eighty houses and making two hundred people. in 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 hurricane police told us to leave they knew twas 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 got struck by falling why is 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 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 let anyone approach him. it was a good dog people are now coming to terms of 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 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. in the meantime if it is like. reeling from fire damage left trying to pick up the pieces is a magazine that's a service really struggled with just to put them out prime minister speaking about the hope. hundred thousand dollars. we can hear more from the how

she just knew what you know not everything has been done to fight the fires but it's not the right time to place blame. we need to consolidate to fight the design that was that was. already we've heard it's running its own millions and millions of dollars worth of damage and everyone just very anxious to take the situation. so far they're following the devastation caused by forest fires in central russia. and to the countries far east now where another type of environmental threat may be looming thousands of barrels with toxic chemicals from china floating towards russia after being swept into a river by floods the chinese authorities are desperately trying to intercept the poisonous containers and or even paying locals to help retrieve them is going off explains now what could happen if they reach russia. river is one of the biggest sources of freshwater in russia's far east and in the city of. 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 this a river which joins the where the place where the emergency happened to the chinese authorities do say that they've managed to extract several variables which have been previously washed into the river as a result of the biggest flood in a decade china has experienced several more thousand barrels are still in the water in the sun for river and or en route towards the end towards russia china has built eight barriers 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 of threat for the ecology and also obviously makes it much more difficult to extract them to the surface this is not the first time that china has experienced such problems back in two thousand and five a huge chemical spill has left millions of chinese without the supplies of fresh water and the authorities on both sides are monitoring the situation at the emergencies ministry here is already monitoring the quality of the water so far they haven't reported any abnormalities but they do see that there are already planning ways to distribute fresh water to the local population in case of contamination does happen of course we'll be monitoring the situation and we will report on this story as it continues to develop. you're watching our little later in the program they close on t.v. make it tough for us because they can do good region of the show what traditional

potential has become a conduit for contemporary art satirical. hysteria veterans who fought with the nose against soviet forces in world war two have been holding commemorations but they also have banned anti-fascist groups from holding their own about cancer are reports now on how the legacy of not says was remembered in the baltic state. naziism one of the most feared movements the world has a countered yet there are those who glorify it today. on the border. that there were two liberation wars in the world one began in one nine hundred fourteen the other in one 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 nine hundred forty 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 year 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 naziism 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 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

a stony and our crew witnessed all these tricks they enter 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. thank. 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. they wiki leaks website exposé of more than seventy five thousand classified u.s. documents on that gun a stone wall has enraged the white house while suggesting a cover up in the deaths of hundreds of civilians and das he spoke to julian assange the man who start of the controversial whistle blowing project four years ago. the telegram is part of the will of the people and. well the united states and other forces need to recognize and understand that part of the

people if you're shooting television you were shooting people. and stay tuned to see the rest of that interview with we could leaks founder julian assange right here in our city over seventy people have been detained on laser released after trying to hold a bond oppositional violent central moscow the demonstration moscow had been bond as a motorist full display had already been approved for this site a true sign in a square also which has side protesters have been given the option of four other locations around three hundred reporters were i'd be bound to call them the estimated two hundred demonstrators opposition groups had sought to rally at the square on the last day of each month with thirty one days while they data is a symbolic reference to the russian constitution's thirty first article guaranteeing the right to peaceful assembly and there were also arrests at an

opposition demonstration in st petersburg although other protests in ten different regions passed without incident. and here is a snapshot of other stories making headlines right now around the world the dash 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 most seeing rains with some four hundred thousand stranded in remote villages flooded roads and damaged bridges have humbugged rescue efforts a state of emergency has been declared with torrential rains expected to continue. in germany thousands have gathered to remember twenty one people who died in a stampede at the love great music festival a week ago out chancellor angela merkel broke off her summer holiday to attend a church service in the western city of. more than five hundred were injured during the mass panic crash at one of the viewers of europe's largest musical about. it's the best of all would never be held again due to the tragedy. chelsea clinton the

only child of former us president bill and secretary of state hillary has married her longtime boyfriend investment banker marc mezvinsky the couple tied the knot at a ceremony costing around three million dollars in exclusive a stage in new york rather than 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 local residents were given a free bottle for the inconvenience of the security of the ration. unvarying russia and its wells of culture and dramatic sights as the job of our close up team as they travel across the biggest country in the world and today they are in the can do good region.

so boring lies just eighty kilometers away from moscow the same is for its engine chargers the time with a population of nearly ten thousand people is buried in the heart of age old forests in central russia and as you can see reports is the site of an unusual fusion of religious architecture and citywide modern art. 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 eighty kilometers away from moscow and it's the closest cause of the kaluga region to the capital it takes a while defenders hilltop position thanks to the architects who started to build the town in the early fourteen saying morris comprises of several unique churches like the christian old believe us church also the legendary. monastery adds to the

tiles must see list but more of it is not only about traditional architecture and golden dome sent crosses it's 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 his sirs comes that applies. to russian provence to which nothing it seems could be added at. every turn and construction engineer has turned a whole town into a giant canvas of rock and his native born us collect food culture and splashed images of churches historical figures and still life on its walls in all one hundred new roles for ninety four percent of people you know town don't visit

on galleries and museums or to and thus they can take in the outdoor exhibit perhaps is not the greatest art of all time but still this is art the towns near like to 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 new road decorated a local bakery now that it's been whitewashed some locals even claimed the bread to taste spores well side is to hold for a chain it comes 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 some of it well done cucumber says. the mayor didn't appreciate the humor of jeannie cove 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 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 a curious 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 all of the border of squid he's murals to talk with more about why the provincial town of bor of scots 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 sort of around all these welcome you 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 them have been remarkably well for free for some call the set up of most of ministry we can see from here for the town of or do you agree i certainly

do in terms of its history its architecture its spiritual heritage it has seventeenth century frescoes. the main cathedral is a late sixteenth century it's a monastery of many dramatic historic events in fact in 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 the poly on it conveys in a second world war so that it's always been very much a part of the history of russia's art but the first time you 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 in the past from 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 a little side to your west we don't brownfield expert in russian architecture and

history from the town of four of sc in the colored girl region fiction now we can be the whistle blowing web site has had its biggest scoop yet publishing over seventy five thousand secret u.s. documents on the ongoing war some of which suggests that the deaths of hundreds of civilians have been covered up the white house here is claiming the leaks threaten its national security always lore and that's my top for the fondo the website that's up next when i was.

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 of war during 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 incident

serious incident you were a tree i wasn't called to you if you're there with the times and locations number of people killed. so we knew that it's a. great thing for france as a historical document and as 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 pushback i whenever we review would be used by some of what i was asian we always get that all the. it's ation 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 have published the villages the names and some cases the g.p.s. coordinates of people afghans who cooperated with the u.s. military and you 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 these you seriously to see whether that is true we did hold back people dean thousand reports for for the other you 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 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 the publication who is 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 the pages in relation to this issue on monday so they are in now in an adversary relationship because they weren't invited to the party that washington says that these documents are out day 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 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 that 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 over a century no threat to. u.s. military forces but is deeply important for understanding the progress of the war now that the white house say 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 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 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 this 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 the extreme a hard situation the answer is not. for all western forces will i suffer members. go in tomorrow. 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 continues and i predict there will be a continuation of the civil war and why he wants forces or 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 with 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 i tell you probably not but if 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 gone these this is a civil war that is going on and the taliban pot all 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 it and i slide there's blood on that on all sides judy thank you very much. the vote for bush. but it always adds by one vote for kerry. so the people that are going to be validating this machine can stand there all day long and vote for somebody and it will be right every time but the guy can walk up here and if he hits the right buttons. you can flip the vote there you go to.

your chance he's great to have you with us the. smoldering some a raging forest fires claim with needs twenty eight lives and leaves thousands of people homeless as central russia suffers its worst into a win over treaty it. took succumbed on the water supplies in russia's far east are under threat as chinese authorities struggle to stop thousands of chemical waste barrels in a flooded river from reaching russia. on the stern authorities but not on t.v. no super turns to his boss and i was former soldiers who saw to it the nonces to get the boy come over ration the country. and no news and huff an hour's time right now stay with us for some of the latest from the high tech world in the technology update coming up next.

technology update three d. no need to worry about the glasses for this program as part of our ever onward drive to make the movie going experience more and more people have been flocking to three dimensional films meanwhile movie makers have been quick to harness the expanding base of technical quitman to make their film stand out on screen and hopefully at the box office as well. two thousand and ten may well be the three d. film with dozens of new releases in practically every genre screaming at an increasingly large number of three d. ready theaters. to smash its success of james cameron's. avatar which opened in december two thousand and. ten it is the number one grossing film of all time with over two billion by.