bringing clothes and food and offering that help and assistance to these people now we know the government are also offering the help we can hear from president medvedev promised to provide for the people who have lost their homes. after this unusually hot summer. so we need to at least provide people with temporary housing and immediately start the construction of permanent homes with the russian government in the region administrations should certainly. to finance these needs now we know over and this isn't the only place it's been affected nizhny novgorod another area that's been very very badly hit and we've heard prime minister putin saying that he's going to be providing around one hundred thousand dollars to every family that has lost a home so there's certainly going to be assistance there but as we said at the moment people really facing the reality of the devastation that these fires have left behind which they could only watch helplessly at the firestorm that claimed that they and one person's life this is the village of must love her about fifteen

minutes from burnished defense or 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 incinerating eighty houses and making two hundred people homeless all within the space of a couple of hours. i never saw before i could spread the forest but the wind was very strong it was like a hurricane police told us to leave they knew it was dangerous to stay here it was only thinks today and we're alive and we think god it wasn't good night because then there would have been many more victims one of the men desperately trying to leave his burning house got struck by falling wires the electric shock killed 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 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. i buried my rottweiler he was near the house when it caught fire he panicked and didn't let anyone approach him. he was burned alive it was a good dog people are now coming to terms of how everything that 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 coming 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 love and reeling from fire damage left trying to pick up the pieces. for

a knish. you are with r t and there's plenty more coming few this hour including triumphant protesters country is so criminal and its actions all over the world it has no right to tell people not to cross the borders when it's crossing illegally crossing borders and all over the world innocent people immigrants in arizona celebrate as a federal judge blocks parts of a controversial new law aimed at stamping out illegal aliens also. several thousand barrels with toxic substances remain headed towards the river in russia despite the cheney's off towards efforts to clean up report from washes far east leader in the program. this week barack obama signed into law a fifty nine billion dollar war spending bill for the latest afghan troops thirty three billion of that pays for an additional thirty thousand troops the rest of

goes on reconstruction aid for veterans it comes in the same week whistle blowing web site wiki leaks published thousands of classified documents detailing civilian deaths at the hands of nato personnel but disclosure has increased calls to end the war in many countries including the u.k. . former british soldier who is refusal to fight cost him his freedom. this is the soldier who said no to the chippy with speaking out against the conflict what he calls illegal and unjustifiable his advice to the government so i would say listen to the people simple as that. people want to make the morning with . these conflicts. you know fall off the wagon as far as the message which spin cycle fusion the song so it's time to start listening to public clinton joined the army in two thousand and four and fought for seven months in afghanistan he says he

came home a changed man suffering symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder which he claims he was bullied. when he heard he was being sent back to afghanistan he did from the army and didn't come back for two years initially his military superiors were understanding but when joe spoke at an antiwar rally in london they taze charges to desertion which carries a ten year prison sentence joe's mother says that exposes the hypocrisy of the conflict bringing democracy we've got freedom of speech we're fighting to introduce a draft understanding the lock somebody up speaking of. the missing blanton paid a price for his outspokenness in the notorious military jail the glass house he thinks the reason it wasn't longer was to avoid a public outcry which could have brought on an examination of the war he served his time along with other soldiers who he says will with him all the way on the stand he taken who goes around the train was unbelievable i was so much support from from

my fellow prisoners it was fantastic and so much mildness one point when it was going to under those who died to is fantastic so you know the only time i think of how long before the first night when. i was directing are so much for the. jews become a poster boy for the stop the war coalition with a hero's welcome following his release from prison for someone they consider brave and principled well i mean should have been punished at all he's saying what everyone believes and everyone knows the war is not just on winnable it's immoral it's a disaster it's causing catastrophic for the people of afghanistan on a more and more young british men and women are being sent out to risk their lives for a war that only the politicians support and even in private they know it's a disaster joe blanton story is ok because it comes straight from the front line as do the ninety thousand documents released this week showing the unvarnished truth

of a bloody conflicts and going by clinton's account of the support he received from other soldiers during his time in prison. they said inside the armed forces something the government could have a hard time make no no and it's. coming up new york resident laurie huffman is to ask people whether the wiki leaks release of u.s. military files was the right thing to do. out of the sordid details of politicians i don't think we need to know that but information that the public. should know everything i believe that you know america should know a lot of things but also america should be kept in the dark about other things. it is just turned ten minutes past the hour here in the russian capital you with r.t. we are running down the top stories of the week thank you for joining us now in china thousands of barrels containing toxic chemicals continue to move towards russia

after being swept into a river by floods and although chinese or thought he was are desperately trying to intercept the poisonous containers there are unconfirmed reports that some could already be leaking their contents into the water. it was going off as 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 flood 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 to the old we also be en route towards the also been reports that some of the barrels may have sunk into the water and that creates a potential future of threat to the environment and also makes it much more difficult to extract them to do surface since the river is a major source off 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 on 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 filter is china has to find a way to prevent the steam we won't be able to drink the source or toll of course. the authorities in russia are very concerned about this situation as well and the russian consulate and embassy are cooperating with authorities in china nevertheless the officials here are already planing we to distribute fresh water to the local population in case a contamination does occur but for the emergencies ministry which is monitoring the quality of the water by taking samples at least twice a day they see so for they haven't found any abnormalities. it's going off right there and still ahead for you milestone for the. find out how the docking of a russian module for the international space station ten years ago made workable the largest construction in houston. this is

a baby box ever mother wanted to leave her child all she'd have to do would be to pull on the handle and put the child inside abandon the for adoption are two books of the concept of baby boxes where mothers can anonymously leave their newborns with hope for a better life. north korea has demanded its very own experts be allowed to examine the site where a south korean warship sank the vessel went down in march killing forty six sailors an international investigation accuse the north of carrying out a torpedo attack but a second inquiry led by russia has reportedly cast doubt on that saying a mind could be to blame foreign policy analyst stephen gowans says the result of the first international report raised doubts even within south korea. 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 cheering and saying is incredible but one could make the argument that the entire point of this 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 just to remind you we've got much more on our website that is on dot com we feature blogs and forums galleries and all sorts of different stories and here's a look at some of what you want to find interesting waiting for you on our website right now towering inferno a group of men filming themselves while trying to escape from

a burning village in russia and now trapped by a towering flames recklessly no one was hurt. by lunch box set up a food bank to help feed families who have fallen on hard times. until november at least immigrants in arizona will be safe from new random police checks that's off the u.s. court postponing the state governors appeal cubs' on a new immigration law its most controversial provisions such as forcing migrant workers to carry papers at all times were moved shortly before the bill came into force. as this. is it is. it doesn't sound like your typical immigration protests today i feel great

a spirit of. everybody was very excited great and. yeah it was. that's because just one day before the law was to be enacted i. just provisions i'm here celebrating with the community and our victory. to be removed a celebration over one hundred a long hot days in the making. i think that that liberating i mean it's not in your mind that maybe raise a lot bigger than your average there are five am. right but it wasn't always the law but some of the most controversial measures. they say their prayers were answered with we've been in pretty you know every day twenty four is this is

taking over or our life and right now this is the only issue we can work because there's so much demand for it right here we're directly on 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 me here. now. where anyone can be a patriot belong to god. and stand in solidarity with america's immigrant. but although vendor and activist jonah clary is busy these days he's not very optimistic about the future of the hispanic community a lot of the emirates that are coming here are coming here to escape the political and economic systems that we created in their country they're coming here for for the ability to live to have food to have children to have what they need to take care of 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 when they say we're all here. we all have come here for a better future at least the first step we have to keep making their voices heard in our presence you know. archie phoenix arizona. one of the top stories this week was the publishing of classified u.s. military information about the war in afghanistan online. the resident laurie huff and us onto the streets of new york to ask whether people think it was a good decision.

the web site wiki leaks has just released more u.s. government information this time more than ninety one thousand reports from the war in afghanistan should they be releasing such sensitive information this week let's talk about that i'm a journalist and i think freedom you get the people need to know what's happening and i think it's is there anything that the public shouldn't know. i don't want sordid details of politicians i don't think we need to know that but information that's in the public domain yes such as should know everything is there any information that should never be published by a watchdog oh yeah i mean if this thing which is going to endanger troops or something which is really going to hurt us or hurt the people who are really trying to do the right thing in afghanistan it should absolutely not be shared out of ninety one thousand reports it was possible i'm sure there's a bunch in there that's bad stuff i believe that you know america should know a lot of things but also america should be kept in the dark about other things and

they compared to the pentagon papers this was released without a lot of. explaining what it all mean it's just a lot of information without a lot of explanation and that leads to you know anyone could take it and use it how they want to use it should they have done it and no but is the i'm a she should the information being classified in the first place that's another question i mean some of that information is pretty basic is it really a serious risk to national security and the fact that the information is published it doesn't look like it but it's not a good idea to be leaking classified information whether or not you think this kind of government information should be released to the public the bottom line is that now it's out there for the whole world to access so let's just hope it doesn't fall into the wrong hands. it is it ten years since the international space station first became habitable

that was when a russian module with life support systems docked with the orbiter the event revolutionized the research which could be carried out on the i assess sean thomas finds more for us. 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. the i.s.a.'s is a major contemporary space project 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 mir orbital station and preparation for the i s s launch 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 wore a 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 their crew to stay in the station would be impossible to build the station at the pace it was constructed that without the special part of the infrastructure was now in place it was up to the station's first crew to get everything in motion. the first two weeks were

critical since a lot of the systems were being activated for the first time some russian system segments were merged with us systems those machines had never seen each other in earth and that was that for. they would work together. ten years on the i.s.o.'s is approaching the record for a structure being continuously inhabited in space in honor 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 my assessment has decided to prolong the station's use until twenty twenty and possibly even longer if the technical state of the station is good ensuring a continued international presence in space for many more years to come john thomas r.t. moscow. suddenly our space breakthrough their birth later today we take you to the world of another future closer to home three d. join technology update on the set of russia's first comedy filmed fully in that

format. into the future. this is. the life. of three d. . we're running down the top stories of the week end of today here on and in the czech republic unwanted babies are being put in boxes but far from an act of child abuse it's actually the gateway to a better life although not everyone agrees reluctant mothers should be able to give away their children so easily. reports. they're all around the czech republic. at first sight they're just nondescript metal doors on the sides of hospitals and government buildings but they've already helped to save

dozens of lives this is a baby box ever mother wanted to leave her child should have to do would be to pull on the handle and put the child inside now it wasn't just the metal container an infant would be able to survive here for several hours but usually there rescued within several minutes by those on the other side the first one was placed in this private hospital it's still the most popular with nearly fifteen children left here in five years. as soon as the babies placed inside the door locks on the outside and in the llama settle i remember running to the box for the first time to see the baby inside and showing it to the doctor to be examined it felt special i think it is an amazing invention. the baby box inventor is not a doctor but a writer and horse breeder but his idea was not immediately well received with protests from some clergyman and even doctors. though the baby box is high tech

with three hundred twenty eight parts special places to leave unwanted children existed even in ancient times. but the government was wary of the baby books and didn't provide funding as if i was encouraging people to get rid of their children now the perception has changed. but it is life and christina have dated for two years and run a hostel and prague although they can have children of their own don't also like to adopt the baby box child. come from a big family i have four brothers and three forty cousins. nephews and so i like to know they do not know where or when but sure enough it is a matter of time before someone don't want the child will become a welcome addition to their family either of artsy prog. i'll be back with the headlines in a few moments to stay with us. wealthy

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russia. at least a few lives are being lost this week and the blazes have destroyed thousands of homes. water supplies in russia's far east are under threat by barrels containing chemicals from china they were swept away by floods heading for the border. and whistleblower website wiki leaks published thousands of classified u.s. documents revealing cover ups in the war in afghanistan among the revelations was the alleged civilian deaths. in a few moments the story of the men. who literally write their way out of captivity special report on how a prison rodeo is the only hope for freedom. that's right now here on enjoy.

the prisons may be filling up but the schools certainly are not louisiana has the worst high school dropout rate in the u.s. and loses around forty students every day something your courage is i've not been able to stop. my greatest concern is what happens to the ones that are eleven and twelve and thirteen and fourteen fifteen years old that in the pipeline on their way to goa and as you can see in i was system we have a huge pipeline. and . we treat our children. who are worst of any state in the country overall way of the worst conditions for child welfare and then we punish them more severe.