how do they 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 basically eighty six thousand hackers 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. more bodies put out fires like. this before the central regions of. 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 thousands of holidaymakers have been evacuated from recreation centers and holiday camps and transported across the river but 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 the sun going without rest for a time forest ranger. 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. with both luck welcome if. we're not getting any help whatsoever desperately need more equipment we were using . whatever we could get everyone who came to work every.

russian prime minister vladimir putin arrived at dawn friday morning to assess the damage devastated residents had no qualms about airing their grievances was wished in evolution i want to tell everybody. all the houses will be rebuilt before winter i promise you 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 both the russian government and the regional administrations should certainly reserve resources to finance these needs in the last. record broken in moscow where 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 tess are still the party. in the deadly wildfires have been posting dramatic video on the internet illustrating the terror caused by the raging inferno. it was the right if you'll make this. slow or slow or stop it. or you know. get out of the car. if you don't know the way we're shut the door. so this one was shot and then usually no great region a group of men were trying to escape from the burning villages in the only paved road and found themselves trapped by walls of flames and they had to turn back when their car almost caught fire one of them and later said it felt like they were out . and while firefighters are desperately seeking ways to contain the flames a russian test pilot says they also could be also official climate change russia

has used planes to disperse clouds for emergency situations as well as special occasions and alexander of claims the method could also achieve the opposite effect and help bring rain. not really be a job for the air force or build evasion can provide a solution find another way regarding the chernobyl explosion the crews. helped stop the spread of radioactive substances throughout the soviet union it could work well in the present drug. test pilot at xander command no chinese emergency service is trying to retrieve thousands of barrels of highly dangerous chemicals from a river which could reach russia within two weeks the drums were swept away into the song who are rebuilt in the north east of the country after the worst flooding in a decade deluge factories nearby serra for three ports now from outside the chinese embassy in moscow. 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 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 m o 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 or three voice from the chemical storage facility in. and around four thousand of the project will ever see 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 not a particular several teams are connecting the barrels along the phone who are now with a monitoring environment in the region saw no changes in the what you call to have been detected at the same time russian specialists have registered new changes in the water quality for the past several days in the two nearest region and around the clock to quality monitoring. and at present there is no health risk for the people living in the area but we've heard that is posing no immediate threat to people's lives or health sciences have warned that the substances that are contained in some of these barrels are potentially potentially dangerous chemical substances and we've heard one of these substances is a clear flammable substance that if it comes into contact with human or animal skin would cause bird. 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 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. of 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 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 typing thing over see that no further damage is caused from the situation . and some experts believe that leakage from just a few barrels would cause most of 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 aerialist 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 there's a few of these chemicals come into contact with a person's skin they should immediately see a doctor as will the urgent measures taken by the oath or two's 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. that was hit getting from the russian branch of the worldwide fund for nature. and of course there's always more in the main stories we're covering plus plenty of extras on our

website actually dot com and here's a quick look at what's waiting to be discovered right now. an armed man who hijacked a passenger plane in moscow has been detained find out that he did it and more than half. plus demonstrators besieged a town hall in the moscow region in a bid to save trees but not from the fires raging across russia find out more on babies and many well stories that are teed up. fifty. feet. in germany there are concerns that more dangerous convicts may be living in the community after a european court of human rights a ruling means more will be freed the judgment has been to the proxies of keeping some behind bars even after their sentences have ended because they're classed as high risk possible reoffending tom barton has the story. 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 least four policemen but he's escaped from his mind as before and locals are worried he'll do it again and sing 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 the security and security of the. environment is a big a good. has probably only. from the prison no money if you work in this building and there's no police but since he's living here there's all the day police all the people in town are talking about. and now all the people don't want him to be here because there's

a school next door and there's a kindergarten movie mr eight should still be in prison under germany's policy of preventive detention was designed to keep offenders like him behind bars even after a sentence was served because they were still deemed a danger to the public but it was a policy that fell foul of the european court of human rights which ruled the practice unlawful the german government argued it worked and defended it to the end it's get pushed into fairly 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 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 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 eight 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 impossible to have a normal life michael ray burger is now fighting for greater freedoms mr h. the criminals rights little worry to most germans and chris about the safety of their own families people who are concerned about this man in their midst but it's estimated there could be at least another two hundred twenty dangerous criminals

released soon across germany was thought might ease conscience's in strasburg doesn't ease anyone's nerves here tom barton r.t. broken germany. they taliban has a threatened to punish informants who have released information about the militant group and says that starting date when they wiki leaks website which published more than seventy five thousand secret war documents details of operations by allied forces in afghanistan between two thousand and four and two thousand and nine and our vailable online wiki leaks has said it may yet release more classified material while the us is pleading the whistleblowers to stop. police in afghanistan have fired warning shots to disperse and we crowd shouting anti-american slogans after four locals were killed in a traffic accident involving u.s. security contractors the target of the violence was and was an s.u.v. carrying personnel working with the u.s. embassy to contractors' vehicles were tired and set alight before they managed to

escape under police escort in two thousand and six a similar traffic accident in kabul involving a us military convoy triggered an anti-american wide in which fourteen died. in pakistan over four hundred have been killed in the past three days due to floods triggered by monsoon rains hundreds of thousands more have been left stranded as emergency services struggle to reach remote villages almost half a million have been displaced so far and the provincial government has declared a state of emergency to ensure rains are expected to continue over the weekend. the leaders of syria and saudi arabia have called on lebanon's rival religious factions to avoid violence at a summit in beirut with the lebanese prime minister they pledged solidarity during a time of heightened tension between the shiite and sunni communities and tension has risen as a u.n. tribunal is reportedly due to indict members of the hezbollah movement for killing

lebanon's former prime minister rafik hariri in two thousand and five. to the country since then when they were blamed damascus for their destination. and back with the headlines at about ten minutes time but first it's time for a special edition of moscow where martin anders escapes from heat of the city to explore some historical sites in the golden ring.

hello are welcome to bloody hear. the capital of the ancient rules here lies the force of russia it's or is it and it's i was as it's one of the closest golden ring cities to moscow it's a popular day trip enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of tourists every here. people have lived in this area of russia five or twenty five thousand years the city was founded in eleven o eight by ota allowed to be among the mosques and that's where the city gets its name of a new research suggests the city is even older dating back to the tenth century regardless of which founding date is the most accurate the city's mr starr cool

significant events occurred around two hundred years later. mother mia had a little political on the tree influence throughout the region until it rose in significance off of the crown was transferred from cecil to the town here does that involve the name change the entire principality from rostov su still to bloody near sue's to. the golden gate was erected in eleven sixty four and. the outstanding symbol of the city its witness everything from celebrations to tragedies and. over the city's main entrance its field so goes with it as you can see. today the city is full of life tourist buses zoom past the sights and snap happy tourists take photographs of new buildings that stand next to ancient and historical structures that are centuries old is happy harmony makes a fascinating city what it is today. it's what a story in the backstreets in the hillside areas behind the cathedral. the

impressive views here the locals relax meet friends and family sing songs and paint . consider to me it's so nice to come and relax here with friends in the fresh air surrounded by impressive architecture. is roughly one hundred and eighty kilometers from moscow the best way to get here is by car if you don't have your own transport like teach to train. station three times a day. the magnificent golden white some shit is the main highlight it was built in eleven fifty seven and became the model for cathedrals all over russia it was the principal place where the trenches of ancient russia were crowned and as a sign of political and religious power it can be seen from kilometers away. as you examine the history of lies in me you find that at every corner you'll encounter interesting facts figures legends and stories there are also dozens of monuments spread throughout the city this one here is a bloody mess with

a slab of edge also known as the red sun. the best view of the entire area is from the top of the belfry sadly it's close to the public but fortunately the church officials have invited me to take a look at the original belfry struck by lightning so it was replaced with what you see today. i brick which is over two hundred years old. this with the staircase isn't writing slightly out of breath at the top when met by selection of impressive bells and just look at these incredible views. and that's brings us to our guest straining towards just two months right is on his first visit to russia to skate the madness and mayhem of here's a sample the delights of the golden range twenty times he wants to simply be disciplined just. by being put through

a specialist my time in moscow which is just completely different to different anything i expected i mean it's unbelievable i was expecting snow and rain and minus temperatures and then i come to. think the jewels near the beautiful golden gates as well as this place here i mean it's completely out of this world it's sort of a traditional russian architecture with this really all night sort of cornices which is outside a fantastic i've never seen before and even a well i think it's absolutely beautiful and surprising. so in this new russian village australian friends say soft to explore what you wish to see.

a lot of. dollars a night between three people that is probably even comparable to a backpack is in new york or london i believe you will need to show you book make sure you know what type of room you'll get. but there be several style western renovation and conditioning is needed during the hot and sticky russian summer in some way these houses. are made from where they have corrugated iron the big difference is the artistic statements as you can see here and there. and having inside them a must for here at the hotel let's see what say something so traditional russian cooking. show russian.

please guests i'm sorry. if the sun is too hot during your visit then there are several suggestions we have for you about the same to me and through so history architect and odd museum founded in one nine hundred fifty six is one of the first such museums in russia the united states of the fifty architectural monuments in the region including several unesco heritage sites the war and history display of the museum is located inside the golden gate tower if you choose lots of armor and weapons from the twelfth to the nineteenth centuries also information about some of the region's most important military people can be found in the museum highlights of the display inside the gates is a direct recreating the events of the year twelve thirty eight when titles among those invaded russia and seized last here. another suggestion of where to stay cool is a side deception cathedral as it's one of the most important churches in the

country the interiors are impressive and grand it's decorated with frescoes mosaics and icons the highlight being several valuable religious masterpieces one of the most worshiped holy relics of the russian church is on display here the vladimir icon of the mother of go on to. the fifteenth century frescoes by fate. this russian i come painter and they rubinoff also attract many admiring businesses to the religious sites. and if you think you've seen all the sights and blood in me and then to top wary as the town ghosts who soundly is also close by with his peaceful lake in quaint village it's a time travelling journey to the past there's also a holiday center in the town offering you the experience of being closer to the region's nature to enjoy outer activities like hiking in the woods cycling and canoeing at the camp just don't forget to have your mosquito repellents and sun cream with you. people for decades mistakenly translate to

cusco stanley as crystal goose in english however new research suggests it comes from the edge for the tree in old slavic language founded in seven hundred fifty six it only has a population of around sixty thousand but it's known throughout russia for its famous glass factory. and thomas formed around the plant in the eighteenth century at that time glass is mostly used just by the wealthy so the factory aims at producing it for the masses to use in that every day lives. up here a ready feel the heat from this place the life palace and people working here but now they say hello horace the third just a hundred laborers that these various items and bring them to us as well as this process thick skulled says. it. is amazing that inside such industrial and brush setting they can produce icing suit jackets and beautiful. the

whole process hasn't changed much over the past two hundred years items are so how made by skilled local workers. this delightful building in the town was constructed as a judge at the end of the nineteenth century during the soviet times it was close like thousands of others around the country to show. cheer became government offices and the cinema it wasn't until ninety three it became a museum and. there are thousands of glossy items here ranging from the eighteenth century onwards representing the history and development of the factories craftsmanship. there was a tradition of giving crystal artworks is gives to their guests a photo a town and also important and famous people in washington you could example these crystal table lamps decorated with emblems of all the soviet republics were presented just two million six hundred sometime later a similar land was given to push on the flop of the going cosmonaut yuri gagarin presented on museum on the people of totally presented him with a beautiful was made in the shape of

a soaring bird now this moss is on display at the space museum in star city and we have it it's called be here. piecing together medieval a modern day russia but it's a spectrum of starkey cultural wonders and when you see true russian country life in the past and present i think also helps many westerners untangle the knots they have regarding life here so enjoy the summer sun bright and the much cool architecture and local traditions a visit to one of russia's golden ring cities and towns is an experience you will never forget. while unfortunately my time is up that's all we have from this week's program and a beautiful areas of brotherly adam goodes i'll see you again at the same time next week for more. from yet another amazing golden ring desolation until then for me the rest of the team by now.

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quick check of the headlines from. twenty five people have died and schools have been made whole about itself a raging wildfires in russia's record breaking heat wave an official state of emergency has been declared in sixteen regions across the country with around one thousand homes to the ground in front of the destroyed residence. imagistic results. of a barrels of really toxic chemicals which could reach into weeks thousands of contain those were swept away during severe flooding. from those could soon be living in their communities as the european court of human rights bonds they continued detention of that speed as dangerous for that sentence

as hopped. up next we'll take you to the central asian country of kyrgyzstan west tension recently turned violent creamy hundreds of lights. rest has long been kurdistan's national color at one point the word scared and rad even meant the same. on the national flag it symbolizes valor. the golden sun in the sun to represents one asked for eternal life. while being cured signifies product of all the people living in.