in the center of the city now we know that it's not just british there's been suffering 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 question vocal to do 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 to collecting water to take to cool off land this being catching fire again about twenty kilometers from the village where we are now i think i'm very concerned to ensure that there's no more devastation like this it must love to have things but the moment what full cost as the saying is that the heat is set to continue at least for the next week or so they're saying we could see more of these incredibly high temperatures we saw last week record breaking temperatures never she is not on used to hold weather in the summer but this is the hope this is even the most severe drought in nearly three decades and it's really

left the land absolutely dry and very very that's both as we think the five states employees. are you so forth reporting that well i would have been sharing very experiences on the deadly wildfires on the internet some of them uploading their own video. because the more i do filming this. slow or slow or stop it. the lady has no. get out of the car even if you don't have the way weren't shut the door this. was not. a group of men you were trying to escape from a burning village using the only paved road available they 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 still to come this hour reunion find out to what lengths a stone you know authorities are prepared to go to let not see veterans from world

war two meet without destruction. while the race is on to prevent thousands of barrels containing highly dangerous chemicals from reaching russia the currently floating down a chinese river and could reach the border within two weeks the drums were swept into the river in northwest china after the worst flooding in a decade deluge factories nearby. reports from russia's far east close to the border with china. the river is one of the biggest sources of fresh water in russia's for east and in the. world standing now and its 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 see that they've managed to extract several variables which have been previously washed into the river as a result of the biggest flood in

a decade the chinese experience several more thousand barrels are still in the water in the sun for river and or en route towards the border and towards russia china has built eight beers in order to prevent them from getting here but there are several. actors 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 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 is 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 board 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 the 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 artesia go to put off their reporting from russia's far east well a stone in veterans who fought on the side of the nazis during the second world war a meeting in the country's capital it's not the first event of this kind in the baltic state and there's outrage inside and outside a stone about north already is allowing s.s. sympathizers to gather that is all to use as are reports to those who want to protest the meeting faced some inventive hurdles. every year when a lot of the international anti-fascists 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 jury 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 anti fascist organizations cross the border into a stone yet they were pulled over the only card 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 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 police will go on it when you are faced with either standing here for the entire night or only walking into 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 authorities this is quite difficult because all of us as a 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. for their reporting from the capital while there is always much much more on the main stories we're covering plus plenty of extras on our website on dot com and here's a quick look at what's waiting for you right now demonstrators. a hole in the moscow region in

a bid to save trees from the fires raging across russia. and big hearted harry the. football club makes his second russian signing offer to find a home for the power saving donkey who won the sympathy of animal lovers everywhere for the. much much at all to call. it's a tough period for the u.s. company in afghanistan american forces have just experienced the deadliest month since arriving and now locals are rioting against the presence of foreign troops. 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 be a occupying force it's every day that u.s.

and coalition for the stepped foot in that 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 but that the rest of afghanistan is 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 the wiki leaks who published the material online rejected that i can see action saying the pentagon is trying to distract attention from the thousands of lives already lost his military

analyst and you're going to agree he's 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 the taliban all of their associates and the second most notorious u.s. soldier buried in afghanistan 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 the taliban. and would be can hit much for this mujahideen troika they know for sure for almost ninety years the

whole crowd is like brothers for the u.s. government so if the top u.s. intelligence assets was 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 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. now to some other international headlines in pakistan over four hundred people have been killed in the past three

days in floods triggered by monsoon 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 rains are expected to continue over the weekend officials say the floods are the worst in almost eighty years. and 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 interruption iran lies on seismic fault lines and has experienced devastating earthquakes most notably back in december of two thousand and three when a quake killed at least thirty thousand in the city of bam. hamas commander has been killed and eleven people injured by an israeli air strike in the gaza strip. who died when a missile hit his caravan was the head of the military wing of hamas in gaza the offensive came after militants fired a rocket into the israeli city of ashkelon on the mediterranean coast that rocket

exploded in a residential area but nobody was hurt. all right now we continue our exploration of the lesser known parts of russia in our special close ups or. today we take you to the town of a boat off skin central russia located just eighty kilometers from moscow what has become a real guardian of authentic russian culture it's existed since the early fourteenth century and is famous for its hillside churches we send your kid to the grotto about 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 tiny asli this beautiful chime can be heard in the provincial town of more 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 of the town in the early fourteenth saying morris comprises of several unique churches like the christian old believe us church also the legendary is that the monastery adds to the tiles must see list but more of it is not only about traditional texture and golden days sent crosses it's houses are kind of us for contemporary art to self-taught artist but cheney is recording the history of his hometown through his paintings but his own he says comes that applies. to russian provence to which nothing it seems could be added at.

every time the construction engineer has turned a whole town into a giant canvas and went in there of. reckoned his native born us collect for 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 on galleries and museums are talkers and thus they can take in the outdoor exhibition perhaps it's not the greatest art of all time but still this is art for the tell is near like to images until the muralist turned into a satirical commentator after the artist made a wall sized political cartoon featuring a local governor he became persona non grata. 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 mural 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 up to make up his brush including one thought 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 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 it doesn't being the artist touched a raw nerve to go to their words we say i can painting is the bible and colors the

same could be said about these paintings they are the history of our town and colors it's a. actually good for the young people who were raised without knowing their roots. monk monk seemed turned to religion at the time of year is truly can russia images of abandoned church isn't widely watched icons are still strong in his memory he's convinced that beyond tuesday should not give up and should continue with his dreams of pain seem only born of squid he's new rose to talk more about why the provincial town of bor of scores a favorite of so many tourists and his story and some knowledge joined by expert in russian history and. professor william bromfield cohen thank you very much for joining me so dry and always welcome you tell me about the town of war of hello to de place for you why is that what is so special about this town i think part of it is the landscape the river that runs through the town creates a park but it also creates ravines and hills that played an important part in the

history of the town and that's preserved today the other thing is that the town is off the main road there's no railroad so that the architectural caricature of the old pals of. the been remarkably well for free for some call the set of nodes if we want to stray we 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 the main cathedral is a late sixteenth century it's a monastery of many dramatic historic events in fact in a monastery one of the main figures by god you know models of i was incarcerated and all but he died there then later of course its role in. the repel and various invasions in our pollyanna invasion of the second world war so that it's always been very much a part of the history of russia's art like the first time he visited bored of it

was about twenty years ago wasn't it how has the tone changed since that i think it's searching. remarkably and for that they haven't destroyed what was left. of the problem of spirit comes let's hope that the time the remains just as well preserved is stored for the next generations to thank you very much for that little side of your world we don't brownfield expert in russian architecture and history from the town of four of sc in the colored girl region time now for the business update with stephanie. hello welcome to the business put it in the hair on r.t.e. russia has declared a state of emergency in four more regions hit by the west drought in a century farmers in twenty seven regions are estimating the losses a market watchers warn of new price hikes that tell you how kind of reports. cracking soil and dead plants situ poku of to pictures can be seen in many russian

regions the heat has burned out more than ten million hectares of green fields the retired us may fall by kuta this year like many other films 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 we're 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 drowned 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 green as drought continues dark clouds are gathering around the finance ministry as they contemplate their inflation forecast in two

thousand and seven when they also observed a similar rally on their cultural markets it's true that russia received. local inflation so personal i just upgraded the inflation forecast for this year but there are great and by zero point five percentage points from the level of seven percent off seven point five percent this is not that very. i don't believe that this level will constrain the canonical 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 market 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 gas it's the russian market. did really well this week and you know addition to the support they got from international markets from the performers over in international equity markets it also got a strong dose of support from austria in commodity prices we saw well prices moving . 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 top exploration rules are coming into force just as easy as oil is running out and as you come pennies 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 were. just. not enough to recognize them as anyone or the risks are very high it was a few snakes a good show it was pretty. good 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 shell its moderation 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 happening with gold and hopefully that sea 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 as in the new innovative our business are cheap. and that's often the business here for now but you can always find the stories on our website that's r t dot com slash with.

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half past the hour here in the russian capital here with on t.v. the top stories the whole village is burned in central russia and the record breaking heat wave killing dozens and leaving thousands homeless has been sent to help find by this 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 estonian veterans who fought on the side of the nazis during the second world war on meeting in the country's capital the event has sparked outrage inside and outside a start to forty years decision to allow s.s. sympathizers to count. on next revive tour the ancient towns of russia's golden ring with martin andrews as your guide.

hello and welcome to blood in your own class 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 small sky it's a popular day trip enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of tourists every here. people and lived in this area of russia five to twenty five thousand years the city was founded in eleven o eight by olga to be among the most for the city gets its name of a new research suggests the c.c. is even on.