actually i probably see behind me some of the devastation that this fire has caused this is thousands of people across russia homeless and we went to meet one of the families to find out how they're coping with the situation. it was supposed to be a new beginning instead it was a fiery end just one day after giving birth to baby victoria we knew in alexandria killings house was burnt to the ground it was one of the many inverted nish destroyed by the fierce fire that tool three people leaving devastation in its wake . we've lived here for five years and now this is all that remains of a home now they have to stay in a refuge center one of two in the city. to help them is it being left. when entire victoria which means victory so i think when we come in from the fires . i think everything will be all right we've got enough help and our life has just started with the hate way continuing and fires still burning throughout central

russia many towns villages and homes remain at risk emergency services have been battling to gain control of the situation. now the situation is under control at least eighty houses have burned down during the fire at least one person died in this village probably when the man desperately trying to leave his burning house was struck by falling one of the electric shocks killed him. well so many have lost their houses to the fire kareena and alexandra remain great knowing that like they could have lost a lot more. now the country's leaders also promised to provide assistance to these people with her private dissipates and say that the families that have lost homes will be receiving one hundred thousand dollars and hopefully the homes will be used to rebuild their homes by october now that oversee the people having to deal with the situation that they've been left in now those two first. in the fifty head and

we finish huge amount of volunteers coming forward and bringing clothes and food and just offering general assistance to these people that have been left in this situation but i you know i was at work when my son called me there is a for clues to our house i rushed in fifteen minutes he called back and said everything is burned down and there are no firefighters here when they tried to come clues or to the homes they're responding to everyone. from the hospital which was in flames. anyone who did bring them to with me in seeing my children were there when a friend with my children their faeces. they were frightened and shocked. and i've also heard from the russian paycheck will has expressed his condolences to some of these people. everyone not to fooling to do so. and we can control it but we can't control.

the timing of those condolences very appropriate because in the russian orthodox church calendar tomorrow which is the second of august is the day of the of the larger which is that controls the rain and thunderstorms and certainly a lot of people hoping for some a thought over the next couple of ways because at the moment there's no sign of this heat wave abate say and of course you can see behind me that the destruction that is part of the cool thing everyone really perry came to and the situation and show the whole damages and. porting there coming off you this our resident gathers opinions on whether it was right for the website of wiki leaks to release u.s. military files. out of the sordid details of politicians i don't think we need to know that but information that's in the public domain gets such as should know everything. indiscriminate shooting by u.s.

soldiers and civilians is nothing unusual that's the view war veterans who spoke to our team about how they were in their actions. in china authorities are desperately trying to intercept thousands of barrels containing toxic chemicals which are floating towards russia severe floods washed the drums into a river on wednesday that you got a piece going off is in russia's far east looking into unconfirmed reports that some barrels are already leaking that poisonous contents. basically they're just around fifty years ago the water in the hour 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 janie's authorities now say that they've managed to extract several thousand barrels which have been washed into the sand for 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 sand for river joins the are moving and chinese located just several dozen kilometers away from here these barrels are clearly en route to words russia janie's up thirty 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. i've been reports that some of these barrels have leaked these chemicals into the water and the whole dreamy also be en route towards the border there 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 obviously much more difficult to extract them to surface and since the river is

a major source of fresh water in the city of karbala where i'm standing now and in russia's far east in general media locals here 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 can it will spill and we had to use what's a filter is china has to find a way to prevent the stains or we won't be able to drink this water toll of course the authorities in russia are very concerned about the situation as well and the russian consulate and embassy are cooperating with authorities in china nevertheless the officials here are already planning ways 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. going to piss going off reporting there it is approaching the ten minute mark of the hour you with r.t. live from moscow we are highlighting the top stories of today and this week and the u.s. has now added thirty seven billion dollars to its war budget after congress approved further funding for the afghan troops capitol hill was unmoved by the whistle blowing website wiki leaks which published nineteen thousand classified documents detailing civilian deaths at the hands of nato personnel the pentagon is investigating the source of the leaks and one. soldier has been charged as president with releasing online a classified video of a military operation the white house has requested wiki leaks to stop posting the top secret documents brian becker from an american war coalition says the leaked documents will influence u.s. public opinion this is a war that's already been lost the politicians know it's been lost what these

documents reveal is that they've concealed that fact from the american people and they're sending more and more troops tens of thousands more troops to kill and to be to be killed in a war that they know can't be won and the reason they're doing it is that they don't want to take responsibility as nixon did not want to take responsibility in vietnam for a military set back and that's millions of people will be paying some kind of price in national treasure of course the blood loss for afghan civilians for american g.i.'s i think this will have an explosive effect on a on the american public which already has turned against the war. spoke to the founder and editor in chief of the wiki leaks website he says he tried to cooperate with the white house but received no response we're looking at the issue seriously to see whether it's true we did hold back to being powerful reports full force because they have this sort of press cation that suggests that maybe they contain that sort of material to approach the white house through our state persistence in

reviewing the truth before we publish the white house you know except that request . you can watch the full interview with julian assange founder of the wiki leaks website next hour here on r.t. more than april wiki leaks released a video apparently showing u.s. soldiers in iraq shooting civilians from a helicopter. gun a teacher can find out soldiers who served on the front line say it was not an out of the ordinary occurrence. you know 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 recruited dan including two reuters news staff also two

children were wounded the incident was investigated in the u.s. military concluded that the actions of the soldiers were in accordance with the law of armed conflict and its own rules of engagement so while the us 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 eason 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. josh the brewers served in the same unit as ethan mccord he refused to talk about the order because

of as he said the threats and warnings that he'd received from his former army fellows but the secret video of how the coptic killings seemed nothing unusual to him from our experiences what was shown in that video was no uncommon and happened on a fairly regular basis josh says the training they'd gone through did not ingrid much sensitivity there he remembers one of the songs soldiers were made to sing more intense on us because it was i went down to the market where all the children were all women shop or i will show you and i began to chop josh and a group of other former soldiers are now touring the us and telling people of their experiences and their regret term here was when i was finally able to kind of put myself in the in the shoes of of all the people. and

really start to imagine how i'd feel if people were turned to me what i was didn't tell the people on a regular basis of storerooms in people's homes sometimes in the middle of writing 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 be benign populace from the insurgents who wanted to kill them that were absolutely indistinguishable from regular civilians. seven roger. eason 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 again is chicken art team washington d.c.

and ought to use resident lori huff in a sense the streets of new york together opinion on this wiki leaks story. should they be releasing such sensitive information this week let's talk about that i'm a journalist and i think freedom that you get the people need to know what's happening and i think it's great 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 same 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 they're saying 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 that's absolutely not be shared out of ninety one thousand reports and it is 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. time explaining what it all means 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 been 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. you all with coming to you live from moscow when there was

a lot more coming your way including. this as a baby box if a mother wanted to meet her child all she'd have to do would be to pull on this time. i'll put the child and saw it it's designed to save lives but critics say it's encouraging women to give up their children. and perilous peninsula now even the south koreans now are doubting the findings of a u.s. led report that blamed pyongyang for sinking a southern warship in march find out why in just a few minutes time here on r.t. . the u.s. state of arizona has enforced new illegal immigration legislation but the most disputed parts of the bill were struck out just before it was enacted it means immigrants will be safe from random police checks which some claimed were racial profiling but those against the bill say it's a bittersweet victory to face all the illegals in the u.s. remains precarious. as it is.

doesn't sound like your typical immigration protest today i feel great. everybody was so excited. and. it was. because just one day before the law was to be enacted i. harshest provisions. with the. victory. to be removed a celebration over one hundred long hot days in the making. the . salivary. governor were assigned immigration. every. right but it wasn't always. the most diverse summer messing.

with we've been in pretty every day twenty four hours this is taking over or our life and right now this is the. sure we can work because there's so much demand for it 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 vendor an activist jonah clary is busy these days he's not very optimistic about the future of the hispanic community a lot of the words 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 the ability to live to have crude 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 echoed 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 all he'll. be all have come here at better future at least the first step we have to continue making their voices heard in our presence you know you know the soft archie phoenix arizona. north korea has demanded to be allowed to examine the scene where a south korean warship sank the vessel went down in march killing forty six sailors

a south korean newspaper leaked findings from a new russian led inquiry that suggest the boat had hit a sea mine although these have not yet been confirmed by moscow and international investigation accuse the north of carrying out a torpedo attack us secretary of state hillary clinton said there was overwhelming evidence pyongyang was to blame north korea has always denied its involvement in the sinking foreign policy analyst stephen gowans says the result of the first report raise 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 of the south korean government's report was released on the eve of gubernatorial and local elections there is also the case and. the idea that a 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 the cio 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. you with r t live from moscow and abandoned babies are often found in strange and unsafe places sometimes even discarded like rubbish in the czech republic though it's five years since a special facility was set up for women to give away their children but the so called a baby box has many opponents. they're all around the czech republic at first sight they're just known descript 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 if a mother wanted to leave her child or she'd have to do would be to pull on this

handle and put the child inside now it doesn't just the metal container an infant would be able to survive here for several hours but usually they're 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 llamas 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 books and learned 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 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 in prague although they can have children of their own don't also like to adopt a baby box child. come from a family of four brothers and three for the present. and if you sleep with me so i'm going to do they do not know where or when but sure enough it is a matter of time before someone doesn't want the child will become a welcome addition to their family. artsy prague this week marked ten years since the international space station first game habitable a decade ago russian life support systems were installed which meant cosmonauts could spend more time in orbit to celebrate the anniversary the current crew sent

a message from space. we're glad to be working here in our space office is the best window of the traffic jams on the way to work and although there are not many people around in space aliens haven't visited us yet we're never bored and luckily we are far away from the heat. well our to use it sean thomas was lucky enough to get a close up look at the workings of the eye assess bird with his feet firmly on the ground. 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 moment of 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 it's womanish that we work hard and 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 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 their crew to stay and build the station it 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 the first time they would work together. ten years on the i s 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. 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

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technology update on our keep. their vote for bush. always adds by one vote for kerry but 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 button. he can flip the boat there. it is seven thirty pm on sunday here and we're covering the top stories of the weekend today. and a fire blazing. breaking heat in russia. new areas the

wildfires have claimed at least destroyed thousands of homes. wiki leaks secrets u.s. congress approves of billions more for the military campaign despite documents put online detailing civilian deaths and a failing american war. trying to turn the tide water supplies in russia's far east are under threat thousands of barrels containing toxic chemicals float down a chinese river towards the country's border. tough immigration. but activists say the fight is not over yet. all right my colleague bill dog will be here in about half an hour's time but next we bring you the story of the men behind bars looking to ride their way out of jail we were poured on how a prison rodeo was the only way some convicts can get

a taste of freedom that's right now here on thank you for watching. it's complicated and. gladiatorial graham. who commits. this dignity to these me and. it's nothing but exploitation of people who have no choice. last summer samina lobsang some think they should data and go.