at first we try to define it but it was impossible so we started to move things everything we could police and firefighters still do still leave. it's not scary now scary is when you see the fire it's was hard to get over now we know that it's not just furnish that's been suffering you know of course and not the return all in all since the heat wave began around twenty two thousand fires have been reported to started and emergency services the fire service is really finding this quite a struggle to deal with they've had a lot of help for volunteers in the last hour or so you seem quite see how the course is going above but it collecting water to take to quell this being catching fire again about twenty kilometers from the village where we are now as a voluntary concern to ensure that there's not more devastation like this but it must love to have. the situation with the remains extremely difficult for the

families in the most affected areas in central russia have merely stabilized remains in tents and unfortunately there is no full const of the temperatures going . at the moment what forecasters are saying is that the heat is thirty continue at least for the next week or so we could see more of these incredibly high temperatures we saw last week record breaking temperatures now versus not only used to hope weather in the summer but this is the hottest it's even the most severe drought in nearly three decades that is really the land of the dry and very very well as we've seen the for the states. surfer porting well i witness is have been sharing their experiences of the deadly wildfires on the internet some of been uploading their own videos of the drama. because they were you feeling this was really slow or slow or stop it. the lady had no.

get out of the car. if you don't of the way were shut the door. this one. four hundred kilometers from moscow a group of men were trying to escape from a burning village using the only paved road they found themselves trapped by walls of flames they had to turn back with almost caught fire one of the men later described as being in hell. and emergency crews are hunting for more than two thousand barrels of highly toxic chemicals floating down a chinese river towards russia it was thought the drums might reach the country in two weeks but some experts now say they could arrive in days. off explains the potential danger. to river is one of the biggest sources of fresh water in russia's for east and in the. world. and its ecology is still under threat 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 variables which have been previously washed into the river as a result of the biggest flood in a decade 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. 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 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. you're going to be reporting there and a little bit later to come here on the program on r.t. closeups visits the town of kaluga region of russia where traditional architecture has become a canvas for contemporary art and a satirical cartoons. veterans who sided with the

nazis during world war two against the soviets a gathering in the northeast of the baltic state it has sparked outrage over why the country's authorities are welcoming such a fascist sympathisers and those who wanted to oppose the meeting have been barred from entering. she finds out. 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 the latvian 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 of a standardized depth whilst according to the regulations the depth of that protector has to be one point six millimeters and that's the 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 or 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 is 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. putting right that the u.s. forces in afghanistan have just experienced two deadliest months since the invasion began in two thousand and one and locals are now rising against the presence of foreign forces an american veteran told the troops to see american feeling in the country as afghans don't feel 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 is there to pick that 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 gave them a stamp and if kabul isn't our peoples then you can surely buy 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 you see a spike in violence and a spike in deaths and it's to be expected there's no way to stop that that's the nature of conflict. the u.s. secretary of defense warns the leaking of classified documents related to the war in afghanistan could lead to even more deaths among the troops however wiki leaks who published the material online rejects the accusation and says the pentagon is just trying to divert attention from the thousands of lives already lost his military analyst says the documents reveal little that hasn't already 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. 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 hi connie and would be doing hit much out for this mujahideen troika they know for sure for almost nine years that all caught his eye 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 this 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. live from moscow this is r t it's good to have your company today now four years into ethnic tensions have been high in the former soviet republic of kyrgyzstan it stems back to when joseph stalin drew up the region's borders throwing part of what was considered neighboring land into kid of his territory though the most violent clashes rather between the two groups took place in april of this year you can find out more in our special report next

hour right here on r.t. . provided citizens with. when they go. to the beach. it is nearly quarter past the hour here in the russian capital let's let's take a quick look now at some other stories making headlines around the world and a memorial service is being held in germany to remember those who died in a stampede at the love parade techno music festival just a week ago chancellor angela merkel broke off from her summer holiday to attend the service in the western city of do was a bug twenty one people died and a five hundred were injured during the mass panic and crush at the event seven

foreigners were also among the dead. the death toll from the worst floods in pakistan for decades has reached eight hundred one million people have been affected by the waters triggered by monsoon rains with some four hundred thousand stranded in remote villages deluged roads and bridges have been hampering the rescue efforts a state of emergency has been declared with torrential rains expected to continue over the weekend. and rescue teams in iran are searching for people trapped under rubble following an earthquake in the northeast of the country more than one hundred people were injured houses have been damaged and communication networks were disrupted iran is located on seismic fault lines and it's prone to earthquakes experiencing at least one slight tremor a day on average. and wildfires are raging in california fueled by high temperatures and strong winds thousands of firefighters are battling blazes across

the state with the latest forcing the evacuation of more than three hundred homes no deaths have been reported so far although a state of emergency has been declared in kern county that's just north of los angeles or at war next we bring you closer to russia's lesser known areas this time the region stay with us. the town of a bottle of school i's just eighty kilometers from moscow and has existed since the thirteenth century the picturesque town has many hillside churches however it's not all about traditional religious architecture its houses have become a canvas for contemporary art. discoveries. where else so close to moscow would you hear church bells ringing so often every fifteen minutes at a dozen churches similar tanny asli this beautiful chime can be heard in the provincial

town of bor of school ikeda 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 the legendary. monastery adds to the tiles must see list but more of it is not only about traditional architecture and golden dome sent crosses it's hauser's arcana verse for contemporary art to self-taught artist but cheney is recording the history of his hometown through his paintings but his art his sirs comes that applies. the charm of

a russian provence to which nothing it seems could be add it couldn't. be returned construction engineer has turned a whole town into a giant canvas and lead to more 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 with orders to forty percent of people who know town don't visit on galleries and museums are too and thus they can take in the outdoor exhibit perhaps is not the great is our tool time but still this is art the town's mayor 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. but there were three paintings on this wall one is left two others were whitewashed under the pretext of this house

being repaired the mayor has already destroyed ten of my works the biggest new year old 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 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 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 ministry doesn't think the

artist touched a raw nerve. 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 especially good for the young people who are raised up without knowing their roots. monk maxime turned to religion at the time of your astroid can russia images of abandoned churches and white 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 board of school with his murals to talk more about why the provincial town of bor of scores a favorite of so many tourists and historians are now joined by expert in russian history and architecture professor william brown thought. hello and thank you very much for joining me so dr you're welcome you tell me about the town of bor of how did deep place for you why is that what is so special about this town i think part

of it is the landscape is a river that runs through the town creates a bar 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 in the town is off the main road there's no railroad so that the architectural heritage here the old tiles as i'm sure she's been remarkably well preserved some cold is said about a straight within seed from yeah they've 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 the monastery one of the main figures by jadine models of i was incarcerated and ultimately died there then later of course its role in. the repel and various invasions in the pali on a conveyor that second world war the so that it's always been very much

a part of the history of russia's art but 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 to change to a remarkably and for the better they haven't destroyed what was left from the past that's often the problem and prosperity comes to a place let's hope that the town will remain just as well preserved historically for the next generations to thank you very much more than a little side of your west we don't brownfield expert in russian architecture and history from the town of four of sc in a color good region. and time now for the latest business news with stephanie. hello welcome to the business put it in the hair on our t.v. russia has declared a state of emergency in four more regions hit by the west in a century farmers in twenty seven regions are estimating that their losses and

market watchers warn of new price hikes that tell you how to have reports. crickey soil and plants such a bloke who lived to pictures can be seen in many russian regions the heat has burned out more than ten million has to green fields he may fall by quarter this year like many other farmers. is counting his losses amounting so far to fifty percent of his from zealand's grain production vegetable production in essence all crop production that's open fuel 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 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 grain milk beef and hogs has 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 seven when we also served a similar you know 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 here but greatly by zero point five percentage point from the level of seven percent of seven five percent this is not there very well i don't believe that this level will constrain the comic book coloring the marketplace. there's no reason for panicking and promise to keep prices 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 auntie. 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 and talking about equities we're talking about. commodity is and there is gases that russian market. did really well this week and you know addition to the support of god for all mention national markets from the performance over in international equity markets it also got a strong dose of support for hamas strong commodity prices were sold 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 energy companies will be forced to explore hard to reach fields and the extreme surroundings deep water and arctic conditions. for you know we are entering a new we were. just. not enough to recognize them as anybody risks a very high as it was at all these mexican shows because. of 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 sheltered spot ration 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 called boy as a result of what's happened in the gulf and hopefully that seed 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. 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.

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it is the ally here in moscow you're with auntie let's get your headlines now and russian inferno twenty eight people have been killed and thousands left homeless sounds far as far as rage on in a record breaking heat wife. chinese authorities struggle to retrieve thousands of barrels of dangerous chemical waste from supplies fresh water. nazi defense. protesters from entering. the baltic country. well now join us for a journey back in time as we unlock the secrets. along russia's historical golden ring. to discuss its glittering white stone cathedrals which are on the unesco

world heritage list enjoy. the capitol. hill lies the soul. and. as its one of the closest. it's a popular day trip enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of tourists every year. people in. the city was founded. and that's where the city gets its name.