how do they go on from here how do they rebuild their lives and it's been a process even though it's and it's a new it's a fresh one for many people and the family here so i mention they got out ok but they were just too upset to even talk about what they have to go through on camera basically eighty six thousand hectors 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 to 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 my colleague tests are still filed this report. the central regions of are on edge and nizhny novgorod are the latest victims of fierce forest fires ravaging russian regions police say dozens have been killed and scores injured over

a thousand homes have been burned to the ground in vote on thousands of holiday makers have been evacuated from recreation centers and holiday camps and transported across the river full of people some tourists ran away so quickly that they even abandoned their tents a jeep exploded in a woman with a child it barely left the car villagers firemen and forest rangers are in over their heads trying to contain the blaze with some going without rest for days at a time forest ranger alexandre ski has been fighting the fire for five days with only a shovel in hand. i'm really stressed out there aren't enough firemen they were all sent to deal with the fire at the regional hospital. the situation is no better in the nizhni novgorod region and the locals are at wit's end both lot of them if we're using our shovels the fire engine to the four engines were sent here to new engines right from. people running away like cockroaches.

we're not getting any help whatsoever would desperately need more equipment we were using access shovels just whatever we could get everyone who could stand to work everyone who had any equipment. russian prime minister vladimir putin arrived at the novgorod on friday morning to assess the damage devastated residents had no qualms about airing their grievances. i want to tell everybody. all the houses will be rebuilt before winter i promise you all village will be restored. a tough but necessary task before the cold weather sets in. 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 but the russian government and the regional administration should certainly reserve resources to finance these needs. in the last ten temperature records broken in moscow where each day the

mercury nears forty degree celsius temperatures up above forty degrees or forecast . so if there's going to be any end to the inferno that moscow is going to be down to the russian firefighters and local residents as it doesn't seem like the weather will be on our side tests are still the party. eyewitnesses have been sharing their experiences of the deadly wildfires on the internet and some of them are being uploading their own videos this one was shot in the region and a group of men were trying to escape from a burning village using the only paved road and they found themselves trapped by walls of flames. almost caught fire one of the men later said it felt like they were in hell. while for a fight as a 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 xander claims the method could also the opposite effect and help bring rain. influence through clouds rain not really be a job for the air force but 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 well in the present. that was a test pilot alexander document called. other news now china is struggling to retrieve thousands of barrels contain 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. 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 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 mile and they've actually pitted eight barriers as a preventative measure to stop them crossing into russian territory now this is close happen with the flooding that's happening in china and 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 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 under way but 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 cleanup operation a very closely indeed. several teams are connecting the barrels along the phone who are river now also monitoring the environment in the region so far no changes and that would require to have been detected at the same time russian specialists have registered no changes in the water quality for the past several days in the two nearest regions riza dishnet around the clock would have 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. burdick 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 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 it's 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 . where some experts believe that leakage from even one floating barrel could cause massive environmental damage. feels like it's a war

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 list 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 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. for months from the russian branch of the world wide fund for nature woke up per

later this hour here in r.t. beefing up colors could transform russia's region of kaluga and find out why and what locals have in store for them all the details coming up from our close up team as they embark on another adventure revealing the country's most fascinating 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 tom barton has this report. shifty glances a nervous status that's all we managed to see walter h. 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 here and in the area because they don't know that such people.

such people as this close to them believe that security security or the. environment is a big a good thing for him has probably all of. these things from the prison no money if you work in this building 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 knowing all the people that want him to be here because there's a school next door and there's a kindergarten movie mr rate should still be in prison under germany's policy of preventive detention that 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 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 paid 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 i did a few of these criminals we repeat such frames 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 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 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 been published online website says it'll soon put up falzon is 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 struggled to reach remote villages four hundred thousand have been displaced so far and the provincial government has declared a state of emergency and to ensure 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 have tried to damage a row way track and hold 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 riots that have lasted six weeks as 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 the

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 islamist group in death is the first time syria's president has visited lebanon since two thousand and five when beirut blamed the damascus for the assassination. what time now to head off russia's beaten path with . the critical 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 hoped to make a mark in the agriculture industry for you as a field to a news and neglected but now locals have decided beef is the way forward for the health of american cattle breeder's the region hopes to supply the whole country

with top quality steaks parties katrina was more. colorless sparkling past. bright future from exploring space to feeding the whole nation with neat guides show tourists places where the inventor the rock leaped but few know of the region's reach agricultural heritage mcqueary isn't as great because we have a very very big open area of land to work with i mean a lot a lot ahead of ours per cows to make sure they have enough grazing area and space jamie says to better understand the needs of here cause she may june she's one of them and there's nowhere she would rather be now 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 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 cowboy in the history of erika's out of the whole day looking up to cars and teaching locals such know how as mountain. genetics you could 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 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 poor seen 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 one of our biggest therefore called the i was in the local grocery store and i was just trying to write a check and i couldn't read the pack and to see where it was and the lady at the counter thirty flapping and making chicken noises. that second the labeling

of the beef brad and he's promised to be in several languages the farmers are convinced their russian produced beef will be of the finest x. board quality. r t from the color of the region. by the way there's always more of the main stories we're covering here on screen r t plus plenty of extras on our website is on t.v. dot com it's a quick look at a couple of stories there along with plenty of other features on the new hijacked. passenger plane in moscow has been detained you can find out how he did it and what an earth he wanted. and also demonstrators proceed to town hall in the moscow region in a bid to save trees but not from the fires currently raging across russia you can find out more on these stories and many other articles and features of r.t. dot com online all the time.

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hello welcome to the business bulletin hey on r.t. 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 on 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. we spoke to a corporate lawyer max good broad from baker and mckenzie he says russia's insider trading nor has much in common with western but. if you look at the little food that's what's more extensive lots of details we're going to have expected. however a couple of. protests in the west which will operate in these situations that is also situations of conflicts of interest between people.

in the scene and he deals with inside information 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. a lot 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 securities law and it's also a 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 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 already working according to the standards that we outlined before there are whole ever i think two indirect effects which are quite interesting the first is the way this is likely to be implemented is quite cumbersome so it will at cost to do business here in russia the second is it may actually give a lot of backing to distance abroad and it may be very very much be that the proposition which is coming. this more coming into effect actually is not casual

coincidence that it comes together so probably dealing russian security is a broad will become much easier. and active markets closed on friday. global trends bank fled the declines in the my six with the t.p. and sped by both shutting movement 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 explains overall again the week wars are quite strong and when are only talking about equities we're talking about. commodity is and there is gases the russian market. do really well this week and you know addition to the support of their god for all my international markets from the performer's over international equity markets it also got a strong dose of support from australia commodity prices. oil prices morning.

above seventy five dollars and this 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 retargeted russia could plummet twenty four percent twenty 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 cut exports lifting demand for u.s. supplies russia may boost the european gas market to between thirty and thirty five percent european commission 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 about or

a small remain key transit routes even with the launch of the north and south stream projects. i'm not so from the business team for now but of course you can always find more stories on a website that's r.t. dot com slash business. thank. you. the state has provided citizens with. rights of. self-defense.

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is. with you live from the russian capital twenty four hours a day this is good to have you with us top stories now this hour at least twenty five people have been killed in wildfires across russia as a record breaking heat wave grips the country homes have been destroyed and fled as far as struggle to stop the flames spreading. emergency crews are scouring a river in china barrels of highly toxic chemicals which could reach two weeks thousands of the containers were swept away during severe flooding chinese authorities say the drums are 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 reoffending by keeping them locked up after the official sentence has ended but the european court of human rights says that is illegal. will be back with more on those stories more developments in less than half an hour from now in the meantime we'll take you to the central asian country of kurdistan where ethnic tensions recently turned violent claiming hundreds of lives our special report next. rest has long been kurdistan's national color at one point the word scared and rather even meant the same. on the national flag it symbolizes valor. the golden sun in the sun to.