in the city that have been put up with really one thing. we've heard. government ministers to the worst affected. to assess the needs and find out what they can do to help these people who've been left in this situation that we know of course is. being affected. very badly since the beginning of the heat wave around twenty thousand have been reported and emergency. together. to with us and the situation when the fires have come into the villages and into the towns. we've heard also that the army has been involved in the. situation under control. now from my colleague. and forest rangers are in over their heads trying to contain the blaze with some

going without. time for a stranger alexandr he has been fighting the fire for five days with only a shovel in hand. and they were all sent to the regional hospital. the situation is no better in the region and the locals are. both up welcome if we're using. today for injured. people running away. we're not getting any help whatsoever would desperately need more equipment we were using. whatever we could get everyone who came to work everyone who had any equipment. russian prime minister vladimir putin i arrived. on friday morning. to

assess the damage devastated residents had no qualms about airing their grievances definition i want to tell everybody this. 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 with the russian government and the regional administrations should certainly resume resources to finance these needs in the last ten temperature records broken in moscow with each day the mercury nears forty degree celsius temperatures of above forty degrees are forecast for but on edge 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 here r t. all right tara we've

just heard the report from our colleague. about the weather conditions but what are the forecasters saying is there any and inside for the sweltering heat in russia any good news at all that you can bring as of this point. well at the moment saying is that this whole weather set to continue for at least another week now you say no the temperatures topping over thirty five regularly over the past five weeks and it's not the rushes don't use the hot temperatures in the summer but this has been the worst drought for three decades and weeks the width of this intense heat have just left the land such as the area around to completely parched and very vulnerable to these fires so at the moment people are really trying to get to get them put a plan in action to avoid some of the devastating effects of the past few days. ok sara thanks for bringing us the latest from iran or in central russia. now the

record breaking temperatures are forcing people to get creative to stay cool as we are always interested in your opinion on our web site r t dot com we're asking how do you keep cool so far let's now take a look at the picture there so far the majority are letting it all hang out by simply walking around in their underwear while thirty one percent as you can see are more practical preferring the air conditioner while twelve percent are stocking up on ice cubes or drinks and that minority just six percent are taking extreme measures they are sticking their heads in the fridge and have your say at our website r t v dot com. the raises all kinds of prevents thousands of barrels containing highly dangerous chemicals from reaching russian they're currently floating down a chinese river and could reach the border within two weeks the drums were swept into the song war river in northwest china after the worst flooding in a decade delusion factories nearby artie's could offer ports from the spot.

the river is one of the biggest sources of freshwater in russia's far east and in the city as well standing now and it's ecology is still under up with threats because china is just several dozen kilometers away from here and so is this a river which joins the army and where the place where this emergency happened to the chinese authorities do say that they've managed to extract several thousand barrels which have been previously washed into the river as a result of the biggest flood in a decade that china has experienced several more thousand barrels are still in the water in the sun for river and or en route towards the end towards russia china has built eight barriers in order to prevent them from getting here but there are several factors suggesting that anything could happen for example out of the seven thousand barrels which of initially got into the water of three thousand of them contain toxic substances including acids which make it cause harm to humans and

animals and it's not clear how many of these so far extracted barrels actually contain these toxic substances there are also reports that some of the barrels may have sunk to the bottom which makes them a potential future of threat for the ecology and also obviously makes it much more difficult to extract them to the surface this is not the first time that china has experienced such problems back in two thousand and five a huge chemical spill has left millions of chinese without the supplies of fresh water this time the authorities on both sides are monitoring the situation of the emergencies ministry here is already monitoring the quality of the water so far they haven't reported any abnormalities but they do see that there are already planning ways to distribute fresh water to the local population in case the contamination does happen of course we'll be monitoring the situation and we will report on this story as it continues to develop. you can offer working there still

to come this hour here in our team that's as union we board from the stadium capitol where those dogs alongside the nazis in world war two are meeting today. while the u.n. has held talks with north korea over the sinking of a south korean warship in march which killed forty six sailors and the international investigation accuse the north of carrying out its repeater attack but a second inquiry led by russia has reportedly cast doubt on that and dr john a director of korean studies at johns hopkins university in the us has been involved in the research which is race further questions first of all. explodes you produce these are three things fragments. and bubble effects. there is no sign of freedom and anywhere on the ship or anywhere on the bottom of the ship

sea bed raises a question secondly there is no sign of a shark we've even though we had two hundred fifty kilograms of explosives. pressure. and finally there is no. effect. it creates. in the form of a bubble and that affects the ship in the shape of a bubble and we would hope that there's an investigation and south korean government investigation would provide satisfactory answers to these questions but we have not gotten them. it's a tough period for the u.s. campaign in afghanistan american forces have just experienced the are two deadliest months since arriving and now locals are rioting and gas the presence of foreign troops jay deliberate a u.s. afghan veteran says people are just tired of feeling unprotected. basically the

general sentiment of the people is that they're tired of seeing eye to pay occupying forces every day that u.s. and coalition four sets foot in the country anti-american sentiment grows because there is there to pick the population does not feel safe they do not feel protected like the counterinsurgency campaign assumes that it can do and the other problem of this whole scenario is that kabul is supposed to be one of the safest places in all of afghan and i stand in of kabul as an up peoples then you can surely buy that the rest of afghanistan is ten times worse than now well in all counterinsurgency campaigns when you insert more troops the first thing that happens you see a spike in violence and a spike in deaths and it's to be expected there's no way to stop that that's the nature of conflict d. in kabul the general security situation has been declining over the last year and it's because this is when now is the time when the most of the thirty thousand promised troops of president obama there they're going to afghanistan right now so

that's why we know it because the troops this is what they're doing that i was going to increase now and there's going to be more deaths to come. there's always more on the main stories we're covering plus plenty of extras on our website r.t. dot com here's a quick look at what's waiting to be discovered right. at in our man who hijacked a passenger plane in moscow has been detained find out how you did it and what he wanted. was demonstrators in the siege 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 these and any other stories that are too don't call. out a stony a veteran so far on the side of the nazis during the second world war are meeting

in the country's capital it's not the first event of this kind in the baltic states and there's outrage inside and outside of stony about authorities allowing s.-s. sympathizers to gather as artie's government as our reports those who want to protest the meeting face some inventive hurdles. every year when the latvian national anti fascist organizations attempt to cross the border into their neighboring a stonier they say they run into all kinds of trouble because you stoning authorities whilst kindly allowing all kinds of form of veterans of german waffen s.s. groups to gather and hold meetings and basically glorify in all kinds of ways the german s.s. groups that basically fought on the german side on the nazi side in the world of the second world war they will not allow anti fascist organizations to hold similar rallies and come up with all kinds of legal and illegal excuses to keep them from entering the country from holding their rallies and this year it's been just the same way as soon as the bus with latvian anti-fascist organizations crossed the

border into a stone yet they were pulled over the only car to be pulled over here at this checkpoint and their bus underwent a very detailed technical inspection and that technical inspection according to the officers we've managed to speak to they said they found a number of issues with this very bus they say that the wheels are somehow out of order that the protector on the wheels is not of a standardized depth whilst according to the regulations the depth of that protector has to be one point six millimeters and that's a minimum there is no maximum this protectors deeper but still they say it is on acceptable one more issue that they have found with this bus they say it is a leaking oil they found three drops underneath the bus around here somewhere and you can just barely see them if you get down all the way onto the ground and actually crouch and shine a flashlight under the bus and this is very strange because the oil drops are here and the engine of the bus which is the only place that can actually leak oil is all

the way over here a bus hasn't made it that far in the engine of the bus hasn't yet made it this far so where there was a well drops came from and why if the engine is leaking oil there's only three drop . been standing here for over an hour there is no more not a single drop but still. are saying this bus is unfit for stony and roads and therefore it will be turned around and all the people who are on it are faced with either standing here for the entire night or walking to tell it which is over a few hundred kilometers of course they are going to try and find a different way of transportation but with the estonian authorities this is quite difficult because all the buses the nearby towns are suddenly either broken down unavailable on technical repair or are already engaged so how this will pan out nobody can yet tell but one thing is certain the estonian authorities are doing everything they can to prevent these people from exercising their constitutional

rights. and now some other international stories from around the world and greece is set to mobilize military vehicles in the store fuel supply is hit by truck driver strike protesters vowed to continue action despite the government's emergency order to return to work the protests have turned violent at times with some clashes with police fuel has run out in all but a few of the capital special stations and it's affecting terrorism and causing food shortages. in pakistan over four hundred been killed in the past three days and flaws triggered by months and rains hundreds of thousands more and left stranded as emergency services struggled to reach when the villages the provincial government has declared a state of emergency asked the rental rains are expected to continue over the weekend officials saying the floods are the worst in almost eighty years. and we continue our exploration of the lesser known parts of russia in a series. and

today we take you to the town of bor of skin central russia located just eight kilometers from moscow has become a real guardian of sendek russian culture it's existed since the thirteenth century so we sent it to explore the artistic side to the city. where else so close to moscow would you hear church bells ringing so often every fifteen minutes at a dozen churches similar tenuously this beautiful chime can be heard in the provincial town of bor of school educated just eighty kilometers away from moscow and it's the closest cause of the kaluga region to the capital it takes so while defenders hilltop position thanks to the architects who started to build the town in the early fourteenth saying morris comprises of several unique churches like the

christian old believe us church also legendary is that the buffalo to vermont to st adds to the towers must be leased but more of it is not only about traditional architecture and golden day rooms and crosses it's hauser's arcana verse for contemporary art to self-taught artist but cheney is recording the history of his hometown through his paintings but his art his service comes that applies. to charm of the russian provence to which nothing it seems could be add it couldn't . be retired construction engineer has turned a whole town into a giant canvas of rock and his native born collect food culture and splashed images of churches historical figures and still life on its walls in all

one hundred new roles orders in the post say ninety four percent of people you know town don't visit on galleries and museums are tool and thus they can take in the doric submission perhaps is not the greatest art of all time but still this is art and most importantly know they know who the criticisms were based on to learn history. the towns near like to images and to. lemieux relist turned into a satirical commentator after the artist made a wall sized political cartoon featuring a local governor he became persona non grata. there were three paintings on this one is left to others will white washed under the pretext of this house being repaired the mayor has already destroyed ten of my works the biggest mural decorated a local bakery now that it's been widely watched some locals haven't claimed the bread tastes worse so the god it is some of his works may be satirical but they

have meaning they tell you what the tone really is. i'm not an expert in for an arch but yes paintings are a great degree. i like them what they have as a turn changed for the better after them are all superior but i notice that one by one his works of being whitewashed it's a shame. well side is too holy for a chain it covers brush including walls opposite the mayor's office this painting for example depicts historical figures space travel theorize a constantin ski while basically you're all right opposite the mayor's window is typical soviet satire well done cucumber sets. the mayor didn't appreciate the humor of genie of was fined several times and even faced court charges a local newspaper criticised him as

a moral especially after he painted a controversial image of a religious martyr in a town where every second citizen is a regular churchgoer but surprisingly the biggest local want to street doesn't think the artist touched a raw nerve to go to the words we say i can painting is the bible in colors the same could be said about these paintings or the history of our town and colors it's especially good for the young people who are raised without knowing their roots i like his works to catch my eye every time i passed by. a monk maxime turned to religion at the time of year is truly can russia images of abandoned churches and wide washed icons are still strong in his memory he's convinced that the artist should not give up and should continue with his dream of painting all of the board of school with his new roles in the church of eid t. from boards in the region and that brings us up to date here in r.t.

remember there is our website r.t. if you need more on any of the stories that we cover here in the meantime we'll take a look at the business edition of the weekend edition of business with stephanie one day. hello welcome to the business but it is the hair on r.t. russia has declared a state of emergency in four regions hit by the worst drought in a century farmers in twenty seven regions are estimating about losses and market watchers warn of new price hikes that tell you how to over reports. cracking soil and dead plants such a bloke who lived to pictures can be seen in many russian regions the heat has burnt out more than ten million hectares of green fields he retired this may fall by quarter this year like many other farmers hundred and counting his losses amounting so far to fifty percent of his films yields grain production vegetable

production in essence all crop production that's open field crop production. and primarily the dairy industry but we're losing a significant volume of milk because of the heat but as soon as the heat is over we'll eventually bounce back the quality of the feed won't be quite the same the cost of the feed won't be quite the same drownd has a knock on effect on almost every agricultural sector the cost of producing grain milk beef and hogs has doubled cattle breeders have lost their grass and now they're running out of cheap brain as drought continues don't clouds are gathering around the finance ministry as they contemplate their inflation forecast seven when they're also the similar rally all their cultural markets it's true that russia received big push through it with local inflation so personal i just upgraded the inflation forecast for this year but i have great by zero point five percentage

points from the level of seven percent off five percent this is not that very. i don't believe that this level constrain the clinical choleric marketplace there's no reason for panicking and promise to keep prices at acceptable levels so the government doesn't have to intervene but looking into the future they can see another problem looming we have to change your whole policy on insurance there's only about ten percent of the crops have been insured and the insurance companies are not very friendly towards. not only. insuring the crops but they're not terribly friendly on pain obviously once that once the situation happens he says insurance companies should change their approach but also from more responsibility rather than strict you know their hand to the government and then you can slow the business. despite ending friday's trading session in the

red it was a good week for the 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 there is gases that russian market. did really well this weekend you know addition to the support of god for all mention national markets from the performance over international equity markets it also got a strong dose of support from austrian commodity prices which sold prices morning. five dollars and this way you can actually stand there a new era of oil has begun the disaster in the gulf of mexico suggests the problems of one oil company may go global their remaining all reserves are in hard to develop fields and that's pushing safety on technology higher up the agenda seen a de mint credit reports. one hundred days and counting the gulf of mexico oil

spill becomes a turning point for the whole oil industry and perhaps the global economy top exploration rules are coming into force just as easy as oil is running out energy companies will be forced to explore hard to reach fields and the extreme surroundings deep water and arctic conditions. for your goal we are entering a new we're. just. asking as anyone what risks a very high it was a gulf of mexico show knows there's risks of. robert dudley pioneered international level security and labor norms in russia now he's facing a tougher job setting and even lower threshold for ecological risk across b.p. all oil companies involved in shelf explore ation are already working on a common security fund don't accumulate emergency deposits chief jobs for what is going to be needed to make that commitment to safety for the environment for

workers. priority number one we're going to see a sea change globally as a result of what's happened in the gulf hopefully that sea change will reach the shores of safety security and risk management could be the oil industry's new motto and russian oil giants wouldn't be immune as in the new innovative a business are cheap. and that's over the business day for now but you can always find the stories on our website that's our flash.

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the in. the back there with our tears on the top stories whole villages burn in central russia in a record breaking heat wave killing dozens and leaving thousands homeless the army has been sent to help firefighters control the raging inferno. led chinese emergency workers struggled retrieve barrels holding dangerous chemicals and they were swept into a river and are now adding four rochelle. and a stone and veterans and fought on the side of the nazis during the second world war meeting in the country's capital the event has sparked outrage inside and outside of stony over the authorities decision to allow as soon as there was to gather. next we invite you to tour the towns of russia's golden ring with mark

as your guide. hello and welcome to bloody near. the capital of the ancient rules here lies the soul of russia it's always there and it's a toss 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 and lived in this area of russia five and twenty five thousand years the city was founded in eleven o eight by olga to be among the most a match for the city gets its name.