destroy i know we know for a thousand claims have been have been ruined by these by the way they stepped up to the rescue stunt those huge amounts of people have been turning up bringing clothes did not bring the house i just to do anything with to help these people we have lost. that we didn't have a minute that prime minister putin speaking about the help his fighters he's pledged one hundred thousand dollars to every family house lost we can hear more from him now. families affected by the fires will receive compensation you knew which will be built before the end. not everything has been done just fine but it's not the right place blame. we need to consolidate. the disaster she just the situation remains. here in the most affected areas in central russia morally stabilized it still remains and. unfortunately there is no

forecast of the temperatures going you. know we've seen the damage caused by this over the past couple of days the smoke is still really hanging very thick and we're not sure how much you can see the forest behind me but the first attention is completely devoid obviously that was the perfect situation so unfortunately for them to be susceptible to this was that the state of people really still in shock at what happened and how much damage this has been able to do over the past couple of days. was 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 find it was impossible so we started to move everything we could. it's not so here you know is when you see the forest this was hard to get over.

this heat wave will come to an end soon but. for the immediate future certainly the hot temperatures. are the perfect temperatures of course these fires already we've heard this morning millions and millions of dollars worth of damage and they're doing very anxious to contain the situation. eyewitnesses have been sharing their experiences while falls on the internet and some are being uploading their own videos of the drama. because the way i do filming this is really slow or slow or stop it. the. get out of the car even if you don't have the way more and fly. well this one was shot in the region about four hundred kilometers from moscow a group of men were trying to escape from the burning village using the only paved road and found themselves trapped by walls of flames.

described just as being in health. 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. explains the potential danger. 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 threat because china is just several dozen kilometers away from here and so is the 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 in the water in the.

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 form to humans and animals and it's not clear how many of these so four extracted barrels actually contain these toxic. yes 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 the authorities on both sides are monitoring the situation 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 the contamination does happen who will be monitoring the situation and we will report on this story as it continues to develop he reporting there well coming up a little later in the program here for you see the close up team visits the. region of russia traditional architecture has become a canvas for contemporary. satirical cuttings. and estonian veterans who sided with the nazis during world war two against the soviets a gathering in the northeast of the baltic state has sparked outrage over why the country's authorities are welcoming fascist sympathizers and some of those who want to oppose the meeting have been barred from entering. found out. 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 them the violet of concentration camps where thousands of jews were executed between the years of one nine hundred forty one and one thousand nine hundred five today members of a stone in latvia and lithuania and 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 are significantly fewer what you want in a stone you are just a few meters away up the road a sort of a huge rally is going on just run away by abuse to a new government. turn out with a lot of import and media coverage about them but they are not anti fascist organizations again later neo nazi organizations with members that are not all of the twenty that are as it is certainly a unit that was established by the german forces here and it has don't you know

those people fought against the coalition forces during the second world war killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people but here and if you don't know 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. really wrapping up all of the information that is being pushed towards in the anti fascist organizations here in the stone you however receive a very different kind of treatment despite the fact they are allowed to organize rallies here in a stone yes everything is being done to prevent them from reaching the destinations to prevent people who live outside of stone you to enter the country they are being detained they are being blacklisted they are being turned away and borders which technically don't even exist because it's tony and all baltic states are members of the european union and here even. when the rallies do take place every single thing

i've done to put anti-fascist organizations under a tremendous amount of pressure members of the secret police and the stony and secret police cars constantly patrol them they have requests coming in from the police saying that apparently their volume of their rallies and their speeches needs to be turned down because it interrupts the neo 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 and many of the speakers at this anti-fascist rally were in tears as they remembered their relatives who were butchered by the a stony and for 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 u.s. forces in afghanistan have just experienced that too deadliest month since the invasion in two thousand and one and locals and the rioting against the presence of

foreign forces and american veteran told r.t. the troop surge is adding to the american feeling in the countries afghans don't feel protected basically the general sentiment of the people is that they're tired of seeing i could be occupying forces every day that u.s. and coalition forces set foot in the country anti-american sentiment grows because there is there to pick the population does not feel safe they do not feel protected like the counterinsurgency campaign assumes that it can do and the other problem with 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 up peoples then you can surely but 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 or 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 usa defense warns the leaking of classified documents

related to the war in afghanistan could lead to even more deaths among the troops who have up we could leaks which publish the material online rejects the accusations saying the pentagon is just trying to divert attention from the thousands of lives already lost well if he's going to channelise of going to crucial says the documents reveal a little that hasn't been known for years is one of the top american collaborative in afghanistan has been known for a long time about wiki 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 that second most notorious u.s. people are 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

a key a of a top drug kingpin oh across the country for the taliban i mean and would be doing his much for this mujahedeen troika they know for sure for almost ninety years the whole crowd is like brothers war for the u.s. government so if the top 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 the third grade informants somewhere in the countryside. well let's have a quick look at other stories making headlines around the world in our world updating you speak of the day the death toll from the worst floods in pakistan for eight 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 they lose roads and damaged bridge says bridges have hampered

rescue efforts a state of emergency has been declared with torrential rains expected to continue over the weekend. an earthquake has rocked itself eastern iran a day after another quake in the country's northeast left over two hundred injured there are no reports of anyone hurt in the latest earthquake but there is extensive damage iran is located on seismic fault lines and is prone to quakes experiences tremors almost daily. fate memorial service has been held in germany to remember those who died in a stampede at the love parade techno music festival a week ago chancellor angela merkel broke off from her summer holiday to attend the service in the western city of duisburg twenty one people died and five hundred were injured during the mass panic and crush at the event seven foreigners were among the dead. lorry drivers a continuous striking greece off to defy an emergency order to return to work the government has called in the army and navy to restore the cotton petrol supplies

caused by truckers action protests of turn volatile times with some clashes with police as the truckers oppose government plans to liberalize their industry is a part of the measures aimed at tackling the country's financial crisis. when our close up team travels around russia so you can see some of the country's lesser known areas and this time we take you to the kaluga region. board of lies just eighty kilometers from where we are here in 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 canvas for contemporary art has come to discover. 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 a few kilometers away from moscow and it's the closest cause of the cargo region to the capital it takes so while defenders hilltop position thanks to the architects who started to build the town in the early fourteen saying morris comprises of several unique churches like the christian old believe us church also legendary is that the monastery adds to the 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 service comes that applies.

to the charm of the russian provence to which nothing it seems could be added. and retired construction engineer has turned a whole town into a giant canvas 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 rules for ninety four percent of people in town don't visit on galleries and museums are tools and thus they can take in the outdoor exhibit houses not the great is our time but still this is art the towns near like to images and to the muralist turned into satirical commentator after the artist made a wall sized political cartoon. picturing a local governor he became who saw in a non grata. that there were three paintings on this one is left to others will

want washed under the pretext of this house being repaired the man has already destroyed ten of my works the biggest new road decorated a local bakery now that it's been whitewashed some locals haven't cleaned the bread tastes owners well site is too holy for a brush including walls opposite the mayor's office this painting for example depicts historical figures space travel. ski while this mural right opposite the mayor's window is typical soviet satire well done cucumber it 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 church goer 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 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 turn 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 with more about why the provincial town of bor of scores of 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 welcome here 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 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 been remarkably well for free for some call this bet above 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 the 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 an old white guy then later of course its role in. the repel and various invasions

in the poly on it invasion of the second world war so that it's always been very much a part of the history of russians or 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 a changed remarkably and for the better they haven't destroyed what was left from the. problem prosperity comes through the plays 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 to your west we don't brownfield expert in russian architecture and history from the town of four of sc in a colored girl region. well but with an update of the main stories in about eight minutes from now in the meantime stephanie's next with the business update stay with us from. hello welcome to the business but us today on the t.v. 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 but tell you how kind of reports. cracking soil and plants such a blow cooler 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 quarter this year like many other films hundred and is counting his losses amounting so far to fifty percent of his films eels 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 won't 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 don't clouds are gathering around the finance ministry as they contemplate their inflation forecast seven when they also observe the similar rally all their cultural markets it's true that russia received. local inflation so personal i just upgraded the inflation forecast for this year but great by zero point five percentage points from seven percent off some 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 markets as the head of research at metropole explains the overall game there were quite strong and went out on the talking about equities we're talking about the. 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 from austria in commodity prices we saw world prices moring. 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 their remaining all 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 and edgy companies will be forced to explore hard to reach fields and the extreme surroundings deep water and arctic conditions i showed you for you know we are entering a new era which well that i just told you is not enough records because any one of

the risks are very high as it was a gulf of mexico shows with. the water story robert dudley pioneered international 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 law can relate 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 change 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 a business are cheap. and that's often the business here for now but you can always

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the russian capital twenty four hours a day this is the top stories now of a russian inferno twenty eight people killed them felons left homeless as forest. at a record breaking heat wave. toxic fishing chinese authorities struggle to retrieve a barrels of dangerous chemical waste from a river that supplies fresh water to self east and russia. not to defense authorities blocked anti fascist protesters from entering the study is that nazi soldiers are commemorated in the baltic countries. join us for a journey back in time as the secrets of the ancient towns along russia's historical golden ring fought in entries in the town of the mit to discover its glittering white stone cathedrals which are on the unit weld heritage list stay with us for that.

hello are welcome to plug in your own class a couple of the ancient rules here lies the soul of russia it's always there and it's 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 and twenty five thousand years the city was founded in eleven o eight by olga allowed to be among the most for the city gets its name of a new research suggests the city is even older dating back to the tenth century regardless of which founding date is the most.