rebuild their lives and it's 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 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 hatters 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 throughout central russia to help contain and battle this blaze but. we simply need more bodies to put out the fires. this report the central regions of. victims of fierce forest fires ravaging russian regions dozens of been killed and scores injured over a thousand homes have been burned to the ground thousands of holidaymakers have been evacuated from recreation centers and holiday camps and transported across the

river. so quickly that they even. exploded in a woman with a child to become farm and forest rangers are in over their heads trying to contain the blaze with the sun going without rest for the time forest ranger alexander has been fighting the fire for five days with only a shovel in hand. they were all sent to do. the situation is no better in the region and the locals aren't. both up welcoming or using our. people running away. we're not getting any help whatsoever we need more equipment. we were using axes shovels just whatever we

could get everyone who could stand talking to work everyone who had any equipment. russian prime minister vladimir putin arrived at. on friday morning to assess the damage devastated residents had no qualms about airing their grievances was wish to definition i want to tell everybody. all the houses will be rebuilt before winter i promise you all diligence will be restored but you know 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 up 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. witnesses have been sharing their experiences of the deadly wildfires on the internet some of them have been uploading their own videos. mr murtha you're filming this. slow or slow or stop it. bloody hell. get out of the car. if you don't have the we were in fine shut the door. was shut and god region and 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 and had to turn back when their car almost caught fire one of the men later said it felt like they were in hell so. far fighters 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 xander. document cough claims the method could also achieve the opposite effect and help bring rain. or this from the. influence of the clouds are not really be a job for the air force a bit of aviation can provide a solution until we find another way regarding the chernobyl explosion that was our crews hampered the rains helped stop the spread of radioactive substances throughout the soviet union it could work well in the present. and that was test pilot alexander call. other 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 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 a moon river which it joined in russia's far eastern territory and it would take on two weeks of these barrels to reach and what we're hearing is that the chinese authorities are saying that that's unlikely to happen the vals 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 rewash from the chemical storage facility into this all river and around four thousand of them we've heard reports. of at three thousand containing this chemical substance the clean up

operation now well underway concerns on both sides of us the about the potential environmental impact where any of these chemical substances leaked into the water say based sites monitoring this cleanup 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 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 say it's certainly hope that that won't happen it's not the first time a situation like this is occurred that in two thousand and five a chemical spill saw 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. 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 taping obviously that no further damage is caused from the situation. some experts believe that leakage from even one floating barrel would

cause massive environmental damage. feels 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 has a disputed area list 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 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 full the 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 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.

from the russian branch of the world wide fund for nature well coming up later this hour here in r.t. beefing up cars could transform russia's regional 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 their partner another venture revealing the country's most fascinating and little known. 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 is illegal tom barton has this report. shifty glances a nervous stares that's all we managed to see walter h. a murderer and sex offender now living in the german city of sar broken 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 i think it is very

dangerous. for the people here 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 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 knowing all the people don't want him to be here because there's a school next door and there's a kindergarten. mr right should still be in prison and the germans policy of preventive detention was designed to keep offenders like him behind bars even after a sentence was served because they were still deemed a danger to the public but it was a policy that fell foul of the european court of human rights which ruled the

practice unlawful the german government argued it worked and defended it to the end it's get pushed into 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 g.p. to fall campaign thomas brookman opposes preventive detention 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 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 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 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 that might ease conscience's in strassburg it 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 is studying data published on the

web site we could 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'll soon put up thousands more documents. police in afghanistan have to follow 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. a vehicle normally associated with foreigners but it is unclear who the car belonged to as the occupants fled the scene a similar traffic accident in kabul involving a u.s. military convoy in two thousand and six triggered an anti american riot 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 four hundred thousand have been displaced so far and the provincial government has declared a state of emergency to ritual rains are expected to continue over the weekend. for

sort of world update this hour the leaders of syria and saudi arabia have called on lebanon's revival factions to i should say rival factions to avoid turning to violence at a summit in beirut with lebanon's prime minister they pledged solidarity during a time of heightened tension between shiite and sunni communities it's feared there may be clashes as a u.n. tribunal is reportedly the members of the hezbollah movement for the killing of lebanon's former prime minister rafik hariri it's the syrian president's first visit to the country since two thousand and five when beirut damascus for the assassination. close up team is off on its travels once again and taking you to some of russia's most interesting and overlooked regions.

the color of 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 agriculture industry and for years the fields where the news and neglected but now locals have decided beef is the way forward with the help of american cattle breeder's the region hopes to supply the whole country with top quality stakes but it is becoming the has more. colorless sparkling possed. bright future from exploring space to feeding the whole nation with meat guides show tourists places where the invent tell the rocky but few know of the region's reach and with cultural heritage a quiver isn't as great because we have a barrier very big open area of land to work with i mean a lot a lot ahead hours per cows to make sure they have enough grazing area and jamie says to better understand the needs of congress she may gins she's one of them and

there's nowhere she would rather be now in the congo region in up some enough rain and enough snow to keep the grass growing jamie's originally from mount dakota in america two years today she and her husband eric moved to russia to help local farmers produce the best beef in the wool in america there's already been many families have formed who have raised. 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 college every cazalet of the whole day looking up to cars and teaching locals such new. how is multiplied genetics you're going to get over two hundred steaks out of these cows standing behind me but here rags could produce even more about four

hundred embryos in a year which means a whole new form one russian businessman decided not to sell meat but to sell the potential the bone resists other d.n.a. 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. of meat a year and high quality be just an unbelievable that because the primary source to 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 these quicker and cheaper the first generation of russian born happens is about to appear soon but as the farm grows there's one problem still to solve the language

barrier was our biggest fear for 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 thirded by flapping and making chicken noises. the second the leaving 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 export quality. r t from the kaluga region. well by the way there's more on the main stories we're covering on screen and plenty of extras on our website the final online and on t.v. dot com and here is a quick look at a couple of stories that we're waiting for you along with other features an unarmed man who hijacked a passenger plane in moscow has been detained you can find out how he did it and one of the earth you wanted. was on the websites of demonstrators proceed to town

hall in the moscow region in a bid to save trees but not from the followers currently raging across russia you can find out more on those stories and many other features of r.t. dot com. to bring us up to date for the moment a little later peter lavelle and his guest will be discussing the on going 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 well before that we have the latest business news with stephanie stay with us for that. hello welcome to the business bulletin hair on our t.v. 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 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 good broad from baker and mckenzie he says russia's insider trading law has much in common with western versions. if you look at the level of it it's much more extensive there are lots 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 a state bank where the chairman of the supervisory board is one in the same and he deals with two banks and learns inside information two of them does it mean that

foreign investors can now rely more on information flow in russia 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 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 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 stand. on. before their whole ever i think two indirect effects we took 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 your worship the second 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 casual

coincidence that it comes together so probably dealing russian securities abroad will become much easier. there are some negative markets closed and low on friday echoing global trends banks lead the declines on the my six with d.t.p. and sped 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 explains overall again that we were quite strong and went out on the talking about equities we're talking about there. commodity is and other is gases russian market. did really well this weekend you know addition to the support of their god from international markets from the performers over in international equity markets it also got a strong dose of support from our strong commodity prices. oil prices morning.

above 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 retargeted 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 it's russia may boost its share of 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

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good to have you with us this is r.t. coming to live from the russian capital top stories now this hour at this twenty five people have been killed in wildfires across russia as a record breaking heat wave grips the country homes have been destroyed and thousands of fled as far fighters struggle to stop the flames spreading. emergency crews are scanning a river in china for barrels of highly toxic chemicals which could reach russia in two weeks thousands of the containers were swept away during severe flooding chinese authorities said the drums of tightly sealed and don't pose any threat. 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 their official sentence has ended but the european court of human rights say that's illegal. to bring it up to date for the moment more news coming your way with me in about thirty minutes from now in the meantime it's a debate program cross talk and this time peter lavelle and his guest 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 stay with us on r.t. . 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 i'm about.