things to keep the family comfortable and together and now look at it it's all demolished and that's been the story throughout central russia where forest fires have ripped through the central area killing twenty five people and leaving two thousand homeless. emotionally draining for these people who have lost their homes here but now we've got a number of about two thousand people are now homeless from the forest fires tell me more about how they cope well it's a devastating chain of events like i said you work hard to accumulate things to keep the family comfortable enough course these people have gotten out with their lives and they're thankful for that but imagine going home to having no home there's nothing there and so now people are trying to figure out what's the next step how do they go on from here how do they rebuild their lives and it's been a painful process even though it's and it's a new it's a fresh one for many people and the family here so i mentioned they got out ok but

they were just too upset to even talk about what they have to go through on camera but we did find some people essential russia they're willing to share their story and here's what they had to tell us. 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 would desperately need more equipment we were using. just whatever we could get everyone who could stand to work everyone who had any equipment. related all of. an s.u.v. exploded after women and children the way. people. tell me how the authorities during the fires. well we have a graphic to show what they're up against i hope we can pull that up in time basically eighty six thousand two hundred thousand acres have gone up in flames

flames and there's more than three hundred hotspots throughout central russia so that gives you kind of an idea of what these firefighters are going through now two hundred thousand firefighters have been dispatched. to help contain and battle this blaze but the emergency ministry says look we simply need need more bodies to put out the fires yes some fires have been put out but there's many more that are still raging. that we can. after this unusually hot summer will be a cold winter so we need to at least provide people with temporary housing and immediately start the construction of permanent homes both the russian government and the regional administrations should certainly resume to finance these needs. these are. just exhausted in the time are there any signs of.

help everyone fighting these wildfires. well as you mentioned the heat has been close to unbearable. about forty degrees about one hundred degrees fahrenheit so you can just imagine how hot that is all of the time and we're expecting to. continuing out for at least a week so there is expected to be a reprieve. but until the emergency ministry. and it's not just a matter of the fire. not just because the heat is intense but it's also just the quality of the air the ministry the air quality is dangerous because air pollution is. so this is it's not. older person or you're

a younger person with. go ahead. if you have. artificial climate change. situations special occasions. that the method could also the opposite effect and help bring the right . crews.

well 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 by heavy flooding but if not stopped the 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 moon river which it joined in russia's far eastern territory and it would take on two weeks of these battles to reach the now what we're hearing is that the chinese authorities are saying that that's unlikely to happen the barrels run likely to reach the a mile 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 with the worst flooding that china has seen a familiar decade and this close around seven thousand barrels to rewash from the chemical storage facility into this all river and around four thousand of the we've heard reports. of three thousand containing this chemical substance the clean up operation now well underway concerns on both sides of this the about the potential environmental impact where any of these chemical substances leaked into the water say both sides monitoring this going up operation a very closely indeed. several teams are connecting the barrels along the phone who are 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 region and around the clock to quality monitoring. and at present 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 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 this he said the cleanup operation now underway and everyone just watching that happening hoping hoping obviously that no further damage is caused when the situation after you surf reporting that you're going to shots from the worldwide fund for nature told us here at r.t. that just real incident kind of 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 release still 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. 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 your forty's because of the incident the situation looks much better than five years ago when

a similar incident to coat 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. but of course you have going to farts from the russian broad. well dwight fund for nature well coming up later this hour for you here on r.t. beefing up a region to produce the best meat in the world parties closeout team brings you the details as it embarks on another adventure revealing russia's most fascinating and little known areas. in germany there are fears dangerous 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 that's illegal reports. 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 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 a good thing for him has probably only. from the prison no money if you work in this building and there's no police but 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 eight should still be in prison under germany's policy of preventive detention was designed to keep offenders like him behind bars even after a sentence was served because they were still deemed a danger to the public but it was a policy that fell foul of the european court of human rights which ruled the practice unlawful the german government argued it worked and defended it to the end 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 specialist checks to assess their condition and he played a fall campaign 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 got it a few. these criminals we repeat search trains again that's the worst thing that could happen and it probably will happen because they weren't critter we 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 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 martin r.t. germany is now a quarter past the hour here in the russian capital let's get to some other news now making headlines around the world and the taliban has threatened to hunt down those responsible for releasing information about the militant group and says it is studying data published on the web site wiki leaks and will punish the afghan informants 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 up thousands of more documents. at least four hundred people are being killed in pakistan over the last three days during the floods triggered by monsoon rains thousands were left stranded as emergency services struggled to reach remote villages nearly four hundred thousand have been

displaced so far and the provincial government has declared a state of emergency and the trench will rains are expected to continue over the weekend. two people have been killed and at least twelve injured during clashes in indian controlled kashmir police claim protesters had tried to damage your real way track and hold rocks at them however residents said the march the followed friday prayers was peaceful when the soldiers suddenly opened fire at the death toll has now risen to nineteen in riots that have lasted six weeks as anti into the protests spread across the disputed region. 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 rafiq hariri concerned new clashes could break out between lebanon's shiite and sunni communities if the international tribunal implicates members of the shia islam is group in hariri death it's the first time syria's president visit lebanon since two thousand and five when beirut

blamed damascus for the assassination. for all time now to head off russia's beaten path with our very own close up team. the region may be known 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 agriculture industry for years hector's of fields were unused and neglected but now locals have decided that beef is the way forward with the help of american cattle breeders the region hopes to supply the whole country with top quality steaks within a quarter of a has more. colorless sparkling possed. bright future from exploring space to feeding the whole nation with neat guides show tourists

places where the inventor of the rocket leaked but few know of the region's reach and with cultural heritage the quicker it can is 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 couch to make sure they have enough grazing area and space jamie says to better understand the needs of your congress she may june she's one of them and there's nowhere she would rather be then because the region enough some enough rain and enough snow to keep the grass growing jamie's originally from north 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 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 knowhow as multiplied genetics you're going to get over two hundred steaks out of these cows standing behind me but here rags could produce even more about four hundred embryos in a year which means a whole new form one russian businessman decided not to sell meat but to sell the potential the palm 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 still to many thousands per russia right now imports one million. of meat here 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 is quicker and cheaper the first generation of russian born happens is about to appear soon but as the farm grows there's one problem still to solve the language barrier was our biggest therefore called the i was in the local grocery store and i was just trying to buy chicken and i couldn't read the pack and that's the way it was in the lady at the counter thirty flapping and making chicken noises. that second the labeling of the beef bread in color is promised to be in several languages but farmers are convinced their russian produced beef will be of the finest export quality. r t from the collagen region. well let her people of

oil and his guests discuss the ongoing heat wave in some parts of the world and whether it's an indication of global warming that's in about ten minutes from now although for the meantime we turn over to stephanie she'll be here with the business in just a moment. for the full stop we've got. the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers. every month we give you the future we help you understand how we get there and want to make. the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world . join us. on our g. hello welcome to the business but as. they say all secrets come to light russia's

president dmitri medvedev has signed a law preventing infighter trading the new yorker fison defines concepts such as insider information 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 off to publication. we spoke to a corporate lawyer mox good broad from baker and mckenzie he says 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 regulated as you would have expected in russia they are however a couple of details which have emerged in practice in the west which are not regulated that is in a situations that is also situations where you have conflicts of interest between people just imagine the state bank where the chairman of the supervisor 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 while 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 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 you will be treating as insiders and disclose information about who also probably have to review your whole information flow and most likely you'll look at all the legal 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 will have to have little 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 overwhelming majority of banks at least should be but in reality are already working according to the standards that we. before there are whole ever i think two indirect effects which were quite interesting the first is the way this is likely to be implemented is quite cumbersome so it will it cost to do business your worship the second is actually give a lot of backing to the schools abroad and it may be very very much be that the protestation which is coming. this low coming into effect actually it's more casual

coincidence that it comes together so probably dealing russian security is a broad will become much easier. there are some negative markets closed and low on friday echoing global trends banks let the declines on the my six with the t.p. and spare bank both shutting movement two percent energy may just also suffered. and despite ending friday's trading session in the red it was a good week for russian stock markets as the head of research at metropole explained. overall again that we were quite strong and went out on the talking about equities we're talking about. commodity is and other is gas it's the russian market. did really well this week and you know addition to the supported it got from international markets from the performance over in international equity markets it also got a strong dose of support from aa strong commodity prices. oil prices morning.

about seventy five dollars and this way you can actually stand there. 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 outbound shipments may decline from eighteen million metric tons to nine and a half million the national retarget 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 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 boost its share of the european gas market to between thirty and thirty five percent european commissioner for energy hermann says russia will gain as european producers cut gas output domestic production covers a quarter of europe's gas supply he said ukraine and belarus will remain key

transit routes even with the launch of the north and south stream projects. and that's all from the business team for now but of course you can always find more stories on our website that's r.t. dot com slash business.

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a lot of people are sweating it out a good part of the world is experiencing a crippling heat wave is this a trend or simply freaking weather one. it

is seven thirty on a friday night here in the russian capital you with headlines now forest fires raging in russia killing at least twenty five people in a record breaking heat wave homes have been destroyed in the thousands of floods as firefighters struggle to stop the flames from spreading. emergency crews worked around the clock in china to recover thousands of barrels of highly explosive chemicals from a river before they reach russia chinese authorities say the containers are tightly sealed pose any threat. germany looks forced to scrap a system that keeps on convicts behind bars indefinitely prevent

a friend of detention rather aims to stop violent prisoners reoffending by keeping them locked up after their official sentence is over but the european court of human rights says that's in legal. well that's all from me for now my colleague bill dog will have more news for you in about thirty minutes time up next though it's our debate program cross talk at this time and his guests talk about the weather and if the ongoing heat wave in some areas of the world is linked to global warming that's coming up in just a moment thank you for watching. 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.