two refugee centers that have been set up temporarily for people to go to as they've had their homes rid and they were to stay and so we can hear president medvedev has said that he is 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 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 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 throughout russia twenty two thousand five so being reported since this heat wave break out so firefighters emergency services really struggling to deal with this huge demand for help and we've heard that volunteers have really

been helping out in this fight to battle the blaze so we can hear more from my colleague that's russell about this villagers farm 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 do with the fire at the regional hospital. the situation is no better in the knees you know good road region and the locals are at wit's end well welcome to the we're using our shovels the fire engine today four engines were sent here to new engines right from you know a group of people running away right. through the bush we're not getting any help whatsoever would desperately need more equipment we were using axes shovels.

just whatever we could get everyone who could stand 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 the. houses will be rebuilt before winter i promise you'll village will be restored in the last month ten temperature records have been broken in moscow and each day the mercury nears forty degrees celsius temperatures up above forty degrees are forecast for but on edge if there's going to be any end to the inferno the gulf in moscow is going to be down to the russian far fathers of local residents as it doesn't seem like the weather will be on our side tests are still here r t but the moment full cost is a 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 so for the temperatures to be above thirty five and of course last week we saw the record breaking temperatures in most case and so no end in sight at the moment for some people of us a very concerned no more fires break out and to avoid situations such as it's happened in this village where homes have been completely devastated. that was her first reporting there from veronica eyewitnesses have been sharing their experiences of the deadly wildfires on the internet and some of them uploading their own videos. because the more you filming this story which is slow or stop it. you know. if you don't have a car. if you don't have the we weren't sure. what shot of and you know we're going join a group of men who are trying to escape from a burning villages in the only paved road and found themselves trapped by walls of

flames they had to turn back when their car almost caught fire one of the men later described this as being in hell. well you're watching our do you live from moscow still to come this hour and assets reviewing it find out what to what lengths the story and authorities are prepared to go to a web nazi that are inspired world war two with their own destruction. raises on to prevent thousands of barrels containing highly dangerous chemicals from reaching russia 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 to lose factories nearby our visa corpus going off reports from russia's far east close to the border with china. 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 where the place where this emergency happened 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 the 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 a 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 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. i just correspond and you can offer porting from russia's far east. now is talking of veterans who fought on the side of the nazis during the second world war our meeting in the country's capital is not the first event of the sky and of the baltic state and there's outreach

inside and outside of stony about authorities allowing s.s. sympathizers to gather and artie's caterina's are reports that one to protest the meeting face some inventive hurdles. every year when a lapse in national and fascist organizations attempt to cross the border into their neighboring a stone yeah 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 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 weight as soon as the bus with a lot to be an anti fascist organizations cross 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 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 . boston is down 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 are faced with either standing here for the entire night or walking to tell and 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. to use our reporting there from the story in capitals and there's always more of 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 now. demonstrators busy to town hall in the moscow region in a bid to save trees but not from the fires across russia. and big hearted harry the manager told them football club makes his second russian signing off for him to find a home for the parasailing donkey who won the sympathy of animal lovers and we work more on these and many more stories at archie dot com. now is 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 jay deliberately a u.s. afghan veteran says people are just tired of fueling i'm protected. basically the general sentiment of the people is that they're tired of seeing i could pay occupying forces every day that u.s. and coalition for short in their country anti-american sentiment grows because there's there are the 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 of afghan emma stone and if kabul isn't our peoples 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 the sand says the leaking of classified documents related to the war in afghanistan could lead to even more deaths among the troops but one thing leaks who published the material online rejected that accusation saying the pentagon is trying to distract attention from the thousands of lives already lost army excuse me ideas military analyst of 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 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. collaborating of dennis stan he's got his eye abroad 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 oh across the country for taliban funny and would be doing hit much for this mujahideen troika they know for sure for almost nine years that brothers work 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 rate informants somewhere in the countryside so the u.s. decision makers will be well advised to stuff playing the circuit city 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. and now some other stories from around the world and the earthquake has rattled a city in northeastern around injuring more than a hundred people several villages also suffered damage and there was a temporary communications interruption iran lies on seismic fault lines and has experienced devastating earthquakes most notably in december two thousand and three when a quake killed at least thirty thousand. in pakistan where four hundred have been killed in the past three days in floods triggered by soon rains hundreds of thousands more have been alot stranded as emergency service to struggle to reach remote villages the provincial government has declared a state of emergency as toronto rains are expected to continue over the weekend officials say the floods are the worst in almost eighty years. greece is set to

mobilize military vehicles to restore fuel supplies hit by a truck drivers strike protests are continuing despite the government's emergency order for the truckers 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's petrol stations and it's affecting tourism and causing food shortages. and i'll continue our exploration of the lesser known parts of russia in our close up series. and today we take it to the town of bor of central russia located just kilometers from moscow it has become a real guardian of authentic russian culture it's existed since early fourteenth century and is famous for its hillside churches we send it over to explore the artistic side to the city. where also clues to mosco would you hear church bells

ringing so often every fifteen minutes at a dozen churches similar tiniest. this beautiful chime can be heard in the provincial town. more of silicate are just eighty kilometers away from moscow and it's the closest cause of the kaluga region to the capital it takes a while defenders hilltop position thanks to the architects who started to build the town in the early fourteen saying morris comprises of several unique churches like the christian old believe us church also legendary is that the monastery adds to the towers must see list but more of is not only about traditional architecture and golden days and crosses its hauser's are canvas for contemporary art to self-taught artist but cheney is recording the history of his hometown through his paintings but his art his sirs comes that applies.

to 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 the demeanor of 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. 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 for the towns near like tiptronic of 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. there were three paintings on this

one is left to others will white washed under the pretext of this house being repaired the. has already destroyed turn of my works the biggest new role decorated a local bakery now that it's been whitewashed some locals haven't claimed the bread tastes wars well side is too holy for a pin it covers brush including while the opposite of the mayor's office this painting for example depicts historical figures space travel. while based on 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 criticized 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 ministry doesn't think the artist touched a raw nerve or 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. 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 board of school with his meal or else it's in the churchyard tea from him because of the region. or that brings us up to date here on r.t. and we'll take a look now at what's happening in business in just a few moments. for the full story we've gone to. the

biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news maker. hello welcome to the business but it's inhaled on a t.v. russia has declared a state of emergency in four more regions hit by the west drought in a century in twenty seven regions are estimating about losses a market watch has warned of new price hikes that tell you how to reports. cracking

soil and dead plants such a poke a loop to pictures can be seen in many russian regions the heat has burned out more than ten million had his of greenfield's louis tavis may fall by a quarter this year like many other films hundred and is counting his losses amounting so far to fifty percent of his films eells grain production vegetable production in essence all crop production that's open field crop production. and primarily the dairy industry but we are losing a significant volume of milk because of the heat but as soon as the heat is over will eventually bounce back the quality of the feed won't be quite the same the cost of the feed may be quite the same drought has a knock on effect on almost every agricultural sector the cost of producing green milk beef and hogs has doubled cattle breeders have lost their grass and now they're running out of cheap grain as drought continues don't clouds are gathering

around the finance ministry as they contemplate their inflation forecast in two thousand and seven when they also serve the similar rally all their cultural markets it's true that russia received the push through its local inflation so personalized just upgraded the inflation forecast for this year but i have great by zero point five percentage points from the above seven percent of five percent this is not a very good chart i don't believe that this level will rather 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. 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 game the week was quite strong and when out on the talking about equities we're talking about. commodity is and there is gases russian market did really well this week and you know addition to the support of their god from international markets from the performance over in international equity markets it also got a strong dose of support from austrian commodity prices we saw world prices moring . 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 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 they said you would you know we are entering a new we are. just. not enough records to miss any of the risks of very high it was the gulf of mexico. 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 explorer ation are already working on a common security fund the 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 quo boy as a result of what's happened in the gulf hopefully that sea change will reach the shores of safety security risk management could be the oil industry new motto and russian oil giants wouldn't be immune as in the new innovative a business are cheap. on that so for the business here for now but you can always find the stories on our website that flash.

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last. question is that so much about the taxpayers' money maintaining ization is a lot of people at various ways to get out of a good part of the world is experiencing a crippling feat. is this a trend or simply freaking weather one.

welcome back you know whether it's a look at the top stories whole villages burned in central russia in the record breaking heat wave killing dozens and leaving thousands homeless the army has been sent to help firefighters control the raging inferno. chinese emergency workers struggle to retrieve barrels holding dangerous chemicals and they were swept into a river and are now heading for russia. and a stony and veterans who fought on the side of the nazis during the second world war are meeting in the country's capital the event has sparked outrage inside and outside of stony over the authorities decision to allow access sympathizers to get . so alice next we invite you to tour the ancient towns of russia's gold ring. as

your guide. hello and welcome to bloody here. the capital of the ancient rules here lies the souls of russia it's always here and it's cause 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 to twenty five thousand years the city was founded in eleven o eight by olga allowed to be among the most for the city gets its name of a new research suggests the city.