in the air and actually you can smell this all throughout the city at the moment with the heat and the smoke it really is quite intense and the people obviously here left wondering what they're going to do now we've had throughout central russia around a thousand homes have been destroyed by these fires leaving around three thousand people homeless now haron for and it's those two refugee centers that have been set up temporarily for people to go to as they've had their homes returned to nowhere to stay and we can hear president a very different said that he's sending some of his government to come to the regions that are worst affected and see what really needs to be done we can hear from him speaking. after this unusually. we need to at least provide people with temporary housing and immediately the construction of. the russian government and the regional administration should. to find these needs now we know it's not just the city of.

badly affected nizhny novgorod it's another area that really had suffered quite badly with these fires and we've heard that over all throughout russia twenty two thousand five supreme of posted since this heat wave break out so firefighters emergency services really struggling to do with this huge demand for help and we've heard the volunteers have really been helping out in this fight to battle the blaze so we can him more from my colleague about this. villagers farman and forest rangers are in over their heads trying to contain the blaze with some going without rest for days at a time forest ranger alexandr yacht ski has been fighting the fire for five days with only a shovel in hand. i'm really stressed out there aren't enough firemen they were all sent to deal with the fire at the regional hospital. the situation is no better in the region and the locals are at wit's end both flop welcome if we're

using our shovels the fire engine today four engines were sent here to new engines right from. people running away like cockroaches. we're not getting any help whatsoever would desperately need more equipment we were using axes shovels saws just whatever we could get everyone who could stand came to work everyone who had any equipment. russian prime minister vladimir putin arrived at the on friday morning to assess the damage devastated residents had no qualms about airing their grievances was listed definition i want to tell everybody. all the houses will be rebuilt before winter i promise you'll do will be restored in the last ten temperature records 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 here are to. well as we've just heard a very tough situation for everyone there sara but what's ahead are there any signs of a perhaps the heat abating in the near future what are forecast for saying. well the moment what full cost as the saying is that the heat is set to continue at least for the next week or so so we're going to see more of these incredibly high temperatures that we've seen over the past five weeks has been no one commented tall for the temperatures to be above thirty five and of course last week we saw the record breaking temperatures and most gain now the intense heat especially in places like a bonus with the smoke in the smoke really is quite suffocating you know people are finding it very very hard to do with that and so no end in sight at the moment for

some people obviously very concerned no more fires break out and to avoid situations such as happened in this village where homes have been completely devastated homes are thanks for bringing us the latest from. there in central russia sara first reporting. you watching live from moscow and still to come on the program the sour and s. asterisk find to want to line the story in a story something to go to like nazi veterans from world war two destruction. and the race is on to prevent thousands of barrels containing highly dangerous chemicals from reaching russian they're currently floating down a chinese river and could reach the border with it two weeks the drums were swept into the song a river in northwest china after the worst flooding in a decade did lose factories nearby r.t.c. corpus can offer imports from russia's far east close to the border with china. the river is one of the biggest sources of freshwater in russia's far east and in the

city as well water standing now and its ecology is still under up attentional threats because china is just several dozen kilometers away from here and so is this sunflower river which joins the where the place where this emergency happened to the chinese authorities do say that they've managed to extract several barrels which have been previously washed into the river as a result of the biggest flood in a decade they 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 beers 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 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 up attentional future of threats 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. such problems back in two thousand and five a huge chemical spill has left millions of chinese without the supplies of fresh water and the authorities on both science are monitoring the situation at 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 of contamination does happen of course we'll be monitoring the situation and we will report on this story as it continues to develop. reporting here from russia far east. veterans who fought of the side of the nazis during the second world war are

meeting in the country's capital some the first event of the sky and the baltic states and there's outrage and sided outside of stony about authorities allowing assets sympathizers to gather as artists got to use our reports those who want to protest the meeting face some inventive hurdles every year when a lot of the international and 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 while 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 during 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 the 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 protector's 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 the engine of the bus hasn't yet made it this far so where those oil drops came from and why if the engine is leaking oil there's only three drops as boston is standing here for over an hour there's no more not a single drop but still the authorities 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 will when you 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 it's already is 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 are just reporting from the capital there rose and there's always more on the main stories we're covering plus plenty of x. rays on our website r.t. dot com here's a quick look at what's waiting to be discovered right now. demonstrators besiege a town hall in the moscow region in a bid to save trees but not from the fires raging across russia. and big hearted harry the manager of total employable makes his second russian signing offering to find a home for the parasailing donkey who won sympathy animal lovers every work to find out more on these and many other stories that are today.

it's a tough period for the u.s. campaign in afghanistan american forces have just experienced their two deadliest months since arriving and now locals are rioting against the presence of foreign troops j. dilla burning 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 i could pay occupying forces every day the u.s. and coalition for bush to set 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 the other problem of this whole scenario is that kabul is supposed to be one of the safest places in all about emma stone and if kabul isn't our people's then you can surely buy that the rest of afghanistan is just ten times worse than that well in all counterinsurgency campaigns when you insert more troops the first thing that happens they 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 and the u.s. secretary of defense says the leaking of classified documents related to the war in afghanistan could lead to even more deaths among the troops but we can leagues who published the material online reject that accusation saying the pentagon is trying to distract attention from the thousands of lives already lost artie's military analyst to getting herself agrees saying the leak reveals little that hasn't been known for years. one of the top american collaborative in afghanistan has been known for a long time leaks and actually there are two of them the first he's going to president affectively works for the united states and it's well known for almost nine years and believe it turned out there was no repercussions from taliban all of their associates and the second most notorious u.s. collaborated in afghanistan he's got his eye abroad the in kandahar who according

to the u.s. main media has been one of the most cherished cia asset eighty eight of the top drug kingpin all across the country for taliban funny and would be doing hit much for this mujahideen troika they know for sure for almost ninety years. old god is like brothers for the u.s. government so if the top u.s. intelligence assets well known for the whole world for almost nine years and nobody tried to harm them why the united states should be so concerned about the third grade informants somewhere in the countryside so the u.s. decision makers will be well advised to stop playing this server cd expressing their crocodile tears about the threat to the lives of u.s. informants in afghanistan and instead they should start thinking real hard

how to arrest the narco terrorist threat that comes under their watch from afghanistan to russia and to european union. now take a look at some other stories from around the world and greece is set to mobilize military vehicles to restore fuel supplies hit by a truck driver strike protesters vowed to taking action despite the government's emergency order to return to work protests turned violent times with some clashes with police fuel has run out in all but a few of the capital's stations and it's affecting tourism and food shortages. in pakistan over a few one hundred have been killed in the past three days and was triggered by a monsoon rains hundreds of thousands more have been a lot stranded as emergency services struggle to reach them on to the edges of the provincial government has declared a state of emergency as torrential rains are expected to continue over the weekend

the still say the floods are the worst in almost in years. and we continue our exploration of the lesser known parts of russia in our close up series. and today we take you to the town of bor of in central russia located just eighty kilometers from moscow it has become a real guardian of authentic russian culture it's existed since the thirteenth century and is famous for its hillside churches we sent a country to explore the artistic side to the city. where else so close to mosco would you hear church bells ringing so often every fifteen minutes at a dozen churches similar tiny asleep this beautiful chime can be heard in the provincial town of moore of school located just eighty kilometers away from mosco and it's the closest cause of the kaluga region to the capital it takes so well

defended hilltop position thanks to the all good texts 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. not if i'm on a street adds to the towels must see list but more of it is not only about traditional architecture and golden day arms and crosses it's hauser's our canvas for contemporary art to self-taught artist but cheney is recording the history of his hometown through his paintings but his art his surface comes that applies. charm of a 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 and that the mayor of tunica rock and his native born collect food

culture and splashed images of churches historical figures and still live on its walls in all one hundred new roles for disk ninety four percent of people in our town don't visit on galleries and museums to talk and thus they can take in the outdoor exhibition perhaps is not the greatest art of all time but still this is art the towns near like to images until the muralist turned into a satirical commentator after the artist made a wall sized political cartoon picturing a local governor he became persona non-grata. what they're worth three paintings on this one is left to others will white washed under the pretext of this house being repaired the man has already destroyed ten of my works the biggest mural decorated a local bakery now that it's been whitewashed some locals have unclaimed the bread

to taste mourners well side is too holy for a chain it covers brush including one thought the mayor's office this painting for example depicts historical figures space travel arise a constantin. ski while base in your own right opposite the mayor's window is typical soviet setar well done cucumber sets. the mayor didn't appreciate the humor of tunic 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 mourners street doesn't thing the artist touched a raw nerve to go to the words we say i can painting is the bible and 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 were raised without knowing their roots. monk maxime turned to religion at the time of your astroid 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 horror of school with his new roles in the church of eid t from boards in because of the region that brings us up to date here on r.t. and time now for the business of date with stephanie. hello welcome to the business bulletin here 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 across regions are estimating that their losses and market watchers warn of new price hikes that tell you how to over reports.

cracking soil and plants such a blow cooler to pictures can be seen in many russian regions the heat has burnt out more than ten million hectares of green fields 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 from zealots grain production vegetable production in essence all crop production that's open field crop production. and primarily the dairy industry 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 may be quite the same drowned has a knock on effect on almost every agricultural sector the cost of producing green milk beef and hogs have doubled cattle breeders have lost their grass and now they're running out of cheap green as drought continues don't clouds are gathering

around the finance ministry as they contemplate their inflation forecast in two thousand and seven when we also observe the similar rally all the cultural markets it's true that russia received the push to its local inflation so personalized just upgraded the inflation forecast for this year but the great by zero point five percentage point from the level of seven percent of seven point five percent this is not that very. i don't believe that this level will constrain the comic recovery 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. business. despite ending friday's trading session in the red it was a good week for the russian stock market as the head of research at metropole explains overall again they were quite strong and went out on the talking about equities we're talking about the. commodity is and there is gases that russian market. did really well this weekend you know addition to the support of god from international markets from the performers over international equity markets it also got a strong dose of support from our strong commodity prices we sold prices morning. above seventy 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 there are many more reserves are in hard to develop fields and that's pushing safety on technology higher up the agenda seen a timid 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 to explore rationing rules are coming into force just as easy as oil is running out energy companies will be forced to explore hard to reach fields in the extreme surroundings deep water and arctic conditions he said you would you know we are entering a new. risks a very high it was like. robert dudley pioneered international level security and labor norms in russia. now he's facing

a tougher job setting in in long threads called ecological risk across me p. all oil companies involved in sheltered spot aeration already working on a common security fund don't accumulate emergency deposits and 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 up in the polls hopefully that c.h. eight inch will reach the shores of for safety security and risk management could be the oil industry's new motto and russian oil giants wouldn't be immune is in the new innovative a business are cheap. on that sofa business say for now but you can always find those stories on a website that's called flash. every

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welcome back to watching r.t. live from moscow a reminder of top stories whole villages burned in central russia in the record breaking food waste killing dozens and needed thousands homeless the army has been sent to help firefighters control the raging inferno. chinese emergency workers struggle to retrieve barrels holding dangerous chemicals they were swept into a river and are now heading for russia. and still young veterans who fought on the side of the nazis during the second world war are meeting in the country's talbott on the veranda sparked outrage inside and outside a stone over the authorities decision to allow s.s. sympathizers to gather. the next we invite you to tour the ancient towns of russia's golden ring with martin andrews as your guide.

hello and welcome to brother near. the capital of the ancient little state here lies the source of russia it's always a 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 year. people have lived in this area of russia for over twenty five thousand years the city was founded in eleven o eight by order of blood to be a match for the city gets its name out of a new research just as she is even older dating back to the tenth century.