time flames leaping from building to building incinerating eighty houses and making two hundred people 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 a. police told us to leave they knew it was dangerous to stay here it was only thanks to them where i live and within god it wasn't because then there would have been much more victims. one elderly man desperately trying to leave his burning house struck by. the electric shock. friends and neighbors have around 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 of the last moment she ran out in her gown and slippers she's left without her identification and any of her documents.

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 was being lost but they are help is coming from many. who have come here to one of the temporary refuge centers where people have been coming up in their hundreds bringing. and offering help to those who lost everything in the fire with so many people and. the government has promised immediate help and that new houses will be built. in the meantime villages like. reeling from. left trying to pick up the pieces. in the fire service have really struggled with this to put them out prime minister speaking about the help. one hundred thousand dollars for every family that has

lost their lives we can hear more from him now she just knew what 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 all 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 and. sara further following the devastation caused by forest fires to central russia. and to the country's far east and thousands of barrels containing highly toxic chemicals swept into a river in china by floods could be carried into russia within days the chinese authorities are desperately trying to intercept the poisonous containers and are paying locals ever war for every container they retrieve is going off explains not what could happen if they every trash. river is one of the biggest sources of fresh

water in washes for east and in the city as well water standing now and. is still under up with threats because china is just several dozen kilometers away from here and so is this sunflower river which joins the army where the place where this emergency happened 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 that 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 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 this time the authorities on both sides are monitoring the situation of 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 of course we'll be monitoring the situation and we will report on this story as it continues to develop this is also a on tonight later in the program they close on t.v. this is the time boris can make

a region of russia where they shot the statue has become a journalist a contemporary count on sectarian cover tunes. a stadium veterans who fought on the nazi side against the soviet union have been gathering to hold a commemoration in the country but the authorities have barred and infractions the graves from staging that own demonstration aussie's counter now reports. not says i'm one of the most feared movements the world has a countered yet there are those who glorify it today. on the board. that 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 the estonian waffen s.s. were created by german forces in one thousand nine hundred four and sent to battle the anti hitler coalition forces thousands of civilians died at the hands of those

soldiers get their glorified as the true heroes of a stone. rallies like these take place every year with full support from the government people turn up in full regalia wearing nazi symbols and selling german war souvenirs a bitter pill for those who are trying to stop not 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. you know i'm not going myself because a stunning or thirty's 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 estonian our crew witnessed all these tricks

the empty fascist organizations however say 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 clothes 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. the wiki leaks website exposé of more than seventy five thousand classified u.s. documents on the afghanistan war has a rage the white house while suggesting a cover up in the deaths of hundreds of afghan civilians who spoke to juba in a song is the mom who started the controversial whistle blowing project four years ago. the taliban is part of the will of the uk and people and. the united states and other forces need to recognize any understand that that is part

of the afghan people and if you're shooting taliban you are shooting the afghan people. so stay tuned to save the rest of that interview with the wiki leaks founder julian assange right here on c. over seventy people have been detained and later released after trying to hold a bond opposition rally in central moscow the demonstration of moscow had been banned as a motorist pull display had awaited been approved for this site at troon fire in the square those sources said protesters had been given the option of four other locations around three hundred reporters were event over the estimated two hundred demonstrators opposition groups have said so to a rally at the square on the last day of each month since one day's debate it's symbolic reference to the russian constitution says the first article guaranteeing the right to peaceful assembly and they were also rests at an opposition

demonstrators in st petersburg all the other protests in ten different regions posted without incident. now 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 one million people have been affected by the mold suing grains with some four hundred thousand stranded in remote villages and flooded roads and damaged bridges have humbled rescue efforts the state of emergency has been declared with torrential rain is expected to continue. police have fired on hundreds of protesters in indian administered kashmir killing two and injuring five the demonstrators trying to set police commonsense fire and throw stones at officers from other accidents were shot dead during protests against indian rule on friday over the last six weeks twenty three have been killed by government forces muslim separatists in kashmir have been

fighting for an independent state automotive with pakistan for more than twenty years. charles a clinton the only child of former us president bill and secretary of state hillary has married her longtime boyfriend investment banker marc was in skating the couple tied the knot at a ceremony costing around three million dollars an exclusive state estate in new york shrouded in secrecy and tight security over four hundred were invited to the top society event including child show host oprah winfrey and film director steven spielberg and local residents were given a free bottle for the inconvenience of the security. and banning russia and its wealth of culture and dramatic sights is the job of our close up team as they travel across the biggest country in the world and today they are in the kind of region.

so boris lies just eight economies away from moscow famous for its age and treasures the town with a population of nearly ten thousand people is buried in the heart of the age old forests in central russia as you can see in the grandchildren now reports is the site over the usual fusion of religious architecture and city wide modern knowledge . where else so close to moscow would you hear church bells ringing so often every fifteen minutes and 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 thanks to the all protect who started to build the town in the early fourteenth saying more of comprises of several unique churches like the christian old believe us church also legendary is about the monastery adds to

the tiles must see least but more of is not only about traditional all good texture and golden dome scent crosses it's houses 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 adult. tired construction engineer has turned a whole town into a giant canvas. reckoned his native born collect for culture and splashed images of churches historical figures and still life on its walls in all one hundred new roles for disk 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 great is art of all time but still this is art the tell is near 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. they're worth three paintings on this one is left to others will whitewashed under the pretext of this house being repaired the man has already destroyed ten of my works the biggest mural decorated a local bakery now that it's been whitewashed some locals haven't claimed the bread tastes wars well side is too holy for up to make up his brush including one thought was that the mayor's office this painting for example depicts historical figures space travel theorize

a constantin ski while based near all right opposite the mayor's window is typical soviet satire well done cucumber the sets. 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 or go to the 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 turned to religion at the time of year is truly can russia images of abandoned churches sent 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 school with his meals to talk more about why the provincial town of bor of scares 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 around all these welcome you tell me about the town of bor 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 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 the old pals of them have been remarkably well for free for some call this sort of of note of more history would concede from here for the town of bor do you agree i

certainly do in terms of its history its architecture its spiritual heritage it has seventeenth century fresco. the main cathedral is a late sixteenth century it's a monastery of many dramatic historic events in fact in a monastery one of the main figures by jadine models of i was incarcerated and ultimately died there then later of course its role in. the repel and various invasions in our paul aeonic invasion and the second world war the so that it's always been very much a part of the history of russia's art like the first time he visited bored of it was about twenty years ago wasn't it how has the tone changed since then i think it's to change to 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 but that little side of your west we don't brownfield expert in russian architecture and history from the town of bor of sc in the color good region. we can leagues the whistle blowing web site has had its biggest scoop yet publishing overnight in two thousand secret u.s. documents on the afghan war some of which suggest that the deaths of hundreds of civilians have been covered up the white house's fear is claiming the leaks threaten its national security lore and it might help with the follow the website that's up next here on out.

i'm here in london talking to julian assaults the founder of the whistle blowing website wiki leaks which this week released a huge still say of documents relating to the afghan war which mr assaults describes as detailing the every day squalor war jew in the sauce thank 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 ninety two thousand reports and almost every instant serious incident the three i was in called me together 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 for the primary resource to be used for further investigations and we also know from those sorts of cases that we've dealt with previously that we always get pushed back whenever we reveal abuse by some of what i was asian we always get that organization or its friends pushing back to try and steve the message away from the allegations that have been raised and one of the main criticisms has been leveled at you is that you have public. 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 to mostly be a media beat up i mean where we're looking at the issue seriously to see whether that is true we did hold back keep doing 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're very concerned to make sure innocents are protected so we're very happy to receive any evidence of 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 in the public domain once again that is an allegation by the london times and that a publication was in a oppositional relationship to the guardian of the paper that we collaborated with the printed fourteen pages on monday elation to this issue the times of london printed zero pages in relation to this issue on monday so they are now in an adversary relationship because they weren't invited to the party that washington says that these document. outdate says is there any truth to that claim well it depends what you're talking about if you're talking about how the war has progressed of course they're not about 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 jordan to some degree it means that you need to know it's not all tactical. significance it's

interesting talk about troops who are about just about to do something which means it is over essentially no threat to. u.s. military forces but is deeply important for understanding the purpose of the war now that the white house said that while the material only goes up to december a new say but 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 shouldn't the war change so dramatically just because it's really one of the policy changes being put in place the white house's rhetorical trick was to. say suggests that there was in fact no overlap between obama's policy and this material in fact obama's policy came in to send a first 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 drill continue so i predict it will be a continuation of the civil war and we're going to be once forces of it is doubly some kind of equilibrium that we will see an increase towards peace i'm sure stands to gain from the release of all this information well 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 saying that soldiers are to be killed in this war and those people also have the rights to understand what is actually happening i tell you 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 that the taliban are all part of the will of the afghan people they're also part of the will perhaps of the i saw. the pakistani secret intelligence service but of course perhaps they're part of the will of saudi arabia who is keeping 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 same understand that that is part of the afghan people and if you're shooting taliban you are shooting the afghan people this material doesn't paint the behavior of any military group in a nice light there's blood on the whole sides judy thank you very much.

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this is all see coming to life for most have a quick check of the headlines at home foster. smoldering somebody raging forest fires claims at least twenty eight lives and leaves thousands of people homeless as central russia sulfas its worst midway in a hundred years and. talks to count on water supplies and russia's phone rings are on the stretch as chinese authorities struggle to stop some thousands of chemical waste barrels lost in a flooded river from a chamber. that hysteria so much has gone out you know as a protest as possible out of seoul the soldiers who assaulted with analysis to gather folk in the race from the country. this is how the headlines like they sound join us next for a golden journey was most an interest ask airlocks the secrets of the ancient towns and on russia's historical golden reign.

hello our welcome to blood in your own closet a couple of ancient rules realize the source of russia it's always there and it's hard i was as it's one of the closest golden ring cities to moscow it's a popular day trip enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of tourists every year. people have lived in this area of russia for over twenty five thousand years the city was founded in eleven o eight by order of blood to be a match for the city gets its name on the new research just as she is even older back to the tenth century regardless of which founding date is the most accurate she's mrs stone.