run this is that there is the witness their own homes being burned but it happened very very quickly it was a very aggressive fire that spread rapidly through the houses and there was nothing these people could really do but stand and watch as their homes were completely destroyed and now we know for a thousand homes have been have been ruined by these five leaving even three thousand people homeless in the city they start to rescue stand thirst and huge amounts of people have been turning up bringing plates in offering that help i just to do anything really to help these people who have lost their homes that we didn't have prime minister prime minister putin thinking about the help you fight as he's pledged one hundred thousand dollars to every family that has lost but we can hear more from him now. families affected by the wildfires will receive compensation. which will be built before the end of this year not everything has been done to fight the fire but it's not the right place blame. we need to

consolidate. the disaster the situation remains extremely difficult. in the most affected areas in central russia have nearly stabilized it still remains intense unfortunately there is no of the temperatures going you. know we've seen the dumbest cause for this over the past couple of days the smoke just the really hanging very thick in the air not sure how much you can see the forest behind me but the first attention's completely dried obviously that was the perfect situation so unfortunately for them to be susceptible to these fires that we state and people are really still in shock at what top and how much damage this has been able to do over the past couple of days. we need to do is very strong like a hurricane came from the forest and spread with devastating speed trying to stop

it but it was catastrophic we couldn't do. it first we try to. but it was impossible so we still see to move things everything you could you please. it's not scary no scary is when you see the fire it's was hard to get over. a moment ago we did hear the prime minister saying before the mean time but he does expect it to be but what a forecaster saying about the long term weather conditions. well it's hoped that this heat wave will come to an end soon but. for the immediate future certainly the hot temperatures. continue as we said the perfect temperature is. higher education extremely dry and more record breaking temperatures possibly on the way not as we said emergency services are really struggling to keep the situation under control and obviously avoid seeing the situations like we've seen in the past couple of

days now we know that the russian forces have been mobilized to help them out with this situation even in the past couple of hours we put the fire engines going post and seeing helicopters taking water to the areas of course that are still snaking uncertainty taught by the force ever on that you can see a lot of the areas they're all still patches of smoke going on but the concern now is really to deal with these fires specially the ones that are near the residential areas or industrial areas because the of course where a huge amount of damage could be because already we've heard is running into millions and millions of dollars worth of damage and i believe very anxious to contain the situation all right also you sir for the boarding from central russia. well i witnesses have been sharing their experiences of the deadly wildfires on the internet some have been uploading their very own videos of the trauma was the word if you mean this there was really slow or slow or stop it. i mean you

know. get out of the car. if you don't know the way we're in full on this one was. you know one of the region that's about four hundred kilometers from moscow a group of men were trying to escape from a burning village using the only paved the road or tell themselves by well so flames they had to turn back when the car almost called by one of the men later the drive was. just right. while 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 within days you could have just gone off explains the potential danger. to river is one of the biggest sources of fresh water in russia's far east and in the city as well water 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 the sun for river which joins the army where the place where this emergency happened to the chinese authorities do say that they've managed to extract several barrels which have been previously washed into the river as a result of the biggest flood in a decade 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 threats for the ecology and also obviously makes it much more difficult to extract them to the surface this is not the first time that china has it's experienced such problems back in two thousand and five a huge chemical spill has left millions of chinese without the supplies of fresh water this time the authorities on both science are monitoring the situation and the emergencies ministry here is already monitoring the quality of the water so far they haven't reported any abnormal. but they do see that they are already planning ways to distribute fresh water to the local population in case the contamination does happen of course we'll be monitoring the situation and we will report on this story as it continues to develop. that you've got a piece going off there reporting from very close to the russia china border and a little bit later on in the program here on our close up team visits the town of boats in the kaluga region of russia it's where traditional architecture has become

a canvas for contemporary art and satirical cartoons. veterans who sided with the nazis during world war two against the soviet song gathering in the north east of the baltic states it has sparked outrage over why the country's authorities are welcoming such fascist sympathizers and some of those who wanted to oppose the meeting have been barred from entering. investigates. during the years of the second world war nazi forces established twenty labor and concentration camps here in the stony and this is the site for one of the violet a concentration camps where thousands of jews were executed between the years of one nine hundred forty one and one nine hundred forty five today members of a stone in latvia and lithuania anti fascist organizations laid flowers lit candles and paid their respects to all of the victims of the nazi killing machine but they are a minority here in the baltic states specifically in a stoney a just

a few meters away up the road outside of a huge rally is going on. by abuse to a new government. turn out with a lot that is new to report and media coverage about them but they are not anti fascist organizations good later neo nazi organizations with members venturing all over the twenty one r s s early unit that was established by the german forces here in a story of those people fought against the coalition forces during the second world war killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people but they are in a store near their heralded as heroes they all wear the usual german every ghalia they sell things at their rallies which commemorate the german troops your german before says with a turnout with everyone. eagerly wrapping up all of the information that is being pushed towards the entry fascists organizations here in the stone you however

receive a very different kind of treatment by the fact they are allowed to organize rallies here in a stone yes everything is being done to prevent them from reaching that destinations to prevent people who live outside a stone to enter the country they're being detained they're being blacklisted they're being turned away at borders which technically don't even exist because it's a stony and all the baltic states are members of the european union and here even when the rally. do take place every single thing is done to put anti fascist organizations under a tremendous amount of pressure members of the secret police and the stony and secret police constantly patrol them they have requests coming in from the police saying not parent leave their volume of their rallies and their speeches needs to be turned down because it into rights the meo nazi rally that is taking place just a few hundred meters up the road very ironic but a very bittersweet experience of course for all of them many of the speakers at

this anti fascist rally were in tears as they remembered their relatives who were butchered by the stoney and s.s. forces by the nazi forces during the years of the second world war some could not even finish their thoughts as they tried to speak and bring up the memories of their loved ones. reporting that now u.s. forces in afghanistan have just experienced the deadliest month since the invasion started in two thousand and one and locals are now rising against the presence of foreign forces an american veteran told us here at aunty that the troop surge is adding to unseen merican 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 four sets foot in that country anti-american sentiment grows because there is there in the pit the population does not feel safe they do not feel

protected like the counterinsurgency campaign assumes 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 but 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 and 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 that the pentagon is just trying to divert attention from the thousands of lives already lost military analyst yeah when he 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 to kill 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 would turn out there was no repercussions from taliban all of their associates and that second most notorious u.s. soldier buried in a van a stand 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 i mean and would begin to hit much for this mujahideen troika they know for sure for almost ninety years that whole crowd is like brothers for forty years 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 rate 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. it's quarter past the hour now here in the russian capital let's take a look at some other stories making headlines all around the world the death toll from the worst floods in pakistan for eight decades has now reached eight hundred one million people being affected by the triggered by one cigarette with some four

hundred thousand stranded in remote villages deluged roads bridges have comforted rescue efforts a state of emergency has been declared with torrential rains expected to continue over the weekend. a five point three magnitude earthquake has hit southern iran a day after another quake in the country's northeast which left about one hundred seventy people injured in friday's earthquake houses were damaged and communication networks were disrupted iran is located on the seismic fault lines and is prone to earthquakes experiencing at least one slight tremor a day on average. well up next we bring you closer to russia's lesser known areas this time the cougar region. now the town of a boat off school lives just a few kilometers from moscow and has existed since the thirteenth century

picturesque town has many hillside churches however it's not all about traditional religious architecture its houses have become a kind of first for contemporary art because the democrats were discovered. where else so close to moscow would you hear church bells ringing so often every fifteen minutes and it's a dozen churches similar tenuously this medieval chime can be heard in the provincial town of more of school located just eighty kilometers away from mosco and it's the closest cause of the kaluga region to the capital it takes so while defenders hill top position thanks to the all good texts who started to build the town in the early fourteenth saying more of comprises several unique churches like the christian old believe us church also the legendary. monastery adds to the towers must see least but more of it is not only about traditional texture and

golden dome scent crosses it's houses are a can of us for contemporary art to self-taught artist but cheney is recording the history of his hometown through his paintings but his. here sirs comes that applies . the charm of a russian provence to which nothing it seems could be added at all or could it. be retired construction engineer has turned a whole town into a giant canvas and that the mayor of tunica reckoned his native born collect for culture and splashed images of churches historical figures and still live on its walls in all one hundred new roles and orders ninety five percent of people in our town don't visit on galleries and museums are talk and thus they can take in the

outdoor exhibition perhaps is not the great is art of all time but still this is art the town's mayor like to cheney gives 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. with there were three paintings on this one is left to others will white washed under the pretext of this house being repaired the mayor has already destroyed ten of my works the biggest miro 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 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 says. the

mayor didn't appreciate the humor of tunic of was find several times and even faced court charges a local newspaper criticized him as a moral. especially after you've 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 to go to their words we say i can painting is the bible in 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 were raised without knowing their roots. monk maxime turn to religion at the time of year is truly can russia images of abandoned church isn't 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 squid he's only rose to talk with 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 me sort of always welcome you tell me about the town of bor of hell to de place for you why is that what is so special about this town i think part of it is the landscape of 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 heritage here of the old pals of. the remarkably well for free for some call this set up of more history will 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 the late sixteenth century it's a monastery of many dramatic historic events in fact in a monastery one of the main figures models. 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 bore of it was about twenty years ago wasn't it how has the tone changed since that i think it's are changed remarkably and for the better they haven't destroyed what was left from the past often the problem of 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 for that little side you're with us we don't brownfield expert in russian architecture and history from the town of

four of sc in a colored girl region. on the business is next with stephanie. hello welcome to the business but it entails on ati russia has declared a state of emergency in four more regions hit by the west in a century farm is in twenty seven regions are estimating about losses a market watch has warned of new price hikes that tell you how kind of reports. cracking soil and plants such a cloak you'll have to pictures can be seen in many russian regions the heat has burnt out more than ten million hectares of green fields we may fall by quarter this year like many other films hundred and counting his losses amounting so far to fifty percent of his from zealots grain production vegetable production in essence all crop production that's open field crop production and primarily the dairy industry we're losing

a significant volume of milk because of the heat but as soon as the heat is over 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 drownd 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 dot 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. inflation so personal i just upgraded the inflation forecast for this year but they are great and by zero point five percentage points from the level of seven percent off so five percent this is not a very big chart and i don't believe that this level will constrain the comic

recovery marketplace there's no reason for panicking and promise to keep prices at acceptable levels so the government doesn't have to intervene 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 fool 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 only talking about

equities we're talking about. commodity is and there is gases russian market. did really well this weekend you know addition to the support of god from international markets from the performance over international equity markets it also got a strong dose of support from austrian commodity prices we saw world 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 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 extreme surroundings deep water and arctic conditions to show you what you know we are entering a new we were. just. not enough records to miss any more the risks are very high as it was a gulf of mexico shows the risks of. 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 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 globally as a result of what's happened in the gulf hopefully that sea will reach the shores of

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six thirty pm here in moscow you're watching your headlines now. twenty eight people have been killed. breaking heat. toxic fishing chinese authorities struggle to retrieve thousands of barrels of dangerous chemical waste from a river the supplies fresh water to southern russia. nazi defense. protesters from. sex nazi soldiers all commemorated in the baltic countries. well now join us for a journey back in time as we unlock the secrets of the ancient. historical golden ring. in the town of blood to discover. the jewels which are on the world heritage list enjoy.

hello are welcome to bloody hear. the capital of the ancient rules allies the souls of russia it's always there and it's cause 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 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 from the city gets its name of a new research suggests the city is even older dating back to the tenth century regardless of which.