from here how do they rebuild their lives and it's been a painful process even though it's in 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 in central russia there willing to share their story. is one of the vehicles to rescue themselves from the and i'm not sure everyone has been. getting any help whatsoever we need more equipment we were using. whatever we could get everyone who could stand to work everyone who had any equipment basically eighty six thousand hatters that's two hundred thousand acres have gone up in flames flames and there's more than three hundred hot spots 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 throughout central russia to help contain and battle this blaze but the

emergency ministry says look we simply me need more bodies to put out the fires yes some fires have been put out but there's many more that are still raging. after this unusually hot summer. so we need to at least provide people with temporary housing and immediately start the construction of permanent homes with the russian government and the regional administrations should certainly. to finance these needs the heat has been close to unbearable the tech temperatures have reached about forty degrees celsius that's about one hundred and four degrees fahrenheit so you can just imagine how hot that is all of the time and we're expecting to see these temperatures continuing out for at least a week so there is expected to be a reprieve in about seven days time but until then the emergency ministry is asking people to stay indoors if you don't have to be outside do not and it's not just a matter of the fires that are spread throughout the throughout central russia.

it's not just the heat because the heat is intense but it's also just the quality of the air the ministry says the air quality is dangerous and that's because the air pollution is exceeds the normal by about ten fold so this is it's not safe to breathe don't have to be out there if you're an older person or you're a younger person with a chronic disease or you have health problems or insisting that you go ahead and wear medical masks if you have to find yourself outdoors. reporting for us from a village devastated by far in the moscow region 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 and examined claims the method could also achieve the opposite effect and help bring rain. influence through clouds not really be a job for the air force aviation can provide

a solution until we find another way regarding the chernobyl explosion our crews hampered the rains and helped stop the spread of radioactive substances throughout the soviet union it could work in the present. and that was a test pilot alexander there. are the news now china is struggling to retrieve thousands of barrels containing dangerous chemicals from the river in the northeast of the country the containers were lost when heavy flooding hit factories located near the river if the toxic chemicals are not recovered they would reach the russian border within two weeks sarah ferguson outside the chinese embassy here in moscow for us. the chinese media reporting that thousands of these barrels have now been retrieved from the song. but thousands more remain in it floating towards tools russian of course the song was a subsidiary of the moon river which it joined in russia's far eastern territory

and it would take twenty weeks for these barrels to reach there 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 moon 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 the nearly a decade and the schools around seven thousand barrels to be washed 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 to leak 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 the money to wrangle 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 water quality monitoring. and at present there is no health risk for the people living in the area but we've heard that it is posing no immediate threat to people's lives or health sciences have warned that the substances that are contained in some of these barrels of potentially potentially dangerous chemical substances and we've heard one of these substances is a clear flammable substance that if it comes into contact with human or animal skin would cause. but so obviously there are concerns about those leaking now the chinese authorities again have said that the barrels that are in the water all the leaks say 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. of 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 you said the cleanup operation now underway and everyone just watching that happening hoping taking over see that no further damage is cools from the situation . so for reporting that some experts believe that leakage from even the warm floating barrel would cause massive environmental damage. 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 hazardous material is still 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 or thorough tos 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 if guinea farts from the russian branch of the world wide fund for nature. what about later this hour beefing up this could transform russia's region of kaluga you can find out why and what locals have in store for them all the details coming up from a close up team as they embark on another adventure revealing the country's most fascinating and little known areas. the first 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 talk about reports. shifty glances a nervous stares that's all we managed to see of water age a murderer and sex offender now living in the german city of sub he's guarded all day every day by at least four policeman but he's escaped from his mind as before and locals are worried he'll do it again i think it is very dangerous for the people. in their 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 big good for has probably only. from the prison no money if you work in this building and 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 knowing all the people don't want him to be here because there is a school next door and there's a kindergarten. mr wright 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 that 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 to be a few of these criminals we repeat search trains 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 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 anxious about the safety of their own families people here are concerned about this man in their midst but it's estimated there could be at least some over two hundred twenty dangerous criminals released soon across germany was that might ease controversies in strasburg doesn't ease anyone's nerves here martin r.t. germany. the taliban has threatened to hunt down those responsible for releasing information about the militant group it says it's starting data published on the website 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 been published online the website says it will soon put up thousands 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 four hundred thousand have been displaced so far and the provincial government has declared a state of emergency the tarantula rains are expected to continue over the weekend . two people have been killed in at least twelve injured during clashes in indian controlled kashmir police claim protesters have tried to damage a role way track and rocks at them however residents said the march that followed friday prayers was peaceful when the soldiers opened fire the death toll has now risen to nineteen in rights that have lasted six weeks as anti indian protests spread across the disputed region. leaders of syria and saudi arabia have arrived in beirut ahead of the reported indictment of hezbollah members over the murder of the former lebanese prime minister rafiq hariri a concerned new clashes could break up between lebanon's shiite and sunni communities if the international tribunal implicates members of the shia islamist group in harry's death it's the first time syria's president has visited lebanon

since two thousand and five when beirut blamed damascus for the assassination. well time now to head off russia's beaten path with our close up team. because the region may be 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 ten years of fields well 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 to the country and river has more. for tourists so you are going to escape the crowd and wander off the beaten track big 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's planted to see here first of all it's

a fantastic natural setting two main rivers this not and that ca provide beautiful same 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 leave and most 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 tourists places where bin van tell the rocket cleaved but few know of the region's reach agricultural heritage. is great because we have a barrier

a very big on for an area of land to work with i mean need a lot a lot ahead hours per cows to make sure they have enough grazing area and space jimmy says to understand. the needs of your congress she may gins she's one of them and there's nowhere 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 mt 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 there are 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. a year in high quality be just an unbelievable that because the primary source of be utilised in the in the food chain here is the very very 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 russian born happens is about to appear soon but as the farmer. there is 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. about chicken leaving all of the beef granted he's promised to be in several languages but farmers 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 region's capital and to find out why to respond this city is so appealing i'm now joined by local guides

by truth 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 prophets who feel like planting them fishing or just hiking they 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 so . i would just sing needs to be done to attract more people to the region both for work employee i'm afraid that i will say a commonplace investments well let's hope that money comes to the region and the investment pays off thank you very much for that inside of a local guide from the city all go for russia close up. and by the way there's

always more stories we're covering here and plenty of extras on our website that's all dot com here's a quick look at what's waiting to be discovered right now online. new hijacked a passenger plane in moscow has been detained you can find out how he did it and what on earth he wanted. plus demonstrators proceed to term all of the moscow region in a bid to save trees but not from the farms raging across russia at the moment you can find out more on these stories and plenty of other stories and features that dot com online all the time. well we know our turn to the world of business and i'll be back with a look at the headlines in about eight minutes from now stephanie is next here with the latest from the world of business.

hello welcome to the business bulletin here on r.t. they say all secrets come to light russia's president dmitri medvedev has signed a law preventing infighter trading the new law clarifies and defines concepts such as insider information and market manipulation amongst others cited 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. we spoke to a corporate lawyer 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 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 situations that is also situations where you have conflicts of interest between

people just imagine a state bank where the chairman of the supervisor board is one in the same and he deals with two banks and runs inside information two of them does it mean that foreign investors can now rely more on information flow in russia relying two sides the first is that they get the information and second is that actually the information is disclosed. 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 continued 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 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 have to have little agreements which reflect what is in the inside the law and how this affect the investment banking industry in russia i think 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 that. before there are whole ever i think two indirect effects which were quite interesting the first is the way it's 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 it may be very very much be that the proposition which is coming. slowly coming into effect actually it's more cultural coincidence that it comes together so probably dealing russian security is abroad will become much easier. there are some negative markets closed and low on friday echoing global trends bank fled the declines in the my sex with d.t.p. and sped bank both shutting up and two percent energy majors 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 when out on the talking about equities we're talking about their. commodity is and other is gases the russian market did really well this week and you know addition to the support they got from

international markets from the performance over in international equity markets it also got a strong dose of support from australia commodity prices. oil prices morning. above seventy five dollars and this is where you can actually story and their 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 market studies outbound shipments may decline from eighteen million metric tons to nine and a half million the national retard based in russia could plummet twenty four percent what 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 damage. drought in russia and parts of europe will cut exports lifting demand for u.s. supplies for russia may boost the european gas market to between thirty and thirty five percent european commissioner for energy herman 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 often 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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who would be twenty four hours a day this is auntie here in moscow top stories now this hour at least twenty five people have been killed and wildfires across russia as a record breaking heat wave grips the country homes have been destroyed and thousands of fled to struggle to stop the flames spreading. emergency crews scanning a river in china barrels of highly toxic chemicals which could reach russia in two weeks thousands of the containers were swept away during severe flooding chinese authorities say the drums of tightly sealed and don't pose any threat. to germany looks forced to scrap a system that keeps some convicts behind bars indefinitely preventive detention

aims to stop violent prisoners refunding by keeping them locked up after the official sentence has ended but the european court of human rights says that illegal. well be about killing the update for us in fifteen minutes from now in the meantime if you're looking to soak up some history then a tour of the ancient towns of russia's golden ring could be just the thing for most of the injuries is your guide next. hello and welcome to vladimir i'll cross the capital of the ancient rules here lies

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