flames leaping from building to building incinerating eighty houses and making two hundred people homeless all within the space of a couple of hours. i never thought fire could spread that fast but the wind was very strong it was like. police told us to leave the new dangers to stay here it was only thanks to them where i live and who think that it wasn't at night because then there would have been much more victims. one elderly man desperately trying to leave his burning house got struck by falling why is the electric shock. friends and neighbors have been rallying round and there were many tales of courage. if i didn't come back on time my neighbor would have been burnt alive because she didn't see the fire approaching from both sides she could have been trapped in the middle at the last moment she ran out in her gown and slippers she's left without her identification and any of her documents the devastation wasn't just restricted to property. i buried my rottweiler he was near the

house when it caught fire. and didn't want anyone approaching him. he was burned a large it was a good dog people are now coming to terms with how everything that has been lost but they are help is coming from many courses. who have come here to one of the temporary refuge centers where people have been coming up in their hundreds bringing in clothes and offering help to those who lost everything in the fire with so many people left homeless the government has promised immediate help and that new houses will be built by wind in the meantime villages like. reeling from fire damage left trying to pick up the pieces. but the majesty services but services have really struggled with this to put them out prime minister thinking about how he's fighting hunger. thousand dollars that every family has lost and we can hear

more funding now it's just. not everything has been done to fight the fires but it's not the right time to place blame so now we need to consolidate forces to fight the disaster. already we've heard it's running into millions and millions of dollars worth of damage and everyone just very anxious to contain the situation. here with our see and a little later in the program because up to the town of course going to kalugin region of russia where traditional architecture has become a cameras for contemporary art and it's a terrible contemporary art and satirical cartoon. is turning veterans who fought on the nasa side again is the soviet union has been gathering to hold a collaboration in the country but the authorities have barred anti fascist groups from staging their own demonstration ati's countering our own now reports.

one of the most feared movements the world has a countered yet there are those who glorify it today. there were two liberation wars in the world one began in one nine hundred fourteen the other nine hundred thirty nine soon there will be a third war and it will start here gaining momentum and giving the world true freedom. historian waffen s.s. were created by german forces in one nine hundred forty four and sent to battle the anti hitler coalition forces thousands of civilians died at the hands of those soldiers at their glorified as the true heroes of a store near. rallies like these take place every year with full support from the government people turned up in full regalia wearing nazi symbols and selling german war souvenirs a bitter pill for those who are trying to stop cism in the baltics from rearing its ugly head they to hold rallies but few managed to take part as the authorities in

a stone you did everything in their power to stop them your son. i'm not going myself because a stunning north already is in two thousand and seven put the latvian anti fascist committee on the blacklist we all received explanatory notes my note contained a hardly credible statement that the latvian anti fascist committee posted a threat to a stunning statehood and civil order. blacklists with no explanations sudden inability to speak anything but a stony and our crew witnessed all these tricks they enter fascist organizations however saying nothing will stop them from calling the world's attention to this because the pain is too raw even sixty five years on so if. i do some of these kloofs for a second time and came up to the barbed wire and all of a sudden i imagined that excuse me please.

this standoff between welcomed neo nazis and unwelcome anti fascists is almost absurd authorities go as far as to ask the anti nazi activists to turn down their microphones as the sound interferes with the s.s. veterans rally. and as they lay flowers and light candles at the graves of soviet soldiers and histo new labor camp victims they can but wonder how can the rest of the world tolerate such a glorification of naziism the entire world mourns the victims of the nazi killing machine here in a stony however those who participated in the murders are viewed as heroes and are given more glory the many believe they ever deserve the anti fascist movements here in the baltic states however do say that they will put in every effort to prevent this attempt to rewrite history as much for the future generations as for the memories of those who lost their lives in the second world war castro's r r t a

stone. where we could leaks website exposé of more than seventy five thousand classified u.s. documents on the afghanistan war hasn't raged the white house while suggesting a cover up in the deaths of hundreds of afghan civilians and also you spoke to a song of the month very start of the controversial whistle blowing project four years ago. the taliban is part of the rule of the uk and people and. the united states and other forces need to recognize i mean understand that that is part of the afghan people and if you're shooting taliban you are shooting people. it's a shame to say the rest of that interview with we could leaks founder julian assange right here on our city. over seventy people have been detained and later released after trying to hold

a bond rally in central moscow the rally in moscow have been found as a motor sport display had already been approved for the site of triumph fire in a square which is set protesters have been given the option of four other locations around three hundred reporters weren't home to cover the event more than the estimated two hundred demonstrators opposition groups have sought to rally at the square on the last day of each month with just one a day symbolically in reference to the russian constitution's thirty first article which guarantees the right to peace was soundly also at an opposition rally i think peter spoke of all the protests in ten different regions past without incident. and here is a snapshot of other stories making headlines right now around the world the death toll from the worst floods in pakistan for a decade has reached eight hundred the united nations says of one million people have been affected by the monsoon rains with some four hundred thousand stranded in remote villages flooded roads and damaged bridges one hundred rescue efforts

a state of emergency has been declared with torrential rain is expected to continue . please have fired on hundreds of protesters in indian administered kashmir killing two and injuring five demonstrators tried to set police come to the fire and threw stones at officers for other activists were shot dead during protests against indian rule on friday and over the last six weeks twenty three have been killed by government forces muslim separatists in kashmir have been fighting for an independent state or to marriage with pakistan for more than twenty years. iran has been shaken by its second earthquake in twenty four hours the first quake in the country's north east injured over two hundred people while the second damage scores of homes iran is located on seismic fault lines and is prone to earthquakes it expects an experience as tremors almost daily. now unveiling

russia and its wealth of culture on dramatic sides is the joy of our close up team as they travel across the biggest country in the world and today they are in the can lugar region. so he'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 is houses have become a canvas for contemporary all it as you could see in a gretsch over discovered. where else so close to moscow would you hear church bells ringing so often every fifteen minutes at a dozen churches similar tiniest. this beautiful chime can be heard in the provincial town of bor of school located just eighty kilometers away from moscow and it's the closest cause of the kaluga region to the capital it takes so while

defenders hilltop position banks to the all protect who started to build the town in the early fourteenth saying morris comprises of several unique churches like the christian old believe us church also the legend raised about the monastery adds to the tiles most the least but more of it is not only about traditional all good texture and golden dome scent crosses it's hols those are kind of us for contemporary art to self-taught artist cheney is recording the history of his hometown through his paintings but his art he says comes that applies. to russian provence to which nothing it seems could be added it couldn't. be returned 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 roles. ninety five percent of people in our town don't visit on galleries and museums to talk and thus they can take in the outdoor exhibition perhaps is not the greatest 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. 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 nero decorated a local bakery now that it's been whitewashed some locals haven't claimed the bread

tastes wars well side is too holy for a chain it covers brush including walls opposite 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 jeanie could was fined several times and even faced court charges a local newspaper criticized him as a moral especially after he painted a controversial image of a religious martyr in a town where every second citizen is a regular churchgoer but surprisingly the biggest local ministry doesn't think the artist touched a raw nerve. 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 monk seemed turned to religion at the time a curious truly can russia images of abandoned churches sent 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 border of squid his meals 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 all the texture professor william brumfield hello and thank you very much for joining me so you're welcome you tell me about the town of war of helga deeply 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 the old houses and churches have been remarkably well preserved some call this sort of of note of more history would concede from here the pearl of 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. main cathedral is a late sixteenth century it's a monastery of many dramatic historic of them in fact in the monastery one of the main figures models that 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 one of it was about twenty years ago wasn't it how has the tone changed since then i think it's

changed 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 but that all sides of your west we don't brownfield expert in russian architecture and history from the town of four of sc in a colored girl region. and take a journey back in time has one of the secrets of the ancient towns along russia's historical golden ring later in the program when john martin entries over the idea of it to discover its great training whites turn cathedrals we shall in the us co world heritage list. the magnificent gold and white something cathedral was built in eleven fifty seven it was the principal place where the princes of ancient russia were crowned and as a sign of political i'm going to just power it can be seen from kilometers away.

so that it is in ten minutes time but far as we can leagues they whistle blowing web site has had its biggest escapee had pup. wishing overnight a thousand secret u.s. documents to be here at the white house some suggest a cover up of hundreds of civilian deaths the white house claims the leaks threaten national security lore and that match up with the fall and all the website that's next here nazi.

i'm here in london talking to julian assaults the founder of the whistle blowing website wiki leaks which this week released a huge dose a of documents relating to the afghan war which mr s. solves describes as detailing the every day squalor of war judy and that's also like you very much for talking to r t now you've had a wide range of responses to this publication ranging from praise right down to criticism is that what you were expecting you know we knew this was serious material it covers a six year period of war and ninety two thousand reports and almost every incident

serious incident three i wasn't able to give them with the times and locations number of people killed except for. so we knew that it's a. great thing for france as a historical document and as little primary resource to be used for further investigations and we also know from those sorts of cases that we've dealt with previously but we always get pushed back i were never we repealed abuse by some of what i was asian we always get that organization or its friends pushing back to try and steer the message away from the allegations that have been raised and one of the main criticisms has been leveled at you is that you. you have published the villages the names and in some cases the g.p.s. coordinates of people afghans who cooperated with the u.s. military and even come under some criticism from human rights organizations for that and a u.s. official has called it

a potential hit list for the taliban what's your response to that you know this appears the mostly be media beat up i mean where we're looking at the issue seriously to see whether that is true we did hold back pete dean thousand reports for for the through the review because they had this sort of classification that suggested maybe they contain that sort of material we approached the white house to ask them for assistance in reviewing material before we published the white house did not accept that request at this stage we're looking at this is mostly a media beat up of course we are very concerned to make sure innocents are protected so we're very happy to receive any evidence or which report is possibly revealing information about someone who is who is innocent there's also been a suggestion that the release of this information will make it harder for allied forces to get afghans this is to cooperate with them while what we reveal and that's what we've been doing for the path for us is the truth about how when i was

asians actually behave you know if afghans don't like how those organizations actually behave then of course it is their right to engage with them or not engage with them it's not so much that there is it i think is the potential danger that they might be in now that such a huge body of information is in the public domain once again that is an allegation by the london times and that a publication who was in a oppositional relationship to the guardian paper that we collaborated with the printed fourteen pages on monday elation to these issues the times of london printed zero pages in relation to this issue on monday so they are in now in an adversarial relationship because they weren't invited to the party. washington says that these documents are outdated says is there any truth to that claim well it depends on what you're talking about if you're talking about how the war has progressed of course they know that the war has been going since two thousand and one that's nine years this material covers the last six years with the exception of

the last seven months now the exception is in accordance to some degree it means that you need to know it is not all tactical. significance it's interesting talk about troops who are about just about to do something which means it is all essentially no threat to. u.s. military forces but is deeply important for understanding the purpose of the war now that the white house say that while the material only goes up to december rain december we released obama's new policy on the war but obama's new policy on the war was in fact a continuation the previous policy except more troops so why should the war change so dramatically just because it's really mine a policy change is being put in place the white house's rhetorical trick was to. say it suggests that there was in fact no overlap between obama's policy and this

material in fact obama's policy came into said prefer sed and this material carries through in fact to the end of the year you've said that the under reporting of civilian casualties starts at the bottom with the sort of cullman soldiery and that really no policy change at the top is going to filter down into that what do you think could make a difference it's extremely hard situation the answer is not. for all western forces will i suffer members to. going to mars. because that would lead to a power vacuum and so on but i mean the answer is probably a staged withdrawal. making agreements between the taliban and the afghan government as that stage is drawing continue so i predict it will be a continuation of the civil war and what he wants forces of stepney some kind of equilibrium that we will see an increase towards peace and has done is to gain from

the release of all this information where the afghan people i mean that is their country and this is the history of their country and if they are to effectively manage and control their own destiny they need this information to understand what is happening to their country but we can also say you know it's people united states. and u.k. strayer and others in the coalition who are actually paying for all this war and he was sending its soldiers to be killed in this war and those people also have the rights to understand what is actually happening but probably not but it is all those military companies. who are making extraordinary profits by providing service services to troops weapons or.

clothing and so on but isn't the taliban the afghan insurgency likely to gain from this as well because you have inadvertently maybe exposed the weaknesses of the allied forces we have to be careful but remember this is a civil war. everyone says taliban but in fact the taliban are i've got it yes this is a civil war that is going on and the taliban are part of the will of the afghan people now they're also part of the will perhaps of the i.s.i. the pakistani secret intelligence service and of course perhaps they're part of the will of saudi arabia who is giving some money to this but in terms of the bodies on the ground people actually doing the work the taliban is part of the will of the afghan people and. the united states and other forces need to recognize any understanding that that is part of the afghan people and if you're shooting taliban

you were shooting the afghan people this material doesn't paint the behavior of any military group in a nice light i mean there's blood on that on all sides judy thank you very much. comes of you should. just repeat. scenes from a cinema and landed in your living room shot on special senses streaming street your stereo display to life no glasses no problem gentians three d.

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the sez she a quick check of the headlines. smoldering some a raging forest fires claim at least twenty eight lives and leaves thousands of people homeless as central russia suffers its worst way when a hundred year is. talks to count out the water supplies in russia's far east under threat as chinese authorities struggle to stop thousands of chemical ways bottles lost in the flooding from reaching russia. that is sony authorities bowl antti knows who protesters but a lot still with soldiers who fought with the know it says to gather for a come over a show in the country. this is how they have lines like this out up next join is for a golden journey with martin douras ass and locks the secrets of the ancient towns along russia's historical golden ring.

hello are welcome to blood in your own class the capital of the ancient rules here lies the soul so i'll trust it's always there and it's tossed 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 of 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 but all this.