by the by in the last couple of days you can see behind me some of the damage that's being done now this is left thousands of people homeless we've heard twenty eight people already have died in these fires including the firefighters and thousands more are now left without their homes and wondering what's going on for the next well as we know thousands have lost their homes as whole villages are destroyed how are people coping but we've spoken to some of the local people every initiative lost their homes and they've been speaking about how quickly it happened they said the fire was really very very fierce and there was very little they can do as they watched their homes burn now here in for and if they set up the refuge then. they've had a huge amount of help from people they've been bringing to be just offering assistance to the people who really have been left with nothing now we've heard president. saying that he's going to be providing assistance and providing more houses we can hear more from him now. after this unusually hot summer.

so we need to at least provide people with temporary housing and immediately the construction of. the russian government and the regional administration should. choose to finance these new. now we've heard versus finance minister saying that this fire has already caused millions and millions of dollars worth of damage say the rebels are going to be a long. prime minister peyton's also guarantee one hundred thousand dollars to anyone who has lost their homes but of course it's not much. people who have lost everything and we went to one of the villages that is very very badly suffered very badly by as some of the local people and find out how they were casing. they could only watch helplessly at the fire so in that case. one person alone with this is

the village of must love about fifteen minutes from british center one of the places worst affected by the fires that have left many of the homes completely destroyed. the fire wasted no time flames leaping from building to building incinerated eighty houses and making two hundred people homeless all within the space of a couple of hours. and never spread that fast but the wind was very strong it was like. police told us to leave the new to is dangerous to stay here it was only thanks to them were alive and within god it wasn't because then there would have been much more victims he would boom 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 burned 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 the devastation wasn't just restricted to property. 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 they ain't has been lost but they are help is coming from many causes. who have come here to one of the temporary refuge centers where people have been turning up in their hundreds bringing food and 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 fit it is like. reeling

from fire damage left trying to pick up the pieces. that was sarah first reporting there and bring us an update on the situation with raging fires in central russia there. and watching our team live from moscow and plenty more coming up this hour transom for testers. country is so criminal and its actions all over the world it has no right to tell people not to cross borders when it's crossing illegally crossing borders and all over the world to bomb innocent people immigrants in arizona celebrate as a federal judge blocks parts of a controversial new law and that stamping out illegal aliens also. several thousand barrels with toxic substances we've been headed towards the river in russia despite chinese authorities efforts to clean up or from horses for leaders in the program. the u.s. military is desperately trying to find the source of the biggest leak and its

history this week internet site we can weeks published around ninety thousand classified documents on the war in afghanistan documents expose the alleged killing of innocent citizens during u.s. led operations in afghanistan and there are also reports of u.s. concern that pakistani intelligence is helping the taliban insurgency in april the same website released a video showing u.s. soldiers shooting civilians from a helicopter in iraq and as r.t. is guided to confound out the soldiers that served on the front line say things like that are not unusual. something that any military tries to keep under wraps civilians killed during an operation this april the pentagon saw one of its skeletons walk out of the closet a secret video of american soldiers opening with looks like indiscriminate fire in a baghdad suburb three years ago more than a dozen people were reported dead including to reuters news staff also two children

were wounded the incident was investigated then the u.s. military concluded that the actions of those. soldiers were in accordance with the law of armed conflict and its own rules of engagement so while the u.s. military is ok with causing some collateral damage it's when civilians die in the course of action a number of soldiers who were involved in those killings now speak out and say this shouldn't be a norm of warfare you can see in the ethan mccord a soldier with the unit that's shown in the video said it hadn't been a one time experience he went as far as to say soldiers in his unit were ordered to kill civilians in certain circumstances mccord said the message they got from their commander was if someone in your line gets hit with an improvised explosive device three sixty rotational fire you kill everyone on the street cherish the bers served

in the same unit as ethan mccord he refused to talk about the order because of as he said the cigarettes and warnings that he'd received from his former army fellows but the secret video of helicopter killings seemed nothing unusual to him but from our experiences what was shown in their videos. on camera. happened on a fairly regular basis josh says the training they'd gone through did not ingrid much sensitivity either he remembers one of the songs soldiers were made to sing more than ten songs. as i went down to the market where all the children were or were in charge or i will show you a chart josh and a group of other former soldiers are now touring the us and telling people of their experiences and their regret for being there was when i was finally able to kind of put ourselves in the shoes of of all the people.

and i really started to imagine how i'd feel if people were doing to me what i was doing telling people on the right the basis of storylines in people's homes sometimes in the middle of a my wife and kids and and children's faces. some blamed the type of war the us was finding for the psychological trauma so many american soldiers are now going through it was a very disorienting and destabilizing condition of warfare for most american soldiers to try to separate the but nine populace from the insurgents who wanted to kill them that were absolutely indistinguishable from regular civilians. in iraq. even mccord and josh stieber signed a letter of apology to the mother of the children hurt during the operation and pledged to change from the inside out. our team washington d.c.

. but we can leaks website exposé of classified u.s. documents has and rage the white house which says lives have been put at risk parties laura and ask the founder of the project how he responds to that and a full interview is coming up in about twenty minutes time. serial doesn't paint the behavior of any. any military group you know and i slide there's blood on all sides so we knew that. it had a great importance as a historical document and i think the primary resource likely you will resonate with patients who also. from those sorts of cases that work there with reviews and that you always get pushed back or never would you be used by some of them have a feeling 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 in china thousands of barrels containing toxic chemicals continue to move towards russia after being swept into a river by floods and although chinese authorities are desperately trying to intercept the poisonous containers there are unconfirmed reports that some could already be leaking their contents into the water are cheesy gorup is going off has more. they say they're just around fifty years ago the water in the more was so clean it was possible to drink it straight from the river obviously over the years the situation has changed but the ecology here is now under threat of becoming even worse chinese authorities now say that they've managed to extract several thousand barrels which had been washed into the river last wednesday as a result of the biggest floods china has experienced in a decade but that means that several more thousand barrels are still in the water and since the river joins the. chinese located just several dozen kilometers away

from here these barrels are clearly enroute to words russia chinese authorities eight beers to prevent these barrels from reaching here however there are signs suggesting that the ecology is still under threat first of all out of the seven thousand barrels which have got into the water three thousand of them contain chemical substances including acids which may be harmful to the environment and there have been reports that some of these barrels have leaked these chemicals into the water and the whole dreamy also be en route towards the they have also been reports that some of the barrels may have sunk into the water and that creates a potential future of threat to be environment and also makes it much more difficult to extract them to surface and since the river is a major source of fresh water in the city. and in russia's far east in general

media locals are very concerned about the situation. they say they're trying to intercept them but i still think some will eventually end up here some say they're leaking and the chemicals will come anyway. it's not the first time we've had problems like this in the winter there was a big chemical spill and we had to use what's a filters china has to find a way to prevent the stains but we won't be able to drink the sort so it'll of course. russia are very concerned about the situation as well and the russian cause and embassy are cooperating with authorities in china nevertheless the officials. are already planning to distribute fresh water to the local population in case a contamination does occur but thankfully so far the emergencies ministry which is monitoring the quality of the water by taking samples at least twice a day they see that so far they haven't found any abnormalities. as our

correspondent your pissed off they are now north korea has demanded its experts be allowed to examine the side where south korean warship sank the vessel went down in march killing forty six sailors and international missed a decent news and more since tearing out after peter the town a second inquiry led by russia as reportedly casts doubt on that saying a mind could be a blank form patiala soon balanced as the result of the first international reports raise doubts even within south korea. so. the lead government is not a government that is interested in peaceful coexistence with north korea. is to see the collapse of north korea and its absorption into the south. it's also suspicious that the south korean government's report was released on the eve of gubernatorial and local elections there is also the case that. the idea that the north korean submarine could have been operating in the shallow waters in which the children and

sank is incredible but one could make the argument that the entire point of this in an incident in the blaming of it on north korea was to provide a pretext to escalate tensions there is a large opposition within south korea to the idea that in fact north korea is responsible for the sinking of the ship. and just remind you have got much more on our website that's r t dot com and we feature blogs forums galleries and different stories here's a look at some of what might interest you online today. towering inferno a group of men filming themselves while trying to escape from a burning village in russia and the trapped by walls of flame a rag closely no one was hurt. and a proper a lunch box set up a food bank to help feed families who've fallen on hard times.

i do love amber at least immigrants in arizona will be safe from new random police checks and that's after u.s. courts a spell in the state governors appeal against curbs on a new immigration law in its most controversial provisions such as forcing migrant workers to carry papers all times where removed shortly before the bill came into force or dizziness off the reports. that. this. doesn't sound like your typical immigration protest today i feel great it's beautiful and i want my guy everybody was so excited bringing in drug and yeah it was. that's because just one day before the law was to be enacted i. sat harshest provisions i'm here celebrating with the community and our victory.

to be removed a celebration over one hundred long hot days in the making. i don't think it happened like that celebrate and i mean it's not an arm or a sign immigration law they've been here every single day five am. right but it wasn't always a lock down but some of the most controversial provisions. took a big i never heard. with we've been in pretty you know a big day twenty four hours a day this is taking over or our lives and right now this is the only issue we can work because there's so much demand for it and move right here were directly in the thick of it right on the front lines of what is a national struggle and whenever there's a national struggle money has to be made here. now.

where anyone can be a patriot belong to god. and stand in solidarity with america's immigrant population but although they. dern activist jonah clary is busy these days he's not very optimistic about the future of the hispanic community a lot of the birds that are coming here are coming here to escape the political and economic systems that we've created in their country they're coming here for for the ability to live to have crewed to have children to have what they need to take or their families and they can't have that where they came from largely as a result of united states imperialism in their country a sentiment that was at code by native born add naturalized citizens alike blaming the very nation they would do anything to stay in this country is so criminal and its actions all over the world it has no right to tell one group of people not to cross borders when it's crossing illegally crossing borders and all over the world to bomb innocent people but most of these folks want to drop

a different kind of bomb and i demand that the u.s. government listen to what they say their own feeling. we have here for a better future the first step we have to be making their voice heard in our presence you know soft archie phoenix arizona. and it's ten years since the international space station first became habitable when a russian module was life support systems docked with the orbiter the van to revolutionize the research which could be carried out on the i assess r.t. shaun thomas reports. it circles the globe about three hundred fifty kilometers from the earth's surface it is the largest construction in space it is a marvel of modern engineering which is approaching a crucial milestone on. the i.s.a.'s is a major contemporary space project and it involves a big number of program participants including the united states canada european

countries and japan and the station is being used as a big scientific laboratory though it is a prime example of international cooperation now the roots of the station stem from the apollo soyuz program thirty five years ago when two rival space programs of the u.s. and soviet union integrated technology for the first time twenty years later russia and the u.s. expanded on that shared experience with the goal of creating a permanent space presence. we were part of right similes operation of both the station and preparation for the. i remember those years the most interesting period of strenuous work which finally did to this great result this is the mark up of the capsule which is where astronauts and cosmonauts come to train at star city who are traveling to the international space station and it is in here that you get a sense of the significance of this capsule in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight the zarya and the unity capsules world watch but it wasn't until ten years

ago when the capsule was attached that the space station became livable. but made it possible for the crew to stay in the station would be impossible to build the station at the pace it was constructed that without this special part of the infrastructure was now in place it was up to the station's first crew to get everything in motion. two weeks were critical since a lot of the systems were being activated for the first time some russian systems segments were merged with us systems of those machines had never seen each other in earth and that was the. they would work together. ten years on the i.s.o.'s is approaching the record for a structure being continuously inhabited in space and on are currently held by russia's mir project and while it was originally only supposed to be in service until two thousand and fifteen it looks like a bright future for the international space station which i think a part of our assessment has decided to prolong the station's use until twenty

twenty one possibly even longer if the technical status station is good ensuring a continued international presence in space for many more years to come john thomas moscow at a space breakthrough they are but later today we take you to the world of another future closer to home three d. and joint analogy update on the set of russia's first comedy filmed fully in the format. of the future. from the cinema. special and this is. your stereo this is a life this is no problem. here. in. germany split over the idea of letting potentially dangerous ri offenders back into the society under current legislation violent convicts can be held even after their sentence is up or the

so-called preventive detention has drawn criticism from european human rights watchdog as artist tom gardner found out for most people keeping their families safe is more important than the well being of convicts. shifty glances a nervous status that's all we managed to see walter h a moderate and sex offender now living in the german city of sabra he's got it all day every day least for police but he's escaped from his mind as before and locals are worried he'll do it again and i think it is very dangerous for the people. in the area because they don't know that such people. such people as this close normally if you work in this building there's no police but since he is there we hear this all the day police all the people in town are talking about. and now all the people that want him to be here because there's a school next door and there's

a kindergarten. mr great should still be in prison and the germans policy of preventive detention is designed to keep offenders write him behind bars even after a sentence was served because they were still deemed a danger to the public but it was a policy that fell foul of the european court of human rights which ruled the practice unlawful the german government argued it worked and defended it to the end it's get pushed into failing of course there's a danger to convict could stay in preventive detention for the rest of his life but to avoid the situation we have frequent specialists to assess their condition and he paedophile campaigner thomas brookman opposes preventive detention that's because he wants longer sentences in the first place. last year another sex offender not given preventive detention was released back into his community mood that still calls his angry protests today now these fears of being replicated across germany has got to be

a few of these criminals we repeat such crimes again that's the worst thing that could happen and it probably will happen because they were put away others also think the new arrangements in less than satisfactory it cost far more to keep offenders under guard in the. community then behind bars the german newspaper billed put the figure at twelve thousand euros a day compared to one hundred day in prison a large price to pay the lawyers argue it hardly provides the freedoms of daily life if he goes into a shop and there's always two people following him if he goes to a doctor two people are next to him and that's that impossible to have a normal life michael ray burger is now fighting for greater freedoms mr h. criminals rights of little worry to most germans anxious about the safety of their own families people who are concerned about this man in their midst but it's estimated there could be at least another two hundred twenty dangerous criminals

released soon across germany was thought might ease conscience's in strasburg doesn't ease anyone's nerves here martin r.t. broken germany. for example eight here on our team and i'll be back with more dates shortly.

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to watching r.t. live from moscow on the sunday morning take a look at the stories that shape the week and wildfires caused by record breaking heat in russia expanding to new areas almost certain lives have been lost this week and the blazes have destroyed sounds of homes. water supplies in russia's far east are under threat by barrels containing chemicals from china and they were swept away by floods and the currently heading for the border. and whistleblower web side we can leaks publish thousands of classified u.s. documents revealing cover ups of the war in afghanistan among the population was the alleged on reporting off civilian deaths. speaks to the founder and editor in chief of the website responsible for that leak which was the biggest u.s. military history.

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 ourselves 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 called to you if you're with the times and locations number of people killed except for. so we knew that it's a. great performance as a historical document and those are primarily resource to be used for the investigations.