even though it's and it's a new it's a fresh one for many people and the family here they got out ok but they were just too upset to even talk about what they have to go through one camera basically eighty six thousand hackers that's two hundred thousand acres have gone up in 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. to help contain and battle this blaze but. we simply need more bodies to put out fires like. this before the central regions of. victims of fierce forest fires ravaging russian regions police say dozens of been killed and scores injured over a thousand homes have been burnt to the ground. thousands of holidaymakers have been evacuated from recreation centers and holiday camps and transported across the

river all of. that they've. exploded in a woman with a child. farm and forest rangers are in over their heads trying to contain the blaze with some going without food time for a stranger alexandre has been fighting the farm for five days with only a shovel in hand. the situation is no better in the region and the locals are loaded with both of them if. we're not getting any help whatsoever we need. just whatever we could get. everyone who could stand talking to work everyone who had any equipment

to go to russian prime minister vladimir putin arrived at novgorod on friday morning to assess the damage devastated residents had no qualms about airing their grievances was wish to know for sure i want to tell everybody this. all the houses will be rebuilt before winter i promise you all diligence will be restored but you know not 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 administrations should certainly reserve resources to finance these needs but. in the last ten temperature records have been broken in moscow and each day the mercury nears forty degree celsius temperatures above forty degrees or forecast. so if there's going to be any end to the inferno the gulf in 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 some of them have been uploading their own videos. where you filming this. slow or slow or stop it. get out of the car. if you don't have the way we're in for a shock to your. god region a group of men were trying to escape from a burning village using the only paved road and found themselves trapped by walls of flames they had to turn back almost. one of the men later said it felt like they were in hell. 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 that xander of claims the method could also achieve the opposite effect and help bring rain. zeus from the. influence of the clouds are not really be a job for the air force a bit of aviation can provide a solution find another way we're going to nobu our crews hampered the rains helped stop the spread of radioactive substances throughout the soviet union it could have worked well in the present. and that was test pilot alexander and cold. weather news now china is struggling to retrieve thousands of barrels containing dangerous chemicals from the song 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 firth is outside the chinese embassy here in moscow. the chinese

media reporting that thousands of these barrels have now been retrieved from the song. but thousands more remain in it floating towards towards russia now of course the song was a subsidiary of the a moon river which joined in russia's far eastern territory and it would take on two weeks of these barrels 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 more 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 the nearly a decade and this close around seven thousand barrels to a voice from a chemical storage facility into the soul river and around four thousand of the we've heard reports. of at three thousand containing this chemical substance the

clean up operation now well 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 with all who are about there also monitoring the environment in the region so far no changes in the wood to quote 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 reason additional round the clock which of 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. but so obviously there are concerns about the chinese authorities again who said that the barrels that are in the water all the leak free so it's certainly hoped 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. millions of people in china cut off from the 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. 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 hoping oversee that no further damage is caused from the situation . well some experts believe that leakage from even one floating barrel would cause

massive environmental damage. fears i guess that the 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 how to dispute irreality still in the river even if only a few of the food barons 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 urgent measures taken by your thora to use 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 that 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. that was. from the russian branch of the world wide fund for nature well coming up later this

hour here in r.t. beefing up colors 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 our close up team is they're back on another adventure revealing the country's most fascinating little known areas. in germany their affairs 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 is illegal reports. shifty glances a nervous stares that's all we manage to see walter h a murderer and sex offender now living in the german city of sabra he's guarded all day every day by at least four policemen but he's escaped from his minders before and locals are worried he'll do it again but i think it is very dangerous for the.

here and in the area because they don't know that such people. such people as this close to them believe that security security of the. environment is a big good. has probably all of. these things 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 now all the people don't want him to be here because there's 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 is 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 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 has got to be a few fees criminals will 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 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 eight in prison a large price to pay 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 impossible to have a normal life michael ray burger is now fighting for greater freedoms mr h. criminals rights 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 three 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. broken 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 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. police and afghanistan have to warning shots to disperse a crowd after four civilians were killed in a traffic accident the target of the violence was an s.u.v. it's a vehicle normally associated with foreigners however it's unclear who the culprit long to as the occupants fled the scene similar traffic accident in kabul involving a u.s. military convoy in two thousand and six triggered an anti american rock that killed fourteen. 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 nearly four hundred thousand have been displaced so far and the provincial government has declared a state of emergency it's a ritual rains are expected to continue over the weekend. the leaders of syria and

saudi arabia have called on lebanon's rival shiite and sunni communities to avoid turning to violence during their visit to the country it's over reports a u.n. tribunal will indict members of the hezbollah movement for the killing of lebanon's former prime minister rafik hariri the shiite group has been our syria's main ally while saudi arabia is deeply involved in the sunni community it's the syrian president's first visit to the country since two thousand and five when beirut blamed damascus for the assassination. what is close up team is often its travels once again taking you to some of russia's most interesting and overlooked regions. becoming a 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 agriculture industry for years as a fields where the news didn't neglected but now locals have decided belief is the way forward with the help of american cattle breeder's the region hopes to supply the whole country with top quality steaks to use a couple of java has more. colorless sparkling past. bright future from exploring space to feeding the whole nation with neat guides show tourists places where the invent tell the rocket keep it but few know of the region's reach and with cultural heritage a quiver even 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 become 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 ago she and her husband eric moved to russia to help local farmers produce the best beef in the world in america there's already been many families that have farmed 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 rule. colborne the history of color erika's out of the whole day looking up to cows 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 bomb 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 tonne of meat 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 women who 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 currently have a pack and if they were it wasn't 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 the farmers are convinced their russian produced beef will be of the finest x. board quality. of r r t from the collagen region. well that's always more on the main stories we're covering the moment on screen here in our pretty pictures on our website that's our team dot com here's a quick look at a couple of stories there for you along with plenty of other features find out about the man who hijacked a passenger plane in moscow he was detained to find out how he did the hijacking and what on earth he wanted. also demonstrators proceed to town hall in the moscow region in a bid to save tree from the fires currently raging across russia you can find out

more on those stories and plenty of other features but r.t. . well the latest business update with stephanie is coming your way in just a moment stay with us here on r.t. . so the we've got. the biggest issues get voice face to face with the news makers.

fellow welcome to the business but it's in him. they say all secrets come to light russia's president dmitri medvedev has signed a law preventing insider 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 off to publication. we spoke to a corporate lawyer mox good broad from baker and mckenzie he says russia's insider trading though 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 i'm 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 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 weak 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 will 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 legal agreements which reflect what is in the inside the law and how will 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. 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 at cost to do business your worship the circle is actually give a lot of back to the schools abroad the need may be very very much be that the proposition which is coming. slowly coming into effect actually it's not cultural 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 bank fled the declines in the my sex with the t.v. and sped bank by 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 that we were quite strong and went out on the talking about equities we're talking about. commodity is and other is gases the russian market.

did really well this weekend you know addition to the support they got from mention national markets from the performers over in international equity markets it also got a strong dose of support from austrian commodity prices. oil prices morning. about seventy five dollars and this is where 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 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. supply. russia may boost its share of the european gas market to between thirty and

thirty five percent european commissioner for energy hub and says russia will gain as european producers cut 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 street projects. not so from the business 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 trend or simply freaking weather. one. top stories now 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 scanning a river in china for barrels of highly toxic chemicals which could reach russia. thousands of the containers were swept away during severe flooding chinese authorities say the drums of tightly sealed don't pose any threat. and germany looks forced to scrap a system that keeps some convicts behind bars indefinitely preventive detention aims to stop violent prisoners refund in them after the official sentence has ended

the european court of human rights say that it's illegal. not to bring it up to date for the moment. of about another update in fifteen minutes from now when if you're looking to soak up some history than a tour of the ancient tons of russia's golden ring could be just the thing for you martin andrews is your guide next on. hello and welcome to. the capitol. hill lies the school.