the river we still don't know how much of the has a disputed area listed in the river even if only a few of the full barrels leaked toxic chemicals into the water no matter where

this happens the effects on the rivers biological resources will be huge and extremely negative and if a few of these chemicals come into contact with a person's skin they should immediately see a doctor as for the 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 more closely to prevent the high risks posed by the fast growth of china's economy which results in incidents like this. and that was you're going to shrugs from the russian branch of the worldwide fund from nature. well and in a toxic spill with a tricky cleanup operation b.p. says it has plugged the oil well in the gulf of mexico but the controversy continues the crisis has forced b.p.'s chief executive to quit causing billions of

dollars in losses and the switch itself has yet to be fully removed from the ocean there's now a heated debate over just how bad the spill will affect the environment some scientists believe the aftermath. rather will be felt for decades while others say the oil is already rapidly dispersing michael grunwald from time magazine says the problem is being exaggerated. 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 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 now much evidence and 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 of an incentive to say well hey you know the data doesn't really seem to show that this is way 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 well now you tell us look at 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. time magazine's michael grunwald right there so come up later this hour beefing up a region to produce the best meat in the world close up team brings you the details and box on another adventure revealing russia's most fascinating and little known

area. in germany there are fears dangerous acts convicts could soon be living freely in the community it comes as the country looks forced to scrap its practice of preventive detention prisoners likely to re-offend can be kept under lock and key even when their jail sentence ends but the european court of human rights says that this is illegal tom bottom reports. shifty glances and nervous stares that's all we managed to see walter a church 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 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 joke good for him has probably only. from the prison no money 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 normally all the people don't want him to be here because there is a school next door and there's a kindergarten. mr eight should still be in prison under germany's policy of preventive detention it 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 it pushed him to fail 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 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 i did a few of these criminals we 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

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 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 a nice another two hundred twenty three dangerous criminals released soon across germany was that might ease conscience isn't strasberg it doesn't ease anyone's nerves here martin r.t. broken germany. the taliban has threatened to hunt down those responsible for releasing information about the militant group it says it is studying data published on the website wiki leaks and will punish anyone involved details of operations by american and other allied forces in afghanistan between two thousand and four and two thousand and nine have been published online the website says it

will soon put up thousands of more documents. clashes have taken place in indian controlled kashmir after two anti india protesters were shot by paramilitaries police say the men were wounded after troops opened fire on a rock throwing demonstrators locals claimed two men who were brother the two men who were shot were not involved in the protests residents say government forces have killed at least seventeen people in the last six weeks during riots. now the leaders of syria and saudi arabia have arrived in beirut headed for the reported indictment of hezbollah members over the murder of former lebanese prime minister rafik hariri the two leaders fear new clashes between lebanon's shiite and sunni communities could break out if the international tribunal implicates members of the shia islamic group in her wrist death is the first visit of syria's president to lebanon since two thousand and five when damascus was accused of the assassination by beirut. a mexican drug lord is being killed in

a raid by military forces in the western city of guadalajara ignacio nacho coronel was known as the king of christophe for his control over the production and smuggling of drugs to the u.s. the raid is being seen as a rare a major victory for mexican or thirty's the battle against drug cartels in the country has claimed almost seven thousand lives this year alone. more than three hundred people are being killed in pakistan over the last three days during floods triggered by monsoon rains thousands were left stranded as emergency services struggle to reach remote villages nearly four hundred thousand have been to place so far and the provincial government has declared a state of emergency in the trench will rains are expected to continue over the weekend. or at what time now to head off to russia's beaten path with our close up team.

well the kaluga region may be unknown to some but is just two hundred kilometers away from the russian capital it's a center for scientific research but it's hoping to make a mark in the agricultural industry for years hector's of fields were unused and neglected but now locals have decided beef is the way forward with the help of american cattle breeders the region hopes to supply the whole country with top quality stakes. in the culture of the plants. for tourists so you are going to escape the crowd and wander off the beaten track big ol ogre region could be just the ticket well it's close to the capital only eighty kilometers south of there is planted to see here first of all it's a fantastic natural setting too may reverse 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 color was the main commercial center acting as a port as a link between these iranian and most 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 follow it out it's not only the local animals at home and the environment but some of the oversea brothers to. call a sparkling palm. bright future from exploring space to feeding the whole nation with meat guides show to respond he says where the inventor of the role could leave but few know of the region's reach agricultural heritage. as great because we have a very very big open area of land to work with i mean need a lot a lot ahead hours per cows to make sure they have enough. raising area and space jamie says to better understand the needs of your congress she may gins she's one

of them and there's no way she would rather be than become the region in up some enough rain and enough snow to keep the grass growing jamie's originally from north 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 cold war 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 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 farm raises aberdeen angus beef which will ultimately end up on the table as 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 in high quality be just an unbelievable that because the primary source of be utilized in the in the food chain here is the very dairy cattle that are no longer used for milking they go to the meat plant it is not high quality meat. the farm turned from importing live cattle to importing frozen embryos multiplying these quicker and cheaper the first generation of russia. halfords 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 some chicken and i read the package to see where it was and the lady at the counter thirded flapping and making chicken noises like a bad chicken leaving all of the beef brandon he's promised to be in several languages before most are convinced their russian produced beef will be the finest x. board cool it. well the language barrier is indeed a problem but in organ areas not if you find yourself in the regions capital and to find out want to respond this city is so appealing i'm now joined by local guides you know parchin about thank you very much for joining their lives so what sells best in your city where what shall i say look around the scenery is beautiful and for those people who like rush and me like russian droppings will be like monte

fishing or just hiking we can find a lot of places which are white nice for those purposes then there are a lot of holy places in our town that i lot of troikas in our town the town is interesting because it's one of the samples of the classical russian market a lot of museums and one of them is the museum of space exploration named after. i would you thing needs to be done to attract more people to the region both for work employee i'm afraid so i will say a common place investments well let's hope that money comes to the region and the last month pays off thank you very much for that inside of a local guide from the city off color before russia closed up. that was because of the culture of reporting market for stuff for years now here with the latest business of. course stuff this heat wave in russia it's historic. it's a killer and it's now affecting the countries with the harvester what do you got

for us well basically the drought has severely damaged crops in russia so there's been a lower yield and this is increasing demand for us supplies i have much more on that later on in the bulletin but first they say all secrets come to light russia's president dmitri medvedev has signed a law preventing insider trading then you look or pfizer i'm 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 setting up to eleven major companies like hydro 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. which these will be fairly big companies possibly

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 load 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. in some sense it doesn't come across as a true privatization it's only partial however the 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 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 and then wells the government feels more confident that they really resort to so-called crippling nationalization when they used to regularly three majors to force the foreign investors out and indeed there is these danger so the government needs to provide better investment protection to make this the formula best there's 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. and now let's have

a look at how the acting markets are shaping up here in moscow both the bourses of calling echoing global trends on the markets banks are leading the decline for the my sex with me and spare bank shutting at two point six percent this hour. and over in europe markets are also sliding in the into the red earnings related gains from several companies have helped to steady 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 at later on friday. the russian internet from and facebook investor digital sky technologies process in the state of up to twenty five percent the i.p.o. is scheduled to. pace in london next year. so if a 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 the stars gold subsidiary has been among the best performers obviously the serious and large has significantly reduced some of their cap ex plans as

a reaction to the crisis and it's very natural our business or because 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 we could contribute worth twenty five percent in two thousand and nine to do over all service deliberations 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 drought to plague the country's harvest according to the institute for agriculture 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 one compared to last year just forty seven million tonnes and this is pushing prices higher 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 cut exports from lifting

demand for u.s. supplies. russia may raise that share on the european gas market to between thirty and thirty five percent that's the prediction of the european commission for energy hermann 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 north stream and south stream projects. and that's all from the business team for now but i'll be back with more updates for you in an hour's time and you can always find more stories on our website that's r.t. dot com slash business.

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is half past four in the afternoon here in the russian capital you're with your headlines now forest fires are raging in russia and they're killing up to twenty one people in record breaking heat homes have been destroyed thousands of. struggling to stop the flames from spreading. emergency crews work around the clock in china thousands of barrels of highly explosive chemicals from before they reach russia chinese authorities say they can. pose any threat. living in fear. keeping behind bars indefinitely despite the european court of

human rights saying the country's preventative detention system is illegal it sees criminals remain in prison even after their official sentences ended. if you're looking to soak up some history. could be just the thing for you and your garden he's coming your way next. hello our welcome to vladimir.