before the fire hit this house now this is just an illustration of what can happen when record heat. conditions the family that lived in this house they all made it out ok they're all alive but motion only their suffering they're definitely feeling the pain pain that was too tough for them to speak about to us on camera forest fires have swept through central russia killing twenty five and leaving two thousand homeless. is one of the vehicles they could to rescue themselves from the and i'm not sure everyone has been saved. we're not getting any help whatsoever desperately need more equipment we were using. just whatever we could get everyone who came to work everyone who had any equipment. all of. their tents exploded. on the way. emotionally heartbroken for

those residents. and let's talk about what's. coming at this first of all floridians have sent out to two hundred thousand police officers for firefighters to contain and to put out these fires but their murder ministry says look we need more bodies to battle the blaze so they're asking for more firefighters to be sent out to. also present mitigator has come out and he's demanding that their. organizations set up for the reasons hit by this fire so that temporary housing can be established for them right away here's more from. this and usually. we need to at least provide people with temporary housing and

immediately the construction of permanent. both the russian government and the regional administration should. continue. well the national weather service says that we can experience these temperatures which have been extremely hot topping out about forty degrees celsius which is one hundred four degrees fahrenheit and we can continue to see temperatures like that until next week so that. people to stay at home if you don't have to be out if you can afford to take some time off of work do not go outside and this is not just about this is about the pollutants the air quality in the air is so dangerous that the air pollution is tenfold what the norm is so they're asking people if you're elderly person with health issues if you're a young person with health issues to say it stay inside and if you have to go out we're up for whatever reason we're asking that you wear one of these. to protect

yourself. all right stacie been reporting for us from the moscow region. well while firefighters are desperately seeking ways to contain the flames a russian test pilot says the answer could be artificial climate change russia has used planes to disperse clouds for emergency situations as well as special occasions alexander of the document gulf claims the method could also achieve the opposite effect and help bring the rain. or this from the. influence of the clouds we not really be a job for the air force a bit of aviation can provide a solution until we find another way regarding the chernobyl explosion that was our crews hampered the rains and helped stop the spread of radioactive substances throughout the soviet union it could work well in the present drought. but it was test pilot alexander document off. while emergency workers in china are struggling to recover thousands of barrels of dangerous chemicals from

a river in the northeast part of the country the containers were washed from factories along the song who are by heavy flooding but if not stopped her toxic substances may reach the russian border within two weeks. reports 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 i know 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 or three voice from the

chemical storage facility into this whole 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 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. several teams are connecting the barrels along the phone who are rebounding now with a monitoring 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 around the clock the water 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 are 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 said that the barrels that are in the water are leak free 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 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 board but briefly in china it's not certain whether that was for maintenance or whether that was a response to the incident happening but that situation has now been resolved that's he said the cleanup operation now underway and everyone just watching that

happening hoping hoping obviously that no further damage has caused. all to search for the reporting that you're going to shortz from the worldwide fund for nature told us here at our team this industrial incident could potentially have a massive environmental impact feels like. 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 dispute to be listed in the river even if only a few of the food barrels leaked toxic chemicals into the water no matter where this happens the effects on the river resources will be huge and extremely negative and the few of these chemicals come into contact with a person's skin they should immediately see a doctor as full the measures taken by the north or twos 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 going to france from the russian branch of the world wide fund from nature. and in another 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 slick itself has yet to be fully removed from the ocean but as now heated debate over just how badly the spill will affect the environment some scientists believe the aftermath will be felt for decades while others say the oil is already rapidly dispersed 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 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 impacts are certainly impossible to know right now but there's now 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 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 today 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 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. that's time magazine's michael grunwald there well coming up later this hour here on r.t. beefing up a real fight to produce the best meat in the world parties a close up team brings you the details as it embarks on another adventure revealing russia's most fascinating little known areas. in germany there are fears that 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 official jail sentence ends but the european court of human rights says it's illegal tom barton explains. shifty glances

a nervous stance 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 the least for police 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 as this close believe that the security security. environment is a big good. house probably all of. these from the prison no money if you work in this building there's no police but since he is living here there's all the day police all the people in town are talking about. and not only 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 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's get pushed into fairly 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 specialist checks to assess their condition and 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 are being replicated across germany guarded the op for 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 were put away others also think the new arrangements in less than satisfactory it cost 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 eight 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 right serve 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 tom barton r.t. germany ok let's get some news now it's hitting headlines around the world this hour and the taliban has threatened to hunt down those responsible for released. information about the militant group it says it is studying data published on the web site 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 all been published online the website says it will soon put out thousands of more documents. at least four hundred people have been 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 displaced so far and the provincial government has declared a state of emergency which are in short range are expected to continue over the weekend. clashes have taken place in indian controlled kashmir after two and t.

india protesters were shot by paramilitaries police say the men were wounded after troops opened fire on a rock throwing demonstrators locals claim the two men were not involved in the protests residents say government forces have killed at least seventeen people in the last six weeks during riots. and the leaders of syria and saudi arabia have arrived in beirut ahead of the reported indictment of hezbollah members over the murder of former lebanese prime minister rafik hariri and they're concerned the new clashes could break out between lebanon's shiite and sunni communities if the international tribunal implicates members of the shia islamist group in her reach death it's the first time syria's president has visited lebanon since two thousand and five when beirut to blame that damascus for the assassination. well time balancer to head off russia's beaten path with aussies close up to.

the kaluga region maybe unknown to some but it's 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 fields were unused and neglected but now locals have decided that beef is the way forward with the help of american cattle breeder's the region hopes to supply the whole country with top quality stakes on t.v. significant after what has more. colorless sparkling possed. bright future from exploring space to feeding the whole nation with meat guides show tourists places where the inventor of the raw could keep it but few know of the region's reach a great cultural heritage mcqueary isn't as great because we have a barrier 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 grazing area and space jamie says to better understand the needs of your congress she may gins she's one of them and there's nowhere she would rather be than because of the region in up some enough rain and enough snow to keep the grass growing jamie's originally from mount dakota in america two years a day she and her husband eric moved to russia to help local farmers produce the best beef in the wool in america there's already been many families that have farmed 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 college every consultant. whole day looking up to cars and teaching locals such know how is 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 sell the potential the farm 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. 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 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 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 if they were it was the. lady at the counter thirty flapping and making chicken noises like that second the labeling of the beef bread in color is dramas to be in several languages the films are convinced they're russian produced beef will be of the finest x. board quality. r t from the color of the region. ok let's get the latest business news now with stephanie. hello and welcome to the business person here on r.t.

they say all secrets come to light russia's president dmitri medvedev has signed a law preventing insider trading the new york firefighters i'm defines concepts such as insider information and market manipulation among stop this 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 that will come into force six months after publication. we spoke to a corporate lawyer max good broad from baker and mckenzie he says that russia's insider trading nor has much in common with western versions. if you look at the letter of it it's much more extensive a lot of details are regulated as you would have expected in russia they are however a couple of details which emerged in practice in the west which are not regulated that is in a situation that is also situations where you have conflicts of interest between people just imagine the state bank where the chairman of the supervisory board is one in the same and he deals with two banks and learns inside information two of

them does it mean that foreign investors can now rely more on information flow in russia well relying two sides the first is that they get the information and second is that actually the information is disclosed the law regulates when information has to be disclosed but it doesn't regulate which information has to be disclosed that is a question in russia of corporate and securities law and it's also of press legislation and press practice of course the law doesn't deal with those questions and they continue to be weaker as compared to the west and what kind of changes will companies actually need to make will it be a question of restructuring or it is not a question of restructuring the company as a whole but you will have to build compliance inside the compliance departments you will have to identify the people who will be treating as insiders and disclose information about you also probably have to review your whole information flow or most likely you'll look at all the agreements between the insiders and your

companies in order to actually deal with them in parallel just imagine you have a guy who has infringed inside the regulations you can fire him so you all have to have labor agreements which reflect what is in the inside the law and how would this affect the investment banking industry in russia i think it's a limited to the investment banking industry you'd probably find that the majority of banks at least should be but in reality are already working according to the standards. before they're all over i think to do fits with interest in different schools. likely to be implemented is quite cumbersome so will it cost to do this with your worship the circles actually give a lot of back to the schools abroad and leave me be very very much view that the probable solution which is coming. to small coming to search means more cultural

coincidences that it comes together so probably dealing russian security as a broad will become much easier. now let's have a look at how the active markets are doing a wall street has opened low on friday u.s. g.d.p. figures just released show economic growth slowed between april and june with g.d.p. growing by an annualized rate of two point four percent that could rise to a revised to three point seven percent in the previous quarter. and in europe markets are also sliding into the red earnings related gains from several companies have helped steady losses but the energy sector is jacking the biggest underperforming sector on the footsie. new moscow both the bosses are falling echoing global trends frankfurt leading the declines on the my sex with the t.v. and spare bank shutting more than three percent this hour. so it has taken a controlling stake in canada's crew gold corp up from forty percent although it acquired a number of foreign companies before the crisis so the gold subsidiary has been

among the best performance. obviously. has significantly reduced some of the cap explosions as a reaction to the crisis and it's very natural our business or booster was a bit contras cyclical and interestingly enough we have contributed being a fairly small part of the business in terms of the size of the assets we could contribute both one to five percent in two thousand and nine to do overall 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 a drought has plagued the country's harvest according to the institute for agricultural market studies out shipments may decline from eighteen million metric tons to mine and a half million in national retail harvest in russia could promise twenty four percent when compared to last year for 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 o'clock damaging jobs in russia and parts of europe will cut exports and lifting demand for u.s. supplies. russia may be used to share of the european gas market to between thirty and thirty five percent that's what dixon of the european commission for energy herman. european commission of energy have been asking us says russia will gain as european producers coptic gas output domestic production it covers a quarter of europe's gas supply he said ukraine and belarus will remain key transit route even with the launch of the north and south projects. and that's over the business team for now but i'll be back with more updates for you in about an hour's time and you can always find most stories on our website that's r.t. to flash with.

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us technology update on r g. b o here in the russian capital this is your headlines no forest fires rage and russia killing at least twenty five people in the. homes have been destroyed and thousands of those struggled to stop the flames spreading from. emergency crews worked around the clock in china to recover thousands of barrels of highly explosive chemicals before they reached russia trying. to pose any threat to. living in fear many keeping some behind bars indefinitely despite the european court of human rights saying the country's

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