still know they really found that very hard to tackle now they're now in refugee centers that have been set up in the center of the city and we've been to visit one of these refuge fences and there was hundreds and hundreds of people who were turning up with clothes and food and offering their help to these people who have really lost everything now we know that it's not just very nice there's been theft ring nation you know if girls another region all in all since the heat wave began around twenty two thousand fires have been reported to started and emergency services and fire service is really finding this quite a struggle to deal with they've had a lot of help from volunteers she in the last hour or so you seem quite see how to cook fish going above a pick that a collecting water to take to a cloth land that's been catching fire again about twenty kilometers from the village where we are now as they have i'm very concerned to ensure that there's not more devastation like this but it's fair enough love to have. also her indeed very

dramatic situation there but what are the forecasters saying when will this he'd stop. well they're predicting that it's to stay for a little while yet certainly for the next week or so we could see more of these incredibly high temperatures we saw last week record breaking temperatures never used to hold weather in the summer but this is the whole thing it's been the most bit dry out in nearly three decades and it's really left the land absolutely dry and very very we'll be seeing the devastating fire as we've heard from president. members of this government to assess the worst hit regions and see what they need and we actually. in the next couple of hours government officials should be looking to talk to some of these people who've been left homeless about the money that there would be if it's he said they are receiving a bit of help as well from volunteers and neighbors who are all helping out in this over the very upsetting situation all right to our first thanks very much indeed

for bringing us those details. and i witnesses have been sharing their experiences of the deadly wildfires on the internet and some of them uploading their own videos was the way to. stop it. if you don't if you can. if you don't have the we weren't sure. how this one who was shot of these you know a group of men were trying to escape from a burning village using only pedro and found selves trapped by walls of flames and they had to turn back one of your car almost caught fire one of them one of them and later described this is being held. so look on this hour here in r.t. and s.s. reunion find out to what lengths the story of authorities are prepared to go to let see veterans from world war two meet with destruction. and the

race is on to prevent thousands of barrels containing highly dangerous chemicals from reaching russia and they are 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 r.t. as you were just 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 the 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 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 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 and the authorities on both sides 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 from russia. far east. dystonia veterans who fought 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 of the baltic state and there's outrage inside and outside a story about authorities allowing s.s. sympathizers to gather at his or t.'s country as are reports those who want to protest the meeting face some inventive hurdles. every year when a lot of the international 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 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 a lot to an anti fascist organizations crossed the border into a stone and 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 standardized the 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 . 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 are

faced with either standing here for the entire night or walking to telling 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. as our reporting there from the stony and capital now there's always more on the main stories we're covering here in our two plus plenty of extras on our website here's a 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

a big hearted harry the manager of told them football club makes his second russian signing offering to find a home for the pair say we don't keep who won the sympathy of animal lovers everyone find out more on these and many more stories at home. and 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 to go a bird a u.s. 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 go occupying forces every day that u.s. and coalition four sets foot in the country anti-american sentiment grows because there is 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 fan says the leaking of classified documents related to the war in afghanistan could lead to even more deaths among the troops by the way the leaks published some material online rejected that accusation saying the pentagon is trying to distract attention from the thousands of lives already lost his military analyst of any 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 through the outbreak elix actually there are two of them the first is ever going to president affectively works for the united states and it's well known for almost nine years and believe it turned out there is no repercussions from taliban all of their associates and the second most notorious u.s. collaborating of ghana stan he's got his eye brother in kandahar who according to the u.s. main media has been one of the most cherished c.i.a.'s is a key a the top drug kingpin all across the country for the taliban high pony and would begin his much for this mujahideen troika they know for sure for almost nine years that old guard is my brother's work for the u.s. government so if they talk u.s. intelligence assets are 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 this third rate informant sound where in the country second so the u.s. decision makers will be well advised to stop playing the server 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. now some of the stories from around the world and in pakistan over four hundred have been killed in the past three days the floods triggered by months and rains hundreds of thousands more have been left stranded as emergency services struggle to reach remote villages the provincial government has declared

a state of emergency as to rental rains are expected to continue over the weekend officials say the floods are the worst in almost eight years. and an earthquake has rattled a city in northeastern iran injuring more than one hundred people several villages also suffered damage and there was a temporary communications a direction iran lies on seismic fault lines and it has experienced devastating earthquakes most notably and december two thousand and three when a quake killed at least thirty thousand. commander has been killed and eleven people injured by an israeli air strike in the gaza strip. who died when a missile hit this caravan was the head of the military wing of hamas in gaza defensive came after militants fired a rocket into the israeli city of us gone on the mediterranean coast that a rocket exploded in a residential area but no one was hurt. now we continue our exploration of the lesser known parts of russia in a close up series. and

today would take you to the town of barofsky in central russia located just eight 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 santa is going to explore the artistic side of 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 located 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 all protect 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 the legend raised about the monastery adds to the tiles must see least but more of it is not only about traditional all good texture and golden day scent crosses it's hollows is our kind of us for contemporary art to self-taught artist cheney is recording the history of his hometown through his paintings but his art he says comes that applies. to russian provence to which nothing it seems could be add it. every time the construction engineer has turned a whole town into a giant canvas. reckoned 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. ninety five percent of people in our town don't visit and galleries and museums are talkers and thus they can take in the outdoor exhibition perhaps is not the greatest art of all time but still this is art the tells me you 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 whitewashed under the pretext of this house being repaired the man has already destroyed ten of my works the biggest nero 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 chain it covers brush including the opposite of the mayor's office this painting

for example depicts historical figures space travel theorize a constantin ski while based mural right opposite the mayor's window is typical soviet satire well done cucumber says. the mayor didn't appreciate the humor 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 their words we say i can painting is the bible in colors the same could be said about these paintings there the history of our town and colors it's especially good for the young people who were raised without knowing their roots. monk maxime town 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 seem all of board of squid he's only rose to talk more about why the provincial town of bor of scores a favorite of so many tourists and historians i'm now joined by expert in russian history and all the texture professor william brumfield hello and thank you very much for joining us always welcome you tell me about the town of war of held a deep place for you why is that what is so special about this i think part of it is the landscape the river that runs through the town creates a park but it also creates ravines and yells that played an important part in the history of the town and that's preserved it the other thing is that the town is off the main road there's no railroad so that the architectural heritage here of the old pals of them have been remarkably well for free for some call the set up of

most of ministry would concede from here for the town of forest do you agree i certainly do in terms of its history its architecture its spiritual heritage it has seventeenth century frescoes. as the main cathedral is a late sixteenth century it's a monastery of many dramatic historic event in fact in a monastery one of the main figures by jadine models that was incarcerated and ultimately died there then later of course its role in. the repel and various invasions in the poly on a conveyor of the second world war so that it's always been very much a part of the history of russia is hardly the first time he visited boards was about twenty years ago wasn't it how has the tone changed since then i think it's the change they're remarkably and for the better they haven't destroyed what was left in the past often the problem prosperity comes up please let's hope that the

town will remain just as well preserved historically for the next generations to thank you very much but that little side to your west we don't brownfield expert in russian architecture and history from the town of bor of sc in the color good region. i'll respond to her and her child are there well that brings us up to date and we'll take a look at what's happening in the world of business was to me shortly. hello welcome to the business put it in the head on the t.v. russia has declared a state of emergency in four regions hit by the west in the century was in twenty seven regions a to mating about losses a market watch has warned of new price hikes that tell you how to have 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 have to greenfields louis tavis may fall by 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'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 drought 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 grain as drought continues don't clouds are gathering around the finance ministry as they contemplate their inflation forecast seven when we also observe the similar rally all the cultural markets it's true that russia

received the push through to its 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 of five percent this is not a very good chart i don't believe that this level will constrain the canonical choleric marketplace say 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 cancel 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 game the week was quite strong and went 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 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 morning . of 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 any timid 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 tough 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 so you or you know we are entering a new we're. just. not enough records to miss any of the risks of very high as it was the gulf of mexico shows with. the water story 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 ration 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 a priority number one we're going to see a sea change 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's new motto and russian oil giants wouldn't be immune as in the new innovative a business are cheap. on that so from the business here for now but you can always find most stories on our website that's our dot com slash.

state has provided citizens with. rights of. some self the guy behind the last. chance. i'll tell. my. mom when the government since tank. money might land. right. allan we can enter the. culture is that so much about the taxpayers and i mean to say for me it means a lot of people out here am sweating it out

a good part of the world is experiencing a crippling heat wave is this a trend or simply freaking weather one. to to. to at least say.

to. the back and watching our teeth here's a look at the top stories the whole village has been in some russia and record breaking heat waves killing dozens and leaving thousands homeless and the army has been sent to help firefighters controlled a raging inferno. chinese emergency workers struggle to retrieve barrels of holding dangerous chemicals and they were swept into a river and are now heading for russia. and is stony and better and so far the side of the nazis during the second world war are meeting in the country's capital the event sparked outrage inside and outside a story over the authorities decision to allow access sympathizers to gather. up next we'll bring you special report from kyrgyzstan the central asian country or

ethnic tensions dating from the 1930's recently turned violent claiming hundreds of lives. rest has long been kurdistan's national color at one point the words could be used and rather even meant the same. on the national flag it symbolizes valor courage. the golden sun and the sun to represents one asked for eternal life. signifies product of all the people living. but if those two decades could just flat chest.