but 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 know in alexandria killings house was burnt to the ground it was one of the many inverted nish destroyed by the fierce fire tore through 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 the one of two in the city that has been set up to help them is it being left. when inter 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 rest 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 shock 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 we've heard prime minister payton say the families that have lost homes will be receiving one hundred thousand dollars and hopefully this will be used to rebuild their homes by october now but obviously the people having to deal with the situation that they've been left in now. in the state 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. i was at work

when my son called me and there is a foreign clues to our home i rushed in fifteen minutes he called back and said everything is burned and there are no fire fighters here when they tried to come closer to the homes there was panicking. people from the hospital which was not. anyone. of them to have seen my children. when a friend with my children. they were frightened and shocked. and i we've also heard from the russian paycheck well he's expressed his condolences to some of these people. everyone. and we can't control it but we can't control you know. now the timing of those condolences very appropriate because in the russian

orthodox church calendar. second of august is the day of the light of the controls the rain and thunderstorms and certainly they'll be a lot of people hoping for some the thought over the next couple of weeks because at the moment there's no sign of this heat wave they say and of course you can see behind me the destruction that these fires are causing everyone really very concerned and the situation on the shore more damages and. so for reporting there this is our t. here moscow coming up this hour our resident gathers opinions on whether it was right for the web site wiki leaks to release u.s. military files. sordid details of politicians i don't think we need to know that but information that's in the public domain gives such as today everything. also still to come indiscriminate shooting by u.s. soldiers and civilians is nothing unusual that's the view of veterans who spoke to r.t. over how they regret their actions. but first chinese authorities say they've recovered

over six thousand barrels containing toxic chemicals which were floating towards russia but more than six hundred drums remain in the river after severe flooding swept them away from factories on wednesday. in russia's far east looking into unconfirmed reports that some barrels have already leaked that poisonous contents. they say that 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 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 really me 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 the environment and also makes it obviously much more difficult to extract them to do 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 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 the

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 but we won't be able to drink the sort so it'll of course the the off. 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 in the bottoms 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. this week the u.s. added thirty seven billion dollars to its war budget off the congress approved further funding for the afghan troops image capitol hill was unmoved by the whistle

blowing web site wiki leaks which published ninety 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 with releasing online a classified video of a military operation white house has requested we can leaks to stop posting top secret documents to the founder and editor in chief of the website julian assange says they've tried to cooperate with the white house but have had no response but we're looking at the issue seriously to see whether that is true we did hold back between thousand reports for for the period because they had this sort of classification that suggested maybe they contain that sort of material we approached the white house to austin for assistance in reviewing material before we published the white house did not accept that request. in april wiki leaks released a video apparently showing u.s. soldiers in iraq shooting civilians from a helicopter as a he's going to find out soldiers who served on the frontline say it was not out of

the ordinary occurrence. let me know when 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 which 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 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 eason mccord a soldier with the unit that's shown in the video said it hadn't been a one time experience and 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 as he said the threats and warnings that he'd received from his former army fellows with the secret video of how they come to 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 just as the training they'd gone through did not in grain

much sensitivity either he remembers one of the songs soldiers were made to sing more than ten songs because as i went down to the market where all the children were all women shop where i was shabby 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 for me it was when i was finally able to kind of put myself in the in the shoes of of other people. really start to imagine how are your people were different from what i was the. basis of storms in people's homes sometimes in the middle of. and children's faces. some blame the type of war the us was sliding 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. rather. eason mccord and josh the bush signed a letter of apology to the mother of the children hurt during the operation and pledged to change from the side at ghana's chicken art team washington d.c. runback a from the american antiwar coalition says someone within the military leaked the documents. i know there's a current argument that the u.s. military may have leaked this in order to blame pakistan or to blame others i don't think that's really what's going on i think that there are voices within the u.s. military just as there were doing in vietnam who have become disillusioned with the

war and are releasing these documents to paint a picture that tells something quite different from the official version with the hope that the american people will as they did during vietnam become opponents of the war and help change the policy. and you can watch a full version of that interview with the antiwar activist and director of the coalition brian becker in the next hour here on the tea. party's resident laurie harvest hits 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 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 that should absolutely not be shared so out of ninety one thousand reports 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 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 maisha 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. here without it would come into line from the russian capital twenty four hours a day a lot more coming your way this hour including. this as a baby box if a mother wanted to meet her child should have to do what. the pull of the stumble and put the child inside it's designed to save infants lives but critics say it's encouraging women to give up their children. even south korea before endings of a u.s. led report the blame. for sinking a southern warship in march you can find out why in a few minutes from here on. the first the u.s.

state of arizona has enforced new illegal immigration legislation this week but the most disputed polls of the bill were struck just before it was inducted it means immigrants will be safe from random police checks which some claimed racial profiling but those against the bill say it's a bittersweet victory as the fate of illegals in the u.s. remains precarious. as it is. doesn't sound like your typical immigration protests today i feel great as. well oh my god everybody was so excited bring him. here. it was. because just one day before the law was to be enacted i. harshest provisions here with our victory. to be removed a celebration over one hundred

a long hot days in the lead. the cause that salad great. governor brewer signed the immigration law this year every single . day at the end right but it wasn't always. but some other person remember. they got their hands with we've been in pretty every day twenty four hours this is taking over or our life and right now this is the only issue we can work because there's so much demand. and we're right here we're we're 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 or to stand in solidarity with america's immigrant

population but although venter 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 for the ability to live to have crewed to have children to have what they need to take care of their families and their 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 oh you come we will have come here for

a better future this is only the first step we have to continue making their voices heard in our presence you know dina the soft archie phoenix arizona. north korea has demanded its experts be allowed to examine the scene where a south korean warship sank the vessel went down in march killing forty six saying as a south korean newspaper leaked findings from a new russian that inquiry that suggest the boat had hit a sea mine although these have not been confirmed by moscow and the only international investigation accused unusual for carrying out of competing attacks and u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton said there was overwhelming evidence pyongyang was to blame career was always denied its involvement in the sinking foreign policy analysts stephen gallon says the result of the first port raise doubts even within south korea. the lead government is not a government that is interested in peaceful coexistence with north korea it's a 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 a north korean submarine could have been operating in the shallow waters in which the cheering and sank is incredible but one could make the argument that the entire point of this and then 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. 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 baby box has many opponents. there all around the czech

republic at first sight 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 or should have to do would be to pull on the 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 there rescued wouldn't 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 in five years for now so maybe books as soon as the babies placed inside the door knocks on the outside and in the army settles i remember running to the box for the first time to see the baby inside and showing it to the doctor to be examined like a special i think it is an amazing invention here. the baby box 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 or special places to leave unwanted children existed even in ancient times. but the government was wary of the baby blogs and didn't provide funding is if i was encouraging people to get rid of their children i know 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 the road don't also like to adopt a baby box charles. i come from a big family i have four brothers and three forty cousins who refuse to live with me so i like to do they do not know where or when but sure enough it is a matter of time before someone that want the child will become a welcome addition to their family. r.t.

prague well this week marks ten years since the international space station first became habitable a decade ago russian life support systems were installed which meant cosmonauts could spend more time in orbit while to celebrate the anniversary of the current crew sent a message from space. square glad to be welcome here in our space office is the best window view traffic jams on the way to work now though there are not many people around the space aliens having visited us yet whenever ball is crushed and luckily we are far away from the heat. when our team sean thomas was lucky enough to get a close up look at the workings of the i s s but 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 cosmic response 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 for missions we work hard and ride cymbal tinnies 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 there's various the capsule was attached that the space station became livable. but made it possible for the crew to stay in both 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 you know with being in 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. 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 a 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. assessment was decided to

prolong the station's use until twenty twenty one 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 sean thomas r.t. moscow just ten twenty seven minutes past the hour here in the russian capital i'll be back with a recap of our headlines in just a couple of minutes stay with us for that.

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record breaking heat in russia have spread into new areas the wildfires have claimed at least thirty lives and destroyed thousands of homes. wiki leaks secrets the u.s. congress approves billions more for the afghan military campaign despite documents put online detailing cover ups of civilian deaths in the failing american war effort. trying to turn the tonic water supplies in russia's far east to under threat as hundreds of barrels containing toxic chemicals are still floating down a chinese river towards the country's border. a bittersweet celebration the sting is taken out of arizona's tough immigration law but just before it's an active activists say the fight is. back with more news when half an hour from now in the meantime stay with us for some of the latest from the high tech world that same technology up next on.

hello and welcome to technology update three d. no need to worry about the glasses for this program as part of our ever on word dried to make the movie going experience more and more lifelike people have been flocking to three dimensional films meanwhile movie makers have been quick to harness the expanding base of technical equipment to make their films stand out on screen and hopefully at the box office as well. two thousand and ten may well be the year of the three d. films with dozens of new releases in practically every genre screaming at an increasingly large number of three d. ready theaters. that set off the tsunami was undoubtedly to smash it success of james cameron's epic side five flick avatar which opened in december two thousand and nine. to overthrowing his own titanic is the number one grossing film of all time with over two billion bucks and box office returns cameron spent

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